The Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  APRIL  2,  1884.

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THE  FOUR  SJLYERPEMYS.
Mr. Silverpenny was a  bachelor,  who  at 
sixty-seven, found himself with few  friends 
and no relations to lay claim to  the very re­
spectable fortune he had amassed  by  years 
of labor and  self-denial.

As is not unfrequently the case,  now that
to the top  of the  ladder  he
found that, so far as he was  concerned,  the 
pleasure of making the money far  exceeded 
the pleasure of spending it.  The  habits of 
years cannot be cast aside  in a  day,  and to 
be lavish, or  even  liberal,  needs, as  most 
other qualities do, a certain amount of  edu­
cation.  This, as regarded expenditure,  Mr. 
Silverpenny had never had.  He  had  come 
to Grand Rapids, where he 
lived,  when  a 
mere boy,  had  worked  his  way  upwards 
from clerk to master, and, retired now  from 
business, he lived in an unpretentious house, 
his wants attended to by a  faithful,  honest 
housekeeper, who closed her hafid as tightly 
over her master’s money as she did over her 
own.  The two had grown old together, and 
their peculiarities and the  practice  of  their 
small economies were now a  part  of  their 
nature.  To alter his surroundings,  go  to a 
more fashionable quarter of  the  town,  live 
in any other way than he did, never occured 
to Mr. Silverpenny.  One care alone  weigh­
ed heavily on him, and that  was  to  decide 
what he should do with his  money.  Noth­
ing in the newspapers  interested him  half 
as much as the wills of the various  persons, 
their bequests, and  how  they  disposed  of 
their property; but though these  perusals— 
extending over many years now—had afford­
ed him much varied  and  strange  informa­
tion, up to the present date he had not come 
across any favorable precedent for the  solu­
tion of his difficulty.

There were hospitals,  orphanages,  chari­
ties without number,  each  and  every  one 
calling loudly  for  support  from  him;  but 
even while living, Mr. Silverpenny  turned a 
deaf ear to such appeals,  agreeing  with his 
old houskeeper,  Martha,  that  such  places 
went mostly  “to  harbor  idle  vagabonds.” 
No, he had not toiled for such as these.

Churches?  In his opinion there  were al­
ready too many.  Schools?  It was enough if 
boys could write and read.  Poor Mr. Silver- 
penny!  Had he carried his $300,000 on  his 
back he could hardly have  felt  its  burden 
more heavily.

The 20th of May  was  his  birthday,  and 
according to custom, Martha, who had mark­
ed the festival by her choice of  his  dinner, 
was detained after clearing  the cloth  away 
to drink a glass of  wine to  the health of her 
master.

“Sixty-seven you  be,”  she  said,  setting 
down on the table the glass from  which she 
had sipped—“twelve months older  than you 
was this day  last year.  H ’m!  Well,  you 
looks it,” and she regarded him fixedly.

Mr. Silverpenny  winced  under  Martha’s 
searching eye.  He knew,  as  well  as  she 
did, that there was truth in her candor.  Dur­
ing the past year, for some reason unknown, 
he had felt that he was sliding  down  life’s 
hill two steps at a time, and it  was  with a 
sigh that he answered, “Quite true,  Martha, 
I’m beginning to feel an old man.”

“Oh, ’tnvan’t o’ that I was thinking, for  I 
follows  so close behind ye  that  when  you 
dies through fright of old age I shall  quake 
for fear, but—well, you ain’t  the  man  you 
was, master.”

Mr. Silverpenny nodded  his head  assent- 

ingly.

“And,” continued Martha,  “tis  time  that 
if I was you  I should put  my house  in  or­
der.”  Mr. Silverpenny did not  answer, but 
lie stroked his chin meditatively.

“Ha’n’t ye got no relations o’ no  bind no- 

wlieres?”

Martha had long been acquainted with her 

master’s difficulty.

No.  Mr. Silverypenny had  no  relations 
“Mine  is  a  very  uncommon 

whatever. 
name,” he said, “very.”

“I’ll be bound  if  you  went  to  Chicago 
you’d find Silverpennys in plenty.  Oh,  now. 
you don’t know,  master”—for  Mr.  Silver- 
penny had given her  to see how  he he  dis­
sented from her—-“why, look to  me, Martha 
Green, I’ve neither kith nor kin ¡so far  as I 
know by;  but  if I’d  got  money  to  leave 
away, take my word if there wouldn’t spring 
up a reg’lar crop o’ Greens to claim  relation 
with me.  And so with Silverpennys—there 
ain’t any other here ’tis true, but in Chicago, 
don’t tell  me;  I’ll  wnger  you’d  find  ’em 
there in scores.”

This argument had frequently before been 
advanced  by  Martha,  and  as  frequently 
pooh-poohed by Mr. Silverpenny; but driven 
to his wits’ ends to know what  else  to  do, 
although he did not say so to her,  he  enter­
tained  the  thought  now  more  seriously, 
brooded on it that night, and the  result was 
that some six weeks later  Mr.  Silverpenny 
announced to Martha his intention  of  start­
ing for Chicago on the  morrow.

“That’s right,” she said, approvingly,  “and 

what you ought to have done long ago.”

The root of many  of  our  paradoxical ec­
centricities might be traced  to  vanity, and 
without doubt some feeling of this kind had 
prompted Mr. Silverpenny to desire that the 
fortune  he  had to leave should  be inheri­
ted by some one who at least bore his name. 
As he had said to Martha, it was a  singular 
one, and when, the morning after Ms arrival

in Chicago desiring the waiter of  the  hotel 
to  procure for him the  directory  for  that 
year, he opened the book to begin his search, 
he felt a certain degree of trepidation.

There were Silversides  and  Silverstones, 
Silverlocks and Silverthornes, not  a Silver- 
penny—stay though.  Yes,  and  he  read,
“Silverpenny, John James, baker,  21  New 
street.  Martha was not right, although  not 
absolutely  wrong;  the  scores  of  Silver­
pennys, like the cats, had turned  out  to be 
one.  Summoning  the  waiter,  Mr.  Silver- 
penny desired that he might  be  directed to 
New  street.  An  omnibus  which  passed 
close by he found would take him there, and 
he was soon deposited  some  twenty  yards 
distant from the baker’s door. 

4 

The shop was a modest one, with its win­
dow full of bread, at which Mr. Silverpenny 
stood  staring,  trying  to  find 
some  ex­
cuse for going  in.  Naturally  he  did  not 
wish to at once  blurt  out  his  reasons  for 
coming.  Yet what could he  ask for?  there 
was nothing but bread there—not  a  biscuit 
not a bun.  He  walked  past  and  back
again, and then, not being  given  to  hesita­
tion, he stepped in.

“A roll,” echoed the  baker’s  wife;  “cer­
tainly,” and she handed  him  two,  saying, 
“That’s to-day’s;  this is a stale one.”

Mr. Silverpenny made his choice.  At  the 
same time asking might  he  be  allowed  to 
eat it there.  “I’m a  trifle  tired,”  he  said, 
“and it will rest me.”

“Johnny, bring out a chair here.”
“That’s good,” thought  Mr.  Silverpenny; 
“they’ve a boy;” but, to his disappointment, 
the bearer of the chair was  the  baker, who, 
placing it for him, remarked that the  weath­
er was hot but f seasonable,  and  then,  pre­
suming that  his  customer  came  from  the 
country, he inquired how  the  crops  might 
be  looking down his way.

Mr. Silverpenny gave the  best  answer he 
could to the question, for being a  town-bred 
man, except in  the  grain  he  didn’t  know 
cockle from corn.  Whatever he  said,  how­
ever, seemed to satisfy the baker, who need­
ed only the very smallest opportunity  to let 
his tongue run  glibly,  and, to  Mr.  Silver- 
penny’s satisfaction, the  roll  was  not  half 
through before he was able to  introduce the 
subject  which he  had  kept  ready  all  the 
while, by saying,  “Your name, Silverpenny, 
is a very uncommon one.”

Ah, 1 believe you,” said the baker  com­
“There  ain’t  another  Silver- 

placently. 
penny in all Chicago.”

Not as you know  of,  Johnny,  said  his 

wife, circumspectly.

‘Not that nobody knows of, “asserted  the 
baker, confidently;  “and more  than  that, I 
don’t believe you’d find more than  one  oth­
er than me if you was to  search  through all 
America.”

“And he is, I  suppose,  related  to  you?” 

said Mr. Silverpenny, cautiously.

“No, not as I know of, in any way; though 
he’s the sort of friend that sticks closer than 
a brother, and so he’s proved  himself to me, 
and I ’m proud to be  beholden  to  one  who 
bears the name of Silverpenny.”

“He always holds to  it,”  said  the  wife, 
“that you two must be  related  to  one  an­
other;  he’s  a  grocer,”  she  added,  to  Mr. 
Silverpenny,  “and’s got a store  of  his  own 
in the country.”

Fortunately, for the  satisfaction  of  Mr. 
Silverpenny’s curiosity, the attention of  the 
baker’s wife was'at this  moment  engrossed 
by the advent of a street vender, and  while 
that worthy  housewife  chaffered  over  the 
prices of cabbages  and  onions, Mr.  Silver- 
penny adroitly made himself  master  of the 
baker’s  history. 
It was a very simple  one, 
—he had fallen ill, and left  his  situation to 
go to a  hospital,  from  which  he  was  sent 
out weak, and all but penniless.  At  a coun­
try  town  in  Michigan  he  had  completely 
broken down,  and  declared  that  he  must 
have died from  want  had  not  the  grocer 
there—the  other  Silverpenny—heard  his 
name and helped  him  on;  “and-  that  did 
not end all he did  for  me,”  he  added;  he 
lent me money, he gave me clothes,  and  he 
wrote a letter to a friend he had here—well, 
the parson of that very church which, if you 
come to where I’m  standing,  its  spire  you 
can see; and, as it turned out,  Mr.  Webber, 
that was the clergyman’s name,  knew  of a 
party here, a baker, as from  being  old  and 
infirm, wanted a brisk  young  chap  to keep 
this going.  Mr.  Silverpenny  answered for 
me, and whether he was  foolish  or  wise in 
his man, is  best  shown,  insomuch  as that 
business is now mine.  The  old  gentleman 
is gone and I stand in  his  shoes  as  master 
here.  She,”  and  he 
indicated  his  wife, 
“was his niece. 
I tell her 1 took  her  with 
the  fixtures.  Ah,  well,  I  might ha’  done 
worse.  The bad job is, we’ve  got  no  chil­
dren you see. 
’Tis  a  pity,  ain’t  it,  a  tidy 
business like this,  and  nobody  to  leave  it 
to?”

“The other one—the grocer,  I mean—is a 

rich man, I suppose.”

“Rich!  Ah, bless ye, not he; he’s as poor 
as a church  mouse,  and  would  be if  he’d 
got double the trade he’s got  now; but  he’s 
a gentleman, every inch of him, and a Chris­
I say, if  he  don’t  go  to 
tian too;  and, as 
heaven I don’t know who will. 
’Twill be a 
poor lookout for such as you and me.”

Mr. Silverpenny did not pick up the stone 

cast at him. 

*

“Where might this  gentleman  live?”  he

said, “and is he married—has he a  family?” 
“Yes, there’s a boy—one—and a fine chap 
he is.  He’s schooling at Kalamazoo.  They 
pinched themselves to let him go, and I send 
him  a  cake  whenever  I  jan—a  real  good 
one, too, no  mistake,”  and  h e J winked  his 
eye.  “He’d tell  ye, would  Master  Charlie, 
that it ain’t half a bad thing to have a friend 
a baker.”

“I should agree with him,”  said  Mr.  Sil­

verpenny.

“Ah, I’d do more than that for the  son of 
his father,” said the baker.  “I was a strang­
er, and he took  me in—hungry,  and  he fed 
me—naked,  and  he  clothed  me.  That’s 
what I call acting up to Scripture, I  do.” 

“And all because of your being called  Sil­

verpenny?”

“Well, so he said;  but, bless  you, if  not, 
he’d ha’ done the same;  not, mind, but  he’s 
proud of the name, oh very, and so am I too, 
and rightly I take it, when  there’s  but  the 
two, John  James  Silverpenny,  baker,  21 
New street,  and  Anthony  Charles  Silver- 
penny, grocer, Silverville,  Michigan.”

Once in possession of  the  information he 
wanted, Mr. Silverpenny  soon  brought  his 
visit to a close.  At parting,  he  shook  the 
friendly baker by the hand, and  as  soon as 
he was out of sight of the shop  he  hailed a 
cab,  and telling the driver where  he wished 
to go, was soon deposited  at  the  Michigan 
Central station.  Fortune favored  his plans 
so far, that a train for Michigan was shortly 
starting;  and having arrived  at  the  end of 
his journey  of seven  hours,  he  started  for 
the grocer’s place of business.

This time he meant to adopt  another plan 
—he would no  longer  suppress  his  cogno­
men, but boldly presented his ¡card  bearing 
the name of  Silverpenny.

“Silverpenny!  and  not  my  friend,  the 

baker.”

The  merchant, into whose  office  Mr. Sil­
verpenny had  been  taken,  looked  at  him 
with  curiosity.

Assuredly it never entered  into  the  gro 
cer’s mind to suppose that the  possessor  of 
a fortune stood before him.  Our good friend 
always a little inclined to look shabby,  was 
now, in addition,  dusty  and  travel-stained 
the heat, excitement and  hurry  had  in no 
ways improved him, and he had not  Martha 
near to set out his proper linen.

In the merchant’s sight here  was  a  man 
old and  needy, and  it  was  in  a  softened 
voice he next spoke to  him.

“And so, my friend, you bear the name of 
Silverpenny;  well, I am  glad  to  see  you 
for I thought there  were  only  two  left of 
that name.”

“And I,” said  Mr.  Silverpenny,  “feared 

there was but one.”

“No, no,” and the dealer laughed  cheer 
ly;  “not so badly off as  that  yet;  each Sil­
verpenny has two to help r him—ah,  isn’t it 
so?” and he wondered into what  straits the 
old man’s necessities had reduced him.

“You speak there,  sir,  with  authority, 
said Mr. Silverpenny, and then to  enlighten 
him further, he added,  “1 have been to New 
street and seen the baker, who told  me  his 
story.”

“Oh, ah—I see—yes—but  don’t  rely  too 

much on  that  fellow,  he  has  too  long 
tongue and too good a memory, I  tell  him 
A mere nothing the help he  got  from  me, 
He owes everything to  his  own  industry— 
he’s a fine specimen—a very  fine  specimen 
—a  credit to the name of Silverpenny.

“May I ask if you came from New Harnp 
shire?”  said  Mr.  Silverpenny,  anxiously 
“I was born at Wishton,  there.”

“No, my friend,  no.  We  are  Massachu­
setts peeple—all, so far as I can tell. 
I was 
bom  the other side of the  Berkshire  Hills 
the  only  son  of  my  mother,  and  she 
widow, and I, myself,” and he  stifled  a ris 
ing sigh, “ am in a very similiar  condition 
my poor wife is recently  dead,' and  I  am 
left with one ewe lamb—an only son.” 

“Master Charlie?”
“Ah, that fellow, the baker, spoke of him 
to you, did he?”—the rascal,  he  stuffs  him 
with cakes and sweets of  all  kinds,  sends 
them to his boarding school, spoils him,  you 
know: but he’s a good boy, is Charlie,  and 
I trust, will grow up to be  a  good  man. 
pray that he may prove worthy of our  name 
of Silverpenny, and you,  my  friend,  must 
ask it for him, too.  The  world  is  full  c 
pitfalls.  Youth needs a steady  helmsman.
“You must give  me  his  proper  name, 

said Mr. -Silverpenny.

“1 will;  I’ll write it down for you, 

to as­
sist your memory.  Anthony  Charles  Sil­
verpenny, aged  thirteen,  born  the  1st  c 
May.  There, now, you won’t  forget  him, 
and he handed over the slip of  paper,  add­
ing, “You have not told me  yet  how  I can 
serve you.”

“You’re very good,; but my object in com­
ing was merely to satisfy the' curiosity I had 
to see another man who  bore  the  name of 
Silverpenny.”

“In that case you must  stay  and see  my 
son; he is home for a holiday—not  in now. 
but he will be presently.”

And he offered an invitation that Mir. Silver- 
penny should remain«, and accept  from  him 
some hospitality, but this his visitor  declin­
ed—he had to get back to the  station,  and 
he did not wish to miss the next  train,  so, 
after a little more  conversation  as  to  the 
town he was bom in, the occupation he  fol* 
lowed—questions answered with great  reti­

cence—the two  parted;  the  tradesman  at 
his store  door,  watching  Mr.  Silverpenny j 
out of sight.

Lost in thought,  some  half-way  on,  the 
old man found he had  missed  his  turning, 
and standing a little perplexed as to what he 
should do, over the fence a boy  sprang  up, 
who Mr. Silverpenny felt at  once  must  be 
Charlie.

“I have come out of my  way,” he  began; 
“could you put me in  the  right  track  for 
the station, young gentleman?”

“Yes;  I’ve just come from there.”
“Oh, what, that way, over the  fields,  can 
go?”
“And by it you’ll  save  a  quarter  of  an 
hour. 
I ain’t in much hurry, I’ll go that far 
with you, because, if you  took  the  wrong 
turn then, you’d go a mile out of your way.”
“I suppose you  know  this  place  well?” 

said Mr. Silverpenny.

“Rather;  my  father’s  a  merchant  over 

there—Mr. Silverpenny.”

“Silverpenny!”
“Yes;  a very uncommon  name  ours  is; 
some of our fellows laugh at me for  it; but 

think it’s a capital name, don’t you?”
“Yes, I think  it is.”
Mr. Silverpenny said this  so  slowly  that 
Master Charlie was induced to look  at  him 
more  observantly. 
“You’re  tired,  ain’t 
you?” he said.  “Have you walked far?” 

Pretty well for an old man like  me; I’m 

not so young, you see, as you are.”

No,” said Charlie,  and  then  he  added 
rather 
irreverently,  as  Mr.  Silverpenny 
thought, “I’ve been to town, and  had  some 
candy.  I wish I hadn’t now.”

Mr. Silverpenny smiled.  “I  don’t  know 
about candy, but I fancy  if  I  had a  little 
more inside me I should manage to step  out 
a little more  nimbly.”

You’re close by  now.  You’ve  only  to 
turn down this street—look, there’s the  sta­
tion, you see,” and coming  to  a  standstill, 
Charlie  eyed  Mr.  Silverpenny 
furtively, 
blushed furiously red, and  catching  hold of 
his hand, which  he  shook  awkwardly,  he 
ran as  fast  as  he  could  away.  Feeling 
something  in  his  palm,  Mr.  SilverpenHy 
looked down. 
Into it the boy had  pressed a 
penny.  His regret at having eaten the  can­
dy was because he had spent all but ¿that of 
his money.

On  the  following  day  Mr.  Silverpenny 
started on his return  to  Grand  Rapids; he 
reached his house in safety,  and  was  wel 
corned  back  by  Martha,  who,  sagacious 
woman as she was, made  neither  comment 
nor asked a question respecting the business 
of his journey.

That it had not been made  without  some 
result she guessed from the  arrival  of  Mr. 
Stock, the lawyer, with  whom  Mr.  Silver- 
penny was closeted for several days after at 
various times.

Clearing the table one  evening  as  usual, 
her  master  detained  her. 
“Martha,”  he 
said, pouring  out a  glass  of  wine,  “drink 
that to the health of  Anthony  Charles  Sil 
verpenny.”

“A h!” she  held  up  her  finger 

to  him 

“what did I say?”

“Why,  what  isn’t  true.”  he  answered 
quickly—“that  I  should  find  in  Chicago 
scores  of  Silverpennys;  whereas,  search 
from end to end, there is only one.”

“No matter,”  continued  Martha  stoutly 
“for all you wants one’s so good as  twenty 
and it’s he, is it, whose health  I ’m to  drink 
to?”

“No,” answered her master stolidly,  “it is 

not he.”

Martha  pushed the glass, which  she  had 
“Awh!”  and  she

taken, away from  her. 
crossed her arms resignedly.

Mr. Silverpenny enjoyed  the  momentary 
satisfaction of her  defeat,  and  then  in  i 
more friendly tone he said, “Never be  over 
hasty in jumping at conclusions,  Martha;  it 
is a woman’s failing.  "Wait,  and  you shall 
hear the whole story.”  And  thereupon he 
related his  interview  with  the  baker—his 
visit  to the groceryman,  and  how  he  had 
fallen in with Charlie.

Martha listened attentively.  “And ’tis he 
you’ve left your money to?” she said inquir 
ingly.  “Well! to think of his giving  you s 
penny—have’e  got  un,  master?  Let  me 
have a look at un, do.”

Slowly the penny was drawn  from  out of 

Mr. Silverpenny’s  pocket,  he  unfolded 
from the paper he had wrapped  it  in,  and 
solemly handed it to Martha, who held  it in 
her hand turning it over and over again.

“Take it,  master,”  she  said,  handing it 
back to him, “and keep  it  so  long  as  ever 
you live—I should if I was you.”

Mr. Silverpenny smiled  as if  he  had  al­

ready arrived at that decision.

“And I’m took with that baker,  too,” con­
tinued Martha reflectively;  “he makes  good 
bread, I’ll warrant un too.”

Mr. Silverpenny did  not  dispel  Martha’; 
illusion by  telling her that  judging  by the 
roll he had eaten, he should  pronounce  the 
baker’s bread to be heavy.

“I have not forgotten him,” he  said,  “and 

I have not forgotten you, Martha*”

“Oh, I ain’t  afraid,” she  said  shortly; “ 
don’t ask what you’ve  done,  or  what  you 
haven’t; all I wants  to .know  is,  that  the 
matter’s settled so that your  mind’s  at  rest 
and you feel easy.”

“Yes, quite, so far as others go.”
“Well, and don’t that satisfy you?”

For a moment  Mr.  Silverpenny  did  not 
reply.  “I expect, he said reflectively, “that 
most ot us, if we had  our  time  to  go  over 
again,  would act differently.”

“Why, what now?”  said Martha  sharply. 
“Nothing, Martha—nothing—only I  can’t 
remember that I ever  held  out  a  helping 
hand to anybody—gave away anything—did 
any good with my money.”

“And suppose  not,” said  Martha  irately, 
“you ha’n’t a done no evil, and  if  that’s  all 
you’ve got to lament over, you may lie down 
in your bed  easy, aud it’s  my  opinion  that 
you wouldn’t be doing wrong in going there,” 
and she surveyed him  critically;  “jaunting 
about and your time o’  life  don’t  overwell 
agree together, master.”

“I think I’ll take your advice,”  said  Mr. 
Silverpenny,  rising  slowly;  “and  Martha, 
we’ll turn over a new leaf,  and  you L and I 
we’ll try between us to do somebody  a little 
good before we die.”

“Oh, there’s time enough yet to talk about 
dying,” said  Martha  gruffly. 
“You  ain’t 
bound to do  that  the  very  minute  you’ve 
made your will and settled your money.”

Mr.  Silverpenny  smiled  cheerily.  She 
had  brought  him  over  the  candle,  which, 
lighting, he took from her.  “Now,” he said, 
“drink up  your  wine.  Charles  Anthony 
Silverpenny,  health,  wealth,  and  prosper­
ity.”

The next  morning  Mr.  Silverpenny  was 
long in coming down, and Martha,  thinking 
time to awaken him,  tip-toed  softly  into 
his  room.  “Master,” she called, but he did 
not answer.  “Master,” she repeated louder, 
drawing aside the curtain, “how  sound  you 
be sleeping,” and  then  she  bent  down  in 
terror—it was the sleep from which  there is 
no waking.  Tranquil and calm, Mr.  Silver- 
penny lay dead.

The Shoe  and  Leather  Review,  in  an 
article addressed particularly to retail  deal­
ers in boots and shoes, gives advice concern­
ing advertising which is of  general  applica­
tion to persons engaged in the  retail  trade. 
The Review  says: 
“Do not  be  afraid  to 
spend money for printer’s  ink.  The results 
may not always  appear  directly,  but  they 
will be found invariably in  the  footings of 
the year’s business.  Then  in  advertising 
never announce simply that you have a  full 
stock of boots and  shoes.  That  is  always 
taken for granted.  Advertise  some special­
ty.  Let it be a $5 boot or  an  $8  shoe,  or 
even a 50 cent slipper. 
It does  not  matter 
so much what the line  or  specialty  is,  so 
long as it is seasonable  and  something  that 
will be  likely  to  attract  attention.  The 
advertisement should be chanfied from  time 
to time so as to take in different lines.  The 
public does not care to be informed that you 
have boots and shoes for  sale,  but  if  you 
have boots ordinarly worth $6 that you  can 
sell for $5, or shoes ordinarily worth $3 that 
you can sell for $2.50, everyone is interested 
in the knowledge of the fact. 
If  you  have 
some new styles or novelties, let the  people 
know it, but always  in a  specific,  definite 
,y.  When  they  come  to  look  for  the 
particular  thing  advertised,  they  will  see 
for themselves  that  you  have a  full  stock 
in other  lines.”

Few things go further in aiding the estab­
lishment of a successful business  than  con­
siderate and gentlemanly treatment  of  cus­
tomers. 
It is the cheapest kind  of  an  in­
vestment,  yet  yields  the  largest  returns. 
This will be readily  admitted  by  all  who 
have been long in  trade, 
if  the  subject is 
brought to their consideration, yet  it  is one 
of the very things that not  only  clerks but 
even proprietors are apt to forget. 
It  rare­
ly occurs to them to look at it  in  the  same 
way as does the man on  the  other  side  of 
the counter.  As  a  practical  test  let  any 
dealer put himself in  the  customer’s  place 
and call at a dozen  stores  and  offices, and 
take careful mental notes of  the  effect  the 
different  styles  of  treatment  he  receives 
makes upon him. 
In  one  place,  he  finds 
himself perhaps neglected or  kept  waiting 
without any apparent reason, until he is  re­
solved to go  away.  At  another  he  buys 
things he does not really  want  merely  be­
cause he was treated  with  extreme  courte­
sy and attention. 
It will be found, in short, 
nothing more than a realization  of  the  old 
adage, “politeness is the cheapest and  most 
profitable of  the virtues.”

Among the new applications  of  cotton is 
its use, in part, in the construction of houses, 
the material employed for  this  purpose be­
ing the refuse, which, when ground up with 
about an equal amount of straw  and  asbes­
tos,  is  converted into a paste,  and  this  is 
formed into large slabs or brick,  which  ac­
quire, it is said, the hardness of  stone,  and 
furnish a really valuable building stock.

The staining of bricks red  is  effected  by 
melting one ounce of glue  in  a  gallon  of 
water, then adding a piece of alum as  large 
as an egg, one-half pound  of  Venetian  red 
and one pound of  Spanish  brown;  redness 
or darkness is increased by  using  more red 
or  brown.  For  coloring  black,  beat the 
bricks and dip in  fluid  asphaltum,  or  in a 
hot mixture of linseed oil and  asphalt.

P. D. Armour, the great pork packer,  is  a 
clerical-looking man of 45 and wears a pleas­
ant expression and mutton-chop whiskers.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWl\‘.  Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  A PEE.  2,  1884.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN THE  CITY.

O. H. Richmond, the Pearl street druggist, 

has removed to South Division street.

“They  talk  about  money  being  close,” 
said an Ottawa street  gunsmith;  “but  it is 
not close enough for me.”

H. R. Savage, who has been  sick and  off 
duty for some time past, is back to  his  for­
mer  post at John Caulfield’s.

Subscribers and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

Mr. R. B. Jennings, general dealer at New 
Troy, was in the city last week, the guest of 
his brothers, C. W. and W. H. Jennings.

The tea market is in a demoralized  condi­
tion East in consequence of a  sharp  decline 
at New York, throwing a  large  quantity of 
options on the market.

The  worth  of  T he  T radesman  can 
scarcely  be  testified 
to  more  briefly  and 
forcibly than  the  following, .by W. S. Barn­
ard, of Lyons:

Out of the many papers that I take, I had 
rather discontinue all of them than do  with­
out The T radesman.

Hides  are  up  %  @  %c,  on  account' of 
scarcity and the recent advance  in  leather. 
The advance is out of proportion  to  the up­
ward tendency in leather, however, and will 
probably not be permanent.  Furs  have de­
clined very  materially,  in  consequence  of 
the low prices obtained  at the  March  auc­
tion sales in London.  There was a  surplus 
production  of furs  in  this  country  dur­
ing the  past  season,  while  the  European 
season was unfavorable to a heavy consump­
tion, and to these facts is due the recent  de­
cline.

Under the caption “Deserved Prosperity,” 
the Grand Rapids Leader has  the following 
pleasant  reference  to  our • recent  enlarge­
ment:
The Michigan  Tradesman,  Mr.  E. A. 
Stowe proprietor and editor, is out this week 
enlarged from four to eight pages, and filled 
to overflowing with matter of  special  inter­
est to business men, added to a great variety 
of entertaining miscellany.  Mr.  Stowe,  in 
the  inauguration and  carrying  on  of  his 
bright and really valuable  journal,  has  de­
veloped  stable  business  qualities,  and  ap­
proved himself a wise  manager  and editor.

The Tradesman  acknowledges  the  re­
ceipt, from the Bay City  Chamber  of Com­
merce, of a 50 page pamphlet, containing  an 
annual  review  of  the  progress,  business, 
manufactures  and commerce  of  Bay  City 
and tributary territory.  Beginning  with  a 
recapitulation of the lumber,  salt  and  ship 
building industries of the  Saginaw  Yalley, 
exhaustive showings are made of the growth 
and material resources of the two Bay Cities, 
followed with an article showing  the attrac­
tions possessed by both places as the seat of 
manufactories of wood  and iron.  A  subse­
quent chapter is devoted to  the  advantages 
.Bay county has to offer to  the  agriculturist. 
Taken as the whole, the pamphlet has a per­
manent value, in  a  statistical  sense,  aside 
from the impetus  which  a  compilation  of 
such as a character gives to the  commercial 
prosperity  of  the  town  whose  enterprise 
renders such an undertaking possible.

Stewart’s  Offer to  his Creditors.

The attorney for W.  H. Stewart, of Round 
Lake, was in the city Monday,  endeavoring 
to  secure  a  compromise  with  the  latter’s 
creditors on the basis of 33X per  cent.  All 
agreed to take that amount with  the  excep­
tion of  Welling & Carhart, who  propose  to 
hold out for a better  offer.  The  total  lia­
bilities arq $1,960,  distributed  among  nine 
•creditors in the following amounts:
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, Gr’d  Rapids $272 00 
452 00
Welling & Carhart 
105 47
Eaton & Christenson 
E. G. Studley & Co. 
53 68
P. J. Lamb & Co. 
39 82
Hannah, Lay fit Co., Traverse City...........690 00
Others  creditors....................................... 283 00

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De Vree’s  Figures.

Henry J. W. Chapman, of  Grand  Haven, 
assignee of Andrew De Yree,  a light-weight 
jeweler  doing  business  on  West  Bridge 
street, has filed the result of an inventory of 
the stock, from which  it  appears  that  the 
same  is  worth  $838.99.  A house  and  lot, 
valued  at  $700, is  included  in the  list  of 
assets, but as it is the homestead  of  the as­
signor, it may as well be  omitted.  The  lia­
bilities are  $985.39,  divided  among  seven 
creditors in the following amounts:
Rev. A. Kriekard, Grand  Rapids...........$175 00
Ralph Klosterhouse 
...........  30 00
A. DeVree and Peter Burst, Vriesland..  200 00
J. M. fit F. M. Solomon,  Chicago..............  307 02
Panpoint Manufacturing Co., Chicago...  80 87 
Ingraham Clock Co., 
...  30 00
Henry West &Co., Boston.......................  162 50

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Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Dickinson and Raymond, hardware, Fenn- 

ville:  “Are welt pleased with your  paper.

Chester D.  Woodbury,  general  merchan­
dise, Portland:  “Your  paper  is  certainly 
worth all you ask.”

S. M. Geary, general  merchandise,  Maple 
Hill:  “I think your paper is a good one, and 
well worth the price asked for it.”

W. H. H. Brownson, general dealer,  Mon­
roe Center;  “I  think  that  every  business 
man ought  to  take  T he  Tradesman. 
It 
would be of great interest to them.”

Levi Stuck, Hart: “It is not only a unique 
enterprise, displaying the point and  pith  of 
trade, but absolutely indispensible, if its rel­
ative value to itr cost is  considered.  1 hope 
its  success  may  equal  the  most  sanguine 
expectations of its proprietors.”

G. F. Cole, of the firm of  Cole  &  Stone, 
shirt  manufacturers  at  Paw  Paw,  pulled 
The Tradesman’s latch string Monday.

Wm. M. Robinson, assignee  for  the  wily 
Newmans, will declare  a  dividend  in  the 
matter the latter part of the  present  week.

J. M. Arthur, an extensive fruit packer at 
Kenton, has been in  the  city  several  days 
looking over the trade. 
It is his  first  visit 
here.

Mr.  C.  L.  Wilson,  of  the  legal  firm of 
Morris, Wilson & Trowbridge, of Ionia,  was 
in the city over Sunday, the  guest  of D.  C. 
Underwood.

The  growing  popularity  of  prepared 
cereals  has  led  Arthur  Meigs & Co. to  se­
cure the sole agency for  Western  Michigan 
for the patent evaporated hulled corn.

Assignee Baker  has  sold  the  book  ac­
counts of the J. C. Kendall  estate  to  Geo. 
D. Conger for  $450,  thus  realizing  $5,100 
from the sale of both  stock  and  accounts.

H. Principall  and  C. DeYoung,  of  the 
new  grocery  firm  of  H.  Principall & Co.. 
Muskegon,  were in  the  city  Monday,  and 
purchased a complete stock  of Fox, Mussel- 
man & Loveridge.

Albert F. Hazeltine, who has been at Fife 
Lake the past four  months  running  the  F. 
D. Caulkins drug store in the interest of As­
signee Fairchild, has returned to his desk  at 
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.’s.

We hope to present next week a sketch of 
Mr. Joseph F. O. Reed, better known to  the 
trade as “Joe,” and an agreeable and  popu­
lar  salesman  withal.  Mr.  Reed  has  been 
with H. Leonard & Sons about twelve years.

The Montague  Lumberman  recently  re­
ceived the following note from  Grand  Rap­
ids with a request to publish: “Young ladies 
should be careful how they flirt with  travel­
ing men;  most of them turn out  to  be  mar­
ried.”

C, N. Hyde, of Rockford,  has  purchased 
the handle factory and general  store  of  A. 
D. Botsford & Co., at  Alba,  and  will  con­
tinue the business.  He  purchased  a  new 
grocery  stock  of  Hawkins  &  Perry 
last 
week.

Frank  F.  Kutts,  attorney  for  Jackson 
Coon, the  embairassed  Rockford  boot  and 
shoe dealer, states that his client  is  formu­
lating an offer  to  his  creditors  by way  of 
compromise.  He does not  think  the  offer 
will exceed 40 per cent.

“I see T he  T radesman  recently  placed 
George Kendall’s property at $200,000,” said 
a shrewd business man.  “I happen to know 
something of the inside management  of  Mr. 
Kendall’s finances, and am in  a  position  to 
state  that  his  property  to-day  is worth at 
least half a million dollars.”

“What a  team  D.  D. Cody  and  Arthur 
Meigs would make in the groceiy business,” 
said  an intimate  friend of  both  gentlemen 
the other day.  “Cody hasn’t tact enough to 
hold the trade of a  single  dealer, so  far as 
gersonal-ties are concerned, but as a shrewd 
and careful business man he has few  equals 
in the State.  He is well posted, has  a  pro­
digious memory,tand seldom makes  a  mis­
take.  Meigs, on the other  hand,  is  not  a 
master of either  the  generalities or  details 
of the business, but is  personally  the  most 
popular man on the road.  He  can  attract 
men by the mere power  of  his  personality 
and hold them through  thick  and  thin. 
I 
don’t think I have  ever  seen  his  equal in 
this  respect.”

It would be the height of cruelty to reveal 
the identity of the traveler who was the hero 
of  the  following incident,  related  by  the 
Harbor Springs Independent, so  the  name 
is  withheld for  the  present: 
“Drummers 
are  great fellows for practical jokes, but the 
traveling representative of  a  Grand  Rapids 
grocery house had one played on him by one 
of our merchants a few days  ago.  He  left 
his sample case in a store while  waiting  for 
a rig to drive out to Ayr, and  the  merchant 
took out his  samples and  substituted  three 
or four nice turnips and  onions.  When  the 
drummer reached Ayr he  began  to  talk  up 
his fine line of syrups, and Mr. Snyder asked 
to see his samples.  His surprise on opening 
up can be imagined, but he only said: “Let’s 
take a smoke.”  The story  leaked  out,  and 
his traveling friends  all speak of him as  the 
man who sells vegetables by sample.”

H. 

McNitt,  general  dealer,  Haring: 

“Your paper looks well in its new  dress. 
I 
consult its columns  nearly  every  day  for 
necessary  information in  my  business. 
I 
think in some way dealers should  exchange 
ideas.  Your columns would serve  the pur­
pose  well.”

By one of those annoying  oversights  that 
occurs  periodically 
in  every  .  newspaper 
office, T he Tradesman was led  to  substi­
tute the word Shattuck for Giddings,  in  re­
ferring to the Sand  Lake  complication  last 
week.  Messrs.  G.  S.  Powell  and  J. S. 
Pierce have completed an  Inventory of  the

stock, showing $2,907.74 worth  of  goods at 
cost value.  John Caulfield claims that  it is 
not his mortgage,  but  Chas. Root  &  Co.’s, 
that is in dispute, as  the  latter’s  mortgage 
had three years yet to run, and but $600 was 
due at the time of  foreclosure.  The  firnf 
failed to furnish Giddings with  a statement 
of his indebtedness, foreclosed without mak­
ing a demand for payment, and has since re­
fused to furnish a  statement.  On  these  ir­
regularities Caulfield  basis  his  claim  that 
even if the Root mortgage is  not  illegal  in 
itself, the subsequent actions of the  parties 
have invalidated it.

AROUND  TH E   STA TE.

I. Gibson & Son, of Clarksville,  have  re­

moved to Petoskey.

Dr. R. Brodeur has removed his drug store 

from Leroy to Cadillac.

Harry Stowe has engaged  in  the  confec­

tionery business at  Nashville.

Shirley & Thompson have  engaged in  the 

grocery business at Schoolcraft.

Motley & Lelinan  have  engaged  in  the 

boot and shoe business at Allegan.

H. A. Cornell, dry goods dealer  at  Ionia, 

is  succeeded by Fred Culter Jr. & Co.

James Hullinger, of Mecosta, is arranging 

to remove his drug store to Big Rapids.

S. B. Fuller,  has engaged in the hardware 
business at Ionia.  He was foimerly  in the 
same business at St. Johns.

E.  W. Sherwood, druggist, at  Otsego, has 
sold out to C. H. Adams, of the  former  firm 
of Deuel & Adams, Bradley.

Pettingill & Young succeed B.  N.  Pettin- 
gill in the  drug  business  at  Rockford,  and 
R. Y. McArthur, grocer, at the  same  place.
J. W. Closterhouse, of  Jennisonville,  has 
purchased the general stock and  business of 
C. E. Kellogg, at Grandville.  The  transfer 
will occur May 1.

Mr. Grover, of the former firm of  Noel  & 
Grover, of Palo, will  shortly  engage  in  the 
drug business at Fenwick, in a building to be 
erected by C. R.  Herrick.

Rusch & Schafer, dealers in dry goods and 
groceries at Ionia, have  been  closed  on  a 
chattle  mortgage for  $1,450  held  by  J. K. 
Burnham & Co.,  of Detroit.

S. D. Flowers, the Sturgis boot  and  shoe 
man, is advertised to  be  sold  out  on  two 
chattel mortgages held by his father and  his 
wife.  Unhappy  creditors  are  looking  for 
fraud.

W. H. H. Brownson,  the  Monroe  Center 
dealer and postmaster, is  authority  for  the 
statement that the  firm  of  McYey  &  Rey­
nolds,  formerly  in  trade at that place,  has 
“absconded and left for parts unknown.”

STRA Y   FA CTS.

Patterson & Weeks, billiards.  Ionia,  have 

sold out to J. D.  Stewart.

Henry Cobia'!, saloon-keeper at Lowell,  is 

succeeded by Patterson Bros.

Mrs. Howe, of Eaton Rapids, will  open  a 

millinery store at Diamondale.

Joseph Post has purchased the Clarksville 

cheese factory of Edwin  Nash.

Goodell  &  Harvey,  millers  at  Saranac, 

are succeeded by Thrace &  Haivey.

E. W. Hastings, music dealer at  Traverse 
City, is succeeded by Hastings  &  Chipman.
Cogswell  &  Rogers,  wagon  makers  at 
Plain well,  are  succeeded  by  Cogswell & 
Cobb.

Mrs. D. Stinchcomb, lately  of  St.  Louis, 
has engaged  in  the  millinery  business at 
Ionia.

Williams  Bros.,  Grand  Ledge  grocers, 
have sold their stock  to  W.  H.  Taylor,  of 
Lansing.

W.  J.  Babcock  and  S.  B.  Granger,  of 
Grand  Ledge,  will  each  build  new stores 
this  spring.

A  stock  company,  with  $10,000  capital, 
has been organized at Bay City to engage  in 
the manufacture of sole  leather.

E. H. Pope and A. W.  McElcheran,  both 
formerly  with  Hannah,  Lay  &  Co.,  have 
opened a clothing store at Traverse  City.

W. N.  Adsit  and  II.  H.  Skinner,  both 
formerly with Broadfoot & Carrier, will  en­
gage  in  the  agricultural  implement  busi­
ness  at Traverse City.

The Union School Furniture Co., of Battle 
Creek, has started a new industry, the  man­
ufacture  of  dustless  crayons.  There  are 
but two other factories in the country which 
make them.

Another  fruit  evaporation  company  has 
been organized at Charlotte, with  J. B. Bel­
cher, manager.  The company will be known 
as  the  Enterprise  Manufacturing  Co., and 
the  chief  industry  at  present  will  be the 
manufacture of a new  evaporating  machine 
invented by J. B.  Belcher.

Nashviile News:  The maple sugar season 
has, thus far, proved anything  but  satisfac 
tory to makers.  There  has  probably  been 
but about 15,000 lbs. marketed  here  so  far. 
Although  we  have  had  several apparently 
fine sap days, the flow has been  exceedingly 
thin and most farmers seem to think that the 
season is about at an  end.

Arrangements  are  about  completed  for 
the establishment  of  a  national  bank  at 
Traverse City.  The*movers  in  the  enter­
prise are Messrs. A. H. Marsh, of Fredonia, 
N. Y., and W. H. Smith, of  Alleghany,  N. 
Y., who have been  there  looking  over  the 
ground.  They were  well pleased  with  the 
prospects, have ample capital,  and  will no 
doubt organize such an association  with the 
least number of shareholders  and  directors 
permitted by law.

A hundred different styles of  spoon  baits 
and hooks, lines and rods in endless variety. 
Call and see us.  Calkins Bros.

Boralumine  is  unexcelled  by  any  other 

wall finish on the m arket.

BRANCH  RAlLROAb.

Kalkaska Tributary to More  Pine  Than Cadil­

lac  Ever Had.

Mr. D.  E.  Me Yean,  the  Kalkaska  mer­
chant and lumberman, was in  the  city  last 
Thursday,  having  been  summoned here by 
President Hughart, of the G. R.  &  I.  Rail­
road, to consult with him relative  to the de­
sirability  and  practicability  of  building  a 
branch road east from Kalkaska, to  tap  the 
immense tract of pine controlled by Mr.  Mc- 
Vean,  White  &  Friant  and  David  Ward. 
Mr.  McYean’s  pine  land  lies about eleven 
miles  east  of  Kalkaska,  and  consists  of 
7,000 acres, estimated to cut  65,000,000 feet. 
White & Friant own a similar tract near by, 
which is estimated to cut from 65,000,000  to 
80,000,000 feet.  The land lies  in two town­
ship, about midway between the G. R.  &  I. 
and J., L. & S. Railroads.  The  question  of 
building a narrow guage road to one  or  the 
other main lines has been discussed for some 
time past, but has been about abandoned, on 
account  of  the  transfer  involved  in  the 
change from narrow to standard  guage.  Of 
late  Mr.  McVean  has  been  agitating  the 
question of building a branch  standard  line 
to carry out the timber,  with  strong  proba­
bility that the movement would  become  an 
assured  fact.  The project  coming  to  the 
ears of President Hughart,  he  immediately 
requested an audience  with  Mr.  McYean, 
and was surprised to learn of the magnitude 
of the  timber  tract  in  Kalkaska  county. 
Aside from the 150,000,000  feet  which  can 
be touched by an eleven mile  spur, there  is 
another tract of 14,000 acres, which will  cut 
fully 150,000,000  feet,  eight  miles  further 
north, while an extension of  six  miles  still 
further, will open up  a  tract  estimated  to 
cut  300,000,000  feet.  Both  of  the  latter 
tracts are the property of  David Ward,  who 
would as soon see the timber go out over the 
G. R. & I. as the Michigan  Central, the road 
making the best terms having his preference. 
The Michigan Central is anxious  to put in a 
spur communicating with the tract, but  Mr. 
McYean is naturally anxious to see the  tim­
ber  go  out  by  way  of  Kalkaska, and  has 
many good reasons for  the  conclusion  that 
the latter is the most direct and advantageous 
route.  Upon being  made  acquainted  with 
all  the  facts  surrounding  the  matter, Mr. 
Hughart  stated  that  he  would  build and 
equip a  standard  guage  road,  beginning  as 
soon as the weather settles, and agree to have 
the  first  etoven  miles in operation by  fall. 
The  only  point  yet  unsettled  is  the  ques­
tion of an arbitrary freight rate,  which  wi'l 
undoubtedly be amicably adjusted,  in which 
case White & Friant agree to  cut 10,000,000 
feet the coming  winter  season.

The advantage of such a road, to Kalkaska 
in particular  and Northern Michigan m gen­
era1, would  be  almost  beyond  conception. 
It  wouJd  open  up  to  settlement  a  dozen 
townships, in several of which  there  is  not 
as yet a single inhabitant, and be the  means 
of developing a fertile portion  of  Kail, a ska 
conn y. 
It would make Kalkaska  tributary 
to tw!ce as much pine as  Cadillac  had,  and 
could not fail to augment the  populat'd!  of 
the place  several  thousand  people,  besides 
giving it an immense impetus in  a  com m e- 
cial way.  Long after the pine is  gone—and 
there is pine enough to last for twenty years 
—the’ e  will still be left an equal  amount of 
hard wood timber, there being in the  j egion 
an abundance of hemlock,  b’rd’s-eye mao e, 
elm and basswood.  Tlrs will  find  a  ready 
market further south, but in  all  probability 
it will not be shipped in a rough  stage,  but 
be first converted in the  manufactured  pro­
duct.  The railroad will also develop a num­
ber of towns along its line, which cannot faU 
to  play no inconsiderable part in the  devel­
opment of  the  region.  Finally,  the  route 
will  eventually  be  made  a  connection  be­
tween the two main lines, and will undoubt­
edly be extended  to  Elk  Rapids,  26  miles 
further west, thus giving  Kalkaska  the  ad­
vantage of lake freights, and Elk Rapids  an 
outlet for the winter product  of  her  manu­
factories, which at present she is  compelled 
to pile up, until the opening  of  navigation.

Careiui  Buying.

The most important part of  the  bus:ness 
of a retail merchant is buying  his stock. 
It 
requires more tact, acumen  and  knowledge 
than any  other  department.  Among  the 
many  trade  aphorisms  which  have  been 
handed down, there is none  which  contain 
more truth than that “goods well bought are 
half sold.”  The member of  the  firm  who 
attends to this  department  needs  to  keep 
himself well informed not only on  the  cur­
rent markets and the course  of  prices,  but 
on the wants of the trade to which he caters. 
He must know just how  much of  one  arti­
cle he can handle to the best advantage.  He 
must keep  his  stock  well  balanced,  have 
just enough of everything to keep him going 
nicely.  He must keep  himself  posted  on 
new  arim'es in the  trade,  and  should  al­
ways have time to inquire  into  the  merits 
and  salable  qualities  of  any  new  goods 
which may be brought to h'S attention.  He 
should  be a man of good address  and  good 
business habits.  When he  goes to  buy  he 
should know what he wants, buy it as quick­
ly as is compatible with the proper  care for 
his own interests  and  leave.  The  whole­
sale dealer and his salesmen are always glad 
to do business with such a man,  aad  when 
they find him, he always creates a feeling of 
confidence, and they are willing to  do better 
by him, when possible,  than by  his  slow, 
uncertain congenitor  who doesn’t  know ex­
actly what he wants  and  how  to  get  it. 
Business  is  business;  and  when  a  man 
shows that he  understands his  business, he 
always commands respect and  stands  high 
in thetestimation of the  business  commun­
ity, no matter  whether  his  purchases  are 
large or small at the  moment 
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"Wholesale  Grocers,

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Manufacturers of

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Fine Perfumes,

Dealer  in

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STAP LE   AND   F A N C Y   GROCERIES, 

CANNED  AND   D RIED   FRUITS.
EGGS AND  BUTTER
A  Specialty. Pays Cash on Receipt of  Prop­

erty.

Buyers  of  Eggs  by  the  Crate  or Barrel 
will be  supplied  at  the  lowest  Wholesale 
Price with Sound, Fresh Stock.  This House 
does not handle Oleomargarine, Butterine or 
Suine.

Telephone Connection.

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

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MICHIGAN.

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immediately upon receipt of proof;  it has paid more 
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the best class of busines and professional men of this 
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DIVIDING  WITH  THE  DRUGGIST.

An  Apothecary  Complains of  a  Custom  of 

Certain  Doctors.

“Look here,” said a  Monroe  street  drug­
gist, displaying a physician’s receipt, “what 
do you make of it?”  The receipt  read:

“Tgnu Icniz Xo zi. Sig. ext. use...............”
“You would not imagine  that  read,  ‘Ox 
Zinci Ungt. for external  use,’  would  you? 
Then the dotted lute is a hieroglyphic  for a 
well-known physician’s name.”

“What is the object of  mixing  the  thing 

up that way?” asked the reporter.

“This  druggist,”  answered  the  apothe­
cary, has a big run  of  these  prescriptions. 
Read  ‘Tgnu Icniz Xo’  backward  and  you 
have the abbreviated Latin formula for Oxide 
of Zinc.  A  green  druggist  would  puzzle 
over it and say. 
‘Take that prescription  to 
the druggist whose name  is  printed  there. 
I can’t fill it.’  If he  understood  the  trick 
he would not  fill  the  prescription  because 
the physician’s name is not  legible,  and, in 
the  event  of  any  accident  happening,  he 
could not throw the responsibility  upon the 
doctor.  The  trick  is  done to  secure  the 
trade for the  druggist and a  commission for 
the physician.  Another trick in  the  trade 
is to write in superfluously  the  name  of  a 
rare or unused drug that few druggists keep, 
or to write in one of a  few  words  without 
meaning, that the druggist  and  doctor  un­
derstand are to be disregarded. 
It is  a dis­
reputable practice, and might lead  to  fata 
mistakes.”

Proposed  Exclusion  of Opium.

A bill has been introduced in  the  House 
of Representatives by Mr. Budd, of  Califor­
nia, which has for its object the  prohibition 
of the  importation 
into,  and [the  sale  of, 
opium in the  United  States.  The  bill  re­
cites that the habit of opium smoking among 
the people of the United States Is spreading 
with frightful rapidity under  the  fostering 
care of the Chinese;  that the importation of 
opium has increased from  85,075  pounds in 
1881 to 289,&52 pounds in  the  year  ended 
June, 1883, and that it  is now  proposed  to 
reduce the duty  thereon twenty  per  cent.; 
that the habit of  opium  smoking  once  ac­
quired cannot be overcome, and that  its vic­
tims will not live in  any  place  where  the 
drug cannot be procured, and that  nearly 50 
per cent of our Chinese population are slaves 
to the opium pipe, and that the  cessation of 
the importation of the  drug  would  cause a 
large exodus of that people.  The  bill pro 
vides that the importation of opium,  except 
aqueous  extracts  for  medicinal  use  and 
tinctures, shall be prohibited under  penalty 
of fine  and  imprisonment,  and  sellers  or 
those who knowingly aid or abett its  impor­
tation or sale shall, upon conviction, be pun­
ished by a fine not exceeding  3500 i and  an 
imprisonment  not  exceeding  five  years, 
Opium imported,  sold  or  offered  for  sale 
shall be declared  forfeited  to  the  govern 
ment and destroyed.  Severe  penalties  are 
provided for concealment of  or  connivance 
at violations of the act by  the  government 
officials.

To a disinterested observer, it  would  ap 
pear as though several of the representatives 
at Washington were bent on the  destruction 
of some of  the  important  chemical  indus­
tries.  The exclusion  of  opium  would  of 
course  prevent the  manufacture  of  mor 
phine and all the products  of  opium,  and 
even our supplies of laudanum and  paregor­
ic would have to  be  imported.  This  is 
direct attempt to legislate in favor  of  Eng­
land and against our own interests, or it is 
piece of stupidity or ignorance on the part of 
the representative that is a disgrace  to  our 
halls of legislation.  One can  scarcely  con­
ceive of a more ridiculous proposition.  Had 
the  bill been  for  the  suppression  of  the 
traffic in opium prepared for smoking  there 
would be little if any serious objection to it, 
although it is not easy  to  believe  that the 
exclusion of any article  could  be  effected. 
The present duty  on  smoking  opium  is al­
ready well nigh prohibitive, and  this  could 
be increased, though experience  has  taught 
that  the  higher  the  duty  the  larger  the 
amount smuggled into  the  several  ports of 
the country.

What  Does He  Want of the  Stamps?

From the New York Sun.

The following  singular advertisement  ap­

peared in a morning paper yesterday:
n r o   DRUGGISTS  ALL  OVER  THE  COUN- 
X  T R Y I  will pay face value for all propri­
etary stamps [with name of manufacturers, not 
ordinary  revenue  stamps] that you may have 
on your shelves on packages of medicine of per­
fumery, the tax being  no  longer  required by 
law.  With  a  little  moisture  on these stamps 
they can  be  removed  without  injury  to  the 
packages, and in these hard times will fully re­
pay the trouble.  Address,  stating  kinds and 
quantities.
One  druggist,  who  was  asked  what  he 
thought  of  it  said:  “It  is a game of some 
kind.  The advertiser  will  get  correspond­
ence from a lot of druggists who are  on  the 
make.  He is sharp enough to tell  from  the 
letters who will bite at his  hook.”

Another  druggist  said:  “Possibly  the 
man wants to imitate well-known goods, and 
believes that  the  stamp  will  complete  the 
deception.”

Another  said:  “Itls  a  stamp  collector. 
Since  the  law  requiring  such  goods  to be 
stamped  was  repealed  no  more  of  those 
stamps are made.  Some proprietary stamps 
are very beautiful. 
In a  short  time  all  of 
them will be  rare.  A  full  set,  or  evwi  a 
large set, will bring much more than the face 
value.  I have frequently had inquiries from 
private collectors.  That chap  will  make  a 
good  thing.”

The best finish  for 

Try it.

walls is  Boralumine.

A New  Departure  in  Quinine.

Messrs. Powers & Weightmen have issued 
a circular announcing that “during  the  re­
building and  re-appointing  of  our quinine 
manufactory, we have  made  arrangements 
that no break of  importance  shall  occur in 
the production of  our  article,  by  availing 
ourselves of facilities that have been  offered 
us, of making it in Milan, Italy.”  Mr. Alex­
ander Boehringer  arrived  in  this  country, 
on a contemplated trip through the country, 
a day or two after the fire  in  .Philadelphia, 
and at once tendered the use  of one  of the 
factories  in  which  he  is  interested,  and 
Messrs.  Powers  & Weightman  have  made 
arrangements 
to  operate  the  factory  at 
Milan, the largest  quinine  manufactory  in 
the world.  To this end they  have  already 
shipped about 3,000 bales of bark to  Genoa, 
and Dr. John F. Weightman, with his  fami­
ly, departed for Milan, where he  will  sup­
erintend the manufacture of quinine as he has 
heretofore done at Philadelphia,  employing 
the same processes that have produced  such 
satisfactory results here;  and,  although  the 
quinine will be made at Milan, it  will  prac­
tically be the same American  quinine  that 
has  always  been  produced  by  this  firm. 
This  transfer  of  the  manufacture  to  a 
foreign country at first caused some surprise 
in the trade, but there  were  none  but  ac­
knowledged  the  wisdom  of  the  course. 
What the outcome of this move on the  part 
of the Philadelphia firm will be  is  not  cer­
tain, although if it is proved that the  article 
can be manufactured cheaper at Milan  than 
at Philadelphia, it would be folly to  expect 
that the firm will again manufacture quinine 
in this country as extensively as  heretofore. 
Other manufacturers will watch this experi­
ment with interest,  and  some  are  of  the 
opinion that this is the beginning of the end 
of  this industry in the United  States.

Surely this  Is Cheering.

‘It’s going to be an early  spring,”  said  a 
Northern dealer to the  weather  reporter  of 
The Tradesman the other day.

‘Why  so?”
‘Because the winter  was  so  tarnal  cold. 
I have noticed that whenever  the  winter  is 
coldest  that spring  comes  the  soonest  and 
that summer is warmest.”

‘Is that always so?”
‘Yes, a cold winter  means  a  boiling  hot 
summer. 
It never misses.  But then  there 
are  other  signs.  The  birds appeared this 
year two  weeks  earlier  than  they  usually 
come from the  South.  Then  the  frogs  are 
already  croaking,  and  that  is  a  sign  of 
spring.  Not only this, but the buds  on  the 
trees and are larger than I ever saw them in 
March, and the sap in the maple trees began 
to  run some  time  before  it  was  expected.’

“ Worth  the  $1  Over  and  Over
From the Grand Traverse Herald.

Again.

T he  Michigan  Tradesman, of  Grand 
Rapids, has been enlarged to a  quarto,  and 
is one of the best trade journals in the coun­
try. 
It  is  especially  meant  for  western 
Michigan and is intended to circulate among 
merchants, manufacturers and business men 
generally. 
It is but  31  per  year  and  no 
business man in Michigan  should  be  with­
out it.  The weekly  price  lists  are  alone 
worth the dollar over and over again.

A stranger recently used an ingenious and 
roundabout method to “work” a West  Side 
drug  store  for  a  drink.  He  informed 
the  proprietor  that  he  wanted  to  buy 
a lot of  barrels,  and,  being  shown  some 
thirty that were in the cellar, promptly  bar­
gained for the whole lot.  After  being care­
ful to see that they were  marked  with  his 
name and address, he  said  that Lhe  would 
send around for them in a day or two.  Then 
he said that he had a  fine  article  of  cider 
brandy that he would like to  trade  off  for 
the barrels.  Would  the  proprietor  allow 
him to taste a  sample of  the  article  they 
were using so that he could tell how  it com­
pared with his?  The  agreeable  proprietor 
brought a big graduated glass  of  his  own 
brandy, which  the  stranger  gulped  down 
with more eagerness than those  who  critic­
ally sample such a beverage ¡usually  show. 
“Not near so good as  mine,”  was  a  com­
ment.  “I’ll bring around a sample of  mine 
to-morrow, and you can see the  difference.” 
Although several days passed, the drug man 
has not yet seen the difference—neither  the 
stranger.

Some idea of the magnitude  of the  busi­
ness of  raising  sweet-scented  flowers  for 
their perfume alone may  be gathered  from 
the fact that Europe and British India  con­
sume about 150,000 gallons of  handkerchief 
perfumes yearly;  that the  English  revenue 
from eau de  cologne  is  340,000  annually, 
and that the total revenue  from  other per­
fumes is  estimated  at  3200,000  annually. 
There is one great distillery  at  Cannes,  in 
France, which uses yearly 100,000 pounds of 
acacia flowers, 140,000 pounds of rare flower 
leaves, 32,000 pounds of jasimine  blossoms. 
20,000 of  tuberose  blossoms,  and  an  im 
mense quantity of other material.

The  manufacture  of  perfumeries  from 
Florida-grown flowers bids fair to become an 
extensive industry in that State.  One  firm 
at Jacksonville is already at  work. 
It is re­
ported that a gentleman from South  Florida 
has patented a process for the  utilization of 
the bloom of the  mangrove  and  sapodilla. 
and to extract  the sweet fragrance  from the 
cassava plant as well.

“I wouldn’t like to go  into  the  business 
you are in,” remarked a friend to an apothe­
cary.  “And why not?” asked the  knight of 
the mortar and  pestle. 
“For  the  simple 
reason,” said the friend,  “that  your  goods 
are a drug on the market.”

trade  of 

the  Boralumine  Co, 
increasing  very  rapidly  showing  that 
is 
the merits  of  the  article  are  appreciated 
Send for samples and prices.

The 

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PATENT  MEDICINES  AND  PROPRIETARY  ARTI­
Acid, Horsford’s  Phosphates....................  4 00
Acid,  Horsford’s Phosphates.........   ..........8 0o
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 0C
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 (Gonorrhoea)lO 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 75
8 00
Butter Color,  W. R. & Co............... 
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.........  135
Cholagogue, Osgoods......................................12 50
Compound, Lydia Pinkham’s.......................... 8 00
Conquerer, Greene’s Ague.............................  7 50
Conquerer, Green’s  Ague..............................  3 75
Cordial, Fosgate’s Anodyne...........................   2 75
Cordial,  Godfrey’s......................................  6C
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’s Catarrh.................. .—   3 50
Cuticura........................................................... 4 20

 

 

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CAULFIELD
Wholesale 
Grocer

85,87  and  89  Canal  Street

-HEADQUARTERS  FOR-

Meat, Jellies, BncMeat 
Flour, M ai Syrup, 
Priai  Peate;  Apples,

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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...........................   3 50
Drops, Peerless Toothache........................   150
Drops, Steketee’s Neuralgia...........................   3 75
Dyes,  Diamond........................................... 
75
Dyes, Excelsior...........................................  65
Dyes, Handy Package................................  85
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  Oil....................  1 75
Emulsion, Scott’s, of Cod Liver Oil...........  7 50
Expectorant, Jaynes’.......................................  7 6fi
Extract,  H. P. & Co.’s of Ginger......................3 30
Extract, H. P. &. Co.’s of  Ginger..................   1 75
Extract,  Pond’s............................................ 3 75
Extract, Pond’s..........................................   7 50
Extract,  Pond’s...........................................15 00
Extract, Shaker’s, or Roots.......................   4 80
Extract, Tarrant’s, of C. and C..................  8 00
Ely Paper,  Shoo-Fly...................................  20
Fly Pads,  Briggs’.......................................   60
Food, Mellin’s  In fan t................................   4 00
Food,  Mellin’s Infant..................................  6 50
Food, Nestle’s....................................................4 50
Food,  Ridge’s, No.  1....................................2 52
Food,  Ridge’s,  No.  2....................................4 68
Food,  Ridge’s,  No. 3..................................  9 00
Food,  Ridge’s,  No. 4.................................. 12 60
Food, Victor’s Baby...................................   1 75
Food, Victor’s Baby...................................   7 00
Friend, Pengelly’s  Woman’s..........................  7 50
Ginger,  F. Brown’s Jamaica.....................   3
Hair Dye, Hill’s [black or  brown].................  3 75
Hair Vigor, Ayer s..........................................   6 75
Honey, Hale’s, Horehound and  Tar...........3 71
Hydroleine......................................................   8 25
Hypophosphites, Winchester’s Syrup  of..  7 1
Invigorator, Sanford’s Liver............ 7 35@7 90
Iodia, Battle &  Co.’s.......................................   8 00
Kathairon, Lyon’s..........................................   3 75
| Kidneywort,  Dry..................... 
8 2o
Kidney wort, Liquid....................................   8
Lactopepetine, N. Y. Phar. Co.,  1 oz.........   8 00
Liniment, Centaur,  Horse and  Family....  3 60
Liniment, Herrick’s  German....................  3.7E
Liniment, Johnson’s Anodyne..................   2 80
Liniment, Kennedy’s R. and  N.....................   3 75
Liniment, Kennedy’s  Scattering..................   7 50
Liniment, Mexican Mustang....................... 1  80
Liniment, Mexican Mustang.......................3 60
Nervine, Richmond’s Good  Samaritan— 12 00
Nervine, Warner’s  Safe.............................  3 75
Nervine, Warner’s Safe.............................  7 00
Oil, Hamlin’s Wizard...................................  3 50
Oil, Hamlin’s Wizard.................................   7 00
Oil, Haarlem  [Medicamentum].................  40
Oil, Leeson’s  Tiger.........................................  1 75
Oil, Leeson’s Tiger......................................  3 50
Oil, Leeson’s Tiger......................................  *  00
Oil, Mercnant’s Gargling, fam.......................  1 80
Oil, Merchant’s Gargling,  horse....................  1 80
Oil, Merchant’s Gargling, horse..................  3 60
Oil, Merchant’s Gargling............................   7 20
Oil, St. Jocob’s.............................................  3 75
Oil, Thomas’  Electric.........*.............. .—   » 75
Ointment,  Kennedy’s  Healing...........’....  3 75
Ointment, Kennedy’s Salt Rheum.............3  <o
Ointment, Kennedy’s  Scrofula..................  7 50
Ointment, Trask’s Magnetic.......................   1 75
Ointment, Trask’s Magnetic.......................   2 75
Ointment, Williams’ Indian Pile................  6 00
Pain-Killer, Perry Davis,........................... 1 80
Pain-Killer, Perry Davis.............................   3 60
Pain-Killer, Perry  Davis............................  7 20
Pectoral, Ayer’s Cherry..............................7 75
Pellets, Pierce’s Purgative.................. , • • •  l 5JJ
Pepsin, H. P. & Co.’s, Sacchar’d, ozs.  f  oz  30
Pepsin, H. P. &  Co.’s.......................• • •¥ ® ? 80
Pills, Ayers....................................... ¥   doz 4
Pills, Carter’s Iron..................... ................   3 75
Pills, Carter’s Little Liver..........................   1 50
Pills, Carter’s Nerve...................................   ¿50
Pills, Harter’s  Ague...................................   » 2o
Pills, Harter’s Liver....................................  ¿35
Pills,  Herrick’s...........................................  4 50
Pills,  Jaynes’ Sanative............................. ¿.65
Kprmntt’s Mandrake.........................  1 25
Pills, Kermott’s Mandrake
Pills,  McLane’s..........................................   J 45
Pills, Rinehart’s Liver...............................  1 40
Pills,  Shallenberger’s Fever and Ague...  7 50
Pills, Warner’s  Safe...................................  4 40
Pills, Wright’s Sugar-Coated.....................   1 50
Pilules,  Moore’s.........................................  3 75
Plaster, Allcock’s.......................................4 15
Plaster, Benson’s Capacine.......................  1 75
Plaster, Collin’s Voltaic...............................4 85
Plaster, Hamburg IKoenig’s]....................  4  75
Plaster, Herrick’s Kid................................  4 40
Plaster, Herrick’s Preforated....................  1 ¿0
Plaster, Herrick’s Red Pepper..................   110
Powders, Harvell’s Condition....................  1 50
Powders, Herrick’s  Condition.................... 3 00
Powders, Sheridan Condition....................  1 50
Powders, Sloan’s Condition.......................  1 00
Prairie-Week. Kennedy’s...........................   7 50
Prescription, King’s...................................  7 50
Prescription, Pierce’s Favorite.................  7 50
Regulator, Simmons’ Liver [Zeilens[........7 50
Relief, Radway’s Ready...............................3 75
Remedy, Hunt’s  Kidney............................10 00
Remedy, Kennedy’s Favorite....................  8 00
Remedy, Sages............................................  3 50
Remover, German Corn...............   ...........1 50
Renewal, Hall’s  Hair................................... 6 75
Resolvent,  Cuticura...................................  8 35
Resolvent,  Radway’s.................................   ° 25
Rough  on Rats, Wells................................  4 00
Rough on Rats,  Wells..............................    ¿50
Salicylica, Washburn’s..............................   7 00
Salve, Bucklen’s Arnica.............................  4 75
Salve, Henry’s Carbolic.............................  4 75
Salve, Page’s Climax.................................   1 85
Salve, Peleg White Sticking.......................  75
Salve, Petit’s Eye........................................J 50
Sarsaparilla,  Ayer’s..............• • • • • - —  ■ • • •  7 7»
Sarsaparilla, Guyott’s Yellow Dock and...  7 75
Sarsaprrilla,  Hood’s...................................  8 00
Sarsaparilla, Johnston’s............................  7 0«
Smartweek, Pierce’s Extract  of............... 3 75
Snuff, Marshall’s  Catarrh..........................  4  75
Soap, Cuticura.................'•.........................4 85
Soap, Glenn’s Sulphur....................................   4 75
Soap, Packer’s Tar......................................  1 75
Sozodont, Van Buskirk’s................................  6 00
Specific, Harter’s Ague.....................................5 25
Specific,  Swift’s .............................................   8 W
Specific,  Swift’s ..............................................14 00
Sure Shot, Johnston’s........................ .—   1 50
Syrup, Boschee’s German..............................   5 25
Syrup, Boschee’s German,  samples.........   85
Syrup, Bull’s  Baby........................................... 4 85
Syrup, Bull’s Cough...................................  185
Syrup, Bull’s Cough......................................... 3 70
Sprup, Bull’s Cough........................................  7 40
Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood........3 50
Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood........7 00
Syrup, Fellows of Hypophospites, Comp. .11 50
Sprup,Marshall’s  Lung............. 
1 85
 
3 70
Syrup, Marshall’s Lung................... 

 
 

The following  sugar  quotations  shows  a 
decline since last issue.  The indications are 
that  thq  bottom  has  been  reached.'  We 
think it is a safe time to lay in a supply.

 

 

S U G A R S .
 

Cut Loaf Cubes................ 
.8%
Powdered  Standard................................. 8%
Granulated  Standard................................ 1%
Standard Confectioners’  A ..................... 7-31
Standard  A......................................7-19@7K
Extra White C......................................   .8%
Extra Bright C..................................8%@8%
Extra, C.............................................8%@8}4
Yellow C...........................................5%@6

CANNED  GOODS

We continue the

CLOSING OUT  SALE
Of our present stock of canned goods.  Blank 
quotations indicate the line all sold.

JOB  BACON’S  TOMATOES

75

Have the Highest  Endorsement of  the  best 
dealers in the country.
3 ib Job Bacon’s  Tomatoes, Standard. .1  05
3 lb Smith & Wicks’ Tomatoes.............
2 ft> Sweet  Com, Erie............................1  15
2 ft) Sweet  Com, Mitchell’s...................
2 ft) Sweet  Com.....................................   75
2 ft) Com, F. & D.’s................................
2 ft) Peas, Extra  Early...................... 
2 ft) Peas, Platts’ Erie............................
2 ft) Peas, Equity Brand,  Extra............1  25
2 ft) Peas, Ex. F. Y. Canning  Co.......... 1  20
2 ft) Lima  Beans, Standard......... .........  85
2 ft) Lima  Beans, Extra........................1'00
2 lb 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 lb Erie Pie  Peaches........................... 1  18
2 lb Blackberries,  Madison.....................1 00
2 ft) Blueberries, Detroit.............................. 1 25
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
1  ft) Salmon, Standard.................1  45@1  55
1 ft) Lobsters, Standard..........................1  75

Coffees  are  lc  lower.  The  Coffee  Ex­
change speculators of the East are sick.  Al­
ready the news of a few of  the  smaller  fry 
show signs of  coming  to  grief.  But  there 
are still enough stiff leaders at  the  head of 
the comer to keep the  bottom  from  falling 
out, as was the case  in  82—83.  Not  of  a
speculative  disposition,  we  are  out,  and 
therefore able to give our trade  the full ben­
efit of the  drop.  Syrups  are  sympathizing 
with sugars.  Rice unchanged.  Raisins and 
figs are higher, currants a little lower,—good 
grades are difficult to obtain.  Prunes strong 
and Kc higher.  They are cheaper and  bet­
ter than dried  apples.  Dried  blackberries, 
higher.  Have  a  few  dried  whortleberries 
left at 14c.

Readers  of  The  Tradesman  will  find 
it  to their interest to  keep  a  business  eye 
on this column headed  STANDARD  QUO­
TATIONS.  Mail orders solicited and  care­
ful attention given them.  Special quotations 
mailed on a general line  of  groceries  when 
requested.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for 
quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts 
write them for quotations:
ACIDS.

9
30

Acetic,  No. 8..........................$  fi>
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........
Carl’f lie.........................................
Citric.............................................
Muriatic 18 deg.............................  3  @
Nitric 36 deg.................................   11  @
Oxalic............................................  14&®
Sulphuric 66 deg...........................   3  @
Tartaric  powdered.......................
Benzoic,  English.................. $  oz
Benzoic,  German..........................  12  @
Tannic...........................................  15  @
Carbonate.............................. $  B>  17  ®
Muriate (Powd. 32c).......................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f...................... 
  6  @
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............ .............  7  @

AMMONIA.

BALSAMS.

BARKS.

Copaiba
Fir........
Peru___
Tolu___
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)..........
Cinchona,  yellow........................
Elm,  select....................................
Elm, ground, pure........................
Elm, powdered,  pure....................  ^  .
Sassafras, of root..........................
Wild Cherry, select.......................
Bayberry  powdered.....................
Hemlock powdered.......................
W ahoo..........................................
Soap  ground.................................
Cubeb, prime (Powd $1 20)...........
Juniper.........................................   8  @
Prickly Ash........................... .......1 GO  @1

BERRIES.

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 fi> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes).
Logwood, is (25 3) boxes)..............
..............
Lgowood, Vis 
do 
Logwood, V£s 
do 
..............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
..............
Fluid,Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

1035
35
67
5
12
15
4
48
20
15
17

2015
78
&  50 
40
2  00 60
13
18
15
13
15
10
12
2018
30
12
@1 00 @  7
@1  11
27 
37 Vi 
9 
12
13 
15
14

Arnica............................................  10  ®
Chamomile,  Roman.....................
Chamomile,  German....................

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes.......................... 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).........  
Ammoniac..................................... 
Arabic, extra  select.....................
Arabic, powdered  select..............
Arabic, 1st picked........................
Arabic,2d  picked..........................
Arabic,i:3d picked..........................
Arabic, sifted sorts.......................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin.........................................
Camphor................ 
Catechu, is (Vi 14c, Ms 16c)...........
Euphorbium powdered................. 
Galbanum strained
Gamboge.......................................  
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c)............
Kino [Powdered, 30c]....................
Mastic 
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)..............
Shellac, Campbell’s.......................
Shellac,  English...........................
Shellac, native..............................
Shellac bleached...........................
Tragacanth...................................  30
HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

60®
_ _
28®

75 
18 
50 
30 
60 
60 
55 
45 
40 
35 
30 
55®60 
■   25 
23®
13 
40 
35®
80
90®1 00
35 
20 
1  10 40 
4 00 
40 33 
28 
35
@1  10

..........

 

 

IRON.

LEAVES.

Hoarhound.................................................. 25
Lobelia......... ................................................25
Peppermint...................................................25
Rue................................. 
40
Spearmint....................................................
Sweet Majoram............................................35
Tanzy............................................................25
Thyme.......................................................... 30
Wormwood.................................................. 25
6 40 
Citrate and  Quinine.....................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
20
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................
Citrate..........................................
Phosphate....................................
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...............   12
Sage, Italian, bulk (V4s & Ms, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural....................  18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered..........................
Senna tinnivelli.............................
Uva  Ursi.......................................
Belledonna.....................................
Foxglove........................................
Henbane.......................................   *
Rose, red........................................
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...................1 75
Whisky, other brands....................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom.................................1 35
Gin,  Holland...................... 
2 00
Brandy............................................... 1 75
Catawba  Wines..................................1 25
Port Wines......................................... 1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution....
Calcined.........................................

®2 25 
@2 00 
@1 50 
©1 75 
®3 50 
@6 50 
@2 00 
®2 50
23 
37 
2 25 
70

11
®
6
©  20 30 
22 
16 
10 35 
30 
35 
2 35

MAGNESIA.

LIQUORS.

 

OILS.

do 
do 

Almond, sweet..............................   45  @
Amber, rectified...........................
Anise..............................................
Bay $1  oz........................................
Bergamont....................................
Croton............................................
Cajeput.........................................
Cassia............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)......
Citronella.....................................
Cloves......................................y-
Cubebs, P. &  W.............................
Erigeron.......................................
Fireweed........................................
Geranium $  oz.............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
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 36.50)......
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 0090 
1 85
3 00 
80
1 25 
50
2  002 85 
9 75
65 
5 00 
8  00 60
3 75 
@  12
2 25
4 50 
1 00 
2 50
1 90 
4 00 
600
®1  202 50 
®  67
9 75

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

ROOTS.

Alkanet.........................................
Althea, cut.....................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in Ms and Ms—
Blood (Powd 18c)...........................
Calamus,  peeled...........................
CalamuB, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered.................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.......................
Ginger, African (Powd 16o)...........  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c).................
Hellebore, white, powdered.........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered..................
Jalap, powdered...........................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12M).........
Licorice, extra select.-..................
Pink,trqe.........  — ...................  ^
Rhei, from select to  choioe..........1 00
Rhei, powderedE. I ....................... HO
Rhei, choioe cut  cubes.................
Rhei, choice cut fingers...............
Serpentaria.................................
Seneka........................ .................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras...............

15 
35 
20 
1 40 
30

®

25 
27
17 
45 
12
18 
38 
23
13
14 
20 
35 
20
110 
37M 
12
15 
35
®1 50 
®1 20 
2 00 
2 25 
60 
65 
40

Sarsaparilla, Mexican..................
Squills, white (Powd 35c).............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c).......
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)__

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20e)..............
Bird, mixed in ft packages...........  5  ®
Canary,  Smyrna...........................   4M®
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11
Cardamon,  Aleppee.....................
Cardamon, Malabar............'.........
Celery............ ...............................
Coriander, oest English...............
Fennel..........................................
Flax, clean...............................

13 6 
5 
12 
2 20 
2 50 
20 12 
15
334® 4
4  @ 4Vi
8  @ 9
554® 6
8
1 00
7!4@ 8
14

Mustard, white; Black  10c). 
Quince...............................
Worm,  Levant..............................

3

7M@

do 
do 

do 
MISCELLANEUS.

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

@2 50 
2 90 
1  10 
85 
65 
75 
1 40
2 35
1 50 
50 
27 
12 
30 
50
2 75 
2 25
3M4 
32
5
7 
40
2 25 
9 75 
2 30 
45 
9 
9 
10 
10 
1113 
2 75
18 
20 18 
4 00
14 
70 
19
5 
128 2
1 60 
60 
1 60 
1 7§
1 90 
1 75 
©1 20 
®  65 
®  65 
@  22 
30 
45 2 
65
®  40
15 
50 
24 
23 
12
1 20 
50 
45 
1 10 8
2®  3 
50 
69 
14 
35 
90 
@  70

SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage......2 25
......
do 
Nassau 
do 
.......
Velvet Extra do 
do 
......
ExtraYellow do 
do 
do 
Grass 
......
do 
Hard head, for slate use...............
Yellow Reef, 
...............
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 fl> rolls..........................
Blue Soluble............ .....................
Bay  Rum, imported, best............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Alum......................................  $  B>
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c).............. 
Annatto, pfime.............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  4Vi@
Arsenic, white, powdered............ 
6  @
Balm Gilead Buds........................
Beans,’Tonka................................
Beans, Vanilla.............................. 7 00
Bismuth, sub  nitrate....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).....................
Blue Vitriol...................................
Boralumine, White  b u lk ]...........
5 lbs I ...........
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  [40 ff ..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fl>s. J ...........
Borax, refined (Powd 15c)............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African..............
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ...
Carmine, No. 40.............................
Cassia Buds........................ i ........
Calomel.  American.....................
Castor  Oil...................................S  17Vi@
Chalk, prepared drop....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red fingers........................
Chalk, white lump........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s..................
Colocynth  apples..........................
Chloral hydrate, German crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform...................................1 15
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*...........  60
Cinchonidia, other brands..............  60
Cloves (Powd 28c)...........................   20
Cochineal......................................
Cocoa  Butter................................
Copperas (by bbl lc).....................
Corrosive Sublimate.....................
Corks, X and XX-35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered......  38
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 B> box..
Creasote............ ........................
Cudbear, prime.............................
Cuttle Fish Bone...........................
Dextrine.......................................
Dover’s  Powders..........................
Dragon’s Blood Mass....................
Ergot  powdered__’.....................
Ether Squibb’s..............................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s............
Epsom Salts...................................  2!
Ergot, fresh...................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S. P ..............
Flake white...................................
Grains  Paradise...........................
Gelatine, Cooper’s........................
Gelatine, French  ..........................  45
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
® 17 
Glue,  cabinet................................  12
28 
Glue, white.....................................  17
26 
Glycerine, pure.............................  23  @
40 
Hops  Ms and Ms........................... 
25®
35 
Iodoform ip oz..............................
Indigo..............................................  85
@ 1  00 @  34 
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32
Iodine,  resublimed........;.............
2 30 
Isinglass,  American.....................
1 50 
9 
Japonica........................................
15 
Lead, acetate.................................
9
Lime, chloride, (Ms 2s 10c & Ms 11c)
Lupuline.......................................
1  00 35 
Lycopodium.................................
60
Mace
Madder, best  Dutch.....................   12M©  13
Manna, S.  F ................................... 
1 25
50
Mercury......................................... 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........^  oz  3 50@3 75
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........ 
40
Moss, Iceland..........................$  t> 
10
Moss,  Irish....................................  
12
30
Mustard,  English.......................... 
18
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 lb  cans........ 
Nutgalls......................................... 
20
Nutmegs, No. 1..............................  
75
10
Nux  Vomica.................................  
Ointment, Mercurial, Md.............. 
40
Pepper, Black  Berry.................... 
18
Pepsin............................................ 
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy..................  
7
Quassia  .........................................  6  @  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W...........ft oz  1 40@I 45
........1 40 ®1 45 
Quinine, other brands........
28 
Seidlitz  Mixture...........................
1 50 
Strychnia, cryst.............................
;  82 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.....................   79
80 
Red Precipitate..................... $  ft
40
Saffron, American.  .....................
Sal  Glauber........................*..........
Sal Nitre, large cryst....................
109
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst..............
33
Sal Rochelle...................................
2
Sal Soda.................................. 
i.  2M 
2 50 
Salicin............................................
6 75 
Santonin.......................................
38
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.........
4 
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]....................
25
Spermaceti....................................
5 
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s 
14 
Soap, White Castile.......................
17
.......................
Soap, Green  do 
9 
Soap, Mottled do 
.......................
Soap, 
do  do 
.......................
11 14 
Soap, Mazzini................................
28 
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................  26 @
32 
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................  28 @
30 
Sugar Milk powdered....................
4 
Sulphur, flour................................  3M@
3 
Sulphur, roll.................................
65 
Tartar Emetic................................
2 70 
Tar, N. C. Pine, M gal. cans  $  doz
1 40 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.........
85 
Tar, 
pints in tin ............
25 
Turpentine,  Venice...............<|8 ft
60
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand..........
»  8
Zinc,  Sulphate...........................

  4M@

do 
do 

 

OILS.

Capitol  Cylinder..............................................75
Model  Cylinder.,.............................................60
Shields  Cylinder..............................................50
Eldorado Engine..............................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................3o
Challenge Machinery...................................... 25
Backus Fine Engine....................................   .30
Black Diamond Machinery............................. 30
Castorine..........................................................66
Paraffine, 25  deg..............................................22
..1 40
Sperm, '
Gal
80
80
70
60
63
95
50

Bbl
75
78
65
56
59
90
41

Linseed, ; 
Linseed,

VARNISHES.

PAINTS.

..1 10©1 20
..1 60@1 70
..2 76@3 00
Coach  Body............................
...1 00@1 10
No. 1 Turp Furniture..............
..1 55®1 60
Extra Turp  Damar............................1 55@1 60
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp
Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2*4® 3 
2%® 3 
13®16 
55®57 
16@17 
6)4 6M 
@70 
@90 
110 
140

Bbl
Red Venetian..................... . 
134
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........   134
Putty, commercial.................  2)4
Putty, strictly pure.................  2Vi
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...

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A   M ERCA N TILE  JOU RN AL, PU B L ISH ED  EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE &  BRO.,  Proprietors.

OFFICE IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
lEntcred  at  the  Postoffice  at Grand Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  2,  1884.

BU SIN ESS  LAW.

Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions  in  Courts 

of Last  Resort.

Title Transferred.

The Supreme Court  of  Nebraska,  in  the 
case of Kuhns vs.  Banks, decided  recently, 
held that where a note payable to order  was 
indorsed by the payee, and with a  mortgage 
securing it delivered  to  indorsee,  that  the 
title to  the  mortgage  was  thereby  transfer­
red.

Partnership Funds.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire:  Real 
estate purchased with partnership funds  for 
the use of the partnership, and  used  in  the 
partnership business, is, in equity,  regarded 
as assets of the partnership, and will  be  ap­
plied to the  liquidation  of  partnership  in 
preference to individual liabilities.

Not a  Sale.

The transfer from one  person  to  another 
of moveable property on [condition  that  the 
latter will sell it, pay himself out of the pro­
ceeds what the former owes  him,  and  dis­
tribute  the  remainder to  certain  named 
persons, does not constitute a sale,  and  the 
transferee does not thereby become the own­
er of  the  property,  but a bailee or trustee, 
and the seizure of the property under execu­
tion by a judgment creditor of the transferor 
is lawful.—Supreme Court of  Louisiana.

Stock Certificate—Right to  Vote.

A  transfer  of  stock  not  entered on  the* 
books of the company has  no  validity  out­
side  of  the  parties to such a transfer.  A 
transfer of stock,  until  entered  upon  the 
books of the company, confers on the  trans­
feree, as between himself and the  company, 
no right beyond that of having such transfer 
properly entered.  Until that is done, or de­
manded to be done,  the  person  in  whose 
name  the  stock  is entered on the books of 
the company, is, as between himself and the 
company, the owner to all intents  and  pur­
poses, and  particularly  for  the purposes  of 
an election.—Supreme  Court  of  California.

Fraud of Agent—Liability of Principal.
When an agent,  acting  within  the  scope 
of his authority,  commits a  fraud, 
the  fact 
that his principal is  ignorant  of  the  fraud, 
did  not  receive  any  profit therefrom and 
never ratified it, does not  relieve  him  from 
liability for the fraud.  So held the Supreme 
Court Commission of Ohio, in the  appeal  of 
Wapple vs. Cincinnati, Hamilton  &  Dayton 
Railway, it appearing that a railroad  agent, 
by  adding  to  the weight of goods, had  de­
frauded the shipper of  -$307.80,  for  which 
fraud  judgment  was  entered  against  him, 
but no part of it was  paid.  An  action  was 
then brought against the  railroad  company 
to recover the sum so fraudulenty  taken  by 
its  agent  while  acting  within the scope of 
his agency.  The  company  made  three  de­
fenses:  1.  That the  fraud  had  not  been 
committed within four years,  and  therefore 
the  action was barred.  2.  That there  was 
a judgment in full  force  against  the  agent 
for the sum claimed.  3.  That the company 
were entirely ignorant of the fraud  and  had 
nevsr received any of the excessive charges,

Partnership Libel.

One of a firm of dealers  in  furniture  and 
draperies put  upon  a  piece  of  furniture 
placed  on  the  pavement,  “Taken  back 
from  A. B., who could not pay for  it;  to  be 
sold at a bargain.”  In a suit for  libel  upon 
this act, two questions were decided  against 
the  defendants, 
the  firm:  1.  That  the 
court could  determine  whether  or  not  the 
placard was a libel.  2.  That every member 
of the firm was liable, though only  one  put 
up  the  libelous  matter,  and  without  the 
knowledge,  direction  or  consent  of  the 
others. 
In this case, Woodling vs. Knicker­
bocker, the Supreme Court of Minnesota, on 
appeal, reversed the court below.  The Chief 
Justice, Gillfillian,  in  the  opinion,  said,  1. 
What meaning, whether injurious  or not in­
jurious to the plaintiff, these  words  convey 
to ordinary men who  read  them  without  a 
knowledge  of the transaction to which  they 
referred, was for the jury  to  determine,  in 
view of the circumstances under which  they 
are  exposed  to  the  public  perusal,  and 
whether they are libelous  or  not,  ought  to 
have  been  for  the jury to say.  2.  A per­
son  can not be held liable for  a  libel  pub­
lished by another unless  he  has  authorized 
him to  make  the  publication.  There  is 
nothing in the nature of the business of this 
in  furniture  and 
firm—that  of  dealing 
draperies—from  which  authoriiy 
to  one 
partner, or to a servant, to gratuitously pub­
lish a libel can be implied.  The case  is dif­
ferent from that of a partnership whose bus­
iness is publishing or selling either books or 
newspapers, where each partner is supposed 
to have authority to publish or  sell,  and  to 
determine what shall be  published  or  sold, 
and also from that of  the  necessary  corres­
pondence of the firm, where each  partner  is 
presumed to be authorized to conduct  it and 
to determine on its substance and terms.

It is said that the reason why Bismarck ob­
jects to the American hog is that he  doesn’t 
propose to have a rival while he lives.

Safe  Limitations of Credits.

The whole system of trade, in all commer­
cial countries, is so  largely  based  on  bor­
rowed capital,  that,  without  an  extended 
system of credits, or, in other words, without 
the existence of that feeling of  mutual  con­
fidence which is necessarily the  basis  of  all 
credits—it could not be sustained for a  day; 
and,  indeed, it is doubtful*  if  it  could  be 
carried on at all.  With the  gigantic  mone­
tary transactions common to the daily  busi­
ness of our times, it has naturally  followed 
that credits have been in many cases extend­
ed far beyond the  limits  of  prudence  and 
safety, with  the inevitable result of disaster.
It would be difficult if  not  impossible,  to 
lay down a hard and fast rule to govern  the 
proper proportion of credit to capital  in  all 
lines of trade;  yet that there should be such 
a recognized proportion is clear enough.  No 
doubt  the  safe  limit  of  indebtedness  as 
against working capital  might  and  should 
vary widely in the different branches of mer­
cantile business,  for  the  sufficient  reason 
that certain classes of  goods  are  far  more 
readily handled, and therefore bring quicker 
returns than others;  but  there  can be  no 
question of there being a  limit  of  ratio be 
tween capital and credit which cannot be ex­
ceeded without danger of serious loss.  Just 
what this ratio should be is  a  problem  not 
easy of solution. 
It is often said that every 
merchant  must judge for himself  as  to  the 
amount of liabilities which his business may 
safely assume, but  experience  teaches  that 
this  is »very  apt  to be an unsafe reliance, 
The sharp competion now  met  with  in  al 
most every trade, frequently leads merchants 
to exceed the bounds of prudence in order to 
outdo their rivals in the same line,  with  the 
not uncommon result of  being  overstocked, 
having their means  locked  up,  and,  after 
struggling  to  carry  their  load  for  a time, 
finding themselves compelled to compromise.
In discussing this subject recently  a  lead­
ing bank president placed the safe indebted­
ness of a firm at twice their capital.  On the 
other hand a highly successful merchant  de­
clared that his business could  safely be  ex­
tended, by  vigilant  management,  until  the 
liabilities  are  three  times as much as  the 
capital.  Others expressed  more  conserva­
tive opinions, several deeming it perilous  to 
permit  the  liabilities  of  a  firm to exceed 
their capital, while representatives of  other 
and less  staple  lines [ thought  they  could 
safely  carry  stocks  worth  three times  the 
amount of their capital, because  they  could 
turn their money so  quickly.

From these conflicting  opinions  the  only 
conclusion to be drawn  is  that,  while  con­
ditions may,  and doubtless do,  vary  widely 
in different branches of  trade,  conservative 
merchants  must, 
if  they would be secure, 
draw a line beyond which they will  not  ex­
tend credits, basing their rule  on  what,  in 
their line of business,  seems  a  proper  and 
safe proportion between capital invested and 
the credit sought.

In moments of peril there is  nothing  like 
presence of mind,  unless  it  is  absence  of 
body.  One moonlight night old Dr.  Bazem- 
bee was returning from a patient, near  Mis­
sion Bay, when he discovered that his  steps 
were being dogged by a ruffian, evidently in­
tent on robbery.  They  were  in  a  lonely 
part of the town, near Townsend  street  de­
pot, when the doctor, after buttoning up  his 
coat to his chin,  turned  up  his  collar  and 
pulling his hair over his eyes, suddenly turn­
ed back, and, walking  up  to  his  pursuer, 
said:  “Please give me a dime to get  a  cup 
of coffee, sir.  1 don’t want to buy  whisky; 
indeed I don’t. 
I’ve just walked  up  from 
San—”  “Great  King!”  growled  the  sand- 
clubber, with intense disgust;  “tothink I ’ve 
been piping over a cussed old pauper for over 
a mile!”  and he walked off, swearing  like  a 
pirate in the last act.—San Francisco Post.

New Corporations Authorized.

Aspinwall  Manufacturing  Co.,  Three 

Rivers;  capital  $1,000,000.

Roberts  Duplex  Planing  Machine  Tool 

Co., Detroit;  capital $10,000.

W. A. Hammond Paper Co., Jackson; cap­

ital $24,000.

Woodenware Manufacturing Co., Big Rap­

ids;  capital $10,000.

son ;  capital $10,000.

Jackson Electric Light & Power Co., Jack- 

Eaton Rapids Baking Co.,  Eaton  Rapids; 

capital $10,000.

$30,000.

ital $12,000.

capital $15,000.

Babbit Sandstone  Co.,  Ypsilanti;  capital 

Hargrave Shingle Mill Co., Bay City; cap­

Salem  Co-operative  Association,  Salem; 

j 

to  itself 

The  following  formula,  showing  what 
sum to add to the cost price of an  article  in 
order to obtain a certain  percentage upon or 
out of the selling price will be  found useful 
for reference:
The addition of i of the cost price j will produce 
One-whole 
1  50 per cent. 
One-half 
One-third 
One-fourth 
One-fifth 
One-sixth 
One-seventh 
One-eighth 
One-ninth 
One-tenth 
One-eleventh 
One-twelfth 
One-thirteenth 
One-fourteenth 
One-fifteenth 
One-sixteenth 
One-seventeenth 
One-eighteenth 
One-nineteenth

In spite of the advantages  offered by  the 
cash  method, the great  bulk  of  merchants 
will adhere to  the credit system,  and  they 
should bend all their energies to make their 
losses as small as  possible.—S t  Louis Gro­
cer.

i  W“ AWAI

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups  is  Always  Complete.

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

T o b a o o o s ,   V i n e g a r s   a n d .   S p i c e
OIJR  MOTTO:  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MANOAND  MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED .
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THAN  THE  BRANDS  OF  OTHER  MAKERS.

“CLIMAX,” w ith  Bed  Tin Tag, is their Best  Brand.

Bill

M. B. Churdi “BBdBtts” Co,
Manufacturer of I “Bedette.”

31  HURON  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

m m m

PATENTED JUNE 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 Bedette 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 the 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 additionlof anything ;tfor cold 
weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing.  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 6K ft. long, $3.50;  30 in wide, by 6X  ft.  long,  $3.00;  27  in. 
wide, by 4K 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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We  manufacture all our stock
L /d illU y   and  can  always  give  you  the 
best goods.
Oranges
We buy in  large lots from 
first hands and  ship  only in 
full car lots.  We handle 20,- 
OOO boxes of Oranges and 
Lemons 
Lemons in a season and our 
facilities for buying and  han­
dling are unsurpassed.
Nuts
We  carry  a heavy stock  of Bra­
zils,  Almonds,  Filberts,  W alnuts, 
Pecans  and  Cocoa  Nuts, and  will 
sell against any m arket. 
P / a o n n + a   We lately bought eight car 
r c c l l l l l u O   loads  of the  best  re-cleaned 
and  hand-picked  Tennessee
and  Virginia  Nuts,  and  are 
prepared  to  fill  the  largest 
orders. 

PUTNAM & BROOKS

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FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

r MUSSULMAN

WHOLESALE  GROCERS

44,  46  and  48  South  Division  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

-----WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-----

F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY.

-WHOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN-

B utter,  C heese,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  IONIA  STREET,

O U A X D   R A P I D S .  

-   M I C H I G A N .

33.  KNOWLSON,

----- WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN-----

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

LZME, H&ZE,  COAX, and WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  C H EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

Office—7  Canal  Street.  Sweet’s  Hotel  Block.  Yards—Goodrich  Street,  Near  Michigan

Central  Freight  House.

SPR IN G   <& COMPACT? «

-W HOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

FANCY -A.3ST3D

STAPLE DRY  GOODS

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

»

Oil-.  CLOTHS,

E T C . ,   E T O ,

6   a n d   8   M o n r o e   S t r e e t ,

Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
THE  DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure 

Nor Satisfaction.

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SEN SES.

WHENEVER  IT  DISCOVERS  AN  ARTICLE  THAT  COMM ENDS  ITSELF 

THE  PUBLIC  IS  NOT  SLOW TO LEARN  THIS  FACT

LQRILLARD’S PLUG TOBACCOS

--------THE  REMARKABLE  SALE  OF--------

Is  Ample  Evidence of This.  This  Concern will Sell over  20,000,000 Pounds  of their

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;  or  About 

Ono-Fomt of All tie Ping Tobacco M in i s  Country! 

AND AS THERE ARE BETWEEN 800 AND 900  OTHER  FACTORIES  IN 

THE U. S., IT FOLLOWS THAT THEIR GOODS MUST GIVE

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J. J. VAN LEUVEN,
M i l l i n e r y

WHOLESALE

AND-

F A W O T   G O O D S

TJBL CES,

Real  Laces  a  Specialty.

Gloves, Corsets, Ribbons, Pans, Hand Bags, 

Pocket Books,  Bnchings,  Y am s, 

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets, 

Embroidery  Materials,  Plumes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.
STAMPING PATTERNS

70 MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

TIME_TABIES.

DEPART.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express........................................   6:05 am
♦Day Express...................................... 13:30 p m
♦New York Fast Line..........................  6:00 p in
♦Atlantic Express..................................9:30 p m
♦Pacific  Express..........................................6:45 am
♦Local  Passenger................................ 11:20 a m
♦Mail....................................................  3:55 p m
♦Grand Rapids  Express.............................10:35 pm

ARRIVE.

♦Daily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 13:35 a. m., 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  Psrlor  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.

GOING WEST.

GOING EAST.Arrives.
♦Steamboat Express.........
♦Through  Mail...................10:10 a m
♦Evening  Express..................... 3:20 pm
♦Atlantic Express..............  9:45 pm
♦Mixed, with coach...........
♦Morning Express.............13:40 p m
♦Through  Mail.........................   4:45 pm
♦Steamboat Express.........10:30 p m
♦Mixed............................... _
♦NightExpress..................   o:10am

Leaves. 
6:15 a m 
10:30 a m 
3:35 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:00 a m
13:55 p m 
4:55 p m
8:00 a m 
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 
AV est.Limited  Express  has  Wagner  Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Gar Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. P otter, City Pass. Agent. 
Thomas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Grand  Rapids &  Indiana.

GOING SOUTH.

Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  J:22 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:57 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way i e Ex. .10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m 

GOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves.
9:50 a m 
4:45 p m 
7:15 a m
6:32 am 
4:32 pm  
12:33 pm

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving at  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at  9:50 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac
C South—'Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Arrives, 
Leaves.
4:00 p m 
♦Mail..................................10:15 am
10:45 p m 
♦Day Express...................42:50 P m
6:10 a m 
♦Night  Express.................;5:™pin
10:15 p m
Mixed.............................^¿ •  3:10 a m
♦Daily.  +Daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through parlor  car  in  charge  ol  careful at- 
tendants without extra chaise to Chicago on 
12:50 p. m., and through coach on 10:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

............ 5:00 am  

Leaves.  Arrives.
\TiYPd 
5:15 pm
Exuress...............................4:10 p m  8:30 p m
Express V. V.....................  ...  8:30 am   10:15 am
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40p.m 
The Northern terminus of this Division is at. 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
P. M. trains to and from Ludington and

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Manistee.  H  palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

ALA BASTINE!

Alabastine is the first and  only  prepara­
tion made from calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
application  to  walls  with  a  brush, and  is 
fully  covered  by  our  several  patents  and 
perfected  by  many  years  of  experiments. 
It  is  the  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
admits  of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de­
sired, one over another, to any hard  surface 
without  danger  of  scaling,  or  noticeably 
adding to the thickness of  the  wall,  which 
is  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  ad­
ditional coat, from time  to  time. 
It  is  the 
only material for the purpose not dependent 
upon glue for its adhesiveness ;  furthermore 
it is the only  preparation  that is  claimed 
to  possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
are  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
finish.  Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
by  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  and 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon­
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off  the 
old  coats  before  refinishing. 
In  addition 
to the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less 
expensive,  as  it  requires  but  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied by  any  one.

-FOR  SALE  BY-
Faint  Dealers.

-----MANUFACTURED  BY-----

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. 0HURÖH, Manager.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WESTFIELD WHIPS
<&j SOIT,
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MANUFACTURERS.

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SALESROOM
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

ß. ROYS & GO.,

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A .   A .   C R I F P E N ,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

SEEDS

-FOR  THE-

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

-AT-

WH0LESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT TH E-

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91  Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR,

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-AND DEALER IN-

PAINTS,  OILS,  AND

ROOM MOULDINGS,

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

Artists’  Materials
WINDOW  SHADES,
Glass, Plain ad O natal
37  Ionia  Street, South  of  Monroe.
JOHN MOHRHARD,
Fresh & Salt Meats

—WHOLESALE-

109  CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN

R.  J.  KIRKLAND.  M.  D.,

SPECIALIST IN DISEASES OF THE

Ear, Ey© and Throat

The Wants  of the Trade.

If the grocer instead of wasting  his  time 
in repining and lamentation would but study 
more carefully the wants  and  demands  of 
his customers;  exert himself  a  little  more 
in improving the general  appearance  of his 
store and in making his wares  more  attrac­
tive by the order of his  display,  he  would 
meet with  greater  success.  Any  business 
well conducted must  yield  a  profit  to  the 
owner.  There are  some,  of  course,  who 
make the mistake of engaging in a  business 
for which  they  are  nowise  adapted  and 
others who though well adapted to the busi­
ness select a bad location for it. 
It  would 
be folly, for instance, to start  a  grocery  in 
competition with an  Indian  Post-trader  or 
to test your ability to secure  the  trade  of a 
well established  firfti  by  entering  into  a 
business rivalry next door.  But the  proper 
location once  selected  an  intelligent  and 
careful management of one’s  business  must 
eventually lead to success,  no  matter  how 
bad  the times or how low the prices.  Gro­
ceries are always in demand and are not  de­
manded or sold  at  cost.  The condition of 
the market may lead to a loss in the  sale of 
one class of  goods  but  not  in  many. 
If 
sugar or coffee be sold at cost other  articles 
will yield a profit.  The  grocer  is  not  the 
only one who is sometimes forced  to sell  at 
a loss.  Every merchant is occasionally com­
pelled to do so.  Nor should  it  be  thought 
that exertion will lead to wealth.  Honesty 
is not incompatible with the merchant’s love 
of gaiu and though every  one  in  disposing 
of property seeks to get the most  money  he 
can for it he should not try  to  obtain  more 
than is just, more than its commercial value. 
The law of  supply  and  demand  regulates 
the profits ¡|nd a violation of  the  law  must 
lead to a diminution of sales and a  decrease 
instead of an increase in the number  of cus­
tomers.  The grocer’s stock, unlike  that  of 
other merchants, never goes  out  of  season 
so long as it remains fresh and to avoid sell­
ing stale goods  he  sholud  never  purchase 
more than he needs to supply  the  wants  of 
his customers.  His  selections  should  be 
made with a view to the requirements of his 
trade and not  to the cheapness  of  the  pur­
chases and he should lose no  opportunity  to 
improve the tastes  and  cultivate  the  judg­
ment of his customers  by  supplying  them 
with goods of the best  quality.  To secure a 
good custom it is necessary, above all things 
else, to have the reputation  of  selling  the 
best goods.  A single mistake  in this respect 
may lead to 
incalculable  losses.  Give  a 
customer bad butter or a bad article  of  any 
kind and when  butter  and  eggs  and  lard 
and  potatoes  and  other  commodities  are 
needed a visit will probably be made to'your 
rival through fear of being badly  treated by 
you again and from a disinclination to go to 
two different stores when the order  can  be 
filled by one. 
In this way the careless  gro­
cer loses ten  times as much  as  the  occas­
ional profits lie makes  on  the sale  of  bad 
goods.  The leakages of  theTgrocery  trade 
are very numerous and no business  requires 
more careful watching and’closer  attention, 
but if  properly  and  closely  managed  the 
profits though small are numerous and cumu­
lative and will always  adequately  compen­
sate the dealer for whatever he may display 
of industry and;close application.  Personal 
supervision of one’s  business  is  absolutely 
essential to success as well as  careful  man­
agement in the regulation of  expenses  and 
the  prevention of  waste.  Waste  of  any 
kind is ruinous to a  grocer.  Be  just  but 
not too generous should be the motto  of the 
grocer in his relations  with  his  customers. 
Where sales are numerous, as^they  must be 
by the very nature of the business, and  pro­
fits  sometimes  infinitestimal,  half  ounces 
given away in weight reduce the profits 
perceptibly but disastrously.

There is wealth in  the  grocery  business 
for those who  understand it  and  are  cap­
able of closely applying  themselves  to  the 
fulfilment  of  the  duties  devolving  upon 
them.  The success of the many  who  have 
proceeded cautiously and  diligently is proof 
of the  opportunities  th«  business  affords. 
There are more persons engaged in the  gro­
cery business than in any  other  mercantile 
pursuit  but there  are  also  more  indepen- 
dentjgrocers than any  other  kind  of  mer­
chants.  A determined will, 
intelligence of 
the business, close  application  and  courte­
ous treatment of customers must at all times 
and under the most untoward circumstances 
lead to success and fortune on  the  part  of 
the grocer.

Her Share of the  Work.

‘‘Is  your  sister  at  home?”  asked  a  Big 
Rapids gentleman of the  little  brother  who 
answered the bell.

“Yes, she’s home,”  said  the  boy;  “we’re 
going to have  cocoanut  pies  for  dinner  to­
morrow, and she’s out in  the  kitchen  help­
in’ mother make ’em.”

“Indeed!” replied the young man, evident­
ly very much pleased,  “and what part of the 
pie does your sister  make?”

“She cracks the cocoanuts with her teeth.”

He  Went  In,

They were standing at the front gate.
“Won’t you  come  in  the  parlor  and  sit 

a little while, Geòrgie, dear?”

“N-no, I guess not,” replied  George,  hesi­

tatingly.

“I wish you would,” the girl went on. “It’ 
awfully lonesome.  Mother has gone out and 
father is upstairs groaning with rheumatism 
in the  legs.”

“Both legs?” asked George.
“Yes, both legs.”
“Then I’ll come in aTittle while.”

WITH DBS. JOHNSON & BOISE,

72  Ottawa  Street,  Corner  of  Monro»  Street, 
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 12m.; 2 to 5 p. m .,

The beet root sugar  manufacture is  being 

overdone in  Germany.

Account  Books.

Every dealer who does a  credit  busifaess, 
and we know of few who do not,  should ex­
ercise great caution in such  matters. 
It is 
not sufficient to supply each  customer  with 
an account book, but care  should  be  taken 
that every article he entered at  the  time of 
sale in the customer’s as well as the dealer’s 
own  books.  A  great  many  complaints 
would thus be avoided.  People who bought 
goods could then  check  them  off  on  their 
books as soon as received, and if there  were 
any difference between  the  goods  entered 
and those delivered  the  mistake  could  be 
rectified there and then.

Every dealer knows that after he has  en­
tered an order on his own  and  the  buyer’s 
books a careless clerk may omit some oue of 
the articles when delivering the goods.  The 
buyer not having the  book ^returned  at the 
time of delivery, may not  notice the  omis­
sion of  one article, but when  he  gets  the 
books and finds it charged against  him, the 
chances are that he will growl very  loudly. 
Of course the dealer will be accused of  wil­
ful deception, and his  excuse ~~that  it 'w as 
due to the clerk’s carelessness will have little 
weight with a suspicious person.

For these  reasons,  therefore,  we  would 
advise every merchant to return his custom­
er’s account book with  every  order. 
If it 
be kept for two  or  three  days  at  a  time 
there is sure to be some  dissatisfaction.  Be­
sides this, when the buyer sees the  price of 
everything in plain black and  white  before 
him when he gets the goods he can  have no 
possible excuse for  accusing the  grocer  of 
overcharging him when  his  bill is  settled. 
So many scheming people are  in  the  habit 
of doing this that it would be a  great  bene­
fit to the dealer to keep a check upon  them.

Patronize the  Home  Dealer.

From the Fremont Indicator.

Farmers or mechanics  wanting  any  kind 
of  machinery,  should  always  consult  the 
local hardware dealer, in preference  to pat­
ronizing agents  who  are  always traveling 
through the country.  Even  the  honorable 
agent has no interest  with  us  in  common 
while the local dealer’s house is a  fixture  of 
the neighborhood—a place many are obliged 
to seek for, and are granted, accommodations 
unobtainable outside the bounds of your im 
mediate vicinity.  This patronizing an agent 
and paying him cash, often for  an 
inferior 
article, and then dodging  the  sight  of  the 
home merchant whom you owe for necessary 
articles bought when you probably  hadn’t  a 
dollar in money, is far from right.

A Chicago Oath.

“Why is my darling so sad  to-night?”
“I  cannot  help  thinking,  my  own,  that 
when you are my husband you may  be  less 
devoted than now.”

“How  could  I,  my  peerless  queen? 

swear by yonder moon—”

“Oh, swear not by  the  moon,  the  incon 

stant moon—”

“I swear by yon bright star looking  down 

“No, no! That star is a planet, and changes 

with each passing season.”

“Then, precious one,  what  shall  I  swear 

“Swear  by  the  pork  crop.  That  never 

on—”

by?”

fails.”

Many  of  the  tiny  screws  used  in  this 
country in watch making are turned out  on 
three little automatic machines in  Danbury. 
The marvel of the machine is  best  grasped 
when the size of the screw formed is  under­
stood.  They are  an eighth of  an  inch  in 
length, and it would require 200  of them to 
weigh  an ounce.  The thread  on  the  stem 
is so small that it is  scarcely discernible  to 
the naked eye.  Each  machine  will  make 
5,000 screws a  day.

“John,” said the butter dealer, always put 
in a couple of sheets  of  paper  when  you 
weigh.  Customers will think you  are  neat 
and cleanly in your business.  They  don1 
like to have their butter  slopped  on  to 
scale that, for all they know, has never been 
washed.  And besides, there’s a good  profit 
in buying paper at half a cent a  pound  and 
selling it for twenty-five or  thirty.”

Artificial cork is  among  the  recent  Ger 
man inventions.  The method of production 
consists  in  mixing  powdered  cork  with 
starch and water,  and  kneading  the  mass 
while boiling hot until it is  thoroughly mix­
ed.  The  substance  is  then  poured  into 
molds for forming the  articles,  and  after­
wards dried at a very high temperature. The 
material is described as quite light,  and pos­
sessing non-conducting properties.

How often do you present your bill to that 
young fellow?” said a gentleman to a  cigar- 
store man, whom a dude told to charge' him 
with a  package  of cigarettes. 
“Quarterly, 
sir.”  “What!  You don’t mean  to  say  you 
trust him for  three  months?”  “Oh, no, of 
course not.  Quarterly  in  this  case  means 
every time the bill amounts to a quarter.”

Glasgow  already  concedes  to  American 
flour a premier position, while the new Flour 
Trade Association in  London  largely  owes 
its establishment to the increased importance 
of the American trade.

Large horses are generally  most  admired 
by farmers;  but dealers  invariably  admire 
farmers who pony up.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

Olover, Tirhothy and all  Kinds Field Seeds
Seed Corn,  Green and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
GBEEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 

122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

-PROPRIETORS  OF  THE-

AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF-

ARCTIC  MANUFACTURIHG  COMPAHY,
Jennings’ Flavoring  Extracts
Arctic Baking Powders, 
Arctic Bluing and Inks, 
Arctic Kid Dressing, 

Arctic Mucilage,
Etc., Etc., Etc.

20  Lyon  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

W H O L E S A L E

83,85 aid 87  PEARL  STREET and ltd, 116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

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MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.
RINDGE, BERTSOH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
Our Goods are Specially idaoied for tie lic lip  Trade.

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.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand 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.

R«Mth S i Sy lit Dozen at  New M  Pilcas!!
Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

----- LARGE  LINE  OF-----

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.

I .   O .   L

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36, 38,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

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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.
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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

OHIO  OIL

Is the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of  Veg­
etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. 
It is  rapidly  com­
ing  into popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids.

Groceries.

PENCIL  PORTRAITS— NO.  7.

‘D.

Dewitt C.  Underwood,  Better  Known  as 
C., the Wideawake Grocery Drummer.” 
Dewitt C. Underwood  was  born at  Nor­
wich,  N.  Y.,  Sept 9, 1848.  When  quite 
young his parents  removed  to  Friendship, 
Allegany  county,  where  he  was educated 
in the Friendship  Academy, an  institution 
of learning that has graduated a large  num­
ber of men’now  prominent  in  commercial 
and professional life.  Graduating  from the 
Academy, after six years’  continuous  atten­
dance as a pupil, he was offered the position 
of  instructor in  bookkeeping,  penmanship, 
and  mathematics, which he  held  for  two 
years,  resigning in 1868 to remove to Brigh­
ton, Mich., wherS he entered the  employ of 
Jas. B. Lee & Son, general dealers, as  book­
keeper and salesman. 
In 1869, he  removed 
to Bay City, and accepted  a  position  with 
the wholesale grocery firm of Supe &  Bade 
macher  as  salesman,  covering  the  lake 
shore territory as far north as Alpena, where 
he remained two years and a half. 
In 1872, 
he removed to Detroit, which  he  made  his 
headquarters for the next two years,  travel­
ing on the road on his own account,  selling 
goods on commission.  He  then  accepted a 
position with the firm of Cody, Olney & Co., 
as traveling "salesman, being  the  only trav­
eler on the road for that  house  for  two or 
three years.  His territory at  that  time in 
eluded all the available towns on  the  D. & 
M., L. S. & M. S., G. K. & L, F. &P. M., D. 
L. & N. and the Newaygo division.  He r: 
mained with that  house  until  April, 1881 
when he  accepted a  more  desirable  offer 
from Arthur Meigs & Co., in whose  employ 
he is at the present  time.  His  route  was 
changed to the  north, where  he  covers  all 
the towns  on  the  G. R. & L,  above  Reed 
City.  The strong attachments he had form 
ed with the  trade in that region served him 
to good purpose on making  the  change, as 
be was able to hold  nearly  all of  his  old 
customers, and has  since  made  many  new 
ones.  That his services are m good demand 
is evidenced by the  exceptional  record  he 
has  made  as  a  salesman,  the  books  of 
Messrs. Meigs  & Co.  showing  that  during 
the year  1882  his  sales  aggregated  $178, 
508.18, the largest months being  June  and 
October, the  former  month  amounting  to 
$17,309.22, and the  latter to $17,906.33 

Mr.  Underwood  has  made  a  thorough 
study of the grocery business for  years,  and 
is known among the trade is one of the  best 
posted  man  on  the  road.  Particularly  is 
this true of teas, a branch of the business he 
has given painstaking attention and thorough 
investigation,  and  in  which he is  acknowl­
edged to be an expert.  To this fact may  be 
attributed his success as a salesman.

Mr.  Underwood  has  been  particularly 
fortunate in a number of real  estate  invest 
ments,  outside  his  regular  business.  A 
year  or  so  ago  he  conceived the idea that 
the little town of Elmira, then  a  struggling 
hamlet of 20 inhabitants, possessed  peculiar 
advantages  as  a  business  point,  and  pur­
chased  a  tract  of  land  adjoining  the  vil 
lage plat, and a large  number  of  business 
lots.  By  systematically  advertising  and 
setting forth the advantages afforded by  the 
place,  Mr. Underwood has  seen  the  town 
increase to  about  400  inhabitants,  with 
corresponding increase in stores,  shops  and 
factories.  The  first  building  he  erected 
found ready sale for $2,000  before  its  com­
pletion, and he has now several buildings in 
process of construction.  The  rapid  growth 
of the place is  not  due  to  any  species  of 
booming or excitement, but is the  legitimate 
outcome of the steady settlement  of  an  ex­
ceptionally good farming country.

Sickening  the  Consumer  of  Gift  Schemes 
General Grant  once  remarked  that  the 
best way to secure the repeal of  an  obnox­
ious law was to enforce  it. 
Following  in 
the same line of thought, the  representative 
of a Chicago spice house recently stated that 
the best way to make the consumer  sick of 
gift enterprises was to deluge the trade with 
schemes and literally drown  out  the  craze 
that has taken possession of  people  gener­
ally, to get  something  for  nothing. 
“We 
are getting up a scheme now that will  para­
lyze the trade, in the shape of pound  boxes 
of baking powder, every one of  which  con­
tains a solid silver  spoon  or  napkin  ring. 
W e believe that the only way  to  get  trade 
back to a healthy basis in this  respect  is to 
sicken the  people  completely  with  cheap 
glassware  and  iron  silverware,  until  the 
words ‘chance,’ ‘gift enterprise’ or  ‘scheme’ 
will have become distasteful  to them.  Then 
and not until then,  can  goods  be  sold 
their merits.”

Fruit  and  Nuts.

Oranges and  lemons have been  in  better 
supply for the past few  days,  with a  brisk 
demand.  Oranges  show  another  advance, 
Lemons, owing to the  cool  weather, remain 
at about the same prices as  last  quoted,  al 
though a few days  of  warm  weather  will 
tend to put prices up.  The  orange  crop is 
not large, and so far the fruit has  not  kept 
well, and good round prices  may be  looked 
forward to  on choice sound stock.  Lemons 
are said to be a large crop and of good  qual­
ity, and it is only fair to predict a good  sup­
ply and reasonable  prices  for  the  season.
Peanuts are without change, but are  held 
very firm.  Foreign nuts  are  fairly  steady 
though filberts and cocoa nuts  show as light 
decline.

Dates are unchanged and very  low.  Figs 

are firm at a slight advance.

Send to M. C. Russell  for 

of Sand Refined Cider.

sample  barrel

Present Worth  of David  Ward’s  Property. 
“Did you see the  article in a  recent num­
ber  of 
the  Northwestern  Lumpeiman. 
imputing David Ward’s  wealth  to  be  $35,- 
000,000?” asked  The  T radesman’s  finan­
cial reporter of Mr. D. E.  McVean,  of  Kal­
kaska, a few  days  ago.  Mr.  McYean  has 
been for years  an  active  lieutenant  of  Mr. 
Ward, having superintended the selection of 
considerable portion of  his  immense  pine 
land possessions,  and  having  accompanied 
him on several southern  visits  to  his  enor­
mous coal and oil interests.

“As near as I can determine the  matter,” 
was the answer,  “the estimate is about twice 
the actual reality.  1 place Mr. Ward’s prop­
erty  at from  $15,000,000  to  $18,000,000. 
Of course the advances that will come  with 
the next twenty or thirty years will treble or 
quadruple this amount.  A year ago I visited 
the scene of Mr.  Ward’s  coal  investments, 
and was surprised to  find  that  experienced 
coal operaters placed the value of  his  plant 
at $90,000,000.  That is, there is coal enough 
on his property to bring that  amount, but  it 
will require two or three generations to mine 
it.  In Mr. Ward’s lifetime, he will probably 
not realize  to  exceed  $5,000,000  from  that

Selling  Sugar for  Pleasure.

We fail to see any reason why the  retail­
er should persist in  this  policy  of  selling 
sugar at cost.  From  a  business  point  of 
view there is no excuse for their  so  doing. 
Why sugar should be thus treated any  more 
than tea or coffee we are at a loss to  under­
stand.

It may be claimed that dealers  use  sugar 
as a “leader” to draw trade,  but  when  al­
most all do the same  thing  it  must  neces­
sarily fail to  produce  the  desired  results. 
Why tea should not  be  made  to  serve  as 
well as sugar it would be  hard  to  explain. 
One is as much a necessary  of  life  as  the 
other.

If  anybody supposes for a  moment  that 
in buying sugar at cost from the retailers he 
does not indirectly pay a profit  on  it  he  is 
decidedly mistaken.  The sugar may  possi­
bly be sold at a loss, but this is  made  up by 
adding to the price of some other article, 
it 
is the only way in  which  the  retailer  can 
make things balance.  We know of  men in 
this city who do not and  never  did  sell  su­
gar at cost, and they lost no trade  by acting 
in that sensible manner.  They  were  thus 
enabled to sell some other article at a  lower 
rate than their competitors, and in  this way 
not only held their  regular  eustomers,  but 
attracted new ones.

It seems to us that every  sensible  grocer 
will find little difficulty in selling this article 
at a fair profit, no matter whether his  rivals 
agree to adopt the same policy or  no.  No 
man will try to do a heavy  trade  in  sugar 
alone at a loss  and  if  the  customers  find 
that while his sugar  is  cheap  some  other 
article is  dear,  they will  readily  see  that 
there is no advantage to be gained  by  deal­
ing with him in preference to any  one else.
Every man in the business should cease to 
favor the sugar manufacturer more than the 
manufacturers of other goods, and if  he ex­
plains things to his  customer,  we  venture 
the prediction that the change can  be readi­
ly effected.

Cannery  Project at Muskegon.

From the News.

There is no question but that Mr. Keating 
is right when he urges the importance of the 
establishment  of  a  cannery  in  this  city. 
Such an industry would have a  tendency to 
reclaim and put into actual  service  a  large 
area of land contiguous to the city  which is 
now uncultivated.  This land cannot be put 
to better use than in raising supplies  to sup­
port a cannery, while at the same  time  the 
investment  would  be  profitable.  A 
little 
effort will secure for  this city  a  first-class 
establishment, and it seems  but  reasonable 
to expect that the  producers  around  about 
the city would assist the Board of  Trade  in 
the work. 
It  would  be  advantageous  to 
them as well as to the city.

Origin of  the  Term  “ Delf.” 

Crockery dealers occasionally  receive  en­
quires for  “delf” from very old people,  and 
few of them are aware how the  word  orig­
inated.  The  following,  from  a  London 
crockery journal, explains the term:  About 
five hundred years ago the town of  Delft, in 
Holland,  became  famous  for  its  eai then- 
ware—pipes, tiles, bricks, and  the  common 
yellow ware being principally manufactured 
there, and this circumstance gave the  name 
of “Delft,” or “Delf,” to  all  crockery ware 
of that description.

Somebody is recommending honey  as the 
best food.  Honey let it be.  So long  as we 
can manufacture this delicious article  with­
out bees, there is no  reason  why it  should 
not go on our tables along with butter  made 
without cows, maple  syrup  made  without 
trees and eggs laid without  hens.

“Have you any more hams like that one I 
“Yes,  Mrs. 
got last  week?”  she  asked. 
Plumbottle,  we  have  six  more  just  like 
them.”  “If they are not the  same  kind, I 
don’t want ’em.”  “Why, madam,  I  assure 
you they are all from the same animal.”

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

Counterfeit 25 cent pieces, of lead, are ex- 
asperatingly plentiful in Boston  and  vicini­
ty.

Complete assortment  of  fishing  tackle  at 

Calkins Bros., 97 Ottawa street. 

A good laying hen will  lay her weight in 

*

eggs in 35 to 40 days.

Calkins  Bros,  can  supply  dealers  with 

fishing tackle at bottom  prices.

Try Boralumine.  Any one can use it.

Advanced.
Nothing.
Declined.
Coffees;  Sugars %c lower.

AXLE  UREASE.

BAKING  POWDER.

Modoc__ $  doz  60  IParagon...  $  doz  60,
Diamond............  60 
|Frazer’s ..............  85
Arctic % ft cans................................$  doz.  45
Arctic 14 ft cans..........................................  75
Arctic % ft cans.  .  .....................................  1 40
Arctic 1 ft cans.......................................... 2 40
Arctic 5  ft cans...........................................12 00
Dry, No. 2 . . ................................... doz. 
25
Dry, No. 3.......................................doz. 
45
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

“ 
“ 
“  •  “ 

BLUING.

BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet..........................................  2 50
No. 2 Carpet..........................................  2 25
No. 1 Hurl......  ....................................   2 00
No. 2 Hurl  ............................................  1 75
Fancy Whisk.........................................  125
Common Whisk....................................  
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....................................... 
85
Beans, String............................................   85
Beans, Boston Baked.....................................1 75
Blackberries, standards......................... ..1 25
Cherries, w hite......................................... 1 90
Cherries, red..............................................1 05
Condensed Milk, Fagle brand...................8 10
Corn, Erie.................................................. 115
Corn, Revere...................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian..........................................110
Corn, Yarmouth.............................................1 30
Corn Trophy............................................. 115
Corn, 2 ft  Onandago..................................150
Damsons........................... 
1 20
Egg Plums, standards................................... 1 60
Green Gages, standards................................ 1 60
Lobsters, Stars..............................................2 00
Lobsters, Picnics...........................................1 75
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft.................... 4 00
Oysters, 1 ft  standards............................. 110
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, 3 ft Extra Yellow Heath.................3 00
Peaches, white  standards............................. 1 90
Peaches,  seconds......... ............ 
Pie Peaches....................................................1 20
Pears, Bartlett............................................... 1 35
Peas, standard  Marrofat...............................1 50
Peas, good Marrofat...................................... 1 35
65
Peas, soaked........................ 
Pineapples......................................................1 60
Pine Apple, 2 ft Sugar Loaf..................... 2 50
Raspberries, Erie.................  
1 50
Raspberries,, other brands............................1 20
Salmon, standard...................................  .1 60
Sardines,  imported  %s............................  15%
Sardines, imported %s............. 
20
Sardines, domestic 14s..............................   8
Sardines,  domestic  %8............................  12%
Sardines,  Mustard....................................   15
Strawberries,  standards..:............................1 10
Succotash, standards.....................................1 05
Succotash,  other brands.........................   85
Succotash, 2 ft B.&M.....................................1 75
Tomatoes,  standards.......................1 00@1 05
Tomatoes, gal. Erie........................................3 25
Trout, 3 ft brook............................................ 3 00
G.  D....................  35 
Musket...............   75 

lEly’s Waterproof  75
|

1 65

CAPS.

 

 

 

 

 

CHOCOLATE.

German  sweet................... 
@25
Baker’s  ...................................................  @40
Runkles..................................................   @35
Vienna Sweet.........................................  @25

 

COFFEE.

Roasted Mex.l7%@19% 
Ground Rio..  9%@17% 
Ground  Mex.  @16)4
Arbuckle’s......... @15%
XXXX................@15%
Dilworth’s ......... @15%

Green Rio__12)4@14)4
Green Java.. .17)4@27)4 
Green Mocha.25%@27%
Roasted Rio.. 13  @17)4 
Roasted Java24)4@34)4 
Roasted Mar.l7)4@19 
Roasted Mocha  @34)4
72 foot J u te ....... 1 35  160 foot Cotton__1 75
60 foot Ju te......1  15 
|50 foot Cotton___1 50

CORDAGE.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

2 50

 

Jennings’2 oz...................................$  doz. 1 00
4 oz.................................................1 50
“ 
“ 
6 oz............................................ 
8 oz.................................................3 50
“ 
“  No. 2 Taper..................................  1 25
...............................  1 75
No. 4  “ 
“ 
“ 
)4 pint  round...............................  t 50
“ 
1 
“ 
.............................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
“  % pint round...............................   7 50
“ 
1 pint  round.................................15 00
“  No.  8..............................................4  25
“  No.  10...................................... 

Vanilla.

 

Faucets,  self measuring.......................  @2 50
Faucets, common...................................   @ 35

FAUCETS.

FISH .

Whole Cod..........................................   4%(£
Boneless Cod...................................5%@7%@8%
Herring % bbls.JOO ft.......................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled.....................................   28@30
Herring Holland..................................   @115
Bloaters..............................................  @1 00
White, No. 1, )4 bbls.......................... 
8 00
4 00
White, Family, )4 bbls....................... 
1 10
White, No. 1,10 ft kits....................... 
Whise, No. 1,12 ft kits....................... 
1 25
Trout, No. 1, )4  bbls.......................... 
4 75
90
Trout, No. 1,12 ft kits....................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, )4 bbls.....................  
7 00
Mackerel. No. 1,12 ft kits................. 
115

fruits .

 

 

MATCHES.

2 60
  @7

London Layers, new................................  
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new...........2 40@2 50
New Valencias Raisins......................... 
Ondaras.............................. 
  @10)4
Turkey P runes—
Currants..............................................  6  @6)4
If
Citron.................................................. 
Dried Apples  ...............   ....................  8
Richardson’s No. 2  square..........................2 70
Richardson’s No. 3 
do 
..........................2 55
do 
....................... ,1 70
Richardson’s No. 5 
do 
.........................2 70
Richardson’s No. 6 
.........................1 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
.........................2 55
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 4 round................................ 2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2 55
.........................1 70
Richardson’s No. 7)4 do 
Electric Parlor No. 17...................... 
Electric Parlor No. 18........................................5 70
Grand Haven, No. 9.........i .........................2 25
Grand Haven, No. 8......................................... 1 60

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

Black Strap.......................................
Porto  Rico................................................ 32@35
New  Orleans, good...................................45@50
New Orleans, fancy............................ _l” ®6@60
Syrups, Sugar......................
OATMEAL,

18 5ft  pkgs.............................. ...........   @375
36 2ft  pkgs...........................................  @3 25
Imperial bbls...................................... 
5  75
Quaker bbls......................................... 
6 75

OIL.

do. 

Kerosene  W. W.................................. 
Legal test........................... 
Sweet, 2 oz. square... *........................  
Sweet, 2 oz. round............................... 
Castor,2 oz.  square..................... . 
Castor, 2 oz. round..............................  

15
12
75
1 00
75
1 00

PICKLES.

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med............ ......................7 25
Choice in )4 
...................................4 25
Dingee’s % 
small..........................4 25
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy........................ 4 25
.......................  2 50
Dingee’s pints 
do 
English qt. in Glass..................................... 3 50
English pt.  in  Glass....................................2 00
American qt.  In Glass.......... ...................... 2 00
American pt. in Glass.................................. 1 25

Imported Clay 3 gross........................2 25@3 00
American T. D...................................  90@i 00

PIPES.

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure..........................................@ 5%
Churh’s .....................................................@5)4
Taylor’s G. M............................................@ 5)4
Cap  Sheaf.......................................   ........@5)4
Dwight’s ................................................... @5)4
Sea  Foam..................................................@ 5)4
SALT.
60 Pocket...........................
2 30 
28 Pooket...........................
2  10 
2 50 
100 3 ft pockets..................
Saginaw F ine....................
110 
Diamond C........................
1 75 
1 55
Standard Coarse...............
SEEDS.
H em p........................................  
5
Canary............... 
4
R ape.................................................... 
7
Mixed Bird...........................................  5%@6

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOAP.

 

do. 

SPICES.

STARCH.

STONEWARE.

STOVE POLISH.

@7)4@4
@6)4

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

@6)4
@7)4@6
@7%
@8)4

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

6)4 
Kirk’s American  Family...........flft
do. 
India...................................
6)4 6
do.  Savon....................................
6)4 
do.  Satinet...................................
5%
do.  Revenue................................
5 40 
do.  White Russian.......................
Goodrich’s English Family  ..............
5% 
Princess.........................
4%6 75  • 
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory...............
5
Japan  Olive........
3 70
Town Talk  $  box
4 20 
Golden Bar............
3 45
Arab...... ........... .
3 75
Amber__ :............
4 20 
Mottled German..
@3 40 
1 Procter & Gamble’s Velvet.................
@3 25 
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck.........
@3 15 
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well.........
Badger.........................................60 lbs
@ 6)4 
@4 20 
Galvanic..............................................
@6 50 
XXX Electric......................................
@4 20 
XXX Borax.........................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
@  21 @  16 
Tip Top.................................... 3 ft bar
@6 75 
Ward’s White Lily..............................
@4 20
Handkerchief......................................
3 00
Sidall’s ...............................................
5 50
Babbitt’s ............................................
4 00
Dish R ag............................................
5 00 
Bluing..................................................
4 20
Magnetic..............................................
4 50
New  French Process................. ........
5 00.
Spoon ..................................................
5 00
Anti-Washboard.................................
............... 
325
Vaterland
Magic....................................................... 
4 
Pittsburgh..................................... 
 
 
Bogue’s ..................................................  
6 
White castile bars..............................  
13
12
Mottled castile................................. 
 
Old  Style................................................  @ 5/4
Old Country.........................................  
5)4
Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice...................................   12@20
Cinnamon...........................................  16@30
Cloves....................................................  20@25
Ginger....................................................  17@20
Mustard.................................................  15@35
Cayenne.................................................  25@35
Pepper % ft $ dozen.......................... 
75
75
Allspice  )4 ft..................................... 
Cinnamon  % 1b.................................  
100.
Cloves )4 ft........................................  
75
Pepper,  whole....................................  
@18
Allspice..............................................  
@10
Cassia.................................  
 
 
Cloves.............................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..............................   70  @75
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package...................
Muzzy Gloss 3 1b package...................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................
Muzzy Gloss b u l k . .........................
Muzzy Corn 1ft.................................   7
Kingsford Silver Gloss......................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft box.........
Kingsford Corn....... :........................  8
Oswego  Gloss....................................
Mirror  Gloss.....................................
Mirror Gloss, corn^...........................
Piel’s Pearl........................................
Americad Starch Co.’s
lft Gloss...........................................
10 oz  Gloss........................................
3ft  Gloss...........................................
@7
6 ft Gloss, wood boxos.......................
Tabic Corn..................................40 ft
@6)4
Table Corn.................................20 ft
@7
@4
Banner, bulk......................................
@7)4
Hovey’s 1 ft Sunday Gloss.................
Hovey’s 3 ft Sunday Gloss.................
@7%
Hovey’s 6 ft Sunday Gloss, wood box.
@8
One Mrs.  Potts’  Polishing  Irons  given  free 
with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch.
Jugs  galloa....................................  @8
Crocks..................................................... 
Milk Crocks................. ..................... 
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s gross....... 5 50
Universal.............5 8w Above $ dozea......   50
IX  L ..........  ....... 5 501
Granulated...........................................  
Cut Loaf...........................................   8)4 @8%
Cubes...............................................  8%@8%
Powdered.........................................  8%@8%
Conf. A.............................................  @7 31
Standard A............................................ 
Extra C.......................................... 
6%@6%
FineC.............................................. '  6%@6%
Yellow..............................................   5% @6)4
Corn,  Barrels....................................
@  30 
Corn, )4 bbls....................................
@  32 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs............................
@  33 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs..........................
@1 75 
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs..........................
@1 60 
Pure Sugar  Drips........................ bbl
32@  35 
Pure Sugar Drips......................)4 bbl
35@  40 
Pure Sugar  Drips.............. 5 gal kegs
@1 85 
Pure Maple.............................)4 bbls
@  80 
Pure Maple................................10 gal kegs
6 00
@  80 
Pure Maple.................... 
5 gal kegs
@  85 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips.............)4 bbl
@  95 
Pure Loaf Sugar.........................5 gal kegs
@ 1  00
25@50
Japan ordinary..26@30lYoung Hyson 
Japanfair......... 32@35 Gun  Powder....... 35@50
Japan fair to g’d.35@37 Oolong.........33@55@60
Japan fine......... 40@50 Congo.................   @30
Japan dust........15@20|
Diamond  Crown...............................  @57
Red  Bird...........................................   @52
Opera Queen......................................  @40
Sweet Rose.... ...................................   @45
Green Back.......................................  @38
F ruit.................................................   @33
O So Sweet........................................   @31
Prairie Flower__?............................  @65
Climber [light and dark]...................  @62
Matchless..........................................  @65
Hiawatha.......................................... 
69
Globe.................................................  
70
May Flower.......................... 
70
Hero.................. 
  @45
Atlas.... ............................................   @35
Royal Game.......................................  @38
Silver Thread...............................  
  @67
Seal....................................................   @80
Kentucky..........................................  @30
Mule Ear...........................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo.........................................  @32
Peek-a-Boo, )4 barrels.......................   @30
Clipper, Fox’s....................................   @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels............  @20
Fountain...........................................   @74
Old Congress......................................  @64
Good Luck........................................   @52
Good and Sweet.................................   @45
Blaze Away.......................................  @35
Hair Lifter.........................................  @30
Old Glory, light.................................   @60
Charm of the West, dark...................  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil...................  @60
Red Fox.............................................  @52
Big  Drive..........................................  @52
Seal of Grand Rapids.........................  @48
Glory  ................................................  @50
Durham.............................................  @48
Silver Coin........................................   @50
Buster  [Dark],.................................   @36
Black Prince [Dark]..........................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..........................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star.......................   @50
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  Roll................................  @38
Nfmrod..............................................   @50
Acorn ...............................................   @50
Red Seal.............................................  @48
Crescent............................................  @44
Black  X................'............................  @35
Black  Bass.........................................  @40
True Grit...........................................   @35
Nobby Spun Roll........................... 
  @50
Spring..................................... 
@50
Grayling, all styles............................  @50
Mackinaw............................  
  @47
HorseShoe.............. 
@50
 
Good Luck.........................................  @50
Big Chunk or J.T..............................   @40
Hair Lifter.........................................  @37
D. and D., black................................. *•  @37
MoAlpin’s Green Shield....................  
‘ @48
Ace High, black.....................  
  @35
  @48
Champion A .......................  
Sailors’  Solace..................... 
@48

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

SYRUPS.

SUGARS.

PLUG.

TEAS.

3 80

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

25
22

21
24

24
 
19
26
60
57
55
51

Red Star...............................................  @50
Shot Gun..............................................  @48
D uck....................................................  @48
Jumbo........................ 
@40
 
SMOKING.
Chain  .................................... 
@22
Arthur’8 Choice...................................  @22
Seal of Grand Radids..........................  @25
King.....................................................  @30
F lirt.....................................................  @28
Pug........................... 
@30
Ten Penny Durham, )4 and %............   @24
Amber, )4 and lf t................................  @15
Dime Smoking.....................................  @22
Red Fox Smoking................................  @26
Lime Kiln Club...................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut...........  @90
Vanity  F a ir.:...:............... 
  @90
Dime....................................................  24@25
Peerless.................................................... 
Standard..................................................  
Old Tom............................................... 
Tom & Jerry ........................................ 
Joker......................................................... 
25
35
Traveler.................................................... 
Maiden....................................................  ©26
Topsy.............................................. 
 
 
Navy Clippings..............„................... 
25
Honey Dew.............................................. 
Gold Block.............................................  
32
Camp Fire  ............................................... 
22
Oronoko.............................................  
Nigger  Head.......................................  
Durham, % f t ...................................... 
do  % f t ...................................... 
)4 ft ..'......................... 
do 
l f t ...................................... 
do 
Holland..................................................   @22
German.............................................  
Long Tom...............................................  @30
National..................................................  @26
T im e.......................................................  @28
Love’s Dream.........................................  @28
Conqueror........................................ 
Fox’s .......................................................  @22
Grayling..............................................  @32
SealSkin................................... 
 
Dime Durham........................................  @25
Rob Roy..................................................   @26
Uncle  Sam............ *............................  @28
Lumberman...........................................  @26
Railroad Boy...........................................  @37
Mountain Rose........................................  @20
Good Enough........................................  
  @23
Home Comfort, %s and  %s....................  @25
Old Rip, long cut................................  @60
Durham, long cut.................................   @60
Two  Nickle, %5......................................   @25
4 
Two  Nickle, %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 E ar............................................. 
23
Hiawatha........................................  
23
Old Congress........................................ 
23
Pure  Cider.................................................  12
White Wine...............................................  12
1776 $  f t ..................................................   @10)
Gillett’s $  f t ...........................................  @ 7%
Soapine pkg............................................  7@10
Boraxine  box.................................  
Pearline *p box........................................  @4 50
Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun ”....................  1 65
Twin Bros.........1 65  ¡Wilsons............... 1 65
Gillett’s .............1 65  ¡National............. 1 65

WASHING POWDERS.

VINEGAR.

SHORTS.

YEAST.

20
00
75

@12

 

 

 

  @16

@23

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

95

do 

do 
do 

do  No. 2............ ;..........-........... 

Blacking..................................... 30, 40,50@60
150
do  waterproof.................>........ 
Bath Brick imported.......................... 
95
do 
American.......................... 
75
Barley..................................................  @3)4
Burners, No. 1 ............. 
1  10
1 50
Bags, American A..............................   20 00
Beans, medium  .................................   @2 10
Beans, hand picked............................. 
2 40
Butter..................................................   18@20
Butterine............................................  18@21
Curry Combs $  doz.............................1 25@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans............   @25
Candles, Star.......................................  @15)4
Candles,  Hotel....................................   @16)4
Cheese full cream choice.................... 14)4@15
Catsup quarts «  dozen.......................1 40@1 60
Chimneys No. 1...................................  @35
No. 2...................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lft packages. 
@26)4
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & )4 ft  do . 
@27)4
Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 ft cases...  @  11
Extract Coffee,  v. c............................ 
Felix................................. 1 30@
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls......... ..........5 75@
inSacks,............................ 5 50@
7
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.....................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.....................   @40
Gum, Spruce.......................................   35@40
Horse  Radish, pints................................  @1 40
1 00@
Indigo.............  
Ink $  3 dozen  box...............................1 00@
Jelly in Pails.......................................   @6
do  Glass Tumblers  doz.................  @75
Licorice, Sicily...................................  ©20
Licorice, Calabra................................  28@30
Licorice Root......................................   @12
Lye  2  doz. cases........................ .-.. .1 55@
Macaroni, Imported...........................   @13
Domestic..............................................  @5)4
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, $  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@
Pepper Sauce..........................................   90@1 00
Peas, Green Bush................................ 1 5Q@
Powder, Keg........................................5 50@
)4 Keg................................... 3 00@
Rice....................................................6@6)4@7)4
5@6
Sago  .................................................... 
Shot, drop.............................................1 90@
do  buck...........:........ 1................... 2 15@
Sage.....................................................   @15
Molasses Gates each............................  @45
Tobacco Cutters each........................;1 25@
Twine..................................................   18@23
ChimneyCleaners $   doz......................  @50
Flour Sifters $  doz............................. 3 00@
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@

do  Split prepared...........................   @3)4

do 

do 

.  HARDWARE GOODS.

cent. off.

do 
do 
do 
do 
do 

do 
% 
£16  do 
% 
do 
% 
do 
do 
% 

Prevailing  rates at Chicago are  as follows
Anvils—Peter Wright’s,  ft  ft...............   11
Augurs—50 and 10 per cent. off.
Babbett—Genuine %  ft.......................  @30
  @26
Extra.......................................... 
No. 1............................................   @20
No. 2............................................  @18
No. 4............................................  8  @10
11
8)4
6)4
5)4
4%
4%

Chain—3-16 inch Lake Superior, $  ft...... 
......
......
......
......
......
Files—Nicholson’s best 40 per cent off.
Forks—Hay and Manure 50 per cent off. 
Hammers—Maydole’s 10@16per 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 
Iron—Flat Bar $2 rates.
Sheet No. 24 $3.25.
Swede’s bar 5)4c $  ft.
Padlocks 30 per cent. off.
Lead—Pig $  ft.........................................
6
Sheet 
1b..........................................
7%
Pipe «   ft............................................
66)4@15
Bar  $  ft---........................................
Rope—Manilla $   ft.............................14
Sisal $  ft........................................
@10
Jute $ ft.........................................  8)4@ 9)4
Sash Weights $  ft...............................  @2
Shot—Buck  $2.15.
Solder..................................................14  @15
Steel—Best cast tool $  ft........................ @13
Round Machine  $ ft..........................  @8
Spring « f t .........................................  @ 5)4
Tin—Pig $  ft.......................................   @20)4
Bar $   ft....................................... .  ©22%
Zinc—Sheet  ¥  ft................................. 5%@ 6)4
COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Drop $1.80.

@7%

@7)4

Ohio White Lime, per bbl..................  
1  10
95
Ohio White Lime, car lots..................  
Louisville Cement, per bbl............ ,.. 
140
Akron Cement per  Dbl....................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl. r................  
1 40
Car lots.................................................1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.............................  35@ 38
StuCoo, per bbl.................. .................  
-1 75
Land plaster, per ton.......................... 
3 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots.......................... 
Fire brick, per  M................................$27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................ 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate.................$6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and n u t.  ...... j—   6 75@7 00
Cannell coal.......................................  
7 00
Ohio coal........................................  
40@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland.................  00@5 25

GOAL.

New York Counts, per can............................  88,
Extra  Selects...................................................33
Plain Selects............................................ 
'28
H.M.B. F ......................................................'. 2i
Favorite F .........................  
| j 8
Prim e.................................................. 
j«
Y XY ....................................................... 
14
New York Counts, solid meats, per gal” " .‘¿ 50
Selects, solid  meats, per gallon.........   @1 75
Standards, solid meats, per gallon__   @110
Can pi ices above are for cases and half cases.
12%.
g-

Codfish................................................. 
Haddock....................................................  
Smelts............................................................. 8
Herring............................................. 
 
Mackinaw Trout.  ......... ..................,"l0
Mackerel......................................"* "‘15
Whiteflsh............................................... 

FRESH  FISH.

12^4.

 

 

 

 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

27

do 
do 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes...........................   @10
...........................   @10)4
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
...........................   @12
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft pails.....................................10@10%
Royal, 200 ft bbls.............................................9)4
Extra, 25 ft pails..........................................11)4
Extra, 200 ft bbls..........................................11
French Cream, 25 ft pails............................. 14
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases...................................... 14
Broken, 25 ft pails........................................11)4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................10)4
Lemon Drops..............................................14
Sour Drops.................................................. 15
Peppermint  Drops.....................................16
Chocolate Drops......................................... 17
H M Chocolate  Drops................................ 20
Gum  D rops................................................12
Licorice Drops............................................ 20
A B Licorice  Drops................................... 14
Lozenges, plain.............................................j&
Lozenges,  printed.........................................17
Imperials......... ........................................... 16
Mottoes.........................................................16
Cream  B ar...................................................15
Molasses Bar................................................. 14
Caramels........................................................20
Hand Made Creams.......................................23
Plain  Creams................................................20
Decorated Creams........................................ 23
String Rock...................................................16
Burnt Almonds..........................................   24
Wintergreen  Berries....................................16
Lozenges, plain in pails...............................14
Lozenges, plain in bbls................................ 13
Lozenges, printed in pails............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails............................. 14
Gum Drops, in pails....................................   8
Gum Drops, in bbls.................*....................  7
Moss Drops, in pails.....................................ll
Moss Drops, in bbls......................................  9)4
Sour Drops, in  pails.....................................12
Imperials, in pails........................................14
Imperials, in bbls......................................... 13

Fancy—In  Bulk.

@30

FRUITS.

Oranges—Higher.

Oranges «  box........................................  @4 00
Oranges OO  box...............................
Oranges, Imperials, $  box.................4 50@4 75
Oranges, Valencia^  case..................  @8 50
Lemons,  choice..................................  3 00@3 50
Lemons, fancy....................................   @4 OO
Bananas $ bunch................................2 00@4 00
Malaga Grapes,  keg........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl..........................
Figs,  layers « f t ...................................  12@16
Figs, fancy  do  ...................................   18@20
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  ft........................   14@15
Dates, frails 
do  ..........................  @6
Dates, % do. 
d o ..........................  @7
Dates, skin..........................................   @ 6
Dates, )4  skin......................................  @7)4
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $  ft.................. 10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft....................  @8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $ ft...............  7® 8

  @3 75

Prime Red,  raw $  ft..........................
Choice 
do  ........................   @8
do  ........................   @9
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ..........................  9%@10
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  .........................10%@11

do 
do 

PEANUTS.

Firm.

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, 
Almonds, Ioaca,
Brazils,
Pecons,
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Chilli 
Walnuts, Grenobles 
Walnuts, California 
Cocoa Nuts, $  100 
Hickory Nuts, large $  bu 
Hickory Nuts, small  do

ft.................. 19@@20
do  ..................17  _
do  ...................10)4@11
do  ..................10  @14
d o ..................   @13
do  ..................   14@15
do  ...................12)4@14
d o ..................   15@16
d o ..................

4 50@5 00
1 25

PROVISIONS.

PORK.

The Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess Pork......... ..........................$18 75
Back Pork,  short cut..............................   19 00
Family Clear Pork, very cheap...............   19 50
Clear Pork, A. Webster packer...............   20 00
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City__ 21 00
Extra Clear P ork......................................  20 50
Extra B  Clear Pork................................. 21 00
Clear Back Pork, new..............................   21 50
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality............  21 50
Standard Clear Pork, the best..................   22 00

10%
10)4
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
11%
11%
11%
11%
10%
11
11%

9%
9%
10%
10%
10%
14
14%
9)4
11%
16

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.........
Half Cases..;........
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.........
do 
Half Cases.........
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases..............
Half Cases..............
do. 
Short Clears, heavy..............................
medium...........................
light.................................
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 eases........
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........
Tiprnpa
30 and 50 ft Tubs ’. ‘ 

do. 
do. 

’.!."  

LARD.

”

LARD IN  TIN PAILS.

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks.................
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 ft racks..............
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case...........................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case...........................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case...........................

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.

do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........ 
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle......... 
Extra Clear Bacon................................ 
Dried Beef............................................
Extra Dried Beef................................. 
Rolled Beef, for family use....................  18 00
Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed...........  13 OO

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

CANNED BEEF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, % doz.

incase..................................................  20 50
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   3 20
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, )4 doz in case  20 50 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case..  3 20 
do. 2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 50

 

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage................................................10%
Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tubs.....................!l0%
Ham Sausage.................. 
...15
Tongue  Sausage........................................ ,’n
Liver Sausage...............................................  8)4
Frankfort  Sausage...................................... 10
Blood  Sausage.............................................  8)4
Bologna,  ring.................................................8)4
Bologna, straight........................................  8%
Bologna,  thick.............................................   8)4
Head  Cheese................................................   8)4
In half barrels.................................................$3 85
In quarter barrels...........................................   2 1&
In kits................ 
1 00-
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.

PIG S’ FEET.

TRIPE.

 

FRESH MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows::
Fresh  Beef, sides................................  7%® 9%
Fresh Beef, hind quarters.................  9  @10%.
Dressed Hogs......................................  9  @9%.
Mutton,  carcasses...............................  8  @9
Veal.....................................................  9  @10%.
Spring Chickens..................................  16@17
Fowls....................................... 
15@16
Pork Sausage...................................... 10%@11
Pork Sausage in bulk..........................  @11
Bologna...............................................   @11

 

 

OYSTERS AND FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

H

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CROCKERY,  GLASSWARE  AND  SILVER  WARE,
English  White  Granite Ware,  English  Decorated Ware, Chandeliers and Library Lamps.

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

Carefully 2Tote the Specialties Below, which. We Quote for TTour Benefit This Week:

SELECTED ENGLISH WHITE GRANITE WARE. 

51
62
73
84
35
36
09
11
17
23
28
08
09
11
17
08
10
11
17
39

Diamond X.
Edward Clark’s
4 doz Plates................. 5 inch
4 doz Plates..................6 inch
41 doz Plates..................7 inch
3 doz Plates................. 8 inch
1 doz Plates................. 7 inch, c
6 doz Fruit Saucers......4 inch
6 sets Handled Teas..................
18 sets Unhandled Teas.............
1 only Dish....................7 inch
2 only Dishes................8 inch
3 only Dishes................9 inch
3 only Dishes..............10 inch
3 only Dishes..............11 inch
3 only Dishes..............12 inch
4 only Bakers..............  5 Inch
4 only Bakers................6 inch
4 only Bakers................7 inch
4 only Bakers................8 inch
6 only Scollops..............5 inch
6 only Scollops..............6 inch
6 only Scollops.............. 7 inch
6 only Scollops..............8 inch
2 only Covered Dishes. .7 inch 
2 only Covered Dishes. .8 inch
1 only Sauce Boat........
11
2 only Pickles
34
4 only Cov’d Butters and Dr’ns 5 in 34
30
2 only Teapots..............No. 24 
***
25
6 only Sugars...............No. 24
12
6 only  Creams............. No. 24
09
3 only Bowls................ No. 24
08
6 only Bowls...............No. 30
06
6 only Bowls............... .No. 36
34
4 only  Jugs..................No.  6
23
6 only  Jugs..................No. 12
13
4 only  Jugs.................. No. 24
11
4 only  Jugs..................No. 30
10
45 only  Jugs..................No. 36
71
4 prs Ewers and Basing No.  9 
6 Covered Chambers— No.  9
07
6 Soap Slabs..................
07
6 Mugs..........................

Crate

4 

4 

« 

44

*4

44

“

4 
44 
4 

44
44
44
44

ONE  CRATE  WHITE  GRANITE  WARE. 

50
61
72
87
72
83
96
1 32
1 93

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—Cable  Shape- 
Diamond C.
3 00
6 doz Plates............... . .5 inch
1 83
14 40
2 61
2 16
42
48
66
48
69
83
1 02
96
44
2 82
3 85
96
38
90
1 17
1 31
1 32
46
67
87
1 50
38
1 75
1 20
41
1 05
1 38
96
58
69
73
73
83
73
45
3 00
12 06
5 61
2 50
$82 16

2 04 3
2 48 20 4  44
..8  “
8 03 3
‘  Bakers.............. ..3  “
2 52 3
« 
..5  “
73 54
..6  “
2 10 Y»
..7  “
2 70 hk
..8  “
6 48 k
“  Bowls............... ..No. 36
08 i
.  “  30
18 i
..  “  24
33 i
51 54 “  Cov’d Butters.. .5 inch
.2Vt  “
69 2 “  Indiv’l  “
84 54 “  Cov’d Chambers.No. 9
.  “  “
32 1 “ Uncov’d 
36 54 “ Cake  Plates__
“  Restaurant Creams.........
44 Yt
68 3 “ Cup  Plates......
..7 inch
“ Casseroles........
48 Va.
60 54 W 
......
..8  “
..3  “
66 2 “ Dishes..............
..9  “
1 02
.10  “
78 56 44 
.11  “
90 56 44 
15 1-6 “ Ewers and Basins. No 9...
.No. 36
Ÿ2 Yt
1 36 5 “  Fruit Saucers.. . .4 inch
60 2 “  Scollops........... 256  “
1 50 Yt
..6  “
72 1 44 
..7  “
27 1 44 
48 14 44 
1 93
............
..8  “
.  1 16
36 54 “  Jugs, No. 36__
..  1 38
1 36 54 “ 
“  30....
.  2 90
“  12....
1 36 54
l 38 1-6 “ 
“  6....
..  1 65
44 54 *•  Shell Pickles...
..  2 90
“ Sugars. No. 30..
60
..  1 80
2 84 54 “  Spoon Holders.
2 70 6 sets Unhandled Coffees,........... ..  50
..  36
“ 
42 36 ‘ 
Teas
47
.. 
“
42 12 ‘  Handled 
Crate........

3 85
22
5 63
.  3 85
.  75
4 68
5 25
66
1 38
2 00
2 61
.  9 00
77
35
60
83

Barrell  Mugs..

*4 
“ 
“ 
“ 

44 

44
44
44

44
44

44 

2 50
$55 15

Large Assortment Chas. Meakins’ Cups and Saucers

SELECTED  THIRDS.

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

 
 
 
Sold in any quantities.

33
.33
40

Best  White  Granite Cups and Saucers.

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

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.

GLASSWARE.

Heavy Figured  “ Horseshoe”  Pattern.

Sets, $   dozen............................................  $3 00
Pitchers, 56 gallon...................... 
3 00
Celeries.....................................................  2 00
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers........................   3 00
Bowls, 8 
.................. —   3 85
Bowls, 9 
........................   3 60
Comports, 4  inch...................................... 
30
Goblets .'..................................................
Salvers......................................................   3 00
Nappies,  4 inch........................... ^  gross  2 25

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“ 
“ 

“ 
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Package at cost*

GLASS OIL CANS.

“ Queen” or  “ Daisy.”  No  charge  for box.
56 gal.  per doz.................................................. 3 50
lgal 
4 50

do 

 

............................ 
TUBULAR  LANTERNS.

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

Lamp  Chimneys— Good  Common.

No. 0 Sun 
No. 1 
No. 2 

do
do

No charge for box.
box. 

Best  Common.

.1 90 
.2 00 
.3 00

do 
do 

Each Chimney Labeled First Quality.

No. 0 Sun $   box................................................2 10
No. 1 
No. 2 

........................................... 2 25
........................................... 3 25
Ten per cent, off above prices, when ten boxes 
We have nearly every style manufactured.

of any styles of chimneys are ordered.

The  Engraved  Globe  Chimney.

Crimped  Top  only  75cts  per  dozen.  Former 

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

Vienna White Shades.
To fit illuminator bases.

Packed Six dozen in  case...........38 doz 

$1 00

Illuminator  Bases.

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

dozen in barrel.  Sold for $1.25 everywhere.

LAMP BURNERS.

No 0 Any style per doz. 
No 1 
No 2 

do 
do 
“ GOOD ENOUGH”   O IL CANS.

do
do

.  90 
.1  00 
.1 50

The  best selling five gallon can ever offered.
No. 1,5 gal......................................$1  doz $15 00
No. 2,5 gal.,  Jacket.................................   18 00
No. 4,10 gal., Jacket................................  24 00

English  D ecorated  W are  is  now  one  of 
ou r leading lines, b u t w ant of space  forbids 
our  giving  it  th e  proper  attention in this 
paper.  W e have in stock to-day over  three 
hundred fancy Cham ber Sets w hich we  can 
sell from  $2.75  p er  set  upw ards—over one 
hundred different patterns of  tea  and  d in ­
ner w are—m any of w hich we carry  in  open 
stock—w hich we  offer  a t  from   $3  for  Tea 
Sets,  and $13 for com plete D inner Sets  up ­
wards.

You Can  Save  Honey  and freight by Buying Goods 

Goods.

Complete  w ith  Seven  Inch 

Illu m in a to r 

Base  and  W hite  Shade.

No.  1600, two light, each........................... $1 60
No.  500, two light,  each..........................  1 75
No.  543, two light, each..........................   2 00
No.  544, two light, each..........................   2 50
No.  518, three light, each........................   4 75
No.  595, three light with pat. extension..  7 80
Catalogue sent on application.  W rite  for

prices  on L ibrary  Lamps and Brackets.

SILVERWARE.

In  thispine o u r stock is always  large, and 
we  should  be  pleased  to  send  our  full il­
lu strated Catalogue on application.

REDUCED  PRICES.
On  Rogers  Bros.’  Í847  Genuine  Goods.

Treble Plated  Medium Knives......$   doz $3 00
Tipped Tea Spoons,  A1.............................  2 38
Tipped Table Spoons,  A1..........................  4 75
Newport Tea Spoons, X II........................   2 75
Newport Table Spoons, X II.....................   5 50

NICKEL AND  SILVER  PLATE ON  STEEL. 
These  are  especially  reccom m ended  for 
durability, and we guarantee them  to  w ear 
from  one to five years.

Fruit Knives, in case.......................38 doz $1 75
Alpine Tea Spoons....................................   100
Alpine Table  Spoons................................  2 00
Alpine Medium Forks..............................   2 00
Sultan Tea Spoons....................................  
75
Sultan Table Spoons.................................   1 50
Sultan Medium Forks..............................   1 50

This advertisement appears but a short time.  Mail orders receive careful attention.

*

*

(Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as i\w»*vo :

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23  ¡Pepperell, 10-4........25
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21  Pepperell, 11-4....... 2756
Pepperell,  7-4......1614 Pequot,  7-4............18
Pepperell,  8-4......20  Pequot,  8-4............21
Peppereli,  9-4..... 2256 ¡Pequot,  9-4............«4

Caledonia, XX, oz.
Caledonia,  X,oz..
Economy, oz........
Park Mills, No. 50.
Park Mills, No. 60.
Park Mills, No. 70.
Park Mills, No. 80.

CHECKS.

Park Mills, No. 90..14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.......... 11
Otis Apron.......... 1054
Otis  Furniture.... 1054
York,  1  oz............10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

7  I Alabama plaid......8

Alabama brown 
Jewell briwn.........954 Augusta plaid.........
Kentucky brown..1054 Toledo plaid..... i ..  ¿54
Manchester plaid..  7 
Lewiston brown...  954 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Lane brown.......... 954
juauc  ........................... 
_----:  : *
654
Louisiana  plaid....  8  Utility plaid..

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36.........
Art cambrics,36..J 
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. ]
Ballou, 4-4.............
Ballou, 5-4..............
Boott,  O. 44...........
Boott,  E. 5-5...........
Boott, AGO, 4-4......
Boott, R. 34.........
Blackstone, AA 44 
Ghapman, X, 44—
Conway,  44..........
Cabot, 4-4...............
Cabot, 7-8...............
Canoe,  34..............
Domestic,  36.........
Dwight Anchor, 44.
Davol, 44..............
Fruit of Loom, 44.. 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  44.......
Gold Medal, 44..  ..
Gold Medal. 7-8......
Gilded Age............

Greene, G.  4-4.......   554
Hill, 44..................   854
Hill. 7-8..................   754
Hope,  44...............   754
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44................1154
Linwood,  44.........9
Lonsdale,  44.........   854
Lonsdale  cambric. 1154 
Langdon, GB, 44...  954
¡Langdon, 45.......... 14
Masonville,  44......  954
Maxwell. 4-4...........1054
New York Mill, 44.1054 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Pride of the West. .1254 
Pocahontas,  44—   854
Slaterville, 7-8........  654
Victoria, AA.........9
Woodbury, 44........  534
Whitinsville,  44...  754 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   654
W am6utta, 4-4........1054
Williamsville, 36... 1054

CORSET JEANS.

Armory.................754
Androscoggin sat..  854
Canoe River..........   6
Clarendon............. 654
Hallo well  Imp......634
Ind. Orch. Imp......654
Laconia.................754

Kearsage...............  85«
Naumkeagsatteen.  854 
Pepperell bleached  854
Pepperell sat.........954
Rockport...............  754
Lawrence sat.........  854.
Conegosat..............  7

Albion,  solid...........554
Albion,  grey...........6
Allen’s  checks........554
Aiien’s  fancy..........554
Allen’s pink.............65i
Allen’s purple..........654
American, fancy— 554
Arnold fancy..........6
Berlin solid..............554
Coeheco fancy.......6
Cocheco robes........ 7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone.............6
Eagle fancy........... 5
Garner pink........... 7
8

Appleton A, 44—
Boott  M, 44..........
Boston F, 44.........
Continental C, 4-3.. 
Continental D, 40 in 
Conestoga W, 44... 
Conestoga  D, 7-8... 
Conestoga G, 30-in.
Dwight  X, 3-4........
Dwight Y, 7-8.........
Dwight Z, 44.........
Dwight Star, 44—  
Ewight Star, 40-in.. 
Enterprise EE, 36.. 
Great Falls E, 44...
Farmers’ A, 4-4......
Indian  Orchard, 44

754

Gloucester............. 6
Gloucestermourn’g. 6
Hamilton  fancy__6
Hartel fancy.......... 6
Merrimac D............6
Manchester............6
.Oriental fancy....... 6
¡Oriental  robes....... 654
! Pacific  robes.......... 6
Richmond...............6
Steel River.#.......... 554
Simpson’s ...............6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

Indian Orchard, 40.  854 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74........ 1654
Lyman B, 40-in.......1054
Mass. BB, 4-4.........   654
Nashua  E, 40-in__9
Nashua  R, 44___  734
Nashua 0,7-8.........   754
Newmarket N........  754
Pepperell E, 39-in..  754
Pepperell  R, 44__7
Pepperell 0 ,7-8___ 654
Pepperell N, 3-4—   654
Pocasset  C, 44......7
Saranac R..............  754
Saranac E..............  9

FINE BROWN COTTONS 

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

Amoskeag............  8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles...................1054
Bates.......................754
Berkshire...........■.  654
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 754 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........  8
Gloucester, 
standard............  754
Plunket.............    754
Lancaster..............  834
Langdale.............    734

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styll054 
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bookfold.............1254
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........1254
Slaterville, 
dress 
styles•*•«*»•••■•••  9 
White Mfg Co, stap 734 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston..............  954
Gordon..................   8
Greylock, 
dress 

sty les......   ........ 1254

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 74. .21 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .28 
Pepperell,  7-4......20
Pepperell,  8-4,.....2254
Pepperell,  9-4;.....26

Pepperell.  10-4......2754
Pepperell,  11-4......8254
Pequot,  7-4...........21.
Pequot,  8-4...... ....24
Pequot,  9-4,....,...2754

«

..  854

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

I Atlantic  A, 44......7 \
Atlantic H, 44......7
j Atlantic  D, 4-4........654
! Atlantic P, 4-4........  534
; Atlantic LL, 4-4—   554
j Adriatic, 36............   754
Augusta, 44...........  654
Boott M, 44...........  754
Boott FF, 44.........   734
Graniteville, 44—   634 
Indian  Head, 44...  754 
ndiana Head 45-in.1254

Lawrence XX, 4-4 
Lawrence  Y, 30.. 
Lawrence LL, 4-4.
Newmarket N__
Mystic River, 4-4.
Pequot A, 4-4......
Piedmont, 36......
Stark AA, 4-4......
Tremont CC, 4-4..
Utica,  4-4............
Wachusett,  4-4... 
Wachusett, 30-in.

Amoskeag,  AC A... 15 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A......14
Amoskeag,  B ......13
Amoskeag,  C...... 12
Amoskeag,  D......11
Amoskeag,  E ......1054
Amoskeag, F .........10
Premium  A, 44— 17
Premium  B.......... 16
Extra 44................ 16
Extra 7-8................ 1454
Gold Medal 44....... 15
CCA 7-8..................1254
CT 44.....................14
RC 7-8.....................14
BF 7-8.....................16
AF4-4.....................19
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Cordis ACA, 32......16
Cordis No. 1, 32......15
Cordis No. 2.......... 14
Cordis No. 3.......... 13
Cordis No. 4..........U54

Falls, XXXX.........1854
Falls, XXX............1554
Falls,  BB...............1154
Falls,  BBC, 36....... 1954
Falls,  awning....... 19
Hamilton,  BT, 82..12
Hamilton,  D.........10
Hamilton,  H ....   . .10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA.........1454
Methuen ASA....... 18
Omega A, 7-8.........11
Omega A, 4-4.........13
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14
Omega ACA, 4-4__16
Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
Oméga SE, 4-4....... 27
Omega M. 7-8....... 22
Omega M, 4-4.........25
ShetucketSS&SSW 1154 
She tucket, S & SW.12
Shetueket,  SFS__12
Stockbridge  A......7
Stoekbridge frncy.  8

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

5

Hookset...........
Red  Cross........
Forest Grove...

...  5 W ashington...... ...4%
...  5 Edwards...........
...  5
S. S. & Sons........ ...  5

...1556
American  A...
Stark A............ __2356¡Wheatland........ ...2156

|01d  Ironsides..

GRAIN BAGS.
...19 

DENIMS.

Boston............ ....  756 Otis CC.............. ...1054
Everett blue... ....1456 Warren  AXA..
...1256
Everett brown. ....1456 Warren  BB__ ...1156
Otis  AXA........ ....1256 Warren CC......
...1056
Otis BB............ ....1156 York  fancy__ ...15

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

Man ville........... ....  6 S. S. & Sons......
Masgnville...... ....  6 Garner ............

WIGANS.

Red  Cross........ ....  7 Thistle Mills__
Berlin.............. ....  7 Rose.................
G arner............ __ 7

SPOOL COTTON.

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

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Mer ricks................40
Stafford................. 35
Hall & Manning__30
Holyoke...............,.25

...  6
...  6

...  8

Crown................... 17
No.  10................... 1254
Coin...................... 10
Anchor..................15
Centennial.........
Blackburn............  8
Davol.....................14
London..................1254
Paconia................12
Red  Cross.............10
Social  Imperial__16

Masonville TS........  8
Masonville  S..........1054
Lonsdale................. 954
Lonsdale A............16
Nictory  0 ............  6
Victory J ...............   7
Victory D.............10
Victory  K.............1254
Phoenix A..............  954
Phoenix B.............1054
Phoenix XX..........15

MILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:

HATS.

Cantons................................per doz  2 25@ 3 00
Milans................................................  4 00@ 6 00
Fine  Milans.......................................  9 00® 12 00
Superfine Milans................................15 
Chip...................................................  5 

00@18 00
00@12 00

BLACK  CRAPE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand.

4-4............................................per yard 50@  75
4-4  ........................................................  85@1 25
4- 4 .........................’..............................1 50@2 CO
5- 4 .............................................................1 75@2 50
5- 
4  ......................................... 2 75@3 00
6- 4  ........................................................ 3 25@4 50

RIBBONS. 

,

Satin and GG, all silk,  extra heavy,  all colors.
1 00
No. 4............................................. 
 
No. 5........  
1 25
No. 7...................................................... 
  1 50
No. 9............................................................... 1 85
No. 12..............................................................2 25
No. 16..............................................................2 75

 

Second quality, all colors.

 

 

No.4............. 
N o.5*.................................... *................ 
No. 7.,...........................  
No.»........................  
 
No. 1 2 ............... 
N o .» ...... *.. 
' " ' ' 

 
.......
-........ 'ÈMÈÉ................ '  ' " ““ 

40
50
70
85
....................  90

 

 

 

 

 

 

'

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 
Spring & Company quote as follows: 

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
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.......................... 

 

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@1 00 
@1 00 
@1  00 
@  9754

HEMPS.

-  ALL WOOL  SUPERFINES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford.......................................
Lowell........................ ...................
@
Other makes................................. *  75
Best ootton chain..........................  60  @
Be6t  2-ply......................................  5754®
Other grades 2-ply........................   5254®
All-wool  super, 2-ply...................  50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4254@
Double cotton chain.....................   35  @
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @ 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754@
Single cotton chain.......................  19  @
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........
2754@
B, 4-4 wide.................:.....................
@@
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide...............
D, 33  inches...................................
No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4......... .......
.................
No. 2, 
No. 3, 
.................
No. 4, 
.................
Best all rattan, plain.....................
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain...
Napier A.......................................
Napier  B.......................................
Opaque shades, 38 inch.................
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4.........
Pacific  Holland, 4-4.......................
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross...
Cord fixtures, per gross...............

OIL CLOTHS.

MUTTINGS.

CURTaiNS.

do 
do 
do 

@10

7754 
8254 
7754 
6254

45
40
3254
3254
25

6254
5254
50
40

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:

HIDES.

FURS.

WOOL.

SHEEP PELTS.

Green...........................................$  lb 8  @ 7
Part  cured......... ;...............................   8  @ 854
Full cured............................................  854@ 834
Dry hides and kips..............................   8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured............ . 
.10  @12
Deacon skins..........................¥  piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts............................................ 30  @50
Winter  pelts.................................... 1 00  @1 50
Fine washed ]jMb................................ 30  @32
Coarse washed....................................22  @25
Unwäshed...........................................2-3
Mink, large...........................................  60®  75
Mink, small.........................................   25@  40
Muskrat, Spring.................................   15®  17
Muskrat, Winter.................................   13@  14
Muskrat,  Fall......................................  
8@  10
Muskrat,  kits......................................   3@  4
Raccoon...............................................   40@  85
Skunk, black........................................  80@  90
Skunk, half stripe..............................   50@  60
Skunk, narrow stripe..........................  25@  30
Skunk,  broad......................................  10@  15
Red Fox..............................................1 00@1 15
Gray Fox..............................................  60@  90
Marten,  yellow...................................  75@1 00
Fisher................................................. 4 00@8 00
O tter.................................................. 6 00@8 00
Bear....................................................5 00@12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry__$   tt>  25®  30
Deer skins, gray and long  haired......   12®  25
Beaver, clean and dry  $  B>..............2 00@3 25
Above prices are for prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion.
Tallow..................................................   6@ 654

DELINQUENT DEBTORS.

Falm outh.

John  Koopman  writes:  Hike  the  plan of 
your Dead-Beat List and think if followed up by 
all dealers It would prove a  protection  to the 
trade.  I submit the following:
Andrew G. Larcom...................................$25 74
Jas. McGarvey, moved to Clio..................  4 13
Wm.  Smeade  [a  smooth  city-tongued

rogue]..................... ...............................  1 74
John Gardner...........................................   3 00
Wm. F. Smith La thorough dead-beat.  Is 
or has been residing at Vogel Center]..  10 41
Eugene W. Larcom............................... .  350
The former has moved to Lake City and left 
the above account, open bestdes.several others 
in this vicinity.

Visiting  Buyers.

Country  Produce.

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

Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
R. B. Jennings, New Troy.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
E. W. Sherwood, Otsego.
L. J. Eckler, Kalkaska.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
G. A. Estes, Tustin.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
W. B. Thompson, Lowell.
J. Gibson, Petoskey.
J. M. Dameron, Bangor.
R. M. Smith, Campbell &  Smith,  Luther.
S. C. Fell, Howard  City.
Andrew Green, Hungerford.
M. B. Farran, South Boardman.
S. Frost,  McBride’s.
Geo. A. Sage,  Rockford.
C. Porter,  Chauncy.
C. N. Hyde, Alba.
John R. Wylie, or Wylie Bros.,  Martin.
F. Dodge, Stanwood.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland P. O.
H. Baker, Baker & Son, Drenthe.
N. Bouma, Fisher’s Station.
Wait Bros., Hudsonville.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
C. L. Howard,  Clarksville.
T. J. Sheridan & Co.,  Lockwood.
A. V. Chapman, Fruitport.
Delos Bros., Bravo.
Chas. Glascow, Saranac.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.
H. Coykendall, Allegan.
Stauffer & Salisbury, Hastings.
A. G. Fleury,  Chester.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
Carrel & Fisher, Dorr.
Colburn & Carpenter, Caledonia.
G. J. Schakelton,  Lisbon.
J. & W. F. Bricker,  Belding.
I.  S. Boise,  Hastings.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Smeadley  Bros.,  Georgtown.
D. R. Crane,  Fennville.
J. E. Bevins,  LeRoy.
S. D. Thompson, Newaygo.
M. Miller, Wyman.
Spoon & Thompson, Spoonville.
Fred Ramsey, Whits Cloud.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Geo. S. Curtiss, Edgerton.
M. Hedges & Son, Lamont.
E. Plumb & Sons, Mill Creek.
W. F. Stuart, Sand Sake.
D. H. Lord, Howard.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
J. B. Jewell, Fremont.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
F. N. Edie, Casnovia.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver  Dam.
J. O. Sabin,  Luther.
G. II.  Walbrink,  Allendale.
Jas. Toland, Ross.

Late  Furniture  Gossip.

Hall  &  Lewis’ furniture store at  Hersey 

was burned on the 25th  ult.

The Phoenix Furniture  Co.  has  added  to 
its line of pillar  extension* tables  four  new 
patterns.

A Company has been formed at  Sherwood 
to engage in the  manufacture  of  extension 
table slides.

Henry S. Holden has gone East on a busi­
ness trip for the  Luther  &  Sumner  Manu­
facturing Co.

Chas. W. Jones, of Widdicomb  Furniture 
Co., has returned from an extended Southern 
and Eastern trip.

Bellaire people are discussing  the  project 
of forming a $50,000  company  to  manufae- 
ture the Harriman patent table.

H. 0. Lange has retired from  the  firm  of 
Truesdell, Lange & Co., furniture dealers at 
Muskegon.  A. C. & L. Truesdell  Will  con­
tinue the business.

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  $3  7$ 
bbl. and $1 
bu.
Butter—Good  dairy rolls are firm  at 22@ 
25c  and  packed  from  10c  up. 
Elgin 
creamery, 27.
Butterine—Active at  20@21c  for  choice.
Buckwheat—New York patent,  $3.50  per 
100 lbs, and $6.50 7$ bbl.
Beans—Prices are looking up, the Eastern 
market  having  advanced  very  materially. 
Handpicked are firm at $2.25 and  unpicked 
are in active demand at $1.75@  $2.
Barley—Choice $1.30 7$ 100  lbs.
Cheese—Firmer and  stiffer.  Full  cream 
is active at 15c, and skim is in good  demand 
at 12X@13Xc.
Cider—20c ^  gal. for ordinary.  Sand  re­
fined, $6.50 ^  bbl.
Clover Seed—Choice medium weaker at $6 
@$6.50 7$ bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $6.75@$7 
Corn—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  com  at  from 
45@60c 7$ bu. 
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 ^  
lb,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 14@15c.
Eggs—Still uncertain as to price, although 
everyone seems to be well  loaded  up.  Job­
bers are holding  them  at  16c,  but whether 
the next move will be up or down  it  is  im­
possible to state.  The probability, however, 
is that they will reach 14c before the end  of 
the week.

bu.

bbl.

Green Onions—50c ^  dozen  bunches.
Honey—In comb, 18c ^  lb.
Hops—Choice New York  25@28c  ^   fib; 
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 ^   lb.
Maple Sugar—In consequence  of  a  light 
crop,  the  price  is up lc, and choice readily 
commands 13c.
Onions—Choice yellow 75c ^  bu. in sacks 
and $2.50 
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
a t l 2 ^ c ^   lb.
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.

bbl.
and $2 
Burbanks, 50c.
$1.75 ^  bu.

Radishes—50c ^  dozen bunches.
Ruta Bagas—Selling readily at 65c 7$ bu., 
Seed Potatoes —White  Star,  $1;  Selected 
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.50@ 
Vegetable Oysters—50c ^  dozen bunches.
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  82@88c 

^P bu. for No. 2 and 92@95c for No.  1.

“  Brimfull  of  Interesting  Business  Items.”
From the Sparta Sentinel.

T he Michigan  Tradesman  reaches  us 
this week enlarged to an  eight  page  paper 
and is as usual brimful  of  interesting  busi­
ness items.

Calkins Bros., wholesale and retail dealers 
in gun goods and fishing-tackle.  Agents for 
gun and blasting powder, fuse, etc.

“ Found  a Good  Field.”

From the Charlevoix Journal.

The Grand Rapids T radesman evidently 
found a good field.  It  started  six  months 
ago as a six-column folio, and its  second en- 
lagement makes it a six-column quarto, with 
^ a  good  advertising  patronage.

“ Comes from  Genuine  Merit.”

From the Rockford Register.

The Michigan  Tradesman,  of  Grand 
Rapids, which is but six months old,  comes 
out this  week  enlarged  to  an  eight  page 
paper, just double  its  former  size.  This 
success comes from genuine merit.  No man 
doing business finds it possible to get  along 
without it.

“ Is  Duly  Appreciated.”

From the Mancelona Herald.

The Michigan Tradesman comes  to us 
a 48 column paper. 
It  must  be  gratifying 
to Editor Stowe to note the  growing  popu­
larity of his paper.  The editor  has  brains, 
pluck and energy, which are duly appreciat­
ed by the public.  Success to The Trades­
man.

“ Presents a  Very  Neat  Appearance.”

From the Cadillac Times.

The  Michigan  T radesman  has  been 
enlarged to a six  column  quarto  and  pre­
sents a very neat  appearance.

“ Is  Prospering.”
From the  Grand Rapids Radical.

T he Michigan Tradesman  is  prosper­
It appears this week  enlarged  and  in 

ing. 
eight page  form.

Mississippi cane fishing poles $4 per  hun­
dred at Calkins Bros.  Good length  and  se­
lected.

Boralumine cannot be  beaten.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.

FOR  SALE.

DRUG  STOCK FOR  SALE,  a   stock  worth 
$1,500,  in  a  good  location  In  this  city. 
Will invoice.  Good  reasons  for  selling.  Ad­
dress, Druggist, care of Carrier No. 10.
IT'OR  SALE—A  stock  of  drugs,  groceries, 
.  hardware  and  agricultural  Implements, 
located at New Troy, Mich.  Will invoice $3,500. 
Loss of health the  reason  for  selling.  Terms 
easy, or will exchange for a good  stock  farm. 
Address Jennings & Smith, Grand Rapids,Mich.
DO  ACRE  FRUIT  FARM  to  exchange  for 
OO  livery  or  drug  store,  254  miles west of 
Holland.  Fine, large house, nearly new,  large 
barn, best hen house in the county, 1,000  bear­
ing fruit trees, 500 apple trees,  one acre straw­
berries, grapes and all kinds of fruit.  C. Craw­
ford, Caledonia,  Mich.
D RUG STORE FOR SALE in Grand Rapids, 
for  $2,500  or  invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  Address  Hazeltine,  Perkins  & Co., 
Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.
RARE  CHANCE  to  purchase  a  first-class 
Livery Stock including  one  of  Cunning­
ham’s best hearses.  Will take as part payment 
good  impro\ ed  farm  property.  Will sell  or 
rent barn and grounds.  Tne  best  location in 
the best livery town  in the  State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS.

GOOD SECOMD-HAND SAFE wanted at this 
office.  Must be cheap.  Address,  stating 
size and price.
50 Hollister, Grand Rapids,  Mich.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids 
will be received for the entire  assets of the es­
tate of D. R. Stoeum,  of  Rockford,  Michigan, 
until the 15th day of April, 1884.  Full informa­
tion can he obtained by an examination of the 
schedules in the County Clerk’s office and from 
the undersigned at the store in Rockford. Two 
hundred dollars must be deposited  as  an  evi­
dence of good faith, and it will be  returned a t ' 
once if the bid is  not  accepted.  The  right  is 
reserved to reject any or all bids.

Rockford, March 29,1884.

Neal McMillan, Assignee.

The  Picture Card as an  Educator.

“These things are a  nuisance  and  should 
be abated,” said an outside dealer  at  a  cer­
tain jobbing house the other day, pointing to 
a fresh arrival of picture  cards  and  bright 
chromos.  “They  are  the  curse  of  trade. 
Every  child  in  town  constitutes  itself  a 
committee of one to make the rounds of  the 
stores every day  on  a  begging  expedition, 
and every time a woman goes to a  store  for 
25 cents worth of  anything  she  expects  a 
half dozen cards  of  different  design.  For 
one, I’m tired of catering to the demand  for 
such things.”

A city dealer happened to be in  the  store 
at the time, and overheard the  vigorous  de­
nunciation.

“I beg leave to differ with you,”  said  the 
city dealer, “for I consider the men who dis­
seminate picture  cards  public  benefactors. 
Aside from a discussion of their merits as an 
advertising medium, I hold that they have cul­
tivated a taste for better  things.  They  are 
bright, and generally cheerful, and bring joy 
to the hearts of many a poor child  and  even 
to older people  with  young  hearts.  The 
seamstress gets a chromo at the tea  store  to 
take the place of the shadow she used to thank 
for falling on the bare walk A chromo is much 
more exhilarating than  a  shadow.  People 
who go into the rooms occupied by the  very 
poor find the walls less repulsive than form­
erly.  Especially is this true in rooms  occu­
pied by the thousands who have known  bet­
ter days.”

“But how can an unreal  picture  cultivate 

taste?”  asked the outside dealer.

‘Indirectly, of course.  Suppose  they  are 
unreal.  They are bits of bright color.  The 
housewife and the children arrange them on 
the! walls.  Pretty soon  some  one  notices 
that the color of  one  does  not  match  well 
with its neighbor.  A  re-arranging  follows 
with an improved effect.  That  has  been  a 
lesson in art to the wife or daughter or  son, 
or all three, of a hod carrier,  perhaps.  Cul­
tivation has begun  at the  roots.  You  will 
see the result in the next generation.  From 
free tea  store  advertisements,  the  house­
keeper is lead to admire cheap chromos, and 
from chromos finally turn  to  paintings  and 
engravings,  and  in  the course of time the 
latter  succeed the  imitations  of  works  of 
art. 
In my opinjon, the picture card’s chief 
mission is among the poor,  and  is  fulfilling 
its mission beautifully  and  effectively.”

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  COMPANY,

"WHOLESALE  DRUGGISTS,

42  and  44  Ottawa  St.,  and  89,  91,  g3  and  g5  Louis St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

IMPORTERS  ÄND  JOBBERS  OF

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We have a choice stock 
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and Prices to THE SEED 
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W. T. Lamoreaux,  £ (nt.
H.  W A L S H   &  SON,

Holland, Mich., Wholesale Dealers in 

Rockford  Business  Points.

From the Register.

Never were prospects better for  Rockford 
taking a big boom than they are this  spring.
E. B. Lapham is getting ready to build  on 
his lots on Main street.  His  building  will 
be 24x60  feet,  two  stories  in  height,  and 
veneered with brick.

James Colby  expects  to  open  a  grocery 
again in the  room  now  occupied  by  Robt, 
Carlyle as  soon  as  vacated  by  him, which 
will probably be about the last of April.

Mr. George Blakeley, who has been in the 
drug  store of B. N. Pettingill since before it 
was sold by R.  Y. McArthur to  the present 
owner, has gone to Fife Lake, to take charge 
of a  drug  store  there  which  lias been pur­
chased by his brother, Mr.  C.  E.  Blakeley, 
of Coopersville.

The  foundation  will  be  commenced  im­
mediately  for  J.  Colby’s new block, which 
will probably be the largest that will be  put 
up in town this season. 
It  will  be  42  feet 
front by 70 feet deep, two  stories  high,  and 
will be veneered with  brick. 
It  is  to  con­
tain two store rooms  below.  Such  a  build­
ing as this more than replaces five  or  six  of 
some of those destroyed by the fire.

The coming year will  be  a  booming  one 
for Rockford;  all outward and  external  ap­
pearances point directly  toward  it,  and  in 
ternal signs and appearances  are,"favorable. 
Business in all branches  begins  to  pick  up 
and the people generally  are  settling  down 
into a spirit  of  confidence  that  dull  times 
will soon be a thing of the past;  property is 
changing hands, real estate  is  moving  more 
briskly than for many years, and newcomers 
are looking for locations in our midst.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

J. J. Bowen,  grocer,  Ovid:  “We  like  it 

very much.”

J. E. Rice, general merchandise,  Coopers­

ville:  “1 consider it a very worthy sheet.”

Jorgensen &  Hammingsen,  general  deal­
ers, Ashland P.  O.:  “Like  the  paper  very 
much.”

Cole & Stone, proprietors Paw  Paw  Shirt 
Factory, Paw Paw:  “We  cannot  get  along 
without it.”

L  Foust,  general  dealer,  Wexford: 

think the paper is just what  every  business 
man  needs.”

Dr. D. W. McConnine, drugs and groceries. 
Wexford:  “I think it well worth the money, 
and every tradesman should have the paper.’
S. M. Scott,  general  dealer,  North  Star 
“A very valuable paper. 
It is a  ‘boon  com­
panion to me, and I appreciate  its  value  in 
the  mercantile business.”

GRAND  RAPIDS

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H.  LEONARD  &  SONS

MANUFACTURED  FOR

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

HAND  0 B   MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOB 

SALE BY THE  PACKAGE  OB  BE- 

PACKED  TO  OBDEB.

Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 

Price List  at once for the Spring Trade.

Olover, Timothy Seed and Ground Oil Oakes

Write fpr quotations.

ALBERT  GOYB  k SONS,
Awnings,  Tents,

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, 

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  aud  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Send for Prices.

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

Successor to  H .  M. Bliven,

—WHOLESALE—

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

Agent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated  “ F  ”  Brand 

Raw  Oysters.

117  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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To Gardeners and Farmers.

About two years ago, Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, sent to D. M. Ferry & Co., the well 
known seed firm of Detroit, for one-half bushel of the  celebrated White Star potatoes, for seed purposes.  The potatoes  were procured, 
and planted by the undersigned, and the result was one gratifying beyond measure.  The second planting yielded 7,000 bushels of as fine 
potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State.  They  were  pronounced  by  all  who  tiled  them  of  the  very  finest 
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to this section of the country,  never  troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bug  of any sort.  Such is the universal testimony 
as to the merits of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they have never met its equal for endurance, productiveness, and  fine  eating 
qualities.  All farmers and gardners are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it, are united 
in its praise, and others will find it to their profit t o   make inquiries. 
We are now making a sbecialty of handling this splendid potato, and are prepared to supply patrons at a price  which,  a  reference  to 
all seed catalogues aud the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices.  We  make  this  liberal  offer  to
^W ew 'ill furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount  to  dealers.  We  will  also 
furnish  at cost prices, all barrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their  own, adressed to Ensley & Son,  Maple  Hill,  Mich.  Orders
mav be’sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postoffice, Mich., or to O. W. Blain, General  Agent,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.  All  addresses
should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes.  Patrons  should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses, and  state 
to what railroad station they wish to have their shipments made.  Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money,
New York draft, money order, or registered letter. 
Readers are cordially invited to refer to Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtcli, Postmaster, andN. W. Mhther, 
Banker  Howard City, Mich., for the truth of all of the above statements  regarding the superior quality and extraordinary  yield  of  the 
White Star Potatoes.  We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name.

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FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS  AND  TERMS  TO  DEALERS,  ADDRESS

O.  W.  BLAIN,  General  Agent,

PRODUCE  COMMISSION  MERCHANT, Eagle Hotel  or  152  Fulton  Street,
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APPLIANCES,
NO. 8  CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

MICHIGAN  COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIAI
Incorporated Dee. 10,1877—Charter in Force fo r ] 

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

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  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Meredith, 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One Year—J. C. Pon­
tius, Chairman, S. A. Monger, B. K. White 
For Two Years—D. Morris, A. W.  Culver.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS,

.  Orders by Mali and Express  promptly  at­
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BEST  ON  THE  MARKET.  EVERYONE USES IT. 

Factories, Seneca Falls, New York.

Sold by all Wholesale Grocers.

P E R K I N S   &  HESS,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

----- DEALERS  IN-----

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

PROMPT  PAYMENTS.

How  Such  a  System  Works  to  Advantage- 

Disadvantages of Slow  Payments.

“The points you  made last  week  on  the 
question of prompt payments cannot  be em­
phasized  too strongly,” said a  Canal  street 
confectioner a day  or  two  ago.  “Retailers 
frequently allow thirty day  bills  to mature 
and several days to elapse before they remit 
for the amounts due, thinking  that one such 
case will not make any  difference  with  the 
jobber.  One  case  of  the  kind  would  not 
work much injury, but fifty or.one  hundred 
delays at a time sometimes cause  serious in­
convenience.  With  Eastern  jobbers  and 
manufacturers 30 days mean 30 days and  30 
days in New York at that. 
It is not enough 
that the bill be paid  here  on  maturity,  but 
the remittance must reach the house the day 
it is due.  No such cast iron regulations  are 
required of the retailer, but some of our cus- 
somers impose upon our good nature too fre­
quently  and  too  heedlessly.  Orders  from 
such men  are  always  the  last to  be  filled, 
and we are not over careful to  shade prices, 
knowing  as  we do that the  parties are  not 
sharp pay, and therefore should not  be close 
buyers.”

“I wish you could impress on the mind  of 
every slow-paying  retailer  the  penalty  the 
jobber pays for not meeting all bills prompt­
ly,” said a prominent wholesale groceryman. 
“When  we  first  started  in  business a few 
years ago we did not understand  the  neces­
sity of remitting for sugar bills two or  three 
days before maturity, and as a  consequence 
soon found that one  of  the  refiners  would 
not  sell  us.  The  broker  here  wrote  the 
house stating that the failure to  get  the  re­
mittances  there  on  time  was an oversight, 
and that  it  should  not  happen  again;  but 
the house replied that  one  breach  of  their 
rules  subjected  the  party  making it to  in­
stant suspicion, and that the  custom  of  the 
trade compelled them to decline any  further 
business from that source.  All remonstrance 
was in vain, and the only consolation is that 
we are not the only house in the  same  boat 
at this market.

“Now,  suppose we  were  as  severe  with 
our trade as that, and  there  was  an  under­
standing among the jobbers here, so that we 
would act in common.  Would not  half  the 
retailers  rise  in  a  body,  and  remonstrate 
against  such 
system  of 
credits?  Of  course  it  is  not  advisable  to 
establish  any  such  expedient  here,  but  a 
knowledge of the regulations  to  which  the 
jobbers are obliged to conform may  serve to 
make  the retailers a  little  more  careful  to 
consult  our  interests  as  well  as their own 
convenience.”

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“Your  reference  to  the  advisability  of 
meeting all bills promptly finds a parellel in 
my own business practice,” said a prominent 
produce dealer. 
It frequently happens  that 
I have orders for more goods than  I happen 
to have on hand.  1 then look over the orders, 
and select out those from prompt-paying cus­
tomers,  leaving  the  others  unfilled,  some­
times for days.  And occasionally when they 
are  filled, it is because I have some  second- 
class stock that cannot be disposed of to  ad­
vantage to the best class of customers.  The 
man who is slow in paying his  bills  cannot 
complain if I charge him a  round  price  for 
inferior  goods, and there seems to be a  mu­
tual understanding that both  parties  are  to 
be imposed upon —one in the quality  of  the 
goods  and  the  other in the matter of  cred­
its.”

“A  I  understand  the  term,”  said  Mr. 
Minchener,  the  Detroit  manager  of  R.  G. 
Dun & Co’s Mercantile Agency,  who was  in 
the city several days last week,  “the  jobber 
is not also a banker, unless he choses to con­
stitute himself  such.  There  is  no  re 
why  he  should  go  outside  his  legitimate 
field and extend almost  unlimited  credit  to 
his customers, thus usurping the business  of 
the country banks.  There are a  number  of 
concerns in Detroit which  make  a  practice 
of carrying their customers, charging them 7 
per cent for the use of the money; but if the 
same money was invested in goods and turn­
ed over and re-invested, there  is  no  reason 
why it should not bring them  in  far  better 
returns. 
I see no reason  why  the  retailer 
should make the jobber his banker,  and  am 
at a loss to  understand  why  the  jobber  al­
lows  himself  to  do double  duty in this  re­
spect”

McIntyre, the  Bible Student.

No one who has the slightest acquaintance 
with John McIntyre  would suppose  that  he 
was “up” on Biblical incidents,  but a recent 
dinner party in Walker township  developed 
the fact that he was posted—on one  subject, 
at least  One of the ladies present was com­
plimenting  him  on his superior gifts as  an 
entertainer, and reproaching him for absent­
ing himself from home for such long periods.
“We all waat to see more of you,” she do 
dared;  “you ought really  to  let  us  lionize 
you a little.”

“My dear madam,” replied the  suave  and 
burly traveler,  “I never  heard  of  but  one 
man who was not completely spoiled  by  be­
ing lionized.”

“Who was that?” asked the lady.
“The Prophet Daniel,” responded John.

New Town  in  Gratiot County.

A North  Star  dealer  writes:  “We  have 
founded a town at the center of  North  Star 
township, for which we have not yet  select­
ed a name.  It w ill be on the line of the  T., 
A. A. &  N.  M.  Railway,  and  as  the  sur­
roundings are  favorable,  the  prospects  are 
excellent for a flourishing little  town.”

