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The Michigan  Tradesman.

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OUR  DRUMMER’S  INVESTMENT.

Stayville,  Oct. 10th. 

Glamorgan, Checkup & Co.,

Cramptown, P. D.

Spooner can’t pay.  Suits  pending. 

Involv­
ed.  Willing to give us stock settlement.  Shall 
I accept, or press claim full amount?

(Slg.)  G. Twister.

This is the wording of a telegram which a 
young red-faced messenger brought into  our 
office about three o’clock in the afternoon of 
the day it was dated, and which  he  handed 
to Glamorgan, our senior, at the  same  time 
opening a small book and saying:

“No.  twenty-seven  on  that  line,  sir,” 

pointing to a line in the  receipt-book.

Glamorgan  receipted  the  message,  and 
calmly tore off  the  wrapper  inclosing  the 
’gram.  He then read the message,  1 should 
think, about three  times,  and  commenced 
making a phrenological  examination  of his 
comprehensive powers as he walked over  to 
my table and laid  the paper before me,  say­
ing:

“Well, here’s  a  message  froih  Twister, 
but  I  can’t  make  out  what  the  fellow 
means.” 

Now, Twister is the gentlemanly employe 
who represents our firm to the  country mer­
chants, andoccasionly looks after collections. 
He had been sent  over  to  Stayville  to  see 
why our customer at that place  was so dila­
tory about  his  remittances.

1 picked up the telegram and  commenced 
reading.  “Spooner—can’t—pay.— Creditors
—urging—settlement.— Suits—pending----
Involved.-----”

“There,” said Glamorgan.  “What do  you 

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suppose he means by ‘involved’?”

“ * Involved,’  why,”  said  I, “ I  «suppose 
Spooner has got mixed up in  some  specula­
tion  and  is  going  to  bust.”

“Well, go on,” said Glamorgan,  “read  the 

for some particulars  as  to  Spooner’s  debts 
and resources.”

“Well, the message has  gone  now,”  said 
Glamorgan,  “and  in  the  morning  we  will 
probably have from Twister  a  letter  which 
will  explain matters.”

I nodded assent  to  Glamorgan’s  remark, 
and we separated  as  quickly  as  possible, 
each seeming to have  important business re­
quiring  attention  just  then;  though,  had 
Twister’s message reported  a  sale  through 
which we were to  clear  five  hundred  or  a 
thousand dollars,  I  presume  neither  of  us 
would have felt so  strongly  disposed  to  be 
free from the  other’s  presence.

The morning came,  but  with  it  no  fur­
ther news  from  Stayville.  Another  mail 
was due in  the  afternoon,  and  that  was 
awaited with  impatience, by  me  at  least, 
and I imagined from looks  and  mutterings 
that  Glamorgan  and  Clemens  were  both 
somewhat  anxious.  However,  no  letter 
came, nor did the wires  bring  us  any  fur­
ther  intelligence. 
the 
thoughts of my partner's as  to  the  long  si­
lence I do not know, but I  consoled  myself 
with the idea that our drummer  was closing 
up matters with the Stayville  customer, and 
that all was probably going  right,  else  fur­
ther calls would come for instructions.  Tnat 
myjimaginations were, in a sense correct, you 
will presently see.

Just  what  were 

The morning of the 12th came, and  about 
nine  o’clock  a  small  black-headed  youth 
came sauntering into the office with the air of 
a Vanderbilt, handing  Clemens  a  telegram 
which he read, as follows:

Stayville,  Oct. 11th.

Glamorgan, C. & Co.

Shipped goods to-day.  Finish  here in morn­

ing, and go to  Buckton.

Tw ist er.

rest of it.”

“Willing—give—us—stock—settlement.— 
Shall—I—accept—or—press—claim— full— 
amount—?”  Then I  began  to  go  through 
the familiar phrenological finger  movement, 
and at last,  “Humph, well, don’t know, Gla­
morgan, but I expect Spooner has  offered  to 
secure our claim, to some extent, anyway, by 
turning over s t o c k a n d  I  looked  up  just 
in time to catch sight of a peculiar motion of 
Glamorgan’s face, caused  by  the  eyebrows 
dropping and the upper lip quivering  slight­
ly as he  twisted  his  fire-red  mustache.

“I don’t know  what  to  say  about  this,” 
said the senior, and he turned  half  around 
to speak to  the  book-keeper. 
“Say,  Can-, 
will you see how much Spooner, of Stayville, 
owes us?” and we paused for a  reply.

“Forty-six hundred seventeen  dollars  and 
twenty-nine cents,” promptly came back the 
reply.

“Jerusalem!” muttered Glamorgan,  “does 

he owe so much as that?”

“Oh,  yes 1” I  sa’id,  “I  supposed  it  was 

something near five thousand  dollars.” 

“Jimmy, won’t you run up  stairs and  ask 
Mr. Clemens to come down here,” said  Gla­
morgan to the office-boy;  and  then  turning 
to me he remarked,  “I’d  like  to  see  what 
George’s ideas are about this thing.”

Clemens, although represented  by the Co. 
in our firm name,  was  senior  to  both  Gla­
morgan and myself when it came to straiten­
ing out complicated bad debts  and  carrying 
a general balance-sheet in the head.  A few 
words only had been passed when  Clemens 
came down from the second  floor, where  he 
had  been  superintending  the  selection  of 
goods  for  filling orders.
“  Well,  Clemens,” 
said  Glamorgan, 
Spoooner  of  Stayville is busted, or  is  go­
ing to, and Twister wants instructions about 
securing our account.  Here’s the dispatch.” 
Clemens read  the  message,  and  looking 
edgewise across the table  at  me  said,  half 
smiling:  “I believe he’s your customer, is’nt 
he, Checkup?”

“Yes,” said I, “he’s credited to  me, but  I 
haven’t known  much  about  him  for  more 
than a year.  He was all right then.  I think 
we had better direct Twister to do  the  best 
he can. 
If  ^he  can’t  get  money,  to  take 
stock;  and if he has to do that,  it  ought  to 
be shipped here immediately.”

“Very well,”  said Glamorgan,  “then  you 

had better wire him at once.”

I hastily dashed off the following:

Cramptown, Oct. 10.

To G. Twister,  Stayville.

Make  best  arrangement  possible.  Accept 
goods, if that is best can be done,  and ship im­
mediately.

[Sig.]  Glamorgan, Checkup & Co. 

“Here, Jimmey,” said Clemens, “run over 
to the telegraph office with this message.  Be 
spry now, and get back  here  as  quickly  as 
possible.”  And away sped the  instructions 
to our anxious drummer at Stayville.

“Spooner owes us  about  forty-five  hun­
dred, doesn’t he?” said Clemens,  giving  me 
a quizing look as he glanced over  the  tele­
gram for the eleventh time.

“Yes,”  I  said,  “forty-six  hundred  and 
something, Carr told us a few minutes ago.” 
“Well, I suppose  Twister  will  get  it  se­
cured in some way,”  responded  Glamorgan 
with a sort of relief that gave  Clemens  and 
myself to understand that, perhaps, we were 
fortunate in being  able  to  get  something, 
even though he did not  expect  the  account 
would be collected in full.

This was indeed a  true  relief,  and  there 
was a more cheerful tone in  and around  the 
office of Glamorgan, Checkup  and  Clemens 
during  the  remainder  of  that  day  than 
were the  articulations of the  day  that  pre­
ceded it.

It was about  five  o’clock,  and  we  were 
making preparations to  leave,  when  Carr} 
who had just commenced  balancing-up  and 
checking his cash, sang out:

“Mr. Glamorgan, will you step here a min­
ute?”  Glamorgan opened the  door  leading 
into the outside office, and  there  we  saw  a j 
long,  country-like  chap  wearing  a  black 
slouch hat, with  pants in his boot  tops  and j 
a long pole in his hand.

“Is this Mr. Glamorgan?” he  said.
“Yes, sir, that’s my name,”  said  Glamor­
gan, eyeing the stranger  closely,  as  if  ex­
pecting to recognize in his features some old 
acquaintance whom he  had  met  in  Texas, 
when he was living in the West.

“I came through from  Stayville with your 
goats that Mr. Twister shipped, and I s’pose 
they ought to be unloaded to-night‘” drawled 
out the  stranger.

“You came through with  what?” inquisit­

ively asked Glamorgan.

“Your goats,” was the reply.
“My goats,  why I   don’t  know  anything 

about goats;  you must be  mistaken.”

And at that Clemens and I hastened  into 
the room to get a good  look at the  stranger.
“Well, yew telegraphed Mr.  Twister  that 
if he took goats of Mr. Spooner for  what he 
owed, you wanted ’em shipped here immedi­
ately, didn’t ye?”  And the late arrival from 
Stayville twisted his long pole  around,  pok­
ing Clemens in the  ribs,  and  peering  very 
emphatically into Glamorgan’s face.

“Checkup,  what  do  you  suppose  this 
means?  Did  you  telegraph  Twister  any­
thing about goats?” -and Glamorgan  looked 
at me as though I had possibly made a terri­
ble blunder.

“Goats,” said I, “why no,  of  course  not 
I telegraphed him  to  accept  goods,  if  that 
was the best he could do,  and,  as  you  sug­
gested, ship here immediately.”

“Well, gentlemen,” said the tall man from 
Stayville, “I’ll tell ye how  ’twas.  Spooner 
got stuck on buying more’n a thousand goats 
to  fill  a contract,  and  the  party  couldn’t 
take ’em.  Then,  when  your  drummer  got 
your message’ he  said he’d  take  the  goats, 
and got me to come over on the  train  with 
’em.  There  ain’t  only  four  car  loads  of 
’em.”

“My Heavens 1” screeched Clemens, “what 
are we to do with fony car loads  of  goats? 
Its an exasperating joke.  You  see the tele­
graph operator has written  the word ‘goods’ 
so that it looked like goats, and  has  misled 
Twister.”

“Yes, that’s so,” said Glamorgan;  “either 
that,  or  the  operator  here  has  mistaken 
the word in Checkup’s message  and  sent  it 
‘goats,’ ”

“But now, since we have the  goats,”  said 
Carr, “what shall be done with them?  They 
must be taken care of  to-night.”

“Yes,” said Clemens, “and to-morrow  we 
will publish a  circular,  announcing  in  our 
business a department of  masonic  supplies 
and’parphemalia.”

Carr  made  the entry:

Masonic  Supplies,

To  Spooner.

Glamorgan 

said  something  about  his 
hopes that in  the  future,  when  telegrams 
were sent by the firm or its employees,  they 
would be followed immediately with letters, 
giving particulars, and  repeating  the  exact 
wording of the  message.

Clemens  said,  “That’s  so,”  and  we  all 

nodded an  endorsement.

CLAY  PIPES.

A  Meerschaum  Pipe  for  $500 and a  Clay 

Pipe for a Cent.

far  up 

Mayence 

is  about 

From the Detroit Free  Press.
as 

the 
Rhine as tourists go in the steamers. 
It has 
a cathedral remarkable  for  its  ugliness to 
the ordinary observer and for  its  beauty to 
the architect.  Going from  the  river  front 
leading to the square on which the cathedral 
stands, is a  narrow,  winding  street  with 
tall houses and a  slit of  narrow sky  over­
head.

At the comers are  some of the most won­

derful pipe stores in the world.

These places are lined and hung  and fes­
tooned  with  pipes  of  every  description. 
There are the long Rhine pipes  with  their 
chromoed  China  howls  and  meercliaum 
pipes of every variety. 
Perhaps  the  most 
wonderful pipes to be seen there  are  those 
from the Black Forest with bowls as big  as 
your head.  These bowls are of the  knot of 
some tree, and they are carved with all sorts 
of  fantastic  devices, 
the  favorite  being 
hounds and hunter chasing a deer.

Leading from one of these pipe shops  is a 
very narrow,  creaky  and  uncertain  stair­
way winding up to the roof.  As it nears the 
top it becomes narrower, creakier and  more 
uncertain, and a rope dangling down  is the 
only thing the climber has to  guide  him in 
his upward journey. 
In the very top  room 
with a window projecting over  the  mossy, 
red, tile-steep roof sits  one  of  the  most ex­
pert pipe-makers on the Rhine.  He  has a 
little work-bench fixed almost  in  the  win­
dow, and attached to it is a small  lathe and 
a vise.  Chunks of white meerchaum are on 
a shelf, and the table  is  covered  with the 
white dust that comes from the turning  and 
carving.  From that high window is a  view 
of the muddy Rhine andvthe long  bridge of 
boats which stretches across it.  This  work 
man at odd times comes down  to  the  ordi 
nary pipe the work—the Nubian’s  head, the 
bowl in the claws of a fowl, and  the  other 
conventional shapes that  meerschaum pipes 
in the tobacconist’s windows have  made us 
familiar with, but his general work is  much 
ahead of that.

be imagined, the process of making  “clays” 
is mechanical.

There is no margin  for  nice  ornamenta­
tion on a one cent pipe. 
In  the  first place 
the clay comes from Woodbridge,  New Jer­
sey, where it costs $3.50 a ton.  The freight 
then costs $5 a ton, and by the time the clay 
is at the factory it is worth $10.  So  far  all 
attempts to find pipe  clay  nearer  at  hand 
have been unsuccessful. 
If  any  Michigan 
or Ohio farmer reads this and thinks  he has 
pipe clay on his farm let him put a chunk of 
it in the fire. 
If it  bums  red  it  won’t  do; 
if it turns white the pipe factories of Detroit 
will be  glad  to  hear  from  him,  and  the 
chances are his fortune will be made. 
It is 
rather curious that no one has ever tried red 
clay pipes.  They are used  in  Turkey  and 
on the south shore  of  the  Mediterranean, 
where they certainly know  something about 
smoking.

There are six men and two girls  working 
at the Joseph Campau avenue factory.  Oiie 
man takes the moist lumps of clay and with 
one lump in each hand  rapidly  rolls  them 
into  the  shape  of  a  club  with  a  spindle 
handle and a heavy  end.  The  dexterious 
manner in which he  works with both  hands 
at once would  please  Charles  Reade,  the 
champion of  ambi-dexterity.  Three  men 
work at their machines and turn  these  soft 
clubs of clay into the shape  of  pipes  with 
great rapidity.  Each man  makes  about 2,- 
440 pipes a day.  They take the  clay  club; 
dip a long needle in a mixture  of  kerosene 
and fish oil; ran the needle into the  stem of 
the future pipe;  rub the  clay  with  the oil 
mixture;  chuck  it  into  the  steel  mold; 
squeeze down a lever that  presses  out  the 
hollow of the bowl.  When released it is the 
blue semblance of a clay pipe, and all  these 
processes together take about a  second  and 
a half.  Next the pipes are  partially  dried 
and then turned over to a  couple  of  girls, 
who give them a  sort  of  finishing  polish. 
They are next allowed to dry and are  pack­
ed in earthenware crocks.  These crocks are 
placed in the furnace and about 50,000 pipes 
burnt at once.  They come out pure  white, 
and are then packed up in cases holding  288 
pipes, which are sold for sixty-five cents.

Put all this information in your  pipe and 

smoke it.

He is an  artist  in  his  way—a  portrait 
artist.  Before him at  this time was  a  por­
trait of  President  Garfield,  and  with  the 
bowl of the future pipe fixed in  the  vise he 
was fashioning with minute chisels the mass 
of meerschaum into a sculptured head of the 
dead President.  This  particular  pipe  had 
been ordered form America, and it was to cost 
a big amount;  just how much the American 
was to pay for it the German  couldn’t  say, 
and how much the carver was  to  receive he 
wouldn’t say.  Anyhow,  before  it  reached 
the smoker’s hands there were  several large 
profits to be made, and no doubt  the  small­
est was that of the artist who  made  it. 
It 
seemed that quite a large business was done 
in this style of portraiture.  Some photos of 
handsome  young  ladies  were  there,  and 
pipes were to  be  made  with  the  features 
copied. 
It seemed rather a  shady  compli­
ment to pay to the girls, as their  faces were 
sure to become any thing but the  lily  color 
they would be when they  left  the  carver’s 
hands.

There were few specimens  of  this work­
man’s skill in the  little  attic  room,  for it 
was a work-shop and not a  show-room;  but 
in the shops below could be seen  his  work 
surly heads of Bismarck, the side  whisk­
ers and military mustache of  the  Emperor, 
the face of  Unser  Fritz,  “bearded  like  a 
paid,” heads  of Gladstone and Beaconsfield 
to catch the English tourist,  and  heads  of 
dashing beauties  with rakish  Gainsborough 
hats for any one that wished  to  buy.  The 
German was a worker anti not a  talker.  He 
was silent and  industrious,  and  while  he 
carved he pulled away at  a very  huge  and 
very ordinary pipe, that required to be filled 
at least once a week if he smoked incessant­
ly.  As the hatter never wears  a  good hat, 
so the maker of the most expensive pipes in 
the world smoked one of the  cheapest.

As near as  could  be  gathered  from  his 
rather gruff  remarks the  meerschaum  was 
quarried in the chunks we saw it and a large 
specimen was exceedingly rare.  The lumps 
when soft could easily be  pressed  together 
like any other piece of clay, but the pressure 
would spoil 
the  porousness  of  it  and  it 
would not color.  The chips  of  the  meers­
chaum that  were too small  to  make  little 
pipes or  cigar-holders of were  kneaded  to­
gether and a sort of cheap meerschaum pipe 
made, that the dealer on  the  off  streets in 
England could sell at a very low  figure and 
yet be quite truthful in their  assurance that 
they were  genuine  meerschaum,  while  as 
the  time-honored pun has  it  they  were  a 
mere sham instead,  and  would  under  no 
provocation color.  The  nice  thing  about 
these pipes is that the ordinary smoker can­
not tell the cheap from the dear.

However, there are  cheaper  pipes  made 
than those by the stolid carver of  Mayence, 
who once made a pipe that  cost  $500.  De­
troit makes a pipe that sells at wholesale for 
about the fifth of a cent, and at  ietail  for a 
cent,  which is somewhat cheaper than meer­
schaum even in Germany.  There are  three 
of these clay pipe factories in Detroit Amer­
ica  used  to get its clay pipes  mostly  from 
Scotland, there being  some  large, factories 
in Glascow; but now all the cent pipes want* 
ed are made in the United States.  A s may

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Conrts 

of Last Resort.

Sale  of Personal  Property. >

The Indiana  Supreme  Court  in  a  recent 
case  (Dwiggins vs. Clark, decided  March 8) 
laid down as follows the law regarding  the 
choice of remedies at the option of the  ven­
dor in the case of  a sale of personal proper­
ty at a stated price where the vendee  refus­
es 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  agent 
of the vendee for this purpose,  and  may re­
cover the difference  between  the  contract 
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  deliv­
ery and the contract price.

Chattel  Mortgage—Rights of  Assignee.
To a bill to forclose a  chattel  mortgage a 
defense was made  by  the  assignee  for the 
benefit of creditors of  the  mortgagor.  He 
claimed that the mortgage  was  void as  to 
him because  it  was  not  recorded  in  the 
county where it was made before the assign­
ment to him was delivered. 
In  this  case, 
Shaw vs.  Glen,  the  Court  of  Chancery of 
New Jersey gave the complainants a decree. 
The chancellor, in the  opinion  said:  The 
mortgage was  clearly  valid  as  against the 
mortgagor, when he made  the  assignment, 
notwithstanding it had not been recorded ae 
cording to law;  and the  assignee  took  his 
title to the property, subject to the  equities 
to which it was subject in the  hands  of his 
assignor.  Such is the rule  as  to  assignees 
in bankruptcy; he is not boimd by the fraud­
ulent conveyances of  his  assignor;  but  in 
cases unaffected by  fraud  he  is  bound  by 
the equities to which the property  assigned 
was liable when it came to his  hands  from 
his assignor.

counting.

Partnership—Statute  of  Limitations—Ac­
In the settlement of partnership  accounts 
it was attempted to shut  out  the  claim  of 
one of the firm for money paid  by  him  on 
behalf of the firm,  on  the  ground  that  he 
was barred by  the  statute  of  limitations. 
In  this  case,  Turner  vs.  Holloway,  the 
Court of Appeals of Maryland  decided  that 
the claims should be allowed.  Judge Bryan, 
in the opinion, said:  1. Partners have  a lien 
on the  partnership  property  for  the  pay­
ment of the partnership debts,  and  it  is in 
consequence of this lien that the joint credi­
tors are paid, and not by  reason  of  any in­
dependent right which  such  creditors  pos­
sess.  Whether the firm is solvent  or  insol­
vent is not material;  the rights of the  part- 
ners do not depend upon that. 
It is only in 
subordination to this right  of  the  partners 
that the claims of the creditors  are  permit­
ted to be presented.  2.  The plea of-  limita­
tio n s  can not avail against a  claim  of  one 
partner for money  paid  out  for  the  firm.

NO. 31.

After an account is settled by  the  partners 
and a balance  ascertained,  a  right  to  sue 
arises, and from that time the statute begins 
to run.  But when a decree for an  account­
ing between the partners has been  made, all 
the claims  existing  between  them  arising 
out of the firm’s affairs must be brought into 
the account for adjustment.

Suits  in  Equity.

The assignee .of F.  Shaw &  Brothers re­
cently brought suits in equity for an injunc­
tion to restrain certain persons  from  prose­
cuting  attachments  made  by  them  upon 
property of  Shaw  Brothers  in  New York 
and Maine. 
In one of the cases the  attach­
ment was made after the second assignment, 
and in another  the  attachment  was  made 
after the first and before the second  assign­
ment.  Judge Devens, of the  Massachusetts 
Supreme Court, held in these cases,  Wyman 
vs. Fogg et al., and The Same  vs.  Richard­
son et al., that  assignments  relating to  or 
affecting  real  property  situated  in  other 
States must he  construed  according  to the 
laws of those States, and that  the  assignee 
had a full, complete and adequate remedy at 
law to defeat the attachments if the  assign­
ments to him were  good.  The  judge  on 
this ground refused to giant the  injunctions 
prayed, further intimating that the  granting 
of an injimetion might result in great injury 
to the defendants,  to the  benefit  of  other 
creditors outside  of the State, if it were the 
fact that there is a large number of other at­
tachments at suit of citizens of other States, 
both prior and subsequent to the defendants’ 
attachments.
Attachment of  Funds  Held by  Executors.
The  Supreme  Court  of  Nevada,  in  the 
case of Norton vs. Haydon, wherein a credi­
tor  of  a  bank  which  had  a  judgement 
against an estate attached  the  amount  due 
in the bonds of the excutor, ruled that when 
no order for  distribution  to  creditors  has 
been made an  executor  or  adminstrator is 
not answerable  to  the  process  of  attach­
ment. 
It would tend  to  distract  and  em­
barrass these officers, if,  in  addition  to the 
ordinary duties which the  law  imposes, of 
themselves often  multiplied,  arduous  and 
responsible, they were drawn  into  conflicts 
created by the  interposition  of  creditors of 
legatees,  and  compelled  to  withhold  pay­
ment of legacies without suit;  to suspend in­
definitely the settlement  of  estates;  to  at­
tend, perhaps, 
to  numerous  rival  attach­
ments;  to answer  interrogatories  on  oath; 
and to be put to trouble and expense for the 
benefit of third persons, no  way  connected 
with the estate, nor with the duties of  their 
trust. 
It has been decided  that  money  in 
the hands of a prothonotary  or  sheriff  can 
not be intercepted by a creditor of  the party 
entitled to it;  but it must  be  paid  over  to 
himself only.  The case of  an  executor  or 
adminstrator 
is  analogous  to  that  of  a 
sheriff or  prothonotary.  He has the funds 
in his hands as an officer or trustee  author­
ized  by law;  and if a  new  party  were  al­
lowed to levy on  it  by  attachment,  there 
would be  no end of disputes and  lawsuits; 
and no business would be  certain  of  being 
brought to a  close  in  a  reasonable  time. 
These  funds  must  travel  only  the  path 
pointed out by the laws relating  to  the  de­
cedents’ estates in  their  various  branches, 
and can not be diverted  out  of  that  path 
without interfering  with  statutory  regula­
tions, and violating some of  the  most  im­
portant provisions of the acts of  Assembly.

Signs of the  Times.

From the Northwestern Grocer.

While the business interests  of the  coun­
try at large are by no means  what could  be 
desired there are indications which  seem to 
point to better conditions in the future.  One 
of the hopeful signs is the  large  number of 
corporations being formed  for the  prosecu­
tion of large manufacturing business in var­
ious lines.  This is shown by the weekly re­
ports of the Secretaries  of State  of licenses 
issued to parties to organize  under  general 
state laws for incorporations.  Shrewd,  far- 
seeing, practical  men  see  that  with  cheap 
labor itos a favorable time to engage in lines 
of manufactures for  which  our  increasing 
population, with its ever new and increasing 
demands.  Those who are taking the  initia­
tory steps in these new enterprises  are  not 
enthusiasts who go it blind,  but  see  in the 
conditions a favorable time for the  employ­
ment of their capital  in  productive  enter­
prises.

A well conducted trade journal is now  an 
absolute  necessity  to  each  section  of  the 
country, whose well-being it  voices and pro­
tects;  for is it not the medium  for  making 
announcements of  all  new  manufactures, 
latest and novel proceses, changes  in  busi­
ness arrangements, ventures, etc., with many 
other incidents peculiar  to  trade  and  com­
merce?

A curious anomaly is that potatoes can  be 
laid down in Boston by  carloads  from  cer­
tain sections of the West at  ten  cents  per 
bushel lower than they  can be brought from 
Maine.  This is due to  through  competition 
in freight rates.
,  “No,” said a West Side grocer,  “Brown’s 
trade doesn’t amount to  much.  A  pretty 
large family; but then, you know, they don’t 
keep a hired girl,”

20 and 22 Monroe Street,

“I  think  it  would,  perhaps,  have  been 
well,” said Clemens, ‘»to  have  telegraphed
-   MICHIGAN. I Twister for more  definite  information,  and

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

t  [ t   >  A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE
lercantiie 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  23,  1884.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

H. DeYries, groceryman, has sold  out  to 

M.  Elenbaas, son of A.  Elenbaas.

G. Roys, of  G. Roys  &  Co., has  returned 
from a six weeks’ trip  through  Indiana and 
Ohio.

John  D.  Mangum.  traveling  agent  for 
Welling & Carhart, is working the  Jackson 
trade this week.

§3F”  Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on  the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

Sam Beecher, formerly with Ira C. Hatch, 
later with Clerk, Jewell & Co., has returned 
to Hatch’s  employ.

Reader, if you have already paid your sub­
scription to T he T radesman, pass this over 
without notice, as it does not  concern  you 
But if you are still in arrears, you are  here­
by gently reminded that  the  extra  expense 
involved in the late enlargement, and the out­
lay rendered necessary in keeping the paper 
to its present standard, are  good  and  suffi­
cient reasons why we should hear from  you 
without delay.  The Tradesman is  cheap 
at $1 per year, and at that price it  is  neces­
sary that every subscriber respond promptly, 
in order to avoid absolute loss.  We  do  not 
ask 82 for a $1 paper, with the  expectation 
of collecting pay from half  those  receiving 
it, thus  compelling that class to make up the 
deficiency created by the delinquents.  Every 
man must pay for The  T radesman  or  do 
without it.

A new feature is added this  week  in  the 
shape of a series of biographical  articles en­
titled  “Successful Merchants,” the intention 
being to present such subjects only  as  have 
attained a competency in legitimate mercan­
tile pursuits. 
In connection with a brief re­
cital of the principal events in  the  life  and 
business career of each tradesman, particular 
attention will be paid  to  points  bearing on 
the question of business success,  and to  the 
principles which have enabled each to obtain 
a financial foothold.  Such a presentation of 
commercial careers, rightly carried fout, can­
not fail to be of inestimable value to  young 
and inexperienced merchants, as  well  as  to 
those older in experience who have  not  im­
proved their opportunities  for  money-mak­
ing, as it will bring directly to  their  atten­
tion the reasons to which successful men  at­
tribute their success,  and  enable  them  to 
formulate principles which should  be  their 
guiding star.

PUBLISHING  CHATTEL  MORTGAGES.

Collins, April IT, 1884.

Editor Tradesm an : I notice that the De­
troit Commercial makes a practice of  pub­
lishing the record of  every mortgage, placed 
on the property  of dealers, but not in one in­
stance have I noticed where it has  mention­
ed the fact of such removal. 
It looks to me 
tliat the publishing of such records is  detri­
mental to the interests of such  dealers who 
have found it necessary to secure such loans, 
that it is a  direct  thrust at  their  interests, 
and ought to meet the disapproval  of every 
fair-minded man.
What is the opinion of the  T radesm an?

Subscriber.

With all due respect for our  neighbors of 
the  Commercial, we  cannot  but  coincide 
with the conclusion  of  our  correspondent. 
In bur  opinion,  it  is  the  province  of  the 
trade paper to build  up  trade,  not  tear  it 
down.  Chattel  mortgages,  are  frequently 
given in times of pressing necessity, only to 
be discharged a day or a week afterward. Be­
fore the  news  of their filing has  been spread 
abroad, they are frequently taken  up.  The 
only authority for  the  publications  are  the 
reports of the mercantile agencies and  even 
the agencies sometimes make mistakes  and 
send out false  reports.  So  long  as  these 
errors are confined to the agencies’ subscrib­
ers, with whom the agent is in constant com­
munication, no particular harm  is  likely to 
ensue.  But when  a  false  report  is  sent 
broadcast over the country, beyond the hope 
of contradiction, much evil may possibly re­
sult. 
It may be that the Commercial is en­
deavoring to cover  a  more  extended  field 
than The T radesm an,  but  for  ourselves 
we do not care to run both a newspaper and 
a mercantile agency for 81 a  year.

New  Bank  at  Coopersville.

Mr. O. F. Conklin, of the firm of  O.  F.  & 
W.|P.  Conklin,  of  Ravenna,  and  Wm.  G. 
Watson, of the firm of  Wm.  G.  Watson  & 
Son, Coopersville, have formed  a co-partner­
ship under the firm name of Conklin & Wat­
son, for the purpose of engaging in the bank­
ing business at Coopersville.  The  business 
and fixtures of the present banking house  of 
W. A. Fallas & Co. have been purchased and 
the new  institution  will  occupy  the  same 
building in which the present bank is  locat­
ed.  This departure is  an  auspicious omen 
for Coopersville,  as  the  new  concern  will 
zommand a capital amply sufficient  to  meet 
the  demands  of  the  business  men  of  the 
place,  an  advantage  not  possessed  by  the 
present bank.

The  Victim of a  False  Report.

, i A cruel  report  gained  wide  ¡circulation 
last week—not through the columns of The 
T radesm an,  however—that H. T. Reed,  of 
White Cloud, town treasurer, was a default­
er,, in consequence of which  his  stock  was 
attached by his bondsmen.  The origin  and 
utter untruth of the canard  will  be  under­
stood by the following explanation from Mr. 
Reed himself:
In regard to my business  trouble  I  have 
tided it over. 
It was  maliciously  reported 
on the Saturday before election  that I  was 
short, in order to defeat me  for  re-election. 
The  new  treasurer  qualified  on  the  11th 
inst, and on the 14th inst, I  paid  over  all 
moneys due  the  township  and  have  the 
treasurer’s receipt for the  same.

C. L. Ballard  has  engaged  in  trade  at  a 
small settlement near Cadillac.  He will buy 
his stock in this city.

W.  E.  Harned,  representing  Cushman 
Bros. & Co., trimmings, New  York,  visited 
the trade here last week.

Lee & Hoban have engaged in the grocery 
business at Muskegon.  Shields,  Bulkley & 
Lemon furnished the stock.

Frank Leonard, of H. Leonard &  Sons,  is 
accompanying  Joe  Reed  on  a  fortnight’s 
visit to the northern patrons of the firm.

Hanink & Yruggink have  engaged  in the 
grocery business on Grandville avenue.  Fox, 
Musselman & Loveridge furnished the stock,

L Gibson & Son, formerly at  West Camp­
bell, now located at  Petoskey,  purchased  a 
complete grocery stock  of  Arthur  Meigs  & 
Co. this week.

J. T. Avery,  traveling  representative  for 
Jennings & Smith, left Tuesday for an eight 
weeks’ northern trip,  Cheboygan  being  the 
objective point.

It is rumored  that  Arthur  Meigs  & Co, 
and the Grand Rapids  Packing  Co. will oc­
cupy  the  new  Gilbert  block  on  Ottawa 
street when completed.

The D. R. Stocum stock at Rockford  was 
bid in by his brother,  Jonathan  Stocum, of 
Sanborn, Iowa, who will continue the  busi­
ness in his own name, with  D. R.  as  man­
ager.

H. Leonard & Sons have put in  two  new 
crockery stocks during  the  past  week,  one 
for Greenwood & Ball,  Grandville, and  the 
other for the Chippewa Lumber Co., at Chip 
pewa Lake.

Schepers & Sehiphorst, the Holland  drug­
gists  who  recently  assigned,  contemplate 
offering their creditors a settlement  on  the 
basis of 40 per cent., providing their friends 
enable them to raise the wind.

Martin  L.  Sweet  states  that  the  report 
that he is out 88,000 in  consequence  of  the 
recent drop in wheat is wholly without foun­
dation.  The Tradesm an gave  the  report 
as such, assuming no responsibility  as to  its 
truth or falsity.

B. D. Hawes and Fred E. Hall, book-keeper 
and shipping clerk, respectively, for Putnam 
&  Brooks,  have  formed  a  co-partnership 
under the firm name of Hawes &  Hall,  and 
engaged in the egg  business  at  69  Canal 
They retain their  connection  with  the  old 
firm  for the present.

Wm. Winegar  and  O. H.  Simonds  have 
formed  a  co-partnership  under  the  firm 
name  of  Winegar  &  Simonds,  and  pur­
chased the milling properties, store and stock 
of Dudley  &  Robinson—formerly  Winegar 
& Peck—at Alba.  Mr. Winegar will attend 
personally to the management  of  the  bus! 
ness.

Clark, Jewell &  Co.  furnished  two  new 
grocery stocks during the past week, one for 
Scoville & McAulay, who have just engaged 
in the grocery  business  at  Edgerton,  and 
the  other  for  Bickford  &  Starr,  succes­
sors  to  Bickford  &  Shults  in  the  grocery 
and  meat  market  business  at  Harbor 
Springs.

N. G. Burtt, of Cross Village, was 

in  the 
city last week, conferring with his creditors 
He has sufficient funds  to  meet  all  claims 
against him at 35 per cent., which  offer  has 
been accepted by the houses here  on  condi 
tion that Hannah, Lay & Co. fare  no better, 
In case Mr. Burtt is able  to  make  an 
rangement with the latter,  he  will  resume 
business again in a few days.

Richard Morgan, of Aurora, N. Y., was 

town several days last week, visiting his son 
Christopher Morgan, of the firm of  Morgan 
& Avery.  Mr. Morgan is  the  present  pro­
prietor  of  the  famous  Morgan  store 
Aurora, which  was founded by his father 
1801, and with which he has been  identified 
for  about  35  years.  He  visited  Grand 
Rapids for the first time 37 years ago.

Frank Friedrich, who started in  the  boot 
and shoe business at Traverse  City  a  little 
more than a year ago without a day’s  exper­
ience, and who has now the leading trade 
that line in that city, was  married  on  the 
17th to Miss Emma Brosch, one of Traverse 
City’s fairest daughters.  The happy  couple 
went to Detroit on a wedding trip, and cards 
received by the  trade  here  announce  that 
they will be “at home”  to  their  friends 
and after the 20th.

Mr. D. E. Steams, who was engaged in the 
dry goods business at Big Rapids for several 
years, and who has been identified  with  the

S. T. Colson,  Alaska.
Henry Koopman, Falmouth.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
Fox & Fisher, Zeeland.
Mrs. M. E. Sneli,  Wayland.
Mrs. Mattie Sprague, Grand Haven. 
Mrs. S. A. Colby, Rockford.
Mrs. Ada Gardner, Sparta.
Mrs. Frank Torrance, Chase.
Mrs. M. A. Morrill, Sparta.
Lane & Bolter, Caledonia.
E. S. Hipkins, Blanchard.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
Geo. A. Sage,  Rockford.

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

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

follow:
Uppers, 1 Inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1)4,1 Vt and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1)4,1  and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 1)4,1 y, and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  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 feet........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet.........................   17  00
No. 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....... 
l3 00
,4 00
No. 2-Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet......................... 
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet......................... 
,5 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  
,2 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   43  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  *4 09
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths................................. 
9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in*............................  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. inll 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 Bin., 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., C..........................  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.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
3 40
1 X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 00
( XXX 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in............................. 
175
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

FOR  SALE.

GOOD  BARGAIN.  1 want a stock of either 

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.

IT'OR  SALE—A  stock  of  drugs,  groceries, 

"  hardware  and  agricultural  implements, 
located at New Troy, Mich.  Will invoice $3,500. 
Loss of health the  reason  for  selling.  Terms 
easy, or will exchange for a good  stock  farm. 
Address Jennings & Smith, Grand Rapids,Mich.
ACRE  FRUIT  FARM  to  exchange  for 
OU 
livery  or  drug  store,  2lA  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 all kinds of fruit.  C. Craw­
ford, Caledonia,  Mich.

DRUG  STORE FOR SALE  in Grand Rapids, 
for  $2,500  or  invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  Address  Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co., 
Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.
RARE  CHANCE  to  purchase  a  first-class 
Livery Stock including  one  of  Cunning­
ham’s best hearses.  Will take as part payment 
good  impro\ed  farm  property.  Will sell  or 
rent barn and grounds.  Tne  best  location in 
the best livery town  in the  State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

m .

work  in  store  if  necessary.  North  of 
Big  Rapids  preferred.  Address,  Box  42,  St. 
Louis, Mich.

WANTED—A  situation  in  a tin shop.  Can 
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.

■ S  PORTER  OR  ASSISTANT  in  the  ware­

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.

A.  H.  F O W L B , 

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades,  Room Mouldings,

Artists’  Materials  !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

37 No.  Ionia  Street, South  of  Monroe.
Special  designs  furnished  and  Estimates 
given for interior decoration  and  all kinds  of 
stained and ornamental Glass work.

TRY  OUR

RAW  HIDE  WHIP !

SELLS  FOR  $1.

OUR  TWO SH ILLING  W HIP IS  SU RE 

TO  SELL.

Do not sell our goods at cost.  We will

DO BETTER BY YOU

Come and see us.  We are here to stay.

O.  ROYS  C *3  OO.,

No. 4 Pearl  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

Broadhead  Worsted  Mills,  Jamestown,  N. 
Y., for some time past, now  has the  super­
vision of  five  states  for  that  institution, 
Michigan,  Illinois,  Missouri,  Kansas  and 
Nebraska.  Aside from the trade visited  by 
him, there are four other men directly under 
his charge, the latest  addition  to  the  forcé 
being Vemor Wooley, of Big Rapids, who is 
making his maiden trip through Illinois, and 
meeting with exceptional success.

STRAY  FA CTS.

Muskegon has an 818,000 brewery in pros­

pect.

Marshall’s capitalists are discussing a door­

knob factory  project.

business at Mancelona.

Jas. Shepard has engaged in the dry goods 

Max Jennings has sold  his  jewelry  busi­

ness at Stanton to L, Corey.

Imlay City citizens have subscribed nearly 

84,000 for a cutter manufactory.

Jas. B. Taylor, of Shelby,  will  engage  in 

the manufacture of brick at Hart.

Cromie  &  Chaffee,  meat  dealers  at  Elk 

Rapids, are succeeded by S. J. Cromie.

Fenn & Stevenson, dealers  in groceries at 

Stanton, are succeeded by Fenn & Earle.

Howard City will have a cigar  factory  in 

operation by May 1, employing five  men.

The Pentwater Furniture Co. is  shipping
carload of goods per day on the average.
The washboard factory  at West Bay City 

turns out  about 2,500 washboards per day.

New York parties will start a manufsctur- 
ing institution at Owosso  that  will  employ 
300 men.

A  fruit  and  vegetable  drying  establish­
ment is to be started at Hudson  by  Messrs. 
Eastman & Brady.

The King & Amphlett block at  Lowell is 
to be  converted  to  hotel  uses,  and  L.  W. 
Davis, of Muir, made  landlord.

The Elmira Gazette says  that  that  place
possesses the best of natural  facilities  for 
the establishment of an iron furnace.”

Chas. E. Bailey has removed his saw  mill 
from Fife Lake to a point six miles north of 
Elk Rapids, between the lake and  the  bay.
Ed. Bennett and D. E. Cooke have formed 
a co-partnership at Cadillac, under  the  firm 
name of Bennett &  Cooke,  and  engaged  in 
the jewelry  business.,

A number of prominent  business  men  of 
Kalamazoo, having been interviewed  by  the 
Telegraph, report the prospects  for  a  good 
trade the coming season as  being  excellent 
At Reed City, S.  E. Carmany has  formed 
a partnership with L. D.  Strickland,  a  Chi­
cago  capitalist,  for 
the  manufacture  of 
wheelbarrows, handles, and  other  kinds  of 
wooden ware.

Richard  H. Hughes, a prominent grocery- 
man  at  Flint,  has  made an assignment to 
John Van Vleet.  He has been  in  business 
for a number of years and his failure  was  a 
great surprise.

A commercial  traveler  tried  to  commit 
suicide at East Saginaw  Tuesday  night  by 
springing in front  of  the  “cannon-ball ex­
press.”  Railroad employes  saved  his life, 
He was subject to epileptic fits and  wanted 
to die before passing through the one  which 
he felt approaching.

S. P. Creasinger, of Maple Rapids, is  col 
leeting in the amounts due to him as  fast as 
possible, and paying his debts at  100  cents 
on the dollar. 
It appears that  he  did  not 
fail from need of assets, but he had  put his 
money into such property that he  could not 
make a circulating medium of it.

SUCCESSFUL MERCHANTS—NO. I.

Years  a General  M erchant..

Wm.  G.  Watson,  of  Coopersville,  for  25 
Wm. G. Watson was bom at  Saratoga, N. 
Y., in 1830,' the fifth of eleven children. 
In 
1831 his parents  removed  to  Edwards,  St, 
Lawrence county, where he lived until 1864. 
He  received  his  education—“what  little I 
got,”  as  he  expressed  it—in  the common 
schools of the place, and in  1856  was  mar­
ried and engaged in  business  at  South  Ed­
wards, carrying a general stock.  He started 
with little capital, and without any previous 
knowledge  of  the  business,  but  a  three 
years’,career at that place found him substan­
tially  better  off  than  when  he begun. 
In 
June, 1859, he removed his stock  and  busi­
ness to Edwards, a better trading  point,  oc­
cupying a  larger  building  and  carrying  a 
heavier line. 
In 1864, he again removed his 
stock and business to Hermon, a still  larger 
town  and  tributary  to  a  better  trading 
community,  where  he  remained  three 
years, selling out in 1866, to remove to Iowa, 
where he spent the winter, coming to Michi­
gan the following spring to engage in general 
trade at Coopersville.  His  brother, James, 
was a silent partner for  four  years,  and  in 
1871 he  and H. W. McBryer  were admitted 
to general partnership, the firm  name  being 
changed to W. G. Watson &  Co. 
In  1873, 
McBryer  retired,  and  the  firm  name  was 
changed to W. G. & J. Watson.  Two  years 
later, Jas. Watson sold his interest  to J.  E. 
Rice and W. E. Watson, and the  firm  name 
was made Watson, Rice & Co.  Three years 
later, J. E. Rice retired, and for one year W.
In 
1878, he  sold the business to I. M. Ferguson 
and W. E. Watson, and took a  needed  res­
pite from business cares,  improving  the  in­
terval to settle up the  accumulated accounts 
of years and erect two two-story brick build­
ings.  Sept. 1,1881, he formed a co-partner­
ship  with  his  son,  D.  O., under the firm 
name of W. G. Watson & Son,  engaging  in 
general trade on an  extensive  scale,  which 
business he still pursues, giving it  the  same 
scrupulous supervision that has characterized 
his life work, leaving the details of  the bus­
iness  to  be  attended  to  by  his  son.  Not 
content with the laurels gained in  the  mer 
cantile busihess, he is about to engage in the 
banking  business  at  Coopersville,  having 
formed a co-partnership  with  another  suc­
cessful  merchant from a  neighboring  town, 
for that purpose.

& W. E. Watson were at  the  helm. 

The  ratings  of  the  mercantile  agencies, 
and the reputation Mr. Watson bears among 
business  men,  are  sufficient proofs that  he 
has attained more than the ordinary  success 
attendant  upon  an  active  business  career, 
One peculiarity of  his  life  is  that  he  has 
never failed, and he has  never embarked  in 
an enterprise  that  did  not  bring  about re­
turns on the right  side  of  the  ledger,  al­
though there has been years when the profits 
were very small.  He attributes  his success 
to two reasons—economy and strict attention 
to business, and  his  advice  to  young  mer­
chants  is  “Get  a  start, and  save what you 
make.”  These  maxims, rigidly adhered to, 
have enabled many men  to  ascend  the  top 
round of the financial ladder,  and  a  proper 
observance of them cannot fail to benefit any 
beginner in any business.

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—Stock light, and market not very 
well supplied.  Baldwins and Russets readily 
command 84@ 84.50, and  extra  fancy  find 
frequent sale at 85.

•now readily commands 81.35 ^  100 flt>s.
81 ^   bu.
25c  and  packed  from  10c  up. 
creamery, 25@30c.

Bailed Hay—Firm at 814 ^   tpn.
Barley—Scarcer and firmer.  Best quality 
Beets—In fair demand at  83 ^   bbl.  and 
Butter—Good  dairy rolls are firm  at 22@ 
Elgin 
Butterine—Active at  18@20c  for  choice. 
Beans—Handpicked are  a trifle  firmer  at 
82.25 and unpicked are not much moving  at 
81.75@82.  The market  is  looking  up  to  a 
considerable degree.

bu.

Dried Apples—Quarters active  at 7@9c 

Barley—Choice 81.30 ^  100  fibs. 
Buckwheat—None moving.  Out  of  mar­
ket**
Cheese—Skim 
Full  cream 
ll@12>£c. 
is active and firm at 14@15c.
Cider—Difficult  to  fill orders.  Ordinary 
stock is entirely exhausted, and sand refined 
has advanced to 87.50 ^  bbl.
Clover Seed—Choice medium weaker at 86 
86.50 ^  bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at 86.75 
Com—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  com  at  from 
It is all of the same quality, 
45@60c '3P bu. 
but the former price  is  for  damp,  and  the 
latter for dry, stock.
lb,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 12X@14c.
Eggs—Jobbing at 15c, and  tolerably  firm 
at that price.  Picklers are picking them up 
at 14c, as they are better at this time  of  the 
year, and are kept more  easily,  than  when 
put down during warm weather.
Green Onions—30@40c ^  dozen  bunches.
Honey—In comb, 18c ^  lb.
Hops—The  Michigan 
crop  is  almost 
Completely exhausted.  Good command 20@ 
22c, and fair 15@18c ^   fib.
Lettuce—Hothouse stock  selling  readily, 
with good demand, at 20c ^   fib.
Maple Sugar—In consequence  of  a  light 
crop,  the  price  is up  lc,  and  is  scarce  at 
that price.  Choice pure  readily  commands 
14c.
Onions—Firmer and  scarcer.  Choice yel­
low command  75@85c  ^   bu.  in  sacks, and 
82.50 ^  bbl.  Bermuda stock brings 82.50 ^  
crate.
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
at 10c ^   ft.
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  ure  sold  in  small  quantities  at 
40c, and Rose at 30@35c.

Peas—Holland 84 ^  bu.
Parsnips—Moving  slowly at 83 ^  bbl and 
81  ^  bu.
Poultry—Chickens and fowls are firm, and 
readily  command  16@17c  and  15@l6c, 
respectively.  There are no ducks and  geese 
in  market, and a  few  turkeys,  which  find 
ready sale at  16c.

and 82 ^9 bbl.

Radishes—50c ^  dozen bunches.
Ruta Bagas—Selling readily at 65c ^  bu., 
Seed Oats—White English Sovereign, 75c.
Seed Potatoes—White  Star,  81;  Selected 
Burbanks, 50c;  Early Ohio, 50c;  Beauty  of 
Hebron, 50c.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at 81.50@ 
81.75 ^  bu.
Vegetable Oysters—50c ^  dozen bunches.
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  75@80e 
for No. 2 Clawson and 95c for No.  1.  Lan- 
chester commands 81@81.05.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

New  Stock  Company

J. J. Adams, of  Bellaire, 

is  organizing a 
stock company with 810,000 capital,  for the 
purpose of engaging in  the  manufacture of 
the  Harriman  patent  adjustable  writing 
table, an ingenious contrivance  that  can be 
attached to any desk or table.  The  stock­
holders are mostly residents  of  Chase, and 
the factory will be located wherever it seems 
most advantageous, to be  determined  here­
after. 
It is the intention to push the manu­
facture and sale of the article as  fast  as its 
merits  warrant.

Spruce butter tubs are the  best;  hemlock 
makes a sweet tub; acids from the oak color 
the butter and injure its  appearance;  white 
ash gives the butter a strong  flavor  if  kept 
long, and  increases  the  liability  to  mold 
maple smells and cracks  badly. 
Soak  all 
tubs four to six days in brine  before  using,

An easy way to detect oleomargarine is to 
cut the “butter” with a smooth-bladed knife, 
Oleomargarine will, when cut, present a per­
fectly smooth surface, whereas  genuine but­
ter when cut with a knife will present num­
erous small holes, from which water will be 
seen  oozing.

Berlin has one drug store  to  every 16,266 
inhabitants;  Breslau  one  to  every  13,000 
and Cologne one to every 11,000.  A Chicago 
writer expresses surprise  at  these  figures, 
for his is a large German  city,  yet it  sup­
ports a drug store  for  every  1,500  inhabi­
tants.

A Canal street  storekeeper  conceived and 
executed  the  plan  of  putting  up  the  sign, 
“ Admission Free,” over the door of his store, 
and his place has  been  crowded  ever  since, 
The average human  being  does  love a free 
show.

The match factory at  Gainesville, Ga., 

now turning out 300 gross  of  matches  per 
day, everything from  Georgia  material  ex­
cept the chemicals,  and  part  of  them  jjm 
Georgia productions.

The best “Orange county  butter”  sold 

New York  markets  comes  from  Hlinois, 
Next to Illinois, Iowa ranks as the best but­
ter  producing  state.  New  York  leads 
cheese-making.

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  10.

W illiam   Logie,  Better  Known  as  “ W ill.”
Wm.  Logie  was  born  at Flambro West, 
Canada, in 1851, and about a year  afterward 
removed with his parents to St. Marys,  Can­
ada, where he obtained his early  education, 
removing to Grand Rapids in 1865  to  enter 
the employ of  the  then  firm  .of  Whitley, 
Rindge & Co. as “general useful.”  He  con­
tinued in this capacity for some  time, devel­
oping into  a first-class salesman, and  gradu­
ally getting an insight of the  wholesale bus­
iness.  So valuable were his  services to  the 
firm that he  was  admitted  to  partnership 
January 1,  1878,  at  which  time  the  firm 
name was L.  J.  Rindge &  Co.,  although af­
terward changed to Rindge,  Bertsch  &  Co. 
A month later, he took the road,  taking  the 
G.  R.  &  I.,  and  the C. & W.  M.,  north, 
the D., G. H. & M., west, and the  Michigan 
Central.  He has since changed his route so 
as to include all available towns on the G. R. 
& 1., from Sturgis to the Straits, the F. & P. 
M., east and west, the L. S,  &  M.  S.,  from 
Otsego to White Pigeon,  and  the  Michigan 
Central, as far south as Eaton  Rapids.  He 
sees his trade every 45 days,  is  always wel­
comed as a friend,  and seldom departs with­
out an order—in fact there are  but two days 
in his six years’ experience on  the  road  in 
which he did not make a sale.  Another  pe­
culiarity of his career as a traveler is that he 
has not been laid up a day by  sickness.  He 
is punctuality  personified,  making  his  ap­
pointments rain or shine,  aud  disregarding 
difficulties that would baffle a less determin­
ed spirit.  He is  an  active  member  of  the 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Associa­
tion, and for three years  past  has  held  the 
position of chairman of the  Railway  Com­
mittee, being highly esteemed by  the  mem­
bers of the Association, and all the  boys  on 
road for that matter, for his courtesy, charity 
and uniform kindness.

On the Easel—J. N. Bradford, W. H.  Downs 

L. M. Mills.

The exportation of oleomargarine  oil  in­
creased last year over ’82  by  66  per  cent., 
while the export of artificial butter declined 
10 per cent.  This would  seem  to  indicate 
two things.  1.  That  the  Dutchmen  are 
using a good deal of oleo to cheapen and en­
rich their butter and so spoiling jat once  our 
foreign market for  butter and butterine.  2. 
That butterine is  principally  consumed  at 
home, Spoiling our home market for  butter, 
Butter is whip-sawed between butterine and 
oleo.

J. L. Handy,  Alton.
J. J. Adams, Bellaire.
H. C. Smith, Chase.
T. Stafford, Ravenna.
S. L. Alberts, Ravenna.
H. M. Bleacher, Chase.
Fred Ramsey, White Cloud.
C. G. Jones, Olive Center.
R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
Jessie McIntyre,  Fremont.
David Co.rnwell, Monterey.
Geo. Thompsett, Edgerton.
Geo. S. Curtis,  Edgerton 
Graham & Sweeney, Hopkins.
W. F. Stuart, Sand Lake.
F. E. Davis, Berlin.
D. E.  McVean, Kalkaska.
Payne & Field,  Englishville.
A. J. Belcher, Manton.
G. J. Shackelton, Lisbon.
Wisler &  Co., Mancelona.
A. Giddings, Sand Lake.
Wm. Parks,  Alpine.
W. E. Watson, Mancelona.
A. W. Stickles, Cadillac.
S. Biteley, Pierson.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
J. Marlatt, Berlin.
I.  Glupker, Zutpheu P. O.
S. S. Holcomb, Coral.
Walter H. Struik, Forest Grove.
G. Bron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Dr. S. J., of C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
Waite Bros., Huasonville.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
B. MeNeal, Byron Center.
E. L. Van Ostrand, Allegan.
0. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
Dr. J. R. Hathaway, Howard City.
J. B. Quick, Howard City.
R. B. McCgllock, Berlin.
Blakely Bros., Fife Lake.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
Dr. J. Graves,  Wayland.
Dibble Bros.,  Bumip’s Comers.
A. Norris & Son, Casnovia.
C. E. Clark, Lowell.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
T. W. Provin, Cedar  Springs.
Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
N. G. Burtt, Cross Village.
1. J. Quick & Co.,  Allendale.
S. N. Wright, Big Springs.
John Smith,  Ada.
C. E. Blakely, Coopersville.
Mrs. A.  Carpenter, Ludington.
C. F. & R. C. Dewey, Cedar Springs. 
Mrs. C. F. Bosworth, Lowell.
Mrs. M. Hiller, Lowell.
Mrs. Frank  Torrent, Chase.
Mrs. S. A. Colby, Rockford.
Mrs. Mattie Sprague, Grand Haven.
Mrs. N. P. Haskins, Middleville.
Mrs. C. Slade,  Wayland.
Mrs. M. B. Schryer, Manton.
E. Smith & Co., Big Rapids.
Mrs. F. E.  Hoyt, Petoskey.
H. Minderhout,  Hanley.
W. W. Mokema, Graafschaps.
F. Den Uyl, Hollard.
Green & Green, Byron Center.
Patou & Andrus, Shelby.
C. Cole, Ada.
S. Frost, McBrides.
G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.
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Bruos & ílbebicines

The  Discovery  of Peruvian  Bark.
Henry M. Lyman in the Atlantic Monthly.

Two hundred and fifty years ago  the city 
of  Lima  was  the  splendid  capital  of  the 
Spanish empire in South America.  Full of 
convents  and 
churches,—monuments  of 
the age of faith,—it was the  principal  office 
of  the  Holy  Inquisition,  the  seat  of  the 
Archbishop  of Peru, and  the  home of  the 
Spanish viceroy, whose authority was recog­
nized from  Patagonia  to  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama.  Here were the costly buildings of 
the oldest university  in  America,  founded 
in 1576.  From  the  ranges  of 
the Andes 
that towered above each  other  behind  the 
city, a continual  procession  of  slaves  and 
beasts of burden brought to the royal  treas­
ury silver and gold from the mines of Potosi 
and of Pasco.  Seven miles across the  plain, 
upon the shore of  the  great  Pacific Ocean, 
lay the seaport town of Callao, whence  sail­
ed the galleons,  laden with silver  and gold 
and precious stones, bound to Acapulco  and 
Manilla and the Spice  Islands  beyond  the 
western sea;  bringing back  in  return  the 
silks, teas, and costly wares of India; China, 
and Japan.  Within  the  narrow  limits  of 
the capital was  concentrated an  amount of 
wealth at that time unsurpassed  by  any  of 
the royal cities of Europe. It is recorded that 
in the year 1681  the  viceroy  rode  through 
the streets over a pavement  of  solid  silver 
ingots, on a horse whose  mane  was  strung 
with pearls and whose feet were  shod with 
gold.  To this center  of  luxury  came  the 
Spanish grandees who had found favor with 
their sovereign, for the  avowed  purpose of 
enriching themselves as rapidly as  possible.
It was a ruthless system of legalized robbery 
and oppression, coining the life-blood of  the 
enslaved  people  into  glittering  pieces  of 
eight and shining doubloons, with which, so 
soon as his  avaricious  hunger  was  some­
what  appeased, 
the  adventurer  hurried 
home te Europe, only to make room  for  an­
other tyrant,  more  eager,  more  rapacious, 
and less merciful than the first.

In the year 1638, the Count of Chinchon held 
his court in the vice-regal  palace  beside  the 
river Rimac.  The countess  was  grievously 
sick, prostrated by one of  the miserable cal- 
enturas of  the  country,—an  ague,  which 
would not yield either  to  the  ministrations 
of the physicians, or to the  prayers  of  the 
archbishop and all his clergy. 
It was  a ser­
ious matter, for the noble lady  had  lost all 
her bright color, and was visibly  wasting to 
a  mere  shadow  of  her former  self.  The 
court doctors,  the  surgeon-general  of  the 
army, and the chief surgeons from the ships 
of war at Callao  had  been  summoned  in 
frequent  consultation,  no  doubt;  but the 
countess was  none the better.  Some of the 
older residents may have  thought  that  the 
case  was  not  without  hope,  for 
it  was 
whispered abroad  that  there  were  native 
remedies, sometimes in use among the Indian 
slaves, by  such  which distempers  might  be 
healed.  But the situation was delicate. Span 
ish  etiquette  was  exceedingly  punctilious, 
and when the court doctors and the surgeons 
from the army and navy  had pronounced an 
opinion,  who  might  gainsay 
their  doc 
trine?

In the midst  of  this  dilemma  the  chief 
magistrate of the province of Loxa made his 
appearance at court.  Eight years  before he 
had himself wrestled with this same  malig­
nant ague, and had been healed  by  the ad 
minstration of  a  bitter  powder,  procured 
from the  Indians  who  dwelt  among  the 
mountains in his province. The pious monks 
of the convent at Loxa, moreover, had  long 
possessed the secret of this  remedy,  having 
recorded its virtues as far back as  the  year 
1600, when one of  the  brethren  had  been 
cured at the hands  of  an  Indian  disciple 
Armed with this experience, the  corregidor 
went straight to  the  viceroy,  and  urged 
trial of the remedy which he had used  with 
such advantage.  Of  course  this  raised 
commotion at once.  Out  of  the  past  we 
seem to hear voices arguing and  protesting. 
“Poisonous!  Why, have  I  not  swallowed 
whole handfuls of the stuff, and  do  I  look 
like a man who has made  the  acquaintance 
of poison?  Is there not a sufficient  number 
of slaves, upon any one of  whom  the  drug 
can be tried at  a  moment’s  notice?  Have 
not the  holy fathers at Loxa  pronounced in 
favor of the remedy?  Yea, verily,  has  not 
this very package been duly blessed  by the 
father superior himself, before I came  from 
home?”  Such reasoning  overcame  all op­
position, at last.  The countess received the 
bitter draught and was  healed. 
It  is  not 
difficult to imagine the triumph of the  man 
of laws;  let us draw a veil  of  decent  sym­
pathy over the features  of  the  fashionable 
physicians of Lima, leaving them in shadow- 
land to justify their ignorance and their dis­
comfiture.  No doubt they were equal to the 
occasion.

In due course of time, the Count of  Chin­
chon  had  filled  his  coffers,  and  another 
grandee reigned in his stead.  Returning to 
his estates in  Spain,  the  countess  carried 
with her  the  strangly  bitter  powder  that 
had made her whole.  Whenever  any  one 
of her friends was prostrated with the calen- 
tura, she  would bring forth  her store,  and 
would recite the narrative of her  wonderful 
cure.  The pious Jesuit  fathers,  also,  sent 
specimens of the medicine to the  general of 
their order, by whom it was properly  inves­
tigated and accredited;  so  that  during  the 
lifetime of the next generation the substance 
became 
the 
•‘Jesuits’  powder.”  In  aristocratic  eircles 
it was commonly called the  “countess’ pow­
der;” and after the year 1670, when Cardinal 
Lugo sanctioned its use in the  treatment of 
malarial fevers at Rome, it  was  considered 
the proper thing among all true  believers to

tolerably  well  known  as 

speak  of it  as  the  “cardinal’s  powder.” 
Among the learned, however, it was  known 
as the Pulvis febrifugus orbis Americani, 
or the  Pulvis  peruvianus, or  the  Cortex 
peruvianus, as it is called  in  a  controver­
sial pamphlet of the year 1663, of which the 
Latin title page may be translated:  The re­
habilitation of Peruvian bark,  or  the de­
fense of China, against  the  belchings  of 
John  Jacob  Chifflet  and  the  groans  of 
Vopiscus  Fortunatus  Plemp,  eminent 
physicians.  For the drug was not  univer­
sally received  as  the  heaven-sent  blessing 
which its enthusastic friends would  have it 
appear.  Some of the most  learned  profes­
sors in the medical schools of  Italy  decried 
its use,  probably  because  of  the  variable 
quality of the barks  that  were  sent *from 
Peru, and the crude methods of  preparation 
then in vogue.  At  any  rate  it  is  certain 
that the reputation of the drug did not make 
great  headway,  and  the  remedy  seemed 
likely to fall  into disrepute. 
In  London  it 
had encountered  great  opposition,  for  the 
reason that it had been introduced to notice, 
not by the leaders of  medical  opinion,  but 
by a practitioner of inferior rank, named Tu­
dor or Talbot.  Originally an  apothecary in 
Cambridge, this man had learned  the  value 
of the  newly  discovered  “Jesuits’  bark,” 
and had devised  an  improved  method  for 
the exhibition of its  remedial  virtues.  He 
removed  to  London  about  the  year  1670, 
and was soon  embroiled  with  the  leading 
physicians of that city. 
In  those  days  the 
privileges of the College of Physicians were 
so  jealously  guarded  that  an  apothecary 
who treated fevers with more  success  than 
the regularly  anointed  doctors was  looked 
upon as  a  wild  beast, 
to  be  slaughtered 
without  mercy.  Evelyn  records  in  his 
diary a conversation  with  the  Marquis of 
Normanby  “concerning 
the  Quinquina 
which the physicians'would not give to  the 
King  (Charles II.),  at  a  time  when  in  a 
dangerous ague it was  the  only  thing  that 
could cure him  (out of envy  because  it had 
been brought into vogue by  Mr.  Tudor, an 
apothecary)  till* Dr.  Short,  to  whom  the 
King sent to know his opinion of it  private­
ly, he being reputed a Papist  (but who  was 
in truth a very honest  good Christian)  sent 
word to the King that it was the only  thing 
which could save his life, and then the King 
injoin’d his physicians to  give  it  to  him, 
which they did, and  he  recover’d.  Being 
asked by this Lord why they would not pre­
scribe it, Dr. Lower said it would spoil their 
practice, or some  such  expression,  and at 
last confessed that it was a remedy  fit only 
for Kings.”  According to Stille,  the  jeal­
ousy excited by the success of the  despised 
apothecary was so great that he was obliged 
to seek the protection of the court, and the 
king actually  issued a mandate to  the  Col­
lege, forbidding them to molest  or  disturb 
him in his practice.”  But the  diarist  com­
memorates another, occasion when the reme­
dy was  administered  without  avail.  On 
Monday, February  2,  1865,  King  Charles 
had been surprised in his bed-chamber  with 
an  apoplectic  fit.”  He  was  immediately 
bled  by  his  attending  physician. 
“This 
rescu’d his Majesty for  the  instant, but  it 
was only a short reprieve..........On  Thurs­
day hopes of recovery were signified  in the 
publiq Gazette, but that  day,  about  noone, 
the physitians thought him feaverish.  This 
they seemed glad of,  as  being  more  easily 
allay’d and methodically dealt with than his 
former  fits;  so  they  prescribed  the  fam­
ous Jesuits powder:  but it made him worse, 
and some very able  doctors who were  pres­
ent did not think it a fever, but the effect of 
his frequent bleeding and  other  sharp oper­
ations us’d by them about his head,  so  that 
probably the  powder might stop the circula­
tion, and renew his former fits,  which  now 
made  him  very  weak.  Thus  he  passed 
Thursday night with greate difficulty,  when 
complaining of  a  paine  in  his  side,  they 
drew 12 ounces more of  blood  from  him; 
this was by 6 in the morning on Friday, and 
it gave him reliefe, but it did  not  continue, 
for being now in much  paine,  and  struggl­
ing for breath, he lay dozing, and after some 
conflicts, the physitians despairing  of  him 
he gave up  the ghost at half an houre  after 
eleven in the morning, being 6 Feb. 1865.”

But before this sad conclusion,  Dr.  Tal­
bot had achieved another splendid  triumph 
—this time, in  France.  Louis  the  Four­
teenth had been stricken down, in  the  year 
1679, by an incorrigible ague. 
In  vain the 
doctors of the court had  essayed  to  break 
the fever;  it would not down  at  their  bid­
ding.  When every one was in despair, there 
came an  Englishman,  from  London,  who 
said that he had that in a little bottle  which 
would cure his most Christian majesty. 
It 
was  the  apothecary  Talbot,  whose  fame 
secured for him admission to  the  chamber 
of the king, where he  obtained  permission 
to administer  the secret remedy  which  he 
he carried.  His  majesty  drank  and  was 
cured.

What was the medicine which had accom­
plished such a marvel?  It was liquid, fiery, 
dark, and very bitter.  More  than  this  no 
one could tell.  The curiosity  of  the  king 
was thoroughly roused.  Dr.  Talbot  shrug­
ged  his  shoulders,  and  hinted  that  the 
knowledge might  be  had  for  a  sufficient 
compensation.  After considerable haggling 
the secret was  purchased  for  the  sum  of 
forty-eight thousand livres, and  an  annuity 
of two thousand francs,  a  large  remunera­
tion when we  take  into  consideration  the 
value of money  at  that  time  as  compared 
with the present.  The  title  of  Chevalier 
was also conferred upon the doctor,  and his 
recipe was given to the  world. 
It  was an 
alcoholic or  vinous 
tincture  of  Peruvian 
bark.  An official description  of  the  medi­
cine was published by order of the king, and 
La Fontaine composed a poem  in  honor of

the event.  Peruvian bark  was for  a  time 
more fashionable in Paris than it  had  ever 
been at Madrid,  and its  properties  became 
gradually  known  throughout  the  greater 
part  of  Europe.  Many  years,  however, 
seem to have elapsed  before  its  value was 
generally acknowledged, for in the year 1740 
another conspicuous example of  the  ignor­
ance or timidity  of  the  medical  profession 
regarding  the use of the bark was  present­
ed in the case of a most  illustrious  person­
age.  Frederick the Great, riding hither and 
thither, from one end of his kingdom to  the 
other, during the months of a rainy summer, 
was suddenly seized with a fever. 
It prov­
ed to be an  “aguish,  feverish distemper,” a 
“quartan ague,  it  seems;  occasionally  very 
bad; but Frederick struggles with it; will not 
be cheated of  any  of  his  purposes  by it. 
We accordingly find him writing, September 
6th, to his friend Yoltaire, whom he  had in­
tended to visit: —

My d ea r V oltaire,—In spite of myself,
I have to yield to the quartan  fever,  which 
is  more  tenacious  than  a  Jansenist;  and 
whatever desire I had of going  to  Antwerp 
and Brussels, I find myself not  in  a  condi­
tion  to  undertake  such  a  journey  without 
risk.  1 would ask of you, then, if the  road 
from Brussels to Cleve  would  not  to  you 
seem  too long for a meeting; it is  the  one 
means  of  seeing  you  which  remains  to
m e.........Let us deceive the fever,  my dear
Yoltaire, and let me at least have the  pleas­
ure of embracing  you.”

Whereupon Yoltaire “at once  decided on 
complying... .Arrives, sure enough, Sunday 
night  (September  11th);  old  Schloss,  of 
Moyland, six miles from  Cleve;  moonlight,
I find,—the harvest moon.”

“I was led into his majesty’s  apartment,” 
“Nothing  but  four, bare 
writes Yoltaire. 
walls there.  By the  light of  the  candle,  I 
perceived, in a  closet,  a  little  truckle-bed, 
two feet and a half  broad,  on which  lay a 
little man muffled up in a dressing  gown of 
coarse blue duffel: this was the king, sweat-* 
ing and shivering under a  wretched  blank­
et there, in a violent fit of  fever. 
I  made 
my reverence, and began  the  acquaintance 
by feeling his pulse, as if  I  had  been  his 
chief physician.  The  fit  over,  he  dressed 
himself, and took his place at  table,  (where 
we)  discussed, naturally in a profound man­
ner, the Immortality of  the  Soul,  Liberty, 
Fate, the Androgynes  of  Plato,  and  other 
small topics of that nature.”

impatiently 

find  Frederick 

Some talk there may  have  been  also  of 
the  experience  of  the  Grand  Monarque 
with the ague,  and  of  the  manner  of  his 
cure;  but if so, nothing came of it then,  for 
we 
shaking 
through the month  of  September  and  far 
along into October, begging for “quinquina,” 
and bitterly reviling his physicians  because 
they  would  neither  give  him the  drug  of 
which  he  had  heard, nor  cure him of  the 
fever,  having  nothing better than Pyrmont 
water  to  offer for  his rejief.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

ACIDS.

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quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts 
write them for quotations:
Advanced—Balsam Fir; Oil Almonds, bitter; 
Opium.
Declined—Morphia,  Powdered;  Acid, Citric; 
Borax; Gum Arabic;  Oil, Cod Liver, best;  Bis­
muth, sub nitrate.
Acetic,  No. 8...........................$  fl)  9  ©  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  @  35
Carbi lie............................................  
35
Citric............................................... 
55
 
Muriatic 18 deg............................... 
3  @  5
11  @  12
Nitric 36 deg................ 
 
15
Oxalic.......................... 
14 
 
3  ©   4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic............................ 
15  ©  17
Carbonate................................$  ft  16  ©  20
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
15
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
6  @  7
7  ©  8
Aqua 18 deg or 4f........... ................ 
Copaiba............................................ 
©  50
F ir ............................................ 
50
Peru................................................... 
2 00
60
Tolu................................................... 

AMMONIA.

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BABKS.

 

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)__ v.... 
12
18
Cinchona,  yellow..........................  
Elm,  select.......................................  
15
13
Elm, ground, pure................ 
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
15
Sassafras, of root............................ 
10
12
Wild Cherry, select......................... 
Bayberry  powdered....................... 
20
18
Hemlock powdered......................... 
W ahoo.............................................. 
30
Soap  ground....................................  
12
@1 00
Cubeb, prime  (Powd f l  20)............ 
Juniper............................................. 
6  @  7
Prickly Ash.....................................1 GO  @1 11

BERRIES,

EXTRACTS.

27
3734
9
12
13
15
14

GUMS.

FLOWERS.

10  © 11
25
25
60® 75
18
50
28® 30
60
60
50
40
35
30
30
23©  25
13
35®  40
80
90©1 00
35
20
110
40

Licorice (10 and 25 fl> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 Jb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)...............
Lgowood, 34s 
do 
...............
Logwood, 34s 
...............
do 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
FluidJExtracts—25 <gl cent, off list.
Arnica...............................................
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, extra  select.......................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic, c3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35o)...
Benzoin__________  
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu, is (34 14c, 148 16c)............ 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Gafbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
Mastic................................................ 
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd f  5.50). 
Shellac, Campbell' 
Shellac,  English.
Shellac, native.
33
Shellac bleached.......................... 
Tragacanth......................................  30  @1 10
Hoarhound.......................................................26
Lobelia............................. 
25
Peppermint.................  
25
Rue.......................... :........................................ 40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................ 35
Tanzy................................................................ 25
Thym e......................................................... 
30
Wormwood.......................................................25
6 40 
Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
20
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Citrate..............................................
Phosphate........................................

HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

IRON.

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©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
2 00 80
1 25 
50
2  002 85 
9 75
65
5 00 
8 0060
3 75 ©  122 25
4 50 
6  00 @1 20
1 002 50
1 90
3 50

2 50 
©  67
9 75

Thus the weeks  dragged  wearily  on, the 
king growing “lean and broken  down,  giv­
ing up court life at Berlin, and taking refuge 
in his country-seat at Reinsberg,  when, says 
Carlyle, one Tuesday forenoon,  October  25, 
1740, express arrives, “direct  from  Vienna 
five days ago; finds Friedrich  under eclipse, 
hidden in the interior,  laboring  under  his 
ague-fit:  question  rises,  Shall  the  express 
be introduced, or be held back?  The  news 
he brings is huge, unexpected, transcendent, 
and may agitate the sick king.  Six or seven 
heads go wagging on this  point  They de­
cide,  ‘Better wait I’

They wait, accordingly;  and  then,  after 
about an hour,  the  trembling-fit  over,  and 
Fredersdorff  having  cautiously  preluded a 
little, and prepared the  way,  the  dispatch 
is delivered.”  The Emperor of Austria was 
dead.  “Friedrich kept silence;  showed  no 
sign how transfixed he was to hear such tid­
ings ; which,  he  foresaw,  would  have  im­
measurable consequences in the world.”  He 
arose  from  his  bed,  dressed  himself,  and 
sent at once for the general of the army and 
for the chief minister of  state.  No  more 
trifling with Pyrmont water  now,  but  im­
mediate prescription by the king  himself of 
Peruvian bark in good  round  doses,  which 
were taken with such effect  that  the  ague 
was driven out “like a  mere  hiccup,—quite 
gone in the course of  next  week;  and  we 
hear  no  more  of  that  importunate  annoy­
ance” during the remainder  of  Frederick’s 
life.

Still, in spite of all these brilliant triumphs, 
the general introduction  of  Peruvian  bark 
progressed but slowly.  The frightful  wars 
which sundered  the  different  nations  and 
the backward state of  chemistry  and  phar­
macy were, no doubt,  the  principal  causes 
of this delay.  The  extreme  bitterness and 
bulkiness  of  the  dose  as  formerly  given 
must also have constituted no inconsiderable 
barrier to the general recognition of the  vir­
tues of the drug. 
It  was  not  before  the 
year  1820  that  final  suecess  crowned  the 
effort to separate its alkaloids from the inert 
constituents of the bark. 
I  well  remember 
the  curious  interest  with  which,  when  a 
very small boy, I  watched the  good  family 
physician as  he  prepared  at  my  mother’s 
bedside her  first  dose  of  the "new  French 
medicine, quinine. 
It was an ordinary  acid 
solution, illuminating the water into  which 
it was dropped with a most  beautiful  tinge 
of  fluorescent  blue,—but  oh,  how  bitter I 
Even after this great pharmaceutical victory, 
ancient prejudices lingered long.  But these 
are now for the most part traditions  of  the 
past,  and, after a trial of  two  hundred  and 
fifty years, we have exalted the once-despis­
ed pulvis ignotus into a panacea  for almost 
every ill to which flesh is heir,—a great  and 
durable triumph, slowly but surely won.

Calkins  Bros,  can  supply  dealers  with 

fishing tackle at bottom  prices.

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12
Sage, Italian, bulk (14s & 14s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi..........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

LIQUORS.

 

OILS.

1 75

do 
do 

MAGNESIA.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye....................1 75
Whisky, other brands......................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom......................................... 1 35
Gin,  Holland......................................... 2 00
Brandy........................ 
Catawba  Wines.................................... 1 25
Port Wines.............................................1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—
Calcined............................................
Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz...........................................
Bergamont........................................
Croton................................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W..............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood............. .....................
Juniper berries............. i ................
Lavender flowers- French.............
Lqvender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal............................... :...
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French (Flowers f5)...
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........
Sassafras...........................................
Tansy...............................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
Wintergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure f6.50).......
Savin.................................................
Wormseed........................................
Cod Liver, filtered................ gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
Salad.................................................   65
Rose,  Ihmsen’s.......................oz
Bicromate.................................3$ lb
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Pru8Siate yellow..........................
Alkanet......................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in )4s and 34s__
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German white, peeled
Elecampane, powdered................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.....................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)........
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached........ .
Golden Seal (Powd 40o)...............
Hellebore, white, powdered.......
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................
Jalap, powdered..........................
Licorice,  select (Powd 1234).......
Licorice, extra select..................
Pink, true......................................

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

.......

Ehei, choice cut  cubes.. 
Rhei, choice cut fingers.
Serpentaria........
Seneka........ .
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras.

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

seeds.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in 3» packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna..............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English................
Fennel............................................

Mustard, white{ Black 10c)__
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglish............................. 
Worm,  Levant................................. 

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
..... 
do 
Nassau 
2 00
........ 
Velvet Extra do 
1 10
Extra Yellow do 
85
........ 
Grass 
do 
65
........ 
Hard head, for slate use................  
75
Yellow Reef,  do 
140

do 
do 
do 
do 
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do 
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.27) $  gal__  
2 35
1 50
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
27
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
Annatto 1 B> rolls............................ 
30
Blue  Soluble....................................  
50
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
2 75
2 25
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Alum.........................................  B>  234©  33-
3  ©  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto, prime...............................  
32
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
434©  5
e, p<
6  ©
Arsenic, white, powdered.
Balm Gilead  Bun
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
2 25
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
175
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)....................... 
45
734©  9
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)............. ■ 
12
2 50
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
18
20
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ... 
18
Carmine,  N o.40 ...............................  
4 00
Cassia  B uds..............................  
14
Calomel.  American................ 
70
 
Castor  Oil.........................................  1734©  39
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
12
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
8
Chalk, white lump................... 
2
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1  60
Colocynth  apples............................ 
60
1 60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 7#
cryst... 
Chloral do 
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
1 90
Chloral do 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform..................................... 1 15  @1 20
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............  60  @  65
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   60  ©  65
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  ©  22
30
Cochineal......................................... 
Cocoa  Butter..................................  
45
Copperas (by bbl  lc)....................... 
2
Corrosi ve Sublimate....................... 
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  ©  40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 B) box.. 
15
Creasote............................................  
50
Cudbear, prime...............................  
24
23
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
12
Dextrine........................................... 
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
50
45
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
Ether Squibb’s................................. 
110
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
8
Epsom Salts.......................... ........... 
234©  3
50
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
Ether, sulphuric, II. S.  P ............... 
69
14
Flake white...................................... 
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
35
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ........................  
90
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  ©  70
Glassware, flint, 65 off,hy box 55 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue, white.......................................  17  @  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   23  ©  26
Hops  348 and 34s.............................. 
25®  40
35
oz................................. 
Iodoform 
Indigo...............................................   85  @1 00
Bisect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32  ©  34
Iodine,  resublimed........................  
2 30
Isinglass,  American....................... 
1 50
9
Japonica........................................... 
London  Purple...............................  10  @  15
15
Lead, acetate.................................... 
9
Lime, chloride, (34s 2s 10c & 34s 11c) 
Lupuline........................................... 
1 00
Lycopodium........... ........................  
35
Mace 
60
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  1234©  13
Manna, S.  F...................................... 
1 35
Mercury............................................  
50
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  3 40@3 65
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........  
Moss, Iceland. .. .. ........................$  
ft 10
Moss,  Irish.......................................  
12
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........  
18
20
Nutgalls.......................... 
 
75
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
10
Ointment. Mercurial, 34d............... 
40
Paris Green.......................... t .........   1634©  24
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
Pepsin...,........................................... 
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia............................................... 
6  ©  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  1 30@I 35
Quinine, other brands....................1 30  @1  35
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
28
Strychnia, cry st............................... 
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.........................  79  @ 82
Red Precipitate.......................... ^ 
ft 80
40
Saffron, American..........................  
©  2
Sal  Glauber.....................................  
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
33
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal  Soda............................................ 
2  ©  21
Salicin...............................................  
2 50
Santonin.................................. 
6  75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch........ . 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
4
25
Spermaceti.......................................  
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
4)4©  5
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
17
......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
9
Soap, 
do  do 
......................... 
11
Soap,  Mazzini..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ...............................   26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ...............................   28  @  32
30
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
Sulphur, flour...................................  3)4©  4
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
3
Tartar Emetic..................................  
65
Tar, N. C. Pine, 34 gal. cans  $  doz 
2 70
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
140
85
Tar, 
pints in tin.............  
Turpentine,  Venice.................. $  
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
 
60
Linseed, pure raw...............................   57 
63
Linseed, hoiled....................................  '60 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   90 
95
Spirits Turpentine...............................    39 
45

do 
do 

. . . .  

OILS.

 

 

 

1 55®1 60

VARNISHES.

 

Bbl

No. 1 Turp  Coach..................................1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp...........................................1 60®1 70
Coach  Body,...........................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................ 1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar......................... 
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp. 
70®  75 
Fa in ts.
Lb
9
10
10
11
2© 3
2® 3
2© 3
234© 3
234© 3 
13@16 
55©57
16@17
634 
634 @70 
©90 
1 10 
1 40

23
Boralumine, White  bulk").......
5 lbs | .......
13
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  340 ff.
13 ©  14
5 50s. J ......
20
Boralumine  “ 
35
Red Venetian............................ 1*
20 Oohre, yellow Marseilles........ 134
1 10 Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.......... 134
3734 Putty, commercial_____‘___ 234
12
Putty, strictly pure..................
234
15
Vermilion,prime American.. 
35
Vermilion,  English..................
1  00 ®1 50 Green, Peninsular....................
110 ©1 20 
Lead, red strictly  pure............
2 00 
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
2 25 
Whiting, white Spanish.......  .
60 
Whiting,  Gilders ....................
65 
White, Paris American............
Whiting, Paris English cliff...
40

18
10
25
20

* 

13
5  © 6
□434® 5
11  ® 12
2 U0
2 26
20
12
15
334® 4
4  © 434
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5  © □534
8
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LATEST

JOHN

CAULFIELD

Wholesale

85,87  and  89  Canal  Street

-HEADQUARTERS  FOR-

CIm , Jellies, etc.

M aple  S yrup,,
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

SUG-AHS.
Cut Loaf Cubes............................... 
.8%
Powdered  Standard.......   ....................--3%
Granulated  Standard................................7%
Granulated, Fine  Grain............................ 7%
Standard  Confectioners’  A.................... 7%
Standard  A .........................................
Extra White C..................................6%@6%
Extra Bright C.................................
Extra  C...........................................6^@ 6&
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  best 
dealers in the country.
3 tt) Job Bacon’s  Tomatoes, Standard. .1  05
3 lb Smith & Wicks’ Tomatoes.............
2 ft) Sweet  Com, Erie............................ 1  20
2 ft) Sweet  Corn, Richland...................1  05
2 ft)  Com................................................... 75
2 ft) Com, F. & D.’s................................
2 lb Peas, Extra  Early.........................   75
2 ft) Peas, Platts’ Erie......................
2 lb Peas, Equity Brand,  Extra........... 1  25
2 ft> Peas, Ex. F. Y. Canning  Co..........
2 ft) Lima  Beans, Standard...................  90
2 ft) Lima  Beans, Extra........................ 1  00
2 ft) String Beans, Shawnee,white wax.  90
3 lb Climax Pumpkin, Standard........... 1  20
2 ft) Succotash,  Standard.....................  90
2 ft) Succotash,  Yarmouth.....................1  48
3 ft) Boston Baked Beans.....................,1  00
Apples, Gallons,  Erie............................3  00
Apples, Gallons, Extra  Erie County.. .3  00
3 lb Peaches,  Standard..........................1  75
3 ft) Peaches, All  Yellow......................2  00
3 ib Erie Pie  Peaches............................
2 ft) Blackberries,  Madison...................
2 ib Blueberries, Detroit..............................
2 ft) Red Cherries,  Standard................. 
.
2 Ib Green  Gages, Extra........................
2 ft) Egg  Plums, Extra...  ...................
2 ft) Strawberries,  Extra........................
3 ft> Bartlett Pears, Echert’s Standard. .1  25
1 lb Salmon, Standard.................1  45@1  55
1 ib Lobsters, Standard..........................i  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  The  Tradesm an  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.

NOVEL  SWINDLE.

Time  the  Perpetrator  Was 
From the Petoskey Democrat.

Gathered  In.

A man representing himself to be an agent 
for Butterick’s  patterns, was  in  town  last 
Saturday and  swindled  Mrs. Passage,  Mrs. 
Butler and the Misses Boynton out of eleven 
dollars each.  Since then letters  have  been 
received by the parties from  Grand  Rapids 
stating that he could not forward goods until 
the 18tli and asking them to be patient.  On 
the outside of  each  envelope  was  written, 
“Sent h^re under  cover  to  be  forwarded.” 
The same game has  been  played  upon  un­
suspecting  dressmakers in other portions  of 
the State,  probably  by  the  same  human 
being, and it is time he was  gathered  in.

Another Field of Operation.

From the Hart Argus.

A very neat] swindle, although on rather a 
small scale, was perpetrated on  one  of  our 
merchants last week.  A party representing 
himself to be the general  agent for  Butter­
ick’s patterns at Toledo,  called  on  different 
parties in town and proposed to  send a case 
containing  patterns  worth  $250, with  an 
agency, and  to  allow  the  party  fifty  per 
cent, for selling;  the only money to be  paid 
being $3 for advertising matter.  Mr.  W. E. 
Thorp, who has had the agency  for  Butter­
ick’s patterns for Hart, upon hearing of  the 
transaction, suspecting  that  the  party  was 
not all right, wrote the general  agent at  De­
troit and  received  a  telegram  as  follows: 
“He is a  swindler.  Arrest him 1”  But, alas, 
it was  too  late.  The bird  had  flown.

Patents Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.
Elizabeth Bateson, Detroit, ash sifter.
A. S. Croxton (deceased), Cedar  Springs, 

stump extractor.

Benjamin Field,  Dinley,  balanced  steam 

E. H. Hague, Jackson, paint.
Jacob Howell, Jackson, vehicle spring.
Joseph E. Hunt, Jackson,  locomotive  ash 

J. Krehbiel, Detroit, capsule machine  and 

capsule drying rack.

P. Kutsche, Grand Rapids,  dust  arrester.
M. A. Ladd, Springwells, attachments  for 

J. G. Livingston, Bowne, hay and grain el­

C. E. Mask, Flint, car coupling.
P. H. McWilliams, Detroit, shifting truck.
Arilla D. Ordway, Reed  City  sash fasten­

H. E.  Stover, St. Louis, shade fixture.
J. J. Travis, Carson City, carriage top fas­

engine.

pan.

anvils.

evator.

er.

tener.

D ull  Times.

From the Philadelphia Call.

Canadian Hotel Keeper—I  don’t see  how 
we are going  to  get  along.  The  house  is 
about empty, yet it is  impossible  to  reduce 
expenses.  Look over the American  papers 
and see what  the news is.

Hotel  Clerk—I  have  looked  over them 
There has not been a big defalcation  in  the 
United States for two weeks.

Canadian  Hotel  Keeper—My  stars!  we 
I never knew  the  times  to 

will be ruined. 
be so dull!

A M ERCA N TILE  JO U RN A L, PU B L ISH ED   EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BBO., P r o p r i e t o r s .

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

Seco-nd-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  23,  1884.

TRADE  FICTIONS.

Rests.

Where  the  Blame  for Counterfeit  Brands 
The fictions of trade  are  numerous,  and 
by no means the least singular in its charac­
teristics.  Thousands  upon  thousands  of 
articles are dealt in and pass current  among 
dealers, who thus sanction the lie they  bear 
upon their face, although able to  controvert 
its every statement  The  dealer  contracts 
with his local packer for Chicago hams  and 
lard, and  straightway  they  are  laid at  his 
door, labeled  Chicago,  though  packed  and 
, cured  in  some  suburb  of  his  own  city; 
French mustard, Crosse & Blackwell pickles, 
aud genuine  Worcestershire  sauce  are  put 
up in every city in the  union;  French  sar­
dines are packed in  Maine;  Russian  caviar 
is prepared in large  quantities  in Salem, N.
J .;  and Holland herring  are  no  longer ex­
clusively derived from the  land of  Scheldt; 
sardelles may be put  up  anywhere,  and re­
semble nothing else than old fish  bait  done 
over.  The list is susceptible  of continuance 
almost to infinity, as there is  not an  article 
which achieves popularity, or a brand which 
is not seized upon by the trade and  counter­
feited, so as to profit by the high  reputation 
the genuine  article  may  have  won.  The 
protest  against  this  petty  form  of  fraud 
should come from the  consumer,  he  being 
the real sufferer, being made  to  pay for  an 
imitation brand the full  price  at  which the 
genuine article is sold; while the  difference 
in quality and consequently in value is quite 
marked, as that between a genuine coin and 
the base metal of its counterfeit.  There are 
several reasons why the  consumer does  not 
avail himself of his prerogative  of  protest- 
one of which is that he does not  suspect the 
trick until it is too late to  return  the goods, 
and the pettiness of his  purchase  would in­
vest  a  complaint  with  an  appearance  of 
meanness, and rather than  to  appear  in so 
unpleasant a light  he  suffers  the  injustice 
and changes his  grocer.  The  manufacturer 
turns out the  goods  frequently  to  actual 
order, and the dealer who orders  them does 
so in deference  to the  requirements  of  his 
trade;  as the retailer will not pay  the  price 
demanded for the genuine  article  while  he 
can obtain the spurious at a figure  so  much 
smaller to swell his profits.

The  American  Corn  Crop.

While we are  in  the  midst  of  a  wheat 
panic, attention is called to the singular fact 
that there is rarely a surplus of corn in  this 
country, and that a deficiency in this  crop is 
really more seriously felt than  a  deficiency 
in any other  crop.  The  com  crop  of  the 
United States, declared by the  Commission­
er of Agriculture “the  most  valuable of all 
crops of the country, next to grass,”  in  the 
year  1882  was  1,617,000,000  bushels,  two- 
thirds of it raised  in  the  Western  States, 
and three-tenths in the  Southern. 
Illinois 
heads  the  list  of  States  with  182,000,000 
bushels; then come  Iowa  with  175,000,000 
bushels;  Missouri with 170,000,000 bushels; 
Kansas  with  144,000,000  bushels;  Indiana 
with 107,000,000 bushels; Ohio with 93,000,- 
000 bushels; Nebraska with 82,000,000 bush­
els; Kentucky and Tennessee  with  75,000,- 
000  bushels  each;  Texas  with  63,000,000 
bushels;  Pennsylvania  with  43,000,000 
bushels;  Georgia  with  36,000,000  bushels; 
Virginia  with  35,000,000  bushels;  North 
Carolina and Arkansas with 34,000,000 each, 
and  other  States  with  smaller  amounts. 
The highest yield per acre was  in Montana, 
36 bushels—a fact which will  probably sur­
prise some of  our  Mississippi Valley  corn 
growers.  Next to Montana come  Nebraska 
with 35 bushels  per acre;  Kansas, 34  bush­
els;  Vermont,  34  bushels;  Minnesota,  32 
bushels;  Pennsylvania, 31 bushels; Ohio, 31 
bushels;  Indiana, 31 bushels;  Michigan, 30 
bushels;  Wisconsin,  29  bushels;  Missouri, 
29  bushels;  California,  28  bushels.  The 
smallest yields per acre  were  in  Florida, 9 
bushels; South Carolina, 12bushels; Georgia,
13 bushels;  Alabama and  North  Carolina,
14 bushels.  Com,  like  grass,  is  raised al­
most wholly for  home  consumption. 
It is 
the staple grain of the country,  and  consti­
tutes the chief living  of  the  domestic  ani­
mals of the land.  Forty-four  per  cent,  of 
the crop is fed to cattle and swine  for meat­
making in the counties  where it  is  grown; 
twenty-eight  per cent,  is  fed  to  work  ani­
mals;  eight per  cent,  is  used  for  human 
food.  Only about twenty per cent, 
is ship­
ped from the counties where it is raised, and 
only about five per cent, is  exported.

A  Mistaken  Policy.

From the Traverse Bay Eagle.

The dealer who marks his goods above his 
regular selling price and  then  advertises  to 
be selling out at cost, when  he  really  only 
falls to his old price, may catch  a  few,  but 
only a few, and may safely calculate he will 
never catch that few again.

A recent  private  meeting  of  the  barbed 
wire fence manufacturers is  said to have re­
sulted in a consolidation of  all  the  makers 
in the country, under the name  of  the  Na­
tional  Barbed  Wire Company.  The  an­
nouncement caused an advance of  one  cent 
per pound on the price  of  wire as  fixed  by 
the meeting.

_  

best goods.

dling are  unsurpassed.

We  manufacture all our stock 
v c t l l U y   and  can  always  give  you  the 
O fa-nrrCkC!  We  buy ln  large lots  from 
vAL d J lg C D   first hands and  ship  only  in 
full car lots.  We handle 30,- 
OOO boxes of Oranges  and 
T 
Lemons in a season and our
L lU illU I lS   facilities for buying and han­
TVTi -i 4  cj  W e  carry  a heavy stock  of Bra-
XN U.UO  zils,  Almonds,  Filberts,  Walnuts, 
Pecans  and  Cocoa  Nuts,  aud  w ill 
sell against any market.
U > A n T in fc!  We lately bought eight car 
r t /C lllllu O   loads  of  the  best  re-cleaned 
and  hand-picked  Tennessee 
and  Virginia  Nuts,  and  are 
prepared  to  fill  the  largest 
orders.

PUTNAM &  BROOKS

It is the usual practice  to  serve  potatoes 
in a porcelain dish with a close-fitting cover. 
In ten minutes the  best  potatoes,  however 
carefully cooked, are  thus  utterly  spoiled. 
They should tie placed  in a wooden  dish  or 
served in a porcelain dish with towels above 
and below to absorb moisture.

How  Lines Increase Height.

A fact which has had great influence upon 
the appearance  (as  regards  size)  which  an 
object presents, is the presence of lines on it. 
Ladies understand this, and by the judicious 
employment of stripes  influence  their  ap­
parent figure to  a remarkable  degree.  The 
annexed illusion shows  a  square  space  di­
vided horizontally by a series of lines.  The 
height and width of this space are  precisely 
equal, as may be proved by  measuring them 
with a pair of compasses, but to the eye they 
appear very unequal:

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDSE,

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Awnings,  Tents,

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, 

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN, 

p r   Send for Prices.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

■ 

umjt il m 

in 

r arSP*1!1-1 

-  ~

W HOLESALE  GROCERS,

44,  46  and  48  South  Division  Street,  Grand  Ranids,  Mioh.

WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR

, Mi, C nat

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

T o b acco s,  V in eg a rs  a n d   S p ices IX

OUR MOTTOi ‘'SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MAN0AND MAN.”

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOE OUR—

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITS.

i ü

■ M i
I pI ^¡¡fj 1? v

SPA C E  ZS  RESERVED   POR

ARTHUR MEIGS  & CO,
W holesale  Grocers,

55  and 57  Canal  Street,

F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

-----W HOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN-

Butter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

G ran d   IFts/picis,  Mioliiga-n,

C3HLAJJD  RA PID S.  -  MIOHIGAX.

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED  BRANDS

T lie  B est  in   tlie  M arket,

WE  STTAT.T.  SOON  FILL  THIS  SPACE  WITH  QUOTATIONS  OF  INTEREST 

TO

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

Arthur  M eigs  Co.

33.  K N O W L S O N ,

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

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clair,  Cement,  Stucco,

t.tmtb,  HAÏR,  COAX,  and  WOOD.

ESTIM ATES 

CHEERFULL Y

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

tral  Freight  House.

S P R I N G   <ft COMPANY  «

—WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

IFLAJSTCry  -A.KTID

STAPLE

GOODS

CARPETS,

MATTING,

OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  ETC,

Q  and.  8  M onroe  S treet,

Michigan.
Grand  Rapids,
THE DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure 

Nor Satisfaction.

, 

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SENSES.

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

WHENEVER  IT  DISCOVERS  AN  ARTICLE  THAT  COMMENDS  ITSELF 

THE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEARN THIS FACT
P ii  TOBACCOS
Ono-Foiirtl of All tie Plug Tobacco Used in this Country!

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

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;  or  About

AND  AS THERE  ARE  BETWEEN  800  AND  900  OTHER  FACTORIES  IN 

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

m   '  *i

i  f

THAN  THE  BRANDS  OF  OTHER  MAKERS.

“CLIMAX,” with Red Tin Tag, is their Best  Brand.

HsU

S L A B  ASTINE!

A ’abastine is the first and  only  prepara- 
<)  made from  calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
,} iication  to  walls  with  a  brush, and  is 
i  y covered  by  our  several  patents  and
•  ected  by  many  years  of  experiments, 
sthe  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and
. i  ile of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de- 
. • ,  d,one over another, to any hard  surface 
\iiiiOut  danger  of  scaling,  or  noticeably 
i -< ;ng to the thickness of  the  wall,  which 
:  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  ad- 
.  <>nal coat, from time  to  time. 
It  is  the 
i  y material for the purpose not dependent 
<’n glue for its adhesiveness ;  furthermore 
s the only  preparation  that is  claimed 
possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
<  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
ish.  Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
.  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
(*  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
ile  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
■parations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  and 
le,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
it, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
«•essitating  the  well-known  great  incon- 
> lienee  and  expense, which  all  have  ex- 
rienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off  the
• I  coats  before  refinishing. 
In  addition 
the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less
•.pensive,  as  it  requires  but  one-half  the 
. imber of pounds to cover the same amount 
f surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
v  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap- 
/ed by  any  one.

-FOR  SALE  BY-
PaSa.  Dealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. CHURCH, Manager.

- 

-  MICHIGAN.

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

FJ. DETTENTHALER
O Y S T E R S

Successor to  II.  M. Bliven,

—WHOLESALE—

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

Agent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated  “ F ”  Brand 

Raw  Oysters.

117  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

MICH.

Gnil  R ais  Wire  Worte

è

J. J. VAN LEUVEN,

WHOLESALE

M i l l i n e r y

—AND—

FANCY  GOODS

LACES,

Real  Laces  a  Specialty.

Gloves, Corsets, Bibbons, Pans, Hand Bags, 

Pocket Books,  Buckings,  Yams, 

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets, 

Embroidery  Materials,  Plumes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.
STAMPING PATTERNS

70 MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

WESTFIELD WHIPS

[L. ZX. S E A L S  

c&! SOIT,

MANUFACTURERS.

O F F I C E

—AND—

SALESROOM 
NO. 4 PEARL STREET, 

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W O R K !

92  MONROE  STREET.

JOHN MOHRHARD,

-WHOLESALE—

Fresh & Salt Meats

109  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

GRAND BAPIDS, MICH.

G. ROYS & CO., (M  A pts.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E N  OUT E S
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 .  C,  D en iso n ,

88,90  and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

JORDAN

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,

DET,  OLUFF,

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

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

Glover, Timothy and all  Binds Field Seeds
Seed Corn, Green and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
OBEEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

SEED  CORN
We offer a choice lot of 
Early Red Cob Dent Corn, 
and the Round Yellow or 
Yankee Corn, 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. LAMOKM, Agent,

91  CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Growth of Our  Exports  for a Decade.
The marked business feature of the day is 
a general awakening regarding the great un­
derlying facts of the Nation’s  industry  and 
trade. 
It is seen that  outside  forces  must 
be reckoned with  as never  before in  rela­
tion to the  position of  that  primary  indus­
try, agriculture.  Nothing possesses so wide 
an interest as  the state of the bread supply. 
Ordinarily cheaper bread  only  brings  good 
cheer. 
In the long run this will  be true of 
the present situation, but for the day a  deal 
of disturbance is possible owing to the  very 
close interdependence of all  industries.  As 
the Northwestem farmer  has  come  to  be 
primarily a wheat grower so the  great  rail­
roads are in great part  wheat  carriers,  and 
all industries are more or  less  directly  de­
pendent upon the condition of railway  busi­
ness.  At this time it is worth  while  to  re­
call just what part the food products  of the 
farm had in the growth of our exports in the 
decade from  1870.  The total goods  exports 
of the country  in  1870  were  $455,000,000. 
and in 1881 the total  was  $883,000,000,  an 
increase of  $428,000,000.  The  exports  of 
wheat increased from $68,000,000 in 1870 to 
$212,000,000 in 1881.  Over 33  per  cent  of 
the total increase in exports  for the  decade 
was wheat.  Forty-six  per  cent"  was  made 
up of bread stuffs, and  taking,  other  things 
into account, over 78 per cent of the increase 
was made up of food products.  From  1873 
to 1883 about one-fourth of our  agricultural 
exports was wheat and flour.  As  showing 
the  growing interdependence  of  nations as 
regards the supply of food, it has  been stat­
ed  that  one-half  of  the  world’s  carrying 
trade is engaged in transporting food.  This 
further shows the need this  country  has of 
paying closer  attention  to  its  foreign trade 
relations.

The  Spruce  Gum  Trade.

That there is  something  substantial  be­
hind the numerous  jokes of  chewing  gum 
and boarding schools is seen in the fact that 
the annual yield in  Maine  of  spruce  gum 
merely is reckoned at $125,000. 
The gum 
is  chiefly  obtained  in  the  region  about 
Moosehead Lake, although some of it comes 
from  Aroostook,  Canada  and  Mirimichi. 
Numbers of men make a business of  gather­
ing gum during the winter months.  With a 
toboggan loaded  with  a  camp  outfit  they 
strike out into the forest qnd are often  gone 
from home weeks at a  time.  The  gum is 
hauled to some central point  from  the  log­
ging camps and from thence  is  sent  to the 
markets.  The gum is not sold  raw  to any 
large extent to druggists for  medicinal  pur­
poses.  By far the  largest portion is  manu­
factured into chewing  gum.  Two  methods 
are commonly employed.  One is to mix the 
raw gum with resin by a secret process,  and 
the other is  merely  to  refine  the gum  by 
steam.

One Bangor concern is  said  to  manufac­
ture and ship out of the  State  ten  tons of 
gum annually. 
It makes  one’s  jaws  tired 
to think of it.  A  Portland  manufacturer 
caters  to  the  wants  of  the  elastic-jawed 
youth of the land to the extent of  over $70,- 
000 per year.  The gum business is also car­
ried on  in  Lewiston  and  Rockland  and  a 
few other places in the Dirigo State.  Maine 
virtually monopolizes the spruce  gum  busi­
ness.  Compounds of questionable character 
known as white gum  and  elastic, or  india 
rubber gum are made elsewhere.  The lead­
ing gum markets are  Boston,  New  York, 
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota.

Failed to Corner the Rubber Market.
Another illustration  of  the  folly  of  one 
man trying to control any one of the world’s 
industries is found in the failure of Yianna, 
of Havre, a man who tried to comer the rub­
ber market and in this way  manipulate  for 
his own selfish ends the trade of  two  conti­
nents  in one of the most useful  of  all  arti­
cles.  Ever since 1879 he has been at it, buy­
ing up the whole  visible  supply,  squeezing 
the shorts, and  pulling  the  old  wires  that 
now have turned and strangled him. 
It was 
in October, 1882, that  the  beginning  of  the 
end came.  The  world’s  supply  of  rubber 
was held by  “Baron  de  Gondoriz”—a  title 
purchased  by  Yianna,  of  the  Portuguese 
Government.  He demanded of  the  Ameri­
can manufacturers an exhorbitant  price  for 
his rubber.  The Americans  objected, form­
ed an association, and resolved to close their 
mills until the comer was broken.  Although 
the price reached $1.20 after January 1,1883, 
it soon began to decline, and by the close  of 
the year  had  reached  ninety-six  cents. 
It 
was impossible for Yianna to withstand such 
a heavy  depreciation as this, and  he  failed.
What a mine of gold the telephone patents 
have proven to those who  hold  them!  The 
annual meeting of the  Bell Telephone Com­
pany  was  held  in  Boston  the  other  day. 
The earnings for the  year  were  $2,295,594, 
against  $1,576,031  for  the  previous  year. 
Dividends have been paid of $1,051,479, and 
$334,441 has been carried to  the  surplus ac­
count,  leaving a  balance  to  the  income  ac­
count  of  $348,884.  The  chief  source  of 
revenue is  still  from  the  rental  of  tele­
phones, the receipts from which  were  $1,- 
695,678. 
In addition to the cash  purchases 
of interests  of  local  companies  $9,998,850 
has been received in the stock of those com­
panies for licenses issued.  The  holdings in 
those companies now amount to about  $19,- 
000,000.  The business of nearly all licensed 
companies is reported to be ifi a  prosperous 
condition.  The Bell Telephone  Company’s 
affairs in Canada are in good condition,  and 
6 per cent dividends are paid upon its  capi­
tal of $1,000,000.

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

The  exports  of cotton  goods  from  New 
York during the month of February amount­
ed to 7,939,445 yards,  against  7,289,015  last 
year, an increase of about 9 per cent., which 
was effected mainly in colored  descriptions. 
A considerable fall in prices is shown in the 
class from the fact that the total value of the 
increased  shipment  of  colored  goods  was 
nearly 8 per cent,  less  than  in  the  same 
month last year, the rate per yard being this 
year 7>£c as compared with  8%c  last  year. 
The total shipments since  Jan.  1 differ  but 
slightly from those of the previous year.

While escorting  a  lady  home  the  other 
evening a popular doctor attempted to relieve 
her cough and sore  throat  by  giving  her  a 
lozenge.  He told her to allow  it to dissolve 
gradually in her mouth.  No relief  was  ex­
perienced, and the doctor felt quite  chargin- 
ed the next day when the  lady  sent  him  a 
coat button, with a note, saying he must have 
given her the wrong kind of lozenge, and he 
might need this one.

A young lady while  visiting  at  Jackson 
ville, Florida, painted a plaque,  which,  she 
remarked to a friend, she would have to send 
to Boston to be  “fired,”  as  there  was  no 
place in the vicinity of  Jacksonville  where 
such work could  be  done. 
Said  the  gen­
tleman friend:  “If you think there isn’t any 
place for  firing  china  in  this  town  you’d 
better take a look  at  Henry  Parker’s back 
yard.”

Subscriptions  to  The  Tradesm an  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 $1 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.

Mr. Jas. Jeffries states that  he  has  pre­
served, uninjured  by long  keeping, the  es­
sential oils  of orange, lemon, ete., by adding 
to each fluid  ounce  of  the  oil 1  dram  aq. 
destill and 1 dram glycerine.  He says  this 
mixture works better as a  preservative than 
alcohol or anything  else he  ever  tried,  in 
fact he has found alcohol to fail  entirely.

They are using paper instead  of  wood in 
Germany in the manufacture of lead pencils. 
The paper is steeped in an  adhesive 
liquid, 
and rolled around the core of lead to  the re­
quired thickness.  After drying, it is colored 
to resemble an ordinary cedar pencil.  The 
pencils thus made sell in London at 75 cents 
a gross.

TIME JA M E S.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

RINDG-E, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
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Our H u  am S jsilli Mantel [or tit l

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

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

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14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

PROPRIETORS  AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF

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J e n n in s s ’  F la v o rin g   E x tra c ts

AND DRUGGISTS’  AND  GROCERS’  SPECIALTIES.

20  Lvon  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.
CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,

W H O L E SA L E

Groceries  and  Provisions)

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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DEPART.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express...................................  6:05 a m
+Day Express..........................................12:20 p m
♦New York Fast Line....................................  6:00 pm
t Atlantic Express............................................ 9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:45 am
+Local  Passeng-er...........................................11:20 am
+Mail................................................................. 3:55 pm
+Grand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

ARRIVE.

tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 12:35 a. m., and New York at 10 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  P8rlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 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.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

3:35 p m

12:55 p m
4:55 p m

GOING WEST.

Leaves.
Arrives. 
•(■Steamboat Express..........6:10 am  
6:15 a m
■(Through  Mail.....................10:10 a m  10:20 a m
•(•Evening  Express................3:20 p m 
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:00 a m
•(•Morning  Express.............. 12:40 p m 
tThrough  Mail.....................  4:45 p m 
•(■Steamboat Express..........10:30 p m  10:35 p m
■(•Mixed..................................  
8:00 a m
♦NightExpress....................  5:10 am   5:30 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:35  p,  m.  will  mak  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving at 4:55 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner  Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

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

Grand  Bapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 a m  9:50 am  
Ft.Wayne&MackinacEx..  3:57pm  4:45pm
7:15 am
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
6:32 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 pm   4:32 pm  
Mackinac & Ft. Way i eE x..10:25 a m  12:32 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 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  9:50 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

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

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail........................................10:15 am  
•TDay Express..................... 12:50 p m  10:45 p m
♦NightExpress....................  8:35 pm  
Mixed........................................6:10 a m 10:15 p in
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  oareful  at­
tendants without extra charge  to Chicago  on 
12:50 p. m., and through coach on 10:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

4:00 pm
6:10 am

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed......................................  5:00 am  
Express........................ 
4:10 p m  8:30 p m
Express..................................   8:30 am  
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m 
The Northern terminus of this Division is at. 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. &  P. M.  trains to  and from Ludington and 
Manistee.

J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

5:15 pm
10:15 am

—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  MY-

Spring  Styles  of Fine  Hats,

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

Spring  Styles  of Soft  Hats,

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

Straw Hats  for  Men,

Straw Hats for Boys,

Straw Hats for Ladies,
Straw Hats for Misses.
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Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Cottonade  Pants  and  Hosiery.

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

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

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36, 38,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

Fruit & Produce at Wholesale

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
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 or No. 3 Castor Oil.  The

OHIO  OIL  OOAAF-AJST5T

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

Hazeltiue, Perkins & Go., Grand Rapids,

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It Has No Equal.

“May I have this  seat?”  asked  a  young 
lady of a genteel-looking  grocery  drummer 
on a G. R. & I. train the other day.

“I don’t know ma’am,” he  answered  po­
litely. 
“It  belongs  to  the  railroad,  you 
know;  but I’ll see the conductor,  and  may 
be he can give  it to you.”

She grew purple and  said:
“You don’t understand me. 

I mean, can 

I take it?”

“Well, I don’t know  that,  either.  You 
see it  is  fastened  very  firmly  to  the  car 
floor, and would be troublesome to  get  up; 
however, I’ll  have  a carpenter 
come  on 
hoard  at  the  next station  and  ask  his  ad­
vise.”

“I don’t want to take the old  thing,” she 

howled.  “Is this your traps  on it?”

“No’m,” blandly answered the  drummer; 

“they belong to the firm I travel for.”

“Well, can I §it  down  here,  she  finally 
screamed, after shifting  from  one  foot  to 
the other.

“I don’t  known,  madam;  you  are  the 

best judge of your muscular powers.”

“Where do you travel  from?” she scream­

ed.

“Chicago,” he replied.
“That settles it,” she said  meekly;  “will 
you please move your  valises,  and  permit 
me to occupy a small portion of this  seat?”
“Certainly,” he replied, “why didn’t  you 

say that at first?”

The train sped  on  toward  Big  Rapids, 
while he  sat counting up his  expenses, and 
she wondering if  Chicago  cheek  had  any 
equal under the sun.

Back  on Time.

“As soon as my  forty-eight hours are  up 
I’ll be back,” said  John  McIntyre  when a 
clerk in a retail  grocery  business  when  a 
young man.  He  hurried  off  to  catch  the 
train, and that  was  the  last  his  employer 
saw of him  for  six  solid  days,  when  he 
walked in, gripsack in hand, and  a beaming 
smile on his face, remarking:

“Back on  time.”
“Back on time I” roared  the  exasperated 
employer.  “Do  you  call  six  days  forty- 
eight hours?”

“Of course I do.  What else  do  you  call 

it?”

“Have you lost the  use  of  your  mental 
faculties, or are you trying  sir,  to  take un­
warranted liberties with me?”

“Why, 1 am surprised, I told  you  I want­

ed forty-eight hours’ recreation, didn’t I?” 

“Certainly, and I gave it to you.”
“Just so.  And I work in the store  eight 

hours a day, don’t I?”

“Of course.”
“Well,  eight  into  forty-eight  goes  six 
times, and I’ve been gone eight hours  a day 
for six days, so you see I’m on time.”

Features  o f the  Week.

Coffees  are  down  %c,  both  green  and 
roasted.  Sugars are a trifle easier.  Cun-ants 
are weaker.  Valencia and  Ondara  raisins 
are higher, and cotton  twine  has  advanced 
2c.  Domestic rice has advanced 3^c  in  the 
Eastern markets, and is  very  strong,  with 
light supply.  Imported rice is firmer,  out of 
sympathy.

Box  oranges 

remain  about  the  same, 
quality good and prices unchanged.  Valen­
cia oranges  are  rotting  so  badly,  we ad­
vise our friends to let them alone.  Lemons 
remain plenty and very cheap.  They  can­
not go lower, but may  not  advance  just at 
present.  Brazils are  lower.  Bananas  are 
plenty.

Not Superstitious.

“Suppose we walk  over  into  the  ceme­

tery,” said a friend to his companion.

“No, I believe n ot”
“Come on. 

flowers are blooming.”

It’s a pleasant place,  for the 

“You’ll have to excuse me.  Tom  Bess- 

mon is buried over  there.”

“What difference does that make?”
“Well, you see I owe him a little  balance 
when he kept  a  grocery  store,  and  don’t 
care to hang  around where he is. 
I am not 
superstitious, you know, but Tom  was a ter­
rible hand to dun a fellow.

Butter Threatening Oleomargarine. 

From the New Fork Herald.

If the oleomargarine men do  not  look  to 
their rights, bad butterine  may  drive  their 
goods out of the market.  A few days ago a 
Brooklyn man bought for  butter  something 
that was not to his  liking,  so  he  sued  the 
seller for  giving  him  oleomargarine.  He 
might have gained his suit, for  two  dealers 
pronounced the  stuff  oleomargarine,  but  a 
number of experts pronounced the stuff gen­
uine dairy butter.

The beet-sugar  industry  in  Denmark  is 
very profitable.  Three  extensive new works 
are to be built  with  a  capital  of  6,000,000 
crowns, subscribed to a great  extent  by the 
beet-root growers  themselves,  who  are un­
der contract to supply the works with  beet­
roots for the next ten years.  The three new 
worlcs will supply the home  consumption of 
the whole of Denmark, and are  a  flattering 
exhibit of  successful  co-operation  on  the 
part of the farmers.

Coffee, as an article of 

commerce,  only 
began  to be known in Brazil in  1722.  By 
the year 1780 that country exported  14,000,- 
000 pounds.  Cuba at that period was  ship­
ping 25,000,000 pounds.  Toward the end of 
the last century, however,  large  sugar  and 
other estates in Brazil were  converted  into 
coffee plantations, and as  early as  1830 the 
exportation reached 27,985 tons.  '

A  New York View o f the  W heat  Problem
The market  reporter of  the  New  York 
Sun, whose bright  articles  on  commercial 
and financial topics are attracting  much at­
tention, writes as follows on  the  subject of 
the wheat problem:

“It is surprising how Wall street, with all 
its reputation for smartness, and gift of  dis­
counting events, proves to be, in some cases, 
blind and  sluggish. 
Intelligent  observers 
foreshadowed the present condition of stock 
speculation three years ago.  But they were 
only abused and laughed  at.  Last  spring 
again, when the progress of India and  Aus­
tralia became so pronounced, thoughtful men 
began to talk about  the  probability of  an­
other grand collapse in  the  grain  trade  of 
this country.  They were abused and laugh­
ed at.  Yet to-day everybody begins  to talk 
about wheat exports.  Everybody says  that 
what we want now, to relieve general  busi­
ness is lower wheat and lower rates of trans­
portation.  They  learn  that  wheat  from 
other countries can be delivered  in England 
about 5 cents cheaper than from the  United 
States, and they think that all that is  want­
ed to have our surplus wheat marketed is to 
cut down these 5  cents.

“They  forget  that  Calcutta,  Bombay, 
Odessa, Melbourne, Sydney, and every other 
wheat shipping  point  on the  face  of  the 
globe have daily New  York,  Chicago  and 
San  Francisco  quotations,  refigured  into 
shillings and  pence,  with  freight  interest 
and other charges added. 
If  our  prices go 
down  or up, theirs  do  the  same.  Liver­
pool and London take care  of  this  average 
record, and not a fraction of  a cent is over­
looked in the relative values  of  the  differ­
ent grades of wheat at  different  ports. 
If 
our Chicago gamblers are  so  conceited and 
ignorant as not to pay attention to the condi­
tion of distant markets, the European specu­
lators (the  majority  of  whom  are  Greeks 
and Jews) belong to quite a different  school 
of business men.  There is no  exaggeration 
in saying that the grain merchants of Russia 
and of the  Argentine  Republic  are  better 
posted  on  the  world’s  market  than  our 
Chicago speculators.

“Jay Gould is credited  with  saying  that 
the time is not far distant when  the  United 
States will have to consume all of its  wheat 
at home, and his words will prove prophetic 
unless the very foundation of  our  business 
community  is  changed.  A  farmer  who 
wants a piano, silk dresses  and  dollie  dee 
hats for his wife and daughter, cannot  com­
pete with the wheat-grower of Russia,  India 
or Egypt, whose family live on a handful of 
rice or a slice of rye bread.  The merchant 
who has to use over captilized and  over  ex­
tortionate railroads  to  transport  his grain, 
cannot compete with the merchants who use 
railroads built by  the  English  or  Russian 
government, for the sake of  developing the 
country.  This grain question is  a  formid­
able one, and the sooner and more thorough­
ly it begins to be discussed, the better it will 
be for everybody.  There can  be  no  ques­
tion  that  over-capitalization,  over-specula­
tion and over manipulation have been so far 
the main causes  of  the  collapse  of  Wall 
street business.  But we have entered  upon 
a new era.  Stocks and bonds  will  have to 
stand not on the basis of  speculative  pros­
pects, but on the basis  of  foreign  demand 
for our staples.

“We have immense regions which  so  far 
produce only one crop—wheat 
If there is
no export demand  for it, there  will  be  no 
freights for the  roads.  Local  traffic,  the 
transportation of  cattle,  emigrants,  timber 
and ores, are all very agreeable in their way 
but there is not enough of them  to  pay the 
fixed charges upon the  gigantic  network of 
parallel roads with which  this  country has 
been gridironed.”

A ll Sorts.

Choice butter can  always  be  obtained  at 

M. C. Russel’s.

Americans now hold the trade with China 

in kerosene and cotton.

Eggs are sent by mail  in  England  under 

the parcel post system.

To clean hairs from butter : 

your hair.  Next, use  butterine.

First, catch 

One hundred and  fifty  thousand  pounds 

of butterine are made in Chicago daily.

In Mexico flour is $20 a barrel; com, $2 a 
bushel;  beans, $2 a bushel;  and potatoes $3 
a bushel.

Vermont produces annually a half  pound 
of butter for each man, woman  and  child in 
the United States.

Syria  has  95  silk  factories,  which give 
employment to about 18,000 men,  boys  and 
girls, whose daily wages range  from 8 to 27 
cents.

Horse radish yields from five to ten  cents 
per pound.  The worst drawback to  its cul­
ture is the difficulty of eradicating  it  when 
once it gets a firm hold on the land.

Purchasers of canned goods would do well 
to  make  their  selections  immediately  as 
John  Caulfield  is  rapidly  closing  out  his 
stock  of  those  goods  at  very low  prices.

W hite Star Potatoes.

We have a quantity af choice  White  Star 
Potatoes,  grown  by  D.  M.  Ferry  &  Co., 
which we offer to the trade at $2 per 3 bush­
el barrel, and no charge for  barrel.  SEED 
STORE,  91  Canal  street,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

Genuine  W hite  Star  Potatoes.

I see someone is quoting the  White  Star 
potato  at $2 per  3  bushel  barrel, alleging 
them  to be grown by D. M.  Ferry & Co.  In­
asmuch as the latter is  holding  his stock at 
$4.50 per barrel, it  is  barely  possible  that 
the dealer is palming  off  something  beside 
the genuine.

G. W. Blain,

152  Fulton street.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Higher—Valencia and Ondara Raisins; Rice; 
Lower — Coffees;  Currants;  Sugars  trifle 

Cotton Twine.
easier.

AXLE  GREASE.

Modoc  ....  $  doz  60  ¡Paragon.
Diamond.............  60

doz  60 
¡Frazer’s ..'...........   86

BAKING  POWDER.

Arctic % lb cans....................... ...........^  <joz.  45
Arctic $4 lb cans.............................................. 
76
Arctic Ya lb cans.  . ......................................... 1 40
Arctic 1 lb cans..............................................2 40
Arctic 5  lb 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
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz...................................................... 12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..................................2 00
."..............................  3 00
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
4 50
 

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BROOMS.

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

 

 
CANNED GOODS.

2 50
2 25
2 00
1 75
1 25
85

Apples, 3 ft standards...................................... 1 20
Apples, 6 lb standards...................................... 2 00
Apples, gallon standards.................................3 00
Apricots, Lusk’s................................................2 95
Beans, Lim a.................................................   85
Beans, String................................................  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.......................................................115
Corn, Revere..................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian.............................................110
Corn,  Yarmouth........................................... 1,30
Corn Trophy..................................................115
Corn, 2 ft  Onandago......................................... 1 50
Damsons...................................  
....1  20
Egg Plums, standards................................. 1 60
Green  Gages, standards............................. 1 60
Lobsters, Stars............................................2 00
Lobsters, Picnics..........................................1 75
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 fi>.............. .4 00
Oysters, 1 lb  standards...............................110
Oysters, 1 lb  slack filled..............................  75
Oysters, 2  ft  standards.....................................1 85
Oysters, 2 lb slack filled.................................... 1 25
Peaches, all  yellow  standards....................... 2 10
Peaches, 3 lb Extra Yellow Heath.................. 3 00
Peaches, white  standards...........................-190
Peaches,  seconds.............................................. 1 65
Pie Peaches........................................................ 1 20
Pears, Bartlett................................................... 1 35
Peas, standard  Marrofat................................. 1 50
Peas, good Marrofat......................................... 1 35
Peas, sdaked.....................................................65
Pineapples..........................................................1 60
Pine Apple, 2 ft Sugar Loaf............................ 2 50
Raspberries, Erie.............................................. 1 50
Raspberries, other brands..............................1 20
.1 60
Salmon, standard............................. 
Sardines,  imported  %b..............  
1514
Sardines, imported Ya s.................  
20
Sardines, domestic 148................................. 
8
Sardines,  domestic 
Sardines,  Mustard.......................................   15
Strawberries,  standards.............................. 110
Succotash, standards........................................1 05
Succotash,  other brands............................  85
Succotash, 2 lb B. & M........................................1 75
Tomatoes,  standards......................1 00@1 05
Tomatoes, gal. Erie...........................................3 25
Trout, 3 lb brook................................................3 00

)4s..............................  1214

 
 

 

 

CAPS.

G.  D.....................   35 
Musket................   75 

lEly’s Waterproof  75
|

CHOCOLATE.

German  sweet...........................................  @25
Baker’s  ....................................... 
@40
Runkles......................................................   @35
ViennaSweet............................................   @25

 

Green Rio__ 12
Green Java.. .17 
Green Mocha.25 
Roasted Rio.. 12 
Roasted  Java24 
Roasted Mar.17 
Roasted Mocha

COFFEE.

@14  Roasted Mex.l7)4©19 
@27  Ground  Rio..  914@17 
Ground  Mex.  @16
Arbuckle’s .......... @1554
@17 
@34 
XXXX.................@1514
@19 
Dilworth’s .......... @15)4
@34 
CORDAGE.

72 foot J u te .......135  ¡60 foot Cotton— 175
60 foot Jute.......1  15  ¡50 foot Cotton— 1 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Jennings’ 2 oz......................................doz.  1 00
 

4 oz........................................................ 1 50
6 oz....................................... 
8 oz........................................................ 3 50
No. 2 Taper....................................  1 25
No.  4 
Ya pint  round.................................  t 50
1 
...............................   9 00
No.  8...................................... 
No. 10 ....................................  

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Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz.  1  40
2 50
4 oz 
4 00
6 oz
5 00
8 oz..........
No. 2  Taper....................................  1 50
No.  4 Taper...................................   3 00
Ya pint  round................................   7 50
1 pint  round...................................... 15 00
No.  8.................. _.........................  4 25
No.  10.................................... 

 

Vanilla.

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

FAUCETS.

FISH.

Whole Cod..............................................  434@6)4
Boneless Cod..................................... 5)4@7)4@854
Herring )4 bbls. JOO ft.........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled...................................... 
28@30
Herring Holland...................................  @115
Bloaters.................................................   @1 00
8 00
White, No. 1, Ya bbls............................ 
4 00
White, Family, )4 bbls......................... 
1 10
White, No. 1,101b kits......................... 
Whise, No. 1,12 1b kits......................... 
1 25
Trout, No.  1, Ya  bbls............................ 
4 75
Trout, No. 1,12 ft  kits............................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, Ya bbls....................... 
7 00
1 15
Mackerel. No. 1,12 ft kits.................. 

FRUITS.

2 75

MATCHES.

London Layers, new................................... 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 r>0@2 60
New Valencias Raisins.......................  
7J4@7)4
Ondaras......................................................   @11
Turkey Prunes......................................  6J4@6J£
Currants................................................   5)4@6
Citron......................................................  18@20
Dried Apples  .........................................   8  @8)4
Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 70
Richardson’s No. 3 
Richardson’s No. 5 
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 4 round...................................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
Richardson’s No. 7)4 do 
Electric Parlor No. 17...........................................3 80
Electric Parlor No. 18...........................................5 70
Grand Haven, No. 9.............................................2 40
Grand  Haven, No.  8............................... .— 1  70

2 55
1 70
2 70
1 70
2 55
..............................2 55
.............................. 1 70

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

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

i

OATMEAL.

185 ft  pkgs..............................................  @3 76
3621b pkgs...........*.................................   @3 25
Imperial bbls......................................... 
Quaker bbls............................................  

5  75
6 75

do. 

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

15
12%
76
1 00
75
1 00

PICKLES.

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med....................................7 50
Choice in Ya 
......................................4 50
small........................... 4 50
Dingee’s Ya 
Dlngee’s quarts glass fanoy................... — 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 G lass...!.............................1 25

Imported Olay 3 gross.......................*9 26@3 00
American T . D .
. 9 0 @ 1  00

.

.

PIPE S.
. w .
,

Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs.  No. 1..................................   70  @75

STARCH.

 

 

 

° KA

1 75

TEAS.

@9)4

@8)4

@6)4

SUGARS.

SYRUPS.

STONEWARE.

STOVE POLISH.

ft Gloss, wood  boxos.......... 

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package......................  @7
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.......................... 
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
@7)4
Muzzy Gloss bulk................................... 
@6
Muzzy Corn 1 1b......................................  7  @7)4
Kingsford  Silver Gloss.............................  
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 1b  box.......... 
Kingsford Corn......................................  8)4@9
Oswego  Gloss.............................................   @6%
Mirror  Gloss..........................................  @7
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................  @7)4
Piel’s Pearl..............................................  @4
Americad Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss......................................................  @6)4
10 oz  Gloss..................................................   @334
3ft  Gloss.................................................  
@6
  @7
6 
Tabic Corn......................................40 ft 
@6)4
Table  Corn.....................................20 1b  @7
Banner, bulk........................................... 
@4
Hovey’s 1 ft Sunday Gloss........................  
@7)4
Hovey’8 3 ft Sunday Gloss........................  @7)4
Hovey’s 6 ft Sunday Gloss, wood box. 
@8 
One Mrs.  Potts’  Polishing  Irons  given  free 
with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch 
Jugs $   gallon......................................... 
@8
7
Crocks............................................*.........  
Milk Crocks............................................ 
7
Rising  Sun gross..5  88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above $  dozea.......   50
I X L ............  ........ 5 501
  @7-44
Granulated.................................... 
2 50
Cut Loaf...
Cubes............................... .................  . 
8)4@8)4
8  @ 8)
Powdered.............................................. 
Conf. A ................................................  @7  )
Standard A ...........................•............. 
@7
6%@6)
Extra C................................................... 
  3 00
Fine C..................................................... 
6  @6)
Yellow C.................................................   5 34 @6
4 25
Corn,  Barrels.........................................  @  30
Corn, % bbls............................................   @  32
Corn,  (0 gallon kegs...............................   @  33
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @175
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs..............................  @1 60
Pure Sugar  Drips............................bbl  32@  35
Pure Sugar Drips.........................)4 bbl  35@  40
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Maple.................................Ms bbls  @  80
Pure Maple......................... 10 gal kegs  @  80
6 00
Pure Maple............................5 gal kegs  @  85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............)4 bbl  @  95
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5gal kegs  @i 00
Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japan ordinary.  23@30
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Japanfair............32@35
Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Congo ..................   <f “
Japan fine............40@50
Japan dust..........15@20
TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
Diamond  Crown.............................
Red  Bird...........................................
Opera Queen....................................
Sweet Rose.......................................
Green  Back......................................
F ruit............. ..................................
O So  Sweet.......................................
Prairie Flower................................
Climber [light and  dark]...............
Matchless.........................................
Hiawatha.........................................
Globe.................................................
May Flower.................................... .
Hero.................................................
A tlas.................................................
Royal Game.....................................
Silver Thread..................................
Seal............................................... .
@30
Kentucky.......................................
@67
Mule  Ear..........................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo................................. '..
@30
Peek-a-Boo, )4  barrels...................
@32
Clipper, Fox’s ............................ ¿.,
@30
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels......
@74
Fountain..........................................
@64
Old Congress....................................
@52
Good Luck......................................
@45
Good and Sweet...............................
@35
Blaze Away............. .„.....................
@30
Hair Lifter......................................
@60
Old Glory, light...............................
@60
Charm of the West, dark..............
@60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil............. .
@50
Red Fox..............................................
Big  Drive...........................................
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @48
Glory  ......................................................   @50
Durham...................................................  @48
Silver  Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark].......................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @50
Climax.....................................................  @50
Hold F ast................................................  @48
Mo Alpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft cads..........  @51
Cook of the Walk  6s..............  
  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @50
Acorn.......................................................  @50
Red Seal...................................................  @48
Orescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  B ass............................................   @40
True Grit.................................................   @35
Nobby Spun Roll...................................  @50
Spring....................................... 
  @50
Crayling, all  styles...............................   @50
MacKinaw................................................  @47
HorseShoe..............................................  @50
Good Luck.'. —   ...................................  @50
Big Chunk or J.T......................  
  @40
Hair Lifter........................ 
@37
 
D. andDqblack.......................... 
@37
MeAlpin’s Green Shield.......................   @48
Ace  H igh,black..,.........................  
  @36
Champion A ,.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   @48
Sailors’  S o la ce...,..,.,* ...,.,..,.;.» ....  @48

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

PLUG.

90

 
 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

95

do 

do 
do 

F e lix ................... 
in Sacks................................5 50@

Blacking.........................................30, 40,50@60
do  waterproof............................ 
1  50
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
American............................ 
75
Barley......................................................  
@3)4
1  10
Burners, No. 1 ........................................ 
1  50
do  No.  2........................................ 
Bags, American A ................................. 
20  00
Beans,  m edium ..................... 
  @2  10
Beans, hand picked...............................  
2 40
Butter......................................................  18@20
Butterine................................................  18@21
Curry Combs $  doz................................1 25@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @15)4
Candles,  Hotel....................................... 
  @16)4
Cheese full cream choice......................14)4@15
Catsup quarts $   dozen.........................1 40@1 60
Chimneys No. 1......................................  @35
No.  2......................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lft packages. 
@26)4
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & Ya  ft do 
@27)4
. 
Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 ft eases...  @  11
Extract Coffee,  v. c..............................  
1  30@
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls......................5 75@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  35@40
Horse  Radish, pints..............................  @l  40
Indigo.......................................................1 00@
Ink f) 3 dozen  box................................. 1 00@
Jelly in Pails...........................................  @ 6
do  Glass Tumblers f) doz..................  @75
Licorice, Sicily......................................  @20
Licorice, Calabra..................................   28@30
Licorice  Root.........................................   @12
Lye $  2  doz. cases................................. 1 55@
Macaroni,  Imported..............................  @13
Domestic.................................................   @ 5)4
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, ft case........   @6 00
French Mustard,  8 oz ft  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@
Ya Keg......................................3 O0@
Rice........................................................ 6@6)4@7)4
Sago  ........................................................ 
Shot, drop................................................1 90@
do  buck.............................................. 2 15@
Sage........ ................................................   @15
Tobacco Cutters each..........................1  25@
Twine......................................................  18@23
ChimneyCleaners $   doz.......................  @50
Flour Sifters fi doz................................3 00®
Fruit Augurs each................................. 1 25@
5@6
Tapioca.................................................. 
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............1 50@1 65
Wicking No. 1 38 gross..........................   @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  Argand...................................1 50®
COAL  AND BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

6@6

do 

do 

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
95
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
1 40
Akron Cement per bbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1 40
Car lots.................................................... 1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu........................   35@  38
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl...................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate................. $6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................  6 75@7 00
 
Cannellcoal................................ 
7 00
Ohio coal................................................ 
40@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland................ 
00@5 25

COAL.

 

 

HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

HIDES.

Green.............................................. . . f f t 7  @7)4
Part  cured................................................. 8 @ 8)4
Full cured................................................8)4@ 83£
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured.....................10  @12
Deacon skins............................$  piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
Fall pelts..................................................30
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00

SHEEP PELTS.

@50 
@1 50

Fine washed f) ft....................................28
Coarse washed......................................... 22 @;
Unwashed................    .......................... 2-3

@30

WOOL.

FURS.

3@

Mink, large................................................  60@
Mink,  small..............................................   25@
Muskrat,  Spring......................................   15@
Muskrat, Winter......................................  13@
Muskrat,  Fall............................................ 
8@
Muskrat,  kits....................................  
 
 
Raccoon.....................................................  40@
Skunk, black.............................................  80@
Skunk, half stripe...................................   50@
Skunk, narrow stripe..............................  25®
Skunk,  broad........... ..............................   10®
Red Fox...................................................1 00@115
Gray Fox......................................... 
Marten,  yellow........................................  75@1 00
Fisher.......................................................4 00@8 00
Otter....................................................... 6 00@8 00
Bear........................................................5 00@12 00
Deer skins, red and biue, dry__ f)  lb  26@  30
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  12@  25
Beaver, dean and dry  $1 f t .................2 00@3 25
Above prioes are for  prime  skins  only—un- 
prime In proportion.
Tallow.. W , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,  .............  
6® 6)4

 

 

SALBRATUS.

DeLand’s pure.............................................@ 5)4
Churh’s ..........................................................@5)4
Taylor’s G.  M................................................@ 6)4
Cap  Sheaf........................................... 
  @ 5)4
Dwight’s ........................................................ @5)4
Sea  Foam.:..................................................@ 5)4

SALT.

 

60 Pocket...................................  
2 40
28 Pocket..................................................... 
2 50
100 3 1b pockets........................................... 
Saginaw F ine............................................  
1 10
 
Diamond C.....................................  
 
1 55
Standard  Coarse........................................ 
H em p...................................................... 
5)4
Canary..................................................... 
4)4
7
R ape........................................................ 
Mixed Bird..............................................  5)4@6

SEEDS.

SOAP.

Kirk’s Amerioan  Family........... ^ ft 
do. 
India........................................  
do.  Savon................................... .. 
do.  Satinet..................................... 
do.  Revenue......................... 
 
do.  White Russian............................. 
Goodrich’s English Family  ............... 
Princess............................ 
r & Gamble’s Ivory.................
do.
Japan  O live........
do.
Town Talk  & box
do.
Golden Bar...........
do.
Arab.......................
do.
Amber....................
do.
Mottled  German..

do. 

 

6)4
6)4
6
6)4
534
5 40
5)4
4)4
6 75
5
3 70
4 20
3 45
3 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)4
Galvanic.................................................   @4 20
XXX Electric.........................................  @6 50
XXX Borax............................................  @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @ 21
Tip Top............. .........................3ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily.................................  @6 75
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 20
Sidall’s ............................... ................... 
Babbitt’s .: ............................................  
Dish R ag................................................ 
Bluing.................................................... ; 
Magnetic.................................................  
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon...................................................... 
Anti-Washboard....................................  
Vaterland................ .............................  
Magic.......................................................  
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
Bogue’s ................................................... 
White castile bars................................. 
Mottled castile........................................ 
Old  Style................................................ 
Old Country............................................. 

3 00
5 50
4 10
5 00
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20
4 00
6 75,
13
12
@ 5)4
5)4

SPICES.

Ground Pepper,  in boxeB and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger......................................................   17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper )4 ft  dozen.............................. 
75
Allspice  )4 ft.................................... 
75
100
Cinnamon  )4 f t ...................................... 
Cloves )4  ft.............................................. 
75

 

@50
Red Star..................................... 
Shot Gun.......................... 
@48
 
D uck................ 
@48
 
Jumbo......................................................  @40

 
 

 

SMOKING.

 

 

 

 

2 60

do 
do 
do 

Chain  ......................................................  @22
Arthur’s Choice......................................  @22
Seal of Grand  Radids............................  @25
King.........................................................   @30
Flirt.........................................................   @28
Pug...........................................................  @30
Ten Penny Durham, Ya and hi.............   @24
Amber, Ya and lib:.................................  @15
1 75
Dime Smoking........................................  @22
Red Fox Smoking..................................   @26
Lime Kiln  Club....................................   @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut............  @90
Vanity  Fair............................................   @90
Dim e........................................................   24@25
Peerless................ 
25
Standard.................................................  
22
21
Old Tom............................................/... 
Tom & Jerry........................................... 
24
Joker........................................................ 
25
Traveler.................................................  
35
Maiden.....................................................  @26
T opsy......................................................  
27
24
Navy Clippings...................................... 
25
Honey D ew ............................................ 
Gold  Block............................................ ’ 
32
Camp F ir e .........., .......................1...! 
22
Oronoko.................................................  
19
Nigger  Head........................... 
 
26
Durham, )$ f t ......................................... 
<50

51
@22
@16
@30
@26

¿ f t ...............................
hi f t ..................................
1 f t ....................................
Holland..............................................
German ..............................................
Long Tom...........................................
National..............................................
T im e...................................................
Love’s Dream............................... .
Conqueror.........................................
@23
__
Fox’s ................................................... 
Grayling............................................... 
  @32
SealSkin..................  
@30
Dime Durham........................................  @25
Rob Roy...................................................  @26
Uncle  Sam..............................................  @28
Lumberman...........................................  @26
Railroad Boy...........................................  @37
Mountain Rose.......................................   @20
Good Enough.........................................  @23
Home Comfort, his and  )4s..................  @25
Old  Rip, long cut................... 
  @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
23
Mule Ear.................................................. 
Hiawatha................................................ 
23
Old Congress......................  
23
VINEGAR.
Pure  Cider.............................................. 
White Wine............................................  

s h o r t s .

 

 

 

 

 

10@12
10@12

WASHING POWDERS.

1776 it f t ............................................. . 
@10)4
Gillett’s $  f t ...........................................  @7)4
Soapine pkg............................................  
7@io
Boraxine ft box......................................  @3 75
Pearline  box........................................  @4 50
SenpcaFalls “ Rising Sun”..........................   1 65
Twin Bros..........1 65  ¡Wilsons.................1 65
Gillett’s .............1 65  ¡National............... 1 65

YEAST.

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follow s:

do 
do 

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

STICK.
..............................  @10)4
........................ 
MIXED.
Royal, 35 ft  pails.................  
@10)4
Royal, 200 ft bbls...............................................10
Extra, 251b  pails...............................................11)4
Extra, 200 ft bbls..............................................11
French Cream, 25 ft pails.........................!!!. 14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.........................................14
Broken, 25 ft pails........................ 
'..llhi
Broken, 2001b  bbls.......................................... 10)%

 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.
Lemon  Drops.....................................  
14
Sour Drops................................... ! ...!.!.!!!!l5
Peppermint  Drops......................................... 16
Chocolate Drops.............................                      17
H M Chocolate  Drops...................... !." !” ."20
Gum  Drops  ............................................. ".^*,12
Licorice Drops................................................ .20
A B Licorice  Drops............................!
” !l4
Lozenges, plain__ •..................................!
J 6
Lozenges,  printed........................................ "17
Imperials.......................................................10
M ottoes............................................. ;.;;;;;;;;i6
Cream  Bar........................................................ 15
Molasses Bar............................1
Caramels.............................................!!..!!...20
Hand Made Creams..................... "...! 1.. ” .  23
Plain  Creams...............................................!!!20
Decorated Creams..........................1.!!...!  28
String Rock.................................... !!!.!...!! .16
Burnt Almonds............................!  24
Wintergreen  Berries................   !.!!„!!  ..  16
Lozenges, plain in pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in bbls....................... 111M! 13
Lozenges, printed in pails..................... !." .15
Lozenges, printed in bbls.................... ......;14
Chocolate Drops, in pails............................. ii4
Gum  Drops, in pails..................................... j  8
Gum Drops, in bbls..................................., 
7
Moss Drops, in pails..................................... ’n
Moss Drops, in bbls.......................................’  9^4
Sour Drops, in  pails.................................... ] I12
Imperials, in  pails............................... 
.14
Imperials, in bbls......................................... ’ .13

Fancy—in  Bulk.

1

4

.

 

FRUITS.

Oranges f  box....................................... 3  75@4  00
Oranges OO $  box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, $   box................ .4 00@4 50
Oranges, Valencia $   case..................
Lemons,  choice....................................   2 75@3 25
Lemons, fancy...................................... 3 50@4 00
Bananas $  bunch.................................. 2 00@4 OO
Malaga Grapes, f! keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, f) bbl........................  .
Figs,  layers  $  ft..................................  12@16
Mgs, fancy  do 
.................................... 
i 8@20
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  ft..........................  14@15
Dates, frails 
do  ....................  ’ * 
@ 6
Dates, hi do 
do  ..................* 
@ 7
Dates, skin..................................... [ ." *  @ 3
Dates, Ya  skin.......................... .!!!!"**  @ 7)4
Dates, Fard 10 ft box fl  ft........ 
.  10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box f) ft................... 
@ 8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft__ ! ....”  @ 7

PEANUTS.

Firm.

do 
do 

Prime Red,  raw  $   ft............................
d o .......................... j  @ 8
Choice 
Fancy 
d o ........ *..................  @ 9
Choice White, Va.do  .....................  
9%@10
Fancy H P ,.V a   do  ........................... 10)4@11

NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, ff ft. 
...............@19
do  . 
Almonds, loaca, 
........   @17
do  .
Brazils, 
do  .................... 
9® 10
do  .
Pecons, 
do  ....................  @10
Filberts, Barcelona 
d o ....................
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ....................  14@15
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ....................  @12)4
Walnuts, Grenobles 
d o ....................  @15
Walnuts, California 
d o ....................
Cocoa Nuts, f)  100 
Hickory Nuts, large $!  bu 
Hickory  Nuts, small  do

........   @4 50
1 25

PROVISIONS.

PORK.

The Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork.........................................$17 50
Back Pork,  short cut....................................17 75
Family Clear Pork, very cheap..................  19 00
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer.................   19 50
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City__ 20  OO
Extra Clear Pork..........................................  20 00
Extra B  Clear Pork..................................    20  OO
Clear Back Pork, new....................................21 60
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality..............  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._____ 
do. 
HalfCases.............  
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
HalfCases................ 
do. 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
light....................................  
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs. 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases. .  

do. 
do. 

9%
9%
954
9%
9¿
9?£
io¿
10¿
10)4
10)4
10)4
\9%.
19%
10)4
10)4
19%

 

LARD.

Tierces  .................................................  
30 and 50 ft Tubs...................................... 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

201b Round Tins, 80 ft racks.................. 
50 ft Round  Tius, 100 ft  racks............... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................  
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................  
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................. 

8K
9

9
9
9)£
9%
9)4

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.

do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Hams,  California.................................... 
Shouiders,  plain...................................... 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
Dried Beef,  Extra................................... 
Dried Beef,  Hams................................... 
Rolled Beef, for family use......................  18 OO
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs........   13 OO

13%
14
14)4
11
9)4
1154
15
]6

BEEF IN BARRELS.

CANNED BEEF.

 

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

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

incase.....................................................  20 50
2 1b cans, 1 doz. in case__   3 20
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, Ya doz  in case  20 50 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  3 20 
do.  2 1b Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00 
Pork Sausage.......................... 
10)4
Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tubs........................10)4
Ham  Sausage................................................... 15
Tongue  Sausage.............................................. ll
Liver Sausage...................................................  8)4
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage................................................... 8)4
Bologna,  ring.....................................................8)4
Bologna, straight............................................   8)4
Bologna,  thick.................................................   8)4
Head  Cheese....................................................   8)4
In half barrels.....................................................$3 85
In quarter barrels.........................................   2 10
In kits....................................................................  1 00
In half barrels..................................................... $3 70
In quarter barrels...............................................  1 80
In kits..............................................................  
press, subject always to Market changes.

85.
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows r
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   7)4@ 9)4
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  9  @10)4
Dressed Hogs.........................................  9  @ 9)4
Mutton,  carcasses............................... .  9  @10
Veal..........................................................  9  @10)4
Spring Chickens....................................   16@17
Fowls........................................................  15@16
Pork Sausage..........................................10)4@11
Pork Sausage in bulk............................  @10)4
Bologna...................................................   @11

„ OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

 

OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 
  38.
New York Counts, per can....................... 
Extra  Selects....................................................... 33
Plain Selects...................................... 
 
28
H.M .B. F ................ 
 
" ." 2 1
Favorite F ............................................................. 18
New York Counts, solid meats, per gal ...!.
Selects, solid meats, per gallon..........
Standards, solid meats, per gallon.!..

Can prices above are for cases and half cases..

FRESH  FISH .
Codfish .................................... 
8
!!  7
Haddock............................ ............... !..! 
Smelts.................................................................. 5
Mackinaw Trout....; ........................................ 8
Mackerel................................................ ' ’". ” "15
Whiteflsh.......................................................... 10

 

 

60@ 90

»«y

FOSTER,
STEVENS

-WHOLESALE—

HAEDWAREI

10 and  12  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are Manufacturer’s Agents  for the

a ]

Crown Jewel  Vapor  Stove !

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

15

We are Manufacturer’s Agents for

1

Jewett’s Bird Caras

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are Manufactureras Agent  for

E lina

Br?  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as  w....
W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4....... 16*4
Pepperell,  8-4....... 20
Pepperell,  9-4....... 22)4

Pepperell, 10-4....... 25
Pepperell, 11-4....... 2714
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* N 6.80. .13

¡Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
I Park Mills, No. 100.15
(Prodigy, oz............ 11
Otis Apron............ 10)4
Otis  Furniture.......1014
York,  i  oz..............10
York, AA,extra oz.14

06N A B E R G ,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........914
Kentucky  brown.. 1014 
Lewiston  brown...  9*4
Lane brown........... 914
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........  8
Toledo plaid...........   714
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid........... 6*4

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........  8*4
Art cambrics, 36. ..1114 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 1214
Ballou, 4-4...............  714
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott, 0.4r4............  814
Boott, E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.........914
Boott, R. 3-4..........  5%
Blackstone, A A 4-4  754 
•Chapman, X, 4-4....  614
Conway,  4-4........... JU
Cabot, 4-4.................  *14
Cabot, 7-8................   614
Canoe,  34...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  754
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44...............  954
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9 
Fruitof Loom, 7-8..  814 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  44........12
•Gold Medal, 44..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........654
Gilded Age............... 834

Greene, G. 44........
Hill, 44....................
Hill, 7-8....................
Hope,  44................
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44................
Linwood,  4-4..........
Lonsdale,  44..........
Lonsdale  cambric. 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...
Langdon.45...........
Masonville,  44.......
Maxwell. 44...........
New York Mill, 4-4. 
New Jersey,  44—  
Pocasset,  P. M. C.. 
Pride of the W est.. 
Pocahontas,  44—
Slaterville, 7-8........
Victoria, AA..........
Woodbury, 44........
Whitinsville,  4-4.., 
Whitinsville, 7-8—
Wamsutta, 4-4........
Williamsville,  36...

1114
9
814
1114
914
14
914
1014

10148

714
1214
854
654
9
5M
754
654
1054
1014

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory. ...........  714
A n d r o s c o g g in  sat..  854
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon...............«54
Hallowell  Imp.......634
Ind. Orch. Imp.......614
Laconia..................  714

Kearsage................   8»
Naumkeagsatteen.  814 
Pepperell  bleached  814
Pepperell sat..........914
Rockport................   714
Lawrence sat..........  854
Conegosat...............  7

Albion,  solid............514
Albion,  grey............•
Allen’s  checks.........514
Alien’s  fancy.......... 514
Allen’s pink..............61/»
Allen’spurple.........654
American, fancy— 514
Arnold fancy...........6
Berlin solid............... 514
Cocheco fancy....... 6
Cocheco robes.........*
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone.............. 6
Eagle fancy............ £
Garner pink............7

Gloucester..............6
Glou cestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrknac D............ 6
Manchester............6
Oriental fancy.......6
Oriental  robes....... 614
Pacific robes.......... 6
Richmond............... 6
Steel River..............514
Simpson’s ............... 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Appleton A, 4-4—
Boott  M, 4-4...........
Boston F, 4-4..........
Continental C, 4-3.. 
Continental D, 40 in 
Conestoga W, 4-4... 
Conestoga  D, 7-8... 
Conestoga G, 30-in.
Dwight  X, 3-4........
Dwight Y, 7-8..........
Dwight Z, 4-4..........
Dwight Star, 4-4—  
Ewight Star, 40-in.. 
Enterprise EE, 36.. 
Great Falls E, 4-4...
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......
Indian  Orchard, 1-4

Indian Orchard, 40.  8*4 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........1614
Lyman B, 40-in....... 1014
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  614
Nashua  E, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 4-4........   75S£
Nashua 0,7-8..........  714
Newmarket N ........714
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7J4 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7 
Pepperell  0,7-8—   614 
Pepperell N, 3-4—   614
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R...............  714
Saranac  E...............  9

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

Amoskeag  .............   8  Renfrew, dress styl  914
Amoskeag, Persian 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
styles....................1014  Bookfold............1214
jjate s.......................   714 Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........1214
Berkshire.............   614
dress
Slaterville, 
Glasgow checks—   7 
6tyles..............I...  9
Glasgow checks, f’y  714 
White Mfg Co, stap  73£ 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
royal  styles........  8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston...............  954
standard.............   714
Gordon......................8
Plunket..................  754
Greylock, 
dress 
Lancaster...............  8M
styles  ...................1214
Langdale.................. 7341

checks,
new 

I

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

A n d r o s c o g g in , 7-4. .21 
iPepperell.  10-4.......2714
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23  Pepperell,  11-4.......3214
Pepperell,  7-4........20  Pequot,  7-4............. 21
Pepperell,  8-4........2214 Pequot,  8-4............. 24
Pepperell,  9-4........25 

|Pequot,  9-4.............2714

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4—  
Atlantic  H, 4-4—  
Atlantic  D, 4-4—
Atlantic P, 4-4.......
Atlantic LL, 4-4...
Adriatic, 36...........
Augusta, 4-4..........
Boott M, 4-4..........
Boott  FF, 4-4........
Graniteville, 4-4... 
Indian  Head, 4-4.. 
ndiana Head 45-in

7*t Lawrence XX, 4-4..  854
.  7  ¡Lawrence  Y, 30__   7
.  654 Lawrence LL, 4-4...  534
.  534 ¡Newmarket N ........  714
.  554¡Mystic River, 4-4...  654
.  714 Pequot A, 4-4..........  8
.  614 Piedmont,  36..........  7
.  7)4 ¡Stark AA, 4-4............734
,  734 'Tremont CC, 4-4—   5%
.  634|Utica,  4-4................ 9
,  754 Wachusett,  4-4.........714
,12i4IWachusett, 30-in...  634
TIC K IN G S.

Amoskeag,  ACA... 14 
Amqskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Amoskeag,  C........11
Amoskeag.  D........1014
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Amoskeag, F ............914
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Premium  B ............16
Extra 4-4.................. 16
Extra 7-8.................. 1414
Gold Medal 4-4........15
CCA 7-8....................12>/*
CT 4-4........................14
RC 7-8....................... 14
BF 7-8....................... 16
AF4-4....................... 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............ 1114

Falls, XXXX..........1814
Falls, XXX.............1514
Falls,  BB................11*/*
¡Falls,  BBC, 36........19*/,
¡Falls,  awning........19
[Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
¡Hamilton,  D..........10
'Hamilton,  H ..........10
j Hamilton  fancy... 10
[Methuen AA..........1354
•Methuen ASA........18
[Omega A, 7-8..........11
Omega A, 4-4..........13
Omega ACA, 7-8__ 14
Omega ACA, 4-4__ 16
Omega SE, 7-8........ 24
Omega SE, 4-4........ 27
Omega M. 7-8........ 22
Omega M, 4-4..........25
Shetucket SS&SSW 1114 
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Shetucket,  SFS__ 12
Stockbridge  A .......7
Stoekbridge frncy.  8

m

%

GLAZED  CAM BRICS.

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

. . .   5 Empire  ..................
...  5 Washington....... . . .
...  5 Edwards............. ...  5
8 .  S. & Sons........ ...  5

G R A IN   BAGS.
...19 Old  Ironsides. . . ...15)4
American  A . . .
Stark A ............. ....23)4 Wheatland........ ...21)4

DENIM S.

. . .   7)4 Otis CC.................... ...10*4
Boston ..................
...14)4 Warren  AXA... ...12*/*
Everett blue...
...14)4 Warren  BB......... ...11)4
Everett brown.
Otis  AX A ............ ....12)4 Warren CC........... ...10)4
OtisBB.................. ....1154 York  fancy......... . ..15

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Manvilie................
Masgnville.........

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

. . .   6
. . .   6

W IG A N 8.

Red  Cross...............  7
Berlin.....................   7
Garner....................  7  I

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

SPO O L COTTON.

Brooks....................50
Clark’s O. N. F....... 55
J. &. P.  Coats.......... 55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew
ing thread............30
BILE
Crown......................17
No.  10........ ............1214
Coin......................-.10
Anchor.................... 15
Centennial............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol...................... 14
London................. ..1214
P aeon ia............1 2
Red Cross.............. 10
Social  Imperial.... 16

Eagle and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks.................40
Stafford.................. 35
Hall & Manning__ 30
Holyoke...................25
BIAS.
Masonville TS........   8
Masonville S.......... 1054
Lonsdale.................. 954
Lonsdale A ..............16
Nictory  0 ...............  6
VictoryJ......... 
7
Victory D ..............10
Vkstoiy K ..........12)4
Phoenix A ..........  954
Phoenix B ....*....-1054
Phoenix X X .........15

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 

Spring & Company quote as follows:

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

 

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@  90
@  90
@  85
®  70
@  65
@  8254
@  70
@  8254
@  65

@1 00
@1 00
9®..
®  9754

 

HEMPS.

ALL WOOL SUPERFINBS.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford........ .................................. 
@  7754
Lowell............................ 
@  8254
 
Other  makes....................................  75  @  7754
Best cotton chain............................  60  @  6254
Best  2-ply.........................................  5754@  60
Other  grades 2-ply..........................   5254®  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4254® 45
Double cotton chain.......................   35  @  40
Heavv cotton and wool, double c.  30  @ 3254
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754@  3254
Single cotton chain.........................  19  @  25
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........   2754® 30
® 22
B, 4-4 wide.........................................  
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
® 1854
® 17
D;33  inches...................................... 
No. 1,4-4,5-4,6-4 and 8-4.................. 
© 45
@  3754
................... 
No. 2, 
©  30
No.3, 
..................  
No. 4, 
—  ’. .......... 
@ 2 5
Best all rattan, plain....................... 
@  6254
@ 5254
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier A ........................................... 
@  50
Napier  B ........................................... 
@  40
@  15
Opaque shades, 38 inch.................. 
@ 18
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4.......... 
@  10
Pacific  Holland, 4-4......................... 
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
@36
Cord fixtures, per gross................. 
@10

OIL CLOTHS.

MSTTINGS.

CURTaiNS.

do 
do 
do 

MILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:

HA TS.

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

00@12 00
00@18 00
00@12 00

BLACK  CR APE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand.

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

RIBBON S.

Satin and  GG, all silk,  extra heavy,  all  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. 12........ 
90
No. 16..................................................................110

 

 

 

 

The  Detroit Free Press thus relates a cir­
cumstance which every dealer will recognize 
at “true to life” :  “A few days  ago  a  lady 
entered a Grand Rapids store  and  asked  to 
be shown some dress goods.  She was shown 
a piece at $1.25 per yard, but this not  being 
good  enough  another  at $1.50 was handed 
down, but she still objected.  The clerk then 
took down the first piece shown  her,  telling 
her it was the best in the store at  $1.75  per 
yard.  She took ten yards at that  price  and 
left perfectly satisfied that she had  received 
the best.”

Voigt, Herpolsheimer  &  Co. have  lately 
been having a  big  trade  in  the  wholesale 
line,  especially  in  the  carpet  department. 
They carry all grades, styles and qualities of 
carpets and carpetings, and prices are always 
rock bottom.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.  respectful­
ly call  the  attention  of  outside  merchants 
to their general line of dry goods, embracing 
everything  kept  in  a  first-class  dry  goods 
stock.

The  motto  at  Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  & 
Co.’s establishment is “Sell goods at the low­
est possible prices,”  and ¡this  policy is  hav­
ing a telling effect upon their  business.

“ Close  prices  bring  customers.”  Such 
has been the experience of  Messers.  Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer & Co.

Big Rapids Bits.

Condensed from the Herald.

Barton & Morton succeed  T.  G.  Laur  in 

the confectionery business.

E. Vleit and F. C. Klady’s extension table 
factory will be in operation within  the next 
ten  days.

Two Eastern  capitalists  have  purchased 
the Hayes & Falardo mill, and will  organize 
a $30,000 stock  company.

W. W. Smith, John  G.  Martz,  Chet.  W. 
Comstock and W. A. Smith have  purchased 
a half interest in the Big Rapids Iron Works 
of  E.  Cannon.  The  concern  has  been 
thrown into a stock company,  with  $24,000 
paid-up capital.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

J. E. Gruber, druggist, Altona: “Valuable 

paper.”

Glenn  &  Porter,  general  dealers,  East 

Jordan:  “Can’t keep shop  without it.”

Wood  &  Thayer,  general  merchandise, 
McBride:  “It is a good paper and worth the 
money.”

Dr. John Leeson,  Cadillac:  “I  like your 
paper for its brevity, accuracy, and diversity 
of subjects.”

M.  Fordham  &  Co.,  druggists,  Elmira: 
“We  think  The  Michigan  Tradesm an 
should be supported by every business man.”
Powers  &  Hightower,  general  dealers, 
Ferry:  “We are well satisfied with  your pa­
per. 
It is just what we tradesmen  need  in 
our business.

J. R. Abbott,  grocer,  Howard  City: 

“I 
deem  it  a good  thing  for  all  engaged  in 
trade, and particularly so for  those  not  so 
well versed in business, and  who  have  not 
learned the tricks of trade.”

Hardware.
Review o f  the  M arket.

satisfactory  to 

As  announced  in  a  previous  issue,  we 
hope to make the  hardware  department  of 
those 
The  Tradesman 
more especially interested in this  branch of 
trade.  We are emboldened  to  speak thus, 
because of  our  increased  facilities, having 
secured the services of an experienced  man 
to give it special attention.

Nails. 

If, as  traveling  salesmen  say, a 
dealer can scarcely, if ever,  be  approached 
without the  question  being  asked,  “What 
are  you  making  nails  now?” 
then  the 
subject is of sufficient importance  to lead in 
this editorial.  A few days since the follow­
ing despatch was sent to the  press: 
“The 
meeting of  the  Nail  Association  (held at 
Pittsburg)  to-day was one of the largest and 
most  important  ever  held.  All  sections 
were fully represented.  The chief business 
of the meeting.was the discussion of  a plan 
for pooling sales and controlling  production 
and prices.  After a meeting lasting all day, 
a plan was adopted  unanimously  by  those 
present.  This was odo of  the most  impor­
tant moves ever taken in the nail trade West. 
Some mills  have  not  yet  agreed,  as  they 
were not at the meeting;  but  those  present 
are of the belief that the agreement  will be 
perfected.”  Then  followed  the  informa­
tion that several gentlemen,  prominent  and 
representative of the nail trade, were chosen 
to take this matter  into  consideration  and 
still further develop the plan.  At the  pres­
ent writing, nothing definite has been  given 
to the trade.  The  effect  upon  the market 
has  been to hold nails firm,  attended, how­
ever, with considerable  activity.  The  pre­
vailing idea  is  self-protection  against  the 
success of the pool.  They are quoted fairly 
at 2.65 @ 2.60 with a small rebate for  large 
lots or car loads.

Glass.  This commodity has moved  very 
slowly this season, owing to  its  high price. 
The long “strike” ended and mills in  opera­
tion again have  been gradually forcing  the 
price  lower.  Dealers  have  been  buying 
only as necessity required,  hoping  soon  to 
buy at “old  time  prices.”  Certain  rumors 
and influences of late have  sprung into  ex­
istence which cause glass to move more free 
ly.  Jobbers are holding it  quite  steady  at 
60 and 5 per cent.  (S> 60  and  10  per  cent, 
for single strength.

Barbed  Wire.  The  large  demand  for 
this fence material in the West is  astonish 
ing, even to  the  most  sanguine. 
It  is  as 
staple as iron itself.  The  hardware  store 
that has none is looked upon as a little “old 
foggyish.”  At the last meeting of the  West­
ern barb wire manufacturers, the price  was 
advanced 34c, and at a  subsequent  meeting 
the advance was adopted  by  the  jobbers in 
co-operation with the  manufacturers.  The 
present ruling  price  is  5Kc  for  the  four- 
point painted, and lc  extra  for  galvanized. 
The demand is in favor of the  latter

Hardware.  Notwithstanding  adverse 
opinions held as to the volume of this trade, 
the jobbers are fairly busy. 
In  fact,  times 
occur when it is said  to  be  difficult  to  fill 
orders promptly because of excess.  Absence 
of speculation is giving a strengenthing tone 
and the general opinion  now  prevails  that 
the season’s trade will  be  fairly  remunera­
tive and  strongly  marked  with  increased 
confidence.  There is nothing special to note, 
as the usual  changes  in  lists  and  prices 
which occur in the spring  of  the  year, our 
patrons are presumably acquainted with.

Tlie  Microscope  in  Detecting  Lard  Adul­

terations.

From the Scientific American.

The famons “lard comer” in Chicago  last 
fall, and how the  speculation  came  to  an 
end and large quantities of lard were reject­
ed as “good delivery” on account of  alleged 
adulteration, excited a degree of  interest  in 
the public mind which has not  yet subsided. 
If it were true, as was so  strongly  asserted, 
that an article as cheap as lard could be  suc­
cessfully adulterated on a large scale, people 
would hardly know where to  stop  in  their 
suspicions of everything not  strictly  “home 
made.”  The principle distinguishable differ­
ence heretofore  between  beef  tallow  and 
lard is that the former contains rather  more 
stearine;  and  this  difference  is  so  slight 
that there have been considerable  adultera­
tions of lard  with  beef  fat  which  it  has 
hitherto  been  almost  impossible  to  deter­
mine.  But on the  trial  of  the  law  suits 
which grew out of  this  lard  corner,  some 
strong and highly interesting  evidence  was 
presented, as the  result  of  nice  examina­
tions by the  microscope.

In their  way, by  dissolving  samples  in 
either a test tube,  which  were  crystallized 
on evaporation, and examining  them  under 
and amplification of  210 (diameters,  it was 
found possible to detect  an  adulteration  of 
lard with tallow as  low  as  five  per  cent. 
The different  forms gof  crystallization  of 
lard with  tallow were  first  discovered  by 
Dr. P. B. Rose, of Chicago, about two  years 
ago, but the  successful  application  of  the 
discovery  to  detect  this  adulteration  was 
made by William T. Belfield, M. D., of  the 
same city, one  of the  expert  witnesses  in 
the recent trial.  The pure lard crystals  are 
thin, rhomboidal plates, while those  of pure 
tallow have  curved  forms,  somewhat  like 
the italic letter “/ .”

One o f the  Best.

From the Newaygo Tribune.

The Michigan  Tradesm an,  published 
at Grand Rapids, by E. A. Stowe, has lately 
been enlarged and otherwise  improved  and 
is now one of the best papers  that  comes to 
our  exchange  table.  No  business  man 
should be without it

Sand-Sharpened  Flies.

From Dinglers Journal.

The value  of  sand-blast  in  sharpening 
files is  not  limited  to  the  restoration  of 
those that have been  worn  out,  but  it  is 
equally evident in the first cutting.  Experi­
ments have  been  tried  with  bastard  files 
which are finished by  the  sand-blast  upon 
one side while the  other  side  was  simply 
cut in the ordinary  manner;  other  files  of 
the same size were  also  tried,  which  had 
been  worn  out  and  resharpened  by  the 
sand-blast.  With these files three  pieces of 
gun metal,' of  equal size and  quality,  were 
worked by making fifty  thrusts  at  a  time 
upon each piece, and  continuing  until  one 
of the files became useless.  A  similar ex­
periment was tried with cast iron  and steel, 
showing that the newly  finished  files  were 
the first to give  out  and  those  that  were 
finished with the sand-blast were  the  most 
durable of  all.

New  Corporations  Authorized.

Ionia Co-operation & Mutual  Benefit As- 

socialion,  amended.

Kalamazoo  Savings  Bank,  Kalamazoo; 

capital, $50,000.

capital $5,000.

000.

Pontiac Cass Lake  Association,  Pontiac; 

Detroit Sanitarium, Detroit; capital  $50,-

Montague Gymnasium,  Montague.
Wood  Knitting  Machine  Co.,  Detroit; 

Capital City Manufacturing Co.,  Lansing; 

Big Rapids Iron Works, Big  Rapids; cap­

capital, $300,000.

capital, $25,000.

ital, $24,000.

Union School Furniture Co., Battle Creek; 

capital increased to $85,000.

Big Rapids Wooden Ware Co., Big Rapids; 

capital, $15,000.

She  Was  Not  In.

“ Good morning.  Is  Mr. Black in ? ”
“ No, sah; he’s gone to  his business, sah.” 
“ Well, is Mrs. Black i n ? ”
“ Dat depends, sah.  What  does  ye  want 

“ Why  here’s a milk  bill of  $35  I’d  like 

wid her ? ”

her to settle.”

“ She am not  in,"sah.”
“ But I know she is  in.”
“ Can’t help it, sah.  De orders am dat she 
am never in fur milk bills and meat bills and 
sich.  Good  mornin’;  I  has  to go;  she am 
callin’ me.”

“ I don’t think much of that,” said a waiter 
scornfully, as he picked up a  two cent piece 
given him by a customer.  “ Neither  do  I,” 
replied the customer, “ otherwise I shouldn’t 
have given it to you.”

HARDW ARE  GOODS.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as follows: 

AUGERS AND B ITS.

Ives’, old  style..........................................dis
N. H.C. Co.................................. A .........dis
Douglass’ ..................................................dis
Pierces’ ............................................        .dis
Snell’s........................................................ dis
Cook’s  .......................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine..................................dis
Jennings’,  imitation................................dis40&10

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

BALANCES.

25

Railroad........................................................$ 15 00
Garden....................................:................net 36 00

BARROW S.

__ dis  $ 60&10
__ dis
60
— dis
15
__ dis
20
—  dis
55

BELLS.
Cow.........................................
Call...........................................
Gong.......................................
Door, Sargent.........................
BO LTS.
Stove.......................................
Carriage and Tire, old list..
Plow  ......................................
Sleigh Shoe............................

__ dis $
40
.......dis 80&20
.......dis 30&10
..  ..dis 5Ü&15
__ dis
50
__ dis
55
__ dis
50
__ dis
55
__ dis
60
.......dis 55&10
.......dis 55&10
__ dis
30
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
50&10

Wrought Sunk Flush..........
Wrought  Bronze  and  PJated  Knob
Ives’  Door............................................ dis 

BRACES.

Barber..................................................dis$ 
Backus..................................................dis 
Spofford................................................ dis 
Am. Ball................................................dis 

40
50
50
net

Well, plain.....................................................$  4 00
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis 
60&10
70
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed........dis 
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin........................... dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.......... dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.......... dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
60& 5
tipped................................................dis 
Wrought Table.....................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind........................dis 
60
Wrought Brass.................................... dis  65&10
70&10
Blind. Clark’s........................................dis 
Blind, Parker’s..................................  dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s..................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2)4, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross  18 00

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10..........  , .................................per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F.................................  
G .D..................... 
35
Musket........................................ 
CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C.  & Winchester new list 
50
Rim Fire, United  States...........................dis  50
Central Fire................................................dis  *4

60
60

 

 

C H ISELS.

Socket Firmer.........................................dis  65&10
Socket Framing..................................... dis  65&10
Socket Corner................ ......................dis  65&10
Socket Slicks..........................................dis  65&10
Butchers’Tanged  Firmer..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers....................dis 
20'
Cold.........................................................net

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

33*4
26

COMBS.

Brass,  Backing’s.........................
40&10
49&10
Bibb’s ...........................................
B eer..............................................
40&10
60
Fenns’...........................................
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........ ............$ f t   37
...  39

14x52,14x56,14 x60.....................

COPPER.

DRILLS.

Morse’s Bit  Stock....................... .......dis
Taper and Straight Shank.......... .......dis
Morse’s Taper  SoSnk................. .......dis
ELBOWS.  **
Com.4 piece,6  in—
Corrugated........ .......... ..............
.....dis 20&10
Adjustable]........... — ........ .....d is 40&10

35
20
30

EXPANSIVE BITS.

Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00; 3, $30 00.

dis
dis

20
25

FILES.

.dis 40&10
American File Association  List........dis
.dis 40&10
Disston’s ..............................................dis
.dis 40 A10
New American...................................... dis
Nicholson’s...........................             dis
.dis 40&10
Heller’s ..................................................dis
30
dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps...........................dis
dis
33)4
28
18

‘¿7
12 
15
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14

22 and  24,  25 and 26,

Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

13 

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

50

GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

15
Maydole & Co.’s.....................................dis 
Kip’s ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes &  Plumb’s ................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.....................30 c  list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 

HANGERS.

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

HINGES.

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3..............................dis 
60
State..................................... 7... per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  5)4  14
and  longer..............................................
4 25 
Screw Hook and Eye,  V»  .................. net
10)4 
Screw Hook and Eye %..................... net
8)4 
Screw Hook and Eye  %......................net
7)4 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................... net
7*/* 
Strap and  T.......................................... dis
60&10

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stamped Tin Ware....................................  60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware................................. 
30
Granite Iron  Ware.................................. 
25

Grub  1............................................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub 3................................................  12 00, dis 40

HOES.

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 00, dis 6(1
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings..........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
60
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s................... d 
60
Hemacite............................................... dis 
50

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

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

LEVELS.

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................ 
dis  25
MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye....................................... $16 00dis4Q&10
Hunt Eye....................................... $15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

 

NAILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOd to  60d........ ..........   ..................... $  keg $2 66
25
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
6d and 7d  adv..................... ,........................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv...............................................  
75
3d advance....................................................   1  50
3d fine  advance............................................   3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1  75
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. $  keg 

)  lOd  8d 
2)4 
$1 25  1  50  1 75  2 00 
MOLLASSES GATES.

6d  4d
2 
1)4

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

MAULS.

OILERS.

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

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................... dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom..............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper...........................................dis  40
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ........ ........................................  
50

PLANES.

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

 

 

 

 

Fry, Acme............................................... dis 40&10
60
Common, polished................................. dis 
Dripping..................................................$   lb 
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)4 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs )4c $  ft 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, choicC Charcoal Terne...............16 90

Sisal, )4 In. and larger............................$  $   9)4
Manilla.............................................................  15

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Steel and  Iron.
Try and Bevels.
Mitre  ...............

dis  50
dis  50
dis  20

6)4
7

13 00
15 00
16

S H E E T IR O N .

Com. Smooth. Com.
$3 20
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40
3 60
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30 inches

Nos. 10 to 14.... ............................$4 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.
SH EET ZINC.

In casks of 600 fl>s, $   fi>............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   ft.....................  

T IN N E R ’S SOLDER.

No. 1,  Refined........................................... 
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

10x14, Charcoal......................................  6 50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................  8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal......................................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal....................................  8 50
IX, 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................   6  50
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal.....................................   8 50
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   10  50
IXXX, 14x20, Chareool................................   12  50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.................................  14 50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal.................................  18  00
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.

TR A PS.

Steel,  Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ......... dis  %
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. &W. Mfg.  Co.’s ......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 26{$doz

W IR E .

Bright Market...........................................  dis  60
Annealed Market__
.dis 
Coppered Market..........
.dis
Extra Bailing................
. .dis  55 
Tinned  Market........ ......
..kis  40 
Tinned Broom...............
. $ » 0 9  
Tinned Mattress...........
. $ »   8)4 
Coppered  Spring  Steel.
. dis 37)4 
Tinned Spring Steel.......
.dis 37)4 
Plain Fence....................
.$  ft 3)4
Barbed  Fence................
Copper.
.new  list net
Brass.................................................. new  list net

WIRE GOODS.

Jewett’s  Filters,

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are also Headquarters for

Grand  Rapids  Wheelbarrows  and

Baeon  &  Priestly  Express  Wagons,
All of which  are  sold  at  factory  prices.  We 
woutd be pleased  to  send  catalogue  to those 
wishing to buy.

We are carrying to-day  as  large  a  stock, 
and filling orders as complete, as  any  house 
in Michigan.

Bright.................................................dis 60&10&10
Screw Eyes........................................ dis 60&10&10
Hook’s ...................................... 
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................................dis 60&10&10
WrENCHES.

dis 60&10&10

 

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern........................................ ......d is 60
Screws  .V............ ......................... 
50
CakterBi Bed and  Plate............. .dis 
Dampers, American«.........."........A____ 

70
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Faster. Sti

PEOPLE  WHO TASTE.

How  a Grocer  Divides  His  Profits  W ith 

Careless  Customers.

Prom the Philadelphia Times.

“Does this sort of thing  go on all day?”
»All day?  Yes, and all the  week and  all 

the  year.”

“Can’t you stop  it?”
“No more than I can turn a  wheelbarrow 
into a coach and four. 
It’s part of the busi­
ness and we’ve got to grin and bear it, though 
it costs us a deal of  money.”

The  reporter  had  been  standing  in  a 
Market street grocery store for twenty min­
utes or so, talking to one of the  firm.  Dur­
ing that time six or eight persons  had  come 
in, ostensibly as purchasers.  Near the door 
was a tray  filled with white  grapes,  all  in
fair condition but off the stems, and  a  pla­
c a r d  on the tray  bore  this  seductive  line: 
“Only 10 cents a pound.”  A  keg  stood  on 
one side, in which  could  be  seen  delicious 
bunches of the same delicious fruit  peeping 
out of their ground-cork  bed.  The reporter 
had noticed that every person  who  came in
had taken from one to  three  of  the  loose 
grapes, which they munched with the utmost 
coolness, while three or four of them had ex­
tended their raid to the keg and  broken  off
one of two grapes from  some  of  the  hand­
somest bunches.  Then, with  an  of-course- 
you-know-its-all-right air, they turned to the 
clerks and inquired the  price  of  the  best 
“ Mocha  and  Java,  mixed,”  or  “ Extra 
sugar.”

“Have you ever made an estimate of what 
this costs  you  in  a  year ? ”  inquired the re  
porter.

“Never;  but I should say at  least  a  huu 

“I’m blessed if I don’t believe  your right, 
though I never  figured  it  up  before.  But 
what can we do?  We must show our  goods 
in a tempting way,  in  order  to  sell  them, 
and we’ll simply have to stand  the  loss  for 
the sake of the advertising it gives.  Do  we 
ever say anything to the samplers?  Oh,  we 
can’t well do  that.  Sometimes  it  develops 
into downright stealing and  then  we  speak 
quick enough.  There was  a  very  nice  old 
gentleman, a sort  of  friend  of  ours  he’s 
dead now—who used to come in  here  every 
day or two to have a chat.  He always man­
aged to get near the  ginger-snap  box  while 
talking  and  the  whole  time  he  stayed  he 
munched ginger snaps.  One day  we caught 
him fillin g his pockets as well as  his  mouth 
and after he was  gone we wrote him  a  line 
about it.  He never entered the store  after­
wards.

“How  about  the  holiday  season?  Your 
losses by tasting must be considerably above 
the average, then?”

“Yes.  We have a greater display of goods 
then and the tasting and sampling are  enor 
mous.  We  always  have  some  extra  fine 
raisins fer Christmas and their sale  depends 
on the ‘style’—that is, the neat attractive ar 
rangements in the boxes.  Somebody  comes 
along and  pulls two  or  three  raisins  from 
the  upper  layer  and  the  whole  effect  is 
ruined.  That is a loss to us of fifty per cent 
of the price of the box.  It’s the  same  with 
the finest bunehes of grapes—pull one grape 
off the stem, it mutilates the bunch and  the 
price falls at once.  The people  who  do  it 
don’t think about is, of course, but that don’ 
help us.  We’ve got to put up  with  lots  of 
things we don’t like and,  as  1  said  before 
we must  grin  and  bear  it.  Don’t go yet 
you’ve forgotten something.”

“What?”
“Take a grape or two?”

dred dollars.”

“ A hundred dollars!  Lucky  if  you  get 
off with ten times that  sum. 
I’ve  got  half 
an hour to spare and as this thing is  becom 
ing interesting  I’ll take a seat  and  make  a 
note of  everything taken in that  time.  Af­
terwards  you can give  me  the  prices  and 
we’ll see just what you are losing  by it.”

The reporter was hardly  seated  before  a 
small boy entered.  Strange to say, he passed 
by the grape tray and approaching the coun­
ter asked for a gallon  of  molasses.  While 
the clerk went to fill the jug the  boy  sidled 
up to a barrel of crackers  standing open  be­
fore him and began his  lunch.  He  ate  fif­
teen crackers  by  actual  count  and  as  the 
clerk returned hastily rammed  a  handful 
say twelve more—into his pocket.  The next 
customer was  a  gentleman  of  color,  who 
wanted a box of shoe blacking.  To  amuse 
himself while he waited for  his  change,  he 
* gnawed at an apple taken from a barrel near 
him.  As he left  the  store  he  added  three 
grapes to the  apple.  A  well-dressed  man 
and a little girl now came in, though  not to­
gether.  The man  had  heard  a  good  deal 
about their  California  champagne  and  was 
thinking  of  buying  a  case.  Would  they 
mind opening a bottle?  He was  somewhat 
fastidious in the matter of  wines and would 
hardly feel like buying a whole case without 
first sampling it.  The bottle was opened,  a 
glass was produced  and  the  man  speedily 
'  got on the outside of half a bottle.  He pro­
nounced the bouquet exquisite and the flavor 
prime;  would call in a day or two  and  take 
the case- a clear beat. 
In the meantime the 
little girl went for a stack of  dates  and  ate 
hqif a dazen while waiting to be attended to. 
She mixed three white grapes with her dates 
as she left.

A ll  Sorts.

Grayling is having quite a  business  boom

and is growing  rapidly._______

Complete assortment of  fishing  tackle  at 

Calkins Bros., 97 Ottawa street.

E. McNamara has engaged in the boot and 

shoe business at Traverse City.

Irvvig Force succeeds C.  W.  Ives  in  the 

meat business at Cedar Springs.

Mrs. Chettie Phillips has  engaged  in the 

millinery business at Elk Rapids.

Baker  &  Loomis,  druggists  at  Harbor 
Springs, have dissolved, Loomis  succeeding
Mississippi cane fishing poles $4 per  hun­
dred at Calkins Bros.  Good length  and  se­
lected. 

_________

. 

Mrs. W. E. Hardy and Mrs. Lamson  have 
engaged in the  millinery  and  dressmaking 
business at Harbor  Springs.

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

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

The salt industry of Manistee is assuming 
gigantic proportions.  Several new wells are 
now going down,  and  a  number  are  being 
contemplated.

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

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.

Harbor Springs Independent:  We under­
stand that Mr. Cox, brother  of  A.  A.  Cox, 
will open up a grocery in the  building  next 
to Eaton & Co.’s hardware, before  long.

It has been  suggested  that  the  most  ef 
fective way to ruin the Mormons would be to 
send out a score of milliners to set up a mag­
nificent establishment  filled with  expensive 
finery for  women.

M. B. Lang, who has been connected with 
the grocery department of Dexter & Noble’s 
store at Elk Rapids  for  several  years,  will 
engage in the grocery  business  on  his  own 
account about May  1.

“Do you paint yet?” asked  an  old  friend 
of a feminine artist, whom she had not seen 
before for  many  years.  “ Yes,”  was  the 
answer, “I still paint.  1 paint the  children 
red and I put it on with my  slipper.”

The next visitor  was  a  stout  lady  in  a 
seal-skin, who had with her a girl of sixteen 
and  a  boy  of  eight  She  stopped  at the 
grape-tray and took a taste of three.  These 
grapes  are  very  cheap,  Lucy,”  she  said; 
“see? only ten cents a pound.  Try ’em.”

Lucy ate four and Johnie  was  not  to  be 
left—he ate six;  total, thirteen.  A  box  of 
fancy knick-knacks stood open on  the coun­
ter and Johnnie captured an  elephant and a 
bear.  The old lady went  the  round tof the 
store with the young  tasters  in  her  wake, 
and it was all the reporter  could do to  keep 
track of their sampling.  He set it  down  in 
round figures at twenty-five cents’ worth;  it 
was not a penny less.

A German who came for  cheese  ate  two 
Moravian pretzels;  another small  boy,  who 
asked  for a pound of sugar, deftly  transfer­
red a handful of almonds  from  a  keg  into 
his  pocket;  two  handsome  young 
ladies, 
who ordered preserved peaches, took each  a 
bunch of raisins, and a young swell  bought 
a box of cigars  and  nibbled  at  two  knick- 
knacks,  pulling  off  two  big  round grapes 
from  a  bunch  in  the  keg as he sauntered 
out.

The half hour was now up and the report­
er  and  the  grocer  figured  up  the  losses. 
Here is the result:
Small boy—crackers...................................
Colored gentleman-apples and grapes..  OS 
Well-dressed man—bottle  champagne...  »100
Little girl—dates and grapes.....................
Stout Lady—miscellaneous.........................
German—pretzels......................................
Small boy,  No. 8-almonds.........................
Young ladies—raisins..................... 1U
Swell—knick-knacks  and  grapes  [a fine

bunch of the latter spoiled]...........................
76
T o tal............................................................... 
“There,” said the  reporter,  “you  have  a 
loss of SI.76 in half an hour  and the figures 
are your own.  Of  course,  the  champagne 
beat does not come  around  every  day  and 
we’ll deduct #1  for  him.  That  leaves  76 
centa—a pretty good half hour’s  leak.  You 
have a fair run  of  business  for,  say,  eight 
hours a*day.  If  the  sampling  is  as  brisk 
every half hour as I  have just  seen  it  your 
loss is 022.16 a day, or  03,793.92  a  year  of 
212 business days.  But we’ll say  this  esti­
mate is just double  what it should  be—that 
w ill  be resonable, w ill it  not?  W ell,  your 
loss  for  the  year  is,  therefore,  $1,896.96.”

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

Telephone Connection.

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

-----AT-----

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT THE—

s e e d   s t o r e ,

91  Canal St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LAÏOBEAM, Aient

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.

POTATO.

To G ardeners and Farm ers.  *

About two years ago, Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, sent to D. M. Ferry & Co., the well 
known seed firm of Detroit, for one-half bushel of the  celebrated White Star potatoes, for seed purposes.  The potatoes  were procured, 
and planted by the undersigned, and the result was one gratifying beyond measure.  The second planting yielded 7,000 bushels of as fine 
potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State.  They  were  pronounced  by  all  who  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 WTiite Star Potato, and tested it, are united
in its praise, and others will find it to their profit to make inquiries.
We are now making a sbecialty of handling this splendid potato, and are prepared to supply patrons at a price  which,  a  reference  to 
all seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to he a great reduction from the ruling prices.  We  make  this  liberal  offer  to
^W ew ill furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of 01.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount  to  dealers.  We  will  also 
furnish  at cost prices, all barrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their  own, adressed to Ensley & Son,  Maple  Hill,  Mich.  Orders 
mav be sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postoffice, Mich., or to O. W. Blain, General  Agent,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.  All  addresses 
should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes.  Patrons  should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses, and  state 
to what railroad station they wish to have their shipments made.  Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the .money,
New York draft, money order, or registered letter. 
Readers are cordially invited to refer to Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, and N. W. Mhther,
Banker  Howard City, Mich., for the truth of all of the above statements  regarding the superior quality and extraordinary  yield  of  the 
White Star Potatoes.  We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name. 

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33.  EUSTSI-iErY"  Sc  SOIST,  G r o w e r s ,

E n slo y   FostofQ.ce,  N ew aygo  C ounty,  M Icliigan.

FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS  AND  TERMS  TO  DEALERS,  ADDRESS

O.  W .  BLAIN,  General  Agent, 

PRODUCE  COMMISSION  MERCHANT, Eagle Hotel  or  152  Fulton  Street,

GHA»rr)  h a p i d s ,  m io h i&akt.

.

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HAZELTIHE,  PERKINS  &  COMPANY

WHOLESALE  DRUGGISTS,

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42  aid  44  Ottawa St.,  and  89,  91,  93  and  g5  Louis St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

I M P O R T E E S   JSLUTD  J O B B E R S   O F

Medicines,  Chemicals,  Pits,  Oils,  tesles,

A-r>H  D ruggists’  S u n d rie s.  A lso  M an u factu rers  o f

F ine
TJ. FEETER,

36 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Dealer  in

—Also—

STAP LE   AN D   F A N C Y   GROCERIES, 

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

erty.

“W B ItT

s TAR"

III!

■ I f

f i

An experienced married  man of  Muske­
gon says:  “If there is  one  time  more than 
another when a woman  should  be  entirely 
alone, it is when a full line of clothes comes 
down in the  mud.”

“Yes, I am  really  sorry,”  said  the  hen 
pecked husband;  “sorry  to  know  that  our 
forests  are  being  so  rapidly  destroyed. 
When they are gone I’m  afraid they’ll make 
broomsticks of iron.”

San Domingo has a mountain  of salt four 
miles long, and  supposed  to  weigh  nearly 
900,000,000 tons.  The salt  is  pure,  and  so 
clear that print may be read through a block 
of it a foot thick.  Next!

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. 

______

One gentleman had laid  the foundation of 
a fortune by  planting  100,000  cocoanuts  in 
Florida;  among the features  of  this  enter­
prise was the puf6hase  and  importation  to 
his plantation of  8,000  cats  to  be  turned 
loose against the rate and vermin.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

—Manufacturers  of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUINGS,  e t c .,

40  and  458  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  

MICH.

A.  A.  G RIPPEN ,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Gaps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large StocH, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

MICHIGAN M INIM AL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N.
Ineorvorated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

P resident—R ansom W. H aw ley, of  D etroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Ch a s. E. Sned eker, D etro it, 
L. W. A t k in s, G rand  Rapids;  I. N. Alexan- 
d e h , L ansing;  U. S. L ord» K alam azoo; H . E.
Measurer—W.  N.  Meredith,
BoariTof Trustees,  For One Y e w v - P on- 
t i u s , Chairman, S. A. HUNGER*
For Two Years—D. Morris, A, W. Culver.

At  M a n u fa c tu re rs’  P ric e s.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

Souse  and  Store  Shades  Made  to  Order. 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

NELSON  BROS. <& CO.

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

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

NOS.  1858  a n d   184  LO U IS  S T R E E T , G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

