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VOL. X II.

M.  R.  ALBEN

ALDEN  &  LIBBY,

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shipm ent, or receive on consignm ent.  PHONE  1300.

9 3 an d   9 5  S outh  D ivision  S tre e t, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  M ICH .|

SW E E T’S   HOTEL

MARTIN  L.  SWEET,  Proprietor.

HENRY D. and FRANK  H.  IRISH, JVgrs.

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

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

F.  E.  BUSHHAN,  Agent,

523 John St.,  KALAMAZOO

R u b b e r  
R o o t wear

E X C L U S I V E L Y

C.  L. Weaver &  Co.

161-163  Jefferson Avenue. 
DETROIT,  MICH.

WOONSOCKETS,  RHODE  ISLANDS

ide Toe,  M edium Toe, Narrow  Toe, 

Piccadilly Toe.

ED. W. RUHE  CHICAGO.
A  Valuable 
l *o in ter !

For  $35

I T   V A N I S H E S   I N   S M O K E

A   G O O D   T H I N G   F O R  
4 t h  O F  J U L Y   O R   A N Y  
O T H E R   D A Y

Ask  your  G rand  R apids  Traveling  Men 
about it.

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THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER !

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WOOD  MANTEL  GRATE,  GAS  AND  ELECTRIC  FIXTURE  DEPARTMEIS

DEPARTMENT

Is  pronounced  the  FINEST  IN  THE  COUNTRY,  East  or  W est.

WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

B o ile r  a n d E n g in e.  A re  t h e  E n g ineer s*  F a vo r it e s.

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MICH.

S m  WIRE j IRON  WORKS
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DETROIT.  HICHIGAN.
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Bank  and  Office  Railing,  W ire  and  Iron  Fences,
Roof  Cresting  and  W eather  Vanes,
W ire  Signs,  Stable  Fixtures,  Etc.

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

J s   o n e   o f   the  f e w  
Good  5  cent  brands,  which  |  F. E.  Bushman,  Agt. 
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and factors in  returning  general  prosperity. 
It means 
better  business,  larger  profits.  Your  customers  will 
want the best brands of Flour, and we make the VERY 
BEST  ON  EARTH.  W rite us for prices.

BRANDS— Sunlight,  Michigan,  Electric,  Purity,  Magnolia, 

Daisy, Morning Star,  Idlewild,  Diamond.

SPECIA LTIES—Graham  Flour, Wheatena Flour,  Buckwheat Flour,  Rye 
Flour, Rye Meal,  Pearl  Barley,  Wheat Grits, Rolled Oats, Bolted Meal, 
Feed  (Corn and Oats),  Meal, Mill  Feed.

WAL3H-DE R00  MILLING  CO., W

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18  and  19  Widdicomb  Bid.

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

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

Correspondence Solicited.

COKGRBSS

C I G A R S

IN D ISPU TABLY  the  PIN B ST 
H AVAN A  CIGAR in  AM ERICA

Dealers who are desirous of adding an exceptionally fine  Havana Cigar to their stock 
will find  it to their interest to send  a sample order to either of the following Jobbers. 
Ask their Salesmen to show you samph s of the

éÈ sÊ ii Congress  Cigar

BALL,  BARNHART  A 

PI  TMAN  CO.,

W holesale Grocers

LEMON  A  W HEELER 

CO.,

W holesale Grocers

MUSS
CO.

1.  M. 
CO.

ELMAN  GROCER 
W holesale Grocers
CLARK  GROCERY 
W holesale Grocers

HAZELTINE  A  PER­

KINS  DRUG  CO.

W holesale  Druggists

!  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO. 

W holesale Confectioners

A.  E.  BROOKS  A  CO. 
W holesale Confectioners

WORDEN  GROCER  CO. 
W holesale Grocers

j  OLNEY  A  JUDSON 

GROCER  CO.

W holesale Grocers

M  IL  TREUSCH  A  BR().
W holesale Cigars

Tanglefoot

SEALED STICKY FLY PAPER

YOUR  CUSTOMERS  WILL  ALL  PREFER  IT.

PRICES  FOR  THE  REGULAR  SIZE.

Per Box.............................. 38 cents  Per Case...................................$3  40
In 5 Case lots,  per  case.........$3  30 
In 10 Case lots,  per case........3  20

If you  a re   p a rtic u la r a b o u t y o u r  STICKY  FLY 

PA PER ,  specify

TANGLEFOOT

dows and Fine Booms.
a  case.

Particularly  adapted  for  Show  Win­
25 Double Sheets in a Box,  15  Boxes In 
Retails for 25 cents a box.
Costs $1.75 per case.
P ro fit  n early   115  p e rc e n t.
W ill  be a   Good  Seller.

Order the largest quantity you can use and get the 

BEST  DISCOUNT.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  JOBBERS.

VOL. XII._____________GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  JU N E  12,  1895,

NO.  6 1 2

Discourse  on Rents and Renters, with a 

Local  Application.

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

1  have  been  thinking  of  that  brave 
woman and her four children  ever  since 
I  read  the  article  entitled,  “ Heroic  in 
in  a  recent  issue  of  T h e 
Trouble,” 
It is  a  case  that  appeals 
T radesm an. 
straight  to  the  heart  and  makes  the 
reader want to  do  his  share  and  some­
thing more to  lift  from  those  womanly 
shoulders the  grievous  burden  she  has 
uncomplainingly borne so  long.  Oue  of 
the  first  ways  of  doing  this  was  sug­
gested  by  the  rent.  Why  not  assume 
that, and so relieve her from  a  rent  bill 
as certain in its  coming  as  “death  and 
taxes?”  That led naturally to the desire 
to learn  more about the rented rooms and 
this is  what I find:  Two  cellars,  a  win­
dow in each,  and the rooms so small  and 
dark  “that  one cannot see to read,  even 
in a sunshiny day,  without the  aid  of  a 
lamp!”  Adollar and a quarter for these 
room8  a  week,  or  62Jí  cents  a  room! 
Nothing is said about the locality,  but  it 
is probably  in  a  locality  where  cellars 
are rented,  and  we  all  know  what  that 
means.  Nowadays,  the  average  house 
rented  has  about  eight  rooms.  These 
houses are on  wide  well-shaded  streets, 
well  paved  and  in  desirable  parts  of 
the town.  These eight rooms—and  they 
do not include bath  room, closets, cellar, 
dooryard nor shed—at 62}^ cents a room, 
will cost,  for a year, $260. 
It  Is  a  fact, 
however,  that,  for  $260  a  year,  larger 
houses,  and  with modern  improvements, 
can be rented on some of the best  streets 
of the city;  so  that  this  poor,  unfortu­
nate woman, rubbing her life  out  at  the 
wash tub,  is paying rent  at  the  rate  of 
$260 for a  cellar—a  bare  cellar—wholly 
unfit,  and never intended, to be lived  in! 
Strip  your  eight-room  house  of  every 
convenience; 
let  there  be  eight  bare 
rooms, each  so  small  “that  one  cannot 
see  to read, even on a sunshiny day,” by 
the light the one little window gives;  re­
move  everything  but  the  hole  in  the 
chimney—who  would  rent  it  at  $260 a 
year?  The man  would be  the  laughing­
stock of the community!

[ <5 ANT) 7  P EAPL STREET.
The  Michigan 
Trust Co.

Makes a specialty of acting ns

EXECUTOR  OF  WILLS 
ADfllNISTRATOR  OF  ESTATES 
GUARDIAN  OF  fllNORS  AND 

INCOHPETENT  PERSONS 

TRUSTEE  OR  AGENT

In  the m anagem ent of any  business  w hich  may 
be entrusted to it.
Any  inform ation  desired  will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.

LEWIS  H.  WITHEY,  President. 
ANTON  G.  HODENPYL.  Secretary.

THE  TRADESMAN 

Has  a  FIELD  of  its  own.

mars m

Advertisers get RESULTS.

SMITH-HILL  ELEVATORS

Electric,  Steam  and  Hand  Power. 
PRICES  LOW.  nECHANISM  SIMPLE.
NOT  LIABLE  TO  GET  OUT OF  REPAIR.

<'all and  see  me  or  telephone  1120  and  1  w ill 
accom pany en q u irer  to dozens of local  users  of 
our elevators. 

J.  C.  nULBERRY,  Agent. 
K ortlander Building, G rand  Rapids.  Mich.

.).  B R E C ilT IN G ,  A r ch itect,

79 W o n d erly   B u ild in g , G rand R a pid s. 

Correspond» nee solicited from 
parties who Intend to build.

FIRE 
INS. 
)  CO.
SAPS 

»ROMPT, 

CONSERVATIVE, 

J.  W  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

W.  FRED   McBAIN, Sec.

INSURANCE  CO.

Detroit,  M idi.

Organized 

Commercial 
Credit  Co 

Limited.

Reports  on  individuals for  the  retail  trade, 
house renters and professional men.  Also  Local 
Agents  K ara.  Com.  Agency  Co.’s  “Red  Book.” 
Collections handled fo r m embers. Phones 166-1030 

6s  MONROE  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Let’s take it from  another  standpoint:
It  is  well 
My house has nine rooms. 
located  and  well  lighted. 
It  is  a  con­
venient house in  every  respect,  and  the 
nine rooms  do not  include  a large  bath 
room  and  a  goodsized  storeroom.  For 
the nine rooms I pay $5 a  week, or  55}¿ 
cents  a  room—she,  62>i  cents  for  a 
cellar!

The writer who describes  the unfortu­
nate  woman’s  condition  suggests  that 
the  landlord  be  interviewed.  At  this 
distance I respectfully suggest  that it be 
done  with  a  club!  Should 
that  be 
deemed impracticable,  the next  thing  in 
order is the finding of  rooms  somewhere 
above ground fit for a respectable woman 
to  live  in  with  a  family  of  children 
whom she  wants  to  bring  up  in  a  re­
spectable  way,  and,  after  helping  her 
move into them,  seeing  that  the  rent  is 
paid until she is fully able to pay it  her­
self.  That done,  I  would most  heartily

urge the seventy-two church  members to 
divide  into  pairs  and  each  pair  take 
turn  in helping this woman wash, day  by 
day.  The sending in  of  a  good  Sunday 
dinner  in  the  way  suggested  is  a  good 
one;  and if they  whose lives  have  fallen 
in  goodly  places  will  come,  when  the 
needful things have  beeu  provided,  aud 
take the worthy  woman  into  their  lives 
as she ought  to  be  taken  in,  the  tired 
hands and the tireder heart  will  soon  be 
rested,  and 
life  once  so  heavily 
clouded  will  shine  with  a  brightness 
which comes only  from a  grateful heart.

the 

R .  M.  S t r e e t e r .

Explanation of  the  Embarrassment  of 

Empire  Straw  Works.

W. C.  Kiesel, Secretary of  the  Empire 
Straw  Works,  has  issued  the following 
statement to the  creditors  of  the  corpo­
ration:

Grand  Ra pid s,  June 7—We  are  sorry 
to have to inform you  that we have been 
forced to protect our directors,  who  had 
endorsed and guaranteed the notes of the 
company given  for borrowed money used 
in the business,  by mortgaging the prop­
erty  of  the  company  for $59,000.  The 
Peninsular Trust Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids, 
is  made  trustee  for  the  endorsers  aud 
guarantors.
When we organized,  two years  ago, we 
had a capital of $50,000,  but this amount 
was not  enough  to  complete  and  start 
our  factory,  so  that  we  had to borrow 
$15,000 of Harrison Corey.  This was se­
cured  by a note,  which  the  directors  en­
dorsed,  and  a  mortgage  on  the  plant. 
Since then,  for a cash  capital to conduct 
the business upon,  we have  had  to  bor­
row of our local banks and give the notes 
of the company,  endorsed  by  the direct­
ors aud guaranteed  by  bonds  signed  by 
them.  The  notes  of  the  company,  so 
made and now outstanding in  the  hands 
of  our  local  banks,  amouut  to $44,500, 
besides the above mentioned note of $15,- 
000, given to Mr. Corey,  being a total  of 
$59,500  upon  which  our  directors  are 
liable.
The past year’s business has  suddenly 
and unexpectedly come  to  an  end,  and 
we  find  that  the  result  is  disastrous. 
When the directors  came  to  realize  the 
state of affairs,  they  demanded  security 
to  protect  them  against  their  endorse­
ments and  the  company  was  forced  to 
give  it.  We  have  a  fine  plant,  well 
equipped, modern in every  way,  and as­
sets enough,  we hope,  to  pay  every  one 
we owe in full.  Of  course,  the  greater 
part of it is in  property  of  one  kind  or 
another,  and,  perhaps,  not readily  to  be 
realized upon.  We  are  having  a  com­
plete inventory now  made,  so  that  in  a 
few days we will be able to state how  we 
stand.

Blanks for  Township  Licenses.

The Tradesman Company  has  bad  its 
attorney prepare a blank form of license, 
for the use of township  boards  in  issu­
ing licenses  under the new law,  which  it 
offers to send,  postpaid,  in  any  quantity 
at $1 per hundred.  Many  of  the  town­
ship boards have already met and  agreed 
upon a schedule  of  charges  for  annual 
licenses,  many  of 
the  boards  having 
adopted the following charges:

Peddlers on foot, $2.
Peddlers with one horse, $5.
Peddlers with two horses, $10.
The  willing  worker  finds  his  labor 
light and his days short.  The  man  who 
watches the sun cannot see it move.

The  Shadow  on the  Wall.

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

If  any  confidence  can  be  placed  in 
signs,  the doom of China—her  traditions 
and  customs—is  sealed.  To  those  who 
have  watched  the  progress  of  events 
there  is  nothing  surprising,  certainly 
nothing  startling,  in 
the  turn  affairs 
have taken in the Celestial Empire.  For 
> ears a general  disintegration  has  been 
goiug-on.  Modern  life,  in  spite  of  the 
Great Wall,  has  made  itself  felt  inside 
that  barrier,  and  while,  from  time  to 
time,  rumors of changes  going  on  there 
have reached us,  it is  but  recently  that 
a  portentous  shadow has appeared upon 
the wall—the shadow of a severed cue.

It  is  true  that  Pekin  has  lately  re­
ceived a petition  praying  for  the  intro­
duction of constitutional  reform;  for  re­
lief  from  official 
incapacity,  and  that 
freedom  of  speech  and  of  the press  be 
allowed:  but these are  changes to be ex­
pected  from  contact  with  the  outside 
world and  do  not  indicate,  necessarily, 
any great internal disturbance.  The pe­
tition,  however,  calls for  the  abolishing 
of the  cue,  the  wearing  of  which  is  a 
matter  of  great  importance  among  all 
classes in that Empire of  three  hundred 
and sixty millions.

theory,  and 

For two hundred years the head of  the 
Chinaman has been shaved  and  the  cue 
worn  as  evidence  of  submission  to  the 
throue; aud now,  when the popular voice 
asks that  it  be  abolished,  the  meaning 
cannot  be  mistaken.  The  dismember­
ment of the Empire may  not  be at hand, 
but it is safe to say that the life of  tradi­
tion  and  stagnation  which  China  has 
lived  so  long  is  over;  and,  now  that 
Japan has so conclusively shown  the su­
periority  of  modern  methods,  the  old 
will give place to the new,  practice  will 
refute  and  rebuke  the  falsity  of  tradi­
tional 
that  overweening 
vanity,  which has  led  China  to  believe 
that  everything  in  and  concerning  her 
reached  perfection,  having  been 
has 
humbled, 
the  Chinaman,  bothered  uo 
longer with his cue and all that  it stands 
for,  will soon adapt  himself  to  the  new 
order of  things.  Then  is  the  time  for 
the rest of the world  to  look  out  for  it­
self.  A nation which has anticipated by 
centuries many of  the  important  inven­
tions  of  modern  civilization—powder, 
paper,  printing,  porcelain and  the  use of 
the compass—may go to sleep,  but, when 
she awakes,  she  will  “arouse herself like 
a strong man  from  sleep  and  shake  her 
invincible locks.”  That  is  what  China 
will do;  and there is nothing  which pre­
dicts this so surely as the  petition  which 
asks to abolish the cue. 

Ra d ix.

furnished 

Canada  has 

the  United 
States  with  an  average  emigratian  of 
15,000  per  year  since  1821.  Although 
that country has spent about $125,000,000 
to promote immigration, it has not to ex­
ceed 45,000 foreign born inhabitants.

The statement is made  on  the  author­
ity of the English Gold and  Silver  Com­
mission that the gold required  for indus­
trial purposes  equals more  than one-half 
the entire output of the world.

T H E   M IC H IG A N   THAJDESMj^JfT.
duced on  the farm,  was  sorted,  carded, 
spun,  reeled  into  skeins,  colored  with 
butternut  bark,  warped,  woven  and 
made up into clothing  and  blankets  by 
busy fingers that still found  time to care 
for the children, go to tea parties and at­
tend  church.  The  old  “ well  sweep,” 
with  the  time-honored  “moss  covered 
bucket;” the big rain trough  and the old 
gum leach are relics of a  departed  age— 
an age God fearing,  home  loving,  patri­
otic, an age that bred and reared  a  stal­
wart generation.

Q

PAST  VS.  PRESENT.

sions.

Comforts,  Conveniences  and  Posses­
Written for Tn Tradesman.

Is it not  straoge  that,  the  farther we 
advance in the increasing light of  a  new 
civilization,  with  its  unfolding  liberties 
and rapidly increasing life  comforts,  the 
more ungrateful and discontented we be­
come?

When  1  was a boy,  at  Sunday school 
I used to wonder how it could  have been 
possible for the Israelites to so  soon for­
get  their  former  benighted  state.  The 
shackles  of  serfdom  that  had  reduced 
them to mere beasts of burden  had  been 
shattered,  but  they  had  no 
sooner 
emerged from the  terrible  blackness  of 
Egyptian  bondage  and  started  on  the 
march of liberty to the  promised land of 
milk and honey,  than they set  up 'a  ter­
rible howl in  the wilderness  and wanted 
to  return  to  the  “flesh  pots”  of  the 
“good old  times.”  Not  being  a  model 
Sunday school scholar,  1  thougLt  it was 
a pity  that  Moses  did  not  drive  every 
last one of them back  to  the  brickyards 
of Goshen, where they might break their 
backs and sink out of  sight  in  the  mud 
deposits of the Nile.  With  my  childish 
reasoning I thought  it would  have  been 
a just retribution  for  their  ingratitude. 
Since that time  1  have  been wandering 
some forty  years  in  the wilderness  my­
self, and, during this time,  have  learned 
that modern gentiles are as forgetful and 
as ungrateful as  ever  were  the  ancient 
Israelites.

It is strange,  but true, that this feeling 
of  discontent  with  the  present  and  of 
wild  expectancy  as  to  the  future  has 
taken possession,  to  a  greater  or  lesser 
extent, of all  of  us,  and  we  cannot  en­
tirely shake it off or give  an  intelligible 
reason  for  it. 
It  may  be that we have 
become so surfeited with the necessities, 
conveniences  and  luxuries  which  the 
dawning of the  new  light  has  given  us 
that we have  actually  lost  the  sense  of 
appreciation.

While recently discussing this question 
with  an  old  gentleman,  I  was  so  im­
pressed  with the word  picture  he  drew, 
showing the wonderful contrast between 
the conditions surrounding  two  lives  so 
wide apart in  comparative  possibilities, 
and  yet  so  closely  related  in  point  of 
time, that l resolved to put  it  on.  paper 
the  readers  of  The 
and  give  it  to 
Tradesman. 
It will be noticed that the 
very  names  and  characteristics  of  the 
two men mark two periods of time.

lie said:  “My father’s name  was  Zede- 
kiah Brown,  without  an  e  on  the  end. 
He was a strict churchman  and  believed 
that the eternal destiny of every individ­
ual  was  fixed  before  birth;  that  every 
unusual event was a special act of Provi­
dence,  and that hell was a literal  lake  of 
tire and brimstone.  My grandson’s name 
is Carl Mortimer Lome Gibson.  Carl goes 
to church—when he feels like it.  He be­
lieves  that  the  old  dogmas  are  about 
played out,  and looks upon  the  religion 
of his fathers as  mere  superstition.  He 
talks about  “natural  law,”  and  is  more 
positive  about  what  he  doesn’t  believe 
than about what he does believe.

“Change?  Why, when father settled on 
his  land  here,  mother  had  to  use  the 
spikes off thorn trees for  pins, and there 
wasn’t such a thing  as  a  match.  Real 
pins were $i a  paper  and  only  the  rich 
were able to  buy  them.  At  night, the 
last thing to be done was  to  pull  in  the 
latchstring, and,  in winter,  to  cover the

fire in one corner of the big  fireplace,  to 
preserve it.  Sometimes  the  fire  would 
“die”  during  the  night,  and  then,  if 
there  was  a  neighbor  near—an  accom­
modating one—some member of  the fam­
ily would be dispatched, in the  morning, 
to “borrow  fire.” 
In  the  absence  of  a 
near  or  accommodating  one,  resource 
would be had  to  the  old  “tinder  box.” 
I remember seeing father fire  a tow  wad 
into the old fireplace,  with  his  old  flint­
lock  musket,  as  a  means  of  obtaining 
fire.  Light?  There was  not  much  use 
for it.  The old sputtering tallow “slut,” 
or “dip,”  as  it  was  called,  gave  light 
enough to see  to  read  a  chapter  in  the 
old thumb-worn Bible,  and  it  didn’t re­
quire a bright  light  to  offer  up  thanks 
for  the  great  blessings  they  enjoyed. 
Books, magazines  and  newspapers  were 
not within reach of  the  masses  in  those 
times,  as  they  are  to-day.  They  were 
luxuries and none but the wealthy might 
indulge  in  them.  Neither  were  there 
any free schools, and the common people 
were not all taught to read and  write,  as 
they are to-day.

“Carl lives in a  three-story brick man­
sion,  lighted with electricity and warmed 
throughout by a hot air furnace.  He has 
a room he calls a “library.” 
It  is  filled 
with  encyclopedias  and  works  covering 
every department  of  human  knowledge. 
He  takes  several  daily  papers  and  his 
wife is  a  subscriber  to  as  many  maga­
zines. 
In the evening  he  seats  himself 
comfortably in a large richly-upholstered 
chair  and,  while  the  cat  purrs  at  his 
slippered  feet  on  the  soft  deep  velvet 
carpet,  he  leisurely  smokes  his  cigar 
and reads his evening budget of the day’s 
happenings in every part of the civilized 
world.  When the eight-day clock on the 
marble mantel points to  rest,  he  retires 
to a bed that excels in  comfort  and  ele­
gance anything enjoyed by princes in his 
great-grandfather’s day.  But,  instead of 
breathing thanks for  the  pleasant  place 
in  which his lot is cast,  he  growls  about 
the low price of wheat  and  horses,  and 
wonders “ what the world is  coming  to.”
“My father, at Carl’s age, used a wooden 
plow and a “letter A”  drag with wooden 
teeth and a log laid across it.  He sowed 
and planted by hand,  and,  when “mush” 
was  needed,  he  shelled  a  grist  on  the 
blade of a shovel  and  carried  it  on  the 
back  of  a  horse  to  a  mill fifteen miles 
away.  He cut bis  grass  with  a  scythe 
and raked and pitched  it  by  hand.  He 
harvested  his  grain  with  a  “ turkey 
wing,” threshed it  with  a  flail  and  the 
winds of heaven  fanned it for him.  His 
forks, 
axes, 
clevises, etc.,  were all  made by the local 
blacksmith.  The  coarse  brogans  worn 
by himself and  family  were  made  by  a 
cobbler  who 
traveled  from  house  to 
house.  The windows in his  house  gave 
light through twelve 7x9  panes  of  glass 
and  the  chimney  was  made  of  sticks, 
stones  and  mud.  My  mother  literally 
“stooped” to do her  cooking in iron pots 
that hung on a crane in the  fireplace,  or 
in a  “spider” standing among  the  glow­
ing  coals.  Her  baking  was  done  in  a 
“Dutch oven,” or in  a  tin  “baker”  be­
fore the fire;  when the weather was fair, 
in an outdoor oven.

hoes,  shovels,  chains, 

“In father’s time, clothing was not only 
made  at  home  but  the  cloth  itself  as 
well, and the raw materials  of  which  it 
was  made were  grown  or  produced  on 
the farm.  Linen for other  purposes,  as 
well  as  for  clothing,  was  grown  and 
dressed  on  the  farm.  Wool,  also  pro­

The  T rade is 
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l  P.  BENNETT  FUEL  AND  ICE  CO.
Thos.  E.  W ykes

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

COAL  AND  WOOD,
LIM E.  S E W E R   P IP E , 
FLOUR,  FE ED ,  E tc.

45  S.  Diviston  S t.,  Qrand  Rapids.
A .  H I M E S .

W holesale Shipper

GOAL,  LINE,  CEMENTS,

SEWER  PIPE,  ETC.

I  CANAL  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

S A* M on MAN 

(H A S   E.MCECH

S A MORMAN & CO.

OFFICE  19 LYON  ST 

WAREHOUSES  COR. WEAlIHV A IONIA ST.

W holesale and  Retail.

Agents for A lseu’s Germ an P ortland Cement, the 
____________________QRAND  RAPIDS,  ItlCH.

best iu the w orld fo r sidew alk work. 

Eggs.

We want your Eggs.  Will 
pay you  full  market price 
for  tliem,  delivered  here. 
Please  note,  we  are  Buy­
ers, not commission  men.

We  are  Headquarters  for 
Egg  Cases  and  Fillers.
Will  sell  you

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No.  1 HO doz. Cases,  In lots of 10, em pty,
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10
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14
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11
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W.  T.  LAMÖREAUX  GO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Michael  Kolb 

&  Son

W h o l e s a l e   C l o t h i e r s

Rochester,  N.  Y.

O ur  representative,  WILLIAM  CONNOR, 
of  M arshall,  Mich.,  wi  1  be  pleased  to  call 
upon  the  Trade  and  show  you  samples, if 
you will favor him  w ith  a line.

Mail orders prom ptly atten d ed  to. 
WILLIAM  CONNOR  w i l l   be  a t  S w e e t ’s 

H otel,  G rand  Rapids, on  F riday, Ju n e 14.

“To-day, one may ride on a spring seat, 
with an umbrella over his head,  when be 
plows, harrows,  sows,  cultivates,  reaps, 
mows,  stirs  and rakes.  Steam threshes 
his grain at the rate of 1,000  bushels  per 
day, and the same power cleans,  steams, 
chops  or  cooks  it  on his own premises, 
where it is converted into pork, beef  and 
milk,  the  latter  being  sent to a factory 
and  converted  into  butter  and  cheese. 
Machines propelled  by  horse  power  or 
steam cut his feed and grind  his  apples; 
cut,  husk  and  shell  his  corn;  dig  his 
potatoes—or  his  ditches;  cut  his  fire 
wood;  load  and  unload  his  bay  and 
grain; pull his peas, reap  his  grain  and 
bind his sheaves.

“He and  his wife  may  ride  in a finer 
covered carriage  than  the  richest  mon­
arch in Europe could own one  short cen 
tury before my  father’s  time.  One half 
mile of macadamized road—steel springs 
underneath  and  leather  canopy  over­
head—only  sixty  minutes 
to  sit  in  a 
cushioned pew and  be  entertained  with 
classical music and a  thirty-minute  ora­
tion on philosophy—and yet, one-third of 
the time,  the weather  is  “unfavorable,” 
and another third  of  the  time  they  do 
not  get  up  in  time  to  go  to  church 
Why,  my  old  mother  had  to  ride  five 
miles—when  she  didn’t  walk—in  a 
squeaking,  clattering old linchpin  “lum­
ber  wagon,”  bumping over long stretches 
of corduroy and plunging into mud holes 
on the right and on the  left  clear  up  to 
the  bub.  And,  when  she  got  to  the 
church,  she sat an  hour and a  half  on  a 
hard wooden  bench,  patiently  listening 
to the sledge hammer blows aimed at the 
ungodly.

“Evolution?  Why, when 1 think of my 
mother’s  early  married  life,  I  wonder 
what Mrs. Carl  Mortimer  Lome  Gibson 
can  find to do!  She  neither  makes,  nor 
helps to make, one yard  of  any  kind  ot 
material  needed  for  clothing  or  house 
furnishing;  it is all made in  factories by 
machinery.  She does not even  make  up 
this material,  for  all kinds of garments, 
every  article  of  bedding,  carpets,  cur­
tains—in fact, everything comes  into  the 
house  ready  made  and  ready  for  use, 
and,  not only this,  but cheaper  and  bet­
ter than they possibly could  be  if  made 
at  home  and  the  labor 
in. 
Strange  as  it  may  seem,  my  mother 
might have  been  seen at church dressed 
in the very latest style, and yet every ar­
ticle in her apparal,  except  the  brogans 
on her feet and the bit of satin  ribbon at 
her throat, was made  and  fitted  by  her­
self, her only base  of  supply  being  the 
flax  and  wool  in  the  raw  state as fur­
nished  by  Mother Earth.  Sewiug  ma­
chines?  They  came  too  late. 
If  my 
mother could have had one,  it  would  not 
have  stood  in  the  corner  in 
solemn 
silence, uncared  for  and  unappreciated, 
like the one  in  Mrs. Carl’s house.  No. I 
can’t,  for the life of me,  see  what  Mrs. 
Carl  finds  to  do.  Her  cooking  can  be 
done on her gas range  in  half  the  time

thrown 

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3

and with one-half  the  labor  required  of 
my mother in the old  fireplace,  and  she 
has  no  “farm  help” to cook  for. 
(It is 
needless to say that  she  has  servants  to 
do all the cooking  done  in  that  house.) 
She is thoroughly imbued  with the spirit 
of her age; and it is not at all likely  that 
she  will  be  encumbered  with  as  many 
maternal [cares  as  fell  to  the lot of her 
great-grandmother. 
Is  she  happy  and 
contented?  No.  Was  her  great-grand­
mother,  whose  life  was  one  ceaseless 
round of comfortless toil  and  self-sacri­
fice,  rendered so  by  the  rearing  of  ten 
stalwart boys and girls,-happy  and  con­
tented?  Yes.

“My  grandson  is  better  fed,  better 
clothed and better  housed,  and,  by  the 
aid of labor-saving devices,  steam,  elec­
tricity,  etc.,  he  is  freed  from  the old- 
time drudgery  of  life  and  given  ample 
leisure to cultivate his mind, enlarge  his 
understanding  and  make  of  himself  a 
wiser,  a better and a  grander  man  than 
his great-grandfather was.  Why  should 
he not also be a happier and a more  con­
tented one?”

I  will  cut  the  old  gentlem an’s  story 
short at  this  point  and  subm it  the  query 
to my readers. 

E.  A. Ow en.

The Advantage of Discounts.

F r o m  t h e  P h a r m a c e u tic a l E r a .

Too little attention is paid by retailers, 
and even jobbers,  to the profits  there are 
in discounts.  One  or  two  per  cent, off 
for cash looks small,  but in  reality  it  is 
very considerable. 
If a man  buys  $10,- 
000  worth  of  goods  and  gets  two  per 
cent, off for cash,  he  saves $200.  Would 
he like to go out and pay  $200  for  $10,- 
000 for twenty  days,  or  $20  for  $1,000 
the same time?  No,  he  would  say  that 
it was bad  financiering,  and  yet  that’s 
just what hundreds of business  men  are 
doing  every  day  all  over  the  country. 
The writer says:  “Nine  dollars,  1  per 
cent,  ten days;  thirty days  net.  Does it 
pay  to  discount  such  a  bill?  At  first 
glance you would feel inclined to say no, 
but  did  you  ever  stop  to  figure?  Of 
course it’s  only nine  cents.  Suppose  1 
come to you and say, “Brother merchant, 
will you oblige me with a loan of  $9  for 
twenty days, providing 1 pay  you  inter­
est at 18 per cent.?”  You would not hes­
itate to comply with my  request,  that is, 
if my credit was good.
“Well,  this  is  exactly  what a jobber 
offers you when  he  says,  ‘One  per cent, 
ten  days;  thirty  days  net.’  Yes, he of­
fers you 18 per cent,  for the use of $9 for 
twenty days,  and,  what’s queer  about  it, 
you  ignore  his  offer,  preferring  to  pay 
him  18  per  cent,  for  the  use  of  that 
amount for twenty days.  You  may  say, 
‘Had 1 the money,  I would  discount  all 
my  bills.’  Why,  you  don’t  need  the 
ready  cash  to  do  so.  Now,  let me ask 
you another question:  Suppose I sell you 
a  bill  of  goods  with  terms  1 per cent, 
ten days,  thirty days net,  and  you  were 
prepared  to  pay  at  the  end  of  thirty 
days.  Now suppose I  offered  you a dis­
count when the bill  became  due,  would 
you  take  it?  Yes?  Then,  why  don’t 
you?
“To  be  brief,  why  don’t  you,  on the 
tenth, day go to your banker and  get the 
required amount for  twenty  days  at  10 
per cent., so that in reality  you  profit  8 
per  cent.,  as  you pay the banker 10  per 
cent,  and  the  jobber  pays  you  18  per 
cent.  These little things are well worth 
your attention.  Do  not  pass  them  by, 
and  remember,  discounting  little  bills 
makes it easier to discount the big bills.”

putting  pulverized 

How  to  Drive  Rats  Away Alive.
Somebody  who  has  tried  it,  recom­
mends 
potash, 
which  soon  becomes  sticky  when  ex­
posed to the air, in all the rat holes about 
the house.  The special detestation  of  a 
rat  is  anything which will  stick  to  his 
silky coat.  Some persons find a  mixture 
of  equal  parts  of  cayenne  pepper  and 
Scotch snuff sprinkled well into the holes 
still more efficacious.

Information  Advertising.

Retail merchants have many opportun­
ities  for  attracting  public  attention  to 
their stores, and it may be of  interest  to 
note some of the methods  which  are  be­
ing used in some sections  to  advantage.
An  enterprising  merchant  in  a  small 
place  can  soon  become  a  much-prized 
source of information if he  will  placard 
the reports of the Signal  Service Bureau 
in public places  about  the  town  giving, 
at the same time, his store  news.  These 
weather forecasts can  be  obtained  from 
the Department  at  Washington, by  tele­
graph, at an expense  not  to  exceed  one 
cent a word,  and  in  some  cases  will  be 
furnished free.  In this connection,  a  set 
of weather  flags  can  be  also  obtained, 
and  by  having  them  displayed  on  the 
front of  the  store  the  public  will  soon 
fall into the habit  of  looking  your  way 
as they pass.
Some  cards  should  be  distributed  to. 
advise the public of  the  meaning  of  the 
several flags,  and these  bearing  your ad­
vertisement will be preserved.
The newspaper  space  may  be  headed 
each day with the weather  probabilities, 
and thus draw especial attention  to your 
advertisement.  This species of advertis­
ing is  founded  on  the  old  and  reliable 
principle that to  secure anything,  some­
thing must be first given;  that  is, if  you 
would have a oustomer give you bis trade 
you must first  do  something  which  will 
redound to his benefit  and thereby enlist 
his  assistance. 
1  know  a  merchant, 
whose store is near a summer resort, who 
publishes each day at the top  of  his  ad­
vertisement, during the season,  the time 
at which the  tide  is  high,  medium  and 
low,  for the convenience of  persons  who 
might wish to go fishing or  bathing,  and 
it helps his trade  by  bringing  his  name 
constantly before an appreciative part of 
the public.
I know another  man  who  printed  the 
location  of  the  fire  alarm boxes once a 
week in his newspaper  space, just  leav­
ing room for his name,  business  and  ad­
dress.  The people,  when  they  heard  an 
alarm of fire,  would eagerly look  for  his 
advertisement to find out  where  the  fire 
was located,  and  his  efforts  were  com­
mercially  rewarded. 
I  know  another 
merchant,  whose  store is in  a suburban 
location,  who placed in the center of  his 
advertisement  the time table of the local 
railroad trains, and,  as he kept it always 
correct up to date,  more people looked at 
his  advertisement  than  at  any  other. 
Another merchant gave the hour,  minute 
and second of the daily rising of the sun, 
which he prepared from an almanac, and 
it was astonishing how many people who 
had never before thought about the  mat­
ter began to regularly look  each  day  to 
notice  the  change  in  the  length  of the 
days.  Still another dealer,  by  some  re­
search of statistical books,  was able each 
day  to  date  bis  advertisement  and  an­
nounce  that  on 
the  same  day  of  the 
month and year just  one  hundred  years 
previous  some 
remarkable  historical 
event occured. 
I might, from my obser­
vations,  recite  hundreds  of  similar  in 
stances  where  enterprising  merchants 
have so combined some item  of  interest­
ing public information with  their  adver­
tising  announcement  as  to  help  their 
own interests,  while  serving  the general 
good.
It is not so much that  the  information 
you give shall be particularly rare news, 
but it is the fact  of  its  daily  recurrence 
and  reliability  which  attract public at­
tention. 
I  submit this subject as a sug­
gestion to the many retailers who  realize 
the need of doing more  than  simply  an­
nouncing their name,  place and  business 
in a  commonplace  form,  and  who  may 
find in the instances given  some  hint  as 
to the personal  application  of  the  prin­
ciples involved. 

J o el A. Ca l e b .

The  Spider’s  Web.

The spider  is  so  well  supplied  with 
the silky thread with which it  makes  its 
web that an experimenter once  drew out 
of the body of a specimen  3,580 yards of 
the thread—a length  but  little  short  of 
two miles.  A  fabric woven  of  spider’s 
thread is more glossy than that  from the 
silkworm’s product, and is of a beautiful 
golden color.

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

Government

Bonds

A r e   t h e   s u r e s t   i n v e s t m e n t   in 
t h e  
w o r l d .   T h e   p e r c e n t a g e   o f  p r o f it 
is  s m a l l ,   b u t   t h e   i n c o m e   is  s u r e .

The Tradesman’s
Advertising
Columns

l a r g e r  

Y ield   m u c h  
r e t u r n s   t h a n  
G o v e r n m e n t   B o n d s ,  a n d   a r e   to  be 
e q u a l l y   d e p e n d e d   u p o n   in

Positive

Results!

T H E   T R A D E S M A N 'S   field  is  cir­
cu m scrib ed   o n ly   by 
th e  lim its  o f 
p r o g r essiv e   m e r c h a n d is in g —w h e r e  
y o u  
find  a  w id e - a w a k e ,  up  to- 
d ate  m e r c h a n t, th ere  y o u   find  T H E  
T R A D E S M A N .

C onsider  th ese 

facts  w h e n   y o u  
a re  in  the  m a r k e t  for  a d v e r tisin g .

Tradesman  Company
Grand  Rapids

M i c m a ^ j s r   t e a d e s m a n .

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Marquette—F.  A.  Rockwell has opened 

a new grocery store.

Albion—Torrey  A  Burnett,  grocers, 

have made an assignment.

Chelsea—L.  T.  Freeman has purchased 

the grocery stock of John Blaich.

Ithaca—F.  L. Convis succeeds Stephen 

E,  Parrish in the grocery business.

Negaunee—Thomas  M.  Wells  has  put 

in a stock of general  merchandise.

Dowagiac—The Jones Grocery Co., not 

incorporated,  succeeds W. D. Jones.

Prairieville—W. L. Brown is succeeded 

by Geo.  W.  Kern in the drug  business.

Escanaba—Gilmette &  Pearce  succeed 
Gilmette & Cleary in the  furniture  busi­
ness.

St.  Louis—H.  E. Parshall  has  opened 
a restaurant under the style of the Grand 
Central.

Bad Axe—Geo. M.  Deady,  druggist, is 
succeeded by the Bad Axe Drug  Co.,  in­
corporated.

F a rw e ll— Moses  A.  Herrick  succeeds 
Eva A.  (Mrs.  Moses)  Herrick in the gro­
cery  business.

Big  Rapids—Brackney  &  Hamilton 
succeed M.  M.  Brackney in the  boot  and 
shoe business.

Iron  Mountain—Louis  Stockley  has 
succeeded K.  H.  Ingram as  proprietor of 
the Ingram Pharmacy.

Chelsea—J.  A. Eisenman &  Co.,  cigar 
dealers,  have dissolved.  The business is 
continued by J. S. Gorman.

Manistee—C. D.  Stanley has purchased 
the stock in Conat’s Bazaar and will con­
tinue the business at the old stand.

Gladstone—Weinig  &  Stezel,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
Martin  Weinig  will  continue  the  busi­
ness.

Burton—Joseph  Vincent  has opened  a 
new  general  store,  carrying  lines  of 
groceries,  dry  goods,  hardware  and 
paints.

Cheboygan—H.  A.  St.  Onge  &  Co 
have isolated their shoe stock from  their 
general store and will conduct  an  exclu 
sive shoe store hereafter.

Springport—1. P. Roberts has  sold  his 
stock of dry  goods,  clothing,  boots  and 
shoes and  groceries  to  Frank  E.  Dyer 
who immediately took possession.

Montague—Mrs.  Clara  V.  Austin  has 
purchased a half interest in  the  grocery 
business  of  W.  A.  Austin,  in  Ashley, 
ind., to which they  will  add  a  stock  of 
dry goods.

Manistee—John  Borncke  has  pur­
chased the interest  of  Onufry  Rodke  in 
the grocery  stock  of  Rodke  &  Borncke 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

Jackson—W.  V.  Parmelee,  formerly of 
Albion,  has purchased the  grocery  stock 
of J.  A. Daller,  at 933  East  Main  street, 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
the same location.

Howard  City—James  A.  Straith  has 
sold the grocery  stock  he  recently  pur­
chased at mortgage sale to  L.  R.  Gates, 
the former owner,  who will continue  the 
business at the same location.

South Arm—Doerr  &  Goodman,  hard­
ware dealers at Central  Lake,  have  pur­
chased a lot of Mrs. Keat and  will  erect 
a new store building,  to which they  will 
remove their stock at Central Lake.

Alma—Chas. E. Mahan, the Elk Rapids 
druggist, has purchased  the  drug  stock 
of B. Van  Den  Berg  and  will  continue 
the business at  the  same  location,  plac

ing the store  in  charge  of  a  competent 
representative.  Mr. Van Den  Berg  will 
remove to Detroit and embark in the real 
estate and lumber business.

Albion—E.  J.  Emmons  has  removed 
his grocery stock  to  the  building  occu­
pied  by  the  Albion  Milling Co.’s office.
J.  E.  Perrine has opened a  branch  store 
in the building vacated by Mr.  Emmons.
Jackson—Slifer & Schuller,  dealers  in 
coal,  wood and ice,  have  dissolved,  Mr. 
Slifer  retiring  from  the 
firm.  Geo. 
Schuller continues the business.  Messrs. 
Slifer  &  Emmons  have  formed  a  part­
nership  and  have  engaged  in  the  ice 
business.

Ironwood—M.  &  L.  Wetzler,  grocers 
at  this  place  and  also at Hurley,  Wis., 
have  dissolved.  The  business  will  be 
continued by Louis and  Julius  Wetzler, 
proprietors  of  the  Gogebic Meat & Pro­
vision Co.

Detroit—The Davis Fish  and  Salt  Co. 
has been organized with  a  capital  stock 
of $10,000, paid in.  The stock is held by 
George H.  Kirchner,  400  shares;  James 
Donaldson,  300;  Frederick  B.  Harper, 
299,  and Edgar A. Davis,  1.

Galesburg—L.  L.  Bowen  and  H.  C. 
Trabert, the former  of  whom  has  been 
engaged for several years in  the  grocery 
business,  while the latter  has  conducted 
a boot and shoe store,  have joined hands. 
The two stores  will be  thrown  into  one 
and a general store will  be the result.

Saginaw,  E. S.—The  McCausland Gro­
cery Co.  will be known  as  Melze, Smart 
& Co.  after July  1.  No  change  will  be 
made in the stockholders or officers, which 
are as follows:  G.  A.  Alderton  (Presi­
dent);  A.  C.  Melze  (Treasurer);  James 
S.  Smart  (Secretary and  Manager); F. J. 
Fox.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Kalamazoo—F.  A.  Taylor  has  pur­
chased the  stock  and  good  will  of  the 
Strait Manufacturing  Co.  and  will  con­
tinue the business under the  style of the 
Standard Brass Works.

Thompsonville—The Thompson  Lum­
ber  Co.  has  sold  its  timber  to  Louis 
Sands,  of  Manistee,  for  $30,000.  The 
logs will be shipped to Manistee over the 
Manistee &  Northeastern,  a  branch  be­
ing put in for that purpose.

Bay City—Estey & Calkins  are willing 
to locate  a  hardwood  milling  plant  on 
the  old  McLean  mill  site  on  condition 
that  Bay  City  will  release  the  incum­
brances on that property,  consisting of a 
mortgage of $2,000 and  some  delinquent 
taxes.  A  committee  of  the  Business 
Men’s Association  will make an  effort to 
close the matter up and secure the plant.
Belding—The man  who  was  going  to 
start a shoe  factory  here  proved  a  siick 
fake,  and  has  vanished,  leaving  sundry 
good fellows out  some  dollars  for  little 
loans  and  entertainment.  Those  who 
subscribed  for  the  shoe  factory  meant 
business,  however,  and  it  looks  very 
much as if a company will  be  organized 
to engage  in  some  other  business  of  a 
manufacturing character.

Ceresco—The  Ceresco  Mill  and  Hy­
draulic  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital stock of $40,000,  all paid in.  The 
purpose of the corporation is to buy  and 
sell real estate,  build  and  operate  flour­
ing  mills,  handle  all  appliances essen­
tial to the use and  sale  of  water  power 
and  buy  and  sell  merchandise  of  all 
kinds.  The signers  of  the  articles  are 
George  Preston,  Chairman;  Harry  D. 
Hall,  Secretary,  and  Chas.  H.  Frisbie, 
Treasurer.  All are  Jackson  gentlemen.

Detroit—Charles  U.  Metcalf,  doing 
business as the  American  Pearl  Button 
Co.,  has  chattel  uiorlgaged  his  entire 
stock of  pearl,  manufactured  aud  raw, 
fixtures, machinery and accounts to Dud­
ley  B.  Woodbridge  for  himself  and  as 
trustee for other creditors.  The factory, 
which has  been  well  advertised  on  ac­
count of discussions on the  Wilson  bill, 
is  located  at  59 and 61 East Fort street. 
The mortgage is given to  secure  belated 
merchandise  accounts  and 
secure 
notes.

to 

Manistee—The  expert  who  was  sent 
here by the tannery people to  look  over 
the  hemlock  forests  tributary  to  this 
place has been in  the woods  for  several 
days and states that  he  is  surprised  at 
the amount of hemlock in sight.  He had 
no  idea  there  was  anywhere  in  this 
western country such a body of  hemlock 
as we have contiguous to  Manistee.  He 
says that Manistee undoubtedly  has  the 
finest site for  a  tannery  in  the  United 
States and  can  guarantee  a  longer  life 
to an institution of  that  kind  than  can 
any other place  he  knows  of.  One  ad­
vantage we have over most  other  points 
is that the bark  is  controlled  by  a  few 
men, who can throw the supply in which 
ever direction  they  please,  and  a  man 
has not to be dealing with  dozens  of 
responsible parties.  Our Business Men’s 
Association has worked this thing  up  in 
good shape,  and the mill men have given 
valuable aid in all directions.

Manistee—Lumber  is  selling  slowly 
there seems to be a  lull  in  trade  which 
was not expected at this time.  We were 
looking for a revival  rather  than  other 
wise.  One  very  good  feature is the  ex 
cessive demand for bill stuff.  Not  since 
the  World’s  Fair has  there  been such 
demand for  bill  timber  of  all  kinds  as 
there is now.  All the mills  are full and 
a good many of them have to  turn  away 
orders.  Some have not their bill  logs to 
hand,  and others filled up early on harbor 
bills, etc.,  and  are  now  unable  to  take 
advantage  of  the  higher  prices.  The 
railroads are beginning to  look  for  lum­
ber  of  all  kinds,  which  indicates a re­
vival of  business.  One  party  has  been 
asking  prices  on  1,000,000  feet  of  car 
flooring,  while car  sill  orders  are  quite 
frequent.  One mill here is  cutting a  lot 
of  9x16-30,  which  go  out  by  rail  into 
Canadian territory  for  railroad  bridges; 
6x16 and 7x16 are  in  good  demand,  and 
the  prices  asked  are  $1  in  advance of 
last year’s figures.

C lerks’  C orner.

Traverse  City—E.  H.  Pierce  has  ar­
rived from Reed City and  taken  a  posi­
tion as druggist with the  Mercantile  Co.
Elk  Rapids—S.  B. Owen,  who recently 
severed  his  connection  with  the  Elk 
Rapids Iron Co.,  has  gone  to  Traverse 
City,  where he  has taken  a  position  in 
the shoe  department  of  the  Mercantile 
Co.

Man ton—Mr.  Jones,  of  Otsego,  has 
taken a position in the hardware store of 
Ballard  &  Phelps.  Mr.  Jones  comes 
to this place  highly  recommended  as  a 
plumber and  tinner.  He is  also  an  in­
structor  in  band  music  and  will  give 
instructions to the members  of  the band 
here.

Ask J.  P. Visner for  Edwin  J.  Gillies 
& Co.’s special  inducements on early  im­
port teas for June shipment.

Use Tradesman C oupon  Books.

The  Grain Market. 

*

Wheat advanced  about  2c  during  the 
past week and everything points  to  still 
higher prices.  The visible made another 
respectable decrease of 2,490,000 bushels, 
leaving 49,839,000 bushels  still  in  sight. 
The world’s available supply is about 13,- 
000,000 bushels less than  it was the same 
date last year.  The stocks in the United 
States and Canada  decreased  about  20,- 
000,000  bushels  during  the  past  month 
and the stocks are  10,000,000 bushels less 
than during the  corresponding week last 
ear.  The  conditions  in 
the  winter 
wheat belt show only about  60  per  cent, 
of  an  average  crop.  The  estimate  is 
that  the  crop  will  be  about  75,000,000 
bushels  less  than 
it  was  last  year. 
Foreigners  are  taking  our  wheat,  but 
not in large blocks;  still they continue to 
buy some, and,  with the local demand all 
around, our  stocks  are  reduced,  so  we 
will probably  be near the  normal  before 
the new crop comes  in.  One  car of new 
wheat from Kansas  was  received  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  which graded No. 2 red and 
the  market.  The 
brought  the  top  of 
Government  report,  issued 
this  after­
noon,  is  not  as  bullish  as  was  antici­
pated,  which  will have  a  depressing  ef­
fect on prices. 
It shows 711-10th  of  an 
average  crop,  or  about  119-10ths  less 
than the May report.

Corn, in sympathy  with wheat,  had its 
ups and downs and  closed  at  the  same 
price as last  week.

Oats were stronger and,  owing  to  the 
extreme hot  weather,  the  crop  will  be 
very  short,  notwithstanding  there  are 
four times as  many  bushels  in  sight  as 
there were last year.
The  receipts  during  the  week  were: 
wheat,  33  cars;  corn,  8  cars,  which  is 
rather below  the  normal;  and  5  cars  of 
oats. 

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

PRODUCE  riARKET.

Beaus—T he  m arket  is  stronger  and  higher 
East, but the Chicago m arket is w ithout m arked 
change.  The lirm  m arket m akes holders rather 
stiff in th e ir views aud no possibility of a lower 
level of values is discernible at this tim e.

B utter—In am ple supply at  12@15c  for  choice 

dairy.

Beets—New, 35®.45c per doz.
Cabbage—Cairo  stock 

in  freely, 
com m anding 41.7o@2 per c rate  of  th ree to  four 
dozen.

is  com ing 

cauliflow er—About o ut  of  m arket.
Cucum bers — Home  grow n  are 
supply, com m anding 35<gi40e per doz.

in  am ple 

Eggs— H andlers pay  10c and  hold  a t  11c  in  a 

regular jobbing way.

O nions—10c per doz.  bunches  fo r green stock. 
Dry stock  from the South com m ands 416)1.10 per 
b n .

P otatoes—Old stock is weak and lower, selling 
in small quantities to th e  retail trade  at  386/ We 
per  bu.  New  stock  is  com ing  in  freely, com­
m anding 42.25@2.50 per bbl. 
In spite of the  pre­
dictions, early in th e  season,  th a t new  potatoes 
from  th e South  would be late and scarce, on ac­
count of the backw ard spring and th e late frosts, 
an am ole  supply  is  already  here  a t  the lowest 
basis of values ever know n d u ring tb e iirst  week 
of June.

Pineapples—Commission  men  are  receiving 
F lorida stock via Baltim ore in  earlots.  holding 
a t  4K&1.50 per doz..according to size and quality. 

Radishes—Round or Long,  10c per doz.
Spinach—25c per bu.
Straw berries—The  season  is  fairly  upon  us. 
but it is not likely to  be  satisfactory  to all con­
cerned.  C ertainly, th e consum er has reason for 
com plaint,  as 
the  quality  is  very  inferior  in 
point o f  appearance  and  flavor,  owing  to  the 
extrem es  in  th e  w eath er  and  th e  absence  of 
rain.  Several carloads have come  in  from   Bal­
tim ore during the past w eek, but about  all  that 
can be said fo r the fru it is its size.  Homegrown 
will be at the flush of the crop th e la tte r part of 
the week, th e expectation being  th a t  th e  price 
will rule in th e vicinity of 8c,  although  it  may 
vary lc eith er way,  w ith fancy prices  fo r  extra 
fancy offerings.

W ax  Beans—$1.50 per bu.  There Is  an  entire 

absence of dem and for ordinary string beans.

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GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Edward J.  Moore,  meat aud  fish dealer 
at 842 La Belle avenue,  has  sold  out  to 
A.  E.  Peterson.

Hosmer Bros,  will shortly open  a  gro­
cery store at Coopersville.  The Oluey <& 
Judson Grocer Co.  has the  order  for  the 
stock.

O.  H.  Robinson has removed  his  drug 
stock from  711  Wealthy  avenue  to  the 
corner  of  East  Fulton  and  Diamond 
streets.

Hilsinger & Yliet  have  opened  a  gro­
cery store at 283 Jefferson  avenue.  The 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  furnished 
the stock.

F. E.  Maxon has  taken  his  old  terri­
tory with the Jackson Grocery  Co.,  after 
a “lay off” of several months  on account 
of sickness.

L.  Corey  succeeds  Martin  Beals  and 
N.  W.  Crocker  succeeds  Mr.  Dobson, 
both in  the  grocery  business,  at  South 
Grand Rapids.

Wm.  Habbeler, who has opened  a gen­
eral store at Lake Ann, placed  his order 
for a grocery stock  with  the  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman Co.

Jacob  E.  Pliscbke  has  removed  his 
grocery stock from 75 Gold  street  to  the 
corner of Chatham  and  Straight streets, 
in his own building.

R.  W.  Griffin  will  open  a  dry  goods 
and  grocery  store  at  Forest  Hill  next 
week.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
has the order for the grocery  stock.

W.  T.  Lamoreaux  has  purchased  the 
sole  right 
to  manufacture  Corbin’s 
lightning shears and  scissors  sharpener 
and is preparing to push the sale  of  the 
article all over the country.

Fred R.  Fuller, druggist at  Newberry, 
recently uttered a $795  chattel  mortgage 
to his father,  Rinaldo  Fuller,  the  Trav­
erse  City  druggist;  a  $200  mortgage to 
Mr.  Craig,  of  Newberry;  and  a  $1,810 
mortgage  to  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co., of this  city.  The  stock  was 
bid in by the latter on  June  6  at  $1,050 
and will  be  conducted  by  a  representa­
tive of the house until a sale of  the stock 
can  be effected.  Various other creditors, 
whose claims amount to $1,200 or  $1,500, 
will  probably  realize  nothing  on  their 
accounts.

Borne  of  the  furniture  manufacturers 
iu  this  city  have  adopted  the  plan  of 
making up  a  line  of  samples,  only,  for 
the July opening,  instead  of  a full  line 
of goods ready to be  shipped  as  soon  as 
ordered.  This is done  with  the  view  of 
guarding  against  overproduction, 
the 
goods  not  being  cut  until  actually  or 
dered.  The chief objection  to this  plan 
is that goods cannot be finished  ready for 
shipment before the latter part of August 
or September, and  the average factory is 
liable to become  badly  filled  up with or­
ders if business pans out as well as hoped
for. 

________________

A.  Dunnebacke,  who  conducted a gro­
cery  business  at  75  and  77  Gold street 
for ten years,  retiring three years ago to 
embark in the meat business at  the  cor­
ner of Gold and Jackson streets,  has  de­
cided to re-engage  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  at  bis old  location and  has,  accord­
ingly  formed  a  copartnership  with  bis 
two sons—A. Dunnebacke, Jr., and John 
J.  Dunnebacke—under  the  style  of  A. 
Dunnebacke  &  Sons,  placing  an  order

for  the  stock  with  the Olney & Judson 
Grocer Co.  The firm  of  Dunnebacke  & 
Son  will continue  the  meat  business  at 
the same location as before.
Purely Personal.

Henry  B.  Fairchild  (Hazeltine  &  Per­
kins Drug Co.)  has leased the  Martin  L. 
Sweet cottage, at Ottawa Beach, and  will 
take possession of  the  property  for  the 
season about June 20.

Geo.  N.  Wagner,  of  Wagner  Bros.  & 
Angell,  has  returned  from a trip to  the 
Pacific coast.  His firm has been  handling 
the  product  of  three  red  cedar  shingle 
mills,  but the  demand  for  shingles  this 
spring has been  heavier than these mills 
could supply and on his trip he arranged 
for  the  product  of  three  more,  the  six 
mills cutting an average of  75,000 a day, 
each.  The shingles are  held at the mill 
at  about  $1.25,  which  represents  just 
about the  cost  of  manufacture,  and  are 
cut from timber which  cost the operator, 
when  purchased,  about  10  to  25  cents a 
thousand  stumpage.  The  shingles com­
mand $2.40 in this market, leaving a mar­
gin,  after paying the freight charges,  for

edly is, a marvel of  strength, capable  of 1 
sustaining nearly half a ton.  Mr. Hester , 
received  his wheel  some  ten  days  ago. ; 
For the  first week  neither were  seen  in 1 
public  and  the  occurrences  under  the 
mask of  darkness  cannot  be  described,  j 
even  if  it  were  advisable  to  describe j 
them.  Suffice it to say Mr.  Hester  came 
out  on  top.  The  meekness  of  spirit j 
shown now  by  the  wheel  and  the  calm . 
expression  of  masterful  satisfaction  on ! 
the face of its owner,  as  he  majestically ! 
rolls over  the  macadam,  sufficiently  in­
dicate that his ambition is satisfied.

Gripsack  Brigade.

J.  P. Visner (Edwin  J.  Gillies  &  Co.) 

is confined to his home  with tonsillitis.

E.  D. Corbin,  formerly engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Eaton  Rapids,  has 
taken  Southern  Michigan  territory  with 
Merriam, Collins & Co., of Chicago.

E.  S.  Smith,  for  several  years  with 
Geo.  C.  Wetherbee & Co., of  Detroit, has 
taken  the road  iD  the interest of  the  In­
dependent  Baking  and  Candy  Co.,  of 
Jackson.

Homer  Hutchinson,  color  dyer  for

HOW  THE  GREAT  GRAIN  iTAGNATE 

CAN  JUMP.

«s*-*?

sitllliS

The  above  illustration  was  suggested  by  the  observation  of  a  large  custom er of the 

Voigt M illing Co.  in  the  South,  who recently w rote substantially as follows:

•- Mr. Voigt, you are alw ays pretty  stiff  in  your  prices,  but w hen there  is an advancing 

m arket you can jum p faste r and fa rth er th an  any —:-----rabbit I ever saw .”

profit.  The  same  quality  of  Michigan 
pine shingles used to  bring  $2.50 a thou­
sand at the mill.

Myron Hester,  senior  member  of  the 
Hester Machinery Co.,  is a man noted  for 
his dignified  appearance.  He  is,  more­
over,  a large  man—so  large  that  when 
his neighbors were  looking around for an 
office equal  to the occasion  they  decided 
that an  Alderman’s chair was  too  small 
and so they elected  him Supervisor  Nor 
is  Mr.  Hester any  longer  a  young  man, 
being  a  grandfather  of  several  years’ 
standing;  yet. for  all  his  dignity  and 
large proportions, this fact  seems  belied 
by the youthful  brightness of his eye and 
his  great  elasticity  of  spirit  and  de­
meanor.  This reference to  Mr.  Hester’s 
personal  appearance  would  not  have 
been  written,  had  not  his vaulting  ambi­
tion aspired to the mastery of the bicycle. 
When  his  application  came  before  the 
manufacturers,  a  consultation was held, 
at which the risk was  quickly  voted  ex­
tra  hazardous,  but  it  was  finally  ac­
cepted.  A  wheel  was  built  scarcely 
heavier in  appearance  than  a  common 
wheel, yet it is said to  be,  and  undoubt-

Belding  Bros.  &  Co.,  at  Belding,  has 
taken  a position  as  traveling  salesman 
for  a  Chicago  chemical  house  and  will 
cover the silk, cotton  and  woolen  mills 
of the country.

Governor  Rich  could  not  resist  the 
temptation  to  veto  the  Donovan  inter­
changeable mileage book  bill  on  the  al­
leged  ground  that  it  was  unconstitu­
tional,  thus  ignoring the  opinion  of  At­
torney-general  Maynard  and  usurping 
the  prerogative  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
which is the proper tribunal  to  pass  on 
the  constitutionality  of  all 
legislative 
measures.  Considering that  the  bill  re­
ceived the almost  unanimous  support of 
the  House and a  handsome  majority  in 
the Senate,  the action of the  Governor is 
all the more  reprehensible, as a  hearing 
before the Supreme Court would disclose 
the  constitutional  weaknesses  of 
the 
measure,  if any,  and  enable  the  people 
who are interested  in  the  enactment  of 
such  a  law  to  prepare  a statute which 
would  pass  muster  before  the  highest 
tribunal in the State.  Governor Rich as­
sured  a committee of  traveling men that, 
he  would approve the bill,  but  a  coterie

of  railway  attorneys  “saw  him  later” 
and he found  it impossible  to  withstand 
the  blandishments  of  corporate  influ­
ence.

Wants  Column•

BU SIN ESS  C H A N C E S .

it b in good  town,  well  located. 

FOR  SALE-STO CK   OF  CLEAN  GROCER 

Inventories 
from   $l,8oo to $ ',<0  .  Best of reasons for selling. 
Address  No. ?85, care M ichigan Tradesm an.  765
T IT 1L L   PAY  CASH  FOR  LARGE  GENERAL 
stock,  if  (heap.  Quick  deal.  A ddress 
Box 39, Sheridan, Mich. 

F OR  SALE — ONE HALF  IN TEREST  IN   A 

general  store  in  a  hnstling  tow n  of  3,000 
population.  W ill inventory about $5/00.  Only 
cash  offer  considered.  Obliged  to  sell  on  ac 
count  of  poor  health.  A ddress  No.  778,  care 
M ichigan Tradesm an. 

786

778

t OOD  OPENING  FOR  BARBER SHOP, AND 
V J  residence to  rent  cheap  A ddress  No  7".9, 
care M ich’gan Tradesm an.________________779

F OR  SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;

corner  location;  stock  in  good  condition 
and  business paying.  Good reasons for  selling. 
A ddress  Dr.  Nelson  Abbott, Kalamazoo.M tch.776

F o r  s a l e  o r  e x c h a n g e —a  f i r s t -c l a s s

nearly  new   steam   evaporator,  w ith  all  at­
tachm ents;  seventy five bushels  capacity.  A d­
dress W.  H.  N., care  M ichigan Tradesm an.  773

.74

basket factory, fully  equipped w ith m achin­
ery.  E nquire  of  Jo h n   T. S trahan,  G rand  Rap­
ids. 

F o r   s a l e   o r   r e n t - t h e   s a u g a t u c k
■ OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK, CONSISTING OF 

staple  drugs,  patent  m edicines,  stationery, 
blank books, w all paper, etc., inventorying about 
$4,000.  fo r one h alf cash and  two  years’ tim e  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, $8,000.  Store  has 
steam heat, electric lights, hot  and  cold w ater— 
everything in first-class  shape—and  is  situated 
in  best tow n in Upper  P eninsula, in  m ining d is­
trict.  Reasons for selling, ill health, necessitat­
ing a rem oval to a  warm  clim ate.  A ddress No. 
769. care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

769

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ANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN 
terest in my 75 bbl.  steam   roller m ill  and 
elevator, situated on railroad ;  m iller preferred ; 
good  w heat  country.  F u ll  description,  price, 
term s and inquiries given  promptly  by address 
ing  II. C.  H erkim er,  Maybee,  Monroe  county, 
Mich. 

711

MISCELLANEOUS.

781

784

782

7.-3

Mich. 

ANTED—SALESMEN  TO  SELL  BOSTON 
Rubber  Shoe  Co.’s  lubbers  in  M iebig -n 
Salary  or  com mission.  A ddress  No.  783,  care 
Michigan T radesm an 

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F o r   s a l e   c h e a p —c o m p l e t e   s e t   t i n
■ OR  RENT—B. V. STORE, 523  SOUTH  D1VI 

sion  street.  Splendid location for furniture, 
bouse  furn ish in g ,c r  ckery or  gentlem en’s  f u r ­
nishing goods  Apply to Jo h n  C. D unton, ■ 7 L»ou 
street. 

n er's  tools.  A ddress  P.  W.  H olland, Elsie, 

Fo r   r e n t - d o u b l e   s t o r e   b u i l d i n g

for fu rn itu re and  house  furnishings.  Only 
one in city of 3/00.  chan ce of  a  lifetim e.  A d­
dress Lock  Box k69,  Belding,  Mich. 
/   >  RA NITE  AND  MARBLE  MONUMENTS, 
’  9  m arkers  and  all  cem etery  work.  Largest 
stock.  W rite  us  about  w hat  you w ant and  we 
will quote prices.  G rand  Rapids M onum ent Co., 
81  South  Division. 

~EN  TO  SELL  BAKING  POWDER TO  THE 
.  grocery trade.  Steady em ploym ent, experi­
ence unnecessary.  $75  m onthly  salary an a ex­
penses or com. 
If  offer satisfactory, address at 
once,  w ith particulars concerning yourself,  U.S. 
<  bem ical  Works, Chicago. 
VST'ANTED—POULTRY,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT 
i t  
ter  and  eggs  on  consignm ent.  Ask  for 
quotations  F.  J .  D ettenthaler,  G rand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
TX T ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
I I  
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  W atkins  &  Smith, 
81-86 South  Division St., G rand  Rapids. 

F OB SALE—HOUSE AND  CORNER  LOT  ON 

finest  residence  street  in  G rand  Rapids. 
Lot  76x145  feet  in  dim ensions,  w ith  alley. 
House on re-ir of lot, leaving room  for  m ansion 
on  front  o f  lot.  Price,  $9,000.  Term s,  $3,5C0 
cash;  balance  on  time.  A ddress  No  772  care 
M ichigan  Tradesm an. 

ANTED—EVERY  D R U G G IS T   J U S T  
starting in business and every one already 
started to use our system of poison labels.  W hat 
has cost you $15 you can  now  get  fo r  $4.  F our 
teen  la b e ls.d o   the  work  of  113.  Tradesm an 
Company.  G rand Rapids.______________________

760

772

757

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KNOW
YOU

Patented  Feb.  12,  1895. 

W ILL  WONDER how  you  ever  got  along  w ith 
th at  old-style  counter,  once you have seen  and 
used  “ SHERER’S.”  F inished  and  fram ed  in 
Oak. substantial and m ade to last, it displays the 
goods  attractively  and  keeps  them   secure  and 
clean. 
First-class  and  up-to-date  in  every re­
spect.  Standard  height, 33J4  inches;  length, as 
desired,  from   3 ft. 8 in., to  12  ft.  Send  for  de­
scriptive  testimonial  and  price  list  to th e Sole 
M anufacturers, 
37  River  St.,  Chicago.

SHERER  BROTHERS,

6
The  Contracts  of 

the  Carriers  of 

Freight.
From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.
Tbe recognized doctrine of  the  day  is 
that railways,  in  tbe  attitude  and  rela­
tion  in  which  they  stand  to  the  com­
merce of the country,  are public  carriers 
for private gain,  and  that  their  duty  to 
the public and the shipper  requires  that 
the obligations  and  engagements  which 
they enter into for the  transportation  of 
goods shall  be based upon  contracts that 
are essentially fair, just and  reasonable, 
not only to the carrier but to the shipper. 
The rule of public policy that  condemns 
such engagements  as  are  unreasonable, 
unjust and unfair to the public and ship­
per finds sanction  in the modern  judicial 
utterances  upon  this  subject,  and  the 
legislation of the  day,  which, in  this  di­
rection,  is  almost  universally  sustained 
by the courts.
When we consider the duty  that  these 
carriers owe to tbe  public,  and  the  aid 
and benefit they have received  from that 
source,  and  the  virtual  control  of  the 
transportation of  tbe  commerce  of  the 
country that now lies in their hands, and 
the unbridled license that may prevail  in 
imposing upon the shipper terms that may 
in effect relieve the carriers  from  all  of 
their statutory and common law duties if 
this check did not exist,  we  cannot well, 
with reason, question  the  soundness  of 
the doctrine and the public  policy  upon 
which it rests;  for whatever may  be  the 
theory of the law that parties,  when they 
voluntarily contract with their eyes open, 
will be held  to  their  promises  and  en­
gagements,  although they bear with  bur­
densome  and  disastrous  weight  upon 
one, with a resulting advantage and ben­
efit to  the  other,  it  must  be  conceded 
that, discarding the theory,  and  looking 
to the conditions of the carrier and ship­
per,  as  they  actually  exist  in  making 
their contracts, the advantage is  on  the 
side of the carrier,  and it is in a position 
to impose upon  the  shipper,  who  finds 
himself under the necessity  of  resorting 
to the means offered  by  the  carrier  for 
transporting his  products  to  a  market, 
just such terms as it may see fit.

The shipper presents his goods  to  the 
carrier  for  transportation  to  a  market, 
and it accepts them for that purpose only, 
upon  conditions  that  are  burdensome 
and  unfair to the shipper; otherwise,  tbe 
shipper is informed that unless the terms 
dictated by the carrier with  reference  to 
the shipment are accepted they  will  not 
be received.  What choice has  the  ship­
per?  He must accept the  terms  or  lose 
the benefit of the sale of bis goods in  the 
desired  market,  or  he  must  resort to a 
court of law for redress  in  damages  for 
failure of the  carrier to receive and  ship 
the goods, and this,  with  the expense  of 
litigation and the hazard and uncertainty 
that  exists  in  nearly  all  legal  battles. 
The  unequal  position  of  the parties in 
their contractual relation  to  each  other 
commends  the  wisdom  of  the  doctrine 
that requires the carrier to deal fair with 
a shipper, and that prevents it  from  im­
posing unjust and unfair contracts  upon 
him.
The question is whether it  can  be  de­
clared,  as a  matter of  law,  that  an  in­
tending shipper is  under  a  necessity  to 
agree  to  a  special  contract  which  the 
carrier proposes as a condition  to receiv­
ing and  carrying his property?  And, if 
so,  whether it  can  be  further  declared 
that the carrier  takes  an  unfair  advan­
tage of his necessity  to  obtain  tbe  con­
tract?  It is a well  known  fact  that  the 
prosperity of the public collectively, and 
of  its  members  individually,  depends 
absolutely  upon 
transportation  and 
transportation  agencies,  and  that  the 
carrying business is mostly  concentrated 
in  a  few  powerful  corporations,  to  a 
large  extent  controlling  monopolies, 
natural, if not legal,  whose  position  en­
ables them to control it.  Circumstances, 
well understood, that  exist  without  any 
design of tbe law,  give  them  the  power 
to shape the carrying  business,  and  im­
pose upon it such conditions  as they  see 
fit.  Every demand  it  makes  represents 
the will  of  its  aggregate  being,  backed 
up by all its concentrated  powers.  The 
public,  in  meeting  such  demands,  acts 
separately,  and  not  collectively.  The 
individual  stands  alone,  and  can  op­
pose the demand coming  from  such con-

THE  MICIHG-AIST  TRADESM AN«

aggregation  of 

centrated 
corporate 
power  the  influence  of  but one member 
of the vast segregated elements that com­
prise the public.  Whether he  gives  the 
carrier his patronage or not matters little 
to  the  latter;  but  whether  the  carrier 
transports  bis  property  promptly  and 
safely  will,  perhaps, determine  whether 
he  succeeds  or  fails in business. 
If he 
declines the terms proposed and  refrains 
from shipping,  be  has  no  adequate  re­
dress. 
If he sues to recover his damage, 
he is subjected to all  the  delay  and  ex­
pense incident to such litigation,  and  at 
last recovers only  what  the  law  regards 
as  his  damage,  and  he  himself  must 
stand  what  would  generally  be  much 
greater—the loss  which  the  law  deems 
too remote to estimate as damage. 
If he 
withholds  his  patronage,  and  attempts 
by this means to induce the carrier to re­
cede from his terms«  he  can  accomplish 
nothing; for his business is too  small  to 
make  his  patronage  material,  and,  be­
sides, if his property is to be transported, 
he  must at last deliver it to the  exacting 
carrier, for, from the nature of the  busi­
ness,  he can rarely find any other.
In considering the relative positions of 
the  parties,  Judge  Bradley  thus  states 
his attitude:  He is  one  individual  in  a 
million.  His business will  not admit  of 
his haggling or standing  out, or  seeking 
redress in  the courts.  He prefers  rather 
to accept any  bill of  lading,  to  sign  any 
paper,  the  carrier  presents;  often,  in­
deed,  without knowing  what the  one  or 
the other contains.  He  has  no  alterna­
tive bat to do this or  abandon  his  busi­
ness.

Incubation Period of Diseases.

The Clinical Society  of  London,  wish­
ing to  establish  a  period  of  incubation 
for various diseases,  instituted  a  series 
of investigations  with  tbe  following  re­
sults:
Diphtheria—In  this  disease  the  incu­
bation period does  not, as a  rule, exceed 
four days  and  is  more  often  two  days. 
It may also extend to five, six  and  seven 
days.  The infection  may  take  place  at 
any time in  the  course  of  the  disease. 
Mild cases may spread  it.
Typhoid Fever—This may vary  within 
wide limits twelve to fourteen  days,  but 
not infrequently it is  less.  As  the  dis­
ease is usually introduced  into  the  sys­
tem  by food and drink, it  is  Dot  carried 
from one person to  another,  hut  several 
may get it from the  same  source.  Con­
taminated water  and  milk  is  the  usual 
cause.
Epidemic Influenza or  “Grippe”—The 
shortest  incubation  period  in  this  dis­
ease is from a few hours to three  or four 
days. 
It generally  strikes suddenly and 
without warning.  A patient  may  carry 
infection throughout the whole course of 
the disease.
incubation  period  of 
measles is usually  short. 
It  is  counted 
from the date of the  eruption,  which de­
cides the disease.
Mumps—The  incubation  period  of 
mumps is rather long,  from  one  to  two 
weeks,  and  the  chances  of  infection 
diminish daily.
Kubeola,  Rotheln,  or  German  Mea­
sles—This has a long incubation  period, 
like ordinary measles,  and its  infectivity 
diminishes in a day or two after the rash 
disappears.
Variola or  Smallpox—Tbe  incubation 
period  of  this  disease  is  from  one  to 
three days.
Varicella, or chickenpox,  has  a period 
of incubation slightly longer than variola.

Measles—The 

Good Business Maxims.

Carefully examine every detail of your 
business.  Be  prompt  in  everything. 
Take time to  consider  and  then  decide 
positively.  Dare  to  go  forward.  Bear 
troubles  patiently.  Be  brave  in  the 
struggle of life.  Maintain your integrity 
as a  sacred  thing.  Never  tell  business 
lies.  Make  no  useless  acquaintances. 
Never appear something  more  than  you 
are.  Pay  your  debts  promptly.  Shun 
strong liquor.  Employ  your  time  well. 
Do not  reckon  upon  chance.  Be  polite 
to  everybody.  Never  be  discouraged, 
then work hard, and you will  succeed.

ITse Tradesman Coupon Books.

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Sweeten the breath.  Sold by all dealers. 
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In  handsom ely 
R etail at 20 cents each.
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L.  G.  DUNYON  1 GO.
Will  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber— 

Green or Dry.

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

STATEMENTS, r 
ENVELOPES. 
COUNTER BILLS.

SEEDS - Potatoes - Beans

We  handle  all  kinds  FIELD  SEEDS,  Clover,  Tim othy.  H ungarian,  M illet,  Buck­
w heat, F ield Peas, Spring Rye, Barley,  Etc.  Buy  and  sell  Potatoes,  Beans,  Seeds, 
Eggs, Etc.  C ar lots or less.

EGG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

If you wish to buy or sell w rite us.

M o s e le v  B r o s .

26-28-30-32  OTTAWA  STREET

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Jobbers  SEEDS.  BEANS.  POTATOES,  FRUITS.

F R U IT S

EARLY  GARDEN  VEGETABLES

YOUR  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

F. J.  Dettenthaler, 117-119  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

W HY P A Y  $2.90  OR  $3.20  FOR A  CASE  OF  ROLLED 
OATS,  WHEN  YOU  CAN  GET  THE  SAME  QUAN­
T IT Y   AND  SAME  QUALITY  FOR  $2.10t  B U Y   A  
CASE OF BUCKEYE ROLLED OATS FOR A  SAM PLE.”

The above  is  an  advertisement in 
the Detroit Evening News Weekly. 
We offered the same  paper an ad­
vertisement at the same time, quot­
ing Buckeye Rolled Oats at

$ 1.95

per  case.  The  Detroit  Jobbers 
bulldozed the paper into suppress­
ing our advertisement.
Our  price  this  week is $1.90 per 
case for 3b 2 lb. packages Buckeye 
Rolled Oats.
Retailers of Michigan, what do you 
think of the bulldozing scheme ?

JAMES  STEWART GO., LTD.

EAST  SAGINAW,  MICH.

THE  MICHIGA3Sr  TRADESM AN.

T E A S  

T E A S   T E A S

“QUAKERESS”

CHOP

New  Crop  ....  Japan Teas

STEAMER  VICTORIA has arrived 

at Tacoma  with  our  Importation  Or­

der  for

TEAS

And  delivery  will  be  made  to  us  in 

a  few  davs.

These  Teas  come  direct  from  the 

most  famous  Tea  Growers  in  Japan, 

and for DELICACY OF FLAVOR and 

HIGH  CUP  QUALIFIES they  HAVE 

NO  SUPERIOR.

WE  HAVE  USED  GREAT  CARE 

IN  MAKING  THE  SELECTION  OF 

THESE

TEAS

And  feel  sure  our  friends will  appre­

ciate  our  efforts.

Our  ambition  is  to  place  “QUAK­

ERESS  TEAS”  with  every  merchant 

in  our  territory.  We  shall, 

there­

fore  make  LOW  PRICES  on  all 

grades.  Please give  us orders at once.

WORDEN  GROCER  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fUCHIGAN

I is  independent  of 
transportation  or 
other  more  speculative  enterprises  ar­
gues well  for a solid foundation.
JAPAN  AND  FORMOSA.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
ADDITIONS TO  THE U.  S.  FLEET.
The latest addition to the  ships  of  the 
navy in active service is the coast defense 
monitor Amphitrite.  This vessel  is  one 
of  four  similar  monitors  commenced 
fully  twenty-five  years  ago.  After the 
hulls and  principal  machinery  of  these 
ships  were  completed,  work upon them 
was stopped for years, and was  only  re­
sumed  when  their  completion  was  au­
thorized by Congress in  1887.  The  orig­
inal plans,  which  provided  only for iron 
turrets,  were  changed,  and  the  vessels 
were  provided  with  steel  armor  belts, 
steel  turrets  and  the  latest  improved 
guns.

The Japanese  have met little difficulty 
in surpressing the rebellion in  their new 
acquisition  from China  and  establishing 
their authority  in  that  Island.  At  the 
first show of  force  the  officials  fled  aud 
left the coast clear for  the  new  owners. 
These  will  soon  secure full  possession, 
although China had not been  able  to  es­
tablish her  authority  over  much  of  the 
Island in an occupation of 200 years.

8

KHIGANÉîADîSMAN

A  W IU L T   JOURNAL  C«VOTED  TO  TBK

Best  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Published at

New R ’origett  Bldg., G rand  R apids,
TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

—  B T   TH E —

O ne  D ollar  a  T ear,  P ay ab le  In  A dvance

a d v e r t i s i n g   r a t e s   o h   a p p l i c a t i o n .

Com m unications  Invited  from  practical  busi­
ness m en.
Correspondents m ust give th eir fu ll  nam e and 
address,  not  necessarily for  publication, but as 
a guarantee of good faith.
Subscribers may have  the  m ailing  address  of 
th e ir papers  changed as often as desired.
No paper discontinued, except at the option of 
th e proprietor, until all arrearages are paid.
Sample copies sen t free to any address
E ntered at G rand  R apids post-office as second 

• lass m atter.

| * “W hen  w riting to  any of  our  advertiser!

, lease  say th a t  you  saw  th e ir  advertisem ent In 
b e   M i c h i r a n   T r a d e s m a n .

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

W EDNESDAY,  JU N E   13.

THE INDUSTRIAL IMPROVEMENT.
The  continued  advance 

in  general 
prices and strengthening of demand seem 
to indicate that  the  industrial  tide  has 
finally turned.  The first advance was in 
lines so  generally  sensitive  to  specula­
tion  that it was thought to be temporary; 
but.  while there has  been  a  reaction  in 
it  has  been  arrested  at  figures 
these, 
much  in  advance  of  starting. 
In  the 
meantime  all  the  more  standard  com­
modities  have  fallen  into the advancing 
ranks and,  while there  have  been  slight 
reactions,  the gain is generally held.  An 
encouraging feature of the  present  situ­
ation is that the  advance  has  continued 
until it has affected  industries,  and  the 
demand  for  labor  at  improving  wages 
has  already  so  decidedly  affected  con. 
sumption  as  to  become  a  positive  and 
permanent factor in the  improving  con­
ditions.

Iron is generally considered the barom­
eter of trade most to be  depended  upon, 
as it is the least  sensitive  to  temporary 
or speculative  changes.  The  fact  that 
with a decided advance in  prices  there is 
an increased demaud  is  most  encourag­
ing.  Many of  the concerns in  the Pitts­
burg vicinity are having a larger  output 
than  ever  before  in  their  history,  aud 
other great steel industries are projected.
Another  favorable  indication  is  that 
the  beginning  of  the  advance  in  prices 
was attended  by an  unusual  activity  iu 
the demauds of labor.  This is  always  a 
drag upon  the  wheels  of  industrial  re­
vival,  aud  is sufficient  to  check  or  stop 
it unless  the  advance  is  based  on  un­
usually favorable  conditions.  That tbis 
has contiuued,  iu spite of these demands, 
argues well for its permanence.

Raiiruads  aud  other  carrying  enter­
prises are slower  to  show  improvement 
than  other  branches  of  industry.  The 
fact is becoming more  patent  every  day 
that  transportation  is  overdone.  The 
boats  of  the  Erie  Canal  are  rotting at 
their  wharves  in  Buffalo  and  the  rail­
roads are reportiug  constantly  lessening 
revenues,  and more of  them  are  passing 
into receivers’  hands  or  other  forms  of 
liquidation.  The truth of  the  matter  is 
there are too many of them  in  the  prin­
cipal routes for the present requirements 
ot trade, aud in the most improved condi­
tions  that  can  be  hoped for it will be a 
long  time  before  they  can  all  be sup­
ported.  That the  present  improvement

Formosa  has  an  area  nearly  double 
that of the  State  of  Massachusetts. 
Its 
climate is  as  favorable  as  the  adjacent 
coast  of  China,  while  its  fertility  and 
natural resources are far greater  in  pro­
portion  to  extent.  Yet  during  so  long 
an occupation the Chinese have  not  pen­
etrated at all  east of  the  high  range  of 
snow-covered mountains  which  separate 
it running  north  and  south.  This  part 
of the Island is sparsely inhabited by un­
tamed savages, the aborigines of this and 
other Pacific  islands.  The western  por­
tion is settled to some extent  by  Chinese 
emigrants,  who find it a paradise  of  fer­
tility.

Japan  has  some  claim  on  this  Island 
besides the one  of  might, as  she  was  in 
possession of it some  hundreds  of  years 
ago. 
It  was  afterward  successively  in 
possession of the  Spaniards,  Portuguese 
and Dutch,  until it passed into the  nom­
inal  control  of  China. 
In  the  present 
enterprising  temper  of  Japan  the  last 
change of ownership  will  be  important. 
Its proximity,  favorable soil and climatic 
conditions will make it an ontlet of some 
importance to  the  overcrowded  land  of 
flowers,  and  its  advantages  will,  no 
doubt,  be quickly exploited.

Pedestrians who put themselves  in the 
way of bicycles, or fall under wheels and 
stop their  progress,  must  be  punished. 
Things  pertaining  to  the  wheel,  if  the 
Figaro can be relied  upon,  are  managed 
better in France.  Every  pedestrian is to 
be  supplied  with  a  bell  and  a  signal 
horn,  which he shall sound  on crossing a 
street whenever he espies a  cycle on the 
horizon.  At  night  the  foot  passenger 
shall carry on  his  breast  a  lantern  con­
taining a  lighted  candle.  France  shall 
be  entirely 
in  order  to  save 
cyclists the  annoyance  of  hill-climbing. 
The tax on  cjclists  shall  be  abolished, 
and a tax on pedestrians shall  be  substi­
tuted.  Any foot passenger who,  by  his 
awkwarkness  and  want  of  attention, 
shall occasion the fall of a  cyclist  by al­
lowing himself  to  be  run  over  shall  be 
liable to a fine of  100  francs,  and  for  a 
repetition of the offense  shall  be  trans­
ported to a mountainous region.

leveled, 

The  Supreme  Court  of 

the  United 
States has decided that  a  man  does  not 
have to run away when he is  threatened, 
especially if he is on  his  own  premises. 
The  decision  was  made in the case of a 
resident  of  the  Indian territory, named 
Beard.  A neighbor,  with  whom  he  had 
had  a  quarrel,  came  to  his  house, and 
made  threatening  demonstrations  with 
his  hand  in  his  hip pocket,  whereupon 
Beard shot him. 
In  the  trial  court the 
judge 
instructed  the  jury  that  before 
shooting Beard should  have  made  every 
effort  to  get  out  of his enemy’s way, so 
as to avoid trouble,  and he was convicted 
of murder.  The decision was reversed in 
the Supreme Court.

the flag of St. George over a fleet without 
an equal—in England’s  eyes;  Italy  will 
be  there,  determined,  at  any  sacrifice, 
not  to  be  outdone; France,  with a smile 
on her lips and pride for Alsace and Lor­
raine in her heart,  will  brighten the Bal­
tic with a splendor as magnificent as it Is 
foreboding,  and  the  United  States,  a 
peer of the best,  will  do  much,  on  that 
occasion,  to weaken any European deter­
mination to question any  doctrine,  Mon­
roe  or  otherwise,  which  the  master  of 
such an  armament  may  bring  forward.
The notes taken by  the  different  pow­
ers on the  opening  of  the  Baltic  Canal 
would  make 
reading  and 
would throw much light on  some  of  the 
political  problems  which  are  puzzling 
the brains of statesmen  the  world  over.

interesting 

The loss of the Pacific  mail  steamship 
Colima near  Mazatlan,  Mexico,  on  her 
voyage from San  Francisco  to  Panama, 
appears to have been caused by improper 
lading or stowing of cargo.  On  account 
of the increased cost  of  stowing  all  the 
cargo in the hold and carefully trimming 
and securing  it,  there  is  a  temptation, 
when there seems to be a prospect of fair 
weather,  for  comparatively  short  voy­
ages, to run the risk of heavy  deck loads 
or unsecured  freight  in  the  hold.  The 
testimony of survivors indicates that such 
neglect  was  the  cause  of  this  disaster. 
In  the  lake  commerce  there  is  special 
temptation 
risks  and  many 
losses are  to  be  charged  to  tbis  cause. 
It is  to be hoped  that  this  great  loss  of 
life will call  attention  to  the  matter  of 
properly  loading  vessels,  and  that  if 
necessary  some  system  of 
inspection 
may  be adopted that  shall  prevent  such 
criminal risks.

to  such 

The  Mohammedan  fanaticism  which 
prompted the outbreak of  the  Bedouins 
at Jeddah in  the  assault  upon  the  Eu­
ropean  consular  representatives,  on  ac­
count of the sanitary measures  taken for 
the  care  of  the  Pilgrims  to  Mecca,  is 
likely to serve  an  excellent  purpose  in 
the interest  of  Christian  civilization  in 
Armenica.  Until  this  assault  occurred 
the Sultan had plausible  reasons  for  his 
position in declining foreign interference 
in the government  of  his  Christian  pro­
vinces; but this is such  a  flagrant  insalt 
to the representatives of  the  three  gov­
ernments—Russia, France and England— 
that his turbanned majesty  will  qnickly 
be brought to a realization of  the  neces­
sity of taking snch action as  will relieve 
the Christians in Turkey from the  intol­
erable tyranny  to which they  have  been 
subjected,  upon  the  united  demand  of 
these  powers.

Spain  is  gradually  awakening  ¿to  a 
realization  of  the  fact  that  she  has  a 
serious task  on  hand  in  re-establishing 
her  authority  in  Cuba.  She  is  about 
sending ten  battalions  of  troops  to  the 
Island,  in addition to those already there, 
with another  general  to  assist  Campos. 
The  stories  of  Spanish  snccessess  are 
still  being  denied,  and  reports  of  the 
killing of famous rebel chiefs  are  being 
corrected.  Official  solicitude  continues 
as to the fitting out of filibustering expe­
ditions from the  southern  coasts  of  the 
United States.  The prospects of  a  long 
struggle are not lessening.

Chicago physicians have secured  some 
of Dr. Paul Paguin’s newly invented ser- 
rum  for  the  care  of  tuberculosis,  and 
will give it a trial.

The  Amphitrite  is  similar  in  nearly 
every  respect  to  the  monitor Miantono* 
moh, which was recently  laid  up  in  or­
dinary,  after  being  in  commission  for 
several years.  Her turrets are protected 
by heavy  armor  plating,  further  re-en­
forced by armored barbettes.  The  main 
battery consists of  four  10-inch  breech­
loading  rifles  and  two  4-inch  rapid-fire 
guns.  The  other  monitors,  namely  the 
Monadnock  and  Terror,  are  also  com 
pieted,  and  could  be  commissioned  at 
short notice.  The  heavy  coast  defense 
vessel  Puritan  is  nearing  completion, 
lacking only some of  her  armor  plating 
to  be  ready  to  be  put  in  commission. 
This 
last-named  ship  will  carry  the 
heaviest armament of  any  of  the  coast 
defense  monitors.  Her  main  battery 
will consist of four  12 inch  breech-load­
ing rifles and six  4-inch  rapid-fire  guns. 
Her  secondary  battery  will  be  corres­
pondingly powerful.

With the six heavily armored coast de­
fense  vessels  added  to  the  fleet,  our 
strength  afloat  will  be  greatly  re-en- 
forced. 
It  is  the  policy  of  the  Navy 
Department to keep one of  these  vessels 
in  commission  on  either  coast, 
the 
others  being  laid  up  in  ordinary,  that 
is  in  condition  for  service  at  short  no­
tice.

The United States  now  has  ready  for 
service  ten  armored  vessels,  and  when 
all  the  ships  are  completed  which  are 
now  authorized, 
the  strength  of  the 
armored fleet will  be  seventeen  vessels. 
This will entitle the United States  to  no 
mean place among the naval  powers.

AN INTERNATIONAL  HOLIDAY.
The 18th of June will be  an important 
date in  the  German  calendar.  During 
the last eight years, a canal has been dug 
between Kiel on  the  Baltic  and  Bruns- 
buttel on the  North  Sea,  a  distance  of 
some  sixty  miles. 
It  is  a  waterway 
which has long  been  needed.  The  trip 
around  the  Denmark  peninsula  is  long 
and often stormy.  Worse  ihan  that,  to 
the mind of the  German,  is  the  passage 
of German vessels through  the waters of 
a  foreign  power,  a  condition  of  things 
now, happily,  avoided.  As  a  saver  of 
time and distance the canal  will  add ma­
terially to commercial  interests  in times 
of  peace,  while  the  advantage  to  be 
gained  from  it  in  war-time  can  hardly 
be estimated.

These two facts make  the  opening  of 
the canal  a matter of  wide-spread  inter­
est,  and the occasion  will  be  taken  ad­
vantage  of  by  the  other  powers  for  a 
grand display of all that is best in  naval 
construction  and  equipment.  Germany, 
of coarse, will not fail to do  her  best  to 
impress her visitors with  her  greatness; 
Bnssia  will  be  there  in  all  her  naval 
glory;  England,  so  long  the  acknowl­
edged mistress of  the  seas,  will  unfurl

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GENIUS  AND  MORAL  DEPRAVITY.
Human  society  cannot  exist  without 
morality.  Morality  is  the  basis  of the 
principles that produce honesty, chastity 
and  fidelity  to trusts.  Morality  causes 
human  beings  to  respect  the property, 
the persons and  the rights of others. 
It 
causes them to esteem their own chastity, 
virtue and obligation to fulfill trusts and 
perform contracts.  Without such moral­
ity,  human society would  be  wholly dis­
organized;  men,  in  their  living,  would 
fall to the condition ol  beasts;  the  most 
shameless  and  degraded  licentiousness 
would prevail, and the  only right would 
be the right of the strongest.

into  an  expression 

It is a favorite  notion  with  many  in­
telligent  and  law-abiding  persons  that 
education is all that is  wanted  to  make 
people  better,  and  this  thought  has 
crystallized 
that 
“Every  new  school  opened  closes  a 
prison.”  This is a most serious mistake. 
Some  of  the  most  depraved  of  human 
creatures have been  men  and  women  of 
the  highest  education  and  intellectual 
prominence.  One of  the  most  conspic­
uous  examples  is  the English poet who 
has just been consigned to  a  felon’s cell 
for 
the  most  degrading  and  beastly 
crimes.

All effort to identify the moral faculty, 
which is the spiritual  part of the  human 
intelligence,  with  mere  intellectuality 
must end in hopeless failure, and  moral­
ity  must  be  recognized  as  something 
apart  from  mere  mentality,  and  must, 
therefore,  stand  for  itself.  A  highly 
cultured man without  morality  ean  be, 
and commonly is,  as  utterly depraved as 
is  a  densely  ignorant  one  destitute  of 
morals, while the former is  vastly  more 
dangerous to society, because  his  learn­
ing and exalted position give him  an  in­
comparably wider influence for evil.

These observations suggest  a  mention 
of the  researches  of  Prof.  Cesare  Lom- 
broso, of  Turin,  one of  the  profoundest 
of the  students  of  nervous  and  mental 
disorders.  He has found  that  in  many 
cases a  high  degree  of  mental  activity 
and  brilliance  is  associated  with  some 
defect of the bodily  functions, just  as if 
the  excessive  mental  development  had 
been  at  the  expense  of  some  other 
growth.  There was also frequently a de­
fective  morality.  Lombroso  finds  that 
insanity  is  constantly  associated  with 
deficient morality,  and  that when genius 
assumes,  as it sometimes does,  the forms 
that ally it to  insanity,  there  is  always 
more or less moral degradation.

Mental  and  moral  obliquity  are  con­
sidered  by  Lombroso  as  the  strongest 
evidences  of  the  decay  of  the  people 
among whom they prevail, and this prop­
osition is made the basis of an important 
and very  striking  statement  concerning 
modern society by a  celebrated  pupil  of 
Lombroso—Dr. Max Nordau. 
In  a  vol­
ume entitled “Degeneration”  he  attacks 
the  modern  sensational  schools  of  art, 
literature  and  music,  criticising  them 
with  unsparing  hand,  denouncing  the 
chief priests of those schools  as  maniacs 
in art and shipwrecked as to  morals.

In  art,  Maddox-Brown,  Burne-Jones 
and others of the pre-Raphaelites; in  let­
ters,  Maeterlinck,  Baudelaire, 
Ibsen, 
Zola,  Swinburne  and  others;  in  music, 
Wagner—all come in for Nordau’s scath­
ing and bitter  condemnation.  Here  is  a 
criticism  of  Charles  Baudelaire,  who  is 
classified as a type of the Diabolists:

“Baudelaire sings of carrion, maladies, 
criminals  and  prostitutes;  in  short,  if

one  contemplates  the  world  in the mir­
ror  of Parnassian poetry,  the impression 
received is that it is composed exclusive­
ly of vices, crimes and  corruption,  with­
out the smallest  intermixture of healthy 
emotions, joyous  aspects  of  nature  and 
human  beings  feeling  and  acting  hon­
estly.  It is not necessary to demonstrate 
at length that Baudelaire was a degener­
ate subject.  He died  of  general paraly­
sis, after he had  wallowed for-months in 
the lowest depths of insanity.  But even 
if  no  such  horrible  end  had  protected 
the  diagnosis  from  all  attack, 
there 
would  be  no  doubt  as  to  its accuracy, 
seeing  that  Baudelaire  showed  all  the 
mental stigmata of  degeneration  during 
the whole of his life.  He was  at  once  a 
mystic and an  erotomaniac;  an  eater  of 
hasheesh and opium;  he felt  himself  at­
tracted  in  the  characteristic  fashion to 
other  degenerate  minds,  mad  or  de­
praved.”

This is a  sample;  but  every  criticism 
is a marvel  of  discrimination,  suited  to 
each special and separate  subject.  Nat­
urally,  Nordau  has  been  violently  as­
sailed  for  his  excoriating  and  severe 
judgments of men  and  their  works,  for 
every  victim  of  his keen scalpel strikes 
back  with  all  rage  and  fury;  but they 
only  demonstrate  how  deeply  they  are 
wounded,  and  certainly  some  such  ir­
resistible  and  deadly  attack  on the im­
morality that infests the  art  and  litera­
ture of the day  was necessary.

It would seem that modern  genius had 
run to erotomania or sexual insanity. 
It 
is an insanity that  no  longer  recognizes 
the nobility and beauty of humanity, but 
only  its  filth.  There  are  majesty  and 
purity in  human  nudity;  but  these  are 
lost sight of,  and only the most shocking 
depravity is delineated  in  the  degraded 
art of this last end of the  great  century. 
It is time that it should  be  thrown down 
and cast out.

There  is  nothing  like  ridicule  and 
satire to cure vices which no  other  rem­
edy can  reach.  The  law  which  forbids 
the  circulation  of  depraved  literature 
applies only to  those  works  which  dis­
play cheap  and  commonplace  obscenity, 
and a lack of  grammatical  construction. 
When the names  of  men  of  genius  are 
signed  to  narratives  of  astounding  de­
pravity  and  shocking  immorality  the 
law fails, and  so  the  worst  books  that 
ever emanated from the pen are  open  to 
public gaze in the  windows  and  on  the 
counters of reputable booksellers.

Max Nordau is doing with his accurate 
scientific  analysis,  and  with  the  keen 
scalpel of his  science,  for  morals  to-day 
what grim old Juvenal did with  his  sav­
age  satire  in  the  days  of  Nero.  But 
Nordau  has  something  besides  science. 
His wit  is  as  sharp  as  is  his  surgical 
blade,  and he dispenses it with  astonish­
ing  liberality.  His  remarkable  book 
could  have  been  compressed  into  one- 
third its compass if it were not  so  large­
ly  devoted  to  classifying,  cataloguing 
and impaling upon  needles the innumer­
able  vices  of  degenerate  genius.  His 
book is  as  much  a  contribution  to  the 
science of psychopathy as it is to artistic 
and literary criticism and to morals,  and 
it renders a  great  service  to virtue  and 
to art.

The  limit  for  the  construction of the 
new  bridge  across  the  Hudson  at New 
York  is  fixed  at  $25,000,000. 
It  will 
probably be a  center-hinged  suspension 
bridge.

SIL V E R   IN  M EX ICO .

In  the  current  number  of  the North 
American  Review, M. Romero, the Mexi­
can minister to  Washington,  has  an  in­
structive  and  suggestive  article  on  the 
effects of the silver standard  in  Mexico. 
The writer is careful  to  avoid  any  com­
parisons with this country or other coun­
tries, confining himself to a simple  state­
ment of the conditions  produced  by  sil­
ver monometallism,  some  of  which  are 
not,  he states, in accord  with  his  politi­
cal theories.

After  explaining  that  the  conditions 
obtaining in  Mexico  are  not  matters  of 
choice, that Mexico has produced  during 
the  past  400  years 
two-thirds  of  the 
world’s output of silver and  that  its  de­
preciation in other countries  forced  her 
to accept the  present  depreciated  silver 
standard,  he proceeds to enumerate some 
of the resulting advantages:

1.  While  other 

leading  commercial 
nations have the gold  standard,  the  sil­
ver currency encourages  very materially 
the export of domestic products.  These, 
being produced on  the  silver  basis  and 
sold in other countries on  the gold  basis, 
yield great profits,  although the wages in 
their production are considered good.

2.  The silver  standard is a great  stim­
ulus in developing  home  manufactures, 
because foreign  commodities  have  to  be 
paid for in gold.  This  faqjt  has a  great 
influence in the building of railroads and 
the improving of  other  means  of  trans­
portation,  opening  coal fields and devel­
oping  water  power.  The  writer  states 
that  many  American  manufacturing 
plants are being removed  to Mexico.

3.  While  the  silver  coins  are  only 
worth their  bullion  value in other coun­
tries, the purchasing  power of the  silver 
dollar is now,  on  the  whole,  as  great  in 
Mexico as it ever was.

4.  The fact  that  foreign  commodities 
have to be paid for in gold  operates as  a 
protective duty against them.  Thé writer 
i&  reluctant  to  admit  this  as  an  advan­
tage,  as he is not a believer in protection.
5.  The  fact  that  every  gold  dollar  is 
converted into  two  silver  dollars,  when 
sent  to  Mexico,  encourages  the  invest­
ment of capital  from  the  gold  standard 
countries.  When  that  capital is invest­
ed in the production of commodities, like 
coffee,  to  be  sold  in  gold  markets,  the 
profits are very large.

6.  Before the  Mexican  railroads  were 
built,  the only articles that could  be  ex­
ported  were  gold  and  silver  dollars— 
coining  was  then  compulsory  by  law— 
because no other products would pay the 
cost of  transportation.  This  resulted in 
the  use  of  so  much  of  the currency in 
payment for imports that  little  was  left 
for circulation.  Money was high and la­
bor low.  These conditions  are  now  re­
versed.  Agricultural  products  pay  for 
the  imports  and  thus there is an ample 
supply of money for domestic uses.  This 
stimulates  industry,  maintains  prices 
and increases the demand for labor.

7.  Most of the wealthy  Mexicans  hav­
ing  fixed  incomes  preferred  to  live  in 
Europe  and  spend  their  money  there. 
The higher rate of exchange has reduced 
their incomes so  materially  in  the  gold 
countries  that  they  have  returned  and 
are spending their incomes at home.
He enumerates as disadvantages:
1.  Importations  are  considerably  re­
duced,  for  reasons  corresponding to the 
increase of exports.

2.  The fluctuation in the  market  price 
of silver tends to further  discourage  im­

ports,  as it makes  their  value  uncertain 
when the time for payment arrives.

3.  The reduction of imports diminishes 
the  import  duties  and  correspondingly 
reduces the revenue.

4.  The national expenses are increased 
by the payment of the interest on the na­
tional debt in gold.

5.  To meet  the  increased  expenses  of 
the gold obligations  and  the  diminished 
import duties,  it is  necessary to increase 
direct taxation.

6.  Railroads collect  freight charges  in 
silver and pay interest on their securities 
in gold,  as well as for  necessary  foreign 
supplies.

7.  The  transportation of foreign prod­
local 
ucts  is  much  reduced,  although 
traffic has so greatly increased as to com­
pensate that loss  and  leave  a  large sur­
plus.

8.  While the cost of the  necessaries  of 
life for the poor,  who do not  use  foreign 
products,  is not increased, the cost to the 
middle  and  rich  classes,  who  do  use 
these commodities,  is increased.

As a result  of  these  conditions,  there 
are  fewer  failures  than  in  other  coun­
tries.  Railroad  traffic  is  so  profitable 
that,  with  but one  exception,  none  have 
gone into the hands of receivers.

One  of  the  principal  causes  of  the 
financial  distress  in  other  countries  is 
the low  price  of  agricultural  products. 
Some  of  the  prices  have  advanced  in 
Mexico when fixed  by  the  value  in  the 
gold market.  This is the case with coffee, 
for  instance,  which  is  mostly exported 
and commands cash  in  gold  markets  at 
prices nearly double in value.  There  is 
also greater  stability  in  prices,  wages, 
rents, etc.,  with a  tendency  to  increase.
The writer sums up by saying that,in his 
opinion,  the  advantages  of  these  condi­
tions more than offset  the disadvantages, 
although he would like to see silver com­
manding the same price  as  before  1873; 
and he thinks the world must come back, 
sooner  or  later,  to  bimetallism “as the 
only  way  to  have  a  common and more 
stable level of values and to  avoid  most 
of the financial  trouble  which  the  com­
mercial  nations  of  the  world  are  so 
keenly suffering.”

Recent anatomical investigations prova 
that the gorilla has a  10-inch  vermiform 
appendix,  but no mention  is  made  as  to 
whether 
that  animal  suffers  from  the 
fashionable complaint of  appendicitis or 
not.  The great length  of  the  appendix 
would tend to  disprove  the  supposition 
that in man  it is an  outcome  of  civiliza­
tion  and  increasing  in  size  with  each 
generation.  The  opposite  theory,  that 
the useless appendage is breeding out re­
ceives support.

Some  interesting  discoveries  have  re­
cently  been  made  about  animal  life  on 
the Hawaiian  Islands. 
It  appears  that 
all the land  and  fresh  water  shells  are 
peculiar to the locality.  Nor  is this  all: 
Fifty-seven out of  seventy-eight  species 
of birds and 700 out of the  1,000  species 
of insects do not exist in  any  other  por­
tion of the globe.

Populism does  not  seem  to  have  pro­
duced  much  reform 
in  Kansas.  The 
State Accountant reports  that the “State 
Board of  Charities  has  expended  funds 
in a  reckless  and  unbusinesslike  man­
ner.”  He characterizes it as ‘ ‘outrageous 
plunder,” though he does not  att'empt to 
fix the blame.

TH E  MICHIGAN"  TRADESMAN*.

10

GETTING  THE  PEOPLE.

Art of Reaching  and Holding! Trade by 

Advertising.

W ritte n  fo r T h i  Tradesman.

That person  who advertises a  stock  of 
clothing in so clever a manner as to keep 
the clerks busy  and turn  over  the  stock 
rapidly,  undoubtedly  arises  early  and 
burns the midnight oil to some extent.

Every  city,  town  and  hamlet  has  its 
numerous clothing stores, each and every 
one  endeavoring  to  outsell  its  fellow. 
There  is  a  constant  rivalry  between 
them. 
If one house advertises a “tearing 
down sale,”  the other  publishes a “ tear­
ing  up sale,” and so it goes.

the  columns  of 

It has become a  common  thing  to  see 
in 
the  newspapers, 
“Suits  worth  820,  at  our  Closing  Out 
Sale go for  88.”  Now,  you  and  I,  and 
everyone else, for that matter, know this 
is as base a  fabrication  as  was  ever  ut­
tered—in  fact,  we  may  call  it  a  mon­
strous “Auaniasism.”  Only the most be 
nighted  denizens  of  Podunkville  or 
“darkies’”  Africa will,  for  an  instant, 
attempt  to  swallow  such  a  mouthful. 
And yet,  in  various  forms  and  modified 
degrees, this  means  of  “inveigling  the 
unwary” is  resorted  to  continually, and 
good jingling coins are paid  for space iu 
which to verbalize the falsehoods.

The truth of the matter is,  the mass of 
the buying public is too well  posted  and 
intelligent to believe in such trash, even 
in the most remote and  infinitesimal  de­
gree.  The  merchant  who  writes  these 
ads. may do so with  the  full  conviction 
that, so far as building up a  paying  and 
permanent  business  is  concerned,  he 
might  do  better  with  his  “advertising 
money” by  using  it  for  cigar  lighters. 
This, at least, would attract  attention.

The thinking man, the man whose trade 
secured—plurally—builds  up  the  solid 
and  substantial  business  houses  of  to­
day,  never  gives  eye  or  ear  to  such 
“catch-alls.”  If,  by  accident,  he  reads 
such an advertisement,  his  first  thought 
is,  “What  an  exaggeration!”  and  the 
second — “Some  •fly-by-night’  concern, 
without doubt.”

The clothing  advertiser  who will win, 
in  the  end,  is  he  who  speaks  absolute 
truth—bangs  the  public  in  the eye,  day 
after day,  with the sledge-hammer blows 
of  rigid  and  unalterable  truth,  giving 
these 
**»„.  to*  „  *?  „  falsehoods  a
biack eye at every  turn.

“ S o m e th in g   f o r  N o th in g  ’

Here’s an  ad.  which  suggests  the  old 
story of losiug one’s modern fig-leaf while 
bathing a mile from  home.  The fable is 
old—the ad.  idea is new:

Cheaper
Than
Old Barrels!

D on't  ex h ib it  yourself 
in this costum e, nor an 
old  su it  of  clothes, 
w hen  we  are  offering 
to a nude public an el­
egant

Black Cheviot 
Suit  for  only  $10

This is  actual  value— 
not a  cent  m ore nor a 
cent less.  You w ill get 
ju st til) w orth o f  w ear 
and style out o f  it.
O’VERALL  &  CO.

Fine Clothiers.

T R ILB Y 'S  FE LLER .

Illustrated  advertising  in  the newspa 
pers,  giving close  prices, values of goods 
and  a  fair  proportion  of  details, is  the 
most reliable and sure means of “Getting 
the People” into  the  clothing  store. 
In

this age.of  the  worid—which  might ap-, 
propriately  be  termed  the  “illustrative 
age”—genius  and  science  have  so  im­
proved  and,  by  their  combined  efforts, 
cheapened  the  production  of  pictures, I 
that  their  cost  is  merely  nominal  as 
against the benefit arising from their use.
It is to be remembered that in no other 
kind  of  business, scarcely,  is  so great a 
variety of readers to be  reached  and  in­
fluenced  by  advertising.  All  classes 
make their purchases of  clothing  at  the 
same place.  Therefore,  it will  be found 
that advertising directed  to  the  medium 
and cheaper class of trade will  generally 
give best results.  The  man  with money 
“ to throw at the birds”  knows  what  he 
wants and calls for  it.  He  doesn’t  look 
for  bargains—a  cheap  article  doesn’t 
suit him,  no  matter  how  valuable  as  a 
“ wearer.”

The following is an original ad.  which 
is sure to attract the attention of ail who 
see  it. 
It  is  simple,  explanatory  and 
right to the point:

N ever had so big a pile  of

Gentlem en’s  Fine
N eckwear..............

In  our  store before.  B eautiful  Colors—the 
Latest Shades in Bows, Tecks, Four-in-H ands 
and all  the  Novelties.  We  m ust  dispose  of 
these Ties  at  once,  therefore,  we  have  put 
them   in a -‘pile" on th e “ m ain line,” and you 
may have your choice at 25c each.
RHAMESES  &  NOTICK.

These  advertisements  are suitable for 
double  or  single  column,  and  may  be 
added to as the  space  will  permit,  and 
may  be  varied  in  a  thousand  different 
ways to suit the class of  goods  or  trade 
desired to sell.

A bicycle is  like  a  balky  horse  inso­
much as it’s “here to stay.”  So far, this 
means of advertising has been neglected, 
and it’s very surprising that  such  is  the 
case,  considering the possibilities  of  the 
“tricky baste,” as  the  Irishman  calls  it. 
If  I  were  conducting  a  clothing empo­
rium,  I  should  get  up  early  some  fine 
morning,  before  the “other  fellow”  got 
ahead  of  me,  and  rig up a nice-looking 
chap,  with pronounced calves,  in  a  gor­
geous  bicycle  suit.  This  suit  I should 
make bright  and  harmonious  in  color— 
for instance,  a  scarlet  silk  jacket  with 
light blue knee-pants  and gold or yellow 
hose, topped off by a fancy  cap  of  some 
sort.  1  would sew little bells ail up and 
down the seams of the pants and  on  the 
sleeves of the  jacket, adding  bright  rib­
bons,  where  possible.  Then  I  should 
have a banner painted with my name and 
address,  and other brief matters of inter­
est.  Perhaps  a  word  or  two  like  this 
might help out: “Gentlemen's Bloomers in 
all  the  latest  fashionable 
styles.”  I 
should  instruct  the  young  man  to ride 
slowly, as closely  to  the  walks  as  pos­
sible,  in order to attract the  pedestrians. 
This  has  never been used,  to my knowl­
edge, and he who first  introduces  it  will 
be a six-time  winner,  until  the  novelty 
wears off, at least.

One method of advertising, which costs 
“ nary red,” is by far too much neglected

Duck 
Coatsa 

. Kersey 
Pants

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

LANSING,  n iC H .

Yes, we’ve got ’em!

Nove ties and Staples In Dry Goods. 
E verything In Notions.
Big Line of Gents'  Furnishings.
All th a t can be desired  in Y arns.

We aie H eadquarters forFloorOiiCloihsond Lifioietims
can  do. V016T, HERP0L3HEIMER S GO.

Have you ever done  business w ith  ns? 
if not, 
let’s get o u r heads  together  and  see  w hat  we 

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We are ready to show, both  in the  house 
and on the road, samples of

Fall  Underwear,  Overshirts, 
Yarns,  Hose,  Socks,  B a tts,
Dress  Cashmeres in 36,38,40,45 in. widths 
Dress  Flannels,  26, 36,  50 in. widths, 
Eiderdown  and  Teazel  Down 

Flannels,

And all at our usual Low Prices.

F*.  Steketee &  Sons

Spring & 

C,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

We  invite  the  Attention  of  the 

Stock at  Lowest Market  Prices.

Trade  to  our  Complete  and  Weil  Assorted

Spring & Company.

by the clothing merchant,  and this  is  by 
word of month of the clerks.  When you 
get a customer in the  store,  you  should 
not  only  courteously  show  him  that 
which  he  asks  to  see,  but  should  en­
deavor to interest him in something else. 
Of course, judgment must be  used  as  to 
when to do this so as not to  lose the sale 
of what he  really  wishes  to  buy.  This 
kind  of  advertising  sells  a  “heap  of 
good£,” besides making the  clerk  vastly 
more valuable to his employer.

The subject of window  display for the 
clothier and furnisher is one of much in­
terest and overflowing  with  possibilities 
to the  ingenious  advertiser  and window 
dresser.  This branch will require a sep­
arate article at some future time.

Let me caution the merchant or adver­
tising man of  the  house  not  to  exhaust 
all  his  “ammunition”  during  the  first 
day’s battle with competition.  Keep suf­
ficient  in  reserve  to  bang  away  at  the 
enemy’s intrenchments with a  new  kind 
of shot each day or week, until such time 
as the “ brain-wagon” brings up new sup­
plies.  By  this  means,  your  ads.  will 
never become stale or  lose  their “ batter­
ing” power  against  the  rocks of novelty 
and  newness  employed  by  your  rival 
clothiers. 

F dc.  Fosteb  F u ller.

A fellow got  a  licking  the  other  day 
for being too familiar  with  another  fel­
low’s fiancee,  and when  he  tearfully  ex­
plained that he  had  known  her  for  the 
last thirty years, she took a band in it and 
nearly scalped  him.

A  penny-in-the-slot  restaurant, 

in­
vented by an Italian  and  now in  use  at 
the Berlin Exposition, in one  Sunday re­
cently 
sold  2,700  sandwiches,  9,000 
glasses of  wine and 12,000 cups of coffee.

G.  M.  Harwood,  for  Nineteen Years  a 

Petoskey Druggist.

Guy  M.  Harwood  was  born  at Mott- 
ville,  Onondaga county, N.  Y., March 19, 
1854.  He  attended  the  common  school 
of  his  native  place  from the age of 6 to 
13  years,  when  he  entered  the  educa­
tional institution at  Skaneateles,  where 
he remained until  18  years  of  age.  He 
then went to Syracuse,  where he worked 
a year in a drug store,  after which he de­
voted a year to the  hotel  business in the 
positions  of  clerk  and  superintendent. 
He then removed to Linden, Mich., where 
he formed a  copartnership with a gentle­
man named  Moody  and  opened  a  drug 
and  grocery  store  under  the  style  of 
Moody  &  Harwood.  A  year  later  they 
parted company,  Mr.  Harwood  removing 
the  drug  stock  to  Petoskey,  where  he 
conducted a pharmacy for  nineteen  con­
secutive  years,  disposing  of  his  stock 
about two weeks ago in order to devote a 
few  months  to  the  recuperation  of  his 
health. 
In 1879 Mr.  Harwood  erected  a 
two-story  and  basement  brick  building, 
25x60 feet in dimensions, which property 
he still owns.  He is,  also,  the owner of 
a half interest  in  the  opera  house  and 
has  managed  to  accumulate other prop­
erty of a desirable character.

Mr.  Harwood  was married in January, 
1876,  to  Miss  E.  A.  Clark,  of  Linden, 
who  has  borne  him 
two  children—a 
daughter,  who died a year ago at the  age 
of 15,  and a boy now 12 years of age.

Mr.  Harwood was First  Vice-President 
of  the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical 
Association in the early days  of  that  or­
ganization,  and on the occasion of the an­
nual meeting being held  at  Petoskey  he

served as Local Secretary in a highly  ac­
ceptable  manner.  He  is  a  member  of 
the Royal Arcanum and possesses the re­
spect and friendship  of  all  with  whom 
he  comes in contact, either in a business 
or social  way.

The  Invention  of the  Telephone.
In a recent address Prof.  Hughes  says 
it  is  30 years  since his first experiments 
with a working telephone. In 1865,  while 
at  St.  Petersburg  fulfilling  a  contract 
with the Russian Government  for the es­
tablishment of his printing  telegraph in­
strument upon all their  important  lines, 
he was invited  by  Emperor Alexander 11 
to give a lecture before the royal family, 
which he did.  As  he  wished,  however, 
to present not only his own telegraph in­
strument,  but  all  the  latest  novelties, 
Prof.  Philip  Reis,  of  Friedericksdorf, 
Frankfort-on-Main,  sent  to  Russia  his 
new telephone,  with which Prof.  Hughes 
was  enabled 
transmit  and  receive 
perfectly all musical sounds,  and  also  a 
few  spoken  words,  though  these latter 
were  rather  uncertain;  at  moments  a 
word could  be  clearly  heard,  and  then 
from some unexplained  cause  no  words 
were  possible.  This 
instrument  was 
based.  Prof.  Hughes  states,  upon  the 
true theory of telephony,  and  contained 
all  the  necessary  organs  to  make  it  a 
practical  success. 
Its  unfortunate  in­
ventor  died  in  1874,  almost  unknown, 
poor and neglected,  but the  German gov­
ernment has since tried to  make  repara­
tion by acknowledging his  claims as  the 
first inventor,  and erecting  a  monument 
to his memory in the  cemetery  at  Fried­
ericksdorf.

to 

“My opponent,”  shouted  the  attorney 
for  the  defense,  “has  seen  fit,  in  the 
course of this case,  to make remarks dis­
tinctly derogatory to  my  character  as  a 
man and a citizen. 
I wish to inform him 
right here and now that  his  puerile per­
formances  can  only  be  compared  to  a 
comma bacillus making faces at the solar 
system.”

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
REPBESENTAT1VE  RETAILERS.

11

One Man’s Idea of Leaders. 

Correspondence Dry Goods Reporter.

A friend of  mine  is  in  business  in  a 
town which  knows  the  fiercest  kind  of 
competition.  The past year has been an 
especially trying one to most  merchants, 
yet this party  has  made  money  and  es­
tablished a reputation  among  drummers 
as the best merchant  in  his  part  of  the 
State. 
I  am  compelled  to  attribute  to 
him a keenness for bargains,  yet I know 
that his blunders  are  very  apparent,  as 
are every merchant’s.  This party makes 
himself the talk of the community by ad­
vertising cambric  linings  at  1  cent  per 
yard.  Cheap advertising,  when you con­
sider  it;  3%  cents  less  1  cent 
is  2% 
cents.  Fifty  times  2%  cents  is  $1.25, 
the loss on each piece  of  cambric.  One 
hundred pieces a year  is  only  $125;  200 
pieces is only $250.  Not  very  much  for 
advertising when you are selling  $75,000 
to  $100,000  per  year.  This  is  one  ex­
treme;  here is another:  A serge that cost 
him 42% cents he is getting 80 cents for. 
In these tworfacts you  have a whole vol-' 
ume on up-to-date merchandising.  This 
merchant secures  attention by offering a 
! well-known  article  at  an  astonishingly 
low price.  He selects one  on  which  he 
can  lose  money.  He  advertises it thor­
oughly.  He gets the people to his store, 
and when he gets them  there “gets  back 
at them”  by selling a French serge at al­
most 100 per cent,  profit.
Pardon  an  allusion  to myself.  When 
in a general  retail store I had handed me 
a memorandum of  groceries  by  a  party 
It 
whose trade 1 was anxious to secure. 
was  for  a  barrel  of  this  and  a box of 
that, a very nice order indeed. 
I was in­
formed that six different stores would be 
given  a  copy  of  the  memorandum and 
whoever figured the lowest would secure 
the order.  He  knew  approximately  the 
cost of sugar,  so I  quoted  him  this  ar­
ticle  at  a  price  that  surprised him. 
I 
got  my  profit  on  stuff  which he wasn’t 
acquainted with quite  so  well.  The  re­
sult was that I got his  order and a profit 
of 17% per  cent.,  a  very  good  transac­
tion,  inasmuch  as  I used the fact to  ad­
vertise my grocery department.

W e   a r e  a   live,  p r o g r e s s iv e   f ir m   w h o   a l w a y s   k e e p   in   th e   s w i m  
w i t h   th e   finest  g o o d s   in   m a r k e t — n o t  se llin g  t h e m   “ a t  c o s t” o r   a t 
“ f a c to r y  p ric e s ,’’b u t  g u a r a n t e e i n g   y o u  F u l l V a l u e   fo r p ric e  a s k e d  
e v e r y   tim e .  S e n d   u s   y o u r  o r d e rs . 

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

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Written for Thk Tradkskan.

No  scenery  through  which  our  rail­
roads pass is half  so  interesting  as  the 
scenery  within  the  coach—the  fellow 
traveler by our side. 
If we  see  remark­
able  phases  of  nature  outside,  we  see 
still more remarkable  phases  of  human 
nature inside.  We And ourselves uncon­
sciously  studying  the  new  faces  and 
reading  there  many  a  history,  which, 
doubtless, considering our limited supply 
of material, would  prove  to  be,  on  the 
whole, quite accurate.

In other gatherings there  is  generally 
a community of interest, 1 mean  of  tem­
porary  interest,  as  at a theater or a lec 
ture, and we know  the  probable  motive 
controlling them; but in a  railway  coach 
are gathered people whose  interests  are 
not only widely different,  but  wholly un­
known  to  us,  and  whether  they  have 
started to take a trip around the world or 
only  a  half  day’s  journey,  we  cannot 
even guess.  We know  that  some  domi­
nating thought is  in  the  mind  of  each, 
for,  except  to  the  business  man  who 
daily employs this mode of  travel,  a trip 
means  something  out  of  the  everyday 
line of affairs.  But what the controlling 
thought in the mind of each one is  we  do 
not know.  Whether the one who sits be­
side us is going away in pursuit of pleas­
ure or of  health,  whether  another  is  a 
banker or a bank robber,  we  are  left  to 
conjecture.  We do  not  know  the  eager 
longing of some nor the  sickening  dread 
of  others  to  reach 
their  destination. 
However fast the train  may speed  along, 
it is not fast enough  for someone in  that 
coach  who  has  had summons to  the dy­
ing.  Another  feels  that  it  is  merciless 
in its speed,  so fast does it  separate  him 
from the loved ones  he  has  left  behind.
1 think it may be this lack of  knowledge 
concerning  our  fellow  passengers  that 
gives  us  such  a  sense  of  isolation and 
loneliness and prompts  us  to  arrange  to 
travel  in  company  with  someone  with 
whom, even,  we may have a very limited 
acquaintance.

In speaking of the interesting study of 
character  through  these  strange  faces 
upon  a  railway  train,  I know no surer 
way to discover the selfish and the unsel 
fish than to have a crying child on  board. 
How differently people are affected  by it. 
Kveu  women,  in  whom  the  motherly  in­
stinct would prompt to  pity and helpful­
ness,  1 have seen  look  back  with  wither­
ing censure to the  poor  mother who was 
doing all she could  to get  the child still.
1 say  “all  she  could” —I  mean  all  she 
knew  how  to  do,  for  the  practice  of 
jumping  and  tossing a child to get it  to 
stop crying is,  1 thiuk,  not  only  useless, 
but  positively  cruel.  How  would  we 
like to be treated that  way for  a  violent 
headache?  Often the child  is  crying,  1 
dare say,  from  fright.  Out  of  the  quiet 
nursery  into  the  noisy  car,  and  with 
strange  faces  all  about  them,  is it any 
wonder  that  they  are  afraid?  1  once 
knew a man  who was traveling one night, 
and on board  was a tired  mother  with  a 
tired  baby.  The  child  cried  and  men 
and women looked  and  frowned.  Some 
wanted to sleep but could not.  At  last, 
this large  hearted  man took pity on  this 
tired mother, and  politely  asked  her  if 
she  would  allow  him to relieve her and 
get the baby  to  sleep.  Away  from  the 
nervous mother,  the child  went  at  once 
to sleep.  He sat and held  that  sleeping 
child and let the mother rest,  and  when, 
at last, he returned it, still asleep, to the I

mother,  he said  he  should  never  forget 
the look of gratitude that  was  upon  her 
face. 

It was a brave and  manly act.

But 1 never realized so  fully  the  easy 
tendency  we  fall  into  to  philosophize 
upon the virtues and  vices  of  mankind, 
to analyze and  criticise,  to  admire  and 
censure, as I did in  returning,  the  other 
day,  to  our  beloved  city.  Nowhere  is 
seen more clearly than  in  a  railway  car 
the worst and  the best of human  nature. 
Because no one dreams  that  his manner 
is being noted by those around him whom 
he does  not  know,  and whom  he  never 
expects to meet again,  we see the selfish­
ness  and  self-importance  of  some,  we 
notice others timid  and shrinking and in 
need of someone to make elbow-room for 
them.  And  this  reminds  tne  of  the 
young man in the car,  the other day, who 
sat alone in one  seat  and  used  another 
for  his  feet  and  overcoat.  Passengers 
came  in  and  looked  wishfully  but  did 
not venture to ask him to  turn  the  seat 
for  them.  He  evidently  believed  that 
his ticket,  together with his  good  looks, 
entitled  him  to  extra  accommodations. 
In front of me sat two Sisters of Charity, 
in their black and curious attire, devout­
ly reading their prayer books and scarce­
ly looking up during  the  whole  trip. 
I 
thought,  “How much good  these  saintly 
women might do if they would  exchange 
their somber and unbecoming  garb  for a 
style more  attractive  and  less  conspic- 
uous.” 
I  have seen so many pretty faces

Everything for the

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Clover,  Medium  or  Mammoth,  Al- 
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Spring  Rye.  Garden  Seeds 
in 
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States,  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and in  London. England.

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all say

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

y o u   th at  th ey   a re  o n ly   trying  to  g et  y o u   to  aid  th eir 

n e w   article.

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

Is  it  n ot  th e 

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beneath  those  ugly  bonnets  with  the 
white  and  ghostly  muslin  closely  fas­
tened  to the face,  and what  a  pity  it  is 
that they cannot  have  a  more  cheerful 
religion that believes in  the  sacred  min­
istry of beauty,  not only of the mind, but 
of the body.

As I said, we have a chance  to see  all 
phases of human  nature—the worst  and 
the best. 
I  saw a  boy  with  an  honest 
face and a ragged overcoat  buy  two  ap­
ples for five cents and slyly give them to 
two other  boys whose  mother  had  been 
looking into  the  newsboy’s  basket  but 
did not buy.  Perhaps this boy  was him 
self hungry,  but,  as I  watched  that  sim­
ple  act  of  kindness,  I  said  to  myself, 
“Royalty  is not always clothed in  purple 
and fine  linen  and  many  a  royal  bead 
goes uncrowned to the grave.”

But  how  shall  I  describe  that  child 
mother,  that  Madonna,  whq  sat  beside 
me and shared  with me a seat—a  face  so 
beautiful with its  light  and  color,  with 
its perfect  outline and  fine  intelligence, 
that it has been  before me like  a  beauti­
ful vision ever since.  We  fell  into easy 
conversation  and  she  told  me  that  the 
child  that  she  held  upon  her  lap  was 
hers and  that she herself was not yet  17. 
A wife and mother and not yet  17 !  But 
what  did  she  care  for 
theories—and 
facts, 
too—against  too  youthful  mar­
riages  and  its  deleterious  effects  upon 
offspring,  with that beautiful child  look­
ing  up  into  her happy face?  And  why 
need  I  care  for  such  theories,  for  the 
time being,  when I saw mirrored  in  that 
face, not only perfect happiness but  per­
fect health.  She was  tastefully  dressed 
and  they  three—the  husband  occupied 
another seat—were  going  to  their  new 
home in Iowa.  She was  a  blonde,  with 
the  most  beautiful  complexion  I  have 
ever seen.  Her  hair was golden  and  her 
eyes  were large,  dark  and beautiful.  She 
was tall and regal  robes would have well 
become  her.  The 
look  of  joy  and 
motherly  pride  upon  her  face  a queen 
might envy.  The child,  too,  was beauti­
ful and strong,  and I thought,  “ Love  is, 
indeed,  the  great  elixir  of  life,  and  a 
mother’s  love for her child makes even a 
plain face radiant.” 

H.  A.  R.

The  average  traveling salesman  is not 
a clam.  The duties  of  his  position  ne­
cessitate  qualities that every Tom,  Dick 
or Harry does not possess.  Like the poet, 
he  is  born  for  his  particular  vocation, 
and no man can  become  a  truly  success­
ful traveling salesman by artificial train­
ing alone.  The  qualities that bring suc­
cess must be a part of the  nature  of  the 
man.  The  traveling salesman is a great 
institution,  and  it  pays  every  merchant 
to  cultivate  his  acquaintance.  As  he 
journeys from  place to  place  and  meets 
many  well-informed  business  men,  be 
obtains a fund of  information  of  which 
the merchant would  do  well  to  take  ad­
vantage.  He knows what  are  the  latest 
styles in his line;  he  can  tell  what  the 
large  city  stores  are  doing;  he  is  ac 
quainted  with  the  latest  movements  of 
the trade,  and he understands  the  situa­
tion  of  the  markets  akin  to  his line  of 
business.  He is, generally,  able  to  give 
hints  about  clever  advertising  schemes 
in vogue in other sections,  and is most al­
ways  able  to  mention  some  incidental 
item that is beneficial  to  the  merchant. 
Don’t be afraid to interrogate  him,  as  it 
rather  hurts  his  vanity  if  his  fund  of 
knowledge does not have frequent  requi­
sitions  made  upon  it  by the merchants 
upon  whom he calls.

ACTIVE.

C.  G.  Eakiu,  Crawfordsville, Ind.
C.  W.  DeYoung, Grand Rapids.
A. Euppenhimer, Graud Rapids.
Geo. T.  Brown,  Sea Cliff,  N.  Y.
Geo. S. Brush,  Detroit.
R.  D.  Mead,  Manistee.
W. S.  Budge,  Fremont.
C.  W. Shaw, Cassopolis.
C. F.  Des Camp, Detroit.
M.  E.  Frame, Clayton,  N.  Y.
D.  R.  White,  Grand Rapids.
Carl Potter, Chicago.
W.  H. Stevens,  Marblehead,  Mass.
E.  E. Stutzman, Goshen,  Ind.
A. J.  Carleton,  Richmond.
Uugb Lyons, Lansing.
W.  B.  Wood, Detroit.
John E.  Hill, Ovid.
A.  H. Ayers,  Howard City.
H. A. Bartlett,  Flint.
M.  B.  Field, Detroit.
Chris.  Kiel horn, Chicago.
A. A.  French, Baltimore.
E. M. Tyler, Grand Rapids.
W.  A.  Monroe, Grand Rapids.
Sydney Steele, Grand Rapids.
E.  E.  Whitney,  Plainwell.
Dr.  L.  B. Bartlett, Charlevoix.
J.  B.  Kelley, East  Jordan.
Geo.  F.  Bow,  Kalkaska.
W. J. Call,  Mancelona.

HONORARY.

Geo.  F.  Ow en,  Sec’y.

A Milan correspondent  writes:  W.  S. 
Frisbey came to this town six  weeks  ago 
and  put  up  at  the  Commercial  Hotel, 
where  he  has  since  boarded.  He  is  a 
civil  engineer  and  is  here  for the pur­
pose  of  making  maps  for  an  atlas  of 
Washtenaw county and taking orders for 
the same.  That  part  of his work he has 
done  in an apparently  satisfactory  man­
ner,  hut it appears that he also has had a 
penchant  for  appropriating  other  peo­
ple’s property,  which  finally  terminated 
in  his arrest on complaint  of  Charles  L 
Lawton,  a commercial  traveler  of  Grand 
Rapids,  who  lost  a  mileage  book  and 
handsome leather case  sometime  ago  at 
the Commercial Hotel.  During Frisbey’ 
absence a search warrant was  taken  out 
and  his  room  searched,  and  not  only 
were  the  mileage  book  and  the  case 
found  among  his  belongings,  but  also 
several  other  mileage  books,  several 
boxes  of  cigars,  etc.  The  cigars  he 
claimed  he  bought  of Irve Yescelius, 
hostler  at  Hooker’s  livery  stable,  con 
nected  with  the  Babcock  Hotel.  They 
proved  to  be  the  property  of  the  Ply 
mouth  Tobacco  &  Cigar  Co.,  and  had 
been  stolen  from  that  firm’s  wagon  in 
town  that  very  day.  Later,  Frisbey 
owned to having  stolen  the  eigars  him 
self,  but in the meantime  Vescelius  had 
been arrested.  He  was,  of  course,  im 
mediately  discharged. 
The  mileage 
books  were  issued  to  different  persons 
and are probably the property  of  travel 
ing  men,  patrons  of  the  Commercial 
Hotel.  After  having  been  caught  si 
nicely,  Frisbey owned  up to  everything 
even to the stealing of a gold  watch from 
the 
landlord’s  daughter  about  three 
weeks ago,  and  which he sent to bis wife 
in Indiana.

Must Charge More.

The  merchant  who grants credit must, 
as  a  consequence,  charge  more  for  the 
shoes extended on  “trust”  than  if he re­
ceived  spot  cash  for  them.  This is re­
quired  because  he  cannot do otherwise. 
When  he  extends credit he incurs a risk 
of  not 
be­
cause it  sometimes  occurs  that  debtors 
will not pay  their  debts.  Therefore,  he 
must make up  the  deficiency  caused  by 
bad  debts  by  charging a  little more to 
credit customers.

receiving  a 

remittance, 

SHE  USES

CONCORDIA

SOAP

SOLD  BY  ALL  GROCERS.

Mauufactured  by

See  T r a d e s m a n ’s  Quotations

Catching Rain Water

is a fam iliar practice in sections w here 
th e  regular  w ater  supply  is  too  hard 
for use. 
Its softness and purity m ake 
it  very  desirable  on  wash  day.  The 
sam e  results can be  derived  by using

OAK LEAF SOAP.

It m akes the hardest w ater soft,  m akes  th e  clothes w hite w ithout  in­
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Importers and Jobbers of

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ST R A PPED !

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

That’s  what  Josh  Whitman  said  one 
morning  when  he  went  into  the house 
and threw himself into the big rocker by 
the window.  “I’m  completely  strapped 
and I may as well  own  it first as last.  1 
thought, the first of the month,  I  should 
be able to  stave it off a little longer;  but 
I  can’t  do  it  and  I  might  just as well 
give up first  as  last. 
I’m  strapped  and 
that’s all there is  to  it!”

“What’s  the  matter  now?”  asked  his 
wife, coming from  the  pantry  with  the 
flour clinging to her  hands.  “lias  Hig- 
ley been  at you again for  his money?” 

“ That’s  just  it. 

I  thought,  when  I 
gave him the mortgage,  that  that  would 
satisfy  him,  but  he’s  more determined 
than ever. 
I’ve played my last card and 
everything has got to go.”

“Yes,  if that is the best;  and so all  we 
have to do is to go right  on,  just  as  we 
are going,  you  with  your  work  in  the 
store and  1 with  my bread,  and,  by  that 
•time,  something else  will  come  to  both 
of  us;  so  don’t  let’s  worry. 
(There’s 
Swansey coming  with  his  butter.  Pull 
up the corners of your  mouth a little—it 
isn’t  any  affair  of  his—and  send  him 
home  thinking  there never was another 
quite so good a  storekeeper  in  the  world 
as you and that the  Northwood  store  is 
the only one worth trading  at).”

The  mouth  corners went up according 
to  directions  and  Swansey  was  corres­
pondingly  affected.  The  butter  was  a 
prime  article—fresh  June  butter  from 
Mary  Swansey’s  dairy  was  worth  five 
cents a pound extra just to look at—hard 
as a rock on  that  warm summer day, and, 
when Josh  got  through  praising  it,  he 
forgot  all  about  the 
impending  ruin. 
When it again came back  to  worry  him, 
it was dinner time;  but that  cheery wife 
of his,  who wouldn’t let  anything worry 
either herself or him,  if  she  could  help 
it,  had just  the  kind  of  dinner  that  he 
liked,  so that he didn’t hurry  right  back 
as  soon  as  it  was  eaten,  and so it hap­
pened that the children  went off to school 
and left them to themselves.

“How much is that  mortgage,  Josh?” 
“ Five hundred dollars.”
“You think there isn’t any  use in your 
going  to  see  if you can  put Higley off?” 
“Not the slightest;  and  the worst of it 
is, deary,  there aren’t so many  goods  on 
the  shelves  as  he  thinks  there are and 
there’ll  be the old  Nick  to pay  when  he 
finds it out.”

“ You didn’t do that, Josh!”
“ What?”
“Lead him to think  that you had  more 

stock than you have?”

“ Why, everybody does it.”
“Then  ‘everybody’s’  dishonest,  my 
J jsh among the rest.  That 1  don’t  like. 
What’s in those rooms over the  store?” 

“Nothing.  Why?”
“We must do something  to  straighten 
this  matter  out,  and  1  don’t know of a 
surer way than  to  lessen  our  expenses. 
How many rooms are there?”

“Oh,  I  don’t  know. 

Snyder  lived 
there,  you  know.  They  had  the  two 
back 
rooms  upstairs;  but  gracious, 
Susan,  we can’t live  in  that  hole,  broil­
ing in the summer and freezing  to  death 
in  the  winter.  So  don’t  bother  your 
head  with  that.  The  only  thing I can 
think  of  is  to  see  if  I  can’t get Clerk 
Smith to lend it to me  for  a  while.  He 
has it and he might just  as  well  let  me 
have  it  as  to  have  it  lying  idle in  the 
bank.”

TH E  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN
“ You’d think so,  but he  wouldn’t, and 
I  wouldn’t.  Don’t ask him just yet, any- 
j  way.  1  think  you had better go to Hig- 
! ley and tell him, out  and  out,  just  how 
the matter stands.  Be honest  with  him 
I and I  believe it’ll make all the  difference 
in the world.”

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICHIGAN

“ You don’t know Higley, Susan.” 
“ Then you  won’t go?”
“No,  I don’t think 1 shall.”
"Then  1  will;  and  I’ll  go  this after­
noon.”  And,  in  spite  of  protest, Susan 
Whitman,  a  half-hour  later,  tapped  at 
I ’Squire Higley’s office door.

“I’ve come on my  own  responsibility 
’Squire Higley,  to see  if  1  can’t  induce 
you to postpone  the  foreclosing  of  that 
mortgage.”

"Why,  the  fact  Is,  Mrs.  Whitman, 
need  the money, and,  in  addition to that 
I’ve got tired of asking Josh  to  keep  u 
the  interest.  He  said  he  only  wanted 
the money  ‘until he got a chance  to  turn 
around’—that’s the  way  he  put  it—but 
he doesn’t seem to  have  ‘turned  around 
yet,  as he hasn’t paid  a  cent  of  interest, 
and  he’s  had  the  money  going  on  five 
years.  The last time he  talked  with  me 
about it,  I told him  1 must have it; and  1 
guess,  Mrs.  Whitman,  I  shall  have  to 
keep  my  word. 
It’s  the  only  way  to 
make Josh keep his,  1 find.”

“What you want,  then,  is  your  inter 
est and the assurance that  the  principal 
is safe?”

“That’s all.”
“Then let me tell you,  ’Squire  Higley, 
that the surest way to get  both  is  not  to 
foreclose  this  mortgage  now. 
I  might 
tell you why,  but 1 would rather not just 
yet.  What  I  will  say  is  that,  if  you 
will  not  push  the  matter,  I myself will 
see  that  the  interest is paid,  and I think 
something  can  then  be  done  with  the 
principal.  Let  it  run for a month.  We 
can  all  see  by  that  time  what  can  be 
done and,  with that for a basis, can make 
our plans accordingly.”
“A month,  you say?”
“Yes, a month.  This is the 29th.  The 
first  will  be  day  after  to-morrow,  and 
when next month  begins,  my husband or 
l will see you.”

“ Very  well, Mrs.  Whitman,  it shall  be 
as you say.”  And she went away with a 
mental,  “ All  right  so  far,”  and  the 
’Squire  said  to  himself,  as  the  catch 
clicked behind  her,  “I’m going to get my 
money, no mistake.”

From the  ’Squire’s  place  of  business 
Mrs.  Whitman went to the store. 
It was 
a building  common  enough,  years  ago.
It stood  with  end  to  the  road—the  vil­
lage was not large enough to have streets.
It was built at a time when Grecian archi­
tecture swept the country, its  four  stout 
pillars  giving  it  a  patrician  air,  even 
when  utility  had  fastened  a  piazza  to 
them at the  secoud  story. 
In  the  early 
days, when Sam Heath “run the store,” he 
and  his family occupied all but the  store 
room;  but,  when  he  sold  out,  the  new 
proprietor  lived  in  a  separate house,  a 
custom followed by each successive store­
keeper.  Mrs.  Whitman  thought  of  this 
after  her  interview  with 
the  money 
lender,  and she proceeded at once  to  see 
if her idea was at all practical.

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Josh heard  her  rummaging  and  rushed 
up the first chance he could get.

“How’d you make it?”
“All right.  He will  put it  over  for  a 
month;  and  everything  will  depend  on 
what we do in the meantime.  I  told him 
we would pay at least a part of the inter­
est.  You didn’t tell me that  not  a  cent 
had  been  paid since the  money had been 
borrowed*  Why didn’t you,  Josh?”

“Oh, 1 knew you  wouldn’t  understand 
such 
things—women  never  do—and  I 
thought Higley knew  he’d  get  it  some­
time  and  so  I  just let it go.  What you 
doing up here,  anyway?”

“Seeing what the size  of  these  rooms 
is. 
I  should  think  this  room  is all of 
fifteen feet square,  shouldn’t you?  Just 
measure it with that pocket measure you 
always have with  you.  Yes,  I  thought 
so.  Never mind about the others.  Let’s 
go  out  where  the  kitchen  used  to  be. 
The  pump  won’t  work,  although 
it 
doesn’t seem to be  much  rusted.  Pump 
a little,  while I pour in some water from 
the fire-barrel.  There—that’s  all  right! 
Now, open that window  over there for  a 
little  air  and  then  sit  down—you  left 
Tom in the store,  didn’t  you?—and  I’ll 
tell  you  what I’ve  been thinking about.
“So  long,  Josh,  as  you  owe a single 
cent,  you can’t afford  to  be  paying  two 
house-rents.  Fifteen dollars is too much, 
anyway,  for that house,  and  we’ll  move 
in  here  day  after  to-morrow,  and,  in­
stead  of  paying  that  fifteen  dollars  to 
Sackett, I’ll take it  over  to  the  ’Squire. 
The interest  is  really  all  he  cares  for, 
but, Josh,  we want to do more than that.
I don’t care if the times  are  hard—there 
isn’t any good  reason  why  we  can’t  do 
considerable towards  reducing  that  five 
hundred  dollars  and  lifting  that mort­
gage  by  a  year  from now.”

“ Well, all there  is  about  it,  we  can’t 
the  sun  would 

live  up  here,  Susan; 
roast us alive.”

“If we stay  where we are, ’Squire Hig­
ley  will  do  the  roasting  and  I  rather 
stand  my  chances  with 
the  sun;  but 
we’re not going to suffer.  Just  feel this 
breeze now;  and you know  that that sit­
ting room of ours is  always  like an oven 
from  June  till  September.  How  much 
do you pay Tom?”

“Fifteen dollars a month.  You’re  not 

going to cut his head off, are  you?”

'* ‘A  penny  saved  is a penny earned,’ 
any day,  and  1  don’t  know  any  better 
way to earn it than  to let Hal  go in there 
the first of  the  month  and  do  what  he 
can.  He’s  as  old  as  Tom and as stout, 
and,  so far  as  his  school  is  concerned.
I’ll  see  that  he doesn’t lose anything in 
the two weeks he’ll  miss  at  the  end  of 
the term.  He’s up in his  work  and  can 
go  in  for  his  examinations  with 
the 
others. 
If  worst  comes  to  worst,  I’ll 
take  his  place  that  last week.  That’ll 
be a saving of 830 a month, and that  will 
do something,  in  the  course  of  a  year, 
towards  reducing  the  five  hundred dol­
lars.  What do you  say?”

“Say?I’m willing; but, now that you’ve 
fixed your and  Hal’s 815, where do 1 come 
in?”

“I was going  to  let  you  go  free,  but, 
since you are going to feel so bad about it,
I’ll let you help move,for I’m determined 
that it shan’t cost  us a dollar.  Let’s be­
gin now,” and,  suiting  the action to  the 
word,  she tossed through  the  open  win­
dow some of the broken  box covers lying 
all about  her.

“Here, now, you hold  on,”  said  Josh; 
“that part somebody else  can  do just  as

All  right,”  was  the  cheery  answer; 
“but remember that we’re to  be  in  here 
day after  to morrow,  and  that  clearing 
out these rooms  is  the  first  thing  to  be 
done.”

“Day after to morrow it Is, then!” And, 
without a minute’s delay,  the  rest of  the 
rubbish began  to follow the bits that had 
gone before.  “If that  interest gets  paid 
in  four  months,  by  Susan’s  planning,” 
communed  Josh  with  himself,  with  the 
dying  dust  almost  hiding  him,  “ what 
sort of a chump  must I  be,  I should  like 
to know,  if,  with this store on my hands,
I can’t knock thunder  out  of a  five hun­
dred dollar mortgage in less than no time! 
We’ll see! ”

Don’t  undertake  to  tell  me  that  what 
we call  “ the inanimate” does not take an 
intelligent part in the concerns of human 
life—I know better.  This  very instance 
proves to the contrary.  The minute that 
the.Whitmans  got  started  on  the  right 
track,  what did the weather do  but  shift 
right around  from  the  coldest,  rainiest, 
wretchedest  weather  that  ever  scandal­
ized what ought to  be  one  of  the pleas­
antest months of the  year,  and,  with the 
brightest of suns and balmiest of breezes, 
and the superlative of everything else de­
lightful,  favor  the  moving in every pos­
sible way.  And  when,  on the evening of 
the  first  day  of  the  month,  neat,  trim, 
pretty  Mrs.  Whitman  tinkled  her  little 
silver  tea-bell  over  the  bani.-iter,  you 
wouldn’t have dreamed  that  moving  had 
ever been thought of,  and that only a few 
hours before  chaos  had  reigned,  where 
now  was to  be  seen  the  ruling  only  of 
“heaven’s  first  law.”  There  wasn’t  a 
thing  broken; 
there  wasn’t  a  garment 
torn,  and,if there  ever  was  a stovepipe 
on  Its  good  behavior,  it  was  that  one 
which Josh Whitman and his son Hal put 
op  in  that  long-unused  back  kitchen. 
The front parlor carpet fitted exactly and 
the others—well, they  simply went right 
down without a bit  of  fuss—Hal  hadn’t 
the least trouble with them.  But a cur­
tain,  with its  fastener,  felt forced to ex­
hibit the  pigheadedness  of  its race,  and 
was as ugly,  for a while, and rebellious as 
the whole stupid tribe can  be;  but it was 
promptly frowned  upon by the inanimate 
nature about it,  and  so,  by  furnishing an 
exception to the  rule,  confirmed  the ex­
istence of that “pure cussedness” so often 
attributed to inanimate objects.

From that  time  on the  unrest  caused 
by the mortgage ceased.  On the  first  of 
the month,  Mrs.  Whitman  took  over,  not 
815,as she had said she would, but 850; and 
it doesn’t require a  course  in  mathemat­
ics  to  tell  how long it took,  at that  rate, 
to  pay  off  the interest and lift the mort­
gage.  That ought  to  have  satisfied  the 
woman,  but it didn’t; and it  wasn’t  until 
Josh became urgent about  moving  again 
that  the  determined  little  woman took 
his  breath  away  by  a  single  sentence: 
“ When  I move again. Josh,  I shall move 
into a home of my own !”  After he’d put 
that into his pipe and  smoked  it a while, 
she  went  on:  “There  isn’t  really  any 
need of living anywhere else,  of  course, 
but,  if we had been  as  decided  about  it, 
years ago, as we are now,  we  would  not 
be  living  here  now.  Paying  off  this 
mortgage has opened the eyes of  both  of 
us. 
It has mine, anyway,  and, now  that 
we  are  out  of  debt,  we  can  turn that 
money  over  a  good  many  times  in the 
course of a year.”

So she went on with her plans, and Josh

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listened and wondered.  The result of  it 
all was that the store became livelier than 
ever.  “They” began to talk about it and 
it  got  so  that  not only a wider circle of 
farmers began to come to it,  but folks  at 
“the Center” got into the  habit  of  driv­
ing over to Whitman’s to  do  their  trad­
ing; and,  finally,  it got so that “ the  only 
store  ’t  was  worth  anything  in  a good 
bit  o’  country  was  Whitman’s  over 
to 
Northwood.”  Whatever  custom  came 
remained,  and  it  came  to  pass that,  in 
due time,  there was  a  fine  residence  lot 
deeded  to  “Susan;”  and  after  another 
while  there  was  a  comfortable  house 
built upon on it: then, one happy  Christ­
mas  when 
large 
children  by this time—came from  schoo 
and college for the holidays,  there  was 
“Hanging  of  the  Crane”  in  the  hand 
some,  well-furnished  house.

the  children—pretty 

—“ A new Btar ju st sprung to birth,
A nd  rolled on its harm onious way
Into th e boundless realm s of space.” 

When  i t   w as  a ll o v e r,  when 

guests,”

“ The  lights  were  out  and  gone  w ere  all  the 
John Whitman,  with his arm  around  the 
little woman  who had planned it all,  said 
as he kissed her,  “She will do  him  good 
aud  not  evil  all  the  days  of her life; 
and  she,  returning  his  endearment,  an 
swered,  “And  what  a  great pity it was 
that she  was not allowed  to  begin  until 
he  was  forced  to  ackuowledge  himself 
‘s tra p p e d !’ ’ ’ 

S t e p h a n o f f .

! counted  millions  of  centuries.  The 
processes of mathematics are alike avail­
able  for tracing out  the  delicate  move­
ments in the interior  of  a  molecule  not 
one millionth part of the size  of  a  grain 
of sand, or for  investigating  the proper­
ties of space so vast that the  whole solar 
system only  occupies  an  inconsiderable 
point by comparison.  Let  us, therefore, 
see  what  this  infallible  guide  has 
to 
teach us  with regard to  that  momentous 
epoch in the history of our  system  when 
the idbon  was  born.
Our  argument  proceeds  from  an  ex­
tremely  simple  and  familiar  matter. 
Every one who has ever been  on the sea­
shore knows the  daily  ebb  and  flow  of 
the  waters,  which  we  call  the  tides. 
Long ere the true nature of the forces by 
whicfi the moon  acts  upon  the  sea  was 
understood,  the  fact  that  there  was  a 
connection  between  the  tides  and  the | 
moon had become certainly  known. 
In­
deed,  the  daily  observation  of a fisher­
man or of any  one  whose  business  was 
concerned  with  the  great  deep  would 
have taught him  that  the  time  of  high 
water and the time of full moon stood  at 
each place in a certain  definite  relation. 
The  fisherman  might  not  have  under­
stood  the  precise  influence of the moon 
upon the tides,  but if  he  had  observed, 
as he might  iu  some  places,  that  when 
the  moon  was  full  the tide was high at 
10 o'clock in  the  morning,  it  would  be 
perfectly obvious  to him  that  the  moon 
had some special  relation to  this  ebbing 
and  flowing  of  the  ocean. 
Indeed,  we 
are told of some savage race  who,  recog­
nizing that the moon and the  tides  must 
be  associated,  were  still in some consid­
erable  doubt  as  to  whether  it  was  the 
moon  which  was  the cause of the tides, 
or the tides which  were the cause  of  the 
moon.

THE  MOON’S  STORY.

to  pierce 

1 do not think there is  any  chapter  in 
modern  science  more  remarkable  than 
that  which  1  here  propose  to describe, 
It  has,  indeed,  ail  the elements of a ro 
mance.  1 am to sketch an  event  of  the 
very greatest moment  in  the  history  of 
this universe,  which occurred at a period 
of  the  most  extreme antiquity, and  ha 
been discovered  in the  most  remarkable 
manner.
The  period  of  which  I  write  is  far 
more ancient than that  of  the  Pyramid 
of  Egypt,  or  of  any  other  monument: 
erected by human effort. 
It is even  more 
early than  that  very  remote  time,  huu 
dreds of thousands  of  years  ago,  when 
man himself first came  upon  this  globe 
Our  retrospect  has 
righi 
through  those  vastly  protracted  cycles 
which the geologists have  opened  up  to 
us.  We speak of a period  long  anterior 
to the ages during which  our  continents 
were being sculptured into  their  present 
mountain chains aud  river  courses.  We 
have to look through  those  periods  still 
earlier,  when great animals, long extinct, 
flourished  on  this  earth.  The  time  of 
which I write is more  remote  than  that 
very remarkable  epoch  in  earth  history 
during  which  the  great  coal 
forests 
flourished. 
It  is  earlier  than  the  su­
preme  moment,  countless  millions  of 
years  ago,  when  living  organisms  first 
became inhabitants of this  globe.  Even 
here,  however, our  retrospect  must  not 
stop.  We  have  yet  once  more  to  look 
back  through  certain anterior periods to 
a time when our earth  was in its  earliest 
youth.  The  chapter  of  history  about 
which I am now writing is, indeed, in the 
very dawn of things terrestrial.
It might be  thought  that  it  would  be 
utterly impossible for  us  to  learn  any­
thing with regard to what  took  place  at 
a time so  immeasurably  anterior  to  all 
sources of  tradition,  and,  indeed,  to  all 
the  ordinary  channels 
for  obtaining 
knowledge by observation. 
It, however, 
fortunately happens that the darkness of 
this early period is illumined by a bright 
and  steady  source  of  light  which  will 
never deceive us if only  we will follow it 
properly.  Our trustworthy  guide  is  to 
be the pen of the mathematician, for it is 
well known that,  unless we are  going  to 
dispute the fundamental proposition  that 
two and two  make  four,  we  cannot  im­
pugn the truths which  mathematics  dis­
close.  This science knows no boundaries 
of space. 
It recognizes no limits in time. 
It is ever ready for discussing operations 
which take place either in  the  millionth 
part of a second or  in  the  lapse  of  un-

The  ebbing  and  flowing  of  the  tide 
opens up this chapter in  remote  history, 
which  we  can  now  explore,  mainly  by 
the  help  of  the  researches  of  Prof. 
George  Darwin;  for, as  the tides  course 
backward and forward, sweeping  to  and 
fro vast  volumes of  water,  it  is  obvious 
that the  tides  must  be  doing  work—in 
fact,  in some places the  tides  have  been 
made to do useful  work,  if the water, as 
it rises,  be  impouuded  iu  a  large  reser­
voir,  it  can  be  made  to  turn  a  water 
wheel as it enters,  while  another  water 
wheel  can  be driven  as  the  reservior 
empties itself a  tew  hours  later.  Thus 
we produce a tidal mill. 
It is quite true 
that,  so  long  as  coal remains tolerably 
cheap and steam  power  is  consequently 
readily available,  it is not often  possible 
to employ  the duect  power  of  the  tides 
in an economical manner.  For  our  pur­
pose it is merely necessary to  note  that, 
day  after  day,  week  after  week,  year 
after year,  the tides must  be  incessantly 
doiug work of some kind or other.

Every  practical  man knows that  a cer­
tain quantity of work  can  only  be  done 
by the expenditure of a certain  quantity 
of energy.  He also knows that  there  is 
in nature no  such thing as  the  creation 
of energy. 
It  is  just  as  impossible  to 
create out of  nothing  the  energy  which 
should  lift  an  ounce weight  through  a 
ingle inch as  it  would  be  to  create  a 
loaf of bread out of  nothing. 
If,  there­
fore,  the tides are  doing  work,  and  we 
have seen that they undoubtedly  are do­
ing work,  it follows  that  there  must  be 
some source of energy on which the tides 
are enabled to draw.  A steam  engine is 
able to put forth  power  because  of  the 
energy developed from the  coal which is 
continually  supplied 
to  the  furnace. 
But where is the equivalent  of  the  coal 
the  great tidal engine?  We  might  at 
first hazard the supposition  that,  as  the 
moon is  the  cause  of  the  tides,  so  we 
ust look  to  the  moon  to  provide  the 
energy by which the tides do their work. 
This is,  however,  not  exactly  the  case. 
The match  which lights the  fire  under a 
team  boiler is in  one  sense,  no  doubt, 
the cause  of  the  energy  developed;  but 
we  do  not,  therefore,  assert  that  the 
power of the engine is derived  from  the 
It  comes, rather, from  the  fuel 
match. 
whose  consumption  is  started  by  the 
match. 
In  like  manner, 
though  the 
moon’s attraction causes  the tides, yet it 
not  from  the  moon  that  the  tidal 
energy is drawn.  There is only one pos­
sible source for the  energy  necessary  to

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sustain the tides.  Every one who is con­
versant with mechanical  matters  knows 
the  important  duty  which  the  flywheel 
performs  in  a  mill.  The  flywheel,  in 
fact,  may  be  considered  as  a  reservoir 
into which the  engine  pours  the  power 
generated with each stroke of the piston, 
while the machinery  in  the  mill  draws 
on this  accumulated  store  of  power  in 
the flywheel. 
If  the  engine  is  stopped, 
the flywheel may yet give a turn  or  two, 
for the energy which it contains  may  be 
still sufficient to drive  for a few  seconds 
the machinery throughout the mill.  But 
the store of energy in the flywheel would 
necessarily  become  speedily  exhausted 
and the flywheel come  to  rest  unless  it 
were continually replenished by  the  ac­
tion of the engine.
The earth may be regarded as a mighty 
flywheel  which  contains  a  prodigious 
store  of  energy.  That  energy  is,  how­
ever, never added to,  for there  is  no  en­
gine available. 
If, however,  no  energy 
were withdrawn from the earth,  then the 
globe would continue  to  spin  round  its 
axis  once  every  twenty-four hours,  for­
ever.  As, however,  the  tides  need  en­
ergy to get through their  work,  they ab­
stract what they require  from  the  store 
which  they  find  at hand in the rotation 
of  the  earth.  Next  time  you  see  the 
tides scouring up and down  a  river, you 
may reflect that the  power  which impels 
that mass of water to  and  fro  has  been 
obtained  solely  at  the  expense  of  the 
spinning of our glooe. 
Indeed, the little 
child who digs a moat in the sand, which 
is filled by the  rising  tide,  affects,  to  a 
certain  extent,  the  revolution  of  this 
earth about its axis.
This  withdrawal  of  energy  from  the 
earth is  incessantly  taking  place  along 
almost every  coast.  From  day  to  day, 
from  century  to  century,  from  aeon  to 
aeon,  energy  is  daily  being  withdrawn 
and daily wasted,  never again  to  be  re­
stored.  As the earth has no other means 
of  replenishing  its  stores, 
the  conse­
quence  is  inevitable.  The  quantity  of 
energy due to the  rotation  of  the  earth 
must be gradually  declining.  Stated  in 
this way,  perhaps  the  intimation  is  not 
very alarming, but, placed in other words, 
the results at which we have  arrived  as­
sume the more practical  expression  that 
the tides must be gradually checking  the 
speed with which the earth  turns  round. 
The tides must,  in fact,  be increasing the 
length  of  the  day. 
In  consequence  of 
the tides which ripple to and fro  on  our 
shores,  and which flow in and flow out of 
estuaries  and  rivers,  to-day  is  longer 
than yesterday, and  yesterday  is  longer 
than the  day  before. 
I  may,  however, 
admit at once that the change  thus  pro­
duced is not very appreciable when  only 
moderate periods of time are  considered. 
Indeed,  the  alteration  in  the  length of 
the  day  from  this  cause amounts to no 
more  than  a  fraction  of  a  second in a 
peroid of a thousand years.  Even in  the 
lapse  of  ordinary  history,  there  is  no 
recognizable change in  the length  of  the 
day.  But  the  importance  of  our  argu­
ment  is  hardly  affected  by  the circum­
stance that the rate at which  the  day  is 
lengthening  is  a  very  slow  one.  The 
really  significant  point 
this 
is 
that 
change is always taking  place,  and  lies 
always in the same direction. 
It  is  this 
latter circumstance which gives the pres­
ent  doctrine  its  great  importance  as  a 
factor in the  development  of  the  earth- 
moon  system.
We  are  accustomed  in  astronomy  to 
reason about movements  which  advance 
for  vast  periods  in  one  direction,  and 
then become reversed.  Such movements 
as this are,  however,  not  the  real  archi­
tects of the universe,  for  that  which  is 
done during one cycle of years is undone 
during the next.  But  the  tides are ever 
in operation,  and  their  influence  tends 
ever in the same direction.  Consequent­
ly the alteration in the  length of the day 
is  continually  in  progress,  and  in  the 
course of illimitable ages  its  effects  ac­
cumulate to a startling magnitude.
The  earth  now  revolves  on  its  axis 
once in  twenty-four  hours.  There  was 
a time,  millions of years ago, very likely, 
when it  revolved  once  in  twenty-three 
hours.  Earlier  still  it  must  have spun 
on its  axis  in  twenty-two  hours,  while 
this succeeded a  time  when the day was 
only twenty hours.  The  very  same  ar­

guments  applied  in  those  times  which 
apply at the present, so that, if we strain 
our vision back into  the  excessively  re­
mote  past,  we  find  the  earth  spinning 
ever more and more rapidly, until at last 
we discern an epoch when  the  length of 
the  day,  having  declined to eight hours 
and  seven  hours,  had  at  last  sunk  to 
something  like  five  or six hours.  This 
is the time when the  moon’s  story  com­
mences.  At  this  eventful  period  the 
earth  accomplished  about  four  revolu­
tions  in  the  same  time  that  it now re­
quires for a  single  one.  We  do  not  at­
tempt  to  assign  the  antiquity  of  this 
critical moment. 
It must certainly have 
been far earlier than the  time  when this 
earth became fitted for  the  reception  of 
organized  life. 
It  must  have  been  at 
least many millions  of  years  ago. 
If  it 
be  thought  that  the  vagueness  of  our 
chronology is rather unsatisfactory, then 
it must  be  remembered  that  even  histo­
rians who have human  records  and mon­
uments  to  guide  them are still often  in 
utter uncertainty as to  the  periods  dur­
ing which mighty empires  flourished,  or 
as to the dates at  which  great  dynasties 
rose or perished.
But  our  story  has  another  side to it. 
Among the profoundest laws of nature is 
that  which  asserts  that  action  and  re­
action are equal and  opposite.  We have 
seen  that  the  moon  is  the cause of the 
tides,  and  we have further  seen that the 
tides act as a brake  to  check  the  speed 
with which the  earth  is  rotating.  This 
is the action of the moon upon the earth. 
And  now  let  us  consider  the  reaction 
with which this action must be inevitably 
accompanied. 
In  our  ordinary  experi­
ence  we observe that  a  man  who  is  an­
noyed by another feels  an  unregenerate 
impulse  to  push  the  annoying  agent 
away as far as possible.  This  is  exactly 
the form which  the reaction of the  earth 
assumes. 
It  is  annoyed  by  the  moon, 
and,  accordingly,  it  strives  to  push  the 
moon  away.  Just  as  the  moon,  by  its 
action on the earth,  through the  medium 
of  the  tides,  tends  to  check  the speed 
with which the earth  is  rotating  on  its 
axis,  so  the  earth  reacts  on  the moon, 
and compels  that satellite to adopt a con­
tinuous retreat.  The moon  is, therefore, 
gradually receding. 
It  is  farther  from 
the earth to-day  than  it  was  yesterday, 
it will be farther to-morrow than it is to­
day.  The process  is  never reversed and 
it  never  ceases.  The  consequence 
is 
a  continuous  growth  in  the  size of the 
track which the  moon  describes  around 
the  earth. 
It  is  quite  true  that  this 
growth is a slow one; so, too, the growth of 
the oak is imperceptible from day to day, 
though,  in  the  lapse  of  centuries,  the 
tree attains a  magnificent  stature.  The 
enlargement  of 
the  moon’s  orbit, 
though  imperceptible  from  month 
to 
month,  or even from century  to  century, 
has  revolutionized  our  system  in  the 
lapse of many millions of years.
Looking  back  through  the  mists  of 
time,  we  see  the  moon  ever  drawing 
nearer  and  nearer  to  the  earth.  Our 
satellite now  revolves  at  a  distance  of 
240,000 miles,  but there was a time  when 
that distance was  no  more  than  200,000 
miles.  There  was  a  time,  millions  of 
years ago, no doubt,  when  the moon was 
but 100,000 miles away,  and,  as  we look 
farther  and  farther  back,  we  see  the 
moon ever drawing  closer  and  closer  to 
the  earth,  until  at  last  we  discern  the 
critical  period  in  earth-moon  history, 
when our globe was  spinning round in  a 
period of about  five  or  six  hours.  The 
moon, 
instead  of  revolving  where  we 
now find  it,  was  then  actually  close  to 
the  earth;  earlier  still  it  was,  in  fact, 
touching our  globe,  and  the  moon  and 
the  earth  were  revolving  each  around 
the  other,  like  a  foot  ball and a tennis 
ball actually fastened together.
It  is  impossible  to  resist  taking  one 
step farther.  We  know  that  the  earth 
was  at  that  early  period  a soft molten 
mass of matter, spinning  round  rapidly. 
The speed seems  to  have  been  so  great 
that a rupture  took  place,  a  portion  of 
the molten matter broke  away  from  the 
parent globe, and the fragments coalesced 
into a small globe.  That  the  moon  was 
thus  born  of  our  earth  uncounted mil­
lions of  years  ago  is  the  lesson  which 
mathematics declares  it  learns from the 
murmur of  the tides. 

R o b e b t B a l l .

We  Pay  HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICES  in  SPOT  CASH  and  fleasure  Bark 

When  Loaded.  Correspondence  Solicited.

G rand R ap id s B ru sh  Co.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

B R U S H E S

Our Goods are sold by all M ichigan Jobbing Houses.
Office  Telephone  1055.

SECURITY Barn Telephone  1059.

Storage and 
Transfer Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

floving,  Packing,  Dry  Storage.

Expert Packers and Careful, Competent  Movers of Household  Furniture. 

Given.  Business Strictly Confidential.  Baggage  Wagon at all hours.

Estimates  Cheerfully 
F. S. ELSTON, Mar.

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THE  BACK  OPFICE.

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

The other day, West Man,  a  well-to-do 
farmer in this locality,  was  in  here  and 
wanted to know if I didn’t  think his boy 
John,  who wants to be a doctor, couldn’t 
just as well study at home,  along at first, 
with old Dr.  Holliday,  then  take  a  lec­
ture course at the  University  and,  in  a 
couple of years,  be ready to hang out his 
shingle and be equal  to the  best  of  ’em.
West  Man  is  one  of the best farmer 
anywhere  around  here.  He  and  his 
farm show it.  He likes the farm and the 
farm likes him;  and there  isn’t a foot  of 
land  under  his control which doesn’t il 
lustrate his idea that “ye can’t git a good 
crop out o’ half  tilled  land.”  By  “till 
ing,” West Man means  all that the word 
implies—and perhaps a  little  more—be 
ginning with hard work and a  great deal 
of  it,  together  with  such  help  as  an 
abundance of  fertilizing  can  render,  so 
that, it makes but  little  difference  what 
the crop is,  West Man is as sure to get  a 
good one as he is of  planting.  Knowing 
him  to  be  that  sort  of  farmer,  I  was 
surprised to hear  that  sort  of  question 
from  him. 
I  looked  at  him  a  minute 
and then said:  “ Why, West Man,  you’re 
the last man that I  should  expect  to  be 
guilty of manuring in the hill.”

“What do you mean?”
“Just what I  say. 

I  have  heard  you 
storm  about  these  farmers  who  never 
think of enriching their  fields,  but  who 
will  dump  some  kind  of  fertilizer into 
the  hill  and  think  themselves  pretty 
smart if they get  anywhere  near a crop; 
and you always wind  up  by  saying  that 
a farmer can’t do anything  quite so sure 
as that to run out the farm  and  himself, 
too. 
I  have  heard  you  say  something 
else that I have remembered,  and that is 
that,  after a field has been brought to the 
point where it will yield a  good  crop  of 
anything,  there is still a certain  kind  of 
produce  that  it  ‘takes  to’  better  thau 
any  other.  Haven’t  I  heard  you  say 
that?”

“I guess likely,  for  I’ve  said  it  often 

enough.  But how about John?”

“Do  with  him  as  you  do  with  your 
land—he’s worth it.  So far,  all you have 
done for him is  to  clear  off  the  timber 
and cut down and burn the brush.  From 
the  size  of  the  checkerberries  and  the 
high blackberry  bushes  you  think  you 
can raise the likeliest doctor  there  is  in 
the  country;  and  so  you  are  going  to 
harrow  in  the  seed  now,  and,  by  the 
time you get ready  to  pull  the  stumps, 
there’s your  doctor  ready to cut off a leg 
or  cure  the  worst  consumptive  to  be 
brought.  That is, you study  your  fields 
and,  when they are  brought  up  to  that 
point  where  they  yield everything, you 
keep testing until you  find  what they can 
produce best;  but you  start  the  boy  off 
with old Dr.  Holliday and then send  him 
to a course  of lectures,  for a kind of pat 
and a promise,  and  lo,  an M.  D.!

“You know better  than  that.  Such  a 
physician as that stands no chance nowa­
days.  No; that boy should be sent where 
he will receive a thorough  training  gen­
erally.  While  that  is  going  on,  he,  or 
you, or his cultivators  will  find  out  his 
specialty  and  then  help  him  to follow 
his bent.  That is  what  will  make  not 
only a successful  physician,  but  a  man 
as  well,  and  that last is what the world 
is searching for  to-day.  Your  theory  is 
all  right,  West  Man,  and  in  farming 
your practice is  ali right,  but,  when you 
come to boy farming, you  want to call in

Meal of Sunflower  C ake. 

Sunflower cake has  been  found,  espe­
cially in Russia, one of the best auxiliary 
cattle foods.  As early  as  the  year  1866 
about  100,000  centners  of  sunflower  oil 
(oil  of  the  seeds of  Helianthus annuus) 
were  manufactured  in  Russia,  and  its 
amount  has  increased  year  by  year,  it 
being esteemed as  a  very  palatable  ali­
mentary oil.  The  oil  was  formerly  ob­
tained by hydraulic  meaus;  the  residual 
cake is harder than any other  variety  of 
oil cake,  and  for  this  reason  apparently 
it  has  not  found  a  wider  application. 
Denmark and the northern  countries im­
port large quantities annually, as do also 
the  eastern  provinces  of  Germany,  and 
the  problem  of  its  disintegration  has 
been successfully solved by several man­
ufacturers there. 
It is still  unknown  in 
Southern  and  Western  Germany;  now, 
however,  that it is put on  the market  in 
the form of  meal, it  will  doubtless  soon 
find general application, suited,  as  it is, 
both on account  of  its  composition  and 
pleasant taste,  for fattening cattle.  The 
percentage  of  proteid  varies  between 
about 30 to 44 per cent., the fat  between 
about 9 to 18 percent. 
It  is  possible  to 
prepare two qualities, one rich in proteid 
and poor in fat,  and the other  rich in  fat 
and poor in  proteid.  When,  for  exam­
ple,  the somewhat finely  ground  meal  is 
sifted, employing a mesh of  1  mm., that 
which passes through  is  much  richer  in 
proteid and  poorer in fat  than  the  origi­
nal,  while  the  reverse  is  true  of  that 
which remains in the sieve.

A rran g e m en t  o f  D isplays.

The  arrangement  of  displayed  goods 
in  the  store  should be changed as often 
as possible.  A customer does not like to 
enter a store where the things have  been 
in position so long that he can tell where 
each article is with his eyes  shut.  “Va­
riety  is  the  spice  of  life.”  The  great 
secret of attractive displays is simplicity 
and frequent changes.  The  simpler  the 
display,  the  more  easily the change can 
be effected, and the  simple  arrangement 
really  produces  a  better  result in most 
cases  than  the  complicated  one. 
It  is 
not  necessary  for  one  to be a genius to 
enable him to make an attractive display 
of his merchandise.  Let him keep every­
thing scrupulously  neat  and  clean,  not 
be afraid  of  wasting  elbow-grease,  and 
change his counter and  window arrange­
ments at least  twice  a  week  and,  with 
the  simple  exercise  of good taste in  the 
selection, his  store  will  then  be  as  at­
tractive as  any.

THE  MICKLLÖAJST  TRADESM AN.

somebody  as  successful  in  that line as 
you have been in  yours.

“So, then,  if John wants a professional 
life, start him for college  in  September; 
and,  if he isn’t ready for it,  pack him off, 
then,  to the best preparatory  school  you 
can hear of.  When his  college course is 
done,  give  him  a  course  at  the  best 
school his chosen profession can furnish; 
and,  by the time the  cultivating  process 
is  over,  he  will  be a son to be proud of. 
Don’t  ask  me  what  all  this  will  cost. 
You have cleared up  too  much  land  to 
expect any returns for a number of years 
after you begin clearing;  but,  when  the 
work  is  over,  and  someone praises you 
for what you have done, you  can say,  as 
you did  when you showed me the results 
of that north lot,  ‘It’s mighty hard work 
and it takes a long time;  but  there  ain’t 
anything in this world wuth  havin’  that 
ain’t  wuth  workin’ for,  and  then,  when 
ye’ve got it,  it’s suthin’ to be proud on.

West Man  went out  chewing  a  match 
he  had  picked  up  and  relieved  of the 
brimstone.  Whether  the  boy will go to 
school  in  September remains to be  seen.
I think he’ll  go, for  I  think  the  farmer 
long ago concluded that it doesn’t pay to 
cut ’cross lots in anything,  and  that  the 
usefulness  which  comes  from that kind 
of training is impaired  in  proportion  to 
the amount of cutting indulged  in.

Rich a rd  Ma i.com  Strong.

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y o u   a im   to   h a n d le   th e  b est goods  in   ev ery  b ran ch  oi  th e trad e.
W hy  n o t in   s a lt?

Diamond Crystal Salt

is now  p ac k ed  so th e  g ro cer  can   h a n d le  it  a t   a p ro fit  eq u a l  to th a t m a d e  o n  in fe rio r 
goods.  Note these greatly reduced prices :

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Diamond Crystal is m u ch  lig h ter  th a n   co m m o n   salt,  a n d  th e 

4,  a n d  7 lb.  bags 
a re  a b o u t  th e   sam e  size  a s   3,  5,  a n d   10  lb.  bags  o f  th e   o rd in a ry   p roduct.  Diamond 
Crystal  is  p u rer, stro n g er, a n d   goes  farth e r.  T h e  bags  a re   h an d so m e,  a n d   m a d e  o f 
th e   v ery   best  m a te ria l—sa v in g   w aste  from   b ro k en   bags.
D I A M O N D   C R Y S T A L   S A L T   C O . ,   S T .   C L A I R ,   M I C H .

JESS

JESS

THE  MOST  POPULAR  BRAND  OF

P L U G   T O B A C C O

In  M ichigan  to-day, and has only been on 
th e m arket fo u r m onths.  F or sale only by

JESS GRAND  R APID S
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DID  YOU  NOTICE
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O N   Y O U R   C R A C K E R S ?sEARS’

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

‘THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER 
OF  CRACKERS!”

T H E Y

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

And  all  over  the  World.

Manufactured  by

The  New York  Biscuit Co.,

Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

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the auctioneer,  “ who bids $11?”  A man 
in the corner nodded,  and  for  a  moment 
it looked as though he would  get  a  bar­
gain,  but  somebody  else  shouted  $12. 
The auctioneer looked at the man  in  the 
corner and  got  another  nod,  and  after 
some delay,  somebody  went a  dollar bet­
ter.  “Fourteen  I’m  bid,”  shouted  the 
man with the hammer,  and he shouted it 
four or five times,  and just before  he de­
clared  the  lot  sold  came  another  nod 
from the quiet  bidder,  and  the  lot was 
sold.  “ Your  ice  box.  What  name?” 
asked  the  book-keeper.  But  the  man 
only nodded his head  and  appeared  not 
to  hear. 
“ What  name?”  was  again 
shouted,  and somebody  leaned  over  and 
repeated 
in  stentorian 
tones.  The  man  made  a  quick  move­
ment,  rubbed  his  eyes  and  wanted  to 
know was the matter.  “I didn’t  buy no 
ice  box,”  he  said.  “I’ve  been  asleep.” 
‘This ain’t no  place  to  sleep,”  said  the 
auctioneer,  “and you’ll pay for  that  box 
or stand  the  difference  on  the  resale.” 
There was a warm altercation, and a law­
suit is threatened.  A nod is  as  good  as 
a wink to an  auctioneer who  knows  his 
business.

the  question 

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CURRENT  COMMENT.

A  curious  legal  case  came  up  in Co­
lumbus, Ohio,  the  other day.  A grocer 
of that town asked the courts  for  au  in 
junction against his wife,  restraining her 
from  visiting  his  store  and  bothering 
him there to the  detriment  of  his  bus! 
ness. 
It seems that the  parties  did  not 
agree very  well,  and that the  wife  made 
frequent visits to the  store  and  so  con 
ducted  herself  as  to  interfere with the 
conduct of the  business  and  drive  away 
customers.  Affidavits  were  submitted 
showing that the  business  had  suffered 
materially in consequence of these visits, 
and  the  court  granted the relief prayed 
for.

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A new  industry  has  lately  developed 
in  the  Piedmont  district  of  North and 
South Carolina.  The mountaineers have 
discovered that the heavy yellowish sand 
which  abounds  along  the  streams  and 
branches  of  their  country  is  valuable, 
and now hundreds  of  families  are  sup­
ported with the money obtained  from the 
finding  of  monazite.  The  enthusias'm 
with which the  search  for  this  valuable 
ingredient is being  prosecuted  is  some­
thing  remarkable.  Men,  women  and 
children are interested in the  new  busi­
ness to the  exclusion  of  all  other  aims 
and desires.  Nothing else  is  talked  of, 
and it would seem they must even dream 
of monazite in their sleep.  Gold miners, 
year  after  year,  when  hunting  for  the 
precious metal along the  streams,  would 
fling aside as  worthless  the  heavy  sand 
they found in their  pans;  but  now  they 
have  waked  up  to  the  folly  of  such  a 
proceeding,  and  often  throw  aside  tol­
erably  fair  specimens  of  gold  in  their 
eager search for the monazite.  Monazite 
has  been  found  in  small  quantities  in 
Russia,  Norway,  Bohemia  and  in  gold 
washings  in  Brazil. 
It  has  also  been 
found  in  the  mica veins at Quebec,  but 
nowhere has it been  discovered  in  such 
large quantities as in this belt.

It  is  related  that  in  North  Carolina, 
lately, a case was tried  in  which, the de­
fendant’s  character  having  been  im­
peached,  it was sought to bolster it up by 
showing that he had reformed and joined 
the church.  The  witness,  who belonged 
to the same church,  insisted  that, as  the 
defendant was now  a  Christian  man,  of 
course his character was better.  Counsel 
asked  him:  “Doesn’t  he  drink  just  as 
much  as  he  ever  did?”  The  witness, 
who was  colored,  and  evidently  embar­
rassed by the  inquiry,  slowly  raised  his 
eyes and  said,  with  much  deliberation: 
“I  think  he  do,  but  he  carries  it  more 
better.”

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Railroad rates on  wheat  from  Buffalo 
to  New  York  are  so  low  that  the Erie 
canal  boats cannot afford to handle it, and 
it is  said  that  there  are  over  300 boats 
tied up at  Buffalo  for  lack  of business. 
The  terminal  elevator  at  Buffalo  has 
handled  3,500,000  bushels  of  grain this 
season,  and of this  amount the canal has 
secured but three boat  loads, though  the 
boats were making a rate of 1 % cents for 
wheat, and  1% cents for oats.  The canal 
has played a most  important  part in  the 
development of the Empire State,  but its 
usefulness  seems  to  be  a  thing  of  the 
past.

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An  auction  sale  story  comes  from 
Philadelphia.  A  refrigerator  was  put 
up. 
It  was  a  good-looking  article, 
and  $10  was  bid.  “Ridiculous,”  said

Newfoundland  has  finally  made  ar­
rangements  for  a  government  loan,  the 
money  to  be  furnished  by  an  English 
syndicate.  The  Government  has  been 
unable to meet  its  obligations  for  some 
time  and there  has,  consequently,  been 
great financial  suffering.  The prospects 
of  the  loan  have  been  a great relief al 
ready.

The  C redit  SyBtem.

F r o m  t h e  I n d u s tr ia l W o rld .

Why  do  merchants  encourage 

the 
credit  system?  You  answer  that  you 
don’t.  Yes, but you do. 
If  the  system 
were .not encouraged by the merchants it 
would not be  in  existence  to-day.  Did 
you ever stop to think  that  the  mercan­
tile  community  of  the  country  are  the 
only body of men that tolerate  the credit 
system?  Let’s  see  you  buy  postage 
stamps, postal notes,  money  orders, etc., 
on credit; try  it,  and  see  what  will  be 
told.  Go  to  the  theater  and  you  pay 
money.  Express  companies  demand 
cash,  and railroad tickets are cash on de­
livery  to  the  purchaser.  Why  should 
not  the  merchant  demand  and  receive 
cash?  Simply  because  he  encourages 
the credit system. 
It may  be  an  impos­
sibility to completely  eradicate  the  sys­
tem,  but strict limitations on  credit  is  a 
step on the right road,  and  the evolution 
will be practically a cash basis system of 
doing business. 
It is  worth  a  trial  and 
should  be  begun  at  once. 
It  would 
quickly spread,  like measles  in  a  coun­
try school,  and when it does it  will solve 
the  great  problem for  all  time.  When 
sifted down it  would  be  found  that  the 
credit system  is  the  progenitor  of  and 
responsible for more evils that  affect the 
financial  and  business  world  than  all 
other agencies combined.  Not only this, 
but  it  fosters  extravagance—the  pur­
chase of  goods  which  can  be  very  well 
done without.

Good  Tim es  Coming'.

Pittsburg  is  happy.  Dispatches  are 
coming in from  many places in  Western 
Pennsylvania,  Eastern  Ohio  and  West 
Virginia  on 
the  business  situation. 
These dispatches  show  that  business  is 
booming at every place heard  from,  and 
that confidence in the future  seems fully 
restored.  Not since  the  spring  of  1893 
has such activity been  noticed.  The  re­
vival is not confined  to  any  one  line  of 
industry, but  to  all  kinds  of  manufac­
tures and  trades.  Near Pittsburg alone 
more than  10,000  workmen  received  an 
advance  in  wages  during  last  week. 
The walking delegate  must be asleep, or 
the alarmist politician is not attending to 
his business.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

Silent Salesman Cigar-Case.
J.  P H I L L I P S   &  CO

Send for Circular.

D etroit,  M ich.

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Hocker  Washer

H as proved th e m ost satis­
factory o f anyW asherever 
P aced  upon  th e  m arket. 
It is w arranted to w ash an 
ordinary  fam ily  w ashing 
of
100  Pieces in One  Hour 
as clean as can be washed 
on the washboard.
W rite fo r Catalogue and 
T rade D iscounts.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
C A a s. A . C o y e

A l l e g a n ,   Mich

Thoroughly  renovated,  repaired  and  refu r­
nished  from   kitchen  to  garret. 
It is the inten 
tion of the landlord (who is an old traveling man) 
to make the house a  veritable  home  of  com fort 
and good cheer to the traveling public.

HORSE, W AQON and 

BINDER  COVERS, 

E.  0.  PHILLIPS,

ROCKE« WH3HER CO.. Fi.wayflejnd.
B e l k n a p ,  B a k e r   &   Co.

ii  PEARL  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL.

T erm s  A pplied  to   K id  G loves.

through 

is  stitched 

Pique Kid—A leather of heavy  weight
Pique Sewn—A  method  of  sewing  by 
which one edge of the seam  overlaps the 
other  and 
and 
through,  leaving the upper edge exposed 
to view.  Used  on  heavy-weight  gloves 
of all materials.
Overseam, Outseam-Synonymous terms 
applied to a form of sewing in which the 
two edges of a seam are  placed  together 
and sewn over and over.
Prick Seam—Applied to a mode of sew­
ing by which both  edges  of  a  seam  are 
placed  together  and  sewn  through  and 
through, leaving both edges exposed.
Welt or  Border—The  binding  on  the 
wrist of a glove.
Bandalette—The piece  of  leather that 
binds the opening of a  glove.
Fourchette—The  piece  of  leather  be­
tween the fingers of a glove.
Gusset—The small piece  of  leather  in 
the fourchette between the fingers.
Nervura (known  in  America  as  Paris 
Point)—A  form  of  embroidery, consist­
ing of a single stitched  roll  in  one,  two 
or three rows.
Spear Point—A form of stitching;  also 
known as crow’s foot.
Ridelle—A  stamp  put  on  the leather 
before the glove is sewn,  to  indicate  the 
size of the glove.

W ill  C ause Com m ent.

The advent of some extreme metropoli 
tan  fashion  Into  a  quiet  rural  district 
may give rise to wonder  and comment in 
the simple community  for  months  after­
wards.  Some  of  my  readers  may  pos­
sibly remember a few of  the  expressions 
of curiosity  which  greeted  the  first  ap­
pearance of the russet shoe;  most  of  the 
rural populations are  even  now  holding 
up  their  hands  in  holy  horror  at  the 
“monstrosity” called the razor toe.  Last 
summer  a  coaching  party  from  a large 
city  passed  through  a  certain  country 
village,  several  of  the  gentlemen  being 
attired in duck  trousers,  and  the  latter 
aroused  such  comment  that  the  store­
keeper  doing  business  there  was  kept 
busy for a week  answering  questions  in 
regard  to them.  The  farmers  who  had 
seen them  passing  along  the  road  had 
never seen or heard of such garments be­
fore and could hardly  comprehend  their 
USP-  The  fact  is  that  the rural popula­
tion is generally about a year behind  the 
ultra-fashionables, and a revelation made 
prematurely  comes  upon  them  like  a 
thunder clap.

G e n e r a l   S t o r e k e e p e r .

Light  D elivery  and  Order  Wagon•

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

“LEADER”

E st a b l ish e d   1865.

I  BUGGIES,  SLEIGHS  8  WAGONS

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICHIGAN.

M ust K now  His P a tro n s’ R equirem ents.
The general merchant should  be as en­
ergetic  and  painstaking  in  building up 
his trade as any young lawyer  or  doctor 
in establishing a practice.  He should be 
as particular about  knowing  every  per­
son 
in  the  community  as  a  politician 
usually is just before election; he  should 
endeavor to learn each  person’s  require­
ments  for  their  different  occupations, 
and, as far as  possible,  their  individual 
tastes. 
In  this  way  he  will  be able to 
perceive  almost  immediately  the  style 
which a customer wishes and  thus  guide 
him insensibly into using  reliable  goods 
without  seeming  to  act  in  an  officious 
manner,  and  the  customer,  finding  the 
article  an  exceptionally  good  one,  will 
give the merchant credit for it and  come 
again; while, if the merchant sold him an 
article  at  a low price and  it  eventually 
proved  to  be  a  shoddy  one,  he  would 
patronize no one who kept  that  class  of 
goods.

Good  Feelings Toward  Employes.
One thing which  is very  unpleasant to 
a person on entering a store  is  to  find  a 
wrangle  in  progress  between  the  pro­
prietor and an employe, or strained rela­
tions of any kind. 
If  you  have  an  em­
ploye  who  is  incapable  or  indifferent,' 
dismiss him;  if he is a good  one,  watch­
ful  of  your interests,  keep him if possi- 
ble, even if it is necessary to humor  him 
a little;  but never keep  an  employe  who 
presumes on his position and thinks him­
self a necessity to yon.  In any event, do 
not  quarrel  with  him  all  the  time—a 
half dozen words  on Saturday night will 
be sufficient.

T r a c tio n  E n g in es

“LEADER”

SEPARATORS.

¿ i f  
ON  HONOR,"  and  SOLD  ON
THF.IR  MERI IS.  First  class  threshermen  always 
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Catalogue.
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Portable  Engines,  Sawmills.  Picket  Mills,  Clover 
Hu Hers,  Corn  Huskers,  Hay  Balers,  Feed  Cutters, 
Feed Mills,  Horse Powers,  etc.
The Goods, Prices and Terms ARE  RIGHT.  Cor­

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AND  A  LULL  LINE  OF  SMALL  IHPLEHENTS  AND  REPAIRS.

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S ta r  Islan d   Meetings  o f  th e   B oard  of 

P h arm acy .

Applications 

Owosso, June  12—A  meeting  of  the 
Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  the 
purpose of examining candidates for reg­
istration will be held at  the  Star  Island 
House,  St.  Clair  Flats.  June 24 and 25, 
1895.
The  examination  of  candidates  for 
both registered pharmacists and assistant 
pharmacists  will  commence  Monday, 
June 24, at 8  p.  m.,  at  which  hour  all 
candidates must be present.  The  exam­
ination will  occupy  the  evening  of  the 
84th  and  the  morning,  afternoon  and 
evening of the  25th.
Candidates must file their  applications 
with  the  Secretary  and  must  furnish 
affidavits showing that they have had the 
practical or college  experience  required 
before taking the examination.
for  examination  and 
blank forms for affidavits for practical or 
college experience may  be obtained from 
the Secretary.
The writing, grammar and spelling,  as 
shown  in the candidate’s  paper,  will  be 
taken into consideration  in marking per­
centages.  This  step  is  taken  in  com­
pliance with a resolution  passed  by  the 
Michigan State  Pharmaceutical  Associa­
tion.
A  special  rate  of  $1.50  per  day  has 
been  secured  for  the  candidates  at the 
Star  Island  House,  which  is  good  for 
such time as they may desire  to  remain, 
either  before  or  after  the  examination 
days.
Other examinations will  be  held  dur­
ing the year as follows:
Sault Ste.  Marie, August or September
Lansing, November  5 and 6.
S t a n l e y   E.  P a k k i l l ,  Sec’y.

An  E x te n d ed   G eneral K now ledge Req 

u laite.

D e t r o i t ,  June 9—Although  it  is  the 
outspoken opinion of many  persons, and 
often seems  verified  by  experience,  that 
a merchant to be a successful one should 
know as nearly nothing as possible as re 
gards  everything  else  except  his  bust 
ness,  and  should  know  the  latter per 
fectly,  yet  1  must  confess that 1 do not 
believe  anything  of  the  kind.  Knowl 
edge gives  him  courage  and  confidence 
and enables him to “rise to the occasion 
and grasp  opportunities  which  the  man 
buried behind  his  counter  would  never 
hear of. 
It is not so  much  book  know! 
edge, or even the knowledge professed to 
be  acquired  at  the  so-called  “business 
colleges,’’ where a boy wades through sev 
eral kinds of book-keeping  and  emerges 
a practical  business  man,  but  it  is  the 
knowledge necessary for men in all  pur­
suits iS which  they  deal  with  their  fel 
low-men,  and it comes  from  observation 
alone. 
It is the knowledge  of  men  and 
things, and no other is so valuable.  Tbe 
merchant should have  only  one  end 
view,  his succsss  in  his  business  being 
his sole aim,  but he should never neglect 
a favorable opportunity to hasten it,  and 
should make capital of all the knowledge 
which  he  possesses  in  the  work.  He 
should collect the thoughts of other  men 
and,  after  rejecting  that  which  is  poor 
and  unsuited  to  his  purpose,  the  rest 
should be forged in the workshop  of  his 
mind into a  grand  and  irresistible  force 
for  his  advancement  and  ultimate  tri­
umph. 

R a d i x .

Tbe  T oothpick  In d u stry .

Insignificant  articles  like  the  tooth­
pick  represent  the  investment  of  mil­
lions  of  capital, 
the  employment  of 
skilled labor,  utilization of the  latest in­
ventions,  the consumption of  vast  quan­
tities  of  wood,  and  the  operation  of  a 
long  line  of  complex  activities.  These 
small articles  play an important  part  in 
the  economies  of  all  civilized  nations. 
To stop  at once the manufacture of  toys 
and  all  not  really  needful  articles  in 
these nations  would be to put a stop  to a 
large  part  of  the  working  producing 
forces  that constitute  the  origin  of  civ­
ilization.  Some  European  nations  live 
mainly  by their work on articles that are 
really  only  mere  toys  and  playthings. 
In the United States we are  rapidly add­
ing  to  our  productions  all  the  wares 
that  find  favor  abroad,  while  we  have 
originated  scores  of  novelties  in  the 
amusement line  that are  being  sold  and

A . 

B rew ery  Profits.

The  Legislature  of  Pennsylvania  has 
passed  an act  taxing  beer  24  cents  per 
barrel.  In discussing this measure,  Rep­
resentative  Bliss  said:  “One  bushel  of 
grain  will  produce 
four  gallons  of 
whisky,  while the same amount  of  grain 
will produce eighty gallons of beer.  The 
actual  cost  of  a  barrel  of  beer  to  the 
brewer is  but  81,  while  it  is  sold  any­
where  from  $6  to  $9  per  barrel.  The 
proposition 
for  a  24-cent  tax  would 
amount  to  1  cent  on  twenty  glasses, 
which  he  held  not  to  be  a  hardship. 
The  drinker  would pay the tax.  Every­
body knew that neither  the  brewer  nor 
the  seller  would  pay  it. 
If  the  seller 
adds a fraction of froth to  each  glass  of 
beer the  drinker  will  pay  the  tax. 
In 
other  words,  the  trade  can  get the tax 
back in the shape of froth.  There  is  no 
question but that the consumer  will  pay 
the tax,  and that is tbe  reason  why  the 
brewers are making no  opposition to  the 
bill.  This is a tax on a  luxury, one of  a 
class of articles in  which  there  are  inor­
dinate profits,  and which can easily  bear 
a tax.  The tax is a step  in  the  direction 
of reform in the State’s  scheme  of  taxa­
tion.”

H ow  To P u t on R u b b ers P roperly.
T o l e d o ,  June  9—Get  good  rubbers, 
and they will give you the worth  of your 
money in wear,  providing that you  know 
how to put them on.  Some  people  take 
a rubber by the rear upper  and  pull  un­
til it is in place.  That is  no  way  to  do. 
A  rubber  should  be  treated  almost  as 
carefully as a glove.  The toe  should  be 
well worked onto the foot,  ahd  then  the 
heel.  Both hands should be used.  Take 
hold of each side of the rubber instead of 
at  the  heel.  Then  be  sure  to work  the 
heel on well.  If these rules werecarefully 
followed there would not  be  one-half  of 
the  complaining  done  in  regard  to  he 
short life of rubbers.  A poor rubber can­
not  be expected to wear,  but a good  rub 
ber will  wear if it is handled  properly.
S a l e s m a n .

Some  Causes  of  Failure.

A  disregard  for  the  interests  of  the 
public.
A mistake in the location and  class  of 
trade.
Extending large lines of credit on long 
time.
Not sufficient nerve to cope with every­
day difficulties.
Competing on prices  below a safe mar­
gin of profit.
Lack of good judgment in properly as­
sorting purchases.
Purchasing  too 
large  quantities  of 
goods on limited capital.
Depreciation of values due to goods be­
ing carried too long in stock.

A  Country Editor’s Sense.

The editor of a  little  newspaper  may 
not be a money  maker,  but  be  bad  the 
sense of dollars in him when be wrote:
Money and  brains,  a rare combination, 
often fail to unlock the door  of  success. 
Money  can  buy  the  goods  which  the 
brains selected,  but  it  takes  something 
more  than  either to build  up a business 
and gain a reliable foothold in the world. 
Often  the  most  brilliant  minds  are  an­
chored to an impatient disposition  which 
cannot brook delay.  The  intellect  may 
involve  a  scheme  to increase trade,  but 
if the body  is  unwilling  to  bestow  the 
tedious  labor necessary  to  carry  out  the 
project it is all wasted.

George  W.  Vanderbilt,  has  already 
pent  84,001),000  on  his  estate  in  tbe 
mountains near Asheville,  N.  C ,  and  it 
will cost 82,000,000  more  to carry out  his 
plans for the improvement  of  the  place.
“The  horse  is  a very  useful animal,” 
wrote Johnny  in  his  composition,  “but 
if I can’t have my  sossiges  made  out  of 
pig’s meet, I don’t want no sossiges.”

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

VHR  MICHIGAN-  TRADESMAN.
imitated abroad.  There is  in  humanity 1 
a chord  that  responds  to  the  touch  of 
frivolity and that chord has  enabled  the | 
inventors of ingenious  nothings  to  coin 
fortunes out of their trifles.

. 

Fireworks We havre a  complete 
line of the best goods 
made,  besides  many
Novelties which sell themselves, and  which no other house has.
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IS  A  NEW  AND  VALUABLE  inPROVED

f  Spikier in   siller  or Dosier

(P atented 1886. 

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'
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it  th e  Cheapest  and  Most  Convenient 
Sprinkler for all purposes—In door 
u t—and a  practical device indispens- 
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For  Dusting.

Acme Plaster Sifter

FOR  POTATOES  AND  OTHER  VINES.

EIGHT  TO  TEN  ACRES  COVERED  PER  DAY.

To  Operate  the  Sifter.

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How  a  Rubber  Salesman  Secured 

Wife  and  a Partnership.

“You  remember  I  said  Tom  was 

Bussell Gardner In th e Honey Saver.
“Thanks,  old  man,  I  do smoke occa 
sionally.  So trade has  been fair,  has it? 
Glad to hear it,  for  the  majority  of  the 
boys  have  found  it  hard  sledding  this 
season.
“ You’ve  one  mighty  big  thing 
your favor.  You’re  following as good 
man as ever showed a line of samples.
“You didn’t know Tom  Williams,  eh? 
He  was  a corker.  The  road lost a good 
one when he quit, but  Tom  fell  into  as 
good a thing  as  a  man  can  ask  for  on 
this earth.
“He’s crossing his legs under  his  own 
table now;  got as  pretty  a  little  ‘trick1 
for a wife as you ever saw, and is taking 
life in an easy, quiet way.
“ What!  you  don’t  mean  to  say  you 
never heard of the clean sweep he made? 
Well!  I’ll trouble you for a light, as I’ve 
lost the fire on the  weed.  Thanks;  now 
she’s a-going  again.
dandy salesman.  Honor  to whom honor
is  due.  The  --------  Rubber  Company
never  did  do  much  in  this  section till
Tom came down here for them.
"He  is  one  of  those chaps that every 
mother’s son and  daughter,  particularly 
the  tender  side  of  the  house, couldn1 
help getting sort of ‘stuck’ on.
“Not  a  remarkably  handsome  boy 
either;  never  would  take  a  prize  in 
beauty show,  but he has the  most  amia 
ble disposition and agreeable manners of 
any man I ever met.
“This is my  nineteenth year as a com 
mercial ambassador,  and 1 ought to know 
a thing or two by this time.
“I’m handling ladies’ shoes, you know 
so, of course, we used to  run across each 
other a good bit.
“He had what they call  ‘personal mag 
netism’  in big lots,  and a plenty  of  it  to 
‘job’ if necessary.
“Good dresser, fine talker, fair  looker, 
and square as a  die.
“That’s  Tom  Williams,  and  ‘no  dis 
eount for cash.’
“Before he got to  hustling  ‘gums,’  he 
was an actor,  and I’m  told  he  was  good 
at it,  too.
“Left the ‘biz’ because he knew the fu 
ture wasn’t big in it.
“You  know  lots  of  drummers  never 
seem to get in socially  with  their  trade, 
Now,  Tom  did,  and  his  actor  business 
stood him in  big  stead,  for  many’s  the 
time he’d do a ‘turn,’ as he called  it,  for 
some church charity or  parlor  entertain 
ment,  and  this  made  him  a  heap  of 
friends.
“There’s  a  queer  old  duck  down  in
Y-----  that Tom sold a heap of truck  to,
and he thought Tom was the  only  drum­
mer on earth.
“The old sardine was  as  short  as  pie­
crust  to  the  balance  of  the fraternity, 
but to Tom—well, he always gave  him  a 
good bill, and that is eulogy enough.
“The  old  chap  had  a  slashing  busi­
ness;  was  good  as  wheat,  and  bad  a 
pretty daughter as well, so, of  course, all 
the  boys  made  him  a  call and tried to 
work him.
“No  go;  Tom  had  him  solid.  That 
daughter of his was as pretty and  cute  a 
little bunch of femininity as you’d see  in 
a season’s travel.
“Plump  as  a  partridge,  with a figure 
that ‘Old Corsets’ used  to  say  ‘beat  any 
display dummy ever gotten up,’ and from 
a crusty old chap like him, who had dealt 
in articles for the human form divine for 
fifteen years,  that  was  proof  positive-  it 
was all right.
“Her hair was dark chestnut,  and  had 
a  saucy  way  of  curling  ’round  her 
pretty dimpled face that  made  the  boys 
willing  to  throw  up  their  job  and  ex­
change  places  with  one  of  those  way­
ward curls  that  kissed  her  white  fore­
head.
I  always  get  sort 
of  sentimental  when  I get to talking of 
Fannie  Richards,  so  I’ll  quit by saying 
she was as sweet and pretty  as  she  was 
good and true.
“Tom  never  went  to Y-----but what
he made  it  for  a  Sunday,  and  the  old 
man had him up to the house for  dinner. 
“That  little  witch  of  a daughter was

“Eyes!  Well, 

soft  brown  eyes 

I’m not  a  musician  by  nature, but 

always down to ‘dad’s  store’  when  Tom I 
and his trunks struck  town, and the  first | 
greeting  he  got  was  from  a pair of de­
mure 
that  nearly j 
knocked all the business out of him.
“I’m spinning this  out  altogether  too j 
long.
“They were getting up some sort of an I 
amateur theatrical show,  for  some  sick | 
man’s benefit, and  Fannie  was  going  to 
play one of the leading parts.
“Tom got around just after  the  thing 
was started,  and,  as she knew  he  was  atI 
one time a professional actor,  she  asked [ 
him to coach them for a rehearsal or two.
“He not only did this, but  he  made  it I 
so he could be there on the night  of  the | 
performance.
“The hall, or opera  house, rather, was 
right  up  over  old  man Richards’ store 
and he owned the whole outfit.
“I happened to be in town  that  night 
and Tom and I went up together,  and sat 
well down in front.
“The hall was jammed, even had chairs 
placed in the aisles.
“There  was  a  little  balcony  at  the 
back,  and that was chock-a-block, too.
The  hall  was  a  dingy  old  affair 
lighted  by  a  chandelier  with  about  a 
dozen or fifteen kerosene  lamps,  and the 
footlights  were  lamps  also.  They  bad 
the town orchestra on deck,  and it got in 
its work on an opening overture.
can  tell  when  a tune is off color.  That 
outfit of so-called  musicians was  enough 
to  drive  a  man  to  do  violence,  and no 
sane  jury  on  the  face  of  God’s  green 
earth but  what  would  acquit  the  man 
under a verdict of justifiable homicide.
“Up went the  curtain,  and  the  show 
was on.
“Pretty fair, too.  You could see Tom 
had done them a heap of good.
“Fannie looked fine  in  a  simple white 
dress and ad)ewitching poke bonnet.
“Tom never saw a thing  in  the  world 
but  that  dimpled,  smiling  face,  tucked 
away in its frame of white.
“She was looking at him, and for once 
dried up ‘old bach’  as I am,  I envied the 
man at my side,  and  felt  like  annihilat­
ing  him,  jumping  over  the  footlights 
snatching  up  that  bunch  of sweetness, 
and  carrying  her  away  where  nobody 
but myself could see her.
“ Yes, my boy, I was like a good  many 
more ‘knights of the grip.’
“I was one  of  Fannie’s  admirers,  but 
she  didn’t  know  it,  and  would  only 
have pitied the gray-headed  old  fool,  if 
she had.
“1 heard a soft  sigh from Tom once or 
twice, and I knew  he  was  a  gone  man, 
while the look  Fannie  gave him told me 
plainly enough that the rest of  the  boys 
stood  not  a  ghost  of  a  show  with the 
gums’ salesman.
“She  came  down  to  the  front of the 
stage to sing a song.
“Bang !  bang!  saw !  saw !  screech ! 
screech ! fiddle! fiddle! went that  farmer 
orchestra.
“They were playing  the  introduction, 
but,  bless  you,  man,  it  was  more as if 
they were ushering in his royal highness, 
the  devil,  than  a  demure  little  half- 
frightened  angel  in  a  white  dress  and 
poke bonnet.
“She  had  sung  a  line  or two when I 
noticed,  back  up  the  stage,  a little curl 
of smoke.
“I was about to call Tom’s attention to 
when some infernal  idiot  in  the  gal­
lery, yelled  ‘Fire !  fire!’
“My God! man,  I’ll never  forget  what 
followed.
“Such a demoniacal screeching, such a 
wild pandemonium, I  never  saw  before, 
and never want to see again.
the  population  in  Hades  is  on 
that  order,  you’ll  excuse  me,  and  I’ll 
turn over a new leaf at once.
“Tom had been in sort of a dream,  but 
he pulled himself together, and, jumping 
to the  stage,  he  stood  beside  the  trem­
bling little girl  whose  white  dazed face 
was turned so beseechingly to his.
“He didn’t seem to see her, but,  facing 
that wild crowd,  he  sang  out  firm  and 
clear,  not  a  tremor  in  his  magnificent 
voice:
“ ‘Stop ! The first man  or woman  who 
makes a move for the door  I’m  going  to 
shoot, and I’ll shoot to kill.’
“Then I noticed he’d  drawn  his  gun,

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TECH  M IC H IG A N "  T R A D E S M A N
No  D an g er  from   C hinese  C om petition.
Written f o r  T a n  T r a d e s m a n.
The  probable  result of  the  victory  of 
Japan in forcing the light  of  civilization 
and  advancement  in  modern  manufac­
tures  upon  China  has  brought  forth  a 
large amount of conjecture and some dis­
may as to the starvation  wages on which 
the Chinese workman can exist.

and bad it leveled on the people In front.
“I tell you,  boy, he made a  grand  pic­
ture, standing there.  He  looked as calm 
as if he were merely  quoting  prices,  in­
stead  of  facing  a  crowd  of maddened, 
frightened beings and standing back to a 
lot of blazing scenery.
“The  fire  had  gained  quite  a  little 
headway by this time.
“ He called to me:
“ ‘Bill,  look out for Miss Richards.’ 
“Then,  facing  the  people  again,  he 
said:
“ ‘If there’s  a half dozen men here, up 
with  you  on  the  stage,  and  tear down 
this burning stuff.’
“ The volunteers were quickly at work. 
“Again  Tom’s  voice  rose  clear  and 
full:
“ ‘Those in the gallery file out quickly. 
No rushing, for the first  one that breaks 
I’ll  attend  to,’  and  up  went  that  gun 
again.
“I  was  working  at  the  blaze,  but  I 
looked up as I heard him  call:
“ ‘Now the  women  on  the  floor first. 
Move  quickly,  but  do  not  rush.  Mr. 
Richards, I  make  no  distinctions;  keep 
your place.’
“Tom now  for  the  first  time  noticed 
the  poor  devils  in  the  orchestra,  and, 
bending down, he said to the leader  in  a 
low voice:
“ ‘Make your men play; play the “Star 
Spangled Banner.” ’
“God  bless 
that  orchestra.  They 
played,  and that  music  sounded  mighty 
sweet just then.
“By  this  time  the  fire  had forced  us 
nearly to Tom’s side;  but he  stood there, 
not a muscle moving,  only his face a lit­
tle pale,  and a fire in  his eye 1 never saw 
before or  since.
“Now  the  hall  is  clear,  and Tom or­
ders the orchestra out,  and,  putting  the 
gun in his pocket,  he  turns  to  fight  the 
fire,  when  the  curtain  barrel, its ropes 
burned away,  falls  with a crash, striking 
him a glancing blow  that  drops  him  to 
the floor as if be were killed.
“We picked him  up  and  hurried  him 
to the street.  The  crowd saw us coming 
and  set  up  a  rousing  cheer, but  when 
they saw the senseless form in  our  arms 
all were hushed and awe-stricken.  Only 
the shiver  of  suppressed  alarm  ran  its 
round.  A little white figure  rushed  up, 
and, throwing itself beside  the  prostrate 
form of poor Tom,  sobbed:
‘“ Tom,  Tom,  look  at  me. 
It’s Fan; 
don’t you know me?’
“Boy, 1 cried with joy as I saw his eyes 
open; a smile played  over  his  face,  and 
he murmured low:
“ ‘Know  you?  Yes,  dear, I -----,’ and
be  fainted  away  in  a  pair  of  clinging 
soft  arms,  while  a  sweet  anxious  face 
peered into his, and pitying, love-lit eyes 
dropped  their  dewy  benediction  on  his 
ghastly face.
“Tom was carried to old man Richards’ 
home, and you can bet your pile  no  man 
ever had better care than he had.
“One  arm  and  leg  was  broken,  but 
Fannie  and  her  gentle  nursing  pulled 
him through all right.
“ Well! you’ve got his job on  the  road, 
but Tom’s got a share  in  the  old  man’s ( 
business,  a  good,  true,  loving  wife,  a 
cozy  home,  and  he  wouldn’t  change 
places  with  Chauncey  Depew,  Grover
Cleveland,  or  the  president  of  the-----
Rubber Company.
“ Hanged if this cigar isn’t out again.’’

Good  M oney  in  a   B ad  Dog.
A  Pennsylvania  story  comes 

from 
Pottsville concerning one John  Sheehan, 
who  is  wondering  how  he is to recover 
his hard-earned wages.  He was paid $11 
in  paper  money,  and,  taking  it  home, 
placed it on the  cupboard  for  his  wife. 
John has a dog and a little son.  The boy 
took the money  off the cupboard  to  play 
with it, and the dog wanted also to enjoy 
the  sport.  He  made  a  grab  for  the 
money, pulled it  out  of  the  boy’s  hand 
and  chewed it up.  Sheehan was frantic 
when he  learned  of  his  loss.  He  took 
the  dog  out  on  the  hill  and  shot  him. 
Then he dissected the canine,  but  found 
only one corner of a $1 bill.

A New  Jersey  farmer  proposes  to  go 
into the business of raising snails for the 
market  and  thinks  he  sees  a  fortune 
in it.

In  some  instances,  these  pessimistic 
views have amounted  to  positive  fright 
among  certain  classes, both  on the  part 
of  operators  and  their  workmen.  The 
idea has obtained  prominence  that  open 
Chinese competition,  with modern  appli­
ances, directed by the intelligent  leader­
ship of a few  skilled American and  Eng­
lish  mechanics,  will  immediately  and 
lastingly result in the complete  demoral­
ization and  ruin  of  American  products 
and producers.

The argument,  at  a  casual  glance,  i9 
sound and,  apparently,  warrants this un­
easiness. 
It  is  this:  Large  Chinese 
families of the  present  day  can  and  do 
exist on an  amount  which  will  scarcely 
suffice  for  even  a  child  living  in  the 
United States.  How, then, can the Ameri­
can  producer  hope  to  compete  with 
such odds in favor of the celestial?

It is history  of  all  time  that  greater 
civilization  means  greater  needs  and 
greater  luxuries  among  the  nations  so 
advancing,  as well as broader views  and 
more liberal education as to the demands 
of life.  This  is  true  of  all  degrees  of 
civilization.  The natural and necessary 
result of this  advancing  condition  is  to 
create a greater desire  for  those  articles 
which were before deemed  impossible or 
superfluous.

How does this affect the  wage  earner? 
In America, during the past quarter of  a 
century,  we have  received a large  acces­
sion to our population through the immi­
gration of the  poorest  and least civilized 
classes of European countries.  They have 
invaded our coal and iron mines, our pub­
lic works and all departments of rougher 
grades  of  labor  in  factories, primarily, 
at a largely  reduced  scale  of  earnings. 
As  American  ideas  have  become incul­
cated, this rough element  has,  in  a  cer­
tain  sense,  become  recreated.  Those 
things  which were deemed  luxuries  now 
assume  the  proportion  of  necessities, 
and a demand  arises  in  their  lives  for 
better  food,  better clothes, better furni­
ture.  The wages which sufficed for their 
wants  previous  to  their  insight  into 
American  life  becomes  at once entirely 
inadequate to supply  all  these increased 
demands  upon  them,  with  the  result 
that  by  far  the  larger  proportion  of 
strikers for higher wages in this country 
to-day is among the very men  who  were 
willing to supplant American wage-earn­
ers a few  years  or  months  ago  at  less 
than  half  rates.

History  repeats  itself,  and  what  has 
been true of other  countries  will  be  as 
surely manifested in this case.  The Chi­
nese as a nation  have  similar  character­
istics  and  elements  for  development to 
those possessed by the Japanese, although 
dwarfed  and  degraded  by  centuries  of 
superstition  and  despotism.  Once  the 
light of freedom and independence pours 
its redeeming  rays  upon  the  benighted 
empire,  the few  “cash” necessary  to  the 
existence  of  its 
individuals  become  a 
drop  in  the  bucket,  as  compared with 
their increased needs and  the  remunera­
tion they  will  finally  receive  for  their 
labor. 

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and m anufacturing specialties.  For such  work, the 
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houses w hich  attem pt  to  build  up a reputation 
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Mankind—that is, civilized  mankind— 
has been slow in learning  that  the  most 
effective remedial  agent for  many of the 
ordinary ills of this life is exercise.  The 
list of diseases for which  this  remedy  is 
a specific  may  not  comprise  the  major 
nnmber  of  those  in  vogue,  but  it  un­
doubtedly comprises the  diseases  afflict­
ing the vast majority  of the sick ones  of 
the most civilized countries.  The  situa­
tion in  other  countries  may  be  as  bad 
but  it  is  not  of  so  immediate  interest 
to us.

That  this  remedy  has been so long in 
obtaining recognition,  if  it  can  be  said 
that it has finally done so, is perhaps not 
so very strange.  The  class  of  ailments 
referred to  is  comparatively  modern  in 
this country.  At an earlier day  the  ne 
cessity for exercise in  the  avocations  of 
life was vastly greater and our ancestors 
were apt to  look  upon  “rest”  as  some 
thing greatly to be desired.  Some  of  us 
may have inherited  this  tendency.  The 
gradual advance of  less  laborious  ways 
of doing things—the watching of the au 
tomatic machine so  speedily  turning out 
the work our fathers did  by  hand,  with 
the  increase  in  other sedentary employ­
ments consequent on advancing  civiliza 
tion,  have changed the  conditions of life 
so gradually that we do  not  realize  that 
laziness  is  at the root of most of our ail- 
ings.  Then, again, our medical counsel­
ors,  honest and unselfish as  the average, 
no doubt,  have not had  as  great  induce­
ments to  advocate  this  remedy  as  they 
would  have  to  advocate  some  remedy 
for which they could realize more specific 
returns.

Thus we have gradually become  a  na­
tion  of  dull,  headachy  dyspeptics,  and 
the fact is beginning,  to some  extent,  to 
dawn upon us.  This  awakening  is  due 
to the increase of  education  and  intelli­
gence,  and to the  general observation  of 
the effects of regular  exercise.  Perhaps 
there  is  nothing  that  has  conduced  to 
this  latter  more  than  the  use  of  the 
wheel.

There has been much  preaching on the 
subject of exercise,  so much that  it  may 
be said  that we  are  “gospel  hardened” 
by it,  as many are by some other kinds of 
preaching,  and all sorts  of  exercise  and 
apparatus  for exercise  have  been  pre­
scribed,  from  walking  to  gymnastics, 
and these have done some  good;  but  the 
number of those who  could  make  them 
effective  is  comparatively  small,  and 
most of the  exercise  has  been  of  a  la­
borious character that  becomes  distaste­
ful and a drudgery.  Walking is too slow 
and wearisome  or,  if rapid,  too  exhaus 
tive.  Horseback  riding  is  not  practi­
cable for many, and is  too irregular  and 
unreliable.  The Indian club  and dumb­
bell  are  soon  irksome.  Any  exercise 
that  must  be  pursued  as  a  task  is  of 
comparatively little value.

It was reserved for  the wheel  to  sup­
ply the perfect  mode  of  exercise.  The 
rapid transportation from place to  place 
gives an object for  the  exertion  and  ac­
companies it by  a  pleasing  change  and 
variety. 
It induces  the  fullest  inspira­
tions of  pure  air,  which  cannot  be  en­
joyed  in  indoor  calisthenic  or gymnas­
tic 
It  gives  opportunity 
for just as much or  just  as  little  phys­
ical exertion as may be  required,  though 
this fact is contrary to the ideas of many 
on that subject.  But every  experienced 
wheelman  will  bear  out  the  statement

exercises. 

that  a  wheel  may  be  ridden  slowly, 
though at a rate  twice as fast  as a walk, 
with scarcely perceptible exertion.

The value of the  wheel  in  this  direc­
tion is rapidly  becoming  realized.  The 
senseless prejudice against  it  as  too  se­
vere  for  the  semi-invalid  is  being  dis­
carded. 
Its use is being  adopted  by  all 
classes  and  all  ages.  Many  a  gray- 
haired  father  or  mother  may  be  seen 
spinning as lightly and rapidly along our 
streets  as  their  younger  competitors. 
And to how many of such has  the  wheel 
opened  new  possibilities  of  enjoyment 
and healthful exhilaration.

Many fail in making this means of  ex­
ercise available on  account  of  their  in­
discreet  intemperance  in  its  use.  As 
soon as they can ride straight  enough  to 
keep  in  a  roadway  they  must  needs 
“scorch,”  or  before  they  have  become 
accustomed to its  use  they  must  try  to 
see how great a record of miles  they  can 
make  in  a  day. 
It  is  not strange that 
such find the wheel too severe or  acquire 
a distaste for it.

The  person  who  cannot  learn to ride 
the wheel or profit by  its  use  is  indeed 
an invalid.  But,  where one is not strong 
and  is  unaccustomed  to  any  exercise, 
great care should  be  taken  in  learning, 
and,  when  that  is  accomplished  to  the 
extent of riding  without  falling  off,  the 
rides  taken  should  be  short  and  at  as 
slow a rate as  possible,  until  riding  be­
comes so easy that the speed and distance 
may  be  greatly  increased  without  dan­
ger.  The wheel is  rescuing  many  such 
from hopeless invalidism.

To the vast army of those  who  are  ac­
counted well but who  are,  nevertheless, 
ailing  with  headaches,  loss of appetite, 
occasional  neuralgic  or  rheumatic  at­
tacks, or are so weak  they  are  “all  out 
of breath” on ascending  stairs or taking 
a rapid walk, the wheel is  becoming  the 
means of rescue to new life.  “I eat like 
a boy.”  A boy eats because he takes ex 
ercise.  “1 feel like a  new  man.” 
It  is 
all exercise, aud the wheel is of value be 
cause it affords it.

The unprecedented demand for wheels 
this year is  occasioned  by  the  fact  that 
people  begin  to  realize  their  value  in 
this direction, and this fact will continue 
the demand for a long time to come.

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The salesman  who perseveres in  doing 
‘the  right  thing”  is  sure  to get there. 
The road to success is the same as  it  al­
ways  was. 
Intelligence,  industry  and 
honesty always lead to  prosperity.  The 
merchant  for  whom  the  salesman  is 
working may be a veritable Shylock,  but 
he is too wise not to appreciate and prop­
erly reward the man, if the  latter  is  in­
telligent,  industrious and honest. 
If the 
salesman  takes  an  interest  in  his  em­
ployer’s business,  works for  the  success 
of the store as though  it  were  his  own, 
and draws trade to it,  and is able to  sell 
goods,  his  employer  must  be  either  a 
fool  or  a  knave  if  the  employe  is not 
properly compensated.  If sucn a worker 
is not appreciated in the  store  where  he 
is engaged, there are hundreds of other es­
tablishments that would be only too glad 
to receive him and give him freely all that 
he is worth.  Expert salesmen are not to 
be obtained as easily  as an errand-boy is 
procured.  They are rare,  and  the  mer­
chants  who  have  them  appreciate  and 
reward  them  accordingly.  They  com­
mand liberal salaries,  and  possess  priv­
ileges that ordinary salesmen are not en­
titled to. 
In fact, in  many  large  retail 
stores  wide-awake  salesmen  earn  more 
money every week than if they went into 
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Clippers  run  hard.  They  held  a  handicap 
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to M ichigan's  crack  racing  m en;  but when 
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Po find th a t  only  tw o  Clippers  w ere  ridden 
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Franklin  E.  Bushman  was  born  at 
Tekonsha,  March  6,  1862,  of  poor  but 
honest parents,  who  died  when  he  was 
2 years of age.  He then  lived in  various 
families  in  the  neighborhood  until  he 
was 5 years of age,  when  he  was  taken 
by a farmer near Burlington,  with  whom 
he  remained  five  years.  During  the 
next ten years he worked around  by  the 
day and month,  acquiring  the  rudiments 
of  a  common  school  education  by  oc­
casional  short  attendance  at  country 
schools during the winter months.  When 
20 years of age,  he entered the employ of 
a blacksmith at Burlington  as an appren­
the  trade,  when  he 
tice  and 
found  he  was  too  tall 
to  pursue  the 
blacksmith’s  calling.  He  then  worked 
two  years  in  a  gristmill,  but was com­
pelled to abandon the  business  on  sani­
tary grounds.  He  then  resumed the oc­
cupation of a farmer,  subsequently  rent­
ing  a  farm  near  Burlington,  which he 
conducted on shares for two years, at the 
end of which time an inventory disclosed 
the fact that be had nothing to  show  for 
his two years’  work,  whereupon  he  got 
out auction bills and disposed of  all  the 
stock and personal  property he had man­
aged to acquire.

learned 

to  abandon 

Realizing  that  ordinary  agriculture 
brought too meager returns to satisfy his 
ambition,  he  decided 
the 
farm,  and in  the fall of 1889 embarked in 
the manufacture of cigars at Burlington, 
under the style  of  F.  E.  Bushman.  At 
first he had  but one employe, but he kept 
adding to his  force  until  he  had  eight 
people  on  his  payroll.  The  following 
spring he removed his factory to Athens, 
where be remained  one  summer,  selling 
out in the fall to W. J. Francisco, when he 
removed to Homer, where he opened a fac­
tory, subsequently taking a partner in the 
person of W.  L.  Bibbins,  after which the 
firm name became Bushman and Bibbins. 
By  March  1,  1892,  the  working  force 
had  been  increased  to  fifteen  persons, 
when  exceptional 
inducements  were 
held out by the business men  of  Benton 
Harbor for the  removal  of  the  business 
to that place.  Previous to this time,  the 
factory bad been an open  shop—that  is, 
employed  non-union  as  well  as  union 
men—but, on the  change  of  location,  it 
was  thought  desirable 
to  conduct  a 
strictly union  shop,  in  consequence  of 
which the union  improved  the  opportu­
nity to raise the  scale  from  $1.50  to  $3 
per  thousand  more  than  had 
ruled 
at Homer.  Two months later,  and with­
out any motive,  the  union  again  raised 
the scale from  $1.50  to  $3 per thousand, 
when Mr.  Bushman  saw  that  it  would 
not be possible for his  firm  to  manufac­
ture its  established  brands  at  a  profit, 
without 
lowering  the  quality  of  the 
stock,  and he thereupon  sold  out  to  his 
partner,  taking a position on the road for 
the tea and cigar house  or J.  T.  Quin  & 
Co., of Chicago.

In February,  1892, he secured a coveted 
position with Edw.  W.  Ruhe,  the  well- 
known  cigar  jobber,  of  Chicago,  with 
whom he has since been  identified.  His 
territory covers the entire State of Mich­
igan and he endeavors  to  see  his  trade 
with  absolute  regularity  every  sixty 
days.  He resides at Kalamazoo,  to which 
place he removed  a  couple of years ago, 
where he is favorably known  by  a  wide 
circle of acquaintances.

FRANKLIN  E.  BUSHMAN,  WIFE  AND  SON

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   confidently  predicts 
that he will be at the  head  of  a  jobbing 
house  of no mean  pretension  before  an­
other ten years shall have rolled  around.

A nnual Meeting: of th e  Ja c k so n  O rocere.
J a c k s o n ,  June  6—The  annual  meet­
ing of the Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation was held at the office  of  the  As­
sociation June  6,  President  Haefner  in 
the chair.
Bills  for  current  expenses  were  re­
ceived and referred to the Auditing Com­
mittee.
The Secretary and Treasurer submitted 
reports of their respective  offices,  which 
were referred to the Auditing Committee.
The election of officers for the  ensuing 
year resulted as follows:
President—Byron C.  Hill.
First Vice-President—E. W. Swick.
Second Vice-President—Geo. E. Lewis.
Secretary—W.  H. Porter.
Treasurer—J.  F. Helmer.
Trustee—L.  Pelton.
On motion,  a committee  of  three  was 
appointed  to  consider  time,  place  and 
conditions for holding the  annual  excur­
sion and picnic of the Association.
On motion, the  meeting  adjourned  to 
June 30. 

W.  H.  P orter,  Sec’y.

Use Tradesman Coupon  Books.

was announced on Monday  last,  but  the 
demand has  not  increased  and  only  an 
average volume of business  is  reported.
Cocaine—Is  without  further  quotable 
change,  and  only  a  limited  business  is 
reported at the decline noted  last  week.
Cod  Liver  Oil—The  market  is  very 
active and strong, with indications favor­
ing a still further  advance,  as  even  the 
latter is very low  compared  with  ruling 
values in primary markets.

Flowers—Samples  of  new  crop  Ger­
man chamomile have  been  received,  but 
there is none offering to  the  trade  in  a 
regular way, and  business  is  chiefly  in 
jobbing parcels of old at  previous quota­
tions.  Lavender are in  steady  consum­
ing request.

Essential  Oils—The  general  market 
has been moderately active in  a  jobbing 
way,  with  values  steady  for  nearly  all 
descriptions.  Citronella  is  tending  up­
ward,  in  sympathy  with  primary  mar­
kets,  together  with  increasing  scarcity 
of spot  supplies.  Anise  and  Cassia  are 
hardening under the influence of stronger 
advices from abroad.  H.  G.  H. Pepper­

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
Mr. Bushman was married Jan. 1,1890, 
to Miss Belle Hyatt,  of  Burlington,  and 
one  child—a  boy  three years of age—is 
the fruit of the union.

The  D rug  M arket.

It is not a state secret  that  Mr.  Bush­
man  is  now  in  receipt  of  one  of  the 
largest incomes paid any traveling sales­
man  in  Michigan,  his  commissions  for 
the  past  two  years  having  aggregated 
about $5,000 per year.  Mr. Bushman at­
tributes his success  to  persistent  effort, 
believing  that,  if  a man can play pedro 
half the time and sell goods, he  can  sell 
a good many  more  goods  by  refraining 
from  indulging  in  card  games  or  any 
other pastime which takes  his  time  and 
attention from his  business.

The change wrought in Mr.  Bushman’s 
condition in the short space of  five years 
is little less than remarkable, as  it  illus­
trates  the  rapid  strides  which  can  be 
made by a man  who starts  out  with  the 
intention  of  rising  above  tjie  common 
herd and is willing to make any ordinary 
sacrifice  and  subordinate  every  minor 
consideration  for the  sake  of  acquiring 
success.  Mr.  Bushman is  still  a  young 
man,  in the full  vigor  of  manhood,  and

Acids—The 

combination  prices  of 
salicylic have  been reduced,  but  the  de­
cline has not improved  the  situation, as 
outside makers  are  still  cutting  under. 
How far the  struggle will  be  carried  is 
an 
interesting  question.  Citric  and 
tartaric are both  seasonably  active,  the 
latter being particularly strong at the re­
cent  advance.  Carbolic  is  held  with 
steadiness under  a  consuming  demand. 
Other  varieties  are  without  important 
feature.

Balsams—Tolu  continues 

in  strong 
position,  with  values  higher  and  still 
tending  upward,  owing  to  increasing 
scarcity. 
Stocks  are  very  light  both 
here and in Europe and no advices are at 
hand  of  any  to  come  forward.  Under 
similar conditions  a few years  ago  with 
double  the  present  stock  prices  ad­
vanced to 90c.  Peru inclines  in  buyers’ 
favor,  but  the  direct  arrivals  in  first 
hands remain  unsold.  Copaiba  is  mov­
ing fairly in a jobbing way at unchanged 
prices.  Canada fir  quiet  and  somewhat 
nominal.

Borax—A  decline  of  J^c  per  pound

2 5
mint is quiet, only  small  orders  coming 
to hand and they are limited.

Gums—Asafetida is again lower.  Cam­
phor  has  met  with  a  largely increased 
demand,  which has been met  almost  ex­
clusively  by  second  hands;  the  stock 
is,  consequently,  very  much  depleted 
and prices are materially higher, refiners 
announcing an  advance of 6c per pound. 
This  is  the  largest  advance  which  has 
taken  place  in  the  article  for  a  long 
time,  but  is  claimed  to  be  fully  war­
ranted by the wild speculation  in  crude 
in  London,  which  has forced prices  up 
to  an  extreme  figure.  The  disturbed 
condition of affairs  in  Formosa,  with  a 
rebellion  in  progress  at  the  principal 
camphor shipping  port, is also responsi­
ble  to  a  considerable  extent  for  the 
rapid  advance. 
Importers  of  foreign 
have withdrawn from the market.  Kino 
is unsettled.  Gamboge is lower,  the last 
London sales showing a decline.  Mastic 
is also lower, owing to fresh arrivals and 
competition between sellers.

Leaves—The  better  grades  of  short 
buchu  are  becoming  scarce,  both  here 
and abroad;  holders’  views are  stronger. 
Tinnevelly  senna  are  active,  with  me­
dium grades  steadily  advancing.  Exag­
gerated reports were  recently  circulated 
of an extreme advance in Alexandria, and 
Cairo,  but they lack confirmation.

Opium—Has  ruled  quiet  but  fairly 
steady,  with  only  a  moderate  inquiry 
from  consumers,  and  no  new  features 
are reported from primary markets.

ruled 

Quinine—The  market 

steady 
during the week but accounts of  the  sit­
uation  are  somewhat  conflicting,  some 
reporting an easier feeling,  due  to  freer 
offerings  of outside lots,  which  had  been 
held out of the market in  anticipation of 
an  advance  by  manufacturers,  others 
claiming that they are willing  buyers  at 
the lower figures intimated.
Roots—Jamaica ginger is in  active  re­
quest for consumption and dealers report 
a  good  business  at  satisfactory  prices. 
Mexican sarsaparilla is unchanged.
Seeds—Celery is higher in France,  ow­
ing to the poor crop prospects,  and  dur­
ing the past week prices have  advanced. 
The coming crop of caraway promises  to 
be large, so that lower prices  are  antici­
pated.  Millet  is  somewhat  firmer  and 
Calif mustard is slightly stronger.

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Annual Meeting: of the M. S. P. A. 
D e t r o it ,  June  8— The  Annual  meet­
ing  of  the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceu­
tical Association will be held  in  Detroit 
July  16,  17, 18 and 19. 
it  is proposed to 
make this meeting one  of  great  interest 
to the druggist.  Trade  matters  will  be 
prominently brought out and every Mich­
igan  druggist  is  earnestly  requested  to 
be present,  whether he  be  a  member  or 
not.  An exhibit of  unusual  interest  is 
also  promised.  Representatives  of  the 
Association have just returned  from  the 
East,  where they succeeded in booking  a 
large number  of  representative  houses, 
who  will  send  exhibits.  The  house  of 
Mulford  &  Co.,  of  Philadelphia,  will 
show  their  antitoxin.  A  musical  pro­
gramme will  be furnished for  the  after­
noons and evenings and games, prizes and 
an evening ride on the  River  are  prom­
ised by way of entertainment.
Let every druggist  come.  We want to 
meet them all.  A few days of recreation 
will add years to their lives.

Again we say, come one, come all!

A.  S .  P a r k e r ,  Pres.

“It Vas Nicht Wery Goot.” 

M u s k e g o n ,  June 6—A few days  ago  a 
German  came  into  our  store  and  pur­
chased  a  box  of  Japanese  Pile  Cure. 
Evidently he was not well versed in Eng­
lish.  Thinking  the  word  “insert”  (in 
the directions) to mean “take,”  he  took 
the suppositories  internally.  To-day  he 
came back and said,  “It  vas  nicht  wery 
goot.” 

J.  A. T in h o l t .

THE  MICHIO-AJST  TRADESMAN,
entirely unfit for use.  Perfumes exposed 
to direct rays of sunlight  rapidly  degen­
erate and soon acquire  a  rank  odor. 
It 
is apparent, therefore,  that  they  should 
not be habitually presented in show win­
dows.

26
Drug D epartm ent•

S tate  B eard   of P harm acy*

One Y ear—George  Gundrum ,  Ionia.
Two T ears—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
ThreeTears—B. E. Parkhill, Owosso.
Four Years—F. W. R  Perry,  Detroit.
Five T ears—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
President—Fred'k W  .R . P erry, Detroit.
F eoretary—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Com ing  Meetings—Detroit  (Star  Island),  June  21: 
Lansing, Nov 5.

M ichigan  S tate  P h a rm a c e u tica l  A sh'd , 
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
V£ce-President—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Seoretav— F. C. Thom pson.D etroit.

G rand  R apids  P h a rm a c e u tica l Society. 

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

Drugs and chemicals are frequently in­
jured by absorbing moisture  or  carbonic 
the  atmosphere. 
acid,  or  both,  from 
Solids that absorb  moisture  from the air 
are called hygroscopic.  Solids which ab­
sorb moisture from  the  air  and  become 
liquid, or dissolve therein,  are called the 
deliquescent.  Crystalline 
substances 
which  part with their water of  crystalli­
zation on exposure to air,  thereby losing 
their crystalline form,  are called efflores­
cent.

On  exposure  to  atmosphere,  caustic 
soda absorbs water and is  liquefied,  sub­
and  becoming 
sequently  solidifying 
efflorescent.  This  change  is  caused  by 
the absorption of  carbonic  acid  and  the 
crystallization  and  efflorescence  of  the 
sodium carbonate thns  formed.  Potassa 
also  deliquesces  and  absorbs  carbonic 
acid under similar exposure.  Chlorinated 
lime absorbs moisture  and  carbonic acid 
from  damp  atmosphere,  with 
loss  of 
valued  properties  and  formation  of  a 
plastic  mass;  it  should,  therefore,  be 
kept in  a closely covered  jar  and  stored 
in a cool, dry place.
Lime  becomes  “air  slaked”  by  ex­
posure to  ordinary  atmosphere,  absorb­
ing  water  and  carbonic acid, and being 
converted into hydrate and  carbonate  of 
calcium.  Carbonate  of  potassium is ex­
tremely deliquescent in humid air,  form­
ing  a  colorless  or  yellowish  alkaline 
liquid of  an  oily  appearance.  Chloride 
of zinc, acetate of  potassium,  and  chlo­
ride  of  calcium  are  also  very deliques­
cent salts which  require  special  protec­
tion.
Powdered extracts should be  carefully 
protected from exposure to  moist  air,  in 
small bottles with  mouths  wide  enough 
to admit the blade of a spatula.  Selected 
corks  should  be  used,  and  the  bottles 
should be kept in a  cool  place—never  in 
a current of hot air from a stove  or  fur­
nace.
It is particularly essential  that  granu­
lar effervescent salts be kept  in  securely 
corked  bottles,  for  if  access  of  air  be 
permitted, sufficient  moisture  will  soon 
be  absorbed 
cause  the  acid  to  act 
upon the ?  donated base  and  gradually 
liberate carbonic acid.  The valued effer­
vescent  properties  of  the  preparations 
will thus be irretrievably  lost.
If  clear  lime  water  be  exposed to the 
influence  of  air,  a  pellicle  of  calcium 
carbonate  is  formed  upon  the  surface; 
this film sinks to make room for another, 
until  finally  nearly  all  the  lime is ren­
dered  insoluble  and  the 
supernatant 
liquid is comparatively  valueless. 
It  is 
essential,  therefore,  that a goodly excess 
of lime be\ept in the bottom of the  lime 
water bottle to maintain  the  strength  of 
the solution.  The  container  should  be 
kept  in  a  cool  place,  as cold water dis­
solves more lime than hot water.
Solution of lead  subacetate  is  decom­
posed  on  exposure  to  air  or  on  being 
mixed  with  water containing air in  solu­
tion,  white  precipitate  of insoluble car­
bonate  of  lead  being  formed.  When 
freshly made, it should  be  divided  into 
two or four  ounce bottles  and  kept  full 
and  tightly sealed until required for use. 
Liquor  potassa  and 
liquor  soda  also 
possess  marked  affinity  for  carbonic 
acid,  and should be preserved in securely 
stoppered bottles.
Quinine sulphate,  like  some  other  al- 
kaloidal salts,  does  not  “lose  strength” 
by exposure to ordinary dry atmosphere, 
but rather loses water  of  crystallization 
by evaporation and becomes  correspond­
ingly  richer  in  quinine. 
It  should  be 
borne  in  mind  also that  effloresced car­
bonate  of  sodium  is  stronger  than  the 
normal crystallized salt  in  proportion to 
the  amonnt  of  water  it  has lost.  Sul­
phate of soda, commonly  called  Glauber 
salt,  contains  more  than half its weight 
of water of crystallization,  nearly  all  of 
which  is  dissipated  on exposure to  dry 
atmosphere,  leaving a dry,  white powder 
which  is  a  correspondingly  richer  salt. 
Sulphate of  zinc  also  effloresces  slowly 
in dry air.
Atmospheric oxygen  causes  many  un­
desirable changes in chemicals and phar-1

S afeg u ard s  a g a in st  D eterio ratio n   of 

D rug  S tock.

A  large  proportion  of  the  materials 
which constitute the stock of  an average 
drug store are particularly prone to dete­
rioration,and painstaking pharmacists are 
required to exercise more  than  ordinary 
circumspection  to  prevent  exposure  of 
sensitive  pharmaceuticals  to  pernicious 
influences—in fact,  the  art  of  affording 
such protectiou is quite as  important  as 
the ability to  select  drugs  and  prepare 
medicines properly.
A complete tabulation of all the chem­
ical  and  physical  changes  which  can 
modify and injure  pharmaceutical  prep­
arations is not within the  scope  of  this 
article,  but  it  is  deemed  apposite  to 
mention a few exemplary forms  of  dete­
rioration which will serve to  suggest  to 
the  minds  of 
intelligent  pharmacists 
others  which  can  occur  from  similar 
causes.
The importance of maintaining  a  uni­
form temperature through day and night, 
in  a  pharmacy, is apt to  be  overlooked. 
Remember that your stock is largely made 
up of  fluid  preparations  holding  chem­
ical substances  in  solution.  These  are 
reasonably permanent at  a  normal  tem­
perature,  but,  as the temperature lowers, 
the solvent  power  of  the  menstruum  is 
reduced  and  precipitation  of  the  less 
soluble 
ingredients  occurs.  Results 
grow gradually worse as the temperature 
goes down,  until  disaster  comes  in  the 
freezing of aqueous solutions  and conse­
quent bursting of bottles.
Change of temperature may also  cause 
loss  and  annoyance  from  breakage  of 
demijohns  through  expansion  or  con­
traction of liquid  contents. 
If  a  demi­
john  is  filled  with  cold  liquid,  tightly 
corked, and subsequently  transferred  to 
a warm room or climate,  the  liquid  will 
expand  with  rise  of  temperature  and 
blow  out  the  cork  or  burst the vessel. 
Tightly corked demijohns tilled with  hot 
liquids  frequently  collapse under atmos­
pheric pressure as the contents  cool  and 
contract. 
It  is,  therefore,  a  safe  rule 
never to fill  such  large  glass  containers 
completely,  but  rather  leave  an  ample 
cushion of air to allow for expansion and 
contraction.
Sunlight can  do  incalculable  damage 
to  chemicals,  pharmaceuticals,  plush 
goods, and toilet articles in  general,  un­
less special precautions  are taken to pre­
vent its injurious action.  Calomel is not 
altered by the atmosphere if kept  in  the 
dark,  but  when  exposed  to  sunlight  it 
gradually turns gray or black,  indicating 
decomposition.  Santonin acquires a yel­
low color by  exposure  to  sunlight.  Sil­
ver nitrate becomes gray or black  on  ex­
posure to sunlight In the presence  of  or­
ganic matter.  Sunlight  darkens  yellow 
mercurous  iodide  and  yellow  mercuric 
oxide  in  consequence of their partial re­
duction.  Bright  green  scales  of soluble 
ferric phosphate and soluble ferric pyro­
phosphate turn dark on exposure to  sun­
light.  Red mercuric iodide is permanent 
in the air  if  kept  in  the  dark,  but  ac­
quires a brownish tint by exposure to sun­
light.  Quinine  bisulphate  readily  ac­
quires a  deep  brown-red  color  on  expo­
sure to direct rays of sunlight.  Quinine 
sulphate and  quinine  hydrocblorate  are 
gradually colored yellow  by  similar  ex­
posure.  Ferric  salts  in  solution  with 
sngar  is  reduced to ferrous salts  by  ac­
tion of sunlight.  Many volatile  oils  are 
injured  by prolonged exposure to atmos­
pheric oxygen  and sunlight,  while  some 
are  eventually  rendered  worthless  and

maceuticals.  On  exposure  to  air  the 
color  of  syrup  iodide  of  iron  slowly 
changes to  yellow  and  subsequently  to 
brown,  the  change  of  color proceeding 
from  the  exposed  surface  downward. 
This  color  can  sometimes  be  bleached 
and the syrup restored to its original ap­
pearance,  but  here  is  a  case  where  an 
ounce of prevention is worth a  pound  of 
cure—keep  the  syrup  in  small bottles, 
full and  well corked.  Syrup  bromide of 
iron is, of course,  similarly affected.

Certain  fixed  oils  will  remain  un­
changed for a great length of time in air­
tight vessels,  but  when  exposed  to  the 
atmosphere they attract  oxygen  and  ul­
timately become concrete.  The tendency 
of  linseed  oil  to  dry  or  harden  on ex­
posure to air is  typical  in  the  extreme. 
Exposed to the air,  lard  absorbs  oxygen 
and becomes rancid;  it should, therefore, 
be  kept  in  well-closed  vessels,  or  pro­
cured fresh when  required  for  use. 
In 
the rancid  state it irritates the skin,  and 
sometimes  exercises  an  injurious  reac­
tion upon substances mixed with it.

Phosphorus absorbs  oxygen  from  the 
atmosphere  with  sufficient  avidity  to 
cause rapid  combustion  and  necessitate 
its preservation under water.  Prolonged 
exposure  to  air  gradually  transforms 
light green ferrous carbonate into the fa­
miliar red-brown  “subcarbonate of iron,” 
which is ultimately little more  than  fer­
ric  oxide  and  can  undergo  no  further 
change from similar influences.

Not content  with  ravaging  the  phar­
macist’s  stock,  this  belligerent  element 
exhibits a remarkable propensity,  in  the 
presence  of  moisture,  for  rusting  bis 
spatulas and other metallic utensils.
Serious  pecuniary  loss by evaporation 
of  volatile  solids  like  camphor  results 
from exposure of  these substances in or­
dinary  open  wooden  drawers.  Menthol 
is extremely volatile,  and  should,  there­
fore,  be kept in  securely  corked  bottles 
to prevent loss.  Exposed to the air, car­
bonate  of  ammonium  partially  volatil­
izes,  becomes opaque, and crumbles  into 
a white powder. 
Iodine  is  most  advan­
tageously  kept  in  securely  closed  glass 
receptacles—most  ordinary  wares  are 
liable to be attacked or permeated  by  it. 
Chloral evaporates slowly  when  exposed 
to  dry  atmosphere.  Powdered  drugs 
which depend upon volatile  constituents 
for  medicinal  virtue, 
like  cinnamon, 
cloves,  orris  root,  and  valerian,  should, 
so far as practicable,  be  kept  in  bottles 
or  some  other  comparatively  air-tight 
container.
Stronger water of  ammonia  should  be 
kept  in  strong  glass-stoppered  bottles, 
which should be  stored  in  a  cool  place 
and  opened  with  extreme  care.  When 
warm,  the liberated gas frequently forces 
the  stopper  out  with  considerable  vio­
lence,  and  many  accidents  resulting  in 
injury to the  sight  of  operators  are  on 
record.
Pressed roots and herbs are  more  con­
venient to handle,  occupy less  space and 
are better preserved  than  crude drugs in 
bulk form.  Furthermore,  the  danger  of 
error is materially  reduced  by  handling 
neatly  pressed,  wrapped,  and 
labeled 
packages.
Examine your stock  of  dandelion  and

rhubarb  roots  occasionally  to  be  sure 
that  purchasers  do  not  find  worms  in 
them and form  unfavorable  impressions 
of you and your business methods.
Cantharides should be thoroughly dried 
and kept in  seeureiy  closed  containers. 
The vapor  of  chloroform  quickly  kills 
insects  which  infest  cantharides,  and 
their  destruction  can  be  accomplished 
by placing  a  small  quantity  of  chloro­
form in  a  wide-mouthed bottle or  other 
open vessel upon the  surface  of  the  in­
fested drug and securely closing the con­
tainer.  The  heavy  chloroform  vapor

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Price of Statements Only:

In  ordering  P rinted  Statem ents, 

1.000 Blank Statem ents............................... $1  25
1.000 Printed Statem ents.............................  1  75
Index Boards, per s e t..................................  
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possible,  so  th a t  no  m istake  may  be  made  in 
spelling names.
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IT  is -------------Making- a 
Name-----

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THE  BEST  5c.  CIGAR 
EVER  PUT  IN  A  BOX !

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Wholesale  Distributors.

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¿Michigan Representative

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

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W h o l e s a l e   Price  Current•
Declined—

Advanced—Gum Camphor, Cod Liver Oil, Linseed Oil.

8.  N.Y.  Q.  A

Morphia, 8. P. A W.  1 75@2  CO
C.  Co......................  1  65®1  90
,Moschus Canton...  ..  @  40
Myrlstica, No  1 .........  65®  70
Nux Vomica,  (po 20)..  @  10
Os.  Sepia.......... ...........  16®  18
PepsinSaac, K 4 P .D .
C o..............................   @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.»C„ M gal
_  do*  ...........................  @2 00
Plcls Llq., q u a rts.......  ®1 00
_  “  
p in ts..........  ©  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22). 
@ 1
Plper Alba,  (po g5)  . ..  @  3
JTixBurgun.................  @  7
Plumbl A cet...............  w©  12
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  io@l  20 
Pyre thrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., do*.......  @1 25
Pyrethrom,  pv ............  20®  30
8®  10
Quassiae...................... 
Qulnla, 8. P. A W .......34K039M
8.  Germ an....  27®  37
Rubia  Tinctorum.......  12®  14
18®  20
Saccharam Lactls pv. 
Salacln.........................2 50@2 60
Sanguis  Draconls.  40® 
50
14
^ P ° .  W ..................  12® 
;  m ....................  10® 
12
G ........................  @ 1 5
8eldllts  M ixture........   ®  20
Slnapls..................  © 
is
0P‘ ...............  @ 
30

“ 

“ “  Mbbl. 
“ “  10 gal. 
“ “  5 gal. 

Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................   @  34
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  34 
Soda  Boras,  (po. 6M-9)6M@  9
Soda  et Potass T art...  24®  25
Soda Carb..................   1M@  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.............. 
3®  5
Soda,  Ash......................3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o ............  50®  55
“  M yrcla D om .....  @2 00
“   M yrcla Im p ......   @2  50
2 57
“  Vlnl Rect. bbl... 
2 62
“ 
“ 
2 65
“ 
2 67
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia  Crystal.......I 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl................2M@  3
_   “ 
Roll...............  2  @ 254
Tam arinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  80
Theobrom ae...............45  @  48
V anilla...  .................9 00@1600
Zlncl  Sulph................. 
7®  8
Bbl. Gal
70
70
60
65
40
45
60
!3
62
65
r  65
70
35
40

OILS.
Whale, w inter__
Lard,  extra..........
Lard, No.  1..........
Linseed, pure raw 
Linseed,  boiled.. 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained............
Spirits Turpentine

“ 

paints. 

I 
bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian...............im   2®8
Ochre, yellow  Mars...  1M  2@4
“ 
Ber........ 1M  2@3
Putty,  commercial__ 2M  2M@3
“  strictly  pure.......2%  2M®8
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@15
ican ................... 
 
 
68@72
Vermilion,  English.... 
20V4@27
Green, Paris............... 
Green,  Peninsular....... 
13@16
Lead,  red ......................  5M@6
“  w h ite ................. 5M@6
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gliders’........  
@90
1 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Bng.
140
c liff.......................  ... 
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15 
No. 1 Tnrp  Coach.... 1  10@1  20
Bxtra T urp.................. 166@1  70
Coach  Body................. 2 75@8 00
No. 1 Turp  F u rn ........ 1  00@1  10
Butra Turk Damar__ 1  55@1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp........................... 
70@75

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Its  Columns  Bring  RETURNS 

TO  ADVERTISERS.

Atomizers

tube

hard rubber throat and  nasal tubes 
screw tips

Little Daisy  Perfume Atomizer 
No.  12,  Magic  Perfume  Atomizer,  metal 
Vaseline  Atomizer 
Valley City Oil Atomizer 
No. 1, Magic Atomizer, long metal  tube 
No.  5, Magic Atomizer,  straight  and bent 
adjustable  pipes,  with  flexible  rubber 
tube
No.  25,  Magic  Atomizer,  two  adjustable 
No.  30, Magic Atomizer, four hard rubber 
No.  31, Magic Throat  Atomizer 
No.  82, Magic Nasal Atomizer 
No. 33, Magic Atomizer, single hard  rub­
ber  tube, for  toilet,  throat  or  ordinary 
uses
No. 36,  Magic Atomizer,for toilet purposes 
No. 44, Magic Atomizer,  with  extra  hard 
No. 48, Magic  Oil  Atomizer,  with  three 
No. 6, Goodyear Atomizer, long metal tube 
No.  2, Goodyear Atomizer, hard rub’r tube 
No.  12, Star  Atomizer,  long  metal  pipe, 
with  inserted  flexible  rubber  tube and 
three hard rubber tips 
No.  3, Ellis & Gottermann  Water Oil A t­
omizer, three tips
Valley City Throat Atomizer, long rubber 
tube

rubber throat and nasal tips 
hard rubber screw tips 

IN  STOCK,  A T   B EST  PRICES

ditMilsiligCi).

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

¿oraux.

A cetlcum ....................  
8®  10
Benxolcum  German..  65®  75
Boraclc 
...................... 
15
Carbollcum...............  
22®  32
C ltr tc u m ........................  
41®  44
H ydrochlor................. 
5
3® 
Nltrocum 
...................  10®  12
O xallcom ....................   10®  12
20
Phosphorium  d ll. . .
Salicÿlicum............ . . .   05®  71
Sulpfiurlcum..........
• •  1M@  5
Tarinlcum............... . . .  1  40@1  6C
30®  ss
Tartarlcum .............
AMMONIA.
Aqua, 16  deg..........
6
8
Carbones  ............... . . .   12®  14
. .   12®  14
C hiorldnm ..............
A N IL IN *.

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

4® 
6 ®  

Black........................ . .  .2 00@2 25
80@1  00
Brown  ....................
. .   45®  50
Red...........................
..2 50@3 00
Tellow .....................
BA CCA*.

rt 

20®  25
Cnbeae (po  25) —
8®
Junlperus..................... 
Xanthoxylum..............  25®  30

BADSAXUX,

Copaiba........................  45®  50
Pern..................................  @3 00
Terabln. Canada  —  
45®  50
T olutan........................  45®  50

OOKTKX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Casslae  ..................................  12
Cinchona P la v a ...................  18
Buonymus  atropurp...........   30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..............  20
Primus Vlrglnl......................  12
Qnlllala,  grd.........................   10
Ulmni Po (Ground  is ).........  15

BXTRACTUX. 
24®  25
Glycyrrhlsa  G labra.. 
po............  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
Is...............  13®  14
15
its ...   14® 
£ 8 ....  16® 
17
TRRRU

« 
“ 
•• 
•• 

Carbonate Preclp........   ®  15
Citrate and Q nlnla—  
Citrate  Soluble............  ®   80
Ferrocyanidum Sol —   ®  50
Solnt  Chloride............  ®  15
Snlphate,  com’l ...............9® 
2
7

pure...   ® 

•• 

@3 50

YLOBA.

FQU

A rnica..........................  12®  14
A nthem ls................. . 
18®  25
Matricaria 
18® ’5

....... 

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin

.....................  14®  30
nlvelly......................  18®  25
•»  Alx.  25® 30
and  Ms......................  12®  20
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Me
Ura Ural 
..................... 

“ 

euxxi.

“ 
“ 

Acacia,  1st  picked... 

<• 
“ 
“ sifted sorts... 
>• 

®  60 
....  ®   40
2d 
3d 
....  ®  30
® 20
p o ...................  60®  80
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60)...  50®  60 
u  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
8oootrl, (po.  60).  ®  50
Cateohn, Is, (Ms, 14 Ms,
16)..............................   ®  18
Ammonlae...................  56®  60
Assafcetlda,  (po.40) 
35®  40
Bensoinnm..................   50®  55
Camphor«....................   55®  58
Buphorblnm  po  .........  15® 
lo
Galbanum....................   @2  50
Gamboge,  po...............   65®  80
Gualacum, (po  35) ....  ®  30
Kino,  (po  2  50)..........   @2  50
M astic.........................   @  80
Myrrh,  (po  45)............  @ 4 0
Opll  (po  3  10@3 30). .1  90@2 00
Shellac  ........................  40®  60
4C®  45
T rxgacanth.................  SO®  80

'* 
ksbxa—In ounce packages.

bleached....... 

Abslnthlnm  ..........................  25
Bupatorlum ...........................   20
Lobelia...................................   25
M ajorum................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  28
«  V lr...........................   25
Rue..........................................   80
Tanaoetum, V ........................  22
Thymus,  V .............................  25

MAsmsiA.

Calcined, P at...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t ..........   20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  36

OLSUX.

Cubebae.................... 
l go@l  70
Bxechthltos...............  1 ¡»@1  30
Brlgeron......................l  20@l  30
G aultherla...................1  50@1  60
Geranium,  ounce___   @  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......  80®  70
Hedeoma  ....................1  25® 1  40
Jum per!........................  50@2 00
L avendnla..................   90@2 00
Llm onls..................... 1  30@1  50
Mentha Piper............. 1  85@3 0O
Mentha Verld........... l  80®2 00
Morrhuae, gal........... 1  75@1  80
Myrcla, ounce..............  @  50
O live............................   90@3 00
Plcis Liquida, (gai.,85)  10®  12
R lcinl......................... 
88®  96
Rosmarinl...........  
1  00
Rosae, ounce............... 6 50®8 50
S ucdnl........   .............   40®  45
Sabina.........................  90@i  00
Santal  .........................2 50@7 00
Sassafras.  . 
............  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce  ...  ®  65
TJglfl.............  ®100
T hym e.........................  40®  50
o p t...... ...........   ®1  60
xheobromas------------  15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.
B icarb ......................... 
is®
Bichromate.................  11®
Bromide...................... 
45®  48
Carb..............................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po.l7@19)..  16®  18
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide..........................2  90@3 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  £4®  26 
Potassa, Bitart, com ...  ®  15
Potass  Nltras, opt......  
8®  10
Potass Nltras............... 
7®
Prusslate......................  «5®
Sulphate  po.................  15®

RADIX.

A conitum ....................  20®
Althae...........................  22®
A nchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus........................  20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(PO. 35)....................  
®  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po  ....................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po................... 1  30®]  40
Iris  plox (po. 35@38). 
35®  40
Jalapa,  p r....................  40®  45
Maranta,  Me_______   @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhel..............................  75@1  00
cu t........................  @1  75
pv.  ......................  75®1  35
Splgella.......................   36®  38
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentarla..................   50®  55
Senega.........................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 40
M  @ 2 5
Sdllae, (po. 85)............  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
dus,  po......................  @  35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  ®  25
German...  15®  20
lnglber a .....................  
18® 20
Zingiber  J .................... 
18® 20

“ 

sxxxx.
Q  15 
.. 
Anlsum,  (po.  20).. 
Aplum  (graveleons)..  14®  16
Bfrd, Is .......................  
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18)...............  10® 12
Cardamon.................... 1  00@1  25
Corlandrum.............   .  12®  14
Cannabis Satlva.............  4®  5
Cydonlum.....................   7501 00
Cnenopodlum  ..............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate  — 1  8002 00
Foenloulum................  
®  15
Foenugreek,  po....... 
6®  8
L in l...............................   3M® 4
Llnl, grd.  (bbl. 3M)..  3MO  4
Lobelia  .........................   85® 40
4®  5
Pharlarls Canarian__  
R ap a..............................  4M®  5
Slnapls  Albu.............. 
7®  8
Nigra............  11®  12

SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, W.,D.  Co..2 00®2 50
D. F. R .......2 00®2  25
...................1  25@1  50
Junlperls  Co. O. T .... 1  65@2 00
............1  75®3  50
Saacharum  N.  B ........ 1  90@2 10
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll............1  75®6 50
Vial Oporto................. 1  25@2 00
Vlnl  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
Bxtra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .........................
Hard for  slate  use__
Tellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e .............................

1  40

A bsinthium ...................... 2 50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc........   30®  50
Amyaalae. Amarae__ 8 00@8 25
A n lsl..................................1 90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex...........1  80®2 00
Bergamll  .....................3 00®3 20
C a]lputl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
C ed a r...........................   35®  65
C henopodll.................  @1  60
Clnnam onli.......................1 40®1 so
C ltronella....................   @  45
Conlum  Mac...............   35®  65
Copaiba........................  80®  90

SYRUPS.

A ccacla.................................   50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................  60
Ferrl  Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom.............................  50
SlmUax  Officinalis...............  60
....  50
Senega...................................   50
ScUlae.....................................  50
Co.........................   50
Toiatan...........................  50
Pranas  t lrg.....................  so

“ 

“ 

TIN CTU RES.

“ 

Aconltum  Napellls R ..........  60
..  “ 
F ..........   50
Aloes........................................   go
and m yrrh....................  60
A rn ica...................................  
50
Asafcetlda...................................o
Atrope Belladonna.................  60
Benxoln....................................  go
Co...............................  50
Sanguinarla.............................  50
Barosm a..................................  50
Cantharides............................     75
Capsicum ..............................   50
Ca damon..............................   75
_  " 
Co...........................  75
Castor.....................................1 00
Catechu..................................  50
C inchona..............................  50
_  . "  
CO.......................   .  60
Columba................................  50
C onlum .................................   so
Cubeba...................................  50
Digitalis  ................................   50
Ergot......................................   50
G entian.................................   50
Co..............................  60
_ 
ammon......................  60
Z ingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine.....................................  75
Colorless....................  75
Ferri  Chlorldum..................   35
K in o ......................................   so
Lobelia...................................  50
M yrrh.....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
CpH........................................  85
“  Camphorated.................  50
“   Deoaor...........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Q uassia.................................   50
K hatany................................  50
Rhel........................................  50
Cassia  Acutlfol....................  50
Co...............   50
Serpentarla...........................  50
Stramonium...........................  60
T olutan..................................  60
V alerian................................  50
VeratrumVerlde..................  50

“ 

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“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

* 
“ 

jfither, Spts  Nit, 8 F ..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
A larne».........................2M@ 3

*  
ground, 

“ 

“ 

“ 

prep

squlbbs.. 

(po.
7)................................ 
3®  4
A nnatto........................  « 1®  50
Antimoni, po............... 
4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
A ntipyrin....................   ®1 40
Antlfebrln....................  @  15
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  ®  53
Arsenicum..................  
5®
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N .............1  20® 1  30
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms 
10;  Ms.  12)...............
Cantharides  Russian,
PO..............................
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...
po.

@
@1  00 
®  15 
®  15 
®  15 
Caryophyllus, (po.  1 5 ) ___■
10®   12
Carmine,  No. 40..........   ®8 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................  40®  4:
Coccus......................... 
a   40
Cassia Frnotus............  ®  25
Centrarla......................  ®  10
Cetaceum....................  ®  40
Chloroform.................  60®  68
®1  25
Chloral Hyd (» st........1  15®1  30
Chondrus....................  20®  25
Clnohonldlne, P. A  W  15® 
20
German  8M®  12
Cocaine.......................5 30@5 50
Coras,  list,  dis.  per
cent  .......................
65 
Creasotum...............
®  35 
®  2 
Creta,  (bbl. 75).......
5
“  preclp..........
9®
11
“   Rubra...............
S
©
Croons  .......................
50® 55
Cudbear....................
@ 24
Cnprl Sulph...............
5  © 6
D extrine....................
10® 12
75® 90
Bther Sulph...............
Emery,  all  numbers.
Q 8
O 6
_   “ 
po..................
Ergota,  (po.)  40........
30®
35
Flake  w hite..............
12®
15
S alla...........................
@ 23
Sambier......................
8  @ )
Solatia,Cooper........
60
O
F rench..........
30®
50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  70.
Glne,  Brown...............  
9®  15
“  W hite.................  13®  25
Glyoerlna....................   13®  20
Grana Paradlsl............  ®   22
Humulus......................  26®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®  79 
“  C o r....  ©  69
Ox Rubrum  ©  89
Ammonlatl..  @  99 
IJnguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  ©  65
Ichthyobolla, A m ..  ..1  2S®1  50
Indigo...........................  75® 1 00
Iodine,  Resnbl............3 80®3 90
Iodoform......................  @4 70
Lupulln.......................   @2 25
Lycopodium...............  60®  66
M acls...........................  70©  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  19 
Magnesia,  8ulph  (bbl
1M).............................  2M® 4
Xannla,  8. P ...............  60®  a

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T H E   M I C f I K i A f j   T R A D E S \ N

G ROCERY  PR IC E   CURRENT.

The prices quoted  in this list are  for the  trade only,  in such quantities as are usually purcha« 
It iB impossible to give  quotat  > 

> y  retail  dealers.  They are prepared just before 
suitable for all  conditions of  purchase,  and those 
going to  press  and  are  an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
rs or those of  strong credit  usually  buy closer than 
below  are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  1 
those  who  have poor  credit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested  to  point  out  any  errors o  missions, as it is our  aim to  make  this feature of  the 
greatest possible  use to dealers.

gross
8 00
6 00
7  00
5  50
9  no
6 00

45
?5
1  eo
10
55
.  1  10
.  2 00
9 00
40
75
:  40
45
. 
.  1  60
85
. 
.  1  15
3 25
45
85
.  1  50
45
75
.  1  50

BA KIN G   PO W D ER .

AX LE  GREA SE
doz
Mica  ..............................   70
A uro ra....................  55
Castor Oil...............  
60
Diamond................. 
50
Frazer’s  ................. 
75
Paragon 
.................  55

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“ 

A. 1/2239.
4 id .  ;am>. 3  doz__
“ 
4  lb. 
.............
1  “ 
lib . 
.............
Bulk......................................
Arctic.
4 9> cans 6’doz  case.
V4  lb  “  4 doz  “ 
. . . .
1  lb  “  2 doz  “ 
.........
l  doz  “ 
5  lb  “ 
.........
Red Star, 4 K>  cans...........
Vi *  
“ 
...........
1  t>  “
Sun Light.
“ 
4  doz. 
‘ 
“  2 doz.  “ 

5% lb. cans, 0  doz. case.  .
4  l b.  
. . .
1  lb. 
. . .
Van  Anrooy’s  Pure
4  lb. cans, 6  doz. case...
Vi lb. 
...
1  lb. 
Teller’s.  4  lb. cans,  do*
“ 
“
“ 

“ 
4  doz.  “ 
“  2  doz.  “
Vi lb.  “ 
1 lb. 
'
Our  ì eader,  4 .b cans
4  lb  cans__
1 lb cans 
...
BATH  B R IC K . 
2 dozen in case.
E nglish.............................
Bristol................................
Domestic.........................
BLUING.
Arctic, 4 oz  ovals........

“ 
8oz 
“ 
pints,  round........
“  No. 2, sifting box.
“  No. 3,
“  No. 5, 
“ 
“ 

Mexican Liquid, 4  oz.......
8 oz........

“
1 oz ball  . . . .

“ 

“ 

“ 
BROOMS,

.  80
.  70
..  60
Gross
.  3 60
............. .  6 75
.  9 00
.  2 75
4 00
.  8 00
.  4  50
.  3  60
.  6  80

‘ 
“ 

rio. 2 H url........... ............... .  j  90
....................... .  2 00
No. 1 
.  2  15
No. 2 Carpet 
2  50
No. 1 
Parlor Gem......................... .  4  50
Common Whisk 
85
i  00
Fancy 
W arehouse.... 
2 85

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

*
.. 
BRUSHES,

1  25
1  50
i  it
65
1  25

Stove, No.  ! . .

-- 
‘ 

'*  1U 
....................
”  15.......................

Rise Root scran, 2  ra s
Rice  Haut  Scrub, 3 row
Passetto,  goose
VàNDLES.
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes  .  .
Star,  40 
.......
Paraffine  ......................
WIcking 

..  10
9
..  18
...................... ...  24

“ 

OaSHBO  iMHlOti. 

Fusa 
Ci am«
* ib

U tile Neck,  1 lb  ...............

“ 
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 8 1 b .................
Cove Oysters. 
Standard,  lib .. 
. . .
21c............
Lobsters.

Star,  1  10.........  ................
i   lo .....................................
Plante, l lb........   .

“ 

•* 
I  

*ib.

1  20 
1  90

80 
1  45

2 9o

“ 

M aster ai
Standard, x 10.........
2  lo 
.  ..
Mustard,  2 ib 
..  ..
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .
2  25 
Soused, 2  lb ..............
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia  River, (tat...........1  80
“ 
falls............1  65
Alaska, Red 
.....................1 30
pink  ......................... 1  30
Kinney’s,  flats.....................1  95
Sardines.
American  Vts...................  @ 4
/is ...................  @ 6
Imported  %s......................  @ 9
A»  ................  OH
© 7 
Mustard  %i  ...............
Boneless 
...................
21
Trout.
Brook  4, ib
.2 5i
Fruits.
Apples.

‘ 
“ 

3 lb.  standard 
..........
fork State, gallons  ...
H noburgh,
Apricots.
Live oak.......................
Santa  C rus..................
Lusk’s ........   ...............
Overland....................
Blackberries.
F. &  W.........................  

90 
3 no

1  40 
1  40 
1  50 
1  10
85

Cherries.

 

Pears.

.......... 

1
1 0.
1  40 
1  40 
55

Red................................  ©1  1$
i  40
W hite........................... 
B rie.......................  
1
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
Gages
E rie ............................
California...................
Gooseberries
Common 
...............
Peaches.
P ie...............................
M axw ell......................
Shepard's..................
California....................
Monitor 
.......
Oxford.........................
1 0 
Domestic......................
Riverside......................
1  25
Pineapples.
Common.......................1  00@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced
3 50 
8
grated........
Booth’s sliced.............
5
@2 
g ra te d ..........
Quinces.
Common.....  ..............
1  10 
Raspberries.
as
Red............... ................
Black  Hamburg..........
1  4b 
Brie,  black  .................
1  10
Strawberries.
Law rence....................
1  25 
Ham burgh..................
1  7. 
Erie...............................
85 
T errapin.........................
80
Whortleberries.
B laeberries.................
85
M eats.
Corned  beef  ........................2 35
............................235
Roast beef 
Potted  ham, Vi lb .......................l 30
“  4  l b . .. .............  80
tongue, Vi lb ..............1  *o
Vi lb ...........  35
chicken, 4  lb ..........  
95

“ 
V egetables.

“ 
" 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Beans.

 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
i  

Peas.

Com.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  15
French style........2 00
Limas.................... 1  25
Lima, green................................ 1 15
soaked........................  70
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1 25
Bay State  Baked........................ 1 25
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1  25
Picnic Baked.........................   95
Hamburgh.................................. % 15
Livingston  B den......................1  00
P u rity .....................................  go
Honey  Dew.................................1 25
Morning Glory
Soaked............................."* 
jb
Hamburgh  m arrofat............1  80
early June 
...1   50 
Champion Bug.. 1  40
petit  pol«...........t  40
fancy  sifted. ...1   65 
Soaked.
»•• 
. . . , a  05
Harris standard...................\  75
VanCamp’s  m arrofat.......... 1  10
early J a n e .......1  30
Archer’s  Barly Blossom  ..  1  25
French....................................2  15
Mushrooms.
French............ ............19021
Pumpkin.
90
B rie.................... 
Sqnash.
H ubbard................ 
    j 5
Succotash.
Hamburg................ 
1 8i)
Soaked....... ............................  30
Honey  Dew.......................... ^1  30
Brie
.1  85
Hantioi k .........................
.  80 
Excelsior ... ™ . . .........
„  80 
Eclipse........................... ..
.  75 
Samt nrg.________ .__
.1  30 
Gall; n ..............................
.2 25
CHOCOLATE. 
German Sweet................
Premium...........................
Breakfast  Cocoa.............
CHEESE.
Amboy..........................
A cm e.........................
Jersey...........................
L enaw ee....................
Riverside....................
Gold  Medal.................
8klm ............................. 
Brick........................... 
Edam  .........................
Leiden........................
Limburger  ................
Pineapple  .......  .......
Roquefort
Sap  Sago....................
Schweitzer, Imported 
CAT8UP.

5»6
-
11
1  00 
20 
015 024 
085 
018 
024 
014

Tomatoes.

dotneatlo

Baker’s.

“ 

 

Blue Label Brand.

 

“ 

Half  pint, 25 bottles............ 2  75
Pint 
4 50
Q'iart 1 do* bottles 
............ 3  so
Half pint, per  doz.....................1 35
Pint, 25 bottles........................... 4 50
Quart  per  doz  .....................3 75

Triumph Brand.

CREAM   TA RTA R.
Strictly  pure........................ 
»
so
Telfers  Absolute............... 
Grocers’...............................15©25
CLOTHES  PINS. 

D aisy  B rand.

COCOA  SHELLS.

5 gross b o x e s...............40@45
35 lb  bags.......................  
{$3
Less  quantity 
Pound  packages 
6MO7

__   @34

. 
CO FFEE.
G reen.
Ria.

Santos.

Fair.................... _   ... 
is
Good........................................ip
.21
Prim e............................ 
Golden.............................!.!.21
Peaberry 
...................... 
, , j j
P air-........................................19
Good............................. 
20
Prim e.................................'  22
Peaberry  ............................... 23
Mexican and Guatemala.
F air.........................................21
Good.................... ... .. " ........28
Fancy..................................... 34
Prim e..............................  
23
M illed....................................24
Interior.................................. 25
Private Growth.....................27
M andehllng...............  
28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian.................................. 28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

<*

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. per lb. for roast 
Ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink 
age.
M e L a n g h lln ix X X X ..  £1  30 
Don, 60 or 100 lb.  case...  21  30
Arbuckle............................  21  30
Jerse y ................................  21  30
E xtract.
Valley City Vi gross 
75 
Helix 
Felix
1  15
1 65
Hummel’s, foil, gross.......
“ 
2 85

tin 
“ 
CHICORY.
B ulk...........................
Red...................................
Cotton,  40ft.......... Der doz.  1  25
1  40 
1  80 
1  75 
1  90 
85 
1  00

“ 
“ 
" 
te 
1 
CONDENSED  MILK 

50 ft
60 f t.........  
70 f t......... 
80 ft......... 
60 f t .........  
72 f t .....  
4 doz. In case.

CLOTHES  LINE8. 

«
«
••
«
«

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

Peerless evaporated cream  5  75 

COUPON  BOOKS.

“Tradesman.’
1  books, per  hundred 

( 2  
18 
(5 
CO 
(20

“ 
“ 
“ 
“

“ 
“ 
« 

“
“
1.

“bupertOi.” 
per  hundred

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

* 8 
I 5 910 
(30

Universal

“ 
•« 

“ 
“ 

« 
“ 
“ 
•• 
•• 

..10 
20 

13 00 
I  1  books, per hundred 
3  50
1 2 “ 
4  00
• 3 
5  00
1 5 “ 
6  00
(10 
“ 
120 
7
“ 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
1000 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
ICan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 110  down. |
20 books...........................|   1  00
2 00
50 
 
100 
3  00
 
250 
6  25
 
 
500 
10 00
1000 
..........................   17 50
600, any one denom’n ...... (3 00
1000,  “ 
“ 
....... 5 00
“ 
2000,  “ 
........8 00
Steel  punch 
75

C RED IT  CHECKS.

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

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

 
 
 
 

“
••

Butter.

CRACKERS.
Seymour XXX.................
Seymour XXX, cartoon.
Family  XXX..................
Family XXX,  cartoon..
Salted XXX..........
Salted XXX,  cartoon  ..
Kenosha.........................
Boston..............................
Butter  b iscu it.............
Soda,  XXX......................
Soda, City.......................
Soda,  Duchess...............
Crystal W afer.................
Long  Island Wafers 
..
s. Oyster  XXX...............
City Oyster. XXX............
Farina  Oyster.........
CEMENT.

Oyster.

Soda.

Raisins.

Prunes.

© 6
..  64©   8

Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes.. 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia. 30  “
California,  100-120 ...............   33£
90x100  25 lb. bxs.  54
80x90 
..5%
64
70x80 
60x70 
.  7
7©10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Sliver 
Zenoleum, 6 oz  ....................  2 00
Zenoleum, qts...........................  4 06
Zenoleum, 4   gal......................  7 20
Zenoleum.  gal..........................12 (0

D ISIN FECTA N T.

“ 
“ 
“ 

F IS H —S alt 

Bloaters.

“ 

“ 

Cod.

bbf  10

4   “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Yarmouth.............................
Georges cured..................   4
Georges genuine..............5
Georges selected..............  5%
Boneless,  bricks..  . .......«4
Boneless,  strips..................64©S
Halibut.
Smoked....................  
ll©12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 
80 
“ 
“ 
Norwegian.........................  11  00
Round, 4  bbl 100 lbs........   2 55
.........  1  30
Scaled..................................  134
No. 1,  100 lbs....................... 12 00
No. 1,40 lb s..........................5 50
No. 1,  10 lbs.........................  1  35
No. 2,100  lbs............................. 10 00
No. 2,40 lbs..........................  4 30
No. 2,10 lbs.........................   1  15
Family, 90 lbs......................
10  lbs ...................
Russian,  kegs......................  
55
No. 1, 4  bbls., lOOlbs............4 25
No. 1 4  bbl, 40  lbs...............1  95
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs................ 
56
No  1,81b  kits................... 
48
No. 1  family
4   bbls, 100 lbs........... (7  25  2  50
4   “  40  “  ............  8 20  1 30
101b.  kits....................  
40
“ 
8 lb. 
35
....................  
FLY  P A P E R .

Sardines.
Trout.

Whltefish.

87 
73 

“  

__Major’s, per gro.
Vi oz size 
.$12 00 
1  oz size...  18 00
Liq.Glue.loz 9 60
Leather Cement
1  oz size...  12 10
2  oz size...  18 '0
Rubber Cement 
52  oz size...  12 00

DRIED  FRUITS. 

Dom estic. 

Peaches.'

Apples.
Sundried,...............
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.........................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags
25 lb. boxes.....................
Peeled, in  boxes...........
Oal. evap.  “ 
............
“ 
In bags........
California in bags.......
California boxes..........
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels............................
50 lb. boxes....................
.....................
25  “ 
Prunelles.
80 lb.  boxes 
..............
Raspberries. 
In  barrels.
50 lb. boxes  ....................  
25 lb  “ 
 
 

Pears.

“  

“ 

 

@?4
8

9
14
9
8
64
7%

94 
22
224
224

2 crown 
8 

 
Raisins.
Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.
.............................  84
" 
................................  4
“ 
...................  5
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
2  crown....................................3L
“  —....................... 8*
8 

Foreign.
Currants.

Schuit’s Cleaned.

Patras,  bbls....................   @2^
Vostlzzas, 50 lb.  cases........   2%
251b.  boxes...........................  5«
........................  5
501b.  boxes 
1 lb.  packages 
............6
Peel.
Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  12 
Lemon 
“ 8
» 10
Orange 

25  “ 
25  “ 

“ 
“ 

Regular Size.

Per box__ 38c.  Per case.. $3 40
In  5 case lots, per case__ 3 30
In 10 case lo's, per case__ 3 20
“Little Tanglefoot.”
Retails, per box..................  
25
Costs,  per case......................  1  75

LA RG E  SIZ E .

D W A R F  SIZ E .

25 dbl. shts. in box, pr. bx.  $  38 
Per case of  10 boxes..........   3 40
25 double sheets In  box,
Case of 10  boxes.................  1  25
Case of 21  boxes.. . : ..........  2  50
COM BINATION  CASE.
5 boxes Large  Decoy I 
«..  ... 
12 boxes Dwarf Decoy f ' •  9S  * ' 
FARINACEOUS  OOODS. 
24
1151b. kegs..................... 
Walsh DeRoo &  Co.’s .......  1  85
Barrels ...  ....................   .. 
2*
G rits......................................  84
Dried............................... 
gs
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box.... 
gg
Imported......................104© ll
Pearl Barley.

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

Lima  Beans.

Peas.

“ 

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu...........................  1  10
8plit  per l b ................... 
24
Schumacher, bbl...................... (4 75
„  
K bbl..............  2 50
Monarch,  bbl......................  4 00
Monarch, 4   bbl................ 2  13
Quaker,  cases....................   3  20
Oven Baked...........................8025
Lakeside..............................   2 25
„  
Germ an................. ..............   3
East India................ 
34
Wheat.
Cracked.................................  8

Sago.

 

 

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS. 

Bonders’.

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

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

dos
2 oz  . ...(   75 
4 oz  ....  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

dos
2 oz......11  20
4 oz......2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz.......11  50
4 oz.......  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......(1  75
4 oz....... 3  50

“ 
“ 

Jennings.
Lemon. Vanilla 
120
2 os regular panel.  75 
2  00
4 os 
...1  50 
3  00
6oz 
...2  00 
No. 3  taper..............1  36 
2  00
No. 4  taper..............1  50 
2  50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs.......................................3 25
Half  kegs............................. 1  90
Quarter  kegs.......................1  10
1 lb  cans................................  30
Vi lb  cans..............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Kegs...............
Half  kegs__
Quarter kegs. 
1 lb c a n s.......

4  25 
.2  40 
1  35 
.  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................  
  U  00
Half  kegs................................5 75
Quarter kegs.......................... 3 00
60
1  lb  cans..............................  

 

HERBS.

Sage.
Hope.

Madras,  5 lb. b o x e s ........
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes.

15  lb. palls. 
“
17  “ 
30  “  “

LICORICE.

Pore.......
Calabria. 
Sicily... 
Root.......

Condensed, 2 dot. 
4 dot.

“ 
MINCE  MEAT.

1  20 
2  25

Mince meat, 3 doz. In case.  2  75
Pie Prep. 3  doz.  in  case___2  :-g

MATCHES. 

Colum bia  M atch C o.’s  B rands.
Colombia Parlor............... $1  25
XXX Sulphur...................... 1  00
D iam ond  M atch  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9 sulphur................  1 65
Anchor parlor...................  1  70
No. 2 home...................   l  10
Bxport  parlor  ...................... 4  00

MEASURES.
Tin, per dozen.
1 gallon......... .............  Ii  75
  1 40
Half  gallon..............  
Quait...........................  
70
P in t..................... 
 
 
45
Half  pint  ......................... 
  40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon........................   7 00
Half gallon...................  4 75
Quart...........................  3 75
Pint 

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

TÏTTÇ   M TO TTTG A TSr  TTfc A 'D 'R S M A T sr,

9 9

M OLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house......................
Cuba Baking.
O rdinary.........................
Porto R ltj.
P rim e................................
Fancy 
.........................
Fair  ..................................
Good  ................................
Extra good........................
Choice 
...........................
F a n c y .. . ........................
Half -barrels Sc.extra
PIC K L E S.
Medium.

New Orleans.

14
1C
20
30
18
22
27
32
40

Barrels, 1,200  oount...
@4  00
Half bbls, 600  count.. @2  50
Barrels, 2,400  oount.
5 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count
3 25
P IP E S .

Small.

Clay, No.  216.................... ...1  70
44  T. D. full count....... ...  70
Cob, No.  8......................... ...1  20

PO TASH .

48 cans In case.
Babbitt’s ...........................
Penna Salt  Co.’s ........ ...

4  00
3 00

R IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina head..................
• • 5 *
. .. 5
44  No. 1..................
No. 2...................
44 
4*
Broken................  ............
3*
Japan, No. 1..................... --- 5*
NO. 2............................. 5
Jav a........................ 
5
Patna....................................  4*
SPICKS.

Imported.

 

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
44 
“ 

Allspice..................................  9*
Cassia, China In m ats........   9*
Batavia In b and___15
Saigon In rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
Zanzibar................... lift
Mace  Batavia........................ 7u
Nutmegs, fancy.....................55
“  No.  1.........................60
"  No.  2.........................55
Pepper, Singapore, black — 10 
44 
w hite...  .20
shot...........................16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice...................................15
Cassia,  Batavia.....................18
and  Saigon.25
44 
salgon..................... 35
•• 
Cloves,  Amboyna..................22
44 
Zanzibar..................18
Ginger, African.......... '.........16
•*  Cochin...................  20
Jam aica................. 22
“ 
Mace  Batavia........................ 65
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste..22
Trieste..................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 .....................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
“  w hite.......24
Cayenne..................20
Sage....................................  ..20

“ 
“ 
'‘Absolute” In Packages.
Ms  Ms
1  55 
A llspice........................  84
1  55 
Cinnamon................ 
  84
1  55 
Cloves...........................   84
1  55 
Ginger,  Jam aica........   84
1  55 
A frican............  84
1  55 
Mustard........................  84
1  55
Pepper..........................  84
Sage......... 
84

“ 

“ 

STARCH. 

Kingsford's Corn.

“ 

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

20 1-lb packages....................   6*
40 1-lb 
....................   6*
40 1-lb.  packages..................   69i
6-lb. boxes............  ............  7M
20-lb  boxes...........................  5%
40-lb 
5M
1-lb packages.........................  5
8-lb 
.........................  5
6-lb 
5X
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............   3%
Barrels...................................   33Si
B oxes.......................................5M
Kegs, English..........................4%

Common Corn
“ 
 
Common Gloss
“ 
“ 

SODA.

 

 

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

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

Cases, 243  lb. boxes........ 8  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.................  2  50
115 2Mlb bags....  4 00
“ 
lb  “ 
.. ..  3  75
60 5 
“ 
3010  lb  “ 
....  3 50
“ 
65
“  20141b bags..............  3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls ............   2  50
“  224 lb 
2 25
Worcester.
115 2M-lb sacks......................84 CO
 
60 5-lb 
“ 
3 72
“ 
3010-lb 
3  50
 
22  14 lb.  “ 
......................  3  30
3201b. bbl.............................   2 50
8 lb  sacks... 
.................  32M
60

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

“ 

 

 

 

 

 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Warsaw.

160 3-lb. sacks.......................82
60 5-lb.  “ 
l
28 10-lb. sacks.....................  1
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags..
28 lb. 
..
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..
56  It«,  sacks......................
Saginaw 
...........................
Manistee  ............................

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.

Common Fine.

90
75
39
.6
75
75
22
90
90

siaajs.

A nise...........................   @13
Canary, Smyrna.......... 
4
Caraw ay.................... 
7
Cardamon, Malabar... 
80
Hemp.  Russian.......... 
4
4M
Mixed  Bird  ...............  
9
Mustard,  white  ......... 
Poppy........................... 
«
R ape............................  
4H
Cuttle  bone................. 
8o

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccaboy. In jars................35
French Rappee, In Jars 
.  43 
SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SEELY’8  EXTRACTS. 

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. 8  90 doz.  810 20 gro
2  “  N. S.  1  20  “ 
12 60  “
2  “  F. M.  1  40  “ 
14  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........   100 doz...... 10 50  ''

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

SOAP.
L aundry.

G.  R. Soap  Works Brands. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

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

Proctor A Gamble.

“ 

Concord..................................3 45
Ivory, 10  oz........................... 6  75
6  oz..............................4 00
Lenox 
..............................   3 65
Mottled  German...................3  15
Town T alk............................. 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. .13 33 
plain...  8 27
N.  K.  Fairbank A Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................  3  90
Brjwn, 60 bars......................2  10
80  bars  .....................3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. A.Co.’s Brands.

A cm e......................................3  65
Cotton Oil.............................. 6  00
Marseilles...............................4  00
Master  ...................................4 00
Thompson A Chute Co.’s Brands

(silver)

SOAR

o uO

SllVci 
Mono 
..................................3  30
Savor  In proved  ...............   2 50
Sunfii-wf r ...............................2  80
...............................3  25
Gol  eu 
B cc-'om .cal........................  2  ¿5
Scouring.
hand,3 'loz............2 40

Sap olio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40 

“ 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  Y..tV 
prices on sugars, to  which  th- 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino...............................  85  31
Cut  Loaf.....................................5 31
Cubes.......................................... 4 91
Powdered................................... 5 00
XXXX  Powdered......................5 18
.................... ;  4 82
Granulated 
Fine Granulated......................  4 62
Extra Fine G ranulated...  4 75
Mould  A..................................... 4 91
Diamond Confec.  A ............ 4  62
Confec. Standard  A ............ 4 50
No. 1.................
..............  4 37
No. 2 ................. ...............   4 37
No. 3.................
............... 4  37
.........  ...  4 37
4.................
No.
............... 4  31
No.
5.................
...............4  25
No. 6.................
...............  4  18
No. 7.................
...............   4  12
No. 8 ................
No. 9.................
...............4 06
...............4 00
No. 10.................
...............3 94
No. 11.................
..............  3 87
No. 12.................
No. 13.................
...............   3 75
............ 
3 56
No. 14.................

SAL  SODA.

“ 

Granulated,  bbls................  1M
Lump, bbls 

751b  cases........
.........................

1451b  kegs..................ls%

“ 

SYRUPS.

»  Corn.

Barrels.............................. 
22
Half bbls..............................   2i
F a ir......................................  
 
Good......................................   ai
Choice......................................   25

Pure Cane.

TA B LE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea A Perrin’s,  la rg e .......4  75
sm all......  2 75
Halford, la rg e ....................   3 75
2  25 
Salad Dressing,  large 
4  55 
?  Mi
«mall

small.
*’ 

“ 

TEAS.

JAFAN—Regular.

SUN  CU RED .

BASKET  F IR E D .

P a ir__
@17
Good ...
@20
Choice..
24 @26
Choicest
.32 @34
D u st__
10 @12
Fair ....
@17
Good ..
@20
Choice..
24 @26
.32 @34
Choicest
D ust__
.10 @12
F a ir......
.18 @20
holce...
@25
@35
■  holcest
■  itra choice, wire leaf @40
I ■  -tmon to  fall......... .25 @35
K-  ra fine to finest.  . .50 @65
! est fancy.......... 75 @85
4 
@26
I io  fair........ .23 @30
* 
IM PER IA L.
to  fair........ .23 @26
Com
•  dne  ........ .30 @35
Supe
JUNG  TYSON.
e  fai  __ .18 @26
Commo
.30 @40
Superior
.18 @22
F a ir......
24 @28
Choice...
40 @50
Best  __

flD
E N G L IS H  

G UNPOW DER.

OOLONG.

K FA 8T.

TOBACCO-*
Congress  Brand.

Cigars.
Invincibles 
.............   — 880 00
Imperials............................  70  00
Perfectos.......... ................   6 > 00
Roquets 
........................... 55  CO
Edw. W. Ruhe’s Brands.
Signal  Five....................... 35 
(0
Comrade 
......................  35  00
Mr.  Thomas 
.....................35  (0

G. J.  Johnson’s 

rand.

24
23
2*1
19

S. C. W................................  35  00

 

F in e Cut.
 
... 

P. Lorillard  t  Co.’s Brands.
@25
Sweet Bus - 
Tiger............ 
30
D. Scotten &  Co's Brands.
60
Hiaw atha.......... 
C uba....................  
32
Rocket...................... 
30
Spaulding A Merrick  s  Brands.
Sterling.......................  
1 o
Private Brands.
C herry...........................  @32
Bazoo.....  ................... 
«30
Can  Can.......................   @'-'7
Nellie  Bly...................24  @2:
Uncle Ben................... 24  @25
McGlnty...................... 
27
“  M bbls..........  
25
Columbia........................ 
Columbia,  drum s.......... 
Bang  Up......................... 
Bang up,  drum s...........  
Sorg’s Brands.
Spear 
a d ........................ 
JoP 
.........................  
N 
/T w ist...................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
K v. j...................................  
h . awatha..........................  
i alley C ity......................  
Finzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty..................... 
Jolly Tar...........................  
Lorlllard’s Brands.
Climax (8  oz., 41c)_____  
Green Turtle....................  
27
Three  Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler's. Brands.
Something Good........  
38
Out of  Sight..................... 
Wilson A McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope........................ 
Happy Thought.  ............  
Messmate.......................... 
No T ax..............................  
Let  Go............................... 

Plug.

27

39
40
25
38
34
4>
32
39
30

24
43
37
32
31
27

Sm oking.

Gatlin’s  Brands.

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

Kiln  dried..........................17@18
Golden  Shower..................... 19
Huntress 
26
Meerschaum  .....................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  N avy.........................40
Stork...................................   30
Germ an.................................. 15
F ro g ............................... 
  32
 
Java, Ms foil......................  
32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s BrandB.
Banner....................................16
Banner Cavendish.....  ....... 36
Gold Cut 
............................. 30

 

 

■ 
44 

LA M P  B U B N B B 8.

“ 
“ 
....................... 

LA M P  C H IM N EY S.—6  dOZ. in bOX.

C k o c k L u l   A.M l  O L . t » n A L k  
40
No. 0 Sun............................................................. 
43
No. 1  “  .........................................................  
no. 2  “ ...........................................................;;  85
Tubular............................................................. 
50
Security.  No. 1........................................................ 60
Security,  No. 2................................................”  a0
Nutmeg..................................  
50
1  25
Arctic.....................................................  
_____  
Per box.
No. 0 8u n ..................................................  
j  75
No.l  44  ...-.............................................. 1  88
No. 2  “  ...............................................................2 70
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled...2  10
No. 1  “ 
o 25
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled.  2  60
...2  go
No. 2 
...3  80
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........................3 70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
..................   4 70
N o.2 Hinge,  “ 
4  g?
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No.;i, Sun,  plain  bulb...................................... 3 40
“ 
No. 2,  “ 
.............................V. .V..4 40
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz......................... l  25
No. 2  14 
........................  1  50
No. 1 crimp, per doz............................... . 
1  35
No. 2 
................................. ” ” ” l  60
“ 
Rochester.
No. 1, lime (65c doz)............................................3 50
No. 2, lime  (10c doz).................................  
4  no
No. 2, flint  (80c doz)........................ 
*4  70
No.2, lime (70c d o z ).......................................  4  m
No.  2 flint (80c doz)...................................'.! . .4  40

First quality.
“ 
XXX Flint.
;; 
“ 
Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
La Bastle.

Electric.

;; 
“ 

•• 
“ 

;; 
“ 

44 

;; 

-  

;; 

“ 

11 

14 

\

Miscellaneous.

4 75

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

. 

, 

Junior, R ochester.............................  
°aj
N utm eg.... 
..................................................15
100
Illuminator Bases....................................... 
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ........................... . . . . . . . . . . . .  90
7 in. Porcelain Shades...........................! . .. ”   1  no
Case lots, 12 doz.......................................................9u

,  .. 

Box

O IL   CAMS.

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.
„  „  

Doz. 
— 
No.  3  Rochester,  lim e ........1  50 
No.  3  Rochester, flint. 
..1  75 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l  85 
8 *
No.  2  Globe lucandes. lim e...l  75 
No.  2  Globe lucandes. flint...2 00 
No.  2  Pearl glass......................2  10 
. 
Doz
1  gal  tm cans with spout.........................  ..  1  60
1  gal  galv iron, with spout...............................2 00
2  gal  galv iron with spout  ..............................3 25
3  gal  galv iron with spout......................  
4  50
5 gal  McNutt, with spout................................  6  GO
5 gal  Eureka, with spout..............................  e 50
5  gal  Eureka w ith faucet....................... 
7  no
@14
5  gal  galv iron  A  AW 
...........................  7  50
@12
5  gal  Tilting  Cans,  Monarch.................  ]  .  10 5u
3  gal  galv Iron Nacefas..... 
.................  9 no
2
3  gal  Home Rule................. 
...................m  su
5  gal  Home Rule....................................... ”   12 UO
3  gal  Goodenougb.............................. .12 00
5  gal  Goodenough  ...... ...........................  . 
13  50
5 gal  Pirate  King  .................................. 
10 50
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each...................  45
No. 0, 
No. 0, No. 0,
bbls 5  44 
....................   4u
bull’s eye, cases  1 doz each' 1  25 
l a m p   w i c k s .
No. 0,  per  gross.........................................
.................................  . 
No  2, 
No. 3, 
....................................................”
M ammoth,  per doz...............................................

LAM TER N   GLOBES.

Pump Cans.

...........  £

“ 
“ 

“ 

 

“ 

STONEW ARE— AKRON.
*  gal.  per  d o z ... 

jelly  tumblers—1Tin Top.
l  60
in box, per box  (box 00)... 
*  Pints,  6 doz 
“ bbl,  ■*  doz  (bbl  35).......    26
24  44 
M 
*   44 
6  “  44  box,  44  box  (box 00) __  
1  8U
*  
18  “ 
“ bbl,  44  doz  (bbl 35;......  
“ 
22
B utter Crocks,  1  to 6 g a l..................................  no
................  eo
70
Jugs,  *  gal., per uoz.......................................  
07
1 to 4 gal., per g a l.................................... 
Milk Pans, *% gar., per  d o z... 
oo
72
6*65
79

..............  
....................  
STONEW ARE— BLACK  GLAZED.
B utter Crocks, 1  and 2 g a l....................
Milk Pans,  *  gal.  per  doz....................

1  “ 

44 

“ 

“ 

“ 

F R U IT  JA R S.
Mason—old  style, pints...................................   7 2=
quarts....................................7  75
half  gallons......................  9  75
Mason—1 doz.  in case, pints.........................   7 so
quarts.......................   8  00
half  gallons................... 10 CO
Dandy—glass cover, pints.............................  10  50
q u a rts................................. 11 00
half  gallons.......................14 00
OILS.
B A R R E L S.

The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follows

10*
Eocene........ ................. 
...................
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.................
9
Naptha.....   .............................................. 
@  9 *  @lik @38L; 
Stove Gasoline..........................................
Cylinder................ 
8
Engine................................................. 
«X 
Black,  w inter............................................
SX
Black, summer..........................................
Eocene...................... 
9
..  ................. 
XXX  W. W. Mich. Headlight.......................  
Scofield, Shurmer  A  Teagle  quote  as  follows: 

......................... 11
.  12

FROM   TA N K   WAGON.

@21 

r

(

B A R R ELS.

Palacine................................................................ ll*
Daisy White..........................................................10*
Red Cross, WW  Headlight..............................   9
Naptha.............................................................. 
9*
Stove Gasoline.............   ....................................] l *
Palacine................................................................ 10
Red Cross W W Headlight...............................  

FROM   TA N K  W AGON,

7

15

¡■¡■nuking— Continued. 

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

W a rp a th ................................... 14
Honey  D ew ..............................26
Gold  Block..............................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless.....................................26
Old  Tom ...................................18
S tandard................................   22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
H andm ade................................40
Rob  Roy........................  
26
Uncle  Sam........................ 28@32
Red Clover............................... 32
Tom and J e rry ......................  25
T raveler  C avendish............. 38
Buck H orn...............................30
Plow  Boy..........................30@32
Corn  C ake............................... 16

L eidersdorfs Brands.

Spaulding A M errick.

V IN E G A R .

40 g r..................................   @8
50 gr................................   @9

81 for barrel.

W E T   M U STA R D .
Bulk, per gal  .....................  
30
Beer m ug, 2 doz In ca se...  1  75

Y EA ST.
 

D iam ond...  . 
75
E urek«....... 
1  f0
M agic.........................................1  00
Yeast  C re a m ..........................1  00
Yeast Foam  ............................1  00

 

S*@ 9 *

W O O D E N  W A R E .
Tubs, No. 1............................ 

5 7a
“  No. 2.................... 
 
“  No. 3............................... 4  uO
Palls, No.  1, two-hoop. 
1  25
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop 
Bowls, 11 In c h .......................
........................ 
“ 
90
“ 
.........................  1 25
“ 
.........................  1 80
H ID E S   P E L T S   an d   FU R S 
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol 

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

 

 

“ 

@ i*

..  8  @7

lows:
H ID ES
G re e n ....................... 
P art  C ured.................. 
F ull 
D ry..................................   6*@  
Kips, green  ...................   b @ 7
Calfskins,  g reen.......  «*@10
cu red ......... l i   @13
Deacon sk in s......... 
10  @25
No. 2 hides *   off.
PE L T S.

cu red ..................  7*@   9 *

44 

“ 

Shearlings......................  5 @  20
Lambs 
.........................  10 @  30
Oid  W ool.............. 
40  @  75
WOOL.
W ash ed ........................  
U n w a sh e d ......... 
 
T a llo w ...........................   3 @ 4
Grease  butter  .............  1 @ 2
1 * ©  
Switches 
G insene 
.............. 2  Owe 2 25
G R A IN S  a n d   F E E D S T U F P S  

M ISCELLANEOUS.

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

8 
  5 

W H EA T.

82 
82

FL O U R   IN   SACKS.

No. 1  W hite (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test I 
«Patents.................................  4  90
Second P a te n t....................  4  4j
S traight.................................  4  20
C lear............................................  3 Uj
•G rah am ...............................  4  un
B u ck w h eat.........................   4  50
Rye.........................................   4  > 0
•Subject  to  usual  cash  d is­
count.
Flour in  bbls., 25c per bbl. ad ­
ditional.
B olted....................................   2 50
G ranulated.................. 
2 75
St.  Car  Feed,  sc re e n e d ...821  00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  *2  50
No.  1 Corn and  Oats  ........   22 00
No. 2 S p e c ia l..........................  2u 50
U nbolted Corn  M eal........'.  21  50
W inter W heat  Bran  .........  15 00
W inter W heat M iddlings.  16  00 
S c re e n in g s ...............................  14 oo

P E E D   AND  K IL L 8T U F F 8

M EAL.

CORN.

Car  lo ts...................................   5 *
Less than  car  lo ts...............to

OATS.

Car  lots  ...................................35
Less than car lots  ...............  37

No.  1 Tim othy, car lo ts ___10  50
No. 1 
11  50

HAT
ton lots 

“ 

F IS H   A N D   O Y STERS 

FK K SH   P IS H

Whitehall 
.......................   @ 8
T r o u t...............................  
@ 7 *
Black B ass......... 
!2*@ !5
H alibut.............................   18®2j
ciscoes or H erring__   @ 6
B luefish.........................  @12*
Fresh  lobster, per lb .. 
1 j
Cod 
10
....................  ....... 
H addock...........................   @ 
No.  1 Pickerel  ...............  
@ 8
P ik e ...................................   @ 7
Smoked  W h ite ......... 
@  7
14
Red  S n a p p e rs............. 
Columbia  River  Sal­
10
mon ............................. 
M ackerel..........................  1S@25
Shrim ps,  per g a l......... 
l  25
SH E L L   GOODS
Oysters, per  luC.........  1  25@1  50
Clam«. 

75@1 OO

O TSTEBS— IN  OANS.

F. J . D ettenthaler’s Brands.
40
36

Fairhaven  C ounts__  
F  J. D.  Selects........... 

S afeg u ard s  a g a in st  D eterio ratio n   o f 

D rug  S tock.

ICONCLU D ED   FROM  PA G E T W EN TY  S IX .]
then  gradually  sink  through  the 
will 
drug and destroy the insects.
The  modern  method  of  marketing 
chlorinated  lime  in  hermetically  sealed 
parcels  is  not  only  a  source  of  con­
venience,  but  affords  protection, which 
serves to prevent loss of the loosely com­
bined chlorine,  upon which  the  value of 
the  preparation  as  a  disinfectant  is  al­
most entirely dependent.  The  disagree­
able odor of chlorine which  clings to the 
hands of the operator is also avoided.
Charcoal is used in medicine chiefly for 
its absorbent and disinfectant properties. 
Owing to its absorbent  powers,  it should 
not be unnecessarily  exposed  to  the  at­
mosphere of  a  laboratory  or  pharmacy, 
lest it be thus rendered  unfit  for  medic­
inal purposes.
Fine  sponges  should  be  kept  in  a 
closed  showcase  or  drawer.  Carriage 
and slate sponges,  which  are  frequently 
allowed to become soiled and lend an un­
tidy  appearance  to  the  store  by  rolling 
about in a window or on the floor, can  be 
conveniently kept  assorted  and  conspic­
uously  displayed  in  a wire  basket with 
separate  compartments 
for  different 
sizes.
Oxalic  acid  should  not  be  kept  in 
paper parcels, since  it  soon  renders  the 
paper  fragile,  and,  in  being  thus  scat­
tered  about,  may,  by  admixture  with 
other drugs, cause loss of life.  Owing to 
its external resemblance  to  Epsom  salt, 
and its very poisonous  nature,  the  sub­
stances  should  not  be  kept  in  similar 
drawers.  The practice of  keeping  them 
in containers of different style and safely 
remote from each other  is  less  likely  to 
lead to accidental confusion.
Remember that heated atmosphere usu 
ally  accumulates  near  the  ceiling,  and 
preparations  subject  to injury  by  expo 
sure to elevated  temperature  should  not 
be kept on upper shelves.  Several cases 
are on record  wherein  chlorinated  lime, 
which is known to greedily absorb  water 
and  carbonic  acid  from a humid atmos 
phere, was put up in securely corked and 
sealed  bottles,  which  were  then  placed 
upon  an  upper  shelf  until  the  heat of 
summer,  or a very warm  apartment, had 
liberated  sufficient  gas  to cause a start 
ling 
followed 
rapidly by a  succession  of  similar  ones 
and a cloud of  dust.
Lard,  ointments,  cerates,  and,  in  fact, 
nearly all animal fats,  are liable  to grow 
rancid by prolonged exposure to air,  thi 
change in many  cases  being  accelerated 
by  heat  and  light.  Every  precaution 
should,  of course,  be taken to avoid such 
decomposition;  but,  when  rancidity 
apparent,  preparations  should  never  be 
dispensed,  for, 
instead  of  having  the 
mild demulcent properties  which  const! 
tute their chief value,  they  become  irri 
tant  and  entirely  unfit  to  serve  as. 
vehicles for medicinal  substances  to  be 
applied  to  the  skin.  Ointment  jars 
should invariably be thoroughly  cleaned 
and freed from rancidity before  refilling 
with fresh stock.
With ordinary drug store  arrangement 
it is scarcely practicable to  entirely pro­
tect tinctures and fluid extracts  from  in­
jurious effects of  air, light  and  changes 
of temperature,  but any  provision which 
tends  to  prevent  precipitation 
from 
these  causes 
The 
is  commendable. 
stock of  tinctures  should  be  placed  in 
charge  of  one  capable  employe,  who 
should  be held  responsible for  its  condi­
tion.  Haste is apt  to  make  serious  in­
roads upon accuracy in  preparing  phar­
maceuticals.
The danger from leaving  bottles  inse­
curely corked is  apparent when  we  con­
sider  that  if  a  fluid  extract  prepared 
from  a menstruum  composed  of  diluted 
alcohol be exposed to the air  in  an  open 
vessel,  the  alcohol will  evaporate  much 
more rapidly  than  the  water.  By  this 
change  of  character  in  the  menstruum 
certain resinons constituents of  the drug 
frequently become insoluble and  are  de­
posited,  rendering the fluid more  or  less 
turbid,  and  materially  lessening  its  me­
dicinal value.  Collodion loses  ether  by
_  _ 
worthies!0“ 

sometimes 

explosion, 

The deterioration which can occur in a 
single drug store  from  causes  indicated

here commands the constant attention of 
the manager,  and  mnch  greater  is  the 
problem which  confronts  the  wholesale 
manufacturer,  who must prepare  a great 
variety of products in large  quantities to 
be distributed in the market in  all direc­
tions,  where they are expected to remain 
unchanged  through  the  extreme  varia­
tions in temperature  which  characterize 
the severe winters in the  north  and  the 
torrid summers in the south;  and no less 
injurious  is  the  improper  exposure  to 
which  pharmaceuticals  are  frequently 
subjected in temperate  climates.

L e o n   C.  F in k .

H is  Jo b   B lew   th ro u g h   H is  W hiskers.
A story is told of a  Philadelphia  hotel 
keeper.  Employed as a porter about the 
hotel  was  an  elderly  man named Mike, 
who had been an attache of the hotel  for 
eight years.  His most prominent feature, 
and  one  of  which  he  was  very proud, 
was  a  beard  of luxuriant growth.  One 
day  last  week  the  proprietor  of  the 
house was pacing  the  lobby  when  Mike 
happened to  pass.  The  proprietor  was 
in  a  very  disagreeable  frame  of  mind, 
and he stopped and looked at  Mike  with 
an  evil  light  in  his  eye.  “Come here, 
you,”  he  yelled  at  the  porter.  “How 
long have you  been  here?”  “Nigh onto 
eight  years,  sor.”  “Well,  you’ve  been 
here  long  enough.  You  needn’t  come 
back  to-morrow. 
tired  of  seeing 
you about.”  The poor porter was  thun­
der-struck.  He  went  to  his friend, the 
day  clerk,  and  told  him  all  about  it. 
“What’ll Oi do?” said he.  “Oi’ve a  woife 
and family fur  t’  support,  an’  Oi  can’t 
get another job.”  The clerk thought for 
a  minute  and  then  said  suddenly:  “I 
have  it.  You  go  home  and  shave  off 
your beard,  and then go to the  boss  and 
tell  him  you heard he needed a porter.” 
Mike followed the advice  next  day  and 
secured the situation,  becoming  his  own 
successor.  The  proprietor  has  never 
suspected the  trick.

I’m 

“Always Buy Dear and Sell Cheap.” 
“Always buy dear and sell cheap”  was 
the motto of one of the  founders  of  the 
great Rothschild house.  This  is  a  pro­
found saying and is worthy  of  the  most 
serious consideration  of  every  business 
man.  The motto  of  many  insignificant 
fellows is,  “Always buy  cheap  and  sell 
dear.”  But  listen  to  what  one  of  the 
greatest financiers  of  the  century  says: 
“Always  buy  dear  and  sell  cheap'.” 
There is nothing mean about that.  That 
does  not  smack  of  the  miser.  These 
words  do  not come from a swindler,  nor 
is this advice given by a man unsophicti- 
cated in commercial affairs.  On  the con- 
trary, it comes  from  a  typical  business 
man,  one  who  thoroughly  understood 
every branch and department  of  finance 
and commerce.  “Always  buy  dear  and 
sell cheap.”  There is a whole volume of 
admonition  “ boiled  down”  in  that  ex­
pression. 
It is at  the  basis  of  success, 
and is a lighthouse on the course leading 
to prosperity. 
Its full meaning is to  buy 
only the best and to  sell  it  at  a  reason­
able profit.  This is  how  a  majority  ef 
business men  have  attained  such  great 
success in commercial life.

It Does Not Pay.

It is not  at all economical  to operate a 
store which has dirty,  shabby and out-of- 
date windows,  and  it  is  a  good  invest­
ment to make the windows  as  handsome 
and convenient as  possible.  The money 
used in fixing up a window is  always re­
turned by the beneficial  results obtained 
from a clean,  well-dressed and up-to-date 
window. It is an investment which differs 
only from other and  similar  ones in  the 
fact that the investor is not compelled to 
wait a year or more  to  obtain  the  divi­
dends or profits.  When a retailer has his 
window attractively arranged he  obtains 
results immediately. 
It  attracts  the  at­
tention of people in need of goods  in  his 
line and it seems to invite  them to  enter 
the store,  where they will be handsomely 
treated.  But a  dirty,  ill-kept  window! 
What  self-respecting  person  will  enter
.  such a store when there are others whnrn
tidy?  The
money  invested  in  fixing  up  a  window 
never fails  to  return  in  benefits  to  the 
retailer.

W ild  T alk  a b o u t  A d u lteratio n . 

F r o m  t h e  A m e ric a n  G ro c e r.

It seems incredible that dealers in food 
products should discredit  their  business 
and  stimulate  the  circulation of reports 
which are grossly  exaggerated  and  mis­
leading,  but  difficult  to  counteract  be­
cause they contain a grain of truth deftly 
mixed with  much  of  error.  The  worst 
offender  against  trade  interests  is  the 
anonymous  slanderer, 
the  dealer  who 
lacks the courage  to back his statements 
with bis name.
The main question is not whether food 
is adulterated,  but  what  is  the  propor­
tion  of  adulterated  food  to  the  total 
amount consumed  and  the  character  of 
the  adulteration?  Considered  from  a 
sanitary  standpoint,  there is practically 
no such  question  as  food  adulteration. 
Such  as  is  practiced  is a crime against 
the  pocket,  and  not  the  person.  And 
this accounts for the  indifference  of  the 
public regarding the entire question.
Unfortunately  there  are  men  in  the 
trade who do not hesitate to  awaken  the 
fears  of  consumers  and  discredit  their 
calling,  by  spreading  alarming  reports 
and  making  sweeping  assertions,  ac­
tuated  by  the  idea  that  their  business 
will  be benefited—they credited  with  be­
ing Apostles of Purity and  Honesty.
As an illustration, they discredit coffee 
by asserting that there  is  manufactured 
an artificial  bean,  made from  dough  and 
having the appearance of the genuine ar­
ticle.  That  is  true,  but  the  quantity 
made is very, very small,  and  is  to  the 
total  quantity  consumed  as  a  drop  of 
water to the stream.  No one but a knave 
or fool would offer such  an  imitation  to 
his  trade,  because 
it  means  loss  of 
patronage,  dissatisfied  customers  and 
liability to being  charged  with  and  ex­
posed for a mean and petty fraud.
Technically an article may  be  adulter­
ated  within the meaning of  the  law  and 
yet  be perfectly wholesome,  but  this  is 
no justification for putting in circulation 
reports  of  an  alarming  character.  The 
public  is  very  susceptible—and,  about 
some 
things,  very  ignorant—and  fre 
quently  does  an injustice, as  years ago, 
when they ruined a bakery because a city 
daily  made  a  sensation  by stating that 
sulphuric  acid  and  marble  dust  were 
used by the  baker  to  generate  carbonic 
acid,  which was used to aerate or lighten 
bread,  being forced into it  mechanically 
instead  of  being  set  free  through  the 
action of yeast  or  the  decomposition  of 
baking powder.  The public  freely  used 
soda-water  charged  with  carbonic  acid 
gas,  made in a similar manner,  but  they 
objected  to  bread  made  light  in a like 
manner.
Recently a prominent city  daily loaned 
its columns to a sensational lot  of “rot,’ 
from one who  styled  himself  a  member 
of the National Retail Grocers’ Union(?)T 
and  which on its face was an  attempt  to 
bolster private  interests  by  discrediting 
the goods  and  character  of  the  smaller 
grocers.
As an example the following quotation 
will suffice:  “The coffee is  made  up  of 
old grounds from restaurants and hotels, 
yellow  ochre,  beans,  peas,  beef  blood 
bread  crusts  and  a  coloring  matter. 
Cheap tea is nothing  but  weeds  flavored 
and  colored  by  lead.  There  is  more 
danger in cheap flour, because the sweep­
ings  from  the  mill  floors  contain  mi 
crobes.”
A slight acquaintance with  the  litera­
ture of  adulteration  and  official  reports 
would  have  saved  a  reputable  journal 
from being the abettor of one  who  made 
an unjustifiable and untrue  attack  upon 
the integrity of competitors and the food 
supply.
There is no country on the face of  the 
earth  where  the  average  quality  of  the 
food supply  is so high as  in  the  United 
States.  There  is  no  class  of  dealers 
more honorable than the members of  the 
grocery trade,  both wholesale  and retail, 
and this  attack  upon  their  intelligence 
and integrity seems  to  be  a  case  where 
the old  adage  applies: 
“It  is  a  dirty 
bird that fouls her own nest.”

Divide your work up into departments. 
Give  each  clerk  his  department,  make 
him responsible for  its  proper  conduct, 
and don’t  interfere  with  him  nor  allow 
others to do so.

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MORAL  SIDE  OF  RAPID  TRANSIT.
Human beings are what  are  known as 
gregarious animals.  They  delight to as­
semble  and  live  together  in  crowds 
This  is  shown  by  great  cities,  which 
have existed from  the earliest times.  So 
completely  did  the  cities  of  Babylon 
Rome, Carthage and others  of  antiquity 
absorb the population  and  engross  pub 
lie  attention, 
that  people  forgot  that 
those cities were not  empires,  but  were 
only the capitals of empires.

The growth of cities is  no  new  thing, 
but it is more rapid in these  latter  days, 
made  so  by  the  facilities  of  railway 
travel  and  the  power  of  machinery  to 
change  industrial  conditions.  As  soon 
as  a  machine  will  take  the  place  of 
manual  labor  in  farm  operations,  the 
young  men  refuse  to  remain  longer in 
the  country,  and  flock  to  the  cities. 
Once being there,  they prefer  to remain, 
no matter what  may  be  the  conditions, 
while those who would go to the country 
to  escape  the  privations  of  poverty in 
the slums of a city are not able  to  leave 
for lack of means.

Speaking of modern  cities,  it  appears 
from the  latest  report  of  the  Commis­
sioner of Labor of the United  States  on 
the populations of  the  great  cities  that 
some  sections  of  New  York  are  more 
densely crowded than  is  any  other  city 
in the world. 
It appears that  the  popu­
lation of New  York  below  the  Harlem 
river, which,  indeed, embraces the great­
est extent of that city,  has  a  population 
of 144 to  the  acre,  while  Paris  has  125 
and Berlin 113.

It is claimed  that  the  Tenth  ward  in 
New  York  City  has  a  population  of 
628.26 to the  acre,  and  in  the  Eleventh 
ward  there  is  one  sanitary  district  in 
whiah,  on  thirty-two acres,  is crowded  a 
population  of  986  per  acre.  These,  it 
must be remembered,  are the people  who 
live in this area,  not those who come and 
go  for  temporary  purposes.  The  dens­
est section of Europe  is  believed  to  be 
the Josefstadt of Prague,  which has only 
485  inhabitants  to 
the  acre.  Further­
more,  it is said that over half  the  popu­
lation of New York  lives  in  tenements, 
and  while the death rate  at large  is  not 
heavy,  the death  rate where a  rear  tene­
ment is built on  a city lot  rises to  about 
three times  the  rate  for  the  city  as  a 
whole.

But an increase in  the death rate is not 
the only  crying evil  growing  out  of  the 
crowding of people  into cities.  There is 
the  frightful  destruction  of  morality. 
When people are  crowded  together  pri­
vacy  is  impossible,  and  individuals, no 
matter how careful  has  been  their  pre­
vious  social  and  moral  training,  soon 
come to conform themselves  to  the  con­
ditions  of  those  around  them.  Crowd 
poison not only  propagates  physical,  but 
moral disease,  also,  and there is no ques­
tion  that  moral  degeneration  is  as  in­
jurious to proper human development as 
is the undermining of  the  physical  con­
stitution.

The problem of thinning out  this pop­
ulation  is  solved  to  a  great  extent  by 
cheap rapid  transit  through  cities.  To 
this good work the  electric  car  and  the 
bicycle are already  contributing.  Rapid 
transit  enables  the  people  to  live  at  a 
greater distance from their  work,  and at 
the same time  to  traverse  that  distance 
with speed and economy.  By this means 
honest working people can be  moved out 
of the  slums  where,  to  a  great  extent, 
they are thrown,  against  their  will,  but 
by force of circumstances,  with the crim­
inal and vicious  classes.

the  belief 

The  New  York  Ruilway  Gazette,  in 
regard to thinning out  the population of 
the congested districts  of  the  American 
metropolis,  expresses 
that 
within a radius  of  eight  or  ten  miles  a 
great  many  active  and  comparatively 
prosperous  people  will  go  back  ana 
forth  on  their  wheels.  Within  a  zone 
of  about  fifteen  miles,  possibly  up  to 
twenty,  the  trolley  will  carry  a  good 
many suburban people.  For greater dis­
tances  the  suburbs  can  still  be  served 
belter by the  steam  railroad.  The  out­
come of the  working  of  these  agencies, 
either  together  or  in  competition,  will 
doubtless be a dissipation, into suburban 
districts, of  an  important percentage  of 
the  populations  still  huddled  in 
the 
cities.  Those  who  most  need  to  be 
scattered, the very  poorest,  cannot  take 
advantage  directly  of  these  agencies; 
but thinning out the stratum  next above 
would relieve that immediately  oelow.
F r a n k  St o w e l l .

T alked  Too  Much.

A  case  in  the  Albany  courts  is  one 
brought by  William  J.  Madden,  an  in­
surance  agent,  to  recover  $50,000 dam­
ages from  the Equitable  Life  Assurance 
Society  for  libel.  Madden,  who  is a  re- 
bater,  wrote  a  letter,  which  was  pub- 
ished  in the  Underwriter,  in  which  he 
congratulated  another  rebater  on 
the 
“manly stand he had  taken in admitting 
publicly that he was a rebater.”  In that 
letter  Madden  said  that  nine-tenths  of 
the agents gave up  part of their commis­
sions,  and the companies  encouraged  it. 
It was not long after  this that  the  Equi­
table Society  gave  Madden  thirty days’ 
notice of the  termination of his contract 
with the company because  of  his  views 
on  rebating.  Madden  asserts  that  the 
publication  of 
this  card  has  proven 
ruinous to him, as he  is  now  unable  to 
get contracts with any  other  companies, 
liis case is aggravating  enough  to  Mad­
den  him;  and  he  now  wishes  he could 
get a rebate on some of  the  language  he 
used for the sake of being smart.

E xcellent  B usiness  M axims.

31

CHICAGO

AND  W EST  M ICHIGAN  B’ï .

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d R apids...............7:15am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
Ar. C hicago....................  1:25pm  6:50pm  *7:20am
Lv.  C hicago....................8:25am  5:00pm  *11:45pm
Ar. G’d R apids.............. 3:05pm  10:35pm  *6:25am

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

TO  AND FROM  M USKEGON.

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

TR A V E R SE  C IT Y .  C H A R LEV O IX   AND  PETO SK X Y .

7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. G rand  R ap id s.. 
Ar.  M anistee.............  12:20pm  8:15pm
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Traverse C ity. . .  
Ar. C harlevoix......... 
3 :15pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey.......  
3:45pm  11:40pm
pm.

T rains arrive from  north at  BOO  pm and  10;00 

PA R L O R   AND  SL E E PIN G   CARS.

Parlor  car 

leaves  for  Chicago  1:25pm.  A r­
rives 
from  Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  Chicago  11:30pm.  A rrive  from   C hi­
cago 6:25am.

♦Every day.  Others week days  only.

DETROIT, 

°cu 2811894

LANSING  &  N ORTHERN  R , R„
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. G rand R apids.........7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. D etro it.....................11:40am  5:30pm  10:10pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  D etroit.....................   7:4i>am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. G rand R apids.........12:40pm  5:20pm  10:45pm

T O  AND  FROM   SAG IN A W ,  ALMA  AND  ST .  LO U IS. 

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

TO AND FROM   LO W ELL.

Lv. G rand R apids............   7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from  Low ell................12:40pm  6:20pm  ............

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Parlor  C arson all trains  between  G rand Rap 
ids and D etroit.  Parlor ca r to Saginaw on moru- 
in g traln .

T rains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.
Mich ig a n (T e n t r a t.

“ T 't e   N ia g a r a   F a lls   R o u t e .”

(T aking effect  Sunday,; May 27,1894.) 

•D aily.  A ll others daily, except Sunday. 

A rrive. 
D epart
10 20 p m ............ D etroit  E x p re ss ............. 7 0 0 a m
5  30 a m  ...........»Night  E xpress............. 11  20 p m
11  4i  a m .........New  York E x p re ss...........  6 0 0 p m
Sleeping cars  ru n  on  all  n ight  trains  to  and 
from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  D etroit a t  7:00 a m ;  re 
tu rn in g ,leave D etroit 4 :35 p m ,arriving at G rand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
D irect  communicatlOH  m ade  at  D etroit  w ith 
all through  trains e rst  over  the  M ichigan Cen­
tra l Railroad  (Canada Southern Division.)
A. A l sh ju is t, T icket Agent, 
______________Union  PasHengerStHtlon

■ ETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  M l  

W ALK EE  Railw ay.
R ailw ay.
EASTW ARD.

Trains L< ave
G'd  Rapids,  Lv
Io n ia ............Ar
St.  Johns  ...A r
Owosso........Ar
E. Saginaw.  Ar
Bay City.......Ar
Flint 
........   Ar
Pt.  Huron... Ar
P ontiac........Ar
Detroit. 
Ar

tNo.  14 tNo.  16 T N o . 
6 45am
7 40am
8 25am 
900am
10 50am
11 3> am 
10 05am
12 05pm
10 53am
11 50am
W ESTW A RD .

1<  20am
11 25am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

,6
325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm
6 Oopm 
8 00pm 
S37pm
7 05pm 
850pm
8 25pm. 
925mr|

11oopm 
IU  35 am 
1 25am 
3 10am
6 40am 
715am 
54  am
7 30am 
5 37am 
7 no» m

*’ 

“ 

F or  G rand H aven  and interm ediate
Points  .................................................. *8:40 a. m.
I  For Grand  H aven and  M uskegon.........tl a 0 p. m
!  “ 
“  Mil.  and C h i..  t5  35 p. m.
;  F or G rand  H aven  Mil.  and  Chi.........  *7;4C p.  m.
j  For G rand H aven and M ilw aukee__ tl0:u5 p.  m.

»Daily.

tD aily except  Sunday. 
T rains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m .,  12:50 
p.m.. 5:30 p. m „  10: m   p.m. 
j  T rains  arrive  from  th e  west.  6:40  a,  m.  8:15 
a. m.  10:10 a.  m.  3:15  p m   and 7:05 p.m .
Eastw ard—No.  14  has  W agner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.  No. 82 W agner  Sleeper.
W estward — No. 11  Parlor Car.  No. 15 W agner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81  W agner Sleeper.

•Ias. Cam pbell. City T 'ek et A gent.

S en satio n al  W indow   D isplay.

T H E   M I C H IG A N   T E A D È 8 M A K .
lodgings.  These two  demands  working 
together have created the tenement house 
with  its  crowds  of  people  herded 
to­
gether like feasts, and  living under con­
ditions of  the  utmost  insalubrity.  The 
tenement  house  districts  are  infested 
alike with crowd poisons, bodily filth and 
moral vileness,  which work  the  greatest 
damage  to  the  people  who are confined 
to them.

One of the most studious and conserva­
tive men in the retail ranks of  this coun­
try, albeit one  of  the  most  progressive 
and  successful,  gives as his opinion that 
where a store is doing a really  fine-grade 
trade  with  a  high  class  of  people,  the 
sensational  window does more harm than 
good; that is to say,  the  window  which 
covers the sidewalk,  and makes a  crowd, 
often  obstructs  the  doorway,  so  that 
the customers who want to spend money, 
and not look at a display,  cannot  get  in 
without  annoyance.

IVow is t h e   T im e

TO ORDER PLANTS.  TH EY A RE  
CHEAP.  YOU CAN MAKE MON­
I  OFFER  YOU 
E Y  ON  TH E». 
Cabbage and Tom ato  Plants, 200 in box, box  65c 
Sweet  Potatoes and Celery Plants, 200 In box  80c
Common Green Onions, per d o z ..........................10c
Seed Onions, per  d oz..............................................15c
Radishes, long o r round, very fine,  per doz 
. 10c
A sparagus, per doz.................... 
30c
Cucum bers,  per  doz............................................... 50c
Spinach, new,  per b u ...........................................  50c
Pie Plant, p erb u   .................................................... 4ec
B ananas, per  bun ch ...................................fl.50@2.00
W ax  Beans,  Peas, Green Beans,  Beets, Carrots 
and Straw berries at lowest m arket prices.
We area Mail Order Fruit and Produce House. 
Am certain I can save you money.  Send m e your 
m ail  orders  and  you  will  alw ays  get  GOOD 
FRESH  GOODS.

 

Yours respectfully.

4 4 5 -W  S. DIVISION ST., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

C Y C L E S
S T E F *
BA. O D E R .

Since  it  is  impossible  to  arrest  the 
growth of cities or to send the  people by 
wholesale  back  to  the  country,  it  be­
comes  necessary  to  thin  out  the  over­
crowded districts by spreading the people 
over  a  larger  territory. 
It  has  been 
found that the  masses  of  the  people  in 
cities  are  operated  on  by  conditions 
which have combined  to work them great 
injury.  One of these is the necessity for 
living near to the  scenes  of  their  labor.
The  other  is  to  secure  cheap  rents or i avoiding many brands and hard stock.

It is a merchant’s duty to  ennoble  his 
business  by  his  integrity  and  absolute 
fairness.
He who is most slow in making a prom­
ise is most faithful in keeping it.
Work is not a  man’s  punishment;  it is 
his reward,  his  strength,  his  glory,  his 
pleasure.
A jobber’s first  duty is to help his cus­
tomers to prosper.
Learn from  the  experience  of  others. 
Your theories are likely to  be  incorrect 
Politeness  is  the  cheapest  capital  in 
the world and pays the largest dividends.
Enthusiasm is a loadstone  in business. 
Cultivate it—you can’t buy it.
Confine  your  purchases  in  one  line 
substantially 
thereby

to  one  house, 

WHITE

HIRTH,  KRAU8E  i  GO,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS, 

for Catalogue.

utrand  R apids  di In d ian a.

TRAINS  GOING  NORTH.

L e a v e  g o t i  g  

N o r th

F o r  T r a v e r s e  C ity , P e to s k e y   a n d  S a g in a w .. .. 7  :i0  a .  i r .
F o r Sacci n a w ..........................................................................6:00 p- r   ...
F o r   P e to s k e y   a n d   M a c k in a w ................................6:26 v,  m .

TRAINS  GOING  SOUTH.

L e a v e  g o in g  
F o r   C in c in n a ti.....................................................................7 :2 6 a .m .
F o r  K a la m a z o o  a n d   C h ic a g o ................................... 2:16 p .  m .
F o r   F o r t  W a y n e  a n d   t h e   B a s t................................ 2:16 p .m .
F o r  C i n c i n n a t i ................................................................*6:40  p . m .
F o r   K a la m a z o o  a n d   C h ic a g o ................................*11:40  p .  m

S o  n t h .

Chicagro v ia 6 .  R.  S t I.  R.  R.

L v  G r a n d  R a p id s ............... 7:26 a m  
2:15 p m  
A r r   C h ic a g o ..........................2:40 p r a   9:06 p m  

*11:40 p m
7:10 a m

2:15 p   m   t r a i n   h a s  t h r o u g h   W a g n e r   B u ffe t  P a r l o r  

O a r a n d  c o a c h .

11:40  p m  t r a i n  d a l l y ,   t h r o u g h   W a g n e r  S le e p in g  C a r 

a n d  C o a c h .
L v   C h ic a g o  
A r r  G r a n d  R a p id  t 

6 :5 0 a m  
2:60pm  

3 :3 0 p m  
9:15 p m  

11:3 0 p m
7:20 a m

3  30  p   m   h a s   t h r o u g h   W a g n e r   B u ffe t  P a r l o r   C a r  
1130 p  m   t r a i n  d a ily  . t h r o u g h   W a g n e r   S le e p in g   C a r  

F o r  M u s k e g o n —L e a v e . 

M u sk e g o n , O ran ti  R apiti» & I n d ia n a .
9;50 a  m
7:26  a   m  
1 :1 6 p m
1 :0 0 p m  
6:20 p  m
6:40  p  m  
O  L. LO C K W O O D *

F ro m   M u s k e g o n —A rri*  e .

G e n e r a l  P a s s e n g e r  a n d   T ic k e t  A g e n t .

TELbJ  M I C H I G A N   THADEISMAJST.
Eggs  are  arriving  in  bad  condition. 
For best Michigan and Northern  Indiana 
13}£c is about all the  market  can  stand. 
The demand  is  not  active,  and  a  large 
quantity is being placed  in  cold  storage 
“against the time of higher prices.” 
Beans and peas are  meeting  with  fair 
demand  and  quotations  are  firmly  ad­
hered to.  California lima beans  are  de­
cidedly scarce and very strong.
There  is  said  to  be  a scarcity of fire­
crackers and an  unprecedented  demand 
An ice trust has been  formed,  with  t 
capital of $12,500,000,  taking in  all  com 
panies of New England  and  New  York,

32

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N ew s  from   th e   M etropolis----Index  of

th e   M ark ets.

Special  Correspondence

N e w   Y o r k,  J u n e   8—C lim atic  in flu ­
ences  hav e so m eth in g   to  do  w ith   trad e, 
a fte r all.  W hen  it  is  so  h o t  th a t  it  re ­
q u ire s  an  effort  to  live,  th in g s  go  slow . 
E verybody  goes  dow n  by  th e   ocean  and 
b u y ers  com ing  iu  from  
th e  su rro u n d in g  
co u n try   have  no  en th u siasm   le ft  a fte r 
they  have  sw eltered   on  th e   pav em en ts 
fo r a  day  o r so.  T h e  h eat  h as  its  effect 
on  goods,  too,  and  th e   big p iles  of  decay­
ing  fru it  and  fish  te stify   to  th e   tru th   of 
th is  statem en t.  T h e  stre ets  are  lined 
in  stra w b errie s,  ju s t 
w ith  “ b a rg ain s” 
good  enough 
being 
th ro w n   aw ay,  y e t  n o t  good  en ough  for 
any  one  w ith   a  p alate  a t  a ll  d iscrim in a t­
ing.  W elcom e  re lie f  cam e  on  W ednes­
day  and  everybody  w rap p ed   th e   d rap ery  
of  h is  couch  ab o u t  him   and  laid   dow n  to 
p le a sa n t  dream s.  T h e  sto res  have  tak en  
on  a  new   lease  of  life   and  busin ess 
am ong  grocery  jo b b ers  is  abo u t  all 
th a t 
can  be desired.

to  p re v e n t 

them  

T h e  h ard w are  tra d e   is  re p o rte d   ex cel­
len t,  also.  T h e   recen t  and  unexam pled 
advance  in  th e   p ric e   of  w ire  n ails  h as 
been  th e   topic  o f  co n v ersatio n   all 
the 
w eek;  b u t  it seem s  to  be  p re tty   g en erally  
conceded  th a t  th e  rise  h as  been  a  p e r­
fectly   leg itim ate  advance,  and  th a t  th e 
recen t 
be 
to uched  again.

low   p rices  w ill  n o t 

soon 

- 

T h e  su g ar  m a rk e t  has  been ra th e rd u li. 
T h is  seem s  su rp risin g , 
in  view   of  th e 
fact  th a t  it  is  th e   season  w hen  we  m ig h t 
reaso n ab ly   ex p ect  a  g re a t  ru sh   fo r  the 
a rticle.  R efined  sells  in  only  an   ev ery ­
day  m an n er  and  w ants  are  su p p lied   w ith 
no  delay.  S u p p lies  of  su g ar  are  am ple, 
and,  as  ra te s  a re   so  low, 
it  is  th o u g h t 
consu m p tio n   should  show   a  steady  in 
crease. 
fa ir  m ail  o rd ers  cam e 
T h u rsd a y   and  F rid ay .  Q u o tatio n s  have 
n o t  been  changed.

Som e 

th e   d istu rb a n c e   In 

T eas  are  d u ll.  T h e re   is  a  little   ta lk  
th a t 
th e   Isla n d   of 
F orm osa  m ay  re su lt  in  d istu rb in g   value, 
on  c erta in   grades,  b u t  n o th in g  d efinite  is 
know n.

W hile  th e  coffee  m a rk e t  show s  no  p ar 
tic u la r  an im atio n ,  th e re   is  a  good deal  of 
tiim ness  d isp lay ed   by  h olders,  w ho  say 
th a t  no  concessions  w h atev er  are  being 
m ade  to  consu m m ate  sales.  Rio  No. 
w orth  a t  th e   m om ent  16c.  T h e  am ount 
of  coffee  afloat 
is  522,948  bags,  ag ain st 
only  283,096  bags  last  year.  M ild  coffee 
show s  very  little   an im atio n   and  p u r­
ch asers  are  “ w a itin g .”  O rd ers  a re   for 
sm all  lots  and,  w hile  q u o ta tio n s  are  u n ­
changed,  it  is  said  th a t  som e  concessions 
have  been  m ade,  ra th e r  th a n   lose  a  sale. 
C anned  goods  co n tin u e  to  show   an  im-
p roving tendency and p ack ers are no long­
e r  ta k in g   w h atev er  b u y ers  see  fit  to   of­
fer.  T hey  are  m a sters  o f  th e   situ a tio n  
and 
th e  m a rk e t  is  decid ed ly   firm er  all 
aro u n d .  W hile  no  p e rc ep tib le   advance 
has  tak en   place  in  p rices,  th e re   is  a  b et­
te r  feelin g , 
fo r  C alifo rn ia 
goods. 
Jo b b ers  act  w ith  a g re a t  deal  of 
co n serv atism   and  show   very  little   in te r­
e st 
T om atoes  a re   2J£c 
h ig h er,  b u t.  as  rem ark ed ,  th ere is no gen­
eral  ap p reciatio n ,  as  a  lu le .  in  th e  m ar­
ket  fo r  goods  g en erally .  T h e  p ack in g  
season  is  iu  fu ll  b last  and  th e  q u a lity   of 
peas,  as  rep o rted   from   B altim o re,  could 
be  no  b etter.

esp ecially  

lu tu re s . 

fo r 

th e  outlook.  F oreign 

Rice  is  firm .  D ealers  are w ell satisfied 
w ith 
is  m eeting 
w ith  m ore  a tte n tio n   th an   d om estic  and 
firm  fu ll  ra te s  are  asked  and  obtained. 
R ecent  a rriv a ls  have  been  q u ic k ly   d is­
posed  of  and  th e dem and  is a h ealth y  one.
Spices  are  rep o rted   w ell  held,  b u t  th e 
up w ard   m ovem ent  has  been,  seem in g ly  
caused  m ote  by  sp ecu latio n  
th a n   an y ­
th in g  else.

B u tte r  is  in  a  m eltin g   cond itio n .  A 
larg e  p ro p o rtio n   of  a rriv a ls  h as  been 
way  “ off,”   and  fo r even  the  very  best the 
dem and  has  been  som ew hat  slack .  F o r 
finest  E lgin,  S ta te   or  P e n n sy lv an ia,  18c 
is  asked.

Cheese,  likew ise,  has  com e 

to  tow n  in 
so rry   p  ig h t  and  th e   m a rk e t  is  som ew hat 
size, 
dem oralized. 
fancy 
F o r  export 
w hite,  7 K c 
h o ld ers claim   th a t  th ey   a re   g e ttin g  good 
q u a lity   fo r  7c  and  are  n o t  offering  above 
that figure.

F o r  sm all 
is  quotable. 

Such  dealers 

first  sale  in  New  York,  last  Tuesday, 
prices were fully 81 per  box  higher,  and 
each succeeding day’s sale  witnessed  an 
advance of 25@50c per box,  and,  at  the 
last sale Friday,  the  market  closed  very 
strong at an advance of  fully  $1.50  per 
box over prices realized  Monday.  After 
the first sale,  brokers were deluged  with 
orders  from  Western  buyers,  who,  as 
I stated previously in these columns,  have 
held  a  light  supply,  and  who  were,  of 
course,  anxious  to  get  in  before  higher 
prices  ruled.  Most of the  dealers  gave 
a  limit,  which  prevented  the  brokers 
from  securing  the  number  of  boxes  de 
sired,  unless they  took the  common  and 
choice  stock, which did not  prove  to  be 
a good investment, as the most of  it  was 
cheap  and  trashy. 
placed open  orders,  aad  trusted  to  the 
good judgment of their  brokers,  had  to 
pay  a  little  more  money  than  they  ex­
pected,  but  the  market  at 
the  close 
showed  that  they  were  reasonably  sure 
of  securing  $1@2  per  box  profit  on  the 
purchase made.  The  cool  weather  did 
not  cause  the  market  to  break  in  the 
least,  as  prices  were  fully  maintained, 
as above set forth, and if the hot weather 
continues for a  week  longer,  it  is  rea­
sonably safe to assume  that  lemons  will 
sell to the retail trade at  from  $7  to  $8 
per box.  There  is  scheduled  to  arrive 
between  now  and  the  Fourth  of  July 
seven  cargoes,  amounting 
to  110,000 
boxes.  That is not enough to supply the 
country In  ordinary  weather,  let  alone 
the extraordinary weather  which  we are 
having at present 
It  will  be  perfectly 
safe to order of your jobber such amount 
of lemons as you may need  to  carry  you 
through until July 1, at present prices.

Oranges—Mediterranean 

sweets  are 
about the only  thing  which  is  reaching 
the 
local  market  in  good  condition. 
Low prices are being  made  on  the  few 
seedlings left in California,  but  they are 
unsafe  to  buy,  owing  to  overripeness 
which  causes  them  to  melt  down  like 
butter in a hot day when  taken  from  an 
iced  refrigerator.  The  sweets  are  in 
their prime,  and are the hardiest oranges 
to be procured  at  the  present  time.  A 
few Messinas,  bloods and rodis are being 
offered every day at the  auctions in New 
York at reasonably  low  prices,  but  for 
solidity  and  flavor  they  are  not  in  it 
with California stock  at  present.  After 
this month,  the trade will have to depend 
on foreign fruit, as  the  California  crop 
will all  be gathered  in.  Prices  as  they 
appear elsewhere  in  this  paper  are  in 
harmony  with  those  realized  by  other 
and larger  markets,  and  the  wholesale 
trade here have taken  measures  to  pro­
vide themselves with plenty of  stock  to 
supply the entire state with  oranges  for 
Fourth of July trade.

Bank  Notes.

F.  E.  Turrell,  of  Bellaire,  and  A.  C, 
and  O.  D.  Tiffany,  of  Ashley,  have 
formed a partnership and will carry on a 
banking business at Bellaire.

The People’s. National  Bank  of  Jack- 
son received  its  first  charter  from  the 
Comptroller of the Currency thirty  years 
ago last Wednesday,  June 6, just  at  the 
close  of  the  civil  war. 
It  has  had but 
two presidents and three cashiers  during 
that  period.  Four  of  the  original  di­
rectors  are  still  on  the  board,  and five 
have died.

A copartnership has been  organized at 
Lowell for the purpose of  embarking  in 
the  banking  business  at  Sparta  under

The  Grocery  Market, 
ruled 

bugar—Values  have 

firm  on 
granulated and  other  hard  sugars,  and 
there are no indications  of  lower  prices 
on these grades.  On carload lots  the  re­
finers have shaded soft sugars a sixpence 
in order to move the accumulation.  The 
feeling  among  the 
trade  is  that  any 
change in  values will  be upward.

Molasses—The feature of the week has 
been the improved demand  for  New  Or­
leans open  kettle molasses,  and as stocks 
are largely reduced,  it is difficult for buy­
ers to make selections.  New Orleans has 
no stock  to draw from  and  holders  gen­
erally  are  very  firm  and  confident  re­
garding  the  future.  Centrifugals  have 
been  duli,  with  the  exceptions  of  low 
grades.  The demand for foreign grades 
continues  good  and  prices  recently es­
tablished are fully maintained.

Syrups—The  syrup  market  remains 
uncharged.  The  demand  is  fair  and 
runs  on  the  lower  and medium grades. 
Stocks are light and prices  are  firm  and 
unchanged.

Prunes—Improved  reports  from  the 
primary markets have given  the  market 
for French prunes  a  firmer  appearance. 
Advices  from  Bordeaux  report  an  ad­
vance  of  about  one  franc.  California 
prunes  are  a  little  steadier  but  prices 
are yet nominal.  Sultanas  are  quiet  at 
unchanged prices.

Provisions—The course of  the  market 
for  hog  products  has  been  mainly  to 
stronger prices,  although at times show­
ing slight  reactions.  The  situation  has 
been affected chiefly  by  the  speculation 
in  wheat,  which  continued  to stronger 
prices.  The  outside  sentiment  of  buy­
ing grain extends  to  hog  products  in  a 
more  general  way  than  in the previous 
week.  The great  trouble  in  materially 
strengthening prices of  provisions is the 
absence of  material  export  demand  for 
either  lard  or  bacon,  while  the  stocks 
over the world of lard  have  grown  over 
20,000  tierces  for the month and are  re­
markably large and oppressive.

OH  All  graces  of  illuminating  oil 
have been advanced  %c,  both  by  barrel 
and from tank wagon.

Bananas  The demand  for  bananas  is 
beginning to  let  up  a  little,  owing,  in 
part, to the large  krrivals  of  small  do­
mestic fruits  and  berries,  and,  also,  to 
the  fact  that  the  hot  weather  causes 
them to melt down quite  fast, and  deal­
ers,  as a rule, do not care to  order ahead 
of  their  immediate  wants.  A  great 
many of the carloads  coming  in  are  too 
ripe to ship out and have to  be  disposed 
of  to  the  local  grocers  and  peddling 
trade,  and,  as such  sales  inevitably  net 
the commission men a loss, they  are  not 
anxious to get in more carloads  than can 
be  disposed  of  within  a  day  or  two. 
Prices  will  probably  average  a  little 
lower for the balance of this month.

Lemons—The  excitement  among  the 
fruit men during the past week has  been 
centered in the lemon situation.  At the

the  style  of  the  Sparta  Banking  Co. 
The  copartners  are  M.  C.  Griswold, 
Francis  King,  F„  T.  King,  Geo.  H.’ 
Force,  Chas.  McCarty,  Robert  Hardy,  L. 
J. Post and B.  N.  Keister,  who  are all of 
the  stockholders  of  the  Lowell  State 
Bank.  Mr.  Keister,  who  has  been  As­
sistant Cashier for the Lowell State Bank 
for the past two years,  will act as cashier 
of the Sparta  institution,  which  will oc­
cupy  the building in  which W. H. Heath 
conducted  a  bank  until  recently.  The 
gentlemen  embarking  in  the  enterprise 
are all men of  means  and  will  give  the 
people of Sparta  what  they  have  never 
had—a  solvent,  responsible  institution.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

PROVISIONS

The Grand Kaplds  Packing  and Provision Co 

..........  

quotes as follows :
F O B S   IN  B A R B E L S.
Mess..............................   ..............  ‘ 
Short c u t ............................ 
Extra clear pig, short out........
Extra clear,  heavy............
Clear, fat  back....................
Boston clear, short cu t__
Clear back, shortcut..............
Standard clear, short cut. best
SA U SA SE.
Pork, links..........................
Bologna.............................
Liver...........................................
Tongue  ...............................
Blood ................................
Head cheese........................
Summer..........................
Frankfurts.............................
_  
L A B I).
Kettle  Rendered.................
G ranger..............................
Fam ily....................................... 
Compound........................ 
Oottolene..........................
riotosuet.........................
50 lb. Tins, He advance. 
201b.  palls,  He 
“   V c 
101b. 
51b. 
“   Xc 
3 lb. 
'•  1  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs...............  
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.......... ’  7  „o
Boneless, rump butts................................  
Hams, average 201 bs............ 

BEEF  IN  BABBELS.

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smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.

19 Kn
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14 00
13 00 
13 50 
13 50 
13 50
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DRT  SALT  MEATS.
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16lbs............................"10
12 to 14 lb s........................  
10
p icn ic........................... ................ 
9
 
best boneless..................... 
Shoulders...................................... 
7
Breakfast Bacon  bon eless.."..."......!.].......  a *
Dried beef, ham prices...............  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1
Long Clears, h eavy..........................  
Briskets,  medium....................
PICKLED  Pies’  PEET.
Half  barrels................................  
Quarter barrels.......................  
...................,  «
K its ...........................................................................%
75
Kits, honeycomb  .................................. 
Kits, premium 
¡¡5
Creamery,  rolls......................................... 
Dairy,  rolls...................................."-  "-11«

BUTTEBINE.
tubs...................... 

j*
........................ 15

........................... I ! . 

TRIPE.

 
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B U T T E R   W A N T E D !

tubs.

Prices  quoted  on application.

7,,

On following goods:

.........j  75
3 60
best made.  Price per  case  ........................  2  40

N O T E   L O W   P R IC E S
Mrs. Wlthey’s Home Made Jelly, made  with 
boiled cider,  very  fine.  Assortment con 
slsts  of  Apple,  Blackberry,  Strawberry 
Raspberry and Currant:
30-lb.  pall............................. 
*Mb.pau..................................... £
17-lb.  pail..............................................
15-lb. pall....................................................
1  quart Mason  Jars, per  doz. . . 
1  pint  Mason  Jars,  per  doz............... 1  35
Per case, 3 doz.  in  case........................ 
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the
Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb.................................... 
25-lb. pails, per lb ........................ 
12-lb. pails, per lb ....................... « 2
2-lb. cans, per doz................................ "  1  an
51b. cans, per  doz.....................350
Pint Mason Jars, per  doz............... .. .   ] ] 1   25
Quart Mason Jars, per  doz  ... 
............... o oo
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per’gal__ 1214
Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal  14 
1  40 
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per  doz 
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
Peach Marmalade in pt  Mason jars, pr dz”   1  20 
No  1 Egg Crate  Fillers, best  in  market,  10 
sets in case, No. 1 Case  included... 
1  25
No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers complete 
"  
33
Special prices made on ICO Crate lots.
s yrnP9 a°<l quote you Refiners’ prices:
White Sugar Drips, H bbls..................per gal  32
“  58
_  
Honey Drips, H bbls  ....................... 
“ “  gg
“  48
EDWIN FALLAS,0B*N«Saip,DS

1 and H gal.  pails  “ 
 
“ 

1 and H  gal.  palls. 

... .............   «1/

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B.  J.  REYNOLDS

GRAND  RAPIDS 

Sole  A gent  for  M ichigan

G O O D S   G U A R A N T E E D

M a il  O r d e r s   S o licited

Porcelain  Toilet  S e ts

H a v ila n d ’sE^nch Q j1jn a

COLUMBIA  DECORATED  TOILET  SET.

Esicii piece in this lovely pattern  is  a model of grace and beauty.  We 
have a variety of decorations,  namely:  White and Gold,  Assorted  Colors, 
Pearl, Brown and Green, and  Enameled  and  Gold  Illuminated, at the  fol­
lowing prices for  12  piece sets:

Rich decorations, delicate spray  of  Lavender  and  Yellow Flowers in 
scattered style, Gold Stippled Handles (Platters and Bakers new oval shape).

Columbia,  white and  gold, 
il2   00
Columbia Triumph, assorted  colors, gold  illmtd.  13  00 
Columbia Triumph,  enameled  roses, gold  illmtd.  14  00 
Columbia  Primela,  enameled  floral, gold  illmtd.  14  00

LIST   PRICE  PER   S E T   98  PIECES,  $56.00.

These goods can  be had in any quantities desired.  As easily  matched 

j as common  white ware.

List  Prices  Subject  to

Discount•  Write  for Prices.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids
You  Jire  Losing"  M oney

E v ery   d a y   y o u   u se  y o u r   old   sca le.
Can  y o u   afford  it th ese   h ard   tim es? 
W h e n   y o u   ca n   p r e v en t  it  b y  u s­

in g  aD ayton 
Com puting 
Scale*—

D rop  u s  a  card if y o u  w a n t to  k n o w  
h o w   w e   ca n   stop  the  leaks  in  y o u r  
b u sin ess.

THE COMPUTING SC A L E  CO.,  Dayton, O.

