VOL. 2.
James C. Avery & Co

G EO .  E .  H U BB A RD .

JA M ES  C. A V ERY .

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

M anufacturers of the  following’ brands  of Ci-
Great  Scott,  Demolai  No.  5, 

gars;

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.

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Manufactured  Tobacco.

WE1TBLY & CO,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IRON  PIPE, 

B rass  Goods,  I ron  a n d  B rass F ittings 

M a n tles,  Gra tes,  Gas  F ixtures, 

P lum bers, Stea m   F itt er s,

—And  M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

or  Country.  Also

Special A ttention given  to  Collections  in City 

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FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT

In su ran ce,
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CooDer 
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Cincinnati,  Ohio

Total Assets represented, $3,5X6,808. 

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

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Rapids

General  Collectors,

If you are selling goods to make 

RETAILERS,
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This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a 
larger profit than any in the  Market,  and  is 
put up in handsome and attractive  packages 
witli 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.

MM ttictl Cl.
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
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THE  GRAND

MICHIGAN.

(Established  1866)  is  acknowledged to  be  the 
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We carry a full line  of 
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both for field  and garden. 
Parties  in  want  will  do 
well  to  write  or  see  the

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91  CANAL STREET.

W. N.FULLER & CO
Engravers on Wood,

DESIGNERS  AND

Fine  M echanical  and  F u rn itu re  W ork, In ­

cluding  B uildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade,

GRAND RAPIDS 

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MICH.

EDMUND  D.  DIKEMAN,

FILLED.

And Lashes of All Kinds and Prices.

G. BOYS SC O ,(M A iits
STEAM  LAUNDRY

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  atr

tended to.

FOR  SALE!

A complete millinery stock  in  excel­
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street  in  this  city.  Good  patronage. 
First-class  fixtures.  Address  for  full 
particulars,

Peter Doran,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

OMINI  JONES  S  CO.,
Fine Perfumes,

M anufacturers  of

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

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MICHIGAN.

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91 Canal street.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  17,1884.

NO. 65.

ing to be perched upon this stool, beneath that 
poor old lamp, before them all.  No, you  must I  here any longer.”
not stay here evenings;  it only makes it worse, 
they—they joke me so,” blushing painfully.

TRILOBITE’S MISSION.

The  dawn  came  creeping  up  slowly  over 
Briggs’s Point.  It was the dawn  of  a  beauti­
ful morning in early  June;  yet,  to  the silent 
watchers  around  a  sick  bed,  the  shelter  of 
night was more acceptable.

A  hopeless  hush  had  fallen  on  the  little 
group as the light came stealing into the square 
front chamber, and  rendered  that awful Pres­
ence more plainly visible.

In  this very room, forty-eight  years ago, El- 
ihu Briggs first saw the light of  day, and here 
his eyes would close for the last time.

The eldest  of  his  ten  children,  a  plain  but 
delicate girl of twenty summers,  leaned heav­
ily  against  the  window-frame  of  solid  oak. 
Tears  could  not  obscure  the  almost  solemn I 
splendor  of  her  dark  eyes.  Her  father  was 
her companion, idol, friend.  She did not real-1 
ize th at  minutes,  not  days,  were  allotted  to | 
him;  but the inevitable loss  of  one she so-lov­
ed  lay  like  a  crushing  weight  on  heart  and 
brain.

The  neighborhood  was  waking  up.  Cocks 
were crowing;  men  hurrying  to  their  day’s 
work;  women to the pumps;  and, by and by, a | 
slouching, familiar figure came up the hill and 
turned down to the store.  Briggs’s  store sup­
plied the Point  with  groceries,  dry goods, and 
Yankee notions.  For four  and  tw enty  years 
Trilobite Hastings  had  never  failed  to be the 
first customer.

With one lingering look at her father, appar­
ently sleeping  quietly,  she  took the great key 
from its hook by his bedside and went down to 
open  the  store.  Shrink  not,  gentle, reader, 
from  such  a  flagrant  violation  of  propriety ! 
Mine is a prosy, realistic tale of Michigan life; 
of people who sacrifice feeling for duty ; whose 
perceptions may  be  blunted,  but whose char­
acters are as broad as their native forests.

A couple of men were talking with Trilobite, 
but respectfully  drew  back  for  her to unlock 
the door.

How’s ’Lihu to-day ? ” asked one.

“ Bout  middlin’  yesterday.  Ask  her’”  re­

turned Skipper Jones.

Trilobite came shambling  in,  sincerely  anx­
ious but dreading to inquire.  The others drop­
ped  down  on  nail  kegs  by  the  stove, waiting 
to hear.
Trilobite  helped  himself  to  a glass  of  hard 
cider, turning his back  on.  the  company,  and 
tossing it down his throat with a sleightof hand i 
that betokened years of practice.

“ GuessI’ll take a plug o’ tobac’.  ’Spose  ’Li­
hu will be down in a few days,”  said  the  Skip­
per.

Trilobite  bent  over  the  tawny  ¡cat  on  the 
counter, but was furtively watching the girl’s 
countenance. 

“ I ’ll  take  a  gallon  of  your  best  molasses, 
Heleny,”  put  in  the  third  man,  with  ready 
tact.  He saw that the great  sob  which  arose 
in her slim white throat prevented speech.

•

As she took his  can  she  lifted  one  hand to 

her eyes with a pitiful, childish gesture.

A  tall, bronzed fellow at this moment  enter­
ed the store, and, taking  her  Diace at  the mo­
l a s s e s  hogshead, said gently:  “ I  can  wait  on 
them, Helen, if you can trust mo.  I think you 
had better go up to the house.”

No  second  invitation  was  needed.  Helen 

flew to the house in alarm.

V He is dead,” said Percy Hoyt, in answer  to 
the inquiring looks of the half dozen men  who 
had by this tim e  congregated  around the fire- 
less stove.

“ Dead!  W hat’ll  become  o’  the  children? 
Pity Lena, there, warn’t a boy.  How much do 
you 
’spose  he  was  wuth ?  Forehanded ? 
Ruther guess  not.”  Such  were  the  remarks 
that fell from their  lips,  mingled with the ex­
pressions of deepest sympathy.

Percy Hoyt closed the store,put up the shut­
ters, and tied a bit of  crape  to the knob, worn 
bright and shining by  the  hands  of two gene­
rations of Pointers.  As  he  turns  away  with 
bowed head, we  will  look  at  him.  Of Hercu­
lean proportions, keen gray  eyes, with a glint 
in their depths like a  flash  of  steel;  yet, with 
as gentle and tender a heart as a woman, he is 
a fair type of good, honest manhood in its ear­
liest state.

Days passed, and to Helen itlbecame evident 
that the store m ust be opened again, or all the 
trade would go over to thé Harbor, some three 
miles  from  the  Point.  Her  m other  made  a 
feeble  resistance,  but  eleven'  mouths  to  fill 
looked  appalling.

“ Who ever heard of  a  girl’s  keeping  a gro 
eery ?  It  is  ridiculous,”  said  A unt Denham, 
their only rich relative;  but Helen was firm.

One who could see  the  hungry  look  in  the 
m an’s eyes, and listen to  the  tender  pleading 
of his voice, as he calmed her wounded spirits, 
would not wonder that “ they joked her.”

“ You really must  let  me  tend  for you,” he 
was saying, gravely, when an  old  gossip with 
a basket of  eggs  interrupted  their  conversa­
tion, but Helen had time to  say no, decidedly.
It was queer te see what a will this little brown 
wren of a  girl  had.  I  must  was  ever  on  her 
lips;  and when the day was particularly hard, 
baby Sam would  receive  a  double  portion of 
almost motherly caresses.  Once in a while she 
would snatch time  for  a  brisk  walk with the 
hoydenish twins,  almost  always  choosing the 
time when  rain  was  falling  or  a  brisk wind 
blowing.  She loved  to  wrestle  with  the  ele­
ments, and fight, out her own hard battles with 
the forces  of  nature  raging  about  her.  The 
twins tore their  aprons, muddied  their shoes, 
or quarreled together.  It was  all  the same to 
them  if  they  could  only  keep  up  an  excite­
ment  Helen was  not  naturally  a  woman of 
business;  and  the 
life  of  self-abnegation 
which  she  led  had  few  compensations.  The 
antics of Rose  and  Daisy  were  a  rest  to her 
sometimes;  but far oftener a source of annoy­
ance, as they were as mischievous as magpies. 
Aunt Dehham swooped down  upon them, and 
carried  E tta  and  Leonette,  pretty,  sensible 
girls in their teens, and  as  like as two peas in 
a pod, home with her  for  a  visit of unlimited 
duration.  She missed young  faces  about the 
house, she  said, since her  own daughters had 
left her; and Helen inferred  from her remarks 
that  she  intended  to  adopt-  them.  Percy 
Hoyt’s friendship was a pleasnre. but a bitte.r- 
sweet.  He  inwardly  anathematized  the self­
ishness of Mrs. Briggs and  her  second daugh­
ter, Elise, in permitting  the  burden to fall on 
Helen’s slender shoulders, but  she  would not 
allow the  slightest  protest  to  cross  his  lips. 
He did the trucking for  the  store.  The  next 
time he went to the  city,  after  the  conversa­
tion above recorded, he brought home  a chan­
delier with four lights,  which  he  put up over 
the  counter  without  asking  Helen’s  permis­
sion.  Leavenworth, the village  carpenter, de­
posited his tools Inside the door  the next day, 
saying:
“ Mr. Hoyt told  me  you  wanted  a  little of­
fice fixed up, with glass sides, where you could 
stay, sort  of  by  yourself,  and  see  all that is 
going on, Miss Briggs.”

“ Yes, sir.”  Helen flushed at the thoughtful 
kindness that had anticipated,  nay, interpret­
ed her unspoken wish.  It  was  so pleasant to 
be cared for by some one so strong and true as 
Percy.  But  bars  stronger than iron kept the 
love of her heart under strong  control.

W ith the store well lighted and this dear lit­
tle  sanctum  all  to  herself,  where  she  could 
employ her  hands  with  some  bits  of  girlish 
finery when customers were  few, her old spir­
its came slowly back.  A few  choice  volumes 
that she and her  father  had  studied, Ruskin, 
Carlyle,  Mrs.  Browning,  and  Shakespeare, 
found a place on her  desk  for  idle  moments. 
Her Sabbaths  she  spent  with  little  Sam  and 
poor  lame  Lottie,  with  the  exception  of  an 
hour at prayer  meeting,  and  the  walk  home 
with  Percy.  This  was  the  only  favor  she 
vouchsafed  him;  and,  as  their  homes lay in 
the same direction,  she  could  not  very  well 
deny him that attention, which the most-indif­
ferent person might be allowed to show a lady 
friend.  To Percy,  she  was the one woman in 
the world;  and he lived  on  those  brief, quiet 
moments when her  small  gloved  hand rested 
on his arm, and her soft voice  was modulated 
to a tone intended to reach his ear alone.

Gradually  the  girls,  with  whom  she  had 
been a favorite, began to call  at the store and 
spend hours behind the friendly  red  curtains 
of her office.

Helen Briggs had  been  the  best  scholar in 
the  neighboring  academy, spent  a  winter  in 
the Athens, of  America  to  perfect  herself in 
music, and the  better  class  of  people  in  the 
village considered her a model for their daugh­
ters  before  she  overstepped  the  grounds  of 
propriety, and ran a grocery store for the fam ­
ily’s  'support.  When  she 
first  opened  the 
store, people looked askance  at  her, although 
they bought of her goods.

“ Oh!  if they could  only  know  what it is to 
have so  many  depending  on  you  for  every­
thing! ” she once said to the good old doctor.

“ You are a  brave  girl,”  he  replied:  “ and 

God helps those who help themselves.”

His  words  were  like  wine to the fainting— 

they helped and strengthened her.

Teach she could not;  her  education was too 
fragm entary.  Sewing  was  not  to  be  found 
She must  keep  the  family  together, and  the 
store for Sam,  her  father’s  darling.  She had 
made a holocaust of all  her  pretty  ambitions 
beside her father’s grave.

One  morning  the  shutters  were  down, the 
store open,  and  one  Ijy  one  the  loafers  fell 
back into their  familiar  places, and  trade re­
turned.  It is  not well  to  brood  over trouble 
in this every-day world;  to  be up and doing is 
the best panacea for a heartache.

A  pleasant  light  came  into  Helen’s  great 
brown eyes, a soft flush on her thin cheeks,  as 
she became  interested  in  the  task set before 
her.  There  were  moments,  however,  when 
her lips quivered with  pain, and hot  tears fill­
ed her eyes.
These loafers  were  her  greatest  trial.  To­
bacco chewidg kept tlio  floor  filthy,  and their 
coarse jests often  covered  her  face  with the 
blush  of  shame.  Yet  she  never  wavered In 
her purpose.  Clad in  simple  prints, her  dark 
hair smoothly braided, and  without ornament 
save a broach at  her  throat,  she  weighed out 
pork, drew kerosene and molasses, or  measur­
ed tape  or  blue  denim  with  the  same  quiet 
dignity that had been  a  characteristic of  her 
girlhood.

“ I’m learning to  utilize  Trilobite,”  she said 
one day to Percy.  “ He  comes so early every 
morning  th at  I  get  him  to  take  down  the 
heavy shutters.  Skipper  Jones  keeps  me  in 
nice  ‘ whittlings,’  and  ’Rasmus  Cole  sweeps 
out for me every night while  I am putting up 
the  goods.  Poor  ’Rasmus!  He  says  Debby 
scolds him so, he’d rather stay  and sweep than 
go home.”

“ I would gladly do it all for  you, Helen-, but 

you will not let me,” returned Hoyt, sadly.

“ No, no.  You are  too kind, too good to me 1 
It would not be right.  I get along, pleasantly, 
if it were not for the evenings,  They are  hor­
rible ! ” she continued,  excitedly :  “ To sit be­
hind this counter and listen to their talk, dull, 
stupid, coarse !  It is so hard.  It is  so  degra€-

A country store is a  power  for good or evil. 
People began to note that their sons kept good 
hours.  “ The  little  Briggs  girl,”  they  said: 
“ never kept open after  nine.”  No  cider was 
sold, the goods were always  of the best quali­
ty,  newspapers  were  filed,  chairs  took  the 
place of nail kegs.  Helen’s  word  was as good 
as a bond, and her  influence  unlimited.  Gos­
sip and low stories were out'of  place;  and the 
pale-faced girl behind the red  curtains  learn­
ed to  draw the shy boys out  in  discussions of 
the times.  Indeed, the  store  in winter even­
ings took  on  the  aspect  of  a  reading-room; 
and, unconsciously, the tone of  the  neighbor­
hood became  higher  for  the  girl  who  kept a 
grocery.  Meanwhile, her trade was good;  the 
children  sent  to  school;  her  mother  almost 
care-free.
It was a proud day for the little store-keeper 
when  she  was  appointed  postmistress.  The 
extra pay enabled her  to  keep  a  horse, and a 
boy to do  the rough  work.  A little more care 
and labor did not m atter much to her.

“ Pm  out of business now,” said Percy; “and
off for sea  unless-------.  Why  can’t  you  say
yes, now, Helen ? ”

She smiled at his  jest;  for a  large farm  had 
kept him  busy  enough,  without  the work he 
had  done  for  her.  But  this  question,  how 
should she answer it?

He had intercepted her  on  her  way  to  the 
house.  The desolateness of winter was around 
them and the gray bloom of twilight.  She suf­
fered her eyes to take a  survey  of  the  whole 
landscape  before  she  answered.  The  cold, 
dark waters of the bay, with  boats  long since 
out;  a  huge  barge, high  and  dry,  on the de­
serted wharf.  The ice-locked  cove, where,  at 
times, the ring of  the  skater’s heel  could  be 
heard.  Everything, even the gnawed and bat­
tered horse-posts  by  the  door.  Lamps  were 
burning  brightly  in  the  windows  of  happy 
homes.  Why should she  not  have  the same ? 
One look into the  true  face  so  far above her 
own.  He  answers  her  pleading  glance  with 
impetuous words:

“ You must say  yes,  Lena;  1  can’t  stand it 

The wind came up, dismally  rattling the old  ; 
sign. " E.  Briggs,” and drowning the plaintive | 
melody  that  Lottie’s  fingers  were  drawing i 
from her piano, now sadly out of tune.

Her  mother, kind  but  unable  to  cope with j 
the  world;  pretty,  thoughtless  Elsie;  poor, | 
lame Lottie;  Janetta, the student of  the fami- j 
ly;  the noisy twins,  and  their  satellite,  little | 
Kate;  and Sam, her father’s pride.

Who could care for them all ?
A unt Denham’s  quaint,  rude  comment  on 
her  brother’s  death  flashed  across  Helen’s 
mind:  “ ’Twas ju st like Elihu  to die and leave 
a  wife  and  ten  children.  He  always  would 
shirk responsibility if he could.”
It should never be said of her.
“ Some  time,  Percy,  dear  Percy,  but  not 

now,” she said,  with a firmness born of pain.

Dropping her hands,  he  left  her  without  a 
word, and strode away in  the  gathering dark­
ness.  A hot,, angry glow  overspread his face. 
The waves of disappointment surged madly in 
his  heart.  Helen’s  devotion  to  her  family 
maddened him.  This was  his  reward  for  pa­
tient years of  waiting.  She loved  those  chil­
dren better  than  she  did  him.  The  gods,  in 
the fable Socrates  invented  the  ASsop,  made 
pain and  pleasure  to  spring  from  one  head. 
He could vouch for its truth.

To  Htelen  the  dark,  ice-rimmed  bay  and 
desolateness of a December twilight were ever 
typical of renunciation, as some strain of mus­
ic or perfume of  flower  reminds  one  of  past 
events.

Percy was alone in  the  world,  and  the love 
he craved was denied him.  An orphan at five, 
he was dependent upon  a  rich  uncle.  Squire 
Hoyt had one son, Ellis, who  domineered over 
everything  on  the  farm ,  from  his  parents 
down to the eats and dogs.  Percy  went away 
to sea at the early age of  fourteen.  At  twen­
ty-one he  was  first  m ate  of  a  large  barque. 
Then came  a  summons  from  the  aunt,  who 
had been only so in name.  Her  husband  was 
a  helpless  paralytic.  Ellis  had  forged  his 
name  for  large  sums  and  fled  to  Australia. 
He m ust come home  and  be  a  son  to  them. 
The call of duty, not love, was obeyed, and for 
five years he had  cheered the old couple down 
the road of life.

Farm work  he  disliked.  This  uncle was al­
most  imbecile,  and  his  aunt, with  her sharp 
tongue and miserly  ways,  made his home life 
almost  unendurable.  Through  all  the  dark­
ness  had  run  a  thread  of  light,  to  be  near 
Helen, to help her, and at  last  to  win  her for 
his  own.

The  squire  and  his  wife  were  dead  six 
months.  Percy  had  been  the  owner  of  the 
fertile farm,  with  its  roomy  farmhouse  and 
ample barns filled to overflowing.  For,  to his 
surprise,  all  was  wilied  to  him.  Elsie  and 
Janetta could  carry  on  the  store  as  well  as 
Helen, he reasoned, and he was willing to take 
Sam  if  Helen  would  only  consent  to  be  liis 
wife.  She had chosen;  it  was  all  or nothin, 
with him.  She could live for Sam.

It was almost  ridiculous  to  see  such a  big, 
noble man so jealous of a miserable little shav­
er  like  Sam.  The  young  rascal  divined  his 
sentiments,  and  always  displayed  a  great 
amount of fondness for  “ sister”  when  Hoyt 
was present.

Days dragged wearily on, but  Percy  did not 

come back.

“ Hoyt’s gone on a long  v’yage,”  said.  Skip­
per Jones, one evening, as Helen was tying up 
a dollar’s worth of sugar in a  paper bag ju st a 
size too small for the quantity:  “ Kinder tho’t 
he’d  stay  ’round  here.  Spillin’  your  sugar. 
Heleny! ”

“ So’d I ,”  piped  Trilobite:  “ ’Twould  be  a 
pity to spile two families  with sich  queer crit­
ters as Percy ’n’ Leny, here.  The way Almiry 
Hoyt used to ’buse that boy  was  a  caution to 
beholders! ”  See how he tended her in her last 
sickness!  Actooally  used  to  take her up and 
rock her when she was so tired of one position. 
Shiver my timbers, if I’d a done it!”

“ Your parcels are done up, Mr. Jones,”  said 
Helen, in  an  odd,  constrained voice:  “ Trilo­
bite, will you  say  to  any  one  who  comes  in 
that  I  will  be  in  again  in  fifteen or  twenty 
m inutes?”

“ Takes it powerful  hard,  don’t  she?”  said 
the skipper, the  moment the door closed after 
her retreating form.

“ La, no,” said Trilobite:  “ they’re all right!” 
But  mentally  he  vowed  that  no  one  should 
gloat over the sorrow  of  “ ’Lihu’s little gall,” 
not even if he “ lied to cover it.”

Briggs’s Point  was  a  dull,  grass-grown vil­
lage;  and  when  absence  enwrapped  an  in­
habitant in  uncertainty,  forgetfulness closed 
over them as the waters that lapped the  Point 
over a stone from some urchin’s hand.

For  three  years  Helena  never  heard  his 
name again;  then  it  was  in  connection with 
his deeding the property  to  Ellis, the rightful 
heir.

“ Found him in som efurrin’ port playin’ the 
pious, repentant dodge.  Jest  like  the  Prodi­
gal Son, fu r all the  world;  an’  Percy  gin the 
farm  rite up to  him,”  said  Trilobite:  “ I told 
Scrim last night that Percy was a  tarnal  fool; 
what do you think, Heleny ? ”

“ My opinion is like  Scrim’s—unobtainable,” 

returned Helen.

his house at home.

Scrim was Trilobite’s cat, sole  companion of 

The very irony of  fate  married  Elsie to the 
returned  prodigal  in  a  few  months.  Helen 
was sorely opposed to it, but  Elsie was willful 
and  m ust  take  the  consequences.  Janetta 
was the  only one  who  showed  any  desire  to 
help Helen.  She was teaching school and pay­
ing Kate’s expenses at a normal school.  Rose 
and Daisy were  at  Olivet,  as  Mrs.  Denham s 
adopted  daughters,  and  rarely  wrote  home. 
Lottie, poor girl, had lived  out  her  short  life 
iu  beautiful  tru st  and  patience.  A  sweet 
flower  for  Paradise,  thought  Helen,  as  she 
pressed her last  lingering kiss upon the white 
forehead, blue-veined and  shaded by hair like 
waves of burnished  gold.  The  last  weeks  of 
her stay on  earth  Helen  had  spent with her, 
leaving the store to Trilobite’s faithful care.

“ Sister,”  said  Lottie,  gently:  “ do  you  re­
member Mr. Hoyt ?  He sent me this  by Ellis. 
I think I ought to show it to you now.”

The pathos  of  that  now!  Helen  dried  her 
tears, and Lottie drew a worn  letter  from her 
bosom.  A  photograph  and  a  card  dropped 
from  it.  Percy’s  face,  so  like  and  yet  so 
changed.  Helen read the kind,  tender words: 
“ I send you the  address  of  a  San  Francisco 
firm, to  whom  you  can  forward  a  letter,  in 
case  any  change  takes  place  a t  home,  your 
home, th at  you  think  I  would  like  to  know.

Write to me  once,  at  least,  Lottie,  my  little 
sister, as I once fondly hoped to call  you, for I 
am hungry for  home.”

A load was  lifted  from  her  heart.  He had 

not forgotten her in these long, weary rears.

“ Have you showed this to any one, Lottie?” 

she asked, unsteadily.

“ To no one but Trilobite,  and  he  only  cop­
ied the card.  I’m—so  tired, sister—don’t  talk 
now.  When Rose and Daisy  come, we—will.” 
Rose and Daisy, the twins, had tumbled  into 
matrimony with  the  same  alacrity  they  dis­
played in childish sports.  It was  one  of  Lot­
tie’s  hallucinations  that  they  were  coming 
home.  But,  alas!  they  could  never  see  the 
sister they loved so fondly.  Rose  was  at  sea 
with her husband, and Daisy  settled  down  in 
a home of her own on one of the western  pi-a-. 
iries.

“ Shall I  see  Rose  and  Dsisy  to-morrow?” 

was the last question her lips ever framed.

They were all  gone  now  but  Sam,  a  great 
fellow,  fourteen  years  old.  He  hated  any­
thing that bore resemblance to work or study. 
Even packing  eggs  was  too  arduous  an  un­
dertaking.  He  consumed  many  cigars,  and 
once or twice had  returned  from the city in a 
shameful and shameless  condition.

On the last of these -occasions  Trilobite was 

in the store.

“ Eat a good lot  o’  butter, sonny,”  he  said: 
twill counteract  the  pizen,”  hurrying  him 
into the office, out of sight of too curious eyes.
“ This fellow needs a master,”  he  said  kindly 
but reproachfully  to  Helen,  shrinking  with 
shame and loathing  from  Sam,  her  boy,  in  a 
state  of  idiotic  intoxication.  “ You  oughter 
married  Percy  Hoyt.  Shet  up  your  silly 
mouth,  you  sir,  or  I ’ll  keel-haul  yer.”  The 
last words were so  savage  that  Sam  checked 
his idiotic babbling at once.

But  his  mirthless,  drunken  laugh  rang  in 
Helen’s  ears  for  days.  Trilobite  took  him 
home with him,  that  his  poor  mother  might 
not see his disgrace.

“ What have I  not  sacrificed  for  that  boy!
As a man,  what  a  broken  reed  he  will he to 
lean upon!  ’  she cried, in  her  bitter  anguish.
Trilobite had grown  very  near to her  in the 
years that were past;  his [advice  was  always 
good, and  his  sympathy  was  grateful  to her 
worn spirit.  He had  that rare trait  of  know­
ing when to speak  and  when  to  keep  silent, 
that so few possess.

Troubles  never  come  singly.  A  pompous, 
bald-headed grocer, from a neighboring town, 
had set  up  a  store  near  the  Point,  and  was 
drawing  her  best  customers  away.  Dark 
shadows gathered around the brown  eyss that 
had looked on the world so  bravely  for  many 
years.  Tell-tale white hairs  began  to  gather 
around  her  temples.  Last,  but  not  least,  a 
new trouble  arose;  but  we  will  let  Trilobite 
tell the story:

“ So the Widder has gone over to the enemy, 
has  she?  Going  to  leave  you  for  Stokes. 
Well, well;  when your father and  mother fur- 
sako  ye,  Trilobite  will  take  you  up.  So  he 
w ill!”

It  was  true.  Mrs.  Briggs  married  Stokes, 
who  ran  the  opposition  store,  after  a  brief 
courtship.

About  this  time  Trilobite  displayed  great 
interest in the papers, especially the  shipping 
news.  One  morning  the  village  parliament 
was  electrified  by  his  departure  for  New 
York.

“ Took his old hair trunk with him,” said the 
Skipper:  “ fu r he said, ‘’twas mighty onsartin 
when he’d come home’.”

Helen felt  as if her last friend  had deserted 
her.  The  rugged,  familiar  face  had  become 
almost a fixture  in her store,  and  she missed 
his homely words of comfort.  But in  about a 
month a  postal card  came  to  her,  signed  T. 
Hastings, saying that  he  would  be  home  on 
Thursday.  Would  Sam  meet  him  at  the 
depot ?

Thursday  came;  it  was  a  dull,  rainy  day, 
gulls were flying over the bay, the snow about 
the door was dirty and trodden.  Half a dozen 
men sat around the stove  discussing  politics; 
a small boy  broke  his  bottle  of  kerosene  on 
the floor, and she took a poor bill of  a runner. 
In spite of  it  all,  Helen  felt  strangely light­
hearted;  her old friend was coming home.  At 
noon she laid the  table  for  tea,  intending  to 
entertain Trilobite as  a  guest.  Cold  chicken, 
plum pickles, cake, bread  and  honey were all 
ready.

She started Sam off an hour before car-time, 
and checked herself  in  the  act  of  whistling, 
the only masculine habit she had acquired.

Ju st as the  sun  was  setting,  after  shining 
out for a few moments  to  assure  the world it 
'was really there,  Sam  drove  up  to  the  door 
with two  passengers.  Trilobite’s  face  shone 
like a new moon, despite the dampness  of  his 
attire.  “ Helleny!”  he  called:  “ did  you say 
old Trilobite  warn’t  [good  for  anything  but 
fiddlin’ an’ fisliin’ ?” naming the two things he 
was never known to do.  “ Well, I  forgive  ye, 
an’ here’s a present I brought  you  all the way 
from New York.”

A bronzed and bearded  man  smothered the 
glad  cry  of  “ Percy!  Percy!”  on  his  broad 
breast.

The store was empty at this hour.
“ He’s a goin’ to take you and Sam off  to sea 
with  him;  an’  I ’ll  run  this  ’ere  stand,”  ex­
plained  Trilobite,  mounting  a  pile  of  meal 
bags and contentedly tilling his pipe.

Percy and  Helen  laughed, in the fullness of 
their content, at his cool way  of  settling mat- . 
tors; and one of them,  at  least,  resolved that 
he should be gratified.

The property was  all  Helen’s;  one  by  one 
she had paid out each child’s share;  and,  last 
of all, her m other’s  thirds.

Later  in  the  evening  he  entertained  the 
people who dropped  in  to  trade  a  little  and 
hear the news, with an account of his journey; 
while Sam lounged behind the  counter, strok­
ing a»« incipient mustache.

When he sought his  lonely  home,  Trilobite 
gave vent  to  his  feelings  in  something  like 
thanksgiving:

“ Lord!  I ’meen-a-most  ready  to  say,  now 
let thy servant depart in peace!  ’ Lihu’s  little 
gal is goin’ to be taken care of,  ’n I’m goin’  to 
keep  the  store,  myself,  Scrim,  d’ye  hear? 
We’ll sleep in her sanctum, an’ fry  sassengers 
every  day.  Lordy!  a in tl  happy! ”

So were Helen and  Percy.  Sam,  under  his 
brother-in-law’s  guidance,  grew  up  a  fine,. 
manly  fellow.  Trilobite 
lived  out  twenty 
years  of  borrowed  time,  and  daily  admired 
the gay sign over the  door, whose  gilt  letters 
proclaimed:  *‘ Trilobite  Hastings, grocer. ’ ’

About  35,000,000  feet  of  logs will be  cut  on 

Cedar river this winter.

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  17,  1884.

Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Exchange.

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
■Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Win. Sears.
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins aud R. D. Swartout, two 
years.
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
.Putnam , Joseph Houseman.
Transportation Committee—Wilder D. Stevens, 
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, A rthur 
Meigs, Win. T. Lamoreaux.
M anufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
SS. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
of October.
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
ing of each month.
Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, Jan. 14.

POST  A.

*  Orgartikefll at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. 
■Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Official Organ—The Michigan  Tradesman. 
Committee  on  Elections—Wm.  B.  Edmunds, 
vehafttfiaft^D.  S.  Haugh,  Wm.  G.  Hawkins, 
Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford. 
Regular  Meetings—Last Saturday  evening  in 
each month.
Next  M eeting-Saturday  evening,  December 
27, a t !fThe Tradesman”  office.

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

“A Terrible Temptation”—The  gambling 

dens. 

_________________

Sagacious business men predict the return 

of prosperous times during the year 1885.

A movement which deserves the  immedi­
ate co-operation of every business man—the 
extinction of the gambling rooms.

Sixty million dollars will go to pensioners 
during the current  fiscal  year.  This  vast 
sum put in active circulation and widely dis­
tributed makes an immense amount of trade 
in the aggregate.

However dull at times the  news  columns 
of the daily paper may  become, there is one 
item that thrills with unfailing  regularity— 
the announcement  that  the  Western  Nail 
Association has affirmed the card rate.

/  F, C. Brisbin, the Berlin  bankrupt, states 
that his Sole possessions at the present  time 
are a  gorgeous  reputation  and  a  kicking 
horse.  If he will add to  the  above  inven­
tory “several  thousand  dollars  rightly be­
longing to his creditors,” T h e  T radesm an 
will concede the  correctness of the  figures.

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✓  ■'  1 

"

Soiiman Snooks introduces a new  charac­
ter this week in the person of Dr.  C.  Minor 
Kobb,  who proves himself to be  fully  equal 
to his city professional  brethren  in  human 
discèmineht and business shrewdness,  as  is 
evidenced in his use of the cabalistic charac­
ters,  “DTTM,”  which,  translated,  means 
“Don’t Trust This Man.”

Dealers are cautioued against a new swin­
dling operation  which is being  played by a 
slick-looking villain.  His plan is to go  into 
a store, buy some small article and tender  a 
ten  dollar  bill in payment.  By  a  shrewd 
scheme  he  confuses  the  person  making 
change for him, and  gets  away with a five 
dollar hill  more than  belongs to him.  The 
gkihe will not, work  everywhere, but  he is 
quite successful.

■ The strongest incentives to  crime  in  this 
city are its two dozen gambling  dens.  And 
if Mayor,  Belknap  is able to  put a  stop to 
their operations he will do the business men 
of the place a service  which  they will  ap­
preciate at  its  full  worth.  Many  a  pecu­
lating salesman and embezzling cashier traces 
tiis downfall to the  gambling table, and bus­
inessmen generally recognize  the  fact that 
the removal of temptation  means  that  the 
percentage of loss from  this  cause  will be 
greatly lessened.

Mayor Belknap’s determination  to put an 
end to the career of the numerous  gambling 
establishments in this city  will  meet  with 
the approval of every  honest  man, and es­
pecially of the reputable business portion of 
the  community.  It is a matter of  common 
report that within the past year the  tempta­
tions surrounding these lxell-holes have caus­
ed the ruin of two  mercantile  houses  and 
wrecked a half  dozen  traveling  salesmen, 
and any attempt to lessen the evils resulting 
from the existence of such  dens  will  meet 
with the encouragement and hearty  co-oper­
ation of hundreds  of  innocent  sufferers, as 
well as those who are aware  of  the  numer­
ous crimes for which these  cess-pools of in­
iquity are directly responsible.

W ho are th e F ak irs ?

From the Ovid Union.
r The  goods  ordered by the  farmers  from 
the (it*tud Rapids  fakirs, arrived  Wednes­
day, and were  delivered,  like  supplies  to 
the Indians out west.  When  the  purchas­
ers found  the  quality 
inferior  and  short 
weights, 12 and 14  ounces  for a pound, with 
spices which  are  said  to  be  adulterated, 
wasn’t there squealing though?  In  the lan­
guage ol Nisbett of Big Rapids, “Now is the 
time to hick.”

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

D. 

C. Loveday & Co., hardware dealers at 

East Jordan, have added a line of  groceries, 
purchasing their  stock of  Shields, Bulkley 
& Lemon.

Richard Spencer  has  engaged  in the gro­
cery business  on  East  Bridge  street, just 
east of Union  street.  Clark, Jewell &  Co. 
furnished the stock.

Geo. Eastman Jr. has engaged in the  gro­
cery business at the  corner of Wealthy  av­
enue and  East  street.  Fox, Musselman & 
Loveridge furnished the stock.

A certain city grocer does  his  own  sign 
painting.  Among  his recent  triumphs  are: 
“Cairosean oyil 18 cents  a  gallon!  Shugar 
cheep as the cheepist!  Flower by  barrowal 
or bagg.

John H. Delaney has purchased the fancy 
grocery stock  formerly  owned  by C. G. Mc­
Culloch & Co.,  and  will  carry  on  both a 
wholesale and  retail  business on South Di­
vision street.

M. M. Ross, who has operated notion  and 
fancy  goods  stores at Way land, Saugatuck 
and Fennville in succession during the  past 
six months, is now  temporarily  located  at 
92 Canal street.

W. T. Lamoreaux is constructing an  elab­
orate office in one of the  front  show  win­
dows of his block at 71 Canal street  and ex­
pects to occupy the  entire  building  before 
the beginning of the new year.

D. J. Peacock, who  has  just  engaged in 
general trade at  Grant  Station,  purchased 
his groceries of  Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, 
his boots  and  shoes of  Rindge, Bertsch & 
Co., and his  dry goods of Paul  Steketee & 
Sons.

Michigan farmers have  little to  complain 
of  as  regards  the  prices  paid  for  hay 
and  oats.  Ten  dollars a ton for  hay  and 
thirty cents a bushel for oats  is  better  than 
$5 and twenty cents, which are' respectively 
the ruling prices in most Indiana towns.

John Caulfield is making  arrangements to 
erect a fine brick residence  on  his 
lots on 
the comer of Sheldon and Cherry streets the 
coming season.  The  structure  will  be of 
pressed brick, two stories in hight, and  will 
contain all the  conveniences  and 
improve­
ments incident to modem architecture.

“I can give you the reason  for  the  exist­
ing ‘coolness’ between Tom  Carroll  and  his 
former  friend  and  client,  John  Kendall,” 
said  a  well-known  legal  gentleman,  the 
other day.  “You see, when  Turner  &  Car- 
roll failed to get their account allowed in all 
its voluptiousness, in the Kendall assignment 
matter, they drew  John’s  $250  exemption, 
and  refused to allow him any portion of the 
amount.  Hence  the  subsequent  warmth.”
Several local traveling  men  have  lately 
been made the victims of a new trick by ho­
tel thieves.  The scheme is for  the  thief to 
sit at the writing table  near some guest who 
has put his overcoat in his chair and  sat up­
on it.  When he is absorbed in  writing  the 
thief tugs at the coat with the apology,  “Ex­
cuse me, sir, but you are sitting on my coat.” 
The guest will naturally  loosen up,  and the 
thief goes out with  the  coat.  The 
loss is 
not known until the letters are finished  and 
the thief is squares away.

“One of the peculiar changes of the  times 
is the growing popularity of Talman  Sweet 
apples,” said a well known  produce dealer, 
the other day.  “It is not  many  years  ago 
that we never reckoned the Sweets anything 
when lumping off an orchard, and they were 
almost  always left on  the  trees.  But  we 
don’t  leave any  now,  you  bet.  Too  many 
barrels in a carload  will  sometimes  injure 
the sale, but ten or fifteen  barrels will help 
its sale.  The Southern trade won’t  look  at 
Greenings, and  don’t  like Spys, but you can 
sell them Sweets till you can’t rest.”

M. C. Russell bought a quantity  of  bana­
nas from Wessels & Co., of New York, some 
time ago,  stipulating that they be shipped in 
a refrigerator car.  Instead of  following  di­
rections, however, the New York house ship 
ped the fruit in a common car, in consequence 
of which it was unmerchantable when  it  ar­
rived here.  Russell  refused to  receive  the 
bananas, and notified  the  house  to  that  ef­
fect, but the latter insisted upon payment in 
full, and began suit against  Russell  to  col­
lect the amount of the claim.  The case was 
tried in justice  court  a  day  or two ago, and 
resulted in a verdict of “ no cause of action.”
A certain local cigar dealer  does  not  like 
waiting on “dead-heads,” not  men  who  get 
credit for  cigars and never pay up,  but  peo­
ple who come in and ask him to do little ser­
vices for which he is not paid.  In this class, 
he includes those who want postage stamps, 
those who want change,  those  who  want  a 
light, those who want to  see  the  directory, 
and so on through a long list.  There is also 
the individual who wants to leave  packages 
for a little while, and  the  cigarman  relates 
that one day a countryman came in and  left 
three valises,  and returned three times  dur­
ing  the  day  to  get something out of them. 
The dealer declares  that  very few  of  these 
“dead-heads” ever purchase anything of him, 
and propSses to shut down on them.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

P.  H. Banega, grocer at Fremont,  has sold 

Beamont & Collier  are  putting in a bak­

out.

ery at Hart.

Place & Flickinger  have  engaged  in  the 

meat business at Allegan.

E. 

E. Sterne succeeds Drake & Stone in the 

produce business at Leslie.

eery business at Muskegon.

Frank Zimmerer will  engage  in  the  gro- 
late  of  Muskegon,  has j 

H. E.  Squires, 

opened a restaurant at Big Rapids.

Barker & Parker succeed  Burns &  Johns 

in the grocery business at Lansing.

Conrad Lehn succeeds  Isaac  Wibbom in 

the hardware business at Manchester.

Davis Bros, have  engaged in the  jewelry 

and confectionery business at Clinton.

Dr. M. S. Brownson has moved  his  drug 

stock into his new building at Kingsley:

J. B. Lehman succeeds Motley & Lehman 

in the boot and shoe business at Allegan.

S. H. Ballard has  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  and  business of J. B. Taylor at Spar­
ta.

Dr.  Geo.  W.  Crouter,  the  Charlevoix 
druggist, is  starting a  branch  store at Iron- 
ton.

Stoddard  &  Porter,  general  dealers  at 
Richfield, have  dissolved,  Porter  succeed­
ing.

M. L. Coleman  has  purchased  the E. S. 
Porter  grocery  stock, at Lansing, for  $2,- 
600.

E. S. Burrill, the Grant  druggist, contem­
plates the erection of a brick store  building 
next spring.

Dan. C. Bennett  has engaged in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Irvington.  Gray, Burt & 
Kingman furnished the stock.

Geo. W. Bliss & Son have sold  their  gro­
cery  stock  at  Plainwell  to E. A.  Owen. 
They will continue in the boot and shoe bus­
iness.

Elizabeth B. Smart has  retired  from the 
firm of Wm. D. Carey & Co.  Wm.  D. Carey j 
will continue the business  under  the  same! 
firm name.

E. T. Conrad has  sold  his  grocery  and ! 
crockery stock' at  Cadillac  to  Lewis  De- 
Champlaiu, who will continue  the  business 
at the old stand. 

L.  S. Ballard has purchased a half interest 
in the furniture business of A. H.  Smith, at 
Sparta, and the firm name will  hereafter be 
Smith  & Ballard.

Geo. Adams, the  lately  deceased  Battle 
Creek grocer, willed his  stock to  his  wife. 
As soon as  possible  after  an 
inventory is | 
taken, the stock will be sold.

*

Day, Campbell  &  Co., of  Detroit,  have 
durchased the Marantate dry goods  stock at 
Bay City on mortgage sale  for  $3,100 over 
the first and second mortgages.

Albert Brand  has  purchased  the  interest 
of C. E. White in the meat  market  firm of 
Maentz & White,  at Allegan,  and  the  firm 
name will hereafter be Maentz & Brand.

Mr.  Fowler, of  the  firm  of  Fowler  & 
Campbell, general  dealers at  Nashville, has 
sold his interest to  John  B.  Messimer,  and 
the firm will  hereafter be known as  Camp­
bell & Messimer.

Secor, Berdan & Co., of Toledo, have seiz­
ed the grocery stock  of C. M. Boss  upon  a 
chattel mortgage.  Boss  has  been in  busi-1 
ness less than a year, having succeeded Rob-j 
bins & Rathbon, at Ypsilanti, last March,  * 
j
The inventory of the goods in the  Maron- 
tate store at Bay  City is  still 
is  progress. 
The liabilities will reach $45,000 and the as- j 
sets probably $25,000.  The first and second J 
mortgages are secured by sufficient  stock in j 
store.  The outstanding accounts are  stated j 
at $1,200.

A disagreement having occurred  between i 
the partners in the  firm of Lovejoy &  Her-! 
rick, grocery dealers  at  Big  Rapids, it w as! 
thought  best to place  the  property in  the) 
hands of a receiver, John R. Snyder  having 
been selected for that purpose.  A note from 
Mr. Lovejoy states  that “the stock  and ac­
counts will pay 100 cents  and 
leave  some­
thing for ourselves, if properly handled.”

S T R A Y   F A C T S .

Mancelona  people are moving.in the mat-; 

ter o'f a grist mill.

Lee & Brown’s new rol'er  mill at Saranac 

is now nearly completed.

Hills & Son, of Saranac,  have  made 1,300 

barrels of cider this season.

The Newaygo pail factory  has  manufac­

tured 200,000 pails the past year.

H. C.  Garrett &  Son have engaged in  the 

manufacture of brooms at Wayland.

Nelson Banning, of Lyons,  has six tons of ! 

evaporated apples, from his own orchard.

Henry Bergy has  13,000  pounds of evap­
orated apples at his  establisement  at  Cale­
donia.

Crandall &  Gridley,  agricultural 

imple- j 
ment dealers at Ithaca, have dissolved,  Cran  j 
dall  continuing.

Jackson is trying to  get  the  Gale  Manu­
facturing  Co.  to remove there instead of re­
building at Albion.

Wm. Fitz Gibbons  has manufactured  25,- j 
000 apple barrels this season at  his shops at | 
Saranac, Ionia and Belding.

Walter Blackraer &  Co. have  leased  the I 
Wilcox Paper  Mill  at  Rochester, and  are | 
running it at its full capacity.

S. L. Seger, of Hillsdale,  is going  into the | 
silk worm business.  He has  ordered  fifty i 
mulberry trees and 20,000 worms.

The A. W. Wright  Lumber  Co.,  at Sagi­
naw City, will employ a full crew  about  its 
planing-mill and lumber yard all winter.

The Midland woodenware  works,  which 
is operating on a  capital stock  of  $75,000, 
turn out 1,800 pails and 450 tubs per day.

A Coldwater  man  already  has 

4,200 
pounds of horseradish ready for  market and 
thinks his an  enterprise  not to be  sneezed 
at.

Tobias Bergy  contemplates  starting  up 
his button factory at Caledonia  again in the 
spring, giving employment  to  about  thirty- 
five hands.

A pulp mill, for the manufacture of wood 
into paper, is among the  coming  industries 
of Petoskey, if the  necessary  arrangements 
can be made.

Michigan has fifty-nine  railway  corpora­
tions, but six pf them are log roads, used on­
ly to haul pine to mills,  which  will  disap­
pear with the timber.

Evart  Review:  Kalamazoo  dealers  are 
buying 
eggs  by  weight.  Our  merchants 
would do well to do likewise, as this  is  the 
only honest and correct  way.

C. A. Pearson, the Spring Lake  hardware 
and furniture dealer,  contemplates  shipping 
a carload of clinker boats  to  New  Orleans 
for use on Lake Ponchartrain.

Levering is soon to have  a saw, grist  and 
turning mill, combined, the necessary build­
ings being now  in  process  of  construction. 
Mr. Stockwell, of Grand Ledge,  is the prime 
mover in the enterprise.

The  Chicago  &  West  Michigan  Railway 
has made a contract for  bringing  down  the 
the S. N.  Wilcox  Lumber Co.’s  logs  to  the 
company’s  mill,  near  Whitehall,  and  a 
switch will be put in at the mill to facilitate 
the operation.

Ionia  Standard:  W.  W.  Starkey  has 
commenced cutting his tub staves at  his fac­
tory in this city.  He has heretofore  bought 
his  staves  and  shipped 
in.  He 
will buy pine bolts and ship in the bolts and 
saw the staves here.

them 

According to  the  Charlotte  Republican, 
cotton can be grown in Michigan,  but  prob­
ably not  very  profitably.  C.  N. Riddle, of 
Brookfield, recently exhibited a sample  bolt 
of his raising.  The size  and  quality  were 
fully up to the average grown in the  South. 
Mr. Riddle got  his  seed  from  Texas.  He 
grew some last year from the  original  seed. 
That grown this year was from  the  seed  of 
that grown last  year  and  matured in some 
two weeks 
than  the  previous 
crop.

less  time 

Allegan  Gezette:  Farmers  would  find it 
easier to tide over nard times if  they  would 
depend less on one line of  industry.  There 
are numerous little industries which  go  na­
turally  hand in  hand  with  farming,  and 
which help out  amazingly  in  hard  times. 
The success and profit of  the celery culture, 
which is gaining ground so fast in  this  sec­
tion, are well known.  The  extensive  culti­
vation of horse radish  was begun last  year 
at Coldwater, one man raising 41,000 pounds 
on a piece of ground 14x15 rods, and  finding 
demand for more  than  he had.  Cucumbers 
for pickles  also  find a ready  market,  and 
might be raised by many farmers  with prof­
it.

The  Ionia  Overall  Manufacturing  Co., 
which has been 
in  existence  only a  little 
over a year, is now turning out twenty kinds 
of overalls, and several kinds of  cotton  and 
woolen pants  and  shirts,  besides  attractive 
patterns  in  hunting  and  engineers  coats. 
At present about twenty-five  hands are em­
ployed, turning out about  100  dozen  pairs 
per week, but  as  business 
improves  and 
the demand increases  the  capacity will  be 
increased by the addition of more  machines 
and the  employment  of  more  help.  The 
machinery is operated  by  a  water  motor. 
Mr. E. D. Voorhees,  the  proprietor  of  the 
factory,  is  an  enterprising  business  man, 
and is bound to meet with  unusual  success.
Season’s  W ork  of th e  Grand  Rapids  Room 

the Grand Rapids Boom Co.,  furnishes  The 
T radesm an with the following table, show­
ing the number of logs,  and  the  amount  in 
feet,  handled by that corporation during  the 
present season, together with the  individual 
owners of the same:

Feet.

Owners.

Logs.
95,167
26,589
30,180
50,762
6,280
3,070
777
50,020
26,817
4,383
1,224

Total

C. C. Comstock 
C.  F. Nason
Cupples Woodenware Co. 
Michigan Barrel Co.
R. H. Woodin 
R. W. Butterfield 
Macfee & Glover 
A. B. Long& Son 
Letellier & White 
Grand Rapids Chair Co. 
Dale & Dregge

10,043,243
3,648,547
4,013,681
6,885,761
646,545
292,251
105,909
12,664,313
5,261,378
495,084
254,487
295,269 44,311,199
The above figures represent the number of 
logs actually delivered to the  owners,  about 
5,000,000  feet  of  which  are  being  carried 
over by the owners in their own booms.  In­
cluded in the above, are 68,187 logs,  scaling 
9,561,582 feet, which were  carried  down  to 
Grand Haven, during the flood of June, 1883, 
returned to this city by rail, and  sorted  and 
delivered  by  the  booming  company.  The 
totals this year  are  more  than  double  last 
year’s  figures;  when  21,921,707  feet  were 
handled.

Regarding  the  prospects for next season, 
Mr. Letellier ventures the  opinion  that  the 
booming company’s operations  will  not  ex­
ceed 25,000,000 feet.  C.  C.  Comstock  will 
put in about five million, A. B. Long  &  Son 
about  nine  million,  the  Cupples  Wooden- 
ware Co. about four  million,  the  Michigan 
Barrel  Co.  about  three  million,  Letellier 
& White  about two million,  and  the  Grand 
Rapids Chair Co. about half a  million.

You W ill See  it Next W eek.

From the Wayland Globe.  >

Soiiman  Snooks, of Cant-Hook  Corners, 
this State,  is the name  of  the  new  corres­
pondent  of T h e  Mich ig a n  T radesm an. 
Soiiman keeps a little store and is post-mas­
ter at Cant-Hook  Corners,  and  his  exper­
ience in running a country store is immense, 
and from his tell he  is  “high-cock-a-lorum” 
in that part of the world.  A  photograph of 
his “corners” we would be pleased to see.

Local Lum ber  Loconics.

The Grand Rapids Boom Co.  will  hold its 

annual meeting on Monday, January 5.

A. B.  Long & Sons have  about  6,000,000 
shingles piled up at their  mill at Blanchard.
Letellier & White will put in about 2,000,- 
000 feet of logs this season, floating them on 
Rogue and Flat rivers.

Boston people consume ten million  quarts 

of beans annually.

F. 

Letellier,  Secretary  and Treasurer  of 

Co.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

ton.

ton.

Fennville.

ville.

Dr. Henry Lever, Newaygo.
A.  W. Fenton, Bailey.
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
H.  Graham, Traverse City.
Gideon Noel, Palo.
Mr. Ball, Ball & Co., Grand Haven.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
C. B. Moon, Cedar Springs.
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
F. A. Sisson, Sisson Bros., Freeport.
Jas. Campbell, Westwood.
Mr. Tanis, Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland. 
Mr. Travis, of  Koolvaard,  &  Travis,  Hamil­
Q. Huyzer, Zeeland.
H. C. Peckhain, Freeport.
Mr. Rigler, Rigler & Roush, Freeport.
Mr. Detterick, of Reese & Detterick,  Rosini. 
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
Mr. Kennedy, Kennedy & Kapnick, Cadillac. 
Jacob DeBn, Byron Center.
D. €. Loveday & Co., East Jordan.
H. L. Carter, Sand  Lake.
Leavenworth & Co., Forman.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Bassett & Snyder, Cedar Springs.
W. S. Bartron, W. S. Bartron  &  Co.,  Bridge- 
C.  Cole, Ada.
G. S. Putnam, Fruitfort.
A. B. Gates, Rockford.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
E. B. Sunderlin, Palo.
T. W. Preston, Lowell.
Decker Bros., Shiloh.
C. Porter, Chauncey.
R. Steffin, Jamestown.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford. 
E. Pangborn, Sand Lake.
H. Marshall, Whitehall.
Mr.  Dickenson,  of  Dickenson  &  Raymond, 
Mr. Bergy, of A. & E. Bvrgy, Caledonia. 
Dennis Haskell, Gerkey.
E. B. Sunderland, Palo.
I. S. Jeffers, Palo.
Mr. Schroeder, of Schroeder & Harris, Shelby- 
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
D. W. Shuttuck, Wayland.
C. W. Wheeler, Shelbyville.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
S. Bitely, Pierson.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
J. Omler, Wright.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
J. Wingarden, Grand Haven.
L. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
John Canfield, Hobart.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
Baron & TenHoor. Forest Grove.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
Paine & Field,  Englishville.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.;
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Geo. Wilson, Bronard.
J. M. Crinnian, Lilly Junction.
C. B. Williams, Chippewa Lake.
O. E. Close & Co., Sand Lake.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Jay M arlatt, Berlin.
Rice  & Lillie, Coopersville.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
A. J. Collar & Co., Reed City.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
E. L. Carbine, Scott.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Paige & Anderson, Sparta.
Purdy & Hastings,  Sparta.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
S.  T. Colson, Alaska.
J. C. Miller, Douglass.
Corbin & Wood. Sherman.
Pew & Mandeville, Palo.
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
Dud. Watson, of Watson &DeVoist, Coopcrs- 

ville.

'Most Men Would Think Otherwise.

■ A traveler for a certain wholesale grocery 
house came across a new  retail  store  just 
started in a growing northern town  the oth­
er day, and the  proprietor was  rubbing his 
hands and smiling all over.

“Well, how does it go?”  asked  the  trav­

“Sboost like  eaferytings,”  was  the  re­

eler.

ply-

“No hard times here, eh?”
“Not a bit, trade  vhas so  booming  dot I 

can’t shleep nights.”

“What have your sales  footed up for  the 

past week?”

“More ash seven  hoondred  dollar, und I 

haf der broofs right here.”

And he brought  out  his  day  book  and 
showed the traveler  where  he  had  given 
credit to the amount of almost  $800,  while 
his cash book showed the  receipt  of  about 
$4.

Good  W ords  Unsolicited.

McAdam & Brown, dry goods, Cadillac:  “ T h e  

T r a d e s m a n  is a good paper.”

McLeod & Trautm an Bros.,  general  dealers, 
Moline;  “ We prize the paper very much and 
would  not  do  without  it. 
It  is a paper that 
every dealer ought to take.  It is  read  by  our 
firm, and highly  prized.”

«

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars  as
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1 1 4 , and 2 inch........................   46 06
Selects, 1 inch................i s..........................  35 00
Selects, 114, H4 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 114, V/t and 2 inch...........  32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 po
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 lee t.......  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t...,....................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.....  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe et......................       13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet..................... 
  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t..........................  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe et..........- ............   13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths..........................8 00® 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in .... .......................   35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................  1500
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
N o.2 Fencing, 16feet........... ....................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch...... :v..v________   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 f t ............  10 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C.........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C ........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  eom’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  corn’ll  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles............. 
3  50
1 X X X 18 in.  Thin.............. 
3 40
3  00
( XXX 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2  00
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................  
1  75
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

 

“ Attached ”  and  “ detached ”  are  good 
headlines  for  Chicago  dailies,- the  first  for 
engagements and the second for divorces.

One of the  most prominent  and  widely-known 
oyster and fruit packing firms of Baltimore is that of

O Y S T E R S !
Messrs. W. R. Barnes & Co.,

Packers of the celebrated  “ BIG  GT7ZT ”  brand  of
Oysters,

Atlantic "Wharf, Baltimore, Md.
A written description of this great Baltimore in­
dustry is inadequate to fully portray its magnitude, 
its benefits to a large class  of her  citizens,  and  her 
commercial advantages derived therefrom.

This great packing house is the stately and col- 
lossal industry of a few years’ growth, and has been 
reared and evolved by indomitable  energy,  inviola­
ble  system,  and inflexible  uniformity  in  the  excel­
lence of its products.

It is strictly within the domain of veracity to as­
sert that the products of no establishment upon the 
continent engaged in a similar line of business,  sur­
passes in quality and perfection of packing the goods 
of this  firm.  They  have  steadily  maintained  their 
deserved and universal reputation, not only through­
out the  length  and  breadth  of this  continent,  and 
the label  of W.  R.  Barnes  &  Co.  is  a favorite  and
potent passport and guarantee to every grocer  and 
household of the excellence and perfection of ‘every 
article.  This firm have selected

Messrs. Eaton & Christenson

77 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.,

As distributing agents for their Oysters in Michigan. 
Give them a trial.  All orders filled promptly.  Send 
in your holiday orders early.

SD ruflg& flftebicines
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

amazoo.
sing.
Rapids.

President—Geo. W. Gvouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan­
Third Vice-President—Frank  W urzburg,  Gr’d 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F.  W. 
Fincher.
Next  place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 
October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Chas. P. Bigelow.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Jas. S. Cowin.
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
W m.L. White.
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November,
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  December 
18, a t “The Tradesman“ office.

M ustard P ap er  of  the U nited States  P h a r­

macopoeia.

George McDonald  of  Kalamazoo,  before  the 
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Associa­
tion.

“The mustard paper of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
is the  process a good  one, and is  it  advisory 
f o r  the dispensing pharmacist to  prepare  it?”
The writer, in experimenting with a  view 
to  answering  the  above  query,  followed 
strictly the directions of the  Pharmacopoeia, 
which are that the  powdered  mustard shall 
first be deprived of ias fixed oil  by exhaust­
ing with petroleum  benzin,  and  afterward 
dried  by exposure to  the  air.  The  dried 
powder is then to be mixed with  solution of 
gutta percha to a semi-liquid or suitable con­
sistency  for  spreading.  This  mixture  is 
then to be applied  by  means of a  suitable 
brush to one side of a piece of  rather  stiff, 
well-sized paper, and the surface  allowed to 
dry.

The experience of the  writer  is that  the 
mixture cannot be applied with  a  brush,  as 
it peels up off the  paper  and  follows  the 
brush, rendering it, in the  writer’s hands, at 
least, impossible to obtain a smooth continu­
ous  covering in  this  manner.  He  found, 
however, by spreading the  mixture  with a 
common 8-inch  spatula,  a  tolerable  degree 
of success was attained.

the  paper 

It is fair to presume that the  mustard pa­
per of the Pharmacopoeia,  was  intended,  if 
not to imitate that furnished by foreign  and 
domestic  manufacturers, at least to  furnish 
to the  pharmacist a  method by  which  he 
could manufacture one of equal  quality 
in 
his own laboratory.  The mustard  paper of 
the Pharmacopoeia differs, however, in many 
respects from that supplied by the manufac­
turers.  The first  difference  which  would 
suggest  itself is that, as in  the  large  manu­
factories 
is  spread  by  spec­
ial  machinery,  and  by  persons  who  are 
experts in the  business, the  paper is  more 
uniformly spread and therefore  more  sight­
ly in appearance  than it would be  possible 
for the majority of pharmacists  to  make  it 
by hand.  But there are other  points of dif­
ference of much  more  importance  from  a 
purely practical  standpoint.  The  mustard 
paper of the  Pharmacopoeia  is  spread  on 
stiff,  sized paper; that of  the  manufactur­
ers on soft,  unsized  paper.  The  mustard 
paper  of  the  Pharmacopoeia, is  therefore 
somewhat stiff and hard, that of  the  manu­
facturers soft and pliable, and more  absorb­
ent than  that  of  the  Pharmacopoeia.  On 
dipping in water  the  reaction  resulting in 
the formation of “essential oil  of  mustard” 
is more rapid in the paper furnished  by  the 
manufacturers than in that made by the pro­
cess of the Pharmacopoeia.  This  is  owing, 
in part, to the character of the  paper  used; 
but it is probable that it is in a greater meas­
ure  due, either to  the  use of a liquid  for 
mixing with the powdered mustard to  bring 
it to a suitable  consistency  for  spreading, 
which is composed of a solvent less  volatile 
than chloroform, and  containing  a  smaller 
percentage of resinous matter than  the solu­
tion of gutta percha of  the  Pharmacopoeia, 
or to the  use  of  a  smaller  proportionate 
quantity of such liquid than would  be  nec­
essary to use in cases where the  paper  was 
spread by hand.

In this connection the  writer  would  say 
that in the  course of  his  experiments  he 
tried other solutions than that recommended 
by the Pharmacopoeia  for  mixing with  the 
powdered mustard, and  obtained  better re­
sults from a solution of one  dram  of  gutta 
]>ercha in ten fluid drams of coal tar beuzole, 
than from any other.

His reply to the query would  be, that the 
process of the Pharmacopoeia is  not a  good 
one; and in view of the  cheapness  and  su­
periority of the mustard  paper  offered  by 
both domestic and foreign manufacturers, it 
is not advisory for the pharmacist to prepare 
it.

The D rug M arket.

Business has been very satisfactory during 
the past week, and  collections  are fully up 
to  expectations. 
Prices  have  remained 
without change,  with  the  single  exception 
of quinine, whiclf has  advanced 14 cents an 
ounce.

L.  G. Ripley, whose drug stock at  Monta­
gue was destroyed by the  recent  fire at that 
place,  has  resumed  business 
in  his  new 
building.

THE  CHLOROFORM  HABIT.

The Use of Chloral Very D angerous—Its Re­

sults.
From the D etroit Times.

“Few people outside of the  medical  pro­
fession realize to what extent the chloroform 
habit has grown in this country,” said Dr. J. 
E.  Clark the other day.

“Name some of the effects it produces.”
“An exhilarating, tingling sensation in the 
body.  The feeling is, as near as I can judge 
similiar to that caused by the use of  opium, 
but  briefer  in  duration.  The  victim  of 
chloroform  mania, however, relapses  soon 
after  inhalation into  insensibility, but  the 
after effects are not jso  depressing  in  their 
results as the  effects  of  opium  and  mor­
phine.”

“How long has the evil  been  recognized 

among the medical profession as a habit?”

“Only  within  the  past  three  or 

four 

years.”

mon?”

“In which  sex is  the  habit  most  com­

frequently 

“Among  women,  and 

the 
growth of the habit is the fault of physicians 
who administer it for  toothache,  and  so it 
insidiously fastens itself upon its victim  un. 
til its grasp cannot be shaken off unless  the 
person so afflicted so  wills it ”

“Is the habit a common one in Detroit?”
“I cannot say that it is as common  as  the 
morphine or opium habit.  But it has grown 
to such proportions that insurance  compan­
ies have  been  compelled  to  interpolate a 
clause in their policies  interdicting its  use. 
An agent who is at  all conscientious or  un­
derstands his business  will  not  insure per­
sons afflicted with the habit.”

“Name, doctor, some of the  dangers aris­

ing from using chloroform?”

is  applied 

“A person, we will say, is  afflicted  with 
insomnia.  Chloroform 
to  a 
handkerchief, and he or  she  lies  down  to 
seek much needed rest.  Unless  the  great­
est caution is used  inhalation  is  continued 
until the person seeking  relief  dies.  Cases 
are quite frequent where  syncope  or  heart 
paralysis  ensues.  Frequently, too,  it  acts 
as an emetic.  Should  the  person  addicted 
to the chloroform  habit  have a hard,  undi­
gested substance in the stomach  it  is  liable 
to come up and choke him  to  death.  Then 
again the tongue is liable to slip  back,  clos­
ing up  the  larynx, and  asphyxia  follows. 
The only  remedy in-such  cases is to  seize 
the tongue quickly with a  hook  and  pull  it 
back.”

“Name some other  results of the  chloro­

form habit.”

“Loss of  memory;  failure 

to  formulate 
ideas; loss of virility; dyspeptic  symptoms; 
pain in the region of the  heart;  a  shuffling 
gait,  and a constant  desire  to 
inhale.  I 
should remark at this  point  that at a recent 
meeting of physicians  held  at  the  Detroit 
Academy of Medicine the subject was grave­
ly discussed  by twenty  different  physi­
cians.”

“Is the habit 

liable to supersede  that of 

morphine or opium.”

“1 think not.  It merely extends  the 

list 
of dangerous habits.  During the  past year 
three persons have died from the chloroform 
habit in Detroit, among the number a  prom­
ising  young  physician.  Let a  person  take 
an ounce or even  half  an  ounce of chloro­
form and go to bed, and the chances are that 
he will  never wake up.”

A T urpentine F arm  in Georgia.

To the dweller in the vast piney woods of 
the South Atlantic States  the  yellow  pine 
bears much the same relation that  the bam­
boo does to the  Chinaman, or the  palm  to 
the  native of South  America.  From it he 
builds his house and  fences, and  constructs 
his rude furniture, carts and farming  imple­
ments.  Its light wood-knots  serve  him  in 
place of  gas,  kerosene, or  coal, furnishing 
him with  light and  fuel.  He  hews it into 
squared timbers or railroad ties, saws it into 
lumber, and,  above  all  extracts  from  its 
sap spirits of  turpentine, rosin,  pitch  and 
tar, which he exchanges for all the necessar­
ies and many of the luxuries of life.

The manufacture of  naval  stores,  under 
which general head are classed all the resin­
ous products of the  yellow  pine, was  for­
merly confined almost exclusively to  North 
Carolina, where it was prosecuted  so  exten­
sively as to attach to  the inhabitants  of  the 
State the name of “Tar Heels.”  As the old 
territory  became  exhausted,  the 
industry 
gradually moved southward,  through  South 
Catolina into Georgia where it now  centers, 
and from whence is derived more  than half 
of the entire supply.  It  has  also 
invaded 
Northern Florida,  where .the  state  convicts 
are now  employed in “turpentining,” much 
to their own disgust,  for  they  prefer  the 
railroad  construction on which  they  have 
been kept at work for some years past.

As the extraction of turpentine  does  not 
unfit the trees for lumbering, and as the suc­
cess of both saw  mill and  turpentine  still 
depends upon a ready transportation to mar­
ket of their products, they  are  often  found 
in close proximity, and sometimes under the 
same management.

Outside of those located on  the  banks of 
navigable rivers, the largest  saw-mills  and 
turpentine stills in Georgia  are  found along 
the  Central, the  Savannah, Florida 
and 
Western, and the  Brunswick  and  Albany 
Railroads.  As the new and  flourishing-city 
of Waycross,  at the junction of  the two last 
named roads, is one of  the  most  important 
centers of the industry, it was here  that  in­
formation was sought  concerning  “turpen­
tining.”  With such courtesy  were the writ­
er’s inquiries received that  he  soon  found 
himself seated on a railrod  tricycle  accom­
panied by a guide  similarly  mounted,  and 
rattling along at a merry pace over the rails, 
through the solemn pine forest, toward  Sat-

tilla river.  On its southern bank, five miles 
from Waycros, is located the great  Reppard 
Mill, one of the  finest  and  largest  in  the 
South.  That this mill  is  turning  out  one 
hundred thousand feet of  lumber  per  day, 
and that  within a  radius  of  twenty  miles 
around it there is  enough  standing  timber 
to supply it for the next  fifty  years, argues 
well for the prosperity of the  Southern lum­
ber trade for some time to come.

Near this mill was found a turpentine still 
in full operation, rapidy converting  into na­
val stores the  sap  of  thousands  of  trees, 
which were afterward to be sawed into lum­
ber.  While the mill  was  surrounded by a 
village  of  small  dwelling  houses,  shops, 
forges, and a large store for its  hundreds of 
employes,  forming  thus a  thriving  settle­
ment in the heart of what two years ago was 
an unbroken wilderness, the  still  had  also 
its own cluster of  cabins  and  storehouses, 
and its own commissary  department.

The  G ripsack B rigade.

Jas. Barr now represents Chas. W.  Allen, 

of Chicago, in this territory.

*

W.  W. Averill has returned  from a three 

months’ trip through Indiana and Illinois.

Mrs. W. S. Horn has gone to Muskegon to 
spend the holidays  with  her  parents  and 
other  friends.

Isaac A. De Lamarta,  traveling  represen­
tative for E. T. Brown & Co., lies  very  low 
at his home at 160 Sixth street, with  malar­
ial fever. 

Dick Mangold, who has tarried with John 
Caulfield the past year, has severed  his con­
nection with that house, and is now  in  Chi­
cago looking up a new connection.

Such is fame!  The  Merchant  Traveler 
refere to the redoubtable  Jim  Fox as “Tim 
Fox,” and  the dainty junior  partner in the 
same house is dubbed “Loorirdge.”

Lawrence W. Atkins,  who has  been  with 
a New York  clothing  house  for  the  past 
three years, has engaged  with  Heavenrich 
Bros., the Detroit clothing house the  engag- 
ment to begin January 1.

A drummer writes to the  National  Car 
Builder asking  what “was to hinder”  rail­
roads from running special cars for commer­
cial travelers, whose samples were  especial­
ly bulky, so that at each  stopping  place the 
goods could be  unpacked  and  arranged in 
the car itself for show?

Wm. Boughton, who has represented  the 
boot and shoe  house of R. & J. Cummings & 
Co., of Toledo, in this territory for the  past 
six years, has received the  usual  annual  in­
vitation to go in and “sort up,” which means 
that he  will  continue to carry  the  line of 
that house another  year.

B. F. Emery, with Gray, Burt & Kingman, 
will make less frequent visits to the “frozen 
up” northern trade for the  remainder of the 
season, devoting his energies to  the  princi­
pal business points in Southern Michigan, at 
the same time looking after the  interests ofj 
Wm.  L. Ellis & Co.,  the  Baltimore  oyster j 
packers.
A leading New York dealer asserts that a j 
drummer  rarely  lasts  over  a  half-dozen i 
years, at the end of which time  he is gener­
ally worn out and must  give  place to some 
beginner who, will renew  the  same  exper­
ience.  Either “a leading dealer” is mistaken 
or statistics are  incorrect.  Notwithstanding 
the “boys” are  obliged  to  work hard, they 
last more than twelve years by  a  large  ma­
jority.
.  English drummers are now soliciting trade 
all over the United States for direct 
impor­
tation.  Heretofore they  have  sold to New 
York, and the merchants of that  city,  have 
eDjoyed the monopoly of supplying  the rest 
of the country, "but the  appearance  of  for­
eign drummers in Western cities means that 
the foreign manufacturers  are  hereafter to 
avoid the agency of New York  and  deal di­
rectly with their American customers.

P u rely   Personal.

H. B. Fairchild spent a couple of  days in 

Detroit last week on business.

John L. Locke has been  granted a patent 

on an improved wooden scoop shovel.

S. M. Lemon, of  Shields, Bulkley & Lem­
on, went to Chicago  Sunday night on  busi­
ness for his house  and  the  Grand  Rapids 
Packing Co.

Daniel Lynch, formerly engaged in gener­
al trade  at  Blanchard, has  removed to this 
ciry and contemplates an alliance with some 
jobbing establishment here.

Christian Bertsch, who has  just  returned 
from the  Eastern  shoe  manufacturing  cen­
ters, reports a better feeling among Michigan 
buyers than is exhibited by  those  from  any 
other part of the country.

Dr. Geo.  W.  Crouter, President  of  the 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, 
will  spend a couple of  months  in  Florida 
and at the New Orleans Exposition this win­
ter.  He will be accompained by his wife.

Frank E.  Leonard started  for  New  York 
Sunday night, where he will  spend  a  week 
or ten days, buying  holiday  novelties  and 
meeting the agents of several  foreign manu­
facturers.  He was accompained by  Harvey 
P. Wyman, of the Chippewa Lumber Co,

A New F eature of th e Craze.

The creditors of a certain northern  dealer 
recently met in this city pursuant to the call 
of the latter.

“I have  called  you  together,”  said  the 
dealer,” to see if any of  you have any  sug­
gestions to make  as to what I could  do  to 
tide over the present hard times.”

“I suggest” said one of the principal cred­
itors, “that you open a  roller-skating  rink.”

Among the manufacturing  possibilities of 
Southern California, the Los  Angeles  Her­
ald mentions the manufacture of paper  out 
of what is known as “com  grass,” a kind of 
pampas of luxuriant growth.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Ad v anced—Quinine.

A C ID S.

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  @  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  @  35
Carbolic............................................   33  @  35
Citric.................................................  
®  55
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................   14*@  15
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................  
3  @  4
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  Germ an............................  12  @  15
T annic...............................................  15  ®  17

AM M ONIA.

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

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................ 
F ir.....................................................  
'P eru................ .................................  
T olu................................................... 

BA RK S.

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

@  45
40
2 50
55

12
18
15
15
10
13
18
 

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 60c)............... 
@ 5 5
6  @  7
Ju n ip e r............................................. 
Prickly A sh......................................1  00  @1  10

EX TRA CTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fl> doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)............... 
do 
Lgowood, * s 
............... 
do 
Logwood, ¿8 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

27
37V
9
12
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................   10  @  11
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  Germ an.....................  
25

GUMS.
Aloes,  Barbadoes.
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)........
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).
Ammoniac..............................
Arabic, extra  select.
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,c3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin.
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is (* 14c, Us  16c)............ 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Gafbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino iPowdered, 30cl.....................
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish. (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.75)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac,  native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
T ragacanth......................................  30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.
H oarhound..............................................
Lobelia......................................................
Pepperm int..............................................
R ue.............................................................
Spearmint  ................................................
Sweet M ajoram........................................
T anzy........................................................
T hym e......................................................
W ormwood..............................................

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
C itrate..............................................
P hosphate.......................................

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12
Sage, Italian, bulk (Vis & Vs,s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna........................................
Foxglove..........................................
H enbane...........................................
Rose, re d .........................................

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2  00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 75
Whisky, other brands....................1  10
Gin, Old Tom..........................................1 35
Gin,  Holland............................. 
2 00
B randy.................. '..........................1 75
Catawba  W ines..........................    ..125
Port W ines.............................................1 35

M AGNESIA.

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

O IL S .

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber,  rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont......................................
Castor................................................  18
Croton...............................................
C ajeput............................................
Cassia......................................••........
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cloves....................................... . —
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
E rigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium 
oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper  wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemoq, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Lemongrass......................................
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  w hite.........................
Rose  $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers$5)...
Sandal  Wood. Germ an..................
andal Wood,  W. I ............................
Sassafras........ ..................................
Tansy  ................................................
Tar (by gal 60c)................ ...............   10
W intergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
Savin.................................................
W ormseed........................................
Cod Liver, filtered................ $  gal
Cod Liver, best......................... 
.
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, ‘4Sublime  I ta lia n ...............
Salad.................................................   65
Rose,  Ihmsen’s ....................... oz

PO TASSIU M .

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

ROOTS.

A lkanet............................................
Althea, c u t.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 14s and * s __
Blood (Powd 18c)..............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  14c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap, powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12*)........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, tru e ..................  ....................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. I ............. ...........110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Serpen tari a ......................................
Seneka..............................................
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras.................

f o l

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS

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

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..........

SEEDS.

Cardamon,  Aleppee.......
Cardamon, Malabar........
Celery...............................
Coriander,  nest English. 
F e n n e l.............................

Mustard, white  Black  10c). 
Q uince..................................
Worm,  Levant.

SPONGES.

13
5  ® 6
4*
4  ® 
122 U0
11  @
2 25
25
12
15

3«®
4  @ 4*4
8  © 9
5*@ 6
8
1  00
6  ® 7
14

28®

1Ö 
18 
50 
30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
35 
30 
30 
55@60
13®  22
13
35®  40
80
90®1  00
35 
20
40 
4 15 
30 
.26 
24 
30
®1  10

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
2 00
........  
Nassau 
do 
do 
Velvet E xtra do 
do 
1  10
........  
........ 
ExtraYellow do 
85
do 
Grass 
do 
do 
........  
65
Hard head, for slate u se................  
75
1  40
Yellow Reef, 
................. 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

l

1

00

12

2*@

12*@

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

.25
.25
.40
.24
.35
.25
.30

6 40 
20 
7 
80 
65

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

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.18) $  gal__  
2 28
13
1  50
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne  Hoffman’s ...................... 
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
20
Annatto  1 ft rolls............................ 
45
50
Blue  Soluble....................................  
30
2 75
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
 
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
A lum .......................................   $ f t   25ii®  3V
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  @  4
Annatto,  prim e...............................  
32
Antimony, powdered,  com’l 
4*® 
6  @
Arsenic, white, powdered...
Balm Gilead  Buds.................
Beans,  Tonka.........................
Beans,  Vanilla.......................
1 60
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........... 4.......... 
45
7*@  9
Blue V itrio l....................................  
12
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............  
2 50
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, Africah............... 
18
20
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
18
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ... 
Carmine,  No. 40 ............................... 
4  00
12
Cassia  Buds...................................... 
75
Calomel. American......................... 
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
12
8
Chalk,  red fingers..........................  
Chalk, white lum p..........................  
2
1  60
Chloroform,  Squfbb’s .................... 
Colocynth  apples............................ 
60
1 60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
176
Chloral 
cryst... 
190
Chloral 
Chloral 
1 75
crusts.. 
Chloroform .................................. ..1  00  @1  10
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  40  ©  45
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   40  @  45
Cloves (Powd 28c)
Cochineal 
Cocoa  Butter 
Copperas (by bbl  lc)
Corrosive Sublimate
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote
dbear, prime 
Cuttle Fish Bom 
Dextrine 
Dover’s  Powders 
Dragon’s Blood Mass
Ergot  powdered..............................
E ther Squibb’s................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................  45  @
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @
Glue,white........................................  17  @
Glycerine, pure...............................   17  @
Hops  *8 and * s .............................. 
25®
oz.................................
Iodoform 
Indigo...............................................   85  ®1
Insect Powder, best Dalm atian...  25  @
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
4
Isinglass,  American.......................  
1
Jqponica............. ............................
London  Purple...............................  10  @
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (*s 2s 10c & * s 11c)
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium....................................
M ace.................................................
Madder, best  D utch.....................  
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ ^  oz  3 00@3
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .......
Moss, Iceland............................ft
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, * d ...............
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................  
Pitch, True Burgundy........
6 @ 7
....... 
Quassia  .................................
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........
ft ozi  Oo @1 05
Quinine,  German........... ..
.......  95 @1 00
Seidlitz  M ixture.............
28
1 50
Strychnia, cryst..................
.......  79 @ 82
Silver Nitrate, cryst...........
Red Precipitate.......................ft
85
Saffron, American..........................
35
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
2
10
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
9
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
33
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda........... ................................  
Ò  2* 
Salicin....................................
2 00 
Santonin ...............................
6  75 
38
Snuffs, Maecoboy or Scotch
4 
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
25
5 
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
14 
Soap, White Castile.........................
17
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
9
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  __ *..................
11
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
14
28
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @
32
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  28  @
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
30
4
Sulphur, flour................................... 
3*@
a* 
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
3®
60 
Tartar Emetic..................................
2 70 
Tar, N. C. Pine, Vi gal. cans  $  doz
1  40 
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
85 
Tar, 
pints in tin ..............
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft
25 
60 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
i  8
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................

®  50 
45
2  10 50 
2 00 
@  19(4 
2 00 75 
1 20 
40 
85
1 25
5 25 
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 25
8 50 
65
4 50 
7 00
60 
4 50 
®  12
2 25 
4 50 
1 002 50
1 50
3 50
6  00 
®1  202 50 
®  67
9 75
14 
35 
202 90 
30
15 
27
17 
35 
1218
38
Boralumiue,W hite  bulk]  ...
23
5 fts I  ...
Boralumine, 
10
Boralum ine,Tints bulk.  V50 off..
®  14
Boralumine 
5  fts.  1  ...
20
Red Venetian..........................
25
154
22
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles.......
1M
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........
1 10
m
37* Putty, com m ercial................
2*
Putty, strictly pure................
•  12 
2*
Vermilion, prime American. 
15 
Vermilion, English................
35
®1 50
Green, Peninsular..................
Lead, red  strictly pure!..........
@1 20
Lead, white, strictly pure__
2 00 
Whiting, white Spanish.......
2 25
75
Whiting,  Gilders’....................
65
White, Paris American..........
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
45

Capitol  Cylinder........ ......................
.to
...............60
Model  Cylinder.................................
............... 50
Shields  Cylinder...............................
............... 4i
Eldorado Engine...............................
............... 35
Peerless  Machinery.........................
............... 25
Challenge Machinery.......................
............... 30
Backus Fine Engine.........................
............... 30
Black Diamond Machinery.............
.............. 6C
Castor Machine  Oil..........................
Paraffine, 25  deg................ ..............
Paraffine, 28  deg................................................. 21
Sperm, winter bleached................ ............... 1  40
Bbl  Gal
85
80
Whale, w inter............................
64
75
Lard, extra.................................
65
Lard, No.  1.................................
53
50
Linseed, pure  raw ....................
56
53
Linseed, boiled.........................
70
90
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..
36
40
Spirits Turpentine....................
V A RN ISH ES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.....................
E xtra  T urp...............................
Coach  Body...............................
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............
E xtra Turp  Dam ar..................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 T urp........

..1 10@1 20
..1 60@1 70
..2 75@3 00
..1 00@1 10
..1 55@1 60
70®  75
Lb
9
10
10
11
2® 3
2® 3
2@ 3
2*®  3
254® 3 
13®16 
60@65
16@17
554
554
@70
@90 
1  10 
1  40

@2 25 
@2  00 
®1 50 
©1 75 
@3 50 
®6 50 
@2 00 
®2 50

37 
2 25 
65

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IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS OF

Glassware.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS. 

FLUID  EXTRACTS-AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

W o lf,  P atton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W h it­

in g , Ma nu facturers  o f  F in e 

P a in t  a n d  V a r n ish 

Brushes.

—Also for the1—

Gra n d  R ajpids  Bru sh  Co.,  Ma n f ’rs  of 

H a ir , Shoe a n d H orse  Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

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

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

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

Withers Dade & Co's

Henderson  Co.,  £y.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD  FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled!  by  n o - 
o th er  known  b r a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t ee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

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

Gins, BranHies & Fine Wines.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

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IF 1 1ST E   O U T .

THE BEST ITT THE  MAXt.3£ET.
Send an Order to your Wholesale Grocer for it.  Manufactured by

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Groceries  and  Provisions

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W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  liRO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
I Entered  at  the  Po8tofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  17,  1884.

BUSINESS LAW.

B rief Digests of R ecent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last  Resort.

H O M E S T E A D — D E B T — E X E C U T IO N .

The unexecuted intention of  a  widow  to 
occupy and claim land of her  deceased  hus­
band  as  a  homestead  does  not  exempt  it 
from the payment of the husband’s debts, ac­
cording  to  the  decision  of  the  Kentucky 
Court of Appeals,  in  the  case  of  Hicks  vs. 
Soaper.

R E H Y P O T H E C A T IO N   O F   S E C U R IT IE S .

Where  the  owner  of  securities  pledges 
them with a stock broker as collateral  for  a 
loan, the latter has no fight to rehypothecate 
them in such a way that they  cannot  be  re­
stored  to  the  owner  upon  payment of  the 
loan, even though it be  understood  by  both 
parties that the broker will have to  use  the 
securities  to  obtain  the  loan.  So held  by 
the Circuit Court of  the  United  States  for 
the  Southern  District  of New York in  the 
case of The  Oregon & Transcontinental  Co. 
vs. Hilmers.

S T A T U T E   O F  L IM IT A T IO N S — N E W   F R O M IS E .
When  the  plaintiff  seeks  to  remove the 
bar of the statute of limitations by  proof  of 
a new promise  by# implication  from  an  ac­
knowledgement  of  the  debt,  the  evidence 
should show an admission of a previous sub­
sisting  debt,  which  the defendent is  liable 
for and willing to pay.  So held by  the  Su­
preme Court of New Hampshire, in the case 
of  Holl  vs.  Gage. 
In  this case, the court 
held  that  the  taking  of  security from  the 
principal  by  a  surety  upon  a  promissory 
note  was  not  of  itself an admission to  the 
holder of an indebtedness which  the  surety 
was liable and willing to pay sufficient to re­
move the bar of the statute of limitations.

COMMON  CARRIER— L IM IT A T IO N   O F   L IA B IL ­

IT Y .

The question of the liability of a  common 
carrier for the full amount of the actual loss 
of property in its hands  by  accident  where 
the bill of lading for  such  property,  signed 
by the shipper, limits the company’s liability 
to a sum much below the real value,  was in­
volved  in  the case  ofHart vs.  Pennsylvan­
ia Railroad Co., recently decided by  the  Su­
preme Court of the United States. 
In  this 
case, it appeared that the  plaintiff  in  error, 
Hart, shipped five horses and other property 
in  one  car,  by  the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
under a bill of lading signed by  him,  which 
stated that the horses were to be transported 
“upon  the  following terms  and conditions, 
which are admitted and accepted  by  me  as 
just  and  reasonable:-  First  to pay freight 
thereon  (at a specified rate),  on  the  condi­
tion that the carrier  assumes  a  liability  on 
the  stock  to  the  extent  of  the  following 
agreed valuation: 
If horses  or  mules,  not 
exceeding $200 each.  *  *  *  If a charter­
ed  car,  on  the  stock  and  contents in  the 
same, §1,200 for the carload.  But  no  car­
rier  shall  be  liable for the acts of the  ani­
mals themselves,  *  *  *  nor  for  loss  or 
damage arising from the condition of the an­
imals themselves, which risks, being beyond 
the control of the  company,  are  hereby  as- 
sunicd by the owner and the carrier released 
therefrom.”  By the negligence of  the  rail­
road  company  or  its  servants,  one  of  the 
horses was killed, and  the  others  were  in­
jured, and the other property was lost.  In a 
suit to recover damages,  it appeared that the 
horses were race-horses, and the plaintiff off- 
fered to show damages based on  their value 
amounting to over §25,000.  The  court  be­
low excluded this evidence, and the plaintiff 
recovered  a  verdict  for  only §1,200.  The 
Supreme Court,  in affirming the judgment of 
the lower court,  held, first, that the evidence 
was rightly excluded, and that the valuation 
and limitation of liability in the bill  of  lad­
ing were just and reasonable and binding on 
the plaintiff;  second, that  the  terms  of  the 
limitations  covered  a  loss  through  negli­
gence;  and, third, that where  a  contract  of 
this kind, signed by the shipper,  was  fairly 
made, agreeing on a valuation of the proper­
ty carried, with the rate of freight  based  on 
the condition that  the  carrier  assumed  lia­
bility only to the extent of the agreed valua- 
tion—even in case of loss or  damage  by  the 
negligence  of 
the  carrier—the  contract 
should  be  upheld  as  a  proper and lawful 
mode of securing a due proportion  between 
the  amount  for which the  carrier might be 
responsible and the freight he;‘received,  and 
of  protecting  himself  against  extravagant 
andfanciful valuations.

Business  is  Looking Up.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.

A few weeks since  the  celebrated  Schuy- j 
lerville paper mills  manufactured  forty-five 
tons of cardboard to be  used  exclusively in 
m a k i n g  playing  cards.  Other  large  orders 
for the same material are  waiting  to be fill­
ed.  These demands  for  a  peculiar quality 
of paper show  pretty  clearly  what  our  na­
tional game really is  and  afford  a .text  for 
the moralist to elaborate.  Draw poker and 
old sledge  have  still  a  strong  hold  on the 
popular heart. 

_

Look out for counterfeit  §20 silver certifi­
cates, which have lately  made  their appear­
ance.  They are well executed.

TIME TABLES.

Miohigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.

Michigan (Tentral

The Niagara  Falls (Route.

D EPA R T.

A R R IV E .

tD etroit Express..............................................a m
+Day  Express................................................... ? m
♦New York Fast Line............................  6;00 p m
tAtlantic Express.....................................9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express..............................................a 111
tLocal  Passenger........................................         a m
+Mail..........................................................3:21) P m
tGrand  Rapids  Express. . . . . . . . .......... 10:25 p m
+Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and Pacific 
Express. 
, 
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers. 
__  -  „
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:15 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

,  „  _  

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

.  .

, 

.

Chicago &  West Michigan.
Arrives, 
Leaves.
4:07 p m 
tMail.................................... J :i l a m
11:00 p m 
+Day  Express.....................12:25 p m
6:00 a m 
♦Night  Express.................. 9:35 p m
10:05 p m
Mixed.......  ......................    6:10am
♦Daily.  +Daily except Sunday. 
Pullman Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
9:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.
Mixed....................................  t :9Xa m
Express.................................3:50 p m
Express.................................8:10 am

Arrives. 
5:15 p m 
4:15 p m 
10:30 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union  De-
P The Northern term inus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. & P. M.  trains to  and  from Ludington  and
Manistee.  ^  H   p a l m e r . Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING W EST.

GO ING EA ST.Arrives.
tSteamboat Express..........
(■Through  Mail.................... 10 :lo a m
■(•Evening  Express............... 3:20 p m
♦Atlantic Express.......................  9:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........
tMorning  Express.............12:40 p m
+Tfarough  Mail..................  ,ÍÍ:o2f>in
tSteamboat Express.......... 10:30 p m
tM ixed.................................. ...
♦NightExpress....................■  5:"La I?

Leaves. 
6:20 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:55 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:30 a m
12:55 p m 
5:10 p m
7:10 a m 
5:30 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
WestTrain leaving  at  5:10  p,  m.  will  make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving  at 5:10 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago. 
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to  Detroit.  The 
Niírht  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P o tter, City Pass. Agent.  , 
Geo. B. Re e v e, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

_

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

going south.

GO ING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves 
Cincinnati &  Mackinac Ex  8:45 p m  9:00 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a  m 
5:00pm 
F t. Wayne&G’d Rapids Ex  3:55 p m 
1:10 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
7:00 a m 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
4:35 p m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
11:45 p m
Mackinac&Ft.Wayi eEx..l0:^o a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  < :40 p m 

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 9:00  o’clock  p.  m, 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse
C South—Train leaving at 4:35p. m. bas  Wood 
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen 1 Pass. Agent.

Lake Shore &  Michigan Southern.

Express.
Mail.......
All tra 
The  strain 

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Leave, 
Arriv
7:35 a m 
m 
..................7:00 p
m 
4:00 p m
.................. 9:35 a
y except Sunday 
dai
i. connects  at 
saving  at 4  p. v 
l 
ress  on  Main
ith  Atlantic  Exj 
White Pigeon w 
______  Room  Sleep-
Palace I
Line, which has 
go  to  New  York and
ing Coaches  fre 
hange.
Boston without 
iuc  «.i«*.«  .^„.ing  at  7:35  a. m. connects  at 
The  train  1
White Pigeon (giving pne hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Moure street and depot.

Through  tickets  and  berths 

J. W. McKennhy, Gen’l Agent.

Chi

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.

H A L L ’ S  

M ULTUM  IN  P A R V O  

System of

Common  Sense 

BOOK  KEEPING,
RETA IL  GROCERS,

FOR

AND

GENERAL  STOREKEEPERS,

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For  All  Purposes.

NAMELY ■  “THE  ACCOUNT  BOOK,” 
combining both DAY BOOK  and LEDGER 
in  one,  by  which customers itemized  state­
ments  are  furnished  in  one-third  the  time 
required  by  the usual  process,  as  hundreds 
■who are using it w ill cheerfully testify.

AND

“THE  COMPENDIUM,” requiring but  10 
minutes a  day  to  record  each  day’s  cash 
transactions,  and  supply. A, complete  self-* 
proving PROFIT  and  LOSS  Balance  sheet 
whenever desired.
Full  details,  illustrated  by  example,  sent 
free  to  MERCHANTS  sending  name and 
address  to HALL  &  CO.,  Publishers,  i <4 . 
L ake  St.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.  If  possible | 
send b u s in e s s c a r d .

3 3 eti*oit,  Mieli.

-T H E -

b t j y ,  s e l l ,  d r i n k
BEST COFFEE in the WORLD
C hase  &  Sanborn’s

Standard  Java.

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

Flavor.

O ver  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 SUPERIOR QUALITY.

The following testimonial coming ap It does from one of the largest if not the  largest  gro­

cers in the United States, is worthy of your consideration:

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

. 

* 

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

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

About a year ago our attention was called to  your  “STANDARD  JAVA,”  we  person­
ally tested it very carefully and to our mind  it  was  most  excellent.  We  then  o^ered  a 
sample lot and placed it before our customers for approval, and it was pronounced by them 
a very fine Coffee.  Since then as you  know wC 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  formeily so 
which was the finest brand of Ankola or Mandeheling Java in the  market.

Yours  respectfully,

{Signed,) 

J O S J p ll  3=L.  FoOtolOS’  SOXXS.

Send  for Sam ple Lot.

We  guarantee to increase  your Colfec 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,

Boston,  Mass.,  TX.  S«  -A--
MICHIGAN  AGENT.

CANADIAN  BRANCH, 

I 

435  ST.  PA U L   STREET, 

3E3L.  T ,   C l i a S © ,
Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand Rapids.

' 

M ontreal, P .  Q. 

Old  Country  Soap.

This  Soap for the L a u n d r y  sta''ils unsurpassed.  It is Pure, 
having none of the fillings such as White Silex, Flour, Starch,  Etc.,  so  common  to  Light 
Colored  Soaps.  It  is  a  full  weight  Oil©  FoiU ld  ®ar  of 
Solid Soap, Steam Pressed, and always  uniform and  reliable.  Hotels,  Laundries,  Pri­
vate Families, and all consumers of Soap will consult their own interests by Buying and 
Trying  Old  C ountry  Soap,  Soldbyall Retail Grocers 
in  Grand  Rapids  at  the same price as light weight %  ft bars of soap.  4  One  Pound 
Bars for 25 cents.  Any  Wholesale  Grocer can fill your order, for 1  keep  a  large  stock 
of  O l e %   C ountry Soap wrapped  and  unwrapped  with  my
agents,

S H IE L D S , B U L K L E Y  &  LEM O N,

CORNER  IONIA  AND  ISLAND  STREETS,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

---------WHOLESALE  GROCERS--------

-------- manufactured  b y - ------

ALLEN  B.  WRISLEY,

Laundry,  ToilGt  Soaps  and  PorfumGS,

479, 481 and 483 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 111.

B.—Five and Ten Box Lots Delivered Free to Your Railroad Station,

SEE QUOTATION LIST FOR PRICES.

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.
BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
M ODEL  MILLS.

-------PROPRIETORS-------

-MANUFACTURERS OF-

è   Loaf  Brais  of

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

F u ll  n o llo r  P rocess.

Corner W in t e r a n d W est Brid g e Sts.,

Gra n d Ba p id s, Mich.

ENTERPRISE  CIGAR  CO.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  FAMOUS  AND  POPULAR  BRANDS

O L Y M P I A ,

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G ran d   R apids,  Mieli.

-FOR-

Butts’ Patent Processed

Finest  and 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 

“ H ulled Corn Flour ”
Griddle  Cakes,  Gems,  Waffles,  Etc., Etc
Rapids.Butts’  Patent Processed  Buckwheat
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

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

-W HOLESALE  D EA LER S  IN-

B utter,  C heese,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

GrB-AND  H.APIDS.  -  MIOHIGAN.

TRAMWAY  PLUG
The  Most  Successful  Brand 

on the  Market.

Still  Leading  alt others  in  Sales—The 

Popular  Brand  with the Trade,
O r d e r   S a m p l e   IBxxtt.

CODY, BALL & GO
Choice Butter a Specialty
I

b a n a n a s,  l e m o n s, e g g s,  c h e e s e,  v e g ­

e t a b l e s,  a p p l e s ,  c id e r .

Careful Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.
M. G, Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.

SPRING  &

COMPANY, 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  of 
this department and will 
give your  orders  person­
al and  prompt  attention. 
We solicit your order.

P u tn am   &  Brooks.

Seeker’s Self-Raising Buckwheat

ink.

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

Boxes, 32 3 H> packages, $5.15.  16 6 ft packages, $5.

Seeker’s Self-Raising Griddle-Cake Flour

For all uses where a batter is required, and for Muffins, Griddle Cakes,  W a files,  Puddings,  Ap­

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

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

Seeker’s Self-Kaising Wheat Flours,

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

secure a loaf of excellent lightbread or biscuits, etc.

Superlative Boxes, holding 16 6 ft papers...................................................5 25
New Process’Brand—Boxes  holding 32 3 ft papers................................. 5  00
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft pappers................................4 85
Red Brand—Boxes holding 32 3 lb  papers.................................................4  50
Red Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft papers...................................................4 65
Blue Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft  papers................................................4 00

Seeker’s Foiled Wheat, or Wheateu Grits

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

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

persons of sedentary habits.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft packages, $ 3.50  box,

Seeker’s Partly-Cooked Soiled Oats.

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

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

Seeker’s Farina

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

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

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

blanc  mange, and served with sauce or fruits.
Boxes holding 4 cartoons, 121ft pps., each, $4.50.
Boxes  holding  24  1  pound  papers,  each,  $2.30.

Seeker’s Hominy or Corn Grits

Is made from fine white flint corn.

Boxes holding 24 2 ft packages, $3.50 

box.

PURITY AND STENGTH GUARANTEED.

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

Baking Qualities cannot be surpassed.

N. B._We offer the trade every inducement  in  Quality  and  Price  to  warrant

them in pushing the sale of goods  that  have been recognized 

as STANDARD  POR  OYER  FORTY  YEARS.

George  V.  H ecker  &  Go.
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Gar  Lots. 

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

We are prepares to M e  Bottom Prices 01 anything; we handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,
RINDGE, BERTSCH & GO.,
BOOTS  ASTD  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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

10 “

l¥ y°nMforWi(

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

¡Dr\>  (Boobs.

The M anufacture  of Buttons.

The United States  Economist  says  that 
the button trade of New  York is  estimated 
at from $8,000,000  to  $10,000,000  a  year. 
At American rate of wages,  many of the im­
ported buttons could not be put  upon  their 
■cards for the price they sell  for.  Glass but­
tons are made mostly in Bohemia,  and  chil­
dren are  largely  employed  at 
the  work, 
which they do  as  quickly  and  neatly  as 
adults.  The children get  ten  cents  a  day, 
men from forty to fifty cents  and  women  a 
little less.  Pearl buttons are imported from 
Vienna, where they  are  almost  exclusively 
manufactured;  and  the  all-important  shirt 
buttons are received mostly  from  Birming­
ham, England, where thé  majority of  metal 
buttons  are likewise  procured.  The  most 
extensive of all the  button  manufacturing, 
however is that  of  the  Parisian and Berlin 
novelties.  In one manufacturing village near 
Paris, where there  are  from 5,000 to 6,000 
inhabitants, all the  working  people are en. 
gaged in making  the  agate  button, which, 
even with thirty per cent, duty added to  the 
cost, sell, when imported into  this  country, 
in the neighborhood of thirty-one  cents  per 
great  gross.  The  material  alone, it is re­
ported could not be procured here for double 
that amount.  While our  American  manu­
facturers make  no  attempt,  and  probably 
have no desire, to  compete  with  European 
producers employing hand processes, they ex­
cel in making bone, composition, brass, ivory 
and gold buttons by machinery, and are able 
to export considerable  quantities  of  these 
styles.  In Providence, R. I.,  for  example, 
sleeve buttons and jewelry buttons are large­
ly manufactured  expressly  for  exportation.

Galluses M ust Go.

This great American people or  some  por­
tion of them  are moving for  the  organiza­
tion of an  “Anti-Suspender  Society.”  Cir­
culars, 
inviting to  membership, are  being 
sent out from the head-center, which is Phil­
adelphia.  These  circulars  gravely  allege 
that the habit of wearing any suspenders  at 
all is contrary to all the teachings  of  antiq­
uity and the experience of  ages.  Adam  in 
his palmiest or most fig-leafy days  wore no 
suspenders, and one may search the  history 
of all  time in vain to find a hero or  martyr 
rushing to a glorious doom encumbered with 
those useless and “effeminate straps.”  And 
so it goes on at  some 
length, only to  close 
with the startling scientific statement:  “On 
the crossing of  many  suspenders,” it says, 
“a piece of brass or other metal  is  fastened 
to add greater strength to this infamous con­
trivance.  This bit of metal  when  brought 
in opposition to  the  gold  or  silver  watch 
chain on the front of the body is apt to  give 
rise to a voltaic current not  strong  enough 
to be perceptible, but which  in  time acts on 
the kidneys and liver to such an extent  that 
these  organs  become  semi-paralyzed,  and 
losing  their  vitality, degenerate  and  give 
rise to the many diseases which  carry off so 
many  unfortunate  victims.”  The  society 
has now thirty-six members,  thirty-three  of 
whom, strange to say, have  “Mrs.” prefixed 
to their signatures.  This fact is  suspicious. 
It looks very like a married women’s scheme 
to get out of the work of sewing on buttons, 
by inducing men to believe  that it is health­
ier to hold their trousers up with  the hand.

Im perm eable  Fabrics.

A process has been  devised,  according  to 
the claims set forth by  a  foreign  inventor, 
by which fabrics are not  only  rendered  im­
permeable, and their rotting  prevented,  but 
this without interfering with  their  softness 
■or increasing their weight.  The  end  is  at­
tained,  it  seems,  by  the use of a substance 
extracted from birch bark, and which is  em­
ployed for perfuming Russia leather.  When 
this bark  is  distilled,  there  is  produced  a 
light oil, one-quarter of which  consists  of  a 
peculiar phenol, and this latter is what com­
municates  that  well-known  odor  to  the 
leather in question. 
It results, from  recent 
investigations, that  the  green  tar  of  birch 
contains neither acid nor  alkaloid;  it  forms 
with  alcohol  a  solution  which  is,  at first, 
very fluid, but  one which, when once  dried, 
resinified, becomes proof against  the  action 
of alcohol, and the solution  unites  with  the 
most brilliant  colors.  These  qualities  per­
mit  of  its  entering  thoroughly  into  every 
portion  of  a  fabric,  not only filling the ca­
pillary vessels, but also covering  them  with 
a varnish possessed of great elasticity,  unaf­
fected by acids and the  corrosive  action  of 
sea  water,  and  withstanding  well 
the 
changes in temperature.

Mr. B uysell’s Scheme.

“Say, Charlie,” said  Mr.  Buysell  to  his 
clerk,  “if you will buy a sealskin  sacque for 
your wife I’ll give you $25  toward  the  pur­
chase.”

“I will do it,” replied the clerk;  “but, Mr. 

Buysell, why this burst of liberality?”

“No liberality about it, my  boy. 

If  your 
wife comes out in a sealskin, don’t  you see, 
it will save me the expense of having to buy 
one for Mrs. Buysell.”

“How so?”
“Why,  you don’t suppose  she’d  wear  the 
same kind of clothes  as  my  clerk’s  wife 
wears, do you?”

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Spring  &  Company quote as ij*«jwo:

,  WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 94.. 23  I Pepperell, 104........ 25
Androscoggin, 84. .21  Pepperell, 114........ 2754
Pepper«*!!,  7-4.......\16J4 Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pepperell,  84....... 20 
Pequot,  84.21
P e p p e re ll,  94 ....... 2254IPequot,  9-4...............24
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Caledonia, 'XX, oz.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 100.15 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Prodigy, oz..............11
Economy, oz..........10
Otis A pron..............1054
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Otis Furniture___.1014
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
York,  1  oz............... 10
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
York, AA, extra oz.14
Park Mills, No. 80. .13

CHECKS.

OSNABURG,

,

P R IN T S .

styles 

s i l e s i a s .

BLEACHED COTTONS.

E IN E  BROW N  COTTONS

Washington fancy 
Washington  blues.  714

i Renfrew, dress styl 914
............. 1014  Bookiold..............1214

Indian Orchard, 40.  814 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia  B, 7-4....... 1614
Lyman B, 40-in.......1014
Mass. BB, 4 4 ..........  554
Nashua  É, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 44.......   7
Nashua 0,7-8..........  714
Newmarket N.  ___ 714
Pepperell E‘, 39-in..  714 
Pepperell  R, 44—   7 
Pepperell  O, 7-8—   614 
Pepperell  N, 3 4 ....  614
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac  R ..............  7
Saranac E ..............  9

Alabama brow n....  714 Alabama  plaid.......8
Jewell briwn..........  914 Augusta plaid........   °
Kentucky brown.. 1014 Toledo plaid...........   714
Lewiston  brow n...  914 Manchester  olaid..  7
Lane brown........... 914 New  T enn.plaid...11
Louisiana  plaid....  8  Utility plaid...........   614
Avondale,  36..........8J4|Greene, G, 44 ..........   514
Art  cambrics, 36.. .1114 Hill, 44....................  814
Androscoggin, 44..  814 Hill, 7-8....................
1214 Hope,  44.................. 714
54.
Androsc
714 King  Phillip  cam-
Ballou, 44...............
6 
bnc, 4-4.................1154
Ballou, 54...............
814 Linwood,  44..........9
Boott,  0 .4 4 ...........
7  Lonsdale,  44............814
Boott,  E. 5-5..........
954 Lonsdale  cambric.Ill* 
Boott, AGC, 44----
524 Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Boott, R. 34..........
,  7141 Langdon,  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 4-4 
,  6541Masonville,  44.........914
Chapman, X, 44...
Maxwell. 4-4............1014
Conway,  4-4........... 724
New York Mill, 4-4.1014
Cabot, 4-4................ 714
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Cabot, 7-8......... 
  614
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Canoe,  34 ..............   4
Pride of the West. .1214 
Domestic,  36..........  714
Pocahontas,  4-4—   814
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  914
Slaterville, 7-8........   614
Davol, 4 4...............  914
Victoria,  AA............9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  834 
Woodbury, 4-4........   524
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  814 
Whitinsville,  4-4...  714 
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8—   614
cambric,  4-4........12
W amsutta, 4-4.........1014
Gold Medal, 4 -4 ....  7
Williamsville,  36... 1014
Gold Medal, 7-8.........614
Gilded  Age............ 824
Masonville TS........   8
Crown.....................17
Masonville  S...........1014
No.  10.....................1214
Lonsdale.................. 914
Coin........................10
Lonsdale A ............ 16
Anchor...................15
Nictory  O...............
Centennial.............
Victory J .................
B lackburn.............   8
Victory  D ...............
Davol...................... 14
Victory  K .................214
London...................1214
Phoenix A ............... 1914
P aconia................. 12
Phoenix B ..............   1014
Red  Cross..............10
Phoenix X X .......... 5
Social  Im perial— 16
Albion, solid.............514 G loucester.................6
Gloucestermourn’g . 6 
Albion  grey...........6 
a
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Allen’s’ checks........514
Hartel fancy............6
Ailen’s  fancy......... 514
Merrimac  D............. 6
Allen’s pink............ 65^
M anchester.............6
Allen’s purple.........614
Oriental-fancy........6
American, fancy— 514
Oriental  robes........614
Arnold fancy...........6
Pacific  robes........... 6
Berlinsolid............514 
Cocheco  fancy....... 6  Richmond..................b
Cocheco robes.........614  Steel River................ 514
Conestoga fancy— 6  Simpson s . ......... • 6
E ddystone...............6
Eagle  fancy..............5
Garner pink..............6
Appleton  A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   114
Boston F, 4-4..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  754 
Continental D, 40 in 854 
Conestoga W, 44...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  514 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  614
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  614
Dwight Z, 44..........  7
Dwight Star, 4-4 —   ¡14 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  514 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44 
Indian  Orchard, 1-4 714
d o m e s t i c  g i n g h a m s .
Amoskeag 
........ 8 
Amoskeag, Persian 
B ates......................714| Johnson  Manfg Co,
Berkshire 
Glasgow checks—  
Glasgow checks, f’y 
uka,
Glasgow 
c’ 
royal  style 
Gloucester, 
standard .. 
P lunket.......
Lanci 
Lang<
An dr 
Andr 
Peppi 
Beppi 
Pepp'
Atlar 
Atlar 
Atlar 
Atlar 
Atlar 
Adriatic, 36... 
Augusta, 44.. 
Boott  M, 4-4.. 
Boott  FF, 4-4.
Gran
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Indit
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Indù
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag 
Premium 
Premium  B..
Extra 44........
Extra 7-8........
Gold Medal 44
CCA  7-8..........
CT 4-4.............
RC 7-8.............
BF 7-8.............
A F44.............
Cordis AAA", 3 
Cordis  ACA, 3 
Cordis No. 1, 3 
Cordis  No. 2.. 
Cordis  No. 3.. 
Cordis  No. 4..
G arner...........
Hookset..........
Red  Cross.......
Forest Grove..
American  A.. 
Stark A ............
Boston............
Everett blue.. 
Everett brown 
Otis  AXA. 
Otis BI
Manville... 
Masgnville
Red  Cross.
B erlin.......
Garner  —
PO OL COTTON.
...50 
|Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Brooks.. 
...55  Mills ball sewing.30 
Clark’s O 
...55  Greeh  &  D aniels...25
1. & P.  Coats
Willimantic 6 cord.55  M erricks.................40
Willimantic 3 cord.40  Stafford...................~5
Charleston bali sew 
Hall & M anning... ,2o
ingthread........... 30  ¡Holyoke...................2o

624
.12
1814
. 1314 ¡Falls, XXXX..
1514
19  Falls, XXX__
1154
13  Falls,  BB........
..
.12  Falls,  BBC, 36. 
1914
..
19
.11  Falls,  awning. 
..
.1014 Hamilton,  BT, 
12
..
914
.10  ¡Hamilton,  D.. 
..
.  914iHamilton,  H..
914
¡Hamilton  fancy
10
1314
Methuen AA__
18
Methuen ASA... 
¡Omega  A, 7-8 —  
11
13
Omega  A, 44 —
14 
: ¡Omega ACA, 7-8. 
16 
¡Omega ACA, 44. 
24
Omega SE, 7-8...
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
Omega M. 7-8.........22
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Shetucket SS&SSW 11 
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Shetucket,  SFS 
..
Stockbridge  A ___
Stockbridge frncy 
GLAZED CAMBRICS.
........ 5 
lEmpire  ...................
........  5  Washington..........
........ 5  Edwards...................
........  
¡S. S. & Sons............
.......17 501 Old  Ironsides.......
........ 2114 ¡W heatland............
........   714 ¡Otis  CC..................
........14  [Warren  AXA.......
14  Warren  BB..........
1214 Warren CO...........
........1114¡York  fancy...........
P A P E R   CA M BltlCS.
........  6  IS. S. & Sons...........
........  6  ¡G arner..................
........   714 [Thistle Mills..........
........   714¡Rose.......................

6^  dress  styles....... 13
7  Slaterville, 
dress
7lA\  styles...................9
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Johnson  Manfg Co,

G R A IN   BAGS.

74.
84.
94.

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10-4.
114.

W IG AN S.

DENIM S.

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CORSET JE A N S .

A rm ory..................  7!4|Kearsage..................81a
Androscoggin sat..  854 Naumkeagsatteen. 8*4
Canoe River...........   6  Pepperell  bleached 854
Clarendon...............  654 Pepperell sat..........  9‘/2
Hallowell  Imp.......624|Rockport..................   7
Ind. Orch. Im p.......7 
¡Lawrencesat............  854
Laconia..................  754 ¡Conegosat...............  i

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

An  exchange  states  that  the  South has 
not yet been able to  produce  the  best  class 
of bed-tickings,  although they have made re­
per ton
peated  essays.  So  far,  they can only sue- j 
ceed  in  turning  out  coarse  blue  stripes, j L a n d  plaster, car lots 
Pennsylvania is said to have the  imputation 
of  making  the  high-colored  goods  in  the 
world.  Great attention in ingenuity  is  dis­
played  in  obtaining  colors  of  a  good and 
staple quality.

Ohio White Lime, per  bbl 
Ohio White Lime, ear lots.. 
Louisville cement,  per bbl.
Akron Cement per  bbl.......
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl...
Car lots...................................
Plastering hair, per bu.......

1 05 
90 
1 40 
1 40 
1 40 
1 05@1 10 
25®  30 
1 75 
3 75 
3 00 
$25® $35 
Fire brick, per  M 
3 00
Fire clay, per bbl
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $6 00®6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 25®6 50
Cannell,  car lots..................................
Ohio Lump, car lots.................•••■ ••  j  25@3 50
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4  50@5 00

COAL.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

F ancy and Staple

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS

E T C .,  ESTO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Michigan.

Grand Sapids,

S. A. WELLING

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MI]

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If in Need of Anything  in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

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

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

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u-SH
MEAT BOARDS.^.

The Best Thing of the Kind Ever Invented.

SURE TO  SELL.

A. T. Linderman, Manufacturer,  Whitehall, 

Michigan.

Send for sample dozen.  20x26, $4 per dozen. 
Sells for 50 cents apiece.  Sold to the  trade by 
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, Grand Rap­
ids; W. J. Gould & Co., Geo. C. Weath- 
erby & Co., Wm.  Donnan  &  Co.,  De­
troit;  Gray,  Burt  &  Kingman,  Cor­
bin, May &  Co., Gould Bros., Chicago.

362ft pkgs................................................  @3 25
Steel  c u t.................................................   @6 50
Kerosene  W. W...................................... 
Legal te s t.............................  

13
w s

do. 

O IL .

P IC K L E S .

do 

do 

‘•••5 52
Choice in barrels med............... 
Choice in Vx 
...................................... 3 40
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................................4 25
.........................  g 40
Dingee’s pints 
American qt.  in Glass..........................................2 00
American pt. in Glass..................................... 1 30
C. & B. English  quarts.................................. 5  i5
C. & B. English  pints..................................... 3 50
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  q u arts.. .5 75
pints__ 3 50
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75
retie 4 ............................................. V  £r°88  4 001  imported Clay 3 gross...........................2 25@3 00
retie 8  .......................................................... Jcx  Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross.................  @2 «5
retie 16 .........................................................  «{J;  American  T. D........................................ 
@90
Good  Carolina.................................................. Wx
Prime  Carolina.................................................."
Good  Louisiana..........................   ....................
Java  ................................................................... x*’
P a tn a .................................................................. ®
R angoon............................................................®$
Broken  ...............................................................3J4

BLUING . ..........doz.
..........doz.
........ doz.
..........doz.

2  00 
..  3 00 
..  4 50

P IP E S .

R IC E .

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COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

WHOLESALE  PRICE CURRENT.

Apples—Firm,  for  red  varieties.  A  choice

article readily commands $2 $  bbl.
Beeswax—Small demand at 30c.
Buckwheat—$5 ¥  bbl.
Beans—No  local  demand.  Unpicked  com­
mand 75@$1, and choice picked find good ship­
ping demand at $ 1.40.
J3utter-.Cream ery 
is  scarce  and  inactive, 
sales being so slow as to render it hardly quot­
able.  Dairy  is plenty,  many  outside  dealers 
being loaded Up with from 100 to 1,000  pounds; 
really choice, however, readilly  commands  17 
@19c for rolls and 15@16c  for  solid packed.

Butterine—Compelled to take a back seat, on 
account of the great amount of good butter in 
market.  Solid  packed  creamery  commands 
20c,  while  dairy  is  quoted  at 15@16c for solid 
packed,  and  17@18c for rolls.
Beets—No shipping demand.
Clover  Seed—No  local  shipping  demand. 
Dealers are paying  $3.59@4  for  good to fancy 
stock.

Cabbages—$5@$6 3P 100.
Celery—The winter  stock  now  in  m arket is 
very undesirable in quality,  selling  a t  15@18c 
per dozen.

Cheese—Stocks are large and fully  equal to 
the  wants  of  the  trade.  Full  cream  stock 
readily  command  1254@1354c,  while skim  find 
occasional sale at from  954@10e.

Cider—10c $  gal. for common sweet. 
Cranberries—Firm  at  $12.50  for  bell  and 
cherry,  and  $13.50  for  Cape  Cod or  bell  and
bugie. 
jgggg_Trifle  firmer,  on  account  ot  cold
weather.  Fresh stock commands 23c and limed 
20c.

Hops—Desirable State hops command 18©20c, 

.

but offerings are light.

Honey—Choice new is firm a t 14@15c. 
Hay_$ 9@f,lO for new, and  $10@$11  for bail­

ed.

Mince Meat—7@8c $  ft according to  quality. 
Onions—$1.50 $  bbl. for yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3c $  ft for choice.
Potatoes—Still sick. There is a trifle improve­
m ent  in  several  markets,  but  the  advance 
does  not  cover  the  additional  expenses  in 
transportation, incident to  the  cold  weather. 
Some are moving at 25c.

Poultry—Fowls,  9@10c.  Chickens,  10@Uc. 

Turkeys, 11c.  Ducks, 14c.

Squash—Slow sale at 54c $  ft.
Sweet Potatoes—Not desirable goods to han­
dle, at present, on account of their  perishable 
qualities.  Kiln  dried  goods  will  toon be in 
market.  Jerseys are firmer and higher, selling 
readily a t @$6.  Illinois commands $3.50 $  bbl. 

Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—No shipping demand,  and  dealers 

buy only for prospective wants.

G R A IN S AND M IL L IN G  PR O D U CTS.

Wheat—2c  lower this  week.  Lancaster,  75; 

Fulse and Clawson, 72c.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 46c in 100 bu. lots 

and 40@43c in carlots.

Oats—White, 33c in small lots and 30c  in  car- 

lots.

Rye—52@54c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
F l o u r —Unchanged.  Fancy Patent,$5.50 $  bbl. 

in sacks  and  $5.75  in  wood.  Straight, $4.50 
bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 $  cwt.
Mill F e e d —Screenings, $14  $  ton.  Bran, $13 
^  ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $17 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $23 $  ton.

The Grocery  Market.

The volume of business  during  the  past 
week has been even better  than could  reas­
onably be  expected, considering  the  unfa­
vorable weather, and the advent of sleighing 
early this week is sure to  bring  with  it  a 
briskness in trade which will by  no  means 
prove unacceptable.  Teas, raisins and New 
Orleans molasses are  firm  and  advancing. 
Other articles in the grocery line are  about 
steady.

Lard  cheese, which  up  to  a  recent  date 
was the latest  adulteration  of  that  food,  is 
now rivalled  by  cheese  made  chiefly  from 
cottonseed or peanut oil.

Now  “set your  house  in order”  for  the 
new year.  Get rid of the surplus shop-worn 
goods, and “start new” January 1st.

Have you many bad bills on  your  books? 
See to it that you  reduce the  number  and 
amount by one-half next year.

Frozen  cranberries,  if  not  mashed  too 
much, can be made  good as new  by throw­
ing into cold water.

a x l e   g r e a s e .

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CANNED  F R U IT S .

. $  doz.  45
............ 
75
............1 40
........ 
2  40
............ 12  00

80
Frazer’s
Diamond........................................................  59
Modoc  ....  W doz..........................
Paragon...  $  doz.........................
Paragon, 20 ft  pails.....................
B A K IN G   PO W D ER .
Arctic 14 ft cans............................
Arctic J4 ft cans............................
Arctic 54 ft cans............................
Arctic  1 ft  cans............................
Arctic 5  ft cans.
Dry, No. 2........
Dry, No. 3........
Liquid, 4 oz, —
Liquid, 8 oz,
Arcti«
Arctic 
Arctic
Arctic No. 1 pepper box
* 
Arctic No. 2 
..........
Arctic No. 3 
..........
“ 
BROOMS.
No. 1 Carpet...............................
2  00 
No. 2 Carpet...............................
2  50 
No. 1 Parlor Gem.....................
1  75 
No. 1 H url.......  .........................
1  50 
No. 2 Hurl  .................................
1  00 
Fancy Whisk.............................
75
Common Whisk.........................
CANNED  F IS H .
Clams, 1 ft  standards..................................J *0
Clams, 2 ft  standards............. -...................g
.Clam Chowder,  3 ft.....................................ri fx
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards..................... j
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  l w>
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack  filled....................
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled..................... { j®
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic...................................... g I?
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r..........................................i s
Lobsters, 2 ft sta r........... . • • • ......................“ Xx
Mackerel, l f t   fresh standards..................l w
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards................. 6 oO
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t ................ 325
Mackerel, 3 ft in M ustard........................... ® 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.................................. ® %
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river....................... l «{
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river...................... 2 bu
Salmon, l f t   Sacram ento...........................}  ou
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.....................   l
Sardines, domestic J4s.................................
Sardines,  domestic  54s..............................
Sardines,  Mustard  54s .................................
Sardines,  imported  14s...............................   “
Sardines, imported 548    .......•.....................  ~J{
Sardines, imported YxS, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs............................. „ ®®
Trout. 3ft  brook.......................................  a  10
Apples, 3 ft standards ................................. _ jS
...2 50 
2 sn
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie. 
...1  15 
Blackberries, standards...............
...1 55 
Blackberries,  E rie.........................
...1  30 
Cherries, Erie, red.........................
..  1  90 
Cherries, Erie,white w ax........ . . .
...2 50 
Cherries, French  Brandy, quarts
.3 55
1 Cherries, W hite.............................. 
,
Damsons.........................................................I A"
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................*  "®
Gooseberries, K raft’s B est.........................1  00
Green Gages, standards 2.1b........................{  ™
Green Gages,  E rie........................................£ ®o
Peaches,  Brandy......................................... % j"
Peaches, Extra Yellow................................2 4U
Peaches,  standards.....................................j
Peaches,  seconds..-........................................ ®j{
Pie Peaches,  Kensett’s ................................\  "{
Pears. Bartlett, E rie.....................................*  ™
Pineapples, Erie......................................... g
Plumbs, Golden  Drop................................6  °®
Q uinces............................................. ...........i t ?
Raspberries, Black,  E rie.......................... i
Raspberries, Red,  Erie................................J JJf
Strawberries,  Erie...................................... *
W hortleberries, McMurphy s .................. 1
Apricots, Lusk’s ...........................................
Egg Plum s...............*...................................i  "X
G rapes...........................................................     XX
Green Gages..................................................    xx
Pears  ............................................................... XX
Q uinces......................................................... ..
Peaches..........................................................6 w
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................................... ® X®
Beans, Lima,  E rie............................................. 1 "v
Beans, String, E rie ......................................  ™
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   J*}
Beans, Stringless,  E rie.%. . . ......................  "H
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........... .........l 60
Corn, Erie..........................................................J®
Corn, Red  Seal............................................
Corn,  Acme..................................................j
Corn, Revere............. -...............................¿g lx
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case.,
. *2g 00 
Peas, Early extra,  small sifted Erie...v.r2 25
Peas, French, 100 in c a se ................................?3 00
Peas, Marrofat, standard.............................t.,i 40
Peas, B e av e r.......... • • •  ...................... .  •• •
Peas, early small, sifted................................... 1 ou
Pumpkin, 3 1b Golden....................... 5.........J 00
Rhubarb,  E rie.............................................. J  ¿0
Squash, Erie .................................................f gx
Succotash, E rie.............................................1  ¡®jj
Succotash, standard....................................   J®
Tomatoes, Red Seal....................................   too
Boston  prem ium ......................................  @36
@40
Baker’s premium.
R unkles......................................................   @®?
German  sweet..........................................  ©3®
Vienna Sweet............................................
Green R io ............................. ...............
G reenJava..............................................
Green Mocha........................................... 25
@17
Roasted Rio.......................................’“ ••j®
@32
Roasted Ja v a ..........................................24
@19
Roasted Mar., ........................................ 17
Roasted Moch a ........................................  @"~
Roasted Mex........................................... WVx©3a
Ground  Rio............................................
Arbuckle’s ..............................................   ©J®
X X X X .....................................................  ©J®
Dilworth’s ..............................................  @1®
Levering’s ..............................................   @J®
Magnolia.................................................   @15
72 foot J u t e .......1  15  160 foot Cotton— 2 00
60 foot Ju te .......1  00  ¡50 toot Cotton.... 1  75

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

CANNED  V EG ETA BLES.

CHOCOLATE.

CORDAGE.

- CO FFEE.

@14

.

V

G roceries*

The Grtii'd Haven Match Factory.

F. F. Somiu^r,  proprietor of  the  match 
factory at Grand Haven,  is now in full occu­
pancy of his  new  buildings  all  of  which 
have been  erected in a new  location  since 
the fire  last  summer.  The  buildings  are 
five in number and are  so  constructed  and 
situated so as to offer the  most resistance to 
fire.  The main building is 24x86  feet in di­
mensions, the lower floor being  occupied by 
all the machinery incident  to  the  manufac­
ture of matches, and the upper floor  is  util­
ized for  the  manufacture of  paper  boxes. 
Another  building, 30x40  feet,  is  used  for a 
packing  room, and a third  building, 20x30, 
is occupied by the shipping  department.  A 
machine shop, 25x30  feet, contains  the im­
plements necessary for repairing machinery, 
as well as the construction of  new  machin­
ery, and the printing and  chemical  depart­
ments.  An engine  room  20x30  completes 
the complement of structures.  Mr. Sommer 
has made no parlor matches  since  the  fire, 
as the demand for sulphurs has  been  great 
enough to keep the factory  running on that 
grade.  At present 250 gross are turned  out 
each day, but by the  addition of more  ma­
chinery the  daily output  can  easily be in­
creased to 600 gross.
Messmore’s  Rascally  Attempt  to  Ruin 

Pentwater.

The  Pentwater  News, in  reviewing  the 
early  history  of  that  place,  thus  recalls 
Messmore’s  attempt to ruin  the  town  by 
blackmailing the property holders  into pay­
ing him considerable sums for a claim which 
the courts subsequently declared to exist on­
ly in imagination: “Some sharpers at Grand 
Rapids discovering an error made in  record­
ing a deed from  Cobb  &  Rector,  by  which 
forty acres, including the business  and best 
resident  lots in  the  village, were omitted, 
purchased for trifling sums quit claim  deeds 
from the heirs of Cobb & Rector and brought 
suits in ejectment for the possession  of  the 
property.  This  tended more  to  discourage 
business progress than  anything  else  that 
had occurred, and until the question of  title 
was  fairly  settled,  Pentwater  suffered  a 
steady decline, and  by the  time  the  titles 
were decided in favor of  the  residents,  and 
against  the  Grand  Rapids  sharpers, fully 
one-third of the  business  places  on  Main 
street as well as residences  in  the  villages 
were vacant.  Rents were nothing and prop­
erty could  scarcely be traded or sold at  the 
supervisor’s valuation prices.”

Three Times  Within as  Many Weeks. 
Turner & Carroll seem to be meeting with 
rather more than the usual number  of  legal 
defeats, three important cases,  each  involv­
ing  considerable  amounts,  having  gone 
against them within the  past  three  weeks. 
The  third  case  was  tried  in  the  United 
States last Friday, Fletcher & Wanty appear­
ing on the otiier side.  It appears  that  Mil- 
ton  H.  Myers,  of  Cassopolis,  purchased 
large quantities of  dry  goods  with  fraudu­
lent intent, J. V. Farwell & Co., of  Chicago, 
being victimized to the extent of about  $10,- 
000.  In January,  of  the  present  year,  he 
made an assignment to Henry W.  Smith,  of 
Cassopolis, when Farwell secured a  writ  of 
replevin in the United States Court here, and 
obtained possession of about $3,000 worth of 
the  goods,  which  were  subsequently sold. 
The assignee, thereupon, brought suit  to  re­
cover damages, but a case of  fraud  was  esr 
tablished  so  clearly  and  conclusively  that 
the replevin  was sustained.

The Sowers & White  Bank Failure at Ovid
An Ovid correspondent  writes as follows:
A meeting  of  creditors  of  Sowers  & 
White’s Bank was held  here  to-day.  The 
assignee,  Darragh, of Grand  Rapids,  was 
not present, having received no invitation to 
attend.  Considerable  discussion  brought 
out no new facts.  The banks hold a chattel 
mortgage against a manufacturing  firm  for 
$31,000.  One of the partners is believed  to 
have settled with the outside creditors which 
will dissolve an injunction against the mort­
gage, if  reports  are  true.  The  mortgage 
held by the bank against another  firm is al­
so attacked, although $3,000  has  been  col­
lected and is now in the  hands  of  the  as­
signee.  Should the attack against this mort­
gage fail there  are  grounds to believe  that 
the bank will pay a large part of  its indebt­
edness, if not the whole of it.  A committee 
of three—John Hathaway, C.  DeCamp and 
A; M. Eaton—was  appointed to examine in­
to matters, and, if necessary, employ  an  at­
torney, the expense to be met  by  voluntary 
subscriptions.

Brief  Answers to  Occasional Correspond­
Turner & Carroll—Yes, you do seem to be 

ents.

“losing your grip.”

Mynders C.  Russell—Yes,  it  must  be ex­
tremely mortifying  to admit that one’s repu­
tation  as a wrestler is  in  the  wane.  Col. 
Fox now wears the chip.

Soliman Snooks—Whenever you  make up 
a list of the com cure fiends, be sure and in­
clude H.  B. Fairchild, as that gentleman has 
lately placed one of those  inhuman  devices 
on the market

John Caulfield—Yes, we  haven’t a doubt 
you will “retire from business January 1st.” 
To be sure, you have announced  such a de­
termination  every  year  for  twenty  years 
past, but this time you are in  dead  earnest.
Bad drinking water  given to a few  cows 
owned by a single  farmer in  Ayrshire, En­
gland, caused an outbreak of  typhoid  fever 
in three hospitals, and the illness of  104 pa­
tients.  The germs of the disease were trans­
mitted by milk.

Canned  salmon  from  Oregon  and  toma­
toes from New York are now shipped to the 
Congo.

CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows:

do 
do 

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

FANCY—IN  BULK.

STIC K .
............................ .  954@10
@12
MIXED.

Straight, 25 ft  boxes. ........................... .  9@  954
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft  pails.......;..'...................... ...10@1054
...  9@ 954
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................
Extra, 25 ft  pails.................................
...11@1154
Extra, 200 ft bbls.................................
..........1054
..........13
French Cream, 25 ft pails..................
..........13
Gut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................
Broken, 25 ft  pails..............................
..........1154
..........105*
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..............................
FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.
..........14
Lemon Drops......................................
..........15
Sour Drops...........................................
..........15
Peppermint  Drops............................
...16
Chocolate  Drops.................................
..........20
H M Chocolate’  Drops.......................
..........10
Gum  Drops  .......................................
..........20
Licorice Drops....................................
..........12
A B  Licorice'  Drops..........................
..........J5
Lozenges, plain..................................
Lozenges,  printed.............................
..........16
Im perials............................................
..........15
M ottoes............................................... ............15
Cream  Bar..................... ....................
..........14
Molasses B ar.......................................
..........14
22
Hand Made Creams............................
Plain  Creams...................................... ........... 18
Decorated  Creams............................. ........... 23
String Rock......................................... ........... 15
22
Burnt Almonds...................................
W intergreen  Berries......................... ...........15
Lozenges, plain in  pails.................... ,.1354@14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls..................... ........... 12
Lozenges, printed in pails................ ............1454
Lozenges, printed in  bbls................ ............13
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum  Drops  in pails................................. 754@8
Gum Drops, in bbls................................... 6J4@7
Moss Drops, in  pails..... .................................. 11
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  954
Sour Drops, in  pails..
..................................12
Imperials, in  pails........................................... 14
Imperials  in bbls.............................................13
F R U IT S .
box.......................4 00@4 25
Oranges, Florida, 
Lemons,  choice....................................4 00@4 25
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft
14@15 
Figs, fancy  do 
.......................
@18 
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  ft.............
@   8
Dates, frails 
do  .............
Dates, 54 do 
do  . . . . ____
S   6
Dates, skin.................................
@ 4 
Dates, 54  skin............................
@  5 
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft.......
@ 9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft........
© 7 
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $1 ft...
@  654
PEA NU TS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft...............
Choice 
do  ...............
Fancy 
do  ...............
Choice White, Va.do  ...............
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................ 
Almonds,  Terragona, ^  ft....................  22@23
do  ......................  21@22
Almonds, loaca, 
Brazils,
d o .......  ............  fc@10
Pecons,
do  .................... 
9@13
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ......................  15@16
Walnuts, Grenobles 
do  ......................  14@16
Cocoa Nuts, ^   100

5@ 554 
554© 554 
5© 554
654@  7

do 
do 

NUTS,

PROVISIONS.

LARD.

do. 
do. 

LARD IN  TIN   PA IL S .

P O R K   IN   BA RRELS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:
Heavy Mess, new...........................................11  75.
Pig, short cut, new, better than  mess......12 75
E xtra Family Clear, new.............................13 25
E xtra Clear Pig, new, Chicago packing.. .13 59
Clear Back, new, Chicago  packing...........14 25
Glear, A. Webster  packer...........................13-25
Standard Clear, the  best.............................14  50
E xtra  Clear....................................................13 50
Boston Clear.................................................. 14 00
DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
654
do. 
Half Cases.............  
6%
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
654
624
Half Cases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
654
624
Half Gases  ............. 
do. 
7
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
7
medium.............................. 
light....................................  
7
E xtra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
754
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.. 
724
8
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
754
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........ 
7?4.
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........  
8
Tierces  ..................................................... 
724
30 and 50 ft T ubs...................................... 
8
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases..................... 
8
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
854
824
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................ 
824
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................  
854
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy 
 
1154
J124
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
12
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
7%
E xtra Clear Bacon..................................  
1054
Dried Beef,  E xtra................................ 
11
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 10 75
Boneless, extra  quality...............................14 OO
E xtra Mess Chicago packing...................... 10 50
Pork Sausage...................................................  754
Ham  Sausage....................................................13
Tongue  Sausage.................  
9
Liver Sausage...................................................  7
Frankfort  Sausage........ui'i..........................  9
Blood  Sausage................................................... 7
Bologna,  ring...................................................  7'
Bologna, straight............................................  7
Bologna,  thick....................................  
  7
Head  Cheese................... .’. . . ..........................   7
In half barrels.................................................  3 50
In quarter barrels..........................................  1 90-
In kits.......................... . 
In half barrels.................................................$3 OO
In quarter barrels..........................................  1 50
In kits.......................................................... 
80
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
to m arket fluctuations.

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

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

B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

P IG S ’  FEET.

T R IP E .

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TEA S.

Japan  ordinary...............— ...................... 20@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@37
Japan fine.....................................................  40@50
Japan dust..................................................... 15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@5Q
GunPowder................................................... 35@5U
O olong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo............................................................. 25@30

TOBACCO—F IN E  C U T - IN   P A IL S .

 

 

2e.  less  in four pail lots or half barrels.

State  Seal................................................  @60
Brother  Jonathan.................................  @32
Diamond  Crown....................................   @58
Rose Bud.................................................   @50
O.  K ./ . . . . , ..............................................   @45
Our  Bird.................. t .............................  @30
P eaches...................................................  @38
Morrison’s F ru it....................................   @50
V ictor.............................  
@60
Red  Bird.................................................   @52
Opera Queen...........................................  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................  @45
Green  Back............................................   @38
F ru it........................................................  @33
O So  Sweet..............................................  ©31
Prairie Flower...........................................  @65
Climber [light and  dark]........................  
  @62
M atchless...................................................   ©65
H iaw atha...................................................  ©67
Globe...........................................................   @65
May Flow er..........; ................................   @70
©
Hero.............................................................  @45
A tlas...........................................................   @35
Royal Game................................................  ©38
Mule  E ar.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo.................................................   @32
Peek-a-Boo, 54  barrels..............................  @30
Fountain.....................................................  @74
Old Congress..............................................   @64
Good Luck..................................................  @52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away............................................   @35
Hair Lifter................................................. 
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.....................   @60
Fox’s  Choice...........................................  @63

@30

PLU G .

2c. less in four butt lots.

 

 

A ra b ...........................................................   @46
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 2x12.......  @46
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 3x12.......  @46
Red Star, flat, 3x12.................................  @46
Red Star, black. 24 oz...........................  @45
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
Tramway.................................................   @48
Big Sevens, dime cuts....................... 
@45
Black Diamond......................................  @35
Trotter, rum  flavor...............................   @70
Boot  ..............  
@44
B. F. P.’s Favorite.................................  @48
Old Kentucky.........................................  @48
Big Four,  2x12.......................................   @48
Big Four, 3x12.........................................  @48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.....................   @46
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12...............................   @48
Blackbird, 16 oz..  3x12..........................   @35
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @48
Glory  ......................................................   @48
D urham ...........................  
@48
Silver Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark]........................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Glimax.......................... 
@46
Hold F a s t................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Nobby Twist__ •....................................   @46
Nimrod.....................................................  @46
A corn.............. 
©46
C rescent........................ 
@44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  @40
Spring......................................................   @48
Grayling, all  styles...............................   @48
Mackinaw..................... 
@47
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair L ifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SM OKING

 

 

 

Tramway, 3  oz.......................................   @40
Ruby, cut Cavendish.  3  oz..................  @35
Boss  ........................................................)  @15
Peck’s Sun..............................................  @18
Miners and  Puddlers............................  @28
Morning Dew.........................................   @26
Chain  ......................................................  @22
Seal of Grand  Rapids............................  @25
King.........................................................   @30
F lirt.........................................................   @28
P ug...........................................................   @30
Ten Penny Durham, 54 and 54.............   @24
Amber, 54 and l f t ..................................   @15
John  Gilpin,  granulated.....................   @18
Lime Kiln  Club......................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut............  @90
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................   @55
Vanity  Fair............................................   @90
D im e........................................................  18@25
Peerless...................................................  @25
Standard..................................................  @22
Old Tom...................................................  @21
Tom & J e rry ...........................................  @24
Joker..................... 
 
@24
Traveler................................  
©35
M aiden.....................................................  @25
T o p sy ......................................................   @27
Navy  Clippings......................................  @26
Boots....................................... : ..............   @30
Honey D ew ............................................   @23
Gold block..............................................  @30
Camp Fire  ............................................  
@25
Oronoko.................................................  
15@19
Nigger  Head...........................................  @26
Durham, % f t .........................................   @60
54 f t .........................................   @57
54 ft • • ......................................   @55
l f t ........................................ 
@51
H olland...................................................  @22
G erm an...................................................  @14
Long Tom................................................  @30
National...................................................  @26
T im e ........................................................  @26
Conqueror..............................................   @23
Fox’s ........................................................  @22
G rayling.................................................   @32
Seal Skin..................................................  @30
Rob Roy.......................... ' ......................  @26
U ncle  Sam..............................................  @28
L um berm an...........................................  @25
Railroad Boy...........................................  @36
Mountain Rose.......................................   @18
Good  Enough.........................................  @23
Home Comfort, 54s and  54s........ .........  @25
Old  Rip, long c u t..................................  @55
Two  Nickle, 548....................................  @24
Two  Nickle, 54 s ................................... 
@25
Star Durham ..........................................   @25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................  @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................   @48
Seal of North Carolina, 4  oz.................  @46
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................   ©41
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @40
Big Deal, 548  longcut............................  @27
Apple Jack, 54s  granulated................   @24
King Bee, longcut, 54s and 54s............  @22
Milwaukee Prize, 548 »ml 54s...............  @24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham __   @24
Durham, S., B. & L, 54s and 54s...........   @24
Rattler, longcut......................................  @28
Windsor cut plug...................... 
  @25

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SALT.

DeLand’s  pure...............................  
Church’s  .......................................................@334
Taylor’s  G.  M................................................@ 334
Cap  Sheaf......................................................
Dwight’s ..............................•*........................@334
Sea  Foam .......................................................@334
S., B. &L.’s  Best........................................... ©  534
60 P o ck et.................................................... 
3 50
28 Pocket.................................................  
x X?
100 3 ft pockets.......................................  
"
Saginaw F in e .......................... ..............  
,  "X
Diamond C.............................................. 
J
Standard  Coarse....................................  
1 ®x
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags—  
3 20
American, dairy, Yx bu. bags
26
Rock, bushels.........................
SA UCES.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins W orcestershire, 34 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, Yx pints..................................   @1 00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  ¿®
Pepper Sauce, g re e n ............................  @  00
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  ©1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 70
Catsup, Tomato,  pints...................—   @  »0
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1 20
Horseradish,  Yx pints............................  @  00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1  20
Capers, French surfines.......................  @2 25
Capers, French surfines, large...........   @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s —   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s ........   @4 00
Olive Oil, Yx pints, Antonia & Co.’s —   @2 00
Celery Salt,  Durkee’s ..........................   @  00
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, Yx pints.........................  @2 10
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........  @4  85
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, sm all........   @2 90
Preserved Ginger, Canton,  pints.......  @1 25
Old Country, 80 bars, 80 fts.,  wrapped  @4 20 
Old Country, 80 bars,80 lbs.,unwrapped  @4  10
Old Country, 801 ft bars.......................   @ 53_
Queen  Anne...........................................  @5 00
Cameo......................................................   @3 30
M onday................................................ •  @3 50
Kirk’8 American  Family     ........ ^  ft 
614
534
do.  In d ia .......................................... 
do.  Savon........................................  
534
do.  S atin et....................................... 
534
do.  R evenue.................................... 
514
do.  White Russian........... ............ 
Proctor & Gamble’s Iv o ry ................. 
Japan  O live........  
box 
Town Talk 
Golden B ar.........  
Arab................ 
3 
Amber............. 
3 
Mottled  German.. 

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

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SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

5 25
*1°
5 00
* 20
4 50
5 00
5  00
3 25
* 20
* 00

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 20
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 05
Badger............................................60 fts  @614
G alvanic.................................................   @1 05
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @1834
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily.................................  @6 75
Handkerchief.........................................  @*20
Babbitt’s ...............................................  
Dish R a g ................................................ 
Bluing...................................................... 
Magnetic............................... .................. 
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon  ....................................................... 
Anti-Wash board....................................  
V aterland.........................................—  
Magic....................................... -..............  
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
Acme, 701 ft  bars...................................  @614
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................  @ 614
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................   @5 25
Napkin, 25  bars......................................  @3 25
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............  @ 6
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................  @534
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-34 8> cak e s....................... 
@5 00
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.......................  @4 85
Marseilles, white, 100 34 ft  cakes........   @6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 34 ft  cakes........   @6 25
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped...........   @7
German  Mottled, wrapped..................  @ 614
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................  @ 534
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................  
@  534
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............ 
@ 5
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.................  @4 00
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 ft.................  @4 00
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped........................  @3 85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................  @3 75
Climax, 100 cakes,  w rapped................   @3 25
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.........................  @2 30
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box  @1 25
l ln rtJ lli> n  f i n n   iPnilnt 5 
A 1  Floating, 60  cakes..........................   @4 20

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SPIC E S.
Whole.

P epper...........................................................   „@H!
Allspice.........................................................
Cassia.............................................................
Cloves  ......................................................   ••  @18
P epper............................................................I6@25
Allspice..........................................................12@18
Cinnamon  .....................................................16@30
Cloves............................................................. 16@25

Ground.

MISCELLANEOUS.

I~X)R  SALE—By a  groeeryman  in  this  city, 
:  who  will  shortly  retire  from   business, 
show cases, scales, coffee  mill,  spice  cans,  tea 
caddies, and all other fixtures necessary  for a 
first-class  grocery  store.  Will  sell  cheap,  it 
taken immediately.  Address,  ‘Fixtures,  care
67
‘The Tradesman.

FOR  SALE—Well-established  drug  store, 

having  a  good  patronage,  situated  on 
leading business thoroughfare.  Stock will  in­
ventory  about  $1,800.  Rent  only  $P>  per 
‘Pharma-
year.  Address, for full particulars, 
cist,” care “The Tradesman.”

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

FOR SALE—Fine store building, suitable for 

drug stock, and  eight  room  honse,  both 
nicely located at Grant, Newaygo county.  Doc­
tor and druggist prefered.  Price  $1.400.  Kea-
Geo. E. Harris, Ashland P.  O., 
sonable terms. 
64
Mich.
I7*OR  SALE—Four thousand dollars  will  buy 
a well-established hardware business in a 
? 
substantial, growing town.  The annual profits 
have averaged $2,500.  Best ot reasons to r sell­
ing.  Address “ Hardware,” care  TheTrades-
WANTED—Situation  by  young  man  in  a 
grocery or general store, to u r years  ex­
perience.  Best of references.  Address  Care 
65*
box 276, Fremont, Mich.
FOR  SALE—Well-established  retail  grocery 

business  in  thriving  country  town,  sur­
rounded  by  rich  farm ing community.  Stock 
and fixtures  will inventory about  $2,200.  Fun 
particulars  will  be  furnished  by  addressing 
Retail Grocer, in care of “The  Tradesman.  64
WANTED—Situation in a factory as a cheese 
m aker by a man of long experience.  Can 
furnish  best  of  references  from   the  dairy 
trade.  Address E. S., care  “The  Tradesman.

D EALERS wishing to sell out can  be  placed 

on the “For Sale” list at this office by send­
ing  their  address  and  full  particulars.  No 
charge.  The list is open to  the  inspection  of 
prospective buyers only.

ed  a  list  of  dealers  who are desirous  of 
selling by applying  at  this  office.  State  line 
and amount of capital.  Enclose  stamp.

PROSPECTIVE  purchasers  will  be  furnish­
IF  YOU WANT  to  get  into  business, to sell 

your business, to secure additional capital, 
to get a situation, to  secure  a  clerk  or  book­
keeper,  or  if  you  have  anything  for sale or 
want to buy anything, advertise in the  Miscel­
laneous Column  of  “The  Tradesman.  Cash 
or  postage  stamps  to  the amount should  ac­
company each order.

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Bloaters, Smoked Yarm outh..................• •, JW
Cod, whole..................................................4>4@3
Cod,Boneless................................................. x® ;^
Cod, pickled, Yx  bbls.................................. -3 25
H a lib u t................................................ 
I”
Herring Yx  bbls............................................ 350
Herring,  Scaled............................................20®21
Herring,  Holland.........................................©to
Mackerel, No. 1, Yx bbls...............................« 30
Mackerel, No. 1.12 1b  k its..........................1 00
Shad, % b b l..................................................2 50
Trout, No.  1, Yx  bbls....................................4 50
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  k its.................................  30
White, No. 1, Yx bbls ....................................6 00
White, Family, Yx bbls................................ 2 50
White, No. 1,10 ft k its................................ ,85
White, No. 1,12 ft k its................................ 1  00

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40

Jennings’ 2 oz............................¥   doz.l 00 
4 oz..........................................1 50 
6oz..........................................2 50 
8oz..........................................3 50 
No. 2 Taper...........................1 25 
:1 75 
No. 4 
'A pint  round........................4 50 
9 00  15 00
1 
No.  8.............................  
3 00 
No. 10 ........................... 
4 25 

“ 
‘‘ 
» 
“ 
“ 
“ 
«* 
« 
“ 

2 50
4 00
5 00
1 50
3 00
7 50
4 25
6 00

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'   FR U ITS

Apples, Michigan...........................  
  @554
Apples, Dried, York State, evap., bbls 
©8
Apples, Dried, York State,  evap., box  @10
Cherri es, dried,  pitted............. ............  @16
Citron......................................................
Currants, crop  1884...............................  
@554
Peaches, dried  ...................................... 
1^1*
©554
Prunes, Turkey...................................... 
Prunes, Turkey, new............................  @654
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes................. 
»@12
Raisins, Valencias.................................  @1052
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................   @13
Raisins,  Sultanas.................................. 9  @10
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................  @3  15
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @3 55
Raisins, Imperial Cabinets..................  @3 80
Raisins, Denesias..................................   ©* 25
Raisins, Dehesias, 54 boxes..................  @1  50

Grand  Haven,  No.  9, square....................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........................1  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor....................2 50
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor.................... 3 7o
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round....................... 2 25
Oshkosh, No. 2.................................................1  10
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................1 60
Swedish............................................................ „60
Richardson’s No. 2  square............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 6  dd 
..............................2 70
..............................1  70
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
..............................2 55

MOLASSES.

Black  Strap...................................................  @1»
Porto  Rico..................................................... r6@32
New  Orleans, good...................................... 44@45
New Orleans, choice...........................  
®0@52
New Orleans,  fancy.......................... 
o5@60
»

54 bbls. 4c extra. 

STARCH.

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

654
6
7
5
@5
@424
@654
@6
@7
@7
@624
@654
@754
@554
@7
@8
@854
@8
@654
@654
@624
@4
@654
@324
@6
@7
@654
@7
@4

Cayenne..........................................................25@35
Gilbert’s Gloss l f t ....................................  
“ 3ft cartoons..................... 
“  crates............................  * 
“  b u lk .................................. 

“ 
*• 
“ 
Corn, l f t ................................
“ 
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk.......
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts...........
•‘ 
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages............
“  Gloss,  36 3 
packages..........
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate—
“ 
Corn, 401 ft  packages...........
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
Muzzy Corn l f t ......................................
Kingsford  Silver Gloss.........................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box........ -.
Kingsford Corn......................................
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
Mirror  Gloss............................. .............
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................
Piel’s Pearl..............................................
American Starch Co.’s
l f t   Gloss.................................................
10 oz  Gloss..............................................
3ft  Gloss.................................................
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..
..40ft
Table Corn.....................
..20  ft
Table  Corn.....................
Banner, bulk..................
Rising  Sun gross..5  88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
U niversal...............5 50 Above $  dozen.......   50
I X L .......................5 50[
Cut  Loaf.................................................   @754
Cubes  .  ...................................................  @ 1^
Pow dered................................................  @  7
Granulated,  Standard..........................   @654
Granulated, Fine  Grain.......................  @654
Confectionery A ....................................   @654
@ 6 
Standard A.
@   6 
New Orleans  A.. 
@ 524 
Extra C, W hite...
@  554 
Extra C................
@ 554 
Fine  C..................
@  5
Yellow G...............

STOVE PO L IS H .

SUGARS.

SY RUPS.

Corn,  Barrels.........................................  
32
Corn, 54 bbls............................................  
36
Gorn,  (0 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @185
Corn, 454 gallon kegs........................ 
@1 65
Pure Sugar....................................... bbl  22®  34
Pure Sugar Drips.........................54 bbl  30®  38
Pure Sugar  Drips.................5 gal kegs  @1 96
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............54 bbl  @  86
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 86

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FRESH   MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the trade as follows;.
Fresh  Beef, sides................‘.................  5  @ 7
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters....................6  @ 754
Dressed  Hogs.........................................   554@ 524
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  @ 554
Veal..........................................................  9*4@10
Pork Sausage..........................................  8  @t-9
Bologna....................................................  9  @10
Chickens.................................. 
Turkeys  .................................................   @H
D ucks.................................. 
@14

 

 
OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

 

 

 

New York Counts.............................................. 35-
F. J. D. Selects..................................................33
Selects................................................................ 28
F. J. D ..............................  
20
Standard  ............................................................. 18
Favorite.................................................................}7
Medium.................................................................15
P rim e ...............................................................  14
New  York  Counts.......................................... 2 25
Selects, per gallon....................  ....................1  75
Standai'ds............................... ................1 00@1 10-
Codfish..............................................................   9
Haddock...........................................................   7
Smelts...............................................................12
Mackinaw T rout..............................................  8
Mackerel.......................................................... 12
Whiteflsh  ......................................................... 7@S-

FR ESH   F IS H .

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

W OOL.

H ID ES.

Perkins & He6S quote as foLows: 
@ 7 
Green................................................ft
© 854 
Part  cured..............................................  8
854@ 8%: 
Full cured...................................
8  @12 
Dry hides and kips...................
Calf skins, green or cured.......
@10
Deacon skins............................^  piece20  @50
S H E E P  PEL TS.
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts................................................30  @50
W inter  pelts......................................   60  @75
Fine washed $  ft......................................  20@ 22’
Coarse washed..................................... 16  @18
Unwashed................................................2-3
•Tallow......................................................  
554
Bear  ........................................................  50@10 
Fisher  ...................................................4  00@  8 00
Fox, red...................................................   25@ 
Fox,  gray................................................  15@  85
M artin .....................................................  25® 
M ink.......t.................................. 
 
M uskrat...................................................       2@  8
O tte r.....................................................4 00@ 5  00
Raccoon....................................................  
5@  85
Skunk  .....................................................   15@  90
Beaver, fi ft.........................................2 00®  3 00-
Deer, ^   ft................................................   10@  30-

S K IN S .

 

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1 10
1 00

5©  50

SHORTS.

Mule E a r.................................................  
H iaw atha................................................ 
Old Congress........................................... 
Acme........................................................ 
Globe........................................................ 

VIN EGA R.

Pure  Cider...........................................
White W ine.........................................

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

23
23
23
20
"  1*

8@12
8@12

1776 ¡g f t ...................................................  @1054
®  754 
Gillett’s $  ft ..
@10 
Soapine pkg............................................
@4 50 
Pearline $  box......................................
@4 50 
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers... 
@4 25 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
@4 50 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers. 
@4 25 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
@4 15 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 ft papers.. 
@4 00
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 54 ft paprs

Twin Bros... 
Magic..........

YEAST.
55  IW ilsons__

1  65
N ational............. 1  65

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 

85
60
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Bath Brick im ported.................................  
American................................. 
Barley..........................................................  
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
}  ™
do  No.  2.......................................  
1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
7 35
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star..............................................  @1254
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   „ @1354
E xtract Coffee,  v. c...............................  75@85
Gum, Rubber 100 lum ps..........................   @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps...........................  @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@35
Hominy, ¥  bbl....................-..................  @4 00
H. C. Flour, 18 3 ft pkgs., $  box............  @2 60
H. C. Flour in bulk, $  c w t...........................   ©4 80
Oil Tanks, Patent,  60  gallon.................   @10 00
Peas, Green Bush................................. 1 
40
do  Split prepared............................. .
Powder,  Keg...........................................4 00@
54 Keg.....................................2 26@

F e lix ..........................

do 

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T b a r b w a r e .

The  Screw  Historically  Considered.
The screw  is  not,  as  many  suppose,  of 
modern origin, although it was  not  known 
to the ancient Egyptians.  The helix of  the 
Greeks was the  first  thing  known  to  be 
made in the  form of a spiral, and  was  by 
them used in moving  large,  heavy  bodies, 
and must have been constructed similarly to 
our jack-screws.  It was invented by  Archi­
medes, at Syracuse, about 250  years  before 
the  Christian era.  He also used a  similiar 
device for the  purpose  of  raising  water. 
This last invention, however, has been  used 
by the Egyptians  since  the  Christian  era. 
History gives us no account of  how  Archi­
medes formed his spirals.

Another  inventor  and  philosopher, who 
lived in the  fourth  century, tells  how  he 
made  screws.  He  used a template in  the 
form of a right angle  triangle  made  from 
thin brass which he wound  around a  cylin­
der, the edge of which he used  as a guide to 
form the threads, after which the brass  was 
removed.  Of course this could not  be done 
on very fine screws.

Besson, a Frenchman, in  1569 invented a 
lathe for cutting screws by the aid of a guide 
screw;  and Hindly,  an Englishman,  improv­
ed it for use in watch-making in 1740.

Ramsden, in  1776, 

invented  a  machine 
called  a  dividing  engine,  with  which  he 
made screws of a good  quality.

Maudslay paid great attention to the man­
ufacture of screws and invented several  ma­
chines for the  purpose—but  finally settled 
down to the stationary knife  or  cutter,  and 
revolving rod.  The rod revolved  as  in  our 
modern  lathes,  and  the  cutting  tool  was 
fastened to a sliding plate,  which was  mov­
ed  by  a  guide  screw.  This  screw  was 
made to revolve by belts and  pulleys  simil­
iar to  some  old  lathes  now  in  use.  By 
changing the pulleys a different  speed  was 
given to the guide sere# and the  screw was 
cut finer or coarser  as  might  be  required. 
From this sprung  the  gears  now 
in  use. 
Maudslay at first made the guide  screws  of 
different sizes and changed them  instead  of 
the pulleys, but this did not prove a success, 
as screws could be cut only the same  thread 
as  the  guide  screw  used.  To  Maudslay, 
more than anyone else, is Holtzapffel indebt­
ed for points in his  lathe, which  was in its 
day the best in use, and is still  very  much 
used.  Holtzapffel wrote a treatise  in  three 
volumes, which  is  still  an  authority.  Iiis 
lathe is used not only for the purpose of cut­
ting  screws, but for all kinds of fancy turn­
ing.

The finest screw' thread  used  in  watches 
is 250 to the inch.  These  are  made  by au­
tomatic machines,  and without the  aid  of  a 
magnifying glass  no  thread  can  be  seen  at 
all.  It takes over  a  hundred  thousand  of 
these screws to weigh a  pound.  Automatic 
screw machines are now  in  use  in  all large 
factories.  A company  in  Hartford,  Conn., 
holds the principal  patents  on  this kind of 
machinery.

It is impossible to  recount  the  thousands 
■of different uses to  which  screws  are  put, 
but it may be  of  interest  to  know  that the 
watch which you carry  in  your pocket, if it 
has a compensating  balance,  has 44 screws, 
U2 of which are  in  the  balance-wheel;  and 
if you have one of the best watches these 22 
screws are made of gold.

In  the  modern  screw  machine  different 
sizes of dies  are  used.  Knight,  in  his  Me­
chanical Dictionary,  describes them as being 
stocked in a circular  head,  and  such  a  one 
is  selected  and  presented  to  the  plank  as 
may be  of  the  size  desired.  It  has  also  a 
rest  with  a  transversely  sliding  tool-post 
whereby the screw may be  cut  off  or dress­
ed.  There  are  various  kinds  of  stocks 
and  dies  used  for  cutting  screws,  but  as 
they are only used  for  special  purposes  or 
on a small scale,  they  require  no particular 
mention..  Their origin is unknown.

The  Value  of H and  Grenades.

From the  Boston Bulletin.

The various hand grenades in  the market 
have made quite a sensation  in  the past six 
months.  They have been extensively adver­
tised and a great many  have  been  sold.  It 
looks,  however, as if they had had their day. 
In a certain sense  they  are  valuable.  The 
fluid which they contain is of fire extinguish­
ing nature,  but  experience  is  showing that 
the hand grenades are of little value except in 
the hands of those trained to use them.  As 
a resort of  the  “ green hand ”  in  an  emer­
gency, they are quite likely  to  prove worth­
less and by no  means  fill  the  place  of  the 
portable  fire  extinguisher.  They  are  not 
looked upon with much favor  by the under­
writers.  They  do  not  afford  the  kind  of 
protection  which the  underwriters  most en­
courage.  It  is  their  endeavor  to  have  the 
insured improve his fire risk by general care­
fulness  and  by  improved  methods  of  fire­
proof building,  rather  than  by  having  ex­
tinguishing  apparatus  at  hand  which  can 
only be used in  the  incipient  stages  of  the 
blaze.  The  protection  of  hand  granades 
will afford no better rates  on  the  insurance 
policy  than  buckets  of  water  conveniently 
placed.  Indeed,  the latter  are  to be prefer­
red for universal use.  No skill other than a 
good aim  is  needed  for the successful appli­
cation of water.  A committee of Boston un­
derwriters  have 
lately  examined  several 
hand grenades  but  decline  to  formally  ap­
prove  them  for  miscellaneous  public  use. 
There is an objection to  their  use  not relat­
ed to their value as fire extinguishers  in the 
fact  that  it  is  not  uncommon  for  them  to 
burst under the pressure of  the  fluid  which 
they contain, and  thus  scatter  the  contents 
about.  The same chemical  elements  which 
cause them to burst impart to them their fire 
extinguishing properties.  The glass jar con­

taining the fluid cannot well be  mode thick­
er or stronger as  complaint  is already made 
that they  do  not  break  with  sufficient ease 
when their use is required.  The hand gren­
ade lfas an undoubted  value as an auxiliary 
fire appliance, but it  does  not seem to be of 
a general character.

A  Cure  for Trade Copyists.

From the Iron Trade Review.

Some time since, the writer visited a large 
stove-making  establishment,  and,  being 
shown  about  the  premises  by the obliging 
manager, was finally led  by  many  devious 
passages into a little room, locked  and  bolt­
ed, in a remote part  of  the  shop.  “This,” 
said the manager,  “is our designing and pat­
tern  room.  Nobody  outside  the  workmen 
here employed and the officers  of  the  com­
pany is allowed in here, as a rule—there are 
too many persons around  who  would  steal 
our  ideas,  if  they  could.”  There  is  no 
doubt that the situation  was  exactly  as  he 
described  it,  but  it  is  to  be  questioned 
whether fancied secrecy  would  have  served 
the purpose sought as well as wide publicity. 
Mr. Ben Pitman’s idea is that  the  best  pos 
sible protection against this form of thievery 
is to publish a new idea as broadcast as  pos­
sible, especially if such idea is  insufficiently 
protected by the patent laws.  The very pub­
licity thus obtained, he urges, indelibly fixes 
the name of the originator with the thing or­
iginated, and defeats the  copyist at  his own 
game.  Designers and manufacturers of new 
machinery, improved  appliances,  and  more 
direct methods, would do  well  to  view  the 
matter in the above light.  The best detectives 
have already learned the lesson, and,  except 
in rare  instances,  are  able  to  capture  sus­
pected  criminals  much  more  quickly  and 
certainly by getting the details of  the  crime 
at once before the public  than  by  pursuing 
their  work  in  secret. 
It  is quite possible 
that the lock-and-bolt plan  is  the  strongest
possible  temptation  to  the  wholesale  ap­
propriation of manufacturing  ideas,  now  so 
widely prevalent.

During his  recent  visit  to  Mexico,  Presi­
dent  Wade,  of  the  Mexican  Central  Rail­
road, says he was gratified to see how quiet­
ly everything  is  running  and  how  rapidly 
the people are accommodating themselves to 
the  new  order  of  things.  In  one  of  the 
States a native has  begun  the  manufacture 
of soap from  the  alkali  plant  that  abounds 
there, and in looks  and  quality  it compares 
favorably  with  the  best  white  castile  soap 
in American  markets.  This  may  be devel­
oped into a large industry.  In another  place 
near the railroad a rich deposit of brimstone 
has been discovered, and is now being work­
ed.  These  discoveries  are  stimulating  the 
residents  there  and  at  other  points  along 
the line to greater enterprise and thrift than 
they  have  ever  before  known,  and  in  a 
reasonable time the new life awakened may 
be expected  to  give  the  road  a  steadily  in­
creasing revenue.

|  The great private  businesses  which  have 
I been made  into  public  companies  in  Eng­
land have, for the most  part,  proved a woe- 
| ful  disappointment  to  their  shareholders, 
from the fact that the  selling price has gen­
erally been based on the  profits made in the 
best  years.  Wigram’s  shipping  business, 
out of  which  several  great  fortunes  have 
been made, returned  last  year  $615  on  an j 
expenditure of  $615,000.

j  There are now in  the  United  Stales six­
teen  locomotice  works,  not  including  the 
shops owned by railroad companies.

The  R ight  K ind  of an  A ccident Company.
- Seven years  ago when The United  States 
Mutual Accident Association of  the  City  of 
New York was organized it promised an ag­
gressive campaign against extortionate rates 
for accident insurance, and  the  rejection  of 
just claims for  indemnity  and  death  losses 
upon  strictly  technical  grounds.  It  has 
I kept its  promise,  and  by  furnishing  sound 
{accident insurance  at  extremely  low  rates 
and adjusting  its  losses  on  a  basis  of fair­
ness and justice, has  built up a membership 
of  twenty thousand,  and  carries  to-day  an 
insurance  of  one  hundred  millions  of  dol­
lars.
The United States Mutual  Accident Asso­
ciation  has  adjusted  and  paid  honorably 
and  promptly  over  four  thousand  claims 
amounting to nearly  half  a  million  of  dol­
lars, at a cost  to  its  members  of  only  one- 
half  the  rates  charged  by  stock  accident 
companies,  and  invites  all  who  appreciate 
honesty, economy  and  fair  dealing  to  join 
its ranks.  A $5,000 policy  with  $25 weekly 
indemnity costs members of  preferred occu­
pations only $13 a year,  which  may be paid 
at one time  or  by  assessments  as  they are 
made.
To  become  a  member  write  for  circular 
and application  blank,  and  when  received 
fill out your application, inclose  $5, and for­
ward it to James R.  Pitcher,  the  secretary, 
at 320 Broadway, New  York,  on  receipt of 
which a policy  will  be  promptly  mailed to 
you.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E N G I N E S

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfits.
"W.  O,  Denison,

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

 

 

 

 

 
 

CAPS.

BOLTS.

COMBS.

BRACES.

C H IS ELS.

BUCKETS.

BALANCES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

AUGERS AND B ITS.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as follows:
Ives’, old  style........................................ dis 
50
N. H. C. Co............................................... dis 
55
Douglass’ ................................................ dis 
50
50
Pierces’ ....................................................dis 
60
Snell’s ....................................................... dis 
Cook’s  ............................ 
dis40&10
25
Jennings’, genuine................................ dis 
Jennings’,  im itation..............................dis40&10
Spring............................... ........................dis 
25
BARROW S.
R ailroad.............  
.................................... $  15 00
Garden....................'.................................net 33 00
BE LLS.
H and.................................................... dis  $  6Q&10
Cow.......................................................... dis 
fio
Call............................................................dis 
15
20
G ong........................................................ dis 
55
Door, Sargent..........................................dis 
Stove............. 1...................................... dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list...................................dis 
75
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&1(
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis  50&15
Cast Barrel Bolts................................... dis 
50
55
W rought Barrel Bolts................ 
dis 
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs...................... dis 
Cast Square Spring................................dis 
55
Cast Chain...............................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...............dis  55&10
W rought Square....................................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush.............................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door............................................... dis  50&10
40
B arb er..................................................dis $ 
Backus..................................................... dis 
50
Spofford................................................... dis 
50
Am. Ball.................................................. dis 
net
Well, plain..................................................$  4 00
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis 
60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed.......... dis 
60
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  P in..............................dis 
60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ...................................................dis  60& 5
W roughtTable........................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind..........................dis- 
60
Wrought Brass.......................................dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s .......................................... dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s .......................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s .................................... dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross  15 00 
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3.... per gross  18 00 
Ely’s 1-10.................................................per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................................  
60
G .D ............................................ 
35
M usket.......................... 
60
CA TRIDG ES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list 
50
Rim Fire, United  States........................ dis 
50
Central Fire..............................................dis  %
Socket Firm er.......................................dis  65&10
Socket Fram ing................................... dis  65&10
Socket Corner....................................... dis  65&10
Socket Slicks...........................................dis  C5&10
Butchers’Tanged Firm er..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firm ers................... dis 
20
Cold........................................................ net
Curry, Lawrence’s ...............................dis 
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 
Brass,  Racking’s........................................  40&10
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B e e r.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.........................................................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  lb  37
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  39
Morse’s Bit  Stock................................. dis 
35
Taper and Straight Shank.................... dis 
20
Morse’s Taper  So5nk............................ dis 
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................doz net $1  10
Corrugated............................................. dis  20&10
A djustable..............................................dis  %&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00. 
25
dis 
American File Association  List........dis  50&10
Disston’s ................................................dis  50&10
New  American......................................dis  50&10
Nicholson’s.-............................................dis  50&10
Holler’s ...................................................dis 
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... dis 
33%
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
18

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
12 
14 
15 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............dis 
50
Maydole & C o/s......................................dis 
15
Kip’s .............................................  
25
dis 
Yerke8&  Plumb’s .................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.................... 30 c  list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction.......................dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tra .k ............................. dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3................................dis 
60
State............................................ perdoz.net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
3%
 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net 
10%
Screw Hook and Eye %.................     net 
8%
Screw Hook and Eye  %.......................net 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %..'..................net 
7%
Strap and  T .......................... 
dis  60&10
Stamped Tin W are....................................   60&10
Japanned  Tin  W are.................................   20&10
Granite Iron  W are........ ......................... 
25
Grub  1.................................. ............$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2.................................. ............  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........ $2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
mings.........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
60
40
Picture'; H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ....................d 
H om acite................................................dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s ......................... dis  60
Branford’s ................................................... dis  60
Norwalk’s.....................................................dis  60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....................dis  65
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................. dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malléables dis  40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ............dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................dis  25
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye..................................... $15 00dis40&10
H unt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

and  longer.......................... 

13 
GAUGES.

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

HAMMERS.

HANGERS.

33%
25

ELBOW S.

C O PPER .

LEV ELS.

H IN G ES.

KNOBS.

D R IL LS

COCKS.

M ILLS.

F IL E S .

HO ES.

 

 

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

O IL E R S .

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2  25
25
8 d a n d9 d ad v ................................................ 
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1  50
3d fine  advance...........................................  
3 00
Clinch nails,  adv...........................................  1  75
i  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
6d  4d
Size—inches  f  3 
2 
1%
2% 
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 
Adv. f  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis • 70
Stebbin’s Genuine....................................... dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................   dis  50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.........................dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom ............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  40
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench.................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.......................dis  15
Bench, first quality..................................... dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, Acme...............................................dis 40&10
Common, polished.................................dis 
60
Dripping................................................. $  fi) 
8
Iron and Tinned..................................dis 
40
Copper Rivets and B urs.....................dis 
40
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10% 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E T S .

PA N S.

9

Broken packs %c $  ® extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

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

O V ER  14  Y E A R S
B ailey  H ouse,  Stanton.

Experience  in  some of  the  Best  Hotels  in  Michigan  enables  me  to 

truthfully say  that the

Is the Best Hotel in, Montcalm County

In point of Neatness and Cleanliness of the Housk Size and  Condition  of Rooms,  Variety  and 

Style of Tatle, Thoroughness of Service, and anything that makes a Hotel

13 00

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The house has recently been repainted inside and  out,  repapered  and  calcimined,  and  is  now 

in the best possible condition throughout.  It is amply suppled with  1  '

IFire Escapes and Hand Grenades,

Commodious and well-managed Barn and Fine Running W ater all seasons of the year.  OPEN

B. P. Littlefield,

DAY  AND  NIGHT.

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117  Monroe  St.

OYSTER  DEPOT!
F.  J.  DETTENTHALER.
Wholesale  &  Comissi-Battor  &  Eggs  a  Specialty.

E.  F A L L A S ,

Choice B utter jilways on hand.  All Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention:

125 and 127 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationery,  Ker­

osene and Machine Oils, Naptha and Gasoline.

51 and 53 Lyon Street 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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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 and Sun-Dried  Apples  largely. 
If you have any of these goods to ship, let us hear from you,  and  we  will  keep 
you posted on market prices and prospects.  We also handle Beans  and  Pota­
toes.  Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in  carlots.

EARL BROS,

ts.

IOO  S,  W a te r  st,  Cliicago,  1 1 1 ,

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

J E N N I N G S ’

HANDKERCHIEF  PERFUMES

TR IPLE  EXTRACTS,

SPECIAL  0D0ES—Fleur de lis,  Marie  Antoinette,  Jockey 

Club, White Eose, Flenr D’Orange.

Also a full Assortment  S t a n d L a r d   O d o r s ,   put up in  1,  2, 

and 4 oz., 1-2 pint and pint Glass Stoppered Bottles.

Jennings  &  Sm ith,  Perfumers,

G r r a n d   R a p i d s ,   M i c h .

ROPES.

Sisal, % In. and  larger..................................   9
Manilla.............................................................  15*4
Steel and  Iron..............................................dis  50
Try and Bevels............................................. dis  50
Mitre  ............................................................dis  20
Com. Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30 inches 

Nos. 10 to  14....................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   420 
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40 
No. 27..............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $1  B>............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   fl>.....................  
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined................................. 
 
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half...............................  

TIN  PLATES.

$3 00
3 00
3 00
3 20
3 40

300

Cards for Charcoals, $6  75.

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

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel,  Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  New house’s ............dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........ ..............................................   60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’S......................................  60
Mouse, choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 26 fi doz
Bright Market............................................   dis  60
Annealed Market......................................... dis  60
Coppered Market..........................................dis  55
Extra Bailing................................................dis  55
Tinned  Market.............................................kis  40
Tinned Broom.............................................¡pib  09
Tinned M attress....................................... $  fl>  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel........................... dis 37%
Tinned Spring Steel..................................dis 37%
Plain Fence............................................... $  ft  3%
Barbed Fence...................................................
Copper............................................  
new list net
Brass.......................................................... new  list net
Bright.......................................................¡...dis  70
Screw Eyes...................................................tdis  70
Hook’s'..................................’ .....................dis  70
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.................................dis  70
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine........................................dis  50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
65
Coe’s Patent,  malleable........'............ dis 
70
Pumps,  Cistern.................................... dis  60&20
Screw s........................................................ 
70
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
33%
Dampers,  American................................. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE GOODS.

WrENCHES.

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TUB NEW ERA RINK SKATE

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

We claim the NEW  ERA  to  be  the most

In ii

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

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

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.
10  AND  12  MONROE  ST.,

AGENTS FOR  MICHIGAN.

Send for Circular and Price-Lists.

DO  YOU  KNOW
Xiorillard’s  Climax

—THAT—

PLUG  TOBACCO

With Red Tin Tag, is the best?  Is  the purest; 
is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, mo­
lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as  is  the 
case with many other tobaccos?
L orillard’s Rose  L eaf F ine Cut Tobacco 
is also made of the  finest  stock,  and  for  aro­
matic chewing quality is  second to none.
take first rank as a solid  durable  smoking to­
bacco wherever introduced.
L orillard’s  Fam ous  Snuffs 
have  been  used  for  over  124  years,  and are 
sold to a larger extent than any others.

L orillard’s  Navy  Clippings 

SO U JIA N   SNOOKS.

D issertation  on Corn Cures—l ’ostottice W ar 

in  Prospect.

Ca n t H ook Corners, Mich., Dec. 15, ’84.
Mister editor oi Traidsman :

I did intern!  to go  to  Grand  liappids  this 
weak to lay in a new stock of  goods.  I  am 
getting kind of low on several things, to wit: 
Nails, ribbons, kerocene  ile,  prints,  codfish, 
calomil, etc., etc.  Our city doctor, C. Minor 
Kobb, M. D., oses  a  pile  of  calomil.  He 
says  “ I don't care a dum what  ails  a  man,
I  tell  you,  Snooks, go for his liver.”  The 
liver is his main holt.  He prescribed  for  a 
feller who had a bad corn field  on  his  foot, 
tother day, as toilers, to wit, namely.

R Hyd. Cloride M gr. xxv.
Mx. Chart, Sex. Dlv.
Sig—1 each night.
My div. 25c.  DTTM.
No. 751. 

Kobb, M. D.

I  filled  it  for  only  50 cents, whitch was 
cheap, considerin’ Dock’s dividend out of it, 
but I don’t know whether it cured the  corns 
or not.  Dock has a theary that corns  come 
from liver complaint, but my theary is  that 
they come from being in  love.  I never  was 
bothered with ’em at all after  I  was  cured 
of love, by marrying the object of my  affec­
tions, my late pardner.  I ’spose  you  know 
I am a widderer, Mr. Stowe, and that I have 
been in that state over a year.  It  has  been 
my  impressliun  that  it  sort  of  helps  my 
trade,  becos,  you  see,  the  wimmin  folks 
kinder like to traide with a  single  man,  es­
pecially widders.  There is Widder Spriggs, 
for  instance,  comes  from way over in Pine 
Holler,  about 7 miles,  just to traid with me.
She said to me last weak, says  she,  “ Mister 
Snooks,  you  keep  the  best 40 cent Jappan 
there is in the country, to chear a poor, lone 
body up;  I should think  you  would  be  so 
lonely, after living in the married state with 
such  a  esteamibell  pardner as you had.  I 
feel for you, Brother Snooks, I do,  indead.”
She reached out her hand to feel for me, and 
Isays:  “Sister Briggs,” says I,  “excuse me 
but I see a drummer is waiting for me in the 
offis, just please allow Bill to wait on  you.’
Oh,  I am onto these little  snaps,  and  don’t 
you forget to remember it.

While I was writing the above,  that  corn 
patient of Dock’s come back.  He says them 
powders diddent help his corns  a  mite,  but 
that his systim in general is  better. 
I  sold 
him a box of “Dobse’s Patent Com Buster.” 
That will make his toes swell up so he can’ 
get his boot on  in  24  ours  from  now,  so  ! 
will get a chance to sell him flax  seed  for < 
poultis, and then some of my “Lumberman’! 
Liniment,” to heal  his toes up.  This keeps 
traid going and prevents money from settling 
into the great trade senters.  1 have got nine 
kinds of corn extracters in stock at pressent 
and  all  the  presinks  not  in  yet, for  some 
darn  cuss  comes  along  about  evey 4 day 
with  a  new  kind,  and  swars that it is the 
only genuine thing in the market.  A  feller 
wood naturally suppose that all the  men  in 
the country out of a job had gone into  mak 
ing corn cures  and  that  all  other  branches 
of bizness was running on H time.

, 

I see by the papers that  you  have  a  boy 
cot on your street cars.  Now, that is a good 
thing, I ’spose,  in a big city, and  must make 
it pleasanter for the boys.  I like to  see  im 
provements and I hope we will get  the  lat 
est stile of boycot  on our stage before  long 
Some men seems to kick against all  such in 
ventions, tho’, I notis.  I hear a lot  of  talk 
lately  about  Nights  of  Labor.  That  may 
work  all  right  in  your  big  city, but I tell 
you this night work will brake a man up af­
ter a while.  I used to be a  night  engineer 
in  a  saw  mill,  had  to file saws and  clean 
up  saw  dust,  you  know,  all  night, 
broke up my constitution so 1 had to go into 
a light business. 
I  only  have to work  fif 
teen ours a day now.

I s’pose you wood like to hear more about 

our thriving little city, whitch  is destined 
be  a  great  manufacturing  senter yet.  We 
have  a  railroad  (coming)  that  is going  to 
strike rite plum past my  store,  whitch  will 
make  it  handy  to  take off males.  By  the 
way.  Old Potts is going ’round with  a  perti- 
tion to get himself appinted  postmaster  un­
der  the  new  administration.  The  under­
handed old cuss, I will let him  know  that  I 
am just as good a dimecrat as he  is.  To  be 
sure, I was a republikin before  ’lection,  but 
I  have  changed  my  mind  sense, and  now 
think  a  change  was  needed,  but  I  don’t 
think  a  change  is needed in the post  offis, 
not by a jug full.

“Principiss  obstay,  pro 

temper  nux 
vomica,”  as  the  Latin  poet  observes,  and 
just remember that Uncle Sol is on  deck.

I am going to send you a map of  our  city 
next  week,  and  perhaps  tell  you  a  little 
about the place.

Yours Cornicopically,

Solim an Snooks,

G. D., P. M. and J. P.

A  Sure  W ay  to  Get Rich..

The owner  of  a  chair  shop  in  a  certain 
town in this State figured  away  for  a  week 
before  he  saw  his  way  clear.  It was evi­
dent that he  must  either  reduce  wages  or 
discharge  some  of  the  men,  and  he  was 
working to get around it.  He  finally called 
them  together  and  said:  “ Ghendlemens, it 
vhas hardt times. 
I  haf  blenty  chairs,  but 
no orders.  I vhas oaferproductioned for der 
market.  I doan’ like  to  shut  up shop, und 
I doan’  like  to  cut  down  vages,  so  I  fix  it 
some  udder  vay.  My  capital  was  $12,000 
und my stock on handt vas $7,000.  I water 
my capital $3,000 und  I  put  up  der  prices 
on my furniture $2,000, und  so  you  all  haf 
work all winter at  the  same  old wages, und 
like enough I  make  one  thousand  dollar to 
boot”

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B a k i n g
powder

This  Baking-  Powder makes the  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes. Bread, etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced. 
Prepared only by the
Arctic  Manufacturing  Co,,

GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

S. YALE & BRO.,
PUYDRIBG  EXTRACTS!

—M anufacturers  ot —

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUIKTOS,  ETC.,

40  and  42  South  D ivision, St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH

S I E S ^ L O X J X i i E S i S ,

t h e   g r e a t   s t u m p   a n d   r o c k

A i r m H I L A T O R .

Strongest  k  Safest  Explosive  Known  to the  Arts
Farmers, practice econom y and  clear 
your land of stum ps and boulders.  Main 
Office, Hercules  Powder Company, N o 
40  Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.
L. S. T T T T .T ,  & CO., AGTS 

GUNS, AMMUNITION  &  FISHING  TACKLE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

OYSTERS 2

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

jse::e d s  !

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

Oranges and Lemons

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

MOSELEY  BROS.,

122  Monroe  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  mineral 
poison or quinine.  Act directly on the Liver, “tone
........... 
.’■>««”  the  system,  aid digestion  and
purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CUBE 
HEADACHE  AND CONSTIPATION.  In­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
on receipt of price,  25  cts.  Sample 
package free.  Western  Medicine 
Company., Grand Rapids, Mich.

PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILDLY,  C U R E S  QUICKLY
DUNHAM’S  SURE  CURE  FOR  FEVER  A  AGUE.
arrests  the  disease in 20 minutes.

¡One  DOSS  taken during the  Chill, 

NEVEE KNOWN TC TAIL.  M oneyri 
turned  if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre­
paid for 60 cts.  Address, W e s t e r n  
M e d i c i n e  Co. .Grand Rapids, Mien.

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W M . S E A R S &  CO.

Cracker  Manufacturers

Agents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

SHIELDS,  B lffiï  I   U

¡H

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.
We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  P e a n u ts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  Walnuts  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  &  BROOKS.
C H E W

STRAIGHT  GOODS—NO  SCHEME.

STAR

John  Caulfield,

Sole  Agent.

P E R K I N S  
HESS,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

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

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUISSTREET,  GRAND  RA PID S,  MICHIGAN.

MTJSKE C OIT  BUSINESS  DIXIE CT OUÏT.

S. S. MORRIS A BRO.,
Jobbers  of  P rovisions,

PACKERS

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

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

W-D. CAREY" & CO.

OYSTERS!

—AND  JOBBERS  OF-

Frixits and Produce.

ORDERS  PROMPTLY  PILLED.  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES,
ORCUTT 
BnttBi  te s, a « ,  M l Gin, Haf, But PopU M m

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Consignments  S olld rt. 

MI0IL

I M P O R T E R S

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AND  JOBBERS  OF-

AND-

FANGT  GROCERIES

After our long and persistent efforts to meet the wants of A ll Grocers by carrying  a 
complete line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, it now affords us much pleasure to  know 
that our endeavors have been Successful and  Appreciated,  and  that  to-day  we  are  re­
garded by the trade as not only the Headquarters in our  line  for  the  trade  tributary  to 
this  market,  but  also  the  Fancy Grocery H ouse.  The  ONLY  H ouse  in  Michigan 
that  carries  a  complete  line  of  Fancy Groceries.  Below  we mention a few Fancy 
Groceries  which will be greatly in demand  during  the  next  thirty  days  and  which  we 
are selling at very close  prices.

Citron, Orange Peel, Lemon Peel, Sultana  Raisins,  De- 
hesia Bunch Layers Boxes, Dehesia Bunch Layer 1-4 Boxes, 
Imperial  Cabinets,  London  Layers,  Muscatels,  Valencias, 
Ondaras and Layer Valencias in 14 and 28 lb. boxes.  ALL 
NEW FRTJIT.  New Layer Figs, New Turkish Prunes, New 
French Prunes in 50 lb. boxes, New French Prunellas 50 lb. 
boxes,  New  Currants,  New  Black  Pitted  Cherries  50  lb. 
boxes, New Dried Raspberries, New Dried Blackberries, New 
China  Preserved  Ginger,  New  French  Peas,  New  French 
Mushrooms,  New  Italian  Macaroni  and  Vermicelli  25  lb. 
cases in 1 lb. pkgs., New  Scotch  Marmalade,  New  English 
Orange Marmalade in 1 lb. Stone Jars, New English Goose­
berry, Strawberry, Raspberry, and Black Currant Jams in 1 
lb. stone jars.  Full line of A. Lusk & Co.’s  California  Can­
ned Fruits, Apricots, Quinces, Grapes,  Golden  Drops,  Green 
Gages,  Egg  Plums,  Peaches  and  Pears,  French  Brandy 
Peaches in Glass, quarts, French Cherries in Brandy, quarts.
Full line of Crosse & Blackwells’ English Pickles.  Full 
line of Dingee’s Pickles in glass.  Lea & Perrins’ Worcester 
Sauce, Halford's Sauce, Spanish Olives 16 and 27 oz. bottles, 
French Capers, French and Italian Salad Oil for table use in 
1-2 pints, pints and quarts, Durkee’s Salad Dressing in pints 
and quarts, Colman’s English Mustard, Epps’ English Cocoa, 
Cox’s English Gelatine, Durkee’s Celery Salt.  Mackerel  in 
3  lb.  cans  Soused in Tomato  Sauce  and in  Mustard Sauce, 
Brook Trout Soused and Spiced in 3 lb. cans,  Smoked  Hali­
but,  Yarmouth  Bloaters,  Scotch  Fin-in-haddies,  Rochester 
Ready  Cooked  Food  Co.’s  Cooked  Oatmeal,  Hominy  and 
Wheat  2  lb.  papers  and  Beans  and Peas for  Soups in 1 lb. 
papers, Hecker’s Self-Raising Buckwheat 3 and 6 lb. papers.
Please read the  above carefully and if in want of anothing in  our line send in your 

8aOOLÆF-A-JSTST,

orders and same shall receive the closest and most prompt attention.

SHIELDS,  RULKLEÏ  K  U

Grand  IRa/picLs.

