The Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  MARCH  26,  1884.

A COMMERCIAL EPISODE.
A sound of  revelry,  but  not  by  night. 
The clock has just struck 12, and the  sun is 
shining vertically upon the  pretentious roof 
that  houses  Mr.  Humphrey  Davison  and 
family.  Beneath  that  roof are  now  com­
plete  the  extensive  preparations  for  the 
marriage ceremony that is to make  the only 
daughter  of the house  Mrs.  Thomas  Win­
field.  The parlor is full of guests;  the  per­
fume of an elaborate floral  decoration  per­
vades everything;  and from certain quarters 
of  the  establishment  proceed  the  savory 
odors of a spread feast;  for  the wedding  is 
to be an event.

Upstairs, in the  downy  environment  of 
her own apartment, stands  the pivot  of the 
occasion in bridal array.  The  toilet  is  a 
marvel in its way;  a  frail  embodiment  of 
monumental  expense  and  labor,  as  such 
things are apt to be, but petite Miss Alice is 
so beautiful iii it that only a churl  could be­
wail either expense or labor in the  presence 
of such a result.  She  is  surrounded  by a 
bevy of admiring friends of  the  same  sex, 
who chatter incessantly, and  manifest  their 
anxious  interest by  sundry  little  touches 
here and there upon veil or drapery, for  the 
groom has not yet arrived.

Presently it is a quarter past the hour and 
he  has not  come  yet,  but  no  account  is 
taken  of  this  circumstance,  for  whoever 
heard of a wedding  being  celebrated  with 
anything like precision with regard to time?
Uncle Peyton pauses at the  door  to  re­
mark in a jocular vein that  this  “seems  to 
be one of  the  occasions  when  we  ‘linger 
shivering on the brink and  fear  to  launch 
away,’ ” and to deliver himself of numerous 
malign prophecies that are flatly  contradict­
ed by the look of  affectionate  interest  and 
unqualified admiration in his eyes.

Another quarter slips away. 

It  is  now 
half past 12 and still the delinquent does^not 
appear.  Up the broad  stairway  comes the 
murmur of impatient  expectancy,  and  the 
face under  the  filmy  white  veil  wears  a 
shade of vexation.  When 
it  is  nearly  1 
o’clock Mr. Davison  comes to the door  and 
softly calls his wife. 
In  the hall  outside 
they hold a consultation,  and  Alice,  with 
alert eyes  upon  their  faces,  divines  that 
something is wrong. 
In a moment  she has 
separated the crowd about her  like  an  ar­
row, and is before them demanding the  lat­
est intelligence, whatever it  may  he. 
“It 
is postponed, my  dear,”  says  her  mother, 
choking.

“That’s it, my  dear—postponed,”  echoes 
her father as he stands  absently  twirling a 
crumpled note around his finger.

Alice sees the note,  and,  before  he  can 
She  opens  it 
It is soon  read, 

prevent her, has  taken  it. 
with breathless eagerness. 
and runs thus:
“1 can’t do it, uncle—not for  twice  your 
I have  seen  her,  and  I  wonder 
fortune. 
that you could ever ask it of me.  Do as you 
please with  the  money. 
I’m off.  Your 
affectionate nephew, 
It is malicious, inhuman, crushing.  Why 
did be wait until this  moment?  She turns 
back to the room with a white  face,  throws 
herself upon the lounge  in  reckless  disre­
gard of flowers and  perishable  confections, 
and lies there with her  face  buried  in the 
pillow in an agony of humiliation.

T.W.”

By-and-by the situation  is  communicated 
to the assembled  friends,  who  take  their 
leave  marveling  greatly,  and  go  home to 
speculate for days with greater  or  less  ac­
curacy upon all  that  has  not  been  given 
them to know.

Where a few hours ago there  was  laugh­
ter,  congratulation and  anticipation,  all is 
now sorrow,  indignation  and  resentment.
There is mockery in the flowers  scattered 
everywhere, and bitter,  intolerable  remem­
brance in the odor of baked meats.

The afternoon passes, andCstill Alice  lies 
with her face among the  pillows,  thinking 
how it must all come out finally; how every­
body will know about that brutal  note, and 
how they will pity  her. 
She  wishes  she 
might die now, so that the time would never 
come for her to lift up her  head  and  face 
the world, with its knowledge of this dread­
ful affair and its  soul-sickening-commisera­
tion.  One thought is  always  uppermost— 
to fly from  the scene of her humiliation and 
the officious sympathy of her friends.  Filial 
ties, luxurious surroundings, the  perils and 
hardships  of  flight,  every  consideration 
whatsoever dwindles into invisibility  in the 
presence  of  this  great  indignity.  Her 
mother comes and sits by her,  and after sev­
eral hours of remonstrance  and  persuasion 
induces her to go to bed, but when she comes 
in the morning hoping to see her  somewhat 
soothed she finds only an empty  room  and 
a hasty note.

It is 7 a. m. and the  mammoth  retail dry 
goods house  of  Gray & Gordon  begins  to 
show signs of life without and  within.  For 
the last half  hour a  continuous  stream  of 
salesmen, shop girls,  and  cash  boys  have 
been pouring into the great building  like so 
many swallows into a chimney,  but  that it 
is the wrong time in the  day.  Shades  are 
raised, covers are taken off, and  simultane­
ously  in every part of  the  house  begins a 
vigorous dusting and putting to rights.

The new cashier, a young  man  with fine 
eyes and a pleasant maimer, who  has  been 
some  three  weeks  In  the  establishment,

comes in  and goes behind his desk.  As he 
does so he notices that there is a new girl at 
the glove counter just  opposite.  Only her 
head is visible above the pile of  boxes  she 
is dusting.  It is crowned with red-gold hair, 
and the face is very beautiful in spite of the 
hopeless depression it expresses.

Presently the business of the day  begins. 
Whenever there comes a pause in his monot­
onous labor  of  stamping bills and  making 
change,  and he looks  out  over  the  green 
wire network that incloses his desk,his eyes 
rest naturally upon the blonde head  and de­
licate figure, because  they  are  directly  in 
front of him, and in the course of  the  day 
he • learns  without  making  any  inquiries 
that she is No. 47.

As for the girl herself she  is  thinking of 
nothing but that terrible  day  and  wonder­
ing if she will live through  it.  Her face is 
flushed,  her eyes glistening and feverish,the 
joint result of bad ventillation and bewilder­
ing transactions.

To  her this first day behind the  counter 
seems like  a  shoreless  eternity. 
She can 
scarcely remember when it began,  and  has 
almost lost faith in its possible ending.  Two 
hours of this  new  and  trying  ordeal  are 
enough to make her unutterably weary;  be­
fore the day is half over she  is  aching mis­
erably in every limb and joint.  After this, 
standing is the purest agony.  And all day 
long  the  feminine  division  of  humanity 
bears  down  upon  them  en  masse.  The 
proprietors, wedded to quick sales  and  the 
largest possible  profit,  are  positively  ubi­
quitous in their efforts to enforce the  strict­
est attention to duty;  obsequious  salesmen, 
with an eye to  premiums  and  percentage, 
step briskly about; cash boys  scurry  hither 
and thither,  and errand boys find no rest for 
the soles of their feet.  The silk man spreads 
his stocks upon the counter and displays the 
popular  shades  by  daylight,  by  gaslight, 
singly  and  in  combinations.  He  gathers 
them up into soft rich folds,  spreads  them, 
gathers them up again, talking glibly all the 
while, and is home to  the  utmost  limit  of 
deferential patience before the  exact  shade 
is found and the final decision  made.  The 
lace man, on the alert for whom he  may be­
guile, is bland and courteous, while the girls 
at this same glove counter dive  among  the 
boxes and become breathless in the  attempt 
to convince some  dubious  customer  that a 
pearl gray glove is an exact match  for  the 
pale blue sample she  has  brought,  or  vice 
versa, smiling, dropping words of honey  all 
the time, and wishing in  their  inmost  con­
sciousness  that  perdition  may  ultimately 
collect all womankind.

But it does end at  last.  The  customers 
are gone; the curtains are up,  the  counters 
are again shrouded in white canvas, making 
the long aisles look like so many wards in a 
hospital, and these human swallows begin to 
pour out  of their great chimney.

The cashier on his  way to the cloak room 
sees No. 47 crouching on the  ledge  behind 
her counter.  She is  thinking  of  the long, 
dark streets that lie before her,  and  of  the 
aching feet that protest against  further ser­
vice.

When he comes back she  is  still  there. 
He stops,  and  says  kindly:  “If you don’t 
hurry out they will lock the doors.  Every­
body else is gone  now.”

“How will I ever get home,”  she  moans, 
rising wearily, her eyes still  red  from  cry­
ing.

“I’ll go with you if you are afraid. 

Is it 

far?”

“Oh, yes, it’s far, and then I’m so  tired.”
He is the only person who has  spoken to 
her to-day, excepting the customers  she has 
waited upon.  He has such a  graceful, easy 
way, that by the time he has  helped  her to 
put on her cloak he seems  like  an  old  ac­
quaintance.  They hurry out  together,  and 
are just in time, for the doors  close  behind 
them with a bang, and the bolts are  drawn,
It happens that their ways lie in the same 
direction, that  they  are  domiciled  in  two 
dreary boarding houses not more  than  half 
a square apart, and after this they  go  home 
together every evening, and  speedily  come 
to be very good friends indeed.

The  season  knowh  to  retail  traffic  as 
“busy” waxes and wanes.  Summer  comes 
and August, sweltering and intolerable,  set­
tles upon the deserted town. The houses are 
like  ovens, the streets  like  blast  furnaces, 
and everything that remains behind the  mi­
gratory population is  undergoing  a  linger­
ing process of cremation.  The  proprietors 
have fled the heat, one  salesman  to  a  de­
partment is found to  be  sufficient,  and the 
rest are away taking their summer vacation,
Those who remain  behind  have  little  to 
do, for there are hours together when  there 
is  not a penny’s worth sold.

It happens that “47” is reigning  alone  in 
the glove department, and she is  a  refresh­
ing  object  for  contemplation  this  sultry 
afternoon in her dress of blue organdy, with 
pale blue ribbons  fluttering  at  throat  and 
waist.

Above her head her  wares  are  most  ef­
fectively displayed in a  complete canopy  of 
long-wristed  gloves 
in  every  conceivable 
color and shade of color,  and,  there  being 
nothing else to do, she sits  upon  the  ledge 
below the shelving and wields  a  monstrous 
palm leaf.

When nothing is selling therfcis no change 
,. 

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to be made, and the cashier steps out  of his 
narrow stifling  enclosure  and  wanders  in 
search of a breeze.  The  long  lace  mitts 
that fringe the canopy over the  glove-coun­
ter are  stirred as if  by  a  zephyr,  and  the 
airy freshness  of  “47”  is  attractive.  He 
goes behind the  counter and  sits  down  be­
hind the ledge.

“You look awfully gloomy to-day.  What 

is the matter?” she asks.

“Well, I have reason to  look  gloomy. 

I 
have  made  an  unpleasant  discovery;  or, 
perhaps I.should say  I have  been  unpleas­
antly discovered.”

“Tell me about it.”
“Oh, it is a  long  story,”  he  says,  more 

than half persuaded.

“This is a very long afternoon.”
“Well, I have a very rich and  very croch- 
ety old uncle, and about  seven  months ago 
I received a letter from him telling me  that 
if I would come and take charge of his busi­
ness  and marry a girl  that  he  had  picked 
out for me he would leave me  his  fortune. 
He said the girl was pretty, and I  knew the 
fortune was ample, and as I was not getting 
on any too well where I was, you will  infer 
that I did not hesitate long before  accepting 
the proposition. 
It was all  arranged  with 
the girl, who seemed to be  quite  fascinated 
with the romance of the affair, and I started 
for the town  in  which she  and  my  uncle 
lived.  But on the  way  I  got  to  thinking 
about it, and it struck me that  I would like 
to see her at least once before  the  die  was 
irrevocably  cast,  so  when  I  reached  the 
the town I hunted up a cousin of  mine who 
knew her, and told him  that  he  must  ar­
range for me to call on  her  incognito.  He 
assented very readily, and, as I  only  reach­
ed there the day before the wedding  was to 
take place, we called the night  of  my  arri­
val.  She came in directly, and I was  intro­
duced as Mr. Falkner.

“And such a girl!  The  moment  I  laid 
eyes on her I  grew  rigid  with  indignation 
to think that my uncle  dared  impose  upon 
me in such a way.  He had led  me  to  be 
lieve she was everything a man  could  want 
in a wife. 
I found her  painted like  an In­
dian, dressed in horrid taste,  talking  at the 
top of her voice, and altogether the most ill 
bred creature I had ever seen. 
I  could not 
stand it, so I wrote a  note  to my uncle, left 
the town that  night,  and  have  never  been 
back since. 
I  learned to-day  for  the  first 
time that the girl I saw was  not  the  one 
was to have married,  but  a  friend  of  my 
cousin’s, whom he had taken  into  his  con 
fidence, and that her  horrid  curls  and her 
ulgarity  were  assumed  for  the  occasion 
all a part  of  Dick’s  little  pleasantry;  and 
my fiancee, who Dick says  is  the  prettiest 
woman he ever saw, was  so  cut  up  by my 
brutal behavior and the note I left  that she 
ran away, and for a long  time they thought 
she had drowned herself.  Of  course there 
was a big sensation, and everybody denounc­
ed me.  Dick, a cowardly knave,  hadn’t the 
nerve to tell the truth about it and acknowl­
edge his part in the affair,  but the  girl who 
abetted his fiendish deception went  straight 
to my uncle and told him everything as soon 
as she heard I was gone.

When  he saw how it was he  swore that 
we should both be found, dead or alive, and 
if we were alive the marriage should be con 
sumated.  They started detectives  after  us 
and advertised  us  everywhere,  and  at  last 
they got on the track of the girl and they’ve 
traced her to this very town.  Think  of it 
Dick says they are sure she is  here,  and  he 
was here looking for her when he accidently 
stumbled  upon  me.  They’ll  find  her,  of 
course, it is only a question of a few  hours, 
and then I must be dragged up, like a school 
boy that has been playing hookey,  an^mar 
ried to a wife of some  other  man’s  choice, 
or leave here between two days and  give up 
a good position.”

He turns toward  her,  but  she  manages 
the palm-leaf so that he  does  not  see  her 
face,  and  asks  presently  in  a  hesitating 
way:

“But if she is as pretty as they say  she 

and—you would get the money besides, why 
do you object?”

“Because l   am in 

love  with  somebody 
else, and I’m done with  matrimonial  nego­
tiations by proxy. 
I  will attend to my own 
love affairs hereafter.”

He proceeded to carry out this  resolution 
by insinuating an arm between the  shelving 
and the slight figure that is  resting  against 
it.

“I’ve been  in  love  with  somebody  else 
ever since I found her crying in a comer not 
a thousand miles from here, and if  you can 
only say the same of me I’ll whistle the for­
tune down the winds and defy all the detec­
tives in Christendom.”

He draws his arm a little closer about  the 
yielding figure,  and, screened from  view by 
the swaying fringe of gloves, he  feels  safe 
in bringing the other arm  into  position,  so 
forming a complete circuit.  The  accomoda­
ting palm leaf is quite large enough to  con­
ceal two heads, and a sound like a half audi­
ble osculation  issues from behind.

A long, low whisper  breaks  the  silence. 
Proceedings are immediately adjourned, and 
haunted by visions of presuming and prying 
cash boys, they both start  up  and  confront 
—Dick.

“Have you found her?” asked the  cashier 

dejectedly.

Oh yes, I’ve found her,” says Dick, lean­
ing heavily upon the counter,  as  he  wiped 
the moisture from his brow.

“Miss Davidson, allow me to introduce my 
cousin,  Tom  Winfield;  Tom,  Miss  Alice 
Davidson.  The introduction  seems/to be  a 
little subsequent, but we have done the  best 
we could.”

So another wedding feast was  spread  be­
neath the hospitable roof of Mr.  Humphrey 
Davison, and  this  time  to  some  purpose; 
for a marriage  was  solemnized,  at  which 
ceremony Dick, his sins  forgiven,  officiated 
as best man, and his  perfidious  accomplice, 
minus paint, curls and all objectionable fea­
tures, made a charming bridesmaid.

How  to  Have  Good  Credit.

For a merchant young in business it  is  of 
the  greatest  importance  to  him  that  he 
should possess a good  credit,  and  this  can 
always be had  by  the  observance  of  cer­
tain lines of action.  And first and  greatest 
of all must  be  learned  the  importance  of 
eeping all promises  and  engagements.  A 
yoimg merchant, for instance, buys a  bill  of 
goods on thirty days’ time.  Although there 
may be nothing said in particular  about  the 
matter, the bill comes to him as a  thirty-day 
hill,  according  to  an accustomed usage of 
trade.  When  the  time is up he may think 
that a few days’ delay will be of no account, 
and so he delays sending the pay for a week 
or more. 
In the  meantime  the  wholesaler 
from  whom  he  purchased  finds the thirty 
days gone and no remittance^  made.  He  at 
once notes the fact down and perhaps  sends 
a statement calling the attention of the  mer­
chant  to  tne  non-fulfillment of his  agree­
ment, for that is what it really is.

Now the retailer, though his intentions are 
good, and while he may be perfectly respon­
sible, makes a bad impression on the whole­
saler, and his credit and standing are injured. 
The wholesaler reflects that  here  is  a  man 
behind in his payments. 
It may be because 
he is hard up, and it may be otherwise,  and 
the wholesaler says  that  caution  must  be 
exercised in selling to such a merchant, and, 
as the payment is not prompt and  risks  are 
taken, the profit on which he sells him must 
be greater to  cover  all  these  deficiencies. 
Thus the retailer not only  hurts  his  credit 
but he is hurting himself financially.

Promptness  in  meeting  payments  is  a 
prime requisite to a good  business  standing, 
and one should learn that  ten  days  means 
ten days, and not  twelve  or  fifteen. 
It  is 
natural for a retailer to think that  it  makes 
no difference if he don’t pay his bill  just  on 
time, for it is not very  large,  and  “I  guess 
the wholesaler can stand it  for  a  few  days 
longer.”  But when it  happens  that  4,999 
other retailers are of the  same  opinion, 
it 
will be seen at once that the wholesale deal­
er cannot stand it  very  easily,  and  sharp 
duns from him may become aj necessity. 
It 
is the same with the retailer  and  his  cus­
tomers.  He  may  not  feel ‘it much if  one 
customer is behind in his pay, but when fifty 
are in arrears he feels himself on the ragged 
edge.  The prompt payer, whether consumer 
or retailer, is the one that gets the best treat­
ment.

Dried  Apricots.

California fruit growers  have  discovered 
that apricots bleached with  sulphur  fumes 
and then dried in the  sun  are  superior  to 
those dried in any other manner, or that are 
canned.  They regard this of very  great im­
portance to the whole State.  It enables every 
fruit culturist, however limited his means, and 
however small the product of his  orchards, 
to dry his own  fruit  for  the  market,  aud 
makes him independent  of the canning  fac­
tories. 
It is also stated  that  fruit  can  be 
prepared in this manner more  cheaply  than 
in any other, that its weight  is  better  pre­
served, and that it is of superior flavor.

Large dealers in dried fruit  say  that the 
market for such  products  of  California  or­
chards will always be greater than  the  sup­
ply can possibly  be.  The  United  States 
alone will readily take all the  fruit  of  the 
kind and  quality  now  being  produced  by 
the sun-drying process  that  California  can 
ever raise.  Many thousands of apricot trees 
have been planted within a recent date in or­
chard form  in  Southern  California.  Sun 
dried apricots are being  sold  to  California 
dealers at double the price paid for the  best 
raisins.

As an evidence of the vast increase  in the 
consumption of opium in this country, East­
ern journals state that 448,938  lbs. were im­
ported  into  this  country  during  the  ten 
months ending October 31,  1883,  as against 
196, 804 lbs for tbe corresponding period  in 
1882. 
In October  last,  50,015  lbs.  of  the 
crude was imported, while the whole amount 
in the same month of the previous year was 
only 23,543  lbs.  The  large  importations 
mentioned were no doubt to  a  considerable 
extent due to the increased duties,  but  that 
the opium habit is growing in  this  country, 
is generally acknowledged.

A new  kind  of  cloth  is  being  made  in 
Lyons from a down of hens, ducks and geese. 
Seven hundred and fifty  grains  of  feathers 
make one square meter of a  light  and  very 
warm water-proof cloth which  can  be  dyed 
in all shades.

NO. 27,

The  Grocer  and  His  Customers.

From the New York Tribune.

a  wire 

“There  are 

samplers  and  samplers,” 
said  a  down-town  grocer,  as  he  care­
loaf 
fully  covered  up  a  barrel  of  cut 
sugar  with 
protector, 
and 
took a seat on a  soap  box. 
“Talk  about 
mean people; I  don’t  believe  there’s  any­
body in this world meaner than a full  Hedg­
ed sampler.  There  are two general  classes 
of samplers—those who are honest  and ask 
for samples for testing  the  desired  article, 
and, if satisfactory, of purchasing quantities 
of the same afterward,  and  those  who  are 
dishonest, and get  samples  simply  for the 
purpose of sponging their  supplies  out  of 
the grocer. 
I have had considerable  exper­
ience with both classes, as I  have  been  in 
business for twenty  years,  and  have  had 
plenty of opportunities for studying  human 
nature.  When I  first became the proprietor 
of a store, I was comparatively  ignorant  of 
the tricks respectably dressed  people  were 
capable of playing on an innocent grocer. 
I 
learned by experience that  there  is  often­
times as much iniquity stowed away under a 
seal skin cloak as there  is  under  a  faded 
shawl,” and the man of business gave the re­
porter a wink which spoke volumes.

“At the end of the first year I found that, 
although my business had  been  brisk  and 
the books showed large receipts, my  profits 
I could not understand  it  for 
were small. 
some time. 
I was quite  certain  that  my 
clerks were honest and  that  there  was  no 
leak in  my  money  drawer. 
I  began  to 
watch  my business more closely than  ever, 
and soon found out the cause of  my  losses. 
On inquiry, 1 ascertained  that  there  were 
several families in the vicinity who had suc­
ceeded  in getting enough tea and coffee from 
my clerks, as samples, to  keep  them  well 
supplied with these  luxuries  for the  entire 
year.

“I will give you an illustration of the way 
in which some of  these  samplers  conduct 
their little game.  A richly dressed lady one 
day entered my store, and asked  to. look  at 
some of my  best  grades  of  coffee.  The 
clerk showed her samples. 
She  examined 
them with much care, and at length  turned 
to the young man and  said,  ‘Would you be 
kind  enough  to  give  me  samples  of  this 
coffee to take home?  My husband  is partic­
ular about liis coffee, and so I would  like to 
try these three  kinds  before  purchasing.’ 
She looked sweet and innocent as  she  said 
„this, and her face  lit  up  witli  a  gratified 
smile as the obliging clerk  reluctantly  com­
plied with her request. 
I had  been  watch­
ing the transaction from  behind  my  desk, 
and feeling somewhat suspicious of the lady, 
called one of my boys aside, and told  him to 
follow her when she left the store. 
In the 
course of an hour he returned, and  reported 
that the woman had visited four other stores, 
and had obtained from each  samples  in the 
same way as from us. 
I  made  enquiries, 
and found that she was the wife  of a  well- 
to-do merchant down town. 
She  tried  to 
play the game on us  afterward,  but  didn’t 
succeed.

“There’s another set of  people  who  give 
us trouble,” remarked the grocer,  as  he bit 
off the  end of  a cigar  and passed  another 
to the reporter.  “I mean petty  thieves.  A 
woman wearing  a shawl, or loose cloak, can 
grab a handful of  sugar,  or  a  potato,  or 
something of that sort, and conceal it quick­
ly, when no one is watching  her.  I  caught 
an  old woman trying to  get  away  with  a 
cabbage which she had deftly  slipped  into 
her basket when the clerk’s  back .was  turn­
ed.  There are some people, too,  who  have 
no idea it is thieving to appropriate things in 
this way.  How hard it seems to be for folks 
to learn that honesty is the best  policy,  es 
pecially  when  dealing  with  the  grocer. 
When I catch any of my substantial custom­
ers trying to confiscate  a  codfish  or  some­
thing else of value, I say nothing  about  it, 
but charge it on the  books. 
I  never  knew 
one of them to object when he saw the items 
in his bill.  1 tell you  confidentially  that I 
never have any scruples  in  charging  such 
persons  a double price for the articles  they 
have stolen. 
’Tis a sort of  reminder,  you 
know, that ‘The way of  the  transgressor is 
hard,’ ” and the grocer laughed till the  tears 
rolled off the end of his  nose  and  a  clerk 
shouted “cash.”

Owing to the large number of mutual ben­
efit and co-operative insurance  societies  do­
ing business in Canada at present,  the  gov­
ernment lias decided to introduce a bill  dur­
ing the coming session which will  place  all 
Canadian associations of  this  character  im­
mediately under the supervision of a govern­
ment superintendent of insurance,  while  all 
United States companies will be  totally  ex­
cluded from transacting any business  in  the 
Dominion.
, Wm. F. Clark, a prominent grocer of Roch­
ester, N. Y., has been taken violently insane, 
and imagines himself at one  time  Rip  Yan 
Winkle, calls his wife Gretchen, and says he 
has been asleep 100 years.  At another time 
he imagines himself Macbeth,  and  another, 
Hamlet, and thinks  the  house  dog  is  his 
father’s ghost and accosts him in a dramatic 
manner.

Persons who are of the opinion that  there 
is oil under Lake Huron  contemplate  sink­
ing a test well there.

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WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  26,  1884.

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may continue to send it until payment is made, 
and collect the whole amount, whether the pa­
per is taken from the office or not.

EIG H T   P A G ES .

The Tradesm an appears  this  week  as 
an eight-page  paper,  a  form  that  will« be 
continued  until  another  enlargement  Re­
comes necessary.  The  cordial  support  ac­
corded  the journal at the beginning, and in­
creasing with each successive issue, has  ren­
dered the present  change  unavoidable, and 
affords ground for the belief that the time is 
not far distant  when  a  twelve  or  sixteen- 
page paper will be  an  actual  reality.  For 
the present, however, T he T radesman will 
appear in the same form as it is seen to-day, 
and the  subscription  price  will  remain  the 
same  as  before,  SI  per  year  in  advance. 
The enlargement will enable us to  carry out 
several valuable features that have necessar­
ily  been omitted  heretofore,  a  number  of 
which appear  with  this  issue.  The  same 
business and editorial policy  that has  made 
the paper so popular in the  past  will  char­
acterize its conduct in the  future,  and; the 
knowledge  that  comes  with  added  exper­
ience  and  a  more : thorough  acquaintance 
with the wants of the trade,  will  enable us 
Ip furnish our patrons with a  paper more in 
accordance with their ideas of a  representa­
tive trade  journal.

than 

We  give  considerable  space  on  another 
page  to  a  reproduction  of  the  agreement 
known as the “Campion System”—so  called 
from  the  man  who  originated  the  plan— 
which has already gone  into  effect  in  New 
York, the object being to prevent the sale of 
proprietary  medicines  at  less 
the 
schedule prices.  The object of the plan is to 
secure the co-operation of manufacturers, by 
getting them to refuse to supply jobbers who 
sell to scalping druggists, and to dealers out­
side the drug business,  and  to  make  ever# 
buyer, wholesale and retail,  sign  an  agree­
ment not to  sell  under  the  regular  prices. 
Whether the system will prove to  be  work­
able, is yet to be  determined.  The  jobbers 
stand ready to  further  the  scheme  by  any 
effort that lies in their  power.

A M O N G   T H E   T R A D E .

I N   T H E   C IT Y .

H. Leonard & Sons have  in preparation a 

new catalogue  for the trade.

W. J. Jones, of Kemink, Jones & Co., has 

returned from a successful northern  trip.

H. E. Richardson, Southwestern traveling 
representative of the  O. E. Brown Manufac­
turing Co., has located in St. Louis.

Wm. B. Collins  now sees the  trade  for­
merly visited  by Fred Leonard, of H. Leon­
ard & Sons,  which 
includes  all  available 
towns south on  the  G. R. & I.  and  Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern,  and  north  on 
the G. R. & I.

Sam. Beecher, formerly with Rice & Moore, 
and later in the employ of  another  jobbing 
house, has engaged to travel for Clark, Jew­
ell & Co.,  covering the towns  south'on  the 
G. R. & I. and C. & W. M., and easOm  the 
D., G. H. & M.

Kortlander  &  Grady  were  creditors  of 
Curtiss  & Son,  of the  Sherman House  bar 
room,  Charlotte,  to a  considerable  amount, 
as were also several other liquor houses here. 
In company with Peter Doren, their attorney, 
Mr. Grady recently raided the town, secured 
a transfer of the  stock  and  fixtures  to  his 
firm, and subsequently sold the  same  to  B. 
F. Hall,  thus  securing  their  entire  claim, 
and leaving the other  creditors  “out  in  the 
cold.”  Hall has obtained a lease of the prem­
ises, and will continue the business.

A report has been  industrially  circulated 
throughout  Northern  Michigan,  and  has 
found its way into most of the State  papers, 
to the effect that the Grand Rapids Felt Boot 
Co., recently burned out, would  remove  the 
plant  and  business  to  Reed  City.  The 
officers of the corporation state  that  such  a 
thing has not been as much as thought of, to 
say nothing of  being  considered  seriously. 
The canard probably originated in the fertile 
brain of one Holden, who does  not  hesitate 
to spread abroad any falsehood, so long as it 
tends to increase the sale  of  real  estate  at 
Reed City.

The Shattuck matter at Sand Lake has tak­
en another turn.  A writ of  replevin was is­
sued from the Circuit Court Saturday at  the 
instance of John Caulfield, and placed in the 
hands  of  Officer  Platte,  who  was  given 
peaceable  possession  by  the parties having 
the stock in charge for Chas. Root & Co.  A 
sale was to have  taken  place  that  day,  but 
the new turn of affairs  has  necessitated  an 
indefinite  postponement.  Caulfield  claims 
precedence by reason of a first  mortgage  on 
the stock, which the Detroit house claims  is 
invalid, owing to the existence of certain  ir­
regularities at the time the  paper  was  exe- 
ecuted.  While not recognizing the mortgage, 
the Detroit firm is now  secure,  in  case  the 
mortgage is declared  void,  as  the  officer is 
then  responsible for  the  amount  of  Caul­
field’s claim, the latter having given  him in­
demnity bonds.  Caulfield  is  very  positive 
that his mortgage will be sustained.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

J. L. Alger, grocer at Petosky, has remov­

Sale of  the  Kendall  Stock.

Assignee Baker has finally effected  a sale 
of the J. C. Kendall millinery stock to  Geo. 
D. Conger, who buys  it  in the  interest  of 
John Kendall.  The purchase price was $4,- 
650—about Si,500 more  than  the  creditors 
expected the assignee  would  realize  on the 
stock.  There were  several  bidders  in  the 
field, and the names  of  each  and  amounts 
bid are  as  follows:  J. J.  Van Leuven,  $3,- 
000; Marsh, Kenyon & Gill, Chicago, S3,527; 
Geo. D. Conger,  S3,625;  N. A.  Fletcher, in 
behalf of Chicago parties,  S4,000;  Yan Leu­
ven,  $4,100;  Wm.  Hardman, 
S4,150; 
Conger,  S4,200;  Hardman,  S4,250;  Yan 
Leuven, S4,300; Hardman,  $4,350;  Conger, 
$4,400; Hardman, $4,450; Yan Leuven, $4,- 
475.  Mr. Baker then stated that  he  would 
allow each bidder to put his highest  offer in 
a sealed envelope, and allow that  bid  to be 
final.  Yan Leuven  repeated his  last  offer 
—$4,475—and Conger  bid $4,650, and  took 
the stock.  The accounts,  whicli  amount to 
about $2,000, will now be sold in  a  similiar 
manner,  although  it  is  not  probable  that 
more than $500 will be  realized  from them. 
As the total liabilities are $17,266.47,  credi­
tors will not receive to  exceed  20  per cent. 
Ail they get over 15 per cent will be  due to 
the vigilance  of  Mr.  Baker,  who  has  per­
formed his duties with unusual  fidelity.

Fruit and  Nuts.

©ranges have taken  another  “boom”  and 
prices have advanced about $1 on boxes and 
$2 on cases, with prospects of case  fruit  be­
ing very scarce from  this  on.  Lemons,  al­
though yet low, and a very little higher  and 
show a good deal of firmness, and with a few 
warm days we expect to  see  a  sharper  ad­
vance.  Peanuts are firmly held  and  stocks 
are said to be not large.

Figs  are  a  little higher.  Dates  are the 
cheàpest thing in the market, and are selling 
freely at the low prices.

Green coffees are off Kc,  and  Arbuckle’s 
and similar brands are down  l%c  from  the 
highest point.

The estate of the late Fred H.  Spring in­

ventories  $11,050.

Burbank  seed  potatoes,  choice  quality, 
for sale  by  M.  C.  Russell  at  50  cents  per 
bushel.

Boralumine—handsome,  cheap  and  dura­

ble. 

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Decorate  your  houses  with  Boralumine.
The best wall finish is  Boralumine.
Boralum ine.  B u y   in  and try  i t

ed to a larger store.

Fred S. Kieldsen,  the  Cadillac- grocer,  is 

putting in an iron vault.

John G. Albert, meat dealer at Muskegon, 

is succeeded by Albert & Thorp.

Morton & Fair, cigar makers  at  Cadillac, 

have dissolved, John C. Fair succeeding.

Deuel & Adams, general dealers at  Brad­
ley, have dissolved, Lee  Deuel  succeeding.
Wm. L. Heazlit, general dealer  at  Way- 
land, has added a line of crockery and glass­
ware.

Ocobock & Thompson, dry  goods  dealers 
at Whitehall, are succeeded  by  John  Yan- 
kuren.

T. C. Gardner, dealer in dry goods at  Re­
mus, is succeeded  by  Mr.  Holmes,  late of 
Horton.

J. J. Adams contemplates purchasing  Al­
len Nixon’s interest in Nixon Bros.’ store at 
Bellaire.

Wm.  D.  Hardy  &  Co.  succeed Corwin, 
Hardy & Co. in  the  dry  goods  business  at 
Muskegon.

Hawkins Bros., grocers at Reed City, have 
opened a branch store at Ashton,  with  Har­
vey Hawkins in charge.
Furber  &  Kidder, 

the  genial  general 
dealers at Hopkins Station, recently  receiv­
ed a call for “consecrated lye.”

Emmet Hagadorn, general  dealer at  Fife 
Lake, has purchased tfie  general  stock  of 
John Reiland & Co., at that place.

F. B. Watkins, of Monterey, who  was re­
cently burned out, has rented the lower floor 
of the Grange hall, and resumed business.

Alex.  Robertson  has  retired  from 

the 
firm of Wylie, Robertson & Co.,  at  Martin. 
The new firm name is JohnR. Wylie & Bro.
Castile Scoville, formerly  engaged  in  the 
hotel business at Austerlitz, has  removed  to 
Edgerton, and  contemplasts  going  into  the 
grocery business there.

Dr. C.  Low  Fastier,  a  French  druggist 
who has been doing  business  at  Muskegon 
and  Twin  Lakes,  has  purchased  Ruggles’ 
drug store, in Whitehall.

C. E. Ramsey has sold his interest in  the 
grocery firm of  Selkirk,  Ramsey & Morrell, 
at Kalkaska, and the firm  will  hereafter be 
known as Selkirk & Morrell.

S. P. Roller,  general  dealer  at  Gresham, 
has sold out to G. A. & L. L. Williams, who 
will continue  the  business  under  the  firm 
name of Williams Bros.  Mr. Roller will re­
move to Colifomia.

Wm. Quick and Jas. Morton,  of  Howard 
City, have formed  a  co-partnership  begin­
ning May 1, and will put in a complete  line 
of groceries and provisions.  They may also 
add a general stock, but are as yet undecided 
as to the latter. 

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STRAY  FACTS.

East Jordan is to have a shingle mill.
Prospects of  a  willow  basket  factory  at 

Adrian.

Martel furnace.

cent, since 1880.

It is said that St.  Ignace  is  to  lose  the 

Saginaw’s population has increased 50 per 

A woman is foreman at the Harbor Springs 

Tooth Pick Factory.

The Ontonagon Match Company will erect 

seven new double houses.

An organization has been formed to boom 

Decatur in a business way.

Levi  Stuck has engaged in  the  manufac­

ture of broom handles at Hart.

Lansing will  have  a  new  manufactory, 

the Oriental Stained Glass Works.

S. W. Webber and M.  F.  Hatch  have  es­

tablished a banking office at  Newaygo.

The Stronach  Lumber  Co.,  at  Manistee, 
has suspended operations on their  salt  well 
for a time.

Montague business men  will  invest  in  a 
$30,000 tannery, $10,000 of the stock being al­
ready subscribed.

H. Harrington, assignee  for  Aaron  Wes- 
sels, of St. Louis, has commenced the sale of 
his goods by auction.

Swigart Bros, have  purchased  the  hard­
ware stock of O. F. Peck, at  Maple  Rapids, 
over which there  has  lately  been  such  a 
contest.

A  Saranac  correspondent  writes:  New 
maple sugar  and syrup are now in the mar­
ket,  and  arrangements  are being  made to 
ship large quantities.

There is stored in the  warehouse  of  the 
Midland bromine factory probably the  larg­
est amount of bromine ever seen at one time 
in Michigan, viz., 21,600  pounds.

J. E. Montgamery  of  the  firm  of  Mont­
gomery  and  Yanderwerp,  Muskegon,  will 
shortly begin the erection  of  a  three-story 
brick block, 25 foot front, on  Western  ave­
nue.

A raft of  walnut  logs,  each  four  feet 
through, which sunk about  forty  years  ago 
in the St. Joseph river, is being raised.  The 
logs are water-cured  and  worth  about  $74 
per thousand.

L. B. Strickland, of Chicago, is  endeavor­
ing to organize a  stock  company  at  Reed 
City  for  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  the 
manufacture of  wheelbarrows,  butter  tubs 
and clothes pins.

Harbor  Springs 

Saranac  Local:  Fred  Cahoon  will  re­
move his stock of  goods  from  Bonanza  to 
this  village  and enter into  partnership  with 
S. A. Watt.  He will make  the  change  as 
soon as the new store building is completed.
Independent:  A.  T. 
Long has purchased a boiler and engine, and 
the machinery, for a heading  factory, which 
business he will go into, and  is  negotiating 
for a lot upon which to erect  the  building. 
He expects  to  start  the  machinery  some 
time in  June. 
■
Pentwater News:  Wm. Lewis, who  mov­
ed to this  place i from  Shelby  some  four 
months ago  and  engaged  in  the  harness 
making business in  company  with  H.  M. 
Burrill, has  skipped  for  parts  unknown. 
He is supposed to have  gone  to  Nebraska. 
He leaves a wife and one child  in  destitute 
circumstances,  and  his  partner  some  $50 
poorer by his acquaintance.

E. H. Stone, one of Portland’s largest dry 
goods dealers, put a mortgage of  $6,000  on 
his stock to his father-in-law,  and  a  mort­
gage of $4,000 to Charles Root & Co., on the 
18th, and later in the day  made  an  assign­
ment to George W. Porter for the  benefit of 
his creditors.  The liabilities are estimated at 
from $15,000 to $17,000.  The stock January 
1 was invoiced at $18,000, probably too high. 
Careful  estimates place it at $12,000.

From a hamlet of 75  people  18  months 
ago, Alba has grown to a village of  500  in­
habitants,  with  a  large  and  handsome 
church, a fine brick  school  building,  four 
groceries, two dry goods  stores,  one  drug 
store, one  piillinery  store,  one  hotel,  two 
boarding  houses,  one  bowl  factory,  two 
broom handle factories, one  broom  factory, 
one'shingle mill, two saw mills, one planing 
mill? one cant hook handle factory, one very 
poor excuse for  a newspaper, 
the  Record, 
one doctor and one lawyer, two wagon mak­
ers, two blacksmiths.

As Others See  Us.

Newaygo,  March 19, 1884.

Hon. W. D. Fuller, editor of the Newaygo 
Tribune, and an excellent  judge ¡¡of  news­
paper work withal, writes as follows of The 
Trad esm a n:
E. A. Stowe,
D eas Sir :—T he Tradesm an is  a  regu­
lar visitor at the Tribune office, and  I  can­
not  refrain  from  congratulating  you,  as 
also the business community, and dealers  of 
the State, upon the publication of so reliable 
a  journal.  T h e -Tradesman  occupies  a 
place, all its own, and while particularly de­
voted to the mercantile  and  manufacturing 
interests of the State, is of  general  interest 
to all classes of readers. 
In fact, the  inter­
ests mentioned are so inseperably  interwov­
en with those of  every  citizen,  no  matter 
what his calling may be, that T he  Trades­
man becomes in  fact  a  family  necessity. 
May  you  succeed in  your  chosen  field  of 
labor, fully and  completely.

Yours  truly,
W.  D. F uller.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Merricle & Hopper,  general  dealers, Fre­
mont:  “We value The Tradesm an highly, 
and could not do without it.”

John W. Davis &  Son,  general  merchan­
dise, Mackinaw Island;  “We are in receipt 
of many trade journals, but think  yours  the 
best of all.”

S. P. Roller,  general dealer, Gresham:  “1 
have saved enough since  I signed  for  your 
paper  to  pay for five years.  May your sub­
scriptions increase every day.  Every dealer 
ought to be a subscriber for your paper.”

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M illin ery

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Real  Laces  a  Specialty.

Gloves, Oorsets, Ribbons, Pans, Hand Bags, 

Pocket Books,  Ruchings,  Y am s, 

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets, 

Embroidery  Materials,  Plumes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.
STAMPING PATTERNS

70 MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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DRUG  STORES  FOR  SALE. 

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for  $2,500  or  invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  Address  Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co., 
Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

DRUG  STORE FOR SALE  at  Otsego,  Mich.

$2,000.  Address Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., 

Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids,  Mich.
LIYERY  STABLE  FOR  SALE.

ham’s best hearses.  Will take as part payment 

RARE  CHANCE  to  purchase  a  first-class 

Livery Stock including  one  of  Cunning­
good  improved  farm  property.  Will sell  or 
rent barn and grounds.  The  best  location in 
the best livery town  in the  State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.

—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  MY—

Spring  Styles  of Fine Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Wool  Hats,
Spring  Styles  of Stiff Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Soft  Hats,

Wool Hats  $4.50  to  $12  per Dozen,
Fine  Hats  13.50  to  $36  per Dozen, 

Straw  Hats for Men,

Straw Hats for Boys,

Straw Hats  for  Ladies,

Straw Hats for Misses.

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Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

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Cottonade  Pants  and Hosiery.

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS,  $3.50  PER  DOZEN  AND  UPWARDS.

Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities.

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-PROPRIETORS  OF  THE-

JENNINGS  &  SMITH,
ARCTIC  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY,
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts
Arctic Baking Powders, 
Arctic Bluing and Inks, 

AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF-

Arctic Kid Dressing,
.  Arctic Mucilage,
Etc., Etc., Etc.

MISCELLANEOUS.

GOOD SECOMD-HAND SAFE wanted at this 
office.  Must be cheap.  Address,  stating 
size and price.
50 CHROMO  CARDS  10 cts.  Address W.  D. 

Hollister, Grand Rapids,  Mich.
FO R   SALR,

Stock of  drugs  and  hardware  located  at 
New Troy,  Mich.  For  particulars  enquire 
of Jennings & Smith, 20 Lyon street,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

DELINQUENT DEBTORS.

of Bad Accounts.

Benefits Derived from Publishing the Lists 
Dr.  John  Leeson,  of Cadillac,  who  has 
adopted an ingenious method  of  publishing 
the names of bad-pay customers in the  local 
papers, under the caption  of  “Assignments 
of Accounts,”  thus  expresses  his  opinion 
relative to the  benefits  derived  from  such 
publication:

Cadillac, March 18,1884.

1. 

Editor Tradesman :  I have been to  On­
tario to look after my Tiger Oil interests and 
just returned to find a request from  you  by 
letter and paper for my opinion in regard  to 
the financial success of my  present  assign­
ments of  accounts;  and  in  answer  would 
state as follows:
Nearly all the names and accounts  placed 
in the paper are very old and  many  of  the 
parties are not living here  at present,  while 
others have forgotten their  accounts  and  I 
have been unable to reach  them  by  letter. 
Now to its effects:  ,
It hastens along other debtors  who do 
intend  to  pay 
their  accounts,  but  are 
careless.
It causes those who have  yet  a  little 
shame left to settle their accounts  with  me 
before publication.
It causes a few to pay  their  accounts 
because their names did appear in the paper 
as debtors who from all  appearance  would 
never have paid from any other  mode  of re­
quest or dun.
On the whole, it has well paid me thus far 
and I intend to continue until 1 have  passed 
through all my very old and  slow  accounts.
If there is any part or whole  of  this  you 
can use to your benefit or the benefit of any­
one else you are at liberty to do  so.

2. 

3. 

S a n d   L a k e .

E.Pangborn reports the following delinquent 

debtors:
L. W. Pierce, lives at Ensley................  ..$18 00
Geo. Negus, moved to  Alma.......... ... 
.7  60
H. Dildine, lives at Cedar  Springs.......,  3 (JO
Hiram Howard, lives at Ensley.,,........  14 00

20  Lyon  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Fruit & Produce at Wholesale

Choice Butter, Eggs,  Cheese,  Buckwheat  Flour, 
Maple Syrup,  Jellies, Foreign  and Domestic  Fruits 
and  Vegetables, and Sand Refined  Cider.

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
Castor Made Oil er “ M ori.”

The  Castor  Machine  Oil  contains  a fair  percentage  of  Castor  Oil  and  is  in  all  re­

spects superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil.  The

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It is  rapidly  com­
ing  into popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

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At  M anufacturers’  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  TH E  TRAD E  ONLY.

Souse  and  Store  Shades Made to  Order. 
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T H E   C AM PIO N   P L A N .

Articles  of  Agreement  for  the  Purpose  of  E n ­

forcing 

the  Maintenance  of  Retail 

Prices  of Proprietary  Articles.

The  undersigned,  manufacturers  of  such 
articles, each respectively  agrees to  con­
form to and abide by the following  stipu­
lations in the conduct of his  business.
I.  —Those of us who are  now  adhering to 

for more than one  year,  is still  spreading. 
Recently New York City and Brooklyn have 
formed themselves into “Druggists’ Unions,” 
and the trade  jonmals are teeming  with ac­
counts of the meietings which have  recently 
beeu held for the purpose of bringing  about 
these organizations.

In  New  York  City  the  agreement  to 
maintain the regular retail prices  went into 
effect on the 1st instant  They are very sim­
ilar to those in this  city, and  if  the  same 
works as well  there  as  it  has  here,  the 
druggists will reap a great benefit,  and  yet 
they will only get what they are  justly  en­
titled to.

III.  —Believing that all persons  who  sell 

II.  —Those of us who  are  not  operating 

the Rebate System, will apply the conditions 
of the said system to the  fullest  extent  we 
legally can, not only to parties who quote or 
sell our goods, either directly  or  indirectly, 
at wholesale, at less than Proprietors’  limit 
of prices, but to those  also  who  sell  said 
goods to Retail Dealers, or others, who  per­
sistently undersell specified retail  prices.

our articles  at  less  than our  Schedule  of 
Prices,  either directly or indirectly, or  who 
sell to others who do so, should  not be  per­
mitted to purchase  our  manufactures,  we 
pledge ourselves to do all we legally can  to 
carry out any action that may be determined 
upon in the premises.

under the Rebate  System,  will  m ake'it a 
condition of sales of  our  goods,  that  the 
future orders of any purchaser will  be  de­
clined, who sells the  same  either  directly 
or indirectly to  Retail  Dealers, or  ethers, 
persistently underselling,  or  who  himself 
sells at retail at less than our  limit  prices. 
In  all sales to Brokers, sold  on his  individ­
ual account  except  for  export,  the  latter 
must furnish the names of  their  principals 
or guarantee  that the same shall be sold  at 
full wholesale and owners’ prices.

Looking at the matter  in  an  intelligent 
and proper light, it  is  really  strange  that 
any one should be so near-sighted as  to  cut 
prices on this class of goods;  it is  absolute­
ly contrary  to common sense  and  justice— 
every manufacturer or proprietor establishes 
per se a retail and  a wholesale price  for his 
preparations.  The selling price is not based 
oh its intrinsic value or cost, and the sales are 
not dependent on  the  high  or  low  price. 
No one buys a bottle  of  Jayne’s  Expecto­
rant or Prickly Ash Bitters because  he  can 
buy them less than one  dollar  per  bottle, 
but he buys it because  he  thinks  he  needs 
it, and if a dealer reduces the prices of  that 
class of goods in order  to  “'draw  trade  and 
out do his neighbor he simply shows that he 
lacks in judgment and experience—to  use a 
vulgar expression, he simply “cuts  his  own 
throat.”  But  human  nature  seems  to  be 
hard to control, and what seems  foolish  for 
one man, seems to be wisdom  for  another. 
Hence, artificial means must  be  resorted to, 
and these  organizations  are  such  artificial 
means;  but as some people will not  join or 
always prefer to be opposed to  a  majority, 
some even  considering  that their  personal 
liberties are being jeopardized, still  stronger 
measures must be held in  reserve.  As the 
Rebate plan compels the jobber, if  he wants 
to handle that  class of  goods,  to  sign  an 
agreement that he will sustain the establish­
ed prices, so  now  the  so-called  “Campion 
plan” will prevent the cutters or “scalpers,” 
as they are now generally  called,  from  be­
ing able to buy such goods from  either  job­
ber or manufacturer.  While we regret that 
such measures must be adopted,  we  see no
sought to be accomplished  by  this  Agree-1 other way in making it effective.
We sub-
ment, is one in which  the  interests  of  the j 
a very similar plan to the Proprietary
Retailer, the Wholesaler  and  the  Manufac-1 Association  several months  since,  and  we 
turer are mutually involved, we agree to co-  think it is about ap that  can  be  done. 
It 
operate with  the National  Wholesale  Drug  will be said by some that these rules will be 
Association and the National Retail Drug As- I broken by dishonest men,  the  same  as  is 
sociation, in organizing a  Protective  Asso-  sai(i of jobbers  that they do not all  live up 
cition, the exclusive object  of  which  shall L  the prescribed  prices;  but  this  cuts  no 
be to promote the purposes  of  this  Agree-  figure in the matter.  If  a  person  agrees to 
ment, and make the same effectively  opera-  something and does not live up to  it in  the 
five, in accordance  with  methods  herein-  gpjr^ o£ £be same, he cannot have  the  good 
after specified. 
opinion of his customers, and they will  sus-
VI.—Representatives of  the  Signers  of  ^  him o£ other tricks, and well they may 

IY.—Additional parties may be  admitted 
to this Agreement by the  obtained  consent 
of two-thirds of the existing signers in writ­
ing, after recommendation of the  Executive 
Committee hereafter appointed.  A  Party 
to this Agreement failing to  conform  to its 
provisions, will forfeit  his connection there­
with, and mayjbe excluded from all  partici­
pation, if  two-thirds  of  the  signers  deem 
such exclusion  advisable.

Y.—Keeping  in  view  that  the 

result 

ed into the drug business mainly through the 
agency  of physicians;  among  them  are  the 
various bottled elixirs of bark, syrup of  hy- 
pophosphites, emulsions of cod liver oil, ex­
tracts of malt, bromidia, white  pine  expec­
torant, etc.  These  articles,  having  once 
been prescribed by the physician, are  called 
for by the patients, should  they think it  de­
sirable to continue  their  use  and  to  sell 
these goods requires no special training.

The manufacturing chemist also  aids  the 
ignorant  in the' dispensing  department  by 
putting up his remedies in  proper  doses in 
the shape of pills, tablets,  etc.,  by  making 
all  his  preparations  for  him,  even  large 
quantities of the most simple tinctures. 
In­
deed the waters, and simple syrups, are fur­
nished by the manufacturing chemist.

Under these circumstances many  take up 
the business without the least  knowledge of 
it, attracted  by  the  popular,  exaggerated 
idea of its profits.  Patronage is  sought  by 
cutting prices, sometimes so much  as  to  be 
below the cost of  prime  goods,  especially 
with articles which cannot be judged by the 
purchaser.  However, there is  another  fae 
tor already  at work to  counteract  the  un­
favorable  changes  under  consideration. 
Those branches of our trade  which  can  be 
conducted without special education are  be­
ing taken up by other tradesmen.

To protect the public and to prevent com­
petition by unqualified persons, the pharma­
cists of many states have induced  their  re­
spective legislatures to enact  laws  for  the 
regulation of the practice of pharmacy. 
In 
many cases, these laws, if enacted as  draft­
ed, would go far towards attaining  their ob­
jects, while in fact they have been so far  al 
tered by amendment after amendment,  that 
their value has become quite questionable.

That the pharmacists  of  Michigan  have 
not secured the enactment  of  legislation  in 
the interests of the profession is  the subject 
some  comment  in  the  pharmaceutical 
journals at the present time.  At  our  pre­
vious meetings we have  deliberated  on  the 
advisability of undertaking some  movement 
in this direction, and one year ago  the  fol 
lowing report was accepted, as  representing 
the views of the association:

W hereas,  it  is  seen that 

W hereas,  It  is  evident  that the  public 
ought to^be  protected  by  law  against  the 
practice  of  incompetent  pharmacists,  and 
incompetent 
pharmacists are being excluded by law from 
the two states next on the west of Michigan, 
while legislation is now  actively  urged  for 
the exclusion  of  unqualified  pharmacy  in 
the states next on the south  and  southeast 
as indeed in most states of the Union, there­
fore

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Declined—Alcohol,  Glassware,  Cantharides, 

Gum Gamboge, Gum  Opium.

Hazeltiue, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for 
quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts 
write them for quotations:
A C ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................fi>  9  @  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ©  35
Carl« lie..................................................... 
Citric........................................ 
 
3  @  5
Muriatic 18  deg...............................  
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  @  13  '
Oxalic...............................................   14)4©  16
3  @  4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered................................. 
Benzoic,  English....................^ oz 
30
Benzojc,  German............................  13  @  15
Tannic.............................;................  15  ©  17

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.............................. $  fi>  17  ©  30
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
15
Aqua 16 deg or  3f........ ................... 
6  @  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
7  ©  8

BALSAMS.

Copaiba ............................................  
Fir...................................................... 
Peru.................................................. 
Tolu................................................... 

©  50
40
3 00
60

BA RK S.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........  
13
Cinchona,  yellow..........................  
18
15
Elm,  select.......................................  
Elm, ground, pure. . . , ............................  
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
15
10
Sassafras, of root............................ 
13
Wild Cherry, select......................... 
Bayberry  powdered...............................  
18
Hemlock powdered......................... 
W ahoo.............................................. 
30
Soap  ground....................................  
13
Cubeb, prime  (Powd $1 20)... I.... 
@1 00
Juniper............................................ 
6  ©  7
Prickly Ash......................................1 00  @1 11

B E R R IE S.

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 tt> doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 fi)  boxes).......................  
do 
Lgowood, Vis 
.......................  
do 
Logwood, V48 
.......................  
.......................  
Logwood, ass’d  do 
FluidJExtracts—25 $  cent, off list.

27
37)4
9

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................   10  ©  11
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  German...................... 
25

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60@  75
18
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................. 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
50
28©  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
80
Arabic, extra  select.......................  
Arabic, powdered  select...............
55 
Arabic, 1st picked.......................
45 
Arabic,2d  picked............................
40 
Arabic,c3d pickod............................
35 
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
30 
Assafœntida, prime (Powd 35c)...
55@60 
Benzoin............................................
~  25 
23©
Camphor.............. 
 
 
13
Catechu. Is ()4 14c, Ms  16c)
Éuphorbium powdered.................. 
35®  40
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge............ 
90®1 00
35
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
20
1  I®
Mastic................................................ 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)............... 
4 00
4g
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
33
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
38
Shellac bleached..............................  ^   „   «5
Tragacanth......................................  30  @1 10
............. 25
.t,T...............*........
............. 25
, .................................
...............................   • ............. 25
............. 40
........ -...........................
...............35
....................................... . ...............25
................................. . ............. 30

Hoarhound 
T lOboiifl, 
Peppermint 
PÌior  ’ 
Sweet Majorarn 
Tanzy 
ThvmP 

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

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this  Agreement,  the  National  Wholesale
Drug Association, and the  National  Retail 
Pharmacy  From  a  Business  Standpoint. 
Drug Associarion,  three  from  each  body, 
We are permitted to  make  the  following 
shall meet as soon as possible after their ap­
extract from an address by Hugo Thum, Ph,
pointment, and organize a body to be known
as the Protective Association, adopting such IC., before the  Association  of  Pharmaceuti- 
Rules and Regulations for the governance of  cal Alumni of the University  of  Michigan 
the same as to them may seem best  adapted  in 1881.  The excerpt has  a  direct  bearing 
to promote the objects  of the  organization, I upon the question of pharmaceutical  educa-^ 
who shall also appoint an  executive  officer,  tion and legislation, and  is  consequently of 
to be named by the  signers  of  this Agree-1 interest to the druggists  of  Michigan,  w  o 
ment, to be styled a  Superintendent  They  now have that subject under  consideration 
shall also take such steps as they may  deem  Mr. Thum has promised to supplement  this 
necessary to pay, equip and  assist the  Sup-  expression of opinion with an article setting 
erintendent—provided, that  the  aggregate  forth his views on the  proposed  legislation 
expense incurred by them shall not  exceed  I as 800n as he can find  time  to  prepare  the 
same.  Both discussions of the question will 
§6,000.00 per annum.  They shall also  pro­
be welcomed  by  the  profession,  as  they 
vide for  the  effective  co-operation,  within 
come from one well qualified  by  education 
the  scope  hereinafter 
specified,  of  the 
and experience to speak on the  subject:
Wholesale  and  Retail  Druggists  through 
their respective Associations.

We are not  only  called  upon  to  foster
F irst.—The co-operation to be asked  for | pharmaceutical education  everywhere,  and 
from the Wholesale Trade is  to  the  extent  to contribute towards the advance  of  Phar- 
that the National Wholesale  Drug  Associa-  macy as a science, but to aid by our example 
tion shall appoint, as often as may be  here-  and influence in its recognition by  the  pub-
after determined, three members of said As- U*c as such, and to aid in  the  protection  of
sociation, to serve as representatives of their  society against dangerous  abuses.  To pre­
branch of the Trade in the Protective  Asso-  sent to those of our number who  are  about 
ciation,  and,  furthermore,  whenever  any  entering upon the duties of our  chosen  pro- 
Wholesale Dealer becomes cognizant  of  an  fession those questions which are occupying 
infraction  of the Terms adopted  by the re-'I the minds of  all  friends  of  pharmacy  in 
spective signers by a dealer, he shall  report  America, as well as  in  other  countries, 
the case to the Chairman of the  Committee  one  my objects at this time, 
on Proprietary Articles of  his  Association,  M has become a recognized fact  by  those 
who, after verifying the same,  shall  notify  wh° have given the subject  their  attention 
the Superintendent of the  Protective  Asso-1 that Pharmacy in the United States,  from a 
ciation, giving the name and address  of the I business point of view, has been  in  certain 
party offending. 
particulars retrogarded for the  last  twenty
Second.—The co-operation  to  be  asked I years.  All  measures  to the contrary  have 
for from the National Retail  Association, is  not been able to perceptibly change  this un­
to  the  effect  that  they 
appoint,  favorable tendency, and bring the profession 
as often as  may  be  hereafter  determined,  to that high position to  which it is  entitled 
three members of their Association, to serve  This state of affairs is in a large measure at- 
as representatives of  their  branch  of  the  tributable to the fact, that it  has  become a 
Trade  in  the  Protective  Association;  and  too easy matter for the average business man 
furthermore, when any member of the Trade  I to carry on the larger  portion  of  what  is
becomes  cognizant of a Dealer  selling  our 
The pharmacist has, in the course  of time 
Articles  at  less  than  our  specified  retail 
appropriated many branches of trade  which 
prices, he  may report the case to the Chair­
are not in his domain, and to  deal  in which
man of the Executive Committee of his  As-
sociation, who, on receipt of  such a  report,  requires nQ  special education.  For  instance, 
shall, with the assistance of a Committee of  toilet  articles,  fancy  goods,  soda  water, 
his organization,  or  otherwise,  verify  the  cigars, holiday goods, paints, oils, etc.  The 
same, and if the  charge Lbe  substantiated, I trade thus being enlarged has  offered  busi- 
notify the Superintendent of the  Protective I ness to a larger number, than had drugs mid 
Association of the fact,  in  addition  to fur-  medicines remained the  only  articles  hand- 
nishing the Superintendent, if possible, with  led, until at present a district, which  would 
furnishes  a 
the name of  the  Jobber  from  whom  the | support one pharmacy  proper,
livelihood to quite a  number  of  retail  drug 
offending party obtains his  supplies.
stores.

in  considera­
tion of the services rendered them,  agree to 
pay the salary and expenses of the  Superin­
tendent of the Protective Asssociation.

Patent medicines are  constantly  increas­
ing in sale, and the greater portion  are  still 
sold by druggists.  The  advertisements  of 
the makers acquaint the  public  with  their 
supposed qualities, and all that is to be done 
is to take the desired article from  the shelf,
The organization of .Retail  Druggists  in I wrap it up and  hand  it  to  the  customer, 
cities to maintain prices on  proprietary arti-1 This requires  no knowledge of pharmacy in 
eles,  which was first inaugurated  in  Cleve-  one disposed to sell them 
land and has been  successfully  maintained I  Another class of  goods  which  may  be 
there over two years and here  in  S t Louis  classed with patent medicines, are  introduc-

From the St Louis Drug-Market Reporter.

called the retail drug business.

YII.—The Signers  hereto, 

The Burning Question.

shall 

Resolved, That as a body of  active  phar­
macists, pledged by  our  education  to  the 
support of good progress  in  our profession, 
we recognize the need of a law for  the reg­
ulation of pharmacy in Michigan,  to  be en­
acted before the State shall become  an  asy­
lum for pharmaceutical ¡[refugees  from  just 
examinations  in  the  northwest;  and"  we 
pledge ourselves to the support of  all  suit­
able efforts in a movement for  a  pharmacy 
law in Michigan, whenever  such  a  move­
ment shall  be instituted;  and 

W hereas,  It  is  enough  for  schools  of 
pharmacy to  meet  a  spontaneous  demand 
for due professional  preparation,-  and  this 
demand always brings to  our  Alma  Mater 
numbers fully as large as  are  favorable 
its interests,  therefore 

Resolved,  That any movement for a phar­
macy law in this State, must be and  may be 
known to be  an effort of the  profession  of 
pharmacy for the  protection  of the  public, 
and not an effort for the support of pharma­
ceutical education, and  we  submit  to  the 
elder members of the profession,  those  not 
specially related to  the  schools,  that  they 
should move first and  foremost whenever a 
movement is undertaken.-: And 

Resolved,  That we have no solicitude  as 
to the bearing of pharmaceutical [flaws upon 
the interests  of  professional  education  in 
pharmacy,  having  nothing  to  ask  in  the 
matter of release of college graduates Dfrom 
State examinations and we would leave  the 
consideration of the provisions of legislation 
to the care and responsibility  of  our  more 
numerousDassociates  among [.the  practical 
pharmacists of  Michigan.

By advocating, as alumni, measures which 
will necessarily bar some from entering  the 
profession, although we try to place  a  bar­
rier between the public  and  dangerous  in­
competence, we  will  be  charged  unjustly 
with interested motives, which will  deprive 
our advocacy of much strength.  Unjustly, 
because our alumni will always receive [due 
recognition by the physician and  the  com­
munity, and will scarcely find their interests 
to be bettered  by  the  enactment  of  laws 
which would tend to bring  a  greater  num­
ber of trained men into the  profession.  Our 
aims in this direction can only  be Dfor  the 
benefit of the public, and,  since  it  derives 
the benefit, from it should come the demand, 
to check charlatanry. 
It  may  be  in  the 
province of our association to draw  the  at­
tention of the public to existing abuses,  and 
to the dangers to which it is exposed through 
the agency of incompetent persons. 
It  may 
be suggested,  that perhaps it would  be  ad- 
nisable to request a number of alumni to de­
vote a portion of their time to the  collection 
and examination  of  important  drugs,  ob­
tained from various drug stores of the  state,

Druggists are  cordially  invited  to  make 
this department of Th e  Tradesm an  their 
mouthpiece, and  use  the  space  alloted  to 
them in discussing the merits or demerits  of 
the Pharmacy bill, the question of cutting on 
patents, and any of  the  hundred  and  one 
subjects that are of  interest  to  the  trade. 
Communications on  all  such  questions  tyre 
respectfully solicited.

IRON.

O IL S.

M AGNESIA.

LEAVES.

LIQUORS.

Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................
Sage, Italian, bulk ()4s & )4s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural......................
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ural...........................................
Belledonna..................... .................
Foxglove...........................................

6 40
20
7
80
65
12  ©  U  
6
18  ©  20 
30 
22 
16 
10 
35
30
35
2 35
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................ 1 75 ©2 00
Whisky, other brands..................... 1  10 @1 50
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 1 35 @1 75
Gin,  Holland..................................... 2 00 ©3 50
Brandy............................................... 1 75 ©6 50
Catawba  Wines.................................1 35 @3 00
Port Wines.......................... ............ 135  ©3 50
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 o z ..-------
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—
Calcined...........................................•
Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz...........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Croton..................................................
Cajeput............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella............................... ; —
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fire weed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75e)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers- French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop...........................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal..................... ................
Peppermint,  white........................
Rose $   oz........... . . . . . ...........
Rosemary,French  (Flowers$5)...
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........
Sassafras...........................................
Tansy................................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
Wintergreen...................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
Savin.................................................
Wormseed.......................................
Cod Liver, filtered............  $  gal
Cod Liver, best...............................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga.................  .
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ...............
Salad........................................65
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................$  oz

©  50 
45 
2 10 50 
2 00 
2 00 
75 
1 35 
40 
85
1 25 
8  00 
1 60
2  00 
75 
40 
50
2 25 
2 40 
1 00 
90
1 85
2 00 
80
1 25 
50
2  00
2 85 
9 75
65
5 00 
8 00
60
3 75 ©  12
2 25
4 50 
1 00 
2 50
1 90 
4 00
6  00 
@1  20
2 50 
@  87
9 75.

do 
do 

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................$  ®
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, hulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

Alkauet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in %s and )4s—
Blood (Powd 18c)..............................
Calamus,  peeled. . . . . . . . .................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap, powdered.............................
Lloorloe,  select (Powd 13)4)— • ••
Licorice, extra seleot.....................
Pink, true........................... i........
Rhei, from seleot to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Serpentaria.....................................
SuQukft ..««*••.*••*••••••••••••••• *•
Saraapariiia,  Honduras...........

U S

 

 

CLES.

PA TEN T  M EDICIN ES  AND  P R O PR IE T A R Y   A R T I­
Acid, Horsford’s  Phosphates.....................   4 00
Acid,  Horeford’s  Phosphates.....................   8 00
Alterative,  Jaynes’......................................  7 60
Aperient,  Tarrant’s  Seltzer........................   8 00
August Flower, Green’s,  trial.....................  
85
August Flower, Green’s ...............................   5 25
Balm, Ely’s Cream.........................................  3 75
Balm, Hagan’s  Magnolia..............................  5 25
Balsam, Allen’s Lung...................................   7 00
Balsam, Hall’s Lung......................................  7 50
Balsam, Jaynes’  Carminative.....................   2 85
Balsam,  Jaynes’ Carminative.....................   2 86
Balsam, Parker’s Hair..................................   3 90
Bitters, Baxter’s Mandrake.........................  1  85
Bitters,  Boerhave’s  Holland.......................  7 00
Bitters, Brown’s Iron....................................  8 00
Bitters, Bucklen’s Electric..........................   4 00
Bitters, Burdock,  Blood...............................  7 50
Bitters, Burdock, Biood, trial.....................  
85
Bitters, German  Hop....................................  6 50
Bitters, Hop and  Malt..................................   7 00
Bitters, Hostetter’s Stomach.......................  8 00
Bitters, Shepard’s  Wahoo............................  3 50
Bitters, Warner’s Safe..................................   3 75
Bitters, Warner’s Safe..................................   7 00
Blood-Searcher,  Lindsey’s..........................   7 00
Bloom, Laird’s, of Youth..............................  5 25
Bougies, Allan’s No. 1, Short (Gonorrhcea)10 00
Bougies, Allan’s, No. 2, Long, (Gleet)........10 00
Bromidia, Battle & Co...................................  8 00
Butter Color, W. R. &  Co..............................  1  88
Butter Color,  W. R. & Co..............................  3 76
Butter Color,  W. R. & Co..............................  8 00
Camphor Ice, H. P. & Co. rolls..............—  
75
Carminative, Jaynes’....................................   2 85
Cascara Cordial, P. D. & Co..........................   7 00
Castoria, Pitcher’s .........................................  2 80
Cement, Freeze’s American Mender..........  1 35
50
Cholagogue, Osgoods.................................... 12 50
Compound, Lydia Pinkham’s........................8 00
Conquorer, Greene’s Ague..........................   7  50
Conquerer, Green’s  Ague............................  3 75
32
Cordial, Fosgate’s Anodyne.........................  2 75
Cordial,  Godfrey’s......................................... 
60
Cream, Richmond’s Cubeb...........................  8 00
Cure, Ayer’s Ague.........................................  7 75
Cure, Harter’s Fever and Ague..................  5 25
Cure, Hall’s Catarrh [Toledo]......................  5 50
Cure, Jaynes’ Ague........................................  7 60
Cure, Kendall’s  Spavin.............. 
8 00
Cure, Kendall’s Spavin,  Refined................   4 00
Cure, Piso’s for Consumption.....................   2 00
Cure, Richmond’s Cough.............................   4 00
Cure, Richmond’s  Ague...............................   7 50
Cure, Sykes Cartarrh,  Liquid.....................   7 50
Cure, Warner’s Safe Diabettes.................... 10 00
Cure, Warner’s Safe K. & L......................... 10 00
Cure, Warner’s  Rheumatic......................... 10 00
Cure, Weatherly’8 Catarrh............................  3 50
Cuticura.........................................................   ^20
Dermador,  Anderson’s.................................  1 »0
Destroyer, Steketee’s Worm.......................  1  75
70
Drstroyer, Steketee’s Worm, in capsules..  3 75
Discovery, Kennedy’s  Medical...................12 50
Discovery, King’s  New..................•.............7 50
Discovery, Pierce’s Golden Medical............  7 50
Dissolvent, Kennedy’s...................................12 50
Drops, Koenig’s Hamburgh.........................  a 50
Drops, Peerless Toothache..........................   150
Drops, Steketee’s Neuralgia......................     3 75
Dyes,  Diamond.............................................. 
¿5
Dyes, Excelsior........................................  
¡*5
 
Dyes, Handy Package..................................
Elixir, Nichols’, of Bark  and  iron.............   7  50
Elixir,  Richmond’s Liver............................... 4 00
Elixir,  Wayne’s Diuretic..............................  7  50
Emulsion, Scott’s, of Castor  O il...............  1  75
Emulsion, Scott’s, of Cod Liver Oil............  7  50
Expectorant, Jaynes’. . . . ..............................  7  Jjj
Extract,  H.P. & Co.’s of  Ginger................   3 30
Extract, H. P. &. Co.’s of  Ginger...............  1 75
Extract,  Pond’s..............................................  jj  <5
Extract,  Pond’s..............................................   •  g”
Extract,  Pond’s .............................................. 1“ 00
Extract, Shaker’s,  or Roots  ........................4 80
Extract, Tarrant’s, of  C. and C....................  »00
Ely Paper,  Shoo-Fly...................................... 
*0
Fly Pads,  Briggs’...........................................  .  g®
Food, Mellin’B  Infant..................................   f  00
Food,  Mellin’s Infant....................................  » »0
Food, Nestle’s.................................................   J gg
Food,  Ridge’s,  No.  1...................................... ~ g~
Food,  Ridge’s,  No.  2....................................  4 68
Food,  Ridge’s,  No. 3.......................-...........  «00
Food,  Ridge’s,  No. 4....................................   i  SV
Food, Victor’s Baby......................................  *
Food, Victor’s  Baby......... ...........................  J oo
Friend, Pengelly’s  Woman s.......................   7 60
Ginger,  F. Brown’s Jamaica.......-..............   »
Hair Dye, Hill's [black or  brown].............   3 75
Hair Vigor, Ayer’s ....... 
.............   g Zr
Honey, Hale’s, Horehoundand  Tar..........  3 75
Hyjophisphites','^WinchesteV’s Syrup  o f^ 7   75
Invigorator, Sanford’s Liver...............7  35@7 90
Iodia, Battle &  Co.’s......................................  » oo
Kathairon,  Lyon’s .........................................  *
Kidneywort,  Dry.............................................5 Sj
Lactopepetine, N. Y. Phar. Co.,  1 oz. . .—   8 00 
Liniment, Centaur,  Horse and  Family—   3 60
Liniment, Herrick’s  German.....................   " ¿g
Liniment, Johnson’s Anodyne  ..................  3 80
Liniment, Kennedy’s R. and  N ..................  3 75
Liniment, Kennedy s  Scattering...............  7  50
Liniment, Mexican Mustang.......................   5
Liniment,Mexican  Mustang........••••■ • • • •  "
Nervine, Richmond s Good  Samaritan—  i* oo
Nervine, Warner’s  Safe...............................   »75
Nervine, Warner’s  Safe...............................
Oil, Hamlin’s Wizard....................................  » gg
Oil, Hamlin’s Wizard...................................   ‘
Oil, Haarlem  [Medicamentum]..................   ™
Oil,  Leeson’s  Tiger.......................................   i   12
Oil, Leeson’s Tiger.........................................  “ 22
Oil, Leeson’s Tiger........... ............................  I  22
Oil, Merchant’s Gargling,  fam ....................
Oil, Merchant’s Gargling,  horse.................  1
Oil, Merchant’s Gargling, horse..................  g w
Oil, Merchant’s  Gargling..............................  ‘
Oil, St.  Jocob’s........ ......................................  0
Oil,Thomas’  E lectric..................................2  “?
Ointment,  Kennedy s  Healing..................  »75
Ointment, Kennedy s Salt Rheum.............   3 75
Ointment, Kennedy s  Scrofula..................  7  5U
Ointment, Trask’s Magnetic.........................  ,   “2
Ointment, Trask’s Magnetic......................   £ 75
Ointment, Williams’ Indian Pile.................  g 00
Pain-Killer,  Perry Davis..............................  ^ w
Pain-Killer, Perry Davis...............................   g w
Pain-Killer, Perry  Davis..............................  >  ¡*2
Pectoral, Ayer’s Cherry...............................   ‘
1 w
Pellets, Pierce’s Purgative^. . . . . . . . .  
30
Pepsin, H. P- & Co.’s, Sacchar d,  ozs.
..........'« fi) 2 50
Pepsin, H. P. &  co 
1 1  
,50
Pills, Ayers.
Pills, Carter’s Iro n ................................. \ 
* ^
Pills, Carter’s Little Liver............................  i  22
Pills, Carter’s Nerve.....................................   I “2
Pills, Harter’s  Ague......................................? S?
Pills, Harter’s Liver.................................... 
j «2
Pills,  Herrick’s.  ...........................................  i  22
Pills,  Jaynes’ Sanative 
.............................   i S2
Pills, Kermott’s Mandrake..........................   { 72
Pills,  McLane’s ..............................................  J  JZ
Pills, Rinehart’s Liver ................ . 
• •  i.  22
Pills,  Shallenberger’s Fever and Ague...  7  50
Pills, Wright’s Sugar-Coated.......................  *22
Pilules,  Moore’s............................................  2  12
Plaster, Allcock’s.........................................   i  ¿2
Plaster, Benson’s  Capacme.........................  *  ¿2
Plaster, Collin’s Voltaic..............................   1 22
Plaster, Hamburg I Koenig’s].....................   J  ¿2
Plaster, Herrick’s Kid...............................   * *2
Plaster, Herrick’s Prelorated.....................   j  *2
Plaster, Herrick’s Red Pepper....................  i
Powders, Harvell’s Condition.....................   £ 22
Powders, Herrick’s  Condition....................  o w
Powders, Sheridan  Condition......................  1 w
Powders, Sloan’s  Condition..........................  *  w
Prairie-Week, Kennedy’s .............................   •  22
Prescription, King’s ............. ......................  1 22
Prescription, Pierce s F avorite..............   7
Regulator, Simmons’ Liver [Zeilens[........  7  w
Relief, Radway’s Ready...............................  * ¿2
Remedy, Hunt’s  K idney............................x2 $
Remedy, K ennedy s  F av o rite.......................  » w
Remedy, Sages— .........................................  ? 22
Remover, German Corn................... 
*  g"
Renewal, Hall’s  Hair....................................  2 ¿2
Resolvent,  Cuticura......................................  »2®
Resolvent,  Radway’s ....................................  °
Rough on Rats,  Wells..................................   *  w
Rough on Rats,  Wells..................................   ,  22
Salicylica,  Washburn ..................................   '  J™
Salve, Bucklen’s Arnica...............................   *
Salve, Henry’s  Carbolic...............................   *  ¿5
Salve, Page’s Climax...................................  1
Salve, Peleg W hite Sticking.......................... 
75
Salve, Petit’s Eye...........................................  * w
Sarsaparilla,  Ayer’s ...... .. .. .. .. ..  •••••• • •  i  ¿2
Sarsaparilla, Guyott s Yellow Dock and...  7 75
Sarsaprrilla,  Hood’s ....................................  * 22
Sarsaparilla, Johnston s........... ..................   7 uo
Smartweek, Pierce’s Extract  of.................  »75
Snuff, Marshall’s  Catarrh............................  1 75
Soap, Cuticura................................................  *
Soap, Glenn’s Sulphur...................................  1 75
Soap, Packer’s Tar.........................................   J 75
Sozodont, Van Buskirk’s.............................. 
«6
Specific, Harter’s Ague...................................® *6
Specific,  Swift’s ............................................   »00
Specific,  Swift’8 .........  
00
Sure Shot,  Johnston’s........................................  1 «0
Syrup, Boschee’s German............................  5 »5
Syrup, Boschee’s German, samples..................... 85
Syrup, Bull’s  Baby.......................................   1  »5
Syrup, Bull’s Cough......................................  |  ®
Syrup, Bull’s Cough........................................3 70
Sprup, Bull’s Cough..................• ■ • • • .......... J 40
Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood........ 3 50
Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood........  7 00
@90  Syrup, Fellows of Hypophospites, Comp. .11 50
1 10  Sprup, Marshall's  Lung....................................  |  j*
1 40  Syrup, Marshall’s  Lung..............................   3 70

 

 

j  Sarsaparilla,  Mexican..................
|  Squills, white (Powd 35c)..:..........
| Valerian, English (Powd 30c>......
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)—

18
10
25
20

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............

SEEDS.

Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........ ................
Celery..............................................
Coriander, best English................
Fennel.............................................
36
 

67

Mustard, white; Black 10c)__
Quince......................................
48
Rape, Lnglish............................
Worm, Levant.........................:

13
5  © 6
4)4© 5
11  © 122 20
2 50
20*
12
15
354@ 4
4  © 4)4
8  © 9
5)4® 6
8
1 00
7)4© 8
14

SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’wool, carriage......2 25
.......
do 
Nassau 
do 
.......
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
.......
do 
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
.................

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

©2 50 
2 60 
1  10 
85 
65 
75 
1 40

4 00

 

 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

2 25
2 30

2 35
1 50
50
27
12
30

1 60 
60 
1 60 
1 76 
1 90 
1 75 
©1 20 
@  65 
@  65 
@  22

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.27) $  gal—  
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............ 
Annatto 1 fi> rolls............................ 
Blue  Soluble............................................. 
13
Bay  Rum, imported, best.................... 
2 75
2 25
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Alum.........................................  ^ lb  23S£@  3;
3  ©  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c).;............ 
20
Annatto,  prime........................................ 
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
4)4@  5
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  @  7
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
Beans,  Tonka.........................................  
Beans, Vanilla................................ 7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate............................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................  
45
7)4®  9
Blue Vitriol..................... ................ 
Boralumlne, White  b u lk ]............ 
9
5 lbs ( ............ 
“ 
Boralumine, 
10
10
Boralumine, Tints bulk,  j-40 ff .. 
11
Boralumine  “ 
5  Sbs. J ............ 
13
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............  
13
13
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
2 75
15
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
18
14
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
20
18
Capsicum Pods,  American  do ... 
Carmine,  No. 40...................................... 
Cassia Buds...................................... 
14
Calomel.  American................................. 
Castor  Oil......................••................  17)4@  19
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
12
Chalk,  red fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform.................................... 1 15
Clnchonidia, P. & W........*............   60
Cinchonjdia, other brands.............   60
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter...................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
65
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  @  40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 fi) box.. 
Creasote............................................  
50
34
Cudbear,  prime...............................  
Cuttle Fish Bone............................. 
23
Dextrine........................................... 
13
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
1 30
Dragon’s Blood Mass...................... 
50
45
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
110
Ether Squibb’s............................... 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............  
8
2)4©  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
50
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
Flake white...................................... 
14
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
35
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..........................  
00
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  ©  70
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue,white.......................................   17  ©  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   23  ©  26
Hops  )4s and )4s.............................. 
25®  40
Iodoform $   oz................................. 
35
Indigo................................................  85 @1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32  ®  34
2 30
Iodine,  resublimed..................... 
Isinglass,  American...................:. 
1 50
Japonica........................................... 
9
Lead, acetate....................................  
15
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & Us 11c) 
9
10°
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium....................................  
35
66
Mace.................................................  
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  12)4©  13
Manna, 8.  F ...................................... 
1 25
Mercury............................................  
50
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........oz  3 50@3 75
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........  
40
Moss, Iceland............................fi> 
10
12
Moss,  Irish........................................ 
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
18
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 fl>  cans........  
Nutgalls............................................  
30
Nutmegs, No. 1................................ 
75
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
10
Ointment, Mercurial, )6d............... 
40
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
Pepsin...............................................  
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia............................................  
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... fi) oz  1 40@I 45
Quinine, otner brands....................140  @145
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
28
Strychnia, cryst...............................  
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  ©  82
Red  Precipitate.......................B> 
80
Saffron, American..........................  
40
©  2
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
33
Sal  Soda............................................ 
3  ©  2)
Salicin...............................................  
2 50
6 75
Santonin........................................... 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
4
25
Spermaceti.......................................  
4)4@  5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s—  
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
......................... 
17
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
9
Soap, 
11
......................... 
do  do 
Soap, Mazzinl..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  28  @  32
30
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
3)4©  4
Sulphur, flour................................... 
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
3
Tartar Emetic..................................  
.  65
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz 
2 70
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
1 40
86
pints in tin.............  
Tar, 
Turpentine,  Venice................ ^ fi) 
25
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............ 
60
Zinc,  Sulphate........... ..................... 
7  ©  8

do 
do 

6

 

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder..................................................50

Backus Fine Engine..
Castorine......................................
Paraffine, 25  deg.........................
Paraffine, 28  deg.........................

Lard, No.  1...............................
Linsaed, pure  raw..................
Linseed, boiled..................... .
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.
Spirits Turpentine..................
V ARN IS H ES.

No. 1 Turp Furniture...............
Extra Turp  Damar..................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp........

P A IN TS.

Bbl
Red Venetian..........................  154
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  154
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........   154
Putty, commercial..................   2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2)4
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular— .............
Lead; red strictly  pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure— .
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders  ......................
White, Paris American............
Whiting, Paris English cliff...

©

37)412
15
35
@1 50
@1 20
2 00
2 25
60
65
40

...25
...30
....60
....21
..1 40
Gal
80
80
70
60
63
95
50

Bbl
75
78
65
56
59
90
41

...1 10@1 20 
...1 60@1 70 
...2 75@3 00 
...1 00@1 10 
...1 55@1 60
70©  75
Lb 
m  3 
2® 3 
m  3
2)4© 3 
254© 3 
13@16 
55@57 
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A  M E R C A N T IL E   JO U R N A L ,  P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

E .  A .  STO W E  &  B R O ..  Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
LEntered  at  the  Postofflee  at  Grand Rapids  as 

Second-doss  Matter.1

W EDNESDAY,  MAEOH  26,  1884.
A FAR-SEEING DRUGGIST.
She had promised that  she  would  mend 
the lining of his overcoat, if he would  wear 
another and leave that at home.  And as he 
had left it, she took it from  the  hall  rack 
and carried it into her sewing  room.

She was Mrs. Wilton,  and had been  mar­
ried five years, and  never,  never,  never  in 
all that time had had one unhappy moment. 
Mr.  Wilton  had been very kind and gener­
ous and never made her jealous.  She  often 
said she was the happiest woman living.

Now, as she looked at the lining and com­
pared the silk with which she was  about  to 
mend the torn  portion,  she  was  thinking 
these thoughts.

They had never had any children,  but  to 
people who are all in all to each  other  that 
is  no  very great grief.  All her care was  for 
him, his for her.

“And he is iust the dearest,  best,  truest 
fellow in the world,”  said  Eve  Wilton  to 
herself.  “I’m not half good enough for  him.
I wonder what this is  in  his  pocket;  it 

bulges it all out of shape.”

She put her hand into his breast pocket as 
she spoke,  and drew  out  a  little  package 
wrapped in silver paper and tied with a blue 
ribbon.

“Something he has brought home for  me, 
I expect,” said Eve.  “I think I won’t open 
it until he comes home.”  Then she laid the 
silk on the coat, cut  it and  sewed it  down. 
“I  wonder  what it  is,”  said  she.  “It  is 
perhaps lace wound on a card, real  lace.”

She took up the package again.  “I  won­
der what it really  is.”  Then  she  took  up 
the coat.  “There was not  much  to  mend, 
after  all,”  she  said,  “I  thought  the  tear 
much  longer.”  Then  she  laid  it  on  a 
chair.

“Tom wouldn’t mind; I'm sure its for me, 

and I’ll just take a peep.”

Then she undid the ribbon,  unfolded  the 

paper and saw  letters.

“Dear Tom,” said she,  “he must keep  my 

old letters yet, and he never told  me.”

The writing, however, was  not  hers: she 

saw that.

“His mother’s letters,” she said;  “he  lov­

ed his mother so.”

Then she began to tremble a little.  They 
She  cast 
them.  They  were  love 

did  not begin, “My  dear  son.” 
her  eyes  over 
letters.

“Tom has loved some other woman before 
he met me,” she said.  “Oh,  what  shall  I 
do?”  Then she cried out,  “O,  foolish  crea­
ture that I am!  Of course she died; and he 
only loves me now. 
It was all  over  before 
we met. 
I must not mind,”—but  there  she 
paused and threw the letter away as though 
it was a serpent and had bitten her. 
It was 
dated the past week;  it was  not  four  days 
old.  “Oh¡dear!”  cried  Eve,  “oh!  what 
shall I do?  Oh!  where  shall I  go?”  At 
every cry a thought pierced her  breast  like 
an actual stab. 
“Tom!  my  Tom!  he  is 
false!  Oh!  I have gone mad!  No;  there 
they are—those letters!  Why do I not die? 
Do  people  live  through  such  things  as 
these?”

Then she knelt  down  on  the  floor  and 
gathered up the  letters,  and  steadily  read 
them through.  There were  ten  of  them— 
‘ such love  letters; 
they  were  absurd  love 
letters, such as are sometimes read  in  cases 
of “breach of promise;”  calling him “lovey- 
dovey,” “darling parliug,”  “popsy-wopsy,” 
terms used by those who have the complaint 
“really bad.”

“It’s all true,”  said  poor  Eve,  wringing 
her hands.  “I  trusted him  so;  I  believed 
in him  so.  Oh, Tom! my Tom,  false!”

Then she wiped her eyes, gathered up the 
letters, made them up just as they were  be­
fore, and returned them to the breast  pock­
et, and hung it on the hall rack again.
“Tom shall never know,”  she  said. 

“I 
will not reproach  him. 
I  will  never  see 
him again;  when  he  comes  home,  I  shall 
be dead. 

I will not live to bear this.”

Then she sat down  and  thought  of  the 
best means of suicide; she could  hang  her­
self with the window cord to the chandelier, 
and then she would be  black  in  the  face; 
she  would  drown  herself,  but  drowned 
people looked  even  worse  than  strangled 
ones;  she was too much afraid  of  firearms 
to shoot herself.  Happy thought, she would 
take poison!  Yes,  that  would  be  best; 
would not alter her  appearance,  and  Tom 
would see her after death, and he  might ex­
perience remorse.

Eve  took  a  miserable  comfort  in  the 
thought that Tom would  kneel  beside  her 
coffin and burst into tears and passionate ex­
clamations of  regret,  which  she,  perhaps, 
might see from  some  spiritual  post  of  ob­
servation.  So, having  put  on  a  hat  and 
thick veil,  Eve  betook  herself  down  the 
street to a drug store, the only  one  in  the 
street, and kept by a German.

The druggist was an  old  man,  with  red 
cheeks and a sailing mouth;  and when  she 
asked him  for “poison  for  rats,”  he  said 
“Just  so,”  and  beamed  knowingly  upon 
her.

“I want it very strong,” said  Eve.
“Just so,” said the  druggist.
“But not to give more pain than is  neces­

sary,” said she.

“To the rats?” asked the druggist.
“Yes,” said Eve; “of course; and it  must 
be quick, and not make  one  black  in  the 
face.”

With a grave countenance  he  compound­
ed a powder and  handed  it  to  Eve. 
She 
to'ok it, handed him all the  coppers she  had 
in her hand, and walked off.

Once  home, she retired to bed, taking  the 
powder with her, hoping it would not be very 
disagreeable to take, but finding it sweet she 
bravely swallowed it.

“It is over,”  she  said.  “Heaven  forgive 
me and forgive Tom!” and then she laid her­
self down.

Just as she did so  the  familiar  sound  of 
a latch key startled her.  Tom  never  came 
home at noon, but there he was now; no one 
else could walk in that cool  way,  and  now 
he was calling her.

“Eve!  Eve!  Eve!  Where are you?”  Nev­
er before had she  refused  to  answer  that 
voice.  Why had he come to torture her dying 
moments!  Hark! now he was bounding  up 
stairs;  now he was even in the  room.

“Oh, dear!” said Eve.
“What is the matter?  Are you] ill,  Eve?” 

he exclaimed.

“No,” she said faintly,  “only tired.”
“A h! you look tired,  little  one,”  said  he. 
“I came home to get that  overcoat. 
I  sup­
pose you found out before this that that in the 
hall is not mine. 
I wore Johnson’s overcoat 
from the office by mistake last night, and he 
is anxious about it.  He asked  me  if  there 
was any one in the house who,!would be apt 
to meddle with papers in the pocket. 
I said 
I thought not. 
I. hadn’t a jealous wife—eh? 
What’s the matter,  Eve?”

“Oh,  Tom,” cried Eve, hysterically. | “Oh, 
It was not  your  coat?” 

Tom, say it again. 

“My  coat?  No.  Why?”
“Oh, Tom I  Oh, Tom!”
“Why, what  is  the  matter,  Eve!  You 

must be ill I” cried out Tom.

“Oh, I am a  wicked  woman,”  she  cried. 
“There were letters in the pocket—love  let­
I read  them. I thought you were false 
ters. 
to  me.  1 took poison,  Tom. 
I’m  going  to 
die, and I do so long to live.  Oh, Tom, save 
me!”

“Yes, yes,” cried Tom.  “Oh, good Heaven, 

what poison.”

“Mr. Hoffman will know. 

I bought  it  of 
him.  Perhaps he can save me,” cried  Eve.
And  away went Tom, as  white  as  death 

to thejold druggist’s shop. 

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He burst into the shop  like  a  whirlwind. 
“The lady!”  he  gasped.  “The  lady  who 
bought poison here an hour ago!  She  took 
it by mistake!  Can you save her?  Is there 
no antidote?  She is dying!”

“No, no!” said  the  German.  “Be  calm! 
Be at rest!  No!  no!  she cannot die of that. 
When a lady asks me for poison dat will not 
turn de rats black in the face, I  say  to  my­
self,  ‘So, I smell something!’ and I gave her 
in de paper just a little sugar and something. 
She could take a pound.  Go home  and  tell 
her so.  I never sell poison to vomen dat cry, 
and do not vish de rat to become black in de 
face.  So be calm.”

So Tom flew  home  again,  and  Eve  re­
joiced;  and hearing  that  Johnson  was  a 
single man, who admitted  himself  engaged, 
she did not rip the patch off the coat,  as she 
at  first  intended;  as she kissed  Tom,  she 
mentally determined not to let her  curiosity 
lead her in the future into a  predicament  in 
which she had so nearly, as she thought, lost 
her life, as well as her temper.

Lagging  Habi  s  in  Business.

To have a business run as  smoothly  and 
successfully as it should,  it is  quite  neces­
sary to have the work done  “mp  to  date.” 
Then the merchant  knows  just  where  he 
stands,  knows  what  he  can  do  and 
what  he  can  not  do.  There 
is  a 
great tendency among  people  to  let  their 
business accumulate on them, and they are al­
ways just about so far  behind-hand. 
Such 
people as these we hear complaining of how 
they are rushed with work, and  they  find it 
impossible  to catch up.  And  yet  if  some 
good fairy  were  to  help  them  out,  they 
would soon be in arrears as badly as  before.
It is not that these  men  have  too  much 
work to do that they  lag  behind, but  it  is 
the result of a bad habit.  By a little  decis­
ion of character the habit could  be  broken, 
and when the man leaves his desk,  or office, 
or store for the night he would  feel  no in­
cubus of “unfinished business” hanging over 
him.  Not only is it annoying,  but  it  is  a 
losing plan to have  unfinished  work  con­
stantly on hand that should have been  done 
before.  When a head bookkeeper,  for  in­
stance, is back in his accounts a  few  weeks 
or months, it puts a merchant in a bad plight 
He can not tell whether he is losing or mak­
ing money: he cannot tell if the accounts are 
being paid as  they  should. 
In  fact, he  is 
about going it blind,  and serious  consequen­
ces are often the result of such a  condition 
of affairs.

We would urge upon all  young  men the 
importance of learning to finish  each  day’s 
business as it comes  along.  Such  a  habit 
once formed, will prove of incalculable bene­
fit to  whoever adopts  it, and, once adopted, 
it will  not 'be  abandoned.  A  systematic 
method of  working, combined  with  indus­
try, will finish a vast  amount  of work  in a 
day, and finish it with  ease.  Without sys­
tem and perseverance, along with a determi­
nation to do in time what is to be  done, one 
may rush ever so much and yet  accomplish 
but little.  The great thing in  starting  in a 
business career is to  start right,  and  fortu­
nate is the young man who has an  employer 
who will teach him aright.  But even other­
wise, a young man of  the proper  grit  can 
train himself up in the way he should go.

Send for sample order of Boralumine.

M.  B.  Church  “Bedette”  Co.,
Manufacturer of I “Bedette.”

1  HURON  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

PA TEN TED  JU N E  15, 1883.

This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put  away  in 
a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy,  comfortable bed  when wanted.  Of the 
many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable 
night’s rest can be had.  They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in  short no bed at all. 
While THe B e d e t t e  folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be made for  dura­
bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com­
fortable to lie upon as thd most expensive bed.  It is so constructed that the patent  sides, reg­
ulated by the patent adjustable tension cords, form the most perfect spring  bed.  The canvas 
covering is not tacked to the frame, as on all cots, but is  made  adjustable,  so  that  it  can  be 
taken off and put on again by any one in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it  become 
loose, at any time from stretching.  It is a perfect spring bed, soft and  easy,  without  springs 
or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the additionjof anything ;lfor cold 
weather it is only necessary to add sufficient cloi hing.  The “ BEDETTE " is a household neces­
sity,  and no family after once using, would be without it.  It is simple in its construction, and 
not likely to get out of repair.  It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within 
the reach of all.

Price—36 in. wide, by 6% ft. long, $3.50;  30 in wide,  by 6X  ft.  long,  $3.00;  27  in. 
wide, by 4% ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50.  For sale  by  furniture  dealers  every­
If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address  on  receipt  of  price.
where. 

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It  is  the  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
admits  of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de­
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A  CRAZY  QUILT.

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The Horse  Reporter’s Advice to  the Merry 

Maiden.

“Is this where they edit?”
“Yes, ma’am,”  replied  the  horse  re­
porter as  he looked up and  discovered 
a, timidly-built  young lady standing in 
the  doorway.  “This  is  the  very  spot 
where right, environed on every side by 
intellect,  deals  telling  blows  against 
wrong and  injustice, clad though  they 
be in  garments  of  might  and  oppres- 
Armed with the lances of thought 
that glisten brightly  in the  sunlight of 
reason, the editor  stands ever  ready, a 
helmeted  knight  in  the  holy cause  of 
justice, full panoplied, and with weapon, 
in couchant poise.”
“That wasn’t  exactly  what I  wanted 
to find out about,” said the young lady.
“I am  going to make a crazy quilt, and 
mamma said that an editor could proba­
bly  tell  me  all  about  it”—and  a  be­
witching smile illumitated  the features 
of the fair  visitor.
“Our insane bed-clothes  editor,” said 
the horse reporter, “is not here  at pre­
sent, and the rest of  us  naturally  feel 
somewhat diffident about intruding upon 
the  domain of  quilts which  are suffer­
ing from temporary aberration of  mind 
and  pillow-shams  concerning  whose 
mental cendition there is doubt.”
“I hardly think  you understand  me, 
sir,”  continued  the  young  lady.  “A 
crazy-quilt isn’t really and  truly crazy, 
you  know—it is simply  called  so  be­
cause, being made of  silk  of  different 
colors,  it  presents  an  outre  appear­
ance.”

-looks rather

“Presents a what?”
“An outre  appearance 
strange, you know.”
“O yes;  sort  of  dizzy 
looking  you 
mean.”
“That probably  expresses  the  idea, 
sir, although not perhaps 
in  the  most 
choice language. 
I  should  be  very 
glad, though, if you could give me some 
information about this matter,  because 
it is necessary  that I  should begin the 
work at once.”
“Making this demented quilt for your­
self?”

“No, sir—that is, not  exactly,” and  a 
vivid  blush  suffused  the young lady’s 
features.  “But I want to have  it  done 
before  the  1st  of January,  because we 
won’t have room for the  frame  in  the 
other house.”

“Which other house ?”
“Why, the one I—that is,  we —oh,  I 
think you’re awful,” and more  blushes 
ensued.

“The 1st of January is  not generally 
considered  the  ..most auspicious season 
of the year for moving,”  said  the horse 
reporter.  “The  blithe  carol  of  the 
plumber and  the low, sad  wail  of  the 
man  who  is  trying  to  thaw  out the 
water pipes with a two-inch candle and 
a jug of hot water, with which  he  will 
eventually inundate himself  are  about 
the only features  of  prominence  con­
nected with domestic life in Chicago  at 
that season of the year.  Why don’t you 
wait until May—joyous,  happy  May— 
when  the  buds  are  bursting and the 
robins tuneful harbingers of  the  sweet 
June days so soon to come, are  twitter­
ing on every bough?”
“That’s  just  what  I  have  said  all 
along,” replied  the  young  lady,  “but 
Charlie declares he will  never  live  in 
the same house with mamma, and—now 
I  shan’t say another  word,”  and  more 
blushing ensued.
going to be married, are you?”

“Oh,” said the horse reporter, “you’re 
“Yes, sir.  That is, Charlie said”—
“I  know  what  he  said.  He  leaned 
you  up confidentially  against  his  sus­
pender and, speaking in low, tremulous 
tones, asked  you if  you  felt  that  you 
could  leave  parents,  brothers,  sisters, 
fish-balls on Sunday, and all that makes 
home at once the altar of  our affections 
and the joy of  our  lives, and  live  for­
evermore with him.  And  you  yanked 
him out of  the realm of doubt so quick 
that it made his  head swim. 
Isn’t that 
about it?”

Great  Railroad ;.

It 

less 

than 

surpasses 

The United States has three  distinct 
“transcontinental” lines, reaching  from 
the  Mississippi  river  to  the  Pacific 
coast.  Of the three lines, however,  the 
Northern Pacific is the  only  one which 
is, along its  whole  length,  under  the 
ownership  and  management  of  one 
corporation.
It is also, if we  are  not  much  mis­
taken,  the  longest main line owned by 
any railway corporation  in  the  world. 
Many  other  companies  owning  “sys­
tems” of  road  have  a larger mileage, 
but the Northern  Pacific  is  chiefly  a 
main line, with a few  branches.  From 
Superior,  Wisconsin, 
to  Portland, 
Oregon,  it  is  nineteen  hundred  and 
nine miles.
But it is one of the great roads of the 
country  as  a  “system.”  It has, with 
branches, more  than  twenty-five  hun­
dred miles of road which  it  owns  and 
already  operates. 
in 
mileage every railroad in Great Britain, 
and is surpassed by only  four others in 
the country.
The  most  extensive  railway  in  the 
country is the Chicago, Milwaukee  and 
St. Paul, which  owned  forty-five  hun­
dred and twenty miles  of  road  at  the 
end of 1882.  The next is  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  and  Quincy,  with  three 
thousand one hundred  and  twenty-one 
miles at the  same  time.  Third  stands 
the  Chicago  and  Northwestern,  with 
almost  twenty-eight  hundred  miles; 
and  fourth  is  the  Wabash,  St. Louis 
and Pacific, Avith twenty-se\en hundred 
and ten miles.
In  earnings,  however,'  each  is  ex­
ceeded  by 
scores  of  roads.  The 
greatest earnings are those of the Penn­
sylvania  Railroad  Company,  which 
owns 
five  hundred,  but 
operates  more  than  twelve  hundred, 
miles of railroad; and  close to it comes 
the  New  York  Central,  which  owns 
seven  hundred  and  fifty  miles,  and 
operates less than  a  thousand.  These 
roads earn each nearly  or  quite  thirty 
million dollars a year.
The largest  railway  corporation  in 
Great  Britain,  as  regards  mileage, is 
the  Great  Western,  with  twenty-two 
hundred and  fifty-seven  miles  of  road 
open.  Next to it is  the  London  and 
Northwestern, with  seventeen hundred 
and  seventy  miles.  The 
latter  road 
has the largest earnings of any English 
line.  It receives  an  average  of  more 
than  two  hundred  thousand  pounds 
sterling, or one million dollars,  a week.
The earnings of the Northern  Pacific 
during the  year  1882  were  less than 
SIX million dollars. Its 
mileage
was greater  than  that of  the  London 
and  Northwestern,  but  its  earnings 
were only about  one-ninth  of  those  of 
the English company.
"The extent of  the  railroad  business 
in our day is something startling.  The 
gross receipts of all the railroads in the 
United States  during  the  year  1882 
amounted to more  than  seven hundred 
and seventy million of dollars.  Taking 
the population at five-five millions, this 
implied an average  expenditure of  just 
fourteen dollars  for every man, woman 
and child.
It has  been estimated that  the gross 
earnings of our  whole  population in  a 
year are ten  thousand  million  dollars. 
If so, we spent eight dollars,  nearly,  in 
every hundred  in  railroad  transporta­
tion of some kind.
We have now in  the  United  States 
fully one hundred and twenty thousand 
miles  of  railroad.  Tiiis  is  more than 
the length of all the railroads of Europe 
combined; and at  the  present  rate of 
construction, it is  estimated  in  Poor’s 
Manual, by the  end  of  the  year 1887 
our mileage will be as great  as  that  of 
all the rest of the world put together.
But our  roads  are  constructed  far 
more  cheaply  than  those  of  the old 
world, -and the rates charged  are lower 
than they usually are .elsewhere.  Con­
sequently the  earnings  of  our  roads 
will not be equal to those  of  all  other 
lines.
Still, it must be borne  in  mind  that 
we gain greatly by  cheap  construction 
and low rates.  For our roads are quite 
as durable  as  others,  and  the  people 
get on the whole a larger service for the 
same monev.—Youth's  Companion.

“Why, yes, sir—that  is, I said”— 
“Certainly.  You  said  that  when  a 
girl,  standing  on  the  threshold  of 
Womanhood and watching  with wistful 
eyes  for  the  .rusts of  futurity  to  lift, 
sees advancing  the  one  man  to  whom 
she can give her  heart,  all  her doubts 
and fears disappear as if  by magic, and 
she knows only that  a  great happiness 
and holy  content  enshroud  her  being. 
Charlie then  kissed  you  warmly about 
an  inch  below  your  nose,  and  broke 
himself the next  day buying an engage­
ment ring.  He calls at the house every 
night now,  and  when  he  says to you: 
‘Myrtle, do you love  me  as  much  this 
evening as you did  last Thursday after­
noon ?’ you  look at-
“He  doesn’t  call  me  Myrtle  at all,” 
interrupted the young lady.  “My name 
is Edith.”
“It’s the same thing.  A rose  by any 
name  Avould  have  as  many  thorns. 
When he asks you if  you love  him  as
much  as  you  did last  Thursday, you 
climb up a little higher on his neck and 
want to know how he  can  ever  doubt 
you.  It’s all right, though.  Be a true 
and loving wife and perhaps some  day 
Charley will give yon a quarter to spend 
without requiring an  itemized  account 
sworn  to  before a notary, as to where 
such a vast sum has gone.  Cherish his 
love  as  you  would a tender plant that 
the rude blasts of winter would destroy. 
Make  your  whole 
life a constant  en­
deavor to promote his  welfare,  but  do 
not finish the quilt.”

“Why not, sir?”
“Because,” was the reply,  “it  would 
recall to  him  the  happy  past.”—Chi­
cago Tribune.

A  conservative  young  man  has 
wound  up  his  life  before  it  was  un­
reeled.  We expect old  men  to be con­
servative,  but  when  a  nation’s  young 
men are so, its  funeral  bell  is  already 
rung.— Beecher.

L i  P o   Tai,  San Francisco’s Chinese 

doctor, makes $70,000 a year«

Wanted  a  Better  Room.

“The day of  Alexander Stephen’s fu­
neral,” said a Georgia  statesman to the 
Washington  Republican,  “everybody 
in Georgia  went  to  Atlanta,  and  the 
town was crowded  fifil  of  people.  Of 
course  the  hotels 
f|Me  packed  and 
jammed.  There AvaMHfcttle Hungarian 
traveling salesman  nn^pnad come in the 
morning and  stopped at  the  old Kim­
ball House.  His rooms didn’t suit him, 
and he  kept  badgering  Ed. Calloway, 
the clerk, about  them  all  day.  Callo­
way would have thirty  or forty  people 
around him  asking  questions  and  de­
manding attention, when the little Hun­
garian would crush  through, seize Cal­
loway’s  arm,  and  shout 
‘Vot  aboud 
schaDgin’ dose rooms.’  Calloway would 
tell him to wait  until  the  funeral was 
over and the crowd had  gone away and 
he  would  suit  him  with  almost  any 
rooms in the house.  The  little  drum­
mer would  go  away,  and  come  back 
again in ten minutes to go  through the 
same performance.  During the funeral 
ceremonies Calloway was standing with 
the immense throng at  the grave, deep­
ly  interested.  Bishop Beckwith  stood 
there with the open  prayer-book in his 
hand,  repeating  with  his  magnificent 
voice and in a tone  that  thrilled every 
soul,  ‘I am the resurrection and the life.’ 
Calloway, like thousands of  others, was 
moved by the solemnity of the occasion, 
by the voice and words  of  the  Bishop. 
The tears came to  his  eyes  and began 
to run down his  cheeks,  when he  felt 
somebodvjseize  his  arm.  Thinking  it 
was some sympathetic friend, as he tells 
it, he turned to put his arm around him, 
and faced the excited little  Hungarian, 
who caught him by the coat  with  both 
hands  and  demanded: 
‘Vot  aboud 
: schangin’ doss rooms?’ ”

(From the Fort Wayne Hoosier.]

The favorite song of  the  base-ballist 
while trying to tally—“There’s noplace 
like home.”

A man  who  is  a  fool  and  knows it 
sometimes  knows  more  than  many  a 
man  who thinks he is wise.

“A rich man hath many crosses,’’says 
an old proverb.  This  is  only  another 
way of stating that  he  has many an X.
In China parents feel it their  duty to 
make matches for their  children before 
they are really old enough to be trusted 
with matches.

We are in favor of dealing  with  the 
Indians on the peace plan.  That is, cut 
them to pieces first and then argue with 
them afterwards.

Appearances  are  often  deceitful. 
Many a man who cannot say the alpha­
bet backwards still may  know  enough 
to go in when it rains.

“Witness, did yon say that after  the 
quarrel you  have  just  related, the de­
fendant  went  off  in  a  huff?”  “No, 
your  Honor,  I  said  he  went  off in a 
wagon."

T he literary ingenuity of  the patent- 
medicine fiend has  made it  both  popu­
lar and safe to read  newspaper  articles 
as many people  read  novels—the  last 
end first.

A  B luffton  man went  to  Chicago, 
stayed over  night at a  hotel  and  blew 
out the gas.  As  he  didn’t  die  it  can 
still be said that “the fools  are  not  all 
dead yet.”

“R esiduum?  What an odd name for 
a horse!  What on earth made you call 
him that?” said Duflix  to  Fink.  “Be­
cause I got left on him,”  said  Fink, la­
conically, as he walked away.
(From Peck’s  Sun.1

A petrifird  oyster  has  been  found 
by  a  Charleston  (S.  C.)  man.  He ex­
pects  to  make a  fortune  by renting it 
out for church-sociable stews.

A fashion  paper says “kittens’ heads 
are to take the place of  birds’ heads on 
the  coming  bonnet.”  The  first  thing 
we  know some  woman  will be carried 
to  the hospital with  a fractured  skull. 
Some absent-minded husband will sling 
a boot-jack at the kitten’s head.

A German  accosted  a  broad-brimed 
specimen  from  Texas,  on  Wisconsin 
street.  “Who vos yon, I  don’t know ?” 
Looking the inquisitive German  in the 
face  he  replied,  “I  am  a  cow-boy.” 
“Dot’s  good,”  replied  our  German 
friend, “Shake; I vos a bully boy doo?” 
They shook.

A  Montana  cabin  on  the  Northern 
Pacific railroad  hung out the following 
sign  written  with  charcoal: 
“Only 
nine  miles  to  water  and  twenty miles 
from  wood.  No  grub 
in  the  house. 
God bless our home.”  A man in  such a 
predicament  must  have  more  than 
ordinary faith to hold out long.

A  N orth  Carolina  woman recently 
dislocated her jaw by yelling at a camp­
meeting. 
It  would  be  better  for  the 
managers of  a  camp meeting to put  in 
a seam  boiler, and  fog  horn, where so 
much noise is needed, and not dislocate 
a woman’s  jaw by over-working it.  To 
be sure, a woman’s  jaw  is calculated to 
stand  a  good  deal  of  wear  and  tear, 
but  there are times  when the  require­
ments exceed the capacity.

[From  the Nonistown Herald.]

An  exchange  says  “there  are 

two 
moons  this  month,” but  it  is  safe  to 
wager that  the man tveo sees two moons 
i3  not  a  member of  a  temperance  so­
ciety.

A  scientist  says that  in the moon  a 
hickory nut falling from a hough would 
crash through a man like a minnie ball. 
That settles  it.  We shall  never  go to 
the moon to gather hickory nuts.

A young  man  while out  riding  one 
Sunday was  thrown  from  his carriage 
and had one of his legs broken.  The pun­
ishment was visited upon him for break­
ing the Sabbath.  He should have gone 
out and played base ball.

Major  D aniel  S impson,  “the  veter­
an drummer of  Boston,” celebrated  his 
93d birthday a few day ago.  It  is  sup­
posed that he always  went a  few miles 
out in the  country"  when he  wished to 
beat his  drum.  His great  longevity is 
evidence that he  never  played  on  the 
aggravating  thing  h’thing  hearing  of 
his neighbors.

A prying  sort  of  an  individual  has 
discovered that  the oyster  has a trunk. 
Such a  receptable  may  be  necessary, 
from the fact that the oyster spends the 
summer  by  the  seashore;  but 
if  the 
bivalve Avants to put on  as many airs as 
the fashionable  young lady  at the sea­
side, it must  also  have a  big  band-box 
and a little pug dog.

Is  Water  Power  Disappearing  in 

New

England!

The  steam  engine 

is  the  coming 
power,  for  the 
long-vaunted  Avater 
poAver  of  New England  is  giving  out. 
Various causes have  appeared to  make 
the water  power less,  and these causes 
have been working all  the time  and in­
creasing in practical effect, so  that now 
it is giving out almost in  every place of 
any  account, with  some  very  few  ex­
ceptions, where the  timber has  not yet 
been cut off back  in the sources of sup­
ply on the hills  or  mountains.  Let us 
look, therefore,  to steam with a clearer 
eye, and learn  more  of  it,  and  hoAv to 
handle it, so  that  we can  keep up  the 
busy wheels  of  the  million  of  cotton 
spindles and thousands of  sets of  avooI- 
en  machinery.  Water  power  in  the 
Eastern States is  doomed,  and  it  will 
not be long until avc  are a  steam  spin­
ning section of  the  country.—Spring- 
field  Republican.

They who do speak ill of themselves, 
do so mostly as the surest way of prov­
ing how modest and  candid  they are.— 
Sterne. 

■

What  Sort  of  a  Position  They  Ought  to 

Rear to  Each  Other.

(From the Buffalo Commerciali 

“Yon ask  a  very  practical  question : 
‘How  much  should  a  person of  given 
height weigh? 
Is  there a standard be­
tween height  and  Avieght ?’  A healthy 
child, male or female, groAvs  in  length 
by  more  than one-half its size  during 
the first  two  years ;  it  increases  from 
50 per cent (19.685  inches)  to about  79 
per cent (31.10.) 
It  trebles  or  quad­
ruples  its  weight;  that  is  to  say,  it 
Aveighs 3 to 4 kil.  at birth  (equals 7^ to 
10 pounds) ; 10 kil.  at birth (25 pounds) 
in the first year  12 kil.  (30 pounds) in 
the second.  On  the  average,  a  child 
from 6 months to eight  years)  grows in 
length about 6 per cent, each year (equal 
2.4622 inches) ; the  Aveight of the  body 
goes  on  increasing 
to  the  8th  year, 
rising in Jboys to 20 kil. (50 pounds) and 
in girls to 19 kil.  (471  pounds).  From 
this age  (8  years)  until puberty boys 
increase in  height  55  per  cent  (2.165 
feet) each year, reaching  at  the age of 
12 years a height of 138 per cent,  (over 
4.52 feet)  and girls 135 per  cent.  (4.421 
feet) on an average.  Boys  gain  about 
2 kil.  (5  pounds)  in  Aveight  per  year, 
girls a little  more,  so  that  in  the  12 
year children of both  sexes  weigh,  on 
an aA’erage, about 30  kil.  (75  pounds). 
From 13 to 20 years youths  grow some 
30 per cent (11.8), girls 20 per cent (1.8 
inches).  The increase of weight is even 
more rapid than before, reaching 58 kil. 
(145 pounds) in boys 18 years  old,  and 
in girls  of the same  age  51  kil.  (127^ 
pounds),  In the 25th year  the  man is 
168 per  cent (over  5£  feet  in  height), 
and Aveighs 53 kil,  (157£ pounds), while 
the Avoman is 157 per cent  (5.15 feet in 
height), and Aveighs 53 kil. (127^ pounds) 
Man in the 40th year  attains  his  max­
imum  weight,  63.6  kil.  (159  pounds), 
and  then  begins  the 
los3  of  flesh. 
Women continue to grow heavier, reach­
ing about 56 kil.  (140 pounds), until the 
50th year.  Between  45 and 60 men be­
come more corpulent and women rapidly 
grow older ;  in  both  the  sizes  of  the 
body diminishes.”—Wagner.
I t is desirable for all persons, whether 
suffering  in  health  or  othenvise,  to 
know as near as possible what the  nor­
mal weight should be.  We are indebted 
to the late Dr. Hutchinson for Aveighing 
alone 2,600 men of various ages.  There 
is, indeed, an obvious relation  between 
the height and  weight  so  particularly 
weighed and measured.  Starting  with 
the lowest men in the tables,  it will be 
found  that  the  increased  Aveight  Avas 
as nearly  as  possible  five  pounds  for 
every inch in  height  beyond  sixty-one 
inches.
The following figures  show  the  rel­
ative height  and  Aveight  of individuals 
measuring five feet and upAvard :
Weigh1, lbs.
Five feet one inch should be...........................120
Five feet two inches should be..........................126
Five feet three  inches should be..................... 163
Five feet four inches  should be........................136
Five feet five inches should be..........................142
Five feet  six inches should b e . .....................145
Five feet seven inches shou d b e..................... 148
Five feet eight inches  should be...................... 155
Five feet nine inches should be........................ 162
Five feet ten inches shonld b e...................'---- 169
Fi ve feet eleven inches should be.....................174
Six feet should be................................................. 178

One  Can’t  Excel  in  Everything.

Hunting  the  Buffalo.

Tn  going  doAvn  the  Yellowstone,  in 
Montana,  and  across  the  A’ast  region 
lying  betAveen  Glendive  and  Mandan, 
one is struck  with  the  evident scarcity 
of  grass.  This  famous  region,  where 
two or three years ago herds of buffalo, 
antelope  and deer  were  to  be seen on 
every side,  is  noAv  to  all  appearances 
stripped of  its  game.  The  fact  is, the 
slaughter of  buffalo  and  deer has been 
immense for  the  past  tAvo  years,  and 
particularly of  the  former. 
It  is  esti­
mated that during the past winter there 
have been a  thousand  hunters engaged 
in the  business of  slaughtering  buffalo 
along the line  of  the  Northern  Pacific. 
betAveen  Mandan 
and  Livingston. 
An  eagle-eyed  hunter  gave  me  the 
following  interesting  details  as  to  the 
modus operandi in slaughtering herds of 
buffalo. 
In the  first  place, the  expe­
rienced  hunter  uses  the  Sharpe rifle, 
40-90 calibre.  With  this  he  can  kill 
over 1,000 yards.  When he sees a herd 
of  buffalo, he  usually slips  up to with­
in convenient  range, from  300  to  500 
yards, and ahvays selects  a cow for  his 
first victim.  He does  this  for the rea­
son that the  cow  is  followed  by both 
her yearling  and  tAvo-year-old  calves, 
and they Avill  usually  stand  by her  to 
the last.  But  under  no circumstances 
will the experienced hunter kill his buf­
falo  outright. 
If  he  does, • the  herd 
will stampede at  once.  The  policy  is 
to wound fatally, hut so  that  the  ani­
mal Avill dash around in  a circle before 
Jailing.  This it always does when mor­
tally  Avounded,  and  after  a  few  mo 
ments lies down.
The remainder of  the  herd  are  not 
alarmed at this, but continue to gaze, or 
look on dazed spectators of the tragedy 
being enacted.  After his first shot the 
hunter pauses  until  quiet  is  restored, 
and  again  fires  at  another  cow,  with 
the same results.  He  always  aims  to 
put his ball just behind the fore shoulder 
which will cause death in  five  minutes 
at the furthest.  When  the  cows  have 
all  been  slain  he  then  turns  his  at­
tention to the calves,  and  lastly  to the 
bulls.  The experienced  hunter  gener­
ally  bags the entire  herd  unless  he  is 
so unfortunate as to drop his  game im­
mediately,  when  all 
survivors 
stampede  at  once.  The  buffalo  does 
not scare at  the  crack  of  a  gun.  He 
has decidedly more  courage  than  dis­
cretion.  It is only when  the  crack  is 
followed by an  immediate fall  that  he 
realizes  its  deadly  nature  and  takes 
alarm.  The policy of  killing the  cows 
first and then the calves has resulted in 
the almost utter extinction of the female 
buffalo.  H erds  of  melancholy  bulls 
can still occasionally be seen, sometimes 
in hands of  twenty  or thirty, and often 
without a single  cow. 
I
As I have said,  the  bulls  are  about 
all that are  now  left  of  the  buffalo. 
They  largely  owe  their  safety to the 
fact  that  their  hides  are 4ess valuable 
than  those  of  the cows,  Avhile at the 
same  time  they  are  more difficult to 
kill.  The  hide"  of  the  bull  is  only 
worth  to  the  hunter from $1.80 to $2, 
while that of the coav brings  $3.25, and 
that of the 2-vear-old calf is worth from 
$1 to  $1.50.  "  But  of 
late  there  has 
sprung up quite a  demand  throughout 
the East for the head of a  buffalo bull. 
The well  preserved  bead  of  an  aged 
bull  decked  out  with  glass  dyes and 
horns intact will readily sell  for $25 in 
the  Eastern  markets.  Consequently 
the  buffalo  hunter  of the future will 
wage a destructive  war  upon  the  bull 
tribe, and these  venerable  relics  of  a 
bygone era will also pass swiftly  away. 
—Helena (M.  T.)  Independent.

the 

Queer  Notices.

Ideals  of  excellences,  if  not  excel­
lences themselves, are  so graduated  as 
to fit the different  orders  of  mind  in 
which 4hey  take their rise.  Greatness 
is not a  positive quality; it is  simply  a 
relative attribute.
The man who has never succeeded in 
ensnaring  a single  “speckled  beauty ’ 
from  some  “tortuous 
stream”  may 
truthfully boast of his eminent  success 
in catching sculpins.
The man who  cannot  sing  may  yet 
have a voice peculiarly adapted  to  cry­
Chamber's  Journal  mentions  the 
ing clams, oranges or charcoal.
following  whimsical notices  that  have 
He who is no dancer may be  good  at 
appeared from time to time.
hitch-and-kick or shinny.
The following  perspicuous  notice to 
The man Avho Avas not  born  to  com­
engine-drivers was  exhibited at a  rail­
mand, to  set a squadron  in 
the  field, 
way station :
may surpass  all  his  acquaintances  in 
“Hereafter,  when  trains  moving  m 
the untiring  devotion he  evinces in the 
opposite direction are approaching each 
coloring of  the meerschaum.
other on separate lines,  conductors and 
The boy who is  ever  at  the  foot  of 
engineers  will  be  required  to  bring 
his class  may still be an expert  on  the 
their  respectiATe trains  to a  dead  halt 
formation  and  propulsion  of  spitballs.
before  the  point  of  meeting,  and  he 
The lad Avho is not a pronounced suc­
very careful  not  to  proceed  till  each 
cess at arithmetic may be simply excel­
train has passed the other.”
lent at mumble-peg and taw.
Equally  lucid  was  the  placard  an­
The woman who cannot make  a  loaf 
nouncing a pleasure-trip to Warkworth 
of  bread may excel  in  the  making  of 
one day during the summer of  1881, in 
frills and furbelows.
which was the following passage  which 
She Avho  cannot play the simplest air 
implies that the crew adopted the light 
on  the  Avashboard  may  execute  the 
and airy  costume  of  our  primitive an­
most difficult themes  upon  the  piano­
cestors.
“The Gleaner is one of the finest and 
forte.
She who cannot darn a stocking  may 
fastest boats on the  Tyne; her  accom­
be the envy of her circle  for  her  skill 
modation is in every  respect good  and 
and taste in Avorsted Avork, in  marrying 
comfortable, her  creAV  skillful,  steady, 
sky-blue dogs to pink  background.
and obliging, being  newly-painted  and 
The mother who cannot command the 
decorated for  pleasure trips.”
respect  of  her  children  may  yet  be 
We are assured of  the genuinness  of 
fawned upon by half  a  score  of  male 
the following curious notice, addressed, 
bipeds without  a  spot  on  their dainty 
quite  recently, to  the members of  the 
linen or an idea in their heads.
Friendly Society Avhich  need not fear a 
The son who never does  a  stroke  of 
“run” upon it, if  the  procedure therein 
work at home may be  superlatively  ac­
described be rigidly adhered to :
tive  in  the  bowling  alley  or  billiard 
“In the event of  your death, you  are 
requested  to  bring  your  book  policy 
room.
The  daughter  who  is  too  feeble to 
and certificate at once to the agent, Mr. 
___ f when your  claims  will  have  im­
wash  the  dishes  may  dance  till  the 
small  hours of  the  night  after  having 
mediate attention.”
A feAv days previous to the beginning 
been shopping all day.
of a session, this brief notice was affixed 
The  girl  Avho  cannot  sew may chew 
to the notice-boa«l at  the  entrance  of 
gum with tireless jaw.
A  great  singer  may not  be  able  to 
one  of  the  class-rooms  of  Edinburg 
smoke  the  mildest  of  cigars  without 
! University :
will meet his  classes
“Professor
___ 0  J ___ 
turning  pale.
A general who has  led  armies  on  to  on ^ie 4th  inst.”
On the opening day, a student erased 
victory may be  surpassed  in  profanity 
the letter 0 of the word  “classes.”
by the raggedest street boy m  the city.
A group of  youths  remained  in  the 
The hand that has  penned  the divin- 
vicinity of  the entrance to observe how 
est poetry may be  clownishly  aAvxward 
the professor would receive  the intima­
with the billiard cue.
tion, which noAv set forth that he Avould 
The man Avho is capable  of  organiz­
“meet his lasses on the 4th inst.”
ing and carrying forward gigantic busi­
As the professor  approaceed  he  ob­
ness enterprises may be easily  outdone 
served the change that had been  made, 
at  caucus 
* • - 'iQ-ement  by  the  shab­
and quietly taking  out his pencil, made
biest politician of his ward.
The artist  who  gives  birth to  suck  BOme further  modification,  and  passed 
exquisite  creations may not be  able  to  on, a quiet smile overspending  his  fea- 
fcie  his  neck-cloth  nearly  so  well  as  hues.  The notice no finally stood:
AgustuB, who in his turn can  do  noth*  if  “professor----- will  meet  his  asses
m$.T-Boston Transcript 

the 4th inst.”-

# 

2Dr\>  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4.........164
Pepperell,  8-4.........20
Pepperell,  9-4.........224

Pepperell, 10-4........25
Pepperell, 11-4........274
Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pequot,  8-4.............21
Pequot,  9-4.............24

Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X, oz.. .10
Eoonomy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 60. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13

Park Mills, No. 90..14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............104
Otis  Furniture...... 104
York, 1  oz.............. 10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........94
Kentucky brown.. 104 
Lewiston brown...  94
Lane brown........... 94
Louisiana  plaid__ 8

Alabama  plaid.......8
A ugusta p laid.........8
Toledo p laid...........   74
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   64

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........  84
Art cambrics, 36.. .114 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  84 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 124
Ballou, 4-4...............  74
Ballou, 6-4...............  6
Boott, 0.4-4...........   84
Boott, E. 5-5...........   7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.........94
Boott, R. 3-4............  54
Blackstone, AA 4-4  74 
Chapman, X, 4-4—   64
Conway,  4-4..............74
Cabot, 44— »...........74
Cabot, 7-8.................. 64
Canoe,  34...............  4
Domestic,  86..........  74
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44...............  94
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  84 
Fruit of  the Loom, 
cambric,  44......12
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........64
Gilded Age............... 84

Greene, G. 44.......... 54
Hill, 44....................  84
Hill, 7-8....................  74
Hope,  44.................. 74
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44.................114
Linwood,  44..........9
Lonsdale,  44............84
Lonsdale  cambric. 114 
Langdon, GB, 44...  94
Langdon, 45........... 14
Masonville,  44.........94
Maxwell. 44............104
New York Mill, 44.104 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  74 
Pride of the West. .124 
Pocahontas,  44—   84
Slaterville, 7-8........   64
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 44........   53£
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  74
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 64
Wamsutta, 44.........104
WilUamsvilie, 36... 104

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  £4
Androscoggin sat..  84
Canoe Biver...........   6
Clarendon...............  64
Hallowell  Imp.......64
Ind. Orch. Imp.......64
L a c o n i a 74

Kearsage................   84
Naumkeagsatteen.  84 
Pepperell bleached 84
Pepperell sat..........94
Bocfcport.................74
Lawrence sat..........84
Cqpegosat,.............   7

PfílSiSí

i d .54 GlotiCëëtef

Albion,  s o l
Albion,  grey,
Allen’s  checks........54
Allen's  fancy..........54
Allen’s pink.............64
Allen’s purple..........64
American, fancy— 54
Arnold fancy........... 6
Berlin solid...............54
Cocheco fa n cy ......6
Oocheco robes..........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone.............. 6
Eagle fancy.............5
Garner pink.............7

Glohcesterinotimg.fl 
Hamilton  fan cy....6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrimac D.............6
Manchester............ 6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........64
Pacific robes...........6
Bichmond................6
Steel Biver..............54
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

f i n e  b r o w n   c o t t o n s .

Appleton A ,4 4 ....  8
Boott  M, 44........... 74
Boston F, 44..........8
Continental C, 4-3..  74 
Continental D, 40 in 84 
ConestogaW,44...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  54 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  64
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........64
Dwight Z, 44..........  7
Dwight Star, 44 ....  74 
EwightStar, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  54 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......64
Indian  Orchard, 14 74

Indian Orchard, 40.  84 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74.........164
Lyman B, 40-in.......104
Mass. BB, 44 ..........    64
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
Nashua  B, 44........ 74
Nashua 0,7-8..........  74
Newmarket N ........   74
PepperellE, 39-in..  74
Pepperell  B, 44__ 7
Pepperell 0,7-8—   64 
Pepperell N, 3 4 ....  64
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac  B ...............  74
Saranac E...............  9

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

Amoskeag.............  8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles....................104
Bates.........................74
Berkshire.............   64
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 74 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
standard.............   74
Plunket.................... 74
Lancaster...............  84
Langdale.................. 74

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styll04 
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............124
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........124
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  9
White Mfg Co, stap 74 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston.................94
Gordon....................  8
Greylock, 
dress 
styles  ...................124

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
Androscoggin, 84. .23
Pepperell,  7-4........20
Pepperell,  8-4........224
Pepperell,  9-4........25

Pepperell.  10-4...... 274
Pepperell,  11-4...... 324
Pequot,  7-4.............21
Pequot,  8-4.............24
Pequot,  9-4.............274

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4.......7 4 ¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  84
Atlantic  H ,4-4.......7  Lawrence  Y ,30....  7
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......64 Lawrence LL, 4-4...  54
Newmarket N........ 74
Atlantic P, 4-4........ 54
Mystic River, 44...  64
Atlantic LL, 4-4—   54
Pequot A, 44..........  8
Adriatic, 36..............  74
Piedmont,  36..........  7
Augusta, 4-4............  64
Stark AA, 44
Boott M, 4-4...........   74
Boott FF, 44..........  74 Tremont CC,44....  54
Graniteville, 44—   64 Utica,  4 4 .............9
Indian  Head,44...  74 Wachusett,  44.......74
ndiana Head 45-in. 1241 Wachusett, 30-in...  64

Amoskeag,  ACA.. .15 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A .........14
Amoskeag,  B .........13
Amoskeag,  C.........12
Amoskeag,  D .........11
Amoskeag,  E.........104
Amoskeag, F .........10
Premium  A, 44— 17
Premium  B .......... 16
Extra 44.................16
Extra 7-8.................144
Gold Medal 44....... 15
CCA 7-8.................. 124
CT44......................It
RC7-8..................... 14
BF7-8..................... 16
A F44..................... 19
Cordis AAA, 32.....14
Cordis ACA, 32.....15
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Cordis No. 2............14
Cordis No. 3............13
Cordis No. 4............114

Falls, XXXX..........184
Falls, XXX.............154
Falls,  BB................114
Falls,  BBC, 36........194
Falls,  awning.......19
Hamilton,  BT,32.. 12
Hamilton,  D......... 10
Hamilton,  H......... 10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA..........144
Methuen ASA........18
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Omega A, 44......... 13
Omega ACA, 7-8.... 14 
Omega ACA, 44— 16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 44.........27
Omega M. 7-8........22
Omega M, 44.........25
Shetucket SS&SSW 114 
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Shetucket,  SFS__ 12
Stockbridge  A .........7
Stoekbridge fm ey.  8

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

Gam er......................5
Hookset..................  5
Bed Cross...............  5
Forest Grove. .i —

Empire....................
Washington............  45£
Edwards..................6
S. S. & Sons.............  5

G R A IN   BAGS.

American  A ......... 19  ¡Old  Ironsides.........154
Stark A ...................234|Wheatland..............214

Boston....................  74
Everett blue...........144
Everett brown.......144
Otis  AXA............... 124
OtisBB.................... 114

Otis CC...................104
Warren  AXA.......124
Warren  BB.......... 114
Warren CC............104
York  fancy.......... 15

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Manville..................  6
^ —   6
Masgn ville 

IS. S. & Sons............. 6
Garner....................6

Bed  Cross.................7
B erlin....................... 7
G am er......................7

W IG AN S.

Thistle Mills...........
Rose.........................  8

SPO O L COTTON,

Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F.......56
J. a P.  Coats..........55
Willimantie 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  a  Daniels...25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford...................35
Hall a Manning— 30 
Holyoke...................25

S IL E S IA S .

Crown................. ..IT
No.  10.................. ..124
Coin...................... ..10
Anchor............... ..15
Centennial.........
Blackburn ......... ..  8
Davol.................. ..14
London............... ..124
Paconia.............. ..12
.10
Bed Cross...........
Social Imperial.. ..16

Mason ville T S ......  8
Masonville 8 ...........104
Lonsdale.................. 94
Lonsdale A ........ .. .16
Nictory  O........... 
6
Victory J ................. 7
Victory D............. 10
Victory K............. 124
Phoenix A......... .  94
Phoenix B............. 104
Phænlx XX...........15

(Groceries.

Advanced,

Declined.

Holland  Herring;  Muscatel  and  Valencia 

Baisins;  Barley.

Coffees;  Sugars a shade easier.,

A X LE  GREASE.

Modoc__ $  doz  60  ¡Paragon...  $  doz  60
60 |Frazer’s ..................   85
Diamond.

B A K IN G   PO W D ER.

Arctic 4  lb cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic 4  lb cans.............................................. 
75
Arctic 4  B>cans.  ...................................... 
  140
Arctic lib  cans....... ......................................2 40
Arctic 5  ft cans............................................12 00
BLU IN G .
Dry, No. 2................................... ,....doz. 
25
Dry, No. 3........................... 
46
.doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,........................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz.....................  
doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz...................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..............................   2 00
Arctic No. 2 
................................   3 00
Arctic No. 3 
................................   4 50

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“ 
“ 
BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet................... 
No. 2 Carpet........ 1.................................... 
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
No. 2 Hurl  ............. .................................  
Fancy Whisk.......................................... 
Common Whisk..................... .................. 

 

 

2 50
2 25
2 00
175
125
85

CANNED GOODS.

Apples, 3 ft standards...................................... 1 20
Apples, 6 ft standards...................................... 2 00
Apples, gallon standards.................................3 25
Apricots, Lusk’s................................................2 95
Beans, Lim a.................................................   °6
Beans, String................................ ...............  85
Jleans, Boston Baked........................................1 75
Blackberries, standards...................................1 2a
Cherries, w hite............................................1  *0
Cherries, red...................................................... 1 05
Condensed Milk, Fagle brand......................... 8 10
Corn, Erie........................................................... J 1®
Corn,  Egyptian..................................................1 10
Corn,  Yarmouth................................................ 1 30
Corn Trophy.......................................................1 15
Damsons........................................................ 1 20
Egg Plums, standards...................................... 1 60
Green Gages, standards...................................1 60
Lobsters, Stars — ........................................... 2 00
Lobsters, Picnics...............................................1 75
Oysters, 1 ft  standards.....................................1 10
Oysters, 1 ft  slack  filled............................  75
Oysters, 2 ft  standards.....................................1 85
Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.................................... 1 25
Peaches, all  yellow standards.................... '..2 10
Peaches, white  standards...........................190
Peaches,  seconds...............................................1 65
Pie Peaches..................................................*20
Pears, Bartlett,.............................................J £5
peas, standard  Marrofat................................. i  ®o
Peas, good Marrofat......................................... 1 85
Peas, soaked..................................................  £5
Pineapples................... 
|   60
Raspberries, Erie.............................................. 1 ®0
Raspberries, other brands..............................1 20
Salmon, standard...........................................  •! 60
Sardines,  imported 4 s ...............................
Sardines, imported 4 s .................................  20
Sardines, domestic 4 s ................................. 
£
Sardines,  domestic  4 s ...............................   124
Strawberries,  standards...................................1 10
Succotash, standards........................................1 05
Succotash,  other brands..................... • •••  £5
Tomatoes,  standards.........................1 00@1 05

 

CAPS.

G.  D.......................   35  |Ely’8 Waterproof  75
Musket................   75  1

CHOCOLATE.

German  sweet...........................................  @25
unkles........................ .............................   @£5
Vienna Sweet............................................   @25

gaker’s  ......................................................   @^9

COFTEE.

Green Rio__ 13  @15
Green Java.. .18  @28 
Green Mocha.26  @28 
Boasted Rio. .134@18 
Boasted  Java25  @35
Boasted Mar.18  @194
Boasted Mocha  @35

Boasted Mex.18  @20 
Ground  Bio.. 10  @18 
Ground  Mex.  @17
Arbuckle’s ..........@174
X X XX................@174
Dilworth’s .........@174

CORDAGE.

72 foot J u te .......1 35  ¡60 foot Cotton— 1  75
60 foot Jute.......1  15 ¡50 foot Cotton... .1 50

CORN  SY RUPS.

Barrels..............................................................   £0
4   bbls......................................................... . 
£2
10gallon  kegs.............. 
j»
 
5 gallon kegs................................................... 1 75
44 gallon kegs................................................ 1 60

 

 

 

 

 

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Jennings’2 oz......................................f*  doz. 1 00
4 oz......................................................1 50
6 oz..................................................... 2 50
8 oz......................................................3 50

“ 
“ 
“ 

 

 

« 

Vanilla.

“ 
4  pint  round..................................  4 50
» 
i  
...............................   9 00
No.  8............................ 
3 00
“  No. 10.................................................4 25
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz.  1  40
4 oz......................................................2 50
“ 
6 oz......................................................4 00
“ 
8 oz......................................................5 00
“ 
“  No. 2  Taper.....................................  1 50
“  No.  4 Taper.......................................3 00
“ 
*4  pint  round...............................   7 50
1 pint  round................................... 15 00
“ 
“  No.  8................................................   4 26
“  No.  10...........................  
6 00

 

F IS H .

Whole Cod..............................................  44@6
Boneless Cod......................................54@74@84
Herring 4  bbls.^00 ft.........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled...................................... 
28@30
Herring Holland...................................  @175
Bloaters.................................................   @1 00
White, No. 1 ,4  bbls............................ 
8 00
White, Family, 4  bbls......................... 
4 00
White, No. 1,101b kits......................... 
1  10
Whise, No. 1,12 1b kits......................... 
1 25
Trout, No.  1, 4   bbls............................ 
4 75
Trout, No. 1,12  1b kits............................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, 4  bbls....................... 
7 00
Mackerel. No. 1,12 1b  kits..................  
115

90

F R U IT S .

London Layers, new................................... 
2 60
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 40@2  50
New Valencias Baisins............................. 
@7
Ondaras......................................................   @10
Turkey Prunes......................................  64@6:
Currants.................................................   6
Citron......................................................  18@20
Dried A pples.........................................  8  @84

M ATCHES.

Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 70
.2 55 
do
Richardson’s No. 3 
.1 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 5 
.2 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 6 
.1 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 8 
.2 55
do
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson's No. 4 round..............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 74 do 
..............................1 70
Electric Parlor No. 17..................................... 3 80
Electric Parlor No. 18..................................... 5 70
Grand Haven, No. 9....................................... 2 25
Grand  Haven, No.  8 .,.......................... ......... 1 60

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

Black Strap...................................................  @20
Porto  Rico.....................................................32@35
New  Orleans,  good.....................................46@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................56@60
Syrups, Sugar......................................... 27@35@46

O IL .

do. 

Legal test..................... 

Kerosene  W. W...................................... 
 
Sweet, 2 oz. square................................. 
Sweet, 2  oz. round................................. 
Castor, 2 oz.  square............................. 
Castor, 2 oz. round.........., ....................  

Imperial bbls.........................................  
Quaker b b l s ...................................... 

OATMEAL.

P IC K L E S .

15
1276
75
1 00
75
100

6  75
6 75

Choice in barrels med......................................7 25
Choice in 4  
......................................4 25
small............................ 4 25
Dingee’s 4  
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.......................... 4 25
Dingee’s pints 
do 
.........................2 60

do 
do 

SA LERATUS.

DeLand’s pure............................................. @ 64
Churh’s ......................................................... @ 64
Taylor’s G.  M..................... 
@ 54
Cap  Sheaf......................................................@ 54
Dwight’s ............................................ .......... @ 54
Sea  Foam..................*.................... ............@ 54

SALT.

«0 Pocket................................................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
Saginaw F ine........................................ 
Diamond C ........................................... . 
Standard Coarse.................... . 

2 60
2 45
110
I 75
I K

H em p........
Canary.......
Rape..........
Mixed Bird.

54
44
7.
54@6;

SOAP.

do. 

do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 

Kirk’s American  Family........... $11b
do. 
India..................... ..................
do.  Savon.......................................
do.  Satinet......................................
do.  Revenue..................................
do.  White Russian.........................
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
Princess............................
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
Japan  O live.......
Town Talk  $   box
Golden Bar...........
Arab.......................
Amber..................
Mottled  German..
Sidall’s ...................................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R ag................................................
Bluing......................................................
Magnetic.................................................
New  French  Process.......;...................
Spoon.................................................... .
Anti-Washboard...............................
Vaterland...............................................
Magic........................................................
Pittsburgh.............................................
Bogue’s ..................................................
White castile bars.................................
Mottled castile........................................
Old  Style................................................
Old Country.......................................

64
64
6
64
54
5 40
54
44
6 75
6
3 70
4 20 
3 45
3 75
4 20
3 00
5 50
4 25
5 00 
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20 
4 00
6 75 
13 
12
@ 54 
54
16@22
__
Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans... 
Ground Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................   20@25
Ginger...................... 
17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pet
75 
ipper 4  ® $  dozen..............................
75 
Allspice  4  
...........................................
Cinnamon  4  f t ......................................
1 00 75
Cloves 4   ft..............................................
Pepper,  whole....................................
Allspice...............................................
@10
Cassia...................................................
@12
20
Cloves.............................................. . 
@22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70
@75

SPICES.

 

 

STARCH.

@7
@64

@84
@94

57
@74
@4

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

Muzzy Gloss 1 1b package......................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
Muzzy Corn 1 ft......................................  7
Kingsford Silver Gloss...............i . .. ..
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box
Kingsford Com............
Oswego  Gloss..................
Mirror  Gloss................
Mirror Gloss, corn....................
Piel’s Pearl...............7. ................
STONEW ARE.
Jugs $   gallon............................
Crocks...........................................
Milk Crocks..................................................  
STOVE P O L IS H .
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s gross........ 5 60
Universal...............5 88 Above $  dozea.......   50
I X L ....................... 5 50|
Granulated............................................ 
Cut Loaf.................................................  
Cubes.............................................. . 
Powdered...................  
 
Cqnf. A ............................... ..................  
Standard A .................................................. 
Extra C................................................... 
64@7
64@64
Fine C..................................................... 
Yellow.....................................................  6  @64

@74
8«@84
84@84
84@ 84
@7 44

SUGARS.

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PLU G .

 
69
70
70

  @45
 

Japan ordinary..26@30 Young Hyson__ 25@50
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Japan fair.......... .32@35
Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Congo.
Japan fine............ 40@50
Japan dust...........15@2Q|
TOBACCO— F IN E   CUT.
Eatchless.......................................... 
Hiawatha........................................  
 
Globe.................................... 
 
May Flower............................................  
Hero.............................................................  @45
A tlas...........................................................   @35
Royal Game................................................  @38
Silver Thread.............................................  @67
Seal.........................................................  
  @60
Kentucky...................................................   @30
  @67
Mule  Ear.................................................. 
Peek-a-Boo..................................................  @32
Peek-a-Boo, 4   barrels......................... 
@30
 
Clipper, Fox’s .............................  
 
 
 
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.................  @20
Fountain...........................................  
Old Congress..............................................   @64
Good Luck..................................................  @52
Good and Sweet.................................... 
Blaze Away................................................  @33
Hair Lifter...................................... 
Old Glory, light.........................................   @60
Charm of the West, dark.........................  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.........................  @60
Climax........................................................   @50
Hold F ast...................................................   @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..............................  @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s.................................   @37
Black Spun  Boll....................................  
. @38
Nimrod........................................................   @50
Acorn..........................................................  @50
Bed Seal......................................................   @48
Crescent.....................................................   @44
Black  X ......................................................   @35
Black  Bass..................................................  @40
True Grit........ »..........................................   @35
Nobby  Spun  Boll......................................  @50
Spring.......................................... 
Crayling, all  styles...................................  @50
Mackinaw...................................................   @47
HorseShoe..................................................  @50
Good Luck..................................................  @50
Big Chunk or J.T......................................  @10
Hair Lifter..................................................  @37
D. and D., black.........................................   @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield...........................  @48
Ace  High, black..................................... 
Champion  A..............................................   @48
Sailors’  Solace...........................................  @48
Red Star......................................................   @50
Shot Gun.....................................................  @48
D uck............................................................  @18
Jumbo..........................................................  @40
Dim e.........................................‘................  24@25
25
Peerless
Standard ....................................
22
Old Tom......................................
21
24
Tom & Jerry.......................... ..
25 
Joker...........................................
35
Traveler......................................
@26
Maiden..................... .................
27
Topsy  .........................................
24
Navy Clippings.........................
25 
Honey D ew ...............................
32 
Gold Block.................................
Camp F ir e .................................
22 
19
Oronoko......................................
26 
Nigger  Head.............................
60 
Durham, 4 f t .................. .........
57 
4 » ..........................
55 
4 f t ............................
l f t ............................
51
Holland 
@22
@16
German ..
Long Tom
@30
National...................................................  @26
T im e........................................................  @26
Love’s Dream..................................... 
  @28
Conqueror..............................................   @23
Fox’s ........................................................  @22
Grayling..................................................  @32
Sealskin................... 
@30
Dime Durham.......................*..............  @25
Rob Roy........................ 
  @26
Uncle  Sam................... 
@28
Lumberman...........................................  @26
Railroad Boy..........................................   @37
Mountain Rose........................................  @20
Good Enough.........................................   @23
Home Comfort, 4 s and  4 s .......1.........   @25
Old  Rip, long cut...................................  @60
Durham,  long cut........... .....................  @60
Two  Nickle, 4 5 ......................................  @25
Two  Nickle, 4 s ......................................  @26
Star Durham...........................................  @25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................  @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.................  @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................  @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................   @48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @50
Mule Ear.................................................  
23
Hiawatha................................................ 
23
Old Congress........................................  
23
Pure  Cider..............  
12
White Wine...................................................  12

SM OKING.

VIN EGA R.

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YEAST.

Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun”.................. .  1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75  ¡Wilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75  ¡National...............1 75

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Blacking....................................... .30,40,50@60
160
do  waterproof............................ 
95
Bath Brick imported..........................  
do 
75
Barley................................................. 
@34

American........ 

 

 

do 

do 
do 

Burners, No. 1 ........................................ 
110
do  Nb. 2......................................  
150
20 00
Bags, American A ................................  
Beans,  medium  ....................................  @2  10
2 40
Beans, hand picked........ ......................  
Butter.............................: .....................  18@20
Butterine ........................  
18@21
Cream Tartar 5 and 101b cans.............   @25
Candles, Star..........................................   @154
Candles,  Hotel..........: ....................... 
@164
Cheese full cream choice......................144@15
Catsup quarts $   dozen.........................1 40@1 60
@264
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lft packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 4  ft  do  . 
@274
Extract Coffee,  v. c............................... 
95
F elix..................... 
1  30@
Flour* Star Mills, in bbls..................... 5 75@
in Sacks...........   .........5 50@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  35@40
Chimneys No.  1......................................  @35
No.  2......................................  @46
Horse  Radish, pints.............................   @1  40
Indigo.................. 
l  00@
Ink $  3 dozen  box................................. l  00@
Jelly in Pails...........................................  @ 6
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz..................  @75
Licorioe, Sicily......................................  @20
Licorice, Calabra..................................   28@30
Licorice Root.................................. 
  @12
Lye ^  2  doz. cases.................................1 56@
Macaroni,  Imported..............................  @13
Domestic.................................. 
  @ 54
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, $1 case........   @6 00
French Mustard,  8 oz $   dozen.........................  @80
Large Gothic..............1 35@
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallons...................12 00@
Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons............... 14 00@
Pipes, Imported Clay 3 gross............... 2 25@
do  American  T. D........................  90@1 00
Pepper Sauce.........................................  90@1 00
Peas, Green Bush...................................1 50@
do  Split prepared..............................  @ 34
Powder,  Keg.................................. 
  5 50@
  3 
Rice........................................................ 6@64@74
Sago  ........................................................ 
5@6
Shot, drop................................................ 1 90®
do  buck.............................................. 2 15@
Sage..........................................................  @15
Curry Combs $  doz................................1 25®
Molasses Gates each..............................  @45
Measuring Faucet each ........................4 50@
Tobacco Cutters each...........................1 25@
Twine......................................................   18@23
ChimneyCleaners $   doz.......................   @50
Flour Sifters $  doz........................... 
Fruit Augurs each..................................1 25®
Tapioca................................................... 
5@6
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............ 1 50@1 65
Wicking No. 1 $  gross...........................  @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  Argand................................... 1 50@
Washing Powder, 1776 $  f t ..................   @104
Gillett’s #   ft..........  @ 74
7@10
Soapine pkg............ 

4  Keg.................................  

Boraxine $  box.................................... .8 75@
Pearling $  box.................................... . .4 60@

  3  00@

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PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing & Provision  Co 

00@

7

@74

FO R K .

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork....................................
Back Pork,  short cut..........................
Family Clear Pork, very cheap.............
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer............
8. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City.
Extra Clear P ork.................................... .
Extra B  Clear Pork...............................
Clear Back  Pork, new............................
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality........
Standard Clear Pork, the best...............
All the above Pork is Newly Packed. 
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
do. 
Half Cases.............
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases..........
do 
Half Cases..........
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases...............
Half Cases...............
do. 
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium.................. ...........
light....................................
@65
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........
THppbps
30 and 50'ft T

do. 
do. 

s
LA RD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

201b Round Tins, 80 ft  racks..................
501b Round  Tins, 100 ft  racks...............
3 1b Pails, 20 in a case..............................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case ... ,\......................
101b Pails, 6 in a case..............................

LA RD.

@32

b

u

!

'

  @74

$19 00 
.  19 25 
20 00 
.  20 50 
.  21 50 
,  21  00 
.  21 50 
.  22 00 
. 22 00 
.  22 50

104
104
104
104
104
104
11
11
11
114
114
114
12
11
114
114

10

10
10
104
104
104
14
144
114
16

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle medium..
@30
lig h t......
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle..........
Extra Clear Bacon...................................
Dried B eef................................................
Extra Dried B eef....................................
Rolled Beef, for family use.....................   18 00
Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed............  13 00

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

CANNED B EEF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 1b cans, 4  doz.

incase......................................................   20 50
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case....  3 20
do. 
Armour & Co., 141b cans, 4  doz in case  20 50 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case..  3 20
do.  2 1b Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 50

SAUSAGE—F R E S H  AND SMOKED.

@50

Pork  Sausage....................................................104
Pork Sausage Meat, 501b tubs........................104
Ham  Sausage.......................... 
15
Tongue  Sausage.............................................. 11
Liver Sausage...................................................  84
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage...................................................84
Bologna,  ring...................................................  84
Bologna, straight............................................   84
Bologna,  thick.................................................   84
Head  Cheese.....................................................  84

P IG S ’  f e e t . 

»

In half barrels.................................................$3 85
In quarter barrels..........................................  2 10
l  09
In kits..................................... 
T R IP E .

In half barrels..............................  
$3 85
In quarter barrels..........................................  2 00
In kits............................................................... 
95
Prices named are lowest  at time of going to 
press, subject always to Market changes.

 

 

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................74@ 94
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................   9  @104
Dressed Hogs...........................................  9  @ 94
Mutton,  carcasses.................................. 8  @ 9
Veal.............................j-,........................  9  @104
Spring Chickens_______......................   16@17
Pork Sausage............».ft...................... 104@U
Pork Sausage in bulkfr;.......................  @11
Bologna............................. ......................  @10

.  OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New York Counts, per can................................38
Extra  Selects..................;..................................33
Plain Selects........................................................ 28
H. M. B. F ............................................................. 31
Favorite F............................................................. 18
Prime .................................................................... 16
X X X ..................................................................... 14
New York Counts, solid meats, per gal.......2 50
Selects, solid  meats, per gallon..........  @1 75
Standards, solid meats, per gallon__   @1 10
Can piices above are for cases and half cases. 
Codfish..............................................................124
Haddock...........................................................   8
Smelts................................................................  8
Herring.............................................................  7
Mackinaw Trout...............................................10
Mackerel............................................................15
W hiteflsh..........................................................124
COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS. 
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

F R ESH   F IS H .

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

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl..
95
Ohio White Lime, car lots..
1 40
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.
1 40
Akron Cement per  Dbl.......
1 40
___ r_____   ■  
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.
Car lots..................".................................1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35@  88
1 75
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
Land piaster, per ton............................ 
3  75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................. 
Fire brick, per  M...................................$27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl...................................  
8 00
Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................   6 75@7 00
7 00
Cannellcoal....................................... . 
Ohioooal........................ 
  40@8 60
Blossburgor Cumberland................ 
00@5  25

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CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

STICK.

MIXED.

Straight, 25 1b  boxes 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

do 
do

................   @10
.................  @104
................   @12

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Royal, 25 ft  pails....................................  @104
Royal, 2001b bbls................................................94
Extra, 251b pails..............................................114
Extra, 2001b bbls..............................................11
French Cream, 251b pails...............................14
Cut loaf, 251b  cases.........................................14
Broken, 25 1b pails.......................................... 114
Broken, 2001b bbls.......................................... 104
Lemon  Drops.................................................. 14
Sour Drops...........................................J..........15
Peppermint  Drops.........................................16
Chocolate Drops..............................................17
H M Chocolate  Drops....................................20
Gum  Drops  .....................................................12
Licorice Drops.................................................20
A B  Licorice  Drops....................................... 14
Lozenges, plain.............................................. J6
Lozenges,  printed.........................  
17
Imperials ...; ................................................... 16
Mottoes'.......................................................... ..16
Cream  Bar....................................................... 15
Molasses Bar....................................................14
Caramels..,......................................................20
Hand Made Creams........... .’................. ........28
Plain  Creams.................................................. .20
Decorated Creams.....................................!.!.23
String Rock............................................. 
’ig
Burnt Almonds............................... • .......... "24
Wintergreen  Berries........ ......................II. .16
Lozenges, plain in pails................................ 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls..................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails.............................15
Lozenges, printed in  Dbls.............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails...............................14
Gum Drops, in pails.......................................   8
Gum Drops, in bbls......................................   7
Moss Drops, in pails.......................................ll
Moss Drops, in Dbls...........................................94
Sour Drops, in  pails.................................. .12
Imperials, in  pails.......................................... 14
Imperials, in bbls............................................13

Fancy—in  Bulk.

 

FRUITS.

Oranges—Higher.

Oranges S box...........................................  @4 00
Oranges OO $  box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, fl  box..................4 75@5 00
Oranges, Valencia ip  case...................8 00@8 50
Lemons,  choice....................................  3 00@3 60
Lemons, fancy...........................................  @4 00
Bananas $  bunch.................................. 2 00@4 00
Malaga Grapes, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl............................
Figs,  layers ^ 1b......................................  12@16
......................................  18@20
Figs, fancy  do 
Figs, baskets 40 ft ^ ft..........................   14@15
Dates, frails 
do
6 
Dates, 4  do 
d o ...........................
@  7 
Dates, skin..............................................
@ 6 
Dates, 4   skin.........................................
@  74 
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   1b....................10
@11 
Dates,Fard501bb ox$ft.....................   8
@ 9
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ^ 1b................
r@   8

PEA NU TS.

Firm.

Prime  Red,  raw  <p  1b............................
Choice 
do  ..........................
@   8 @  9
Fancy 
do  ............................
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  94@10
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ..... ......................10 4  @11

do 
do 

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, f) ft.................... 19@@20
Almonds, Ioaca, 
do  ...................17  @18
do  ................... 104@11
Brazils, 
do  ....................10  @14
Pecons,
d o ....................  @13
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ....................  14@l5
do  ....................124@14
Walnuts, Chilli 
d o ....................  15@16
Walnuts, Grenobles 
Walnuts, California 
d o ....................
Cocoa Nuts, sp  100 
....................4 50@5 00
I bu..................
Hickory Nuts, large \ 
1 25
do  .................... 
Hickory Nuts, small

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID E S .

S H E E P  PEL TS.

Green............................... ...............¡p 1b 6  @7
Part  cured..............................................  74@ 8
Full cured............. ................................84@ 84
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured....................10  @12
Deacon skins............................$  pieceSO  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
@20 
Fall pelts.
@50 
....30
..1 00
Winter  pelts...............
@1 50
w
Fine washed $  ft........
@32
...30 
Coarse washed...........
@25
...22 
Unwashed....................
. ..2-3
Mink, large..................
Mink,  small.................
Muskrat,  Spring........
Muskrat, Winter........
Muskrat,  Fall.............
Muskrat,  kits.............
Raccoon.......................
Skunk, black...............
Skunk, half stripe__
Skunk, narrow stripe. 
Skunk,  broad.............
Gray Fox.

60@ 75
25@ 40
18@ 19
10@ 15
8@ 11
4
m
40@I 00
90@1 DO
60@ 70
25@ 35
10@ 15
..1 00@1 25
60@ 85
75@1 00
..4 00@8 00
..6 00@7 00
.5 00@12 00
ft. 30® 35
12® 25
..2 0D@3 50
Above prices are for  prime  skins  only—un­
6© 64

prime in proportion.
Tallow .................................................... 

Deer skins, red and blue, dry__

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS.
Spring & Company quote  as  follows: 

TA PESTRY BR USSELS.

Roxbury  tapestry............
Smith’s 10 wire..................
Smith’s  extra....................
Smith’s B  Palisade...........
Smith’s C  Palisade..........
Higgins’  **.........................
Higgins’  ***.......................
Sanford’s extra................
Sanford’s Comets.............

TH REE-PLY S.

Hartford  3-ply. 
Lowell 3-ply—  
Higgins’ 3-ply.. 
Sanford’s 3-ply.

EXTRA  SU PERS.

@ 90
@ 90
@ 86
@ 70
@ 65
@ 824
@ 70
@ 824
@ 65

@1 00
@1 00
@1 (10
@ 974

HEMPS.

ALL WOOL SUPERFINES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford. 
Lowell__
Best ootton chain.............
Best  2-ply.........................................  574@
Other grades 2-ply..........................   524®
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  424@
Double ootton chain.......................  35  @
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @ 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  274@
Single cotton chain.........................  19  @
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........
274@
B, 4-4 wide.........................................
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide.................
D, 33  inches.....................................
No. 1,4-4,5-4,64 and 84..................
No. 2, 
..................
No. 3, 
...........
No. 4, 
..................
MaTTINGS.
Best all rattan, plain.......................
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain...
Napier A ...........................................
Napier  B ....................................:...
Opaque shades, 38 inch..................
Holland shades, B finish, 44..........
Pacific  Holland, 44................ ........
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross...
Cord fixtures, per gross.................

@ 774
@ 824
...  75 @ 774
...  60 @ 624
60
55
55
45
40
324
32425
30
22
184
17
45
37430
25
624
52450
40
15
18 
10

OIL CLOTHS.

CURTaiNS.

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HARDW ARE GOODS.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as follows
Anvils—Peter Wright’s,  $   1b..................  
11
Augurs—50 and 10 per cent. off.
Babbett—Genuine $   ft.........................  @30
Extra..............................................   @26
No. 1................................................  @20
No. 2................................................  @18
No. 4................................................  8  @10
11
a5-16
8 4
6 4
54
%
44
4
44
%

Chain—3-16 inch Lake Superior, $  ft....... 

do
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Files—Nicholson’s best 40 per cent off. 
Forks—Hay and Manure 50 per cent off. 
Hammers—Maydole’s 10@15 per cent off. 
Hinges—Strap and T 60 per cent off. 
Horse Shoes—Burden’s $4.00 per keg. 
Horse  Nails—Au Sable  30  and 10 per 
cent. off.

J O H N  

C A U L F IE L D

Wholesale 
Grocer

85,  87  and  89  Canal  Street

M in i

The best goods for the least money can be 
had only at such places where  expenses  are 
in proportion to the amount of business done 
and this is  where  THE  OLD  RELIABLE 
has the  advantage  over  competitors.  The 
secret of our success is that we buy goods as 
low as cash can produce them.  We are thus 
prepared to place staple and fancy Groceries 
on the market at such prices as obtains the con­
fidence of the close  buyer who is desirous 
of  getting  full value for his money.  Then, 
again,  we  are  under  no  extravagant  ex­
penses, nor enormous rents,  nor  supernum­
erary expensive  agents  to  tax  and  annoy 
customers with, besides not having the profit 
to divide between three, four or six partners, 
we can afford to be liberal sellers.

-HEADQUARTERS  FOR-

nee Mner, uiieese, mi 
Meat, Jellies, BncMeai 
Flour, Maple Syrup,

SUOAHS.

Cut Loaf Cubes.........................................
Powdered  Standard.................................8%
Granulated Standard................................7-84
Standard Confectioners’  A ..................... 7-44
Standard  A.............................................. 7-31
Extra White C..........................................7
Extra Bright C .................................6%@6%
Extra  C.............................................6%@6%
Yellow C.......................................  6^@ 6M

CANNED  GOODS

Are still the absorbing question.  Our friends 
are taking them liberally at our close figures 
and making  leaders.  Remember  gallon 
apples will surely go higher.  We  continue 
our
CLOSING OUT  SALE
for  the  Next  Thirty  Days.  8 ^ 0 0 0  
Cases Canned Goods of Staple and Standard 
Brands, 1883 packing, quality guaranteed.

JOB  BACON’S  TOMATOES 

Have the Highest  Endorsement of  the  best 
dealers in the country.
3 lb Job Bacon’s  Tomatoes, Standard. .1  10
3 ft Smith & Wicks’ Tomatoes............. 1  00
2 ft Sweet  Com, Erie........................ 1  12>£
2 ft Sweet  Com, Mitchell’s.................. 1  10
2 ft Sweet Com, Fredonia.................... 1  00
2 ft Com, F. & D.’s,................................  80
2 ft Peas, Extra  Early.......................  85
2 ft Peas, Platts’ Erie............................1  10
2 ft Peas,  VanCamps........................... 1  00*
2 ft Peas, Ex. F. Y. Canning  Co.........1  20
2 ft Lima  Beans, Standard...................  8&
2 ft Lima  Beans, Extra........................ 1  00
2 ft String Beans, Shawnee,white wax.  90
3 ft Climax Pumpkin, Standard........... 1  20«
2 ft Succotash,  Standard.....................  90
2 ft Succotash,  Yarmouth.....................1  48>
3 ft Boston Baked Beans...................... 1  60
Apples,  Gallons,  Erie........................... 3  00
Apples, Gallons, Extra  Erie County.. .3  00-
3 ft Peaches,  Standard........................ 1 75
3 ft Peaches, All  Yellow.....................2 00
3 ft Erie Pie  Peaches........................... 1 25
2 ft Blackberries,  Madison.................. 1  05 .
2 ft Blueberries, Detroit....................... 1  35.
2 ft Red Cherries,  Standard................
2 ft Green  Gages, Extra........................
2 ft Egg  Plums, Extra.........................
2 ft Strawberries,  Extra.............1  25@1  50-
3 ft Bartlett Pears, Echert’s Standard. .1  25 
The  response  to  our  advertisement  in.
the late issues  of  The  Tradesman  from 
country merchants for canned goods was lib­
eral beyond our expectation.  Several of the 
orders were from  localities  where  we  are 
not  represented by an  agent, and  for  other 
goods in our line.  Mail orders  on  this  ac- 
count, are all the more appreciated, with care- 
and prompt attention given them.
Readers  of  The  Tradesman  will  find i 
it  to their interest to  keep  a  business  eye 
on thin column headed  STANDARD  QUO­
TATIONS.  Mail orders solicited and  care­
ful attention given thereto.

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CROCKERY,  G L A SSW A R E   A N D   SILV ER   W A R E ,
English  White  Granite  Ware,  English  Decorated  Ware,  Chandeliers  and  Library  Lamps.

Headquarters for Akron  Stone  Butter  Crocks,Jugs and  Crocks,  by the  Carload or from  Stock.

Carefully ITote th.e Specialties Below,  which. W e Quote for 'Y’our Benefit This Week:

SELECTED EN G LISH   W H IT E  GRAN ITE W ARE. 

Diamond X.
Edward Clark’s
4 doz Plates...................5 inch 
51 
62 
4 doz Plates...................6 inch 
11 doz Plates...................7  inch 
73 
84 
3 doz Plates...................8 inch 
1 doz Plates....................7 inch, deep
6 doz Fruit Saucers.......4 inch 
35 
6 sets Handled Teas..........................45 
.............. 36 
18 sets Unhandled Teas 
1 only Dish...............................7 inch
2 only D ishes..................8 inch 
09
3 only Dishes..................9 inch 
11
3 only Dishes................10 inch 
17
3 only Dishes................11 inch 
23
28
3 only Dishes................12 inch 
4 only Bakers...............   5 inch 
08
09
4 only Bakers..................6 inch 
4 only Bakers..................7 inch 
H
4 only Bakers..................8 inch 
17
6 only Scollops................5 inch 
08
6 only Scollops................6 inch 
10
11
6 only Scollops................7 inch 
6 only Scollops................8 inch 
2 only Covered Dishes.. 7 inch 
39
45
2 only Covered Dishes.. 8 inch 
1 only Sauce Boat........
2 only Pickles 
¿1
4 only Cov’d Butters and Dr’ns 5 m 34 
2 only Teapots...............No. 24 
30
25 
6 only  Sugars................No. 24 
6 only  Creams.............. No. 24 
12
09
3 only  Bowls..................No. 24 
6 only Bowls..................No. 30 
08
06
6 only Bowls..................No. 36 
4 only  Jugs................... 5 ° ’,» 
6 only  Jugs................... No. 12 
?! 
4 only Jugs....................No. 24 
13 
4 only  Jugs................... No. 30 
Ji
6 only  Jugs...................No. 36 
1,1
4 prs Ewers and Basing No.  9 
9
6 Covered Chambers— No.
6 Soap Slabs....................
6 M ugs.........................

07

Crate  $2 50

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8
2
2
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b

17 1

1
1

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7
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$52 65

ONE  CRATE  W H IT E   GR A N ITE  W ARE. 

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—Cable  Shape- 
Diamond C.
6 doz Plates....................5 inch 
3 0

50 

87 
72 
83 
96 
1 32 
1 93

Bakers.................. 3
 
5
................6

“ 
« 

« 

Bowls...................No. 36
« 
....................  “  30
“ 
....................  « 2 4
3 85
Cov’d Butters__ 5 inch 
.  ..2V4  “ 
Indiv’l  “ 
22
Cov’d Chambers. No. 9 
5 63
Uncov’d 
.  «  «
Cake  Plates..........................   3 85
Restaurant Creams.............  
75
Cup  Plates............................ 
30
Casseroles.............. 7 inch 
4 68
5 25
8  “ 
66
Dishes........................3 « 
1 38
9  “ 
..................................10 
2 00
“  
2 61
................. 11  “ 
Ewers and Basins. No 9.......9 00
77
Barrell  Mugs— No. 36 
Fruit Saucers.......4 inch 
3o
Scollops................... 2V4 “ 
39

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36......
» .....
i*.....

1 93 
1 16
Vn  «  Jugs,  No. 
1 38
y*  *; 
;• 
2 90 
a   • 
4 40
y.  **  Shell Pickles...............................   1 65
«  Sugars. No. 30.......................  2 90
14  «  Spoon  Holders..................... 1 80
6 sets Unhandled Coffees................ 
50
« 
.. 
36  « 
36
........  
............... 
12  «  Handled 
47
Crate........— ..............

Teas 
.  « 

Large Assortment Chas. Meakins’ Cups and Saucers.

SELECTED  T H IR D S.

Teas, Unhand, per set...................................27cts
« 
Teas, Hand, 
Coffees, Unhand  « 
« 
Coffees, Hand 

...................................33
...................................33
...................................40

Sold in any quantities.

Best  White  Granite  Cups and Saucers.

J. W. Pankhurst & Co., per set....................35cts
These are equal to any made  and  are  worth 
40cts.

Barrel  Assorted  Glass  Table  Sets.

4 Victoria Sets, per set.................................19cts
4 Plain Handled Sets, per s e t ......................30
4 L’ge Figured Sets, pea  set........................ 34

Barrel, 35cts.

GLASSW ARE.

Heavy Figured  “ Horseshoe”  Pattern
I

Sets, $   dozen.................................... . 
Pitchers, y% gallon.......................................
Celeries.........................................................
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers..........................
Bowls,8  y«..  « 
........................ .
Bowls, 9 
............... ......... .
Comports, 4  inch.........................................
Goblets.........................................................
Wines............................................................
Salvers........... ....................... ......................
Nappies,  4 inch..............................$  gross

« 
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Package at cost-

3 00 
3 00 
2 00 
3 00 
3 85 
3 60 
30 
45 
35 
3 00 
2 25

# 

GLASS O IL  CANS.

« Queen” or  « Daisy.”  No  charge  for box.
V4 gal.  per doz.................................................3 50
lg a l 
................................................. 4 50

do 

Lamp  Chimneys—Good  Common.

No charge for box. 

-

N o.0 Sun  $   box__ ....*................................
.............................................
No. 1 
No. 2 
.............................................
Best  Common.

do 
do 

Each Chimney Labeled First Quality.
No. 0 Sun $   box.............................................
No.  1 
........ ...................................
No. 2 
.............................................

do 
do 

.1 90 
.2 00 
.3 00

2 10 
.2 25 
.3 25

The  Engraved  Globe  Chimney. 

Crimped  Top  only  75cts  per  dozen.  Former 

Dithridge Flint Glass.
price $1*25 per dozen.

A  Good  Tubular  Lantern 

For $1.50 per dozen.  Regular price  I i per doz.

Nutmeg  Night  Lamps

Only  $1.75 per doz.  Regular price $2 per doz.

Illuminator  Bases.

Seven inch, to fit any burner, $1 per  dozen.  5 

dozen in barrel.  Sold for $1.25 everywhere.

LAMP B U RN ERS.

No 0 Any style  per doz. 
No 1 
No 2 

do 
do 

do
do

.  90 
.1  00 
.1 50

GOOD ENOUGH  O IL   CANS.

No. 1,5 gal.........................................$   doz  $15  00
No. 2,5 gal.,  Jacket....................................  18 00
No. 4,10 gal., Jacket...................................  24 00

$81 66

No 0 New wire lift for lighting,  per doz__ 8 50
No 0 Hinge for lighting, per doz..................7 50

TUBULAR  LANTERNS.

Complete  W ith  Large  Size  Burner  and 

Chimney.

No. 1600, two light,  each..........................  $1 00
No. 
500, two light, each............................  125
543, two light, each............................  1 50
No. 
No. 
544, two light, each............................  2 00

Same  with  Seven  Inch  Illum inator  Base 

and  W hite  Shade  Complete.

No,  1600, two light, each..............................$1 60
No,  500, two light,  each............................  175
No.  543, two light, each.............................  2 00
No.  544, two light, each..............................  2 50
No.  518, threh light, each..........................   4 75
No.  595, three light with pat. extension..  7 80

*

We  Have  Between  Four  and  Five  Hundred  Chan­

deliers  Constantly  in Stock.

SILVERWARE.

IN  S ILV E R   P LA T ED   W AR E  O U R   STOCK 

IS 

C O M P LE T E — S EN D   FO R   C A TA LO G U E.

XjooIs.  at  Tills!

Rogers Bros.’ Treble Plat’d Knives. These

are genuine......................................$  doz  $3 00
Tipped Tea Spoons [Rogers Bros.’] ..........  2 38
Tipped Table Spoons [Rogers Bros.’] .......  4 75

N IC K E L  AN D  S ILV ER   P LA T E   ON   S T E E L .

 

 

Fruit Knives, in case.........................$  doz $1 75
Alpine Tea Spoons..’............ 
1  00
Alpine Table  Spoons..................................   2  00
Alpine Medium Forks.................................  2  00
Sultan Tea Spoons.......................................  
75
Sultan Table Spoons....................................   1  50
Sultan Medium  Forks.................................  1 50

P E N C IL  PORTRAITS  N O .  6 .

William  B .  Edmunds,  Better  Known  as 

This advertisement appears but a short time.  Mail orders receive careful attention.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
Hoods ore Specially Mooted for tbe licM p  Trofle.

Oloyer, Timothy and all  Kinds Pield Seeds
Seed  Corn,  Green  and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
and.Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
GREEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:

«   TIME TABLES.
'CENTRAL  STANDARD  TIME. 

River Boots and Drive Shoes, Calf and Kip Shoes for Men and  Boys,  Kid,  Goat  and 

Button and Lace Shoes for Ladies and Misses are our  Specialties.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

MANUFACTUREES  AND  JOBBERS  OF

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Country  Produce.

Visiting  Buyers.

Wholesale

‘Taffy

B ill.”

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

William B. Edmunds first  saw  the  light 
of day at Carleton,  Orleans  county, N. Y., 
May 10,1853.  When he was  five  years of 
of age, his parents i removed  to  Lawrence, 
Van Buren county, and he was  educated in 
the Union school at  that^place.  At the age 
of 14 he went to Hartford  and  entered  the 
employ of a dry goods  firm,  where  he  re­
mained a couple of  years,  after  which  he 
went to  Bangor,  entering  the  employ  of 
Davis & Lewis, general dealers. \  Two years 
later he  purchased  Mr.  Lewis’  interest  in 
the business, and the firm name was changed 
to Davis & Edmunds.  During the  financial 
collapse  ensuing  the  panic  of  1873,  and 
the embarrassment of  the  Bangor  Furnace 
C0>—whose paper the firm held for a consid­
erable amount—the firm  was  compelled  to 
succumb to the inevitable, and Mr. Edmunds 
entered the employ of the  Clinton  Woolen 
Mills as  traveling  salesman,  covering  the 
States  of  Wisconsin  and  Iowa,  for  two 
years. 
In May, 1877, he engaged  to  travel 
for Putnam <fc Brooks, being the  first  sales­
man to carry a grip through northern  Mich­
igan for that house. 
His  first  trip  was 
made in companyjwith Mr. James A. Crook- 
ston, and the ^friendship  thus  formed _has 
strengthened as the years  have  passed  by. 
He visited the northern trade  regularly for 
four years, and on the resignation  of  J.  H. 
Paris, who traveled south, succeeded to that 
gentleman’s territory,  which  includes  both 
Southern Michigan and  Northern  Indiana, 
in both of which States he holds all  the old 
trade and lias  succeeded  in  working  up  a 
large amount of new business.

* 

Still  in  Hiding.

Fred J. Galster, the  Boyne  Falls  bank­
rupt, still hovers around the Canadian Q bor­
der, in mortal fear of arrest  in  case he ven­
tures over on this  side.  The_ occasion  of 
his agitation is the knowledge  that  nearly 
every jobbing house inThis city is in^possesr 
sion of an autograph letter from him,  writ­
ten last October, in which he claims to  own 
-a farm worth $600, a  store building  and lot 
worth $1,500, and a  stock  of  goods  worth 
$3,000.  As a matter of fact he owned  none 
■of the above,  and the  additional  statement 
that he was worth $3,900 over and above all 
liabilities was proven false by the  develop­
ments attending the failure.

Effected  a  Compromise.

Cross «fe Todd, boot and  shoe  dealers  at 
Bangor, who recently made  an  assignment 
to the former’s brother, have finally effected 
a settlement with all their unsecured  credi­
tors on  the basis of  40 per  cent  The  as­
signee cut down  the  inventory value of the 
stock 50 per cent, and the firm then  offered 
to compromise at 20 per cent  This  prop­
osition met an indignant refusal on  the  part 
of the creditors, and a subsequent  offer  of 
30 per cent,  was likewise refused.  An offer 
of 40 per cent, was accepted.  The  firm had 
three creditors here, Rindge, Bertsch «fe  Co., 
Cappon, Bertsch «fe Co.,  and  E.  G. Studley 
.«fe  Co.

Carrel «& Fisher have purchased of Spring
Company the general stock and building at 
Dorr formerly owned by  John  A.  Beamer, 
¿and will continue the business.

A. C. Wait, Cedar  Creek.
A.  L. «fe E. W. Kitchen,  Edmore.
Rankin <& Dewey, Shelby.
John F. Stitt, Norwich.
Geo. F. Stevens,  Petoskeÿ.
D. W. Shattuck,  Wayland.
C. O. Sunderland, Lowell.
R. B. Wadsworth, Mancelona.
Green <fe Green, Byron Center.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
A. F. Newell, New Salem.
B. Ballou, Cadillac.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
J. S. Toland, Ross.
D. H. Decker,  Zeeland.
Hadley Mfg. Co., Kingsley.
John C. Bishop,  Johnsville.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Campbell «fe Smith,  Luther.
Frank O. Lord, Howard.
A. «fe L. M. Wolf,  Hudsonville.
A. Norris «fe Son, Casnovia.
C. E. Clark, Lowell.
Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
David Cornwell, Monterey.
T. J. Knowles,  Hesperia.
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
T. J. Sheridan «fe Co., Lockwood.
H. D. Harvey, Bangor.
Wolf <& Truesdell, Otsego.
F. F. Taylor, Pierson.
Fred Stoner, Grand Haven.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
H. T. M. Treglown,  Lowell.
Williams Bros., Gresham.
C. F. Sears «fe Co.,  Rockford.
Nevins Bros., Moline.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
Smeadley Bros., Bauer.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
Jacob Bartz, North Dorr.
G. C. Baker, LeBarge.
J. R. Harrison, Sparta Center.
Waite Bros., Hudsonviile.
L. Davis, Hopkins.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
G. H. Wallbrink, Allendale.
L J. Quick «fe Co., Allendale.
Walter H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Parter & Webber,  Chauncey.
A. Langworthy, Elk Rapids.
J. Wadsworth, Alba.
John Smith,  Ada.
R. H. Topping,  Casnovia.
A. M. Letson,  McDonald.
A. T. Burnett, Cross Tillage.
J. L. Handy,  Alton.
Fred  Morley,  of  Morley  Bros.,  Cedar 
Johnson <fe Link, Cedar Springs.
G. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
Fred Ramsey, White Cloud.

Springs.

Apples—Stock light, and market not very 
well supplied.  Baldwins and Russets readily 
command $4@$4.50, and  extra  fancy .find 
frequent sale at $5.
Beets—Choice  find  ready  sale  at  $3  ^  
bbl. and $1 ^   bu.
Butter—Good  dairy rolls are firm  at22@ 
23c  and  packed  from  10c  up. 
Elgin' 
creamery, 27.
Butterine—Active at  18@22c  for  choice.
Buckwheat—New York patent,  $3.50  per 
100 lbs, and $6.50 ^  -bbl.
;  Beans—Prices are looking up, the Eastern 
market  having  advanced  very  materially.'| 
Handpicked are firm at $2.25 and  unpicked 1 
are in active demand at $1.75@  $2.
Barley—Choice $1.30 ^  100  lbs.
Cheese—Firmer and  stiffer.  Full  cream 
is active at 15c, and skim is in good demand 
at!2%@13Kc.
Cider—20c ^  gal. for ordinary.  Sand  re­
fined, $6,50 
Clover Seed—Choice medium weaker at $6 
@$6.50 
bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $6.75@$7 ^  bu.
Corn—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  corn  at  from 
45@60c 
It is all of the same quality, 
but the former price  is  for  damp,  and  the 
latter for dry, stock.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c ^  
ft),  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 14@15c.
Eggs—Uncertain as a justice court jury.  A 
decline has been expected for the past  three 
weeks, but owing to the bad roads and other 
causes they do not come in quite fast enough 
to supply the demand, and as a consequence 
prices hold up to 22c, with strong probability 
of dropping to 18c, before the week is out.

bbl.

bu. 

lb.

bbl.

Honey—In comb, 18c 
Hops—Choice New York  25@28c  ^   ft); 
low  and  medium  grades  18@24c;  Pacific 
coast 24@27c; Wisconsin 12@20c; Michigan 
20@22c.
Lettuce—Hothouse stock  selling  readily, 
with good demand, at 25c ^   ft).
Maple Sugar—12c ^   ft>.
Onions—Choice yellow 75c ^  bu. in sacks 
and $2.25 
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
at 12j^c ^   ft>.
Potatoes—As much  a drug as ever.  Bur­
banks are sold  in  small  quantities  at  40c, 
and Rose at 30@35c.

Peas—Holland $4.25 ^  bu.
Parsnips—Firm at $3 ^  bbl and $1 ^  bu. 
Poultry—Chickens and fowls are firm, and 
readily  command  16@17c  and  15@16c, 
respectively.  There are no ducks and  geese 
in  market, and a  few  turkeys,  which  find 
ready sale at  16c.

and $2 ^  bbl.
$1.50@$1.75 ^  bu.

Radishes—50c ^  dozen bunches.
Ruta Bagas—Selling readily at 65c 
bu.,
Timothy—Weaker.  Choice  is  held  at 
Vegetable Oysters—50e ^  dozen bunches. 
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  82 @ 88c 
l bu. for No. 2 and 92@95c for No. 1.

Late  Business  Changes.

Big  Rapids—Wm.  Saunders,  grocer, 

de-

Patents  Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.

ceased.

Coopersville—W.  W.  Averill,  furniture, 

succeeded by Tuxbury «& Van Allsburg.

East  Jordan—Chamberlain •«&  Parmlee, 

grocers, dissolved.

Plainwell—J. C. Ives, hardware,  sold  out 

chine.

to O. B. Granger «fe Co.

Petoskey—Bowman, Nyce «fe Co.,  grocers, 

succeeded by Nyce.

Portland—C. J.  Warren,  sawmill,  assign­

ed.

“What  are  the  religious  papers  doing 
tow|fd directing souls  heavenward?”  is  the 
titie b f an article in  a  pious  contemporary. 
For one thing, they  are [ advertising  cheap 
revolvers by the column, at half rates.

Send  to  M.  C.  Russell for  sample  barrel 

of Sand Refined Cider.

The following patents have lately  been is­

sued to Michigan inventors:

Wm. H. Cloud, Detroit, vise.
Victor Collian, Detroit, furnace,
Wm. E. Hill, Kalamazoo, lath sawing ma­

Londen Jaquish, Maple Rapids, clevis.
Wm. P. Kilbom, Petosky, sled.
H. H. «fe H. T. Lovell, Ionia,  refrigerator.
Joseph W. Reed, Kalamazoo, lubricator.
John H. Runyan, Flint, door check.
JohnS. Smith, Jackson, making  tile, etc.
Elbridge  B.  Studley,  Grand  Rapids,  fly 

H.  Channing  Underwood,  Kalamazoo, 

net.

folding-box.

Joseph G. Warren, ¡Detroit, organ case.

Bor alumine will please you,

8:00 am

D E PA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express..................................   6:05 am
+Day  Express...................................     .12:20 p m
*New York Fast Line....................................  6:00 pm
+Atlantic Express.................................... 9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:45 am
+Looal  Passenger................................... 11:20 a m
+MaiJ..........................................................3:55 p m
•(■Grand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

A R R IV E .

•»•Daily except Sunday.  »Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 12:35 a. in., and New York at 10 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 8:05  p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EAST.

Arrives. 

GO ING  W EST.

Leaves.
■(•Steamboat Express.......... 
6:15 am
•(Through  Mail....................10:10 a m  10:20 a m
■(■Evening  Express.............   3:20 pm   3:35 pm
♦AtlanticExpress...............  9:45 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:00 am
tMorning  Express............. 12:40 p, m  12:55 p %
tThrpugh  Mail....................  4:45 pm   4:55 pm
tSteamboat Express..........10:30 p m
•(Mixed............................................. 
♦NightExpress...................   5:10 am   5:30 am
■(■Daily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars on Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  The  NightExpress 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.

T h o m a s   T a n d y , Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

GOING NORTH.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 am  
Ft.Wayne&MackinacEx..  3:57 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayi e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac Ac G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m 

GO ING  SOUTH.

,  Leaves.
9:50 a m 
4:45 p m 
7:15 a m
6:32 am  
4:32 p m 
12:32 p m

SL E E PIN G  GAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving at  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Trainleaving at  9:50a.m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Maokinac
City. 
S o u t h —Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

_

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Chicago & West Miohigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
■(Mail,.................................... 10:15 a m  4:00 p m
+Day Express..................  ..12:50 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express.................. 8:35 pm  
6:10 am
Mixed....................................6:10 am  
10:15 pm
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge to Chicago  on 
12:50 p. m., and through coach on 10:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives
Mixed....................................  6:00 am   5:15 pm
Express.............. 
4:10 pm   8:80 pm
Express.................................8:30  a m  10:15 a m
Trains connect at Archer tvenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m.
The Northern terminus of this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection la made with 
F. & P. M, trains to and from Ludington and 
Manistee« J. H. Palmer, Gen‘1 Pass. Agent«

The United States Mutual Accident Association, 
320  & 322 Broadway,  New York,  incorporated in 
1877, being a mutual company and having no stock­
holders to provide for, and  conducting its business 
at  the  minimum  of  expense,  furnishes  insurance 
against  accidents  at actual  cost,  or  at  about one- 
half  the  the  rates  charged  by  stock  companies. 
$10,000 accident insurance, with $50 per week in­
demnity, may be carried in  this  Association  at  the 
same cost of only half that amount of insurance can 
be procured for in any other company equally relia­
ble.  The Association pays  all  valid  claims  in  full 
immediately upon receipt of proof;  it has paid more 
than 2,500 such claims.  European permits without 
extra charge.  More than 15,000 policy-holders,  of 
the best class of busines and professional men of this 
country, are insured in this Association.

To become a Member, write for Circular and Ap­
plication Blank, and when received fill out your ap­
plication, inclose $5, and forward it to the Secretary 
at  New York,  on receipt of which a policy will  be 
promptly mailed to you.

CHARLES B. PEET, President.

(Of  Rogers, Peet & Co.)

JAMES R. PITCHER, Secretary.

B U S IN ES S   LAW .

Brief Digests  of  Recent  Decisions  in 

of  Last  Resort.

Courts

A u th o rity  to  Collect.

The Supreme Court of Kansas, in the case 
of Ryan vs. Tudor  et  al,  recently  decided, 
held that authority to collect implies and in­
cludes authority  to  use  all  the  ordinary 
means for collection,  and  among  these  are 
the emplopment of counsel and  the  institu­
tion of suits.

Lien.

The  lien  of a judgment on  land  situated 
in a county other than  that  in  which  the 
judgment is rendered commences  from  the 
time the judgment is rendered, and not from 
the time it is registered, in the county where 
the land is located.—Supreme Court  of Ten­
nessee.

No Bar to  Another Suit.

A decree of a State Court for the  removal 
of a cloud from the title of land  within  the 
State rendered against a  citizen  of  another 
State, who has  been  cited  by  publication 
only, as directed by the local statutes,  is  no 
bar to an action by him in the Circuit  Court 
of the United States,  to  recover  the  land 
against  the  plaintiff  in  the former suit. 
United States Supreme Court.

Action of One  Partner  Binding.

The Supreme Court of  Tennessee,  in  the 
case  of Taylor  vs.  Parkreader,  held  that 
where a note signed by two partners  and  a 
third person is afterward altered so as to be­
come payable at an earlier  date  than  that 
fixed in the note as at present executed,  the 
consent of one partner to the  change is  suf­
ficient to bind both,  provided  the  note  is 
changed while the  partnership  relation  ex­
ists.

F ire  Insurance—F alse  Statem ents.

False statements knowingly  made  touch­
ing questions of title and interests  are mate­
rial and work a forfeiture.  It makes no dif­
ference whether  the  company  is  actually 
prejudiced or not, or whether the  deception 
is made without intent to prejudice the com­
pany.  The law will presume  an  intention 
to deceive where false statements are  know­
ingly made about material or  revelant  mat­
ters of inquiry.—Supreme  Court  of  United 
States.

Glidden  Reissue Invalid.

In his decision just rendered in the case of 
the Washburn & Moen Wire Co. vs.  Rhodes 
et al., Circuit Judge  McCrary  has  reached 
the same conclusion  arrived  at  by  Judge 
Treat, of S t Louis, in his decisions rendered 
in June last in  certain  cases  involving  the 
same point.  The suits  decided  by  Judge 
McCrary, as well as those decided  by  Judge 
Treat, were brought for the alleged infringe­
ment of the  reissued  Glidden  and  Kelley 
barbed-wire  patents.  Judge  McCrary  de­
clares the Glidden  reisstied  patent  invalid 
and of no effect, because it is upon the same 
invention described in the  original  patent; 
because the claim of the reissued patent was 
u n law fu lly  expanded, and because there was 
undue delay in applying  for  the  reissue.— 
Bradstreet’s.

Assignment of Fife Insurance.

A person having no interest  in the life as­
sured can not, for the purpose of speculation 
onljr, acquire by  assignment  or  otherwise 
such title to the policy as the law will enforce. 
—Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Commenting upon the above  decision  the 
Chicago Legal News says: 
It is  well  that 
courts have  placed  this  construction  upon 
the contract of life insurance.  Were it other­
wise and life policies could be taken out  by 
any one human life would be  unsafe.  The 
learned  judge  in  delivering  this  opinion 
says:  “If, however, the question  were  one 
of first impression, and to  be  settled  upon 
the ground of public  morality  and  judicial 
policy, we could hardly fail to reach the same 
conclusion.  So fraught with dishonesty and 
disaster, and so dangerous  even  to  human 
life has this life insurance gambling become, 
that its toleration in a court of justice  ought 
not for one moment to be thought of.”

Privileged  Conversation.

B. was charged by F., his employer,  with 
stealing money from him,  and  took  L. F., 
an old friend, to see F. about the matter and 
the payment of his wages,  and  in his  pres­
ence he said to F., “You do not want  a man 
who steals your money, and I  do  not  want 
to work for a man who charges me with it. 
andF.  replied,  “I  known  you  took  the 
money, and  there  is  another  person  who 
knows it also.”  An action for  slander  was 
then brought—Billings  vs.  Fairbanks—and 
the only evidence offered was of this conver­
sation.  The plaintiff had a verdict  and the 
defendant excepted.  The Supreme Judicial 
Court of Massachusetts,  in  sustaining  the 
exceptions,  through  Judge  Colburn  said: 
“Under the circumstances these words were 
privileged, and  the jury should  have  been 
so instructed.  It is of no importance  wheth­
er the interview between Foster and  the de­
fendant had ended or not. 
If  Foster  had 
not been  present  the  words  were  clearly 
privileged.  The  plaintiff  commenced  the 
conversation, and introduced  the  subject of 
the charge  ot larceny  made  against  him. 
The  words  used  by  the  defendant  were 
spoken in this conversation,  and  the  mere 
fact that the words were spoken in presence 
of Foster, who as a friehd  of  the  plaintiff 
had been investigating the charge,  and  had 
been fully informed of the facts and circum­
stances, did not defeat the privilege.”

Order Boralumine of your jobber.

Wouldn’ t  Take  Greenbacks,'  and  Dropped 

$ 5 ,0 0 0   in  Consequence.

“Speculations in  quinine  and  opium  are 
¿11 well enough in their way,”  said  a Canal 
street wheat merchant,  “but  did  you  ever 
hear how‘Jockey’  Brown  dropped  several 
thousand dollars on a wheat  deal?” 

The reporter admitted that he had heard a 
good many hard stories  about  the  man  re­
ferred to, but was not informed  concerning 
his experience with wheat, and the merchant 
continued:

*

“During the war, ‘Jockey’ was a  rampant 
‘copperhead,’ and he declared ‘that he  wrould
never take any of  the  ‘d----- d  greenbacks.’
So when the farmers came  to  him  to  pay 
their interest, he refused to  accept  ‘Yankee 
money,’ and  compelled  them to  pay  him 
either in gold or wheat. 
In tli$  course of  a 
few  months he  accumulated  about  8,000 
bushels of wheat in one of Martin L. Sweet’s 
elevators, and kept it for some  time,  in  ex­
pectation of an advance. 
In the  meantime, 
however, it began to get musty, and  he  was 
compelled to mill it out to save  it.  He  sold 
the flour in  small  quantities  wherever  he 
could find a purchaser, and made a consider­
able shipment to New York.  In those days, 
every business house was  compelled to haye 
a license, and ‘Jockey’ was arraigned for do­
ing business without first procuring  the nec­
essary permit.  The litigation attending  the 
prosecution cost him about $300, and  when 
he got his returns from New York they were 
in greenbacks, and  amounted  to  about  50 
per cent, of the cost of the  wheat.  His  re­
fusal to take to money current  at  that  time 
must have cost him pretty near an even  $5,- 
000.

He  Saw  It,  but  Didn’ t  Get  It.

At a certain hotel  in  Detroit,  where  the 
meals were not always what they should be, 
a Grand Rapids drummer one day sat  down 
to#the table.  He put  a  dollar  under  the 
tumbler, and calling a waiter said:
“Do you see that dollar, Jim?”
“Yes, sah,” replied Jim with a  grin.
“Well, now, Jim, 1 want you to get  me a 
real good, first-class  dinner.  You  under­
stand?”

“Yes, sah,” and Jim set out about furnish­
ing a feast fit for a king.  He  had  no  time 
to see to anything else.  He hunted up  new 
dishes, put extra touches on everything, and 
kept his eye on the dollar.  Finally the mer­
chant  traveler  finished,  and  wiping  his 
mouth, he winked at Jim:

“Yes, sah,” grinned the darkey, in  antici­

pation.

“Jim, do you see that dollar?” putting  his 

hand on it in a generous  way.

“Yes, sah.”
“Well, you will never see  it  again,”  and 
it went into his pocket and out of the dining­
room, while Jim indignantly remarked,  “Fo’ 
de Lawd, who turn dat hog loose  in  heah?”

•  No  Overcoats  for Them.

“I see,”  said  a  Muskegon  merchant  at 
breakfast at the Occidental the other morning, 
“that there  are two  members  of  Congress 
who never wear overcoats.”

“ So ? ”  inquiringly  observed  John  Mc­

Intyre, who sat at the same table.
Z,“They must find it very chilly sometimes,” 
he  continued. 
“I  shouldn’t  think  they 
would like it, unless for the  notoriety.” 

“Pooh!” interrupted Johnny, with his char­
acteristic bluster.  “That’s nothing.  I know 
of thousands of men w'ho  never  wear  over­
coats, from one year’s end to the other.” 

“What!” exclaimed the  merchant.
“Yes.  They live in the Fiji Islands,” and 
McIntyre rose from his seat  and  made  his 
escape  before  the  nearest  boarder  could 
reach the vinegar cruet to hurl at  him.”

Just  What  Made  Him  Sick.

“Look here, Tobbs,” said the grocery man, 
as the former filled his pockets  with  fresh 
raisins, “can’t you come into this store with­
out lugging off my stock in  installments,  or 
shall I give you a mortgage on the establish­
ment?”

Tobbs was more surprised than  affronted. 
Looking at thegroceryman  squarely, he said 
with dignity:

“You do not give me credit, sir, for having 
bought groceries of  you  for  the  last  six 
months !”

“That’s just what grinds me. 

If 1  hadn’t 

given you credit for it I wouldn’t kick.”

Every retail  merchant  should  possess  a 
stencil plate, that he may mark^  plainly  on 
all bags and other property his name and ad­
dress.  He should also have a branding iron 
with which he can  hum in  his  name  etc., 
upon all barrels, boxes  and  like  packages; 
also upon his tools.  Then, if he  is  blessed 
with a borrowing neighbor, the sight  of the 
name may remind  the  borrower  to  return 
the bag, barrel, box or  tool  before  he  has 
worn it out.  At  least,  there  will  be  less 
danger of his  thinking he  owns  them  be­
cause he has had them so long  that he  has 
forgotten howT he came by them.

“I called for my money,” said a miserable 
creditor to his  tough  debtor.  “All  right,” 
responded the other, cheerfully,  “If there is 
any of your money  here you had better lock 
it up and take it  away  with  you,  for  if 
happened to find it I should  be  tempted  to 
keep it.  I haven’t got a cent.”

The Beacon is the name of Boston’s  new 
weekly paper.  Several numbers are on  our 
table, and  bear  the imprint of  success.  In 
tone it is clean and pure, with'  much  valua­
ble reading, and typographically, it is a hand­
some paper.  It is richly  deserving  of  suc­
cess,  and we'should  be  sorry  if  it  proved 
otherwise.

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  GOMPART,

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W H O LE SA LE  DRUGGISTS,

42  and  44  Ottawa St.,  aad  89,  91,  g3 aid  g5 Lotus St., Brand Rapids,  Mich.

I M P O R T E R S   AITD  J O B B E R S   OF

is,  W e s

And.  D ruggists’ S u n d rie s.  A lso  M an u factu rers  o f

T H E

ÍÍWHITE  STAR”

Fine Pharmaceutical <& Chemical Preparations, 
SEED  CORN
We have a choice stock 
of Seed Corn, both Yellow 
Dent and  the Yankee, or 
Eight  Rowed,  which  we 
offer  to  the  Trade.  We 
have given it  a thorough 
test  and  warrant  it  to 
grow.  Send for  Samples 
and Prices to THE SEED 
STORE, Grand Rapids. 
W. T. Lamoreaux, Agent.
H.  W A L S H   &  SON,

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Holland, Mich., Wholesale Dealers in

Clover, Timothy Seed and Ground Oil Cakes

Write for quotations.

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Awnings,  Tents,

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers,

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-   MICHIGAN. 

POTATO.

To G ardeners and Farm ers.

Send for Prices.

F.J.DETTENTHALER
O Y S T E R S

Successor to  H.  M. Bliven,

—WHOLESALE—

AN D   C A N N ED   G O O D S .

Agent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated  “ F ”  Brand 

Raw  Oysters.

117  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

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MICH.

1  A 
^ w n  seed fim  of Detroit tor one-na 

A Knot tw o  vears aeo  Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, sent to D. M. Ferry & Co., the well 
of Detroit for one-half bushel of the  celebrated White Star potatoes, for seed purposes.  The potatoes  were procured,
gratifying beyond measure.  The second planting yielded 7,000 bushels of as fine
 ever seen in the State.  They  were  pronounced  by  all  who  tried  them  ot  the  very  finest 
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flavor, 

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y ie l d in g   f a r   b e t t e r  t h a n   a n y   o t h e r  v a r ie t y   k n o w n
...  aatMm ftf thfl country  never  troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bug  of any sort.  Such is the universal testimony 
, 
to ?  
Of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they have never met its equal for endurance, productiveness, and  fine  eating
^aUtites.mAlHarmers and g^toers are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it, are imited
inw SPV A ^nw ^^lng^bec^alty^h^dling^ii^s^endi^potato, and are prepared to supply patrons at a price  which,  a  reference  to 
ail^ ee ^ c atelo ^ ^ an d ^ e re^ arp ricriistsf will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices.  We  make  this  liberal  offer  to
patrons: 
white Star Potatoes at the rate of $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount  to  dealers.  We  will  also
J S f S c S   S  babels sack sT L g s  o^atrons may send th e ir ^ a d r e s s e d  to Ensley & Son,  Maple  Hill,  Mich.  Orders 
,  W-6 
,  & Son  Ensley Postoffice, Mich., or to O. W. Biain, General  Agent,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.  All  addresses
furnish, at cost 
may he sent to either Ens  y 
~  t myistakes.  patrons  should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses, and  state
shipments made.  Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money,
refef^M arshail Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, and N. W. Mhther,
tbe above statements  regarding the superior quality and extraordinary  yield  of  the

Beadera ™  TOrdi^y inv ted to  « fe ^  

New York draft, 

WMte s K S t S s   W<swarrant ttese potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name.

33.  E 2 S r S X - .B - y   So

SOIT,  G rowers,

E nsloy  postofflco. Newaygo

County,  M Ioliisan.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

-Manufacturers of-

BAKING  P0W DEBS,

BliUINGS,  ETC.,

40  and  42  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  

MICH.

MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N.
Incorporated, Dec. 10,1877—Charier in Force for 

Thirty Tears.

L IS T   O F   O F F IC E R S :

President—Ransom W. Hawley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Snedeker, Detroit; 
L. W. Atkins, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
der, Lansing;  U. 8. Lord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Meeker, Bay City.
Secretary  ana  Treasurer—W.  N.  Meredith, 
Detroit. 
Board  of Trustees,  For One Year—J. C. Pon­
tius, Chairman, S. A. Hunger, H. K. White 
For Two Years-D. Morris, A. W. Culver.

„  „  „

FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS  AND  TERMS  TO  DEALERS,  ADDRESS

O.  W.  BLAIN,  General  Agent,

PRODUCE  COMMISSION  MERCHANT, Eagle Hotel  or  152  Fulton  Street,

a TVTT>  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

O. P. B IG E L O W  ;

-WHOLESALE DEALER IN -

RISING  SUIT

-AND-

APPLIANCES,

NO. 8  CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A .  X.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

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Sold by all Wholesale Grocers.

BEST  ON  TliE  MARKET.  EVERYONE USES IT. 
Factories, Seneca Falls, New York.
P E R K I N S   H E S S ,
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,

-DEALERS  IN­

’S.

NGS.  122  and  124  LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

