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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  19,1884. 

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NO. 61.

ALBERT  COYE  S

J O B B E R S   O F

Horse  Covers,

Oiled  Clothing, 
Awnings,

Tents,  Etc.

C ^nal  S treet.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

JOHN  CAULFIELD

Is  oui*  A g e n t  in G ran d   K ap ld s  fo r  o u r 

FAM OUS

The b est easy  w asher m anufactured.

B. J. Johnson & Go.,
GLOVER SEED

M IL W A U K E E .

—AND—

’ Dealers having a surplus  of  either  Clover 
Seed or Beans can  always  firid  a  cash  mar­

BEANS!
ket by addressingW. T. LlMOBEffl, lent.

91 Canal street.

OYSTERS !

We duplicate Chicago and D etroit prices and 
g u aran tee  as  strictly   fresh   stock  and  as  well 
filled  cans  as  an y   in  th e  m ark et—a t bottom  
prices.

S S E 1 > S   !

Clover, Tim othy and all  kinds  field  seeds  a t 
bottom  prices.  W rite fo r quotations  w hen  in 
need of seeds.

Oranges and Lemons

G reen and D ried F ruits, B u tter, Eggs,  and  all
kinds of Produce.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

122  Monroe  Street,  G rand  Rapids,  Michigan.

—FOR  TH E—

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

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,
WHOLESALE  AND  RETAR,
S S S D   STORE,

—AT T H E -

91  C a n al  St., G ra n d   R a p id s, M ich.

ff. T. LAMORBAUÎ, MBit
WEATHERLY k CO.,

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.,  W holesale  and  R etail

IRON  PIPE, 

B r a ss  Goods,  I r o n  a n d   B r a s s F it t in g s 

M a n t l e s,  Gr a t e s,  Ga s  F ix t u r e s, 

P l u m b e r s,  St e a m   F it t e r s,

—And  M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice
DO  YOU  K N O W
Xiorillard’s  Climax

—THAT—

PLUG  TOBACCO

JL orillard’s B ose  L e a f F in e  C u t T obacco 

W ith Red T in Tag, is th e  best?  Is  th e p u rest; 
is n ever adu lterated  w ith glucose, barytes, mo­
lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as  is  the 
case w ith m any o th er tobaccos?
is also m ade of th e  finest  stock,  and  fo r  aro­
m atic chew ing q uality is  second to  none.
ta k e  first ran k  as a  solid  durable* sm oking  to­
bacco w herever introduced.
L o rilla rd ’s  F a m o u s  Snuffs 
have  been  used  fo r  o ver  124  years,  and are 
sold to  a larg er e x te n t th a n  any others.

L o rilla rd ’s  N avy  C lip p in g s 

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Special A tten tio n  given  to   Collections  in  City 

or  Country.  Also

FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT

Insurance,

Shoe and  L eath er............................. 
Boston
Cooper.................................................D ayton, Ohio
Union......................................Pittsburgh,  Pa.
G erm ania.................................... Cincinnati,  Ohio

T otal A ssets represented, $3,516,808. 

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Rapids

General Collectors,

PAILS.

W H O L E S A L E

VOL. 2.
ROCK  BOTTOM!
PRICE-LIST  of TINWARE.
1 P in t, Covered............................... p er dozen  45
2 P in t,  Covered.................................................
3 P in t,  Covered.................................................  S?
2 Q uart, Covered...............................................,  2:
3 Q uart, C overed.................................................
4 Quaint, C overed.............................................. %  ^
8 Q uart, Covered.............................................."
3 Q uart, D inner (with cup  on top)............. *00
5 Q uart, F larin g ................................................,
8 Q uart, F larin g ................................................i  XX
10 Q uart, F la rin g ............................................... A  VX
14 Q uart, F la rin g .. 
- v>...................................\  SX
12 Q uart, “  Iro n  Clad 
....... • - - .........................4 su
W ith flat or p it copper bottom s, No.  ..... $ j* 00
W ith flat o r pit copper bottom s, No. 8.......14  00
W ith flat or pit copper bottom s, No. 9...... it>  uu
Tea K ettles, No. 7, $540;  No. 8, $6;  No.  9, $6,.>0. 
Tea Pots, octagon, w ith spun tin  b o tto m s^  pt.
T ea or Coffee Pots, w ith spun  copper bottom s, 
Coffee  P ots  tin  bottom , 1 qt. $1;  2 q t.  $1  .,>;  3 
Cullenders, sm all, $1 08;  large, $2.
T)it)Ders, 2 ot. pieced, 85c i  p in t cups, »«c. 
Steam ers, N o .i, $3;  No. 8, $3.50;  No. 9,  $4. 
Flasks, 1 pt., 60c.
011 Cans,  1 gallon, $3.
P ie Tins, square, 60c.
B read Bars, 85c.
Cake Bars, 75c.
T ea Steepers, 1 qu art, 8oc 
Sprinklers, 6 q u art, $4.to;
B attles, 18c.
S2
N utm eg graters, 20c. 
Milk S trainers, small, $1,  large,,  $3.

$1  08;  3 pt. $1  50;  4 pt. $1  .5,  5 pt. $*  oo 
a  n t  $4  25 ;  5 pt. $5 25 ;  6 pt. $6  to.
at. $3;  4 q t- $2  50.

PIECED  TINWARE.

WASHBOILEBS.

10 q uart,  $6.

Lisl^Pansflpiece. *1.75; Apiece, *3 35.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Egg B eaters, “Acm e,” w ith crank,  90e.
Stove Polish, 35 and  60c.
F ire Shovels, 50c.
ft $1.
T ea and Coffee Canm sters, 1 ft, 80c,
D ust P ans, 80c. 
,
. , .  
Slop B uckets, No. 3, covered, gold band, $5. 
Stove L ifters, 35c.
B asting Spoons, 13 m en, 45c.
Candle Sticks, 35c. 
K nives and Forks, No. 18. 45c:  No.  18,  bolster 
ed, 65c;  No. 38, B one, bolstered, $1,  No.  69, 
bone, fancy, bolstered, $1.20.

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P arin g  K nives, 30c and 60c.
B utcher K nives, fine, 95; bolstered, $1  50.
B read K nives, 90c.
Shoe Polish, Bixby’s No. 3,35c.
Corn Poppers, $1. 
Cuspadores, Japanned, all colors, 95e.
Gem P ans, 8 on fram e, $3.25.
P ad Locks, 90c.
W isp Brooms, 85c.
T raps, a  hole, 45c;  4 hole, 85c.

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PRESSED  TINWARE.

F ull variety always in stock, on  w hich  spec­
ial low prices will be sent on application.  Also 
headquarters fo r F iv e  a n d  T en C en t C o u n ter 
G oods, G lassw are  a n d   C ro ckery.
Toys, Dolls  &  Holiday Goods
H aving b ought a large New  F ork  b an k ru p t 
stock a t auction, I can and will  undersell  any 
p a rty  in the State.  Mail orders receive prom pt 
attention.  V isiting  buyers  please  call  when 
here.  Term s n et  cash.

E. L. Wright,
THE  “BEE-HIVE,”
W.N. FULLER &C0
Engravers on Wood,

DESIGNERS  AND

-  G rand Rapids, Mich.

14 N orth D ivision St. 

F in e   M e ch an ical  a n d   F u rn itu r e  W o rk , In - 

c.Jiding  B u ild in g s, ¿ tc .,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

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STEAM  LAUNDRY

MICH.

43 and 45 K ent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FillST CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEfflCALS.

tended to.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­
GRAND RAPIDS

M g /

(Established  1866)  is  acknow ledged  to   be  the 
m ostcom plete,thorough, practical, economical 
and tru ly  popular school of its kind.  D em an d  
fo r its g ra d u a te s  g re a te r  th a n   th e   su p p ly . 
F o r particulars enclose stam p fo r College Jo u r­
nal.  A ddress  C.  G.  SW K N SBEEG , 
'J rand 
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  LIST.

ONDEES

PROMPTLY

FILLED 

And Lashes of All Bonds and Prices,

G.10YS&CO,M AW )S

Grand Rapids,  Michigan.

T H E   BUTTON  BUSINESS.

V iew s o f a   M an  W h o  K now s  A ll  A b o u t I t. 
From  th e  Shoe and L eath er Review.

The  Review  representative  was  talking 
with the biggest button man in  the country.
He is a  Yankee, keen, bright, and  incisive.
He  knows so much  about  buttons  that  he 
did not know where to begin.

“ if  you talk about  buttons for clothing,” 
he said,  “ the  fabrics  are  silk, twist, serge, 
etc.  The  buttons  used  on  clothing  and 
underwear fire largely composed of celluloid, 
bone, paper, rubber, etc.”

« How many buttons  are yearly  imported 

into America ?”

“ If  you mean by that to  ask me as to the 
value, I can say that  the importation of fine 
buttons will amount  to not  less than $750,- 
000 a year.  These are mostly for dress goods 
and  are what we call wrought  buttons.  Of 
this  quality  of  buttons  at  least  $500,000 
worth  are made in  this  country.  Of  hard 
buttons now made  in  this country it  is not 
too much to say that  half  a million  dollars 
are annually invested  at  a  profit.  There  is 
one class of button, used  in children’s cloth­
ing and in the shoe  trade, which  represents 
annually not less than  $2,000,000.

What  is  the  latest 

in 

the  style  of 

buttons?”

“A new article is being placed on the mar­
ket  formed  of  solid  leather.  Before  we 
talk about that, let me say that  the silk and 
twist buttons are made  principally  in  New 
York and Massachusetts.  The hard buttons 
are  manufactured  in  New  Jersey,  Rhode 
Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.  The 
American  buttons  made  for  clothing  are 
manufactured in Massachusetts.  The leather 
button  is  manufactured  solely  in  Provi­
dence, R. I.”

“ In  what  place  are  the  most  buttons 

heretofore been deemed  of  no  value.  The 
makers have  just filled a novel  order  from 
Tiffiany  &  Co.,  jewelers,  of  New  York. 
That  firm  makes  a  handsome  fancy  box 
which  has always had legs of  turned-wood, 
put on with  glue.  They have  just  ordered 
3,000,000  knobs of  leather, with a rounding 
or oval  top, which  are  perfectly  noiseless, 
and will not scratch or abrade anything with 
which  they come in  contact.  As you  prob­
ably know, sole leather is the hardest of  all 
leathers.  It is increased in  hardness in  the 
course of  manufacture.  The  leather  is cut 
into small pieces, and the eye or nail  forced 
into  it  while  in  a  moist  or  pliable  state. 
When  put  under  pressure  and  allowed  to 
dry, it becomes one of the hardest materials. 
You  know  that  paper, in  the  form  of  car 
wheels, will  take  the  best  steel  edge off  a 
tool.  Leather can  be made as  hard  as  the 
car wheel.  The button, before being placed 
on  the  market, was  subjected  to  a  3,000 
pound pressure.”

“ How do you stamp it out ? ”
“ Not by one, two, or  three  blows. 

It  is 
coaxed down  into shape by a series of  pres­
sure.  First, twenty-five pounds,  then  fifty, 
then 200, then 600, and  3,200  pounds  next. 
Leather  must  be worked  gradually, and  so 
the last  4 lick ’  represents a strength of  five- 
horse power.”

“What is there new in the line of buttons?” 
“ It happens  to be my own invention, and 

is made of wood pulp.”

“ But wood pulp is nothing new.”
“ Yes, and  no.  They  say paper  is  made 
of  wood  pulp.  It  is  not  true,  for  linen, 
cotton, and  vegetable substances are mixed. 
The  button  of  which  I  speak  is  made  of 
wood  pulp  pure  and  simple—wood  in  its 
native state without  the addition of  foreign 
substances.”

made?”

“ In  Attleboro,  Mass.  In  Williamsburg,
N.  J.,  they  make  a  silk  mohair-covered 
button;  In Waterbury, Conn., a hard, brass, 
celltiloid and rubber button.  The fancy me­
tallic  dress  buttons,  used  principally  in 
ladies’ trimmings,  are mg.de  in  York  State 
and Rhode Island.”

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a year.” 

“ What is the cheapest button made ? ”
“ The shoe button.”
“ Arp, they imported?”
“ Yes, to the tune of half a million dollars 
“ Where do they come from ? ”
“ Principally  from  Germany.  They  are 
made  there and  sold  for fifty cents a great 
gross—think of  that, 1,728  buttons for  half 
a dollar.”

“ Can’t the Americans compete ? ”
“ Yes,  and  they  do.  In  three  factories 
they turn out about $2,000,000 yearly.  These 
buttons are made  from  pulp and a combina­
tion  of  straw  and  clay.  The  clay 
is 
Japanned.  That  is  the  Yankee  way  of 
beating foreign importation.”

Is the manufacture of  the eye of  a but­

ton a separate industry?”

“Yes;  I  know  of  one factory where sev­
eral tons of brass and iron are used monthly 
for this portion of  the button.  Of  the eye 
makers, a Waterbury, Conn., company is the 
biggest.  They  use  ten  tons  of  brass  per 
month.”

“ Why  cannot  America  make  as  fine  a 

button as is made abroad ?”

“ Of late we have been doing it;  but  it  is 
this way :  The feature of an imported button 
is its covering.  Our manufacturers are buy­
ing  the  covering  over  there  by  the  yard. 
They then  take  scrap  tin, press it  into  the 
form  required  to make  the  button-top  and 
bottom and cover it with the imported cloth. 
This lessens the cost, as tJie scrap tin  which 
they utilize was heretofore thrown away.  It 
may surprise you  to know  that  the greater 
proportion of  buttons  used  for  pantaloons 
are  now  made  from  refuse  tin  and  iron. 
This comes from tinners and stove factories, 
The best quality of button made for clothing 
is what is  technically called  4 high  brass.’ ” 

“ What about fancy buttons ?”
“ Those manufactured here are made from 
a low grade of  brass and  colored  like  jew­
elry.  They  are  principally  wrought  into 
form  by  hand.  Thus  far  we  have  said 
nothing  about  the porcelain  buttons which 
are so  largely used  on shirts  and  drawers 
They  are  principally  made  in  Connecticut 
and Massachusetts.  The rubber button, used 
largely in gentleman’s clothing, forms  a  big 
share  of  the  button  contingent.  There  is 
still another button made of  leather, largely 
employed  by  upholsterer,  carriage-maker, 
saddlery, and harness  trade.  It  is  simple, 
durable and  strong.  It  is  made  from  the 
scrap of  sole leather which, heretofore, boot 
and shoe makers  have  either  thrown  away 
or consumed by fire.  You will  be surprised 
when I tell you that this section of  industry 
has already  been worked  up  to  a very im 
portant  point.  There  are  already  on  the 
market upwards of  800 varieties and  styles 
of  leather  buttons.  Everything is imitated 
in leather.  One style in particular, about six 
times as large as the leather button made for 
ladies’ kid gloves, is used  by the million for 
interior  decoration.  The Wagner and Pull 
man  Palace  Car  companies  order  them  by 
the  hogshead, and  there were several  hogs­
heads used in the interior  decoration of  one 
New York opera house.”

“ What about the cost  of  these buttons?” 
“ They are  cheaper  than  any  ever manu 
factured, because the material employed has

T h e  U b iq u ito u s  D ru m m e r  as  a n   O bject 

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o f In te re s t.

F ranc  B. W ilkie in th e  Chicago Times.

At the outset of my journey I was a  good 
deal surprised when, after  registering at the 
hotel, I would be  asked,  “Do  you  wish  a 
sample-room?”  My  education  led  to  the 
conclusion that a sample-room  is a place de­
voted  to  mixing  and drinking cock-tails  in 
the front  room, and playing auction-pitch in 
the back-room.  Hence  my  surprise  to  be 
asked if I wished a sample-room;  and it was 
only  after  several  experiences  of the kind 
that I  began to learn  what  a  sample-room 
is  in  the  country  places. 
It is a room in 
which the drummer displays the goods which 
he sells on sample, and, hence  is  something 
which is entirely consistent with  the morals 
and professions of a  community which  per­
mits no dalliance with alcoholic temptations.
It is in the direction  of  the  extension  of 
the sale of goods that the railway  has  been 
a  potent  influence.  Generally  during  my 
travels  the  percentage  of  passengers on  a 
train was made  up  of  “traveling  men,”  as 
they speak of themselves, and in many cases 
this class  constituted  a.majority  of  those 
who  occupied  the  sleepers,  and  filled the 
forward  car  with  the  fumes  of  tobacco 
smoke.  As a rule, at the hotels,  of ten pas­
sengers who registered at least  eight belong­
ed to the drummers’ brigade.

These  men  are  the vital elements which 
one encounters  in  a  journey  anywhere  in 
almost any state in the  West.  They  afford 
to the ordinary traveler an agreeable variety. 
They are all young, intelligent in  face,  cos­
mopolitan in appearance, good-humored,  ac­
tive as cats, and self-possessed to an  incred­
ible  extent.  They  have  the serenity of  a 
brickbat;  nothing  disturbs  them;  they  are 
equally  at  home  in  the  Palmer  House,  or 
the  cheapest  “tavern”  at  some  cross-roads 
station.

The existence of these professionals is due 
to the railway.  They are carried everywhere, 
and they take a species of  civilization  with 
them.  They have made napkins known and 
sucured their popularity.  They  keep  in  a 
delicious  flutter  the  virginal  hearts  of  the 
girl-waiters at the hotels, and in  this are in­
troducing the gentler sentiments  in  the  re­
moter areas  of  settlement.  They  are  mis­
sionaries  who distribute the gospel of jollity, 
cheek,  audacity,  good  humor,  sociability, 
and  good  fellowship  in  every  direction. 
They advance  civilization;  they  accomplish 
as  much in this  line  in a  twelvemonth  as 
formerly  was  accomplished  in  a  score  of 
years.  What the Methodist circuit rider is to 
the frontier in religion, the commercial trav­
eler  is  in  business,  trade,  and  social  mat­
ters.  Both have good appetites, and have  a 
liking  for  fried  chicken  and  other  of the 
good things which  gratify  the  physical  de­
mands of full-blooded, energetic, virile men.

D ifferen t.

“Well,  I’m  glad  this  measly  election  ex­

citement is over at last.”

“How’s  that?”
‘'Why,  the  turmoil  was  enough to drive 

one  crazy.”

“H a!  It was nuts for me.”
“It was?”
“You  bet. 

I’m  a  manufacturer  of  tin 

horns.”
“Oh!”
Alabama’s coal  fields,  as  yet  practically 
untouched, are half as large as those of Eng­
land.

The easist thing to get a corner on is buck­

wheat.

B eefsteak .

T R IB U T E   TO  TOUGHNESS.

F ranc B. W ilkie in th e  Chicago Times.

Som e  o f th e   P e c u lia ritie s  o f  th e   C o u n try   j 

included twenty-five barrels of sugar.  On in­
vestigation it was found that  eleven  barrels 
of a poorer  grade  had  been  substituted  in 
place  of  the  quality  purchased, but as the 
bill  had  been paid the merchant  sustained 
the loss.  It was the low price of  the  sugar 
that  had  sold  the  bill,  and the grocer  had 
practiced a deliberate cheat.  The  merchant 
returned to his former house when again  on 
the market.

There  is  one  thing  which  has  hitherto 
stubbornly refused  to yield to the softening 
and  civilizing  inflqpnces  of  the  railway, 
and  that  is  the  beefsteak  of  the  average 
country hotel and  the railway  eating-house.
It  seems  to  be  an  institution  which  defies 
A retail dry goods merchant said recently: 
time,  and which  is as  full  of  wiry  tendons 
“I am going back to my old house to make my 
and  invincible muscle as ever.  There must 
purchases this  autumn.  I  was  induced  to 
be some secret possessed by those who  have 
leave it last spring through lower  prices  of­
the  getting  up  of  the  beefsteak  served  at 
fered me in another house  for  calicoes  and 
the  country  hotel.  Before  the  steak  is 
muslins.  I found  in examining my goods on
cooked  it  can  be  cut  with  an  ax;  but ^ 
after  it  has once passed  through  the  hands j their arrival at my store that 1 paid more for 
of  the  cook  it  turns  the  edge  of  a  knife, j  my notions,  hosiery and dress  goods  than  I 
and  defies  mastication.  One  would  think | ought to have done, and that  deception  had 
been practiced on me. 
I swallowed the bait 
that in place of  serving up this article as an
on  the  calicoes  and  domestics,  and  they 
edible, it would  be more profitable,  and  cer­
hooked  me on the remainder of the bill.”
tainly more appropriate, to utilize it in some 
other  direction. 
there  be  a  change 
needed  in  the character of  the  material  in 
use  for  buffers  and  springs  on  cars, beef 
prepared  in  the  manner  in  vogue  in  the 
localities  referred  to  would  admirably  an­
swer  the  demands  of  this  needed  improve­
ment.  1  have  never  yet  drawn  my  knife 
savagely  but  vainly  over  one  of 
these 
cuirassed beefsteaks without wondering how 
in  the  world  the  hardening  is  done;  and 
how it  is  possible  for  a  simple  person  by 
the  aid  of  only  a  little  fire  to  thus,  in  a 
moment,  transform  a  bit  of  beef 
into 
adamant.

A  subscriber  closes  his  letter  to us this 
week as follows:  “We have seventeen well-* 
filled grocery stores in our town,  and  in  or­
der to keep a good share of trade, prices  are 
cut  very  low,  and  sometimes disagreeable 
tricks are brought to bear to steal a customer  . 
from  another  store;  this,  I  suppose,  is  the 
rule all over.”  He is not far from the truth, 
as this mode of unfair competition is too prev­
alent.

If 

There is another thing which the railway, 
with  all  its  civilizing  influences,  has  not 
been able  to materially modify, and  that  is 
the  waiter-girl  system  in  use  in  all  the 
country hotels and  eating-houses.  To some 
travelers  the system  is perhaps  a  blessing, 
but  to  an  elderly,  and  especially  a  bald- 
headed gentleman, it is an indescribable and 
remediless  misfortune.  He  is  the  last  to 
be waited on, while the dudish  drummer  is 
carefully, quickly,  and  tenderly  cared  for. 
The elderly person, with  a shining  caput, is 
lucky if  be manages to get a bite before the 
“All  aboard 1 ” of  the conductor  breaks  up 
the symposium.  When one of these females 
does finally condescend to notice the patient 
old  party  who  is  waiting  humbly  to  be 
served, she  comes  over with  a  frown, as  if 
indignant  that  fate  should  require  her  to 
give any time  to  any less  attractive  mortal 
than  the  smiling  drummer.  She  flings  at 
him in a spiteful tone, and with the rapidity 
of  a  flash, a  single word  of  several  dozen 
syllables, which; in response  to repeated re­
spectful  inquiries, she  finally  resolves  into 
“ Beefsteak,  corned-beef  hash,  pork  chops, 
etc.,”  meanwhile  keeping  an eye on a trav­
eler  for a  bag-house on the opposite side of 
the table.  When the old  person is  helped, 
the  napkin, butter, sugar, milk,  and  a  few 
other articles are always  left  out, and  then 
commences  a  season  of  trouble  for  the 
elderly  guest.  He  looks  up  respectfully, 
and  finally  succeeds,  after  some  difficulty, 
in catching the eye  of  the  young  lady who 
has waited on him, whereupon she responds 
with  a  virtuously  indignant  glance,  as  if 
saying:  “ You old reprobate!  You can’t play 
any tricks on me!  I’m  no such  person!”  It 
is a long time before  he can  induce  her coy 
nature  to  entertain  the  thought  that  it  is 
a  spoon  he  wants  instead  of  her  virgin 
affections;  and even  then she brings  the re­
quired object reluctantly, as if  she were not 
entirely convinced that the intentions of the 
venerable party could be honorable.

The most of  these shy young  damsels are 
from  30  to  50  years  of  age,  and  are  gen­
erally  wearers  of  number  twelve  boots, 
men’s size, and who have  fists like a  heavy­
weight prize-fighter.  Few of  them  tip  the 
scales at less than two hundred  pounds, and 
the  majority  of  them  are  iJuilt  as  if  for 
Graeco-Roman  wrestlers,  or  the  tossing  of 
cannon-balls and the shouldering c*  colts in 
a circus.  In view of these facts, o^  readily 
sees  why  they  are  so  sensitive  and  timid 
when  in  the  presence  of  their  common 
enemy, man.

D ish o n e st  T ra d e   M ethods.

Honest  competition  is  of  public benefit, 
while on the other hand deceptive  practices 
to  attract  trade  are  an  evil.  An  upright 
dealer remarked recently:  “I  found  I  was 
losing a good customer and one day meeting 
him inquired the  cause.  The  customer  re­
‘I buy cheaper from your  neighbor,’ 
plied: 
and.  taking  out  a  pocket rule, he said: 
‘I 
paid you 65 cents for this and 1 buy the same 
article for 30 cents from the  other  store.’ ” 
The merchant was astonished and asked him 
to  bring  bis  pass-book of entries made  for 
goods  at  the  other  establishment to verify 
the price.  This  was  done, and  in  looking 
over  the  items  the  next  charge  to that of 
pocket rule  was for an article  50  per  cent, 
at least above the market price.  This species 
of overcharge was noticed at frequent  inter­
vals  and  the  customer  soon found that  he 
was being cheated and at once closed his run­
ning account and returned to  the  old  store. 
The dishonesty consisted in selling a few ar­
ticles  below  valve  to  attract  the customer 
and then more than make up the  difference 
through overcharges on other  goods.

A general merchant not long  ago  was  in­
duced  by*a  salesman  who  had  been  dis­
charged from his former situation  to  buy  a 
bill in another house where he was  employ­
ed.  The bill amounted to near  $3,000,  and

In regard to cutting prices a merchant has 
an undoubted right to set a price on  any  ar­
ticle in his store;  if,  however,  through  the 
cut price he unduly  advances  the  valfie  on 
other articles sold to a customer  he  at  once 
practices fraud aud  deception.  After  gain­
ing the confidence of the buyer  through  the 
low price for a given article, he turns round, 
deceives and defrauds him through the extra 
cost placed on other goods which more  than 
makes up the loss occasioned by the low val­
ue on the first article sold.

After all, trickery in trade does not pay in 
the long run.  Exposure is  certain, with the 
consequent loss of custom.  Common every­
day honesty is the most  successful  compet­
itor in common every-day  business.  A rep­
utation for selling honest dry goods and pure 
groceries  and  giving  full  36  inches to  the 
yard  and  16  ounces  to  the  pound  is  not 
to be cried down by all the tricks and shams 
of dishonest competitors.

C o m m ercial  In te g rity .

There are men who enter upon  a  mercan­
tile  life  with  a  confidence  in  their  own 
honor and  their own  judgment which  they 
Relieve  will  secure  them  from  all  risk  of 
self-deception,  and keep  their  integrity un­
sullied  through  every  transaction  of  the 
year.  They  do  things  which  are  not  dis­
honest  because  they  are  successful,  but 
which  would  bring  lasting  disgrace  upon 
them  if  they  proved  unfortunate.  If  it 
were possible to conduct  a  business on  the 
scriptural  principle and  “ owe no man  any­
thing ”  the  delicate shadings of  commercial 
honor  which  arise  in  our  modem  trade 
would be largely avoided, but  so long as the 
bulk of  onr transactions are based on credit, 
the temptation to put the best  foot forward, 
to  exaggerate  our  financial  ability,  to  as­
sume  risks  which 
involve  others  rather 
than ourselves, to overtrade and to speculate, 
will  lead  multitudes  to  the  verge  of  fraud 
into which  not  a  few  of  that  number will 
plunge rather  than  abandon  the excitement 
and the  notoriety which  their  heavy opera­
tions bring with them.

The  assuming  of  risks  which 

involve 
others rather  than ourselves, is  the  natural 
outgrowth  of  a credit  system.  So  long  as 
the  values  are  kept  well  inside  the  risks 
which involve others than ourselves, so long 
we are  doing an  honest  business,  but when 
a  possible  decline  might  wipe  out  all  our 
own value  in  the  investment  and  encroach 
on that which we have secured from  others, 
then  we are doing a dishonest  business.

The  credit  system  makes  the  seller  in 
some  measure  the  partner  of  the  buyer 
until the goods  are paid  for,  and  the  buyer 
is not dealing honestly with  the seller if  he 
neglects  to edre for  the goods or to use  his 
best exertions to dispose of  them at a profit. 
Ninety cents on the dollar produced by care­
lessness or sloth  will  make  the sellers  ac­
tual though  unwilling  partners in  the  loss, 
while prompt  payments in full, ensured  by 
diligence and  thrift,  will  fnake  them  part­
ners in the gain to  the extent of  their regu­
lar profit.  Tliis is only one side of  the ques­
tion, for  there  is  a wide  field  to  fraud  in 
every counter-sale, but there is no danger of 
mistake  in  the  simpler  act  of  selling  at 
retail;  he who misrepresents in  that  branch 
knows  just what he is doing, and  can make 
his own  calculations as  to whether  the self 
respect  which  downright  honesty  would 
bring with  it would not  be  better  than  the 
petty  profit  realized  by  misrepresentation.
Professor Huxley says  that  “ a  mountain 
of  cod,”  from  120  to  130  feet  in  hight, 
moves  for  two  months  in  every  year  from 
westward  and  southward,  past  the  Nor­
wegian  coast.  Every  square  mile  of  this 
colossal  column  contains  120,000,000  of 
fishes, which  even on short  rations consume 
no fewer than 840,000,000 of  herrings every 
week.  The whole catch  of  the  Norwegian 
fisheries never exceeds  in a year  more  than 
half  a square mile of  this  “ cod  mountain,” 
and  one  week’s  supply  of  the  herrings  is 
needed  to  keep  that  area  of  cod  from 
starving.

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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

T erm s $1 a y ear in advance, postage paid.
Ad vertising ra te s  m ade know n on application.

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 19,1884.

Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Exchange.

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening 
R egular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  even­
N ext  M eeting—Monday  evening,  Nov.  24,  at 

of O ctober.
ing of each m onth.
“The M orton.”

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

OFFICERS.

P re sid en t—Wm. Logie.
First V ioe-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second V ice-President—R ichard W arner.
S ecretary and T reasu rer—L. W.  A tkins.
Official  O rgan—The  M ichigan  T radesm an.
Com m ittee  on  Elections—Wm.  B.  Edm unds, 
chairm an;  D.  S.  H augh,  Wm.  G.  Hawkins, 
W allace.Franklin and J. N. Bradford.
R egular  M eetings—L ast  Saturday  evening in 
each m onth. 
N ext  M eeting—Saturday  evening,  D ecem ber 
6, a t “The T radesm an”  office.

_

Vanderbilt  is  credited with  saying  that 
“ prospects  are  brighter  and  the  business 
world will  begin  to  improve in a very few 
weeks.” 

.

Although  cotton  is  no  longer  King,  ac­
cording  to  latest  crop  returns,  it  holds  a 
place  Very  near  the  throne.  Corn  now 
wields the scepter in this country,

The  Chicago Times asserts with  all  pos 
sible candor:  “ Chicago is the  heart  of  the 
world.”  And  there  are those  who  are  in 
dined  to  agree  with  the  Times  in  that 
opinion.

The  desire  suddenly  shown by China  to 
patth up a treaty of peace with France is ex­
plained by the fact that the Chinese GoVern 
ment has run short of funds.  Money is high 
Iy essential in war and politics.

The Current, Chicago’s new literary jour­
nal,  gets  off  a  good many  terse  remarks 
but it  never uttered a  truer statement  than 
its  leading  observation  in  the  last  issue 
“ The most  patriotic  citizen of  this country 
to-day is  the one who  attends  most  assidu­
ously to his own business.”  ,

' At the urgent  request of  a  large number 
-of  druggists,  the  list  of  medicines  sold 
under  the  Campion  system  is  reproduced 
-entire this week, with  such  corrections and 
•additions as have  tyeen made since  its  first 
appearance  two  months  ago.  Every drug­
gist would  do well  to clip and preserve  th£ 
list,  as it  is  the  last  opportunity  he  will 
have to secure  the information  therein con­
tained in condensed form.

The  suggestion  made  by  Mr.  Lambert 
relative to  the advantages  of  a  convention 
o f . dairymen  should  meet  wTith  ready  re­
sponse  on  the  part  of  those  directly  in­
terested.  Organization  is  the order  of  the 
day,  and  those  who  manipulate  the  milk 
products of  the state  owe  it to  themselves 
to  leave  no  stone  unturned  to  secure  the 
best  results  to  themselves, the  dealer  and 
the consumer.  In no way can these interests 
be better  served  than  by  a  protective  and 
defensive  organization, incidental  to which 
the results are necessarily beneficial.

The communication  from  the  Hannah  & 
Lay  Mercantile  Co.,  published  on  another 
page of  this week’s paper, is well worth the 
careful perusal and thoughtful consideration 
of  every dealer and  consumer  in  the  laud, 
as it  graphically illustrates  the injustice  of 
trafficing  in eggs  in  the  customary manner. 
The  arguments  advanced  and  the  points 
made.,are  plain  and  conclusive,  and  leave 
no room for  doubting  that  the  time  is  not 
fat  distant  when  legislators will  recognize 
the  illegality  of  the  present  method  and 
hasten to undo a wrong  that  has existed too 
long in a state which  has always been noted 
for intelligent and equitable legislation.

the  new  administration  places  a  premium 
upon vileness and dishonor.

A  hotel  clerk  has called attention to  the 
fact that the success of the effort to force all 
persons studying penmanship to write a uni­
form style would be to  destroy  the  individ­
uality of autographs.  The result  would  be 
to  occasion  banks  and  other  institutions 
whose  transactions  the  individuality  of 
autographs  involved  thousands  of  dollars 
great inconvenience and possible loss.  These 
fears might be alarming but for the fact that 
for some reason,  possibly  pure  cussedness, 
few  boys  will  write  exactly the way their 
teacher wants them to, and nearly every boy, 
as soon as he  gets out  of  school,  seems  to 
think  that  the  first  thing he must do is  to 
adopt a style of penmanship that  is distinct­
ly his own.  Human  penmanship  seems  to 
be very much like the human face, it  is  im­
possible for two to be in every respect alike, 
however  much  they  may  appear to-the  su­
perficial observer to be so.

The  waning  interest  manifested  in  the 
Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Exchange 
does not speak well  for the  commercial  en­
terprise and intelligence of  the Valley City. 
With the needs of  such an organization, and 
the benefits which would necessarily accrue, 
continually  staring  them 
in  the  face,  it 
would  seem  to  be  short-sighted  policy  to 
allow the  Exchange  to lapse  into obscurity, 
when by a little effort on  the  part  of  those 
most  directly  interested  the  organization 
could  be  made  a  practical  success.  Ex­
changes of  this character are maintained  at 
other markets where there is  less  need  for 
the results attendant upon  the  associations, 
and  it is  to be hoped  that  the  jobbers  and 
manufacturers  of  Grand  Rapids  will  not 
allow the present opportunity to slip through 
their hands, as such  a  course would subject 
them to  the  reflection  of  being  slow-going 
and blind  to their own  and  the  city’s  best 
interests.

There  appears  to be  no general  cause for 
discouragement  in  the  business world.  On 
the other hand,  the conditions seem to favor 
a  gradual  improvement  in  nearly  all  im­
portant  branches  of  trade.  No  new  de­
velopments  are  observable  which  should 
contribute  to  the  prevailing  depression 
This  dullness  everywhere is  due  largely to 
over-production, and as  the cause  is vanish­
ing little by little, of course  the effect is felt 
less and less.  As  the  markets are relieved 
of  surplus products  there must  come  a  re­
vival  in  the  productive  industries  and  an 
advance  in  prices.  Undoubtedly  political 
excitement  injures  business  to some extent 
by deterring men from  engaging  actively in 
the practical affairs of  everyday life.  Their 
minds are  occupied  with  the  uncertainties 
of  the situation.  This  is  their  own  fault, 
if  it  may be so termed;  for no  crisis exists 
that threatens a  serious  disturbance, and no 
change of  policy is in prospect that will  un 
settle  values  and  prices.  ‘The  danger  of 
tariff  reduction  or of  tariff  agitation  is  ex­
ceedingly  remote.  If  there  are  any condi 
tions likely to  arise which  may affect  busi 
ness  disastrously,  no  such  indications  are 
now visible.  The signs are favorable  for  a 
betterment  of  trade.  Mercantile  agencies 
report a  falling  off  in  the  number  of  fail­
ures.  Business  that  has  been  withheld, 
owing to the absorbing public interest in the 
campaign,  w'ill  now  be  pushed  forward. 
Eastern merchants,  it  is reported, are  confi­
dent of  this, and  take courage from the out­
look.  They say cotton, grain, and  groceries 
will be the first  to feel  this  impulse, while 
the activity in these will  be measurably felt 
in  other  businesses.  When  all  fear  of  a 
possible reduction  of  the  tariff  shall  have 
passed  away, confidence will  return  to the 
wool  and  cotton 
interests  and  they  are 
likely to  experience  a  healthy  revival.  A 
steady growth,  starting  with  the  beginning 
of  the year,  is  predicted  for  the  dry goods 
trade.  The general  public  takes  little  in­
terest  in  the  speculative  market.  It  is  a 
matter of  indifference that  dullness prevails 
there, when it is considered that professional 
jobbers manipulate prices.  Altogether,  with 
the financial situation  quite satisfactory, the 
business  community  ought 
to  be  good 
humored, patient, courageous,  and  hopeful.

AMONG THE TRADE.

The commission  appointed  to  investigate 
our  trade  relations  with  the  parts  of  this 
continent which lie south of us, are  to  visit 
each of the fifteen Spanish republics of Cen­
tral South America, besides Brazil,  in  order 
to  judge  of  the  openings  they  present  for 
commerce with us.  No doubt they  will  re­
ceive a most cordial welcome,  and  be  given 
every facility for prosecuting their inquiries. 
The  people  of  South  America  do  not see 
much  of  the  people  of  the United States. 
But they have a strong family interest in the 
big brother whose family outnumbers all the 
rest of the continent, and whose  strength  is 
the guardian of its safety from European en­
croachment.

In  France  the  dealer  who  defrauds  his 
creditors invariably loses his social  position 
and is thenceforth an  outcast  from  society. 
In  this  country,  on  the  contrary, the  per­
petrator of  a fraud upon  his creditors is too 
often regarded  as a1 superior  genius, whose 
companionship is to  be prized.  Such a sen­
timent enables  the  Messmores  of  the  busi­
ness world  to  hold  up  their  heads  among 
honorable men, and  it is  too often  the case 
that reputable gentlemen become the ardent 
supporters of  swindlers of  this stripe in the 
iatter’s unholy greed for  public office.  The 
attempted nomination of  Messmore for Con­
gress was an insult  to every honest  man  in 
the district, and the  support he  is  now  re­
ceiving  for  a  lucrative  appointment  under

IN  THE  CITY.

M. A.  Knox  has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Tustin.  Hawkins & Perry fur­
nished the stock.

G. W. Dailey has engaged  in  the  grocery 
business  at  Big  Rapids.  Cody, Ball  & Co. 
furnished the  stock.

T. B. Haines  has engaged  in  the grocery 
business at Cedar Springs.  Cody, Ball  & Co. 
furnished the  stock.

F. C. Egbert has engaged  in  the  grocery 
and  notion  business  at  Leetsville.  Fox, 
Musselman  &  Loveridge 
the 
groceries.

furnished 

O. W. Pettis,  for  some  time  past  book­
keeper  for  L. M.  Cutcheon, has  purchased 
the grocery business  of  Z. G. Winsor  at  52 
Lyon street.

C. S. Rickard has retired  from the firm of 
Rickard  Bros.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued under  the same  firm  name  by F. A. 
and A. P. Rickard.

Jas. O. McCool, who was  recently  burned 
out  at  72  Calder  street,  has  resumed  the 
grocery business at the old  location.  Clark, 
Jewell & Co. furnished the stock.

Messrs. More & Stow, of the Grand Rapids 
Furniture Co., have erected a stdle  building 
on their land just below Fumaceville, which 
will  be  occupied  by  John  Fuller  in  about 
two weeks with a general stock.

The  D.  R.  Stoqurn  assignment  matter 
came up for final settlement  in  the  Circuit 
Court  Monday, but was  adjourned  for one 
week, in order  to allow the assignee time to 
classify  his  accounts.  The  estate will  pay 
about 28 per  cent. 

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Theo. Kemink, who has  been  engaged  in 
the retail  drug  business  at 42 West Bridge 
street for the past four  years, has  sold  out 
to Fallas & Curran,  and  will  hereafter  de­
vote all his time and attention  to  the  busi­
ness of  Kemink, Jones & Co.

The  M. B. Church  Finish  Co. have  been 
delayed  somewhat  by  the  non-arrival  of 
their mill stones, but  expect  to  be  able  to 
start  up  abont  Dec.  15.  Three  or  four 
traveling  salesmen  will  be  placed  on  the 
road about  the beginning of  the  new  year.

AROUND THE  STATE.

D. Kinney, clothing dealer at Port Huron, 

has assigned.

David K. Boyer has started in the grocery 

business at Brutus.

J.  E,  Gibbs  succeeds  Gibbs  & Avery in 

general trade at Onsted.

Frank Millard, of  Corunna, has  opened a 

bazaar store at Freeport.

Wardell & Hill succeed Wardell & Palmer 

in gen *al trade at Manton.

Andrew Johnson has engaged  in  the gro­

cery business at Whitehall.

J. M. Warner  succeeds  Owen  &  Warner 

in the grocery business  at Mason.

Wm. H. Shepard succeeds H. D. Cushman 

in the drug business at Three Rivers.

Schuilar  Farnell  &  Co.  succeed  Farnell 
Bros.  &  Co. in the hardware  business at St. 
Ignace.

Hawley & Olson, general dealers  at  Hol­
ton, has  dissolved,  Frank  W.  Hawley  con­
tinuing.

Will.  Thurston succeeds  Mrs.  S.  Stanton 
in  the  restaurant  and  confectionery  busi­
ness at Way land.

Armstrong &  Spendenberg  succeed  Arm­
strong & Chisholm in the meat  market busi­
ness at Charlevoix.

Frank  Wilmarth  has  bought  the  meat 
business of  C. E. Pennock, and will  run  it 
in  connection  with  his grocery business  at 
Petoskey.

T. M. Woolverton has bought  the general 
stock  of  H. P. Miller, at  Carson  City, and 
removed it to Blanchard, where he will con­
tinue the business.

The clothing  and  furnishing  goods  store 
of  Henry  Adam,  at  Manistee,  has  been 
closed  on an  attachment  by  United  States 
Deputy Marshal Cowen.

L.  M. Bennett,  who has had fifteen  years’ 
business experience, has engaged in the jew­
elry  business  at  Traverse  City.  He  is 
located  in  the  Parmelee  building on  Front 
street.
Gitei  &  Wilcox  hav  e  bought  the  drug 
stock  of  E.  H.  Kenrick  at  Millbrook, and 
consolidated  it  with  the  stock  formerly 
owned by Gates  &  Rodi.  Mr. Kenrick  has 
removed to Hillsdale.

It  is  alleged  that  the  sale  of  Hascall  & 
McCall,  grocery  dealers  at  Owosso,  to  D. 
Burhans was for  the purpose of  defrauding 
their  creditors,  and  that  the  latter  will 
move  to set the sale  aside, with  a  view to 
securing their rights in the matter.

A. B. Bosnian, hardware* dealer  at  Ham­
ilton, has sold out to  Dangreman & Nykirk, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  that 
place,  and  also  at  their  old 
location  at 
Overisel.  Mr.  Bosman  will  shortly  en­
gage in the hardware  business  at  Holland.
H. E. Stafford, formerly engaged  in  gen­
eral  trade  at  Ravenna—the  predecessor of 
his  brother,  Theron  Stafford—but  for  the 
past three years general traveling representa­
tive  for  E. Moody  Boynton,  of  New York, 
has  purchased  a  store  building  at  Battle 
Creek,  with  the intention  of  locating there 
permanently.  He has put in a stock of gro­
ceries and will add a line of  dry goods.

MUSKEGON MATTERS.

Facts and Faccles Picked  up at that  Place.
Wm. D. Carey  &  Co.  are  handling  large 

quantities of  exceptionally fine apples.

John Lawrence will shortly engage in  the 
confectionery and fruit  business,  occupying 
the corner store of the Rice Block.

Muskegon  boasts  a  dealer who  will  not 
buy  onions  by  measure,  but  insists  upon 
having them  weighed  out—“ 48  pounds  to 
the bushel.”

S. S. Morris & Bro. are putting  down  the 
usual amount of pickled venison by a process 
discovered by S. S.  The firm are also work­
ing  up  a  large  trade  on  the  “ Rockford 
Dairy”  goods.

No one would think  of  accusing  the  av­
erage  Muskegonite  of  being  laconic, but  a 
certain  property  owner  on  a  side  street 
reached the verge of brevity when he tacked 
a sign on a  vacant  store  building  announc­
ing that the premises were  “ 2 let.”

Johnson Bros., the Lakeside general  deal­
ers,  have  purchased  the  building  occupied 
by them  from  A.  W. Fowler.  It  is  a two- 
story  structure,  30x68  feet  in  dimensions. 
This puts  an  end  to  the  talk  heard  some­
time since relative te  the  firm  removing  to 
the city.

The Schimmel matter has been allowed to 
rest  for  a  fortnight,  but  the  attorneys  in 
whose  hands  the  principal  creditors  have 
placed  their claims are  confident  that  they 
will be able to establish  a clear case of fraud 
and bring the swindlers to  justice—and  100 
cents on the dollar.

D.  F. Donahoe & Son are building  a  two- 
story frame store near  the  location of  their 
present grocery establishment,  34x56 feet in 
dimensions.  They  expect  to  get  into  the 
new quarters about December 1.  A building 
suitable for a meat  market will  be  erected 
adjacent to the store, 20x25 feet  in size.

K.  Trevett, who has been engaged  in  the 
grocery business  near  the  carshops  for the 
past  two  years,  has  sold  out  to  Mrs.  A. 
Stevenson,  who started  in  the  grocery busi­
ness on Pine street  about  three months ago. 
Mrs.  Stevenson  will  consolidate  her  stock 
with  the one  she  has  purchased, and  con­
tinue  the  business  at  Trevett’s  old  stand. 
Mr. Trevett will  probably re-engage in busi­
ness in the spring.

Andrew  Wierengo’s  absconding  book­
keeper still continues his raids upon the job­
bing  trade  of  Buffalo,  which  gives  good 
ground for  the  belief  that  he  is  hovering 
on the Canadian border in that vicinity.  * On 
Friday, Nov.  7,  he  called  on  R. W. Bell & 
Co., represented  h^nself  as  still  in  W ier- 
engo’s  employ,  and  ordered 
twenty-five 
boxes  of  the  goods  manufactured  by  the 
linn.  On the  strength  of  the order, he-ob­
tained  a  loan  of  $15.  A  draft  for  that 
amount  reached Wierengo on  the  11th, but 
was,  of  course,  refused.  The  police  de­
partment of  Buffalo have McKay’s  full  de­
scription, and it is not unlikely that  he will 
be apprehended  before  many  more  weeks 
have  elapsed.  His  boldness  in  appearing 
repeatedly on  the  same  stamping ground is 
unparalled, and gives ground  for  the  belief 
that he  has spent  the entire amount  stolen 
from Wierengo  and  is  now  subsisting  en­
tirely by his wits.

Lautz  Bros.  &  Co.  write  Mr. Wierengo 
that their  “ loan ” of  $35  to  McKay  is  the 
first  time they ever got  stuck  in  a  similar 
manner, and that it shall not  happen again. 
They also wish to be informed  of  the  fact, 
if  “ Mr. Black”  is ever caught.

L a t e r —Intelligence  has  been  received 
that McKay was arrested at  New York city 
on Friday at  the instance of  Carter, Hawley 
& Co., tea importers.  From  the  meagre in­
formation at hand, it appears that he visited 
the  house  for  the  purpose  of  playing  the 
old  game, and  was  recognized  by  the  de­
scription  sent  out  to  Wierengo’s  business 
acquaintances.  The housejiotified an officer, 
who placed him in custody, and immediately 
notified the proper officer in  Muskegon,  who 
will  bring  McKay  back  to  Muskegon  for 
trial in case a requisition  is  obtained  from 
the Governor.

STRAY  FACTS.

W.  R.  Burt,  of  East  Saginaw,  has  ten 
dered  his  resignation  as  president  of  the 
Michigan Salt Association.

The  Standard  Oil Co.  have  concluded  to 
make Adrian a bulk oil station and  have ar­
ranged for the construction of  the necessary 
buildings.

The Cummer Lumber Co’s mill atCadillac, 
is shut down for.repairs, and J.  Cummer  & 
Son’s mill is undergoing extensive repairs.

D. B. Merrill & Co.’s flouring mill in Plain- 
well run 150 consecutive hours within a week 
without slackening a wheel or slipping a belt. 
The output was 1,200 barrels of flour.

The following suggestion  from  the  Way- 
land  Globe  will  apply to  many  dealers  in 
towns  other  than  Wayland:  “ If  some  of 
our business  men  would  occasionally  wash 
their store  windows,  we  honestly  believe it 
would add  10 per  cent, to  their  trade.  No 
offense, but a reminder.”

In  acceptance  of  a  $2,500 bonus and the 
guarantee of a yearly business  of  $100,000, 
Bird & Clarage will open a branch foundry at 
Battle  Creek  the  spring,  to  handle  the  im­
mense foundry business for the Grand Trunk 
Railway, the  Union  School  Furniture  Co., 
and the threshing-machine manufacturers of 
that  city.

The  Ann  Arbor  Agricultural  Co.  have 
assigned  to  John  Finnegan  and  Joseph J. 
Ellis, bonds being given in the sum of $200,- 
000.  The  liabilities of  the company are es­
timated at  $46,000  and  the  total  assets  at 
$150,000, of  which $40,000 is in good  paper 
and  $30,000  in  manufactured  stock.  The 
directors of  the company are  all  solid  men 
and  its  credit  has  always  been  first-class. 
The assignment  is merely nominal, both  of 
the  assignees  being  directors  of  the  com­
pany.  The object was to protect the company 
and force the collection of some outstanding 
notes.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Tlieo. Kemink, of  Kemink,"Jones  &  Co., 
has gone to Detroit on businessjforfhis house.
Christian  Bertsch,  of  Rindge,  Bertsch  & 
Co., leaves  next  Monday for a  four weeks’ 
tour among  the shoe manufacturing  centers 
of  the East.

Geo.  Smiley,  of  the  grain  and  produce 
firm of  George Smiley & Co., of Kalamazoo, 
paid  his usual weekly visit  to  this  market 
last Saturday.

M. C. Russell  leaves  next  week  for Cin­
cinnati  and  Louisville,  taking  in  Indian­
apolis on  the way home.  He  expects  to be 
absent about  ten days, and may possibly ex­
tend his trip to Nashville.

Addison S. Goodman, formerly  with  Fos­
ter,  Stevens  &  Co.,  but  for  the'past two 
years confidential clerk and head book-keep­
er for Spring & Company, was  married  last 
Wednesday  to  Miss  Anna Barnard, one of 
the most estimable young ladies of the  city. 
The wedding trip included Chicago and other 
western cities.

D. E. McYean, the Kalkaska  groceryman, 
has effected a settlement with all his  credit­
ors  at  this market  on  the  basis pf  25  per 
cent., and left Monday night for Detroit, for 
the  purpose  of  getting  similar  concessions 
from his creditors  there.

Messmore is  compromising  with  some  of 
his creditors—“those who were not too stub­
born,” his  attorney  states—on  the  basis  of 
50 per cent.  How  far  the  settlement  will 
extend, his attorney refuses to  disclose.

Andrew  Wierengo—“Murder  will  out,’ 
and defaulting book-keepers are sure to come 
to grief, sooner or later.

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plete lines of holiday samples  this week.

E.  K.  Bennett,  the  well-known  jewelry 
salesman, is  now located  at  Lansing.  His 
territory includes both  Michigan and  Ohio.
Geo. F. Owen will  saunter  around  Jack- 
son  a couple of  days  this week.  He  is not 
implicated In the Crouch  murder trial,  how­
ever. 

Harry  McDowell,  the  well-known  fur­
niture  salesman,  put  in  a  couple  of  days 
with friends at  this  market  last week.  He 
is now located temporarily at  Howard  City, 
pending  an  improvement  of  the  furniture 
business.

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Frank  H. White, with  Curtiss, Dunton  & 
Co.,  has  purchased  the  new  cottage  resi­
dence at 346  Scribner  street,  and  is  conse­
quently 
in  a  position  to  refer  to  “ my 
home.”  He and  his  family are  already  in 
possession.
' Ad. Sharp, Cody, Ball & Co.’s genial  grip 
carrier,  is  under  the  weather  this  week, 
and his route  along  the  Stanton  branch  is 
being  covered  by  J. Ely Granger.  Dealers 
having handsome  daughters and susceptible 
female clerks would  do well  to give them a

vacation and  pay  their expenses  to  remote 
rural localities.

A.  L.  Braisted,  the  ponderous  traveling 
representative  of  C.  G.  A.  Voigt  &  Co., 
was  recently married  at  Ypsilanti  to  Miss 
Nettie  F.  Seymour,  a  well-known  society 
lady  of  that  place.  The  Y psilantian  in­
cludes in its report of the ceremony a list  of 
the  wedding  presents,  which  were  numer­
ous and costly.  The couple  have  taken  up 
their residence in this  city.

A  well-known  furniture  traveler  says 
that  the  way  a  Western  town  is  built  is 
about  as follows:  A name  is  given  to  the 
locality,  a  shanty  is  built,  a  newspaper 
started and a postoffice established.  A  rail­
road must then  be procured, hand  bills  and 
circulars  distributed  through  the  Eastern 
states,  a  few  residents  come,  some  build­
ings,  always a  saloon, are  erected,  and  the 
town is well on the way cityward.

Numerous  Creditors—Yes,  Messmore  is 
understood to have a hankering for the post- 
office, and it is reported  that  he has  the  in­
side track for  the appointment. 
In cage  he 
“ gets  there,” however,  he will  probably as­
sign his salary to Margaret.

OFFICERS.

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Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.
P resident—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix. 
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F irst V ice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  K al­
Second V ice-President—B.  D.  N orthrup,  Lan-
T biiti V ice-President—F ran k   W urzburg,  G r’d 
S ecretary—Jacob Jesson, M uskegon, 
T reasu rer—Wm. D upont, D etroit.
E xecutive  Com m ittee—H . J .   Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. G undrum , W. H. Keller,  F.  W. 
Fincher. 
N ext  place  of  m eeting—A t D etroit, Tuesday, 
October 13,1885.

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Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884.

OFFICERS.

P resident—F ra n k  J . W urzburg.
V ice-President—Chas. P . Bigelow.
S ecretary—F ra n k  H. Escott.
T reasu rer—H enry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
Board  of  T rustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
V an Leeuwen, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  W hite, 
W m. L. W hite. 
R egular  M eetings—F irst  Thursday evening in 
each m onth.
A nnual  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in 
Novem ber, 
N ext  M eeting—T hursday  evening,  December 
4, a t “The T radesm an” office.

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G.  R.  P. S.

F irs t  A n n u a l  M eetin g   o f  th e   A ssociation.
The  first  annual  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Kapids Pharmaceutical Society was  held  at 
T h e  T r a d e s m a n  office last Thursday even­
ing,  the  following  members  being  in  at­
tendance:  Frank  J.  Wuzburg,  John  Peck, 
C. P. Bigelow, O. H. Kichmond, J. S. Cowin, 
Isaac  Watts, H.  B.  Fairchild, M. B.  Kimm, 
R.  A.  Schouten,  Wm.  L.  White,  Wm.  E. 
White,  L.  M.  Herrendeen,  Theo.  Kemink 
and Frank H. Escott  Chairman  Wurzburg 
presided  and  Secretary  Escott wielded  the 
pen.  The  constitution  and  by-laws  were 
presented  for signature, and  those  present 
attached  their autographs  to the  document. 
The  names  of  Wpi. H. Van Leeuwen  and 
A. C. Bauer were also  subscribed  by proxy.
The  election  of  officers  being  next  in 
order, Mr. Fairchild  presented  the name of 
Mr. Wurzburg,  referring  to  his  connection 
with the drug trade of  the city for  the  past 
twenty-four  years, and  to  the  fact  that  he 
deserved the election as a compliment to his 
services  to the trade.  The  nomination was 
seconded  by  Mr. Watts, who  declared  that 
the society wanted  a man for president who 
would be  representative  of  the  business as 
well  as  the  professional  interests  of  the 
drug  trade.  Mr. Wurzburg  nominated  Dr 
Bigelow.  Mr. Wurzburg, however, received 
eleven of  the  thirteen  votes  cast  and  was 
declared  elected.  He  thanked  the  society 
for  the  honor conferred  upon  him, and as­
sured the members that  he  would endeavor 
to do his duty in the matter.

Dr. Bigelow and Mr. Peck  were  the  only 
candidates  for  vice-president,  the  choice 
falling to the former.

Mr. Escott  was  elected  secretary  by  ac­
clamation—at  once  a  compliment  to  his 
ability  and  a  recognition  of  the  efficient 
work  he  has  done  in  assisting  in  the  or­
ganization of  the society.

Mr. Fairchild was elected treasurer by  ac­
clamation—a dangerous move for the society 
to make until the members are assured  that 
the incumbent  of  that  office will  be able to 
find acceptable sureties on his bond.
*The following  gentlemen  were  elected  a 
Board  of  Censors  by  acclamation:  John 
Peck, C.  P. Bigelow, J. S. Cowin.

The  following  were  elected  a  Board  of 
Trustees,  with  the  exception  of  the  first 
named,  who 
that  capacity 
ex-officio:  The  President,  Wm.  H.  Van 
Leeuwen, Isaac Watts,  Wm. E. White, Wm. 
L. White.

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The  President was  given  until  the  next 
meeting  to  announce  the  following  com­
mittees:  on Legislation,  Trade Matters, and 
Affairs Pertaining to Pharmacy.

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The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  have 
blank applications printed, and Messrs. Wm. 
L. White,  Isaac  Watts  and  Theo. Kemink 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  circulate 
them among the druggists  not  yet  members 
of  the Society.

The  meeting  then  adjourned, to  meet  at 

the same place on the evening of Dec. 4.

The near approach  of  the  holiday season 
seldom  fails to enliven  trade  of  all  kinds. 
The  shop-keeper gets in an attractive  stock 
of  Christmas  and  new-year’s  goods  early, 
and his customers find the attraction irresisti­
ble.  They  begin  to  spend  money  freely, 
and  naturally exert  themselves  to  replace 
the  dollars which  slip  away  so  easily for 
Christmas  gifts;  censequently  there  is  a 
spurt of  activity all  around, no matter  how 
dull  the  season  may have  been.  Many of 
the large notion  stores  have  already taken 
on  this  holiday  aspect,  and  business  has 
brightened  up  perceptibly  in  consequence. 
It is  believed by many that this  holiday ac­
tivity, which will last up  to Christmas, will 
tide  over  the  time  pending  the  complete 
restoration of  confidence as  to the affairs of 
government.  Casting the important subject 
of  politics aside, the natural course of  com­
mercial  events would  seem, at  the  present 
time,  to be alone  sufficient to bring  about  a 
reaction before the new year is a month old.
A student  in  the  Pharmacy  Department 
of  the  University,  calling  himself  A.  R. 
Boyle,  of  Springfield,  Ohio,  succeeded  in 
swindling the Ann Arbor banks out  of &450 
by means of  forged  drafts.  He visited  all 
three banks, and  showed  lettters  from  A. 
B.  Prescott  of  the  Pharmacy  Department, 
Maj.  Soule,  treasurer  of  the  University, 
identifying him as the person named  in  the 
drafts.  The  drafts  were  all  cashed,  but 
came back protested.  Boyle fled the first of 
the week.

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And  Condolence  on  tlie  Death  of  Our

Brother  Druggist, Edward  B.  Escott.
At a meeting of  the  Grand  Rapids  drug­
gists, held  November 9,1884, the  following 
preamble and resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

W h e r e a s—In view of  the  loss  we  have 
sustained  by the decease  of  our friend  and 
associate, Edward B.  Escott, and of  the still 
heavier loss sustained  by  those  who  were 
nearest and  dearest  to him ;  therefore, be it
Resolved—That  it is but a  just tribute to 
the memory  of  the  departed, to say that,  in 
regretting his removal  from  our  midst, we 
mourn  for  one  who  was,  in  every  way, 
worthy of our respect and regard.

Resolved—That in  the  death  of  Edward 
B.  Escott, we  lament  the  less of  one  who 
was ever ready  to  proffer  the  hand  of  aid 
and the voice of  sympathy to the needy and 
distressed;  a  friend  and  companion  who 
was dear  to us all ;  a citizen, whose upright 
and noble life was a  standard  of  emulation 
to his fellows.

Resolved—That in our natural sorrow for 
the loss  of  a  beloved  friend, we  find  con­
solation in  the  belief  that  it  is  well  with 
him for whom we mourn.

Resolved—That we sincerely condole with 
the family of  the deceased on  the  dispensa­
tion with which it has pleased Divine Provi­
dence  to  afflict  them,  and  commend  them 
for consolation to Him who orders all things 
for the  best, and  whose  chastisements  are 
meant in mercy.

Resolved—That this heartfelt testimonial 
of  our  sympathy and  sorrow  be forwarded 
to the family of  our  departed  friend by the 
secretary of  this meeting.

Ge o .  G.  St e k e t e e ,
O.  H.  R ic h m o n d,
F e r d .  T h u m ,
F .  J.  W u r z b u r g ,
C.  P.  B ig e l o w ,

Committee.

T h e  D ru g   M a rk et.

The drug  business  has  been  fairly  good 
during the past week, and a marked improv- 
ment  in  collections  is  noted. 
Iodine  and 
the iodides  have met with  another advance, 
and a still  further  movement  in  the  same 
direction  is  expected.  Other  articles  are 
about steady.

It has been found, to  the  entire  satisfac­
tion of  surgeons, that  the  hydro-chlorate of 
cocoaine,  a  drug  now  made  by  only  one 
firm,  in  Germany,  is  a  local  anaesthetic. 
By its use  a  patient, undergoing  an  opera­
tion, feels no pain, while  at  the  same  time 
he preserves  his  consciousness.  The  bless­
ing of  such  a  drug  is  illimitable.  Chloro­
form, which has been such a  boon to suffer­
ing  mankind, is  refused  by  many  persons 
because  the  thought  of  unconsciousness is 
as full  of  terror as  the  anticipation  of  the 
pain  itself, and  the  discoverer  of  the  new 
drug will  deserve  quite  as  much  honor as 
has been accorded  to  the  discoverer  of  the 
old one.

“ In  a  city  of  this  size,”  complains  the 
Grand  Rapids  Telegram,  “ with  30  odd 
drug  stores, there  ought  to  be  one  enter­
prising enough to keep  open  all  night.  It 
would be an  innovation  that  would  be ap­
preciated and supported.”

A drug trade journal is advertising a  new 
patent medicine which is declared to be “the 
only specific for the fear of lightning.”

G ood  W ords  U nsolicited.

R. M. Wilcox, grocer, Reed City:  “I t is a good 

paper.”

paper.”

w ithout it.”

D. C.Griffith, grocer, N ashville:  “I t is a good 

B arry & Co., R odney:  “W ould not get along 

W. A. De H art, general dealer,  V ickeryville: 

“The n ap er is a good one.”

Smith,  Ham s  &  V an  A rm an,  grocers,  H as­

tings :  “N ext to th e Free Press."

A. H.  Lym an,  druggist,  M anistee:  “T hink 

T h e  T r a d esm a n well w orth  $1.”

M.  P .  Shields,  general  dealer,  H illiards: 

“ Y our valuable p ap er is indispensable.”

E.  J.  Sherwood,  general  dealer,  Sheridan: 

“I t is a good p ap er fo r a m an in  business.”

Ja s. H. K illm er,  general dealer,  Collinwood, 
Ohio:  “I consider y our p ap er  a  valuable  aid 
to th e trad e.”

W.  W.  Peck  &  Co.,  general  dealers. South 
Boardm an:  “We prize it very highly,  as  it  is 
alw ays chuck full o f valuable  inform ation.”

Jo h n   W.  V erhoecks  &  Co., general dealers, 
G rand  H aven: 
“ We  would  not  sell  th e  in­
form ation  we  g et  o u t  of th e  p aper fo r tw ice 
the am ount of th e  subscription  price,  letting 
alone th e price-lists.

V ictor Roussin, druggist, L u dington:  “I am  
well pleased w ith y our paper,  and  would  say 
to th e business public, w hen in  need  of  valu ­
able reading  m atter,  you  could  n o t invest  a 
dollar to b e tte r advantage.”

D.  F.  D onahoe  &  S6n,  grocers,  M uskegon: 
“F f r  an honorable and  straightforw ard  trad e 
journal, T h e  T r a d esm a n tak es  th e  lead,  and 
it should be th e pride o f every business m an to 
be  a   subscriber.  W e  should be entirely  lost 
w ithout it.”

MISCELLANEOUS.

A dvertisem ents  of 25 words o r  less  inserted 
in th is colum n a t th e rate o f 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cen t  fo r  each 
additional word.  Advance paym ent.

fu rn ish   best  of  references  from   th e  dairy 

I F   YOU  WANT  to  g e t  into  business, to sell 

y our business, to secure additional capital, 
to g et a situation, to  secure  a  clerk  o r  book­
keeper,  o r  if  you  have  anything  fo r  sale or 
w ant to buy anything, advertise in th e  Miscel­
laneous  Column  o f  ‘‘The  T radesm an.”  Cash 
o r  postage  stam ps  to  th e am ount should  ac­
com pany each  order.

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A ddress W. S. B arnard, Lyons, Mich. 

sale.  A good bargain fo r the  rig h t p arty. 
69tf

m aker by a m an of long experience.  Can 
trade.  A ddress E. S., care  “The  Tradesm an.5’

■ ANTED—Situation in a factory as a eheess 
ITiOR  SALE—Jew elry business and  stock  fo r 
■OR  SALE—Crockery, fu rn itu re   and u n der­

tak in g  stock  in  grow ing  northern  tow n. 
building  fo r  $125  p er  year.  No  opposition. 
Good opportunity.  B est o f reasons fo r selling. 
All cash, o r p a rt cash an d  security fo r balance. 
A ddress “Crockery,”  care  “The  Tradesm an.”
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Stock  will  inventory  ab o u t  $1,200.  Will  re n t 

RESOLUTIONS  OF  RESPECT

THE  CAMPION PLAN.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

List of Medicines Sold on the Plan.

Price p e r  P rice fo r 
B ottle. 
3 Bottles 
a t one
Sale.

J. C. A yer Co.’s P reparations. 

Cherry P e c to ra l.........................$1 00
Sarsaparilla 
..............................1  00
A gue  C ure.................................... 1 00
H air  V igor...................................  15
Pills, p e r  b o x ..............................  25

Dr. D. Jay n e & Son’s P reparations.

E x p e c to ra n t.................................1 00
H air  Tonic....................................1 00
A lterativ e......................................1 00
A gue M ixture...............................1 00
Carm inative Balsam , L a rg e ...  50 
Carm inative Balsom,  sm a ll...  35
Tonic  V erm ifuge.......................  35
L inim ent  .....................................  60
Sanati ve Pills, p er b o x ..............  2&
C. M eyer & Co.’s P reparations.
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, L arge 1  00 
Br. B ull’s Cough Syrup, m e d ..  50 
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup,  sm all  25
Dr. B ull’s Baby  S yrup..............  25
D r. B ull’s P ain D rops................  25
Dr. Bull’s D iarrbtea C urative.  25 
D r. Bull’s Cough Candy D rops  25
Dr. B ull’s Baltim ore  P ills.......  25
Dr. B ull’s Recto  M istu ra.........  50
Dr. Bull’s Blood M ixture..........1 90
J. W. Campion & Co.’s  P reparations.
W ishart’s T ar  Cordial...............1 00
W ishart’s Sugar Drops, p er bx  25 
Foster, M ilburn & Co.’s P reparations.
Thom as Electric Oil,  sm all—   50 
Thomas Electric  Oil, larg e— 1  00
B urdock Blood  B itte rs............ 100
Burdock Blood  P ills.................   25

H o stetter & Sm ith’s P reparation.

H o stetter’s  B itte rs....................1  00

T a rra n t & Co.’s P reparations.

$2  50 
2  50 
2  50 
2  10 
62

2  50 
2  50 
2  50 
2  50 
1  25 
90 
90 
1  25 
62

2  50
1  25 
62 
62 
62 
62 
62 
62
1  25
2 50

2 50 
65

1  25
2  50 
2 50
63

2 50

T a rra n t’s  A p erien t................... 1  00
T a rra n t’s Ex. C. & C..................1  00
Thorn’s Ex. C. & C .,S arsap— 1 50
♦Hoff’s M alt E x tra c t..................  37

2 50
2 50
3 75 
1 00
*In quantities of six or more dozens, this prepara­

tion may be sold, at $3.50 per dozen.

D r. J. H. Schenck & Son’s P reparations.

Pulm onic  S y ru p.........................1  00
Seaweed Tonic.............................I  00
M andrake Pills, per  b o x .........  25

P erry  Davis & Sons’  P reparations.

D avis’  P ain  K iller, la rg e .........1  00
D avis’ P ain  Killer, m ed iu m ...  50
D avis’ P ain  Killer, sm all.........  25

G. G. G reen’s P reparations.

Boschee’s  S yrup.........................  75
Boschee’s Syrup, sam ple  size.  10
A ugust  F low er..........................   75
A ugust Flower, sam ple  size..  10
A gue Conqueror, sm all............  50
A gue Conquerer, larg e............ 1  00
T hree 

2 50 
2  50 
65

2 50
1  25 
65

2 00 
30
2  00 
30
1  25
2  50 
Six

One 
B ottle.  B ottles.  B ottles 

The Swift  Specific Co.’s P reparations.
4  50 
2  75 
One 

L arge  size..................1  75 
Small  size.................. 1  00 

8  50
5 00
T hree 
B ottle.  Bottles.

Joh n sto n , Holloway & Co.’s P reparations 

Hoofland’s G erm an  B itte rs... 1  00
Hoofland’s  G erm anT onic.......1  50
Hoofland’s G reek Oil,  la rg e .. .1  00 
Hoofland’s G reek Oil,  sm all...  50 
Holloway’s Ess. Jam aica G ing  50 
D a Costa’s  W est  In dia  Tooth
W ash,  la rg e ..........................   50
D a Costa’s  W est  India  Tooth
W ash, sm all..........................   25
H aas’ E xpectorant,  larg e.......  50
H aas’ E xpectorant,  sm all.......   25
Hoofland’s  Podophyllin  Pills,
per b o x ................................       25
Holloway’s  V erm ifuge  Con­
fections, in p a p e r................  25
Holloway’s  V erm ifuge  Con-
tions, in  glass..................... 
25
K rom er’s H air  D ye...................   50
H eiskell’s  O intm ent..................  50
Holloway’s  A rnica  P lasters, 
la rg e........................................  25

Holloway’s  A rnica  P lasters
Holloway’s  A rnica  P lasters

m ed iu m .................................  20
s m a ll......................................   15 

2  50
3  75 
2  50 
1  25 
1
1  25
65 
1  25 
65
65
65
65

65 
F or 6,
1  00
7E
Five 
Bottles,

The Chas. A. V ogeler Co.’s  P reparations.

50 
St. Jak o b ’s Oel (St. Jacob’s  Oil) 
Liebig Malz E x tract  (Malt E x ­
tract)..........................................................................  50 
D r. W orthington’s Cholera and
D iarrhoea M edicine............   25 
V ogeler’s  K lettenw urzel  Oil
(Burdock Root Oil)..................  50 
75 
V ogeler’s Gen.  Carlsbad  Salts 
Rom an  L inim ent.........................  50 
Dr. Aug. Koenig’s  H am burger
50 
T ropfen (Hamburg  Drops). 
One 

D r. A ug. Koenig’sTHamburger
Dr. Aug. Koenig’s H am burger

B rustthee (Breast  Tea)__   25 
P ilaster  (Plaster)...................   25 

Five 
Package.  Pkgs 

One  T hree 
Box.  Boxes

Flem ing B rothers’ P reparations.

D i\ C. M cLain’s L iver P ills__   25 
Dr. C. M cLain’s  V erm ifu g e...  25 
One 

60
60
T hree 
Bottle  B ottles

J . N. H arris & Co.’s, Lim ited, P reparations.

A llen’s  L ung B alsam ...............1  00

, I. Hood & Co.’s P reparations. 

2 50

Hood’s S arsaparilla.................. 1  00
Hood’s Tooth Pow der, sm a ll.. 
25 
50
Hood’s Tooth Pow der,  la rg e ..
One 
Box
Hood’s Olive O intm ent, sm all.  25 
Hood’s Olive O intm ent, large. 1  00
Hood’s V egetable  P ills............   25
One
Bbttle.

• 

Brown Chemical Co.’s R e p aratio n s.

Brow n’s Iro n   B itte rs................1  00
.1  00
.1  00
C u ra tin e .......................................1  00
.1  00
Brow n’s Emulsion. C. L.
.1  00 
P eru v ian  Chill C ure..................1  00
I
Pow ell’s  Beef,  C.  L.  Oil  and
.1 00
P ep sin .....................................1  00
Dr.  M ettau r’s H eadache Pills,
.’  25
p er box........................
is.
Seabury & Johnson’s P reparations.
Benson’s  Capacine  P lasters,

.’  25
per plaster,............................  25

Snow & E arle’s P reparations.

B ilousine 

.1  00
............................ ....1 0 0

E. T. H azeltine’s  P reparations 

2  50 
For 
1  00 
F or
1  25 
Fiv
Boxes 
1  00 
For
2 50 
For
1 00 
Three 
B ottles

2  50
2  50
2  50
2  50
2 50
65

60

2 50

Piso’s Cure fo r  Consum ption.
Piso’s Remedy fo r  C a rta rrh ..

62
1 25
The  Dr. H a rte r Medicine  Co.’s  P rep aratio n s
F or

.  25
.  50

D r1 H a rte r’s  F ever  and  A gue
S p ecific.................................
Dr. H a rte r’s  F ever  and  A gue 
P ills ........................................

Dr. H a rte r’s L iver  Pills.
D r.  H a rte r’s  G erm an  V erm i­

fuge Candy............................  25 
D r. H a rte r’s L u n g  Balm, large  75 
D r. H arter’s L ung Balm, sm all  25
D r. H a rte r’s Iro n   Tonic.......... 100
Dr. H a rte r’s Soothing D ro p s..  25
Dr. H a rte r’s L inim ent..............   25
Dr.  H a rte r’s  E lixir  of  Wild 
C h e rry ................................... 1  00

75 
25 

1  25
1  25
3 Boxes 
65
3 Boltles
61
2 B ottles
1  25
3 Bottles. 
65
2 50 
.65 
65
2  50

D id n ’t   M ake  a   K ic k .

From  th e New  Y ork  Sun.

“ The  only  serious  mistake  that  I  ever 
made  during  my  professional  career,”  re­
marked a physician,  “ was when  I  cut  the 
wrong leg off  of  a  patient.  It  resulted  in 
his losing both legs, poor fellow.”

“ I suppose when he learned  of your  mis­
take he became very indignant  and  made a 
great kick, didn’t he?”

“ Well,  yes,  he  became  very  indignant, 

but he didn’t make a great kick.”

A dvanced—Iodine, Iodide potash.

ACIDS.

A cetic,  No. 8..............................$  ft 
9  &
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040).........  30  @
C art *  lie ...............................................  35  @
C itiu .....................................................
M uriatic  18  d e g ...,.......................... 
3  @
N itric 36  deg......................................   11  @
O x alic..................................................   14)4®
Sulphuric  66 d eg...............................  
3  ®
T artaric  pow dered..........................
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................oz
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................   12  @
T a n n ic.................................................   15  @

10
35
40
55
5
12
15
4
48
20
15
17

AMMONIA.

C arbonate...................* ............ft  15  ®
M uriate (Powd. 22c)..........................
6
A qua 16 deg o r  3f.............................. 
A qua 18 deg or  4f.............................. 
7

BALSAMS.

Copaiba
F ir..........
P e ru .......
T o lu .......

BARKS.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow ............................
Elm,  select..........................................
Elm, ground, p u re ............................
Elm, powdered,  p u re .......................
Sassafras, of ro o t..............................
Wild Cherry, select..........................
B ayberry  pow dered........................
Hem lock pow dered..........................
W ahoo  ................................................
Soap  g ro u n d ......................................

BERRIES.

Cubeb,  prim e (Powd 70c)................
6
J u n ip e r...............................................  
Prickly A sh ........................................1  CO

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, p u re ..............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ib  boxes)................
Lgowood,  )4s 
................
................
Logwood, )4s 
Logwood, ass’d 
................
Fluid E x tracts—25 $  cent, off list.

do 
do 
do 

FLOWERS.

A rnica..................................................   10
Chamomile,  R om an........................
Chamomile,  G erm an.......................

GUMS.

®

®

18 
14
78
45 
40 
2 50 
50

®   65 
®   7
®1  10

27
37)4
9
12
13 
15
14

@

28®

60®

Aloes,  B arbadoes..............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)...................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).........-
A m m oniac..........................................
A rabic, e x tra   select........................
A rabic, powdered  select................
Arabic, 1st  picked............................
A rabic,2d  p ick ed ..............................
Arabic,c3d pickod.............................
A rabic, sifted so rts..........................
Assafoentida, prim e (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin...............................................
C am phor.............................................
Catechu. Is ()4 14c, &s  16c)............
E upborbium  pow dered...................  
G albanum  strained
G am boge............................................  
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c).............. 
Kino [Pow dered, 30c]....................... 
M astic.................................................
M yrrh. Turkish (Pow dered  47c)...
Opium, p u re (Powd $5.75)................
Shellac, Campbell’s.
—  
Shellac,  E nglish.
Shellac,  n a tiv e ...................................
Shellac bleached...............................
T ra g a c a n th ........................................  30
HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

75 
18 
50 
30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
35 
30 
30 
55@60 
20®  23 
13 
40 
35®
80
90®1  00
35
20
40 
4 15 
30 
26 
24
. 
30
®1  10

_   O

H o a rh o u n d ........................................................25
L obelia.................................................................25
P ep p erm in t........................................................ 25
Rue  ....................................................................... 40
S p e a rm in t..........................................................24
Sweet M ajoram ................................................. 35
T a n z y .....................■............................................25
T h y m e ................................................................. 30
W orm w ood........................................................ 25
6 40 20 
7
80
65

C itrate and  Q uinine........................
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s.........
Sulphate, pu re  c ry sta l...................
C itra te .................................................
P h o sp h a te ..........................................

IRON.

2 00
2 00
1 00
2 00
3 00
2 00
2 00

1 00
1 0C

LEAVES.

B üchU, sh o rt (Powd 25c)..................  12
Sage, Italian, bulk ()4s & 54s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l.......................  18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  pow dered.............................
Senna tinnivelli.................................
U va  U rsi............................................
Belledonna..........................................
Foxglove.............................................
H e n b a n e ..............................................
Rose, re d ..............  ............................

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky .2  00
D ruggists’ F avorite  R ye......................1 75
W hisky, o th er  b ran d s........................... 1 10
Gin, Old T om ...........&......................... 1  35
Gin,  H olland............................................2 00
B ra n d y ...................................................... 1 75
Catawba  W ines.......................................1 25
P o rt W ines....................................  
1 35

 

MAGNESIA.

Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jen n in g ’s, 2 oz..............
C itrate, H., P. & Co.’s  so lution—
Calcined...............................................

Ì   11 6 
20 
®
30 22. 
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

@2 00 
@1  50 
@1  75 
@3  50 
@6 50 
@2 00 
®2  50
22 
37 
2 25 
65

OILS.

do 
do 

Almond, sw eet...................................  45
Am ber,  rectified...............................
A nise....................................................
Bay $   oz............................................
B ergam ont..........................................
C a sto r..................................................   18
C rotbn..................................................
C a je p u t...............................................
C a ssia..................................................
Cedar, com m ercial  (Pure 75c).......
C itro n ella..........................................
C loves...........................................
Cubebs, P. &  W .................................
E rig e ro n .............................................
F ire w eed.............................................
G eranium   $   o z.................................
Hemlock, com m ercial (Pure 75c)..
Ju n ip e r  w o o d ...................................
Ju n ip e r  b erries.................................
Lavender flowers, F re n c h ..............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
..............
Lemon, new  cro p .............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .........................
Lem ongrass........................................
O riganum ,,red  flowers, F re n c h ...
O riganum ,  No. 1..............................
P en n y ro y al........................................
P epperm int,  w h ite..........................
Rose  $   oz...........................................
Rosem ary, French  (Flow ers$5)...
Sandal  W ood, G erm an...................
andal Wood,  W. I ..............................
Sassafras.............................................
Tansy  ..................................................
T ar (by gal 60c)...................................  10
W in terg reen ...................................
W ormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
S avin....................................................
W orm seed..........................................
Cod Liver, filte re d ........... 
. $  gal
Cod Liver, b e s t..........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, M alaga.....................
Olive, “ Sublim e  I t a l i a n ................
S a la d ....................................................   65
Rose,  Ihm sen’s ................i ___ $  oz

@  19)4 

@

50 
45 
2  10 
50 
2  00 
2 00 
75 
1 20 
40 
85
1 25 
6  00 
1  60
2 00 
75 
40 
50
2  00 
2  01 
1  00 
90 
1  70 
1  75 
80 
1 25 
50
1  49
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

POTASSIUM.

B icrom ate...................................$  ft 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ... 
Chlorate, cry st (Powd 23c).............. 
IPdide, cryst. and  gran, b u lk .......  
P russiate yellow...............................  

- 

14
35
20
2  50
30

ROOTS.

15
A lk a n e t............................................... 
27
A lthea, c u t.......................................... 
17
Arrow,  St. V incent’s ....................... 
35
Arrow , T aylor’s, in )4s and )4s__  
Blood (Powd 18c)...............................  
12
Calamus,  peeled...............................  
18
38
Calamus, G erm an  w hite, peeled.. 
23
Elecam pane, pow dered...................  
G entian (Powd  14c).......................... 
10
Ginger, A frican (Powd 16c)............   13  ®   14
20
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............  
Golden Seal (Powd  40c)...................  
35
22
Hellebore, w hite, pow dered........... 
Ipecac, Rio, pow dered..................... 
110
37)4
Jalap,  pow dered...............................  
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4)......... 
12
Licorice, ex tra  select....................... 
15
P ink, tr u e ...........................................  
35
Rhei, from  select to   choice...........1 00  ®1  50
Rhei, powdered E. 1.......................... 110  @1  20
2 00
Rhei, choice c u t  cu b es...................  
2 25
Rhei, choice c u t  fingers.................. 
S erp en taria.......................................  
65
S e n e k a ................................................ 
65
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras.................. 
45

Sarsaparilla,  M exican...................
Squills, w hite (Powd u5c)..............
V alerian, English (Powd 30c).......
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 28c)...

Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)..............

SEEDS.

Caraway, best D utch (Powd  19c).
Cardamon,  A leppee.......................
Cardamon, M alabar........................
C elery.................................................
Coriander,  Dest  E nglish...............
F e n n e l...............................................
Flax,  clean .......................................... 
Flax, p u re grd (bbl  334)................... 
Foenugreek, pow dered................... 
H em p,  R ussian................................. 
M ustard, w hite  Black  10c)............
Q u in c e .................................................
Rape, E nglish....................................  
W orm,  L ev an t...................................

SPONGES.

5 @ 
6
4 @ 
4)4
11 @  12
2  00
2 25
25
12
15
4)4
9
8 
1  00
14

334®
4  @
8  @
5)4®

®

6

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriag e.......2 25  @2 50
N assau 
do 
do 
2 00
........  
V elvet E x tra do 
do 
1  10
........  
85
ExtraY ellow  do 
........  
do 
do 
G rass 
do 
........  
65
H ard head, fo r slate u se .................  
75
1  40
Yellow Reef, 
.................. 

do 

MISCELLANEUS.

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
& C 0

W holesale

32

45

. 

 

2)4®

7)4® 

do 
do 

2 29
1 50
27
12

234® 
3  @ 
4)4® 
6  ®  
 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) $  g a l__  
Alcohol, wood, 95 p er cent ex. re f. 
A nodyne  Hoffm an’s ............ .................... 
Arsenic, D onovan’s so lution......... 
A rsenic, Fow ler’s so lu tio n............  
A nnatto  1 ft ro lls....................................... 
Blue  Soluble...............................................  
75
Bay  Rum , im ported, b e st. 
2 
2 00
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
A lu m — .  .................................  $ f t  
3)4
4
Alum , ground  (Powd 9c)................ 
A nnatto,  p rim e.......................................... 
A ntim ony, powdered,  com ’l ......... 
5
7
A rsenic, w hite, pow dered.............. 
Balm  Gilead  B u d s...................................  
 
Beans,  T onka.................... 
25
2 
Beans,  V anilla...................................7  00  @9  75
Bism uth, sub  n itra te ......  
60
1 
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).................................  
Blue V itriol  ......................................  
9
12
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).  _____
Cantharides, R ussian  pow dered..
2  50 
18 
Capsicum  Pods, A frica n ................
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ... 
20 
18 
Capsicum Pods,  A m erican  do  ...
Carm ine,  No. 40.................................
4  00 
Cassia  B uds............................... <___
12 
Calomel.  A m erican..........................
70 
Chaik, prepared d ro p .......................
512*
Chalk, precip itate E nglish............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
. 8
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................
Chloroform ,  Squibb’s ............ ........
1  60 
Colocynth  apples..............................
60 
Chloral hydrate, G erm an  cru sts..
1  60 
c ry st...
Chloral 
1  70 
Chloral 
1  90 
Chloral 
cru sts..
1  75 
C h lo ro fo rm ........................................1  00
@1  10 
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............  40
®  45
Cinchonidia, o ther b ran d s..............  40
4522
Cloves (Powd  28c)........ 
 
20
C ochineal...........................................
30
Cocpa  B u tte r.....................................
45
2
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................
Corrosive S ublim ate........................
65
Corks, X  and X X —35 off  lis t.........
Cream T artar, p u re pow dered__ _  38
40
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 ft b o x ..
15
C reasote...............................................
50
Cudbear,  p rim e.................................
24
C uttle Fish B one...............................
24 
12
D e x trin e .......   ...................................
1 20 
D over’8  P ow ders.........:...................
D ragon’s Blood M ass.......................
50 
E rgot  pow dered...............................
45 
1  10 8 
E th e r Squibb’s ...................................
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s.
Epsom  S alts........................................ 
3 
E rgot, fre sh ........................................
50
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................
69 
Flake  w h ite........................................
14
G rains  P aradise....*.........................
25 
G elatine,  Cooper’s ............................
90
G elatine. French  ..............................  45  @
70
Glassware, flint, 7') off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is....
Glue,  cab in et.....................................  12
17 
28 
Glue, w h ite............... 
17
G lycerine,  p u re .................................   19
22 
H ops  )4s and )4s
40 
Iodoform  $   oz...................................
35
In d ig o ..................................................
85  ©1  00 
In sect Powder, best  D alm atian ...
25  @  30 
3  25 
Iodine,  resubliraed..........................
Isinglass,  A m erican .......................
1  50 
9
J a p o n ic a .............................................
London  P u rp le ............................... .
@  15 
Lead, a c e ta te .....................................
15 
Lime, chloride, 04s 2s 10c & 54s 11c)
9
1  00 
L u p u lin e............................................
L ycopodium ......................................
50 
60 
13
Madder, best  D u tch ....................... 
75
M anna, S.  F ........................................ 
55
M ercury............................................... 
Morphia, sulpb., P. & W .........$) oz  3  05®3  30
40 
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s
Moss, Iceland............................. ^  ft
10 
12 
Moss,  IriBh........................................
M ustard,  E nglish.............................
30 
18 
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  can s.........
20 
N utgalls...............................................
N utm egs, No. 1 ..................................
70 
N ux  V om ica......................................
10 
40 
O intm ent. M ercurial, 34d................
P epper, Black  B e rry .......................
18 
P ep sin ..................................................
3 00 
P itch, T rue B urgundy.....................
7
6
Quassia  ............................................... 
7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W ............ ft oz
95®I  00 
Quinine,  G erm an..............................
95  ®1  00 
28 
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................
Strychnia, c ry st.................................
1  50 
Silver N itrate, c ry st........................
®   82 
80 
Red  P re c ip ita te ........................ ^  ft
Saffron, A m erican............................
35 
2 
Sal  G lauber........................................
Sal N itre, large  c ry st.......................
10 
9 
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st................
33
Sal Rochelle.......................................
Sal  Soda...............................................
@  2)4
Salicin.................................: ............. .
1  00 
S a n to n in .............................................
6  75
38
Snuffs, Maccoboy o r Scotch...........
4 
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].......................
S p erm aceti........................................
25
5 
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
14 
Soap* W hite C astile........................ .
Soap,G reen  do 
..........................
17
9 
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
Soap, 
do 
..........................
11 
14 
Soap,  M azzini....................................
28 
Spirits N itre ,3 F ...............................   26
32 
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................   28
Sugar Milk pow dered.......................
30 
Sulphur, flour....................................  
4
Sulphur,  ro ll......................................
3)4 
60
T artar E m etic....................................
2  70 
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
q u arts in tin ...........
1.40
85
Tar, 
pin ts in tin ..............
T urpentine,  V enice................. $  ft
W ax, W hite, S. &  F. b ra n d ............
Zinc,  S u lphate................................... 

3)4®
3®

4)4®

12)4®

do 
do 

25®

do 

@ 

®

10

79

7

e

 

®

OILS.

Capitol  Cylinder......................................
Model  C ylinder........................................
Shields  C ylinder......................................
Eldorado E ngine......................................
Peerless  M achinery................................
Challenge M achinery..............................
Backus Fine E ngine...............................
Black Diam ond M achinery..................................30
Castor Machine  O il............................................... 60
Paraffine, 25  deg .....................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg .....................................................21
Gal
85
75
65
53
56
90
40

Bbl
80
W hale, w in ter..............................
64
Lard, e x tra .............................................   64
55
Lard, No.  1....................................
50
Linseed, p u re  ra w ......................
53
Linseed, b o ile d ....................................   53
70
N eat’s Foot, w inter  stra in e d ..
36
Spirits T u rp en tin e.................................   36

# 

VARNISHES.

Bbl

“ 
“ 

PAINTS.

..1  10@1  20
No. 1 T urp  Coach....................................1  10@1  20
..1  60@1  70
E x tra   T u rp ................................................ I  60@1 70
..2  75@3  00
Coach  B o d y ...............................................2  75@3 00
..1  00@1  10
Noi 1 T urp F u rn itu re .............................1  00@1  10
..1  55@1  60
E x tra  T urp  D am ar.................................. 1  55@I 60
Ja p an  D ryer, No.  1 T u rp .......................  70®  75
Lb
9
10
10
11
2®  3 
2®  3 
2®  3 
2)4®  3 
234®  3 
13® 16 
65®57 
16@17 
534 
534 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1  40

Boralum ine, W hite  b u l k ] ............
Boralum ine, 
5 fts  I ............
B oralum ine,T ints  bulk.  ¡■50  off..
B oralum ine 
5  fts. J ............
Red  V en etian .............................   134
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.........  134
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda...........  134
P u tty , co m m ercial..................    2)4
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................   2)4
Verm ilion, prim e  A m erican..
V erm ilion, E n g lish...............
G reen,  P en in su lar.....................
Lead, red  striqjtly  p u re ............
Lead, w hite, strictly p u re .......
W hiting, w hite  S panish.. . . . .
W hiting,  Gilders5.......................
W hite, P aris A m erican.........
W hiting  P aris English cliff..

50

45
50

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

íes, Chemicals, 
Paints, Oils, Vanishes,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELLXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

W o l f,  P a t t o n  & Co., a n d  J o h n L. W h it ­

in g , M a n u f a c t u r e r s  o f  F in e  

P a in t , a n d   V a r n is h  

B r u sh e s.

—Also fo r th e—

Gr a n d   R a p id s   B r u s h   Co.,  M a n f ’r s  o f 

H a ir , Sh o e a n d  H o r se B r u s h e s.

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  Geods  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 o u t f it s  for  n e w   sto res 
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 dmg trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

tient

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

Withers Dade & 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 t h e r   k n o w n   b r a n d   in  the  market,  b u t 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t e e   perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

>

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

Gins, Bullies & Finn Wis.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAiLTMPlREiS&GO

(Props. Arotio Manufacturing Go.,)

MANUFACTURERS OF

— \ND—

FXXTB  PERFUMES
t o il e t a r t ic l e s.
Jenning’s
A rctic

Flavoring  Extracts. 

Improved

BAKING POWDER.
KID DRESSING, 
MUCILAGE, 

BLUINGS,

INKS, ETC.

| K $ I I & de5
G. S. YALE & BRO.,

—M anufacturers  o t —

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUINaS,  ETC.,

40  a n d   43  S o u th   D iv isio n ,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

- 

MICH

I k Nq  p q w

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.  STO W E  &  BKO ., P ro p rie to rs.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR.
! Entered  at  the  PostoMcc  at  Grand  Rapid*  as 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 19,1884.

C r e d i t s   i n   B u s i n e s s .

From  the U nited States  Econom ist.

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  consti­
tute a part of the charge on  goods  so  sold.
It is expected that there may  be  some  fail­
ures,  that  there  may  be  some wide-spread 
business troubles, or that there may be mon­
ey stringency at times.  It is a part of an im­
plied contract, a part of the high  mercantile 
character, a part of the largeness  of the true 
merchant, 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  iumors  of  difficul­
ties, is likely, as in more than one case which 
we know of, to proffer aid or an extension of 
credit.  On the other hand, it is but  too  of­
ten 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 pull­
ing 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 owing him.

But it is  not  only when a merchant  may 
be actually in such trouble that such  credit­
ors seek to work destruction.  It is often the 
case in times like the present,  for  instance, 
that their principle is to try  to  break  down 
the credit of men in good  standing.  Rumor 
is a powerful agency  of destruction  at  such 
times, and however good a  balance  sheet  a 
merchant may have,  it is often  in the power 
and  heart  of  those huxtering characters  to 
strike dead blows in their greed for gain,  or 
out  of  mere  dissoluteness  of  mercantile 
character.  If a merchant  can  make  a  fair 
showing  at  such  a  time,  he  is entitled  to 
be upheld by his creditors, and, besides, their 
interests  are  identical  with his own.  The 
mercantile  community  would  be  spared 
manyr a disaster, if a high  sense of responsi­
bility 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 their 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  magnamity  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.

P e c u lia ritie s  o f T rav el  in   a   S leeping-C ar.
The abundance of railways makes travel a 
luxury instead of a  crucifixion.  There  are, 
however, some peculiarities  which  may  be 
noticed, and one of these is one wtiicti  I  am 
sure the traveling public will thank  me  for 
calling attention to. 
It is to be found in the 
fact that the person in charge  of  the  sleep­
ers is, as a rule,  an African,  whose  tropical 
blood  demands  a  high  temperature.  The 
moment the passengers  áre  in  their  berths 
he proceeds to close  all  the  ventilators  and 
open the dampers of the stoves.  In a  little 
while his chilled blood is warmed to  a  com­
fortable degree, the  car  becomes  almost  as 
hot as the fiery furnace in  which  the  three 
Hebrews  were  to  be  cremated, 
the  at­
mosphere is stifling with the intense heat and 
noxious from the imprisoned  emanations  of 
the breath and the perspiration of the suffer­
ing1 sleepers.  There are  groans,  writhings, 
profanity and discomfort all over and through 
the car save  in  the  case  of the slumbering 
African,  He sleeps serenely.  What  suffo­
cates the others  appears  to  add  oxygen  to 
his blood;  he stews in the  grease of the vile 
composition  which  fills  the  car and is  su­
premely  happy.

Now, the railway which will supply Afri­
cans of  lower  thermometrical averages, and 
who will not  have  chills at  a  temperature 
below  a  hundred  degrees,  will  confer  a 
“boon” on the traveling public.
A   Good  P a p e r.

The  Youth’s Companion is a paper which 
it is a pleasure to praise.  For it demonstrates 
that  it  is  not  necessary  to  poison a boy’s 
mind in order to stimulate  him.  The  pulse 
is ipade to throb, but with an  impulse  to  do 
right and fill a high place in the  world’s  es­
timation.  That  this  can be done and  that 
The Companion has been able to  achieve  a 
circulation of 325,000 copies, is no small tes­
timony to the skill and liberality with which 
it is edited.  Those who know the paper best 
wonder how any American family is willing 
to do without it.  The price is $1.75  a  year. 
Subscriptions  sent  in  now  will  entitle  to 
copies  of  all  the  remaining  issues of  this 
year, as well as to the whole year 1885.

Needed by every retail  grocer  or  confec 
tioner,  one  or  more  of  Kenyon’s  Patent 
Spring Paper  Bag  Holders.  Each  has  ca­
pacity of containing about fifty bags.  Their 
great convenience can be learned  by  having 
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen 
expressed for $2.50 from  Kenyon  Brothers, 
Wakefield, Rhode  Island.
in New England. 

Nearly 2,000 watches  are made every day 

'  *

k   IMPROVED

B a k i n g
powder

This  Baking  Pow der  m akes the  WHITEST 
LIGHTEST and m ost  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  Persons suffering w ith indi 
gestion o r dyspepsia, will find th a t th ey  can eat 
freely of w arm   bread prepared w ith th e A rctic 
Im proved Baking Pow der.  U nder no  circum ­
stances will you  suffer  from   h eartb u rn ,  sour 
stom ach o r indigestion w hen you eat food pre­
pared  w ith  this  unequalled  Baking  Pow der. 
TRY  IT  and be convinced.  P repared  only  by 
th e  A rctic  M anufacturing Co., G rand Itapids

ra il,  JONES, k  GO.
Fine Perfumes,

M anufacturers  of

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders,

Bluings,. Etc., Etc

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

Ü E M I N Ü ’S

“Red Bark Bitters

77

-AND-

78  West Bridge Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

—THE—

bttt,  s e l l ,  d e .i n k
BEST COFFEE ill Hie WORLD
Chase  &  Sanborn’s

• 

*  •

Standard  Java.

ENTERPRISE  CIGAR  CO.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOB. THE  FAMOUS  AND  POPULAR  BBANDS

O L Y M P I A ,

- A N D

G-randL  napids,  Mieli.

LA
F. J. LAMB '&  COMPANY,
Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs,  *

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

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET, 

„

ORAND  RAPIDS.  -  MICHIGAN.

Choice Butter a Specialty!

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

Flavor. 

t

Over  15,000  Grocers
Throughout  the  United.  States  and  Canada

Pronounce it the FINEST COFFEE they ever sold and testify that it has large 

ly increased their sales by its SUPEBIOB QUALITY.

The follow ing testim onial com ing as it does from  one of the larg est if n o t th e   larg est  gro 

cers in th e  U nited S tates, is w orthy of your consideration:

Cincinnati, December 20th, 1883.

Messrs. Chase  &  Sanborn, Boston, Mass.
G e n t l e m e n — In reply to yours of the 18th  inst.,  askihg  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 haw 
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  i 
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.

{Signed,) 

Yours  respectfully, 

J O S  

___
J r * G O L l G S  

iSoiE L fiS

Send for Sample Lot.

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

C h a s e   &   S a n b o r n
Importers,  Roasters and  Packers,

B o s t o n ,   M ^ s s > r   X T -  S I -   A .

CANADIAN  BRANCH, 

435  ST.  P Ä U L   STR EE T, 

MICHIGAN  AGENT. 

H.  T.  Chase, 

Montreal, P. Q.

Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids.

Oysters!  Oysters!
OYSTER  DEPOT!

WHOLESALE

BANANAS,  LEMONS, EGGS,  CHEESE,  VEG­

ETABLES,  APPLES,  CIDER.

Careful Attention  Paid to Filling  Orders.
M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions!

WHOLESALE

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

-  MICHIGAN.

REMOVAL!

Coal, Wood,  Lime,  Cement, 

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement

B.  KNO W L.SON.  *

WHOLESALE

IR A   O.  G R E K  IT.
O ysters  and.  Fruits. *
*

MANOKEN  BRAND. 

Sole  Agent  for

1 1 7   Monroe  St-

30 and 32 Ionia Street 

- 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

W

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

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER.
RINDGKE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe  Co. and keep a full line of ^

 Celebrat­
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State.  Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready 
for  inspection.

illy MauM for the Ichi!

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Miclj.

. i

- m u s

A t   M a m i f a c t n r G r s ’  P r i c e s .

S A M P L E S  TO  T H E   T R A D E   O NLY.

Sous®  and  Store  Shades Made to Order. 

. 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

NELSON BROS.  CO.
W M . SEA RS & CO. *
.

Cracker  Manufacturers, 

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE

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

HOLIDAY  G O O D S !

C A L L   E A R L Y   A N D   O F T E N  1 '¿ S ons';

Importers.
It  is an  acknowledged  fact that our line of 

The largest stock in  Michigan  now open  and  ready  for  inspection, 

these  goods pays the merchant BETTER PROFITS with QUICKER  SALES than any  other because

O i x r   G o o d s   e u r e   T X s e f \x l 
r n i e v   a r e   O n i a m e n t a l .
rpj^^^e  is  xìo  d.©a,d  Stock,  among  "tlxexxi. 
rX1ixe"V  are  "tlxe  most  ci"ULra*"tole.  _ 
_  .  -,
Tiiey  makie  tlie  most  A.ttraoti^re  Stock.

*

Ladies'  Cups  and  Saucers, 
Gentleman’s  Cups  and  Saucers. 
Plate  Sets.
Bread  and  X£ilk  Sets- 
Fruit  Plates.
Fruit  Ccmports.
Cb.ina  Shaving  Mugs 
Hew  Styles  Vases.
New  Styles  of

T I 3ST  TOYS.
I 

v « /  X

INI 

JL 

n 

DOLLS!
Dressed Dolls,
Limb Dolls,
China  Dolls,
Papier Mache Dolls, 
Wax  Dolls,
Kid Dolls,
Cloth  Dolls.

Dollar Toys!

Imported Colored  Glass.
Polka Dot and  Cracquel in  Pitchers,  Tum­
blers,  Salts,  Peppers,  Cider  Sets,  Water  Sets  and 
Spoon Holders.

MAJOLICA  W-A-IFLE

At greatly reduced prices.

Smoking  Sets  and Tobacco  Boxes.

Clina  Toys,  China  Eipros  aid  Iron  Money  Safas.

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HAY  SCALES— REAL  ESTATE.

Hay scales built upon land  by the owners 
are real estate,  and  pass with the soil  under 
them.—Dudley  vs. Foot  &  Morse, Supreme 
Court of  New Hampshire.

CARRIER— DETENTION  OF 

GOODS  LIA­

BILITY.

Iu a  recent  case where goods which were 
to be converted into money were detained in 
transportation  by  a  carrier,  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Texas  held  (Houston  &  Texas 
Central Railway vs. .Jackson) that the carrier 
was  liable  to  pay legal  interest  by way  of 
damages.
LIFE  

INTEREST.
A  stranger who has no interest in the life 
of  another can  not obtain a membership for 
that  person  in  any  mutual  benefit  society 
where the membership  secures an insurance 
on the life of  the member, according  to  the 
decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana 
in  the  case of  the  Elkhart  Association  vs. 
Houghton, decided on the  30th ult.

INSURANCE— INSURABLE 

REDEMPTION— RIGHTS OF  JUDGMENT  CRED­

ITOR.

A  judgment  creditor after  redeeming  the 
land  of  his  debtor from  sale  on  execution, 
has  no  interest  in  or  control  over  the  re­
demption money.  He  has only the right  to 
have the land  sold  on  his execution,  and to 
receive  the proceeds  of  that sale,  by apply­
ing the excess above  the redemption  money 
advanced, and  interest, on  his  execution. 
Brooks et al. vs.  Sanders, Supreme Court  of 
Illinois.

INJUNCTION— EQUITY.

A court  of  equity will  not enjoin a  judg­
ment at  law merely on the ground  that  the 
process  in  the  suit  in which  judgment was 
rendered was not served  on  the  defendant. 
To  justify  the  interposition  of  a  court  of 
equity  in  such  a  case, it  must  be  further 
shown that if  the relief  sought  be  granted, 
a different result will  be obtained from that 
already  adjudged  by  the  void  judgment. 
This is  the rule under  the common  law au­
thorities.—Supreme Court of  Illinois.

ATTORNEY  AND  CLIENT— PURCHASE  EX­

ECUTION.

The mere relation  of  attorney and  client 
does not  of  itself  disable  the attorney of  a 
judgment  creditor from  buying on  his own 
account  at a  sale in  execution  of  the judg­
ment, provided  he act with  perfect  fairness 
and gootf  faith and  in no manner in opposi­
tion  to  the interest of  his  client.  So  held 
by the  Supreme  Court  of  Louisiana  in  the 
recent  case  of  Hyams,  administrator,  vs. 
Herndon et al.
CARRIER— LIABILITY— SPECIAL  CONTRACT.
While  ordinarily the  carrier’s  liability  is 
to  the  consignee,  yet  the  shipper  is  his 
agent  in  making  the  contract,  and  it  is 
sufficient  for  the carrier  to  prove  a special 
contract limiting  his liability with  the ship­
per.  This  may  be  done,  according  to  the 
decision  of  the Kentucky Superior  Court  in 
the case of Adams Express Co. vs. Marshall, 
by showing that  the shipper  has voluntarily 
accepted  a  bill  of  lading  containing  the 
stipulation  in question.

CONTRACT— ACCEPT ANCY— ATTORNEY.
Where a person  for whose  benefit  a  con­
tract has been  made  between  other  parties 
accepts  the contract, it  cannot  be  canceled 
by the parties so as to affect  his right  to en­
force  it,  according  to  the  decision  of  the 
Kentucky Court  of  Appeals  in  the case of 
Dodge’s  administration  vs.  Moss.  In  this 
case  the act  of  an attorney was  held  to be 
the act of  his clients, and  equivalent  to  an 
acceptance  by them of  a  contract  made be­
tween third parties for their benefit.
CARRIER’S  LIABILITY— CONNECTING  LINES.
In  a  case  recently decided  by the  Texas 
Court of  Appeals  the  receipt  given  by the 
company  between  the  parties  read:  “ Re­
ceived  of  J. W. Dupree  one  valise, valued 
at $500, and  for which  amount  the charges 
are made  by said  company,  marked  J. W. 
Dupree, to he forwarded to Grandview, Tex., 
and there  delivered,”  etc., and  contained  a 
provision  authorizing  the  company  to  de­
liver  the  valise  to  any  connecting  carrier, 
and  exempting  it  from  any 
loss  which 
might  occur after such delivery.  The court 
in this case  (Texas  Express  Co. vs. Pacific 
Express Co. et al.)  held  that  the  company 
could contract to carry the valise  beyond its 
own  line of  road, and  that  having  done so 
it  could  not  legally stipulate  that  it would 
not  be  liable  for  less  except  on  its  own 
lines,  but  that  it  was  responsible  for  the 
negligence of  the connecting lines.

AUTHORITY  OF  AGENT— USAGE.

In the case of  The  National  Furnace Co. 
vs.  the  Keystone  Manufacturing  Co.,  de­
cided  by the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  at 
the September  term, the  following facts ap­
peared:  A corporation engaged  in  the man­
ufacture  of  pig  iron  adopted,  through  its 
directory, a resolution as follows:  “Resolved, 
that A B, of  Chicago, be  and  is  hereby ap­
pointed  and  employed  by this  company as 
its sole agent  for  the consignment  and  sale 
of  its entire product, he  to  receive  a  com­
mission,”  etc.  This  agent  assumed  to  au- 
i thorize  another to make contracts in respect 
I to the subject matter of  the agency, and the 
| latter  did  contract,  on  behalf  of  the  cor- 
| poration, with  another  manufacturing com­
pany  to  supply the  latter with  all  the  pig 
iron  they  should  need,  use  or  consume  iy 
their  business  during  the  then  ensuing 
season of  such  business. 
It was shown  to 
have  been  the custom  in  Chicago  for  iron 
brokers  to employ  salesmen  to  make  con­
tracts  to  furnish  manufacturers  with  the 
year’s supply of  iron, to  be delivered  as or­
dered.  Upon the question as  to  the  extent 
of  the agent’s authority under  these circum­
stances, the court held that under the resolu­
tion appointing him, in connection with  the 
usage of  trade in Chicago  among  this  class 
of  dealers,  he had  authority, as  the general 
agent of  his  principal, to  contract, through 
the  instrumentality  employed,  for  the sale 
of iron thereafter  to be produced, and  to he 
delivered  in the future as ordered, and that 
his authority was not  limited  merely to the 
sale of  the iron when  it  was ready for  the 
market.  The court further  held  that,  aside 
from any usage  or  custom  among  dealers, 
the  resolution  of  appointment  itself  was 
broad enough  in its terms  to constitute  the 
person appointed  the general  agent  of  the 
principal in respect to the business to  which 
it  related,  and  authorized  him  to  contract 
for the future delivery of  iron, as was done.

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Hecker’s Self-B.aising Crid&lo-Cak© Flour

Boxes, 32 3 ft p ack ag es, $5.15.  16 6 ft p ack ag es, $5.

°   all uses 
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F or all uses w here a b a tte r Is required, and fo r Muffins, Griddle  Cakes,  Waffles,  Puddings,  Ap- 

K s h o r  plain F ritters, Etc.  H as a yellow label printed in green ink.

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

Seeker’s 3 elf-2Raising "W’hea.t Flours,

A little w ater, w ith th e m eans of m aking a fire  being all th a t is  requisite  in  any  situ atio n   to 

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New Process B rand—Boxes  holding 32 3 ft papers 
New Process B rand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft pappers
Red B rand—Boxes holding 32 3 lb   p a p e rs.......
Red B ra n d —Boxes holding 16 6 ft p a p e rs.........
Blue B rand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft  p a p e rs..

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Hooker’s Rolled Wheat, or Wheatea Grits

Surnasses all o ther preparation of w heat fo r  producing  and  m aintaining  a  healthful,  active 
burpasses auc^ p r e p a r a r  

^  &nd jg p ecu iiarly beneficial to dyspeptics and
p e rso n s o f se d e n ta ry  h ab its.

Heoker’s Partly-Cooked Polled Oats.

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

Is m ade from  specially selected grain.  A v ery superior article.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft pkg'S., $3,50 <(3 box.

Hecker’s Farina

Is m ade en tirely from  w heat, and consists of granulated particles of th e  bex-ry adhering to the 

o u te r  pelicle a fte r crushing.  I t is  an especially nutritious food to r invalids 

and infants, and a m ost delicious desert w hen m ane into jelly or 

blanc  m ange, and served w ith sauce o r  fru its.
Boxes holding 4 cartoons, 12 lib pps., each, $4.50.
Boxes  holding  24  1  pound  papers,  each,  $3.30.

Hecker’s Hominy or Corn Grits

Is m ade from  fine w hite flint corn.

Boxes holding 242 ft packages, $3.50 $  box.

PURITY AND STENGTH GUARANTEED.

Heeler’s  Perfect  M il  Potto

Ig m ade from  P u re Cream T artar.  I t is PERFECTLY HEALTHFUL, and its 

B aking Q ualities cannot be surpassed. 

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N. B.—We offer tlie trade every inducement  in  Quality  and  Price  to  warrant 

them in pushing the sale of goods  that  have been recognized 

as STANDARD  FOR  OVER  FORTY  YEARS.

George  V.  Hecker  &  Co.

CLOSED.

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OPEN.

EVERY LIVE  DEALER  SHOULD  SELL  THEM.

This is the Most Practical Family Can ever Offered to the Trade.

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the heiirht of  any lam p.

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In  g e ttin g  c a n  refilled, no p a rts  to  be le f t a t hom e to  d ra in  oil  over 
te n ts  o r cau se  exp lo sio n s. 
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EV£T h e d e a le r in  sellin g  th is c a n  is  e n ab led  to  m a k e  a  good  profit, an d  in a  m e a su re   avo id  th e 
a n n o y an c e   o f  th e   sm all can , w h ile y o u   g u a ra n te e   y o u r  c u sto m er  a b so lu te   s a fe ty   an d   th e 
g re a te s t possible co n v en ien ce.

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Butts’ Patent Processed

“ H ulled Com Flour ”
Griddle Cakes,  Gems, Waffles, Etc., Etc

Finest  a n d  Best Selling Article of  the  Kind  ever  placed  on  the  Market. 
Guaranteed to be as Represented, or No Sale.  For  Sale by all Jobbers in Grand 

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Rapids.Butts’  Patent Processed  Buckwheat

Is Warranted to be the Straighest and Best Goods  Ever  offered  to  the  Trade.

PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILDLY, CURES QUICKLY
DUNHAM’S  SERE  CERE  I R   IEYER  &  ACER.
’O ne  D o se  taken  during 
arrests  tn<ae  disease  in  20 minutes.
SEVER  KNOWN  TO  TAIL.  Money to  
turned  if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre-
Said for 60 cts.  Address, W estern 
[edicine Co.,Grand Rapids, Mich.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
Purely  V egetable;  contain  no  calom el,  m inera- 
aison or quinine.  Act directly on th e  Liver, 
tone 
Pup”  th e   system,  aid   digestion  a m  
purify  th e  blood.  POSITIVELY CUBE 
HEADACHE  AMD CONSTIPATION.  In ­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, H ypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
o n  receipt of price,  85  cts.  Sample 
' package free.  Western  Medicine 
Company., G rand Rapids, Mich.

OYSTERS.

We are  sole Michigan 
agents for the  celebrated 
“F ” brand,  packed by  J. 
S.  FARREN  & CO.,  Bal­
timore, and are  prepared 
to fill 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  o f 
this department ana will 
give your  orders  person­
al and  prompt  attention. 
We solicit your order.

«P utnam   &  Brooks.

-Groceries.

TRADE  OUTLOOK.

Business.

Effect  of  tlie  New  Administration  On 
Chicago  News:  Prominent  business  men 
of  Chicago express no alarm at the prospect 
of  a  change  in  the  administration  of  the 
affairs of  the government.  The  excitement 
attendant  upon  the  election  has  militated 
somewhat  against  the  regular  current  of 
business,  but  not  to  such  an  extent  as  to 
create  any  apprehension  for  the  future. 
Some are of  the opinion that  the  unseason­
able weather  of  late  has  had  more  to  do 
with  the  temporary lull  in  business  than 
any fear that Democratic rule would operate 
against  the business  interests  of  the  coun­
try.  The tariff  policy of the incoming party 
was adverted to as likely to be an  important 
factor in determining  the permanent results 
on  business,  but  no one seemed to entertain 
the opinion that the changes, if  any, will be 
so radical  as  to  retard  the  country’s  pros­
perity.  A

New  York  Shipping  and  Commercial 
List:  The week opens with the political  at­
mosphere  clearing, the  uneasiness  growing 
out of  the uncertainty of  the  result  of  the 
election that generally prevailed  last  week, 
gradually disappearing, and a  disposition to 
abide by the verdict  of  the  majority, what­
ever it may be.  That even  the accession to 
power of  another  political  party is  viewed 
without  dismay  by  conservative  business 
men,  is  sufficiently  demonstrated  by  the 
fact that amid all  the  recent  excitement  of 
party  strife,  the  commercial  situation  has 
been  scarcely  disturbed, and  now  presents 
the same calm aspect  that prevailed a week 
ago.
Indianapolis  Grocer:  Now that  the  elec­
tions are over, let us give business a chance. 
It is the duty of  every good  citizen to abide 
by  the  decision  of  the  majority  of  the 
people,  and  as  the  voting  is  over,  and 
nothing is to be gained  by a  wild  abandon­
ment of occupations to indulge in the luxury 
of 
excessive 
hilarity,  let us “ sober up ”  and  concentrate 
energies  upon  business.  It  is  an  unfortu­
nate necessity that compels us  to  divert our 
energies six  months  every fourth  year, and 
three months,  to some extent, at least, every 
other  year,  to  political  ends.  But  in  re­
publics the sovereign must  make exercise of 
his  powers,  and  these  are  to  vote  and 
convince  others  to  vote  right.  But  when 
the ballots are cast the fight  is over.  There 
is no further appeal,  and  the  resort  should 
then  be  to  the  store,  the  workshop,  the 
plow, and the counting room.  Here’s to the 
general good  of  our whole  country  during 
the administration of  our new President

fruitless  controversy  and 

Northwestern  Lum berm an:  The  week 
past has been devoted  more  to  speculating 
on the results of the  late  national  election 
and waiting for the count than  to  business. 
The lumber trade, such as there is,  has con­
tinued in motion, but the men engaged  in  it 
have discharged their duties in a perfunctory 
way, not knowing whether or not they  were 
laying sure foundations for  future  prosper­
ity.  The  lumbermen  of  the  country,  like 
other business men; are more or less distrust­
ful of the results of a  presidential  election, 
and when the final count fails to be  prompt 
and satisfying  their  distrust  is  intensified. 
Yet we know of no lumberman who  propos­
es to wind up business on account of a change 
of administration.  There is only a  waiting 
and careful looking to see  what  shape  gov­
ernmental affairs will take.  Few will under­
take to branch out ipto new  enterprises this 
winter.  Expenses will be reduced and kept 
to the minimum as nearly as possible;  every­
thing  will  be  conducted  in  a conservative 
way, and devoid of  unnecessary  risk.  The 
stock of lumber on hand is ample for  all re­
quirements, and the work  of  distributing  it 
to a legitimate trade will  engage  the  hand 
lers of manufactured stock for the  next few 
months, while logging will be prosecuted on 
a scale somewhat restricted  as  compared  to 
the lavish manner of previous  years.  From 
now until spring there  will  undoubtedly  be 
manifested  a  degree  of  moderation  in all 
things—a feeling along the  way  that  leads 
into the future. 
It  can truthfully  be  said 
that  there  is  a  lack  of  confidence  in the 
minds of lumberman as to the  shape  affairs 
will  assume  for  the  year  to come.  While 
they  are  not  discouraged  or  bowed down, 
they feel as if they would like to see a clear­
ing away o fdoubts, a settlement of some un­
certain questions of  government  policy.  If 
the  incoming  administration  could  be  in­
duced to cast some shadow before, indicating 
what is to be its policy in regard to the  rev­
enue, the surplus in the treasury,  the  finan­
cial system of the country generally—wheth­
er the new administration is to be a bull in a 
china shop  (pardon the similtude)  or  a con­
servative, safe custodian of  the  nation’s  in­
terests—it would act as a pacification of much 
fear and pertubation.  All are  ready  to  ac­
quiesce in a change, and give a  cordial  sup­
port to the new government, if  a  guarantee 
of  a  safe,  careful,  and, withal, progressive 
policy can be assured.  The business men of 
the country want but little disturbing tinker­
ing with the revenue or finances,  neither  do 
they  want  a  re-actionary  policy that  shall 
check advancement toward the grand future 
to which all spirited citizens  aspire.  They 
want security and a free field, and these only.
The tobacco crop  of  this  country, which, 
in 1864, was but  197,000,000  pounds, prom­
ises to be between 600,000,000  and  700,000,- 
000 pounds, or more  than  three  times  that 
of  twenty' years  ago.  The  acreage, which 
in 1864 was  239,836  has  jumped  to nearly
700.000, while  the yalue  of  the  crop,  which 
in 1864 was 030,000,000, will probably reach
045.000.  000 or 050,000,000 in  1884.

Plenty of B a d   Figs in Market.

From the New York Sun.

Wholesale fruit dealers in this city are re­
ceiving complaints every day about  the  figs 
which they have forwarded to  their  out  of 
town customers.  The figs are said to be sour, 
and often decayed.

“The fig crop in Turkey has been unusual­
ly large this year,” an importer said recently, 
“and there are quantities of figs in this mar­
ket.  The fault is that the figs have not been 
properly cured.  Many  were  picked  before 
they were ripe, and many have been  shipped 
before  they  were thoroughly cured.  Every 
year this happens to some extent, but never to 
such  an  extent  as  at present.  One of  the 
reasons for the figs being bad is that the hot 
weather  has  lasted  longer than usual,  and 
has  caused  the  figs  to  sweat  and become 
sour.”

“How are they selling?”
“Anywhere from six cents to twenty cents 
a pound.  A very fair article can be  bought 
for fourteen cents.  Last year  nearly  0400,- 
000 w orth of imported figs came tothiscoun 
try.  This year there were more in bulk, bu- 
they are not worth so much.”
At Half Cost.
From  the New E ngland Grocer.

“Sugar at half cost,” was the  label posted 

in a Boston grocer’s store window.

“What are you paying per pound for  sug­
ar, now?” asked a  customer of  the  clerk  at 
the sugar counter.

“We are paying a trifle over six  cents per 

pound at wholesale,” said the clerk.

“Well,”  said  the  customer,  “I’ll  take  a 
pound.  He’s your pay,” handing  out  three 
cents.

The  clerk  delivered  the  goods,  put  the 
three cents in the money  drawer,  and  then 
that sign came down  in  the  twinkle  of  an 
eye.  No more goods sold  “at  half cost” in 
that store.

Should  Have Come to Grand Rapids.
The following, from  the  Chicago  Grocer, 
relates the disastrous consequences frequent­
ly attendant upon a visit to the Wicked City 
—consequences which could have been avoid­
ed by coming to this market instead:

Henry Phillips, a grocer hailing from Law­
rence,  Mich.,  came  to  the city a few  days 
ago to purchase a stock of goods, but falling 
in with some giddy habitues  of  the “le^ee,” 
was soon pickled, and was picked up by  the 
patrol  and taken to the armory at  an  early 
hour the following morning.  He looked very 
penitent  when  he  appeared  before Justice 
Foote,  and  fortunately  had  money  enough 
left to pay the fine of 01 and costs which the 
court assessed him.

Dairymen’s  Convention.

C. B. Lambert, the  well-known  writer  of 
dairy topics, makes  the  following  pertinent 
suggestions:

I am in hopes  that  some  of  the  factory- 
men  will  bestir  themselves  and  call  a 
factorymen’s  convention.  Michigan  has 
many  advantages  for  being  a  dairy  state, 
but the dairymen lack system.

The  commercial  editor  of  the  Cleveland 
H erald  says:  “ If  two  pots  of  butter  be 
taken,  and  the  one  thoroughly washed  in 
weak  brine  so  that  it  will  not  color  the 
water, and then work it  over and  expel the 
surplus  moisture,  and  take  another  lump 
from  the same churning  and  work  it  over 
without washing, but  salt  it  at  the rate of 
an ounce to the pound, and  set  them  away, 
the  salted  butter  will  be  the  first  to  get 
rancid and worthless.”

It is claimed that  certain  Detroit  jobbers 
are disregarding the compact  recently made 
with  the manufacturer  of  “ Hiawatha ”  by 
giving a  rebate  of  50  cents  on  every  five 
pails purchased.  T h e  T r a d e s m a n  will in­
vestigate the report, and  ascertain  the exact 
facts in the matter.

A  premium  of  thirty  thousand  dollars, 
says the Paper World, has  been  offered by 
the Mexican  Government to  any  one  who 
will establish in that country a paper mill at 
a cost of 0150,000.  The  Government  will 
also concede the right to all cactus plants on 
the State  lands.

The Minister  of Commerce of France has 
issued  a  second  circular  calling  upon  the 
police to enforce the law prohibiting the use 
of salicylic acid in all kinds of food.  French 
brewers are very indignant, as  salicylic acid 
had been extensively  used  in  spite  of  the 
law.
•  Direct  shipments of  Florida  oranges  are 
now coming in and the quality is  very  good 
and prices low.  Lemons are steady.  Chest­
nuts are a little  higher.  Peanuts  are  easy, 
with slightly lower prices for  new  stock  in 
Virginias.

Wisconsin  has  fully  a  thousand  cream­

eries and cheeseries.

STATE SEAL.”

Cody, Ball & Co.’s  New  Brand of Fine-Cut.
Stimulated by the  almost  unparalled  suc­
cess of their brand of  plug  tobacco,  “Tram­
way,”  Messrs. Cody, .Ball &  Co,  have  been 
experimenting for  some  months  past  on  a 
brand of fine-cut  that will be as fine in qual­
ify» give  as  good  value  for  the  money, and 
prove  as  satisfactory to the retailer and con 
sumer as “T ram w ayand they have been re­
warded by the production of a piece of goods 
that has no equal on the market and is bound 
to meet with the same generous  recognition 
accorded  its  predecessor  in  the  plug line. 
“State Seal” is made from the best  selected 
leaf, by the best known  processes,  is  of  su­
perior  strength  and  excellent flavor, and is 
as fine as anything on the market, no matter 
what the price.  See quotations under  Price 
Current.

Florida Oranges.

We  notice  that  Putnam  &  Brooks have 
just received another car of very fine oranges 
direct from the growers  in  central  Florida.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

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2  20

25
45
35
65

2 00
1  75

45
75
1  40
2  40

CANNED FISH.

CANNED FRUITS.

BAKING  POWDER.

“ 
“  
BROOMS.

AXLE GREASE.
F razer’s ............... 
85
 
60
D iam ond.................................... 
M o d o c__ $ d o z ....¿ .................  
55
P a ra g o n ...  $  doz...........................................   70
Paragon, 20 ft  p ails.......................................  60
A rctic 56 ft can s.................................... ¥  doz,
A rctic 54 ft can s.......................
A rctic 54 ft cans.  ...................
A rctic  1 ft  can s.......................
A rctic 5  ft c an s........................
BLUING.
.doz.
Dry, No. 2.............................................. doz.
.doz.
Dry, No. 3..............................................doz
doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,..................  
doz.
.doz.
Liquid, 8 oz........................................... doz.
ig  gross  4  00
A rctic 4 o z............................... : ..........gi
A rctic 8  oz.........................................................   8  00
A rctic 16 oz........................................................  12  00
A rctic No. 1 p epper b o x .................................  2 00
3  00
A rctic No. 2 
4 50
A rctic No. 8 
2 50
No. 1 C arpet...................................................... 
No. 2 C arpet...................................................... 
2 25
No. 1  P arlo r G em ............................................ 
2 75
No. 1 H u rl.......  .......................................... 
No. 2 H url  ..................................................  
Fancy W hisk....................................................  
1 10
Common W hisk..............................................  
85
Clams, 1 ft  sta n d ard s...........................................I 40
Clams, 2 ft  sta n d ard s.......................................... 2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 f t ..........................  
Cove Oysters,  1  ft  sta n d ard s............................ 1 10
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  sta n d ard s..........................   1 95
Cove O ysters, 1 ft  slack  filled.......................  75
Cove O ysters, 2 ft slack filled............................ 1 25
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic........................................ ...1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft s ta r .................................................2 25
Lobsters, 2 ft s ta r ................................................. 3 25
Mackerel, l f t   fresh   stan d ard s......................... 1 10
M ackerel, 5 ft fresh   sta n d ard s.........................6 50
M ackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3  f t....................... 3 25
M ackerel, 3 ft in M ustard...................................3 25
M ackerel, 3 ft broiled.......................................... 3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Colum bia riv e r............ ............1  40
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia riv e r.............................. 2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  S acram ento................................... 1 50
Salmon, Wm. H um e’s E agle............................   1 95
Sardines, dom estic 54s................................... 
8
1314
Sardines,  dom estic  54s ................................ 
Sardines,  M ustard  54s...................................  12
Sardines,  im ported  54s.................................   15
Sardines, im ported 54s...................................  20
Sardines, im ported 54s, boneless................  32
Sardines, R ussian  k eg s...............................   55
T rout. 3 ft  brook...............................................   2 75
Apples, 3 ft sta n d a rd s.....................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, E rie ......................2 50
B lackberries, sta n d ard s..................................... 1 15
Blackberries,  E rie...............................   .....1   55
Cherries, Erie, re d ................................................1 30
Cherries, Erie,w hite w ax ..............................1  90
Cherries, F rench  Brandy, q u a rts....................2 50
Cherries, W hite.....................................................3 55
...........1  10
Damsons
...........1  35
..........................
Egg Plum s, standards 
...........1 45
Egg Plum s,  E rie........................................
.......1   00
Gooseberries, K ra ft’s B e st................—
...........1  40
G reen  Gages, standards 2 f t...................
...........1  50
G reen G ages,  E rie.....................................
...........3  10
Peaches,  B ran d y ......................................
...........2  40
Peaches, E x tra Y ellow ............................
...........1  75
Peaches,  stan d ard s....................................
...........1  50
Peaches,  seconds......................................
...........1  10
Pie Peaches,  K en sett’s ............................
...........1  70
Pears. B artlett, E rie.................................
...........2  20
Pineapples,  E rie........................................
...........2  85
Plum bs, Golden  D rop...............................
...........1  45
Q u in ces........................................................
...........1  45
Raspberries, Black,  E rie .........................
...........1  40
R aspberries, Red,  E rie............................
...........1  35
Straw berries,  E rie .....................................
...........1  40
W hortleberries, M cM urphy’s ................
CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.
A pricots, L usk’s ......................,......................2  60
Egg  P lu m s......................................................... 2 50
G ra p e s................................................................2 50
G reen G ages......................................................2 50
P ears  .................................................................3  CO
Q u in ces.............................................................. 2 90
P e a c h e s.............................................................. 3 00
A sparagus, O yster B ay.................................. 3 25
Beans, Lima.  E rie .......................................... .1 65
Beans, String, E r ie ........................................   90
Beans, Lima,  sta n d a rd .................................  90
Beans, Stringless,  E rie..  ............................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked........................ 1 60
Corn,  E rie..........................................................115
Corn, Red  Seal.................................................. 1 10
Corn,  A cm e.....................................  
1  10
Corn, R evere......................................................1 10
M ushrooms, French,  100 in  case............... 22 00
Peas, Early ex tra,  sm all sifted  E rie .........2  25
Peas, French, 100 in case  ............................ 23  00
Peas, M arrofat, sta n d ard ..................       ..,.14<)
Peas, B eaver........................................... 
75
Peas, early sm all, sifted .................................1 60
P um pkin, 3 ft G olden......................................1 00
R hubarb,  E rie ..................................................1 10
Squash, E r ie ..................................................... 1 25
Succotash, E rie................................................ 1 20
Succotash, sta n d ard .......................................  75
Tomatoes, Red Seal..................  
1  00
CHOCOLATE.
Boston  prem iu m ........................................  @36
Baker’s prem iu m ........................................  @40
R u n k les.........................................................   @35
@25
G erm an  sw eet. 
@25
V ienna Sweet.
G reen R io................................................... 12  @14
G reen Ja v a................................................. 17  @27
G reen M ocha..............................................25  @27
Roasted R io...............................  
Roasted  J a v a ............................................24  @32
Roasted  M ar..............................................17  @19
Roasted M ocha..........................................  @32
Roasted M ex..............................................1754@20
G round  R io...............................................   954@17
A rbuckle’s .................................................   @1514
X X X X ........................................................  @1554
D ilw orth’s ....................................................   @1514
L evering’s ..............................  
@1514
M agnolia....................................................   @1514
CORDAGE.
72 foot J u t e ....... 1  25 
60 foot  J u te .......1  05 

¡60 foot C otton 
¡50 fo o t C otton 

CANNED VEGETABLES.

COFFEE.

1  75
1  50

 

 

 

 

 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

 

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“ 
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Jen n in g s’2 o z........................................$   doz.  1  00
4 oz.......................................................  1 50
6 o z........................................................2  50
8 o z.......................................................  3 50
No. 2  T ap er.......................................  1 25
No.  4 
Vi p in t  ro u n d ........................................ 4 50
1
No.  8.
No. 1 0 ............

 
9 00
3 00
4  25
Jen n in g s’ 2 oz........................................$  doz.  1  40
2 50
4 oz. 
4  00
6 oz. 
5 00
8 oz.
No. 2  T ap er.....................................  1  50
No.  4 T a p e r....................................  3 00
Vi pin t  ro u n d ........................................  7 50
1 pin t 
ro u n d ........................................15 00
No.  8.......................................................   4 25
No.  10.................................. 

Vanilla.

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FISH.

Bloaters, Smoked Y arm outh......................1  10
Cod, w hole....................................................454@6
Cod, Boneless................................................... 5@7 Vi
Cod, pickled,  Vt  bb ls......................................3  00
H a lib u t...........................................................  
 
H erring 54  b b ls.............................................. 2  50
H erring,  Scaled.............................................. 22@23
H erring,  H olland...........................................@80
Mackerel, No. 1, Vt b b ls................................ 5  00
Mackerel, No. 1,12  ft  k its ........................... 1  00
Shad,  Vt  b b l .....................................................2  50
T rout, No.  1,  Vt  b b ls......................................4  85
T rout, No. 1,12  ft  k its...................................  90
W hite, No. 1, Vt b b ls ..................................... 5  50
W hite, Fam ily,  Vt bbls.................................. 2  25
W hite, No. 1,10 ft k its ...................................  90
W hite,  No. 1,12  ft k its .................................. 1 00
  554@654
Apples, M ichigan.................................. 
Apples, Dried, Y ork State, evap., bbls 
©8
Apples, Dried, Y ork State,  evap., box 
@10
Cherries, dried,  p itte d ................................  
C itro n .........................................................   @35
@5%
C urrants, crop  1884.................................  
Peaches, dried  ........................................  
13@14
@5 Vi
Prunes, T u rk ey ........................................ 
@7
Prunes, T urkey, new .............................. 
@954
P runes, French, 50 ft  boxes.................. 
Raisins, London L ayers.......................... 
3  20
Raisins, Loose M uscatels............. 
@2 95
Raisins,  V alencias...................................  @1014
Raisins,  D ehesia......................................   @3 60

FRUITS.

@16

MATCHES.

Grand  H aven,  No.  9, sq u a re......................... 2  25
G rand  H aven,  No.  8, sq u a re......................... 1  50
G rand  H aven,  No.  200,  p arlo r......................2  50
G rand  H aven,  No.  300, p a rlo r......................3  76
G rand  H aven,  No.  7,  ro u n d .........................2  25
Richardson’s No. 2  sq u a re..............................2  70
do 
Richardson’s No. 3 
.............................. 2  55
do 
Richardson’s No. 5 
.............................170
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
............................. 2  70
do 
R ichardson’s No. 8 
..............................170
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
.............................. 2 55
Richardson’s No. 4 ro u n d ............................... 2  70
R ichardson's No. 7  do 
................................2  55
................................1  70
Richardson’s No. 754 do 
R ichardson's No. 30,3 g ro ................................2 00
Richardson’s No. 3l2  g r o .................................1  26
E lectric P arlor No. 17.................................... 
3 20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEAS.

PLUG.

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

P u re  S ugar D rips....... .................. 54 bbl  30@  36
P u re Sugar  D rips................. 5 gal kegs  @1  86
P u re Loaf Sugar D rips................54 bbl  @  95
P u re  Loaf S u g ar...................5 gal kegs  @1  85
Ja p a n   o rd in ary ............................................... 20@25
Ja p a n  fa ir to good.......................................... 30@37
Ja p a n  fine..........................................................40@50
Ja p a n  d u st................................................ 
15@20
Y oung H yson..................................................30@50
G un P ow der.....................................................35@5U
O o lo n g ....................................................... 33@55@60
C ongo............................................................... 25@30
State  Seal..................................................   @60
B rother  Jo n a th a n ...................................  @32
Diam ond  Crow n......................................   @58
Rose B ud....................................................   @50
O.  K .............................................................  @45
O ur  B ird....................................................  @30
P e a c h e s......................................................  @38
M orrison’8  F ru it......................................   @50
V ictor
@60
Red  B ird....................................................
@52
O pera Q ueen.............................................
@40
Sweel R ose.................................................
@45
G reen  B ack...............................................
@38
F r u i t .......... „ ............................................
@33
O So  Sw eet.................................................
@31
P rairie  Flow er...................... ...................
@65
Climber [light and  d ark ].......................
@62
M atchless..................................................
@65
H ia w a th a ..................................................
@67
G lobe...........................................................
@70
May F lo w er...............................................
@70
H e ro ............................................................
@45
A tlas .*............'............................................
@35
Royal G am e...............................................
@38
Silver  T hread...........................................
@67
Seal..............................................................
@60
K en tu ck y ..................................................
@30
Mule  E a r....................................................
@67
Peek-a-Boo...............................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo, 54  b arre ls............................
@30
Clipper, Fox’s ...........................................
@32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half b arre ls..............
@30
F o u n tain .................................................
@74
Old Congress.............................................
@64
Good  L u ck ................................................
@52
Good and Sw eet........................................
@45
Blaze  A w ay...............................................
@35
H air L ifte r...............................................
@30
Old Glory,  lig h t........................................
@60
Charm of  the W est, d a rk .......................
@60
Governor, in 2 oz tin   fo il.......................
@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 T im es...............................   @38
T ram w ay....................................................   @48
Big Sevens, dime c u ts............................   @45
@35
Black D iam ond..................  
T rotter, rum  flavor.................................   @70
@44
Boot  ......................................  
B. F. P .’s  F av o rite...................................  @48
Old K en tu ck y ............................................  @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 G rand R aptds..............................  @48
Glory  .........................................................   @48
D u rh am ......................................................  @48
  @50
Silver  Coin................................ 
B uster  [D ark]..........................................  @36
Black Prince [D ark]...............................   @36
Black R acer  [D ark]................................  @36
Leggett & M yers’  S ta r............................  @46
C lim ax ................. 
@48
Hold F a s t ...................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield............................  @46
Nickle N uggets 6 and 12 ft  cads...........  @51
Cock of th e W alk  6s................................  @37
Nobby T w ist.............................................   @48
N im rod........................................................  @46
A c o rn ..........................................................  @4(5
Red Seal.............................................  
’  @46
C re sc e n t............ ........................................  @44
Black  X ......................................................  @35
Black  B ass.................................................   @40
Spring..........................................................  @48
Grayling, all  sty les.................................   @48
M ackinaw ..................................................   @47
H orseS hoe.................................................  @44
H air L ifte r.................................................  @36
D. and D., black ........................................   @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield........................   @46
  @35
Ace  High, black............................. 
Sailors’  Solace.........................................   @46
Ruby, c u t Cavendish.  3  oz...................
@35
Boss  ...........................................................
@15
P eck’s  S un..............................................   *
@18
M iners and  P ud d lers.............................
@30
M orning D ew ............................................
@26
Chain  .........................................................
@22
Seal of G rand  R adids..............................
@25
K in g .................................* . . . . . ..........
@30
F lir t............................................................ ;
@28
P u g ...............................................................
@30
Ten P enny D urham ,  Vt and 54..............
@24
Am ber, Vt and l f t ....................................
@15
John  Gilpin,  g ran u lated .......................
@18
Lime K iln  Club............................... ........
@47
Blackwell’s D urham  Long  C ut............
@90
V anity  F a ir...............................................
@90
D im e...........................................................
18@25
P eerless......................................................
@25
S ta n d a rd ....................................................
@22
Old  Tom ......................................................
@21
Tom & J e r r y .........................................."
@24
Jo k e r........................................................
@25
T raveler......................................................
@35
M aiden........................................................
@25
Topsy  .........................................................
@27
Navy  C lippings...................................... .
@26
B oots...........................................................
@30
H oney D e w ...............................................
@25
Gold  B lock.................................................
@32
Camp F i r e ............................................. ’
@25
O ronoko....................................................
@19
N igger  H ead............................................
@26
D urham , 56 f t ............................................
@60
@57
@55
@51
@22
@16
@30
@26
@26
@28
@23
@22
@32
@30
@25
@26
@28
@26
@37
@20
@23
@25
@55

54 f t ..................................
Vi f t .......................................
l f t ...........................................
H o lla n d ......................................................
G e rm a n ......................................................
Long Tom ..................................................
N ational......................................................
T im e ...........................................................
Love’s D ream ...........................................
Conqueror  .................................................
Fox’s ........................ .................................
G ra y lin g ....................................................
Seal S kin........................... : ......................
Dime D u rh a m .......................; .................
Rob R oy......................................................
Uncle  Sam ................................................
L u m b e rm a n .............................................
Railroad Boy.............................................
M ountain Rose..........................................
Good  E nough...........................................
Home Com fort, 54s and  54s ...................
Old  Rip, long  c u t...................................
D urham ,  long  cut, No.  2.......................
Two  Nickle, 54s........................................
Two  Nickle, 56 s ........................................
Star D urham .............................................
Golden Flake C abinet..............................
Seal o f N orth Carolina, 2 oz.................
Seal of N orth Carolina, 4  oz..................
Seal of N orth Carolina, 8  oz.................
Seal of N orth Carolina, 16 oz  b o xes...
Big Deal, 54s  longcut.............................
A p p lejack ,  54s  g ran u lated .................
K ing Bee, longcut,  54s and 54s............
M ilwaukee Prize, 54s and 54s ................
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  D u rham __
D urham , S., B. & L, 56s and 54s............
R attler, lo n g cu t........................................
W indsor c u t  p lu g ....................................
Mule E a r ....................................................
H ia w a th a ..................................................
Old Congress...............................   ...........
A cm e...........................................................
P u re  Cider.................................................
W hite  W ine...............................................
1776 $  f t ......................................................
G illett’s $  f t .............................................
Soapine p k g ...............................................
P earline 
b o x ..........................................
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  p a p e rs...
Lavine, 5 or m ore boxes, 481 ft p ap ’rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
Lavine, 5 o r m ore boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 ft p ap ers..
Lavine, 5 o r m ore boxes, 80 54 ft paprs

@26
@25
@40
@50
@48
@43
@42
@27
©24
@22
@24
@24
@24
@28
@25
24
23
23
20

10@12
10@12
@1054 
@  7J4 
7@10 
@4  50 
@4  50 
@4  25 
@4  50 
@4  25 
@4  15 
@4  00

WASHING POWDERS.

SMOKING.

VINEGAR.

SHORTS.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

1  65
Twin Bros......... 1  65  ¡W ilsons.............
M agic..................1  75  ¡N atio n al................1  65
95
B ath B rick im p o rte d .............................. 
60
A m erican.............................. 
B arley.........................................................  
@3
B urners, No. 1 .......................................... 
1  10
1  50
do  No.  2.......................................... 
Condensed Milk, Eagle  b ran d .............. 
8  00
Condensed Milk,  Swiss.......................... 
7  50
Cream T a rta r 5 and 10 ft can s..............  @25
Candles, S ta r.............................................  @1454
Candles.  H otel..........................................  @1554
C ranberry Sauce......................................  
08
E x tra c t Coffee,  v. c ................................   85@90
Flour Sifters 
Gum, R ubber  100 lum ps.
Gum, R ubber 200 lu m p s............
Gum, S pruce.................................
Hominy, $   b b l.............................
H. C. Flour, 18 3 1b pkgs., 5P box. 
H. C. F lour in bulk, fi c w t .......

F e lix ..............................1  28@
d o z.................................3 00@

@30 
@40 
30@35 
@4  50 
@2 50 
@4  80

do 

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Oil Tanks, P aten t,  60- g allon................  @10 00
Peas, G reen B ush...........................................1  35@l 40
do  Split p rep ared ...............................   @354
Pow der,  K eg..............................................4  00@
54 K eg........................................ 3 25@
Sago  ........................................................... 
S auerkraut, $   b b l................................... 
Shot, d ro p ...................................................l   65®
do  b u c k ................................................. 1  90@
T a p io c a ...................................................... 

5@6
4  00

5@6

CANDY,  F R U IT S   A N D   NUTS.

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STICK.
...............................   @954
MIXED.

Straight, 25 ft  boxes...............................   @ 9
Twist, 
..........................   @13
Cut Loaf 
@10
Royal, 25 ft  p ails...........:................... 
Royal, 200 ft bbls................................................954
E xtra, 25 ft  p ails....................................  
n
10
E x tra, 200ft bbls.................................. 
I " ! "14
French Cream, 25ft p a i
!
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...................II" IIl3
Broken, 25  ft  pails................. .......................... u i4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls...................”  ......................105*»
FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.'..............
Lem on  D rops........................................................
Sour D rops...........................................................15
15,
P epperm int  D rops................................ 
Chocolate  D rops........................... . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
H M Chocolate  D rops..................................... "20*
Gum  D rops  ........................................ ! 
.  10
Licorice D rops................................................... ,20>
A B   Licorice  D rops.................................! !! ” l2
Lozenges, p la in ............................................... . . . ”  J 5
Lozenges,  p rin te d .........................................!” l 6
Im p e ria ls............................................................. 15
M o tto es..........................5.................... . . . . ! . ”  i 15
Cream  B a r.................................................... " ” l4
Molasses B a r.................•...............................14
Caram els...................................................... 
H and Made C ream s............................................22
P lain  Cream s................. .................... ........
D ecorated  Cream s............................................ .23
S tring R ock.................................... . . . . . ” .*15
B urnt A lm onds........................ . . . . . . . . . . . .   22
W intergreen  B erries.................. 
15
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain  in  pails.................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.....................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails...........................! * !  ]l5
Lozenges, printed in  b b ls.............................. ii4
Chocolate Drops, in p ails.......................... ! !  14
8
Gum  Drops, in p ails............................ 
7
Gum Drops, in bbls......................  
Moss D rops, in  p ails.......................................... 11
954
Moss Drops, in bb ls...................... 
12
Sour Drops, in  p ails..............................  
Im perials, in  pails...................... 14
Im perials  in  bbls......................                    13
Oranges, Florida, $  bo x................... 
Oranges OO $1 bo x ...................................
Oranges, Jam aica, $   b b l.......
Oranges, Im perials, $   box..............
Oranges, V alencia $   case...................
Lemons,  choice......................................   4  so@5 00
Figs,  layers new,  $  f t............................ 
15@16
Figs, fancy  do 
is,
......................................  
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  f t................ . " @ 1 0
d o ............................  @5
D ates, frails 
@6
D ates, 54 do 
do  ................... . . . . 
D ates, sk in ........................................................@ 5
D ates, 54  sk in ...................................................@  6
D ates, F ard 10 ft box $   f t..............@9
f t.................@7
D ates, Fard 50 ft box 
Dates, P ersian 50 ft box $  f t............ . . "  @  654,
P rim e  Red,  raw   ^   f t..............................
Choice 
do 
Fancy  _   do 
Choice W hite, Va.do  .............................   6  @ 654
Fancy H P ,.  V a 
7@  754
Almonds,  Terragona, $  f t.....................  17@19
do  ......................  @18
Almonds, loaca, 
do  ......................  8@10
Brazils, 
do  ...................... 
Pecons, 
9@13
do  ......................
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ......................  13@14
W alnuts, Chilli 
do  ......................
W alnuts, G renobles  d o ......................  15@16
W alnuts, California  d o ......................
Cocoa N uts, $   100 
.....................  @4  50
Chestnuts, p e rb u .................................... 4  50@5  00
H ickory N uts, large $   b u .....................
H ickory  N uts, sm all  do  ..................... 
125

PEANUTS.
@5
do  ................ 
do  .............................  554®  6
do  ............................ 

4 25@4  75

FRUITS.

NUTS.

PRO V ISIO N S.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

H eavy Mess,  old................................................12 75
H eavy  Mess, new .............................................. 13 OO
Pig, short cut, new, b e tte r th an   m ess.......
E x tra Fam ily Clear, new .................................14 50
E x tra  Clear Pig, new, Chicago packing.. .14  75
Clear Back, new, Chicago  packing............15  00

do. 
do 
do. 

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.'
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........  
H alf Cases...............  
Long Clear m edium , 500 ft  Cases........... 
H alf C ases........... 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases................ 
H alf Cases...............  
Short Clears, heavy................................... 
m edium ...............................  
lig h t......................................  
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  c a ses.. 
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  case s.. 
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases.. 
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, ex tra quality, 500 ft cases,....... 
Bellies, ex tra quality, 300 ft cases......... 
Bellies, ex tra qulaity, 200 ft cases......... 

do. 
do. 

754
7%
54
7%.
754
7%
8
8
8
9
954
954
9%
854
8%
9

LARD.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.

Tierces  ........................................................ 
30 and 50 ft T u b s........................................ 
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases......................  

8
854
854
854
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  rack s................... 
9
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case..................................... 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a c a s e ...............................  
8%.
10 ft Pails, 6 in a c a s e ...............................  
8%.
H am s cured in sw eet pickle, h eavy__  
1254
1254
H am s cured in sw eet pickle m edium .. 
12%
lig h t......... 
Shoulders,  boneless.................................
854,
Shoulder, cured in sw eet  pickle........... 
1154
E x tra Clear B acon....................................  
13
Dried Beef,  E x tra ..................................... 
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fts............ 10  75
Boneless, e x tra   q u ality .................................14  00

BEEF IN BARRELS.

do. 

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

P o rk   Sausage......................................................  754
Ham   Sausage.......................................................13
9
Tongue  Sausage................................................  
Liver Sausage......................................................  7
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage...........................................   9
Blood  S ausage....................................................   7
Bologna,  rin g ......................................................  7
Bologna,  stra ig h t...............................................  7
Bologna,  thick.
H ead Cheese........................................ ...............  7
In  half b arre ls...................................... ...........  3 50
In  q u a rte r b arre ls...............................
...........  1  90
In  k its......................................................

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

In  half b arre ls...................................... ...........$3  00
In  q u arter b arre ls............................... ...........  1  50
In  k its...................................................... ........... 
80
Prices nam ed are  low est  a t tim e of going to 
press, and are good only fo r th a t date, sub ject 
to m ark et fluctuations.

FRESH MEATS.

Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  th e trad e as follow s?
Fresh  Beef, sides......................................  5 @ 7
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs...................6  @754
Dressed  H ogs.............................................   6 @654
M utton,  carcasses.......................... ».......  
©   554
V eal.............................................................   954®10
Fow ls 
................................................. 
11@12
C hickens......................................................14 @15
P ork  Sausage.....................................>„..  9  @10
Bologna............... 
9  @10

 

 

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New Y ork C ounts...................................................35
F. J. D. S e le c ts .......................................................33
S e le c ts...................................................................... 28
F. J. D ..........................................:...■..................... 20
F av o rite.................................................................... 18
M edium .....................................................................16
P rim e ........................................... 
  14
Selects, p er g allon..............................................1  75
S tan d ard s........................... >. t     ....................... 110

 

 

 

 

FRESH  FISH.

9
Codfish..........................................................  
H ad d o ck ...............................................................   7
Sm elts....................................................................  5
8
M ackinaw T ro u t.......................................  
M ackerel.............................................................13
W h iteflsh ...................................................  
7@$

 

@5  00 
@3  00 
@1  00 
@  75 
@  90 
@1  35 
@1  70 
@  90 
@1   20, 
@  90 
@1  20 
@2  25 
@3  50 
@3  85 
@6  50 
@7  00 
@4  00 
@2  00 
@  90 
@3  50 
@2  10 
@4  85 
@2  90 
@1  25

@  654
@  654
@5  25 
@5  25 @ 6 
@  5% 
@3  70 
@5  00 
@4  85 
@6  25 
@6  25 
@  7 
@  654 
@  5% 

5%I

@4  00 
@4 00 
@3  85 
@3  75 
@3  25 
@2  30 
©1  25 
@4  20 
654 
5% 
5% 
5%

5  10
6  75
5
3  60
4  10
3  40
3  75
4  20
@3 40 
@3  20 
@3 05 
@  654 
@4  20 
©1854 
®   16 
@6  75 
@4  20 
5  50
4  10
5  00 
4  20
4  50
5  00 
5  00
3 25
4 20 
4  00
554

.  8@10 
.  @10 
.60@70

.I6@25
,12@18
.16@30
.15@25
,16@20
.15@30
.25@35
654
654
7
554

@5
@4%
@654
@6
@7
@7@6%
@654
@754@554

@8
@854@8
@654
@654@6%
@4
@654
@6
@7
@654
@7
@4
..5  50 
..  50

@754

@654 @6% 
@6% 
@654 
@6 
5%@6 
554@5.54 
554@554 
5  @554

34 
@  36 
@1  85 
@1  65 
22@  38

M OLASSES.

16@18
Black  S tra p ..................................  
P orto  R ic o ..../.......................................i..24@ 28
New  Orleans,  good........................ 
40@50
New  Orleans,  fan cy .......................................50@55

 

OATMEAL.
 

 

1 8 5 ftp k g s..... ................. 
@3  75
 
36 2 ft pk g s........................................... 
  @3  25
Im perial bbls, steel c u t..........................  @5  25
Q uaker b b ls...............................................  @6  75
Steel  c u t....................................................  @5  75
K erosene  W. W........................................ 
Legal  te s t...............................  

13
10%

do. 

O IL .

 

P IC K LES.

do 

do 

Choice in barrels m ed.........................................550
Choice in 54 
........................................ 3  40
D ingee’s q u arts glass fa n c y ................................. 4 25
D ingee’8 pints 
..........................   2  40
A m erican qt.  in Gkiss............................................2 00
A m erican p t.in  G lass..............................................1 30
C. & B. English  q u a rts.......................................... 5 75
C. & B. English  p in ts..............................................3 50
Chow Chow, m ixed and G erkins,  q u a rts .. .5  75
p in ts__ 3 50
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4  50 
p ts..2  75
Im ported Clay 3 gross............................2 25@3  00
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 g ross.............   @2  25
@90
A m erican  T. D.......................................... 

P IP E S .

“ 
“ 

*’ 

“ 

“ 

*  R IC E .

J a p a n ........................................... 
754
Choice  C aro lin a............ :....................................654
P rim e  C arolina.....................................................754
Ja v a   .......................................  
6ys
 
P a t n a ..................................................... 
6
R a n g o o n .................................................................554
354
Broken  ........................................... 

 

SA LERA TUS.

DeLand’s  p u re ...................  • • • -.....................@  554
C hurch’s  .......................................................... @5%
Taylor’s  G.  M ....... ........................................... @554
Cap  S heaf.......................................................... @ ¡>54
D w ight’s ............................................................@554
Sea  F oam ..........................................................@ 554
S., B. & L.’s  B est..............................................@  554

SALT.

60 P o c k e t....................................................... 
28 P o ck et..................................................... 
100 3 ft  pockets.............................................  
Saginaw F in e ...............................................  
Diamond  C..................................................... 
Standard  Coarse.......................................... 
A shton, English, dairy, bu. b a g s......... 
A shton, English, dairy, 4 bu. b a g s.... 
A m erican, dairy,  54  bu. b ag s.............. 
Rock, bushels.................................................  

 

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

30

SA UCES.

Lee & P errin s  W orcestershire, p in ts.
Lee & P errins W orcestershire, Vt pts.
Picadilly,  54 p in ts....................................
P epper Sauce, red  sm all.......................
P ep p er Sauce, green  ..............................
P esper Sauce, red large rin g ................
P ep p er Sauce, green, large rin g .........
Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts............................
Catsup, Tom ato,  q u arts  .......................
H orseradish,  54 p in ts..............................
H orseradish, p in ts...................................
Capers, French surflnes........................
Capers, French surflnes, la rg e ............
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  b o ttle...................
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  b o ttle...................
Olive Oil,  q uarts, A ntonia &  Co.’s __
Olive Oil, pints,  A ntonia & Co.’s .........
Olive Oil, 54 pints, A ntonia & Co.’s __
Celery Salt,  D urkee’s ............................
H alford Sauce, p in ts..............................
H alford Sauce, 54 p in ts..........................
Salad Dressing, D urkee’s, la rg e ...........
Salad D ressing, D urkee’s, sm all.........
P reserved G inger, Canton,  p in ts.......

SOAP.

L autz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701ft  b a rs.....................................
Acme, 25 3 ft b a rs.....................................
Towel, 25 b ars  ................................. .......
N apkin, 25  b a rs........................................
B est A m erican, 601 ft blocks................
Palm a 60-1 ft blocks, p lain .....................
Sham rock, 100 cakes,  w rapped............
M aster, 100-% ft c a k e s ........................
Stearine, 100  54 ft cakes.........................
M arseilles, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Cotton Oil, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, w rapped............
G erm an  M ottled, w rapped...................
Savon, República, 60 ft box...................
Blue D anube, 60-1 ft blocks.................
London Fam ily, 60-1 ft  blocks............
London Fam ily, 3-ft bars 80 f t..............
London Fam ily, 4-ft bars 80  f t..............
Gem, 100 cakes, w rapped......................
Nickel, 100 cakes, w rapped...................
Climax, 100 cakes,  w rapped..... ...........
Boss, 100 cakes,  w rapped.......................
M arseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box
A 1  Floating, 60  cak es............................
K irk’s A m erican  F a m ily ............ f? ft
I n d ia ...........................................
do. 
do.  S a v o n ..........................................
do.  S a tin e t........................................
do.  R e v e n u e .....................................
W hite R ussian..........................
do.
r & G am ble’s I v o r y ..................
do.
Ja p an   O liv e .........
do.
Town Talk 
box
do.
Golden B ar............
A rab ........................
do.
A m ber.....................
do.
do.
M ottled  G erm an..
P ro c ter & G am ble’s V elvet...................
P ro cter & G am ble’s Good L uck..........
P ro cter & Gamble’s Wash  W ell...........
B adger...............................................60 fts
G a lv an ic....................................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft b r
Tip T op..........................................3 ft b ar
W ard’s W hite L ily...................................
H andkerchief...........................................
B abbitt’s ..................................................
Dish R a g ..................................................
B luing.........................................................
M agnetic....................................................
New  French  P rocess..............................
S p o o n .........................................................
A nti-W ashboard......................................
V a te rla n d ............ .....................................
M agic...........................................................
P ittsb u rg h .................................................
Old C ountry....... .......................................

10 @17

SPICES.
Whole.

1 75

STARCH.

G round.

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

P e p p e r...............................•...........................
A llsp ice...................................... ..................
C a ssia.............................................................
N u tm eg s.......................... ............................
Cloves  ...........................................................
P e p p e r...........................................................
A llsp ice.........................................................
Cinnam on  ......................................... .........
C loves.............................................................
G inger............................. ...............................
M ustard.........................................................
Cayenne.........................................................
G ilbert’s Gloss l f t .....................................
“ 3 ft carto o n s.....................
“  c ra te s.............................   •
“  b u l k ...................................
Corn, l f t .....................................

“ 
*■ 
“ 
“ 
N iagara L aundry, 40 ft box,  b u lk .......
“ 
L aundry, bbls, 186  fts.............
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages.............
Gloss,  36 3 
“ 
pack ag es..........
“ 
Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft c ra te __
“ 
Corn, 40 1 ft  packages............
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.......................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.......................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft  boxes..........................
Muzzy Gloss b u lk ....................................
Muzzy Corn  l f t ........................................
K ingsford  Silver Gloss..........................
K ingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  b o x ..........
K ingsford C orn........................................
Oswego  G loss...........................................
M irror  Gloss.............................................
M irror Gloss, co rn ...................................
P iel’s P e a rl................................................
A m erican Starch Co.’s
1 ft  G loss....................................................
10 oz  G loss.................................................
3 ft  Gloss....................................................
6 
ft Gloss, wood  boxes.......................
Table Corn........................................40 ft
Table  Corn.......................................20  ft
B anner, b q lk .............................................
Rising  Sun g ro ss..5  88|Dixon’s  gross..
U n iv ersal............... 5 88 Above $  dozen.
I X L ........................5  50|
Cut L oaf....................................................
Cubes  ........................................................
Pow dered.................................................
G ranulated,  S tandard..........................
G ranulated, Fine  G rain.......................
Conf. A ......................................................
Standard A ...............................................
New  Orleans  A ........................................
E x tra C w hite...........................................
E x tra C......................................................
Fine C........................................................
Yellow C....................................................
Corn,  B a rre ls ..,/....................................
Corn, 54 bbls...............................................
Corn,  10 gallon k eg s........................
Corn, 5 gallon k eg s..................................
Corn, 454 gallon k eg s...............................
P u re   S u g ar................................. . 
bbl

STOVE POLISH.

SYRUPS.

SUOARS.

75

Every  Box  Guaranteed  to  Suit  the  Trade.

Pounds  Sold  in  Michigan  in  One

WITHOUT  THE  ASSISTANCE

SCHEME

Agents  for  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

lÆ-A.N'XJF-A.OTXJPlEID  BY

Louisville

Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  ft ton.  Bran, $13 
ft ton.  Ships, $14 ft ton.  Middlings, $17 ft ton. 
Corn and Oats, $23 ft ton.

V IS IT IN G   B U Y E R S .

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

gon.

ville.

E. Medes, Coral.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
e . P angborn, Sand Lake.
Wm. D. Carey, Wm. D. Carey  &  Co.,  Muske­
H. E. Stafford, B attle Creek.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
H. M. Freem an,  Lisbon.
Geo. J. Shackleton, Lisbon.
W. A. V anLeuven,  Ludington.
W. W. W oodhams,  Plain well.
W.  S. Goodyear,  H astings.
J. M. D am eron, Bangor.
Byron McNeal,  Byron Center.
A. Sessions, Way land.
G. N. Reynolds,  Belm ont.
Jos. H. Spires, Leroy.
B. M. D ennison, E ast Paris.
G. H.  W albrink, A llendale.
W alter Struik, F orest Grove.
J. Barnes, A usterlitz.
W. S. Root, F orest Grove.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
D.  R. Slocum, Rockford.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
J. F. Mann,  Lisbon.
R. H.  Woodin, Sparta.
Dud.  W atson,  W atson  &  DeVoist, Coopers- 
H oag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
H enry DeKline, Jam estow n.
R. B. F arr, Hopkins.
G. C. Baker, LeBarge.
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
W agner & Wells, Eastm anville.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
A. B. Sunderland, Lowell.
J. G unstra, Lam ont.
Tnos. Cooley, Lisbon.
D. W. Shattuck, Way land.
B. R. Ogden, Howard  City.
J. W. B raginton, Hopkins.
N orm an H arris, Big  Springs.
Dr. R. Gibbs, Six Corners.
Louis  Christenson, Muskegon.
G. W. Dailey, Big  Rapids.
Smedley Bros., Bauer.
T. B. H aines, Cedar  Springs.
Mr. Carrel, Carrel & Fisher, D orr.
C. O. Bostwiek & Son, Cannonsburg.
A. E ngberts, B eaver Dam.
C. K eller, Logan.
J. R. Odell,  Frem ont.
N agler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
W alling Bros., Lam ont.
F. G. T hurston, Lisbon.
W.  W. Pierce, Moline.
F. C. Selby, Volney,
C. W. A rm strong, Bowen’s  Mills.
M. A. K nox, Tustin.
C. Cole, Ada.
Mr. W atrous, o f W atrous  &  Lilley,  Coopers- 
Eli Runnels, Corunna.
C. P orter, Chauncey.
Mr. Sisson, Sisson Bros., Freeport.
R. M. Smith, L uther.
L. K. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros.,  Mayfield.
W. J. Woodruff, Copley.
J. E. M ailhot, W est Troy.
M. A. Massie, Greenville,
O. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
F ran k  Smith, D arling & Sm ith,  Frem ont. 
Sisson & Lilley, Spring Lakq.
O. E. Close & Co., Sand  Lake.
P. M. Lonsbury, Reed City.
L. A, G ardner, Cedar Springs.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
8. T. Coleson, Alaska.
J . W. K irtland, Lakeview.
Richards & H untley, Saranac.
D r. Wm. V anP utten, H olland.

C O U N T R Y   P R O D U C E .

A pples—W inter fru it is  selling  fo r  $1.75@$2 

fo r choice hand-picked.

Beeswax—Steady at 43c ^  lb.
Beans—None  moving,  except 

large  ship­
m ents to E astern and W estern m arkets.  Deal­
e rs are paying 90c fo r unpicked, and selling for 
$ L.50 for picked.  Medium unpicked com m ands 
$1.25.

B u tte r—Som ewhat lower, in consequence  of 
th e   late  grass  incident  to the fine w eather of 
th e  p ast m onth.  Cream ery still holds up  to the 
old  figure—34@35—b u t  dairy  com m ands  only 
20c fo r choice rolls and 18@20e fo r good packed.
B u tterin e—N ot so m uch moving, on account 
o f the g re a t am ount of good b u tte r in m arket. 
Solid packed  cream ery  com m ands  22c,  b u t  is 
eclipsed  as  regards  sales  by th e dairy grade, 
which  sells  readily  a t  16@20c fo r choice rolls 
and D@20c for choice packed.
Beets—No shipping dem and.
Clover  Seed—No  local  shipping  dem and. 
D ealers are paying  $4@4.25  fo r  spring  stocks 
a n d  foreign shipm ents.

Cabbages—$4@$5 $  100.
Celery—F irm er and about 25 p er  cent,  high­
e r, on  account  of  the  producers  filling  their 
“coops”—glass-roofed  w inter  houses—thus 
im m ediate  available  supply, 
lessening 
Selling a t 25c 
bunch.

Cheese—Full cream  is firm and high and job­
bing  a t  lH/*c  for A ugust,  12c  for  Septem ber, 
an d  1254 fo r October.

th e 

C hestnuts—Ohio $4.75 $  bu.
Cider—Sweet, 10c 
C ranberries—Firm  a t $12 for bell and cherry, 

gal. fo r A No. 1.

an d  $14 for Cape Cod o r  bell  and  bugle.

Eggs—N oflrm er, on accountof the late w arm  
w eather, which has increased stocks  very m a­
terially.  The m ark et is well supplied a t 22c for 
fresh  and 20c fo r pickled.

G rapes—Catawbas  are  y et in m arket, selling 

a t 10c $  ft or $1 

basket.

Hops—Brew ers pay 18c fo r m edium  M ichigan 

stock.

ed .

red.

H oney—Choice new is firm  a t  15c.
H ay—$9@$ll for new, and  $11@$12  fo r  bail­

Mince Meat—7@8c fl ft according to   quality.
Onions—$1.75 $  bbl. for yellow  and  $1.50 fo r 

Quinces—E ntirely o u t of m arket.
Potatoes—If anything, sicker th a n  ever.  Cin­
c in n a ti advices sta te th a t th ere are 100  cafg^on 
tra c k  a t th a t m arket w aiting  a  custom er,  the 
ru lin g   price  being  30@35e.  D ealers  are  still 
paying  25c,  b u t  are  only  buying fo r present 
needs.

P o u ltry —Chickens, 14@16c.  Fowls 12c.
Squash—P erfectly  dead, 

th e  over-stocked 
condition o f th e  m ark et rendering  it  im possi­
ble to g et m ore th an  l/2c 

Sw eet P otatoes—Jerseys are firm er and high­
e r, selling readily a t $4.75@$5.  Baltim ore  and 
M uscatine, $3.50@$4 $  bbl.

T urnips—25c ft bu.
Tim othy—No shipping dem and,  and  dealers 

ft.

buy only fo r prospective w ants.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

W heat—2c higher this  week.  Lancaster,  77; 

F ulse and Clawson, 74c.

Corn—No  new  stock  in  yet, although  deal­
e rs are  offered  car  lots  Ionia county corn  a t 
35c.

O ats—W hite, 28@30c 
Bye—52@54c $  bu.
B arley—Brew ers pay $1.25 ft cwt.
Flour—Unchanged.  Fancy P aten t, $5.50 ft bbl. 
In sacks  and  $5.75  in  wood.  Straight, $4.50 ft 
bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in wood.

bu.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 #  cwt.

ville.

Dissolution  of Partnership.

Grand  Ra p id s, Nov. 17,1884.

Notice  is hereby given th a t th e  p artnership 
heretofore existing  u n der  the  firm   nam e  of 
Rickard Bros, has been dissolved by th e re tire ­
m ent o f C. S. Rickard.  The  business  will  be 
continued u n d er the sam e firm nam e by  F.  A. 
R ickard and A.  P.  Rickard,  who  will  pay  all 
o u tstan d in g  obligations and collect all debts.
F. A. Rickard. 
A. P. Rickard,
C. S. Rickard.

P E N C I L   P O R T R A IT —N O .  3 3 . 

P r a n k   H . W h ite , O n e o f  th e  “ O ld  P io n e e rs .” 
Frank Hopkins White was born at Aurora, 
Erie county, N. Y., July 1,  1849.  There  he 
lived with  his parents until  fifteen years of 
age—improving  the  time meanwhile  by at­
tending  the  common  school  and  Aurora 
Academy—when he removed with his parents 
to Buffalo, where he worked  for  two  years 
for Thomas Barrett, retail groceryman.  He 
then  came  to  Grand  Rapids,  where  he 
worked  for about a year for Waters & Ran- 
ney—the  first  named  partner  being  none 
other than  Dan. H. Waters, the well-known 
wealthy  lumberman.  Not  having  a  par­
ticular liking for the meat  business,  he  left 
his position with that firm to enter  the  em­
ploy  of  Caulfield  &  Clancy,  then  doing  a 
retail  grocery  business  on  Canal  street  at 
the present  location  of  Dikeman’s  jewelry 
store.  A year later the firm dissolved, John 
Caulfield  continuing.  Frank  remained  in 
the employ of  the  house  about  two  years, 
when  he  accepted  a  clerkship  with  R. P. 
Sinclair, who was then engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  the  corner of  Canal  and 
Bronson streets.  A year later  he formed  a 
copartnership  with  Fred  Rose,  under  the 
firm name of  Rose & White, and engaged in 
the grocery business on West  Bridge  street. 
That  thoroughfare was not  as well  patron­
ized in those days as at  present, the average 
West Sider thinking it  beneath  his  dignity 
to purchase  his  supplies  on  his side of  the 
river, and as  a  consequence  of  this  condi­
tion of  affairs  the  boys were  compelled  to 
close out and  quit.  Frank  then worked  in 
the freight  office  of  the G. R. & I.  Railway 
for a year, when  he  re-entered  the  employ 
of  John  Caulfield,  then  doing  a  jobbing 
business,  being  the  first  traveler  out  of 
Grand Rapids for that house.'  At  that time 
the  G.  R.  & I. was  not  completed  further 
north  than Cedar  Springs, and  the outlying 
towns  beyond  were  reached  by  means  of 
long and  tedious  drives.  Frank’s  territory 
included the northern trips and a run through 
the Holland  colony, and  his  experiences in 
that  early  day  were  varied  and 
interest­
ing.  His  next  change  was  to  Crawford 
Bros.,  then  doing  business 
in  the  “ old 
checkered store,” which has given way to the 
improvements of  the past decade.  Leaving 
Crawford  Bros.’  employ,  he  engaged 
in 
the vinegar  business, under  the  firm  name 
of  Hughes  &  White,  but  the  unfortunate 
use of hard instead of soft water “ downed ” 
the  firm,  and  Frank  returned  to  his  last 
position,  remaining  with  the  house  in  all 
about  five years.  He  then  started  in  the 
grocery business on the corner of  Pearl  and 
Front  streets,  continuing  there  one  year, 
when he tried his  hand  at  market  garden­
ing,  the  experience  of  one  summer  being 
sufficient  to dampen  his enthusiasm in  that 
direction.  Entering  the  employ of  Jas.  E. 
Furman, he  remained  with  him  one  year, 
after which he spent  a  similar  period with

Cody,'Ball  &  Co.,  successively  filling  the 
positions  of  receiving  and  shipping clerk. 
He  then  entered  the  employ  of  Curtiss 
Dunton & Co.,  with whom  he  is still identi­
fied,  having  just  entered  upon  his  second 
year.  His  territory  includes  all  available 
towns on the D.,  G. H. & M., east  and west, 
Muskegon  and  the  Pentwater  branch, the 
Newaygo division, the  Stanton  branch  and 
the  Grand  River  Yalley  division  of  the 
Michigan Central.  He sees  his  trade regu­
larly every five weeks.

Personally, Mr. White is  too  well  known 
to  the  trade  at  large  to  admit of extended 
mention at this  time.  Genial,  enterprising 
and conscientious, he commands respect and 
confidence, and is sure to reap  his  share  of 
the rewards which fall to  tireless  effort  and 
earnest endeavor.

M o n s te r  M e r c a n tile   a n d   M a n u fa c tu rin g ' 

C o rp o ra tio n .

Recognizing the necessity for  greater con­
centration  in  the  management  of  the  ex­
tensive  property  interests  in  which  he  is 
heavily concerned, Mr.  D.  P. Clay has lately 
effected a  consolidation  of  four  important 
business operations under  the  name  of  the 
Newaygo  Manufacturing Co.  The  lines so 
included  are  the  Newaygo  Co.,  owners  of 
the mill properties  at  Newaygo;  D. P. Clay 
&  Co., owners  of  the  general  store,  grist 
mill and other properties at  the same place; 
the Clay & Locke  Manufacturing  Co., situ­
ated in  this city,  which  produces  an almost 
unlimited variety  of  woodenware;  and  the 
standing pine  owned  by Mr. Clay  individu­
ally, and estimated at  50,000,000  feet.  The 
new corporation has a capital stock of •$500,- 
000, the stockholders being D.  P. Clay, John 
W.  Champlin,  John  E.  More,  H.  Delos 
Kingsbury,  Roger  W.  Butterfield,  A.  J. 
Daniels, Geo.  H.  Hobart and A.  J.  Reeves. 
The  Board  of  Directors  is  composed  of 
Messrs.  Clay,  More,  Daniels,  Hobart  and 
Butterfield.  The officers are as follows:

President—D. P. Clay.
Vice-President—A. J.  Daniels.
Secretary—John E.  More.
Treasurer—Geo. H. Hobart.
The  new  arrangement  will  systematize 
the management of  the  four  concerns  very 
materially,  besides  simplifying  the  detail 
work incident to  each  branch  of  business, 
reducing  to  a  minimum  the  recording  of 
transactions between  each industry.

The  Manufacturers’  Association,  an  or­
ganization effected some  time ago  to reduce 
the expense of  selling  the  products  of  the 
four manufacturing concerns, will  still  con­
tinue, operating  in  common  with  the  new 
corporation.

It  will  be  observed  that  the  Newaygo 
County  Manufacturing  Co.,  the  Newaygo 
Furniture Co., and the Grand  Rapids Manu­
facturing Co.—in all  of  which  corporations 
Mr. Clay has a controling  interest—are  not 
included in the new company.

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W H O L E S A L E .

We are receiving daily, direct from Baltimore.
FRESH  OYSTERS,  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

Quality  and  Quantity.

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

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS.

EATON  &  CHRISTENSON,

77  Canal  street,

Grand Rapids,

Mich

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to  a d v e rtise rs, w ill c o n fe r a fa v o r o n   th e  p u b ­
lis h e r b y   m e n tio n in g  th a t th e y  saw  th e  a d v er­
tis e m e n t in  th e  co lu m n s o f  th is   p a p er.
CUSTOM  A G A IN ST  R IG H T .

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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 
Almonds, Brazils? Filberts, Fea- 
caas,  Walaats  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

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
PUTNAM A BROOKS
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STRAIGHT  GOOX2S"--lTO  SCHEME.

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We have a large Western order trade  for  Apples  in  car  lots,  as  well  as  a 
good local demand, and also handle Evaporated an d S u n -D ried A re le » lM |^
H youhave any of these goods to ship,let us hear from yon,  and  wo  will keep
™u posted on market prices and prospects.  W e  a lso  handle Beans  and  iota- 
toes  Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in  carlots.

EARL BROS.,

XQ9   S.  W ater  st,  Clilcaso,  Xll,

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

MT7SRECOIT  BTTSHTESS  DIRECTORY'

W .  D .  CAREY & C O

OYSTERS!

-AND  JOBBERS  OF-

Fruits and Produce.

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

N ew  Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices  of  the  new  crop 
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all  grades  of  Pan  Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured, and 
embracing  about  1,200  chests  in  all,  which we  have  recently  received  per  the  Pacific 
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro.  These  Teas  are  positively  our  own lm- 
portatton,  and  we  believe we  are  safe  in  saying  that  they  are  the  first  Teas  ever  im­
ported  to  this  market  direct  from  Japan. 
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They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will  do

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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 m arketer  the  w elt 
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,

These goods we sell regularly at the M anufacturers’  Prices, and deliver them^in  10
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid. C Please send forjpnce- 

Towel,
Shamrock,

Mottled  German,

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samples.  See Quotations on Grocery Page.

Starch.

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

Fancy Groceries.

ORDERS  PROMPTLY  FILLED.  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES.
ORCIJTT  <Sc  OOLAF-A-ISrsr,
Butter Etts, Gh66SB. Fruit, Grain, Ear, Beef, Portfroftnco

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

MUSKEGON, MICH.

Consignments  Solicited.

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CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Onfera H ouse Block, Packing and W arehouse M arket and W ater Streets.

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

Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.
nm+ts Rrns ’ Sa,ad Dressine- 
Durkee & Co.’s  “
A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches.

“  Mustand.
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Egg Plums.
Pears.

Breakfast  Cocoa.

Green  Gages,

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Italian Macarroni, 1  tt> pkg.

“  Vermicella.

Q u e en  Olives,  16 oz* and 27 oz. bottles. 
S i C a p e i   genuine  imported  in  tottle.  K n ow les* Anderson’s Jams and Jell.es
Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn. 
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We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cooked 
Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas.  Send ns a trial  order  for  these  goods.  All 
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

China Preserved Ginger, all size jars,
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Strongest &  Safest  Explosive  Known  to the Arts.
Farmers, practice economy and clear 
your land of stumps and boulders.  Main 
Office, Hercules  Powder Company, No. 
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.
L. S. HILL & CO., AGTS. 

(JONS, AllIJNlTM   &  FISHBfi  TACKLE.

G RA N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

L A V IN E

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

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HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

E ggs  by  Count,  o r  E ggs  b y   W e ig h t?

To th e  E d ito r o f “ The  T rad e sm a n .”

When a poor man  pays  for thirty  ounces 
of  food  and  sets  but  twenty  ounces,  it is 
plain that he is wronged.

California and the Rocky  Mountain  terri­
tory are quick to see what constitutes  injus­
tice, hence everything is bought and sold  by 
weight.  The Eastern States still cling to the 
old  and  unrighteous  custom of buying eggs 
by count in place of weight.

The man who has  one  dozen  small  eggs 
weighing  twenty  ounces  gets  the  same  as 
his thrifty neighbor for one dozen  weighing 
thirty ounces.  The consumer, be he poor or 
rich, buying these same  eggs is  wronged  m 
the same  manner.

Some fifteen years since, deeming this cus­
tom u njust and wrong, we  inaugurated  the
plan of purchasing eggs by weight  only  so
far as we know the only concern east  of the 
Rockies so doing.  It has resulted in  our se­
curing all the large eggs, while our neighbors 
get  the  small  ones.  We  have repeatedly 
demonstrated  that  one  dozen  small  eggs 
weigh  only  one  and  one-quarter  pounds, 
while one dozen large  eggs weight  one  and 
seven-eights pounds, making a  difference of 
fifty per cent, in favor of large eggs.  Plainly 
speaking,  this  means  fifty  per  cent, taken 
from the purchaser’s pocket.

Should a man go to his  butcher,  aud  pay 
twenty cents for one pound of meat and  his 
neighbor pay twenty cents for one  and  one- 
half pounds of the same kind, the case would 
be identical.

After our experience, it  is  a  self-evident 
proposition that our law makers should take 
this matter in hand at an early  day,  and  fix 
a law  making  it  illegal  to  sell eggs other 
than by  weight

The fact that it has  worked  well  on  the 
eastern slope should be conclusive  evidence 
to  our  lawgivers  that  the  time  has  come 
when we should do away—for all time—with 
this  base  custom, which  amounts to fraud.
The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.

M istak en   Id e a s  in   T rad e.

It is not sharp, brilliant, or enterprising to 
attract trade by advertising  that  goods  will 
be  sold  for  less  than  cost.  No consumer 
gives the retailer  credit  for  doing business 
on esthetic principles of philanthropy.  They 
all know that he is in trade to make money, 
and that he will do it or go to ruin, and they 
also  know  that  one  day  he  will be called 
rogue, vidian and other plain names.  They 
like  to  buy  goods  at  tempting prices, but 
they  do  not  make  up  a  purse  to  help  a 
broken  merchant, nor do  any other acts  of 
charity  or  generosity,  which  would  show 
that  they  appreciate  the  sacrifice of name 
and money which enables them to buy goods 
so cheaply while the shell  held  out  They 
would even let a merchant be  buried in the 
potter’s  field  rather  than  help  to pay  Ins 
burial expenses and raise him a  monument, 
should his woes cause his  natural  death,  or 
self-destruction, when  he  awakes  from  his 
long-mistaken dream.

It is not true that a man can advertise cer­
tain goods at cost and then patch up a friend­
ly scheme with his scales to help out the de­
ception and prevent loss, without eventually 
being found out to his  detriment  by  some­
body.  It is folly to recommend any article in 
stock which is out of condition, or  dragging 
in sale on account of its being out of style or 
superseded by a better article, and guarantee 
it  fully  equal  to  any  other  new or bright 
goods.  Sell it for what it is, a  second-hand 
or inferior article, and  make  the  price  ae 
cordingly.  It is a risk of trade  from  which 
no  merchant  should  shrink,  and  it is  not 
smart  to  work  it off on some  poor  person 
who is easily gulled, for a customer  may  be 
lost  It is a fallacy to suppose that any one 
man  can  control  a  certain  trade;  the new 
comer will divide it  with  him  surely.  No 
man  can  carry  a  trade  in his vest pocket 
There are no politics in business  but  to  get 
the best goods at the  least  money,  and  get 
well treated in the bargain!

STEEL POINT SNOW SHOVEL,
Strongest,  lightest,  Cheapest,  Handsomest,  Best,

FOR  SALE  BY

Cody,  Ball & Co.,
A rthur Meigs & Co.,
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon,
Clark, Jewell & Co.,
Fox, Musselman & Lovendge, 
Hawkins & Perry,
John  Caulfield,
Foster, Stevens & Co.,
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GRAND RAPIDS 

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L ady  B o o k -K eep ers.

Lady book-keepers have become quite pop­
ular among the merchants in the city.  While 
they are excellent scribes and keep the very 
best  books,  the  merchants  claim that they 
have one great drawback—they  will  marry 
—and that means a hunt  by  the  firm for  a 
green hand again to fill a very important po­
sition.  Said a business man, who had appar- 
edtly nad an exasperating experience:  “Con­
found it, that’s the trouble  with ’em.  They 
make the best kind of book-keepers and beat 
men to death in the same position;  they are 
always neat and attractive and as  a  general 
thing pretty,  and that’s what plays  the  mis­
chief.  They are always cheerful and  pleas­
ant to have  around,  and  always  accommo­
dating—but, bless’em, they  will  marry.  I 
have sometimes thought that I would try  to 
hunt  one  with  a  hair  lip, or otherwise so 
homely that no one  would  have  her,  but  I 
never  could  find  one.  The last one I  had 
promised  by  all  that  was  holy  that  she 
wouldn’t marry, but inside of  two years I’m 
blessed if she didn’t.  But I got the  best  of 
her there, as I married her myself.  But that 
didn’t  obviate  the  difficulty,  for  she  quit 
book-keeping soon  after  for  housekeeping. 
Then I hired a man.”

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In poisoning by iodoform,  Behring recom­
mends  as an  antidote, a five to  a  ten  per 
cent  aqueous  solution  of  bicarbonate  of 

►  potassium.

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Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ..................................dis
Sciota B ench...................................................dis
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ....................... dis
Bench, first q u ality ...................................... dis
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Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and
velCo
PA N S.
Fry, A cm e............................
Common, polished....................... ___ _ .dis
D ripping.................................
.......V  a>
RIV ETS.
Iro n  and  T inned............................ .......dis
40
Copper R ivets and B u rs............
40
.......dis
"A ” Wood’s p aten t planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10lA 
“ B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to  27 

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

60
8

9

Broken packs %c $  ft> extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T ern e..................  5  75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T ern e................7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T ern e................. 12 00
IX , 20x28, choieC Charcoal  T ern e................16  90
Sisal, yt In. and  la rg e r....................................   9
M anilla................................................................   15 %
Steel and  Iro n ...............................................dis  50
Try and Be vels...............................................dis  50 i
M itre  .............................................................. dis  20  1
Com. Sm ooth.  Com.  j
$3 00
3 00
3 00 1
3 00 !
3 20!
3 40!
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30  inches j 

Nos. 10 to  14...................................... $4  20 
Nos. 15 to   17....................................  4  20 
Nos. 18 to  21....................................   4  20 
N os.22to  2 4 ...:.............................   4  20 
Nos .25 to  26 ....................................  4  40 
No. 27 .................................................  4  60 
wide n o t less th an  2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In  casks of 600 lbs, f l t b .............................  
In  sm aller quansities, 
tb......................  
No. 1,  Refined.............................................  
M arket  H alf-and-half.............................  
S trictly  H alf-and-half............................ 
*
Cards fo r  Charcoals, $6  75.

I

6 
654
13 00
15  00
16

TINNER’S SOLDER.

TIN  PLATES. 

10x14, C harcoal..................................  6  50
IC, 
10x14,C harcoal...................................  8  50
IX , 
12x12, C harcoal..................................   6  50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal  ................................  8  50
IX , 
14x20, C harcoal..................................   6  50
IC, 
14x20,  C harcoal.................................   8  50
IX , 
IX X ,  14x20, C harcoal..................................  10  50
IX X X ,  14x20, Chareool.................................  12  50
IX X X X , 14x20,  Charcoal...................................  14 50
20x28, C harcoal.................................  18  00
IX , 
6 50
DC, 
100 P late C harcoal................................. 
100 P late C harcoal..................................   8 50
DX, 
DXX,  100 P late C harcoal.................................  10 50
DXXX,  100 P late C harcoal...............................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  P late add 1  50  to  6  75 

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel.  G am e.........................................................
Onoida Com m untity,  N ewhouse’s ...........dis  35
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & N orton’s __   60
H otchkiss’ ...........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ........................................  60
Mouse,  choker.........................................20c  $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................... $]  26 $  doz
B right  M arket....................................................  dis 60
A nnealed M arket.................................................dis 60
Coppered Mai-ket.................................................dis 55
E x tra B ailing........................................................ dis 55
Tinned  M arket.....................................................kis 40
Tinned  B room ....................................................ib  09 j
Tinned M attress..........................................sp tb  854
Coppered  Spring  S teel.............................dis 3714
Tinned Spring S teel................................... dis 37%
Plain Fence. .................................................ig ft»  3*4
Barbed  F en ce..................................................... 
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Copper....................................................new  list net |
B rass.......  ............................................new  list net
B rig h t......................................................................dis 70
Screw E yes........................................................... tdis 70
Hook’s .................................................................... dis 70
G ate Hooks and  E yes........................................ dis 70

WIRE GOODS.

wrEiy^HES.

B axter’s A djustable,  nickeled................
Coe’s G enuine..........................................dis  50&10
Coe’s P aten t A gricultural, w rought, dis 
65
Coe’s P atent,  m alleable....................... dis 
70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pum ps,  C istern......................................dis  60&20
70
S crew s........................ 1................................  
Casters, Bed and  P la te ............................dis 
50
Dam pers,  A m erican................................... 
3356

Ohio W hite Lime, per  bbl.
1 05
..........  
Ohio W hite Lime, car lots.
90
Louisville Cemeni,  per bbl
1 40
..........  
A kron Cem ent per  b b l__
I 40
............. 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..
1 40
........... 
Car lo ts...............................
.......... 1  05@1 10
P lastering hair, per b u __
..........   25@ 30
Stucco, p er bbl.....................
..........  
Land plaster, per to n .........
..........  
Land plaster, car lo ts.........
00
Fire brick, per  M................
.......... $25 @ $35
F ire clay, p er  b bl................
3 00
COAL.
A nthracite, egg and grate, car Sots.. $6  00@6 25
A nthracite, stove and  n u t. car lo ts..  6  25@6 50
Canned,  car lo ts.................
@6 75
......... 
Ohio  Lump, ear  lo ts.........
.........  3  25@3 50
B lossburgor  Cum berland, car lo ts..  4  50@5 00
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hem,  commend  them  to  the  attention  of 
every rink owner in the country.

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clamp  skate  made  which  operates  all  the 
clamps with one key at the same time.

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N A M E L Y   :  “ T H E   A C C O U N T   B O O K ,” 
com bin in gbetfh  D A Y   B O O K   a n d   L E D G E R  
in  one,  b y   w h ich   custom ers  item ized   sta te ­
m ents  are  fu rn ish ed   in  on e-th ird   the  time 
req uired   b y   the u su a l  p rocess,  a s  hundreds 
w ho are using- it w ill cheerfully  testify.

AND

“ T H E   C O M P E N D I U M ,”   re q u irin g  but 
io 
m inutes  a  d a y   to  record  each  d ay ’s  cash 
tran saction s,  and  su p p ly   a  com plete  s e lf­
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Ibarbware.

A Scale of Hardness for Metals.

The following is a scale of hardness in use 
in  the  laboratory  of  the  Technical  High 
School at Prague, composed of eighteen me­
tallic substances, arranged  in  ascending  or­
der from the softest to the hardest:

1.  Pure soft lead.
2.  Pure tin.
3.  Pure hard lead.
4.  Pure annealed copper.
5.  Cast fine copper.
6.  Soft bearing metal (copper, 85; tin, 10; 

zinc, 5).

7.  Cast iron  (annealed).
8.  Fibrous wrought iron.
9.  Fine-grained light gray cast iron.
10.  Strengthened cast iron  (melted  with 

10 per cent,  of wrought turnings).

11.  Soft  ingot  iron,  with  0.15 per cent, 

carbon  (will not  harden).

12.  Steel,  with 0.45 per cent carbon  (not 

hardened).

hardened).

pered, blue.

13.  Steel, with 0.96 per cent, carbon  (not 

14.  Crucible east steel, hardened and tem­

15.  Crucible steel, hardened and  temper­

ed, violet to orange-yellow.

16.  Crucible steel,  hardened and  temper­

ed, straw yellow.

17.  Hard bearing-metal  (copper, 83; zinc: 

17).

18.  Crucible steel, glass hard.
The test is made by drawing a  cylindrical 
piece with a conical point  along  a  polished 
surface  of  the  metal  to  be tested.  In the 
case described, that of a bronze  used for the 
cross-head guide of a locomotive,  the  point, 
when 
loaded  with  five  kilograms,  was 
drawn six times through a distance of  three 
centimeters.  Under  these  conditions  the 
points of the number below five  in  the scale 
were blunted without marking  the  surface; 
with Nos. 5 and 6 neither point  nor  surface 
were abraded; but No. 7, while being slightly 
worn on the point, began to scratch  the  sur­
face.  The hardness  was  therefore  that  of 
pure copper or  soft  bronze.  The  absolute 
tensile existence was found to be  2051.7 kil­
ograms per square centimeter, while that  of 
copper is 1920 kilograms  per  square  centi­
meter, and that of the bronze, No. 6, is 2,300 
per square centimeter, thus showing an inti­
mate relation between the strength and hard­
ness of similar metallic compounds.

In c re a se   T o u r  Sales.
From  th e A m erican S torekeeper.

Every country merchant should look about 
him and see if  he is selling all  the goods he 
ought with  his  facilities and  surroundings. 
Consider if there is  not  some other  line  of 
which  he could carry the staples, and there­
by  add  materially  to  his  sales  without  a 
much greater  investment  than  he now has.
We do not  think it policy for a  trader  to 
take too many lines of  goods, but  it  should 
be his study not  only to keep  everything  in 
his regular stock for which there is a reason­
able demand, but to extend  his trade gradu­
ally  by  trying  the  most  staple  articles  in 
some new department,  and thus increase his 
sales.  If  he  already has a  good  trade  es­
tablished  in  boots  and  shoes,  he  can  add 
hats and caps  to his line without  a large in­
vestment.  If  in  the grocery trade, and  his 
capital will permit,  he should  by all  means 
add  a  crockery  and  glassware department. 
Nor does it require so large an outlay.  One 
can purchase two or three assorted  crates of 
staple crockery and  glassware  for from one 
to three hundred dollars, which would prove 
the nucleus of an important  department, by 
which  his  profits  would  be  greatly  in­
creased.  The  dealer in stoves and tinware, 
by a careful  study of  the  demands  of  his 
customers,  can  gradually  increase  his  line 
with  the  more  staple articles  of  hardware. 
Remember  the  people  must  have  all  the 
goods we have named, and you ought to sell 
them.  Of  course we would not  advise  the 
trader  who  has  barely  enough  capital  to 
keep up his  stock  as  it  is, to  increase  his 
liabilities more  than  he  is obliged  to;  but 
there  are  hundreds  of  well-to-do  store­
keepers content to take the trade as it comes, 
in  the  line  which  they  have  followed  all 
their lives, and to whom  the  additional out­
lay  of  from  three  to  six  hundred  dollars 
would cause no inconvenience.

They  may  be  compared  to  the  old  fogy 
farmer  whose  broad  acres  are  capable  of 
supporting  twice the  number  of  sheep  he 
has ever kept, which  fact  he has  never dis­
covered.

Don’t  embark  in a new  business or  con­
tinue  in  an  old  one  and  be  content  with 
“ only a living.”  Force-the  fight  into new 
channels.  You can do it without increasing 
your expenses.  Let no opportunity for add­
ing to your sales or making an honest dollar 
escape  you.

W o rth less  H a rd w a re   P roduct«.

Mr. C. B.  Webster, the United States Con­
sul  at  Sheffield, reports that the production 
of  rubbish  hardware  is  increasing  to  an 
alarming extent in that headquarters of Eng­
lish cutlery.  The  cutlery  trade is grievous­
ly  missing  the  influence  that the guild  of 
cutlers used to exercise over  the  production 
of the district when they  had  the  power  to 
destroy any cutlery when it was found  to be 
made of material inferior to what it profess­
ed to be.  The demoralizing power  of  unre­
stricted competition has pulled down  prices 
so  grievously  that  pocket  knives  are now 
sold  at  2}4  cents  each,  and  good looking 
razors  at  75  cents  a dozen, and the parties 
that make them have to make a living  from 
the profit realized.  To make cutlery at such 
a price the most inferior material  has  to  be 
used.  With all the patent  processes  of  the 
present day, it has come to be very  difficult 
to know with certainty what kind of  mater­
ial  is  bought  under  the name of steel.  In 
Sheffield, alloys of Scotch pig-iron and scrap 
are made into castings by  certain  enterpris­
ing parties and vended as crucible steel cast­
ings,  with a tensile  strength  of  only  about 
eight tons per  square inch, and very  far  in­
ferior  for  standing  wear  and  tear  and  in 
strength to good honest  anthracite  pig-iron. 
Yet  the  demand  for  cheap steel-producing 
processes goes feverishly on,  and  the  same 
causes that keep up this demand  will  be  at 
work when good cast steel becomes as cheap 
as  pig-iron  is  to-day,  should  that point of 
cheapness ever  be reached.

E la s tic   L a c q u e r.

A  very  elastic  lacquer,  perfectly  supple, 
and not liable to peel off, may be thus made: 
About 120 pounds of  oil varnish  are  heated 
in  one vessel, and  33  pounds  of  quicklime 
are put  into 22 pounds of  water  in another. 
As soon as the  lime causes  an  effervesence 
55 pounds of  india-rubber  are  added.  This 
mixture is stirred and then poured  into  the 
vessel  of  hot  varnish.  The  whole 
is  in­
stantly stirred  so that  the  ingredients  may 
become thoroughly  incorporated.  Straining 
and  cooling  complete  the  process.  When 
required for use it  is thinned with  the  nec­
essary quantity  of  varnish, and  applied  hot 
or  cold  to  wood, 
iron,  walls,  waterproof 
cloth, paper, or other material.

C l e a n i n g   I t r a s s .

To remove the stains of iodide potassa and 
aqua ammonia stains off of brass, scour with 
a  mixture  of  ammonia water, alcohol,  and 
chalk.  For delicate work the  chalk  should 
be finely levigated.  For heavy  work  pow­
dered  bath  brick,  rotton  stone,  red  brick 
dust, or Tripoli in sweet oil may  be  nibbed 
on with a flannel,  and  the  article  polished 
with leather.  The government  method  has 
been  to  dip  the article in a mixture of  two 
parts nitric acid and one part sulphuric acid, 
immediately removing to water,  and  finally 
rubbing with sawdust.  Grease  is  removed 
with alkali.

‘No,  marm,”  said  the  shoe-dealer,  “ I

A  W o rd   o f P ra ise .

From  th e  St. Louis Grocer.

There  has  been  much  written  about  the 
relations  between  employers  and  employe, 
and while  we  do not  intend  to  discuss  the 
general  relations, there  is one  point  that  it 
will not  be amiss  to  touch  upon.  While it 
is true  that an employe engages to work for 
a certain  sum of  money and  can not  expect 
any  other  recompense,  in  many  cases  he 
does  look  for  other  pay  than  the  money, 
and feels disappointed when he does not get 
it.  We refer to the point that a faithful and 
efficient employe expects at times to get due 
credit from his employer for  the good work 
he is doing.

Failing  to  get  this  praise  for  his  good 
work  an  employe  feels  slighted,  and  ulti­
mately  becomes  discontented,  because  he 
feels  his  labors  are  not  appreciated. 
In 
course of  time  this  restiveness  and  discon­
tent  become  so  great  that  the  employe 
changes  to  some  other  house,  where  he 
hopes his labors will  receive  at  least  some 
honorable mention.

There  are  many  men  in  the  employ  of 
others who  desire  words  of  praise, and  he 
is  a  wise  employer  who  praises  his  help 
when  good work  is  done.  By so  doing  he 
creates  a  feeling  of  good  will  that  big 
salaries  can  never  gain,  and  he  gets  in­
creased efficiency in  his employes.  We  be­
lieve  employers  are  altogether  too chary in 
their praise of  good work, and that it would 
be money to them if they adopted the course 
of  rewarding  merit  by  a  simple  word  of 
praise.

A  V ery  T ig h t  Squeeze.

From  th e W all S treet News.

It was  in  a  Michigan town.  The  papers 
were out with a sensational article regarding 
the  defalcation  and flight of the town treas­
urer,  and  the  affair  was  the  talk on  every 
corner  and in  every  store.  A New  Yorker 
who happened to be in the town was consid­
erably interested, and in conversation with a 
leading merchant he remarked;
“I presume he gave a  bond?”
“Oh, yes.”
“And the bondsmen are good?”
“That’s the deuce of it,  mister!”  exclaim­
ed the merchant.  I’m  the  only  bondsman, 
and  he’s placed  me  in  a  mean  position. 
I 
was preparing to fail and beat my  creditors, 
but I’ll be hanged if I see  how  I’m  to  beat 
the  creditors  and  the  town,  too,  and  get 
enough property in my wife’s name  to  start 
a wholesale house in Detroit!”

A company  is  getting  ready  to  build  a 
pneumatic  tube  for  carrying 
letters  and 
small packages from Chicago  to New York. 
The idea  at first  seemed  impracticable, but 
on examination it turns out  to  be  feasible. 
Two tubes are  to be  made  of  brass,  which 
will  run  side  by  side,  although  it  is  said 
one  tube  will  be  tried  first.  A  poweiful 
engine with  an exhaust wheel  is to  be  sta­
tioned  at  one  end. 
It  is  said  that  if  the 
tube is  properly  made  and  planted  no  air 
will escape.  The right of way, it is believed, 
can be secured  for nothing, or at  a nominal 
expense, and the main cost will be the tubes

would like to give you a sn^iller pair,  but to | an(* engines and stations.
sell you anything below eights would render 
me liable under  the statute for  the  preven­
tion of  cruelty to animals.”  He didn’t  sell 
her anything under eights or over  it.  Some 
women are so touchy about the size of  their 
feet

A bank cashier went into  a  German  cus­
tom boot shop apd  was measured  for a pair 
of  boots. 
In a few days  he  called  for  his 
boots.  The  German  cobbler  met  him 
smilingly  with  the  remark:  “ Doze  boots 
vas not in, but de bill vas made ow it”

Nalls In  Decoration.
Charles  O. Leland, In St. Nicholas.

Round-headed  brass  nails  may  of  them­
selves  be  extensively  used  in  decorating 
chests, etc.  It  is  well  known  in  repousse 
or sheet-brass work  that  a  very  important 
point consists of  introducing at  regular  in­
tervals  bosses,“'.’orjfround  studs, of  such  a 
nature that they shall  attract  the eye by re­
flecting 
light.  Thus,  in  the  days  when 
every room  had  its  salvers  and  plates  of 
hammered  brass,  favorite  subjects  were 
oranges,  grapes,  and  other  round  fruits, 
whose  hemispherical  and  rounded  surface 
gave a brilliant reflect of light.  Accordingly, 
a very favorite  subject  for  a  brass  platter 
was the spies returning  from  Canaan, bear­
ing  between  them  an  immense  bunch  of 
grapes.  During three hundred  years  there 
were as many salvers  made  with  this  sub­
ject as all others combined.  In  fact the em­
ployment of  the  boss, or  knob, or circle,  in 
art is as old  as  art  itself;  it  was  common 
among  the  earliest  races,  and  an  article 
which I have read  declares  that  the  white 
dots in a  blue ground which  form  the  un­
dying  “ polka-dot  pattern ”  in  cravats  is  n 
survival of  the  heads of  the  rivets  in  an­
cient  armor. 
It  is as curious as instructive 
to observe how, for instance in  Romanesque 
dress, very good  effects  were  produced  by 
simple circlets, surrounded at  times by dots. 
These are seen, too, not  only on old  Anglo- 
Saxon and Gaulish  dresses, but  on  all  ob­
jects where  it was desirable  to produce  the 
most ornamental effect in  the  easiest  man­
ner.  Nails  can  be  had  at  the  brass  fur­
nisher’s  in  great  variety and  of  every pat­
tern, from  one or  two  inches  in  diameter 
down to the tiniest tacks.

M a k in g   Screw s.
From  the Philadelphia Bulletin.

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

it  where  needed,  holds 

like 

O ne  W ay   o f M a k in g   Sales.

A  guileless  citizen  was  ambling  around 
town the other day, when a stranger stopped 
him, offered him a cigar and said:

“ You have a frank and  honest  face, and 

I appeal to you to do me a favor.”

“ Well,  I  reckon  I will,  unless  you want 

to borrow money.”

“ Oh,  no!  no!  You  see  that  shoe  store 
over there?  Well, on  the left  as  you  go in 
is a counter full  of  shoes. 
I  want  a  pair 
the worst way, but  the price  is  $10  and  I 
don’t want  to  pay over  $5. 
I  could  have 
beaten him  down,  I  think, except  that  we 
both got mad and I left.”

“ Well,  what do you want of  m e?”
“ Simply to go in and offer him  $5. 

If he 
accepts, bring the shoes  to me on the corner 
below.  If  he  refuses,  you  will  have  my 
gratitude all the same.”

James  promptly consented,  and when  he 
had  offered $5 for the shoes the  dealer also 
promptly  accepted.  They were done  up in 
a neat bundle, and  Mr. Turk  carried  them 
to  the  corner  for  delivery  and  payment. 
The other  party was  not  there.  Mr. Turk 
waited  half  an  hour—three-quarters—over 
an hour, and the idea crept through his wool 
that he had been sold.  He returned  to  the 
store and asked:

“ What  is  your  asking  price  for  these 

shoes ?”

“ Three dollars.”
“ But 1 paid  you $5! ”
“ Oxactly.  Vhen  a  man  comes  in  und 
likes to pay me dot  price I  vhas  foolish  to 
drive him avhay! ”

Mr. Turk reached  home  without  further 
incident, but  he  is  so  pale  and  quiet  and 
sad-appearing, that his friends whisper their 
fears of  consumption.

One  of  the  chief  reasons  why  money is j 
now so abundant  and  difficult  to  employ a t1 
profitable rates of  interest  is  because  there I 
is so little disposition  to speculate, whether 
it  be  in  railway  stocks  and  securities  or i 
produce, or, in  other words, because  of  the j 
rigid  conservatism of  the  times.  Men  are 
afraid  now  to  embark  in  operations  that, 
under  other  circumstances,  would  scarcely 
receive a second  thought—not  because  the 
country an§  the people  are  vyorse  off  now 
as regards everything that  goes  to make up 
our  matenal wealth, but  because shrinkage 
in values  has  taken  the  place  of  inflation, 
and  the  innate  feeling  of  security  that  is 
thought to be found in  inaction.  While the 
existing  condition  of  commercial  affairs  is 
one of  apathy, it is important  to note,  how­
ever,  that  the  movement  of  the  crops  is 
steadily  increasing, because it  is  no  doubt 
irorn this source that the process of recupera­
tion will derive its most important stimulus.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are  as  follow s: 

AUGERS AND B IT S.

Ives’, old  sty le........................................... dls 
50
N. H. C. Co.................................................. dls 
55
50
Douglass’ ....................................................dis 
P ierces’ ....................................................... dis 
50
50
Snell’s ...........................................................dis 
Cook’s  ......................................................... dis40&10
Je nnings’,  gen u in e.....................a ..........dis 
25
Jen n in g s’, im itatio n................................ dis40&10

S pring.......................................................... dis 

BALANCES.

25

R a ilro a d ......................................................... $  15 00
G arden........................................................ n et 33 00

BARROW S.

BELLS.

H a n d ....................................................... dis  $  60&10
C ow ............................  ........................... dis 
60
15
Call................................................................. dis 
G o n g ..............................................................dis 
20
Door, S argent................. .......................dis 
55

BOLTS.

Stove.......................................................... dis * 
40
75
Carriage  new   list.......................................dis 
Plow  ..........................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe................................................ dis  50&15
Cast B arrel  B olts.....................................dis 
.  50
55
W rought B arrel B olts...............................dis 
50
Cast B arrel, brass  k n obs......................... dis 
Cast Square S pring....................................dis 
55
Cast  C hain................................................... dis 
60
W rought B arrel, brass  k n o b .....dis  55&10
W rought S q u a re ...........................dis  55&10
30
W rought Sunk F lu sh................................dis 
W rought  Bronze  and' P lated  Knob
F lu sh ......................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  D oor................................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

B a rb e r..................................................... d is$  
40
50
B ackus......................................................dis 
Spofford.......... .......................................   dis 
50
Am.  Ball.......................................................dis  n et

B U C K E T S .'

Well, p lain ......................................................$  4  00
Well, sw ivel.................................................... 
4 50

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................dis 
60
Cast Loose P in, Berlin  bronzed.........dis 
60
60
Cast Loose Jo in t, genuine bronzed, .dis 
W rought Narrow , bright fast  jo in t..d is  50&10
W rounht Loos*"'  P in ............................ dis 
60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .......... dis 
60&  5
60&
W roughtLoose P in, jap a n n e d .......... dis 
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d .................................................. dis 
60&  5
60
W rought T able.......................................dis 
W rought Inside  B lind.........................dis 
60
W rought B rass......................................dis 
65&10
Blind. Clark’s ..............................  ...........dis  70&10
Blind, P ark er’s __ «.............................. dis 
70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ...................................dis 
70
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x2V&, per gross  15  00 
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x3..  .pergross  18  00 

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10.....................................................p e r  m  $ 6?
H ick’s C. F .........................................  
G. D ...........................................................  
M usket...................................................... 

60
36
60

 

CA TRIDG ES.

RinKFire, U. M. C. & W inchester  new list 
50
Rim Fire, U nited  S tates.......................... dis 
50
Central F ire ................................................. dis  %

CH IS ELS.

Socket F irm er............................................dis  65&10
Socket F ram ing........................................ dis  65&10
Socket C orner............................................dis  65&10
Socket Slicks.............................................dis  65&10
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er..................... dis 
40
B arton’s Socket  F irm ers....................... dis 
20
Cold.............................................................net

Curry, Law rence’s .................   ............ dis 
H otchkiss  ...............................................dis 

COMBS.

33M
i

COCKS.

Brass,  Racking’s ..........................................  40&10
B ibb’s .............................................................  49&10
B e e r .................  
40&10
Fenns’
60

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

 

 

Planished, 14 oz c u t to size.......................$1 tt>  31
14x52,14x56,14 x60...........................................   39

C O PPER .

D R IL LS

M orse’s B it  Stock.................................. dis 
T aper and S traight S hank.....................dis 
Morse’s T aper  So5nk.............................dis 

35
20
30

ELBOW S.

Com. 4 piece, 6  in ..............................doz n et $1  10
C orrugated............................................... dis  20&10
A d ju sta b le................................................dis  M&10

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 .

A m erican File A ssociation  L ist.........dis 
D isston’s .................................................. dis 
New  A m erican........................................dis 
Nicholson’s ...............................................dis 
H eller’s .....................................................dis 
H eller’s H orse R asps.............................dis 
27 
Nos. 16 to 20, 
12 
L ist 
15 
D iscount, Ju n ia ta  45, Charcoal 60. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............dis 

GA LVANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

13 
GAUGES.

14 

20
25

50
50
50
50
30
33J6
28
18

50

HAMMERS.

1
Maydole & Co.’s .......................................dis 
K ip’s ..........................................................dis 
2
Y erkes &  Plum b’s ..................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................... 30 c list 40
B lacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40&10 

HANGERS.

B arn Door K idder Mfg. Co.,  Wood track  dis  50
Champion, an ti-frictio n ........................dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tr a . k ..............................    dis 
40

H IN G ES.

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3................................dis 
60
S tate...............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  iy3  14
and  longer................................................. 
3%
10 y%
Screw Hook and Eye,  % .....................n et 
Screw Hook and Eye %........................n et 
8}4
Screw Hook and Eye  %.................... 
ly*
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...................... n e t 
7Î4
Strap and  T .................................... 
HOLLOW   W ARE.

  n et 

Stam ped Tin W are......................................   60&10
Japanned  Tin  W are...................................  20&10
G ranite  Iro n   W are..................................... 
25

HOES.

G rub  1  ................................................ $11  00, dis 40
G rub  2..................................................   U  50, dis 40
G rub 3....................................................   12  00, dis 40

KNOBS.

Door, m ineral, jap. trim m in g s.........$2  00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m in g s__   2 60, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
m ings........................................... list,  7  25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list, 8  25, dis 
60 
60
D raw er and  Shutter,  p o rcelain ..... .dis 
P icture,  H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ...................d 
40
50
H e m a c ite .................................................dis 

LOOKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, W heelnr  &  Co.’s ...........................dis  60
B ranford’s ...................................................... dis  60
Norw alk’s ........................................................ dis  60

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

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

Coffee, P ark ers  Co.’s ................................... dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables dis  40
Coffee,  Landers, F erry &  Clark’s .............dis  40
Coffee,  E n terp rise.........................................dis  25

MATTOCKS.

Adze  E ye........................................$16  00 dis 40&10
H unt  E ye........................................$15 00 dis 40&10
H u n t’s  ......................................... $18  50 dis 20 & 10

NA ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

lOdto  60d.......... ....................................keg $2  30
8d and 9 d  ad v ..................................................  
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................... 
50
75
4d and 5d  ad v ..................................................  
3d  advance........................................................  1  50
3d fine  advance...............................................  3 00
Clinch nails,  ad v .............................................   17s
4d
Finishing 
Size—inches  ( 3  
1%
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.

I  lOd 
$1 25  1  60  1  75  2 00 

8d  6d 
2 

2V4 

Stebbin’s P a tte rn   .........................................dis
Stebbin’s G enuine.........................................dis
E nterprise,  self-m easuring....................... dis

MAULS.

O ILER S.

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

Zinc o r tin, Chase’s P a te n t......................... dis  55
Zinc, w ith brass b o tto m .............................. dis  50
Brass o r  Copper............................................dis  40
R eaper........................................p er  gross, $12 n e t
Olm stead’s ....................................................  
60

COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G  M A T E R I ALS
A.  B. Knowlson quotes af follows:

10  AND  12  MONROE  ST.,

dis 60&10

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
e  nsno- i n e s

From  2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
G rist Mills, Wood W orking  M achinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  m ade  for 
Complete Outfits.
O ,  

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

The Washer of the  Future !

0. K. STEAM  WASHER

The  only 

Steam W asher 

that  has  a  valve  on 
j 

top  of  cover  Lo 

prevent boil­

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The  only 

Steam W asher 

w ith  force  feed  and 

Perforated  Tube 
through center 

of cylinder.

It w ill w ash more clothes in  a  given  tim e  than  any  steam   washer  in  the 
market. 
It w ashes cleaner, as the tube  through the center of cylinder has  the 
advantage of steam ing the clothes uniformly.  The flanges on outside of  cylin­
der force steam  and suds in clothes.  A gents  wanted  everywhere  in  M ichigan. 
W rite for circulars and  price.

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Grand  Rapids

Michigan.

WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 19,1884.

2)r\>  (Boobs.

S C IE N C E   A N D   B U T T O N S.

W o m a n ’s  E m a n c ip a tio n   fr o m   th e   T h r a ll-  

d o m   o f  H o o k s   a n d   E y e s.

From  th e New Y ork Times,

A very important scientific discussion con­
cerning the buttoning  of  female  dresses  is 
just now occupying the more  thoughtful  of 
the London weekly papers.  Some close ob­
server—who is believed to be Piof.  Huxley 
_has discovered that women universally but­
ton their clothing on the left, instead  of  the 
right side.  That  is  to  say,  the  buttons  on 
any given article of female dress are  on  the 
left  side  and  the  button-holes on the right 
side.  The opposite is true as to all  articles 
of male apparel,  and  scientific  persons  are 
now  earnestly endeavoring to ascertain why 
the difference between the sexes  exists.

The opinion is  freely  expressed  that  the 
habit of buttoning clothing on  the  left  side 
is an evidence of mental weakness.  Strength 
of mind, according to  those  who  hold  this 
opinion, is never  displayed  by  left-handed 
persons,  and  it  is  assumed that the person 
who  buttons  a  dress  on the left side is,  of 
course, more or less  left-handed.  Man,  be­
ing stronger than woman,  naturally  buttons 
things with his right hand, while woman, be­
ing the weaker vessel, buttons  her  clothing
with the left hand.

The trouble with this  ingenious  theory  is 
that  it  is  not  true.  Although  women’s 
dresses are invariably buttoned  on  the  left 
side,  they  are  not  buttoned  with  the left
hand, and women are very seldom  left-hand­
ed.  It is said by experts that  in  buttoning  a 
dress a woman uses  both  hands, holding  the 
button side  with the left hand  and fastening 
the  buttons  with  the  right.  Nevertheless 
not an English scientific person has  thought 
it worth while to ask if  women  fasten then- 
buttons with the left hand; and  columns  of 
able  arguments  have  been  written,  all  of 
which are based  upon  the  unwarranted  as­
sumption that women are left-handed.

A key to the solution of the  problem  was 
furnished  some  time  ago  by  an  English­
man, who wrote that dresses were  buttoned 
on the left  side  because  dressmakers  made 
them to be so buttoned.  This ought to have 
suggested  the  theory  that  to make dresses 
button on the left side is an  hereditary  cus­
tom handed down  from  one  dressmaker  to 
another, and that the origin must be  sought 
for in  the day when dressmakers first began 
to make dresses that  are  fastened  in  front. 
No one, however, has done this, perhaps be­
cause it is easier to invent theories than it is 
to make laborious investigations.

Prior  to  the  Reformation,  dresses  were 
fastened at the back,  and one of  the  grand­
est  results  of  that  memorable insurrection 
against ignorance  and  superstition  was  the 
emancipation of women from dresses “hook­
ed, up behind.”  It was Luther who took the 
bold ground that woman, so long as she  had 
to have some one to  assist  her  in  fastening 
her dress, was not a free person, and that  in 
order to  develop  her  noblest  qualities,  she 
must  be  permitted  to  fasten  her  dress  in 
front,  and  thus  dispense  with  assistance 
when  putting on her clothes.  Calvin differ­
ed from Luther in this matter and maintain­
ed  that  dresses  fastened  in front were  not 
authorized by scripture  and  were  therefore 
wrong.  Melanchtlion tried to steer a middle 
course, and naturally gaining nothing  by  it, 
Luther upbraiding him for his want of cour­
age, while Calvin charged him with  heresy. 
The final result of the very hot discussion of 
the matter between the leader of the Refor­
mation was that each each o rl clung  to  his 
original position, and that, with  the  excep­
tion  of  the  immediate followers of Calvin, 
the  women  of  the  reformed faith accepted 
the  doctrine  of  Luther  and  began to wear 
dresses fastening in front.

So strong is the force  of  tradition  among 
women that the  dress  fastening  behind  did 
not entirely disappear  until  within  the  last 
quarter of a century.  Men  are  now  living 
who remember having seen dresses fastening 
behind, and there are women who still speak 
of  the  trouble  and  vexation  which  such 
" dresses involved.  Hooks and eyes held their 
place with still greater tenacity than dresses 
opening behind, and  for some purposes they 
are still used by  dressmakers.

Now, it is evident that hooks and eyes can 
be used with ease only when the hook is held 
in  the  left  hand  and  the  eye  in  the  right. 
The  hook  merely  requires  to  be  held  per­
fectly  still while the  eye  is  passed  over  it. 
This  is  the  reason  why,  when dresses were 
fastened with hooks and eyes, the eyes were 
always placed on the right side of the  dress 
and  the  hooks  on  the  left side.  After  the 
Reformation, when dresses fastening in front 
began  to  be  used,  tb*y were still fastened 
with hooks  and  eyes, and  of course the eyes 
were  placed  on  the  right side.  No  dress­
maker  ever  thought  of deviating  from  this 
eustom, and  it  is safe to say that no woman 
would have had the patience to wear a dress 
hooking on the right side.

When buttons  began  to  take  the place of 
hooks  and  eyes  it  was  natural  that  dress­
makers should place the  button-holes on the 
side  where the eyes had formerly been plac­
ed.  Dressmakers,  being  women,  knew 
nothing by experience of the  nature  of  but­
tons, and supposed it was necessary  to  han­
dle them precisely as hooks were handled.

We have thus a clear and  trustworthy  ex­
planation of the origin of the custom of  but­
toning dresses on the left side.  Any British 
scientific person willing to incur the labor of

j  a little original investigation could have solv- 
| ed the problem, for  it is not one  which  pre­
sents any real difficulty,  but,  as has-been al­
ready  said,  it  is  easier  to  invent  theories 
than it is to study facts.

W o m e n   C ash ie rs.

From  th e Buffalo Express.

WHOLESALE  PRIOE  CURRENT.

Spring  &  Com pany quote as 

:

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

A ndroscoggin, 9-4. .23 
A ndroscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4.......1614
Pepperell,  8-4.......20
Pepperell,  9-4...... 22%

Pepperell, 10-4........25
Pepperell, 11-4—  T.27MÌ
P equot,  7 4 ...............18
Pequot,  8 4 ...............21
Pequot,  9-4.............. 24

CHECKS.

P ark  Mills, No. 90. .14 
P ark  Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz..............11
Otis  A p ro n ..............1054
Otis  F u rn itu re .......1054
York,  1  oz............... 10
York, AA, ex tra  oz. 14

A labam a  p laid.......8
A ugusta plaid .........  8
Toledo p laid ............  754
M anchester  plaid..  7 
New  Tenn. p la id .. .11 
U tility p laid ............  654

OSNABURG,

Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Caledonia,  X , o z .. .10
Economy,  oz...........10
P ark Mills, No. 50. .10 
P ark Mills,'No. 60. .11 
P ark Mills, No. 70..12 
P ark Mills, No. 80.. 13

“ Do women embezzle ? ”
“ No, they don’t.  I  never knew a woman 
who handled  other  people’s money to  steal 
one  cent. 
I  have  employed  women  as 
cashiers  for  years.  They  are  quicker  at 
making change  than men;  they will  detect
counterfeit  money quicker;  they keep their j  ^abamabrown. 
Tl/t
^
cash accounts clearer, and don’t want  to run | Kentucky brown *1054 
Lewiston  b ro w n ...  954
the whole store, as men  do.”  So  said  one 
Lane brow n............954
Louisiana  plaid..
of  Buffalo’s  heaviest  dry goods  merchants 
to  a  reporter.  “ Yes,  they  are  invariably 
happy.  1  have  heard of  young women  as 
| clerks  who  had  pilfered  small  articles— 
collars,  handkerchiefs,  etc.—but  the  cases 
are rare.  Most saleswomen  and  cashiers in 
Buffalo  live  at  home,  and  keep  off  the 
streets  at  night'  Many  belong  to  good 
families  and  to  churches.  They  are 
in 
every sense respectable.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36...........  854
A rt  cam brics, 36.. .1154 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  854 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1254
Ballou, 4-4..................754
Ballou, 5-4................  6
Boott,  0.4-4............  854
Boott,  E. 5-5...........  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4......... 954
Boott, R.  3 4 ...........  554
Blackstone, AA 44 .  754 
Chapman, X, 4 4 —   654
Conway,  4 4 .............. 734
Cabot, 4 4 __
Cabot, 7-8.................   654
Canoe,  3 4 ...............   4
Domestic,  36...........  754
Dwight A nchor, 44.  954
Davol, 4-4................  954
F ru ito f Loom, 4 4 ..  854
F ru it of Loom, 7-8..  854
F ru it of  th e  Loom,
cam bric,  4 4 .........12
Gold Medal, 4 4 ..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.......654
Gilded  A ge..............834

Greene, G,  4 4 .........  554
Hill, 4 4 .....................  854
Hill, 7 -8 ..................754
Hope,  4 4 .................   754
K ing  Phillip  cam ­
bric, 4 4 ................. 1154
Linwood,  4 4 ..........   9
Lonsdale,  4 4 ...........  854
Lonsdale  cam bric. 1154 
Langdon, GB, 4 4 ...  954
Langdon,  45............ 14
Masonville,  4 4 ........  954
Maxwell. 4-4.............1054
New Y ork M il, 44.1054 
New Jersey,  4 4 —   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
P ride of the W est. .1254 
Pocahontas,  4 4 —   854
Slaterville, 7-8.........  654
V ictoria,  A A ...........9
W oodbury, 4 4 .........
W hitinsville,  4 4 ...  754 
W hitinsville, 7-8—   654
W am sutta, 4 4 .........1054
W illiams ville,  36.. .1054

SILESIAS

|

Grow n...................... 17 
No.  10...................... 1254
C oin......................... 10
A nchor.................... 15
C entennial..............
B la c k b u rn ..............  8
D avol....................... 14
L ondon....................1254
P a c o n ia .................. 12
Red  Cross...............10
Social  Im perial — 16

M asonville T S.........  8
M asonville  S ........... 1054
L o nsdale.................   954
Lonsdale A ...............16
N ictory  O ................
V ictory J .................
V ictory  D ................
Victory  K ..................2%
Phoenix A .................1954
Phoenix  B ..............  1054
Phoenix X X ..............5

PRLNTS*

Albion,  solid............554
Albion,  g re y ............6
Allen’s  checks........554
Ailen’s  fan cy ..........554
Allen’s p in k ..............6%
Allen’s p u rp le.......... 654
A m erican, fa n c y — 554
Arnold fan cy ............6
Berlin solid..............  554
Cocheco  fa n c y .........6
Cocheco robes.......... 6 54
Conestoga fancy —  6
E d d y sto n e ............... 6
Eagle  fan cy ..............5
G arner p in k ..............654

G lo u cester............... 6
G loucesterm ourn’g . 6 
H am ilton  fa n c y ...  6
H artel fancy. ^.........6
M errim ac  D ..............6
M a n ch ester............. 6
O riental  fa n c y ........ 6
O riental  robes........ 654
Pacific  robes............6
R ichm ond.................6
Steel  R iver..........*... 554
Simpson’s .................6
W ashington fa n c y .. 
W ashington  b lu e s..754

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS. 

dress 

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

checks,
new

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS,

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS

Renfrew , dress styl  954 
Johnson  M anfg Co,
B ookfold...............1254
Johnson  M anfg Co,
dress  sty les.........1254
Slaterville, 
dress
sty les.....................  9
W hite Mfg Co, stap  734 
W hite Mfg Co, fane  8 
W hite  M anf’g  Co,
E arlsto n ..................954
G ordon.......................8
Greylock, 

Indian O rchard, 40
854
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia  B, 7-4......... 1654
Lym an B, 40-in........1054
Mass. BB, 4-4...........  534
N ashua  E, 40-in___ 9
N ashua  R, 4 4 .........  7
N ashua 0,7-8...........  754
N ew m arket N ...........754
Pepperell E, 39-in..  754 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7 
Pepperell  0,7-8—   ¿54
Pepperell  N, 3-4___ 654
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R ................  7
Saranac  E ...............»9

A ppleton  A, 4-4....  8 
Boott  M, 4-4............  754
Boston  F, 4-4..........   8
C ontinental C, 4-3..  734 
C ontinental D, 40 in  834 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  654
Dwight  X, 3-4.........6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........   654
Dwight  Z, 4-4..........   7
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7}a 
Ew ight Star, 40-in..  9 
E nterprise EE, 36..  554 
G reat Falls E, 4-4...  7
Farm ers’ A, 4-4.......634
Indian  Orchard,  1-4  754
A m o sk e ag ..............  8
Amoskeag, P ersian
sty les..................... 1054
B a te s.......................... 754
B e rk sh ire..............  654
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f ’y  754 
Glasgow 
royal  sty les.........  8
G loucester, 
sta n d a rd ..............  754
P lu n k e t...................   754
L an caster................  8%
styles  ...................1254
L angdale....................734
Androscoggin, 7-4.. 21 
iPepperell.  10-4.....2754
A ndroscoggin, 8-4.. 23  Pepperell,  11-4......3254
Pepperell,  7-4.........20 
Pequot,  7-4.............21
Pepperell,  8-4.........2254 P equot,  8-4..............24
|Pequot,  9-4............2t 54
Pepperell,  9-4.........25 
L aw rtnce XX, 4-4..  854 
A tlantic  A, 4-4... 
| Law rence  Y, 30—   7 
7 
A tlantic  H, 4-4.,. 
¿54(Lawrence LL, 4-4...  534
A tlantic  D, 4-4... 
N ew m arket N .........  754
A tlantic P, 4-4—  
Mystic River, 4-4...  6
A tlantic  LL, 4-4—   554
P equot A, 4-4..........   8
A driatic, 36..............  754
Piedm ont,  36..........   7
A ugusta, 4-4............   654
Stark A A, 4-4..........   754
Boott  M, 4-4............   754
T rem ont  CC, 4-4—   534
Boott  FF, 4-4...........  734
Utica,  4-4.................   9
G raniteville, 4-4—   634 
W achusett,  4-4......... 754
Indian  Head, 4-4...  754 
W achusett,  30-in...  634
Indiana Head 45-in.1254
Falls, X X X X .......... 1854
Amoskeag,  ACA.,.1354 
Falls, X X X ..............1554
Am oskeag 
“ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................. 1154
Amoskeag,  A .......13
Falls,  BBC, 36.........1954
Amoskeag,  B ........ 12
Falls,  aw ning.........19
Amoskeag,  C........ 11
H am ilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D .........1054
H am ilton,  D .......... #54
Amoskeag,  E .........10
H am ilton,  H .......... 954
Amoskeag, F ..........   954
H am ilton  fa n c y ... 10
Prem ium   A, 4-4— 17
M ethuen A A ...........1354
Prem ium   B ............16
M ethuen A SA........ 18
E xtra 4-4...................16
Omega  A, 7-8.......... 11
E x tra 7-8...................1454
Omega  A, 4-4..........13
Gold Medal 4-4........ 15
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
CCA  7-8.................... 1254
Omega ACA, 4 4 — 16
CT 4-4........................U
Omega SE, 7-8........ 24
RC 7-8........................14
Omega SE, 4 4 ........ 27
BF 7-8......................   16
Omega M. 7 -8 ........ 22
AF4-4....................... 19
Omega M, 4 4 ..........25
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 1154 
Cordis  ACA, 32...... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1, 32...... 15
Shetucket,  SFS 
.. 12
Cordis  No. 2........... 14
Stockbridge  A ........7
Cordis  No. 3........... 13
Stockbridge  frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4........... 1154
Em pire
G a rn e r.%....................5
W ashington............   43£
H ookset...................   5
Edw ards...................  5
Red  C ross................  5
S. S. & Sons............   6
F orest Grove
A m erican  A .........17  50! Old  Iro n sid es......... 15
Stark A ....................21541 W heatlan d .............. 21

GLAZED CAMBRICS. 

G R A IN   BAGS.

 

W IO AN S.

SPO O L COTTON.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

DENIM S.
B o sto n .....................  ^ ¡ 2 i i8 
îoiy
E v erett  b lu e............ 14 W arren  A X A .......... 1254
E verett  brow n.........14 W arren  B B .............. 1154
Otis  A X A ................1254 W arren CC...............1054
Otis B B .....................11541 York  fa n c y ............. 15
M anville....................   6 IS. S. & Sons................  6
M asgnville...............   6 |G a rn e r........................ 6
Red  C ross................  754|Thistle M ills............
B e rlin .......................  754  R ose..........................  8
G a rn e r.....................  7541
B ro o k s..................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P.  C oats.......... 55
W illim antic 6 cord.55 
W illim antic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing th re a d ............30

Eagle  and  Phcenix 
Mills ball sew ing.30 
Greeh  &  D an iels...25
M e rrick s..................40
S taffo rd ....................25
Hall & M anning__ 25
H olyoke....................26
K earsage.................   85*
A rm o ry ...................  754
N aum keagsatteen.  854 
Androscoggin sa t..  854
Pepperell  bleached  854
Canoe R iver............  6
Pepperell s a t.......... 954
C larendon............... 654
R ockport.................   7
Hallowell  Im p ....... 634
Lawrence s a t..........   854
Ind. Orch. Im p ....... 7
Conego8a t ................  7
L a co n ia...................  754
H
  COMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIAT
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in   Force fo r 

CORSET JE A N S .

H

Thirty  Years.

“ Newspapers nowadays are full of wicked 
embezzlements.  Bank  presidents run away 
with  fortunes,  wreck homes, families,  lives, 
reputations and public institutions.  Cashiers 
steal,  gamble,  abscond,  speculate  and  use 
money intrusted  to them  by  poor  working 
people.  They  lie,  dissemble,  deceive,  and 
finally rob  the directors of  the  corporations 
employing them;  but women  do  not  steal.
Look  at  the  suicides  caused  by  all  these 
breaches  of  trust!  See  the  beggars  these 
sleek-tongued  villains  have  made  in  two 
cities during  the past week—but  women do 
not  embezzle.

“ I have a cashier now wlfo is  the shrewd­
est woman I ever knew.  She sits  up  there 
where the cash balls  roll  in, evidently kept 
busy  making  change.  But 
that  young 
woman knows all  that is going on  at  every 
counter  of  this  large  store.  She  catches 
shoplifters,  reports 
irregularities  among 
clerks,  and  detects  every  little  device  in­
vented by the salesmen  to  beat  us  or  our 
customers.  She is  not  a  spy or  a  ‘ tattle­
tale.’  The crookedness  she  reports  among 
clerks would affect  her if  allowed  to  pass.
She often calls me up and  points  out  some 
mistake  in  the  cash  check, saying, for  in­
stance,  ‘that  has  occurred  five  times  this
week.  Mr.-----   is  very  careless.’  So  you
see she does not  accuse him of  willful  mis­
takes in making out his checks, but I under­
stand her and apply the proper  remedy.

“A cashier’s place is a hard one.  She sits 
up  there  alone,  generally;  she  must  be 
quick to  make  change,  and  the knowledge 
that every cent  lost  comes out  of  her $8 or 
$9  a  week,  naturally  tends  to  make  her 
nervous.  She  must  watch  for  mutilated, 
punched  and plugged coins;  and  for  coun­
terfeit  pieces  and  bad  bills.  The  checks 
accompanying the Gash  are  invariably writ­
ten in  haste, are often  illegible, and  if  she 
does not read  the figures  correctly is  liable 
to send back too much change.

^ ______

“ But you  asked  me  if  women embezzle.
Never  have I  known  a  single  case;  never 
have I heard of  one.  I can  not  say that of 
men. 
I hkve employed four young  men  at 
different  times.  One  left  me, one was  not 
quick  enough,  and  the  other  two  robbed 
me.” 
T h e   T h r e a d   I n d u s tr y  o f   th e   U n ite d   S tates.
The thread industry of  the United States, 
while it  does not  rank  alongside  the  iron 
and  steel  industries  in  importance,  makes 
quite a  respectable  showing,  in  figures  at 
least.  American  manufactories  now  turn 
out  daily  12,000  dozen  spools,  containing 
200  yards  each, or, in  other words,  enough 
thread in six  days to girdle  the  globe  four 
and one-sixth  times.  The annual  consump­
tion  of  spools  by our  thread-makers  alone 
represents from three to four thousand cords 
of  wood.  Fourteen  thread  manufacturers 
who export  largely to  this country also use 
immense numbers of American spools, wind­
ing their thread upon them after  the thread 
has  paid  duty  at  some  of  our  ports.  The 
consumption  of  the  best  grades  of  thread 
in  our  country  is  estimated  at  21,000,000 
spools per annum.
• 

P r e tt y   F e e t.

Ladies  in  India  never  wear  shoes,  and 
their  feet,  instead  of  being  deformed, are 
natural and  beautiful,  says  the  New York 
World.  The climate  does not  permit such 
a practice with  us, but  there  is no need  of 
our going to the opposite extreme  and  mak­
ing  our  feet  so  ill-shaped  that  they  are 
never shown without  shrinking.  It  is  pos­
sible to preserve  the  feet  in  their  natural 
condition and yet wear shoes and  stockings. 
Why should  not  the foot  be  preserved  as 
beautiful  as  the  hand  and  face?  The  fact 
that  it  is  covered  and  rarely seen  is  no 
reason  for  neglecting 
it.  On  the  other 
hand,  “  I have  never  known  a  beautiful 
woman,”  said  an  artist  who  had  painted 
many  of  them,  “ whose  foot  was  present­
able without a slipper and fine stocking.”

About  150,000  gallons  of  handkerchief 
perfumes are consumed annually in  Europe 
and  British  India.  The  English  revenue 
from eau de cologne is $40,000 anuually, and 
the total revenue of other  perfumes is  esti­
mated at $200,000  annually.  There is  one 
great  perfume  distillery  at  Cannes, 
in 
France,  which uses  yearly  100,000  pounds 
of  acacia  flowers,  140,000  pounds  of  rare 
flower leaves,  32,000 pounds of jasmine blos­
soms, 20,000 pounds  of tube-rose  blossoms, 
and  an  immense  quantity  of other materi­
al.

Rubber may be melted  over  a warm bath. 
To obtain it in  the  liquid  state,  it  is* com­
monly the  practice  to  dissolve it  in  some 
suitable  solvent,  and  then  evaporate  that 
solution to the desired consistency.

SPR IN G   &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

Fancy and Staple

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL.  C L O T H S

ETO..  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

G ra n d   R a p id s ,

T H E

0*

%
%

E C C E   S I G N U M .

M ic h ig a n .

lese  Goods  are 
tured  only  iy î

Ce.,1 
Detroit 
of

EDMOND  D. DIKEMAN,]0  S'WELLING

WHOLESALE

J E W E L E R ,

-AND-

4 4   C A N A L   S T R E B T ,

USTOTIOlsTS!

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,

M IC H IG A N

H ID E S , P E L T S   A N D »
P erkins & Hess quote as foLows: 

9

C
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5
0

HIDES.

P a rt  cu red .................................... ...........8  @814
...........814®  834
C ry hides and k ip s..............................;  •  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cu red .......
Deacon sk in s.............................$  piece20  @50
SHEEP PELTS.
Shearlings o r Sum m er skins $  piece. .10  @20 
uwn  ««it» 
............ 30  @50
.  ..1  00  @1  25
W inter  p elts.................................

Fine washed $  1b..........................
Coarse w ashed..............................
rPaU/rar 

...........  24@  26
...........18  @20
.................................... »14®  »34

WOOL.

SKINS.

Fisher  * 

MaTVlS 
"Mi nk

Raccoon 
Skunk 
Tino xrnr  99 IK 
Tioor  ÿ   Ih 

.........  50@10 00
t  .......................... .........4 00®  8  00
.........  25®  1  10
85
.........  15® 
' ...............................................   25®  100
......... 
5@ 
50
8
2® 
........ 
.......4  00® 5 00
.... 
5® 
85
.........  15® 
90
......... . . . .........2 00®  3 00
......................................   1U@ 
30

....... , , , .............
...............................

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.

Lara represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  J o h n D. Ma n - 
gum,  A.  M.  S p r a g u e ,  J o h n  H.  E a c k e k , 
L. R. C e s n a ,  Ge o . W. N.  D e  J o n g e.

24 Pearl Street 

• 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

A.  A.  ORIPPBN,

W H O L E S A L E

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,

M IC H IG A N .

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

a* Low as Chicago and Detroit.

m

a m
p 
m

m

The Newaygo Com pany quote f. o. b. cars  as 

follow :
U ppers, 1 in c h .................................... per M $44  00
U ppers, 154,154 and 2 in c h ..........................  46  00
Selects, 1 in c h .................................................  35 00
Selects, 154, 154 and 2  in c h ..........................  38  00
Fine Common, 1 in c h ...................................  30  00
Shop, 1 in c h ...................................................  20  00
Fine, Common, 154, 154 and 2 in ch ............  32  00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 f e e t..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet..........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 f e e t..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 f e e t .........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 f e e t.........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet............................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 f e e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 f e e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe e t..........................  13  00
Coarse  Common  o r  shipping  culls, all
w idths and  le n g th s........................... 8  00@  9  00
A and B Strips, 4 o r 6 i n .............................  35  00
C Strips, 4 o r 6 in ch ....................................  
28  00
No. 1 Fencing, all  len g th s..........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fe e t...............   12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 fe e t...................................  12  00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  in c h ..................................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  in c h ..................................   12  00
Norway C and better, 4 o r 6 in ch ..............  20  00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B .................      18  00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................................  14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Com m on__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.......................  20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 f t ............   10  00
$1 additional fo r each 2  fe e t above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B .....................  36  00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C............................  29  00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No.  1, com m on,.  17  00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 com m on__   14  00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1  00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  C lear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C............................  26  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in., No. 1  com ’n  16  Of1 
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in.. No. 2  eom’n  14  00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1  00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............. 
3  50
■(XXX18 in.  T h in ........................................ 
3  40
j X X X  16 in ...................................................  
3  00
No. 2 o r 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............. 
2  00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in ............................... 
175
L ath  ................................................................ 
2  00

TIME TABLES.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
M i c h i g a n ( T e n t r a l

The Niagara,  Falls (Route.

DEPA R T.

tD etroit E xpress........................................  6:00 
+Day  E xpress..........................................  12:25 p m
*New Y ork F ast L ine................................  6:00 
tA tlantic E xpress........................................9:20 p 
♦Pacific  E xpress...................................... 6:4  a m
+Local  P assenger.................................... ll.:20am
+M ail..............................................................3:20 p m
+Grand  Rapids  E xpress...........................10:25 p 

A R R IV E .

tD aily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping cars ru n  on Nos.  101 and 108.
The New York F ast Line ru n s daily, arriving 
at D etroit a t 11:59 a. m., and New Y ork  a t 9 p. 
m. th e nex t evening.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  made  with 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern train s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding transfers.
The D etroit E xpress leaving at 6:00 a.  m. has 
Draw ing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m., New Y ork 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m. nex t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room car attached, arriv­
ing a t Grand  Rapids a t  10:25 p. m.

J. T. S c h u l t z ,  Gen’l A gent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven £   Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

A rrive

[NO W EST.

Leaves. 
6:20 a m 
tS team boat Expre 
10:20 a m 
+Through  M ail... 
3:55 p m 
tE vening  Express 
10:45 p m 
♦A tlantic Express 
10:30 a m
tM ixed, w ith  coac
12:55 p in 
,12:40 p m  
tM orning  E xpress..
5:10 p m
5:00 p m 
tThrough  Mail.........
,10:30 p m
tSteam boat  Express
7:10 a m 
tM ix ed ...................................
5:30 a m
♦N ightE xpress.....................  5:10 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily 
Express 
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  n 
• Lansing
m ake close connections a t Owosso f 
and a t D etroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the folloyving m orning.
P arlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
W est.
Train leaving  a t  5:10  p,  m.  will  m ake  con­
nection w ith Milwaukee steam ers daily except 
Sunday and the train  leaving  a t 5:10 p.  m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  yvith  Good­
rich steam ers for  Chicago.
The mail has  a  P arlor  Car  to  D etroit.  The 
N ight  Express has a through  W agner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car D etroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r ,  City Pass. A gent. 
G e o . B. R e e v e , Traffic M anager, Chicago.

Chicago & West Miohigan.
Leaves.
+Mail..........................................9:16 a m
+Day  Ejy>ress....................... 12:25 p m
♦Night  E xpress...................   8:35 p m
M ixed................................................6:10 a m

A rrives, 
4:00 p m 
10:45 p m 
6:10 a m 
10:05 p m
♦Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping  Cars  on  all  n ight  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  a t­
tendants yvithout  ex tra   charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. aud 
8:35 p. m. trains.

tD aily except Sunday.

NEWAYGO  D IV IS IO N .

 

...................................  5:00 a m  

Leaves.  A rrives.
Mixed 
5:15 p m
E xpress................... 
4:10 p m  8:30 p m
E x p re ss...................................   8:30 a m  10:15 a m
Trains connect a t A rcher avenue fo r Chicago 
as follow s:  Mail, 10:20 a. m .; express, 8:40 p. m 
The  N orthern term inus of  th is Division is a t 
Baldwin, w here close connection is made  with 
F. &  P. M.  train s  to  and  from   L udington  and 
M anistee. 

J. H. P a l m e r , Gen  ! Pass. A gent.

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Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

A rrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati &  M ackinac  Ex  8:45 p m 
9:00 p m 
Cincinnati & M ackinac E x .  9:20 a m   10:25 a m  
F t. W ayne& G ’d Rapids Ex  3:55 p m 
7:10 a  in
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 

GOING  SOUTH.

G. Rapids & C incinnati E x . 
7:00 a m
M ackinae& Cincinnati E x.  4:05 p m  
4:35 p m  
Mackinac & Ft. W a y .  e E x .. 10:25 a m   11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m  

All train s daily except Sunday.

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  9:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  W oodruff  Sleeping Cars fo r  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  T rain leaving a t 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse 
City.
South—T rain leaving a t 4:35p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

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

Lake Shore & Miohigan Southern.

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrivre. 
E x p ress................................. 7:00 p m  
M ail.........................................9:36 a m  

Leave.
7:35 a m
4:00 p m

All train s daily except Sunday.
The  atrain  

leaving  a t  4  p. m. connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon with  A tlantic  E xpress  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace D raw ing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from   Chicago  to  New  Y ork  and 
Boston w ithout change.
The  tra in   leaving  a t  7:35  a. m. connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon (giving one h our fo r dinner) w ith 
special New Y ork E xpress on Main  Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured a t  U nion Ticket office, 
67 M oure stre e t and  depot.

tickets  and  b erth s 

Through 

I. W. McKsn n sy , G en’l A gent.

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LIST OF OFFICERS:

P resident—R ansom W. H a w l e y , o f  D etroit. 
V ice-Presidents—Ch a s. E. Sn e d e k e r , D etroit; 
L. W. A t k in s , G rand  Rapids;  I. N. A l e x a n ­
d e r , L ansing;  U. S. Lo r d , Kalam azoo; H . E. 
Me e k e r , Bay City.
Secretary  and  T reasurer—W.  N.  Me r e d it h ,
Board  of  T rustees,  F or One  Y ear—J . C. P on­
t iu s , Chairm an, S. A. M u n g e r, H. K. W h it e  
F or Two  Y ears—D . Mo r r is ,  A. W .  Cu l v e r .

Some one shoutd invent a  hat  on purpose 
It  should be 
for election betting  purposes. 
one to look respectable  after  numerous wet­
tings  and  bangs;  provided  with  an  expan­
sion  band  for  morning  wear,  and  should 
cost a sum large  enough  to make  the  other 
fellow squirm and swear when he pays for it

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