The Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  20, 1884. 

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NO. 48.

VOL.  1.

FACTS  ABOUT  STOVES.

Fall  Patterns—Interview  with a Manufac­

turer.

“The fall  trade in  stoves  is  just  begin­
ning,”  said  an  old  manufacturer, and  we 
shall soon be very busy.  There are  no very 
striking novelties this  year, but  there  are 
fashions in  stoves, just as in  millinery, and 
we have to change our designs  each  season. 
Last year, for instance, the square stoves for 
heating were brought  out, and  this  season 
every manufacturer has a supply, but  in  no 
case are the designs identical with  those  of 
1883.  Each  has  been  changed, involving 
great expense to the founders.  The  bills of 
some of them for patterns  alone  mount  up 
to  $50,000 or $60,000 a year,  as  there  are 
changes to make nearly all the way through. 
You must not  suppose  because  you  see a 
parlor  base-burner  named ‘Washington’ or 
‘Columbus’ that a single set of  wooden  pat­
terns will supply all the stoves of that name. 
There  are  seven or eight  sizes, some  with 
cooking extensions and  some  without, and 
they are fully nickel-plated or half nickeled. 
Each  of them  has  different  designs,  and 
each must be carefully wrought  out  bj  the 
pattern-maker. 
In 1885 the  trade  will  be 
obliged to remodel those which are  the best 
this year, in order to introduce  some  novel­
ty.  A few  years  ago  in  cook-stoves  the 
fashion was to have large fire-boxes.  After­
ward  came  large  ovens, necessitating  the 
cutting  down  of  the  fire-boxes.  Then in 
the same stoves there was an  air-chamber to 
heat the  air before it entered  the  fire-box. 
When mica went into general use  the  front 
had to be illuminated and of course the  hot­
air chamber was  done  away  with. 
It is. a 
continual round of change,and perhaps not for 
the better.  The largest founder in the West, 
with fifty  years of  experience, says the so- 
called  improvements  are of  no advantage. 
Stoves thirty years ago performed their work 
just as vrell as  now.

“The United States use more  stoves than 
all the rest of the world put together.  There 
are 8,000,000 of them in use here, costing the 
possessors  perhaps  $180,000,000.  They 
range in size from  little  toy  affairs, which 
could be carried  up stairs, one  under  each 
arm, by an ordinary man, up to the  colossal 
stoves intended for summer hotels and wood- 
burning districts, which will do  the cooking 
for a hundred  persons.  Their  price is  cal­
culated by their weight.  The  founders sell 
them at  rates  ranging  from 4 to 8 cents  a 
pound, and the retailers at about 50 per cent 
advance on these figures.  One  stove  lasts 
on an average about five years.  Some  large 
founders show nearly 500 kinds.  Many also 
make  stationary  and  Baltimore  heaters, 
wrought-iron and stationary ranges  and gas 
and vapor stoves, but  these are  not  consid­
ered as parts of  the  trade.  The  chief  pro­
ducing places are  Troy, Albany, Cincinnati, 
Buffalo,  St.  Louis,  Detroit,  Philadelphia 
and Cleveland.  The largest  foundries  are 
in Albany, one in Troy, one in  Buffalo  and 
in St. Louis.  Each  of  them  makes  from 
$500,000  to  $750,00  worth of stoves  annu­
ally.

“No man  can be a good  drummer  for a 
stove firm  unless he knows  how  to  make 
good bread.  He must be able to  show  how 
his stove  will  cook.  Moreover, he must be 
able to produce far better  results  with  his 
stove than the ordinary housewife  can with 
hers, and this can only be  accomplished  by 
learning every detail  himself. 
It will  not 
do to trust to getting women for  this  labor, 
for few American  housekeepers  know  how 
to make good bread.

“The  stoves  come  from all parts of the 
East.  They are no longer  simple masses of 
iron fastened together.  The  esthetic  craze 
has reached them.  The  terra-cotta  and tile 
manufacturer is called  upon to put on orna­
mental plaques-; then  there  are  brass  orna­
ment on top, and  nickel  is  used  profusely. 
Even the boards on which a stove stands are 
ornamented.

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“The  scientific  principles  of  a  stove  are 
not yet determined.  We know  that  a  very 
large part of the heat goes up  the  chimney, 
but we cannot yet prevent it.  The two great 
innovations in stoves within  the  memory of 
this generation are on the base-burning prin­
ciple and the clinkerless  grate.  By  putting 
a large quantity of coal in an  upright  cylin­
der, which is open at the  bottom, fire can be 
retained for a long time.  As fast as the bot­
tom of the  column of  coal is burned  away 
the coal above falls down  and keeps the fire 
supplied.  This was discovered  about  1850. 
Clinkerless  grates  are  a later  device, the 
first ones having been  manufactured in 1870 
»  or 1871.  When coal has  been  in a state  of 
ignition for some time it partially  cakes  to­
gether, and most of the support  beneath can 
be taken away.  That support has generally 
been given by a grate, upon which  the ashes 
and other refuse  from  the  coal  gathered, 
thus choking  the  draught. 
It  is, however, 
possible to  remove  the  grate, leaving  the 
coal suspended  by its  lateral  pressure, and 
to take a poker and  lightly sweep away the 
ashes  which  hang to it.  The bed of  coals 
will thus shine downward as  well as above. 
Spear, of  Philadelphia, was  the  first  who 
produced parlor stoves based on the this dis­
covery.  They attracted the attention  of  N. 
I  S. Perry, of  Albany,  who  was  traveling  in 
Pennsylvania, and he conceived the  idea  of 
making  stoves  somewhat  like  them.  *The 
head of the firm, John  S. Perry, at his cous­

in’s  solicitation,  also  examined  them, and 
they determined to go into the manufacture. 
Spear demanded $10,000 a year for a license 
to use  his  invention.  The  Perrys  thought 
this  was  excessive;  but  in  the  meantime 
Mrs.  John  S.  Perry, a highly-accomplished 
lady, began  a search in.the State  Library to 
ascertain whether Mr. Spear’s  patent  was a 
good one.  A stove patent, very rarely is good 
and  this  proved  no  exception.  A  patent 
had been granted three or four  years  before 
to a man  living in a  small  town in Massa­
chusetts,  involving  the  same  principle.  A 
trusty agent of the  firm was sent over  there 
with instructions to buy it,  but  on  arriving 
in  the  village  he  found^that  the  inventor 
was dead, never having used his  patent  but 
in a single case, which  was that of a church 
in which  he  had  placed  a  furnace.  Some­
thing was  wrong  with  it the  first  night  it 
was used, for the ashes  and  coal  were  pre­
cipitated on the floor in the  night,  and  the 
church was burned  down.  That  ended  his 
experimenting,  and  inclined  the  heirs  to 
dispose of their  interests at a nominal  sum. 
But of his half-dozen children who  held the 
right of the patent one  had  gone  to  Texas, 
and his address was unknown.  Armed with 
a  photograph  and a description, the  agent 
sailed  for  Texas, and  after  two  month’s 
search found the  man, from  whom he pur­
chased the remaining interest.  Perry & Co. 
accordingly did  not take  out a license  from 
Spear, but went on manufacturing the clink­
erless  grates  without  permission.  They 
were immediately sued  by Spear,  a  compli­
ment which they  at  once  returned.  Other 
manufacturers  also  began  making  these 
grates, and  were  sued  by  both  Spear  and 
Perry.  The novelty was, however, too  tak­
ing for them to desist, and within two years 
every  manufacturer in the  United  States 
was producing this kind  of  stove,  under  li­
cense from the Perrys or  Spear, or as  an in­
fringer.  Those who were sued as infringers 
formed an association to defend  each other, 
the amount spent  in  litigation  being  enor­
mous.  Spear and  the Perrys joined  forces, 
but it was of little . avail, for  the  Supreme 
Court of the United States decided that their 
claims were  not good, and  the  making  of 
clinkerless stoves is now free.

The Cut-Nail Industry.

At presedt the capacity  of  the  nail  mills 
of the country is greatly in excess of the de­
mand.  At the close of 1882 the  annual  ca­
pacity of the nail mills was  about  8,500,000 
kegs.  During  1883  the  mills  west of the 
Allegheny mountains(Western Nail  Associ­
ation)  suspended operations several times to 
prevent accumulation of  stocks.  The  mills 
of the Atlantic States Nail Association, how­
ever, were in operation during the year with 
but few  exceptions.  Notwithstanding  this, 
activity  in building in 1883 was  so  marked 
that new mills and enlarged old ones became 
conspicicuous in the western  district  Even 
mills of the Western Association, which sus­
pended work at times,  added mill after mill 
to their plant, in a number of cases doubling 
the old capacity.  The  consequence  of this 
is shown in the report of  nails  produced  in 
1883 by James W. Swank,  secretary  of  the 
American  Iron  and  Steel  Association. 
In 
that year the production of cut nails (includ­
ing  cut  spikes)  was  7,762,737 kegs, an in­
crease of 1,615,640 kegs, or over 26 per cent, 
upon the year before. 
In 1883  the  number 
of mills increased from  sixty-eight, contain­
ing 4,108 nail machines, with an  annual  ca­
pacity of  about  8,500,000  kegs to seventy- 
nine mills, with 5,650  machines,  and  with 
an annual capacity of nearly 12,500,000,

About two-thirds of the total nail  produc­
tion of 1883 was  made in  the  western dis­
trict.  The center of nail  production  in  the 
United States lies in West Virginia, the sec­
tion including that partjjof  Ohio  lying  Dear 
Wheeling.  The  increase  in  the  Wheeling 
district in 1883 was  nearly 44 per  cent,  of 
the total increase in the country.

The  manufacture  of  steel  nails  in  1883 
was not of very much importance, but  pres­
ent  indications  point to a large  production 
during 1884.  The  Bellaire  nail  works, at 
Bellaire, Ohio,  have  completed  and set in 
operation two four-ton  Bessemer  steel  con­
verters for  the  production  of  low-carbon 
steel for the manufacture of nail-plate  to be 
cut into nails.  The  Riverside  Iron  Works 
at Wheeling, W. Va.,  have  each  built  two 
Bessemer  converters for  the  production of 
steel for use in making steel  nails. * As  the 
production of these six  converters  will  be 
more than  sufficient for  the  three  works 
named other nail  mills in the vicinity  will 
doubtless draw a supply of steel  from  these 
converters.  Nail mill in  other  sections  of 
the country will this year produce nails from 
steel, and a number will produce nails  from 
iron and steel  combined.

Beating the Gas Companies.

The latest  economic  invention  is  an  ar­
rangement for lighting cigars.  Gas is  gene­
rated from a water  battery,  and  is  blown 
into a narrow, pointed  flame  by  the  move­
ment of a small lever.  The battery  is  con­
cealed beneath  the  counter.  The  lighting 
apparatus is attached  to  a  a  nickle-plated 
standard, on the top of  which  is  a  recepta­
cle for  wooden  lighters.  The coihponent 
parts of the battery are  water,  a  small  po­
tato, and common  sulphuric ’acid.  Fifteen 
cents a year covers the  cost of  the  solution. 
An Ionia street firm is in possession  of  one 
of  these lighters.  * 

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BUSINESS  ACTIVITY.

Some of tlie Elements Necessary  to Success. 
From the  Grocers’  Criterion.

Business success is the result  of  business 
activity.  A man must  go to  business,  and 
not wait in idleness for business  to  come  to 
him.  As a proper amount  of  physical  ex­
ercise develops and invigorates the  muscles 
of  the  body,  so  a  reasonable  amount  of 
mental  activity  strengthens  and  sharpens 
the  human  mind. 
Few  men  have  won 
merited success without  patient and  exact­
ing  labor.  Our  leading  merchants,  our 
prosperous  manufacturers,  our  wealthy 
professional men  have  gained their  promi­
nence by persistent  and  determined mental 
and physical work.  They have by  an extra­
ordinary amount of will power  overcome all 
obstacles  in  their  way  to  prosperity.  A 
lack  of  “backbone”  is  what  causes  many 
men to fail in business.  When  in the com­
mencement of their careers they  find  them­
selves in straightened circumstances, instead 
of energetically collecting what is due  them 
with which to meet their obligations, instead 
of putting  the  best  possible  face  on  the 
matter and getting an extension  from  their 
creditors, they  weaken  when  there  is  no 
imperative necessity for  it  and  step  down 
and out, leaving their  establishments  to  be 
closed out at a frightful loss by  the  sheriff. 
They collapse  because they are destitute  of 
that indomitable spirit that urges a  man  on 
and upholds him in the hard devious road to 
riches.

In business a man must  keep  within  the 
reasonable limits of  his  capital.  To accum­
ulate a fortune with small means  to  operate 
with is a slow and  wearisome  undertaking, 
and with the temptations that are  presented 
to  merchants  at  the  present  moment  for 
speculation,  it  requires  all the  will-power 
they  can  command  to  resist  the  delusive 
propositions that are presented  to  them  by 
which it  appears  plain  to  their  mistaken 
eyes  that  they  can  come  into  immediate 
possession of  a  handsome  fortune.  How 
many  unfortunates  there  are  in  country 
villages who are bewailing their losses  occa­
sioned by reckless ventures outside  of  their 
regular  business  in  butter,  cheese,  corn, 
wheat, wool  or  potatoes. 
In  speculations 
and transactions of  this character it  is  very 
easy to lose  in  one  short  season  the  hard 
earned and carefully  hoarded accumulations 
of many years.  Merchants who  attempt  to 
avoid the precipitous  sides  of  the  hill  of 
difficulty by going  around it instead  of  over 
it, are very sure to  be “swamped.”

A  distinguished  author  has  said :  “The 
tortoise on the right road  will  beat  a  racer 
on the  wrong. 
It  matters  not  though  a 
youth be slow if he be diligent.  Quickness 
of  parts  may  often  prove  a  defect,  inas­
much as the boy  who  learns  readily  will 
often forget quite  as  readily,  and  also  be­
cause he finds  no  need  of  cultivating  that 
quality  of 
application  and  perseverence 
which the slower youth is  compelled  to  ex­
ercise,  and which  proves  so  valuable  an 
element in the  formation  of  every  charac­
ter.”  Take the right road in  business, keep 
straight on over every difficuly, take  Riche­
lieu’s motto, “There’s no such word as fail,” 
and in the  spirit  of  determination  that  it 
breathes keep steadily toiling  at  your grand 
purpose  in 
life;  be  industrious,  active, 
patient,  persistent  and  honest,  and  you 
must, under ordinary circumstances, become 
ultimately succesful.  The  difficulties  that 
you  encounter  will  make  you  stronger  if 
you  overcome  them. 
If  you  meet  them 
with energy and  heroism  they  cannot  over­
come  you.  When  you  meet  with  similar 
obstacles further  along  in  the  highway  of 
your commercial life you  will  have  learned 
wisdom  and  gained  strength  by  previous 
experience and can  force  your  way  ahead 
with  less  difficulty.  Difficulties,  then,  de­
velop  strength,  and  the  man  who  comes 
out of a struggle successful is always strong­
er,  more  self-reliant  and  independant  by 
reason of  his victory.

Young men who  are  jpst  starting  in  a 
commercial  career  must  be  energetic  and 
ambitious, but  must  not  recklessly  go  be­
yond the bounds of  prudence and  safety  in 
their business; they must not  dodge difficul­
ties, they must not be  crushed  by  the  first 
obstacle they  encounter.  They  must  have 
brave hearts and they  will  grow  strong  in 
manhood and  rich  and  prosperous in  their 
business undertakings and accomplishments.

Tlie  Reason  W hy  Chimneys  Smoke. 

From the Builder.

As a matter of fact they  never  do,—it  is 
the wood that smokes.  We make this state­
ment not by  way  of  facetiousness,  but  to 
bring the discussion  to  a  strictly  scientific 
basis.  Since  the  new  birth  of  the  open 
wood fire,  the old  question  of  how to  coax 
the smoke  to  go  straight  up  the  chimney 
flue at all times and under  all circumstances 
has come  again  to  the  front  and  the  old 
controversy as to the  relative  magnitude  of 
two stupendous but familiar  domestic  evils 
is liable to be revived. 
It is not our purpose 
to give here and now all the infallible  rules 
by which one  of  these—and  doubtless  the 
minor—can  be  cured,  or  better  still,  pre­
vented, but simply  to  refer  to  one  of  the 
common reasons why  smoke from a  fire  on 
the hearth falls out in the room occasionally, 
if  not  constantly,  instead  of  going  up  to 
the skies where  it properly  belongs.  Hav-

ing stated chimneys never smoke, it  may be 
well  to  observe  that  they  never  “draw” 
either.  Whatever  goes  up  chimney—from. 
Thomas Hood’s chimney sweep to the steam 
from the kettle nose—is poked up  from  be­
hind.  Of  course tills amounts to  the  same 
thing practically as being drawn  up,  but  it 
is well to remember that  the  same  pushing 
force will just as readily  lift  air,  shavings, 
ashes, steam, or anything else that comes  in 
its way as smoke.  The  point,  therefore,  is 
to so arrange the throat of  the chimney that 
the smoke shall  be  caught  first,  and,  like 
proud Korah’s troope, be  swallowed  up  be­
fore it has a chance  to  spill  over  into  the 
room  and  before  something  else  can  be 
crowded into its place.  Left to its  own  de­
vices it would fall out of  the fire-place,  and 
run over the floor like water.  As the  air in 
the room happens  to be usually  cooler  and, 
therefore, heavier than that in the fire-place, 
it forces the  latter  upward  and  the  smoke 
with  it.  Now  the  tendency  of  the smoke, 
as soon as it is lifted against  the  back  wall 
of the  fire-place, is to fall forward, and  this 
tendency  is  favored  by  the  curving  back 
against which it ascends.  There is no objec­
tion to this curve which seems  to  keep  the 
smoke within  bounds, and  it doubtless  radi­
ates more heat than if  it  stood erect, but the 
one  point which should be insisted upon,  is 
that  the  face  of this curve along which the 
smoke rises, should strike, if  it were contin­
ued (which it is not,  being  cut  off  by  the 
broad  throat  of  the  flue),  several  inches 
above the  lintel at the top  of  the  fire-place 
opening.  The  smoke is  then  fairly  caught 
in the ascending current  of  warm  air  and 
carried up and away.

A smoking fire-place  may often  be  cured 
without any changes of  flue or chimney  by 
simply bringing down  the  top either with a 
row  of  bricks  or  tiles,  or ¿by  a  piece  of 
metal  fitted  in  between the 
jambs.  And 
this cure is effected not because the fireplace 
was originally  too large or  too  shallow  to 
“draw,”  but  because  the properpr-ovision 
had  not  been  made  for  entrapping  the 
smoke and  turning it into  the rising stream 
of warm  air.  •

SUGAR AND  MODASSES.

A  Surfeit of Sweet  Things  at Gotham.
There is to-day over 170,000 tons of  sugar 
in the bonded-warehouses  in  Brooklyn, N. 
Y.  Such a large amount in store has  never 
before been known in  the history of bonded 
warehouses.  There  are  on  hand  118,829 
hogsheads of sugar,  against  105,591  at the 
same time last year, aud 1,293,782  mats and 
bags, against  633,359 last  year.  This, at a 
rough  average,  will  give  170,000  tons  of 
sugar wasting  its  sweetness  between  the 
walls  of  these  warehouses.  Woodruff’s, 
Robinson’s,  Merchants’,  the  Union,  the 
Empire,  the  Atlantic,  the  Dock,  and  the 
Erie Basin stores in Brooklyn are all nearly 
full of sugar.  In fact,  with  the  exception 
of the marine stores, there  is an  unbroken 
line of sugar from the Empire  stores  above 
Fulton Ferry ddwn to the Erie Basin. 
It is 
consigned to a  number  of  firms,  and  em­
braces every grade  that is  brought  to this 
country.  The importations  exceed  the de­
mand,  and, as  a  consequence,  the  market 
has fallen off  about one and a  half  cents a 
pound on nearly all grades.  Sugar men say 
that  the  enormous  shipment  of  beet-root 
sugar is primarily the cause  of 
the  depres­
sion in the market.  One  house  has  used 
200,000  bags  of this  within  a  short  time 
without mixing it with  other  sugars.  The 
importations are mostly from  Germany and 
France,  and  are  landed  at  Jersey  City. 
Every  steamer  from Germany  and  France 
continues  to  bring  large  quantities of  it. 
Outside of this there is a  sale  only  for the 
commonest kind of molasses sugar.  There 
is some demand for  this on  account  of the 
low prices.  Another reason for  the depres­
sion in the market is found in  the  fact that 
many of the larger refining  companies have 
imported largely themselves this year  aside 
from buying in the market.  This has had a 
tendency to create dullness in the trade ¡and 
lower  prices.  “As  the  market  stands  at 
present,” said  a  prominent  dealer  to-day, 
there is nothing to be made by  the producer 
or  the  importer.  Even  the  best  grades 
hardly  realize  enough  to  pay  advances. 
Only a few days ago we sold on commission 
a cargo  of  respectable  Cuban  sugar  to  a 
Philadelphia firm at 2% cents a  pound,  the 
latter paying the duties  and  transportation. 
Figuring up the war and export tax in Cuba, 
amounting to $7 a  hogshead,  transportation 
to this country at from $3 to $5 a  hogshead, 
casks, cooperage, and commission, there was 
little margin left  for  the  producer.”  The 
Havana steamers are now bringing sugar  as 
ballast, taking it at rates that  ordinary  bal­
last would  cost.

It is the same with molasses as with sugar. 
Molasses was never  cheaper  in  New  York 
than to-day.  A prime article can  be  had at 
15 cents a gallon. 
It  is  lower  than  before 
the war.

Brooklyn has  the  largest  tin-box  factory 
in the country.  A feature  is  the  manufac­
ture of decorated tin ware.  This consists of 
tin plate on whose surface  there is a picture 
or other design.  The work is done by a tin­
lithographing press similiar to that  employ­
ed upon paper.  The  decorated  ware  costs 
but a trifle more  than  the  plain, and is in 
great demand.

THE  CORSET.

T l i e   V a r i o u s   K i n d s   a n d   S o m e  o f   t l i e   W e a r ­

e r s .

Going down a street in crowded Boston we 
came suddenly upon a narrow front contain­
ing two long windows, one on  the alley and 
tlie other facing the street, and before  these 
windows we stop  in wondering  contempla­
tion.  Both are  filled  from  top to  bottom 
with corsets of every style, shape and  form, 
no two alike and all handsomely mounted on 
wire frames of  graceful  proportions.  Each 
has its own suggestive name and  over these 
the eye roves with increased interest.  Here 
is the “Bernhardt,” fearfully and wonderful­
ly made; here is the  plump,  yea,  exuberant 
“Davenport;”  here a short, curved “ballet;” 
here a filmy lace work“summer”  and a score 
more in hues of rose, pale-blue, lilac, cream, 
and gorgeous black silk or  satin,  stiched  in 
scarlet or  gold,  elaborately  embroidered  in 
the  same  color  and  softened  with  rich, 
creamy lace  until  it  is  a picture, a poem, a 
thing of beauty.  Can these  exquisite  crea­
tions bear the same  name  and  answer the 
same purpose  as  that  stiff  combination  of 
coarse cotton, starch, steel  and  horn  which 
we saw  dangling  from a pole  in  Tremont 
Row marked, “This stylish corset  for twen­
ty-five cents?”  Let us enter and see.

Here is only  a  long,  narrow  passage  be­
tween  plain  wood  counters,  and  on  the 
shelves  behind  nothing  but  long, narrow 
boxes.  Plainly the  attractions  are  all  in 
the  windows, unless  the  brightrfaced  girls 
stationed behind the counters might  be enu­
merated among these which  is doubtful, the 
customers  being  exclusively feminine, and 
therefore  not  to be influenced  by the con­
templation of bright eyes and rosy cheeks.

is growing so  stout, poor  Fanny!  She  had 
had some made in New York  but  she  came 
here soon after and got a full supply. 
‘Oh,’ 
she said, ‘this is the only corset that one can 
lie down in.’  I made corsets for Jenny Lind 
—so long  ago as that.  Jenny  wTas a sweet 
girl.  Goldschmidt that  she  married  came 
here with her.  He  went  everywhere  with 
her. 
I told  my husband  that  she  would 
marry Goldschmidt and  that it  would  end 
her  public  singing. 
It all came  out  as  1 
prophesied. 
I doubt  if he  is kind  to  her, 
and she so sweet.  Ah, we see  every one of 
note  here, 
ladies.  Many  public  singers 
come to me for their corsets.  They are hard 
to suit.  They want a good fit, but not at all 
tight.  No singer, or actress  wears a tight or 
stiff corset.  They know too well the beauty 
of a pliant; yielding  form, and to a singer  a 
tight  corset is  dreadful.  They  talk to me 
about breathing  and the  necessity of giving 
full play to the diaphragm until, I assure you, 
I am quite bewildered..”

“But what is this broad band  of  webbing 

for?”

“Ah, that in itself is a feature. 

It length­
ens the corset and  holds it  in place  and pre 
vents it  from  slipping  down—a  shocking 
fault with a common corset—brings the bust 
too low and destroys the form.”

“Well, these corsets with different names, 

are they all of the same cut?”

“Precisely;  all  these  high-priced  ones. 
The padded are  the ‘Bernhardt,’ the  unpad­
ded  the  ‘Davenport,’ and  the  short  ones 
without webbing, the ‘Ballet.’ ”

“Send this one  up.”
“Certainly, madame.  You are sure  to be 

suited as you have been fitted.”

“Good afternoon.”
“Thanks, madame.”

Half a dozen  ladies  sit at the  counters. 
One  walks  briskly  in, singles  out a sales­
woman, says concisely  with a business  air;
“Send me a P. D., size twenty-three,” and 
she walks out.  Evidently  an  old  customer 
who  knows  by past  “fittings”  what  she 
wants.

Another sits before a dozen different limp- 
looking articles, looking from them to the el­
egant (wire) form in the window, and trying 
to find some  resemblance  between  the  two 
collections.  The girl before her  clasps  one 
about her own plump waist.

“You see,” she  says  “the  shape  is  the 
same, but  there is  no  stiffening  in  them. 
You  must get them on to know  what  they 
are.”

The  customer  looks  doubtful.  At this 
juncture  a  dark-eyed,  dark-haired,  middle- 
aged lady advanced with an air that bespeaks 
her  the  proprietress of all  these  boxes of 
satin and lace shapeliness. She is, of a truth, 
“the great corset maker”—not only  of  Bos­
ton but also of that  peripatetic  and  floating 
population  seldow  seen  but  for  a  price, 
actresses and public singers.

“Will Madame step into the fitting room?” 
she asks with a charming mixture of suavity 
and  deference.  She  recognizes at a glance 
the new customer, discouraged  between  the 
array of limpness before her and the  shape­
liness of the gracefully  outlined  marvels in 
the window.

“It is the cut  of  our  corsets  that  gives 
them their beautiful  shape,”  she  continues, 
preceding her customer to the small room at 
the rear of the store, while the shop-girl  fol­
lows with an armful of these  articles—“not 
starch and bones pressed  into  fixed  curves, 
but the common corset.  These  look  shape­
less as you see, when not worn; but once on 
—ah! see how soft, and how  exquisite!  Of 
course where the natural  form  is  defectiv e 
we supply roundness and curve, so our ladies 
are sure of  an  elegant  form  when  fitted. 
You, Madame, are long waisted and slender; 
you need this corset, which all the  actresses 
and singers wear. 
I made four of  them for 
Bernhardt when she was  here at $15 each.” 
“Ffteen dollars!  Oh that  is  much  more 
than I want to pay,” protests the  customer, 
“And for this plain jean corset!”

“But this is not $15,” continues  Madame, 
the corset  maker, reassuringly,  “although it 
is of precisely  the  same  material as Bern­
hardt’s.  No one can understand  what  it is 
to make a corset for Bernhardt.  Every part 
must be rounded and padded  from  the  hips 
to the  shoulder.  Bernhardt is so thin! one 
absolutely straight, unbroken  line, from the 
shoulders down. To fit her would be absurd; 
instead, we fit what she ought to be.

“But I have  surely  heard  or  read  that 

Bernhardt wears no corset.”

“Neither does she on the  stage  when  she 
dies, but on the street andrin that marvelous 
fitting riding habit  does  Madame  suppose 
she wears no corset?  She  wears  the  very 
ones we  made  for  her; such  as  the  one 
Madame must have seen in the window.” 

“What! that one  with a curious  arrange­
ment under the arm and over  the  shoulders 
like a horse collar I”

“Precisely! 

‘That  horse  collar’  com­
mences under  the  arm to  give a beautiful 
curve to the  waist; it is  carried  over  the 
shoulder where it fills up  the  dreadful  hol­
low just above the shoulder bone and around 
the arm.  That is  what it is for.  Then the 
hips are 'rounded out with  padding  and the 
bust.  Oh, it is all padded; but so luxurious 
and comfortable.  Bernhardt says  she shall 
never  wear  another  style.  They all wear 
these, plump  and  lean.  Now, Davenport, 
we have made her  corsets  for  years.  She

SILK  CULTURE.

The Government Collecting Statistics About 

an  Infant Industry.

From the New York  Herald.

One  of the  last  bills  passed  by  the  late 
Congress was the  appropriation  of  $15,000 
for the encouragement  of  the  infant  home 
industry of silk-culture.  The plan  of those 
interested is to form a silk-culture bureau in 
the  Department  of  Agriculture,  the  head 
quarters to be at Washington.  Commission­
er of Agriculture Loring set  to work  imme­
diately to find out the best  method of reach­
ing the eulturists and benefiting them by the 
distribution of the  sum  appropriated,,  The 
Commissioners  will,  as  soon  as  they  have 
obtained  the  necessary  information,  pur­
chase  mulberry  trees  of  the  best  varieties 
(principally  the  “alba,” “moretti,” and “ja­
pónica,” and distribute them, with silk-worm 
eggs, to those  who  have  already  started in 
the industry who are  unable to  procure  all 
the material needed.  The officials  will cor­
respond with all who have  practical  knowl­
edge of  silk-culture, and  what  information 
is gained will be given in a pamphlet  that is 
to be  prepared  as  soon  as  possible.  Al­
though the appropriation  is  small,  still it is 
a beginning in  the  right  direction,  for  the 
cocoons raised in different parts of the Unit­
ed States are equal to any in the world.  The 
lack of mulberry trees or  Osage  orange  for 
food is the  chief  obstacle  to  the  extensive 
culture of the silkworm.

July 30  the  Government  representative, 
Mr.  Walker, visited  the  silk-farm  at  Park 
Ridge, N. J., on the line of  the New Jersey 
& New York Railroad, on  his  tour  through 
the various parts of  the  country  where  the 
industiy  has  been  established.  He  was 
shown over the farm  of  about  thirty  acres, 
examined  the  growing 
trees,  took  notes 
of their number  and  condition, and  secured 
specimens of the beetle with  which some of 
them are infested; examined the work of the 
pest in its  progress  from  the  end  of  tlie 
brances of  young  trees  down to the  place 
where the branches join the  trunk,  the  lat­
ter place being the spot where the insect de­
posits  its  eggs.  The  cocoonery  was  next 
visited,  The  strings of  cocoons  procured 
from those who had  been  furninshed  with 
the best eggs were hung around the walls.

The season’s crop of  worms at this farm, 
which is under  the  direction  of  the  New 
York Silk Exchange, met with the same fate 
as those of last  year,  only  eighteen  out  of 
100,000 worms living to  spin  their  cocoons. 
The greatest care has been  taken to procure 
only  the  best  American  cocoons  in  order 
that none but first-class stock  can  be  raised 
by  those  obtaining  their  eggs there.  One 
lot  of  the  deep  salmon  Turkish  variety 
shown yesterday brought out moths so large 
and  perfect  that  from  about  two  pounds 
of cocoons three ounces of eggs were obtain­
ed, the usual amount being  from two to two 
and a half ounces.  Mr. Walker  took  speci­
mens  of a peculiar  moth  which  resembles 
the buffalo moth, and which eats its way in­
to cocoons and devours the silk moth  before 
it is matured from the worm state.

The whole farm was visited and  the  diff­
erent plots that had been  purchased  chiefly 
by young women were examined.  The diff­
erent ways of planting  the  mulberry,  in or­
chards or  hedges,  was  discussed,  with  the 
comparative  success  in  growing  imported 
and native trees.  The visit showed that the 
Agricultural Department is really in earnest, 
one of the last questions of  Mr. Walker  be­
ing, “How many trees  would  be  needed  to 
help the industry in this locality?”  to which 
the ready answer was  made, “About 2,000.”

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A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile anilannlactnring Interests of the State,

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST  20,1884.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

AMONG THE TRADE.

I N   T H E   C IT Y .

Aylsworth  &  Cathcart  succeed  H.  S. 
Pressburg  in  the  clothing  business  at  18 
Canal street.

H.  Leonard & Sons’  long-promised  cata­
logue has put in an appearance. 
It contains 
98 pages  and  cover, and is suitably illustra­
ted. 

____________ _ _ _

M. McArdle has moved his  grocery stock 
and business from 83 to 79 Plainfield avenue, 
the location^lately vacated by W. B. Thomp­
son. 

_____________ __

A. M. Church,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at Englishville, has  started
the same business at .  Sparta.  Cody, Ball 

& Co. furnished the stock.

B. J. Robertson, who was recently burned 
out at  Breedsville,  has  resumed  the  drug 
business at that  place,  Hazeltine,  Perkins 
& Co. furnishing the stock.

Wm.  F.  Stuart,  who  was in  town  last 
Friday, states that  his  shingle  mill on  the 
Slaght timber  tract, west  of Tustin, will  go 
into operation in about two weeks.

Chas. F. Heinzelman  has  purchased  the 
branch  bakery  and  grocery  business  of 
Julius Yogel on the comer  of  Summit and 
h a ir s  streets, and will continue the  business 
at the same location.

Every honorable man  will  rejoice  in  the 
present  peculiar  predicament  of  one W. E. 
Hunt, a west side jeweler. 
In order  to  de­
feat his creditors, he put his property  in  his 
wife’s name, and  now  she refuses to return 
it to his custody.  Surely'rogues  are  some­
times repaid for trickery and downright  dis­
honesty. 

________

It is stated—and on the  best  of authority 
—that negotiations are now pending for  the 
organization of a stock company for the pur­
pose  of  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of 
matches.  The project is  in  the  hands of a 
few energetic and  capable  men, who  will 
doubtless bend every  energy  to  accomplish 
the object in view.

AROUND  THE  STATE 

Eastport  has  a  new  drug  store,  L.  R 

Rogers proprietor.

store at Petoskey.

Chas.  Carmichael  has  opened  a  notion 

Prius & Geerlings,  of  Holland,  have dis­

solved, Mr. Prius continuing.

Moon & Wade have engaged in the bakery 

and grocery business at Cadillac 

DenHerder & Lahuis  succeed  John  Den 

Herder in general trade at Zeeland 

Woodhull & Wade, of  Fremont,  have en­

gaged in the fruit business at  Cadillac.

M.  I.  Thomson  &  Co.  succeed  Fenn 
Earle in the grocery business at Stanton.
Scoville &  Rich,  bakers  and grocers 

Manistee,  are succeeded  by Tost  &  Wook- 
row.
Benton
Harbor, has been closed out on chattel mort­
gage.

LeGrand A.  Jones,  druggist  at 

J. Riley will remove his  grocery  and no­
tion stock from Dorr to  Silver  Creek, Alle­
gan county, next  week.

F.  Sauerbier  has  removed  his  grocery 
stock from Lakeside  to Big  Rapids,  where 
he has resumed business.

Arthur  H.  Webber  succeeds  Dr. W. 

Hendryx in the drug business at Big Rapids, 
Dr. Hendryx will remove to  Idaho in a few 
weeks.

T. S. Barber and F. B. Jones have formed 
a co-partnership at Saranac  under  the  firm 
name of Barber & Jones and engaged in  the 
crockery business.

W. H.  Kanaga  has  bought  of  Barry  & 
Downing the building formerly  occupied by 
them, at Nashville, as a bank,  and  will oc­
cupy it with boots and shoes as  soon  as the 
present incumbents vacate.

The  sale of  Aylsworth  &  LaDouceur’s 
clothing  stock,  at  Big  Rapids, to  W.  H. 
Smith,  has  fallen  through, but  Mr.  Smith 
will engage in the business at that place, put­
ting in a complete new stock.

In order to prevent the execution of an at­
tachment, the Northwestern  Manufacturing 
Co., at Boyne Falls, made an  assignment on 
the 12th,  immediately  calling a meeting  of 
the creditors, to whom the  present status of 
the corporation was  disclosed.  On  satisfy­
ing themselves that the company was  worth 
fully §25,000, and that  the  total  indebted­
ness reached only §8,200, the  creditors will­
ingly allowed the assignment to be set aside, 
and appointed  L. J. Rindge and  Chas. Root 
trustees, to whom a trust mortgage for §8,200 
was executed.  Tfie company then  resumed 
operations as before, and the temporary sus­
pension will  in no way affect  the  credit  or 
standing of the concern.

STRAY  FACTS.

Big  Rapids is to have an  artificial  stone

manufactory.

Brown &  Co. are  erecting a  lamp  black 

factory in Royal Oak.

A Petoskey dealer shipped two and a half 

tons of raspberries during the  season.

Charlevoix thinks a fish canning establish­
ment in that village would be a good paying 
investment.

The charter of the First National Bank at 
Flint will  soon  expire,  but  efforts  will be 
made to renew it.

Port  Huron  is  endeavoring  to  get  Dr, 
Fanning, of Lapeer, to  start  a  factory  for 
his patent wagons.

Parties are  looking  over Bellaire  with 

view  to building  a foundry  and  machine 
shop in that village.

Goodsell &  Crawford,  of  Ludington, are 
building eight logging cars for the  Danaher 
& Mellendy  company.

Nearly  §800,000  worth  of  building  im-

O F F IC E R S .

President-Wm. Logie.
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mjl18- 
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Official Organ—The  Michigan  Tradesman. 
Committee onConstitution andBy-Laws  Wal- 
lace Franklin,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Geo.  H. Sey-
NextMeeting—At Sweet’s Hotel reading room 

Saturday, August 30, at 8 p. m.

pgr-  subscribers and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saW the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this  paper.

The dealer who buys goods, knowing that 
he is  insolvent,  and that  failure is?  inevit­
able, is a dishonest man.______

In response to  an  inquiry  from  an  Iowa 
groceryman, the Chicago Grocer alleges that 
borax  powder  placed  around  and  under 
sugar barrels will prove  a  successful  exter 
minator of ants.  This is worthy  of  a  trial 
and if it proves to  be  effective,  should  be 
noted down in every grocer’s memory.

The man who borrows money of a relative 
or friend with which to engage  in  business, 
and who is given credit  on  the strength  of 
his having such money, should not make the 
person loaning the money a  preferred credi­
tor in case of failure, but should compel him 
to  accept  a pro rata  with the  other  credi­
tors.

The glass  manufacturers  hold  frequent 
conventions, and suspend their factories and 
boost up the prices, and make themselves as 
conspicuous and important as if the only in­
dustry in the country were  the  manufacture 
of glass.  Why, we can subsist without their 
exceedingly fragile products.  We do not eat 
glass, nor drink glass, nor wear glass, and if 
it is necessary  to  take  the  conceit  out of 
them  we  can  cease  using it for  window 
panes and plug up the sash with old hats.

The Tradesman is in receipt of  a  com­
munication  from  E. Lovejoy,  who  repre­
sents himself to be a former employe  of the 
late firm of  E. R. Barrows & Co., of  Even- 
wood, taking issue with the  statement made 
in a recent paper to the effect that  Receiver 
Tate is winding up the business of  the  firm 
to the satisfaction of all those  interested in 
the matter.  Mr.  Lovejoy  alleges  that  he 
holds a labor claim  against  the  estate, con­
tracted previous to the failure, wrhich he lias 
been unable to collect, and that  a number of 
other laborers are  in the  same  position as 
himself.  The Tradesman sees no  reason 
why it should  detract  one  iota  from  the 
statement made relative to Mr. Tate, as he is 
placed in a position, as receiver,  which for­
bids him taking  cognizance of  any  claims 
against the estate except such as are brought 
by suit.  Therein a receiver differs  from an 
assignee, being governed  by  altogether dif­
ferent statutes. 
If Mr. Lovejoy and  his co­
workers will assign their claims to one  per­
son, and instruct that  person  to  bring  suit 
against Mr. Tate for the aggregate  amount, 
they will speedily receive  an  honorable ad 
justment of their claims.  ____

In a hopeful article on the  financial  out­
look, the Chicago Trilmne say: “At a recent 
meeting of the Board of  Directors of one of j 
the richest and  most conservative  banks of | 
this city the President said to his associates: 
‘Take out your memorandum-books  and put j 
me on record as making now  and  here  the 
prediction that  this country is on the eve of 
the  most  prosperous  days  it  has  seen 
since 1854.’  And the Tribune adds. 
It is 
a delightful  change  in  the  inharmonious 
notes of predicted evil that  have  overcome 
us like a flood for, now,  three  years to hear 
once again the language of  hope and the ac­
cents  of  confidence.  There is, it must  be 
confessed, a great  deal in the  development 
of events that promises to make  the  proph­
ecy good.  The most  important of  these is 
the crops, the next is the crops, and the next 
to that is the  crops.  From Maine to Califor­
nia and from Dakota to Texas the bounty of 
Nature has been poured on  the ground with 
golden generosity.  Hundreds of millions of 
dollars have been spread over the surface of 
the farms of the entire country.  This treas­
ure has but to be picked  up from  the  agri­
cultural  placers, our  real  gold-diggings, a 
great deal of it has been already picked up and 
put out of harm’s way, and the weather is the 
best  possible  for 
the 
rest in magnificent shape.  With such a min­
tage of wealth out of  propitious  skies  and 
kindly earth it matters but  little  to the peo­
ple of this country whether the swapping of 
jack-knives in Wall  street  turns to the  ad­
vantage of this  side or  that.  The  one  su­
preme fact is that the  country  has  made a 
profit of hundreds of millions  of dollars out 
of its investment of a year’s toil in the fields.
. That in wheat  and  other  things is already 
secured.  Three  weeks  more  of  weather 
without frost will  give us hundreds of mill 
ions  additiorial out of  the com  crop, which 
never looked so well as now.

the  gamering  of 

The brick work on Watt  &  Cahoon’s and 
E. P. Gifford’s new stores at Saranac is com­
pleted.

proveinents have been made at  Pj^t  Huron 
during the present year.

Slabs are selling for §1 a cord at the  mill 
docks, Ludington—a  decline  of 25  cents a 
cord on last year’s prices.

Since poplar pulp has come to be used for 
paper making, the worthless  poplar lands of 
northern Michigan are looking up.

Midland has a stock  company  formed  to 
manufacture wooden ware  with a  capital of 
§75,000.  R. G. Peters  is president.

It is reported that hemlock bark is  so low 
atManistique  and vicinity that  it  does not 
pay to peel it. 

It sells at §1.50 per cord.

Thos.  Wells,  formerly  of  the  firm  of 
Wells & Greenwood, has engaged in general 
trade and the grain business  at Pewamo.

The manufacturing interests of Otsego are 
assuming important proportions.  They have 
a fine site and  water  power  for  such  pur­
poses.

The Yermontville Brick  and  Tile Co.  is 
the style of anew  enterprise,  consisting of 
Warner, Hammond  & Martin,  for  the pur­
pose suggested in the title.

Some of the  creditors  of the  Pullman & 
Hinchman estate,  at Shelby, have  purchas­
ed the firm’s executions, and the probability 
is that the mill will soon  be running again.
The Luther  Lance  says:  Mr. Comstock 
informs us  that  there is prospect of imme­
diate settlement of Copley’s affairs at Carey- 
ville, and  that  he, Mr. Comstock, will  run 
the mill by the thousand.

The Stanton Buggy Co. succeed  Weather- 
wax  & McFadden in the manufacture of the 
Bush gear buggies at  Stanton.  N.  Sheford 
president  and  W.  S. Pierson  secretary. 

The business will be enlarged.

F. F. Sommers, proprietor  of  the  Grand 
Haven  Match  Works, now  employs  abqut 
seventy-five hands, and turns out  about 250 
gross-of matches per day, four-fiths of which 
are sulphur.  Ready  sale is  found  for the 
entire product as fast as manufactured.  Mr. 
Sommers has lately invented a new  compo­
sition for parlor matches  which is  bound to 
revolutionize the trade in those goods.

Saranac  Local:  Strangers  coming  into 
our village express themselves  as  surprised 
at the  activity  and  bustle  during  the  dull 
times.  The  new  buildings  are  furnishing 
employment for a  large  number  of  hands 
which creates a lively look, and the fact that 
Saranac merchants are  selling  goods at  as 
low prices as can  be  obtained  in  the  State, 
brings  custom.  The  merchants  nearly all 
say their trade has kept  steadily  increasing 
for the past two years.

Purely Personal.

Heman G. Barlow,  the  accomplished  and 
ersatile groceryman, is taking a week’s rest 
from active business cares, and will put in a 
portion of the time at Macatawa.

W. T. Lamoreaux has a natural  curiosity 
in the shape  of a  three-legged cat, which  is 
as  sprightly  as ordinary  felines  with  the 
full complement of pedal extremities.

Wm. G. Herpolsheimer,  of  Yoigt,  Her- 
poleheimer & Co.,  is  spending  thfe  heated 
term at Petoskey.  John  Schnitzlefc  of  the 
same firm, spent last  Sabbath  at the  same 
resort,  accompanied by his family.

It is said that Messmore  contemplates  re­
turning to practice in his former  profession, 
which recalls the criticism of a former friend 
of the  gentleman to the  effect  that  he  is 
“better red in the nose than in the law.’

Wm. H. Allen, formerly  with I. E. Mess- 
more, but for the past few months identified 
with the Star Union Line, has  accepted the 
position of book-keeper  for  S. A. Welling. 
John DeJonge will be employed in the house 
for the present.

Stove  Pipes  Again.
Ernest in the American  Artisan,

You will hit the nail on the  head  by  giv­
ing people a hauling over the coals for meas­
uring stoves and stove pipe  with  all  kinds 
of measures.  As a rule a customer wanting 
a new joint of pipe  measures  the  old  pipe 
with  the  first  thing  in  the  shape  of  a 
string he can get  his  hands on.  Sometimes 
it is a quarter or half  inch  rope, a piece  of 
carpet rag, a shoe string, or a bit of common 
wrapping  twine.  You might as  well  take 
the  measure  with a rubber  band.  Or  the 
thoughtless customer  will  measure  across 
the diameter of the pipe, which having been 
jammed out of shape, gives  no correct  idea 
of what the  size  really  should  be.  In all 
such cases the new piece  of  pipe  is  certain 
not to fit, and the  tinner  gets  a  “blessing.” 
By free use of a hatchet they sometimes  get 
the pipe together, or hammer it up so it is of 
no account.

I would suggest that where  people do not 
know  enough to measure a stove pipe  cor- 
rectly, they  employ a tinner.  But  any  one 
can take the measure  accurately if they will 
set about it properly.  If a tape  line  is  not 
at hand, take a strip of strong  wrapping pa­
per  about  one  inch  wide,  and  measure 
around the pipe,having the ends of the paper 
square.  Anything thin that  will  not  stretch 
will  answer.  Then  there will be no guess 
work about it, and the new piece  will fit on 
the  old.  This  is  seemingly  a  very  small 
matter, and yet it is one which gives tinners 
trouble every year.

COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots....................
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
l  40
Akron Cement per bbl......................... 
l  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
140
Car lots..................... ..............................1  g ® 1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  <*w
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
4 J®
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
” J®
Land plaster, car lots............................
Fire brick, per  ......................................*** ®
Fire clay, per bbl................................. . 
® 00
Anthracite, egg and grate!................ §6 50®6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut...............'•  ® ”«©7 00
Cannell coal. • • •    ........ .................. oa
Blossburg or Cumberland................ 

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Butter  Dealers

(TREAT  A S  IF   W R ITTEN   TO  YOU !)

TO TH E TRAD E:—

Cleveland, Ohio,  August 18,1884.

The Season of  the year has now advanced when  it is almost impossi­
ble to obtain a choice article of Rich Flavored B utter, with  the approach of  Autumn 
and Winter the demand increases and the supply is decreased.  The result is the merchant 
must either resort to packed butter or a Butter Substitute.  This naturally  calls  the ques­
tion to your  consideration, what  shall I sell  and yet retain my trade?  To do  this  you 
must give them a fine flavored product.  The dry season has  made it impossible to do this 
so far as natural butter  is concerned.  But, fortunately for the  trade and the  consumer, 
we have prepared the remedy whereby they can have their tastes catered to  and  their ap­
petites appeased.  We  therefore offer for  your  consideration  our  F amous B rands  of 
D a ir y  a n d   Cream ery  B utterenes,  which  for  Flavor,  Richness,  Purity  and 
W holesomeness are not surpassed by the  natual  product.  Our “ Rose of Sharon ”  and 
“ Old  Cuyahoga”  Creameries,  and  “ Milk  Maid”  and  “ ForestCity”  Butterenes  are 
churned from the purest ingredients and contain no foreign  or  deletrious  substances, but 
natural and healthy products such as are used every day and eaten at every meal through- 
out the world.  So  satisfied  with the  health-giving  properties  of  our products, we  are 
willing to place  our goods at  the disposal  of  any chemist  in the  country and ask  his 
If any unhealthy ingredient is  found  therein we are willing  to  con­
analysis. 
tribute §1,000 to any  charitable  institution in the  country.  We are the only  practical 
Butter manufacturers in the trade, and the  only ones  that give the business of  churning 
artificial butter individual attention.  Having spent many thousands  of dollars in perfect­
ing our product, we come to  the trade this season with the positive  knowledge  that  we 
have a product equal in every  respect  to any Dairy  or Creamery Butter  manufactured. 
All articles that enter our Butterenes are subjected to the  severest  test by our individual 
examination, which enables us to go to the trade and consumer with a  full  knowledge of 
what every ounce contains.  We, therefore, have  practically no competitors  and recog­
nize no other manufacturers’ product when merit is considered—our only opponents being 
Dairy and Creamery Butters, which  we  verily believe  that, with our long  experience in 
handling, we are not surpassed, and  the majority of cases not equaled.  Our Foundation 
for the  manufacture of our goods is Pure, Fresh Alderney Cream and Milk, and our process 
of manufacture peculiar to ourselves, the result of many years experimenting and at the cost
of many thousands of dollars in perfecting.  All we ask  of  the  trade  and  consumer is a 
comparison of our goods with the finest dairy and creamery products.  A trial  order  will 
demonstrate just what we claim of our goods. 
It was our  intention  at  the  beginning  of 
the Summer to run through the entire season, but owing to the increased  demand  side  by 
side with the natural product  we were  compelled,  by the  anticipation  of  our  increased 
trade, to double our former capacity. 
In so doing, we  have  neither  spared  pains or  ex­
pense, and to-day our Dairy is running at full capacity and we are prepared to  fill  unlim­
ited orders.

OUR Butterenes are of  two  grades.  Cream  products  known  as  “Creameries,”  and 
Milk products known as “Dairy.”  These goods are  packed in 30, 40  and  50  lb.  tubs, in 
ash, oak or spruce in Rolls, Prints or Solid Packed, varying  with the season and  demands 
of the trade.  Our prices are regulated entirely by the price of Dairy  and  Creamery  But­
ter, ranging from four to six cents less.

This season we are making a specialty of churning for our regular customers, either pro 
duct bearing their  own  fancy as to brand, which we in every way  warrant  equal  to our 
standard  and  famous  brands.  This  enables  the  dealer  to  have j i t  all times a standard 
brand for his  customers.

We  have  now  contracted with many Grocers and Butter Dealers to  supply them  with 
their supplies during the  entire  winter, and  are  prepared, after  a  trial  of  our  goods, to 
make special prices with the trade for their “known  marks” of goods  if  desired,  and  by
onr special arrangements with transportation companies we are enabled  to  deliver  to  any
point at the lowest rates, freight prepaid.

W e  So l ic it a  t r ia l  o r d e r ,  a n d  if our goods are n o t  in  every w ay  as represented th ey
Those that do not contemplate  handling  until  later in
may be returned at our  expense 
the season are respectfully  requested  to correspond  with  us  as  to  prices  and  samples, 
which shall receive  our  prompt  attention  and  return post reply. 
In order to obtain  our 
goods make your first order direct to the Dairy, it matters not how small  your  order is, it 
shall receive that careful attention that larger ones  require.

Yours very truly,

ohj-A-fuk:  <&  c o ,

¡■PUB  OHURNERS,

Office:  288  Bridge  Street,

CLEVELAND,  OHIO.

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.

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FOR SALE—I have a fine new store building 

•  —j  anddwel-
dwelling house and 40 business  and dwel­
terms.  D.

ling lots in Elmira for sale on easy
lmg lots in rum 
C. Underwood.
W i
ANTED—A good  merchant tailor.  Must 
be a good cutter and be  able to do  good 
work.  Address E. B. Slocum  &  Co., Hesperia, 
Mich. 
WANTED,  to  sell,  or  exchange  for  Dry 

Goods, Notions, Mens’ Furnishing goods 
or clothing, one 7 year old  sound black  geld­
ing.  Good driver  and  elegant ¡saddle  horse. 
Perfectly  safe  for a  lady  to  ride  or  drive. 
Very  kind  every  way.  Also  top  trinkin 
spring buggy,  elegant  harness  and  common 
harness, wagon, Bobs and Cutter; also a  com­
plete outfit for starting grocery business such 
as show cases, oil tanks, counter and platform 
scales,  scoops,  coffee  mill,  caddys,  cheese 
safes, patent syrup gates etc.,  too  numerous 
to mention.  Any  part  or all  of  the  above 
cheap for cash or reasonable equity  in  trade. 
Will  entertain  any  other  proposals  of  ex­
change.  A A A  care of  “The Tradesman.”

f 'OR EXCHANGE—I have 80 acres  of choice 

hard wood land lying within  three  and a 
half miles of Tustin, six acres cleared and 150,- 
000 of cork  pine  standing  on  same,  which  I 
will exchange for city lots in Grand  Rapids or 
sell on reasonable terms.  D.  C. Underwood.

IT'OR  SALE—At  a  bargain,  a  double  door, 

' 
combination  lock  safe,  and  two  6  foot, 
oval front, walnut show cases, nickel trimmed, 
all as good as new.  Or will exchange for mer­
chandise.  G.  B.  Wright,  14  North  Division 
street, Grand Rapids.

experience.  Can  speak  French.
GGG, care “The Tradesman.”

Position  as  drug  and  prescrip- 
“  ~  re  years’ 
tion clerk by a young man of five years 
Address

Wa n t e d ------- i p . -   -PL
FOR  SALE—A general stock  of  goods  at  a 

good location on the  Toledo,  Ann  Arbor 
built immediately.  Address S. M. Scott, North 
Star, Gratiot County, Mich. 

& Northern  Michigan  Railway.  Depot  to  be 

49

TO  RENT—A desirable store, size 18x80 feet, 

corner of  Monroe  and  Division  streets.
Grand Rapids,  Mich.  Suitable  for  boots  and 
shoes,  millinery,  clothing-,  dry  goods,  gro­
ceries, etc.  This store is connected by an arch­
way with the popular variety store,  known  as 
the “Bee Hive,”  and  can be run in connection 
or separately as desired.  Rent  $600.  For fur­
ther particulars, address Gilbert B.  Wright, 14 
North Division street.
M. M. HOTJSEMAIT,

ATTORNEY  AT  LAW ,

ROOMS  7  AND  8  HOUSEMAN  BUILDING,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

COMMERCIAL  LAW  A  SPECIALTY.

School Books

School Stationery

W holesale,

EATON,  LÏON  k  ALLES,

22  and  34  Canal  Street,

The  only  general  jobbing  house  in 
M ichigan  in  our  line.  Send  for cata­
logues and term s.

MASON’S 
FRUIT JARS

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Large stock on hand at bottom  prices  for 
immediate shipment.  Also  EXTRA  RUB­
BERS for MASON  Jars.  We  quote  porce­
lain lined Mason jars as follows:

Pints, $13 per gross.
Quarts, $ 1 4  per gross. 
1-2 Gallons, $ 1 7  per  gross.

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To meet the demand for cheap storage for 

fruit, we offer:
Quart Barrell Jars, per gross.....................  9 50 
y2 Gal. Barrell Jars, qer gross.....................w 00
These are glass cans with glass covers to seal 
with wax.  Also
Per Dozen.
y. Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......  85ga
1 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......1 4WW-
y2 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and  Corks..........  8a
1 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and Corks..........1 40
Sealing Wax, $  lb............................................  4c

H. Leonard &  Sons,

GRAND  RAPIDS 

16 Monroe  Street,
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The Harbor Springs  Independent  says:
B. F.  Wagley  left  for  parts  unknown  last 
week, leaving  behind  numerous  creditors 
who  will  probably  have  something to re­
member him  by. 
It is eistimated  that  alto­
gether he dropped them about §2,100 w orthy

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird; mixed in ft  packages.........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander,  D e st  English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................

Mustard, white( Black 10c).
Quince..................................
Rape, Lngiish.......................
Worm,  Levant..................

SPONGES.

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

“The best lavender flowers,” said a whole- 
sale  druggist,  “come  from  France.  The 
flowers are small and  blue in color, and  are 
mixed with short stems as big as small pins. 
They are  very  fragrant,  and  when  rubbed 
on the hand  leaye a pleasant  and  delicate 
odor. 
I’ll guarantee  that  nine  out of ten 
persons who use lavender water in their toi- 
let have not the vaguest idea  what lavender 
flowers  look  like.  Speaking  of  lavender 
water reminds me that, although it is so call- 
ed, the perfume used is not  lavender  water 
but lavender extract”

“How does it come to this country?”
“In  packages  of  about  three  hundred 
pounds each.  It is not  very expensive.  We 
sell it at twelve cents a pound.”

“In what form  is it  imported  other  than 

the flower?”

“The extract  and  the  essential  oil.  The 
latter is a votatile oil  upon  which  the  odor 
depends.  The ordinary oil sells from  $1.75 
to $8 a pound.  Witcham’s oil  of  lavender, 
which gets its name from  Witcham’s garden 
in London, costs $4.25 an ounce.  An ounce 
of fairly good oil will perfume  four  or  five 
gallons of alcohol.”

“Is lavender not also  used  for  medicinal 

purposes?”

“It is a remedy  for  nervous  debility  and 
It is very 
one  or  two  other  complaints. 
pleasant to the taste, and  for  this  reason is 
often  mixed  with  other  medicines.  The 
best lavender extract  is  made  in  Germany. 
In fact, many of the French  perfumes have 
all their extracts made in  Germany, because 
they make them better there than  anywhere 
else.”

The  Origin of  Petroleum.

Bershelot maintains  that  the  interior  of 
the  globe  contains  free  alkaline  metals 
which, in  presence of  carbolic  acid, yields 
metallic acetylides, which  on  being  decom­
posed  by watery vapor  furnish  acetylene. 
But it has been already proved  that  acety­
lene may be  polymerized, so  as to  produce 
aromatic carbides or the derivatives of marsh- 
gas by the absorption of hydrogen. All these 
reactions have  been  demonstrated  experi­
mentally, but the presence of  alkaline  met­
als in the interior of  the globe is an unprov­
ed and  improbable  hypothesis.  According 
to Byasson,  the hydrocarbons  of  petroleum 
are formed by the action of  water, carbonic 
acid, and  sulphuretted  hydrogen  upon in­
candescent iron.  Mendelejeff  likewise  ad­
mits that the  action of  watery vapor  upon 
iron corbides may give rise to the  formation 
of petroleum.  To these hypotheses is oppos­
ed the absence of iron in  volcanic  products. 
Other investigators consider  that  petroleum 
is formed not  synthetically, but  by the  de­
composition of organic matter.

Elmira  on  tlie  Boom.

A leading business man of  Elmira  writes 
as follows of the present growth and  future 
prospects of the place:

Elmira  still  continues  to  flourish, more 
buildings being under process of construction 
here than at any other town of its size along 
the line of  the  G. R. & L 
Its  future  pros­
pects are very flattering.  A large  church is 
nearly  completed, and  several  other  good 
buildings  are  under  way.  Several  Grand 
Rapids parties have lately  made  purchases 
of realty here, among them being five travel­
ing men and four passenger conductors. Geo. 
W. Bevins, the Tustin general  dealer, owns 
both land and  lots  here.  Mrs. L. S. Jenks’ 
new store building  has  been  leased by the 
new  firm  of  Watson &  Wright,  who  will 
open up about the  25th.  Mr. Locey, a prac­
tical mill operator, has built a large saw mill 
a mile and a half south  of  the  village  and 
the G. R. & I. has  put  in  a  switch  to  the 
same.

There is no lack of  invention in  chemis­
try.  Of new dyes having a commercial  im­
portance the following have been introduced 
within a few years :  African red,  alizarine 
blues; alneine, anthracene blue, orange, and 
violet;  aureosin  benzaurine,  beth-a-barra 
wood,  Biebrich  scarlet,  blackey  blue  and 
orange,  benzyl  blue,  Bordeaux,  calliatura 
wood, campobello  yellow,  cannelle  brown, 
cauline, chlorozone,  chrome  alum,  chryso- 
line, coccine, cœruline, cyanogen purple, the 
malachite,  solid  and  methyl  greens;  en- 
thylrosine pink,  eosine and its modifications, 
galleine, 
indophenols  and  indulines, 
laureline, the oranges and  tropæolines, rose 
BengaIe,saffronsine,  crorceine  scarlet, etc. 
On the  other hand  many  of  the  old  dye- 
woods are now superseded, and their timber 
may rest in primitive forests.

the 

For adhesive labels dissolve  1)4  oz.  com­
mon glue, which has laid  a  day  in cold  wa­
ter,  with some candy  sugar, and % oz. gum 
arabie in 6 ounces  hot  water, stirring  con­
stantly  till  the  whole is homogeneous. 
If 
this paste is applied to labels  with  a  brush 
and allowed to dry, they will  then be ready 
for use by mere moistennig with the tongue.
The President of  the  United  States can 
not draw his salary until  four  persons have 
pondered over the  subject  and  signed  their 
names.

The Leonard glass works, of Detroit, shut 
down on July 31 for repairs  to  the  furnace 
and also to enlarge their capacity  for  hand­
ling glass insulators.

One  hundred and forty  tons  of chloride 
of  lime  are  used  daily in London for the 
purpose of  deodorizjpg  the  outlets  of  the 
sewers.

Hiere is not a single wax match factory in 
the  United  States.  They  are  all  made in 

rland, France and Italy.

The Indigo Market.

From the Oil, Paint, and  Drug Reporter.

There  being  an  entire  absence  of  any 
disturbing  element  in  the  indigo  market, 
the fluctuations  in  values  have  been  com­
paratively light for some time,  and prices at 
present  writing  are  ruling  steady.  Con­
sumers are large buyers in the home market. 
They were led to believe  that money  could 
be saved by purchasing  in  foreign  markets, 
and, as a  consequence,  most  of  them have 
been importing indigo on their  own account. 
The experience has  taught  them,  however, 
that the disadvantages of  the  practice  out­
weigh the benefits and many consumers*  are 
returning  to  their  old  custom  of  buying 
after arrival.  The spot stock of  Bengal  is 
large and the only  recent  change  in  values 
to be noted is the slight  better .appreciation 
of  the Kurpah grade.  At the  third periodi­
cal sale of East India indigo, held by Messrs. 
Hess  &  Erdmann  of  London,  in 
July, 
9,200 chests ofas sorted grades  were offered, 
of which 3,965  chests  were  sold  under  the 
hammer  and  1,050  chests  privately.  As 
usual at the  July  sales  there  was  a  large 
attendance of buyers and observers, most  of 
whom  were  attracted  for  the  purpose  of 
being informed on  London  July  rates  for 
use  later  in  the  year  for Calcutta.  Many 
opportunities  were  presented  at  this  sale 
to buy indigo cheaply, especially  in the case 
of plant oudes and oudes,  their price having 
given  away  under  the  influence  of  cheap 
kurpahs.  All through the sale a tone of de­
pression  prevailed, even fine Bengals  being 
touched by a decline to three pence per pound, 
although it is still given out that the  Bengal 
and  Tirhoot  crop  of  next year is expected 
to turn out much smaller than the  last  two 
or three years.  Kurpahs were not  so  plen­
tiful as in  April  or  up  to  the  average  in 
quality.  Good  parcels  brought  a  small 
advance,  but 
the  mixed  grades  are  not 
altered in  price.  An excellent  quality  of 
Bengal  was  offered,  and 
this  tended  to 
influence foreign buyers to  lay  in  a  larger 
stock  than  usual.  They  covered  the  re­
quirements  at  about  three  to  four  pence 
per  pound,  discount  on  Calcutta  prices, 
exclusive  of  interest.  Dry  leaf  declined 
about three pence per pound,  but  there  is 
still a scarcitj*of desirable  medium  grades. 
Blimlipatams were  in  more limited  supply 
than at any sale for some  time  past.  Man­
illa was in light request; only a  few  chests 
were sold out of  fifty chests  offered.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

W. T. Long, wholesale  fruit and produce, 
Vicksburg: “1  find  it  almost  impossible  to 
do  business  and  get  along  without  T he 
T radesman.”

VanderLinde & DeJongh, grocers, Muske­
gon :  “Your Tradesm an is a very interest­
ing paper for dealers in any line,  particular­
ly us grocers.”

Dr. W. H. Andrews, druggist,  Fennville: 
“Received two copies of your  valuable  pa­
per.  Got more  than $5 worth  of informa­
tion from them.  Count  me in  for a  sub­
scriber as long as I can borrow a dollar from 
my prospective  brother-in-law.  Expect  to 
visit your city before  long  and will  run in 
and leave you a basket of  choice  Fennville 
peaches.”

He Preferred It.

“I  see  you’ve  got  this  confounded  rye 
bread again,” hissed Plunkett at  the break­
fast table.

“Yes, dearie,” smoothly replied the  lady, 

“I got it because you  love it.”

“Me  love  it,  madam?  Ugh,  the  very 
smell of it makes  me  sick.  Who  was  so 
wise as to know that I loved rye bread?”

“Nobody,” stammered Mrs. Plunkett, “ex­
cept I heard you tell  Fitzgoober a  few days 
ago that  you  preferred  rye to com,  and  I 
didn’t know in what you preferred  it unless 
it was bread.”

When he went to work  Plunkett  kicked 

himself out of the door.

A  M ill  Owner.

“No,  young  man,  I  shall  not  give  my 
daughter to any  one unable to  support  her. 
Why,  you are  not  worth  a  fraction  of  a 
cent.”

“You certainly labor  under  a mistake. 

own  ten mills.”
“Ten mills?”
“Yes.”
“Pardon  me.  Take  her,  my boy;  take 

I 

her.”

N. B.—After the  wedding  the  old  man 

was reminded that ten mills make a cent.

A revolution in  the match-making  indus­
try may be expected.  The  Russian  depart­
ment of commerce and manufactures has re­
cently awarded a patent to the inventor of a 
means of so impregnating wood with a liquid 
that, when dried, it lights  with  slight fric­
tion, and can  be  used  several  times over, 
thus securing, according to  the inventor, an 
economy of at least 75 per cent.

The Best W eight for Market Pigs. 

From the Live Stock Journal 

The style of market pig  has  undergone  a 
great change within a few years.  The large 
400 or 500 pound hog is now  seldom  found. 
The overgrown hog is no  longer  sought  af­
ter, and  pig  feeding has  been  more  care­
fully  studied  of late years.  Shrewd  feed­
ers have found that  the  older  the  hog the 
more its carcass costs per pound. 
It is  also 
found that the flesh of the large hog is coars­
er and stronger, and not as  sweet  and  fine 
flavored as a ten or twelve  months’ pig. 
It 
is true, the  older  over-fattened  hog  yields 
more lard, but this does not carry profit with 
it, as lard often brings no  higher  price than 
the side  pork.  The  inducement, therefore, 
to grow these large  hogs no  longer  exists, 
and the 300 pound pig has displace |   the 500 
b

water.

Bros., Moline.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

J. Riley, Dorr.
E. G. Maxwell,  Sands  &  Maxwell,  Pent- 
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
W. S. Root, Talmadge.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Wm. F. Stuart, Sand Lake.
T. J. Sheridan,  Lockwood.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center.
Wm. Black, Cedar  Springs.
A. M. Church,  Sparta.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
Mr. Paine, of Paine & Field, Englishville. 
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
G. H. Walbrink,  Allendale.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
W. S. Root, Talmadge.
Mr.  McLeod,  of  McLeod  &  Trautman 
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Smedley Bros., Bauer.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
J. Barnes, Plainfield.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg’
Falls & Truax, Spring Lake.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
G. J. Shackelton,  Lisbon.
John Smith, Ada.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
' Jacob Omler, Wright.
Geo. Bliss, Plainwell.
J. Gunstra, Lamont.
Mr. Selkirk,  Kalkaska.
Geo. W. Crawford, Big Rapids.
R. H. Woodin,  Sparta.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
B. Steketee, Holland.
S. S. Dryden, Allegan.
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
Geo.  Carrington, Trent.
J. DeHart,  Casnovia.
John Neis, Saugatuck.
B. H. Rose, Sherman.
Mr. Denton, of Robbie & Denton, Howard 
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
Richard  Purdy, Fremont.
Mr. Huhn, of Frace  &  Huhn, Saranac. 
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
J. R. Wylie, Martin.
G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.
John Scholten, Filmore  Center.
B.  Tinkler, Hastings.
S. T. McLellan,  Denison.
D. B. Galantine, Bailey.
Corneil & Griswold, Griswold.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
Colbom & Carpenter, Caledonia.
D. W. Johnson, Muskegon.
J. H. Spires, Leroy.
Mrs. E. Deacon, Cedar Springs.
S. A. Colby, Rockford.
J. A. Spooner, of  Spooner  Bros.,  Cedar 
J. R.  Dibble,  of  Dibble  Bros.,  Bumip’s 
M. Jonkman, Holland.
Mr. Davis, of O’Dell & Davis, McLain.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
A. A.  Bleazby, Kalkaska.
O. P. McClure, Spencer’s  Mill.
Howard Morley, Cedar Springs.
Geo. Roys, Cedar Springs.
Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
C. E. Kellogg, Jennisonville.
Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
Mr. Camp, of Cole & Camp, Kingsley.
A. B. Foote, Hilliards.
John Andre,  of  Andre  Bros., Jennison­
Jos. Newman, Dorr.
P. H. Bennega,  Fremont.
Mr. Lahuis,  of  Den  Herder  &  Lahuis, 
E. Pryce,  Chase.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
Sisson & Lilley, Spring  Lake.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Roup & Williams, Chippewa Lake.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
O. E. Close & Co., Sand Lake.

ville.

Zeeland.

Springs.
Corners.

City.

VISITING SALESMEN.

Representatives of  the  following  houses 

have been in town since our last issue:

H. P. Boylan, John  Copeland  & Co., De­

C. H. Cole, Lord & Taylor, New York.
Mr. Hutchins,  E. S. Jaffrey  &  Co., New 
Mr. Coolidge,  Gibson,  Parish & Co.,  Chi­

troit

York.
cago.

Cheerful  View  of the  Situation.

“The business  outlook,”  said  a  leading 
banker,  to  a  reporter,  the  other  day,  “is 
good. 
I think everything  points  to an  ex­
cellent fall trade.”
_ “How  is it now?”

“Matters are pretty quiet at present  The 
late  financial  disturbances  have  caused  a 
feeling  of  conservatism  among  business 
men, and they are not  branching out  much, 
they are getting  down  to  hard pan.  Our 
local banks, 1 know from  personal  observa­
tion,  are  putting  themselves  on  a  better 
footing than they have  been  for  a  number 
of years.  There has been a decrease  in the 
amount of  assets, it is true,  but  there  has 
been a reduction  of  liabilities in a  greater 
ratio.”

“Then you feel  rather  cheerful  over the 

situation, do  you?”

“Certainly.  The  false bottom  has  been 
knocked  out, men  are  more  careful  than 
they were  before,  having  profited  by  the 
lessons, and  trade is on  a more  substantial 
basis than it has been for years.  With good 
crops I anticipate a season of  prosperity.”

Jurubeba, a drug that is  quite  popular  in 
Brazil, has been recently introduced into the 
United States. 
It belongs to the Solanum or 
tomato family, and is  said to possess all the 
virtues and  none of the  vices  of  mercury. 
Dr. Carvalho of  Rio de Janeiro and Dr. De- 
Champs of Paris call it “the vegetable  mer­
cury.”

“Don’t give me any of your lip,”  said an 
ugly country school teacher to a pert  young 
miss  who  had  “sassed”  him. 
“Oh,  you 
needn’t worry,” she retorted;  “I  would not 
kiss you even if the freckles  on  your  face 
were ¿old dollars.”

Fresh milk from America  sold in London 
is a new wringle made practicable by refrig-

WH0LESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Declined—Quinine,  P & W, and German. 
Advanced—Oil  Peppermint, Celery Seed. 

a c i d s .

Acetic,  N o.8............................$  ft  9  ©  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........  30  @  35
50
Carbclic............................................  
Citric................................................. 
55
Muriatic 18  deg.................................. 
3 @  5
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................   14V4@  15
Sulphuric 66 deg................................ 
3 @  4
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic...............................................  15  @  17

a m m o n i a .

Carbonate.................................f) lb  15  @  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
14
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................... 
6 @  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
7  @  8

BALSAMS.

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

@  50
40
2 50
50

 

 
BA RK S.

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

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

 

B E R R IE S.

Cubeb, prime  (Powd $  85)............ 
@  80
6 @  7
Juniper................................................ 
Prickly Ash......................................1 CO  @1 10

EXTRACTS.

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

12

27
37)4
9
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................  10  @  11
Chamomile,  Homan....................... 
25
Chamomile,  German.....................  
25

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60®  75
18
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................. 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
50
Ammoniac.......................... :........... 
28@  30
60
Arabic, extra  select....................... 
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
60
Arabic, 1st  picked................................... 
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
40
35
Arabic,c3d pickad............................ 
30
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
30
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
21®  24
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is (M 14c, Ms  16c)............ 
13
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
35®  40
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge........... .............................. 
60®1 00
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
20
 
Kino [Powdered, 30c]..................... 
10
Mastic................................................ 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00).............. 
4 50
Shellac, Campbell’s......................... 
30
26
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
24
Shellac bleached.............................. 
30
Tragacanth......................................  30  @110

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

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

 

 

IR O N .

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

6 40
20
7
80
65

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12  @  11
Sage, Italian, bulk (Ms fc As, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  20
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
30
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
10
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
35
Belledonna........................................ 
30
Foxglove........................................... 
Henbane........................................... 
35
Hose, red........................................... 
2 35

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1 75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands...................1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom...................................1 35  @1 75
Gin,  Holland....................................2  00  @3  50
Brandy..............................................1  75  @6  50
Catawba  Wines...............................1  25  @2  00
Port Wines....................................... 135  @2  50

M AGNESIA.

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

23
37
2 25
70

O ILS.

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  45  @  50
45
Amber, rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
1  80
Bay 
oz.........................................  
50
2 00
Bergamont.......................................  
Castor................................................  18M®  20
Croton...............................................  
2 00
Cajeput............................................  
75
Cassia.............................................. 
100
40
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
85
Citronella........................................ 
1 25
Cloves................................................ 
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................  
7 25
1 60
Erigeron........................................... 
Fireweed.......................................... 
2 00
Geranium $   oz...............................  
75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
40
Juniper wood.................................  
50
2 00
Juniper berries...............................  
Lavender flowers, French............. 
2 01
100
Lavender garden 
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
Lemon, new crop............................ 
1  70
Lemon,  Sanderson’s..................... 
1  75
Lemongrass.................  
80
1 25
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
1 75
Pennyroyal...................................... 
Peppermint,  white........ ;.............. 
4 00
9 75
Rose $  oz......................................... 
65
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
4  50
andal Wood,  W. I ....................... 
7 00
Sassafras................................  
60
 
Tansy...............................................  
4 50
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  @  12
Z 25
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
4  50
1 00
Savin.................................................  
2 50
Wormseed........................................ 
Cod Liver, filtered.......... 
.. $  gal 
1 90
Cod Liver, best................................  
3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1 20
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ............... 
2 50
Salad.................................................  65  @  67
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................^ oz 
9 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 00

POTASSIUM .

Bicromate.................................$  fi> 
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow.............................. 

14
35
20
1  40
30

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................  
15
27
Althea, cut........................................ 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
35
Arrow, Taylor’s, in Ms and Ms__  
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
23
10
Gentian (Powd  14c)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........   13  @  14
20
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
35
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................  
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
22
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
110
37M
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
Licorice,  select (Powd 12M)........  
12
Licorice, extra select..................... 
15
Pink, true................................ 
35
 
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. I .       .............. .110  @1 20
2 00
2 25
50

thei, choice cut  cubes................ 

hei, choice cut fingers.,............ 
 

Serpentaria................ 
Seneka

 

 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.15) $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H.,P. & Co.’s.
Alum......................................... 
ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prime..........................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds__ ; ............. ; .....___
Calomel.  American........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English............
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
50
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform.....................................1
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ »............
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................
Cochineal .........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................\ ..............
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................
Glue, white.......................................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  Ms and Ms..............................
Iodoform 
oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (Ms 2s 10c & Ms 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ ^  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................$  ft
Moss,  Irish.......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Md...............
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz
Quinine,  German............................1
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Red  Precipitate.......................ft ft
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin__ t........................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s....
Soap, White Castile........................
Soap, Green  do 
.........................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
.........................
do  do 
Soap, Maz^ini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, M gal. cans  ft doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............  
Turpentine,  Venice................ $ f t  
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

do 
do 

2  00
2M®  3M 
3  @  4
32
4M@  5
6  @  7
40 
2 25 
00  @9 75 
1 60 
45
7M©  9

1  60 
60 
1 60 
1 7# 
1 90 
1 75 
®1  10 
@  55

2M@

45

25®

10

17 
28 
25 
40 
35
85  @1 00 
23  @  25 
2 10 
1 50 
9
@  <’5 
15 
9
1  00 
50 
60
12M®  13 
1 35 
50
3 25@3 50 
40

6  ®  7
1 10©I 15 
00  @1 05 
28 
1 50 
@  82

79

©  2

4M®

3M@3®

85
25
60
7  @  8

O IL S.

VARNISHES,

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder..................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 35
challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 50
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
  1^40
 
Sperm, winter bleached..................... 
 
Gal
Bbl
80
Whale, winter....................
85
Lard, extra...........................................  64
64
75
Lard, No.  1...........................................  55
55
65
Linseed, pure  raw..............................  57
60
57
Linseed, boiled.....................
60
63
90
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained
95
Spirits Turpentine.............................   3'
37
45
No. lTurp  Coach.................................. 1 10@1 20
..1 10@1 20
,.l 60@1 70
Extra  Turp............................................1 60@1 70
..2 75®3 00
Coach  Body............................................2 75@3 00
..1 00©1 10
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@1 10
Extra Turp  Damar............................... 1 55@1 60
..1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1. Turp.....................   70®  75
Lb
9
10
10
11
2® 3
2® 3
2® 3
2M® 3
2%® 3 
13@16 
55®57 
16@17 
5% 
5% 
@70 
@90

PA IN TS
Bor alumine, White  bulk] 
“ 
Boralumine, 
6 fts I
ff..
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  150 off. 
Boralumine  “ 
5  fts. J
Red Venetian............................  1J£
15K
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   13£
13£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........   1M
15SÍ
Putty, commercial...............,  2M
VA
Putty, strictly pure................  2M
2M
Vermilion, prime American
Vermilion, English...............
Green, Peninsular..............
Lead, red strictly pure........
Lead, white, strictly pure...
Whiting, white Spanish......
Whiting,  Gilders*^

Bbl

W holesale

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

igs, Mefliomes, Gbsniicali 
Paints, Oils, Variles,

1>J

65

38

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Pa in t  a n d  V arnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H air, Shoe a n d H orse Brushes.

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.

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

Withers Dade & Co’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WIIISKYS.  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

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

Gins, Braiflies & Fine Wines.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

V

A mercantili:  journal, published each

W E D N E S D A Y .

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

OFFICE IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapid*  as 
L 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST  20,1884.

SETTLING  BY NOTE.

trade, to which  every  man  in  active  busi­
ness is liable, the  country  dealer  who  had 
been in the habit of settling  by  note  could 
receive extension or accommodation  with as 
much  readiness  and  much  more  heartily 
than the one who had dealt  upon  open  ac­
count. 

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An odd sort of straw hat is made from sea 
grass.  The maker says  that  rain  strength­
ens and improves the fabric.

RETAILERS,

W H O L E S A L E

Men’s Furnishing Goods

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, M n e e rtf 
manufactured goods, we guarantee t o ^ h e  trade the  Jobbers  Probte.
1 1 8  Jefferson Ave.

“ Sam pteseni
Detroit.

W e manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  nrst- 
class.
W e  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virgidia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans, Walnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

We are  agents  for  Gordons 
celebrated  'W’ag Jaws, Olym­
pian, 33» F., and many other well- 
known brands and c a r r y  a full line 
of his goods at factory prices.
W e handle Oranges, Lemons, 
Bananas,  Figs,  Bates,  Etc.,  in 
large quantities from first-hands  and 
are  headquarters  for  everything  in 
our line.

PUTNAM  4   BROOKS.
FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

REM OVAL!

Coal, Wood, Lime,  Cement,  f 

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

3 3 .  K  3ST O  W  L S O N .  

W M . SEA R S & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

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Agents  fo r

A M B O Y   C H E E S E .

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
P. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,
Butter,

-WHOLESALE  D EALE R S  I N

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

G R A N D   H A FI3PS.  -  MICHIGrAM.

PE C K   BROS.,

W h o lesa le D ruggists

A Complete Stock of all that pertains to the wants of the Retail Druggist.

We  Employ  No  Travelers.  Send  for  Prices.

129  and  131  Monroe Street,

fci-

G-ranci  RapidLs

SPRUTG  & COMPANY

Mioli. .j*

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
flirt, icon, C it Grescent & M  Seal Pint Tote®

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

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

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

Tobaccos,  V inegars  and.  Spices I- 

-W E   MAKE  SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR- 

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0UR-MOTTO:  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MAN.1 AND  MAN.

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

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN—

F A N C Y   A N D

P B H E I N S   <Sc  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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

NOS.  122  and  134  LOUIS STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

STAPLE DRT GOODS

If you are selling goods to make

a profit,1  sell

T, AV IN E

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a 
larger profit than any in the  Market,  and  is 
put up in handsome 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, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

at,SO  PROPRIETORS  OF

K E M I N K ’ S

“Red Bark Bitters’7

-----AND-----

78  West  Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

COLE  &  STONE,
Gents’  Fine  Shirts.

Manufacturers  and Jobbers  of

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,
Marshall

Mich.

An  U n f o u n d e d   P r e j u d i c e   a m o n g   Dealers.
When the agreement  against dating ahead 
was  being  passed  around  and  universally 
signed, says the Carpet Trade and Review, 
one of the  clearest-headed  jobbers,  as  he
affixed his name, remarked:

“I do not consider the  practice  of  dating 
bills ahead by any  means  the  worst  abuse 
connected with the  business.  The  system 
of  open  accounts  is  equally  if  not  more 
annoying and costly. 
It  affords  the  same 
opportunity to the customer to gain addition 
al time, and not unfrequently puts the seller 
to extra and unnecessary expense  in  raising 
the money  required in carrying on his  bus! 
ness.”
There seems to be among many  dealers  , 
curious  and  unfounded  prejudice  against 
giving notes in  the  settlement  of  account 
This feeling we are satisfied, after  consider 
able inquiry, prevails to  a  wider  extent  in 
the carpet business than in almost any other 
department of trade.  A moment’s reflection 
will convince any  one  that  such  feelin 
wrong and  works  equally to  the  disadvan 
tage of all concerned.

The manufacturer must have money  with 
which to carry on  his  business.  He  must 
buy his exchange to meet his wool as  it  ar 
rives  at  the  various  shipping  points,  and 
must have money ready from week to  week 
for the payment of his hands and  other  ex­
penses.  Very few have  capital  enough  " 
meet the demands of a large  factory  which 
must run months before  its  production  can 
be placed in  the jobbers’  hands  and  turned 
into cash.  He must  obtain  accommodation 
from  some source.

This necessity enures, in the first place, to 
the benefit  of  the  wholesale  dealer  who 
stands ready to take the goods and  pay  the 
cash.  Just in proportion to his ability to do 
this is he enabled to reap the advantages  of 
the market and obtain  his  goods  at  prices 
which give the retail dealer  a  stock  at  fig­
ures which will stimulate  consumption,  en- 
chance profit^ and  widen  operations.  The 
amount of  money required by  large  carpet 
jobbers at  certain  portions of  tlxe  year  is 
something  enormous.  They  are  buying 
from many sources, and  have  their  money 
locked up in thousands  of  accounts  which, 
no matter how good, are practically  of  not 
the slightest use  until  they  are  due.

If they have the evidence of  obligation, in 
the shape of their customers’ notes, there  is 
no difficulty  in obtaining the money  to  car­
ry on their business, and there is little doubt 
that, with the keenness of  modem competi­
tion, the  customer will  obtain  his  share  of 
the advantages thus  gained  by  the  house 
with which he is accustomed to deal.  Notes 
are the lubricator which keeps the wheels of 
commerce moving easily and steadily.

Probably the men from whom the  remark 
is frequently heard,  “I  never  give  notes,” 
have  a sort of vague idea  that  some  disad­
vantage  attaches to the  practice, and yet,  if 
they would look  at the  matter  calmly  and 
dispassionately, we imagine they would find 
it hard to give any valid reason for  such  an 
opinion.  An honest merchant  not  only  in­
tends to pay his debts,  but  intends  to  pay 
them when  due. 
If he  buys  goods  and 
agrees to settle for  them in sixty  days,  he 
no more obligates himself by giving a note at 
sixty days than by leaving the account open.
His status 
is not altered,  either  legally or 
morally.  Of  course, it is understood we are 
speaking of  that  large  class  of  merchants 
who read  this  jouanal,  and  not  of  those, 
fortunately few in the trade,  who stand  pre­
pared to dispute bills, gain a few  days’ time 
by any means  possible,  or  rely  upon  acci­
dents to delay the payment of their accounts, 
This class  of  men  are  thoroughly  known, 
and in one way or another, in  the long  run, 
gain  nothing  by the  practice  of  which  we 
speak.  Merchants do not  like to  sue  bills, 
and no  matter  how  solvent  a  man  is,  no 
matter how  readily  accessible  his  property 
may be to the ordinary processes of the law, 
they are not anxious to sell him, and if  they 
do, take good care that the probable  cost  of 
collection or .the  interest  lost  by  delay  is 
added to the price of his  goods.  Moreover, 
any favor that a house may have to  give  to 
its customer,  any trouble  that  he  may  be 
be compelled to put  it  to  to  obtain  scarce 
goods, any little courtesy out  of  the  ordin-
*  ary line  of  trade  will  be  conceded  much 
more readify to those who show a  desire  to 
assist the  opperations  of  that  house  and 
facilitate its business.

There is  one view  of  the  matter  which,; 
though seldom  referred to in discussing  the 
subject, is of grave importance,  and  should 
have  considerable  weight.  The  country 
merchant who places his paper in the  hands 
of  a  prominent  and  reputable  city  house 
thereby helps his own credit.  When such a 
house requires  money,  the  notes  which  it 
endorses and sends  to  the  bank  or  to the 
capitalists are always  those  which  it  feels 
reasonably certain will be paid at  maturity. 
It i s  a notice that the firm,  which  ought  to
know the standing of its customer, has  con­
fidence in him.  Sooner or later the fact  be­
comes  known.  Such  houses  do  not  allow 
the paper they have had discounted to go  to 
protest.  And in  case  of  the  accidents  of

—T IÍE -

-AND-

J E W E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

-FOR  THE-

FIELD  AND  GARDEN

------AT------

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

—AT TH E-

S E E D S T O R E
91  Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mieli.

W. T. LiM lEffl, l » t
EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

m

BARBOUR'S  CAMPAIGN  TORCH

The  only  Torch  th at  can  be  taken  apart  and  shipped  in  a 

Sm all  space.

300 to 500 Torches complete (except handles)  can be  packed in  one 

barrel, thus making the freight or express charges very low.

A  Child can P ut them together in one Minute.

A s  good  as  any  Torch  Made.  The  Cheapest  in  Price.

WILL  BURN  FOR  FIVE  HOURS.
Ask for price or send for sample order.

FOSTER, STEVENS  CO.,

lOcand 13 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich

CARPETS, 

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MATTINGS,. I

O IL   C L O T H S ,

ESTO..  ETC .

Q  a n d   8  Monro©  Street,

At  M annfactnrors’ P rices 

Souse  and  Store  Shades  Made  to  Order. 

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

6 8   Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

NELSON  BROS. & CO.

Grand  Rapids,

M ichigan.

a .  a .  o u t p p b n ,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Gaps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

BOOK-KEEPING  MADE  EASY
R E T A I L   G R O C E R S .

F O R

Bv using our Combined Ledger and Day-Book, 
C U STO M ERS’  A C CO U N TS  are  kept  and 
IT E M IZ E D  ST A T E M E N T S.rendered in  half 
the time required by any other  process.

Send  for  descriptive  circular  to   H A L L   & 

CO., Publishers.  iS4 Lake St., Chicago, 111.

T i Q l ß E V E I U   KIND  AND  SIZE,
Trunk, Clout and Finishing 
Steel Wire Nails and Brads.

ALSO

American  Tack  Co.,

F a i r h a v e n  

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M a s s .

NAILS

S. A. WELLING S

WHOLESALE

—AND—

N O T I O N S !

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:  J ohn D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  J ohn  H.  Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna, Geo. W. N. De J onge. 
Frank Berles 
24 Pearl Sircet 

DILWCRTH’S,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

House Salesman.

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- 

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

—Manufacturers  of—

¡G

BAKING  POWDERS,

i e s t c s . ,

40  and  43  South  Division  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

—TH E-

BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O R   S A L E   B Y

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.
ALBERT COYE & SONS
WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  S U P P O R T

State Agents for

2 2  6

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  H ats  $4.50  to  $12  per  Dozen,

Fine  H ats  13.50  to  $36  per  Dozen, 

Straw   H ats  for  Men,

Straw   H ats  for  Boys,

Straw   H ats  for  Ladies,

Straw   H ats  for  Misses.

f the Dozen at  Raw  M   Prices!!

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

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Gottonade Pants and Hosiery.

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

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

I.  C.  L E V I ,

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

Til©  O ld   E olialD le

Pioneer Cigar Factory,
O O

IT.  S C H N E I D E R  

PROPRIETORS.

21  Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids.

The  following  brands  are  our  own  make and Union labelled goods:  Dick and George, 
Peninsular Club,  Los  Dos,  Seltr Fein,  Louise,  Mocking  Bird,  Evening Star  and  K.  T. 
We are jobbers of  all kinds of Tobaccos aim  Smokers’  Articles.

B U S IN E S S   L A W .

B rief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  East  Resort.

B A N K IN G .

The president of a bank  has no right, un­
less authorized by the board of  directors, to 
part  with a collateral  security  which  the 
bank has obtained from one of  its creditors. 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

C O N T R A C T — B Y   L E T T E R — A C C E P T A N C E .
In the  opinion  of  the Supreme  Court  of 
Iowa, when a proposal is accepted by letter, 
the contract is deemed to  become  complete 
when the letter is mailed, provided  the offer 
is standing and the acceptance is made with­
in a reasonable time.  The contract is deem­
ed complete when  the  letter  is  mailed,  be­
cause the mailing constitutes  the  overt  act 
by which the acceptance is manifested.

G A R N IS H E E — J O IN T   L IA B IL IT Y .

Two or more parties can  not  be  held  as 
garnishees unless the liability to the  princi­
pal  debtor is joint, and  this is so  whether 
the proceedings  relate  to  the  possession of 
the  property or the  indebtedness.  Where 
the garnishee  admits no property in his pos­
session belonging to the  debtor at the  time 
of the service of summons, or any  indebted­
ness to him, the  proceedings as to the garni­
shee should end—Supreme Court  of  Michi­
gan.

C O R P O R A T IO N — ST O C K H O L D E R  S  C O N T R IB U ­

T IO N .

One  of 

several  stockholders  can  not 
back out  of  an  agreement,  which  all  have 
entered  into,  to  contribute  a  number  of 
shares each, to be sold for the benefit of  the 
corporation, after  the rest, in reliance  upon 
the agreement, have contributed their propor­
tion.  And if his shares  have  been  taken 
and used accordingly, he can  not  biing tro­
ver for them.  Conrad vs.  LaRue,  Supreme 
Court of Michigan.

F I R E  

IN S U R A N C E — R E C E IP T   O F   P R E M IU M

The Supreme Court of Illinois  holds  that 
a receipt of a premium, after a breach of the 
condition for  its  payment  has  occuried,  is 
doubtless a waiver of the forfeiture; but the 
payment must be made to the  insurer, or to 
an agent having authority  to  receive it, and 
it must be made fairly and honestly, without 
any  misrepresentation  or  concealment  of 
material  facts known  to  the  party  making 
the payment, of which  the  insurer  can  not 
reasonably be presumed to have  know ledge.

much an incident to their  being  there as is 
the loitering or  playing by children  outside 
of the traveled part of  the  highway as they 
go upon it to school or  upon  errands.  And 
children  wherever they go, must be expect­
ed to act upon childish instinct and impulse; 
and others who are chargeable  with a  duty 
of care and caution toward  them  must cal­
culate  upon  this, and  take  precautions ac­
cordingly. 
If they leave  exposed to^the ob­
servation of children anything which  would 
be  tempting to  them, and  which  they  in 
their  immature  judgment  might  naturally 
suppose they are at liberty to handle or play 
with, they should expect that  liberty  to  be
taken.” 

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Extending  Assistance.

“Can you help me a little?” asked a tramp, 
“I’m hungry, and can’t  get  any work at my 
trade.”

“What is your  trade?”  asked  the  gentle­

man.

“I am a glass worker?”
“What kind of a glass worker?”
“Beer glass  worker.”
“Here is a penny for your frankness.” 
“Thank you, sir,” said the tramp grateful 

ly, “I’ll put part or it in the bank.”
A n   i l l u s t r a t e d   W e e k l y .

From the Cadillac Times.

The Michigan  Tradesman,  of  Grand 
Rapids, comes out  as an illustrated  weekly 
this week, and gives  an  illustrated  account 
of the great game of base ball played in that 
city between the wholesale grocery  men  of 
that place and the wholesale grocers  of Sag­
inaw'. 

*

P l e a s a n t   f o r   J o n e s .

“I say, Jones,  dine with  me at the  house 

to-night, will you ?”

“Certainly,  with  pleasure.  Will  your 

wife expect  me?”

“No :  that’s the  beauty  of  it.  We  had a 
quarrel  this  morning  about  the  seashore 
business, and 1 want to make her mad.

Needed by every retail  grocer  or  confec­
tioner,  one  or  more  of  Kenyon’s  Patent 
Spring Paper  Bag  Holders.  Each  has  ca­
pacity of containing about fifty bags.  Tlieir 
great convenience can be learned  by  having 
one mailed for 30c, four for SI, or one dozen 
expressed for $2.50 from  Kenyon  Brothers, 
Wakefield, Rhode  Island.

OUR  SUBSCRIBERS  can  do  us  a 
kindness  that  will  be  duly  appreciated  by 
mentioning The Tradesman  always  in re­
plying to the advertisements  that  appear  in 
our columns.

Elgin creamery  butter,  the  choicest  the 

market affords, at M. C. Russell’s.

k

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POWDER

C astor M achine  Oil.

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

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

O H IO   O IL   OOLAIF’-AJST'Sr

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- 
ingCinto popular favor.  Wc  Solicit  ct  TficiZ  (}rclcv.

M i n e , Perkins  &  Co., Brand  Rapids.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe  Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat­
ed Goods-both Boston and Bay State.  Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready 
for  inspection.

Gills in SjBlly Maitil fir tti MitMi
14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions\

WHOLESALE

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  MICHIGAN.

L IE N  O F   C R E D IT O R S .

In law, the first entry of  judgment  is  al­
ways a first lien, provided due  diligence has 
been made in  making a levy.  This  is  also 
true  as  regards  partners.  A  mortgage  on 
the individual property of  one  partner  w'as 
foreclosed, and  both  an  individual  creditor 
and  a  firm  creditor  claimed  the  surplus 
money.  Both had judgments, the  lattei be­
ing  first  entered.  The  former  claimed  a 
preference as an individual creditor, but was 
defeated.  He  carried  the  case (London  vs. 
Ball)to  the  Supreme  Court  ot  Iddiana, 
where  the  judgment  was  aftirmed.  Judge 
Elliott,  in  the  opinion,  said:  “It  is  not 
doubted that the general rule is that partner­
ship creditors are postponed as to individual 
property, and individual creditors preferred. 
But this general rule does  not  apply  where 
a lien has  has  been  obtained  by judgment 
rendered prior to the creation of the individ­
ual debt.”

WHOLESALE

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GRAND  R A P ID S 
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed.

The lowest market prices  for Sport­

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AGENTS  FOR

31  PEABL  STREET,

Gmt  Railla lira  Worte

TIME TABLES.

A R R IV E .

D E PA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
,  6:00 a m 
tDetroit Express..........................
12:25 p m 
+Day Express...............................
.  6:00 p m 
♦New York Fast Line..................
.  9:20 p m
t Atlantic Express.........................
.  6:4  am 
♦Pacific  Express..........................
.11:20 am 
fLocal  Passenger.........................
.  3:20 p m 
+ M ail.....................................................
.10:25 p m
tGrand Rapids  Express........ .
+Daily except Sunday.  *Dauy.
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. lias 
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. S c h u l t z , Gen 1 Agent.

,

S A L E — F B A U D — C H A N G E   O F  

PO S S E S S IO N .
The case of Grady vs. Baker, recently  de­
cided by the Supreme Court of  Dakota, was 
a case wherein the purchaser of goods could 
not pay for them, and he  sold  them  to  per­
sons who employed him  as a salesman.  The 
vendor attached the goods, claiming that the 
purchase and sale was  fraudulent, and  that 
the employment of the purchaser by his ven­
dee was conclusive evidence  of  fraud  as  to 
the fraudulent sale by him.  The trial court 
decided against the  attachment, which opin­
ion was affirmed by the higher  court, which 
held that that the employment of the vendor 
by the vendee after a sale may be  proved as 
a fact tending to show that  there  has  been 
no actual or continued change of possession; 
but when proved it does not beeome  conclu­
sive of the  question, but  only  an  element 
of proof to be weighed by the jury.  After a 
sale of  goods  and  chattels,  and  an  actual 
change of possession, the employment of the 
vendor by the  vendee, in  the  capacity  of a 
clerk or  salesman,  is  not,  in  itself, conclu­
sive evidence of  fraud  which  admits  of  no 
explanation.  After  a  sale  of  goods  and 
chattels, and an actual and notorious change 
of possession, the employment of the vendor 
by the vendee, as a mere clerk or  salesman, j 
is not a fraud which vitiates the sale, for the 
change of possession is not continued.
nr JURY  TO  CHILD—employe’s  careless­

ness.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

#
WIRE WORK !
City Bottling  Works

92  MONROE  STREET.

BOTTLED  LAGER,  pints, per doz., 50 cts 
BOTTLED  ALE,  pints,  per doz., 75  cents. 
BOTTLED  PORTER,  pints, per  doz., 75c. 
BOTTLED  CIDER, quarts, per doz.,  $1.2.0

All  Goods  WARRASTED the BEST  in  the Market.

Telephone  No.  272.

The case of Powers vs.  Harlow, appealed i 
to the  Supreme  Court of  Miciiigan  by the 
plaintiff,  involved some  novel  points.  The 
action was brought in the lower  court to re­
cover damages for injury to plaintiff’s  child 
from a  dynamite  explosion,  the  explosive 
having been left in tlie  street  by the  defen-1 
dant’s employe, where it was  found  by the 
child, who  exploded it by  striking it with a j 
stone, Injuring his hand.  The  defense  was j 
set up that the plaintiff should have prevent- j 
ed the boy  from  trespassing on defendant’s 
premises.  Judge  Cooley, in  reversing  the 
decision of  the  lower  court,  said:  “The 
moving  about of children  upon  the 
land 
where  they  were at  liberty  to  go,  while 
they were  not  actually  employed, was  as j

Wm. A. Clark
STEAM  LAUNDRY

80  South Division Street.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK  AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

)IN G  EAST

GO ING wEST.

Leaves.
Arrives.
6:20 a m
nboat Expi-ess........ .6:10'«m
.10:15 a m 10:20 am
ugh  Mail.
.  3:20 pm 3:55 p m
ing  Expre
.  9:45 pm 10:45 p m
itic Expres
10:30 a m
d, with  cot e h ...../
ing  Express........... .12:40 p m 12:55 p m
5:00 pm 5:10 p m
ugh  Mail.
,10:30 pm 10:35 p m
nboat Express.......
7:10 am
d ...............
. .' 5:10 am 5:30 a m
t Express.
ily, Sundas s excepted.  ♦Daily
sengers  taking  the 6:20  a.  m.  Express
close connections at Owosso f<ir Lansing
t Detroit fc>r New York, arrivirlg 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 5:10 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner  Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

•  D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.

THOMAS  T a n d y , Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING  SOUTH.

G O ING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati & G. Rapids E*.  9:00 p m  31:00 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:55 pm   5:00 pm 
7:10 am
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
7:00 a m 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.  6:30 p m 
4:35 p m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:10 p m 
11:42 p m
Mackinac & Ft. Wayr e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 10:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petosjiey and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at 30:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac
South—Train leaving at 4:35 p.m. has  Wood­

ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. L o c k w o o d , Gen 1 Pass. Agent.
Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.

Arrives, 
m  4:00 pm  
m  10:45 pm  
in  6:10 am  
m  10:05 pm
night trains, 
ep
f  careful  at­
to Chicago  on
it
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

all

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Arrives. 
Leaves.
5:15p m 
Mixed......................................*>:00am
8:30 p m
obd........■..........U___ __  10:15am
Express.................................   i'R i? ~
Express..................... 
8:30am
m*  _ •_____ _ 
4- A «n h  o iron ii G T
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago
i i a i u o  VUUUWV 
— ------------- 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 
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.  ^  H  palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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r

Dealers in

Awnings,  Tents,  Horse  Wagon  and  Stack 

Covers,  Oiled  Clothing,  Etc.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

Send for Prices.

L. H.  BEALS & SON
*

Manufacturers of

Jl

Westfield, Mass.

O F F I C E

— AND—

SALESROOM 
NO.  4 PEARL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

G. ROYS 4 CO, G il Apts

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
E  2>T GrlUsT E S
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made tor 
Complete Outfits.
W .  O,  Denison,

88,90  and 92  South Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

lEATHERLi & GO,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

I R O N   P I P E , 

Brass  Goods,  Iron  and  Brass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  Fitters,
—And Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

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

13B Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich;

(Broceries.

PEN C It PORTRAITS.

Win. G. Hawkins,  tlie Tall  Man of the Gro­

cery Trade.

William George Hawkins was bom in the 
village of Hayzlettville, Kent  county,  Dela­
ware, March 12,1853, and at the age of  two 
years removed with his  parents to a farm in 
the same county, on which  he  subsequently 
worked  summers,  and  attended  common 
school  winters. 
In the  fall  of 1867 he en­
gaged with  Arthurs  &  Graham, proprietors 
of a general store at Kenton, as a boy of  all 
work, with whom he remained a year  and a 
half, subsequently  occupying  the  more ex­
alted position of  head  salesman  with  their 
successor,  W. H. Moore.  After  remaining 
there  another  year, he  attended  school  a 
year, when he engaged as clerk in tlie  office 
of the Mayor, Jonathan Pratt, of  Dover,  re­
maining there two years.  He then  went to 
Long Green,  Baltimore  county, Md., where 
he clerked in the general store of J. G. Pain­
ter, and afterward  for  his  successor, H. E. 
Bartleson,  remaining  with  the  two  gentle­
men about four years.  In the spring of 1876, 
he  went to  Cincinnati, where  he  accepted 
the position of stock man  for the  wholesale 
drygoods house of John Shillits & Co.  Af­
ter  filling  this  position  one year, he was 
compelled to resign on account of  ill health, 
and put in a year at his old Delaware  home, 
recruiting.  Upon  regaining  his  health,  he 
entered  the  employ of G. W. W. Naudain, 
general  dealer at Middletown, Del., as head 
salesman, remaining  there  until  the  spring 
of 1879, when he came to Grand  Eapids and 
engaged to travel for  the wholesale  grocery 
firm of Arthur Meigs & Co., and during  the 
past five years he has at different times visit­
ed almost the entire trade of the house.  At 
present, his territory  includes  all available 
towns on the G. R. & I., from Grand Rapids 
to Reed City, the F. & P. M., from  Evart to 
Ludington and Manistee, and both  branches 
of the D. L. & N., north of Ionia.  He  sees 
his trade every three weeks.

Mr. Hawkins  attributes his  success  as  a 
salesman to indefatigable industry, but there 
are those who  affirm  that his  ever-present 
good nature has much to do  with  it.  He is 
invariably happy, and  does not  believe  in 
treating his trade otherwise, even  when  he 
feels that way.  As  a  consequence,  he  has 
many friends on the  road, both  among the 
trade and outside, and it is  needless  to  say 
that he is esteemed  by his house, and  is  ev­
erywhere  considered an A 1 salesman  and 
collector, having  the  reputation of  selling 
more plug tobacco than  anyone  else  in the 
business.  Coming  from  a  locality  famous 
for canned goods, and  being  thoroughly ac­
quainted  with all the  branches of the busi­
ness, he is able to handle  that  line  under- 
standingly and  successfully.  The  fact that 
every change he has made in employers dur­
ing the past eighteen years has  been  at  his 
own option speaks stronger than  any wordy 
commendation of his merits  and his  ability 
to discharge any duties that  may be entrust­
ed to him.

Features  of tlie  Week.

The past week has  been  characterized by 
a still further improvement in business, and 
collections are reported  as  growing  easier 
every day.  The grocery  market  has  been 
about steady, but  pork  and  pork  products 
have taken a decided leap, 
in  consequence 
of the gigantic Armour comer.

The  Chicago  Grocer  says:  The  grocery 
trade is beginning  to  improve, and  collec­
tions are better.  Values as  a rule  are firm, 
and  with  present  prospects,  the  future 
promises at least  satisfactory returns.

Oranges are more  plenty and  prices  are 
lower.  The quality is very good.  Lemons 
are also in good supply and  a little lower in 
price.  The  new  crop  is  coming  in  and 
though hard is good stock and  sound.  Ba­
nanas are not plenty  at  present.  Peanuts 
are steady and firm at present  quotations.

Ready to  Skip Town.

From the Chicago Grocer.

A  little bound volume  lay  snugly  tucked 
away  behind  the  dishes in the  pantry of 
Mrs. Poor Pay.

“Have you an account of me?” asked a ten 

pound package of sugar.

“Somewhere,  yes.”
“And of me?” asked the tea  caddy. 
“Guess so.”
“And of me?” asked the flour barrel. 
“Certainly.”
“And of me?” asked the coffee  can. 
“Correct.”
“And of me? and me? and me?” chimed in 
the soap box, the dried fruit  caddy  and  the 
butter dish.

“All here! you bet! and we’ll have a jolly 

old vacation.”

“Where we  going?”
“Going to leave town.”
“When we going to start?”
“Between two days.”
“What for?”
“The jig is up.”
“How is that?”
“My credit it gone.”
“The grocer gets duped?”
“Oh? my yes! he is badly left.”
“Well!  Well!  you’r  an  uncertain 

little

cuss.”

“Oh, yes! a regular bank cashier  skipper. 

I ’m the festive pass book.

The growing tobacco crop  is  the  largest 
ever  planted  in  this  country.  Virginia, 
North Carolina mid Kentucky  planted more 
than ever before.

It is  proposed to hold a national  conven­
tion of  lumbermen at New Orleans  during 
the Exposition  there.

Brisbin Ready  to  Offer a  Compromise.
The following letter has been addressed to 
the  creditors  of  F. C. Brisbin, the  Berlin 
jeneral dealer, who recently  gave  a  couple 
of chattel mortgages, but  assured the credit­
ors that all claims against him would be paid 
in full:

Coopers ville, August  13, 1884. 
Dear Sir—I will  meet  the creditors 

of
F. C. Brisbin at the office  of E. G.  Stuffley 
& Co., in Grand Rapids,  on  August  20,  2 
o’clock  p. m., for the purpose of negotiating 
a  settlement  of  all  claims  against  him. 
Please  be  present  or  represen ted,, at  such 
meeting, that the matter may be  settled  to 
the best advantage of all parties.

Yours, etc.,
Attorney for  F. C. Brisbin. 

A rthur Lowell,

That means a settlement,” said a  jobber 
heavily interested  in the  matter, “in  other 
words, a  clear  steal  of all they think  they 
can get away with.  But they won’t  get me 
to  attend  the  meeting,  or  any  gathering 
called for any such purpose. 
I’ll  have  100 
cents  or  nothing,  and  the  sooner  Brisbin 
comes to understand the matter in that light, 
the better it will be for all  concerned.”

So far as can be  learned, very few of  the 
Grand Rapids creditors will  pay any  atten­
tion to the meeting, for the  reason that they 
look upon the failure  as  a  fraudulent  one, 
and do not propose to assist  Brisbin  in  his 
endeavor to defraud the creditors.

It  is thought that but one  creditor  in the 
city has  any faith in Brisbin’s  promises  to 
pay  in  full,  and  that  gentleman  recently 
stated  to  a  reporter  of T he  Tradesm an:
'I have no faith in Brisbin as  a man,  but I 
have faith  in  his  promise to  pay  me  in 
full.”

“No, sir, I shall attend no  meeting,”  em­
phatically exclaimed Mr.  S. A.  Welling. 
I 
understand Brisbin recently boasted  that he 
now had his creditors just where he  wanted 
them and  that they could take  10  cents or 
nothing.  Forme,  I  will take  nothing. 
I 
consider the failure a  downright  steal, and 
Brisbin a first-class scoundrel.”

“Brisbin considers himself  a  very  sharp 
buyer, and to hear him talk about  the quan­
tities he purchases one would  think  he was 
doing  a  jobbing  business,”  said  a  house 
salesman, the other day.  “He came in here 
few months ago,  and  after  looking  over 
our stock of overalls, asked for  the  bottom 
price in ten  dozen  lots. 
I gave  it to him, 
and he ordered one dozen.  Again  he got a 
price on shoe laces  in large  quantities,  and 
then placed an order for a single gross.  He 
seems to think he is too sharp for anything.”

Settlement of the Selkirk & Morrill Matter.
The showing made by the  assignee in the 
Selkirk & Morrill  assignment  was  so  dis­
couraging that  the  principal  creditors  were 
of the opinion that it would be useless to ex­
pect  any  considerable  precentage on their 
claims in case  the  stock  was  closed out at 
forced sale, but that if  a  compromise  could 
be effected, fully 50 per cent, could  be  real­
ized.  Messrs: John Caulfield and  Hawkins 
&  Perry,  whose  claims  aggregate  nearly 
SI,200,accordingly proposed to the other cred­
itors that they give or take 50 per cent, in full 
settlement, and have thus secured the claims 
of all the other creditors,  and  obtained  pos­
session of the stock, etc., from the  assignee. 
They have paid Selkirk  his  exemption, and 
placed Messrs. Ramsey and Morrill in charge 
of the stock, with  instructions  to  carry  on 
the business as expeditiously as possible un­
til the jobbers in question  secure  ample  re­
muneration for the money they have advanc 
ed.  It is thought that the business will final­
ly pass into the hands of the gentlemen now 
managing it

Referring to Selkirk’s return to Kalkaska 
and his subsequent  actions,  the  Leader, of 
that place, says:  Our county clerk  gravitat­
ed back last Sunday,  and since then  the air 
has been filled  with  rumors  of libel  suits 
etc., and instead of feeling penitent over the 
course he  has  pursued  in  this  matter,  as­
sumes an air of injured [ innocence,  that  is 
unbecoming, to say the least  Coupled with 
an invitation to retract  what  we  said  last 
week in regard to the affair  in which  he so 
prominently  figured,  came  an  intimation 
that in performing a manifest though  pain 
ful duty, we were  prompted  by  malicious 
motives.  The charge w6s utterly false, and 
we assured the  gentleman  of  that  fact  in 
plain terms,  and  here  repeat  it.  As  for 
fears of a libel  suit  or of  personal  injury, 
we are in no wise alarmed.  And  until we 
find that we have misrepresented the matter 
we shall take nothing back.

The  Berry  Trade.

From the New York  Tribune.

The berry trade  in  this  city  amounts to 
nearly $3,000,000  each  season,  and is  car 
ried on by about 200  houses on  small com 
mission.  The season  begins  in  the  early 
part of May and continues until the  middle 
of August.  Strawberries  come  first  from 
Maryland, and then follow  from  Delaware, 
New Jersey,  and along  the  Hudson  river 
while the last of  them come from  Oswego 
about June 1.  Raspberries  begin to  arrive 
in June, and they last until August 1. Black 
berries and  whortleberries  begin to  come 
July 1, and last until August 15.  The rasp­
berries are sent  first  from  Maryland  and 
Dele ware,  and  others  follow  from  New 
York, while the whortleberries are  received 
chiefly from Pennsylvania, though  there are 
some raised among the Catskills.  The trade 
from points upon the North river is a  heavy 
one, and the berries  are mostly  brought  to 
the city by two  lines  of  boats—the  King 
stone line and the  Poughkeepsie  company 
The berries are  in  cups  packed in  crates 
When a retailer purchases a crate of berries 
he is required  to deposit  $1  for  the  crate, 
which he receives back upon  its return, the 
shipper  holding the  commission  merchant 
responsible in tl

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

a x l e   o r e a s e .

75

“ 
“ 

BLU IN G .

BA K IN G   PO W D ER .

“ 
BROOMS.

Frazer’s .........................................................   85
Diamond........................................................  60
M odoc__ $  doz...........................................   <50
Paragon...  #  doz.........................................  70
Paragon, 20 ft  pails......................................  90
Arctic % lb cans..................... ,...........doz.  45
Arctic 14 ft cans.............................................. 
Arctic )4 ft cans...................................................  1 40
Arctic 1 ft  cans.....................................................2 40
  12 00
Arctic 5  ft cans.......................................... 
25
Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
Dry, No. 3........................................... doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz......................................................  12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................   2 00
Arctic No. 2 
...............................   3 00
...............................   4 50
Arctic No. 3 
No. 1 Carpet...............\ ............................. 
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 1 Parlor Gem.................................... 
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
Fancy Whisk............................................  
Common Whisk.......................................  
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards...........................1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  1 95
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled...........................1 25
Clams, 1 ft  standards........................................ I 65
Clams, 2 ft  standards........................................2 65
Lobsters, lf t   standards..............................
Lobsters, 2ft  standards..............................
Lobsters,  Picnics............ 
.........................
Mackerel, lf t  fresh standards........................1 20
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards........................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t ......................3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard................................. 3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled........................................3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.............................1 60
_almon, 2 ft Columbia river............................ 2 60
Salmon, lf t   Sacramento................................. 1 50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle......................  185
Sardines, domestic 14s................................. 
7
Sardines,  domestic  )4s.................  
12*4
Sardines,  Mustard  14s....................... ,.........  12
Sardines,  imported  )4s...............................   15
Sardines, imported )4s.............................-..  20
Sardines, imported )4s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
Trout, 3 ft  brook........................................  3 00

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

CA NN ED F IS H .

 

CANNED F R U IT S .

.............................. 1 35

Apples, 3 ft standards.................................  90
' pples, gallons,  standards, Erie.................... 2 50
blackberries, standards................................... 1 25
Cherries,  red.......................................................1 10
Cherries, w hite..................................................1 75
Damsons........................................................... M 20
Egg Plums, standards 
Egg Plums,  Erie................................................1 45
Green Gages, standards 2ft............................ 1 40
reen Gages,  Erie.............................................1 50
Peaches, 3ft  standards.....................................1 75
Peaches, 3 ft Extra  Yellow..............................2 00
Peaches,  seconds...............................................1 65
Pie Peaches 3 ft..................................................1 15
Pears, Bartlett2ft.............................................1 30
Pineapples, 2 ft  stand.......................................1 40
Quinces...............................................................1 45
Raspberries, 2 ft stand.....................................1 25
Raspberries, 2ft Erie........................................1 40
Strawberries, 2 ft standards........................110
Apricots, Lusk’s................................................ 2 75
Egg Plums..........................................................2 85
Green Gages.......................................................2 85
Pears  ............................................................. 3 00
Quinces...............................................................3 00
Peaches..................................................:....3  00

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

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................................3 25
BeanB, Lim a..................................................  85
Beans, String................................................  90
Beans, Boston Baked........................................1 65
Beans,  Stringless.............................................. 1 00
Corn, Erie......................................................115
Corn, Revere.......................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian.............................................110
Corn,  Yarmouth................................................ 1 20
Corn Trophy.................................................1  15
Corn, 2ft  Onandago.....................................150
Mushrooms, French.............. 
22@24
Peas, standard  Marrofat........................    .1  40
Peas, 2 ft  Early, small  (new)...........................1 60
Peas, 2 ft Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2 ft...........................................23@26
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden........................................1 10
Succotash, 2 ft standards............................  85
Succotash, 2 ft B. & M........................................1 75
Squash, 3 ft  standards...............;................1 20
Tomatoes, 3ft Dilworth’s................................. 1 05
Tomatoes, 3 ft Job Bacon..................................1 05

 

D.....................   35  (Ely’s Waterproof  75

Musket.................  75 

|

CAPS.

CHOCOLATE.

186 ftpkgs.......
382ft pkgs.......
Imperial  bbls. 
Quaker bbls... 
Steel  cut........

@3 75 
@3 25 
@5 50 
@6 75 
@5 75

13)4
19%
76
1 00
75
1 00

O IL .

do. 

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

PIC K L E S .

do 
do 

Choicein barrels med.....................................7 00
Choice in 14 
......................................4 00
small........................... 4 25
Dingee’s 14 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy......................... 4 25
Dingee’s pints 
do 
.........................  2 25
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

“ 
“ 

*’ 

“ 

“ 

P IP E S .

R IC E .

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

Choice  Carolina................................................614
Prime  Carolina......................  
714
ava  ....................................................................6>4
P atna............................................................,...6
Rangoon.....................................................  
  5)4

s a l e r A t u s . *

DeLand’s pure..............................................@ 514
Church’s  .......................................................@554
Taylor’s G.  M............................................... @ 514
Cap  Sheaf...................  
@514
Dwight’s .....................................  
@5)4
Sea  Foam.................................. .'..................@514
., B. &L.’s  Best...........................................@ 5)4

 

SALT.

60 Pocket................................................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
100 3 ft pockets....................................... 
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
Diamond C............................................. 
Standard  Coarse....................................  
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
American, dairy, 14 bu. bags.................... 
Rock, bushels..............................................  

2 50
2 35
2 65
1  00
1 75
1 56
80
3 20

25
30

SA UCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 14 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, 14 pints..................................   @1 50
Halford Sguce,  large............................  @3
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @
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,  14 pints............................  @1 00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1 30
Capers, French surfines.......................  @2
Capers, French surfines, 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, 14 pints, Antonia & Co.’s __   @2 5o

@ 6)4 
@  6)4 
@5 
@5 zo 
@ 6 
@ 5% 
@3 70 
@5 00 
@4 85 
@6  i 
©6 S 
@ 7 
@ 6)4 
@ 534 
@ 534 
@

SEEDS.

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

SO AP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 ft  bars...................................
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................
Napkin, 25 bars......................................
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........
Master, 100-34 ft cakes................. 
..  .
Stearine, 100  34 ft cakes.......................
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped...........
German  Mottled, wrapped..................
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............
London Family, 3-lb bars 80 ft.............
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 ft.............
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................
Climax, 100 cakes,  wrapped................
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Marseilles Castile, Toilet.3 doz in  box
Kirk’s American  Family...........$  ft
do. 
 
do.  Savon........................................ 
do.  Satinet...................................... 
do.  Revenue..................................  
do.  White Russian......................... 
Goodrich’s English Family  ............... 
Princess............................ 
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory................. 
Japan  O live........  
Town Talk  $  box 
Golden Bar........ 
Arab..............  
3 
Amber........... 
3 
Mottled  German.. 

India...........................  

do. 

@36
@ 40@35
@25
@25
@14

.12  @17 
.24  @34 
.17  @19 
@34 
,17H@19 
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@3

5  10

SPICES.

do 
do 
do 

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

534
534
534
514
5)4
4)4
6 75
5
3 60
4 10
40
75
4 20

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................   @3 4(
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 2(
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 0£
Badger............................................60 lbs  @ 6%
Galvanic.................................................   @4 21
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @18%
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar  @  1(
Ward’s White Lily.................................  @6 7f
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 2(
Sidall’s ................................................... 
3 00
Babbitt’s ...............................................  
5 50
4  15
Dish R ag................................................ 
Bluing...................................................... 
5 00
4 20
Magnetic.................................................  
4 50
New  French  Process............................ 
5 00
Spoon...................................................... 
Anti-Washboard....................................  
5 00
Vaterland................................................ 
3 25
Magic.................................................... 
4 20
4 00
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
6 75
Bogue’s ................................................... 
White castile bars................................. 
12
Mottled castile........................................ 
10
Old Country............................................. 
5)

Morning Dew...............
@26 
Chain  ..........................
@22
Seal of Grand  Kadids.
@25
King.............................
I
@30 
@28  C
Flirt..............................
Pug...............................
@30 
I
Ten Penny Durham, Yt and )4.............
@24  C
Amber, )4 and lft.......
@15 
1
Red Fox Smoking.......
@26
Lime Kiln  Club..........
@47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut............ @90 
Vanity  Fair................
@90 
Dim e............................
18@25 
Peerless.......................
@25 
Standard ......................
@22 
@21 
Old Tom.......................
Tom & Jerry...............
@24 
Joker............................
@25 
Traveler.......................
@35 
@26 
Maiden.........................
Topsy  ..........................
@27 
Navy Clippings..........
@24 
Honey D ew .................
@25
Gold  Block..................
@32
Camp Fire  ..................
@22
Oronoko.......................
@19
Nigger  Head...............
@26
Durham, % f t .............
©60 
14 f t .............
@57
Yi f t.............
@55
l f t .............
@51
Holland.......................
@22
German.......................
@16
Long Tom..................>.
@30
National.......................
@26
T im e............................
©26
Love’s Dream.............
©28
Conqueror..................
@23
Fox’s ............................
@22
Grayling.....................
@32
Seal Skin........ ......... ..
@30
Dime Durham...........
@25
Rob Roy.......................
@26
Uncle  Sam..................
©28
Lumberman...............
@26
Railroad Boy...............
@37
Mountain Rose...........
@20
Good Enough.............
@23
Home Comfort, Ü8 and  )4s.................. @25
Old  Rip, long cut.......
@55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................
@55
©25
Two  Nickle, 145..........
@26
Two  Nickle, )4s..........
Star Durham...............
@25
Golden Flake Cabinet
@40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................
@52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz................
@50
@48
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...
©50
Big Deal, 14s  longcut
@27
Applejack, 148  granulated................. @24
King Bee, longcut, )4s and )4s............ @22
Milwaukee Prize, 14s and )4s............... @24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, J4s and 14s............ @24
@28
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts...........  
@25
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages...........  
“  Gloss,  36 3  packages.......... 
24
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate__  
23
“  Corn, 401 ft  packages...........
23
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................
23
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................  
Muzzy  Gloss 6 1b boxes..................
@55
Muzzy Gloss bulk............................... 
American Gentleman........
@72
Muzzy Corn l f t ...................................... 
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................
@35
Special prices on 1,0001b orders.
Gail & Ax’s  Macoboy
@44
Kingsford Silver Gloss..................
.  Scotch, Railroad  Mills..........................
@44
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft box...
4  
Kingsford Corn...................................... 
10@12
,  Pure  Cider................
Oswego  Gloss..................................
10@12
4  White Wine...............
Mirror  Gloss........... ........................
’» 
Mirror Gloss, corn..........................
4  1776 $ f t .....................
@10)4
Piel’s Pearl........... :................................  
Gillett’s $ f t .............
@ 7)4
American Starch Co.’s
7@10
,  Soapine pkg...............
1 1b  Gloss...........................................
@4 50
r*  Pearline S box..........
10 oz  Gloss.......................................  
.
4  Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers... @4 50
  @6
3 1b  Gloss.................................... 
 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs @4 25
6 ft Gloss, wood boxes..........................  
@7
,  Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers. @4 50
Table Corn......................................40 ft
A  Lavine. 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap @4 25
Table  Corn.....................................20 ft  @7
Lavine, single boxes, 80 )4 ft papera.. @4 15
Banner, bulk....................................
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 Vi ft papra @4 00
Jugs $   galloR.
Crocks.............
Milk Crocks...

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon.................................. 
16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger......................................................  17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper 14 ft $  dozen.............................. 
75
Allspice  14 ft........................................... 
75
100
Cinnamon  )4 ft...................................... 
Cloves 14  ft.......................................
@18
Pepper,  whole.................................... 
Allspice................................................ 
@10
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk.......  @5
.  Rattler, longcut........
@4:
)  Windsor cut plug—
@6..
» 
@6
Mule Ear....................
@7
,  Hiawatha..................
*  OldCongress.............
$  Acme..........................
@6 Yt
4  Lorillard’8  Macoboy.
......
^ 
@7

Rising  Sun gross..5 88[
do  waterproof
JU 
Universal...............5 88
&u  Bath Brick imported
I X L ............
5 50
do 
Barley.........................
SUGARS.
34  Burners, No. 1 ..........
@7
Cut Loaf.................................................  
do  No. 2..........
% 
@7
Cubes..................................................... 
%  Bags. American A ...
Powdered..............................................  
@7
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............
@7
Granulated............................................... 
56  Condensed Milk,  Swiss.........................
Conf. A ......................  
  @6-
 
44  Curry Combs 38 doz.
 
Standard A ............................................  
  @6-
&  Cream Tartar 5 and 10 B> cans.............
Extra C white.........................................   6  @6
Candles, Star.............
Extra C................................................  
6«@6
%  Candles,  Hotel...
F in e C .,J ........................5V4<i

Twin B ros....,..  1  75 I W ilsons.......... ... 1 75
¡National........ ... 1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75
Blacking................ .. ....................30, 40, 50@80
1 50
95
75
@3)4
1 10
1 50
20 00
8 00
7 50
@25
@15)4
@16)4

STOVE P O L IS H .
Above1

American............................

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

STONEW ARE.

VIN EGA R.

1 25@

STARCH.

SHORTS.

SN U FF.

YEAST.

2 25

2 55

@4

@8

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Boston  premium. 
Baker’s premium.
Runkles................
German  sweet—  
Vienna Sweet.......
Green Rio.............
GreenJava...........
Green Mocha........
Roasted Rio..........
Roasted  Java.......
Roasted  Mar........
Roasted Mocha__
Roasted Mex........
Ground  Rio..........
Ground  Mex........
Arbuckle’s ............
x x x x .................
Dilworth’s ............
Levering’s ...........
Magnolia...............

.................................   @15)4
.................................  @1514
.................................  @1514
.................................  @1514
.................................   @15)4
CORDAGE.

72 foot J u te ....... 1 25  160 foot Cotton 
60 foot Jute.......1  05 
|50 foot Cotton 

1 75
1 50

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

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

4 oz........................................................ 1 50
6 oz........................................................ 2 50
8 oz......................................................   3 50
No. 2 Taper........................................  1 25
................................. 
No.  4 
Yi pint round.............................
1 
............................
No.  8..............................  
No. 10.................................................   4 25

‘f 
“ 

3 00

| | |

Vanilla,

Jennings’ 2 oz......................................doz.  1 40

4 oz.........................................................2 50
“ 
6 oz......................................................... 4 00
“ 
8 oz......................................................... 5 00
“ 
“ 
No. 2  Taper........................................   1 60
No.  4 Taper.........................................  3 00
“ 
“  % pint round......................................  7 50
1 pint  round....................................... 15 00
“ 
“  No.  8...................... 
“  No.  10.....................................................6 00
FAUCETS

4 25

 

 

F IS H .

Faucets,  self  measuring.....................   @2 50
Faucets, common............................... . 
,@  35
Whole Cod..............................................  434@6)4
Boneless Cod......................................... 
5@7@8
Herring Yt bbls. 100 ft.........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled......................................  @24
Herring Holland...................................  @1  10
White, No. 1, )4 bb ls............................ 
6 50
2 50
White, Family, 14 bbls......................... 
95
White, No. 1,10 ft kits......................... 
White, No. 1,12 ft kits......................... 
1 05
Trout, No. 1, Yi  bbls............................ 
5 25
Trout, No. 1,12  ft kits............................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, Yt bbls....................... 
6 50
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  kits.................. 
1 00

90

F R U IT S .

London Layers, new................................... 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............  @2
New Valencias Raisins......................  
  7!4@7!4
D ehesia...................................................  @3 25
Ondaras...................................................  @10
Turkey Prunes..........................................  
@6
Currants.................................................  5  @6
Citron............. ................................ ......  @22
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  ©814

2 85

M ATCHES.

 

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

Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 70
Richardson’s No. 3 
Richardson’s No. 5 
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
■ ■ ■ ■ I  
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 4 round...................................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
Richardson’s No. 714 do 
Electric Parlor Np.17........................................... 3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18...........................................4 64
Grand Haven, No. 9..........................  
Grand Haven, No. 8..................... .............. .1  50
20 gross lots special price.
 

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.......... ............... 
Porto  Rico,,...................  
New  Orleans,  g o od ...................40@50

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

  @18
30@36

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SY RUPS.

No.  2.

.25@50 

@10
@ 10)4
@12

............. )4 bbl

TOBACCO—-FIN E CUT.

No. 2  .....................  

@38 
@48 
@2714 
.  90@95 
.1 30@

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

do  Split prepared
vder.  Keg............
do

Large Gothic............  @1 35
@1 75 
@ 3)4

1, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @46
L Spruce. 
......................................  30@35
$  3 dozen  box.................................1 oo@
r in Pails..........................................   @5)4
Glass Tumblers ^ doz........ 
@75
$  2  doz. cases...............................|  @1 55
aroni, Imported..............................  @13
lestic.................................................  @80
ich Mustard,  8 oz $  dozen........ !.  @80
do 

Yt Keg.......................................2 50@
•...................................................... 
drop.................................................1 60@
buck............................................... 1 80@
.....................................«................  @15
ico Cutters each............................l  25®
î
........................................................  18@20-
............  
;ca .................................................. 
5@6
mg No. 1 $  gross...........................   @40-
> 
@65
)  Argand....................................1 50®
CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Cl
Corn,  Barrels...............
33
Corn, Yi bbls..................
36  C<
Corn, 10 gallon kegs__
@  35  E.
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.......
@1 80
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs...
©1 65  F
Pure Sugar.................... .................. bbl  26©  30  F
Pure Sugar Drips........
0®  36  G
Pure Sugar  Drips........ .......5 gal kegs @1 85  G
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips ............. Yi bbl @  95  G
Pure  Loaf Sugar.......... .......5 gal kegs @1 90  Ir
Je
Japan ordinary.  24@30 Young Hyson..
c
Japan fair........... 32@35 Gun  Powder...
Japan fair to g’d.35@37 Oolong..........33@55@60  M
Japan fine............40©50
.  @30  D 
Congo...............
Japan dust..........15@20
F
Rose Bud.......................
@50  O
O.  K...............................
P
@45 
Our  Bird.......................
@30
.P
@38 
Peaches .........................
Morrison’s  Fruit..........
@50
Victor............................
@60 
S
Diamond  Crown..........
S
@57 
Red  Bird.......................
@52
Opera Queen................
S
@40 
Sweet Rose....................
T
@45 
Green  Back..................
@38 
T
F ru it.............................
@33 
T
O So  Sweet....................
@31  W
Prairie Flower.............
@65
Climber [light and  dark].....................
.@62
Matchless......................
@65
Hiawatha.....................
@69
Globe..............................
@70
May Flower..................
@70
Heir*...............................
@45
A tlas..............................
„
@35 
Royal Game..................
@38  ®
Silver Thread...............
@67 
£
Seal.................................
^
@60 
Kentucky.....................
@30
Mule Ear.......................
t?
@67 
Peek-a-Boo....................
B
@32 
Peek-a-Boo, )4  barrels.
@30 
f
Clipper, Fox’s...............
@32 
e
Clipper, Fox s, in half barrels.............
@30 
f
Fountain.......................
c
@74 
Old Congress.................
©64 
b
Good Luck....................
@52 
b
Good and Sweet...........
@45
Blaze Away..................
@35
Hair Lifter....................
@30  L
«mon Drops...................................................14
Old Glory, light...........
S
@60 
Charm of the West, dark.....................
@60 
P
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.....................
@60  C
I
B. F. P.’s  Favorite.......
@50  G
Old Kentucky...............
L
©50 
Big Four,  2x12.............
@50 
I
Big Four, 3x12...............
L
@50 
Darby and Joan, all sizes.....................
@50  L
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12__
@50 
I
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12.
@34 
»
@48  C
Seal of Grand Rapids..
Glory  ............................
@50 
y
Durham.........................
@48  C
Silver  Coin....................
I
@50 
Buster  [Dark].............
P
@36 
Black Prince [Dark]..
@36 
I
Black Racer  [Dark].. 
@36 
S
Leggett & Myers’  Star.
©50 
I
Climax..........................
@50  V
Hold F ast.....................
@48
McAlpin’8 Gold Shield.
@48  T
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.......... @51 
Y
Cock of the Walk  6s..
@37 
Y
Black Spun  Roll..........
@38 
f
Nimrod..........................
@48 
b
Acorn...........................
©48 
Y
Red Seal.........................
«
@46 
Crescent .......................
«
@44 
Black  X .........................
"
@35 
Black  Bass..................
g
@40 
True Grit.......................
?
@35 
Nobby  Spun  Roll........
@50 
î
Spring............................
@50 
1
Crayling, all  styles__
©50
Mackinaw.....................
c
@47 
Horse Shoe..................
n
@50 
Good  Luck..................
n
©50 
Big Chunk or J.T........
@40 
n
Hair Lifter..................
f
@37 
D. and D., black...........
@37 
t
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................
@48 
p
Ace  High, black........
@35  A
Champion  A ...............
@48 
tv
Sailors’  Solace.............
j
@48 
Red Star.......................
p
@50 
Shot Gun.......................
p
@48 
Duck............................
@48 
r
Jumbo..........................
f
©40 
Apple Jack..................
@50 
t
Jack Rabbit................
@42 
î
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do 
....................................   18@20
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8 40 ft $  ft................   
i 
do  ............. ..............  
tg)  6
do  ...........................  @  r
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ID.................................. ........  @  7)
10 ft box $   ft....................10  @11
50 ft box $  ft.....................   7  @ 8
an 50 ft box $  ft................   6Yt®  T

if, 25 ft  cases.........................................i±
i,25 ft pails..........................  
im
i,200ft  bbls........................................... 10),

FANCY—IN   5 f t   BO XES.

Fancy—in  Bulk.

.6 50@7 00

SM OKING.

I box.

' box.

! keg.

box.

PLU G .

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PEA NU TS.
do  .............................  @ 7
do  ........................
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@  7)4

NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, $ f t ....................  18@19-
J
ids, Ioaca, 
do  .......................  16@17
*’ 
4
s, 
do 
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s, 
do 
1
ts, Barcelona  do  .....................
1
ts, Sicily 
d o ....................   @14
1
its, Chilli 
do  ....................   @12)4
;
its, Grenobles  d o .......................  14@15
'
its, California  d o .....................
;
....................  @4  50
Nuts, $   100 
t
ry Nuts, large $   bu....................
î
ry  Nuts, small  do  .................... 
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PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision Co 
¡uote  as follows:
c
leavy Mess  Pork....................................... $18  75<
Mg Pork, short cut, better than  m ess...  18 00

PO RK .

All the above Pork is Newly Packed. 

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Xing Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
Half Cases.............
jOng Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases..........
Half Cases..........
iOng Clears light, 500 ft Cases...............
Half Cases...............
Ihort Clears, heavy.................................
medium..............................
light....................................

do. 
do 
do. 

do. 
do. 

LARD IN  T IN   PA IL S .

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Shoulders,  boneless...............................
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon............................... 
Dried Beef,  Extra................................... 

do. 

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS. 

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........  11 00
Plate Beef, extra quality............. ............  12 00 •

CANNED B E EF.

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

incase....................................................  18 25
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 90
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, Yt doz in case  18 25 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2 90 
do.  2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

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

8

 

 

, 

P IG S ’  FE E T .

In half barrels............................... ...............  3 9 0 .
In quarter barrels..............................................   2 10
In kits..................— *....................................
In half barrels..................................................... f3 75
In quarter barrels..............................................   2 00
In k its...,............................................ 
 
Prices named are lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject

T R IP E .

 

 

95

10
11)4
11
11)4
11
11)4
10)4
10)4
104

11)4
11)4
10%

14
14)4
14)4
9
12
15)4
«

fDrg (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as toiwvrD :

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

§pÄ u*:::::§i
Pepperell,  9-4........22H|Pequot,  9-4..............«4

CHECKS.

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. .13 
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz........... 11
Otis Apron........... 1014
Otis Furniture.....1014
York,  1  oz.............W
York, AA, extra oz. 14

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—The market is well supplied with 
home-grown  fruit,  which  sells  at  25c@50c 
per bu.

Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ^  bu.
Butter—Choice  dairy  packed  is  held  at 
16@20c and creamery at 20@21c.
Beans—Handpicked scarce and not  much 
moving at $2.50@$2.60  W  hu.  Unpicked, 
$2@$2.25.

Beets—50c ^  doz. bunches.
Berries—Whortleberries are in steady sup­
ply at $2.25 #  bu.  Blackberries are in good 
demand, and comparatively scarce at  8c@9c
ejjj qk

Cabbages—$5 ^  100.
Celery—25c  bunch.
Cheese—Full cream is slow  sale  at 8>4@

OSNABÜRG,

A la b a m a  b r o w n —   7
Jewell briwn..........914
Kentucky brown.. 1014 
Lewiston brown...  914
Lane brown............914
L o u isia n a   p la id ....  8

Alabama plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........  »
Toledo plaid...........   714
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
614
Utility plaid.... 

b l e a c h e d  c o t t o n s

Avondale,  36. -¿¿- 
Art  cambrics, 36. .1114 
Androscoggin, 4-4. .814 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 1214 
Ballou, 4-4...............  714
Ballou, 5-4...............
Boott,  0.4-4...........
Boott,  E. 5-5..........
914 
Boott, AGC, 4-4......
514 
Boott, R. 3-4— ...
714 
Blackstone, AA 4-4 
Chapman, X, 4-4...
614
Conway,  4-4........... ¿ja
Cabot, 4-4................
Cabot, 7-8................   614
Canoe,  3-4...............  *
Domestic,  36..........  714
Dwight Anchor, 4-4
914
Davol, 4-4........ ••••
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  814 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........13
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..7
■Gold Medal, 7-8.......614
d ld ed  Age.............

Greene, G, 4-4........   514
Hill, 4-4....................814
Hill, 7-8....................  l \4
Hope,  4-4.................. 714
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4.................1114
Linwood,  4-4..........  9
Lonsdale,  4-4............814
Lonsdale  cambric.1114 
Langdon, GB, 4-4.. .914
Langdon,  45...........14
Masonville,  4-4.........914
Maxwell. 4-4............1014
New York Mill, 4-4.1014 
New Jersey,  4-4....  8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .1314 
Pocahontas,  4-4—   814
Slaterville, 7-8........  614
Victoria, AA.........9
Woodbury, 4-4........   634
Whitinsville,  4-4...  <14 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   614
W amsutta, 44.........1014
Williamsville, 36... 1014

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory 
714
Androscoggin sat..  »54
Canoe River...........
Clarendon.................»54
Hallowell  Imp.......654
Ind. Orch. Imp.
L a c o n ia .'..................   714 C onegosat

Kearsage................   g*
Naumkeagsatteen.  814 
Pepperell bleached 814
Pepperell sat..........914
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........814

Albion,  solid.... 
Albion,  grey—  
Allen’s  checks.. 
Aden’s  fancy...
Aden’s pink.......
Aden’s purple... 
American, fancy 
Arnold fancy—
Beriin solid........
Cocheco fancy.. 
Cocheco robes.. 
Conestoga fancy 
Eddystone 
Eagle fancy
darner pink.

P R IN T S .

Gloucester.............. 6
Glou cestermourn’ g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy. . . . 6
Hartel fancy...........0
Merrimac  D............ 6
Manchester............ 6
Oriental fancy....... 6
Oriental  robes....... 614
Pacific robes.......... 6
Richmond............... 6
Steel River..............514
Simpson’s ............... 6
Washington fancy..
Washington blues.. 8

F IN E  BROW N COTTONS.

Appleton A, 4-4....  8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   ¿14
Boston F, 4-4.......  »
Continental C, 4-3..  ¿54 
Continental D, 40 m 854 
ConestogaW,4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D.7-8...  5/4 
Conestoga G, 30-m.  614
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 6
D w ig h t Y, 7-8..........  614
Dwight Z, 4-4. . . ----7
Dwight Star, 4-4. - • •  ?
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  554 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7 
Farmers’ A, 4-4.....  osi 
Indian  Orchard, i-4  »54

Indian Orchard, 40.  814
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........1614
Lyman B, 40-in.......1014
Mass. BB, 4-4............554
Nashua  E,40-in....  9
Nashua  R, 4-4........  7
Nashua 0,7-8..........  714
Newmarket N ........   714
Peppered E, 39-in..  714 
Peppered  R, 4-4—   7 
Peppered 0 , 7-8—   614 
Peppered N, 3-4—   614
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R........, 
7
Saranac  E...............  9

d o m e s t i c   g i n g h a m s .

Am oskeag........ .•••  »
Amoskeag, Persian
styles...................10 A
Bates.........................754
Berkshire...............  ”54
Glasgow checks....  7 
Glasgow checks, f y 754 
Glasgow 
Gloucester, 
Plunket..
Lancaster
Langdale.................  ‘A

royal  styles........  »
standard.............   ¿54

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styl 954 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............1254
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress  styles........ 1254
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  9
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
I White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston..............   954
754: Gordon......................8

.......... "  8% Greylock, 

dress

styles  .................. 1254

W ID E  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4. .21  jPepperejl.  10-4.......2754
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23  j Pepperell,  H 4.......
¡Pequot,  <-4............. ~
Pepperell,  7-4...... 20 
Ppnuerell  8-4...... 2254|Pequot,  8-4............. 24
Pepperell,  9-4......25 
¡Pequot,  9-4............. ~<lA

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4.......^¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  854
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7  ¡Lawrence ^Y, 30.
_ Lawrence LL, 44...  534
Atlantic  D, 4-4.
>341Newmarket N ........  754
Atlantic P, 4-4----
)5£iMystic River, 44...  6
Atlantic LL, 4-4..
i54 Pequot A, 44..........  8
Adriatic, 36..........
554 Piedmont,  36..........7
Augusta, 4-4........
754 Stark A A, 44 ..........  754
Boott M, 44........
734 Tremont CC,44....  534
Boott  FF, 4-4......
534iUtica,  44................ 9
Graniteville, 4-4.. 
754 Wachusett,  44.......  754
Indian  Head, 44. 
254|Wachusett, 30-in...  634
Indiana Head45-n

Amoskeag,  ACA... 1354 
Amoskeag 
‘  4-4..m
Amoskeag,  A ........w
Amoskeag,  B ........
Amoskeag,  C.........il
Amoskeag,  D .........W*
Amoskeag,  E .........19
Amoskeag, F ... —   954 
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Premium  B ............1«
Extra 44.................. 1”
Extra 7-8.................. 1154
Gold Medai44..!.’!45  ¡Omega A.4-4 
/ip*  7_k 
_...12V4jOmegfl. ACA,
c t 44 
RC7-8.::..................11
BF 7-8...................... 1®
A F 44......................1»
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...........H54

Palls, XXXX..........1854
Falls, XXX.............1554
Falls,  BB................1154
Falls,  BBC, 36........1954
Falls,  awning........19
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Hamilton,  D..........*54
Hamilton,  H ..........954
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA......... 1354
Methuen ASA....... 18
Omega A, 7-8.........11
. ...13
16
iomeIaACA,44
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 4 4 .........27
Omega M. 7-8.........22
Omega M, 44—  ^..25 
ShetueketSS&SSW 1154 
Shetucket, S & SW .12 
Shetucket,  SFS— 12
Stockbridge  A .......7
Stockbridge frncy.  8

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

Stark.

GLAZED CAMBRICS

..  5 
lEmpire..............
5  I Washington.......
..  5  ¡Edwards.............

...  4%
¡S. S. & Sons........ ..  5

G R A IN  BAGS.

19  ¡Old  Ironsides... ...15
‘A  Wheatland........ ...21

.  ^

DENIM S.
..  7t4lOtis CC............... ...1014
Everett b l u e ! 1354 ;Warren  AXA........12
Everett brown......1354 Warren  BB............. 11
Otis  AXA..............1254 Warren CC...............10
Otis BB...................1154|York  fancy..............1»

P A P E R   CAMBRICS.

Manville..................  6
Masgnville.............   6

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

W IG A N S.

Red  C ross............   754¡ThistleMills............
Berlin...................  754 Rose.........................  8
Garner....................  *541

SPO O L COTTON.

Brooks.................... 60
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  & Daniels.. .25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford...................35
Hall & Manning— 30 
Holyoke..................25

s i l e s i a s .

Crown.................... 17
No.  10.....................1254
Coin........................10
Anchor...................15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol......................16
London.................. 1254
Paconia.................13
Red  Cross............. 10
Social  Imperial— 16

Masonville TS........  8
Masonville  8 .......... 1054
Lonsdale.................. 954
Lonsdale A .............16
Nictory  O— ........
Victory J .................
Victory D...............
Victory K.............   214
Phoenix A ...............  954
Phoenix B............... 1054
Phoenix XX...........15

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES,

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars as
fOllOW* 
-yr ajj  on
Uppers, 1J4, 1V4 and 2 inch.........................  46 06
Selects, 154,1V4 and 2 inch.........................  "8 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................... 
......... 
J"
20  00 
32 00
Fine, Common, 154,154 and 2 inch.  ......
15 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet—
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 13 in., 18 feet.........................
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., SOfeet........................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 teet.......
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........
16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet........... ..............
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in.,20feet...- • • • ..............  17  W
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 50
14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet. 
•
12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet..
13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.....................
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet....... .............  "  9”
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  o0
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 13feet...........................  12 »u
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet.. . ........... 
  13 50
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00® ?  00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch........................ ...........  73
i k nn
>trxpb, t gi u ....................................... 
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths  .............. • • • • 
l |  ou
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet..........................
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch..........................
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch...........................
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.......
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and B .............
Bevel tiding’ 6 iaehl No. i  Common —  

GV.„,r.ir.<r  19.  14. »till  18  f e e t ......................  13  UU12 00 

15 00 
12 00 
20 00 
18 00
00

 

$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ....................
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C.................••• • •  29  00
17 00 
Dressed Fldbring, 6 in., No. 1, common.. 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common—
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear.. 
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4in.,C ..........••••■ ■
16  00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or o in., No. 2  com, n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4-inch, $i 00 additional.
3 50 
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............
3 40
2 jK
■I X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in..........................
00
Lath  .........................................................

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OY STERS.

F R ESH   F IS H .

New York Counts, per can.............................g
Extra  Selects......................................................00
Codfish................................................. 
,
............................................................................  rr
Mackinaw Trout.............................................   ‘
Mackerel...........................................................   7
W hiteflsh...................-•••••••..........................A
Smoked Whiteflsh and Trout......................... m
Smoked Sturgeon............................................. 1U

 

 

• 

, 

9Mc
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  $6@$6.50 
^  bu. and mammoth at $6.75  ^   bu.  Slow 
sale at these prices. 
,
Fggs—still down to 14c, with  no  upward 
tendency in prospect.
Grapes—California, $3  for  one-half  case
of 20 lbs. 
f
Green Onions—25c ^  dozen bunches.
Green Corn—10@12c ^  doz. ears. 
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—Choice new, 15c.
Hops—Brewers pay  35@40c  for  Eastern 
andWestem and 18@20c  for  Michigan.
Hay—$io@$llfornew, and$12@$13  for 
bailed.
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at 12>4c. 
for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.
Melons—Musk,  cheap at 75c@$l 
crate 
of  a  dozen.  Watermelons, $25  ^  100  for 
good.

Millet Seed—$1 ^ b u .
Onions—New, 75c ^  bu.
Peaches—65c ^  peck basket.
Peas, for field seed—$1.50  ^  bu.
Pears—California $4.75 7$  case  of  about 
225
Plumbs—California $2.251 crate of about 
225.
Potatoes—The  market  is  well  supplied 
with home-grown, which  find  slow  sale at 
40@50c ^  bu. 
Poultry—Fowls 15@16c.  Spring chickens,
19c@20c.
Radishes—25c per doz. bunches.
Red Peppers—$1.50 ^  bu.
Turnips—500^ bu.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1. <5 ^  
Tomatoes—Acme 75c@$l per bu.

, .   ,

bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING  PRODUCTS.

new  Fulse,  78c.

Wheat—White,  80c;  new Lancaster,  82c; 
Com—45@60c 7$ bu.
Oats—White 40c ^  bu.
Rye—52@54c ^  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 ^   100 
lbs.
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $6.20  7$  bbl.  in 
sacks  and $6.45 in wood.  Straight, $5.20 W 
bbl. in sacks and $5.45 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 ^  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 

ton.  Bran,
$14  per  ton.  Ships,  $15  ^   ton.  Mid­
dlings, $18 ^  ton.  Com  and  Oats, $23  ^  
ton.

The total output of  refined  copper  from 
the Lake Superior  mines  since their  open­
ing would  load a  solid  train  of cars  over 
eighty miles long, while  the  total salt  pro­
duct of the Saginaw valley would  require a 
solid train fully 1,100 miles  long.

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID E S .

©12 

W OOL.

s h e e p  p e l t s .

© 7
Green............................................... ^  ®
8  @ 854 
Part  cured..............................................
854©@12 
o
Full cured
r uu .................. .......................  
Dry hides and kips................................  °
Calf skins, green or cured.........--•••W
@50
Deacon skins.......................... .....  picceAJ
@20 
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
@50 
Fall pelts...............................................    m
@1 50
Winter  pelts........................................A w
25® 
Fine washed $  ft..........................
i  @20 
Coarse washed.........................................„,
2-3
Unwashed......................................
554® 554
Tallow.............................................
FRESH  MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides.................................  ¡j*f| 8
Fresh Beef, hind quarters..................   «  ®  J
Dressed Hogs.........................................  
2
Mutton,  carcasses...............v ;- ;— ;  g f f
Fowls.
Pork Sausage..........
Bologna....................

..................   @10

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

is@i6
.....................10  @1054

Japan  Teas  are  now  arriving  quite  freely, 

Office of JOHN  CAULFIELD, 
85, 87, 89 Canal Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
and
I desire to advise the trade 
I  will  be  in  receipt  of the

prices are fairly settled, 
that, within a few  days,
following invoices:
125 Chests by City of Peking, No. 424, My own  importation  -

No. 75, 
No. 25,

Suez Steamer

Also large assorted lines of Young Hyson,  Gun 
Powders, both Muyone and Pingsuey, Formosa Oo­
longs, and Moning Congos at lowest figures.

I  wish  to  call  special  atttention  to  my  new 
brands of roast Coffees.  I have taken special pains 
in selection and blending,  and  roast  fresh  daily, 
guarantee  better  values  than  those  furnished  by 
Eastern parties or no sale.
Imperial  Roast, a blended coffee 
O. G. Roast Java 
......................................... |
Mandehling  J a v a ......................................... j

- 

- 

-

“  and Mocha 

- 

- 

-

Mail  orders  solicited.  Lowest  m arket  prices
guananteed.
I  have  secured  the  agency  of Gilbert’s  Starch 
factories  at  Buffalo  and  Des  Moines.  Their  goods 
have always been regarded as equal to any of East­
ern Manufacturers, and have always held their own 
in the Eastern States.  I  am  now  able  to  compete 
with W estern manufacturers  in  price  and  guaran­
tee quality.

“ 

JOHN  CAULFIELD.

Prevailing  rates at Chioago  are as follows:

AUGERS AND BITS.

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

 

Spring.........................................................Ois 

,  BALANCES.

25

Railroad....................................................... $ ^«95
Garden.......................................................net 3j 00

BA RROW S.

BE LLS.

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

BOLTS.

 

 

5 
40
Stove......................  
dis I
75 
Carriage  new  list..................................dis
30&1C 
Plow  ............. 
dis
50&15 
Sleigh Shoe........................................  ..dis
50 
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................. dis
55 
Wrought Barrel Bolts......................... dis
50 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.................... dis
55 
Cast Square Spring.............................. dis
60 
Cast  Chain.............................................dis
55&10 
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
55&10 
Wrought Square...................................dis
30
Wrought Sunk Flush...........................dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door................................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

40
Barber..................................................dis $ 
Backus................... 
50
dis 
50
Spofford................................................... dis 
Am. Ball...................................................dis  net

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

60
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis 
60
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
60
Wrought Inside Blind............................dis 
Wrought Brass........................................dis 65&10
Blind. Clark’s........................................... dis 70&10
Blind, Parker’8........................................dis 70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s..................................... dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x254, 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............................................  
80
G. D........................................................ 
35
Musket................................................... 
60

CA TRIDG ES.

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

50
50

CH IS ELS.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.....................................dis
Socket Corner........................................dis
Socket Slicks..........................................dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...................dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers.................... dis
Cold.........................................................net

65&10
65&10
65&10
65&10
40
20

3354

COMBS.

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

/  

COCKS.

Brass,  Racking’s........................................
Bibb’s .........................................................   19&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  ®>
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................

C O PPER .

39 

D R IL L S .

Morse’s Bit  Stock................................dis
Taper and Straight Shank...................dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..........................dis
M n rfio ’f lT a n f ir   S ftiin k .....................................d iS

PLA N ES .

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

PA N S.

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

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

R IV E T S.

40
40

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1054 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs 54c $  lb extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

R O PES.

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, 54 In. and larger...............................$   954
Manilla.....................................................   1554
Steel and  Iron.............................................. dis  50
Try and Bevels..............................................dis  50
Mitre  ........................................................... dis  20
S H E E T IR O N .Com. Smooth.  Com.

SQUARES.

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

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

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

TINNER’S SOLDER.

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

TIN  PLATES.

654

13 00
15 00
16

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

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

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s............ dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s—   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker...................................... 20c Ip doz
Mouse,  delusion................................$1 26 ^ doz
Bright  Market............................................   dis  60
Annealed Market......................................... dis  60
Coppered Market......................................... dis  55
Extra Bailing................................................dis  55
Tinned  Market........................................... :kis  40
Tinned  Broom............................................ $ f t   09
Tinned Mattress....................................... $  ft  8V4
Coppered Spring  Steel.............................. dis 371-4
Tinned Spring Steel.....................................dis 3714
Plain Fence.............................................^ ft  314
Barbed Fence...............................................
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass.................................................. new list net

WIRE GOODS.

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

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled........... .
80  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
Screws......................................................... 
70
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
3314
Dampers,  American................................. 

t » 1

The Gripsack Brigade.

E. S.  Hipkins,  the  Blanchard  druggist, 
has named a new-born boy “Max,” in honor 
of Lloyd Max. Mills,  and  the latter has  re­
torted by sending the  young  man  a  silver 
cup, suitably engraved.

A. B. Cole, general  traveling  representa­
tive for Bickford & Francis,  jobbers in  belt 
and hose at Buffalo and Chicago,  will spend 
the heated term in this city until  Sept. 1, at 
which time he goes to St. Louis,  Louisville, 
New Orleans and other important  Southern 
points.

The Chicago Ghrocer says: A drummer has 
sued  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  & St.  Paul 
Railway for $2,000 damages  for an attempt­
ed  ejection  from  the  train.  That  same 
blushing youth  would  let  a desirable  cus 
torner kick him over a house  without a mur­
mur.  Thus the inconsistent thrive.

Jas. Mclnnes, who has been  on  the  road 
for some .time  past  for  Lantz  Bros. & Co., 
the  Buffalo  soap  manufacturers,  covering 
the Eastern states, has returned to this city, 
and is now managing the new  branch  store 
of the New York Tea Co.,  at  the  corner of 
South Division street and Fifth avenue.

Every traveling man is  cordially  invited 
to attend the next  monthly meeting  of Post 
A, at  the  reading  room  at  Sweet’s Hotel, 
Saturday evening, August 30.  All  resident 
members of  the  M. C. T. A. are  requested 
to identify themselves with the new  organi­
zation, and thus help along a most  excellent 
project.  Ample opportunity  will  be  given 
to join the  Post,  previous  to the election of 
officers for the government of the new  asso­
ciation.

“You can  talk  about  the  meanness  of. 
‘stealing  swill  from a  blind  pig’,” said  a 
leading commercial  tourist, “but an incident 
occurred up at Newaygo  last  Monday even­
ing  that  places L. C. Bradford, A. C. Sharp 
and Geo.  H.  Seymour  in  the  category  of 
mighty  mean  men.  They  took a glass  of 
lemonade  before  going  to  supper  at  the 
Courtright House, and Dud.  Courtright, the 
liquid  dispenser at that  hostelrie,  boasted 
that he was going to  have  brook  trout  that 
evening.  This awakened in the boys a crav­
ing for the same  article  of  diet, and  they 
thereupon ‘put up a job,’ on  Dud. to get the 
trout away from  him.  Telling  the  waiter 
that Dud. had given the  fish to  them, as  he 
was not feeling well that  evening, they suc­
ceeded in  getting  away  with  most of the 
trout before Dud. came in to supper with his 
wife, for  whom  the  fish  were  intended, as 
she was just recovering from a recent illness 
When the imposition to which  he  had been 
subjected  by  the  boys  was  made  known 
to him, he threatened vengeance of  the  dir­
est sort, and it was only  through  the  inter­
vention of Will and his father  that  he  was 
prevented from  carrying  out  the  muscular 
punishment  the  trio  so  richly  deserved. 
When you come right down  to  the  facts  in 
the case, I think  that  the  men  who  would 
steal brook trout from a sick  woman, would 
dig up their father’s coffin to slide down hill

ELBOW S.

Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $110
Corrugated...........................................dis  20&10
Adjustable........................................... dis  40&10

EX PA N SIV E B IT S .

tar’s, small, $18  00; large, $26 00.  dis
ves’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis 

F IL E S .

American File Association List........dis 
Disston’s ...............................................djs 
New American.....................................dis 
Nicholson’s............................................dis 
Heller’s ................................................. dis 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... dis 
GA LVANIZED IR O N ,
22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27 
Nos. 16 to 20, 
12 
List 
15 
14 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .............dis 

13 
GAUGES.

50
50
50
50
b0
e>356
28
18

50

torn

HAMMERS.

HA NG ERS.

15
Maydole & Co.’s ....................................dis 
Kip’s .....................................................d?s 
2d
Yerkes&  Plumb s .............................. dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10
50
60
40

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis
............dis
Champion, anti-friction...............
............dis
Kidder, wood tra.k............................ dis
H IN G ES, 
............dis
s, 1,2, 3.............
. per doz, net, 
in.  414  14
Screw Hook and Strap, to  1
and ¡longer.........................
..........net
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ...
........... net
Screw Hook and Eye 34-----
............net
Screw Hook and Eye  %. —
............net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %....................net
Strap and  T.........................................dis 

60
2 50
3V4
10*4
8/4
714
714
60&10

H O LLO W   W ARE.

Stamped Tin Ware............................. 
a
JapanneduTin  Ware..........................  «0&10
Granite Iron  Ware...........................  
2d

1 

............................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2........   ....................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub3...  ...........................................   12 00, dis 40

H O ES.

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings*.......$2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings—   2 50, dis 60 
..
Door, porcelain, plated trim- 
mingg.........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings 
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain......dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s.............. . d 
40
Hemacite................................................ 50

... 
list, 8  25, dis 

w m 

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s......................... dis  60
Branford’s ................................................... “is  60
Norwalk’s..................................................... d18  60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................... dis  65

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s........... ••••••••• <1!8  65
Coffee  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  45
Coffee! Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ............dis  45
Coffee,  Enterprise...................................... dis  25

MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye......................................f i t  
£ 8 2
Hunt’s  ....................................... $18 50 dis 20 & 10

N A IL S .

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 45
8d and 9 d adv...............................................  
2®
6d and 7d  adv................................................  ®V
4d and 5d  adv................................................
3d advance.....................................................  A
O/i find o/lvftnnft...............................  
  **
3d fine  advance. 
Clinch nails, adv... 
j. 10d 
Finishing 
Size—inches  i  3 
Adv. f  keg 
$1 25 
Steel Nails-
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...............................................70
Stebbin’s Genuine........   ...........................bis  m
Enterprise,  self-measuring.................... dis  25

.................................  1 75
8d 
254 
1 50  1 75  2 00

Advance 10c from above prices. 

6d  4d
2 
154

 

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

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

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent..........................dis 55
Zinc, with brass bottom............................dis  59
Brass or  Copper....................■ • • • •" ” i"
Hpaper. v>.................................Per gro88>
Olmstead’s ....

-WHOLESALE-

OARDfiB E!

10  and  13  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

Detroit  and  Chicago  prices  duplicated  al­
ways, and freights in our favor and shipments 
more prompt make Grand Rapids the cheapest 
market.

W E  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are prepared to quote  specially low prices 

on any of the following:

Nicholson  Files,

Tin  Fruit  Cans, 

Simonds  Saw, 

Foster  Axe.

AG ENTS  FOR  THE

Riverside Steel Nail

A  Stock of which we now  have  in  store- 

solicit  Sample  Orders.

-and

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

Foster,Stevens i Co.

The  Traveling  Men  Downed.

The game of base ball at the  park  Satur­
day afternoon between a  picked  nine from 
among the traveling men and  a  similar col­
lection from the house salesmen, resulted in 
the defeat of the former by a score of  27 to 
18.  The house men, taken as a whole, were 
superior players,  as  several of  them  were 
semi-professionals.  But they received their 
greatest assistance from the  rank  decisions 
of the rankest umpire  who  ever  stood  be­
hind a bat. 
It is  almost  impossible to‘  at­
tribute his wrong decisions  to  anything but 
ignorance  of the  game, but  the  fact  that 
they were all directed against the  traveling 
men would seem to  indicate  that  he  was 
actuated by prejudice, and this  view  of the 
matter was held by  every  occupant  of the 
grand  stand, except  a near relative  of  the 
young gentleman. 
Indeed several members 
of the opposing nine stated that  if  the um­
pire’s foolish  decisions  had  been  directed 
against their side, they would  have  refused 
to  play  longer.  Another  combat  in  the 
near future is not improbable, in which case 
an honorable umpire will  be chosen.

Steve Sears hired a small boy to assist him 

in running for balls in left field.

Wm. G. Hawkins was somewhat  chagrin­
ed at the impending defeat of the  traveling 
men, and exclaimed  in  elephantine  tones: 
“They don’t seem to have any good material 
for ball players.  Why didn’t they ask me?” 
But when requested to act as substitute later 
on in the game,  he  declined on  account of 
having left his suit at home.

He  Asked  a Blessing.

From the Merchant Traveler.

Lew Campbell, the  “Oue  Spoon  Baking 
Powder” man, who  travels South,  was  in 
vited by a lady to dinner.  The  guests were 
all  seated,  and the  lady,  turning  to  Lew, 
said:

“Mr. Campbell,  will you ask a  blessing?”
“Wha—wha—wha—I  beg  your  pardon, 
madam,” he stammered, dropping  his  nap­
kin.

“Will you please ask  a  blessing?”  she re­

peated.

Then she bowed  her  head,  and  so  did 
everybody else, and poor Lew  looked down 
at his plate and stuttered:

“Lor—Lord,  have  mercy on  these  poor 

vittles.  Amen.”

Grip—Sack.

From the Burlington  Hawkeye.

“Lost your grip?”  a  Philadelphia  drum­
mer asked his colleague  who  was  looking 
very dismal on the train.  “No,” replied the 
man from Market street,  looking  sadly  at 
the pretty girl three seats front, whose  side 
he had just left,  “I’ve got  the sack.”

The  stock of  Yisser & Mastenbrook,  at 

Lamont, is to be sold on chattel mortgage.

COMPLIMENTS  AND  COUNTERFEITS.

Tricks of Customers  to  Cheat  la d y   Cash­

iers.

“I don’t mind the  smirks  and  quips  and 
quiddities and attempts at familiarity of the 
customers  who  come in  here,” said a lady 
cashier, the  other  day.  “It  is part of the 
business of a. woman  who  accepts  such  a 
position to endure  very  many  things  that 
would shock many  sensitive  persons. 
In a 
short time one can get  used to such  things 
and  simply  not  notice  them.  But it is a 
constant trial and a perpetual  annoyance  to 
be compelled to be  on  the  lookout  for  all 
sorts of tricks and  devices by which  many 
persons seek to cheat the proprietor.

“But the most difficult thing to d^> is to es­
cape taking bad  money.  It  seems  as if all 
the men who have  bad money to pass try to 
pass it on lady cashiers.  They seem to think 
we don’t know bad  money  when we see it. 
They will hand out a regular  old-time coun­
terfeit note and try to distract our  attention 
with a  joke or a compliment.  The game of 
deceiving lady cashiers with that sort of thing 
is very transparent. 
I have got so used to it 
that when a man pays me a compliment now 
I always take the second look to see  wheth­
er he is not  giving  me  bad  money.  The 
other day a dude came in here  with  one  of 
the new  counterfeit  silver  certificates. 
I 
had  read  about  it in a newspaper,  and  a 
policeman had  just  called at  the  door to 
warn us not to take them.  The  young man 
bought  a  quarter’s  worth  of  cigars, and 
threw out one of the new counterfieit  silver 
certificates. 
I saw at a glance that the  note 
was bad. 
I did  not like to offend  him  by 
refusing it at once, so I took it up to inspect 
it.”

“ ‘Twenty-five  cents,’ ”  he said careless­

ly-

“ ‘Excuse me,’ 1 remarked, 

‘but this note 

has a strange look to me.’

“ ‘Oh, that’s all right,’ he said; ‘it’s one of 
‘Your hair  looks  very  neat 

the new issue. 
this morning.’

other note?’

“ ‘Yes, I said.  Could you not give me an­

“ ‘Keally,’ he said, ‘I would not have troub­
led you, but I wanted the change for car fare. 
You may  give me all  silver if you  have no 
small bills.  Your eyes are very bright.’

“ ‘I am sorry I have not change  enough in 
the drawer,’ I said. ‘I will  send  out  one of 
the waiters to get change:’

“This staggered him, and he took the note 
back,  handed out twenty-five  cents change, 
and 1 was so well pleased  at  detecting  him 
that I did not discover until after he had left 
that he had given me a lead  ten-cent  piece.
I know several lady cashiers  who  lost from 
20 to 50 per cent, of their salaries for months 
before  they  learned to detect  bad  money. 
When you  once  learn it is surprising  how 
quick you can tell it.  You cannot  tell  how 
you tell it, but you do, as the  saying is, ‘feel 
it in your bones.’  At first it made me  nerv­
ous and  apprehensive,  and  almost  sick, to 
keep up the constant  strain of  being on my 
guard.  Even now I wonder  how  the  cash­
iers in the big banks do it so quickly.  They 
have so much to handle that  they can  hard­
ly give a glance at each note.  But of course 
they do not labor under the disadvantage  of 
having soft nonsense talked to them  to  dis­
tract their attention.

“It seems as if counterfeit money is grow­
ing much more  plentiful  all the  time, and 
the  variety of notes  is  now  considerable 
when the different issues are considered.  It 
is really no easy task to  learn  the  appear­
ance of all genuine notes.

“Then we must look out for  pasted  notes 
and mutilated notes  and  all  sorts of  light 
and bogus coins. 
I assure you that  with all 
this  responsibility a  lady cashier  has  not 
much time for silly talk with customers.”

The  remarkable  increase  in  the  use  of 
steel has greatly benefited junk  dealers  and 
rag pickers.  Formerly iron  and steel  were 
sold 
together  as  “scrap”  or “junk,”  and 
brought from  one-quarter  to  one-half  cent 
per pound.  Now the steel  is separated and 
finds a ready market at from one-half to two 
cents per  pound.  A  few  junk  men,  who 
have learned  to easily distinguish the differ­
ent varieties of  the  metal,  have  made  con­
siderable money.

Care should be taken with  the  trick  toys 
known as magical spoons.  These  are made 
of a very fusible alloy, and  when put in hot 
tea or coffee by the victim of  the  joke  melt 
immediately.  Unless  continually  cleaned 
and polished they rust rapidly, and  the rust 
in some instances is very poisonous.  Among 
the dangerous metals used in  making  these 
spoons  are  antimony, bismuth,  zinc,  lead, 
cadmium, and mercury.

Fashionable palm leaf  fans  are  covered 
with silk or cretonne  and have a loose piece 
of the same material attached so as  to  form 
a bag.  There are pompons around the  edge 
at regular distances.  They are hung against 
the wall, handle upward, and serve as recep­
tacles  for  odds  and  ends.  The  outsides 
are painted, gilded or  covered  with  sill^ or 
satin fitting tightly.

Edison  promises to  get out a new crop of 
inventions during the next  year in the elec­
trical line.

MUSKEGON  3IATTERS.

Facts  and  Fancies Picked  Up  at tliat Busy 

Place.

G. F. Sperry  &  Co.  have  put  in a new 
Fairbanks  dormer scale, purchased of  Wal­
lace Franklin.

Thos. M. Lander, of the late  firm  of  Car­
ey & Lander, contemplates  engaging  in  the 
apple business at Benton Harbor.

H. J. Morris of the firm of  S. S. Morris & 
Co., is  off  on a  month’s  trip  through  the 
Eastern  states,  combining  business  with 
pleasure.

Dr. Zerah Mizner, who was recently burn­
ed out at North Muskegon, has  resumed the 
drug business at the corner  of  Western  av­
enue and Seventh street.

Two new grocery  stores  are  about  to  be 
launched  in the  city, the  locations  having 
been  determined, and  the  purchase of the 
stocks having been arranged for.

The work  of  improving  pavements  and 
sidewalks goes  bravely  forward, and  each 
week new changes for  the  better  are to be 
noted.  The  people  of  Muskegon  surely 
have an abiding  faith in the  future of  the 
place.

W. W. Barcus, of  Barcus  Bros.,  has  re­
turned from a three weeks’ tour through the 
manufacturing district of Pennsylvania.  He 
reports a better feeling among the producing 
class, with genuine reason for  an  encourag­
ing business outlook.

Impelled by the  growth of  his  business, 
M. A. Olsen  has  found it necessary to  be­
gin the erection of a new  store  building, on 
the corner of  Hudson street  and  Michigan 
avenue. 
It will  be  24x50  feet in size, two 
stories  and  basement, and will be complet­
ed about October 1.

Attention is directed to the  card  of  Wm. 
D. Carey & Co., which appears for  the  first 
time with this issue.  As  the  successors  to 
Carey & Lander, the firm is  heir  to  a  large 
and constantly increasing trade, and the new 
arrangement gives them added  capital  and 
increased  facilities for the  prosecution  of 
the business.

The latest triumph achieved  by  the  cred­
itors in the Schimmel  case is the refusal  of 
Judge  Bussell to  dissolve  the  injunction 
holding against  the stock.  This  leaves the 
way open for the  appointment of a receiver, 
which will probably be the next  thing in or­
der; but as this cannot be done until courtis 
again in  session, the  time  intervening  may 
be taken advantage of by the late  firm to se­
cure a compromise with the creditors.  Such 
a course is not altogether improbable, for the 
reason that the members of the  firm are un­
derstood  to  be  somewhat unfriendly,  the 
mortgage to the elder Schimmel having been 
uttered  for  the  sole  purpose of effecting a 
settlement  with  the  creditors, whereas  the 
person holding the  same  now  presents the 
amount  of  the  mortgage as a valid  claim 
against the estate, and states that he intends 
to force  the  collection of the  same.  How 
well he will  succeed  in  this  determination, 
remains  to be  seen, but it is fair  to  infer 
that he will  have  some  difficulty in main­
taining his claim, as the law is very  explicit 
on the question  of one man  acting  both as 
assignee and trustee, which the elder Schim­
mel is endeavoring  to  do.  The  final  out­
come of the matter will be  looked  for  with 
considerable  interest, as the  case is a pecul­
iar one in many  respects, and  the  chances 
between an honorable division  or  dishonor­
able preference are about evenly divided.

Had Been There Before.

From the Detroit Journal.

“Sir,”  said a clerk  in a Jefferson  avenue 
wholesale grocery store, to the proprietor this 
morning,  “my  grandfather  is  dead  and  I 
would like to  have the day off to attend the 
funeral.”

“Well,  replied  the  proprietor,  “I  don’t 
mind letting you off a day now  and  then to 
attend  your  grandfather’s  funeral,  but  I 
think you ought to have the courtesy to send 
a few of the fish around to my house.”

It is needless to say that he will get them.
A man in Iowa  when  a  draft  was  pre­
sented to  him  for  payment  wrote  on  the 
back of  it “Kiss  my  foot,”  and  signed  his 
name.  He was sued for the  draft  and  the 
case having reached the supreme court,  that 
grave body discoursed at  much  length  over 
the problem whether the  man meant  to  ac­
cept or reject  the draft  by  the  expression 
“Kiss  my foot.” 
It  decides  that  he  could 
not have meant to  accept  and  so  he  must 
have  refused.  The  country  will  now  be 
able to know just what a man  means  when 
he replies to a dun  with  “Kiss  my  foot,” 
even if he does not use his foot on the  dun- 
ner.

His  Confidential  Clerk.

From the Chicago  News.

“But, oh, papa, George and I do love each 

other so  devotedly.”

“I don’t care; I say  you  shall  not  marry 
him.  How on earth  can  he  support  the 
daughter of a wealthy  merchant  when  his 
salary is only §5,000 a year?”

“But, papa, you forget he is your confiden­

tial clerk, your trusted employe.”

“What of that?”
“Why, he probably owns more of the store 

than you do, already.”

Philadelphia dealers in second-hand cloth­
ing have formed a protective association and 
will boycott all pawnbrokers who permit the 
general  public to make a critical  examina­
tion of their goods  before  the  articles  are 
sold at auction.

A new kind  of  bug  has  been  discovered 
It is  call­

which bores holes in lead  pipes. 
ed the “plumber’s friend.”

Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Years.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

President—R a n s o m  W. H a w l e y , of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—C h a s . E .  S n e d e k e r , Detroit; 
L. W. A t k i n s , Grand  Rapids;  I. N. A l e x a n ­
d e r , Lansing;  U .  S . L o r d , Kalamazoo; H .  E . 
M e e k e r , Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W..  N.  M e r e d i t h , 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J .   C . P o n ­
t i u s , Chairman, 8. A. M o n g e r , H. K. W h i t e  
For Two Years—D. M o r r i s ,  A. W.  C u l v e r .

ircrSKEGOXT  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

W . D. CA REY  & CO.

Successors  to  Carey  &  Lander,

G E N E R A L

Commission Merchants

—AND  JOBBERS  OF—

F r u -its a n d   IProcLu.oe.

ORDERS  PROM PTLY  FILLED .  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

Kline’s  Patent  Candler  and Egg Carrier.

T lie   R e s t  o n   tile   M a rk e t,

Can be made any Size, Round or Square, w ith any Capacity.  State  Territory 
for Sale by G.  C. SAYLES, Sole  A gent  for  th e  U nited  States, P. O. Box  1973, 
M uskegon, Mich.

ANDREW  WIERENGO,

W H o le s a le

G R O C E R ,

WIERENGO  NEW  BLOCK

Pine Street 

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Muskegon, Mich.

TO FRUIT GROWERS

MUSKEGON 

BASKET  FACTORY!

Is  now  in  full  operation  manufacturing-  all 

kinds  of

Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed. FRUIT  FA M E S, ETC.
O R O U T T   Ac  OO^ÆF-AJSTy,

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Consignments  Solicited. 

MUSKEGON, MICH.

S.  S. MORRIS i
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

PAOBLEH.S

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CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing1 and Warehouse Market and Water Street.

MUSKEGON  NOVELTY  IRON  WORKS
Williams’  Patent  Novelty  Pipe  Wrench

Manufacturers  of  the

Best,  Strongest  and  M ost  Durable  Made.

We also build Mill and Marine Engines and Boilers  and  conduct  a  General  Machine 

Shop, Blacksmith,  Foundry and Boiler  Shop  Business. 

361  Western  Avenue.

Choice Butter a Specialty !

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS, 

EGGS,  CHEESE,  VEGETABLES,  APPLES.
Careful  A ttention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

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

ALL  USE

Eaton & Christenson’s
L. C. B. CIGAR.

I M P O R T E R S
Wholesale  Grocers,

J.I lIK T ID

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

N ew  Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices  of  the  new  crop 
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all  grades  of  Pan  Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured,[and 
embracing  about  1,000  chests  in  all,  a  large portion of which we are now receiving per 
Steamers San Pablo and City of liio de Janeiro.  These  Teas  are  positively  our  own im­
portation,  and  we  believe we  are  safe  in  saying  that  they  are  the  first  Teas  ever  im­
ported  to  this  market  direct  from  Japan.

They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will  do 

well to send for samples and  quotations  before  buying  new  Teas.

Soaps.

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market  for  the  well- 
nown and popular Soaps of LAUTZ  BROS.  &  CO., Buffalo, N. 1 .  Below wejmention 
few of their best-known brands:
3me, 
ilma,
hite Cotton Oil, 
lue Danube, 
aster, etc.

Best American, 
White Marseilles. 
Boss,
Savon  République,

Towel,
Shamrock,
Gem,
Mottled German,

Napkin,
Nickel,
Stearine,
Lautz Soap,

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers' Prices, and deliver therein  10 
,x lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid.  Please send for’price- 
;ts and  samples.  See quotations on Grocery Page.

Starch.

We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA  STARCH  WORKS’  Starch,  of 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  which  we  sell  at  the  manufacturers’  prices,  freights  prepaid  on  all 
shipments  of  10  box  lots  and  upwards  to  all  railroad  points  in  Michigan.  Send  for 
price lists.  See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Tobaccos.

We  carry  the  largest  and  most  complete  line  of  Cigars  in  Michigan.  We not only 
rry  r  full  line  of  staple  and  popular brands  of  plug,  fine  cut  and  smoking  tobaccos^ 
it are factory agents for the following, with which  we  are  able  to  offer  the trade special, 
ducements:
F. P.’s Favorite Plug Tobacco, 
g Four 
ack  Bird 
)0 ZOO 
rate
d Kentucky 
irkey

Our Bird Fine Cut Chewing  Tobacco.
Morrison’s Fruit 
Victor 
Peaches 
Big  Deal  Smoking Tobaccos.
King  Bee 
Apple Jack 

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F ancy Groceries.

We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every­
thing in the Fancy Grocery department,  and are  now  considered headquarters in this line. 
Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department.  Parties desiring new 
stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing.
Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles.
Lea & Perrins’ English  Sauce.
Holford’s 
Piccadilly
Colman’s 
James Epps’ 
Choice Brands of French Peas.

Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.
Durkee & Co.’s  “ 
A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches.

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Breakfast Cocoa.

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Green Gages.
Apricots.
Egg Plums.
Pears.
Quinces.
Grapes.
Cherries.

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Italian Macarroni, 1 ft> pkj

“  Vermicelia.

China Preserved Ginger, all size jars,

We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cooked! 
Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas.  Send us a trial  order  for  these  goods.  All' 
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

Queen Olives, 16 oz* and 27 oz. bottles.
French Capers,  genuine  imported  in  bottle.  Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies. 
Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn.

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