VOL. 7. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1890. NO. 3<)3. REMPIS & GALLMEYER, A Grocer’s Failing. corpse. Yes sir, the life went out of him From the American Grocer. in that cry, and the mother turned on me I. FOUNDERS His goods are of the latest, and their quality the with a look I can never forget, and cried: General Jobbers and Manufacturers of OYSTERS straightest, and his trade is quite as booming “ ‘He’s dead! He’sdead! And you have as any merchant in the land; Settees, Lawn Vases, Roof Crestings, Carriage Will arrive Sept. 3. Let your orders killed him!’ Steps, It g Posts and Stair Steps. come. We quote: Very few can touch his prices on flour, teas or “I don’t like to think of it,” whispered 54-56 Pi. Front St. Grand Rapids, Mich. SOLID BRAND—Selects.............................30 spices, and his sugar it is guiltless of a single “ “ E. F ......................................34 grain of sand. the conductor, after a long silence. “I “ “ Standards............................ 23 n. had my month’s wages in my pocket, and Medium Clover DAISY BRAND—Selects.............................28 He is spry enough and clever, and he makes a “ “ Standards.............................20 strong endeavor to anticipate his patrons I gave her every dollar of it, and the with agility and dash; Mammoth Clover “ “ Favorites..............................17 passengers raised as much more, and Choice Full Cream Cheese, 8%c. But his nature iB too trusting, and he’s on the when I left her with her dead at the next point of busting; for he always gets the T im o th y “ Dairy Butter, 16c. credit and too seldom gets the cash. station, I had done everything I possibly could, but that didn’t clear me. I had R ed T o p ‘‘Only a Little Chap.” been too harsh and cold. She had told Fresh Laid “I know,” said a G. R. & 1. conductor, me the truth and 1 had doubted her. She Orchard Grass as he finished counting up and lighted a had asked for mercy and 1 had ordered Choice 360 Lemons, $7. cigar, “that most people call us a hard her out into the night and the storm with All kinds seeds and Pure Cider Vinegar, Full Strength, 10c. hearted lot, but we’ve got to be, or at a dying boy in her care. She has never Our Mince Meat, Best in Use, 6}£c lb. least must appear to be. A railroad forgiven me and never will, and try hard 2-lb. Cans (usual weight), $1.50per doz. as I may I can never forgive myself.” lowest market values I-lb. “ “ “ *3.50 “ company has little to do with sentiment and a great deal to do with business. 1 at can’t afford to let people ride at my ex­ The Sex Are Queer. pense, so what am I to do?” There were four passengers of us who The Alfred B ren Seed Store, No remedy being suggested, he smoked got off at a country junction to wait two away in silence for two or three minutes, hours for the train on the other line— BROWN BUILDING, N. Div. St., SEEDS! and then continued: two men and two women. None of us GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. “I didn’t use to have so much heart had ever seen each other before. The about it, always excusing myself on the station was little better than a barn, with If in want of Clover or Timothy, plea of duty; but one night about three no house nearer than a quarter of a mile. years ago something happened which has Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top, The women gave each other a look and kept my heart pretty soft ever since. It entered the waiting room, where they SEEDS! or, in fact, Any Kind of Seed, was on the run out of Ft. Wayne, and sat down as far apart as possible. send or write to the when I came to take up the fares 1 came “Well, old boy,” remarked the strange Write for jobbing prices on across a woman and child. She was pale- man to me, “have a smoke?” Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and faced and poorly clad, and she had a “You bet.” Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Orchard world of trouble in her face. I saw that And in five minutes we were well Grass, Red Top, Blue Grass, in a general way, but it was not my busi­ acquainted, and playiDg eucher under Field Peas. Beans, 71 Canal St., GRAND RAPIDS. ness to pity her. The child with her, a the shadow of a box car. He didn’t take boy of seven or eight, was lying back on me for a thief and I never suspected him W . T. I. AMORE A U X . the seat, with her old shawl for a pillow. of murder, and the two hours went by in APPLES She offered me one full-fare ticket to a a hurry. AMD point about forty miles below, but I de­ Not so in the depot, however. For the manded one for the boy. first half hour the two women glared at W. C. WILLIAMS. A. SHKLEY. “ ‘Please, sir,’ she said, ‘we are very POTATOES. A. S. BROOKS. each other. Neither would speak first. poor, and he’s only a little chap, and I’m Each was afraid of the other. One looked WILLIAMS, taking him home to die.’ out into a turnip field and the other into C. Ainsworth, “That was no excuse, and 1 plainly a swamp. Now and then one or the other 76 So. Division St., Grand Rapids. SHBLBY told her that she must pay for him or mustered up courage to approach the & BROOKS he’d have to get off. I thought she was door and look out, but always to return Au j h D u r f e e . A. D . L eav en w or th. trying to beat his way, but in that 1 was to her seat again. Only one had a watch. Successors to Allen Durfee & Co., mistaken. It was a dark and rainy night She consulted it every five minutes, but FARRAND, WILLIAMS & C0., and she’d never have got ready to leave the other dared not ask her what time it the train at the next stop if she’d had was. As an offset, however, a wooden Wholesale Druggists, money to pay for the boy. I felt a bit pail, half full of warm water, stood near AT THE OLD STAND. ashamed when I saw her making ready, her, and though the other lady was dying Corner Date» and Larned Streets, Detroit. and it hurt me to see her lean over him for a drink she dared not go over to the and both cry together, but one of our pail. One had a novel and the other had How to Keep a Store. men had been discharged only the week a bundle of shells and curiosities, and Eaton, Lyon i Go., By Samuel H. Terry. A book of 400 pages before for overlooking a one-legged sol­ written from the experience and observation of they could have chatted and visited and an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Bust dier who only wanted a lift for ten read and had a good time. But they ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver­ tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, etc. Of miles.” dared not. They had not been intro­ great interest to every one in trade. $1.50. “And no one offered to pay the boy’s duced. What an awful, awful thing if THEjTKAUESMAN COMPANY. Grand Rapids. fare?” they had spoken and acted civilized, and “For a wonder, no. There was a full then one had found out that the other crowd in the car, but all seemed to look was only a hired girl! ENGRAVING upon the pair with suspicion. I hated It pays to illustrate your business. Portraits, Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories, to put them off, and 1 was hoping the Glass Cloth. Machinery, etc., made to order from photo­ woman would make one more appeal and From the Dry Goods Chronicle. graphs. THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, give me a show to back water, when the Glass cloth is a linen cloth usually Grand Rapids, Mich. train ran into----- , and she made ready woven with a slight open pattern of colored threads, and was used originally to get off. The least I could do was to as a toweling for drying fine porcelain, PATTERN help her with the boy. I picked him up glass, etc. It is now employed as a back­ MAKING! and started to follow her out, but I had ground for fine embroidery, and also scarcely taken notice of his white face represents a woven fabric made of threads Models, Mechanical and Patent Office of glass, which is very pliable when ex­ Olir Fall Line Now Ready Drawing Made to Order. and tear-wet cheeks when he uttered a tremely thin. The fibers are bunched EATON, LYON & CO , WM. HETTERSCHIED, shriek of fear, straightened out in my without twisting, and the stuff is woven tO .ud 23|Monroe St., Grand Rapida. 131 S. Front St., West End Pearl 8t. Bridge. arms, and next instant I knew I held a of these bunches or groups. TH E ]VTTCTTIO ATvT TR A D ESM A N . A VICTIM TO CIRCUMSTANCE. trees, laden with rosy-tinted blossoms, I would not force her confidence, but The Preservation of Lard. “They’ve got a boarder down to when, having turned from the end of the presently she said: Some experiments have lately been un­ Widow Hale’s,” my Uncle John said, path nearest the house, as I was slowly “Dr.