GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  APRIL  16,  1884.

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for  “something 
cheaper,” which is the  prominent  peculiar­
ity of these times, is worth  the  serious con­
sideration of all merchants  and  producers. 
This condition proceeds from  the  necessity 
of  having  something  to  offer  below  the 
market price, before a sale can  be  effected. 
In other words the seller  has  to  tempt the 
buyer.  The result is  that  nothing  is  con­
sidered cheap if there is a  possibility  of its 
being  sold  cheaper,  and  this  holds  good 
without regard to what the goods cost.  But 
it is extremely doubtful if goods  are  cheap 
to the public when  sold  below  cost  of pro­
duction.  A panic in prices is simply the re­
sult of selling  goods  below  cost,  and  the 
public always suffers from a panic;  only the 
few get any advantage.  But  the  question 
will arise here,  “What is Cost?” for after all 
cheapness is  only  comparative.  “What  is 
Cost?” and “What is Value?” are  the  same 
question, and from time to time immemorial 
the question of a measure of value has  been 
discussed.  Most political  economists  have 
argued that gold is the measure  or  basis of 
value;  but recently Henry George  seems to 
have created a strong doubt by making  laud 
the  basis. 
It seems now  to  be  tacitly  ad­
mitted that gold is not  a  measure of value. 
If a barrel of flour is  exchanged  for  seven 
gold American dollars, it  is  a  question  of 
dispute whether the flour is bought with the 
gold or the gold is  bought  with  the  flour. 
Of  course,  whichever  is  the  measure  of 
value  purchased 
is 
value or which represents  value?  What  is 
value?  There is but one thing  of  value in 
the  world  to  mankind,  and  that 
is  life. 
“Self-preservation is the first law of nature.” 
Therefore, what will sustain life is the  first 
measure of value; this is “food.”  The  cost 
of a sufficient amount of  food to  support a 
man for a day  is  the  value  of  that  man’s 
time for that day. 
If he be a  married  man 
the cost of sustenance for his wife arid three 
children must be added to it.  That  is  the 
average family. 
If enforced  to  idleness by 
sickness or lack of employment, the  cost of 
sustenance must be added to the  cost  value 
If  he 
of what he produces when at work. 
has to assist the orphans of a brother, 
if he 
has to help  to  support  those  who,  either 
from physical weakness,  the  idleness  that 
wealth produces, or  the  police  service  of 
government and armies, the  expense  of all 
these things must be added, and not  one jot 
or title can be withheld without  destroying 
some of the real value by starvation. 
If he 
lives in a land  which  requires  more  time 
and labor to produce sufficient for daily sus­
tenance than would  be  gotten  in  another 
climate, a given quantity of  what  he  pro­
duces will be more valuable than if  it  were 
produced in the shorter time,  or  with  less 
labor in the other land.  Thus, if rice be the 
food of Asia and  the  yield  from  a  day’s 
labor on a piece of  ground  be  sufficient to 
sustain life for six days,  and  wheat  be the 
food of America and the yield from  a day’s 
labor be sufficient  to  give  sustenance  for 
three days, it would not be possible for Asia 
and America to compete in  the same  mar­
kets, as the  measures of value are primarily 
different.  We could follow this  further  in 
regard to the  absolute  requirements  of the 
man in the colder climate to  make  him  as 
comfortable as the  worker  in  the  milder 
zone, all of which must be added to the  cost 
of life;  but it would lead us  too  far  from 
our purpose.  We  wish  to  show  .that  it 
would not be well  for  the  people  of  that 
colder clime to bring the goods from Asia to 
compete with their own productions,  unless 
by some means they were made to  cost  the 
value of their own goods.  Though  the rice 
might be sold at half the price of the wheat, 
plus the transportation, and  would  sustain 
life twice as long as  the  same  quantity  of 
wheat, it would not be  cheap  to  a  people 
whom it deprived of occupation in the  rais­
ing of wheat.  This inequality is found  hot 
only in international  commerce  but in  the 
conditions of local trade. 
If the  value  of a 
man’s subsistence is  one  bushel  of  wheat 
per day in New York  State,  anything that 
it will require  of  him  one  day’s  time  to 
make,  will  be  worth  that  in  his  market, 
whether it be produced by  human  labor  or 
not. 
If sold below that value it  will not be 
cheap,  for it will not  secure  sustenance to 
the producer.  Thus,  if  one  man  with  a 
machine  would  produce  ten  bushels  of 
wheat in a day, that wheat would  be  worth 
the 
ten  men  and  could 
not be sold cheaper.  But  if  the nine, 
in­
stead of standing idle, produce other things, 
they must be used as  luxuries,  still  worth 
the wheat  value of the time they require to 
produce, and if they introduced machines to 
prdduce these luxuries the latter  would still 
be worth the same  cost  and  must  be  ex­
changed on that basis, or would  remain un­
used, would soon block the  market,  would 
deprive the man of occupation, would  react 
on the very necessaries of life and would re­
sult in food being very dear to  him  at  half 
the value of a day’s  labor. 
Plainly  when 
we over-produce we must over-consume, and 
what is sacrificed as cheap is in  reality very 
dear to the  whole  people;  whereas, if  we 
attempt to over-consyime, so to speak, we are 
only enjoying luxuries; we are  keeping the 
balance of trade  among  ourselves;  we  are

living  of 

giving outward evidence of mental progress; 
we  are driving the curse of  physical  labor 
once more from the  garden  of  the  Earth. 
And cheapness, that is,  selling  below  cost, 
is the greatest obstacle in the way of proper 
progress,  for we do not live to labor, but we 
labor to live.

COMMERCIAL BUTTER.

A P le a  for th e  Inspection of  the  M anufac­

tu red   A rticle.
Grand  Rapids, April 15,1884.

E d itor T r a d e sm a n :—Your  exhaustive 
review of butter  imitations  in  last  week’s 
paper covers many points  which  had never 
come to my notice, but in my  opinion there 
are several features which should be spoken 
of in this connection.  No one  denies  that 
fat or butter is a necessity  for  our  system: 
the man who exercises his muscular strength 
needs it as much as the man  who  uses  his 
brain power;  but children need it most,  for 
their growth depends on it. 
Inhabitants  of 
some climates demand it more  than  others. 
Those of Michigan city are greatly in want of 
it, and consequently consume  large amounts 
of butter.  Butter  in the  first  instance  is 
made from the milk of  the  cow,  and  that 
was  sufficient in former times for [the popu­
lation ;  but the  increase  of  cows  has  not 
kept pace with the  increase  of  population, 
and the milk of a large number of  the cows 
that are at our disposal is used up to  a  far 
greater extent for daily  consumption.  But­
ter, therefore, rose  in price  and  could  not 
be had by the people, who  gain  but  small 
rewards  for  their  exertions. 
Paris,  that 
cannot live without  butter,  cried  out  the 
loudest, and the Liege Mouries  method was 
then invented to turn the consolidated fat of 
the beef back again into a  fluid,  fatty  sub­
stance, mix it with milk and make  artificial 
butter from  it.  Any  one  who  is  without 
prejudice will  own  that  there  is  nothing 
nasty or unhealthy about this.  There  were 
not enough cows in the world to supply  the 
cream for the butter.  Cows could not  even 
be maintained at a  cost  that  would  allow 
butter to be made at a  sufficiently  low  cost 
to be bought by the  poor  or  the  moderate 
wage earner,  and  yet  the  system  of  both 
needed the supply of fat  as  much,  if  not 
more, than the rich.  Why  should the  for­
mer not have recourse to a healthy, artificial 
product at half the cost?  That  is  the  real 
economic position of the case.  Oleomargar­
ine and butterine have become a necessity for 
the people  and no law can stop it.  Neither 
the French President nor Bismark can  stop 
American pork for  all  time,  because  the 
people need it and must have it, and  Lyons 
is already revolting against the decree.  Eng­
land  learned  the  lesson  best. 
It  allows 
American bacon to come in and  oleomargar­
ine and butterine  to  be  eaten,  because  it 
dare not withhold necessary  food  from  its 
people.

So much  for  the  economic  part  of  the 
question; now for the scientific and sanitary. 
The adulterations of  food  and  drink  are 
abominable here and elsewhere, and demand 
the strictest inquiry, but butter  is  not  the 
worst by any means—in  fact,  if  butter  is 
sold as butter, and oleomargarine be  sold as 
commercial butter, which is  not  a disagree­
able name, the case is met.  The  fatty  sub­
stances in butter  possess  volatile  oils  that 
give it its aromatic  taste.  This  cannot be 
given  to  oleomargarine  and  butterine,  but 
these very volatile oils turn also sooner ran­
cid. 
If clean beef fat or lard alone be used, 
and the proper method,  such  as  the  Mege 
Mouries, is  employed  for  purification  and 
condensation, if, then, this clean and healthy 
article is sold at  a  much  lower  price,  and 
the poor man can get  the fatty^substance he 
needs, the public is  served  well.  But  the 
Legislature should  enact that “Inspection of 
all  manufacturing  places  for  ‘commercial 
butter’ is necessary.”  And  when  about  it 
the Legislature might inspect  hundreds  of 
other food, drink and drag articles, and  par­
ticularly some of the dairy farms whence we 
get ourj much-belauded butter.

So great an interest as that  of  the  dairy 
should be respected and protected,  but  not 
against the interests of the  people.  When 
England abolished the barn  laws  and  ad­
mitted American wheat free,  and  when  it 
introduced  American  wheat,  it  did  so 
against the interests of the farmers and  for 
the interests of the people.  America  is just 
getting into the same position. 
If the farm­
ers can produce a cheap  butter  from  their 
cows, we need no  artificial  butter;  but  if 
they cannot, their interests must  give  way 
to those of the people at  large.  They  can 
and should hereafter be protected by  not al­
lowing “commercial butter”  to  be  sold  as 
real butter; 
and on  the  other  hand  the 
people’s interests can be protected by  strict­
ly inspecting the places  where the  latter is 
manufactured.

City  Subscriber.

The Gazette Medicale de V Algérie calls at­
tention to a great number of facts which ap­
pear to show that  cider  drinkers  are  not 
troubled  with stone  in the bladder, and that 
patients  having  this  affection  are  either 
cured or  greatly  relieved  by  that bever- 
age’ 

A patent medicine manufacturer  advertis­
es for bald men who are  willing to have  ad­
vertisements  painted  on  the  tops  of their 
heads, “for a high pecuniary recompense.”

f

TH E  FRU IT TRADE.

Consider  Thy  Purse.

doned.

Some of the F rauds tliat  Should  Be  A ban­
All kinds of fruit  except  those  produced 
in tropical or semi-tropical countries, such as 
orapges, bananas, and pineapples, have com­
manded a higher price in the  market during 
the past few years than ever  before.  Even 
the common, large domestic fruits, asaapples, 
pears, and peaches, have brought  very  high 
prices.  The  like  has  been  the  case  with 
most  kinds  of  berries  and currents.  Few 
large cities have been supplied with them so 
plentifully  that  persons  of  small  means 
could obtain good  articles  at  anything  like 
moderate prices.  Enterprising  traders have 
reached somewhat inaccessible places during 
the past few  years  in  search  of  the  fruit 
raised there.  Most of the wild fruits of  the 
country have had a fair  commercial  value, 
so that persons in the vicinity  of  cranberry 
marshes  and  patches  of  raspberries  and 
blackberries have made  money  in  picking 
and  packing  them.  With  the  increasing 
prices of fruits of all kinds has come the dis­
position to employ deception in putting them 
up to send to market. 
Sometimes  dealers 
themselves have surpassed  the  raisers  and 
shippers in the frauds they  have  practiced. 
The  size  of  packages  has been cut down. 
Apples and  pears  have been packed in  bar­
rels holding but  two bushels. 
In fact  some 
of the so-called  “pony”  barrels  have  not 
held that amount.  Peaches have been pack­
ed in boxes much smaller than  the  regula­
tion size, while the  baskets  that  contained 
them have been of a  shape  to  deceive  the 
purchasers  in  regard  to the amount of  the 
contents.  These  baskets  have  generally 
been colored with red gauze so as to give the 
peaches a fine appearance.  The  boxes  con­
taining berries have been greatly reduced  in 
size, so that those alleged  to hold a quart  in 
reality contain but little more than a pint.

In the case of  all  these  packages  a  few 
large and fine specimens  have  been  placed 
on top, while the remainder of the space has 
been  filled  with  small  and  very inferior 
specimens. 
In many  cases  fruit  partially 
decayed or worm-eaten has been used to  fill 
part of the  space.  With  some  expensive 
fruits, as quinces and plums, paper has been 
employed to fill the bottom of the  package. 
In no department of trade has fraud  been so 
generally employed as in the trade in  fruits. 
Similar frauds in the trade in flour, grain, fish, 
and meats or in other articles used  for  food 
would have called out legislation and caused 
litigation.  Frauds have not been  limited  to 
fresh fruits packed in boxes, crates, and bas­
kets.  They have extended to fruits  treated 
for  preservation  and  placed  in  tin  cans. 
Glucose has been  substituted  for  common 
sugar, a large amount of water has been used, 
and in many cases unripe fruit has been put 
up.  The canners in several cities  purchase 
fruit in a condition to be condemned  by  the 
health authorities if offered to  ordinary cus­
tomers.  The frauds in the  manufacture  of 
jams  and  jellies have been glaring.  Gela­
tine has been extensively employed  to  take 
the place of fruit pulp.  Various  dyes  have 
been used to impart an attractive color.  The 
people  in  foreign  countries  to  which our 
fresh and canned fruit has  been  sent  com­
plain  of its quality.  Some of our consuls in 
Japan state that large quantities  of  Ameri­
can canned fruit were  formerly  sold  there, 
but that recently the trade has fallen off very 
greatly on account of its inferiority  and  the 
frauds practiced in packing.  A like state of 
things has been reported in  France.  Amer­
ican apples bring  much less in  the  English 
markets than the same  varieties  packed  in 
Canada.  During the past  few  years  many 
apples raised in the United States have been 
taken to the  Dominion  and  packed  before 
sending them to England.

Few brandies of  business long succeed or 
continue to he remunerative in which  fraud 
is practiced.  There is little reason to believe 
that the raisers, shippers, or dealers in fruits 
gain pecuniarily by the frauds they practice. 
If they gain by  a  single  transaction,  they 
“lose in the long run.”  A  gentleman  who 
watched the markets in this city very  atten- 
tentively states that  he  is  convinced  that 
honesty paid in the fruit business.  Fruit of 
uniform size and quality that throughout the 
season was placed in packages of the dimen­
tions required to hold a full  barrel,  bushel, 
peck or quart never failed to find a  purchas­
er on its arrival who  was  willing  to  pay  a 
high price for it. 
Inferior fruit,  packed  so 
as to make it  appear  good,  and  placed  in 
packages smaller  than  the  regulation  size, 
often failed to find a purchaser till it was  in 
great danger of spoiling, and  was then  dis­
posed of at a low price. 
It costs as much to 
ship and sell the poor fruit as the good,  and 
the money received for it  was much smaller 
in amount.  During the seasons when  there 
is a large amount of any kind of  perishable 
fruit raised only that which  is of good qual­
ity and placed in full-sized packages  brings 
a high price.  Very  superior  fruit  of  any 
kind is almost certain to bring a high  price, 
even if there is a large  amount  of  common 
or inferior fruit on the market.  Fruit-raisers 
who will use their best endeavors  to  obtain 
a  reputation for  honesty  in  packing  and 
shipping fruit will not be losers.  By putting 
their names on  the  packages  they  send  to 
market they will be assured  of  steady  cus­
tomers.  They  will  command  the  highest 
prices and be sure of steady  sales.  Produc­
ers  who wish to gain a  reputation  can  find 
a promising field  in the fruit tarde.

Met L. Saley in The Current.

Financial questions  are not clearly under­
stood by the majority. 
Few  people  even 
can handle money so it will make more than 
legal  interest.  Present  ten  men  with  ten 
thousand dollars each, and it might be possi­
ble for them all  to  engage  in  trade,  and 
thereby make fair profits, while  not  one  of 
them might be able  to  operate  outside  of 
purely mercantile channels  and  make  any 
profit at all.  The best that most people  can 
do is to permit others to handle their money 
and pay a percentage for its use.

While all recognize the power  of  money, 
many, it is to be regretted,  do  not  consider 
Its purchasing power  should  be 
its worth. 
more  appreciated. 
It  will  buy  anything 
from a toothpick to  a  town—clothes,  “hur 
rah” at the polls, the best  pew  in  chureh,- 
sometimes a wife, and at'anytime a husband. 
None of us would be  happy  unless  we  had 
It  is  often  remarked  that 
some of these. 
money will not buy friends. 
In  one  sense 
that may be admitted.  One  cannot obtain 
friends of a high type simply by  paying  for 
them with dollars and cents; yet a provident 
man wins friends who, by no  means, are  of 
a menial kind, when otherwise he would not 
have them.  We take  the  most  delight  in 
helping those who help  themselves.  When 
a man has the proper  self-respect  he  wins 
the respect and esteem  of  others,  and  no 
man hns proper self-respect  who  does  not 
look out for  himself.  This  fact,  by  the 
young is liable to be overlooked.

It is a discredit to  a  man  to  spend  his 
money foolishly.  Many a young man thinks 
it gives him an elevated standing in the eyes 
of society if he  scatters  his  money  with  a 
lavish hand. 
It does not, except in the eyes 
of the poorest kind of society.  It is evidence 
that he is  not  rightly  balanced.  That  for 
which  we giver our  strength  and  youth  we 
should retain, if possible.  Money is the rec­
ompense for labor, and labor  consumes  our 
youth.  The result  should  not  be  frittered 
away. 
.
Both the ability to  make  money  and  the 
disposition to save it are  highly  commenda­
ble.  People  say,  every  day:  “If 1 were 
able, I would  do so and so.”  They then re­
alize what they lose by not being able.  Few 
men have reached middle age without having 
seen chances to engage in  promising  enter­
prises  except  for  lack  of  capital—capital 
that they would not  stand  in  need  of  had 
they been saving.

Every right-minded man must  be  sick  of 
listening  to the flings that are  made  at  rich 
men, simply because they are rich. 
It is re­
buking eeomomy and  thrift,  for  few  men, 
however large their income, became rich un­
less they possess these qualities.  Let  it  be 
retained in mind, too, that ¡the profligacy  of 
the many makes the few rich.  If every man 
and woman would save all  that  he  or  she 
could, there would be less  money to flow in­
to the coffers of the “bloated  bondholders.” 
There are a dozen persons,  who do not prac­
tice the habit of  saving,  to  one  who  does, 
consequently  the  money  from  the  dozen 
pockets is gradually going into  the one.

No matter how small a salary a man  gets 
he should make an effort to save a portion of 
it, and, barring sickness of other misfortune, 
he can usually do  it.  The  savings  of  one 
week may be small, but the savings of many 
count up.  Saving may be an effort  at  first, 
but finally it becomes  easy,  and  not  only 
easy hut a pleasure.

It does not call for stinginess or meanness. 
It calls for self-denial and thoughtfulness. 
Money is the  right-hand  assistant  of  the 
nobler aspirations  of  humanity.  The  rich 
good  man is of more  account  in  the  world 
than the poor good man.  The former  is  he 
who builds hospitals, schools,  churches  and 
galleries of art.  The plans  and  desires  of 
the other stop short of fruition.

It is to be regretted that there  are  no  re­
positories in which people  can  place  small 
sums and feel their money is absolutely safe. 
There is a general feeling of distrust against 
savings banks, particularly in the  West.  A 
gentleman recently said  to  the  writer  that 
he made weekly deposits in  an  institution, 
now defunct, until he had nearly  five  hun­
dred dollars to his credit, but that  since  the 
bank went down, about ten years ago, he had 
not saved a cent.  He  felt  that  he  might 
better spend his money than give a  default­
ing bank cashier or president the  benefit  of 
it.  This is a feeling that many have.  Money 
the  pockets  of  some  burn  straight 
in 
through them. 
It is only safe when it is put 
of reach. 
It seems to me  that  the  Govern­
ment could hardly do more  for  the  people 
than by establishing postal  savings  banks. 
The Government could not pay more than  a 
low rate interest, but the  rate of interest  is 
not the prime question.  The  object  is  for 
depositors to feel that their principal is safe. 
A high rate of interest cuts no  figure  with 
the careful investor if it hazards the  princi­
pal.  Such an act on the part of the  Govern­
ment would not only  encourage,  but  create, 
habits of prudence.  Millions of dollars that 
are now squandered would be saved  yearly.
Somehow the belief is growing  that  years 
hence the average man will  not  be  able  to 
earn a dollar as easily as he can now.*  Pop­
ulation will  increase.  Competition  will  be 
sharper.  The inventive  genius  of  man  is 
never at rest, and the more  it  is  exercised 
the easier the necessities and luxuries of life

are produced.  There are not the chances  of 
money-making in staid old Boston that there 
are in rushing Chicago;  one  reason  being 
that Boston is like  an  old  man’s  frame— 
settled.  So, in time,  will  be  Chicago  and 
the other cities in the West to a  much great­
er extent than they are now.  The  country 
is richer to-day than it ever was  before,  but 
the army of idle  men  does  not  decrease. 
There  will  be  richer  men  than  now, and 
poorer  ones.  This is not  a  pleasant belief, 
but it is one born of logic.

The  only time  to  catch  water  from  the 

clouds is when it rains.

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of R ecent  Decisions in Courts 

of Last  Resort.

Certificates of Deposit.

Certificates of deposit,  in  the  opinion of 
the Supreme  Judicial  Court  of  Massachu- 
settes, are not promissory notes  within  the 
meaning of the general  statutes of the State 
of  Massachusetts.

Not Liable  to Taxation.

Promissory notes  for round  sums  issued 
by a corporation to  its employes as  an  evi­
dence  of  indebtedness  for  wages,  which 
notes when not paid  by  the  company, • are 
not reissued but canceled, do not render  the 
corporation liable to taxation as  upon  notes 
“used for circulation and paid out”  by  the 
corporation, although the persons  to  whom 
they were issued have used the same to  dis­
charge their debts or to  make  purchases.— 
United States  Circuit  Court,  Eastern  Dis­
trict of Pennsylvania.

Trover by  M ortgagee of C hattel.

In  trover,  brought  by  mortgagee  of  a 
chattel against one who  took  it  from  the 
plaintiff’s possession, it is  no  defense  that 
before the mortgage was made the  mortgag­
or had orally promised to  send  the  chattel 
to the defendant to be  held  and  sold  as a 
pledge and security for  an  advancement of 
money made by the defendant to  the  mort­
gagor, and the plaintiff  was  aware  of  the 
mortgagor’s promise when the mortgage was 
made, and had received from  him,  in  part 
payment of his debt, a  part  of  the  money 
received  by  him  from  the  defendant.— 
Supreme Court of New Hampshire,  case of 
Young vs. Kimball.

M ortgage—Purchaser-E stoppel.

The assignee of a mortgage,  having  pur­
chased the mortgaged premises  and  assum­
ed the payment of the mortgage debt,  after­
wards representing  the  mortgage  as  valid 
and subsisting, and transferring  it  as  such 
to a purchaser in good faith  without  notice 
of any defect,  is estopped  as  against  such 
purchaser from  showing  or  insisting  upon 
the fact of  the  payment  of  the  mortgage 
debt, or claiming that the mortgage title has 
merged in the fee.  Such  estoppel  extends 
to a levying creditor of  such  purchaser  of 
the mortgaged premises,  claiming  to  hold 
the same under a levy made  subsequent  to 
the  transfer  of  the  mortgage.—Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire.

Not A bandonm ent.

Property of A.  was  levied upon  as  the 
property of B., and A. claiming the  proper­
ty as his own pointed it out to  sheriff,  who 
levied upon it and took  it  into  his  posses­
sion.  A. then brought an action of replevin, 
and took the goods, and the sheriff,  the  de­
fendant, set  up  that  A.,  by  showing  the 
property, authorized the  levy  and  thereby 
waived his  rights.  The  trial  court  over­
ruled this defense,  and  gave  the  plaintiff 
judgment.  The defendant carried the  case, 
Davidson vs. Dwyer, to the  Supreme  Court 
of Iowa, where the judgment was  affirmed. 
Judge Beck, in the opinion, said:  A’.s  act 
•in  pointing  out  the  property  which 
the 
sheriff  sought  to 
levy  upon  was  not  a 
waiver of his  claim  and  title  to  it.  All 
there was of the act is this:  The  defendant 
claimed  that the property  was  subject  to 
the execution and proposoa to levy upon  it; 
the plaintiff did not concede this, but  point­
ed the property out to the sheriff, and there­
fore  his  act  was  not  an  abandonment  of 
title, nor would it operate to defeat  his  ac­
tion to recover his property.
A House Not Liable fo ra  Salesm an’s Loans.
A traveling salesman  while  on  the  road 
calls on a customer, to whom he  is  known 
as the traveling  representative  of  his  em­
ployer, and asks for and  receives a  loan of 
money from him, giving a receipt on account 
in the name of his employer.  Can the latter 
be held  legally for the payment of the loan? 
The above query having been  submitted  to 
the New York Journal of  Commerce,  the 
editor gives the following reply:

A loan of the kind is  not  a legal  obliga­
tion of the house  employing  the  salesman. 
But the lender usually gets an order  on the 
house, or some document  of the  sort  when 
he advances money, and also buys the goods 
to “protect” himself.  He will  then  refuse 
to pay for the goods unless his  claim  is al­
lowed.  If he could be sued here  he  would 
doubtless be compelled to pay  without  his 
“order”  being  allowed  as  an  offset;  but 
sued in his own town, where such dodges of 
traveling salesmen are common,  we  would 
not like to guarantee the recovery.

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

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16,  1884.

£36'“  Subscribers  and others,  when  writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the advei> 
tisem ent in the columns of  this  paper.

Subscriptions  to  T h e  T ra desm a n  may 
be handed to any traveling man out of Grand 
Rapids, left with  any  wholesale  house  at 
this market, or included in  a  remittance  to 
any house here.  The  best  way, however, is 
to enclose SI in currency in a  sealed  letter, 
properly directed to this  office. 
In  several 
hundreds of dollars  remitted  to  us  in  this 
manner not a single loss has yet occurred.

For  obvious  reasons,  the  list  of  patent 
medicines  is omitted from this issue of T h e 
T ra desm a n.  It has come to our notice that 
the publication has been the source of dissat­
isfaction  to  the  drug  trade  inasmuch  as 
the  paper  goes 
a  great  number 
of  dealers  in  other  lines.  Comparatively 
few druggists have been heard from  on  the 
subject, but  so  far  the  opinion  stated  has 
been unanimous.  We should like to get  an 
expression of opinion  from  the  retail  drug 
trade on the matter, and promise to abide by 
the will of the  majority.

to 

The article entitled “Consider Thy Purse,” 
printed on another page,  is  fairly  bristling 
with strong points and pertinent suggestions, 
and it is a question whether the  subject has 
ever been treated so effectively in so short  a 
space.  The writer is Met L. Saley, managing 
editor of the Northwestern Lumberman, of 
of Chicago, and a master of concise, forcible 
English.  Mr. Saley possesses to  a  remark­
able degree the faculty of thoroughly worm­
ing himself into a subject, so  that  when  he 
writes of it the reader is  impressed with the 
fact that he is perusing the testimony  of  an 
expert.  This  characteristic  alone  is  suffi­
cient to mark  the  writer  as  an exceptional 
man, and entitles him to  rank as one of  the 
best newspaper men in the country.

Industrial  Convention  at  Chicago.

A mass convention is to assemble  at  Chi­
cago on May 21,  1884,  for the purpose of or­
ganizing a national industrial congress.  The 
first session of the  congress  will  begin  im­
mediately upon organization.  The design is 
to consider the condition  and  necessities  of 
the several industries of the country, and en­
deavor “to bring about that harmony  which 
must certainly result from mutual  consulta­
tion, and will  eventually  produce  unity  of 
action.  The  fact  that  the  people  of the 
United States are annually consuming about 
a thousand million dollars  worth  of foreign 
products, very nearly all of which  we  could 
produce at home, is sufficient to show us  the 
vastness of the field of  the  development  of 
which American  industries are certainly  ca­
pable.”  The call for the convention  points 
out the “uneven or  unbalanced development 
of American  industries  at  this  time,”  and 
cites a number of illustrative facts,  such  as 
the  importation  of  8100,000,000  worth  of 
sugar annually, when it could be produced at 
home, and the  exportation  of  8250,000,000 
of raw cotton  annually,  when  it  could  all 
be manufactured  into  four  fold  value  at 
home. 
It declares “that in order  to  secure 
an evenly balanced progress of all industries, 
of  agriculture,  mining,  manufactures,  and 
of commerce and transportation,  in  all  sec­
tions, there should  be  a  full  exchange  of 
ideas, a complete harmony of sentiment and 
action looking to the most direct  and  rapid 
development of the latent resources  and  in­
dustrial opportunities.”  Among  the  indus­
tries to be represented in the Convention are 
sorghum, beet, command  cane  sugar;  wool, 
angora and mohair;  hemp  and  jute;  ramie 
of the Southern States;  flax fibre,  seed, lin­
en ;  thread, twine and yam; wines and semi- 
tropical products; tin plate (which is an iron 
manufacture); and a great mumber of others, 
representatives of every  industry  being  in­
vited to attend.

Proposition  to  Settle  in  Anticipation.
Benj.  T.  Halstead,  attorney  for  N.  G. 
Burt, of Cross  Village,  writes  the  latter’s 
creditors as follows:

N. G. Burt, of Cross Village,  insolvent, is 
expecting some assistance from  friends, and 
instructs me to  propose  to  his  creditors a 
settlement on the basis of 35 per cent,  cash 
on all claims against him.
I do not think the assets of the estate will 
reach that sum, as the stock must  necessar­
ily be sold at a great sacrifice, and  many of 
the notes and accounts are hardly worth the 
expenses of collection.
I shall be pleased to hear  from  you  with 
reference  to  this  proposition  at  an  early 
day.
Ag  this  is  considered  a  fair  offer,  all 
things considered, the proposition will prob­
ably be accepted.

To the general press  the  public  go  for 
news.  To the  trade  organs  the  producer, 
the dealer, 
the  commercial  traveler,  and 
others, turn for  information  in  regard  to 
trade and commerce in which each is  partic­
ularly interested, and all are  posted  accord­
ing to their needs.

The druggists  of  Charlotte,  N. C.,  have 
entered  into  an  agreement  not  to  cut the 
prices of proprietary goods, but to sell at the 
regular  rates.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

J. H. Toren, formerly in  trade  at  Jenni- 
sonville, contemplates re-engaging  in  trade 
in this  city.

Eno F. Brown has engaged  in the grocery 
business at Grant  Station.  Arthur Meigs •& 
Co.  furnished the stock.

Chas. Miller & Son  have  engaged  in  the 
drug business at Douglass.  Hazeltine,  Per­
kins & Co. furnished the stock.

H. Van Kämmen has engaged in  the gro­
cery business at Grandville.  Shields,  Bulk- 
ley & Lemon furnished the stock.

John Otis, of Pine Lake, was in town  last 
week and purchased a carload of groceries of 
John Caulfield for the Pine  Lake  Iron  Co.

F.  J.  Lamb  &  Co.  have  purchased  the 
block in which they are located, and now oc­
cupy both stores, Nos. 8 and 10 Ionia street.

It is stated that Martin L. Sweet  dropped 
88,000 on the recent decline in  wheat.  All 
the millers here were caught for considerable 
amounts.

The boys on tli# road are authority for the 
statement  that  M. H.  Treusch  offers  the 
Morton House block at a low  rental to a de­
sirable tenant.

A.  A. Watkins has bought the store build­

ing of A. C. Bachelder, at Clarion, and  pur­
chased a  grocery  stock  of  John  Caulfield 
this week.

In the eight years that H. F. Hastings has 
been in the grocery  brokerage  business  in 
this city,  he has sold over 815,000,000 worth 
of goods, and made but one loss, 8200.

D. C.  Underwood  is  building  a  84,000 
dwelling on the corner of Wealthy and Paris 
avenues.  He expects to have  it  completed 
and ready for occupancy about June 1.

Graham & Sweeney, formerly  engaged  in 
the grocery business at  Wayland,  have  en­
gaged in the same business at Hopkins, pur­
chasing  a  complete  new  stock of Arthur 
Meigs & Co.

Dr. A. J.  Collar  and  W.  D.  Neville,  of 
Detroit, have formed a co-partnership* under 
the firm name of A. J. Collar & Co., and en­
gaged in the drug  business  at  Reed  City. 
Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co. 
furnished  the 
stock.

Frank  L.  Orcutt,  formerly  with  F.  J. 
Lamb & Co.,  later  with  Ira O. Green,  has 
formed a co-partnership with the former un­
der the firm name of Orcutt & Co.,  and  en­
gaged in the  wholesale produce  business at 
Muskegon.

The “A. Giddings,  Agt.”  stock  at  Sand 
Lake was sold on John Caulfield’s mortgage, 
and  bid  in  by  that  gentleman  at  81,875. 
The amount of  his  claim  is  about  81,100, 
and the balance will be held to the credit  of 
other creditors.

The attachment  levied against  the  stock 
and real estate of Jackson  Coon,  at  Rock­
ford, by R. & J.  Cummings, of  Toledo, was 
dissolved in the United  States  Court  here 
Monday.  Motions for dissolving  the  other 
attachments will be argued to-day  and  Fri­
day.

Grand Rapids boasts the  only  clergyman 
on the road, in the  person  of  Rev.  George 
Whitworth, an ofdained Methodist minister, 
who is  now  a  traveling  representative  for 
Foster, Stevens & Co.  He was compelled to 
leave the ministry on account of  ill  health, 
which his new life has nearly restored.

J. A. Crookston, the  veteran  traveler  for 
Hazeltine, Perkins  & Co.,  has  relinquished 
a portion of his territory,  in  order  that he 
may cover a number of Northern  towns  in­
stead.  Under the new  arrangement, L.  M. 
Mills will hereafter visit Muskegon,  White­
hall,  Montague,  Shelly,  Hart,  Pentwater, 
Ludington,  Manistee,  and 
intermediate 
towns, in addition to his  former territory.

Assignee Robinson assures T h e  T ra d es­
m an  that  the  statement  given  publicity 
through the local press  to  the  effect  that 
Chickering & Kysor’s mill at Fife  Lake  has 
been started  through an  arrangement  with 
the creditors, is untrue and that  the  mill  is 
still idle.  Negotiations are in progress, how­
ever, which are likely to be consummated, in 
which case operations will be resumed.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

J. Hoare succeeds A. Tuttle in the bakery 

business at Pentwater.

J. C. Dingman will shortly engage  in  the 

grocery business at Owosso.

Mrs. A. Cooper has engaged  in the millin­

ery business at Cedar Springs.

J. E. Rice, general dealer  at Coopersville, 

is succeeded by Rice and  Lillie.

Kellogg & Potter  succeed  to  the business 
formerly operated at Jennisonville  by J. H. 
Toren.

T. J. Knowles has purchased  the  grocery 
stock and business of Hugh H. McKenzie  at 
Volney.

J.  A.  Smith  succeeds  C.  R.  Smith  and 
Smith Bros, in the boot and shoe business at 
Cadillac.

D. C.  Griffith is closing  out  his  stock  of 
clothing at Nashville and filling  up  with  a 
full stock of groceries.

C. W. Smith has sold his  grocery stock  at 
Nashville to W. E. Buel and  E.  R.  White, 
who will assume possession  May 1.

C. E. Ramsey, of the late  grocery  firm of 
Selkirk, Ramsey & Morrill, at Kalkaska, has 
purchased the book business  of  A.  A.  Ab­
bott, at that place.

Smith & Deitz,  druggists  and  grocers  at 
Cadillac, have  dissolved,  Albert  E.  Smith 
succeeding.  Mr. Dietz  will  remain  in  the 
store for the present

I. N. Harter, of Woodland, has purchased 
the Warner Bros.’ stock of groceries  at  the 
same place and moved his stock of  drugs to 
the building lately occupied by them.

C. Crawford,  of  Caledonia,  has  sold  his 
drug stock and  business to Nagler & Beeler, 
formerly  of Barry  county.  Mr.  Crawford 
will take a  needed  respite  from  business 
cares, and re-engage in  trade  again  in  the 
fall.

STRAY  FACTS.

Cahoon  &  Dane have  engaged 

in  the 

laundry business at Ionia.

H. O. Rose, of  Petoskey,  will  burn  40,- 

000  barrels of lime this year.

Cody Bros., hotel and saloon at Lake City, 

are succeeded by John Cody.

Torch lake is to have a  shingle  mill  and 

a stave and handle factory this summer.

Gale Bros., Eaton  Rapids,  have  sold  out 

and will start a hardware store in Owosso.

Elk Rapids  is  to  have  a  new  hardware 
several  millinery 

store,  grocery  store, 
stores, etc.

Robt. Donovan has  purchased  the  furni­
ture stock of Ruggles & Weston,  Charlotte, 
from the assignee.

The D.  P.  Beckwith  Stove  Works  will 
likely move from Dowagiac to Battle Creek. 
Kalamazoo lost them  by  not  putting  up  a 
bonus.

An Elmira correspondent writes: “Elmira 
is booming.  Much  property  is  changing 
hands, and there is more building  thqn ever 
this spring*”

Stephen Haight has sold a half interest in 
his furniture store at Saranac to O. J. Bretz, 
of Odessa.  The firm name will be  changed 
to Haight &  Bretz.

Charlevoix Sentinel:  The  harness  shop 
of J. E. Wood & Co. has been sold out to E.
B.  Hodge, of Traverse City.  Mr. Wood  re­
mains in the shop.

W. S. Mesick, a  Mancelona  attorney,  has 
purchased a tract of land  and  a  number  of 
business lots at Bellaire, and is throwing his 
influence to boom the town.

The Michigan &  Ohio  Railroad  will  run 
its cars into  Muskegon  from  Allegan,  over 
the Chicago & West  Michigan  track.  This 
will give Muskegan  direct  connection  with 
Toledo, and a new outlet for lumber.

Petoskey Democrat:  L. Bauerle, of Chi­
cago, has been in Petoskey  the  last  week 
looking up a location  for a factory to manu­
facture wooden vinegar  measures,  faucets, 
tunnels, etc.  He  thinks  of  locating  here 
within the next two  months.

A. I. Beckley, a  cabinetmaker  at  Battle 
Creek, has applied for a patent on an ingen­
ious cot bedstead. 
Its principal point is the 
remarkably small space in which  it  can be 
folded up. 
In  the  fall  Mr.  Beckley  will 
erect a factory in which to manufacture.

Traverse City Herald:  C. A.  Hammond, 
cashier  of  the  First  National  Bank  at 
Whitehall, has been here during  the  week, 
looking over the ground  for  the  establish­
ment of a national bank at  this  place.  De­
troit parties would be  largely interested.

Friends of Prof.  C.  G.  Swensberg  write 
him in. a  sympathizing  strain, the  tenor  of 
their letters being  that as it is  incompatible 
with an honest man to be a  miller,  he must 
of necessity have deserted the  habit  of  his 
boyhood and the ruling  principle of his life. 
Mr. Swensberg, however, proposes  to  dem­
onstrate the fact that there is not  inconsist­
ency between a miller and an  honest  man, 
and his  management  of  the  Valley  City 
Milling Co. will be watched with interest.

White Star Potatoes.

We have a quantity af choice  White  Star 
Potatoes,  grown  by  D.  M.  Ferry  &  Co., 
which we offer to the trade at 82 per 3 bush­
el barrel, and no charge for  barrel.  SEED 
STORE,  91  Canal  street,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

I am handling a choice grade of butterine, 
at 20 cents a  pound,  which  1  guarantee  to 
give  satisfaction.  Orders  promptly  filled. 
E.  Fallas,  wholesale  dealer  in  butter 
and  eggs,  125  and  127 Canal street, Grand 
Rapids.

C. 

E. Watson, formerly with Eaton, Lyon 

& Allen, now with S.  A.  Maxwell  &  Co., 
Chicago, same line,  will  be  at  the  New 
Eagle, Apr. 21st, 22nd and 23d.

Blobson speaks of  butterine manufacture 

as a great and growing  oleogarchy.

Calkins  Bros,  can  supply  dealers  with 

fishing tackle at bottom  prices.

The best finish for  walls  is  Boralumine. 

Buy it and try  it.

He  Took  the  Whisky.

From the Philadelphia Call.

Doctor—Have  you  got the  better  of  the 

ague yet?

bad as iver,  sor.

nine I  prescribed?

at all.

Patient—No, sor.  Me and me  wife  is  as 

Doctor—Did you get that whisky and qui­

Patient—Yis, sor, but it did no good at all, 

Doctor—That is strange!  You took it ac­

cording to the directions, I  suppose?

Patient—Yis, sor;  ye know a man and his 

wife are one.

Doctor—What has that to do  with it?
Patient—Well, ye see, sor, bein’ as we are 
one flesh, I tuk the whisky  and  gave  Betty 
the quinine.

SLOW  PAYING  DEALERS.

Their Credit.

The  Indifference  of  Some  Merchants  to 
A Canal street confectioner  was  recently 
seen by T h e  T ra desm a n’s  credit  reporter 
pouring over a  number  of  letters  he  had 
been writing, and looking  very  red  in  the 
face, as  though  he  might  have  felt  like 
swearing, but was kept from it  by a  strong 
moral determination.  Upon being question­
ed as to the occasion of his agitation, he  re­
plied:

“la m  often  ashamed  of  myself  for the 
kind of letters I have to write  to  some  of 
our customers, but  I can’t  help it.  There 
are any number of country  merchants  who 
pay no attention to  a  statement  and  have 
to be written to from one  to a  dozen  times 
before we can  get a  reply.  These  letters 
you see here  are  to  men  who  have  been 
¡ written to seven and  eight  times,  and,  as 
you would suppose,  they  have  completely 
exasperated us. 
I sometimes feel like firing 
a 40 pound cannon about 10 feet  from  their 
ears, to see if we can make  them  hear  us. 
A business man who has  not  enough  busi­
ness in him to reply to a  statement  in  one 
way or another is not a desirable  customer, 
and we drop all such  as  soon  as  possible. 
If a dealer writes us that he is  too  poor to 
pay an account, or is busted, we  charge the 
amount up to profit and loss, and that  ends 
it.  But when a man compels  us  to  spend 
time and postage to get some sort  of  an an­
swer  from  him,  we  generally  give  him 
pretty sharp talk before the  matter  is  set­
tled.  Such  inexcusable  and  unbusiness­
like delays tell on any man’s credit,  no mat­
ter how much he  is  worth.”

“One of the worst features of the  produce 
business,” said a prominent  dealer  in  that 
line,  “is the habit  some  of  our  customers 
have lately fallen  into  of  returning  goods 
after they have been  in  stock  for  several 
weeks.  It is not infrequent that  we are ask­
ed to take back perishable goods after  they 
have  spoiled.  Everything  we  send  out  is 
intended to be  in  good  condition  and  will 
keep for  a reasonable length of time. 
If  it 
is not in proper condition when received  by 
the party ordering, it can be  returned at our 
expense.  But after it has been in  stock for 
a week or ten days, and allowed to  spoil in 
the meantime, there is no good reason  why 
we should be asked to bear the brunt  of the 
buyer’s carelessness.  And  yet  there  are 
dozens of dealers who buy  at  this  market, 
wrho are just as  unreasonable  as  this,  and 
who become offended if we insist upon  pay­
ment.  To draw on them is looked  upon as 
a mortal offense, and to place the  matter in 
the hands of an attorney subjects us to their 
eternal  enmity.  Nevertheless,  we  invari- 
aby take the latter course, preferring the  ill 
will of the  dealer  to  a  compromise  over 
what we consider to be right.

“Another evil in our trade is  the  disposi­
tion of many  dealers to allow a bill to  ma­
ture without paying any attention to  it, and 
neglect to make any excuse for the non-pay­
ment.  Nine times out of  ten such  persons 
allow a draft to come back unpaid,  without 
giving any  explanation.  We  are  always 
willing to accomodate  a  man  when  made 
aware of his circumstances, but there  is  no 
reason why we should wait  indefinitely  on 
a dummy. 
In dealing  with  our  creditors, 
there  is  one  invariable rule to  which we 
are compelled to conform—the rule  that we 
must  honor  every  draft.  We  have  no 
friendship shown us, and are seldom  allow­
ed rebates of any kind.  The nearer  we can 
educate  our  trade  to  this  standard  the 
better it will be for  all concerned.”

How  To  H.ive  Good  Credit.

From the Commercial Enquirer.

The next best thing to buying  for  cash is 
to have good credit. 
It is not  always those 
who possess the most capital  that  are  pos­
sessed of the best  credit.  A  young  man 
just starting in business on a limited  capital 
can readily establish himself  upon  a  solid 
foundation in  this respect.

Although many  may  differ  with  us  in 
this opinion, we  deem ability  to  buy  well 
the first essential in  obtaining  the  desired 
standing.  A man who discriminates  in his 
purchases and only buys  such goods  as  are 
readily salable, notwithstanding the tempta­
tion of larger profits upon  less  staple  arti­
cles, is sure  to impress those from  whom he 
buys with a firm belief in his business  abili­
ty.  They will naturally argue that  he is as 
careful and conservative in  other  respects, 
therefore  a  safe  person  to  be  given 
and 
credit. 
If he supplements  his good  buying 
by promptly meeting his  bills  at  maturity 
he has  made a further stride  toward  secur­
ing confidence.

Many men who  have  the  money  at  their 
disposal think that it  makes  no  difference 
whether they delay payments  for  a  day or 
two.  This is a mistake. 
It gives  them the 
reputation of  “slow  pay,”  and  no  matter 
how sure they may be  it is  an  element  of 
distrust of them.  At some  time when they 
may really  be  in  financial  straits  it  will 
come against them.  Then,  again,  when  a 
merchant sells a bill of goods on  say  thirty 
days’ time to a  man  whom  he  knows  will 
not pay until he has been sent  a  statement 
or two as a  gentle  reminder,  it  is  clearly 
evident that an extra charge must  be  made 
for the goods.  The “slow pay” man is thus 
placed at a disadvantage as  compared  with 
his prompt competitor.

Under the present  system  of  buying  in 
small lots  for  temporary  requirements,  a 
man of limited capital is afforded an  excep­
tionally good  opportunity. 
If  he  cannet 
meet his bills promptly, 
it  argues  that  he 
is not sufficiently acquainted with the wants 
of his customers and is carrying  a  load  of 
unsalable goods, is doing too large  a  credit

business,  or  else  lives  beyond his  means. 
Any of these would, of course, 
injure  him 
seriously in the eyes of those from whom he 
buys  and  his  credit  would  become  im­
paired.

We would, therefore, urge upon all  those 
desiring to establish a good credit the neces­
sity for buying judiciously and always mak­
ing a point of meeting their bills, no  matter 
how small they'may be,  upon  the  day  of 
maturity.  Bearing  these  two  factors  in 
mind, they are sure to  gain  a  strong  hold 
upon those from whom they  purchase their 
goods.

The  T-.ck-Makers’  Combination.

From the Boston Commercial  Bulletin.

The manufacture of tacks is  practically a 
Massachusetts monopoly.  There  are  three 
large tack factories in Taunton, one in Sand­
wich, two in South Abington, one in  Brock­
ton,  one in Holliston, one in Orange,  one in 
Haverhill and about as many more  concerns 
in various towns in this  State.  They  are 
combined  under the  title  of  the  Central 
Manufacturing Company, with headquarters 
at Boston.

The production and selling prices  of  the 
factories are regulated by this company, and 
the trade is thus controlled.  There is very 
little opportunity for any competing concern 
in Massachusetts, as  the  outside  manufac­
turer could be crushed out by  the  combina­
tion.  Western competition has been  some­
times met by the purchase  of the competing 
work.  The purchase of the  tack factory of 
S. P. Hollister, of  Pittsburg, Penn., a  few 
weeks since is a case in point.

It has been  erroneously  stated  that the 
purchase was made by a  syndicate  of Eastr 
em capitalists,  who intended to abandon the 
works and take  the  machinery  East,  and 
that a number of Pittsburgers were interest­
ed  in  the  purchase.  The  works  were 
bought by the tack combination of  this city. 
The machinery has not  been  removed, but 
will, it is understood, be allowed to  remain 
idle at the works.  A double  purpose  will 
be served by this course.  The  closed  fac­
tory and the idle machines will undoubtedly 
have a tendency to discourage  the  starting 
up of another factory ;  and  should  another 
factory be started, the  machinery  could  be 
used by the combination to make the compe­
tition  unprofitable.

The  paragraph  “We  Solicit  the Dealer’s 
Trade, not the Consumer’s” was omitted  by 
mistake from Foster, Stevens  & Co.’s adver­
tisement last week.  This is a cardinal prin­
ciple of the house. 
If  they  cannot sell  the 
dealer, they will not  sell  every  consumer, 
preferring to take their  chances  at securing 
the dealers’s favors in this manner in the fu­
ture.

HARDWARE  GOODS.

Prevailing  rates  at  Chicago  are  as  follows: 

a u g e r s  a n d  b i t s .

Ives’, old  style........................................ dis 
50
N. H. C. Co...............................................dis 
55
50
Douglass’ .................................................dis 
Pierces’ ....................................................dis 
50
Snell’s ....................................................... dis 
50
Cook’s  .......................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine................................ dis 
25
Jennings’,  im itation..............................dis40&10

Spring.......................................................dis 

BALANCES.

25

BARROWS.

R ailroad......................................................8  15 00
Garden......................................................net 36 00

BELLS.

BOLTS.

H and.................................................... dis  8  60&10
Cow..............................  
60
dis 
15
Call............................................................dis 
G ong.............................................. .. „ . dis 
20
Door, Sargent..........................................dis 
55

Stove..................................................... dis 8 
40
Carriage and Tire, old  list....................dis  80&20
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&10
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis  50&15
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................... dis 
50
W rought Barrel Bolts...........................dis 
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs......................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring................................dis 
55
Cast  Chain...............................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...............dis  55&10
Wrought Sq uare ...................................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush.............................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door................................................dis  5Q&10

BRACES.

B arb er..................................................dis 8 
Backus..................................................... dis 
Spofford................................................... dis 
Am, Ball...........................  
dis 

 

40
50
50
net

BUCKETS.

Well, plain.....................................................$ 4  00
Well, swivel............................ f .. :i...........  
4  50

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...........dis 
70
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
W rounht Loose  P in.............................. dis 
60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ..............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned..............dis  60&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ...................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table........................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside Blind........................... dis 
60
Wrought Brass........................................dis  65&10
B1 ind. Clark’s ...........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s ........................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.....................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x214, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross  18 00

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10............................. 
Hick’s C. F ............................................  
G. D ........................................................ 
Musket................................................... 

 

 

CATRIDGES.

Rim Fire, 17. M. C. & W inchester  new list 
50
Rim Fire, United  States...........................dis  50
Central Fire................................................dis  %

CHISELS.

Socket Firm er.......................................dis  65&10
Socket Fram ing................................... dis  65&I0
Socket Corner.......................................dis  65&10
Socket Slicks.................... ...................dis  65&10
Butchers’Tanged  Firm er..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket  Firm ers....................dis 
20
Cold.......................................................net

Curry, Lawrence’s ...............................dis 
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 

33%
25

COMBS.

COCKS.

COPPER.

DRILLS.

ELBOWS.

Brass,  Backing’s ........................................  40&10
Bibb’s ..........................................................  49&10
B e e r.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.......................................................... 
60

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... ft lb  37
14x52,14x56,14 x60 .........................................  39

Morse’s Bit  Stock............................... dis 
Taper and Straight Shank...................dis 
Morse’s Taper  So5nk.......................... dis 

35
20
30

Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................doz net 8110
Corrugated............................................dis  20&10
Adjustable’. ....................... ..................dis  40&10

EXPANSIVE BITS.

Clar’s, small, 818 00:  large,  826 00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, 818  00;  2, 824 00;  3,  830 00.  dis 

20
25

PILES.

American File Association  List........ dis  40&10
Disston’s ..................................................dis  40&10
New  American........................................dis  40&10
Nicholson’s .............................................. dis  40&10
Heller’s . . .................................................dis 
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... dis 
33%

Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

GALVANIZED IRON, 
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
12 
15 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.

13 

Stanley Rule and Lveel Co.’s................dis 

GAUGES.

"

28
18

50

HAMMERS.
......(lift 

Maydole & Co.’s .......................................di8 
Yerkes&  Plumb’s ..................dis 
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.............. 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 

15
^
30-^1
.30 c list 40*^

HANGERS.

Bam  Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........  
dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tra . k ..........................    dis 
40

HINGES.
60
....................per d0z, net, 2 50

Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3................................dis 
sta te .................. 
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  5%  14 
and  longer.................... 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  .......'.'.'.‘.'.'.'.net 
net 
Screw Hook and Eye %. 
..................71/
Screw Hook and Eye 
Screw Hook and Eye, 
! . '! . '; , * net 
Strap and  T .......................................... ..

A
■
4 
10%  ■
SV
714

HOLLOW  WARE.
Stamped Tin W are............... 
Japanned Tin  W are................  . 
Granite Iron  W are........... .*“ ’"***"”  

* 

sn&io
30
¡¡^

h o e s . 

KNOBS.

^
Grub  1 ................................................811 00, dis 40  r
" ru“ ,2................................................  11 50, dis 40
.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........ 82 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
.................................list,  7 25, dis 60
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.........dis
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ...............  d
60 * 
H em acite...............................................dj8
50*

m ings... 

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s .................... 
dis  60
Branford’s .............................. 
dis  60
Norwalk’s........................................ . " " " . d i s   60

LEVELS.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................... dis  65

MILLS.

Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................. dis  45,
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  45
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ........... dis  45
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................„ d is  25

MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye......................................816 00 dis 40&10
Hunt  Eye..................................... 815 00 dis 40&10
H unt s.........................................818 50 dis 20 & 10

NAILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

to ,«*!•••........................................$  keg 82  66,
8d and 9 d  adv...............................................  
25,
6dand7d  adv............................... 50
4d and 5d  a4v............................... . . . . . . . . . . 
75
3d  advance............................... .  . 
1 50
3d fine  advance..................................!.!...  3 00
Clinch nails,  adv............................ 
1 75
Finishing 
Size—inches  ( 3  
Adv. $  keg 

.  .  . 
........  
8d  6d  4d.............
2% 

I  lOd 
1 %
81  25  1  50  1 75  2 00 
MOLLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine.......................................dis  70v
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis  25

2 

MAULS.

OILERS.

Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................dis  50

Zinc or tin. Chase’s P atent........................ dis  55
Zinc, with brass bo ctorn............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  40
Reaper......................................per gross, 81!
Olmstead’s .
50

PLANES.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench..................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.......................dis  15
Bench, first quality..................................... dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 

Fry, Acme............................................... dis 40&10
Common, polished.............................   . .dis 
60
Dripping..................................................$   n> 
8

PANS.

RIVETS.

Iron and  Tinned................................................ dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs...................................dis 40&10

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs %c $  fb extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne................  5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne...............16 90.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, Vi In. and larger............................^  ft  9%
Manilla.............................................................  15

Steel and  Iron.............................................. dis  50
Try and Be vels..............................................dis  50
Mitre  ............................................. 
dis  20

SHEET IRON.

Nos. 10 to  14................ ................  84  20
Nos. 15 to  17................. ................  4 20
Nos. 18 to 21............................•*....  4  20
Nos. 22 to 24.................. ...............  4  20
Nos .25 to 26..................................  4 40
No. 27............................. ................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

All sheets No, 18 and  lightei 

Com. Smooth. Com,
83 26.
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40
3 60
over 30  inches

In casks of 600 fts, $   lb................
In smaller quansities, 
fi>..........
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined.................................
Market  Half-and-half..................
Strictly  Half-and-half..................

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, 86  75.

614

13 00
15 00
16

IC, 
10x14, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IX, 
10x14,Charcoal..................................  8  50
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal.................................   6 50
IX, 
12x12,  Charcoal  ...............................  8 50 —
IC,. 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  6  50*1
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal........  .....................   8 50
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   10  50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool........................... 
  12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  14 50
20x28, Charcoal................................   18  00
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal........... ...............  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8  50
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...........................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to  6  75 

rates.

t r a p s . 

60
35
60

per  m  8 65

Steel.  Game...................................................... 
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ............dis %
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ......................................  60
Mouse, choker....................................... 20c ft doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. 81 26jft doz

id
^

WIRE.

Bright  M arket............................................   dis 60
Annealed M arket......................................... dis 60 
.
Coppered Market..........................................dis 55^|
Tinned  M arket.............................................kis 40
Tinned  Broom.............................................¡gib 09
Tinned M attress....................................... ^  fl>  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel..........................dis 37%
Tinned Spring Steel...................................dis 37%
Plain Fence............................................... ^  n>  3%
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper................................................ new  list net
Brass....................................................new  list net

w i r e  g o o d s. 

. J

Bright...................................................................... dis 60&10&10T
Screw Eyes..........................................dis 60&10&10
Hook’s ............................................... dis  60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes:....................dis  60&10&10

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s  Genuine............................................dig  50
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  w rought.......... dis 
65
Coe’s Pat.,  malleable................................ dis  70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern.................................... dig 
Screw s......................................................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate__ dig 
Dampers,  American...........................>, 

eo^ ? 1
70
50
33%

* 

, 

■  B r u g s  &  f l f t e b i c i n e s

Ginseng: and  its  Magical  Powers. 

From the San Francisco Chronicle.

" 

Dr. F. H. Terrill, past  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  United  States  steamer  Monocacy, 
which, with the Ticonderaga, is  now  cruis­
ing in Chinese waters, has procured  an  in­
teresting specimen of a root which is  much 
esteemed  by  the  Chinese. 
It  is  of  the 
species of panax and belongs to the  natural 
^   order of araliaccc, and is commonly  known 
^   as ginseng.  The  specimen in question  was 
procured from Corea, and is  worth in  China 
about $200.  Not quite as large as  a  man’s 
thumb, it is yellowish  m  color  and  has a 
dried  and  wrinkled  appearance,  looking 
something like a Chinese idol, with  the feet 
curled up under the body.  The  root  was 
IH  shown to the Pharmaceutical Society  at  its 
last meeting, when quite a number of  inter­
esting remarks were made on the  subject of 
ginseng by Professor A. L.  Lengfeld.  The 
study of the root, apart from its  traditional 
aspect, has little in it of  interest,  but when 
the great value set upon  its medicinal prop­
erties  in China is considered, one finds one’s 
self attracted to the plant and its  character­
istics, so dissimilar are they  from  those of 
most other botanical species.

i 

Botanically, then, ginseng has a perennial 
root  which  sends  up  annually  a  smooth 
round stem, about a foot high  and  divided 
at the summit by three stalks, each of which 
supports a compound leaf, consisting of  five 
leaflets. 
It has small greenish  flowers  and 
bright red berries at certain  seasons  of the 
year.  Although widely  known  in  China, 
both in a cultivated and a wild  state,  it  is 
not wholly confined to that region, being  in­
digenous, to the hilly regions of  our  north­
'l l   em states.  A certain species  (Panax Cali­
fornium) , is native to the soil of this  state. 
It is as yet unsettled whether the  American 
ginseng is identical with  the  Chinese  pro­
duct, but possesses the external  appearance 
of the latter variety.

The root is generally about  the  size  of a 
wild artichoke of  average  growth,  though 
varying in  length  from two to !four inches, 
often being forked.  Sometimes «several  ir­
regular  cylindrical  or  bulbous  roots  are 
found joined together  by  wire-like  fibers. 
Its imagined resemblance to  the body  of a 
man when found two-forked  was  possibly 
what first caused the supernatural  power of 
healing to be attributed to it.  This shape is 
also an indication that the root  can  restore 
vigor and power to the aged and  enfeebled. 
Such roots vary in price  from $25  to  $400, 
and are only possessed by the wealthy  class 
—mandarins  and  others.  Ginseng  from 
Manchuria  was  once  esteemed  above  all 
^  other kinds, and, in consequence of  the im- 
^ m en se exportations, it became so scarce that 
an imperial edict was issued  prohibiting its 
collection there. 
Professor  Lockhart,  of 
London, is authority for the statement  that 
ginseng is imperial property in  China,  and 
that it is sold to those having  the  privilege 
,  of dealing in it, at its weight in gold.

^   Panax quinqnefolium is the  phannaco- 
pce name for  the  American  ginseng. 
In 
some of the lake states in 1860,  the  gather­
ing of ginseng for the  Chinese  market  de­
veloped into a positive mania,  people  leav­
ing their homes and camping  for  weeks in 
the hills of Michigan, Wisconsin  and  Min- 
jj^nesota  in  search  of  roots,  the  supply  of 
which ran so  short  that it  is  now  rarely 
found in  sufficient  quantities for  exporta­
tion.  The first cargo shipped  from  Ameri­
ca to Canton yielded enormous  profits.  Rus­
sians on the Chinese border took to the  cul­
tivation of ginseng a few years ago,  but the 
cultivated variety, which requires  six years 
Uo attain perfection, is not valued so  highly 
in China as the wild roots,  requiring  about 
thirty years in which  to grow  to a  market­
able size. Even in Japan, noted for the rapid 
and gigantic growth of  its  vegetation, 
the 
ginseng root does  not  thrive  much  faster 
than in other climates, and Japense ginseng, \ 
wjbeing  coarse  grained  and  not  so  sweet 
in taste as the Chinese variety, is considered 
to be of an inferior quality.

How to Take  a Pill.

With many patients the  swallowing 
pill is  a  very  difficult  matter.  Why 

of a 
this
^should be so is somewhat difficult of  expla­
nation, inasmuch as these same patients will 
readily swallow a pea of  the  same  size  as 
the sugar-coated pill,  in  the  deglutition  of 
which they  experience  so  much  difficulty. 
Dr. Wills suggests a method in the  Medical 
and Surgical Reporter, which  he  says  he 
has used for several years with success,  and 
^Qfrhich may be new to many  of our  readers. 
Having noticed that if a person at  meals in­
cline the head  backwards,  as  in  laughing, 
while there was food in the mouth,  he  was 
pretty sure to be strangled  from  the  “food 
going the wrong way,”  Dr.  W.  instructed 
those of his patients who  had  difficulty  in 
^uyallowing pills to keep  the  head  in  the 
’position it would occupy if they were eating 
and swallowing food  at  the  table—that  is, 
the head inclined forward and the chin near 
the breast, and kept in  that  position. 
If a 
small  portion  of  saliva  be  on  hand,  or  a 
small quantity of water taken after  the  pill 
fe in the mouth, it will surprise  the  patient 
Mpid gratify the doctor, he  says,  to  witness 
the facility with which it will  be  swallow­
ed.  He has found that to  direct the patient 
*  to keep his eyes on his toes  while  swallow­
ing,  will  succeed  in  keeping  him  from 
throwing his bead  back..

tA drug house in this city  recently  receiv- 

an order for “too pounds of  linseed meal 
for brown kitecks.’
To polish tarnished nickel, use  chalk  or 

rouge mixed  with tallow.

Boralumine is leading ibis year.

War in  tlie  Drug Trade.

The war in the drug trade in the East has 
become interesting. 
It is chiefly  about  the 
retail price of patent medicines, and  one of 
the effects will probably be  to  break  up a 
good many of the small drug  stores  where 
these are sold at high prices.  The  retailers 
have a “Protective”  Association  for  keep­
ing up prices, but a number of druggists who 
do not belong to  it  have  been  “scalping” 
patent medicines for some time past.  Some 
large fancy goods and dry goods houses have 
within a couple of years added patent medi­
cines to their stock, and also cut  low  on the 
price  list.  The  wholesale  druggists  also 
have an association, and the retailers  lately 
appealed to them to protect the trade  which 
was being ruined by the scalpers and the dry 
goods men, by refusing to supply any dealer 
who undersold the price list.  The  whole­
salers decided to do so, but  there  are  some 
wholesalers who do not belong to  the  asso­
ciation. These are not bound  by  the  agree­
ment, and as yet the low  priced  men  have 
found  no  difficulty  in  getting  supplies. 
They lire confident, too, of being able  to get 
all they want, one  way or  another,  in  the 
future.  Drug trade prices have always been 
considered exhorbitant.  The difference  be­
tween regular and scalpers’  prices  at  pres­
ent may be partly shown by a few  compara­
tive figures, the first in each of  the  follow­
ing being the  regular  and  the  second  the 
general price:  Tarrent’s  Seltzers  Aperi­
ent $1—75 cents;  Warner’s  Kidney  Cure, 
$1.25—85 cents;  Hyatt’s Life Balsam,  $1— 
85 cents;  Hop  Bitters,  $1—85  cents;  Col- 
den’s  Beef  Liquid,  $1—85  cents;  Coever 
Beef Tonic, $1—75 cents;  Gastrine,  $1—65 
cents: Lydia Pinkham’s Compound,  $1—75 
cents;  Ayer’s  Sarsaparilla,  $1—67  cents; 
Hegeman’s Sarsaparilla, $1—50 cents;  Fel­
low’s  Hypophosphites,  $1—75;  St.  Jacobs 
Oil, 50 cents—35 cents; Pond’s  Extracts, 50 
cents—30 cents; various fancy soaps, 20 and 
25 cents—12 and 15 cents; Alcock’splasters, 
25 cents—12 to 15  cents.  It  goes  without 
saying that people who  want  these  things 
prefer to buy from the scalpers and  save 20 
to 50 per cent.  A war similar  to the  pres­
ent one was carried on  in  England  a  few 
years ago, and the scalpers won.

Hand and  Machine  Made  Putty.

How the  two  kinds  are  made,  and  the 
difference between them,  is  related  by  an 
old painter  to  the  ubiquitous  reporter  as 
follows:—

If it is not dried perfectly, 

The best is made of raw  linseed  oil  and 
the  latter  being  simply  chalk, 
whiting, 
It  comes  out 
ground in a mill like flour. 
with a fine flint grit  in it.  Before  making 
putty of  it, a  few  old  fashioned  men  who 
believe in  making the  best  of  everything, 
wash the grit out.  The fine  flour  is  then 
dried. 
it  takes 
up more oil than is desirable  or  profitable. 
From 500 to 600 pounds—about 15 per  cent 
by weight of raw oil to 85 per cent of whit­
ing—are put  in  a  chaser  and  thoroughly 
mixed.  The  chaser  is an  annular  trough, 
10 feet in diameter.  From a  vertical  shaft 
in the center two arms extend, on  the  ends 
of which are heavy iron wheels  which  rest 
in the trough.  When  the  shaft  revolves, 
the  wheels  chase  each  other  around  the 
trough.  When mixed, it is packed in  blad­
ders for convenience in handling.  The adul­
teration  of  putty  is  effected  by  mixing 
marble dust with whiting. 
It  costs  about 
a quarter  of a  cent  a pound,  and  whiting 
costs twice that.  Pfiraffine oils,  at  from 26 
to 30 cents a gallon, are used instead  of lin­
seed oil at 60 cents.  The marble dust makes 
the putty gritty, and the cheap  oil  makes it 
sticky.  Cheap  putty  is  decidedly  cheap. 
Putty in bulk, wholesale, is  worth  $1.75  a 
hundred pounds.  The other  window  glass 
cements run from $1.45 to $1.50.  They are 
dear at that  They take  longer  to  put  on 
and longer to dry.  Putty is neither  export­
ed or imported.  A lot was  brought  over a 
long time ago, but that  was  when  oil  was 
very high.

A superior article of putty is made,  how­
ever, by the further addition of  white  lead 
in oil, japan  varnish, and a  small  quantity 
of turpentine,  which makes a  hard  cement 
that does not shrink, and when dry  can  be 
rubbed down with pumice  stone  or  dusted 
with sand paper, so  smoothly  will  it  cut. 
Even in the  common  sorts  of  putty  it is 
well to use some white lead if a  hard  putty 
is desired.

Rancid  Castor Oil.

Rancid castor oil can easily be  purified in 
the following manner:  100 pounds  of  the 
rancid oil are heated to 30°  C. in  a  boiler; 
then a mixture of 
pound  of  alcohol  (96 
per cent.)  and % pound of sulphuric  acid is 
added and  crutched  in.  The  mixture  is 
then allowed to settle, and the oil  is  drawn 
off from the impurities  which  have  settled 
at the  bottom.  The  oil  is  again  washed 
with water,  by  boiling  it  uninterruptedly 
for at least half an  hour.  The  mixture  is 
then allowed to rest until the  oil  has  been 
collected on the surface, when it is carefully 
removed.  Rancid  oil,  after  having  been 
treated in this way, is  again  fit for  use  in 
the manufacture of transparent soap.

An  Old  Jo k e   Revam ped.

A  man went into a drug  store and  asked 
for  something  to  cure a  headache.  The 
druggist held a bottle of  hartshorn  to  his 
nose, and he was nearly overpowered  by its 
pungency.  As soon as he  recovered  he be­
gan to rail at  the  druggist  and  threatened 
to punch his head.

“But didn’t it help your  headache?” ask­

ed the apothecary.

“Help  my  headache 1”  gasped  the  man.
I   haven’t  any  headache. 
It’s  my  wife 
that’s got the headache.”

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

ACIDS.

Advanced—Opium,  Manna.
Declined —Quinine;  Ammonia,  Carbonate; 
Gum Shellac; Cantharides, powdered; Alkanet, 
root;  Oil  Juniper  berries;  Cardamon  seed; 
Hemp seed.
Acetic,  No. 8............................$  ft  9  @  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ©  35
Carbr lie ............................................  
35
C itric.................................................  
57
Muriatic  18 deg............................... 
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  ©  12
Oxalic................................................  14V4©  15
Sulphuric 06 deg.............................  
3  @  4
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................^  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  ©  15
T annic..............................................  15  ©  17
Carbonate................................ (g ft  16  ©  20
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
15
Aqua 16 deg or  3f.............................  6  ©  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................. 
7  ©  8
Copaiba............................................ 
@  50
40
F ir...................................................... 
P eru................................................. 
2 00
T olu....................................... ........... 
60

AMMONIA.

BALSAMS.

BARKS.

12
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............ 
Cinchona,  yellow..........................  
18
Elm, select.......................................  
15
13
Elm, ground, p ure..........................  
15
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
Sassafras, of root............................ 
10
12
Wild Cherry, select......................... 
Bayberry  powdered....................... 
20
18
Hemlock powdered......................... 
30
W ahoo.........................•....................  
Soap  ground....................................  
12
Cubeb, prime  (Powd $1 20).............  
@1  00
Ju n ip er..............................................   6  @  7
Prickly A sh........................................ICO @111

BERRIES.

EXTRACTS.

27
37Vi
9
12
13
15
14

GUMS.

FLOWERS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (26 ft  boxes)............... 
............... 
Lgowood, V6s 
do 
Logwood, 
do 
...............  
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid.Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.
Arnica...............................................   10  @  11
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  Germ an.....................  
25
60©  75
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................  
18
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
50
28@  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, extra  select.......................  
60
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
60
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
55
45
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
40
Arabic,i-3d picked............................ 
35
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35o)... 
30
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
23©  25
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is (V6 14c, Vis  16c)............ 
13
Eupborbium powdered..................  
35®  40
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
90®1  00
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
20
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
Mastic................................................ 
1  10
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
40
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)............... 
4 15
35
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
30
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac,  native................................. 
26
Shellac bleached.............................. 
33
T ragacanth......................................  30  @1  10
H oarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Pepperm int................................. 
25
Hue..................................................................... 40
S pearm int........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................35
T anzy................................................................ 25
T hym e...............................................................30
W ormwood.......................................................25
Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures........
20
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
C itrate........ .....................................
Phosphate ........................................

HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

IRON.

 

©2 25 
@2 00 
@1 50 
@1 75 
@3 50 
©6 50 
© 2 00 
@2 50

@  50 
45
2  00 
50 
2 00 
2 00 
75 
1  25 
40 
85
1 25 
8  00 
1  60
2 00 
75 
40 
50
2 00
2 40 
1 00
90 
1  85
3 00 
80
1  25 
50
2 00
2 85 
9  75
65
5 00 
8  00
60
3 75 ©  12
2 25
4  50 
1 00 
2 50
1 90 
4 00
6 00 
@1 20
2 50 
©  67
9 75

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12
Sage, Italian, bulk (Vis & Vis, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ural....................... d,.................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
H enbane...........................................
Rose, red.............   '..........................

LIQUORS.

* 

OILS.

do 
do 

MAGNESIA.

W., D. & Co.’s SourKlash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 75
Whisky, other brands..........................1 10
Gin, Old Tom..........................................1 35
Gin,  Holland......................................... 2 00
B randy................................................... 1 75
Catawba  Wines.................................... 1 25
Port W ines.............................................1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution....
Calcined............................................
Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz...........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Croton................................................
C ajeput............................................
C assia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citroneila........................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W ...............................
E rigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   o z ............................
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,  w hite.........................
Rose  $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $6)...
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, Turkish  D ark........
Sassafras...........................................
T an sy ................................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
W intergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. I  (Pure $6.50).......
Savin............................................ .
W orm seed........................................
Cod Liver, filtered................ $1 gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  ...............
S alad.................................................   65
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................oz
Bicromate.................................ft
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiato yellow..............................
A lkanet............................................
Althea, c u t........................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in V£s and V4s __
Blood (Powd 18c)..................... .....
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17o(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 18c)............  13
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered........................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12V4)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, tru e .........................................
Rhel, from select to  choioe..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. I ............. .......... 110
Rhei, choioe cut  cu b es................
Rhei, choioe cut Angers............. . 
-
Serpentaria............. ........................
Seneka............A .........................J
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras....

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

@

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

SEEDS.

18
10
26
20

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
13
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.......... 
5  ©  6
Canary,  Smyrna.............................   n4Vi©  5
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11  ©  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
2  uO
2 25
Cardamon, Malabar......................... 
C elery.............................................. 
20
Coriander, Dest English................. 
12
F en n el.............................................. 
15
Flax,  clean....................................*. 
gv@  4
Flax, pure grd (bbl 31£)..................  4  ©  4V
Foenugreek, powdered..................  8  ©  9
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
5  ©  C6V
Mustard, white( Black  10c)............ 
8
Q uince.............................................. 
1 00
7Vi@  8
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
Worm,  Levant.
. u
©2 50 
2 60 
1  10 
85 
65 
75 
1 40

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

SPONGES.

..........

do 
MISCELLANEUS.

 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

2 35
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.27) $  gal.... 
1 50
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................  
50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
12
3Q
Annatto  1 ft rolls............................ 
Blue  Soluble....................................  
50
Bay  Rum, imported, best....!!!!! 
2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
2 25
Alum .........................................  $  ft  23!£®  3V4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............. 
3  ©  4
Annatto,  prim e...............................  
32
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........  
4V4@  5
Arsenic, white, powdered.............   6  @  7
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
Beans,  Tonka................................................2 25
Beans,  Vanilla................... . . . . .. . .7 00  @9 75
2  30
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)....................... 
45
7V*@  9
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  15c)..-..........  
13
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
2 50
Capsicum  Pods, A frican............... 
18
Capsicum Pods, Af riean pow’d ... 
20
18
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ... 
Carmine, No. 40...............................  
4  00
Cassia Buds...................................... 
14
Calomel, American.......................’" 
70
Castor  Oil.....................................!!!  17V4©  39
Chalk, prepared drop............................... 
Chalk, precipitate English...........
12
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lum p..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s................."
1 60 
Colocynth  apples....................... .
60 
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts!!
1  60 
cryst...
Chloral 
1  7S 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
1 90 
Chloral 
crusts..
1  75 
Chloroform ......................................1  15
@1  20 
Cinchonidia, P. & W ..........*..!!!!.!  6C
©  65
Cinchonidia, other brands........ !.!  60
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal......................................... 
30
Cocoa  B utter................................................... 45
Copperas (by bbl  lc)................    aS 
2
Corrosive Sublimate.......................  
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  ©  40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote.................................. 
 
50
Cudbear, prim e............................ "! 
24
23
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
D extrine..................... ...............J.. 
12
Dover’s  Powders.................!.!!!!. 
1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
50
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
45
Ether Squibb’s ................................. 
1  10
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s............!! 
8
2V6®  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
69
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ..!!!!!.!! 
Flake  white...................................... 
14
Grains  Paradise..................... !!!!.! 
35
Gelatine,  Cooper’s..........................  
go
Gelatine, French  .............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..,..............................  12  @  17
Glue,white.........................................   17  <g>  28
Glycerine, pure.................................  23  ©  26
Hops  V48 and Vis.............................. 
25©  40
Iodoform $   oz..................  
35
......................................„!!!  85  @1  00
Indigo 
Insect Powder, best Dalm atian...  32  ©  34
2 30
Iodine,  iSssublimed........................  
Isinglass,  American.......................  
i  50
Japonica........................................... 
9
London  Purple..............................!!  10  @  15
Lead, acetate................................. 
15
Lime, chloride, (Vis 2s 10c & ¿ s  iic) 
9
1 00
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium................. .......! ! ... 
35
M ace.................................................  
60
Madder, best  D utch.................... !!!  l2Vi®  13
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
j  35
Mercury.............................................................50
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ 38 oz  3 50@3 75
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........  
40
Moss, Iceland..............................^  ft 
10
Moss,  Irish........................................ 
12
Mustard,  English............................" 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........  
18
Nutgalls............................................  
20
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
75
Nux  Vomica....................................  
10
Ointment. Mercurial, V£d............... 
40
Paris Green...................................... 
i 6Vi@  24
18
Pepper, Black  Berry...................... 
Pepsin...............................................  
3  00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Q uassia............................................   6  ©  7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz  1 30@I  35
Quinine, other brands....................1 30  @1  35
Seidlitz  Mixture..................... 
28
Strychnia, cryst...............................  
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  © 82
Red  Precipitate......................... $  ft 
30
Saffron, American..........................  
40
@  2
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst............... 
9
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
33
Sal Soda............................................ 
2  ©  2Vi
2 50
Salicm...............................................  
6  75
Santonin........................................... 
Snuffs, Maceoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...................... 
4
Spermaceti.......................................  
25
4V4©  5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
Soap, White Castile......................... 
14
Soap, Green  do 
......................... 
17
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
9
Soap, 
do  do 
........... 
11
Soap, Mazzini..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ...............................   26  © 28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ...............................   28  © 32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
30
Sulphur, flour..................................  
3J4©  4
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
3
Tartar Emetic..................................  
65
2 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, V4 gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin .......... 
140
85
Tar, 
pints in tin .............  
Turpentine,  Venice.................. (fi ft 
25
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............ 
60
Zinc,  Sulphate.......................... . 
7  @  8
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder........ ..........................................60
Shields  Cylinder...................................  
50
Eldorado Engine.............. 
45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 35
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castorine...............................................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter bleached.................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
85
Whale, winter......................................  80 
80
Lard, extra...........................................  78 
Lard, No.  1 ..........................................  65 
70
Linseed, pure  raw .......... ...................   57 
60
Linseed, boiled..................................   60 
63
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  90 
95
Spirits Turpentine..............................  39 
45

do 
do 

OILS.

. 

 

 

 

 

 

VARNISHES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.................L................1 10@1 20
E xtra  T urp............................................1 60@1  70
Coach  Body...........................................2  75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00@110
E xtra Turp  Damar.............................. 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.
70©  75

\ y \

LATEST

JOHN

CAULFIELD

Wholesale
Grocer

85,  87  and  89  Canal  Street

-HEADQUARTERS’ FOR-

FOSTER,
STEVENS
GO.
HARDWARE!

-WHOLESALE-

10  and  13  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

&

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

Close, Jells, etc.

Maple  Syrup,
We have a few 5  and  10  gallon  kegs  of 
choice Vermont Maple Syrup on hand which 
we  will  close  out  at  the  following  low 
prices:
5 Gallon  Kegs.....................................$3  10
10 Gallon  Kegs.....................................  6  00

Correspondence  Solicited  and  Quotations  Given.

Freigh ts are L argely 

in  Our Favor.

We Solicit Orders or l i t ­
ios for Any of t! Fol-

Nails, Riverside Brand, 
Jewett’s Bird Cages, 
Wheel Barrows,
Barb Fence Wire, 
Agricultural Tools, 
Road Scrapers,
Wire Cloth,
Screen Doors,
Step Ladders,
Grind Stones,
Bar Iron,
Sheet Iron,
Alaska Refrigerators, 
Horse Pokes,
Cow Bells,
Farm  Bells.

We are Carrying To-flay anfl 
Filling  Orders  as  Com-

SUOARS.
 

Cut Loaf Cubes................   
8K
Powdered  Standard.................................8%
Granulated  Standard................................7 %
Granulated, Fine Grain............................7-44
Standard  Confectioners’  A .....................
Standard  A..............................................7-19
Extra White C.................................6%@Q%
Extra Bright C.................................6
Extra  C........................................... 6%@6K
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 

Have the Highest  Endorsement of  the  be.st 
dealers in the country.
3 1b Job Bacon’s  Tomatoes, Standard. .1  05,
3 1b Smith & Wicks’ Tomatoes.............
2 ib Sweet  Com, Erie............................1  20
2 Ib Sweet  Com, Richland...................1  05
2 Ib Sweet  Com.....................................  75
2 Ib Com, F. & D.’s.............................
2 Ib Peas, Extra  Early..........................  75
2 ft Peas, Platts’ Erie............................
2 1b Peas, Equity Brand,  Extra........... 1  25
2 1b Peas, Ex. F. V. Canning  Co..........
2 1b Lima  Beans, Standard...................  90
2 1b Lima  Beans, Extra...................... .1  00
2 1b String Beans, Shawnee,white wax.  90
3 ft Climax Pumpkin, Standard........... 1  20
2 1b Succotash,  Standard......................  90
2 ft Succotash,  Yarmouth.....................1 48
3 1b Boston Baked Beans........................1 60
Apples, Gallons,  Erie............................. 3 00
Apples, Gallons, Extra  Erie County.. .3  00
3 ft Peaches,  Standard........................... 1 75
3 1b Peaches, All  Yellow........................2 00
3 1b Erie Pie  Peaches............................
2 ft Blackberries,  Madison...................
2 ft Blueberries, Detroit..........................1 25
2 1b Red Cherries,  Standard.................
2 1b Green  Gages, Extra........................
2 ft Egg  Plums, Extra.........................
2 1b Strawberries,  Extra........................
3 1b Bartlett Pears, Echert’s Standard. .1  25
1 1b Salmon, Standard.................1  45@1  55
1 ft Lobsterfc, Standard..........................1  75

The 

Sole  agent 

for  Lovell  &  Bluffing- 
ton’s 
celebrated  brands  of  Fountain, 
Old  Congress,  Good  Luck,  Good  and 
Sweet  Fine  Cut  Tobaccos. 
two 
first named brands were awarded  the  high­
est prize at the Centenial Exhibition in 1876. 
I am also factory  agent  for  Shot  Gun  and 
Butternut  Plug  Tobaccos.  Valuable prizes 
given with each butt of above  brands.  We 
carry  in  stock,  Horse  Shoe,  Hair  Lifter, 
Duck, Champion A, Green  Shield, D. &  D., 
Big Chunk or J. T., Red Star,  Sailor’s  Sol­
ace, Good Luck, Nobby Twist, Anchor,  Ten 
Cent Lunch, Spun Roll.  Largest  and most 
complete Stock of Smoking Tocaccos  in this 
market.

Readers  of  T h e  T ra d esm a n  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.

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PAINTS.
Boralumine, White  bulk]
5 fts I  .  ........
Boralumine, 
Boralumine,Tints bulk.  v40 ff..
Boralumine 
5 fts.  I ............
Red  Venetian........................ 
13£
Oohre, yellow Marseilles........  
1 %,
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  IX
Putty, com m ercial..................   2J4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2V4
Vermilion, prime  Am erican..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular...........
Lead, red strictly  p u re .....  ..
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders .........
White. Paris Am erican.. . . . . . .
Whiting. Paria Bi 

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ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  CO.,
W holesale  G rocers,

55  and  57  Canal  Street,

c5*-ra,:n.cL  PLa/picLs,  H^CiolYigem.,

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED  BRANDS

Tlx©  Best  in  tlie Market,

WE  SHALL  SOON  FILL  THIS  SPACE  WITH  QUOTATIONS  OF  INTEREST  TO 

ALL  DEALERS.  WHEN  IN  THE  CITY  DON’T  FAIL  TO  CALL  ON  US.

2L.rth.ur  Meigs  &  Co.

F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

■WHOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN-

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  IONIA  STREET,

G-RASTB  B.APIDS.  -  MICHIGAN.

A.

K N O  W  L S O N ,

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AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

L IM E ,  EULXXl,  COAL,  and  WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  CH EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

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

tral  Freight  House.

SPRING 

& COMPANY'

fective—employing illegal methods and  not 
providing legal methods,  yet  I  also  think 
with the other members  of  the  court  that 
the statute is radically bad in all  its  mater­
ial purposes. 
It aims at  destroying  rights 
which are beyond legislative  discretion, and 
leaves important interests to be governed by 
no fixed rules,  subject  to  the  unregulated 
will of persons who cannot be lawfully  em­
powered to make  their  will  obligatory on 
others.  The general purpose of this scheme 
of legislation is beyond the competency of a 
state legislature.  There is  no reason  to be­
lieve that any legislature  would  designedly 
adopt a system  which would  put  domestic 
creditors on  a worse  footing  than  foreign. 
It is manifest,  however  indirectly  it  may 
have been attempted, that a  principal  pur­
pose of this statute is  to  discharge  debtors 
from their contracts and to cut  off creditors 
from their rights of action. 
I think it is  at 
least extremely doubtful whether it  is possi­
ble in this state to provide  for  such  insol­
vent proceedings as are substantially  bank­
rupt laws, as it certainly is  not  possible  to 
evade the  provisions  forbidding  imprison­
ment  for  debt.  There 
is  no  doubt  that 
foreign debts and debts  owned  by  citizens 
of other states are beyond the  reach of  any 
state insolvent laws.  Neither can  debts al­
ready existing be discharged  at  all  in  the 
hands of any one.  The suggestion that this 
law does not impair the  obligation  of  con­
tracts,  because 
it  only  acts  on  willing 
creditors is not  even  plausible.  Creditors 
are authorized  to  be  brought  in  whether 
they will or no, and being in they must  lose 
all their advantages and lose  all  dividends 
also, unless they  choose  to  give  up  their 
rights as well as their  securities.  To  call 
such a submission voluntary is an  abuse  of 
language. 
I prefer, therefore,  to  rest  my 
objections to this law mainly, as  my  breth­
ren Champlin and Sherwood have, on  those 
radical faults which make the whole  theory 
of the statute  a  violation  of  fundamental 
rights.

A  Flood  of Counterfeit Currency.

Notice has been sent out  from  Washing­
ton to the effect that counterfeiters are  pre­
paring to flood Western  cities  with  bogus 
silver certificates  of  the  denomination  of 
twenty dollars.  The  Secret  Service  divis­
ion of the  Treasury  department  has  been 
successful in securing one  of  the  counter­
feit certificates, but nothing is said in  refer­
ence to thwarting the designs of the  forgers 
beyond  putting  the  public  on  its  guard. 
The paper  on  which  the  certificates  are 
printed 
is  represented  to  be  rough  and 
greasy, and the issue is an  imitation  of the 
series of 1880, and is signed James Gilfillan, 
treasurer of  the  United  States.  The  fol­
lowing is a description of the  certificate  re­
ceived at the Treasury Department.  “There 
are  no  distributed  fiber  or  parallel  silk 
threads in the  paper,  as  in  the  genuine. 
The words ‘Silver Certificate’  appear in the 
panels twice in the upper border on the face 
of the note. 
In the panel to the left  in the 
counterfeit letters ‘R,’  ‘T’  and  ‘F’  in  the 
word ‘certificate’ are  engraved  wrong  side 
up. 
In the counterfeit there are no  periods 
dividing the initials in B. K. Bruce.  On the 
ower left hand corner check the  letter  ‘C 
is without the  accompanying  number,  and 
in the name ‘Gilfillan’  only  the  first ‘i’  is 
dotted.  On the back of  the  note  the word 
‘taxes’ is plainly spelled ‘taris’ and the word 
‘engraved’ is spelt ‘engravod.’  The color of 
the seal is brick red;  it should be verging on 
brown.”  Those well  acquainted  with  the 
genuine certificates  will  not be  easily  de­
ceived, but in the hurry  of  business  might 
be imposed upon by the general fair  appear­
ance of the bogus issue.  By  paying  atten­
tion to the foregoing  description,  business 
men and others may guard against  loss.

Japan Tea in  Disrepute.

From the  Cleveland Herald.

“Japan  tea is  not  a  favorite  in  these 
days,” said a grocer.  “Ten years ago  a rage 
in its favor set in, and the Japanese tea was 
called for on all sides.  But  it  fell  out of 
public favor as speedily as it came in.  Why' 
It had not enough of merit  to  keep  it  in, 
The first lots we got from Japan were choice 
because the growth was small and  great at­
tention  was paid  to its culture, with  hopes 
for the future.  But the  demand  increased 
in a few jumps, care was abandoned  by the 
growers and the only object sought  was  to 
fill the orders.  Consequently the  Japanese 
tea that found  its  way  to  the  American 
market was a sorry lot.  Tea  lovers  soon 
found it out and the Chinese stimulant  was 
taken again and found  much  better.  Not 
only were the old and tough leaves of the tea 
plant picked at all times of the year,  instead 
of the young green ones of  the  spring  sea­
son, but Westeria leaves were mixed in with 
them.  When the Japan tea first came  here 
the dried leaves had a delicate olive tint and 
were long and wiry.  Now they are  broken 
and range in color  from  black  to  yellow 
the result of artificial colorings  with various 
blues, gypsum and  soapstone.

N

A M ERCA NTILE  JOU RN AL, PU BLISH ED   EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BEO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand Rapids  as 

Second-class  Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  16,  1884.

THE  WHY  AND  WHEREFORE.

ment  Law.

The  Reasons for  Annulling 

the  Assign-
The Northwestern Reporter, a legal jour­
nal devoted  chiefly  to  the  publication  of 
court decisions,  contains ill its last issue the 
opinion of the Michigan  Supreme  Court  in 
the case of Itisser vs. Hoyt, from  the  Kala­
mazoo circuit, declaring the insolvency  law 
passed at the last session of the  Legislature 
unconstitutional and void.  The facts in the 
case were, briefly:  Mumford,  in business  at 
Kalamazoo, on Aug. 21,  1882, gave a chattel 
mortgage  on his  entire  stock  to  Dayton, 
cashier of Kalamazoo City Bank,  to  secure 
$2,500, which mortgage was not  filled  until 
Oct. 2,1883.  Oct. 6,1883, Mumford convey­
ed to his wife a stock  of  goods  at  Battle 
Creek and other property to the  amount  of 
several thousand dollars, in  payment  of  an 
alleged indebtedness to  her,  and  two days 
after gave and filled another  chattel  mort­
gage to Dayton for $2,372,  covering  all  his 
stock in Kalamazoo and elsewhere, to secure 
same debt  covered by  first  mortgage.  Oct 
16 Mumford made a general  assignment  for 
benefit of creditors to Henry E.  Hoyt,  sub­
ject to the  Dayton  chattel  mortgages,  but 
not including  the  Battle  Creek  stock. 
It 
was claimed that Mumford was insolvent at 
the time of making the transfer to  his  wife 
and the second mortgage to Dayton, and was 
legally indebted to various  persons,  among 
them  Itisser & Reitz, of Chicago,  and Peter 
Hayden, of Detroit, who began suit  by peti­
tion  before  Judge  Mills,  of Kalamazoo, in 
chambers, claiming that the transfer to Mrs. 
Mumford was fraudulent, and that  the  pre­
ferred Dayton  mortgages  were  preferences 
prohibited by the insolvent act,  and  asking 
for the appointment of a receiver  under  the 
provisions of the act.  After  hearing * the 
court granted the  petition  and  appointed  a 
receiver.  The  secured  creditors  contested 
these proceedings, and after  the  order  was 
made appointing  receiver  took  the  case  to 
the Supreme Court on  certiorari.  The  case 
was fully argued in the  Supreme  Court  and 
the new insolvent law was held constitution­
al, Judge  Champlin  giving  an  exhaustive 
opinion which would fill  nearly six columns 
of T h e T radesm an—Judges Sherwood and 
Campbell concurring fully, and Judge Cooley 
holding the law fatally defective and  there­
fore void, but not]assenting fully to the anti- 
constitutional view.

Official Syllabus  of the ¿Opinion.

Act 193, Laws of 1883,  relating  to  insol­
vents and creditors, being  in  derogation  of 
the common law, and  conferring  extraordi­
nary powers on courts  and  officers,  should 
be strictly construed, and the authority  con­
ferred closely pursued.
Section 2 of this act confers on the  judge 
in vacat on power to  hear  and  determine, 
summarily and conclusively,  the  questions 
of the insolvency of the debtor,  his  prefer­
ences made, and his refusal  to  assign. 
If 
the decision is adverse  to  the  debtor, 
the 
judge must appoint a receiver, who  is  com­
manded to  seize all  the  property  of  the 
including  attached  or  garnisheed 
debtor, 
property, and convert it into money  to  dis­
tribute  among  creditors  releasing 
their 
claims.  No record or  minute  of  the  pro­
ceedings need be kept, nor need the  petition 
of the judge be filed anywhere.  Section 10 
authorizes the judge to hear  the  complaint 
of any creditors in opposition to the debtor’s 
release;  he may allow the debtor  to appear, 
or may proceed without the  allegations  be 
ing controverted, and he may,  in   his  dis­
cretion, order all the debtor’s  property, not 
< x m pt by law, to be distributed among  the 
creditors without their filing releases.  These 
provisions conferring such  judicial  powers 
on a judge at chambers are  hi  conflict with 
Article  6, Section 1, of the constitution and 
are  void.
The intent and object of the statute could 
not be carried out  without  Sections  2  and 
10, and hence the wliole act must be held  to 
be unconstitutional and void.
The questions of fact as  to  whether  the 
petitioners  are  creditors  of  the  debtor, 
whether the debtor  has  given  any  prefer­
ences or has refused to assign,  involve  val­
uable property rights, and are  proper  to go 
to a jury.  The act  providing  no  such  re­
course, conflicts w ith the constitutional right 
of trial by jury.
It is no defense to the foregoing objection 
that 
the  party  holding  the  attached 
property may defy the authority  of  the  re­
ceiver, and put  him  to a suit to  recover it. 
If the law is valid, the receiver has  right to 
take  the  property,  and  resistance  to  his 
authority w ould tend  to  provoke  breaches 
of  the  peace,  and 
the  parties 
to the penalties  provided  by  law  for such 
acts.
The fact that courts may send every such 
case as this by a general rule to a jury,  does 
not secure the  right of  jury  trial  to  the 
parties;  they only hold it at  the  discretion 
of the court.
The hearing before the judge can  not  be 
said to be merely prelim inary;  property  is 
wrested from the debtor,  and from  attaching 
creditors, converted into  money  to be  dis­
tributed to  other parties,  and  at  no 
later 
there  any  final 
stage in the proceedings is 
adjudication upon the  issues submitted.
Under our constitution, defining the courts 
and their jurisdictions, and prohibiting them 
from exercising legislative powers,  the  cir­
cuit courts  cannot  supplement  defects  in 
legislation by a liberal exercise  of  judicial 
power and vigorous  construction.
In adopting a law from another State  it is 
not necessary to follow always  the construc­
tion put upon it by the courts  of  the  state 
from which it is  taken.

subject 

Judge  Campbell’s  Opinion.

In his concurring  opinion,  Judge  Camp­

bell  says:

While I agree with the chiet  justice  and 
rith him that the statute is fatally de

-W H O L E S A L E   D E A LE R S   IN —

FAItTOY  -AJSTD

STAPLE

GOODS

CARPETS,

M A T T I N G S ,

OIL.  CLOTHS,

STO..  ETC.

Q  and.  8   Monroe  Street,

Grand  Rapids,
M ichigan,
THE  DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure

Nor Satisfaction. 

W H EN EV ER   IT  D ISC OVERS  AN  A R T IC LE  THAT  C O M M EN D S  

^
THE  PUBLIC  IS  NOT  SLOW TO  LEARN  THIS  FACT

LORILLARD’S PLUG TOBACCOS

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

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

TO  T H E   T A S TE  AN D  O T H ER   S E N S E S .

IT S E L F  

Favorite  Brands  tins  Year;  or  About

One-Foirtl of All tie Ping Tobacco Used in ibis Conntry!

AND  AS THERE  ARE  BETWEEN  800  AND  900  OTHER  FACTORIES  IN 

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

THAN  THIS  BRANDS  OF  OTHER  MAKERS.

<fQLTM.AX,” with  Red Tin Tag, is their Best Brand.

Candy We manufacture all our stock 

and  can  always  give  yon  tlie 
best goods.

Q 

dling are  unsurpassed. 

r i i ’Q n r r o a   We  buy  in  large  lots  from 
a l l g C O   first hands and  ship  only  in 
full car lots.  W e handle 20,- 
OOO boxes of Oranges  and 
Lemons in a season and our
T 
J—lv3IIlLHlfc5  facilities for buying and  han­
-\r 1_LCJ  We  carry  a heavy stock  of Bra- 
1N LI u o   zils,  Almonds,  Filberts,  Walnuts, 
Pecans  and  Cocoa  Nuts,  and  w ill 
sell against any market. 
D o o m i f a   We lately  bought eight  car 
1   t/d iL lu 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

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

A fine lithograph  of  the  celebrated  trot 
ting stallion, Jerome  Eddy, with  every  500 
of the Jerome Eddy cigars, for sale by  Fox 
Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids.

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PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

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From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and Boxes.  Contracts made for 
Complete Outfits.
W .  O«  Denison,

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN,

W HOLESALE  g r o c e r s ,
IirotUcori, Clief, Crescent k Red Seal Plus Tobaccos.

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

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

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

Tobaccos,  Vinegars  and  Spices l! 

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM  FOR OUR—

OUR MOTTOi  “ SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANOAND^MAK.”

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED,

A L AB  ASTINE!

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,  ana 
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  absoibs 
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  refinisliing. 
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.

-FOE,  SALE  BY-

AT,!.  Fain t  Sealers.

— m a n u f a c t u r e d   b y -----

M. B. CHÏÏE0H, Manager.

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY
WESTFIELD  WHIPS

G R AND   R A P ID S , 

M IC H IG A N .

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MANUFACTURERS.

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NO. 4 PEARL STREET, 

GBâND RAPIDS, MICH.

G. ROYS & CO, GiOl AËBltS.

A.  A.  CRXPFEN,

W HOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Fars

54  MONROE  STREET,

g b a n d   b a p i d s ,

MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Law as Chicago and Detroit.

W hat Grocers  Should  Know. 

Grocerymen, whose business is to buy and 
sell, who are obliged qften to  work  upon a 
close margin,  who  give  credit,  and  who, 
more or less, buy on time,  should  have  as 
thorough a commercial  education  as  possi­
ble, and should supplement this with a rigid 
training  in  the  fundamental  principles of 
commercial or business law.

Even the most humble  grocer  should  be 
familiar with the statutes  of  limitation; he 
should understand  what  contracts  maybe 
oral and what contracts must be written; he 
should be  familiar  with  the  principles of 
law governing the negotiability  of  bills  of 
exchange and promissory  notes, and  those 
for the prevention of  fraud;  he  should  he 
able to define constructive fraud as  opposed 
to actual fraud; should understand the legal 
nature of a warranty,  in  order  to  protect 
himself against any breach of the  same,  or 
to demand and obtain his rights in  cases of 
a breach;  he should make a point of  know­
ing something of the statutes of  exemption, 
and should  certainly  know  what  are  the 
legal requirements in the  formation  of  co­
partnerships, together with  the [mutual  ob­
ligations and liability of partners.

There are but few business men, however, 
who devote much  time to studies calculated 
to fender them better fitted  for  commercial 
pursuits.  We  have  known  hundreds  of 
them who thought that, in an action  for the 
collection of a book account, they had a per­
fect right to add interest  charges;  and  jve 
believe that there are thousands  to  whom a 
proposition involving a discount  and  prem­
ium would be, as Mrs. Partington might  ex­
press it, an insoluble problem.

A  G eneral M erchant 

From the Allen  Advocate.

L. C. Tucker will  trade  lumber  for  any 
kind of produce, would also trade for a plug 
horse.

“How do you  like  the  squash  pie,  Al­
fred?” asked a young wife of her  husband a 
few days after marriage.  “Well, it  is pretty 
good, but—”  “But  what?  I  suppose  you 
started to  say that it isn’t as  good  as  that 
which your mother makes.” 
“Well,  yes, I 
did intend to  say  that,  but—”  “Well, Al­
fred, your mother made  that  very  pie  and 
sent it  to  me.”

It is believed that malaria on the banks of 
streams  where  saw  mills  are  located  is 
largely caused by the  decomposition of  the 
sawdust, bark and small fragments of  wood 
that are thrown into the water as the easiest 
way of disposing of them. 
In New  York it 
is proposed to prohibit by statute the throw­
ing of these articles into  streams  by  mill- 
owners.

Many of the mills  throughout  the  coun­
try are  changing  their  business  from  the 
manufacture of cotton and woolens  to wors­
teds. 
It is said that there is  more money in 
the latter  business, and  the  manufacturers 
can always secure  a market  for  their  pro­
ducts.
if  “No,” said Fitskin, “I don’t think I  shall 
join  the  Masons. 
ever  try  to 
It’s  too 
dangerous.” 
“Dangerous!  How?”  “Oh, 
you see we hear about so many  murders in 
the first, second and  third  degrees  that 'I 
don’t dare to try it.”

Boralumine  is  unexcelled  by  any  other 

wall finish on the market.

The Boy  Was  A ll Bight.

From the Detroit Free  Press.

A clothing dealer on Jefferson avenue was 
dancing around the door  of  his  store  in a 
great rage yesterday when  an  acquaintance 
halted and asked him the cause  of  his  ex­
citement.

“Vhy, dot new poy of mine sells  a  man a 
hat  for  a  dollar  dot  vhas  marked  twelve 
shillings.”

“And you lose fifty  cents?”
“Feeftycents!  I  discharge  dot  poy  so 

queek his head doan’ haf time to shwim!”

In the course of  an  hour  the  pedestrian 
was re-passing the  store,  and,  seeing  the 
the man at the  door  witlx  a  smile  on  his 
face, he asked:

“Well, did you discharge the  boy?”
“Dot  poy  vhas  all  right,  sir. 

"V hen I 
comes to inquire  into it I doan’ let  him  go 
if I haf to pay him more wages.  He makes 
a mistake on price, but when he  gifts  back 
der change for a ten dollar  bill  he  get  me 
rid  of all my trade dollars^und  pieces  mit 
holes in ’em.

The Indiana Supreme  Court  in  a  recent 
case laid down as follows the law  regarding 
the choice of remedies at the  option  of  the 
vendor in the case of a sale of personal prop­
erty at a stated price  where  the  vendee  re­
fuses to accept it:  1.  The vendor may store 
or retain the  property  for  the  vendee  and 
sue him  for  the  entire purchase  price.  2.
He  may  sell  the  property,  acting  as  the 
agent of the  vendee  for  this  purpose,  and 
may recover the difference  between the con­
tract  price  and  the price obtained on  such 
resale.  3.  He may  keep  the  property  as 
his own, and recover the difference  between 
the market price at  the  time  and  place  of 
delivery and the contract price.

The value of the porpoise, from a commer­
cial standpoint, is about  $25  each.  They 
average in weight about 300 pounds,  nearly 
all of which, it is claimed, can  be  utilized. 
The blubber yields a fine quality of oil, suit­
able for tanning  and  lubricating  purposes, 
said to  be superior to that of whale.  There 
is also a still  more  valuable  oil  extracted 
from the jaw of the fish used by watch-mak­
ers.  The skin makes an  excellent  leather, 
soft, pliable and waterproof,  more  durable 
than the best French calf.  The refuse yield 
a valuable phosphate.  A company is  being 
organized at Cape  May  to  engage  in  the 
catching of porpoise.

The newspaper columns  headed  “Born,” 
“Married,” and “Died,” have been  various­
ly paraphrased in the Far West.  One paper 
has it “Hatched,  Matched,  and  Despatch­
ed,”  and  another  “Buds,  Blossoms,  and 
Cypress.”

Complete assortment of  fishing  tackle  at 

Calkins Bros., 97 Ottawa street.

Advertisements to the effect  that  certain 
tailors have full stocks of “fall  and  winter 
woolens” should  now  be  changed.  Some 
papers have them still standing.

Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar 
manufactured by Robbins  &  Ellicott,  Buf 
falo, N. Y.  For sale by Fox, Musselman  & 
Loveridge, Grand Rapids, Mich.

The  trade  of  the  Boralumine  Co.  is  in­
creasing very rapidly showing that the  met 
its of the article are  appreciated.  Send  for 
samples and prices.

St. Louis will  turn  out 25,000,000 pounds 
of manufactured tobacco this year, on which 
it is said the jobbers will make  more  than 
SI,000,000.

Reduction in  wages  of  the  operatives  in 
the Canadian woolen mills are the  order of 
the day.

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

Try Boralumine.  Any  one can use it.

J O R D A N

Pneumatic  Washer

The best thing of the kind in the  market! 
Washes  clothes  in  half  the  time  of  other 
machines.  Simple in Construction  and  Op­
eration.  For sale for $5 apiece by the  man­
ufacturer,

IT,  CLUFF,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  Town  and  county 
rights for sale.

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

Successor  to  H.  M, Bliven,

—WHOLESALE—

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

Agent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated  “ E ”  Brand 

Raw  Oysters.

117  MONROE  STBEET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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

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

BOOTS  &  SHOES,
Our M s are Sjicly AAajteS to lit HcUeu M i
14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.  •
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

PROPRIETORS  AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF

SSSs

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Ä B G -H .tp-L B  t;M 4G O .-t-K K -6 ;- e t cI

Jennlnss^  Flavoring  Extracts

AND DRUGGISTS’  aND  GROCERS’  SPECIALTIES.

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

WHOLESALE

83,85 and 87  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  MICHIGAN.

I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  M Y -

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 Ladies,

Straw Hats for Boys,
loll li tin D m  at  t o   M   Prltas!!

Straw Hats for Misses.

----- LARGE  LINE  OF— r

and  Gent’s  F’-uxnishing  Goods, 

ottonade  Pants  and  H osiery.

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 .   X j   3E3  " V   X ,

36, 3 8 ,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

Fruit & Produce at Wholesale

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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

W HOLESALE

—AND—

IFVAJSTOY  G -O O D S  

L A C E S ,

Real  Laces  a  Specialty.

Gloves, Corsets, Ribbons, Fans, Hand Bags, 

Pocket Books,  Buchings,  Yams,

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets, 

Embroidery  Materials,  Plumes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.
STAMPING PATTERNS

70  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

TIMETABLES.

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ARRIVE.

DEPART.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
•(Detroit Express....................................  * 
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•(Day  Express.........................................  „"A P
♦New York Fast Line............................P m
+Atlantic Express..................................   9:20 pm
»Pacific  Express....................................
■(•Local  Passenger.................................. o  « a ?i
+Mail........................................................  3:5o p m
•(Grand  Rapids  Express......................10:2o p m
■(•Daily except Sunday.  »Daily. 
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
a t Detroit at 12:35 a. m., and New York at ,0 p 
m. the next evening. 
...
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
G reat  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers. 
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:4a a. m., New York 10.30 
a  m.. and Boston 3:05  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

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B 

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Detroit, Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

Leaves. 
Arrives.
6:15 a m
-(Steamboat E xpress...
, . 10:10 a m ]0:20 a m
■(Through  Mail.............
..  3:20 p m 3:35 p m
•(Evening  Express.......
..  9:45 ¿> m 10:45 p m 
»Atlantic Express........
10:00 a m
•(Mixed, with  coach —
GOING
12:55 p m 
.12:40 p ra 
■(Morning  Express.......
4:55 p m
..  4:45 p in 
■(Through  Mail.............
..10:30 pm
^Steamboat Express...
8:00 a m
■(Mixed..................................   _n
..  5:10 a m 5:30 a m
»Night Express....................  o :10 a m
•(Daily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso to r Lansing 
and at Detroit tor New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. in. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
WestLimited  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
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent. 
T h o m a s  T a n d y , Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Grand  Bapids  &  Indiana. 
g o in g  n o r t h .Arrives
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 a rn 
Ft  Wayne&MackinaeEx..  3:o< p m  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati E x.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. W ay > e E x.. J 0 :-5 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  * .40 p m 

GOING  SOUTH.

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

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:o0a. in. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac
€  South-T rain leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati, 
ru n  bieei^  g  Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

.

■(Mail..............
•(Day  Express 
»Night  Expre
Mixed...........
»Daily.  +1>£ 
Pullman Sic 
Through  pari 
tendants with 
12:50 p. m.,
8:35 p*. m. trains.

Leaves.  Arrives, 
...10:15 a m   4:00 p m
"   " ............. 12:50 p m  10:45 p m
ig 
..  8:35 p m  6:10 a m
" "  ] " ____6:10 a m  10:15 p m
ily except Sunday. 
.ping Cars  on  all  night  trains, 
ir  car  in  charge  of  careful  at- 
m t extra charge  to Chicago  on 
l through coach on 10:15 a.m. and 
NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves.

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

Arrives. 
5:15 p m  
Mixed 
8:30 p m
Express.................................E?
xnress 
o;ouu ui  10:15am
E xpress..................... 
8:30 a m
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago, 
a s  follows: M ail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m 
The Northern term inus of this Division « a t. 
Baldwin, where close connection is made witn 
F. &  P. M.  trains to  and  from   Ludington  and
Manistee.  ^  H  p a l m e r , Gen’l Pass. Agent.

—FOR  THE—

-----AT-----

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,
WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,
gtTlF.P  STORE,

—AT THE—

91  Canal  St., Grand  Bapids, Mich.

W. T. LAliADI Apt

JEH.  HJ*  O  W X j E I ,
P A IN TER   AN D   D EC O R A TO R ,

—AND  DEALER IN—

Artists’ Materials!

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

ROOM  MOULDINGS,

P A IN TS ,  O ILS',  AND

WINDOW  SHADES,
Glass, Plain ait Ornamental
37  I onia  Street, South  of  Monroe.
JOHN MOHRHARD,

—WHOLESALE—

Fresh & Salt Meats

109  CANAL STBEET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

MOSELEY BROS.,

Wholesale

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^ _____ l2Wii+a  Orn.mrfift

Glover, Timothy and all  Kinds H eld Seeds
Seed  Corn,  Green  and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
and Lemons, B utter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
GBEEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS 

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Percale shirts will be much worn this sea­
son.  Some of these are  shown  in  delicate 
shades, such  as  pink,  with  plain  bosoms. 
Small plaits, a quarter of an inch  in  width 
and slightly overlapping are seen.  This is 
a revival of an old fashion.  Colored shirts 
show an infinite variety of effects, 
the  de­
signs in many cases  bearing a strong resem­
blance  to the  handkerchief  patterns.  The 
demand for  these  shirts ¡has  opened  well, 
and bids fair to be better  than  ever.  The 
French designs are the  most  sought  by the 
best trade.

To clean buckskin mittens, chamois skins, 
and like articles, the following will be found 
useful:  Make a weak solution of weak  soda 
and warm water, rub plenty of soft  soap  in 
the leather, and let  it  remain  in  soak  for 
two hours, than rub well  uutil  quite  clean. 
Rinse well in a weak  solution  of  soda  and 
yellow soap in warm water, but not  in wat­
er only, else it  dries  hard.  After  rinsing, 
wring well in a rough towel and dry quickly, 
then pull it  about  and  crush  it  well  until 
soft.

Starch may be made  to  give  a  gloss  to 
linen in several ways. 
If a  lump of  sperm 
from the end of a sperm candle,  as  large as 
a hickory-nut, be put in the starch the  linen 
will show a fine finish when ironed.  Some 
use gum arabic.  Dissolve  an  ounce  of the 
white gum in a  pint  of  water,  strain  and 
bottle it.  A tablespoonful of this  added to 
the starch will give it a  laundry  gloss upon 
ironing.

Try the  celebrated  Jerome  Eddys..  The 
finest 10 cent cigar in the market.  For  sale 
by Fox, Musselmau & Loveridge.

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 SI., G’d Rapids.
C astor M achine  Oil.

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

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

OHIO  OIL  OOMPA1TY

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  Tr ial  Order.

Hazeltiue, Perkins &  Co., Graud  Rapids.

\  \4\OJfcSv-'^XX»

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E  W O R K !

92  MONROE  STREET.

MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N.
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877-Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Tears.

, 

LIST OF OFFICERS I 

President—Ransom W. Hawley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Ch as. E. Snedekeb, Detroit; 
L. W. Atkins, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. Ajlexan- 
dku, Lansing;  U. S. Lord, Kalamazoo; H. E.
Meeker, Bay City. 
__l,__ _
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Meredith,
Board^of’ Trustees,  For One Year—J . C. P on­
tius, Chairman, S. A. Monger, H .K . White 
For Two Years—D. m orris, A. W.  Culver,

£v

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  9.

tator  B ill.”

W illiam   J. Price,  Better  Known  as  “Dic­
W. J. Price was bom in New  York  City 
August 18,1839,  and  lived there  for  five 
years, when his  parents  moved  to  Plain- 
well, Allegan county,  where  he spent  his 
time until fifteen years of  age.  The  next 
five years were spent in “seeing the  world,” 
during which time he visited a dozen  differ­
ent states, and sailed  on  the  lakes.  The 
breaking out of the war found him at Green 
Bay, Wis., where he enlisted as a private  in 
the Fourth Wisconsin Infantry, and  served 
in  that  capacity  eighteen  months,  taking 
part in the engagements  of  Franklin,  and 
Baton Rouge, the  Red  River  campaign  of 
1862, the seige of Port Hudson, in  which he 
was wounded in the  leg, and  the  battle of 
Clinton. 
In June, 1863,  the  regiment  was 
changed to cavalry, and Mr. Price was  .rais­
ed to the rank of sargeant.  The  regiment 
was thenceforth detailed  on  frontier  duty, 
where they did  gallant  duty.  Serving  the 
time of his enlistment, Mr.  Price  was  dis 
charged at New Orleans, where  he  remain­
ed one year, when he came  North,  locating 
at Kalamazoo,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
grain business, entering the employ of  Mer­
rill & McCourtie,  millers.  He  was  with 
this firm until 1870, when he engaged in the 
grocery business at  Kalamazoo  under  the 
firm  name of Haines & Price.  The  follow­
ing year lie disposed of his  interest  to  his 
partner, and took the position of  steward of 
the State Agricultural College  at  Lansing, 
which position he filled for  two  years,  re­
signing in 1873.  to  engage  in  the  grocery 
business in this city.  He formed a  partner­
ship with Mr. M. J. Ulrich,  under  the firm 
name of Ulrich & Price,  and  established a 
fine business on the comer of  West  Bridge 
and Front streets.  The great  fire  of  June 
19,1875, swept away their stock,  on  which 
they had but little insurance, and  the  part­
nership was dissolved.  On the  completion 
of the new Worfel  block  on  West  Bridge 
street in the  fall,  Mr.  Price  resumed  the 
same business, continuing until  1877, when 
adverse circumstances compelled him  to lay 
down.  May 1, 1879, he entered the  employ 
of Eaton & Christenson, taking the trade on 
the G. R. & I., as far north  as St.  Ignace,  a 
territory he has covered ever  since,  and  in 
which he is as well known as  any  traveler 
out of this market.  He attributes  his  suc­
cess on the road to arduous  labor  and close 
application to business, as well as to  a  jov­
ial disposition, either of which  qualities en­
able him to attract men and hold them.

They Paid  Their  Fare.

“Did you ever hear how Johnny McIntyre 
turned pale, and begged not to be put off my 
train up at Westwood three  or  four  years 
ago?”  said Freight Conductor Brisbin, of the 
G. R. & L Railroad, a few days ago.

The train reporter  of  T h e  T radesm an 
expressed  his disbelief  in the ability of  Mc­
Intyre to turn his Indian-like  aspect  to  an 
ashy white, and Brisbin  continued:

“John McIntyre, W. J. Price,  Frank Par- 
menter and the late lamented Frank Thomas 
tried a bluff game on me  when  I  was  run­
ning on the  Northern  division,  but  their 
little dead-beat scheme  failed  to  work. 
I 
called in a couple of  burly  brakemen,  and 
we put the entire party  off  at  Westwood. 
They begged hard to be allowed  to proceed, 
offering to pay double fare, and  Johnny  ap­
pealed  to me so piteously  that I finally  al­
lowed them to  go  on.  McIntyre  was  so 
scared  at the prospect of spending  a  night 
in  the  woods  that he turned milky white. 
His teeth chattered,  his  knees  knocked  to­
gether, and he  was  altoghther  the  worst 
frightened man you ever  saw.  So  you  see 
his  usual  lion-like  boldness  is always  put 
on.”

W ill  Probably  H it It.

He  was a Chicago manufacturer  of  but- 
terine.  He reached home from a trip  down 
south, and entered his  office  with  the  re­
mark to his partner:

“Smith, all  is lost!”
“No! What’s the matter?”
•{Why, we have got to use at least  10 per 

cent of pure butter in our article, or find our-j for.”
selves driven from the southern market!” 

“Is that all?  Then cheer up.  If we must 
increase the per cent of  butter  from  five to 
ten let us find a  substitute  for  the  tallow. 
Let us experiment with asphalt or glue.”

Features o f the  Week.

The grocery market has been almost  fear 
tureless during the past  week,  the  staples 
having been exceptionally  steady.  Sugars 
weakened  the middle of the week,  but sub­
sequently  recovered,  anil  prices  are  about 
the same as last week, with a firmer feeling. 
Coffees are a little easier and a trifle  lower, 
although there is no  appreciable  decline.

Oranges and Lemons are in  good  supply 
and steady  in  price,  with  a good  demand. 
Nuts, dates, etc., are all without change.

The Czar of Russia is favorably  entertain­
ing a project to extend a  complete system of 
12,000  miles of rail communication through 
the distant parts of the  empire.  With  an 
annual expenditure of about $38,000,000  ex­
tending over a period of twenty years, 
it  is 
proposed to carry on  gigantic  railroad  con­
struction that  will  connect  St.  Petersburg 
with the remote cities of Siberia, the  region 
of the  Amoor  River  and  China,  and  the 
centers of  Persia,  Afghanistan,  Turkestan 
and India.

A voter, praising a candidate  at  a recent 
election, said:  “He is as fine a fellow as ever 
lifted a hat to a lady or  a  boot  to  a  scoun­
drel.”

The  Adulteration  of Sugar.

From the Detroit Journal.

Public interest in all adulterations of food 
products has  been  awakened  somewhat  in 
this city by the  lectures  of  Dr.  Clark,  and 
greatly  stimulated  by  the  recent  develop­
ments made  by  a  committee  of  the  New 
York Legislature respecting the manufacture 
and sale of  unwholesome  butter.  What  is 
true of butter is equally true of sugar.  The 
principal question, as far as the  people who 
use sugar are concerned, is in regard  to  the 
healthiness of glucose, now  used  so  exten­
sively in its adulteration. 
It is  claimed  by 
the manufacturers of glucose or starch sugar 
that it is of exceptional purity and  contains 
no  injurious  substances,  though  having  at 
best only two-thirds the sweetening power of 
cane sugar.  This may  be true, but the peo­
ple prefer pure sugar to an article adulterat­
ed with glucose.  They are not satisfied as to 
its wholesomeness.  Glucose is employed in 
the manufacture of confectionery, in canning 
fruit, in making jellies and  in  adulterating 
cane sugar.  It is also used in  making  arti­
ficial honey nnd in beer brewing as a substi­
tute for malt.  Few  will  quarrel  with  any 
one of these uses except that probably of the 
adulteration and  its substitution for another 
article. 
It is a conceded  fact,  both  in  law 
and morals, that a man is entitled to receive 
what he buys  and  pays  for,  and  certainly 
when sugar  is  purchased,  however  pure it 
may be or free srom  injurious  elements,  if 
there  is a lessening of its saccharine strength 
there is a deception and  a  loss.  There  are 
some who will not object to the substitution 
of oleomargarine or butterine for butter, at a 
low price, but if they are required to pay the 
value of first-class creamery butter, they will 
look upon it as  a  swindle.  So  with  sugar. 
Let the dealers in lowering the grade  lower 
the  price  and  purchasers  will  understand 
what they are getting.  This should  be  en- 
rorced by law.  There  is  but  one  step  be­
tween the use of innocuous glucose and  the 
employment of articles that have no commer­
cial value  whatsoever.

A Modern  Maple  Sugar  Grove.

From the Detroit  Free  Press.

A very touching description of  a  modern 
maple sugar camp appeared some weeks ago 
in the  columns  of  The  Free  Press.  The 
writer was disappointed  at  finding  the  sap 
gathered in patent buckets instead of  in the 
old-fashioned trough and boiled in a  patent 
evaporator set on a bricked furnace  instead 
of in the old black  iron  kettle  of  huge  di­
mensions bubbling over a great hickory fire. 
The writer must have  been  an old  fogy in­
deed,  for  the  so-called  modern  camp  he 
speaks of has long since  given  way  to  the 
still more recent methods of making  maple 
sugar.  One of the finest maple sugar camps 
of the west is situated right herejin  Detroit. 
The camp, which, when first  started,  occu­
pied one room in a basement,  has  now  ex­
tended over the entire underground  floor of 
a large building.  A  reporter,  on  visiting 
this maple grove,  found  the  horny-handed 
farmers hard at work  sugaring  off.  Great 
barrels of the poorest  sort  of  Cuba  sugar, 
damp, dark and clammy, stood in the cellar, 
like executed Cubans, with  their  heads off. 
Shallow copper  tanks  simmered  over  coal 
fires.

“Yes,”  said  the  bronzed  agriculturists, 
“now is our busy season.  We use up sever­
al barrels of Muscovada  sugar  a  day.  We 
dump the sugar into the pans and stir  it up 
with hot water.  Then we add the sand and
ground leaf and  twigs----- ”

“I don’t twig,” said the reporter.  “What 

ground leaf do you use, and why?”

“Oh, we get maple leaves  and  break ’em 
up.  Nothing pleases a man  so  much  as to 
find a bit of maple leaf ora snapped off twig 
in his lump of maple sugar.”

“And the sand?”
“Oh,  well,  sand  is  cheap  enough  and 
the  chunks. 
helps  big  in  weighing  out 
People are sort of educated up to  expecting 
sand in their maple  sugar.”

“You use real maple  sugar  to  give  the 

flavor I suppose?”

‘Bless you, no;  that’s  the  old-fashioned 
way and it’s expensive.  No, we  have flav­
oring extracts in them carboys and  we  can 
turn out any brand of  maple  that’s  called

The boy was ladling out the  dark-looking 
fluid into  molds  that  held  about  a  pound 
each;  some molds held  five  pounds.  An­
other poured the more liquid stuff into  cans 
labeled:  “P u re V erm ont Ma p l e Sy r u p; 
Beware of Imitations.”

“I suppose you sell most of it in  the city 

here?”

“No, very little.  The greater part goes to 
farmers  in  the  country,  who  bring  it  in 
again in farm wagons and sell it  around the 
streets at houses where the people  will only 
have the pure article  and  who  won’t  buy 
from the regular stores.”

This  is  the  real  modern  maple  sugar 

camp.  None other is  genuine.

Cigarette  Paper as a  Cause  of War.
It is not  improbable that as trivial a cause 
as  cigarette  paper  may  kindle  a  religious 
war in Thessaly. The Thessalian legislature, 
not long since, passed a bill  authorizing  the 
government  monopoly  of  cigarette  paper. 
The poorer classes, to whom the sale  of  the 
paper would be a source of  livliehood,  com­
plain loudly that  they  have  been  cruelly 
robbed;  while the followers of the  Prophet 
are furious because the new  government pa­
per bears the symbol of the cross, which they 
take to be a deliberate insult  to  their  relig­
ion, for how can a true believer  in the cres­
cent enjoy a cigarette which bears the hated 
sign of the  rival faith!  And the government 
will allow them to use no other.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Nothing.
Nothing.

Advanced.
Declined.

a x l e   g r e a s e .

M odoc__ $  doz  60  (Paragon...  ^  doz  60
Diamond.............   60  IFrazer’s ...............  85

BAKING  POWDER.

ib cans.............................................. 

Arctic % it) cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic 
75
Arctic % ft cans..............................................1 40
Arctic  1 ft  cans..............................................2 40
Arctic 5  ft cans.............................................. 12 00

BLUING.

Dry, No. 2............................................ doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3............................................ doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,...................................     doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz..........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross  4 00
Arotic 8  oz.........................................................   8 
Arctic 16 oz......................................................  12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..................................   2 
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 

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BROOMS.

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

2 50
2 25
2 00
1 75
1  25
85

CANNED GOODS.

 

Apples, 3 ft standards...................................... 1 20
Apples, 6 ib standards...................................... 2 00
Apples, gallon  standards.................................3 15
Apricots, Lusk’s................................................2 95
Beans, Lima . .. ............................... 
85
Beans, S tring................................................  85
Beans, Boston Baked...................................1  75
Blackberries, standards.............................. 1 25
Cherries, w h ite.............................................1 90
Cherries,  red..................................................1 05
Condensed Milk, Fagle  brand.................... 8 10
Corn, Erie.......................................................1 15
Corn, Revere..................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian.............................................110
Corn,  Yarm outh................................................ 1 30
Corn Tropby..................................................115
Corn, 2 ft  Onandago.....................................150
Damsons............................................................. 1 20
Egg Plums, standards...................................... 1 60
Green  Gages, standards................................... 1 60
Lobsters, S ta rs..................................................2 00
Lobsters, Picnics....................; 
............. 1  75
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ffil............... 4 00
Oysters, 1  Ib  standards................................110
Oysters, 1 lb  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 E xtra Yellow Heath...................3 00
Peaches, white  standards................................1 90
Peaches,  seconds.............................................. 1 65
Pie Peaches........................................................ 1 20
Pears, B artlett................................................... 1 35
Peas, standard  M arrofat................................. 1 50
Peas, good M arrofat................................ 
1 35
Peas, soaked...............................................      65
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...............................   1554
Sardines, imported %s.................................  20
Sardines, domestic %s................................. 
8
Sardines,  domestic  %s ...............................   12%
Sardines,  Mustard........................................  15
Strawberries,  standards...................................1 10
Succotash, standards........................... 
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.........................a .............. 3 00

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure................................................@ 5%
Churh’s ......................................................... @ 5%
Taylor’s  G. M................................................ @ 5%
Cap  Sheaf.................................... 
@ gu
Dwight’s ........................................!..!!! 1! !@ 5%
Sea  Foam ......................................................@ 5 %

s a l t .

« 
2 50
40
1 75
155

60 P o c k e t...................................................  
28Pocket......................................... 
100 3 1b  pockets........................................’ 
Saginaw F in e .................................... 1 
Diamond C..................... . .............” "  "  
Standard  Coarse............................. . . . .  
H em p......................................................  
5%
C anary..................................................... 
414
R a p e ............................................... 
. 
7
Mixed Bird...................................... ......  5%@6
Kirk’s American  Fam ily.......$  ft

SEEDS.

SOAP.

00
00
3 00
4 50
do. 

In d ia .........................................

do. 
do.  Savon..........................
do.  S atinet.................................
do.  R evenue..................................
do.  White Russian.........................
Goodrich’s English F a m ily ...............
P rincess............................
Proctor & Gamble’s Iv o ry ................. 
Japan  O live........  
box 
Town Talk 
Golden Bar.......... 
Arab................ 
3 
Amber............  
3 
Mottled  German.. 

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

6%6%
6
6% 
5% 
5 40 
5%
6 75 '
5
3  70
4 20
45
75
4  20

@

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................   @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 15
Badger............................................ 60fts  @ 6%
Galvanic.................................................   @4 20
XXX Electric
@6 50
XXX Borax............................................   @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar
Ward’s White Lily.
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 20
Sidall’8 ................... ............................... 
Babbitt’s ................................................ 
Dish R a g ................................................ 
Bluing...................................................... 
Magnetic................................................„ 
New  French  Process.......................... . 
Spoon.................................... ; ................ 
Anti-Washboard....................................  
V aterland................................  
 
Magic................... 
P ittsburgh.............................................. 
Bogue’s ................................................... 
White castile  bars................................. 
Mottled castile........................................ 
Old  Style..............................................  
Old Country............................................. 

3 00
5  50
4  10
5 00
4  20
4  50
5 00
5  00
325
420
4 00
6 75
13
12
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5%

 
 

 

SPICES.

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon........ .......................................  16@30
C loves....................................................   20@25
Ginger......................................................  17@20
M ustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper.% ft $  dozen.............................. 
75
Allspice  % ft........................................... 
75
Cinnamon  % f t ...................................... 
100
Cloves %  ft.............................................. 
75
@18
Pepper,  whole....................................  
Allspice................................................ 
@10
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75

STARCH.

 

 

1 05

CAPS.

TEAS.

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COFFEE.

SUGARS.

SYRUPS.

FAUCETS

Vanilla

Lemon.

CORDAGE.

CHOCOLATE.

STONEWARE.

STOVE POLISH.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

..................................175

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

G.  D.....................   35  (Ely’s W aterproof  75

@7Vi
8 Vi @8%
  8%@8%
8  @8%
Yi  Vi 
@7
6%@6%
6%@6%

72 foot J u t e .......1  35 |60 foot Cotton______ 1  75
60 foot J u te .......1  15 [50 foot Cotton.... 1  50

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

Green Rio__ 12%@14%
Green J  ava... 17 Vi@27 %
Green Mocha.25%@27%
Roasted Rio.. 12%@17%
Roasted  Java24%@34%
Roasted  Mar.l7%@19 
Roasted  Mocha  @34Vi

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

4 oz.............................................2 50
6 oz.............................................4 00
8 oz.............................................5 00
No. 2  Taper...................................  1 50
No.  4 Taper...................................  3 00
Yt pint  round..........................  7 50
1 pint  round............................... .15 00
No.  8..............................................  4 25
No.  10..................... . 
................   6 00

@  30 
@  32 
@  33 
@1 75 
©1 60 
32@  35 
35@  40 
@1 85 
@  80 
@  80 
®  85 
©  95 @1 00
Young Hyson__ 25@50
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Oolong.........33@55@60
Congo..................  @30

Jenning8’2oz......................................$   doz.  1 00
4 oz.............................................1 50
6 oz.......................... .......................2 50
8 oz............................................  3 50
No. 2 Taper.............................  1 25
No.  4 
Yi pint  round..........................  t 50
1 
...............................   9 OO
No.  8......................................... 3 00
No. 10........ .'.................................   4 25
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz.  1  40

Faucets,  self  m easuring.....................   @2 50
Faucets, common.............
35
FISH.
Whole Cod.........................
Boneless Cod......................................5%@7%@8%
Herring % bbls.JOO ft.........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled...................................... 
28@30
Herring Holland..................... 
  @1 15
Bloaters.................................................   @1 00
8 00
White, No. 1, Yi b b ls............................ 
4 00
White, Family, Yt bbls......................... 
White, No. 1,10 ft k its......................... 
1 10
1 25
Whise, No. 1,12  1b kits......................... 
Trout, No.  1, Yt  bbls............................ 
4 75
Trout, No. 1,12  lb  kits................... 
90
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls..........\ ..........  
7 00
Mackerel. No. 1.12 ft k its.................. 
1  15

@7
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package...................... 
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................  
@6Yt
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
@7%
@6
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................  
Muzzy Corn 1 ft......................................  7  @7%
@8%
Kingsford  Silver Gloss......................... 
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box.......... 
@9 Vi
Kingsford Corn......................................  8%@9
@6%
Oswego  Gloss........................................ 
Mirror  Gloss........................................... 
@7
Mirror Gloss, corn................................. 
@7%
Piel’s Pearl.............................................. 
@4
Americad Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................  
@6Vi
10 oz  Gloss......................  
@3%
@6
3 ft  Gloss.................................................  
6 ft Gloss, wood boxos..........................   @7
@6%
Tabic Corn.....................................40 ft 
Table  Corn.....................................20  ft  @7
Banner, bulk........................................... 
@4
Hovey’s 1 ft Sunday Gloss.................... 
@7Vi
Hovey’s 3 ft Sunday Gloss.................... 
@7%
Hovey’8 6 ft Sunday Gloss, wood box. 
@8 
One Mrs.  Potts’  Polishing  Irons  given  free 
with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch. 
Jugs $   gallon......................................... 
@8
Crocks...................................................... 
7
Milk Crocks........ ................................... 
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
U niversal...............5 88 Above 48 dozea.......   50
I X  L ....................... 5 50|
Granulated............................................  
Cut Loaf................................................. 
C ubes.................................................... 
Powdered.............................................. 
Conf. A 
Standard A
E xtra C................................................... 
FineC .................................:.................. 
Yellow....................................................  5%@6
Corn,  Barrels.........................................
Corn, Vi bbls............................................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs..............................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
Corn, 4% gallon kegs..............................
Pure Sugar  Drips............................bbl
Pure Sugar Drips........................Vi bbl
Pure Sugar  Drips.......................... 5 gal kegs
Pure  Maple.................................Vi bbls
Pure Maple....................................10 gal kegs
Pure Maple......................................5 gal kegs
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips.............. Vi bbl
Pure  Loaf Sugar............................5 gal kegs
Japan  ordinary.  23@30
Japan fa ir............32@35
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Japan fine............40@50
Japan dust..........15@20
Diamond  Crown.................................
Red  Bird..............................................
Opera Queen........................................
Sweet Rose...........................................
Green  Back.........................................
F r u it....................................................
O So Sweet.............................; ...........
Prairie Flower....................................
Climber [light and  dark]..................
Matchless..... .......................................
H iaw atha............................................
Globe....................................................
May Flow er.........................................
Hero......................................................
A tlas.....................................................
Royal Game.........................................
Silver Thread......................................
Seal................................. „ ...................
@60 
K entucky.....................¿L..................
@30 
Mule E ar...................... ™ ..................
@67 
Peek-a-Boo...........................................
@32 
Richardson’s No. 2  square............................2 70
Peek-a-Boo, Vi  barrels.......................
@30 
Richardson’s No. 3  do 
.............................. 2 55
Clipper, Fox’s .................................
@32 
Richardson’s No. 5  do 
............................. 1  70
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels..........
@30 
Richardson’s No. 6  do 
..............................2  70
Fountain..............................................
@74 
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
..............................170
Old Congress.......................................
@64 
..............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
Good  L u ck ..........................................
@52 
Richardson’s No. 4 ro u n d ....................... 
2 70
Good and Sweet..................................
@45 
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2  55
Blaze Away.........................................
.  @35
Richardson’s No. 7% do 
1 70
........................ 
Hair L ifter...........................................
@30 
Electric Parlor No. 17........................................... 3 80
Old Glory, light...................................
@60 
Electric Parlor No. 18...........................................5 70
Charm of the West, dark..................
@60 
Grand  Haven, No.  9.............................................2 25
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil..................
@60
Grand  Haven, No. 8.............................................l  60
Red Fox...............................................
.  @50
Big  Drive............................................
@52 
Seal of Grand Rapids.........................
@48 
Glory  ...................................................
@50 
D urham ...............................................
@48 
Silver Coin...........................................
@50 
Buster  [Dark]....................................
.  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..........................
@36 
Black Racer  [Dark]..........................
.  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star.......................
@50 
Clim ax................................................
@50 
Hold F a s t............................................
@48 
McAlpin’s Gold Shield.......................
@48 
Nlckle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft cads.......
@51
Cock of the Walk  6s
___________   @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @50
A corn....................................... 
@60
Red Seal...................................................  @48
C rescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ........................................ *........  @35
Black  Bass....................................% 
  @40
True G rit.................................................   @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 L ifter..............................................  @37
D. and D., black......................................  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @48
Ace  High, black........ .................. 
  @35
Champion  A .................. .....................  @48
Sailors’  Solaoe....,...............................   @48

2 7
London Layers, new.............................  
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2  50@2  60
New Valencias Raisins..........„........... 
@7
O ndaras........................................  
  @10%
Turkey P ru n e s......................................  6%@6
C urrants.................................... *..........  5%@6
Citron......................................................   18@20
DriedApples  .................................. 
8  @8

Choice in barrels med......................................7 25
Choice in V4 
......................................4 25
small..................*......... 4 25
Dingee’s Yt 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy....................,...4   25
Dingee’s pints 
do 
.........................2 50
English qt. in Glass.........................................3 50
English pt.  in  Glass........................................2 00
American qt.  in Glass.................................... 2 00
American pt. in Glass......................................1 25

Black Strap...................................................  @20
Porto  Rico..................................................... 30@35
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 40@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................56@60
Syrups, Sugar..........................................27@35@45

Kerosene  W. W...................................... 
Legal te st.............................. 
Sweet, 2 oz. square................................  
Sweet, 2 oz. round................................. 
Castor, 2 oz.  square........ ...................... 
Castor, 2 oz. round................................. 

18 5ft  pkgs............................... ..............  @375
36 21b  pkgs..............................................   @3 25
Imperial  bbls 
Quaker bbls

Im ported Clay 3 gross.,......................2  25@3 00
American  T .D .............................. 
90@1 00

@57
@52
@40
@45
@38
@33
@31
@65
@62
@65
69
70
70
@35

20 gross lots special price.

15
12%
75
1 00
75
1 00

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

MOLASSES.

OATMEAL.

MATCHES.

PICKLES.

5  75
6 75

FRUITS.

do 
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PIPES.

PLUG.

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R edStar.................................................   @50
Shot G un.............*........................  
@48
D uck........................................................  @48
Jum bo..........: ........f................................  @40

SMOKING.

($0
40

Chain  ......................................................  @22
Arthur’s Choice......................................  @22
Seal of Grand  Radids............................  @25
King.........................................................   @30
F lirt.........................................................   @28
2 
P ug...*................................................  
  @30
Ten Penny Durham, Yt and %.............   @24
Amber, Yt and lib ...................................  @15
Dime  Smoking.......................................  @22
Red Fox Smoking..................................   @26
Lime, Kiln  Club......................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut...........   @90
Vanity  Fair............................................   @90
D im e........................................................  24@25
25
Peerless................................................... 
Standard..............................................  ’ 
22
21
Old Tom.................................. ................ 
Tom & Je rry ........................... . . . . . . . . .  
24
Joker........................................................ 
25
Traveler................................  
35
Maiden............................. fT............. !.!  @26
T o p sy ................................................................ 27
24
Navy Clippings................................... 
Honey D ew ......................... 
25
Gold Block..................................... 
32
Camp Fire  ....................................... | 
22
Oronoko........................................   
19
Nigger  Head...........................                 
26
Durham, % ft       ............................. ‘  “  
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do  % f t . 
do  % f t . 
do 
1 ft.
.........................................  51
H olland..........
............................  @22
G erm an..........
............................  @16
Long Tom.......
............................  @30
National..........
.......•'...................  @26
T im e ............. .*
............................  @26
Love’s Dream.
............................  @28
Conqueror__
............................   @23
Fox’s ...............
............................  @22
G rayling........
............................   @32
Seal Skin........
............................   @30
Dime Durham
@25
Rob Roy..........
............................  @26
Uncle  S?m__
............................  @28
Lumberman  ..
............................  @26
Railroad Boy..
............................  @37
Mountain Rose.
„ 
, 
.............................   @20
Good  Enough.........................................  @23
Home Comfort, %s and  %s........ . . .  .  @25
Old  Rip, long c u t..................................   @60
Durham,  long cut...................  
  @60
Two  Nickle, %5.................................... !  @25
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 a r.................................................  
23
H iaw atha............................. ................ 
23
Old Congress................................ .. !. . 
23
Pure  Cider.............................................. 
White  Wine............................................  

10@12
10@12

VINEGAR.

SHORTS.

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WASHING POWDERS.

1176 V f t ...................................................  @10%
Gillett’s $  f t ...........................................  @ 7%
Soapine pkg............................................... 
7@10
Boraxine $  box.........................................   @3 75
Pearline $  box...........................................  @4 50
YEAST.
1  65
Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun ” ................. 
Twin Bros..........1 65 
|W ilsons.................1 65
Gillett’s ..............1 65  (N ational.............. 1 65

MISCELLANEOUS.

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do 
do 

B lacking.........................................30, 40,50@60
do  w aterproof............................ 
150
Bath Brick im ported............................ 
95
do 
American............................ 
75
Barley.. 
......................................... 
@34
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
1  10
do  No.  2.......................................  
i   50
20  00
Bags, American A ................................. 
Beans,  medium  ....................................   @2  10
Beans, hand picked...............................  
2 40
B utter......................................................   18@20
B utterine................................................  18@21
Curry Combs $  doz.......................... *" 1 26@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @45%
Candles,  Hotel......................................    @16V4
Cheese full cream choice......................14%@15
Catsup quarts fl  dozen.........................1  40@i 60
Chimneys No.  1 .....................................  @35
No. 2......................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lf t packages. 
@26Yt
@27V*
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & V£  ft do 
. 
Evaporated Hulled Corn50ft cases...  @  11
Extract Coffee,  v. c............................... 
95
F e lix ......................!."l30@
Flour, Star Mills, in b b ls..................... 5 75@
in Sacks......................5 50@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  35@40
Horse  Radish, pints.............................  @1  40
Indigo.......................................................1  oo@
Ink $  3 dozen  box................................. 1 00@
Jelly in Pails...........................................  @6
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz..................  @75
Licorice, Sicily......................................  @20
Licorice, C alabra..................................   28@30
Licorice Root.........................................   @12
Lye $  2  doz. cases..............................." 1  55@
Macaroni, Im ported.......................... 
  @13
Domestic....................................................   @ 5 Yt
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 50@
do  Split prepared..............................  @ 3*4
Powder,  Keg........................................... 5 50®
do  % Keg...................................... 3 00©
Rice........................................................ 6®6V4@7V4
fa»?  ........................................-..............  
Shot, drop................................................ 1  90®
do  b u ck ...........................................  2 15®
Sage.................................................................@15
Tobacco Cutters e ac h .....................  
l   25@
T w ine.......................... 
i8@23
ChimneyCleaners $   doz.......................   @50
Flour Sifters $  doz................................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each...............................   1 25@
T apioca........ .......................................... 
5@6
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............ 1 50@1  65
Wicking No. 1 $  gross..........................   @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  A rgand................................... 1 50@
COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B> Knowlson quotes as follows:

5@6

do 

 

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
95
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
1 40
Akron Cement per  Dbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
l  40
Car lots.................................................... 1  i5@i 20
Plastering hair, per bu .........................  35@  38
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per to n ............................ 
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..................  6  75©7 00
Cannellcoal........................................... 
7 00
Ohio coal................................................ 
40@3 60
Blossburg or Cum berland................ 
00@5 25

COAL.

H ID ES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

HIDES.

Green..............................................¥ » 7   © 7V4
Part  cured........ .....................................  8  @ 8V4
Full cured................................................8V£@ 8%
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 
W inter  pelts....................................... 1 00
@1 50

SHEEP PELTS.

Fine washed ^ f t . ...................................30
Coarse washed.......................................22
Unwashed..............................................2-3

@32.
@25

wool.  ■

FURS.

Mink, large................................................  60@ 75
Mink,  small..............................................   25@ 40
MuBkrat,  Spring......................................  15@ 17
Muskrat, W inter......................................  13@ 14
Muskrat,  Fall............................................   8@ 10
Muskrat,  k its............................................  8@  4
Raccoon.....................................................  40® 85
Skunk, black.............................................  80® 90
Skunk, half stripe...................................  50@ 60
Skunk, narrow strip e ...........................   25@ 30
Skunk,  broad...........................................  10@ 15
Bed F o x ................................................ 1 00@115
Gray Fox...................................................   60® 90
Marten,  yellow........................................  75@1 00
Fisher. 
................................................... 4 00@8 00
O tte r......................................... ,........... .6 00@8 00
Bear................................................. A .5  00@12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry __ $   ft  25@  30
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  12®  25
Beaver, clean and dry  $   ft................ 2 00@3 25
Above prices are for  prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion.
Tallow.......................................  

 

 

 

 

CANDY,  FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follow s:

 

 

11 v4

do 
do 

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes..............................  @10
..............................  @10V4
Twist, 
..............................  @12
Cut Loaf 
MIXED.

Royal, 25 ft  pails.......................................   @10V4
Royal, 200 ft bbls...............................................10
Extra, 25 ft  pails.......................... 
1114
Extra, 200 ft bbls................... 
u
French Cream, 25 ft pails.. .. .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . !l4
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases......................................... 14
Broken, 25 ft pails................... 
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..................!!l0V%
FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
Lemon  Drops................................. 
44
Sour Drops........................................  
15
Peppermint  Drops........... .............................jg
Chocolate Drops..................................... 
17
H M Chocolate  Drops........... ..... ..................20
Gum  Drops  ......................................................12
Licorice Drops....................... ".I.”.!'..'".!".!'.! .20
A B   Licorice  Drops..................... ]  ..............14
Lozenges, plain................................   
16
Lozenges,  printed....................... .**.............47
Im perials.................................. 
45
M ottoes............................. ill!!!!!!!!!...........16
Cream  B ar...................... .1111! 
1................45
Molasses B ar................... ...!!!!!....................14
Caramels...........................!!!!!!!.!..............20
Hand Made Creams..................111.!........... 23
Plain  Creams.......................!.!!!!!!!.............20
Decorated  Cream s..;..................................... 23
String Rock.........................!. .!!!!!!!!........... 16
Burnt Alm onds...’. ...............!!!.!!!..............24
W intergreen  Berries........... 1.11!.  1* *11  16
Lozenges, plain in  pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls....................I'.’.Y. 
13
Lozenges, printed in pails............-.HIM! 
15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..................!!!!!! Il4
Chocolate Drops, in pails....................1.........44
Gum Drops, in pails............................. 
3
Gum Drops, in bbls..............................111!!!!  7
Moss Drops, in  pails............................. 111!!Ill
Moss Drops, in bbls.............................•!!!!!!!  9J4
Sour Drops, in  pails.......................... !!!!!!!' 12
Imperials, in  pails............................. 
44
Imperials, in bbls..................... 
1..111111.13

Fancy—in  B ulk.

 

 

FRUITS.

Oranges f  box.......................................   @4  00
Oranges OO $  box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, #  b o x ....Ill 11 ['.A 00@4  50
Oranges, Valencia $   case...................   @8  50
Lemons,  choice....................................  3 oo@3 50
Lemons, fancy.......................................   @4 go
Bananas <g bunch.......................1.........2 00@4 00
Malaga Grapes, V keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl... 
..........
Figs,  layers  f  ft................ !!1!1!1!!11!  12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
..........................  
18<9£0
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  ft..................!!! 1!  14@15
g
Dates, frails 
do  .. 
Dates, % do 
d o ........111!'............  @ 7
Dates, skin....................... 
/a  c
Dates, Yt  skin..................... .11..............  @  7V4
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....... 
........ 40  @44
Dates, Fard 50 ft box fi ft....... 
.......  @8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft......!!!!!!  @7

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

PEANUTS.

Firm.

Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft...............
g*  a
Choice 
do  ... 
Fancy 
d o ........ lllllll! ! " '  @9
Choice White, V a.d o .......... 
94i@io
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ...............!!!!!.'!!l0%@ll

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

do 
do 

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft.............  
@49
do  .. 
Almonds, loaca, 
........ @47
d o ....... .!!!!!!! 
io@n
Brazils, 
do 
Pecons, 
..................  @40
d o ...................
Filberts, Barcelona 
d o ............ 1H * *  14@15
Filberts, Sicily 
...........  
do 
Walnuts, Chilli 
@12V,
Walnuts, Grenobles  d o ............  
@ir  a
Walnuts, California  do . 
!!!
. 
..........   @4 so
..... 
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu ..........  .......  W
Hickory Nuts, small  do  ..................! 
4 25

PROVISIONS.

PORK.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork........................................$48 25
Back  Pork,  short c u t...................... . . . . . .  18  50
Family Clear Pork, very  cheap__ 1.1111!  19 00
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer................   19 50
S. P. Booth’s Clear Poi’k, Kansas City...!  20 00
E xtra Clear P o rk ........................................   20 00
Extra  B  Clear Pork........................"!!!!!!  20 00
Clear Back  Pork, new....................!.!!!!!!  21  00
Boston  Clear Pork, extra quality! 11!.......  20 75
Standard Clear Pork, the best........  
21  50

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.  ’

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Oases.............  
do. 
,  
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
ho. 
Half Cases............... 
_ 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.......................1..1 
light....................................  
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
E xtra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases.. 
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........ 

do. 
do. 

TierceB  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft T ubs..........................1.1111! 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
501b 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........................ . 

LARD.

10
10%
10
10%
10
io%
4054
40^
4014
11
11%
11%
11%
10%
10%
l l

9
9%

9%.
9%
10
9%
95^

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.

,  do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cuited in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
• 
Hams,  California.................................... 
Shoulders,  plain...................................... 
E xtra Clear Bacon.................................1 
Dried Beef,  E xtra.................................. 
Dried Beef,  Hams..................................  
Rolled Beef, for family  use.....................   18 00
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts.!....  13 OO 

13%
14
14%
n
9%
44y.
16
47

BEEF IN BARRELS.

CANNED BEEF.

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

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

incase......................................................   20 50
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case.. . .  3 20
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, VS 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 
Pork  Sausage...................................... 
40%
Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tubs...!.!!!!!!!!!! 10VS
Ham  Sausage...............................................   45
Tongue  Sausage................................!!! 11! 1 *11
Liver Sausage................................................'..  8VS
Frankfort  Sausage............................!!..-!!Ill®
Blood  Sausage.................................!!!!!  .  8VS
Bologna,  ring........................................ !!!!!!!  8V4
Bologna, straight............................................  8VS
Bologna,  thick.........................................!.!!  8VS
Head  Cheese..........................................!!!!!!!  8VS
In half barrels...............................................$3 85
In quarter barrels...............................!!!!.  2 10-
In kits.................  ......................... 
............  1  no
In half barrels............................................   $3 70
In quarter barrels.................. 
...............  4  so-
I n t it s ................................................. !1!1!.!1 
85
Price anam ed are  lowest  at tim e of going to 
press, sflbject always to Market changes.

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

FRESH   MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows r
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  7%@  9%
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  9  @10%
Dressed  Hogs.........................................  9  @ 9%
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  9  @10
aJS?“ 'H ti'i......................................  9  @10&
Spring Chickens....................................   16@17
Fowls  ......................................................   15@16
Pork Sausage..........................................10%@11
Pork Sausage in bulk......................... 
@44
Bologna...................................................   @44

OYSTERS AND  FISH .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

New York Counts, per can.,...._ 
00
E xtra  Selects....................... ; .........................•»
Plain  Selects............................  .........................
H .M .B .F .................................... !.....................  ^
Favorite F ................................... 
...................i i
New York Counts, solid meats,’per gai.......2 50
Selects, solid  meats, per gallon.. . . . .  
’ ’@1 75
Standards, solid meats, per gallon....  @1 40«
Can pi ices above are for cases andhalf cases 
Codfish .............................. 
o
H addock...........................  
5
S m elts..................................!!!....................   A
Mackinaw T rout...............  ...........................  2
M ackerel,..;..................... 
..................
w h iteflsh ..................... .  .1. 1:111; * :
 40

FRESH  FISH .

6@ 6V4

;

;

 

H.  LEONARD

SONS,

m

J O IB B IE IE?. S   CD IF1

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

CROCKERY,  G L A SSW A R E   AND  SILV ER   W A R E ,
White  Granite  Ware,  English  Decorated  Ware,  Chandeliers  and  Library  Lamps.
AKRON  SEW ER  PIPE !

C arefully  XTote  the  Specialties  Below ,  which.  W e   Quote  for  T ou r  Benefit  T h is  ’W eek:

O I L   S T O V E S

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s r a r w .

TO GET  THE  BEST,
1 Buy the Leonard Clean« 
able, with Movable Fines, 
Hard wood,Carved Panels. 
Warranted  First  Class; 
Elegant and Bnrahle.

PRICE LIST
Leonard’s  Patent  Clean- 

—OF—

able Hardwood Re­

frigerators.

II

IJOINTI

¡RIN G!

And  Grand  Rapids  Drain  Tile.

No. 0,27x18x42,1  door............................... $13  50
No. 1,31x20x44,  1  door...............................   18  00
No.  2,34x22x46, 2  doors..... ........................   23 00
No. 3,  36x21x48,2  doors..............................  26  00
No. 4,  40x25x54,4  doors..............................  30  00
No. 5,  43x26x59,  4 doors..............................  35 00

Less  discount to the trade, 30 per cent.

Cut showing the  movable  flues  for  cleanli­

ness in our refrigerators.

T H E   OII_.  PL-A. 3ST C3-E

A  Double  Stove,  Containing  the  Oven.  Bakes,  Boils  and  Frys  at  Once.  Satisfaction 

Guaranteed.  Price to the  Trade,  67.50.

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

Large Stock Constantly on Hand.  Price Lists Sent on  Application.

2)r\>  (Boobs.

Spring  & Company quote a9 io..o*vo : 

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

A n d ro s c o g g in , 9-4. .23 
A n d ro s c o g g in , 8-4. .21
P e p p e r e ll,  7-4.........16%
Pepperell,  8-4.........20
Peppered,  9-4........ 22%

Peppered, 10-4........25
Pepperell, 11-4........27V
Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pequot,  8-4.............21
Pequot,  9-4.............24

Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X, oz.. .10
Economy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis A pron.............10%
Otis Furniture...... 10%
York,  1  oz.............. 10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown....  7
Jewed briwn..........9%
Kentucky brown.. 10%
Lewiston  brown...  9%
Lane brown...........   9%
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......  8
Augusta plaid........   8
Toledo plaid...........   7%
Manchester  plaid.. 
New  Tenn. plaid...11 
Utility plaid...........   6%

BLEACHED COTTONS

Avondale,  3 6 .......  8%
Art  cambrics, 36.. .11% 
Androscoggin, 44..  8% 
Androscoggin, 54. .12%
Badou, 4-4...............  7%
Ballou, 54...............  6
Boott,  0 .4 4 ...........   8%
Boott,  E. 5-5........... 7
Boott, AGO, 44.........9%
Boott, K. 34.........     53£
Blaekstone, AA 44  7% 
Chapman, X, 44—   6%
Conway,  44............  7%
Cabot, 44................   7%
Cabot, 7-8................   6%
Canoe,  34........—   4
Domestic,  36..........
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44...............  9%
F ruit of Loom, 44..  9 
F ruit of Loom, 7-8..  8%
Fruit of  the  Loom,
cambric,  44........ 12
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........6%
Gilded Age............... 8%

 

bric, 44....... 

Greene, G.  44........
Hill, 4 4....................
Hid, 7-8....................
Hope,  44................
King  Phillip  cam­
]
Linwood,  4-4..........
Lonsdale,  44..........
Lonsdale  cambric.] 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...
Langdon, 45............]
Masonville,  44.......
Maxwell. 44............1
New York Mid, 4-4.] 
New Jersey,  44—  
Poca6set,  P. M. C .. 
Pride of the West. 
Pocahontas,  44—
Slaterville, 7-8........
Victoria, AA..........
Woodbury, 44........
Whitinsville,  44... 
Whitinsville, 7-8—
Wamsutta, 44.........!
Widiamsville,  36...:

CORSET JEANS

A rm ory..................7%
A n d ro s c o g g in  s a t ..  8%
Canoe River..........   6
Clarendon..............6%
Hallowed  Im p..... 6%
Ind. Oreh. Im p..... 6%
L aconia.................  7%

Kearsage................   8»
Naumkeagsatteen.  8% 
Peppered  bleached  8%
Peppered sa t..........  9%
Koekport................   7%
Lawrence sat..........  8%
Conegosat...............  7

Albion,  sodd...........5%
Albion,  grey........... 6
Aden’s  checks........5%
Aden’s  fancy..........5%
A d e n ’s p i n k ................6%
A lle n ’s p u r p l e ........... 6%
A m e ric a n , f a n c y — 5%
Arnold fancy...........6
Berlin solid............... 5%
Cocheeo fancy........8
Gocheco robes..........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddy sto n e .............. 6
Eagle fancy.............5
d arn er pink.............7

G loucester..............6
Gloueestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrimac D.-...........6
M anchester............ 6
Oriental  fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6%
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond................6
Steel River.............. 5%
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..8

FINE BROWN COTTONS

Appleton  A, 44—
Boott  M, 44...........
Boston F, 44..........
Continental C, 4-3..
Continental D, 40 in 8% 
Conestoga W, 44...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5% 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6%
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........6%
Dwight Z, 44..........  7
Dwight Star, 44—   73£
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5%
G reat Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......6%
Indian  Orchard, 44  7%

(Indian Orchard, 40.  8% 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74.........16%
Lyman B, 40-in....... 10%
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  6%
Nashua  E, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 44........   7%
Nashua 0,7-8..........  7%
Newmarket N ........   7%
Peppered E, 39-in..  7% 
Peppered  R, 44—   7
Pepperell  0,7-8__ 6%
Peppered N, 34—   6%
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac  R ...............  7%
Saranac  E ...............  9

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS

Amoskeag  ..............   8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.....................10%
B ates........................  7%
B erkshire...............   6%
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y  7% 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
standard................7%
P lu n k et.....................7%
L ancaster................   8%
Langdale.......  .........7%

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styl 9% 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............12%
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........ 12%
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  0
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston...............  9%
Gordon......................8
Grey lock, 
dress 
styles  ...................12%

WIDE  BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 74. ,21 
Aoidroscoggin, 84.. 23
Pepperell,  74........20
Peppered,  84........22%
Pepperell,  9 4 ........ 26  (Pequot,  94.

Peppered.  104...... 27%
Pepperell,  114...... 32%
Pequot,  74.............21
Pequot,  84.............24

.27%

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 44.......  7%
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7
Atlantic  D, 44.........6%
Atlantic P, 44........ 5M
Atlantic  LL, 44___ 5%
Adriatic, 36.............   7%
Augusta, 44............  6%
Boott  M, 44............  7%
Boott  FF, 44..........  7%
Graniteville, 44___ 6%
Indian  Head, 4-4...  7% 
ndiana Head 45-in.12%

Lawrence XX, 44..  8% 
Lawrence  Y ,30....  7 
Lawrence LL,44...  5%
Newmarket N........ 7%
Mystic River, 4-4...  6%
Pequot A, 44..........  8
Piedmont,  36..........  7
Stark AA, 4-4..........  7%
Tremont CC, 44__ 5%
Utica,  44................   9
W achusett,  44.......7%
Wachusett,  30-in...  6%

Amoskeag,  ACA...14 
Amoskeag 
“ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Amoskeag,  C........11
Amoskeag.  D........10%
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Amoskeag, F ..........  9%
Premium  A, 44— 17
Premium  B ............16
Extra 44.................. 16
E xtra 7-8.................. 14%
Gold Medal 4-4........15
CCA  7-8.................... 12%
CT 4 4 ........................14
RC 7-8....................... 14
BF 7-8....................... 16
A F44....................... 19
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Cordis  ACA, 32......15
Cordis No. 1,32......15
Cordis  No. 2.?........14
Cordis No. 3............ 13
Cordis  No. 4............11%

Falls, XXXX..........18%
Falls, XXX.............15%
Falls,  BB................11%
Fads,  BBC,  36.....19%
Fads,  awning........19
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Hamilton,  D ......... 10
Hamilton,  H ..........10
Hamilton  fancy.. .10
Methuen AA..........13%
Methuen ASA........18
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Omega A, 44 .......... 13
Omega ACA, 7-8___14
Omega ACA, 44___16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 44.........27
Omega M. 7-8........22
Omega M, 44..........25
Shetucket SS&S3W 11% 
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Shetucket,  SFS__ 12
Stockbridge  A .........7
Stoekbridge frncy.  8

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

G arner......................5
Hookset..................  5
Red  Cross...............  5
Forest Grove..........

Empire  .............
W ashington___
Edwards...........
S. S. & Sons........

...  4%

GRAIN BAGS.

American  A ..........19  I Old  Ironsides........ 15%
Stark A ................... 23%|Wheatland............. 21%

B oston....................  7%
Everett blue.......... 14%
Everett brown....... 14%
Otis  AXA............... 12%
Otis BB.................... 11%

Otis  CC....................10%
Warren  AXA........12%
W arren  BB........... 11%
W arren CC.............10%
York  fancy........... 15

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

Man vide—  
Masgnville.

IS. S. & Sons............. 6
G arn er....................  6

WIGANS.

Red  Cross...............  7  IThistle Mills........
B erlin.....................   7  Rose..'.......................  8
G arn er....................  7  I

SPOOL COTTON.

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

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills bad sewing.30 
Greeh  &  D aniels...25
M erricks.................40
Stafford.................. 35
Had & Manning__ 30
Holyoke...................25

Crown.................. ..17 Masonville TS
No.  10.................. ..12% Masonville  S.
.................. ..10 Lonsdale.......
Ooi n 
Anchor................ ..15 Lonsdale A ...
Nictory  O —
Centennial..........
Blackburn .......... ..  8 Victory J .......
Davol.................... ..14 Victory D __
London................ ..12% Victory  K __
Phoenix A __
Paconia............... ..12
Phoenix  B __
Red  Cross........... ..10
Phœnix X X ..
Social  Imperial.. ..16

M ILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:

HATS.

Cantons..................................perdoz  2 25®  3 00
Milans....................................................  4 00® 6 00
Fine  Milans..........................................  9 00@12 00
Superfine Milans.................................. 15 00@18 00
Chip.......................................................  5 00@12 00

BLACK CRAPE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand.

44 ............................................... per yard 50®  75
44  .............................................................  85@1 25
4- 
4  ............................................ 1 50@2 00
54  ............................................................. 1 75@2 50
5- 4  . .......................................................... 2  75@3 00
64  ............................................................. 3 25®4 50

RIBBONS.

Satin and  GG, all silk,  extra  heavy,  ad  colors.
No. 4...................................................................1 00
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....................................................................  40
No. 5..........................<■........................................  50
No. 7 .,.......................... 
70
No. 9........................................................... 
  85
No. 1 2...............................  
90
No. 16.............................................................. .110

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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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................................. 
Lowed 3-ply...................................... 
Higgins’ 3-ply..................................  
Sanford’s 3-ply................................. 

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@  90
@'  90
@ 8 5
@  70
@  65
@  82%
@  70
@  82%
@  65

@1 00
@1  00
@1 00
@  97%

 

HEMPS.

ALL WOOL SUPERFINES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford........................................... 
@  77%
Lowed............................ 
@  82%
 
Other makes........... ........................   75  @  77%
Best cotton chain............................  60  @  62%
Beet  2-ply.........................................  57%@  60
Other grades 2-ply........... ..............  52%@  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  42%@  45
Double cotton chain.......................  35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double e.  30  @  32% 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  27%@  32%
Single cotton chain.........................  19  @  25
3-ply, 44 wide, extra heavy...........   27%@  30
@  22
B, 4-4 wide......................................... 
Imperial, plain, 44 wide................. 
@  18%
@  17
D, 33  inches...................................... 
N o.l, 44, 54, 64 and 8 4 ................  
®  45
No. 2, 
@  37%
..................  
No. 3, 
..................  
@ 30
No. 4, 
..................  
@ 25
Best ad rattan, plain....................... 
@  62%
@ 52%
Best ad rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier A ........................................... 
@  50
@  40
Napier  B ........................................... 
Opaque shades, 38 inch.................. 
@  15
Holland shades, B finish, 44.......... 
@  18
@  10
Pacific  Holland, 44......................... 
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
@36
Cord fixtures, per gross................. 
@10

OIL CLOTHS.

MaTTINGS.

CURTaiNS.

do 
do 
do 

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.

Gi OOD  BARGAIN.  1 want a stock  of either 
T  dry  goods,  clothing,  groceries or  furni­
ture.  I have a mortgage for $1,300 and real es­
tate to exchange  together.  O. W. Kibby, Bell- 
aire, Mich.
ITH)R  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.
O ft  ACRE  FRUIT  FARM  to  exchange  for 
O U  
livery  or  drug  store,  2%  miles west  of 
Holland.  Fine, large house, nearly new,  large
barn, best hen house in the county, 1,000  bear 
ing peach trees, 500 apple trees, one acre straw­
berries, grapes and ad 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  improved  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.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

AS TYPEWRITER OR COPYIST, by a young 

lady  well  qualified  for  such  a position, 
both by education  and  experience.  Address, 
XXX, care Miss Sila Hibbard,  35  First  street, 
Grand Rapids.
A S  PORTER  OR  ASSISTANT  in  the  ware- 
i i .   house of some business house, by a young 
man of 27, strong, active, and willing to  work. 
Address A. M., Care “The  Tradesman,”  Grand 
Rapids.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

Hollister, Grand Rapids,  Mioh.

LUMBER,  LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars  as 

follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1%, 1% and 2 inch........................   46  00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35  00
Selects, 1%, 1% and 2  inch........................   38  00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30  00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20  00
Fine, Common, 1%, 1% and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe et........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 fe et........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17  00
Np. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......  13 00
No.‘ 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet......................... 
i5  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 fedt........  
i2 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t..........................  
i3 00
4  09
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe et......................... 
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths................................. 
9  00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   28  00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12  00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common....... 
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................   20  00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 ft. in ll  50@12 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common 
  14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., 0 ..........................   26  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14  00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
3 40
X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
| XXX 16 in................................................. 
3 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
1  75
2 00
Lath  ............................................................. 

Tlie Allegan Grange Store.

From the Gazette.

The  amount,  $18,000,  deemed  necessary 
by  the  grange  store  management  to  the 
continuation of business, has nearly all been 
taken in new stock, and it is all but  certain 
that the institution will be continued.  At  a 
meeting of directors,  Thursday,  $16,000  in 
stock subscriptions were reported, but $3,000 
were conditioned upon erection  of  a  build­
ing down  town. 
It  is  the  intention,  how­
ever, to continue in the old  Exchange build­
ing.  If the directors still refuse to place in­
surance upon the stock, some of  the  mem­
bers mean to insure  separately.  The buek- 
ers and kickers of various  sorts, have as  yet 
effected nothing, and  the  councils  are  be­
coming more harmonious,  but  there  are  a 
number of nice legal  questions  which  may 
yet make trouble.

Few people who have not  given  the  sub­
ject particular attention  appreciate  the  im­
mensity of the cattle  interest in the territor­
ies. 
In October, 1883, the number of  cattle 
assessed in Montana was 475,000, which,  at 
a valuation of $30 per head, gave a  total  of 
$14,250,000.  There were 700,000 sheep, val­
ued at $2,200,000.  The  grand total of valu­
ation  in  grazing  wealth  was  $16,350,900. 
The cattle now in Montana and Dakota num­
ber  650,000,  which  will  increase  by  next 
winter  to  850,000;  valuation  $29,850.000. 
Numerical statistics of  Sheep in the two ter­
ritories are hard to get, but there are fully a 
million head on the plains  and  in  the  val­
leys.

The reason why so many men are  so very 
fresh is merely because they  are not  able to 
earn their salt.

ville.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

rider, Hart.

ley.

dale.

John Graham, Way land.
L. E. Paige, of Paige & Anderson, Sparta. 
C. R. Smith, Cadillac.
Eli Rundels,  Corning.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
Nelson Pike, Morley.
Mr. Wells, of Wagner & Wells,  Eastman- 
S. Frost, McBrides.
Geo. A. Sage.  Rockford.
C. R. Bunker, Bailey.
Mr. Houghtaling, of  Houghtaling & Sack- 
C. L. Gray, of C. L. Gray & Co.,  Evart.
0. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
G. P. Stark, Cascade,
S. Sardder, Cedar  Springs.
Jorgensen & Hemmingsen,  Ashland P. O. 
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
W. S. Root, Tahnage.
Colburn &  Carpenter,  Caledonia.
Kellogg & Patten, Jennisonville.
C. L. Howard,  Clarksville.
E. LaGrange, Mecosta.
Hadley Bros.  Manufacturing  Co.,  Kings­
F. C. Brisbin,  Berlin.
Win.. Parks, Alpine.
Darling & Smith, Sparta.
Tlios. Cooley, Lisbon.
J. Bartz, North Dorr.
1. J. Quick, of I. J. Quick  &  Co.,  Alleu- 
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Baker & Son, Grand  Haven.
Paton & Andrus, Shelby.
D. Ford, Horton’s  Bay.
H. Freeman, Mancelona,
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs.
* Fred F. Taylor, Pierson.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
D. H. Lord, Howard City.
F. E. Davis,  Berlin.
E. Roys, of Roys Bros., Cedar Springs. 
Henry DeKIine,  Jamestown.
Jerome Dickerson, Belmont.
Geo. S. Curtiss, Edgerton.
M. Carman,  Altona.
C. E. Kellogg, Jennisonville.
Porter & Webber, Chauneey.
Graham & Sweeny, Hopkins.
Eno F. Brown, Ashland  P.  0.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
A. E. McCulloch, Berlin.
F. E. Davis, Berlin.
Fred Ramsey, White Cloud.
C. F. Sears & Co.,  Rockford.
J. B. Crandall & Sons, Sand Lake.
Rice & Lillie, Coopersville.
J. Hullinger, Big  Rapids.
A. G. Chase, Ada.
W. W. Woodhams, Plainwell.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
Green & Green, Byron.
W. P. Dockeray, Rockford.
C. Stocking, Grattan.
A. W. Fenton,  Bailey.
Walling  Bros., Lamont.
Fred Hotchkiss, Hastings.
T. J. Sheridan & Co.,  Lockwood.
B. R. d’Arcambal, Kalamazoo.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
M. Y. Wilson, Sand  Lake.
C. Crawford, Caledonia.
B. N. Pettingill, Rockford.
Hunter Bros., Springs  Springs.
M. G. Woodward, Lake City.
Dr. F. C. Williams, Ada.

A Cruel Blast.

From the Elmira Gazette.

Five  commercial  travelers  assailed  the 
merchants of Alba at one time last Tuesday. 
They struck the town with fond anticipation, 
and joyous hearts, and songs and  carol,  but 
left without selling to any great extent  One 
of them on telling us  of  their  success  said 
that when one merchant offered to swap  his 
entire  stoek  of  goods  for his sample case 
and contents they thought it time  to  move.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

ton.

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.

now readily commands $1.35 38 100 lbs.
$1  ^   bu.
25c  and  packed  from  10c  up. 
creamery, 25@30c.

Bailed Hay—Firm at $14 
Barley—Scarcer and firmer.  Best quality 
Beets—In fair demand at  $3 38  bbl.  and 
Butter—Good  dairy rolls are firm  a t22@ 
Elgin 
Butterine—Active at  18@20c  for  choice.
Beans—Handpicked are  a trifle  firmer  at 
$2.25 and unpicked are not much moving  at 
$1.75@$2.  The market  is  not  looking  up 
to any considerable degree.

Barley—Choice $1.30 ^  100  tbs.
Buckwheat—Hardly  any  has  been  han­
dled during the past two  weeks.  An occas­
ional sale of New York  patent  is  made  at 
$3.25 3$ 100 lbs, and $6 % bbl.
Cheese—The week has been characterized 
by a sudden advance ip  skim  to  ll@ 123^e. 
Full cream is active and firmer  at  14@15c.
Cider—Difficult  to  fill orders.  Ordinary 
stock is entirely exhausted, and sand refined 
has advanced to $7.50 38 bbl.
Clover Seed—Choice medium weaker at $6 
@$6.50 38 bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $6.75  38 bu.
Com—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  com  at  from 
45@60c 38 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 ^  
flb,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 12%@14c.
Eggs—Down to 15c the day  after  Easter, 
with a further decline of lc a day later,  and 
a still further decline in prospect.
Green Oniops—45@50c 38 dozen  bunches.
Honey—In comb,  18c 38 lb.
Hops—The  Michigan 
crop  is  almost 
completely exhausted.  Good command 20@ 
22c, and fair 15@18c ^   lb.
Let. ace—Hothouse stock  selling  readily, 
with good demand, at 22c ^   ft.
Maple Sugar—In consequence  of  a  light 
crop,  the  price  is up  lc,  and  is  scarce  at 
that price.  Choice readily commands  14c.
Onions—Firmer and  scarcer.  Choice yel­
low command  75@85c  38  bu.  in  sacks, and 
$2.50 38  bbl.  Bermuda stock  brings  $3  38 
crate.
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
atl2K c38  lb.
Potatoes—Still a drug  and  likely  to  re­
main so.  There are  vast  quantities  in  the 
market, and large amounts still  lie  in  pits. 
Burbanks  are  sold  in  small  quantities  at 
40c, and Rose at 30@35c.

Peas—Holland $4 38 bn.
Parsnips—Firm at $3 38 bbl and $1 38 bu.
Poultry—Chickens and fowls are firm, and 
readily  command  16@17c  and  15@16c, 
respectively.  There are no ducks and  geese 
in  market, and a  few  turkeys,  which  find 
ready sale at  16c.

and $2 38 bbl.
Burbanks, 50c.
$1.75 38 bu.

Radishes—50c 38 dozen bundles.
Ruta Bagas—Selling readily at 65c 
bu., 
Seed Potatoes —White  Star,  $1;  Selected 
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.50@ 
Vegetable Oysters—50c 38 dozen bunches.
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  75@80c 
for No. 2  Clawson  and 90@95c  for  Fo.  1. 
Lancliester commands $1.

After the  Hubbardston  Fire.

Arnold & Capel, hardware,  loss $4,000, in 
in 

surance $3,000, will  continue  and  pay 
full.

L. W. Robinson, general  store,  loss  $4,- 

500, insurance $4,000, resumed business.

Harden Bros., hotel and saloon,  loss  $2,- 

000, insurance $1,000, will pay in  full.

E. M. Barber & Co., grocers,  loss  $7,000, 
insurance  $3,400,  will  probably  continue 
business.

Camham & Wyman, livery and stage line, 
loss $4,500, insurance $1,300.  Business will 
I be continued as heretofore by W.  Ckrnham.

BAD POLICY.

The  P lan  of  Selling  So-Called  “Leaders.”
“Give me seven pounds of brown  sugar,” 
said an old lady to a grocer, in whose  store 
we happened to be, the other  evening.
“Anything else?” asked the  grocer.
“No, not this evening,” was the reply.
“Then I  can’t  sell  you  the  sugar,”  he 

said.

The old lady seemed to have  met  with a 
similar  experience  bofore  and  went  out 
without a word.

“What on earth did you do that for?”  we 

asked of the grocer.

“ ’Cause its business..  Why?  Well,  I ’m 
not merely  selling  sugar  at  cost  as  nearly 
every one in  the  business  does,  but  have 
cut prices down below my  competitors  and 
am making a leader of it.  So you see  there 
is no use in my selling a person  nothing but 
sugar.”

Now, this we  regard  as  extremely  bad 
It may drive away  custom  instead 
policy. 
of attracting it. 
In the present  instance, it 
is true, the  dealer  said  that  the  old  lady 
who he so sharply refused was in the  habit 
of  shopping around and  buying  only such 
articles as were used by  the  different  gro­
cers for leaders.  Of course,  under  the  cir­
cumstances, there was nothing  to  be  made 
by selling  her.  But  we  maintain  that  a 
grave mistake might be made  in  this  way. 
For instance, a newcomer  to  the  neighbor­
hood receiving such a rebuff would  assured­
ly never enter the  store  again,  and  thus a 
profitable customer might be lost.

The whole plan of selling so-called  “lead­
ers” is  a  mistaken  one  as  carried  on  by 
most  grocers. 
Just  here  is  where  many 
grocers  make  a  mistake.  They  will  cut 
down on one  article in  order  to  draw new 
trade, but  mark  up  on  others  which,  of 
course, repels buyers.  The main  idea  of a 
leader is to bring strangers into  your  store, 
and this is a strong point to gain.  But they 
must see something  more  than  the  leader 
there to bring them back again. 
If a  custo­
mer can see no  advantage  to  be  gained  by 
changing from one  dealer to  another  it  is 
only natural that he  will  cling’ to  his  old 
grocer.

It may be  advisable to make  a  slight  re­
duction on one  article  in  order  to  attract 
buyers,  but it will totally  fail  of  good  re­
sults if other goods are  not sold  at  propor­
tionately low rates.  The article  offered  at 
a special  bargain  should  be  sold  only  in 
specified quantities,  but  imder  no  circum­
stances should that amount be  refused.  To 
refuse it not only subjects the grocer  to  the 
charge of impoliteness, but is also  extreme­
ly bad. policy.

Took  an  Inventory.

In January last a good old-fashioned deal­
er in dry  goods,  groceries,  hardware  and 
pretty  much  everything  else, in the central 
portion of the State, decided to  take  an  in­
ventory  for  the  first  time  in  twenty-one 
years.  About the time it  was  completed  a 
commercial traveler for a house in this  city 
happened along, and asked him how he came 
out

“Well, it’s  kinder  dubious,”  was the  re­

ply.

“How?”
“Why, I fell short of my estimate of stock 

by about S3,000.”

“ And don’t you know how  to  make  your 

figures come out even?”

“I confess I don’t.”
“Well, all you have to do is to mark every­

thing up twenty per cent.”

“Gineral Jackson!” gasped the  old  man; 
“but  I  kicked  around  in  bed  for  three 
straight nights and  never  thought  of  that? 
That’s the way, of course, and  up  goes  the 
the price of caliker and  flatirons.”

Too Thin for Anything.

Anew  kind  of  advertising  has  lately 
come into  vogue  among  the  drug 
trade, 
which is as ridiculous  as it  is  sensational. 
The peculiarity of the new  method  is  that 
the advertiser announces the quantities  of a 
few items in stock, which invariably amount 
to more than the entire stock carried. 
For 
instance, a Detroit  jobbing  house  occupies 
the entire page of a local  trade  publication 
with an  enumeration  of  the  paints,  oils 
and painters’ goods in  stock,  whereas  the 
aggregate of their worth  is  more  than  the 
entire stock  carried  by  the  house.  The 
craze  seems  to  have  spread  to  the  retail 
trade, as a small concern  in  a  neighboring 
town is advertising the  amounts of  patents 
in stock, claiming that  the  balance  of  the 
stock is as complete in every respect.  As a 
matter  of  fact, 
the  patents  advertised 
amount, to more than the druggist  paid  for 
the whole stock about a month ago,  and he 
has not  added  much  since  the  purchase. 
Brag is sojnetimes a good dog,  but  there  is 
such a thing as carrying it too far.

T ake  to  I t  as  a  Necessity.
From the Northwestern  Lumberman.

The Michgan Tradesman, published at 
Grand Rapids, Mich., conies to us in a quarto 
form.  The paper is young, but the business 
men of Michigan already take to it  as  a ne­
cessity.  The news it contains is  of  an  ex­
ceptionally reliable character.  All of this is 
easily accounted for, from the  fact  that  its 
editor, Mr. E. A. Stowe, is a  bright,  consci­
entious newspaper man,  and  doesn’t  know 
what it is to let work alone.

One o f the  Best in Its Sphere.

From the Fremont Indicator.

T h e   T ra desm a n,  published  at  Grand 
Rapids, is  one  of  the  neatest  printed  and 
best in  its  sphere  to  be  found  anywhere. 
Every business man should take it.

F rem ont Facts.

From the Indicator.

Stephen Gross has abandoned  the harness 

business.

William  Gerber  started  for  Washinston 

Territory last week.

Agents of the wholesale houses are coming 

in on almost every train.

Our grocers have shipped away a good deal 

of hen fruit lately.

John Dubois is preparing to erect  another 

building, 24x30, east of the brick;

A new stock of groceries is  to  be  ope»ed 

up in the Freehling building next week.

Angus McDonald  will  have  his  hotel  in 
good  running  order  by  the  first  of  May, 
larger and better than before  the fire.

James Gibson sold about 300 car  loads  of 
staves last week, to  Boston  parties,  realiz­
ing something over $510,000 by  the  transac­
tion.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

H. Freeman, grocer, Mancelona:  “It is  a 

good one, and what all merchants want.” 

Parkhurst & Clark, druggists, Middleville: 
“Your paper is read with more than ordinary 
interest by  us.”

A. C. Lewis,  general  merchandise,  Lake 
City:  “I  think  your  paper  is a good one. 
Wish you the best of success.”

F. B. Watkins, general dealer,  Monterey: 
“Nice, spicy little sheet, but not good to  get 
in the hands of  h  Grangers.”

R. W. Coy, general dealer, Spencer Creek: 
“I take several  other  papers,  among  them 
the Free Press  and Inter Ocean, but I  find 
myself picking up The  Tradesman to read 
first.  As 1 could not well spare it, I enclose 
the dollar, which I should have sent before.”

P. Van Riper, druggist  at  Onondaga,  has 

sold out.

A. B. Bossman, hardware dealer at Hamil­

ton, has sold out.

There is a great demand  for  store  build­

ings in Charlevoix.

John A. Swan, of Kent City, will  shortly 

open a harness shop at Newaygo.

The Rockford  Register  refers  to  Henry 

Spring as “the dry goods prince.”

Mr. and Mrs. W. Dockerey have engaged in 

the millinery business at Rockford.

Hardwood timber is  arriving  at  Howard 

City by rail for shipment to  Europe.

Miss Kate Jones, formerly at Baldwin, has 
engaged  in  the  millinery  business  at  Big 
Rapids.

A. O. Van Dyk, general  dealer  at  Moor- 
deloos, Ottawa county, has  sold out to  John 
Meijering.

Dexter & Noble,  Elk  Rapids,  have  pur­
chased 64,000 cords of wood the past winter, 
mainly for furnace use.

T. Veenstra has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at 149 Spring street.  Fox, Mussel- 
man & Loveridge furnished the stock.

D. P. Clay will erect  a  brick  warehouse, 
near his pail and tub factory at Newaygo, to 
be used for storing purposes. 
It will be 40x 
100 feet in  size.

The Tecumseh  Herald  thinks that nine­
teen  out  of  twenty  farmers  in  Lenawee 
county must buy seed com for this  spring’s 
planting.

Constantine boasts a wealthy  citizen  who 
steals his newspaper reading  and buys a fur 
cap or other winter garments  in  the  spring 
because they are cheapest at that  season.

“Will you have an  orange  or  a  fig?”  in­
quired Dr. Jackson of a fine little boy some­
what under  the weather.  “A fig,” answered 
the child with alacrity.  “No  fever  there,” 
said the doctor, “or he would have  certainly 
said an orange.”

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

U. PEETER,

36  South  Division  Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Dealer  in

fCount

-Also—

STAPLE  AN D   F A N C Y   GROCERIES, 

CANNED  AJSTD  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.

ALBERT COYE  SONS,
Awnings,  Tents,

—M anufacturers and Jobbers of—

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers,

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

Send for Prices.

GRAND  RAPIDS

MANUFACTURED  FOR

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HAND  OR  MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOR 

SALE BY THE  PACKAGE  OR  RE­

PACKED  TO  ORDER.

Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 

Price List  at once for the Spring Trade.

G. S. YALE & BRO.,

—M anufacturers  of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

B L i U I N O S ,   B T O ^

40  and  42  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

SEED  CORN
We offer a choice lot of 
Early Red Cob Dent Com, 
and the Round Yellow or 
Yankee Com, Clover and 
Timothy, Hungarian, Red 
Top, Millet, Spring Wheat 
Seed  Oats,  Peas,  Beans, 
Genuine White Star Seed 
Potatoes.  In  fact  every 
seed usually kept in stock 
at a Seed Store, at whole­
sale and retail.

W. T. LAMOREAUI, Apt,

91 CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

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BASELTINE,  PERKINS  &  COMPANY,

"W HOLESALE  DRUGGISTS,

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

I U F O R T E R S   A N D   J O B B E R ^   O F

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And.  Druggists’ Sundries.  A lso Manufacturers  o f

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W HITE  STAR »
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P O T A T O .

To G a r d e n e r s   a n d  F a r m e r s .

Ferry & Co., the well 
potatoes  were procured, 
000 bushels of as fine
potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State.  They  were  pronounced  by  all  who  tried  them  of  the  very  finest 
flavor,

YIELDING  FAR BETTER  THAN  ANY  OTHER  VARIETY  KNOWN

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 to make inquiries. 
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ence  to 
We are now making a sbecialty of handling this splendid potato, and are prepared to supply patrons at a price  which,  a  refer 
offer  to
all seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices.  We  make  this  liberal  <
patrons: 
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We will 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 
may 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. Burtch, 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 b#en represented, and true to name.

B.  ENSLE3Y  <&  SON,  G row ers,

Ensley  FostofBLoe,  3STewaygo  County,  Michigan.

FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS  AND  TERMS  TO  DEALERS,  ADDRESS

O.  W .  BLAIN,  General  Agent,

PRODUCE  COMMISSION  MERCHANT, Eagle Hotel  or  152  Fulton  Street,
RISING  SUN  YEAST

OH.AND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

O. F. BIOELOW,

—WHOLESALE  DEALER IN—

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APPLIANCES,

NO. 8  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

W !  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.  _

BEST  ON  THE  MARKET.  EVERYONE USES IT.'  Sold by all Wholesale Grocers. 

Factories, Seneca Falls, New York.

P E R K I N S   <So  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

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

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

