The Michigan Tradesman.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  28,  1884.

NO. 36.

VOL.  1,

TOMPKINS.

He  was  a  small, wiry man,  about  forty 
years of age, with a bright young face,  dark 
eyes, and iron-gray hair.  We  were  reclin­
ing in a field, under a clump of  pines,  on a 
height overlooking Lake  Champlain.  Near 
by were the dull-red  brick  buildings of the 
University of Vermont.  Burlington, bloom­
ing *vith  flowers  and  embowered in  trees, 
sloped away below us.  Beyond  the  town, 
the lake, a broad plain of liquid  blue,  slept 
in the June sunshine, and in the farther dis­
tance towered the picturesque  Adirondacks.
“It  is  certainly  true,”  said  Tompkins, 
turning upon his side so as  to face me, and 
propping his head with his hand,  while  his 
elbow rested on the ground.  “Don’t you re­
member,  1  used  to  insist  that  they  were 
peculiar, when we were here in college?”

I remembered it very distinctly, and so in­

formed my old  classmate.

“I  always  said,”  he  continued,  “that I 
could not do my best in  New  England, be­
cause there  is no  sentiment  in  the atmos­
phere, and the people are so peculiar.”

“You have been living  in Chicago?”  I re­

marked inquiringly.

“That has been my  residence  ever  since 
we were graduated; that is, for about seven­
teen years,” he replied.

“You are in business there,  I  believe?” I 

questioned.

Tompkins admitted that  he was, but  did 

not name the particular line.

“Halloo!” he  suddenly  called out, rising 
to  his  feet, and looking  toward  the  little 
brown road near us. 
I  looked in the same 
direction, and saw a plainly dressed  elderly 
couple on foot,  apparently  out for a  walk. 
Tompkins went hastily toward them, helped 
the lady over the  fence, the  gentleman fol­
lowing, and a moment later I was  introduc­
ed to Mr. and Mrs. Yember, of Chicago.

Tompkins  gathered  some  large  stones, 
pulled a board off the fence in rather a reck­
less manner, and fixed a seat for the  couple 
where they could lean against a  tree.  When 
they were provided for, I reclined again, but 
Tompkins stood before us, talking  and ges­
ticulating.

“This,” said he,  “is  the  identical  place, 
Mrs. Pember.  Here you  can  see the  beau­
ties 1 have so often described.  Before  you 
are the town and the lake, and beyond them 
the mountains of Northern New  York;  and 
(if you will please to turn  your head)  that 
great blue wall  behind you,  twenty  miles 
away, is composed of the highest mountains 
in Vermont.  The  mountains  in  front  of 
you are the Adirondacks, and  those  behind 
you are the Green  Mountains.  You  are at 
the central point of this magnificent  Cham­
plain Valley; and you  are comfortably seatr 
ed here beneath the shade, on this  the love­
liest day of summer.  Dear  friends, 1 con­
gratulate you,” and Tompkins  shook hands 
with Mr. and Mrs. Pember.

“And there, Timothy,”  observed  the  old 
gentleman, pointing at the University build­
ings with his  cane, “is  actually  where you 
went to college.”

I the best hotel, feeling as comfortable and in­
different  as I ever  did in  my  life.  There 
was not the shadow of an idea in  my  mind 
of what was going to  happen.  On  Sunday 
morning 1 walked about  town, and it began 
to come down on me.”

impracticable. 

“What, the town?” asked Mrs.  Pember.
No;  the  strangest  and  most  unaccount­
able feeling I ever had in my life,”  answer­
ed Tompkins.  “It was thirteen years  since 
I had said good-by to  college. 
It had long 
ago become  apparent to me  that the  ideas 
with which I had graduated  were visionary 
and 
I  comprehended  that 
the college  professors  were  not the  great 
men I had  once thought  them,  and  that a 
college president was merely a human being.
I had been hardened  by fighting  my way as 
a friendless young man has to do in  a great 
city.  As  the confidential  clerk  of  a large 
pork house in  Chicago, I  felt  equal  to  ‘the 
next man,’ whoever he might be. 
If  a pro­
fessor had met me as I got  off the  cars here 
Saturday night, it would have been  easy for 
me to snub him.  But  Sunday  morning, as 
familiar  objects  began  to  appear  in  the 
course  of my  walk, the  strange  feeling  of 
which I have spoken came over me. 
It was 
the feeling of old times.  The white clouds, 
the blue lake, this wonderful  scenery, thril­
led me, and called back the college dreams.”
As  he  spoke,  my  old  classmate’s  voice 

trembled.

“You may remember  that I  used to  like 
Horace and Virgil and Homer,” he  remark­
ed, sitting up,  crossing his  feet  tailor-fash­
ion, and looking appealingly at me.

I replied, enthusiastically and  truly, that 
he had been  one of our  best lovers  of  the 
poets.

“Well,” continued Tompkins, “that  Sun­
day  morning  those things  began  to  come 
back to  me. 
It  wasn’t  exactly  delightful. 
My old ambition to do  something  great  in 
the world awoke as if from a long sleep. As 
I prolonged my  walk  the  old  associations 
grew stronger.  When I came near the col­
lege buildings it seemed as if  I still belong­
ed here.  The hopes of an ideal career were 
before me as  bright  as  ever. 
The  grand 
things I was  going  to  do,  the  volumes  of 
poems and other writings by Tompkins, and 
his  marvelous  successes we^e  as  clear  as 
day. 
In short, the whole thing was  conjur­
ed up as if it were a picture,  just as  it used 
to be when I was a student in college, and it 
was too much for me.”

Tompkins seemed  to  be  getting a  little 
hoarse, and his frank face was  very serious, 
“Timothy,” suggested Mr. Pember,  “may 
be you could  tell us  what  that big  rock is, 
out in the  lake.”

“Why, father, don’t you remember?  That 

is rock Dunder,” said Mrs. Pember.

“I guess it  is,”  said  the  old gentleman, 

chance to tell of, and  I  am going to  tell it 
now while you are here.”

This last sentence  was addressed  to me, 
and  my old  classmate  uttered  the  words 
with  a  gentleness  and 
frankness  that 
brought back my best  recollections of  him 
in our  pollege  days, when  he was  “little 
Tompkihs,” the  warmest  hearted fellotv in 
our class.

“Do you  remember  Lucy  Cary?” he ask­

ed.

I replied that I did, very well indeed;  and 
the picture of  a youthful face, of Madonna­
like beauty, came out with  strange distinct­
ness from the  memories  of the  past  as  I 
said  it.

“Well,  I  saw  Lucy  there,”  continued 
Tompkins “singing in the  choir in  church, 
looking just as she did in the long-ago  days 
when we used to  serenade her. 
I  am  wil­
ling to tell you about  it.”

Tompkins said  this  in  such a  confiding 
manner that I  instinctively  moved  toward 
him and took hold of his hand.

“All right, classmate,*? he said, sitting up, 
and looking me in the eyes  in  a peculiarly 
winning way that had  won us all  when he 
was in college.

“Why,  boys!”  exclaimed  Mrs.  Pember, 

with her light laugh.

Tompkins  found  a  large  stone,  put  it 
against a tree, and sat down  on  it, while  I 
reclined at his feet.  He  said,—

“You have asked me, Mrs.  Pember,  very 
often, about the people up  here, and now I 
will tell you  about some of  them.  Do you 
notice that mountain away beyond the  lake, 
in behind the others, so  that  you  can  see 
only the top, which  is shaped  like a  pyra­
mid?  That is old Whiteface, and it is  more 
than forty miles  from here. 
It used to be 
understood that there was  nothing whatever 
over there except woods and rocks and bears 
and John Brown.  But the truth is, right at 
the foot of the mountain,  in  the  valley on 
this side, there is a little village  called Wil­
mington, and it is  the  center of  the world. 
Lucy Cary and I were bom  there. 
It was 
not much of a village  then, and  it  is about 
the same now.  There was  no  church, and 
no store, and  no  hotel, in  my time;  there 
were only half a dozen  dwelling-houses and 
a blacksmith  shop,  and a  man  who  made 
shoes.  Lucy lived in the house next to ours. 
Her 
the  man  who  made 
shoes.  Lucy  and  I  picked  berries  and 
rambled about with Rover, the dog, from the 
time  we  were little.  Of course you  will 
naturally think there is something  romantic 
coming, but there is not.  We  were  just a 
couple of children playing together;  and we 
studied together as we  grew  older.  They 
made a great deal of studying and schooling 
over there.  They  had almost as  much re­
spect for learning  then  in  Wilmington  hs 
they have now among the White Mountains, 
where they will not allow any waiters at the 
hotels who cannot talk Greek.

father  was 

‘It was quite an affair  when  Lucy and I 
left Wilmington  and  came  to  Burlington. 
The departure of two inhabitants was a loss 
to the town. 
It was not equal to the Chica-
go fire, but it  was  an  important  event, 
went  to  college,  and  Lucy  came  over the 
lake to work in a woolen factory.  There  is 
where she worked,” pointing to the  beauti­
ful little village  of Winooski,  a mile  away 
behind us, in the green valley of Onion Riv­
er.

“And she had to work  there for  a living, 
while you went to college?” asked Mrs. Pem­
ber.

“That was it,” said Tompkins.  “We used 
to  serenade  her  sometimes,  with  the rest 
but she seemed to think it was  not  exactly 
the right thing for a poor factory girl, and so 
we gave it up. 
I used to  see her  occasion 
ally, but somehow there grew up a  distance 
between us.”

“How was that?” 
inquired Mrs.  Pember 
“Well, to tell the truth,” answered Tomp­
kins,  “I  think  my  college  ideas  had  too 
much to do with it. 
I did not see  it  at the 
time, but it has còme over me lately.  When 
a young chap gets his head full of new ideas, 
he is very likely to forget the old ones.”

“You did  not mean  to  <jlo  wrong, 1  am 

sure,” said Mrs. Pember.

up  with my class, and that was  the reason.
But I wish I  had  paid  more  attention  to 
Lucy Cary that winter. 
I would not  have 
you think there was anything  particular be­
tween L.ucy and me. 

It was not that.”

“We will think just what we  please,” in­

terrupted Mrs. Pember in a serious  tone.

“Well,” continued the narrator, “it would 
be absurd to  suppose  there  was  any  such 
thing.”

There was a long pause.  “You  had  bet­
ter tell the rest of the story, Timothy,”  said 
the old gentleman persuasively.

“Yes,  I  will,” 

responded  Tompkins. 
“After I came back to college  I  got  along 
better than before I had taught.  The money 
I received for teaching helped  me,  and  an­
other thing aided me.  The  folks  at  Wil­
mington found out how  a  poor  young man 
works to get through  college. 
Some of us 
used to live on a dollar a  week  apiece, and 
board ourselves in our rooms, down  there in 
the buildings; and we were doing  the hard­
est kind of studying at the same time.  We 
would  often  club  together,  one  doing  the 
cooking for five or six.  The cook would get 
off without paying. 
It was one of  the most 
delightful things  in the  world to see a  tall 
young man in a calico  dressing-gown  come 
out on the green, where we  would  be play­
ing foot-ball, and make the motions  of beat­
ing an imaginary gong for dinner. 
In order 
to appreciate it, you need to work  hard and 
play hard and live  on the  slimmest kind of 
New England fare.  But  there is one thing 
even better than that.  To  experience  the 
most exquisite delight ever know by a  Bur­
lington student, you ought to have an  uncle 
Jason.  While I was teaching  in  Wilming­
ton,  my  uncle  Jason,  from  North  Elba, 
which was close by, came  there.  When he 
found out  what  an  important  man I  was, 
and how I was fighting  my way, he  sympa­
thized wonderfully.  He was  not  on  good 
terms at our  house,  but  he  called  at  my 
school, and almost cried over  me.  He was 
not a man of much  learning,  but he looked 
upon those who were educated as a superior 
order of beings. 
I  was  regarded  in  the 
neighborhood as a sort of martyr to  science, 
genius who was working himself to death, 
was the only public man ever  produced by 
the settlement up to that date. 
It was  part 
of the religion of the place to look  upon me 
as something unusual, and uncle Jason shar­
ed the general feeling. 
I  could  see, as  he 
sat there in the school  house  observing the 
school, that he was very proud  of  me.  Be­
fore having, he called me into the entry and 
gave me a two-dollar bill. 
It was generous, 
for he was a.poor  man,  and had  his  wife 
and  children  to  support. 
It  brought  the 
tears to my eyes  when  he  handed  me the 
money, and told me I was  the  flower of the 
family and the  pride  of the  settlement. 
I 
felt as if I would rather die than  fail of ful­
filling the expectations of my friends. There 
was great delight in it, and it  was  an inex­
pressible joy to know that my  relatives and 
the neighbors cared so much  for me.

To comprehend  this  thing  fully,  Mrs. 
Pember, you  ought  to  be in  college,  and 
when you are getting hard  up,  and  see no 
way but to leave, get letters, as  I did,  from 
uncle Jason, with  five  or  six  dollars at  a 
time in them.  Such  a  trifle  would  cany 
you  through to  the end of  the  term,  and 
save  your  standing  in  the  class. 
If  you 
were a Burlington  college  boy,  while  you 
might be willing  to  depart  this  life  in an 
honorable manner, you would not be willing 
to lose your mark and standing as a student. 
You would regard the consequences  of such 
a disaster as very damaging to your  charac­
ter, and certain to remain with you  forever,
“I may as  well  say, while  it  is  on  my 
mind, that I do think this matter  of educa­
tion is a little overdone  in  this part  of the 
country.  A young man is not the  center of 
the universe merely because he is  a  college 
student, or a graduate, and  it is  not  worth 
while to scare him with any such idea.  The 
only way he can meet the expectations of his 
friends, under such circumstances,  is  to get 
run over accidently by  the cars.  That com­
pletes his martyrdom, and affords  his  folks 
an opportunity to  boast of  what he  would 
have been if he had lived.”

“Tell us  more  about  Lucy,”  said  Mrs, 

Daniel Webster.  He  stood by  me  after I 
left college, and for three years I  continued 
to get those letters, with  five or six  dollars 
at a time in them.  They kept me  from act­
ual suffering sometimes, before I  got  down 
off my stilts, and went to  work like an hon­
est man, in the pork business.”

“I thought you were going to tell us some­
thing about the girl,” suggested  Mrs.  Pem­
ber.

“Yes, I was,” rejoined Tompkins.  “When 
I saw Lucy here, four years ago,  in the gal­
lery with the singers, I felt as if it would be 
impossible for me to face  her and talk with 
her.  She would  not  have  known  me,  for 
one thing.  When  I  was  a  brown-haired 
boy, making poetry, and being a martyr, and 
doing serenading, and  living  on codfish and 
crackers and soup,  I could  meet  Lucy with 
a grand air that made her shudder;  but as I 
sat there in church, gray and  worn, I dread­
ed to  catch her  eye,  or  have  her  see  me. 
Although there was not  three years  differ­
ence in our ages, yet it  seemed  to me that I 
was very gjji, while she was still  blooming. 
Then thererwas a feeling that I  had not be­
come a great poet,  or  orator,  or  anything 
really worth while.  On the contrary,  I was 
It seemed  like  attending my 
just nobody. 
I felt disgraced.  Of  course 
own funeral. 
it was  not  all true. 
I  had  been  a good, 
square, honest, hard-working man.”

“Yes, you had indeed, Timothy,” asserted 

Mrs. Pember, with an emphatic nod.

I did not hear much of  the sermon. 

“Yes indeed, I had,” repeated Tompkins, 
his lip quivering.  “It was not the thing for 
a fair-minded  man  to think  so  poorly  of 
himself;  but I was alone,  and the  old asso­
ciations and the solemn  services were  very 
impressive.  There was  Lucy in the choir;
she  always  could singìlike  a  nightingale.
When I heard her voice again,  it  overcame 
me. 
I 
think it  was  something  about  temptation 
and the  suggestions of the  evil one;  but  I 
am not sure, for I had my head down on the 
back of the pew in front  of  me most of the 
time. 
I had to fight  desperately to  control 
my feelings.  One  minute I  would  think 
that as soon as the  services  closed  I would 
rush around and shake hands  with  my old 
acquaintances, and  the next  minute  would 
be doing my best  to  swallow the  lump  in 
my throat.  It was as tough a sixty  minutes 
as I ever passed.  But  finally the  services 
were ended. 
I felt that it  was  plainly my 
duty to stop in the porch and claim  the rec­
ognition of my friends.  I did pause,  and try 
for a few seconds to collect myself;  but the 
lump grew bigger and choked me, while the 
tears would flow.  Besides  that,  as the ad­
versary just then, in  the  meanest  possible 
manner,  suggested  to my soul,  there  was 
that pork. 
I knew I would  have to  tell of 
it if I stopped.  But  I  did not  stop; I  re­
treated.  When I reached  my room  in the 
hotel I felt  a longing to  get  out of  town. 
Fortunately, I could not  leave on  Sunday.
So in the afternoon I sat with  the  landlord 
on his broad front platform  or  piazza. 
It 
was not the one who keeps the  place  now, 
but one of the oldest inhabitants, who knew 
all about the Burlington people.  He guessed 
that I was a college boy; he  thought  he re­
membered something about my  appearance 
I did not mind  talking  freely with  a land­
lord, for  hotels  and  boarding-houses  had 
been my home in  Chicago. 
I  had always 
been a single man, just as I  am to this day. 
This landlord was a good-hearted  old chap, 
and it was pleasant to talk with him.  While 
we  were  sitting  there,  who  should  come 
along the street but  Lucy,  with  a book  in 
her hand. 
She was  on the opposite  side­
She  would not 
walk and did not look up. 
look at a hotel on  Sunday. 
I  asked  the 
landlord about her, aud he told me  all there 
was to tell.  She was living in one end  of a 
little wooden cottage over  toward Winooski, 
another factory woman occupying  the other 
part of the house.  They  made a  home to­
gether.  The landlord said Lucy  was an ex­
cellent woman, and might  have married one 
of the overseers in the factory  any time she 
choose for years back, but that she preferred 
a single life.

“The excuse  I  have,”  continued  Tomp 
kins, “is that 1 had to work and  scrimp and 
suffer so myself, to  get  along  and  pay my 
way, that I hardly thought  of  anything ex­
cept  my studies  and how to  meet  my ex­
penses.  Then there was that  dream of do­
ing some great thing in the world. 
I taught 
the  district  school  in  Wilmington  three 
months during my  Sophomore  year  to  get 
money to go on with, and I think that  help­
ed to make me  ambitious. 
It  was  the sin 
cere  conviction  of  the  .neighborhood  over 
there that I would be  president  of  the col 
lege or of the United States. 
I do not think 
they would have  conceded  that  there  was 
much difference in the two positions. 
I felt 
that I would be disgraced if I  did  not meet 
their expectations.  By one of those  coinci­
dences which seemed to follow our fortunes, 
Lucy made  a long vist  home  when  I was 
teaching in Wilmington. 
She  was one  of 
my pupils.  She was a quiet little  lady, and 
hardly spoke a loud word, that  I remember, 
all winter.”

“Did you try  to  talk to  her,  Timothy?” 

asked  Mrs. Pember.

“I do not  claim  that  I  did,”  answered 
Tompkins.  “I was  studying  hard  to keep

Pejnber.

“Yes, certainly,” replied Tompkins.“Lucy 
had a wonderful idea of poetry and  writing. 
It is really alarming to a stranger to  see the 
feeling there is up here in  that  way.  The 
impression prevails generally  that a  writer 
is superior to all other people  on  earth. 
I 
remember to have heárd that one of our class, 
a year  after  we  were  graduated,  started a 
newspaper back here about ten miles, on the 
bank of the Onion River.  He might just as 
well have started it under  a  sage bush  out 
on the alkali plains.  He gave it some queer 
Greek name, and  1 heard that the  publica­
tion was first semi-weekly, then weekly, and 
then very weakly indeed, until it  came to a 
full stop at the end of six months.  It would 
have been ridiculous anywhere else;  but be­
ing an attempt at literature, I suppose it was 
looked upon here as respectable.”

“And  did  you  used  to  write  poetry?’ 

quired Mrs. Pember.

“Not  to  any  dangerous  extent,”  replied 
Tompkins. 
“I  do  not  deny  that  I  tried 
while in college, but I reformed when 1 went 
West. 
I think  uncle  Jason  always had an 
idea that it might  be better  for  me  to  be

“When I got back to Chicago I kept think­
ing about Lucy Cary.  The old  times when 
we used to live in Wilmington came back to 
my mind.  The truth of it was,  I was  get­
ting along a little, at last, in  Chicago in the 
way of property, and I found  myself all the 
while planning how I could have Lucy Cary 
near me.”

Did you want to marry  her,  Timothy?” 

inquired Mrs. Pember.

“It  was  not  that,”  he  replied;  “but  I 
wanted  to  become  acquainted  with  her 
again. 
I knew she was  the  best girl I had 
ever seen.  She always was just as good and 
pious as anybody could  be.  We were like 
brother and sister, almost, when young; and 
when I thought of" home and  my  folks and 
old Wilmington and the college  days, some­
how Lucy was the center of it all. 
In fact, 
almost everything else was gone.  My folks 
were scattered, and  Lucy and uncle  Jason 
were nearly the  only  persons up this  way 
that I could lay claim to.  There is a  kind 
of lonesome streak comes over a  man when 
he has been grinding away  in  a great  city 
for a good many years, and comes  back  to 
the old places, and sees / them so  fresh and 
green and  quiet,  and  he  can’t  get over  it 
He will cling to  anything  that  belongs  to 
I  was  strongly  influenced  to
old  times. 

write to Lucy, butjjfinally I did  not.O  I de­
termined that I ¡would ¡get all I  could  for 
two or three years, and  then I Owould come 
here and face things. 
I  would  get f some­
thing comfortable, and would have a place I 
could call my own in Chicago.  Then, when 
I had it fixed, I would come  and see  uncle 
Jason and Lucy, and stand the  racket.  Of 
course it was  nonsense  to  feel  shy,  but it 
seemed to me  that I could  not say a  word 
until I had  something to  brag  of.  They 
knew, in a general kind  of way, that I  was 
in Chicago, dealing in pork,  or  doing  auc­
tioneering or  something,  and that  was  as 
much humiliation as I could endure.  To be 
sure, it was nothing to be ashamed of,  for I 
had been an honest,  faithful  man;  but  to 
come  back  to  my  friends  empty-handed, 
without money or fame, and  gray-headed at 
that, was more  than  I  could  stand. 
If I 
had had anything, or been  anything, just to 
take the edge off, I could  have  managed it 
As it was, I looked ahead  and  worked. 
If 
any man in Chicago has tried  and  planned 
and toiled during the last  three  years, I am 
that man.  There has been a picture  before 
my mind of a pleasant home  there.”

“ And have you calculated to marry  Lucy 
inquired Mrs. Pember, in an [eager 

Cary?” 
voice.

“Perhaps it was  not just  in  that  way  1 
thought of it,”  replied  the  narrator,  very 
seriously.  “You know I told  you  that the 
landlord said she preferred a single life.” 

“Timothy Tompkins,” exclaimed the  old 
lady apprehensively, “don’t deny it,—don’t! 
Think how dreadfully you  will feel  if you 
know you have told a lie!”

“It is nothing to  be  ashamed  of,  Tim­
othy,” said Mr. Pember, in a kind  and sym­
pathetic  voice.

“If you put it in that way,”  answered my 
old classmate, in strangely  mournful  tones,
“all I can say is, there was  never  anything 
between us,—nothing at all.”

“And did you come here this  time  to see 
her?” inquired Mrs. Pember, almost starting 
from her seat, and with  the thrill  of a sud­
den guess in her voice.

“I suppose  it was  as much that  as  any­
thing,” replied Tompkins doggedly,  looking 
down, and poking with a short  stick  in the 
ground at his feet.

“And that is  what . has made  you act so 
“Have  you 

queer,” mused  Mrs.  Pember. 
seen her?”

“Let him tell the story, Caroline,”  urged 

the old gentleman peevishly.

Tompkins looked gloomily out  upon  the 
lake and the broad landscape for a  few mo­
ments; and  then, resuming  his  narrative, 
said,—

“As I was saying,  I  have  worked  hard, 
and have got a nice little  pile. 
I  am worth 
thirty-five thousand dollars.  When  I made 
up my mind to come East this  summer, the 
money to pay uncle Jason for  what  he had 
done was all ready. 
It  made  me  choke to 
think how long I had let it run. 
I  figured 
it up as near as I could,—the  two  hundred 
that had come to me in college, and the  two 
hundred after that; and I put in the  simple 
interest at seven per  cent.,  according to the 
York State law, which brought the  sum to­
tal up to nearly nine hundred; and  to  fix it 
all right I made it an even thousand dollars. 
Then I bought  a  new  buckskin  bag,  and 
went  to  a bank  in  Chicago  and  got  the 
money all  in  gold. 
I  knew  that  would 
please uncle Jason.  He once talked  of go­
ing to California to dig. 
I suppose  he  had 
never seen a pile of the real  yellow  coin in 
his life. 
I wrote to him that 1 was  to be in 
Burlington, and that I would be ever so glad 
if he would come over and see  me. 
I met 
him yesterday afternoon, as he  got  off  the 
boat, down at the  steamboat  landing.  He 
knew me, and  I  knew  him,  although  we 
were both changed a good deal.  After  we 
had talked a  little,  and  got  used  to  each 
other,  I took  him,up  to  my  room  in  the 
hotel. 
I was in a hurry to get at  the  busi­
ness part of my visit with  him  first;  for  it 
seemed to me that it would  be better  to let 
him see, to begin with,  that  I was  not  ex­
actly poor, nor such  an  ungrateful  cub as 
may be he liad thought I was. 
It  was  my 
resolve that before we  talked  of  anything  * 
else I would get that money off  my  consci­
ence. 
I knew that then I could  hold up my 
head, and discuss our neighborhood  and old 
times, and it would be plain sailing  for me.
I had pictured to my  mind  a  dozen  times 
how uncle Jason would look  with  that new 
yellow buckskin bag crammed with  ¿old on 
his knee, steady it with his  hand  and talk­
ing to me.  So when  I  got  him  up  to  my 
room, and seated him  in a  chair,  I  began 
the performance. 
I got red in the face, and 
spluttered, and  flourished  round  with  the 
bag and the gold; and to tell the truth  I ful­
ly expected to see  the  old  man’s  hair  rise 
right up.  But  it  did  not  work.  He got 
shaky and trembled, and  somehow  did not 
seem to want the money at all,  and  finally 
owned how it  was.  He said  that  he  had 
never  given  me  a  cent;  it  was  all  Lucy 
Cary’s  doing.  And  she  had  made  him 
promise, on his everlasting Bible oath, as he 
called it, that he would  not  tell. 
She had 
put him up  to the  whole  thing;  even  that 
first two-dollar bill had come  from her wag­
es.”

My old classmate  ceased  speaking.  He 
was becoming flushed  and excited.  He gaz- 

(Concluded on 5th page.).

musingly.

“Well,”  resumed  Tompkins,  “as I  was 
saying, on one side  were  Homer and Virgil 
and Horace and Tompkins, and on the other 
was pork.  I cannot explain it, but somehow 
there  it  was.  The two  pictures,  thirteen 
years apart, were  brought so  close together 
that they touched. 
It  was  something  I do 
not pretend to understand.  Managing to get 
by the college buildings, I  came up  to this 
spot where we are now.  You will infer that 
my eyes watered badly, and to tell the truth 
they did.  Of course  it is all very  well,” ex­
plained Tompkins, uncrossing his legs, turn­
ing upon his side, and propping his  head on 
his  hand  again,—“of  course  it is  all  very 
well to rake down the college, and say A lum  
Mater  doesn’t amount  to  anything.  The 
boys all do  it, and  they  believe what  they 
say for the first five or six  years  after  they 
leave here.  But we may as well understand 
that if we know how to slight the  old  lady, 
and don’t go to see her for a dozen years, she 
knows how to punish. She had me across her 
knee, that Sunday morning,  in a  way  that I 
would have thought  impossible.  After  an 
hour I controlled  myself,  and  went  back to 
the hotel. 
I brushed my clothes, and started 
for church, with a lump in my throat all the 
while.  My trim  business suit did  not seem 
so neat and nobby as  usual.  The two pic­
tures, the one  of  the poets  and  the  other 
of pork, were in  my  mind. 
I  shied  along 
the  sidewalk  in  a  nervous  condition,  and 
reaching the church without being  recogniz­
ed  managed  to  get  a  seat near  the  door. 
Could I believe my senses?  I  knew that  I 
was changed, probably past all  recognition, 
but around me I saw the  faces of  my Bur­
lington  friends  exactly  as  they had  been 
thirteen years before. 
I did not understand 
then, as I do now, that a young man in busi­
ness in Chicago will become  gray-headed in 
ten  years,  though  he  might  have  lived  a 
quiet life in Vermont for a quarter of a cen­
tury, without changing a hair.”

“It  is the same  with  horses,”  suggested 
Mr. Pember.  “Six years on a  horse  car in 
New York about uses up  an average horse, 
though he would have been good for  fifteen 
years on a  farm.”

“Exactly,”  said  Tompkins. 

“You  can 
imagine how I  felt  that  Sunday,  with my 
hair half whitewashed.”

“You know I always said you  might have 
begun  coloring  your  hair,  Timothy,” said 
Mrs. Pember kindly.

“Yes,” replied Tompkins, with an uneasy 
glance at me;  “but  I  didn’t  do it.  There 
was  one thing  in  the church  there,  that 
morning,  that  I shall  never have  abetter

“It was in  those  memorable  and  classic 
halls, as my classmate here can  testify,” re­
plied Tompkins.  “And here we  roamed in 
‘Academus’ sacred  shade,’ and a  good deal 
beyond  it.  We went  fishing  and  boating 
during term time, and made long trips to the 
mountains  in  the  vactions. 
In the  mean 
time, this wonderful valley was photograph­
ed upon the 'white and spotless  sensorium of 
my youthful soul.”

“Going, going, going!”  cried  Mrs.  Pem­
ber, with a lignt rippling laugh,  glancing at 
me.  “That is the way I stop Mr. Tompkins 
when he gets too flowery.”

Tompkins looked at me and  reddened.  “I 
own up,” lie remarked, “I am an  auctioneer 
in Chicago.”

I hastened to say that I felt sure he was a 
good one, and  added,  in the  kindest way I 
could, that I had just been  wondering  how 
he had become such a good talker.

“Is it a good deal of a come-down?” asked 
Tompkins, with a mixture of  frankness and 
embarrassment.

I replied that the world was not  what we 
had imagined in our college  days, and  that 
the calling of an  auctioneer was  honorable.
A general  conversation  followed,  in the 
course of which it appeared  that  Tompkins 
had  boarded at  the  home of  the  Pembers 
for several  years.  They  evidently  looked 
upon him almost as  their  own  son.  They 
were traveling with him during  his summer 
rest.

“This is a queer world,”  observed  Tomp­
kins, dropping  down [beside me,  and  lying 
flat on his  back,  with his  hands  under  his 
head. 
“I  came  to  ¡college  from  a  back 
neighborhood over in York State, and up  to 
the day I was graduated, and for a longtime 
afterward, I thought I must be  President of 
the United States, or a  Presbyterian  minis­
ter, or a  great  poet, or  something  remark­
able, and here I am  an auctioneer.” 

Occasional remarks were made by the rest 
of us for a while, but soon  the  talking  was 
mainly done by Tompkins.

Said he,  “Since I was  graduated, I  never 
was back here but once before, and that  was 
four years ago next August. 
I  was  travel­
ing this way then,  and  reached here  Satur­
day evening. 
I was in the  pork business at 
that time, as a  clerk,  and  had to  stop  off 
here to see a man for the firm. 
I  put up at

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lercaiîüle and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

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

The “Rochester Silk  Co.,”  of  Rochester, 
N. Y., whose advertisements  are  appearing 
in many Michigan papers,  is  pronounced  a 
fraud.

The  Northwestern  Lumberman 

thus 
strikes the  key-note  of  the business  situa­
tion:
Every country  retail  dealer  lias  his eyes 
on the crops. 
If they prove good  he thinks 
that  his  prosperity  is  assured;  if  bad,  his 
doom is sealed.  This is the way he looks at 
it; but he should reflect that if  his turn does 
not come this year it will next, and the indi­
cations are now that  he will  not be  obliged 
to wait until next  year.

A dealer who has lately  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at Hastings has adopted an 
ingenious method to draw trade.  Last Sat­
urday he gave away a dozen clothes  pins to 
every purchaser, distributing in that manner 
five gross, which cost  him  75 cents.  Next 
Saturday  he  proposes  to  distribute  small 
cakes of toilet soap, and he will  continue to 
offer such inducements until  he has  attract­
ed a good run of customers.

The  Necessity  of Going Slower. 

Grand  Rapids  Correspondence  Northwestern 

Lumberman.
In the Lumberman of May  10  the ques­
tion of “Halt” is touched upon,  and  it is a 
vital  one.  Many  lumber  manufacturers 
have for years been paying interest and tax­
es upon large tracts  of  pine  lands  until $3 
and over is not an exception to  the  general 
cost of timber, besides the large investments 
in mill property,  insurance and depreciation 
cut no small figure.  And  now,  when the 
country is upon a solid  basis,  money  easy, 
good crops, and a large demand  for  lumber, 
it wouid seem as though the  manufacturers 
were trying to see which  could  become the 
“would-be financial suicide”  first.  Within 
the past five years manufacturers of  lumber 
in this district have seen our  grades  change 
for the  better  fully  one  grade,  which  is 
equal to $2 or over per  thousand  feet,  and 
within two years have seen  the  prices  de­
cline on grades below No. 1 common  $2 per 
thousand  more, making  a reduction of  $4 
per thousand.  This is more  than was ever 
made per  thousand  on  the  average  hi our 
brightest times, and still nothing is  done to 
stop the downfall. 
It seems as though the 
volume of business was of more  importance 
than the net result.  Would that  the opera­
tors could see the advantage  to  themselves, 
the state, and all concerned in the successful 
management of such  a  vast  and  extended 
enterprise.  Four  dollars  per  thousand on 
the annual  production  of  lumber  in  this 
state for one year is equal to one-half of the 
gross value of the largest crop of  wheat the 
state ever produced.

van*

This rapid destruction of  such  a vast in­
dustry can easily be averted by  each  manu­
facturer making himself a committee of one 
to see that his saw mill runs but eight hours 
per day and shingle mill six  or  seven, pay­
ing the men for the time they  work, and al­
low the surplus logs to remain  in the water, 
and thereby naturally reducing  the  amount 
to be put in another  season  to that  extent. 
Michigan is not alone interested in this mat­
ter, but Wisconsin and Minnesota as well.
Tlie  Drummer-Knocker—A  Second  Sulli- 
No one would suspect  from  ordinary ap­
pearances that D. S.  Haugli  was a  man of 
massive muscular  development,  but a little 
incident that occurred up at Mancelona  last 
Monday evening stamps him as a knocker of 
the first water, and a correspondent  of The 
Tradesman up in that vicinity  writes that 
the north woods ring  with  his  praises. 
It 
seems that Haugli and a  disagreeable  indi­
vidual named Miller got into a little business 
difficulty over the amount  Miller should re­
ceive for entering an order for a conveyance 
on his books—an order that was subsequent­
ly countermanded.  Miller persisted in fol­
lowing Haugh around  town,  and  applying 
unwarranted epithets, whereupon the “little 
drummer” took off his coat and in  less time 
than  it takes  to tell  it  gave the  cowardly 
bully a black eye—instead of  the  dollar he 
demanded. 
In  retaliation,  Miller  caused 
Haugh’s arrest  on a charge  of  assault and 
battery, and  the  defendant  pleaded guilty 
and was fined  $1 and  costs,  amounting  to 
$2.68, which amount Haugh was not allowed 
to pay,  as the  business  men  of the  place 
raised it by personal  contributions. 
It goes 
without saying that Miller is not  in good re­
pute with the people of Mancelona, and that 
the result of Haugh’s first appearance in the 
role of knocker has caused much  wholesale 
rejoicing at that place.

Got the  Better of Webster.

A local boot and shoe  dealer,  in  reading 
Daniel  Webster’s  memoirs,  recently,  came 
across an anecdote of a little  set-to  between 
Webster and George Blake, in a  lawsuit  in­
volving the value  of  a  lot  of  shoes.  Mr. 
Webster had enlarged  on  the  durability  of 
the shoes.  “I grant,” said Mr.  Blake to the 
jury, “that the  shoes  never  wore  out,  but 
the unfortunate men  who  wore  them  did.”

A ! # N 6  THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Albert Stryker succeeds Stryker & Decker 

in the grocery business on Center street.

Arthur Meigs  has  purchased  the  village 
plat of Crofton, Kalkaska county, and  2,000 
acres of land adjoinilig.

J. T. Norcutt has engaged in  the  grocery 
business  at  119  stocking  street.  Arthur 
MeigS & Co. furnished the stock.

Frank E. Leonard, of H. Leonard & Sons, 
and  Harvey  P.  Wyman,  of  the  Chippewa 
Lumber  Co.,  left Saturday  night for  New 
York, where they will spend  a week or  ten 
days.

W. H. Ross has concluded  to re-engage in 
the drug business on the West Side  and has 
secured a desirable location in  the  Strahan 
block on Front street.  Hazeltine,  Perkins 
& Co. are getting out the stock.

Wm. T.  Lamoreaux  has  returned  from 
the East, where  he  made  arrangements  to 
handle wool the  coming  season for  one of 
the heaviest jobbers  in  Boston and  one of 
the largest manufacturers in  Massachusetts.
The proposed compromise with  the credi­
tors of Cross & Todd, of Bangor, on the bas­
is of 40 per cent, cash, has fallen through on 
account  of  the  non-action  of a  Rochester 
firm, and the stock has been sold.  Creditors 
are expecting their pro rata dividends short­
ly.

A note from  Alford H.  McClellan,  dated 
at Aiken, S. C., May 22, conveys the sad  in­
telligence of the death of  Mrs.  Donald  M. 
McClellan, at that piace,  on the  evening of 
the 20th.  The remains were taken to  Cam­
bridge,  N. Y., for interment  The  family 
will spend the summer in Detroit,  and  Mr. 
McClellan may conclude to make  that city a 
permanent residence.

Mr.  D.  E.  McVean,  of  Kalkaska,  who 
was in town one day last week,  stated  that 
the survey for  the  proposed  spur  railroad 
east of Kalkaska, to tap the extensive tracts 
of pine in that  region,  would  probably  be 
postponed for another season.  This  course 
is rendered necessary by the uncertainty sur­
rounding the action David  Ward  will  take 
regarding the sale of his pine.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

A. Kloster has engaged in the grocery bus­

iness at Muskegon.

P. L. Kimball  has  engaged  in  the  drug 

business at Plainwell.

Harvey Bromley, general dealer at Denver, 

has removed to  Hesperia.

N. W. Kelly,  restauranter  at  Alma,  has 

sold out to Adolph Ziesse.

Mrs.  Frank  Benson  has engaged  in  the 

millinery business at Evart.

A. C. Boardman has engaged  in  tlie  gro­

cery business at Lake City.

Lang & Walker have  started  in  the  gro­

cery business at Elk Rapids.

Bert Finkler, grocer  at Hastings, has add­

ed a line  of tobaccos and cigars.

F. Saurbier,  general  dealer  at  Lakeside, 

has sold out to W. J. Quan &  Co.

R.  G. Smith, of  Wayland, has  charge of 

the new grange store at that place.

Payne  &  Co.  succeed  W. H. Conover  & 

Co. in the drug business at  Greenville.

Shayde & Cookson, druggists  at  Kalama­

zoo, has sold out to Chas. R.  Occksner.

O. L. Davis, druggist at Cadillac, has been 
closed by the sheriff, and it  is reported  that 
he has “skipped.”

M.  Y.  Wilson  has  purchased  the  drug 
stock of W. F.  Stewart at  Sand  Lake,  and 
will continue the  business at both locations.
Stephenson Brothers, one  of  the  leading 
dry goods firms of St. Johns, made an assign­
ment Monday to their father, G. W. Stephen­
son.

Dibble Bros.’ new store  at  Bumip’s  Cor­
ners, is now completed,  and  is  expected  to 
be ready for occupancy by June 1. 
It is 25x 
60 feet in dimensions, and two  stories  high. 
The upper floor is to be used for a hall.

STRAY  FACTS.

It is proposed to  start  a  shirt  factory  at 

Marshall.

Willard & Hale have started a sewing ma­

chine agency at Bear Lake.

H. H. Thomas & Son,  planing  mill  oper­

ators at Chase, have sold out.

The  Mancelona  iron  furnace  turns  out 

forty-two tons of pig iron per day.

J. F.  Me Hugh, restauranter at Manistee, 

has been closed up.  Assets,  nothing.

Walker  &  Durham  succeed  Gregory  & 
Durham in the saloon business at Nashville.
Jackson is to have a sash, door  and blind 
factory  to  cost  $125,000  and  employ  200 
men.

Robinson  &  Smith  success  H.  R. Mont­
gomery  in  the  restaurant  business  at  Big 
Rapids.

Livingston & Kime, meat dealers at  Free­
port, have  dissolved partnership, Livingston 
succeeding.

Business  lots  in  Mancelona  that  could 
have been bought five years ago for  $50 are 
now worth $1,000.

Nick Beal, formerly in the hotel  business 
at Vandacar, has leased the Arnold House on 
West Bridge street.

Hannah, Lay & Co. are preparing to build 
a new grain elevator in connection with their 
grist mill at Traverse City.

A $250,000  oil  company is  talked  of at 
Roscommon.  Only preliminary  wind  yet, 
says a local sheet, but two  men  owning 880 
acres of land will turn it in.

The Bloorflingdale cheese factory is  using 
6,000  pounds  of  milk  daily.  The  South 
Bloomingdale factory started up  last  week, 
with a Mr. Plum as manager.

The village or Wetzell is  to  have  a  broom 
handle  factory.  The  house-wives  of  the- 
country are being well supplied by  northern 
Michigan  with  these  emblems of  domestic 
authority.

Frank Neuman, jr., of Dorr, has put about 
$1,000  worth  of  new  machinery  into  his 
grist-mill, and has it nearly  ready  for  busi­
ness.  He is also  preparing  seven  carloads 
of staves for market.

J. Hanselman, charged with attempting to 
hire persons  to  fire  his  furniture  store  at 
Manistee last  spring  and who was  tried in 
the  Circuit  Court  last  week,  was  found 
not  guilty,  the  jury being  out  about  six 
hours.

The manufacture  of  a  new mower  will 
soon be commenced at  Jackson  on  a large 
scale. 
Its distinctive merit is  that  such  a 
motion is given  to  the  knife bar  that  the 
sections strike the grass in  the same  man­
ner as a scythe in mowing.

Flint Knights of Labor  have  “boycotted” 
Burrough, Pierson  &  Harris, proprietors  of 
the thread mills, having  passed  resolutions 
that after ten days they  will  not  buy  any­
thing from business men who  handle  goods 
manufactured by said firm.  The firm had  a 
knight arrested  for  trespass and  fishing  in 
their pond.

The Clinton  Woolen Manufacturing  Co.’s 
mills have now laid idle for  several months, 
and a large number of employes  are  out of 
employment.  Result,  a  good  many  vacant 
houses in town for rent.  There are several 
suitspending  between  the  Mill  Company 
and one of the largest capitalists  because  of 
some trivial water way, which, to the parties 
most interested  financially,  amounts to but 
little, but causes a  loss of  no small  magni­
tude to many who are not  able to  endure it.

Disciplining:  a  Customer.

From the Youths’ Companion.

Every retail merchant has among his  cus­
tomers at least one who  insists  upon “beat­
ing down” the price of an article,  no matter 
how low the sum asked  for  it.  The  sales­
man dreads to see that  customer  enter  the 
store.  He knows that  his  patience  will be 
tried and an unusual demand made upon his 
self-control, and the profit  will be  too small 
to compensate for the labor and the time ex­
pended.  The following story tells how  one 
level-headed merchat disciplined a customer 
of this sort:

A certain merchant was troubled by a lady 
whose habit of haggling over the price was a 
great annoyance.  As she was rich and gen­
erous, the merchant suspected that the habit 
was due to  her  ambition  to be  thought  a 
sharp buyer.  He determined to give  her an 
object lesson which would open  her  eyes to 
the fact that her ambition had  made  her an 
annoyance.

One day she entered his store,  and  asked 
to be shown a certain article,  and  inquired 
.
its price. 
“Three dollars,” said the  merchant.  Ais 
he  expected, she  at once  objected  to  the 
price.  The  merchant,  after  appearing un­
willing to accept less, at  last  allowed him­
self, with seeming reluctance, to  be “beaten 
down” to two and a half dollars.

“I will take it,” said the lady, with an  air 

of victory, handing him a five-dollar bill.

He wrapped up the article and  handed it 

'■ 

; 

. 

to her with the  change.

“Why,”  said  she,  laughingly,  “you  are 
about to cheat  yourself.  You  have given 
me back three dollars,” and she handed him 
the fifty-cent piece.

“No,” he replied,  “two dollars is the régu­

lai price of the article.”

She both saw  and felt  the  point.  Her 
wounded vanity allowed her to  see nothing 
but rudeness in the merchant’s rebuke.  She 
went out of  the store  indignantly,  leaving 
the fifty-cent piece on the counter.

For a long time she  ceased to.  trade with 
the merchant, but  after  many  days she oc­
casionally  was seen at his counters.  Noth­
ing was ever said about the little  lesson, but 
the  salesman  noticed  that  whenever  she 
found what she wanted, she paid  the price, 
without attempting to beat them down.

Peculiar Phase  of  the  Messmore  Matter.
The hearing in the garnishee  suit brought 
against Messmore by John Caulfield  was re­
cently adjourned at  Messmore’s  request, in 
order to give the latter time  to  “get  a  de­
position  from  Washington.”  The  exact 
nature of the document,  and  its  bearing on 
the case, are not  definitely  known, but it is 
supposed to relate  to  a  service  Messmore 
rendered  Caulfield  about 
ten  years  ago, 
When the former was basking in Republican 
clover. 
It appears  that  Caulfield  overpaid 
the revenue officers here $50, but was subse­
quently assured by Collector Bailey that the 
amount would returned.  Bailey did all that 
lay in his power  to  get the  claim  audited, 
and on the occasion of a  visit  to  Washing­
ton asked Messmore, who  was  then  in the 
employ of the Revenue Department, to  give 
the matter a little attention.  He  did as re­
quested, and  Caulfield soon  after  received 
the money,  Meeting Messmore on the street 
here a short time afterward he asked the lat­
ter what  his  services  were  worth,  and was 
told that there was no charge. Caulfield gave 
him $5,  however,  which  Messmore “reluct­
antly accepted.”  It is now whispered around 
that Messmore proposes-to  secure  proof of 
services rendered and bring in a  bill for $50 
as an offset to  Caulfield’s  account,  but  as 
Messmore is too  sharp  not to see that  the 
claim is long since outlawed the more  plaus- 
able explanation is that he gave such  an ex­
cuse for adjournment only for  the  purpose 
of gaining time.

A little girl, after drinking a glass of water 
from a magnetic spring, said,  “I  do not  feel 
one  particle  magnified,  and  I* think  these 
springs are a humbug.”

SOUTH  WATER STREET.

SUCCESSFUL  MERCHANTS—NO.  2.

iness Mart.

Notes  and  Faets  Picked Up  on  that  Bus­
Next to living between two boiler  shops, 
or spending a day on a Board  of Trade, is a 
trip through South  Water street  on  a busy 
morning.  The  impressions  a  stranger re­
ceives on that thoroughfare  are likely to be 
vivid and lasting.  He is impressed with the 
magnitude of the  transactions, the  rapidity 
of the transfers, and  the remarkable  facili­
ties  the  merchants  possess  for  handling 
goods.  He is  also  impressed  with  the op­
portunities afforded for money-making, legit­
imately, and the  advantages the  merchants 
have to add to their legitimate  profits by il­
legitimate transactions, if they are so inclin­
ed.  That the majority  of them are  not so 
inclined, but on the contrary  are  reputable 
business men, is evidenced  by  the  fact that 
they are representing the same  shippers and 
selling the same dealers, year after  year.  A 
minority of tricky and  dishonorable dealers, 
however, have served to bring  the street in­
to disrepute and to reflect  unfavorably upon 
the men who intend  to  do—and  do  do—a 
decent business.

“There is no mistaking the fact that South 
Water street has stimulated  the  growth of 
certain industries,” said  a  prominent  fruit 
dealer.  “It is  only a  short  time ago  that 
comparatively few strawberries  were raised 
in Tennessee.  But year after year our deal­
ers have gone down there and impressed up­
on the  fruit raisers  that  there  is profit  in 
that class of productions,  and  the  result is 
that we are selling  ten car-loads  of Tennes­
see strawberries on this street to-day.  The 
same is true  regarding  Mississippi,  Alaba­
ma, and Florida,  with  the  respective  pro­
ducts of those States.  As soon as  they find 
there is money in  the  business,  they begin 
raising fruits and vegetables for this market, 
and  the  way  the  business  is  increasing 
speaks well for the future.  Every man who 
consigns to us is making  two dollars where 
we clear one.  Of course we  make  moneys 
and we have to make a good deal to meet our 
expenses,  but  considering  the  amount of 
goods handled the profit is not  great.  Our 
sales amount  to  about  $300,000  per  year, 
while one of our neighbors  sell a  half mil­
lion and another a full million.  The latter 
house sold 700 carloads of apples  last  year, 
and expects to handle an even 1,000 this sea­
son.  The same firm handles about  200 car­
loads of broomcom annually.”

“One of  the  most  peculiar  changes  of 
public taste,” said a banana merchant,  “has 
been the growth of the banana business.  A 
few years ago we had the temerity to  get in 
a carload  of  the fruit,  but were  unable to 
sell more than half of it, and the other  half 
spoiled.  Now we  handle  twenty  carloads 
per  week,  and seldom ever  lose a  bunch.”

HASTINGS  HOMILIES.

Reasons  Why  the  Place  Should  Have  a 

Permanent  Growth,

Situated in the midst  of  a  farming  com­
munity that has no superior in many respects 
anywhere in the State, and possessing a class 
of business men that are the  peers  of  those 
to be found|anywhere, Hastings is exception­
ally  favored  in  all the elements  that serve 
to assist the permanent growth of an  inland 
city.  When a  second  railroad  becomes  an 
assured fact, the reduced freight  rates  inci­
dent to a competing point and the new terri­
tory that the road  will  render  tributary  to 
the place, cannot fail to give Hastings a last­
ing business impetus.  Already in possession 
of one of the best schools in the  State,  hav­
ing a  location  noted  for  its  healthfulness, 
and plenty of room  for  expansion  without 
filling up swamps,  Hastings  has a future  in 
store for her—a  future  that  will  certainly 
augment the reputation  she  now  enjoys  as 
one of the heaviest shipping points of  coun­
try  produce  in  the  State.

Frank  Ackerman  &  Co.  have  already 
pickled 31,000 dozen eggs, and are adding to 
this quantity at  the  rate  of  700  dozen  per 
day.  They pay about 12 K cents  per  dozen 
on an average, and will  ship  by  carload  to 
the Eastern markets during the  high  prices 
expected to rule next spring.

The ambassador  of  T h e  T ra d esm a n  is 
under obligations to the genial  Phin.  Smith 
for a drive through the city and  suburbs  re­
vealing  a  considerable  amount  of building 
operations and other improvements of a per­
manent nature.

The silk of Scripture is supposed to be  an 
error.  Be that as it may, we  have tolerably 
authentic information that the  Chinese used 
ramie  for  more  than  two  thousand  years. 
More still, the China-grass,  when  spun  fine 
and well-woven, can scarcely be distinguish­
ed from  silk.  The  fiber is  long,  stronger, 
and full as glossy.  What  effect  dyes  have 
on ramie is not clearly shown;  but certainly 
dyes can not make the fiber any rougher than 
they do the fiber of  silk.  The  difference  is 
laid to the action of dyes  on animal matter, 
where different substances produce different 
effects.

Work  Before  Him.

“My dear,” she said,  poking him  earnest­

ly,  “it’s growing late.  You must get up.”

“What time is it?” he growled.
“It’s after 7 o’clock.”
“Well, that’s not  late  for Sunday  morn­

ing.”

“But, my  dear,  you  forget  that  there is 
work before you.  We are to have  chickens 
for dinner you know,  and  you  have  got  to 
catch them.”

The  strong  man  was  out  of  bed  in  a 

second.

The natives of the island of Chiles use the 
shell of a crab as a barometer. In dry weath­
er it is nearly white, but on the approach of 
rainy or stormy weather  it  is  flecked with 
red spots.

O.  F.  Conklin,  for Sixteen  Years in Gener­

al  Trade  at  Ravenna.

O.  F.  Conklin  was  born in Brownsville 
township,  Jefferson  county, N.  Y., May 6, 
1837.  The family residence Was  situated on 
the shore of Lake Ontario, in sight of  Sach­
et’s Harbor, and from this place  the  family 
emigrated in 1850 to Crockery township, Ot­
tawa county, settling on a new farm.  From 
this time until he was twenty  years  of  age, 
O. F. worked on the farm summers and “did 
chores  for his  board”  and  attended  school 
winters.  On  his  twentieth  birthday,  Ins' 
father gave him his “time,” and the  follow­
ing winter he taught his first term of school, 
accumulating a sum sufficient to purchase an 
eighty acre land warrant. 
In the  spring  of 
1857, he went  West,  footing  it  from Iowa 
City  to  Missouri,  where  he  located  his 
“eighty,” and taught school until the break­
ing  out  of  the  war, when the State passed 
the  “armed  neutrality  act,”  appropriating 
the school money to arm the State troops, in 
consequence  of  which  his  occupation  was 
gone.  Trading his outstanding accounts for 
a horse, he headed toward home, making the 
entire distance on the saddle. 
In  1861,  he 
engaged to teach  the  Lisbon  school, subse­
quently engaging for five  additional  terms. 
At the close of the war, he  returned to Mis­
souri, bought forty acres  of  land  adjoining 
his  eighty,  and  taught  school  until  1866, 
when failing health compelled him  to  aban­
don his chosen vocation, and for three  years 
thereafter  he  traveled  for an optical estab­
lishment, going to Ravenna in the fall of 1868 
to engage in general trade.  The  firm of  O. 
F. & W. P. Conkliu, formed at that  time,  is 
still in existence, having enjoyed almost un­
interrupted prosperity for sixteen years. 
In 
1875, a new store building was erected, which 
is still occupied.  The surplus funds  of  the 
firm have been kept well invested in farming 
and other lands, so that the buying and  sell­
ing of real estate has  become  an  important 
item in their business. 
In  1881,  O.  F.  re­
moved  to  Coopersville  to  superintend  the 
erection of the brick  block of  three  stores, 
known as the Conklin block, and recently he 
has formed a business alliance with Wm. G. 
Watson, and engaged  in  the  banking  busi­
ness at Coopersville.

Mr. Conklin’s individual account will prob­
ably aggregate $50,000, which is considerably 
above the average accumulation of an ordin­
ary business career.  He attributes his  suc­
cess as a business man to the fact that he dis­
counted every bill, and gave no man credit for 
goods  to  whom  he  could  not  safely  loan 
money.  Another  cardinal  principle  with 
him has been the  theory  which  he  has  al­
ways  put  into practice, of never employing 
others to do that which he could just as well 
do himself.

The  Gripsack Brigade.  .

In England a “drummer” is called a “bag- 

man.”

“Hub” Baker is  now  regularly  installed 
for  Shields, 

traveling  representative 

as 
Bulkley  & Lemon.

J.  C.  Watson  left  Monday  for  a  three 
weeks’ trip through  the Saginaw  Valley  in 
the interest of C. S. Yale & Bro.

C. W. Mansfield, traveling agent for Brad- 
ner, Smith & Co., Chicago, has  removed  his 
family from Ypsilanti to this city, their new 
cottage residence at 185 Second  avenue hav­
ing been  completed.

A. B. Smith, for several years past  an  as­
sistant at Arthur Meigs & Co.’s, has fitted up 
a pair of grips, and will hereafter  cover  the 
towns on the Lake Shore, Michigan  Central 
and G. R. & 1., south.

Charles M. Ellsworth, for several  years a 
resident here, later traveling  representative 
for  the  Detroit  White  Lead  Works,  and 
more recently with F. O. Pierce & Co., New 
York,  is now superintendent  of tlie  manu­
facturing department  of  C. T. Reynolds  & 
Co., at Chicago.

A merchant traveler took his  place at the 
table of a Western hotel, where the landlord 
was  the  only  waiter, and, after finishing  a 
very scanty meal,  he  said  persuasively,  “I 
should like some dessert.”  “Dessert! Wot’s 
that?  We ain’t got none.”  “Well, give me 
some  pie.”  “Pie?  thunder!  We ain’t  got 
no pie!  Help yourself to the mustard!”

Red Headed Dave Smith, traveling  repre­
sentative for Bannard, Lyman  & Co., Chica­
go, was in town  Saturday.  He  proposes to 
remove his mother and sisters from  Detroit 
to this city as soon as he can find a desirable 
residence, and will then make Grand Rapids 
his headquarters.  He relates a  heretofore 
untold story about  McIntyre, to  the  effect 
that John recently stole ahorse  at  Dayton, 
Ohio, and was subsequently discovered with 
the halter in his pocket up at Reed City.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

F. Salisbury, grocer, Harbor  Springs:  “I 
consider  it  well  worth  the  price  asked  for 
it.”

Brown &  Co.,  druggists,  Trufant:  “We 
think it A No.  1, and find it  very  useful  in 
our business.”

H.  Woodward  &  Son,  general  dealers, 
Frankfort:  “I  find  it  a  valuable paper in 
many respects, and in matters  and  informa­
tion of a business nature I see much  that  is 
not obtainable in any other paper that comes 
to my notice.”

Things  Heard on  the Street.

That Messmore will make $5,000  this fall 

talking Democracy to the Hoosiers.

That D. S.  Haugh  has  received  an  offer 
from Sullivan to travel  with  his  “combina­
tion.”

That Arthur Meigs has started a  gymnas­
ium  for the  benefit  of  his  traveling  men, 
who are required to practice at  least  once  a 
week.

LATEST

JOHN

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CAULFIELD
Wholesale  Grocer,
Tobaccos,  Spices  Etc, 

—AND JO B B E R  IN —

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For the following well-known  brands of To­
FINE  CUT.  *
Fountain...................................................... 74
Old  Congress...............................................64
Good  Luck...................................................55
Good and Sweet....................  
45
American  Queen..........................................38
Blaze  Away.................................................35
Hair Lifter...................................................30
Governor,  2  oz.  foil....................................60
In half barrels  or four  pail  lots,  2c <p fl>  off 

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Horse Shoe.................................................. 47
McAlpin’s Green Shield.............................. 48
McAlpin’s Sailor’s  Solace.......................... 48
Red Star, extra quality, same style  as
Sailor’s  Solace..................................... 48 
Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40
Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper................37
D. & D. Dark, % and 16  oz.  pounds........37
Ace High......................................................35
Duck, 2x12  and  flat....................................................48 1
Nobby  Spun  Roll....................................... 43
Black  Spun Roll..........................................38
Canada Plug  (Virginia Smoking)..............50
Cresent Plug,  6 lb  cads.............................. 45
SMOKING.
Peerless........................................................ 25
Rob  Roy......................................................25
Uncle  Sam.................................................. 28
Tom  and  Jerry...........................................24
Good Enough...............................................23 
Mountain Rose.............................................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 Dew, Killickinick,  %..................... 25
Posey, Killickinick, 
paper................... 25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia........36 
Gold  Block, Killickinick, 
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 Long Cut................55
Lime Kiln Club........................................... 45
Durham Long  Cut...........................  
Durham, Blackwell’s  % .................. 
Durham, Blackwell’s,  % .......................    .57
Durham, Blackwell’s, 
............................ 55
Durham, Blackwell’s, fib.......................    .51
Seal of North Carolina % ....................  
 
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................50
Seal of North Carolina K ...........................48
Seal of North Carolina fib...........................46

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Smoke  the  Celebrated  “After Lunch”  Cigar.
After  Lunch........................................ $30 00
Clarrissa.................................................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  the  city.
TEA S.
Japan ordinary.............. 
23@30
Japan fair...................................................... 32@35
Japan fair to good................................. 
35@37
Japan fine...................................................... 40@50
Japan dust.....................................................18@20
Young Hyson................................................25@50
GunPowder.................................. ................35@50 
Oolong........................................ 
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Congo.............................................................................. 30® 35 W
Corn,  Barrels......................................... 
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Corn, %  bbls...........................................  @  33
Corn. 10 gallon  kegs.............................   @  36
Corn, 5 gallon  kegs..................... 
  @1 90
Corn, i l/a gallon  kegs............................  @1  85
Pure Sugar Drips,  bbl..........................  30@  37
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs.......................  @3  10
Maple Syrub, 10 gal  kegs.....................   @6 00

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Powdered  Standard................................ 8
Granulated Standard, coarse grain..........7  %
Granulated, fine  grain_____ ____ .7%@7%
Standard Confectioners’  A........................7
Standard  A ......................................6%@6X
Extra White C.................................. 6iN<@6>£
Extra Bright C..................................6^(a>6U 
Extra  C........................................ . . 5%@6
Yellow C........................................... 5K@5%
We call the especial attention of those de­
siring to purchase new stocks to our superior 
facilities for meeting their wants.  Our guar­
antee is first-class goods and low  prices.
Careful attention given mail orders.  Spec­
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Linseed  Oil  Prospects.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Although the time is  brief  between  now 
and the incoming of  the new  crop  of  flax­
seed, much uncertainty  is  felt  among  the 
consumers of oil  as to the  probable  course 
of prices on  that  product  in  the 
interim. 
There was scarcely a doubt  entertained  six 
months ago that before this oil in this mark­
et would be up to at least sixty  cents.  That 
it has failed to reach that  point  seems  due 
entirely to  the  comparatively  slow  trade, 
which, while  its aggregate volume has been 
sufficient to use the current  production, has 
at  no  time  shown  any  tendency 
toward 
spirited activity.  The sustaining feature of 
the  market  has,  therefore,  been  the  high 
cost of seed, and the  limited  domestic sup­
ply.  Many of the Western  mills  have for 
months been  out of seed and some  of them 
have been compelled to buy oil to supply the 
demands of their regular  customers.  The 
Eastern crushers  have been  wholly  depen­
dent upon Calcutta seed and the State  mills 
have also drawn a large portion of their sup­
plies from the, same  source.  One Chicago 
crusher is  now  engaged  on  Calcutta  seed, 
though we believe this was not the result of 
absolute necessity, his  supply  of American 
seed being sufficient to carry him  for  some 
weeks.  The  entire  stock  of  seed  at  the 
West is,  however,  very  small.  But  few 
crushers hold any, and only one  has  a con­
siderable quantity. 
In elevator the  stock is 
practically exhausted  and  the price  on the 
little lot offering is so high as  to place it be­
yond the reach of crushers.  The  recent ad­
vance in oil at Chicago, to  fifty-seven cents, 
which was based  upon  the  strong  position 
of the seed market and the apparent  scarci­
ty of oil, developed the fact that  there were 
some lots  of  the  latter held  back  for  just 
such an opportunity as the rise afforded.  A 
canvass of the Western  markets  generally 
shows more oil in the hands of  dealers than 
had been anticipated.  None of  the lots are 
large, but in the aggregate there is apparent­
ly  enough  to  tide  the  local  trade  over  a 
period of several weeks.  While most of the 
city crushers have an outlet to their  regular 
trade forall the oil they can  turn  out from 
the available supply of seed during the next 
two months, there is probably  a  small sur­
plus to  be  reckoned  on from  the  Eastern 
mills, which may make good in part any de­
ficit at West.  This  is  feared  by Western 
crushers and  acts as  a check  upon  prices 
which they would otherwise advance  above 
their  present  uuremunerative  figure.  Re­
viewing the whole situation,  we  are  led to 
believe  there  will  be  oil  enough  to  “go 
around” until new seed is  ready  for  crush, 
ing, and it is  believed to  be  unlikely  that 
crushers will advance  their figures material­
ly at so late a period of the year.

A  New  Cure  for  Cancer.

The statement that any  remedy  has been 
discovered which will obviate  the  necessity 
of a resort to the knife in  the  treatment of 
cancer, will be met with  incredulity,  and in 
giving  the  following  from  the  Lancet  we 
give  it  without  comment  and  simply  for 
what it is worth:  Dr.  Velloso,  of Pernam­
buco, introduced the remedy  to  notice  in a 
communication  to  the  Journal de Receife. 
He  states that the plant, which is  common­
ly known by the name of alvelos,  belongs to 
the euphorbiacese, and is  indigenous  to Per­
nambuco.  He writes that a magistrate, who 
was suffering from epithelioma  of the  face, 
and who had returned to his  estate  dispair- 
ing of relief was  entirely  cured  of  his dis­
ease by the  topical application  of  the juice 
of the plant.  On the strength of this report 
Dr. Vellosa tried the remedy in  the  case of 
cancroid of the nose, and  in one of epithelio­
ma of the lip, with  the  result  that  the first 
patient was completely cured in 40 days,  and 
the second in less than  two  months.  These 
results, he thinks, justify a trial of the  reme­
dy, especially in uterine cancer.  The action 
of the juice of the plant is  irritating,  produc­
ing  a  spreading  dermatitis  without  much 
pain, and the application  of  the cut  stem or 
the juice of  the fresh  plant  to the diseased 
part, is said to result in the destruction of the 
morbid tissue which is  replaced by  healthy 
granulations, doing the work, in  fact, of  the 
chloride of zinc paste.

It is clear that if the remedy possesses only 
escharotic action, its value cannot be  said to 
be very superior to that of other  well-known 
caustics.  The fact, moreover, that  only  the 
fresh juice of the plant  produces the  effects 
claimed, must limit its use very largely to the 
region in which the plant grows.

Paraldehyde.

This substance seems to be attracting con­
siderable attention  in certain  quarters,  be­
cause  of  its  reputed  hypnotic  properties. 
Dujardin-Beaumetz  has  examined  into  its 
physiological action and  therapeutic  effects, 
making comparative observations between it 
and other  well-known  hypnotics' and  ano­
dynes.  He sound that it was much less  dis­
agreeable to talje than some of them, chloral, 
for instance. 
Its effect is to produce a sleep 
very closely  simulating  the  natural  sleep, 
the subject  awaking  without  heaviness  or 
headache. 
It  possesses  scarcely  any  ano­
dyne power, haviDg had no effect  in  reliev­
ing the  pain  in  cases  in  which  its  powers 
in this  direction  were tested.  He  regards 
it as a  valuable  addition  to  our  hypnotic 
agents.

It is estimated  that  the  money  annually 
spent in this country for  drink  would take 
care of  5,000,000  orphans,  pay  for  all the 
false  teeth  now  in  use  and  enable  every 
woman to change her hair switch for a thick- 

•  er one at least twice a year.

Chestnut Leaves  in W hooping Cough.
Dr.  Cooperider,  of  Taylorville, Ind.,  re­
ports in the Canadian Medical Record, suc­
cessful results from the use of  fluid  extract 
chestnut  leaves  in  whooping  cough.  The 
result is observed not only  in  the  relief  of 
the  paroxysms but the actual cure  in  from 
four to five days.  The dose is from 15 to 60 
drops, according to the  age  of  the  patient 
If the child is old enough, it is given  in  hot 
water as an infusion.  To  a  small  child  it 
should be given in a simple  syrup  or  elixir, 
on account of its taste.

Normal  Liquid  Ergot.

Dr.  S. W. Caldwell, of Trenton, Tenn., re­
ports  in  the  Mississippi  Valley  Medical 
Monthly,  his  use  of  ergot hypodermically 
with favorite results in a case of enlargment 
of the spleen.  He has found that the use of 
normal liquid ergot  is  attended  with  much 
less pain than follows the employment of the 
ergot liquid extracts.

Cochineal seems  threatened  with  extinc­
tion. 
Its value in a few years  has  gone to 
a third or a fourth of its former market price. 
The reds called  ponceaus have  nearly  dis­
placed it.  They  are  so  much  cheaper,  so 
much easier to apply and so much more reg­
ular in their results, that dyers will  not use 
cochineal for reds or scarlets unless they are 
compelled  by  contract  to  do  so.  Military 
authorities in various  countries  have  up  to 
the present refused to  permit dyers  to sub­
stitute cochineal by artificial reds.  Commis­
sions have decided from experiment that the 
new reds do not stand air and light  as  well 
as the old cochineal red, so  that until  some 
improvements  are  made  in  this  respect 
cochineal will still have  a  limited  employ. 
But cochineal red is not the very stable  col­
or it is sometimes believed to be. 
It stands 
light well, but it does not stand  washing as 
well as the new red  dyes.

The Japanese native papers are crying out 
at the extinction of of the  lacquer  industry 
of the country.  The  tree  from  which  the 
varnish is  obtained is  disappearing. 
For­
merly, like the mulberry tree  on which the 
silk-worm  feeds,  it  was  protected by  law. 
Each family of[the upper classes was  oblig­
ed to rear  100 trees,  the  middle  classes  70, 
and the  lower  classes  40.  Since  this  law 
fell  into  desuetude the  cultivation  of  the 
lacquer tree has rapidly declined.  The trees 
were cut down without care,  and none were 
planted to replace  them,  so that they  have 
become exceedingly rare, while  the  price of 
lacquer has enormously increased.  Similar 
complaints, too, are heard  of  the process of 
disafforestation going on in  Japan  since the 
ancient law, which required  every  one who 
cut down a  tree  to  plant  two in  its  place, 
was abolished.

Tarrant & Co., N. Y., have issued a circu­
lar to the wholesale trade, giving a list of re­
tailers that have failed to conduct their busi­
ness in accordance with the  Champion  plan, 
and warning jobbers that they are bound  by 
the terms  of  their  contract  to  suspend  all 
sales of the articles manufactured by that firm 
to those  mentioned  on  the  list  or  to  any 
whom they have reason to suppose  purchase 
the remedies for illegitimate purposes.  The 
list includes dealers in ten states, and will be 
republished from time to time as occasion de­
mands, with such additions as are necessary.

A Canadian correspondent says  the Mem- 
onites, to the  number  of  10,000,  who  emi­
grated several years ago from Southern Rus­
sia to Manitoba, have made  the  production 
of linseed one of  the  principal  features of 
agriculture. 
It is now stated  that a  gentle­
man is on his way from England to  Manito­
ba to make arrangements for  the erection of 
an oil crushing mill.  The initiation of such 
an industry will, without doubt, place  Man­
itoba with its  other  natural  advantages  in 
the front rank of stock raising countries.

This country makes  one-fifth of the  iron 
and one-fourth of the steel in the world, and 
furnishes one-half of the gold  and  one-half 
of the silver of the world’s  supply.  Taking 
all the mining industries  of  the  world, the 
United States represents 36;  Great  Britain, 
33; and all other nations 31  per cent, of  the 
total.  Anglo  Saxondom,  therefore,  repre­
sents 69 per cent, of the mining  industry of 
the earth.

When  a  young  man  becomes impatient 
waiting half an hour  for  his  girl,  who  left 
the room with the  remark  that  she  would 
“be ready in  two  minutes,”  he  should  not 
manifest  his  uneasiness,  but  let  his  mind 
revert to the stock of patience  exhibited  by 
the physician who counted  the holes or cells 
in the human lungs and discovered  that  the 
whole number was 174,000,000.

A  Springfield,  Mass.,  druggist,  fills  his 
window with  live  chickens  colored  by  the 
dyes he sells.  The exhibition is very comical 
and  draws  crowds.  A  Wilmington,  Del 
druggist used to color doves and let them fly 
about the  streets  for  a  similar  purpose. 
Strangers  wondered much at the extraordin­
ary “freaks of Nature.”

The  Dr.  S.  A.  Richmond  Medicine  Co, 
failed in St. Joseph, Mo., last week for $150,- 
000, with no assets.  The same concern fail­
ed for a large amount  about two  years ago. 
Its liabilities then as now consisted of debts 
due to newspapers  throughout  the country 
for advertising.

A druggist, dependent largely for his sup­
port on the patronage of  Yale  students,  ad­
vertises  as 
“Arnica,  sticking- 
plaster, splints, bandages and other base ball 
goods.”

follows: 

WHOLESALE  PBIOE  CURRENT.

Declined—Alcohol.

ACID S.

9 @
30 @

Acetic,  No. 8................................. ^ lb
f  ft
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........
Carbt lie 
Citi A....
3 @
3
Muriatic 18 deg............................... 
11 @
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11
Oxalic................................................  14
144@
3 @
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................. 
3
Tartaric  powdered
Benzoic,  English..................... f) oz
$  oz
Benzoic,  German............................  12
Tannic..............................................   15

AMMONIA.

Carbonate...................................... $  ft
Muriate (Powd. 22c)
Aqua 16 deg or  3f........................... 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 

12 @
15 @
$ f t 15 @
6 @
  6
7 @
7

10
35
35
55
5
12
15
4
48
20
15
17

18 
15
7
8

@

50 
50 
3 00 
50

BALSAMS
Copaiba................................
Fir.................................. ........
Peru.......................................
Tolu.......................................
BA RK S.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c).
Cinchona,  yellow................
Elm,  select............................
Elm, ground, pure...............
Elm, powdered,  pure..........
Sassafras, of root................
Wild Cherry, select.............
Bayberry  powdered........
Hemlock powdered.............
W ahoo........... ......................
Soap  ground.........................
B E R R IE S ,

Cubeb, prime  (Powd $1 20)............ 
@100
6  @  7
Juniper........ ................................... 
Prickly Ash......................................1 CO  @1  11

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
............
do 
Lgowood, 4 s 
...............
do 
Logwood, 14s 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid^Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................   10
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German— ...............

@

27
37149
12
13 
15
14

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, extra  select.......................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d picked............................
Arabic,c3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor......................................... .
Catechu. Is (14 14c, 14s 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained
Gamboge..........................................  
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).
Kino [Powdered, 30c]........
Mastic..................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50).
Shellac, Campbell’s.
Shellac,  English.
Shellac, native
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.
 

<

28®

75 
18 
50 
30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
35 
30 
30 
55@60 
22®  24 
13 
40 
35@
80
60®1 00
35 
20 
1  10 
40 
4 15 
35 
30 
25 
33
@1  10

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia....................................... 
25
Peppermint.......................................................25
Rue.................................... 
40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................  
35
Tanzy..................,........................................... .25
Thym e...............................................................30
Wormwood.......................................................25

 

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
Solution mur., for tinctures........ 
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
Citrate............................................. 
Phosphate.......................................  

6 40
20
7
80
.  65

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12  @*11
Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & 4s, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural..,.................  18  @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22-
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
10
35
Belledonna........................................ 
Foxglove........................................... 
30
Henbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red..........................................  
2 35

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1 75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands....................1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 135 @175
Gin,  Holland............................... 
.2 00  @3 50
Brandy.........................................1 7 5   @6  50
Catawba  Wines...............................1 25  @2 00
135  @2  50
Port Wines.......................... 

 

M AGNESIA.

 

 

O IL S.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz........ ,. 
23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
37
2 25
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__  
70
Calcined.................................... 
 
Almond, sweet......................  
  45  @  50
45
Amber, rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
2 00
Bay ft  oz........................................... 
50
2 00
Bergamont.......................................  
Castor................................................  184@  20
Croton............................................ . 
2 00
Cajeput............................................  
75
120
Cassia............................................... 
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
40
85
Citroneila........................................ 
1 25
Cloves................................................ 
8 00
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................  
Erigeron..................... ....................  
1 60
Fireweed........................................... 
2 00
Geranium 
oz...............................  
75
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
2 40
Lavender flowers- French.............  
Lavender garden 
1 00
.............  
Lavender spike 
.............  
90
Lemon, new crop............................ 
1 75
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ....................... 
1 85
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
1 25
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
Pennyroyal...................., ................ 
2 00
3 00
Peppermint,  white......................... 
Rose $   oz......................................... 
9 75
Rosemary,French  (Flowers$5)... 
65
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
5 00
8 00
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........  
Sassafras........................................ 
60
3 75
Tansy................................................ 
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  @  12
2 35
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. l(Pure $6.50)....... 
4 50
Savin.................................................  
1 00
W onhseed........................................ 
2 50
Cod Liver, filtered.......... 
190
. $  gal 
Cod Liver, best.......................  
3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1 20
2 50
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ............... 
Salad.................................................  65  @  67
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................$  oz 
9 75

do 
do 

 

 

PO TASSIU M .

6 00

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

15
35
20
1 40
30

* 

ROOTS.

Alkanet........................................» 
15
27
Althea, cut.......................................  
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
45
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4 s and 4 s __  
Blood (Powd 18c)............................. 
12
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
23
Elecampane, powdered.................. 
13
Gentian (Powd  17c(......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13  @  14
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
20
35
Golden Seal (Powd 40c).................. 
22
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
1  10
Jalap, powdered.............................. 
374
Licorice,  select (Powd 124).......... 
12
Licorice, extra select.....................  
15
Pink, true......................................... 
35
Rhel, from select to  choice......... 1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................1 10  @1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................  
2 00
2 25
Rhel, choice cut fingers................  
80
Serpentaria...................................... 
Seneka.............................................. 
65
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................. 
40

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

18
10
25
20

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft packages.......... 
5
Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
4
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English................
F ennel..............................................
Flax, clean
Flax, pure grd (bbl 394).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian...............................  
Mustard, white( Black  10c)...........
Quince
Rape, Lnglish........ .....................
Worm, Levant............................

13 
D  6 
Ö  44 
12 
2 00 
2 25 
20 
12 
15
449
154 
8 
1 00
74®  8
14

4
8
5

@

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

do 
M ISCELL ANEUS.

@2 50 
2 00 
1  10 
85 
65 
75 
1  40

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

1 20
45
110
8
24®   3
50
69
14

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17) $  gal__  
2 25
1 50
Alcohol, wo6d, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ 
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
12
30
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................ 
50
Blue  Soluble....................: ............. 
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
2 75
2 25
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Alum............. ...........................  f  ft  254®  34
3  @  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto, prime...............................  
32
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
44®  5
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  @  7
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
2 25
Beans,  Tonka.  ............................... 
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
1 75
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................  
45
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
74@  9
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)______
12 
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
2 25 
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
18 
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
20 18 
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
4 00
Cassia Buds......................................
14 
Calomel.  American.........................
70
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
5
Chalk, precipitate English............
12
Chalk,  red fingers.
8
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s....................
1 60 
Colocynth  apples............................
60 
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
1 60 
cryst...
Chloral 
1 76 
Chloral 
1 90 
Chloral 
crusts..
1 75 
Chloroform......................................1 15
@1  20 @  65 
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  6C
@  65 
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   60
©  22 
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20
Cochineal.........................................
30 
Cocoa  Butter..................................
45 2 
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38
@  40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
15 
Creasote............................................
50 
Cudbear,  prime...............................
24
Dextrine...................................................  
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............................. 
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
Ether Squibb’s .................................  
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s................ 
Epsom Salts...........   ....................... 
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............. 
Flake white...................................... 
Grains  Paradise...................................... 
Gelatine, Cooper’s ................................... 
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue,white.......................................   17  @  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   23  @  26
Hops  4 s and 4 s .............................  
25@  40
Iodoform fl  oz.........................................  
Indigo.......................... 
85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32  @  34
Iodine,  resublimed...............................  
Isinglass,  American.............................. 
Japónica .................................................... 
London  Purple.............................   10  @  15
Lead, acetate............................. 
15
Lime, chloride,(4s 2s 10c & 4 s  lie) 
9
Lupuline.......................................... 
. 1 00
Lycopodium.......................................... 
 
Mace........................................... 
 
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  124@  13
Manna, S.  F ........ ................................... 
Mercury......................................... 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  3 40@3 65
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........  
40
Moss, Iceland............................$  ft 
10
Moss,  Irish................................................ 
Mustard,  English....................................  
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........  
Nutgalls............................................. 
Nutmegs, No. 1.........................................  
Nux  Vomica..................................... 
Ointment. Mercurial, 4 d .......................  
Paris Green......................................  164®  24
Pepper, Black  Berry.............................. 
3 00
Pepsin......................................................  
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  .................................... 
7
 
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  1 30@I 35
Quinine, other brands....................1 30  @1 35
------------------------  
28
Seidlitz  Mixture
Strychnia, cryst...............................
1 50 
&  82 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79
Red  Precipitate.......................$  ft
80 
40
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
10
9
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
33
Sal  Soda............................................  
1  24
2 50 
Salicin............................... , ..............
Santonin...........................................
6 75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
38
4 
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
25
Spermaceti.................................... ..
5 
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
14 
Soap, White Castile.........................
17
Soap, Green  do 
.........................
9
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
11
14
Soap, Mazzini...................................
28
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26
32
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .......................... 
  28
Sugar Milk powdered
30
4
Sulphur, flour...........
Sulphur,  roll....................................
34 
65 
Tartar Emetic..................................
2 70 
Tar, N. C. Pine, 4  gal. cans  $  doz
1 40 
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
85 
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
25 
Turpentine,  Venice................ sp ft
60
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
>  8
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

do 
'“‘do 

6  @ 

44®

2 30
1 50

1 35
 

18

 
 

 
 

2

7

 

 

 

 

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS 
&  CO

W h o le s a le

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OFleali
Paints, Oils, V arita,

MANUFACTURERS  OF
PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS  FOR

12
50
W olf, P atton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W hit­

n ey, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

35
90

Pa in t  a n d  Y arnish 

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H a ir, Shoe a n d H orse Brushes.

35

Druggists’ Sundries

9

50

60

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness  is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
35
best-assorted and diversified to be  fovmd  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
12
30
egant than ever  before,  and  we  desire  our 
customers  to  delay  their  fall  purchasers 
of those articles until they have seen our el­
75
egant line, as shown by our accredited repre­
40
sentative who is now preparing  for  his  an­
nual exhibition of those  goods.
18

20
10

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without 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.

tuest

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 
Pure Goods in this  department.  We  con­
trol  and  are  the  only  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated 

WithersDade&Co’s

„

O IL S .

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder,....................................................60
Shields  Cylinder..................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 35
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Gal
85
80
70
62
65
95
45

Bbl
80
WBale, winter.............................
75
Lard, extra...........................................  75
Lard, No.  1..............................
65
59
Linseed, pure  raw.....................
62
Linseed, boiled.................................   62
90
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   90
39
Spirits Turpentine....................... ......  39

V A R N ISH ES.

..1  10@1 20
No.lTurp  C oach............................... 1 10@1 20
..1 60® 1 70
Extra  Turp........... ...............................1 60@1  70
..2 75@3 0C
Coach  Body......... ..................................2 75@3 00
..1 00@1 10
1 00@1  10
No. 1 Turp Furniture..................... . 
..1 55@1 60
Extra Turp  Damar..................... .........1 55@1  60
70@  75
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.
P A IN TS.
Lb
9
10
10
11
2@ 3 
2@ 3 
2® 3 
24® 3 
24@ 3 
13@16 
55@57 
16@17 
64 
64 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40

Bbl
Boralumine, White  b u lk ]............
5 fts | ............
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine,Tints bulk.  V40  ff..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts.  ) ............
Red Venetian............................  1%
O c h r e , yellow  Marseilles........  1%
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  14
Putty, commercial..................  24,
Putty, strictly pure.................     2%
Vermilion,prime American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly  pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders^.....................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English cliff..

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 
other  known  br an d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  guarantee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of gbods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

DrntDsts’  Fanrilt  Bye,

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

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 Medicines, etc,, we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAZELTIM.PERKIHS&CO

DELINQUENT  DEBTORS.

Harbor Springs.
F.  Salisbury writes as  follows:
I have watched the progress of the dead-beat 
question  with  no  small  interest.  While  not 
wishing to discourage the enterprise, I will say 
that you can never get a system that  will  col­
lect our debts until we get  a  different  law  on 
the subject.  Our  law  allows  anybody  a fair 
property exemption before a poor  dealer can 
get a cent.  We will have to go to Lansing with 
this matter before justice  can  be obtained.  I 
know of a good number of  ex-merchants,  not 
worth a cent, who with  sympathy  and  an  un­
bounded confidence, trusted away  their  prop­
erty only to be laughed at by  the unprincipled 
men who coaxed away  their  goods.  Old New 
York takes the cake for collecting a  debt  and 
I would feel prouder of Michigan  if she would 
copy the former’s collection laws.

Evart.

F. Hibbard & Co. writes as follows:  Enclosed 
find $1, which we saved this  morning  on your 
last weeks’ Delinquent Debtors’ list.  May that 
list grow long and wide, until every  dead beat 
in the country is known.

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES,

The Newaygo Company quote f. o. b. cars  as 
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1 4 ,1 4  and 3 inch........................   46  00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 14,14 and 2  inch........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 1 4 ,1 4  and 2 inch...........  
.12 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet........................   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  14 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
9  00
widths and lengths................................. 
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12  00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............  20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common......  
9  00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft... 11 50@12 00 
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
-(X X X 18 in.  Thin.....................................  
3 40
| X X X 16 in................................................. 
3 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
1  75
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.......1........... 
1  10
95
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
140
Louisville Cemeni,  per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  b b l...................... 
140
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1 40,
Car lots.................................. .................1  15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35@  38-.
Stucco, per bbl......................................  
1 75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 75
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50©6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................  6 75@7 00
Cannellcoal.............. 
7 00
 
 
Ohio coal............................. 
40@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland................ 
00@5 25
OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

COAL.

 

 

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

o y s t e r s .

New York Counts, per can............................. 38
Extra  Selects.....................................................35
Plain  Selects..................................................
H.M .B. F ...................................:.....................
Favorite F ............................................................
New York Counts, solid meats, per gal.......
Selects, solid  meats, per gallon..........
Standards, solid meats, per gallon—

Can pi ices above are for cases and half cases.

FR ESH   F IS H .

Codfish...............:.............................................   8
Haddock...........................................................  7
Smelts....................................................j..........5
Mackinaw Trout..............................................  8
Mackerel..............................................  ..........19
Whiteflsh.........................................................  84

60® 90

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS.

H ID ES.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:
Green............................................... ft  7
@ 74
Part  cured..............................................  8  c® »4
Full cured...............................................   84®  84
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured............. — 10  @12
Deacon skins............................piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
Fall pelts.................................................30
Winter  pelts....................................... 1  00

SH E E P PEL TS.

@20 
@50 
@1 50

Fine washed ^ ft....................................
Coarse washed........................................18
Unwashed...............................................3-3

@20

W OOL.

FU RS.

 

 

Mink, large................................................  60®
Mink,  small..............................................   25@
Muskrat,  Spring......................................  15®
Muskrat, Winter......................................  13®
Muskrat,  Fall.................................... .. 
8@
Muskrat,  kits......................................... 
3@
Raccoon.....................................................  40®
Skunk, black.............................................  80®
Skunk, half stripe................ f ..............  50®
Skunk, narrow stripe..............................  25®
Skunk,  broad...........................................  10®
Red Fox...................................................1 00@115
Gray Fox............................................  
Marten,  yellow......................................  75@1 00
Fisher . 
...................................................4 00@8  00
Otter............................................ ...........6 00@8  00
Bear........................................................5 00®12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry__ $   ft  25®  30
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  12®  25
Beaver, clean and dry  $   ft.................2 00@3  25
Above prices are for  prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion.
Tallow.......................................................   54® 54
There are about 54,000,000  people  in this 
country, and the number  of  stamps, stamp: 
ed envelopes  and  postal  cards sold  to the 
public  last year was  2,861,689,699, or  only 
34)4 to each person.  That seems a small al­
lowance, but the babies must be counted out, 
and even then we have only about one letter 
or postal card in five days for the  people of 
the  writing  age.  When it  is  considered 
what a vast number of letters, circulars, and 
postal cards  are sent  by  a  comparatively 
small number of business  men, it  will  ap­
pear that a large proportion of  the  popula­
tion still makes no use of  the  postal facili­
ties.

There are 237 carpet mills in Philadelphia 
which when in full operation turn out $7,000 
worth of carpets per working hour.

j. J. VAN LEUVEN,  i  ARTHUR  MEWS  &  GfL
W holesale  Grocers,

WHOLESALE

55  and  57  Canal  Street,

Grand.  R apids,  MiictLigaxL,

Offer the Trade the following Choice Line of Plug Tobaccos—all our own Brands— 

and positively  the  Best  ever  Offered  at the  Prices.

—AND—

Big Drive.......
Red  Fox........
Apple Jack... 
Jack  Rabbit.. 
A.  M...............

2c less in 5 butt lots;  special price on large quantities.

f a n o t   g o o d s

l a c e s ,

Real  Laces  a  Specialty.

Gloves,  Corsets, Ribbons,  fan s,  Hand Bags, 

Pocket  Books,  Ruchings,  Y am s, 

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets,

Embroidery  Materials, 

umes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.

STAMPING PATTERNS

70 MONROE  STREET,

Send us a trial order.  We guarantee satisfaction every time.

A rthur  M eigs  &  Co,

Fireworks

We have the  largest  and 
best  selected  stock  ever 
brought  to  this  market, 
suitable  for public or pri­
vate  display, and  are me 
Headquarters  for  FIRE 
CRACKERS, 
TORPE­
DOES,  FLAGS,  LAN­
TERNS,  ETC.  Send for 
catalogue and prices.

We are carying'a full line  of Gor­
dons’  Cigars  of  Detroit,  among 
which  are  the  celebrated “ D.  F.” 
and “Olympian” and  although the 
latter  is being imitated, the stock 
and workmanship is much inferior 
to  the  genuine,  for  which  we  are 
exclusive agents.  Give  us  a  trial 
order.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

t r y   o u r

RAW  HIDE  WHIP!

SELLS  FOR  #1.

OUR  TWO SH ILLING   W HIP IS SURE 

TO  SELL.

Do not sell our goods at cost.  We will

DO BETTER BY YOU

Showcases We carry in  stock  such 
PUTNAM  i   BROOKS

cases  as  there  is  most 
demand  for,  of the best 
makes,  and  will  meet 
Chicago prices.  Give us 
a call before purchasing.

Gome and see us.  We are here to stay.

G.  RO Y S  d t f   OO-,

No. 4  Pearl  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

A t.  Ma,xxuLYaofLi.x-oris?  P ric e s .

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

Sous©  and  Store  Shades Made to  Order. 
C O .
X T E L S O X T   B R O S . 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand Rapids.

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE.

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W. 1

P. J. T.AMR  &  COMPANY,

■WHOLESALE  D EALE R S  IN-

Butter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

a R A X D   R A P ID S .  -  MIOUIOA3XT.

B.  K N O W L S O N

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

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

T.T-M-m, b a z a ,  COAL  and WOOS.

ESTIM ATES  C H E ERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

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

tral  Freight  House.

SPRING  & COMP A N T

-W H O LES A LE  D EALER S   IN-

F - A j s r o i r   - ¿ a s m

STAPLE DBI DODDS

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS,

BTCm  e t o .

q  and.  8  M onro©   S tre e t,

Michigan.

Grand  Rapids,

M. B. Church “Bellette”  Co.,
Manufacturer of | “Bedette.”

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOAVE  &  BKO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
¡Entered  at  the  Postofflee  at Grand  Rapid*  a« 
L 

Second-cktSR  Matter .1

WEDNESDAY,  MAY 28,1884.

BUSINESS  LAW,

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

Reformation  of  Mortgage- 

-W hen it  Takes

Effect.

A mortgage corrected by a decree of court, 
as between  the mortgagee and>  subsequent 
vendee, who has  taken  the  property  bona 
fide, in payment of a pre-existing  debt,  will 
take effect only from the time of the  correc­
tion.—Supreme Court Commission  of  Ohio.

Capital  Stock  of a Trust Fund.

The capital stock of a moneyed corporation 
is a trust fund for the payment of its  debts, 
and upon its insolvency, creditors may  com­
pel, by bill in  equity,  the  payment  of  the 
unpaid  subscriptions to the capital  stock  so 
far  as  is  necessary  for  the satisfaction of 
their  debts.—Supreme  Court  of  Pennsyl­
vania.

Mortgage.

When a mortgagor sells a  portion  of  the 
land  charged  with  mortgage,  the  part  re­
maining in his hands, if  of  sufficient  value, 
must bear the whole  charge  of  such  mort­
gage;  and  the part sold can not be  made to 
contribute until that remaining in the  mort- 
" gage is exhausted.—Supreme Court of  Pen- 
slyvania.

Promissory Notes.

The Court of Common Pleas  of  Philadel­
phia,  in  the  ease  of  Browning  & Bro. vs 
Maurer, holds that the value of a note is  not 
destroyed or its negotiability affected by the 
fact that the payee writes his name  upon  it 
in the wrong place,  when the mistake is im­
mediately corrected, the name written in the 
right place and it is afterward  negotiated.

Pledged  Securities—Right of  Redemption.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana,  case  of 
Pomez vs.  Connors,  et  aL,  decided  that  a 
debtor  who transfers securities in  full own­
ership  to  his  creditors in settlement of  the 
latter’s claim with the  right  of  redemption 
within a specified time loses  all right  to  the 
property if he  fails  to  redeem  within  the 
prescribed time, such contract  being  one  of 
sale and not of pledge.

Fire  Insurance—False  Statements.

The Supreme Court of  the  United  States 
holds that false statements knowingly made 
touching questions of title and  interests  are 
material and work forfeiture  of  all  claims 
under  a policy of insurance. 
It  makes  no 
difference whether the company  is  actually 
prejudiced or not nor whether the deception 
is made without intent to prejudice the com­
pany.  The law will presume an intention to 
deceive where false statements are knowing­
ly made about  material or  relevant  matters 
of inquiry.
When  Declarations  of  Agent  Bind  His 

Principal.

“The declarations of an agent made  pend­
ing a transaction in which he  is  authorized 
to represent his principal, and constitutional 
part of the transaction, are, in  law,”  in  the 
opinion of the Court  of  Chancery  of  New 
Jersey,  “to be regarded as  the  declarations 
of  the principal;  but to entitle  them to  this 
effect, it is plain  and  necessary,  both  as  a 
matter of reason and justice that the fact  of 
his agency should first be established by com­
petent evidence.  The agent’s unsworn  dec­
larations are utterly  incompetent for such  a 
purpose.  They are, at their qery  best,  mere 
heresay,”

A  Word  About  Raisins.

From Chambers’ Journal.

Malaga, Valencia and Smyrna  raisins  de­
rive their  names  from  the  places  whence 
they  come.  Of  these  the  Smyrna  black 
raisins are the  cheapest;  the  Malaga  being 
held in the highest estimation, fetching fully 
a third more than  any  other  description  of 
raisins. 
In Andalusia, in  Spain,  there  are 
two distinct vines—the Pero-Himenez, which 
was imported in the first  instance  from  the 
borders of the Rhine by a German, some 250 
years ago;  and the Muscat, which  is  indig­
enous.  Opinions as to the respective merits 
of the two vines vary,  but  their  cultivation 
is  conducted  in  the  same way, manure  of 
great strength being liberally supplied.  The 
growth of the vines is different from those of 
Southern  Italy. 
In  Andalusia  they  creep 
along the surface  of  the  ground  as  straw­
berries do, thus gathering all the atmospher­
ic heat;  the branches appear  like roots, and 
the  grapes,  though  white,  have  a  golden 
tinge.  The  vintage  is  very carefully con­
ducted, the fruit  not  being  all  gathered  at 
once,  but  the  same ground gone over  three 
times, so that all the grapes are properly ripe 
when picked.

Besides the raisins already named, may be 
mentioned Sultanas—the best kind to use  in 
making puddings, cakes, etc., for  children— 
Muscatels, Lipari, Belvedere, Bloom, or  jar 
raisins, and Sun or Solis.  The  best  kinds 
are imported in boxes and jars,  such as Ma­
laga and Muscatels;  while the inferior sorts 
are  shipped  in  casks,  barrels,  frails  and 
mats.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E IT C3-13ST E S
I From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made tor 
Complete Outfits.
W .  O,  D e n iso n ,

88,90  and 92  South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN.

WMTHEBLT k CO,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and „Retail

IR O N   P IP E , 

Brass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  Brass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  F ixtures, 

Plumpers,  Steam  F itters,
—And  Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

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

122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
l i n t  A n , G if, Grant k Bit Seal P it Tiaras.

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

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

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

T o b a c c o s ,  V in e g a rs   a n d   S p ic e s  [l

-W E  MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR-

OUR  MOTTOs  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MANoAND  MAN."

CORRESPONDENCE  solicited.

■

PA TEN TED  JU N E  15, 1883.

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

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Price—36 in. wide, by 6)4 ft. long, 83.50;  30 in wide,  by 6%  ft.  long,  $3.00;  27  in.  *  

ft. long, cover not adjustable, 82.50.  For sale  by  furniture  dealers  every­
If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address  on  receipt  of  price.

wide, by 
where. 

, 

M ark our Specialties.  M ail orders receive careful A ttention.

a s s o r t e d   c r a t e

SELECTED EN G LISH  W H IT E  GRAN ITE W A R E. 

* 

Diamond X.
Edward Clark’s
51 
4 doz Plates.........................5 inch 
62 
4 doz Plates.....................6 inch 
11 doz Plates......................... 7 Inch 
73 
3 doz Plates.........................8 inch 
84 
1 doz Plates.........................7 inch, deep
6 doz Fruit Saucers.......4 inch 
35 
6 sets Handled Teas............................45 
18 sets Unhandled Teas.......................36 
1 only Dish.........................7 inch
2 only D ishes....................8 inch 
09
11
3 only D ishes....................9 inch 
3 only D ishes...................10 inch 
17
23
3 only D ishes...................11 inch 
3 only Dishes...................12 inch 
28
4 only Bakers...................  5 inch 
08
4 only Bakers....................6 inch 
09
4 only Bakers....................7 inch 
11
1 <
4 only Bakers....................8 inch 
6 only Scollops..................5 inch 
08
6 only Scollops..................6 inch 
10
11
6 only Scollops............   .7 inch 
6 only Scollops..................8 inch 
39
2 only Covered Dishes.. 7 inch 
2 only Covered Dishes.. 8 inch 
45
1 only Sauce Boat........
„ ,  D.
2 only Pickles 
4 only Cov’d Butters and Dr’ns 5 in 34 
2 only Teapots.............. No. 24 
30
25 
6 only  Sugars..................No. 24 
6 only  Creams................No. 24 
12
3 only  Bowls................... No. 24 
09
6 only Bowls................... No. 30 
08
6 only Bowls..................No. 36 
06
4 only  Jugs....................No.  6 
«  
6 only  Jugs.....................No. 12 
13 
4 only  Jugs................ ...No.24 
4 only  Jugs.....................No. 30 
11
10
6 only  Jugs.....................No. 36 
71 
4 prs Ewers and Basins No.  9 
6 Covered Chambers— No.  9 
45 
6 Soap Slabs.................... 
“J
6 Mugs............................ 
V*

2
3
8
2
2
2
6

17 1

1
1

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.

2
2

Crate  $2 50.

$52 65

Rustic Parlor  Cuspidore...............per doz $2 40

T O   GET  THE  BEST, 
l l- Buy the Leonard Clean» 
able, with Movable Fines, 
Hard wood,Carved Panels. 
Warranted  First  Class; 
Elegant and Durable.
MANUFACTURED  BY  THE

G r a n d   R a p id s   R e f r ig e r a t o r   C o.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

S®“Send for Catalogue.

PRICE  LIST.

$13 50 
No. 0,27x18x43,1  door..
18  00 
No. 1, 31x20x44,  1  door..
23 00 
No.  2,34x22x46, 2  doors.
26 00 
No. 3,  36x21x48, 2  doors.
30 00 
No. 4,  40x25x54, 4 doors.
35 00 
No. 5, 43x26x59,  4 doors.
No. 1, with water cooler 
.  21  00 
.  27 00 
Mo. 2, with water cooler 
30 00
No. 3, with water  cooler 
No. 5 is the size for boardinghouses and hotels- 

Less discount to the trade, 30 per cent.
The Gooch Peerless
ICE  CREAM  FREEZER!

SUPERIOR  TO  ALL!

PRICE  LIST  “ PEERLESS.”

3 Quart............................................................ $4 50
4 Quart............................................................  5 50
6  Quart............................................................  7 00
8 Quart............................................................  9 00
10 Quart............................................................ 12 00

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MANUFACTUREES  AND  JOBBERS  OF

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
On Goods art S p iff Moon lor toe n i l

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

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

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

nT.A-R.Tt  JEWELL  &  CO,
Groceries  and  Provisions

W H O L E S A L E

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83,85 aid 81  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  MICHIGAN.

Choice  Butter  a Specialty!

ASSORTED  CASK.

NEW   SQ UARE  SH A PED   GLA SSW A RE.

ASSORTED  CASK.

EN G RA V ED   GLASSW A RE  N O .  145.

A  Bargain  In

BEST  E N G L IS H   W H IT E   G R A N IT E   W A R E. 

J. W. Pankhurst & Co.

10 sets unhan Teas, St. Denis........  33
1 doz Soup Plates, 8 In....................
2 doz Dinner Plates, 8  in...............  80
2 doz Tea Plates, 5  in.....................   58
3 doz Bakers—12 6 in., 6 7 in.,  12  8
in., 6 9 in., at 8,10.16 and  21e.......
1-6 doz Sugars 24...............................  24
Yt doz Pitchers  24...............................1 50
J4 doz Pitchers 12.............................. 2 55
M doz Pitchers 6................................3 85
1-12 doz Round Soup Tureen...........
1-6 doz Casseroles, 7 in...................... 5 19
1-12 doz Ca6seroles, 8 in.....................5 74
1-12 doz Casseroles, 9 in.....................6 38
1 doz Cup Plates, 3 in.....................
1-6 doz Sauce Tureens,  complete. .6 50 
5 doz Hotel Platters 2, 4;  2, 3........   64
3 doz  Plattters  12-6  12-7 
12-8
.09
.07 
5-6 doz Platters  6-9  2-12  1-16  1-18 
. 
.85
4 sets Coffees 2 hand@50 2 unhan@42

.06 
.10 

.68 

.27 

Less 10 per cent. 
Cask $1.

$3 30 
80 
1 60 
1  16
4 89 
48 
75 
64 
96
53 
75 
48
54 
32
1 08 
2 56 
2 65
2 65
3 25 
1 84
$28 68 
2  86
$25 82

3 00 
1  68 
90 
60 
63 
62 
60 
81 
94 
75 
1  13 
18 
50
$12 34

V4 doz  Sets..................... .Eiigd 36
Yi doz Yt gal Pitchers... .Eiigd 36
YL doz Yi gal Pitchers... .Eiigd 36
3 doz  Goblets............... .Engd 36
1-6doz 7 in  Casseroles.. .Eiigd 36
1-6 doz 8 in Casseroles.. .Eiigd 36
1-6 doz 7 in cov’d bowls. .Eiigd 36
1-6 doz 8 in cov’d bowls. .Eiigd 36
Yi doz Sm.  Celeries....... .Eiigd 36
Yt doz Molasses  cons... Eiigd 36
2 doz No. 3 Wines........ .Eiigd 10
3 doz4 in  Comports...
1 doz Oval  Salts..........
2 doz Individual  Salts
1 doz Shaker  Salts__

Tierce $1 10.

3 60
7 20
6 DO o 00
4 00
1 00
3 30
1 10
50
3 00
4 00
67
1 00
6 00
1 25
7 50
75
3 00
1 75
3 50
1 40
70
1 20
40
50
34
17
55
$19 81

Less Discount 10 per cent.

Floral Pattern, No. 27.

% doz 
Yt doz 
3 doz 
3 doz 
Yt doz 
Yt doz 
1 doz 
% doz 
14 doz 
Yt doz 
Yt doz 
Yt doz 
1 doz

Floral  Sets................................. 4 00
Floral Pitchers, Yt  gal.........3 35
Floral Camports, 4 in ..........  30
Floral Nappies, 4 in. square  20
Floral  Pickle Jars.................... 1 25
Floral Bread  Plates............ 1 25
Floral Pickles.......................
Floral Cov’d  Bowls, 7 in__ 3 25
Floral Cov’d  Bowls, 8 in__ 3 75
Floral Honey Dishes, fl’ngdl 50
Floral Honey Dishes, fid__ 2 25
Floral Salts, fld.....................   35
Floral Salts Bottles........ •...
Package $1.

Less Discount 10 per cent.

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45 CANDLE  POWER

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It Cami Break li il Falls.

QUART, 

$12  per gross. 
y i  GALLON, 
$15  per gross.

TIME TABLES.

A R R IV E .

D E PA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express............................................  6:00 am
+Day Express..........................................12:25 p m
♦New York Fast Line............................  6:00 pm
+Atlantic Express.....................................9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express....................................6:4  am
+Local  Passenger.................................. 11:20 am
+Mail........................................................3:20 p m
+Grand Rapids  Express.......................10:25p m
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m.. New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING  W EST.

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

D. P otter, City Pass. Agent.

T homas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

A L A R O E  LI3STE
5 c lOc 
2 5 c 

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Goods.

By th.e Package,

Repacked  to  Order.

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(Continued from 1st page.) 

ed abstractly at the broad blue mirror of old 
Champlain, upon which he  and I  had look­
ed  together so  often  in  the  days  of our 
youth.

Mr. Pember  sat  silently.  Mrs.  Pember 
was whimpering behind  her  handkercheif.
1 ventured the  inquiry,  “Have  you  seen 

Lucy  yet?”

Tompkins’ face quivered; he was silent.
Mrs. Pember’s interest in the  question re­
stored her.  “Tell' us,  have you seen  her?” 
she asked.

“I heard of it  yesterday,”  Tompkins re­

plied huskily, with an effort.

“Why,  Timothy,  what  is  the  matter?” 
cried Mrs. Pember, rising from her  seat and 
coming to him, as he bent his head  and bur­
ied his face in  his  hands.  The  motherly 
woman took off his  soft  hat,  and  stroking 
his hair said,  “You had better tell; it will do 
you good.”  And  then  she put  on his hat 
again, and stood wiping her eyes in  sympa­
thy, while he struggled with himself.

The storm of  feeling  passed  away,  and 
Tompkins, having gained control of his emo­
tions, slowly lifted his face from  his hands, 
and  sat  peering  out  under  his  hat  brim, 
looking apparently at a boat upon  the lake. 
At last  he  said in  a  calm voice,  “She  is 
dead.”

It was very still after this  announcement. 
The  softest  breath  of 
June  scarcely 
whispered in the  pines  overhead,  and  the 
vast landscape  below  seemed  strangely at 
rest in the fervid brightness of  the  summer 
noon.

My old  classmate  was the first  to  break 

the silence.

“Well,” said he wearily,  “it must be about 

time for dinner; let us go  to the hotel.”

We took the little brown road,  and walk­
ed down a long, shaded, quiet street.  Mem­
ories of college days and  romantic  summer 
nights,  with  music  and  starlight,  and the 
long, long thoughts of youth  came  back  to 
me, as I looked at  the  houses  and  gardens 
familiar in college days, and  chatted  about 
them with Mrs.  Pember.

“Timothy always means  well,”  said  she 
to me confidentially, reverting to the subject 
of which we were all thinking,  “but  it was 
very wrong for him to neglect that poor fac­
tory girl;  don’t you  think so?”

FL O W E R   PO TS.

Net Prices

Assorted Cask Fancy..................
Assoted Cask Common No. 5__
Assorted Cask Common, No.  10.
Send for Lists.

.$12 42 
.  14 67 
.  9 19

Table Lamps, Nickel, 10 in por shade doz $42 
Table Lamps, Brass, 10 in pore shade, doz  36
Founts, Nickel, for store  fixtures__ doz 30
Founts, Brass, for store  fixtures___ doz 27

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—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.
liy  tie  Dozen  at  New  York  Prices!!

-----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.

X.  O.  L E V I ,

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

>  PROPRIETORS  AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF

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

Careful  Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.

M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
C astor M achine Oil

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

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

OHIO  OIL  OOMP-AJSTSr

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.

Hazelline, Perkins  &  Co., Grand  Rapids.

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

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

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

Grand  Eapids  &  Indiana.
G O ING NORTH.Arrives.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:57 p m 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way n e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

GO ING  s o u t h .

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

S LE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

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

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago A West Michigan.
Leaves.
Arrives, 
4:00 p m 
■(Mail..................... -  .............9:15 am
10:45 p m 
+Day Express......................12:25 p m
6:10 a ni 
♦Night  Express..................8:35 pm
10:05 p m
Mixed.................................... 6:10 am
♦Daily.  •(•Daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through parlor  car  In  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge  to Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed....................................  5:00 am   5:15 pm
Express.................................4:10 pm  
8:30 pm
Express................................. 8:30 am   10:15 am
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m 
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. & P. M.  trains to  and  from Ludington and

Q TYI fltpp
J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
JOHN MOHRHARD,

—WHOLESALE-

Fresh & Salt Meats

109  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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M ICHIGAN.

Paper railroad wheels  have  been  experi­
mentally tried on the state  railways  in Ger­
many.  They are said to  have  given  every 
satisfaction—indeed,  to  have  exceeded  ex­
pectations.  Some  of  the wheels have  run 
60,000 miles  and  more before being  turned 
again.  It has been found that the paper disks 
are at least equal to wooden disks in point of 
strength and elacticity;  that  they  do not ab­
sorb moisture, and that they adapt themselves, 
much  better  to  the  movements  that  take 
place iu  tirers  in consequence of change  of 
temperature.

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

“Can you give me ten cents for a  drink? 
asked a seedy-looking  chap  of  a  reporter. 
“Certainly,” replied the reporter,  “bringHon 
your drink.”

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

AND DRUGGISTS’  AND  GROCERS’  SPECIALTIES.

20  Lyon  Street,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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FLAVORING
EXTRACTS

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PENCIL,  PORTRAITS.—NO.  15.

“ Frank."

B. |F.  Parmenter,  Otherwise  Known  as 
Benjamin Franklin Parmenter was bom at 
GiHiford, Medina county, Ohio, Sept. 2,1839. 
There he obtained his early education, enter­
ing the employ of Norton & Hatch,  general 
dealers, at the age of thirteen, and remaining 
there three years.  He then  removed to Me­
dina, and for twelve years thereafter  was  a 
fixture at the “Old Empire” store, then own­
ed by Hiram Bronson,  afterward  by  G.  W. 
Smith, and later of J. W. Sabins,  of  Akron. 
During  the  four  years  Sabins  owned  the 
store,  Parmenter  had  entire charge  of the 
business, conducting it in  a  manner  highly 
creditable  to  himself  and  profitable to  his 
employer.  One  peculiarity of  his  manage­
ment was the unique method he  adopted  to 
avoid losses in the credit business.  When  a 
a customer asked for trust, he was given the 
amount needed in cash, the loan being noted 
on  a  slip  of  paper,  and  entered  up  each 
night  as  cash  until  paid.  Although there 
was at times $1,800 outstanding in this man­
ner, Parmenter managed to carry on the bus­
iness four years under this system  at  a  loss 
of only $36.  Severing  his  connection  with 
this house, he removed to Allegan and bought 
a half interest in Jack Jones’  grocery  store, 
continuing the business under the firm name 
of Jones & Parmenter.  »Jones subsequently 
sold his interest to S. P. Webb, who  in  turn 
disposed  of  it  to  Benj. Sutphin, when the 
firm of Parmenter &  Sutphin  rapidly  took 
front rank, increasing the annual sales from 
$46,000  to  $120,000.  Desiring  to  enter  a 
larger field, Parmenter  sold  his  interest  in 
the business to J. P. Gardener, and  came  to 
Grand Rapids, buying out A.  J.  Rose,  then 
located where Jas. E.  Furman  is  now.  A 
year later,  Furman  purchased  an  interest, 
and the firm of Parmenter & Furman contin­
ued in business until the fire of June 19,1875, 
subsequently resuming  business in a tempor­
ary wooden structure.  Furman afterward re­
tired from the firm, and Parmenter sold out to 
Amott Bros., subsequently  starting in anew 
at  112  Canal  street  R.  J.  Coppes was a 
partner for a time, afterward  selling his  in­
terest to A. E. Stockwell.  Upon the remov­
al of the firm to the Porter  block, Stockwell 
sold  his  interest  to  Chet  Withey and  the 
firm of B. F. Parmenter & Co. was thereafter 
known as Parmenter & Withey.  The retail 
grocery business here found his  highest lev­
el, the arrangement of the stock and interior 
being about as near  perfection  as  possible. 
It was a matter  of  common  remark  at  the 
time that this store was the finest of the kind 
in  the  State.  Adverse  fortune,  however, 
compelled the firm to retire from business in 
June 1880, and on July 1 Parmenter went on 
the road for Shields, Bulkley &  Co.,  taking 
the G. R. & I., north of Cadillac, the  D.,  L. 
& N., from Big Rapids to Ionia,  the  Michi­
gan Central, with two two-day drives  north 
and  south  of  Hastings.  His  territory has 
since been changed so as to  include  the  D., 
L. & N., Michigan Central,  Newaygo  divis­
ion and G. R. & L, south, so that  he  is  now 
able to see his trade every three weeks.

Mr. Parmenter attributes his  success  as  a 
salesman to the fact that he is in a  position, 
from experience  and  observation,  to know 
how to treat his trade, and that  he  does  by 
his customers as he would like to be dpne by, 
if he were in trade.  His strength lies in the 
fact that he is able to control the entire trade 
of his customers, on  account  of  his knowl 
edge [of the business and the confidence that 
he inspires in his ability and  integrity.  He 
is a capital collector,  makes  few  mistakes, 
and is withal a pleasant gentleman and good 
citizen.

American made candies in large quantities 
are exported  to  England,  and  though,  be­
cause of payment of duty  on  sugar,  cost  of 
freight and expenses of agency, they must be 
sold  at  quite  double  the rates  of  candies 
manufactured in England,  they  are  so  far 
superior that they do the cream of the trade. 
They are a luxury in England, and  for such 
luxury the English are willing to pay.  Even 
the English trade journals speak of them  as 
being  “properly  made,  well  flavored,  and 
neatly  packed,”  and  they  call  upon  their 
home  confectioners  to  arouse  themselves 
against this serious  competition.  They  tell 
the English confectioners, very bluntly  that 
they  are  behind  the  age.

And now vanilla must go.  The seductive 
flavoring extract that has so long  lent ether- 
ial charms to  ice-cream  and  puddings,  and 
hung with  grateful aroma round our confec­
tionery,  has  felt  the  blow  of science.  A 
Freneh  savant  accuses  it  of a new disease 
known as vanillism. 
insidous- 
ly  undermining  Frenchmen  for  years,  it 
seems.

It has been 

A correspondent states  the  fact  that  in 
France oyster shells are reduced  to à coarse 
powder by  grinding  and  stamping.  When 
dried, this powder is sold  to thé  makers of 
carbonated water.  The bitter portion of the 
shell is during the  process  separated,  and 
after being carefully collected  it is  used in 
the manufacture of soap.

W hite  8t&r'Potatoes.

We  have  a few  barrels  of  choice  White 
Star  Potatoes,  grown  by  D.  M.  Ferry  & 
Co.,  Detroit,  that  we  offer  to  the  trade  at 
$1.50 per three bushel barrel, and no charge 
for barrel, to close out stock.  SEED STORE, 
91 Canal street.

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

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C. 

Russell’s.

MAKING BRUSHES.

An  Industry 
From the Chicago News.

in  W hich 

Profit Is  Quite Small.

the  Margin  of 

“There  are  thousands  of  methods  by 
which a dailyrsubsistence can be gained, but 
some are not ko  be coveted  in my  opinion, 
and that of brush-making is  one of  them,” 
remarked a North Clark street  grocer, as he 
hung a bunch of oom-straw scrubbing brush­
es on a nail in the rear of the store.

“Why  so?”
“Well, there’s money enough in  it,  I ex­
pect, but a man has to work  hard  to  get it 
out.”

“What do they sell for?”
“This grade sells for  10  cents  each, and 

they cost me 85 cents a dozen.”

“What is the cost of manufacture?” 
“Well, the wood  costs  about 1  cent, the 
com costs 2 cents, the work of fastening the 
wisps 1 cent, while  the  finishing  and  the 
wire will cost about 2  cents  more,  making 
the total cost about 6 cents each.  You  see 
that don’t leave much money  for the manu­
facturer, the business being  carried  on at a 
very  small  margin.  Now,  a  first-class 
brush-maker  I  think  can  average  about 
twelve dozen brushes a day,  but  he  has  to 
be a real swift man, as  it is  necessary  for 
him to make about ten thousand  knots.  The 
average man makes about nine dozen a day, 
while the wife and young ’uns can  make as 
many more, as it is home work and requires 
deftness rather than bone and muscle.  They 
make a good living, but it requires work.”

Raisin-Making in  California.

Miss  Emily  Faithfull  visited,  while  in 
California, a woman who is earning  her liv­
ing, in a pleasant fashion,” raising grapes for 
raisins.  Miss Austin, five years ago,  was a 
school-teacher in San  Francisco.  Tired of 
that drugery, she bought a hundred-acre lot, 
near Fresno, which she has  since  managed 
as a “raisin-farm,” with the aid of a  female 
friend and of four industrious  Chinamen.

“Inside the house,”  says Miss  Faithfull, 
“was an open piano.  About  the table were 
strewed  the latest  books  and  magazines, 
showing that raisin growing had  not dulled 
the fair proprietor’s  interest into  the  intel­
lectual side of life.  Miss Austin has  plant­
ed peach, apricot,  nectarine,  and  a few al­
mond trees, but the greatest part of her land 
is devoted to vines for raisin-making.  These 
are of the  sweetest  Muscat  variety.  The 
process of  raising-making  is very  simple. 
The bunches of grapes are cut from the vines 
and laid down in trays, in the open  air, for 
about a fortnight,  being  duly  turned at in­
tervals.  Then  they  are  removed  to  the 
bam known as ‘the sweating  house,’  where 
they remain till  all moisture  is  extracted. 
They are pressed and  put into  boxes,  and 
sent off to the  market or  shipped to  Eng­
land.  As I had already been  given in San- 
Francisco a box of Miss Austin’s  raisins ‘as 
the best produced in the State,’ my  interest 
in seeing this clever lady, who  had taken so 
new a departure in female  industry,  can be 
understood.  Four years hence it is estimat­
ed that Miss Austin’s property will be worth 
at least $30,000.”

Took Him  at His  Word.

Prom the Brooklin Eagle.

“What  are  those?”  asked  a  customer, 
pointing to some baskets of early  straw ber­
ries.

“Strawberries,” kindly explained the deal­

er.

ket?”

basket.”

“How much do you ask for them?”
“A dollar and a half a basket.”
“What proportion of  that  is  for the  bas­

“Oh,  we  don’t  charge  anything  for the 

“I  suppose  I  could  use  them for flower 

pots, couldn’t I?”

“I should think you could,”  returned  the 

dealer,  encouragingly.

“Well, just empty the berries out  and  I’ll 

take half a dozen baskets.”

A Considerable  Difference.

Retail Dealer—No, dear, I cannot take you 

to Petoskey this year.

like to know why.

His  Wife—You  can’t, indeed?  I should 

“1 can’t afford it.”
“The idea!  Why, the Simpersins  are  go­
ing to Petoskey just the same as  usual, and 
Simpersin has failed, too.”

“Exactly, my dear, and I haven’t.”
“Well?”
“Why, I have to stay at home and pay my 

debts.”

G. Roys has a new whip  wagon, which  is 

a model in its way.

Kemink, Jones & Co. have removed  their 

business from 42 to 78 West Bridge street.

Fox, Musselman & Loveridge have a  new 
team and larry, and  the  driver  has  a  new 
wife.

Frank Kean has engaged in the  cigar  and 
tobacco business in the Arcade.  He bought 
of Arthur Meigs & Co.

John Caulfield is re-arranging  and  enlarg­
ing his office and sample room,  and  making 
other improvements in his  stock  room.

SEED  BUCKWHEAT

We hjave a choice lot of 
Seed  Buckwheat,  which 
we  offer to  the  trade  at 
$1.25 per bushel.

SEED  STORE,

91 Canal street.

er. 

Advanced—Corn Syrups;  Prunes *4c strong- 
Declined—Mackerel;  Kerosene;  Sugars  *4c.

'

A X LE  GREASE.

M odoc__ $  doz  60  IParagon...  $  doz  60
Diamond.............   60  jFrazer’s ...............  85

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

Arctic *4 ft cans.................................. doz.  45
75
Arctic 54 lb cans.............................................. 
Arctic *4 fl> cans..............................................  1 40
Arctic 1 lb  cans..............................................2 40
Arctic 5  lb cans__ t .......................................12 00

BLU IN G .

 

Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3................................... .....doz. 
35
Liquid, 4 oz,..................... 
  doz. 
Liquid,8 o z ........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..............................  2 00
Arctic No. 2 
3 00
Arctic No. 3 
4 50

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*‘ 
“ 
BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet................................................. 
Nq. 2 Carpet...........................................  
 
No. 1 Hurl.......  .  ;  ................................. 
No. 2 Hurl  ............................................... 
Pancy Whisk........................ 
Common Whisk..’........................................  

 

2 50
 
2 00
175
1  25

85

2 25

CANNED  P IS H .

 

Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards..................... 110
Cove Oysters, 2  lb  standards....................  1 85
Cove Oysters, 1 lb  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled..................... 1 25
Clams, 1 lb  standards...................................1 65
Clams, 2 ft  standards...................................2 65
Lobsters, 1®  standards............................. 165
Lobsters, 2 ft  standards...............................2 70
Lobsters,  Picnics...........................  
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh standards..................1 20
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards..................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft.................3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard..................... . 
3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..................................3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river....................... 1 60
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river....................... 2 60
Salmon, 1 ft  Sacramento..............................1 50
Sardines, domestic *48................................. 
8
Sardines,  domestic  *4s...............................   12*4
Sardines,  Mustard  *4s.................................  15
Sardines,  imported  *4s— .........................  15
Sardines, imported *4s.................................  20
Sardines, imported 14s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs.............................   50
Trout, 3 ft  brook.........................................   3 00

CANNED F R U IT S .

Apples, 3 ft standards.................................110
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie............. .2 80
Blackberries, standards...............................1 20
Cherries, red...................................................1 00
Cherries, w h ite..............................................1 75
Damsons......................................................... 1 20
Egg Plums, standards.................................. 1 35
Egg Plums,  Erie..............................  
Green  Gages, standards 2ft..... ..................1 40
Green Gages,  Erie......................1................1 50
Peaches, 31b  standards...............................1  75
Peaches, 3 ft Extra  Yellow...................  
Peaches,  seconds...........................................1 65
Pie Peaches 3 ft..............................................1 15
Pears, Bartlett2ft....................................... 130
Pineapples, 2 ft  stand................................. 140
Quinces.........................................................1 45
Raspberries, 2 ft stand.................................1 25
Raspberries, 2ft Erie....................................1 40
Strawberries,  2 1b standards....................... 110

 

CANNED F R U IT S — C A L IF O R N IA .

Apricots, Lusk’s ........ ..................................2 75
Egg Plums.................................................... 2 85
Green Gages................................................2 85
Pears  .............................................................3 00
Quinces......................................................... 3 00

  2 00

CANNED  V EG ETA BLES.

 

 

Asparagus, Oyster Bay...............................3 25
Beans, Lim a.................................................   80
Beans, String....................................... 
 
Beans, Boston Baked.................................. 1 65
Beans,  Stringless.........................................1 00
Corn, Erie......................................................1 15
Corn, Revere................................................. 1 20
Corn,  Egyptian............................................ 1 10
Corn,  Yarmouth...........................................1 20
Corn Trophy................................................. 1 15
Corn, 2ft  Onandago....................................150
Corn,  Acme— ............................................ 1 25
Corn,  Winslow..............................................1 25
Corn,  Excelsior............................................ 110
Mushrooms, French.....................................22@24
Peas, standard  Marrofat............................1 40
Peas, 2 1b Early, small  (new)..................... 1 60
Peas, 2 ft Beaver...........................................     75
Peas, French 2 ft........................................... 23@26
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..................... ...........1.10
Succotash, 2 ft standards........................  
 
Succotash, 2 ft B. & M  ........ . — ............. 1 75
Squash, 3ft  standards.................................1 20
Tomatoes, 3ft Dilworth’s ............................1 05
Tomatoes, 3 ft Jab Bacon............................1 00
Tomatoes, gal. Erie......................................2 95
Tomatoes, Acme 3 ft.......................... 1 09@1 20
G.  D.................... .  35 Ely’s Waterproof  75
Musket............... .  75

CAPS.

CHOCOLATE.

CO FFEE.

.  @25
German  sweet..
.  @40
Baker’s  .............
.  @35
Runkles.............
.  @25
Vienna Sweet...
Green Rio__ 12 @14 Roasted Mex.l7*4©19
Green Java.. .17 @27 Ground  Rio.. 9*4@17
Green Mocha. 25 @27 Ground  Mex. @16
Roasted Rio.. 12 @17 Arbuckle’s __ ...@1554
x x x x ..........
Roasted Java24 @34
...@1554
Roasted Mar.17 ©19 Dilworth’s ...
.. .@1554
Roasted Mocha @34 Leverings__ ...@15*4
60 foot Cotton ...1 75
72 foot J u te __ 1 35
60 foot Jute....... 1  15 150 foot Cotton ...1 50

CORDAGE.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

 

 

Jennings’2 oz......................................$   doz.  1 00
4 oz............................................. 
  1  50
“ 
6 oz.....................................................2 50
“ 
“ 
8 oz...................... 
3 50
“  No. 2 Taper....................................  1 25
“  No.  4  “ 
1  75
“ 
Vi pint  round.........................  
  4 50
...............................   9 00
“ 
l  
“ 
“  No.  8.......................................... 
  3 00
“  No. 10.........................  
4 25
 
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz.  1  40
4 oz.....................................................2  50
6 oz.....................................................4 00
5 00
8 oz.
No. 2  Taper...................................   1 50
No.  4 Taper...................................   3 00
54 pint  round..................................  7 50
“ 
1 pint  round................................... 15 00
“ 
No.  8................................................  4 25
“ 
“  No.  10................................................ 6 00
Faucets,  self measuring.........................  @2 50
Faucets, common.....................................  
@ 35

Vanilla.

FA UCETS.

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F IS H .

F R U IT S .

Whole Cod.....................................
Boneless Cod..................................... 554@754@8/4
75@3 00
Herring 54 bbls.JOO ft.........................2 75@3 00
28@30
Herring Scaled........................................  
28@30
@1 15
Herring Holland.....................................   @115
@1 00
Bloaters.................................................   @1 00
8 00
White, No. 1,54 bbls....................
4 00
White, Family, 54 bbls.................
1 10
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................
1 25
Whise, No. 1,12 1b kits.................
4 75
Trout, No.  1,54  bbls....................
90
Trout, No. 1,12  1b  kits................
6 00
Mackerel, No. 1,54 bbls...............
1 00
Mackerel. No. 1,12 lb  kits..........
2 75
London Layers, new....................
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 50@2 60
754@754
New Valencias Raisins....................... 
Dehesia.........., ......................................   @3 25
Ondaras..................................................  @11
Turkey Prunes......................................  654@634
Currants.......,.........................................   554@6
Citron......................................................  18@20
Dried Apples  .......... ..............................   8  @854
Richardson’s NO. 2  square........................... 2 70
.....................>.....2 65
Richardson’s No. 3 
do 
......... .................. 170
Richardson’s No. 6 
do 
Richardson’s No. B  do 
.................. ............2 70
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
................................170
Richardson’s No. 9 
............2 55
Richardson’s No. 4 round............. J.......... ..2 70
....................... 
.2 55
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................1 70
Richardson’s No. 754 do 
Electric Parlor No. 17.................................... 3 80
Electric Parlor No. 18......................................5 70
Grand Haven, No. 9....................................... 2  40
Grand Haven, No.  8....................................... 1  70

MATCHES.

do 

20 gross lots special price.

M OLASSES. 

*

Black Strap...................................................  @18
Porto  Rico.....................................................30@35
New  Orleans, good...................................... 40@50
New Orleans, fancy.................................... 56@60
Syrups, Sugar.........................................27@35@45
18 51b  pkgs...........................’. ............ 
@3 75
3621b  pkgs..............................................   @325
Imperial bbls......................................... 
5  75
Quaker bbls.......................... .................  
6 76

OATM EAL.

TEAS.

@30
@38
@50

Pure Maple..........................10 gal kegs  @  80
Pure Maple..........................5 gal kegs  @  85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............54 bbl  @  95
Pure Loaf Sugar............. .  5 gal kegs  @1 90
Japan ordinary.  23@30
Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japanfair__ ... ,32@35
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fine........... 40@50
Congo..................  @30
Japan dust..........15@20
TOBACCO—F IN E  CUT.
Our  Bird............................... . . . ......
Peaches ............................................
Morrison’s  Fruit.............................
Don’t Give Me  Away.....................
Victor................................................
Diamond  Crown.............................
@57
Red  Bird........... ...............................
@52
Opera Queen....................................
@40
@45
Sweet Rose.......................................
Green  Back......................................
@38
F ruit............. ...................................
@33
O So  Sweet.......................................
@31
Prairie Flower.................................
@65
Climber [light and  dark]...............
@62
Matchless.........................................
@65
@69
Hiawatha.........................................
Globe.............................................
@70
May Flower.....................................
@70
Hero..................................................
@45
A tlas............................................
@35
Royal Game.....................................
@38
Silver Thread..................................
@67
@ 554
Seal............................................ .
@60
Kentucky................ ........................
@30
Mule Ear..........................................
@67
Peek-a-Boo.......................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo, 54  barrels...................
Clipper, Fox’s.........................................  @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............  @30
Fountain.................................................   @74
Old Congress...........................................  @64
 
Good Luck................................  
@52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away............................. 
 
@35
Hair Lifter............................................  
@30
Old Glory, light......................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark.....................   @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.....................   @60
B. F. P.’s Favorite.................................  @50
Old Kentucky................ 
@50
Big Four,  2x12................ 
 
@50
Big Four, 3x12.........................................  @50
Darby and Joan, all sizes..................... 
  @50
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12...............................   @50
Blackbird, 16 oz.,  3x12..........................   @34
Red F ox..................................................  @50
Big  Drive................................................  @52
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @48
Glory  ..................... 
@50
Durham...................................................  @48
Silver Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark].......................................   @36
Black Prince [Dark].............................   @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star...........................  @50
Climax.....................................................  @50
Hold F ast................................................  @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @50
Acorn......................  
@50
Red Seal................... 
  @48
Crescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
  @35
True Grit........................................ 
Nobby  Spun Roll...................................  @50
Spring.................................. 
@50
 
Crayling, all  styles........ .......................  @50
Mackinaw............................. 
@47
Horse Shoe...........................  
 
@50
lood  Luck....................................  
  @50
Big Chunk or J.T...................................  @40
Hair Lifter...........................  
@37
 
D. and D., black......................................  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @48
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Champion  A ....................................... 
  @48
Sailors’  Solace.................  
@48
Red Star...................................................  @50
Shot Gun.................................................   @48
D uck................................................. 
  @48
Jumbo......................................................  @40
Applejack..............................................  @50
Jack Rabbit................................ 
  @42
A. M................................................. 
  @35

PLU G .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SM OKING.

 

 

 

 

 

 

do 
do 
do 

Chain  ......................................................  @22
Arthur’s Choice......................................  @22
Seal of Grand Radids............................  @25
King.........................................................   @30
Flirt.........................................................   @28
Pug..........................................  
  @30
Ten Penny Durham, 54 and 54.............   @24
Amber, 54 and l f t ..................................   @15
Dime Smoking.......................................   @22
Red Fox Smoking..................................   @26
Lime Kiln Club..................... 
  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut............  @90
Vanity  Fair............................................   @90
Dim e........................................................  24@25
Peerless...................................................  @25
Standard........ r .......................................   @22
Old Tom...................................................  @21
Tom & Jerry...........................................  @24
Joker........................................................  @25
Traveler...................................................  @35
Maiden.....................................................  @26
T opsy........................ 
@27
Navy Clippings......................................  @24
Honey Dew ............................................   @25
Gold Block..............................................  @32
Camp Fire  ............................................  
@22
Oronoko.................................................  
@19
Nigger  Head........................ 
  @26
 
Durham, *4 ft
@60
*4 f t ........................... .............
@57
*4 f t .........................................
@55
l f t ....................................  .
@51
Holland............................t ....................
@22
German...................................................
@16
Long Tom..............................................
@30
National...................................................
@26
T im e................................................. .
@26
Love’s Dream.......................... ..............
@28
Conqueror.......................... . >...............
@23
Fox’s .......................................................
@22
Grayling.................................................
@32
Seal Skin........ ......... ..............................
@30
16@30
Dime Durham....................................
@25
Rob Roy........ ....................... .................
@26
Uncle  Sam....................... .....................
@28
Lumberman...........................................
@26
Railroad Boy...........................................
@37
Mountain Rose.......................................
@20
Good Enough.........................................
@23
Home Comfort, J4s and  *4s..................
@25
Old Rip, long cut..................................
@60
Durham,  long cut.................................
@60
Two  Nickle, %5......................................
@25
@26
Two  Nickle, *4s.....................................
Star Durham...........................................
@25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................
@40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................
@52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................
@50
@48
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...
@50
Big Deal, *48  longcut............................
@27
Apple Jack, *£s  granulated.................
@24
King Bee, longcut, *£s and *4s...........
@22
Milwaukee Prize, *4s and *4s...............
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__
@24
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, *£s and *48...........
@28
Rattler, longcut......................................
Windsor cut plug..................................
Mule Ear.................................................
Hiawatha..........................................
Old Congress...........................................
Acme........................................................

SHORTS.

VIN EGA R.

Pure  Cider..............................................
White Wine.................................. ........

10@12
10@12

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

1776 $  f t ...................................................  ©10*4
Gillett’s $  f t ..........................................   @7*4
Soapinepkg............................................  
7@10
Boraxine $  box......................................  @3 75
Pearline $  box.......................................   @4 50
Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun”......................  1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75  I W ilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ..............1 75  I National...............1  75

YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Blacking.........................................30, 40, 50@60
do  waterproof.......................... 
  150
95
Bath Brick imported............................  
75
do 
A m erican....................... 
Barley...................................... '.............. 
@3*4
110
Burners, No. 1 .....................................  
do  No. 2 .................:..................  
150
Bags, American A ..;............................ 
20 00
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand................... 8 10
Curry Combs W doz............................... 1 25@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star......................•...................  @15*4
Candles,  Hotel........................................  @16*4
Chimney  Cleaners  doz......................  @50
Chimneys No.  1...................................  
  @35D
@46
No. 2.................................. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lft packages. 
@26*4
@27*4
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & *4 ft  do 
. 
Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 ft cases...  @  11
Extract Coffee,  v. c............................... 
95
F elix........................... 1 30@
Flour, Star Mills, in b bls..................... 5 75@
in Sacks....................... 5 50®
Flour Sifters $  doz...............................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each................................ 1 25@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps............. *........  @40

do 
do 

do 

’«VI

do 

Gum, Spruce...........................................
Ink $  3 dozen  box..................................1
Jelly in Pails...........................................
do  Glass Tumblers 38 doz..................
Lye 38 2  doz. cases..................................1
Macaroni,  Imported..............................
Domestic.................................................
French Mustard,  8 oz 38  dozen............
Large  Gothic............1
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallons...................12
Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons............... 14
Peas, Green Bush...................................1
do  Split prepared..............................
Powder,  Keg...........................................5
„  do 
Vi Keg...................................... 3
Sago  ........................................................
Shot, drop................................................1
do  buck..........................   *........ '" 2
Sage..........................................
Tobacco Cutters each..[[[[[[[[[[[l
Twine.............  
.................................
Tapioca............................
gross..............[[[[[[
Wicking No. 1 
do  No. 2  .....................................
do  Argand..................... [[[[[[[ .1

36@40
00@
@ 0 
@75 
55@ 
@13 
@ 5V, @80 
35@ 00@ 
00@ 
50@
@ 3*4 
50@
oe@
90®
15@
@15
25@
18@23
5@6
@40
@65

5@6

50@

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follow s:

STICK .”
Straight, 25 ft  boxes..............................
..............................
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
...............

do 
do 

@10
@10*4
@12

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Royal, 25 ft pails.................................   @10V&
Royal, 200 ft bbls................................. . 
10
. 
............. 11^4
Extra, 25 ft  pails............. ............. 
Extra, 200 ft bbls........................ ..[[[[[[[ 
q
French Cream, 25 ft pails.!...[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ .14 
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.....................!..,!!!!!![1 4
Broken, 25  ft pails 
11*4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls
10*%
Lemon Drops..............................  
14
." .15
Sour Drops................................ 
Peppermint  Drops...............................[[[[[.16
Chocolate Drops.............................. ...,!.!..!lT
H M Chocolate  Drops......................... ..[.‘.’"go
Gum  D rops...............................................[[[liS
Licorice Drops......................................... [[[[[[[[ [20
A B Licorice  Drops................................'!!!! 14
Lozenges, plain.......................................[[[[[[16
Lozenges,  printed...................................... [ [ [ 17
Imperials....................................................... ‘..i6
M ottoes......................................................:::.i6
Cream  Bar...................................................[.1 5
Molasses Bar.............................................. .[..[[. .14
Caramels...................................................... .[[[[[ [20
Hand Made Creams..........................I[[[[[[[[ [23
Plain  Creams.............................................[[[[20
Decorated Creams.................................. ..,..[[[ .23
String Rock............................................... [[[[[.[ .16
Burnt Almonds........................................*.[[[[" *24
Wintergreen  Berries..............[ .[ [...[.[[[[ .16
Lozenges, plain in pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in bbls..................................[13;
Lozenges, printed in pails..................... 
[15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails............... 
14
Gum Drops, in pails..................................  
8
Gum Drops, in bbls.................. ..[[[[[[[[[[[
Moss Drops, in pails................ [.[.[.[[[[[[[[ 11
Moss Drops, in bbls.......................... ,.[[[[["   914
Sour Drops, in  pails..................... .[ .[ .[ .[ .. .12
Imperials, in  pails........................[[[[[[[[[['.14
Imperials, in bbls...................................[[[[[[[[ !lS
O rangesfbox.......................... t...........  @5 00-
Oranges OO 38 box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, $   box.................[  @5 00
Oranges, Valencia $   case..................
Lemons,  choice....................................3 50@4 00
Lemons, fancy...........................................  @4 00
Bananas $  bunch.................................. 2 00@4 00
Malaga Grapes, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl.....................
Figs,  layers  $  ft......................................  12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
......................................  18@20
Figs, baskets 40 ft $1 ft..........................   @14
Dates, frails 
do  ........... ..............  ® 6-
Dates, *4 do 
d o ...................[[[[  @ 7
Dates, skin..................................... [[[[[  @ 6
Dates, *4  skin......................................[  @  7^4,
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 38 ft.....................   7  @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft............. [.  6*4@  7

Fancy—in  Bulk.

FRUITS.

PEANUTS.
Steady.
Prime Red,  raw  <p  ft...........................
do  ...........................  @ 8
Choice 
Fancy 
do  ...........................  @ 9
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  954@10
Fancy H P,. Va  d o ........................... 1054@11

do 
do 

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona. 38 ft__
Almonds, Ioaca,
do  __
Brazils,
d o __
Pecons,
d o __
Filberts, Barcelona
d o __
Filberts, Sicily *
d o __
Walnuts, Chilli
d o __
Walnuts, Grenobles
d o __
W alnuts, California
.
do  . 
Cocoa Nuts, 38  100
Hickory Nuts, large 5®  bu__
Hickory Nuts, small d o __

16@17
9@10

@14
@12*4;
14@15

@4 50-

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as  follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork....................................... $17 75.
Back  Pork,  short cut.................................  17 75
Family Clear Pork, very cheap................   19 00
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer................  19 75.
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City....  19 75
Extra Clear Pork........................................  19 75
Clear Back Pork, new.................................  20 75
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality.............   20 50.
Standard Clear Pork, the best....................21 25.

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.............. 
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
do. 
Half Cases............... 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 

do. 
do. 

medium................................... 
light......................................... 

Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........  

9*4,
9*4.
9*4
9*4
9I4
9*4,
934

10*4.
10*4
10*4,
10*4
9?4
10
10*4

93£-.
994

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

LARD.

8*4
8% >

LARD IN   T IN  P A IL S .

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

8%

8%
9*4 .
9*4
994

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Shoulders,  boneless............................... 
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon....................................... 
Dried Beef,  Extra..................................  
Dried Beef,  Hams.................................. 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts-,.......  12 00
Rolled Beef, cordless.................................  18 00

13*4
13*4
14
10
9*4,
11*4'
14.
16

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

CANNED B E EF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, *4 doz.

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SMOKED.

incase......................................................  19 00
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 90
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, *4 doz  in case  19 00 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2 90 
do.  2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz.incase 4 00 
Pork Sausage......................................... .........   9
Ham  Sausage...................................  
 
Tongue  Sausage.............................................   H
Uver Sausage........................ 
  8
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................10
Blood  Sausage......................  
 
8
Bologna,  ring...................................................  8*4.
Bologna, straight...................... 
8*4-
Bologna, thick.............. 
8*4
Head  Cheese....................................................   8
In half barrels.................................................  3 90
 
In quarter barrels................................. 
 
in kits..............................................................
In half barrels......................................................50
In quarter barrels.........................................   lVTO
In kits............................................................... 
75
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, subject always to Market changes.

 
P IG S ’  FEET.

T R IP E .

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  7*4® 9*4
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.................  jo  ©11
Dressed Hogs...........................................   g @ 9
Mutton,  carcasses.................................10  @u
Ye«1.................................................... ..[.  8*4® 9*4-
16@18
Pork Sausage in bulk......................[ 
@im|
Bologna....................... ...........................   @iq..

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

15

2 10

O IL .

do. 

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

13
11
75
l 00
75
l 00

PIC K L E S.

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med.......................... ...........7 50
Choice in 54 
...................................... 4 50
small........................... 4 50
Dingee’s 54 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.........................4 25
do 
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  2 60
American qt.  in Glass..................................... 2 00
American pt. in Glass.......................................1 25
C. & B. English  quarts....................................6 00
C. & B. English  pints.......................................3 60
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  quarts.. .6 00
pints__ 3 60
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
American T.D.......................................   90@1 00

P IP E S .

“ 

\  

“ 

“ 

R IC E .

Choice  Carolina................................................6)4
Prime  Carolina................................................. 7
P atna.................................................................. 654
Rangoon............................................................. 534

SA LERA TUS.
DeLand’s pure..................................  
 
Church’s  .................................. 
@554
Taylor’s G.  M................................................@554
Cap  Sheaf..................................................... @554
Dwight’s .......................................................@554
Sea  Foam.............................................................@ 554
S., B. &L.’s  Best..................................................@ 554

 

SALT.

60 Pocket............................... ................ 
28 Pocket..................... ...........................  
100 3 ft pockets.......................................  
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
1 50
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard  Coarse....................................  

2 60
2 40
2 75
1 10
1 75
1 55

SAUCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 54 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, 54 pints......................................  @1 50
Halford Sauce,  large................................  @3 75
Pepper Sauce, red  small.........................  @ 75
Pepper Sauce, green.................................  @ 90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 30
Pepper Sauce, green, iarge ring........   @1 60
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..............................  @ 90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .........................  @1 30
Horseradish,  54 pints.........................,..  @100
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1 30
Capers, French surflnes.......................  @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large............  @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s__   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........   @4 00
Olive Oil, 54 pints, Antonia & Co.’s __   @2 5o

SEEDS.

H em p .............................. ...................... 
Canary..................................................... 
1 45
R ape.................................................. 
Mixed Bird........................................... 

 

554
454
7

  554@6

SOAP.

Kirk’s American  Family........ '. 

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

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

5 40

654
654
6
654
534
554
454
6 75
5
3 70
4 20
3 45
3 75
4 20

.,

90

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........  @3 15
Badger............................................ 60 lbs  @654
Galvanic.....................................................  @4 20
XXX Electric.............................................  @6 50
XXX Borax................................................  @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @ 21
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily....................................   @6 75
Handkerchief.............................................  @4 20
Sidall’s ................................................... 
3 00
Babbitt’s ...............................................  
5 50
4 10
Dish R ag................................................ 
5 00
Bluing...................................................... 
Magnetic.................................................  
4 20
4 50
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon...................................................... 
5 00
5 00
Anti-Washboard....................................  
3 25
Vaterland................................................ 
4 20
Magic........................................................ 
4 00
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
85 
Bogue’s 
6 75
....................... ................... 
White castile bars................................. 
13
12
Mottled castile........................................ 
@ 554
Old  Style.................................................... 
Old Country............................................. 
554
Acme, 7011b  bars......................................  @ 654
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................  @654
Naster, 10o 34 lb cakes...............................   @5 00
Stearine, 100  34 ft cakes...........................  @5 00
Marseilles, white, 100 34 ft  cakes.. a ..  @6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 34 ft  cakes........  @6 25
Mapkin, 25 bars.........................................   @5 25
Towel, 25 bars............................................   @5 25
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............  @6
Palma 601 ft blocks, plain....................  @534
Lautz’s 601 ft blocks, wrapped...........   @7
German Mottled, wrapped......................  @ 654
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................  @534
Blue Danube, 601 ft blocks..................   @534
London Family, 601 ft  blocks.............   @ 5
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........   @3 70
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.........................  @3 85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped......................  @4 00
Climax, 100 cakes,  wrapped....................  @3 25
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.........................  @2 30
Marseilles Castile, 3 doz in  box..........  ©1  25

Lautz Bi'os. & Co.

20@25

SPICES.

 

 

 

STARCH.

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice......................................  12@20
Cinnamon................................. 
Cloves.................................................. 
Ginger........................................................  17@20
Mustard.....................................................  15@35
Cayenne.....................................................  25@35
Pepper 54 ft TP dozen.............................  
75
75
Allspice  54 ft........................................... 
Cinnamon  54ft...................................... 
100
Cloves 54  ft.............................................. 
75
Pepper,  whole.................................... 
@18
Allspice................................................ 
@10
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................  
@654
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package...................... 
@654
@7
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss bulk................................... 
@6
Muzzy Corn l f t ......................................  654@7
Kingsford Silver Gloss......................... 
@8
@854
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 1b  box.......... 
Kingsford Corn......................................  854@854
Oswego  Gloss.........................................  
@654
Mirror  Gloss........................................... 
@654
Mirror Gloss, corn................................. 
@654
Piel’s Pearl..............................................  @4
@554
Niagara Laundry, 401b box,  bulk....... 
@5
Niagara Laundry, bbls, 186  fts..........  
@7
Niagara Gloss, 4011b packages............ 
Niagara Gloss, 36 3 $   packages.......... 
@6
Niagara Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate__  
@7
Corn, 401 ft  packages..........................  
@754
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................  
@654
10 oz  Gloss..............................................  @334
3 1b  Gloss.................................................   @6
6 1b Gloss, wood boxos..........................  
@7
Table Corn...................................... 40 ft 
@654
Table  Corn..................................... 20  ft  @7
Banner, bulk............................. ............. 
@4
Hovey’s 1 ft Sunday Gloss.................... 
@754
Hovey’s 3 ft Sunday Gloss...................  
@75
Hovey’s 6 ft Sunday Gloss, wood box. 
@8
One Mrs.  Potts’  Polishing  Irons  given  free 
with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch.
Jugs$  gallon.— ........ 
  @8
Crocks................... 
7
Milk Crocks............................................  
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above 38 dozea.......   50
I X L ............. .........5 501
Granulated  ........................................... 
@754
Cut Loaf....................................   ........... 
@8
Cubes......................................... 
  @854
Powdered..............................................  
@8
Conf. A ...................................................  @6  %
Standard A ............................... ,........... 
@6  1
Extra C................................................... 
654@6:
Fine C..................................................... 
5%@6
Yellow C.................................................   554@534
Corn,  Barrels.............................................  @
Com, 54 bbls................................................  @
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...................................  @ 35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs....................................   @1 80
Corn, 454 gallonkegs.............................  
Pure Sugar  Drips............. .............. bbl  32®  35
Pure Sugar Drips.........................54 bbl  35@  40
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Maple.................................54 bbls  @  80

STOVE P O L IS H .

STONEW ARE.

SY RUPS.

SUGARS.

 
 

 

 

 

 

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E>r\>  (Boobs.

Spring &  Company quote as fiL«wo : 

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4.
Androscoggin, 8-4.
Pepperell,  7-4.......
Pepperell,  8-4.......
Pepperell,  9-4.......

Pepperell, 10-4... ...25
Pepperell, 11-4... ...2734
Peq-iiot,  74........ ...18
Pequot,  84........ ...21
Pequot,  9-4........ ...24

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

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz............. 11
Otis Apron............. 1034
Otis  Furniture.......1034
York, 1  oz...............10
York, AA, extra oz.14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown__ 7
Jewell briwn..........9 Vi
Kentucky brown.. 1034 
Lewiston  brown...  934
L a n e   b r o w n .............. 934
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Avondale,  36............ 834
Art, cambrics, 36.. .1134 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  834 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 1234
Ballou, 4-4...............  734
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott, 0 . 4-4............  834
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.........934
Boott, R. 3-4...........   5%
Blackstone, AA 4-4  734 
Chapman, X, 4-4—   634
Conway,  4-4..............7%
Cabot, 4-4.................. 734
Cabot, 7-8.................  634
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  734
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.10
Davol, 4-4...............  934
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  834 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........ 12
Gold Medal, 4-4 ....  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........634
Gilded Age............... 834

Alabama  plaid__ .  8
Augu s ta plaid....... .  8
Toledo plaid.......... -  734
Manchester  plaid.
New Tenn.plaid.. .11
Utility plaid.......... .  634
COTTONS.
Greene, G.  44....... .  534
Hill, 44.................. .  834
Hill, 7-8.................. .  734
Hope,  44...............
King*  Phillip  cam-
brie, 44............... .1134
Lin wood,  4-4........ .  9
Lonsdale,  44........ .  834
Lonsdale  cambric.1134
Langdon, GB, 44.. • ■934
Langdon,  45.......... .14
Mason ville,  44— .  934
Maxwell. 4-4.......... .1034
New York Mill, 4-4.1034
New Jersey,  44... .  8
Pocasset,  P. M. C. .  734
Pride of the West. .1234
Pocahontas,  4-4... .  834
Slaterville, 7-8....... .  634
Victoria,  ÁA........ .  9
Woodbury, 4-4....... .
Whitinsville,  44.. .  734
Whitinsville, 7-8... .  634
Wamsutta, 4-4....... . 1034
Williams ville, 36.. .1034

JE A N S .

Armory..................  734|Kearsage.................  8*.
Androscoggin sat..  834 Naumkeagsatteen. 834
Canoe Biver...........   6  Pepperell  bleached 834
Clarendon.  ............  634 ¡Pepperell sat..........934
Hallowell  Imp.......634 Rockport..................   734
Ind. Orch. Imp.......  634 (Lawrence sat..........834
Laconia..................   734iConegosat...............  7

Albion, solid............534
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........534
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 534
Allen’spink............ 634
Allen’s purple.........634
American, fancy.... 534
Arnold fancy......... 6
Berlin solid............... 534
Cocheco fancy. . — 6
Cocheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone.............. 8
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............7

Gloucester..............6
G lou cost ermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy. . . .6
Hartel fancy.........6
Merrimac D............ 6
Manchester............6
Oriental fancy....... 6
Oriental  robes....... 634
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond............... 6
Steel River..............534
Simpson’s ............... 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Appleton A, 4-4—   8 
Boott  M.4-4— ....  734
Boston F, 4-4..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  734 
Continental D, 40 in 834 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  534 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  634
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8............634
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  7
Dwight Star, 4-4....  7%
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5%
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.........634
Indian  Orchard, 1-4 734

Indian Orchard, 40.  834 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........1634
Lyman B, 40-in.......1034
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  634
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
Nashua  R, 4-4........  734
Nashua 0,7-8..........  734
Newmarket N ........   734
Pepperell E, 39-in..  734 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7
Pepperell  0,7-8___ 634
Pepperell N, 3-4—   634
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R...............  734
Saranac  E.............  9

DOM ESTIC GIN GHA M S.

Amoskeag  ..............   8  Renfrew, dress styl  934
Amoskeag, Persian 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
styles ,V7................1034  Bookfold..............1234
Bates........................  754 Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........1234
Berkshire...............  634
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles......................9
Glasgow checks, f’y  734 
White Mfg Co, stap  734
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
royal  styles........   8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston.......... ......934
standard.............  734
Gordon........ ........  8
Plunket....................734
Greylock, 
,  dress 
Lancaster.................834
styles  ........ 
Langdale.................. 734
W ID E BLEACHED  COTTONS.

checks,
new

.1234

 

 

Androscoggin, 7-4..21 
iPepperell.  10-4.....2754 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23  ¡Pepperell,  11-4..... 3234
Pepperell,  7-4........20  Pequot,  7-4...........,,21
Pepperell,  8-4........2234 Pequot,  8-4....v ...24
Pepperell,  9-4........25  • |Pequot,  9-4...........2734

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4.........7*4
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7
Atlantic  D, 4-4.........634
Atlantic P, 4-4........   534
Atlantic LL, 4-4—   534
Adriatic, 36.............   734
Augusta, 4-4............  634
Boott M, 4-4...........  734
Boott FF, 4-4..........  734
Graniteville, 4-4—   634 
Indian  Head, 4-4...  734 
Indiana Head 45-in. 12 34

Amoskeag,  AC A ... 14 
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Amoskeag,  A .......13
Amoskeag,  B .......12
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Amoskeag,  D ....... 1034
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Amoskeag, F ..........  934
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Premium  B ............16
Extra 4-4.................. 16
Extra 7-8.................. 1434
Gold Medal 4-4.......15
CCA 7-8.................... 1234
CT 4-4........................14
RC 7-8........................14
BF 7-8....................... 16
AF 4-4....................... 19
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Cordis  ACA, 32.......15
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
Cordis  No. 4............1134

Lawrence XX, 4-4..  834
Lawrence  Y, 30__ 7
Lawrence LL, 4-4...  534
Newmarket N ........   734
Mystic River, 4-4...  634
Pequot A, 4-4..........8
Piedmont,  36..........  7
Stark AA, 4-4..........  7%
Tremont CC, 4-4__ 534
Utica,  4-4................ 9
Wachusett,  4-4.......734
Wachusett, 30-in...  634

Falls, XXXX..........1834
Falls, XXX.............1534
Falls,  BB................1134
Falls,  BBC, 36........1934
Falls,  awning........19
Hamilton,  BT, 32.. 12
Hamilton,. D ......... 10
Hamilton,  H ......... 10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA..........1334
Methuen ASA........18
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Omega A, 4-4......... 13
Omega ACA, 7-8__ 14
Omega ACA, 4-4__ 16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
Omega M. 7-8........22
Omega M, 4-4......... 25
Shetucket SS&SSW 1134 
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Shetucket,  SFS....12
Stockbridge  A .......7
Stockbridge frncy.  8

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 
Spring & Company  quote  as follows: 

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

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@  90
©  90
@  85
@  70
@  65
@  8234
  @  70
©  8234
@  65

@1 00
@1 00
@1 00
©  9734

 

HEMPS.

ALL WOOL  SUPERFINES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford........................................... 
@  7734
Lowell..................... 
@  8234
 
Other  makes.................................. .  75  @  7734
Best cotton chain............................  60  @  6234
Best  2-ply.........................................  5734©  60
Other grades 2-ply..........................   5234©  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4234© 45
Double cotton chain.......................   35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @ 3234
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2734© 3334
Single cotton chain.........................  19  ©  25
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........   2734©  30
B, 4-4 wide......................................... 
©  22
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
@  1834
D, 33  inches...................................... 
@-  17
No. 1,44,54,64 and 84.................. 
@  45
No. 2, 
@  3734
..................  
No. 3, 
..................  
©  30
@ 25
No. 4, 
..................  
Best all rattan, plain.......................  
@  6234
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
@ 5234
Napier A ........................................... 
@  50
©  40
Napier  B ........................................... 
Opaque shades, 38 inch.................. 
@  15
@  18
Holland shades, B finish, 4 4 .,....... 
Paeilic  Holland, 44........................ 
  @  10
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
@36
Cord fixtures, per gross................. 
@10

OIL CLOTHS.

CURTaiNS.

MaTTINGS.

do 
do 
do 

MILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:

HA TS.

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

BLACK  CR A PE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand.

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

50@2 00
75@2 50
25@4 50

 

RIBBON S.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second quality, all colors.

No. 4...................................................................   40
No. 5...................................................................   50
No. 7............. 
70
No. 9...................................................................   85
No. 12..................................................................  90
No. 16................ 
1 10

 

Silk Fabrics  in China.

In a brochure on the trade of China which 
has just been published in Rome, the authors, 
Signori Rossi and Rottini, say that  there is a 
good prospect that the Chinese  will  become 
important competitors with European manu­
facturers in the  production  of  silk  fabrics. 
At  present  the  weaving  industry  is  very 
backward in China, and Chinese fabrics,  al­
though made from the best silk, cannot com­
pete in many markets.  Sensible progress is, 
however, being made, and the erection of im­
portant silk-spinning  mills  under  European 
management is being followed by satisfactory 
results in this  direction.  Three  such  mills 
are already  in  operation  in  Shanghai,  and 
others are in course of erection  there.  The 
annual production of these mills is about 55,- 
000  kilogs.  The  leading  members  of  the 
personnel are Italians, but the female opera­
tives are all Chinese;  and although  they are 
not equal in skill to the female operatives of 
Italy, they are superior to them in discipline 
and endurance.  Three other  spinning-mills 
of the same kind are in operation  at Chefoo, 
Edie, and  Macao.  The  last-named  factory 
was formerly  in Canton,  but  was  removed 
because of manifestations of  ill-will  by  the 
government and people on account of the in­
troduction of machinery.

A clerk in an  Alleghany  dry-goods  store 
says that the ordinary striped  bed-ticking  in 
a  terrible  crime. 
It  is  mattress-liide,  he 
says.

“FEATHERBONE.”

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

...  5 Empire........"....
Garner.............
...  5 Washington....... ...  43£
Hookset...........
Red  Cross........ ....  5 Edwards...........
Forest Grove...

...  5
S. S. & Sons........ ...  5

G R A IN   BAGS.
...19 Old  Ironsides... ...1534
American  A ...
Stark A ............. __ 23341 Wheatland......... ...2134

DENIM S.

. . .1034
Boston.............
...1434 Warren  A X A ......1234
Everett blue...
...1434 Warren  BB....... ...1134
Everett brown.
Otis  AXA........ ....1234 Warren CC........ ...1034
Otis BB............. ....1134 York  fancy....... ...15

Otis  CC.........

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Manville...........
Masgnville.......

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

W IG AN S.

t

Red  Cross........
Berlin..............
Garner.............

...  734 Thistle Mills.......
...  734 Rose.................... ...  8
...  734
SPO O L COTTON.

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

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25 
.40
Merricks 
Stafford.................. 35
Hall & Manning__ 30
Holyoke...................25

Grown................ ..17 Mason ville TS.......
No.  10.................. ..12* Ma8onville S.........
Coin................... ..10 Lonsdale..............
Anchor................ ..15 Lonsdale A .............
Nietory  O.............
Centennial..........
Blackburn ......... ..  8 Victory J ..............
Davol................. ..14 Victory D.............
London............... ..1234 Victory  K.............
Paconia............. ..12 Phoenix A.. .J.......
Red Cross.......... 10 Phoenix B.*.........
Social Imperial-. .1« Phoenix XX.....  ..

.10
»34

Our  description of Michigan’s  new indus­
try,  “Featherbone,”  having  attracted  very 
general  interest,  we  give  a few additional 
items in connection with the  merits  of  this 
new and valuable substitute for Whalebone. 
Mr. E. K. Warren,  of  Three  Oaks,  the  in­
ventor, speaking of the merits  of  “Feather­
bone,” says that the raw material from which 
it is manufactured, viz.,  Quills,  is  nature’s 
strongest and lightest substance, for all birds 
and  fowls  from  which  Quills are obtained 
are more or less “birds of flight.”
The  peculiar  structure  of the  Quill  ren­
ders it so  strong  and  elastic  as  to  be  un­
breakable.  The  grain  on  the  inside  runs 
lengthwise with the  Quill,  and  bn  the  out­
side around it;  so no matter in  what  direc­
tion the Quill, or the  new  article  manufac­
tured from it, “Featherbone,”  is  bent,  it  is 
always with one of these grains, and  cannot 
be  broken. 
“Featherbone,”  cannot  be  in­
jured by  perspiration or  boiling  water,  and 
I has no odor whatever, 
j  A stock company has  been  organized  for 
I its  manufacture, 
called  “The  Warren 
Featherbone Company,” with  John V.  Far- 
welt  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  as  the wholesale 
agents.  About thirty persons  are  now  em­
ployed, nnd this number will be  rapidly  in­
creased.  Corsets,  Health  Waists,  Sugical 
i Appliances and other  articles  will  soon  be 
| manufactured containing  Featherbone Cord,
1 but  at present the factory  will  be  taxed  to 
I its  utmost  capacity  in  producing  what  is 
called  “Commercial  Featherbone,” which  is 
a flat blade about the width of  stick  whale­
bone and is put up in neat boxes  containing 
12 yards, which can be cut with  shears  into 
any desired length. 
It is proving to  be  far 
superior to Whalebone for  Dresses,  Waists, 
etc. and is highly valued by all  ladies  who 
have used it

Ifoarbware.

Prevailing  rates at Chicago  are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND BITS.

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

Spring.........................,..............................dis 

25

Railroad........................................................$ 15 00
Garden.......................................................net 33 00

BALANCES.

BARROWS.

BELLS.

Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow..........................................................dis 
60
15
Call........................................................... dis 
Gong........................................................dis 
20
Door, Sargent........................................dis 
55

BOLTS.

BRACES.

 

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

B arb er..................................................dis 
Backus.......................................... 
  dis 
Spofford...................................  
dis 
Am. Ball.................................................. dis 
BUCKETS.

 

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

$ 40
50
50
net

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured........................ dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  60&10
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin..............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.......*...dis.  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped.................................................. dis  60& 5
WroughtTable....................................... dis 
60
Wrought Inside Blind.......................... dis 
60
Wrought Brass.......................................dis  65&10
Blind, Clark’s..........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s.......................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.................................... dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x234, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10.................................................per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................................  
60
G. D........................................................ 
35
Musket................................................... 
60

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

50
50
34

CATRIDGES.

CHISELS.

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

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

33}4
25

PLANES.

PANS.

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

Fry, Acme...............................................dis 40&10
Common, polished.................................dis 
60
Dripping................................. 
RIVETS.

Iroh and Tinned.....................................dis 
Copper Rivets and Burs........................dis 

40
40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

“A" Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1034 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs 34c $  ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

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

Sisal, 34 In. and larger............................$ $   934
Manilla.........................,..................................  15

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Steel and  Iron..............................................dis  50
Try and Bevels..............................................dis  50
Mitre  ............................................................dis  20

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth.  Com.

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

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

In casks of 600 lbs, $   ft............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   ft.....................  

TINNER’S SOLDER.

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

TIN PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

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

 

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game.....................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s........ dis  34
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ............................... ........................   60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................ ...............$1 26*$ doz

Bright Market...........................................  dis  60
Annealed Market........ ..............................dis  60
Coppered Market......................................dis  55
Extra Bailing............................................ dis  55
Tinned  Market......................................... kis  40
Tinned Broom...........................................$  ft  09
Tinned Mattress..................■....................$  ft  834
Coppered  Spring  Steel........................... ais3734
Tinned Spring Steel..................................dis 3734
Plain Fence................ , .............................$  ft 334
Barbed  Fence.-....................................... .........
Copper.......................... ....................new  list net
Brass..................................................new  list net

634
7

13 00
15 00
16

WIRE GOODS.

Brass,  Racking’s........................................  40&10
Bibb’s ..........................................................  49&10
B eer..............................  
40&10
Fenns’......................................................... 
60
 

 

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

ford.

COMBS.

COCKS.

COPPER.

DRILLS.

28
18

50

Planished, 14 oz cut to size....................... $  ft  37
39

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

 

Morse’sB it  Stock................................dis
...dis
Taper and Straight Shank..............    .dis
...dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk...........................dis
.. .dis

ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6  in................
Corrugated.............................................dis
Adjustable............................................dis

. doz net $110
__ dis 20&10
__ dis 40&10

35
20
30

EXPANSIVE BITS.

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

dis
.  dis

FILES.
American File Association List........dis
__ dis 40&10
dis
Disston’s ................................. 
__ dis 40&10
New American.................., ................dis
__ dis 40&10
Nicholson’s................................... 
....dis 40&10
Heller’s ..................................................dis
30
__ dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... dis
__ dis
3334

.dis

 

Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

GALVANIZED IRON,
14

22 and 24,  25 and 26,

26,  27
12 
15
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50 
coal 50.

13 

GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

Stanley Rule and Lveel Co.’s .......

__ d is,

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

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

HANGERS.

HINGES.

Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3..............................diS 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  534  14
and  longer.............................................. 
4 25
Screw Hook and Eye,  34  ...................net 
1034
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net 
834
Screw Hook and Eye  %......................net 
734
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net 
734
Strap and  T...........................................dis  60&10

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
JapannedcTin  Ware.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
25

HOES.

KNOBS.

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

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

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

LEVELS.

MILLS.

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

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

MATTOCKS.

NAILS.

Adze  Eye......................................$16 00dis40M0
Hunt Eye............................... 1... $15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 50
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 6d  adv................................................ 
76
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine  advance.............................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1  75
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. $  keg 

)  lOd  8d 
6d  4d
2 
134
234 
$1 25  1 60  1 75  2 00 
MOLLASSES GATES.

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

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

MAULS.

OILERS.

Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent........................ dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom.................>.........dis  60
Brass or  C o p p e r,,.....¿ ..'................d is  40
Reaper.......................... . ....... .per gross, 112 net
Pirns'

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Co&’s  Genuine..................................... dis  50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  wrought........... dis  65
¡Coe'SPat.,  malleable.  .............................. dis  70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern...................................dis  60&10
70
Screws........................................................ 
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers, American................................. 
3334

20
25

A  Watch  Made to  be  Pounded.

From the New York  Sun.

When a visitor to the office of the  Ameri­
can Bank-Note Company sat down to talk  to 
Mr. Lee, that gentleman put a piece of white 
paper  under  a  stamp,  pounded  on  it,  and 
laid the paper aside.  When the visitor arose 
to go away Mr. Lee put the paper under  the 
stamp  again,  and  pounded  it  once  more 
“You talked  eight minutes,”  said  he,  “that 
wasn’t bad.”  He showed the piece of paper 
to the caller, who  saw  upon  it two  printed 
clock dials.  One showed  the  hand  at  four 
minutes to 4 o’clock, the other showed  them 
at 4 minutes past 4 o’clock.  “We  keep that 
stamp, he said, “so that you  can’t  go  away 
and say that you came at  11  o’clock  in  the 
morning, or that you had to wait  an hour  and 
a  half,  or  make  any  other mis-statements 
which can be guarded against.”

“No,”  he  added,  a minute  later,  “that 
stamp is the latest wrinkle in office furniture. 
It is an ordinary stamp with a clock  attach­
ment.  The  hour  hand  is  simply  a  raised 
point upon a  movable  circle.  The  minute 
hand is an arrow on  another  revolving  cir­
cle.  The  usual  inked  tape  passed  over 
these indicators and the outer circle of  hour 
figures.  Beside the clock face is a  cylinder 
with several faces, each bearing a word; one 
is ‘approved,’ another is  ‘wired,’  another  is 
‘answered,’  others  are  ‘delivered,’  ‘Lee,’ 
‘received.’  Thus  a  business  man  is  able 
whenever he sends away  a  letter,  telegram 
or package, receives  an  order,  or  transacts 
any business  whatever,  to  record  the  pre­
cise moment at which the  thing  was  done. 
It costs $20. 
I  thought 
it.”

I did not invent it. 

chine.

sleigh.

Patents Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors. 
M. E. Campany, Muskegon,  thill-coupling 
A. C. Dearing, Detroit, lubricator.
Chas. DougJass, Detroit, broom.
Gordon Earl, Pierson,  shingle-sawing  ma­

E.  A.  Harding,  Harbor  Springs,  bob­

George Lenhart, Detroit, rotary  pump. 
Orson Millard, Flint, electric-battery. 
William A. Pendry, Detroit, puppet valve. 
Abraham Shaffer,  Cassopolis,  gang-plow.
F. E. Tower, Milford,  seed-drill.

Correct, Enterprising and Independent. 

From the Northwestern Lumberman.

The Lumberman was pleased  on  Thurs­
day to receive a call from Mr. E.  A.  Stowe, 
editor  and  proprietor  of  The  Michigan 
Tradesman,  of Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  As 
the  readers of this journal have beèn before 
informed, our opinion of this Michigan]trade 
paper is a very high one. 
It  is  correct,  en­
terprising and independent, and we ore glad

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Wholesale  Grocers,

CORNER  IONIA  &  ISLAND  STREETS.

DPa/tent Egg Q ases <& F illers

M e ssrs  P ,  «T.  T«AMB  eft?  OO.

Have  been  appointed^manufacturers’  agents  for  Western  Michigan  for  the  Lima  Egg 
Case Co., manufacturers of the  best,  strongest  and  most  durable  cases  and  fillers  in  the 
market, and will quote prices on application, both for  fillers and egg cases complete.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

Bennett Bros., Cadillac.
G.  Sinclair, Bangor.
Geo. S. Curtiss, Edgerton.
J. R. Harrison, Sparta.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
Louis Kolkema, Holland.
Winnie Bros., Traverse City.
Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
Fred  Morley, Cedar Springs.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
O. F. Conklin, Coopersville.
A. T. Burnett, Cross Village.
O. Naragang, Byron Center.
Dr. A. Hanlon,  Middleville.
Dr. J. E.  Gruber, Altona.
C. H. Adams, Otsego.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
Dr.  Holland,  of  Holland  &  Ives,  Rock­
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
Fisher & Mastenbrook, Lamont.
L. A. Dunlap,  Vermontville.
H. P. Dunning, Allegan.
Wm. H. Hicks, Morley.
P. L. Kimball,  Plainwell.
J. H. Spires,  Luther.
G. Miller, Muskegon.
Mrs. W. P. Dockeray, Rockford.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
John Meijering,  Nordoolos.
McLeod & Troutman Bros., Moline.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
S. T. McLellan,  Dennison.
L. E. Paige, of Paige & Anderson, Sparta.
G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.
M. C. Hayward,  Wayland.
Mr. Wilson, of Wilson, Luther &  Wilson, 
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
C. Cole,  Ada.
A. Lee Smith, Crystal.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
K. L. Kinney, Maple.
I.  S. Boise, Hastings.
Bert Tinkler, Hastings.
Thomas Cooley,  Lisbon.
J. Omler,  Wright.
Geo. Pixley,  Henrietta.
Wm. Snelling, Six Corners.
Porter & Webb, Cannonsburg.
Plumb & Sons, Plumb’s Mills.
M. Potter, of Kellogg & Potter,  Jennison- 
L. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
H. Bakker & Sons, Drenthe.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
E. Pryce, Agt.,  Chase.
F. N. Edie, Casnovia.
W. F. Stuart, Sand Lake.
J. C. Parris, Kent City.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Frank B. Watkins,  Monterey.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
A. G. Chase, Ada,
B. Wynhoff, Holland.
Mr. Lily, of Lily & Vosberg, Allegan.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
Terry O’Laughlin, Big Rapids.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
F. E. Davis, Berlin.
Louis Kolkema,  Holland.

Luther.

ville.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

FOR  SALE.

A  GENERAL. STOCK,  dry  goods, clothing, 

boots and shoes and groceries, with store 
I  have  also  shaved 
building  and  dwelling. 
shingles-and  pine,  lumber  and  a  quantity of 
stove  wood  for  sale.  Address  D., care The 
T r a d e s m a n , Grand Rapids, Mich.
A  BIG  BARGAIN.  A  stock  of  groceries, 
J\_   dry goods, drugs, etc., for sale cheap for 
cash.  Apply  to  A.  Mulholland,  Jr.,  Ashton, 
Mich.
RARE  CHANCE  to  purchase  a  first-class 
Livery Stock including  one  of  Cunning­
ham’s best hearses.  Will take as part payment 
good  improved  farm  property.  Will sell  or 
rent barn and grounds.  The  best  location in 
the best livery town  in the State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

\ \ T  ANTED—A  situation  in a tin shop.  Can 
W   work  in  store  if  necessary.  North of 
Big  Rapids  preferred.  Address,  Box  42,  St. 
Louis, Mich.
A S TYPEWRITER OR COPYIST, by a young 
i i   lady  well  qualified  for  such a position, 
both by education  and  experience.  Address, 
XXX, care Miss Sila Hibbard,  35  First  street,

100 lbs.

skim  10c@llc. 

$16 7$ ton.
now readily commands $1.35 
Elgin creamery 22c.

COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Asparagus—60c 7$ doz. bunches.
Bailed Hay—Scarcer and firmer  at  $15@ 
Barley—Scarcer and firmer.  Best quality 
Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth  18c. 
Butterine—About out of market.
Beans—Handpicked are scarce, and  read­
ily  command  $2.25@$2.35.  Unpicked  are 
not much moving.
Cabbages—Southern new,  $8.50  7$  crate 
of about 4 dozen.
Cabbage Plants—50c 7$ 100.
Full 
Cheese—Light 
cream 13>£c.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  $6 
@$6.50 7$ bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $6.75  7$ bu.
Cucumbers —Tennessee stock 60c  7$  doz.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c ^  
ib,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow atl23<@14c.
Eggs—Firm and ready  sale  at 15c.  This 
market is higher than any other.  Eggs  are 
jobbing in Chicago at 13%c.
Green Onions—25@30c ^  dozen  bunches.
Honey—In comb, 18c 'p lb.
Lettuce—In fair demand and firm at 20c 
ib.
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at  12%c 
for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.
Onions—Bermudas  have  advanced,  and 
are firm at $2.50  ^   crate.
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
at 2c 
Potatoes—Moving off easily at 40@45c for 
Rose and 45c for Burbanks.
Peas—Holland $4 ^  bu.
Parsnips—Out of market.
Poultry—In scant supply.  Fowls  readily 
Radishes—35c ^  dozen bunches.
Strawberries—Jobbing  at $3.25@$3.35 

command 16@18c.

crate for Illinois fruit.  The market is  very 
uncertain, and fluctuates in  sympathy  with 
the  supply.
Seed Oats—White English Sovereign, 75c.
Seed Potatoes—White  Star, $1.50 ^  bbl.; 
Selected  Burbanks,  50c;  Early  Ohio,  50c; 
Beauty  of Hebron, 50c.
Squash—Southern white readily command 
$1.75@$2 
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.60@ 
$1.85 ^  bu.  Fancy, $2.
Tomatoes—Bermuda, wrapped, selling for 
$4.50 ^  crate of 50 lbs net.
Tomato Plants—50c^ 100.
Vegetable Oysters—40e ^  dozen bunches.
Wax Beans—$2.50@$3.50 IP box.  Green 

box of 50 ft>s. net

lb.

$1.50@$2.50.

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EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN

JEWELER,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,
MICHIGAN.
MICHIGAN  COMMERCIAL TRAILERS’  ASSOCIAI
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in Force for 

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

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

THE  DRUMMER.

A  Sketch  of this,Very  Numerous  Individ­

ual by  One  Who  Knows.

A St. Ignace correspondent  of  the  Mus­
kegon News has the following to say  of  the 
attributes and peculiarities of  the  traveler:
For the purpose of killing time I  will  ad­
dress a few  lines  to  your  Royal  Highness 
and give you a  description  of  a  creature  I 
frequently meet  He is a species of Nomad, 
called a  Drummer.  Natural  history  does 
not describe  him. 
In some  way he  has  es­
caped notice of the scientific naturalist,  not­
withstanding “he is a  very  numerous  indi­
vidual.”  We have  no  correct  data  of  the 
time of his first  appearance  in  this  “mun­
dane  sphere.” 
In  fact,  no  man  can  tell 
• where the everlasting drummer comes from, 
and  no  one  knows  where  he  will  go  to, 
either in this world or in the  next 
If  any­
thing was ever created  to  puzzle  the  devil 
my opinion is that the  drummer  will  do  it 
most effectually.

Some  uninformed,  ignorant  people  have 
ventured to assert that his cheek is  made of 
brass, but the waiter girls at the hotels won’t 
believe a word of it  They say he’s a splen­
did fellow, and affords them lots  of  amuse­
ment,  which  makes  life  something  worth 
living for, and we presume they'know.  My 
opinion is that drummers all  are  lineal  de­
scendants of Job, with  some  important  im­
provements  on the old man,  for  while  they 
are  endowed  with  fully as  much patience 
they have more perseverance, and know  lots 
that Job never dreamed  of.  Solomon was a 
wise man in his time,  but  there  are  drum­
mers who would have made him believe that 
the “widow’s son” was a  girl.  What  some 
drummers  don’t  know,  isn’t  taught in  the 
colleges.  There are people so narrow-minded 
that they consider  a  drummer  a  sort  of  a 
bore, but you will  always  find  people  who 
are hard to please  and  such  people  would 
quarrel with their wives, if they  had any  to 
quarrel with.

Any drummer who  understands  his  busi­
ness will tell you who will be our next  pres 
ident,  and  come  within a baker’s dozen  of 
the majority he will have.  He  also  knows 
within  three-quarters of a  cent  how  much 
every man in the country  is  worth;  knows 
every marriageable young lady in  the  coun 
fry, and how much filthy lucre her dad  will 
shed on her when she weds her  Charles Au­
gustus ;  can tell you who keeps the best  ho 
tels, and where the best drinks are to be had 
and in fact will tell you any  amount of val 
uable  things,  if  he takes a “shine” to  you 
He will travel further over worse roads, and 
in worse  weather  than  any  other  man  in 
Christendom  if  he  thinks  he’s  sure  of  an 
order.

Now, if  you  desire  information,  wealth, 
health, and to respect yourself,  don’t  abuse 
a drummer, for in less than five  minutes  he 
can make  you think you are  low  bred,  un­
healthy, and short-lived, if  you  once  offend 
him.  My advice is always make your peace 
with the drummer,  and keep  it  up.  Don’t 
abuse him when he calls on you, nor  do  not 
attempt to wear your boots out on the seat of 
his  trousers,  because  it  isn’t healthy  busi­
ness.

The  Swiss  as Silk  Manufacturers.

Stuck away in their  mountain  fastnesses 
the Swiss have at all  times  been  assiduous 
and  clever home  manufacturers,  especially 
in watches and watch material, until machin­
ery was so extensively and  successfully  ap­
plied to watch  making  in  its  minutest  de­
tails in this  country  that  it  revolutionized 
this business on both  sides  of  the  Atlantic 
and  partially  undermined  an  industry  of 
which the Swiss had made  a  brilliant  spec­
ialty uninterruptedly successful for the  past 
two hundred years.  Seeing that the monop­
oly of the watch trade  was  escaping  them, 
the Swiss applied with all the greater energy 
to silk manufactuie, which is so well  adapt­
ed to occupy entire families at home, and  to 
Sbme extent it has proved a  happy substitu­
tion for watch and watch  material  making. 
If within the past two  years  a  good  many 
Swiss silk manufacturers failed in  business, 
it was due to  speculation in  silk  and  over­
production of the raw  material  involving  a 
great decline in value, and not  to  unrmeun- 
erative  manufacturing.  A  recent  report 
says that no less than 60,000 persons are  en­
gaged in  the  industry  in  Switzerland,  and 
most of them in their own  homes.  Zurich 
alone has 33,000 looms, of which  3,000 were 
power looms in 1882.  At Basle  the  ribbon 
industry  occupies  6,000  looms  and  12,000 
workmen.  About 10,000 of the looms work­
ing  for  Zurich  are  in  other cantons.  The 
totpl silk production of  Switzerland  is  val­
ued at about  $17,000,000.  Less  than  one- 
third  of  the  product  comes  to  the  United 
States.

Hair-Cloth  Mills.

There are but  four  in  the*whole  of  the 
United States, the largest being at Pawtuck­
et, R. L, where out of about 400 looms 20,000 
pieces are produced, 40 yards long, and from 
12 to 36 inches wide,  value  about  $600,000. 
Black  is  chiefly  called  for,  but  gray  and 
white cloths are also made, which,  however, 
are more costly than black because of its being 
necessary to sort the stock.  The other three 
mills are much smaller, one being situated at 
Newark, N. J., another at Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 
and a third one at  Philadelphia.  The  total 
annual production is  1,100,000 yards;  value, 
$826,000.

Grand Rapids creditors of  the  suspended 
Albany lumber firm of Nichols & Mills  will 
be  interested  in  knowing  that  they  owe 
$191,000  and  have  the  means to pay  $37,- 
176.

ALL  SORTS.

Ruggles & Co.,  Charlotte,  have  just  laid 
the foundation for a large furniture  factory.
The assignee of M.  H.  Myers, of Cassop- 
olis,  has  made  a  first  dividend  of  20  per 
cent.

The assignee of D. F. Wadsworth  &  Co., 
of Ispheming, paid a 10 per cent, dividend to 
the creditors on the 27th.

F. F. Ward,  Prairieville,  has  closed  out 
his dry  goods  and  grocery  stock,  and  will 
hereafter  confine  himself  to  the hardware 
business.

Fred  Stedman,  shingle  manufacturer  at 
Stanton, has failed, but as yet no assignment 
has  been  made,  He  has  giveu  Hawley  & 
Pratt,  to  whom  he  owes  several  thousand 
dollars,  possession  of  the  mill,  who  will 
operate  the  same  until  their claim is  satis­
fied.

Good Words Unsolicited.

A. C. Barclay, grocer, Reed  City:  “I  am 

well pleased.”

B. Moore & Co.,  grocers, Hart:  “We  like 

the paper very much.”

Myers Bros., druggists, Gobbleville:  “We 

find it a very useful help.”

Jas. N. Hill, groceries and crockery, Plain- 

well :  “It fills the bill all O. K.”

Robert Rouse, general dealer, Pearie:  “I 

think it splendid and all right.”

J. A. Sheffield, grocer, Yestaburg:  “I  be­

lieve I would be lost without  it.”

Wm. Gardner, grocer,  Boyne  City:  “The 

paper is all right.  Send it along.”

L. G.  Ripley,  druggist,  Montague:  “It  is 
the best paper of its class I have ever seen.”
Sisson & Leach, grocers,  Freeport;  “We 
can’t do without it,  now we  know  its  use­
fulness.”

R. A.  Hyde,  general  merchandise,  Man- 
ton:  “The Michigan Tradesm an suits me 
first rate.”

F.  A.  Jenison,  general  dealer,  Manton: 
“Enclosed find  SI  for  the  good  you  have 
done  me.”

Lamson  &  Bentley,  grocers,  Harbor 
Springs:  “We are well pleased with the pa­
per, and we hope you will have success.”

K. L. Kinney, Maple  Hill:  “I  find  your 
paper of great use to me in my business, and 
think every dealer ought to be  a  subscriber 
for it.”

H. T. Lewis, general  dealer,  Hersey:  “I 
have been well pleased with  The  T rades­
man, and I think it is the best Jpaper  of  its 
kind I have ever taken.”

W. S. Barnard,  grocer,  Lyons:  “I  think 
T he Tradesm an well worth what  you ask 
for  it,  and  it  would  be  a mean  man that 
would take it  and not pay for it.”

Duff  Jennings  &  Co.,  general  dealers, 
Sheridan:  “Don’t stop sending at the end of 
the  year;  and if we do  not  remit  on  time, 
dun us again, and that will fetch us to time. 
We consider  T he  Tradesm an  a  paper of 
value to every retail  dealer.”

t.  T I N K L E R ,
Wholesale Dealer in  Batter  and  Eggs.

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HASTINGS 

MICH.
Satisfaction Guaranteed,_________
JOSEPH  ROGERS,

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W holesale  Dealer In

BUTTER,  EGGS, AND  POULTRY.

HASTINGS 

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—And Dealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades, Room Mouldings,

Artists’  Materials !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

GRAND  RAPIDS

Flower Pots i Hanpig Vases
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

MANUFACTURED  FOR

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

H IND  OR  MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOR 

SAE BT THE  PACKAGE  OR  RE­

PACKED  TO  ORDER.

Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 

Price List  at once for the Spring Trade.

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91  Canal  St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

ff. T. LAMOEBAOI, Acent
ALABASTINE!

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

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Faint  Dealers.

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M. B. CHURCH, Manager.

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY
Granii  R ais  Wire  Works

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

M ICHIGAN.

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

ALBERT  COYE  k  SONS,
Awnings,  Tents,

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers,

Flags, Banners, Etc.

AE  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

VST*  Send for Prices.

A.  A.  G R IF F E N ,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Gaps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W O R E  !

92  MONROE  STREET.

jam.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,
FLAVORING  BITBACTS  !

—Manufacturers of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

A  New  Textile Fiber.

A matter of more than  curious  import  to 
our textile interests is the claim now made by 
prominent  French  experts  that  they  have 
finally solved the problem of extracting  the 
fiber of the China-grass  plant  in  a  manner 
which they believe will insure the extensive 
use of this material.  The value of the  fiber 
has long been known. 
It is found in  India 
and China, but the former country has shown 
the greater  natural advantages  for its  com­
mercial  production.  For  several  years  a 
small quantity of hand-picked fiber has found 
its way  into  England  and  France,  but  its 
price has  been  altogether  too  high  for  its 
practical use in factories.  On two occasions 
the Indian  Government  has  offered  prizes 
of £5,000 for any machine which  would  ex­
tract the fiber from  the plant  under  condi­
tions  essential  to  commercial  success,  but 
without accomplishing the end  so  earnestly 
desired.  Now Messieurs Fremy and Favier 
claim to have  perfected  a  mechanical  pro­
cess  after  several  years  of  experiments, 
which  will do  the  work  satisfactorily.  A 
syndicate  has  established  factories  near 
Paris, in which  the  inventions  are  said  to 
have been fully tested, and it is now propos­
ed to form a company to work the patents on 
an extensive scale, and to develop  the  culti­
vation of the  Chinese-grass  plant in  India. 
The fiber of the plant is  well  known  to  be 
exceedingly  long  and  fine,  and  having  a 
greater  strength  than  flax,  with  which  it 
would most directly compete. 
It  has a  fine 
silky lustre, and takes dye readily, bleaching 
to purest white.  It may be spun and woven 
on machines used in  flax  manufacture,  and 
yam of this plant will, it is said, be  produc­
ed at half the cost of flax yarn.  It possesses 
a further advantage over flax in the fact  that 
combings or noils are relatively  much  more 
valuable than the tow or flax, as  from  their 
wooly nature and strength they may be used 
in the manufacture of shoddy and  of  paper. 
The invention, if  it  proves  successful,  is  a 
very important one. 
It may result,  as  now 
so  confidently  claimed  by  the  interested 
parties, in giving to the  world  a new mater­
ial,  which  shall  some  day  be  extensively 
used by textile manufacturers.

It seems that  there is no limit to the  pos­
sibilities of  invention  of  trade  deceptions. 
The most recently exposed is one  by  which 
calf and other skins  are  made  to  resemble 
very closely alligator skins by a very  ingen­
ious process.  A  photograph  having  been 
made of a genuine alligator hide, a copy of it 
is produced in bicoromated  gelatine,  which 
gives in relief all the curious markings,  and 
from this latter relief representation a metal 
die is readily executed.  This die is  pressed 
heavily on the cheap leather with the  result 
of making it look so like the  leather  manu­
factured from the skin of the alligator as  to 
deceive experts unless it  is  handled  or  ex­
amined.  Any suitable stain can be  impart­
ed to the fictitious product

Wm.  King, a  rich London  merchant,  de­
vised  the  following  shrewd  and  curious 
scheme to prolong the period  of  his  declin­
ing years :  He willed $1,000 to his physician, 
with the proviso that the sumbe doubled every 
year that the testator should  be  kept  alive. 
The second year the sum became $2,000 ; the 
third year,  $4,000;  the  fourth,  $8,000;  the 
gfth, $16,000 ; the sixth, $32,000 ; the seventh 
$64,000;  the  eighth,  $128,000;  the  ninth 
$256,000;  the tenth, $512,000.  Mr.  King’s 
death  occurred  a  few  weeks  ago,  nearly 
eleven years after the inception of the agree­
ment, and his physician has  since been paid 
the handsome sum of $750,000.

“Yes, 1 do want a collector,” said the mill 
inery man, “but I don’t think a  lady  would 
suit me.”  “Why not?” asked the female ap­
plicant.  “I could not only do  your  collect 
ing, but also assist in the store, for I am well 
qersed in this  business.” 
“That  may  be. 
but there is another great objection.”  “What 
is it?”  “Well, I don’t think a woman would 
make a first-class collector'.”  “Give me your 
reasons.”  “Bee  u 
’  answered  the  mer­
chant, as he grinned a raise-the-plumes-fifty- 
cents-apiece smile, “because  woman’s  work 
is never dun, you know.”

They make an asbestos thread in Italy, and 
this has been imported and very ingeniously 
manufactured,  woven  into  a  rope, in Eng­
land, which is much  sought after when very 
strong rope is not required and where  there 
is liability to fire, theaters, etc.  Its breaking 
strength,  at the average make of 1)4 inches, 
is but about one-fourth that  of like make  of 
hemp.  This industry  has  already  become 
quite  a  prominent  one  in England,  and 
would pay well were it introduced here.

The price of grocers’ wrapping  paper  has 
advanced about 25 per  cent.,  mainly  on  ac­
count of the scarcity of rye straw.  It is said 
that three-fourths.©f the mills  will  soon  be 
compelled to shut down, for on looking over 
the straw  market they find that  the  supply 
is not equal to that of last year.  Many mak­
ers have large stocks on  hand,  and  are  not 
anxious  to  dispose  of  them  at  present 
prices.

A German paper says that  a  roof  can  be 
made fire-proof by covering it with a mixture 
of lime, salt and wood ashes, adding a  little 
lampblack  to give a  dark  color.  This  not 
only guards against fire,  it  is  claimed,  but 
also in a measure prevents decay.

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

It costs the citizens of Augusta, Me., $2,000 

a year for chewing gum.

C5 We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 
as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

B L U IN aS ,  ETC.,

K E M IN K ’S

40 and  42  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  

MICH.

“Red Bark Bitters’

-AND-

WE  DO «SLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK H D   BSE  SO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly -at­

tend«! to.

78 West Bridge Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

\ 

Vi'.-. 

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FOSTER,
STEVENS

-WHOLESALE—

HARDWARE

10  and  12  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE.

And NOT the Consumer’

We are Manufacturer’s Agents for the

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Town Jewel  Yapr  Store!

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue:

S Z L & D Q T 7 A H T Z R S

-FOR—

Sporting  Goods

-A N D -

OUT  DOOR  GAMES.
Base Ball Goods,
Marbles, Tops,
Fishing Tackle, 
Croquet, Lawn Tennis, 
Indian Clubs,
Dumb Bells,
Boxing Gloves.

We wish  the  Trade  to  notice  the  fact  that 

we are

And  are  not  to  be  undersold  by any house 

in the United States.

Our Trade Mark Bats
BEST AND CHEAPEST

—ARE  THE-

In the Market.

Í3P“  Send for our New  Price  List for  1884.

Order a  Sample Lot  Before Placing a Large Order.

EATON,  LYON  &  ALLEN,

20 and 22 Monroe  Street,

GRAND RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

We are Manufacturer’s Agents  for

U. FEETER,

36 South  Division  Street, Grand Rapids, Mich, 

Dealer  in

AU liiils oT Goutrr Mnce

—Also—

STAP LE   A N 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.

Jl

Manufacturers of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 
Bluings, Etc., Etc

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

Jewett’s Bird  Cases

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue-

We are Manufacturer’s  Agents  for

Jewett’s  Filters,

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue-

We are also Headquarters for

Grand  Rapids  Wheelbarrows  and

Bacon  &  Priestly  Express  Wagons,
All of which  are  sold  at  factory  prices.  We 
would he  pleased to  send  catalogue  to those 
wishing to buy.

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

Foster,StevensICo.

