The Michigan Tradesman.

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VOL.  1.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7,  1884.

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THE  HARVEST  OP  EGGS.

There is no form in which nutritious food 
is put up more neatly and compactly than in 
the  brittle white  cups of the egg shell,  and 
nothing in  the line  of provender more gen­
erally acceptable to the human palate.  And 
yet it is not generally  known  what  a  vast 
aifair the egg  industry  really  is,  or  what 
care and pains man takes, what  voyages  he 
makes or what terrible dangers he  encount­
ers in order that the markets  may  he  kept 
supplied with  this  tempting  and  favorite 
article of rood.

Some information in  regard to  it,  there­
fore, may not prove without  interest  to our 
readers.  The  eggs  of  a  great  variety of 
birds are used for food, but the  gallinaceous 
birds which include the domestic hens,  tur­
keys, guinea  fowl,  &c.,  supply  much  the 
greater proportion of  the  annual  harvest. 
Of  hen’s  eggs, the  number  consumed 
is 
simply immense, and is constantly on the in­
crease. 
In illustration, it may be mentioned 
that the eggs imported  into  England  from 
the Continent, in the  year  1844,  amounted 
to 44,000,000. 
In 1860 they  had  increased 
to nearly 160,000,000.  At the  present  time 
they reach the enormous  total  of  785,000,- 
000.
Yet this is but a fraction  of  the  number 
of eggs consumed by  our  English  cousins. 
Their own hens are as industrious  as  those 
of their neighbors of  France  and  Belgium, 
and produce at least as many as  are  import­
ed, while Ireland adds some  500,000,000  to 
the annual supply.  Thus  the  total  con­
sumption of England must equal  2,000,000,- 
000.  Great as this number is, it seems small 
in comparison with that of the  egg  harvest 
of the United States, most of which must be 
eaten  at  home.  The  Popular  Science 
Monthly estimates the egg  product  of  this 
country at 9,000,000,000.  Of  this  number 
about 300,000,000 go to the New York market 
alone.

In addition to  the  eggs  yielded  by  our 
domestic fowls, great numbers of  the  eggs 
of wild fowl are gathered and sold.  These 
are chiefly  the  eggs  of  sea  birds,  and  are 
collected at  their  breeding  places  on  the 
barren islands or headlands  of  the  ocean. 
Those yielded by members of the  Duck, the 
Gull and the Tern families are the favorites. 
On the barren keeps or low, sandy  islets of 
the West Indies, the Sea Swallow,  or terns, 
congregates in myriads.  When visitors land 
on these keys the birds fly up in clouds  that 
darken the air and with a noise that  drowns 
the roar of  the  breakers.  Their  eggs  are 
delicious, and are gathered  in great  quanti­
ties during the spring months.

One species of the Tern  refuses  to  leave 
its nest on the approach of visitors. 
It  has 
been called  the  noddy,  from  its  personal 
stupidity.  This species is  present  in  vast 
multitudes, the nests being so close together 
that it is no very easy  matter  to  walk  be­
tween them.  The  eggs,  which  are  very 
palatable, are collected in great  numbers.

In the seas of the north one  of  the  most 
important  of  the  egg-laying  birds  is  the 
celebrateed Eider Duck.  But the egg of this 
bird is a secondary  object  with  collectors. 
Its precious and delicate down is still  more 
valuable. 
In  Iceland  and  the  islands  of 
Norway these birds  are  guarded  with  the 
greatest care during the nesting  season, and 
they congregate in great multitudes.  Even 
in  Greenland,  where  they  are  recklessly 
slaughtered, upwards of 50,000 eggs are  col­
lected yearly, and the barren coasts of  Lab­
rador are annually  visited  by  “eggers” in 
search of the eggs of these and other  birds.
But in Norway and Iceland,  where  they 
are carefully preserved,  an  enormous  har­
vest of eggs is made.  The  eggs  are  3  in­
ches long and 2 thick, and as  a  rule  about 
four or five are taken  annually  from  each 
nest, two or three being left for  the  female 
to hatch out.

The 

the  eggs. 

But the eggs, as we have said, form  but a 
portion of the marketable  products  of  the 
Eider Ducks.  They have the peculiar habit, 
after laying two or three eggs,  of  plucking 
the soft white down  from  their  breasts to 
cover them.  This down  is carefully gather­
ed  along  with 
same 
process  is repeated once or twice during the 
season.  The story  has  long  been  extant 
that, when the  •female has  exhausted  her 
down, the male comes to her  aid,  and  that 
the eggs are no longer disturbed  when  seen 
to be covered by his darker colored offering. 
Unfortunately for this  pretty  story  of  do­
mestic co-operation, it is now said  to  be  a 
fable. 
It is  one  of  those  neat  traditions 
that keep long simply  because  people  like 
the sound of them, but which will not  bear 
investigation.  The down is  very  soft, and 
so elastic that less than an  ounce of  it  will 
fill a large hat, yet two or three  pounds can 
be compressed within the  hand.

An Iceland traveler  gives  an  interesting 
account  of  the  Eider  nesting  grounds  on 
the small island of Vigr.  Here  the  birds 
nest everywhere—not only in the.  holes  cut 
for them in the turfy soil, but  all over  and 
around the single farm house of tlie  island 
The garden  walls,  the  thatched  roof,  the 
window ledges and the interior of out-houses 
were taken possession of, and one adventur­
ous duck had even made its nest in the door 
scraper.  The birds are so  tome  as  to  let 
themselves be stroked upon the nest, though 
the males cackle around  very  uneasily  dur-

The Gulls, the Guillemots, the Geese  and 
other birds of the northern seas are  also im­
portant  sources  of  the egg  supply.  But 
many of these  birds  nest  on  the  narrow 
ledges of precipitous cliffs, and  the  gather­
ing of their eggs is a difficult and very  dan­
gerous service.  On  the  Faroe  Islands,  to 
thenorth of Scotland, the  egg  hunters  are 
lowered at the end  of  an  immense  rope 2 
inches thick and 900  feet  long.  Swinging 
in the air, at the mercy of the wind  or  of a 
frayed strand of the rope, they descend from 
cliff to cliff and  rock to rock  hunting every 
nook and cranny for eggs and  birds.  Now 
they come up with a well-filled  sack.  But 
again, to the terrible dismay of their fellows 
at the summit of the cliff,  the  rope  comes 
up light and empty.  The daring egg hunter 
has lost his hold  and  has  fallen  into  the 
boiling waves at the foot of the  lofty  preci­
pice, to be ground to atoms against  the rug­
ged edges of the rocks.

On the island  of St.  Kilda  a  somewhat 
different method is pursued.  Here the  eggs 
of the wild geese are sought  at  the  foot of 
less precipitious cliffs.  Two  men  climb to 
the top of the cliff, taking with them a  rope 
of twisted cowhide covered  with  sheepskin. 
Each ties an end of this  rope  to  his  body, 
and one man descends  the  cliff,  while  the 
other braces himself at its summit.  He first 
fills his  sack  with  eggs,  and  attaches  as 
many goslings as he  can to  his  body,  the 
frightened little creatures  clinging by  their 
claws.  When the signal is given,  his  com­
panion  at the  top  hauls  him  up,  turning 
round and round like a windlass and  twist­
ing the rope around his body.  The industry 
is a very productive one, and a cowhide rope 
forms a large part of  the  dowry  of  a  St. 
Kilda belle.

the  clumsy 

Another source of the egg  harvest  comes 
from an animal very unlike a bird.  This  is 
the Sea Turtle, a creature who is a very dili­
gent and effective egg layer. 
It  lays  from 
150 to 200 eggs at a time,  and  this  several 
times a year.  For this purpose, sandy shores 
are  visited,  where 
traveler 
quickly digs a hole with its hind  feet,  lays 
its eggs and then covers them up to be hatch­
ed by the sun.  Turtle eggs are  esteemed a 
great delicacy by the natives of  the  tropics, 
and they seek for them by probing the  sand 
with a light stiff cane.  The  young  turtles, 
however, soon hatch  out,  and  run  in  great 
regiments of comical  little creatures  across 
the sands to  the  sea,  with  an  instinctive 
ljaste to escape their multitude  of  enemies.
In regard to the eggs of  sea  fowl,  there 
are other localities than  those  above  men­
tioned in which  they  are  largely  gathered, 
and other birds which  yield  them.  Thus 
the waste places on  the  coast  of  Northumj 
berland yield them in great  numbers;  parts 
of the African coast are very prolific;  Turks 
Island, near New Zealand, is a noted  locali­
ty;  and islands generally, if  they  have un­
inhabited coast lands, are  utilized  as  nest­
ing places.

father of the church, solicitous for the spirit­
ual welfare of Lis congregation, and  fearing 
that  they  were  disobeying  his  injunction 
against egg-eating in Lent, took the  trouble 
to specifically repeat the  prohibition.  To 
make sure that they should not  escape him 
by some subterfuge, he detailed  every  con­
ceivable method in which eggs could be cook­
ed, and threatened the terrors of the  church 
against any sinner who should dare  to  par­
take of eggs prepared in any  of  these  pro­
hibited and  profane  methods. 
Some time 
afterward, in his pastoral rounds, he happen­
ed suddenly into  the hut of a  peasant,  who 
was hungrily regaling his eyes  upon  some 
object suspended above the fire.  What was 
the surprise and horror of our worthy priest 
to perceive that the  shrewd sinner  had  an 
egg suspended by a string, and slowly roast­
ing in the heat of the  fire. 
It was  a mode 
of egg-cooking which had never entered into 
his imagination, and  which,  therefore,  re­
mained unprohibited.  At a loss what to say 
under such unimagined  circumstances  the 
discomfited priest broke out  with:

“O, you unprecedented sinner!  Who  ever 

taught you to cook eggs in that  fashion?”

The discovered culprit, a little  fearful  of 
consequences, and eager to shift the  respon­
sibility to broader shoulders,  replied:

“Don’t blame me for it,  father. 
the devil who put it into my head.”

It  was 

During this colloquy,  as  the  story  goes, 
Satan himself was seated  cross-legged  on a 
barrel in a comer of the  hut,  no  doubt  in 
high enjoyment of  the  situation.  But the 
father of evil, despite his  load  of  lies,  de­
cidedly objected to be saddled with this new 
sin, and blurted out from his corner:

“He lies, your  reverence! 

I  never  saw 

the trick myself before.”

At this point the  curtain  drops,  and  we 
are left to imagine the conclusion of this  in­
teresting scene.

But to return from the region  of  fable to 
that of fact, it may be  well  to  briefly  de­
scribe the various modes of preserving  eggs. 
Hermetically sealed, as are these neat pack­
ages of provender, they  have  the  elements 
of  decay  within  themselves,  and  become 
very quickly the objects of abhorence to any 
well regulated household,  unless  their  de­
cay is arrested.  This  can  be  most  easily 
performed by preventing the  passage  of air 
through the pores of the  shell.  This  object 
is accomplished in the United States  by. the 
limiitg process,  which  keeps  them  fit  for 
every purpose  but  boiling. 
In  China, a 
paste made of lime, salt and  ashes  is  used 
for the same  purpose.  Egg  raising  is  a 
highly-important  industry  in the  Flowery 
Kingdom, and the preservative paste is made 
with great care.  The eggs are said to  come 
out something the worse in looks and smell; 
but our Chinese cousins  have  strong  stom­
achs, and are not apt to let a squeamish nose 
interfere with their  appetites.

Of other birds than those  mentioned, the 
Auk yields vast quantities of eggs, which are 
very largely collected on the coast of  Labra­
dor;  and the eggs  of the  dusky  petrel  are 
sent from Bass Strait  to  Australia  in 
im­
mense numbers.

There are various birds whose  eggs  have 
a remarkable value for their size, as  well as 
for their delicacy.  Thus the  eggs  of  the 
Malle birds of Celebes, which are  consider­
ed specially delicious, are each large enough 
to fill  an  ordinary  tin cup,  and  to  make 
with bread and rice, an acceptable meal.

Of our domestic egg layers, the egg of  the 
hen weighs from 1X  to  2  ounces;  of  the 
duck, from 2 to 3;  of the turkey, from  3 to 
4;  and of the goose,  from  4  to  6  ounces. 
But the egg  of the Ostrich, which is  grow­
ing into repute as a valuable  food  element, 
is equal in weight to 24 or 36 hens’  eggs, ac­
cording to different authorities.  The  num­
ber of eggs laid by  each  bird  is  variously 
estimated at from  16  to 30.  But  we  are 
told that single individual birds have laid as 
many as 82 eggs in a  season.  Calculating 
each of these at the smaller estimate  of  24 
hens’ eggs, the total product of  such  a bird 
would be equal to nearly 2,000 of  the  eggs 
of our domestic fowl.

The eggs of the Australian Emu are near­
ly as large as those  of  the  ostrich.  They 
are strong in flavor, but are eaten with relish 
by  the  settlers.  Those  of the  Rhea,  or 
South American Ostrich, are also  valued  as 
a food supply.  The nests of this bird  yield 
from 40 to 70 eggs.  The largest eggs known 
are those of certain extinct birds.  Those of 
the Moa, of New Zealand, have been  found 
which measured* 10 inches long and 7 broad 
Those of the extinct Apiomis,  of  Madagas­
car, were still larger, each having a capacity 
equal to that of 148 hens’ eggs.

It is  perhaps  best  to  say  nothing  here 
about the celebrated Roc’s  egg  of  Arabian 
fable.  A bird large enough to  carry  off  an 
elephant in its talons would not make a very 
desirable domestic fowl, even though it  laid 
an egg as large as a meeting house.  We can 
be well satisfied that the Roc’s egg  does not 
exist  outside the  enchanted  limits of  the 
“Arabian Nights’ Entertainments,” however 
valuable a  Lenten  entertainment it  would 
make.

Speaking of the Lenten  fast, it  may  be 
well to repeat a good story  which  comes to 
ns from the far-off land of Russia. 
In this

In some parts of England,  eggs  are  pre­
served by boiling, removing the  shells  and 
pickling.  The new methods of  food preser­
vation, so much in vogue in  our  day,  have 
been found applicable to eggs, and  the  pro­
cesses of canning  and  dessicating  are now 
largely practiced.  Among the Germans, egg­
canning is becoming an important branch of 
industry.  The dessicating  and  condensing 
process is principally practiced in the United 
States, the cities of St. Louis and New York 
being the main seats of  this  new  and  im­
portant industry.  Air  and  water  are  the 
two great foes to human  food. 
Fairly get 
rid of them and it may be kept  indefinitely. 
This is the basis of all modem food  preser­
vation.  Oxygen  is  defeated  by  air-tight 
cans;  water is got rid of by  drying, proces­
ses;  and thus we are learning how to  make 
a fruit  yielding summer of the whole  round 
year.

Having said so much in regard  to eggs, as 
a food product, a few words as to  eggs con­
sidered for themselves  alone  may  not  be 
amiss.  And,  first,  what  is  an  egg?  We 
know, of course, that it  contains  the  germ 
of an animal, hut this germ  constitutes only 
a microscopic portion of the yolk.  All the 
remaining contents of the egg are  provided 
as food for the young animal.  The  yellow, 
or yolk, is a rich and specially adapted food, 
which serves to build up  the  framework of 
the body of the growing embryo. The white, 
or egg albumen, serves as food for the young 
animal after it has attained a  certain  devel­
opment, and ere  it is ready to break through 
the shell and to seek food for  itself  in the 
outer  world.

The quantity of food thus provided by the 
parent varies greatly in  different  orders  of 
animals. 
In viviparous animals the  egg  is 
usually very minute, the embryo  being  fed 
directly from the blood vessels of the parent 
until fully  developed.  Among  oviparous 
animals, its size is governed by  special  cir­
cumstances.  The young of birds  leave  the 
egg in  a  highly  developed  state.  They, 
therefore, ¿need a considerable  store of food 
within the egg.  But in the case of  insects, 
which leave the egg in the miniature  condi 
tion of larvae, the food supply  is  compara­
tively small.  The young insect has to  shift 
for itself not only in its growth to maturity 
hut also in its  development  to  the  typical 
form of its species. 
It  is  “horn, but  not 
made,” and has to  finish  its  own  making 
from the caterpillar to the butterfly fonga, or 
from the larvae  to other insect types.

oval body, embraced in a  thin,  smooth  and 
brittle shell of carbonate of lime.  But from 
this type there  are  wide  deviations.  The 
eggs of insects, for  instance,  are  far  from 
smooth, but are  covered  with  spines,  pits 
and tubercles in  the most  varied  arrange­
ment. 
In snakes and lizards the egg is  cov­
ered  with  a  strong  parchment-like  mem­
brane.  The eggs of sharks and rays  are en­
closed in a four-sided horny case, with tend­
rils to  fasten  them  to  floating  sea-weed. 
These egg cases, when cast  ashore,  are  fa­
miliarly known as “mermaid’s purses.”  The 
egg  covering  of  the  bony  fishes,  such  as 
trout and salmon,  is  very  elastic,  so  that 
they will “rebound from  the  floor  like  an 
india rubber ball.”  This,  probably,  is  to 
prevent their being crushed in  the  gravelly 
beds  of  streams.  The eggs  of  frogs  and 
toads are covered with a  tough  layer  of  al­
buminous substance, which expands in  wat­
er into a transparent  jelly.  Those  of  the 
frog  occur  in  great  masses,  piled  together 
like  minute  cannon  balls;  while  those 
of the toad are united like strings of  beads.
Many of  the  mollusks  make  additional 
coverings for their eggs, some of which  are 
very curious.  A form very common on  our 
sea coasts consists of  a  long  central  cord, 
which is strung  with  successive  flat  disks, 
gradually decreasing in  size.  These  disks 
are hollow, and in their  sides may  be  seen 
minute holes, through which the young shell 
fish has escaped.

Before concluding, some  reference  to the 
number of  eggs  laid  by  different  animals 
maybe  desirable.  These  vary  greatly— 
from one to many millions.  Of  the  verte­
brate animals, the fishes yield far the greater 
number  of  eggs. 
Some  species,  indeed, 
yield only a few eggs,  but  others  produce 
millions.  The cod fish is one  of  the  most 
prolific, the roe of a  20  lb.  cod  containing 
nearly  5,000,000  of  eggs.  The  sturgeon 
is also highly prolific, the eggs  forming usu­
ally one-third of its  entire  weight.  Could 
all these eggs yield mature fish,  the  oceans 
would soon be crowded with single  species; 
but so many other fish feed on the  eggs and 
the young as to easily keep down their num­
bers.  Fish roe also forms part of the human 
egg harvest,  particularly  that  of the  stur­
geon, which is esteemed  as a table delicacy 
by the Russians, in a prepared form  known 
as ca/viare.

eggs. 

Of the molluscous animals, the  oyster  is 
one of the most  prolific.  A  single  oyster 
yields  nearly  2,000,000 
Efforts 
are now making by the United  States  Fish 
Commission  to  artificially  propagate 
the 
oyster. 
In view of the decreasing  numbers 
of this valuable  food animal,  these  experi­
ments are of the  greatest  importance. 
If 
the oyster can be artificially  reared from its 
eggs, like the  fish,  the  annual  harvest  of 
shell fish may be enormously increased.  So 
far, the experiments have proven unsuccess­
ful, but Professor Ryder, of the  Fish  Com 
mission, intends to repeat  them,  with  im­
proved methods, this  summer.

Of other prolific egg layers, the  white ant 
is a  remarkable  instance.  The  queen  of 
this species is simply an enormous  egg bag. 
several hundred times larger than any of her 
subjects.  She is said to lay 80,000 eggs  per 
day, and as this is continued  for  about  two 
years, her total number of eggs must amount 
to  about 50,000,000.

This, however, is  considerably  surpassed 
by some other  animals.  Prof.  Baird  esti­
mates that an eel may  contain  at  one  time 
9,000,000,  eggs.  A  nemotade  worm  was 
found by him to hold 60,000,000 and  a  tape 
worm more than 100,000,000 eggs. 
It would 
be rather unfortunate if all the eggs  of  the 
tape worm could have a  chance  to develop.
Fortunately, the creatures which  lay eggs 
in such enormous quantities  do  so  because 
very few of them have any chance in the life 
struggle.  As the chance to develop'increases, 
the  number  diminishes,  and  the  animal 
which lays but one egg at a time  may  yield 
as many mature offspring as the  millionfold 
egg layer.  As for our egg supply,  we  must 
look to the less  busy  layers,  and  welcome 
the triumphant cackle of the hen as  an inti­
mation that she has added one more  egg  to 
the annual harvest.

Pickled tea forms a common article of con­
sumption in Burmah.  The leaf, after  pick­
ing, is first steamed, and then spread out  on 
mats to dry.  When dry it is  deposited in  a 
pit lined with bamboos, and  pressed  down, 
layer after layer, until the  pit  is  filled  up, 
when it is  covered  up  with  branches  and 
leaves of trees,  and  earth  heaped  over  it. 
Tne  tea  is  left  thus  for  a  month  or  six 
weeks, when it  becomes  fit  for  use. 
It  is 
then tightly compressed into wooden baskets, 
which are submerged four  days  or  a  week 
before  being  finally  taken  up.  The  great 
secret is to keep the tea  wet.  The  leaf  is 
eaten in its moist state and undergoes no pro­
cess of cooking.  The Burmese flavor it with 
a sprinkling of salt and cocoanut  scrapings, 
and prize it above all other  pickles.  Their 
taste must undoubtedly be fearfully vitiated.
Appearances  are  often  deceptive,  and 
many a man is  misjudged  by  trifles.  The 
peacock struts with  its  head  in  the  air as 
though  it  were  the  monarch  of creation— 
while  the  valuable  and  honest  watch-dog 
carries his head low.  In the grain field  the 
light heads are the tallest,  while  the  x?ell-

NO. 33.

BUSINESS  LA W .

B rie f D igests o f R e cen t  D ecisions in  C ourts 

o f L a st  R esort.

In te re s t—O n  P ro m isso ry   N ote.

A note of $1,000 made  in  Nebraska  bore 
“12 per cent, interest from date. 
In  an  ac­
tion upon this note,  it not  having been paid, 
Kellogg vs. Lavender, the trial  court  allow­
ed but legal interest,  7  per  cent., from  the 
maturity of the note to  the  entry  of  judg­
ment.  The plaintiff appealed to the Supreme 
Court of Nebraka, where it was decided that 
the note carried the  interest stated in  it,  12 
per cent., until judgment  was  entered,  and 
then the legal rate began.

B a n k   C heck—W liat  Is.

An instrument drawn by a depositor  on  a 
bank in the following form, after giving  the 
date and the name of the bank:  “Pay to  A 
and B for account of C  & Co.,  ten  hundred 
and eighteen 23-100 dollars,”  and signed  by 
the depositor, is a valid bank check and will 
operate to transfer to the payees an  amount 
of the drawers’ funds, on  deposit,  equal  to 
the sum named on its face.  The words “for 
the account of C &  Co.”  do  not  change  its 
character as  a  check.—Supreme Court  Illi­
nois, case of Ridgely National Bank vs. Pat­
ten & Hamilton.

L e tte rs  P a te n t  as  A ssets.

Letters patent belonging to a  firm  are  to 
he dealt with on  a  dissolution  of  the  firm 
like other partnership property.  That which 
was partnership property before the dissolu­
tion continues to be so afterward, and a sale 
of the whole personal  property  will  be  or­
dinarily enforced by a court  of  equity,  and 
an account ordered of profits made since the 
dissolution.  The  surviving  partner  is  not 
allowed to divide the property  in  specie,  or 
take it himself at a valuation,  or to have  its 
value ascertained otherwise than  in  a  sale, 
but he must turn all the assets into an avail­
able form, so far as this  can  be  done.—Su­
preme Judical Court of Massachusetts.

Sale—A g re e m e n t  N ot  to  C o n tin u e B usiness 

D am ages.

The case of Stafford vs. Shortreed, appeal­
ed to the Supreme Court  of  Iowa,  involved 
an agreement, on the part of  A.,  who  sold 
out the business and the good-will thereof to 
B., not to go into the same  business  in  the 
vicinity for  three  years,  under  penalty  of 
$100.  The agreement was  violated  and  B. 
got out an injunction against A., which  was 
afterward dissolved, and an appeal taken, re­
sulting in the following decision:  “It  is  to 
be presumed that the plaintiff made his con­
tract with a full knowledge  of  the  defend­
ant’s financial standing  and  ability  to  dis­
charge  his obligations. 
If  he  had  doubts 
upon the question he  should  have required 
some security to protect himself against any 
damages he might  sustain by reason  of  the 
defendant’s  failure  to  observe  his  agree­
ment.  All he can have is the ordinary  pro­
cess of the law to enforce  payment;  he  can 
not have an  injunction  to  restrain  the  de­
fendant from doing business.  The  amount 
the defendant agreed to pay  is in the nature 
of liquidated damages;  it can not be regard­
ed as a penalty, because the  actual damages 
here must, in the nature of  things,  be  sub­
ject of mere conjecture;  they can  not be  es­
tablished by evidence,  even  appoximately.”

T he  W agon  o r  D ray .

Some drivers seem to think that  in  order 
to make a wagon wear well it is very  neces­
sary to grease the axle repeatedly;  but there 
never was a greater mistake.  A  well made 
wheel will wear from 10 to 25 years, if  care 
is taken to use the  right  kind  and  proper 
amount of grease; hut if  this  matter is not 
properly attended to they will be used up in 
five or six years.  Lard should never be used 
on a wagon, for it will  penetrate  the  huh, 
and work its way out around the  tenons  of 
the spokes, and spoil the wheel.  Tallow is 
the best lubricator for  wood  axle-trees, and 
castor oil for iron.  Just  enough  lubricator 
should be  applied  to  give  the  spindle  a 
slight coating; this is better than  more,  for 
the  surplus  put  on  will  work  out  at  the 
ends, and work by the shoulder  hands  and 
nut washers into the hub around the outside 
of the boxes.  To oil an iron axle, first wipe 
clean with a cloth wet with turpentine; then 
apply  a  few drops  of  castor  oil  near  the 
shoulder and end—one teaspoonful is ample 
for the whole.  Let  the  fifth  wheel  of  a 
wagon or carriage alone; if it  grates,  tight­
en the king bolt, but in  no  event  put  any 
grease or oil upon it.  Any greasy substance 
will attract dust and  grit,  which  is  augu- 
mented  each  time it is  greased, and  will 
eventually wear it out  Use does  not wear 
out the majority.

Good  W o rd s  U n so licited .

A. Conklin, general dealer, Bloomer  Cen­
ter:  “Your paper is a good one,  and I think 
it pays every dealer in Michigan  to take i t ”
James J. Gee, hardware, Whitehall:  “En­
closed find $1. 
I have waited this late  that 
I might know whether to pay up to date and 
discontinue or take it the  year. 
I am  satis­
fied it is just what every dealer should  have 
who wishes to buy and sell to  the  best  ad­
vantage.”

For  bargains  in  groceries,  write  I.  E. 
Messmore o r “ Dick ” Warner, as the former 
is closing out his entire  stock.

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A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Term s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates m ade know n on application.

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7,  1884.

Subscribers  and  others,  w hen  w riting 
to   advertisers, will confer a favor on  th e pub­
lisher by  m entioning th a t th ey  saw th e  adver­
tisem ent in the colum ns of  this  paper.

To newspaper men is commonly  accorded 
the palm of taking the first rank as  prevari­
cators ;  but T h e  T r a d e s m a n  has discovered 
a class of men who can discount the editorial 
profession nine days in the  week—the  tele­
phone managers.

The  Detroit  Free  Press  has  sent  the 
“Champion  Liar  of  Christendom,”  yclept 
Clark, to this city to write up our industries. 
If Grand Rapids  needed  to  be  lied  about, 
this  man ¡would  fill  the  bill;  but,  fortun­
ately, we are in a  position  to stand  on  our 
merits.  The  Free  Press  is usually happy 
in the selection of its editorial and  business 
staff, but in this case it has been imposed up­
on, and the sending of  such  a  character  to 
Grand Rapids is an insult to the  city.

A correspondent writes:  “Why don’t  you 
boom the  Delinquent Debtor  Department?” 
If it were in T h e  T r a d e s m a n ’s  power  to 
run such a department alone, it would  be a 
regular feature of the  paper  every  week; 
but the success or failure of the undertaking 
rests  with  the  dealers  themselves.  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n  stands  in  readiness  to  print 
every contribution that  comes  to  hand, but 
unless more interest  is  manifested  in  the 
matter, it will be safe to  conclude  that the 
project is not fruitful of practical results.

The bill prohibiting the sale and manufac­
ture of oleomargarine and other butter imita­
tions has  passed  both  houses  of  the  New 
York Legislature and received the signature 
of the Governor,  and  has  consequently  be­
come a law.  Nevertheless, one of the  larg­
est  wholesale  dealers  in 
imitation  butr 
in  New  York  City  declares  his  de­
ter 
termination 
sale  of 
the  article.  He  says  that  he  will  offer 
oleomargarine and butterine for sale on their 
merits, that is, for what they  are. 
If  he  is 
arrested  for  so  doing,  he  will  contest  the 
law on the ground of its unconstitutionality. 
The outcome of such litigation will be  look­
ed for with much interest, as the triumph or 
defeat of the law will  determine^ the  feasi­
bility of similar litigation in other  states.

to  continue 

the 

M a rk   T w ain   on  Sm oking.

I am 46 years old  and  have  smoked  im­
moderately  during  thirty-eight  years,  with 
the exception of a few intervals which I will 
speak of presently.  During the  first  seven 
years of my life I had no  health. 
I may al­
most say that I lived on allopathic medicine, 
but since that period I  have  hardly  known 
what sickness is.  My  health  has  been  ex­
cellent,  and remains so.  As I  have already 
said, I began to smoke immoderately when I 
was 8 years old;  that  is  I  began  with  100 
cigars a month, and  by the time I  was  10  1 
had increased my allowance to 200 a month. 
Before I was 30 I had increased  it  to  300  a 
month. 
I think  I do not smoke  more  than 
that now. 
I am quite  sure  I  never  smoke 
less.  Once when I was 15 I ceased smoking 
for three months,  but  I  do  not  remember 
whether the effect resulting was good or evil. 
I repeated  this  experiment  again  when  I 
was 22 but I do not remember  what  the  re­
sult was. 
I  repeated  the  experiment  once 
more when I was 34, and ceased from smoke- 
ing during a year  and  a  half.  My  health 
did not improve, because it was not possible 
to improve health that was  already  perfect. 
As I never permitted  myself  to  regret  this 
abstinence, I experienced no  sort  of  incon­
venience from it.  1 wrote  nothing  but  oc­
casional magazine  articles  during  pastime, 
and, as I never wrote one except under strong 
impulse, 1 observed no lack  of  faculty,  but 
by and by I sat down with a contract behind 
me to write a book of 500 or 600  pages—the 
book  called  “Roughing  It”—and  then  I 
found  myself  seriously obstructed. 
I  was 
three weeks  writing  six  chapters;  then  I 
gave up the  fight,  resumed  my  300  cigars, 
burned the six chapters, and  wrote the book 
in three months, without any bother  or diffi 
culty. 
I find smoking to be the  best  of  all 
inspirations for the pen, and,¡in my  particu­
lar case, no sort of detriment  to  the  health. 
During eight months  of  the  year  I  am  at 
home, and that period is my  holiday. 
In it 
I do nothing but very occasional,  miscellan­
eous work;  therefore 300 cigars a month is a 
sufficient amount to keep my constitution on 
a firm basis.  During the family summer va­
cation, which we  spend  elsewhere,  I  work 
five hours every  day  and  five  days  every 
week. 
I allow myself  the  fullest  possible 
amount  of  inspiration;  consequently, I  or­
dinarily smoke fifteen cigars during  my five 
hours’ labor, and,  if my interest reaches  the 
enthusiastic point, I smoke  more;  I  smoke 
with all my might and allow no intervals.

“Can you give me a  little  money  on  that 
account  of  yours  this  morning?”  “No,  I 
don’t believe I   can this  morning.” 
“Well, 
will you appoint a time when you can.  You 
have traded with me  a  good  deal  and  you 
have never paid me a cent.”  “I know it.  I 
' pm  a free trader.”  j 

'

AM ONG  T H E   T R A D E .

IN  THE  CITY.

Gaius  W. Perkins, of the firm of  Perkins 
& Hess, is in Boston,  looking  up  the  wool 
market.

A. C. Barclay has engaged in  the  grocery 
business at Heed  City.  Shields, Bulkley  & 
Lemon furnished the  stock.

B. F. Emery and E. P.  Dana take the terri­
tory formerly covered by John H.  McIntyre 
for Gray, Burt & Kingman, Chicago.

John H. McIntyre, late with Gray,  Burt & 
Kingman, Chicago, has  accepted  a  position 
with Arthur Meigs & Co., as house  salesman.

J. L. Cochran, of M. E.  McDowell  & Co., 
Chicago, spent Saturday among the  jobbing 
trade here in the interest  of  the  Blackwell 
Durham Tobacco Co.

Eugene Burdick, who has been in the meat 
business at East Jordan for some  time  past, 
has added a  line  of  groceries.  The  stock 
was purchased of Arthur Meigs & Co.

Albert F. Hazeltine,  for  several  months 
past entry  clerk  for  Hazeltine,  Perkins  & 
Co., has accepted a position  with  Dr.  J.  D. 
Bowman, the West  Fulton  street  druggist.

Ranleder  &  Winter  have  purchased  the 
grocery and furnishing goods stock  of S.  A. 
Pangbom, at Blanchard, and  added  a  com­
plete line of dry goods, furnished by  Spring 
& Company.  Mr. Downs took the order.

Kolfoord &  Teravis,  general  dealers  at 
Hamilton, are about to engage in tlie  manu­
facture of brick at that place.

The Manton Manufacturing  Co.  has  pur­
chased  a large steam  mill  at  South  Board- 
man and  has  a  contract  to  cut  18,000,000 
feet of pine where the mill is  located.

The Milwaukee Oil  Co.,  capital  850,000, 
has been organized in East Saginaw to work 
in Roscommon, Crawford, Oscoda, and Sagi­
naw counties. 
Iron, copper, and  silver ores 
will be mined and smelted.

Elmira Gazette: The fragrance of the leek 
can now be distinctly discerned in the breath­
ings of the small boy who  walks  into  town 
from the country to swap two dozen eggs for 

bar of soap and two yards of  calico. 
Mancelona  Herald:  The  best  point  in 
Northern Michigan for a  grist  mill  is  right 
here in Mancelona, and the probability is that 
before the season is over some one  who  un­
derstands the business will see the matter in 
he same light we do.
A year ago last Tuesday Newaygo was al­
most annihilated by fire, but it  was  a  bles­
sing in disguise.  Since then 8100,000 worth 
of building and  similar improvements  have 
been  made, and perhaps as much more  will 
be spent there in the same way next  year.

The fish dealers on  Little  Traverse  Bay 
handled  during  the  year  ending  April  1, 
1884, only 410,000 pounds, which  is  100,000 
pounds less than was  shipped  by  Connable 
& Son alone the year before.  The  fisheries 
all around the lakes show  a  similar  falling 
off.—Petoskey Record.

T h in g s  H e a rd   o n   th e   S treet.

N.  G.  Burtt,  Cross  Village,  writes  the 
trade  here that he has effected a  settlement 
with Hannah, Lay & Co. on  the  same basis 
offered the Grand Rapids  creditors,  35  per 
cent., and  that  checks  for  each  creditor’s 
pro rata may be expected shortly.

Christian Bertsch, of  Rindge,  Beitscli  & 
Co., states that in his  opinion  dealers. will 
be wise to  withhold  making  purchases  for 
rubber goods at present,  as  the  bottom  has 
dropped out of crude rubber,  and  prices  on 
all grades are extremely likely to go  lower.

Local lumber dealers state that there have 
been more enquiries for  the  cheaper  goods 
during  the  past  week  than  ever  before. 
Orders  are  coming  in  very  plentiful,  and 
every  firm  in  the  city  is  behind  with  its 
orders.  The lumber merchants have waited 
until their yards are  completely  exhausted, 
and stimulated by  the  active  demand  that 
has  lately arisen, are  growing  impatient  at 
the  delay in shipping their orders.

Chas. E. Belknap, of this  city,  and  R.  G. 
Lakey,  of  Kalamazoo,  have  taken  posses­
sion of the E. B. Woodward hardware  stock 
at Kalkaska, and will carry on the  business 
until’every creditor has been paid in full, and 
Mr. Woodward is able to resume business on 
his own account.  Being pressed  by Detroit 
creditors, he recently  gave  a  chattel  moil- 
gage for  82,500,  and  learning  that  it  was 
about to be foreclosed, Messrs.  Belknap and 
Lakey  purchased  the  mortgage  to  protect 
themselves  and  other  creditors.  They  are 
confident  that  Mr.  Woodward  is  solvent, 
end  have faith in Instability to pull through 
the  present  crisis  with  credit  and  capital 
restored.  His  embairassment is attributed 
to heavy buying, coupled with the depression 
of the winter business.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Patch Bros., diuggists at  St.  Johns,  have 

sold out.

R. E. Best has engaged in  the  drug  busi­

ness at Holland. 

^

J. S. Gamble has  started  a  confectionery 

store at Ludington.

eral trade at  Berlin.

John Mead succeeds Wm. Monroe in  gen­

Ed. Keeler  succeeds  the  firm of  Long  & 

Keeler at Big Rapids.

business at Reed  City.

E. Franke & Co. have engaged in the meat 

Chas. Martin has stalled >n the  flour  end 

feed business at Pierson.

C. F. Walden, grocer  at  Leroy,  has  sold 

out to Parson &  Johnson.

Bera & Kipp, general  dealers  at Banfield 

are succeeded by Kipp & Iden.

M. Crittenden has sold his meat market at 

Portland to Esteb & Talmadge.

A. R. Cresy  succeeds  Alexander  Cheves 

in the meat business at Hersey.

Geo. W. Weaver, of Detroit,  has  engaged 

in the dry goods business at Ionia.

H. N. Willis has bought out F. F. Ward & 

Co., general dealers at Prairieville.

Brown & Cairns succeeds W. L. Brown in 

the grocery business at Prairieville.

J. H. Beamer  &  Co. succeed  J. H.  Bea- 

mer in the grocery business at Hastings.

Notier & Locker, general dealers at  Graaf- 

scliap, are succeeded by Notier &  Boven.

E. J. Whitright has engaged  in  the  gro­

cery and provision business at  Charlotte.

Lewis Heiler, of  Howard  City,  will  en­

gage in the bakery business  at Mancelona.

I.  J. Quick & Co., Allendale, will handle a 
line ofOagricultural implements  this  season.
Thos. R. Garter, meat  dealer  at  Coopers- 
ville, has sold a half interest in the business 
to C. Ives.  The firm name  will  be  Ives  & 
Gaiter.

STRAY  FACTS.

Miss  Emma  Earl has opened a  millinery 

store at Reed  City.

Rathbun & McManus succeed R. C.  Rath, 

bun in the foundry business at Saranac.

Fisk & Lavine,  shingle  manufacturers  at 
Howard  City,  are  succeeded  by  Warren 
Fisk.

Allendale  clamors  for  a  grist  mill,  and 
offers to render substantial aid to such an en­
terprise.

That Dr. J. B. Evans is writing a play.
That D. C.  Uuderwood  will  be  the  first 

mayor of Elmira.

of goods this year.

That James Fox will  sell  8200,000  worth 

That  Charley  Yale rejoices over  the  ad­

vent of a 12 pound boy.

That Dick Warner was recently  offered  a 

situation by Clark, Jewell & Co.

That the proposed consolidation of grocery 

jobbing houses has fallen through.

Casper  Schuler,  Elk  Rapids,  succeeds 

John Ocker in the saloon business.

That more new  grocery  stocks  are  being 
fitted out here this spring than  ever  before.
That the question  of  establishing  an  ex­
clusive wholesale dry goods  house  is  being 
agitated.

That no move has yet been taken to organ­
ize  a  “Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Ex­
change.”

That  Eugene  Klein,  the  West  Bridge 
street druggist, is small by nature as well as 
by name.

That Hemau G. Barlow and brother  have 
a large-sized fortune in their  manifold copy­
ing patent.

That in the event of a Democratic  admin­
istration  next  year,  Aithur  Meigs  will  be 
postmaster.

That Chas. E. Belknap may take an inter­
est in the E. B.  Woodward  hardware  busi­
ness at Kalkaska.

That Henry  Fairchild  has  a  revolver  in 
readiness for  the  next  man  that  wants  to 
make him an assignee.

That “Hub.” Baker will  go  on  the  road 
for Shields, Bulkley &  Lemon,  as  soon  as 
Messmore retires  from business.

That John Caulfield is on the lookout  for 
a residence in a fashionable  locality, to  cost 
about 850,000—his profits on last year’s bus­
iness.

H ow   to   D e te c t  C o u n te rfe it  B u tte r.

“Butter dealers are having a hard time  of 
it,”  said  a  prominent  produce  dealer  the 
other day.  “Everybody thinks  we  are  try­
ing to palm off counterfeit  butter  on  them, 
I have taken great pains to show my regular 
customers how to  tell  genuine  butter  from 
the fraudulent  article.  Counterfeit  butter 
may  look nice  and  smell  sweet  when  the 
tub is first opened, but after it is exposed  to 
the  air  for a  while,  a  slightly  unpleasant 
smell can always be detected. 
If a  little of 
it is rubbed between the fingers it  will  turn 
white,  while  the  genuine  butter  will  not 
chrnge color.”

M eeting:  W itli  G re a t  Success.
From  th e A m erican F u rn itu re  G azette.

The M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n ,  established 
at Grand Rapids some months ago,  is  meet­
ing  with great success. 
It was recently  en­
larged to eight  pages,  aad  now  presents  a 
very creditable  appearance,  which  is  home 
out by the value and interest of its contents. 
Ably and interestingly edited, it has built up 
a good circulation in the country tributary to 
Grand Rapids, and is proving a valuable aid 
to the commerce of that  city.

At the convention of the  candy  manufac­
turers of the United States at Chicago a few 
days ago, about 100 firms  were  represented. 
The main object  of the association is mutual 
good  fellowship,  and  one  of  the  greatest 
boons they conferred  on  the  community  at 
large, was. with one accord,  to  instruct  the 
executive  committte  to  closely  watch, and 
legally prosecute to  the  full, extent  of  the 
law, under sanction of  the  association,  any 
manufacturer of candy, who should  use  un 
der whatever form “Teira Alba” or  kindred 
mineral matters as an  adulterant.

“ How  much  do you  ask  for  a  dollar’s 
worth  of sugar?” 
“Let’s  see.  *We  have 
sold a dollar’s worth  of sugar  for  a  dollar 
ever since we’ve been in the  business,” said 
the grocer, smilingly.” 
“I  didn’t  know; I 
only  got  eighty-seven  cent’s  worth  for  a 
dollar here the other day.”

Fruit canning is supposed  to be a modem 
invention,  but they had  preserved  pairs  in 
the  ark.

‘IN V EST IG A TIN G   FRA U D S.’

COUNTRY  PR O D U C E.

B u sin ess  M ethods  th a t  a re   P e c u lia r, 

to 

■  Say  th e   B east.

The action of  Judge  Montgomery, in  the 
Circuit Court  Saturday,  refusing  to  allow 
the claims of Turner & Carroll and  Stone & 
Hyde for 8499.37 for  “expense  incurred in 
negotiating alleged frauds” in the  Newman 
case finds frequent  commendation  in  com­
mercial and business circles.  That  the  de­
cision was just, both  in  point  of  law  and 
equity, all who are in  any  way  acquainted 
with the facts in the matter  will agree.  To 
those  who have not  noted the points in this 
celebrated case, however, a brief rehearsal of 
the principal facts may not  be out  of place. 
Early in  the  winter  P. E. Newman &  Co., 
Hebrew shoe dealers,  made an  assignment 
toWm. M. Robinson, having  830,709.62  lia­
bilities and 812,375.14 nominal assets.  The 
failurejwas a fraudulent one on thejface of it, 
and steps were immediately taken  to  ferrit 
out the matter.  A number of Boston  credi­
tors dispatched a lawyer  named  Knowlton 
to Grand Rapids, who  did too much  talking 
for the good of his clients, urged  that  steps 
be taken to remove the assignee,  and finally 
insisted that Turner & Carroll be  employed 
to conduct the investigation in behalf  of the 
creditors.  The demand  coming  ostensibly 
from “two-thirds of the  creditors,” the  as­
signee consented  to  the  arrangement, first 
securing from  Messrs.  Turner  &  Carroll a 
written  contract  to 
the  effect  that  they 
would take  whatever  the  judge  awarded 
them in full payment  for  their  services in 
working up fraud. 
In the  meantime,  the 
Newmans expressed a desire to  compromise 
the matter, offering 40 per cent,  in full  set­
tlement.  This offer some  of  the  creditors 
were inclined to accept, but  on  being  posi­
tively assured by Turner & Carroll that  the 
latter would  be  able  to  establish  a  clear 
case of fraud and secure  for  every  creditor 
the full amount of his claim,  they  held off, 
and the offer of compromise was withdrawn. 
Up to the present time, however,  no  fraud 
has been established, but  Turner & Carroll, 
et al brought up a bill for 8499.37, and asked 
that it be allowed out of  the  assets  of  the 
estate.  This claim was  contested  by  Red- 
path Bros., of Boston, on  the  ground  that 
it was excessive and not properly  itemized. 
Mr. Edward Taggart  appeared  as  attorney 
for the Boston firm, and presented  the  case 
of the opposing creditor.  The matter  came 
up in the Circuit Court on Saturday, and the 
claim was denied, Judge Montgomery  hold­
ing that as Turner & Cairoll were alleged to 
have been employed  by  two-tliirds  of  the 
creditors,  that  proportion of  them  should 
pay for the  services  claimed  to have  been 
rendered, and that the  expense  should  not 
be saddled upon them all.  This view of the 
case is especially pleasing to those who  op­
posed the employment of “experts in detect­
ing fraud,” as nothing was  accomplished in 
the investigation, and there was not a  shad­
ow of reason why the claim should be allow­
ed.  The judge also  cut  down  the  amount 
asked by the assignee as his fee, and  reduc­
ed other claims for expenses, thus  saving to 
the estate 8609.  The total resources amount­
ed to 82,667, out of which the  assignee paid 
8500 for exemptions, and is now  authorized 
to pay 8578.12, as the costs involved.  This 
leaves the amount  to  be  distributed  among 
the creditors at 81,58S.88,  which  is  equiva­
lent to a dividend of 5  per cent,  on  the en­
tire amount of the liabilities, or about 7  per 
cent, on the amount of claims  proven, about 
824,000.  And now the creditors are sick  at 
heart that they did not accept  Jie  proffered 
40 per cent., instead of listening to irrespon­
sible promises.

E a tin g   C andy on  C o n tract.

From  th e New Y ork  Confectioner.

The  story  that  a  resident  of  a Georgia 
town has purchased from a  confectioner for 
812 the right to eat  unlimited  candy  for  a 
month would be more  interesting  than it  is 
if the age of the purchaser  had  been  speci­
fied.  As the purchaser is spoken of as “he,” 
we may assume that he is of  the  male’ sex, 
but whether he is a man or a  small  boy  we 
are not told.  During the  first  week  of  his 
contract  he  had  gained  five  and  a  half 
pounds in weight, and has expressed  confid­
ence that he can eat two and a  half  pounds 
ofcandyonthe  twentieth  day.  From  this 
we hazard the conjecture  that  he  does  not 
eat more than that amount  daily,  in  which 
case he certainly is a man.  The capacity of 
the average small boy for  candy  is  said  by 
the best authorities to be eleven  and  a  half 
pounds.  A full-grown girl is known to ha v 
a capacity of nine pounds of caramels which 
is equivalent to a little more than ten pounds 
of miscellaneous candy, while no man so far 
as is known, has  never  eaten  at  one  time 
more than three  pounds  of  candy.  Were 
the Georgia person  a  small  boy  he  would 
doubtlessly have eaten fifty pounds of candy 
during the first week, and would, if weighed 
any time during that period, have shown  an 
iucreasein  weight  of  fully  eight  pounds. 
Moreover, no confectioner would  ever  have 
agreed  to  furnish  a  small  boy  unlimited 
candy for four weeks for the  ridiculous low 
sum of 812, for the  small  boy  who  cannot 
eat 820 worth  of  candy  per  week  is  un­
worthy of the name.  The Georgia person is 
thus undoubtedly a man and a  colonel,  and 
we feel no certainty as  to  whether  he  will 
bankrupt the  confectioner  or  his own stom­
ach.

Shields, Bulkley & Lemon have  sold  five 
new  stocks  during  the  past  week,  which 
Sam. Lemon claims is the “best record made 
since Grand Rapids was  discovered.”  The 
stocks were for K. Van Dyke, New Holland, 
Jesse M. Tenant,  Hart,  and  A. C. Barclay, 
Reed City, all complete new outfits,  and  H. 
N. Willis and Brown & Cairns, new firms at 
Prairieville,

fill orders.

bbl. and  81 #  bu.

Apples—Out of market.  Dealers  cannot 
Asparagus—8 1 1$ doz. bunches.
Bailed Hay—Scarcer and firmer  at  815@ 
816 ^  ton.
Barley—Scarcer and firmer.  Best quality 
now readily commands 81.35 ^9 100 ibs.
Beets—Scarcely any call for them.  Selling 
at 83 
Butter—Choice dairy rolls are worth  25c, 
and prime packed the same.  Elgin creamery 
25@30e.
Butterine—Best quality is still in good de­
mand at 18c@20c.
Beans—Handpicked are  a trifle  firmer  at 
82.35 and unpicked are not much moving  at 
81.75@82.  But  few  in  market,  and  not 
much  moving.
Buckwheat—None moving.  Out  of  mar­
ket.
Cabbages—Southern new,  88.50  ^   crate 
of about 4 dozen.
Cheese—Skim  10c@llc. 
Full  cream 
is active and firm at 14@15c.
Cider—None in stock, and dealers  unable 
to fill orders.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  86 
bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
@86.50 
at 86.75  3P bu.
Corn—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  corn  at  from 
45@60c '3P bu. 
It is all of the same quality, 
but the former price  is  for  damp,  and  the 
latter for dry, stock.
Cucumbers  — Mississippi  stock  81.25  ^3 
doz.
Dried Apples—Quarters active  at 7@9e ^3 
ft>,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at i2%@14c.
Eggs—Jobbing  readily  at 16c, and tolera­
bly  firm  at  that  price.  These  prices  are 
higher than those ruling in New York,  Chi­
cago, or any  other  important  market,  and 
are attributed to the  fact  that  hundreds  of 
dealers are pickling their supplies.
Green Onions—30@35c  tp dozen  bunches.
Honey—In comb, 18c ^  lb.
Hops—The  Michigan 
crop  is  almost 
completely exhausted.  Good command 20@ 
ib.
22c, and fair 15@18c 
Lettuce—Hothouse stock  selling  readily, 
with good demand, at 25c ^p ib.  It is likely 
to be scarce and higher during the  next  ten 
days as the first crop is  entirely  exhausted.
Maple Sugar—In consequence  of  a  light 
crop,  the price  is  up  lc,  and  is  scarce  at 
that  price.  Choice pure  readily  commands 
13c@14c.  The  adulterated  article  readily 
commands 11c.
Onions—Scarcely any choice  in  the  mar­
ket, the most of the stock being badly pitted. 
Bermuda onions  readily  command  81.75 
crate.
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
at 5c ^p  ib.
Potatoes—Still a drug  and  likely  to  re­
main so.  There are  vast  quantities  in  the 
market, and large amounts still  lie  in  pits. 
Burbanks  are  sold  in  small  quantities  at 
45c, 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@16c, 
respectively.  There are no ducks and  geese 
in  market, and a  few  turkeys,  which  find 
ready sale at  16c.

Radishes—40c ^p dozen bunches.
Ruta Bagas—Out of market.
Seed Oats—White English Sovereign, 75c.
Seed Potatoes—White  Star,  81;  Selected 
Burbanks, 50c;  Early Ohio, 50c;  Beauty  of 
Hebron, 50c.
Squash—Southern white readily command 
81.75@82  *^P box of 40 lbs. net
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at 81.60@ 
81.85 ^P bu.  Fancy, 82.
Vegetable Oysters—40c ^p dozen bunches.
Wax Beans—84 
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  75@80c 
for No. 2 Clawson and 95c for No.  1.  Lan- 
chester commands 81@81.05.

box.  Green, 83.50.

V IS IT IN G   BU Y ERS.

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

Frankfort.

illac.

Trent.

Kingsley.

son.

Wm. Jones,  Morley.
Weertmau & Virher, Zeeland.
J. L. Handy, Woodstock.
A. W. Fenton, Bailey.
M. Carman,  Altona.
J. R. Trask, Grattan Center.
Fred Tracy, of Cummer Lumber Co., Cad­
O. R. Bush, Deer Lake.
J. Y. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
Henry Plumb, Mill  Creek.
Chas. North, representing Geo. Carrington, 
R. B. Ogden, Howard City.
A. B. Gates, Rockford.
M. E. Fitzgerald, Maple  Yalley.
Adam Wagner,  Eastmanville.
D. Gerber, Fremont Center.
H.  W.  Banks,  Frankfort  Lumber  Co., 
Geo. S. Curtiss, Edgerton.
R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins.
M. B. Nash,  Sparta.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
Kellogg & Potter, Jemiisonville.
D. J. Peacock,  Bridgton.
S. E. Curdy, of  Hadley Bros. Manf’g  Co., 
J. O. Sabin,  Luther.
E. R. Slocnm & Co., Hesperia.
J. DeHart, Canada Coiner’s.
John Barker, of Barker &  Lehnen,  Pier­
T. B. Snyder,  Ayr.
M. J. Howard,  Euglishville.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
M. May, Frankfort.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
Calvin Duvkee,  Lakeview.
H. J. Fisher, Hamilton.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Mrs. G. W. Jones, Big Rapids.
D. W. Shattuck,  Wayland.
S. S. Eckler, Kalkaska.
T. W.  Provin, Cedar Springs.
C. O. Sunderland, Lowell.
Adam Newell, Tustin.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
Mr.  Wells, of Wagner  & Wells, Eastman­
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
E. Pangborn, Sand Lake.
S. Frost, McBrides.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
S. T. McLellan, Denison.
Adam Wagner,  Eastmanville.
E. B. Sunderlin,  Palo.
C. H. Deming, Dunton.*
C. Porter, Chauncey.
J. & L. D. Chappie, Wylaand.
J. M. Sutherland,  Caledonia.
A.  G. Chase, Ada.
Aniba & Mead, Ionia.
Parbhurst Bros., Nunica.
J. S. Davis, Hopkins.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
Mrs. Geo. Hoyle, Cedar  Springs.
Fox & Fisher, Zeeland.

ville.

gerton.

Henry DeKline,  Jamestown.
F. E. Davis, Berlin,
Howard Morley, Cedar Springs.
Mr. McAuley, of Scoville & McAuley, Ed- 
Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs.
B. McNeal, Byron Center.
C. E. & S. J. Coon, Lisbon.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
Dr. F. C. Williams, Ada.
R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins.
W. G. Hunter, Cedar Springs.
Purdy & Hastings,  Sparta.
F. B.  Watkins, Monterey.
W.  H. Hicks,  Morley.
J. M. Dameron,  Bangor.
Mrs. E. A. Hoag,  Martin.
Mrs. S. A. Colby, Rockford.
Mrs. F. S. Emmons,  Sparta Center.
Mrs. A. A. Tracy, Muskegon.
Mrs. G. F.  Anson, Bellevue.
Ira S. Jeffers, Ionia.
McCormick & Clark, Plainw’ell.

H ow   th e   C hinese  D o  It.

From  the W all S treet News.

When a native  of  China  doing  business 
goes to the wall, a Mandarin investigates his 
affairs, and the result is usually  as  follows: 
“I find that your household expenses have 

been eight cents per day.”

“Alas!  oh mighty Mandarin, I have an ex­

travagant family.”

“Your rent has been sixty cents per month. 
How  dared  you incur  such an  expense  on 
your small capital?”

“I was in hopes times w’ould improve.” 
“And I find among your items  of expense 
such things as opera tickets, oysters for Sun­
day and  smoking  tobacco  for  your  grand­
mother.  No wonder  you  have  to  shut  up 
shop and cause your creditors to mourn.” 

“Oh, Mighty Mandarin, show mercy to  an 

honest but unfortunate man.”

•‘Call yourself honest, when you withdraw 
seventy cents  of  your  capital  to  buy  your 
wife a party dress!  Come  to the temple  of 
justice.”

At the temple the creditors  divide up the 
assets, and each one  is  then  priviledged  to 
to use a whip on the  debtor’s  back  until  he 
thinks he has got 100 cents on the dollar.

“Yes,” 

“Do I understand that your  cashier  is  an 
embezzler, Mr. Goldust?”  asked [a friend  of 
the banker.  “Yes,” replied  Goldust,  “and 
we had every confidence in  him.”  “Did  he 
drink?” 
“Chew  and  smoke?” 
“Yes.”  “Gamble  and  drive  fast  horses?” 
“Yes;  so far as can be learned, was never  a 
church member or a  Sunday-school  teacher. 
In  fact, he inspired implicit trust, and it on­
ly goes to show how hard it is  to  discern  a 
man’s true character by his habits.”

Philadelphia has a molasses pipe  line. 

It 
runs from a wharf  to  the  so- ;alled  “smear 
house.”  The molasses is  heated  by  steam 
to thin it and it  is  then  conducted  through 
the pipe, a distance of 1,000  feet.  The  sav­
ing in cartage is  considerable.

Having  made  83,000,000,  a  Wall  street 
firm has  dissolved,  be!ug  afraid  of  losing 
its money. 
It is an exceptional  case  when 
a  successful  speculator knows enough to re­
sist the temptation to risk his  money.

D U M BER,  L A T H   A N D   SH IN G LES.

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

, 18 feet
, 20 fe e t..........................
, 12,14 and 10 fe e t.......
,18 fe e t..........................
,20 fe e t..........................
12,  14 and 10 fe e t.........
18 fe e t............................
20 fe e t............................
, 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......
,18 fe e t..........................
, 20 fe e t..........................
, 12,14 and iO fe e t.......
, 18 fe e t..........................
, 20 fe e t............. ............
12,14 and 16  fe e t.........
18 f e e t............................
20 fe e t..........................
shipping  culls, all
w idths and  len g th s__ .............................  

follow:
U ppers, 1 in c h .................................... per M 844  00
U ppers, V/i,1% and 2 in ch ..........................  40  00
Selects, 1 in ch ..........................................
35  00 
Selects, I li, 1 lA an d  2  in ch ...................
38  00 
Fine Common, 1 in ch ............................
30  00 
S hop,1 in c h .............................................
20  00 
Fine, Common, l)i, 114 and 2 in ch __
32  00
No. l  Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 10  feet
15  00
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in 
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in 
17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in,
15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in 
16  00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in 
17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in.,
15 00
16  00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in.,
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in.,
17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in 
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in.
14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in,
15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in 
13  00
14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in,
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in.
15  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in..
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,
14  00
Coarse  Common  or
9 00
A and B Strips, 4 o r 6 i n .............................   35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 in ch .....................................     28  00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..........................  15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fe e t................  12  00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 fe e t...................................  12  00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  in c h ..*...............................   15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  in c h ...................................  12  00
Norway C and b etter, 4 o r 6 in ch ..............  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 16ft. ..11  50@12  00 
$1 additional fo r 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, com m on..  17  00
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 com m on__   14  00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1  00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  C lear..  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, 81  00 additional.
( X X X  18 in. Standard  Shingles.............. 
3 50
1 X X X 18 in.  T h in ........................................ 
3  40
3  00
( X X X 16 in .................................................... 
No. 2 o r 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............. 
2  00
No. 2 o r 5 in. C. B. 16  in ...............................  
175
L ath  ................................................................  
2  00

M ISCELLA N EO U S.

A dvertisem ents  of 25 words o r  less  inserted 
in this colum n a t th e rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  fo r  each 
additional word.  Advance paym ent.

FOR  SALE.

C4 OOD  BARGAIN. 

I w ant a  stock  of  eith er 
T   dry  goods,  clothing,  groceries o r  fu rn i­
tu re.  I have a m ortgage fo r 81,300 and real es­
ta te  to  exchange  together.  O. W. K ibby, Bell- 
aire, Mich.

RARE  CHANCE  to   purchase  a  lirst-elass 

L ivery Stock including  one  o f  C unning­
ham ’s best hearses.  Will tak e as p a rt paym ent 
good  im p ro ied   farm   property.  Will  sell  or 
re n t  barn and grounds.  The  b est  location  iu 
the b est livery town  in th e  State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

YY7 ANTED—A  situation  in  a  tin  shop.  Can 
TV  w ork  in  sto re  if  necessary.  N orth  of 
Big  Rapids  preferred.  Address,  Box  42,  St. 
Louis, Mich.
A S TYPEW RITER OR COPYIST, by a young 
A  
lady  well  qualified  fo r  such  a position, 
both by education  and  experience.  Address, 
X X X , care Miss Sila H ibbard,  35  F irst  street. 
G rand Rapids.

2)rug8 8. flfcebidnes

*1

1 

E x p la n a tio n   o f  th e   C a m pion  System .
E d it o r  T r a d e s m a n  :  For the benefit of 
a  back-woods druggist,  I wish  you  would 
kindly explain the  “Campion  plan,”  about 
which the drug papers are  saying so  much 
just at present.

S u b s c r ib e r .

4¡

The Campion plan of combination  among 
proprietors  and  manufacturers  of  patent 
medicines to  prevent  the  cutting  of whole­
sale and retail prices  of  their  preparations 
went into operation nearly a month ago, and 
is rapidly gaining new adherents.  The  fol­
lowing firms have already united in it: J. C. 
Ayer & Co.,  of  Lowell,  Hostetter & Smith 
and Freming Brothers, of  Pittsburg,  A.  C. 
Meyer  and  Charles  H.  Vogeler &  Co., of 
Baltimore;  G. C. Green, of Woodbury, N .J.; 
Hop Pill Manufacturing  Co., of  New  Lon­
don;  Perry  Davis  &  Son,  of  Providence; 
Tarrant & Co., of New York;  Dr.  Jayne  & 
Sons, G. W. Campion & Co., Foster, Milbum 
&Co.,  and  Johnston,  Holloway  &  Co.,  of 
Philadelphia.

The movement was started by  Mr.  G. W. 
Campion, in Philadelphia,  and is  called  by 
his name.  The idea of  the  combination  is 
to  take  the  side  of  the  union  druggists 
against the  scalpers,  who sell  at  less than 
the printed rates.  Any wholesale  or  retail 
dealer buying of a member of  the  combina­
tion is obliged to  sign  a  contract  pledging 
himself not to cut rates, on  penalty  of fur­
ther supplies of goods being refused to  him. 
In  order  further  to  induce  the  jobber  to 
stand by the contract,  ten  per  cent,  rebate 
is allowed on all orders.  The  manufacturer 
agrees to refuse to sell goods to  all  persons 
underselling.  Wholesalers are  also  forbid­
den to retail at less than retail  rates.

The combination has spies to detect scalp­
ers,  and  when  cutting  is  clearly  proved 
against a druggist  he  is  put  on the  black 
iist,  and  none  of  the  combination  or  its 
agents will sell goods to him.  One  of these 
black lists has already been issued,  contain­
ing the names of eleven Philadelphia  drug­
gists.  A black list of  New  York  druggists 
is expected  shortly.  After  the  black  list 
druggists have exhausted their  stock  of cut 
goods they will  be  forced  to  stop  selling 
them or sign the contract not to undersell.

A m a n u f a c t u r e r  was  asked  why  he cared 
at what retail price his medicine was sold, so 
long as he  got  his  wholesale  price.  He 
said: “ If a druggist is compelled by cutting 
of rates to sell  our  goods  so  low  that  he 
makes hardly  any profit on  them,  he  will 
recommend and sell other  similar  goods  on 
which the prices have not been cut.  There 
is so much competition in  patent  medicines 
that this danger of substitution is very great. 
In keeping up  the  fixed  prices  we  protect 
ourselves as well as the retailer.  There are 
two firms in  Detroit and  one in  Baltimore 
which make a specialty of imitating the gen­
uine goods without going so far as  to  make 
themselves liable to prosecution.  They  sell 
these goods to druggists at such  low-  prices 
that they can sell them at a profit even when 
they are sold as low as the lowest  cut  rates 
on our genuine goods.  Naturally  the  drug­
gist will try to  make  the  most  profit,  and 
will recommend the ungenuine goods.”

W h y   D ru g g ists  R ejoice.

“Yes,” said a druggist on a prominent city 
corner, “this is fine  spring  weather,  and  I 
am  happy.”

“In common with  everybody  else?”  sug­

gested  the  reporter.

“I don’t know whether  everybody  else  is 
happy or not,”  continued  the  dispenser  of 
drugs,  “but in my case not only am I  affect­
ed by the pleasant  weather  but  business  is 
booming.  This is the season .when  we  sell 
more patent medicines than  all  the  rest  of 
the year put together.”

“What kinds of medicines are in the great­

est demand?”

“System  renovators  and  tonics.  Every­
body is taking something to purify the blood 
and brace them  up,  and  it  fairly  keeps us 
busy waiting on  customers.  There  is  one 
thing about these spring medicines, and that 
is that they  are easy  to  handle.  You  see, 
they  all  come  prepared,  bottled  and  with 
printed  directions,  so  we  don’t  have  the 
trouble with them that there  is in preparing 
a  prescription.”

“What kind of medicines sell  best?”
“Well, I don’t care about  telling that, but 
my experience is that the remedies  that  are 
the best advertised sell the  best.”

Dr. Cyrus Edson, of the Board  of  Health 
of New York, has been analyzing samples of 
“essence of  coffee”  used  by  poor  families 
and boarding-house  keepers.  The  prepara­
tion  contains,  among  other  things,  dried 
blood, chicory, very poor  coffee,  and  powd­
ered  licorice.  The doctor will lay his  anal­
ysis before the Board, that criminal proceed­
ings may be instituted against the  manufac­
turers of the stuff.

White birch bark oil, which gives to Kussia 
leather  its  peculiar  aromatic  and  lasting 
qualities, when dissolved in  alcohol is  said 
to be  excellent  for  preserving and  water­
proofing fabrics. 
It  renders  them acid and 
insect proof, and does not destroy  the  plia­
bility of the  fabric.

An  old  Englishman  met  with  a  queer 
death  some  days  ago.  He had been  in  the 
habit of using quick silver  and  aqua  fortis 
mixed together as an ointment  for  rheuma­
tism.  The bottle containing the mixture ex­
ploded in his pocket and he  was  burned  to 
death.

An ounce of quinine  will make 480 single 

grain {fills.

N a tu re   afid  P ro p e rtie s  o f G lucose.

Two years ago a bill  was  pending  before 
Congress to tax and  regulate  the  manufac­
ture and sale Qf glucose, which proposed also 
to so amend the internal revenue  laws as  to 
impose a special tax upon  the  manufactur­
ers of and dealers  in glucose, and  to  levy a 
tax upon the article in its  solid,  liquid and 
semi-liquid form.  Mr.  Raum,  then  Com­
missioner of Internal Revenue,  addressed a 
letter to Professor Rogers,  president  of the 
National Academy of  Science,  asking  the 
appointment of a  committee  to  examine  as 
to the composition, nature, and properties of 
the article known as glucose or grape  sugar. 
It was desired  to  ascertain  the  quality of 
this product as compared with cane sugar or 
molasses, and especially as to its deleterious 
effects when used as  an  article  of  food or 
drink, or as a constituent  element  of  such 
articles.

Professor  Marsh,  now  president  of  the 
National Academy of Sciences, has  submit­
ted the report of the committee  to  Commis­
sioner Evans, which is  exhaustive  in  every 
point.  The committee was composed of the 
eminent scientist Professor George F. Bark­
er, chairman; William  H.  Brewer,  Wolcot 
Gibbs,  Charles  F.  Chandler,  and  Ira  Rem- 
sler.

Under this head:—“ Is the use ot'  glucose 
or  fgrape  sugar  injurious  to  health?”  the 
Committee say:—

There was nothing  whatever  to  indicate 
that the extracts contained  anything  injur­
ious to health, and the conclusion  seems  to 
be fully justified that the samples examined 
be us, and which we have  every  reason  to 
believe were  fair average samples of the sub­
stance  found in the market, contained noth­
ing objectionabie from a sanitary standpoint. 
In the experiments  the  experimenter  took 
into his system everything that could  possi­
bly be objectionable  contained  in from 120 
to 160 grams of the glucose grape sugar, that 
is from a quarter to a third of a  pound. 
It 
must be borne in mind f urtlier  that  the  ex­
tract which was taken into the stomach must 
have contained any objectionable mineral as 
well as organic  substances  present  in  the 
glucose employed.  Hence, the results  seem 
to have been final as regards  the  injurious 
nature of glucose or grape sugar made  from 
maize.  These experiments extended  over a 
period of only about two  months.  On  the 
question, therefore, whether  any  injurious 
effect would follow  the  continuous  use  of 
this material the committee has no  informa­
tion.  Our experiments  have,  of course, no 
direct  connection  with  those  of  Schmitz, 
Nesslerand Yon Mering already referred to. 
These gentlemen experimented  upon  pota­
to sugar, as furnished by  manufacturers  in 
Germany.  Our conclusions  are  valid  only 
for maize sugar as furnished by manufactur­
ers in this country. 
It should be further re­
marked that although our experiments show 
conclusively that the products  of  fermenta­
tion of glucose are not dangerous «to  health, 
it does not necessarily follow that beer made 
by the fermentation  of  glucose  is  just  as 
good as that made in the usual  way.  That 
is a matter which does  not  fall  within the 
scope of our investigation.

In the summary the committee says:—
The elaborate experiments  upon  the  fer­
mentation of starch sugar would seem  to be 
final on the question of the healthfulness of 
not only glucose itself, but  also of  the  sub­
stances, produced by the action of  a ferment 
upon it.  Large quantities of a concentrated 
extract from the fermentetion  representing 
from one-third to one-half pound  of  starch 
sugar were taken internally by  the  experi­
menter,  and  has  repeatedly  without 
the 
slightest observable effect.  This result  rig­
idly applied, holds, of course, only  for those 
sugars which, like this, are made  from  the 
starch of Indian corn or  mfiize.

The report concludes as follows:—
The following facts appear as the result of 

the present investigation:—

First—That  the  manufacture  of  sugar 
from starch is a long  established  industry, 
scientifically valuable and commercially  im­
portant.

Second—That the processes which it  em­
ploys at the present  time  are  unobjection­
able in their character and leave the product 
uncontaminated.

Third—That the starch sugar  thus  made 
and sent into commerce is of  exceptionable 
purity and uniformity  of  composition,  and 
contains no injurious  substances.

Fourth—That, though having at best only 
about two-thirds  the  sweetening  power of 
cane sugar, yet starch sugar is in no way in­
ferior to cane sugar in  healthfulness,  there 
being no evidence before the  Commissioner 
that maize starch sugar, either in its normal 
condition or fermented, has  any  deleterious 
effect upon the system, even when  taken in 
large quantities.

One of our popular doctors was  not  long 
ago much pleased  with  a  certain  aerated 
water, and, by his  assiduous  recommenda­
tions, procured for it a celebrity it justly de­
served.  The doctor acted solely in  the  in­
terests of humanity generally, and  expected 
no return.  To his surprise, there  came  one 
morning an effusive  letter  from  the  com­
pany, saying that his recommendations  had 
done them so much good that they  “ventur­
ed to send him  a  hundred----- ”  Here  the
page come to an end.  “This will never do,” 
said  the  doctor;  “it is  very  kind,  but  I 
could  not  think  of  accepting  anything.” 
Here he turned the page and found the sent­
ence ran:  “Of  our  circulars  for  distribu­
tion.”

The  state of  Antiquia,  Mexico,  offers  a 
prize of $10,000 for the discovery of  an effi­
cacious means of preventing the blight which 
is  affecting  the  cocoa  plantations  in  the 
state.

A   C h a p te r  o n   T u rp e n tin e .

A turpentine distillery which  makes  the 
higher grades  mainly  can  nearly  pay  ex­
penses  from  the rosin alone,  leaving  the 
turpentine to swell the figure on the “profit” 
side of the book;  where all the “boxed out” 
trees are converted into lumber, a pine  for­
est is little less than a bonanza. 
If  the  ex­
periments being made in Georgia  prove suc­
cessful, even the sawdust  at the  mill  may 
be utilized for something more than  fuel for 
the engines.  By  a  process  of  sweating, 
fourteen  gallons  of  spirits of  turpentine, 
three or four barrels of rosin, and  a  consid­
erable quantity of tar  have  been  obtained 
from one ton of pine sawdust 
It  remains 
to be demonstrated whether or not the yield 
will be sufficient to pay for working it.  New 
crops are added every year, the  average an­
nual product of the state amounting to  175,- 
000 barrels of rosin, and  35,000  barrels  of 
spirits of  turpentine,  nearly  all  of  which 
find a market in the  United  States.  The 
trees do not bleed  to  death;  the  grevious 
wounds heal, but  they  always  wear  their 
great brown scars  which,  like  the  empty 
sleeve of the soldier, shows that  they  have 
been in  service.

During the boiling process  in  the  manu­
facture  of  spirits  of  turpentine  a  small 
stream of hot water is kept running  into the 
rosin to prevent its burning;  in the form  of 
vapor this water  mingles  with  the  spirits 
and they  pass  together  through  the  still 
worm, where they are  condensed;  escaping 
from the pipe at one side  of the still.  Here 
the turpentine rises to the surface  and  pas­
ses on to the barrel waiting to be  filled.  A 
peculiarity of boiling rosin is that  when  it 
threatens to “boil over” the only  remedy is 
to increase the heat, causing it to boil  more 
rapidly.  When  the  water  escaping  from 
the still worm  ceases  to  bring  turpentine 
with it, the still  cap  is  removed,  the  fire 
drawn out, and the escape doors at the  side 
of the still opened.  The rosin rushes  out, a 
steaming bubbling  mass,  reddish-brown  in 
color, and oderous as  a wholesale  chemical 
factory. 
It  first  passes  through a  coarse 
wire sieve, then through one of finer quality, 
and finally a strong  Canton  flannel strainer 
catches the remaining  impurities.  A  few 
minutes suffice to let the intense heat escape, 
and then  it is  dipped into  barrels  and  is 
ready for market.  Yery strong  barrels  are 
required,  as the weight.of  a  barrel of  rosin 
is 180 pounds.  The largest  yield from  an 
“orchard”  is in  the  months  of  May  and 
June.

It 

looks 

In appearance crude turpentine  resembles 
white wax, which, after  melting,  has  only 
partially  solidified. 
tempting 
enough to eat, but one  taste  is as  effective 
as a sign “hands off” nailed  to  every  tree 
would be.  The  product  of  each  tree  is 
gathered four or five times during  the  year, 
the yield of an  average 
tree  amounting to 
about twenty-four gallons of the crude “dip” 
and “scrape.”  Wagons  go  through  each 
crop gathering into  barrels the  crude  tur­
pentine.  The “dipper” used is  unlike  any­
thing else by that name. 
It  looks  like an 
enlarged and flattened  Indian  arrow  head, 
the point of which has been  rounded  off by 
contact with someone’s bones.  The “crops” 
are distinctly separated by blazed trees, and 
a man placed in charge of each crop.  These 
“croppers” are superintended  by  foremen, 
whose duty it is to ride through  every  por­
tion of the “orchard,” keep an eye on  every 
man’s work, know the condition of  all  the 
trees, and report the same every night.  The 
first year’s product of the trees  make  by far 
the finest rosin, nearly always coming  up to 
the standard required for the “winter white” 
brand;  with each year it  deteriorates  until 
it  yields  only  the  dark,  muddy-looking 
stuff  which  finds  its  way  into  much  of 
the cheap soap  put  upon  the  market, and 
which should share with the  “bluing  bagP 
the questionable honor of being able to  dis­
turb  the  temper  of  every  woman  who 
has to “count the wash”  that  the  laundry 
sends home.  An ordinary copper still  simi­
lar to those in  use  in  grain  distilleries,  is 
used to separate the spirits from  the  rosin. 
A still with the capacity of  twenty  barrels 
of the crude will dispose of five  charges, or 
100 barrels in a day,  each  charge  yielding 
about 140 gallons  of  spirits  of  turpentine 
and from  fourteen  to  sixteen  barrels  of 
rosin.

H o t  W a te r a Safe  M edicine.

An old and skilled New  York  physician, 
when interviewed on  the  hot  water  craze, 
said: “ It has long been  used. 
It is  an in­
ternal  wash;  nothing  more  nor  less.  As 
such  it  is  excellent.  An  old  trainer  of 
prize-fighters used to tell me about it  before 
I had even heard of it elsewhere.  He said 
he had cured everything, from  toothache to 
rheumatism, with it.  My lady patients often 
beg me to prescribe it for them, and  I  very 
often do so;  sometimes  because  I  think it 
likely to do good and  sometimes  because I 
don’t think it will do any harm.”

In an action for damages  for causing  the 
death of plaintiff intestate, the evidence was 
that the intestate had been  recommended to 
take a drug known as “black draught,”  and 
that  defendant’s  clerk  gave  him  “black 
drops,”  a  deadly  poison,  labeled  “black 
drops,” but not labeled “poison.”  The  clerk 
testified that he cautioned the intestate  that 
the drug was poison.  The court  held  that 
if the intestate  was  warned  of  the  deadly 
nature of the drug the defendant  would not 
be liable in this action because of the  omis­
sion to mark the drug “poison,” as  required 
by the statute.  But, if no warning was  giv­
en, the ommission to label  the  bottle  with 
the word “poison” was  such  negligence on 
the part  of the vendor as  to render him liar 
ble.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

H azeltine, P erkins & Co. quote as follows fo r 
quantities usually w anted—fo r larger am ounts 
w rite them  fo r Quotations:
A dvanced—Oil P epperm int;  H elebore  Root, 
W hite pow dered;  Linseed Oil.
Declined—Alcohol;  Canary Seed; Oil Cassia, 
Carbonate A m m onia;  Pow dered  Cantharides. 

ACID S.

 

Acetic,  No. 8............................. $  ft> 
9  ©   10
A cetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040).........  30  @  35
 
Carlx lie ......................................... 
35
C itrA ......................................... 
55
M uriatic  18  d eg................................. 
3  ©  
5
N itric  36  deg......................................   11  ©   12
O xalic..................................................   14*4@  15
4
Sulphuric  66 d eg...............................  
T artaric  pow dered.......................... 
48
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................oz 
20
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................   12  ©   15
T a n n ic.................................................  15  @ 1 7
C arbonate...................................$  ft  15  ©   18
M uriate (Powd. 22c)..........................  
15
A qua 16 deg o r  3 f.............................  
7
A qua 18 deg o r  4f.............................  
8

6  @ 
7  © 

AM M ONIA.

3  @ 

BALSAMS.

C o p aib a............................... ..............  
F ir......................................................... 
P e ru ...................................................... 
T o lu ...................................................... 

@  50
50
2  00
60

BARKS.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............  
12
18
Cinchona,  yellow ............................ 
15
Elm,  select.......................................... 
Elm, ground, p u re ............................ 
13
Elm, powdered,  p u re ......................  
15
10
Sassafras, of ro o t.............................. 
Wild Cherry, select.......................... 
12
Bayberry  pow dered........................  
20
18
Hemlock  pow dered..................... ... 
W a h o o ................................................  
30
12
Soap  gro u n d......................................  
Cubeb, prim e  (Powd $1  20)............  
@1  00
J u n ip e r...............................................  
7
Prickly A sh........................................1  00  @1  11

B E R R IE S,

6  @ 

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, p u re .............. 
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 B> doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)................ 
Lgowood, Yi.s 
................ 
Logwood, J£s 
................ 
................ 
Logwood, ass’d 
Fluid.E xtracts—25 ^  cent, off list.

do 
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27
37*4
9
12
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

A rnica...........................   .....................  10  @  11
Chamomile,  R om an........................  
25
Chamomile,  G erm an....................... 
25

GUMS.

 

60@  75
Aloes,  B arbadoes.............................. 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)...................  
18
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)........... 
28@  30
A m m oniac................. 
A rabic, e x tra   select........................  
60
Arabic, pow dered  select................ 
60
50
Arabic, 1st  picked............................ 
40
A rabic,2d  p ick ed .............................. 
35
Arabic,c3d pickod.............................. 
A rabic, sifted so rts..........................  
30
30
A ssaf oentida, prim e (Powd 35c)... 
55@60
Benzoin............................................... 
23@  25
C am phor........................ 
 
Catechu. Is 04 14c, 14s  16c)............  
13
35©  40
Euphorbium  pow dered................... 
G albanum  strain ed ..........................  
80
S0@1  00
G am boge.............................................  
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c).............. 
35
20
 
Kino [Pow dered, 30c]......  
M astic..................................................  
110
40
M yrrh. T urkish (Powdered  47c)... 
4  25
Opium, p u re (Powd $5.50)................ 
Shellac, Campbell’s .......................... 
35
30
Shellac,  E nglish................................ 
Shellac,  n a tiv e ................................... 
25s
Shellac bleached...............................  
33
T ra g a c a n th ........................................  30  @110

 

 

 

H E R B S—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H o a rh o u n d ..........................................................25
L obelia.................................................................. 25
P ep p erm in t..................................... 
25
R u e......................................................................... 40
S p e a rm in t.......................................................... :24
Sweet M ajoram ...................................................35
T h y m e .................................................................. 30
W orm w ood..........................................................25
C itrate and  Q uinine........................  
6  40
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s......... 
20
Sulphate, pu re  c ry sta l................... 
7
80
C itra te ................................................. 
P h o sp h a te .......................................... 
65

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LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................   12  @  11
Sage, Italian, bulk 04S&J4S, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l.......................  18  @  20
Senna, Alex, sifted and  g arb led .. 
30
22
Senna,  pow dered.............................. 
Senna tinnivelli.................................  
16
U va  U rsi.............................................  
10
35
Belledonna.......................................... 
Foxglove.............................................  
30
H e n b a n e.............................................  
35
Rose, re d .............................................  
2 35

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

70
50 
45 
2  00 
50 
2  00
18*4@  20 
2 00 
75 
1  20 
40 
85
1  25 
8  00 1  60
2  00
40 
50 
2 00
2  40 
1 0090
1 85
2 00 80
1 25 
50
2  003 00 
9 75
65
5 00 
8  0060
3 75 
©  122 25
4 50 
1 002 50
1  903 50
6 00 
@1  202 50 
©  67
9 75

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2  00
D ruggists’ F avorite  R y e...............1  75
W hisky, o ther  b ran d s....................1  10
Gin, Old T om ..................................... 1  35
Gin,  H olland..................................... 2  00
B ran d y ................................................1  75
Catawba  W ines................................1  25
P o rt W ines.........................................1  35
Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jen n in g ’s, 2 oz..............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__
Calcined...............................................
Almond, sw eet...................................
Am ber,  rectified...............................
A nise....................................................
Bay $   oz.............................................
B ergam ont.........................................
C a sto r..................................................
C roton..................................................
C a je p u t...............................................
C a ssia..................................................
Cedar, com m ercial  (Pure 75c).......
C itro n ella..........................................
C loves..................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W .................................
E rig e ro n .............................................
Firew eed..........................................
G eranium   <0  oz.................................
Hemlock, com m ercial (Pure 75c)..
Ju n ip e r  wood....................................
Ju n ip e r  b erries.................................
Lavender flowers- F re n ch ..............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
..............
Lemon, new  cro p .............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ........................
Lem ongrass........................................
Origanum , red  flowers, F r ench...
O riganum ,  No. 1.............................
P en n y ro y al........................................
P epperm int,  w h ite..........................
Rose  $   oz...........................................
Rosem ary, F rench  (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood, G erm an...................
Sandal Wood, T urkish  D ark .........
S assafras.............................................
Tansy  ..................................................
T ar (by gal 60c)...................................
W in terg reen ...................................
Wormwood, No. l(P u re  $6.50).......
Savin....................................................
W o rm seed ..........................................
Cod Liver, filtered ..................$  gal
Cod Liver, b e st..........................
Cod Liver, H., P . & Co.’s, 16
Olive, M alaga.....................
Olive, “ Sublim e  I t a l i a n ................
S a la d ....................................................
Rosé,  Ihm sen’s.  .....................oz
B icrom ate...................................B>
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ...
Chlorate, cry st (Powd 23c)..............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran,  b u lk ....... 
P russiate yellow...............................
A lk a n e t...............................................
A lthea, c u t..........................................
A rrow,  St. V incent’s .......................
A rrow, T aylor’s, in )4s and Ì4s__
Blood (Powd 18c)...............................
Calamus,  peeled...............................
Calamus, G erm an  w hite, peeled..
Elecam pane, pow dered...................
G entian (Powd  17c(..........................
Ginger, A frican (Powd 16c)............   13  @
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd  40c)...................
Hellebore, w hite, pow dered..........
Ipecac, Rio, pow dered..................... 
Jalap,  pow dered...............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12^4)...........
Licorice, ex tra  select.......................
Pink, tr u e ..........................................
Rhei, from  select to   choice....'.. .1  00  @1
R hei,pow deredE. I ....... ..................110  @1
2
Rhei, choice out  cu b es............ . 
2
Rhei, choice c u t  fingers.................. 
Serpe n ta ria .......................................
S en ek a. . . . . . . . . . — ... ..............
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras............... .

PO TASSIU M .

ROOTS.

10

65

1

1

Sarsaparilla,  M exican..................... 
Squills, w hite (Powd 35c)................ 
V alerian, English (Powd 30c)......... 
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 28c)__  

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)................ 
Bird, m ixed in ft>  packages.
Canary,  S m yrna...............................  
Caraway, best D utch (Powd  19c)..
Cardamon,  A leppee........................
Cardamon, M alabar..........................
C elery..................................................
Coriander,  best  E nglish.................
F e n n e l.................................................
Flax,  clean .........................................  
Flax, p u re grd (bbl  330..................  
Foenugreek, pow dered...................  
Hem p,  R ussian................................. 
M ustard, w hite; Black  10c)............  
Q u in c e ................................................  
Rape, E nglish....................................  
W orm,  L ev an t................................... 

18
10
25
20

13
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6
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2 2520
12
15
41
9
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8
1  00
8
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SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriag e...... 2  25  @2 50
N assau 
do 
2  00
.......  
110
...........  
V elvet E x tra do 
85
E x tra Yellow do 
........... 
65
do 
G rass 
do 
H ard head, fo r slate u se .................. 
75
Yellow Reef, 
140
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60 1  60 
1  70 
1  90 
1  75 
.1  15  @1  20 
60  @  65 
60  ©   65 
20  @  22

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.23) $  g a l__
2  31 
Alcohol, wood, 95 p er cent ex. ref.
1  50
Anodyne  H offm an’s ........................
50
A rsenic, D onovan’s so lution.........
12
A rsenic, Fow ler’s so lution............
A nnatto  1 Jb ro lls.............................
30
Blue  Soluble......................................
50O75
Bay  Rum , im ported, b e st.......:...
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s.
25
A lu m ...........................................  
a>
>  2%@ 3 Yt
Alum , ground  (Powd 9c)................
3  @ 4
A nnatto,  p rim e.................................
A ntim ony, powdered,  com ’l .........
414® 5
6  @ 7
Arsenic, w hite, pow dered..............
Balm  Gilead  B u d s ... .......................
402 25
Beans,  T onka....................................
Beans,  V anilla...................................
7  00  @9 75
Bism uth, sub  n itra te .......................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................
Blue V itrio l........................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)..............
C antharides,R ussian  pow dered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frica n ................
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  A m erican  do  ...
Carm ine,  No. 40.................................
Cassia  B uds........................................
Calomel.  A m erican..........................
Chalk, prepared d ro p .......................
Chalk, precip itate E nglish............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................
Chloroform ,  Squibb’s .....................
Colocynth  apples..............................
Chloral hydrate, G erm an  cru sts..
c ry st...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
c ru sts..
C h loroform ........................
Cinchonidia, P . &  W .........J
Cinchonidia, other b ran d s..........."
Cloves (Powd  28c).............................
C ochineal...........................................
Cocoa  B u tte r..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................
Corrosive S ublim ate........................
Corks, X  and X X —35 off  lis t.........
Cream T artar, p u re pow dered.......
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 B> b o x ..
C reasote...............................................
Cudbear,  p rim e.................................
C uttle Fish B one...............................
D e x trin e .............................................
D over’s  P ow ders...........................
D ragon’s Blood M ass.......................
E rgot  pow dered...............................
E th e r Squibb’s ...................................
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s ..............
Epsom S alts........................................
E rgot, fre sh ................... ...................
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...........!.
Flake  w h ite........................................
G rains  P arad ise............................
G elatine,  Cooper’s ............................
G elatine, French  ..............................
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis__
Glue,  cab in et...................................
Glue, w h ite..........................................
G lycerine,  p u re ............................. .
Hops  14 s and Us...............................
Iodoform  
oz...................................
In d ig o .............................................
In sect Powder, best  D alm atian!!!
Iodine,  resublim ed..........................
Isinglass,  A m erican........................
Japonica...............................................
London  P u rp le .................................
Lead, a c e ta te......................................
Lime, chloride, (14s 2s 10c & bis lie)
L u p u lin e.............................................
L ycopodium ............................. ....'.
M ace....................................................
Madder, best  D u tch ........................
Manna, S.  F ........................................
M ercury...............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W .........$  oz
M usk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .........
Moss, Iceland..............................$  fl>
Mdss,  Iris h ..........................................
M ustard,  E nglish.............................
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft>  can s.........
N utgalls...............................................
N utm egs, No. 1...................................
N ux  V om ica......................................
O intm ent. M ercurial, J4d...............
P aris G reen........................................
Pepper, Black  B erry .......................
P ep sin ............................................... . 
3  00
Pitch, T rue B urgundy..................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................... 
7
Quinia, Sulph, P . & W ............B> oz  1  30@I  35
Quinine, o th er  b ran d s......................130 @135
Seidlitz  M ixture............................... 
28
Strychnia, c ry st................................. 
l   50
Silver N itrate, c ry st.........................  79 @  82
Red  P re c ip ita te ........................a> 
80
Saffron, A m erican............................
©  2 
Sal  G lauber........................................
Sal N itre, large  c ry st......................
10 
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st................
9 
Sal R ochelle........................................
33©  2 Yi
Sal  Soda...............................................
Salicin..................................................
2  50
S a n to n in .............................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy o r Scotch...........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].......................
Sperm aceti.........................................
Soda, Bi-Cai’bonate,  DeLand’s __
Soap, W hite C astile..........................
..........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
Soap, 
do 
..........................
Soap,  M azzini....................................
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...............................   26  @
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................   28  @
Sugar Milk pow dered.......................
Sulphur, flour..................................... 
314©
Sulphur,  ro ll......................................  
3©
T artar E m etic....................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, Yt gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
q u arts in t in ...........
Tar, 
pin ts in tin ..............
T urpentine,  V enice.................ft
W ax, W hite, S. &   F. b ran d ............
Zinc,  S ulphate...................................

17 
28 
26 
40 
35
85  @1  00 
32
@  34 
2 30 
1  50 9
@  15 
15 
9
1  00 
35 
60
12I4@  13 
1  35 
50
3 40@3  65 
40 
10 
12 
30
18 
20

65
2  70
1  40
85
25
60
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Capitol  Cylinder...................................
Model  Cylinder....................................
Shields  Cylinder...................................
Eldorado E n g in e...................................
Peerless  M achinery............................
Challenge M achinery..........................
Backus Fine Engine"............................
Black Diam ond M achinery................
C astorine...............................................
Paraffine, 25  deg...................................
Paraffine, 28  deg...................................
Sperm, w inter  bleached.....................
W hale, w in ter........................................
Lard, e x tra .............................................
Lard, No.  1.............................................
Linseed, p u re  ra w ...............................
Linseed, b o ile d ....................................
N eat’s Foot, w inter  strain ed ............
Spirits T u rp en tin e...............................

.......60
.......50
.......45
.......35
....... 25
.......30
.......30
99,
.......21
...1   40
Gal
85
80
70
62
65
95
45

Bbl
80
78
65
59
62
90
39

V A RN ISH ES.

No. 1 T urp  Coach................................. ..1   10@1  20
E x tra   T u rp ........................................... ..1  60@1  70
Coach  Body........................................... ..2  75@3 00
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re .......................... ..1   00@1  10
E x tra T urp  D am ar............................. ..1  55®1  60
Ja p an  D ryer, No.  1 T u rp ...................
0@  75

PA IN TS.

“  

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Bbl
Boralum ine, W hite  b u l k ] ............
5 fibs  | ..............
Boralum ine, 
B oralum ine,T ints  bulk.  140  ff..
B oralum ine 
5  B>s.  ) ............
Red V en etian ..............................  1J4
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.........  134
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda...........  134
P u tty , co m m ercial...................   2%
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................   214
Verm ilion, prim e  A m erican..
V erm ilion, E n g lish ...................
Green, P en in su lar.....................
Lead, red strictly pure..........
Lead, white, strictly p u re .......
W hiting, w hite  Spanish...........
W hiting,  Gilders  .....................
W hite, P aris A m erican............
W hiting  P aris English cliff..

Lb
9
10
10
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2@  3 
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214©  3 
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HAZELTINE,
PERKINS

W h o le s a le

Druggists !

42 and  44  Ottawa  Street  and 89, 91, 93  and 

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

Drugs, Mefliciues, Ciiemicals, 

Ms

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

W o l f,  P a t t o n  & Co., a n d  J o h n L. W h it ­

n e y ,  M a n u f a c t u r e r s  o f  F in e  

P a in t   a n d   Y a r n is h  

B r u sh e s.

—Also fo r the—

Gr a n d   R a p id s   B r u sh   Co.,  M a n f g s.  o f 

H a ir , Sh o e a n d   H o r se  B r u s h e s.

Druggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness  is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers  of 
many articles ourselves and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brushes,  French  and  Eng- 
glish Tooth and Nail  Brushes  at  attractive 
prices.  Our line of Holiday  Goods  for  the 
approaching season will be more full and el­
egant than ever  before,  and  we  desire  our 
customers  to  delay  their  fall  purchasers 
of those articles until they have seen our el­
egant line, as shown by our accredited repre­
sentative who is now preparing  for  his  an­
nual  exhibition of those  goods.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing o u t f it s  for  n e w   sto res 
to the fact  of  our  un surpassed  fa cilities 
for meeting the wants of this clas^of buyers 
w ithout delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

We give our  special  and  personal  atten­
tion  to  the  selection  of  choice  goods  for 
the drug  trade only, and trust we merit the 
high praise accorded us for so  satisfactorily 
supplying the wants of our  customers  with 
P u re Goods in this  department.  We  con­
trol  and  are  the  on ly  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Go’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
o t h e r   k n o w n  b r a n d   in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t e e   perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

Which continues to have  so  many  favorites 
among druggists who have sold  these  goods 
for a very long time.  Buy our

Riis,Braiilies& Fine Wines.

We  call  your  attention  to  the  adjoining 
list of  market  quotations  which  we  aim  to 
make  as  complete  and  perfect  as  possible. 
For special quantities and for  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear on the list such 
as Patent Medioines, etc,, we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAZELTINE, FSII1INS & CO

THIS  SPA C E  IS  RESERVED   POR

ARTHUR MEIGS  & CO.,
W holesale  G rocers,

55  and 57  Canal  Street,

F. J. T.AMB  &  COMPANY,

- W HOLESALE  DEAJLERS  IN-

Butter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

G r r a n c L  

P i a / p i c L s ,  

^ A i o l A i g a n ,

ORAKT3D

-  M ICH IG A N .

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED  BRANDS

T lie  B e st  in   Hie  M a rk e t

WE  SHALL  SOON  FILL  THIS  SPACE  WITH  QUOTATIONS  OF  INTEREST  TO 

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

Arthur  M eigs  &  Co.

J L .  b .  k n o w l s o n

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

AKRON  SÈWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

LZMZ,  HAIR,  COAL  and  WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  CH EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

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

tral  Freight  House.

SPRING  <& COMPANY

Weed Out the Old Stock.

From  the  A m erican  Store-keeper.

No merchant is willing to admit  that  he 
belongs to that class of business men known 
as “Old Fogies.”  Yet how many  there are 
at the present time who are  running  in the 
same grass-grown ruts used  by their  ances­
tors a hundred years ago, without  even con­
sidering the possible advantages  to be gain­
ed by an improvement in  their  methods of 
store-keeping.

Chief among this way-back  people  is the 
man who believes every  item should  pay a 
profit,  and will accordingly hold  an  article 
ten months—or ten years, as  the  case  may 
be—rather than sell it at any sacrifice price.
He is the man who inventories that  item, 
and a thousand other “stickers”  from  year 
to year at actual cost, and then wonders why 
he doesn’t have more working  capital when 
his books show such a decided gain.

He possibly imagines that some  time cus­
tomers are coming on  purpose  to  buy those 
goods, and so he carries them over from year 
to year, each time putting them  higher up on 
the shelves, where they will not  be  molested 
again for another twelve months.

Does he not see that  his  competitors  are 
passing him in the race?  Is he  going  to be 
satisfied to sit back  and prophesy  ruin  and 
failure for the man on the  opposite  comer, 
simply because he had marked  down  some 
winter goods a trifle under cost?  Can he not 
see, as did the  other  and  wiser  merchant, 
that the spring will soon be  here, and  that 
he will need both  money  and  space  to de­
vote to the wants of the coming season?

There is no merchant on  the sure  road to 
success, unless he has learned  to  keep  his 
store free from “plunder,” and there  is  no 
excuse in these  times of  “cheap  counters” 
and  “bargain  tables” for a  man  carrying 
over a lot of imaginary wealth from  year to 
year, when there are so many ways of weed­
ing out this old stock.

There is always some use  an  article  can 
be put to, and  accordingly  a  price can  be 
named which will sell it.

What does it matter if you don’t  get  100 
cents on the dollar?  You have the  cash  in 
hand with which to buy goods that will  sell 
at a profit, and more than pay you  back for 
any loss you may have  made on  an  article 
that was decreasing in value with  every ad­
ditional  year.

If you have any “plunder” in your  stock, 
shake  out the  dust, and then sell it at  any 
price.

A. MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E .  A .  STO W E  &  B B O ., P ro p rie to rs.

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

Secondrclo88 Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  7,  1884.

L O A D ED   CIGARS.

A T a lk   w ith   a  M a n u fa c tu re r  o f  E x p lo siv e 

S m okers.
From  th e New Y ork  H erald.

Some idea of the extent to which practical 
jokes are perpetrated  may be  formed  from 
the fact that a tobacce firm on  Essex  street 
employs several hands  who  are  kept  con­
stantly  busy  making  cigars  that are to  all 
outward appearances innocent and  harmless, 
but which  really  contain  powder  and other 
explosives  that  burst  in  the  smoker’s  face 
the  moment  he  has  taken one or two puffs.
The manufacturer of  these  cigars  told  a 
H era ld   reporter  that  he  sent  them to  all 
parts of the country—to Chicago, Cincinnati, 
Texas and California.  “ I have more orders 
for them.” he said,  “than I can possibly fill. 
All classes of  people  buy  them,  but,  as  a 
general thing, actors  are  my  best  patrons. 
I suppose it is because they have  less  to  do 
than other people,  and have therefore  more 
time for playing jokes on  each  other.  The 
day before yesterday an  actor  came  in  and 
asked me if I could  put dynamite in  one  of 
my cigars.  He said  he  only wanted it as  a 
joke, but somehow I didn’t  like  the  man’s 
looks;  as I thought dynamite was  too  dan­
gerous a thing to play jokes with,  I refused 
to make him one.”

“By the way I noticed the other day,” can- 
tinued  the  cigar  maker,  “that  O’Donovan 
Rossa said he was  sending  explosive  cigars 
over to England to blow  up  Gladstone  and 
all  his  cabinet.  Another  person  said  that 
this could not be done,  that  no  such  cigar 
could be made, but if  you  will  wait  here  a 
few minutes, I will show you that it  can  be 
made, and very easily.”

The speaker took down about two thimble­
fuls  of  powder,  slightly  moistened  it  and 
then wrapped it very tightly  in in some soft 
paper.  Around  this  he  in  turn  wrapped 
some tobacco and then proceeded in  the  or­
dinary way to  make  a  cigar. 
“Now,”  he 
said, with a look of great triumph and pleas­
ure,  “if you give this to any of your friends 
I guarantee in will blow his nose off.”  Just 
then the office boy handed the manufacturer 
a letter.  “Ah,”  he said,  “here  is  another 
order for a dozen boxes  from  Chicago,  and 
they say 1 must put plenty of powder  in,  so 
there will be no danger  of  their  not  going 
off.  Well,  the  fools  are  certainly  not  all 
dead yet.”

M ethods  o f P re se rv in g   Eggs.

From  th e G rocers’ M onthly Review.

At  the  Birmingham,  Eng.,  Show  there 
was a competition for the best dozen  of  pre­
served eggs.  The eggs had to be  sent  in  to 
the custody of the secretary prior to October 
I, so that at the time of the  examination  by 
the judges they had to be at least two months 
old, and it was  objected  by  many  that  the 
time was too short and ought to have covered 
six months.  The plan of testing adopted by 
the judges, was as follows:  To break one of 
each set into a clean saucer, theu to bring the 
best eight  together  in  the  same  saucepan, 
putting them into the cold water and remov- 
; ¿ng them from the water as  soon  as  boiled, 
and allowing  them  to  remain  one  minute 
and a half before testing.  Another  set, one 
lor each selected dozen, were boiled ten min­
utes and opened when cold.  Those preserved 
in lime water  were not satisfactory, milk of 
lime  being  more  highly 
recommehded. 
Others, that  had  been  coated  with  melted 
dripping or beeswex, were also wanting, the 
whites  being thin  and  watery.  The  best 
had  been  simply  packed  in  common  salt. 
These had not lost sensibly by  evaporation; 
had good consistent albumen and tasted best 
when boiled.  The eggs that took the second 
prize were  adjudged  nearly  as good as  the 
first.  The  young  lady  who  packed  them 
gave  the  following  as  her  method.

Melt one part of white wax to two part3 of 
spermaceti, boil and mix thorougly;  or  two 
parts clarified suet to one of wax and two of 
spermaceti.  Take new laid  eggs,  rub  with 
antiseptic  salt  or  fine  rice  starch.  Wrap 
each egg  in  fine  tissue  paper,  putting  the 
broad end downward, screw the paper tight­
ly at the top, leaving an inch to  hold  it  by. 
Dip each egg rapidly into fat  heated  to  100 
-  deg.;  withdiaw  and  leave  to  cool.  Pack 
¿with broad end downward in dry white sand 
jot sawdust.

It was generally believed had  the  contest 
covered  a  longer  period  these  would  have 
stood  first.  Another  point of superiority in j 
this  last  method  was the fine appearance of 
the  eggs, the  shell  being  pure and  clean  as 
when  first  laid.  For  home use,  probably 
the common salt method, owing  to  its  sim­
plicity, will be generally  preferred;  but  for 
market,  doubtless  the extra  pains required 
by  the  second  method would  pay.  Next to 
good  winter  laying  hens  for  profit  comes a 
good  method  of  preserving  eggs,  and  we 
should  like  to  see  a  contest  of this kind at 
our  own  poultry  shows  another season.

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

J. W. Morse, Chase:  “Your  neat little pa­
per is a credit to any one who has the pleas­
ure of perusing its columns.”

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

inA-UXTCY  AND

STAPLE

GOODS

CARPETS,

M ATTINGS,

Oil-.  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  ETC.

♦

6  a n d   8  M o n ro e   S tre e t,

Michigan.

Grand  Rapids,

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

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

New York city is credited with having 450 

millionaires.

C A R PET S  A N D   CA R PETIN G S. 

Spring  &  Company  quote  as  follows: 

TA PESTRY BRUSSELS.
R oxbury  ta p e stry ..........................
Sm ith’s 10 w ire.................................
Sm ith’s  e x tra ...................................
Sm ith’s B  Palisade........................
Sm ith’s  C  Palisade........................
H iggins’  **........................................
H iggins’  ***......................................
Sanford’s  e x tra ...............................
Sanford’s  Com ets............................

TH REE-PLY S.

H artford  3-ply.................................
Lowell 3-ply......................................
H iggins’  3-ply...................................
Sanford’s 3-ply.................................

@  90
@  90
@  85
@  70
®   65
@  82Vi
@  70
@  82 vi
@  65

@1  00
@1  00
@1  00
©   97 Vi

b e s t goods.

W e  m a n u fa c tu re  a ll o u r sto ck

Candy  an^
Oranges
Lemons 
Nuts

W e  b u y   in   la rg e   lo ts  fro m  
first  h a n d s  a n d   sh ip   o n ly   in  
fu ll c a r lo ts.  W e h a n d le  30,- 
OOO boxes o f O ranges  a n d  
L em ons in  a   season a n d   o u r 
fa c ilitie s fo r b u y in g  a n d   h a n ­
d lin g  a re   u n su rp a sse d .
W e  c a rry   a  h e a v y   sto c k   o f B ra ­
zils,  A lm onds,  F ilb e rts ,  W a ln u ts, 
P e c a n s  a n d   C ocoa  N u ts,  a n d   w ill 
se ll  a g a in st a n y  m a rk e t.
D n o r i n f a   W e la te ly   b o u g h t  e ig h t  c a r
lo ad s  o f  th e   b e s t  re -c le a n e d  
J T v C U lU u O  
a n d   h a n d -p ic k e d   T ennessee 
a n d   V irg in ia   N u ts,  a n d   a re  
p re p a re d   to   fill  th e   la rg e st 
o rd ers.

PUTNAM &  BROOKS

EXTRA  SU PERS.

H a rtfo rd ...........................................
@  77 Vi
©   82 Vi
Lowell.................................................
75 ©   77 Vi
O ther  m akes....................................
Best cotton ch ain ............................ .  60 ©   62 Vi

ALL  WOOL  SUPERFINE8.

 

HEMPS.

WOOL  FILLING AND  MIXED.

Best  2-ply...........................................   57Vi@
O ther  grades 2-ply............................  52Vi@
All-wool  super, 2-ply....... ..............   50  ©
E x tra heavy double cotton chain.  42Vi@
Double cotton ch ain .........................  35  @
H eavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  ©
H alf d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  27Vi@
Single cotton ch ain ..........................  19  ©
3-ply, 4-4 wide, e x tra h eavy............   27Vi@
@
B, 4-4 w ide..................  
Im perial, plain, 4-4 w ide.................. 
@
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D, 33  inches........................................ 
No. 1,4-4,5-4,6-4 and 8-4...................  
©
©
No. 2, 
No. 3, 
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No. 4, 
©
Best all ra tta n , p lain ........................  
©
©
Best all ra tta n  and cocoa, p la in ... 
N apier  A .............................................. 
@
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N apier  B .............................................. 
Opaque shades, 38  in c h ...................  
@
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4........... 
@
Pacific  H olland, 4-4..........................  
@
H artshorn’s fixtures, p er  g ro ss...
@10
Cord fixtures, p er  gross..................

OIL CLOTHS.

MSTTTNG8.

CURTaiNS.

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45
40
32Vi
82 Vi
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62 Vi 
52 Vi 
50 
40

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVEBIDGE,

M IL L IN E R Y   GOODS.

J. J. V an L euven quotes as foSow s:

HA TS.

C antons.....................................p e rd e »   2  25@  3 00
M ilans................................................. —   4 00© 6 00
Fine  M ilans........................................—  9 00@12 00
Superfine M ilans...............................—15  00@18 00
C hip............ .................................. 
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BLACK  CR A PE.

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RIBBON S.

Satin and  GG, all silk,  ex tra  heavy,  ail  colors,
.......................... 1  00
No. 4. 
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No. 5. 
 
150
No. 7. 
.........................1  85
No. 9. 
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No. 12.
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Second quality, all colors.

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H I M  COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’H
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

P r e s i d e n t — R a n s o m  W . H a w l e y , o f   D e t r o i t .
Vice-Presidents—O h a s . E. S n e d e k k r , D etroit: 
L. W. A t k i n s , G rand  R apids;  I: N. A l e x a n ­
d e r , L ansing;  U. S. L o r d , K alam azoo; H. E, 
M e e k e r , Bay City. 
Secretary  an a   T reasurer—W .  N.  M e r e d i t h ,
Board  of T rustees,  F o r  One  Y ear—J . C. P on 
t i c s , Chairm an, S. A. Monger, H . K . W h i t e  
F o r Two  Y ears—D. Mo r r is,  A. W .  Culv er.

m   „   „ __•

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
Nimrod, Acorn, Chief, Crescent  M  Seal Plug Tobaccos.

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

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

Oar  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

T o b a c c o s ,  V in e g a rs   and.  S p ic e s  3! 

—WE  MAKE  SPECIAL  CLAIM  FOR OUR—

OUR  MOTTO:  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MANoAND  MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

PA TEN TED  JU N E  15, 1883.

This invention supplies a long fe lt w ant fo r a cheap portable bed, th a t can be p u t  aw ay  in 
a sm all space w hen n o t in use, and y et m ake a room y,  com fortable bed  w hen w anted.  Of  the 
m any cots th a t are in th e m arket th ere is n o t one, cheap o r expensive, on w hich a  com fortable 
n ig h t’s re st can be had.  They are all narrow , short, w ithout spring, and in  sh o rt  no bed a t all. 
W hile TH e B edette folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be m ade fo r  dura­
bility, w hen set u p  it fu rnishes a bed wide and long enough fo r th e largest m an, and is as com­
fortable to  lie u pon as th e m ost expensive bed.  I t is so constructed th a t th e  p aten t  sides, reg­
ulated by th e p a te n t adjustable tension cords, form  th e m ost p erfe ct spring  bed.  The canvas 
covering is n o t tacked to  th e  fram e, as on all cots, b u t is  m ade  adjustable,  so  th a t  it  can  be 
tak en  off and p u t on again by any one in a few   m inutes, o r easily tightened, should it  become 
loose, a t any tim e from  stretching.  I t  is a perfect spring bed, so ft and  easy,  w ithout  springs 
o r m attress.  F or w arm  w eather it is a com plete bed, w ithout th e  addition o f an y th in g ; fo r cold 
w eather it is only necessary to  add sufficient clot hing.  The “ BEDETTE ” is a household neces­
sity,  and no fam ily a fte r once using, would be w ithout it.  I t  is sim ple in its construction, and 
n o t likely to  g et o u t o f repair.  I t  m akes a p retty  lounge, a p erfect bed, and th e  price is w ithin 
th e  reach o f all.

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

¡ill

J. J. VAN LEUVEN,  H A B A S T I N E !

w h o l e s a l e ;

ft M i l l i n e r y

- A N D -

*

.■FA -yrrv  g o o d s

LACES,

Heal  Laces  a  Specialty.

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

G-loves, Corsets, Bibbons, Pans, Hand Bags^ 

Pocket Books,  Buckings,  Tam s,

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets,

Embroidery  Materials,  Plumes,  Flowers,

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.

STAMPING PATTERNS

-FOR  SALE  BY-

■»t.t.  paint  Sealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. OHTJBOH, Manager.

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-  MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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

Successor  to   H .  M. B liv en ,

—WHOLESALE—

70  MONROE  STREET,

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

A gent  fo r  F arren ’s  Celebrated  “ F  ”  Brand 

Raw  O ysters.

117  M O N RO E  S TR EE T,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

Rani  win  Work

SCHEM ES.

A u I n d ig n a n t  C o rresp o n d en t  D enounces 

T h em  as F ra u d s.

The tobacconist, druggist,  grocer,  confec­
tioner, and all retailers to whom the  sale  of 
five  cent  cigars  forms an  important  factor 
in their business, should  totally  ignore  the 
smooth-talking  representative of the jobber 
or manufacturer who approaches them  with 
even the slightest allusion to a “scheme.” 

Suspenders,  baby-jumpers,  Waterbury 
watches, two for one  cent  clocks,  chewing 
gum, revolvers (warranted to kill the wearer 
only)  and carvers  (to carve the business rep­
utation of the retailer) are the baits  thrown 
out to a  gullable  and  good-natured  public. 
Those articles  can  be  purchased  at  a  less 
cost, when one needs them,  than  they  cost 
in the “scheme,” and parties are left free  to 
indulge their own  fancy  when  making the 
purchase. 
In  ninety-nine  cases  out  of  a 
hundred,  the  “scheme”  presents  are  the 
merest shams of the article as represented by 
the agent offering them.

What the retailer needs  is  a  good  cigar, 
and to the credit of the large majority of the 
buyers, it can be safely stated that it is their 
intention to give their patrons the best goods 
money can purchase and leave them a living 
margin.  Some men in the  trade  pay  more 
than they can really afford, in order to satis­
fy their customers.  But  alas!  there  are  so 
few judges of the weed in the  business, and 
with the best intentions they get bitten most 
woefully 
time  and  again  by  intinerant 
venders of the “warranted to be full Havana 
filler.”

But  of all the “stickers,”  the “scheme” is 
the meanest  one.  A  cheap,  nasty  article 
made by the  “scavengers”  of  the  trade  of 
vile tobacco, flavored with pernicious  drugs, 
manufactured in  tenement-houses,  hut pre­
sented  in  on  attractive form.  This  is  the 
chief ban of the “scheme”  goods, which  di­
vested of the  “present,”  can  be  bought  of 
the jobber at from 817 to 820 per 1,000,  and 
these goods, assisted by  the  “scheme,”  are 
scattered broadcast all  over  the  country  at 
prices ranging from 830 to 835.

No  thinking  man  conversant  with  the 
trade can but admit that  were it not for  the 
scheme,” the untold  millions  of  cigars  of 
this  cheap  trash,  made  purposely  with  a 
view to swindle  the  unwary,  would  never 
find their way into the  market,  if  the  mer­
chant would not listen to the “slick schemer,” 
but buy  these  goods  on  their  merits,  and 
save the additional 10 to  15 per Cent,  which 
he pays in addition to the legitimate profit of 
the jobber because  he  receives  an  awfully 
cheap inducement with the goods.

The agent traveling with the “scheme,” is 
not to blame, but a  jobber who sends a man 
on the road for that purpose to his customers 
does them  a  great  injustice,  loading  them 
with goods which  are  not  satisfactory, and 
causes the traveler to stand the brunt of  the 
indignant retailer’s anger,  whose  “scheme” 
goods remain unsold,  while  he  has  on  his 
hands as a present a lamp that won’t burn, a 
watch  that  will  not  keep  time,  a  silent 
clock, a brassy pitcher, a gun which will not 
go  off  (unless  you  carry  it)  or  a carving 
knife that will turn its edge  on  butter,  but 
all sharp enough to  ruin  the  reputation  of 
the retailer who gives his patrons  a  villian- 
ous “scheme”  cigar.

B e  W a tc h fu l.

I’rom the Retail G rocers’ A dvocate.
Grocers cannot be too careful in regard  to 
the watchfulness required to  secure  success 
in their business;  a  great  many  lack  this 
prominent attribute.  They  must  recollect 
that eternal vigilance is the price of  success 
as well as  liberty.  Clerks,  more  thorough 
thoughtlessness than any other cause, do not 
take that  necessary  care  in  weighing,  and 
measuring of goods, that  is  so  essential  to 
success in retail grocery business.  An ounce 
overweight of an article sold may  represent 
the entire profit on it, and  while  customers 
are not benefitted to any great  extent by the 
act, the grocer is wronged and finds  that  he 
is not making the money his  sales  warrant, 
and his suspicions are directed possibly in  a 
wrong channel to find the leakage in his bus­
iness. 

Therefore, we urge that grocers be watch­
ful of every detail connected with their bus- 
ness.  Clerks knowing that their employer’s 
eyes are ever on the alert, soon get  into  the 
habit of being careful, and not  only  add  to 
their employer’s profit but their own  for the 
future as well.  Their ehances for success is 
more  assured by the very lessons of careful­
ness taught  them  by  their  employers  who 
were  ever  watchful.  So  in  justice to your­
selves  and  clerks, we urge you to be watch­
fu l.

•

Too  M any  L aw y ers  in   Congress.

F rom  th e  New Y ork Shipping List.

The great trouble with Congress is that  it 
contains  too  many  lawyers. 
It  is  seldom 
that a great merchant, manufacturer or busi­
ness man of any kind finds his way into that 
body.  The result is we have a  body of men 
legislating  on  questions  about  which  they 
know next to nothing,‘and making confusion 
worst  confounded. 
It is said  that  at  least 
seventy-five per cent, of the  men  now hold­
ing seats in the Senate and House of  Repre- 
senatives are lawyers and professional  poli­
ticians.  So anomalous a condition of ^affairs 
exists in no other country with a representa­
tive parliamentary system. 
In Germany, in 
France and in England, the lawyers  as  leg­
islators are in a minority.  The great landed, 
manufacturing and other interests are all rep­
resented.  With  us,  half-educated, 
ill- 
trained  lawyers  pass  upon  the great ques­
tions of commerce and trade,  and decide for 
us questions of the most momentous import­
ance.  Fifty per cent, of the  lawyers should 
be banished from the halls  of  the  National 
Legislature.  Their presence there is an evil 
and  a  menace  to  the| best interests of  the 
country.

The census proves that the number of per­
sons in a family in this country  is  a  small 
fraction over  five. 
In  some  families  the 
husband is the small fraction over.

“Here,  waiter,  take  away  these  fried 
oysters; they are bad.”  “1 know it,  sir; but 
we have given you two  more  oysters  than 
you called for to make up for it.”

“Doctor,” said the grateful patient, seizing 
the physician’s hand,  “I  shall  never  forget 
that I owe you my life.”  “You exaggerate,” 
said the doctor mildly:  “you  only  owe  me 
for fifteen visits;  that is  the  point  which  I 
hope you will not fail to  remember.”

Parasols,  new  styles  and  new  prices,  at 

Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.’s.

m m u & co„

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.,  W holesale  and  R etail

IR O N   P IP E , 

B r a ss  Goo d s,  I r o n  a n d   B r a s s F it t in g s 

M a n t l e s,  Gr a t e s,  Ga s  F ix t u r e s, 

P l u m b e r s,  St e a m   F it t e r s,

—A nd  M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

TIME TABLES.

D EPA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tD etro it E x p ress..............................................   6:05 a m
+Day  E x p ress............................................12:20 p m
♦New Y ork F ast L in e......................................  6:00 p m
tA tlantie E xpress...............................................9:20 p m
♦Pacific  E x p ress................................................ 6:45 a m
■TLocal  P assenger.............................................11:20 a m
+M ail............................................................. 3:55 p m
tG rand  Rapids  E xpress................................. 10:25 p m

A R R IV E .

tD aily except Sunday.  *Daily.
The New Y ork F ast Line ru n s daily, arriving 
a t D etroit a t 12:35 a. m., and New Y ork a t 10 p. 
m . th e n e x t evening.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern tra in s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding tran sfers.
The D etroit E xpress leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
D raw ing  Room  and  P arlo r  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m., New Y ork 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m. n e x t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room  car attached, arriv ­
ing a t G rand Rapids a t  10:25 p. m.

J . T. S c h u l t z , Gen’l A gent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EAST.

GOING  W EST.

Leaves.
A rrives. 
tSteam boat E x p ress.......... 6:10 a m  
6:15 a m
+Through  M ail.....................10:10 a m  10:20 a m
tE vening  E x p ress..............3:20 p m  
3:35 p m
♦A tlantic E x p ress................  9:45 p m   10:45 p m
tM ixed, w ith  coach............ 
10:00 a m
•TMorning  E xpress..............12:40 p m  12:55 p m
tT hrougn  M ail.....................  4:45 p m  
4:55 p m
tSteam boat  E xpress...........10:30 p m   10:35 p m
tM ix ed ....................................  
‘ 
8:00 a m
♦N ightE xpress.....................  5:10 a m  
5:30 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers  tak in g   the  6:15  a.  m .  Express 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit fo r New York, arriving th ere at 
10:00 a. m. th e follow ing m orning.
P arlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  E ast  and 
W est.
Train leaving  a t  10:3o  p,  m.  will  m ak  con­
nection w ith Milwaukee steam ers daily except 
Sunday and th e tra in  leaving  a t 4:55 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steam ers fo r  Chicago.
Lim ited  E xpress  has  W agner  Sleeping  Car 
through to  Suspension Bridge and th e m ail has 
a P arlor Car to   D etroit.  The  N ight  E xpress 
has a through W agner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car D etroit to  G rand Rapids.

D. P o tter, City Pass. A gent.

T homas  T andy, Gen’l Pass. A gent,  D etroit.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  8 0 U T H .

Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & M ackinac E x.  9:22 a m  
F t. W ayne & M ackinac E x ..  3:57 p m 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & C incinnati Ex.
M ackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m  
M ackinac & Ft. W ay i e E x .. 10:25 a m  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

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

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  W oodruff  Sleeping Cars fo r  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  T rain leaving a t  9:50 a. ip. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car fo r Mackinac
City. 
South—T rain leaving a t 4:32 p. m. bas  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car fo r Cincinnati.

C. L. L ockwood, G en’l Pass. A gent.
Chioago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  A rrives,
4:00 p m
•(•Mail........................................10:15 a m  
+Day  E x p ress.......... ...........12:50 p m   10:45 p m
♦ N ig h tE x p re ss....................8:35 p m  
6:10 a m
M ixed........................................ 6:10 a m   10:15 p m
♦Daily. 
P ullm an Sleeping  Cars  on  all  n ig h t  train s. 
T hrough  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants w ithout  e x tra   charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:50 p. m., and through coach on 10:15 a.m . and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

tD aily except Sunday.

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NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  A rrives.
M ixed......................................  5:00 a m  
5:15 p m
E xpress.....................................4:10 p m   8:30 p m
E x p re ss...................................  8:30am   10:15am
Trains connect a t A rcher avenue fo r Chicago 
as follow s: Mail, 10:20 a. m .; express, 8:40 p. m 
The  N orthern term in u s o f th is Division fs at. 
Baldwin, w here close connection is m ade  w ith 
F. &  P. M.  tra in s  to   and  fro m   L udington  and 
M anistee. 

J. H , P alm er, G en’l Pass. A gent.

_

Choice Butter a Specialty!

Also  Foreign  an'd  Domestic  Fruits,  Cheese, 
Eggs,  Jelly,  Preserves,  BANANAS  and  EARLY 
VEGETABLES.

Careful Attention Paid  to Filling  Orders.

M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., C’d Rapids.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,

MANUFACTUREES  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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.

nd

fly  MUM fir til B ill

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

PROPRIETORS  AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF

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

AND DRUGGISTS’  AND  GROCERS’  SPECIALTIES.

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

W H O L E S A L E

83,85 awl 87  PEARL  STREET and 111, 116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  MICHIGAN.

—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.

Hwmts M  by lii fiizen at  ffn  M   Prats 1!

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

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.

I.  C.  L E V I ,

3 6 ,3 8 ,4 0   and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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  OOMF-AHSTY'

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.

M in e , Perkins & Go., Grand Rapids.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

TH.Y  o u r

RAW  HIDE  WHIP !

SELLS  FOR  81.

OUR  TWO SH ILLING  W HIP IS SURE 

TO  SELL.

Do n o t sell o u r goods a t cost.  We will

DO BETTER BY YOE

Come and see us.  We are here to stay.

o .   R O Y S  cfc  OO.,

No. 4  P earl  S treet,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
E N  G I N E S

From  2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
G rist Mills, Wood W orking  M achinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  C ontracts  m ade  fo r 
Complete  Outfits.
W .  O,  D e n iso n ,

88,90  and  92  South  Division  Street,

•GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

JOR.DANT

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 85 apiece by the  man­
ufacturer,

3 E T ,  O L U F F ,

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

MOSELEY  BROS.,

W holesale

Olover, Timothy and all  Kinds Field Seeds
¿Seed  Com ,  G reen  and  Dried  F ruits,  Oranges 
.and Lem ons, B u tter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
.G R E E N   V E G ET A B L ES  A N D   OYSTERS. 

122 Monroe S treet, G rand  Rapids, Mich.

M anufacturers of All K inds of

W IR E  W O RK 1

92  MONROE  STREET.

JOHN MOHRHARD,

—WHOLESALE—

Fresh & Salt Meats

109  CA N A L  STR EE T,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN

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

I. T. LAMOBBiOi k ilt

91  CA N A L  S TR EE T,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

H e  K n ew   H im .

“Did you arrest that  fellow I put  you  on 
’  asked  a  grocery  keeper  of  a  police­

to?
man.

“Yes, and  the  judge  nailed  him.
“Was he found guilty?”
“Yes.”
“What did he do?”
“Paid the penalty, of course.”
“What was  it?”  .
“Workhouse for thirty  days.”
“Well,  it’s a good thing it wasn’t a grocery 
bill or he would have hung before  he’d paid 
it. 

I know  the snoozer.”

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

“ What is a lake?”  asked  the  teacher.  A 
bright  little  Irish  boy  raised  his  hand. 
“Well, Mikey, what is  it?” 
“Sure  it  is a 
hole in the tea kittle, mum.”

T h e  B u tte rin e   Q u estio n .

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

ûH'oceries.

D efen d in g   th e   Sale  o f “ L ead ers.”

A retail  grocery  firm  doing  business  on 
Canal street has adopted the practice  of  of­
fering “leaders” in some one  brand  of  can­
ned goods, soaps, etc., on  Saturday  of  each 
week.  The articles offered are usually first- 
grade goods,  and  are  put  down  to  actual 
cost, transportation added, if  not  purchased 
of the jobbers here.  The  junior  partner  of 
the  firm was  recently seen by a reporter  of 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  and questioned as to the 
expediency of the method.  He  stated  that 
the innovation was  adopted  when  the  firm 
first began business here, to attract new  cus­
tomers,  who  first  came  only  on  the  days 
designated as  “special sale days,”  but  who 
subsequently formed the habit  of  patroniz­
ing them regularly.  He attributed the large 
business they had worked up mainly to  this 
fact, and  stated that the results had been  so 
satisfactory  in  the  past  that  the  “special 
sales” would be continued indefinitely.

“After once getting articles at the reduced 
price, do not your  customers  expect  to  get 
them at the  same  price  afterward?”  asked 
the reporter.

“No, they seem to be reconciled to the fact 
that they must take  advantage of  the ‘lead­
ers’ when they are offered,  or  wait  for  the 
next opportunity.  We are never asked to sell 
goods at the cut price after the day  is  past, 
but are questioned hourly as to what induce­
ments we have in store for our trade.”

T h e  V alue  o f S ugar.

Dutrome calls sugar the “most perfect ali­
mentary substance in  nature.”  Dr.  Rush 
says sugar affords the  greatest  quantity of 
nourishment in a given quantity  of  matter 
of any substance in  nature.  Sir  John Prin­
gle tells us that the  plague  has never  been 
known to visit a country where  sugar com­
posed a material  part  of the diet of  the in­
habitants.  Dr. Cullen is of the opinion that 
the frequency of the malignant fevers of  all 
kinds has been lessened by the use of sugar. 
The  celebrated  Trouchina  recommended 
sweeted water for almost every malady.  Dr, 
Frothergill was very anxious that the  price 
of sugar should be so far reduced as to make 
it  accessible  to  the  common  people.  Dr. 
Franklin had taken large quantities of black­
berry jam for relief from pain of  the stone, 
but discovered at length  that  the  sanitary 
property resided wholly  in the sugar.  Sug­
ar has been  found to  be an  antidote to the 
poison of verdigris, if taken speedily  and in 
abundance. 
It has been said  that sugar in­
jures the teeth, but this opinion does not de­
serve a serious reflection.  The plentiful use 
of sugar  is  one of the  best  preventives of 
intestinal  diseases  in  children.  Nature 
seems to have implanted a love for this  ali­
ment in young people, as if it were on  pur­
pose to defend them from such disorders.

F e a tu re s  o f tlie   W eek.

The market has been very  steady  during 
the past week, there having been  no  agita­
tion to speak of in  any  department  of  the 
business.  Sugars are a trifle easier,  prunes 
have declined J4c, and kerosene is  down lc, 
as is usual at  this  time  of  the  year.  Ar- 
buckle advanced the price of  roasted coffees 
—probably on account of the  destruction 
of his factory by fire—and  was  closely fol­
lowed by  the  other  manufacturers  with  a 
similar advance.

W h ite   S ta r  P o tato es.

I see our friend O. W. Blain, at  152  Ful­
ton  street,  agent  for  Mr.  Ensley’s  White 
Star Potatoes, takes  some  exceptions  to my 
offering  the  genuine  White  Star  Potatoes 
for  $2  for  a  3  bushel barrel, and no charge 
for  barrel, claiming  that they may be some­
thing  else  than  the  genuine. 
If  any  one 
has  any  doubt  of  their  being  such,  we 
refer  them to  D.  M.  Ferry  &  Co.,  of  De­
troit.
Gr a n d   R a p id s  Gr a in   a n d   Se e d   Cc.,

91 Canal street, W. T.  L a m o r e a u x ,  Agt

W h ite   S ta r  P o tato es.

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

The oldest firm manufacturing gunpowder 
has been in existence nearly  90  years,  dur­
ing which time its  name  has  not  changed 
Its founders were  Frenchmen. 
It  is  not  a 
corporation,  but  simply  a  family  concern, 
and is worth $30,000,000.

Shippers  of  butter  and  eggs  would  do 
well  to  correspond  with  E.  Fallas,  whole­
sale dealer  in  butter  and  eggs,  Grand  Rap­
ids,  Mich.,  who  is  pickling  eggs,  as  well 
as selling on the market

“Dick” will be at my store  on  Tuesdays, 
Thursdays,  Fridays  and  Saturdays  each 
week  until  my  entire  stock  is  closed 
out.

L  E. M e s sm o r e.

T h e   T r a d e sm a n  is in receipt of a  pack­
age of fruit preserves from  the  Daily  Pre­
serving Co., Detroit which  are  pronounced 
par  excellence.

One million and a half whitefisheggs have 
been sent from  Canada  to  the  Marquis  of 
Lome, who will endeavor to stock  the  Eng­
lish lakes.

The canning works at Auburn, Maine, put 
up last year 70,000  cans of  pumpkins,  40,- 
000  cans  of  tomatoes,  and  50,000  cans  of 
com.

Johnny McIntyre would be pleased to  see 

his old friends at Arthur Meigs & Co,’s.

From  th e Chicago Grocer.

Nothing is more apparent than at the next 
sessions of our state legislatures  throughout 
the*north more effectual legislation  must be 
had on the subject of the fraudulent  sale of 
butterine and other forms  of  imitations of 
genuine butter, or the dairy interests of  the 
country  will be  irreparably  injured.  The 
manufacture of  these  imitations has  now 
grown to enormous proportions  and the pro­
duct is almost invariably sold as genuine but­
ter, thus coming in fraudulent and injurious 
competition with the genuine  product..  The 
legislative enactments hitherto had in  some 
of the states have proven almost  or  wholly 
ineffectual.  Those  requiring  the  package 
to be  branded  “butterine”  are  evaded  or 
rendered wholly useless by having the word 
“butter” in conspicuous  letters,  while  the 
remaining letters, “ine,” are  almost  micro­
scopical in size.  The retailer often  obliter­
ates these  entirely. 
It is doubtful  if  any 
law could be sustained  forbidding  the man­
ufacture, as the  state of  Missouri  has  at­
tempted.  Any one has a right to  mix  lard 
and butter together and to sell  the  mixture 
as suck and no court could probably be found 
that would restrain him from so doing.

But the law can prohibit its  sale as butter 
and enforce  a penalty for  its violation, and 
it is to this point  alone,  as it  seems  to us, 
that legislation can be successfully directed. 
Let there be stringent laws enacted  against 
the'sale of any artificially mixed  compound, 
except as a mixture, and by a name  indicat­
ing that it is a mixture.  Make the  penalty 
for its violation $50 for the  first  offence,  to 
be doubled on  each  subsequent  conviction, 
and provide that one-half of  the  fine  shall 
go to the complaining  witness.  Laws will 
not enforce themselves.  The ordinary offic­
ials will not charge themselves with  discov­
ering violations  or  prosecuting  the  same. 
The dairyman is too remote from  the  locali­
ties where the law is violated to attend  to it 
and he lacks the necessary  time. 
It  must 
be made worth the  while  of  somebody  to 
discover violations of the law and  take  the 
initial steps for prosecuting the same.  The 
idea of informers is, we are  well aware, re­
pugnant to our ideas as a people.  But  this 
case is exceptional, and warrants  exception­
al measures.  Not only is the great body  of 
consumers being defrauded in  the  purchase 
of a spurious instead of a genuine  article of 
food, but one of the most important  of  our 
productive interests is being seriously  injur­
ed.  Enact such a law,  and  In every  com­
munity  self-constituted  detectives  will  at 
once set themselves at work to discover  vio­
lators of it.  Not  a  retailer  would  escape 
having his butter  sampled  and exposed  to 
tests to determine its  genuineness.  A few 
prosecutions,  followed  by  speedy  convic­
tions, would soon convince the  selling  fra­
ternity that it was no longer safe to  deal in 
spurious goods, and the  dairy . interest, 
in­
stead of being crowded to the wall, as is now 
threatened, will again  command  and  hold 
the markets of the country.

“ S a u e rk ra u t Is  S a u e rk ra u t.”

A tin pail with the  lid  securely  fastened 
stood on Dr. Edson’s  table  at  his  sanitary 
headquarters in New York, lately, and some­
body who came  in  carelessly  opened  it  to 
see what it contained. 
Instantly a most vile 
and .loathsome smell  filled the  room.  The 
clerks rose from their desks, bewildered and 
horror stricken, and  fled,  each  seeking  the 
nearest avenue  of  escape.  Windows  were 
flung open and the  pail  shoved  outside  on 
the sill, but it was  more  than  ten  minutes 
before any one dare  breathe  in  the  atmos­
phere of the room again.  Then  Dr.  Edson 
carefully sniffed the pail, looked  at  its  con­
tents and pronounced it saur  kraut.

“Never,” protested a big Gerinon, who had 

been almost knocked down by the  smell.

“It is—but something appeared to  be  the 

matter with it,” said the  doctor.

A note  tied on the pail  explained  that  it 
had been left by Mrs. Randall,  of  171 West 
Tenth street, who had purchased  the  sauer­
kraut of William D. Koopman,  a  grocer  at 
Waverly place and Charles  street.  Dr.  Ed­
son’s men are to enquire into the matter, the 
stuff being clearly unfit for sale, if smell is an 
indication of unfitness.

Mr. Koopman was  foupd  in  his  store  at 
noon.  He  remembered  selling  the  sauer- 
kiaut te Mrs. Randall,  who is the wife  of  a 
carpenter  living at the above number.

“It  may  have  stood  near  a  stove  over 
night,” he said, “and so been made to  smell 
worse than it did.  Mrs.  Randall  bought  it 
yesterday afternoon and got very angry over 
the  smell.  Sauerkraut  always  smells  bad, 
and this is  the  real  Magdenburg  kind,  im­
ported from Germany.  We keep it in a bar­
rel all winter, it is  only  made  in  the  fall. 
Yes;  I smell of that same barrel right along 
and eat of it myself.  I don’t think it so bad; 
or that it can poison anybody.  In the spring 
the  stuff generally smells  like  that,  maybe 
not all so strong, but pretty  bad. 
I  didn’t 
ask her to buy  it,  anyway.  Sauerkraut  is 
sauerkraut.”

The health officer and employees  at  sani­
tary headquarters agree that  no  such  smell 
ever came  in  their  notice  before,  and  fer­
vently hope that none ever will again.

To  th e   T ra d e   o f W estern   M ichigan.
I have retained  the  services  of  “ Dick ” 
Warner until my entire stock  is closed  out. 
I solicit correspondence from those  desiring 
bargains in  the  grocery  line,  as  the  stock 
will be sold at a low  margin.  Any  orders 
entrusted to the care of “ Dick ”  Warner or 
the undersigned will  recieve  careful  atten­
tion.

I. E. M e s sm o r e.

Choice butter can always be had at  M. C. 

Russell’s.

A dvanced—Roasted  Coffees 34c.
Declined—Sugars  6lightly  easier;  K erosene 

lc ;  P rim es lie,

A X LE  GREASE.

M o d o c__ fl doz  60 
D iam ond..............  60 

IParagon...  ^  doz  60
|Frazer’s .......... 
85

BA K IN G   PO W D ER .

A rctic 36 lb can s.................................... $  doz. 
45
A rctic 34 ft can s................................................. 
75
A rctic *4 ft cans.  .  ..........................................  1  40
A rctic  1 ft  can s.................................................  2 40
A rctic 5  ft can s.................................................12  00

BLU IN G .

Dry, No. 2.......................... .
Dry, No. 3.........................
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................
Liquid, 8 oz.........................
A rctic 4 oz..........................
A rctic 8  oz........................
A rctic 16 oz........................
A rctic No. 1 pepper box.
A rctic No. 2 
A rctic No. 3 

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BROOMS.

25
45
35
65

___doz. 
___doz. 
___doz. 
___doz. 
___$   g ro ss  4  00
..............  8 00
................... 12  00
..............  2 00
......................... 3  00
..................  
  4  50

No. 1 G arpet................................................. 
No. 2 C arpet................................................. 
No. 1 H u rl...................... 
No. 2 H url  ..................................................  
F ancy W hisk............................................... 
Common W hisk.......................................... 

 

 

 

2  50
2  25
2  00
1  75
125
85

CANNED GOODS.

 

Apples, 3 ft sta n d a rd s....................................1
Apples, 6 ft sta n d a rd s................................... 2
Apples, gallon  stan d ard s.........................    .3
A pricots, L usk’s . ............................................2
Beans, L im a ...................................... .
Beans, S trin g ..................................................
Beans, Boston B aked.....................................1
Blackberries, sta n d ard s........., ....................1
Cherries, w h ite ................................  
1
Cherries,  re d ...................... 
...1
Condensed Milk, Fagle  b ran d ......................8
Corn, E rie.........................................................1
Corn, R evere.....................................................1
Corn,  E gyptian............................................... 1
Corn,  Y arm outh..............................................1
Corn T rophy.....................................................1
Corn, 2 ft  O nandago.......................................1
D am sons............   ............................................1
Egg Plum s, standards................................... 1
G reen  Gages, stan d ard s................................1
Lobsters, S ta r s ............................................... 2
Lobsters, P ic n ic s............................................1
M ackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3 f t ..................4
Oysters, 1  ft  stan d ard s..................................1
O ysters, 1 ft  slack  filled...............................
Oysters, 2  ft  stan d ard s...............................   1
O ysters, 2 ft slack filled................................. 1
Peaches, all  yellow  stan d ard s....................2
Peaches, 3 ft E x tra Yellow H eath ...............3
Peaches, w hite  standards............................ 1
Peaches,  seconds............................................1
Pie P eaches................................................... ..1
Pears, B a rtle tt.................................................1
Peas, standard  M arrofat.............................. 1
Peas, good M arrofat.......................................1
Peas, so ak ed .................................................. .
P ineapples........................................................ 1
Pine Apple, 2 ft Sugar  L oaf.........................2
Raspberries,  E rie............................................1
Raspberries,  o th er  b ran d s...........................1
Salmon, stan d ard ............................................1
Sardines,  im ported  34s.................................
Sardines, im ported 34s...................................
Sardines, dom estic 34s...................................
Sardines,  dom estic  34s.................................
Sardines,  M ustard..........................................
Straw berries,  standards................................1
Succotash, stan d ard s........................... 
1
Succotash,  o ther  b ran d s..............................
Succotash, 2 ftB .& M .....................................1
Tomatoes,  stan d ard s..........................1  00@1
Tomatoes, gal. E rie........................................ 3
T rout, 3 ft  brook..............................................3

 

25
90
05
10
15
20
10
30
15
50
20
60
60
00
75
00
10
75
85
25
10
00
90
65
20
35
50
35
65
60
50
50
20
60
1514
20
8
m i
15
10
05
85
75
05
25
00

G.  D.....................
M usket................

G erm an  sw eet..
R u n k les..............
V ienna Sw eet..

[Ely’s W aterproof  75 

.  35 
.  75  1 
CHOCOLATE.
..........................................  @25
.  @35
.  @25

COFFEE.

G reen R io__ J2 @14 Roasted Mex.l734@19
G reen J a v a .. .17 @27 G round  R io.. 936@17
@16
G reen M ocha.25 @27 G round  Mex.
...@15%
Roasted R io .. 12 @17 A rbuckle’s . ..
.. .@15%
Roasted  Java24 @34
x x x x ..........
Roasted  M ar.17 @19 D ilw orth’s  ...
Roasted  Mocha @34

CORDAGE.

72 foot J u t e ....... 1  35
60 foot  J u te ....... 1  15

60 foot Cotton ...1   75
50 foot Cotton ...1   50

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Jen n in g s’2 oz........................................IP  doz.  1 00
1  50

 

4 oz.................................... 
6 oz.............................................................2 50
8 o z.............................................................3 50
.  No. 2  T ap er..........................................  1 25
1  75
No.  4 
34 p in t  ro u n d ........................................  4 50
1 
.................................  S  00
No.  8..............................  ......... I...  3  00
No. 1 0 .....................................................   4 25

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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
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Je nnings’ 2 oz........................................3P doz.  1  40
2  50
4  00
5  00 
1  50

4 oz.........................................
6 oz........................................
8 oz.....................................
No. 2  T ap er......................
No.  4 T ap er...........................................   3 00
34 p in t  ro u n d ........................................  7 50
1 p in t  ro u n d ..........................................15 00
No.  8.......................................................   4 25
No.  10......................................................6 00

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Vanilla.

FAUCETS.

Faucets,  self  m easuring.................
Faucets, com m on...............................

@2  50 
@  35

F IS H .

W hole C o d ........................................ 
4%@634
Boneless Cod........................................534@734@8y4
H erring 34 bbls.;l00 f t ..........................2 75@3  00
H erring Scaled........................................ 
28@30
H erring H olland.....................................  @115
B loaters....................................................   @1  00
W hite, No. 1, 34 b b ls .................................. 
W hite, Fam ily, 34 b b ls............................... 
W hite, No. 1,10 ft k its ..............................  
Whise, No. 1,12  ft k its............................... 
T rout, No.  1, Vi  b b ls..................................  
T rout, No. 1,12  ft  k its .......................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, Vi b b ls............................. 
M ackerel. No. 1,12  ft  k its ........................ 

8 00
4 00
1 10
1 25
4 75
90
7 00
1 15

F R U IT S .

London Layers, new ..................................... 
Loose M uscatels Raisins,  new ............ 2  50@2  60
New V alencias  R aisins........................  
734@734
O n d aras.........................................................   @11
T urkey P ru n e s ........................................  634@6%
C u rra n ts....................................................  534@8
C itro n ...................................... ..................   18@20
Dried A pples  ...........................................   8  @854

2 75

MATCHES.

Richardson’s No. 2  sq u a re__ .’............................2 70
..............................2  55
do 
Richardson’s No. 3 
...............................170
do 
Richardson’s No. 5 
Richardson’s No. 6 
do 
.........................  
...............................170
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
..............................2  55
Richardson’s No. 4  ro u n d .....................................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.........: ............. . 
.2  65
R ichardson’s No. 754 do 
................................1  70
E lectric P arlor No. 17...............................•.........3  80
E lectric P arlor No. 18..............................................5 70
G rand  H aven, No.  9........................................2  40
G rand  H aven, No.  8................................................1 70

2 70

20 gross lots special price.

M OLASSES.

Black  S tra p ......................................................  @20
P orto  R ico........................................................30@35
New  Orleans,  good........................................ 40@50
New  Orleans,  fan cy .......................................56@60
Syrups, S ugar........................................... 27@35@45

OATMEAL.

18 5 ft  p k g s.................................................  @375
36 21b  pk g s.................................................  @3  25
Im perial  bbls............................................ 
Q uaker b b ls............................................... 

5  75
6  75

do. 

K erosene  W. W .........
Legal te st. 
Sweet, 2 oz. sq u a re ... 
Sweet, 2  oz. ro u n d ... 
C astor,2 oz.  square.. 
Castor, 2 oz. ro u n d ...

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

14
11%
75
1  00
75
1  00

PIC K L E S .

do 
do 

Choice in barrels m ed.................   ................... 7  50
Choice in 34 
......................................4  50
D ingee’s Vt 
sm all..............................4  50
Dingee’s q u arts glass fa n c y ............................4 25
..........................   2 50
Dingee’s p in ts 
English qt. in G lass...........................................3 50
English pt.  in  G lass......................................... 2 00
A m erican qt.  in G lass............................ ..........2  00
A m erican pt. in G lass........................................1 25

do 

P IP E S .

Im ported Clay 3 gross................ —  ..2 25@3  00
A m erican  T .D ....................................... 
  90@1 00

SA LERA TUS.

DeLand’s  pure.
Churh’s ............
Taylor’s  G.  M ..
Cap  S heaf.........
Dw ight’s ...........
Sea  F oam .........

SALT.
60 P o c k e t................................
28 P o ck et.................................
100 3 ft  pockets......................
Saginaw F in e ........................
Diam ond C.............................
Standard  Coarse............ ,...
SEEDS.

H e m p ........................................................
C a n a ry .......................................................
R a p e ...........................................................
Mixed B ird............ ...................................

K irk’s A m erican  F a m ily __ . . . . $ f t

SOAP.

I n d ia .............................
do. 
do.  S a v o n ............................
do.  S a tin e t........................ .
do.  R e v e n u e ......................
do.  W hite R ussian............
G oodrich’s English Fam ily 

do. 

Princess

r  & G am ble’s I v o r y ..................
do.
Ja p an   O liv e .........
do.
Town Talk  1? box
do.
Golden B ar............
do.
A rab ........................
do.
A m ber.....................
do.
M ottled  G erm an..
P ro cter & G am ble’s V elvet
P ro cter & G amble’s Good L u ck..........
P ro c ter & Gamble’s Wash  W ell...........
B adger...............................................60 fts
G alv an ic....................................................
X X X  E lectric...........................................
X X X  B orax...............................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft b r
Tip T op..........................................3 ft b ar
W ard’s W hite L ily...................................
H andkerchief...........................................
Sidall’s ......................................................
B abbitt’s .. *.............................................
Dish R a g ................... ...............................
B luing__ ...................................................
M agnetic.....................•..............................
New  French  P rocess..............................
Spoon  .........................................................
A nti-W ashboard......................................
V aterlan d ..................................................
M agic............................................................
P ittsb u rg h .................................................
Bogue’s ......................................................
W hite castile  b a rs...................................
M ottled castile.........................................
Old  Style..................................................
Old C ountry.................................v,.............

& 5& 
l 514 
i  534 
5 5% 
a  534 
ï 5J4

60
40
10

534
434

534@6

5  40

634
634
6
634
5%
534
434
6  75
5
3  70
4  20
3 45
3  75
4  20
@3  40 
@3  25 
@3  15 
@  634 
@4  20 
@6  50 
@4  20 
@  21 
@  16 
@6  75 
@4  20
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
@  534 
534

SPICES.

G round P epper,  in boxes and c a n s ...
16@22
G round  A llspice......................................   12@20
C innam on..................................................   16@30
C loves.........................................................  20@25
G inger............................i ...........................  17@20
M u stard ......................................................  15@35
C ayenne......................................................  25@35
^  dozen
P epper 34 
Allspice  34 f t............
Cinnam on  34 
.......
Cloves 34  f t................
P epper,  w hole.........
A llsp ice.....................
C a ssia........................
Cloves........................ .
N utm egs,  No. 1.......

1 00 
75 
@18 
@10 
@12
@75

20
70

STARCH.

@8
7
7

STONEW ARE.

STOVE P O L IS H .

@634
@734 
@6 
@734
@834
@934

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

1731
8  @834
8  @834
8  @834
@6  94
@6  81
6J4@634
6  @634
534@6

Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.......................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package..... ................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes..........................
Muzzy Gloss b u lk .....................................
Muzzy Corn 1 f t ........................................  7
K ingsford  Silver Gloss..........................
K ingsf ord Silver Gloss 6 ft  b o x ...........
K ingsford C orn........................................
8%@9
Oswego  G loss...........................................
M irror  Gloss.............................................
@7
M irror  Gloss, co rn ...................................
@734
Piel’s P e a rl................................................
@4
Am ericad Starch Co.’s
1 ft  G loss....................................................
@634@3%
10 oz  G loss.................................................
3 1b  G loss....................................................
@6
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxos............................
@7
Tabic Corn........................................ 40 ft
@634
Table  C orn....................................... 20  ft
@7
B anner, b u lk .............................................
@4
H ovey’s 1 1b Sunday Gloss.....................
@734
H ovey’s 3 1b Sunday G loss..
................
@734
H ovey’s 6 ft Sunday Gloss, wood box.
@8
One Mrs.  P o tts’  Polishing  Iro n s  given  free 
w ith each box o r crate of Sunday Gloss Starch.
Ju g s $   gallon............................................ 
Crocks.........................................................  
Milk  Crocks............................................... 
Rising  Sun g ro ss..5 88|D ixon’s  gross.........5 50
U n iv ersal................5  88 Above $  dozea........  50
I X  L ........................ 5  501
SUGARS.
G ranulated............................
Cut L oaf.................................................... 
C u b e s....................................................... 
Pow dered................................................. 
Conf. A ...................................................... 
Standard A ............................................... 
E x tra C...................................................... 
Fine C........................................................ 
Yellow C....................................................  
SYRUPS
Corn,  B arrels........................
@  30 
Corn, 54 bbls..........................
@  32 
Corn,  to gallon kegs............
@  33 
Corn, 5 gallon k eg s...............
@1  75 
Corn, 434 gallon k eg s...........
@1  60 
P u re Sugar  D rips............................. bbl
32@  35 
P u re Sugar D rips..........................34 bbl
35@  40
.......5 gal kegs
@1  85
®   80
............ 34 bbls
@  80
__ 10 gal kegs
.......5 gal kegs
@  85
................34 bbl
@  95
.......5 gal kegs
@1  00
&s.
Y oung H yson.. . .25@50
G un  P o w d er... . .35@50
O olong.......... 33@55@60
C ongo...................   @30

Japan  ordinary.  23@30
J  apan fa ir............32@35
Ja p an  fa ir to g ’d.35@37
Ja p an  fine............ 40@50
Jap an  d u st...........15@20
Diamond  Crown....................................
@57
@52
Red  B ird..................................................
@40
O pera Q ueen...........................................
@45
Sweet Rose...............................................
@38
G reen  B ack.............................................
@33
F r u i t ........................................................
@31
O So  Sw eet............................, ................
@65
P rairie  F low er........................................
@62
Climber [light and  d a rk ].....................
@65
M atchless.................................................
69
H ia w a th a .................................................
70
G lobe.........................................................
70
May F lo w er.............................................
@45
H ero...........................................................
@35
A tla s .........................................................
@38
Royal G am e.............................................
@67
Silver T hread..........................................
@60
Seal...........................................................
@30
K e n tu c k y .................................................
@67
Mule  E a r..................................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo...............................................
@30
Peek-arBoo,  34  b arre ls..........................
Clipper, Fox’s ............................................  @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half b arre ls..............  @30
F o u n tain ....................................................  @74
Old C ongress.............................................   @64
Good  L u ck ................................................   @52
Good and Sw eet........................................  @45
Blaze  A w ay...............................................  @35
H air L ifte r............................................... 
@30
Old Glory, lig h t.................................. 
  @60
Charm  o f  th e W est, d a rk .......................  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin   fo il.......................  @60

P u re M aple............

TOBACCO—F IN E   CUT.

PLU G .

 

Red F o x .......... ..........................................   @50
Big  D rive..................................................   @52
Seal of Grand R apids..............................  @48
Glory  .........................................................   @50
D u rh am ......................................................  @48
Silver  Coin.................................................  @50
B uster  [D ark ],........................................   @36
Black P rince [D ark]...............................   @36
Black R acer  [D ark]...............................   @36
Leggett & Myers’  S tar,,..........................  @50
C lim ax............................... 
@50
Hold F a s t ..................................................   @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield............................  @48
Nickle N uggets 6 and 12 ft  cads...........  @51
Cock of th e W alk  6s ................................  @37
Black Spun  R oll......................................   @38
N im rod........................................................  @50
A c o rn .........................................................   @50
Red Seal......................................................  @48
C re sc e n t....................................................   @44
Black  X ......................................................  @35
Black  Bass.................................................  @40
T rue G rit....................................................   @35
Nobby  Spun  R oll............... 
@50
S pring.........................................................   @50
Grayling, all  sty les.................................  @50
M ackinaw ..................................................   @47
H o rseS hoe.................................................  @50
Good  L u ck .................................................  @50
Big C hunk o r J . T ....................................   @40
H air L ifte r.................................................  @37
D. and D., b lack ............... 
  @37
 
 
  @48
McAlpin’s G reen  Shield............... 
Aee  H igh, b lack ........................ 
 
  @35
 
Cham pion  A .....................  
@48
Sailors’  S o l a c e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   @48

 
 

 

 

 

 

Red S ta r.. 
Shot G un.
D u c k .......
Ju m b o __

SM OKING.

Chain  ......................................................
A rth u r’s Choice....................................
Seal of G rand  R adids..........................
K in g .........................................................
F l i r t ........................ ................................
R u g ...........................................................
Ten P enny D urham , 34 and 34...........
Am ber,  34 and 1 ft.................................
Dime  Sm oking......................................
Red Fox Sm oking.................................
Lim e K iln  Club....................................
Blackwell’s D urham  Long  C u t.........
V anity  F a ir...........................................
D im e ........................................................
P eerless..................................................
S ta n d a rd ..................................................
Old Tom ..................................................
Tom & J e r r y ..........................................
Jo k e r........................................................
T raveler...........................................! ...
M aiden................................................... ,
T o p sy ..................................... ; ; ; ;;;;;;;
N avy C lippings.................
H oney D ew ...............................’
Gold  B lock.............................
Camp F ire  .............................!!!!" * !!
O ronoko...................................
N igger  H ead...................... . . . . . . . . . . .
D urham , 34 f t ............................
34 f t ......................;;;; ;; ; ; ; ; ;
34 f t .......................!! . . .]
1 1b ........................... " .!

do 
do 
do 

H o lla n d ..................................... !.!!!.” .
G e rm a n ..................................... !!'.*."!]
Long Tom ............................
N ational...................................
T im e ...........................................
Love’s D ream ........................
C o n q u e ro r...................................
Fox’s ................................................ "  |
G ra y lin g ........................................
Seal S kin................................................
Dime D u rh a m .................... . . . . . . . . . .
Rob R oy.......................................... **“ *
Uqcle  Sam ...............................
L u m b e rm a n .............................
Railroad Boy................................!!!!!!
M ountain Rose..........................
Good  E nough...............................
Home Comfort, 34s and  34s .........
Old  Rip, long  c u t..........................’..
D urham ,  long  c u t......................... ..."
Two  Nickle, 345.................................. .[
Two  Nickle, 34s......................
Star D urham ...................................
Golden Flake C abinet......................... [
Seal o f N orth Carolina, 2 o z..............
Seal o f N orth Carolina, 4  oz..............
Seal of N orth Carolina, 8  oz..............
Seal of N orth Carolina, 16 oz  boxes.
SH ORTS.
Mule E a r ........................ .......................
H ia w a th a ...............................
Old C ongress..........................
V IN EGA R.
P u re  Cider.............................................
W hite  W ine.................................

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.
1776 ¡g f t .................................................
G illett's ^  f t ........................................
Soapine p k g ..........................................
B oraxine 
b o x ............................... . ’
P earline $  b o x .....................................

YEAST.

Seneca Falls “ Rising  S u n ” ............
Twin Bros.......... 1  75  I W ilso n s___
G illett’s ..............1  75 
iN a tio n al...

M ISCELLANEOUS.

@50
@48
@48
@40

@22
@22
@25
@30
@28
@30
@24
@15
@22
@26
©47
@90
@90
24©25

21
24
25 
35
@26
24
25 
32 
22 
19
26 
60

51
@22
@16
@30
@26
@26
@28
@23
@22
@32
@30
@25
@26
@28
@26
@37
@20
@23
@25
@60
@60
@25
@26
@25
@40
@52
@50
@48
@50
23
23
23

10@12
10@12
@1034© 734 
7@10 
@3  75 
@4  50

1  75 
.  1  75 
.  1  75

 

do 

do 
do 

@2634
@2734
@ 1 1
95

dozen................................1  40@1 60

B la c k in g ........................................... 30, 40, 50@60
1 50
do  w aterp ro o f.............................. 
95
Bath Brick im p o rte d .............................. 
do 
A m erican.............................. 
75
B arley.........................................................  
@3^4
B urners, No. 1 .......................................... 
1  10'
1  50
do  No.  2.......................................... 
20  00
Bags, A m erican A ................................... 
Beans,  m edium   ......................................   @3  10
Beans, hand p icked................................. 
3  40
B u tte r................•.............. .........................   18@20
B u tte rin e ..................................................   18@21
Curry Combs $  doz..................................1  35@
Cream T artar 5 and 1 0ft can s..............  @25
Candles, S tar.............................................  @1534
Candles,  H otel..........................................  @1634
Cheese full cream  choice....................... 1434@15
Catsup q u arts 
Chimneys No.  1........................................  @35
No.  2........................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ l f t  packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 34 lb  do 
. 
E vaporated Hulled Corn 50 ft cases... 
E x tract Coffee,  v. c ................................... 
F e lix ........................,1 J0 @
Flour, S tar Mills, in b b ls ....................... 5 75@
in Sacks........................5  50@
Gum, R ubber 100 lum ps........................   @25
Gum, R ubber 200 lu m p s...................... 
  @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................      35@40
Horse  Radish, p in ts...............................   @140
Indigo..........................................................1  00@
In k  $  3 dozen  bo x................................... l   00@
Jelly in P ails.............................................   @ 6
do  Glass T um blers $  doz...................   @75
Licorice, S ic ily ........................................  @30
Licorice, C a la b ra....................................   28@30
Licorice  R oot............................................  @13
Lye $  2  doz. cases................................... l   55@
M acaroni,  Im p o rted...............................   @13
D om estic....................................................  @  534
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, g  case.........  @6  00
French M ustard,  8 oz ^   dozen........................... @80
Large  G othic..............1  85@
Oil Tanks, S tar 60  gallons..................  12  00@
Oil Tanks, P aten t 60 gallons................ 14 00@
P epper Sauce...........................................   90@1  00
Peas, G reen B ush.....................................1  50@
do  Split p rep ared...............................   @334
Powder,  K eg..............................................5 50®
34 K e g ..................................... 3 00®
R ice............................................................6@634@734
Sago  ........................................................... 
Shot, d ro p ...................................................1  90@
  2  15@
S ag e.............................................................  @15
Tobacco C utters e a c h .............................1  25@
T w in e ........................................................     18@23
Chim neyCleaners <g  doz.........................  @50
F lour Sifters 
d o z ................................. 3 00@
F ru it A ugurs each ................................... 1  25@
Tapioca ......................................................  
W ashing Crystal, G illett’s bo x.............1  50@1  65
W icking No. 1 

5@6
g ro ss...........................  @40
No. 2  ........................................  @65

do 
do  A rg a n d .....................................1 50®

do  b u c k ......................................... 

5@6

do 

do 

COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G  M A TER IA LS. 
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio W hite Lime, p er  bbl....................  
1  10
Ohio W hite Lime, car lo ts......... ..........  
95
Louisville Cement,  p er b b l....... ..........  
1  40
A kron Cem ent per  bbl.............. ..........  
1  40
B uff alo Cement,  p er bbl.......... ..........  
1  40
Car lo ts........................................... .......... 1  15@1  20
P lastering hair, per b u .............. ..........   35©  38
Stucco, p er b bl.............................. ..........  
1  75
Land plaster, p er to n .............................  
3  75
Land p laster, car lo ts................. ..........  
3 00
Fire brick, p e r  M.................................... $27 @$35
F ire clay, p er b b l.......................... ......... 
3 00
A nthracite, egg and g ra te ..........
.......$6  50@6  75
A nthracite, stove and n u t..........
........   6  75@7  00
Cannell coal............................................. 
7 00
Ohio coal.......................................... ....... 
40@3  60
Blossburg o r  C u m b erlan d................ 
00@5  25

COAL.

H ID E S , P E L T S   A N D   FU R S.

P erkins & H ess quote as foLows:

H ID E S .

G reen.................................................. ^  ft  7  @734
P a rt  cu red .................................................  8  @  834
Full cu red ..................................................   834®  824
D ry hides and k ip s...................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cu red ................... 10  @12
Deacon sk in s............................. ^  piece20  @50
Shearlings o r Sum m er skins $  piece.. 10  @20
Fall p e lts.................................................. 30  @50
W inter  p e lts.......................... : ............. 1  00  @1  50

S H E E P  P EL TS.

W OOL.

Fine washed $  f t.................................... 25  @27
Coarse w ashed........................................ 18  @20
U nw ashed................................................ 2-3

FU RS.

 

 

Mink, larg e.................................................  60@  75
Mink,  sm all..................  
25®  40
M uskrat,  Spring........................................   15@ 17
M uskrat, W in ter........................................   13® 14
M uskrat,  F all............................................... 
8@ 10
M uskrat,  k its............................................... 
3@  4
R accoon......................................................  40@  85
Skunk, b lack.............................................   80@  90
Skunk, half  strip e ...................................  50@  60
Skunk, narrow  strip e ..............................  25@  30
Skunk,  b ro ad ............................................  10@  15
Red F o x ....................................................1  00@115
G ray F o x ....................................................   60@  90
M arten,  yellow ...................................... ‘  75@1 00
F isher. 
......................................................4 00@8 00
O tte r ................................... ......................6  00@8 00
B ear........................................................... 5 00@12 00
D eer Bkins, red and blue, d ry __ *g  ft  25@ 
30
D eer skins, gray and long h aired .........  12@  25
Beaver, clean and dry  $  f t ................2  00@3  25
A bove prices are fo r prim e  skins  only—u n ­
prim e in  proportion.
6@  634
Tallow,» . » . » » » . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  

CANDY,  FR U ITS  A N D   NUTS. 

P u tn am  & Brooks quote as follow s :

STICK.

do 
do 

Straight, 25 ft  boxes...............................   @10
...............................   @1034
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
...............................   @12 
MIXED.

Royal, 25 ft  p ails..........................................  ©1034
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................................10
E xtra, 25 ft  p ails.......................... 
1134
.  '  n
E xtra, 200 ft bbls................................. 
French Cream, 25 ft p ails.............................! .14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.................  
..................... 14
Broken, 25  ft  p ails..................   .......................1134
B ro k en ,200ft  bbls........................ "l03s

"  

'

 

 

 

 

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.
Lem on  D rops.............................  
14
Sour D rops..........................................  
15
P epperm int  D rops.........  . .  .  .  ....................is
Chocolate D rops......................
30
H M Chocolate  D rops....................  
 
Gum  Drops  .................................... 
jg
Licorice D rops......................................... 
20
14
A B  Licorice  D rops.. 
 
Lozenges, p lain ..............................  
je
Lozenges,  p rin te d .............................  
17
Im p e ria ls.....................................  
jg
M ottoes  ................................................ 
jg
Cream  B a r....................'.'.'."1..!".’".................. 15
Molasses B a r...................... " .... 
44
Caram els.........................  
20
H and Made Cream s....... ....................................33
P lain  Cream s........................"  ... ......................gg
...................... 33
Decorated  Cream s..........   . "
S tring R ock......................................... 
jg
B u rn t A lm onds.................. . .  
94
W intergreen  B erries....................................  16
F an cy —in   B u lk . 
............
Lozenges, plain  in  p a ils.................. 
i‘|
Lozenges, plain in  b b ls................ 
43
 
Lozenges, p rinted in p
............ 15
s
l
in  b b ls...... ...................... 44
Lozenges, printed 
Chocolate D rops, in p ails..............”  | .............44
Gum   D rops, in pails................... . . . . ! . ...........  8
Gum  Drops, in bbls..........................! ." ! ! ! ! !   7
Moss Drops, in  p ails..............................  
44
Moss D*pps, in bbls.....................934
Sour Drops, in  p ails.........................  
 
  43
Im perials, in  pails................... !.!!!!...............14
Im perials, in  bbls.........................! 1
13

a

i

 

 

 

 

FRUITS.

................‘.‘I.’.’.'*.3 50@4 00
k eg ............

Oranges f  b o x ............................« ..........3  75@4 25
Oranges OO sp b o x .......................... ......
Oranges, Im perials, $   bo x.. ' ' . [ ' .  A  00@4  50 
O r a n g e s ,V a le n c ia c a s e ........
Lemons,  choice................ 
*  3  75@3 25
Lemons, fancy 
Bananas $  b u n ch .................................... 2  qo@4 00
Malaga Grapes, 
Malaga Grapes, $  b b l............................
Figs,  layers  $  f t...................... ...............  40,^46
Figs, fancy  do 
........................   ........... 
I8<a20
Figs, baskets 40 ft ^  f t......... 
.......   @44
Dates, frails 
do  ......... 
........... 
g
D ates, 34 do 
<&  7
do  .......... ................. 
D ates, 34  sk in ..................’ 1 * * *................   @734
D ates, F ard 10 ft box’$   ft....  ............ 40  @11
D ates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft.. 
Dates, P ersian 50 ft box $  f
"   634®  7
PEANUTS.
^  
Steady.
P rim e  Red,  raw   $   f t............
Choice 
Fancy 
Choice W hite, Va.do  .................. 
Fancy H P ,.  V a  do  ................r  

d o ............  ................  @ 3
do  ............... 
.......   @ 9
9%i@io
.'!l0%@ll

.......  7

do 
do 

NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, ^  f t.....................  18@19
do  .. 
ik/tjot
Almonds, loaca. 
do 
Brazils, 
9®10
10(5114
d o .......... 
Pecons, 
do 
Filberts, B arcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
do 
.............   @14
do 
W alnuts, Chilli 
'  I4@ir,
W alnuts, G renobles  do 
W alnuts, California  do 
...........
Cocoa N uts, y   100 
H ickory N uts, large 59  b u ........
H ickory  N uts, sm all  do  . .. ..  .'.’.’.’"  ‘ 

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PRO V ISIO N S.

The  Grand Rapids  P acking  &  Provision  Co 

quote  as  follows:

PO R K .

H eavy  Mess  P o rk ...............................  
$47  75
...........  18  00
Back  Pork,  short  c u t...............  
a p . 19 50
Fam ily Clear Pork, very  c h e
Clear Pork, A.  W ebster  p ack er..........  
"  20  OO
’  20  00
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, K ansas City 
E x tra Clear P o r k .......................... 
w m
E x tra  B  Clear  P o rk ..........................
Clear Back  Pork, new ........................ !!!!!!  21  OO
Boston  Clear Pork, ex tra  q u a l i t y . '.".  30  75
Standard Clear Pork, th e b est......... 
21  50

do. 
do 
do. 

All the above P ork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
93i
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases........... 
H alf Cases.............. 
934
934
Long Clear m edium , 500 ft  Cases........... 
H alf C ases........... 
934
934
Long Clears light, 500 ft  Cases.............. 
934
H alf Cases................ 
6-k
Short Clears, h eavy................................... 
m edium .......................................... 9^
93£
lig h t..................................."  
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases 
!03i
1034
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
1034
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases 
1034
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
9^
Bellies, ex tra quality, 500 ft cases 
Bellids, ex tra quality, 300 ft cases......... 
10
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases......... 
1034

do. 
do. 

LARD.

Tierces  .................................*....................  
30 and 50 ft T u b s ...................................................91^

9

LARD IN   T IN  P A IL S .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  rack s................... 
50 ft Round  Tins, 100  ft  rack s................ 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case...............................  
5 ft Pails, 12 in a c a s e ...............................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a c a s e ............................... 

914
934
10
934

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

do. 

H am s cured in sw eet pickle, h eavy__  
Ham s cured in sw eet pickle m edium .. 
lig h t..........  
H am s,  C alifornia......................................
Shoulders,  p lain ........................................ 
E x tra Clear B acon....................................  
Dried Beef,  E x tra ..................................... 
Dried Beef,  H am s....................................  
Rolled Beef, fo r fam ily  u se .......................  18  00
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fts .........  12  50

13%
14
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B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

 

CANNED B E EF.

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

2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__  

in c a se ......................................................... 20  00
do. 
3  00
A rm our & Co., 14 ft cans, Vi doz  in case  20 00 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  ca se ..  3 OO 
do.  2 ft Compr’d H am , 1 doz. in case 4  00 
SAUSAGE—F R E S H  AND SMOKED.
P o rk   Sausage...................................................... 10
P ork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tu b s.................
H am   Sausage.....................................  
15
 
Tongue  Sausage............................. 
 
11
Liver Sausage......................................................  834
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage............................................10
Blood  Sausage........................................  
834
Bologna,  rin g ......................................................  834
Bologna, stra ig h t...............................................  836
Bologna,  th ic k ......................................  
834
H ead  Cheese......................................................... 834
In  h alf b a rre ls........................................................ $3 85.
In  q u arter b arre ls...........................................
In  k its..................................................................
In  h alf b arre ls........................................................ $3 70
In  q u arter b arre ls.................................................   I 80
In  k its..................................................................  

85
Prices nam ed are  low est  a t tim e of going to  

P IG S ’ FEET.

press, subject alw ays to  M arket changes.

T R IP E .

 

 

F R E S H   M EATS.

Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  the trad e as follow s:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................   736@  934
Fresh  Beef, hind q u a rte rs...................... 10  @11
Dressed  H ogs............................................   8  @  9
M utton,  carcasses.................................... 10  @11
V eal..............................................................  9  @10
Spring  Chickens......................................   16@17
Fow ls...........................................................  15@16
P ork  Sausage............................................ 1036@11
P ork Sausage in b u lk .............................   @1034
Bologna......................................................  @10

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follow s: 

OY STERS.

New Y ork Counts, p e r  c a n ................................38
E x tra  Selects......................................................... ..
P lain  Selects.................................................. 
30
H. M. B. F ....... ..................................................... ;  33
F avorite F .................................... 
!,!!!. 20
New Y ork C ounts, solid m eats, p e r  g a l.
Selects, solid  m eats, p er gallon...........
Standards, solid m eats, p er gallon. 1..

Can pi ices above are fo r cases and half cases»

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F R E S H   F IS H .

Codfish................................................................  8
H ad d o ck ........................... ...................! ! "   !!  7
Sm elts.....................................................5
M ackinaw T ro u t..................................  8
M ackerel...........>.................................................15
WWteflsh ................................................................834,

914

3Dr\>  (Boobs.

Spring  &  Company quote as  i.o..u 
W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 94. .23 
Androscoggin, 84. .21
Pepperell,  7 4 ......... 16 44
Pepperell,  8 4 ......... 20
P eppered,  9 4 ......... 2254

Peppered, 104........25
Peppered, 114........2744
Pequot,  7 4 .............18
Pequot,  8 4 .............21
Pequot,  9 4 .............24

CHECKS

Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Econom y,  oz...........10
P ark  Mills, No. 50. .10 
P ark  Mids, No. 60. .11 
P a rk  Mids, No. 70. .12 
P ark  Mids, No. 80.. 13

P ark  Mids, No.  90.. 14 
P ark  Mids, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz............. 11
Otis  A p ro n............. 1044
Otis  F u rn itu re .......1044
York,  1  oz...............10
York, AA, ex tra oz.14

OSNABURG,

A labam a brow n—   7
Je w e d  b riw n .......... 9 Vi
K entucky  brow n. .1044 
Lew iston  b ro w n ...  944
Lane brow n............954
Louisiana  p laid—   8

A labam a  p laid.......8
A ugusta p laid .........  8
Toledo plaid ............  744
M anchester  plaid..  7 
New  Tenn. p la id .. .11 
U tility plaid............  6*4

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

A vondale,  36...........  844
A rt  cam brics, 36.. .1144 
Androscoggin, 4 4 ..  854 
A ndroscoggin, 6 4 .. 12*4
Badou, 4 4 ................  7*4
Ballou, 5 4 ................  6
B oott,  0 .4 4 ............   844
Boott,  E. 5-5............   7
Boott, AGC, 4 4 ......... 944
Boott, B.  3 4 ...........  5M
B lackstone, AA 44  714 
•Chapman, X, 4 4 —   614
Conway,  4 4 .......... ri%.
Cabot, 4 4 ....................744
Cabot, 7-8.................   614
Canoe,  3 4 ................  4
D om estic,  36............ 714
Dw ight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 4 4 ................  914
F ru it of Loom, 44..  9 
F ru it of Loom, 7-8..  814 
F ru it of  th e  Loom,
cam bric,  4 4 .........12
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8......... 6*4
G ilded  A ge..............

Greene, G,  4 4 .........
H id, 4 4 .....................
H ill, 7-8.......................
Hope,  4 4 .................
K ing  Phillip  cam ­
bric, 4 4 ................ '
Linwood,  4-4..........
Lonsdale,  4 4 ..........
Lonsdale  cam bric.: 
Langdon, GB, 4 4 ...
Langdon,  45............:
Masonville,  4 4 .......
Maxwell. 4 4 ............
New Y ork Mill, 4-4.! 
New Jersey,  4 4 —  
PoGa6set,  P. M. C .. 
Pride of th e W e st..
Pocahontas,  4-4__
Slaterville, 7-8..........
V ictoria,  A A ..........
W oodbury, 44 .........
W hitinsville,  4-4... 
W hitinsville, 7-8—
W am sutta, 4-4.........
W illiamsville,  36...

CORSET JEA N S

A rm o ry ...................  714
Androscoggin sa t..  814
Canoe B iver............   6
C larendon...........,..  6*4
H allow ed  Im p .......6?4
Ind. Orch. Im p .......6*4
L a c o n ia ..................714

K earsage.................   81a
N aum keagsatteen.  814 
P eppered  bleached  814
P eppered sa t...........914
B ockport.................   714
Law rence sa t...........  814
Conegosat................  7

A lbion,  solid.............514
Albion,  g re y .............6
A den’s  checks......... 514
A den’s  fa n c y ...........514
A den’s p in k .............. 6y2
A den’s p u rp le ...........614
A m erican, fan cy — 514
A rnold fa n c y ............6
B erlin solid................514
Cocheco  fa n c y .........6
Cocheco robes.......... [
Conestoga fa n c y — 6
E d d y sto n e ............... 6
Eagle  fan cy ..............5
G aru er p in k ..............7

G lo u cester..............
G loueesterm ourn’g 
H am ilton  fa n c y ...
H artel fa n c y ...........
M errim ac  D ............
M an ch ester............
O riental  fan cy .......
O riental  ro b es.......
Pacific  robes...........
R ichm ond...............
Steel B iver..............
Simpson’s ................
W ashington fancy. 
W ashington  blues.

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

A ppleton  A, 4 4 —   8
B oott  M, 4 4 ............   71
Boston  F, 4 4 ...........8
C ontinental C, 4-3..  7?
C ontinental D, 40 in  8?
Conestoga W, 4 4 ...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  51 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  61
Dw ight  X, 3 4 .........6
Dw ight Y, 7-8.......... 61
D w ight Z, 4-4...........7 
Dw ight Star, 4 4 ....  714 Peppered  0 ,7 -8 ....  614 
Ew ight Star, 40-in..  9  P eppered  N, 3 4 ....  614 
E n terp rise EE, 36..
G reat F ads E, 44.-..
F arm ers’ A, 4 4 .......
Indian  O rchard, 44

Indian O rchard, 40. 
Indian Orchard, 36.
Laconia  B, 7 4 .........
Lym an B, 40-in.......
Mass. BB, 4-4...........
N ashua  E, 40-in—
N ashua  R, 4 4 .........
N ashua 0,7-8..........
N ew m arket N .........
Peppered E, 39-in.. 
P eppered  B, 4 4 —  
- - n ----------->  — .........
Peppered  0,7-8—  
P eppered  N, 3 4 —
Pocasset  C, 4 4 .......
Saranac  R ...............
Saranac  E ...............

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

styles. 

A m oskeag  ..............  8  Renfrew , dress styl  914
A m oskeag, P ersian 
Johnson  M anfg Co,
. .............. 1014  B ookfold...............1214
jjate 8 ........................   714 Johnson  M anfg Co,
dress  sty les.........1214
B e rk sh ire ................  614
dress
Slatervide, 
Glasgow checks—   7 
sty les.....................  9
Glasgow checks, f ’y  714 
W hite Mfg Co, stap  7% 
Glasgow 
W hite Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  sty les.........  8
W hite  M anf’g  Co,
G loucester, 
E arlston................  914
sta n d a rd ................714
G ordon.......................8
P lu n k e t..................... 714
Greylock, 
L a n c a ste r.................  8?4
styles  .......  
L angdale................... 7% I

checks,
new 

dress 

1214

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W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS

P eppered.  10-4........2714
A n d ro sco g g in , 7 4 . .21 
P eppered,  114........3214
A n d ro sco g g in , 8 4 . .23 
.Pequot,  H ............... S
. » ......— 
— . 
P e p p e re d ,  7 4 ..........20
P eppered, 
8 4 ......2214  Pequot,  8 4 ............... 24
Peppered,  9 4 ......25 
|Pequot,  9 4 ............... 2<44

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

..  8*4

A tlantic  A, 4 4 .......  7*4
A tlantic  H, 4 4 .......7
A tlantic  D, 4 4 ......... 614
A tlantic P , 44 ...........5%
A tlantic  LL, 4 4 —   514
A driatic, 36..............  714
A ugusta, 4 4 ............   614
B oott  M, 4 4 ............   714
B oott  FF, 4 4 ..........   724
G raniteville, 4 4 —   624 
Indian  Head, 4 4 ...  714 
ndiana H ead 45-in.1214

I Law rence XX, 44 
¡Lawrence  Y, 30.. 
¡Lawrence LL, 44.
Newmai’k e t N __
¡Mystic Biver, 44.
Pequot A, 4 4 .......
¡Piedmont,  36.......
¡Stark AA, 4-4.......
¡Tremont CC, 44..
U tica,  4 4 ..............
¡W aehusett,  4-4... 
¡W achusett,  30-in.

T IC K IN G S.

¡Falls, X X X X ...........1
Amoskeag,  A CA ... 14 
“ 44.. 19  Falls, X X X ...............1
Am oskeag 
A m oskeag,  A ........13  Falls,  BB................... 1
A m oskeag,  B ........12 
(Falls,  BBC, 36...........1
¡Falls,  aw ning..........1
Amoskeag,  C........11 
Amoskeag,  D ........10!4 HaraiHon,  BT, 32..1
A m oskeag,  E ........10 
¡Hamilton,  D ............1
Amoskeag, F .......... 9*4  H am ilton,  H .............1
Prem ium   A ,44....17 
¡Hamilton  fa n c y ...!
Prem ium   B. .. >__16  M ethuen A A ............1
E x tra 4 4 .........a....... 16  M ethuen A SA..........1
E x tra  7-8..................1414 ¡Omega  A, 7-8............ 1
Gold Medal 4 4 ........15 
¡Omega  A, 4 4 ............ 1
CCA  7-8....................1214 Omega ACA, 7-8— 1
CT 4 4 ....................... 11  Omega ACA, 4 4 — 1
Itc  7-8....................... 14  Omega SE, 7-8...........2
BF 7-8....................... 16  Omega SE, 4 4 ...........2
A F 4 4 ....................... 19  Omega M. 7-8 ...........2
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14  Omega M, 4 4 .............2
Cordis  ACA, 32......15  Shetucket SS&SSW 1
Cordis No. 1,32...... 15  Shetucket, S & SW. ]
Cordis  No. 2........... 14  Shetucket,  SFS.... 1
Cordis  No. 3........... 13  Stockbridge  A .........
Cordis  No. 4........... 1114 Stoekbridge  frncy.

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

H ookset............ __ 5 W àshington........... 4M
Red  C ross......... __ 5
F orest G rove...

Em pire  ..................
Edw ards.................
S. S. & Sons............

5
0

GRAIN BAGS.

A m erican  A ... ....19 Old  Iro nsides....... 15*4
S tark A .............. — 2314 W h eatlan d ............ 2144

DENIMS.

B o sto n .............. ....  7*/4¡Otis  CC................... 10*4
E v erett  b lu e ... __ 1444 ¡W arren  A X A ........ 1244
E v erett  brow n. __ 1444¡Warren  B B ...........
II*/t
O tis  AX A ......... __ 1244|Warren CC............. 1044
O tis B B .............. __ 1144¡York  fan cy ........... 10

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

S. S. & Sons............
Man ville............ ....  6
M asgnville....... . ...   6 G a rn e r...................

WIGANS.
7 Thistle M ills...........
7 R ose........................

B e rlin ................
G a rn e r.............. . ...   7

SPOOL COTTON.

Eagle  and  Phœ nix

B ro o k s.............. ....5 0
Mills ball sewing 30
C lark’s O. N. F. ....55
J . & P.  C oats... __ 55 Greeh  &  D aniels.. 25
W illim antic 6 cord.55 M errick s................ 40
35
W illim antie 3 co rd .40
Hall & M anning... 30
Charleston ball sew
H olyoke.................. 25

ing th re a d __

SILESIAS.

8
C row n............... ....17 Masonville T S.......
No.  10................ .....1254 M asonville  8 ......... 1044
L o nsdale................
C o in ................... ....10
9V4
Lonsdale A ............ 16
A n ch o r.............. ....15
6
N ictory  O ..............
C e n te n n ia l.......
B la c k b u rn ....... . ...   8 V ictory J ................
7
D avol................. ....14 V ictory  D .............. 10
L ondon.............. ....1244 Victory  K .............. 12*4
Phoenix A ..............
P a c o n ia ............ ....12
944
Phoenix  B ............... 1044
Red  C ross......... .I..10
15
Social  Im perial ....16
Phoenix X X .. ...

6
6

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K IN D   W O R D S  F O R   G R A H A M   B R E A D .

T he T h eo ry  T h a t  W h ite   F o u r  Is  M ore  N u ­

tritio u s   E a rn e stly   A ssailed. 
Correspondence of th e  New Y ork Sun.

I observe that in an article in  your  paper 
of last Sunday, by John Michels, he  asserts 
that common flour  is  better  than  Graham, 
and concludes by saying that the flour of the 
whole wheot “lays the foundation  for  a  fu­
ture of dyspepsia.”  Has he any experiment­
al proof of this?  I know many people who, 
while eating bread made from common flour, 
and other foods thatmsually go with  it, con­
tracted dyspepsia, but  who,  on  substituting 
bread made from whole wheat flour and oth­
er foods, habitually  used  with  it,  were  re­
lieved. 
I  was  relieved  by  a  diet  almost 
wholly  composed  of  whole  wheat,  either 
crushed or  ground. 
I  have  used  it  every 
day for six years. 
It does not  have the dis­
tressing effects ascribed to  it,  but  has  pre­
cisely the reverse  ef  them.  Many  people 
have lived  for  years on coarse  wheat  meal 
and water, and by so doing have gained  pud 
maintained health and vigor.  The weight of 
evidence is against a large  variety  of  food, 
especially if eaten at the same meal.

The celebrated Dr. Majendie fed two dogs* 
one on white bread and water, the  other  on 
brown bread and water.  ,The former died in 
seven weeks;  the  latter  remained  in  good 
condition.  When herbivorus animals are fed 
largely  on grain they  will  eat,  voraciously 
sawdust or shavings. Capt. Mathews brought 
some goats on a return trip from Cape Yerde 
Islands.  Having no  hay,  he  fed  them  on 
grain and shavings.  They  came as regularly 
for the latter as for  the  former.  Dr. Beau­
mont says  “Bulk is as necessary  to  articles 
of  diet  as nutriment principles.”  Captain 
Graham says:  “I have followed the seas for 
thirty-five years and have always  found  the 
coarsest pilot bread, containing  added quan­
tities of bran, to be the  best  for  my  men.” 
Captain Benjamin Dexter  made a  trip  from 
China  to  Providence,  being  out  190  days. 
His men were fed principally on pilot  bread 
made from fine flour.  They  soon  began  to 
lose their strength and appetite, and  contin- 
tinued  to  grow  worse  during  the  voyage. 
Several died.  When  within thirty miles  of 
Providence  they  had  to  anchor,  as  there 
were not able men enough to  sail  the  ship. 
Captain Dexter said:  “It was too fine pilot 
bread that did it.”  The best informed advo­
cate of a reformed diet in this country says: 
“Any person fed exclusively  on bread made 
from common flour will die in a  short  time, 
as  did Majendie’s dog.”

Common flour and meal form  the . princi­
pal part of ordinary diet, and without  doubt 
are the cause of  the lamentable  increase  of 
nervods diseases and  decay of  the  teeth  in 
this country in the  last fifty years.  The ex­
planation is that neither contains any  nerve 
or bone nutriment.  Wheat  bran  is  rich  in 
this, and  is  therefore  an  essential  part  of 
diet.  When Rome was at  the  zenith  of  its 
power its armies subsisted almost wholly on 
grain that was eaten unground  and  uncook­
ed.  Certainly they were  never  excelled  in 
bravery or endurance. 
If John Michels will 
examine the authorities on “the  other  side” 
he will be obliged to find some other solution 
for the experiments  of  Dr.  Randolph  than 
those presented in the article in question.

B u tte r   A d u lte r a tio n   T ests.

A Chicago chemist claims to have  discov­
ered a sure  test  for  adulterated  butter,  by 
chemical process, which separates all foreign 
substances,  such  as  lard,  coloring  matter, 
salt,  etc.,  from  the  butter,  leaving  it  pure 
upon the surface, whence it can easily be re*- 
moved by skimming. 
In  order  to illustrate 
the value of the discovery, he procured sam­
ples of butter from a large  number of retail­
ers in that city, and has set about the  prose­
cution of some of those  who  have  sold  the 
adulterated  article.  An  associate  of  this 
chemist in the work of prosecution is report­
ed to have said:

“We are after the  grocerymen.  We wish 
to show them  up  in  their  true  light.  We 
wish to show the people that they are only a 
fence  for  the  butterine  manufacturers, just 
as loan offices  are fences for thieves.  They 
sell butterine or adulterated  butter  because 
it gives them a much  wider margin of profit 
than  is  possible  with  the  genuine  article. 
They  buy  what  is  termed  ‘dairy’  from  the 
manufacturers  for  from  fourteen to seven­
teen  cents  per  pound,  and  ‘creamery’  for 
twenty to twenty-four.  They sell  it for the 
same that the genuine  article  commands  in 
the market, the purchaser receiving it under 
| the impression that it is pure butter.  There 
is no objection to people eating  butterine  if 
! they  wish, and  we  do  not  make  the  point 
j  that it is  unwholesome—though  we  do  not 
doubt it—but we wish it sold  so that people 
will know  when  they  purchase  it  that it  is 
butterine,  and pay  the  price that the article 
is worth, not double  that.”

Dead Against  Him.

“Yes, I was in that oil deal last  year,”  he 
was  saying to a man across the table,  “and 
I sunk 835,000 in a way to make  your  head 
swim.”

“But you had something  left?”
“Yes, about 825,000.”
“And you have used that to  make  a  new 

start, I suppose?”

“I used it to go into the  ice  business  last 
fall, believing that it would be a mild winter, 
followed by high prices, and  now where  am 
1 ?  The  stock  I’ve  got  on  hand  has  so 
chilled  the  farms  for  three  miles  around 
that  I’ve  got  a  dozen  suits  for  damages  to 
crops!”

A small Aberdeen child  was  asked  by  a 
Sunday-school teacher, “what did the Israel­
ites do after they crossed the Red  sea?”  an­
swered, “I  don’t know, ma’am; perhaps they 
dried themselves.”

Hardware.

R eview   o f th e   W eek .
GENERAL  HARDWARE.

The condition of trade is about  the  same 
as reported last week.  The  reports  which 
come to us indicate nothing  specially  note­
worthy.  The volume  of  business  is  fair, 
indeed may  be said  to  be  good,  the  low 
prices of goods taken into consideration. 
It 
is  universally  admitted  that  the  general 
prices of  hardware  are  lower  this  spring 
than they have been for  several  years.  A 
dealer remarked  to us the  other  day:  “So 
far as prices  are  concerned, 1  wish  I were 
just commencing business, as I have  on the 
shelves goods  that  cost  from  25 to 50  per 
cent, more money than they could be bought 
for now.”  This  condition of trade, however, 
does not  superinduce abnormal  purchasing, 
for it is scarcely hoped—even by  the  most 
sanguine—that during the  summer  season 
prices will range higher to any great extent. 
Hence dealers procure only such an  assort­
ment and quantity of goods as the  demands 
of  trade necessitate.

GLASS.

for  glass 

still  waiting 

Here and there  customers  can be  found 
are 
to 
who 
to  the  prices  of  a  year  ago  be­
drop 
fore purchasing.their  spring  supply.  But 
these are becoming more  and  more  scarce, 
as it is generally conceded that  the  present 
quoted price will be  maintained  for  some 
time to come.  The disposition on  the  part 
of the most successful dealers is  to  keep a 
fair assortment on hand constantly.  Their 
argument is this:  “To get  trade  one  must 
have the goods needed.  A  sale  lost  is  so 
much profit lost, even though  it  be  small, 
besides  being  a  trial  of  the  customer’s 
patience.  The idea once obtaining in a com­
munity that  it is a waste of time to go  to so 
and so’s store, as he  never  has  what  one 
wants, is equivalent to a defeat  of  the pur­
poses of trade.”  The argument being good, 
wise dealers are  governed  accordingly,-  ex­
ercising due prudence, yet not becoming nar­
row in judgment.  Quotations  on  glass re­
main as previously noted,  60 and 5 @ 60 and 
10 per cent, discount with very large  orders 
subject to small “special.”
NAILS.

The last dispatch  to the press  from  Pitts­
burg  says:  “The  special  meeting  of  the 
Western Nail Association to-day was  devot­
ed to discussions of the minor details  of the 
pooling plan.  Without  entirely,  perfecting 
the agreement, the association  adjourned to 
their regular meeting in May.  A resolution 
indorsing the action  of  the  manufacturers’ 
committee  in  demanding  a  reduction  in 
the wages of labor for next year was adopted 
unanimously.” 
This  simply  leaves  this 
branch of trade  in  statu  quo.  So  far  all 
the manufacturers of nails are not represent­
ed in the pool, and it is not in full force.  It 
is still hoped that it will  succeed. 
In  the 
meantime, quotations remain  the  same  as 
before 82.65 @ 82.60 in a regular way, with 
small concessions for large lots.

FENCE  AVIRE.

A very firm feeling exiots in  the  market 
with reference to bright market and  anneal­
ed wire. Within the pasttwo weeks this com­
modity has advanced materially, in fact, it is 
higher from 25 per cent, to 35 per cent.  The 
best reason to assign for this is  the  unusual 
demand, more wire  having  been  marketed 
this  spring than ever  before.  The  ruling 
price  is  at  present 60  per cent.  Barbed 
wire has not changed very  particularly dur­
ing the past week, being  still  quoted  regu 
larly at 6J£c for galvanized with a rebate of 
lc per pound for  painted.

NUTS  AND  BOLTS.

Rumors are flying about  with  regard to a 
syndicate being formed having  reference to 
an advance in this branch of the  trade.  No 
definite information  has  been  received  as 
yet. 
It would not be surprising  if  it were 
done as these goods are remarkably  low.

O n  tlie   N ex t  B lo ck .

From   the  D etroit  Free  Press.

After walking up and down several  times 
past a Gratiot avenue clothing  dealer’s  yes­
terday a  stranger  halted  and  said  to  the 
man at the door:

“Do you remember me, sir?”
“Not shur oxactly my frendt.  Who  vhas 

you?”

“I’m the man who paid you 828 for a  suit 
of bottle-green clothes last October,  and  in­
side of a week the moths ate ’em up.”

“You doan’ say so!”
“You bet I do, and I am here  to get satis­

faction 1”

“My frendt, you made a dreadful mistake. 
All der moths in  this store vhas in  der sky- 
blue suits for 814. 
If dot man on der  next 
block keeps his in the pottle-green  suits for 
828  dot  vash  all  right.  No  two  men  do 
peesness alike.  Only, if you go  up  there I 
vish  you  to tell  him  for  me  pefore  you 
punch his head dot if he keeps his moths  in 
der pottle-green suits  he  vhill  soon  haf to 
shut up shop.  Der shade  makes  efery  in­
sect color plind in ten days.”

To  P re v e n t  S c ra tc h in g   M atch es  on  P a in t.
A correspondent, speaking of  the deface­
ment of paint by the inadvertent or heedless 
scratching of matches, says that he  has  ob­
served that when one mark has  been  made 
others follow  rapidly.  To  effectually  pre­
vent this, rub the spot with flannel saturated 
Avith any liquid vaseline.  “After that people 
may try to  strike  their  matches  there  as 
much as they like, they  will neither  get  a 
light or injure the paint,” and  most  singu­
lar, the petroleum causes the existing  mark 
to soon disappear, at least when it occurs on 
dark paint.

A   S h e e t-Iro n   H en .

An ingenious fellow in Ohio las construct­
ed a sheet-iron hen that promises to lay him 
a golden egg. 
It is finished up to  life,  full 
size, cackles, clucks, and looks with one  eye 
at a time so naturally that it will deceive the 
oldest hen-hawk in the  country. 
It  is  so 
arranged that when a  hawk, mink,  or pole­
cat pounces on to it the back  springs  open 
and the wings fly up and force the  assailant 
on to a ravenous buzz-saw that makes  1,700 
revolutions per minute.  After moving  half 
a minute the saw stops, the  hen  closes up, 
folds its  wings,  and  begins  to  cackle  as 
though it had just laid an  egg.  One wind­
ing up will answer for three massacres, pro­
viding the  rather delicate  machinery  does 
not get clogged up too much with the  blood, 
bones and feathers.  He set a  freshly paint­
ed one out in the sun to dry  the  other day, 
which attracted the attention  of  a fine  old 
cat belonging to a doctor who had been  pok­
ing a great  deal of  fun at  the  fool  thing. 
The hen is there, but the cat is hence.

P a te n ts  Issu e d   to   M ic h ig a n   In v e n to rs.
Frederick Ballin, Detroit, lock.
Heman  G.  Barlow  and  J.  G.  Barlow, 
Grand Rapids, device for manifold  copying.

Jacob W-  Braan, Crapo, leaf holder.
Benjamin  F.  Bridges,  Big  Rapids,  saw­

swaging machine.

Isaac De Graff, Detroit,  slide-\Talve.
Jabez R. Jones,  Reading,  assignor  to  the 

Colby Wringer Co., folding rocker.

Walter  B.  Noyer,  Saginaw,  curtain  fix­

ture.

cape.

hay-rack.

Solomon E. Oviatt, Lansing, vehicle spring.
Francis  D.  Parmelee,  Hillsdale,  fire  es­

Charles A. Peasley and T. F. Dage, Gowen, 

Phineas B. Swick, Tecumseh, shaft-tug.
Garritt M. Yan Riper and J.  O.  St. Clair, 

Republic, hose coupling.

Samuel Warwick, Battle Creek, interlock­
ing machine for signals and sivitches on rail­
ways.

Aretus A. Wilder, assignor of  one-half  to 

C. B. Palmer, Detroit, nut lock.

S. S. Wilson, Litchfield, hay fork.
The latest novelty in New York  is  paper 
soap, which is mainly for the use  of  travel­
ers.  The sheets of paper,  which  are put  up 
in the form of a small  book  of  about  three 
inches square, are coated with soap, and  are 
said to be just as good as the  regulation  ar­
ticle,  in  addition  to  being  much  handier. 
There are fifty  soap  sheets  in  each  book, 
costing in the aggregate about as much as an 
ordinary cake of  soap.

“Does  yer  kape  nothih’  but  dry  goods 
here?”  “No, ma’am.”  “Thin  where  will  I 
be after goin’ for watered  silk?”

H A R D W A R E   GOODS.

P revailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND BITS.

Ives’, old  sty le............................................. dis 
50
N. H .C . Co..................  
55
dis 
50
Douglass’ ......................................................dis 
50
Pierces’ ................. 
dis 
50
Snell’s .........................  
dis 
Cook’s  ..........................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  gen u in e.......... . ......................dis 
25
Jennings’,  im itation........ ........................ dis40&10

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

25

BALANCES.

BARROWS.

R a ilro a d ........................................................... 8 15  00
G arden...........................................................» et 33 00

BELLS.
H a n d ......................................
C ow .........................................
Call..........................................
G o n g ......................................
Door, S argent........................
BOLTS.

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

Stove........................................................ dis  $
40 
Carriage and Tire, old  lis t....................dis
80&20 
Plow  ..........................................................dis
30&10 
Sleigh Shoe............................................... dis
50&15 
Cast Barrel  B olts................................... dis
50 
W rought B arrel B olts...........................dis
55 
Cast B arrel, brass  k nobs......................dis
50 
Cast Square S pring................................dis
55 
Cast  C hain................................................dis
60 
W rought Barrel, brass  k n o b ...............dis
55&10 
W rought S q u a re.....................................dis
55&10 
W rought Sunk F lu sh ............................ dis
30
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
F lu sh ......................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  D oor.................................................. dis  50&10

BRACES.

B a rb e r.................................................... dis $ 
B ackus........................................................ dis 
Spofford...................................................... dis 
Am. Ball..................................................... dis 

40
50
50
n et

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

Well, p lain ........................................................$  4  00
Well, sw ivel.................................................... 
4  50

Cast Loose P in, figured.......................... dis  60&10
Cast Loose P in, Berlin  bronzed.........dis 
70
Cast Loose Jo in t, genuine bronzed, .dis 
60
W rought Narrow , bright fast  jo in t..d is  50&10
W rounht Loose  P in ................................dis 
60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ..............dis  60&  5
W rought Loose P in, jap an n ed ..............dis  60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ......................................................dis  60&  5
W rought T able.......................................... dis 
60
60
W rought Inside  B lind............................ dis 
W rought B rass..........................................dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s .....................1.....................dis  70&10
Blind, P ark er’s ..........................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s .......................................dis 
70
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x254, per gross  15  00
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x3__ p er gross  18  00

CAPS.

E ly’s 1-10........................................................
H ick’s C. F ....................................................
G. D  .................................................................
M usket.............................................................

___ p e r  m  $ 65
60
35
60

CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester new list
Rim Fire, U nited  S tates............... ..............dis
Central F ire .................................... ............. __ ..dis

CH IS ELS.

Socket F irm er................................. .......dis
.......dis
Socket F ram ing.............................
Socket C orner................................. .......dis
Socket Slicks................................... .......dis
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er................____ dis
___ dis
B arton’s Socket  F irm ers..................
.........net
Cold...................................................................

Curry, Law rence’s ..................................____dis
H otchkiss  .............................................................dis

COMBS.

COCKS.

40&10
Brass,  Backing’s ....................................
49&10
Bibb’s .............................................................
40&10
B e e r ........................ ........................................
60
Fenns’.............................................................
Planished, 14 oz cu t to size.............. ..............$ ft  37
..  39

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

C O PPER .

D R IL L S.

M orse’s B it  Stock ................................. .........dis
35
T aper and S traight S hank ................____dis
20
.........dis
30
Morse’s T aper  So5nk.........................
Com. 4 p i e c e , 6  i n ......... ........................ . .d o z  n e t  $ 1 1 0
20&10
C o r r u g a t e d .................................................. ......... d i s
40&10
A d j u s t a b l e . . . . . ~ , ......... ...................... ......... d is

ELBOW S.

50
50
%

65&10
65&10
65&10
üô&lO
40
20

33*4
25

\(*1

TOBACCOS § CIGARS

JOHN

—THE—

CAULFIELD
Wholerale  Grocer,
JOBBER HI TÊ1S, TOBAC-

—a n d —

S5,87  and  89  Canal  Street

FA C TO R Y   AGENT
For the following well-known  brands of To­

dis 40

baccos  and  Cigars:

FUsTHS  OUT.

Fountain..................................................... 74
Old  Congress...............................................64
Good  Luck.................................................. 55
Good and Sweet........................................... 45
American  Queen......................................... 38
Blaze  Atvay.................................................35
Hair Lifter.................................................. 30
Governor,  2  oz.  foil....................................60
In half barrels  or four  pail  lots,  2c <g ft off 
above list.

i _

. u

a

-

.

Horse Shoe.................................................. 50
McAlpin’s Green Shield.............................. 48
McAlpin’s Sailor’s  Solace.......................... 48
Bed Star, extra quality, same style  as

Sailor’s  Solace.................................... 148
Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40
Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper................47
D. & D. Dark,  % and 16  oz.  pounds........37
Ace High......................................................35
Duck, 2x12  and  flat....................................48
Shot Gun, or Butternut  Plug..................... 50
Nobby  Spun  Boll....................................... 48
Black  Spun Boll......................................... 88
Canada Plug  (Virginia Smoking)..............50
Cresent Plug, 6 fib  cads.............................. 45

SMOKING.

Peerless, ease lots....................................... 25
Bob Boy, case lots....................................... 26
Uncle  Sam.................................... 
28
Tom  and  Jerry...........................................24
Good Enough...............................................23
Mountain Bose.............................................20
Lumberman’s  Long  Cut............................ 26
Home Comfort.............................................24
Green  Back,  Killickinick...........................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick %.......................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  %.....................26
Star Durham,  Killickinick,  %...................25
Rattler,  Killickinick,  %............................ 25
Honey Lew, Killickinic,  %.......................25
Posey, Killickinic, k%,  paper................... 25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia........36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, %.......................32
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick, )£s and fibs........18
Golden Flake Cabinet..................................40
Traveler, 3  oz.  foil..................................... 35
Rail Road Boy, 3 oz. foil............................37
Nigger  Head, Navy Clippings................... 26
Scotten’s Chips, Navy  Clippings,  paper. .26 
Leidersdorfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags.26
Old Rip Fine Virginia LongCut............... 55
Lime Kiln Club...........................................45
Durham Long  Dut......................................60
Durham,  Blackwell’s  % ............................ 60
Durham, Blackwell’s, )£............................ 57
Durham, Blackwell’s, 
55
Durham, Blackwell’s, fib............................ 51
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................52
Seal of North Carolina % .......................... 50
Seal of North Carolina }4...........................48
Seal of North Carolina fib.......................... 46

• ................  

CIGARS.

 

 

Smoko the  Celebrated  “After Lunch”  Cigar.
After  Lunch.......................  
$30  00
O arrissa................................................. 45 00
Clara....................................................... 32 00
M irella....................................................35 00
Queen  Marys.......................................... 25 00
Josephines.............................................. 25 00
Little  Hatchets.......................................30 00
Old Glories...........   .............................. 23  00
Twin Sisters............................................23 00
Moss Agate....... ........... 
18  00
Magnolia..................................................12 50
Commercial............................................ 55 00
Delumos.............  
60  00
Mark Twain............................................55 00
Golden Spike.......................................-.55  00
Storm’s  Boquet.......................................65 00
Owl Captain............................................ 60 00
S. & S. Capadura.................................... 32 00
In addition to the above brands  of Tobac­
cos and  Cigars,  I  keep  in  stock  an  ample 
supply  of  all  other  well-known  brands  of 
Plug and Fine Cut.  Our stock in the Tobac­
co and Cigar line  is  one  of  the  largest  and 
best assorted to be  found  in  ihe  city.
We call the especial attention of those de­
siring to purchase new stocks of our superior 
facilities for meeting their wants.  Our guar­
antee is first-clifes goods and low  prices.
CAREFUL ATTENTION GIVEN MAIL 
ORDERS. 
SPECIAL  QUOTATIONS 
MAILED  ON  GENERAL LINE OF GRO­
CERIES  WHEN  REQUESTED.

EX PA N SIV E B IT S .

Clar’s, small, $18  00;  large, 826  OO.fc  dis 
Iv es’, 1, $18  00;  2, $24 00;  3, $30  00. 
dis 

F IL E S .

A m erica» File A ssociation  L ist.........dis
D isston’s ...................................................dis
New  A m erican........................................ dis
Nicholson’s ............................................... dis
H eller’s .....................................................dis
H eller’s H orse R asps............................ dis

GALVANIZED IR O N ,

Nos. 16 to  20, 
L ist 

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

27
12 
15
D iscount, Ju n ia ta  45, Charcoal 50. 

13 

14 

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

GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

40&10
40&10
40&10
40&10
30
3344

50

15
Maydole & Co.’s .......................................dis 
K ip’s ..........................................................dis 
25
Y erkes &  P lum b’s ..................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................... 30 c list 40
B lacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40&10 

B arn Door K idder Mfg. Co., Wood track  dis  50
Champion, anti-friction....................... dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tr a .k ............................ 
40

dis 

HANGERS.

HINGES.

Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3................................dis 
60
S tate...............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to   12  in.  5%  14
4 25 
and  longer...............................................
10*/2 
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ................... n et
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net
8*4 
Screw Hook and Eye  %.......................net
7*4 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................n et
714 
Strap and  T ...........................................d is
60&10

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stam ped Tin W are......................................   60&10
Japanned Tin  W are............ ......................  
30
G ranite  Iro n   W are..................................... 
25

G rub  1.................................................. $11 00, dis 40
G rub  2................................... 
G rub 3....................................................  12  00, dis 40

 

1150, 

HOES.

KNOBS.

Door, m ineral, jap. trim m in g s.........$2  00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m in g s__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated' trim ­
m ings............................................list,  7  25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
60
D raw er and  Shutter,  porcelain.........dis 
'60
P icture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ...................d 
H e m a c ite .................................................dis 
50

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis 
60
Mallory, AVlieelnr  &  Co.’s ............................dis  60
B ranford’s ....................................................... dis  60
N orw alk’s ......................................................... dis  60

• 

LEVELS.

MILLS.

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

Coffee, P ark ers  Co.’s ............................  
  dis  45
Coffee, P. S. & AV. Mfg. Co.’s  M aileables dis  45
Coffee, Landers, F erry  &  Clark’s ..............dis  45
Coffee,  E n terp rise......................................... dis  25

Adze  E y e............................................................... $16 00dis40&10
H unt  E ye...............................................................$15 00dis40&10
H u n t’s ................. ......................... $18  50 dis 20 & 10

MATTOCKS.

NAILS.

Common, B rad and Fencing.

lO dto  60d.............................................. $  keg $2  50
8d and 9 d  ad v ..................................................  
25
6d and 7d  ad v ..................................................  
50
4d and 5d  .adv..................................................  
75
3d  advance.......................................................   1  50
3d fine  advance...............................................   3  00
Clinch nails,  ad v .............................................   1  75
Finishing 
Size—inches 
Adv. $  keg 

|  lOd 
|  3 
$1  25  1  50  1  75  2  00 
MOLLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s P a tte rn   ........................................ dis  70
Stebbin’s G enuine..........................................dis  70
E nterprise,  self-m easuring........................ dis  25

8d 
254 

4d
154

6d 
2 

Sperry & Co.’s, P ost,  handled.................   dis  50

Zinc or tin, Chase’s P a te n t..........................dis  55
Zinc, w ith brass bo tto m ............................... dis  50
Brass or  Copper.............................................dis  40
R eaper........................................p er  gross, $12 n et
Olm stead’s ....................................................  
50

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy .................................. dis  15
Sciota B ench....................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ........................dis  15
Bench, first q u ality ....................................... dis  20
Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 

Fry, A cm e.................................................dis 40&10
Common, polished...................................dis 
60
D ripping...................................................... f  
I)  8

MAULS.

OILERS.

PLANES.

PANS.

RIVETS.

Iro n  and  T inned.......................................dis 
Copper R ivets and B u rs.........................dis 

40
40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

“A” AVood’s p aten t planished, Nos. 24 to 27  1054 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs 54c $  1b extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T erne..................  5  75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T ern e................  7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T ern e................. 12 00
IX , 20x28, choice Charcoal  T ern e................16  90

Sisal,  54 In. and la rg e r............................. $1 3?  954
M anilla................................................................  15

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Steel and  Iro n .................................................dis  50
Try and Be vels................................................ dis  50
M itre  ...............................................................dis  20

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth.  Com.

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 n ot less th an  2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

3 60
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

$3 20
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40

In  casks of 600 fts, ¡g  f t .............................  
In  sm aller quansities, 
f t......................  

t in n e r ’s s o l d e r .

No. 1,  Refined............................................. 
M arket  H alf-and-half.............................  
Strictly  H alf-and-half...........’. ................ 

TIN  PLATES.

Cards fo r  Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, C harcoal..................................   6  50
IC, 
10xl4,Charcoal.................................  8  50
IX , 
12x12, Charcoal..................................   6  50
IC, 
12x12,  C h a rc o a l................................  8  50
IX , 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal..................................   6  50
IX , 
14x20,  Charcoal.................................   8 50
IX X ,  14x20, C harcoal..................................  10  50
IX X X , 14x20, Charcool..................................  12  50
IX X X X , 14x20,  Charcoal...................................  14 50
IX , 
20x28, C harcoal..................................  18  00
DC, 
100 P late C harcoal..................................   6 50
DX. 
100 P late Charcoal...................................  8 50
DXX,  100 P late C harcoal..................................   10 50
DXXX,  100 P late C harcoal...............................  12 60
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  P late add 1  50  to  6  75 

rates.

654
7

13  00
15  00
16

Steel,  G am e.........................................................
Onaida Com m untity, N ew house’s ..............dis  54
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & N orton’s __   60
H otchkiss’ ...........................................................   60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ........................................  60
Mouse,  choker..................................................20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1  26J§} doz

TRAPS.

WIRE.

B right  M arket..............................................  dis  60
A nnealed M arket...........................................dis  60
Coppered M arket........................................... dis  55
E x tra B ailing..................................................dis  55
Tinned  M arket.............................................. kis  40
Tinned  B room .. *..............................................ft  09
Tinned M attress.................................................$  ft 854
Coppered  Spring  S teel................................dis 3754
Tinned Spring S teel......................... .•....... dis 3754
Plain F en ce..........................................................$  ft 354
Barbed  F ence.....................................................
Copper..................................................new  list n et
B rass.....................................................new  list n et

AVIRE GOODS.

B right.................................... ‘............. dis  60&10&10
Screw E yes...........................................dis 60&10&10
H ook’s ..................................................dis  60&10&10
G ate Hooks and E yes.......................dis  60&10&10

WrENCHES.

B axter’s A djustable,  nickeled................
Coe’s  G enuine........................................ dis  50&10
Coe’s P at A gricultural,  w ro u g h t............dis  65
Coe’s P at.,  m alleable...................................dis  70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pum ps,  C istern...................................... dis
S c re w s...................................................... *..
Casters, Bed and  P la te ............ ............... dis
Dam pers,  A m erican...................................

rnent.  He was one of  the  few  who  could 
commit to memory thousands of  verses  and 
invariably succeeded  in  winning  the  com­
mendation of teachers and  pastor.  He was 
a favorite with the  latter,  and  was  always 
held  up to the admiration  of  his  associates 
as  a  model  of  decorum  and  deep-rooted 
piety.  He was a constant attendant at church 
and prayer meetings, and as  he  grew  older 
came to regard the theater and round dances 
with unaffected horror.  He  had  a  natural 
leaning for the pulpit,  but  in  an  evil  hour 
was persuaded to turn aside from the path of 
his inclination and adopt  the  profession  of 
a drummer.  On his first trip  out,  the  boys 
expected  that  be  would  toss  his  gripsack 
across the  hotel  counter,  take  a  short  cut 
for the bar-room,  and  invite  all  present  to 
liquor up.  Such a thing, however,  was  the 
farthest from John’s thoughts, as he  has  al­
ways taken it as an  insult  to  be  asked  to 
take a drink.  Draw poker and seven-up are 
abhorent to his nature, and  worldliness  and 
dissipation are foreign to his  make-up  alto­
gether.  As he has  advanced  in  years,  his 
charitableness has become more marked, and 
deeds of charity have become more common. 
His  word  it as  good  as  his  note,  and  his 
notes are worth as  much  as  the  paper  on 
which  they  are  written. 
Some  envious 
spirits have insinuated that they are as num­
erous as the “leaves of the forest or the sands 
of the seashore,”  but such  an ¡accusation  is 
without foundation and is due  altogether  to 
malice.  Mr.  McIntyre is now in  the  prime 
of life, and it is to be hoped that he will yet 
be spared many years to serve as an example 
to others in his profession  who  are  not  as 
careful in their actions,  and  as  considerate 
in their kindness, as he.

FOSTER, 
STEVENS

—WHOLESALE-

HARDWARE!

10 and  12  MONROE STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

All Sorts.

AVE  SOLICIT  THE

D.  McDonald  has  started  a  saloon  at 

Evart.

DEALER’S  TRADE,

E. H. Martendale has resumed business at 

Harbor Springs.

Park A. C. Bradford has opened up in the 

jewelry business at Muskegon.

L. C. McDermott has engaged in the cloth­

ing business at North Muskegon.

Buell & White succeed C. W. Smith in the 

grocery  business at Nashville.

J. H. Smith,  formerly  of  Grand  Rapids, 
has opened up in the  hardware  business  at 
Muskegon.

Gaylord & Pipp succeed Fred F. Taylor in 
general trade at Pierson.  Mr. Gaylord  was 
formerly in business at Brighton.

A. J. Baxter, late of Jackson, is the name 
of the gentleman who has bought the A.  W. 
Roth drug stock on Jefferson avenue.

D. F. Moody, dealer  in  furnishing  goods 
at  Pentwater,  has  removed  his  stock  to 
Traverse  City  and  re-engaged  in  business 
there.

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are M anufacturer’s A gents  fo r  the

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A nd quote factory prices.  Send fo r catalogue

We are Mar

A gents  fo r

It is stated ihat Albert N. Leslie, formerly 
northern  traveling  agent  for  Fox,  Mussel- 
man & Loveridge, is now in  the  West, hav­
ing gone back to his first love,  the  minstrel 
business.

A. P. Stegenga, who has been running  an 
alleged  temperance  saloon  at  Zeeland  for 
some time past, has left that place for  more 
congenial  surroundings,  leaving  nearly  all 
the dealers at that town as creditors  in vari­
ous amounts.

J. L. Handy, formerly in general trade  at 
Hudsonville, later at  Saranac,  and  for  the 
past few months located at  Alton,  has  con­
cluded to make a final change, locating  per­
manently  at  Woodstock,  Lenawee  county. 
He will continue to buy his supplies at  this 
market.

‘i

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Jewett’

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are M an ufacturer’s  A gents  for

Several months ago Col.  O.  F. Lockhead, 
of Flint,  was  instrumental  in  starting  the 
cracker factory at that place  now owned  by 
Pomeroy  &  Whitney.  Mr.  Lockhead  has 
now a second project  of  the  same  kind  in 
hand, having associated  with  him  for that 
purpose Mr. Warren S. Dye.  The new firm 
will be Dye & Lockhead, and the erection of 
a new brick building,  60x60  feet,  has  been 
determined upon.

“Talk about  a  retail  groceryman  being 
compelled to do a  credit  business!’’  said a 
Canal street dealer, “why, we haven’t abook 
in the store, except those in which  we  keep 
our accounts with  our  creditors.  When a 
man asks for credit, we tell him we have no 
books and no bookkeeper,  and  that  settles 
it  You can set it down as a fact,  that  all 
this talk about the necessity of  retailers do­
ing  a  credit business  is  bosh.  A  good- 
sized backbone will  overcome  the  scruples 
any dealer may have  over  the  advisability 
of adopting the cash-in-advance system.”

All  kinds  of  spring  and summer  cloaks 
are  to  be  found  at  Voigt  Herpolsheimer 
&  Co.’s.  The  latest  styles  in  cloths  and 
patterns.  Call  and see  them.

I solicit the trade of firstclass  grocers  on 
tobaccoes, teas, canned  goods,  syrups,  etc. 
as I have some exceptional bargains in these 
goods, which  will  prove  of  benefit  to  the 
buyer.  Send for samples and prices.

I. E. Messmore

PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO. 12.

John  McIntyre,  the  Holy  Terror  of  the 

Grocery  Trade.

John H. McIntyre was born  in  Warrens- 
burg,  Warren county, N. Y.,  Sept. 16,1844. 
He lived  there  until  eleven  years  of  age, 
when  he  came  to  Grand  Rapids  with  his 
uncle, Rev. Courtney Smith, attending school 
here until 1850, when  he  went  to  Ottawa, 
Canada, to attend the grammer school at that 
place.  He  was  subsequently  a  student  at 
the mathematical  school  at  Sandy Hill,  N. 
Y., returning to Grand Rapids in  1863 to en­
ter  the  employ of James Gallup as  a  drug 
clerk.  There he remained four years, when 
he went on the  road  for  Hart  &  Ambrrg, 
selling liquors. 
In 1872 he  entered the  em­
ploy of L.  H.  Randall  &  Co.  as  traveling 
representative,  covering  a  portion  of  the 
Northern trade.  In 1876 he engaged as sales­
man for Burton,  PierceJ&  Co.,  Chicago  gro­
cery jobbers, remaining  with that house two 
years, when he accepted  a  similar  position 
with Curtiss & Dunton, whom he  represent­
ed for four years,  leaving  them  in  1882  to 
take a position with Gray, Burt & Kingman, 
of Chicago.

Of  Mr. McIntyre’s many  personal charac­
teristics,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ’s  readers  have 
been  pretty  thoroughly  informed  through 
numerous articles on the subject which have 
appeared in the paper in  the past.  He  is  a 
confirmed practical joker, and  has  assumed 
a gruff tone of voice and brusqueness of man­
ner, until both have become  second  nature. 
Nothing affords him more gratification than 
to be able to play a severe  joke  on  “one  of 
the boys,” and unlike most men of such dis­
position he usually takes a jest in good part. 
One peculiarity of John’s business experience 
is the difficulty he has had in interesting him­
self in anything outside  the  line  he  repre­
sents.  As an illustration of his weakness in 
this direction, Mr.  Thomas  S.  Freeman  re­
lates a case in  point.  While  traveling  for 
L. H. Randall & Co., word was received from 
a Northern customer that he  was  unable  to 
meet his bills,  but would  turn  over  to  the 
house a couple of carloads of prime shingles. 
McIntyre was the only man available  at the 
time, and was sent to the front with instruc­
tions to take the shingles if they were 18 inch 
standard stars, and not otherwise.  On being 
assured by the dealer  that they were of  the 
right kind, John receipted the bills and ship­
ped the shingles to Grand Rapids.  On arriv­
al, they were found to be the poorest quality 
of culls, and the house  brought suit  against 
the dealer for  the  amount  of  his  account. 
John was put on the witness  stand,  but be­
came so confused that he could not swear to 
a certainty whether he contracted for a yoke 
of oxen or a carload of  tan  bark,  in  conse­
quence of which his  testimony  was  thrown 
out and the house  failed to get a judgment. 
The most  ludicrous  feature  of  the  matter, 
however,  was  the  final  disposition  of  the 
shingles.  They were piled  near  the  store, 
and were gradually stolen away until only a 
small amount remained, and  a  flood  subse­
quently floated away the last  vestige  of  the 
bad bargain.

Another member of the old  firm recalls  a 
butter speculation that  John  once  engaged 
in.  About a dozen years ago, Messrs. Cohn- 
ing & Collen, general merchants at Holland, 
shipped L. H. Randall & Co. about a  ton  of 
butter,  the  characteristics  of  which  were 
very strongly marked.  The  butter  was  re­
ceived in the fall, and frequent  efforts  were 
made during the winter to effect a  sale,  but 
without success.  Early in  the  summer  the 
strength of the stuff asserted itself so  forci­
bly that the entire shipment was returned to 
the consignees.  The next fall butter was un­
usually scarce, and Sir. Randall told John to 
pick up all the choice lots  he  came  across. 
The £rst town he struck on the next trip was 
Holland, and the first store  he  entered  was 
Cohning &  Collen’s.  On  inquiring if  they 
had on hand a prime article of butter, he was 
answered in the affirmative, and was  shown 
the lot returned to them  the  spring  before. 
John’s nasal perception was not particularly 
acute at the time, and he ordered  the  entire 
lot to be shipped to the house at once, agree­
ing upon the price to be paid.  On returning 
home from that trip, he was  approached  by 
Mr. Randall and asked if he purchased a sup­
ply of butter at Holland.  On  replying  that 
he did, L. H. asked Jonn to accompany  him 
down cellar and identify his purchase.  Mc­
Intyre walked as far as  the  stairway  door, 
took two or three satisfying whiffs,  and  ex­
claimed, as he turned away m disgust, “Yes, 
that’s it.”

Another friend of John’s relates an amus­
ing incident connected with  the  lattet’s  ex­
perience with a practical joker up  at  Alley- 
ton.  It appears  that  the  latter  persuaded 
McIntyre that he ought to have  a  dog,  and 
fin a lly  succeeded in selling him a “fine blood 
ed animal” for $2.  John did not pay for the 
pup at the time—-who ever  knew  of  John’s 
paying for anything, if he could help it?—but 
told the man to  board  him  until  he  came 
around again.  On his next trip, he again re­
fused to complete  the  purchase  by  paying 
the  amount  agreed  upon,  whereupon  the 
m a n   sued John  for  the purchase  price  and 
the board of the animal in the meantime, se­
curing  a  judgment for $18 and  costs.  The 
judgment,  however,  still  remains  unpaid, 
and about the quickest way to “rile” the vic­
tim is to suggest that he buy a  dog.

Another  Version of His Life.

John McIntyre was bom of  rich  but  hon­
est parents, and his life has exemplified  his 
early associations.  In his youth he was con­
spicuously pious, and  at  Sabbath-school  he

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.’s  wholesale 
department  is  replete  with everything  per 
taining  to  that  branch  of  the  business. 
Country buyers are invited to  call  when  in 
the city  and  inspect the  imuu&yfr stock and

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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 wer6 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  KNOW
this section of the country,  never  troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bug  of any sort.  Such is the universal testimony 
to the merits of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they have never met its equal for endurance, productiveness, and  fine  eating 
qualities.  All farmers and gardners are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it, are imited 
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 
l seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices.  We  make  this  liberal  offer to 
patrons:
We will furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount  to  dealers.  We  will  also 
furnish, at cost prices, all barrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their  own, adressed to Ensley & Son,  Maple  Hill,  Mich.  Orders 
may be sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postoffice, Mich., or to O. W. Blain, 'General  Agent,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.  All  addresses 
should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes.  Patrons  should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses, and  state 
to what railroad station they wish to have their shipments made.  Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money, 
New York draft, money order, or registered letter. 
Readers are cordially invited to refer to Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, 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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13.  EISTSILiEir  Sc  SON,  Growers.

E n s le y   F o sto ffic e ,  N ew ay g o   C o u n ty ,  M Icliig an .

FOR  FULL  PARTICULARS  AND  TERMS  TO  DEALERS,  ADDRESS

O.  W.  BLAIN  &  CO.,  General  Agents,

Produce  Commission  Merchants,  Fruits,  Vegetables,  Etc.,

152  F u lto n   S tre e t,  G3EIANB  R A P ID S ,  M ICH IG A N .
Also have 2,500 bushels of the Celebrated White English Sovereign Oats—a sure crop—50 to 90 bushels per acre.  Price, 75c per bushel.

U. FEETER,

South  Division  Street, G rand  Rapids, Mich.

Dealer  in

—Also—

STAPLE  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.

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

Telephone  Connection.

Jewett’s  Filters,

A nd quote facto ry  prices.  Send fo r catalogue

We are also H eadquarters fo r

Grand  Rapids  Wheelbarrows  and

Bacon  &  Priestly  Express  Wagons,
All of which  are  sold  a t  facto ry   prices.  We 
would be  pleased  to  send  catalogue  to  those 
w ishing to buy.

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

A.  H .  P O W L B ,

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—A nd D ealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades, Boom Mouldings,

Artists’  Materials  !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

37 No.  I onia  Street, South  of  Monroe.
Special  designs  fu rn ish ed   and  E stim ates 
given fo r in terio r decoration  and  all  kinds  of 
stained an d  ornam ental Glass work.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by MäU «B4.|?xpress promptly efe-

A t  M a m ifa 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.

X T E X iS O X T   B R O S .  A  C O .
PERKI NS &  HESS.
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

-DEALERS

NOS.  123  and  124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

ALBERT  COYE  4  SONS,
Awnings,  Tents,

—M anufacturers and Jobbers of—

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers,

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

tw ~   Send fo r Prices.

GRAND  RAPIDS

MANUFACTURED  FOR

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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HAND  OR  MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOR 

SAE BY THE  PACKAGE  OR  RE­

PACKED  TO  ORDER.

Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 

Price List  at once for the Spring Trade.

A.  A.  G R IF F E N ,

WHOLESALE

Hats. Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prie68

-FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

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WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT THE—

S S £ S D   S T O R E ,

91  Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mic

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