The Michigan  Tradesman.

____________________  

_  

_

1 f t

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  24,1884.

N O . 66.

V O L . 2.

PETER  DOR AIT, 

Attomey-at-Law,

Fierce Block, Grand Rapids,  Michigan, 

Practices  in  State  and United  States  Courts. 
Special attention given to

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

WEATHERLY t CO,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IRON PIPE, 

Brass  Goods,  Iron  and  Brass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  Fitters,
—And  Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

Special Attention given  to Collections  in City 

or  Country.  Also

FIRE, LIFE &  ACCIDENT

Insurance,

Shoe and Leather.......................... ••• ••• -Boston
Cooper.........................................
Union........................................ Pittsburgh,  Pa.
Germania................................. Cincinnati,  Ohio

Total Assets represented, $3,516,808. 

c o r r e s p o n d e n c e   s o l i c i t e d .

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Bapids

General  Collectors,

Send for

PRICE  LIST.

ORDERS

PROMPTLY

FILLED.

And Lashes of All Kinds and Prices.

G. M S  & CO, M l A p t!
STEAM LAUNDRY

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AKD  USE  NO

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

Jl

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

THE  GRAND  RAPIDS

l.Í

@

c .m

(Established  1866)  is  acknowledged to  be  the 
mostcomplete,thorough, practical, economical 
and truly popular school of its kind.  Demand 
for its graduates greater  than  the  supply. 
For particulars enclose stamp for College Jour­
nal.  Address  C.  G.  SWENSBERG,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  CO.

91 CANAL STREET.*

W. N.FULLER & GO

DESIGNERS  A ND

Engravers on Wood,

Fine  Mechanical and  Furniture Work, In­

cluding Buildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

- 

MICH.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

J E W E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

ALBERT  COYE

-JO B B ER S  OK—

irse Covers,  Oiled  Clothing, Awnings  and Tents.

73 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.

LIVE  GROCERYMEN
DETROIT  SOAP  CO.’S

-SELL-

-FAMOUS-

The Best Selling Brand  on  the  Mar­
ket.  A  Strictly  Pure,  First-Class  A  1 
Family  Soap.  Big and  Lasting  Trade 
and Good Margin to Dealers.

Sole Agents for Grand Rapids.

Cody,  Ball  &  Co.,
GLOVER  SEED

BEANS!

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

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
K E M I N K ’ S

a

---- AND----

W. T. LAMOREAUI, A pt,
Red Bark Bitters
in Oriole M aifacturii Co, j retailers,
LAVINE

If you are selling goods to make 

F 8  West  Bridge  Street,

91 Canal street.

MICHIGAN.

a profit,  sell

JA M ES C. A V ERY .

GRAND  RAPIDS,

James G. Avery & Co

G EO . E .  HU BB A RD .

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

Manufacturers of the  following brands  of Ci­
Great  Scott,  Demolai  No.  5, 

gars;

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.

-------JOBBERS  IN-------

Manufactured  Tobacco.
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.

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

Price-List,HittCHtaICa
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

IMITATIONS  OF LEATHER.

How  they  Are  Palmed  Off Upon  the  Pub­

lic  for  Footwear.
From  the  Rochester  Democrat.

“ The oft-quoted statement,” said a  veter­
an shoe dealer to a reporter yesterday  after­
noon,  “ ‘ There are tricks  in  all  trades  but 
ours ’  is the completest  fallacy  ever  perpe­
trated  upon  an  unsuspecting  public.  The 
fact is that there is no given trade in  which 
frauds are not continually conjured and suc­
cessfully worked.”

“ Specify.”
“ I will tell you a few in our business,  for 
I am best informed upon the subject, having 
been in the wholesale  manufacturing  trade 
for a score of years.  Right here let  me  tell 
you the cause of  it.  In any  business  there 
is a continual struggle between  manufactur-1 
ers, and this makes it necessary for  them to I 
economize and figure to  reduce  cost  in  the j 
most trifling details, for it is  the  few  cents 
margin that makes the profit which  enables 
the fortunate  to  wear  diamonds  and  drive 
fast horses.”

“ I see.”
“Some  years  ago,  there  was  a rage  for 
cheapening  goods.  Cheap  substitutes  for 
standard  stock  were  eagerly  sought  for. 
They found them, too.”

“ Do you know any local devices ? ”
“I do.  A prominent  manufacturer  here, 
who has a good reputation and does  a  busi­
ness  amounting  to  hundreds  of thousands 
annually,  devised  a  scheme some time  ago 
whicli  was  destined  to  make large profits.
| He made a great many  tipped  shoes.  The 
advantage is the extra protection  to the toe, 
making  two  thicknesses  of  leather  there, 
and  giving  better  service,  especially 
in 
children’s shoes.  Well, this man  cut  off  a 
piece  of  vamp  at  the  toe,  and joined  the 
vamp  and  tip  by  stitching  them as usual. 
The result was only one thickness of leather 
there,  and  when  the tip was worn through 
there was a hole in the shoe.”

“ That surely could not make  much  of  a 

saving.”

“ Couldn’t,  eii? 

it  saved  just  so  much 
whole stock, and reduced the estimated num­
ber of feet to the  case.  Then  it  saved  the 
best part of the skin, for  the  flanks  cannot 
be cut into vamps.”

“ Was the trick discovered ?”
“ Unfortunately it was.  The manufactur­
er overstepped himself there,  and  tjie  shoes 
which he sent out ripped badly.  The conse­
quence was that he had a lot of shoes to take 
back.  He was money out in the end.”

“ What are some others ? ”
“ Some manufacturers, in making  double- 
soled men’s goods,  have cut heel lifts out  of 
the  first  sole,  and  filled  it up with pasted 
stock or leather board.  Then  I’ve heard  of 
cases where the  tap-sole  was  reduced  to  a 
mere strip around the edge, with some cheap 
material  for  the  center  filling.  Heels  are 
often made almost entirely  of  cheap  manu­
factured stock.  Only the best of shoes have 
sole leather counters.”

“How about the uppers? ”
“ There is  exception  everywhere.  There 
is no prime stock made which has not an ac­
companying imitation.  There  is  imitation 
French kid,  imitation Curacoa kid, imitation 
everything.  More sheep-skins are  made  up 
to  resemble  kid  than  you  would imagine. 
There is even imitation  sheep-skin.”

“ How can they be detected ? ”
“ Only by years of practice.  No plain, or­
dinary, every-day  buyer  can  tell  India  kid 
from Curacoa.  The  India  kid  is  made  of 
sheep-skin.”

“ And sold for genuine kid ? ”
“ Often.  It’s a conscientious  dealer  who 
will  say  “ this  shoe  is  not kid, but sheep­
skin, made up to resemble  kid.’ ” .

“ Are these deceptions practiced  as  much 

in Rochester as in other cities ? ”

“ No.  Eastern towns are the  hot-beds  of 
shoddy shoes.  Rochester shoes are general­
ly  good,  but  there  are  tricks of the  trade 
everywhere.  Come  around  again  and  I’ll 
tell you some more.”

A  Word  W ith  the  Country  Dealer. 

From  the  Monetary Times.

We make  no  apology  for  calling  to  the 
memory of the  retail  storekeeper little mat­
ters which,  if he attends  to  them  now, may 
make a great difference  in his balance sheet 
when the New Year comes:

Are  you a holder of  boots  and  shoes,  of 

grain, of wool, of butter, of furs ?

Are  you  tempted  by  some  genial  com­
mercial  traveler  to  give  him  an  order this 
week for  a  line  of  goods  on  which  seven 
months time  may  be  had ?  If so, would it 
not be wiser to refuse to speculate on future 
prices ?  Better stick,  we  should  think,  to 
four month’s terms and buy  what you  need 
only.
Have you many outstanding accounts ?  If 
you  have,  let  nothing  delay  your  making 
them out  and  pressing  for  payment.  It  is 
desirable at the time of low prices for many 
staples to have cash in hand so that you may 
buy  at  the  best  advantage  when  you  see 
prices begin to rise.

Are your expenses too large in proportion 
to  the  business  you  do?  Do  rent,  taxes, 
fuel, light, clerk-hire,  and  family outlay ex­
ceed  the  profit  you  make  on  your  annual 
turn-over ?  If they do,  you  may  fairly be­
gin  to  ask  whether,  as  a  merchant, your 
usefulness is not gone.

Do you know how  much  stock  you  have

to make and sell.  This^reasoning the court j 
held to  he  unsound,  as  the  possession of  a 
United States  patent  did  not  enable  a  per-j

in your store ?  Are there not  dark corners, 
j neglected  drawers,  dusty  shelves,  whose 
! contents your clerks know little of and your-
self nothing ?  A h!  the  live  storokeeper  is  son to  violate  any  of  the  health  laws of
the one who  has  fewest  old, rusty,  tossed 
and neglected goods.  Bettet get rid of such 
stuff at  one  third  of  its cost  than  deceive 
yourself swelling  your  stock  sheet  witli  it, 
year after year.

state,  and the right of a state or a communi- j 
ty to prevent the sale  of  articles deemed in­
jurious to nealtn  was  unquestioned  in  law. 
It was further decided  that  a  state  bad the 
right to prohibit the manufacturejof  articles 
under a United States patent if it.prohibited 
the manufacture of all similar  articles made 
without a patent. 
It was only when a state 
discriminated against a patented article that 
a person could properly claim that his rights 
had been infringed  upon  by the  state legis­
lature.  This decision is in principle of wide 
application.

He got the Job.

“Say, missus, d’ye  want  your  sidewalk 

cleaned?”

Important  Decision  Affecting  Debtors and 

Creditors. 

»

A recent decision of the Supreme Court of 
Minnesota is of considerable  interest to mer­
chants. 
It  was  a  question  of false repre­
sentation to secure credit  on  a  purchase  of 
goods.  The action was brought by the plain­
tiff to recover certain goods which had  been 
seized  by  the  defendant, a3  sheriff,  as  the 
property of one Bauman.  It  appeared  that 
Bauman  applied  to the  plaintiff’s  traveling 
agent to purchase certain goods on credit, that 
the agent requested Bauman to state how he 
stood,  and that the  latter  answered  that  he 
had $3,000 in his business, consisting of mer­
chandise and book accounts, and $300 in cash. 
This statement being submitted to the plain­
tiff, he, upon the strength of  it,  shipped  to 
Bauman the goods which he had ordered.  It 
appeared also that at the time the statement 
was made, Bauman was indebted in hi.s busi­
ness to the amount of $2,100, a fact which he 
omitted to state.

Are you arranging for  stock-taking at the 
end of the year ?  Be sure  you  don’t take it 
in at prices beyond its value.

Are you  insured ?
Do you keep a record of your notes ?
Do you check your invoices ?
Do you keep an order book ?
Are you trying to sell for cash ?
Is there any fire protection in  your place ?

How Corks are Made.

From the American Bottler.

The manufacture of corks  by  machinery 
is in its infancy.  Until  a comparatively re­
cent date corks  were  cut by  hand, and  it 
took an experienced workman a  whole  day 
to finish a thousand marketable  corks, with 
great waste of material.  To-day  a machine 
run by steam and attended by  a  small  girl 
does fifty times the amount of work with un­
erring precision and  the  smallest  possible 
waste of material.  Corks for  the  bottling 
of wine and beer are  not  tapered, but  are 
cut out of  the  strips  straight by a circular 
knife run upon a  piston driven  by  steam. 
The  operator  simply  presses  the  strip of 
cork against the knife, which cuts  the  cork 
out evenly and  quickly, and  deposits  it  in 
a shute leading to the receptacle for the  fin­
ished corks.  The  process is  very  simple, 
and a good operator, with first-class material 
finishes eighty thousand straight  corks in a 
day with ease.  All the shavings  are  care­
fully collected and sold  for  various 
indus­
trial purposes.  The  finished  corks are  as­
sorted as to quality, those of the finest grade 
to be without any  flaw, and  are  ready  for 
the  market.  Tapered  corks,  mostly  for 
smaller bottles and  vials,  are  calculated  to 
be used  oftener  than  once.  They  have to 
pass through a second cutting process.  Like 
all the work in a modern cork cutting estab­
lishment, that of giving  a conical  shape  to 
the cork is  done  by a machine  driven  by 
steam.  The automatical  cutter is a rapidly- 
I revolving horizontal steel  disk  runnihg  un- 
! der a clasp, into which the straight-cut  cork 
I  is inserted by hand.  The clasp can be regu­
lated *.o press the  cork  against  the  sharp 
edges of the disk in any  angle  correspond- 
(  ing to the shape to be obtained.  The finish­
ed corks drop into one  receptacle  and  the 
shavings into another.

ger brother.”

Would Limp Too.

“Doctor, I come to see you about my youn­

break my leg an’ sue yer  husband  fur  $10, 
000.  1 guess yer better have it cleaned.”

“What is the matter with him?”
“One of his togs is shorter  than the other, 
and he limps.  Now, what would  you do in 
a case of that kind?”

“I reckon I’d limp,  too.”
Speaking of “medicine by imagination,” a 
writer in the  Progress Medical  says  that 
doctors should not tell  liypochondriacle  pa­
tients that  their  trouble is imaginary,  but 
should treat it as though it were a  real  dis­
ease.  “Those  who  perform  miraculous 
cures,” he says,  “do not  deny  the  malady, 
but state that they will  cure it by the aid of 
a higher  power;  sometimes a cui’e is  thus 
effected, and when we say it is faith  which 
saves, we use a phrase  which is a rigorously 
scientific  expression.  To deny miracles  is 
no  longer in question,  but  to  comprehend 
and seek to imitate them.”

“No, bubby,  I guess not.”
“Waal, I guess yer better.”
“Why?”
The question was whether the property in 
“Cause ef yer don’t I’ll slip down on  it an’ | the goods passed to Bauwan> or whether the
sale was voidable at the election of the plain­
tiff.  The latter view was taken by the court, 
which,  in affirming judgment against the de­
fendant, said:  “It is, doubtless, the general 
rule tliat the purchaser, when buying on cred­
it, is not  bound  to  disclose  the  facts  of  his 
financial condition. If he makes no actual mis­
representation ; if he is not  asked  any  ques­
tions and does not give any untrue, evasive or 
partial answers,  his  mere  silence  as  to  hi& 
general bad  pecuniary  condition  or  his  in-- 
debtedness will not constitute  a  fraudulent.
concealment.  But  this  was  not a case  of- 
mere passive non-disclosure.  The  object of 
the agent’s inquiry clearly was  to  ascertain 
Bauman’s financial condition and  ability  to 
pay.  Bauman’s statement was  in  response 
to  that  inquiry,  and when he undertook to 
answer,  he  was  bound  to  tell  the  whole 
truth,  and  was  not  at  liberty  to  give  an 
evasive  or  misleading  answer,  which,  al­
though literally true, was partial, containing 
only  one-half  the  truth, and  calculated  to 
convey  a  false impression.  *  *  *  Con­
cealment  of  this  kind,  under  the  circum­
stances  amounts  to a false representation.” 
This is an equitable judgment, and  a  com­
mon sense decision.  While it is true  that  a 
purchaser need not volunteer information as 
to his financial standing, yet there is  in  tills 
case, as there frequently  is  in  others,  just 
that difference which  will  not  exempt  him 
from  setting  forth  his  actual  condition,
_ j.There are probably many lawyers who differ 
with this judgment of the Supreme Court of 
Minnesota;  but as good  law  is  founded  on 
common sense, we may expect that this wilto 
stand.

In no other branch of  the business of  the 
country has the increase  been  so  wonderful 
as in that  of the  dairy.  It  is  only  a  very 
few years since the quantity of  cheese man­
ufactured  in  this  country  amounted  to  no 
more than  60  or  70  million  pounds,  three- 
quarters of which  were exported.  Now  the 
annual production  reaches  nearly  450  mil­
lion pounds, of which only  one-fourth is ex 
ported,  the  remainder  being  consumed  at 
home.  As to the butter  branch of the busi­
ness, the same results have been obtained.

Simply  Quiet—Not Panic.
From the Shoe and Leather Review.

It would seem as if the merchants of  this 
country—not only boot and shoes merchants, 
but all—ought to have learned  the lesson of 
prudence from  the experiences  of  the  past 
ten or twelve years.  And the evidence goes 
to show that they  have.  It  is  simply  tliis. 
During  the  panic  of  ’73  and  the  “ hard 
times”  that  followed,  everybody  went  lit­
erally to pieces—in slang, but  very express­
ive  parlance,  “ got  badly  rattled.”  But 
what are the facts now ?  For  a  year  past, 
not only this  country  but  the  whole world 
has been passing through  an  ordeal of hard 
times equally as bad  as  those  of  ten  years 
ago.  The bank troubles last May  were  un­
precedented  for  severity,  but  strong  men 
who  had  learned  the  lesson  of  prudence 
from experience,  kept their wits about them 
and, pulled  the  country  through.  In  addi­
tion to this,  take  an election  year, an  open 
winter and various other  ills,  and  the  con­
dition of things now is wonderfully satisfac­
tory.  There is simgly quiet—not panic.

The Wire Age.

In history we  have  the  golden  age, the 
iron age, the age of brass, and  other periods 
similarly  marked.  Future  annalists  may 
well describe the present  period of  our his­
tory as the wire age. in no part of the economy 
of our daily lives are we divorced from wire. 
It is our slave, and yet an ever  present mas­
ter.  Sleeping,  we repose on wire mattresses. 
Eating, we see  foods  which  have  passed 
through sieves, and which are sheltered from 
insect appetife by wire covers.  Calling,  we 
pull wires to ring curled wire  gongs.  Trav­
eling, we are conveyed  by  cable  or  electric 
railways, hoisted by elevators hung on wires 
and  hurried  over  wire  bridges.  We  an­
nounce our coming by telegraph or telephone 
wires, and thread our way by night  through 
streets lighted by means of  electric  cables. 
Across our fields  are  strung  thousands  of 
miles of barbed wire.  Our clocks are set by 
wires, our watches  are  run by  wires,  our 
books are stiched  with  wires, our  pictures 
hung by wires, and our politics  managed by 
wires.
An  Ohio  Decision  on  the  Oleomargarine 

,  Question.

A law in Ohio prohibits under severe pen­
alties the selling of  any  article  as  butter or 
cheese which is not  made  from  pure  cream 
or milk, and requires  that  such article shall 
be  stamped  with  the  names  of  its  various 
ingredients.  In a  suit  against  an  oleomar­
garine maker  for  violation  of  the  statute, 
the defense entered  a  plea that the law was 
so far  invalid  that  it  was  an  infringement 
of the rights  of  a  maker  under  a  United 
States patent  which  included  the  privilege

The  manufacture  of  matches  requires 
over  $3,000,000  worth  of  wood  annually. 
When  the  Frenchman  invented  matches, 
and put  them  up  in  round,  wooden  boxes, 
containing  about  fifty  each,  and  sold  them 
for  twenty-five  cents,  he  had  little  idea  of 
the  magnitude  which  the  business  would 
reach  in  less  than  half  a  century.  The 
match  business  was  a  huge  monopoly  for 
years, but they are now very cheap compared 
with what they were when the inventor con­
trolled the  manufacture.

Louisiana sugar planters are badly  fright­
ened at the prospect of a  ratification  of  the 
commercial treaty with Spain, which admits 
Cuban sugar  free.  Many  are  making  ar­
rangements to give  up  the  business and go 
It is  believed  that  rice 
into rice-planting. 
will soon be the 
leading crop  of  Louisana. 
It is claimed that it will net  $40  per  acre, 
and with  less  trouble  than is involved 
in 
sugar raising.

“Yes, brethren,” said the  clergyman  who 
is  preaching  the funeral  sermon,  “our  de­
ceased  brother  was  cut  down  in  a single 
night—torn  from  the  arms  of  his  loving 
wife, who is thus left a  disconsolate  widow 
at  the  early  age  of  twenty-four  years.” 
“Twenty-two,  if  you  please,”  sobbed  the 
widow, in the front pew, emerging from  her 
handkerchief for an instant.

Exporting apples to  European  markets is 
now being largely carried  on  by  farmers in 
New  York  State.  The  shipments  were 
formerly made by speculators,  but  this  fall 
the farmers are doing most  of  the  speculat­
ing themselves.  The  fanners  say  they can 
clear  from  $3  to  $6  per  barrel  on  choice 
fruit. 

^ ____

No dealer need be defrauded  or  deceived 
by confidence men, bogus  commission deal­
ers, or misleading agreements.  Keep a sharp 
lookout  for  these  trade  wreckers.  Notify 
us of their attempted  schemes  and we will 
give them a good “expose” in these columns. 
Show up the tricksters.
1 Another grain elevator having  a  capacity 
of 1,000,000 bushels will be erected  at  Min­
neapolis immediately.  The ninety elevators 
in the Red River Valley are  now  filled, the 
grain being held for better prices.

Professor Bell is reported  to  have  paid a 
Boston lawyer $50,000 for his services in the 
telephone suit just  ended,  with  Bell as the 
v i c t o r . _____ ____________

A number of Western  farmers  are  trying 

to organize a gigantic potatoe pool.

A Maine man and wife have  lived for five 

years on one meal a day each.

Wanted—Business Confidence.

If we  stop  a  moment  to  consider  the 
condition  of  the  country,  we  can  read­
ily  see  that  we  are  in  possession  of  all 
the needful facilities for carrying  forward a' 
most successful  business.  Money is  abun­
dant, and  can be  obtained at a low  rate of 
interest.  Our mines of precious  metals  are 
still rich and  are  producing  satisfactorily. 
We have  plenty of raw  materials of every 
desepription.  Our manufacturing plants are 
sufficient to supply  the  requirements  of  a 
very extensive home and export tra:le.  Our 
farmers have been  favored  with an  excep- 
tionably large crop.  Our  carrying  facilities 
both by rail and water  were  never  better, 
and the charges for  transportation are very 
low.  We are at peace  with  all  the  world. 
National taxes are  being  rapidly  reduced, 
and local taxes are not oppressive.  The ma­
jority of our traders and  manufacturers are 
solvent, the weak and rotten  concerns being 
pretty well weeded  out.  The  supplies  of 
materials in the hands of the  manufacturers 
and  middlemen are not overabundant, if we 
except one or two classes  of  manufacturers 
which seem, in view  of the  restricted  trade 
of the present, to  he in  excess of  our  re­
quirements.  What, then, is  needed to give 
a  revivifying  influence  to  business?  It is 
not capital for  that  is  abundant 
It is not 
facilities,  for we have all needed  means  for 
carrying  on  a  most  extensive  foreign  and 
domestic traffic.  It is  not  lack  of  need  of 
productions,  for  the  wants  of  our  fifty 
millions  of  people  are  daily  multiplying. 
We want confidence.

Had  Regular  Habits.

A New York merchant called at the  office 

of a brother merchant,  and said:

“A young man, named  Srnithers,  has  ap­
plied to me for a position.  Was  he  not  In 
your employ at one  time?”

“Yes, sir ; Mr. Srnithers was in my employ­
ment for several months.  His knowledge of 
business  is  truly  wonderful,  but what  ex­
cited  my  admiration  most  of  all  was  h!s 
punctuality.”

“A h!  I’m glad to hear he is punctual.”
“Yes, sir.  His punctuality  in  coming  to 
the store one-half hour late every morning i» 
really wonderful.  He is  also  very  regular 
in drawing his salary in advance  out  of  the 
cash drawer when nobody is watching him.”
An  investigation  of  the  saltpeter  beds 
near  Chochabamba,  Bolivia,  leads  Mons. 
Sace to conclude that this vast deposit, large 
enough to supply the  whole world  with its 
nitrate of potash,  is the result of the decom­
position of an immense collection  of  fossil 
animal remains.

A JO U R N A L  DEVOTED TO T H E

Mercantile k d  Manufacturin'!; Interests of the Siate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  24,  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-offlcio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and 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, Arthur 
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux. •
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
E. 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.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
Pjrst Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills. •
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins.
Official Organ—The  Michigan  Tradesman.
Committee  on  Elections—Win.  B.  Edmunds, 
chairman;  D.  S.  Haugh,  Wm.  G.  Hawkins, 
Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford.
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in 
each month.
Next  Meeting-Saturday evening,  December 
27, at “The Tradesman”  office.

t3&~  Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on  the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

What the industries  of this  country most 
meed at this time is to be let alone  by  Con- 
srress.

The  gambler is  a  thief  from  principle. 
The  man  who  sells  “margins” is a thief 
from cowardice.  Both deserve the  condem­
nation and execration  of  every  honest man 
in the community.

Three hundred  travelers—what  a  power 
they have in the  aggregate to  assist in  the 
growth and welfare of any city I  And  how 
well they have exercised that prerogative in 
regard to Grand  Rapids !

Kalamazoo is to  be  congratulated, if  the 
-reports sent out from that  place  relative to 
the prosperity of  her  manufactories  are to 
be relied upon.  The correspondents declare 
with seeming sincerity that  every factory in 
- the city is now “in full blast.”

The course  now  pursued  by  the  D aily 
Democrat  and  other  newspapers  of  the 
alarmist variety is contemptible and mislead­
ing to an unusual degree, and should receive 
the  disapproval  of  every  thinking  man. 
Continual harping about  hard  times  tends 
only to make the times  harder, and the sup-* 
pression of every  piece of  news  indicating 
an improvement in the business  situation is 
unfair and cowardly.  Speaking of this sub­
ject, the  Chicago  Current  pertinently  re­
marks:  “As in an audience, when some per­
son has  shouted  ‘Fire!’ 
it is  the  duty of 
brave-hearted men to stand up and command 
the people to avoid  commotion, so in  these 
times of disturbed  commercial  distribution 
it devolves on the  American  press to print 
and discuss all evidences  of  prosperity and 
comfort that may be at hand—matters  ordi­
narily considered  too  common  for  public 
mention.  Thus,  if 12,000 men  have, within 
a fortnight, been thrown out of  work in the 
Cleveland  region, it is of  vital 
importance 
that the people should  know  12,000  unem­
ployed men  were put  at work  in the  same 
region during the same  fortnight,  as  really 
happened.  The recent  bank clearings have 
once more started on the rise  toward a  bil­
lion dollars a week, and no country with this 
volume of  business  can  be  anything  but 
prosperous.”

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  TH E  CIT Y .

A. W. Conkle has engaged in the  grocery 
business  at  Remus.  Cody, Ball & Co. fur­
nished the stock.

W. M. Wood, druggist at  Six  Lakes, has 
added a line  of  groceries,  purchasiug  his 
stock of Shields, Bulkley &  Lemon.

The Farmer Roller Mill Co. has a capacity 
of  two  mills  per  day,  and  has  four  men 
on  the  road respresenting the merits of  the 
roller.

Jacob Barth  will remain in his present lo­
cation nntil Febuary  16, when  he  will re­
move to the store  now  occupied by Mrs. A. 
L. Lord.

“Genuine cow’s butter  has  not  been  so 
cheap at this time of  the  year  for  twenty 
years before,” said a leading produce dealer, 
the other day.

John Wingler has re-engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business at Lowell under  the  name  of 
Mrs. S. A.  Wingler.  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co. 
furnished the stock.

The Cfiurch Finish Co.’s  new  mill is now 
nearly completed, and it is expected that ev­
erything will be in readiness to begin opera­
tions about January 1.

Geo. Stevens has engaged in  the  grocery 
business at Alpine and Mrs. E.  Phillipps has 
engaged in  the  same  business  at  Shelby. 
John Caulfield furnished both  stocks.

The business depression of the  past  eigh­
teen months has now reached  the  culminat­
ing point, and before the grass is green again 
business will have resumed much of  its old- 
time vigor.  Let  every  dealer  put  his  best 
foot forward, and the result will  surely be a 
return to business confidence and activity.

Nothing tends to demoralize trade so much 
and to create hard  times as  the cry of  hard 
times.  The habit of anticipating, of  saying, 
“I told you so,” and “You  will  see,”  does 
more to create  distrust  in  business  circles 
than do all the failures in  the  country.  A 
hopeful outlook, a spirit that says the  busi­
ness horizon is dull but not dark, an express­
ed confidence in the present  and  in  the fu­
ture, will do more to revive  trade  than any­
thing else that can be done.

The list of local  traveling  salesmen, pub­
lished on another page of this  week’s issue, 
is one in which  every business  man  of  the 
itlace may take a reasonable degree of pride, 
Taken as a whole, the traveling men who go 
out of this market are above  the  average in 
«intelligence, ability and  geniality;  and  it is 
•«ot placing too high  an  estimate  on  their 
services to state that much of the wonderful 
growth and substantial prosperity of the city 
are to be attributed to their persistent efforts 
. and untiring  industry.

Considering the great number of available 
«locations  in  this State,  it is little  less than 
wonderful that more attention has not  been 
given to the cultivation  of  the  cranberry. 
The field to be supplied is  almost  exhaust- 
less, and prices are always high, considering 
the relative cost of producing the berry, with 
other fruits.  Farmers who are in possession 
of a marsh which can be  flooded  during the 
winter and spring months  might turn  their 
attention to the cranberry,  in  preference to 
wheat or corn, and  find  the  results  much 
more satisfactory.

While Mayor  Belknap is turning  his at­
tention to the numerous gambling  establish­
ments, it might be well  for  him  to  make 
himself acquainted with the no less damning 
influences of the  bucket  shops.  Men  who 
would not be  seen in  gambling  dens  fre­
quent the places where  “margins” are  sold 
with impunity and  become as infatuated ov­
er  “speculation” as greenhorns do  over the 
gambling table. The results are usually worse 
than itt the less  genteel  establishments, as 
the  amounts  lost  are  frequently  greater. 
Grand  Rapids is  poorer  by  hundreds  of 
thousands of dollars through  this  medium, 
and the bitter experience of four  years  ago, 
coupled with numerous warning at intervals 
ever since, ought to convince our people that 
■the man who  operates a  bucket  shop is an 
enemy to prosperity, to the good  of  society, 
and to every principle incident to a business 
career.

The cracker manufacturers  announce  an­
other reduction of 34c in  crackers, making a 
decline of a full cent within  the  last  thirty 
days.  Sweet  goods are also off  a full cent.
Henry A.  Hydorn, for several years  past 
in the employ of  Whitworth &  Alden,  has 
purchased the grocery stock  and fixtures of 
M. J. Ulrich, at 33 West  Bridge  street, and 
will continue the business at that location.

Second-hand  clothing  men  are  doing a 
good  business in overcoats  taken  in  when 
dusters were popular.  However, the pawn­
brokers are not selling many watches or dia­
monds.  Times are hard and  people can do 
without  luxuries.  Much  jewelry |is  being 
pawned and many cheap watches are offered 
that are not desirable.

It is reported that the  Berkey & Gay Fur­
niture Co.  will place a line of  cheap  furni­
ture on the market  in time for  the  spring 
trade, with the intention of  competing  with 
the Widdicombs and McCord &  Bradfield in 
that  branch  of  the  business.  They  will 
make five patterns of ash and maple  suites, 
turning out 1,000 suites of each style.

The anticipated decline in hides came last 
week,  the  fall  averaging  about  )4c  all 
around.  Dealers  have  been  expecting  a 
downward turn of the market for sometime 
past, and were, consequently, well  prepared 
for it.  They also  gave their  customers  the 
benefit  of  their  knowledge,  thus enabling 
them to unload whatever stocks  they  might 
have on hand.

The Grand Rapids  Wheelborrow  Co.  has 
turned out  20,000  barrows  and  500  dozen 
snow shovels the present season.  Nearly all 
the shovels have been sold  and  only  about 
4,000 barrows remain in stock, a  portion  of 
them being in process  of construction at the 
present time. 
It is the intention of the com­
pany  to  manufacture  25,000  barrows next 
year, and to cultivate an export trade.

Mrs. Anna L. Lord  was  closed  up 

last 
week by Spring & Co. and  Geo. C. Wilmot, 
whose claims amount to $750 and $1,800, re­
spectively.  The stock was bid  in  by  both 
creditors at $2,000, $550 less  than the  face 
of their claims, and an  opportunity was giv­
en the unsecured creditors to take  the stock 
at the  same  valuation,  which  offer they re­
fused.  The  unsecured  claims  amount  to 
about $2,000, and  there  is  no  probability 
that the owners will ever realize any portion 
of them.

If you bet a box of cigars, have it distinct­
ly understood how many  cigars  there shall 
be in the box. Certain gentlemen in this city, 
by neglecting  this  precaution, have 
lately 
been highly surprised.  They won their bets 
but when they came to get their  cigars they 
received little boxes, containing  twenty-five 
of the weeds.  To be sure, these were boxes 
of cigars,  and it is doubtful  if  there is any 
remedy for the  disappointed  bettors.  It is 
hardly the fair thing.  Still as there  are  ei-

Abel S. Haine, general dealer at Manistee, j 
has assigned to J. A. Buckley,  the  immedi­
ate occasion of the failure  being  the  ship­
wreck of a cargo of shingles,  coupled  with 
losses in  lumber operations.  The  liabilities 
are said to be $19,500, and the  assets  about) 
$9,000.

Dr.  Henry Lever, the  Newaygo  druggist, | 
has joined  the  rank  of  the  disreputables. 
He readily obtained  credit  by representing 
that he was doing business on his own  capi­
tal, but some time ago  gave  his  wife a bill 
of sale of the stock, the consideration  being 
alleged “borrowed  money.”  He how writes 
his creditors that he will be  unable to meet 
his notes as they  mature, and  there is talk 
of prosecution for false pretenses.

John Verhage, the Zeeland potato  buyer, 
has shipped about 60,000 bushel of  potatoes 
the present season.  He had  six carloads on 
track ready to start for Chicago Monday morn 
ing, but one of the cars  caught fire from  the 
stove in the interior of the car  Sunday, and I 
before the fire was  discovered, both car and 
potatoes were a total  loss.  It is  stated the | 
railway company will  hold Verhage respon- j 
sible for the value of the car.

S T R A Y   FA C T S.*

Fife Lake is to have a broom factory.
On January 1 the Belding refrigerator fac­

tory will add 100 men to its force.

The Gale Manufacturing Co. will not leave 

Albion, but rebuild on the old site.

If Caro business men raise a bonus of $500 

a tub and pail factory will locate there.

The creamery to be  established  at  Ionia 
will have a capital of from $5,000 to $10,000. j 
It will have a capacity  of  1,500  pounds of  Up 
butter,  requiring about 1,800 gallons of milk 
daily.

Stanton  dealers in  timber  are  shipping 
pail staves to Ionia  to  be  made  into  pails 
there, and the Herald wants to know why in 
the name of common sense  they can’t have 
them made up at home.

A Hudson butcher pastes bad  accounts in 
his store window.  A Hudson man  who did 
not like that way of being advertised  called 
on the  butcher  with a club.  He is now of 
the opinion that butchers are  mightier than 
clubs.

The financial embarrassments of  the Iron 
River Furnace Co. have been adjusted  satis­
factory to the creditors and the  construction 
of the works will be energetically pushed to 
completion.  It is hoped to have the furnace 
in operation by June  1.

The Howard  Record  publishes  a  list of 
the new buildings which  have been  erected 
and the improvements  made in  that  place 
during the past year, from  which it appears 
that nine brick store  buildings  have  been 
erected, at a total cost of  $46,900.  The im­
provements, all told, amount to $68,730.

“I  suppose  few  drinkers  of  whisky,” 
said a wholesale dealer in the fluid,  “realize 
how little of original value they get for their 
money.  The cost to the distiller of  making 
the best possible whiskey  is only  about for­
ty cents a gallon.  Now, a gill is a fair quan­
tity for a drink, the charge for which  at the 
most stylish bars is  twenty  cents.  That is 
to  say, a thing  costing  the  producer 
two 
cents in Kentucky is  retailed  at  nearly ten 
times as much.  Of course, the  Government 
tax takes some of the  enormons  profit, and 
the wastes of storage another  portion.  The 
gains of the handlers remain astounding.  I 
know of no more solid temperance argument 
than the ridiculously high prices charged for 
liquors by the glass.”

Oil cloth may be improved  in  appearance 
by rubbing it with a mixture of a half-ounce 
of beeswax in a saucerful of turpentine.  Set 
this in a warm place until they can be  thor­
oughly mixed.  Apply with a  flannel cloth, 
and then rub with a  dry flannel. 

,

gars and cigars, it is a stupid blunder incase' 
of bets not to specify the amount wagered 
j
“That sort of thing won’t work this time,” 
said a leading jobber and  shrewd  business 
man the  other  day,  referring  to a request 
from an out-of-town  customer  that he take 
up a certain paper maturing next  month, as 
the dealer  would be absent  from  home at 
the time.  “I looked into  the  matter,” con­
tinued the jobber,  “and found that  the man 
who wanted us to take  care  of  his  paper 
was arranging  for a pleasure  trip  to  New 
Orleans.  I stayed home from  the  Centen­
nial in order to meet  our  customers’ paper, 
but I’ll be cussed if they can  come it on me 
that way this winter.  I’m going to New Or­
leans myself.”

AROUND  TH E  STATE.

F. H.  Sturtevant,  grocer at  Whitehall, is 

Davis &  Stevens,  grocers  at  Whitehall 

C. H. Amsden,  restauranter  at  Evart, is 

K. VanDyke, general dealer  at New Hol­

land, has been attached.

Clement  &  Co., agricultural 
dealers at Blissfield, have failed.

implement 

E. Robbins & Co., general dealers at Glad­

win,  have assigned to W.  W. Steele.

Gould & Belknap, hardware dealers at Fe- 

toskey, have assigned to  E.  C. Barnum.

H. H. Bunyea succeeds D. B.  Gardener & 

Co. in the grocery business at Pentwater.

Kellogg & Potter, general dealers at Jenni- 
sonville, have dissolved, Potter  succeeding.
F. W. Parkhurst & Co.,  furniture dealers 
at Montague, have sold  their  stock to W. B. 
Nicholson,  who will continue  the  business 
at the old location.  He will  also  continue 
the  furniture  business at Whitehall.

dead.

have failed.

out of  business.

Cranberry Culture  in Michigan.

D. C. Leach, of  Traverse  City,  was  seen 
by a reporter of The Tradesm an the other 
day, and questioned relative  to the  success 
of his  experiment  in  cranberry  culture on 
the marsh land near Walton  Junction.  He 
stated that it was too soon to set the  under­
taking down as a success or a failure, as it re­
quires fully four years to  mature the  plants 
for bearing.  He has  now  several  acres of 
swamp land under cultivation, having secur­
ed considerable quantities of Cape  Cod and 
native plants, and there is  every  indication 
that the result  will be  amply  satisfactory. 
The location selected  is  peculiarly  adapted 
for the purpose, being so  situated  as to en­
able him to keep the plants flooded during the 
winter and spring, and unless some unforseen 
difficulty arises, Mr.  Leach  will  soon be in 
a position to  supply  the  Michigan markets 
with choice, home-grown  berries.

in 

two 

others 

It will be news to many  dealers to  learn 
that Northern Michigan has now one  exten­
sive  cranberry  marsh  in  successful  cul­
tivation,  and  that 
the 
same locality are nearing  that end.  Dr. W. 
H. Walker,  of  Fon du Lac, Wis.,  has  ten 
acres of cranberries under  cultivation  near 
Glen Arbor,  Leelanau  county,  and  gentle­
men named Grobben and  Barton  have  en­
gaged in the same business on a larger scale 
near Leland.  Dr. Walker’s yield  last  sea­
son was enormous, averaging 120  barrels to 
the acre, and in places  reaching a  barrel to 
the square rod.  He  is  rapidly  increasing 
his bearing capacity, and will soon have one 
of the 
largest  cranberry  marshes  in  the 
west.  The  cultivation of  the berry is  also 
carried  on  near Cheboygan, and  also  near 
Sault St. Marie.

A. T, Liderman, the Whitehall 

Mr.  Leach  states  that  only  about  one 
marsh in ten is adapted to the cultivation of 
the  cranberry,  but having  once  secured a 
inventor, 
desirable  location  the  only  requisites are
manufacturer and general dealer, has return-
ed from Chicago,  where  he  made  arrange-  sand, water and  air.  The  crop 
is  by  no 
ments with several  leading  jobbers to take I means a sure one  every  season,  but a good 
all the patent packing boxes the  capacity of  crop once in three  years is sufficient to ren-
his factory affords.

der the enterprise a paying investment.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

nonsburg.

J. M. Dameron, Bangor,
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Emmet Hagadorn, Fife Lake.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
Geo. W.  Bevins, Tustin.
A. V. Chapman, Fruitport.
Earl Bros.,  Bridgton.
Carrel & Fisher, Dorr.
H. M. Patrick, of Patrick & Co., Leroy.
E. N. Parker, Coopersville.
W. B. Tylor,  Richland.
G. F. Gretsinger, East Saugatuck.
B. McNeal, Byron Center.
John M. Cloud, Cadillac.
B. Steketee, Holland.
R. A. Hyde, Manton.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
T. B. Haines, Cedar Springs.
John Schölten, Overisel.;
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Geo. Carrington,  Trent.
Robert North, Ashland.
Paine & Field,  Englishville.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
A. W. Conkle, Remus.
S. Cooper, Parmalee.
L. A. Gardner, Cedar SPrings.
C. L. BostwLk, C.  O.  Bostwick  &  Son,  Can- 
Thomas Smedley, Smedley Bros., Bauer.
M. A. Potter, Oakfleld.
Jacob Barnes, Austerlitz.
M. B. Nash,  Sparta.
Henry Henkel, Howard City.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Walter Schoomaker, Cannonsburg.
J. H. Moores, Moorestown.
W. S. Root,  Tallmadge.
Norman Harris, Big  Springs.
Oliver Seaman, Big Rapids.
D. C. Spaulding,  Hobart.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
Jacob DeBri, Byron Center.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Dibble Bros., Burnip’s Corners.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
L. L. Maxfleld, Fruitport.
N. W. Crocker, Byron Center.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
C. Keller, Logan.
H. Baker & Son, Drenthe.
W. M. Wood, Six  Lakes.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
F. B. Watkins,  Monterey.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
W. B. Wilson,  Muskegon.
A. C. Adams, Ashton.
C. E. & S. J. Koon,  Lisbon.
Dr. H. B. Hatch, Hart.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
Purdy & Hastings, Sparta.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
C. H. Adams, Otsego.
Henry Barr, Grand Haven.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
C. Cole, Ada.
Mr. Wells, of Wagner & Wells, Eastmanville.
T. W. Preston, Lowell.
C. R. Bunker, Bailey.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
O. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
Smith Bros., Chase.
F. C. Beard, Morley.
J. Newman. Dorr.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
F. E. Campau, Alaska.
G. C. Baker, LeBarge.
G. B. Chambers,  Wayland.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.

A Premature  Dun.

“Good  morning, Mr.  Dodd.  I’ve a little 

bill against you.”
“What for, sir?”
“One pair gent’s  slippers.”
“I never bought any slippers.”
“I know, but  this  is  a  pair  Mrs.  Dodd 

bought for your Christmas present.”

The Gripsack Brigade.

Geo. H. Kelley, with  Morris H. Treusch, 

is home for the holidays.

C. J. Peck, for the past few months north­
western traveling  agent  for S. A. Welling, 
enters  the  employ of  Spring &  Company 
January 1.

J. T. Herrington, late of  Jackson, has ac­
cepted a position with S. A. Welling as trav­
eling salesman, taking the  territory former­
ly covered by C. J. Peck.

It is reported that W. A. Brown, who  has 
represented the New England Furniture Co. 
in the west for several years  past, will form 
a new connection  January 1.

Dennis  P. McCarthy, for  the  past  few 
months house salesman for  John  Caulfield, 
will make a new connection January 1.  He 
has desirable offers from both  Chicago  and 
Detroit houses.

“Dick” Savage, formerly  with John Caul­
field, but  for the  past  few  months  with 
C.  W.  Allen, of  Chicago, has  returned  to 
Caulfield’s employ,  and  will divide his time 
between the house and city trade.

L. L. Morrison, for the past year an active 
worker for Dick,  Middleton  &  Co., under 
the direction of Geo. D.  Bow,  has  secured a 
position with Marburg Bros., of  Baltimore, 
and has been assigned  Texas  as  his  terri­
tory.

In some hotels  the  economic  desires  of 
the landlord puts on gas  burners of  limited 
capacity.  This tiick is anticipated  by trav­
eling men, who carry a patent  electric light 
style of burner and a monkey wrench. They 
thus get even.

Eli P. Randall, one  of the first  traveling 
men out of Grand Rapids,  suddenly  put in 
on appearance last week after an absence of 
thirteen  years.  He is a  brother  of  L. H. 
Randall, and represented  the  latter  about 
twenty years ago.
j  Members of Post A, and  all  interested  in 
that  organization,  are  requested  to attend 
the regular monthly meeting, which  will  be 
held  at  The  Tradesman  office, Saturday 
evening of the present week.  Matters of es­
pecial importance to the Post are to  be  con­
sidered and acted upon.

It requires 100,000 cords of wood  to make 
a years suuply of shoe pegs for this country, 
and 300,000  cubic feet  of pine  for 
lueifer 
matches.
TO  DEALERS AND
-TH E-------

American  Co-Operative Dairy  Co.,

SHIPPERS.

INCORPORATED  MAY 24,  1884,

--------- W IT H  A----------

CAPITAL  STOCK  OF  $100,000, 

Offer  extra  inducements  for  consigners  of 
Butter, Eggs, Beans. Cheese, Poultry, Game 
and  all  kinds  of Farm  Produce.
This company is duly established by law, and 
farmers, shippers or dealers can  depend  upon 
prompt  and  nonest  returns  for  all  consign­
ments.  For particulars  address,
,T.  W.  WHITE, Sec’y,

31 Beach Street, Boston, Mass.

ARAB  PLUG- !

Tie Best ani Most Attractive Goods on tie Market.  Send for Sample 

Bntt.  See Quotations in Price-Cnrrent.,

Fox, Musselman  & Loveridge

Sole  Owners.

E .  IF1 -A. I_i Xj -A. S ,

Choice Butter always on hand.

125 and  127 Canal Street,

All Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention.

Wholesale  k  Commission-Butter  &  E us  a  Specialty.
OVER  14  YEARS
Bailey  House,  Stanton.

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

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

truthfully  say that the

Is the Best Hotel in Montcalm County

In point of Neatness and Cleanliness of the House, Size and  Condition  of Rooms,  \  ariety  and 

Style of Tal le, Thoroughness of Service, and anything that makes a Hotel

ATTRACTIVE  AND  PLEASANT.

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

Fire Escapes and Band Grenades,

Commodious and well-managed Barn and Fine Running Water all seasons of the year.

B. P. Littlefield,

DAY  AND  NIGHT.

OPEN

At M anufacturers’ Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY. 

N
Souse  and  Store  Sliades Made to Order. 
NELSON  BEOS. <&  CO.

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

How Site Was Met.

A  gentlemanly  merchant  traveler  on a 
train met a lady and  politely rendered  her 
such assistance that she reciprocated by per­
mitting him to talk to her.  He became  quite 
friendly, and desired to know where she liv­
ed and who she was.

“Oh,” she replied,  “I am only an ordinary 
little woman but my  friends  persist in try­
ing to make me somebody.”

“Ah,” was his gallant answer,  “I am sure 

they act quite wisely and in good taste.” 

“You flatter  me,  sir, and  yet I  have  no 
doubt a band will meet  me  at  the  station 
when I arrive in Cincinnati.”

“Indeed?” he replied  in open-eyed  aston­

ishment»

“Yes, and the same band is always ready to 

meet me.  Isn’t that flattering?”

“Very, my dear Miss; but may I ask what 

band it is that is always so honored?”
“Oh, yes, certainly; it is a husband,”
He caught on the arm  of  the  seat  for  a 
minute, and then went into the next car and 
bumped his head on the  woodbox.”

Some Observations by W ill Lamoreaux.
If the porter of the sleeping car talks pol­
itics and love with the porter  of  the  next 
car and lets the fire go  out, you  must sleep 
with your  clothes on and get  the  blankets 
from the upper  berth.  In  such  weather a 
Pullman is less comfortable than a day coach, 
either too hot or too cold.

Coming from Detroit the other night, I was 
very anxious to sleep. As luck would have it, 
I got an upper berth  next door to  a  woman 
a sjCk baby.
Each hour this baby kept
infantile  wail, until everybody in the
car was  disturbed  and  their  rest  broken. 
There should be a law  against such imposi­
tion, or else babies should travel in  the day­
time.

A  Lively  “Dummy."

From the Rockford Register.

One of the  richest  jokes  we  have heard 
this season occurred on one of our dry goods 
store clerks  the  other  day.  It was in the 
evening and he had been  getting  goods in­
side which had been out in front for display 
and had  about  finished  when  he  noticed 
what he took to  be one  of the “dummies,” 
and at once  started to pick it up and  carry 
it inside, when “it” turned into an indignant 
young lady,  who had been  quietly  standing 
there waiting for her father to drive up with 
his team to  take  her  home.  Of course he 
apologized.

Purely  Personal.

O. W. Blain will “take  in”  New  Orleans 

again in January.

Mayor. Belknap will  leave  for  New  Or­
leans about Febuary 1, calling  on the  may­
ors  of  Chicago,  Indianapolis,  St.  Louis, 
Louisville, Nashville, Memphis, Mobile  and 
Vicksburg on either  the  downward  or  re­
turn trips.  He will be absent about a month 
and will be accompanied by his wife.

Rockford people have expended over $22,- 
000 the past season in the  erection  of  new 
buildings and material improvements.

On  and  after  the  first of January,  1885, 
The Christian Union will be enlarged by the 
addition of eight pages.  It will then become 
a  thirty-two  page  paper,  and  will contain 
more reading matter than any other religious 
weekly newspaper in the world.  Many pop­
ular features will be introduced, which  will 
make its columns for home reading unusual­
ly varied, graphic, and interesting.  Its  edi­
torial and literary  departments  will  be  en­
larged, and will represent the  best  work  of 
the best man on all topics—religious,  politi­
cal,  social,  and  literary. 
It  will  give its 
readers during the coming year several serial 
stories of a high order, together with produc­
tions  of  many  of  the  most  distinguished 
writers in this country and abroad.  Attention 
is called to its  advertisement in another  col­
umn.

IDtuqs & flfoebirines
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

_

,, 

Rapids. 

amazoo. 

_   _   „  

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan-
Third’Vice-President—Frank  Wurzburg,  Gr’d 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Win. Dtipont, 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.

.  m

„  

„  

,

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. 
T_
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
„   _
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
TT
Committee on Legislation—Isaac W atts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Co win.
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, January 8, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

ml 
...  .. 

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
An adjourned meeting of the  Grand Rap­
ids Pharmaceutical Society was held at The 
T radesman office 
last  Thursday evening, 
the following members being in  attendance: 
President Wurzburg,  Secretary  Escott,  Dr. 
C. P. Bigelow,  John  Peck,  M.  B.  Kimm, 
Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and H.  B.  Fairchild. 
Gideon Noel, the Palo druggist was  present 
by invitation.  The  following  applications 
for membership were received and  referred 
to  special commitee  consisting  of  Messrs. 
Kimm, Peck  and  Bigelow:  Thos. A. Bax­
ter, Fallas & KemT Chas. E.  Escott, R. Ada 
McWilliams and Blake  Gibson.  A similiar 
committee reported  favorably on the  appli­
cations of Geo.  G.  Steketee  and D. Kimm, 
who were  subsequently  elected  members. 
An interesting  discussion  followed on  the 
subject of trade interests,  when  the Society 
adjourned to meet .Thursday  evening, Janu­
ary 8.

Orange Perfumes.

From the orange-tree are obtained five dis­
tinct and valuable  perfumes.  1.  The  true 
flower odor, obtained by digesting  the  flow- 
ears with lard;  2.  Oil  neroli  petale or oil 
neroli bigarde, by  distilling  the  flowers of 
the sweet and bitter orange respectively;  3. 
Oil of  neroli  petit  grain, by distilling  the 
leaves and unripe fruit;  4.  Oil  of  orange 
Portugal, obtained by  rolling  the  fruit in a 
metal cup covered  with  spikes, known  as 
an  ecuelle,  winch  wounds  the  fruit  and 
causes the oil to flow from  the  oil  glands; 
5.  Commercial oil  of  orange  obtained  by 
expressing or distilling the orange  peel.

The Drug Market.

Business continues good,  with  every indi­
cation of a fairly good  trade  during  the re­
mainder of the  winter  season.  Quinine is 
up another 5c, but as futures  are  selling be­
low the  present  market,  further  advances 
are  not  looked  for.  Insect  powder  will 
probably be very much higher  another  sea­
son on account of the short crop of  the flow 
ers and the greatly increased demand.

Medical papers are full of accounts  of ex­
periments with  hydrochlorate of  cocoaine, 
the new local anaesthetic,  the great  value of 
which in operations on the eye was  demon­
strated last September.  A few  drops  only 
of a four per cent, solution are applied at in­
tervals to the seat of  operation, where they 
arrest for the time all sense of pain  without 
having any effect  whatever  upon  the  con­
sciousness of the patient.  It is likely, in the 
opinion  of many of  our  surgeons, to  be a 
great blessing for those persons who are un­
able to withstand the  effects of  chloroform 
or ether.

A solution  of  chloride of 

lead is recom­
mended as an efficient  disinfectant  for  all 
places.  It may readily be obtained from the 
nitrate of lead and common salt, as  follows: 
Take half a dram of nitrate of lead  dissolv­
ed in a pint or  more of boiling  water,  and 
dissolve  two  drams of  common  salt  in a 
pail or bucket of water.  Pour the two solu­
tions together,  and  allow  the  sediment to 
subside.  The  clear  fluid is the  saturated 
solution of chloride of lead. 
Its cost  is  tri­
fling, and  its  effects as a deodorizer  are in­
stantaneous.

The chemists of the  municipal  laborator­
ies of Paris now conduct their  examinations 
of food under a strong  light, which  permits 
the use of the photographic microscope.  In 
such  articles as  farina, pepper, sugar,  and 
like dry substances,  adulterations  thus be­
come  very  perceptible.  The  photographs 
are taken into court, where they are inspect­
ed by the judges,  who were  formerly  oblig­
ed to rely  wholly on the  testimony of  ex­
perts.

Menthol crystals and some of  the menthol 
cones that are sold are not  the  same  thing. 
Pure menthol is entirely soluble  in  alcohol, 
but stearine,  parafline, and  similiar  bodies 
are insoluble.  The test  is simple.  Use hot 
alcohol in  which a weighed quantity  of  the 
article is heated;  on  cooling, the  alcoholic 
solution is poured of,  when  the  weight of 
the fatty body will show  the  percentage or 
quantity  used.  Unless pure menthol  is  us­
ed, the beneficial effects are not realized.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Quinine, insect powder.

A C ID S.

Acetic, No.  8....................................
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. gray.  1.040)........
Carbolic............................................
Citric.................................................
Muriatic 18  deg...............................
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Oxalic...............................................
Sulphuric 66 deg..............................
Tartaric  powdered.........................
Benzoic,  English....................¥  oz
Benzoic,  German............................
Tannic...............................................

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................$  ft
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................

BALSAMS.

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

BA RK S.

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

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 60c).......*—
Juniper.............................................
Prickly Ash....................... ..............1

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure...... —
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fl> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
Lgowood, )4s 
...............
do 
Logwood, )£s 
...............
do 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
..........
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

9  ® 
30  @ 
33  @ 
@ 
3  @ 
11  @ 
14)4® 
3  @

12  @ 
15  @

15  @  18 
14
6  ©  7
7  ©  8

©  45 
40 
2 50

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

6  ©  7
GO  @1  10

27
37)49
12
13 
15
14

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................j
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, extra  select.......................
Arabic, powdered  select............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,. 3d pickad............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor...........................................
Catechu. Is (lA 14c, )4s 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge...........................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered, 30cl.....................
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.75)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac,  native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth.....................................

10  ©   11 
25 
25

60®  75 
18 
50
28®  30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
35 
30 
30 
55@60
18®  22 
13
35®  40 
80
90®1 00 
35 
20
40 
4 15 
30 
26 
24 
30
30  ®1 10

HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.
Hoarhound..............................................
Lobelia......................................................
Peppermint..............................................
Rue.............................................................
Spearmint................................................
Sweet Majoram........................................
Tanzy........................................................
Thym e......................................................
Wormwood..............................................

....25
....25
....25
___40
___24
....35
....25
___30
....25

IR O N .

LEA VES.

6 40
Citrate and  Quinine.......................  
Solution mur., for tinctures........ 
20
I  Sulphate, pure  crystal................. 
7
80
Citrate.............................................. 
Phosphate........................................ 
65
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12  ®  11
6
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s &J4s» 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
10
Uva  Ursl........................................... 
Belledonna.................................,... 
35
Foxglove........................................... 
30
Henbane.................  
35
2 35
Rose, red............................\ ............ 

 

 

LIQ U O R S.

W., Dv& Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1  75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands................... 1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom................................... 1 35  @1 75
Gin,  Holland......................................2 00  @3 50
Brandy................................................175  @6 50
Catawba  Wines................................. 1 25 @2 00
Port Wines..........................................135 @2 50

M AGNESIA.

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

22
37
2 25
65

@ 19)4

O IL S .

 

do 
do 

Almond, sweet...................................  45 ®  50
45
Amber,  rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
2  10
Bay $   oz.........................................  
50
Bergamont.......................................  
2 00
Castor...............................................    18 
Croton................‘............................... 
2 00
75
Cajeput. ...........................................  
Cassia..................... .......................... 
1 20
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
40
Citronella..............................  
85
 
1 25
Cloves................................................ 
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................  
5 25
Erigeron........................................... 
1 60
2 00
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
Lavender garden 
.............  
100
Lavender spike 
.............  
90
Lemon, new crop............................ 
1  70
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
1  75
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
1 25
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
Pennyroyal..............................  
1  40
Peppermint,  white......................... 
3 25
Rose 
 
8  50
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 
65
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
4  50
7 00
andal Wood,  W. 1............................ 
Sassafras........................................... 
60
Tansy..................... ,........................  
4 50
Tar (by gal 60c)..................................   10 ®  12
Wintergreen................................. 
2 25
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
4  50
Savin.................................. 
 
1 00
2 60
Wormseed........................................ 
Cod Liver, filtered................ $  gal 
1 50
3 50
Cod Liver, best......................... 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
®1  20
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ............... 
2 50
Salad...................................................  65  @  67
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................¥  oz 
9 75

oz..................... 

 
 

 

6 00

14
35
20
2 90
30

 

POTASSIUM .

 

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

Alkanet...................  
Althea, cut........................................ 
Arrow,  8t. Vincent’s .....................  
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 54s and )4s__  
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
Calamus,  peeled..................... 
 
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered........
Gentian (Powd  14c)...............
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached..
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)........
Hellebore, white, powdered.
Ipecac, Rio, powdered..........
Jalap, powdered....................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4).
Licorice, extra select...........
Pink, true...............................

The G.  W. C.  Richards drug stock at Sher­
idan was sold at  sheriff’s sale  last  week to 
----- Sommers, who  will  continue the busi­
ness at the old stand.

Rhei,choice cut  cubes.. 
ithei, choice cut flngers.
Serpentaria.....................
Seneka........ ....................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras.

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in lb  packages.  .......
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Gardamon, Malabar.........................
Gelery............... ............................
Goriander, Dest English................
Fennel..................... .................«...

Hemp,  Russian........... ..................  
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........  
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglish............................. 
Worm, Levant................................ 

SPONGES.

18
1025
20

13
5 ®  6
4 @  m
11 ©  12
2 00
2 25
25
12
15
3)4®
4 ®  4 A
8 @  9
554®  6
8
1 00
6  ®  7
14

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... 2 25  ®2 50
2 00 
Nassau 
do 
do
.......
Velvet Extra do 
do 
1  10 85 
.......
Extra Yellow do 
do 
65 
.......
Grass 
do 
do 
75 
Hard head, for slate use................
1  40
Yellow Reef, 
.................

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

00

2)4®

do 
do 

2 28
1 50 
50 
27 
12 
45 
50
2 75 
2 00
2)4®  3 y3
3  @  4
32 
5
4)4© 
6  ®
7 
40
2 U0 
@9 75 
1 60 
45
7)4®  9
12 
2 50 
18 
20 
18 
4 00 
12 
75 
5 
12
8 2
1 60 
60 
1 60 
1  78 
1 90 
1 75 
K)  ® 1   10 
10  ©  45
45
22
30
45
2
70
38  @  40 
15 
50 
24
24 
12
1  20 
50 
45 
1  10 
8 
3 
50 
69 
14
25 
90
45  ®  70

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.18)  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............
Annatto  1 ft rolls............................
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Alum.........................................  $  ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)..............
Annatto,  prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  ....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  American -do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds.....................................
Calomel.  American.........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  flngers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Coloeynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
Chloral do 
cryst...
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral do 
crustB..
Chloroform......................................1
Cinchonidia, P. &  W........ ..............
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................
Cochineal .........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine.................................... ......
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s .................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts,....................................
Ergot, 1'resli......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise.............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ....................
Gelatine, French............................
Glassware, flint, 7') off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet...............................
17 
Glue, white........................................
28 
Glycerine,  pure...............................
20
Hops  )4s and )4s..............................
40 
Iodoform ^  oz.................................
35
Indigo...............................................
@1  00 
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
@  35 
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
4 00 
Isinglass,  American.......................
1  50 
Japónica ...........................................
9
London  Purple..............................
@  15 
Lead, acetate.....................................
15 
9
Lime, chloride, (Hs 2s 10c & )4s He)
Lupuline.......................... ...............
1  00 
Lycopodium.............................
50 
Mace.................................................
60
Madder, best  Dutch..................... '
12)4®  13 
Manna, S.  F......................................
75 
Mercury......................................
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........oz  3 00@3 25
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s........  
10
Moss, Iceland..................... ..... $) ft 
Moss,  Irish...................................... 
12
30
Mustard,  English.......................... 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........ 
18
Nutgalls.................................  
30
70
Nutmegs, No. 1.......................... 
Nux  Vomica....................................  
io
Ointment. Mercurial, jád............... 
40
Pepper, Black  Berry.................  
18
3 00
Pepsin................................................ 
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................  
6  @  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W............ft ozl  05  ®1 10
Quinine,  German............................1  00  @1 05
Seidlitz  Mixture........................ 
28
Strychnia, cryst...............................  
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  T9.©   82
85
Red  Precipitate.......................f!ft 
35
Saffron, American..........................  
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
©  2
10
Sal Nitre, large cryst...................... 
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
33
Sal  Soda............................................  
2 00
Salicin................................................ 
6  75
Santonin........................................... 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
4
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...................... 
Spermaceti.......................................  
25
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__  
4)4®  5
Soap, White Castile......................... 
14
Soap, Green  do 
........................ 
17
Soap, Mottled do 
........................ 
9
Soap, 
do.  do 
........................ 
11
Soap,  Mazzini..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre. 3 F ..............................  26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................    38  @  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
30
Sulphur, flour................................... 
3)4®  4
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
3®  3)4
60
Tartar Emetic..................................  
2 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
1  40
Tar, 
pints in tin............... 
85
Turpentine,  Venice................ <» ft 
35
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
60
Zinc,  Sulphate.......:........................ 
7  @  8

12  © 
17  ® 
17  @ 
25@
85  @1 
30  @

do 
do 

10

 

 

 

 

 

2  ©  2%

OILS.

Capitol  Cylinder.................................
Model  Cylinder..................................
Shields  Cylinder.................................
Eldorado Engine.................................
Peerless  Machinery..........................
< hallenge Machinery.........................
Backus Fine Engine..........................
Black Diamond Machinery...............
Castor Machine  Oil..................... .
Paraffine, 25  deg.................................
Paraffine, 28  deg.................................
Sperm, winter bleached...................
Whale, winter..........................
Lard, extra...............................
Lard, No.  1...............................
Linseed, pure raw..................
Linseed, boiled.......................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained. 
Spirits Turpentine..................
V A R N ISH ES.
No. 1 Turp Coach.....................
Extra  Turp....................... :....
Coach  Body...............................
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............
Extra Turp  Damar..................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp........

 

 

PA IN T S.

“ 
' Boralumine  “ 

15
27
17
35
12
18
38
Boralumine,White  bulk)  ...
23
Boralumine, 
5 fts [  ...
10
Boralumine,Tints bulk.  >50 off..
13 ®  14
20 
5  fts.  1  ...
Red  Venetian..........................
25
22 Ochre, yellow  Marseilles.......
1 10 Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........
37)4 Putty, commercial.................
12
Putty, strictly pure.................
16
V ermilien, prime  American.
Vermilion, English.................
35
1  00 @1 50 Green, Peninsular..................
Lead, red strictly  pure..........
1 10 ®1  20
Lead, white, strictly pure....
2 00
2 25 Whiting, white  Spanish.......
75 Whiting,  Gilders ....................
65 White, Paris American..........
45 Whiting  Paris English cliff..

Bbl

134
2)4
2)4

.......75
.......60
...... 60
.......45
.......35
.......25
.......30
.......30
.......6C
___22
.......21
...1 40 
Gal 
85 
75 
65 
53 
56 
90 
40

Bbl 
80 
64 
,  55 
60 
53 
70 
36

.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)4® 3
234® 3
13®»«
60@65
16@17
5«
6%
®70
@90
1 10
1 40

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
ÄC0
Druggists I

W holesale

TIRELESS  TRAVELERS.

Carriers.

j Alphbetical  List of the Grand Rapids Grip 
j 
| 

It affords T h e  T r a d e s m a n   no  small  degree 
of pleasure to be able to present the following 
alphabetical list of  the traveling salesmen  re­
siding in Grand Rapids.  Careful enumeration 
reveals the fact that they  number  considera­
bly over 300, and the diversity of Interests rep- j 
resented is almost without a parallel  in  cities 
of this size.  It is not assumed that  the  list  is 
complete, but it is as  nearly so as it was possi­
ble to make it under the circumstances.  It will 
be  reproduced  within  a  few  weeks, in order 
that any changes incident to the new year may 
be noted.  In the meantime,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
would esteem it an especial  favor  to  have its 
attention called to  any  omissions,  irregulari­
ties or mistakes of any kind  appearing in  the 
present list:

C«.

Antrim, Albert C, Alabastine Co.
Adams, Frank, Grand Rapids Fire Insuiance 
Adderley,  Stanley.
Alden, Geo W, Foster, Stevens &  Co.
Ames, Jas E, Michigan Plating Works. 
Anderson, Win D.
Andrews, Edward P, Nelson Bros & Co. 
Atkins, Lawrence W,  Heavenrich  Bros,  De­
Avery, Jas T, Jennings & Smith.
Averill, W W, Harrison Wagon Works.
Ayers, R B, Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. 
Allen, G H, Grand Rapids Chair Co.

troit.

A

B.

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OFlical!
Pants, Oils, Vanish,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

.FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and J ohn L. Whit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint  and  Varnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manf’rs  of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Draists' Sundries

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

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

We give our  special  arjd  jtersonal  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 Qoods in this  department.  We  con­
trol  and  are  the  only  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated

.......... 1.........  

783101001101

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  known  brand  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  f<5r  sale.  We  guarantee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

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

Gins, Branflies & Fine Wines.

We  call  your  attention  to  the  adjoining 
list of  market  quotations  which  we  aim  to 
make  as  complete  and  perfect  as  possibler- 
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.

M L T Ii, PERKINS & CO

Chicago.

Mfg Co.

Beneka, Wm A, Sherwood & Co, Boston. 
Beneker, B, John Benjamin.
Bradford, John L, D L Newborg, New  York. 
Bradford, James N, Arthur Meigs & Go. 
Banker, C A,  Anglo-American  Packing Co., 
Bradford, Lewis Cass, Eaton  &  Christenson. 
Baker, Herbert, Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon. 
Bayley, Christopher H, Clark, Jewell & Co. 
Baker, Allison D, Foster, Stevens & Co. 
Banghart, Lorenzo C.
Barclay, Warren Y ,E 6  Studley & Co. 
Barker, Lewis D, Luther & Sumner  Mfg. Co. 
Barker, Dexter, Spiral Spring Buggy Co. 
Barber, Addison  A, Grand Rapids  Chair  Co. 
Barnett, Wm S, Peninsular Stove Co, Detroit. 
Brown, Alford J, IO Green.
Barnes, Joseph A.
Brown, Frank.
Barrell, Charles L, McIntyre & G oodsell Piano 
Brown, Wm A, New  England  Furniture Co. 
Bass. Charles H.
Barr, Jas, C W. Allen. Chicago.
Beacraft, Wm A.
Beecher, Henry Ward, Eaton, Lyon &  Allen. 
Blackman,  Charles  F,  Grand  Rapids  Chair 
Bisset, Duncan J.
Blakestree, Frank M.
Buddington, E D, Kent Furniture Mfg Co. 
Blickle, John J, Wm Hake.
Blocksma,  Ralph,  Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  & 
Buckley, John D, Kortlander & Grady.
Bolt, Alpheus E. 
Bolles, Silas K, J W Coughtry  &  Son,  Cigar- 
Boughton, Wm, R & J  Cummings  &  Co, To­
Brasted, Alby L, C G A Voigt &  Co.
Burrows, John, M C Russell.
Bell, John W, Phoenix Furniture Co.
Barber, N H, Phcenix  Furniture Co.
Black, Chas, Oriel  Cabinet Co.
Barber, A A, Grand Rapids Chair Co.
Buss, Geo, Buss Machine Works.

0 

ville, N  Y.
ledo.

Co.

Co.

C.

kee.

Chicago.

Cady, W O, O’Brien & Murry, Binghamton. 
Cesna, Ledro R, S A Welling.
Caro, L A, Enterprise Cigar Co.
Cavanaugh, Geo, Morris H Treusch.
Cary, L M, Mosler, Bahman & Co, Cincinnati. 
Corson, R W, Berkey & Gay Furniture  Co. 
Carpenter, Napoleon, Hart & Amberg. 
Chapman, Chas C.
Chase, Frank E, A CMcGraw  &  Co,  Detroit. 
Chase, Herbert T, Chase & Sanborn,  Boston. 
Church, Isaac R, W C Denison.
Clark, Wm M, Grand Rapids Brush Co. 
Cloyes, Jas G, Clark. Jewell & Co.
Coffin, Chas P, King & Co.
Cogswell, George P.
Collins,  Frank.
Collins, Wm B, H Leonard &  Sons.
Compton, Shelby, Cleveland Varnish Co. 
Conion, Frank, C E Andrews  &  Co,  Milwau­
Coppens, Peter J.
Coppes, Rufus J, Curtiss, Dunton & Co. 
Cornell, Chas H.
Cornell,  Willis F,  Shniedewend  &  Lee  Co., 
Corley, Wm J, E T Brown & Co.
Coryell, Clarence A, Powers & Walker. 
Covell, Elliott F, Hart & Amberg.
Crane, Erastus W. Worden Furniture Co. 
Cresey, Wm H, Empire  Laundry  Machinery 
Cum mings, Walter E.
Crookstron, J A, Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.
I>.

Dangremond, Harry M, Morris  H Treusch. 
Doak, Algernon S, Hawkins & Perry. 
Davidson, A Judd, Folding Chair  and  Table 
Disbrow, Chas W, Kent Furniture Co.
Downs, W H, Spring & Company.
Dana, Edwin P.
DeJonge, Geo W K.
DeLamarter, Isaac, E T Brown  &  Co. 
Dennis, Wilber R.
Desner, Harry.
Devereaux, John.
Drew, Chas C, Putnam & Brooks.
Drew, Walter J, Bissell  Carpet  Sweeper  Co. 
Duncombe, Chas ti.
Dustan, Henry, Wm. Harrison.
Dykema, Leonard, P Dykema &  Son. 
Dykhouse, Henry G.

Co.

Co.

Eacher, John H, S. A. Welling.
Evans, Dr Josiah B, Cody, Ball & Co, 
Edmunds, Wm B, Putnam & Brooks.
Elliott, Floyd R.
Emery, BenjaminF, Gray, Burt&  Kingman, 
Emery, Frbd H, Morton, Lewis & Co.
Emery, Wm S, New England Furniture Co. 
Ensign, Frank E, M H Treusch.
Ensign, Dwight.

Chicago.

8

troit.
Co, Chicago.

Fisher, Alfred W.
Ferguson, Thomas P, JII Thompson & Co, De­
Franklin,  Wallace  W,  Fairbanks,  Morse  & 
Fitch, Milford L, Nelson, Matter & Co. 
Forrest,  Arthur.
Foster, Alford.
Fox, Jas, Fox, Musselman & Loveridge. 
Freeligh, Wm  B.
Frick, Edward, Shields, Bulkley & Lfemon. 
Finnegan, John, Letellier & White.

oria, 111.

Green, Frank E, Jennings & Smith.
Ganoe, Henry C.
Gill, John F, Spring & Company.
Goetchius, Edwin E, Firmericn  Mfg  Co,  Pe­
Goodrich, E I.
Goodrich, Henry P.
Goodspeed, Frank W.
Gould, Chas E.
Greulich, Frank J, Kusterer Brewing Co.

Hopkins, T E, Phcenix Furniture Co. 
Herrington, J T, S A Welling.
Hudson, H A, Clark, Jewell & Co.
Hawkins, W G, Arthur Meigs & Co.
Haugh, D S, Cody, Ball & Co.
Horn, W S, Fox, Musselman & Loveridge. 
Holloway, Geo, Eaton & Christenson.
Hadley, Henry.
Hoops, Will H,  W J Quan & Co.
Hill, Thos, Merchants’ Despatch.
Hollister, Ben, Peirce & White.
Hampson, T P S, Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. 
Hess, Wm T, Perkins & Hess.
Hyman, D F, Van Slyke & Co, Albany. 
Haskell,  L  H,  Ordway,  Blodgett  & Hidden, 
Hurter, Jackson, Morse Shepard  &  Co,  Bos­
Hurter, Geo W, Frost Bros & Co,  Boston. 
Hunting, Wm E, Stockwell & Darragh Furni­
Hewes, Geo W, Grand Rapids Stave Co. 
Holden, Henry, Luther & Sumner Furniture 

New York.
ton.

ture Co.

Co.

I.

J.

Ireland, Jas E, Hawkins & Perry.
Ives, Edward L, Wm Hake.

Jones, W J, Kem'nk, Jones & Co.
Jennings, W H, Jennings & Smith.
Jones, Manley, John Caqlfleld.

E.

F.

G.

H.

Jones, Wm H, Phcenix Furniture Co.
Jones, C W, Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Jones, Wm.
Judd, Chas B, Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.

K.

L.

Kellogg, Gid, F Raniville & Co.
Kelly, Geo H, Morris H  Treusch.
Krekel, Wm A, Rindge, Bertsch & Co.
Kendall, John C, A S Gage & Co, Chicago.
Kipp, Harry T, D M Osborne &.,Co.
Kenning, John E, Mohl &  Kenning.
Keate, E J, Star Union.
Knapp, Geo, Nelson, Matter & Co.
Keasey, Wm R, Bell, Conrad &  Co,  Chicago. 
Kellogg, Elisha.
Kendall, Wm I;
Krekef, Edward Q, Rindge, Bertseh & Co. 
KuppenhCimer,  Augustus,  Albert  Kappen- 
Kymer, J  Leo, Eaton, Lyon & Alleti.

heimer.

ton.

Co.

Lincoln, Ed A, F J Lamb & Co.
Lyon, Fred D, Lent & ilraham. New York. 
Logie, Wm, Rindge. Bertsch & Co.
Loveridge, LL, Fox, Musselman &Loveridge. 
Liesvelt, John, J S Cowin.
Larabee, Mclvah, Morse, Wilson  &  Co,  Bos­
Lewis, Geo B, New England Furniture Co.
Leonard,---- , Sligh Furniture Co.
Lucas, G H, Sligh Furniture  Co.
Langley,  Thomas  C,  Widdicomb  Furniture 
Lankaster, Peter, Judd & Co.
Latta, Napoleon B.
Levi, Maurice, Jacob Brown, Detroit. 
Livingston, Adelbert L.
Livingstone, Chas, E G Studley  &  Co.
Loomis, Lewis L, Rice &  Moore.  ■
Love, Albert  M, S H Shepler & Go.,  Chicago. 
Love, Chas L.

M.

Co.

niture Co.

.  McDonald, John D.

Mather, Geo B, Corunna Coal Co,  Corunna. 
Malloy, M M, Arthur Meigs & Co,
Moseley, Edward A, Moseley Bros.
Morgan, C E, Jennings & Smith.
McDowell, Harry,  McConl  &  Bradfleld  Fur­
McCarthy, Dennis P, John Caulfield.
Morrison, Jas A, Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon. 
Moyer,  Martin  N,  Berkey & Gay Furniture 
Mangum, John D, S A Welling.
McConnell, N Stewart, Nelson Bros & Co..
McDonald, John X, T H Redmond.
McIntyre, John H, Arthur Meigs & Co.
McKay, Geo, Putnam & Brooks.
McKelvey, John H, Noble & Co.
McQueeu, Daniel  D.
Maybury, Frank I, G R & I Ry.
Macumber, Wallace.
Mangold, Edward C, C G A Voigt & Co. 
Mangold, Richard C.
Mansfield, C W, Bradner, Smith & Co.
Marsh, Chas C, W C Denison.
Meade, Burt  H.
Mead, Wm W.
Mendell,  Isadore.
Miller, Frank, Detroit Safe Co,  Detroit.
Mills, Lloyd M, Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.

N.

o.

Noble, Mr.
Neahr, John J, Grand Rapids Chair Co 
Nolan, John E,

Co.

on.

Co.

Owens, John, Alabastine Co.
Olmsted, Joseph  P,  Bissell  Carpet  Sweeper 
Orr, Robert B, Arthur Meigs & Co.
Owen, Geo F, Brewster & Stanton,  Detroit.

P.
Palen, John H, Rindge, Bertseh & Co.
Peck, C J, S A Welling.
Parmenter,  Ben F, Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lem­
Price, W J, Eaton & Christenson.
Parmenter, Chas B, Gleason Wood Ornament 
Pantlind, Geo E, Wetzell Bros & Pantlind. 
Parker,  John.
Parkes, Leonard C.
Payne, Geo O, Grand Rapids Mfg Co.
Peck, Chas W, Grand Rapids Brush  Co.
Phelps, Sebring I, Brown, Hall &  Co.
Phillips, Daniel C, Wm Harrison.
Pierce, Harry H, Noble & Co*
Pierce, Silas K, E. S.  Pierce.
Putnam, Geo S, D M Osborne & Co.
Putnam. Thos C, Putnam & Brooks.
Post, John C, Michigan Plaster Agency. 
Pearsoll, O K, Grand Rapids Brush Co. 
Parkhurst, It, Stockwell & Darragh Furniture 

Co.

o.
Quinn, Jas, L J Quinn.
K.

and ProvisiongCo.

Rindge,*Will A, Rindge, Bertsch & Co.
Rooney, Jas, F. Ranniville  & Co.
Roys, Graham, G Roys & Co.
Robinson,  Chas  S,  Grand  Rapids  Packing 
Richards, Theo F, Widdicomb Furniture  Co. 
Rowe, Wm N, Valley City Milling Co.
Range, Wm C.
Reed, Jos F O, H Leonard &  Sons.
Reynolds, Richard W, Muskegon Valley Fur- 
Richmond, Wm U, E T Brown & Co.
Robertson, Hiram S, A Meigs & Co.
Rogers, Judson  B.
Rood, Landon. 
Russell, Albert L, Chas Schmidt & Bros.

nituring Co.

t

S.

Co.

Co.
and Panel Co.

Sears, Stephen, Wm Sears & Co.
Seymour, Alonzo, Wm Sears & Co.
Seymour, Geo H, Hugo Schneider & Co. 
Savage, Harrison R, John Caulfield. ■  k 
Stuart, Arthur H, Worden Furniture  Co. 
Sheldon, Suel, Jackson Wagon Co.
Schroder, Herman, Wm. Hake.
Scott, Richard T, Cappon & Bertsch  Leather 
Sharp, Augustus C, Cody, Ball & Co.
Shelley, Jas R, McCord & Bradfleld Furniture 
Sherwood, Alfred  H,  Grand  Rapids  Veneer 
Shriver, Fred D, Shriver, Weatherly & Co. 
Simmonds, John M.
Smith, Chas A.
Smith, Maxwell W.
Smith,  Sanford. 
Smith, Wm H, Kent Furniture Mfg Co.
Snyder, Eben F, W C Denison.
Southard, Geo A. 
Sprague, A Milton, S A Welling.
Sprague, E M, E J Copley.
Stohr, Chas F, Paul W Friedrich.
Starr, Isaac N, Standard Medicine Co.
Stearns,  Daniel  E,  Broadhead 
Mills, Jamestown, N Y.
Steinberger, Joseph.
Stevens, Alvant T,  Singer  Sewing  Machine 
Stewart, Robert, Perkins & Hess.
Stickney, Chas C.
Strong, Return.
Stoddard, Geo, Nelson, Matter & Co.
"Smith It H, Perkins & Hess.

.Worsted; 

Co.

-  >

1

.  Treusch, M H, Morris H Treusch.  1 

Thayer,  Ed, W R Peoples &  Son,  Cincinnati.
■
Treadway, E A, Blue Line.
Trout, Emerson W.
Taylor, Lorison J, Kent Furniture Mfg Co.;-1 
Thompson, John G.
Tooher, John V.
Tuberger, Geo, U Feeter. 
Thayer, Ed  P.
Tanner, J B, Perkins &  Hess. 

.
>

: 

|.,r
Underwood, D C, Arthur Meigs & Co.
Utter, Albert L.

U. 

Ver Venne, John H, Eaton & Christenson.
Van Ness, VanRensselaer.
Va.i Stee, Jacob E, Grand Rapids Broom  Co. 
Van Steenberg, Abram C.

;

Winchell, VE, Alabastine Co.
Wailing, Samuel A, Cavanaugh & Co, Chicago 
Williams, W J, Eaton & Christenson.
Warner, Richard, Claik, Jewell & Co.
White, Algernon E, Cody, Ball &  Co. 
Wilcox, C S, Hawkins & Perry.
Ward. Nathan D. 
White, Frank H, Curtis, Dunton & Co. 
Watkins, J Bradley.
Watson, Jesse C, C S Yale & Bro.
Whitworth, Geo G, Foster, Stevens & Qo. 
Williams, Ranselaer.
Wise, Henry L, S S Adams.
Wolcott, John M, Worden Furniture  Co. 
Wright, Edward J.
Watkins,  J  B,  Luther  &  Sumner Furniture. 
Wheeler, J L, Farmer Roller Mill Co.

*

Co.

T.

V.

w .

Yale, Chas S, C S Yale &  Bro.

Zunder, Aaron, Jacob Barth.

Y.

Z.

Fred. Peck has been admitted  to  partnei- 
ship in the  wholesale  grocery  firm  of  R .’ 
Boyd & Co., at East Saginaw.

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

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BKO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR.
{Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter. 1 

»

WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  24,  1884.

BUSINESS LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of East Resort.

F A L S E  

R E P R E S E N T A T IO N S — P L E D G E  

O F

B O N D S.

An indictment for  false pretences will lie 
fo falsely and fraudulently representing that 
certain railroad bonds are of a certain  value 
whereby a sum of money is obtained  on the 
pledge thereof, according to  the  decision of 
the Supreme Court of California in  the case 
of the People ys. Jordan.

C H A T T E L   M O R T G A G E — F R A U D   O N   C R E D I­

TO R S.

A chattel  mortgage on a stock  of  goods 
which authorises  the  mortgagor  to  retain 
possession and carry on ]iis business by buy­
ing and selling goods, is void as to  creditors 
and purchasers  of the  mortgagor or his as­
signee,  according to the  decision of  the Il­
linois Appellate  Court in the  case of Yager 
et al. vs. Mersinger.

A W A R D — R IG H T   TO   R E O P E N .

A promise made by arbitatots, subsequent 
to their award, to reopen the arbitration  and 
to hear other evidence for the  unsuccessful 
cannot effect the award,for the reason, accord 
ing to the Kentucky Courtof Appeals, that he 
power of the arbitators to act  in  the  matter 
•ceases on the  return of the  award.  Whit­
lock vs. Ledford, decided Nov. 29.

L A N D L O R D   A N D  

T E N A N T — A G R E E M E N T .
Where there is a  contract  whereby prop­
erty is rented  for  one  year  only, coupled 
with the further  agreement  that at the ex­
piration of that year the landlord and tenant 
shall regard a new renting for  another year 
as sgreed on unless  there is a previous  dis­
sent, a permitted holding over by the tenant 
is an assent of both  parties to  the  contract 
for the first year as the  contract  for the sec­
ond year, and will bind  both as  firmly as if 
there had been a formal  contract entered in­
to for the second year.  So held by the Ken­
tucky Superior Court in the  case of  Unger 
vs. Bamberger, decided on December 1.

C O R P O R P O IlA T IO N  S— L IA B IL IT Y   O F   STOCK­

H O L D E R S .

Where the charter of  a  corporation  pro­
vides that the corporation shall not incur in­
debtedness in  excess of a  certain  amount, 
neither the board of directors  nor a majori­
ty  of the member of the corporation can vio­
late this provision of the charter  and  make 
the individual  stockholders  liable to  them 
in excess of the amount fixed by the charter, 
according to the  decision  of  the  Kentucky 
Court of Appeals in the Case  of  Ilaldeman 
et aL vs. Ainslie et al., decided on  the  29th 
ult. 
In this case a director of  a corporation 
who had created debts for the benefit of  the 
corporation in excess of the amount allowed 
by the charter, and had  been  compelled  to 
satisfy the indebtedness  thus  created, was 
held not entitled to  contribution  from  the 
stockholders of  the  corporation, although it 
was held that the  original  creditors  might 
have recovered of  the stockholders.

A G R E E M E N T — A L L O W A N C E   O F  C H A R G E S .
Where the  owner of a quantity of  petro­
leum delivered  it for  storage to a company 
formed for the purpose of  transporting  and 
storing such  oil, and it was  agreed  by the 
owner and the company that  certain  allow­
ances should be made  for  evaporation  and 
certain charges be paid  for  storage, the Su­
preme  Court Commission  of  Ohio  held, in 
an actioh by the owner against the company 
for an alledged  converion of the  oil  to  its 
-use, that  the  allowance  agreed  upon  for 
evaporation and the amount due for  storage 
were proper subjects of counter claim by the 
company.  The court further  held  that the 
conversion of the oil made the  company lia­
ble for its  value, subject to  all  allowances 
and charges agreed upon  in  the  receipts of 
storage, and that the owner could not defeat 
the right of the company to  make  such  al­
lowances and  charges  a counter  claim  by 
bringing his action as one for  trover at com­
mon law.  The Cow Run Iron  Tank Co. vs. 
Lehmer, decided December 2.

In His W ife’s Name.

“Is Colonel Messrnore in?”
“Yes, sah! but ef  dat’s  de  grocery  bill, 

yer better not present it to-day sail.”

“Yes, but this is the fifth time  I’ve  been 
for  six 

put  off.  This  bill’s  been  due 
months.”

“Lawd, boss, dat’s nuffin.  Dat’s too young 
yit fur to get paid.  Ise got  some  nine-year- 
ole bills awaitin’ now.”

“Well,  that’s discouraging.”
“Kan’t help it, sah.  Ise de  kurnel’s  pri- 
vit secretary, and dat atn der  conditions  ob 
dis  house.  All de kumels  money’s  in his 
wife’s name and that’s fur  why  he’s so in- 
derpendent.”

Experimenters  in  England  have  shown 
that gas and oil are about  equally good  for 
light-hopses. and that the electric light is su­
perior to either in fine  weather, but  proba­
bly not so good in fogs.

Because trade is a severe  trial to honesty 
—too severe for the endurance of ail  men— 
is no proof that  it is  unfavorable  to  moral 
growth.

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

BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
MODEL  MILLS.
Gill  Edge  Patent  aid  WMte  Loaf  Brands  of  Flonr.

MANUFACTURERS OF-------

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

Full  R oller  Process.

Corner Winter and West Bridge Sts., ‘ 

-  

Grand Rapids, Mich.

ENTERPRISE  CIGAR  CO.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  FAMOUS  AND  POPULAR  BRANDS

O L 7 MFZA,

----- j ß L N T D -----

LA  BELLE  SEN OH A.

Grand  Rapids, Mieli.
J E N N I N a S ’ 

HANDKERCHIEF  PERFUM ES!

TRIPLE  EXTRACTS,

S p e c i a l   O d o r s ,

Fleur de lis, Marie Antoinette, Jockey Club, White Rose, Fleur D’Orange.

Also a full Assortment  Standard Odors, put up in  1,  2, 

Perfumers. 

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

Jennings and Smith
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,
Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs,

Krill Rsjite, MM.

----- WHOLESALE  D EA LER S  IN ------

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

Cä^RAND  RAPIDS.  -  MICHIOAKT.

TRAMWAY  PLUG
The  Most  Successful  Brand 

on  the  Market.

Still  Leading  all  others  in  Sales—The 

Popular  Brand  with  the  Trade.
O r d e r   S a m p l e   B u ztt.

CODY, BALL & CO
Choice  Butter a Specialty!

Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Cranber­

ries, Cider, Buckwheat Flour, Etc.
Careful Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.

M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St„ G’d Rapids.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

WHOLESALE

D e t r o i t ,   M i e l i .

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

-  MICHIGAN.

—THAT—

PLUG  TOBACCO

Ziorillard’s  C lim ax

DO  YOU  KNOW B U T ,  SELL,  D R I N K
BEST C O F F E E »  WORLD
Chase  &  Sanborn’s!

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?
Lorillard’s Rose  Leaf Fine 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- 
i  bacco wherever introduced.
Lorillard’s  Famous  Snuffs 
have  been  used  for  over  124  years,  and are 
sold to a larger extent than any others.

__THE—

Lorillard’s  Navy  Clippings 

Standard  Java.

a B B l
i l  
I

« - m T I

H i M l M

§811

«noMmmJit,PURE «dofth,

C hase# Sanborn,

m w y
f y

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

Flavor.

Over  15,000  Grocers
Throughout  the  United  States  and  Canada

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

ly increased their sales by its SUPERIOR QUALITY.

The following testimonial coming as it does from one of the largest it not the  largest gro­

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

Cincinnati, December 20th, 1883.

Messrs. Chase  &  Sanborn, Boston, Mass.

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

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

Yours  respectfully,

(S ig n ed ,) 

Josepli  IO..  Peetoles’  Sons,

Send for Sample Lot.

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

Chase  &  S anborn,

Importers,  Roasters  aod  Packers,

Boston, Mass.,  TT-  S.  A.

CANADIAN  BRANCH, 

435  ST.  P A U L   STREET, 

M ontreal, P .  Q. 

I 

> 

*  MICHIGAN  AGENT.

BE.  T.  CliaS©,
Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids.

Old  Country  Soap.

This  Soap for the Laundry stands unsurpassed.  It is Pure, 
having none oftheJillings such as White Silex, Flour, Starch,  Etc.,  so  common  to  Light 
Colored  Soaps.  It  is  a  full  weight  On©  Poiinci  B 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  Country  Soap,  Soldbyall R etail Grocers 
in  Grand  R apids  at  the same price as light weight %  ib  bars of soap.  4  One  Pound 
Bars for 25 cents.  Any Wholesale  Grocer can fill your order, for 1  keep  a  large  stock 
Of  OlcL Country Soap wrapped  and  unwrapped  with  my 
splits,

SHIELDS, BULKLEY & LEMON,

CORNER  IONIA  AND  ISLAND  STREETS,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

---------MANUFACTURED  BY---------

ALLEN  B.  WRISLEY,

Laundry,  Toilet  Soaps  and  Perfumes,

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

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

SEE  QUOTATION  LIST FOR PRICES.

C H E W   T H E

New Dark “American  Eagle”

F I N E   O U T .

TBS BEST XXT TSE MARKET.
Send an Order to your Wholesale Grocer for it.  Manufactured by

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

EUSTGU N E S

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

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

"  " 

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  minera? 
poison or quinine.  Act directly on the Liver, “tone 
aid digestion  and
POSITIVELY CUBE 
_____________ JNSTIPATION.  In­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free
_________  on receipt of price, 25  cts.  Sample
package free.  W e s t e r n   M e d ic in e  
r ® 4o^w A 0,i'   C o m p a n y ., Grand Rapids, Mich.

LEASANTTOTAKE, ACTS MILDLY, CURES QUICKLY
OTIIAM'S  SDRS  C U E  FOB FEVER  AM.
One  DQ86  taken during the  Chill, 
arrests  tne  disease in 20 minutes.
NEVER KNOWN TO PAIL.  Money re­
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 ic in e  Co. .Grand Rapids, Mich.

¡ E a U ^ Z L i H i ’ S  

M U L T U M  IN  P A R V O  

S y s te m   o f

Common  Sense 

BOOK  KEEPING,
R E TA IL   GROCERS,

FOR

GENERAL  STOREKEEPERS,

R E Q U IR E S

TWO  BOOKS  ONLY 

For  All  Purposes.

N A M E L Y   :  “ T H E   A C C O U N T   B O O K ,” 
combining both D A Y   B O O K   a n d  L E D G E R  
in  one,  by  which customers itemized  state­
ments  are  furnished  in  one-third  the  time 
required  by  the usual  process,  as  hundreds 
who are using it w ill cheerfully testify.

AND

“ T H E   C O M P E N D IU M ,”  requiring-but  io 
) minutes a   day  to  record  each  day’s  cash 
transactions,  and  supply  a  complete  self- 
| proving P R O F IT   ana  LOSS  Balance  sheet 

whenever desired.
F u ll  details,  illustrated  by  exam ple,  sent 
I free  to  M E R C H A N T S   sending  name  and 
I address  to H A L L   &  C O .,  Publishers,  154 
L a k e  S t .,  C H IC A G O ,  I L L . 
If  possible 
I send  b u s in e ss c a r d .

On  the  First  of January, 1885, THE  CHRIS­
TIAN  UNION,  which  has  already been once 
enlarged from a twenty to a Twenty-four Page 
paper,will be further enlarged, and will become
A  Thirty-Two  Page  Paper.
It will then give its readers a larger  amount 
of literary matter each week than any other
Religious Weekly in  this Country, if not in the World

IT  IS  NOT:

A  Denominational  journal:  devoted to the 
A  Church  News paper:  devoted  to  village 
A Theological paper:  devoted to acrimonious 
A W eekly Scrap paper: made up from scissor- 
A  Daily  paper:  reprinted  in  the  form  of a 
A Story paper: filled up  with  sensational  and 

interests of a party or sect.
gossip and ecclesiastical machinery.
debates .about abstruse  doctrines.
ings from other newspapers.
weekly.
sentimental fiction.

IT  IS:

*

A  News  paper:  giving  a  full  report  of the 
world’s history week by week, and interpret­
ing it.
A Christian paper: applying to  every  practi­
cal question—social,  political,  domestic  and 
personal—the principles taught  In  the  New 
Testament. 
A  Progressive  paper:  teaching  about  the 
things of to-day, that its readers may be bet­
ter prepared for to-morrow.
A  Comprehensive  paper:  concerned  with 
everything that concerns  the  well-being of 
men and women.
A  Home  paper:  edited  in  a  home,  and for 
home reading.
A Helpful paper; aiming  in  every  article  to 
make its readers better, wiser, happier.
A Fearless paper: owing nothing to a party, a 
sect, or a taction.
A Clean paper:  allowing  no  “paid  advertise­
ments” in its editorial  departments,  and  no 
dubious advertisements anywhere.
An Interesting paper: edited on the principal
.  that “If you can’t make a paper so attractive 
that people will be eager to read It,  you  had 
better not make it at all.”

Its peculiar features are: 
Young Folks
Evening Lamp.
The Spectator. 
Inquiring Friends. 
Sunday Afternoon. 
Books and Authors.

ìe Outlook, 
le Four Great Cities, 
ints,  Questions  and 
Experiences, 
inday School  Papers, 
le Home.
YMAN  ABBOTT, 
AMILTON W. MABIE. 

Editors.
I P
f

Terms—Three Dollars for One Year.  One Dol­

lar for Four Months.  Specimen 

Copies  Sent Free.
Canvassers.  Address

Special,  Advantages to  Clubs and Neighborhood 
Th.e Christian Union

20  Lafayette Place,  N.  Y.  Glty.

Hecter’s 

MM Mannfactnres.

Hacker’s Self-Raising B-u.ckKrh.eat

ink.

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

Boxes, 32 3 ft 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,  Waffles,  Puddings,  Ap­

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

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

Hecker’s Self-Raising 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 ¿ ft papers................................................. 4 55
Blue Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft  papers................................................1 (U

Hooker’s Boiled Wheat, or Wheaten 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,

Hecker’s Partly-Cooked Boiled Oats.

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

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

Becker’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.

Becker’s Bomiay or Corn Grits

Is made from fine white flint corn.

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

PURITY AND STENGTH GUARANTEED.

M er’s  Perfect  Bah!  Powder

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  duality  and  Price  to  warrant 

them in pushing the sale of goods  that  have been recognized 

as STANDARD  FOR  OVER  FORTY  YEARS.

where in this issue and write for

George  V .   Hecker  &  Go.
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to laie Bottoi Prices on anytMiiiiie handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,
RINDG-E, BERTSCH & CO.,
B O O T S   A X T D   S H O E S .

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich,

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.

It

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

OYSTERS.

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

Putnam  &  Brooks.

2 >r\>  (Boobs.

AH About Gloves.

“The glove,  like  everything  else  in  the 
world, has its history.  It has been said that, 
for  a  glove  to  be  good,  three  kingdoms 
should have contributed to its  manufacture: 
Spam to prepare the kid,  France  to  cut it, 
and England  to  sew  it.  Three  nations  to 
one glove!  In tracing  back  the  history  of 
gloves, we  find  that  they  existed  in  Xeno- 
phone’s day, and  were in use  four  or  five 
centuries  before  our  time.  The  Persians 
wore gloyes in the winter time,  and display­
ed as much luxury in them as in  the  rest of 
their  dress.

The gloves which the  Tartars and Samoy- 
edes covered their hands  were 
invented by 
them  centuries  ago.  They  were  roughly 
made of fur and reindeer  skins,  and  were 
used more as  a  protection 
the  hands 
against the cold climate than for their  beau­
ty.  In the middle ages gloves  were  reserv­
ed for the use and  ornament  of  the  nobles 
and prelates, who had them  decorated with 
embroidery  and  precious  stones.  A  glove 
was sometimes used as a  mark  of  submis­
sion given to the lord by a vassal, when  put 
into possession of a fief or long leasehold. At 
the time of the Crusaders, the knights often 
wore the glove of their chosen  lady in  their 
helmets, as  a  talisman  or  gage  d'armur. 
Everyone is doubtless  familiar  with  Schil­
ler’s  “The Glove and  the  Lions;” of how 
the scornful lady threw her  glove  into  the 
arena filled with lions and  bade  her  knight 
return it  to her.  In  old  times  the  glove 
was used  as  a  form  of  challenge  between 
two knights.  To “throw  down the  glove” 
was supposed to be the most courtly form of 
inviting an enemy to combat.

to 

Gloves  have  been  much  influenced  by 
fashion.  At the time of the first French em­
pire gloves were worn by the 
ladies of  the 
eonrt that  came  above  the  elbows.  These, 
however were  worn  with  out-of-door  cos­
tumes.  With  full  dress  the  gloves  were 
worn shorter, in order to show the beautiful 
arms of the  wearers.  Short  mittens  made 
of black lace, were worn  in  Marie  Antoin­
ette’s time.  At the present day gloves seem 
to be considered no  longer a luxury, but  as 
one of the common  necessities  of  life, and 
evereyone wishes to have  the  gloves made 
by the the most fashionable glovers.  Depres 
and Alexandrine ten years ago the best glov­
ers in Paris are now  not  thought  the  least 
authority in gloves.

Cow’s  Hair in Carpets.

A  writer in  the  Cincinnati  Times-Star, 

says:

“One day last week a man  showed  me  a 
bunch of  something  which  at  a  distance 
might be taken for wool.  It  was  perfectly 
white, rather soft to the touch,  but  was not 
curly enough for wool, and the  fibers  were 
but an inch or an inch and a half long.

“What is it?”  I asked  somewhat  mysti­

fied.

tering.”

“No,  it is not a ‘what is it,’ the man  said, 

‘but it’s a bunch of cow’s hair.’ ”

“Oh, yes,” I replied,  “it’s to  put in  plas­

“No, it is put in carpets.  This is  the lat­
est in  adulteration—you  know  everything 
must be adulterated now-a-days.  There is a 
firm in this city  which buys up cow’s  hair, 
puts it  through  a  chemical  process  which 
cleanses and bleaches it, and sells it  by  the 
bale to parties in  the  East—the  home  of 
wooden  nutmegs,  etc.,—who  spin  it  into 
yam and  use it, with a certain proportion of 
wool,  in  the  manufacture of  carpets  and 
plushes.  Quite a large business has  sprung 
up in the  preparation of  cow’s  hair, and as 
the  process of preparing it is patented,  the 
concern  that  owns  the  patent  is  making 
money out of it.  I expect  that  we  will  be 
wearing  clothes  made  of  cow’s  hair  after 
awhile.”

Cotton Goods Cooking Up.

From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.

“Over production” is no longer  the  com­
plaint  in  cotton-manufacturing  circles  in 
Augusta.  The demand for the last few days 
has swept all goods from the  market.  The 
heavy stocks complained of last spring  and 
summer are sold.  The factories  are  refus­
ing big orders ahead  and  good  times  are 
coming.  “Cotton  goods  are  following the 
raw cotton,” said a  factory  president,  “and 
prices are advancing in response  to the  ac 
tive demand and because of the low price  of 
goodsmaintained all summer and until now.” 
The management of  various  factories have 
agreed to advance prices  from  A  to A   cent 
per  yard.

Cornets Made of Bark.

The Bayaderes of India,  who  possess  the 
most  perfect  figures of any  women, of any 
country on earth, have a much  more health­
ful and  charming  device  than  Europeans. 
Their corsets are formed out of  the  baik of 
a Madagascar tree, on a principal which per­
mits  them  every  freedom  of  movement  in 
breathing 
and in  any  form  of  exercise. 
These are  wonderful  productions  ot  inge­
nuity.  The color resembles the skin  to a  re­
markable degree,  and the material  is so fine 
that the most delicate touch will  hardly dis­
tinguish it from  human  flesh.  Once  made, 
these corsets are seldom removed, the  baya­
dere even sleeping with them.

A number of ingrain carpet manufacturers 
in Philadelphia have  agreed  to  reduce  the 
wages of their employees from 16 to  20  per 
cent.  The employers  say  they  have  to  do 
this to compete with Eastern manufacturers. 
The  reduction will be felt  more  or  less  by 
probably 20,000 people  engaged  in  the  in­
grain carpet mills.

The woolen, cotton  and  carpet  mills of 
Philadelphia are mostly in operation, though 
some are on short time.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

P R IN T S .

CHECKS.

S IL E S IA S .

OSNABURQ,

bric, 4 4 ........ 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Indian Orchard, 40.  814 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........1614
Lyman B, 40-in....... 1014
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  524
Nashua  E, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 4-4........  7
Nashua 0,7-8..........  714
Newmarket N ........  714
Pepperell E, 39-in..  714
Pepperell  R, 4-4__   7
Pepperell  0,7-8__ ¿14
Pepperell N, 3-4—   614
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R...............  7
Saranac  E...............  9

Masonville TS........   8
Masonville  S...........1014
Lonsdale.................  914
Lonsdale A .............16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J ................
Victory D ...............
Victory K .................214
Phoenix A ............... 1914
Phoenix  B ..............   1014
Phoenix X X ...........5
Gloucester...............6
Gloucestermourn’g .6
Hamilton  fancy__ 6
Hartel fancy............6
Merrimac D............. 6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........ 614
Pacific  robes........... 6
Richmond................ 6
Steel River...............514
Simpson’s ................ 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues.  714

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
iPepperell, 10-4........25
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21  Pepperell, 11-4........27V4
Peppered,  7-4........16  Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pepperell,  8-4........20  Pequot,  8-4.............21
Pepperell,  9-4....... ?254|Pequot,  9-4.............24
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Caledonia, X X ,oz..ll 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz.. .10
Prodigy, oz........... 11
Economy,  oz..........10
Otis Apron........... 10V4
Park Miils, 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
Alabama brown__ 714 ¡Alabama  plaid.........8
Jewell briwn..........  9*41 Augusta plaid........   8
Kentucky  brown.. 1014 Toledo plaid...........   714
Lewiston  brown...  914 Manchester plaid..  7
Lane brown........... 914 New Tenn. plaid.. .11
Louisiana  plaid....  8  ¡Utilityplaid...........   614
Greene, G,  44........   514
Avondale,  36..........  814
Hill, 44..................  814
Art  cambrics, 36. ..1114 
Hill, 7-8....................  714
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 
Hope,  44.................  714
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1214
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4.  ............  714
1114
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Linwood,  44..........  9
Boott,  0 .4 4 ............  814
Lonsdale,  44............814
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Lonsdale  cambric. 1114 
Boott, AGC, 4-4.........954
Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Boott, R. 34..........  524
LangdOn,  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 44.  714 
Masonville,  44.........914
Chapman, X, 44—   614
Maxwell. 44............1014
Conway,  4-4............. 724
New York Mill, 4-4.1014 
Cabot, 4-4...................714
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   614
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Canoe,  34...............  4
Pride of the West. .1214
Domestic,  36............714
Pocahontas,  4-4___ 854
Dwight Anchor, 44.  914
Slaterville, 7-8........  614
Davol, 44...............  914
Victoria, ÄA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  824
524
Fruitof Loom, 7-8..  8^i Woodbury, 44..
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.............   8241
Crown.....................17
No.  10.....................1214
Coin........................10
Anchor...................15
Centennial.............
Blackburn............  8
Davol......................14
London...................1214
Paconia................. 12
Red  Cross..............10
Social  Imperial — 16
Albion,  solid............514
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........514
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 514
Allen’s pink..............61%
Allen’s purple.......... 614
American, fancy— 514
Arnold fancy.  ........6
Berlin solid.............   514
Cocheco  fancy.........8
Cocheco robes.......... 614
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone............... 6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink..............614
Appleton  A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4........... 714
Boston F, 4-4..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  724 
Continental D, 40 in 824 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  514 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  614
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8............614
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  7
Dwight Star, 4-4—   714 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  514 
Great FallsE,4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.........624
Indian  Orchard, t-4 714
Amoskeag........ ..  8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 1014
Bates.........................714
Berkshire.............   614
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 754 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
standard.............   714
Plunket..................   714
Lancaster...............  824
styles  ...................1214
Langdale
iPepperell.  10-4.......2714
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23 Pepperell,  11-4............3214
Pepperell,  7-4........20 
Pequot, 7-4..............21
Pepperell,  8-4........2214 Pequot,  8-4..............24
Pepperell,  9-4........25 
¡Pequot, 9-4..............2714
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......7*4 ¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  814
Atlantic  H, 44.......7  Lawrence  Y, 30....  7
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......614 Lawrence LL14 4 ...  52i
Newmarket N 
Atlantic P, 44 
Mystic River, 4-4...  6
Atlantic  LL, 44—   514
Pequot A, 4-4..........  8
Adriatic, 36.............   714
Piedmont,  36..........7
Augusta, 44............  614
Stark AA, 4-4..........  714
Boott  M, 44............  714
Tremont CC, 44__ 524
Boott FF, 44 ..........  724
Utica,  4-4................   9
Graniteville, 4-4—   624 
Wachusett,  4-4.......714
Indian  Head,4-4...  714 
Wachusett, 30-in...  624
Indiana Head 45-in. 1214
Falls, XXXX...........1814
Amoskeag,  ACA...1314 
Falls, XXX.............1514
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Falls,  BB................1114
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Falls,  BBC, 36........1914
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C........11
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D........1014
Hamilton,  D ..........  954
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10
Hamilton,  H ............914
Amoskeag, F ............914
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 44— 17 
Methuen AA..........1314
Premium  B —  — 16
Methuen ASA........18
Extra 44.................. 16
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Extra 7-8.................. 1414
Omega A, 44......... 13
Gold Medal 4-4........15
Omega ACA, 7-8___14
CCA 7-8.................... 1214
Omega ACA, 44__ 16
CT 44 ........................U
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8....................... 14
Omega SE; 44.........27
BF 7-8....................... 16
Omega M. 7-8........22
AF4-4....................... 19
Omega M, 44......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Shetucket SS&S3W 1114 
Cordis  AC A, 32....... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1, 32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Stockbridge  A.......7
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4............ 1154
Empire
Garner......................o
Washington...........   424
Hookset..................  5
Edwards..................  5
Red  Cross...............  5
S. S. &Sons.......... 
5
Forest Grove..........
American  A ........17  50iOld  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ....................21141 Wheatland..............21
Roston........... '.......714 ¡Otis  CC......................10J4
Everett blue........... 14  Warren AXA......... 1214
Everett brown........14  Warren BB............. 1114
Otis  AXA...............1214 Warren CC...............1014
Otis BB................... 11141 York  fancy...........15
Manville...................  6 IS. S. &Sons................  6
Masgnville..............  6  ¡Garner....................  6
Red  Cross...............  714 ¡Thistle Mills............
Berlin.....................  714  Rose.........................  8
Garner................... 7141
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Wiiiimantic 3 cord.40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30

Renfrew, dress styl 914 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............1214
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress  styles........1214
Slaterville, 
dress
styles......................9
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston.................914
Gordon......................8
dress 
Greylock, 

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

checks,
new

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

G R A IN   BAGS.

TIC K IN G S.

W IG AN S.

DENIM S.

CORSET JE A N S .

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Mer ricks................40
Stafford.................. 25
Hall & Manning__ 25
Holyoke...................25
Kearsage................ 81*
Naumkeagsatteen.  8I4 
Pepperell  bleached 814
Pepperell sat..........914
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........814
Conegosat...............  7

Armory..................  714
Androscoggin sat..  814
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon.................614
Hallowell  Imp.......624
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Laconia..................   714

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

Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
1  05
90
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville cement,  per bbl.................. 
140
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
140
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1  40
Car lots................................................... 1 05@1  10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 75
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
Fire brick, per  M...................................$25 ® $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg arid grate, car lots.. $6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 25®6 50
CanneU, car lots...................................  @6 76
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3 25@3 50
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50®6 00

COAL.

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Fancy and Staple

DRY  GOODS,

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

Oil-.  CLOTHS

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Bapids,

S. A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

-AND-

N O T I O N S !

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

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  J ohn D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Spbague,  J ohn  H.  Eackeb, 
L. R. Cesna, and J. T. Herrington.

24 Pearl Street

lien.

School  Books
School  Stationery

W llolesale,

EATON,  LYON  &  ALLEN,

22  and  24  Canal Street,

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

Michigan.

D A K i H G
POWDER

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

GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

E Iiinciorman’s

OVE-TAILED  BREAD  ANTI 
^-MEAT BOARDS.-^D

The Besi 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 Bap­
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.

( B r o c e r i e s .

Northern  Produce  In  the  New  Orleans 

Market.

O. W. Blain, who has lately retured  from 
New  Orleans,  states  that  it is folly  for  a 
dealer to gonsign produce of any kind to that 
city until he makes himself acquainted with 
the wants of the trade there.  Goods  which 
are  esteemed  first-class  here  in  the North 
are hardly salable there,  while  varieties  of 
fruits and vegetables not esteemed here find 
ready  sale  at  good prices.  Particularly  is 
this the case with sweet  apples,  which  are 
grabbed  up  by  dealers  as soon as they  ar­
rive, while Greenings and other excellent va 
rieties of winter apples are compelled  to  go 
begging  for  a  purchaser.  A  Port Huron 
dealer  shipped  seven  carloads  of  apples 
South a short time ago, and refused an  oifer 
of $2 per barrel  at  Memphis,  preferring  to 
take his chances on the  New  Orleans  mar­
ket.  He  paid  forty  cents  per  barrel  ad­
ditional freight charges, and found slow sale 
at New Orleans at $1.65 per barrel,  a  clean 
loss of at least 50 cents per barrel.  Michigan 
Early  Rose  potatoes  are  selling  there  for 
less than they cost, transportation  and  com­
mission added, and so with nearly every  ar­
ticle with which  thé  North  is  glutting  the 
market.  The influx of visitors later  in  the 
season will doubtless remedy  the  evil  to  a 
considerable extent,  but  the  experience  of 
Michigan  shippers  during 
the  past  few 
weeks should serve as  a  warning  to  those 
who  contemplate  making  consignments  to 
New  Orleans  without 
first  ascertaining 
whether  there  is  an active demand for  the 
goods.

How to Handle Potatoes  Properly.

From the American Marketman.

It is no wonder  that  complaints  are  so 
numerous from consumers that  potatoes are 
bitter, dark and soggy when  brought to the 
table.  It is a common  practice,  especially 
in the western states, for farmers, after  dig­
ging, to gather in heaps on the  field  and  al­
low them to remain uncovered or  unprotect­
ed in the open air and sun for days at a time 
and sometimes  weeks.  This, coupled  with 
the habit some grocers have of keeping large 
quantities setting around the  store  and out 
on the sidewalk for  show, would  spoil  the 
best potatoes ever grown. 
It would be  just 
as sensible to lay eggs in the  hot  sun.  Po­
tatoes, or for that matter  all  tubers,  should 
be kept in a  dark  cool  place, preferably  a_ 
dark cellar.  Light, 
independent  of  direct 
sunshine, is death to the  flavor  and  quality 
of potatoes, yet go where you will  it  seems 
to be the lightest place around  the  store  or 
market that is allotted to  the  tubers, espec­
ially potatoes.  Another bad  practice is the 
rough  handling  and  shoveling 
they  get, 
which bruises them  so  that  when  cooked 
they are sure to be  black  and  soggy.  Try 
to have your white potatoes handled at least 
with as much care as your sweets.  You will 
find then that  your  customers  will be less 
apt to find fault.

Spoiled Goods.

The following wholesome  remarks,  from j 
the Chicago Purchasing Agent,  will  apply 
to other articles in the grocery  line  as  well 
as canned goods :

We note with  regret  the  disposition  of 
some  parties in the  trade  to  “kick” on a 
purchase of canned  Goods, simply  because 
they find a few swells in them.  Gentlemen, 
this is not right.  If you  have  made a pur­
chase and there are  swells, you  don’t  lose 
by it.  You simply donate the price of exam­
ination.  How would you feel if  everyone of 
your customers were to  return goods  which 
you had been at the expense and trouble and 
labor to sell and ship.  There  must be some 
courtesy extended  in  your  commercial  re­
lations with each other, or else  let  all  busi­
ness  intercourse  cease.  The  Purchasing 
Agent speaks simply in a fraternal manner. 
It gives no names, nor refers to any locality. 
Those who are  meant  will know 
it, when 
they read this article, and we give the assur­
ance that all is written with the best 
inten­
tion and kindest motiyes. Don’t allow any one 
to influence you by lower  prices to try to vi­
tiate a purchase already made and  received 
under the pretext of spoilage, but  report all 
unmerchantable or spoiled  goods  and  pay 
for the rest like “little men.”
Fun  Ahead  forth«  Oleomargarine  liana- 

•  * 

facturera.

The oleomagarine  manufacturers  are  be­
coming considerably nettled over late French 
and English  decisions  sustaining the Mege 
patent fof making the article.  The  French 
decision is a very broad one, obliging  manu­
facturers working  under  other  patents  to 
pay tribute to the Mege  owners;  and  also 
rendering liable to  suits for  damages those 
who have sold other oleomargarine.  It is al­
together probable  that  infringement  suits 
will again be revived in this  country. 
It is 
not improbable that a  grand  monopoly  of 
the business will be  inaugurated.
The Grocery Market.

The  grocery  business  has  held  out  well 
during 
the  past  week,  and  collections 
have been  exceptionally  good,  considering 
the times.  The staples have been  remarka­
bly steady, a notable firmness in  raisins  be­
ing the only exceptioq.

Potatoes  Wanted.

1 will pay the highest  market  price  for 
choice Rose, Burbanks and  White  Star  po­
tatoes delivered on board cars at  any  point 
south of Cadillac.  Correspondence solicited.

O. W. Blain.

“Do birds think?” asks a writer, 

in open­
ing an arfiefe.  If they do,  we  should 
like 
to  know  what a canary  bird  thinks of  a 
woman who stands up in  a chair aud  talks 
baby talk through  the  brass  wires  of the 
cage.

roasted.

Cost o f Boasted Coffee Bought Green.
The following table, if cut  out  and  pre­
served, will save the grocer considerable un­
certainty and figuring.  The writer  has  us­
ed it for a number of  years  and  can  vouch 
for its accurracy, it  being  his  own  method. 
Coffee will lose 15 per cent  in  roasting by 
the dry process, which is the only way it ev­
er should be done.  The  price  charged  by 
roasters is generally K cent per pound,  and 
on this basis the table is  computed.  Know­
ing the  price  paid  for  green  coffee by a 
glance at the table  the  cost  when  roasted 
will be apparent
10 cts. per lb. green.  12 6-17 cts.
11 cts. 
13 9-17 cts.
12 cts. 
14 12-17  cts.
13 cts. 
1515-17 cts.
14 cts. 
171-17 cts.
15 cts. 
18 4-17 cts.
16 cts. 
19 7-17 cts.
17 cts. 
2010-17 cts.
18 cts. 
21 13-17 cts.
19 cts. 
2216-17 cts.
20 cts. 
24 2-17 cts.
21 cts. 
25 5-17 cts.
22 cts. 
26 8-17 cts.
23 cts. 
27 11-17  cts.
24 cts. 
28 14-17 cts.
25 cts. 
30
cts.
26 cts. 
31 3-17 cts.
27 cts. 
32 6-17 cts.
28 cts. 
33 9-17 cts.
29 cts. 
34 12-17 cts.
30 cts. 
35 15-17 cts,
31 cts. 
37 1-17 cts.
32 cts. 
38 4-17 cts.
33 cts. 
39 7-17 cts.
34 cts. 
40 10-17 cts.
35 cts. 
41 13-17 cts.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
“

The Woman of It.

A couple of  ladies  were  discussing  the 
subject of-Christmas presents  for  their re­
spective husbands the other  day,  when  one 
said:

“What present  are  you  going to  make 

your  husband?”

“Oh, I shall present him with a lovely box 
of cigars.  You know he is so fond of smok­
ing.”

“I should not do that.  Why, you  can get 
a much nicer present than  that,  which  will 
not cost so much and will last  much longer. 
Besides, the cigars would encourage him in a 
bad  habit.”

“Oh, but I don’t know  about  that.  You 
see when Henry comes home from the lodge 
late I always go  through  his  pockets, and 
usually find a lot of cigars, aud I have saved 
them until I have over a box, and  am going 
to give them back to  him  and  buy a  new 
bonnet with the cash.”

Mule meat is a favorite dish in  Paris  and 

brings high prices.

There are  twenty-five  packing  house in 
Chicago with a capacity of  nearly  seventy- 
five thousand hogs per  diem.

The sale of “butter” in New  York  aggre­
gates annually about  100,000,000  pounds of 
which, says the United States  commissioner
agriculture, between  40,000,000  and  60,-

000,000 pounds are  manufactured.

There is storage room in the  various  ele­
vators of Chicago for 23,625,000 bushels, be­
sides this, the various lake craft 
laid  up in 
our rivers during the winter provide  an  ad­
ditional storage  capacity of  not  less  then 
10,000,000, making a  total  capacity  of 33,- 
625,000 bushels.

Now look out for  frozen  potatoes  around 
the store on cold  nights, and  also  keep an 
eye on the bottle goods in the  window  and 
on the shelves, liquid blue especially.  Keep 
the store warm  for  your  goods as  well as 
for  your  customers, as  they  don’t  relish 
standing around to freeze for half an hour.

The trees upon which nutmegs  grow look 
like small pear-trees, and  are  generally  not 
over twenty feet high.  The flowers are very 
much like the lily  of  the  valley.  They are 
pale and very fragrant.  The nutmeg  is the 
seed of the fruit, and mace  is  the  thin  cov­
ering over the seed.  The fruit is about  the 
size of a peach.  When  ripe it breaks  open 
and shows a  little  nut  inside.  The  trees 
grow on the  islands of  Asia  and  tropical 
America.  They bear fruit seventy or eighty 
years, and have ripe fruit upon  them all the 
season.  A tree in Jamacia  has  over  4,000 
nutmegs on it every year.

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID E S .

1%.

W OOL.

SH E E P PEL TS.

Green............................................... $  to 6  © 7
Part  cured.............................................. 
Full cured............................. ..................  79£© «
Dry hides and kips................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured....................  @io
Deacon skins............................¡p piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins p  piece. .10 
on @20
Fall pelts.................................................30
@50
F a ll  t w i ts  
Winter  pelts.......................................   60
Fine washed p  lb...........................................  so@ 22
Coarse washed......................................16  @18
Unwashed...............................................2-3
Tallow......................................................  
5^
Bear  ........................................................  50@10 00
Fisher  ...................................................4 00@8  00
Fox, red...................................................   25® 1 10
Fox.  gray................................................  15®  85
M artin.....................................................  25@ 1 00
M ink...................................................... 
5@  50
Muskrat.........'...............................................  
2@ 8
Otter.....................................................4 00@ 5  00
Raceoon.................................................  
5@  85
Skunk  .....................................................  15@  90
Deaver, p lb..........................................2 00@ 3  00
Beer, P  B>................................................  10@  30
• 

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

S K IN S .

OY STERS.

New York Counts................................................35
F. J. D. Selects  .................................................  .33
Selects................................................ 
28
F. J. D..........................................................""*..*20
Standard  ............................................................. jg
Favorite................................................ . . . . . . . . .. n
Medium.............................................. .1."!! Ü15
Prim e..................................... 
” r ! ! 'l4
New  York  Counts............................... . . . . . ..2 25
Selects, per gallon..................................... 
1  75
Standards............................................... i ¿¿@110
Codfish................................................................ 9
Haddock..............................................................1
Smelts.......................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . A2
Mackinaw Trout.............................                    8
Mackerel................«...........................   .......... 12
Whiteflsh  ............................................ '... '. ‘. '. . ^@8

FR ESH   F IS H .

.  . 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

A X LE  ORBASE.

 

 

 
 

BLU IN G .

654
1314

CANNED  F IS H .

CANNED  F R U IT S .

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

“ 
“ 
BROOMS.

Frazer’s .................... 801 Paragon......................70
Diamond...................60 Paragon, 20 ft pails.. 60
Modoc........................551
Arctic 54 lb cans....  451 Arctic 1 lb cans__ 2 40
Arctic 
ft cans__   75 Arctic 5 lb cans___12 00
Arctic 54 lb cans.  .  1 40|
Dry, No. 2........................................... doz. 
25
Dry, No. 3..................................... 
doz.  45
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................................doz. 
35
65
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz. 
Arctic 4 oz.........................................p   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...................................   2 00
3 00
Arctic No. 2  “ 
Arctic No. 3  “ 
4 50
No. 1 Carpet.............................................. 
2 50
No. 2 Carpet..................... V...................... 
2 25
No. 1  Parlor Gem....................................  
2  75
2 00
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
1  75
100
Fancy Whisk............................................  
Common Whisk.......................................  
75
Clams, 1 lb  standards..................................I 40
Clams, 2 ©  standards..................................2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.....................................2 20
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards.....................1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................2 00
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack  filled....................  75
Cove Oysterfe, 2 ft slack filled.....................1 25  -
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.....................................1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft star........................................ 2 25
Lobsters, 2 ft star........................................ 3 25
Mackerel,lib  fresh  standards..................1 00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards..................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft................3 25
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard............................3 25
Mackerel, 3 1b broiled..................................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......................1 40
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river.......................2 60
Salmon. 1 1b  Sacramento............................1 50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.....................   1  85
Sardines, domestic 14s................................. 
Sardines,  domestic  14s.............................. 
Sardines,  Mustard  54s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported 
...............................   14
Sardines, imported y2s.................................  20
Sardines, imported 54s, boneless...............  32
! Sardines, Russian  kegs.............................   55
! Trout. 3 ft  brook.......................................   2 75
! Apples, 3 1b standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie..............2 50
Blackberries, standards.............................1  15
Blackberries,  Erie.......................................1 55
Cherries, Erie, red....................................... 1  30
Cherries, Erie,white wax..........................   1  90
Cherries, French  Brandy, quarts.............2 50
Cherries, White...........................................  3 55
Damsons....................................................... 1  10
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 35
Egg Plums,  Erie.......................................... 145
Gooseberries, Kraft’s Best........................ I  00
Green  Gages.standards2ft...................  1  40
Green Gages,  Erie....................................... 1 50
Peaches,  Brandy..................
..........3  10
Peaches. Extra Yellow........
..........2 40
Peaches,  standards...............
..........1  75
Peaches,  seconds..................
..........1  50
Pie Peaches,  Kensett’s ........
.......... 1  10
Pears. Bartlett, Erie.............
..........1 70
Pineapples,  Erie....................
..........2  20
Plumbs, Golden  Drop..........
2 85
Quinces......................................................... l  45
Raspberries, Black,  Erie............................1 45
Raspberries, Red,  Erie.......................... 
1 40
Strawberries,  Erie....................................... 1 35
Whortleberries, McMurphy’s....................1 40
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 60|Pears.........................3 CO
Egg Plums............. 2 50 Quinces ...................2  90
Grapes....................2 50 Peaches  :.................3 00
Green Gages..........2 501
CANNED V EG ETA BLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay....................
..........3 25
Beans, Lima.  Erie............................
..........1  65
Beans, String, E rie..........................
..........  90
Beans, Lima,  standard....................
..........  90
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ...............
..........  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked..........
..........1 60
Corn, Erie...........................................
..........1  15
Corn, Red  Seal..................................
...1  10
Corn,  Acme.................................................. f  10
Corn, Revere..................................................1  25
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case..............22 00
Peas, Early extra,  small sifted  Erie........2 25
Peas, French, 100 in c a se...........................23 00
Peas, Marrofat, standard.............................1  50
Peas, B eaver................................................  75
Peas, early small, sifted.............................. l 60
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden................................... l 00
Rhubarb,  Erie...............................................l  10
Squash, Erie..................................................1 25
Succotash, Erie.............................................l  20
Succotash, standard........ ................. * .....  75
Tomatoes, Red Seal....................................  l  00
Boston...................... 36|German  Sweet...... ,2o
Baker’s .....................40 Vienna Sweet 
Runkles’ ................... 351
Green Rio................................................12  @14
Green Java.............................................. 17  @27
Green Mocha....................................... 
  25 @27
Roasted Rio.................................... 
Roasted  Java..........................................24  @32
Roasted  Mar........................................... 17  @19
Roasted Moch a........................................  @32
Roasted Mex.......  ..................................1714@20
Ground  R io ..........................................  954@17
Arbuckle ’ s ..............................................   @15
X X XX.....................................................  @15
Dilworth’s ..............................................  @16
Levering’s ..............................................  @15
Magnolia.......................... .......................  @15
72 foot J u te .......1  15  160 foot Cotton___ 2 00
60 foot Jute.......1  00 
|50 foot Cotton___ 1  75
F IS H .
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................   85
Cod, whole..................................................4!4@5
Cod,Boneless................ ................................5@754
Cod, pickled, V2  bbls....................................3 25
H alibut..........................................................  13
Herring y2  bbls............................................2 25
Herring,  Scaled........................................... 20@21
Herring,  Holland........................................ @80
Mackerel, No. 1, y2 bbls...............................5 00
Mackerel, No. 1.12 ft  kits..........................1 00
Shad, *4 b b l..................................................2 50
Trout, No.  1,14  bbls................................... 4 50
Trout, No. 1,12 1b  kits.................................  90
White, No. 1, l/2 bb ls................................... 6 00
White, Family, y2 bbls................................ 2 50
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  85
White, No. 1,12 ft kits................................ 1 06

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

CHOCOLATE.

CORDAGE.

CO FFEE.

10 @17

.23

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

FR U ITS

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Jennings’ 2 oz.................................doz.l 00

4 oz..............................................l 50
6 oz..............................................2 50
8 oz............................................. 3 50
No. 2 Taper.........................125
No.  4 
1  75
54 pint round..............................4 50
1 
..................... 9 0O
No.  8..........................................3 00
No. 10............. 
4 25

“ 
“ 

 

 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
2 50
4 00
5 00 
1 50
3 00 
7 50
15 00
4 25
6 00
@5 
©8 
@954 @16 
@37 
@554 
13@14 
@554 
@654 
9@I2 
@1054 @1354 
@10
...............   @3  15
...............  @3 60
...............  @3  80
...............  @4  25
...............  @1 50

9

Apples, Michigan..................................
Apples, Dried, York State, evap., bbls 
Apples, Dried, York State,  evap., box
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................
Citron..................... ................................
Currants, crop  1884...............................
Peaches, dried  ....................................
Prunes, Turkey......................................
Prunes, Turkey, new............................
Prunes, French, 50 to  boxes.................
Raisins, Valencias.................................
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................
Raisins,  Sultanas.........................
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels..........
Raisins, London Layers.............
Raisins, Imperial Cabinets........
Raisins, Denesias.........................
Raisins, Dehesias, 54 boxes........
Grand  Haven,  No. 9, square...............................1 90
Grand  Haven,  No. 8, square............................... 1 50
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor........................... 2 50
Grand  Haven,  No. 3o0, parlor.......................... 3 75
Grand  Haven,  No. 7,  round...............................2 25
Oshkosh, No. 2.................................................. l 10
 
Oshkosh, No.  8....................................... 
1  ¿0
Swedish....................................................... 
  55
Richardson’s No. 2  square..................... . ...2 70
............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
.............................170
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................2 55
M OLASSES.
Black Strap.......................... 
@16
Porto  Rico...............................................  ...28@32
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 44@45
New Orleans, choice.....................................50@52
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................55@60

MATCHES.

do 
do 
do 

 

54 bbls. 4c extra.

OATM EAL.

O IL.

do. 

3621b pkgs...............................................   @3 25
Steel  cut.................................................   @5 50
Kerosene  W. W...................................... 
Legal  test.............................. 

13
10%
Choice in barrels med......................................5 50
Choice in 54 
...................................... 340
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy..........................4 25
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  2 40
American qt. 
Amt rican pt. 

in Glass........................................ 2 00
in Glass........................................ 1 30

P IC K LES.

do 

do 

“ 

SALT.

R IC E .

SOAP.

P IP E S .

SA UCES.

SALERATUS.

2 50 
2 35
2 65

1 55 
80
3 20
25
26

P atna......................6
Rangoon.................554
Broken.....................354

@5 00 
@3 00 
@ 1  00 
@  75 
@  90 
@1 35 
@1 70 
@  90 
@1 20 
@  90 
@1  20 
@2 25 
@3 50 
@3 85 
@6 50 
@7 00 
@4 00 
@2  00 
@  90 
@3 50 
@2 10 
@4 85 
@2 90 
@1 25
@4 20 
@4 10 
@ 554 
@5 00 
@3 30 
@3 50 
654 
534 
594
594 
554 

C.&B. English  quarts.................. ............. 575
C. & B. English  pints.............................. 
'3 50
ChowChow, mixed andGerkins,  quarts.. .5 75
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. s?yle,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @1  80
American  T. D.......................................  
@99
Good Carolina....... 6y2
Prime Carolina......7
Good Louisiana......5%
Java  .........................6*/i
DeLand’s pure........5541 Dwight’s ....................554
Church’s  ................ 5J4|Sea  Foam..................5W
Taylor’s G.  M......... 5J4 S., B. & L.’s Best. . ..554
Cap Sheaf................554 \
60 Pocket......................
28 Pocket.......................
100 3 1b  pockets.............
Saginaw Fine
Standard Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags.!! ]. * 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags...
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 54 pts.
Picadilly, 54 pints.........................
Pepper Sauce, red  small................
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................
Pesper Sauce, red large ring__
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ............. ’
Horseradish,  54 pints............................
Horseradish, pints.................................
Capers, French surfines................ . . . .
Capers, French surfines, large.......!!.
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle................ .
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle................ .
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s .".
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s .......!
Olive Oil, 54 pints, Antonia & Co.’s ...!
Celery Salt,  Durkee’s__ •....................
Halford Sauce, pints.................*.*.*.*.*.*,
Halford Sauce, 54 pints........... . . . . . . . .
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..!.!.!
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small........
Preserved Ginger, Canton,  pints.......
Old Country, 80 bars, 80 tbs.,  wrapped 
Old Country,80 bars,80 tos.,unwrapped
Old Country, 801 ft bars............
Queen  Anne.................................
Cameo..................................
Monday.......................... ‘ “
Kirk’s American  Family .... . .
do. 
India...............................
do.  Savon.....................
do.  Satinet.......................... .
do.  Revenue..................... ”
do.  White Russian................
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory__ ’.'
Japan  Olive
Town Talk  V  _
3 60
Golden Bar........
4 10 
Arab.....................
3 40
Amber....................
3 75
Mottled  German..
4 20 
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
@3 40 
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck.
@3 20 
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well
@3 05 
Badger............................................60 fts
@ 654 
Galvanic............................................
@4 05 
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
@1894 
TiP Top....................................... 3 ft bar
@  16 
Ward 8 White Lily.................................
@6 75 
Handkerchief.......................
@4 20
Babbitt’s ....................................
5 25
Dish R ag............................. . . . . . . . . .
4  10
Bluing.................................
5 00 
Magnetic..........................
4  10
New  French  Process........ .  .  .  .  . .
4 50
Spoon.......................... ' .................
5 00 
Anti-Washboard..................
5 00
Vaterland..............................
3 25
Magic.....................................
4 20 
Pittsburgh.............................
4 00
Acme, 701 ft  bars..................................
@ 654
Acme, 25 3 ft bars.....................
@  654 
Towel, 25 bars  ..................................
@5 25 
Napkin, 25  bars.............................” "*
@5 25 
Best American, 601 ft blocks__ !."!!
@ 6 
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................
@ 594 
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........
@3 70 
Master, 100-94 ft cakes.......................
@5 00 
Stearine, 100  94 ft cakes...........
@4 85 
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
@6 25 
Cotton Oil, white, 100 94 ft  cakes...
@6 25 
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped..........
@ 7 
German  Mottled, wrapped..................
@ 654 
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................
@ 594 
Blue Danube, 60-1 to blocks........
@ 594 
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks..........
@ 5 
London Family, 3-to bars 80 ft.............
@4 00 
JJ
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 ft.............  
@4 00
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @3 85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................
@3 75 
Cl
wrapped.
@3 25 
Boss, 100 cak 
•apped.....................
@2 30 
Marseilles Ci 
Toilet.3 doz in  box
@1 25 
A 1  Floating
@4 20
Grou

Lautz Bros. & Co.

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

.$  to

PIC E S .

5  10

box

stilt

PLU G .

2e. less in four butt lots.

Arab, 2x12 and 4x12.................... 
@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
@3k
Black Diamond............... 
Trotter, rum flavor........ . ....................
0 
B o o t.................................... \
@44
B. F. P.’s Favorite................................
Old Kentucky..........
Big Four,  2x12...............]......................
@48
Big Four, 3x12............. 
.. ....................
@48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3xi2.
!.............
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12..
@48
Blackbird, 16 oz..  3x12..........................
@35
  @4«
 
Seal of Grand Rapids.............  
Glory  .............  
........  
-
Durham..........
Silver Coin__
@50
Buster  [Dark]__
@36
Black Prince [Dark]
@36
Black Racer  [Dark].*.*.'.*."....................
36
Leggett & Mvers’  Star 
............... 
eggett & Myers’  Star 
¿t,
@46
Climax ...
@46
Hold Fast
iwuu r a e i....................... 
ffMd
McAlpin’s Gold Shield.. ;.. ] " " ..........  @46
Nmkle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft cads.  . !  *.  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s........  
©37
@46
©46
@44

Acorn ..........................
Crescent........ .
Black  X ............ 
"
Spring.................................. ...................

affiS,!“*»1-......IS

@47
Horse Shoe 
@44
Hair Lifter
@36
d . andd .,black:::::::::::;:.*"...............  
¡¡m
McAlpin’s Green  Shield...........  
..........   @4«
Ace  High, black................................ 
‘
Sailors’  Solace.........................  | 

SMOKING

Tramway, 3  oz__
©40
Ruby, cut Cavendish.
@35
Boss  ............................
@15
Peck’s  Sun...........
@18
Miners and  Puddlei-iL
@28
Morning Dew.............
@26
Chain  ..........................
@22
Seal of Grand Rapids.
@25
King.............................
@30
Flirt.............
@28
pug..................::::::::.............
@30
"   @24
Ten Penny Durham, 54 and 
Amber, 54 and 1ft.................. 
@
John  Gilpin,  granulated. .
@18
Lime Kiln  Club..........
@47
Blackwell’s Durham *Long’ Cut..........
@90
...........
Durham,  long cut, No.  2 
@55
Vanity  Fair....................
@90
lo/aoe
Dim e............... 
...............................  
Peerless............. ................................... .  181$?
Standard.................. 
.......................
@22
oid Tom..............:::.::......................
@21
Tom & Jerry........ 
....................
@24
Joker............................: 
..................
@24
Traveler.................................................
@35
Maiden.................................................. j
@25
T opsy................ ::::::::::::.................
@27
Navy  Clippings........;...........................
@26
Boots............................ 
.......................
@30
Honey D ew ............*"’........... .............
@25
Gold  Block.............................................
@30
Camp F ire ..............................................
@25
Oronoko....................] ..........................
15@19
Nigger  Head........."**"*.....................
@26
Durham, 54 f t .............  
.....................
@60
54 f t ........ ;;.............................
@57
}4 f t ............. .  .......................
@55
1 f t ...........  
....................
@51
Holland.......................... ......................
@22
German................................
@14
Long Tom........ .......................................
@30
National..................... .............................
@26
T im e.......................................................
@26
Conqueror........... ..................................
@23
Fox’s ........................;.............................
@22
Grayling................ .*:;;;; i ....................
@32
Seal Skin.................................................
@30
Rob Roy............................  ....................
@26
uncie  sam ............. ................................
@28
Lumberman..........................................
@25
Railroad Boy........... .;;;........................
@3b
Mountain Rose........ ” |
..............
@18
Good  Enough.........................................
@23
Home Comfort, 54s and  54s ..................
Old  Rip, long cut..................
@55
Two  Nickle, 54s............. ........................
@24
Two  Nickle, 54s.....................................
@25
Star Durham....................
@25
Golden Flake Cabinet. :*.;:.’..................
@40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 o z................
@48
I Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.......
@46
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
@41
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes:
@40
Big Deal, 54s  longcut.......................
@27
Apple Jack, 54s  granulated...............
@24
King Bee, longcut, 54s and 54s .......
@22
Milwaukee Prize, 54s and 54s ...
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham.’ i * * 
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, 54s and 54s ....
@24
Rattler, longcut.....................
@28
Windsor cut plug........ .........................
@25

do 
do 
do 

|

23
23
20
17

Pepper....... ........ I6@25
Allspice__ ........12@18
Cinnamon.. ........ 16@30
Cloves  ....... ........ 15@25
Ginger....... ........ 16@20
Mustard__ ........15@30
Cayenne  ... ........ 25@35
STAI
Gilbert’s Gl<)S8 1 ft.......

Whole.
Pepper.............
@18 
Allspice 
_
...............   8@10
Cassia..................  @10
Nutmegs 
...60® 70
Cloves  ...

Mule Ear..........
Hiawatha........
Old Congress...
Acme................
Globe................

654
6

3 ft cartoons, 
crates...........
DU1K......................................  J
Corn, 1 ft...................................

@55

@5
@494
@654
@6
@7
@7

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

@85
@654
@654
@4
@654
@394
@6
@7
©654
@7
@4
..5 50 
..  50

“ 
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk.......
“ 
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts............
“  Gloss, 40 i ft packages............
“  Gloss,  36 3 ^  packages..........
“  GI068, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate__
“  Corn, 401 to  packages...........
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package......................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk.............................. .
Muzzy Corn 1ft....................................;
Kingst'ord  Silver Gloss.........................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box..........
Kingsford Corn......................................
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
Mirror Gloss, co^n.................................
Piel’s Pearl..............................................
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................
10 oz  Gloss..............................................
3 ft  Gloss...........................................; .
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................
Table Corn.......................................40 ft
Table  Corn......................................20  ft
Banner, bulk...........................................
STOVE PO L IS H .
Rising  Sun gross.. 5 881 Dixon’s  gross..
Universal.............. 5 50 Above 
dozen.
I X L ...................... 5 50|
Cut  Loaf................................................. '
Cubes.................................................... .
® 7 
Powdered...............................................
® 7 
Granulated,  Standard..........................
@ 654 
Granulated, Fine  Grain.......................
@ 654 
Confectionery A ....................................
@   6 
Standard A..............................................
@ 5% 
New Orleans  A ......................................  5
i@ 5% 
Extra C, White.......................................
@ 5% 
Extra C....................................................
@ 554 
Fine  C..................................................
@ 554 
Yellow C..............................................;
® 494
Corn,  Barrels.........................................
26 
Corn, 54 bbls............................................
28 
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................  
33
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 75
Corn, 454 gallon kegs..............................  @1 60
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  22@  34
Pure Sugar Drips.........................54 bbl  30®  38
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1  96
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips.. 
' @  85
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 85
TEA S.
Japan ordinary.............................................20@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@37
Japan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust..................................................... 15@20
Young HyBon................................................30@50
GunPowder................................................... 35@50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo...........................................................   25@30

........ 54 bbl 

SY RUPS.

SUGARS.

I

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

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

State  Seal...................60
Brother Jonathan...32
Diamond  Crown....... 68
Rose Bud....................50
O.  K............................ 45
Our  Bird.................... 30
Peaches  .................... 38
Morrison’s Fruit....... 50
Victor  ........................60
Red  Bird.................... 52
Opera Queen..............40
Sweet Rose.................45
Green  Back............... 38
F ruit...........................33
O S*> Sweet.................31
Prairie Flower...........65
Climber......................62

Matchless ..'............... 65
Hiawatha...................67
Globe  .........................65
May Flower............... 70
H ero...........................45
Atlas...........................35
Royal Game............... 38
Mule Ear.................... 67
Peek-a-Boo............  32
Fountain__ :............. 74
Old Congress..............64
Good Luck................. 52
Good and Sweet........45
Blaze Away............... 35
Hair Lifter.................30
Governor...................60
Fox’s Choice............  63

YEAST.

@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4  15 
@4 00

-----1  75  ¡National
M ISCELLANEOUS.

VIN EGA R.
Pure  Cider...............................
8@1S
White  Wine.......................... ." " " i;
8@15
W ASH ING PO W D ERS.’
1776!
...........................................   @1054
Gillett’s $  ft 
.‘54
Soapine pkg
Peariine $  box..................... *@450
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers... 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 48 1 ft pap’rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 ft papers..
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 54 ft paprs
Twin Bros..........1 65  I W ilsons.................1  65
Magic.
.. 1 65
Bath Brick imported............................
85 
American.................... ...V.
60 
Barley......................................................
@3 
Burners, No. 1 ..............................
1  10 
do  No.  2............................... ::::;
1 50 
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand__ _*.
7 35 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............
15@25 
Candles, Star..........................................
@1354 @14 
Candles,  Hotel...................................
Extract Coffee,  v. c..........................."
75@85 
F elix.........................i
1  25 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................
@30 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.  _____ . .. .
@40 
Gum, Spruce...........................................
30@35 
Hominy, 
@4 30
Oil Tanks, Patent,  60  gallon..........".  @10 00
Peas, Green Bush.................................. l  85@i 40
Peas, Split prepared..............................  @354
Powder, Keg...........................................  @4 00
Powder,  54 Keg.....................................  @2 25

bbl..................................

do 

do 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

 

do 
do 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes..............................  9 @ 954
..............................  954@IO
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
 
©is
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails........................................10@1054
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................. ....................  9@ 954
Extra, 25 ft  pails........................................11@1154
Extra, 200 to bbls...............................................1054
French Cream, 25 ft pails................................13
Cut loaf, 25 to  cases......................................... 13
JBroken, 25  to  pails........................................... 1154
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 105*
Lemon  Drops..................... .............................14
Sour Drops........................................................ 15
Peppermint  Drops.......................... ..............15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  Drops 
...................................................10
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B  Licorice  Drops...................................... 12
Lozenges, plain................................................ J5
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Imperials..........................................................15
Mottoes............................................................. 15
Cream  Bar........................................................ 14
Molasses Bar.....................................................14
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 22
Plain  Creams................................................... 18
Decorated  Creams...........................................23
String Rock.......................................................15
Burnt Almonds............................................   22
Wintergreen  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........... .......................654@7
Moss Drops, in  pails........................................11
Moss Drops, in bbls  .............................
..954 
Sour Drops, in  pails.............................
..12 
Imperials, in  pails.................................
..14 
Imperials  in bbls..................................
..13

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FR U IT S .

"3  

@4 M
m
H@15
@¡1

« 4
© 6
¡» 4.
X
9

l a r u   iu   id  d o x   yf  n>....................... 

Oranges, Florida, $  box...........  
Lemons,  choice....................... 
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft......................... 
Figs,fancy  do 
..? .............. ...I'.*."’* 
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  ft.................. 
"
Dates, frails 
d o .......... 
....... 
d o ...............'.’.*.*."’ 
Dates, 54 do 
Dates, skin...............................  
"* 
Dates, 54  skin............................ 
........  
Dates, Fard 101b box $   ft.
Dates, Fard 50 fl> box #B>...........  
"
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft........... .*"  @  ¿54
Prime Red,  raw  ¡p  ft............................
Choice 
d o ..................... ” 
Fancy 
do  ......................... 
Choice White, V a.do........  
Fancy H P ,.V a  do  ................... 
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft....................  @22
Almonds, loaca, 
d o ....................  @21
Brazils,
do  ..................   fc@lo
Pecons,
do  .................... 
9@13
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ....................  15@16
Walnuts, Grenobles 
d o ....................  @16,
Cocoa Nuts, $   100

5®  514
514©  514
5© 5i|
6H@  7

do 
do 

PROVISIONS.

P O R K   IN   BARRELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provisio 

quote  as follows:
„  
Heavy Mess, new  ................
Pig, clear, short  cut............. ......................
Extra Family Clear..................... l.; ............
Extra Clear Pig, new, Chicago  packing  ” 
Clear Back, new, Chicago  packing.
Clear, A. Webster  packer__
Standard Clear, the  best.............................
Extra  Clear.................................
Boston Clear.................... :...;" ;
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
HalfCases.............
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases..........
^ 3?
do 
HalfCases__ ...
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases 
Half Cases
do. 
1 c. 
; Short Clears, heavy.............................
medium............. .
light....................

. 
do. 
do. 

Co,

1175

12 2512 7513 00

14 25
13 00
14 50
13 50
14 00
654
69Í
654
69¡£
654
69Í

a“S1014

„  

„  

do. 

8
a
794
8

8
8
854
89Í
894
854

SMOKED  MEATS— CANVASSED  OR  PLA IN  

Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases’ ’
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases: :
I Extra Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 to cases  .
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases 
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases 
LARD.
Tierces  ..............................
30 and 50 ft Thibs................ | ...................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases:.:::...
LARD IN   T IN  P A IL S .
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks...............
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case........................
5 to Pails, 6 in a case..............
10 ft Paiis. 6 in a case......... ;
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy 
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium : :
light........
¡shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle...
Extra Clear Bacon...........
Dried Beef,  Extra........... . . . :.... :..’.. ;
__ 
B E EF IN  B A R R E L S .............
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 10 7&
Boneless, extra  anality........................  
14 oh
Extra Mess Chicago packing....................  jq  kq
t> 
Pork  Sausage............................... 
-¡i,
Ham  Sausage................ ..................................
Tongue  sausage................ : : : : : **  9
Liver Sausage..................
Frankfort  Sausage........ .*;"
Blood  Sausage.......................
Bologna,  ring.................. ",
Bologna, straight...............
Bologna,  thick..................... *.,
Head  Cheese.....................
,  
In half barrels  ................
In quarter barrels...........
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 market fluctuations.

i  o   8AU8AGE— FRESH AND SMOKED.

.......................9

P IG S ’  FEET.

" .*;;; | ]

3 50 
1 90

T R IP E .

11

, 

, 

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
I Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5  @ 7
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters....... 
’  654  © 8
Dressed  Hogs.................................... . .*.  554® 594
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  @ 5^
1 Veai.............................................. 95i@io
I Pork  Sausage
@"9
Bologna..........
@10
Chickens.......
@11
¡ Turkeys  .......
@11
Ducks...........
@13
Geese  ...........
@11

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Somewhat firmer.  First-class stock 
readily commands $2  bbl.  An advance  of 25c 
is expected  during  the  next  month, and the 
probabilities are that apples will sell  for  $2.50 
before the spring is far advanced.
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.

Butter—Creamery  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 
@l8c for rolls andal5@16e  for  solid packed.

Butterine—Compelled to take aback 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  15@17c 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  100.  Very little moving.
Celery—The winter stock now  in  market is 
very undesirable in quality,  selling  at  15@18c 
per  dozen.  Good  stock  would  readily  com­
mands 25c.

Cheese—Michigan full  cream  stock readily 
commands 1254@1354c,  while  skim  find  occas­
ional sale at from 95j@10c.

Cider—10c ]? gal. for common sweet.
Cranberries—Firm  at  $12.50  for  bell  and 
cherry,  and  $13.50  for  Cape  Cod or  bell  and 
bugle.

Eggs—Demand fair and market rather  firm­

er.  Fresh 6tock commands 23c and limed 20c.

Hops—Desirable State hops command 18@20c, 

but offerings are light.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm atl4@15c.
Hay—$9@$10 for new, and  $12@$13  for  bail­

Mince Meat—7c $1 ft for home made.
Onions—$1.50 $  bbl. for yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3c $  ft for choice.
Potatoes—No  firmer,  although] buyers seem 
to  be  more  disposed  to  trust to  the  future. 
The market is dull at 25c.

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

Turkeys, 11c.  Ducks, 14c.

Squash—Slow sale at 54c $  ft.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  are firm,  selling 

readily at $6.  Illinois commands $4 $  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   PRODU 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- 

ed.

lots.

Rye—52@54c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—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 Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  Bran, $13- 
$  ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings* $17 ¡p ton- 
Corn and Oats, $23 $  ton.

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.
Roller States, Skate Bap & Botes

HEAD Q U A RTERS  FO R

The New Era All Clamp Skate

-AND—

The  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 economical roller skate in the  world, 
and this in connection with their immense pop­
ularity with those who have  used  them,  com­
mend them to the attention of every rink own­
er  in  the  country.  Our  Clamp  Skate is the 
only screw clamp made which  operates all the 
clamps with one key at the same time.
The “VINEYARD” Skates are very popular.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, % In. and  larger.................................   0
Manilla.............................................................  1W4
Steel and  Iron..............................................dis  50
Try and Bevels..............................................dis  50
Mitre  ............................................................dis  20
S H E E T IR O N .Com. Smooth
Com.
$3 00
.  $4 20
Nos. 10 to 14.................................. $4 20
3 00
.  4 20
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20
3 00
,  4 20
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20
3 00
4 20
Nos. 22to 24............................. 
4 20
3 20
.  4 40
Nos .25 to 26 ..................................   4 40
3 40
.  4 60
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60
over 30 inches
All sheets No, 18 and  lighte 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, fl  ft..........
In smaller quansities, $   ft...

T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.

i.l,  Refined.....................
Market  Half-and-half.......
Strictly  Half-and-half........................... 

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal..............................  6 50
IC, 
10xl4,Charcoal...............................   8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal..............................   8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal..............................   6 50
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal..............................   8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal..............................  10 50
IXX, 
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

6
6%
13 00
15 00
16

rates.

TR A PS.

W IR E .

Steel, Game.................................................. • ••
Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s ............ dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s—   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion..................................$1 26  doz
Bright Market..........................................   dis  60
60
Annealed Market..................................... dis 
Coppered Market..................................... dis 
55
Extra Bailing............................................dis 
55
Tinned  Market.........................................kis 
40
Tinned  Broom.......................................... $  ft  09
Tinned Mattress...............................................$,ft 8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel....................................dis 37%
Tinned Spring Steel................................. dis 37%
Plain Fence...............................................$  ft  3%
Barbed  Fence...............................................
Copper................................................ new  list net
Brass....................................................new  list net
Bright....................................................  
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

W IR E GOODS.

W rEN C H ES.

dis 70

 

M ISCELLANEOU S.

Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  60&20
70
Screws..................... .................................. . 
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................ .dis 
50
Dampers,  American................................. 
33%

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f. o. 

b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1%, 1% and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
38 00 
Selects, 1%, 1% and 2  inch.........................
30 00 
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................
20  00 
Shop, 1 inch................................................
32 00
Fine, Common, 1%, 1% and 2 inch...........
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...
15 00
16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  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., 20 feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet..
12  00
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet....................
14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet....................
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 feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................   33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27 90
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common —  
9 00
Bevel Siding, 6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft........ ..  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 6in., 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  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 40
, X X X 16 in........   ...................................... 
3 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
175
Lath  .............................................................  2 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The  above  cut  represents  the  New  Half 
Clamped and Heel Strapped Roller Skate, with 
Steel  Top,  Engraved  Electro  Gold  or  Nickel 
Plated  Heel  Band  and  Nickel  Plated  Plate. 
This Skate is much sought for by those having 
tender feet  and  requiring  a  support  for  the 
ankle.

The Vineyard Roller All Clamp were  patent­
ed  July  13,  1880,  and  April 27,1881.  They are 
adapted for both Lapies and Gentlemen.  Dur­
ing the short time this skate has  been  in  use, 
it has won rapid  popularity.  We also carry in 
stock The VINEYARD  “C,”  which  is  similar 
in style to the “New Era  Rink.”
Rowlett’s  Star  Roller  Skate.

THE  PERFECT  ROLLER  SKATE

We claim for this  Skate:  Lightness,  Perfect 
Adjustability, Perfection of Mechanism,  Easy 
of Running and Durability, all teudingto make 
what  we  claim  for  the  “Star,” the  Perfect 
Skate.  The  admirable  runninsr  qualities  of 
this Skate, together with  the  elastic  tension, 
capable of delicate adjustment, make it a  fav­
orite  with  ladies  and  children,  avoiding all 
tiresome straining of the muscles, thus render­
ing skating truly the “poetry of motion.”
A  nice line  of SKATE  BAGS AND  BOXES 
carried in stock.

in

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 !
 i Banes k Co.,
Messrs. f

Packers of the celebrated  “ BIG  GTTXT ” 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.

WHOLESALE!

117  M onroe  St.

OYSTER  DEPOT!
F.  J.  Dettenthaler,
T

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„

Ibarbw are.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates at Chicago are as follows:

R e m a r k a b le   D w in d lin g   o f A ssets.

On September 11,1$89, Willie S. Coleman 
and George Scott Tbomas  formed a  copart 
nership under the firm name  of  Coleman & 
Thomas, and  engaged  in the  hardware busi­
ness at Lowell, succeeding the then  firm  of 
Shepard & Co.  Both partners  seemed to be 
industrious and economical and the new firm 
soon secured a good footing and were  given 
a good rating  by  the  mercantile  agencies. 
May 23,1883, an assignment  was  made  to 
M. N. Hine, at which time  the  assets  were 
placed at  $6,500.  A subsequent  inventory 
placed the assets at $5,502.77, and still later 
the totals were whittled  down to  $4,443.80. 
The business was then  closed  out at  slow 
sale, the total amount  realized  being  only 
$3,380.02.  Out of this  sum is to come  the 
expenses of selling—$883.07—the assignee’s 
services—$150—a secured  claim—$1,663.65 
—and other incidentals, leaving only $605.35 
to be divided among  creditors  representing 
$4,228.80  indebtedness.  The  following is 
a list of the creditors who  have  filed  their 
claims,  together  with  the  amount  ow'ing 
each:
Ducharme, Fletcher &  Co.....................$2,665.49
S. S. Jewett & Co........... ..........................  L276-9»
Foster, Stevens & Co...............................  
103. <3
91.57
Robinson & Letellier............................
15.23
H. Leonard & Sons...............................
8.38
Black & Owen.......................................
4.50
Geo.  Purple...........................................
20.66
Sax by, Pnaris &  Co..............................
21.00
T. S. Barringer & Co............................
I9 60
McDermott &  Berea Stove Co............... 
3.25
E. T. Brown & Co...................................... 
The final settlement of the  matter  was to 
have taken  place in  the  Circuit  Court  on 
Monday, but was postponed on  account  of 
more important business  before the  Court. 
It  will  occur  early  in January,  at  which 
time  it will  be  interesting  to  note  Judge 
Montgomery’s  comments on the  manner  in 
which the estate has been  managed.
S e llin g  G oods  b y  S am p le.

Mr.  Joseph  Mulhattan,  ex-Presidential 
candidate,  is a  Louisville  hardware  drum­
mer.  Recently he was engaged in  selling a 
bill of goods  to  an  old  Dutchman 
in  the 
South.

“You sharge  seven  dollar  und a  half a 
dozen for dot knife?”  asked the  Dutchman 
in some surprise.

“Yes, $7.50 a  dozen.  Razor  steel, corcus 
ground, brass  lined, stag  handle,  Sheffield 
make—

“But a Zinzinnati drummer only last veek 
offered me dot same  goods  already  for six 
dollars.”

“Se here, my friend,” said Mr. Mulhattan, 
you sell your goods at just double what they 
cost, don’t you?”

“Ya,  if I buys a thing  for  one  dollar, 1 
sell him for two dollar; dot’s choost  one per 
cent.”

“Yes.  Well,  that  Cincinnati  drummer 
charges you $6 for these goods, and you sell 
them at $12, and make a  profit of $6.  I of­
fer them at $7.50, and you get  $15, or a pro­
fit of $7.50.  Just a dollar and a  half  more, 
isn’t it?”

“Veil,  yes,”  said  the  old  Dutchman, 
scratching his  head.  “I  guess  maybe  dot 
vas so.”

“All right.  You  just  take  my  advice, 
then, and  never  buy  anything of a Cincin­
nati drummer if you don’t want to  get swin­
dled.”

N o te O b tain ed  b y  F rau d .

Editor “Michigan Tradesman

Dear Sir—I gave a note for  $50 to  pay 
for two dozen articles which I bought of one 
A. J. D.  He represented to  me  that  they 
were of new and improved design, and  that 
I could sell them readily  and  make a good 
profit  They proved to be of a very old style 
and poor at that—absolutely worthless.  The 
note was  a 90 day  note, and  A. J.  D. sold 
it to a rich money-lepder near here, the  day 
after I gave it.  Must I  pay it?

Victim.

Answer—If the man to  whom  A.  J. D. 
sold the note, paid value for it, and  did not 
know of the fraud, you will have  to pay the 
note.  As long as A. J. D. had  it, you could 
avoid paying it by showing that the  consid­
eration had failed.  As soon  as it gets 
into 
the  hands of a  “bona  fide  purchaser  for 
value,” as the law terms  him, you must pay 
it   The burden is on the purchaser, howev­
er, to show that he did  buy it in good faith. 
If he paid much  less than the ordinary rate 
for  money at that  time, it  would  tend to 
show that he knew of the fraud on you.

Number of Nails in a Pound.

The following table shows the  number  of 
nails  of  the  various  sizes  contained  in  a 
pound:
ft.........................................  1,000
2d Fine, No. 
ft...........................................  760
3d Fine, No. 
3d Com., No. $ ft...........................................  480
4d Com., No. flft...........................................  288
5d Com., No. $ ft...........................................  200
ft...........................................  168
6d Com., No. 
7d Com., No. fift...........................................  124
ft...........................................  88
8d Com., No. 
9d Com., No. $1 ft...........................................  70
lOd Com., No. 79 ft......................................... 
58
12d Com., No. $ ft..........................................   44
16d Com., No. 
ft...........................................  34
20d Com., No. 
ft..........................................   23
30d Com., No. $ ft...........................................  18
40d Com., No. <p ft..;.  .................................  14
50d Com., No. $ ft..........................................   10
OOd Com., No. $ ft........................................... 
8
The length of  each  nail  mentioned  is  as 
follows: 2d, 1 inch; 3 d , ;  4d, 1%; 5d. 
,
6d, 2: 7d, 2%; 8d, VA\ 9d, 2%; lOd,  3;  12d, 
8 K ;  l«d, 3X ; 20d, 4; 30d, 4 ^ ; 40d, 5;  50d, 
S A ;  60d, 6 inches.

In reply to the enquiry of a hardwareman 
as to the origin and signification of the word 
“penny” as descriptive of the  size of  nails, 
the Iron Age says that it is supposed in this 
connection 
to  be a corruption of “pound.” 
Thus, a “four-penny”  nail  was  such  that 
1,000 of them weighed  four pounds;  “ten- 
penny,” such that 1,000 weighed 10  pounds, 
etc.

Geo. A. Leonard & Ca’s brush handle fac­
tory, at Charlevoix,  will  run  with  a  full 
force of hands the balance of the winter.

AUGERS AND B IT S .

dis 

BE LLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BA RROW S.

BALANCES.

Ives’, old  style................................................... dis 50
N. H. C. Co..........................................................dis 55
Douglass’ ............................................................dis 50
o0
Pierces’ ....................................... 
Snell’s ..................................................................dis 50
Cook’s  ..................................................... dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine........................................... dis 25
Jennings’, imitation...............................dis40&10
Spring..................................................................dis 25
Railroad.......................................................$ 1« 00
Garden.......................................................net 3o 00
Hand..................... ...............................dis  $ 60&10
6!J
Cow.........................................................dis 
15
Call..........................................................dis 
Gong.......................................................dis 
20
Door, Sargent........................................dis 
55
Stove.......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new list.................................dis 
75
Plow  ...................................................... dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe.......*....................................dis  50&15
Cast Barrel Bolts.................................dis 
50
55
Wrought 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
Wrought Square..................................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush.......................... dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door....................*........................dis  50&10
Barber...................................................dis$ 
40
Backus...................................................dis 
50
50
Spofford................................................dis 
Am. Ball................................................ dis 
net
Well, plain...................................................$  4 00
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50
60 
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... dis
«0 
Cast Loqse Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis
60 
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 
50&10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
60 
Wrounht Loos4'  Pin............................dis
60& 5 
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip...........dis
60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
60& 5 
tipped................................................ dis
60 
W rought Table..................................... dis
60 
Wrought Inside  Blind........................dis
65&10 
Wrought Brass.....................................dis
70&10 
Blind. Clark’s........................................dis
70&10 
Blind, Parker’s.....................................dis
70 
Blind,  Shepard’s..................................dis
15 00 
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 
18 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross
Ely’s 1-10.......................... ' ...................per  m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................................  
60
G. D......................................... 
35
 
60
Musket.................»................................ 
CA TRIDG ES.
50 
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list
50 
Rim Fire, United  States.......................... dis
Central Fire................................................dis
%
65&10
Socket Firmer.......................................dis
65&10
Socket Framing....................................dis
65&10
Socket Corner....................................... dis
65&10
Socket Slicks........................................ dis
40
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer.................dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................dis
20
Cold.............................................................net
Curry, Lawrence’s..............................dis
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis
Brass,  Racking’s........................................  40&10
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’...............................-.......................... 
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...................... $1 &
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................

BUTTS,  CAST.

CH IS ELS.

C O PPER .

COMBS.

COCKS.

33%

D R IL LS

F IL E S .

H IN G ES.

ELBOW S.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

13 
GAUGES.

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
14 

Morse’s Bit  Stock...............................dis
Taper and Straight Shank..................dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk........ «................dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $110
Corrugated...........................................dis 
20&10
Ad j ustable........................................... dis  % &10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00.  dis
20
25
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis
50&10
American File Association  List...... dis
50&10
Disston’s ..............................................dis
50&10
New  American....................................dis
50&10
Nicholson’s...........................................dis
30
Heller’s ................................................ dis
33%
Heller’s Horse Rasps......................... dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
18
List 

r 
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
12 
15
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 60. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............... dis 
50
15
Maydole & Co.’s ......................................dis 
Kip’s ........................................................dis 
25
Yerkes &  Plumb’s .................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel..................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction....................... dis 
60
40
Kidder, wood tra.k...............................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................... dis 
60
State............................................ perdoz.net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
and  longer.............................................. 
3%
Screw Hook and Eye,  % .............    .net 
10%
8%
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  5S£.......................net 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %..................... net 
7%
Strap and  T............................................dis  60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1  ..............................................$11 Oft, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.......... dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s.................... d 
40
Hcmacite................................................dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s ....................... dis
Branford’s ................................................... dis
Norwalk’s..................................................... dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................... dis
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................. dis
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.............. dis
Coffee,  Enterprise...................................... dis
Adze  Eye...............................!... $16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00dis40&10
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

HOLLOW   W ARE.

LOCKS—BOOR.

\f a TTflPUfl

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HO ES.

H A ILS.

Common. Bra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

lOd to  60d............................................ $  keg $2  25
25
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
6dand7d  adv................................................ 
50
75
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine advance........................................... 
3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1  75
i  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
6d  4d
2% 
Size—inches  |  3 
2 
1%
Adv. $  keg 
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 
Steel Nails—Same price as above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis
Stebbin’s Genuine.......................................dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring......................dis
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  dis
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................dis
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................dis
Brass or  Copper..........................................dis
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................. 
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench..................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.......................dis  15
Bench, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood and 
Fry, Acme................................................dis 40&10
Common, polished..............................  . .dis 
00
Dripping....................................................$  
ft  8
40
Iron and Tinned.....................................dis 
Copper Rivets and Burs.....................   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 E D  IR O N .

PLA N ES .

R IV E T S.

O IL E R S.

PA N S.

9

Broken packs % c $*ft extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Tem e.................5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme............  .  7 75
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terue................12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne..........1 0  90

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

IT'OR  SALE—By a  groceryman  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,  if 
taken immediately.  Address, “Fixtures,” care 
“The Tradesman.” 

I ¡''OR  SALE—Well-established  drug  store, 

1  having  a  good  patronage,  situated  on 
leading business thoroughfare.  Stock will  in­
ventory  about  $1,800.  Rent  only  $300  per 
year.  Address, for full particulars,  “Pharma­
cist,” care “The Tradesman.”

DEALERS 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.

67

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.

Good Words Unsolicited.

E. E.  Hewitt,  grocer,  Rockford;  “Think a 

great deal of the paper.”

E. T. VanOstrand,  druggist, Allegan:  “Fire 
It’s  good  goods  and  well 

la  T r a d e sm a n! 
worth the money.”

A . C. Stetson, general dealer, Stetson:  “The 
Tradesm an is warmly welcomed  each  week.” 
J. E. Bush, grocer. St.  Louis:  “It  is  a good 
paper.  I like it very much.  It  is  well  worth 
the money it costs, and it is money well invest­
ed for any business man.’ ’

Charles H. Moore, editor Clothing, Furnishing 
and Hat Reporter, Chicago;  “I hope that  The 
T r a d esm a n  «ill  continue  to  represent  the 
trad e as  creditably  in  the  future  as  in  the 
past.”

Dr.  M.  S.  Brownson,  general  dealer, Para­
dise:  “Your paper has grown to meet  the de­
mands of the trade, and should  receive  a  lib­
eral patronage from  every  one  interested in 
trade.”

Men’s Skate Bags for all clamp Skates.

1 6 9   S. W ater  st,  Cliicago,  1 1 1 ,

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

<1

Ü

CQ

GQ<4a

a•fHEH
A+ 3

<D

<D
>
OO

op

c +
CD

P
»-á
CD
c +

* - 3
CD

©go
c+
©
Ü1
C +

tJ 1
I—*•
p
oq

-FOR  SALE  BY

Gurtiss, Dunton & Co.,

-JOBBERS  OF-

Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationery,  Ker­

osene and Machine Oils, Naptha and Gasoline, v

51 and 53 Lyon Street 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ladies’  Skate  Bags  for  all  sole  clamp Skates.

Men’s S 

ill clamp Skates.

Ladies’ Skate Boxes for sole clamp Skates. 
We solicit inquiries,  and  should  be  glad to 
quote prices to dealers and rink managers.
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  HARDWARE, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICH.

SODIMAN  s n o o k s.

Mai»  o f  the Future City—Business History 

of the  Place.

Cant Hook Corners, Mich., Dec. 23, ’84. 
Mister editor of T r a i d s m a n  :

I send you a map of our city 

Dear Sir : 
as I promised.

dragabulation of the  conjunctification.  He 
said  he  diddend  care a cuss 
if it did, his 
friend could stand it.

Bizness  is  slitely  gaining,  but  money 
seems to still hang back like election returns 
from the  Andirondracks.  My  oponan  ton 
the oposite  corner is doing  no  better  and 
that is some comfort.

The Tridsman is  just the boss paper.  I. 
don’t see  how I ever got  along  without it 
previously before.

I had rather try to do bizness  without my 

counters now than without j our paper.
Yours respecktfully, 

Soliman Snooks,

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

Stallici

G. S. YALE & ERO.,

—Manufacturers  ol-

BAKING  POWDERS,

BXjUIXOS,  e t c .,

40  and  42  South  Bivision,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

- 

MICH

GQ

Cant Hook comers is  butifully located in 

a gracefull bend of Pott’s  Run.

Old Potts built the first house here, except 
a mushrat house that  was  on  the  banks of I 
goose pond when he come here.  One  street j 
is called Furlong  street,  because  it is  just 
eigM miles long, reaching from Slabtown on 
the west to Grumbleton on the east.

The  other  street  is  called  Damlongue 
street.  This  is a French  word  signifying 
“extended.”  It was named by the first ped- 
ler who ever struck the town on foot, with a 
75 pound pack.  The  street  extends  from 
Indiana to the  Straits of  Mackanack.  This 
city evidently  contains  the  germs of a big 
manufacturing place.

1st,  we have ample  water  power, to fill 

steam boilers with.

2nd,  we have a cant  hook  factory capa­
ble of turning out 50 handles a day.  This is 
run  by horse power.

3d,  we have a saw mill  and a  grist  mill 

run by steam.

The population is 176J<  soles.  The  half , 
sole is the widder Crinkle’s half  witted son, 
whitch the  superviser  put  down as half a 
sole.

New business houses are  starting  all  the 
time, every few months.  Other  particulars 
I will tell you in future letters.

I am afraid I can’t get to goto Grand Rap- 
pids for Crissmas after all.  They  have  got 
me appinted on three or four  committys for 
the big festivall we are going to have  Criss­
mas to help raiz money to  bujr a bell for the 
church.  I am  one of  the  committy on re­
freshments, dishes and spoons, general man­
agement and  amusements.  I must  tend to 
it all in good shape, two, becoss I must keep 
sollid with our church just now, on  account 
of the post offiss.  Old Potts is still working 
to git it  We  nead a bell  bad,  to, as  we 
have had to use a bar of iron  hung to a tree 
in front of the church for the sexton to strik 
on with a hammer.  How prone  peeple  are 
to badness,  Bro.  Stowe,  for I  understand 
that that miserable infiddle,  Bob. Ingersole, 
don’t have to have a bell to call  liis  hearers 
together and he charges the outrageus  price 
of $1.00, too, for folks  to hear him.  Awful, 
ain’t it?

We had an accession to  our  biziness  and 
population  this  week, in  the  shape  of  a 
young chap from  Grand  ltappids  who has 
opened a barber shop on Furlong street, just 
east of  Trotter’s  black  smith  shop.  His 
name is Ed.  Smikes  and  he  seems  to be a 
pretty nice  feller.  He  patternized  me the 
first thing for some  soap,  bay  rum,  caster 
ile and alcohol.  He also got a  little receipt 
filled for a friend of his,  whitch he  said had 
a bad cold in his head, and a coif.  He  said 
his friend was not able to be  out, so he  got 
the medicin.

Smikes remarked that colds  was  terribul 
eppedemie in Grand  Rappids  this  winter, 
whitch makes me most afraid to go there for 
fear of catching some such contageous disor­
der.

I preserved a coppy  of  the  receipt,  and 
as it might  come  handy to your  readers, I 
send it to you.

R

s m i k e s ’  c o u g h   b a l s a m .

Balsam Copabia 
Oil Cubebs 
Tincture Kino 
Mucilage 
Sweet Spt. Niter 
Mix,

1  oz. 
Y*  oz . 
V»  oz. 
V/i  oz. 
%  ok.

Dose, 1 teaspoonful three times a day.

It took every blamed  drop of  mucilage I 
had in my offiss bottle to fill out the  receipt, 
and I had to bother to get the dead flies out, 
too,.and all the dirt possibul, but I had to do 
it, because Smikes wood not let  me  put in 
honey in place of the mucilage.  He said his 
friend wanted  the  mucilage  in  because it 
was so healing to the wind pipe.

I told him that 1  thought  that  mucilage 
has a tendency to  trausubstautiate  the Hy-

HEHOULES, 

TH E  GREAT  STUM P  A N D   ROCK
AXTITXXZXXiATOB.. 
Strongest &  Safest  Explosive  Known  to the Arts.
Farmers, practice economy and  clear 
your land of stum ps and boulders.  Main 
Office, Hercules  Powder Company, No. 
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.
L. S. HILL & 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  market—at  bottom 
prices.

SEEDS !

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

Oranges and Lemons

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

MOSELEY  BROS.,

122  Mouroe  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

« fîlZ irW
m

I f in N eed of A nything  in  our  Line,  it 

w ill pay you to get our Prices.

PA T E N T E E S  AND  SODS  M AN UFA CTU RERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

Send for Samples and Circular.

OTXSKSGOXr  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

$.  S. MORRIS £  BRO,
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

PACKERS

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Streets.

W.D. CAREY & CO.

OYSTERS!

-A N D   JOBBERS  O P -

Fruits and Produce.

ORDERS  PROM PTLY  FILLED .  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOW EST  PRICES.

Consignments  Solicited. 

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

ORCUTT  Sc  OOLd:F-AJSnr,
Bnttei, Ml Cleese, Fruit, Grain, Hay, Beef, Port Produce
WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturersi

MUSKEGON, MICH.

SHEDS.  BDLKLEÏ  S  LEMON.

■ ■   H  r+ìdùii

IM PORTERS

-AND  JOBBERS  OF—

Agents  for

AND-

bd

AMBOY  CHEESE-

and compete with any market.

We handle  FLORIDA Or- 
I flT D f|  anges  direct from  the  groves.
Iw UIj  ^he croP *s lar&e an<J Hne and 
O  

low prices are looked for.

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street.  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.
We manufacture a full line, use 
■ TT 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
¥   guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
J  
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
1  Virginia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
j  Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
w  cans,. Walnuts  and Cocoanuts, 

Gam1 
Nut!
Orai
Oysl#
PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.
O

We are agents for the CEL- 
-O rn   EBRATED  J.  S.  FARREN  & 
l u l l )   CJO.’S Oysters and are prepared 
to fill  orders  for large  or  small 
lots, cans or in bulk, at the  low­
est rates.

 E l W

STRAIGHT  GOODS—ITO  SCHEME.

ü

STAR

John  Caulfield,

Sole  Agent

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

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

FANCY  GROCERIES

After our long and persistent eiforts 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 FRUIT.  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 
13  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 61b. papers.
Please read the  above carefully and if in want of anotbing in  onr line send in your 

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

Grrein.cL  IFLa/picLs.

GRAND  RAPIDS

MICH.

NOS.  122 and 124 LOUISSTKEIÎT, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

