The Michigan Tradesman.

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VOL.  1.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4,  1884.

BESIDE THE  ANTE.
Every one at Falaise  knows the  story of 
the  mother of  William  the  Conqueror by 
heart.  They trouble  themselves very little 
about the results of modem  investigation in 
regard to  the  real  facts  in  the  case, these 
good  folk of Falaise.  They  see no  reason 
for doubting any part of the story they have 
always known.  They  will  show you with 
pride the beautiful old Church of  Saint Ger- 
vais, and  its  not  distant  neighbor  in the 
Grande Place, La  Sainte Trinite; but  they 
will bid you look longest at the great bronze 
statute of the Conqueror in the center of the 
Grand Place.  And it is well  worth  looking 
at.  The  Norman  hero  is  mounted  on a 
spirited'horse, represented  as  plunging im­
petuously forward, and  the  king, in  suit of 
mail, and with visor up and grasping a lifted 
lance and pennon in his hand,  is turning, as 
if to beckon on an army to victory.

“It is mostjwonderful,”  the  folk  of Fal­
aise will say to you, as you and they gaze at 
the warrior figure of whose history  they are 
so proud.

But  they have  more  to  show  you  than 
this; for then they will  take you  on up the 
hill and through the arched  gateway of the 
castle.  On the  ramparts  is  a quiet  grassy 
walk,  well  shaded  by  trees;  and there is a 
school up here above  the  town, and  an old 
twelfth-century chapel.  But  you  have not 
been brought to look at  these.  You go, in­
stead, into  the  castle-keep, and  there  you 
will be shown a double-arched window with 
a stone pillar in the center, and  looking out 
of this  you will  gaze  into a  deep,  narrow 
valley  very  far  below,  through  which 
winds  the  River Ante,  its  surface  visible 
only here and  there  among the  trees.  On 
the other side frowns a steep range  of hills, 
the steepest  of all  being  known  as  Mont 
Mirat.

“From this window,” says  your  compan­
ion,  “Count Robert first  Saw  Arlette;” and 
then you are told how the youth of eighteen, 
looking down into the  valley  of the  Ante, 
saw the women and* girls washing clothes in 
the stream, just as you see them  doing now, 
eight centuries later, and  among  them saw 
the beautiful Arlette, the tanner’s  daughter, 
and seeing, fell in love.  You  look  down at 
the women below.  You  can  just catch the 
sound of their voices,  but  you  cannot  dis­
tinguish one from  the  other. 
If the  story 
you have heard is true, love,  in Robert’s case 
at least, was not blind, but  most  extraordi­
narily sharp-sighted.  Be that as it  may, he 
afterward made her Duchess of  Normandy, 
and you are shown a little cell in the  castle 
where their son,  the  Conqueror, was  bora, 
unless the historians are fight who  say that 
William was not born in this  castle  at  all. 
Afterward you will be  taken  to  the top of 
Talbot’s tower, a hundred feet  higher,  from 
which a most magnificent view can  be had; 
but since this tower,  built by  the  English 
King Henry the Fifth, can in  no  way be as­
sociated with  William, it  has  but  little in­
terest for your Falaise companion.

Another day you go to the  washing-place 
beside the  Ante, and watch the  women and 
girls chattering and laughing at their  work, 
and you think of the young Robert  catching 
sight of his beautiful  Arlette  in  just such 
another group of workers eight centuries be­
fore.  Here the river runs through  a sluice­
way,  made for the use of the  washers,  and 
here are great  square  tanks  heaped  high 
with soaking garments, the whole  protected 
from the weather by sheds.  Each  one pays 
three sous a day for the privilege of washing 
here, but must  furnish  her  own  soap  and 
carrosse for beating the  clothes,  so  one of 
the white-capped women  will  perhaps  in­
form  you.  Beyond  are  open-air  tanks, 
where those who have no three sous to spare 
may wasli for nothing.  You wonder if there 
is an Arlette  among any  of  these  women. 
They are not very beautiful, you think.  But 
as you stand at the  arched  entrance of  the 
washing-place you do not see all the women, 
and, even if you could, you would not know 
which was named Arlette,  if there were one 
of that name there.  Yet there is an Arlette 
there, and if you had been told of it, I think 
it would not have been difficult  to  discover 
her.  Arlette must be beautifui  to  bear out 
her right to the name, you imagine; and you, 
within the archway, are not much impressed 
with the faces  you  see.  But this modem 
Arlette is among the poorer  women  beside 
the Ante, and too far off for you to  see her. 
There has always been an Arlette among the 
women at the river, for it is a  favorite name 
at Falaise,  and sometimes  there  have been 
several;  but at present there  is  but  one— 
Arlette Lechasseur, the daughter  of a shoe­
maker in the Faubourg St.  Laurent.  Well 
she knows the story of Arlette, the  tanner’s 
daughter, and very proud she is of her name. 
We have only tradition to assure us that the 
first Arlette was beautiful,  but  it  needs no 
second  glance  to convince us  that  Arlette 
Lechasseur is so.  If only there was another 
Count Robert to see.  But she has too much 
sense to expect a count  or any  other  noble 
personage to come  and  make  love  to  her 
there beside the Ante, even if she is  pretty.
“Where is  thy  Count  Robert,  Arlette?” 
the other women sometimes say to her at the 
tanka, but her only response is a good-natur­
ed laugh.

Yet she has dreams of her own, neverthe­
less.  Not exalted ones, to be sure, but they

sweeten existence to her.  Last  year, at the 
fair in the  Faubourg  of  Guibray, she  met 
some  one that,  perhaps—  Alas, poor Ar­
lette never gets beyond the “perhaps” in her 
thoughts!  The  thrifty  Norman  does  not 
often marry a girl who can bring  him  noth­
ing, and the Lechasseurs are  very poor.  So 
Arlette’s  musings  do  not  stray  beyond  a- 
“perhaps,” as I said before; but people learn 
to be content  with a  very  little, and it 
is 
pleasant to have one’s dreams.

From her washing-place  she  looks  up at 
the great cliff on  which  the  castle  stands. 
Except for a few patches of furze and heath­
er, the gray rock is almost bare,  and  which 
is cliff and which is  castle  wall is  hard  to 
tell, for the wall is at the edge of  the  cliff, 
and seems as if it might  be a part of  it, so 
worn and gray  is  its  surface.  And,  high 
above all, the Talbot tower  appears  almost 
to touch the sky.  Arlette has often  been to 
the very top, but she does not  like  looking 
down into the valley so well as gazing up at 
the castle-crowned cliff.  From where she is 
plying her carrosse she can see  Count Rob­
ert’s window and the  vine  sprays  hanging 
down from the opening.  Then  she  thinks 
of the tanner’s daughter and Count  Robert. 
Now and then she can see some one  leaning 
from the window and looking down into the 
valley,  as that handsome stripling may have 
leaned and  looked  eight  centuries  before. 
But she does not  imagine  that  any one can 
distinguish her from the  other  women  be­
side the Ante.  She  knows  very  well that 
the distance is too great for that now.  Per­
haps eyesight was better in  Count  Robert’s 
time she thinks.  But the day  comes when 
some one looking down from Count Robert’s 
window does see her.  It is a young  Ameri­
can, finishing a year of  travel in  Europe by 
a walking tour through Normandy, burdened 
only by knapsack and field-glass.  Some one 
at Caen has told him  that  he  must  surely 
visit  Falaise, and  so  he  has  come to  the 
castle, and now, looking  through  his glass, 
at one object after another, his  gaze  has at 
last rested on Arlette  at  her  washing-tank 
beside the Ante.  The  glass is a powerful 
one, so that lie can see her very distinctly as 
she beats the soaped linen with her carrosse, 
and afterwards rinses  the  garments  in the 
clear running water;  and he  watches her a 
long time.  At last, however, he  puts down 
his glass, and,  after giving his  guide  a fee, 
he comes down from the castle  alone.

that he would like to be measured for a pair 
of easy walking-shoes.

“They  must be  very  easy  and  comfort­

able,” he says,  “for I walk a great deal.”

“But yes, Mensieur,” responds the  father 
of Arlette, “I  know  what you  would  have. 
Come 
in,  and it  shall  be  done  at  once. 
Arlette,' my child, thou wilt have  the  good­
ness to measure Monsieur’s foot  immediate-
iy.” 
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The honest shoemaker is a  little  excited
at this sudden order from  a  foreigner,  and 
speaks hurriedly.

“Arlette, my  daughter,  is  more  precise 
than I can be with  the  measurements,”  he 
explains to his visitor.  “Her eyes are much 
younger than mine, thou must know.”

. 

The other smiles at this.  He is very well 
suited with this arrangement, and so Arlette, 
blushing a little—for it is a new  experience 
for her to have  dark  eyes  bent on  her  so 
earnestly as now—does as her father desires.
“Remember, I am very  particular,”  says 
the young man when she  had  nearly  com­
pleted her task.  “I should  not like  to  be 
badly fitted.  Will it not be  best  to  repeat 
the measure so as to be sure?”

“But yes, Monsieur,” responds Guy, “it is 

best to be sure.”
It is very pleasant, this unlooked-for little 
incident, and the young  man  determines to 
enjoy it.  Arlette, kneeling  before  him the 
better to do what she is about,  ventures one 
shy glance at his face, but finding  him look­
ing tenderly at her,  bends  down her  head. 
Yet on no pretext can he prolong  the  situa­
tion further, but after Arlette is  through he 
remains to talk with the girl and her father.
“Falaise is very  beautiful,” .  he  says  to 
Arlette, after Guy has returned to  his work 
and the girl,  at  her  father’s  request,  goes 
with him a few steps to point  out  a  nearer 
way to the Hotel  de  Normandie  than  the 
route by which he came.

“Does Monsieur really think so?” 

is  her 
response.  “I am very  glad,  for  Monsieur 
must know that I love Falaise.”

“Yes,  it is very  beautiful,”  he  repeats; 
“but 1 know what is  much  more  beautiful 
still,” he adds; and there is no mistaking his 
meaning, even if the little pressure  he gives 
her hand had been omitted.

“Monsieur must not say such  things,” she 

But it is no youth  of  eighteen  who sees 
this modem Arlette, but a man at least eight 
years  older,  who  has  looked  upon  many 
beautiful faces  before  this.  Why  should 
this one attract him especially?  But it does 
interest him, and he means  to  see more  of 
it, as Count Robert  likewise  resolved  long 
before.  But the American is quite as hand­
some as any  Medisevai  count can  possibly 
have been, though,  as  his  figure is  rather 
under the  middle  size,  Count  Robert  was 
probably the taller of the two, on the  gener­
ally accepted principle that mediaeval heroes 
were men of commanding height.  But the 
clear olive complexion, dark  hair  and  eyes 
and delicate mustache, sweeping  upward at 
the ends in long curves, Count Robert  prob­
ably did not boast.  More than  one  woman 
had looked at this young American with ad­
miring eyes, and he knew very well  that he 
was  handsome—perhaps  had at  one  time 
been a little vain of  the  fact^but  now, at 
twenty-six, he merely accepts  it  as a  piece 
of good fortune.  Any  one  looking  at the 
firm curves of the mouth would see evidences 
of abundant strength of purpose.  "Whether 
it would be exercised with any higher  aims 
than obtaining  his own way  was the  ques­
tion.  He had always had  it  without much 
trouble,  and he was not  more  selfish  than 
most men.

As he goes down the hill his mind is  full 
of this pretty face he has  just  seen.  And 
why not?  He is taking life easily  this sum­
mer.  When he  returns  to  America  his 
work awaits him, into which  he  means  to 
plunge in sober earnest; but at present he is 
enjoying life, and  has  plenty  of room  for 
vagrant fancies in his mind.  But it is a long 
distance down the hill to the  washing-sheds 
beside  the  Ante,  and  he  is  not  familiar 
enough with the  town  to find  the  nearest 
way;  so that,  by the time  he reaches  the 
arched entrance, many of the  women  have 
gone, and among them Arlette.  Those who 
remain glance shyly at him, but he sees only 
that Arlette is not there, and he  goes to his 
rooms at the Hotel de  Normandie  vexed at 
the disappointment.  He meant to have gone 
back to Caen the next day, but  now  he de­
cides to remain  in Falaise another day in the 
hope of getting a nearer  view of the  pretty 
face he has  seen  from  the  castle  window. 
And chance is favorable  to  him  that  very 
day, for, strolling just at sunset through the 
Fauboug St. Laurent,  he sees Arlette  stand­
ing at her father’s door.  The  young fellow, 
mentally noting the nature  of  her  father’s 
business, for Guy  Lechasseur  can  be  seen 
through the entrance busy at his work, takes 
his resolution at once, and,  approaching the 
doorway,  lifts  his  hat  courteously to  Ar­
lette.

“He is very  handsome,”  thinks  Arlette. 

“There is no one  like him in Falaise.” 

“Good evening,  my pretty one,”  says the 
stranger,  “Can I see M. Lechasseur, the cor- 
donnier?”

Hearing the sound of his  name,  old Guy 
comes forward, and the  American explains

says slowly after a pause.

“But I shall say such things, because they 
are true, my pretty  one.  Look  at  me,  Ar­
lette.”
where there is no one but themselves.

They are in a  narrow lane  by this  time, 

“Look at me, Arlette,” he says again.
She does look at him with her sweet, won­
dering face.  In  the  gathering  twilight he 
can yet see the the soft  curves  of her  lips 
and cheeks.  He cannot help it  that he puts 
his arm about her;  and it is all  so  new, so 
strange to her, that she does not  resist him.
“Does Arlette know that she is very beau­
tiful?” he says gently, and then he draws her 
closer to him.

“I must go back  now,”  she  says  simply, 
and so he releases her.  “Monsieur will find 
the way now, doubtless, if he will remember 
to take the next turn to the right,”  she con­
tinues when he has taken away his arm.

“Yes,” he replies, “it will  be  very  easy, 
and  now this for showing me the way,” and 
he puts a silver coin in her hand,  and then, 
moved by a sudden impulse, kisses her once, 
twice, and turns away.

She is not angry with  him  when  she  is 
once more alone.  Something new and sweet 
has come into her life, and it has all been so 
sudden that she is  bewildered  for  a  little. 
But she does not try to analyze her feelings. 
She knows  only  that  this  foreigner,  who 
looks so handsome  and  speaks  so tenderly, 
has told her that she is  beautiful,  and  has 
kissed her.  And that is  quite’  enough  for 
Arlette  now. 
She  wonders, as  she  goes 
homeward,  if Count Robert could have look­
ed like this stranger.  She thinks of him all 
that night, and on the morrow, as she stands 
at her washing-tank beside the Ante,  she is 
thinking of him still.  Foolish little Arlette! 
but what should one  do  when  one  is  but 
eighteen, and has been kissed by  the  hand­
somest man one has ever  seen?  Surely one 
need not be very angry or try to forget.

The morning is half gone  when  she sees 
him entering the  archway to  the  washing- 
sheds, but he does not  see  her.  She hears 
his voice in good-humored passing chat with 
the women there.  What  if  he should  not 
see her!  At  last  he  comes  out  from  the 
sheds toward  the  free  tanks. 
Surely  he 
must see her now.  But he stops  for a word 
with Babette  and  Susette,  with  Dorotbee 
and with Gertrude before he comes  to  her.
“Ah, my  pretty one,” he  says  carelessly, 
as if this were  the  first  time he  has  seen 
her; but a look in his face tells  her  that he 
remembers, and she understands  now  why 
he spoke to all the women on the way.

He has a sketch-book with him,  and now, 
as he leans against a post near her, he takes 
a pencil  and  sketches  rapidly.  Now  and 
then he says a word to her, and  the  women 
near by look at him in the  pauses  of  their 
work with shy, admiring  glances.  At  last 
he holds up a paper.

“Would you like to see, my good friends?” 
he says to the  women; and  then  Babette, 
Susette, Dorothee and Gertrude crowd about 
him and examine his drawing  with  voluble 
exclamations of  delight.

“There thou art, Dorothee,  to  the  life,” 

says one.

“And theré is Sujette,
_| __ H___  

Monsieur has drawnme,  too,”  she adds
great glee.

says another; “and 
in

“Would  you  like to show  this  to  your 
friends  under  the  shed?” 
the 
artist; and this appearing to be exactly what 
they do wish, off go the four  girls,  not  ob­
serving  that  Arlette  does  not  accompany 
them.

suggests 

“See here, Arlette,”  says  the  American 
when they are alone.  He holds up  another 
paper on which he has sketched Arlette just 
as she looked when he saw her at her  fath­
er’s door.

“Am I like that?” she  says  timidly,  and 

blushing a  little.

“Only a thousand times prettier,” he says 
impulsively; and then, while no  one  is ob­
serving them, he showers a dozen  kisses on 
her face and neck.

And what should Arlette do?
Soon the women come back with the draw­

ing.

“They say,” says  Dorothee,  nodding her 
head in  the  direction of  the  sheds,  “that 
Monsieur must make a picture of  them.” 

“Very well,” says the young man; and he 

goes back to the sheds.

He is gone some time, but at  last  Arlette 
hears murmurs of delight  from  the  sheds, 
and she knows that the drawing is  finished. 
Soon afterward he returns.

“Bon jour,” he says to  Susette  and  the 
others.  “Bon jour m a petite,”  he  says  to 
Arlette in a low tone,  as  he  takes  up  his 
cane, which had been left on the ground be­
side her.  “Arlette will see me  again;”  and 
then he goes on his way beside the Ante.

“Bon jour, Monsieur,” scream the women 
after him, when he is  almost  out of  sight; 
and  at this he  turns  and  waves  his  hat. 
They will talk about the handsome foreigner 
beside the Ante for many a long day.

By mid-afternoon Arlette goes  home, and 
soon  afterward an  errand  for  her  father 
takes her away from the house for  an hour.
“Monsieur has been here” says Guy when 
she returns,  “and he would have liked to say 
adieu to thee, for he was going away.”

“Going away?” repeats Arlette faintly.
“But yes, my daughter.  There  was news 
from America that caused him to go  at once, 
he said to me.  And he could not  wait  for 
the shoes, but paid me  the  money  and  told 
me to give them to same  one  who  needed 
them.  I wish him  a good  journey, for  he 
has done well  by me,  and  not  every  one 
would think to remember  that he  owed an 
old  shoemaker  like  thy  father,  Arlette. 
America is over the sea, they  tell  me,  and 
he cannot yet be  half-way  to  Caen,”  con­
cludes the old man, drawing  out his  waxed 
thread  slowly.

Is it really true that she shall see  him no 
more?  This is  the one  thought  that  fills 
Arlette’s mind.  It is  this  that  sends  her 
supperless to bed.  It is this that causes her 
to rise in the morning with eyes that are red 
with weeping, and have not  been  closed in 
sleep the night through.  Foolish  little Ar­
lette, to weep for one who will  soon  forget 
her!  She does not go to her  work that day, 
but a day later sees her back with the others, 
a little pale, but that is ail the difference.

The summer goes and the autumn  comes, 
and the red leaves float  along  the  winding 
Ante.  The women are still  talking  of the 
foreigner who came and  sketched  them all 
so wonderfully one day.

The summer goes and the autumn  comes, 
and the young American is back in  his  law 
office deep in his work and his future plans. 
He has not thought of  Arlette  since  he re­
turned.  His sketch-book lies  on  an  upper 
shelf, where he tossed it when first  unpack­
ing, and he has  not  thought  to look  at  it 
since.  A privileged friend comes  into  his 
office one  morning, and,  turning over  one 
thing after another, lights upon  the  sketch­
book, and taking it down, begins to examine 
its contents.

“By Jove!” he exclaims, “that is a  lovely 
face.  Where did you come across  so much 
beauty, old fellow?”

It is Arlette’s  picture  that the visitor  is 
gazing at.  The other turns to see  what his 
friend has, and suddenly  there  flashes over 
Mm the memory of those two days at Falaise, 
How sweet she  was,  that  little girl  beside 
the Ante!

“It is just a study,” he replies  carelessly, 
“A study?”  repeats  the  friend  incredu 
lously, and then the  drawing  is laid  away 
with the others.

But in replacing the volume the  drawing 
falls unnoticed to the floor, face  downward 
and the office boy that  evening  seeing it lie 
there like a bit of waste paper, tosses it into 
the waste-basket, and later it goes to the rag­
man with the  other paper.

lette is still at her work beside the Ante, and 
the slow seasons  come  and go,  and  life is 
long, and remembered kisses are  sweet. 

Foolish little Arlette!

Naked and  Not Ashamed.

From the New York Tribune.

There  is  unfortunately  nothing  new  in 
adulteration.  We all know that it has  been 
going on for many years, and that  it  is  cer­
tainly  not  an  American  specialty.  More 
than twenty years ago England was  indebt­
ed to Dr. Hassall and The Lancet for an ex­
posure that drew a broad smirch over  many 
reputations and for a time caused the  habit­
ual boasters about the probity of the English 
manufacturer  and  merchant  to  be  silent. 
Parliament, however, took  the  subject  up, 
and legislated promptly for the protection of 
the public, and since that  time  adulteration 
has been diverted to other  lines  of  produc­
tion, such as the cottons of  Manchester,  for 
instance.  But if adulteration is a  compara­
tively old abuse, there is something about its 
manifestations which is not old.  Formerly 
those who practised  these  tricks  confessed 
their immorality by concealing and  denying 
them.  Now all that is  changed,  and  adul­
teration not only plants itself boldly  among 
legitimate industries, but defends and  justi­
fies itself when attacked, and  even  assumes 
an air of injured  innocence.

The makers of bogus butter have exhibited 
a  lack  of moral  perception  in  which  they 
have been swiftly imitated by  other adulter­
ators.  The men who are now charged  with 
sophisticating  coffee  with  deleterous  sub­
stances  at  once  undertake  to  justify  the 
practice be asserting, in effect, that  competi­
tion with dishonesty  renders it necessary  to 
be  dishonest.  The  most  remarkable fact, 
however, is that all the recent detected adul­
terations have been of  articles  largely  used 
for food, and  though  the  use  of  unwhole­
some and in some cases absolutely poisonous 
substances is alleged,  no  qualms  appear  to 
to  have  troubled  the  producers  of  these 
frauds as to the consequences of their action. 
Apparently  the  modem  adulterator  cares 
nothing whether he causes the deaths of any 
number of his  fellow-creatures.  He  is  pre­
pared to use  whatever  drugs,  chemicals  or 
other  substances  may  most  readily  effect 
his  purpose,  and  he does not seem to have 
paused  to [consider  the  possible  effect  of 
what he is using.  He has thrown off all dis­
guise.  He does not make a  pretence of car­
rying on a legitimate business.  He frankly 
avows his immorality.  He  is  “naked,  and 
not ashamed.”

j 

The  manufacturer  of  terra-alba  to  mix 
with good products calmly carries on his vile 
traffic.  The  adulteration  of  groceries,  of 
liquors,  of drugs, of  almost  everything  eat­
able or wearable, is facilitated by the  estab­
lishment of firms who confine  themselves  to 
the preparation of the material  used  in  the 
business;  and so extensive is the trade  that 
these manufacturers make large and constant 
profits.  But there is a peculiarly ugly cyni­
cism in the disregard of concealment in these 
matters.  It seems  to  be  thought  that  the 
world is too busy  to  pause  for  serious  in­
quiry into what it eats and  drinks,  and it  is 
also getting too full for half  the people ever 
to know  that  they  are  being  cheated  and 
poisoned.  But what  is  the  state  of  trade 
morals  that  condones  this  systematic  in­
iquity, that unblushingly takes advantage of 
these omnipresent means  of  fraud?  Adul­
teration in any form is bad enough, but adul­
teration  the  agents  of  which  are  rather 
proud of their work than not, certainly indi­
cates a  laxity  of  commercial  ethics  which 
cannot proceed  much  further  without  pro­
ducing a  catastrophe.

Some tiling New in  Vendor  Wagons.
A man in a blue jumper, who blows  him­
self red in the face at regular intervals  toot­
ing a fish horn, leads a horse of consumptive 
gauntness through the residence streets every 
day.  Behind the horse  is  a  new  vendor’s 
wagon heaped with vegetables and  fish.

“Ere  yar, fish,  wedge-eatables, and hice,” 
shouts the vendor,  letting  the  horse  stand 
still as the customers  flock  around.  They 
see the wagon is something new in the wagon 
line, and has a double bottom.  The  vendor- 
gathers fish  and  vegetables  from  the  top. 
When a customer wants ice he throws down 
the back board and yanks a piece out with a 
hook from a  supply  that  is  snugly  stored 
under the false bottom  on  which  fish  and 
vegetables are spread.

‘This ’ere is a patent wagin,” the  vender 
said, getting ready for a fresh  start 
“Yer 
see, the ice is stored  down  there  where  it 
won’t melt and it keeps the fish and  wedge- 
eatables cool and  fresh  at  the  same  time» 
The  feller  wot  invented  it had a big head, 
yer kin bet.”

NO. 37.

H o w   B u s i n e s s   R e v i v e s .

Last week attention was  called to the fact 
that the prices of many of the prime necessi­
ties of life are very low.  It is now proposed 
to explain  how  it  is  that  low  prices  cure 
themselves, how the very fact that  they  are 
low causes them to advance,—in short, what 
is  the  process  when  there  is  a  revival  of 
business.

An understanding of the  principles which 
govern trade will enable all  to  forsee  what 
must sooner or later take place.  Speculation 
sometimes hastens,  and  sometimes  retards 
the natural process,  but  can never  stop  it. 
The shrewdest speculator is merely the man 
who estimates most accurately what is to  be 
the course of a particular  market,  and  acts 
upon his judgment.

Let  it  be  supposed that the tendency  of 
prices  is  downward,  no  matter  what  the 
cause of that tendency may be.  What is the 
effect?  Every man buys as  little  as  possi­
ble.  Take, for example, cotton goods.  The 
consumers, that is, the families using  cotton 
goods, seeing that times  are  “hard,”  avoid 
the dry goods store as long as they can.

The  retail  dealer,  finding  the  demand 
light, buys of the wholesaler less than usual. 
The wholesaler takes less  than  usual  from 
the  manufacturer. 
The  manufacturer, 
wh'ose mill continues to run full time, makes 
as many yards of cloth as  before, and, as he 
does not sell so much, the stock accumulates 
on his  hands.  By-and-by  the  time  comes 
when  he  feels  he  must  sell at some price, 
and he marks his goods down.

At the decline there is at first a  slight  in­
crease  in  the  amount  purchased  by  the 
wholesaler, the retailer and  the  consumer; 
but soon the old  situation  is  repeated,  and 
again the manufacturer  is  piling  up  goods 
which he canhot sell.  He  cannot  continue 
making them except at a loss,  and  to  avoid 
that, he reduces the wages of his hands.  So 
there is another drop,  both  in  the  price  of 
goods and in  wages.

Since the laboring people now receive less 
than they formerly did, they feel themselves 
too poor[to buy goods, and again the demand 
slackens.  This  time  the  manufacturer  is 
forced, either  to shut  down  his  mill  alto­
gether,  or  to  run  it  on  short 
In 
either case the production is reduced.  Prices, 
meantime, have reached a low point, and the 
demand for goods  is  light.

time. 

But something else has  also  happened  in 
the meantime.  What has taken place in one 
trade has  substantially  taken  place  in  all. 
The demand for finished goods has  been  so 
light that the price of raw  materials has  de­
clined also.  Moreover there are  many  arti­
cles, and cotton goods  is  one  of  them,  the 
use of which may be postponed,  but  cannot 
be dispensed with.  That is, if a family buys 
and consumes less than  usual  this  year,  it 
must buy more next year.

At last it occurs to some far-seeing man in 
the trade that prices  cannot  go  any  lower, 
because the stock on  hand  is  low,  and  be­
cause the times when consumption  must  in­
crease again is at  hand.  This  man  quietly 
gives a large order for goods at a  low  price. 
Another dealer  does  the  same.  The  fact 
that the supply is low begins  to be recogniz­
ed.  Manufacturers put up their prices.

The retailers see that the market has turn­
ed, and make haste to give their  orders  be­
fore the advance has  made  much  progress. 
Consumers take the alarm, and  do the same. 
In this way the courage of a  few  men  who 
act upon a belief that prices are too low,  re­
sults in a sudden revival of business,  and  in 
a reversal of the tendency.  But,  of  course, 
if they have made a mistake, the market does 
not turn,  and  they  lose  money  instead  of 
making it.  Their act is a speculation, and if 
the natural events do not justify it, they suf­
fer the consequences.

It must not be understood that we have been 
describing the real stiuation  at  the  present 
time, in cotton  goods,  or  in  anything  else. 
Nor is it to be supposed that any  prediction 
is made here as to the revival of  business is 
near or remote.  That  is  solnething  which 
every person  must  determine  for  himself. 
The purpose of  this  article  is  only  to  de­
scribe the process  which  always  follows  a 
season of depression,  and which will  be  ob­
served  some  time  again, 
it  may  be  next 
month,  it may be some years hence.
Definition  of a Yankee.

A Yankee is self-denying, self-relying, and 
into  everything  prying.  He  is  a lover  of 
piety, propriety, notoriety, and  the  temper­
ance society.  He  is  a  bragging,  dragging, 
striving, thriving, swapping, jostling,  wrest­
ling, musical,  quizzical, astronomical,  philo­
sophical, poetical and criminal sort of a char­
acter, whose manifest  destiny  is  to  spread 
civilization to the remotest  comers  of  crea­
tion.

And Arlette is still beside the Ante.  She 
never thinks now of the one she met  at the 
fairj in the Faubourg of Guibray, but always 
of him who came so suddenly into her  life, 
with  his  handsome  face  and  his  tender 
words, and who went out of her life as  sud­
denly.  Only two days; but  the  sweet pain 
of those two days will linger  a whole  life­
time in one  tender  little  heart  beside  the 
Ante.  What if she  should  once more  see 
hin| there by the archway!  And she looks 
often that way with a vague hope.

The Arlette  of eight  centuries  ago  was 
happy in her Count Robert,  who  loved her. 
There are  no Counts  Robert now,  and  Ar

A philanthropic young lady asked  a  gen­
tleman friend if he did not think  the  ladies 
of  the  sewing  circles  accomplished  much 
good by  their efforts to aid  the  poor.  Her 
friend  replied,  that  a  meeting of ladies re­
minded  him of  a place where the  blackbird 
told the crows how black the buzzards were.

When  it  was  announced  to  Jay Gould 
eight years  ago  that  James R.  Keene was 
en route in a private palace-ear with $5,000,- 
000 to use in Wall street Mr.  Gould remark­
ed, “We  will  send  him  back  in  a freight 
car.”

“No, 1 haven’t  been  to the  bird  show,” 
said a man who  was  very deeply  in  debt: 
“there are too many  bills  there  to suit me, 
and just now I’m  trying  to find  a  way to 
feather my own nest.”

Pittsburg has 1,380  manufacturing  estab­
lishments,  with  an  aggregate  capital  of 
$106,000,000, employing  nearly  86,000  per­
sons.  The annual product is valued at $146,- 
000,000.

Lyyn, Mass., shoe manufacturers are  said 
to pay  upward  of  $1,000,000  annually  for 
shoe-making outside of that city.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN THE  CITY. 

*

Raynor & Towner  are succeeded by E.  C. 

Towner in the piano and organ business.

Henry Arbour, the  Chippewa Lake  drug­
gist, attended church in Grand  Rapids  Sun­
day.

Ben Ensley has put in a stock of groceries 
and tobaccos at  Ensley,  purchased  of  John 
Caulfield.

M. C.  Russell  left  for  Chicago«*  Monday 
night, for the  purpose  of spending  the fol­
lowing day on South Water street.

O. E. Close &  Co.  have  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Sand  Lake.  Hazeltine, 
Perkins & Co. furnished the stock.

Henry  Idema,  local  manager  of  Brad- 
street’s Mercantile Agency, is expected home 
from the East the latter part of  the  present 
week.

Judge C. S. Edwards has  added  a line of 
drugs to his grocery  business  at  Furnace. 
Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

S. D. Zylstra has engaged in  the  grocery 
business  at the  corner  of Spring  and Oaks 
streets.  Fox, Musselman  &  Loveridge  fur­
nished the stock.

Jas. Campbell, the veteran  general dealer 
at Westwood, was in town Monday,  and ef­
fected the sale  of  considerable  quanties of 
hardwood lumber  to the furniture  factories 
here.

W.  T. Lamoreaux has  rented a  portion of 
the store formerly occupied by  Messmore, at 
46 Ottawa  street, and  will  make it  head­
quarters for wool, buying also at his store at 
91 Canal street.

C. F. Walden, formerly in  business at Le­
roy, has formed  a  co-partnership  with Mr. 
Johnson under the firm name of C. F.  Wald­
en & Co., and engaged in  the  grocery  busi­
ness at Alba.  Clark, Jewell & Co.  furnish­
ed the stock.

F. E. Pickett, proprietor of the Coldspring 
Creamery, one  mile  from Hillards,  was in 
town  Monday  and  made  arrangements  to 
have the product of his  institution  handled 
by our dealers.  He  is  now  turning  out 
eighty cheese and fifteen  tubs  of  creamery 
butter per week.

Arthur Meigs is not only  an  enterprising 
groceryman, but a natural born showman as 
well.  His latest freak is to establish a  mu­
seum of natural curiosities,  and in  further­
ance of this enterprise, he has now on  exhi­
bition at his store a cross between a monkey 
and a jackass,  an amusing animal which  an­
swers  to  the  name  of “George.”  Yisiting 
buyers would do well to call and inspect the 
specimen.

The chattel mortgage on the Jackson Coon 
boot and shoe stock at Rockford  was bid  in 
by G. E. Hovey at $1,850.  He has  resumed 
business, placing  Coon  in charge.  As  all 
the injunctions against the  stock  and  real 
estate have been dissolved, Coon 
is 'now in 
a position to offer his creditors a compromise 
of their claims, and this course he will prob­
ably pursue, as a brother  in California  has 
promised to  see  ¡him  through,  in  case  the 
creditors will agree to accept such  figures as 
would  seem  to  be  consistent  with  the 
amount and value of the stock on  hand.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

S. D.  Frederick,  druggist  at  Salem,  has 

sold out.

Louis Grabfelder has engaged in the meat 

market business at Muskegon.

E. A. Gibson  has started a cigar and  con­

fectionery store at Petoskey.

Lamson  &  Bentley,  grocers  at  Harbor 

Springs, have sold out to F. J.  Cox.,

S. D. Ewood, jeweler at Alpena, has  been 

closed by creditors and has left  town.

Childs & Carper succeed Childs  &  Co.  in 

the paper mill business at Child’s Mill.

The clothing  stock  of  the  late  Soloman 
Seligman, at Kalamazoo is being  closed  out.
S. W. McCann, [dealer  in  gents’  furnish­
ing goods at Kalamazoo, has sold  out  to  F. 
E. Wells.

C. B. Bennett,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
crockery  business  at  Honesdale,  Pa.,  has 
started in the same line at Big Rapids.

The former firm  of  Norton  &  Lester,  at 
Otsego, is restored by re-purchase of an inter, 
ast  by  Norton,  who sold a year or two ago.
Barnes  &  Williams  have sold their drug 
stock at Otsego to Chas. Young.  They  will 
continue to carry on their grocery  business.
C. H. Forman,  of  Forman  Station,  has 
founded  a new;town in'Dakota  named For­
man, to which place he will  shortly remove, 
and re-engage in business.

J.  E.  Somerville’s  book  and  stationery 
Store  at  Manistee  was  damaged  by  fire, 
smoke and water to the extent of  $9,000  on 
Friday.  Insurance,  $7,000.

.

Dr. Bobbington, druggist,  and  Stirling  & 
Miner,  wholesale  and  retail  grocers,  will 
occupy  the new brick  block  which  Messrs. 
Allen & Mulholland will erect  in  Corunna.
T. G. Laur, for many years proprietor of a 
confectionery store at Big Rapids,  has  pur­
chased the interest of Mr. Slosson in the fur­
niture business of Slosson & Walker,  at that 
place. 

M. A.  Hance, the Bellevue general dealer, 
has not yet effected a sale of his  stock.  As 
soon as he does so, he will remove to Olivet, 
in order that his children may  have the ad­
vantage of good schools.

John  R.  Ladd,  who  has  been engaged in 
generalt  rade at Hersey for many years, has 
made'an assignment to  Z.  Whitney.  The 
liabilities  are  $2,700.  The  nominal  assets 
are  $1,500  worth of stock and  $1,500 in ac­
counts,  only  one-third of which are  collect­
able.

t r = =
Reynolds & Howell have started a  saloon 

STRAY  FACTS.

at East Jordan.

The Whitehall Manufacturing Co. will put 

up a dry kiln costing $2,000.

T. R. Yan Wert & Co.  have  leased  their 

bowl factory at Alba to F. B. Beech.

A Tawas mill recently sawed a log twenty- 

four feet long and five feet in  diameter.

Ainger, Allegan county, parties are manu­

facturing large numbers of cheese boxes.

S. W. Brace is succeeded by Brace & Jew­
ett in the planing mill business at  Baldwin.
Battle  Creek  is  talking  of  starting  a 
$50,000 wagon-works in the Upton  building.
The Newman Wheel Co., of  Lansing,  ex­
pects to  begin  manufacturing  in  about  ten 
days.

There is strong talk  of  starting  a cheese 
factory at Coy  Comers,  in  Leighton  town­
ship, Allegan county.

Potter Bros, have a million and a half feet 
of lumber in their yard at Nashville.  They 
carry $33,000 insurance.

Winegar &  Simonds  have sold their shin­
gle mill  at Alba, and the machinery has been 
removed to the Saginaw Yalley.

The  Capital  Gate  Co.,  of  Lansing,  has 
built an addition of 24x100  feet  to  its  new 
works, and  when  completed  will ’ turn  out 
about a thousand  gates  every  week.

The woolen mill  at  Alma  burned  to  the 
ground on the 29th, involving a loss  of  $21,- 
000, on which there was  $19,000  insurance. 
The  factory  will  be  rebuilt  immediately.

The Flint Gas Co. has contracted with the 
Coal and Oil Gas Co. of  New  York  for  the 
machinery to manufacture a new kind of gas, 
which  is  a  combination  of coal and  water 
gases.  If affairs are satisfactorily  arranged 
they will sell gas at $2 per 1,000 feet instead 
of $3.50, as at present.

Otsego manufacturers have  shipped  twen­
ty-four carloads of fanning-mills so  far  this 
season, each car containing 150  mills,  mak­
ing the total nnmber of mills shipped to date 
3,600.  These mills have been shipped in the 
“knock-down,” and there have been  several 
carloads of finished mills shipped from Alle­
gan.  About one-fifth of the  contract is filled 
by this  number.

Montague  is  making  some  rapid  strides 
toward becoming an  important  manufactur­
ing town.  Among  her  most  important  in­
dustries started this  year  is  C.  L.  King  & 
Co.’s  Butter-Plate  and  Fruit-packing  Co., 
which  employs  about  100  men  the  year 
round and manufactures 80,000 butter-plates 
per  day,  4,000  peach-baskets,  4,000  grape- 
baskets  and  760  crates of  berry-boxes  per 
day.  Next comes the Montague Basket Co., 
employing a large number of men and  turn­
ing out 50 dozen bushel-baskets and 175 doz­
en market-baskets  per  day;  also  a  broom- 
handle factory and  a  turning  factory,  each 
doing  a  large  business.  Preparations  are 
now being made  for  a  large  tannery  by  a 
stock company.

The  Gripsack  Brigade.

C. A. Banker  meandered  around the city 

Sunday.

On  the  Easel—Manley  Jones,  Stephen 

Sears, Geo. H.  Seymour.

L.  R.  Cesna,  with  S.  A.  Welling, left 
Monday for  a five weeks’ southwestern trip.
T. P. S. Hampson, traveling representative 
for Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., is now in Wis­
consin, where he is meeting with exceptional 
success.

R. B. Orr, traveler for Arthur Meigs & Co.. 
has a three-year-old trotter which made a half 
mile in two-minutes last season,  and  is  un­
doubtedly destined to take  front  rank  as  a 
flyer.

Frank  E.  Chase,  with  A.  C.McGraw  & 
Co., Detroit, has gone  to Harwich, Mass., to 
spend the heated term.  Before  leaving, he 
subscribed  for T he Tradesman  on condi­
tion he should “not receive such  a racket as 
John McIntyre got.”  As this is  an  excep­
tional opportunity  for The  T radesm an to 
make itself “solid” with Frank for  all time 
to  come,  the  following  compliments  are 
thrown at him broadcast;  He is the fattest, 
slickest, happiest and  handsomest  traveler 
that goes out of Grand Rapids.  “He is better 
educated than any other man in the business. 
He sells more goods  in  one  day  than  any 
other  drummer does  in  six months.  He 
makes his trips in half the time it  takes  the 
other boys to  cover  the  same  ground.  He 
gets a bigger salary  than  the  President  of 
the United States.”  If Mr. Chase goes back 
on The T radesm an  after  this  wholesale 
exposition ©f his  merits,  he Is  welcome  to 
have his money back and  such  damages as 
any friend may  name.

His many friends among the trade will be 
glad to learn that  John B. Read, for  many 
years a  traveler  for  Foster, Stevens & Co., 
and now employed in|the office of that house, 
is gradually  recovering  from  the  chronic 
rheumatism which rendered him  an invalid 
for several months.  The manner  by which 
he is effecting a cure is as novel  as the cure 
itself.  Being  informed  by  his  physician 
that he “must either walk or die,”  he chose 
the former alternative, and has lately  devel­
oped  into a pedestrian of  no  mean  accom­
plishment.  Beginning with a  walk  of half 
a mile, he has gradually 
increased  the dis­
tance, and his own endurance, so that he now 
easily makes 30 miles  a  day.  His longest 
trip on foot was on Sunday, when  he walk­
ed to Alaska via Whitneyville  and  back, a 
distance of thirty-six miles.  He  has  now 
covered all the towns within return walking 
distance of the city, and will  hereafter take 
a straight  walk,  and return by  train  next 
morning.  As a result  of  these  pedestrian 
tours, Read is now able to  get  around with 
comparative ease, and it seems  but a  ques­
tion of a few months when he will  have re­
gained his former vigor and bearing.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO T H E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4,1884.

pff*  Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will Confer a favor on tbepub- 
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

Chicago has  one  grocery  store  to  every 
eighty-nine families, a bakery to  every  455, 
a butcher to every 210, and a liquor saloon to 
every  thirty-five.

Walla Walla, Washington Territory, a city 
of  but  7,000  inhabitants,  sets  an example 
which Grand Rapids and many  other  cities 
could follow to advantage.  A municipal or­
dinance, which is strictly enforced, prohibits 
tobacconists from selling cigarettes or tobac­
co in any form  to  children  under  fourteen 
years of age.

Mr. Harvey J.  Carr,  book-keeper  for  H. 
Leonard & Sons, contributes an artic|| to the 
Am erican Counting Boom on  the  subject 
of “Determining the Aggregate of  Personal 
Debtors without Detailed Statement.”  The 
article is a reply to  a  query  from  a  Balti­
more correspondent,  and  presents  the  sub­
ject concisely and explicitly.

He laughs best who laughs  last.  And  it 
is The ¡Tradesm an’s turn to laugh now.  A 
few weeks ago The Tradesm an stated that 
there  were  certain  changes  in  prospect 
among the officers  of  the  Fourth  National 
Bank, and the Leader 
Eagle  hastened 
to denounce the statement as false and  mis­
leading.  But the changes predicted, togeth­
er with others not dreamed of  at  that time, 
have occurred, and The Tradesm an stands 
vindicated.  Hence, we laugh.  *

The St. Louis Republican thus  refers  to 
the ruling disparity in prices, and ventures a 
prediction which every business  man would 
like to see  fulfilled:

The  disparity  in  the  price  of grain and 
that of beef, hog products,  poultry and dairy 
prodvcts is remarkable.  The price of wheat 
is not greater than it was half a century ago, 
while that of live stock is double what it was 
even thirty  years  ago.  This  inequality  is 
owing  no  doubt,  in  part,  to  the  changed 
methods of cultivation, but it  is  still  abnor­
mal, and cannot continue  as  a  fixed  condi­
tion of things.

While the capitalists engaged  in  the cot­
ton industries of New England refuse  to ac­
cept arbitration in the settlement of disputes 
with their workmen,  the  representatives of 
the iron  industry  in western  Pennsylvania 
show more readiness to take this course than 
do .their employes.  The conference between 
the two having resultedjin no agreement, the 
iron manufacturers have filed a petition ask­
ing that a license be granted  under  the act 
providing for the creation of  Trade  Tribu­
nals.  The law  requires  that  the  masters 
and men shall unite in  the  application, and 
tiiat the second party shall apply within  six­
ty days after a conditional license  has been 
granted to the first.  In this  case  the iron­
workers have not taken action as  yet.  The 
existing arrangements  continue  at any rate 
until the 10th June,  and  it is not  expected 
that they will make up their  minds  on this 
point  until  the  month  is  nearer its  end. 
Should a tribunal be created  under  the act, 
its decisions would not  be compulsory,  but 
any overt act of interference with them might 
be adjudged contempt  of  court. 
It is this 
feature of the law which  causes  hesitation 
on the part of the  workmen; but  it is to be 
hoped  that  their  good  sense  will  prevent 
their refusing the reference of  their  case to 
impartial judges.  Good  sense,  however, is 
pot the quality that comes most to  the front 
in  labor  strikes  and 
lockouts,  especially 
those occurring periodically in western Penn­
sylvania.  Both masters and men are of that 
stubborn  Scotch-Irish  stock,  which  dearly 
loves  a fight and  bitterly hates  giving  in. 
For more than half a century  Pittsburg  has 
been famous for the obstinacy of its quarrels 
oyer the question of wages.

The  Relation  of the  Negro  to  Politics.
Brother Gardner, the sable philosopher and 
president of the Lime Kiln  Club,  made  the 
following reply to the query of a correspond­
ent,1 at ike last meeting of the club:

«De course which de cull’d people of Var- 
giny should pursue am de  course  which  de 
cull’d people of the hull  kentry  should  toi­
ler,” replied the President  “I has tole you 
ober an’ ober dat, while  the white  man  gin 
us our liberty,  it was a war measure.  While 
he gin us de ballot, it was a stroke of polyti- 
cal  policy.  Our  race  has  been  a  tool to 
further sartin eands an’ aims.  Wote  which 
way  we  may,  we  git no offices.  Work  as 
hard as we will for any candydate we  git  no 
thanks.  De cull’d man  of  Yarginy  or  any 
odder State who pays half  an  hour’s  atten- 
shun to polyticks doorin’ dis campaign should 
have his head sand-papered.  De white man 
am bound to run de  kentry;  an’  de  sooner 
we  quit  turnin’  de  grindstun  for  him  to 
sharpen his campaign tools de mo’ breaf  we 
shall have to use de whitewash  brush.  We 
can’t git dar!  Our  heads  ain’t  de  right 
shape, to begin’ wid;  de  white  man  knows 
two tricks to our  one;  whareber  a  job  am 
laid out we find him doin’ de bossin’  dh’  de 
eull’d man doin’ de diggin’  an’  lijdfi’.  * Let 
us recognize things as dey am.”

Poisoned  Cheese  and Its  Result.

Something of a sensation  was  created at 
Middleville last week by numerous  cases of 
poisoning  resulting from  the  consumption 
of a couple of cheese,  sold by  E.  C.  Whit­
ney, a grocer at that place, and  made  by G. 
B. Horton, proprietor of the  “Old  Original 
Fairfield  Factory,”  at  Fruit  Ridge,  Lena­
wee county.  The cheese was placed on sale 
on Decoration Day, when the place  was full 
of farmers and country  people, and  dozens 
visited the store during the day and partook 
freely of the cheese in a  free-lunch-cracker- 
and-cheese style.  It contained some poison­
ous substance, and those who ate of  it were 
taken with violent convulsions,  cramps and 
vomiting.  Doctors were in strong  demand, 
and emetics and cathartics were  at a  prem­
ium.  In all about fifty people  were  taken 
sick, two of Mr. Whitney’s  children  being 
among the victims.  So far  as  reported, no 
cases have resulted  fatally,  although  for a 
time it  was feared that some  might die, for 
want of physicians at hand.  Samples of the 
cheese were sent to Prof. Kedzie,  Professor 
of Chemistry at the  State Agricultural  Col­
lege, to be analyzed.

“From what I have heard of the  matter,” 
said a practical cheese maker to  a  reporter 
of  T he  Tradesm an,  “the  trouble  could 
only come from two  sources.  Either  some 
bedeviled person wilfully poisoned the milk, 
or else the cheese were the first product  of a 
new factory.  I have known of several cases 
of poisoning resulting from the  latter cause. 
When a factory first goes into operation, the 
cans  and vats are all newly soldered,  and it 
is not strange that the  milk  should  absorb 
enough of the lead to  produce  lead  poison­
ing.  When I hear from Lenawee  county, I 
anticipate that  the  facts  surrounding  the 
manufacture of this cheese  will verify what 
1 have said in the matter.”

Japanese  Velvets.

From the Hatters’ Gazette.

It is well known that in the  manufacture 
of rich and curious combinations in  textiles 
the Japanese  are extremely proficient.  We 
understand that they  have recently attempt­
ed the manufacture of velvet, and the indus­
trial world will await the results with inter­
est.  Some of the most beautiful  cloths are 
the ¡product  of  the  tycoon’s  looms,  for  he 
manufactures court robes and nearly  every­
thing worn  by himself. 
It  has  been  the 
custom,  also, for  each daimis  to  have  his 
private loom for weaving the brocades  with 
his own crest  which  he and  his  retainers ! 
wore.  These brocades  were  of  satin  and 
dull silk, or of silk  and  gold thread.  The 
last was a popular combination of  rich Jap­
anese textiles, and numerous  designs appear 
in silk and gold woven together.  Rich cloths 
of every description, from the thickest  satin I 
or brocade to the thinnest gauze, are  woven 
in the most beautiful and  artistic  manner; 
and in some of the very simplest  fabrics, in 
towels and duster of the cheapest  material, 
are seen very effective designs.  The  Japa­
nese grasp boldly the most  incongruous ele­
ments, and bring out of them a certain pleas­
ing, even harmonious effect.  A broken bam­
boo or two, a flight of strange looking birds, 
startling colors, give a rather  outre appear­
ance,  which is at the same time  fascinating. 
The Japanese seem to have no code of color­
ing, but each one seizes the  tints that  seem 
happiest to his mind;  yet they  have a  sort 
of instinct in the matter,  being  masters  of 
the law of contrast.  So, too, in the  designs 
themselves.  There is no need, and especial­
ly in the  cloths  adorned  with  embroidery, 
for one pattern to be repeated.  Flowers may 
be scattered about, but no  two  seem  to  be 
quite alike, nor could we wish them so when 
we consider their strange but exquisite beau­
ty.  Velvet is not a  native  manufacture of 
Japan, though recently they  have  introduc­
ed it to some  extent. 
It  is  not  probable, 
however, that they will follow the  old style 
of making it, and therefore we  may  expect 
something  new'  and  even  startling  in  the 
line.

Good  Words Unsolicited.

E. M. Clark,  grocer,  Charlevoix:  “Your 

paper is a good  one.”

C. L. Sherwood, druggist, Dowagiac:  “Am 

very much pleased with the paper.”

E. A . Hill, hardware Coloma:  “I consider 
it the best paper of the kind published in the 
West.”

Calvin  Durkee,  general  dealer,  Hinton 
Center:  “We consider the paper well worth 
the money.”

E. B. Stocum & Co., general dealers,  Hes­
peria:  “We would not be. without  the paper 
for twice the amount.”

Geo. H. Kelly, local traveling reporter for 
R. G. Dun & Co., left Monday  for a  week’s 
canvas of Osceola county.  Such a thorough 
and systematic method of revision  is charac­
teristic of the agency in  question,  and  does 
much to recommend it to the business public.

Cornelius Sonke  has  engaged in  the  gro­

cery  business oh Spring street.
MISCELLANEOUS.

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Company quote f. o. b. cars as 
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch...........   ....................per M $44 00
Uppers, 114,1H and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  36 00
Selects, 1J4, V/i and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................. ...................... ........  20 00
Fine, Common, 1&, 1V4 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................    17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  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
widths and lengths.................................  & 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch. ., ...........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B................   18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common....... 
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 ft.. 111 00@11 50 
$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
3 40
■( X X X 18 in.  Thin.....................................  
I X X X 16 in................................................. 
3 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16 in.............................. 
175
2 00
Lath  ............................................................. 

. 

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

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1  10
95
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisvillq Cemeni,  per bbl.................. 
140
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
l 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1  40
Car lots.................................................... I 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu........................   35®  38
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
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
7 00
Cannellcoal........................................... 
Ohio coal...............................................  
40®3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland................ 
09®5 25
OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

COAL.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

New York Counts, per can.......................... ..  38
Extra  Selects................................................. ...35
Plain Selects....................................................
XX» 1U. XX« X?.......gb......................................
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................................................................  5
Mackinaw Trout.......................................... 
  7
Mackerel........................................................... 10
Whiteflsh.........................................................   7

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:

H ID E S.

Green............................................... $  ft 7  @ 7J4
Part  cured..............................................  8  @  8%
Full cured................................................8J4@  8}4
Dry hides and kips.................................8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured....................10  @12
Deacon skins............................piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins ft piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts....................................... .«........30  @50
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00  @1 50

S H E E P  PEL TS.

W OOL.

Fine washed $  ft................................—   @25
Coarse washed....................................... 18  @20
Unwashed..................................... ......... 2-3

FÜ RS.

Mink, large................................................  60@ 75
Mink,  sm all............................................  25@ 40
Muskrat,  Spring,....................................   15@ 17
Muskrat, Winter......................................  13@ 14
8@  10
Muskrat,  Fall............. .1........................  
Muskrat,  kits......................................... 
3® 4
 
Raccoon.....................................................  40® 85
Skunk, black.............................................  80® 90
Skunk, half stripe...................................  50® 60
Skunk, narrow Stripe..............................  25@ 30
Skunk,  broad...........................................  10@ 15
Red Fox.................................................. 1 00@115
Gray Fox...................................................   60® 90
Marten,  yellow........................................  75@1 00
Fisher.......................................................4 00©8 00
Otter....................................................... 6 oo@ 8 00
Bear.........................................................5 00@12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry__ ft  ft  25@  30
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  12®  25
Beaver, clean and dry 
ft ft................2 00@3 25
Above prices are for prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion.
Tallow........ ............................................ 
5%

Unparalled Success

Sales Immense!

Guaranteed to  kill  Bugs,  Worms,  Caterpil­
lars, Bed-bugs, and Lice on Potatoes, Cabbage, 
Melons, Cucumbers, Squash and Grape  Vines, 
or other Trees, Plants and Vines, Lice  on  Cat­
tle, Poultry, etc.
Price, 3 fts 25c, 10 fts 60c, 25 fts $1.25,  1  barrel 
225 to 260 fts, 4 cents $  ft.
At wholesale and retail  by
■W.  3E3T.  G ardner,

S E E D   G R O W E R ,

Moline

City Bottling Works

Mich.

BOTTLED  LAGER, 
PINTS,  PFR  DOZ. 
50  CENTS.

■ T .AT1HHT

JOHN

CAULFIELD
W holesale  Grocer,

— AND JO B B E R  IN —

85,  87  and  89  Canal  Street

baccos  and  Cigars:

F A C T O R Y   A G E N T
For the following well-known  brands of To­
FINE  CUT.
Fountain.........................................................74
Old  Congress.................................................64
Good  Luck........................................ 
 
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 f) ft  off 

above list.

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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
Nobby  Spun  Roll........................... 
.48
Black  Spun Roll............................................33
Canada Plug  (Virginia Smoking).............. 50
Cresent Plug, 6 ft>  cads...................... 
  45
In 60  lb quantities 2c per tt> off.
S  AA O  PC 12ST G-.
Peerless...........................................................25
Rob  R oy........................................................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
.25
Posey, Killickinick,  %,  paper............ 
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia.........36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, % ...........  
32
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick,  3^sand ft>s........ 18
Golden Flake Cabinet....................................40
Traveler, 3  oz.  foil......................................35
Rail Road Boy,  3 oz. foil. . . : ............. 
37
Nigger  Head, Navy Clippings........... 
.26
Scotten’s Chips, Navy  Clippings,  paper. .26 
Leidersdorfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags.26
Old Rip Fine Virginia LongCut................55
Lime Kiln Club.................................. .. 
i. .45
Durham Long  Cut....................................... 60
Durham, Blackwell’s  % ..............................60
Durham, Blackwell’s,  }£..............................57
Durham, Blackwell’s, }4.........  
  55
Durham, Blackwell’s,  ft>..............................51
Seal of North Carolina % ............................52
Seal of North Carolina % ............................50
Seal of North Carolina K ............................48
Seal of North Carolina ft)............................46

 

 

 

 

Special priées given on large lots.
CIGARS.

 

 

 

Smoke  the  Celebrated  “After Lunoh”  Cigar.
After  Lunch.......................................... $30 00
Clarrissa................................................... 45 00
Clara............................................ 
32  00
M irella......................................................35 00
Queen  Marys............................. 
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.
Japan ordinary..........
Japan fair....................
Japan fair to good__
Japan fine....................
Japan dust..................
Young Hyson.............
GunPowder................
Oolong........................
Congo ..........................

20
............25@50
.............35® 50
35@45@55@60 
............. 30@35

............35@37S50 

............23@30
........... 32@35

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S Y R U P S.

Corn,  Barrels.......................................  @  31
Corn, Yt  bbls....................................... ..  @  33
Corn. 10 gallon  kegs..................... 
@  36
Corn,5 gallon  kegs.......................... 
®1 90
Corn, 4Y% gallon  kegs............................ 
®1 85
Pure Sugar Drips,  bbl..........................   30®  37
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs........... ..........   @3 10
Maple Syrub, 10 gal  kegs.....................   @6 00

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.

B O T T L E D   A LE , 
PINTS,  PER  DOZ. 
75 CENTS.

FOR  SALE.

I  have  also  shaved 

building  and  dwelling. 

boots and shoes and groceries, with store 
shingles and  pine  lumber  and  a  quantity of 
stove  wood  for  sale.  Address  D., care The 
T radesm an, Grand Rapids, Mich.

■  GENERAL  STOCK,  dry  goods, clothing, 
■ BIG  BARGAIN.  A  stock  of  groceries, 
R a r e   CHANCE  to  purchase  a  first-class 

dry goods, drugs, etc., for sale  cheap for 

Livery Stock including  one  of  Gunning- 
ham’s beet hearses.  Will take as part payment 
good  improved  farm  property.  Will sell  or 
rent bam and grounds.  The  best  location in 
the best livery town  in the  State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.

cash.  Apply  to  A.  Mulholland,  Jr.,  Ashton, 

Mich.

BOTTLED PORTER, 
PINTS, PER DOZ., 
75 CENTS.

BOTTLED  C ID E R , 
Q,TS,  PER  DOZ., 
$ 1.20.

All  Goods  Warranted 

the BEST in the 

Market.
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Cut  Loaf..........................- ..........................8
Powdered  Standard..................................8
Granulated  Standard.......................7% @7 %
Standard  Confectioners’  A ............. .6%@7
Standard  A ....................................... 6%@6X
Extra White C....................................6¿£@6X
Extira Bright C....................................6  @6%
Extra  C.......................................... ..5%@6
Yellow C........................................ 
.5%@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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ceries when requested.

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

10
25

20

SEEDS.

13
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).... 
Bird, mixed in fi> packages.  ....... 
5  @  6
3H@  4
Canary,  Smyrna............................ 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..  11  ®  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee.....................  
2 00
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
2 25
 
Celery.................................................... 
12
Coriander, Dest English...... 
F ennel............. . ............ ............. 
15
354®
Flax, clean..................................... 
Flax, pure grd (bbl 334).................. 
4  @  4)4
8  @  9
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian..............................  
5  @  5)4
Mustard, white; Black 10c)____.... 
8
1 00
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
7H@  8
Worm, Levant....................................... 
 

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS

20

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Drugs & flftebicines

A  DUEL  WITH  PILLS.

From the New Orleans Times-Bemocrat.

Yesterday,  intently  gazing into a  show- 
window on Canal street, a feeble, white-hair­
ed old  gentleman  recalled  memories  of a 
tragedy which, in the  hurly-burly  of  life, 
seems to  have passed into oblivion.

In 1841, outside the city proper, there was, 
perhaps, no more delightful  place of resort 
than at the Bayou Bridge.  It was,  par ex­
cellence, the  great  suburban  attraction at 
that time, and  between  boating parties  on 
the waters of the bayou and  card  reunions 
over the tables  of old  Barleduc’s  gambling 
saloon out there,  the jeunesse doree of New 
Orleans of that day managed quite  comfort­
ably to while away many a leisure  moment. 
Possibly no two  young  gentlemen  enjoyed 
the quiet hospitality of Barleduc  more than 
Alphonse Riviere  and  Henri Delagrave; in 
fact, most of their afternoons  were  spent in 
the dimly lighted saloon of the old gamester, 
at whose shrihe all the  card-loving element 
of the city paid homage.

There was a quiet air about the  place that 
seemed almost religious, and even the parch­
ment-faced old man, who  mechanically han­
dled the little ivory ball in  roulette,  called 
out the numbers in a repressed  voice,  as  if 
he feared to disturb the  quiet.  The  faint 
„click” of the “chips,”as eager  players  dal­
lied with them, was,  perhaps,  the  loudest 
sound to be heard there, and even that came 
to the ear in a subdued way.  On the floor a 
bright covering of matting hushed  the foot­
steps,  while  at the  windows  dark  yellow 
curtains let in only just enough light for the 
illumination of the gaming  tables.

Riviere was  a dashing fellow of  twenty 
two, with a large estate in the  parish of St 
James and a round account in the old Union 
Bank.  He had passed successfully  through 
the Ecole Polytechnique in France, had tak­
en a bout in Algeria, and returned to Louisi­
ana a^ accomplished  and  companionable  a 
gentleman as one could  wish  to chat  with. 
He was fond of his  horses,  his wine, and a 
quiet game of cards.  Refined in his manner 
and dignified  in  his  deportment, he  was a 
warm  favorite  wherever he  went, and  his 
entry into old Barleduc’s  establishment was 
always the signal for a cordial greeting from 
all who might be present.

lagrave.  The seconds  had  met  previously 
and'arranged everything.  Delagrave as he 
stepped from the carriage, looked  furtively 
around for the cases of  pistols,  but  seeing 
none he was a  little  disconcerted.  After 
walking about one  hundred  yards from the 
carriages, the party stopped, and  the doctor 
motioned them to  approach  closer.  When 
they  had done so, he called  them  by  name 
and said:  “Gentlemen, we  have  discussed 
this matter nearly all of last night,  and both 
M. Savalle  and  myself  feel  satisfied  that 
there is no  solution to  the  differences  be­
tween you but the death of one.  The world 
is so formed that both  cannot  live in  it at 
the  same  time.”  The  two  men  nodded. 
“Therefore,” the doctor went  on, “we  have 
agreed to make the arbitrament  as fair as it 
is possible, and let Fate  decide.”  He took 
out a black  morocco  case, and from it  pro­
duced  a  pill-box  containing  four  pellets. 
One of these,” said  he,  “contains a  posi­
tively fatal dose of  prussic acid; the  other 
three are harmless.  We have  agreed  that 
each shall swallow two of the piils,  and  let 
Destiny decide.”  Savalle inclined his head, 
and said, as the  representative  of  Riviere, 
he agreed.

The two men were pale, almost  bloodless, 
but not a nerve trembled or muscle contract­
ed.

“Gentlemen,”  said  the  doctor,  we  will 
toss for the first  pill.”  Savalle  called  out, 
“Tails,” as the glittering gold piece  revolv­
ed in the air.  It fell in a bunch of grass, the 
blades of  which  being  separated,  showed 
the coin with  the revered  head  of  the God­
dess of Liberty uppermost  “M. Delagrave, 
you have the first  choice,” said  the doctor, 
Reposing in the little box  the  four  little 
globes seemed the counterpart of each other. 
The closest scrutiny would not  develop the 
slightest difference.  Nature alone through 
the physiologial alembic of the human stom- 
ache can  tell of  their  properties. 
In one 
there rests the pall of eternity,  the  struggle 
for breath,  the failing of sight,  the  panor­
ama of years rushing  in an instant  through 
the mind, the silence and peace of sleep for­
evermore, the ceremony, the burial case, the 
solemn cortege and  the  close, noisome  at 
mosphere of the grave.  All these were con­
tained in one of these little  pellets.  Dela­
grave, having won the first  choice,  stepped 
forward and took a  pill.  With a calmness 
which was frigid he placed it on  his tongue, 
and, with a cup of claret, handed him by the 
doctor, washed it down.

On this particular June afternoon Riviere, 
leaped from 
with the activity of a gymnast, 
his buggy in front of the saloon, and  throw­
ing the reins to his negro  servant, told  him 
to drive  the  horse  into  the  shade  of  the 
pecan trees in the yard. 
Switching  a deli­
cate, ivory-headed cane with a nervous, jerky 
motion, he crossed the broad gallery and un­
announced entered the gambling-room.  Most 
of the players were rapt in attention to their 
game, but one  there  was who  turned  his 
head at the entrance of the last comer.  This 
was Delagrave.  He  felt  that a  crisis  was 
at hand,  but even with this  knowledge  he 
did not strive  to  elude  its coming.  That 
morning he had been accepted as the betroth 
ed lover of Mme. Celestin,  one of  the most 
beautiful and wealthy widows  -of the lower 
coast,  and  Riviere, #vho had been  for  the 
past year her most devoted admirer, was left 
to nurse his disappointment as an unsuccess 
ful suitor.  Riviere had had no  hesitancy in 
letting the world  know  that he  wanted to 
marry the coquettish little widow,  and, fur­
ther, he, in a very  plain  way, gave  people 
the information that he did  not want  inter 
lopers  paying  their  devoirs  at  the  same 
shrine.  These matters are  hard to  arrange 
exactly as one would wish.  One finds much 
difficulty in closing all avenues of approach, 
for love is not  unlike  the light  which the 
photographer  in  his dark  room  finds  so 
much difficulty in keeping out. 
It steals in 
under doors,  through , nail-holes,  and  even 
down the chimney.  At least so it had  been 
the case at Mme. Celestin’s, for  jealous and 
watchful of rivals as Riviere was, Delagrav 
had made the conquest under the  very eyes 
of the enemy, and the widow  had  that day 
so informed the unsuccessful suitor.

Riviere was  very  pale as  he approached 
the group of men around  the  table.  What 
with the yellow  light  shining  through the 
curtains  and  his  bloodless  appearance, he 
seemed rather a ghastly  corpse  than living 
body, but there was motion and voice in him 
which soon dispelled such an illusion.

As he neared Delagrave, the latter turned 
to confront him, when Riviere, with a  voice 
that seemed to  come from  behind the  door 
of a tomb, said,  “Delagrave, we  cannot live 
on  this  globe  together; 
large 
enough.”

is  not 

it 

Delagrave, quietly puffing his cigarette, in 
a cold and impressive  tone  replied,  “Yes 
you annoy me.  It  would be  better  if  you 
were dead.”

Reviere’s face flushed, and  reaching  for 
ward laid the back of his hand gently against 
Delagrave’s cheek.  The game was  at  once 
interrupted.  The slap,  which was so  light 
it did  not even  crimson the  young  man 
cheek,  was  enough to  call for  blood,  and 
leaving the house  he  sought  an  intimate 
friend; to him he opened his heart.  It must 
be a battle  a outrance. 
Such was the en­
mity between himself  and  Riviere,  only 
life could wipe it out.  The old doctor, who 
had grown up, it might be said, on the field 
shrugged  his  shoulders  and  remonstrated, 
but at last acquiesced and said,  “Very well
then; it shall be to the death.”
*  

Few people knew what sort of  a  party 

was driving down the  shell-road  bordering 
Bayou St. John.  Two carriages stopped just 
on the bridge leading to the 
island  formed 
there by bifurcation of the bayou,  and four 
gentlemen alighted.  Savalle,  a well-known 
character here forty years ago,  accompanied 
Riviere, and old Dr. Rocquet  was with  ' De­

*  

*  

*  

*

“And now, M. Riviere,” said  the  doctor. 
Riviere extended his hand  and  took a pill 
Like his opponent he swallowed  it 

The two men stood looking one another in 
the face.  There was not  a  quiver  to  the 
eyelid, not a twitch to a muscle.  Each was 
thinking of himself as well as  watching his 
adversary.  One minute passed.  Two min­
utes passed.  Three.  Four.  Five.  “Now, 
gentlemen,” said the doctor in solemn tones 
“it is time to make the final drawing.”

This  was  the  fatal  choice.  Both men 
were ready for the cast of the  die. 
Savalle 
tossed the  gold piece  aloft,  and the  doctor 
cried out, “Heads.” 
“Heads” it  was, and 
Delagrave took a pill from the  box, leaving 
only one.  “Now,” said the  doctor, “the re­
maining one is for  you.  You  will  please 
swallow them together.”

The two men  raised  their  hands at  the 
same time and deposited the  pills  on  their 
tongues and took a draught of claret.

One  second  passed,  and  there  was  no 
movement.  Two seconds, and  neither stir­
red. Then—“Good God!” exclaimed Riviere, 
his eyes  starting  from  their  sockets.  He 
turned half around  to the  left,  raised  his 
hands above his head, and  shrieked  a long, 
wild shriek  that belated  travelers  even  to 
this day say they hear on the shell-road near 
the island.

He fell prone to the earth, and, save a ner­
vous contraction of the muscles of  the face, 
there was no  movement.

Delagrave took him by the hand as he lay 
on the damp  grass,  and  said  in  a  tender 
voice, “I regret it, but it was to be.”

The funeral  was one  of  the  largest ever 
seen  in  NewlOrleans,  and;for  weeks  the 
cafes were agog with the  story of the  duel. 
The beautiful widow, horrified at  the affair, 
would never see  Delagrave  afterward, and 
is now a happy  grandmere  on  Bayou La­
fourche, having  married a  wealthy planter 
two years after the fatal event.

Delagrave,  weighed down with the  trials 
of an unhappy life,  wrinkled  and tottering, 
strolls  along  Canal  Street  of  warm  after­
noons, assisted by a negro  servant.  Having 
a bare  competency,  he  has  never  actually 
suffered from want; but  he shows  evidence 
of  great  mental  anguish.  The  sight  of a 
pill box makes him  shudder, and the  taste 
of claret will give him convulsion.

Oxalic  Acid.

Oxalic acid we obtain  mostly  from  wood 
sorrel and the sorrel tree, but it is contained 
in many other substances, 
It  is  manufac­
tured in large  quantities  from  heated  saw­
dust in connection with hydrate  of  potassi­
um, etc.  Osalic acid is in colorless and odor­
less crystals, with a strong spur taste.  It  is 
soluble very slowly  in  eight  parts  of  cold 
water to one of oxalic acid, but is easily sol­
uble in hot water.  It is very poisonous, and 
many cases of  poisoning  have  occurred  by 
mistakes  when  regular  or  common  salts 
should have been used.  It is a sure remedy, 
when  not too late, to  give  the  person  who 
has swallowed oxalic acid  large  draughts of 
water mixed with white chalk.

She went into a drug-store to buy some toi­
let soap, and, while the clerk was expiatating 
on its merits, about made up her mind to pur­
chase;  but, when he said it  would  keep  off 
chaps,” she remarked that  she  didn’t  want 
that kind.

A  YANKEE  »RUMMER.

WHOLESALE  PEIOE  CURRENT,

How He  Come It on  a Texas  Sheriff.
Sheriff Wiggins, of Dallas, Texas, made it 
prominent part of his business to ferret out 
and punish commercial  travelers  who  trav­
eled  in  Texas  without  a  licinse;  but  one 
morning he met his match,  a  genuine  Yan­
kee drummer.
□ “What have you got to  sell?  Anything? 
asked the sheriff, as he met  the Connecticut 
man on the streets.

Oh,  yes;  I’m  selling  medicine—patent 
medicine.  Selling Rad way’s  Ready  Relief, 
and its the best  thing  in  the  world.  You 
ought  to try  a  bottle. 
It  will  cure  your 
ager, cure rheumatism, cure anything.”

“ And you will sell me a case?”
“Sartenly,  sir;  glad to.”
Then the sheriff bought a case.
“ Anything more?”  asked the  drummer. 
“Yes, sir;  I want to see  your  license  for 
selling goods in Texas.  That is my duty as 
the high sheriff of Dallas  county.

The  drummer  showed  him  a document, 
fixed  up  good  and  strong,  in  black  and 
white.  The sheriff  looked  at  it,  and  pro­
nounced it “all right.”  Then turning to the 
commercial traveler, he said:

“I don’t know, now that I’ve  bought  this 
stuff, that I’ll ever want it.  I reckon that  I 
may as well sell it to you again.  What will 
you give for it?”

“Oh, 1 don’t know that the darned stuff is 
any use to me, but seeing its you, sheriff, I’ll 
give you a dollar for the lot, if you raly don’t 
want  it.”

The sheriff delivered back the medicine aj: 
four dollars discount from his own purchase, 
and received the change.

“Now,”  said  the  drummer,  “I’ve  got  a 
question or tew to ask  you.  Hev you got  a 
drummer’s license about your  trousers  any­
where?”

“No;  I haven’t any use for the article my­

self,” replied the sheriff.

“Hain’t, eh?  Wal, 1 guess we’ll see about 
that pretty darned  soon. 
If  I  understand 
the law,  it’s a clean  case  that  you’ve  been 
tradin’ with me, and  hawkin’  and  peddlin’ 
Radway’s Ready Relief on the high way, and 
I shall  inform  on  you—darn’d  ef  I  don’t 
neow!”

When the Yankee reached the courthouse 
he made his complaint, and  the  sheriff  was 
fined eight dollars for selling goods without a 
license.

The sheriff was  heard  afterwards  to  say 
that “you might as well try to hold a greased 
eel as a live Yankee.”
W ant  to  Join  the  Campion  Association.
Grand Rapids, May 30. 
Editor T radesm an:—How can  a  drug­
gist obtain a list of the mediicne manufactur­
ers that have  joined  the  Campion  Associa­
tion, so to know which goods are to  be  sold 
strictly at price?
What steps  should manufacturers take  to 
join such association?
An answer will much oblige

Yours  Respectfully,

O. H. Richmond & Co.

Declined—Chloroform; snb nitrate bismuth; 

insect powder;  canary seed.

AC ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................$  ft  9  @  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  @  35
Carbclic....................................’.......  
35
Citric......................................... .......  
55
Muriatic 18 deg.................  
3  @  5
 
Nitric 36 deg......................................  11  @  12
Oxalic..........j...................................   1414®  15
3  @  4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English...................$ o z  
20
Benzole,  German..............................  12  @  15
Tannic...............................................   15  ®  17

 

AM MONIA.

Carbonate................................ $  
15  ®  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
14
AqUalSdegor  3f............................ 
6  @  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f.............................     '7  @  8
i  50 
40 
3 00 
50

Copaiba
Fir..........
Peru......
Tolu......

BALSAMS.

12

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................................. 
Bay berry  powdered...............................  
Hemlock powdered................................. 
Wahoo  ..-................................................... 
Soap  ground............................................. 

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb, prime  (Powd $1 20)............ 
@1 00
Juniper...................................... . 
6  @  7
. 
Prickly Ash......................................1 00  @1 10

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure...................... 
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 fi> boxes)............... 
............... 
Lgowood, V4s 
do 
Logwood, J4s 
do 
. .............  
.............  
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid;Extraots—25 ft cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................  
Chamomile,  Roman— j.......................  
Chamomile,  German.............................. 

27
9
12
13
15
14

®  i i

GUMS.

60®  75
50
28®  30

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.................................  
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................ 
Camphor.................................  
Catechu, is 04 14c, 54s 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 @110

35
30
55@60
22®  24
13
35®  40
80
 
90®100
35
20
1 I®
40
4 15
35
30
25
33

 

 

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES. 

Hoarhound.................................................’“ ‘ok
Peppermint............................. 
26
Rue.....................................................*.............. 40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................35
Tanzy............................................................... -25
Thym e.............................................................. ..
Wormwood.......................................................25

IR O N .

. 

• 

LEA VES.

Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
6 40
20
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
7
Sulphate, pure  orystal..................  
Citrate ..............................................  
°0
"5
Phosphate........................................ 
Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12  ®  11
Sage, Italian, bulk 0£s&^s, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  20
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
30
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Uva  Ursi................ 
10
Belledonna........................................ 
35
30
Foxglove........................................... 
Henbane........................................... 
„35
2 35
Rose, red........................................... 
@2 25 
®2 00 
®1 50 
@1 75 
@3 50 
@6 50 
®2 00 
®2 50

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 75
Whisky, other brands......................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom......................................... 1 35
Gin,  H olland...................................... 2 00
Brandy................................................... 1 75
Catawba  Wines.................................... 1 25
Port Wines............................ . .........1 35

LIQU OR S.

 

 

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution....
Calcined............................................

O IL S.

do 
do 

®  50 
Almond, sweet.................................  45
45
Amber, rectified..............................
« 2 00 
Anise.............................. ..................
50 
Bay $   oz...........................................
2 00
Bergamont.
Castor............-..................................  18I4@„ 20
200 
Croton............, ................................
75 
Cajeput............................... *•.........
1  20 
40 
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....
85
Citronella.......................................
1 25 
Cloves.......................... , ................•
8  00 
Cubebs, P. &  W..............................
1 60
Erigeron.................. ......................
Fireweed.........................................
2  00 75 
Geranium f  oz..............................
40 
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).
50
Juniper wood.................................
2 00 
Juniper berries.............................
2 01 
Lavender flowers, French............
1 00 
Lavender garden 
............
90 
Lavender spike 
............
1 70 
Lemon, new crop.*..«..................
1 75 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.....................
80 
Lemongrass...................................
1 25 
Origanum, red flowers, French..
50
Origanum,  No. 1............................
1  75
Pennyroyal....................................
3 00 
Peppermint,  white.......................
9 75
Rose $   oz
65
Rosemary, French (Flowers ^5)—
4 50 
Sandal  wood. German..................
7 00
andal Wood, W. I ............................
60 
Sassafras..........................................
4 00 
Tansy
®  12
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  .10
2 25 
Wintergreen.................................
4 50 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
1 00
Savin.................................................
2 50
Wormseed.......................................
1 90
Cod Liver, filtered................ f  gal
3 50 
Cod Liver, best......., ................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
6 00
®1 20
Olive, Malaga....................
2 50 
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ...............
®  67
Salad..................... .................... 
9 75
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................v  oz

65

PO TASSIU M .

ROOTS.

Bicromate.................................f  fl>
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................
Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and )4s—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........   13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered. 
Jala„lap,  powdered.
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, tru e ................. ....................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers........ ........
Serpentaria...........— ...................
Seneka..........................................
Sarsaparilla,  H ond uras...........

©

We believe thas about forty manufacturers 
have joined the compact up to this time.  Ac­
cessions to the ranks are coming in every few 
days.  The following are the original  mem­
bers of the compact;  J. C. Ayer  Company, 
Dr. D. Jayne & Son, Hostetter & Smith, The 
Charles A. Yogeler Company,  A.  C.  Meyer 
& Co., Perry Davis & Son, C. J. Hood & Co., 
Foster, Milbum & Co., J. H. Schenck & Son, 
Hiscox  &  Co.,  Tarrant  &  Co.,  Fleming 
Brothers, Johnston, Hollaway &  Co.,  G.  G. 
Green, J. W. Campion & Co.

Regarding the steps a manufacturer should 
take to join the association, full  particulars 
can probably be obtained from the originator 
of  the  plan,  J.  W.  Campion,  916  Filbert 
street, Philadelphia.

At a small town near Denver, Col., a man 
named Eli Madlong, practicing  as a  physic­
ian, but without a diploma, prescribed  some 
medicine for a|patient whojdied, presumably, 
from the effects of the  prescription;  where­
upon, according to the Chicago Medical  Re­
view, the friends of the deceased,  being  in­
dignant, hanged the venturesome  practition­
er by the neck until he was  as  dead  as  his 
unfortunate  patient.

The Chemical Company of Berlin (former­
ly Schering’s)  has paid a  dividend of 12 per 
cent, on the business of 1£83.  The Badische 
Anilin-und Soda Fabrik reports a net  profit 
os 5,000,000 marks, and  pays  10  per  cent., 
while the  chemical  factory  of  Pommerus 
dorf pays 24 per cent.

Good,  if True.

From the Elmira Gazette.

T he Michigan T radesm an comes to us 
this week neatly cut.  Every number bears 
increasing signs of improvement, and shows 
that Stowe  knows  how to get  up  a  good 
paper.

Some patent medicine vendors who recent? 
ly invaded  Vicksburg,. Miss.,  were  driven 
out by the enforcement of a State law which 
prohibits anyone but a  graduated  physician 
from recommending patent medicines.

A  druggist  declares  that  physicians  use 
such extraordinary  characters  in  their  pre­
scriptions, that they and  not  the  druggists 
are  responsible  for  most  of  the  so-called 
“drug clerk’s carelessness.”

An Indian' named  “Man-Afraid-of-Noth- 
ing” married a white woman in  Montana re­
cently and one week after  the  wedding ap­
plied to his tribe to have his name  changed.
Patient, to doctor,  who  was  shaking  his 
head  like  Burleigh—“Is  there  anything 
wrong, doctor?”  “My friend,  I  really  can­
not say until after the autopsy.” 
m  •  ♦ ---------

The New Brunswick Quinine factory have 
declared  a dividend bf 12K per cent, on  the 
net profits for 1883.

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

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

75

 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

 

1

50

65

12

14
70
5

do 
do 

1
2)4@

2 25
20
18
4 00

2 25
1 50
50
27
12
30
2 75

1 60 
60 
1 60 
1 70 
1 90 
1  75 
@1  10 
®  65

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17) $  gal__  
18
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
15
Anodyne Hoffman’s ....................... 
13
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution__ __ 
15
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 
10
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................  
12
Blue  Soluble.......................... 
20
Bay  Rum, imported, best............. 
18
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
30
Alum.........................................  fib   2&®  3H
12
3  @  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
 
Annatto, prime............................... 
 
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
4)4®  5
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  ®  7
Balm Gilead  Buds.................................. 
2 25
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
Beans, Vanilla................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................  
1 60
45
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)............ 
37i
7)4©  9
Blue Vitriol........ ............................  
12
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).. 
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African.... 
18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ... 
Carmine,  No. 40............................... 
Cassia Buds...,'.................... 
Calomel. American.............  
25
Chalk, prepared drop.......... 
25
Chalk, precipitate English..........  
Chalk,  red fingers.........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squlbb’s....................
18
Colocynth apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
Chloral 
cryst...
60
Chloral 
60
crusts..
Chloral 
50
Chloroform.....................................1 00
40
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  6G
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   60
30
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc)............. .........
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  @
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear, prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine.............................................
Dover’s  Powders............. .............. 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts................................... 
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  @
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................  12  @
Glue, white.......................................   17  ®
Glycerine, pure...............................   23  @
Hops  )4s and )4s.............................. 
25®
Iodoform f  oz................................
Indigo...............................................   85  @1
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  23  @
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
2
ISinglass,  American.................  
1
Japonica..........................................
London  Purple..............................  10  @
Lead, acetate.......................... .........
Lime, chloride, (V4s 2s 10c & &s 11c)
Lupuline.......................................... 
Lycopodium................ ...................
Mace  ......................
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  1214®  13
1 35 
Manna, S
50
Mercury........... ...............................
3 40@3 65 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........f  oz
40 
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................f  ft
10 
Moss,  Irish.......................................
12 
30 
Mustard,  English............................
18 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
20 
70 
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
10 40
Ointment. Mercurial, )4d...............
16*4©  24 
Paris Green......................................
18 
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
3 00 
Pepsin...............................................
7
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
6  ®  7
Quassia............................................
1 30®I 35 
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W ...........ft oz
@1 35 
Quinine, other brands....................1 30
28
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst..............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  @
Red Precipitate.......................f  ft
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst...............
Sal Rochelle.....................................
Sal  Soda............................................ 
Salicin...............................................
Santonin.......................;................ 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]............. ........
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__  
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............. 
 
28  ®
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour............................... 
3)4®
Sulphur,  roll............................... 
3®
Tartar* Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, Yt gal. cans  f  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin .........
Tar, 
pints in tin..............
Turpentine,  Venice...........  .. f  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand.... —
Zinc,  Sulphate........... .............  
 

2  @
<

7  @

4*4©

do 
do 

F.

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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
Whale, winter.............................
75
75
Lard, extra....................................... . 
65
Lard, No.  1..................................
58
Linseed, pure raw.....................
61
Linseed, boiled..................................   61
90
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..
38
Spirits Turpentine.............................  38

 

v a r n i s h e s .

..1  10@1 20
No. 1 Turp Coach.................................. 1 10@1 20
..1 60@1 70
Extra  Turp........................................... 1 60@1 70
..2 75®3 00
Coach  Body............................................2 75@3 00
..1  00@I 10
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@I 10
..1 55®1 60
Extra Turp  Damar...............................1 55®1 60
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.
Lb
9
10
10
112® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2H® 3 
234® 3 
13®16 
55®57 
16@17

p a i n t s .
Bbl
Boralumine, White  bulk]
5 fts I ............
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine,Tints bulk.  V50 off..
Boralumine  “ 
6 fts.  1............
Red Venetian............................  134
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134
Putty, commercial..................  2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2)4
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..

1 10
1 40

W holesale

Druggists I

 

32

40
42 and  44  Ottawa  Street  and 89, 91, 93  and 

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS  FOR

W olf, Patton & Co., a n d J ohn L.  Whit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  F ine 

Pa in t  a n d  V arnish 

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H air, Shoe a n d H orse Brushes.

Druansts’ Sundries

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

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing 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.

We give our  special  and  personal  atten­
tion  to  the  selection  of  choice  goqds  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

Withers Dade & Co's

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
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 goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

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

GiHs, BraiHies & Fine Wiies.

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.

HAZELTINE. PERKINS & CO

J. J. VAN LEUVEN,

WHOLESALE

M i l l i n e r y

—AND—

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  GO.,
W holesale  G rocers

55  and 57  Canal  Street,

Grand.  3R.a/pids,  KAiolLiga-n,

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

and positively  the  Best  ever  Offered  at the  Prices.

Big Drive..................................................................................................................................................... 52
Red  Fox........................................................................................................................  
50
Apple Jack.............................................................  
50
Jack  Rabbit........................................................................... :.................................................................. 42
A.  M...................  
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FANCY  GOODS

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

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

A rth u r  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  the 
Headquarters  for  FIRE 
CRACKERS, 
TORPE­
DOES,  FLAGS,  LAN­
TERNS,  ETC.  Send for 
catalogue and prices.

F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

-WHOLESALE  D EA LER S  IN-

B utter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

O R A K T D

-  MICHIGAN.

.A..  B.  K N O W L S O N

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

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Firs  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucca,

LIM E ,  HJLZXt,  COAX  and  WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  C H EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

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

tral  Freight  House.

SFRITTO  <& COM PANY

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

F-AJNTO'ST  AJSTD

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A   M E R C A N T IL E   JO U R N A L , P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  JÎRO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class  Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  4,  1884.

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

S u r e t y s h i p — D e f a l c a t i o n .

C A  surety can  not  be  held  bound  by  any 
failure of his principal after the discovery of 
his defalcation, unless he is informed of it.— 
Court of Appeals of  Kentucky.

Liability for Injury.

L. & G. were the owners of 200  pieces  of 
timber, which they caused  their  servant  to 
pile on a vacant lot in  such  a  manner  that 
the top of the pile fell off and  killed the son 
of B., who,  as  administrator,  brought  suit 
and  was  awarded  judgment  in  the  lower 
courts.  On appeal to the Kentucky Court of 
Appeals the lower  court  was  restrained  in 
the following opinion:  “The owner of land 
may retain to himself the sole and exclusive 
use  and occupation of it, but  a  due  regard 
for the welfare and rights  of  others  makes 
the owner liable for the negligent use of  his 
property, wherby the person or  property  of 
another is injured.”

Sale—Warranty of Thing Sold.

A. bought of B. two horses, and  they died 
of Spanish fever or Texas mange.  He  sued 
upon an  alleged^ warranty  that  the  horses 
were “all right, sound and free from disease,” 
and he complained that they  were  infected 
of the disease from  which  they  died  when 
they were delivered to him.  The defendant 
said that he had only expressed  an  opinion 
as to the healtli of the animals.  The plaintiff 
was beaten, and he carried the  judgment  to 
the Supreme Court  of  Nebraska,  where  he 
was  again  defeated.  The  Chief  Justice, 
Lake, in the opinion, said:  “In determining 
whether a warranty was intended to be given 
a decisive  test  is  whether  the  vendor  as­
sumes to assert a fact of  which the buyer  is 
ignorant, or merely states an opinion or judg­
ment upon a matter of which the vendor has 
no special knowledge, and on which the buy­
er may  be expected also to have an  opinion 
and to  exercise  his  judgment.  When  the 
language  of  the  warranty  is  such  that  it 
amounts  unquestionably  to a warranty,  its 
legal effect cannot be defeated by any secret 
intention of the  seller,  and  where  the  evi­
dence bears no doubt  of  the  legal  force  of 
the representation the court may and should 
declare  its  effect;  but  should  there  be  a 
doubt the jury must determine  the meaning 
and effect of the words.”

Trade  Mark—Use of Like  Name.

Manufacturers  of  hair  pins did  business 
under the name of D. F. Tayler  &  Co.,  and 
the pins were well known and had  a  ready 
sale as “Tayler’s Hair Pins,” and U. F. Tay­
ler & Co.’s Hair  Pins,”  and  the  device  on 
the packages, which were made  up  of  pink 
and yellow papers, was exclusively  used  by 
them.  Other persons  who  also  made  hair 
pins, got the use of name of one L.  B.  Tay­
lor to  put on their wrappers and printed  on 
them  “L.  B.  Taylor  &  Co.,”  adding  the 
words, “Cheshire, Conn.,” and using the same 
colored papers. 
In a suit brought for an in­
junction to restrain the latter,  the  Supreme 
Court of Errors, of  Connecticut,  decided  in 
favor of the plaintiffs.  Judge Pardee, in the 
opinion,  said: 
“Though  the  defendants 
adopted the label and  device  and u sed  the 
colored papers in good faith,  believing  that 
they were not infringing the plaintiff’s rights, 
yet an injunction must be granted.  Purchas­
ers who read the entire trade-mark could not 
be  misled,  but  it  is  a  matter  of common 
knowledge that many such persons are  in  a 
greater or less degvee careless and unwary in 
the matter of  purchasing  articles  for  their 
own use;  still, their patronage is not for that 
reason less  profitable  to  the  manufacturer, 
and when such persons  have  knowledge  of 
the good qualities of the plaintiff’s hair  pins 
and desire to purchase  them,  the  law  will 
not permit the defendants to  mislead  them. 
Now,  the use of a like name, which was pur­
chased solely for use in this connection, with 
the other adjuncts, are well calculated to de­
ceive these careless and unwary  purchasers, 
to  the  serious  injuiy  of  the plaintiff,  and 
they should  have  the  injunction  they  ask 
for.”

She  Forgot Her Baby.

A curious instance of  forgetfulness  occur­
red in this city last week.  It is  a  confuta­
tion of the saying,  “Can a mother forget her 
child?”  Two ladies, with an infant of appar­
ently two years, called at a carpet store,  and 
after the usual inspection of patterns select­
ed one to suit,  the  busy  clerk  attended  to 
other customers,  and the  ladies  went  out. 
This was about 1 o’clock  in  the  afternoon. 
At 3  o’clock,  imagine  the  surprise  of  the 
clerk when he found the infant calmly sleep­
ing in a snug corner behind a pile of  carpet 
She soon awoke and began  crying.  Think­
ing that she might be hungry, the  clerk was 
sent out with her to a restaurant, where  her 
little ladyship’s good humor was restored by 
a dainty repast.  As they were  on  their re­
turn to the store one of the  forgetful  ladies 
came hurriddly up,  and,  with  “Where  have 
you been with my child?” she seized the neg­
lected. infant and hurried away.

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C. 

Bussell’s.

XiACES,

Beal  Laces  a  Specialty.

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

Pocket  Books,  Rnohings,  Y am s, 

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets,

Embroidery  Materials, 

umes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.

STAMPING PATTERNS

70 MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

L  H. BEALS & SON
WMjS & L A ,

Manufacturers of

Westfield, Mass.

O F F I C E

— AN I)—

SALESROOM
1 . 4  PEARL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

G. ROTS & GO., Gen’l A pits

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E N C3 -1 3 ST E S

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

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

WEATHfflLI A CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

m o x   FIFE ,

Brass  Goods,  Iron  and  Brass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  Fitters,
—And  Manufacturers of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale 

v

Clover, Timothy and all  Kinds field 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.

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.

STAPLE DRY GOODS

Showcases We carry in  stock  such 
PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.

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

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL,  c l o t h s.

ETC.,  ETC.

M anufacturers’ P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

S ou se  and  Store  Shades  M ade  to  Order. 

Q  an d   8  Monro©  Street,

68  Monroe  Street, Grand Rapids.

XTSLSOl?  BROS.  <& CO.

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

SELMAtr 

LOVERIGCE'S

Michigan.

Grand  Rapids,

M. B. Church “Bedette” Co.
Manufacturer of ¡ “Bedette.”

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

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

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

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

—WE  MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

.. 

Tobaooos,  V inegars  a n d   Spices '2 

OUR MOTTOi  “ SQUARE  DEALING BETWEEN.MAN0AND  MAN.”

C O R R E S P O N D E N C E   S O L IC IT E D .

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
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 
coveringis 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  SDrintrs 
or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the addition of anvthine* for cold 
weather It is only necessary to add sufficient clothing.  The “ BEDETTE ” is a household neces- 
slty.  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 
i/iio r68.cn or £ui.

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

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IJ3 3 (||  CROCKERY,  GLASSWARE,  ETC.  ^
M ark our Specialties.  M ail orders receive careful A ttention.

OF

ASSORTED  CASK.

NEW   SQ U A R E  S H 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 unban 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  21c.......
1-6 doz Sugars 24...............................  24
Yi doz Pitchers  24..................................1 50
14 doz Pitchers  12..................................2 55
14 doz Pitchers  6................................... 3 85
1-12 doz Bound 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 
12-8
.09
.06 
5-6 doz Platters  6-9  2-12  1-16  1-18 
.10 
.85
4 sets Coffees 2 hand@50 2 unhan@42

12-7 
.07 

.68 

.27 

Less 10 per cent. 
Cask $1.

% doz  Sets.......................Engdi
% doz Vi gal Pitchers__ Engd!
14 doz 14 gal Pitchers__ Engd i
3 doz  Goblets.................Engd 1
1-6 doz 7 in  Casseroles.. .EngdI 
1-6 doz 8 in Casseroles.. .Engd i 
1-6 doz 7 in cov’d bowls. .Engd i 
1-6 doz 8 in cov’d bowls. .Engd i
14 doz Sm.  Celeries........Engd!
Yt doz Molasses  cons— Engd e
2 doz No. 3 Wines..........Engd!
3 doz 4 in  Comports................
1 doz Oval  Salts............. :........
2 doz Individual  Salts...........
1 doz Shaker  Salts..................

Tierce $1 10.

7 20 
6  00 
4 00 
1  10
3 00
4 00 
6  00 
7  50 
3 00 
3 50
70
40
17

3 60 
2  00 
1 00 
3 30 
50 
67 
1 00 
1 25 
75

$19 81

Less Discount 10 per cent.

A LARGE LINE
5 c, lOo <& 2 5 c 

—OP—

Goods.

$3 30 
80 
1  60 
1 16
4 89 
48

3 25 
1 84
$28 68 
2  86
$25 82

-W ith-

45 CANDLE POWER
Il Canot Urtai if It Falls.

B y  fh.@ Package,

Repacked  to  Order.

— OR—

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F LO W ER   PO TS.

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

Net Prices

.$12 42 
.  14 67 
.  9 19

Table Lamps, Nickel, 10 in por shade doz $42 00 
Table Lamps, Brass, 10 in pore shade, doz 36 00
Founts, Nickel, for store  fixtures__ doz 30 00
Founts, Brass, for store  fixtures___ doz 27 00

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Flora: 
Floral  Sets 
Floral Pitel 
Floral Cam 
Floral Nap] 
Floral  Pich 
FloralB 
Floral P 
Floral Cov’ 
Floral Cov’ 
Floral Hon 
Floral Hon 
Floral Salto 
Floral Salt
Package $1.

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Less Discount 10 per cent.

$12 34

FRUIT 
JARS.

QUART, 

$12  per gross. 
m g |K   GALLON, 
|$15  per  gross.

TIME TABLES.

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SELECTED EN G LISH  W H IT E  G RAN ITE W AR E. 

Diamond X.
Edward Clark’s
51 
4 doz Plates....................9 inch 
63 
4 doz Plates....................6 inch 
11 doz Plates....................7 inch 
73 
84. 
3 doz Plates................... 8 inch 
1 doz Plates....................7 Inch, deep
35 
6 doz Fruit Saucers.......4 inch 
6 sets Handled Teas............................ 45 
18 sets U nhandled Teas......................36 
1 only Dish..................... 7 inch
09
2 only D ishes................ 8 inch 
11
3 only D ishes................ 9 inch 
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3 only D ishes............... 10 inch 
3 only Dishes............... 11 inch 
23
3 only Dishes............... 12 inch 
38
4 only Bakers...............  5 inch 
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4 only Bakers................ 6 inch 
09
11
4 only Bakers...............  -7 inch 
4 only Bakers................8 inch 
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08
6 only Scollops.............. 5 inch 
6 only Scollops............... 6 inch 
10
11
6 only Scollops...............7 inch 
6 only Scollops..............8 inch 
It 
2 only Covered Dishes.. 7 inch 
39
2 only Covered Dishes.. 8 inch 
4a
1 only Sauce Boat........
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2 only Pickles 
4 only Cov’d Butters and Dr ns 5 m 34 
30
2 only Teapots..............No. 24 
6 only Sugars................No. 24 
6 only  Creams..............No. 24 
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3 only  Bowls.................No;** 
09
6 only Bowls................. No. 30 
08
6 only Bowls................. No. 36 
06
34 
4 only  Jugs...................No.  6 
6 only  Jugs................... No. 12 
13
4 only  Jugs...................N°.24 
11
4 only  Jugs...................No. 30 
6 only  J u g s . . . . . .........No. 36 
10
4 prs Ewers and  Basins No.  9 
71 
6 Covered Chambers— No.  9 
45 
6 Soap Slabs.................... 
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6 Mugs........... .........—  
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Crate  $3 50.

$53 65

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

G rand  R a p id s  R efrigerator  C o.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

A®*Send for CatalSgue.

PRICE  LIST.

No. 0,37x18x42,1  door...............................$13 50
No. 1, 31x30x44,  1  door...............................  18 00
No.  2,34x33x46, 2  doors.............................   23 00
No. 3, 36x31x48, 2 doors.............................   20 00
No. 4,  40x35x54, 4 doors.............................   80 00
No. 5,  43x36x59,  4 doors.............................   35 00
No. 1, with water cooler.................................... 21 00
Mo. 2, with water cooler.................................... "7 00
No. 3, with water  cooler...  .................• • •  30 00
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...........................................................j?0
4 Quart........................................................... |  50
6 Quart.
8 Quart:::":"...........................................,222
10 Quart.................................. .............. .........12 00
MONITOR

Less Regular Trade Discount.

NEW

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IN  THE  WORLD

Price List Sent on Application.

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

MANUFACTUREES  AND  JOBBERS  OF

RINDG-E, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
Oar Gaols art S ta ll] Mattel (or tlo I f e a i  H o .

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.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO,
Groceries  and  Provisions!

WHOLESALE

■  83,85 aid 81  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 12«  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  MICHIGAN.

Choice Butter a Specialty!

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

Careful Attention Paid to  Filling  Orders.

M. G. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’J 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  OOI-CP-AJSTST
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.  Wc  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids.

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

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

NOS.  1 **  and  1*4  LOUIS STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  MY—

Spring  Styles  of Fine  Hats,

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

Spring  Styles  of Soft  Hats,

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

Straw Hats for  Men,

Straw Hats for Boys,

Straw Hats for Ladies,
Straw Hats for  Misses.
ly  tko  Dozen  at  Now  M   Prices!!

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

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Gottonade  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.

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

X.  O.  L E V I ,

D EPA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express....................................   6:00 a m
+Day Express..........................................12:25 p m
♦New York Fast Line......................................6:00 pm
+Atlantic Express..........................................   9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express............................................... 6:4 am
tLocal  Passenger.......................................... 11:20 am
+Mail..........................................................3:20 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

A R R IV E .

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 Yorkl0:30 
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. S c h u l t z , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING  W EST.

GOING EAST.Arrives.
tSteamboat Express..........6:10 a m
TThrough  Mail............................10:10 am
tEvening  Express............... 3:20 p m
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m
+Mixed, with  coach...........
tMorning  Express..............12:40 p rn
■(Through  Mail....................  4:45 p m
tSteamboat Express.......... 10:30 p m
tMixed..................................
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 am

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

D. P otter, City Pass. Agent. 
T homas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GO ING  SOUTH.

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

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

SLE 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
G South—Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. L ockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

A  Northern  Mail  in  the South.

Winchester, Ky., May 31.

Editor Tradesman :—This  town lies  at 
the foot of a range of the Cumberland Moun­
tains, and fresh,  invigorating  breezes  blow 
constantly  down.  The  South,  and  espec­
ially  this  part,  has  developed  wonder­
fully  since 
the  close  of  the  war.  An 
infusion  of  energetic  Northern  blood  has 
accomplished  wonders,  and  new  manu­
factories  are  constantly  going  up 
in  all 
sections. 
Improved  methods  of  agricul­
ture have been adopted, which, with the nat­
ural fertility of the soil, coupled with the use 
of the latest farm machinery, have increased 
the production four-fold.  It is no  idle  pre­
diction to state that if the present rate of ad­
vancement is made in the next ten years this 
section will surpass the North.  This “blue- 
grass” section  is the great short-horn and fine 
horse region, famed the  world  over.  They 
take the ribbon everywhere  for  fine  stock. 
The new graded school bill  passed  recently 
by  the  Legislature  of  this  State,  will  do 
much to advance the interests of the people. 
That has  been a lamentable lack throughout 
the entire South in the past,  which is rapid­
ly being remedied.

Geo. W. Biehn.

Forgot His  Name.

A certain  young  Hebrew  traveling  man, 
with an older companion,  bought  a  special 
ticket of a scalper and got aboard  the  train. 
When the conductor  came  around  he  took 
up  Isaac’s  ticket  and  looked  at  the  name 
and  then  at  Isaac,  shook  his  head  and 
said,—

“What’s your name?”
“Let me see my ticket.”
“Can’t you tell your name without  seeing 
the  ticket?  That  won’t  do.  You’ll  have 
to  get  off  at  the  next  station  or  pay  your
fare.” 

This  agitated  Isaac  profoundly,  and  he 

,

turned to his companion and said,

“Moses, I’ve forgot my name  that  was on 

the ticket.  Can you tell me what it  is?” 

“Vill you let me see dot ticket,  Mr.  Coon- 
dogter?”  inquired  Moses.  The  conductor 
showed it to  him. 
“Mein  Got,  Isaac,  vot 
name is dees?  Patrick Moriarty!  No won­
der you dond recommember dot name.  Dond 
you  nefer  got  some  more  teekets  pi  dem 
schoolpers nut doc name  on it.  Dey vill all 
de dimes gif you avay.”

Extraordinary Good  Success.

From the Rockford Register.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail......................................... 9:15 am   4:00 pm
+Day  Express........................12:25 p m  10:45 p m
♦NightExpress....................  8:35 pm   6:10 am
Mixed........................................6:10 am   10:05 pm
♦Daiiy.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains.

Mr. E. A. Stowe, editor of The Michigan 
Tradesman,  of  Grand  Rapids,  made  the 
Register office a very pleasant  call  last Fri­
day.  Mr. Stowe has met with extraordinary 
good success in the short time his paper  has
Through parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at-  § 
tendants without extra charge to  Chicago  on | h  „  established and we hope  that  he  may 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and I 
8:35 p. m. trains

continue to  prosper.

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

J. H. P a l m e r , Gen’l Pass. Agent.
JOHN MOHRHARD,

-WHOLESALE-

Fresh & Salt Meats

109  CANAL STREET,

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

Umbrellas are regarded as personal  prop­
erty in Delaware.  A man has just been sen­
tenced in  Wilmington  to  paj  the  cost  of 
prosecution, $6 fine, one hour in the  pillory, 
twenty lashes, and three years in New Castle 
Jail, all for stealing an  umbrella.

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

The  annual  production  of  milk  in  this 
country is estimated at 6,750,000,000 gallons 
one-half of which is used in the manufacture 
of cheese and butter.

Patent Egg Oases <& Fillers

M essrs  F,  J.  LAMB  cto  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  fibers  in  the 
market, and will quote prices on application, both for  fillers and egg cases complete.

D, S.  Baugh, the Sullivan of  the  Grocery 

mercial Enquirer says:

(Broceries.,

PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO.  16.

Trade.

David Spencer Haugh was bom  in  Galen 
township,  Wayne  county,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  26, 
1852, and lived there until eight years of age, 
when he removed with his parents to Johns­
town,  Barry county,  this  State,  where  the 
family  remained nine  years.  In the  mean 
time,  his  father  served  in  the  army,  and 
Dave being the oldest of five children he was 
practically the head of the family during his 
father’s absence.  In 1869, he returned  with 
his  parents  to  Wayne county, N. Y., leav­
ing  there  in the fall  of 1872  to go to Battle 
Creek, where he entered the employ of C.  B. 
Parker, hat, cap and fur dealer.  Parker dy­
ing fifteen months afterward, Haugh entered 
the employ  of C. R.  Thompson,  grocer,  re­
maining  with  him  four  years,  and  going 
thence to Nashville, where he was identified 
with L. J. Wheeler, general dealer,  for  two 
years. 
Jan. 1,1879, he entered the employ 
of Rice &  Moore,  taking  to  the  road, and 
covering all available towns on the G. R. & L, 
north and south, C. & W. M., Michigan  Cen­
ta l, L.S. & M. S., F. & P. M., and Newaygo 
diuision.  Three years later he  dropped  all 
but the G. R. & L,  north,  and  F.  &  P.  M. 
July 23,1883, he changed  to  Cody,  Ball  & 
Co., taking the entire territory on  the  G.  R. 
& L, north of Morley, and making a point of 
seeing his trade regularly every three weeks. 
This route he still  continues  to  cover  with 
the same success  that  marked  his  engage­
ment with Rice & Moore.

Mr. Haugh is  a  quiet,  unassuming  man, 
never  taking  time  to tell  funny stories or 
engage in lenghty conversations that are de­
void of a business bearing.  He attends to his 
duties faithfully, seldom allowing  anything 
to interfere with their prosecution, and never 
going out of his way to introduce  a  subject 
foreign to his  ideas  of  what  constitutes  a 
“strictly business” career.  He attributes his 
success as a salesman to the fact that he sells 
his customers just what they buy and  never 
overe-stimates his fgoods.  He  always  en­
deavors to interest  himself  with  his  trade, 
and to get them  to  feel  an  interest  in  him 
and his goods.

Successful  Men.

From the United States Economist.

In every class of business  the  princes of 
the trade are the men who began  with noth­
ing and who look around on the attainments 
of their age with the honest  gratulation that 
they have been dependent for  their  success 
and  prosperity  upon their  own  integrity, 
fidelity and  skill.  And  the  circumstances 
of the commencement of active business life 
should not be regarded as  a  reason  for  re­
gret, or a cause for sorrow,  for  there  is no 
other  process  less  painful  or  harrassing 
which will so surely stir up the  gift  which 
may be in a man and bring  out for  circula­
tion and use the veins of gold which may be 
imbedded in  his  hidden  mines. 
If he be 
faithful, honest, honorable, his  early  strait- 
nessof  condition  will  be  an  everlasting 
blessing.  It is a soil that will  yield  to ap­
propriate cultivation  the  richest and  most 
lavish  fruit  But  it  will  involve  care, 
thought,  labor,  purpose  and  unshrinking 
honor to prevent its becoming not  merely a 
perplexity in occupation, but a poison to the 
soul.

Another View  of South  Water Street.
The editor of the South Haven Messenger 
recently visited Chicago, and thus records his 
impression of South Water  street:

South Water street gave  us  the  very  de­
cided conviction that there  was  life  in  the 
city, and life in the country around the city— 
a large army, indeed  to  demand  such  piles 
and loads and loads of  all manner of edibles, 
both in the line of the  substantials  and  the 
delicacies  as well.  Ten car loads  of  straw­
berries, from southern Illinois,were received 
Saturday morning, which though they  went 
off very lively, left the market two well sup­
plied  in  the  afternoon  for  the  interest of 
shippers. 
It  would  seem  that  the “truck 
patch” from which Chicago  draws,  must  be 
very large to yield  such  immense  supplies. 
And then  there  was  also  such  variety  in 
meat, fish and poultry,  that  it  would  seem 
they laid  contributions  on  prairies,  forest, 
l&kes and even frog ponds.  We tried to lead 
some of  them  to  think  their  prospect  for 
South Haven peaches was remarkably  good 
and that we would  do  something  for  them 
in the line of small fruit

He Said it Differently.

A more or less  celebrated  divine  who is 
noted for his punning propensities,  recently 
entered the store of  one  of his  parishoners 
named William Spade to pay a bill.  He did 
so,  and  upon  receiving  a  receipt  said: 
“There Billy Spade, your bill is paid.”

“Billy laughed heartily  at the  reverened 
gentleman’s pun, and  upon  reaching  home 
resolved to tell his wife about it.

“You ought to have  heard  Parson  R. to­
day,” he said.  “He paid his  bill, and said: 
There Billy Spade, I’ve paid your  bill,” and 
Billy laughed again.

“I don’t see anything  very  funny  about 

that,” said Mrs. Spade, coldly.

“Well, I don’t now,” replied Billy, after a 
few moments  thought,  “but  you  ought to 
have heard him say i t ”

Order Acme  English  Table  Sauce  from 
Arthur Meigs <fc Co., Cody, Ball;& Co., John 
Caulfield, Shields,  Bulkley & Lemon,  Fox, 
Musselman & Loveridge,  Hawkins & Perry, 
Clark, Jewell & Co. and Rice & Moore.

The greatest oleomargarine fraud  yet per­
petrated is the labelling the  buckets  with a 
ferocious looking billy goat to  indicate gen­
uine butter.

THEN  AND  NOW.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Sketeh of  the  Grocery Trade  Forty  Years 
A correspondent  of the  New York  Com­

Ago.

The contrast in the methods of doing busi­
ness in 1844 and 1884 is  almost  as  marked 
as the revolutions which have taken place in 
nearly  everything  else.  Take the grocery 
trade alone.  The  merchant  whose  exper- 
ence extends over a period which  embraces 
only present methods of doing business, and 
is confined to the various goods now  consti­
tuting the  grocer’s  stock, can  have  but a 
faint idea  of  the  vast  difference  between 
now and then.

One of the most  notable  features of  the 
business of the present day is the vast array 
of “drummers” going to and fro in the land, 
selling goods by  sample—a  feature  of the 
business, though long practiced in  England, 
that was wholly  unknown 
in this  country 
forty years ago.  Merchants then went after 
their  goods, now  the  goods  are  virtually 
brought to them; and,  although  drummers, 
by reason of their numbers and  pertinacity, 
have come to be considered as a sort of nuis­
ance by some merchants, they are, in reality, 
a great convenience and quite  indispensable 
to present  business  methods.  View it  as 
we  may, the present  system  has  come  to 
stay.  It is largely a thing of growth, and  it 
was simply impossible  that  sample  selling 
could have prevailed in former years, for the 
reason that goods were not graded  and clas­
sified as they are now.  Where such  is not 
the case, sample selling is out  of  the  ques­
tion and cannot be practiced  as it  now is.

For example,  take  the single  article  of 
sugar.  Forty  years ago  nearly all  sugars 
sold  at  retail  were  in  their  “raw”  state. 
There was no refined  sugar except the  old- 
fashioned “loaf,” of conical form  and  done 
up in  dark,  navy  blue  paper.  The  raw 
goods were bought and  sold  by  jobbers  in 
hogsheads, and  were of  various shades,  as 
regards color and quality, as to  defy  all at­
tempts at grading and  classification.  The 
“sugar mill,” to grind  and  reduce  them to 
selling condition, was as essential  a part of 
the grocer’s store furniture than as  the cof­
fee mill is now.  The  refining  process, ex­
tending as it does now to  all  sugars, “soft” 
and “hard,” renders the grading of  them so 
simple that, to examine a sample  is  equiva­
lent to seeing a whole barrel.

It may seem  surprising  to some  of your 
readers to be told what is  strictly true, viz: 
that the whole list of  canned goods, without 
a single exception, and now  so largely  con­
stituting the grocer’s stock, was  wholly un­
known at the period I speak of.  The toma­
to, by far the  largest  canned  vegetable  at 
the present day, was then but  little known. 
It wasjallowed to grow rather than be cultiva­
ted, in a few gardens as a curiosity, and cal­
led a “love apple,” and was by many consid­
ered poisonous rather than edible.

Of  course,  sweet  corn,  peas,  beans—in 
short, all  vegetables,  fruits  and  fish,  now 
canned in such endless variety, and entering 
not only into the grocer’s stock, but the com­
merce of the world—were eaten and enjoyed 
only  in  their  season,  and  not,  as  now, 
throughout the year and in every  clime un­
der the sun.  Banish the entire list of canned 
goods from the shelves of the grocer  of the 
present day,  and it can be  seen at  a glance, 
what a “beggarly array”  of  emptiness they 
would  present l to  the  eye.  What  shelf 
goods there were forty years since  were dis­
played (?)  with little or  none  of the  orna­
mentation of the present day.  The  aesthet­
ic taste had not been cultivated then as now, 
and did not extend to such vulgar  things as 
entered into a grocer’s  stock,  but  solely  to 
articles of virtu and works of art.

Ground coffee and spices  had  just  begun 
to appear on our shelves, but they had to en­
counter great  prejudice,  and  the  suspicion 
that they concealed  adulterations  gave way 
very slowly  with people  who  had  always 
bought their spices and  coffee in  bulk—the 
latter in its green  state and the  former  in 
the berry—and roasted  and  ground at  home 
by the good matron of the  house.

Special  Rates  for Grain Speculators. 

From the Wall Street News.

A Brooklj n man who hit  wheat for a few 
thousand  dollars  last  week  rushed around 
and rented  a  brown-stone  front,  and  then 
sought the services of a furniture mover.

“I’ll  take  it  by  the  job  and do the  fair 

thing by you,” replied the mover.

“Well, how fair?”
“I’ll say fifty dollars for the two.”
“What  two?”
“Why,  the  moving  this  week  into  the 
brown-stone,  and  the  moving  in  about  a 
month, from that into a cheap  frame  house 
in the suburbs 1  I always job the two moves 
together in the case of a  grain  speculator!”
A young lady in a Philadelphia  seminary 
was heard to  say  that  the  warm  weather 
made her  “sweat.”  A  teacher  who  over­
heard  the  remark  reproved  her  in  these 
words:  “My dear, bear in mind  that  horses 
sweat, men perspire, and young ladies get in 
a glow.

Oranges and lemons are  both  higher, and 
the later  will no  doubt advance still  more. 
Peanuts  are a trifle lower, on account of the 
light demand.

Send  in  your  orders  for  Acme  English 
Table Sauce  to  any  Grand  Rapids  jobbing 
house.

Send for sample  order of  Acme  English 

Table Sauce, the best in thejmarket

New table sauce  offt—the  Acme English, 

manufactured in London,  Eng.

Salt fish are quickly freshened by soaking 

in sour milk.

er. 

Advanced—Corn Syrups;  Prunes He strong­
Declined—Mackerel;  Kerosene;  Sugars  Ho.

,

AX LE  GREASE.

M odoc__ $  doz  60  IParagon...  $  doz  60
Diamond.............   60 
|Frazer’s ...............  85

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

Arctic H 
cans.................................. $  doz.'  45
Arctic H ft cans................ 1........................... 
75
Arctic H lb cans......................., ....................1 40
Arctic 1 lb cans.............................................2 40
Arctic 5  lb cans.............................................. 12 00

 

 

 

BLU IN G . 

•
Dry, No.2............  
25
doz. 
45
Dry, No.3.................................... .....doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,........................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz................  
65
.....doz. 
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
4 50
Arctic No. 3 

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“ 
“ 
BROOMS.

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

 

2 50
2 25
2 00
1 75
125
85

CANNED F IS H .

Cove Oysters, 1 lb  standards......................110
Cove Oysters, 2 lb  standards.........................  1 85
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled...........................1 25
Clams, 1 ft  standards........................................1 65
Clams, 2 ft  standards........................................2 65
Lobsters, 1 1b  standards...................................1 65
Lobsters. 2 ft  standards...................................2 70
Lobsters,  Picnics.............................................. 1 50
Mackerel, lf t   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 1b  Sacramento................................. 1 50
Sardines, domestic Hb................................. 
8
Sardines,  domestic  Hs...............................   12H
Sardines,  Mustard  Hb.................................  15
Sardines,  imported  Hs...............................   15
Sardines, imported Hs.................................  20
Sardines, imported Hs, 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.......................................... 
Cherries, w hite..................................... 
Damsons........................................................ 1  20
Egg Plums, standards...................................... 1 35
Egg Plums,  Erie................................... 
Green Gages, standards 2ft............................ 1 40
Green Gages,  Erie.............................................1 50
Peaches, 3ft  standards.................................... 1 75
Peaches, 3 1b Extra  Yellow.........................2 00
Peaches,  seconds..................................... 
  1 65
Pie Peaches 3 ft..................................................1 15
Pears, Bartlett2ft.............................................1 30
Pineapples, 2 1b  stand..................................... .1 40
Quinces...............................................................1 45
Raspberries, 2 1b stand.....................................1 25
Raspberries, 21b Erie........................................1 40
Strawberries, 2 ft 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

CANNED VEG ETA BLES.

 

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................................3 25
Beans, Lim a.................................................   80
Beans, String................................................  90
Beans, Boston Baked........................  
Beans,  Stringless...............................................1 00
Corn, Erie............................................................1 15
Corn, Revere.......................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian.............................................110
Corn,  Yarmouth................................................ 1 20
Corn Trophy................................................ 115
Corn, 2 1b  Onandago..........................................1 50
Corn,  Acme........................................................ 1 25
Corn,  Winslow................................................... 1 25
Corn,  Excelsior.............................................110
Mushrooms, French.....................................22@24
Peas, standard  Marrofat................................. 1 40
Peas, 21b  Early, Bmall  (new)...........................1 60
Peas, 2 ft Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2ft.......................... ... v23@28
Pumpkin, 3 1b Golden...................................110
Succotash, 2 1b standards.......................... ;  85
Succotash, 2 1b B.&M........................................1 75
Squash,3 ft  standards............................ 
1 20
Tomatoes, 3ft Dilworth’s................................. 1 05
Tomatoes, 3 1b Job Bacon................................. 1 00
Tomatoes, gal. E rie......................................... 2 95
Tomatoes, Acm e3ft.......................... 1 0I@1 20
G.  D.....................   35  (Ely’s Waterproof  75
Musket................   75  1

CAPS.

 

CHOCOLATE.

CO FFEE.

.  @25
German  sweet/.
.  @40
Baker’s .............
.  @35
Runkles.............
.  @25
Vienna Sw eet...
Green Rio__ 12 @14 Roasted Mex.l7H@19
Green Java.. .17 @27 Ground  Rio.. 9H@17
Green Mocha. 25 @27 Ground  Mex. @16
Roasted Rio.. 12 ©17 Arbuckle’s __ ...@15H
Roasted Java24 @34 x x x x ........
...®15H
Roasted Mar. 17 ©19 Dilworth’s __ ...@15H
Roasted Mocha @34 Levering’s  ...
...@15H
72 foot J u te __ 1 35 160 foot Cotton ...1 75
60 foot Jute....... 1  15 50 foot Cotton ...1 50

CORDAGE.

FLA V O R IN 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  “ 
“ 
.................................   175
“  H pint  round................................... 4 50
“ 
1 
“ 
...............................   9 00
“  No.  8..................................................3 00
“  No. 10..............................................   4 25
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz. 1  40
4 oz..................................................... 2 50
“ 
6 oz..................................................... 4 00
“ 
8 oz........ •........................................5 00
“ 
“  No. 2  Taper.....................................  1 50
“  No.  4 Taper.....................................  3 00
“  H 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.

F IS H .

F R U IT S .

Whole C o d ......................................... 
.....■
Boneless Cod.....................................5H@7H@8H
Herring H bbls.:i00 ft........................ 2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled...................................... 
28@30
Herring Holland...................................  @1  10
Bloaters.................................................   @1 00
White, No. L H b b ls............................ 
7  50
3  75
White, Family. H bbls.......i................ 
1  10
White, No. 1,101b kits......................... 
115
Whise, No. 1,12 1b kits......................... 
Trout, No. 1, H  bbls............................ 
4 76
90
Trout, No. 1,12 1b kits......................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, H bbls....................... 
5 50
Mackerel. No. 1,12 1b  kits...................  
90
London Layers, new.............................. 
2 75
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 50@2 60
New Valencias Raisins.........................  7H@7H
Dehesia...................................................  @3 25
Ondaras...................................................  @10H
Turkey Prunes......................................  6H@6H
Currants.................................................   5H@6
Citron....................................................
Dried A pples.........................................  8
Richardson’s No. 2  square............................2
Richardson’s No. 3 
do 
............................ 2 70
.............................155
do 
Richardson’s No. 5 
Richardson’s No. 6 •  do 
............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
............................ 170
............................ 2 70
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
Richardson's No. 4 round............................. 2  55
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7H do 
..............................1 65
Electric Parlor No. 17......................................3  70
Electric Parlor No. 18......................................5  80
Grand Haven, No. 9........................................2  70
Grand  Haven, No.  8........................................1  40
70
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
362ft  pkgs.......................... ...................   @3 25
5  75
Imperial  Dbls........... ............................. 
Quaker bbls..................... ......... 
6 75

20 gross lots special price. 

M OLASSES.

OATM EAL. 

M ATCHES.

 

 

O IL .

PICKLE8.

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

13 
11 
75
100
...............  
........................... 75
................ 
1 00
Choice in barrels med.............  
.................. 7 50
Choice in H 
......................................4 50
small............................4 50
Dlngee’s H 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.......................... 4 25
Dingee’8 pints 
do 
.........................  2 50
American qt.  in Glass......................................... 2 00
American pt. in GlasB..........................  
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

do 
do 

“ 
“ 

\  

“ 

“ 

Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
American T. D.......................................   90@1 00

PIPES.

RICE.

Choice  Carolina........... ....................................6H
Prime  Carolina................................................7
Patna . ................................................................ 6H
Rangoon............................................................5H

8ALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure.....................................................@ 5H
Church’s  .......................................................@ 5H
Taylor’s G.  M .......... 
..@ 5H
Cap  Sheaf.............................................................@ 5H
Dwight’s ...............................................................@ 5H
Sea  Foam.............................................................@ 5H
S., B. &L.’s  Best................................................. @ 5H

 

SALT.

60 Pocket............................ ...................
28 Pocket....'...........................................
10031b pockets.......................................
Saginaw F ine.........................................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse....................................

SAUCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, H pts.
Picadilly, H pints...................................
Halford Sauce,  large............................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green.............................
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup,'Tomato,  quarts  ......................
Horseradish,  H pints............................
Horseradish, pints.................................
Capers, French surflnes........ ..............
Capers, French surflnes, large............
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................
Olive Oil, quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s ....
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........
Olive Oil, H pints, Antonia & Co.’s __

1 00
1 75

1 45

Hem p......................................................
5
Canary.....................................................
5 
Rape........................................................
7
Mixed Bird..............................................   5H@6

SEEDS.

SOAP.

do. 

Kirk’s American  Fam ily........... ^ ft
do. 
India.........................................
do.  Savon......................................
do.  Satinet.....................................
do.  Revenue...................................
do.  White Russian.........................
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
Princess...........................
r & Gamble’s Ivory.................
do.
Japan  O live........
do.
Town Talk  $  box
do.
Golden Bar............
do.
Arab.......................
do.
Amber....................
do.
Mottled  German..
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........
Badger............................................ 60 fts
Galvanic.................................................
1 65
XXX Electric.........................................
XXX Borax............................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar
Ward’s White Lily................................
Handkerchief.........................................
Sidall’s ...................................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R ag................................................
Bluing......................................................
Magnetic.................................................
New  French  Process............................
Spoon  ......................................................
Anti-Washboard....................................
Vaterland...............................................
Magic........................................................
Pittsburgh..............................................
Bogue’s ...................................................
White castile  bars.................................
Mottled castile........................................
Old  Style................................................
Old Country.................................... .
Lautz Bros. & Co.
Acme, 701 ft  bars..................................
Acme, 25 3 1b bars..................................
Naster, 10o 54 ft cakes............................
Stearine, 100  54 ft cakes.......................
Marseilles, white, 100 H ft  cakes........
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Mapkin, 25 bars..................................
Towel, 25 bars.........................................
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............
Palma 6011b blocks, plain....................
Lautz’s 6011b blocks, wrapped............
German  Mottled, wrapped..................
Savon, República, 60 ft box..................
Blue Danube, 6011b blocks..............
London Family, 601ft  blocks.............
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................
Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped................
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Marseilles Castile, 3 doz in  box..........

SPICES.

I

 

 

 

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STARCH. 

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground  Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon..................  
16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger......................................................  17©20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper H S> $  dozen.............................. 
75
Allspice  H ft........................................... 
75
100
Cinnamon  H®>...................................... 
75
Cloves H  lb.......................... 
 
Pepper,  whole............;......................  
@18
Allspice................................................ 
@10
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1............. ....................   70  @75
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package 
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package
Muzzy  Gloss 6 1b boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss bulk............................
Muzzy Corn 1 1b...............................
Special prices on 1,0001b orders.
Kingsford Silver Gloss..................
Kingsf ord Silver Gloss 6 1b box... 
___
Kingsford Corn*.....................................   8H@8H
Oswego  Gloss.......
Mirror  Gloss........
Mirror Gloss, corn
Piel’s Pearl..............................................  @4
Niagara Laundry, 401b box,  bulk....... 
@5H
@5
Niagara Laundry, bbls, 186  fts...........  
Niagara Gloss, 4011b packages............ 
@7
Niagara Gloss, 36 3  packages..........  @6
Niagara Gloss, 6 1b box, 721b crate__  
@7
Corn, 4011b  packages........ .................  @7H
American Starch Co.’s
11b Gloss....................................... 
  @6H
10oz  G loss............................................ 
@354
3ft  Gloss.................................................   @6
6 1b Gloss, wood boxos..........................  
@7
Table Corn...................................... 401b  @6H
Table  Com..................................... 20 ft 
©7
Banner, bulk...........................................  @4
Hovey’s 1 1b Sunday Gloss.................... 
@7H
Hovey’s 31b Sunday Gloss....................  @7H
Hovey’s 6 1b Sunday Gloss, wood box.  @8
One Mrs.  Potts’  Polishing  Irons  given  free 
with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch.
@8
Jugs $   gallon......................................... 
Crocks...................................................... 
7
Milk Crocks............................................   ' 
7
Rising  Sun gross .5 88|Dixon’s  gross... ...5 50
Universal...........
.5 88 Above $  dozea.....  50
I X L ....................
.5 501
SUGAR?.
Granulated  ........
Cut Loaf...............
Cubes ..................
Powdered............................................
Conf. A ................................................
Standard A .........................................
Extra C................................................ 
Fine C................................................ 
Yellow C.................................................   5H@53£
Com,  Barrels.............................................  @ 32
Corn, H bbls................................................  @ 34
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...................................  @ 35
Com, 5 gallon kegs................................ 
Com, 4H gallon kegs.................................   @1 65
Pure Sugar  Drips............................bbl  32@  35
Pure Sugar Drips.........................H bbl  35@  40
Pure Sugar  Drips........ ........5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Maple........................H bbls  @  80

®7H
@8
@8H@8 
©6  % 
©6  54
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TEAS.

@33
@31
@65
@62

TOBACCO— F IN E  CUT.

@70
©70
©45
©35
@38
@67

@30
@38
@50
@45
©60
@57
@52
@40

Young Hyson__
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Oolong......... 33@55®60
Congo..................   @30

Pure Maple..........................10 gal kegs  @  80
Pure Maple...........................5 gal kegs  @  85.
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............H bbl  @  95
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5gal kegs  @1 00'
Japan ordinary.  23@30
Japan fa ir..........32@35
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Japan fine............40@50
Japan dust..........15@20
Our  Bird.................................... ............
Peaches...................................................
Morrison’s Fruit....................................
Don’t Give Me  Away............................
.1 25
Victor.....................................................
Diamond  Crown....................................
Red  Bird.................................................
Opera Queen...........................................
Sweet Rose.................................... .........
Green Back...........................................
Fruit \ ......................................................
O So  Sw£et..............................................
Prairie Flower.......................................
Climber [light and  dark].....................
Matchless......................................... ....
Hiawatha...............................................
G lobe.....................................................
May Flower............................................
Hero........ ............ ..............................
A tlas.......................................... .............
Royal Game...........................................
Silver Thread.......................................
Seal................ .........................................
Kentucky...............................................
Mule Ear.................................................
@67
Peek-a-Boo.............................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo, H  barrels..........................
@30
Clipper, Fox’s......................................... 
.....
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............   @30
Fountain.................................................   @74
Old Congress...........................................  @¿4
Good Luck..............................................  @53
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away....................................... .
Hair Lifter............................................  
@30
Old Glory, light......................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark......................  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil......................  @60
PLU G .
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 Fox...................................................  @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 a st................................................  @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 121b  cads..........  @51
Cock of the walk  6s..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @48
Acorn......................................................   ©48
Red Seal...................................................  @46
Crescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
True Grit.................................................   @35
Nobby Spun Roll...................................  @50
Spring......................................................   @50
Grayling, all  Btyles..............................  @50
Mackinaw................................................  @47
Horse Shoe..............................................  @50
Good Luck..............................................  @50
Big Chunk or J. T...................................  @40
Hair Lifter..............................................   @37
D. and D., black...........................  
  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @48
Ace  High, biack....................................   @35
Champion A ...........................................  @48
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @48
Red Star...................................................  @50
Shot Gun...........................................  
  @48
D uck.......................................................   @18
Jumbo......................................................  @40
  @50
Apple Jack.......................................... 
Jack Rabbit............................................   @42
A. M................................................. 
 
  @35

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chain  ......................................................   @22
  @22
Arthur’s Choice............................. 
Seal of Grand Radids............................  @25
King...........................................  
@30
Flirt.......................................... 
@28
Pug...........................................................   @30
Ten Penny Durham, H and H.............   @24
Amber, H and lf t ............................. 
  @15
  @22
Dime Smoking..................................... 
Red Fox Smoking...................................  @26
Lime Kiln Club..................... 
@47
 
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut............  @90
Vanity  Fair........................... 
 
@90
Dim e........................................................  24@25
Peerless........................................ V.......  @25
Standard..................................................  @22
Old Tom..................................................  @21
Tom & Jerry...................: ............. . 
@24
Joker.......................................................  
  @25
  @35
Traveler.................................................. 
Maiden....................................................   @26
T opsy......................  
 
@27
Navy Clippings......................................  @24
Honey D ew ............................................   @25
@32
Gold  Block...........................  
Camp F ir e ............................................  
@22
@19
Oronoko.................................................  
Nigger  Head...........................................  @26
Durham, H 1b.........................
©60 
do 
14 f t ..........................
...  @57
do  Vt 1b..........................
...  ©55
do 
l f t .........................
©51 
Holland.......................... .......
©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 
Dime Durham.......................
@25 
Rob Roy.................................
@26 
Uncle  Sam..............................
@28 
Lumberman..........................
@26 
Railroad Boy..........................
@37
Mountain Rose.......................
@20
. . .  
Good Enough........................
...  @23
Home Comfort, 14s and  Hs..
@25 
Old Rip, long cut..................
@60
Durham,  long cut................
...  @60
Two  Nickle, H5.....................
@25 
Two  Nickle, Hs.....................
@26 
Star Durham.........................
@25 
Golden Flake Cabinet...........
@40 
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.
@52 
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.
@50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz.
___   @48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @50
Big Deal, Hs  longcut....................... . 
@27
Applejack, Hs  granulated................   @24
Klng<Bee, longcut, Hs and Hs
@22
Milwaukee Prize, Hs and Hs...............
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, Hs and Hs............
@24
Rattler, longcut........................ .............
@28
Windsor cut plug..................................
@25
Mule Ear................................................
23
Hiawatha........ .......................................
23
Old Congress...........................................
23
A cm e.....................................................
23

SHORTS.

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

@5 00 
@3 00 
@1 50 
@3 75 
©  75 
@  90 
@1 30 
@1 60 
@  90 
@1 30 
@1 00 
@1 30 
@2 25 
@3 50 
@3 85 
@6 50 
©7 00 
@4 00 
©2 50

6H6

6H

6H 
5H 
5 40 
5H

6 75
5
3 70
4 20
3 45
3 75
4 20
@3 40 
@3 25 
@3 15 
@ 6H 
©4 20 
@6 50 
@4 20 
@  21 
©  16 
@6 75 
@4 20
3 00 
5 50
4 10
5 00 
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20 
4 00
6 75 
13 
12
© 5H 
5H
© 6H 
© 6H @5 00 
@5 00 
@6 25 
@6 25 
@5 25 
@5 25 @ 6 
@ 5H 
@ 7 
© 6H 
@ 554 
@ 654 
@  5 
@3 70 
@3 85 
@4 00 
©3 25 
©2 30 
@1 25

V IN EGA R.

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

10©12 
10® 12
W ASH ING PO W D ERS.
1776 #  1b.......................................... 
  @10H
Gillett’s $  f t ..............................................   © 7H
Soapine pkg............................................... 
7@10
Boraxine $  box...............-.....................  @8 75
Pearline $  box.................................... 
  @4 50
 
Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun ”. . . .................  1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75  IWilsofts................1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75  INatlonal...............1 75

YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Blacking.........................................30,40,50@60
do  waterproof............................ 
160
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
75
do 
American............................ 
Barley...................................................... 
@3H
Burners, No. 1 ............. .......................... 
1 10
do  No. 2........................................ 
1 50
Bags, American A ................................. 
20 00
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.................... 8 10
Curry Combs W doz............................... 1 25©
Cream Tartar 5 and 101b cans.............   @25
Candles, Star..........................................  @15H
Candles,  Hotel........................................  ©16H
Chimney Cleaners $   doz.....................   @50
 
Chimneys No. 1..................... 
  @35D
No. 2......................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lft packages. 
@26H
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & H ft  do 
©27H
Evaporated Hulled Corn 501b cases...  @ 11
Extract Coffee,  v. c............................... 
95
F elix ............................1 30©
Flour, Star Mills, in b bls..................... 5 75©
InSacks.....................5  50©
Flour Sifters $  doz............................... 3 00©
Fruit Augurs each.................................I 25@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps......................  
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps................ 

  @40

do 
do 

  @25  ,

do 

. 

5X@6

  @1 80

 

l

do 

Gum, Spruce....................................
Ink #  3 dozen  box................................ l
Jelljy in Pails__ '...................................
=ao  Glass Tumblers #  doz..................
Lye $12  doz. cases.................  
Macaroni, Imported..............................
Domestic.......... ........................  .i .......
French Mustard,  8 oz $1  dozen............
Large Gothic............1
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallons.................  12
Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons............... 14
Peas, Green Bush...................................1
Powder,  Keg.......................................  5
Sago  ...............................................
Shot, drop................................................1
do  buck................ .. ." .....................o
Sage.....................................
Tobacco Cutters each........... . . . .........l
Twine....................................
Tapioca............................... ...................
Wicking No. 1 $  gross...... ....'.'. ’.'. ’. ‘ * [
do  No. 2  ................ ...............
do  Argand....................".! 1!.. !l

do  Split prepared.........................

h Keg........................

do 

35@40
00@
© 6 
@75 
@13 
© 5 H 
@80 

55© 

© 3H 

35@ 
00© 
00© 
50©
50@ 
00© 
5@6 
90©
15©
@15
25©
18@23
5@6
@40
@65

50©

CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

 

 

 
!

do 
do 

Straight, 25 ft  boxes............................ 
Twist, 
cut Loaf 

STICK.
@10
................. 
©10V4
.......................;;;;  @12
MIXED.

©iov4
Royal, 25 ft  pails........... ........... 
Royal, 200 ft bbls.......................... i.'"!"' 
10
Extra, 261b  pails.................. 
....................iiu
Extra, 2001b bbls............................................. 11
French Cream, 25 ft pails............!!!!!......... 14
Cut loaf, 25ft  cases................ ........................
 
Broken, 25 1b pails.................  
iiia
Broken.2001b  bbls....................." 1
 10H
FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.
Lemon Drops................................................... 14
Sour Drops........................................................15
Peppermint  Drops.............................!.'!!.!l6
Chocolate Drops......................................!. "l7
H M Chocolate  Drops............................!!!.  20
Gum  D rops................................................ ..12
Licorice Drops....................................." !." ! .20
A B  Licorice  Drops................................ !^!"l4
Lozenges, plain............................................* * *
Lozenges,  printed....................................  ".  IT
Imperials..................................................... 
ig
Mottoes’.......................................................1**1*
Cream  Bar............................................11  .  *  15
Molasses Bar........................................1111111114
Caramels..........................  
.11.120
Hand Made Creams.........................111111**1 *23
Plain  Creams................ ............... 1111111111120
Decorated Creams............................11........... 23
String Rock.......................................... 111111111* *16
Burnt Almonds.......................1111111.............24
Wintergreen  Berries........1.111  1111.11.111.16
Lozenges, plain in pails....................... 
14
Lozenges, plain in bbls......................1.11111113
Lozenges, printed in pails........111111........... 15
Lozenges, printed in bbls....................1111  14
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................1........... 14
Gum Drops, in pails..................1.1................  g
Gum Drops, in bbls...................... .*..' 1..........  7
Moss Drops, in pails.......................HI...........n
Moss Drops, in bbls........................ „11......... 9H
Sour Drops, in  pails.......................1.1111111*13
Imperials, in  pails................................ 
14
Imperials, in bbls..............................Ill .ll.lll3
Oranges »  box.......................................   @6  00
Oranges OO  box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, $   box............... HI 
Oranges, Valencia $3  case...............
Lemons,  choice....................................4 oo@s oq
Lemons, fancy.......................................   @4 00
Bananas $  bunch.................................Is 00@4 OO
Malaga Grapes, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl.......................
Figs,  layers  »  ft........................................12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
18@20
................ 
Figs, baskets 401b 
ft...........................  @14
Dates, frails 
do  ...........................  @ 6
Dates, H do 
d o ...................
7 
Dates, skin.......................................*2111
@ 6 
Dates, H  skin.............................. 1.111.1
© 7H 
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft...............1. .10
@11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 
7
8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ^ ft.......1111.1  6H@ 7

Fancy—in  Bulk.

ft........... ".Ill 

FRUITS.

do 
do 

NUTS.

PEANUTS.
Steady.
1b............................
do  ............................
do  ................ 1.........

Prime Red,  raw 
Choice 
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  .......................... .  9
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................10

@   8 
@  9 
@10 
@11H
Almonds,  Terragona, $ f t ....................  18@19
Almonds, loaea,
do  ....................  16@17
Brazils,
do  .................... 
9@10
Pecons,
do  ....................  10@14
Filberts, Barcelona 
d o ....................
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ....................  @14
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ....................  @12H
Walnuts, Grenobles 
d o ....................  14@15
Walnuts, California 
do  . 
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
Hickory Nuts, large $  bu 
Hickory Nuts, small  do

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

@4 50
1 2>

 

 

@6 OO

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork.......................................$17 50r
Back  Pork,  short cut.................................  17 5q
Family Clear Pork, very cheap................   20 75
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer................   19 50
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City__ 19 50
Extra Clear Pork.......................................   20 00
Clear Back Pork, new.................................  20 00
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality.............   20 00
Standard Clear Pork, the best....................21 75

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases 
... 
do. 
Half Cases............... 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft Cases.......... 
do 
Half Cases.......... 
Long Clears light, 5001b Cases............... 
Half Cases............... 
do. 
Short Clears, heavy................................  
medium............................ 
light.................................... 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 ft cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 3001b  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bell ids, extra quality, 3001b cases........  
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........  

do. 
do. 

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

LA RD.

LA RD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

201b Round Tins, 801b racks.................. 
501b Round  Tins, 100 1b  racks............... 
3 1b Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case.............................  
101b Pails, 6 in a case.............................  

9H
9H
9H
9H
9H
9H
9 \
9H
9H  •
30H
10H
10H
10H
9H
10
10H

8H
8H

8H
8H
9H
9%
954

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  pickie.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
Dried Beef,  Extra..................................  
Dried Beef,  Hams..................................  
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........   11 00
Rolled Beef, cordless.................................   17 75.

13H-
13H
14
10
9
h h
14
16

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

CANNED B E EF.

Libby, McNeil a Libby, 141b cans, H doz.

incase.....................................................  18 50
do. 
2 1b cans, 1 doz. in case....  2 90
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, H doz  in case  18 50 
2 1b cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2 90 
do. 
do. 2 1b Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00 

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage...................................... , ......... 9
Ham  Sausage................................................... 15
Tongue  Sausage............................................   11
Liver Sausage...................................................  8
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage................................................... 8
Bologna,  ring...................................................  8H-
Bologna, straight............................................   8H
Bologna, thiok.................................................   8H
Head  Cheese....................................................   8
In half barrels.....................................................   3 90
In quarter barrels...............................................  2 io*
In kits..............................................................
In half barrels..................................................... $3 50
In quarter barrels..................................... 
  1  70-
In kits............................................................... 
7&
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...................................  7H@10
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.................... 11  @12
Dressed Hogs...........................................  8  @ 9
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  @ 9^

Pork Sausage...........................................10  @10H,
Pbrk Sausage in bulk............................   @10 y*
Bologna.?!?.......................................... H  @10

2>rg  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as Iüuuwo : 

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

Pepperell, 104........25
Androscoggin, 94. .28 
Pepperell, 114........27*4
Androscoggin, 84. .21
Pequot,  74.............18
Pepperell,  74........16 $4
Pequot,  8 4 ..........21
Pepperell,  84........20
Pepperell,  94........22*4  Pequot, 94 .............. 24

CH ECK S.

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

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

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown__ 7
Jewell briwn..........934
Kentucky brown.. 10*4 
Lewiston brown...  9*4
Lane brown........... 934
Louisiana plaid—   8

Alabama plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........ 8
Toledo plaid...........   734
Manchester  »laid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6*4

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........814
Art cambrics, 36.. .1114 
Androscoggin, 44..  814 
Androscoggin, 54. .1214
Ballou, 4 4 ..............714
Ballou, 54...............  6
Boott, 0 .4 4 ...........   8*4
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 44.......9*4
Boott, R. 3 4 ..........  534
Blackstone, AA 44  714
Chapman, X, 44—   614
Conway,  44.......  -..  7%
Cabot, 44................ 714
Cabot, 7-8................   614
Canoe,  34...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  714
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44 ...............  914
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  814
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  44........ 12
Gold Medal, 44..  ..7
Gold Medal, 7-8.......614
Gilded Age............. 834

Greene, G. 44........   514
Hill, 44....................  814
Hill, 7-8.................   714
Hope,  44.................. 714
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44.................1114
Linwood,  44 ..........9
Lonsdale,  44............814
Lonsdale  cambric. 1114 
Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Langdon, 45........... 14
Masonville,  44.........914
Maxwell. 44............1014
New York Mill, 4-4.1014 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .1214 
Pocahontas,  44—   814
Slaterville, 7-8.......... 614
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 44.......... 53K
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  714
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 614
W amsutta, 44.........1014
Williamsville, 36... 1014

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory............. ...  714 iKearsage................8V
Androscoggin sat..  814tNaumkeagsatteen.  814
Canoe River...........   6  I Pepperell bleached 814
Clarendon.  ...........   614 Pepperell sat..........9*4
Hallowell  Imp.......  634 Rockport.................  714
Ind.Orch.Imp.......614 Lawrence sa t.......  814
Laconia.................. 7!4|Conegosat— ......... 7

Albion, solid...........514
Albion,  g rey......... 6
Allen’s  checks........514
Ailen’s  fancy..........514
Allen’s pink.............6y*
Allen’s purple.........614
American, fancy... .514
Arnoldfancy...........6
Berlin solid...............514
Cocheco fancy........6
Cocheco robes...........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone.............. 6
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............ 7

Gloucester............... 6
Gloucestermoum’g.6
Hamilton  fancy__ 6
Hartel fancy............6
Merrimac D..............6
Manchester..............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........614
Pacific  robes............6
Richmond.................6
Steel River..............514
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

[ I * 

■  
”  

F IN E  BROW N COTTONS.

Appleton A, 44—   8
Boott  M, 44...........   734
Boston F, 44..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  734 
Continental D, 40 in 834 
ConestogaW,44...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  514 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  634
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  614
Dwight Z, 44..........  7
Dwight Star, 44—   734 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterppse EE, 36..  534 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......  634
Indian  Orchard, 14 714

Indian Orchard, 40.  834 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74........1614
Lyman B, 40-in...... 1014
Mass. B B .44............634
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
Nashua  R, 44........  734
Nashua 0,7-8..........  734
Newmarket N ........734
Pepperell E, 39-in.. 714
Pepperell  R, 44__ 7
Pepperell  0,7-8__ 614
Pepperell N, 34__ ¿34
Pocasset  C, 44....... 7
Saranac  R...............  734
Saranac  E...............   9

DOM ESTIC OINQHAM S.

styles.........................................1014  Bookfold.1214

Amoskeag  .............   8  Renfrew, dress styl  914
Amoskeag, Persian 
Johnson  Maafg Co,
Bates.......................  714 Johnson Manfg Co,
Berkshire.............   614
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 714 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........  8
Gloucester, 
standard............... 714
Plunket....................714
Lancaster....,.......834
Langdale.................. 734

dress  styles........1214
Slaterville, 
styles....................  9
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manfg  Co,
Earlston........ ......  914
Gordon......................8
Greylock, 
dress 
styles  ...................1214

checks,
new

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 74. .21 
Androscoggin, 84. .23
Pepperell,  74........20
Pepperell,  84........2214
Pepperell,  94 ........25

Pepperell.  104...... 2714
Pepperell,  114___ 3214
Pequot,  7 4 ...........21
Pequot,  84.............24
Pequot,  94.............2714

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 44.........7*4
Atlantic  H, 44.......7
Atlantic  D, 44.......  634
Atlantic P, 44........   534
Atlantic LL, 44—   534
Adriatic, 36.............   734
Augusta, 44............  634
Boott M, 44............  734
Boott  FF, 44..........  734
Graniteville, 44—   634 
Indian  Head,4 4 ...  734 
Indiana Head 45-in.1234

Lawrence XX, 44..  834 
Lawrence  Y ,30....  7 
Lawrence LL, 44...  534
Newmarket N........  734
Mystic River, 4-4...  6J4
Pequot A, 44..........8
Piedmont,  36..........  7
Stark AA, 44..........  734
Tremont CC, 44__ 534
Utica,  44................ 9
Wachusett,  44.......  734
Wachusett,  30-in...  634

Amoskeag,  ACA...14 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Amoskeag,  B ..__ 12
Amoskeag,  C........11
Amoskeag,  D ........1034
Amoskeag,  E........10
Amoskeag, F ........  934
Premium  A, 44__ 17
Premium  B ............16
Extra 44.................. 16
Extra 7-8.................. 1434
Gold Medal 44.........15
CCA 7-8....................1234
•CT 4-4....................... 14
RC 7-8........................14
BF 7-8....................... 16
A F44....................... 19
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Cordis ACA, 32....... 15
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Cordis No. 2............ 14
Cordis  No. 3............13
Cordis  No. 4............1134

Falls, XXXX..........18*4
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, 44.........13
Omega ACA, 7-8__14
Omega ACA, 44__16
Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
Omega SE, 44....... 27
Omega M. 7-8........22
Omega M, 44.........25
Shetucket SS&SSW 1134 
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Shetucket,  SF8 __ 12
Stockbridge  A .......7
Stoekbridge fm ey.  8

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

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

....  5  
. . . .   5
....  5

Empire...............
Washington........ ..  43£
¡Edwards............... ..  5
|S. 8. * Sons.......... ..  5

G R A IN   B A G S .

American  A..
¡Old  Ironsides__ . .1534
•Stark A ........... __ 2334 ¡Wheatland........... -.2134

D E N IM S .

....  734¡Otis CC................ ..1034
Boston__ ....
Everett blue.. __ 14341Warren  AXA__ ..1234
Everett brown __ 1434iWarren  BB......... ..1134
....1234 Warren CC.......... ..1034
Otis  AX A .......
....1134 |York  fancy........ . .15
Otis BB............

P A P E R   C A M B R IC S .
....  6 IS. S. & Sons.......... ..  6
Manville..........
Masguville__ ....  6 Garner ................ ..  6

W IG A N S .

S P O O L   C O T T O N .

Red  Cross........ ....  734 Thistle Mills........
Berlin............... ....  734 Rose..................... ..  8
-Garner............. ....  734
Brooks............. ....50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F. __55
J. & P.  Coats....... 55 Greeh  &  Daniels.
Willimantie 6 cord.55 Merricks.............
Wlllimantic 3 cord. 40 Stafford...............
Charleston ball sew
Hall & Manning..
ingthread__ ....30 Holyoke...............

Mills ball sewing.30
.25
.40
.35
.30
.25

S IL E S IA S .

■Crown............... ....17 Masonville TS__ .  8
No.  10............... ....1234 Masonville  S.......
.1034
Coin.................. ....10 Lonsdale.............
.  934
Anchor............. ....15 Lonsdale A ..........
.16
Centennial.......
Nictory  O............
.  6
Blackburn.......
...  8 Victory J ............... .  7
.10
...14 Victory D............
Davol................
London.............
...1234 Victory  K............. .1234
...12 Phoenix A ............. .  9 34
Paconia...........
...10 Phoenix  B ............. 1034
Red Cross........
Social  Imperial ^.16 Phoenix X X .......... .15

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS.
. •  Spring  & Company quote as follows: 

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
Roxbury  tapestry................ ......... 
@  90
Smith’s 10 wire................................ 
@  90
Smith’s  extra....................................  @  85
Smith’sB   Palisade........ .................. 
  @ 
Smith’s C  Palisade........................  
@  65
Higgins’ 
...............  
@  8234
@  70  -
Higgins’ ***....................................  
Sanford’s extra............................. 
@  8214
Sanford’s Comets..................... . 
@  65

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@1 00
@1 00
@1 00
@  9714

HEMPS.

ALL WOOL SUPERFINES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford.......................................... 
@  7714
Lowell...............................................  
@  8214
Other makes.................................. .  75  @  7734
Best cotton chain........................ 
60  @  6214
Best  2-ply.........................................  5714®  60
Other grades 2-ply..........................   5234®  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4214®  45
Double cotton chain......................  35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @  3214 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2714®  3214
Single cotton chain..................... 
19  @  25
3-ply, 44 wide, extra heavy............  2734®  30
B, 44 wide.......................................  
®  22
Imperial, plain, 44 wide................. 
@  1814
@  17
D,33  inches..................................... 
No. 1,44,54,64 and 847................ 
®  45
No. 2, 
..................  
@  3714
©  30
..................  
No.3, 
No. 4, 
@  25
.................  
®  6234
Best all rattan, plain....................... 
®  5214
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier A .................................. 
@  50
Napier  B ........................................... 
@  40
CURTSINS.
Opaque shades, 38 inch.................. 
@  15
Holland shades, B finish, 44.......... 
@  18
@  10
Pacific  Holland, 44......................... 
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
@36
Cord fixtures, per gross................. 
@10

OIL CLOTHS.

MaTTINGS.

do 
do 
do 

MILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:

HA TS.

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

00@12 00
00@18 00

BLACK  CR A PE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand.

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

RIBBONS.

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

1  85

 

Second quality, all colors.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Suspenders  in a M illinery  Store. 

From the Indianapolis  Sentinel.

A bald-pated bachelor entered  Mrs.  Bris­
tow’s millinery store, and,  before  adjusting 
his  spectacles  to  note  his  surroundings, 
called for a pair of suspenders.  Both he and 
the young lady clerk were in the next instant 
on the eve of fainting,  when one of  the  mil­
liners, a smart, black-eyed matron, appeared 
on the scene.

“Did you say you wished a hat?”  she ask­

ed very innocently.

“No, no—oh, yes—yes—thank you—a  hat 

—yes,” grasped the bald-pate.

“What  style, please?” querried  madam.
“Oh! no choice—any style—just any.”
“Want it for wife or daughter?”
“Wife!  Daughter!  No—no—got  none; 
want it  for  my  mother,”  he  responded  in 
tones of anguish.

“Then  won’t  you select  one?”  suggested 

madam.

He  made  a  dash  to  the  one  nearest  to 
hand, and two minutes later had paid  for it 
and was walking down the street with a box 
under his arm and a flush on his face.  Hav 
ing had her joke, bald-pate is  informed  that 
he can return the hat to the lady and get his 
money refunded if he so wishes.

Mother-o’-Pearl  Buttons.

Though buttons of all kinds  are  made in 
Birmingham, the pearl branch  is  the  most 
extensive.  Mother-o’-pearl is a  most  suit­
able material  for  making  buttons;  it is so 
strong, so pretty and so easily worked.  The 
shells are obtained from  Australia, Manila, 
Bombay, Egypt, South America,  and  some 
other places.  They are as large as  dessert- 
plates, and half an inch in  thickness.  The 
button-maker  cuts  the  shell  into  lozenge­
shaped pieces of various sizes, so as to leave 
as little waste as possible, for the  shells are 
expensive, a ton of picked specimens costing 
£300.  The cutting is done  by  means  of a 
saw in the shape of a tube,  with  the  teeth 
cut upon the rim of one of its ends.

H. B. Clafflin, the famous  New York  dry 
goods merchant, is said to  be  a  very  small 
man, with fluffy hair  and a [ small,  smooth, 
doll-like  face.  Every  afternoon  at  half­
past three o’clock, wet or dry, he  jumps  in­
to a light wagon behind a fleet horse and goes 
spinning down  toward  Coney  Island  from 
his winter residence in  Brooklyn.  There is 
nothing showy or stylish about  his  turnout, 
and few who see the little  man  would  take 
him for a millionaire.

Buttons are not moving quite as  freely  as 
the dealers expected, and it seems that large 
quantities  of  old  ones  are  being  used  on 
new garments.  This is one phase of the eco­
nomic  spirit of the times.  There has been 
some activity  in buttons  showing  combina­
tions of pearl and steel,  but  metal  buttons, 
with  the  exception  of  some  steel  -effects, 
have fared poorly.

Wooden  ornaments for dresses and cloaks 
are made of white holly.  These imitate old 
ivory, and are carved or painted.  A set con­
sists of buckle, a large pin for  the  drapery, 
and buttons of two sizes for the basque  and 
coat  Dog’s heads in natural wood, chained 
together, is a pleasing style of fastening  for 
a mantle.

Ibarbware.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago are as follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S .

70

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

 

Spring.................................................... ...dis 25

BALANCES.

BA RROW S.

Railroad............................. 
Garden.............................  
BELLS.

 

 

$  15 00
net  33 00

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

 

BO LTS.

Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage and Tire, old list................. dis  80&20
Plow  ......................................................dis  30&10
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis  50&15
Cast Barrel  Bolts........... ....................dis 
50
65
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............................................d is  50&10

BRACES.

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

40
50
60
net

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  60 &10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
60
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
60
Wrought Inside Blind.........................dis 
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’8l-10............................................. .per m $65
Hick’s C. F ..................................... 
60
 
G. D........................................................ 
35
Musket................................................... 
60

 

CA TRIDG ES.

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

50
50
34

C H IS ELS.

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

COMBS.

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

3334
25

COCKS.

Brass,  Racking’s..............................
Bibb’s ................................................
B eer...................................................
Fenns’................................................

40&10
49&10
40&10
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... ............ æ a >   37
..  39

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

C O P P E R .

D R IL L S .

35
20

Morse’s Bit  Stock.......................... ...dis
Taper and Straight Shank............. ...dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..................... .. .dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................ doz net $1 10
Corrugated....................................... ... dis 20&10
Adjustable........................................ ...dis 40&10
Clar’8, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.

E X P A N S IV E  B IT S .

E L B O W S .

dis
dis

20
25

F I L E S .

American File Association List...__dis 40&10
Disston’s ........................................... . ..dis 40&10
New American.................................__dis 40&10
Nicholson’s..................... ..................__dis 40&10
Heller’s .......................... .................. .. .dis
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps..................... .. .dis
3334
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
List 
18

22 and 24,  25 and 26.  27• 
12 
151 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.

G A L V A N IZ E D   IR O N ,
14

13 

G A U G E S .

H A M M E R S .

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

50

HA NG ERS.

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

H IN G ES.

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 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

HO LLO W   W ARE.

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

HO ES.

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

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 00, dis 69
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s....................d 
60
Hemacite............................................... dis 
50

. 

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

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

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

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

MATTOCKS.

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

N A IL S.

Common. Brad and Fencing.

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

|  lOd  8d 
6d  4d
2 
134
234 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 
mollasses gates.

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

 

 

 

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

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent...................... dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom........ . 
....d is  50
Brasser  Copper..................................d is   40
Reader...... 
.........................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s , ............................................ 
50

PLA N ES.

........... dis  15
..........dis  25
..........dis  15
..........dis  20

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy........... .
Sciota Bench..................................
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fanev........
Benoh, first quality.......................
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood and
Fry, Acme....................................... .......dis 40&10
Common, polished........................ ___ dis 
60
Dripping........................................... ....sp ft 
8
Iron and Tinned............................
Copper Rivets and Burs...............

...dis 
...dis 

R IV E TS.

PA N S.

40
40

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

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

Broken packs 34c $ lb extra.

9

R O PES.

SQUARES.

SH EET IR O N .

R O O FIN G  PLA TES.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.
..............5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne .............   7 75
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.
............. 12 00
IX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal Terne ............. 16 90
Sisal, 34 In. and larger.................... .......934
Manilla............................................

.............  15
Steel and  Iron................................. ..........dis  50
Try and Bevels...............................
..........dis  50
Mitre  ............................................... ..........dis  20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 20
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40
3 60
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30 inches

Nos. 10 to 14.................................. $4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17..................................
4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................
4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................
4 20 
Nos .25 to 26..................................
4 40 
No. 27..............................................
4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 ®>s, $  ft................
In smaller quansities, $  ft........
T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.
No. 1, Refined.................................
Market  Half-and-half..................
Strictly  Half-and-half..................

634

13 00
15 00
16

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

........  

T IN   PLA TES.

TR A PS.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal................
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................
IX, 
...........   8 50
12x12, Charcoal................
IC, 
...........   6 50
12x12,  Charcoal...............
IX, 
...........   8 50
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.................. ............  6 50
........  850
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal................
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal............... .........   10 50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.............
.........   12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal...........
.........   14 50
20x28, Charcoal............... .........   18 00
IX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............ .........   6 50
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............ .........   8 50
DX, 
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal...........
.........   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........
.........   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75

rates.
Steel, Game.............................
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ........dis  34
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s;...  60
Hotchkiss’ ...............................
............   60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ..................... ...............  60
Mouse,  choker......................... __20c 39 doz
Mouse,  delusion............................. ..$1 26J39 doz
Bright  Market..........................
......  dis  60
Annealed Market........................ ..........dis  60
Coppered Market............. .............. ..........dis  55
Extra Bailing................................... ..........dis  55
Tinned  Market.............: ............... ..........kis  40
.......$ft  09
Tinned Broom...............................
Tinned Mattress........................ .......$ft 834.
Coppered Spring  Steel............. ........dis 3734
Tinned Spring Steel...................
.......dis 3734
Plain Fence............................... .......f  ft 334
Barbed  Fence...........................
Copper...................................... . new  list net
Brass........................................ .new list net

W IR E ,

W IR E  GOODS.

Bright....................................... .dis 60&10&10
. dis 60&10&10
Screw Eyes...............................
Hook’s ...................................... .dis  60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes................ .dis  60&10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...
Coe’s  Genuine.........................
...dis  50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  wrought......... dis  65
Coe’s Pat.,  malleable................
........ dis  70
M ISCELLANEOU S.

W rEN C H ES.

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

A  Word about Nails.

From the Scientific American.

A large dealer in builders’  hardware  said 
recently that the demand for clinch or  clout 
nails and  for  chisel-pointed  wire-nails  had 
largely increased within a year, as compared 
w itt  that  for  the  ordinary  cut  nails,  and 
that  flooring-nails  with  the  wedge-shaged 
heads  were  also  used  in  place of the nails 
with  the  flat  upset  heads.  His  reasons 
were that better work resulted from the bet­
ter nails, and there was far less  waste.  For 
the  coarsest  purposes  the  less first cost  of 
the ordinary cut nails with the  flat  head  in­
duced builders to continue their use;  but he 
believed  the  improved  form  and better ma­
terial. of  the  tough  wire  and  clinch  nails 
would, in due  time,  drive  out  the  inferior 
material and defective form.  The  principal 
advantage of the  wedge-shaped  head,  as  in 
floor nails, is that the head never  breaks  off 
in driving, as it is only the gradual  enlarge­
ment of the body of  the  nail  instead  of  an 
upset  across  the  nail.  But the chisel point 
of  the.wire  nail  is  its  ¡especial  merit,  as 
it  cuts  a  clean  passage .through  the  fibers 
of  the  wood  for  the  following of  the  body 
of  the  nail,  instead  of rstufitang”  and  mu­
tilating  the  fibers, as tbv blunt-pointed nails 
do.

The  common  cut  nails  will  nol usually 
clinch, even when the clinch is turned  in the 
direction of the grain of the wood;  but  they 
may be considerably toughened by heating to 
a red, and  gradually cooling.  A hardware 
establishment was burned a  few  years  ago, 
and among the stores were nearly a hundred 
kegs of cut nails of various  sizes.  The  re­
mains from  the  fire  were  sold  to  anpther 
dealer, and as soon as the value of the burn­
ed  nails  became  known  he  could  sell  no 
others until they were gone.

A  New  Tack-Machine.

A Connecticut man has perfected an, auto­
matic  machine  for  making  upholsterers’ 
tacks, and is producing the goods at Torring- 
ton.  These tacks have so far been imported, 
and the secret of the  English  manufacturer 
is not know.  Various  attempts  have  been 
made  in  this  country  to devise machinery 
for producing these goods,  but  failed  finan­
cially.  The new machine  turns out  perfect 
tacks at the rate of 150 per  minute.  An av­
erage day’s work is  60,000.  One  man  can 
take care of four of these machines.  By  us­
ing different dies  the  heads  may  be  either 
round or cone-shaped, and several  sizes  can 
be made.  After shaping,  another  machine 
polishes the face of the metal.  The immense 
quantity used is shown by  the  fact  that  an 
importer in New York receives eight or  ten 
millions of these tacks monthly.

Boston has the largest ink manufactory in 

the world.

M

IM P O R T E R S

A W J D

Wholesale  Grocers,

CORNER IONIA  &  ISLAND  STREETS.

). MeCULLOCH & COJ
[Tea, Coffee and Spice I 

House.

8  Pearl Street.

I Grand Rapids  -  Mich,

u r n

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

ton.

ther.

E. Pangbom, Sand Lake.
R. M. Smith, of  Campbell  &  Smith,  Lu­
O. Green, Martin.
Lon Pelton, Morley.
H. B. Irish, Lisbon.
L. A. Gardiner, Cedar Springs.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
C. H. Forman, Forman Station.
Mr. Roys, of Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
C. H. Denning, Dutton.
W. L. Heazlet, Wayland.
J. & W. Friar,  Berlin.
M. Carman, Altona.
W. G. Watson, Coopersville.
J. R. Frost, Grattan.
Mr. North, with  Geo.  Carrington,  Trent. 
O. F. Conklin,  Ravenna.
W. F. Stuart, Sand  Lake.
Rose & Carner, Cedar  Springs.
Sisson & Lilley, Spring  Lake.
Fred F. Tpylor, Pierson.
C. Scoville, of Scoville & McAuley, Edger- 
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
Geo. S, Powell, Sand Lake.
Henry DeKline,  Jamestown.
Wm. Snelling, Six  Comers.
E. S. Burrill, White Cloud.
Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs.
Jas. Campbell, Westwood.
Heber Walsh, Holland.
Blakeley Bros., Fife Lake.
Dr. Corbin, of Corbin &  Wood,  Sherman. 
Waite Bros,  Hudsonville.
I.  J.  Leggett & Co., Paris.
Dr. B. E.  Terrill, Muir.
C. S. Edwards,  Furnace.
J. R. O’Dell, Fremont.
Dr. J. Lamoreaux, Lakeview.
R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins.
Will Hesler, Rockford.
J. T. Perham, Kent City.
Dr. Blakeley, Jones.
Jos. Newman, Dorr.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Mr.  Morley,  of  Morley  Bros.,  Cedar 
Geo. A.  Sage, Rockford.
J. A. Ormsbee, Traverse City.
F. Den Uyl, Holland.
D. N. White, Petoskey.
A. G. Goodson,  Allegan.
Mr. Wolf, of Wolf & Truesdell,  Otsego.
L. Veyer, New Holland.
M. Jonkman, Holland.
N. S. Loop, Kent City.
O. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
Mr. Sherman, Stanton.'
A. B. McBrides, McBrides.
Mr. Maynard, of White  &  Maynard,  Mc­
G. H. Gilbert, Reed  City.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
Chas. McCarty, Lowell.
Jay Marlatt,  Berliu.
John Glupker,  Zutphen.
Jacob Bartz, North Dorr.
N. deYries, Jamestown.
O. Naragang, Byron Center.
W. F. Rice,  Alpine.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
Ben Ensley, Ensley.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
F. E. Pickett, Hilliards.
Sisson & Lilly, Lpring Lake.
New Era Lumber Co., New Era.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
C. F.  Sears & Co., Rockford.
Baron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
’  Shattuck & Kenney, Covert.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Wood Bros., Shaytown.
Wm. Yermeulen, Beaver  Dam.
J. E. Mailhot,  West Troy.
P. Monroe, Hesperia.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
Merricle & Hopper, Fremont.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
John J. Ely,  Rockford.
Robert Knowles,  Yolney.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
J. C. McFellan, Boyne City.

Springs.

Brides.

'  J.  L.  Graham,  of  Graham  &  Sweeney, 
Hopkins.
R. S. Smith, manager Grange  Store, Way- 
land.
Den Herder & Tania, Vriesland.
Mrs. G. Miller,  Muskegon.

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Lake.

I. B. Boise, Hastings.
Putnam  &  Barnhart  Lumber  Co.,  Long 
K. L. Kinney, Maple  Hill.
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
Geo. H. Force, Morley.
John Smith,  Ada.
Jorgensen & Hemigsen, Trent.
Carrel & Fisher, Dorr.
G. Gringhaus,  Lamont.
Dr. D. W. Connine & Co.,  Wexford.
G. J. Shackelton,  Lisbon.
G. C. Baker, LeBarge.
J. Omler, Wright.
W. A. Williams, OakfieldJCenter.
G. H. Walbrink,  Allendale.
Walter Struik, Forest Grove.
H. Bakker &  Son, Drenthe.
I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
R.  H. Woodin, Sparta.
Henry Arbour, Chippewa.
F. B. Watkins, Monterey.
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville.
Stephen  Sweet,  of  Sweet  &  Co.,  White 

Pigeon.

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ton.

100 ms.

$16 
now readily commands $1.35 

COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples—Extra fancy, $7 7$  bbl.
Asparagus—50c 7$ doz. bunches.
Bailed Hay—Scarcer and firmer  at  $15@ 
Barley—Scarcer and firmer.  Best quality 
Buckwheat Seed—$1.50 ^  bu.
Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth  16c. 
Beans—Handpicked are very  scarce,  and 
Unpicked  are 
Cabbages—Southern  new,  $6@$6.50  ^  
Cabbage Plants—50c ^  100.
Cheese—Light skim 10c.  Full cream 12% 
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  $6 
bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
bu.

Creamery 20c.
readily  command  $2.35. 
not much moving.
crate.

@l3c.
@$6.50 
at $6.75 

Cucumbers —50c ^   doz.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c 

fit»,  and sliced  8@9c,  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 12>i@ 14c.

crate.
at 2 0 ^   lb.

lb.
for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.

Eggs—Finn and ready  sale  at 15c.
Green Onions—20@25c "p dozen  bunches.
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu. 
Honey—In comb,  18c ^  lb.
Lettuce—In fair demand and firm at 16c ^  
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at  12%e 
Millet Seed—$1 
Onions—Bermudas are  firm  at  $2.50  1$ 
Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair  demand 
Peas—Holland $4 ^  bu.
Peas, for field seed—$1.50  ^  bu.
Potatoes—Contrary to general  expectation 
earlier in the  season, potatoes are  now  get* 
ting  comparatively  scarce,  and  there  is  a 
possibility  that they  may  touch  75c  before 
new potataes come in.  Burbanks  and Rose 
readily command 45c at present.
Poultry—In scant supply.  Fowls  readily 
command 16@18c.
Radishes—30c ^  dozen bunches.
Spinach—60c ^   bu.
Strawberries—Jobbing  at $2.75@$3.25  ^  
crate for Illinois fruit.
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 
$2  ^  box of 50 lbs. net
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.60@ 
$1.85 ^  bu.  Fancy, $2.
Tomatoes—Bermuda, wrapped, selling for 
crate of 50 fibs net.
$4 
Tomato Plants—50cfl 100.
Vegetable Oysters—25c  dozen bunches.
Wax  Beans—$3@$3.50  ^   box.  Green 

bu.

$1.25.

Fans of foreign makes are selling well, but 
not to the material injury of  domestic  fans, 
owing to the improvements recently made in 
their design, construction  and  finish.  The 
latest novelty in Vienna goods have  a  satin 
insertion “kto®  hand  painting,  producing  a 
very elegant effect without adding very much 
tp the cost. 

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GRAND  RAPIDS

FlowerPotsi H a iii Vases
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

MANUFACTURED  FOR

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HAND  OR  MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOR 

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Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar, 

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PACKED  TO  ORDER.

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manufactured by Robbins  &  Ellicott,  Buf- \  Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 
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Loveridge, Grand Rapids, Mich.

S E E D S

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

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WHOLESALE  AID  RETAIL,

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S E E D   STORE,

91  Canal St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

W. T. UMOBBAUL A m t
ALABASTING!

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

-FOR  SALE  BY-

JELXiXi  Pai&t  Dealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. 0HUR0H, Manager.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Grid  R ais  Wire  Works

A ton of whalebone 

week for  £2,250.

sold  in  London last

SEED  BUCKWHEAT

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

SEED  STORE,

91  Canal street.
TIKTHLLE E, 

Wholesale Dealer in  Butter  and  Eggs.

HASTINGS 
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JO SE P H   R O G ER S,

MICH.

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44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

..  33C.  F O W L B ,  

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE WALL  PAPER

Window Shades,  Room Mouldings,

A rtists’  M aterials  !

Paints, Oils,  Glass, Etc.

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

AN  E V E N inJL  TRIP.

a Traveling Salesman.

Incidents  that  Enlivened  the Journey of 
“If I didn’t have a trip spiced with variety 
this  time.”  said  a  furniture  traveler  the 
other day,  “then I’ll give  you  my  commis­
sions.”

“To start with,  when  we  stopped  at La­
fayette,  Ind., where I had some  business, I 
was requested by a couple  of  train  men to 
give them  a hand  toward  lifting a  man off 
the cowcatcher of the  locomotive.  Nobody 
knew when  he  got on there,  or how far he 
had ridden, but  he was  dead. 
From that 
time on my trip was quite dull until I struck 
a town in Pennsylvania called  McKeesport 
People  were  all  worked up  there  over  a 
little incident that had just occurred.

“Two boys, while digging in the  bank of 
the river, had uncovered about  half a  peck 
of silver dollars.  They were hurrying home 
with the boodle when they were  stopped by 
a strange man wearing a straw  hat  and red 
hair.  He made the  boys  show  him  what 
they had.  They were carrying  the  money 
in their hats.  They showed up, and he told 
’em that he had lost that money himself and 
had just missed it, and was on his way back 
to look for it.  So the boys handed it'over to 
him, hats and all, and took to their heels.

“The man who had  so  luckily recovered 
his money couldn’t afterward be  found, and 
the whole community was out  looking after 
him.  It seems the money  had  been hidden 
more than forty years ago, and had belonged 
to some old resident who had  been  murder­
ed and robbed in his bed.  That’s what they 
told me, and folks were very mad  about the 
way the find had turned  out.

“Then I struck a little  quiet  place called 
Windsor, and the town  was  so  worked up 
over  a  family  disturbance  that  I  had  to 
leave without doing any  business at all.  It 
seems that one of the  citizens  of  the place 
had  been  sent  to  the  penitentiary  some 
months before for picking up a man’s  halter 
strap and going away with it, without think­
ing to take off the  horse  that  happened to 
be at the end of it.  His widow  married an­
other man, and subsequently exchanged him 
for another.  The first one got mad, and the 
second one inserted^ knife in the first one’s 
neck.  This led to quite a  family  row, and 
the citizens of the place, male  and  female, 
took charge of both the lady and  gentleman 
m the case,  and ran them out of  town with 
bells on.  Consequently,  society  was  all 
tom up, and the  stores  hadn’t  taken their 
shutters down yet, and I moved on.

“At Franklin things  were  comparatively 
quiet.  A  young  lady  had  eloped  with  a 
young man her father had a grudge  against, 
and the old man had lammed the life nearly 
out of the young  fellow and  had  taken the 
girl away from him.  There was a constable 
looking for the  old  man  when I got  there 
but there was no stir.

“At Oil City I met a man who  was 

look 
ing for his team and wagon,  his wife, three 
children  and  a  man  that  used  to  clerk 
for him up in New York  State  somewhere 
He had tracked them  as  far as  Titusville 
but there they gave him the slip.  He seem 
ed to take things  pretty  cool,  unless there 
was something hot in  what  he took  at the 
bar every ten minutes.

“At  Butler,  a  man  84  years  old,  with 
great-grandchildren old  enough to  be mar­
ried, had come in from the back country and 
was looking for some one to marry  him  to a 
girl not yet  sixteen.  He  was leading her 
around by the hand.  This didn’t  stop busi­
ness  in the  place,  but  it  made  talk.  He 
wasn’t married yet when  I left.  The  girl 
was nice  looking,  neat,  and  smart,  and 
wondered what she could be thinking of. 
found out later that the old  man had  a tip­
top farm  and $25,000 in  cash.

“At Petrolia the people were  out  looking 
for  a wild man.  They hadn’t lost  one, but 
they seemed anxious  to  find  this one,  be­
cause he was chiefly engaged  in  butchering 
sheep and things that are usually left around 
loose  in the  fields  out  there.  Before  the 
wild man came to disturb them  a long-head­
ed old citizen had been robbed for  the third 
time by masked burglars.  He had the hab­
it of keeping a hundred thousand  dollars or 
so stuck away in coffee  pots,  stockings, old 
boots, and such, because  he  didn’t  believe 
in banks.  The folks were so broke  up over 
the wild man that I thought it would  be too 
bad to mention business  to them, so I  grab 
bed my gripsack and shook  the place.

“I got to Port  Allegheny  just  in time 

hear of the suicide of an old gentleman who 
had four living wives,  and who had  tired 
life, after burning  down  the bams  of  the 
fourth.  Things were quiet, though, and the 
funeral was small. 
I got on the Erie  road 
at Olean, and turned up in  Homellsville in 
time to see a horse running away at the rate 
of twenty miles an  hour  with  a  corpulent 
gentleman of Teutonic cast of features.  The 
gentleman attempted to jump  out,  and did. 
But he fell in front of the  wagon, and  both 
wheels went over him right at the belt.  That 
upset  the wagon.  The  gentleman  got  up 
and walked to a board fence and  laid down. 
Some men carried  him into  a hotel.  The 
horse and wagon went on.  In a few minutes 
they came  back.  The horse was  trotting 
gently.  A stout lady sat in the  wagon driv­
ing.  It turned out  to  be  the  gentleman’s 
wife.  She had stopped the horse and  right­
ed things, and come back to  see what  was 
the matter.  Her husband breathed hard for 
a while, then took a glass of  beer, got in the 
wagon, and the two drove away as  cheerful 
as if nothing had happened.

“I don’t know what else would have hap­
pened on my trip if 1 hadn’t taken  a  sleep­
ing car at Buffalo and  came  right  straight 
home.”

Soaps  and  Their  Constituent  Elements.
“Cleanliness  is next to  Godliness”  is as 
true an aphorism to-day as it  was  ages ago, 
when  the discovery  of  some  saponacious 
roots  led to the  invention  and  subsequent 
manufacture of soap.  The invention of this 
necessary luxury is credited by  Pliny to the 
Gauls, when it was first made  of tallow and 
ashes.  Then as now,  history  asserts, fash­
ionable ladies and gentleman in  Rome dyed 
their hair red.  Then,  however,  they used 
soaps instead of  the dyes that are  now the 
rage.

Different kinds of oil employed in making 
soap contain a lesser or  greater  proportion 
of the prominent principles  of fatty matter, 
and among the most important ones used for 
soap are tallow, poppy, rape, linseed,  cocoa- 
nut, palm and olive oil, hempseed.  Castile 
soap is made from the last  but  one.  The 
best oil for soaps  comes  from  Naples  and 
Spain.  Oils from the  East  are  not rich in 
stearine, and are more or  less  colored  with 
green, which is objectionable.  The ordinary 
mode of saponification, as the  conversion of 
fat is called, is by boiling with  a solution of 
caustic potash.  Meat fats require less con­
tinual boiling with excess  of  alkali.  Some 
others, such as lard, beef marrow  and oil of 
sweet  almonds are  easily  saponified  with 
caustic alkali.  Rosin,  which  is capable of 
forming a soap with either potash or soda, is 
frequently added  to soaps.

Soaps are scented and colored  by  mixing 
coloring matter  and  volatile oils  together, 
and sometimes are medicated with  anti-sep­
tic and other materials, such as creosote, car­
bolic acid, chlorate  of potash and  sulphur, 
and used as detergents in skin diseases.  For 
the latter great care should be taken to have 
them as pure  as  possible. 
In  fact, in all 
sorts of soap this is a sine qua non.  It has 
been asserted that soaps made in Europe are 
better  than  those made  here, as  the fatty 
substances composing them  are not kept so 
long, and they are  not  only  better  for  the 
skin, but are less apt to deteriorate.  On the 
other hand, our prominent soap manufactur­
ers here claim the greater likelihood of  soap 
retaining its qualities is not so much the ma­
terial it is made of, but the way  it  is  made. 
The machinery  and  improvements  used  in 
this country are in some respects superior to 
those used abroad, and  great  strides  in  the 
popularity of American soaps  have been the 
results.  In Europe the greater proportion of 
soap is made in Great Britain, but the  finer 
sorts  are  manufactured  in  France,  where 
the civilized world is apt  to  look for toilette 
de luxe.

ALL SORTS.

Win.  H.  Glue lias started a saloon at Mus­

kegon.

store at Fremont

C. A.  Pearson  has  moved  into  his  new 

Orser & Smart have engaged  in  the  mer­

chant tailoring business at Muskegon.

Muskegon  business  men  ask  that  street 
peddlers be taxed $10 per day,  as  a  protec­
tion to  themselves.

Thornton & Allman,  druggists  at Sturgis, 
are succeeded by Thornton &Munger.  The 
latter firm also succeed M. S. Munger in the 
jewelry business.

J. B. Geeler has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at 188 West Bridge  street.  Shields, 
Bulkley & Lemon furnished the stock.  Mr. 
Morrison made the sale.

The business men of North Muskegon are 
moving in the matter of securing a postoffice 
at  that  place.  The town has  2,000  popula­
tion,  and is growing  rapidly.

C. C. Haslett and C. F.  Marple, of  Char­
lotte, have  purchased the right for the Unit­
ed States of the electric cash carrier invented 
by Geo. S. Green, of Kalamazoo.

Farmers in the far northern counties have 
plenty of good potatoes left, which  they are 
feeding to their  hogs  rather than sell  them 
at the low prices that are offered.

Manager  John  Goldsmith  states that  the 
Big Rapids Wooden Ware Co.’s new factory 
will  begin  operations  on  June  10,  with a 
compliment of 40 men,  and a daily  capacity 
of 12,000 pails and 3,000  tubs.

Cole & Stone, the Paw  Paw  shirt  manu­
facturers, have concluded to remove to  Mar­
shall,  instead  of  going  to  Muskegon,  the 
former place having offered them  as  an  in 
ducement, a three-story  brick  store  free  of 
rent for one year  and  $1,000  cash.  They 
will  make  the  change  immediately,  and 
will  greatly  enlarge  their  manufacturing 
capacity and extend their business.

Good  Words Unsolicited.

R. W.  Hall, hardware, Hersey:  “It seems 

to fill the bill nicely.”

Chas.  L.  Gray  & Co.,  grocers,  Evart 

“Thought we couldn’t spare i t ”

H. Kronemeyer,  general  dealer,  Filmore 

Center:  “The paper is a very good one for 
business man.”

Martin  Walsh,  general  dealer,  Spring 
Lake:  “I find it  valuable as a correct mar­
ket reporter, good  advertising medium,  and 
sound business educator.”

O. H. Richmond & Co., druggists and med­
icine manufacturers, City:  “Allow us to say, 
that after taking The Tbadesm an from the 
beginning, we are  more  and  more  pleased 
with it   You are certainly making it  of  so 
much value to the  trade that it is more  of 
necessity than anything  else.”

Old gent:  “Ah, Mrs. B., did you  keep 
diary  during  your  visit  to  the  country?’ 
Mrs. B., 
indignantly:  “No,  sir;  I didn 
The family  bought  milk from  the  neigh 
bors.”

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

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FOSTER, 
STEVENS

H SÄ D Q TJA R TB B S I

—FOR—

Sporting  Goods

-A N D -

OUT  DOOK  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.

IST"  Send for our New  Price  List for  1884.

Order a  Sample Lot  Before Placing a Large Order.

BATON. LYON  k  AUEN

20 and 22 Monroe  Street,

—WHOLESALE-

HARDWARE!

10  and  12  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE.

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are Manufacturer’s Agents for the

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue-

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

We are Manufacturer’s Agents for

U. FEETER,

36 South  Division  Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dealer  in

—Also—

STAPLE  A N D   F A N C Y   GROCERIES, 

CANNED  A N 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

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Jewett’s Bird Cases

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We are Manufacturer’s  Agents  for

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Awnings,  Tents,

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers,

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

Send for Prices.

A.  A.  ORIPPBX,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

□ 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.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORE AND  USE NO

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W O R E  !

Suine.

92  MONROE  STREET.

Telephone  Connection.

Jl

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

—Manufacturers of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUIXaS,  ETC.,

40 and  42  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH

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Manufacturers of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO PROPRIETORS  OF

K B M I X K ’ S

Red Bark Bitters"

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78 W est Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

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Jew ett’s  filte rs,

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We are also Headquarters for

Grand  Rapids  Wheelbarrows  and

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

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

Foster,Stevens § Co.

