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The Michigan Tradesman.

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VOL.  1.
LOVE BY TELEPHONE
1 was the happiest  man in  the  city  as I 
folded and laid away in  my  pocket-book  a 
letter from the dearest girl in the world, and 
jumped on the horse-car  en  route  for  my 
office.

Some months had passed since I  saw my 
Agnes  for the first time at  a dinner at  the 
Peyton’s. 
I  had  frequently  met  Miss 
Geòrgie Peyton in society, and had been sev­
eral times invited  to  her  receptions,  so  I 
was not surprised  to receive  one day an in­
vitation to dine with  her  “informally,”  to 
meet a young lady from  Aiken,  S. C.  Of 
course I presented myself  at  this  informal 
dinner in full evening  dress,  where  I  met 
some other  gentlemen  in  similar  attire— 
Clarkson was one of them—and a few yomig 
ladies, and was introduced to my Agnes. 
If 
I  could only make you  see  her  as  she  ap­
peared to me that night—so fresh and bloom­
ing; the blue of her clear, peaceful eyes, the 
delicious  curve  of the delicate  lips !  But 
enough that then and there  I  yielded,  and 
became her ardent adorer.

From the first she  distinguished  me with 
her favor. 
I was allowed  to claim  the best 
dances;  they were  always  my flowers  that 
she carried, and finally  when  she  returned 
to Aiken, I was  her accepted lover.

The year had  flown  swiftly, and  now a 
brilliant prospect seemed to open before me. 
My firm were about to establish a branch de­
partment in another  part  of  the city,  and 
proposed to make one of their clerks a junior 
partner and  manager  of  the  new  concern. 
I had been the longest in their  employ, and 
had  reason to  think  I was  regarded  with 
favor by “Old Gruff”—as Mr. Gruffland, the 
senior partner was called—and he  would be 
the one to make the  promotion,  and  settle 
the question of salary.

Indeed for some weeks I had seen that he 
was working the management into my hands 
so I felt justified in  writing to  Agnes,  urg­
ing our immediate union.  The dear girl con­
sented, and in the letter received that  morn­
ing she told me  she  was  coming  again,  to 
make  a  long visit at  the Peytons,  to  “do 
some shopping.”  Entrancing words.

Well, she came.  There was a demure but 
delightful meeting at the station, and an en­
chanting twenty minutes  until  I  delivered 
her to Miss Georgie’s  arms at  the  Peytons’ 
door.

Then followed days of devotion  to work, 
followed by evenings of unalloyed  bliss. 
I 
say “unalloyed,” but there  was  one  draw­
back.  The Peyton family were very consid­
erate,  Miss Geòrgie  especially  so, but  my 
darling  Agnes was haunted with  the  fear 
that they would think her visit to  them was 
only to enjoy my society and was constantly 
suggesting that we should  “join  the  family 
in the sitting-room.”  Old  Mrs. Peyton was 
a bore, but a  mild  one—paterfamilias  an 
unmitigated one; Miss Geòrgie  was  benign­
ant,  but slightly tiresome.  There was only 
one other  member of the  family,  a  pretty 
little fellow named Ralph, but the  girls had 
taken to calling  him  Raphael,  from  some 
fancied resemblance  to  one of  the  Sistine 
cherubs.  He  seemed  a quiet  little  chap, 
with a sweet innocence  of  expression  and 
demeanor,  who posed  a good  deal  of  the 
time with his cheek  on his  hand,  after the 
manner of the cherub aforesaid.

Agnes had been in the city  a  few  weeks 
when, one  morning, the  telephone  bell  in 
our office rang  sharply.  This was  of  fre­
quent occurrence, and  Clarkson’s  desk was 
stationed near to save time in answering the 
call.  Tl\e rest of us rarely looked up as the 
familiar “Hullo!” was shouted,  or  the con­
cluding “All right !  I’ll  tell Mr.  Gruffland. 
Good-by !”  But this morning Clarkson turn­
ed to me with:  “This is  for  you,  Dixon.” 
Accordingly I shouted  “Hullo !” and in  re­
turn heard Miss Georgie’s voice:

“Is that you, 

Dixon?  Agnes  is  here 

and wants to try to speak to you.”

Then  I  heard  her  giving  directions. 
“Stand a little nearer;  press  this  close  to 
your^ar—so.”

“Good morning,” I called.
“In return I  heard  a  giggle,  and  Agnes’ 
voice exclaiming:  “Oh, oh!  It  tickles my 
ear!”  Then  more  directions  from  Miss 
Peyton, and at last the sweetest voice in the 
world began in as nearly as might be a sten­
torian roar:

“Is that  really  you,  Harry? 

Isn’t  this 
perfectly sweet?  Are you  sure they  can’t 
hear in the office?”

“Well,” from Geòrgie, “I should  say they 

certainly could,  if you shout like  that.”

“Harry,” in a half whisper,  “if  you  are 
sure it’s you, and that no one else can  hear, 
I want to tell you something.  Do  you  re­
member that queer Miss  Blake  in  Aiken? 
Do you hear me, Harry?”

“Yes,” I returned.
The  another  little  pause. 

“Isn’t  it  too 
funny?  Do you know, Harry,  now  that  I 
see how to use it, I am going to  talk  to you 
ever  so  often?  Won’t  it  be  funny?  But 
where was I?  Dear me, how stupid.  Oh, I 
know Miss Blake.  Well,  she  has  just sent 
me the loveliest—”

Here  Clarkson  muttered,  “Old  Gruff’s 
coming,” and knowing he would  ask an ex­
planation of my receiving the telephone mes­
sages,  1 was obliged  to  abruptly  interrupt: 
“I must  go  now”—I  had  almost  said  “my 
darling.”  “Tell me the rest this  evening.”

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  18,  1884.

N O . 39.

“But,  Harry!”  I  heard  a  grieved  little 
voice;  but  Mr.  Gruffland’s  footsteps  were 
too  near, and  1 hung  the  receiver  upside 
down, and hurried back to my desk.

All day I worked in  nervous  desperation. 
Would she try to  resume the conversation? 
Every time the bell rang I glanced at  Clark­
son.  The thought that it might be her voice 
whispering in his great  red ear  covered  me 
with  cold  perspiration.  The  fear  that  in 
Mr. Gruffland’s  hearing  I might  be  called 
upon to answer some of her chatter  was still 
worse. 
I made  up my  mind  that  I  must 
make Agnes understand that very night that 
she could not amuse herself in that  way, and 
I did so  gently, but resolutely. 
I  described 
Clarkson’s  ear,  and  I  took some  liberties 
with it. 
It would be just like the wretch to 
receive all her little  confidences,  and  retail 
them for the amusement of the  clerks.

Old Gruff was an ogre, capable of  dismis­
sing me without  warning,  if  I  did  not  at­
tend every minute to my business. Our hopes 
of happiness depended upon his good  pleas­
ure.  Miss Peyton  was  cool and  dignified. 
I  suppose  she  knew  I  was  exaggerating. 
Agnes looked hurt.  Her  sweet  lipswrem- 
bled a little, and her  eyes were suspiciously 
dim. 
I longed to have her alone for  a little 
while to comfort her, as I knew I could, but 
there  was  no  chance,  for  although  Miss 
Georgie relented sufficiently to go up  stairs 
to write an “important letter,” Raphael was 
there, resting  his  elbow on  the  table  and 
looking up at Agnes  with  an  expression of 
deep pity in his  beautiful  but sleepy  dark 
eyes.

And yet the next day  the  same  thing oc­
curred.  Mr. Gruffland was there, and  look­
ed up from his papers with  a glance of  dis­
approval as I took  Clarkson’s  place  at the 
telephone.  My “Hullo I”  was  rather  sav­
age.

“Oh, Harry, do forgive me. 

Indeed,  in­
deed I felt so soiTy  last night,  and  wanted 
to tell you so; but, you see, Ralph was there, 
I’m all alone now.  Oh,  Harry,  won’t  you 
forgive me?”

“Of course,”  I  returned,  feeling  Gruff’s 
eyes burning unpleasantly  on  the  nape  of 
my neck.

“Oh, Harry, dear, don’t talk  like  that  to 

me.  Do say you love  me.”

Was there ever such a child?  I felt like a 
cold-blooded wretch as I  hurriedly  replied: 
I’ll come up as soon as I can. 

“All right. 

Yery busy  now.  Good-bye!”

I felt, rather  than  heard, a  little  sob  at 
the other end of the wire.  Gruff said  noth­
ing, but 1 was doomed to another  miserable 
day. 
I managed to ask  Clarkson  if  I was 
called again to say that I  could not  attend, 
and five times I heard 'lijm  give  this  mes­
sage, and each time he turned  away  with a 
naughty grin..  What might not  Agnes have 
said to him?

Of course I hurried  to  the  Peytons’,  de­
termined to see her alone.  She  came  run­
ning into the hall to  meet  me,  bright, and 
loving, but the annoyances of  the  day  had 
made me cross, and I said curtly:

“Really  Agnes,  it  is  very  strange  you 
don’t understand that a man can not take his 
business  hours  to  talk  with  his  friends. 
After all I said last night, I must say  I was 
surprised to be called up again  to-day.” 

Agnes stopped  abruptly,  and  said, with 

dignity:

“I do not understand you!”
“Why, my dear little girl,” I  said,  sober­
ed by the change in her  manner, “I  °do  not 
mean to be cross, but how  could  I  talk  to 
you  about  my  affection  and  forgiveness 
through the telephone, with all those fellows 
listening, to say nothing of old  Gruff?”

“But I have not touched the telephone to­

day, Harry!”

“What!” I exclaimed.
“Georgie!” called  Agnes,  stepping  back 
to the sitting-room, and I followed to tell the 
story.

“It is very  strange,”  said  Miss  Peyton; 
“but of course it is some mistake.  The lines 
are out of  order or  crossed in  some  way. 
But mamma and Agnes and I have been out 
shopping  all  day,  and we  lunched  down 
town, so we can prove an alibi.”

It certainly was very strange,  but  we all 
concluded that it might be as  Miss  Georgie 
suggested, and the  pater  at once  began to 
spin long yarns about queer  messages till at 
last I coaxed Agnes  into  the  conservatory 
alone, and the close of the  evening  was all 
the brighter for the  shadow with  which it 
began.  The dear girl sympathizedjwith me 
and  forgave  my  impatience,  and  was  so 
sweet that before I  knew  I  found  myself 
telling her the one event of  my  life  I  had 
determined to  keep  secret—the  little  en­
tanglement I once had with  Lucretia Chase. 
Of course she had been the  most  to  blame, 
and Agnes thought her very horrid  and for­
ward, so I had to admit that Cretia had mis­
understood some things  I had  said to  her 
when a mere boy, and then Agnes  asked me 
if I really, really  loved her  best.  Ah  me! 
what a happy evening it  was!

Again the next day the  telephone  annoy­
ance began,  but I felt sure  of  my  ground 
and told Clarkson he could refuse  to listen. 
Imagine my surprise when he turned  to me 
with a clever imitation of Agnes’  voice say­
ing:

“She is quite sure Harry will come  when 
he knows she  wants  to talk  to  him  about 
Cretia.”

I  was  thunderstruck.  Lucretia  Chase 
lived in Vermont; I  was  mortally  sure no 
one in the city  knew  of her  existence—no 
one but Agnes. 
I rushed to the instrument. 
It was the  same  girl’s  clear  voice.  How 
could any one have known that  Cretia  pos­
sessed such idiotic lines I had  once  written 
her—a«y one but Agnes?  Yet now I  heard 
them repeated.

Oh, Creatia, fairest valentine!
Wilt thou accept this hand of mine?
A smaller gift my soul forbids:
But ten’s the number of my kids!

I turned away in anger and  surprise, only 

to  meet Gruff’s grim glance.

“If this thing goes on, Mr. Dixon, it might 
be well for you and Mr. Clarkson  to change 
desks.”

I knew what that implied,  and  my heart 

sank to my boots. 

4

“I  do not  understand  it  myself,”  I  re­
plied.  “I assure you, sir, that I am  exceed­
ingly annoyed. 
I will not answer it again.”
“I will, myself, sir,”  he  growled,  and  I 
went back to my desk to upset  the ink  bot­
tle, to make mistakes  in  my  accounts  and 
torture myself with the conviction that, since 
no one but Agnes could  have sent the  mes­
sage, she was teasing  me  without  realizing 
the  fatal  consequences  to  our  happiness. 
And all day  Mr.  Gruffland  would  answer 
that confounded  telephone.  That  some of 
the messages  were meant  for me  I  could 
tell, and that they must be  utter  nonsense I 
could conjecture from  his  occasional  com­
ments:  “ ‘By Jimminy Johnson!’ is  a  re­
markable expression for a  young  lady, Mr. 
Dixon.”

It would be too long to  tell  the  story of 
those  days  in  detail. 
Sometimes  there 
would  be respite  and  then  the  nonsense 
would begin again. 
It was larks for  Clark­
son and the rest, but to me  it  seemed  as if 
the bell of the  telephone  was  ringing  the 
knell of all my bright hopes.  Agnes  assur­
ed me of her  innocence,  and  Miss  Peyton 
was ready with explanations;  they had been 
shopping,  or  calling,  or  practicing  duets. 
But I could see that a  coolness  had  come 
between Agnes and me.  She  feared that I 
doubted  her,  and  I—what  could  I  think? 
Again and again  the  messages  referred to 
what I had said  to  her  when  quite  alone. 
Could she have repeated my confidence?

At the office preparations for the new busi­
ness  were  being  hurried  on,  and  not  one 
word had been said to me of promotion.  To 
crown all, Agnes informed me  one  evening 
that she was going to shorten her  visit;  she 
had heard of  friends going directly to Aiken, 
and thought it best to secure their escort. 
I 
passed a wretched evening, but  left,  deter­
mined to make a desperate effort to clear the 
mystery.  Agnes had told me that they were 
all to be out the next day, so I begged  off at 
the office, reached the house at  ten, and per­
suading the servant that  I  wanted to  rest 
and would let myself out when I was ready, 
I managed to conceal myself  in  a  closet in 
the hall, where I waited four  mortal  hours. 
At last I was rewarded.  A light  step came 
through the hall, a chair was  drawn  to the 
telephone, and a clear voice wonderfully like 
Agnes’  called:  “Please connect  with Gruff­
land &r Co !”

Waiting only long enough to  let him actu­
ally begin conversation in his usual  style, I 
rushed out, and catching the  culprit  by the 
arms, bestowed a resounding box on  the ear 
of the astonished Mr. Raphael.  The  little 
imp!  This was revenge for his well-deserv­
ed snubs. 
I have no doubt  he  heard every 
word of my conversation with Agnes.

Of course the Peytons were distressed and 
apologetic, and Agnes was persuaded  not to 
hurry away, and old  Gruff  relented  and  I 
got the promotion in due time, but  I  never 
could endure the sight of that  churubic boy. 
I verily believe that the box  I bestowed up­
on him was his only punishment,  and  1 re­
joice to think it was such a stinger.

If this story has a moral it is a short  one. 
The more innocent and guileless a boy looks 
the less he is to be trusted.

der.

Am m onia  as  an  Elem ent of Baking;  Pow­

From the Scientific American.

Among the recent  discoveries  in  science 
and chemistry, none is more  important than 
the uses to which common ammonia  can  be 
properly  put  as  a  leavening  agent,  and 
which indicate that this familiar salt is here­
after to perform an active part in the prepa­
ration of our daily food.

The carbonate of ammonia is an exceeding­
ly volatile substance.  Place a small portion 
of it upon a knife and hold over aflame, and 
it will be almost immediately be entirely de­
veloped into gas and pass  off  into  the  air. 
The  gas thus formed is a simple composition 
of nitrogen and  hydrogen.  No  residue  is 
left of the ammonia.  This gives it a  super­
iority as a leavening  power  over  soda  and 
cream of  tartar  used  alone,  and  has  induc­
ed  its  use  as a supplement to these articles. 
A .small  quantity  of ammonia  in the dough 
is effective in producing  bread  that  will  be 
lighter, sweeter and more  wholesome  than 
that  risen  by  any  other  leavening  agent. 
When it is acted upon by the  heat of baking 
the  leavening  gas  that  raises  the  dough  is 
liberated. 
In  this  act  it  uses  itself up,  as 
it  were;  the  ammonia  is  entirely  diffused, 
leaving no trace or residium whatever.  The 
light, fluffy, flaky appearance, so desirable in 
biscuits,  etc., and  so  sought after by profes­

sional cooks, is said to be imparted to  them 
only by the use of this agent.

The bakers and baking  powder  manufac­
turers producing  the finest goods  have been 
quick to avail themselves of this useful discov 
e^y, and the handsomest and best  bread and 
cake are now largely risen by the aid of am­
monia, combined, of course, with other leav­
ening material.

Ammonia is  one  of the  best  known pro­
ducts of  the labratory. 
If,  as  seems to  be 
justly claimed for it,  the  application  of  its 
properties to the purposes of cooking results 
is  giving  us lighter  and  more  wholesome 
bread, biscuit and cake, it will  prove a boon 
to  dyspeptic  humanity,  and  will  speedily 
force itself into general use in  the new field 
which science has assigned  it.
SEELING SUITS.

A  Clothing; Clerk  Talks  Upon the  Science 
From the Detroit  Free  Press.

of Making; Sales.

“This is a singular business, indeed,” said 
the dapper clothing clerk, whom  a  reporter 
had asked to talk about  the  art  of  selling 
ready-made goods.  “It’s  a regular  daisy of 
an occupation for wrecking patience  and de­
stroying peace of  mind.  There’s  nothing 
like it for ruffling temper, and  the worst of 
it is you’ve got to keep  a smooth  face  and 
preserve your air of  pleasantry  through  it 
all.”

“What disturbs you most?”
“That’s hard to tell.  There  are  a great 
many annoyances that are equal  in  magni­
tude. 
It’s difficult to pick out the  worst of 
them all.  The man who comes in and keeps 
a fellow about an hour  pulling  down  suits 
and exhibiting them, and then goes out  say­
ing that he is ‘only looking ’round to-day,’ is 
pretty bad.  Another ‘favorite’ with us is the 
ma£ who selects his suit, then says ‘I’ll just 
step over to the bank,’ goes out  and  fails to 
return.  These gentry are a great deal  more 
numerous than you  would  imagine.  But, 
after all, few gentlemen  give  us  so  much 
trouble as lady customers.  Now,  I  hope  I 
am not discourteous  to  the  ladies,  but the 
fact remains—”

“What’s the matter with the ladies?”
“Oh, they are so confident that they know 
about all there  is  to learn  about  clothing. 
Some ladies of  course,  are  fine  customers, 
and I make an exception in their favor. 
It
is the women who come in, look  a garment 
all over, feel  carefully  of each  individual 
fiber of the goods, rub it against their cheeks 
and chin and even chew the  threads  that— 
aggravates.  Only to-day  a  lady  who  had 
been chewing vigorously for some  time on a 
cotton thread, said: 
‘I know  this is wool, 
but is it all wool?’ and I assured her it  was. 
Ordinarily I won’t do that sort of thing,  but 
I can’t bear the over-confidence in their own 
knowledge of this sort of ladies.”

“Is this notion that they  know  all  about 

cloth common among  lady customers?” 

“Yery.  Only of course it is not so strong 
in many.  Yesterday an  instance  occurred 
that is in point here.  A lady came  in  with 
her husband to buy a suit. 
I  gave  him a 
coat that fit him very snugly for one not cus­
tom made.  She  said  she  had  made  too 
many coats to be fooled on their fit. 
I then 
gave  him  one  that creased  up  the  back, 
humped at the shoulders,  and  had  sleeves 
half a foot too  long.  She took  it,  saying, 
‘There, that’s much more like it.’ That show­
ed the extent of  her  alleged long  term  of 
service at coat making.”

“Whom do you prefer to sell to?”
“The man who comes  in with a  definite 
idea of the sort of suit he  wants,  names  it, 
says how much he desires to pay  and  then 
when he gets it takes it, pays for it and goes. 
This sort of  customer  is a  delight  to  the 
salesman and gets very careful attention and 
the best treatment from clerks, while a  cus­
tomer  who  flounders  around  hopelessly 
among the vast number of suits he has  seen 
gets us  tired,  and  nine  times  out  of  ten 
doesn’t get so good a bargain or fit as the one 
that knows what he wants and comes for it. 
But this class of custom is  none to  numer­
ous.  When you reflect on  the  vast variety 
of human nature that drifts into  a  clothing 
store  etf’ery  day  perhaps  youal'-tiegin  to 
think that the sale of clothing is pretty near 
a fine art.”

“Elucidate, please.”
“The moment  a  customer  approaches  a 
fellow has got to size him up, both financial­
ly and otherwise, and decide  about  how to 
tackle him. 
It’s a very easy  matter  to in­
sult a man who wants to buy  a  high-priced 
suit by suggesting something low, and it is a 
long way from the proper thing  to  strike a 
man who is thinking of about a $5 sijit with 
one for «IS or $18.”

“I suppose even the best salesman get left 

sometimes?”

“By a large majority.  1  don’t  «mint my­
self  particularly slow,  and  my  very  best 
record is two weeks without losjng a  single 
customer.”

John H. Thompson,  Jos.  M.  Thompson, 
Jas. E. Scripps  and  Chas.  A.*■ Worthington 
have formed a special partnership at Detroit 
under the firm name of J.  H.  Thompson  & 
Co., for the purpose of carrying on the man­
ufacture and saje of spices  and grocers’ sun­
dries.  The two gentlemen first  named  are 
general, and the others special partners, each 
having contributed $10,000  in  cash  to  the 
common stock.  Ths term of  partnership  is 
three years from May 23, 1884,

FIZZ  AND  FROTH.

PEA  HULLS.

Made.

How  Soda Water and  Kindred  Drinks  s-.re 
From the Detroit Times.

“There’s not much money  in  soda  water 
now-a-days,” said  a  prominent  Woodward 
avenue druggist a few days since;  “that is if 
one gives a good glass of soda for five  cents. 
How’s it made?  Oh! in different ways. The 
soda water is  a compound of  carbonic  acid 
gas and water.  The gas is generated by the 
union of an acid and an alkali.  For instance, 
I will take about 150  pounds  of  powdered 
limestone and put it into an air  tight  vessel 
which forms a part of the machine. 
I then 
pour in half a carboy of sulphuric acid.  The 
whole charge would cost about $3.  As the 
gas generates  it  passes  through  vessels  of 
water, called washers, and thence  free from 
all foreign matter  into  another vessel  also 
filled with water.  This is called  the  agita­
tor  and is agitated  until the water  has  be­
come sufficiently impregnated.  The impreg­
nated water is then  run off  into the  ‘foun­
tain’ and gas from a generator is  introduced 
until  the pressure  upon  the walls  of  the 
fountan  amounts  to, perhaps  150  or  200 
pounds to the square inch.  This  receptacle 
is placed, by a pipe, in  communication with 
the marble  structure  commonly  known  as 
the ‘soda fountain’ which  is then  ready for 
use.  When the tap is  turned the  immense 
pressure of the gas forces out the water with 
that rush which seems so peculiar to the un­
initiated.  A glass of  that  water  is  worth 
about one mill. 
It is the  syrups  that  cost. 
First-class dealers use prepared ‘fruit juices,’ 
but second rate places use common  essences 
mixed with sprup.  ‘Pop,’ ‘club soda,’ ‘cream 
soda,’ ‘Australian  cream’  and  a  thousand 
others are merely soda water flavored in  dif­
ferent ways.  Root beer is  made from  sars­
aparilla with a small quantity  of  sassafras, 
dandelion and yellow dock carbonated in the 
same  way as common soda water. 
It  costs 
one cent a glass.  Champaign  cider is com­
mon cider carbonated  like  soda  water and 
costs four cents a glass. 
In France it is car­
bonated by fermentation, but I do not under­
stand the process.  Ginger  ale  is  flavored 
profusely with ginger and costs  IX   cents a 
glass.  One glass  of  soda  water  from  the 
fountain, flavored with essence syrup, would 
cost one cent  and  six  mills,  but ’with  the 
fruit syrup would cost three cents  and  with 
ice cream four cents.  These prices of course 
are prime  cost, and  if a man  had  to  buy 
everything from a  manufacturer a  glass of 
soda with common flavoring  would cost him 
3X cents, and with  ‘fruit  juice’  syrups he 
could not make anything at the ruling prices 
per  glass.  Yes!  I think  that the  demand 
is on the increase.  Everybody drinks soda.
Good soda does not  create a  disturbance  in 
a man’s interior as the  poorer f article  does, 
but is perfectly cool and refreshing  and has 
no evil effects.  Fountains run  all  the way 
from $50 to $5,000 in price.  That one there 
cost $1,600, but  you  can  get  a  very  nice 
fountain for $900 or $1,000.  Our  sales  run 
from $15 to $60 a day, and I remember  one 
day—-the Fourth of  July  some  three  sum­
mers ago—when we sold $200 worth.  Let’s 
see!  Five cents into $200 goes 4,000  times. 
That’s $4,000 glasses.  The  rush was not so 
great in the day time, but  at night  we were 
obliged to call a policeman to keep the  side­
walk clear.  We had a double fountain, two 
men drawing and men in the cellar  keeping 
up the supply.  Everything was cut and dried 
in anticipation of the fun.  Those  days are 
over now, though, and there’s not  the  same 
money to be made in soda that there used to 
be.” 

_

Review of the  Credit System.

A  correspondent  of  the  Country  Mer­
chant makes the  following  sensible  points 
anent the credit  system:

Count 10 per cent,  for  freight  (on  glass 
and crockery it costs more), 10 per cent,  for 
interest on investment, 5  to  6  per cent,  for 
cash;  count 25 to 33 per cent, for bad  debts 
resulting from sickness,  storms, deaths, fires 
and dishonest men, and 10 per cent for clerk 
hire,  your own services  and other expenses, 
and then if collections have  to  be  made  by 
suits, 10 per cent, for attorney’s fees,  and  it 
runs up to 65 to 75 cents on the dollar that a 
merchant must charge on sales to make mon­
ey by selling  goods now.

Is it not a wonder that more merchants do 

not break than  do?

We sell goods on time, in this country,un­
til wool time, or harvest, or fall,  or  winter.
This thing of making bills due  30, 60  and 
90 days is a delusion  and  a  snare  that  en 
gulfs  in  ruin  and  disaster  more retail deal­
ers than any other one thing in the business.
A man who can )>ay bills in 30, 60 and  90 
days can about as easily pay cash,  and  then 
no one is disappointed.

In addition to all this, every now and then 
in comes a new man with more  money than 
brains, who,  having  inherited  a few  thous­
and dollars, or having sold out  a  farm  and 
being without  either  knowledge  or  exper­
ience and seeking  an  easy  job  enters  into 
merchandizing, and without  counting either 
cost or expenses, strikes out into this  giddy 
whirlpool of mistaken easy  and. profits,  and 
plunges down the Niagara of trade.

Such deluded men  frequently  carry  with 
them'other good men who attempt in self-de­
fense to stem the same tide, and go over and 
under in the same financial  cyclone. 
I  ask 
nly  fellow-merchants  to consider hew much 
this state of affairs can .pr may be remedied?

ers.

Their Disposition a,  Problem  to  the  Pack- 
From the Baltimore Trade.

There is very wide room for science in the 
canning business and we have long  wonder­
ed that the disciples of  the  microscope  and 
retort have not turned their  illuminators  on 
this industry.  Not only could they  furnish 
the basis for vast improvements in  methods 
of all kinds of  food  preservation,  but  they 
could indicate uses  for  immense  quantities 
of stuff that now go to waste and  are causes 
of trouble and much expense.  Since science 
has taken the offal slime and disgusting tarry 
ooze of the gas works and  evolved  from  its 
blackness prismatic pigments and dyes  that 
have robbed the Tyrian purple  of  its  fame 
and the rainbow of its pride  of  colors,  it  is 
not too much to expect that she can now tell 
us how to keep our strawberries red and firm, 
our cherries white, our peas  green,  and  na­
ture’s essences  retained  in  full.  There  is 
something of this done by  guess  work,  but 
that is all.  For  years  attempts  have  been 
made to keep the color of the peas to the de­
lightful green of nature, but they have  fail­
ed and the French method of artigcial color­
ing does nor find favor  with  our  American 
packers, as the  color  is  a  poisonous  paint. 
As peas come from  the first  exhaust  in  the 
packing houses they are of a most  beautiful 
and delicate green,  but  no  means  has  yet 
been discovered to preserve it, with the later 
processing it  greatly  dis appears,  and  alto­
gether there are some mysterious facts about 
peas and especially about pea hulls.  Fresh 
and  young  from  the  field,  picked in the 
cool of the  dewey  morning  and  placed  in 
boxes or barrels;  within an hour they begin 
to heat, throw out a moisture strong in alka­
li, and  grow  almost  scalding  hot  within 
twelve hours and must be spread out  to  the 
air to keep them from destruction.  For this 
reason the packer gets them into the  can al­
most  immediately  from  the  field,  and  for 
this reason the small canned peas are  great­
ly superior to the same  article bought in the 
pod in the market house, for whilst the latter 
is kept dry by the action of the air, the  pro­
cesses of nature are none the  less  at  work 
and the peas are growing old and tough with 
every hour of exposure,  and  whoso  would 
have them as the packers get them,  at  their 
best, must be up and at work on  them  by  3 
o’clock in the morning  and  get  them  from 
the pod whilst  yet the day  is  young. 
It  is 
this necessity that makes the packing houses 
look like an overcrowded school, busy in get­
ting peas  out of the hulls.

But  these  shells  or  hulls  or pods or by 
whatever other name  they  may  be  known 
are matter of more concern than is generally 
supposed. 
It is evident that  they  form  al­
most as great a bulk with the peas  removed 
as when full, and yet all this  great quantity 
is waste.  The first supposition  is that they 
could be  used  for  fertilizing purposes,  but 
this is an error.  The huge heaps  of  oyster 
shells that fill the  precincts  of  the  packing 
houses during the winter season, can be and 
are  used  as  composts, but  the  mountains 
of pea  hulls  that  take  their  place  in  the 
spring are  yet  awaiting  the  touch  of  the 
scientific wand to make them useful.  11 has 
been found that  the  pea  pod  in  its  decay 
gives out a peculiar alkali  or  acid  that  de­
stroys vegetation;  so strong is it in its action 
that it is  said  to  remove  the  oldest  paint 
with which it may come  in  contact.  Being, 
thus  worse than useless they  become an  in­
cumbrance costly to remove, no one will have 
them on their land, the city will  not  permit 
them to be deposited on vacant lots, and  the 
only method to get rid  of  them  is  to  take 
them down the bay in scows and  feed  them 
to old Father Neptune, and  yet  there  must 
be value in them?  The French people scald 
such  pea  hulls,  then  remove  the  silicious 
skin with which they are lined and make an 
edible dish of them.  They contain sugar  in 
no  small amount and  probably  if  properly 
treated would  be  as  palatable  as  ordinary 
string beans/  Perhaps in the  future—when 
this country comes down  to  the  determina­
tion to live as cheaply as any other nation on 
earth—some genius will find it  more  to  ad­
vantage to can the  hulls  than  the  peas,  as 
cheap food for the lower classes.  Meantime 
there is room here  for the scientist.

The  Business  Situation.

From the New  York Sun.

The bottom  prices  now  prevailing  will 
help the recovery when it comes, and a great 
harvest may start a demand next fall  which 
will usher in the prosperous times to  come. 
Even now, despite a declining stock market, 
decreased exports, and three years  of steady 
shrinkage, the condition of trade is far from 
being as gloomy as merchants accustomed to 
the great profits of former periods are  wont 
to think it.  We look for an active  and fair­
ly profitable trade this  autumn, and  expect 
that with the beginning of the next  year the 
skies will  be so  unmistakably  bright  that 
even hypochondriacs will  be  compelled  to 
rejoice.

N. Sweeney has withdrawn from the  firm 
of Graham & Sweeney,  general  .dealers,  at 
Hopkins.  The business will  be  carried  on 
by J. L. Graham.

The  oldest  apothecary  shop  ‘in  Berlin, 
which in 1888 might celebrate the 400th anni­
versary of its existence, has  just  been  sold 
for «300,000.

GRAND  RAPIDS  CIGARS.

DELINQUENT  DEBTORS.

A  JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantilo and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, JUNE  18,1884.

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

Referring to an alleged trade journal,whose 
title is a misnomer, the Detroit  Times says: 
“The Commercial  has  not caught  the  true 
commercial spirit of  amity and fair dealing. 
It is blind to  the  pressing  requirements  of 
the age.”

The Tradesman  stands  in  readiness at 
all times to set apart a portion of  the  space 
at command for the use of  its  readers  who 
may wish to express an  opinion  relative  to 
their business  or  to  business  in  general. 
Reasonable  latitude  in  the  statement  of 
views will be permitted, it being understood 
that The Tradesman  does not assume any 
responsibility for  the  opinions  expressed. 
Writers are expected  to  send  their  names 
and  addresses  with  their  communications, 
but these  will  not  be printed  if request be 
made  to that effect. 
If merchants have any­
thing to complain of in the present system of 
business, this affords them a  good opportun­
ity to register  their  complaints,  and  a  full 
discussion of errors may lead  to  a  rectifica­
tion of abuses.  Any forward step in  meth­
ods of business adopted by the country mer­
chant in any part of the country will  be giv­
en  here  when  communicated.  Communi­
cations  should be  as  brief  as  the  subject 
treated of will admit.

Sugar  vs.  Sandpaper.

■From Puck.

“You say that brown sugar  is  damaged?” 
said a business-looking sort of a man,  as  he 
stepped into a grocer’s the other day.  “Yes, 
it was  damaged  a  little  in shipping;  but 
ifiost of it is as good  as  ever,”  “What  will 
you take for it?’ 
“Six cents a pound.”  “I 
will  take it.”  The  grocer  seemed  greatly 
pleased, and, wishing to satisfy his customer 
that he  had not made a  bad  bargain,  said:
' “About half a foot down the sugar is as good 
as ever, and the stuff on  top will do to work 
off into cakes  and  puddings.”  “Cakes  and 
puddings!”  repeated  the  customer,  with  a 
merry twinkle in his  eye;  “what  do I care 
fpr cakes and puddings!  I ain’t going to eat 
it, or sell it, either.”  “What are you  going 
to do with it?” inquired  the grocer.  “What 
am I going to do with it?  Why, I am going 
to send it down to my shop and have it made 
up into sand paper.”  And he hurriedly ask­
ed for his bill, paid it, and walked out, leav­
ing the grocer as much surprised  as  though 
he had been told he had just drawn  a  prize 
in the lottery.

Tlie  W ool  Market.

Comparatively  little  wool  is being  mar­
keted  in  Grand  Rapids, as the  farmers  are 
holding off in anticipation  of  better  prices. 
At the outside towns,  however, the staple is 
Coming in as fast as it can be taken care of, at 
prices  ranging  from  25  to  30 cents.  The 
bulk of the wool already marketed is  desig­
nated as “blanket lots” and is in a much bet­
ter condition than last year’s crop.  Most of 
the buyers have adopted for  their  guidance 
in  purchasing  wool  the  Michigan  rules, 
which are:  A deduction of one-third on un­
washed  wool  when  few  fleeces  are found 
among washed, one-half on unwashed bucks, 
one-third  on  pulled  wool,  one-third  on 
heavy  unmerchantable  wool, one-fourth on 
heavy poorly washed  fleece.  Well  washed 
tags full price, poorly washed tags one-third 
deduction,  unwashed 
tags  10  cents  per 
pound.

An exhibition of  American  products and 
manufactures is to be held in  London, early 
in the year 1885.  Our  leading  manufactur­
ers have already signified  their  approval of 
the plan  and it cannot fail to be of great ad­
vantage to our industries and lead  to  an in­
crease in our export  trade. 
It  is  proposed 
to make the most  comprehensive  display of 
our natural products that is possible and the 
oil industry should not be  neglected  in the 
project.  General C. B. Norton, secretary of 
the reeent foreign exhibition in  Boston, has 
charge of the details of the proposed exposi­
tion, and will be pleased to furnish  full par­
ticulars to manufacturers and producers who 
desire representation  abroad.  The  Petrol 
eum Age suggests that  a  very  interesting 
exhibit might be  made  of  the  varieties of 
crude petroleum and the apparatus  and ma­
chinery  connected  with  the  drilling of oil 
wells.

Things  Heard on  the Street.

That the local manager of  Dun’s  Mercan­
tile Agency recently lingered too long at the 
Ionia brewery to enable him to meet  an  en­
gagement at home the same evening.

That  Chas. McCarty, the  Lowell  grocer, 
keeps in stock everything from a plow point 
to a china set, and hss  even  been known to 
dicker  in  church  pulpits  and  second-hand 
tombstones.

That notwithstanding the  quasi endorse­
ment of  the  “Berlin  merchants,”  and  the 
half-hearted partisanship of a few pecksnif- 
fian friends, the Canal  street  swell-head  is 
as  much an  offence  against  decency  and 
manhood as before.

The  canning  factory  at  Three  Rivers 

g'arted up last week.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Christian Bertsch  has  returned  from his 
Eastern trip.  He says that  it  would  have 
been about as  profitable to  have  gone  fish­
ing. 

'___________

Mr. Geo. F. Cole, of  the  firm  of  Cole  & 
Stone, proprietors of the Marshall Shirt Man­
ufacturing Co., is in the city for a few days, 
drumming up  trade.

Mr. Newton,  the  rotund  partner  in  the 
firm of  Steele & Newton, general  dealers  at 
Advance,  is  spending  several  days  in  the 
city, in search of rest and recreation.

Wm. Bundy has engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  New  Richmond,  and  M.  M. 
Dilly has embarked  in the  same  line at Ir­
vington.  Shields,  Bulkley  & Lemon  fur­
nished both stocks.

Capt. C. S. Perkins, of Henderson, Ky., is 
paying  his  semi-annual visit  to the firm  of 
Hazeltine, Perkins &  Co.  Accompanied  by 
Dr.  Hazeltine,  he  left  Monday  for  a two 
days’ fishing expedition  at  Mackinac.

The  Messmore  matter  remains in statu 
quo, no  further  proceedings  having  lately 
been  taken  on  either  side.  It  is  stated 
that  Messmore’s  friends  have  lately been 
sounding  his  principal  creditors,  with  a 
view to ascertaining the lowest possible rate 
of compromise that would be likely to be ac­
cepted,  and  that as  soon as a  conclusion is 
reached a  definite  offer  will be made.  As 
it is simply a question  of  accepting  what­
ever is offered, or getting nothing, every cred­
itor will undoubtedly embrace  the first offer 
made  with  eagerness, whether it be 5 or 50 
per cent.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

E. E. Carpenter, grocer at Gaylord, is sell­

ing out at auction.

P. L. Lanway has engaged in the  grocery 

business at South  Arm.

F. C. Egbert, grocer at Reed City, has sold 

out to C. J. Fleischauer.

Smith & Fallas  will  engage  in  the  drug 

business at Coopersville.

Stow & Brooks, meat dealers at  Caledon­

ia, are succeeded S. R. Brooks.

W. S. Savage succeeds E. R. Savage in the 

tobacco business at Mancelona.

W. J. Carter has  sold  his  crockery  busi­

ness at Eaton Rapids to H. Rutterville.

S. E. Francis, grocer and  crockery  dealer 

at Otsego, has been closed on execution.

J. Schoonfield has engaged in the fruit and 

confectionery business at Grand Haven.

Jacob  Dingman,  restauranter  at  Sault 

Ste. Marie, is succeeded by J. S. Kinney.

Austin & Champion, saw mill operators at 
Mecosta, are succeeded by J. D.  Champion.
Louiselle & Fouchette  have started in the 
grocery business at Eastlake, Manistee coun­
ty.

Mrs. O. S.  Stanton, late  of  Mt.  Pleasant, 
has started a  variety  business  at  Traverse 
City.

Jacob Hamming succeeds Yan  der  Heide 
&  Hamming  in  the  grocery  business  at 
Yogel Center.

Fred Hodges has closed out  his  saloon  at 
Hungerford and started in the same business 
at Big Rapids.

L. 

Veyer, general dealer at New  Holland, 

contemplates selling liis stock  and  business 
to Posthumas & Son.

The new firm of J. H.  Thompson  &  Co., 
Detroit, mentioned on the first page, are  the 
successors of S. M. Tyler & Co.

A.  McFarlane, who  failed  at  Lyons  last 

fall, contemplates going  on  the  road  for  a 
Detroit wholesale grocery house.

J. H. Bradish says that the  reported  sale 
of his boot and shoe and  harness business at 
Sand Lake to Jas.  S.  Barker  has  been de­
clared off.

F.  W.  Fincher,  the  Pentwater  druggist, 

has a beautiful yacht, the Evangeline, which 
affords the people of that place  many pleas­
urable excursions.
"  Allegan  Gazette:  The  trade  between 
Van Ostrand  and Garrod &  Messinger,  fell 
through and Ed. will keep on with  his  tire­
less work of pill  rolling.

P. M. Van  Drezer  has  purchased  a half 
interest in the general business of E. P. Gif­
ford, at Saranac, and the firm  will hereafter 
be known as Gifford & Van Drezer.

Sparta Sentinel:  R. A. Hastings has pur­
chased the interest of Mr. Z.  V.  Cheney  in 
the firm of Cheney & Van Wiltenburg, deal­
ers in lumber, lath, shingles, etc.  The busi­
ness will be carried  on  under  the  name of 
Van Wiltenberg & Hastings.

STRAY  FACTS.

A  fish-packing  house  is  being  built at

Manistique by a Chicago firm.

There is some talk  of  establishing  a  sec­

ond National bank at  Greenville.

Maria Henler succeeds her late husband in 

the restaurant business at Traverse City.

Z. G. Winscr, for many years past  engag­
ed in the lumber, lime and builders’ supplies 
business at Grand Haven, has sold out to H, 
B. Chamberlin &  Co.

The handle  factory  for  which  Petoskey 
subscribed $1,000, and the machine shop and 
foundry  that  Harbor  Springs  was  to give 
$1,500 toward establishing, do  not  material 
ize as yet.

Cadillac  Times:  We  are  informed  that 
John L. Rice, ex-banker, of the late  lament­
ed firm of Rice & Messmore, Is  in  the  city, 
and proposes to make Cadillac his home, and 
practice law here.

The business men of Hart have  formed  a 
stock company with $10,000  capital,  $8,000 
of which has already been subscribed,for the 
purpose  of  erecting  a  new  hotel  at  that 
place.  Such an  acquisition  would “meet  a 
long-felt  want,”  and  would  undoubtedly 
prove a profitable investment.

The butter plate factory at Montague  has 
been compelled to  run  nights  to  keep  up 
with its orders.

Midland  has two large flouring milis, four 
salt blocks, several shingle mills,  an  exten­
sive lumber mill, machine shop,planing mill, 
one of the largest  coiled  hoop  factories  in 
the world, a large brick yard, broom factory, 
three good hotels, seven dry goods and cloth­
ing stores,  four  drug,  two  furniture,  three 
hardware, seven grocery, two boot and  shoe 
stores,  three  liverj  stables,  one  bank  and 
two newspapers.

While D. M. McClellan  was  building  his 
fine new brick  store building  at  Reed  City 
last  season 
the  village  corporation  al­
lowed him to move the old structure into the, 
street and conduct business  there  until  the 
completion of the new  building.  And  now 
J. Q. Patterson, proprietor  of  the  National 
Hotel, has brought suit  against  the  village 
for $5,000 damages, alleging  that  the  pres­
ence of the building in the street injured his 
business.

A  BAD  MAN.

W. A. Dunlap up to  His  Old Tricks.
A  traveling correspondent of The Trades^ 
man  sends  us  the  following  relative  to a 
man that dealers everywhere would do  well 
to give a good letting alone:

Mr.  Dunlap,  A.  T.  or  W.  A., I  do  not 
know which, has opened a  harness  shop  at 
Onondaga. 
It is the same Dunlap  that run 
a store at Nashville and shut up or  down in 
February.  You  noticed  it  in  your  paper 
then.  He has moved his  family from Char­
lotte and is fixing up a house and shop.  He 
has a large stock of saddlery  hardware  and 
leather, show-cases, etc., for  a  small  town. 
He has been at Grand Rapids for  five or six 
weeks  and I think got  his  stock  there.  If 
any harness shop has failed  or  is  going  to 
he may  have some  of  the  goods. 
I  have 
known him for five or six  years  and  never 
knew of his paying  for anything.  He is al­
ways ready to  give  an  order.  Thinking  it 
might be of interest to know where  he was, 
I write you.  You may know or hear where 
he got his  goods.

Inquiry among the  business  men  at  this 
market reveals the fact that  Dunlap  is  one 
of the worst  men  who  ever  bought  goofls 
here.  He is denounced  on  every  side as  a 
liar of the first water, and one  firm  has  the 
temerity to state that they have facts in their 
possession  which  could  land  him  behind 
prison bars.  As near as  can  be learned,  he; 
approached every jobbing house  in  his  line, 
here—except one,  where  his  character was; 
too well known—but  in most  cases  he  was 
met with  downright  refusal  or  the parties 
subsequently  discovered  his  unreliability, 
and did not ship the goods.  He  succeeded, 
however,  in  gulling  Hirth  &  Krouse,  the 
Canal  street “ leather  firm,  by representing 
that he was overseer  and  paymaster  at  the 
gravel road bridge, just above the city.,,  Oh 
the strength of this  assertion,  coupled  with 
the statement that he would be in the city for 
some weeks to come,  he  obtained  credit  at 
that establishment, and  Mr.  Hirth  left  for 
Onondaga Monday for the purpose of  secur­
ing the claim,  or  instituting  a  prosecution 
against him for obtaining goods  under  false 
pretenses.

Dunlap also  endeavored  to  secure a line 
of  goods  on  credit 
at  Judd & Co.’s,  but 
was met with  premptory  refusal.  He then 
directed  that the  goods  be  packed,  stating 
that he would  pay for  them as  soon  as he 
could  get  a  check  cashed.  But  he  never 
called to pay the amount  agreed  upon, and 
as Mr.  Judd did not  pack the goods, he sav­
ed himself considerable  unnecessary  labor. 
He says that the  fellow  frequently crossed 
himself in his  statements,  and that  his ac­
tions  alone  convinced  h’m 
that  he  was
crooked.”
“Dunlap approached us a few months ago 
with a proposition to travel  for  our house,” 
said a  partner  in a  prominent  jobbing  es­
tablishment, “but as we knew his record, we 
politely  declined the  offer.  He then  went 
directly to an  np-town  jobbing  house, and 
stated that he had  engaged to  travel for us. 
I have known of  other  instances  where he 
has told downrignt  lies like this.”

“I have known W. A. Dunlap  for  fifteen 
years,”  said  a  saddlery  hardware  jobber, 
“and  I wouldn’t  listen  to  a  proposition to 
sell  him  goods.  Neither  his character nor 
veracity  are  worth  two cents.  He is a fine 
looking  man, and a  convincing  talker, and 
is extremely  likely  to  ‘take  in’ an  unsus­
pecting dealer.”

While  Dunlap  secured  small  bills  of 
goods  at  several  establishments  here, the 
bulk of his stock must  have been purchased 
at  Detroit or  Chicago, probably at  the for­
mer place, where  the jobbers are  said to be 
extremely gullible.

Good  Words Unsolicited.

S.  J.  Smith,  general  dealer,  Bloomer: 

“Consider it just what we  need.”

J. H. Smith, hardware,  Muskegon:  “The 

paper is all O. K.  Send it along.”

A. E. Pickard, general  dealer,  East  Jor­
dan :  “I think The Tradesm an  is  just  O. 
K.”

Orcutt & Co., wholesale produce,  Muskeg­
on:  “We look upyi  The  Tradesm an  as 
one of our best visitors.”

Peter Hanson, general dealer, Big Prairie: 
“It is a good paper and well worth the mon­
ey.  1 wouldn’t know how to get along with 
out i t ”

C. A.  Pearson,  grocer,  Fremont:  “Your 
paper is a valuable  one.  Send  it  along. 
I 
feel that I can’t keep shop without it.  I ap­
preciate it very much.”

A.  C.  Merrill,  druggist,  Cross  Village: 
“Your  paper  is  excellent  and  cheap,  and 
suits the trade here remarkably well.  Wish 
you thé best of success.”

 

 

 

Number of Men Employed.

The  Capacity  of  Our  Factories,  and the 
As near as  can  be  determined, there  are 
seventeen cigar manufactories  in  this  city, 
employing a  total  of  sixty-seven  men,,  not 
counting nearly as  many  more  apprentices 
and assistants.  The men turn out  an  aver­
age of 1,000 cigars a week, making the total 
weekly output all around 67,000 cigars.  The 
number of men employed at each place is as 
follows:
Hugo Schneider & Co.................................... 19
Àlbért  Kuppenheimer.................................   8
Tunis Johnson.................. 
8
Henry Yan der  Weiden................................  7
John Scottey.................................................  3
Kuppenheimer & Stewart............................. 3
Wm. Van der Maas.......................................  3
August Tusch........................................ 
  3
Hinkley &  Co...............................................   2
Julius Mulschosky.......................................... 2
Kysor&Wood................................................  2
Wm.  Callaghan.............................................  1
Frank Kean...................................................  1
August Landaur.............................................1
Frank Wurzburg..........................................  1
F. A. Niehaus................................................  1
Anton Worfel..................................  
2
“If  every  jobber  here  would  sell Grand 
Rapids  cigars, 
instead  of  foreign  made 
goods,” said a  leading  cigar  manufacturer, 
“we could easily support 500  cigar  makers 
in Grand  Rapids.  See  what  a  help  that 
would be to the  place,  especially  when  we 
consider that fully half that  number  would 
be men with families.  But  the  jobbers  do 
not look at the matter  in  the  right  light. 
They shy it is easier  to  sell  Eastern  made 
goods, and that they can  buy  cheaper  East. 
There may be some truth in the latter state­
ment, but much of the trash that is sent hère 
from New York factories would not be han­
dled  at  all,  if  made  by  home  factories. 
Grand  Rapids  manufacturers  buy  only 
twenty-five cases of tobacco where  an  East­
ern factory buys 1,000, it is true,  but  if  the 
jobbers here would encourage  home produc­
tion we could buy in just as large quantities, 
and at just as low prices as our  Eastern  ri­
vals.  However, the business  is  on  the  in­
crease and  Grand  Rapids  cigars  are  every 
year regarded with more favor, and it is  but 
a question of time when we can successfully 
compete with any other cigar  market in  the 
country.”

“I can easily explain why the Grand  Rap­
ids jobbers do not buy their cigars in  Grand 
Rapids,” said a cigar jobber, “and that is be­
cause no one here  lias $25,000 to spare with 
which to equip a firstrdass factory.  As you 
must know, a large part of the work of cigar 
making is now done by improved machinery 
which has lately come into general  use,  and 
without which it is impossible to successful­
ly  conduct  a  large  establishment. 
If  our 
business  ever  affords  us  a  sufficient  sur­
plus, we shall assuredly engage in the  man­
ufacture of cigars on  a  large  scale,  but  we 
would not think of  making  such  a venture 
with less than $25,000  invested  in  machin­
ery, etc., and as  much  more  ready  cash on 
hand to use in the purchase of leaf and other 
stock.  There is no reason why such  an  in­
stitution should not be maintained  here,  ex­
cept the financial considerations  already  re­
ferred  to,  and  as  the  jobbing trade of the 
city increases in importance, I shall look for 
important steps in this  branch  of  manufac­
turing industries.”

“How many cigars are sold  here  annual­

ly?” asked the reporter.

“I can give you only  an  estimate,  but it 
will not be a million out  of  thè  way.  The 
local factories turn  out about  three  million 
and a half, and the jobbers sell eight  and  a 
half more, making a total showing of twelve 
million as the  annual  sales.  This  amount 
would be sufficient to  furnish  constant  em­
ployment to 250 men.”

“What we need  here,” said  a  prominent 
grocery  jobber,  “is  a  big  cigar  establish­
ment.  A stock  company  with a capital  of 
$100,000 would knock the  dividends declar­
ed by the furniture factories higher’n Gilde- 
roy’s kite within a few years.”

The  Gripsack Brigade.

On  the  Easel—Manley  Jones,  Geo.  H 

Seymour, W. G.  Hawkins.

It is stated that A. C. Sharp  has  an inter­

est in a vineyard south of the city.

J. C. Watson, with C. S. Yale & Bro., left 
I

Tuesday for a three weeks’ Northern trip. 

A. 

L. Braisted  is  now on the  road  regu­

larly for the Voigt Milling Co. aud  C. G.  A. 
Voigt & Co.

L. C. Bradford is building a fine residence 
on Mt. Vernon  street,  between  Allen  and 
Bridge  streets.

John D. Mangum returned  Saturday from 
a six weeks’ Northern trip, and left Tuesday 
for  Muskegon,  where  he  will  put  in  the 
week.

F. L. Kelly,  formerly  with  Cody, Ball  & 
Co., later on the road for  S.  A.  Welling,  is 
now  clerking  for  C.  G.  Cornwell,  general 
dealer at Paw Paw.

Fred  Selleck,  formerly  on  the  road  for 
Hawkins & Perry, later with I. E. Messmore 
in the same  capacity,  is  now  traveling  for
B.  F. Farrington & Co.,  Detroit.

A. C. Sharp  has gone to New York State 
for  a  fortnight’s  rest and  recreation.  His 
wife preceded  him  a  week  before.  Dur­
ing his absence, Mr. O. A. Ball will make  a 
trip among Mr. Sharp’s trade.

There is a common aphorism  to the effect 
that  “Everyone must eat a peck  of  dirt  be­
fore he dies.”  And if any of the “boys” feel 
disposed to exceed their average  in  this  re­
spect, they  are  cordially  recommended  to 
stop at the hotel  at  Lyons.  The  Trades­
man man was  there  last  week  and knows 
whereof he speaks.

Geo.  P. Cogswell who has just completed 
a $3,200 has the honor of  seeing  full  illus­
trations of  both  the  exterior  and  interior, 
furnished by architect  Hopkins, in  the  cur­
rent issue of the Bwilder and Wood  Work- 
re. 
Judging  from  the  illustrations,  the 
house has a commanding appearance.  It has 
twelve  rooms,  conveniently  arranged,  and 
the lower floor is finished in butternut

LATEST

i Qnotal
JOHN 
CAULFIELD
W holesale  Grocer,
Teas, Tobaccos,  Spices  Etc.,

—AND JOBBER IN—

85,87  and  89  Canal  Street

baccos  and  Cigars:

rACTOEY  ACEXTT
For the following well-known brands of To­
fuste  CUT.
Fountain...................................................... 74
64
Old  Congress....................................  
Good  Luck...................................................55
Good and Sweet...................... 
 
45
American  Queen......................................... 38
Blaze  Away................................................ 35
Hair L ifte r......................... 
30
Governor,  2  oz.  foil....................................60
In half barrels  or four  pail  lots,  2c ft lb off 
above list.

 
 

 

 

P L U G .

 

 

 

 

 

In 60 lb quantities 2c per lb off.

Horse Shoe............................... 
47
McAlpin’s Green Shield...............................4S
McAlpin’sSailor’s  Solace.........................48
McAlpine’s Chocolate  Cream........... .. 
.48
Bed 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.....................................4 8
Black  Spun Roll............................. 
38
Canada Plug  (Virginia Smoking)..............50
Cresent Plug, 6 lb  cads........................   .45
S 1JL O KZIN G-.
Peerless.................... 
.25
 
Rob  Roy......................................................25
Uncle  Sam...................................... 
28
Tom  and  Jerry..........................  
24
Good Enough..............................................23
Mountain Rose........... ............ 
20
Lumberman’s  Long  Cut.................... 
.26
Home Comfort.............................................24
Green  Back,  Killickinick...........................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick x/ i .......................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  %..................... 26
Star Durham,  Killickinick,  % ................ .25
Rattler,  Killickinick,  %.............................25
Honey Dew, Killickinick,  %..................... 25
paper.................. 25
Posey, Killickinick, 
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia.. ..  .36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, %......... 
. .33
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick, %s and lbs........18
Golden Flake Cabinet.................................40
Traveler, 3  oz.  foil.................................. . . . “. .35
Rail Road Boy, 3 oz. foil....................... .. .37
Nigger  Head, Navy Clippings...................26
Scotten’s Chips, Navy  Clippings,  paper. .26 
Leidersdorfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags.26
Old Rip Fine Virginia LongCut................55
Lime Kiln Club......................: . . . . . ....... 45
Durham Long Cut.................................... .60
Durham, Blackwell’s  % ..........  
.60
Durham, Blackwell’s,  % ....... 
57
Durham, Blackwell’s, % .............. . . ___ .55
Durham, Blackwell’s, lb ......... ..................51
Seal of North Carolina 
52
Seal of North Carolina % , . . . . . . ..............50
Seal of North Carolina K ___?...................48
Seal of North Carolina lb ...........................46

_______ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special prices given on large lots.
OIGLAZFtS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoke  the  Celebrated  ‘‘After Lunch”  Cigar.
After  Lunch..................................     $30  00
Clarrissa..............  
 
45  00
 
Clara.....................  
32  00
M irella...........................................     .35  00
25  00
Queen  Marys........................... 
Josephines......................................    .25  00
Little  Hatchets.......................  
.30  00
23  00
Old Glories........................... 
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......................................23@30
Japan fair...............................................32@35
Japan fair to good..................................35@37
J apan fine............................................    40@50
Japan dust............................................. 15@18
Young Hyson.......................................... 25@50
Gun Powder.............................................35@50
Oolong.........................................35@45@55@60
Congo............................................... 
30@35
Corn,  Barrels....................................  @  31
Corn, a  bbls.....................................   @  33
Corn. 10 gallon  kegs..........................  @  36
Corn, 5 gallon  kegs...........................   @190
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs........................  @1 85
Pure Sugar Drips, bbl................. . ..  30@  37
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs....................  @3 10
Maple Syrub, 10 gal kegs...................  @6 00

SYRUPS.

TEAS.

SUGARS.

Sugar market stronger with an upward ten­

dency.  We quote:
Cut  Loaf.......................................... 7%@8
Powdered  Standard............. . .* 
1% @8
Granulated Standard.....................7  @7-%
Standard  Confectioners’  A...........6%@6X
Standard  A .................................... 6%@6%
Extra White C................................ 6j^@6j^
Extra Bright C.................................6  @6K
Extra  C............................................5%@5X
Yellow C..........................................5  @5>i
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
ial quotations mailed on general line  of  gro­
ceries when requested.

Grand Rapids.

H. E. Locher reports the following :

F. G. Ferder, lives here.............................. $10 00
Chas. E. Winchell, moved to  Tustin........  25 00
-------Bender, moved to Elkhart................  3  50
Jas. Parm, moved to  Blendon..................  5 00
W. Gosiit, moved to Ottawa Co..................  3 50

Howard  City.

J. R. Abbott reports the following:

J. W. Wilson, moved north.......................... $1 06
Jas. Nyson, moved to Muskegon................ 3 37
J. B. Tuttle, moved to Pleasant Lake, Ind  95 
J. C. Borden, moved to  California.............   1 50

Morley.

Lon Pelton reports the following:

Chas. E. Hawkins, moved to  Kansas.......$10 97
A. 8. Medbury, moved to White  Cloud...  8 00
O. J. Lewis, lives here.................................  2  00
Theo. Billings, moved to Edmore.............   4 00
Sanford Heed, lives here........... ................  4 00
Hiram Bryan, lives here..............................  2 28
Stephen French, moved to Grand  Rapids  2 00
The notorious  Adelbert  Brady,  late  of  Lu­
ther, has removed to Morley,  and  is  working 
in J. M. Carr’s mill, four miles  west.  Dealers 
everywhere should beware of this smooth-talk­
ing scoundrel.

Ionia.

W. H. Thayer & Co. report the following: 

John Gardner, moved to Grand  Rapids..$ 3 00 
John Uran, conductor, moved  to  Battle
Creek.................................. ........................  3 00
A. J. Parks, moved away............................ 
]  25
Robert Diggs, moved to Bay City.............  2 50
Moses Plant, lives  here.............................   9 08
A. Ensch, Rodney, moved  North.............   55 68

Muir.

Pringle Bros, report the following: 
Wm. Fordham, moved to  Manistique..

..$5 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.
WANTED.— A position in a first-class  drug 
store by  a  Voung  man  of  experience. 
Address A., care The Tradesman.
WANTED.—A  number  of  traveling  sales­

men to handle a line of shirts in connec­
tion with their other line.  Liberal Commission 
paid.  Address, Marshall Shirt Manufacturing 
Co.,  Marshall,  Mich.

HAYING  WITHDRAWN from the business 

formerly carried on under the firm name 
of Graham &  Sweeney,  at  Hopkins,  Mich.,  I 
will not hold myself responsible for any debts 
contracted under the above name.

N.  SWEENEY,

June 11,1884. 

 

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars  as 
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, V4, 1)4 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1)4, 1)4 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 1)4,1)4 and 2 inch............  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., 20 feet................ 
17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and i6 feet.......  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  15 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.............. 
  14 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
9 00
widths and  lengths................................. 
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch............................... .  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch........... ;  20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch.  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft... 11 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 6in., 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
4 X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 40
X X X 16 in................................................. 
3 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles. 
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.
Lath  ...............................

 

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fohows:

HIDES.

8)4

SHEEP PELTS.

Green............................................... ft ft)
Part  cured..............................................  8
Full cured................................................8)£@ 8)
Dry hides and kips.
@12
7Calf skins, green or cured.................... 10
@12
@50
Deacon skins............................ft piece20
@20 
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10
Fall pelts..................................................30
@50 
@1 50
Winter  pelts.......................................1  00
@25
Fine washed ft Jb....................................
Coarse washed........................................ 18
Unwashed................................................2-3
Tallow........ ............................................. 5)4® 5)4

S. A. WELLING

WOOL.

WHOLESALE

-AND-

IST O T I  OUSTS!

PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRINGS, ETC.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Ma n- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  John  H.  E ackeb, 
L. R. Cesna, Geo. W. N. De J onge. 
Frank Bekles 
24 Pearl Street

Grand Rapids, Mich,

House Salesman.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

tala.

An  Advancing Market  for Menthol  Cry*- 
From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

The scarcity, increasing  demand  and ad­
vancing price of  Japanese  menthol, has atr 
tracted attention  to the  American  product, 
which has been but recently introduced from 
Michigan.  The question has been  raised as 
to whether this solid can be derived from the 
American oil of peppermint in paying  quan­
tities, and the fact that it can, has given pep­
permint oil more importance in the commer­
cial world.  The Reporter has  been  shown 
several  samples  of the  American  crystals 
and they compare favorably  with  any  arti­
cle of the kind yet placed  upon this market. 
According to the statement of  the  Michigan 
parties, the oil  yields sixty percent of men­
thol which is about  the  same  as  Japanese, 
but the process of manufacture is in  such  a 
crude state that  the  capacity  is  limited  to 
fifty pounds per month.  The domestic  pre­
sents a fine appearance and  consumers  who 
have put into use ail the stock  that | has  ar­
rived thus far,  claim  that  it  answers  the 
same purpose as the foreign.  We  have  not 
heard from the  Wayne  county  production, 
but while it is asserted on the one hand that 
one field is as good as another,it is claimed,on 
the other hand that the quality  of  the  land 
in Wayne county, N. Y.,  is  not  suited  for 
producing the peppermint crystal. 
It is de­
posited from the oil on exposure to cold and 
is known to have a definite chemical compo­
sition. 
It  imparts  its  characteristic  smell 
and taste to, but is only slightly  soluable  in 
water;  dissolves  readily  in  alcohol,  ether 
and in both fixed and volatile  oils;  melts  at 
about the temperature of the body and when 
further heated volatilizes without  decompo­
sition.  It looks like the sulphate of magnes­
ia to the naked eye, but is more talc like, and 
is rather bulky, one ounce  filling a two  fluid 
ounce bottle.

Menthol is much'used in China and Japan, 
being sometimes sold mixed  with  an  oil  of 
peppermint and  at  other  times  seperately. 
It is highly recommended  as  a  specific  for 
headache, toothache, sciatica and  neuralgia, 
and is considered valuable as an inhalation for 
catarrh, and a germicide in  fevers,'  dipther- 
ia, measles, erysipelas..  It is  a  very  agree­
able medicine and would make an acceptable 
substitute for the amminiated smelling salts. 
The  consumption  of 
the  article  in var­
ious  forms  has  increased  very  rapidly  of 
late, and before the  next  crop  arrives,  the 
price will make it a luxury.  The stock here 
of foreign is rather limited and held at pres­
ent writing at §12 to  §13  per  pound.  The 
small quantity on the way has  been  sold  to 
arrive.  Messrs.  Cocking  &  Co.,  of  Yoko­
hama, the largest holders of  menthol in  the 
world, cabled to their agent in  this  city last 
week that  the  market  there  was  entirely 
bare and that §11 to §12 was  freely  offered 
for stocks in Japan, with none in  view until 
October.

The largest product is said  to  be  derived 
from the Japanese plant which is robust and 
rapid in its  growth. 
It  requires  but  little 
moisture and is capable  of  cultivation  in  a 
great  variety  of  localities.  Facilities  for 
manufacturing on a large scale are  now  be­
ing arranged in this country and if the plant­
ing area is correspondingly increased, an im­
portant new outlet will be developed for  do­
mestic peppermint  oiL

Paris  Green.

From the Oil, Paint andJJrug Reporter.

The prospects for a  satisfactory  business 
in Paris green this season are very encourag­
ing.  Manufacturers are busy at  present fil­
ling orders placed for June and July deliver­
ies, and some of the  factories  are  running 
nights.  The agreement entered  into by the 
manufacturers to maintain  a  uniform  scale 
of  prices has been found  to work advantage­
ously for both producers and consumers, and 
will probably be continued.  The indications 
are that should the weather  be  warm  diu-ing 
the  early summer,  there  will  be  a  much 
greater demand for Pails green as an  insect­
icide than in the several  preceding  seasons. 
The few warm days of May disclosed the prob­
ability that  there would  bean  extraordinary 
invasion of the potato bug this season, and re­
ports from many sections of the country give 
accounts of the  enormous numbers that have 
already appeared  and  commenced  their de­
structive feasting.  The cold wave of the past 
few days has  served to  give  a  temporary 
check to the ravages of the  bug,  and  farm 
ers are dreading the return of warm weather 
as it will develop into activity  the larvae de 
posited by the first invaders.

The rivalry between Paris green and Lon­
don Purple and the energetic pushing of the 
latter by the manufacturers, have  tended to 
attract wider attention to the use of  insect! 
cides and to increase their use,  and  in spite 
of the continued popularity of  the  competi­
tor, the prospects  are  that  there will  be 
large and steady demand for green  this sea­
son; and should the expectations  now enter­
tained of an unusual invasion by the bugs be 
realized, the price is more likely  to advance 
than  to decline.

The maker of a check cannot stop its pay­
ment after certification  except  by  indemni­
fying the bank which is held for it   On cer­
tification of a check the amount is charged at 
•  at once to the drawer and  no  longer  stands 

to his credit

An advertisement for patent  medicine, to 
which attention is called in  a  Pittsburg  pa­
per,  contains  this grim suggestion:  “Take 
this mixture  and  you  will  never  take  any 
other.”

Wine, opium, arsenic and  morphine  have 
given place to quinine in the list of drugs, in 
which New York women are  accused of  in­
dulging to an Inordinate degree.

Advanced—Oil peppermint, Lycopodium. 
Declined—Alcohol, Cinchonidia, Gum opium, 
Cassia buds. Oil cassia, Salicin, Serpentaria. 

ACIDS.

9 ®
30 ©

¡pft
Acetic,  No. 8............................$  ft
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30
Carl* lie..........................
Citr A................................
3 ®
3
Muriatic 18 deg...............................  
11 ©
Nitric 36 deg....................................   11
14*4®
Oxalic...............................................   14V
3 ©
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
3
Tartaric  powdered.........................
«  oz
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz
Benzojc,  German............................  12
Tannic...............................................  15

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

AMMONIA.

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

6
7

12 ©
16 ©
$ f t 15 ©

BALSAMS.

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

BARKS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.......................
W ahoo.......................... 1.................
Soap  ground....................................

BERRIES.

Cubefo, prime .(Powd $  90)............
6
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash......................................1 00

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 lb  boxes)...............
................
Lgowood, *4s 
do 
Logwood, *48 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid^Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

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

18
14 
&  7 &  8
}  50 
40 
3 00 
50

10 

12
18
15 
13 
15 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

@  85 
@  7
@1  10

27
37*
9
12
13 
15
14

@

GUMS.

2

6

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 6orts.........................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin.
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is (Vi 14c, Vis 16c)........
pnormum powaerea.................. 
Euphorbium powdered.................
Galbanum strained........................  
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c)............
Kino [Powdered, 30c]....................
Mastic. .•••••«.••• .........................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)..
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50). 
Shellac, Campbell* 
Shellac,  English.
Shellac, native
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  30
HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

75 
18 
50 
30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
35 
30 
30 
55@60
24 
22®
13
«ws»  40
80
90®1 00
35 
20 
1  10 
40 
4 15 
35 
30 
25 
33
@1  10

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint.......................................................25
Rue................ 
£0
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................35
Tanzy................................................................ 25
Thym e...............................................................30
Wormwood.......................................................25

 

IRON.

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

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12
Sage, Italian, bulk (*4s & *4s, 12c)...
Senna, Alex, natural......................  18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tmnivelli..................... .........
Uva  Ursi.................................. ........
Belledonna......................................
Foxglove..........................................
Henbane..................... ....................
Rose, red...........................................

6 40
20
7

© l i  
6 
20 
30 
22 

16 10 

35 
30 
35 
2 35

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 75
Whisky, other brands......................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom..........................................1 35
Gin,  Holland......................................... 2 00
Brandy...................................................1 75
Catawba  Wines.................................... 1 25
Port Wines.............................................1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............ 
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__  
Calcined............................................  

MAGNESIA.

@2 25 
@2  00 
@1 50 
@1 75 
@3 50 
® 6 50 
@2 00 
@2 50
23
37
2 25
70

OILS.

 

 

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  45  ®  50
Amber, rectified.............................. 
45
Anise.................................................  
1  80
Bay $   oz........................................... 
50
Bergamont.......................................  
2 00
Castor................................................  18*4©  20
2 00
Croton................................................ 
Cajeput..............................  
75
Cassia...............................................  
1 00
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
40
Citronella....................... i .............. 
85
Cloves................................................ 
1 25
Cubebs, P. & W ...............................  
8 00
1  60
Erigeron........................................... 
2 00
Fire weed........................................... 
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
100
Lavender garden 
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
Lemon, new crop............................ 
1  70
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
1 75
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
1 25
Origanum,  Np. 1..................i......... 
50
Pennyroyal...................................... 
1 75
3 25
Peppermint,  white........................ 
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
9 75
65
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 
Sandal  wood. German..................  
4  50
7 00
andal Wood,  W. 1....................................  
Sassafras........................................... 
60
Tansy................................................ 
4 50
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  ®  12
2 25
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. l(Pure $6.50)....... 
4  50
Savm............................................. 
1 00
2 50
Worm seed.......................................  
Cod Liver, filtered................ $  gal 
1 90
3 50
Cod Liver, best...............................  
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
6 00
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1 20
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ............... 
2 50
Salad.................................................   66  ®  67
9 75
Rose,  Ihmsen’s ....................... $  oz 
14
Bicromate.................................$  ft 
35
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
20
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
1  40
30
Prussiate yellow.............................. 

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

Alkanet. ........................................  
15
Althea, cut.......................................  
27
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................  
17
35
Arrow, Taylor’s, in *4s and *4s.... 
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
23
13
Gentian (Powd  17c(......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13  ®  14
20
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................  
35
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
22
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
110
37*4
Jalap, powdered.............................. 
Licorice,  select (Powd 12*4).......... 
12
Licorice, extra select..................... 
15
Pink, true.........................................  
35
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  ®1 50
Rhei, powdered E. I ............. ...........110  ®1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................  
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers................. 
2 25
60
Serpentaria........ ............................  
Seneka.............................................. 
65
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................  
40

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

SEEDS.

25
20

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
13
Bird, mixed in lb packages.......... 
5  @  6
3*4®  4
Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11  @  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
2 00
Cardamon, Malabar......................... 
2 25
Celery........................ 
20
Coriander, Dest English................. 
12
15
F ennel..............................................  
Flax,  clean.......................................  
3*4@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 344).................. 
4  ®  4*4
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
8  @  9
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
5  @  5*4
Mustard, white; Black 10c)..................... 
1 00
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
7*4@  8
Worm,  Levant............................. 
14
 

 

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... 2 25  @2 £0
........ 
do 
Nassau 
2 00
Velvet Extra do 
........ 
1 10
...............  
Extra Yellow do 
Grass 
do 
...............  
Hard head, for slate use......................... 
Yellow Reef, 

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

1  40

do 
MISCELLANEUS.

 

3 
50

2*4®

do 
do 

2 26
1 50
 
27
12

1 10 8 

®1 10 

do 
do Scherin’s  ao  ...
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17) V gal.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s............................ 
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............ 
Annatto 1 D> rolls....................................  
Blue  Soluble............................................. 
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
2 75
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Alum.........................................  (P 9>  244®  3*4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  ®  4
Annatto, prime........................................ 
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........ 
4*4®  5
6  @  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Balm Gilead  Buds................................... 
2 25
Beans,  Tonka..............................  .. 
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
1 60
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)................................. 
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
7*4®  9
12 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c). 
1  85 
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
18 
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
20 
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
18 
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ...
4 00 
Carmine, No. 40..........................
12 
Cassia Buds......................................
70 
Calomel. American.........................
5 
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
12 
Chalk, precipitate English............
Chalk,  red fingers
8 
g
Chalk, white lump..........................
1 60 
Chloroform,  Squibb’s....................
60 
Colocynth  apples............................
1 60 
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
1 7« 
Chloral 
cryst...
1 90 
Chloral 
1 75 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform.................................... 1 00
@  6C
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  55
60
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   55
Cloves (Powd 28e)............................  20
®
2230
Cochineal.........................................
45
Cocoa  Butter.................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
2
65
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
38  @  40 
Cream Tartar, pure powdered__
15 
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.
50 
Creasote...........................................
24 
Cudbear,  prime..............................
24 
Cuttle Fish Bone............................
Dextrine.........................................
12 1 20 
Dover’s  Powders..........................
50 
Dragon’s Blood Mass................
45 
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 ft  oz.................................
Indigo...............................................   85
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  23
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
80
Isinglass,  American.......................
65
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................  10
Lead, acetate.............................
Lime, chloride, (*4s 2s 10c A *¿811c)
Lupuline...........................................
40 
Lycopodium....................................
60
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.......................   12*4®  13
1 35
Manna, S.  F...................................... 
Mercury............................................  
50
Morphia, sulpk., P. & W........ft oz  3 25©3 50
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ...... 
10
Moss, Iceland............................ft ft 
Moss,  Irish.......................................  
12
30
Mustard,  English............................ 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........  
18
Nutgalls............................................  
20
70
Nutmegs, No. 1......................  
 
 
Nux  Vomica....................................  
10
40
Ointment. Mercurial, *4d....................... 
Paris Green......................................  18  ©  26
18
Pepper, Black  Berry...................... 
3 00
Pepsin................................................ 
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................  
6  ®  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W............ft oz  1 30©I 35
Quinine, other brands....................1 30  ©1 35
Seidlitz  Mixture............................. 
28
1 50
Strychnia, cryst__ ___;................. . 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  @  82
80
Red  Precipitate.......................ftlb 
Saffron, American..........................  
40
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
©  2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
33
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal  Soda............................................  
2 00
Salicin................................................ 
Santonin................... 
6  75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
4 
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]......................
Spermaceti.......................................
25
5 
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s .... 
14 
Soap, White Castile........... .............
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
17
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®
8ulphur,  roll....................................  
3©
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, *4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ f! ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

35 @1 00 
91 00 

®  25 
2 10 
1 50 
9
©  15 
15 

911

17 
28 
26 
40 

4*4©

do 
do 

7

. 

 

OILS.

2  ©  2*4

14
28
32
30
4
3*4 
60 
2 70 
1 40 
85 
25 
60 
t  8

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder.................  
50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 35
Challenge Machinery........ "..............................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter bleached.................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
85
Whale, winter......................................  80 
75
Lard, extra...........................................  64 
65
Lard, No.  1...........................................  55 
62
Linseed, pure  raw..............................  58 
Linseed, boiled..................................   61 
65
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  90 
95
Spirits Turpentine..............................  36 
45

PAINTS.

 
y  ..........................................z

v a r n i s h e s .
No. 1 Turp Coach..................................1 10®1  20
Extra  Turp............................... 
1 
Coach  Body............................................2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp
Extra Turp  Damar............................... 1 55@1 60
70®  75
Japap Dryer, No. 1 Turp.
Lb 
9 
10 

Furniture............. ..............1 00@110
10 
11 

Bbl
Boralumine, White  b u lk !............
5 fts { ............
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  V50 off..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts. 1 ............
Red  Venetian............................  144
Ochre, yellow Marseilles............144
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........ .  144
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..

2© 
2® 
2© 
2*4® 
244® 
1§@16 
55®57 
16@17 
6*4 8 
©’ 
©90 
1 40

1  10 

8

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
&  CO
Druggists !

W h o le sa le

50

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

95  Louis  Street.

85
65
75

30
50

32

45

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Pants. Oils. Yarnlshes.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, P atton & Co., a n d J ohn L. Writ­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Pa in t  a n d  T arnish 

B rushes.

PRO  AND  CON.

The  Advantages and Drawbacks  of a  Cash 

Business.

A contemporary opens  up this well worn 
subject again and expresses itself  upon the 
matter as follows:

This can be done, only,  in a large town or 
city where there are duplicate stores  selling 
goods of every kind  and  variety.  No one 
could retain the good  will,  and  much  less 
the respect of the inhabitants of  a small vil­
lage or rural district, if he  should positively 
refuse to open an account with only the best, 
most  respectable  and most  wealthy of  its 
citizens.  Men and women, able  to  pay for 
everything they need at almost any time, will 
cease to respect a trader who will  refuse to 
open an account with them.  They construe 
such a decision as an  impeachment of their 
honor or their honesty. 
Few, even  of the 
most respectable,  will appreciate  your  mo­
tives or even believe that a new trader gives 
the true reasons for refusing to sell goods on 
time.  He may soberly and  politely  add to 
his refusal, to deliver the  goods  until  pay­
ment for them is made, the true reasons:  1. 
He advertised to do strictly a cash business.
By this he meant that no  goods  should 
leave his store or his messenger’s  hands un- 
il they were paid for  in full.  3.  He  had 
come to the conclusion  that such  a manner 
of conducting business would  be  of greater 
benefit to the public than the credit  system, 
because the  purchaser  would  pay less  for 
them.  4.  The  seller,  at  the  same  time 
would make more;  for  he  would  save  the 
salary of a book-keeper and a collector,  and 
himself the anxiety lest some of  his debtors 
should be unable to pay on account of losses, 
failure, sickness or death.  5.  He could not 
refuse to open  an  account with  a  truthful 
person  of  reputable  honesty,  because  of 
doubtful ability, and then  immediately  sell 
on credit to the family  of a  millionaire;  be­
cause that would  violate  the  principle  on 
which  he pledged  himself to  conduct  his 
business.  6.  No one was  left  destitute or 
prevented the procurement of the  necessar­
ies of life by his  strict  adherence to  doing 
business  on a strictly  cash  principle;  for 
stores surrounded him which  sold on credit 
They kept similar goods.  No  one  was  un­
der the necessity of  purchasing  from  him.
7.  He was ready and  willing to give to the 
needy as much as any other according to his 
means and prosperity.  He  considered that 
these were  incontrovertible  proofs of a just 
consistency.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H air, Shoe a n d H orse B rushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

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

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing 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.

t a t

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

WithersDade&Co’s

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

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

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

60©1 70

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.

HIZELTIHE, P1I 1NS i  GO

Few who  profess  to  do  business  on  a 
strictly cash basis are true to the  principle. 
Many of those who have—in  large  cities— 
lived  and acted  fully  up  to  the  principle 
have enjoyed a large success.  The first com­
ing  under our  observation  was  a  trader 
among fishermen.  He kept  a  general store 
of dry goods  and  groceries,  and  materials 
needed for fishing boats and  small  vessels, 
and all the appliances for net  and  line fish­
ing.  There were several  other  stores with 
similar stocks, equally accessible to the fish­
ermen.  They differed  merely on  the ques­
tion of  credit  and  prompt  payment. Our 
hero, Mr. B., kept no books, not  even chalk 
marks!  When the fisherman brought to him 
fish—fresh, salted or dry, line or net fish, in 
bulk, in box or  barrel—he  estimated  their 
full market value.  He  then  weighed and 
measured provisions,  groceries,  dry  goods, 
hooks, lines, etc., to the full amount,  credit­
ed for their fish; that is, if they  so  desired 
payment at that time.  Occasionally the fish­
erman  wished  his  wife  and  daughters  to 
supply family wants. 
In this case  he left a 
balance in Mr. B’s, who  always  squared ac­
counts by giving his bill thus:  “Due Mr. X. 
Y., or bearer, ten  (§10) dollars  in  goods  at 
cash price at my store. 

C. B.”

When goods were purchased they were in­
dorsed  on  the  back of  the  due  bill  until 
the whole amount was cancelled.  This is a 
specimen of all the writings between Mr. B. 
and his customers. 
In ordinary times—that 
is when fish were caught daily at “high wat­
er” and “low  water”  “slacks”—the  fisher­
man’s wants and those  of  his  family were 
usually such that the  entire  catch  was  all 
taken up in  provisions  and  groceries,  and 
then the accounts were always square.  But 
at  other  times  when  there  was  an  extra 
catch, the fish were taken  home  and  there 
salted and dried. 
In this  condition the fish 
were more valuable than when first  caught, 
and could be kept any length of time. Some­
times they were sold  to  neighboring  store­
keepers, and at other times  sent to markets, 
where they were either sold for  cash  or ex­
changed for goods more advantageously than 
they could be near  home.  But  to  return: 
During some seven years Mr. B. neither  be­
came indebted to the fishermen,  nor they to 
him.  He made a  good  living  for  himself 
and family, and saved  enough  to  conduct, 
subsequently, a large  businesss  in  a  small 
city, where his surroundings were  better for, 
the education  and  training  of  his  family 
than in the fishing district.

The other traders sold  similar  goods at a 
much higher  price than  Mr.  B. did,  which 
the fishermen  readily  promised to  pay, be­
cause they obtained supplies and got  a good 
outfit  of  hooks,  lines,  boats  and  fishing 
tackle,  of  which  they  were  generally 
much in want after a cold and stormy winter. 
But keeping an open running  account, they 
often got more than  their  day’s  catch was 
worth so that  extra  prices  and  the  outfit 
kept the  debit  side  of  the  ledger  always 
heavier thad  the credit.  Hopefulness  and 
policy influenced the  trader  to  continue  to 
furnish goods, fondly  anticipating  an  extra 
run of fish at some future  time  that  would 
enable him to collect arrearages and balance 
accounts. But the day never came. The writ­
er knows this by an experience of five years, 
during which  he  toiled  incessantly,  some­
times behind the  counter,  at  others  poring

over day-books and ledgers, but more  of the 
time salting fish, carrying them with the aid 
of another on hand barrows  up  steep  hills, 
and spreading them on “flakes” to dry, after 
which packing them in storehouses for ship­
ment, etc.  And yet a balance of more  than 
§5,000 was never cancelled except  by  these 
poor debtors departure to the world of spirits. 
The  other  traders  who  kept  books  and 
bought and sold as did we,  fared  similarly. 
With another example and a few  reflections  *. 
we close the  chapter.  Old  Salem,  Massa­
chusetts, more than forty years ago, furnish­
es the field and the experiments.  Washing­
ton and Essex streets cross  each  other near 
what was then the center of the  city. 
It is 
doubtless the center  still.  Within  sight  of 
tills crossing was  a  neat,  clean  and  well- 
managed dry goods  store. 
It  was  not the 
largest store in the city,  but the goods were 
excellent. 
Its  manager  advertised  in  the 
two or three papers then published in Salem, 
but made no great  display.  Every  person 
who visited the store was  treated courteous­
ly and received polite and  prompt attention, 
and the great mass of the people of that old­
est of New  England  cities,  especially  the 
descendants of Salem families, never dream­
ed of contracting debts which they could not 
promptly discharge, but at the  end of  each 
year, after a sale of §20,000 worth  of gosds, 
the proprietor had a pile of  bills to  collect, 
aggregating  the entire profits of his  year’s 
business.  Hard times, the influx  of  stran­
gers or other causes were gradually  tending 
to a worse rather than a better  condition  of 
trade.  Boston was but  fourteen  miles dis­
tant, and many  of  the  Salem  ladies  went 
thither shopping.  So  the  manager  of  the 
old and well-ordered dry goods store—under 
consideration—resolved upon a bold  and de­
cisive course.  He publicly  announced  that 
henceforth he sought only  cash trade;  that 
all goods purchased in his store must be paid 
for on delivery.  He  enforced  his  rules  to 
the letter.  They surprised many  of his old 
customers.  His sales the first year were but 
§12,000, yet his real profits were greater than 
when his  sales  aggregated  §20,000.  His 
labor and  anxieties  were  much  less.  He 
found increasing  pleasure and  profit  in his 
business, and in the course of time many im­
itators.

Where there  are  large  farms,  extensive 
plantations  and  great  enterprises,  whose 
workers  receive  their  wages only  two  or 
three times a year, a running account seems 
a necessity, but where currency is abundant 
and men and women receive their pay week­
ly, the cash system is the best for  all. 
It is 
enforced on  all  lines  of  travel,  both  land 
and sea.  Manufacturers  are  compelled to 
pay their operators weekly, and  the general 
tendency of trade illustrates the value of the 
old  aphorism: 
“Short  settlements  make 
long friends.”

§16 f  ton.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.
Asparagus—50c  doz. bunches.
Bailed Hay—Scarcer and firmer  at  §15@ 
Buckwheat Seed—§1.25 ^  bu.
Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth  15c. 
Creamery packed 19c.
Beans—Handpicked 
readily  command 
§2.25@§2.50.  Unpicked are not much mov­
ing.
crate. 
Cairo, §2.75@§3 7$ crate of two dozen.

Cabbages — Southern,  §6@§7 
Cabbage Plants—50c  100.
Cheese—Light skim 8c.  Full cream 10Kc.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  §6 
@§6.50 <$  bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at §6.75  ^  bu.

Cucumbers —50c ^   doz.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c ^  
lb,  and slteed  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 12K@14c.

dozen  bunches.

Eggs—Firm and ready  sale  at 16c.
Green Onions—20@25e 
Hungarian Grass Seed—§17$ bu.
Honey—In comb, 18c ^  lb.
Hops—Brewers pay  26@28c  for  Eastern 
and Western and 18@20c for  Michigan. 
Lettuce—In fair demand  at 15c ^   ft>. 
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at  12%e 
Millet Seed—§1 ^ b u .
Onions—Bermudas are  firm  at  §2.50 

for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.

crate.  New Orleans,  §2.85  ^   sack  of i%  
bu.
Pieplant—Ordinary  stock in fair  demand 
at 2c ^   tt>.
Peas—§2 ^  bu.
Peas, for field seed—§1.50  ^  bu.
Radishes—20c ^  dozen bunches.
Potatoes—60@65c ^  bu. for old and §3.50 
Poultry—A little  more  plentiful.  Fowls, 
Spinach—50c ^P bu.
Sweet Potato Plants—50c 

@§4.50 ‘¡jji bbl. for new.
seling at 15@16c.

□Strawberries—7@8c ^  qt.  Home  grown 
fruit  are  now  in market, and large quanti­
ties will be handled  this  week.  What the 
price  will be 24 hours ahead, is decidedly un­
certain.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at §1.75 ^  
bu.
Tomatoes—Bermuda, wrapped, selling for 
§3.25 
crate of 50 lbs net, and §1.85 ^  box 
of X  bu.

100.

Tomato Plants—50c ^  100.
Wax  Beans—§3@§3.50 
Watermelons—Georgia 50c apiece. 

§1@§1.20.

box.  Green,

grains a n d milling  products.

§1.05.

Wheat—White, 95@98c;  Lancaster.  96@ 
Com—45@60c  bu.
Oats—White 40c  bu.
Rye—52@54c ^P bu.
Barley—Brewers pay §1.30@§1.40 ^   100 
lbs.
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  §6.50  7$  bbl.  in 
sacks  and §6.75 in wood.  Straight, §5.50 ^  
bbl. in sacks and §5.75 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, §1.45 ^  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, §14 ^  ton.  Bran, 
§13@§14 @ ton.  Ships, §15  'fp  ton.  Mid­
dlings, §17 ^P ton.  Com  and  Oats, §23  ^  
ton.

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

o y s t e r s.

f r e s h   f i s h .

New York Counts, per can..............................88
Extra  Selects..................................................... 35
Codfish...............................................................  8
Haddock..............................................................7
Smelts................................................................   5
Mackinaw Trout.................................... 
7
Mackerel............. ................................ . ...........10
W hiteflsh..........................................................  7
Smoedk Whiteflsh and Trout......................... 10
Smoked Sturgeon.............................................  8

 

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE  & BRO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
LEntered  at  the  Postofflee  at  Grand Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY, JUNE  18,1884.

MAKING A  LEAD  PENCIL.

Its  Cost and Its Profits—A  Pencil  of  Pre­

historic Interest.

From the New  York  Sun.

“What does it cost to make a lead pencil?” 
said the manufacturer.  “First  let  me  tell 
you how we make a pencil. 
See  this  fine 
black powder?  That’s  graphite. 
It costs 
25 cents a pound.  This  white  substance is 
German clay. 
It comes  across  the ocean as 
ballast in sailing vessels, and all it costs  us 
is freight.  We mix this clay and  this  pow­
der together and grind them in a mill,allow­
ing moisture to be added during the process, 
until the two are thoroughly assimilated and 
are reduced to a paste about the  consistency 
of putty.

“This paste we press into these  dies, each 
one of which is the size of a pencil lead, ex­
cept in length.  There are four leads  in one 
of these.  After they  are  pressed  we  cut 
them into the proper length and bake  them 
in an oven kept at a very high  heat  There 
we have the lead made. 
Its hardness is reg­
ulated by the greater or less amount  of clay 
we mix with the  graphite—the  more  clay 
we put in the harder the lead.

“The cedar we use comes principally from 
the swamps of Florida, and  is  obtained en­
tirely from the fallen [ trees  that  lie  there. 
The wood is delivered to us in blocks sawed 
to pencil lengths, some thick, to  receive the 
lead, and others thin, for  the  piece  that is 
glued on over the lead.  The blocks are  saw­
ed for four pencils each.  They  are grooved 
by a saw, the groove being the place  where 
the lead is to lie.”

“The leads are kept in hot  glue,  and are 
placed in the grooves as the blocks are ready. 
When that is done the thin  block  is  glued 
fast to the thick one.  When dry the  blocks 
are run through  a  machine  that  cuts  the 
pencils apart.  Then they are ran through a 
machine that  shapes  and  burnishes  them, 
and they are ready  to  be tied  in  bunches, 
boxed and put  out.

“The different grades in value  are  made 
the  graphite. 
by  finer  manipulations  of 
Here is a pencil that  is about  the  average 
quality used in every day business. 
It costs 
a little more than one-quarter of  a  cent  to 
get it ready for market.  We sell it to  deal­
ers at 100 per cent,  profit,  and  the  dealer 
makes much more than that.  Of  this grade 
an operator and the  machinery  will  easily 
make 2,500 a day.

“There is a pencil  in  that  case. 

It’s a 
cheap looking thing,  isn’t  it?  Don’t  look 
worth more than a cent does  it?”  Vvrell, it
would take a  $10  bill  to  buy  that.  The 
cedar that surrounds the lead in that  pencil 
was centuries old, I guess, before any  cedar 
that stands to-day  began  to  grow. 
It was 
found  taken  from  a  marl-bed  in  Orange 
county, N. Y., at a depth of sixty  feet,  and 
near it  was a  mastodon’s  remains.  That 
bone knob on the end of  the pencil  was  a 
piece of that mastodon’s tooth.  No,  I don’t 
think $10 would buy that pencil.”

“Look  at  Your  Canned  Goods.”

The top of every can is made  with  a hole 
in it.  This is necessary, in the first place, in 
order that when the top is put  on  the  full 
can the air may escape through the hole and 
allow the top to fit on tightly  and  be solder­
ed without a leakage.  The  hole is stopped 
with solder, and  the  can  subjected  to  the 
primary cooking  process,  or  bathing.  At 
the end of the proper time the  can  is taken 
from the bath and  the heated  air  inside  is 
allowed to escape, either by unsoldering the 
hole already made, as described above, or by 
punching a new hole.  The latter  process is 
used by some of the largest packers, and if a 
can is to be condemned for having  two holes 
in it, none of their  goods  would  stand the 
test.  The former process leaves but a single 
hole in the can, but the contents of both cans 
have been served the same. 
It  sometimes 
happens that the hole originally made, when 
unsoldered after the first  cooking, is  found 
to be checked with the contents of  the  can, 
and a  second hole is necessary  in  order  to 
allow the heated air to escape,  and  it by no 
means follows that  because  a can has  two 
holes in  it that it should  be condemned.  A 
“reprocessed” can is not one which has been 
swollen. 
It is simply a can in which a leak 
was discovered after the cooking  was finish­
ed, and while the  contents  of the  can  are 
still perfectly  sweet [and  good  it  is  again 
heated in order to  expel  the  air,  and  the 
leak is then  stopped.  A can  once  swollen 
cannot be saved  by being  reprocessed,  and 
the buyers need have no fear  on this  score. 
Should the gas  be  allowed  to  escape from 
the can and the can be rebathed, the fermen­
tation would still continue, and the can soon 
swell again. 
It is another  fact that in  sol­
dering on the cap of the can  with  muriatic 
acid, none of the acid gets into the  can.  The 
cap fits on to a  flang made in the  top of the 
can.  All the acid used goes into  the groove 
made by this flang and none can get into the 
can.  The amount used to  each can  is  con­
siderably less than a drop, and not  the least 
harm is done to the  contents  of the  can by 
its use.

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

My  Neighbor and I.
M. Quad in the Detroit Free Press.

I am mad  at  the  man  on  the  southwest1 
corner of the block, and he is mad at me, and 
it’s all on  account  of  nothing  at  all.  We 
bought a mantel and  grate  just  alike,  and 
costing the same price.  We had  tiling  just 
of the same pattern, laid down ;by the  same 
man.  For five years we were like  brothers. 
If I had a sick horse 1  consulted  him.  We 
went over to his house to  play  old  sledge, 
and his family came over to my house to play 
croquet. 
I’d have turned out of bed at mid­
night of the darkest night you ever saw, and 
walked  twenty  miles  through  mud  thirty 
feet deep, to bring a doctor in  case  of  sick­
ness, and I’m certain he’d have done fully as 
much for me.

In an unfortunate hour  my brother-in-law 
from Chicago paid me a visit.  He  said  the 
mantel was very handsome, and the  grate  a 
perfect beauty, and added:

“But you want a brass fender.”
“No!”
“Certainly you do. 

It will be an immense 

improvement.”

A day or two after he  returned  home  he 
sent me a brass  fender  from  Chicago.  He 
not only sent it as a present, but paid the ex­
press charges.  Some  one  told  the man on 
the southwest corner that I had a brass fend 
er.

“It can’t be!”
“But he has.”
“I’ll never believe it!”
“But I ’ve seen it.”
“Then  he  is  a  scoundrel  of the deepest 
dye!  Some  folks  would  mortgage  their 
souls for the sake of showing  off a little.” 

When this remark  was  brought  to  me  I 
turned red clear back to the collar button.  I 
called the southwest comer man a liar and a 
horse thief. 
I said that his grandfather was 
hung for murder and his oldest brother  was 
in State prison. 
I advised  him  to  sell  out 
and go to the Cannibal Islands, and I offered 
to buy his house and turn it into a soap  fac­
tory.

The usual results followed.  He killed my 
cat and I shot his  dog.  He  complained  of 
my alley and I made him  put  down  a  new 
sidewalk.  He called my horse an old  plug, 
and I lied about  his  cow  and  prevented  a 
sale.  He got my church pew away by  pay­
ing a higher price, and I destroyed his credit 
at the grocery.  He is  now maneuvering  to 
have the city compel me  to  move  my bam 
back nine feet, and I have  all  the  arrange­
ments made to buy the  house  next  to  him 
and rent it to an undertaker as a coffin ware- 
room.

According to a recent decision of the New 
York Supreme Court, a  merchant  who  fur­
nishes to a mercantile agency a statement of 
his affairs for its use, is  responsible to those 
whom his statement  reaches,  and  who  are 
influenced by it, and in case  his  represents 
tions are false, an order of arrest founded on 
them will be  sustained.

English watchmakers are considerably ex­
ercised over the fact that American  watches 
are driving English watches  out of the mar­
*
ket. 
Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

0 

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 
Spring &  Company quote as follows: 

© 90
© 90
© 85
© 70
© 65
@ 821*
@ 70
@ 8214
© 65
@1 00
@1 00
©1 00
@ 9714
© 7714
@ 8214
75  @ 7714
60  © 6214
5714® 60
5214© 55

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

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA  SUPERS.

ALL  WOOL  SUPERFINES.

WOOL  FILLING  AND  MIXED.

Hartford..........................................
Lowell............................  .................
Other makes....................................
Best cotton chain............................
Best  2-ply.........................................
Other grades 2-ply..........................
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4214®
Double cotton chain.......................   35  @
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2714@
Single cotton chain........................   19  ©
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy............  2714©
B, 4-4 wide 
~
©
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide.................

HEMPS.

inches.

OIL CLOTHS.

do 
do 
do 

MaTTINGS.

No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4..................
..................
No. 2, 
No. 3, 
..................
No. 4, 
..................
Best all rattan, plain.......................
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain...
Napier A ...........................................
Napier  B ...........................................
Opaque shades, 38 inch..................
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4..........
Pacific  Holland, 4-4.........................
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
Cord fixtures, per gross.................

CURTaiNS.

30

45 
37 A 
30

62/, 
52 V* 
50 
40

©

©

@10

MILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:*

HATS.

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

BLACK  CRAPE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand,

4-4................................................per yard 50©  75
4-4.............................................................  85@1 26
4-  4 ......................................................... 1 50@2 00
5-  4 ..........................................................1 75@2 50
5-  4  .........................................................2  75@3 00
6-  4  ...................  
3  25©4 60

 
RIBBONS.

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

Second quality, all colors.

No. 4...................................................................   40
No. 5......................  
50
70
No. 7.................  
N o.9..................................................................  85
No. 1 2 ............. 
90
No. 16.................................................................110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I M P O R T E R S

Wholesale  Grocers,

CORNER  IONIA  & ISLAND  STREETS.

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.

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.

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.

A.  Hi.  P O W L B ,  

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades, Room Mouldings,

Artists’  Materials !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

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

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.

FOX, MUSSELMAN &  LOVERIDGE,

Choice Butter a Specialty!

!

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

Careful Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

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

B utter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

GRAND  R A PID S.  -  MICHIGAN.

.A..  33.  IK 2ST O W L S O N

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

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

X.XM25,  HAXR,  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.

SPR IN G   <& COMPANY

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

F^AISTOIT  -AJSTD

STAPLE DRT GOODS

CARPETS,

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MATTINGrS,

OIL.  CLOTHS,

E T C . ,   E 3 T O .

Ö  and.  Q  M o n r o ©   S t r e e t

Grand Rapids,

Michigan.

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
K M ,ico n , G if, Crescent  EM Seal Pint M e n

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.

T o b a cco s,  V in egars  and.  S p ic e s  S 

OUR MOTTO:  “ SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANOAND MAN.”

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED. 

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J. J. VAN LEUVEN,

RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

LA  V IN E

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a 
larger profit than any in the  Market,  and  is 
put up in hand^me and attractive  packages 
with picture cards with each case.  We guar­
antee  it  to  be  the  best  Washing  Powder 
made and solicit a trial order.  See prices in  
Price-List.

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WHOLESALE

M i l l i n e r y

-A N D -

FANOY  GOODS

LACES,

Real  Laces  a  Specialty.

Gloves,  Oorsets, Ribbons,  fans,  Hand Bags, 

Pocket  Books,  Ruchings,  Y am s, 

Silks,  Satins,  Velvets,

Embroidery  Materials, 

umes,  Flowers, 

Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods.

The best

—AND—

B A S S
PICKEREL
B A I T

IN THE

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Z   CO

$   STAMPING PATTERNS

70 MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

L. H.  BEALS & SON
WMp  & Lisles,

Manufacturers of

Westfield, Mass.

—AND—

O F F I C E
SALESROOM
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

B. ROYS & CO., Gen'l Agents

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
e i s t  o - i n s T E S

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

88,90  and 92  South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WEATHERLY & GO.}

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IR O N   F IF E , 

B rass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  Brass F ittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  F ixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  F itters,
—And  Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

Glover, Timothy and all  Kinds Field Seeds 
Seed Com, Green and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
.and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
«BEEN   VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 

122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

World..

CALKINS 
BROS.

105  Ottawa St.
Agents and dealers in al 
kinds of fishing  tackle  and 
gun  goods.
Sent  to  any  address 
on  Receipt  of  Price  !
Liberal discount to deal­
ers.
Nos.  1,  2,  3,  4,
Price 75,  65,  60,  50,

City Bottling  Works

BOTTLED  LAGER, 
PINTS,  PFR  DOZ. 
50  CENTS.

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

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

BOTTLED  CIDER, 
Q,TS,  PER  DOZ., 
$ 1.20.

All  Goods  Warranted 

the BEST in the 

Market.

TELEPHONE  NO.

2 7 2 .

EDMUND  B,  DIKEMAN,

JEWELER,

44  CANAL  STREET,

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

Thirty Years.

LIST OF o f f ic e r s:

President—Ransom W. Hawley, of Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Snedeker, Detroit; 
L. W. Atkins, Grand Rapids; I. N. Alexan­
der, Lansing; U. S. Lord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Meeker, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Meredith, 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One Year—J. C. Pon­
tius, Chairman, 8. A. Munger, H. K. White 
For Two Years—D. Morris, A. W. Culver.

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

Wages—W lien  Due.

In the absence of an agreement as to when 
work to be done it to be paid for, the law re­
quires payment therefor  as soon as complet­
ed, according to the decision of the Supreme 
Court of Indiana in the recently decided case 
of Aughie vs. Landis.

Common  Carrier—Garnishee.

A  common  errrier  is  not  liable  upon  a 
garnishee summons for personal  chattels  in 
its possession, in actual transit  at  the  time 
the summons is served;  so held  by  the  Su­
preme Court  of  Wisconsin  in  the  case  of 
Bates vs. C. M. & St. P. Railway.
Taxation—Liability.

In the opinion  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Pennsylvania taxes on real estate  cannot  be 
apportioned, and the owner chargeabld with 
taxes at the beginning of the  year  is  liable 
for the taxes of the whole year, though hejbe 
alien during the year.  The alienee is not li­
able.

Breach of Contract.

A sale made by manufacturer carries with 
it  an implied warranty that the  articles  are 
reasonably fit for the purpose for which they 
were manufactured, and if ¡they  are  not  fit 
for that purpose the manufacturer  is  liable 
for the damage caused by the  breach  of  his 
contract.  So held by the Supreme  Court  of 
Indiana in the recently decided case of  Pol­
and vs. Miller et al.

Ejectment—Deeds.

Where a deed  made  by  the  plaintiff  in 
ejectment and others described the the grant­
ors and said first parties conveying  their  in­
terest  as heirs of said deceased, the Supreme 
Court  of  Pennsylvania,  case  of  Young vs. 
Cayle, held the conveyance was  only  of  an 
interest of  the  grantors  as  heirs  of the  de­
cedent,  and  not  of their share  in the  same 
estate  under  the  will  of a deceased brother,

Life Insurance—Fraud.

The implied warranty of validity  of  title 
imputed to one who  sells  a  note,  bond,  or 
other chose in action will not enable the  as­
signee of a fraudulent life  insurance  policy 
to recover on such  implied  warranty  when 
he has himself been a party to the  fraud  or 
cognizant of it, according to  the  decision of 
the Supreme Court  of  Pennsylvania  in  the 
recently  decided  case  of  Blattenberger  vs. 
Holman.

Fraudulent  Conveyance.

A voluntary conveyance  is  fraudulent  as 
against  existing  creditors  when the grant­
or has no other  property  subject  to  execu­
tion, according to the decision of the Supreme 
Court  of  Indiana  in  the  recently  decided 
case of Williams vs. Osborne, administrator. 
Such a conveyance may he avoided  by  cred­
itors on proof that the debtor  had  no  other 
property  subject  to  execution  at  the  time 
conveyance  was made  and  the  suit institut­
ed.
Life  Insurance—Effect  of  Endorsement as 

to  Payment.

The  constitution  of  a  benevolent  order 
provided that the member might cause to be 
entered on the  record  book  a  direction  to 
whom the benefit should be  paid,  or  might 
have a benefit certificate issued to  him. 
In 
case of no direction either by  will,  entry  or 
benefit certificate, the lodge might cause, pay­
ment to be made to parties entitled  thereto. 
The benefit  certificate  expressed  that  pay­
ment would he made to such person  “as  he 
may, by will or entry on record book,  or  on 
the face of this  certificate direct.”  He took 
out a certificate when unmarried and indors­
ed on it that it  was  his  will  that  payment 
should be made to his sister.  He afterward 
married, and shortly afterward died.  The cer­
tificate remained in his possession, never hav­
ing been delivered to his sister.  In this case, 
Highland vs. Highland, appealed  to the Illi­
nois Supreme Court,  it  was  held  that  the 
non-delivery of the certificate  did not  affect 
the claims of the  sister;  that  the  fact  that 
the fund was by the terms of  the  charter  a 
widow’s  and  orphan’s  fund  do  not  affect 
her claims, when the  charter  also  provided 
that the fund soould be “paid to  his  family 
or  as  he  may  direct;”  that  a  subsequent 
writing giving in  general  terms  all  his  ef­
fects to his wife does not revoke the  certifi­
cate.

Fire  Insurance—Duration  of Risk.

A policy of insurance was taken out  an  a 
mill and machinery for “one year, from June 
10,1877, to June 10,1878;” on June 13,1878, 
application was made  for  renewal,  and  on 
June 19,1878, a renewal was issued “for one 
year, from June 10,1878, to  June 10,1879.” 
On June  16,  1879,  the  mill  and  contents 
burned, and the insurance money was sought 
to be  recovered under the claim  that the re­
newal extended for a year from the  date  of 
its issue.  The case, Fuchs vs. Germantown 
Mutual Insurance Company,  was  carried to 
the Wisconsin  Supreme  Court,  which  held 
that the policy and  renewal  expired  before 
the fire, and that neither was in force  at the 
time of the fire.  The clause in  the  written 
agreement of  insurance, definitely fixing the 
precise  time  of  the  duration  of  the  risk, 
should not  be  rendered  nugatory,  or  such 
time extended by mere construction.

If, when a debt is due, the debtor is out of 
the State, the “six years” do not begin to run 
until he returns.  If he afterward leaves the 
State, the time forward runs  the same  as  if 
he remained in the  State.

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

The Toughest Story  Ever Told.

Mr. J------, a seedy old bachelor  of  a  cer­
tain Northern county was  one  of  the  most 
penurious men I ever saw. 
I once  met him 
in a  country  store,  where  the  following 
scene took place:

“I’m coming up to make a pretty  big  bill 
with you in a few days, but  all  I  want  to­
day  is  a  darning  needle.  Have  you  got 
any?”

“A ll right, I’ve got the best  lot  you  ever 

saw.”

“What do your want for them?”
“My usual price is two cents;  but  as  you 
are going to make a big bill, you  may  have 
one for one cent.”

“All right,  I’ll  take  it. 

(Reaching down 
in the pocket of his  long-tailed  duster  and 
producing an egg.)  I’ve brought you an egg 
to pay for it;  eggs are worth ten cents a doz­
en.”

“That’s all  right.”  Takes  the  egg  and 
lays it in a box ;  and goes to wait  upon  an­
other customer.

After a little while  Mr.  J.  addresses  the 

merchant again:

“Say Mr. S------, don’t  you  treat  a  feller
sometimes when he trades with you?  I feel 
like a eye-opener would do me right smart of 
good  this frosty mornin’?”

“There’s some back there, help yourself.” 
J. takes the bottle and pours out a  pretty 
good one.  “I’d like to have  a  little  sugar, 
and—say, do you care if I put this egg in it?” 
Taking the egg out of  a box.

“That’s all right, help yourself.”
J. puts in the sugar and  then  breaks  the 
“Say,  Mr.

egg and finds two  yolks  in  it. 
S------, is this the egg I let you have?”

“Yes, why?”
“Cause,  it’s  got  two  yallers  in 

it,  and 
dam’f you don’t owe me another daring need­
le.”

------ ^ 
A Man of Steady  Habits.

------

“Yes, I am a man  of  steady  habits,”  re­
marked an anxious applicant for  work  at  a 
jobbing house,  “if I do say it myself.”

“You  certainly  are,”  acknowledged  the 
proprietor.  “Very steady habits, particular­
ly in one respect.”

“What is that?” asked the man.
“Drinking.  You are  a  steady  drinker.”

Orders  for  all  kinds  of  butter  desired 
will  be  filled  promptly  and  satisfaction 
guaranteed  by  E.  Fallas,  wholesale  dealer 
in  butter  and eggs,  125 and 127 Canal  street, 
Grand Rapids.

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.

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C. 

Russell’s.

TIMETABLES.

—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,

iaiioclis  Soli Dy Du  Dozen at  Dow  York  Prices!!

Straw Hats for Misses.

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

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Cottonad© Pants and Hosiery.

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS,  $3.60  PER  DOZEN  AND  UPWARDS.

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

I.  O.  L E V I ,

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

A R C T IC

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POWDER

DEPART.

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

ARRIVE.

•(•Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.  «
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

GOING WEST.

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

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

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 am   9:50 am  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:57 p m  4:45 p m 
7:15 am
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
6:32 am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m  4:32 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayi e Ex.. 10:25 a m  12:32 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

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

0. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Chicago £  West Michigan.
Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail...................................... 9:15 am  
4:00 pm
+Day Express..................... 12:25 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express.................. 8:35pm 
6:10 am
Mixed................................... 6:10am 
10:05pm
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed....................................,5:00 am   5:15pm
Express....................................4:10 pm   8:30pm
Express.................................... 8:30 a m 10:15 a m
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. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

IPateirt Egg Oases <& Fillers

M essrs  F,  «T.  LAMB  tb  OO.

Have  been  appointed  manufacturers’  agents  for  Western  Michigan  for  the  Lima Egg 
Case Co., manufacturers of the  best,  strongest  and  most  durable  cases  and  fillers  in  the 
market, and will quote prices on application, both for  fillers and egg cases complete.
P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,
C astor M achine  Oil.

NOS.  138  and  134  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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

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,  COMPANY

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- 
inglinto popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins  &  Go., Grand  Rapids.
RINDGE, BERTSOH & OO,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
M ils are Specially AlajM for ilia MltKaa M .

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.

MANUFACTUREES  AND  JOBBERS  OF

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions)

W H O L E SA L E

S3, S3 and 87  PEARL  STREET aid 114,116, IIS aid IS«  OTTAWA  STREIT,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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45
75
1 40
2 40 
12 00

AXLE GREASE.

Frazer’s .........................................................
Diamond........................................................
M odoc__ ¥  doz...........................................
Paragon...  ft doz.........................................
Paragon, 20 ft pails......................................

BAKING  POWDER.

BLUING.

Arctic % l>cans...................................ft doz.
Arctic 34 ft cans..................... . .......... ..........
Arctic )4 ..........................................................
Arctic 1 lb  cans..............................................
Arctic 5  lb cans..............................................
Dry, No. 2..........................................doz.
Dry, No. 3........................................... doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................................9oz'
Liquid, 8 oz.............................. 
doz.
Arctic 4 oz.......................
Arctic 8  oz.....................
Arctic 16 oz.....................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box 
Arctic No. 2
Arctic No. 3

8  0. 

gross 4 00 
12 00 
2 00
3 00
4 50

BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet........
No. 2 Carpet........
No. 1  Parlor Gem
No. 1 Hurl..........
No. 2 Hurl  ..........
Fancy Whisk.......
Common Whisk..

2 50
2 25
3 00 
2 00 
1 75 
1 25
85

CANNED FISH.

Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards..................... 1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................1 85
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack fllled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack fllled..................... 1 25
Clams, 1 ft  standards.................................. 1 «*>
Clams, 2 ft  standards.................................. 2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft  standards..............................1 65
Lobsters. 2 ft  standards............................. 2 70
Lobsters,  Picnics.......... .  .........................j™
Mackerel, lf t  fresh standards.................1 20
Mackerel, 6 ft fresh standards..................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t ................ 350
Mackerel,3 1bin Mustard...................... ...»  50
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.................................. 3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......................1 60
Salmon, 2 1b Columbia river.......................2 60
Salmon, 1 ft  Sacramento............................1 50
Sardines, domestic fcs     ............................ 
8
Sardines,  domestic  )4s...............................   12%
Sardines,  Mustard  )4s.................................  1®
Sardines,  imported  34s...............................   ¿5
Sardines, imported )4s................................  *0
Sardines, imported )4s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs.............................   50
Trout, 3 1b  brook.......................................   3 00

CANNED FRUITS.

Apples, 3 ft standards . 
;.................J 00
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie...............2 ¿5
Blackberries, standards............................. l  20
Cherries,  red.................................................*
Cherries, w h ite...................................... " *  T
Damsons........................................................* 5“
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 oa
Egg Plums,  Erie.............  .......................... J *5
Green Gages, standards 2 1b.......................l  w
Green Gages, Erie.......................................J ®®
Peaches, 3 1b  standards...............................1 75
Peaches, 3 1b Extra  Yellow........................2 00
Peaches,  seconds.........................................J 60
Pie Peaches 3 1b............................................J  J®
Pears, Bartlett 2 ft.......................................J 30
Pineapples, 2 1b  stand................................ l  *9
Quinces.........................................................J
Raspberries, 2 ft stand.............................. 1 25
Raspberries, 21b Erie..................................1 40
Strawberries, 2 ft standards...................... 1  10

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

Apricots, Lusk’s......................................... 2 75
Egg  Plums......................................*............ " 85
Green Gages................................................ * °®
.3 00
Pears
Quinces........................................................ 8 00

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay..............................3 25
Beans, Lim a.................................................   ®®
Beans, String............. ..................................
Beans, Boston Baked...................................1 6&
Beans,  Stringless..........................................*  60
Corn, Erie............................... ...................... j ¿®
Corn, Revere.................................................*
Corn,  Egyptian............................................1 J®
Corn, Yarmouth........................................... j *u
Corn Trophy.................................................J
Corn, 2ft  Onandago....................................A
Corn.  Acme...................................................
Mushrooms, French.................................... Tin
Peas, standard • Marrof at.................. ......... l  40
Peas, 2 1b  Early, small  (new).....................1 60
Peas, 2 ft Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2 ft...........................................
Pumpkin, 3 1b Golden................... 
1 1 «
Succotash, 2 ft standards...........................    °®
Succotash, 2 ft B.&M..................................J 75
Squash, 3 1b  standards................................1 20
Tomatoes, 31b Dilworth’s...........................1 05
Tomatoes, 3 1b Job Bacon...........................1 00
Tomatoes, gal. Erie..........................................sR
Tomatoes, Acme 31b.......................... l owgji  m
G.  D.....................   35  (Ely’s Waterproof  75

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13

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SALT.

RICE.

PLUG.

PIPES.

TEAS.

do 
do 

SAUCES.

PICKLES.

11
75
1 00
75
1 00

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

2  50
2 35
2 65
1 00
1 75 
1 55

Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No.  216..............................  @1 85
American T.D ............................................  90@1 00

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

60 Pocket.................................
28 Pocket..........................
1003 ft pockets.......................................  
Saginaw F ine.........................................  
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse............. ......................

Choice in barrels med.....................................7 50
Choice in )4 
......................................4 50
small...........................4 50
Dingee’s )4 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy......................... 4 25
Dingee’s pints 
do 
.........................  2 50
American qt.  in Glass......................................... 2 00
American pt. in Glass...........................................1 25
C. & B. English  quarts........................................6 00
C. & B. English  pints...........................................3 60
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  quarts.. .6 00
pints__ 3 60
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75

Choice  Carolina...............................................654
Prime  Carolina........ ........................................ 7)4
Java  ................................................................... 6
...654
Patna
.534
Rangoon..................................
SALERATUS
...@ 554 
DeLand’s pure........................
..©  554 
Church’s  .................................
,..©  5J4 
Taylor’s G.  M..........................
.. .@ 554 
Cap  Sheaf.................................
.. .© 554 
Dwight’s ..................................
...@654 
Sea  Foam.................................
...@554
S., B. &L.’s  Best.....................

Pure Loaf Sugar Drips.............. 34 bbl  @  95
Pure  Loaf Sugar................. 5 gal kegs  @1 90
Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japan ordinary.  24@30
Gun  Powder.....35@5Q
Japan fair............32@35
Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Congo..................   @30
Japan fine........... 40@50
Japan dust..........15@20
Rose Bud.........................• .....................  @50
C.  K.......................................................  @*>
Our  Bird.................................................   @30
Peaches.................................. 
@3°
Morrison’s Fruit....................................   @50
Victor........ .......... .................................  @60
Diamond  Crown....................................   @57
Red  Bird.................................................   @52
Opera Queen...................................  
  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................  @4®
Green Back............................................   @3®
F ruit........................................................  @33
O So Sweet..................... .................—   @31
Prairie Flower........................................  @65
Climber [light and dark].....................   @62
Matchless................................................  @65
Hiawatha...............................................  @69
Globe........................................................  @70
May Flower............................................  @70
Hero..................................... . . ................  @4o
A tlas................................9...............  @35
Royal Game............................................   @38
Silver Thread.........................................   @67
Seal........ .......................... 
@60
Kentucky........................ 
@30
Mule Ear.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo..............................................  @32
Peek-a-Boo, 54  barrels..........................   @30
Clipper, Fox’s.........................................  @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............   @30
Fountain.............................  
@74
Old Congress..........................................   @64
Good Luck..............................................  @52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away............................................   @35
Hair Lifter............................................   @30
Old Glory, light......................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark.........................  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.........................  @60
B. F. P.’s Favorite....................................   @50
Old Kentucky............................................   @50
Big Four,  2x12...........................................  @50
Big Four, 3x12............................................   @50
Darby and Joan, all sizes.........................  @50
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12...............................   @50
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12..............................  @34
Seal of Grand Rapids...............................   @48
Glory  ............................................ I........  @50
Durham...........................................  
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..................................................  @ «
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
True Grit..................................................  @35
Nobby Spun Roll................................  
  @50
Spring....................................................  @50
Kirk’s American  Family...........V ®>
Grayling, all  styles...............................   @50
do. 
India.........................................
Mackinaw.......................................... 
  @47
do.  Savon........................................
H orseShoe.................................... '....  @50
do.  Satinet......................................
_  Good Luck..... ......................................   @50
do.  Revenue...................................
Big Chunk or J.T.................................   @40
do.  White Russian.................. —
554  Hair Lifter.............................................  @37
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
454  D. and D., black.................. 
@37
Princess............................
6 75  McAlpin’s Green  Shield......................  @48
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
Ace  High, biack...................................   @35
5 
Japan  O live.........
3 70  Champion A ....................................,...  @48
Town Talk  $  box
  @48
Sailors’  Solace.............................. 
4 20 
Golden Bar.............
3 45 
Red Star..................................................  @50
•  Arab.......................
3 75 
Shot Gun.............................. 
 
 
@48
Amber.....................
4 20  D u ck ............ .
Mottled  German..
@3 40  Jumbo......................................................  @40
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
@50
@3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck.
@42
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........  @3 15
@ 6)4 
Badger............................................ 60 fts
@4 20 
Galvanic.................................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 1b br
@  16
Tip Top..................... .................3 ft bar
Ward’s White Lily.................................
@4 20
Handkerchief.........................................
3 00 
Sidall’s ...................................................
5 25
Babbitt’s ................................................
4 10
Dish R ag................................................
5 00 
Bluing......................................................
4 20
Magnetic.................................................
4 50
New  French  Process............................
5 00
Spoon  ......................................................
5 00
Anti-Washboard....................................
3 25
Vaterland.................................... .
4 20 
Magic........................................................
4 00
Pittsburgh..............................................
6 75 
Bogue’s ...................................................
13 
White castile bars.................................
12
Mottled castile........................................
@ 5)4 
Old  Style....................................!........
5)4
Old Country............................................

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

H em p.................. ...................................
Canary.....................................................
Rape........................................................
Mixed Bird..............................................

@ 21 

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5
7
5)i@6

SEEDS.

SOAP.

5 40 

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  35@40

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

Gum, Spruce.......................................... 
Ink V 3 dozen  box......................................1 00@
Jelly in Pails..........................................  © 6
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz..................  @75
Lye $12  doz. cases.................................  @1 55
Macaroni,  Imported..............................  @13
Domestic................................................  @5)4
French Mustard,  8 oz 38 dozen............  @80
Large Gothic............  @1 35
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallon........................  @10 00
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @160
  @3)4
Powder,  Keg...............................................5 50©
)4 Keg..........................................3 00@
Sago  ........................................................ 
5@6
Shot, drop.................................................... 1 85@
do  buck.................................................. 2 10©
Sage.........................................................  ©15
Tobacco Cutters each...............................1 25@
Twine........................................................  18@20
Tapioca................................................... 
5@6
Wicking No. 1 $  gross..........................  @40
do  No. 2  .....................................   @65
do  Argand.......................................1 50©

do 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows;

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

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do 

©10
©10)4
@12

Royal, 25 ft  pails.......................................   @10)4
Royal, 200 ft bbls...............................................10
Extra, 251b  pails........... ............................. 
 
Extra, 200 ft bbls........................................ 
 
French Cream, 25 ft pails................ [.............14
Cut loaf, 25 ib  cases..................... '.................. 14
Broken, 25 ft pails...........................................11)4
Broken, 2001b  bbls...........................................10)<»

l i )4
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FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Lemon Drops..............................  
14
Sour Drops........ .............................................15
Peppermint  Drops......................................... 16
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 17
H M Chocolate  Drops.................................... 20
Gum  D rops..................................................... 12
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B  Licorice  Drops........................................14
Lozenges, plain................................................J6
Lozenges,  printed........................................... IT
Imperials..........................................................16
M ottoes............................................................. 16
Cream  Bar.........................................................15
Molasses Bar.....................................................14
Caramels.......:...................................................20
@48
Hand Made Creams..........................................23
Plain  Creams................................................... 20
Decorated Creams........................................... 23
String Rock.......................................................16
Burnt Almonds................................................ 24
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 16

Fancy—In  Bulk.

Lozenges, plain in pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in bbls...................................is
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum Drops, in pails.......................................   8
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................  7
Moss Drops, in pails....................................... 11
Moss Drops, in bbls........ ................................9)4
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials,in  pails..,........................................14
Imperials, in bbls.............................................13

FRUITS.

Oranges 38 box....................................... 5 50@6 50
Oranges OO ]8 box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, 38  box..................   @6 50
Oranges, Valencia 38  case....................
Lemons,  choice........ ...........................   @5 00
Lemons, fancy............................. '.........  @6 00
Bananas $  bunch.................................. 2 00@4 OO
Malaga Grapes,  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, 38 bbl............................
Figs,  layers  $  1b....................................  12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
....................................  18@20
Figs, baskets 40 ft 38 ft..........................   @14
Dates, frails 
do  ............................  © 6
Dates, )4 do 
d o ..........................   @7
Dates, skin..............................................  @6
Dates, V%  skin.........................................  @ 7)4
Dates, Fard 101b box 38  ft..........;........10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 38 ft.....................   7  @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.................6)4@  7
PEANUTS.
Prime Red,  raw  $   ft............................
Choice 
d o .............................  @8
Fancy 
do  .............................  @  8)4
Choice White, Va.do  ............................9  @10
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................10  @10)4
Almonds,  Terragona,®fft........... .......  18@19
do  ..........
Almonds, loaca,
.......  16@17
Brazils,
d o ..........
9@10
....... 
do  ..........
Pecons,
.......  10@14
Filberts, Barcelona
do  ..........
.......  ©14
Filberts, Sicily
d o ..........
Walnuts, Chilli
do  ..........
.......  ©12)4
Walnuts, Grenobles
d o ..........
.......  14@15
do  . 
.
Walnuts, California
Cocoa Nüts, 38  100
.......  @4 50
Hickory Nuts, large 38  bu..........
Hickory  Nuts, small d o ..........
1 25
....... 
PROVISIONS.

NUTS.

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1866, L. C. purchased J. N.’s interest, sub­

Groceries.
Otherwise 

* Cass.”

P E N C Il PORTRAIT—NO.  18.

Known

L.  C.  Bradford,

Lewis  Cass Bradford was born  at  Orion, 
Oakland county, April 18,1847, and came to 
this city with his parents in 1858.  Four years 
later the family moved to Ravenna,and engag­
ed in farming, and L. C. stayed at home and 
worked the farm while the elder boys served 
their  Country  in  the  capacity of soldiers. 
Jan. 1.1865, he entered into partnership with 
his brother and engaged in general  trade  at 
Bavenna under the firm name of A. Bradford 
&Bro. 
In the fall of the same  year  J.  N. 
Bradford bought out A. Bradford,  and  Jan.
I ,  
sequently selling  him  the  entire  business, 
and going to Muskegon, where he clerked in 
his father’s grocery store  for  a  year.  He 
then went back to Ravenna,  and j worked  in
J. F. Tibbits’ saw mill  as  forman  for  four 
years.  Returning to Muskegon, he accepted 
the position of manager of the city  office  of 
the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Co., 
whose business he conducted  acceptably for 
two years and a  half.  He  then  formed  a 
partnership  with  Mr. Eccles under the firm 
name of Bradford & Eccles,  and engaged  in 
the  commission  business  on  Pine  street. 
Three months later he  bought  out his  part­
ner,  and  three  months  afterward he  was 
burned  out  in  the conflagration  that visited 
that place, sustaining a total  loss,  with  no 
insurance.  Entering into  partnership  with 
John A. Dyer, under the firm name of L.  C. 
Bradford &  Co.,  the  new  firm  erected  a 
shanty on the burned district,  and  engaged 
in the feed business for six months, when L. 
C. removed to  Twin  Lake,  conducting  the 
business of selling groceries and buying  ties 
and shingles  for  Wm.  Martin,  Agt.,  for  a 
year and a half.  He then went to  Fremont 
and bought wheat for the same man for  one 
year, under the business style of L. C. Brad­
ford, A gt  He then joined hands with J.N., 
and under the firm name of J.  N.  Bradford 
& Co., Agts., carried  on the  same  business 
another  year,  when he  sold  out  to  J.  N., 
and went on the road for Eaton &  Christen­
son.  Two months later, he went to  Croton 
and re-entered the employ  of  Wm.  Martin, 
conducting the  same [business  as  before. 
After remaining at Croton a  year,  he  went 
to Fremont, and engaged in the grocery bus­
iness under the  firm  name  of  Bradford  & 
Garrison, selling out  to Garrison a year  lat­
er, and coming to  Grand  Rapids  where  he 
entered the employ of Eaton & Christenson. 
Feb.  22,1879, with  which  firm  he  is  still 
identified.  His territorv includes  all  avail­
able towns on the C. & W. M. Railway, from 
Pentwater to St. Joseph, the Newaygo Divis 
ion and Fremont, and south on the  G.  R. & 
L and L. S. & M. S.,  and  from  Allegan  to 
Muskegon.  He  sees  his  trade  regularly 
every three weeks,  and is invariably  a  wel 
come visitor.

Mr. Bradford’s success as a  salesman may 
be attributed to the  fact that  he  makes  his 
customers his  friends.  He  never  fails  to 
keep his appointments, and has  never been 
known to miss a train.  His  cordial,  genial 
manner, his business-like demeanor and  his 
candor as a  salesman,  have  made  him  de­
servedly popular with  his  trade,  and  these 
characteristics, coupled with his well-known 
ability for making  collections,  have  served 
to endear him to his house.

A  Representative Jobbing House.

Mr.  LeGrande Peirce, of the jobbing  firm 
of Peirce & White, has gone to New York to 
anticipate the arrival of  the  new  tea  crop, 
and make selections and  purchases of  other 
staples and novelties suitable  to  the  Michi­
gan trade.  This firm has built up a fine job­
bing trade, as the result of  courteous  treat­
ment, low prices, and promptness  in  filling 
orders, and are making further inroads every 
day.  They carry a complete line of  sugars, 
syrups, teas, coffees, soaps—in  short  every­
thing pertaining to  a  first-class  jobbing  es­
tablishment  Their line of fine cut, plug and 
smoking tobaccos is as choice and  complete 
as is carried by any house in  the  west,  and 
a great specialty is made of cigars,  the  firm 
being factory agents for the following  well- 
known,  popular  brands;  “Two  Orpnans,” 
“Hand. Made,” “Optimus,” *’P.  & W.’s  Ex­
tras,”  “Ben’s  Express,”  “Clarissa,”  “My 
Girl” and “Ultimatum.”  Ben. Hollister  is 
the gentlemanly agent for the  house,  and is 
always-glad to show buyers his samples and 
prices.

Features  of the  Week.

The market has been  almost  featureless, 
barring a further decline in sugars early last 
week, and an advance to  the old  figures on 
Monday.  Lima beans  have  advanced  10c. 
and Java rice is up %c.  Bloaters are out of 
market,  consequently  the  quotations  are 
dropped  until  fall.  The  quotations  on 60. 
28  and 100 pocket  salt  published last week 
were  for  inferior  goods,  and  as  T he 
T radesman always quotes first-class goods, 
when only one price is given, the quotations 
are raised to the proper figures.

Oranges and lemons are  in  good  request 
and prices  are  firm.  Bananas  are  in  good 
supply and moving freely.  Nuts are steady. 
Peanuts are firm at the decline.

A Detroit clerk says it is a great deal  eas­
ier to serve homely than handsome  women 
He couldn’t have asid  a worse thing for  his 
future  peace of mind, for every woman who 
hears of it will of course make him as much 
trouble as possible,  for  fear  he  will  think 
her homely.

Tomatoes and  cucumbers  in  Florida  are 
so plenty and cheap that hundreds  of  acres 
of  them are being plowed in as unworthy of 
the cost of picking and  transportation.

TRAMWAY PLUG.

Market.

The Beet Sellino: Goods of the  Kind on the 
In common with other representative  job­
bing  houses, Messrs. Cody, Ball  & Co. have 
carried the leading  brands  of plug tobaccos 
put on the  market, and  have  succeeded in 
working up a large  business  in this branch 
of their  trade.  But like  a number of com­
petitors at this and other markets, they have 
come to  the  conclusion  that by  putting up 
a choice quality of plug  tobacco under their 
own name  and  brand  they  will be able to 
give better  satisfaction,  both to the  dealer 
and consumer for the reason  the quality can 
be maintained by personal attention.

In  furtherence  of  this  conclusion, they 
have been experimenting  for  some  time on 
the  kinds  of  tobacco,  and the  manner of 
preparing them, best suited to the  Michigan 
trade, and after an  expenditure of a consid­
erable amount of money have  finally hit up­
on an  article  that  they  confidently claim 
will  “knock  the  spots” off  of  any other 
brand in the  market, and  the  reports thus 
far received  from  the  dealers  in  whose 
hands  the  goods  have  been  placed  are 
abundantly  reassuring, and  tend  to  con­
vince the firm that they  have  not overesti­
mated the merits and  taking proprieties  of 
their  new  brand.  It  is styled “Tramway 
Plug” and is  intended  to  suit  the  taste of 
the artisan, farmer and  lumberman, as well 
as the more  capricious fancy of the  profess­
ional man.  It is made only from the choicest 
leaf and unlike  many of the brands now on 
the  market, is not doped  with either cheap 
molasses or glycerine. 
Itsjsweetening prop­
erties are  derived  wholly from  the  use of 
pure granulated sugar, and  the licorice used 
is the  pure  article.  The  combination  hit 
upon secures a  flavor  not equalled  by  any 
cither goods  on  the  market, and  creates a 
relish  that  is as  pleasing  as  it is  lasting. 
Old chewers  pronounce  the  goods  the best 
that have ever been brought to  their notice. 
It is put up with  Virginia  bright, chocolate 
and  black  wrappers, making it exceedingly 
attractive.  As a  piece of  goods  on which 
dealers  may  rely for  genuine  satisfaction, 
sure  sales,  and  good  profits,  “Tramway” 
stands without a rival.

The World’s  Sugar Supply.

The Glasgow Herald  thus  diagnoses the 
present condition and outlook  of  the  sugar 
markets of the world:

It may to some  extent  be true  that  the 
united production of the beet and cane  sug­
ars has for the time got beyond  the  world’s 
demands;  but even this  statement  requires 
modification; a large proportion  of  the  in­
crease in the available stock  is  due  to  the 
fact that many of the crops have  this season 
been forwarded by  steamers  instead of  by 
sailing  vessels  as  formerly,  bringing  the 
sugar much earlier into the  consuming mar­
kets.  The manufacture of the beet crop has 
also been compressed  into  a  shorter  time.
It is therefore probable that the visible  sup­
ply, which used to  be  largest  in  July and 
August, has already reached its maximum in 
March and April.  The  production  of beet 
sugar has increased  very  rapidly,  but it is 
worth noting that both France and  Austria, 
after having the industries fostered by boun­
ties, which to a large extent  are withdrawn, 
have  receded  rather  than  increased. 
In 
Germany the tax on  the roots  is  to be  in­
creased and the drawback  on  exported sug­
ar reduced, so that the fabricants will not in 
the season of 1884—’85 have  the  bounty re­
ferred to. The crops of 1882-’83 and 1883-’84 
have been unprecedentedly large, and though 
the area planted in Germany  is  extended by 
10 per cent., it does not follow that the crop 
of 1884-’85 will  be  increased  in  the  same 
proportion.  The  2,300,000  tons  of  sugar 
made in Europe in 1883-’84 will  by  the end 
of August be entirely  consumed,  and  the 
crop now being sown, to be  reaped  in  Sep­
tember and following  months, may  or may 
not  give 100,000  tons  more  sugar,  which 
might  be expected  if  results  were  to  be 
again  as  favorable  as in past  two  years. 
But  burning  to the  cane  crops,  Java  has 
steadily increased, but this year has resulted 
in such such serious losses to merchants and 
importers that the rates likely to be  current 
will  not be such  as  to induce  planters  to 
press their produce  on  the  market.  The 
Phillippines will this season show  a  deficit 
of 70,000 tons.  The  Brazil  crop  is  pretty 
well over.  Recent  advices  from Cuba  re­
port a renewal of the insurrection, a general 
feeling of  distrust,  and  trade  demoralized. 
The crop has been hurried forward,  but the 
conditions do not favor  an increase  on  the 
small crop of last year.  As to British West 
Indies, the crop was at no time  expected to 
exceed last year’s and  at present  prices  in 
many places it will not pay  the  expense of 
reaping.  On the whole, the supply  of cane 
sugar for the next five  months will  be  cur­
tailed, while the low prices will greatly stim­
ulate consumption.  On the Continent near­
ly 2,000,000 tons  are  now used  where  cer­
tainly not one-tenth was used 30  years ago. 
In the United Kingdom in 1853 the consump­
tion was about 370,000 tons; in 1883  it  was 
three times that quantity, or  1,100,000  tons 
were imported, and it is  probable  the  con­
sumption will approach  1,200,000  tons. 
If, 
therefore, the present visible supply appears 
large, it should not be forgotten  that the re­
quirements are greater than ever before, that 
present prices are  much  below the  cost of 
production and 20 per cent, below what they 
were ever known to  be  over any  extended 
period.

One million boxes of matches axe produced 
daily  by .one  machine in use  at  a  factory 
in  Sweden.  The  statement  seems  incredi­
ble, but it is well vouched for.

There are said to be at present 6,000 cigar 

makers out of emplcyment in Havana.

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SMOKING.

Applejack..................................
Jack Rabbit.................................
Morning Dew..............................
Chain  ...........................................
@22
@25
Seal of Grand  Radids.................
@30
King..............................................
@28
F lirt..............................................
@30
Pug................................................
@24
Ten Penny Durham, )4 and 
.
@15
Amber, )4 and lf t .......................
@22
Dime Smoking............................
@26
Red Fox Smoking.......................
@47
Lime Kiln  Club..........................
@90
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut.
@90
Vanity  Fair.......................... .
24@25
Dime ...........................................
@25
Peerless.......................................
Standard......................................
@22
Old Tom.......................................
@21
@24
Tom & Jerry...............................
@25
Joker............................................
@35
Traveler.......................................
@26
Maiden......................................... 
_  .
T opsy......................................................   @27
Navy Clippings......................................  @24
@25
Honey Dew ...
@32
Gold Block__
@22
Camp Fire  —
@19
Oronoko........
@26
Nigger  Head.
@60
Durham, % ft
@57
)4 ft
@55
Vi ft
@51
lf t
@22
Holland........
@16
German........
Long Tom—
National........ ................... 
_
T im e........................................................  @26
@28
Love’s Dream.
@23
Conqueror__
@22
Fox’s
Grayling.................................................   @32
@30
Seal Skin 
@25
Dime Durham
Rob Roy..................................................  @26
@28
Uncle  Sam. 
@26
Lumberman
Railroad Boy...........................................  @37
Mountain Rose.......................................   @20
Good Enough.........................................  @23
Home Comfort, )4s and  )*s..................   mM
@60
Old Rip, long cut..................................
@60
Durham,  long cut.................................
@25
Two  Nickle, 345......................................
@26
Two  Nickle, )6s......................................
@25
Star Durham...........................................
@40
Golden Flake Cabinet............................
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz................
@48
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...
Big Deal, )4s  longcut............................  @27
@24
Apple Jack, )4s  granulated................
@22
King Bee, longcut, 348 and )4s...........
@24
Milwaukee Prize, 34s and )4s...............
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham—
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, 34s and 34s...........
@28
Rattler, longcut.....................................
@25
Windsor cut plug..................................

SHORTS.

Mule Ear.................................................
Hiawatha..............................................
Old Congress..............................  ..........
Acme.......................................................
Pure  Cider.............................................. 
White Wine............................................  

VINEGAR.

WASHING POWDERS.

10@12
10@12

1776 $  f t ...................................................  @10)4
Gillett’s ^ 1b...........................................  @734
Soapine pkg............................................... 
7@10
Pearline 38 dox...........................................  @4 50
LaVine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50
Lavine, 6 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  @4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 80 )4 ft papers..  @4 15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 )4 lb paprs  @4 00

YEAST.

Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun”......................  1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75 
|W ilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ...............175  INational............. 175

MISCELLANEOUS.

95
75
@33£

do  waterproof............................ 
do 

Blacking.........................................30, 40, 50@60
1 50
BatS Brick imported.................................  
American.................................  
Barley........................................................... 
Burners, No. 1 ........................................ 
110
do  No. 2........................................ 
1 50
Bags, American A .................................  
20 00
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.....................8 10
Curry Combs 38 doz............................... 1 25®
Cream Tartar 5 and 101b cans.............   @25
Candles, Star................................ 
 
Candles,  Hotel...........................................  @16)4
Chimney Cleaners 38  doz......................  @50
Chimneys No. 1......................................   @36
No. 2......................................  @46
Cocoanut,  8chepps’ lf t  packages. 
Coooanut,  Schepps’ 1 ft )4 ft  do . 
Extract Coffee,  v. c...............................  90@95
F elix ...........................1 J0@
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls .......... ..........5 7S@
in Sacks.  .............. 
.5 60@
Flour Sifters 38 doz............... ............... 3 00©
Fruit Augurs each ...............................1 26@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................   @25
Gum. Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40

@26)4
@27)4

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PORK.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork....................................... fl7 25>
Back Pork,  short cut.................................  17 50
Family Clear Pork, very  cheap................   17 75
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer................   19 00*
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City....  19 OO  ±
Extra Clear Pork.........................................  19 50^  H
Clear Back Pork, new.................................  20 75
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality.............   20 50-
Standard Clear Pork, the best....................  22 00 

A.11 the above Pork is Newly Packed. 
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 5001b.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases............. 
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
do 
Half Cases.......... 
Long Clears light, 5001b Cases..............  
do. 
Half Cases..............  
Short Clears, heavy........ ....................... 
do. 
medium.............................  
IWPWdo. 
light..........  ....................... 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 ft cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 6001b  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 1b cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 3001b  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........ 

LARD.
Tierces  ............................... 
 
30 and 501b Tubs...................................... 

 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

934
10
934
10
934  a ,
10 
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10)4
10)4
10)4
1034
11 »
11
11
10)4
10)4
1034

8%-.
834

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN. 

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
50 ft Round Tins, 10O 1b  racks............... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
101b Pails, 6 in a case.............................. 

8&
834
954
9)4-
934.
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Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy.... 
13 
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
13)4
14
Shoulders,  boneless.................................... 
10
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
11 %•
Extra Clear Bacon....................................... 
Dried Beef,  Extra....................................... 
15
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs........   11 75'
Rolled Beef, cordless.................................  17 75>

BEEF IN BARRELS.

do. 

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CANNED BEEF.

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

^
incase......................................................  18 50  m f
do. 

2 1b cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 80
Armour & Co., 141b cans, % doz in case  18 50 
do, 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case..  2  80 
do. 2 1b Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage................................................... 15*
Tongue  Sausage.............................................   11
Liver Sausage.....................................................8
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   8 
Bologna,  ring....................................... *.........   8)4-
Bologna, straight............................................   8)4
Bologna, thick..................... ...........................   8)4
Head  Cheese....................................................   8

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p i g s ’ f e e t .

In half barrels.................................................  3 90 >
In quarter barrels.. .*......................................  2 10
In kits...............................................................

TRIPE.

In half barrels................................................$3 75  J*
In quarter barrels.........................................   2 OO^k
In kits........................................................... . 
press, subject always to Market changes.

95
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
@16)4

FRESH MEATS. 

*

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  8  @ 9)4.-
Fresh Beef, hind quarters.................. H  @12
Dressed Hogs..........................................  734@ 8
Mutton,  carcasses....«.........................   7  © 8 
tM
V eal....................................................... .  8)4© 9)4*^
Fowls................................................   15@16
Pork Sausage............... ............... .........10  @10)4^
Pork Sausage In bu lk ..........................   @10)4?
Bologna.......... .......................... 

@10

CHOCOLATE.

 

 

 

Boston  premium......................................  @36
Baker’s premium......................................  @*®
@35
Runkles..................... 
 
German  sweet............. *......................... .  @~®
Vienna Sweet......................  
@2®
COFFEE.
Roasted Mex.l7)4@19 
Green Rio__ 12
Ground  Rio..  9)4@17 
Green Java.. .17 
Ground  Mex.  @18
Green Mocha.25 
Arbuckle’s ...........@15)4
Roasted Rio.. 12 
X X XX................. @15)4
Roasted  Java24 
Dilworth’s .......... @16)4
Roasted Mar.17 
Levering’s .......... @15)4
Roasted Mocha
72 foot J u te ....... 1 35  160 foot Cotton... .1 75
60 foot Jute.......1  15 
|50 foot Cotton.... 1 50

@14
@27
@27
@17
©34
@19
@34
cordage.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
•* 
“ 

Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$   doz. 1 00
4 oz..................................................  1 ®®
6 oz.................................................. 2 50
8oz...................... ........................... 3 50
No. 2 Taper...................................   1 25
No.  4  “ 
176
)4 pint  round................................ 4 50
No.  8.............. ."..’I."..*’.!"!.............   3 00
N o.10........................... .................  4 25
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz.  1  40
4 oz....................................’•.............2 50
“ 
6 oz...................................................4 00
“ 
8oz...................................................5 00
“ 
150
“  N o.2  Taper............................. . 
“  No.  4 Taper....................................  3 00
“ 
)4 pint  round.................................  7 50
“ 
1 pint  round............................... A»
“  No.  8............................... ................  4 25
“  No.  10..........................   ................ 6 00
Faucets,  self  measuring......................  @2 50
Faucets, common............................... • 
@  «5

Vanilla.

FAUCETS.

f i s h .

Whole Cod..............................................
Boneless Cod......................................... 
5@7@8
Herring )4 bbls.JOO 1b.........................2  <5@3 00
¿6@28
Herring Scaled...................................... 
Herring Holland...................................  @J 00
White, No. 1, )4 b b ls............................ 
7 50
White, Family, )4 bbls......................... 
8 75
White, No. 1,101b kits....................... 
1 10
1 15
Whise, No. 1,12 1b kits......................... 
4 75
Trout, No. 1, V4  bbls............................ 
90
Trout, No. 1,12 lb  kits......................... 
Mackerel, No. 1,34 bbls....................... 
6  60
Mackerel. No. 1,12 1b kits.................. 
1  00
London Layers, new.............................. 
2 76
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 50@2 60
New Valencias Raisins.........................  7)4@7)4
Dehesia...................................................  @3 26
Ondaras...................................................
Turkey Prunes......................................  6)4@6
Currants..................................................  5)4@6

FRUITS.

MATCHES.

Richardson’s No. 2  square............................2 55
..................................270
Richardson’s No. 3  do 
Richardson’s No. 5  do 
................................155
 
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
.....................2 70
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
................................170
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
...........................2  70
Richardson’s No. 4 round...................................2 55
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2  70
Richardson’s No. 7)4 do 
..............................1  55
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
MOLASSES.
Black Strap...................................................  ©18
Porto  Rico.............................  
80@35
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 40@60
New Orleans,  fancy...............................-  ”®b@60
Syrups, Sugar..........................................27@W@46

20 gross lots special price. 

 

OATMEAL.
185 ftpkgs................................  
  @3  75
362ft pkgs................................... 
  ®3 25
Imperial bbls............... 
  @6 60
 
.............. ••••••........  @5 25
Quaker bbls..
Star and Cresent, steel  cut..................   @5 76

 

 

 

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 ft  bars..................................   @ 6)4
Acme, 25 3 1b bars..................................   @634
Towel, 25 bars.........................................  @® 25
Napkin, 25 bars......................................  @5 25
Best American, 6011b blocks...............  @6
534
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-34 lb cakes........... ..............   @5 00
Stearine, 100  34 ft cakes.......................   @5 00
Marseilles, white, 100 34 lb  cakes........   @6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 34 lb cakes........  @6 25
........   @ 7
Lautz’s 60-11b blocks, wrapped...........   @7
6)4
German Mottled, wrapped
Savon, República, 60 lb box..................  @534
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................   @ 534
London Family, 60-11b  blocks...........  
@ 5
London Family, 3-lb bars 80 ft.............   ©4 00
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 1b.............   @4 00
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @3 85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................  @4 00
Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped................   @3 25
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @2 30
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box  ©1 25 

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SPICES.

 

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground  Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................   20@25
Ginger......................................................   17@20
Mustard...................................................
Cayenne...................................................  26@35
_ 
 
 
75
Pepper 34 ft 38 dozen
75 
Allspice  H 1b...........................................
1 00 
Cinnamon  )4 f t ......................................
75 
Cloves H  ft..............................................
Pepper,  whole....................................
Allspice................................................
Cassia..................................................
Cloves...................................................  20
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70

@18 ©10 

@12 
@22 
@75

 

 

 

STARCH.

Special prices on 1,0001b orders.

@6)4
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................  
Muzzy Gloss 3 1b package......................  @6)4
Muzzy  Gloss 6 1b boxes......................... 
@7
Muzzy Gloss bulk...................................  @6
Muzzy Corn l f t ......................................  634@7
Kingsfora Silver Gloss......................... 
@8
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 1b box..........  @8)4
Kingsford Corn......................................  8)4@8)4
Oswego  Gloss.........................................  @6)4
Mirror  Gloss...........................................  @6)4
Mirror Gloss, corn................................  @634
Piel’s Pearl. — ....................... 
Niagara Laundry, 401b box,  bulk....... 
*• 
Laundry, bbls, 186  lbs.......... 
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages............ 
“  Gloss,  36 3 38  packages.......... 
“  Gloss, 6 1b box, 72 ft crate.... 

@4
@5
@5
@7
@6
@7

Corn, 4011b  packages..........................   @7)4
American Starch Co.’s
lf t  Gloss.................................................  
@®H
10 oz  Gloss..............................................  @034
31b  Gloss.................................................   @6
6 1b Gloss, wood boxes..........................  
@7
Table Corn.......................................40 ft  @6)4
Table  Corn.....................................20  1b  @7
Banner, bulk...........................................  @1

STONEWARE.

Jugs 
gallon...............V........................ 
Crocks................................ 
Milk Crocks............................................  

 

@®
7
7

STOVE POLISH.

Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 6 50
Universal.............. 5 88 Above 38 dozea........  50
I X L ...................... 5 601

SUGARS.

 

®7%

®6
©P.H

Cut Loaf.......  ........................................
Cubes..................................................... 
Powdered..............................................
Conf.A.................................-................ 
Standard A ... ., .................. 
 
Extra C................................................. .  ®
Fine .......................................................
Yellow ....................................................  5H@5)4
@
Corn,  Barrels...................................
Corn, )4 bbls.....................................
85
Corn, 10 gallon kegs.....................
Com, 6 gallon kegs.................................   @1  89
Com, 4)4 gallon kegs............. ..........  M@1 «5
Pure Sugar.................... . 
Dpi
• )» bbl
Pure Sugar Drips.................. 
Pure Sugar  Drips.............  5 gal kegs

28® 
30©

SYRUPS.

@1  86

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3Dr\>  (Boobs.

Spring &  Company quote as fOnowa 

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4........164
Peppereil,  8-4........20
Pepperell,  9-4........22 4

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

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

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............104
Otis  Furniture...... 104
York,  1  oz...............10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

08NABTTRG,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn.......... 94
Kentucky brown.. 104 
Lewiston  brown...  94
Lane brown............94
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........ 8
Toledo plaid...........   74
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   64

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........  84
Art cambrics, 36...114 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  84 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 124
Ballou, 4-4...............  74
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott, 0.4-4............  84
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.........94
Boott, B. 3-4...........   55£
Blackstone, AA 4-4  74 
Chapman, X, 4-4—   64
Conway,  4-4..............74
Cabot, 4-4................   74
Cabot, 7-8................   64
Canoe,  3-4..............   4
Domestic,  36..........  74
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.10
Davol, 4-4...............  94
Fruit of Loom, 4-4... 9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  84 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........ 12
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........64
Gilded  Age............... 84

Greene, G,  4-4.
54
Hill, 4-4....................  »4
Hill, 7-8....................  74
Hope,  4-4.................. 74
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4.................114
Linwood,  4-4..........  9
Lonsdale,  4-4..........  84
Lonsdale  cambric. 114 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  94
Langdon,  45........... 14
Masonville,  4-4.........94
Maxwell. 4-4............104
New York Mill, 4-4.104 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  74 
Pride of the West. .124 
Pocahontas,  4-4—   84
Slaterville, 7-8........  64
Victoria, AA..........  9
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 55£
Whitinsville,  4-4...  74 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   64
Wamsutta, 4-4.........104
Williamsville,  36... 104

CORSET JEANS.

Armory..................  <4
Androscoggin sat..  84
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon.  ............  64
Hallowell  Imp.......64
Ind. Orch. Imp.......64
Laconia..................  74

Albion, solid............54
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........54
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 54
Allen’s pink..............64
Allen’s purple.......... 64
American, fancy.... 54
Arnold fancy...........6
Berlin solid...............54
Cocheco fancy........8
Cocheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone.............. 6
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............ 7

Kearsage................   84
Naumkeagsatteen.  84 
Pepperell bleached  84
Pepperell sat..........94
Rockport................   74
Lawrence sat..........84
Conegosat...............  7

Gloucester...............6
Gloucestermourn’g.6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy............6
Merrimac D.............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........64
Pacific robes........... 6
Richmond................6
Steel River.............. 54
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy..
Washington blues.. 8

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

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

Indian Orchard, 40.  84 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........164
Lyman B, 40-in.......104
Mass. BB, 4 4 ............64
Nashua  Ë, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 44........   74
Nashua 0,7-8..........  74
Newmarket N ........74
Pepperell E, 39-in..  74
Pepperell  R, 44__ 7
Pepperell O, 7-8___ ¿4
Pepperell N, 3-4—   64
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac  R........... 
74
Saranac  E...............  9

DOMESTIC  GINGHAMS.

Am oskeag............. 8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 104
Bates.........................74
Berkshire.............   64
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 74 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
standard.............   74
Plunket....................74
Lancaster...............  84
Langdale.................. 74

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styl 94 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............124
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........124
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  9
White Mfg Co, stap  71 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Éarl8ton...............  94
Gordon......................8
Greylock, 
dress 
styles  .....  .........124

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4..21 
iPepperell.  104.......274
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23  Pepperell,  11-4.........324
Pepperell,  74........20  Pequot,  7-4............. 21
Pepperell,  84........224 Pequot, 84...............24
Pepperell,  9 4 ....... 25  ¡Pequot, 94...............274

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 44.........74
Atlantic  H, 44.......7
Atlantic  D, 44.........64
Atlantic P, 44........   54
Atlantic LL, 44—   54
Adriatic, 36.............   74
Augusta, 44..............64
Boott M, 44.........     754
Boott FF, 44 ..........  74
Granitevilie, 44—   64 
Indian  Head, 44...  74 
Indiana Head 45-in. 124

Lawrence XX, 4-4..  84 
Lawrence  Y, 30....  7 
Lawrence LL, 44...  54
Newmarket N ........   74
Mystic River, 44...  64
Pequot A, 44..........  8
Piedmont,  36..........  7
Stark AA, 44..........  74
Tremont CC, 44—   54
Utica,  44................ 9
Wacbusett,  44.........74
Wachusett, 30-in...  €

Amoskeag,  ACA...14 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Amoskeag,  C........11
Amoskeag,  D ........104
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Amoskeag, F ..........94
Premium  A, 44— 17
Premium  B ...........16
Extra 44 ................. 16
Extra 7-8................. 144
Gold Medal 44........15
CCA 7-8...................124
CT 4 4 ...................... 14
RC 7-8......................14
BF7-8...................... 16
A F 44...................... 19
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Cordis  AC A, 32......15
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Cordis  No. 3............13
Cordis  No. 4............ 114

Falls, XXXX.........184
Falls, XXX............ 154
Falls,  BB................114
Falls,  BBC, 36.......194
Falls,  awning........19
Hamilton,  BT, 32.. 12
Hamilton,  D ..........10
Hamilton,  H .........10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA..........134
Methuen ASA........18
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Omega A, 44......... 13
Omega AC A, 7-8__14
Omega AC A, 44— 16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 44.........27
Omega M. 7-8.........22
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Shetucket S8&83W 114 
Shetucket, S & 8W.12
Shetucket,  SFS___12
Stockbridge  A ........ .7
Stockbridge frncy.  8

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

Empire...........
...  5 
Washington..... ...4 *
...  5
...  5 Edwards..........
8. 8. & Sons...... ...  5

Garner..........
Hookset........
Red  Cross......
Forest Grove...
American  A ... ...19  *Old  Ironsides... ...154
Stark A ............. __ 234¡Wheatland......... ...214

GRAIN BAGS.

DENIMS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

Boston............. __ 74lOtis CC................. ...104
Everett blue... __ 144tWarren  AXA... ...124
Everett  brown. __ 144!Warren  BB....... ...114
Otis  AX A ...... __ 124 ¡Warren CC...... ..-.104
Otis BB.......... __ 114¡York  fancy..... . ..15
Man ville........ ....  6 8. S. & Sons...... ...  6
...  6 Garner........... ...  6
Masgnville.....
WIGANS.
Red  Cross...... __ 74 ¡Thistle Mills......
Berlin........... __ 74jHose................ ...  8
Garner.......... ....  741
Brooks....................50
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. a P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord.40 
Charleston ball sew 
in g  thread............30

Eagle  and  Phcenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks..........— 40
Stafford................35
Hall a Manning— 30 
Holyoke...................25

SPOOL COTTON.

Crown.....................17
No.  10.....................124
Coin........................10
Anchor...................15
Centennial.............
Blackburn............. 8
Davol....................
London.......-..........134
Paconia................13
Rett Cross...........10
Social Imperial.... 16

M asonvilleTS......  8
Masonville S .........104
Lonsdale................ 94
Lonsdale A ........ ...16
Nietory  O...............6
Victory J ...................7
Victory D .............. 10
Victoiy K ..........124
Phoenix A ..........  94
Phoenix B.......... 104
PhœnixXX..... ..15

THE  WINDOW  DRESSER.

A  Comparatively  New  Branch  of Art  De­

veloped  by  Men.

“What do  window-dressers make?  Well, 
their salaries vary.  Some  make  no  more 
than $15 a week, while others  get  $1,000 a 
year.  That is considered a very good salary. 
There are one or two window-dressers in the 
United States that get  as  high  as  $10,000  a 
year, and a few who  can  command  $5,000, 
but the majority get $1,000 or less.”

The answers  were  in reply  to  questions 
concerning the prosperity  of  window-dres­
sers, and were made by an individual perch­
ed on a ladder in the window of a Broadway 
dry-goods house.  He was  trying  to  tempt 
ladies  to  squander  their  husband’s  hard- 
earned wealth by making  an  attractive dis­
play of silks of various hues.

“Men found a new  vocation” the  dresser 
continued,  “during the past few years, when 
they were able to make  attractive  the win­
dows of dry goods  and  fancy goods  estab­
lishments.  A few years ago such work was 
left to the clerks, but it became  to  be  such 
an important  feature  that it  was  made  a 
specialty.  The work was given to  one man 
and he was required to make a study of pro­
ducing attractive  effects.  Of course  a  man 
possessing excellent taste was required.

“The first attempt, I think, at  making the 
work a specialty was in New  York.  Other 
men saw the result, and  followed  the prac­
tice.  Now it has grown  extensively.  Not 
only the windows of Eastern  business hous­
es are made more beautiful,  but  also  those 
of the Soutli and West.  One  will  find  just 
as attractive  displays in the dry  goods win­
dows of San Francisco as he will in the win­
dows of New York city.

“Every  establishment  dealing 

in  dry 
goods, fancy goods, furnishing  goods, cloth­
ing, and sometimes jewelry and  books,  and 
making any pretension,  will have a window 
dresser, and he will have nothing to  do  but 
try and make windows attractive. J in  |some 
of the larger houses there will  be  an  assist­
ant and sometimes two.  A  change  is made 
in the display every two or  three  days,  so 
that it requires continued  work.

“One of the hardest things to  accomplish 
is getting an attractive combination  of silks. 
Not one in a hundred can  fold  that class of 
goods so as to show the  effect  of  different 
colors. 
It is not difficult to  make  a  pleas­
ing display  of the  smaller  class  of  goods. 
Any one witn taste can do that. 
It  is like 
dressing attractively.  A man  will  present 
a pleasing appearance by having a becoming 
necktie or scarf, and dressing out  from that. 
So in windows.  We have something that is 
attractive, and make it the  principal  object 
in our display.  From  that  articles  are  ar­
ranged so as to cause all attention to be turn­
ed to the attractive  object. 
I  have  heard 
business men say that attractive window dis­
plays are worth $50,000 a year  to them.

“In  some business houses the displays are 
not indicative of the  goods  sold.  The pro­
prietors will have an  attractive  display  of 
paintings,  or  a  scene  of  some  character. 
Sometimes a winter scene is  made for sum­
mer, and a summer scene for winter.  I have 
seen a regular museum in the  windows of a 
Western  dry goods store.

“The attempt to make  attractive  displays 
is made even when there are no special win­
dow-dressers  in  the  establishment.  The 
work is divided.  One clerk maps  the  out­
side, another the inside of the  window, and 
a third arranges the goods.  Even  the  coun­
try merchant  with  the  general  store,  and 
having no clerk  beside his  wife,  endeavors 
to draw custom by the display  in  his  win­
dow. 
It generally consists  of  a  string  of 
red pepper-pods festooned from one  side to 
the other, a string  of chalk, lead  and  slate 
pencils and pen  holders,  nime  novels,  the 
yellow covers predominating, and a  pack of 
cards.  The  display, of  course,  is  not  so 
gorgeous as those of the city stores, but it is 
I gotten up to attract.  The one peculiar thing 
about it is that it is never  changed. 
I have 
seen the string of  pepper  pods in the coun­
try since I was a boy, thirty years ago.

“Do ladies make  good  window-dressers? 
No doubt  they  could, but  proprietors  are 
afraid that if they occupy  the windows day 
after day, the crowd will  stay upon the out­
side, gaze upon the windows as if some cag­
ed animal w’as  within, and  fail to enter the 
store.”

He Speculated in Margins.

John  Wingler,  the  Lowell  grocer,  has 
found a  champion  in  the persons of King, 
Quick & King, the  Lowell lumbermen, who 
agree to help him out of his present  difficul­
ty, in case he can  effect  a  settlement  with 
all his creditors on the  basis of 50 per cent, 
of their  claims.  He  accordingly  extends 
that offer to both the  attaching  and general 
creditors, and  will  visit  Grand Rppids this 
week for the purpose of soliciting the co-op­
eration of his  creditors  here.  His total lia­
bilities are upwards  of  $6,000, and  his  as­
sets  are  inventoried  at  $3,100, which  are 
covered  with  attachments  for  the  same 
amount.  His  affairs  are.  in  very  compli­
cated shape, as the result of months—indeed 
years—of neglect, and it will take  weeks to 
straighten matters out  satisfactorily.  Four 
years  ago, Wingler  claimed  to  be  worth 
$30,000 and was  admitted to be worth $20,- 
000  He  suffered  severe  reverses by spec­
ulating  in  wheat  margins, and  has  since 
been on  the down-hill  route, having  appar­
ently lost all interest  in  his  business.  He 
became addicted  to  drink, and  allowed the 
business to run itself, with the  usual result. 
Mr. Wingler is spoken  of  by  his  business 
competitors  as  a  genial  whole-souled 
gentleman, and his downfall  is a  matter of. 
common regret.  All join in  the  wish  that 
he abjure  bad  habits, take heart  again and 
begin life anew on a solid basis.

Ibarbware.

Prevailing  rates at Chicago are as follows:

AUGERS AND BITS.

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

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

25

Railroad......................................................$ 15 00
Garden.......................................................neF33 00

BALANCES.

BARROWS.

BELLS.

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

BOLTS.

Stove.......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage and Tire, old list..................dis  80&20
Plow  ......................................................dis  30&10
Sleigh Shoe............................................ dis  50&15
50
Cast Barrel  Bolts.......................... i.. .dis 
55
Wrought Barrel Bolts........................ dis 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs................... dis 
50
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
56
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
50&10&10
Ives’  Door..............................................dis  50&10

Flush................... 

 

 

BRACES.

B arber...:............................................dis$ 
Backus...................................................dis 
Spofford..............................%................. dis 
Am. Ball................................................ dis 

40
50
50
net

BUCKETS.

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

BUTTS, CAST.

60
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... dis 
60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis 
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50*10
Wrounht Loose  Pin............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip...........dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped............. ...................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table..................................... dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind........................ dis 
60
Wrought Brass.....................................dis  65&10
Blind, Clark’s........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s .....................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.................................. dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x24, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross  18 00

CAPS.

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

CATRIDGES.

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

50
50
4

CHISELS.

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

COMBS.

COCKS.

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

334
25

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

, 

COPPER.

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

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

 

 

DRILLS.

ELBOWS.

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

35
20
80

Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 10
Corrugated............................................. dis  20&10
Adjustable........... .................................dis  40&10

EXPANSIVE BITS.

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

20
25

FILES.

American File Association List........dis  40&10
Disston’s ................................................dis  40&10
New  American......................................dis  40&10
Nicholson’s ................................ 
dis 40&10
30
Heller’s ..................................................dis 
Heller’s Horse Rasps...................... 
  dis 334
GALVANIZE/) IRON,
22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27 
12 
15 
14 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 

Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

28
18

13 

GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

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

50

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 

HANGERS.

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

HINGES.

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.............................. dis 
60
State........................................... per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  54  14
and  longer.............................................. 
4 25
104
Screw Hook and Eye,  4   ...................net 
84
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  4 ...................... net 
74
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net 
74
Strap and  T...........................................dis  60&10

HOLLOW  WARE.

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

 

HOES.

KNOBS.

Grub  1............................................... $1100, dis 40
Grub  2................................................  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 00, dis 60
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

LEVELS.

mills. 

•

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  ^5

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

MATTOCKS.

NAILS.

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

.Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdtO  60d............................................ $  keg $2 50
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine  advance............j*,.............................   3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  175
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. $  keg 

I  lOd  8d 
6d  4d
24 
2 
14
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 
MOLLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’sGenuine......................................dis  70
Enterprise,  seif-measuring.................... dis  25

MAULS.

OILERS.

Sperry** Co.’e, Post,  handled.................  dis  50

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent...................... dis  65
Zinc, with brass bottom....................  ....d is  60
Brass or  Copper.................................... , ..dls  40
R e a p e r............................... per gross, $12net
01m8tead’s .  
60

........... 

 

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

PLANES.

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

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

PANS.

RIVETS.

Iron and Tinned.....................................dis 
Copper Rivets and Burs....................... dis 

40
40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 104 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs 4 c  $  ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

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

Sisal, 4  in. and larger............................$  $   94
Manilla..................... .......................................  15

ROPES.

SQUARES.

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

 

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth.  Com.

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

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

 

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

TINNER’S SOLDER.

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

TIN PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

10x14, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal..................................  8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal.................................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal  ...............................  8 50
IX, 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IX, 
14x20,  Cb arcoal................................  8 50
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal...............................   10.50
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................   12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  14 50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................   18 00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6 50
DX,  100 Plate Charcoal..............................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75 

64
7

13 00
15 00
16

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game.....................................................
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ........... dis  4
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s __   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse, choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion..................................$1 26J$ doz

Bright  Market...........................................  dis  60
Annealed Mafket.........................................dis  60
Coppered Market......................................... dis  55
Extra Bailing................................  
dis  55
Tinned  Market............................................ kis  40
Tinned  Broom............................................... ft  09
Tinned Mattress.......................................^ ft  84
Coppered  Spring  Steel.......................... dis 374
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis 374
Plain Fence.................................................... ft  34
Barbed  Fence..................................................  
 
Copper....................... .-...................... new  list net
Brass................................................... new  list net

 

WIRE GOODS.

WrENCHES.

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

. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

The process  of making screws is  a  very 
interesting one.  The rough,  large  wire in 
big coils is, by  drawing  through  a hole  of 
less diameter than  itself, made  the  needed 
size.  Then  it  goes  into a machine  that at 
one motion cuts it a proper length and makes 
a head on it.  Then it  is  put into  sawdust 
and “rattled” and  thus  brightened.  Then 
the head  is  shavSd  down  smoothly  to the 
proper size and the nick put  in  at the same 
time.  After “rattling”  again  in  the  saw­
dust, the thread is cut by  another  machine, 
and after another “rattling” and  a thorough 
drying the screws are assorted by hand  (the 
fingers of those who  do  this  move  almost 
like lightning), grossed by weight and pack­
ed for shipment.  That  which  renders  it 
possible for machines to do  all this is a  lit­
tle contrivance  that  looks  and  opens  and 
shuts like a goose’s  bill,  which  picks up a 
single screw at a time, carries it where need­
ed, holds it until grasped  by  something else 
and returns for another.  This is  one of the 
most wonderful pieces of automatic machin­
ery ever seen, and it has done its  distinctive 
work at the rate of thirty-one  screws a min­
ute, although this rate is only  experimental 
as yet.  Ninety-three gross a  day, however, 
has been the regular work of  one  machine.

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

The  jobbing  trade  has relapsed into  the 
quiet condition usually witnessed  “between j 
seasons,” and the business done will  hardly 
bear a favorable comparison with the corres­
ponding week in former years.  Altogether, 
the  trade  movement  was  light,  but by  no 
means  discouraging,  and  symptoms  of  an 
early improvement in business are  daily  in­
creasing, though some little  time will proba­
bly  elapse before buyers are prepared to be­
gin operations for the fall  season;  much de­
pending upon the prospects of  the  growing 
crops,  which  are  mainly  favorable at  this 
writing.

Every season when the hot weather begins 
there is a rush upon some particular color in 
light goods, and jobbers find it very difficult 
to obtain such goods in sufficient quantity to 
meet the demands of their customers.  This 
season it is cream-colored goods in cashmeres 
and light fabrics that have  rushed,  but  job­
bers have thus far been enabled to keep full 
assortments.

New  Use  for  Sawdust.

A new use has been found for sawdust, by 
employing  it,  under  a  recent  patent,  as  a 
substitute for sand  in  house-plastering. 
It 
is claimed  to  be  cheaper,  lighter,  warmer, 
more  porous,  and  by  its  non-conducting 
qualities  causing  the  inner  surface of  the 
walls to retain the heat which  sand  plaster­
ing allows to escape.  How about the  chem­
istry of the mortar,  however?

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

ville.

Morley.

J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
J. C. Paris, Kent City.
John Stephenfield, Middlevi lie.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
Wm. M. Ingell, Sand  Lake.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
J. H. Killmer & Co.,  Saranac.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
Wm. De Pree, Zeeland.
S. S. Dryden, Allegan.
W. A. Hutchinson, Ashland.- 
J. E. Mail hot, West Troy.
E.  Conklin, Ravenna.
Robt. W. Hall,  Hersey.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
H. G. Wait, Sault Ste. Marie.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
E. VanderYeen, Holland.
Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
C.  Deming, Dutton.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
A. Hanna, Casnovia.
Wm. Hewitt, Campbell.
R. D. Smith, Wayland.
Mr. Newton, of Steele & Newton, Advance. 
Jacob Bartz, North  Dorr.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
Mr. Archer, of Walden & Archer, Alba. 
Fred Ramsey, White Cloud.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
Bert Tinkler,  Hastings.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Mrs- G. Miller,  Ryerson.
Heck & Goodman, Burnip’s Comers.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
J. S. Marr, Spring Grote.
Nevins Bros., Moline.
G. J. Shackelton,  Lisbon.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
Baron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
J. L. Graham, Hopkins.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant.
F. G. Thurston, Lisbon.
J. Gringhaus, Lamont.
C.  F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Carrel & Fisher,  Dorr.
C. L. Howard, Clarksville.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
Dibble Bros., Bumip’s Corners.
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
Fred I.  Nichols, buyer for  Henry  Strope, 
A. J. Collar & Co., Reed City.
Dr. John Graves,  Wayland.
C. Deiping* Dutton.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Dr. F. C. Williams, Ada.
Dr. G. B. Nichols, Martin.
Mr. Clark, of Parkhurst & Clark,  Middle- 
Case & Perrin, Cheboygan.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Jacob DeBri, Byron Center.
Mr. Davis, of Odell & Davis, McLain.
N. W. Crocker, Byron Center.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
.  Geo. W. Crawford, Big Rapids.
John Giles, Lowell.
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John Gunstra, Lamont.
John Hoy, of Hoy Bros.,  Muskegon.
Chas. McCarty, Lowell.
C. O. Sunderland, Lowell.
G. A. Estes,  Tustin.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
Frank O. Lord, Howard  City.
Kellogg & Wooden, Kalkaska.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
E. S. Botsford.  Dorr.
Wm. M. Ingell, Sand  Lake.
H. E. Clark, Lowell.
Henry DeKline,  Jamestown.
J. Hamming, Yogel Center.
Wm. Bundy, New Richmond.
M. N. Dilly, Irvington.
D. N. White, Petoskey.
Eddy & Huntley,  Petoskey.
Wolf & Truesdell, Otsego.
F. B. Watkins, Monterey.
John Giles, Lowell.
Mr. Gibbs, of Gibbs Bros., Lowell.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
L. E. Paige,  Sparta.
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
S. A. Wait, Lawrence.
S. C. Fell, Howard  City.
John Wagner, of Wagner &  Wells,  East­
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
F. F. Taylor, Pierson.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
Mrs. M. J. Butler, Sand Lake.
C. L. Forbes, Casnovia.
Johnson & Leibert, Caledonia.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
Andre Bros., Jennisonville.
Mrs. W. P. Dockeray, Rockford.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
E. P. Barnard, buyer for New  Era  Lum­
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin,  Ravenna.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
B. M. Dennison,  East Paris.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg. 
Walter Schoomaker, Cannonsburg.
D. T. Hersey,  Wayland.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.  1 
Wm. Snelling, Six  Corners.
K. L. Kinney, Maple Hill.
John Tesinga, Hudsonville.
J. Omler, Wright.

ber Co., New Era.

man ville.

Clerks  in  Country  Stores.

From the Monetary Times.

Continuing the subject to which  we  were 
asked  by  a  subscriber  to  refer,  viz.,  the 
scarcity of good clerks in country stores, we 
would lay stress upon the lack of  thorough­
ness which is a  fault  with  many  salesmen 
and woukl-be  merchants  in  this  country. 
Perhaps the cramming method  has  crept in­
to commerce as it has into our school system 
if not into our  colleges.  At  any  rate  one 
finds numbers of clerks offering  themselves 
who have  a  surface  knowledge  of  many 
things but  are fully informed in few or none 
of them.  One professes to know book-keep­
ing and yet he cannot take off a trial-balance. 
Another claims to be  posted  on  furnishing 
goods, but cannot tell a  linen  handkerchief 
from a cotton one.  A  third  expects  to  be 
allowed to buy boots and shoes  for  his  em­
ployer by wholesale, and  yet does not know 
pebble leather from  French  goat-skin,  or  a 
“split” balmoral boot from one made of calf. 
Possibly the newness of the country, aud the 
need, in remote districts, of the same  persons 
filling many functions, are not  favorable  to 
thorough knowledge  in  any  one  direction. 
But the Old Country manages such  matters 
better than we, and trains Its buyers, its ship­
ping  clerks,  its  salesmen, longer  and  far 
more carefully than we.

A  complaint is sometimes made, not with­

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out reason,  that clerks in town and  country 
are over-worked, and are  not  allowed  time 
for recreation or for study.  We  know  too 
well that grasping employers to-day, as well 
as fifty years ago.are apt to treat their hands 
as so  many  machines  for  money-making, 
careless whether they have souls to be saved 
or constitutions to be ruined.  Short-sighted 
employers they, certainly, who  do  not  stop 
to consider that a clerk kept in  good  bodily 
condition, and cheerful mental trim by  pru­
dent hours of labor  is  worth  more  even  to 
their pockets, than one  physically  exhaust­
ed by long hours of work, and  disheartened 
through drudgery without hope of promotion. 
But on the other hand, clerks do not always 
make the most of their  chances  for self-im­
provement.  That  philosophical  humorist, 
Bob  Burdette,  of  the  Hawkeye,  has  said 
some good things on this  very  point:  “My 
son,” said he, in effect, “hard work has kill­
ed surprisingly few men;  the long hours be­
tween shop closing at night  and  shop-open­
ing in the morning have  ruined more consti­
tutions than handling dry goods twelve hours 
a day ever did.  ‘Seven up’ and hot whiskies 
at night use a man up quicker than arithme­
tic and double entry book-keeping by  day.” 
And so it is.  The  club-room,  the  billiard- 
room  and  the  ball-room,  not  improper  in 
their  place, may be  exhaustive  rather  than 
recreative, a curse rather than a relief.

And  again,  many  a  clerk  in  a  country 
store does  not  know  when  he  is  well-off. 
Compared with post-office  clerks  and  tele­
graphers, with book-keepers in  the  city,  or 
even the mucli-envied bank-clerks he has, as a 
rule, “a soft thing” indeed; for he has often 
lulls in  business  and  intervals  of  leisure, 
during which he can study or lounge,  while 
their labor is continuous  and pressing.  And 
if he contend that their hours are shorter he 
might be surprised to learn that it is not  so, 
or that, in fact, the strain of their  incessant 
brain activity for eight or ten hours is  more 
exhaustive than his varied duties spread over 
twelve.  Should the large salary paid  these 
classes of clerks he mentioned, it is  easy  to 
point out that the pay of those who do mere­
ly mechanical labor with the pen is nowhere 
such as need  make  them  envied;  and  that 
the salaries of those who do the real and  re­
sponsible brain work in our banks and other 
institutions are rarely in excess  of  what  is 
deserved by faithful  and  intelligent  labor, 
if indeed they are not often distinctly inade­
quate.

Gambling Illegitim ate  and {Demoralizing. 
From the Crockery and Glass Journal.

If  you  call  yourself  a  trader  nowadays 
there are some people who will imagine that 
you are selling suspenders and collar buttons 
after  the  fashion  of  Samuel  of  Posen. 
Merchant is an expansive term that has fall­
en into oblivion in this country excepting  as 
is  is  used  as  the  front  end of a tailor’s ti­
tle in trade. 
In fact,  trade  titles  have  be­
come so mixed  that  all  there  is  left  for a 
man to choose from are the imprints of deal­
er, manufacturer, or importer, as  indicating 
legitimate transactors  of  business. 
If  you 
get outside of these three you  will find your 
title clear—yea, very clear,  to  the  operator 
class.  You will be one of  the  fellows  who 
go down  to  the  Exchange  and  stick  your 
head  into  a  little window,  and  name  your 
bet, which shall be recorded on huge tablets. 
You bet $100 lawful money that  ten  thous­
and bushels of wheat  will  go  up  one  per 
cent, and if she don’t go up you  drop  your 
$100 so quick that it makes your head swim. 
Even if you win your bet  you  have  to  pay 
$12.50 for the privilege of betting.  Keno  is 
precisely the same sort of a game.  You pay 
a dollar for a card  and  have  it  pegged  in 
common with 199 others in the game, which 
makes $200 in  the  pool  instead  of  1,000 
bushels of wheat.  Every man’s dollar is his 
margin.  The balls roll out until you get five 
in a row, and you yell “Keno!” or thump on 
the table in a natural tone of voice, just like 
a stock gambler, and you get $200 less fifteen 
per cent, to the house, which  makes you ac­
tually $169 in pocket.  If you lose, you have 
the Supreme satisfaction  of  knowing  that 
you have been gambling without discount or 
defalcation.  But you can’t play keno in New 
York.  The code declares that.plebeian games 
which charge a dollar “let in” are highly im­
moral and  Anthony-Chmstock-won’t-have-it 
games.  But the big game is legalized to knock 
the country into a senseless  condition  every 
ten  years,  which  proves  that  it  is  not  a 
square  game.  The  big game  makes  more 
life-long  loafers than  anything  else in  the 
country,  horse  racing and rum not  except­
ed.  We will guarantee to find enough clerks 
in the down town bucket  shops  to  run  the 
entire wholesale business of New York,who 
spend hour after hour in watching the  ever- 
lasting’ticker or gaping at the squares on the 
black-board.  Really, the solid businessmen 
of the community should demand tnat  such 
operations be  graded  with the regular gam­
bling games that are  no more seductive  nor 
disastrous to  the  public  welfare.  Employ­
ees and youngsters use just as much of other 
people’s money in the bucket shops  as  they 
used to in the pool rooms, and,  if  anything, 
the effect is more  pernicious,  because  it is 
not called gambling in  the  common  accept­
ance of the word.

spike.

Patents Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.
H. 
E. Doren, Grand Rapids,  head-rest. 
Wm.  Goldie,  West  Bay  City,  railway 

G.  P. King, Detroit, car-wheel.
Wm. A. Knapp,  Galesburg, reel-rake.
Wm. F. Lamson, chair seat machine.
G. S.  Paine,  Wyandotte,  attachment  for 

com planter.

H. J. Schild, Stanton, vehicle spring.
John Skinner, Flint, car coupling.
Wm. Smith, Eaton Rapids,  belt  fastener.

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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
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old  coats  before  refinishing. 
In  addition 
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expensive,  as  it  requires  but one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
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Tribulations, Trials and Tosses of the Small 

Trader.
“Cake ’o soap,  please.”
“Babbitt’s?”
“Oh, any kind’ll do;  jes’ so  it  takes  this 
j r off my hands.”
“Now, that  is  the  kind  or  a customer,” 
said  a  loquacious  grocer  after  the  horny- 
handed son of toil had disappeared  into  the 
street, “that brings a smile to the cheek and 
joy to the heart of a  grocer.”

“But I’ve heard that the life of a grocer is 
not all  an  easy  one?  Do  you  go  through 
much trouble?”

“If you will stay  around ,here  for  a  few 
hours I am sure you will be  abundantly sat­
isfied of the fact that we don’t have a bed of 
roses.”

“You deal with some hard  cases?”
“Yes, we often  meet with some tough  and 

troublesome-----”

“How  much  is  vin’gar  a  half  a  pint, 

John?”

“Five  cents.”
“Five cents?”
“Yes, five cents.”
“W’y, I ken get it  fur  four  cents  ’round 

the korner.”

“You can?  Well, go and get it.”
“As I was saying,” coutinued  the  grocer, 
turning  to  the  scribe  and  reverting to his 
former subject, “we  meet  with  some  very 
tough customers.  Now, take this little girl, 
for instance, who has just left  She has,  no 
doubt, searched every grocery store within a 
radius us half a mile from here for  the  pur­
pose of finding  out  which  is  the  cheapest 
one.  She cares very little for the quality of 
the stuff she receives;  all she wants is to get 
it cheap.  Now  this little  girl  is  not  what 
you or I would call a tough customer,  but  I 
simply want to show you some  of  the  trav- 
ialties  that  annoy  grocers.  Suppose,  now, 
fifty or more persons during  the day,  would 
do as this little girl has done, poke in through 
the half-open door, ask defiantly  how  much 
this or that thing is, then when told turn about 
and with much “sass” tell the grocer  he  or 
she can get it elsewhere so much cheaper.  Is 
not that, in your opinion, annoyance, eh?

“Well  yes,  it  seems  like  it;  but  aren’t 
many  grocers  dishonest?  Don’t  they  in­
dulge more or less in  what  the  trade  calls 
drugging—that  is, sanding  sugar,  watering 
oil, rocking coffee, ashing  tea,  and  sundry 
other devices resorted to to make large prof­
its?”

“Yes, some of them do, but they  are  eas­
ily distinguishable  from  those  which  do  a 
respectable business.  When you  see a  gro­
cery with its windows brilliantly  illuminat­
ed by a hundred or  more  blazing  gas  jets, 
Chinese  and  other  lanterns  hanging  and 
floating about  the  interior,  and  sometimes 
exterior, of the  store, glittering  fancy signs 
setting forth in large gilt  letters  the  cheap­
ness of the goods and the  many  advantages 
derived  from  purchasing  at  that  place— 
crockery promiscuously displayed, and given 
to  purchasers  of  large  quantities  of  their 
groceries, you may depend upon it  that  the 
owner of the store is nothing  short of a  gro­
cer-druggist.”  ,

At this juncture an aged  darkey  lady  en­
tered the  store  and  called  for  two  cents 
worth of yeast  Upon receiving the article, 
she exclaimed with an astonished air 

“Well, now,  I doo  deklar!  did  yo’  evaw 
see de like befo’. 
I pet two  cents  into  my 
pocket an’ now I ken  only  fin’  wun,  bress
mel  Bet it am strang’, ’deed  it----- ”

“Well, Auntie,” said the grocer,  good-na­
turedly, “the next time you come in yon can 
pay the other  cent”

“Fank  you,  John,  fank  you;  I’se  very 
mech obleeged to yo’  ’ndeed,”  warbled  the 
old colored woman as she  gracefully  bowed 
herself out.

“Oh, yes, that is an old trick  for trying to 
get more goods than your money really calls 
for,” said the grocer,  as  he  smiled,  rested 
one of his big feet on a  barrel,  then set  his 
large twinkling eyes on the  colored  woman 
as she wearily wended  her  way  down  the 
street.  “I don’t think,  though,”  continued 
the grocer, “that Aunty  meant  to  resort  to 
dishonesty for the sake of a penny. 
I  have 
known her for a great many  years,  and  al 
though she is very poor, I would trust her  a 
great deal further  than  some  of her  richer 
neighbors.”

“Dus yer keep limberger chees’, John?” 
“No,” said the grocer, apparently  disgast 

“Dus yer keep had’ chees’?”
“Now, what’d you want with sucli cheese, 

ed.

eh?”

“Cos.”
“ ’Cause what?”
“Cos fa’ somefing.”
“Well, for  what  something?”  closely  in' 
quired the grocer, as  he  threw  a  knowing 
wink at the scribe.

The little darkey grinned,  vigorougly rub­
bed his  wooley  head,  then  in  a low  voice 
said:  “Cos Aunt Sarey  an’ naw  am  gwang 
to church to-nite, an’ maw  am gwang to len’ 
Aunt Sarey a dress, an’ me an sister Sal tho’t 
dat we’d hab sum fun.”

“Fun?” broke in the grocer.
“Cos,” softly  murmured the  sable  youth. 
“Sister Sal sed ef I got sum  cheese  an’ put 
it in Aunt Sarey’s dress  pocket——”

“Do you know if  a family by the name of 
Morgan  lately  moved  into  any  of  these 
houses?” asked a  pert, neatly  trimmed  and 
dressed little lady  as she poked her head  in 
through  the half opened door.

“Morgan, Morgan,” repeated  the  grocer, 
knitting his heavy brows  and  meditatively 
resting  his  massive  chin  in  his  brainy

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hands; “no, 1 don’t think any family by that 
name--------”

“So yer hasn’t any  o’ dat  cheeses,  John, 

hab yer?” coolly asked the little darkey.

“No,  I  have  not; you  had  better  run 

“Well, sir,  to  your  knowledge  did  any 

home.”

family--------”

“Pickle, please.”
“----- move into this  neigh----- ”
“Half a pound o’ sugar.”
“Did you ask for a pickle,  sonny?”
“Yes, gimme wun pickle.”
“-----borhood any time within the  last—”
“How much is  cabbage [a head?”  shouted 

in a little woman from the  sidewalk.
“How much  is the pickle, John?”
“One cent”
“Ow,  I thot  yer was  going  to  say  two 

“Will you  please,  sir,  hurry  up  and  tell 

cents.”

me?”

“Half a pound o’-----”
Well, young man, if you will  have a lit­
tle patience you will be waited upon  in good 
time.”

“Groceryman, I say, d’ye hear me?” shout­
ed in the little woman  from  the  sidewalk. 
‘How much is your cabbage a head?”
“Half a  pound?”
“Yes.”
“What kind of sugar will  you have?” 
“Ten-cent sugar.”
“Sir, I’m in a hurry-----”
Madam, I have already  told  you  that I 
know of no family of  the  name  you  men­
tion.”

The scene was now one of unbearable con­
fusion.  The  clatter  of  so  many  tongues 
readily brought to mind the Scriptural  story 
of the building of the  Tower of Babel,  and 
for aught it seemed  as if  another  tower of 
some kind was being erected  in  this  little 
comer grocery. 
It was at this  stage  of the 
confusion that the scribe  emerged  from his 
nook, walked calmly out  of  the  door  and 
found himself facing a  stiff  but  refreshing 
breeze, a whiff of which  he  took  and  dis­
appeared  around  the  comer,  praying  the 
while that  he  might  never  fall  into  that 
“Slough of Distraction”—the grocery  busi­
ness on a small scale.

A  NEW  DODGE.

Silver Coins  Being  Very  Extensively Clip­

ped.

The coin thieves, or whatever  you  want 
to call them, are up  to  a  new  dodge,”  re­
marked a prominent banker to a representa­
tive of The T radesman the other day.

“Yes, what is  it?”
“Well, you know they  formerly  punched 
holes in the coins, but when that was stopped 
by the public  universally  refusing  to  take 
punched silver, they set about to  find a new 
dodge.  Now they clip the edges of coins, 
have just opened a roll containing ten dimes, 
and I find that two of them  have  been clip- 
ed.”

Thereupon the speaker exhibited the  mu­
tilated coins.  From  their  edges  there  had 
been neatly cut off a metal shaving, that was 
perhaps, an eighth of an  inch  in  thickness. 
This work had been done very skillfully and 
the cutting was clean  and  sharp. 
It  is  not 
very probable  that  one  man  in  ten  would 
have noticed that anything was  wrong with 
the  coins,  as their  rounded  outlines  were 
scarcely broken. 
It was  only when one ran 
his finger across the serrated edge that it was 
apparent that a portion of it was gone.

Yes,” continued the hanker, “that is  one 
of the cleverest tricks that  I  have  ever  de 
tected.  I have been looking  the  matter up 
recently and I find that a great deal  of  coin 
has been thus  clipped. 
dollar is made on about every  two  hundred 
dimes that are shaved.  Whoever is doing 
I must say that he knows how to conceal his 
tracks.”

I  presume  that 

“When did you discover  that  coins  wer 

being clipped?”

“Only  a  couple  of  wTeeks  ago, but I am 
convinced that it is  being  done  on  a  large 
scale. 
I do not doubt that before long  peo­
ple will refuse to take clipped  coin  as  they 
do now,  punched.”

WHOLESALE

21  PEARL  STREET,

X j .  s .  m i l l «   ct?  o c x
FISHINTG  TACRLE
MICH. 
GRAND RAPIDS 
Du PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed.

The lowest market prices  for Sport­
JOHN MOHRHARD,

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AGENTS FOR

—WHOLESALE—

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

109  CANAL  STREET,

Fresh & Salt Meats
ALBERT  COYE  &  SONS
Awnings,  Tents,

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

MICHIGAN,

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, 

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand,

OILED  CLOTHING.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN 

Send for Prices.

A.  A.  ORIPPEW

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

A  Storekeeper’s Indiscreet Wife.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN,

An Austin Israelite has his  dwelling and 
place of business in the same  house,  which 
is quite a small one.  There  were  several
customers in the store,  when his  wife, who 
is a very  affectionate  creature,  called  out 
from the next room:

‘0, Schon, my dear Schon,  come  to  din­

ner.”

A shade of rage passed over  his  Hebraic 
features, and going Uto  where  she  was, he 
seized her by the arm, and said, with a voice 
hoarse with annoyance:

“Rebecca, does you vant to ruin me  in my 
pishness?  What for you call me dear Schon 
ven I  vants to be  known as  cheap  Schon? 
Do you vant to have dot  beebles lose  confi­
dence in me?”

We carry a Large Stoch, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

FOR

BOOK-KEEPING  MADE  EASY
R E T A I L   G R O C E R S .
By using our Combined Ledger and Day-Book, 
CUSTOMERS»  ACCOUNTS  are  kept  and 
ITEMIZED STATEMENTS rendered in half 
the time required by any other process.

Send for  descriptive  circular  to  HALL & 
C O j^P u b lish ers^S ^L ak ^S L ^C h icag o ^U ^^^

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

A  Shocking Joke.

From the Oil City Derrick.

“Electric garments are the latest in  cloth­
ing,” remarked a South Side dude to  a  Cot 
tage Hill ditto.

“Aw,”  replied  the  latter,  “probably 

called because you receive a shock when the 
bill for them comes in.”

Readers of this paper who avail themselves 
of  the  information  obtained  from  its  col­
umns, by advertisement or otherwise, are 
quested to notify their correspondents of the 
source of their  information.

C. F. Walden  &  Co., Alba, are  succeeded 

by Walden & Archer.

It is said that there are just 1,000 clothing 

stores in Chicago.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1 j
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
I
1 -
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
1  -
Akron Cement per bbl......................... 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1
Oar lots......................................... ...........1 15@1!
Plastering hair, per b u ........................  35®  ;
Stucco, per bbl. s.................................. 
  1
Land plaster, per ton............................  
3
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3  „
Fire brick, per  M..................................$27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl.................................. 
ISjH
I
Anthracite, egg and grate.................$6 50®6
Anthracite, stove and nut..................   6  75@7
X
Cannellcoal........................................ 
Ohio coal.  .......A .    .........
Blossburgor Cumberland

COAL. 

 

 

FOSTER, 
STEVENS

HEADQUARTERS I

-FOR  SALE  BY-

jGLXiXi  Faint  Dealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M.  B.  OHUBCH, Manager.

GR AND   RAP ID S , 

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M ICHIGAN

*

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E  W O R K  !

92  MONROE  STREET.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

-Manufacturers  of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

B X jU I X O S ,   e t c .,

40 and 43  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

U. FEETER,

36 South Division  Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Dealer  in

All U s  of Gonntfr Mnce

—Also—

STAPLE AND  FANCY  GROCERIES, 

CANNED  AND DRIED FRUITS.
EGGS  AND  BUTTER
A Specialty.  Pays  Cash  on  Receipt of  Prop­

erty.

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

Telephone Connection.

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO PROPRIETORS  OF

KEMXXBL’S

“Red Bark Bitters"

-AND-

Jewett’s Bird Cases

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are Manufacturer’s  Agents  for

Jewett’s  Filters,

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are also Headquarters for

Grand  Rapids  Wheelbarrows  and

Bacon  &  Priestly  Express  Wagons,
All of which  are  sold  at  factory  prices.  We 
would 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.

78  W est Bridge Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN,

Foster. Stevens i Co.

