VOL. 2.

RAILW AY  TRAVEL,.

C haracteristic Incidents of  a N ight  in  the 

Day „Coach.

B Y   K O B E R T   J .   B U R D E T T E .

A semaphore  light  at  the  Broad  Street 
station has just tipped the wink to a waiting 
train, and it steals out of the  elegant station 
as stealthily as though it was  running away 
to go out West  and  blow  up with  the  cy­
clones,  and feared  the station master would 
call it back if  he  saw  or  heard  it.  Out of 
the white glare of the  electric  lights, out of 
the din of hissing cylinder cocks  and  jang­
ling bells, out of the shouting of  the ushers, 
we rumble easily and swiftly along the great 
elevated railway, over the river  lying in the 
shadow below, and down  through  a  garden 
of signals, a glittering parterre  of  red  and 
white and green; a bewildering  carcanet  of 
ruby and pearl and  emerald, that  ties  and 
loops and tangles a score  of  iron  tracks in 
intricate glitter of dazzling confusion  to the 
traveler;  gleaming  aigulets  that  shine  on 
semapore, tower,  and  switch  signal; a rail­
way constellation; an aurora of labyrinthine 
glimmer and  twinkle, that is  only an order­
ly page of  quiet  reading to a savant of the 
rail, on the  train, or  in  the  yard.  Every­
where moving lights and  stationary signals, 
until all the yard

“ T w in k l e s  w i t h   d i a m o n d   s p a r k s .
M y r i a d s  o f  t o p a z - li g h t ,  a n #   j a c i n t h   w o r k  
Of s u b t l e s t  j e w e l r y ; ”

everywhere shrill-voiced whistles and clang­
ing bells; the quick exhaust of  shifting  en­
gines ; drifting columns of smoke and snowy 
puffs  of  steam, until  red  and  white  and 
green blend with the stars, and  the  clamor 
of the yard dies into a mutter and  the  mut­
ter into a murmur, and the  murmur is swal­
lowed  up in  the  roar  of  “number  seven,” 
muffled and dull, over the ballasted embank­
ment, and shouting m resonant  echoes  over 
culvert and bridge, until the dense  shadows 
of clustering trees and wide stretches of har­
vest  field  and  meadow, slumbering  black 
and still, and gleaming  silver  white  under 
the blue skies of summer, shut out the glare 
of the station, the glitter of the  yard, the il­
lumination of  the  Schuylkill  bridges, and 
the long processional perspective of the Phil­
adelphia streets.

We are climbing  the  long  hill  west  of 
Overbrook, and  the  rapid  exhaust of  the 
panting engine wakens a thousand echoes in 
the  woods.  At intervals  a glare  of  light, 
long and fan-shaped, like  the  tail of a com­
et, cuts a swath into the  night  and  throws 
into sudden and  sharp  relief  the  whirling 
banner of smoke and steam  streaming  back 
over the train as the fireman for  an  instant 
throws open the furnace  door.  Lean out of 
the window and see it and catch a  cinder as 
big as a pea in your eye.  Did  you get  one? 
Well, never  mind!  Don’t  hold it,  drop it. 
You’ve cried upon it until  you’ve put it out 
—and one  dead  cinder is of no use to  any 
one; and you haven’t room in one eye to car­
ry two and have  any leisure to  employ the 
eye for anything else.

trains that run faster than  that, even in our 
own fast  land,  but  they  are  not  through 
trains.  A sixty-mile gait is  not kept up for 
a long distance.  The passenger who is pull­
ing out his watch  every ten or fifteen  min­
utes to declare that  we  are  running  sixty 
miles an hour  would  get  home a  couple  of 
days  ahead  of  the  train, if  he  could  but 
keep up with his  own  time.  And  then it 
may comfort you to know that if  you  break 
through a bridge • or  collide  with  another 
tram at  a  speed  of  thirty-five  miles, your 
chances for escape are just as good as though 
you were running one hundred.

Don’t go into the  Pullman  to-night, come 
into the day-coach. 
If  you  desire  to  study 
character and amuse yourself watching  peo­
ple, avoid  the  barren  waste  of  unbending 
and one-type “respectability” that grades the 
parlor car to one mediocre level.  Sit in  the 
day-coach; if you want  variety, you’ll  find 
it. 
In the day-coach, people assimilate they 
fraternize; in the parlor car, they  hate  each 
other. 
In the Pullman, your particular seat, 
numbered and ticketed to your  very  self, is 
so much your  own  that  you  experience  an 
uncomfortable, eat-in-a-strange garret feeling 
if by accident or  through  weariness  you sit 
anywhere else.  And you will yield your seat 
or your berth to no other human - being. 
In 
the democratic day-coach there  is  now  and 
then a thrill of excite ment, caused  by some 
new passengers—usually a  woman  and two 
or  three  children—“jumping  your  claim” 
while you are forward in the smoker.  Some­
times one determined woman  turns  you out 
of your pre-emption bodily.

There she is now.  Her step is heavy, and 
her resolute brow is not  sicklied  o’er  with 
the pale  cast of  thought so much  as  some 
healthier brows we have  seen.  Her  mouth 
is straight as a rule, and the firm  lines at its 
corners are not there for nothing.  The little 
man timidly keeping close by her side is her 
husband, her  very  own—body,  boots,  and 
breeches.  She married  him  herself.  She 
could do it again, too, with one hand tied be­
hind her.  She holds you witli her glittering 
eye, eftsoons she standeth  still; you  listen 
like a three-years’  child;  the  Gorgon  hath 
her will.  “Would this gentleman be  polite 
enough to occupy a seat with this other gen­
tleman, that she and her husband  might  sit 
together?”  Would you?  Ah, wouldn’t you 
just!  You do and she thanks  you  in  thor­
ough-bass.  They sit, and the little man holds 
the bundles and runs errands while the Gor­
gon looks around for  new  victims.  “Make 
that man put  out  that  cigar.”  Obedient as 
a tender to a man-of-war, the little man goes
and  returns.  “It  isn’t  lighted.”  “Make 
him  take  it out of his  mouth: this  isn’t a 
smoking-car.”  Again the  little  man  goes 
and comes.  “It’s a lead pencil; and he says 
he’ll hold it in his eye if  he  wants  to.”  A 
few people  begin to  smile, but  one  glare 
freezes them in the midst of their presumpt­
uous  levity.  “Tell  that  man to close  his 
window; I feel a draught.”  Another  round 
trip for the meek little man.  “He is asleep.” 
“Wake him up!”  And  she  speaks as  one 
having authority, and not as  a  woman  who 
married because she wanted to lean on some­
body.  Away goes the little married man. A 
gentle shake, a timid—

“Sir, would it discommode you  too  much 

the next  car will* ask  him  them  all  over 
again.  But nothing  seems  to  disturb  him.
What a fortune that imriiobile face would be 
for a poker  player!  How  he  answers the 
wisest questions without a show  of  admira­
tion, the stupidest and silliest without a sign 
of contempt!  Can you carry a lantern tuck­
ed up on  your  arm  like  that?  Yes, with 
both hands you  could.  See,  when  you  try 
it, all the passengers laugh to see the lantern 
fall behind you.  Can you  make  your  lan­
tern at home burn one half so brightly?  Not 
if you put an  electric  light in  it.  Can  he, 
does he, read all those tickets  so  rapidly  as 
he affects to!  There now?  Yqu  saw  him 
puncfi that one without ever  looking  at  it. 
You think so!  Well, try him on an expired 
limited ticket sometime, or hand  him  some 
fraudulent paste board you bought of a scalp­
er.  Give it to him some  night  when he is 
behind  time, dreadfully  crowded, and  too 
busy  to  think,  and  you  will  soon  know 
whether or not he is given  to punching tick­
ets without looking at them.

There, he is talking to  a  young  man 

in 
pointed shoes and  tight  pantaloons  on this 
very  subject.  The  young  man  evidently 
thought as you did.  Listen to the  pleading 
accents of the tender-hearted conductor: 

“Where are you  going?”
“I am going to Pittsburg,” says the young 
man defiantly; “and that ticket is good until 
it’s used.”

“Certainly it is,” replies the conductor ap­
parently greatly terrified by the young man’s 
resolute attitude.  “You’re  right about that 
—it is good  until  it’s  used; but  as  it is a 
ticket on the  Boston  and  Maine  Railroad 
from South Lawrence to  Kennebunk, you’ll 
have to go there to use it.  Keep that ticket: 
it may come useful  sometime; But  it won’t 
ride you on the  Pennsylvania. 
I only go to 
Harrisburg.  Three  dollars  and  twenty-six 
cents please.  Better get a ticket at  Harris­
burg—plenty of time.”

And having paid ten cents  for  having no 
ticket, that  young. ’man is  making up  his 
mind  that  wasting a  local  ticket  to  get 
through the gate doesn’t pay.

Could you stand up and write, as  the con­
ductor does?  You  could  write  very well, 
but no living creature  could read  what you 
wrote.  Still, writing on  the  train in  these 
days of spirit-level grades is not the difficult 
art it used to be.  A  great  many  busy  peo­
ple write on the  train.  During  the  seven 
years past as least seventy  per  cent,  of  my 
daily newspaper work, during  the  winters, 
has been done  on  the  trains.  There  was a 
time when I used  pen  and  ink in my rail­
way correspondence ; not that erratic  aggra­
vation born in an  evil  hour  called a stylo­
graph, but a good  old-fashioned  pen  and a 
glass ink bottle. 
I have also  upset a bottle 
of ink in my lap.  Without going  into  par­
ticulars, I will merely say that  the quiet old 
citizen sitting behind me, at the close of  my 
remarks, which  were, conversely,  remarks 
about my clothes, tapped me on the shoulder 
and said—

“Young man, if I could  use  the  English 

language as fluidly as you, I’d lecture.”

We are running now.  You  cau  feel  the 
train  quiver  and  spring  under the  spur of 
thirty-eight miles an  hour.  And  just  here 
the usual  knowing  passenger, the  traveler 
who has been every place and  knows  it  all 
in  his  mind, interrupts us to tell  me, hold­
ing his  watch in his  hand to  prove  it,—as 
though a watch  was a pedometer,—that  we 
are making  fifty miles an hour  easy, if not 
sixty. 
It is useless to dispute with this pas­
senger,  who has  forgotten, or, perhaps, nev­
er knew', that the official time of  the fastest 
through trains on the road over  which he is 
traveling averages forty-four miles  per hour 
from New York to Philadelphia, thirl y-eight 
from the Quaker City to Harrisburg,  thirty- 
three from Harrisburg to Altoona, and forty 
thence to Pittsburg.  The trouble  with this 
fast traveler is that  his  figures  never  har­
monize with the official time-tables. 
I have 
known this man to leave Chicago  at 9 a. m., 
run sixty miles an  hour  right  along  by his 
own watch,  and reach Elkhart, one hundred 
and one miles, at  12:55  p.  m.,—twenty-five 
miles an  hour, as  nearly as the 
tables  can 
make it.  When the rapid traveler begins to 
count  the  telegraph  poles to  regulate  the 
speed of the train, you  might as  well  give 
in ; he will make to a second exactly the time 
he said we were making.  Some time  when 
you know, by the official word  of  the  con­
ductor, that you are  running  fifty  miles^an 
hour, try counting the telegraph poles, three 
or four of you just for  amusement,  and  see 
how widely your counts do not  agree  for  a 
few miles.  And, believe  me, take  the  rail­
roads, by  and  large, you  ride  twenty-five 
miles an hour oftener  than  you  ride  fifty. 
Abroad, the lightning  train  on  the  Paris- 
Marseilles line averages thirty-five miles per 
hour; the express train on the  Lehrter  rail­
road  from  Berlin  to  Cologne, thirty-seven 
and a half miles;  the  Scottish  mail,  from 
Euston Square to Edinburg, forty-one  and a 
quarter  miles, including  stops; the  express 
train from King’s  Cross to Edinburg, forty- 
two miles; and  the  Irish  mail, London to 
Holyhead, makes the same  time.  The fast­
est short distance trains in Germany—Span- 
dau to Steindal,  distance, fifty-seven  and a 
half miles—run  forty-five  miles  an  hour 
without stopping; the fast train from Berlin 
to Lagdburg makes  forty miles an  hour, in­
cluding two  stops. 
In England, the  Great 
Western  trains  from  London to  Swindon 
make fifty-three miles  an  hour.  There are

if I asked you to—”

A smothered roar and a  volley  of  savage 
language, a half-lifted head showing a fierce 
pair of eyes and a most  forbidding  counte­
nance, a threatening movement of a fist like 
the haiyi of fate, an  earnest  pledge to  fire 
somebody of the window if the  request was 
repeated, and  the  meek  mercury  returns 
meeker than ever.

“He  says he  can’t;  he  has  heart  dis­
ease, and will  faint if the  window is  clos­
ed.”

Measureless liar!  The little man is a giant 
in some things; after all, he has  the soul of 
a man.

“Bah!” like a pistol shot.  “Anything but 

a sick man!”

The very lights burn blue in  the  glare of 
her fierce contempt.  A majestic stride  car­
ries her to the seat of rebelliom.  She bends 
above the  snoring  “slugger.”  Bang!.  The 
window comes down, like a wooden  impre­
cation, in a little puff of  dust  and  cinders. 
The slumberer lifts  his  wrathful  head, and 
begins a savage snarl, which ends as abrupt­
ly as a stub swich, and his threatening frame 
shrinks into a placid  heap  of  invertebrate 
limpness—protoplasm in clothes.  Triumph­
ant Eurayle resumes her seat, with one ejac­
ulation,  “Heart disease!”  and  glares  up 
and down the car, hoping to catch some man 
lighting a cigar, that she may turn him  into 
stone.

“All tickets, please!”  Lo! 

the  conduct­
or, nonchalant, quick in movement,  brusque 
in manner, keen of  eye, seeing  everything, 
missing  nothing, terse  of  speach,  a  very 
Spartan in conversation, answering a volume 
with a sentence, making three  words  with 
stand  a  thousand  questions.  Much  need 
hath he of this  economy of  speech, “for we 
we are the same that our fathers  have been; 
we see the same sights that our fathers have 
seen;” on the very  same 
train,  the  same 
seat, the same run, we ask the same “when” 
and  “what,”  every  one.  How  far?  and 
What time?  and How  much?  and  Which 
way?  How close the connection?  At night? 
Or by day?  What hotel,?  Which  junction? 
How?  Which?  Where?  and When?  And

I believed him.
All newspaper correspondents  frequently 
write their despatches  and  letters  on  the 
train, and make  good  enough  copy for any 
printer to mangle.

See the man standing up  holding  his  hat 
in his hand.  That passenger is traveling on 
his first pass.  He calls the  conductor “sir,” 
and  has an  impression,  that  amounts to a 
conviction, that the busy official, recognizing 
in him a guest of  the  company, will  pause 
and hold a few moments’  conversation with 
him.  To  the  passenger’s  amazement  the 
preciousjtrip pass is seized as unceremonious­
ly as a local ticket, turned over  like  a  flash 
for a glimpse of the signature  on  the  back, 
one quick glance  at  the  passenger’s  face— 
that the conductor  may be  able  to identify 
him if any question  arises  about  that  pass 
any time within the next five  years—the pa­
per is punched full of  holes, and  the  con­
ductor is  gone,  without  even  stopping  to 
shake  hands.  A pained 
look of  offended 
friendship, frost-nipped cordiality, creeps in­
to the grieving face of the passenger, lightly 
tinged with  dignified  wrath.  “I’ll  report 
that fellow, see if I don’t!”

“What  for?”  asked  his  fellow  traveler, 
who, having paid three  cents  a mile for his 
ride, is half determined lo be a Nihilist  and 
do something dreadful—“what for?”

But the offended “D. H.”—for even so are 
all 
lead  heads” stingingly  entered on the 
official reports—doesn’t  know  just  exactly 
for what, or rather, he  doesn’t  like  to tell, 
so he contents himself with shaking his head 
darkly and looking things that are fortunate­
ly unutterable.

A little girl and her mother get on.  They 
wear sun-bonnets.  Don’t peer  around into 
their faces now, but  just  look at  them  as 
they sit before us, and tell me  which  is  the 
girl and which is the  mother?  The  crown­
ing peculiarity of the  sun-bonnet is,  that it 
makes the maiden of twenty and the woman 
of sixty look like twins.  There are only two 
types of faces seen  in  sun-bonnets.  One  is 
faded, listless, wearied, seamed by the  hand 
of care, and the other is rdSy and pretty and 
bashful.  Did you ever  kiss a girl  in a sun- 
bonnet—one  of  the  old-fashioned  “calico 
slats”?  Man, there is a sense of quiet seclu­
sion, of peaceful  possession, a kind  of “the 
forgetting,  by  the  world  forgot”
world 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  5,1884.

NO. 59.

feeling comes over  you,  back  in  its  shad­
owy  portals, into  which  not  even  the  all- 
beholding  sun  can  peer  until  his  fiery 
chariot touches the horizon line, that—But I 
digress.

Look up, if you want  to  envy  somebody.
He hasn’t shaved this week; and  his  shoul­
ders are  broad as his  face is  grizzled—six 
feet two—and never had  a  toothache  since 
he knew how  to  bite;  wears  a  coat 
that 
doesn’t fit him, and a collar that nearly kills 
him on the  Fourth of July,—never  at  any 
other time;  conceives it to  be  his  patriotic 
duty to suffer for his country on  that  glor­
ious day.  Eyes as  bright  as  his  face  is 
brown, can’t help  looking  like a rough-cast 
Apollo, in a  blue  shirt  and  jean  overalls, 
and never saw  the  day that he  wasn’t hun­
gry three times. 
Isn’t worth a dollar in the 
world save what he can get at day’s work on 
the farm in the  summer, and  in  the  pine- 
woods in the winter; but  he has a digestion j 
that  Wall  street  can’t  buy.  He is  hail­
ed by a friend;  and harken to his response, 
“Hallo, Leander!  How’s your bein’?”  The 
whole car hears and smiles in reply.

Leander is the usual sick man of the train.
He an the deaf old gentleman have been ex­
changing  vociferous  medical  receipes  for 
carefully selected ailments for the past twen­
ty-five miles.  Leander is telling  how ill  he 
was just afore hay harvest.  First  stage, he 
couldn’t work; second, he couldn’t stand up; 
third, he  couldn’t sit up; fourth, he couldn’t 
lie down; fifth, he couldn’t  drink;  sixth, he 
couldn’t eat.  Just here the  entrance of the 
rough-cast Apollo  interrupted  him, and we 
will never hear what was the  seventh stage 
of that fell disease.  But it is my firm  opin­
ion that in the seventh  stage  Leander  died.
But his afflictions have been few and light, 
compared with  those  of  his  companion  of 
the heavy hearing.  Bew and evil  have  the 
days of the  years  of  his  pilgrimage  been, 
and they have been rounded  by  nurses  and 
doctors.  At almost every station he remem­
bers a man living  there  who  used to be his 
nurse.  One  of  these  nurses  is  especially 
commended as “bein’  jest  about  a  reg’lar 
studied doctor.  All he  wanted  was a hoss 
and  buggy  to be a reg’lar studied  doctor.” 
Mr.  Spoopendyke himself  might  envy this 
vidid description of  an  educated  physician, 
given in all seriousness by as  earnest a man 
as ever I heard keep a car-load of passengers 
awake with stentorian remarks.

The long five  seconds’ whistle  calls  for a 
station  As we-dash through do you  notice 
what a sudden increase of  speed  hurries us 
like a thunderbolt through the streets of the 
slumbering  village?  4 have  often  noticed 
this apparent increase of speed  when  pass­
ing through a station  as  though  the  train 
was anxious to do its best  before  an  audi­
ence. 
I have wondered if it was  real or on­
ly apparent, and often I have  made  up  my 
mind to ask, but as I approached the  engin­
eer my heart has  failed  me: 
something  in 
his face allays  my  burning  curiosity, with­
out gratifying it.  Once, when I was younger 
than I am now, or ever will be again, a rail­
way train which I honored  with  my  distin­
guished presence, halted, without consulting 
my wishes, out on the open prairie, between 
I hastened with  the  crowd to the 
stations. 
engine. 
I took out my note  book  and  pen­
cil, that all the world might  know a live re­
porter was on the spot, and would  have this 
thing down “very fine,” in a very brief space 
of period.  After a little difficulty in finding 
the right man to cross-examine, I discovered 
the engineer stooping under the engine,  soft­
ly tapping something with a copper hammer.
I said—

“What is the matter with her?”
There was a brief  interval  of  silence, as 
my voice died  a v\ ay,  and  then  the  world 
seemed to be turning  around  on  schedule 
time so as to be in the round-house at'sunset 
just as usual, and  just as though I was  not 
standing there,  waiting for an answer to my 
question.  So I raised  my  voice a  little, a 
very little, for the action of  this  earth  had 
somewhat affected me.

“What seems to be the matter?”
Then the engineer crawled out, and giving 
me a kind glance, stood  wiping  his  hands 
with a handful  of  waste  while  he  looked 
down the track a thousand  miles, and, after 
an embarrassing pause in  the  conversation, 
he said, in low, quiet, tones—
“She’s dropped her exhaust.”
I thanked  him in  broken  accents, and 1 
was very quiet all the rest of  the  trip.  Oh, 
very quiet!  much quieter than the other pas 
sengers.

The man with the  oil-cloth “carpet-sack,” 
who is storming at the conductor, is the man 
who gets carried by.  He never misses it.  If 
he is only going fifteen miles, the first  thing 
hfe does is to go to sleep.  He  declares  that 
the brakeman never  called  “Mount  Joy.” 
“As though,” says the indignant  brakeman, 
“I couldn’t waken a dead man on  that  sta­
tion.  Now, if it was  Dillersville, or Swiss- 
field, or some little thin  name  like  that, all 
i’s and e’s maybe I  couldn’t  shake  ’em  up 
quite so boisterously, but a big mouthful like 
Mount Joy or Tyrone, where  your voice has 
something to  catch  on  to,  why, man, I can 
put the headlight out with it!” 

Confidentially the  brakeman  lowers  his 

voice.

“Why,  yes,”  he  says;  “somebody  gets 
carried by every run, unless  I  bounce  him, 
I believe  when  the  last
just like a tramp. 

day  comes,  and  Gabriel  sounds  his awful 
trumpet,  and  the  dead rise  up and  answer 
the summons,  there’ll  be  some  men  won’t 
know anything about it until the  next  day, 
and then they’ll say, ‘Well, you never  blow- 
ed at Snyder’s Crossing!’ ”

The man just in front of us  is  whistling. 
Now  listen.  The  man  opposite has heard 
him, and now he is whistling too.  The  same 
air or another one; nobody ever knows what 
tune a man on  the  train  is  whistling  save 
only the whistler’s self.  The sad passenger 
just behind us cannot whistle,  so  he  sings. 
And the man on the wood-box plays a  little 
accompaniment to the sibilant aria which he 
whistles  between  his  teeth  by  drumming 

with his heels.  This sets four or five  other j 
to railway minstrelsy, is the lot of  the  man j 
strident edges of the leaves of a  book.  Not j 
one  of  all  the  passengers  hears  the  mel- j 

men to drumming on the windows with their i 
fingers.  Sad, indeed, at this  hour,  devoted i 

who is crowded to the end of  the  seat  and i 
has no window to drum upon.

The tall thin passenger adds a little variety 
to the general effect by whistling against the j 

low piping of  his  fellow'-pastengers.  Each j 
man  is  absorbed  in  his own hum and whis- j 
tie.  And  if  you can by  listening  intently, 
and by calling to your aid  a  very vivid  and 
charitable imagination, detect a tune  in  any 
of the whistles, you rarely hear a lively  air. 
The  general  tenor  of  railroad  music  is 
tinged with melancholy,  like the dash of the 
wild waves on the shingly beach. 
It  has  a 
plaintive, longing quality, a nocturne builded 
on a theme of homesickness;  for  it is  when 
the  day  is  done  that the whistling madness 
seizes upon the traveler;  when the hurrying 
landscape robes itself in cool snadows, and a 
quiet and peace, hallowed as an Easter dawn, 
broods over the farms where lie “the  penned 
flocks  in  their  wattled lodge,”  and  sweet- 
breathed kine, with Here’s eyes, stand in the 
perfumed clover, or move  slowly  down  the 
darkening lane, when, as the night draws on 
and the stars come out, the train dashes past 
a cottage set in the background of a  wooded j 
knoll; in the open  door,  bathed  in  a  flood 
of  light  from  lamp  and  cheery  fireplace,  a 
woman stands, shading  her  face  with  open 
hand, as she peers down  the  winding  road, 
and  the  little  child  at  her side,  waving  a 
merry signal with dimpled hand to  the pass­
ing  train,  turns  the  rosy  face  and  in  the 
direction  of  the  mother’s  look  to  welcome 
“papa”  home;  when  cosy  tea-tables  seen 
through  quick  glimpses of  the  windows  in 
the towns paint  beautiful pictures of the far 
away homes on the heart  of  the  traveler— 
then it is that he breathes his soul’s plaintive 
longing through his  puckered  lips,  and  the 
tenderness  of  his  dreams  softens  the  gro­
tesque lines of the pucker, lest  he might see 
its  wrinkled  caricature,  and,  like Athene, 
cast away his breathing flute  forever.  Lis­
ten, and you shall hear that  songs  of  home 
and old ditties are all the airs they blow who 
whistle in the cars at eventime.

Behold  the  woman  preparing  to  go  to 
sleep.  All  the  shawls,  rugs  and  wraps 
whereof she may be  possessed  she  rolls  up 
into a large wad and  lays  the  gigantic  pil­
low on the arm of the seat.  She  braces  her 
feet against the side of the car and lies down. 
Before  her  head  can  catch  it  that fearful 
and wonderful pillow rolls off on  the  floor, 
and she lies down  to rest her  neck upon the 
inhospitable nickel-plated arm  of  the  seat, 
while her head projects over into  the  aisle. 
Of course the first man who walks down the 
car knocks her hat off and bumps  her  head. 
With an expression of wearied,  forlorn,  de­
spairing resignation, such as no ma n can imi­
tate, she gathers up her bonnet  and  shawls 
and sits bolt upright.  Sleep  with  her  feet 
next  the  aisle  she will not. 
If she cannot 
sleep with her head projecting over the  arm 
of the seat into the  public  highway  of  the 
car, she will not sleep at all.

Ah, the gentleman who gets  on  down  at 
the Y switch, and prefers to ride on the rear 
platform of the rear coach.  The  brakeman 
has found him and is instructing him regard­
ing the distance and condition  of  the  walk­
ing  to  the  next  station.  The  gentleman’s 
taste, in preferring to ride  out  on  the bleak 
platform, is very singular;  but this is a  free 
country, and a passenger may ride where he 
pleases, under certain conditions of a pecun­
iary character.  Aside from this, his position 
is subject only to the limitations of the Con­
stitution pf the United States and the amend­
ments thereto.  But  the  railway  trains  are 
not so free as the country.  The  gentleman 
who  got  on  after  the  train  was under  way 
confides  to  the  brakeman,  in  a  moment  of 
weakness, that  his funds  are  not at present 
in  available  condition;  that  his  securities 
are  not  immediately  negotiable;  he  has  no 
collaterals  that  he  can  hypothecate  on  the 
spot,  and  so  the  inevitable  stares  him  in 
the face, the hand in uniform reaches for the 
remorseless bell-cord,  and  manifest  destiny 
beckons  the  embarrassed  gentleman  down 
the embankment.  He says he  want3  to  go 
to  some  place  where  there  is  a  coal  mine. 
Alas I  he  looks  as  though  the  best  fortune 
that could  meet  him  in  the way would be a 
good-paying  lead  in  an  undeveloped  soap 
mine.  Poor  tramp!  I wish I owned a coal 
mine. 
I’d give him enough of it to  pay  his 
fare, anyhow.  Let us be charitable.  “Not to 
tramp?” say you?  True, let us be merely just 
to the tramps.  So “he is lazy,” you say.  So 
am I.  “He won’t  work  unless he  has  to.”

Neither will I.  How is it with you, brother? 
“But he is grimy and  dirty—deplorably  un­
tidy.” 
I have seen diamond rings glittering 
only two joints above very sad-browed finger­
“He  is  wicked.”  So am  I.  “He 
nails.” 
steals.” 
So  also  do  some  very  eminent 
“statesmen.”  “He lies.”  So do many distin­
guished politicians.  “He swears.”  So Wash­
“He  drinks;  he 
ington did at  Monmouth. 
gets  drunk.”  Alas!  that  is  deplorable. 
I 
can find no parallel for that vice in  good so­
ciety:  goon.  “He smokes.”  So does Grant. 
“He is not trustworthy.”  There are Ameri­
can  bank  cashiers  in  Canada.  The  clerks 
in the Mint and the Treasury Department are 
checks and counter-checks  upon  each other; 
and  there  isn’t  a  bank  in  the  country  will 
trust you with money unless you give a note 
with  good  security. 
“He  is  ungrateful: 
kindness would be wasted  on  him.”  Here, 
too,  I  am  ungrateful  a  thousand  times  a 
day;  kindness  has  been  wasted  upon  me 
nearly  forty  years. 
“Oh,  well!  he’s good 
for  nothing;  you  can’t  do  anything  with 
him.”  Has any one ever  tried?  Well, he’s 
gone;  and the only momento we have of him 
is  a  stream  of  terrific  profanity  that  fol­
lowed the train as it left him standing in the 
ditch.  “Served  him  right.”  Ohv yes,  yes, 
undoubtedly.  Still, I can’t help hoping, see­
ing the tramp is so like his more  prosperous 
neighbors, that, when our credentials are de­
manded, He, who was a friend  of  publicans 
and sinners,” and sat at meat with them, will 
not “serve us right.”

She  comes;  my  lady  comes.  Bird-cage, 
parasol, bandbox, basket,  shawl-strap,  bou­
quet, and bundle.  She has  been  sitting  in 
the station  nearly  three  hours,  waiting  for 
this train, and in that time has tried to climb 
upon everything that  went  in  either  direc­
tion,  including  a  yard  engine  and  a  hand 
car.  And then she never thought of  buying 
a ticket until the train whistled, and she fell 
into the car, “all of a heap,” scrambling her­
self together.  Now she has lost  her  ticket. 
Less than ninety seconds ago she  bought  it, 
and  where  is  it now?  Her  handbag  is in 
the basket, her port-monnaie is in the  hand­
bag, and  in  an  inside  pocket  of  the  porte- 
monnaiie, wrapped up in a  receipt for White 
Mountain cake and a pattern for a new  tidy 
stitch,  is  that  blessed  ticket.  There goes 
her hat!  As she balances it back  upon  her 
head,  down  comes  her  hair  “and  showers 
the rippled ringlets  to  her knee,”—only the 
rippled ringlets are straight wisps and merely 
hang  down  her  back.  As  with deft touch 
and nimble hands she twists up the hair and 
belays  it  with  a  long  pin,  the bundle falls 
from the rack upon  her head and topples the 
hat  over  to  larboard;  as  she reaches up to 
replace the bundle, she bursts the collar but­
ton off her duster, and sticks  her  fingers  on 
four pins  before  she  can  find  one  she  dare 
take to repair  damages.  There!  the  bundle 
has exploded; and there are more things lying 
around that seat than a man could pack into 
a Sarotoga trunk.  This is  her  station,  and 
she  goes  out  with  the  shattered  bundle 
tucked under one arm,  trying  to  corral  her 
wondering  hair  and  toppling  hat  with  one 
hand while with the other she vaguely feels 
around for woman’s great stay  and  comfort 
in  every  wreck  and  distress—more  pins; 
and  you  can’t  help  thinking,  as  she  goes 
straggling and fluttering into the station, that 
it would be much more convenient and safer 
if she would run herself in sections and flag 
herself against everything.

The long, long night has worn itself  away 
and the passengers out.  How drearilylong 
is  one  night  in  a  day-coach.  But  for the 
panorama of station and passenger you never 
could endure it.  By daybreak,  the wearied 
cargo has shaken itself down into endurable 
discomfort.  The snoring proceeds  in  regu­
lar  cadences;  the  children  have  ceased  to 
cry; the  human form divine in  the  various 
seats have taken on the distorted shapes and 
hideous postures of the fallen angels.  Every 
face is pallid, grimy, wan.  Every  sleeping 
mouth is open. Disheveled hair and rumpled 
collars.  Every tousled woman  and  frowzy 
man, waking in the pale, trying light of dawn, 
sighs  for  solitude  and  darkness and  hates 
the light.  There is not a good-natured  soul 
in the car, not one.  Even the jolly commer­
cial traveler, who  got on at the last  station, 
succumbs  to  the  infection,  loses  his smile 
at the first crossing, and,snarls at  the  train- 
boy  ten  miles  out. 
Come:  this  stop  is 
only  the  stock-yards;  but  get  off.  The 
cattle  are  better,  more  cheerful, Christian 
company  at  five  o’clock  in  the  morning 
than are the all-night passengers  in the day- 
coach.

P ap er  Plates»

A daring landlord in Beilin  last  year  in­
troduced paper  plates.  Bread  and  butter, 
cakes and similiar articles were  served on a 
pretty papier-mache plate having a border in 
relief,  and  closely  resembling  porcelain. 
The landlord liked them  because  they were 
so cheap they could  be  thrown  away after 
once  using, waiters  liked  them  for  their 
lightness and because they  were  neither  to 
be washed nor  broken, and  guests were de­
lighted to  take  them  away  as  souvenirs.- 
Housewives will  cordially  welcome the in 
troduction of this sort of table  furniture  in­
to America.

Divine  and  VanDenbergh,  the  Howard 
City clothing and  dry  goods  dealers,  have 
moved into new  quarters  in  the  O'Donald 
block.

A JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO THE

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,  NOVEMBER 5,1884.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vjce-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. 
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Official  Organ—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 
each month.
Next  Meeting—Saturday  evening,  November 
13, at “The Tradesman”  office.

Evaporating fruit is growing  into a great 
industry.  Besides apples and peaches, rasp­
berries, cherries,  grapes,  sweet  corn,  pota­
toes, beaus and pumpkins  are  also  evapor­
ated.  Cabbage and celery are  bleached to a 
crispy white.  The latest  notion  is  evapor­
ating  finely  chopped  vegetables to be used 
in soups.  ^

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Ten pages this week, and  not  much of a 
week for  business  either.  Thirty-one  col­
umns  of  reading  matter  and  quotations— 
seven more than the entire paper  contained 
when it was started a little over a  year ago, 
besides  twenty-nine  columns  of  advertise­
ments from reputable  jobbing  houses,  with 
any one of which it is a pleasure to do  busi­
ness.  Sixty columns in  all  in  this  week’s 
issue.  And the end is not yet.

It is the common impression that  we have 
had iii this country  a  good  deal  of  red-hot 
politics to the square  iuch;  yet  Americans 
who have been spending the summer in Eng­
land  i&y  the  political  excitement  on  this 
side of the water is “a  mere bagatelle  com­
pared with that which  prevails  there  with 
reference to the Franchise Bill and  the atti­
tude of the House of Lords.” 
It  requires a 
great effort to put faith in such a  statement; 
but assuming  it  to  be  true,  all  Americans 
must profoundly  sympathize with  the Eng­
lish in their unspeakable  agony.

It will be a  surprise  to  most  dealers  to 
learn  that for fifteen years  past  the  exten­
sive mercantile  house of  Messrs.  Hfinnah, 
Lay & Co., at  Traverse  City, have  bought 
and sold eggs entirely  by weight.  The sur­
prise will be intensified  when it is  remem­
bered  that  tills is the  only  establishment 
East of the Rocky Mountains where  such  a 
custom  is  in  vogue.  The  advantages  of 
handling the staple in such a manner will be 
fully and clearly set  forth  in  an  article  on 
-that subject now' in course of preparation by 
Mr. Smith Barnes,  general  manager  of  the 
corporation, and an active worker in  the es­
tablishment for the past  twenty-five  years. 
Mr. Barnes has kindly agreed to favor  T iie 
T ra desm a n with the article for publication, 
and those who are at all acquainted with his 
ability as a careful thinker  and  shrewd ob- 
serveraused not be told that the treatment of 
the subject will be thorough and interesting, 
and that the facts set forth can be relied up­
on« 

___________

AMONG TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Jas. D. Barner, State agent for  the  Ilall 
Type Writer  and O. K. Steam  Washer,  has 
openeAan office in  this  city  at  37  Canal
street. 

________________

Thomas Crane has started in  the  grocery 
business at the  corner of  Hall  street  and 
Madison avenue.  Cody, Ball & Co. furnished 
the  stock.

not expect more than 300.  Careful  attention 
will be given to every detail, with the inten­
tion  of  producing  nothing  but  the  finer 
grades of cheese.

ABOUND THE STATE. 

*
Thomas Ford & Co., grocers at Ludington, 

have sold out.

Wm. Kelly, grocer  at  Midland,  has  been 

closed on chattel mortgage.

Henry P.  Whipple  succeeds  Whipple  & 

Chaufty, general dealers at Paradise.

A. Snyder has purchased the  grocery bus­

iness of R. V. McArthur, at Rockford.

A. R.  Gardner  succeeds  J.  A.  Brown  & 

Co. in the drug business at  Fowlerville.

D. M.  Harvey  succeeds  Hoyden  &  Wil­

liams in the meat business at Constantine.

Peter Ross is removing  his  stock of  no­
tions and  fancy  goods  from  Saugatuck to 
Fennville.
»  J. W. Lovely  has  purchased  the  interest 
of Wm. Robbie in the firm of Robbie & Den­
ton, hardware dealers at Howard City.

A. O. McEuen, dealer in  drugs  and  gro­
ceries at Mason, is moving his stock  to Per­
ry, where he will re-engage in business.

Ed. F. Payne  has  purchased  the  interest 
of Thad. G. Mercer in the firm of  Anderson 
& Mercer, boot and shoe dealers at  Saranac, 
and  the  business  will  be  continued  under 
the firm name of Anderson & Payne.

Whitehall Forum :  J. F. Keily is  moving 
the Mason  Bros,  stock  from  Montague  to 
Whitehall where  it  will  be  located  in  A. 
Mears’  store  formerly occupied  by the Op- 
penheims,  until  a store  can be  fitted  up in 
Montague.

STRAY  FACTS.

The S t Clair Salt Works have commenced 

operations.

C. K. Griggs has commenced  the  erection 

of a grain elevator at Rochester.

Daniels  &  Dearing  succeed  Chas.  W. 
Dearing & Co. in the livery business  at Lan­
sing.

The  Big  Rapids  Woodenware  Co. will 
probably double the capital stock of the cor­
poration.

It is expected that the new tannery at Pe- 
toskey  will use  about  12,000  tons  of  hem­
lock per year.

Over 200 dwellings and  a  large  manufac­
turing establishment  have  been  erected  in 
Owosso this season.

J. Holtenhouse,  of  the  firm  of  J. & W. 
Holtenhouse,  wholesale  celery  dealers  at 
Kalamazoo,  is dead.

R. G. Peters, at  Manistee, is  building  an 
addition to his salt block 60x224 feet, which 
will contain 10  grainers.

R. N. Thompson  has  purchased  the  har­
ness business of Marshall Rich, at Ovid, and 
will continue at the old stand.

The  City  of  Traverse,  Hannah, Lay & 
Co.’s lumber carrier and  passenger  steamer, 
goes into  winter  quarters  at  Chicago  this 
week.

D. Cleland, the  Coopersville  dealer,  has 
shipped 4,000 bushels  of  potatoes to  Ohio, 
and will  send  3,000  bushels  more  in  the 
same direction.

The Oakland  Woolen Co. have  purchased 
Samuel  II.  Richardson’s  woolen  mill  at 
Rochester and will soon  remove  their  ma­
chinery to it.

The $25,000 capital stock  in  the  Roches­
ter Roller Process Flour  Co.  has  all  been 
taken, and  the company has  commenced re­
modeling and enlarging their building (the old 
Gillett & Andrews  mill,)  and expect  to  get 
in the rollers and commence  operations dur­
ing December.

L. S. Baker, of Big Rapids, has purchased 
all the property of the  West  Troy Lumber 
Co.,  including  mills,  pine  lands,  logs  and 
about 8,000,000 feet of  lumber; also  the vil­
lage of West Troy and the entire lumber and 
logging outfit.  The original cost of the mills 
is stated to have been $120,000.

Jose pi i Schurscli has  engaged in the  gro­
cery  business at  the  corner  of  Gold  and 
West  fulton  streets.  Shields,  Bulkley & 
.IjemSh furnished the stock.

Jacob  Ritzma,  formerly  of  the  firm  of 
Iiitzma & Vanllalteren, has engaged  in  the 
grocery business on Grandville avenue,  just 
below the city limits.  Cpdy, Ball & Co. fur­
nished the stock.

Wentworth & Cannon will shortly remove 
from their present  location  on Canal street 
to the new Norris  block on  South  Division 
street  They will then carry a large  line of 
fancy  groceries,  and  also cater  to  the out­
side farming trade.

A representative of  the  Cutler & Savidge 
Lumber Co., who Was  in  town  a  few days 
ago, stated to a  reporter  of  T h e  T ra d es­
m an that his corporation  would*  cut  about 
35,000,000 feet of  logs  the  coming  winter 
season against 63,000,000  the  year  before. 
He was of the opinion  that  this  proportion 
will be about the same with the leading lum­
bering concerns of the State, in  other words 
a decreased cut of abont  43  per  cent.  The 
Cutler & Savidge Lumber Co. lias 12,000,000 
feet of lumber piled a? Spring Lake, besides 
a small quantity at their retail  yards  at  In­
dianapolis and South Bend, Ind.

E. JT. Savage, who is building a new cheese 
factory  at  Coopersville,  was  in  town  last 
Saturday,  and  pulled  T h e  T ra d em a n’s 
latch string.  He states that  the  timber  for 
the new structures is all on the ground  and 
that  work on  the  frame  will  begin short­
ly. 
rfhe main building, the  dry  room,  will 
be 22x40.  feet  in  dimensions, story  and  a 
half high.  The vat room will be 22x18 feet, 
one story.  The buildings will be  completed 
so that operations can be begun about  April 
15.  The  milk  from  600  cows  has  been 
promised, although Mr. Savage says he does

The  G ripsack  B rigade.

B. F. Emery is in Chicago  this  week, en­
tertaining a northern customer of his house.
It is no longer in  good  taste  to refer  to 
the drummer as a traveling salesman.  He is 
hereafter to be spoken of as the “genial com­
mercial  solicitationist.”

That Dick Savage possesses a glib  tongue 
all his friends will admit, but no one  would 
suspect him to be  guilty  of  the  offense of 
talking a man to death.  There is  a  report 
up  around  Petoskey,  however,  that  D.  N. 
White recently succumbed to his  persuasive 
eloquence, and  tumbled  into  the  arms of 
Morpheus.,  Dick,  however, did  not  notice 
the condition of his victim and  contined the 
flow of words until he happened to  discover 
a death-like palor creaping over the features 
of the sleeper.  By dint of the use of restor­
atives, and the assistance of a physician, Mr. 
White  was restored to  consciousness.  He 
declared  that  he  had  been  dreaming of a 
place  where  drummers  never  tread—the 
pearly steps of heaven.

Tlie  F igures  in  the  McVean  M atter.
Amos  C. Beebe,  assignee  for  D.  E.  Mc­
Vean, makes the following report as  the  re­
sult of  an examination into the condition of 
the estate:
Total liabilities....................................... $17,535.63
Secured liabilities..................................   8,334 00
Available assets......................................  11,279 01
Assets covered by  m ortgages.............   6,944 00
The assets consist of the following  items:
Merchandise..............................................$4,394 38
Book  accounts.......................... 
5,559  62
Real  estate................................................   6,440 00
Bills receivable..........................................  1,342 05
C ash............................................................  191 23
As will be seen from the above statement, 
there are $4,335.01  assets  against $9,201.63 
commercial  liabilities.  Allowing  for  the 
shrinkage  incident  to  such  cases, it is not 
likely that creditors  will  realize  to  exceed 
20 per cent, although there has  been  some 
talk of a settlement  on  the  basis of 25 per 
cent

 

ROCK  BOTTOM !
Wholesale  Price-List  of Tini are.

F A IL S .

1 Pint, Covered............................. per dozen  45
2 Pint,  Covered..............................................   55
3 Pint,  Covered..............................................  65
2 Quart, Covered............................................   84
3 Quart, Covered..................................................1 20
4 Quart, Covered..................................................2 00
6 Quart, Covered..................................................2 50
8 Quart, Covered..................................................3 50
10 Quart, Covered..................................................4 50
3 Quart, Dinner (with cup  on top).:..............2 00
5 Quart, Flaring..............................................   90
8 Quart, Flaring................................................... 1 50
10 Quart, Flaring...................................................1 90
14 Quart, Flaring................................................... 2 40
12 Quart, “ Iron Clad ” ................................    .4 50

W A SH B O IL ER S.

With flat or pit copper bottoms, No. 7_____ $12 00
With flat or pit copper bottoms, No. 8............14 00
With flat or pit copper bottoms, No. 9............16 00

P IE C E D   T IN W A R E.

$1 08;  3 pt. $1  50;  4 pt. $1 75;  5 pt. $2  00 
4 pt. $4 25 ;  5 pt. $5 24 :  6 pt. $6  25.
qt. $2;  4 qt. $2 50.

Tea Kettles, No. 7, $540;  No. 8, $6;  No.  9, $6 50. 
Tea Pots, octagon, with spun tin bottoms, 2 pt.
Tea or Coffee Pots, with spun copper bottoms, 
Coffee  Pots  tin bottom, 1 qt. $1;  2qt.  $1  75;  3 
Cullenders, small, $1 08;  large, $2.
Dippers, 2 qt. pieced, 85c;  pint cups, 24c. 
Steamers, No. 7, $3;  No. 8, $3.50;  No. 9, $4. 
Flasks, 1 pt., 60c.
Oil Cans, 1 gallon, $2.
Pie Tins, square, 60c.
Bread Bars, 85c.
Cake Bars, 75c.
Tea Steepers, 1 quart, 85c.
Sprinklers, 8 quart, $4.25;  10 quart,  $6.
Rattles, 18c.
Nutmeg graters, 20c.
Milk Strainers, small, $1;  large.  $2.
Biscuit and cake cutters, 25c, 30c and 35c. 
Measures,  lp in t,  65c;  1  quart,  90c;  2  quart, 
Scoops, Retinned, No. 5, 50c;  Nos. 14 and 16,75c. 
Picnic Mugs, 35c.
Dish Pans, 4 piece, $1.75;  5piece, $2 25.
Sifters, “Victor,” crank, $2.15.
Sieves, Tin bound, $1  90;  wood, $1.

$1.75;  4 quart, $2.50.

M ISCELLANEOU S.

Egg Beaters, “Acme,” with crank,  90c.
Stove Polish, 35 and  60c.
Fire Shovels, 50c.
Tea and Coffee Cannisters, 1 ft, 80c, 2 ft $1. 
Dust Pans, 80c.
Slop Buckets, No. 3, covered, gold band, $5. 
Stove Lifters, 35c.
Basting Spoons, 13 inch, 45c.
Candle Sticks, 35c.
»Knives and Forks, No. 18.45c:  No.  18,  bolster­
ed, 65c;  No. 38, Bone, bolstered, $1;  No.  69, 
bone, fancy, bolstered, $1.20.

Paring Knives, 30c and 60c.
Butcher Knives, fine, 95; bolstered, $1  50. 
Bread Knives, 90c.
Shoe Polish, Bixby’s No. 3,35c.
Corn Poppers, $1.
Cuspadores, Japanned, all colors, 95c.
Gem Pans, 8 on frame, $2.25.
Pad Locks, 90c.
Wisp Brooms, 85c.
Traps, 2 hole, 45c;  4 hole, 85c.

PRESSED  TINWARE.

Full variety always in stock, on  which  spec­
ial low prices will be sent on application.  Also 
headquarters for Five and Ten Cent C ounter 
Goods, G lassw are  and  Crockery.
Toys,  Dolls  &  Holiday Goods
Having bought a large New  York  bankrupt 
stock at auction, I can and will  undersell  any 
party in the State.  Mail orders receive prompt 
attention.  Visiting  buyers  please call when 
here.  Terms net cash.

School  Books

— AND—

School  Stationery

—A T -

Vv liolesale,

EATON,  LION  4  ALLEN,

22  am i  24  Canal  Street,

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

S. A. WELLING

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.

14 North Division St. 

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Spbague,  John  H.  Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna, Geo. W. N. De Jonge.

E.  L.  Wrig*ht,
THE  “BEE-HIVE,”
The  Washer  of the  Future !

Grand Rapids, Midi.

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

24 Pearl Street 

- 

0. K. STEAM  WASHER

The  only 

Steam  W asher 

th a t  has  a  valve  on 

top  of cover  to 

prevent boil­

ing over.

The  only 

Steam W asher 

w ith  force  feed  and 

Perforated  Tube 
through center 

of cylinder.

I t  will w ash more clothes in  a  given  tim e  th an   any  steam   w asher in  the 
I t washes cleaner, as the tube  through th e center of cylinder has  the 
m arket. 
advantage of steam ing th e clothes uniformly.  The flanges on outside of  cylin­
der force steam  and suds in clothes.  A gents  w anted  everywhere  in  Michigan. 
W rite for circulars and  price.

3 7  Canal  street,

— 

Grand  Rapids 

Michigan.
_ _ _ _ _   MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS,  pleasanttotake. actsm.ldly. cu resq u ic k ly
M W 'S   SURE  CURE  I0R   FEVER  &  AGUE.
S
One  Dose  taken during the  Chill, 
arrests  the  disease in 20 minutes.
NEVER  ENOWN TO PAIL.  Money re­
turned  if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre- 
laid for 60 cts.  Address, Western 
I edicine Co. .Grand Rapids, Mich.

:
J
’"  ®  " fun”  the  system,  aid digestion  and
purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CUES 
HEADACHE  AND CONSTIPATION., In­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent tree 
on receipt of price,  25  cts.  Sample 
; package free.  Western  Medicine 

’ Company., Grand Rapids, Mich. W

S

“

 

We are  sole Michigan 
agents for the  celebrated 
“3P” brand,  packed by  J. 
S.  FARREN  & CO.,  Bal­
timore, and are  prepared 
to nil orders for  CAN  or 
BULK oysters at the low­
est  market  prices  either 
from  here  or  from  Balti­
more direct. NO BETTER 
GOODS  PUT UP.  H. M. 
BLIVEN  has  charge  of 
this department and will 
give your  orders person­
al and prompt attention. 
We solicit your order.

OYSTERS.

T3T^X1

P u tn am

AT

W   H O L E S A L E

We axe receiving daily, direct from Baltimore,
F R E S H   O Y S T E R S ,  
in  quanti­
ties to supply the trade of Northern Michigan.  Our 
Oysters are canned in Baltimore by the well-known 
and reliable packers,

W .  R.  Barnes  &  Co.,

As soon as caught, thereby retaining the sweetness 
and flavor which makes this bivalve so palatable and 
makes them far superior to the goods sold by other 
dealers,  which  are  shipped in  bulk  and  canned  in 
this city, after being from five to ten days out of the 
water.

We claim superiority for our goods, both in
t

Q u a lity  and  Q uantity.
“ The proof of the  pudding is  in  chewing the 
string.”  Send in your orders and they  will  receive 
our prompt attention.

WE  ¿JEUES  HEADQUARTERS.

EATON  &  CHRISTENSON,

77  Canal  street,

Grand Rapids, 

— 

Mich.

ink.

Is made from best New York and Pennsylvania  stock.  Has  a  purple  label  pi-inted  in  black

Boxes, 32 3 ft packages, $5?15.  16 6 ft packages, $5.

Seeker's Self-Saising Griddle-Cake Flour

For all uses where a batter is required, and for Muffins, Gx-iddle  Cakes,  Waffles,  Puddings,  Ap­

ple, Peach, Fish or plain Fritters, Etc.  Has a yellow label printed in green ink.

Boxes of 32 3 pound packages, $4.50.  16 6 pound packages, $4.35.

Seeker’s Self-Raising Wheat Flours,

A little water, with the means of making a fire, being all that is  requisite  in  may  situation  to 

secure a loaf of excellent lightbread or biscuits, etc.

Superlative Boxes, holding 16 6 ft papers...................................................5 2a
New Process Brand—Boxes  holding 32 3 ft papers....................................5 00
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft pappers.................................. 4 85
Red Brand—Boxes holding 32 3 lb  papers.................................................. 4 50
Red Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft papers....................................................4 55
Blue Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft  papers................................................ 4 00

Seeker’s Soiled Wkeat, or Wkeaten Grits

Surpasses all other preparation of wheat for producing  and  maintaining  a  healthful,  active 

condition of the system, and is peculiarly beneficial to dyspeptics and 

persons of sedentary habits.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft packages, $ 3.50  box,

Seeker’s Partly-Cooked Polled Oats.

Is made from specially selected grain.  A very superior article.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft pkgs., $3,50 

Pecker’s Farina

box.

Is made entirely from wheat, and consists of granulated particles of the berry adhering to the 

outer pelicle after crushiug.  It is  an especially nutritious food for invalids 

and infants, and a most delicious desert when made into jelly or 

blanc  mange, and served with sauce or  fruits.
Boxes holding 4 cartoons, 12 lib pps., each, $4.50.
Boxes  holding  24  1  pound  papers,  each,  $2.30.

Pecker’s Hominy or Corn Grits

Is made from fine white flint corn.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft packages, $3.50 TP box.

P U R IT Y  A ND STENGTH GUARANTEED.

Heeler’s  Perfect  M in   Powder

Is made from Pure Cream Tartar.  It is PERFECTLY HEALTHFUL, and its 

Baking Qualities can upt be surpassed.

N. B.—W e offer th e trade every  inducem ent  in  du ality   and  Price  to  w arrant 

them  in pushing th e sale of goods  th a t  have been recognized 

as STANDARD  FOR  OVER  FORTY  YEARS.

George  V.  Hecker  &  Co.
CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

WHOLESALE

&  Brooks.

83,85 aid 87  PEARL  STREET and 111, 116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

-  MICHIGAN.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Iodine, iodide potash,  annato. 
DecUned—Oil pennyroyal.
A C ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8 ............... Ji  J*  35
Acetic,  C .P.(Sp.grav. 1.040)........   33  ©  £
............................................................  35  @  «
Citric
Muriatic 18 deg...............
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Sulphuric 66 deg..............................  ®  ®
Tartaric  powdered................ .
Benzoic,  English....................V oz
Benzoic,  German............................  “   ®
T annic...............................................  15  ©

@

©
»  ©
7  ©

®

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................® 
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
A qual6degor  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 

BALSAMS.

BA RK S.

Copaiba........   .......................... —  ' 
F ir.................................... - ...............
P eru ............. .....................................
T olu...................................................
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm, select.......................................
Elm, ground, p u re..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground..........................>........

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 700...............  R  |
Ju n ip e r.....................................
Prickly Ash..«...........................
EXTRACTS.

®  65 
@  7 
@1  10

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, p u re .....■ ... 
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 B> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 tt>  boxes)...............
Lgowood, Ms 
...............
do 
Logwood, Ms 
...............
do 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
... • •••.• • •
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

f l o w e r s .

Arnica................................................ 
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  Germ an.....................

®

GUMS.
 

28®

..................  ®°®

Aloes,  Barbadoes 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).
Ammoniac............................ .
Arabic, extra  select......................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,c3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts. . . . . . . . . . . .  • • •
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor..........• • • • • • • • • • ••.............
Catechu. Is (M 14c, Ms 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Gamboge....... . . • • • • • • ; ............. 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered, 30cl...................... 
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00)............... 
Shellac, Campbell’s................................. 
Shellac,  English......................................  
Shellac,  native.................................
„   "X
Shellac bleached.............................. 
T ragacanth......................................  30  ©J 10

9m i ^
-.X?
40
4 15

H E R B S—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H oarhound.......................... ...........................
Lobelia.................................... .
Pepperm int.......................................................7X
R ue................................... -.............................. ..
S pearm int.........................................................X?
Sweet Majoram................................................ g?
T hym e...............................................................g?
W ormwood......................................................

6  40 
20

®

IR O N .

leaves.

Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
C itrate..............................................
Phosphate........................................
Buchu, short (Powd 25e).. .. .. .. ..  •  12
Sage, Italian, bulk (Ms & Ms, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural...............  
1»
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  U rsi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
H enbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

2 )tu ö s& flß e b ic in c 8
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

President-G eo. W. Crouter, C ^rlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  liai
Secondvice-President-B.  D. Northrop,  Lan-
ThiriVice-President—Frank  W urzburg, Gr d
s S t e r y —Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Treasurer-W m . Dupont, Detrort.
Executive  Committee—H-  J-  Brown,  A. 

•
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  x .  w •
Next°pface  of  m eeting-A t Detroit, Tuesday. 
______

October 13,1885. 

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   O CTOBER 9,1884.

Regular Meetings—First  Thursday  evening
inA nnu“ 0Mehetings-F irst  Thursday  evening 
in  November, 
Novem-
ber 13, at “The Tradesman  office.

.  „
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening, 

jpiea for F ew er L eg al R e q u ire m e n ts.

Grand Rapids, Nov. 1. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Dear Sir—I for one am  opposed  to  any 
more laws to oblige druggists to keep records 
o t a n y  thing.  We  can  not  live  up  to  the 
laws we have  now.  Just  take  the  poison 
law, as an instance. Let any druggist in this 
city ask the first lady  who  calls  for  mor­
phine, what her  name  is, etc., according  to 
law, and see if he don’t get a sharp  answer, 
At any rate he will not see her again.  Speak­
ing from eighteen years’ experience, I say it 
can not be done.

And what  is the good of it any  way 

If
Jones or Smith is fool enough to take an ov­
er dose of morphine, Paris green or any oth­
er poison, can it bring him to life to find out 
what  particular  store it  came  from?  Not 
any.  There are other points in this  matter, 
too, but I will wait until the  next  meeting 
of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Associ­
ation and bring up the question.

O. H. Richmond.

ADDRESS

To  th e   M em bers  of  th e  M ichigan  State

P h arm aceutical Association.

At the  meeting  of  the  Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical Association, held in  Detroit 
last September, a special  committee was ap­
pointed, which was  charged  with  the  duty 
of securing, if possible,  the  passage  of the 
pharmacy bill, as amended at such  meeting, 
and with the  terms of  which  you  are, no 
doubt, familiar.

Similiar codes  are now in  force in  New 
York,  New  Jersey,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Iowa, 
Wisconsin and many other states, and  have 
been found in their practical workings to be 
perfectly satisfactory, both to  dealers and to 
the general public.

This bill,  will, we  think, commend  itself 
to every candid and thoughtful  person as in 
the highest degree conducive  to the welfare 
of the community in the  security it will  af­
ford in the proper and faithful dispensing of 
medicinal agents, and  in  the  safeguards it 
throws around the sale of poisons.

It gives, of course, to the  pharmacist  cer­
tain  exclusive  privilege,  but  these  privil­
eges, we think, are not in reality a fu ll and 
fa ir offset for the  restrictions  uDder  which 
we, as pharmacists,  voluntarily  place  our­
selves in our relations to the general  public.
In view, however, of the fact that  certain 
exclusive priveleges are granted,  we  antici­
pate that this  bill  will, 
like  all  previous 
ones, in almost  every  state in  the  Union, 
meet with some opposition.

We therefore respectfully  suggest  that  it 
would be of great  assistance to us in our ef­
forts, if you would make it a point to secure 
a personal interview with the representative 
or senator from  j^>ur district before the next 
session of  the  Legislture, impressing  upon 
him  the  necessity  for  and  advantages  of 
such a law, and using all honorable means to 
secure his influence in its favor.

Please regard this  circular  as  an  address 
especially to you, and not to your neighbor, 
and lend us all  the  assistance in  your pow-
er.

George McDonald 
H. J. Brown 
Fred. M. Alsdorf 

Committee on  Pharmacy Bill.

M eeting  Postponed.

On account of  the  excitement  attending 
election, the Committee on Time  and Place 
of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society 
have concluded to postpone the annual meet 
ing of the association  for  one  week, until 
Thursday  evening,  November 13, at  T h e 
T ra desm a n office.  Every  member of  the 
Society, and those who contemplate  becom 
ing  members,  should be on  hand  at  this 
meeting, as officers will be elected and other 
important business transacted.

Discovery of P russian  Blue.

A Prussian chemist, when making experi­
ments on iron, happened to  pour a  solution 
of one of its salts on a solution  of potashes, 
which had for some time been kept  on  blue 
animal matter, and found  that a  substance 
was formed.  Following  up  the  hint  thus 
accidentally obtained,  he succeeded  after a 
number  of  experiments,  in  discovering  ® 
method of preparing the valuable color  cal 
led Prussian blue.  There  are  blue  colors 
superior to this, both in clearness and  dura­
bility, but none which,  volume  for  volume, 
contains so large a quantity of coloring mat­
ter. 
It is, on this account,  much  employed 
in house painting, and also in coloring paper 
hangings.  Unfortunately, it is  affected  by 
all the alkalies,  and  therefore  is unfit  for 
mixing with any color which contains them. 
When ground with oil, it takes a  yellowish 
tint, the best method to prevent  which is to 
mix a little lake.

To  Rem ove  A lcohol Stains.

Editor Michigan Tradesm an:
Dear Sir—Is there any known chemical
or preparation, that will change varnish back
to its original color  when  turned  white by 
alcohol.  1 have been much  troubled  by  al­
cohol spots on my store furniture.

O. H. Richmond.

The elegant mahogany  furniture  in  The 
Tradesman office has  never  been  contam­
inated  by  alcohol  stains, consequently  we 
are unable to recommend such a preparation 
as Mr. Richmond  desires.  Messrs. Thomas 
M. Peck and H.  B.  Fairchild  are  authority 
for  the  statement  that  a  mixture  of  equal 
parts of linseed oil  and  turpentine,  applied 
with a soft flannel cloth, will restore  a  var­
nished surface to its  original  color  and  ap-
pearance. 

_____

P ap er Bottles.

Paper bottles  are  now made  on  a  large 
scale in Germany and  Austria.  The paper 
must be well sized.  The  following  is  said 
to  be  a  good  recipe  for  the  paper:  Ten 
parts of rags, forty of straw,  fifty  of brown 
wood pulp.  The  paper  is  impregnated  or 
coated on both sides with sixty parts  of  de- 
fibrinated  fresh  blood,  thirty-five  parts of 
lime powder, five  parts  of  sulphate  of al­
umina.  After drying, ten  or  twelve rolled 
leaves  are  coated  again,  placed  over  each 
other,  and  then  placed in  heated  moids. 
The albumen in the blood forms  a combina­
tion on pressure with the lime, which is per­
fectly proof against  spirits,  etc.  The bot­
tles are made in two pieces,  which  are join­
ed afterward.

Business  D epression  in  France.

All  reports  lately  received  from France 
give a very bad account of the  state of trade 
in  that  country.  According  to  the Paris 
Economiste  all  branches  of business  were 
depressed, and but little hope was expressed 
of any great revival in the near  iiiture.  M. 
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu  writing in  the  Econo­
miste throws the blame for the  existing  de-, 
pression on the financial and economic policy 
which has been pursued in that  country  for 
the past few years. 
It demands a reform in 
that policy at once, and  thinks  that  in  the 
present state of public mind delay would  be 
dangerous.  At Lyons the depression in  the 
silk  trade  was  intense,  and  the  agitation 
among  the  workingmen  was  occasioning 
grave alarm.  The success of  the wine  crop 
was  the  only  favorable feature, but it was 
not  expected  that  this  would alleviate the 
general  agricultural  and  commercial  dis­
tress.

Pure  petroleum,  condensed  and  filtered 
for medicinal use, is the best  remedy  in the 
world for  all  skin  diseases,  burns,  scalds, 
* swellings, cuts,  sprains,  bruises,  piles,  and 
all disorders where a pure sweet ointment is 
needed.  Every family should have a can of 
this petroleum jelly constantly on hand. 
It 
will remain  sweet  for  years  and  never  be 
come rancid.  The  filtering  process  makes 
this remedy about the  same  consistency  as 
lard and of a light straw color.

The  drug  stock  of  J. R.  Hathaway, at 
Howard  City, was  recently attached at the 
instance of  Hazeltine, Perkins  & Co.  on a 
claim for $187, and a second  attachment for 
$142  was  subsequently  lodged by  T.  H. 
Hinchman & Sons.  Dr. Hathaway  has beep 
in Dakota  for  several  months  past, but is 
understood to be on his way home to pay the 
claims and resume business. 

-  ,

“Doctor,  I  want  to  thank  you  for  your 
great  patent  medicine.”  “It  helped  you, 
did it?” asked the quack very  much pleased. 
“It helped me wonderfully.” 
“How  many 
bottles did you  find it  necessary to  take?’ t 
“Oh, I didn’t take any of it  My uncle too k 
one bottle, and now 1 am his  sole  surviving 
heir.”

The  victims  of  easy  credits  are  falling 
with the autumn leaves.

A  P ractical Illu stratio n .

“What do you  do  when  people  come  in 
and bore you?” a warm personal  friend ask 
ed of a certain merchaht

“When they stay4too  long  the  office boy. 
who is very bright and knows just  when to 
interfere, tells me that a gentleman is in the 
shipping room waiting to see me  on  impor­
tant business.”

“Ha!  Ha!  That’s a capital way of getting

rid of bores who don’t know-----”

Just then  the  boy  opened  the  door  and 

sang out:

“Gent in the shippin’ room waitin’ too see 

you on important business.”

Consul Drithmar, of  Breslau,  in speaking 
of the distillation of alcohol from potatoes in 
Silesia  and  the  large  increase  in  the  im­
ports of American  corn  during 1883, owing 
to the failure of the potato crop, reports tha 
for like reasons, and because of the. growing 
popularity thereof, the imports  of  our com 
during the present year are likely to be much 
larger. 

______   .

_ 

A  Big R apids Opinion.

From Charlie’s Wide Awake.

The  Michigan  Tradesman,  published 
every Wednesday by  E.  A.  Stowe  &  Bro., 
Grand Rapids, is just "the  paper  that  every 
merchant needs. 
It is devoted  to  the  mer­
cantile  aud  manufacturing  interests  of.the 
State, and oyly costs one dollar per year.  It 
enjoys  a  large  circulation,  is  ably  edited 
and  worthy  of support. 
If  you  desire  to 
subscribe, give us your  dollar, and  we  will 
have it sent you by mail.

P u rely   Personal.

W. P.  Granger,  shipping  clerk  for 

the 
Grand  Rapids  Packing  Co.,  has  returned 
from a week’s visit with  friends in Detroit 
Smith Barnes,  Secretary,  Treasurer  and 
General Manager of  the  Hannah, Lay Mer­
cantile Co., was a caller at T h e T radesm an 
office Monday.  He v»s on  his  way  home 
from  Chicago, whither he had been sojourn­
ing for a week previous.

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 75
Whisky, other brands..........................1 ¿9
Gin, Old Tom.....................................1
Gin,  Holland..........................................2 00
B randy.................................. *......... * ¿2
Catawba  W ines.....................................|  gj?
Port Wines...........................  
magnesia.

*

@2 25 
@2  00 
&1 50 
@1 75 
@3 50 
&6 50 
@2  00 
@2 50

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

O IL S .

18

do 
do 

2 01 

1  20 

Almond, sweet.........................
Amber, rectified.....................
Anise.........................................
Bay $   oz...................................
Bergamont...............................
Castor........................................
Croton................................................
C ajeput............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W ............. . 
............
E rigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz........ .  —  ••••-•
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries..............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Lemongrass....................- • —
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose 
oz..............................."••••
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood, German..................
andal Wood, W. I ............................
Sassafras...........................................
T an sy ................................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  1«
W intergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
Savin................................................
W orm seed............................. •••••*
Cod Liver, filtered.......... 
$  gal
Cod Liver, best........ 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co. s,16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  I t a l i a n ...............
S alad............. ..............................
Rose,  Ihmsen s ..................... v  oz

45  &  50 
45 
2  10 
50 
2  00 
&  19M 
2 00 
75 
40 
85
1 25 
6  00 
1 60
2 00 
75
40
50
2  00 
1 00 
90 
1  70 
1  75 
80 
1 25 
50
1 59
3 00 
9  75
65
4 50 
7 00
60 
4 50 
&   12
2 25 
4 50 
1 00
2 50
1 50
3 50 
6  00
@1  20
2 50 
@  67
9 75

65

.

PO TASSIU M .
Bicromate................................$
Bromide, cryst.-and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran. bulk. - . .
Prussiate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

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

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

1
"M®

Florida sheeps’wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
........ 
Nassau 
do 
2 00
do 
1  lo
........ 
Velvet Extra do 
do 
E xtra Yellow do 
........
do 
J®
do 
Grass 
........ 
do 
Hard head, for slate use................  
jg
Yellow Reef, 
................  
1  40

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.
2 29 
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) $  gal..
1  50 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
50
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
"7
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
1«
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
Annatto  1 ft rolls............................ 
£o
5™
Blue  Soluble....................................  
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
*  7g
2  00
Bay Rum, domestic, H .,P. & Co.’s. 
A lum .....  ...............................  
23£©
3  @  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto,  prim e..............................
4M®  ®
Antimony, powdered,  com’l......  
6  @  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Balm Gilead  Buds........................... 
40
Beans, Vanilla.................................<  00  @9  75
1 
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.......  
®o
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................  
45
  <M®  g
Blue Vitriol  .................................. 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............  
J-
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
2 50
Capsicum  Pods, A frican............... 
1°
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
*0
, Jo
Capsicum Pods,  American  do ... 
4 00
Carmine, No. 40 ...............................  
J"
Cassia  Buds...................................... 
<0
Calomel. Am erican......................... 
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
®
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
12
5
Chalk,  red fingers........................... 
Chalk, white lum p..........................
1 60 
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
60 
Colocynth  apples............................
1 60 
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
1  78 
cryst...
Chloral 
1 90 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
1  75 
Chloral 
crusts..
@1  10 
Chloroform ......................................1 00
@  45 
Cinchonidia, P. & W ........ *............  40
@  45 
Cinchonidia, other brands...............  40
@  22
Cloves (Powd 28c)..............................  20
Cochineal .........................................
Cocoa  B utter....................... ...........
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box..
Creasote..................... ......................
Cudbear,  prim e...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone........... ..................
D extrine.......  .................................
Dover’s  Powders— .....................
gx
Dragon’s Blood Mass.
g?
rgot  powdered..............................
E n
ther Squibb’s ................................. 
Ether Squibb’s.
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts......................................  
Ergot, fresh......................................
Etner, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  @
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis—
Glue,  cabinet..................................   J2  @
Glue, w hite.......................................   77  @
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  Ms and Ms.............................. 
35®
Iodoform f   oz.................................  0.
Indigo...........................................  
  »5  @1
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian...  25  @
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
*
Isinglass,  American.......................  
I
Japonica........................................... 
_
London  Purple...............................   10  ©
Lead-, acetate...................................
Lime, chloride, (M8 2s 10c & Ms 11c)
[iupiuine...........................................
Lycopodium............. .......................
M.fclC6  .................... ...........................
Madder, best  D utch.....................  
Manna, S.  F.*...................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ 3P oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................B>
Moss,  Irish .....................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 B>  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Md...............
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin................................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  .....................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W ..........  lb oz 
Quinine,  Germ an.......................... *  95
Sefdlitz  M ixture..............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Red Precipitate.......................$  B>
Saffron, Am erican..........................
Sal  G lauber...:...............................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.........................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal  Soda.................................... ........ 
Salicin...............................................
Santonin..........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3cj.....................
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, M gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin ...............
Turpentine,  Venice.............$
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

12M©

4M©

do 
do 

do 

_
3

>

.

3  05@3 30 
40

26 ® 28
28 ® 32
30
3M® 4
3® 3M
602 70
1 40
85
25
60
7 ® 8
7

Capitol  Cylinder.................................................
Model  Cylinder..................................................
Shields  Cylinder................................................. ..
Eldorado Engine.................................................. ■“?
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 2?
Challenge Machinery.......(................................
Backus Fine Engine........................................... ™
Black Diamond Machinery..................... 
«9
Castor Machine  Oil............................................
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................s?
Paraffine, 28  deg   
.................................. • fi
Sperm, winter  bleached....................g by • • •
Whale, w inter........................................  80 

85

 

Linseed, pure  raw ..............................
Linseed, boiled........ •••.••••............. 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.............   70 
Spirits T urpentine.............................

RX
»0

V A R N ISH ES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach.................................. 7 10@1  ^
Coach  Body!......................................... 3 
Vx
No. 1 Turp F urniture........................... 1 99®1  10
E xtra Turp  D am ar...............................1 to®1
Japan Dryer, No.  1 T urp......................  70®  75
Lb
9
10

PA IN T S.

“ 
“ 

Bbl
Boralumine, White  bulk 1  ........
5 fts I  ....... -
Boralumine, 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  V50 off..
Boralumine 
5  lbs.  J ........ .
Red Venetian...........................  J»
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   1M
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  1M
Putty, com m ercial..................   ¿M
Putty, strictly pure..................  2M
Vermilion,prime  American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red  strictly pure............
¡.Lead, white, strictly p ure.......
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................
White, Paris American........
I Whiting  Paris English cliff..

1011

2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2M® 3 
2M@ 3 
13@16 
55@57 
16@17

1 10 

@90 
1 40

HKELTINE,
PERKINS

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

13
1«
to
20

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
_ 
13
Bird, mixed in lb  packages.......... 
o  @  6
Canary,  Smyrna................ • 
*  ©
••• 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11  @  12
* 90
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................  
2 ¿a
Cardamon, Malabar......................... 
C elery......................... ....................  
fg
Coriander, Dest English................  
I*
F e n n e l..............................................  
15
«3i© 
Flax, clean.......................................  
...
4  @  4M
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%).................. 
8  @  »
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian...............................  
5V4@  «
8
Mustard, white  Black  10c)............ 
1  °0
Q uince.............................................. 
. 
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
6  ®  7
Worm, L evant.. .1..........................  
14

SPONGES.

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(Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,)

M AN UFA CTU RERS  O F

3TX2TE  FSB7VMXS

—  \N D —

TOILET ARTICLES.
Jennings

Flavoring  Extracts. 

A rctic

Improved

BAKING POWDER.
KID DRESSING, 
MUCILAGE, 

INKS, ETC.

BLUINGS,
J!

1

W holesale

Druggists!

42 and  44  Ottawa  Street  and 89, 91, 98  and 

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBERS  OF

M anufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR
Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine

P atnt  and  Varnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manf’rs  of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.  *

Druggists' Sundries

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

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  n ew   stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

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

WitiiersDade&Go'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 t ee  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

iJ

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

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

im T M ID M

KEMINK-’S

tf

Red Bark Bitters 

iolelnifact

78  W est  B ridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN,

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

-M anufacturers  ot-

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUINGS,  ETC.,

40  and  42  South  Division,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH

w

H E R C U L E S ,

T H E   GREAT  STUM P  AND  ROCK
a n it ik il a t o b..
Strongest &  Safest  Explosive  Known  to the Arts.
Farm ers, practice economy and  clear 
your land of stum ps and boulders.  Main 
Office, Hercules  Powder Company, N o, 
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.
L. S. HTT.L & CO., AGTS. 

GUNS, AMMUNITION  &  F1SH18G  TACKLE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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  &  BRO., P roprietors.

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

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 5,1884.

Overstocking C ountry  Stores.

From the Commercial Enquirer.

One  great cause of ill-success in  conduct­
ing the business of a country store is the ten­
dency on the part of some dealers to load up 
their  shelves  and  counters  with  goods for 
which  'there  is  no  local  demand. 
In this 
way  many  get  their  money  tied up.  The 
goods lie about the store until they get stale, 
dusty or shopworn, and when finally dispos­
ed of will scarcely bring  a  quarter  of  their 
original cost.

It is a great  temptation to  a  merchant  to 
buy  goods  below  their quoted  value.  He 
does not always stop to consider  whether  or 
not  they  are  such  things  as customers are 
likely to call for.  They please his  eye  and 
the persuasive drummer  convinces him  that 
they are cheap and the monej  passes  out  of 
his  possession,  perhaps  never  to return to 
him again.

In buying goods always consider first what 
the demands  of  customers are likely  to  be. 
Never buy a large amount of fancy goods be­
cause  they  are  offered  to  you at half  price. 
The  very  fact  of their being on the market 
at a low  figure  is  often  an  indication that 
they  are  going  out  of  fashion or that they 
have ceased to be a novelty.  Buy  cautious­
ly, even  in  staple  goods,  unless you  have 
positive reasons for believing  that  they  are 
going  to  immediately  advance,  and never, 
under any  circumstances, assume  liabilities 
far beyond your  ability  to meet if a sudden 
decline should come.

It is better not to overstock country stores, 
but rather to send to  market  frequently  for 
fresh, attractive and new-style goods.  With 
the'present railroad and transportation fecil- 
ities and the promptness in filling  orders  of 
jobbing houses, a country merchant can do a 
large  business  on  a  comparatively  small 
amount of capital, and  without  taking  seri­
ous risks.  He can please his customers bet­
ter, and  with  a  proper system he need  not 
suffer  much  inconvenience  by sending  fre­
quent  orders  and  receiving  small consign­
ments.

Half of the retail dealers who fail in busi­
ness get into financial  trouble  by  investing 
in  unsalable  goods.  Shop-worn  goods  do 
not make  an  attractive  display.  Sell them 
at any price, and get them out of the  way be­
fore they become a dead  loss.  They  disfig­
ure a store, and they give  a  frowsy  appear­
ance  to  better  things  that  surround them. 
Buy cautiously, carefully, and  for your cus­
tomers,  and  determine  in  the first start  in 
trade not to accumulate an  unsalable  lot  of 
odds and ends that represent a  large  invest­
ment that cannot be sold at any price.

Some of the  Benefits  of Competió«. 

From  the American Storekeeper.

Competion is not  only the “life of  trade, ’ 
but there is that in it which  calls for origin­
ality of ideas, and necessitates  the  develop­
ment of keen business principles.

There is that  quality  of  compulsion  in 
competition which has  been  the  means of 
making an out and out business  man  of the 
merchant who might otherwise have become 
one of the  too  numerous  class  of  fossils, 
known among the trade as “old fogies.”

The man who  has  no  competition, or as 
the saying goes, “Has things his  own way,” 
is very apt to become too well satisfied with 
himself and his manner of doing  business— 
he lives on his  past  record, as it were—and 
never discovers that he is  getting  into a rut 
until all his wheels have been bound and he 
Is brought to a stop.

There is hardly any town of size  but  has 
its  two  or  more  wide-awake  competing 
merchants, and any one of these  stores  can 
be recognized at sight by the  air  of  attract­
iveness and the  inviting  appearance  which 
seem to say, we are  going to  treat  you  as 
best we know how, and then  you’ll  buy of 
us again in the future.

It is at this store that you see  the  contin­
ual changes of dress in their windows.  You 
note the look of tidiness which prevails, and 
you feel that  when  needing  any of  their 
goods you will leave your money with them.
And if we would  look, then, for  the  best 
results of business  genius, or for  novelty in 
the art of storekeeping, we  must  look there 
where  competition  is  the  strongest,  and 
where necessity has  absolutely  forced them 
to draw unsparingly upon their  stock of or­
iginality.

All cellars should be  ventilated.  Grocers 
should  remember  that a great  amount  of 
foul gas is generated by the  damp  air  and 
the variety of vegetable matter  which is us­
ually stored  for  winter  needs.  The  best 
way to secure  ventilation is  to  have  com­
munication between the cellar and the chim­
ney  by means of a pipe  or  other  opening. 
The upward draft will  remove all  foul  air 
as it accumulates, and  render  it  nearly  or 
quite as pure as in the rooms above.

Ratskin fur and ratskin slippers are a late 
London  freak.  Only the  skin  about  the 
haunches is used,  the remainder  being  too 
thin.  Four rats are  required  for a  slipper 
and sixty for a neck piece.

It is claimed that in the city of New York 
10,000,000  to  15,000,000  gallons  of  native 
wine are drank every year  under the  belief 
that the wine is imported from France.

The  Necessity  of Caution  in  Buying.
An old farmer down in Jersey  opened  an 
account  at  the  bank,  not  long  since, and 
startled the teller out of a year’s  growth  by 
presenting among other checks one for $172, 
dated in 1872,  and  drawn  to  the  farmer’s 
order by a commission house in  New  York. 
He had received it for produce sent the mer­
chant twelve years ago, and put  it  away  in 
the stocking  that  held  his  gold and silver. 
The  check  was  duly  honored, though  the 
merchant had oftdn wondered  where  it  had 
flown to.  He had had the use of this money 
all these years, the farmer losing in interest, 
$123.84.  This  undoubtedly  seems  like  a 
ludicrous instance of pure  verdancy,  but  it 
finds a parallel in the unsophisticatedness of 
of  certain  dealers,  who  hastily  purchases 
stocks  of  worthless  trash,  poor in quality, 
meager  in  variety,  and  utterly  lacking  in 
style.  Goods thus purchased are tied up, as 
it were, in an old stocking, and are destined 
to remain on the shelves month after month, 
when they might be, and ought to be, turning 
themselves over and over again.  Profits de­
pend  on  the  frequency  with which stocks 
are turned over, and the quick  sale of goods 
depends on taste in selection and aptness  in 
the  difficult  art  of buying.  To get all  the 
profit out of any business, the whole strength 
and  force  of  a  man’s  ability should be di­
rected to the buying of goods, and then it  is 
time enough so go at the no less difficult task 
of selling them.  But careful buying  makes 
speedy  selling  a  pleasure instead of a bur­
den, a delight instead of a torture.

A  New  Sugar-M aking  Process.

From the St. Louis Republican.

Louisiana planters are  directing  their at­
tention to a new  process for  extracting  su­
gar, invented by  Konrad  Trobach,  of  Ber­
lin. 
It is purely chemical,  differing  mater­
ially from the mechanical process now used, 
and if it  shall  prove  to be all it is claimed 
to be, will effect a revolution  in  sugar-mak­
ing and cheapen the article still more.  Tro- 
bach’s process dispenses with  crushing and 
pressing  altogether;  the  cane is cut  into 
slices by means of machinery, and the water 
extracted from it by  alcoholic vapor, which, 
having an affinity for  the  water, absorbs it, 
but leaves the  saccharine in  the  desiccated 
cane.  This is then treated  with  liquid  al­
cohol, which  extracts the sugar, and  after­
ward the sugar is extracted from the the  al­
cohol, or the alcohol from  the  sugar, by fil­
tering through lime  and  chalk.  One  great 
obstacle to the cheap  manufacture of Louis­
iana sugar is the difficulty  of  extracting  all 
or nearly all the saccharine from the cane; a 
considerable proportion is lost in the bagasse 
or refuse which is thrown  away or  burned. 
If this waste could be saved it would  cheap­
en the process one cent a pound.  The pres­
ent  sugar-making  machinery in  Louisiana 
would be an impediment to the introduction 
of the  Trobach  method. 
It is not  adapted 
to the new  process  and  would  have to be 
thrown away—a sacrifice which  the  Louisi­
ana planters could ill afford, as their machin­
ery is very  costly.

A  Sym pathetic  Crowd.

From the Wall Street News.

He  was  telling  ’em in  the village  store 
that  his  son  in  Chicagoliad 
failed,  and 
when they asked for particulars  he  explain­
ed:

“Why, he writes me  that  lie  bought  for 

July delivery and got left.”

“How left?”
“I dunno, but I guess he  couldn’t  deliver 
it.  Mebbe  teams  was  awful  skeerce,  and 
mebbe the roads was bad.”

“Well,”  said  one  of the crowd,  as  he 
brought his hand down on the counter, “if I 
had a knowed that your son Bill  was pinch­
ed to deliver  wheat  I’d  have  gin him  the 
use of my team a whole fortnight  for  nuth- 
in’, fur Bill was one of the  best  boys  who 
ever left this town.”

“And me, too!” added  every  man  in tlie 

crowd, while the old man observed:

“It’ll probably be  a  warning  to  William 
and mebbe he’ll set in and buy watermelons 
for  January  delivery  and  git  on  his feet 
again.”

A  Puzzled  Chinam an.

From the Chicago Herald.

A Chinaman who was carrying some clean 
clothes to a room in a business  block on La 
Salle Street discovered a fire extinguisher in 
the hall, and when no  one  was  looking he 
touched a match to the little end of the hose 
and ran.  One of  the  occupants  saw  just 
enough of the performance  to  imagine  the 
rest, and he called the heathen  back.  John 
came up slowly and the man  said:  “Touch 
him off again.”  John struck  a  match  and 
the man holding the hose turned  the  crank 
at the same moment that the  Chinaman  ap­
plied the  match.  The  escaping  chemicals 
hit John in the mouth and eyes and covered 
him from head to foot with salaratus. When 
he could breathe he turned to the  man, who 
had by this time corked up the machine, and 
smiling in a sickly  way,  observed, “Jelusa- 
lem!  Melican  man’s  fi-elackel  too  velly 
quick.  Him bustee house wide open  some­
time.”

The soap weed, which grows  abundantly 
in Colorado and  New  Mexico, is coming  to 
the front as a superior material for the man­
ufacture  of  paper.  Experiments, it is-  re­
ported,  have  demonstrated  that  from  the 
fiber of the soap weed a paper  equal to  the 
finest  linen  may be  produced, and  as  the 
weed grows in immense quantities  indigen­
ously in the localities mentioned, the supply 
of the material is inexhaustible.

Needed by every retail  grocer  or  confec 
tioner,  one  or  more  of  Kenyon’s  Patent 
Spring Paper  Bag  Holders.  Each  has  car 
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.

lese  Goofls  are 
ictnrefl  only  iy 
Hamilton  Cariarti  & 
18 J
Detroit, Maifactnrers 
ef  lea’s  Farai

ENTERPRISE  CIGAR  CO,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  TH E   FAMOUS  A N D   PO PU LA R  BRANDS

O L Y U F

I A

L A   B E L L E   S E Ñ O R A .

Gri*anci Rapids, Mieli.

GODI,  BALL &

GO.

SOLE OWNERS.

RINDG-E, BERTSCH & CO..
BOOTS  &  SHOES,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

We are agents for 1 lie Boston Rubber Shoe  Co. and keep à foil  line of their Celebrat­
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State.  Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready 
for  inspection.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

A P P L E S .

W e have a large W estern order trade  for  Apples  in  car  lots,  as  well  as  a 
good local demand, and also handle Evaporated and Sun-Dried  Apples  largely. 
If you have any of these goods to ship, let us hear from you,  and  we  will  keep 
you  posted on m arket prices and prospects.  W e also handle Beans  and  P ota­
toes.  Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in  carlots.

EARL BROS,  ComiSSid  IrClMtS.,

169  S, W ater  st,  Oliicago,  Til,

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

REM 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 .
,

Butts’ Patent Processed 

“ H ulled Corn Flour ”
Griddle  Cakes,  Gems,  Waffles,  Etc., Etc
Rapids.Butts’ Patent Processed Buckwheat

Finest  and Best Selling A rticle of  th e  Kind  ever  placed  on  th e  M arket. 
Guaranteed to be as Represented, or No Sale.  For  Sale by all Jobbers in Grand 

Is  W arranted to be th e Straighest and B est Goods  E ver  offered  to  th e  Trade.

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“Perfect”  Stove  Pipe,

—T H E —

A Pipe th a t N ests, (for shipping convenience.)

50 to 60 Joints Packed in a Barrel.

No  Rivets  or  Tools  of any  Kind  Required  in  Putting  It  Together.  A  Child  Can  Do  It.

Perfectly  Solid and Safe.

t

P A T E N T   A P P L I E D   F O R .

DIRECTIONS.

Lay the pipe on a table, place the right hand on the lock end and  the left hand on 
the other end,  (as per cut), and with left hand you press the pipe and pull it over  until 
it projects above the end,  (as per cut), and with your right hand spring the lock in.  SEE 
THAT THE SEAM CATCHES, and then the pipe will drop together without  further ef­
fort.  Should it be easier for you, you can reverse the pipe and  your  hands.  Should  you 
not think the same tight enough, just put the joint of pipe on a table or bench,  whith  the 
large end toward you, and hammer it down on  the  inside  for  about  two  inches,  and  you 
will find you have as solid a piece of pipe as if rivited.

W E M AKE IT  IN  NOS. 24, 25, 26 and 27 IRON.

We make it in Russia Iron.  We make no extra charge for  this  pipe,  thus  making  a 

great saving in freights and giving you pipe in good order when you receive it.

Foster, Stevens & Go.

Solo Manufacturers,

10 and  12 Monroe street, Grand Rapids.

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

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

NOS.  123  and  124  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

— WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN—

BLAJSTCrsr  -AJSTID

STAPLE DRT GOODS

CARPETS,

M ATTINGS,

O I R .  C L O T H S ,

ETC.,  ETC.

Q  and.  8  Monroo  Street,

Grand Rapids, 

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BTTT.  SE L L ,  DEUTE!
BEST COFFEE ill He WORLD
C hase  &  Sanborn’s

Standard  Java.

other had acquired an interest  in  the  busi­
ness neither  canceled  the  contract  nor  re­
leased the firm from its obligations.

C O M M ISSIO N   M E R C H A N T — R E S P O N S IB IL IT Y .
A commission merchant was  employed to 
purchase grain for  a mill  company,  his in­
structions  being  to  buy  nothing  but  good 
sound wheat;  he bought  what  he  believedi 
to be sound grain, but a large  portion  prov­
ed  to  be  damp,  and 
the  mill  company 
brought suit to recover damages, and  in the 
trial court got a judgment  for  amount  sued 
for.  The  case,  the  Lake  City  Flouring 
Company vs. McVean, was  appealed  to the 
Supreme Court of Minnesota, which  revers­
ed the  verdict of  the  lower  court,  holding 
that one employed simply as an  agent  does 
not become an insurer of success in the busi­
ness.  He does not by merely  accepting the 
employment, guarantee his principal against 
such incidental  losses as  may  occur  in the 
course of the business ;  because these are in­
cident to all avocations,  and no  one, by im­
plication of law, ever  undertakes to  protect 
another against them. 
If  the  principal de­
sires to hold his agent  liable for such losses, 
he must make  his contract  of  employment 
accordingly.

BUSINESS  E AW.

B rie f Digests of R ecent Decisions in  Courts 

of East  Resort.

R E L E A S E  — A C C E P T O R — D R A W E R .

The release of an acceptor  of  a  draft  by 
agreement not to sue releases the drawer, ac­
cording  to  the  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Iowa  in the case of the  First Na­
tional Bank of Decorah vs. Day.

G R O W IN G   G R A IN — D A M A G E S .

In  an  action  for  damages  to  a  crop  of 
growing grain its value may  be  ascertained 
by reference to the value of the crop  at ma­
turity, less expenses, according to  the decis­
ion of  the  Supreme  Court  of California  in 
the  case  of  Harrison  vs.  Spring Y. H. G. 
Company.

A G R E E M E N T — F A IL U R E   TO   F U L F IL L .
Parties to an agreement to purchase prop­
erty who fail and refuse to advance and pay 
their  proportion  of  the  expenses  can  not 
afterward ask to be placed in the same  posi­
tion as the  purchasers.—Supreme  Court of 
Pennsylvania.

F R A U D — R E T E N T IO N   O F   PO SSE SS IO N ,  ij
In the case  of Pregnall et aL vs. Miller et 
al.,  the  Supreme  Court  of  South Carolina 
held  that  the  retention  of possession by  a 
vendor of personal property after  a  sale  by 
himT011 consideration of a pre-existing  debt, 
was  a  badge  of  fraud  not  conclusive  but 
prima  facie,  and  that  the character of the 
possession was a  question of fact to be  sub­
mitted to the jury with the burden  of  proof 
upon the vendee.

H U S B A N D  

A N D   W IF E — N O T E — A T T A C H ­

M E N T .

In Kentucky,  according to a late  decision 
of the Superior  Court  of  tlvat State,  a note 
executed to husband and  wife  for  the  pur­
chase  price  of  the  wife’s  land  cannot  be 
reached by an attaching creditor of  the  hus­
band unless it was provided in  the  convey­
ance or the obligation of  purchase  that  the 
proceeds of the land should not belong to the 
wife.  The fact that the note was made pay­
able to the husband  and  wife  does  not,  in 
'the view of the court,  indicate that it  was to 
be the husband’s.

P A R T N E R S H IP — P R O M IS SO R Y   N O T E .

In the recent  case  of  Levi  vs.  Latham, 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Nebraska held that 
one  member  of  a  non-trading  firm has no 
authority to  bind  his  copartner  by  a  note 
made by him in the  firm  name  without  ex­
press authority therefor from his  copartners 
or when  the  giving  of  such instrument  is 
necessary to the carrying on of  the  partner­
ship business, or is usual in similar  partner­
ships;  and the burden is upon  a party suing 
on a note given by one member of such firm to 
prove such authority or usage.

IN F R IN G E M E N T — A CCO UNT— L U N A T IC .
A decree may be  made  against  a lunatic 
for an account of profits derived from an  in­
fringement of patent right  by  him,  accord­
ing to the decision of the United  States Cir­
cuit Court for the Western District of North 
Carolina.  The court held  that  the  current 
of  authority  established  the  doctrine  that 
while a lunatic is not  liable  for  injuries  in 
which malice  is  an  essential  ingredient  in 
the wrong, yet in cases of injury to property 
he is liable for compensatory damages to the 
extent of the injury sustained.

F A L S E   R E P R E S E N T A T IO N S — W A IV E R .
Where one purchases property under false 
representations as to his ability to pay for it, 
the giving  of  a  note  for the property,  and 
a part payment,  will not defeat an action  by 
the vendor  upon  the  false  representations 
when the  receipt  to  the  money  is  accom­
panied by the statement that  it  will  not  be 
received if it is to be regarded as  a  waiver. 
So held by the Supreme Court of New Hamp­
shire. 
In such a  case,  however,  the  court 
said that the plaintiff may be required to sur­
render the note before taking  judgment  for 
his damages.

S L A U G H T E R -H O U S E S — N U IS A N C E .

In the case of Reichart, et al. vs. Geers  et 
al.,  decided  on  the 18th inst., the Supreme 
Court  of  Indiana  held  that  while the con­
ducting  of  a  slaughter-house  in  a densely 
populated part of the city might not be  con­
sidered a nuisance per se, yet  that  the  pre­
sumption was that it was  a  nuisance.  The 
court  said  that  even  when  such buildings 
were originally built in a place remote  from 
the  habitations  of  men,  or  from  public 
places, if they became  actual  nuisances  by 
reason of roads being afterward laid  out  by 
them  or  by  dwellings  being  subsequently 
erected  within  the  sphere  of  their effects, 
the fact of their existence prior to the laying 
out  of  the  roads  or  the  erection  of  the 
dwellings would be no defense.

P A R T N E R S H IP — CO N TR A C T.

Where  services  were  rendered  under  a 
contract with a firm as partners it  was  held 
by the Supreme Court  of  Indiana  that  the 
partners could not defeat a recovery  for the 
services by showing that during the time the 
services were rendered they sold an interest 
and  took  another  person  into  partnership 
with them,  it  appearing  that  thereafter as 
before  the  original  partners  managed  the 
business and the workman continued to ren­
der his services under the contract as though 
no change had been made.  The  court  held 
that the workman was not obliged to look to 
the new fiun, and  that  the  service  having 
been rendered under a contract with the firm 
as originally  composed  the  mere  fact  that 
some of the services were  rendered after an-

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

IM P O R T E R

^ J S T T D >

W h o le sa le   C roc er,

03,  ©V,  30  Canal

GRAND  RAPIDS 

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MICHIGAN.

I desire  to  call  the  attention  of  the  trade  to  the  fact  that  in the territory tributary 
to  Grand  Rapids,  I  cannot  and  will  not  be  undersold.  There  is  no  conceivable reason 
why  Chicago,  Detroit,  New  York  or  Boston  should  be  able  to place  groceries in Grand 
Rapids’  territory. 
I  certainly  buy  my  goods  as  cheap  as  jobbers  located  elsewhere. 
Many  large  houses  still  purchase  extensive  blocks  of  goods  as  in  war  times. 
I  pur­
chase  as  the  wants  of  my  trade  demand,  and  am,  therefore,  in  the  existing  condition 
of  trade,  better  able  to  sell  goods  at  the  lowest  prices.  The  difference  in the percent­
age  bf  cost  to  sell  goods  in  Chicago,  Detroit,  Boston  and  New  York, and  what it costs 
me  would  in  itself  make  a  handsome  profit. 
I  am  anxious  to  obtain  as  large  a  share 
as  possible  of  the  near-by  and  home  trade;  and  shall  be- pleased  to  furnish  samples 
and  quotations.  Mail  orders  are  especially  solicited  and  lowest market prices on  every 
order  received  is  guaranteed.

Teas.

The  present  is  a  good  time  to  place  your  orders  for  Japan  Teas.  1  have  several 
invoices  in  transit,  including  basket fired and sun  dried,  my  own  importations.  Please 
send  for samples before purchasing elsewhere,  or  order  a  sample  chest,  subject  to  your 
approval. 
I wish to have it  understood  that  all  tea  orders  will  be  filled  subject  to  ap­
proval;  and if not  satisfactory,  after  examination,  the  goods  can  he  returned  andlwill 
stand all expenses incurred, including outward  freight.

Coffees and Spices.

I have already called attention in the columns of The Tradesman to my new brands 
of Roasted Coffees.  The marked and deserved success of this department is the very best 
evidence of the merit of the goods. 
I  devote  much  time  and  attention to the selections 
for  roasting  and  blending, and  guarantee  better  values  than  are  those  furnished by
Eastern parties, or no sale.

 

“ 

Home Roasted Rio.................................................................................   14
Prime 
16
Select Maracaibo.....................................................................................  18
Imperial Roasted (a blended  Coffee)....................................................  18
O. G. Roasted Java.................................................................................   23
Mandehling 
.................................................................................   25
Java and Mocha.....................................................................................  28

“ 

 

I exercise great care in selection  and  grinding  of  spices, and  can  especially  recom­

mend my two brands of

J, O. Strictly  Pure  Ground.
J.  O.  Pure  G-round,

Also my

J.  O.  Best  Englisli Mustard.

Can put up ground goods at any price to suit the trade, and will guarantee  values.

Canned Goods.

Ijjhave a large and well assorted stock of Canned  Goods.  My Black  Diamond  brand 
It is not a bad time to lay in a  stock  of  the  new 

of California Salmon is especially fine. 
pack of peaches.

I have en route a car load of Country Standards,  all  Yellows, which I will  sell  very 

cheap.

Imported  Groceries.

My  stock  includes  French  and  Turkish  Prunes, Patras  Currants, Loose Muscatels, 
London Layer, Valencia and Ondara Valencia Layer Raisins, Citron, Prunells, Figs, Olive 
Oils, French Sardines, French Mustard, Crosse & Blackwell’s Pickles, Sicily Canary Seed, 
Italian Maccaroni, Condensed Milk, etc.

Soap  and Starch.

I  keep  all  the  well  known  and  popular brands of soaps at lowest prices, including 
Babbitt’s,  Kirk’s  standard  brands,  Fairbanks’,  Schultz’s  (Fatherland),  Simon’s  Con­
densed, etc.

I am agent for Gilbert’s Starch Factories, Des Moines and Buffalo.  Their goods have 
always been regarded as equal to any of the crack Eastern manufacturers, and have always 
I am now placing my second car-load within thirty 
held their own in the Eastern States. 
days, and have yet to hear the first complaint with  regard  to quality of the goods. 
I  am 
able to compete with Western manufacturers in price, and  guarantee  quality equal to any 
in the market.

Qig'ars and  Tobaccos.

This has always been prominent in my trade, and has required much of my attention. 
I have the exclusive control in this State of some of the best brands of Cigars, Cigarettes, 
Fine Cut, Plug  and  Smoking  Tobaccos, including  in  Plugs  Senour & Gage’s Celebrated 
Red Star and Old Five Cent Time;  Horseshoe and D. & D.;  McAlpin’s Green Shield  and 
Chocolate Cream;  Nobby Spun Roll and Ne Plus Ultra Black Spun Roll. 
In  Fine  Cuts, 
Fountain, Old Congress, Good Luck, Good and Sweet, American Queen, Blaze Away, and 
Hairlifter. 
In Smokings, Rob Roy, Uncle Sam, Mountain Rose, and Gold  Flake  Cabinet. 
In  Cigars, Glaccum’s  Standard, Delumos, After  Lunch,  Our  Winners,  Little  Hatchets, 
Golden Spike, Josephus, Commercial and Magnolias, the champion cheap cigar.

Yours Truly,

J O H l s r   O - A .T J X jF I E L ilD .

A S S IG N M E N T — G U A R A N T Y — M O R T G A G E .
The case of Wheeler et al.  vs.  Glenn,  de­
cided by the Kentucky Superior Court on the 
15th inst.,  was one in which  the  assignor of 
a  note  simultaneously with  its  assignment 
executed  to  the  assignee  a  mortgage “the 
better  to  secure the payment of said  note.” 
The note by successive assignments came  to 
the hands of the appellee, who, having failed 
to make the note out of the payor after  rea­
sonable  diligence, instituted an action to re­
cover personal judgment against the original 
assignor and for the foreclosure of the mort­
gage executed by the assignor to the original 
assignee.  The court held that  the language 
of the mortgage imported a contract of guar­
anty  that  the  note  would  be  paid  by the' 
maker, and that the mortgage  was  given  to 
secure his guaranty and not the implied  lia­
bility  of  the  assignor.  The  court further 
held  that  the  contract  of guaranty was as­
signable  so  as  to  vest  the  equitable right 
thereto in the assignees, that the assignment 
thereof carried with it the mortgage lien, and 
that therefore the failure of the  appellee  to 
use such diligence as was required to enable 
him to recover upon the implied  liability  of 
the assignor did not prevent  a  recovery  un­
der the contract of guaranty or  the  enforce­
ment of the mortgage  lien.

N A T IO N A L   B A N K S — S T O C K H O L D E R ’S  L IA B IL ­

IT Y .

Section 5151 of the United  States Revised 
Statutes provides  that “the  shareholders  of 
every national banking  association  shall  be 
held  individually  responsible,  equally  and 
ratably, and not one for another, for all con- 
contracts, debts and engagements of such as­
sociation to the extent of the amount of their 
stock therein, at the par value thereof, in ad­
dition to the amount invested in such shares.” 
According  to  the  decision  of  the  United 
States  Circuit  Court for the  Northern  Dis­
trict of Illinois, in  the case of Iron’s Admin­
istrator  vs.  The  Manufacturers’  National 
Bank, reported in the Reporter, the liability 
here  imposed  is  a  contract  obligation and 
not a penalty, and survives against  the  per­
sonal  representatives  of  the  stockholders. 
Judge  Blodgett,  in giving judgement, said: 
“From all the various provisions of  the  act 
it seems to me that it  was  the  intention  of 
Cong} 
.3 to make this liability to the extent 
of the par value of the stock, over and above 
what the stock had cost, an asset of the bank 
to be resorted to in the event of  insolvency, 
or a guaranty fund, so to speak,  in  case  the 
property of the bank was insufficient to  pay 
its debts ; whoever became a shareholder  as­
sumed this liability as an element of his con­
tract.  He  is declared individually responsi­
ble for the liabilities of the bank  to  the  ex­
tent of the amount of  his  stock  at  the  par 
value  thereof,  and  this  responsibility  at­
tachés as soon as the relation of  stockholder 
is assumed, and continues until the  relation 
ceases.  My view is  that Congress  intended 
to  give  all  persons  dealing  with  the  bank 
the  guaranty  or 
this 
stockholder’s liability for the purpose of giv­
ing credit to banks organized under the law. 
The capital paid in on the  shares  might  be 
wasted  by  fraud  or  bad  management, but 
this additional stockholder’s  liability  could 
not be wasted, but remains as a  fund  to  be 
resorted to for the payment of debts when the 
other means of payment are exhausted, and it 
would certainly very much  abridge  this  se­
curity if the liability  of  a  shareholder  is  to 
cease with his death. 
It seems to me to be a 
liability which survives against the estate of 
a deceased shareholder to the same extent as 
if the shareholder  had  at  the  time  he  sub­
scribed  to  or  acquired  his  stock  signed  a 
written agreement to pay an amount equal to 
the par value of the stock on the debts or lia­
bilities of the association  when  called  upon 
by the receiver of the bank to do so, and such 
an agreement undoubtedly would survive  as 
against the representatives of the  sharehold­
er’s estate.”

assurance  of 

There  are 315 cotton mills in  the  South­

ern States, against 180 four years ago.  •

The increase in the cotton yield of Georgia 

for the last ten years is 100 per cent.

The  once  despised  saw-palmetto  of  the 
South is likely to become a very useful tree. 
The  fiber  obtained  from  the  inner  lining 
of the bud is manufactured into a  substance 
so closely resembling human hair that  it  is 
employed as a substitute for the genuine art­
icle.  Paper fiber, hats,  fans, and in all prob­
ability cordage and clothing, can be furnish­
ed by this tree, hitherto considered  only  an 
incumbrance to the soil.

Always packed in A ir-Tight Tin cans, thereby perfectly retaining Strength and

Flavor.

Over  15,000  Grocers

Throughout  the  United  States  and  Canada

Pronounce it th e FIN E ST  COFFEE they ever sold and testify th a t it has large­

ly increased their sales by its SU PE R IO R  QUALITY.

The following testimonial coming as it does fx-om one of the lai-gest if not the  hugest  gro­

cers in the United States, is worthy of your considoi-ation:

Cin c in n a ti, December 20th,  1883.

Messrs.  Ch a se  &  Sa nbo rn, Boston,  Mass.

G e n t l e m e n — In reply to yours of the 18th  inst.,  asking  our  views  in  regard  to  the 
general excellence of your “ STANDARD  JAVA,”  will say that our house was founded in 
the year 1840, and from that time to the present our earnest united efforts have been to se­
cure goods which represented the very highest grade of quality,  and  the  success  we have 
had and the reputation we enjoy we attribute to this policy.

About a year ago our attention was called to  your  “STANDARD  JAVA,”  we  person­
ally tested it very carefully and to our mind  it  was  most  excellent.  We  then  ordered  a 
sample lot and placed it before our customers for approval, and it was pronounced by them 
a very fine Coffee.  Since then as you know we have bought largely, and freely admit that 
it gives the best satisfaction. 
It is uniform in quality, and we have daily proofs from con­
sumers that it is richer, finer flavored and more uniform than the Coffee we  formerly sold 
which was the finest brand of Ankola or Mandeheling Java in the  market.

Yours  respectfully,

(Signed,)  Josspli  jFL.  Footolos^  Sons.

Send  for Sam ple Lot.

We guarantee to increase  your Coffee trade.  We have  done  it with others;  we can with you.

C h a s e   &  

S a n b o r n , 

Importers, Roasters and Packers,

Boston^  IM Le u e h s . ,  XT.  £3.  jSL.
MICHIGAN  AGENT.

CANADIAN  BRANCH, 

435  ST.  PAU L  STREET, 

M ontreal, P.  Q. 

3E3C.  T ,   O l A E l i S © ,
Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand Rapids.

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THE  “GOOD  ENOUGH”  FAMILY

O i l  <Sk  G a s o l i n ©   G a n .

OPEN.

EVERY LIVE  DEALER  SHOULD  SELL  THEM,
U nit lie EralM ir  M m  Cleanness, Contort.

This is th e M ost Practical Fam ily Can ever Offered to th e Trade.

Lamps are filled direct by the Pump without lifting the Can; the Dischai-ge  tube adjusting 

to suit the height of any lamp.

No dropping oil on the floor or table.  No faucet to leak or get knocked  open to waste  con­
tents or cause axplosions.  In getting can refilled, no parts to be left at home to drain oil  over 
floor or become injured.  No Corks to lose—Closes Itself  perfectly  air tight—No Leakage—No 
Evaporation.

The dealer in selling this can is  enabled to make a good profit, and in a measure  avoid the 
annoyance  of  the  small can, while you  guarantee  your  customer  absolute  safety  and  the 
greatest possible convenience.

MANUFACTURED  BY

W I N F I E L D   KAUC3-.  C O .,

WArmBN,  o i i io .

FOR  SALE  TO  THE  TRADE  BY < FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., 

i H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  GRAND  RAPIDS. 
( GEO.  C.  WETHERBEE  &  CO.,  DETROIT.

“

Send,  for  Circulars  tfc  Price-List.

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.

Address W. S. Barnard, Lyons, Mich.

sale.  A good bargain for the  right party. 

FOR  SALE—Jewelry business and  stock fo r 
FOR  SALE—Crockery, furniture  and under­

taking stock  in  growing  northern  town. 
Stock  will  inventory  about  $1,200.  Will  rent 
building  for  $125  per  year.  No  opposition. 
Good opportunity.  Best of reasons for selling. 
All cash, or part cash and security for balance. 
Address “Crockery,”  care  “The  Tradesman.”

F OR EXCHANGE—A $600 real  estate  m ort­

gage, a $1,250  land  contract,  40  acres  of 
wild tim ber land, and  a  good  livery  stock.  I 
will exchange for stock of dry goods,  clothing 
or groceries.  Address O.  W.  Kibby,  Bellaire, 
Antrim Co.. Mich. 

59*

57tf

CLOVER SEED

—AND—

BEANS!

Dealers having a surplus of  either  Clover 
Seed or Beans can  always  find  a  cash  mar­
ket by addressing

W. T. LAMOREAUX A m t
RETAILERS.

91  Canal street.

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

L A V IN E

5 00

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  he  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.

WM. L. ELLIS & CO

 

 

 

 

TEA S.

PLU G .

TOBACCO— F IN E   CUT.

Pure Sugar Drips.........................V4 bbl  30@  36
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............54 bbl  @  95
Pure  Loaf Sugar.  . . . ; ........5 gal kegs  @1  85
Japan ordinary.............................................20@26
Japan fair to good......................................i30@37
40@50
Japan fine............................. 
Japan dust..................................................... 15@20
Young Hyson................................  
30@50
Gun Powder................................................... 35@50
O olong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo .............................................................25@30
Brother  Jonathan.................................  @32
Diamond  Crown....................................   @58
Rose Bud.................................................   @50
O.  K ........................................................  @45
Our  Bird.................................................   @30
Peaches.............. 
@38
Morrison’s  F ru it....................................   @50
V ictor......................................................   @60
Red  Bird..................................................  @52
Opera Queen...........................................  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................  @45
Green  Back............................................   @38
F r u it........................................................  @33
O So  Sweet..............................................  @31
Prairie Flower........................................  @65
Climber [light and dark]......................  @62
M atchless................................................  @65
Hiawatha ...............................................   @67
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
Peek-a-Boo..............................................  @32
Peek-a-Boo, Vi  barrels..........................   @30
Clipper, Fox’s .........................................   @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............   @30
F o u ntain................................................  @74
Old Congress...........................................  @64
Good Luck..............................................  @52
Good and Sweet.....................................  @45
Blaze  Away............................................   @35
Hair L ifter............................................  
@30
Old Glory, light......................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark.....................   @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin  foil.....................   @60
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 2x12.......  @46
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 3x12.......  @46
Red Star, flat, 3x12.................................  @46
Red Star, black. 24 oz............................  @45
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
Tramway.................................................   @48
Big Sevens, dime cuts..........................   @45
Black Diamond......................................  @35
Trotter, rum  flavor.......................... . 
@70
Boot  ........................................................  @44
B. F. P.’s  Favorite.................................  @48
Old Kentucky.........................................   @48
Big Four,  2x12.......................................   @48
Big Four, 3x12.........................................  @48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.....................   @46
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12...............................   @48
Blackbird. 16 oz..  3x12..........................   @35
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @48
Glory  ......................................................   @48
D urham ...................................................  @48
Silver Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [D ark].......................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Clim ax.....................................................  @48
Hold F a s t................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.  .......  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s ..............................  @37
Nobby Twist...........................................  @48
Nimrod....................................................  @46
A corn.............  ....................................   @46
Red Seal......................*...........................   @46
C rescent.................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
Spring......................................................   @48
Crayling, all  styles...............................   @48
Mackinaw................................................  @47
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair L ifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................  @35
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46
Ruby, cut Cavendish.  3  oz..................  @35
Boss  ........................................................  @15
Peck’s  Sun........................ 
@18
Miners and  Puddlers............................  @30
Morning Dew........................................   @26
Chain  .................................r ...................  @22
Seal of Grand  Radids............................  @25
King..........................................................  @30
F lirt..........................................................  @28
P ug...........................................................   @30
Ten Penny Durham, % and %.............   @24
Amber, Vi and l f t ...................................  @15'
John  Gilpin,  granulated.....................   @18
Lime Kiln  Club......................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long  Cut...........   @90
Vanity  F air............................................   @90
D im e........................................................   18@25
Peerless...................................................  @25
Standard..................................................  @22
Old Tom...................................................  @21
Tom & Je rry .......‘..................................   @24
Joker........................................................   @25
Traveler...................................................  @35
Maiden.....................................................  @25
T o p sy ......................................................   @27
Navy  Clippings......................................  @26
Boots........................................................   @30
Honey D ew ........ ...................................  @25
Gold  Block..............................................   @32
@25
Camp Fire  ............................................. 
Oronoko.................................................  
@19
@26
@60
@57
@55
@51

?er  Head., 
ïam, % ft • 
do 
% ft. 
Vi ft • 
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Jelly in Pails...........................................  @5%
Lye $  2  doz. cases.................................  @1  55
Macaroni,  Im ported..............................  @11
Mince Pies, gross  boxes....................... 
6 00
Mince  Meat............................................  
08
Domestic.................................................   @65
French Mustard,  8 oz $  dozen............  @75
Large  Gothic............  @1 35
Oil Tanks, Patent,  60  gallon...............  @10 00
Peas, Green Bush....................................1 35@1 40
do  Split prepared..............................  @3%
Powder,  Keg............................................4 00@
Vi Keg.......................................2 25@
Sago  ....................................................... 
5@6
Sauerkraut, $   bbl................................. 
4  00
Shot, drop.................................................1 65@
do  b u ck ............................................... 1 90@
Tapioca.................................................. 
5@6

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CANDY,  FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows :

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes..............................  @ 9
..............................  @9%
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
.  ......................  @12
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails.......................................   @10'
Royal, 200 ft bbls..............................................   9%
Extra, 25 ft  pails.............................................. 11
Extra, 200 ft bbls...............................................10
French Cream, 25 ft pails................................14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases..........................................13
Broken, 25  ft  pails........................................... 11%
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 10%
Lemon Drops....................... .•..........................14
Sour Drops............. ............................. *.........15
Peppermint  Drops........................................15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops...................................".20
Gum  Drops  ..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B   Licorice  Drops............................"I*!!!.12
Lozenges, plain............................................. ". j  5
Lozenges,  printed........... ............................... 16
Im perials..........................................................15
M ottoes...................................................... 
Cream  B ar............................................. !..'"."!l4
Molasses B ar.....................................................14
Caramels...........................................! ! * ." " ” 26
Hand Made Creams......................................... 22
Plain  Creams............................................. !..!l8
Decorated  Creams...........................................23
String Rock..................................................!!!.! .15
Burnt Almonds...............................................' 22
W intergreen  Berries.................................!]...! 15
Lozenges, plain in  pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls............................. ...!!. 18
Lozenges, printed in pails.............................   .! !l5
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............................. ill
Gum  Drops, in pails......................................... g
Gum Drops, in bbls.................................. !!!!!!! 7
Moss Drops, in pails.......................... i i
l
Moss Drops, in bbls.......................... 9%
Sour Drops, in  pails................ i . i . i .."  i!...  12
Imperials, in  pails......................... 
14
Imperials  in bbls....................i . i. i i i i i i i i i i il3
Oranges, Florida, $  box..........................  
Oranges OO $  box.................................
Oranges, Jamaica, $   bbl...........i. i i i . 7 50@8 00
Oranges, Imperials, $   box..................
Oranges, Valencia $   case...................
Lemons,  choice............................ 
4 50@5 00
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft..........................  
15@16
Figs, fancy  do 
....................................  
is
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  f t........................ 
  @10
 
Dates, frails 
do  ............................  ®  5
Dates, %do 
do  ....................@ 6
Dates, skin..............................................  @  5
Dates, Vi  skin.................................. . . ”   @  g
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $ f t ............... 
@ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft 
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  f t..
@ 6%
PEA NU TS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft.............
Choice 
do  .............
Fancy 
do  .............
Choice White, Va.do  .............
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  .............
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft....................  17@19
Almonds, loaca,
do  .......... ........   @18
Brazils,
d o ......... ........   fe@10
Pecons,
do  .......... ........  
9@13
Filberts, Barcelona 
do  ..........
Filberts, Sicily 
do  .......... ........   13@14
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ..........
Walnuts, Grenobles 
d o .......... ........   15@16
Walnuts, California
do  . 
.
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
....................  @4 50
Chestnuts, p e rb u .................................. 5 00@5 50
Hickory Nuts, large $   b u ....................
Hickory  Nuts, small  d o .................... 
125

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@  6 
@ 6% 
@ 7%

FRUITS.

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PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:

PORIC  IN   BA RRELS.

Heavy Mess, old................................................$14 00
Heavy Mess, new................................................15 00
Pig, short cut, new, better than  mess.......15 00
E xtra Family Clear, new...................................15 25
E xtra Clear Pig, new, Chicago  packing.. .15 50
Clear Back, new, Chicago  packing........... 16 25

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BO XES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
HalfCases............. 
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
do. 
Half Cases............... 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
light....................................  
E xtra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
E xtra Short Clear Backs-600 ft  cases.. 
E xtra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........  

do. 
do. 

8%
8%
8%
8%
8%
8%
9
9
9
9% 
10
9%
10%
9
9%
9%

Baltimore  Oysters!

Do not be deceived.  Get th e best.  No 
slack  filled  or fresh  w ater  snaps  sent 
out.  A ny  Responsible Dealer  on  th e 
line of the G. It. & I. or C. & W . M. R ’ys 
can have his orders filled  prom ptly  di­
rect from th e Baltim ore packing house 
by  fast  freights  a t  special  rates.  Ad­
dress all orders to  B. F. FM- 
BB.Y, Agt., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
A t home every Saturday.

LARD.

 

 

LA RD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft T u b s........................... 
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases.....................  
20 ft Round Tins, 80 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................................... 
E xtra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts............10 75
Boneless, extra  quality.....................................14 00

8
8%
8%
8%
9
8%
8%
12%
12%
13
8%
11
12

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

do. 

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND  SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage.............. 
13
Tongue  Sausage...........................................  10
Liver Sausage.....................................................8
Frankfort  Sausage..........................................10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   8
Bologna,  ring...................................................  8
Bologna, straight............................................   8
Bologna,  thick.................................................   8
Head  Cheese.....................................................  8
In half barrels...............................................   3  50
In quarter barrels..............................................  1 90
In kits..............................................................

P IG S ’  FEET.

T R IP E .

In half barrels...............................................$3 00
In quarter barrels.........................................  1 50
In kits..............................................................  
80
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
to m arket fluctuations.

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(G roceries.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—W inter fruit is selling for  $1.75  for 

choice hand-picked.

Beeswax—Steady at 42c $  ft.
Beans—A  firmer  feeling  prevails,  medium 
hand-picked  commanding  $1.50.  Dealers  are 
still  paying  $1  for  unpicked  and  selling for 
$1.25.
B utter—Very little  creamery  is  moving,  as 
the high price, 35@36c, virtually bars  it out  of 
the  marked.  Dairy  commands  20@22c  for 
choice and'l8@20c for old  packed.

Butterine—Solid  packed creamery  is  worth 
22c,  but  yields  the  palm  as  regards sales  to 
dairy, which commands 16@19c  for  solid pack­
ed and 18 @20c for  rolls.

Beets—No shipping demand.
Cabbages—$4@$5 $  100.
Celery—20c $  bunch.
Cheese—Full cream is firm and high and job­
bing at 11 &c for August and 12c for September. 
Makers  are  holding  the  October  product  in 
hopes of getting higher prices later on. 

Chestnuts—Ohio $5.25 $  bu.
Cider—Sweet, 10c $  gal.
Cranberries—Firm at $12 for bell and cherry, 
and $14 for Cape Cod or  bell  and  bugle.  The 
crop of bell and bugle cranberries is estimated 
at  5,000  barrels,  while  th at  of  last  year was 
from 15,000 to 20,000 barrels.  Last season’s crop 
of bell and  cherry  is  placed at 36,000  barrels; 
this year 2,500 barrels is the  outside  estimate. 
The crop of Cape Cod berries is almost  a  total 
failure, and few shipments to the West are ex­
pected.  In New Jersey the  crop  will  not  ex­
ceed 10,000 barrels.  This is very small, the  us­
ual crop being 30,000 to 50,000 barrels.

Effgs—Hard for dealers to fill orders, the city 

trade picking up all receipts at 22c.

Grapes—A few Catawbas are  yet in  market, 

selling at 10c.
Hops—The Michigan crop, though  small this 
year, is very good, and brewers  stand in readi­
ness to pay 17@18c $  ft for choice.

Honey—Choice new is firm at 15c.
Hay—$12@$14 for new, and $13@$15  for bail­

ed.

red.

Mince Meat—8c $  ft.
Onions—$1-75 $  bbl. for yellow  and  $1.50 for 

Quinces—Orange are scarce,  stray lots  com­

manding $1.75@$2 $  bu.

Potatoes—Somewhat weaker inconsequence 
of  reports  that  several outside  m arkets  are  
flooded,  receipts  having  been  exceptionally 
heavy.  Dealers are  still  paying  25c,  but are 
buying only for prospective local demand, as a 
drop of from 5 to 8c at several shipping  points 
prevents them from seeking  an  outside  mar- 
kct#

Poultry—Chickens, 14@16c.  Fowls 12c. 
Squash—None moving.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jersey,  $3.75@$4  IP  bbl. 

Baltimore and Muscatine, $3.50$ bbl.

Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.65 $  bu. 

for choice.

72c.

grains and milling products. 

Wheat—Lancaster, 75c;  Fulse  and  Clawson, 

Corn—No new stock in  yet.
Oats—White, 28@30c $  bu.
Rye—52@54c $  bu.
Barley—The Michigan crop is fine  and large, 

and brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—Fancy Patent,  $5.50 
and  $5.75  in wood.  Straight, 
sacks and $4.75 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 $  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14

$  ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $23 $  ton.

»  bbl.  in  sacks 
$4.50  $   bbl.  in

$  ton.  Bran, $13 
Middlings, $17$ ton.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

W. A. Stone, East Jordan.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
Baron & TenHour, Forest Grove.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
C. O. Bostwick &  Son, Cannonsburg.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale,
John Moerdyk, Jr., Zeeland.
L. L. Maxfleld, Fruitport.
J. Barnes, A u s t e r l i t z .
A. Engberts, Beaver Dam.
E. S. Hipkins, Blanchard.
B. J. Robertson, Breedsville.
N. Fink,  Edmore.
Andre Bros., Jennisonville.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
Newark & Sorenson, Cadillac.
W. J. Arnett, Morley.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
O. Naragang, Byron Center.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
Jacob DeBri, Byron Center.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
Jos. Newman, Dorr.
Chas. Wilson, Woodville.
John Walbrink. I. J. Quick & Co.,  Allendale. 
J.  W. Crocker, Byron.
John Glupker, Zutphen.
H. A. Crawford, Cadillac.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
C. Cole, Ada.
A. B. Gates, Rockford. -
C. H. Deming, Dutton. 
R. E. McCormick,  Rodney.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
A. Snyder,  Rockford.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
C. H. Milner, Big Rapids.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver  Dam.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
L. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs.
Dr. J. Graves, Way land.
Frank E. Brackett,  Whitehall.
C. E. & S. J. Coon, Lisbon.
C. H. Adams, Otsego.
Hutty & Dickinson, Grand  Haven.
Wm. Hesler, Rockford.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
R. G. Beckwith, Hopkins.

•

The  Grocery  M arket.

Business has been  rather  quiet  for  the 
past week, but now that  election is over  an 
improvement is  looked  for.  Sugars  are a 
little  firmer, in consequence  of  a shutting 
down  of  the refineries from  last  Saturday 
until  Friday of the  present  week.  Provis­
ions are seeking a lower level.

There has been but little doing in oranges 
of late, as what fruit there  was  in  market 
was pale sour stuff; but now the  new  crop 
of Floridas are beginning to arrive, and with 
the large crop and reasonable prices, dealers 
look for a large trade.  The  quality is  said 
to be fine.  Lemons  remain  about the same 
with only a limited  demand.  New  figs are 
now in market at 14 to 16c. for  choice  and 
18 to 20c. for fancy.  The quality is fine.
The oyster  trade is opening  up  in  good 
shape and with this cool weather  the  stock 
is running as fine as ever seen.

A Battle Creek grocer found a great  deal 
more than he paid for in  a  box  of  lemons 
shipped to him. 
It was a  young  boa  con. 
stricter coiled up in a box.

L. A.  Dunlap,  druggist  at  Yermontville, 

has assigned to E. B. Hammond.

OrcLer

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

A X LE  GREASE.

 

 

 

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“ 

BLU IN G . 

CA NN ED  F IS H .

CANNED F R U IT S .

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

“  
“  
BROOMS.

Frazer’s .........................................................
M odoc__ $  doz............................ 
«5
 
Paragon.. . $  doz.........................................   70
Paragon, 20 ft  pails......................................  w
Arctic % ft cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic % ft cans.............................................. 
75
Arctic % ft cans..............................................J
Arctic  1 ft  cans......................................? V   «
Arctic 5  ft cans......................................... 00
"
Dry, No. 2........................................... doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................................doz. 
rfo
Liquid, 8 oz........................................ doz. 
6o
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross  4 00
8  00
Arctic 8  oz.
Arctic 16 oz..................................................... 
iS
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................   " J™
 
Arctic No. 2 
«00
Arctic No. 3 
...............................   * 60
2 50
No. 1 Carpet.............................................. 
" "f
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 1  Parlor Gem....................................  
*  75
2 00
No. 1 H url.......  ........................................ 
}  “j
No. 2 Hurl  ............................................... 
1  JO
Fancy Whisk............................................  
Common Whisk.......................................  
85
Clams, 1 ft  standards...................................J JO
Clams, 2 ft  standards...................................f  J®
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.........................  .........." 20
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards..................... 1 10
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  19»
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack  filled....................  »5
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.......................1 25
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.......................................J 7o
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r................................. • — *25
Lobsters, 2 ft sta r......................................... ..
Mackerel, l f t   fresh  standards..................1  10
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards.................. 6 oO
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t .................325
Mackerel, 3 ft in M ustard.............................3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled....................................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river........................ 1 40
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river........................ f bO
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento............................. 1 50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.....................   1  35
Sardines, domestic %s.................................   8
Sardines,  domestic  %s...............................   J“%
Sardines,  Mustard  %s.................................  J*
Sardines,  imported  %s...............................   15
Sardines, imported Vis................................  20
Sardines, imported Vis, boneless...............  «2
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  55
Trout. 3ft  brook.......................................   «  <5
Apples. 3 ft standards........ ........................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, E rie............... 2 50
Blackberries, standards.............................. 1  15
Blackberries,  E rie........................................1 »5
Cherries, Erie, red............................................. 1 30
Cherries, Erie,white w ax..........................   l  90
Cherries, French  Brandy, quarts...................2 50
Cherries, W hite..................................................3 55
Damsons........................................................ J
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 3o
Egg Plums,  E rie...........................................J J®
Gooseberries, K raft’s Best......................... 1  00
Green Gages, standards 2 ft........................1 40
Green Gages,  Erie........................................1 50
Peaches,  Brandy......................................... 3  10
Peaches, E xtra Yellow................................2 40
Peaches,  standards........ .............................1  75
Peaches,  seconds..........................................J »0
Pie Peaches,  Kensett’s ................................J  ¿0
Pears. Bartlett, E rie.....................................J ¿0
Pineapples,  E rie..........................................." 20
Plumbs, Golden  Drop................................. 2 85
Q uinces.........................................................J J®
Raspberries, Black,  E rie.............................1 45
Raspberries, Red,  Erie................................1‘40
Strawberries, E rie........................................1 35
Whortleberries, McMurphy’s .....................1 40
Apricots, Lusk’s .................. ........................2 60
Egg  Plum s.....................................................2 50
G rapes........................................................... "50
Green Gages.................................................."  po
Pears  .............................................................|  00
Peaches..........................................................3 uu
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................3 25
Beans, Lima.  E rie........................................1  65
Beans, String, E rie ......................................  90
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   90
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ..........................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked......................1 60
Corn, Erie.......................................................J J5
Corn, Red  Seal......................  
I 10
Corn,  Acme........................................................ J JO
Corn, Revere......................................................-1 10
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case...................22 00
Peas, Early extra,  small sifted  Erie........ 2 25
Peas, French, 100 in c a se ................................23 00
Peas, Marrofat, standard................................. 1 40
Peas, B e av e r................................................  75
Peas, early small, sifted................................... 1 60
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden........................................1 00
Rhubarb,  E rie.............................................. 110
Squash, E rie .......................................................J 25
Succotash, E rie..................................................1 20
Succotash, standard....................................   75
Tomatoes, Red Seal........................................... 1 00
Boston  prem ium ......................................  @36
Baker’s prem ium ......................................  @40
Runkles......................................................  @35
German  sweet...........................................  @2»
Vienna Sweet............................................   @25
Green Rio................................................ 12
@27
Green Jav a...............................................17
@27
Green Mocha........................................... 25
@17
Roasted Rio............................................10
Roasted  Ja v a........................................ 24
@19
Roasted  Mar.......................................... 17.
@32
Roasted Moch a ........................................
Roasted Mex.......................................... 17%@20
Ground  Rio.......................... >................   9%@17
Arbuckle’s .............................  
  @1554
X X X X .....................................................  @i‘ 54
Dilworth’s ..............................................  @ r%
Levering’s ..............................................  @1554
Magnolia.................................................   @1554
72 foot J u t e ....... 1  25  160 foot Cotton— 1 75
|50 foot Cotton— 1 50
60 foot Ju te .......1  05 

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

CANNED  VEG ETA BLES.

CHOCOLATE.

CORDAGE.

CO FFEE.

 

l 

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

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

M OLASSES.

i

do. 

OATM EAL.

Black  Strap..................................................16@18
Porto  Rico.......- ...........;.............................. 24@28
New  Orleans, good.....................................40@50
New Orleans,  fancy................................... 50@55
185 ftpkgs.......................... ....................   @3 75
362ft pkgs................................................  @3 25
Imperial bbls, steel cu t.........................  @5 25
>6 75
Quaker bbls.
...............  @5  75
Steel  c u t....................
................  
Kerosene  W. W........
..............  
Legal test.

13
19%
Choice in barrels med.......................'....... . 
5 50
Choice in 54 
......................................3 40
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.......................... 4 25
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  2  40
American qt.  in Glass....................................2 00
American pt.in Glass..................................... 1 30
C. & B. English  quarts.................................. 5  75
C. & B. English  pints..................................... 3 50
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  q uarts.. .5 75
pints__ 3 50
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. 216,3 gross............  @2 25
American T. D........................................ 
@90

P IC K L E S .

P IP E S .

do 

do 

“ 

" 

R IC E .

.754
Japan .................
Choice  Carolina................................................ 654
Prime  Carolina..................................................754
Java  ........... ....................................................... 6 %
P a tn a ..................................................................6
Rangoon..................................... 
..5%
Broken  ...............................................  
3%

 
 

 

 

SALERA TUS.

DeLand’s pure..............................................@ 5V4
Church's  ....................................................... @554
Taylor’s G.  M..............................................@ 554
554 
Cap  Sheaf.
554 
Dwight’s ..................
..@ 554 
Sea  Foam ................
..@ 554
S., B. &L.’s  Best__

SALT.

60 P o ck et................................................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
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, 54 bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels......................................... 

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

SA UCES.

Lee & Perrins W orcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins W orcestershire, 54 pts.  @3 00
Pieadilly, 54 pints...................................  @1 00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................  @  75
Pepper Sauce, g re e n ............................  @  90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 70
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @  90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1 20
Horseradish,  54 pints............................  @ 9 0
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1 20
Capers, French surflnes.......................  @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large............  @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s __   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s ........   @4 00
Olive Oil, 54 pints, Antonia & Co.’s __   @2 00
Celery Salt,  Durkee’s ...........................  @ 90
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, V4 pints.........................  @2 10
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........  @4  85
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, sm all........   @2 9 >
Preserved Ginger, Canton,  pints.......  @1 25

SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 ft bars...................................  @654
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................  @  654
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................   @5 25
Napkin, 25  bars......................................  @5 25
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............  @ 6
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................  @554
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..................  @654
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................  @5%
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................  
@554
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............ 
@ 5
London 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..................  @3 75
Climax, 100 cakes,  w rapped— :........   @3 25
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............$ f t  
654
554
In d ia ......................................... 
Savon........................................ 
5%
S atin et.......................... 
 
554
Revenue
White Russian.........................
r & Gamble’s Iv o ry .................
Japan  O live........
do.
Town Talk  $  box
do.
Golden Bar...........
do.
Arab.......................
do.
Amber....................
do.
Mottled  German..
do.

5  10
6  75
5
3 60
4 10
3 40
3 75
4 20

do. 

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 20
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well. <-.......  @3 05
Badger............................................ 60fts  @ 6%
G alvanic.................................................   @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @18%
Tip Top.......................................3 ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily.................................  @6 75
Handkerchief.......................... ..............  @4 20
Babbitt’s ................................................ 
Dish R a g ............................................... 
Bluing....................l ................................  
Magnetic.................................... - ..........  
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon......................................................  
Anti-W ashboard 
Vaterland
Magic..................... .V......... ..................... 
P ittsburgh. 
Old Country.

5 50
4 10
5 00
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00 
3 25
4 20
4 00 
5%

SPICES.
Whole.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
» 
“ 

4 oz.......................................................   1 50
6 oz.........................................................2 50
8 oz.........................................................3 50
No. 2 Taper........................................   1 25
No.  4 
V6 pint  round.....................................   4 50
i  
No.  8......................   
No. 10..................................................  4 25

...................................  175
...............................   9 00
3  00

“ 
« 

Vanilla.

Jennings’ 2 oz.....................................$ d o z.  1  40

4 oz......................................................... 2 50
“ 
6 oz......................................................... 4 00
** 
8 oz.......................................................   5 00
“  
“ 
No. 2  Taper.........................................  1 50
No.  4 Taper.........................................  3 00
“ 
“  V4 pint  round......................................   7 50
“ 
1 pint  round....................................... 15 00
No.  8.................................... ; ........4 25
“ 
“  No.  10.............................. 
6 00

 

F IS H .

F R U IT S .

Bloaters, Smoked Yarm outh.....................1  10
Cod, whole................................................. 4V4@6
Cod,Boneless............................*...................5@7V4
Cod, pickled, 54  bbls....................................3 00
H a lib u t.........................................................   14
Herring 54  bbls............................................2 50
Herring,  Scaled........................................... 22@23
Herring,  Holland........................................ @80
Mackerel, No. I, V4 bbls............................... 5 00
Mackerel, No. 1.12 ft  k its.......................... 1 00
Shad, 54 b b l..................................................2 50
Trout, No.  1, %  bbls................................... 4 85
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  k its.................................  90
White, No. 1,54 b b ls...................................5  50
White, Family, 54 bbls................................2 25
White, No. 1,10 ft k its.................................  90
White, No. 1,12 ft k its................................1  00
Apples, Michigan..................................   5V4@6V4
Apples, Dried, York State, evap., bbls  @8
Apples, Dried, York State,  evap., box  @10
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........
C itron.......................... i .........
@35 
5%@6 
Currants, crop  1884...............
Peaches, dried  York State..
13@14 
Prunes, Turkey.....................
@5 Vi 
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes.
@10 
Raisi ns, London Layers........
3 25 
Raisins, Loose Muscatels__
@2 95 
Raisins,  Valencias................
@10 
Raisins, Dehesia....................
@1 60
MATCHES.
Grand  Haven,  No.  9, square.............................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square............................. 1 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor..........................2 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  3oO, parlor..........................3 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round.............................2 25
Richardson’s No. 2  square............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 3 
.2 55 
Richardson’s No. 5 
.1 70 
.2 70 
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
.1  70 
Richardson’s No. 9
.2 55
Richardson’s No. 4 ro u n d ..............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
............................. 2 65
Richardson’s No. 7% do 
.......................1  70
 
Richardson’s No. 30,3 gro........ ....................2 00
Richardson’s No. 312 g ro ............................... 1 26
Electric Parlor No. 17......................................3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18..................................... 4 64

STARCH.

Ground.

@6%

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

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

@18
P epper................................................... 
........
A llspice.................................. i..................,.  8@10
Cassia.............................................................  @10
N utm egs........................................................ 60@70
Cloves  .........................................................      @18
P epper............................................................I6@25
Allspice...................... 
12@18
Cinnamon  .....................................................16@30
Cloves............................................................. 15@25
Ginger.............................................................16@20
M ustard..........................................................15@30
Cayenne..........................................................25@35
Gilbert’s Gloss l f t ....................................  
6%
6%
“ 3ft cartoons..................... 
“  crates............................  ' 
7
“   b u lk .................................. 
5%

“ 
*• 
“ 
“ 
Com, 1 ft..................................
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk.......
“  Laundry, bbls, 186  fts............
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages............
“  Gloss, 36 3 $  packages..........
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate__
“ 
Corn, 401 ft  packages............
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package......................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
Muzzv Corn l f t ......................................
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
l f t   Gloss.................................................
10 oz  Gloss..............................................
3 ft  Gloss.................................................
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................
Table Corn....................................... 40 ft
Table  Corn......................................20  ft
Banner, bulk........................................... 
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
U niversal...............5 88 Above $  dozen.......   50
I X L .......................5 50|
Cut Loaf.................................................  
©7%
C ubes..................................................... 
@7%
Powdered.............................................. 
@7%
Granulated,  Standard......................... 
@6%
Granulated, Fine  Grain.....................  
@6%
Conf. A ................................................... 
@6%
Standard A ............................................  
@6%
E xtra C white.........................................   5%@6
Extra C................................................... 
5%@5%
Fine C..................................................... 
5%@5%
Yellow C.................................................   »  @5%
Com,  Barrels.........................................  
32
Cora, % bbls............................................  
34
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................   @  3»
Cora, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 »5
Corn, 4% gallon kegs........................ 
@1  65
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  22®  38

@4
@6%
@3%
@6
©7
@6%
@7
@4

STOVE P O L IS H .

@8%
@ 8
@6%

SY RUPS.

SUGARS.

.olia  O o f f ì

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H olland...................................................
G erm an...................................................
Long Tom......................................... ......
National...................................................
T im e ........................................................
Love’s Dream.........................................
Conqueror.............................................
Fox’s ........................................................
G rayling.................................................
Seal Skin........ ......... ........................ . ....
Dime D urham ........................................
Rob Roy...................................................
Uncle  Sam..............................................
Lum berm an...........................................
Railroad Boy...........................................
Mountain Rose........................................
Good Enough.........................................
Home Comfort, %s and  %s..................
Old  Rip, long c u t..................................
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................
Two  Nickle, %s......................................
Two  Nickle, %s...............f .....................
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, %s  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..................................
Mule E a r.................................................
H iaw atha................................................
Old Congress...........................................
Acme........................................................
Pure  Cider..............................................
White  Wine............................................
1776 $  f t ...................................................
Gillett’s $  f t ...........................................
Soapine pkg............................................
Pearline $  box.......................................
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers...
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 % ft p apers..
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 % ft paprs

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

VIN EGA R.

SHORTS.

YEAST.

@26
@28
@23
@22
@32
@30
@25
@26

@37
@20
@23
@25
@»5
@55
@25
@26
@25
@40
@50
@48
@43
@42
@27
@24
@22
@24
@24
@24
@28

10@12
10@12

@10% 

@ 7% 
7@10 
@4 50 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4  15 
@4 00

Twin Bros..........1  65  IW ilsons.................1  65
Magic.................1  75 
iN ational............... 1  65

1  10 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 

95 
65 
@3 
1 50 
8 00 
7  50 
@25 
@14% 
@15% 

Bath Brick im ported.............
American...............
Barley.................................... /.
Burners, No. 1 .........................
do  No.  2.........................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand
Condensed Milk,  Swiss..........
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans
Candles, Star............................
Candles.  Hotel.........................
08
Cranberry Sauce.....................
Extract Coffee,  v. c...............................  85@90
F e lix .......................... 1 28@
Flour Sifters $  doz............................... 3 00@
Gum, Rubber 100 lum ps.......................   @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
...................  @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bbl.......................................   @4 60
H. C. Flour, 18 3 ft pkgs,, $  box............  @2 50
H. C.T’lour In bulk, $  c w t..................   @4 80

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:

Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5  @7
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................6%  @ 8
Dressed  Hogs.........................................   6  @ 6%
Mutton,  carcasses.................................   @ 6
V eal.........................................................  9%@10
Fowls......................................................  
11@12
@15
Chickens................................................ 14
@10
Pork Sausage..................... 1..................  9
@10
Bologna..................................................   9

OYSTERS AND  FISH .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New York Counts...............................................38
F. J. D. Selects  ...................................................35
Selects.................................................................30
F. J. D ..................... :............................................22
Favorite...............................................................20
Medium............................................................... 18
P rim e .................................................................. 16
Selects, per gallon..........................................1  75
Standards.........................................................1  10

FR ESH   F IS H .

Codfish....................' ....................................... 9
H addock...........................................................   7
Smelts................................................................  5
Mackinaw Trout..............................................  8
M ackerel.......................................................... 12
W hiteflsh........................................................ 7@8
Smoked Whiteflsh  and T rout......................12
Smoked  Sturgeon.......................................... 12

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Im porters. 

these  goods pays 

16252606

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The largest stock in  Michigan now open and  ready -for  inspection. 

Importers.
It  is  an  acknowledged fact that our line of 

‘ BETTER PROFITS with  QUICKER  SALES than any other  because

Our  Goods  sire  Useful.
Ttiey  are  Ornamental,
Tlxere  is  no  dead  Stools,  among  tiiem. 
Tlrey  are  tire  m ost  du.ratole.
Tirey  m ake  tire  m ost  _A-ttraotrve  Stools.

Ladies'  Cups  and  Saucers, 
Gentleman’s  Cups  and  Saucers. 
Plate  Sets.
Bread  and  Mills  Sets.
Pruit  Plates.
Pruit  Ccmports.
China  Shaving  Mugs 
STew  Styles  Vases.
New  Styles  of

T I 3ST  TOYS.

D O L L S !
Dressed Dolls,  v 
Limb Dolls,
China  Dolls,
Papier Mache Dolls, 
Wax  Dolls,
Kid Dolls,
Cloth  Dolls.

Dollar Toys!

Imported  Colored  Glass.
Polha Dot and  Cracquel in  Pitchers,  Tum­
blers,  Salts,  Peppers,  Cider  Sets,  W ater  Sets  and 
Spoon Holders.

MAJOLICA  WARE

A t greatly reduced prices.  *

Smoking  Sets  and  Tobacco  Boxes.

Glina  Toys,  China  Fipres  ana  Iron  Money  Safes.

W O O ID  TOYS.

@  iisi'V"©  such,  sm.  A ssortm ent  tlns/fc  you.  can  "tomy  your  Entire  Stools,  of us.

M  for printed lists slowing Assortments we ten on land ready for Slipent

Send for Complete Price-List of Crockery,  Glassware, Chandeliers, China, Decorated Tea and Dinner Sets, Lamps and all Lamp Goods.

M ustard  M anufacture  in  California. 

From the San Francisco Chronicle.

The establishment of a number of mustard 
manufacturing mills in this city has added a 
comparatively new feature  to -the  growing 
industries of the coast.  The prolific  charac­
ter of the mustard plant in the southern part 
of California will  yield  abundant  material 
for the manufacture of prepared mustard for 
home consumption, and enable  the  mills  to 
supply large quantities of the article in cake 
for shipment to the East, to be there prepar­
ed for domestic purposes. 
In the  manufac­
ture of this  condiment  both  the  black  and

yellow seed are used.  The  former  imparts 
to the preparation the sharp, pungent  effect 
of the relish,  while the yellow seed  lias  the 
effect of  softening  and  communicating  the 
sweet flavor which is possessed by the sauce, 
as •well  as  to  give  it  color.  The  mustard 
supplied to the  druggist  for  medicinal  pur­
poses is very different  from  that  prepared 
for domestic uses, being  crude  in  character 
and relatively very cheap. 
In crushing  the 
seed to form the mustard  cake a  rich  oil  is 
extracted, which, upon being passed through 
a refining  process  and  otherwise  delicately 
worked,  is made into a delightful  vegetable

oil for table use, that to any other  than  the 
expert possesses the delightful flavor  of the 
olive oil. 
Indeed, there is  every  reason  to 
suspect that much of  the  oil  from  mustard 
seed is refined for table use, and with an ap­
propriate label on the bottle, finds its way to 
the tables of many who delight in the use of 
that unctious substance known  as  olive  oil.
The crude or cheaper grade of oil is exten­
sively used by paint works  for  mixing  col­
ors, and its  application  to  any  use  where 
vegetable oils are serviceable  has  given  en­
tire satisfaction.  The cost of mustard  seed 
in open market is about two  cents  a pound,

and after the seed is pressed and  made into 
mustard cake the residue  in  oil  will  yield 
more than the original  cost  of the material. 
The largest mill here is about to  enlarge its 
capacity as the home  demand  is  more  than 
equal to to the production, while the Eastern 
field is asking for large shipments.

The history and management of  railroads 
will be made a  special  course  of  study  at 
Yale College.  Thorough instruction in such 
subjects is practical education of the highest 
valuè.  Yale sets a good  example to  other 
institutions of learning.__________ ______

Carbon paper, for copying and duplicating 
can be made in the following manner: Take 
sweet oil, mixed to the consistence of cream, 
with either of the  following  paints  (to pro­
duce  the  color  desired):  Prussian  blue, 
lampblack.  Venetian red, or chrome green; 
they should be ground  fine  on  the  stone. 
Use rather thin but firm paper, put on  with 
a sponge, and  wipe off as  dry as  possible; 
then lay them between uncolored paper, and 
press  by  laying a  weight  or  some  other 
heavy flat substance  upon  them  until  the 
surplus oil is  absorbed, when it is ready for 
use.

It is nearing the time  for the sons  of  the 
Prince of Wales to ask  the  English  Parlia­
ment to furnish them twenty or  twenty-five 
thousand dollars a year in order  to  keep up 
the style becoming the  sons  of  the  future 
King, and probably for the purpose of show­
ing that august body that  they  are  neither 
witless nor helpless  will  shortly  publish a 
book describing their experiences  while  ca­
dets upon the  ship  Bacchante.  These  two 
boys give evidence of more energy and pluck 
than have the sons of Queen  Victoria, all of 
whom seem to find most pleasure in exhibit­
ing  themselves  to  their  sycophantic  sub- 
jects.____________________________

Every  Boi  Guaranteed  to  Suit  the Trade.

THREE  ü XT ISTX3 JR.IE!ID  THOUS-A.ÜTID

Pounds  Sold  in  Michigan  in  One  Yoar

W ITH O U T  THE  ASSISTANCE

SCHEME !

HAWKINS

PERRY

FOX.  MUSSELMAN

A N D

LOVERIDQE

A gents 

for  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

DICK,  MIDDLETON  &  CO,  Lotnirille,  Ky

MANUFACTURED  BY

Special Attention given to  Collections  in  City 

or  Country.  Also

FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT

Insurance,

Shoe and  Leather......................................Boston
Cooper............. £...............................Dayton, Ohio
Union.........................................Pittsburgh,  Pa.
Germania..................................Cincinnati,  Ohio

Total Assets represented, $3,516,808.

CO RR ESPO N D EN CE  SO L IC IT E D .

General  Collectors,

TOWER  &  CHAMPLIN
16 H ousem an Block  -  Grand Rapids

HercnlBS Potter

STUMP  and  ROCK

THE  GREAT

Anniliilalor.

SEN D   FOR  PRICES.

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

General W holesale Dealer.

B ^ A 3 S T 3 S T E R .S !

We are prepared to get  up  on  short  notice 
Banners  and Transparencies of all kinds.  Let­
tered, with or without Portraits of Candidates. 
Ropes to p ut up  same  also  furnished.  State 
size you want and we  will quote prices.

J O B B E R S   O F

HORSE  COVERS,  OILED  CLOTH­

ING , A W N IN G S, TENTS,

ETC.,  ETC.

W. N.FULLER & GO

D ESIG N ER S  AND

Engravers on Wood,

F ine  M echanical and  F u rn itu re  W ork, I n ­

cluding R uildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

- 

MICH.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

* 

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.
THE  GRAND  RAPIDS

//

(Established  1866)  is  acknowledged  to he  the 
mostcoifiplete,thorough, practical, economical 
and truly popular school of its kind.  D em and 
for its g raduates  greater  th an   th e  supply. 
For particulars enclose stamp for College Jour­
nal.  Address  C.  G.  SW ENSBERG,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

We carry a full line  of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  will  do 
well  to  write  or  see  the

GRAND  RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  CO.

91  CANAL STREET.

Send for

PRICE 

L I S T .

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

ORDERS

PROM PTLY

FILLED .

And Lashes of All K inds and Prices.

G. ROYS & CO, Gfin’l Agents

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

DO  YOU  KNOW
Xjorillar&’s  Climax

—THAT—

PLU G   TOBACCO

E orillard’s Rose  L eaf F ine Cut Tobacco 

With Red Tin Tag, is the best?  Is  the purest; 
is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, mo­
lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as  is  the 
case with many other tobaccos?
is also made of the  finest  stock,  and  for  aro­
matic chewing quality is  second to none.
take first rank as a solid  durable  smoking to­
bacco wherever introduced.
E orillard’s  Fam ous  Snuffs 
have  been  used  for  over  134  years,  and are 
sold to a larger extent than any others.

E orillard’s  Navy  Clippings 

I M P O R T E R S

----- jG L I & J D -----

Wholesale  Grocers,

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

EP“  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.

MERCHANTS  AND  CREDITS.

Some G en eral, O bservations  of In terest  to 

D ebtor and  Creditor.

From the IT. S. Economist.

Credit is the essentiall  element of  trade, 
and if judiciously given, stimulates  activity 
and promotes the happiness of mankind.  It 
is of little consequence as regards soundness 
of the credit system whether the time allow­
ed for payment be short or long.  The  most 
important part is that it be not expended be­
yond what experience has  determined to be 
a proper  proportion  between  capital  and 
credit.  This may differ  somewhat in differ­
ent countries, and  at different  times  in the 
same countries, by legitimate expansion and 
contraction, in sympathy with  the  financial 
condition of the country.  Credit is of  spec­
ial advantage in building up  trade, and it is 
more necessary in  comparatively  poor  sec­
tions than in financial centers, at least as re­
gards  long 
time.  Europeans  understand 
this matter apparently better  than  we  do, 
for they are extending their  commercial in­
tercourse with distant peoples who  have re­
sources with little enterprise, and  who  are 
willing  buyers, if  long  credits  are  given 
them.  Some of the most  important  outlay­
ing markets,  which  properly  should be first 
supplied with our own  products, because  of 
their nearness to us,  are  being  secured by 
England, France and Germany on  the  basis 
of long credits. 
In  this connection it is not 
to be forgotten, of course,  that  the  United 
Stales is shamefully in  the  background  for 
marine facilities  for  doing  business  with 
other countries, and  particularly  with  the 
States of South  America..  Merchants  here 
have often to ship goods to Europe that they 
may have conveyance  from  there to South 
America.  But a more liberal  disposition to 
sell on long credits  and  to  adapt  goods to 
foreign markets would in time  compel  bet­
ter freight facilities.  Are Europeans  better 
merchants than  American?  Is the  mercan­
tile spirit larger in England and on the Con­
tinent than in this country?

Not only are  credits  necessary, but  they 
involve further  obligations of a high  order 
on the part of  those  who  give  them.  Of 
course, all risks are calculated and constitute 
a part of the charge on  goods so sold. 
It is 
expected that there  may be  some  failures, 
that there may be some widespread business 
troubles, or that there may be  money  strin­
gency at times. 
It is  part  of  an  implied 
contract, a part of the high mercantile  char­
acter, a part of the largeness of the true mer­
chant, that when such  times  do  come  the 
debtor should  not  be  pounced  upon  and 
forced to the wall because his hands are tied 
by events which he could not  control. 
It is 
in such times as these, in fact, that  the  dif­
ference is seen between  the  real  merchant 
and the mere trader.  The man who has his 
tens of thousands at  stake  with a customer 
of whom he hears some  rumors  of  difficul­
ties, is  likely, as  in  more  than  one  case 
which we know of, to  proffer  aid or an  ex­
tension of credit.  On the  other  hand, it is 
but too often the case that the man  who has 
only a few  dollars, or hundreds at  most, at 
stake, is very  active  with  his  tongue  in 
weakening and pulling down  his  customer, 
caring  for  no  amount  of  destruction  he 
brings  about, so that  he  may  possibly  be 
ahead of others to save the dollar that is ow­
ing him.

But it is not only when  a  merchant  may 
be actually  in  trouble  that  such  creditors 
seek to  work  destruction. 
It is  often  the 
case in times like the  present, for  instance, 
that  their  principal  occupation is to try to 
break down the credit of men in good stand­
ing.  Kumor  is a powerful  agency  of  des­
truction at such times, and  however  good a 
balance sheet a merchant may have,  it is of­
ten in the power and heart of  those  huxter- 
ing characters  to  strike  deathly  blows  in 
their greed for  gain, or out  of  mere  disso­
luteness of  mercantile character. 
If a mer­
chant can  make a  fair  showing  at  such a 
time, he is entitled to be upheld by his cred­
itors, and besides their interests  are  identi­
cal with his own.  The mercantile commun­
ity would be spared many a disaster if a high 
sense of responsibility  in  such  cases  were 
generally prevalent.

Credits not only  entail  responsibilities of 
this kind upon the creditors, but  merchants 
should not make rash  credits  in the  zeal to 
sell goods.  A risky expansion  of  business 
by such methods as  the  present  system  of 
long  datings  ahead is apt  to  weaken  the 
courage  and  magnanimity of the best mer­
chants in times of  difficulty, but  it  should 
be considered  that  the  more risk is  taken 
the more  incumbent it should be upon  the 
creditor to stand by his customer in the hour 
of peril.  Credits are  necessary  and  whole­
some, but they are inseparable from the cor­
relative duty mentioned and a sense of mag­
nanimity on the part of the true merchant.

A F ortune  from  Soapsuds.

Mr. W. M. Williams, a chemist of London, 
England, relates the following  story about a 
French chemist who proceeded to Yorkshire 
to make his fortune.  He was so presumptu­
ous as to  believe  that he  might  do this by 
picking up  something  that  Yorkshiremen 
threw away.  That something was soapsuds. 
His  chemistry  taught  him  that  soap is a 
compound of  fat  and  alkali, and that if a 
stronger acid than that  belonging  to the fat 
is added to the soapsuds, the  stronger  acid 
will combine with the alkali and  release the 
fat,  which, 
float

liberated  will 

thus 

upon the surface of the liquid, and may then 
be easily skimmed off, melted  together and 
sold at a handsome profit.

But why leave the beautiful  France  and 
desolate himself in dreary Yorkshire merely 
to do this?  His reason was, that the  cloth- 
workers of Yorkshire use tons  and  tons of 
soap for scouring their materials, and throw 
away  millions of gallons of  soapsuds.  Be­
sides  this, there  are  manufactories of sul­
phuric  acid  near  at hand, and a large  de­
mand for machinery grease just thereabouts. 
He  accordingly  brought  iron  tanks , and 
erected  works in the  midst of the  busiest 
center of the woolen  manufacture.  But he 
did not make his fortune all at once.  On the 
contrary  he  failed to pay  expenses, for in 
his calculations he had  omitted to allow for 
the fact that the soap liquor is much diluted 
and therefore he  must carry much  water to 
obtain a little fat.  This cost of  carriage ru­
ined his enterprise, and his works  were  of­
fered for sale.

The purchaser  was a shrewd  Yorkshire- 
man, who then was a dealer in  second-hand 
boilers, tanks and other iron  wares.  When 
he was  about to demolish  the  works,  the 
Frenchman  took him  into  confidence, and 
told him the story of his failure.  The York- 
shireman  said little, but  thought much, and 
having finally assured himself  that  the car­
riage was the  only  difficulty, he concluded 
after the  manner  of  Mahomet  that if  the 
mountain would not  come to him, he  might 
go to the mountain; and then  made an offer 
of partnership on the basis that the  French­
man  should do the  chemistry of the  work 
and that he (the  Yorkshireman)  should  do 
the rest.

Accordingly, he went to the works around 
and offered to contract  for the  purchase of 
all their soapsuds, if they would  allow  him 
to put up a tank or  two on  their  premises. 
This he did; the acid was added, and the fat 
rose to the surface,  was  skimmed  off, and 
carried without water, to the central  works, 
where it was melted  down, and, with  very 
little preparation, was converted  into “cold- 
neck  grease,” and  “hot-neck  grease,” and 
used, besides, for other lubricating purposes. 
The Frenchman’s science  and  skill, united 
with the Yorkshireman’s practical  sagacity, 
built  up  a  flourishing  business,  and  the 
grease thus made is still  in  great  demand 
and high repute  for  lubricating  the rolling- 
mills of  iron-works, and  for  many  other 
, kinds of  machinery.

Som ething  for  N othing.

From the American Artisan.

The desire to get  something  for  nothing 
seems to be inborn  in  human  nature. 
In 
general, people count  themselves  fortunate 
if they get an  entirely  satisfactory  equiva­
lent  for  an  expenditure  of  time,  labor  or 
money.  Few, however, are averse to receiv­
ing benefits  withoht  rendering  an  equiva­
lent.  Newspaper publishers long  since dis­
covered this tendency of human nature,  and 
are reminded of  it often  enough  to keep it 
from passing out of  memory.  These gentle 
reminders  seldom  come  in  requests  for 
gratuitous  space in the  regular  advertising 
columns, although such instances are not un­
known.  The  editorial  columns  are  good 
enough for people who are willing to  accept 
gratuitous advertising.  This  class  of  per­
sons  always  have  something  which  they 
feel sure the public  and  ourselves  must be 
interested in, and as a matter  of  news, you 
know, etc.  Now, no  persons  in the  world 
are so eager to get hold of news,  something 
good, which they can  appropriately  use, as 
newspaper men.  None have so keen an ap­
preciation of what “the  public”  will be in­
terested  in  as  they.  But  there  is a  very 
wide margin  between  what  would  interest 
the party concerned  and  what would  com­
mand the attention of the public,  which has 
no personal interest in the  matter.  The ob­
ligation of the newspaper publisher  is hon­
estly discharged when  he  has  given a cer­
tain  amount  of  space  in  his  advertising 
columns in return for  a stipulated  consider­
ation.  But, as a matter  of fact,  publishers 
are exceedingly liberal in  their  notices, re­
ports,  news 
items,  etc.,  which  call  the 
attention of readers  to persons  or products. 
These notices, while they are of value to the 
business of the persons or  firms  mentioned, 
are gratuitously published  because  they are 
of interest to the  public,  and are a  part of 
the  current  history  or 
the 
progress of trade.  No class of business men 
in the world  render so much service to busi­
ness interests without asking  or  expecting 
direct return as  the  newspaper  publishers. 
Such being the fact, it  is  not  strange  that 
they should sometimes feel that good nature 
is trespassed upon when  people  who rarely 
or  never do  legitimate  advertising, go  too 
far in their efforts to secure  something  for 
nothing.

record  of 

C onsistent  Reasoning1.

An independent  business  man who  car­
ried the bulk of his  stock  upon  his  back, 
and went from door to door to sell his goods, 
in order to avoid excessive  rents, was in the 
habit of buying his  goods from  a  particular 
friend.  He was sure that  he  was  getting 
bottom  prices.  One  day, by  accident,  he 
discovered  that a competitor  buying  from 
the same man  was  getting  his  goods  much 
cheaper.  Very wroth at the unfriendly deal­
ing of his supposed  friend, he  sought  him 
out at once  and  took  him to  task.  “You 
surprise me very much; don’t  you see I am 
doing better for  you  than  for  that  other 
one!”  “No, I  don’t  see  it.”  “Well, you 
buy an article  for  twelve  dollars, add  on 
fifty per  cent, and  make  six  dollars; the 
other one pays eight  dollars, adds  fifty per 
cent, and  makes  only four  dollars I  And 
yet you say I am not your friend!”

An immense  cotton  mill is to  be  erected 

in Waco, Texas.

EDMUND  B. DIKEMAN,

N ew  Japans.

ti  i m

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IRON  PIPE, 

Brass  Goods,  Iron  and  Brass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  Fixtures, 

P lumbers, Steam  Fitters,
—And  M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

S E E D S

-FOR  THE-

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,
WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

-----AT-----

—AT T H E -

SEED  STORE,

91  Canal St., G rand  Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LA1REAUI, A p t

OYSTERS !

We duplicate Chicago and Detroit prices and 
guarantee  as  strictly fresh  stock and  as  well 
filled  cans  as  any  in the  m arket—at bottom 
prices.

SEERS !

Clover, Timothy and all  kinds field seeds  at 
bottom prices.  Write for quotations  when  in 
need of seeds.

Oranges and Lemons

Green and Dried Fruits, Butter, Eggs,  and  all 
kinds of Produce.

123  Monroe  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

MOSELEY  BROS.,
JOHN  CAULFIELD

Is  ou r  A gent  in   G rand  R apids  for  our 

FAMOUS

The best easy washer m anufactured.

B. J. Johnson & Co.,

M ILW AUK EE.

JEW E LE R ,

44  CANAE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
E IsT 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.
YV.  O,  Eenison,

88, 90  and 93 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

H A L L ’ S  

M U LT U M   IN  P A R V O  

System  of

Common  Sense

BOOK  KEEPING,
RETAIL  GROCERS,

F O R

A N D

GENERAL  STOREKEEPERS,

R E Q U IR E S

TWO  BOOKS  ONLY

For  All  Purposes.

N A M E L Y   :  "T H E   A C C O U N T  BOOK,’ 
combining both D A Y  BOOK  and L E D G E R  
in  one,  by  which customers itemized  state­
ments  are  furnished  in  one-third  the  time 
required  by  the usual  process,  as  hundreds 
■who are using it w ill cheerfully testify.

AND

“T H E   C O M P E N D IU M ,” requiring but  io 
minutes a  day  to  record  each  day’s  cash 
transactions,  and  supply  a  complete  self- 
proving PR O FIT   and  LOSS  Balance  sheet 
whenever desired.
Full  details,  illustrated  by  exam ple,  sent 
free  to  M E R C H A N T S  sending  name  and 
address  to H A L L   &  CO.,  Publishers, 
iS4 
L a k e   St.,  CH ICAGO,  IL L . 
If  possible 
send  business card.

ISBBBSIBKEISSHmI

I

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  1,200  chests  in  all,  which wre  have  recently  received  per  the  Pacific- 
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio 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  welB- 
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  Republique,

Napkin, 
Nickel, 
Stearine, 
Lautz Soap, 

Towel, 
Shamrock, 

Mottled German, 

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver themiin'10- 
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid.  Please send forjprice- 

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  wre  sell  at  the  manufacturers’  prices,  freights  prepaid  on  all' 
shipments  of  10  box  lots  and  upwards  tojall  railroad  points  in  Michigan.  Send  for 
price lists.  See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

F ancy Groceries.

We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every­
thing in the Fancy Grocery department,  and are  nqw  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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“  Mustand.
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Breakfast  Cocoa.

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Green  Gages. 
Apricots.
Egg Plums. 
Pears. 
Quinces. 
Grapes. 
Cherries.
China Preserved Ginger, all size jars,

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.

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.  Al£ 
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

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“  Mushroons.

Italian Macarroni, 1 fit» pkg.

“  Vermicella.

g)cy>  (Boobs.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Spring & Company quote as  iouu«*o :

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

The L atest Fashion in G arters

‘There are several styles  in  garters  this J Androscoggin! 8^4.!21
season,” said a prominent  dealer  the  other ¡ Popperojl. 
day.  “Here, for  instance, are  some  pretty 
pale-biue, white and  pink  ones, which  are j 
Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
made of satin-finished  elastic  and  painted 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
with roses  and  sprays of, vines.  You  see j  Economy,' oz^. .^. .10 
they fasten with buckles, and  can] be  made j 
Mills! No! 6o!!u 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
larger or smaller asjiecessity requires.  The 
Park Mills. No. 80.. 13
buckle was invented  for  obvious  reasons.
No,p.they are not  worn in front—that is, not 
Alabama brown—   7*
Jewell briw n..........  9*4
directly in front.  The buckle  comes a little 
Kentucky  brown.. 1014
to one side, and on the other side is a dainty |  Lewiston  brow n...  914 
knot of ribbon, sometimes a bow  and  some-  []£uf8iamTpiaid.!!!  8^ 
times frilled.

Pepperell,  9-4........22* ¡Pequot,  9-4— ..*...24

CHECKS.

I b a r b w a r e .

WHOLESALE  FRIGE  CURRENT.

¿¿¡Prevailing  rates  at Chicago are as follows: 

A|New|Thing-:inr. Ovens.

!-C 
□This is a provision in the shape {of  a wire 
gauze door fitted to  the  oven,  to  introduce 
fresh air while baking is  in  progress.  The 
Age  of  Steel says of it:

¡LUMBER, LATH  A N » SHINGLES.

Pepperell, 10-4.......26
Pepperell, 11-4........-27*
Pejnot.

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars as 
follow:
Uppers, 1 Inch.................................... P©r M $44 00
Uppers, 114,1*4 and 2 inch.........................  «  00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1 *4.1 *  and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................. . 
.......  30 00
Fine, Common, 114,1* and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet  ... 
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe et........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00 |
I  No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00 1
............. 10V4  No. 1 Stocks,  10 in., 18 fe et.........................   16  00
Otis  Furniture...... 1014  No. 1 Stocks,  10 in., 20 f e e t ........................  17  00
.......10  No. 1 Stocks,  8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........   15 00
York  1 oz 
York,’ AA?extra oz. 14 
8 in., 18 fe e t................  16 00

nz 

OSNABURG,

d.
i  a 

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
»  

laid., 
aid ...11 
6*4
ku. No-2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe et................ 

“The ventilated  stove  oven  is with us no 
hobby;  our attention  has  been  drawn to it 
by the experiments which a large stove man­
ufacturing  company has  been  carrying on;
1 No. 1 Stocks, 
No. l Stocks’, 8 in.’, 20feet!!!!!.!..............  17 00  these have satisfied us of its value,  but have
No  2 itocks’ l i  in"’ 18 feetnd 16 fe6t!!!!!  13 001  uot convinced us that it is our bounden duty
---------------------  —  
to hammer  other  people  into  our  way  of 
thinking.  Our :nt< r ;st in the new invention 
is of that  impartial  kind  that declares  for 
fair play and then  abides  the  result.  The 
wire  gauze  door  is,  we  believe,  the  only 
method yet hit upon by the friends  of venti­
lated ovens for  admitting  fresh  air,  though 
we understand an Eastern manufacturer pro­
poses to bring out a stove in which the draft 
will in some way be made  direct  from  the 
oven to the flue, and from the  outside  into ¡ 
the oven, in a new and unexplained manner. 
With the wire gauze door the hot air escapes
and the
cool air flows in through the  lower part, ac­
cording to natural  laws.  The result is, the 
bottom of the stove upon which  the cooking 
is  done  is  kept  comparatively  cool.  One 
would  think that even with  a good  fire go­
ing it would  be  difficult  to  bake bread  or 
roast meat.  But it is  not,  and the  hot air 
escaping  from  the  oven  need  cause  no 
alarm.

Alabama  plaid----- 
__
Augusta plaid........   8  No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14 00
Toledo plaid...........   7*4  | No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe et.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
Manchester  pla 
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
New  Tenn.plai 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.........   11  00
Utility plai
i No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t..........................   12 00
BLEACHED  COTTONS.
_ 
.  13 00
n  
Greene, G.  4-4........  »44  coarse  Common  or  shipping culls, all
Hill, 4-4....................  £*  w{<jth8 and  lengths.......................... 8 00® 9  00
5 m ’ J-8/ ; ................ A and B Strips, 4 or 6in ......................................   35  00
c Strips, 4 or 6 inch...................................  
Hope, 4-4..... •■•••• 
28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................   15 00
King Phillip  cam- 
brie,4-4.. . . ..........11*  I No.2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............   12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12  00
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12  00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common.... 
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00 
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 1 6ft.   ....... 
!0 00  through the upper part of the  door
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common—   14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. I  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
3 40
K  X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
j X X X 16 in........  .................. ..................  
3 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
175
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

SIL E S IA S .

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AUGERS AND B ITS.

Ives’, old  style.......................................... dls 
60
55
N. H. C. Co..................................., ...........dis 
5Q
Douglass’ ................................................d ls 
Pierces’ ......................................................dis 
50
Snell's......................................................... dis 
60
Cook’s  ......................................................dis40&io
Jennings’, genuine..................................dis 
25
Jennings’, im itation...............................dis40&10

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

25

BALANCES. 

1

BARROW S.

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

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

BOLTS.

__ dis $
40
Stove.......................................................... dis $
Carriage  new  list................................. dis
...... dis
75
Plow  .......................................................dis
...... dis 30&K
Sleigh Shoe.............................................dis
..dis 50&15
. 
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................. dis
50
— dis
Wrought Barrel Bolts......................... dis
55
__ dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs__
__ dis
50
Cast Square Spring......................  
dis
......dis
55
__ dis
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
.......dis 55&10
Wrought Square .  
....................... :.. .dis
. .'...dis 55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush...........................dis
___dis
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door...........................................................dis 50&10

BRACES.

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

40
50
50
net

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

TIME TABLES.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
Michigan (Tenträl

The Niagara,  Falls  (Route.

D EPA R T.

 

6:00 am

tDetroit Express................................  
+Day  Express.................................... '..  12:25 pm
♦New York Fast Line............................  6:00 p m
+Atlantic Express............................................ 9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express.............................................   6:4 am
+Local  Passenger.......................................... 11:20 am
+Mail..........................................................3:30 p m
+Grand  Bap ids  Express............................... 10:25 p m

A R R IV E .

+Daily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
Sleeping cars run on Nos.  101 and 108.
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
’l2*  I Drawing  Boom  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
y n- t  m-sn
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 Bapids at 10:25 p. m.

„  

J. T. S c h u l t z , Gen’l Agent.

“But 1 think these are  prettier;  they are 
embroidered and are usually made to  order.
A wider scope is given here for  the  display 
of taste and originality‘'than 'in  the  others.
The embroidery is not  done  on the  elastic, 
but upon ribbon in which tne  elastic  is en­
cased.  Any design in small flowers, such as 
forget-me-nots and  trailing  arbutus, may be 
used with charming effect.  Many ladies buy 
the material and  work  the  designs  them­
selves.  Now, here are some upon which the 
ribbon, instead of being embroidered, is puff­
ed.  Prices range from $1 to $5 per pair.”

“Do the buckles ever  come  separate from 

the  garters?”

“Oh, yes,”  was the reply.  The  handsom­
est buckles are only used when specially or­
dered.  They are generally sold by jewelers.
Some are of plain  gold  or  silver, and  some 
are studded with jewels.  The most fashion­
able now are those set with Rhine-stones.  A 
beautiful pair that I recently saw are of solid 
gold, with  forget-me-nots  in  blue  enamel.
An ingenious device to  shield the flesh from 
bruise is a scented pad, soft and  tiny, which 
is placed under the buckle.”

Sm all  Custom ers.

Despise not the day of small things.  Small 
trade is worth  looking  after,  not  only  be­
cause each small trader may—in fact, will— 
become  a  larger  trader,  but also from  the 
fact that the aggregate of  the  small  trades, 
while  they  are  even  yet  small,  is  of  nc 
trifling account.  The enterprising merchant 
treats the purchaser of a nickel’s worth with 
as much deference  as  he  does  the  man  of 
many dollars.  He is as willing to  assist  by 
act  and  word  the customer who cannot de­
cide which  one  of  the many styles of laun­
dry soaps she wants, as he is to assist in the 
selection  of  a  seal-skin sack for the happy 
bride.  Small purchasers appreciate the def­
erence and kindness which,  in  many  cases, 
is thrown  away  on  the  representatives  of 
wealthier  families,  and  they  are  quick to 
show.their appreciation by working  for  the 
genial and accommodating dealer’s interests. 
Their  trade  is  worth  catering to and their 
good will is worth having.

P ap er  Clothing.

The Atlanta Constitution, speculating up­
on the fact that the patent  upon  paper col­
lars and shirt bosoms has expired, is of opin­
ion that we may  soon  expect  to {see  paper 
garments of every variety manufactured and 
sold.  But it fears opposition to  the  gener­
al use of such material |for  clothing  on the 
ground that no man  would  care  to  wear a 
suit of clothes  liable at any moment to melt 
away if he is caught  in  a shower,  or  to be 
torn into shreds  when he is passing through 
a crowd.  Nobody  would  risk  going  to  a 
picnic in a paper  suit,  as  the  accident of a 
sudden shower might leave  him entirely un­
protected and compel him to  take shelter in 
the woods.

They  W ere  M arked  Down.

Old Moneybaggs stood in front of his store 
the  other  morning  hanging  a  “reduced 
price” mark on  several  rolls  of  carpeting. 
Along comes  Harris,  and  says  to  Money 
baggs:

'“Those ain’t feathers.”
“Well,  who  said  they  was?”  retorted 
Moneybaggs, with  ungrammatical testiness.
“Why, you—that is,  you’ve  marked them 

down.”

And  Moneybaggs  fell  through  a  plate- 

glass window with a sickening thud.

Thus it is shown that every man will ha.’e 
his joke, feather it be good  or  feather  it be 
evil.

A number of milliners at  Allentown, Pa., 
have  lately  been  the  victims  of  a  clever 
swindling  dodge.  The  sharpers,  two  in 
number,  operated  in  this  manner:  One 
would enter a store and represent himself to 
be the son  of  a wealthy farmer  living near 
the city.  His story was  that his wife, who 
had  not  been  able  to  accompany  him  to 
town, wished him  to select several  bonnets 
and take them home,  so  she  could  make  a 
selection.  One bonnet  she  would keep and 
pay for, and  the  others  would  be returned. 
When the milliner  showed  a  hesitancy  in 
acceding to this request  the man  pretended 
to be  offended,  and,  t6  show  his  indepen-1 
dence, would offer to  pay  for  the most ex-1 
pensive hat  This would  have the  desired j 
effect and he was generally  successful.

The simple making  and  selling  of  men’s 
clothing  is  the  greatest  local  industry  in 
New York City, says the Morning Journal. 
It employes nearly  double  as  many  people 
as any other  single  occupation,  not  taking 
into account  the  workmen  who  manufac­
ture and finish  the  cloths. 
Inside the city 
limits .about 800 establishments  are  devoted 
to the business,  with an aggregate capital of 
nearly $25,000,000, employing  50,000 opera­
tives and paying out  $15,000,000  a year  in 
wages.  Coats  and  trowsers  made  in New 
York  are  worn, by  workingmen 
in  every 
■tate  and territory in the Union.

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PR IN T S .

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

checks,
new

E IN E  BROW N  COTTONS,

| Mason ville TS.........  8
............... 12*  Masonville  S...........10*
............... 10  ¡Lonsdale....................9*
................ 1ÍT  ¡Lonsdale A .............. 16

Avondale,  36..........  814
Art  cambricB,36...1114 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 1214
Ballou, 4-4.................7l4
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
B oott7o.44!.......  8*4¡Linwood,  4-4..........  9 
Boott,  E. 5-5..........  7  Lonsdale,  4 -4 .......8 *
Boott. AGC. 4-4.......  9* ¡Lonsdale  cambric. 11*4
Boott, B. 3-4..........  554 Langdon, G B, 4-4...  9*
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7*/»:Langdon.  4o...........14
Chapman, X, 4-4....  6*|Masonyille,  4-4.......»*
Conway.  4-4........... 7* ¡Maxwell. 4-4...............10*
» 1 , 4 4 ................ 734 New York Mil .4-4.10*
Cabot, 7-8................   6* New Jersey,  4-4....  8
Canoe.  3-4...............  4  Pocasset,  P. M. C..  <*
Domestic,  36..........7*|P rideof the W est..12*
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9* Pocahontas,  4-4....  8*
Dav ol, 4-4...............  9* ¡Slaterville, 7-8........   6*
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  8541 Victoria,  AA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8* | Woodbury, 4-4......  5«
Fruit of  the Loom, 
¡Whitinsville,  4-4...  7*
cambric,  4-4.........12  !Whitinsville, 7-8—   6*
Gold Medal. 4 -4 ....  7  Wamsutta, 4-4........... 10*
Gold Medal! 7-8.......6* Williamsville,  36. ..  10*
Gilded  Age............. 8*|
Crown 
..................17 
\ o   xO 
Coin 
Anchor 
Centennial.............  
¡Nictory  O...............
B lackburn.............   8  ¡Victory J ..................
Davol  ......................14  Victory  D .................   ^
Paeonia.................. 12  ¡Phoenix A ................. 19*
Bed  cross...............10  ¡Phoenix  B 
............  10*
Social  Imperial — 16  ¡Phoenix X X ............5
Albion, solid........... 5* G loucester...............6
Gloucestermourn’g.6 
Albion,  grey...........6
Hamilton  fancy...  6
Allen’s  checks........5*
Hartel fancy........... 6
Ailen’s  fancy......... 5*
M errim ac  D ... 
Allen’s pink............ 6*
Manchester ... 
Allen’s purple.........6*
Oriental  fancy 
American, fancy— 5*
Oriental  robes
Arnold fancy...........6
Berlin solid.............  5* Pacific  robes
Coeheco  fancy....... 6  Richmond................
Cocheco robes.........6* Steel  River.............
Conestoga fancy.... 6  Simpson s ............
Eddystone..............6  Washington fancy
Eagle fancy............5  W ashington blues
Garner pink............6*1
on  A, 4-4__   8  .¡Indian Orchard, 40 .  834
Appleton  A, 4-4....  8  .¡Indian Orchard, 40 
yit 44...........   734 Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Boott  M 
F  44..........  8  Laconia  B, 7-4........ 16*
Boston  1.
sntal C, 4-3..  7*¡Lyman B, 40-in.......10*
Continental 
„ „   ,  ,
Continental D, 40in  8* Mass. BB, 4-4 
.......63£
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7  Nashua  E, 40-in....  9
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5* Nashua  R,,4-4........  7
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6* Nashua 0 , 7-8........ 7*
Dwight  X, 3-4.........6  ¡Newmarket N.  ....  734
Pepperell E, 39-in. 
734
Dwight Y, 7-8..........6*
Pepperell. B, 4-4—   'i 
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  7
Pepperell  0 , 7-8—   6* 
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7*
Pepperell  N, 3-4—   ¿34
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Enterprise EE, 36..  5*
Saranac  B ...............  7
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7
Saranac  E ...............  9
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......6*
Indian  Orchard, 1-4  7*
Am oskeag.............  8  ¡Renfrew, dress styl 9*
Johnson  Manfg Co, 
Amoskeag, Persian 
Bookfold............. 12*
styles..................10*
........... 
, „ 
Bates.......W.............7*jJohnson  Manfg Co
dVess  stvles 
aress  styles.. —  
Berkshire.............   6*
dress
Slaterville, 
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles....................  9
Glasgow checks, Fy  7*
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles........  8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston.................9*
sta n d ard .............  7*
Gordon....................  8
P lunket..................  7*
Greylock, 
dress 
Lancaster...............  8%
styles  ...................12*
Langdale.................7%
Androscoggin, 7-4.. 21 
¡Pepperell.  104....... 27*
Androscoggin,8-4..23  ¡Pepperell,  11-4.......32*
Pepperell,  7-4....... 20  Pequot,  7-4...............21
Pepperell,  84....... 22*|Pequot,  84...............24
Pepperell,  9-4.......25  ¡Pequot,  9-4............... 27*
Atlantic  A, 4-4......   7*4|Lawr< nee XX, 4-4..  834
Atlantic  H ,4-4...... 7 
¡Lawrence  Y ,30....  7
AtUntic  D, 4-4.......  634¡Lawrence LL, 4-4...  5*
Atlantic P. 4-4........   534 ¡Newmarket N ........   7*
Atlantic  LL, 4-4....  5* Mystic Biver, 4-4...  6
Adriatic, 36.............7* ¡Pequot A, 4-4............  8
Augusta, 4-4...........   6* Piedmont,  36..........  7
Boott  M, 4-4 ...........   734'Stark AA, 4-4..........  734
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  7 * ¡Tremont CC, 4-4....  5%
Graniteville, 4-4__   6*jUtica,  4-4................ 9
Indian  H ead,4-4...  7* W achusett,  4-4.........7*
Indiana Head 45-in. 12*| Wachusett.  30-in...  634 
Amoskeag,  ACA...13* Falls,XXXX...........18*
Falls, XXX.............15*
Amoskeag 
“ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................11*
Amoskeag,  A .......13
Falls,  BBC,  36.....19*
Amoskeag,  B ....... 12
Falls,  awning.......19
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Hamilion,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D........10*
Hamilton,  D ............6*
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Hamilton,  H ............9*
Amoskeag, F ..........  9*
Hamilton  fancy...10
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Methuen AA.......... 13*
Premium  B ........... 16
Methuen ASA_____18
Extra 4-4..................16
Omega  A, 7-8.......... 11
Extra 7-8................. 14*
Omega A, 4-4.......... 13
Gold Medal 4-4........ 15
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
CCA  7-8....................12*
Omega ACA, 4-4— 16
CT 4-4.......................14
Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
BC 7-8.......................14
Omega SE, 4-4.......27
BF 7-8... ...................16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF 4-4.......................19
Omega M, 4-4.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
Shetueket SS&SSW 11* 
Cordis ACA, 32...... 16
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis No. 1,32...... 15
Shetueket,  SFS__ 12
Cordis  No. 2...........14
Stock bridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3...........13
Stockbridge  frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4...........11*
Empire
G arner......................5
W ashington...........   4*
Hookset..................  5
Edwards..................  5
Bed  Dross...............  5
¡S. S. & Sons...........   5
Forest Grove.
American  A ........1.  5Cj01d  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ...................21 *¡ W heatland...............21
DENIM S.Otis  CC................... 10*
B oston....................  7*
W arren  AXA........12*
Everett blue..........14
Warren  BB...........li*
Everett  brown......14
W arren CC.............Í0*
Otis  AXA.............. 12*
York  fancy...........15
Otis BB...................11*
Manville...................   6 
|S. S. & Sons............  6
Masgnville...............  6  ¡G arner..................   6
Bed  Cross................  7* ¡Thistle Mills..........
B erlin.......................  7* ¡Bose.......................   8
G arn er.....................  7*1
Brooks....................50  ¡Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F .......55  Mills ball sewing.30
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
J. &P.  Coats.........55
Mer rick s.................40
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Stafford.................. 25
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Hall & Manning__ 25
Charleston ball sew 
Holyoke.................. 25
ing thread...........30
A rm ory..................  7*|K earsage................   8*
Androscoggin sat..  8* Naumkeagsatteen. 8*
Canoe Biver...........   6  Pepperell  bleached 8*
Clarendon.............. 6* ¡Pepperell sa t............  9*
Hallowell  Im p....... 6* Bockport..................   7
Ind. Orch. Im p.......  7  Lawrence sat..........   8*
L aconia..................7*|Conegosat.................  7
IICH16AN  COMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIO.
Incorporated, Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in  Force for | jäail * S.. . . . . . . .^

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L  c o t t o n .

CORSET JE A N S .

G R A IN   BAGS.

T IC K IN G S.

W IGANS.

Thirty Yean.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

j President—Ransom W. Hawley, of  Detroit.
I Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Sn edeker, Detroit;
|  L. W. Atkins, Grand  Bapids;  I. N. Albxan- |
I  d er, Lansing;  Ü. 8. Lo rd; Kalamazoo; H. E. { 
I  Meek er, Bay City. 
j Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Me r e d it h ,  ; 
!  Detroit.
1 Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J. C. P on­
tius, Chairman, 8. A. Munger, H. K. White 
|  For Two  Yoars—D. Morris,  A. W.  Culver. |

.

Detroit, Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee*

GO ING  BAST.

GOING  W EST.

tDaily. Sundays excepted.  *Dailv.

Leaves. 
A rrives.
6.20 a m 
tSteamboat Express..........
10:20 a m 
+Through  Mail................... 10:15 a m
+Eveiling  Express...    ----3:20pm
3:55 p m 
10:45 p m 
♦Atlantic Express.......................  9:45 pm
10:30 a m
tMixed, with  coach...........
12:55 p m 
tMorning  Express..............12:40 p m
5:10 p m 
+Through  Mail..................  5:00 pm
♦
tSteamboat Express.......... 10:30 p m
7:10 a m 
tM ixed..................................
5:30 a m
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 a m
#  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. in. the following morning.
Parlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  5:10  p,  m.  will  make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving at 5:10 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for  Chicago.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to  Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through  Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Bapids.
D. P o t t e r ,  City Pass. Agent. 
G e o . B. B e e v e , Trafile Manager, Chicago.

Chicago & West Miohigan.
Leaves.
tM ail........................................9:15 am
+Day  Express......................12:25 p m
♦Night  Express..................   8:35 p m
Mixed......................................6:10 a m

Arrives, 
4:00 p m 
10:45 p m 
6:10 a m 
10:05 p m
♦Daily.  +Daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without  extra  charge  to  Chicago on 
12:25^>. m., and through coach  on 9:16 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

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

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

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GO ING NORTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
I Cincinnati &  Mackinac Ex  8:45 p m  9:00 p m 
\ Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a m 
i Ft. Wayne&G’d Bapids Ex  3:55 p m 
7:10 a m
I G’d Bapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:00 a m 
G. Bapids & Cincinnati Ex.
4:35 p m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way i  e Ex.. 10:25 am  
11:45 p m
Cadillac & G’d  Bapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

GO ING  SOUTH.

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at  9:00  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 Traverse 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35p.m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C . L. L o c k w o o d , Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Lake Shore & Miohigan Southern.

Leave.
7:35 a m

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrive. 
Express................................7:90 p m 
* “ -----4:00 pm

■’ 
. . . . . . .9:35 a
All trains daily except Sunday.
The  strain 

leaving  at 4  p. m. connects at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from  Chicago  to  New  York and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:35 a. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line- 
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Moure street and depot.

J. W. McK snney, Gen’l Agent

“One advantage claimed for the  ventilat­
ed oven is that it prevents a great wastage of 
the moisture contained in the meat or  what­
ever may be cooking,  and thus  insures ten­
derness as  well  as  greater  weight. 
In the 
closed oven experiments show  that a  piece 
of meat loses 30 to 40 per cent, of its weight, 
if well cooked, by absorption, 
lated oven the loss  has  frequently  been as 
low as 10 per cent, and rarely, If ever, in ex- 
cess’of 15  or 20 per cent 
In  other  words, 
it appears that the meat in 
the closed  oven 
is dried rather than cooked, and is made the 
tougher because of its treatment.  The origi­
nator of the wire  gauze oven  doors, it may 
be said, declares that he can take  the cheap- 
i est and toughest  steak 
in the  market  and 
I cook it in the ventilated oven,  with  the re- 
i suit of making it as tender and  juicy as the 
j  best  porterhouse.  He  is  emphatically  of 
the opinion that meats  cooked  in the oven 
are made tough and indigestible by  the dry 
heat, which robs them of all moisture.

Gas Flam es  Smokeless.

From the American Architect.
"  Mr. Thomas Fletcher,  whose  remarkable 
experiments on the flameless  combustion of 
gas will  be  remembered  by  our  readers, 
makes some practical  suggestions  about the 
so-called  smoking  of gas-flames.  Everyone 
has observed the black or  brown  stains} on 
ceilings over chandeliers or bracket burners, 
particularly  on those  which  burn  during 
the daytime as well  as  the  night, and  has 
probably ascribed them to the  smoke  from 
the burner, perhaps not without  wondering 
that a  flame  so  clear,  and  apparently  so 
smokeless, should be able to stain  the white 
plaster four or five feet above it.  According 
to Mr.  Fletcher,  the  apparent  absence  of 
smoke from the  ordinary  gas-flame  is  real, 
and the stains  which  appear {on  plastered 
surfaces over it are not caused by smoke, but 
by dust, which is thrown upward  in  the  as­
cending current of healed air over the flame, 
and clings to the ceiling.  A part of the dust 
consisting of vegetable  or  animal  fibers, is 
| probably charred by the flame, and  this por­
tion gives the brown color of  finely  divided 
| carbon to the stain; and the flame further as­
sists the discoloration by sending  up watery 
vapor, from the union of the  hydrogen in it 
with the oxygen of the air, which,  when the 
gas is first lighted, condenses as moisture on 
the cold plaster, and collects flying  particles 
on its  adherent  surface.  The  reason  why 
lamps do not, when  properly burned, cause 
a similiar discoloration is, that they are mov­
ed frequently from  place  to  place, and, be­
ing generally of less  power  than a  burner, 
have less tendency to set up a strong ascend­
ing current in the air above them.  The best 
remedy for  the  staining  is, as might be ex­
pected, the suspension of a hood or bell over 
the flame.  By this  the  upward  current is 
dispered, and diffusing  itself in  the  cooler 
air about it, reaches the ceiling  only slowly, 
and over a large  surface,  instead  of  being 
concentrated in a small  area.

New  K ind  of Glass.

The  new  glass  invented in  Vienna  is 
transparent and more brilliant than common 
crystal, can be cut and  polished, and, when 
fused, adheres  to  iron,  bronze,  and  zinc. 
Singularly enough, this glass differs from all 
others, new or old, in  that  its  composition 
includes none of the  usual  ingredients—si- 
lex, potash, soda, lime, or borax.

Those who use brass letters on  glass win­
dows know how often  they  drop  off  from 
unequal expansion, or from the too energetic 
efforts  of  window  cleaners.  They  will  be 
j glad to have the following recipe:  Litharge 
j two parts; white lead, one  part; boiled  lin- 
! seed oil, three  parts;  gum  copal,  one  part.
: Mixed just  before using, this forms a quick- 
i  drying  and secure cement.

The Mechanical  World, of London,  says 
that the Uuited States has the  best  machin­
ery in the  world;  and M. Lourdelot,  who 
was recently sent over  here by the  French 
Minister of Commerce, says  that  the  super­
iority of tools used here and the attention to 
details, too often  neglected  in  Europe, are 
elements of  danger to European  industries.

PLA N ES.

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

PA N S.

Fry, Acme.................................... ..........dis 40&10
60
Common, polished....................... ..........dis
8
Dripping....................................... ........ f  fi)

R IV E TS.

Iron and  Tinned..................................dis
Copper Rivets and B urs........... ........dis

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

I “A” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 24 to 27 10* 
j “B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs * c  $  ft extra.

40
40

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

j IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................  5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............7 75
| IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne.................12 00
: IX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal  Terne...............16 90
Sisal, *  In. and  larger..................... c».........  9
| Manilla.............................................................  15*
¡Steeland  Iron..............................................dis  50
S Try and Bevels............................................. dis  50
Mitre  ........................................................... dis  20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 20
3 40
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 IRON.

In casks of 600 fl>s, ^   lb............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   lb.....................  

6
6*

13 00
15  00
16

t i n n e r ’s   s o l d e r .

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

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6  75.

10x14, < harcoal................................   6 50
10xl4,Charcoal............................. 
8 50
12x12, Charcoal................................   6 50
12x12,  Charcoal  ..............................  8 50
14x20, Charcoal................................   ¿50
14x20,  Charcoal................................  8 50

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

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel.  Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ..........dis  35
0  neida Community, Hawley & Norton’s  
  60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ......................................  60
Mouse, choker.......................................20c  doz  "
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1  26 ^  doz
Bright  M arket.............................................  dis 60
Annealed Market..........................................dis 60
Coppered Market...........   ..........................dis  55
Extra Bailing................................................ dis 55
Tinned  Market............................................. kis 40
Tinned  Broom.............................................$Mb 09
Tinned M attress....................................... $1 lb  8*
Coppered  Spring  Steel........................... dis 37*
Tinned Spring Steel..................................dis 37*
Plain Fence............................................... $  lb 3*
Barbed  Fence.............................................:...
Copper.......................................................new  list net
BrasB...................................  

WIRE GOODS.

Bright.............................................................dis  70
Screw Eyes...................................................tdis  70
Hook’s ........................................................... dis  70
1  Gate Hooks and  Eyes................................dis  70

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
< oe’s  Genuine.....................................dis  50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  w rought.............dis  65
| Coe’s Pat.,  malleable.................................. dis  70

MISCELLANEOUS.

35
20
d0

Pumps,  Cistern................................... dis  60&20
70
Screw s........................................................ 
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers, American......................... .,... 
33*

new list net

Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.........dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrounht Loos'"  P in .............................dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ............dis
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
dis
Wrought Table...................................... dis
Wrought Inside  Blind......................... dis
Wrought Brass...................................... dis
Blind. Clark’s ............................ 
dis
Blind, Parker’s ...................................... dis
Blind,  Shepard’s................................... dis
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2*, per gross 
In  the  venti- i Spring for Screen Doors 3x3... .pergross

tipped .......................... 

 

 

60 
60 
60 
50&10 
60 
60&  5 
60&  5
60&  5 
60 
60 
65&10 
70&10 
70&10 
70 
15  00 
18 00

CAPS.

CA TRIDG ES.

.. .per  m $ 65
60
35
60

Ely’s 1-10............. ...........................
Hick’s C. F ......................................
G. D.................................................
Musket............................................
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list
Rim Fire, United  States............... ........ dis
Central Fire.................................... ........ dis

50
50
*
Socket Firm er............................... __ dis 65&10
Socket Framing............................ __ 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

C H IS ELS.

COMBS.

j Curry, Lawrence’s ....................... __ dis
Hotchkiss  ............................. — ....dis
Brass,  Backing’s ..........................
Bibb’s ............................................
B e er................ ...............................
Fenns’............................................

COCKS.

33*
25

40&10
49&10
40&10
60

C O PPER .

D R IL LS

Planished, 14 oz cut to size........
14x52,14x56,14 x60.....................

..........¡fifl)  37
..  39

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

ELBOW S.

Com. 4 piece, 6  in ......................... ..doz net $1  10
*&10
A djustable.................................... .......dis

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

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 Hasps........................... dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15
12 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Buie and Level Co.’s ...............dis 

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
14 

13 
GAUGES.

20

50
50
50
50
30
33*
28
18

50

T ie n  Era All Glam Stato

-A N D -

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, H and. .30 c 40&10 

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

and  longer

H IN G ES.
60
..........dis
Gate, l lark’s, 1,2,  3.............
.per doz, net,2 50
State.......................................
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4*  14 
3*
.net
10*
Screw Hook and Eye,  *   .................. net
.net
8*
Screw Hook and Eye %..................... net
.net
Screw Hook and Eye  * .......................net
7*
.net
Screw Hook and Eye,  * ....................net
7*
. .dis 60&10
Strap and  T ...........................................dis

HO LLO W   W ARE

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

HO 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
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ....................d 
40
H cm acite............... 
dis 
50

 

LOCKS—DOOR.

Bussell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s ........................dis  60
Branford’s ................................................... dis  60
Norivaik’s ..........•......................................... dis  60

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

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...............................dis  49
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ...........dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise.....................................dis  25

MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt  Eye......................................$15 00 dis 40&10
H unt’s ........................................$18 50d is20& 10

N A ILS.

Common. Brad and Fencing.

10dto  60d..................
8d and 9 d adv..........
6d and 7d  adv..........
4d and 5d  adv..........
3d  advance...............
3d fine  advance.......
Clinch nails, adv —
4d
Finishing 
1  lOd
Size—inches  f  3
1*
$1 25 1  50  1  75 2 00
Adv. 19 keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.

8d 
2* 

6d
2

....¥ k e g $ 2  30
25
50
75
1 50
3 00
1  75

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis
Stebbin’s Genuine...................................... dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring......................dis

70 ! 
70 ! 
25

Till IV  ERA USIATE

The'original  cost  of  a  roller  skate  is  of 
minor importance to you,  provided  you  buy 
the one that can be run at the least  possible 
cost in time and money.

We claim the NEW  ERA  to  be  the most

M oiical Boiler  Skate  in

and this in connection with their IMMENSE 
POPULARITY  with those  who  have  used 
hem,  commend  them  to  the  attention  of 
every rink owner in the country.

Our  CLAMP  SKATE  is  the  only  screw 
clamp  skate  made  which  operates  all  the 
clamps with one key at the same time.

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.

MAULS.

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Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................ dis  55 j
Zinc, with brass bottom ............................. dis  50 !
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AGENTS FOR  MICHIGAN.

Sand for Circular and Price Lists. .

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Jo1sb@rs  of

PAOK.B KS

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CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse M arket and W ater Streets.

Kline’s  Patent  Candler  and Egg Carrier.

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for Sale by G.  C. SAYLES, Sole  A gent  for  th e  U nited  States, P. O. Box  1973, 
M uskegon, Mich. 
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Buttor. Bus, Choose, Frail, Grail, Hit, Boor, Port PMito ¡ 

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION 

« r r a i r m n n w   W TilTI 

O Y S T E R S ,

-AND  JOBBERS  OF-

p. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

-WHOLESALE  D EALE R S  IE —

Butter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

G R A N D XIAPID8.  -  MICHIGAN.

STRAIGHT  GOODS—NO  SCHElÆBî.

We manufacture a fall line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
We  carry  an ¿immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  Walnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.  _ _ itfiAi
We handle  FLORIDA Or­
anges  direct  from  the  groves. 
The crop is large and fine  and 
low prices are looked for.

We are agents for the CEL­
EBRATED  J.  S.  FARREN  & 
CO.’S Oysters and are prepared 
to  fill  orders  for large  or  small 
lots, cans or in bulk, at the  low­
est rates.

Oranges
Oysters

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SEA R S & CO.
!  Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  fox*

A 1WTRO Y   C H E E S E

jG L t Manufacturers» Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

\ House  and  Store  Shades Made to Order.
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llTELSOlT  B R O S . <&  CO.

68 Monroe  Street, Grand Rapids.

Choice Butter a Specialty!

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BANANAS.  LEMONS. EGGS,  CHEESE,  VEG­

ETABLES,  APPLES,  CIDER.

Careful Attention Paid to  Filling  Orders.

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 5,1884.

MUSKEGON  MATTERS.

Facts and Faccies  Picked  up at that  Place.
Dan. L. Root succeeds  Brown & Hamblin 

In the second hand furniture business.

E. R. Ford has removed his grocery  stock 

from the old location to the Rice block.

Bedard & Metayer succeed  Wm.  T.  Rog­

ers in the drug business on Pine street.

With a continuous  pavement  nearly  two 
miles in length, Western  avenue, presents a 
driveway which has few  equals  and  no  su-
periors in Western Michigan. 

Brief  Answers to  Occasional Correspond­
W. J. Price—The fur  market is steady at 

ents.

present

Geo. H.  Seymour—Yes,  stolen  sweets— 

and trout—archest.

C. C. Drew—Yes, Ionia is a nice place and 

possesses many attractions.

J. N. Bradford—Yes,  promiscuous  letter I 

writing is dangerous business.

W. A. Dunlap—Where are you  now, any- j 

wav?  Haven’t heard of you for an age.

W. S. Horn—Yes,  the  park  opposite  the 
Spring  Lake  House  is  the  finest  in  the 
State.

Geo. Dunton—Yes, we believe the expres­
sion, “Oh, you little dear,” was original with 
| yourself.
, 

Dr. J. B. Evans—Your  second  drama  is
p r . d. n . uvao»— m u i  bgwuu  m»».»
It is not unlikely that the druggists of this j  d e v o jd   0 f   pi0t  or interest and is  doomed to 

city will form an association for  mutual and  meef. wj^jj failure.
protective purposes.  There are fifteen drug­
gists in the city, nearly all  of  whom  would 
co-operate in an  undertaking of  the  kind, 
in  which  case 
the  results  would  am- j 
ply  compensate  for  the  expenditure  o f ; 

time  and  money  involved in  bringing the j 

S.  S. Burnett—Yes, 

insurance  is  a  good 
thing, unless  you  have to pay the  losses as 
well as the premiums.

M. C. Russell—Yes, Chicago is  a  wicked 
city, and the  lack of rooms at the  hotels  is 
sometimes embarrassing.

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society up to a practical reality.

It will be a surprise to dealears 

the  vi(,ing you handled the subject properly, 

J. E. Ireland—Yes, it is small satisfaction 
for a poor  marksman to go hunting  with a 
shotrgun.  A cannon is more effective.

L. M. Mills—Yes, we believe Bonanza has 
more good-looking schoolmarms to the square j 

Little progress  has been  made of  late in- 
unearthing the fraudulent acts of the Schim- 
mels, although  the  recent  examinations of
A. C. Sharp—A treatise on  cat  doctoring
Park A. C. Bradford and  Dan. L. Root have  would undoubtedly yield good  returns, pro- 
served to •throw |  considerable  light on 
subject  There is no longer any doubt  that 
Lew. Hawkins—We  believe  your patent 
the Schimmel failure was one of  the rotten-  car gpring couid  be made to  pay  enormous- 
est frauds ever perpetrated in Michigan, and  ^  provjding the thing was  pushed  proper-
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every honorable man would be glad to see all 
the facts in the case shown up in their proper 
light and the prime movers in the  atrocious 
steal receive the punishment  they so  richly 
deserve.

inch than any other place of  its  size  in  the j 
F. C.  Brisbiu—Yes,  promises  are  cheap, j 
purpose of disposing of his  products.  Such  ord ag a  pedestrian  equal  to  Rowell’s,  it j 
hibitions would  undoubtedly  pay  well, es- j 

towns to learn that  Muskegon  lias no ordi-  anQ \vt* set? it*» icttwu  «»j  j ' « 
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and we see no reason why  you  should  not
nance governing  the  actions  of  vegetable  eontjnue to aggravate your creditors—seeing; 
peddlers and huxters, and that every farmer  .fc dones^ cost anything, 
is allowed the privilege of the streets for the j 

A. C. B.—It does look like small  business
to wal ka mile  for the  purpose  of reading 
some  one  else’s  paper.  Pay  for  it like a 
man and you will feel better.
|  D. S. Haugh—Yes, a series of sparring ex­

leniency is a manifest injustice to legitimate j injgjlt 
traders, who help meet the expenses  of  the 
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city government, the grading and  paving  of 
the streets,  etc., and  should  receive  some 
sort of immunity from a class  who  contrib­
ute nothing to these objects.  T h e T ra des­
man has prepared a number  of  blank  peti­
tions to the Common Council, which it hopes 
to see thorougly  circulated  and  receive  the 
signature of every dealer in the city.  Ener­
getic action on the part of those most direct­
ly interested would relieve the  entire  trade 
of an evil which  has  been  particularly op­
pressive the present season.

1. E. Messmore—It is hard  to  advise  one 
! in your situation.  Now that  the  campaign 
is over, the only employment  we  could sug- 
gest would be for you to furnish  wiDd  for a 
! baloon factory.

pecially in the towns  throughout  Northern 
Michigan, where you are best known.

John Read—Since  you  have  made a rec- j 

a g0(Mj idea to  challenge  that  gen- j

nt  thp  tleraan to a walking match.

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Andrew Wierengo has at last  received in­
telligence as to the whereabouts  of  his  ab-
sconding book-keeper, or  rather,  his where- j 
abouts about a fortnight  ago.  On  the  15th 
n it, he  called  at  Gowans  &  Stover’s  soap 
manufactory at  Buffalo, introduced  himself 
as “Mr. Sanford,” placed an ordor  for twen­
ty-five boxes of soap, and asked  the  firm  to 
cash a draft on Wierengo for 825.  The  de­
tails of the call are thus described in a letter 
from the firm in question:

Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 20,1884.

A. Wierengo, Esq., Muskegon,  Mich.
D e a r  Sir —Your postal of the  18th  inst. 
is received and  noted.  The  circumstances 
in the order we wrote you  about  are  these:
On the 15th inst., a gentlemanly young man, 
calling  himself  Mr. Sanford, called at  our 
office, and said he was  in  your  employ.  He 
knew the kinds and amount of oursoaps you  llc„ 
handle, and seemed quite well posted on our 
business relations, and  regretted  that  our | 
agent Mr. Toad was not in,-as iie  claimed to 
know him  well, having  met  him  in  your 
store.  After a short visit he gave us the or­
der we  wrote  you  about.  He  claimed to 
have been on a visit to friends in New York, 
and before leaving  mentioned that he was a 
little short, and would hardly  dare to ask us 
as strangers to cash his draft on you for 825. 
We told him we would gladly do it for  him, 
but would  have to telegraph to you  first to 
make sure  he  was  Mr. Sanford,  etc.  He 
then left, saying he  would  call  again, and 
that is the last  we  saw of him.  We  have 
marked the order off.

Yours, Very Truly, Gowans & Sto v er.
Immediately after leaving Gowans & Stov­
er’s, McKay went out to Lautz Bros. & Co.’s 
factory where he introduced himself as “Mr. 
Black.”  Placing  an  order  for  twenty-five j 
boxes of soap, he  asked  for a loan of  835, j 
and was  accommodated.  A  draft  for  that 
amount was drawn on Mr. Wierengo  by the 
firm, but, of  course, was  refused,  although 
the soap was accepted, as nothing was known 
of the order until the goods reached  Muske­
gon. 
It is supposed that  McKay  has  been 
hiding in Canada, and that his appearance on 
this side of the line was  for  the  purpose of 
replenishing his  depleted  exchequer. 
It is 
not improbable that the 81,400  stolen  from 
Wierengo  has  been  already  expended  in 
riotous living, and that McKay  will  depend 
for subsistance for some time to come on his 
In  the mean  time, 
swindling propensities. 
concerted efforts will be  made to land  him 
behind prison bars.

Things  Heard on  the Street.

That the days of cheap trash are  number-
OleThat there  never  was  a  better  time for 
dealers to secure good  credit by discounting 
their bills.

That no matter how dark the hour or how 
dubious the outlook, Michigan dealers never 
dismiss  hope.

That dealers can raise the standard of their 
business  by  raising  the  character  of  the 
goods they keep in stock.

That nothing but the quick and aggressive 
movement of our  bounteous  crops  can  stir 
the sluggish current of the channels of trade.

To  W hom  Do You  Refer?

From the Coopersville  Observer.

The  Michigan  T radesman  devotes 
about a column each week to  F. C. Brisbln, 
of Berlin.  Better let up  on  him  and  give 
some one  else a  deal. 
Its  readers  in  this 
vicinity would appreciate the  paper  just as 
much aa they do now.

Andrew Wierengo—No, you do  not  have
to  obtain a license  to  write  poetry,  but it 
might be advisable to get the  followiug  se- j
lections copyrighted:

There is a happy land 

Far, far away,

Where lives a friend of mine,

Alex.  McKay.

Alex. McKay is now a rover,
But he could not swindle Gowans & Stover;
I fear he has now a hard row  to hoe 
Unless he meets lots of Lautz  Bros.  &  Co.]

The  New  W all  F inish  Company.

M. B. Church, of  the Church Finish  Co., | 
was seen by a reporter of T h e  T ra desm a n j 
the other day, and questioned relative to the j 
present condition and future prospects of the j 
new corporation.  He stated  that the  work j
a new i,ne of goods on the market

would be attained.  The plant  of the  new j 

was being pushed forward with all  possible j 
rapidity and  that by January 1  that  object ; 

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company consists of 120 acres  of  land, for- j 
merly known as the White plaster mill prop-1 
erty,  located on  the  Grandville  road, just 
south of the city limits.  The buildings  for- 
merly used in  the  manufacture  of  plaster j 
are being fitted up for the new  use,  and mo- J 
tive  power  will  be  furnished  by  a  sixty 
horse-power engine.  The  water power fur 
nished by Plaster creek, as  yet unimproved, 
will be utilized another season.  Eight run 
of thirty-six inch mill stones will be employ-1 
ed, both the grinding and mixing to  be done i 

by a new process, patented  by Mr.  Church, j 

The plaster rock will  be  obtained  from  a | 
new strata eighty feet from the  surface, dis- j
covered while boring for  that  purpose  this j 
fall.  The strata is solid rock,  twenty  feet 
thick, and of exceptionally fine  quality.  Ar­
rangements are  now  being  made to sink a j 
shaft in order to get at the strata, which will 
be elevated by means of hoisting machinery. J 
The new company starts  out  under  favor- ; 
able auspices,  and  will  undoubtedly  meet ] 
with the saine success that  marked  the Al- 
abastine  Co.  under  Mr.  Church’s  manage­
ment 

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Pertinent  Business Suggestions.

When sending goods by mail always have 
your own name appear on the outside of the 
package.

If  you  send  goods  by  express  and  pay 
charges, state on the outside of  the package, 
Express prepaid.

If  you  send  a  package  without instruc­
tions, be sure and send a  letter  by  the  first 
mail.

Always read a letter twice before sending, 
because any one is liable to make a mistake.

W hat Helped  Him  Out.

A certain dealer was out hunting recently, 
and a storm coming up he crept into a hollow 
log for shelter.  After the  6torm  abated  he 
endeavored to crawl out, but found that  the 
log had swelled so that it was impossible for 
him to make  his  exit.  He  endeavored  to 
compress himself  as much  as  possible,  but 
with indifferent success.  He thought  of all 
the mean things he had ever done, until final­
ly his mind reverted to the fact that  he  had 
stopped  The  Tradesm an  without paying 
for it for the time he had had it.  This made 
him feel so small that he slipped out  of  the 
log without difficulty.

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37  39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
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WHOLESALE

I R A   O.  G R E E N .
O ysters  and  Fruits.
I  MANOKEN  BRAND.

T X  03-
Jo tin  Caulfield,
Oysters 1  Oysters!  :  Quick  Work  Soap.

Sole  Agent for

Sole  Agent.

130 and 32 Ionia Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

WHOLESALE

OYSTER  DEPOT!

117  Monro©  St.

WE HAVE NONE BUT  THE  BEST  BALTI­
MORE AND  NEW  YORK  STOCK  AND  WILL 
GUARANTEE  YOU  SATISFACTION.
Give  us  a  Trial.
DETTENTHALER.

RETAIL  GROCERS in different parts of the State report QUICK  W ORK the  best 
selling  SOAP  that  they  keep.  Why?  Because  it  is  exactly  as  represented. 
It
makes your CLOTHES WHITE and CLEAN.  It SAVES LABOR and FUEL.  It SAVES
It  leaves the HANDS  SOFT and SMOOTH,  and 
BOILING  and  HARD  RUBBING. 
NO HOUSE  FULL  OF  STEAM. 
In  price  IT  IS  CHEAPER,  and is POSITIVELY 
GUARANTEED  equal  to  SIDDALL’S,  ALLISON’S,  BOGUE’S, WARD S, or ELEC­
TRIC  LIGHT, or any other LABOR  SAVING  SOAPS in the market  and  WILL  NOT 
INJURE  THE  HANDS, or FINEST FABRIC, for it is made of the  BEST  AND  PUR­
EST s o a p MATERIAL.  QUICK W ORK SOAP is packed in 100 or 5012 oz. Bars in 
a box, with PICTURE  CARDS, 3 ft Printed Paper Sacks, Tablets, etc., in  each  Box,  so 
that  it  will  introduce  itself. 
It  has  a  NEAT  OUTSIDE  WRAPPER,  the INSIDE 
WRAPPER  IS  WAXED  to smooth the irons.  Retail Grocers are invited to send  us  an 
order, 3 to 5 Box Ixrts, DELIVERED FREE  to any Railroad Station in the State.

J. H. Thom pson & Co

W holesale Agents,

59 Jefferson Avenue

Detroit, Midi.

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