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YOL. 1.

STARTING  IN   BUSINESS.

Some  W holesom e  Advice  P lain ly   Stated, 
Prom the Shoe and Leather Review.

It is about this season of  the  year  when 
new ventures in  trade are either outlined or 
inaugurated by fresh aspirants after popular 
patronage “on their  own  hook.”  And  in a 
general way the time is most suitable.  The 
first returns from the harvests are coming in, 
and  money is circulating  freely.  Fall and 
winter stocks are prepared in large varieties, 
thus enabling the novice in mercantile  inde­
pendence to display his taste and  discrimin- 
* ation in the proper selection of goods, in an­

ticipation of the season’s trade.

Great and ambitious designs  occur to this 
period  of  early  manhood, when a  limited 
knowledge of the business of life gives confi­
dence and an earnest longing for future suc­
cess. It is, indeed, a most critical period to the 
young man who looks forward  to  the allur­
ing  prospect of shaking off the trammels of 
service and being “master in his own house,” 
with a recognized position in the commercial 
world.  Buoyed by ardent hopes, he collects 
the  slowly  accumulated  savings «of  many 
years of toil, augmented perhaps by friendly 
contributions, and starts out upon the all-im­
portant  road—the  road to fortune. 
In the 
retail trade, under the  prevailing  system  of 
buying to supply  current  demands  only, a 
very respectable business can be  established 
with one-fourth the capital required in form­
er  days, when  nearly three-fourths  of  the 
stock-in-trade represented a dead investment 
from which no returns were  either  realized 
or anticipated.  Now, however, in the hands 
of one who has kept pace with the march of 
improvement, every dollar counts,  and with 
a strict  adherence to those  general  princi­
ples which are necessarily concomitant with 
business success, there need  be no doubts of 
the future, which every beginner pictures to 
himself in rainbow tints.  This is the  flood- 
tide to the average young man; for him there 
appears no other road than that  which leads 
directly to success.  He enumerates  to him­
self the advantages he possesses—his saving 
habits and temperate  disposition, that  he is 
not afraid of any amount of hard work; and 
so, filled with economic principles and deter­
minations, he looks around to see what  «oth­
ers are  doing;  seeking  information of/this 
friend or that; but  after all it too often ¿hap­
pens that  the  pictures of imagination  -hide 
many a harsh  fact, leaving  hard  lessons  to 
be learned by a trying experience.

The fact is, that most of us are inclined to 
entertain a sort of sentimental view  regard­
ing  failure  in business;  preferring  when 
such an objectionable  occurrence  comes  be­
fore us, to abscribe it to some cause suggest­
ed by our fancy, rather than that  borne  out 
by facts.  We picture to ourselves  what  we 
would  do  under  such  and  such  circum­
stances, and witnessing the  effect  upon  the 
individual, are  content to reverse  the  order 
of things and make the effect the cause.  For 
instance, failure would naturally  affect  any 
man, making him  morose,  careless,  intem­
perate, etc., to a greater or less  degree;  and 
the most sanguine temperament at the  com­
mencement would  probably be the  most dis­
heartened when  face to face  with  reverses. 
The world  publishes  those  who  succeed, 
while failure is forgotten  as  soon  as  «possi­
ble.  Some benignant  and  self-satisfied peo­
ple, full of sympathy for  the  young  ¡begin­
ner, will point to numerous instances of suc­
cess  with an air  of  confidence—as  if  they 
knew all about it—detailing  the  wonderful 
gifts of this mau  or that, their  peculiarities 
and  extraordinary  business  capacity;  but 
when asked about the  reverse  side, will be 
just as ready to attribute this man’s want of 
success to  thoughtless  extravagance, anoth­
er’s to reckless  buying or unsteady  habits, 
etc.; and so reasoning  on the most  conven­
ient lines, these sage advisers will  conclude 
by saying,  “Go to  work  economically and 
■carefully, and  you  are  bound to  succeed!” 
forgetting  that it is “not in mortals to  com­
mand success.

These are the  ordinary  views  of  success 
and failure which present  themselves to the 
casual observer, and are pictured to the rose­
ate imagination of the hopeful beginner. 
In 
many instances  they are  literally true, but 
considered  in the light of business  informa­
tion, they are woefully deficient.  They con­
tain  nothing but the  promptings of a well- 
trained mind, while the  commercial  side  to 
which success is directly  due—the  exercise 
of business ability, judgment and  discretion 
—is tacitly ignored.

The  business of  to-day  is  by  no  means 
what it was even fifty years ago, when, com­
petition being less severe, the dealer had on­
ly to take a shop in a fairly populous district 
to command a  family  or  connection  trade. 
But now the customer can take a walk round 
miles of  stores, each straining  every  nerve 
to  obtain  a  living,  and  offering  marked 
goods at ridiculous prices, which  the  young 
beginner finds out to  his  cost.  This  brings 
us to the  consideration of some of  the  les­
sons that should be learned before “Starting 
in Business.”

A common  error with a young man  start­
ing  out in business is the  temptation to lo­
cate in some rapidly growing  outlaying dis­
trict, where he takes a newly built  store be­
fore a sufficiently strong  neighborhood  has 
grown  round it, under  the  commonly  ex­
pressed idea of “growing up with the place;” 
but while the  place  is  growing  he  starves;

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  3,1884.

NO. 50.

the majority of those to whom he looked for 
support do all  their  buying in leading  thor­
oughfares.  After maintaining  the  struggle 
to the latest moment, he is compelled to give 
up, sometimes  when  success  is  almost  in 
sight; for another comes into the shop  with 
additional  capital, and  seeing  at  a  glance 
what  goods  are  required, the  business is 
made from that  time.  On the  other  hand 
there are shops in some of the  oldest  thor­
oughfares where there is  no  business  traffic 
—locations apparently  most  desirable  and 
seductive in appearance, which  swallow  up 
the money and energy  of  deserving  young 
men, defying the efforts of one and all to at­
tract one-tenth of the passers-by.

Another common error  which is liable to 
ensure certain failure, is  the  fitting-up  of a 
store  in a style  unsuited to that  particular 
neighborhood.  Fittings  and  stock  adapted 
to a lowjclass trade will  not  attract if intro­
duced  into a high class  locality, while  the 
reverse will  have  the  effect of frightening 
poor people altogether.  Many  new  begin­
ners are  clerks  from  high-class  establish­
ments, whose experience has  unfitted  them 
for thejrough-and-ready  system  which their 
limited  capital  would  suggest, and  so  the 
greater portion of their  capital is wasted  on 
the extravagant  arrangements «of both  store 
and household, from which  there is nothing 
to be realized.  Over-buying  is also a delus­
ive  snare  with  this  class, ¡although  their 
business  experience  should  have  warned 
them that it would be better to err in the op­
posite  direction.  Prevailing  opinion  is  en­
tirely opposed to  this error, and competition 
in the wholesale trade modes it comparative­
ly  easy to obtain  any  quantity or style  of 
goods as required.  A  large  number of fail­
ures  among  small  dealers may be directly 
traced to the prenicious  system of long  dat­
ing, which  tempts  buyers to go in  heavily, 
under the impression  that  the  money will 
surely be turned over; but this does  not  al­
ways follow.  No  one  «can  foresee  trade 
eight, six, or even three  months in advance, 
so that whatever  the  «advantage to be deriv-. 
ed from long  dates, it is a matter of  specu­
lation requiring  judgment  and  calculation 
from first to last, and  in which one  mistake 
may sacrifice a  business.

The young beginner, therefore, has  much 
to consider in making his  mind  clear for a 
start in business.  Dismissing  all  sentimen­
tal notions, he should look all these  facts in 
the face.  Whether he chooses the neighbor­
hood with its scant but increasing population 
or the old  and  well-known  streets, he will 
have to guage the dlass of people  for  whom 
he intends to buy.  He should make himself 
■intimate with the ideality  before  opening a 
store, both by personal  observation  and  in­
quiry of neighboring  tradesmen; and  cmce 
launched in  business, every measure  should 
be adopted to obtain success, whether by ¡ap­
propriate goods  attractive  windows, intelli­
gent advertising, and general economy.  Suc­
cess is reached  fey  avoiding  those  causes 
which  lead  to  failure; it is the  legitimate 
result of no  sentimental  theory,  but of /the 
well directed efforts of the right  man intthe 
right place.

E rroneous E stim ation of  Castile Soap. 

From the Philadelphia Call.

By some unaccountable means  there  has 
been handed from  generation to  generation 
two erroneous ideas concerning eastile soap. 
One error is that (the  materials  of  which it 
is composed are  Invaribly of  the  best,  and 
the other that it is beneficial to the skin, and 
consequently desirable for the toilet.  These 
errors  have so taken  hold  of  the  popular 
mind  that it is usual to  provide  a  piece  oi 
white “eastile soap” to wash  the  new  bom 
infant, and tills is  «usually  done  by  the  ad­
vice or  sanction  of  the  family  physician,! 
who, having imbibed the prejudice  from his, 
preceptor, takes  to  recommending  it  as  a! 
matter of course, witout using his own judg­
ment.  It is now, however, becoming a doubt 
among many physicians and the nurses as to 
whether the favorable opinion  about  eastile 
soap is not entirely at variance with the true 
facts of the case, and it  is  a  settled  opinion 
with some that eastile  soap is really respon­
sible for many of the skin diseases  that  are 
prevalent even among  persons  whose  occu­
pation should cause  them  to  be  free  from 
any  such  unwelcome  and  annoying  com­
plaints ; ministers and lawyers, bankers  and 
artists, and men and women  whose  occupa­
tion  (or want of occupation) would  seem to 
preclude almost  any possibility of  such un- 
genteel  disease  as  salt-rheum,  tetter,  etc., 
still in spite of their exemption from  expos­
ure are as likely  as  any,  not  only  to  have 
these or worse  skin  troubles,  but  to  suffer 
with them for years. 
Infants, even children 
of  the  wealthy,  surrounded  by  all  that 
wealth can provide, are  seen  affected  with 
eruptions and sores, or rendered  hideous by 
ugly scabs that  seemingly  cannot  be  either 
accounted for or relieved.

We advise the  blame  to  be  put  in  such 
cases  where it  usually  properly  belongs, to 
their favorite  soap, for  in  ninty-nine  cases 
out of a hundred, skin diseases will be found 
to arise solely  from  soap, and  any  person 
with a skin trouble should  at  once  make  a 
change.

A cucumber, in lieu of ice, is cut  in slices 
and laid upon the head of  fevered  patients 
in England.  The effect is said  to  be  cool, 
grateful and refreshing.

THEN  AND  NOW.

The  M erchant of the f a s t anti  P resent. 

From the New England Grocer.

Commenting on  the  death  of  Mr.  Royal 
Phelps, of New York, the Boston Herald is 
led to contrast the merchants of the past and 
present to the manifest disadvantage  of  the 
latter. 
It alludes to the old time  merchants 
as men who “won for the name of American 
merchant  a  deserved  reputation,” and  “of 
whom our people  were  justly  proud  as  fit­
ting  types of what  an  American  business 
man  should  be—that is  to  say,  a  man  of 
great resources, having  an  intelligent  com­
prehension of the great problems of the day; 
possessed  of  wide  and  varied  information, 
and exhibiting personal  activity in forward­
ing every undertaking for the  social or mer­
cantile advantage  of  the  community.”  So 
far so good.  We yield to no  man in our ad­
miration of those  merchant  princes,  those 
chivalric knights  of  American  commercial 
life.  But when our  contemporaries  declare 
“that this old school  of  merchants  has  left 
no worthy successor  behind it,” and “that it 
would be hard  to  find  in  any  of  our  great 
American cities, merchants who can be com­
pared in any Way but unfavorably with their 
predecessors” we are compelled to  utter  our 
emphatic protest.  Never were merchants so 
well informed on  general  topics  as  to-day. 
Never were the merchants more truly repre­
sentative  men, acting  with  an  intelligent 
knowledge of the  varying  phases of Ameri­
can commercial life.  We need  not  empha­
sise these facts, they  are  known,  or  should 
be known, to  the  people at large, and  none 
should know it better  than  our  confrere. 
“Why is it,” exclaims  this  pessimist,  “that 
the Congress of the.United  States  is  made 
up almost entirely of lawyers, to  the  exclu­
sion of men engaged in active business life?” 
and proceeds to  answer its own  question in 
thiswise:  “The  only reason  that  can be 
¡given for this is that men In active  business 
¡have  ceased to merit  public  confidence  in 
their mental ability.  With unimportant ex­
ceptions they are cramped in by the  narrow 
confines of every day occupations—have  lit­
tle interest in and  less  knowledge of, ques­
tions outside of  their immediate  surround­
ings. 
In this respect they present a humili­
ating  contrast to the business  men of Great; 
Britain, who are, in the  main,  vastly  better; 
informed,  much  broader  in  their  ideas.” 
This  is  the  merest  fol-de-rol.  American 
merchants are not in Congress  because poli­
ticians have made a study of the art of office 
getting and  manipulate  the  wires  to  their 
own aggrandizement.  The merchant  of 'to­
day cannot afford to mingle in  the  common 
scramble  for  «office.  ¡He has no  “soap” to 
use in the procurement of office. And should 
he consent to assume  official  responsibility, 
the daily press of the Herald  stamp  would 
be the first to criticise this  acts  and  slander 
him with ill-founded  aspersions.  The mer­
chants have an intelligent comprehension o f 
matters of general interest  and  importance. 
They are as well informed as the  merchants 
of any other country, and many of them for­
get more in one night than newspaper theor­
ists ever knew. 
It is the «people’s fault «that 
lawyers do most of  the legislating, for  they 
will vote for a man «of fluent  address  rather 
than for one of sound commercial  and  mat­
ter-of-fact knowledge.

We  could  give  more  than  one  instance 
where the Herald has opposed upright busi­
ness men and supported  lawyers  and  “gen­
tlemen of leisure.”  In concluding  this dia­
tribe against the merchant of to-day  and  lar 
menting tliat our mercantile  life  “does  not; 
seem to have the effieetof stimulating the in-i 
telligence of those  engaged in it,” our  jour-« 
nal of so much theoretic knowledge declares 
that“it is by the free interchange of ideas ;by! 
the  friction of elose  competition; by throw­
ing one’s self into new  and  divarsed  situa­
tions,  that  mental  activity  is  evolved  and 
business men are lifted up above  the  mere 
machine drudgery of their vocation.”  Amen 
to that.  And there is that “free interchange 
of ideas;” attend the association meetings of 
the different  trades for a verification of  our 
dictum.  There is Close competition; no  in­
telligent man  doubts  that  There are “new 
and diversed situations” almost  every  day, 
and the business men are “lifted  above  the 
mere machine drudgery of  their  vocation” 
The American merchant of 1884  stands  the 
peer of any merchant that  ever  lived; he  is 
the exemplar of  industry, intelligence, earn­
est thought and successful endeavor.

As true as when uttered  by that  peerless 
Massachusetts  statesman,  Charles  Sumner, 
are these eloquent words:

“This is the day of the  merchant  As in 
early ages war was the  great concern  of so­
ciety and the  very  pivot  of  power,  so  is 
trade now; and as the feudal chiefs were the 
‘notables,’ placed at the very top pivot of their 
time, so are the merchants now.  All things 
attest the change.  War, which was once the 
universal business, is now confined to a few; 
once, a daily terror, it is  now  the  accident 
of an age.  Not for adventures of the sword, 
bnt for trade, do men descend upon  the sea 
in ships, and  traverse  broad  continents  on 
protection 
iron  pathways. 
against  violence,  but  for 
trade,  do men 
come together in cities, and rear the marvel­
lous  superstructure  of  social  order. 
If 
they go abroad, or if they stay at home, it is 
trade that controls them, without distinction 
of persons.  Here, at least, in  our  country,

Not 

for 

every man is a trader.  The physician trades 
his benevolent care;  the  lawyer  trades his 
ingenious tongue;  the clergyman  tradesihis 
prayers.  And  trade  summons  from  the 
quarryjthe choicest  marble  and  granite  to 
build its capacious homes,  and  now, in ou r 
city, displays warehouses  which  outdo  the 
baronial castle, and salesrooms which  outdo 
the ducal palace.  With  these  magnificent 
appliances the relation  of  dependence  and 
protection which marked the  early  feudal­
ism are reproduced in the more  comprehen­
sive feudalism of trade.  Even  now  there 
are European bankers who vie in power with 
the dukes  and princes  of other  days;  and 
there are traffickers everywhere, whose  title 
comes from the ledger, and  not  the sword, 
fit successors to counts, barons and  knights. 
As the feudal chief allocated  to himself and 
his followers the soil, which was  the  prize 
of his strong arm, so now the merchant with 
a grasp more subtle and  reaching  allocates 
to himself and followers,  ranging  through 
multitudinous  degrees  of  dependence,  all 
the spoils of every land,  triumphantly  won 
by trade.  At this moment, especially in our 
country, the merchant, more than any  other 
character,  stands in  the very  boots  of the 
feudal chief.  Of all  pursuits  or  relations, 
his is now the most extensive  and  formid­
able, making all others  its  tributaries,  and 
bending at times even the lawyer and clergy­
man to be its dependent  stipendaries.”

.  A  New  Use  for Sawdust.

From the Forest and  Stream.

It is generally easier for a  mill-owner  to 
dump his sawdust  into  the stream  for the 
water to wash away than it is to  bum  it or 
cart it off.  The sawdust kills the fish in the 
stream, but he would be an  idiotic mill-own­
er who would permit  such  a public loss  to 
interfere with his  private  gain;  and  so he 
dumps the sawdust, kills the  fish,  puts his 
hands into his pockets, and asks the public: 
“What are you going to do about it?”  The 
States have  enacted  laws  forbidding  this 
disposition  of  sawdust,  and  prescribing 
penalties for the offense, but  the  offenders 
usually manage to ignore the law  or  evade 
It entirely.  Thousands  upon  thousands of 
streams which once harbored  excellent food 
fish have been ruined by  the  sawdust. 
In 
the last report  of  the  New  York  Commis­
sioners of Fisheries, it ts stated that  “of all 
causes there is probably  none  that  has  ex­
erted such  an  Influence  in expelling  both 
salmon and tiwut from  our  spring  streams 
as the presence of sawdust”  And  the com­
missioners go -on to state that although there 
is a statute governing this,  it  is  practically 
useless because carelessly  worded.

The destruction of fish is not  all that  the 
sawdust must answer  for. 
It  kills human 
beings.  Waters polluted by  decaying  saw­
dust spread  malaria,  and  make  miserable 
the lives of tiiose who «dwell  on  the  banks 
of the plague-bearing stream.  This  is  not­
ably  the  case  with  like  Raquette  River, 
whose whole lower  course  is  cursed  with 
chills and fever;  and  Potsdam,  where one 
of the State Normal Schools  is  located,  has 
become  a  very  undesirable  place of  resi­
dence from/this cause.

When  urged  to  burn,  or  in  some  other 
way dispose of  their  sawdust,  lumbermen 
have objected that theyeould not afford  the 
cost.  There is a hope that  the  perplexing 
problem of dealing with this  nuisance  may 
now be solved, for a process  has  been  dis­
covered by which the  refuse  sawdust  may; 
be made to yield a handsome  profit.  When 
dry it is carbonized in  iron  retorts,  and in 
the process there is given off 80  per cent,  of 
volatile products, the remaining 20  per cent 
being granulated  charcoal,  which  can  be 
•used in  making  gunpowder,r filters,  lining; 
■refrigerators, and as a disinfectant, and mix­
ed with a little tar it could  be  pressed into 
bricks  and used for fuel;  28  of the  80  per 
cent, of the volatile product is in the form of 
fixed gases, which can be used  for  heating, 
lighting, etc.;  47 per  cent  is  pyroligenous 
acid, which is crude acetic  add,  and  after 
being purified and  concentrated  is used  in 
white lead, color,  print and  vinegar  manu­
factories.

There remains 10 per cent, of tar and one 
of  wood alcohol.  The  tar  has  the  same 
properties  as coal  tar, the  almost  endless 
uses of which, such as pitching  roofs, lining 
water tanks, covering the  bottoms  of  ves­
sels, protecting iron from  rusting,  covering 
the wounds made in pruning  trees, and  the 
form of benzole, naphtha,  carbolic  and sul­
phuric acids, and the whole  splendid  series 
of aniline dyes, constitute one of  the  chief 
glories of modern chemistry.  The  wood or 
metbylic alcohol is  used  as a  solvent  for 
gums, in varnish making, 
in the  manufac­
ture of aniline colors.

The sawdust from yellow pine  and  other 
wood rich in resin, yields  also ¡.a  consider­
able amount of turpentine, in the  gathering 
of which so many trees are every year sacri­
ficed.
*  It is estimated that in sawing inch  boards 
of pine, hemlock, etc.,  the  one-fourth  inch 
sawkerf uses up one-fifth of the log.  When 
lumber is sawed *by the billion feet,  one can 
easily see that the question  of  disposing of 
the sawdust in a  way to  yield  a profit, in­
stead of a first-class nuisance,  is  a very im­
portant one.

It costs annually $1,200,000 for links  and 

pins for the freight cars in this country.

HOW   COFFEE  IS  ADULTERATED.

Favorite  Beverage.

The  Ingredients  th a t  go  to  Compose  the 
Among the many  articles of food  that are 
subject to adulteration there is none  so cap­
able of absolute deception as is coffee, which 
was recentlyjproven in the case of some dam­
aged coffee which was redressed with coloring 
matter in Brooklyn, and so  skillfully  done 
that even experts were puzzled  over  it. 
It 
is asserted among coffee importers and deal­
ers that deception is practiced  to  a  greater 
extent than the consumer could be  made to 
believe.  To those  who wish  to  avoid the 
debased article there is only one  suggestion 
to offer, which is, to purchase  the  coffee in 
the bean from the store or roasting establish­
ment, put up in pound packages and bearing 
the guarantee of well-known houses.  Were 
this  rule  generally followed  by  the  coffee 
consuming public, coffee adulteration  would 
soon become one of the lost arts. 
It  was re­
ported years ago, however, that an ingenious 
Englishman had patented a  contrivance for 
the purpose of moulding chicory  and  other 
substances, after mixing, 
into  coffee beans. 
But this form of adulteration is so easily de­
tected that it is much less dreaded  than the 
adulterants used in the ground article.

Those who  purchase ground  coffee  from 
the stores may find, upon  examination, that 
it contains  a very small  proportion  of  the 
aromatic berry, while the remainder is made 
up of worthless or even noxious  substances. 
Bogus coffee in this country is chiefly  made 
up of ground rye, peas  and  dandelion root, 
with usually a  little  addition  of  chicory. 
In England, the grinders^ have been  known 
to go much further  in  adulterations, using 
roasted cereals, peas and beans, carrots, pars­
nips, potatoes, acorns,  mangoldwurzel  (Ger­
man beet), lupius, saw-dust,  Venetian  red, 
and the fragments of baked  livers  of  oxen 
and horses.  So-called patent  or proprietary 
ground coffees, put up in  packages  and dec­
orated with attractive labels and high-sound­
ing names, and which are palmed off in vast 
quantities on the American  coffee-drinkers, 
often consists of nothing more  than  a mix­
ture of adulterants, with a small  proportion 
of the genuine article.  A recipe for making 
1,000 pounds of coffee in a large  coffee and 
spice grinding establishment, where  ground 
coffee, is  put up in  packages,  was recently 
shown to a reporter. 
Roasted p e a s....................................   400  pounds

r y e .......................................  200 
chicory........... ....................   100 
250 
coffee................  
Other ingredients............................  50 

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Adulterated coffee is  not  so  extensively 
sold mow as it was during the Civil War and 
up to 1876.  This decline is due to a  reduc­
tion in the price of actual coffee, and  to the 
general introduction of  grinding  mills into 
families  and  retail  stores.  When  prices 
rule high, then  adulterated coffees  are  put 
into consumption to a more  general extent.

It was as follows :
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The D ishonesty of Selling at Cost.

The grocery trade journals have for months 
3>&st, in some cases for years, been objecting 
to the habit of selling goods to the  public at 
■cost  to  attract  custom.  And, strange as it 
may seem, they invariably  choose  for  this 
purpose the  article for  which  there is  the 
«most steady and heavy demand.  The extent 
to which sugar has been sold in  this  way is 
scarcely crediMe.  This  matter  would  not 
he of much concern to the  packers  were  it 
©ot that long-suffering  sugar  seems to have 
found a scape goat on whom the public wreak 
their vengeance, and canned  goods  become 
the mercantile victim.  This being, or threat- 
■ening to be the  case, it is  our  duty  to  ask, 
what is the benefit of such  proceeding?  To 
draw trade?  If all  give their goods  away, 
wherein does the  custom  draw trade?  We 
have seen trade driven away  by the custom. 
We have  seen a customer  refused  twenty- 
five pounds of sugar becausg what  else  she 
purchased was too small to justify the trans­
action.  Undoubtedly, pushing business with 
such a method as  that  will  soon  level  it. 
But these  follies  are  not  confined to  this 
method of taking  money out of  one’s  own 
tilL  Every line of trade  seems at its  wits 
end to do what cannot be done; increase sale 
beyond the popular ability to purchase.  We 
see the tea dealers giving  away  chinaware 
as a temptation to buyers.  A few years ago 
it was chromos, until they became as worth­
less as  confederate  money.  Recently  we 
heard that some of the  .dealers  in  crockery 
were  going to retaliate by giving tea to pur­
chasers of teapots, etc.  All these things but 
prove one fact: that there are  more  traders 
than there is  call for.  This, in turn, shows 
that other lines of trade are  likewise  over­
done, and we get at last to  the  base  of  all 
the evil—that the people have not the means 
to purchase what they, the people, have pro­
duced; that there is not  occupation  for  all 
who need it, and  yet  there is more  supply 
than will suffice, and temptation and  deceit, 
illegitimate methods in trade  and  juggling 
devices are resorted to,, to gather from many 
sources custom into one; and the public will 
not learn that they have to pay for all.  The 
public cannot be  expected to avoid the  man 
who sells below the general price; they have, 
in fact, a morbid  desire to  buy  things at a 
loss to the seller, and do not  consider for an 
instant that they may be in the act as guilty 
as the  “fence”  who  takes in the  plunder 
which'professional thieves bring him.  This 
may  seem  like  strong  language, but  when 
the law finds a person buying goods on cred

it, and systematically selling  them for cash 
below first price,  it regards him as operating 
with  the  intention  of  defraud;  and  yet, 
when a dealer sells  sugar or any other  arti­
cle of the  kind steadily below  cost, he does 
not even  come  under  suspicion of the law, 
yet he is doing very much worse than the re­
ceiver of stolen goods. The latter is visited by 
few, and his sales are no criterion  of  value; 
but when a dealer sells goods below what he 
paid for them, he breaks  the  price  in  the 
hands of every person in his section; he com­
pels men carrying  such stock  to lose money 
on it, and he sows broadcast the seeds of fu­
ture commercial  trouble, and  the  public is 
worse off rather than  better.  The  question 
seems never to have been forced on our peo­
ple that selling other goods  below'  cost  for 
any  purpose is at best  commercial  dishon­
esty that may be applied to every branch  of 
sales, and if so  done  would  demoralize  all 
competition and ruin all who  gave  credit or 
took it. 
It is true our  business  men  gave 
evidence of  average intelligence by agreeing 
somehow to dismiss  trading  that  gives no 
profit; for day by day they  find  more  diffi­
culty in making  an  honest  living, and  yet 
pursue methods  that  many of them  would 
shrink from, if they could be brought to con­
sider them dishonest.  But it is both dishon­
est and demoralizing, for cost is the basis of 
all  transactions, and  when  any  merchant 
sells any article below  what he can  replace 
it for he is cutting  loose  from all  rules  of 
business and compelling others to follow his 
lead.

A nother Use for Sawdust.

From the Scientific American.

Two Western inventors  have  recently ob­
tained patents for the use of sawdust instead 
of  sand  for  plastering  compositions,  and’ 
this, it is conceived, may be a matter of con­
siderable  importance to the  owners of  saw 
mills in the prineipal lumbering towns.  One 
of the patents is for the use of  nearly equal 
parts of plaster of Paris or cement and  saw­
dust, with the ordinary amount of plastering 
hair and water; the other calls for the use of 
about four and a half pounds each of  slaked 
lime and sawdust to one pound of plaster  of 
Paris, a quarter of  a pound  of  glue,  and a 
sixteenth of a pound of glycerine  with plas­
terer’s hair.  Whether or not either of these 
described  plasters  would be cheaper  than 
‘those made in  the  ordinary way they would 
certainly  be lighter, and it is  believed  that 
they would adhere to the walls, and  not  be 
so liable to chip, scale or crack.  Sifted saw­
dust has before been used to some extent by 
experienced workmen for mixing  with mor­
tar for plaster walls exposed to the alternate 
action of water and frost, as a preventative of 
scaling.  Certainly the  experiment of intro­
ducing sawdust in place of  sand and mortar 
is worth trying,  for in  many  places  sharp 
sand suitable for  the  purpose is difficult  to 
obtain.

A m erica’s F ifteen Inventions {

An English jonrnal frankly gives credit to 
the American nation for at  least  fifteen  in­
ventions  and  discoveries,  which,  it  says, 
have been adopted all over the world.  These 
triumphs of American genius are thus enum­
erated:  First,  the  cotton-gin;  second,  the 
planing-machine;  third,  the  grass  mower 
and grain-reaper; fourth, the rotary printing 
press; fifth, navigation'  by steam; sixth, the 
hot-air or caloric  engine; seventh,  the  sew­
ing-machine; eighth, the  India-rubber  (vul­
canite process)  industry; ninth, the machine 
for the  manufacture  of  horse-shoes;  tenth, 
the  sand-blast  for  carving;  eleventh,  the 
guage  lathe;  twelfth,  the  grain-elevator; 
thirteenth, artificial  ice  manufacture  on  a 
large  scale; fourteenth,  the  electro-magnet 
and its  practical  application; fifteenth, the 
composing machine for printers.

A  P eculiar  F ru it.

The loquat is a fruit about the color  of an 
apricot, one and a  half  inches in length and 
one inch in  diameter, says the  Philadelphia 
Press.  The seeds are small  and  the  flavor 
like that of  a cherry, delicate,  sub-acid  and 
good.  A gentleman near New Orleans, who 
has trees twenty feet in height  on  his farm, 
declares that for eating fresh, for  sauce and 
for pies, the  loquat  has no  superior.  The- 
fruit does  not  easily  pull  from the  stem, 
and, in  order to  ship a  long  distance, the 
stem must be cut so as to avoid breaking the 
pulp.  The loquat is grown from seeds with 
the  greatest  ease, also  from  cuttings  and 
In form it is globular, and one  and 
layers. 
one-fourth  inches in diameter. 
It begins to 
ripen in April and continues  until  the  first 
week in July.

When a big tradesman fails, he is “embar­
rassed” ; when a stock broker fails, he “goes 
up” ; when  an  oil  operator  fails, he  “lays 
down” ; when a  small  tradesman  fails, he 
“busts” ;  when  a  big  railroad  corporation 
fails, it  “gets  leased” ;  when  a  newspaper 
fails, it is “absorbed” by some other journal; 
when  a  Wall-Streeter  fails,  he  “retires” ; 
when an insurance  company fails—which is 
but seldom—the whole secular  press  howl 
“Another Swindle” ; “Another Bubble Bust­
ed” ; “Another Outrage on the People,” etc., 
etc.

From cork chippings, once  thrown  away, 
thousands  of  yards  of  linoleum  are  now 
made at Deimenhorst,  Germany,  where the 
industry is becoming  important.

FIR ST   ON  DECK
With. OYSTERS, as usual.  W© 
shall receive the first shipment  from Bal­
timore on Sept. 4th, of the Old Reliable

MANOKEN  BRANDj

w hich  are the best filled cans  in market, 
and w ill  continue  to  receive  them  daily 
bo  express.  Present  price  w ill  be  25 cts 
for  Standards and 35 cts for  Selects.

Also  Agent  for  Murphy  <&  Rdgett’s 

Celebrated Deviled  Crabs.

Yours Truly,

I.  O.  GREEN.

G-randL  RapidLs,  Midi,

J. DETTENTHALER
OYSTERS,  FISH

W HOLESALE

AND-

CANNED  GOODS.

117   Monroe  St.,  Grand.  Rapids.

I  will quote you until further notice as follows:  E xtra Selects 

Standards, 25 ; Favorites, 22.

38;  Selects, 33;

*

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  3,  1884.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

President—Wm. Logie.
F irst V ice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. 
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Official  O rgan-The  Michigan  Tradesman. 
Committee  on  Elections—Wm.  B.  Edmunds, 
chairman;  D.  S.  Haugh,  Wm.  G.  Hawkins, 
Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford. 
Regular  Meetings—Last  Saturday  evening In
N e x t  Special*1M eeting-At  Sweet’s Hotel read­

ing room, Saturday, Sept. 13, at 8 p. m.

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

It is only a  few  months  since  the  De­
troit Commercial referred to  Grand  Rapids 
and  Western  Michigan  as  “catchpenny 
trade.”  But 
it  seems  the  Commercial 
would like to catch it, for all that.

The business men of Detroit are  certainly 
the most  generous  of  any in  the  country, 
They  pay the Commercial  such  high  rates 
for advertising that the publishers  are  thus 
enabled to take Grand Rapids advertisements 
for nothing.

There are several advertisers who consider 
The  Tradesman’s  rates  too  high.  But 
they  can  find  no  fault  with  the  Detroit 
CommerciaVs rates, for  that  paper  inserts 
certain  advertisements  gratuitously.  Can 
get below those rates.

The Board of Trade project has not fallen 
through  by  any  means.  The  gentlemen 
agitating the  matter  state  that  they  have 
received  considerable  encouragement  from 
unexpected sources, and that  the  sentiment 
in  favor  of  the  undertaking  is  sufficiently 
strong to warrant a move in  that  direction 
in the  near  future.

The finest specimen of a counterfeit silver 
dollar made its appearance in Grand  Rapids 
this week. 
It is the  most  perfect  that  has 
been  made  by  counterfeiters  since  1881 
The  only preceptible  difference  between  it 
and the  genuine  dollar is  that it does  not 
weigh so  much  as  the  standard  dollar, 
thicker and will not  enter  a  tester. 
It has 
about the  same  ring as a good  dollar, and 
one would be easily deceived by it.

The pointed and suggestive article, entitled 
“Pay Promptly,”  printed  on  another  page, 
should receive  serious  consideration  at  the 
hands of every merchant who is in  the  hab­
it of allowing his  payments  to  fall  behind, 
The reasons given for promptness in this re­
spect are sufficiently clear and conclusive  to 
convince even the most skeptical  that  there 
is but one side to the question. 
If the aver­
age retailer were made acquainted  with  the 
manner in which the jobber is  compelled  to 
meet his bills, and the consequences  involv 
ed through  failure  to  come  to  time,  there 
would be less  cause  for  complaint  on  this

The preliminary work attending the form­
ation of a Merchants’ Exchange goes  brave 
ly forward.  So  far,  sixteen  houses  liav 
pledged their  support  to  the  undertaking 
and as soon as twenty  names  are affixed to 
a  paper  now  being  circulated,  a  meeting 
will  be  called  and  the  details  attending 
the  organization  discussed  and  arranged. 
It  is  scarcely  necessary  to 
refer  to  the 
benefits  which would result  from  a  union 
of ihe kind proposed, as  they  are  patent to 
all those interested  in the matter,  who have 
long  noted  the  necessity 
for  concerted 
action in matters  affecting  the  growth  and 
welfare of the jobbing  trade.

The questions relative to the  identity  of 
the individual who  struck  Billy  Patterson 
and the final disposition of pins having been 
disposed of, the Crockery and Glass  Jour­
nal seeks to explain where the  crockery all 
goes to, and does Hit in the  following  man­
ner:  “We  have  heard  people  express 
their  wonder 
great  amount 
of crockery manufactured  and to  say  that 
they did not know where  it all  went.  The 
police and court news of the last week shows 
that  three  men  in  different  parts of  the 
country demolished  the  crockery  of  their 
three  separate  households  to  spite  their 
wives,  and  in  two  instances  the  family 
crockery has been used as implements of do 
mestic war.”

the 

at 

The Ovid  Union, which is edited  by one 
of the clearest headed men in the profession, 
thus strikes the keynote of the  present situ- 
' ation  and  indicates a line of action  which 
should be followed out to the letter:  “There 
is every indication  that  collections  will be 
sharp and decisive this  fall, with a prospect 
of law suits following the refusal of  debtors 
to settle their accounts.  The best  thing for 
everybody to do under present circumstances 
is to make the greatest effort  of  their  lives 
to pay up every outstanding  obligation. 
If 
all would try and do this, many would  won­
der why it all happened that  times  were  so 
suddenly good again.  Apply the  idea  as  a 
panacea  for  commercial  activity in a local 
way,’ and see how it will work”.

d i s r e p u t a b l e   c o m p e t i t i o n .
The jobbing trade of Grand Rapids receiv­
ed a visit last week from one of the proprie­
tors of the Detroit Commercial, who solicit­
ed the advertising favors of those  he  called 
upon, placing a certain value upon the space 
he proposed to allot to each house. 
In  case 
the person to whom he made the representa­
tions as to circulation, etc., failed to see any 
inducement  in  the  offer  made,  he  was  in­
formed that the advertisement would appear 
gratuitously, and to this  species of  beggary, 
an affirmative response was  frequently  giv- 
In one or two  instances,  however, the 
solicitor was peremptorily informed that the 
card of the house  would not be  allowed  to 
appear  in  the  paper  under  any  circum­
stances, as the paper in question had improv­
ed every  opportunity  to  insult and slander 
Western  Michigan in  general  and  Grand 
Rapids in particular.

With the presence  of  CommerciaVs  rep­
resentative  in  Grand  Rapids—inconsistent 
though it may be  with  the  previous  utter­
ances of  that  journal—The  Tradesman 
has  no  fault  to  find.  But  when  he  ap­
proaches reputable merchants with  offers of 
gratuitous advertising, he not only debases 
his own business, but injures the business of 
others.  The  Tradesman  has  been—and 
will  continue  to  be—conducted  on  purely 
business  principles, the  same  subscription 
and advertising rates serving for  men in ev­
ery branch of trade, no matter in what local­
ity they may be.  The Tradesman has nev­
er made a cut—and never will—to injure the 
business  of  a  contemporary, knowing  too 
well that such contemptible action would re­
act with  deservedly  disastrous  effect.  And 
no  matter to what  extremity  ot  smallness 
and meanness the Commercial  may  resort. 
The Tradesman will  continue  to hold  it­
self aloof  from  questionable  business  prac 
tices, and pursue a course honorable alike to 
its patrons and contemporaries.

The Detroit Commercial has one  solitary 

subscriber in Western Michigan.  Fact!

The Tradesman has more subscribers in 
the city of  Detroit  than  the  Detroit  Com­
mercial has in Western Michigan.

The man who charges one  man for an ar­
ticle that he bestows  gratuitously upon  an 
other, is a knave.

Four months ago the Detroit Commercial 
referred to Grand Rapids as a “small town.” 
Strange  that  the  publishers of that paper 
should  stoop to  come  to  such a place, and 
spend a day  begging  for  advertising—and 
get it  by agreeing to print  it  gratuitously

A publisher ought to know  the  value  of 
the advertising space in his own  paper.  As 
the  Detroit  Commercial  takes  advertise­
ments for nothing—absolutely nothing—it is 
plain to be seen that  the  publisher of  that 
paper places a low estimate on  the worth of 
his space, and there  are  those  who  agree 
with him in his estimate.

to  bring  about 

Between  Grand  Rapids  and  Detroit  as 
competing  markets,  there  is  no  ill  feeling. 
And  the  recent  attempt  of  the  Detroit 
Commercial 
a 
state  of  affairs  was  not  countenanced 
by 
trade  of  Detroit,  as 
was  evidenced  by  the  interviews  with  a 
dozen  prominent  Detroit  jobbers, which ap­
peared  in  The Trydesman several  months 
ago.

jobbing 

such 

the 

The retailers of Western Michigan remem­
ber the affront they received  from  the  De­
troit  Commercial,  only a little  over  four 
months ago, and retaliate by refusing to sub­
scribe for the paper.  And the treatment ac­
corded an  emissary of  the  Commercial in 
this city last week is  proof positive that the 
jobbing trade resent the insults hurled at the 
mercantile interests of Grand  Rapids by the 
same irresponsible journal.

Said the Detroit Commercial, under  date 
of  April  19:  “The  fact  of  the  matter  is, 
that this little western  city is  struggling  to 
become a competitor  of  Detroit, and is mad 
because Detroit can fill orders for large quan­
tities of  goods, whereas they have to put up 
with the catchpenny trade.  *  We  regret 
that this small town is  not  large  enough to 
brag.”  And the  same  parties  from  which 
this slander emanated now seek the  patron­
age of the very same men whom  they  were 
active in insulting.

AMONG TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

E. A. Geisler & Bro. succeed John M. Fos­
ter in the flour, feed and  wood  business  at 
44 West Bridge Street.

P. J. Welsh  has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at Shaytown.  Shields,  Bulkley  & 
Lemon furnished  the stock.

Hugh McCulloch  has started in  the  gro­
cery busidess at Reed City.  Shields,  Bulk- 
ley & Lemon furnished the stock.

J.  VanderVeen,  hardware  dealer  at  18 
West Bridge street, has admitted his brother 
to partnership, and the firm name  will here­
after be J. & E. A. VandenVeen.

John  H. Delaney, on the strength of finan­
cial assistance volunteered by friends at Ionia 
has extended  an  offer  of 25  per cent, to the 
creditors of the late firm of C. G. McColloch & 
Co., and from present  indications  the  offer 
will be accepted all around.  The figure nam­
ed is more than the creditors  can consistently 
expect to realize, incase  the  stock is  closed 
out by the assignee.

E. J. Copley  is  endeavoring  to  secure  a 
settlement with his creditors on the  basis of 
40 per  cent,  certain  Manistee  parties, who

came to his rescue once  before,  having  vol­
unteered  assistance  in  the  present  crisis. 
The  only really disagreeable  feature of the 
matter is that his laborers, to whom he owed 
about four months pay, are also asked to ac­
cept  the  compromise, which  is  manifestly 
unjust. 
In case the  settlement  is  effected, 
he will start up  again.

ABOUND THE STATE.

W. T. Lyon, grocer at Hillsdale,  has  sold 

out.

out.

A. A. Wood,  grocer  at  Ithaca,  is  selling 

Marshall business men have formed a pro­

tective association.

store at Big Rapids.

E.  P.  Clark  has  opened a  new  grocery 

I. Rogers has sold his fancy goods stock at 

Mecosta to Mr.  Herrington.

L. M. Evans, meat dealer at Eastport, has 

moved into his new building.

C. A. Wall, grocer  at  Sturgis,  has  been 

closed out on chattel mortgage.

W. B. Tyler &  Co. succeed C. B. Tyler  & 

Co. in general trade at Richland.

A. M. Robson succeeds Robson & Parsons 

in the grocery business at Lansing.

I. L. Brown  succeeds  Brown & Collier in 

the hardware business at Pinckney.

Robert  Kane  succeeds Kane & Garvin in 

the grocery business at Mt. Pleasant.

J. H. Kerton has sold his  stock of grocer­
ies and it will be removed  to  Central Lake.
W. J. Orser, of  Petoskey,  has  opened  a 
merchant tailoring establishment at  Charle­
voix.

H. E. Harrison succeeds Geo.  C.  Perkins 
& Co., in the  stationery  business  at  Rich­
mond.

T. M. Joslin  succeeds  Joslin  &  Frazier 
in the  agricultural  implement  business  at 
Alanson.

The new double  store  of  Upton  &  Per­
kins, the Hudson clothiers, is  ready  for  oc­
cupancy.

Peter Prius succeeds Pruis  &  Geerling in 
the dry goods, grocery and crockery business 
at Holland.

Knudson  Bros,  have  sold  one  of  their 
meat markets at Whitehall  to J. Sharpe and 
the other to Joe Watkins.

John  M. Bryson, late  clerk  for  Potter, 
Beattie & Co., at Ovid,  has  started  in  the 
boot  and  shoe  and  clothing  business  at 
Laingsburg.

Chas. R. Smith, the Cadillac grocer, states 
that the report sent out  last  week  that he 
had sold out to Boorem &  Wilcox is untrue, 
and further, that he does not care to sell.

E. C. Morris, late of Greenville, will open 
a dry goods store at  Big  Rapids  about  Oct, 
1.  Mr. Morris was a resident of Big Rapids 
several years ago, and is well  and  favorably 
known there.

Frank T. King has been appointed  receiv­
er in the John  Wingler  matter at  Lowell 
The store, which has been  closed  since  the 
beginning of  the  trouble, is  shortly  to  be 
opened and business resumed.

The Port Huron Telegraph is  responsible 
for the  statement  that a  druggist  of  that 
place gives away “doctored” watermelons to 
all who will take them and  gets  his  recom­
pense in selling  remedies  for  the sickness 
that invariably follows eating the fruit.

O. E. White, until recently identified with 
C. K.  Sampson in  the  drug  business  at  St 
Louis, has purchased the drug stock former­
ly owned  by  Hunt & Creasinger,  and  later 
by M. H. Hunt,  at  Maple  Rapids, and  will 
continue the business under his  own  name,

STRAY  FACTS.

A coal mine will be opened in Brooklyn.
A fish-freezing house  is being built at St. 

The stave factory at Careyville has resum­

Ignace.

ed operations.

The  Greenville Barrel Co. will begin oper­

Wylie. Curtis & Co.’s  bank, at  Kalkaska, 

ations about Sept.  15.

is to be discontinued.

pounds of milk daily.

The Elsie cheese factory works  up  70,000 

Hazel tine,  Shiawassee  county,  wants 

drug store and a doctor.

There  are  already  twenty  telephones  in 

the Charlevoix exchange.

Potatoes are twenty-five cents a  bushel in 

some of the northern towns.

Yermontville business  men  are  agitating 

the question of a national bank.

Preston & Dolan, hotel  and  saloon  keep­

ers at St. Ignace, have assigned.

The American Plate Co., of  Niles, has be­

gun work again, employing forty girls.

Sebewa is putting up  a  fruit  evaporator 

with a capacity of 200 bushels per day.

Parks &  Dunham,  attorneys  at  Cadillac, 

have dissolved, Wm. H. Parks succeeding.

The First  National  Bank  of  Cheboygan 
has begun business with  a capital  of  $50,- 
000.

The new fruit  evaporating  establishment 
at  St. Johns  will  commence  operations  on 
the 4th.

The Peninsular  Bridge  Co.  has been  in 
corporated  at  Detroit,  with  a  capital  of 
$ 100,000.

The B. S. Tibbits property  at  Coldwater, 
valued at $54,000 was bid in by the creditors 
last week at $250.

The Phoenix Iron  Works  have  bought 40 
acres  of land  in Port  Huron  on  which  to 
erect new buildings.

The contract is now thoroughly  nailed for 
the extension  of the St. Joseph  Valley rail­
road to S t Joseph. 

The  West  Bay  City  Chemical  Works, 
which have proved a losing venture have been 
sold to E. P. Morgan for $30,000.

C. E.  Seers  &  Co.,  Three  Rivers,  will 
start  their  canning  factory in a few days, 
first canning tomatoes and then  sweet com. 
Chas. Daniels and  Joseph  Galms, fo&the

.

past six years connected  with  the  Muske­
gon  Brewing  Co.,  will  shortly  establish  a 
brewery at Manistee.

Cornell & Odell, new  comers  at  Hudson, 
have purchased the  Whitney  warehouse  at 
the depot and will open a hay market  They 
will ship pressed hay largely.

The amount of celery shipped from  Kala­
mazoo this season will nearly double that of 
last season in the  same  time, but  competi­
tion has materially reduced the profits.

Marcellus has but  one  unoccupied  store, 
and three new buildings now  in  process  of 
construction  will be  occupied  as  soon  as 
completed.  A cigar factory  has  just  been 
started at the place.

Orville Lumbard, of Leslie, bought  a gas­
oline  barrel  to use as a swill  barrel.  His 
son took a lantern  to examine the  inside of 
it, and both father  and  son  were  seriously 
burned  before  they  could  extinguish the 
fire.

The Greenville Barrel  Co.  have  finished 
all their buildings that  will be  needed  for 
workmen, and the bricklayers  are  bricking 
in the sixty horse-power engine  and  boiler. 
The works will be in full operation  by Sep­
tember 15.

Oil has  been  struck  at  St.  Ignace  at  a 
depth of 150  feet,  though  not  in  any large 
quantity.  When the drill  was  pulled  out 
the oil run off from it in little streams.  The 
indications are  said  to  be  good,  however, 
and drilling will be kept up  until  plenty of 
either water or oil is  found.

P u rely  Personal.

A. B. Cole and wife  are  enjoying  an ex­
tended visit  from the latter’s  mother, Mrs. 
A. L. Clark, of Boston.

Dewey Hawes has  severed his connection 
with Putnam & Brooks, as book-keeper, and 
is rusticating at Lowell.

R. D. Swartout, of Spring &  Co.,  has  re­
turned from a three weeks visit with friends 
and relatives in New York  and  New  York 
city.

Hugo Schneider and Geo. H. Seymour are 
spending the  present  week  in  Chicago, in 
search of recreation and pleasure.  They are 
accompained by their wives.

Willis T. Atkins, formerly  of the  firm  of 
Robinson & Atkins, Rothbury, was in  town 
last week, and has  gone to St. Johns,  for  a 
few weeks’ rest and recreation.

D. D. Cody, O. A. Ball  and Willard Barn­
hart have  gone  to  Duluth  on  a  combined 
business and  pleasure  trip.  They  are  ex­
pected back Friday  or Saturday.

James  E.  Granger,  shipping  clerk  for 
Cody,  Ball  &  Co.,  has  returned  from  a 
week’s sojourn at Detroit. 
It  is understood 
that the ceremony will occur on the occasion 
of the next visit.

Robert  L. Hunting, for  the  past  three 
years clerk in  the local  office of Dun’s Mer­
cantile Agency, has  accepted a more desira­
ble position with Thos.  Hill, local  represen­
tative of the  Merchants’ Dispatch  transpor­
tation line.

Wm. H. Allen, book-keeper for S. A. Wel­
ling, was married last evening to Miss Amel­
ia Siebneicher, one  of  the  handsomest  and 
best natured young ladies in the Valley City 
The  couple  will  be  “at  home”  to  their 
friends at 190 Gold street.

Henry  Royce, who  has  been  connected 
with Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency for the 
past six years, and at present  occupies  the 
position of head clerk, was  married  last ev­
ening to Miss Aggie  Collins, one of the most 
estimable  young  ladies  in  the  city.  Mr. 
Royce is a hard working young man,  who is 
destined to make a mark in his  chosen  pro­
fession.  The  Tradesman  wishes  him 
much joy in  his new relation.
Frank E. Hawkins has mistaken his calling. 
Instead of putting in long  years  behind  the 
ledger, he should take the  position  awaiting 
him in the world of art.  His  latest  effort in 
this  direction is a capital  illustration  of the 
recent robbery at the office of the Grand  Rap­
ids  Packing  and Provision Co., in which the 
intruders secured a tobacco  case  which  the 
owner had endeavored to give away on sever­
al previous occasions.

The  G ripsack  B rigade.

Wm. B. Edmunds is  in the Saginaw  Val­

ley this week.

John H. Eacker has  started out gone on  a 
five weeks trip through the Saginaw Valley.
E. E. Goetchins has  engaged to travel  for 
Mohl & Kenning,  who are now located at 98 
and 100 Louis street.

J. B. Owen, of Newaygo, will shortly take 
the road for Cole & Stone, proprietors of the 
Marshall shirt factory.

Ed.  P. Andrew is happy  over the  advent 

of a nine pound boy—the first in the family 
born at  Ludington on  the 26th.  Wife  and 
child are doing well.

The  Tradesman is requested  to  notify 
J. N. Bradford that a letter—addressed  in a 
fine, feminine hand, and postmarked Shelby 
—awaits him at the Hewitt House, Muir.

W. G. Hawkins slipped into The Trades­
man office last Saturday and left samples of 
Crawford Late peaches, grown  by the  cele­
brated  peach  packer,  J. M. Arthurs, Ken 
ton, Del.  They were superb.

G ranger’s D ynam ite.

“I want  a package  of  damnation  insect 
powders, said a granger to a druggist.  “How 
much do I want to put on?”

“What are you going to use it for?”
“My hens  are  all  covered  with  blasted 
little dynamites, and 1 want to  kill  them.” 
It was some time before the druggist could 

understand that he  meant  parasites.

Mr. O’Donohue, the  wholesale coffee mer­
chant  who is proposed  for  mayor of New 
York, attributes his  phenomenal  success  in 
business to the fact that he never in his  life 
gave a note to any man.

W ANTED—A  good  merchant  tailor.  Must 
be a good cutter and be  able to do  good
Address E. B. Slocum  &  Co., Hesperia,
work.
48tf
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  d r i v e .  
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.’

IX) R EXCHANGE—I have 80 acres  of choice 

1  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.

MASON’S. 
FRUIT JARS

OYSTERS!

ON  DECK—1884.

WM.  L.  ELLIS  &  CO.’S

BRAKTR

Baltimore  Oysters!

Fat  and  full  count.  Special  express  and 
express rates to all points  in  Michigan, either 
from Baltimore or Chicago house.  Our oysters 
are  opened  and canned fresh  from  the  well- 
known  Nanticoke  beds.  No  slack  filled  or 
fresh water snaps sent out.  Dealers can have 
their  orders  filled  promptly by addressing B. 
F.  EMERY,  Agent,  Grand  Rapids(at  home 
every Saturday).

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

FOR  SALE—In  Owosso,  brick  store  and  a 
small  stock  of  dry  goods.  Terms  easy. 
Inquire of A. T. Thomas, Owosso, Mich. 
53
W ANTED—Two traveling salesmen  to  han­
dle a staple line on commission.  Address 
50tf
XXX, care The Tradesman. 
W ANTED—Position  as  clerk,  book-keeper 
or  travelipg  salesman  for  a reputable
business house.  ' Have one  and  a  half year’s 
experience  in  general  trade.  Address  W.  T. 
60tf
Adkins, St. Johns, Mich.

FOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—For  a  small 

farm, a stock of dry goods  and  groceries. 
Will invoice about $1,000.  Rent low.  Address 
50*
J J, Hastings, Mich. 
ANTED—Situation by competent clothin 
salesman.  Can furnish the very best o 
recommends  as  regards  ability and  honesty.
Address  for one week  S.  S.  Braman,  Morley, 
Mich. 
49
WANTED—Men in each  town  in the  State 
to sell nests of pails, at which big wages 
can be  made.  I  will  furnish,  one  each,  14 
quart, 10 quart and 5 quart flaring pails.  Also 
one each,  2 quart  a n d l  quart  covered  pails 
and a 2 quart dipper, for 65 cents.  These goods 
are first-class.  All my pails have double seam­
ed bottoms.  No  charge  for  packing.  I  am 
headquarters  for  anything  in  the  tinware, 
glassware or crockery line, also 5  and  10 cent 
counter goods.  Country  merchants  and  ped­
dlers should  cailor  write  for  prices.  E. L. 
Wright, 14 and 16 North Division  street, Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

BOR SALE—I have a fine new store building 
dwelling house and 40 business  and dwel­
ling lots in Elmira for sale on easy  terms.  D. 
0. Underwood.

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, $14 per gross.
1-2 Gallons, $17 per  gross.

To meet the demand for cheap storage for 

fruit, we offer:
Quart Barrell Jars, per gross......................  9 50
% Gal. Barrell Jars, qer gross......................12 50
These are glass cans with glass covers to seal 
with wax.  Also
P er Dozen.
% Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......  85
1 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......1 40
yt Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and Corks..........  85
1 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and  Corks..........I 40
Sealing Wax, $ fl>.......................................   4c

H. Leonard & Sons,

GRAND RAPIDS 

16 Monroe Street,
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Uses.

The

Various  K inds  and  th e ir  P rin cip al 

Bay oil is the  product of  a  West  Indian 
plant, growing  on St. Thomas.  The  oil  is 
mostly used by two  firms  on  the  island  in 
the manufacture of bay rum.  Diluted  with 
waterjit is an excellent remedy for headache.
It also  promotes  the  growth  of  the  hair. 
When added to water  it  is  very  refreshing 
for washing. 
It  has a peculiar  spicy  odor, 
somewhat resembling that of pepper.

Oil of bergamot  is  particularly  used  for 
perfuming fine toilet  soaps. 
It is generally 
a constituent  of the compositions for  violet 
soap, mignonette soap, etc.  Oil of  bergamot 
is also indispensable in the  preparation of a 
eau de cologne, and on account  of 
its  mild 
and agreeable odor it is much  used in hand­
kerchief perfumes and pomades.  It harmon­
izes well in combination with  oil  of  lemon, 
oil of  lavender, oil of  neroli,  oil  of  petit 
grain, oil of cassia, etc.

Oil of  cassia has an exceedingly powerful 
cinnamon-like odor and is much used in cold 
process and cheap plotted soaps. 
It  can  be 
combined with nearly all essential oils with­
out destroying the harmony of  the odor. 
It 
should always be used  in  compositions  em­
ployed for  perfuming  Winsdor  soaps, the 
characteristic  odor of  which is due  to  this 
oil, in combination with  oil  of  caraway, oil 
of lavender, and oil of thyme.  A  very  fine 
perfume of this kind is obtained  by using 8 
parts  oil of cassia,  8  parts  oil  of  lavender,
8  parts 
and  K 
part  oil  of  thyme.  Oil  of  cassia  is  not 
well adapted for cold process  white  soaps, 
nor  for  transparent  soaps, as it imparts  a 
yellow  color  to  the  former  and a reddish 
brown color to the latter.

caraway, 

oil  of 

Cedar wood oil is specially useful in  com­

bination for rose soaps of fine quality.

Oil of citronella forms  the  basis  of  the 
perfume of honey soaps, and is  particularly 
used in  cheap  cocoanut  oil  soaps ; it is also 
used in transparent soaps. A cheap and very 
far-reaching  perfume of this kind is obtain­
ed by using 1 part  oil  of  citronella  and 2 
parts oil of caraway.  By mixing oil  of  cit­
ronella and oil of caraway in the proper pro­
portion a very good imitation of ordinary oil 
of geranium can be produced.

Oil of lemon  is a ver^  valuable  perfume 
It is also a  constituent 
for  plotted  soaps. 
of  eau de Cologne. 
It is not  well  adapted 
for cold process  soap, as it is  much  injured 
by the spontaneous heating of  the soap, and 
loses its delicate  odor. 
It is very  liable to 
become rancid, and  theii  has a  disagreeable 
turpentine-like odor.  What has  been  said 
regarding the perservation of  essential  oils 
is particularly true for oil of lemon.

Eucalyptus oilcan advantageously be used 
in cheap soaps, but only to a limited  extent. 
On account of its excellent antiseptic proper­
ties it  has  recently  been  much  used  for 
mouth washes.

Oil of pine needles is mostly  used  in  the 
preparation  of  a  medicinal  pine  needle 
soap.

Oil of fennel is much used in combination 
with oil of caraway and  oil  of  lavender  in 
cheap cocoanut oil soaps. 
In fine soaps it is 
It generally forms the principal 
little used. 
constituent of mixtures for herb soaps.

Oil of  geranitfm is generally  divided into 
three principal kind:  African, French  and 
Spanish, the latter being the  finest.  Oil  of 
geranium has an  odor  similiar  to  that  of 
roses, 
and  is  therefore  much  used  to 
•strengthen the odor of fine rose  soaps, it be­
ing so much cheaper  than  the  oil  of  roses. 
Its use is very  much  limited in perfuming 
ordinary soaps on account of  its high  price. 
For  handkerchief  perfumes  it  supplies  a 
very  valuable  material, especially  for  the 
better kinds, being  used  either by itself or 
in combination with oil of roses.

Iris oil is a very fine, but also very expen­
sive essential oil, which is only used  in  the 
finest and most  costly  soaps,  especially  in 
fine  violet soaps. 
It is the  essential oil of 
the Florentine violet root.  By using the lat­
ter the same odor is obtained but  neither  as 
fine nor as intense.

Peppermint  oil is used  mostly  in  cheap 
It also  forms a constituent of  herb 
soaps. 
soaps. 
It is also well  adapted  for  mouth 
washes and tooth pastes on account of its re­
freshing and antiseptic properties 

Oil of caraway is a favorite  perfume  for 
cheap soaps, but when properly used in com 
binat¿on with various perfume  compositions 
it offers many advantages for  good  plotted 
soaps.

Oil of lavender is made of two  very wide­
ly  differing  qualities—the English and the 
French.  The much finer and therefore more 
expensive  oil  is  the  English.  Little of it, 
however, is brought into  commerce, it being 
mostly consumed in Ensland,

Oil of lavender is much  used  in  common 
as well as in fine soaps. 
It is  indispensible 
in the preparation of Cologne waters, and  is 
one of the essential constituents of  the Eau 
de Lavande’s or  lavender  waters. 
It  har­
monizes very well with most of the essential 
oils, and  has a  refreshing, spicy  odor.  A 
very fine  perfume is obtained  from 8 parts 
oil of lavender, 8 parts  oil  of  cassia, and  4 
parts best oil of geranium.

Oil of lemon grass  is  particularly used in 
cheap soaps, and  makes a very fine addition 
to oil of citronella  in  honey soaps.  A mix­
ture of this kind is obtained  from  10  parts 
oil of citronella, 5 parts oil of lemon grass, 2 
parts oil of cloves, and 1 part oil of  pepper­
m int

Oil of lináloes is very much  used  now, in 
the  preparation  of  lily  of  the  valley  per, 
fumes, in  combination  with  other  essential
oils.  Afine  composition for  cocoanut  oil

and transparent soaps is obtained by using 1 
part oil of lináloes and three parts oil of lav­
ender.
Oil of marjoram is little used in the manu­
facture of  toilet  soaps, but is  employed  in 
the preparation of  the better quality of “Sa­
von Guimauve.”

The use  of  bitter  almond oil  for  the so- 
called  almond  soaps is not only known  to 
every perfumer, but also to every soap  mak­
er. 
It is, however also used in many of  the 
various fine plotted soaps, in which it would 
hardly  be  expected  and  in  numerous  ex­
tracts.  When used in almond  soaps, oil  of 
bergamot, oil of lemon or oil of  lavender  is 
generally added. In cases  where economy is 
necessary oil of  mirbane is used.  This  oil 
also has an odor similiar to  oil  of  bitter  al­
mond, but they compare like night and  day.
On  account of its very  low  price  it  offers 
many advantages  for  perfuming  common 
toilet soaps, as well as paste and  soft soaps.
Oil of nutmegs is used for perfuming very 

fine soaps.

Oil of cloves  is a very productive  oil, and 
is much used for perfuming soaps, the  com­
moner  varieties  as  well as the  better. 
It 
mnst, however, be employed with great care, 
as it will otherwise cover, other  odors. 
It is 
extensively  used  in  perfumes  for  mouth 
washes and tooth  pastes, on account  of  its 
antiseptic properties.

Orange flower oil is a very fine oil, having 
a most agreeable odor.  Two varieties of this 
oil  are  distinguished, the  superfiue  “neroli 
petal,” and  the  less  fine, “neroli bigarade.”
It is an indispensible  constituent of  eaude 
cologne; the quality of the  latter is general­
ly dependent upon the quality of oil of neroli 
used, as  much as upon the  character  or the 
composition.  On account of its  high  price, 
oil of neroli is only used in the  finest  kinds 
of toilet soaps. 
It is also used  in  perfumes 
for the  handkerchief.

Oil of geranium is much used  for  cheap, 

ordinary rose soap.

Oil of patchouli has  a  penetrating,  dura­
ble  odor, which, on account  of  its  strenth, 
makes this oil well adapted  for  perfuming 
cheap soaps. It has the property of rendering 
other  perfumes  to which it is added  more 
durable, but it must be used with  great care 
as it easily hides other odors.  In some deli­
cate persons this  perfume  produces  head­
ache. 
In  preparing patchouli perfumes for 
soaps or for the handkerchief, oil of  rose  or 
oil of geranium is generally added.

Oil of petit grain has an  odor  similiar to 
that of oil of neroli, but  not  as  fine. 
It is 
much used as a substitute  for  the  latter  in 
common  colognes and  for  perfuming  fine 
soaps. 
Oil ot orange is found of  two  kinds,  the 
bitter and the  sweet.  Like  oil of  lemon, 
these  oils very easily become rancid.  They 
are advantageously used in soaps and in eau 
de cologne.

,

The genuine oil of rose comes  from  Per­
sia, Arabia, Turkey, Bosnia and the  Herzo- 
gowina, also from southern France.  A char­
acteristic  property  of the oil of rose is, that 
when it is kept in a cool place, even in sum­
mer, it is not liquid but solid, and  must  be 
liquified  by the aid of warm water  before it 
can be used. 
In  the  solid  state it has the 
appearance of  being  full of  fine  needles. 
The pure  oil, when it is not  distilled,  does 
not possess a rose  odor, but  has a peculiar 
honey-like smell; 
it has the fine  rose odor 
only when  very much  diluted. 
It is  very 
permanent, a single drop being  sufficient to 
perfume a handkerchief for many days. 
In 
alcohol it is completely soluble  after a time. 
When  the quantity of alcohol is not suffici­
ent to completely dissolve the oil of rose, the 
oil will float about in the alcohol in the form 
of white flakes, which  will  dissolve on the 
addition of more alcohol. 
In case  the alco­
hol  contains  water, the oil of rose  will re­
main undissolved  on  the  surface  in  white 
flakes.  Although all superfine rose perfumes 
for the handkerchief aie  made from an  in­
fusion of rose pomade, a finé  perfume  may 
also be made from oil of  rose, by dissolving 
oil of  rose in  tincture of  violet  root, and 
then adding tincture of geranium, extrait de 
ca88ie  (not to be confounded  with  cassia) 
tincture of ambergris and tincture of  musk. 
The mixture should be prepared so that  the 
odor of the tinctures used does  not  prepon­
derate.  On account of  its high  price  oil of 
rose is only used for perfuming fine  plotted 
soaps, face powders, bandoline,  cold  cream 
etc.  A very  fine  rose  water  is  prepared 
from  rose oil, by  placing a few drops of the 
oil  (4-5) on a piece of sugar, grinding this in 
a mortar, and  then  dissolving in 1 liter  of 
water.  Orange flower water can  be  prepar­
ed in the same way from oil of neroli.

Oil of rosemary is mostly used in common 
soaps; the better qualities are, however, also 
used in eau de cologne.

Oil of sage on account of its odor, is most­
ly used in medicinal soaps; on account of its 
properties, it is also employed in the prepar­
ation of perfumes and dentifrices.

Oil of  sassafras  is  particularly  adapted 
for common soaps, but it is also used inmost 
of the  compositions  for  so-called  genuine 
English violet soap.

Oil of spike has an odor like lavender, but 
not as finé, it is therefore used  in  common 
soaps.  An ordinary, but real  nice  and dur­
able perfume is prepared  from 3 parts oil of 
cassia and 1 part oil of spike.

Oil of thyme is much used for  perfuming 
common and fine soaps, generally in combin 
ation with oil of cassia  and oil of  caraway. 
As has already been mentioned, it is used in 
the composition of Winsdor  soap  perfumes, 
Ylang-ylang is one of the finest  perfumes 

known, and is recently  extensively  used 
making  the lily of the valley  preparations, 
such as  lily of  the  valley  soap, lily of the 
valley perfume, lily of  the  valley  pomade, 
etc.  On account  of its high price, its use 
limited to the finest articles.

Oil of cinnamon (Ceylon) is a very  agree­
able and fine perfumer for superior qualities 
of soap. 
It is  much  used  in  transparent 
glycerine soaps.

Sulphate  of Q uinidia.

From  the Oil, Paint and Drug  Reporter.

The growing importance of this  neglected 
chemical seems to demand more  recognition 
from the trade, and to necessitate  the  plac­
ing of  it among our  regular  market  quota­
tions as a  distinct  commercial  article. 
Its 
present limited  consumption  in  the United 
States is principally confined to the prepara­
tion of proprietary  medicines,  but  physici­
ans  are  beginning  to  recognize  its  alleged 
superior remedial qualities, and by  their ef­
forts it  is  being  gradually  lifted  from  its 
obscure position.  This is a slow  process of 
introduction, but whether it  has  been  from 
this or some other cause, a marked improve­
ment in sales is to be noted.  The  fact that 
quinidia is only obtainable from a few barks 
and in very limited amount will  prevent its 
successful  competition  with  quinine  and 
cinchonidia.  The  production  has  always 
exceeded the demand,  and a  movement  of 
the accumulated stocks at  this  time  would 
be very desirable.  Notwithstanding the ex­
cessive supply,  prices  are  well  maintained 
here, and  range  considerably  higher  than 
cinchonidia,  although  both  are held  at the 
same value  in  foreign  markets.  There is 
little or no consumptive demand  abroad for 
quinidia, and the  duty  of  causing a  better 
inquiry for it in order to  work  off  surplus 
stocks, seems to  devolve  upon  manufactur­
ers and holders in the  United  States.  The 
demand for cinchonidia was  created by the 
proper advertising  of its  merits,  and  were 
the same course pursued in  regard to  quini­
dia, satisfactory results would  undoubtedly 
follow.  An enlarged movement  at  paying 
prices would be  a strong inducement  to  in­
crease the output and probably lead  to  the 
present difficulties in production  being over­
come in a measure.

Sulphate  of  quinidia  is  recognized  as  a 
most valuable remedy, and has  been  appre­
ciated by some well  informed  physicians in 
the  United  States  for  more  than  twenty 
years  past.  In  the  year  1866  the  Madras 
government  appointed  a  medical  commis­
sion  to  test  the  respective efficacy  in  the 
treatment  of  fever of the sulphates  of the 
various alkaloids.  A  supply  specially  pre­
pared was placed at the disposal of  the com­
mission.  The ratio of cures, as given in the 
trial of quinidia proved its efficacy in the ex­
periments tried, not  only  equal  but  even a 
little beyond  that of  sulphate  of  quinine, 
The properties of quinidia were  investigated 
1848.  The  alkaloid  was  then  found  to 
exist in the pale Loxa and Lima  barks  and 
the gray Huanuco barks.  The  barks  used 
for its manufacture do not contain it in very 
appreciable quantities, as  previously stated 
that whatever may be the case  hereafter, 
its properties are not now considered  by the 
trade as a matter of much practical  interest, 
The composition of quinidia  closely  resem­
bles that of other  cinchonic  alkaloids,  and 
rated next in medicinal virtues to quinine 
All the alkaloids are probably  oxides  of the 
same organic base.
Secretary  Jesson’s  F in al  A ppeal to  Miclii 

gan D ruggists.

The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso­
ciation will hold its second  annual  meeting 
in Detroit, on  Tuesday  Sept 9,10  and 11 
There will probably be an attendance of  300 
or more,110 applications having been received 
to date.  The magnificent exhibits exhibited 
by the leading manufacturers and wholesale 
druggists at the  meeting  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  at  Milwaukee, 
will be  shipped to Detroit;  and,  besides, 
large number who  did  not  exhibit at Mil 
wauke will do s®  here.  This  alone will re­
pay any retail  druggist  for  the  time  and 
money spent in attending. 
It is very impor­
tant that we  should  secure  proper  legisla­
tion.  Self  preservation is one  of  nature1 
first  laws.  A  member  of  the  Pharmacy 
Board of an  adjoining  State  recently said 
that at the last meeting of  the board  out  of 
seventeen applicants four  passed.  Now  re­
flect for a moment!  What does that  mean? 
It means simply this, that those that are not 
qualified in other States are  here  and  that 
we must put up with having all that  incom­
petent overflow thrust upon us, if  we do not 
do as our neighbors  have  done—secure the 
enactment of a Pharmacy bill.  We want an 
expression of the representative druggists of 
the State in favor of the bill  strong  enough 
to impress upon  the  Legislature  the  fact 
that we are in earnest, therefore, a large  at­
tendance is desired.  Coming together  once 
a year and discussing  scientific  subjects as 
well as trade interests is certainly very pleas­
ant.  We meet old  friends and  make  many 
new acquaintances. 
It also  creates a better 
general feeling among us all. We return to our 
homes with new ideas, and  a  large  amount 
of knowledge gathered from the  experience 
of others, feeling that we are better  prepar­
ed than ever before for the  year’s  work  be­
fore us,  Again I ask every druggist  in  the 
State  of  Michigan  to  attend  our  annual 
meeting in Detroit  Sept. 9, and  join  us in 
membership. 
I have assurances  from  the 
Detroit druggists  that  you will all be royal­
ly entertained.  Reduced  rates  on  all  rail­
roads can be obtained by addressing me.

Jacob Jesson, Secretary.

Muskegon, Mich

At the  annual  meeting  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical Association, held at Milwau­
kee last week, John Ingals  of  Georgia, was 
elected president and M. Maisch, of Pennsyl 
vania, secretary.

C. D. Wicker has sold his  interest  in  the 
drug  business  of  Wicker &  Goodrich,  at 
Hillsdale, to B. H. Colby.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Oil Anise, Oil Cassia, Quicksilver 
Declined—Cubebs, Oil Cnbebs, Powdered Cu- 
bebs, Linseed  Oil, Oil  Peppermint,  American 
Saffron.

A C ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................$  ® 
9  ©  1®
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ©  35
Carfec lie............................................  
50
C itric.................................................  
55
Muriatic 18 deg............................... 
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg....................................   U   @  13
Oxalic...............................................   14 *4©  15
3  @  4
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................  
Tartaric 
powdered...................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic.............................................  15  ©  IT

AM MONIA.

Carbonate.................................$  ft  15  ©  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
14
A qual6degor  3f............................  6  ©  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
7  ©  8

BALSAMS. 

'

Copaiba
F ir........
P eru-----
T olu___

BA RK S.

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

B E R R IE S ,

&  50 
40 
2 50 
50

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 80c)............... 
©  75
Ju n ip er.............................................  6  ©  7
Prickly A sh..................................... 1 00  @1  10

EXTRACTS.

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

27
3714
9
12
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................  10  ©  11
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  German.................. . 
25

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60®  75
18
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................. 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
50
28®  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, extra  select.......................  
60
60
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
50
40
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
35
Arabic,c3d picked............................ 
30
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
30
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin....................... ................ 
55®80
21©  24
............................... • 
Camphor 
Catechu. Is (14 14c, 14s  16c)............ 
13
35©  40
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
80
_. 
Galbanum strained......................... 
90®1 00
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
20
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
10
Mastic................................................ 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd 86.00)............... 
435
30
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
2»
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
24
«0
Shellac bleached..............................  ^  
T ragacanth......................................  30  @110

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H oarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Pepperm int................................... 
25
Rue..................................................................... 40
S pearm int........................................................
Sweet Majoram................................................
T anzy............................................................... 25
T hym e...............................................................«}
W ormwood............................................ 
"5

 

 

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................  
C itrate..............................................  
Phosphate.......................... 
LEA VES.

 

6 40
30
7
80
”5

 

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12  @  13
0
Sage, Italian, bulk (148 & 14s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  ©  20
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
30
Senna,  powdered,........................... 
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
O'
10
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
«5
Belledonna........................................ 
Foxglove....................... .'.................. 
20
H enbane.......................... ^.............. 
«5
Rose, red.............   ........................... 
2 <35

LIQ U O R S.

O IL S .

M AGNESIA.

1  10 

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 $5  @3 50
Catawba  Wines............................... 1 25  ©2 00
Port W ines........................................1 35  ©2 50
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............ 
23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
37
2 25
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined.......................... : ................ 
70
©  50 
Almond, sweet.................................  45
•  45
Amber, rectified..............................
1 75 
Anise.................................................
50
B a y $   oz.........................................
2 00 
Bergamont........................................
@  19V4
Castor................................................  18
2 00 
Croton...............................................
75 
C ajeput............................................
Cassia................................................
40 
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
85
Citronella............. .........................
1 25 
Cloves................................................
6  00 
Cubebs, P. &  W ............. . 
............
1 60
E rigeron...........................................
2 00 
Firew eed.;.......................................
75 
Geranium $   oz...............................
40 
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
50
Juniper wood..................................
2  00 
Juniper berries...............................
2 01 
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
..............
90 
Lavender spike 
.............
1  70 
Lemon, new  crop............................
1 75 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
80
Lemongrass......................................
1 25 
Origanum, red flowers, F rench...
50
Origanum,  No. 1............................
2 CO
Pennyroyal.....................................
3 25 
Pepperpaint,  w hite.........................
9  75
Rose $   oz................ .. .. .. ..   . . . v •
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers 85)...
4 50 
Sandal  Wood. German..................
7 00
andal Wood,  W. I ............................
60 
Sassafras...........................................
4 50 ®  12 
T an sy ............................................ . •  „
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
2 25 
W intergreen.................................
4 50 
Wormwood, No. l(P u re 86.50).......
1 00
Savin.................................................
2 50
W ormseed........................................
1 90
Cod Liver, filtered............ 
. $  gal
3 50 
Cod Liver, best................................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
6 00
©1 20
Olive, Malaga....................
2 50 
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  . 
.......
©  67
Salad.................................................  86
9 75
Rose, Ihmsen’s .......................$  oz

1 00 

do 
do 

PO TASSIU M .

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

ROOTS.

A lkanet............................................
Althea, c u t.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in *4s and *4s—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  14c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap, powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4)........
Licorice, extra select.....................
P in k ,tru e ........................................ „  M
Rhel, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. I ........... .............110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Serpentaria.................~.......... .
Seneka.............................................
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras.. .. .. .. .. .

14
35
20
1  2o
30

12
18
38
23
10
© 14
20
35
22
1 10
37*4
12
15
35
@1 50
@1 20
2 00
2 25
50
65
40

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

25
20

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).......................  
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.......... 
5  ©  6
3*4©  4
Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..  11  @  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
2  00
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
2  25
25
Celery................................................ 
Coriander, oest English................  
12
F en n el.............................................. 
15
Flax, clean.......................................  
334@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 334).................. 
4  @  4*
Foenugreek, powdered..................  8  @  9
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
5*4®  6
Mustard, white( Black 10c)...........  
8
Q uince.............................................. 
1  00
Rape, English..................................  
7*4©  8
Worm,  Levant.........................................  

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  ©2 50
do 
Nassau 
2 00
Velvet Extra do 
110
E xtra Yellow do 
85
65
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for slate use......................... 
Yellow Reef, 
1  40

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

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

 
 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

2 29 
1  50 
50

Alcohol, grain (bbl 82.21) $  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 9e)...............
Annatto,  prim e...............................

 

 

5

60

do 
do 

do 
do 
do 

Scherin’s  do 

234© 3*4
3  © 4
32
4*4© 5
6  © 7
40
Balm Gilead Buds.
2 25
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7 00  ©9  75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
1 60
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).............. 
45
7*4@  9
Blue V itrio l.................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)... 
12
185
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
18
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
20
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ... 
18
Carmine,  N o.40 ...............................  
4 00
Cassia  Buds.................................. ;. 
12
70
Calomel.  American......................... 
Chalk, prepared drop...........  
12
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
8
Chalk, white lum p.......................... 
2
Chloroform,  Squibb’8.................... 
1  60
Colocynth  apples.................. 
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 60
1  78
cryst... 
Chloral 
Chloral 
... 
190
Chloral 
crusts.. 
175
Chloroform .................................... 1 00  @1  10
Cinchonidia, P. & W ........ *............  45  ©  50
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   45  @  50
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  ©  22
Cochineal......................................... 
30
45
Cocoa  B utter........................ 
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................  
2
Corrosive Sublimate.......................  
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  ©  40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote............................................  
50
Cudbear,  prim e........ ...................... 
24
24
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
12
D extrine........................................... 
1 20
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
50
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
45
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
Ether Squibb’8................................. 
110
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
8
Epsom Salts...................................... 
2*4©  3
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
14
Flake white...................................... 
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
25
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue,white.................... ...................  17  ©  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   21  @  25
Hops  14s and J4s.............................. 
25®  40
Iodoform ®  oz................................. 
35
Indigo...............................................   85  @1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalm atian...  23  @  25
Iodine,  resublimed..................... 
2 10
Isinglass,  American....................... 
1 50
Japonica..............................  
9
 
London  Purple...............................  10  @ 
Lead, acetate....................................  
15
9
Lime, chloride, (14s 2s 10c & J4811c) 
1 00
Lupuline.......................................... 
Lycopodium....................................  
50
M ace.................................................  
60
Madder, best  D utch....................  
1214©  18
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
1  75
55
Mercury............................................  
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ $  oz  3 25@3 50
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........  
40
10
Moss, Iceland............................ft 
Moss,  Irish.......................................  
12
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........  
18
Nutgalls............................................  
20
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
70
Nux  Vomica....................................  
10
Ointment. Mercurial, 14 d ............... 
40
18
Pepper, Black  Berry...................... 
Pepsin................................................ 
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Q uassia............................................   6  ©  7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W ............ftoz 
"r'‘^
Quinine,  German............................1  00  ®1  05
Seidlitz  M ixture...................................... 
Strychnia, cryst............................... 
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  @  82
Red Precipitate.......................$  ft 
80
Saffron, A m erican................................... 
@  2
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
Sal Nitre, large cryst.............................. 
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
Sal Rochelle..............................................  
Sal Soda............................................ 
2
Salicin...............................................
Santonin....................................—
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]......................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s—
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, *4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin ..............
Turpentine,  Venice................ ¥  ®>
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................

2  00
6 75
38
4
25
4*4© 5
14
17
9
11
14
26  © 28
28  © 32
30
3*4® 4
60
2 70
1  40
85
25
60
7  © 8

do 
do 

do 

 

 

 

OILS.

3© 3*4

 

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder..................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 3o
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine............................  
30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
..1  40
Gal
85
75
65
56
63
95
45

Whale, w inter............................
Lard, extra.................................
Lard, No.  1.................................
Linseed, pure  raw ....................
Linseed, boiled.........................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..
Spirits Turpentine....................
V A RN ISH ES.

Bbl
80
64
55
53
60
90
37

PA IN T S.

“ 
“ 

...1 10@1 20
...1 60@1  70
...2  75@3 00
...1 00©1 10
E xtra Turp  Dam ar............................... 1 55@1 60
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.
Lb
9
10
10
11
2© 3 
2© 3 
2@ 3 
2*4® 3 
23£@ 3 
13@16 
55®57 
16@17 
534 
534 
@70 
©90 110 
1 40

Bbl
Boralumine, White  b u lk !............
5 fts 1............
Boralumine, 
Boralumine, Tints bulk,  j-50 off..
5  fts. J ............
Boralumine 
Red Venetian............................  134
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   154
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134
Putty, com m ercial..................   2*4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2*4
Vermilion, prime Am erican..
Vermilion,  English.................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  G ilders......................
White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Paris English oliff..

18
10

13

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS

14

75

Wholesale

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OFm, denial! 
Pits, Oils, Yarnislies,

;i!
pi

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint  and  V arnish 

Brushes.

-Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists' Sundries

15

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  n ew   stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
28
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
35
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.
10
33

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  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
o th er  know n  b r a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n tee  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

.1

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

Gin, B m is&  Fin Wins.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

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

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  & BBO., P roprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
{Entered  at the  Postoffice  at  Graixd Rapids  as 

Second-class M atter.1

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  3,  1884.

A ction  of  Sunlight on  Glass.

The action of  sunlight  on  colorless  and 
colored glass—both  that  which is  polished 
and that which is rough—is so marked as to 
have received lately the special  attention of 
chemists.  Yery perceptible  changes  have 
been observed—that  is,  from  colorless  to 
yellow, and  from  light  yellow,  green,  or 
blue to the darker or mellow shades of these 
colors—and 
specimens  of  coffee-colored 
glass are instanced which,  in  the  space of 
only five  years, had  materially  changed to 
rose and amber colors. 
It  is  thought  that 
the rich, mellow tones, so  much  admired in 
the old  and  richly-stained  cathedral  win­
dows, are due to the action of  sunlight  in a 
long succession  of years,  in  toning  down 
what  were  most  probably  comparatively 
bright or harsh colors originally—the action, 
it is supposed, may be a photo-chemical one.. 
Investigations  made  in  this  line  show, 
among  other  practical  results, 
that  man­
ganese should be employed in glass used for 
lighthouse purposes;  white  glass,  contain­
ing even as small as 5 per cent., exhibits  no 
change.
New  D eparture  for Sunday School Lem on­
“Lemons are remarkably cheap this year,” 
said  the  Sunday-school  superintendent  to 
the deacon, while they were making arrange­
ments for the annual  Sunday-school  picnic. 
“So I hear,”  answered  the  deacon;  “but 
why do you mention it?”  “I was thinking,” 
said the  superintendent,  musingly,  “seeing 
they’re so cheap, that it wouldn’t  be  a bad 
thing to make a new departure  at the picnic 
this year, and put some in  the lemonade.”

ade.

The people of St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  are 
reported to have  gone  daft  on  astronomy 
since the  advent of  Professor  Richard  A. 
Procter, who has become a resident  of that 
city.  Even  the  young  ladies  talk  about 
Mars and Jupiter, instead of ice  cream and 
the fall fashions.  Sewing circles  have  giv­
en place to  astronomical  societies;  babies 
are named after the stars;  furniture wagons 
are ornamented with pictures of the  aurora 
borealis;  “Saturn cigars and  “Venus”  soap 
are among the novelties in  the  market; the 
newspapers contain able articles on  the per­
turbations of Uranus and  other  subjects of 
the  sort; and the  craze  is still  spreading. 
There are fears that it will yet be  necessary 
to wall in the town  and  call  it  a  lunatic 
asylum.

“Doctor, I want you  to  do something for 
me.  My nerves  are shattered  completely. 
I am not able  to eat  anything  and I  sleep 
very little at night.  What would you advise 
me to do?” “ What has  brought  about  this 
condition?” 
I’m 
afraid.”  “Well, I would advise you to give 
up drinking.”  “H’m,  that  idea  never  oc­
curred  to  me.  What’s  your  charge  for 
the  advice?” 
I 
am much obliged to you,  Doctor.  Let’s go 
and take something.”

“Nothing.”  “Nothing? 

“Drinking  too  much, 

Judge  Drummond,  of  Milwaukee,  ex­
pressed himself  thus  to  three  lawyers  of 
that city who put in bills amounting to 325,- 
000 for  settling  an  estate  worth  $32,000: 
“Gentlemen, you  consider  yourselves  good 
lawyers,  but  these  charges  are  infamous. 
They are such as  men  who  are  scoundrels 
and thieves  at  heart  would  make.  This 
charge of  $15,000  is cut  down  to  $1,500, 
those of $5,000 each  to $500.”

Mr.  Blank—You  are  a  regular  Lulu 
Hurst.  Mrs. Blank—And pray who  is she? 
Mr. Blank—The magnetic  girl.  You possess 
the two great qualities of  magnetism.  Mrs. 
Blank—Indeed!  Mr.  Blank—Yes;  when 
determined to go to the  beach in a  fashion­
able bathing suit you are decidedly positive. 
Mrs.  Blank—Indeed!  Mr.  Blank—And
when, in spite of  me, you  wear it,  you are 
decidedly  nakedive.

A young  man was  frequently  cautioned 
by his  father  to  vote  for  “measures,  not 
men.”  He promised to do so, and  soon  af­
ter gave his vote for Mr. Peck.  His father, 
astonished at his voting for a man  whom he 
deemed objectionable,  inquired  the  reason 
for doing so. 
“Surely,  father,”  said  the 
son, “you told me to vote for measures,  and 
if Peck  is  not a  measure,  I don’t  known 
what is.”

There is a plant  in  China  and a si mi liar 
one in Japan called  the  “flower of the air.” 
It is so called  because it has no root, and  is 
never fixed to the earth. 
It twines  round a 
dry tree or  sterile  rock.  Each  shoot  pro­
duces two or three flowers like a lily^ white, 
transparent  and  odoriferous. 
It is capable 
of being  transported two or three  hundred 
leagues, and it  vegitates  as  it  travels, sus­
pended on a twig.

The Esterbrook Steel Pen Co. recently of­
fered two prizes for the best  two  poems on 
the subject of Esterbrook pens,  and received 
over 600 contributions,  thirty-two  of  which 
have been printed and bound  in  pamphlet 
form, which will be mailed  to  any  address 
oil application to the company at New York.
The  Detroit  Stove  Works  cover  seven 
acres of ground, employ 1,000 men, and turn 
out on an average 350 stoves  per day.

M O A »  COMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIAI
Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in   Force for 

Thirty Tears.

l i s t   o f   o f f i c e r s :

President—Ransom W. H aw ley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Sn ed eker, Detroit; 
L. W. A t k in s, Grand Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
d er, Lansing;  U. S. L ord, Kalamazoo; H . E. 
Mee k er, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Me r e d it h , 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J . C. P on­
tiu s, Chairman, S. A. Munger, H. K. W h it e 
For Two  Years—D. Mo r r is,  A. W.  Cu lv er.

RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

L A V 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, 

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MICHIGAN.

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

E L S M O J K ’ S

“Red Bark Bitters”

---- AND-----

78  W est  B ridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

COLE  &  STONE,
Gents’  Fine  S hirts.

M anufacturers  and  Jobbers  of

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,
Marshall

Mich.

SEEDS

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

-----AT-----

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT THE—

S B BD   S TORE ,

91  Canal St., G rand  R apids, Mich.

W. T. LAMOBEABI Apt.
EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

J E  "W E L E j JR.,

44  CANAL STREET,

J O K Q sr  OA-TJX-jF I E H - jID,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

Q-eneral  Wholesale  Dealer.

‘v-.  'k. *&£*,>.* 

>1-, 

r

Grand Rapids,
.  ifC 

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Michigan.

Hamilton  Carhartt  &  Co.,
Men’s Furnishing Goods

W HOLESALE

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

for Comparison.

The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets, Jumpers’ Shirts, etc.  Upon our 
manufactured goods, we guarantee to save the trade the  Jobbers’  Profits.  Samples  sent
Detroit.
118 Jefferson Ave.
W e manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
W e  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virgidia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  TSTalnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

We are  agents  for  Gordon’s 
celebrated  W ag Jaws,  Olym­
pian, D. F., and many other well- 
known brands and carry a full line 
of his goods at factory prices.
W e handle Oranges, Lemons, 
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates,  23tc.,  in 
large quantities from first-hands  and 
are  headquarters  for  everything  in 
our line.

Pruit

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.
FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
Niroi,Acorn, Chief, Crescent A M  Sent Plug Tobaccos.

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

-WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

*  

Tobaccos,  Vinegars  and.  Spices ll 

OURaiOTTO:  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MANGAND  MAN.”

—WE  MAKE  SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

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

R EM O V A L!

Coal,  Wood,  Lime,  Cement, 

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

A_.  B.  K N O W L S O N .
W M . SEA R S & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

- W HOLESALE  D EALERS  IN-

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  -  MICHIGAN.

PEC K   BROS.,

W h o le sa le  D ru ggists

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

Wa  Employ  No  Travelers.  Send  for  Prices.

129  and  131  Monroe Street,

Grrand.  Rapids 

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-  Mich.

SPRING  A COMPANY

m

—WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

FLAJsrcry  .A-isro

P E R K I N S   Sc  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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

NOS.  18»  and  184  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RA PID S,  M ICHIGAN.

STAPLE DRY GOODS

BARBOUR’S CAMPAIGN  TORCH

The  only  Torch  th a t  can  be  taken  ap art  and  shipped  in  a 

Small  space.

300 to 500 Torches complete (except bandies)  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.

As  good  as  any  Torch  Made.  The  Cheapest  in  Price.

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

FO STER ,  S T E V E N S   <&  CO.,

lOnand IS Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

H ercules  P ow der I
STUMP  AND  ROCK  ANNIHILATOR!

THE  OREAT

SEN D   FOR  PRICES.

CARPETS,

M ATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  ETC.

nr

6  and  8  Monroe  Street,

S. A.WELLING Sili

A.  A.  ORTPPEN,

W HOLESALE

Hats, Gaps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RA PID S, 

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M ICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

FOR

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

Send for  descriptive  circular  to  HALL & 

CO., Publishers. 154 Lake St., Chicago, 111.

TACKS
NAILS

EVERY  KIND  AND  SIZE,
T runk, Clout and Finishing 
Steel W ire N ails and Brads.

—ALSO—

American  Tack  Co.,

Fa ir h a v en 

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Ma ss.

C. S. YALE & BRO.

—M anufacturers  of—

N!

BAKING  POWDERS,

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:  John D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  John  H.  Backer, 
L. R. Cesna, Geo. W. N. De Jonge. 
Frank Berles 

House Salesman.

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24 Pearl StreetM O O T S ,

—THE—

BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O R   S A L E   B  Y

M M

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

BliUOOr c a - s ,   STO.,

40  and  42  South  D ivision  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  

MICH.

ALBERT COYE & SONS
WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  S U P P O R T .

State Agents for

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of R ecent D ecisions in Courts 

of  Last  Resort.

Satisfaction  of Ju d g m en t.

In the opinion of  the  Supreme  Court of 
New Hampshire money paid in  satisfaction 
of a judgment to the  attorney of  the  judg­
ment creditor, can not, on a  reversal  of the 
judgment, with an order for  restitution,  be 
recovered of the attorney in an action at law 
against him by the judgment creditor.

E xtrem e  Cruelty.

Single instances of neglect  by one  having 
the  means  to  provide  his  wife  with  the 
necessaries of life, or to  furnish  her  with 
medical assistance,  unaccompanied  by cir­
cumstances showing  danger  or  reasonable 
apprehension of danger to her life or health, 
do not,  as  a matter  of  law, constitute  ex­
treme  cruelty  as a cause  of  divorce—Su­
preme Court, New  Hampshire.

Common  C arrier—B ill  of Lading.

When goods are  delivered  to  a  common 
carrier and the bill of lading  made  deliver­
able to the order  of  the vendor, it  is  suffi­
cient evidence, without  contrary  proof,  to 
show the intention of the vendor  to reserve 
his power of disposal  and  to  prevent  the 
property from passing to the  vendee.—Rey­
nolds et al. vs. Scott  et al.,  Supreme  Court 
of California.
In stru m en t  of  A ssignm ent  Not  A cknow l­
A written instrument  purporting  to be a 
general  assignment  of  real  and  personal 
property for the  payment  of  debts,  under 
the insolvent laws of the State,  but  not ac­
knowledged as required  by the  statue  gov­
erning deeds and conveyances, does not pass 
title to real  estate.  Nor  does it  create  in 
the assignee an equity  for the  conveyance. 
—Hamilton (O.) District Court.

edged Title.

Assignee—B ankruptcy.

The assignee in bankruptcy of  a  right in 
equity to redeem homestead  premises  from 
a mortgage, executed by the  debtor and his 
wife, releasing homestead rights,  holds the 
premises subject  to  the  wife’s  homestead 
rights as well as to the mortgage, and  if the 
grantee of such  assignee  pays or  takes an 
assignment of the mortgage, the wife  is en­
titled to a homestead  without  contribution, 
she  having  first  redeemed.—Pollard  vs. 
Noyes, Supreme Court,  New Hampshire.
Prom m issory  Note—Consideration.

The note of a son given to  the  holder of 
his deceased father’s paper  for the  amount 
thereof, in consideration of  the surrender of 
said paper, is void, as being  unsupported by 
a valuable consideration, the  father  having 
left no estate,  although  the  son  recognized 
his  own note as  valid for a  long  time.— 
Schroeder vs. Fink, Maryland  Court of Ap­
peals.

Insurance—Notice  of Loss.

Where two  insurance  companies  join in 
issuing a policy against loss by fire, in which 
the several liability of each is  distinctly set 
forth, and a loss occurs, they may  be joined 
as defendants in an  action  to  recover  the 
loss, and a notice of such loss,  addressed to 
one of such companies, but  delivered to the 
agent  of  both,  is  equivalent  to  notice to 
both.—Supreme Court of  California.

F ire  Insurance—Change  of Title.

The conveyance of property to the  daugh­
ter of the insured, and by her to her mother, 
the wife of the insured, is a change  in  the 
title of the property,  and  will  void  a  fire 
policy which  declares  that  any  change  in 
the title will render it void.  A policy of in­
surance issued to a mortgagor of real  estate, 
made payable to the  mortgagee  in  case of 
loss, is an insurance  of the  interest  of the 
mortgagor in the estate, and not the interest 
of  the  mortgagee;  and  in  such  case  the 
mortgagee is not an assignee of  the  policy, 
and is affected by subsequent acts of  the as­
sured.—Baldwin  vs.  Phoenix  Insurance 
Company, Supreme Court  of  New  Hamp­
shire.

Oil W ells of Pennsylvania.

According to an account  which  appeared 
in a recent issue of a Pittsburg  paper  there 
are 20,000 producing  oil  wells  in  Pennsyl 
vania, yielding at present  60,000  barrels  of 
oil a day. 
It requires  5,000  miles of  pipe 
line and 1,600 iron tanks, of an  average  ca­
pacity of  25,000  barrels  each, to transport 
and store the oil and surplus  stocks.  There 
are now nearly 38,000,000 barrels of oil stor 
ed in the region in tanks.  The money actu-" 
ally invested in petroleum  production  since 
1860 is estimated to be more than  $425,000,- 
000, of which $200,000,000 was capital  from 
New  York City.  The  speculative  transac­
tions represent more  than  $400,000,000  an­
nually.  The lowest price  crude  petroleum 
ever brought  was 10 cents a barrel in  1861. 
In 1859, when there was only  one  well  in 
existence, Col. Drake’s Pioneer, at Titusville, 
the price  was  $24 a barrel.  The  Standard 
employs 100,000  men.  The  product of  its 
refineries requires the making of  25,000 oak 
barrels, of 40 gallons  each, and 100,000  tin 
cans, holding 5 gollons each, every  day. The 
first American petroleum ever  exported was 
in 1862.  Charles  Lockhart,  of  Pittsburg, 
sent nearly 600,000 gallons to Europe in that 
year, and sold it for $2,000 less than the cost 
of transportation. In 1883 nearly 400,000,000 
gallons were exported for which $60,000,000 
were returned to this country.

A  B rave  Man.

“There goes a brave man,” said  a  citizen 
“He is one of the 

pointing to a  passer-by. 
bravest men I have ever seen.”

“Was he in the army?” some one asked.
“I don’t know.”
“Then I suppose you have known  him to 
distinguish himself in personal encounters?”

“Not particularly.”
“Why, then, do you regard him as a brave 

man?”

“Well, you see,  some  time  ago,  I  got a 

divorce from my wife.”

“Yes.”
“That man  married her.”

L ooking a t  F u tu re   Possibilities.

“But, dear papa, Adolphus and  I do love 

each other so dearly.”

“I can’t help that, Angelina. 

I tell  you 

you can’t many him.”

‘I don’t see what objection  you can  pos­

sibly have to him, dear papa.”

“Objection enough. 

I want you to live at 

home always, and not in Canada.”

“Who said anything about living in Cana­

da, dear papa?”

“Nobody said anything about it, but  isn’t 
Adolphus a  bank  cashier,  and  don’t  that 
make  it  likely  you  will  ultimately  live 
there.”

Down to a Fine Point.

Lover  of  antique—“What is  the  price of 

that Louis XIY cabinet.”

Bric-a-brac  Dealer—“Five  hundred  dol­

lars.”

“Mercy!  Why, a friend of mine  got  one 

just like that for $150.”

“Where?”
“At Millburgville, Conn.”
“Oh! of course.  You  can’t  expect us to 

compete with Millburgville.”
«»

“And  why not?” 
“That’s where they make ’em.”

A R apid  T raveler.

“How do you dare eat so  many  onions?” 
asked a druggist of a grocer, the  other day.
“I don’t care how many I eat,” he replied. 
“My wife is a long way off.  She  is  in Buf­
falo.”

“Yes, but 200 miles isn’t  very  far for an 

onion.”

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.  Their 
great convenience can be learned  by  having 
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen 
expressed for $2.50 from  Kenyon  Brothers, 
Wakefield, Rhode  Island.

p T JR   S U B S C R IB E R S   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.

Watches  are  smuggled  into  Canada  in 

holes scooped in the center of  Bibles.

Elgin creamery  butter,  the  choicest  the 

market affords, at M. C. Russell’s.

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

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1  05
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
90
Louisville Cement,  per bbl..................  
140
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1  40
Car lots.....................................................1  05@110
Plastering hair, per b u .........................  25®  30
175
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
Land plaster, per to n ............................ 
3  75
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6  25@6 50
Cannell,  car lots...................................  @6 75
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3 25®3 50
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50®5 00

COAL.

WHOLESALE

21  PE A R L   STREET,

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AGENTS  FOR

Xj. S. EEILL c*3 oo.
FXSZXX2TG  TACZLE
GRAND  R A P ID S 
MICH.
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed
Braid  R ais  Wire  Works

The lowest m arket prices  for Sport­

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Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W ORK !
STEAM  LAUNDRT

92  MONROE  STREET.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

“Why dont you retire?” asked a friend  of 
a rieh business man.  “I have observed that 
those of my friends who have  retired  soon 
died.  1 prefer to keep in  harness  and  live 
long,” was the shrewd response.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  DSE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at 

tended to.

M

TIME TABLES.

D EPA R T.

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

A R R IV E .

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

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

G O IN G  EA ST.

> 

G O IN G  W EST.

Leaves.
Arrives. 
tSteamboat Express..........6:10 am  
6:20 a m
tThrough  Mail....................10:15 a m   10:20 am
tEvening  Express............. 3:20 p m   3:55 p m
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m  19:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:30 am
tMorning  Express............. 12:40 p m  12:55 p m
tThrough  Mail..................  5:00 p m   5:10 pm
tSteamboat Express..........10:30 p m  10:35 p m
tM ixed..................................  
7:10 a m
♦NightExpress....................  5:10 a m   5:30 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:35  p,  m.  will  mak  con 
nection with Milwaukee steamers dally 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.

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

D. P o tter, City Pass. Agent.

'  G O ING NORTH.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
Arrives,
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:00 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:55 p m  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.  6:30 p m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:10pm  
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e E x.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m 

GO ING  SOUTH.

Leaves
11:00 pm 
10:25 am  
5:00 p m 
7:10 a m
7:00 a m 
4:35 p m 
11:42 p m

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS. 

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

C. L. L ockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives
tMail.........................................9:15 a m   4:00 p m
tDay  Express....................... 12:25 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express.....................8:35 p m   6:10 a m
Mixed....................................... 6:10 a m   10:05 pm
♦Daily. 
Pullman Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night  trains, 
Through parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  a t 
tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

tDaily except Sunday.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

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

J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  M Y-

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.
hi lit D a  al  Hiw  M   P m !!
Clothing  and  Cent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

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

Cottonade Pants  and Hosiery.

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

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

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

I-  O.  L E V I ,

T l i e   Old  P - e l i a t o l e

Pioneer Cigar Factory,

H.  S C H N E I D E R   <&  OO

PROPRIETORS.

21  Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids.

The  following  brands  are  our  own  make and Union labelled goods:  D ick and George, 
P eninsular  Club,  Los  Dos,  Sehr  Fein,  Louise,  M ocking B ird,  E vening Star  and  K .  T. 
We are jobbers of all kinds of Tobaccos  aim   Sm okers’  A rticles.

B a k ï î i G
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

OHIO  OIL  COMPANY

Is’the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of  Veg­
etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. 
It is  rapidly  com- 
inguinto popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand 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.

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.

And  Lashes  of All  Kinds  and  Prices.

Orders  Promptly  Filled.

G. HOYS & GO, Gill A p is

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E N G I N E S

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

88,90  and 92  South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WEATHERLY & CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IROKT  PIPE, 

Brass  Goods,  Iron  and  Brass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  Fitters,
—And M anufacturers of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

Glover, Timothy and  all  Kinds Pield Seeds 
Seed  Corn,  Green and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
GREEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 
*  122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions!

W HOLESALE

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

-  MICHIGAN,

(5roceries.

Oil  Producers  to  Cease  D rilling.
Prom the  Oil, Paint and Drug  Reporter.

The agreement  to start  no  new  rigs  or 
drill old  wells until  next  January  having 
been signed by seven-eighths of all  the pro­
ducers, is declared in full force and  binding 
on all.  The associated producers held  sort 
of a love  feast  at Bradford,  and  harmony 
prevailed  over  their  deliberations.  The 
compact having been made, the prophets  of 
the trade  are  now  laboring 
to  boom  the 
market by predicting two and five dollar oil. 
Both  stocks  and  petroleum took  a  decided 
turn for the better  after the  result  of  the 
Bradford  conference  was  announced,  and 
many operators  believe  this  reaction to be 
the dawning of an era  of  prosperity.  The 
situation at present is merely one  of  specu­
lation as to whether  the  causes  which  un­
derlie the advance are to  continue  in  force 
or prove of little account.  The  agreement 
of the producers, if lived up to, will soon ex­
haust the oil  stocks above  ground,  but the 
same causes which have  worked  failure in 
all previous attempts of the kind still  exist. 
Irresponsible operators will always be found 
in the oil fields who  manage to  secure  pro­
ducing territory on  the  borders  of  prolific 
fields and sink wells  to  the  oil  sand, thus 
robbing the idle wells adjacent of their legit­
imate yield.  This course naturally  induces 
others  to follow the same  programme.  By 
this plan the unscrupulous wildcatters  reap 
the benefits that ensue from  the cessation in 
production of  reputable  and  conscientious 
producers.  The trade  may  witness  a wild 
race to see who can drill the  most wells out­
side of  the  associated  producers’  territory, 
and  force  oil  on  a  market  that  has  been 
over-stocked and demoralized for some time, 
costing legitimate producers millions  of dol­
lars.  The success of the shut  down  move­
ment is doubted from the fact that  the pro­
ducers are under no  restraint  other  than a 
simple obligation not to drill, and  that own­
ers of  territory can  proceed  with  the drill 
whenever  there is  any  probability  of  the 
district being  drained.  This  will  afford  a 
good sized loophole for some of  the  signers 
to escape.  If the talk of the  stoppage stim­
ulates speculative trading, that  policy  may 
accomplish the desired  object  so  fully that 
the actual cessation  of  operations  may not 
be required.  Speculators are not taking the 
present advance in  values  as  a  boom,  but 
view it as a natural recovery. 
If  the favor­
able  elements  can  be  kept  moving,  six 
months hence will witness  a  great  change. 
Trade certainly needs a stimulus.

While on this  subject,  it  may  be  stated 
that a movement  is  at  last  started  for the 
purpose of effecting some sort  of  united ac­
tion by Canadian producers. 
It  is proposed 
to establish an  agency  through  which  will 
pass all transfers  of  crude,  and  which,  in 
short, will  occupy the position  on the mar­
ket of a producer large enough to control the 
production. 
It will collect  and disseminate 
information  as  to  production,  stocks  and 
other  matters  of  vital  importance  to  the 
trade,  and will  endeavor  to  establish  the 
trade upon a  legitimate  business  basis. 
It 
contains the elements of success and requires 
but the hearty  co-operation  of producers to 
make it effective.  The plan  will  be  circu­
lated among producers, when they will have 
an opportunity to digest it.

Pay P rom ptly.

A point often  overlooked  by  the  retail 
dealer is the importance of the prompt  pay­
ment of accounts.  A merchant ought never 
to wait for a statement, but  should  always 
have his remittance in the hands  of the job­
ber the day it falls due.  We are well aware 
that such a’course might prove  fatal  to the 
unsuspecting jobber, to  whom  undoubtedly 
the shock would prove a  bolt  from  a clear 
sky, but it would not take long  for  him to 
become accustomed to the new  order  of af­
fairs and really  enjoy it.  But  why  should 
the retailer adopt this course?  First, because 
promptness  begets  confidence,  and  will 
build up a man’s credit and good name  fast­
er than any other thing he  can do.  Second, 
the cash discount  thereby  obtained  will in 
the course of a year’s business,  amount to a 
good round sum.  Third,  because  the  job­
ber, thus handsomely treated,  will  be  ever 
ready to accord such a customer  every  pos­
sible favor in his power;  will  acquaint  him 
with  the  newest  styles,  the  best  selling 
goods; will see to it that no  mistakes  occur 
in the way of  quality,  etc.;  in  short,  will 
look upon the prompt customer as a  person­
al friend, and will do all that can be done to 
further  his  best  interests.  But  how  is a 
man to know the  date of  maturity  of  all 
these  many  and  diverse  bills?  Keep  a 
special diary for that purpose.  When  a bill 
is checked off record  the  date  of  maturity 
and see to it that a check is sent,  not within 
a week or two, but in time to have it  arrive 
at its destination the day it  falls  due.  By 
this method you  will  find  that in  a  short 
time your credit will be  absolutely  unques­
tioned,  and  you will  soon find  that  your 
business  is prospering  beyond all  your ex­
pectations.

Feature«  of th e  W eek.

The grocery business has been fairly  good 
during the past week.  The market has been 
about steady, the only marked change  being 
a firmer feeling in sugars.

Oranges and lemons are  steady  and  firm 
at about last week’s prices, with no prospect 
of lower  prices  at  present.  Walnuts  are 
higher and peanuts a little lower, with pros­
pects of an immense crop.

The present week witnesses the advent of 
the oyster season, several  houses  having anc 
nounced themselves as able to  fill orders any 
time after Thursday.  Prices  start high,  but 
will  undoubtedly  decline as the  season ad­
vances.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

ton.

venna.

same, Morley.
ber Co., New Era.

Mr. Emmett, Coon, Russell & Co.,Bald win. 
J. G. Peterson, lronton.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
J. Frost, McBrides.
S. R. Wylie, J. R. Wylie &  Bro.,  Martin. 
Geo. A. Sage,  Rockford.
Ralph Steffin, South Blendon.
C. H. Deming, Dulton.
Mr. Carroll, of Carroll & Fisher, Doit.
Ed. Roys, of Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
D. H. Lord, Howard City.
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
C. E. Kellogg,  Jennisonville.
G. B. Chambers, Wayland.
Howard Morley, Cedar Springs.
B. McNeal, Byron Center.
Henry Strope and Fred Nichols, buyer for 
E. P. Barnard, buyer for  New Era  Lum­
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
A. Engberts, Beaver  Dam.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
Bardn & Tenhoor, Forest Grove.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
Thomas Smedley, Smedley Bros., Bauer. 
Geo. Hobart,  D. P. Clay & Co., Newaygo.
O. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ra­
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
M. J. Howard, Euglishville.
A. M. Church,  Sparta.
A. W. Stickle, Cadillac.
F. E. Davis, Hopkins Station.
John Scholten, Overisel.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
Geo. W. Bevins, Tustin.
Cass Scoville, Scoville & McAuley, Edger- 
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
YanWormer  Bros., Greenville.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
J. W. Fearns, Big Rapids.
Chas. Glasgow, South Cass.
W. B. Rickert, Lowell.
Smith & Fallas, Coopersville.
F. E. Davis, Berlin.
F. A. Raider, Newaygo.
R. Schack, Reed City.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant
F. C. Selby, Yolney.
B. Tripp,  Bangor.
Alex. Eckerman, Muskegon.
J. F. Richardson,  Jamestown.
A. W. Fenton, Bailey.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
Frank Utley, Hesperia.
Mr.  Walbrink, L J. Quick &  Co.,  Allen­
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Roop & Williams, Chippewa Lake.
Joseph Neuman,  Dorr.
C. W. Armstrong, Bowen’s Mills.
Frank P. Watkins, Monterey.
Chas. Cole, Ada.
Nicholas Bouma, Fisher.
P. J. Welsh, Shaytown.
C.  L. Howard, Clarksville.
Colborn & Carpenter, Caledonia.
J. Marlatt, Berlin.
Heck & Goodman, Bumip’s Corners.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Spring &Lindley, Bailey.
J. L. Graham, Hopkins.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Ginghaus Bros., Lamont.
J. E. Mailhot. West Troy.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley Junction.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
C. G. J ones, Olive Center.
J. W. Bookwalter, Bumip’s Comers.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Chas. A. Loomis, Sparta.
John M. Cloud, Cadillac.
Joshua Colby, Colby & Co., Rockford.
A. Hanna, Casriovia,
Mr. Wagar, of  Wagar & Callahan,  Cedar 
Mr. Walling, Walling Bros., Lamont.
W. N. Hutchinson, Grant 
O. B. Granger,  of  O. B.  Granger  &  Co., 
Snon  & Cook, Moline.
C. Pfeifle, Lake P. O.
J. H. Edwards, Newaygo.
Mr. Denton, of Robbie & Denton,  Howard 
S. E. Bush, Pierson.
Joseph Raymond, Berlin.
Henry Stoddard,  of Stoddard  Bros., Reed 

Springs.

Plainwell.

City.

City.

dale.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

AXTjE  g r e a s e .

Frazer’s ........................................................   85
Diamond........................................................  w
M odoc__ #  doz...........................................  60
Paragon.. . #  doz.........................................  70
Paragon, 20 ft  pails......................................  90

BAKING  POWDER.

Arctic % ft cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic % ft cans..............................................  
75
Arctic % ft cans..............................................JjP
Arctic 1 B>  cans..............................................2 40
Arctic 5  ft cans.............................................. 12 00

BLUING.

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

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CANNED F ISH .

2 50
2  25
f  75
  2  00
1  75
1  25

No. 1 Carpet...............
.2 Carpet................ 
No 
„..A 1  Parlor Gem....................................  
No
No. 1 H url...................................  
 
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
Fancy Whisk................ 
Common Whisk............................................ 
°5
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards.......................... 1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  B>  standards.........................  1 95
Cove Oysters, 1 B>  slack  filled.....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 lb slack filled.. . . , .................. 1 25
Clams, 1 ft  standards........................................ 1 65
Clams, 2 ft  standards........................................2 65
Mackerel, 1®>  fresh  standards....................... 1 20
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards....................... 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft......................3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft in M ustard................... 
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled........................................3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river............................ 1 60
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river............................ 2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento................................. 1 50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle..........................   1 85
Sardines, domestic >¿8.................................  
7
Sardines,  domestic  %s.................................   12%
Sardines,  Mustard  %s .................................  12
Sardines,  imported  %s.................................   15
Sardines, imported %s ......  
.......................  20
Sardines, imported %s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  k eg s............................  50
Trout, 3 ft  brook............................................   3 00

3 50

CANNED FRUITS.

 

........ 

Apples, 3 ft standards...................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie.................... 2 50
Blackberries, standards...................................1 25
Cherries,  red.......................................................1 JO
Cherries, w h ite ..................................................1 75
Damsons....................................................  - J  20
Egg Plums, standards 
1  3o
Egg Plums,  E rie...............................................-1 45
Green Gages, standards 2 ft.............................1 40
Green Gages,  E rie.............................................1 50
Peaches, 3 ft  standards.....................................1 75
Peaches, 3 ft Extra  Yellow..............................2 00
Peaches,  seconds...............................................1 65
Pie Peaches 3 ft..................................................1 15
Pears, B artlett 2 f t.............................................J 30
Pineapples, 2 ft  stand................................ 140
Q uinces......................................................... 1 45
Raspberries,  2 ft stand.....................................l  35
Raspberries, 2 ft E rie........................................1 40
Strawberries,  2 ft standards...................... 110
Apricots, Lusk’s ..........................................2  75
Egg Plum s.................................. ..................2 85
Green Gages................................................ 2  85
Pears  .........................-..................................|  00
Peaches.........................................................3  00

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.............................. 3  25
Beans, L im a..................................................  85
Beans, S tring.............................................. 
 
Beans, Boston Baked..................................1  65
Beans,  Stringless........................................ 1  00
Corn, Erie..................................................... J  15
Corn, Revere................................................ 1  20
Corn,  Egyptian............................... ............1 10
Corn,  Yarmouth..........................................1  20
Corn Trophy................................................ J  15
Corn, 2ft  Onandago...................................1  50
Mushrooms, French................................i. .22@24
Peas, standard  M arrofat...........................1  40
Peas, 2ft  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,2ft B.&M..................... '---- ....1  75
Squash, 3ft  standards................................1  20
Tomatoes, 3ft Dilworth’s ........... ...............1 05
Tomatoes, 3 ft Job Bacon...........................1  05
<j.  d .....................   35  ¡Ely’s Waterproof  75
Musket.'...............  75 

CAPS.

|

90

CHOCOLATE.

@36
@40
@35
@25

Boston  premium. 
Baker’s premium.
R unkles................
German  sweet—  
Vienna Sweet.......
Green Rio.............
..............................17  @27
G reenJava............
............................. 25  @27
Green Mocha........
.............................. 12  @17
Roasted Rio..........
............................. 24  @34
Roasted  Ja v a .......
..............................17  @19
Roasted Mar........
..............................  @34
Roast ed Mocha__
..............................17%©19
Roasted Mex........
..............................  9%©17
Ground  Rio..........
..............................  @16
Ground  Mex........
.................................   @15%
Arbuckle’s ............
.................................   @15%
x x x x ..................
.................................   @15%
Dilworth’s ............
..............................  @16%
Levering’s
Magnolia.................................................   @15%

CORDAGE.

72 foot J u t e .......1 25  ¡60 foot Cotton— 1 75
60 foot Ju te .......  1  05  150 foot Cotton— 1 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Jennings’2 oz......................................13  doz. 1 00

4 oz..........................................................1 50
6 oz..........................................................2 50
8 oz..........................................................3 50

“ 
“ 
“ 

185ftpkgs...............................................   @3 75
362B> pkgs...............................................   @3 25
Im perial  bbls.........................................  @5 50
Quaker bbls..............................................   @6  75
@5 75
Steel  cut

OIL.

do. 

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

PICKLES.

13% 
19% 
75 
1  00 
75 
1  00

do 
do 

..7  00 
, —
Choice in barrels med.............  
..4 00 
Choice in % 
..........................
..4 25 
.small— ...........
Dingee’s % 
. .4 25 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy...............
.  2 25 
Dingee’s pints 
do 
...............
..2  00 
American qt.  in Glass.........................
..1 25 
American pt.in Glass..........................
..6 00 
C. & B. English  quarts.......................
..3 60 
C. & B. English  pints..........................
...600
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  quarts
pints__ 3 60
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75

*’ 

“ 

“ 

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

PIPES.

RICE.

Choice  Carolina................................................6%
Prime  Carolina..................................................7%
Java  ....................................................................6%
P a tn a .................................................................. 6
R angoon............................................................. 5%

SALERATUS.

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

SALT.

P o ck et................................................ 
P ocket..........................................4.. 
100 3 ft pockets...................................... 
Saginaw F in e ......................................... 
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard Coarse.................................  . 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
American, dairy, % bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels.........................................  

2 50
2 35
2 65
1  00
1 75
1 55
80
3 20
25
30

SAUCES.

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

SEEDS.
H em p .................................. 
 
C anary...........................  
R a p e ........................................................ 
Mixed Bird...............................................  

 

 

5
5
7
5%@6

SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 ft  bars...................................  @ 6%
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................  @ 6%
Towel, 25 bars  ...........................................  @5 25
Napkin, 25 bars...................................... 
Best American, 601 ft blocks__ .........   @6
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain........   .........  @ 5%
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-% ft c ak e s........... ..............   @5 00
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.......................   @4 85
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft cakes........   @6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........   @6 25
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped.. . . __   @7
German  Mottled, wrapped..................   @ 6%
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................  @ 5%
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................  
@  5%
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............ 
@ 5
ondon Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............   @4 00
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 ft.............   @4 00
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @3 85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................  @4 00
Climax, 100 cakes,  w rapped.................  @3
Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @2 30
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box  ©1 25
A 1  Floating, 60 cakes..........................  @4 20
Kirk’s American  Fam ily............$  ft 
6%
do. 
In d ia ........................................  
5%
do.  Savon.......................................  
5%
do.  S atin et.....................................  
5%
5%
do.  R evenue.................................. 
do.  White Russian......................... 
Goodrich’s English F a m ily ............... 
5%
P rincess............................ 
4%
r & Gamble’s Iv o ry .................
6  75
5
Japan  O live........
do.
Town Talk  #  box
3 60
do.
Golden B ar__ ....
4 10
do.
Arab.......................
3 40
do.
Amber........ ..........
3  75
do.
Mottled  German..
4 20
do.

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................   @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 20
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 05
Badger............................................ 60 fts  @ 6%
G alvanic.................................................   @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @18%
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily.................................
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 20
Sidall’s ................................................... 
Babbitt’s ............................................... 
Dish R a g ............................... ................ 
Bluing...................................................... 
Magnetic.................................................  
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon...................................................... 
Anti-Washboard................ ..................  
V aterland................................................ 
Magic............. .......................................... 
P ittsburgh.............................................. 
Bogue’s .......................................... ........ 
W hite castile bars................................. 
Mottled castile........................................ 
Old Country............................................  

3 00
5  50
4  15
5 00
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20
4 00
6 75
12
10
5%

5  10

do. 

  @5 25

VISITING  SALESMEN.

Representatives of  the  following  houses 

have been in town since our last issue:

C. B. Coffin, Trojan Shirt Co., Troy, N. Y.
Frank R. Edgett, Murphey & Edgett, An­
R. J. Cunningham, with B.  L.  Solomon’s 
E. L. Mansure, with  W. H. Horstmann & 
G. E. Angier, with W. T. Mersereau & Co., 
H. J. Wiggin, with H. B.  Wiggin’s  Sons, 
M. D. Palmer, Ray  Hubbell,  Northville, 
C. A. Banker,  Anglo-American  Packing 

napolis.
Sons, New York.
Sons, Philadelphia.
New York.
New  York.
N. Y.

Co., Chicago.
The  P rice  of  Hops  on  an  Upw ard  Ten 

dency.

Reports from 200  hop  growing  towns  in 
New York, Maine and the Province of  Que­
bec indicate a crop at least one-fourth  short 
of the average, but this is believed  to be  an 
underestimate.  The averages for each State 
are  as  follows:  Maine,  78;  Vermont,  80; 
Quebec, 70, and New York, 70.  Buyers have 
been  prospecting  here  and  there  offering 
twenty-five to thirty cents per pound.  Grow­
ers,  however,  are  generally  confident  of 
higher prices and disposed to hold  for  thir­
ty-five to fifty  cents.  Especially is this  the 
case in  New  York,  where  forty  and  fifty 
cents have been offered  in  a  few  instances 
for new hops and  where  growers  are  well 
posted.  Old  hops  are  pretty  much  out  of 
grocers’ hands, only occasional small lots be­
ing reported here and  there  in  New  York. 
The  new crop  is  of  an  extraordinary  fine 
quality.

Last week Jas. Fox was selected to act  as 
judge in a horse race.  This  week  he  was 
eleeted a member of the Board of Education 
from the Third ward, which is an  indication 
of the high standing he has in the communi­
ty.  Surely honors  come  easy to  some men.

i  

“  % pint  round........................................4 50
» 
«  No.  8.............................. 
“  No. 10........... 

 
3  00
4 25

“ 

 

 

 

 

Vanilla.

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

4 oz..........................................................2 50
6 oz.......................................................... 4 00
8 oz..;..........................  

“ 
“ 
“ 
5 00
“  No. 2  Taper..................................     1  50
“  No.  4 Taper..........................................  3 00
“  % pint  round.......................................  7 50
“ 
l  pint  round........................................ 15 00
“  No.  8.....................................................  4 25
“  No.  10..................................................... 6 00

 

 

FAUCETS.

FISH .

Faucets,  self m easuring.....................   @2 50
Faucets, common................................. 
©  OK
Whole Cod..............................................  4%@6%
Boneless Cod......................................... 
5@7@
Herring % bbls. 100 ft.........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled......................................  @24
@90
Herring Holland..............................■•.. 
White, No. 1, % b b ls............................ 
5  75
White, Family, % bbls......................... 
2 25
White, No. 1,10 ft k its......................... 
95
White, No. 1,12 ft k its......................... 
1 05
5 35
Trout, No.  1, %  bbls............................ 
90
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  k its.......>...............  
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls......................  
6 50
Mackerel, No. 1,12  ft  kits.................. 
1 00

FRUITS.

London Layers, new.............................. 
2  1
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............  @2'
New Valencias  Raisins.........................  7%@7
D ehesia...................................................  @3-25
O ndaras.......................... : ......................  
<
Turkey P ru n e s......................................
C urrants...................................................   5
,
C itron......................................................  ■  C 
Dried Apples  .........................................  8 ©8%

MATCHES.

Grand Haven,  No.  9, square......................... 2
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square......................... 1
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor......................2
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor......................3
Grand  Haven, No. 7,  round......................... 2
Richardson’s No. 2  square.............................2
Richardson’s No. 3  do 
...............................2
Richardson’s No. 5  do 
...............................1
Richardson’s No. 6  do 
...............................2
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
...............................1
...............................2
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
Richardson’s No. 4  ro u n d ..............................2
.............................. 2
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
Richardson’s No. 7% do 
.....................•••••„
Electric Parlor No. 17............................. 
  3
Electric Parlor No. 18..,................................. 4
Black  Strap— ............................................  @18
Porto  Rico........................ .........................
New  Orleans,  g o o d ................................ ».48§60
New Orleans,  f a n c y ......................

MOLASSES.

 

 

 

 

9 00

STARCH.

SPICES.
Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice................ 
12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger....................................................    17@20
M ustard................................................      15@35
Cayenne,.................................................   25@35
75
Pepper % ft $  dozen.................. 
75
Allspice  % ft........................................... 
Cinnamon  % f t...................................... 
100
Cloves %  ft..............................................  
75
Pepper,  whole....................................
Allspice........ ......................................
@10
Cassia...................................................
@12
Cloves...................................................  2
@22
@75
Nutmegs,  No. 1 ..................................   7
@5
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box, bulk.......
@4%
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts............
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages...........
“  Gloss,  36 3 $   packages..........
@6
@7
Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate__
“ 
Corn, 401 ft packages...........
©7%
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package......................
@6%
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
@7%
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes........................
@5%
Muzzy Gloss bulk...................................
@7
Muzzy Corn 1 ft......................................
Kingsford  Silver Gloss.........................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box..........
Kingsford Corn— . ..............................
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................
Piel’s Pearl..............................................
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................
10 oz  Gloss..............................................
3 ft  Gloss.................................................
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................
Table Corn...................................... 40 ft
Table  Com .....................................20 ft
Banner, bulk...........................................
Jugs #   gallon......................................... 
Crocks......................................................
Milk Crocks............................................

@6%
@6%
@8@8%
@6%@6%
@6%
@6%

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

@6%
@3%
@6
@7
@7
@4

STONEWARE.

@j

@8

STOVE POLISH.

SUGARS.

Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5
U niversal...............5 88 Above  dozen........
I X L .......................5 50]
Cut Loaf.................................................  
C ubes............................................ 
 
Powdered..................................... 
 
G ranulated............. . ..........   .............. 
Conf. A ........................................ .........
Standard A .................................... .....
E xtra C w h ite......................................  6  _
E xtra C .............................................  6%@6
F taeC ..............................i ................. -  
Y ellow C.................................... 

@
@7%
  @7%
@7

5%@5%
5  @5%

. 

do 

Chimneys No.  1............................. ........  @38
No.  2......................................  @48
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & % ft  do 
@27%
E xtract Coffee,  v.  c..............................   90@95
F e lix ................................1 30@
Flour Sifters $  doz....................................3 00®
Fruit Augurs each......................................1 25@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................   @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce............................................   30@35
Ink $  3 dozen  box......................................l 00@
Jelly in Pails..........................................   @5%
do  Glass Tumblers #  doz............... 
@75
Lye $  2  doz. cases.................................  @1 55
Macaroni,  Im ported.............................   @13
Domestic.........................................[ ”  "   @80
French Mustard,  8 oz #  dozen. .!’!"*  @80
Large  Gothic............  @1 35
Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallon..........................  @10. 00
Peas, Green Bush.................................*  @4  75
do  Split prepared.................................... @ 3%
Powder,  Keg...............................................4 oo@
Sago 
5@6
Shot, drop.................................................... 1 60@
do  b uck.................................................. 1 80@
Sage.........................................................  @15
Tobacco Cutters e ac h ................  
1  25@
T w ine...................................................... 
5@6
Tapioca................................................... 
Wickmg No. 1 $  gross..........................   @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  A rgand.......................................1 50@

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

do  % Keg........................... 

  18@20

2  50©

„ d o  

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows : 

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

do 
do 

@10@10%

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Royal, 25 ft  pails.............................
Royal, 200 ft bbls............................
Extra, 25 ft  pails.............................
Extra, 200 ft bbls..............................
French Cream, 25 ft pails........... ]!
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.........................
Broken, 25 ft  pails.....................
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..................

@ 10%.
..10
..11%
..11
..14
..14
..11%..10%
Lemon  Drops.................................................   14
Sour Drops............................... ........................15
Peppermint  Drops................ 
16
Chocolate Drops.....................  
 
17
H M Chocolate  Drops..................  
20
Gum  D ro p s....................................... 
Licorice Drops................................................ .20
A B   Licorice  Drops.. 
14
Lozenges, plain..............................................*.).jg
Lozenges,  printed................................... !.!!!.!.IT
Im perials........................... 11.!!................... lg.
M ottoes........................... 
ie
Cream  B ar...........................................  
jg,
Molasses B ar................... " 
Caramels........................................  
^
Hand Made Creams........... ............................ 23
Plain  Creams..........................!!.!.!.!.......... 20
Decorated  Creams...................................  
23-
String Rock............................................. 
16.
Burnt Almonds......................!!!".!!!'.*"!.......24
W intergreen  Berries........!.!.!  !” . 
lt>

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

 
.........

 

Fancy—in  Bulk.

 

 

 

Lozenges, plain in  pails...............................   14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls......................!!!!..  13
Lozenges, printed in pails........... 15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.............................]i4
Chocolate Drops, in pails...................... 
14
Gum  Drops, in pails.................. 
g
Gum Drops, in bbls........................................... 7
Moss Drops, in pails..........................****“  *n
Moss Drops, in bbls...........................................9
Sour Drops, in  pails.................! .! .! .!  * 
. 1 2
Imperials, in  pails........................................... 14
Imperials  in bbls.....................! . ”.".! .! .!.!!!l3
FRUITS.
box............................
Oranges 
Oranges OO $  box.............
Oranges, Imperials, $   box....!
Oranges, V alencia#  case........
Lemons,  choice..........................
Lemons, fancy.................., IS*’*
Bananas $  bunch................ . ..[
Malaga Grapes, $  keg........ .
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl................
Figs,  layers  ^  ft.........................
....................... .
Figs, fancy  do 
Figs, baskets 40 ft #  ft...............
Dates, frails 
do  ...............
Dates, % do 
do  ............. .
Dates, skin...................................
Dates, %  skin.............................
Dates, Ford 10 ft box #   ft........
Dates, Fard 50 ft box #  ft..........
Dates, Persian 50 ft box #  ft__

12® 16 
18@20 
@13% 
©  6
@ 6 
©  7%, 
.10
@11 
7  @ 8 
6%@ 7

3 50@4 Ott 
.4 50@5  OB

.6 50@

PEANUTS.
ft................
Prime  Red,  raw 
Choice 
do  ...............
do  ............... j
?ancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ................
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ................

do 
do 

NUTS.

1b........
Almonds,  Terragona, 
do  ........
Almonds, loaca, 
do  ........
Brazils, 
do  ........
Pecons, 
do  ........
Filberts, Barcelona 
d o .........
Filberts, Sicily 
do  .........
Walnuts, Chilli 
Walnuts, G renobles  d o ........
Walnuts, California  do  . 
.
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
........
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu ........
Hickory  Nuts, small  do  ........

18@19 
16@17 
©  8 
10@14
©14
@ 12%
14@15

@4  50.
1 25

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork,  old...............................$18 25
Back  Pork, short cut, new.........................  19 OO
Pig Pork, short cut, better than m ess...  18 00
Family Clear Pork.......................................   19 501
E xtra Clear P o rk .........................................  21 00-
Clear Back  Pork, new.................................  20 00
Boston Clear Pork.......................................
Standard Clear Pork, the best....................

do. 
do 
do. 

DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.............  
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
Half Cases............... 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
light.................................... 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases..
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........ 
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........  

do. 
do. 

LARD.

Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft T u b s.........................‘............ 

LARD IN   T IN  P A IL S .

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
50 ft Round  Tins, 100  ft  racks............... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................. 
'  
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Shoulders,  boneless.................................... 
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
E xtra Clear Bacon....................................... 
Dried Beef,  E xtra.......................................  

do. 

10%
11
10%
11
10%
11
10%
10%
10%

11
11%
11%

8%
8%

8%.
8%-
9%,
9%;
9

14
14%
14%
10
9
12
14

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

E xtra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........   10 75
Plate Beef, extra quality..........................   11  75-

CANNED B E E F.

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

incase......................................................  18 25
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2  85
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, % doz  in case  18  25 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2 85 
do. 2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4  00

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage................................................... 15
Tongue  Sausage...........................................  II
Liver Sausage...................................................  8
Frankfort  Sausage..........................................10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   8
Bologna,  ring...................................................   8%
Bologna, straight............................................   8%
Bologna,  thick.............................................  
  8%.
Head  Cheese.....................................................  8

P IG S ’  FE E T .

In half barrels......................................................  3 90'
In quarter barrels..............................................   2 10
In kite.................  ...........................................
In half barrels...................................................... $3 75-
In quarter barrels..............................................   2 00
In kite...........................  
95
Prices named are  lowest  at tim e of going to 
@15%
press, and are good only for th at date, subject. 
@16%
to m arket fluctuations.

T R IP E .

 

 

 

>

SYRUPS.

 

 

TEAS.

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

Corn,  Barrels......................................... 
33
Corn, % bbls............................................ 
36
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 80
Com, 4% gallon kegs..............................  @1 65
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  26@  30
Pure Sugar Drips.........................% bbl  30@  36
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............% bbl  @  95
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1  90
Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japan ordinary.  24@30
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Japan fa ir........... 32@35
Oolong.........33@55@60
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Japan fine........... 40@50
Congo..................  @30
Japan dust..........15@20
Rose Bud.................................................   @50D
O.  K .........................................................   @45
Our  Bird.................................................   @30
Peaches...................................................  @38
Morrison’s  F ruit................ '..................  @50
V ictor......................................................  @60
Diamond  Crown....................................  @57
Red  Bird................................................   @52
Opera Queen...........................................  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................  @45
Green  Back............................................   @38
F r u it........................................................  @33
So  Sweet..............................................  @31
Prairie Flower.......................................   @65
Climber [light and  dark].....................   @62
M atchless................................................  @65
aw ath a...............................................   @69
Globe........................................................  @70
May Flow er............................................   @70
Hero........................................................   @45
A tlas........................................................  @35
Royal Game............................................   @38
Silver Thread.........................................   @67
Seal...........................................................  @60
K entucky................................................  @30
Mule E ar.................................................   @67
  @32
Peek-a-Boo....................................... 
Peek-a-Boo, %  barrels..........................   @30
Clipper, Fox’s .............. 
 
  @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............   @30
Fountain.................................................   @74
Old Congress...........................................  @64
Good Luck..............................................  @52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away............................................   @35
Hair Lifter............................................   @30
Old Glory, light......................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark..................... •  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.....................   @60
F. P.’s Favorite.................................  @48
Old Kentucky.........................................   ©48
Big Four,  2x12.................  
@48
Big Four, 3x12.........................................  @48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.....................   @48
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12...............................   @48
Blackbird, 16 oz.,  3x12..........................   @35
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @48
Glory  ......................................................   @50
D urham ................... . . . : ........................  @48
Silver  Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark].......................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark].'............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star.......................•..  @50
Clim ax.....................................................  @50
Hold F a s t................ 
@48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s ..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @48
A corn......................................................   @48
Red Seal...................................................  @46
C rescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ........................................  
  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
tn e  G rit.................................................   @35
Nobby  Spun  Boll...................................  @50
Spring......................................................   @50
~rayling, all  'styles...............................   @50
Mackinaw...............................................   @47
HorseShoe..............................................  @50
Good Luck..............................................  @50
Big Chunk or J. T ...................................  @40
Hair L ifter..............................................  @37
and D., black......................................  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @48
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Champion  A ...........................................  @48
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @48
Bed Star...................................................  @50
Shot Gun.................................................   @48
D uck........................................................  @48
Jum bo......................................................  @40
Apple Jack..............................................  @50
Jack Rabbit............................................   @42

PLUG.

 

 

 

 

 

@22©21

@24
@25
@35
@26
@27
@24
@25
@32
@22
@19
@26
@60
@57
@55
@51
@22
@16
@30
@26
@26
@28
@23

SMOKING.
Morning Dew.........................................   @26
Chain  .......................................
@25
Seal of Grand  Radids.............
@30
K ing...........................................
@28
F lirt...........................................
@30
P ug............................................
@24
Ten Penny Durham, % and %
@15
Amber, % and 1 ft....................
John  Gilpin,  granulated.......
Lime Kiln  Club......................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long  Cut...........   @90
Vanity  F air............................................   @90
D im e........................................................  18@25
Peerless...................................................
Standard..................................................
Old Tom...................................................
Tom & Je rry ...........................................
Joker........... ............................................
Traveler...................................................
Maiden.....................................................
Topsy  ......................................................
Navy Clippings......................................
Honey D ew .............................................
Gold  Block..............................................
Camp F ir e ............................................
Oronoko.................................................
Nigger  Head...........................................
Durham, % f t .........................................
do  % f t ................. ........................
do  % f t ...........................................
do 
1 f t ...................................  ...
H olland...................................................
G erm an...................................................
Long Tom................................................
N ational...,............................................
T im e ........ ..............................................
Love’s Dream.........................................
Conqueror..............................................
Fox’s ........................................................
G rayling.................................................
SealSkin........ ......... ...............................
Dime D urham ........................................
Rob Hoy...................................................
Uncle  Sam..............................................
L um berm an...........................................
Railroad Boy...........................................
Mountain Rose.......................................
Good Enough.........................................
Home Comfort, %8 and  %s..................
Old  Rip, long c u t..................................
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................
Two  Nickle, %5......................................
Two  Nickle, %s......................................
Star Durham ...........................................
Golden Flake Cabinet............................
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.................
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...
Big Deal, %s  longcut............................
A pplejack, %8  granulated................
King Bee, longcut, %s and %s............
Milwaukee Prize, %s and %s...............
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham __
Durham, S., B. & L, %s and %s...........
Rattler, longcut......................................
Windsor cut plug.......................t .........
Mule E a r.................................................
H iaw atha................................................
Old Congress...........................................
Acme........................................................
@55
Lorillard’s  Macoboy.............................
American Gentlem an........
@72
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .....................
@35
_
Gail & Ax’s  Macoboy...............;........... 
@44
Scotch, Railroad Mills..........................   @44
10@l: 
Pure  Cider......................................
White Wine....................................
10®  12
WASHING POWDERS
1776 $  f t ...........................................
Gillett's #  ft
@ 7%
Soapinepkg............................................  
7@10
Pearline $  box.......................................   @4 50
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4 25 
Lavine, single  boxes, 10Ó 6 oz papers.  @4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6  oz  pap  @4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 % ft papers..  @4
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 % ft paprs  @4

@30
@25
@26
@28
@26
@37
@20@23
@25
@55
@55
@25
@26
@25
@40
@52
@50
@48
@50
@27
@24
@22
@24
@24
@24
@28
@25

@10% 

VINEGAR.

SHORTS.

SNUFF.

YEAST.

MISCELLANEOUS.

do  w aterproof............................ 
do 

Twin Bros..........1 75  ¡W ilsons.................1  75
Gillett’s ............. 175 
iN ational...............175
B lacking.........................................30, 40,50@60
1  50
Bath Brick im ported.................................  
American.................................  
Barley........................................................... 
1  10
Burners, No. 1 ........................................ 
do  No. 2.......................................  
1  50
Bags, American A ................................. 
20 00
8 00
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............  
7 50
Condensed Milk,  Sm ss......................... 
Curry Combs #  doz........ ......................1 25®
Cream Tartar 5 and 101b cans.............   @25
Candles, S tar.................................. 
 
Candles,  H otel..'.............................. 
 
Chimney Cleaners#  doz__ ; ___.....  @50

 
 

95
75
@3%

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—The market is well supplied with 
home-grown  fruit, which  sells  at  $1.25 @ 
$1.50  for cooking and $1.75 @  $2  for  eat­
ing.

Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ^  bu.
Butter—Creamery is very scarce, in conse­
quence of which a really choich  article  has 
advanced to25c.  Dairy  readily  commands 
17@18c.

Whortleberries are about played out. 

Beets—40c 
Berries—Blackberries are  scarce at 8@9c. 
Cabbages—$4@$5 ^  100 
Celery—25c '<$ bunch.
Cheese—Full cream is slow  sale  at 9c. 
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  $6@$6.50 
7$ bu. and mammoth at $6.25  7$  bu.  Slow 
sale at these prices.

bu.

Domestic,  $7 

stand.

Eggs—About steady at 15c.
Egg Plants—$1.25 ^  doz.
Grapes—California $5 per  case of  40 ps. 
Green Com—10c ^  doz. ears.
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—Choice new, 15c.  ■ 
jjay_$12@$l4 for new, and$13@$15  for 
Maple Sugar—About out of market.
Melons—Musk,  $1.25 ^  crate of a .dozen. 
doz.,  according  to

bailed.

Watermelons, $2@ $4 
size.

Millet Seed—$1 f b u .
Onions—New, 75c ^  bu.
Peaches—$2.50@$3.50  ^  bu.
Pears—California  $4.  ^   case  of  about
225.
F-lumbs—California $2.25 
crate of about 
225.  Domestic, $1 ^  peck basket, 
Potatoes—The  market  is  well  supplied 
with home-grown, which  find  slow  sale at 
35(9> 40c ^3 bu.
Poultry—Fowls 15@16c.  Spring chickens. 
19c@20c.
Badishes—Out of market.
Red Peppers—$1.25 ^  bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jersey,  $5.50 
Baltimore, $4 ^  bbl.
Turnips—40c7$ bu.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 ^  
Tomatoes—Acme 40c per bu.

Tjp  bbl

bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING  PRODUCTS.

Wheat—White,  78c;  new Lancaster,  80c, 
new  Fulse,  76, 78@80c.
Com—45@60c ^  bu.
Oats—White 40c 7$ bu.
Rye—52@54c  bu.
7$   100
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 
K>s.
Flour—Fancy Patent, $6 @$6.25^ bbl.  in 
sacks  and  $6.25 in  wood.  Straight, $5  Tjji 
bbl. in sacks and $5.25 in -wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 1  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 ^  ton.  Bran, 
$14  per  ton.  Ships,  $15  ^   ton.  Mid­
dlings, $18 
ton.  Corn  and  Oats, $23  ^  
ton.

The Los Angelos, Cal., Times  calls atten­
tion to the vast fields of  peppermint  in the 
southern  counties  which  are  waiting  for 
some  enterprising  man  to  utilize.  The 
machinery for distilling the oil is simple, the 
labor of  gathering  the  peppermint  is  not 
great, so that good profits are  assured to any 
one who will go into the business.

Cryolite, a mineral which is of great value 
in the potash manufacture, has been  discov­
ered in  the Yellowstone  Park.  Heretofore 
it has been obtained only in Greenland.

 
....... 

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES,
„  _..

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars as 
follow: 
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 154,154 and 2 inch.........................  46  06
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  g® J"
Selects, 154,154 and 2  inch.................  
g» 0«
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................   go oo
Shop, 1 inch........... .......... • • •: • • • • 
“5
Fine, Common, 1J4, VA and 2 m en.  ........   oZ uu
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet....  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12in .,20fe e t........................   17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe et.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stooks, 10 in., 20 feet.......................   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 fe et........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
N o.lS tocks,8in.,20feet.........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13  50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet.......................  14  50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t...  ..................  14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 fe et........   11  »0
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe et..........................   12  50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,- 20 fe et................              13 50
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and lengths.......................... 8 00®  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  g» 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   "S uu
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths...................... 
j;> ou
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  42 uu
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch................................. 
jo uu
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  
j-  00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and B ..................  1» 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C..............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common.... 
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   ‘20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft... 10 00@10 50 
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  go go
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..... ..................... 
uo
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common....  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C 
jb uu
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
g 50
g 40
j X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
I YYY f A in 
o  UU
....................................  
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 1.8 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
1
2  00
Lath

........; • 

•

 

OYSTERS  AND  PISH .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

•  OYSTERS.

 

FRESH  FISH.

New York Counts, per  can................................38
E xtra  Selects......................................................
Standards..................................... 
*2
F avorites............................................................. **
Codfish.........................................................  
H addock...........................................................   £
Smelts........................................... 
 
Mackinaw T rout................................  
  £
Whiteflsh  ..........................................................  7
Smoked Whiteflsh and T rout......................... 10
Smoked Sturgeon.............................................10

 

 

HID ES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

®

H ID E S.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:
Green.......................i ......................$  
P art  cured..............................................  8  © »54
Full cured................................................  854®  8/4
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  ©j2
Calf skins, green or cured............. • lx
Deacon skins............................13 piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts............................................. --80  @50
W inter  pelts.......................................1 00  @1 60
Fine washed $  ft....................................   25@
Coarse washed..........................................18  @*0
Unwashed..............................................Jpg
Tallow......................................................   554® »54

S H E E P  P EL TS.

WOOL.

FRESH   MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   654©  8
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters...................   8  @ 9
Dressed Hogs.........................................   ©  §
Mutton,  carcasses.................................   654®  7
V eal..........................................................  954®V0
15@16
Fowls......................................................  
Pork  Sausage.............................. 
Bologna........................................... —  
©10

 

Ib a rb w a re .

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND BITS.

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

BALANCES.

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

25

R ailroad....................................................... $ 15 00
Garden...................................................... net 3o 00

BARROWS.

BELLS.

H and.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow........................................................ dis 
60
Call..........................................................dis 
15
G ong.......................................................dis 
20
Door, Sargent........................................dis 
55

BO LTS.

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

BRACES.

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

 

40
50
50
dis 

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured.................................... dis 60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed.........dis 
60
60 
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50&10
W rounht Loose  P in ..........................................dis 60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ............ dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis  60&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ..................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table................................................... dis 60
Wrought Inside  Blind...................................... dis 60
Wrought Brass...................................... dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s ..........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s ...................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s................................................ dis 70
°
Spring for Screen Doors 3x254, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00

“

CAPS.

Ely’81-10......................................per  m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................................. 
G. D........................................................ 
Musket................................................... 

CA TRIDG ES.

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

60
35
60

50
50
54

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firm er..........................................dis  65&10
Socket Fram ing...................................... dis  65&10
Socket Corner..........................................dis 65&10
Socket Slicks...........................................dis  65&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er.....................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firm ers...................... dis 
20
Cold......................................................... net

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

3354
25

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

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

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... 'P B>  3’
14x52,14x56,14 x60........................................  39

COMBS.

COCKS.

C O PPER .

D R IL L S.

10 @¿054

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

35
20
30

Office of JOHN  CAULFIELD,
85, 87, 89 Canal Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Japan  Teas are  now  arriving  quite  freely,  and 
prices are fairly settled.  I desire to advise the trade 
that, within a few  days,  I  will  be  in  receipt  of the 
following invoices:
125 Chests by City of Peking, No. 424, My own  importation  - 
-
237 
<• 
97 
"
« 
125 
"
*  
Also large assorted lines of Young Hyson,  Gun 
Powders, both Muyone and Pingsuey, Formosa Oo­
longs, and Moning Congos at lowest figures.

“ 
« 
Suez Steamer 

No. 75, 
No. 25, 

« 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

« 
“ 

“ 

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.  I 
guarantee  better  values  than  those  furnished  by 
Eastern parties or no sale.
18
Imperial  Roast, a blended coffee
23
O. G. Roast Java 
25
Mandehling Java 
28
Mail  orders  solicited.  Lowest  m arket  prices 

.................................
- 

“  and Mocha 

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 M anufacturers, 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.

ELBOW S.

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

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

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

dis 
dis 

F IL E S .

American File Association  List.........dis 
Disston’s ................................................dis 
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 
14 
List 
15 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .............. dis 

13 
GAUGES.

20
25

50
50
50
50
30
3354
28
18

50

HAMMERS.

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

HANGERS.

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

H IN G ES.

..........dis
60
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3..............................dis
per doz, net,2 50
State............................................ per doz, ii
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  454  14
and ¡longer..............................................
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  .................. net
Screw Hook and Eye %.................... net
Sci’ew Hook and Eye  94......................net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net
Strap and  T ...........................................dis

1054
854
754
754
60&10

H O LLO W   W AR E.

Stamped Tin W are....................................   60&10
JapannedcTin  W are.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  W are..........................................  25

H O ES.

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

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........ $2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings—   2 50, dis 60 
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
mings ........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain......... dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ................... d 
40
H em acite...............................................dis 
50

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

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

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

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

MATTOCKS.

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

N A IL S .

Common, Brad and Fenoing.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 45
25
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
6dand7d  adv........................................  
50
 
4dand5d  adv................................................ 
jo
3d advance.....................................................  ¿50
3d fine  advance............................................  
j  00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  175
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. «  keg 
Steel Nails—Advance 10c from  above prices. 

I  10d  8d 
254 
$1 25  1  50  1 75  2 00 

6d  4d
2 
154

¡0r\>  (Boobs.

Spring &  Company quote as i‘o»« 
WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4........¿654
Pepperell,  8-4........20
Pepperell,  9-4........2254

Pepperell, 10-4.........25
Pepperell, 11-4............27 54
Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pequot,  8-4..............21
Pequot,  9-4..............24

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

Park Mills, No. 90. .14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz........... 11
Otis A pron........... 10 Va
Otis F urniture.....1054
York, 1  oz.............10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brow n....  7
Jewell briw n..........954
Kentucky brown.. 1054 
Lewiston  brow n...  954
Lane brow n..........954
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........   8
Toledo plaid— ; ...  754 
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New  Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   614

b r e a c h e d   c o t t o n s .

Avondale,  36..........  814
A rt  cambrics, 36...1114 
Androscoggin, 4-4. .814 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1214
Ballou, 4-4...............  714
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0.4?-4............  814
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.........914
Boott, R. 3-4........ -  5M
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  714 
Chapm an,X ,4-4....  614
Conway,  44.............. <34
Cabot, 44 .................. 714
Cabot, 7-8.................  614
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Domestic,  36............714
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
Davol,44.........  
  614
F ruit of Loom, 44..  9 
F ruit of Loom, 7-8..  814 
F ruit of  the  Loom,
cambric,  44........12
Gold Medal, 44..  ..7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........614
Gilded  Age..........

Greene, G.  44........   514
Hill, 44....................  814
Hill, 7-8....................*714
Hope,  44................ 714
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4 4.................U14
Linwood,  4-4..........9
Lonsdale,  44............814
Lonsdale  cambric. 1114 
Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Langdon, 45........... 14
Masonville,  44.........914
Maxwell. 4-4............1014
New York Mill, 44.1014 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .1214 
Pocahontas,  44—   814
Slaterville, 7-8........   614
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 44.......... 6-S4
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  714 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   614
Wamsutta, 4-4.........1014
Wüliamsville,  36... 1014

CORSET JEANS

Armory ...... —  •••  714
Androscoggin sat..  814
Canoe River...........   j*
Clarendon.................614
Hallowell  Im p.......6%
Ind.Orch. Im p.......7
L aconia..................   714

Kearsage................   8»
Naum keagsatteen.  814 
Pepperell  bleached 814
Pepperell sa t..........  914
Rockport.................7
Lawrence sat..........  814
Conegosat...............  7

Albion,  solid...........5!4|Gloucester.........»...6
Albion,  grey...........6  Gloucestermourn  g.6
Hamilton  fa n cy ....6
A lle n ’s* c h e c k s ......... 514
Hartel fancy...........6
Ailen’s  fancy......... 514
Merrimac D............ 6
Allen’s pink............ °5i
M anchester............ 6
Allen’s purple.........Wt
Oriental fancy....... 6
American, fancy— 514
Oriental  robes....... 614
Arnold fancy.......... 6
Pacific  robes.......... 6
Berlin solid..............514
Richmond............... 6
Cocheco fancy........6
Steel River..............514
Cocheco robes 
Simpson’s ............... 6
_ 
Conestoga fancy.... 0
Washington fancy.. 
E ddystone........— ®
Washington blues..8
Eagle fancy.............
Garner pink.............7

pso 

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

Appleton A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   •:
Boston  F, 4-4..........  8
Continental C, 4-3.. 
Continental D, 40 in 89£ 
ConestogaW ,4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  654
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........654
Dwight Z, 44. . . ----7
Dwight Star, 44—   754 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  554 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farm ers’ A, 44.......694
Indian  Orchard, 44 754

Indian Orchard, 40.  814 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8 
Laconia  B, 74........1614
Lyman B, 40-in......1054
Mass. BB, 4-4.........594
Nashua  Ë, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 44........   7
Nashua 0,7-8..........  754
Newmarket N ........ 754
Pepperell E, 39-in..  754 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7 
Pepperell  O, 7-8—   654 
Pepperell  N, 34—   654
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R ...............  7
Saranac  E ...............  9

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

Renfrew, dress styl 954 
A m oskeag........ .•••
Johnson Manfg Co, 
Amoskeag, Persian 
Bookfold............. 1254
styles....................1654
B ates. . . . . . . . . . . __   754 Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress  styles........ 1254
B erkshire................  654
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks....  7 
styles......................9
Glasgow checks, f y  754 
White Mfg Co, stap  7514 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles........   8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston.... ..........  954
stan d ard ..............   754
Gordon......................8
Plunket-...................   754
Greylock, 
dress 
L ancaster................  8M
Langdale.................. 75il

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

checks,
new

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Pepperell.  10-4...... 2754
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21
Pepperell,  11-4...... 3254
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23
Pequot,  7-4.............21
Pepperell,  7-4........20 
Pepperell,  8-4........2254 Pequot,  8-4............. 24
Pepperell,  9-4........25  ¡Pequot,  9-4..............2754

„ ; 

,

h e a v y   b r o w n   c o t t o n s .

. 7

Atlantic  A, 4-4.......7»4¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  854
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7  Lawrence  Y, ¿0 
Atlantic  D, 4-4 .......  654 Lawrence LL, 4-4... 554
Atlantic P, 4-4........ 534 Newmarket N ......  <54
Atlantic LL, 4-4....  554|Mystic River, 4-4...  6
Adriatic, 36.............  754 Pequot A, 4-4..........  8
Augusta, 4-4............  654 Piedmont, 36..........  7
Boott  M, 4-4...........   754  Stark AA, 4;4 
£54
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  734 Tremont CC,4-4....  534
. ...... .  9
Graniteville, 4-4....  634 Utica,  4-4 
Indian  H ead,4-4...  754!WachuBett, ¿ 4 -....  754
Indiana Head 45-in.1254iWachusett, 30-in...  634

..........

“ 4-4..19 

Amoskeag,  ACA.  1354’Falls, 
iFalls, XXX.............15A
A m oskeag 
Amoskeag,  A ........13  ¡Falls,  BB............... IXA
Am oskeag,  B ........12  Fa}}8»  BBC, 36.........j«54
Amoskeag,  C....... 11  Falls,  awning......19
Amoskeag,  D ....... 1054 Hamilton,  BT, 32..1^
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10  Hamilton,  D ...........9 A
Amoskeag, F .........£54 Hamilton,  H ...........954
Premium  A ,4-4__17  Hamilton  fancy...10
Premium  B .............16  Methuen AA...........1354
E xtra 4-4...............  -16  Methuen ASA.........j 8
Extra 7-8.................1454 ¡Omega A, 7-8............ 11
Gold Medal 4-4...... 15  ¡Omega A, 4-4.......13
CCA 7-8.................. 1254 Omega ACA, 7-8... .14
^ 1^4. 
........ 14  Omega ACA, 4-4— 16
I'A-m 
.......  
«4 
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
OA
RC 7-8.......................J4
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
BF 7-8.......................16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF 4-4...................... 1?
Omega M, 4-4.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
ShetucketSS&SSW 1154 
Cordis  ACA, 32...... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32...... 15
Shetucket,  SFS— 12
Cordis  No. 2........... 14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3........... 13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4........... 1154

Cl?  K Q  

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

G a rn er......................5
Hookset..................  5
Red  Cross...............  5
Forest Grove..........

E m pire....................
W ashington...........   43
Edwards..................  5
S. S. & Sons............  5

GRAIN BAGS.

American  A ......... 19  ¡Old  Ironsides......... 15
Stark A ...................2354¡W heatland..............21

B oston....................  754 ¡Otis CC.....................1054
Everett blue......... 1354lWarren  AXA......... 1254
Everett brown......1354|Warren  BB.............D54
Otis  AXA..............1254 ¡Warren CC.............. 1054
Otis BB...................11541 York  fancy.............lo

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

Manville..................  6
M asgnville.............   6

S. S. & Sons.............  6
G arn er....................6

WIGANS.

Red  Cross...............  754 ¡Thistle Mills...........
B erlin......................  754 Rose.........................  8
G a m e r....................  1V4I

SPOOL COTTON.

B rooks.................... 50
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  &  D aniels...25
M errlcks.................40
Stafford...................35
Hall & Manning— 30 
Holyoke...................25

Crown.....................17
No.  10..................... 1254
C oin........................ 10
A nchor................... 15
C entennial.............
B lackburn.............   8
Davol.......................14
London................... 1254
Paconia........ ......... 12
Red  C ross............10
Social Imperial.... 16

Masonville TS.......... 8
Masonville  S...........1054
Lonsdale...................954
Lonsdale A ............ 16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J .............».
Victory D ...............
Victory K ...............  254
Phoenix A .................954
Phoenix  B ............ 1054
Phoenix XX .,»---- 15

PLANES

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

PANS.

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

__ dis
...$  ft

..dis
..dis

40
40

24 to 27 1054
to 27

9

' Broken packs 54c 

ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

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 la rg e r.............................. $   954
Manilla.............................................................  1554
Steel and  Iron........................................... dis  50
Try and Bevels............................... .............dis  50
Mitre  ........................................................... dis  20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 20
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40
3 60
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

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

SHEET IRO.-;.

In casks of 600 fts, ft  fi>.....................
In smaller quansities, ft  ft...............

TINNER’S SOLDER.

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

net

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,  C harcoal..............................   8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  6  50
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  8 50
IX, 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   10  50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool...............................  12 50
TXXXX, 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
Redlpped  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 ft doz
Mouse,  delusion................................$1 26 ^  doz
Bright Market..........................................   dis  60
Annealed Market..................................... dis  60
Coppered M arket..................................... dis  55
Extra Bailing............................................dis  55
Tinned  M arket...............i..........................kis  40
Tinned Broom..........................................ft ft  09
Tinned M attress.......................................^  ft  854
Coppered  Spring  Steel.......................... dis 37
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis 3754
Plain Fence................ •.................; ...........ft ft  3r '
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&1Q&10

WrENCHES,

 

.......................dis

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern.................................... dis  60&10
Screw s........................................................
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
i Dampers, American................................. 
3354

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

FOSTER

TEVENS

DAMARE!

—WHOLESALE—

IO  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 
m arket. 

,

W E  SOLICIT  TH E

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

AG ENTS  FOR  THE

Riverside Steel Nail

The Steel  Nail  is  the  Coming  Nail.  All 
dealers who have once had  them  will  have 
no  other.  Why?  They  are  stronger;  they 
are lighter; they will  not  break;  carpenters 
insist  on  having  them; 
they  are  worth 
twenty-five  per  cent,  more . than  the  iron 
nail; 

they cost but a trifle more.

We are receiving  three  car  loads  a  week 
and  are  still  behind  with  our  orders.  We 
have  promise  of  more  frequent  shipments 
and  now  hope  to  keep  up  on  our  orders 
for 

sample  order  or  ask 

Send 

for 

price.

MUSKEGON  MATTERS.

Facts  and Fancies  Picked  Up  a t th a t Busy 

M. Knoolmizen the Amity street grocer has 

Place.

sold out.

The buildings of the Lakeside Ironworks 

are up and enclosed.

De Young &  Palmerton  have  dissilved, 

Palmerton continuing.

The L. W. Schimmel & Co. crockery store 

is again open for business.

Kobt.  E. Crotty  and  John  VanderWerp 

have dissolved partnership.

Howell & Phillabalim succeed John  Van­

derWerp in the grocery  business.

H. J. Morris, of the firm of S. S. Morris & 

Bro., has returned from his  Eastern  trip.

Orcutt & Co. will remove  from  the  J. H. 
Smith  block  on  First  street  to  the  Odell 
block, corner Clay avenue and  First  street.
Jeannot & Reed, grocers on Terrace street, 
have dissolved,  M. F.  Reed  retiring.  The 
business  will  be  continued  by J. O. Jean­
not.

Several  grocers  are  making a foolish  war 
on  the  price  of  flour,  resulting  in  a  loss of 
profits  and  a consequent  demoralization  of 
the  business.

Aster  Houde, who  has  carried on a gro­
cery business in a small way at North  Mus­
kegon for some  time  past, has  petered  out, 
and skipped to Dakota,  leaving  debts  that 
will probably aggregate $500 or $600.

Andrew Wierengo, the  Muskegon jobber, 
has put in two  new  grocery  stocks  during 
the past  week—one  for J. VanderMalen  & 
Co., and the  other  for  Mrs. A. Stevenson, 
both of whom have  engaged  in  business on 
Pine street.

The  mill of the  Beidler  Manufacturing 
Co., which was idle for about four weeks, in 
consequence of a shortage of logs, began op­
erations August 25.  A tramway  1,560  feet 
long is being built to its old dock, on  which 
it is proposed to crosspile lumber.  The com­
pany wijl have room for 10,000,000 feet.

M onthly  M eeting  of Post  A.

At the regular meeting of Post A, held  at 
the reading room at Sweet’s  hotel  Saturday 
evening, the following representatives of the 
traveling fraternity answered to their names: 
Wm.  Logie,  L.  Max.  Mills,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds, Geo. H.  Seymour,  J.  N.  Bradford, 
Richard Warner,  Wallace  Franklin,  W.  G. 
Hawkins, D. S. Haugh, P. H. Carroll, A. B. 
Cole,  W.  J.  Price,  I.  A.  Deiemater  and 
Chauncey A. Bryant, of Chicago.
•  President  Logie  presided,  and  Geo.  H. 
Seymour was  asked  to  serve  as  secretary 
pro tem.  The minutes of the previous meet­
ing were read and approved.

The election of additional officers,  provid­
ed for in the by-laws, being in order,  P.  H. 
Carroll nominated Richard Warner  for  Sec­
ond  Vice-President.  The  nomination  was 
seconded  by  J.  N.  Bradford,  and  “Dick” 
was unanimously  elected.

The  president  named  as  Election  Com­
mittee the following: D.  S.  Haugh,  W.  G. 
Hawkins, Wallace Franklin, J. N.  Bradford 
and Wm. B. Edmunds.

The same oflicer  announced  as  the  Pur­
chasing Committee: Stephen Sears,  Richard 
Warner and Geo. H. Seymour, and the  gen­
tlemen named were constituted  a  Soliciting 
Committee.

W.  G.  Hawkins,  of  the  Committee  on 
Rooms, stated that  there  was  nothing  fur­
ther to report in the matter referred  to  the 
Committee, as no more available rooms could 
be found than those reported at last meeting. 
A volunteer suggested that four rooms could 
be  secured  in  the  Houseman  block,  at 
an annual rental of  $240, and  advocated the 
securing of the same.  After a thorough  dis­
cussion of the matter, it was decided to lay it 
over until  the next  meeting, in order * that 
the committee may act  understandingly  and 
satisfactorily.  Geo H. Seymour was instruct­
ed to act as  Secretary  and  Treasurer  pro 
tem, until  Mr.  Atkins,  who  was  regularly 
elected to  those  positions, is  able  to  act  as 
such.

The Treasurer  then  announced  that the 
payment of the  initiation fee  of $5 was  in 
order, and nine of those present stepped for­
ward and deposited  their  Vs on the  table, 
receiving  the  Treasurer’s  receipt  for  the 
same.
In order that the renting  and  furnishing 
of  the  rooms  may  be  effected  as  soon  as 
possible,  it  w r s   decided 
to  hold  a  spec­
ial  ineeting  in  two  weeks—Satnrday  even­
ing, Sept. 13—and in .the mean time the Sec­
retary is to  notify  every  member  that  his 
attendance is especially  desired  on  that  oc­
casion.  The  meeting  then  adjourned.

“Max  Mills  will  have  to  preside  at  the 
special meeting,” said President Logie, after 
adjournment, “as I shall be in Petoskey two 
weeks from to-night.”  It is understood that 
Mills  has  purchased  a half  dozen  books on 
parliamentary  practice, and that he will sur­
prise his friends  by the masterly  manner in 
which  he  will  discharge the  duties  of  pre­
siding oflicer.

At a  meeting  of  the  election  committee, 

Wm. B.  Edmunds  was  elected  chairman.

Some  one  said  something  about  dedicat­
ing  the  new rooms with a ball about Thanks­
giving  day.

Forty-eight  dollars in  the  treasury,  and 
several  counties  yet  to  hear  from.  The 
Treasurer  will be compelled to give  bonds 
in the penal sum  of  $1,000,000, with two or 
more sureties.

While drilling  for gas  in Ross township, 
six miles from  Pittsburg,  a  flow  of  heavy 
green lubricating  oil  was  recently  struck, 
but the owners of  the  well  think it  would 
not pay expenses to develop the well, on  ac­
count of the heavy flow of salt  water.  The 
well attracted a large crowd of  people from 
Pittsburg,  it being the  nearest  oil  well  to 
that city yet struck.

M OLLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s P a tte rn ........ ..............................dis
Stebbln’s Genuine....................j.............••dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring......................dis

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

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

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

Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent...................... dis
Zinc, with brass bottom .....................  
dis
Brass or  Copper.......................................-dis
Reaper............. ....................... per gross, $12net
Olmstead’s —  ........................................... 
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Foster,Stevens i Co.

Locomotives  have  fallen  in  price  very 
heavily in the last few  months.  A contract 
for building ten  locomotives at §8,000 each, 
has just been taken, it is said, by an Eastern 
company which sold  locomotives  precisely 
similiar  only a little  over a  year  ago  for 
§15,000.

Judge:  “If that man don’t  stop  disturb­
ing us with that coughing, I’ll fine him §10.” 
—Response:  “Jedge, I’ll be willing  to pay 
§20 to have that cough stopped. 
If you can 
do it for §10, better get off the  bench and go 
to practicing medicine.  There’s  money  in 
it, Jedge, money in it.”

A poor child in Boston has had  daily treat­
ment for seven weeks at  the  Massachusetts 
General Hospital for badly swollen feet, the 
result of poisoning from  the  use of  cheap 
red stockings.  Her feet were in  a  terrible 
condition at first,  but  have  gradually  im­
proved under  treatment.

The acting Secretary of  the  Treasury has 
issued instructions to  all customs  officers to 
declare against rags  coming from  European 
poits suspected of infection, and prevent the 
landing of them  unless  proof is  furnished 
that they are wholly free  from  disease and 
come from no infected ports.

The American  Artisan  pertinently  re­
marks:  We do not know that it  is  within 
the reach of human genius, but the man who 
gets up a good stove polish  which  will not 
drive the family out of the house  by its vil- 
lanous odor, when the stove is first  lighted, 
will have a sure road to  fortune.

Maine is opening  her eyes  over  the for­
tune she sinks in  potato bugs  every year in 
the form of  Paris  green.  One  dealer  in 
Portland has sold ten tons this year,  and he 
has no doubt that the farmers of  the  State 
have scattered over  their  fields a  hundred 
tons of the poison, at a cost of §50,000.

A distinguished politician, while  convers­
ing with a lady the  other  evening, became 
piqued by  her  attention to a beautiful  dog 
that was resting its head confidentially in her 
lap, and impatiently asked: “How  is it that 
a lady of your intelligence can be so fond of 
a dog?”  Because he never  talks  politics,” 
was the prompt  reply.

Brunswick black  thinned down  with tur­
pentine until it has  attained  the  right  tone 
and color, will, if a little varnish  be  added, 
about one-twentieth of the bulk of the black 
and turps, prove a stain for imitating walnut 
or teak-wood.  There is no difficulty  in get­
ting the mixture to dry hard, and it will take 
varnish over it first-class.

Our trade with Japan has increased rapid­
ly. 
In 1860 we imported 365,000  pounds of 
tea from that country, and last  year 34,000,- 
000 pounds.  The  imports  from  China in 
1883 amounted to 30,000,000  pounds,  which 
was 2,000,000 pounds less than in 1860. Last 
year w§  exported 2,300,000  cases  of  oil to 
Japan and 1,100,000 cases to China.

The cattle and sheep  raising  interests in 
New Mexico are  growing  to  large  propor­
tions,  and capital is rapidly  being  invested 
in the business, which  yields  handsome re­
turns. 
It is claimed that New Mexico is the 
best stock raising country in the west.  The 
grasses  are  rich,  nutritious  and  plentiful, 
while in many localities water  is abundant, 
and where it is not, it has been demonstrated 
that artesian wells will supply the deficiency 
at a small expense.
M. M. HOTJSEMA2T,

ATTORNEY  AT  LAW,

ROOMS  7  AND  8  HOUSEMAN  BUILDING,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

COMMERCIAL  LAW   A  SPECIALTY.

2ÆT7SEECOXT  BUSXXTSSS  DIRECTORY.

MUSKEGON NOVELTY  IRON WORKS
Williams’  Patent  Novelt  Pipe  Wrench

Manufacturers  of  the

Rest,  Strongest  and  Most  Durable  Made.

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

361  Western  Avenue.

Shop, Blacksmith,  Foundry and Boiler  Shop  Business. 

S. S. MORRIS  & ORO
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

P A C K E R S

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and W ater Street.

W . D. CA REY  & CO.

Successors  to  Carey  &  Lander,

GENERAL

Commission Merchants

—AND  JOBBERS  OF—

F rix its axxd  U?x*ocl"u_oe.

ORDEBS  PROMPTLY  PILLED.  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

Kline’s  Patent  Candler  and Egg Carrier.

Tlie  Best  on  tile  MarlLet,

Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with any Capacity.  State  Territory 
for Sale by G.  C. SAYLES, Sole  Agent  for  the  United  States, P. O. Box  1973, 
Muskegon, Mich.

ANDREW  WTERENGO,

‘W h o l e s a l e

G R O C E R ,

WIERENGO  NEW  BLOCK

Pine Street 

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Muskegon, Mich.

TO FRUIT GROWERS
BASKET  FACTORY!

MUSKEGON 

Is  now  in full  operation  m anufacturing  all 

kinds  of

Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed.

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PEN CIL PORTRAITS—NO. 28.

A.  D.  liak«r„  B etter  K now n as “ C harley.1
Allison  Durand  Baker  was  bom  near 
Bansomville, Niagara county, N. Y., May 9. 
1860, and lived on the farm with his parents 
until sixteen years of age, when he  went to 
Lockport, N. Y.,  and  attended  the  Union 
school there two years.  The  death  of  his 
father impelled him to turn his  attention .to 
business pursuits, and he accordingly  enter­
ed the hardware store of L. L. Chadwick, at 
Lockport, remaining there about two  years 
coming  west in the spring of 1881.  After a 
short stop at Greenville, he  came to  Grand 
Rapids  and  solicited  employment  at  the 
hands of Foster, Stevens & ¡Co.,  who  gave 
him a position in the stove  department.  So 
well pleased were the  firm with  his  work, 
that they proposed to him that  he  accept a 
position on the road, a proposition  in which 
he eagerly acquiesced.  The  first 
territory 
assigned him was the principal towns on the 
four railway lines leading south of  the city, 
but on the retirement of  John  Bead  from 
the  road,  he  was  assigned  the  principal 
northern  points—dividing 
territory 
with Geo. W. Alden—while  he  still retains 
the C. & W. M. Bailway.

that 

Mr. Baker’s success as a salesman is to be 
attributed  to  his  prevailing  good  nature, 
coupled with a faculty for making and hold­
ing friends, and to the fact that he takes pains 
to post himself thoroughly on every point in 
any way connected with the business  of his 
adoption.  He is a hard-worker and a skillful 
salesman, possessing to a marked degree the 
respect of his house and  the  confidence  of 
his trade.  A  young  man  of  good  habits, 
and possessing  exceptional  business  quali­
fications,  Mr. Baker  has  every  reason to 
look  forward  to  a  useful  and  promising 
career.

M iscellaneous  Notes  of Interest. *

In Louisiana rum is made from  sweet po­

tatoes.

The taxable values of the State  of Texas 
for the year  show an  increase  of  §60,000,- 
000.

A popular cane in  Maine  is composed of 
whisky,  except  for  a  thin  enclosing  cylin­
der.

The annual sales of sawed  lumber  in the 
United States are said  to  aggregate  §233,- 
000, 000.

There are at preseut 695  potteries  in the 
United  States,  half  of  which  are  in  New 
Jersey.

“The hand  that  rocks  the cradle  is the 
hand that rules the world,”  It is the  hand 
of the hired  girl.

When the marriage  ceremony  wàs  over, 
thè  parson was approached  by  the  groom 
with the question:  “What’s  the  damage, 
elder?”

The shoe trade is in an excellent condition 
in Beverly, Mass., and  one  firm is said  to 
have  paid  out  §76,000  in  wages  in  six 
months.

When a saw has cracked near the teeth, to 
prevent it from continuing, drill a small hole 
at the end of the crack.  This  is  said to be 
effectual.

Mr. Dude:  “I always sleep in my gloves, 
Miss Fresh; it makes my hands  so  soft.”— 
Miss Fresh:  “And I judge you  sleep  with 
a cap for the same reason.”

“Herr Meyer, I suppose  you  understand 
that every one was to bring along something 
to  the  picnic.  What  have  you brought?” 
Herr Meyer;  “My two boys as you see.

An  old farmer  who  wrote  to  an  editor 
asking how to get rid of moles, and received 
the  reply:  “Plough  them  out,”  answered 
back:  “Can’t do it. 
It’s on my gal’s  nose.”
Judge—“What  sort  of  man, now, was it 
whom you saw commit  the  assault?”  Con­
stable—“Shure, yer  Honor, he  was a  small 
onsignificant crathur—about yer  own  size, 
yer Honor!”

A young gentleman wishes to know which 
is proper to say  on  leaving  a  young  lady 
friend after a late call—good night  or  good 
evening?  Never tell a lie,  young  man, say 
good morning.

“Why did you put that  nickle with a hole 
in it in the  contribution  box?”  asked  one 
man of  another.  “Because  I  couldn’t  put 
the hole in without the  nickle, and I had to 
put in something.

“Doctor, my daughter  seems to be getting 
blind, and she is making ready for  her wed­
ding.  Whatever  will she do?”  “Let her go 
on, by all means. 
If anything can open her 
eyes, marriage will.”

The average man doesn’t feel as bad when 
he receives ten dollars too  much  change as 
when he  gets  ten  cents  too little.  He  is 
more anxious  to  correct the  little  mistake 
than he is to rectify the big one.

“What is the  price of this  axle  grease?” 
asked  a new salesman  of  his employer, the 
grocer, “there is no  mark  on  it.”  “It de­
pends on your customer; if he asks for  axle 
grease charge him fifteen cents  per  pound, 
but if he wants  butter  make it thirty-eight 
cents.”

A machine for making  paper  pulp  from 
sawdust was recently put up at  Glens Falls, 
N. Y., and is pronounced  a  success.  The 
pulp shows a long fiber, from  which  a fine 
quality of book, news  and  wrapping  paper 
is made.  A ten ton paper mill will be built 
at once.

A genius in the hardware line has devised 
luminous  door-knobs  which  he  advertises 
will “shine all night.”  Anybody  can  find 
the door-knob in the dark, but  the  key-hole 
is what bothers most men who stay out late. 
A luminous key-hole would “fill a long  felt 
w ant” Where is the hardware  manufactur­
er that  will  bring  out  luminous  key-hole 
trimmings?

E s a s l l s i g i l

I M P O R T E R S
Wholesale  Grocers

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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 Bio 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- 
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ  BROS.  &  CO., Buffalo, N. Y.  Below we  mention, 
a few of their best-known brands:
Acme, 
Palma, 
White Cotton Oil,  Gem, 
Blue Danube, 
Master, etc.

Best American, 
White Marseilles. 
Boss,
Savon  République,

Napkin,
Nickel,
Stearine,
Lautz Soap,

Towel, 
Shamrock, 

Mottled German, 

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver them  in  lO* 
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid.  Please send for price­
lists 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 
carry  a  full  line  of  staple  and  popular brands  of  plug,  fine  cut  and  smoking  tobaccos, 
but are factory agents for the following, with which  we  are  able  to  offer  the trade special 
inducements:
B. F. P.’s Favorite Plug Tobacco.
Big Four 
Black  Bird 
Zoo Zoo
Pirate 
Old Kentucky 
Turkey 

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

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F an cy  G roceries.

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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Egg Plums.
Pears.

Breakfast  Cocoa.

Green  Gages.

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Cherries.
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Italian Macarroni, 1 ib pkg.

“  Vermicella.

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.

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.

ScOOAffFA-TTYT,

School  Books

School  Stationery

W  tiolesale,

EATON,  LYON  &  ALLEN,

22  and  24-  Canal  Street,

The  only  general  jobbing  house  in 
Michigan  in  our  line.  Send  for cata­
logues and terms.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LITER  FILLS.

turned if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre­
paid for 60 cts.  Address, Western 
Medicine Co. .Grand Bapids, Mich.

PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILDLY, CU R ES QUICKLY
DUNHAM’S  SUES  CURE  FOB  FEVER  ft  AGUI
Pone DODO  taken during the  Chill, 
arrests  the  disease in 20 minutes.

itrZVXS  KNOWN SO FAIL.  Money re­
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  mineral■ne.  Act directly on the Liver, “tone 

up" the system,  aid digestion  and 
purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CUBE 
EXASACEX AND CONSTIPATION.  In­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent tree 
t>n receipt of price, 25  cts.  Sample 
oackaoe free.  Western  Medicine 
Company-, Grand Bapids, Mich.

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

OHOITTT 
Bitter, E 
m,Cleese, Frnit, Grail, Hay, Beef, Port Produce
Choice Butter a Specialty!

Consignments  Solicited.

MUSEE60N, MICH.

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS, 

EGOS,  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.

