The Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  31, 1884.

121

NO. 67.

SYSTEMATIC  DAIRYING.

How to P revent the  D epredations of Shop­

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
K EM IN K ’S

Red Bark Bitters

77

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M t m u lc t

78  W est  B ridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

JA M ES  C.  AVERY.

Jam es C. Avery & Go

G EO.  E .  HU BB A RD .

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

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

gars;

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.

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

Manufactured  Tobacco.
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 CD.

91  CANAL  STREET.

PETES.  DORAN, 

Attomey-at-Law,

Pierce Block, Grand Rapids,  Michigan, 

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

M ERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

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-IAst.M in i GhenltaLGo.
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

O Y STER S !

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

Clover, Timothy and all kinds  field  seeds  at 
w
frite for quotations  when in

bottom prices 
need of seeds.

Oranges and Lemons

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

MOSELEY  BROS.,

122  Monroe  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Y O L . 2.

WEATHERLY & GO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IR O N   P IP E , 

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

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

P lu m bers,  Stea m   F itt er s,
—And  M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

or  Country.  Also

Special Attention given to  Collections  in City 
F 

FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT

In s u ra n c e ,

Shoe and  L eather....
Cooper.........................
Union..........................
Germania....................

................... .Boston
..........Dayton, Ohio
__ Pittsburgh,  Pa.
...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 Rapids

General  Collectors,

Send for

PRICE  LIST.

ORDERS

PROMPTLY

FILLED.

%

And Lashes of All Kinds and Prices.

G. BOYS & GO.,
STEAM LAUNDRY

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  ISE  SO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­
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tended to. 

M E

M anufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

W. N.FULLER & CO

DESIGNERS  AND

Engravers on Wood,

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

cluding  B uildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

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MICH.

EDMUND  D.  DIREMAN,

GREAT

JEW E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

ALBERT  GOYE  &

-JO B B ER S  OF-

Horse Covers,  Oiled  Clothing, Awnings  and Tents.

73 Canal Street, Grand Rapids.

-SELL-

LIVE  GROGERYMEN
DETROIT  SOAP  CO.’S
QUEEN ANNE SOAP

-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..
CLOVER SEED

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

BEANS!
W. T. LAHOBEAUX, A p t,
RETAILERS,
L A V IN E

If you are selling goods to make 

91 Canal street.

a profit,  sell

• 

A  Psalm   for  the T rade.
Tell us not in doleful numbers 
Trade is done for evermore,
That supply, demand outnumbers, 
And the drum mer’s days are o’er.

Trade is real—trade is active.
Better times again we’ll see:
To remain stagnation’s captive,
Is against all history.

Time is long—bills m aturing 
Must be paid without delay;
Such the only way insuring 
Better trade at early  day.

Shun this reckless  competition, 
Look beyond the moment’s  gain,
Learn th at honest coalition 
Is far better in the main.

Stop this scheme of future  dating, 
Ere it has become too late;
Ant at once and cease all prating— 
Leave consignments to their fate.

Lives of others all remind us,
If our dealing’s ju st and fair,
That a better time will find us 
Getting all our honest share.
KALAMAZOO  CELERY.

M ethods  of Its  C ulture as P racticed by the 

T hrifty  H ollanders.

K a l a m a z o o  Correspondence Detroit Free Press. I
Fifty  tons  of  celery  are  expressed from 
Kalamazoo  daily,  during  the  hight  of  the] 
shipping season.  Kalamazoo celery is famed 
from ocean to ocean, and is the brand  called 
for  everywhere. 
Shipping  begins  about 
July,  increasing  until  about  the  holidays, 
decreasing until the crop  is  disposed  of  in 
the  spring.  More  growers  are  annually 
holding  their  crop until the firmer markets 
of spring.  Three thousand tons  were  ship­
ped from this point alone »during  1883,  and 
the shipment  for 1884 is estimated  at  5,000 
tons.  From 1,500 to 2,000 acres are devoted 
to the industry in this yicinity, and the  pro­
duction of a superior  article  has  never  ex­
ceeded 
thousand 
stalks are easily raised during the season on 
an acre, and the wholesale price ranges from 
fifteen to twenty-five cents per dozen.

the  demand.  Twenty 

Marsh land has become the  home  of  this 
luxury, and Hollanders are the main produc­
ers.  Driving north from Kalamazoo, through 
the^ountry, one passes great 100 acre farms 
devoted  to  the  sweet-scented celery.  One 
would never forget a drive through  the  cel­
ery gardens in any direction from Kalamazoo; 
the long rows keep their  bright  green  until 
November,  as  crop  follows  crop;  and  the 
fields'umnarred by fences or anything except 
‘the cozy cottages of the  thrifty  Hollanders.
The  irrepressible  Yankee  has,  of  course, 
bought large tracts and gone into its culture, 
but "the mass of growers cultivate from three | 
to ten acres, raise  the  choicest  article,  and j 
make the most money.  Too much expensive ] 
hand labor is required to  justify  going  into 
the business on a large  scale.

The celery business is of more  value  to  a 
town  than  can  be  shown by figures.  The 
drainage  necessary  to  delery  growing 
is 
worth everything to the health of the locality.
Celery can be raised on any  marsh  properly 
drained,  and  it  is  not  necessary  that the 
marsh  lie  along  the mystic  waters  of  the 
Kalamazoo.  Yet it is a recognized fact that 
specialties hover  together.  Celery  growers 
and  shippers  have  here  an  association to 
protect  their  interests  and  disseminate  in­
formation useful to the  industi'y.

Practical  celery  growers  can  teach most 
men  who  write  books  on the subject  their 
A B C?s, and the jolly Dutchman could wake 
up in the night any time and laugh  at  some 
of the advice given.  Celery growing resem­
bles  farming  wonderfully  about one thing.
The season opens about January 1, and, save 
an occasional holiday, it  is  “hurrah,  boys,” 
until  about  December  31.  Celery growers 
are beginning to raise their own seed, which, 
heretofore,  has  been  a  serious item of  ex­
pense.  There are about  fifty  principal  va­
rieties;  the most popular among them  being 
the white walnut and Crawford.

The objective points for perfect celery are 
soundness, brittleness and keeping qualities.
The  seed  is  sown  in  narrow  rows in hot­
beds, and this produces plants for  the  early 
crops.  As soon as the weather will  permit, 
seed  is  sown  outdoors  in  beds of about  a 
square  rod  oilplants  for  an  acre of land.
Plants  are  set *in  May,  or  as  soon  as  the 
size  of  the  plants  and the geuialty  of  the 
climate will permit.

Some marshes may be plowed with a team 
by using wooden shoes on the horses.  These 
shoes are made of two-inch pine, cut  round, 
and two curved pieces of iron, moving freely 
in  the  shoe,  and  bolted  together over  the 
hoof. 
If this method is reckoned unsafe,  a 
windlass  may  be  placed:  on  the  upland, 
across the center of the marsh to be plowed.
A whisky barrel makes a good windlass.  A 
miniature marsh railroad  is  handy  on  land 
where  horses  cannot  be  safely  driven,  to 
carry  tools,  plants,  etc. 
It  consists  of  a 
light car and as much track as is required, in 
sections  of  about  one  rod  long  each,  and 
movable,  so  that  they  can  be  laid to any 
part of the marsh.

Open  ditches  for  draining  are common, 
cutting the land into  quarter  acre  sections, 
but if the tile drain is used, two rows of  cel­
ery can be raised in the space  taken  by  the 
open ditch.  The better the marsh is drained, 
the  handsomer  the ^crops  look  in  time  of 
drouth, and the soil can be worked  immedi­
ately  after a  rain.

Two or three crops are raised off this  soil 
in one season.  Table onions are put  in  for 
the early market;  early celery is set in June 
and haryested the last of  August,  and  win­
ter celery is set in September and secured in

November.  Each  crop  must be fertilized, | 
as the soil is so porous the  manural  proper­
ties wash down out of reach of  plant  roots. 
Celery  is  set  six  feet  apart  between  the 
rows and about a finger’s length apart in the 
row.  Table  onions  or  some  early  crop  is 
raised between the rows and harvested before 
the celery is ready to hill.  Hilling this  cel­
ery  crop leaves a trencli between the  rows, 
along which manure is set and  another  row 
of celery plants set, and by the time the first 
celery  crop  is  marketed  the  latter crop  is 
grown and needs the soil for hilling. 
If the 
season is favorable, another row of plants  is 
I set in place of the first celery crop harvested.
I Many growers have quite a  trade  in  celery 
j plants,  shipping  the  plants  for setting  far 
I and wide.
The first and last crops are bleached  with 
| soil hilled closely to the leaves,  but  the  in- 
! termediate crop is bleached with boards held 
closely  to  the  plants  by  bent  iron hooks.
I Boards bleach the celery higher to the leaves 
I and in quicker time.

tied 

Shippers have adopted a uniform box saw­
ed into proper lengths for different orders as 
j twenty, fifty or 100  dozen, the  ends of  the 
boxes being inch stuff and  sides half  inch. 
Celery is trimmed,  washed  and 
into 
bundles of a dozen stalks each.  This  work 
in summer is  done  in a  shed  built  over a 
stream*, in winter celery cellars.  The cellars 
are made by digging two feet below the sur­
face and boai’ding up  two  feet  above; then 
on a center frame six  feet  high, twelve-foot 
,boards meet and slant tothe ground with win­
dows.  The cellar is then banked and cover­
ed with manure.  They  are  built  twenty- 
four feet wide and fifty, 100 or 200 feet long, 
according as they are  required to hold  50,- 
000,160,000 or 200,000 dozen celery.  These 
are built on upland, as  marsh is  too  damp 
and cold.  When the celery is first  put  into 
the cellar it is green, but  bleaches  in a few 
weeks.  It is packed closely, standing boards 
every few feet to prevent  heating.  The ob­
ject, is to keep it growing.  The  roof boards 
used in  summer  for 

cepars  are

bleaching the second crop.

Another method of storing  and  bleaching 
for winter is in trenches two  feet  deep and 
wide, packing as closely  as  the  crop  will 
stand.  A hilling plow has been invented on 
which there is no  patent. 
It  resembles an 
ordinary shovel plow, except that  the  sides 
of the steel  plow  are  straighter, to  which 
sides are attached steel  wings  hinged to the 
plow.  On the top of egch  wing is  fastened 
an iron rod,  meeting on  the  center of  the 
beam of the plow, by which  the  cut may be 
regulated to any desired width.

into 

The first growers of celery  in  this  place 
never dreamed of using  the  meadow  land, | 
but sought for soft, ¡warm,  sandy loam. 
I t ! 
was some eighteen years  ago  that a Hollan­
der  named  Lendert  de Brayn, a gardener, 
made the experiment.  He owned a piece of 
hard land on South  Burdeck  street,  which 
ran down 
the  marsh.  Owing to the 
drouth he could not successfully raise celery 
so he,made the  trial  of  the  marsh  land, 
draining  it  well  to  begin  with.  Snccess 
crowned his  efforts  and a sure  crop  came 
with  every  Season, no  matter  what  the 
weather.  So with onions.  Others  watched 
him and followed his example.  But, beyond 
the home demand, there was no  sale for the 
toothsome esculent.  In the early fall of 1878 
a leading grocery and  shipping  firm  were 
selling  much of this  plant at home,  when 
one day one of the firm, in talking  with  an 
Omaha man, asked  him if there  would  be 
a market for celery,  The  reply  was  that 
small quantities were  raised in  Omaha, but 
it was high-priced and not  very  good.  He 
declared that Omaha would be a  good  mar­
ket for Kalamazoo celery,  which  was so su­
perior, and gave the firm the card of a prom­
inent groceryman in  that  city.  Shipments 
were made in small  quantities at  first  and 
rapidly  increased  in  size  and  frequency. 
Other points East and  West  were  supplied 
and almost at once a trade  grew  up.  John 
Scaal, Ben Haften, Den  Adel, Yandimeder, 
de Brayn and others  furnished all that was 
called  for.  Express  messengers on the dif­
ferent roads  seeing  so  much  celery  going 
from this  village  sharpened  their  trading 
proclivities and sought markets where  they 
could themselves  make a  commission, and 
thus, the sale  of  the  esculent  was  greatly 
spread.  The success  attending  the sale in­
duced others  here to take a hand, and  a lo­
cal express agent soon became a large  ship­
per and has ever since remained in the  busi­
ness.  So 
the  business  grew,  each  sea­
son  doubling  upon  the sales of the former 
one, and even as the  demand  increased the 
supply was equal to the  call.  Land  which 
had hitherto been valued only for marsh hay 
or cow pastures, and a good  deal not  fit  for 
that,  was  now  eagerly  sought  for  and 
brought undreamed of prices, till now  there 
is not a piece of  meadow land  in the city or 
vicinity hut has been drained and made into 
a garden spot, immensely enhanced in price.
The number now  engaged in  the  celery 
trade is estimated at 1,500 to 2,000, and  the 
business isabonanzato the express companies 
On one train alone a carload is shipped daily 
and  sometimes  two.  The  gathering of the 
celery daily from the  different  shippers  oc­
cupies much of the time of the express com­
panies. 

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Over 5,000 patents on churns have already 

been granted by the Government.  •

Some of the Benefits to be  Derived  from  a 

State  O rganization.
E ast  Sa g in a w ,  Dec.  19,  1884. 

Editor “ MichiganTradesman

De a r  Sir —I  am pleased  with the  inter­
est you are taking in regard to  the organiza­
tion of a  State  Dairyman’s  Association, as 
such an  organization  is  much  needed, and 
should  be  encouraged  by  every  dairyman, 
and also the trade. 
I noticed in a late  issue 
that  you  were  receiving  letters  favoring 
Grand Rapids as  the  place of meeting  for 
the first  convention.  The selection of your 
city for the  meeting  is  a  good  one,  and 
should meet the approval  of  all  parties  in­
terested. 
In the first  place  it is a railroad 
center, and can be reached from  any section 
of  the  State.  Secondly, it  is  surrounded 
with one of the best dairy  sections  in  the 
State;  therefore, in my  opinion,  it  will be 
the Elgin of Michigan and  the  location of a 
Dairy Board of Trade  which  will  rule  the 
market of our  dairy  productions, planting a 
weekly dairy route to whatever market pays 
the best  prices,  whether  local or  foreign, 
eventually breaking up the system of hucks­
tering the butter and  cheese  from towns to 
cities, as is  done at the  present  time  to a 
great extent, with  very  unsatisfactory  re­
sults to the dairymen.  Grand  Rapids being 
the second  city  in  the  State,  has  a  large 
wholesale trade  which  is  another  point in 
her favor for  the  establishing  of  a  Dairy 
Board of Trade and market there.  .

The benefit to be derived from such an or­
ganization, to the dairymen,  is, perhaps, be­
yond  our  comprehension. 
It would  bring 
them in direct communication with the dairy 
world,  revolutionizing  the  whole  system, 
there being  no  reason  why  our  products 
should not find a market  in  Liverpool, Lon­
don, Boston,  New  York,  Chicago,  and,  in 
short, wherever there is a demand for  dairy 
productions.  The system  would  not  only 
be  changed as to  market, but  also in  the 
manufacture and quality; and such a change 
must take place before our  dairy  resources 
can be  fully  developed  and  brought to a 
standard equal with other  states.  Now, as 
we are behind in general organized  system, 
we can at least  adopt  the  latest  improve­
ments, that our best operators  feel  assured 
will give the results required, in order to put 
a good article on the market, either for home 
consumption or  exportation.  To  gain  such 
results we must have a system of  oxidation, 
which we can control to  oxidate  our  factor­
ies.  We must also have the  curing  rooms 
so arranged as to expel the foul  gases  that 
escape  from the cheese, while going through 
a decay that is necessary to the  curing  pro­
cess, leaving the room at all times in a  pure 
state that the new  cheese  will  not  absorb 
those poisonous gases, as they do now under 
the present system. 
I  know by  experience 
and experimenting  that  many  cheese  are 
destroyed by absorbing  those  impure gases, 
and thereby preventing the necessary change 
that is desired to retain its  quality  and  fla­
vor.  The loss arising from such causes can­
not be estimated, ami it the trouble at Fruit- 
ridge did  not arise from the  whey  tank or 
plants, then let us go to the  rennet  and cur­
ing rooms and see if  there are  not some  de­
fects there,  which might be the cause of such 
results.

Again, our dairymen  must  .take  another 
step of advancement and go into winter dairy 
ing.  So far as I have seen,  this State is  as 
well adapted for  that,  in  every  respect, as 
Illinois, and  this is  what  will  enrich  the 
dairymen, bring their farms  under a higher 
state of cultivation, as  it  has  done  in  the 
State named.

Now, sir, I have laid  these  facts  before 
you, hoping  that  the  leading  dairymen  in 
your section, with the help of the trade, will 
organize appoint officers and  make a  call  to 
the dairy men of this State for a meeting, ex­
tending the  invitation to  manufacturers  of 
dairy implements of this and  other  States, 
for a general display of their goods.

Yours  truly, 

C. B. L a m bert.

H is  Source  of Incom e.

“How are you finding  business,  Doctor?” 

was asked of a physician.

“Capital,” he replied.  * “1  have  all  I  can 

attend to.”

“I didn’t understand that there  was  very 

much sickness  about.”

“No, there isn’t.  But  we  physicians do 
not depend upon  sickness  for  an  income. 
Oh, my, no; most  of  our  money  is  made 
from people who have  nothing  the  mattei 
with them.” 

^

Potatoes are known to have been cultivat­
ed in Burgundy as  early  as  1560,  having 
been brought home from Peru and  Chili  by 
the early explorers. 
In 1584 we  have proof 
of their cultivation at Youghal, yet  the ear­
liest date given for their appearance  in  Ire­
land as a staple was some thirty  years later, 
Sir Walter Raleigh having, carried  them to 
the land that* is generally supposed  from its 
name to be the birth-place of  the Irish pota-

A new clock  has  been  invented, and  is 
coming into  use in  Europe, which  is  war­
ranted by  its manufacturers  the  run  five 
years without either  winding or  regulation. 
The Belgian  Government  placed  one in a 
railway station in 1881, sealed with the Gov­
ernment seal, and it has kept  perfect  time 
ever since.

lifters.

The losses which occur  from  shoplifting 
and petty stealing by those  who  visit  the 
store in the  guise of  customers,  is in  some 
localities considerable.  This class of thieves 
mostly depredate in  stores  where  there is 
not much attention  bestowed on the cu^om-, 
ers.  When  the business  of  selling  is con­
ducted as it should  he, and  the  incomer is 
promptly met at the first moment of entrance 
and attended to with perseverance and vigor 
and not left to wander about  the  place in an 
aimless manner, from one article to another, 
losses of this character are  not so  likely to 
occur as where the business is done in an ir­
regular manner.  A little attention will soon 
enable a salesman to recognize  such persons 
as he should be suspicious of, for tiiis cause. 
As their purpose in  visiting  the  store is to 
steal not to buy, they do not  interest  them­
selves in the goods they  ask  for.  There is 
generally an  aimlessness  apparent  in  ail 
their questions concerning  the  goods;  they 
no sooner look at one article than they want 
another, declining the first  without  any ap­
parent or adequate  cause,  except  that  of 
turning the salesman’s supervision  away in 
looking for the other  articles  asked for, so 
that they may have an  opportunity  to steak 
This class of  people  frequently  operate in 
couples, and one does the stealing  while the 
other diverts the attention of the  salesman. 
The companion is never  satisfied  to  remain 
inspecting the goods or learning  the  negoti­
ations, but wanders off apparently to inspect 
other goods  which  may be  casually expos­
ed, particularly if they are of a kind  readily 
transferred to the pocket, bag, basket or oth­
er receptacle provided for carrying away the 
plunder.

“An ounce of prevention  is wortli a pound 
of cure” in such cases, and a  watchful  eye 
kept over all such customers, will  generally 
succeed  in  preventing  depredations.  This 
class of people dislike to be publicly  known 
as thieves, and hence are chary of exercising 
their propensities in places  where  they see 
they are  suspected.  For  this  reason it is 
not  safe  to  disregard  suspicious  circum­
stances, because it is thought  the  person is 
“above such things” an  “old  customer,” or 
any like reason to quiet suspicion.  There is 
always a beginning to sueh  practices, and it 
may be for the advantage of persons  again»* 
whom  suspicion is directed to nip  them  in 
the  bud, if possible,  by what  might  seem 
harsh suspicions, rather than by a blind con­
fidence to allow such a tendency to  grow ift- 
to practice unheeded, and therefore uncheck­
ed.
Some of the  H ardships Clerks Have  to E n­

dure.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

Young men, especially tljose raised  in the 
country, imagine that a counter  jumper has 
the softest snap possible.  They often watch 
the spry young man in a  country store as he 
flies around doing business.  First he counts 
out a basket of eggs  and  finds  the  number 
one or two short of what the country-woman 
claims.  She will argue  for  an  hour,  if lie 
will, that she is  right.  He  weighs  a  little 
dab of butter, and slyly jabs a knife through 
it to see there are no  rocks in it.  Like  the 
eggs, it falls  short.  Another  hour  may he 
spent in jangling,  but he  gives  in.  Then 
the woman will ask him for  the  rags  that * 
are around the butter, winch  will  take  off 
another ounce or two.  She may have a bun­
dle of rags, which she  guarantees to  be all 
cotton and no wool, hut the  old  drawer leg 
or pillow slip in which  they  are  packed is 
slit open on the quiet, as  something  heavy 
might have  crawled in of  its  own  accord. 
The young man bides  his  time.  When she 
begins buying he watches  his  chance to get 
even.  The  pound of coffee is weighed to a 
grain, but she demands “down weight,” and 
in measuring the yard  and  a half of  calico 
he has to give  her  the  “thumb” for  good 
measure:  That is the width of  the  thumb 
with which he marks the  end  of  the  yard 
stick.  Then he must throw in . thread  and 
buttons and possibly a needle.  After getting 
a quart of oil and a lampwick, she wants  to 
know liow  much it all  comes  to,  just  as 
though she hadn’t it all counted up to a cent 
and knew  she  owed  him  a  nickel.  She 
feigns surprise  that it amounts to so  much, 
as  she intended to get a  lot  more  things.
Having no  change  with  her,  she  proposes 
to call it square, and he is  glad to get off  on 
such easy terms.  All this time she has been 
eating  dried  peaches,  apples,  popcorn, or 
anything that happened to be in  reach,  and 
concludes by begging a stick  of  candy  for 
each of the children.

Two new railways will be started in Mich­
igan by the same  parties, the  articles of as­
sociation having  been  already  filed.  One 
will he called the Ohio and  Central  Michi­
gan, and  will  run  from  Coldwater to the 
Ohio and Michigan State line, and will have 
a capital of  $375,000.  The  other  will have 
a capital of $1,740,000, and will he called the 
Riverdale and Lake Michigan Company. 
It 
will run  from. Riverdale, Gratiot  county, to 
Frankfort, Benzie  county,  a  distance of 116 
miles.

India glows in  importance as a grower of 
cotton.  The value of exports of this  staple 
last year was  $80,000,000.  Yet it  will  be 
many decades,  doubtless, before  the  cotton 
planters of America  will feel the  effect  of 
Indian competition.

A JO U R N A L DEVO TED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Siate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  31,  1884.

Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Exchange.
! ■ Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.
President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vi<je-President—Cbas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Wrri. Sears.
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; 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, A rthur 
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
Manufacturing  Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
E. S. Fierce, C. W. Jennings.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
of October.
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
ing of each month.
Next Meetings-Wednesday evening, Jan. 14.
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POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
first Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second  Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
Election Cohtraititee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D> S. Haugh.
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Houghton, W. H. Jennings.
Excursion . Committee—D.  S.  Haugh,  S.  A. 
Sears, C. S. Robinson, Wm. B.  Edmunds  and 
J. N. Bradford.
Regular  Meetings—Last Saturday  evening  in 
eaoh month.
Next Meeting—Saturday  evening,  January 31, 
a t “The Tradesman” office.
Meeting  of  Excursion  Committee—Saturday 
evening,  January  11,  a t  “The Tradesman” 
office.

|3F”  Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on  the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they paw the adver­
tisem ent in the columns of  this  paper.

«Front seats in the  realm of  rascals  have 
been reserved  for  Messmore, Brisbin, Dun- 
RÇp, Neuman and several others  equally no­
torious. Grand Rapids  and  Western  Michi­
gan will be« well represented.

-Less thau a year ago the Detroit Commer­
cial referred  to Grand  Rapids as a  “small 
town,” and the business  transactions of the 
place as  “catch-penny  trade.”  A  compila­
tion of the business for the past year  shows 
that our  manufacturers  and  jobbers  have 
sold over twenty-two million  dollars  worth 
of  goods—all  of  which 
is  “catchpenny 
trade,” according to the Commercial.

T h e  T radesm an congratulates its friends 
and patrons that the year now  drawing to a 
close has not been marked  by more  serious 
financial disasters, and  extends  the  compli­
ments of the season, hopeful  that  the com­
ing twelve  month will  witness a return  to 
former good times, enabling  every business 
man to regain anv ground he may  have lost 
during  the  period of  depression.  Should 
such a result  be  accomplished, the  season 
would indeed be a  Happy New Year.

The  brief  and  comprehensive  review  of 
the various manufacturing and jobbing lines 
in this city has been compiled with consider­
able care, and may be  relied  upon  as  sub­
stantially correct  The decrease in the total 
sales, as compared with the year before, is no 
more than could be expected, under  the  cir­
cumstances, being less,  proportionatey, than 
the  loss  at  any  other market in the West. 
T hat notwithstanding the  business  depres­
sion  pf  the  past  twelvemonth,  our manu- 
faeturers^md jobbers have been able to hold 
their annual transactions up to the enormous 
total  of  over  twenty-two  million  dollars, 
speaks  stronger than any wordy commenda­
tion possibly can of the stability of  our city 
anjd the enterprise of our business men.

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An interesting legal point  has been taken 
from  the  Osceola  Circuit to the  Supreme 
COurt-  the decision of which by that tribunal 
will be looked for with  much  interest. 
It 
appears that the owners of  the  village,  plat 
at  Meredith, who  themselves  own a large 
saloOn, co.npell  every  purchaser of a lot to 
sign an agreement forfeiting the  land to the 
original owners in case he  sells  liquor.  A 
new comer  recently  bought a lot, put  up a 
building, paid his United States  and  State 
license, and  opened a saloon.  A bill to en­
join-him from selling was  filed, but  Judge 
fndkins dismissed it on the ground that such 
sale of lots in the  interest of  monopoly  is 
against public policy, has no moral  bearing, 
add is void.  The  petitioners thereupon ap­
pealed to the higher court.

•  —...... 

: 
Grand Rapids takes front rank  as  one  of
thedealing manufacturing cities of the coun. 
try, but there are  several  other  industries 
which would harmonize well with  those  al­
ready in existence, and  do  much to increase 
our  wealth  at  home  and  our  reputation 
abroad.  Among 
institutions  which 
Grand Rapids possesses unusual  attractions 
for in the way of  cheap  help, excellent  lo­
cations,  desirable  shipping  facilities,  and 
largeTiome consumption are  the  following: 
a  Woolen  mill; a  cotton  mill; a  knitting 
works; a pa^er mill;  an  overall  factory; a 
tobacco factory; a  varnish  factory; a match 
factory; aglqve factory;  an  extensive  soap 
factory; large vinegar works;  extensive saw 
works; a mill to utilize the great  deposit of 
mineral paint just below the city;  more  ag­
ricultural 
implement  factories—in  short 
there is  room for  two dozen new  manufac­
turing enterprises, any one of  which  would

the 

receive the encouragment and support of ev­
ery business man in the city.

AMONG T H E  TRADE.

I N   T H E   C IT Y .

Grand Rapids has twenty-six  cigar factor­

ies.

It is claimed by those  who  are  in  a  posi­
tion  to  know  that  there  are now between 
4,000 to  5,000  cheese in storage at this mar­
ket.

Fenton & Forman, grocery  and  boot and 
dealers at Fremont, haue added a line of dry 
goods, purchasing their  stock  of  Spring & 
Company.

Normandus A.  Stone,  formerly  engaged 
in general trade at Lowell, but for  the past 
few months in the employ of Spring & Com­
pany, has decided to erect a  store  building 
on West Fulton street early the  coming sea­
son and engage in the dry goods business.

C. L. Harvey, Deputy County  Clerk,  and 
Henry  J.  Heystek,  for  several  years  past 
identified with H. M. Goebel, have formed  a 
co-partnership, under the firm name of  Har­
vey & Heystek, and will engage in the paint 
and oil business  in  the  new  Aldrich  block.
The-Church Finish Cp’s new  preparation 
will be known as “Anti-Kalsomine.”  It will 
be put up in popular  shape, and  pushed by 
extensive  advertising  and  the  persuasive 
power of a  half  dozen  travelers,  three  or 
four of whom will start out  about  January 
15.

J.  C.  Darragh,  assignee  for  Sowers  & 
White, the Ovid  banking  firm, states  that 
the estate is now  nearly all  closed  up, and 
that a final settlement will be made  early in 
the spring.  Unless some  unforseen difficul­
ty arises, a dividend amounting • to about 80 
per cent, will be declared.

Inquiring among the shingle  dealers  elic­
its the information that prices  are  expected 
to take an upward turn  within the next fort­
night, Eastern buyers having  assured sever­
al local shippers  that the  condition of  the 
market  warrants to  belief  that a consider­
able improvement in prices is inevitable.

The Coleman & Thomas assignment  mat­
ter came up for final settlement in  the  Cir­
cuit Court on  Monday.  Judge  Montgomery 
allowed the amount asked  by the  assignee 
for his services—.$150—and  ordered  that a 
dividend be  declared on the  basis  of  the 
claims proven.  This will give the  creditors 
a fraction over fourteen per cent.

The Bissell Carpet  Sweeper Co. now  has 
six men on the road selling the goods of that 
corporation and will increase tlje force short­
ly.  At the close of the  New  Orleans  Ex­
position, a foreign  traveler  will be employ­
ed.  The Bissell has turned  out about $100,-
000 of worth sweepers  the  present  year— 
$70,000 during the past eight months.

“You can set it down for a fact that  pow­
der will take a big jump about  January 1,” 
said the leading dealer in that  line, a day or 
two ago. “You see the combination have been 
selling the explosive below the cost of produc­
tion for the purpose of crushing out  one re­
fractory individual who refused to hold  the 
product of his factory at living  rates.  As a 
consequence, he  is  completely  demoralized 
—financially bankrupt—and the combination 
can now put up  powder  to  the  old  price, 
which was none  too  high, considering  the 
increased cost of manufacture and improved 
quality of the goods.  We are  selling  pow­
der this week at $3.50 per keg, and  $1.93 for 
half kegs, but within the next two weeks we 
expect to get  at least $5 a keg and  possibly 
$6.25.”  Dealers who  have  the  necessary 
facilities would do well to take advantage of 
the present condition of the market  and  or­
der considerable quantities of powder.

“I laid the foundation of this large jobbing 
business,”  said  a  leading  merchant,  “by 
adopting and strictly  adhering  to  the  one- 
price rule. 
I made it my business  for years 
to go all through the stock and make  prices 
for each day, that were alike to all customers.
favored  no  customer  at  the  expense  of 
1 
another. 
If  one  bought  for  cash  and 
another on credit, the price was the same  to 
each;  but to the cash customer  I gave a dis­
count to which his  money  was  justly  enti­
1  also  made  it  a  rule to fill orders 
tled. 
strictly according to instructions, and to take 
no advantage of an absent customer.  These 
rules are still faithfully adhered to.  A price 
is made for the goods by the piece  or  pack­
age,  and  there  is  no  deviation.  The  case 
price and the piece price are fixed each  day, 
and no change is made.  The plan of making 
fish  of  one  and  flesh  of  another is a poor 
one, and, in the long run, will  not  succeed. 
Honest,  fair  dealing  with  all  is  the  only 
sure path of business growth, and  the  large 
trade we annually transact is due  mainly  to 
this equitable rule of one price.”
ABOUND THE STATE.

A. G. Buck has re-engaged in the meat bus­

iness at Reed City.

R. A. Seymour succeeds C. C. Y ost in the 

second hand business at Manistee.

B.  Van Ort succeeds  &an Ort &  Bewokes 

in the hardware business at Holland.

W. S. Johnson & Co. succeeds  Johnson & 
Hitchcock in general trade at  Sutton’s  Bay.
G. F. NeumeistersuccceedsW. H. Cogges- 
hall in the hat, cap and furnislyug  business 
at  Muskegon.

Wells, Stone &  Co., the  extensive  Sagi­
naw City  jobbers,  have  started  a  branch 
store at  Meredith.

Keeler  Bros,  have  bought  the  Luther 
stock at Middleville, and. will consolidate it 
it -with their  own.

T. H.  Pittenger and S. S.  Spellman  have 
formed a partnership at Pentwater  and  en­
gaged in the meat business.

Wm; Parks, general dealer at  Alpine, has 
sold out to Geo. Stevens, who will  continue 
the business at the old location.

Cook  &  Canfield  succeed  Fitzsimmons, 
Cook & Co. in the hardware and agricultural 
implement business at Reading.

Harrison & Pierce, bakers and  confection­
ers at Flint, have been closed on attachment 
by Thorp, Hawley & Co., of Detroit.

John  Dildine,  general  dealer  at  West 
Campbell, has  moved his  stock to  Clarks­
ville, where he has resumed business.

F. A. Echenfels has retired from  the  gro­
cery  firm  of Thos. Kenny & Co., at  Manis­
tee, the style remaining the same as  before.
Will H. Hawkins, formerly engaged in the 
grocery  business  at  Reed City, but  for  the 
past few months at Ashton, has  returned  to 
the former place.

E.  J.  Harrington  has  closed  his  branch 
store at Fennville, and removed the stock to 
Holland, where he has  consolidated  it' with 
his regular business.

Cannon Bros., who  recently  made an as­
signment at Evart,  have  effected  a  settle­
ment with their creditors, and after January 
1 the business will be  carried  on  by G. II. 
Cannon & Co.

Jas. Riley, formerly  engaged in  the  gro­
cery and notion business at Dorr, but for the 
past few months located at Silver Creek, has 
returned to Dorr  and  resumed  business at 
his old location.

The  co-partnership  existing  between 
Sands & Maxwell, at  Pentwater, expires by 
limitation at the end of the  present  niofith, 
and the business will hereafter be conducted 
as a stock company under  the  style  of  the 
Sands & Maxwell Lumber Co.

STRAY  FACTS.

The Allegan paper  mill  is  running*  day 

and night.

factory  there.

sume  operations.

Ashton  people  talk  of  starting  a  cheese 

The bowl factory at Tustin will shortly re­

The Ann Arbor Agricultural  Works will 

resume business January 5.

E. W. Moulton, of Battle Creek, has start­

ed a cigar factory at Allegan.

A fine deposit of umber has been discover­

ed near Royalston, Berrien county.

L  Grant  is  now  proprietor  of  the  Upton 

avenue flouring mills at Reed City.

The shook factory at Reed City is running 

full force, employing about 25 men.

A new 

industry in the  form  of a broom 

factory has been started at Allegan.

Manton expects to have a  starch  factory, 

to be located there by a Chicago company.

Wright & Lumsden succeed  Geo. D. Bar­

ton & Co. in the lumber business at Alma.

Frank Ester will succeed Monroe  Durkee 
as proprietor of the Lawrence  house, Plain- 
well.

Benton Harbor is to have a ship  building 
yard  of  considerable  capacity,  and a dry 
dock. 
•
The Thayer  Lumber Co.,  of  Muskegon, 
has over 7,000,000 feet of lumber piled in,its 
yards.

.  A   , s  .  , 

John  Koopman,  of Falmouth, is  rebuild­
ing his mill property  recently  destroyed  by 
floods.

Frank  A.  Scofield  succeeds  Scofield  &! 
Cooper in the carriage  manufacturing  busi­
ness at Ovid.
P. H. & W. H. Scfauh  have  resumed  the 
manufacture of their patent neck  yoke  cen- j 
ters at Wayland. 

Ingham & Co. expect te cut  2,000,000 feet 
of logs  into  veneers qt their  mill at Rich-1 
mond the coming season.

The business men of Oscida must  be well j 
insured.  At the  meeting to organize  a fire | 
department but four were present.

,

An Ashton correspondent writes:  Thous­
ands of bushels of potatoes are hurried here, 
waiting for a market and better prices.

Traverse  City  Herald:  W.  J.  Weese, 
formerly of this place, has  opened  a  broom 
factory at Fife  Lake in company  with  Mr. 
Prescott.

Chase & Taylor, the Otsego hoe  manufac­
turers, run two  sets  of  men, a day  and a 
night force, and did not  shut  down.  for the 
holidays.

A new postoffice  has  been  established  in 
Monroe county, called Temperance, and outr 
side p ities contemplate establishing a brew­
ery there.

E. B. Born, the Allegan  wagon  manufac­
turer, will erect a new warehouse  next sea­
son, 40x100  feet in  dimensions  and  three 
stories high.

The Corunna coal drillers  will  stop at a 
depth of 700 feet,  if they do not strike  coal 
The indications  at  the  present  depth, 652 
feet, are favorable.

Tlu Lansing Wagon Works,  which  have 
been closed for  the past  two  weeks,  will 
start up again  January 1 with a  full  force 
and on full time.

Blodgett & Byrne will not join the curtail­
ing movement, but will run five  camps, and 
put in about 25,000,000 feet of  logs  on  the 
Muskegon over their railroad.

A considerable amount of  rock  elm fs be­
ing picked up among  farmers in the  Grand. 
Traverse region, to be converted into square 
timber for shipment eastward.

The Algonac Salt Co. wants  to raise'addi­
tional stock and erect a salt block.  The suit 
is found there 100 feet  nearer  the  surface 
than at any other point in the State.

Whitehall Forum:  One of White Lake’s 
best posted  lumberman  estimates  the  log 
crop on White  River,at  75,000,000. 
It will 
be upwards of 25,000,000 less than last year.
Trowbridge & Hill, at Freeland, manufac­
tured the past  season  3,000,000 staves» and 
have on hand 00,000.  Their mill  was burn­
ed  June 9, but it was  rebuilt in a  superior 
manner.

The Geo. W. Roby  Lumber  Co., of Lud-

ington, will not put any logs this season, and 
will deliver its surplus stock, 7,000,000  feet, 
on the line of the Chicago & West Michigan 
railroad.

D. B. Jerrue, the  new  proprietor of  the 
Commercial House at East  Jordan, is  thor­
oughly overhauling  the  premises  and will 
make important additions to the building  in 
the spring.

A Cheboygan merchant wrote to a Detroit 
dealer for an offer  for  cedar  paving  blocks, 
and received one at  $1.10  a cord, or at  the 
rate of 2% cents a post, as  it takes 40 posts 
to the  cord.

Luther Lance:  Wilson, Luther & Wilson 
have sold to Grand Rapids parties 1,000 cords 
of  basswood,  to  be delivered immediately, 
and  have  made  a  conditional  contract  for 
4,000 cords afterwards.

All the lumber used in the Muskegon Yal- 
ley Furniture Co.’s  factory is bought in the 
log and sawed and  dried as  wanted.  Four 
large dry-kilns are  used, each  with  20,000 
feet capacity.  Most of the goods turned out 
are sold in New York.

Local  F u rn itu re   Fact».

“I see you give publicity to the report that 
the  Berkey & Gay  Furniture  Co. will  re­
turn to the  manufacture of  cheap  suites,^-’ 
said a well-posted furniture  man,  the  other 
day.  “As near as I can ascertain,”  lie  con­
tinued,  “Berkey & Gay  have  contracts  on 
hand for furnishing  several  summer  resort 
hotels next  season, and in order to get  low 
figures on  the  goods  which  they  do  not 
themselves  manufacture,  they  give  it out 
that they contemplate placing a line of cheap 
suites on the  market. 
I don’t  think  they 
j  ever really intended doing so, but spread the 
report as a matter of business  policy.  I also 
hear that they  have  contracted with the Es- 
tey Furniture Co., at Owosso, for  500  suites 
at the remarkably low figure of  $17  apiece.
“What is the present condition of  the fur­
niture trade?”  repeated a leading  manufac­
turer, in response td an  inquiry to  that  ef­
fect,  “it is simply  this:  Every manufactur­
er  is  pursuing  a  thoroughly  conservative 
course and taking no chances on the  future. 
We are getting up about as many  new  pat­
terns as ever,  but  instead  of  cutting  100 
suites of each pattern, cut only thirty or for­
ty. 
If times brighten up and  business  im­
proves, we can cut the other sixty or  seven­
ty,‘and by employing a full force or running 
extra hours easily get them  ready  for  the 
spring trade.  The'furniture  business is be­
ing run on a safe basis, and as a consequence 
scarcely any old goods are carried over from 
one season to another, to be sacrificed.”

The  Lightning:  Cash  Boy,

A  white  and  tottering  old  man  leaned 
against the five-cent counter in  a  toy  store.
A middle-aged man, streaked with gray ap­

proached him.

“Ah,”  said  the  old  man, extending  his 
wrinkled hand,  “it seems to me I  have  seen 
your face somewhere before.”

“Are  you  the  spruce  young  man  who 
bought'27 cents’ worth of goods here and had 
3 cents change coming to you?”

“1  am  he  who  was  that  spruce  young 

man,” replied the white old man, feebly.

“Here is your change. 

“I thought so,” said the middle-aged man, 
I am the  cash-boy.”
“Ah, I did not expect you back  so  soon,” 

and the old man hobbled out.”

Musty grain, says  the  Milling World, to­
tally unfit for use and which can  scarcely be 
ground, may be rendered: sweet  and  sound 
by simply immersing it in boiling  water and 
letting it remain  until  the  water  becomes 
cold.  The quantity of water must be double 
that of the grain to be  purified.  The musty 
qualities rarely penetrate  through the husks 
of the wheat, and in the very worst  cases it 
does not extend through  the  part which lies 
immediately  under  the  skin. 
In  the  hot 
water all the decayed or rotten  grains swim 
on the surface so that they can be  removed, 
and the remaining wheat is effectually clean­
ed from all impurities without  any loss. 
It 
must be completely  and  thoroughly  dried 
afterwards.

“When the crops begin to move,” says the 
banker, “we shall  have a revival.”  “When 
the crops begin to move,” says the manufac­
turer, “there  will be  a healthy  resumption 
all  along  the  line.”  “When the crops be­
gin to move,”  echoes  the  jobber,  “orders 
will multiply.”  “When the  crops  begin to 
move” is a period  for  which  the  retailer 
sighs,  “When the  crops  begin  to  move,” 
choruses the farmer, “we  will  go  to  town 
and get a new outfit, from the  soles of  our 
feet to tne  crowns  of  our  heads.”  Mean­
while,  the  manufacturer,  banker,  jobber, 
dealer and farmer wait patiently,  hopefully, 
for the silver lining so long obscured.

The  funeral  obsequies  of  the  late Geo. 
Luther, at Middleville, were a fitting tribute 
to the large heartedness and public  spirited­
ness of the man.  Mr.  Luther  had  $10,000 
insurance on his life, payable to his creditors, 
and this sum, with the  stock  and  book  ac­
counts, will pay every claim in full.  A move­
ment is on foot to accept 80 per cent., in full 
payment, and present  the  remainder,  about 
$4,000, to the widow.  All the Grand Rapids 
creditors  have  agreed  to  such  an  arrange­
ment.

A stock company has  been  organized  at 
Cheboygan, under the name of  the  Novelty 
Wood  Works,  with a capital of $25,000, to 
succeed A. R. Thayer in the manufacture of 
excelsior, turned wood boxes, wooden  stop­
pers, etc. 

A. D. Boelkens has  purchased G. H. Yon- 
ker’s grocery stock at  Muskegon,  and  will 
add a line of hardware.

A. E. Pickard has opened a  meat  market 
in connection  with his grocery  store at East 
Jordan.

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A nnual  M eeting  of Post A.

The annual meeting of  Post  A,  was  held 
at  T h e  T ra desm a n  office  last  Saturday 
evening,  the  following  representatives  of 
the traveling fraternity being in attendance: 
Wm. Logie, L. W. Atkins,  Steve  A.  Sears, 
D. S. Haugh, Chas. S. Robinson, Win. B. Ed­
munds, Jas. N. Bradford,  W.  G.  Hawkins, 
W. H. Downs, W. H.  Jennings  and  Frank 
Miller.  President Logie and  Secretary  At­
kins officiated in their respective  capacities.
The initiation fee was fixed at $2, payable 
in advance, and the annual dues were placed 
at the same amount, payable quarterly ¡^ad­
vance.

The  election  of  officers  for  the  ensuing 
year resulted in the selection of  the  follow­
ing gentlemen for the positions named:

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—L. Max  Mills.
Second  Vice-President—Steve  A.  Sears.
Secretary and  Treasurer—L.  W.  Atkins.
Executive Committee—Chas. S. Robinson, 
Jas. N. Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.  The 
President and Secretary are also members of 
this Committee ex officio.

Election  Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour, 
Wallace Franklin, W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B. 
Edmunds and D. S.  Haugh.

Room  Committee—Steve  A.  Sears,  Wm. 1 

Boughton and W. H. Jennings.

Mr. Haugh suggested that  the  association 
give an excursion to New Orleans  sometime 
during February, and was ably  seconded  by 
Chas.  S.  Robinson,  who  suggested the  ap­
pointment  of  a  special  committee  for  the 
purpose  of  ascertaining  how  many  would 
like  to  take  such  a  trip in good company. 
Considerable  discussion  on  the subject  re­
vealed the fact that several members  of  the 
Post were heartily in favor  of  the  project, 
and the chair appointed as  such  committee, 
Messrs. Haugh, Sears,  Robinson,  Edmunds 
and  Bradford.  They  will  meet  at  T h e 
T ra desm a n office Saturday  evening, Janu­
ary 10, to report on the number who wish to 
go, and to take action as to  the  advisability 
of getting up a general excursion.

The meeting then adjourned, to meet again 

on Saturday evening, January 31.

A nnual Meeting: of the M.  C. T. A.

The annual meeting of the Michigan Com­
mercial Travelers’ Association  was  held at 
Detroit last Friday, at which time  the  offi­
cers  nominated at  the  caucus  held  three 
weeks previously were elected as follows:

President—Samuel B.  Sinclair.
First Vifee-President—A.  W. Culver.
Second  Vice-President—Stephen A Sears, 

Grand Rapids.

Ypsilanti.

Kalamazoo.

East Saginaw.

Third  Vice-President—James  A. Bassett, 

Fourth Vice-President—Geo.  W.  Young, 

Fifth  Vice-lj|bsident—W.  E.  Saunders, 

dith.

Board of Trustees two years—Wm. Saxby, 
Geo. L. Sampson, Joseph T. Lowry:  To  fill 
vacancy, one year Thomas MacLeod.

Trustees Reserve Fund—J.  T.  Haywood, 

A. M. Seymour.

Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N. Mere­

The report of the  treasurer  showed  that 
the total amount received  during  the  year 
was $18,000.  Three death benefits of $2,500 
each have  been  paid, and the  expense  of 
maintaining the organization was $856, leav- 
a balance in the treasury of  about  $10,000.
Several  amendments to  the  constitution 
were  offered and referred to a special  com­
mittee to report at the next annual  meeting, 
which will  occur on  Friday, December  25, 
1885.

The G ripsack  B rigade.

John H. McIntyre,  with  Arthur  Meigs  & 
Co., will make d new connection  January 1.
Geo. F. Owen attended  the annual  meet­
ing of the Michigan Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association at Detroit last week.

Graham Roys is in  for  the  holidays.  He 
will visit the trade  to  the  east  next  week, 
taking in considerable new territory.

Thos. P. Ferguson has engaged with J. H. 
Thompson  & Co., of  Detroit,  for  another 
year, covering the same  territory  as  hereto­
fore.

Some very popujar fellows are on the rag­
ged edge, wondering whether the new  year 
will divide  themselves . and  their  present 
houses.

Sual A. Sheldon,  general  western 

travel­
ing agent for the Jackson  Wagon Works, is 
spending the holidays with friends  here and 
at Berlin.

Addison A. Barber and Geo. H. Allen have 
signed with tlie Grand Rapids Chair  Co. for 
another year.  Chas. F. Blackman will form 
a new connection.

A. C. Antrim,  who  has  represented  the 
Alabastine Co. on  the  road  with  unusual 
success, identifies  himself with the fortunes 
of the Church Finish Co. January 1.

W. H. Downs didn’t eat  turkey on Christ­
mas.  He bought one at an outside town, but 
carelessly left it on  the  railway  car  when 
leaving the train at the Union depot.

R. Parklmrst will remain with  the  Stock- 
well & Darragh Furniture  Co. another year. 
Will E. Hunting, who has been with the cor­
poration for the past two years, will  make a 
new connection.

Will E. Hunting, general western  travel­
ing agent for the Stockwell &  Darragh Fur­
niture Co. for the past two years, has signed 
with the Worden Furniture Co. for the com­
ing year, covering the same  territory as for­
merly.

Anyone wishing to “take in” New Orleans 
under favorable auspices  would  do well to 
give his name to any one  of  the  following 
gentlemen:  Steve Sears, Dave Haugh, Char­
ley Robinson, Wm. B. Edmunds  or  Jas. N. 
Bradford.

Over fifty  additions  to  our  list  of  the 
Grand Rapids travelers  have  already  been 
handed in, and the probabilities  are  that by 
next week—when the list will be  republish­
ed entire—the  number  will  be  swelled to 
nearly 400.

Honors come easy with some men.  Steve 
Sears enjoys the distinclion of being elected, 
on successive days, to the same office in  two 
organizations—Second  Vice-President  of 
Post A and the Michigan  Commercial Trav­
elers’ Association.

Frank Conlon, for  the  past  year  or  two 
traveling representative for C.  E.  Andrews 
&  Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  lias signed with  the 
Grand  Rapids  Packing  and  Provision  Co., 
and will represent  that  corporation  on  the 
road the coming year, covering the D., G. H. 
& M., east and west, the C. & W.  M.,  north 
and south, the M. C. and L. S. & M.  S.  and 
the city trade.

Isaac DeLamarter, who represented W. C. 
Denison for about five years, who was subse­
quently  with  E.  G.  Studley & Co.  for  two 
years, and who has been with E.  T.  Brown 
& Co. for the past year, died  at  the  family 
residence, 260 Sixth street, last Friday, after 
a  lingering  illness  of  several  weeks.  He 
leaves  a  wife,  and  one son, about 10 years 
old.  He  had  an  insurance  on  his life  of 
$2,000.  Mr. De Lamarter was a  hardwork­
ing  salesman,  and  was  well  liked  by  his 
customers  and  his associates.  His funeral 
was held Sunday afternoon,  and was well at­
tended  by  representatives  of  the traveling 
fraternity and Doric  Lodge, of which organ­
ization he was a member!

P urely  Personal.

C. 

S. Rickard has been granted a patent on 

an improved step ladder.

M. C. Russell’s time is  pretty  fully occu­
pied these days looking at  his  watch. 
It is 
a new  one,  and  came in  the  shape  of a 
Christmas present.

Geo. Medes,  book-keeper  for  Jennings  & 
Smith, is spending the holidays with his par­
ents at Coral.  E. Medes, the geneflal dealer 
at that place, is his father.

C. D. Spaulding, of  L.  S. Hill & Co., has 
returned from a business  trip to New  York 
and Boston.  He  was  accompanied  by his 
wife as far as Detroit, and  brought her back 
on his return home.

Chas.  Prindle,  the  dainty  junior  partner 
in Wells, Stone &  Co.’s  wholesale  grocery 
establishment, at Saginaw City, lost an inter­
esting decoy duck, or  some  similar  article, 
on the ocaasion of bis visit to  Grand Rapids 
last summer, at  the  time  of  the  wholesale 
grocerymen’s  invasion,  and  was  so  grieved 
over his loss that some of his Saginaw friends 
presented him with a duplicate after return­
ing home.  The original  has  recently  been 
found, and is now in the  possession  of  Geo. 
Perry,  who  is  likewise  custodian  of  Lew 
Hawkins’  patent  car  spring.  Charley  can 
have his original possession by  sending  the 
duplicate to Grand Rapids, as it  is  essential 
that one machine of the kind  be  kept  over 
on this side of the State.

Every  country  merchant  should  look 
about him and see if he is selling all the goods 
he ought with his  facilities  and  surround­
ings.  Consider if there  is not  some  other 
line of which he could carry the  staples and 
thereby add materially  to his  sales  without 
a much greater investment than he now has.

The. Standard  Oil  Co.  employs  93,000 

men.
FOR SALE—Complete millinery stock, taken 

on chattel mortgage, must be  closed  out 
regardless of cost.  Fine  assortment of millin­
ery goods, with suitable  fixtures, complete as­
sortm ent of hair goods  mostly unm anufactur­
ed stock.  Also fine assortment of feathers and 
flowers.  Will sell stock entire or  close  it  out 
in job  lots to suit  purchasers.  A careful  in­
spection of stock is well worth  a  visit  to  the 
city, as we can offer  you  great  inducements. 
Stock at 56 Monroe St." Apply to Spring  & Co., 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
TO  DEALERS  AND  SHIPPERS.

--------- T H E ----------

American  Co-Operative Dairy  Co.,

INCORPORATED  MAY  24,  1884,

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

CAPITAL  STOCK  OF  $100,000, 

Offer  extra  inducements  for  consigners  of 
B utter, Eggs, Beans, Cheese, Poultry, Game 
and  a ll  kinds  of F arm   Produce.
This company is duly established by law, and 
farmers, shippers or dealers can  depend  upon 
prompt  and  honest  returns  for  all  consign­
ments.  For particulars  address,
J .  W.  W H ITE, Sec>y,

31 Beach Street, Boston, Mass.

ENTERPRISE  CIGAR  CO.,

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR  THE  FAMOUS  A ND  POPULAR  BRANDS

O L Y M P I A ,

—ASTD—

LA  BELLE  SE2TORA.

G -rand  H a p id s ,  M ieli.

Serpentaria.......................••........».*
Seneka...................•........... • 
• •
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras— ..........
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)........ - •
Valerian, English (Poiril 30c)........
Valerian,-Vermont (Powd 28c)...

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...........*..
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.......
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee..................
Cardamom Malabar.......................
Celery................................................
Coriander, nest English................
F en n el..............................................
Flax, clean...........   ......................... 
Flax, pure grd (bbl  3k)................  
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian...................*........... 
Mustard, white  Black  10c)...........
Q uince..............................................
Rape, English..................................  
Worm,  Levant.......................... .

s p o n g e s .

DAZELTINE,
PERKINS

5 @  6
4 @  4)4
11 @  12
2 U0
2 25

414

3k®
4  @
7  @
5  @

6  @

Drugs &flfoet>icine8
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

o

O F F IC E R » !'

amazoo.

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal-
Second V i c e - P r e s id e n t - ■B.  D.  Nortlirup,  Lan-
Thirtf Vice-President—Frank  W urzburg,  Gr’d
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, Detroit .
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  a. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W-
N extCplaee  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 

October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   Q C T 9B E R  9,  1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

Fairehnd.

-Frank J. W urzburg..
President—Frank J. w urzouig.. 
Vice-President—Chas. P. Bigelow.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry 
P.  Bige-
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas
BoardJo“ Tru?te4n-T h e   President,  Wm  H. 
V a n  Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  wnite,
C ^ m ’ittee^on^Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
Watte. O.  H. 
B. Fairchild, 
evening in
Annual*1Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
Nex^M eeting—1Thursday  evening, January 8, 

at ‘‘The Tradesman” office.

VISITING  BUYEKS.

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

land. 

.

_ 

J. H. Spires, Leroy.
c !iten  Herder! *Den Herder & Tannis,  Vnes-
T. W. Provin,  Cedar  Springs.
Hoag & Judson,  Cannonsburg.
R. B. Farr,  Hopkins.
J. W. Braginton,  Hopkins.
Andre Bros., Jennisonville.
K. VanKammen,  Grandville.
Geo. Powell, G. S. Powell &  Co.,  Sa id  Lake. 
Mr  Snow, of Snow & Cook, Moline.
H.D. Harvey,  Bangor.
D. W. Shattuck, Way land.
J. Gunstra, Lamont.
Geo. Stephens, Alpine.
W. F, Rice,  Alpine.
A. B. Foote, Hilliards.
Joshua Colby, of Colby & Co., Rockford.
Ed. N. Parker,  Coopersville.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
Alex Denton, of Denton & Loveley,  How aid

Cf k  Dryden, of Dryden & Sons, Allegan.
A. H. North «ay, Fremont.
Mr  Bergy, of A. & E. B e r g y ,  Caledonia.
Mr. Dangremond, of Dangremond & Nykei k,
HMr^Hesseltine,  of  R.  K.  Hesseltine & Son, 
Casnovia.

tinges. 

Blanchard.

_

Walter Struik, I  orest Grove.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
Chas. Cole, Ada.
G. H. Force, Morlev.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
C.  B.  Shafer,  manager  A.  B.  Long  A son, 
John Otis, Mancelona.
G. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center.
Mr.  Salisbury, of  Stauffer & Salisbui y,  Has-
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Mr. Stiles, of Stiles & Pray,  Vermontville.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
G. H. W albrink, Allendale.
A. M. Church. Sparta.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
Tom Smedley, of Smedley Bros., Bauei. 
Jorgenson & fiemingson, Grant.
O. F. Conklin, of O. F. & W.  P.  Conklin,  Ra­
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
C.  L.  Bostwick,  C.  O.  Boetwick & Son, Lan- 
W. S. Root, Tallmadgc.
D. T. Hersey, Wayland.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
Norman Harris, Big  Springs.
Jacob Bartz, North Dorr.
A. Sessions, Wayland.
J. F. Mann, Lisbon.
M. M. Ross, Allegan.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
Wm. Snelling, Six Corners.
C. H. Smith, Crosby. 
Mr. Walbrink, I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale. 
A. & L.  M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Sid.  V. Bullock,  with J.  B.  Quick,
City.Holland & Ives, Rockford.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
F. E. Campau, Alaska.
A. Young & Son, Orange.
John Graves, Wayland.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.

Howard

,  .

nonsburg.

venna.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURANT.

Advanced—Quinine, insect powder. 

 

ACID S.
Acetic, No.  8....................  
  ®  @
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  @
Carbolic.,.........................................  
®
Citric.................................................  
0  ®
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
«  ®
J},.®
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic 
........................................  14)4®
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
6  @
Tartaric  powdered................ .
Benzoic,  English....................f ° z
Benzoic,  Germ an............................  ^   ®
T annic...............................................  14  ®

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................V ®  I®  ®
Muriate (Powd. 22c).......................
A qual6degor  3f............................  1 ®  ®
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
6  @

BALSAMS.

®
0

BA RK S.

C opaiba............................................ 
F ir...................................................... 
P eru..................................................
T olu..................................................
* 
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow................... ••••
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, p u re..........................
Elm, powdered, p ure....................
Sassafras, of ro o t...........................
Wild Cherry, select........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo...........................................
Soap  ground....................................

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 60c)............... 
®
Ju n ip e r............................................. 
'S
Prickly A sh......................................  50  ®

,5 

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c) ... 
Licorice,  powdered, p u re.. — ... 
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, 14s 
do 
Logwood, %8 
do 
........
Logwood, ass’d  do 
... ••••••■
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

10

f l o w e r s .
Arnica......................................
Chamomile,  Roman.............
Chamomile,  Germ an........ .
. 
gums. '
Aloes,  Barbadoes.......................
Aloes,Cape (Powd  24c)... .. .. ..
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)....
Ammoniac..................................
Arabic, extra  select..................
Arabic, powdered  select..........
Arabic, 1st picked.....................
Arabic,2d  picked.......................
Arabic,  3d picked.......................
Arabic, sifted s o r
. •
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)
Benzoin........................................
Camphor..........■■••••• • • • • •........
Catechu. Is 04 14c, k s  16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge........  
............................  
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered, 30cl.....................
Mastic..........................—  v■ 
•
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.75)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s ..................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
. Shellac bleached..............................
T ragacanth............................-........  °°
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES

t s .

H oarhound...............................
Lobelia........................................
Pepperm int...............................
Rue..............................................
Spearm int.................................
Sweet Majoram.........................
T anzy.........................................
T hym e.......................................
W ormwood...............................

IR O N .

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

l e a v e s .

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   13
Sage, Italian, bulk (k s & ks, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural................ 
1»
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  U rsi...........................................
|  Belledonna.......................................
H enbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00
I  Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1  75
1  Whisky, other brands................... 1  10
Gin, Old Tom................................... 1
Gin,  Holland............................... • • •? 29
B randy.....................................M  -
Catawba  Wines...................... “   ’  i st

M anufacturing vs. Shipping.

From the New York Tribune.

The  manufacturers  of  New  York  city 
amount to $200,000,000 capital,  equal  to the 
cost of four  hundred of  the  greatest  iron 
ships in the world at half a  million  dollars 
apiece, far greater than the foreign shipping 
of New York.  There are not  one  hundred 
ships of this quality running on  the  North 
Atlantic. 
If we had the ships, which  bare­
ly pay 3 per cent, a year, their  crews would 
be absentees, but  by  thé  manufactures  we 
have these crews abiding  with us, and they 
numbered in 1880 227,352  workingmen, and 
in Brooklyn 47,587.  Add 30,000  for the ad­
jacent cities  like  Newark  and  Patterson, 
which are more strictly manufacturing places 
than New York or Brooklyn, and  the aggre­
gate is not less than 260,000 operatives. Now 
in the entire shipping of  England, aocording 
to a late Macmillan’s Year  Book, there  are 
not 200,000  men.  The  manufactures of the 
Metropolitan district here dwarf all the com 
merce of England.

More  T ru th  th an  Poetry.

From the New York  Sun.

We now have 5,000,000  souls  more  than 
the 50,000,000  we had at  Garfield’s  death. 
The vast multitude of people  have all got to 
be fed, clad and  sheltered.  With a  steady 
limitation of  production in many directions 
we have had an  enormous  increase of con­
sumers; and the first thing we know the sur­
plus will have  disappeared, and  there  foil 
be a short stock  of everything  but  virtue, 
followed by a revival of trade.
K now s H is  Notes.
I

“Say,  Thud.” 
“Well?”
“Are you fond of music?”
“I should  warble.  Got  two  notes 

last 
week that cost me $200, and  am  just  now 
informed that there is another one there that 
will be mine if the other^ellowr  doesn’t pay 
it off.” 

-  *

r  ‘ 

, 

I t now costs to ship apples  from  Boston 
to Liverpool 62 emits pe»*barre}, to London 7* 
cents, and to Glasgow $1.

m a g n e s i a .

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

o i l s .

l®

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz................................. ! 
••
Bergamont.......................................
Castor............................................... 
Croton...............................................
C ajeput............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella............. .........................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W ...............................
E rigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz.......................
Hemloek, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Lemongrass ....*.............. • —  • • • • •
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal.....................................
Peppermint,  w hite.........................
Rose  $  oz................................• ■ • • • •
Rosemary, French  (Flowers f  1  50)
Sandal  Wood. German..................
andal Wood,  W. I ............................
Sassafras........ 1.............. v ..............
T a n s y ..............................................   ■
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
W intergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.50).......
Savin.................................................
W ormseed.......................................
Cod Liver, filtered................ V gal.
Cod Liver, best.............   . 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “ Sublime  I ta l i a n ...............
S alad.........................................•••••  65
Rose,  Ihmsen’s ........................» o z

...

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate..............................• V ®>
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b ulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prassiate yellow........ ....................

roots.

A lkanet............................................
Althea, c u t........................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in k s  and )4s—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.................. ...........
f’aia.mim, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered................
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, p o w d e red ...............
Jalap, powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4).. ...•
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, tru e ........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 €0
Rhei,powdered 38.1, 
L .» .... 110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, elioice cut fingers.................

28®

ïo 
17 
50 
30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
38 
30 
25 
55@60 
18®  22 
13 
40 
80
rifvSl1  m
90®i w

Florida sheeps' wool, carriage......2 25
.......
Nassau 
do 
do 
.......
Velvet Extra do 
do 
ExtraYellow do 
.......
do 
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use................  
Yellow Reef, 
................. 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

. 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.18) ^  gal.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s ........ ..............  
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............ 

@2 50 
2  00 
1  10 
85 
65
,7 5
i  40

2 28
1 35
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27
12

40

50
12

12
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12

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do 
do 
do 

do, 
do 

4
3  ® 
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto,  prim e...............................  
45
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........  
4)4®  5
7
6  @ 
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
60
Blue  Soluble..............................—  
Bay  Rum, imported, best........ . 
2 75
2  00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
 
Balm Gilead  Buds................................ 
2 00
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
1  50
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)................................  
 
7
Blue V itrio l....................................  
6 @ 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)...................... 
2 00
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
18
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
22
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
-  18
Carmine, No. 40 ............................... 
4  00
Cassia Buds..............................................  
Calomel.  American................................  
 
5
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
Chalk, precipitate English.................... 
8
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
2
Chalk, white lu m p ...  ....................  
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1  60
Colocynth  apples....................................  
1 50
Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 
170
cryst... 
Chloral 
Chloral 
190
Scherin’s  ao  ... 
Chloral 
1-75
crusts.. 
Chloroform ......................................  85  @  90
Cinchonidia, P. & W ........ „............  40  @  45
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   40  @  45
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18  ®  20 ^
Cochineal................ ......... .............. 
40'
Cocoa  B utter.......................  
45
 
Copperas (by bbl  lc)....................... 
Jt
Corrosive Sublimate.......................  
70
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  ®  40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
15
Creasote............................................  
#50
24
Cudbear,  prim e...............................  
24
Cuttle Fish Bond.............................. 
D extrine.................................  
12
 
1 10
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mass................ 
50
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
45
E ther Squibb’s ................................  
1 10
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
8
2  @  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh............................. 
50
60
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ........ ...... 
Flake  white...................................... 
14
25
Grains  Paradise.............................
90
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine, F re n c h ............................ 45  @ 70
•Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 arid 10 dis....
12  © 17
Glue,  cabinet..................................
16  @ 28
Glue, w hite.......................................
16  @ 20
Glycerine, pure...............................
25® 40
Hops  )4s and )£s..............................
40
Iodoform ^ ,o z .................................
85  @1 00
Indigo...............................................
30
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian
Iodine,  resublim ed................’___ 
4 00
Isinglass,  American....__;...____ v 
1  50
Japonica...................................8
London  P u rp le ...........................  10  @  15
Lead, acetate. .. . .
.
.
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & k s 11c) 
8
L upuline.............. ______ .:____:.. 
100
Lycopodium__ .......___50
 
M ace........................................... 
Madder, best  D utch.......... 
12)4®  13
Manna, S.  F .......................................................75
M ercury.......................................  
Morphia, sulph., P .& W .. . . $  oz  3 00@3 25 
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ...... 
Moss, Iceland      .............  .......$  ft 
10
Moss,  Irish........... ................... i ..  ' 
12
Mustard,  English................................ 
 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  can8. . ______  
Nutgalls..............................•____ 
23
N utmegs, No. 1.........................................  
Nux  Vomica__ . . . . . . . ___. ....... 
10
Ointment. Mercurial, k d ........... 
45
Pepper, Black  B erry...........................  
Pepsin............................................. ; 
2 50
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Q uassia........ ................................... 
6  @  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W ........... ft ozl 05  @110
Quinine,  German............................1 00  ®1 05
Red  Precipitate......................$ ib  
85
Seidlitz  M ixture................................. 
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal Soda............................................  
Salicin.......................... ....................  
Santonin........................................... 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3cl......................
Spermaceti......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
Soap, White Castile........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @ ' 28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  30  ®  32
Sugar Milk powdered...................... 
30
3k®   4
Sulphur, flour................................... 
Sulphur,  roll............. : ..................... 
60
Tartar Emetic...................  
 
Tar, N. C. Pine, lA gal. cans  $  doz 
2 70
Tar, 
quarts in tin .......... 
140
Tar, 
pints in tin .............  
85
25
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand. . . :  
 
55
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
7  @  8

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do 

4)4®

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77

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Capitol  Cylinder..........1.....................................75
Model  Cylinder..............  
60
Shields  Cylinder..................................... 
50
Eldorado Engine......................  
45
Peerless  Machinery..............................: ...........35
Challenge Machinery..'.......................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
Paraffin%28  deg......................  
21
Gal
75
75
65
53
56
90
40

Whale, winter.
Lard, extra__
Lard, No.  1—

Bbl
70
64
55
50
53
70
36

V A R N ISH ES.

..1 10@1 20
..1 60@1 7«
..2 75@3 0C
Coach  Body..............................
..1 00@11C
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............
..1 56@1 6C
E xtra Turp  D am ar..............."............... 1 55@1 60
70®  75 
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp
Lb

PAINTS.

Bbl
Red V enetian............................ 
Ik
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   I k
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  I k
Putty, com m ercial..................  2k
Putty, strictly pure..................   2)4
V ermilion, prime Am erican..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure— ,  . . .  
Lead, white, strictly pu re.....
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders .......... ...........
White, Paris American..........
Whiting  Paris English cliff..

2® 3 
2)4® 3 
2k®  3 
13@16 
60® 65 
16® 17
5k 
5k ®70 
@90 
110 
1 40

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

@  19)4 

®  50 
45
2 CO 
50
2  00 
2 00 
75 
1  15 
35 
.75
1 15 
5 50 
1 60
2  00
fi
50
.2  00 
*2 01 
1  00 
90 
1  50 
1 65 
80 
1 25 
50
1 40
3 25
8 50 
65
4 50 
7 00
60 
4 00 
®  12
2  20 
4 00 
1 00
2 50
1 50
3 50 
6 00
®1 20
2  75 
®  67
9 75

TWENTY-TWO  MILLIONS:

A nnual Iteview   of  the  Business  Interests 

of G rand  Rapids.

It affords The Tradesman no  small  degree 
of pleasure to present  its  second  annual  re­
view of the m anufacturing and jobbing inter­
ests of the Valley City.  Although  not so elab­
orate as could be wished, it will be found to be 
sufficiently lucid to enable the most  skeptical 
to form an elevated opinion of the  vast  mer­
cantile interests of  the  Second  City  of  the 
State.  Much painstaking labor  has  been  ex­
pended in the preparation and  compilation of 
the  review,  and  the  figures  given  may  be 
relied upon as approximately  correct.  Taken 
as a whole, there is found to be a falling off of 
about 15 per cent., as compared  with  the  fig­
ures of the year before, partly  due  to  the al­
most universal*shrinkage in prices, and partly 
\ to  the  curtailm ent in m anufacture  and sale 
of nearly everyarticle of necessity and luxury.
The grand total however, which  is  over twen­
ty-two  million dollars is  a showing  which ev­
ery citizen of Grdnd  Rapids  has reason to re­
gard with pride: 

,

Carpet Sweepers—About  the  same  number 
have been m anufactured as last year, the sales 
aggregating fully $175,000.

Groceries—The total sales of the nine houses 
amount to $2,925,000.  Fully 10 per  cent,  more 
goods have been handled than  in any previous 
year, but the shrinkage in  prices,  amounting 
to  at  least  15  per cent., places the aggregate 
sales,  so  far  as . am ount  is concerned,  below 
those  of  the  year before.  Every  indication 
points  to  a  largely  increased  business  next 
year.

Extracts—Included under this  head are per­
fumes, baking powders, and  bottled  sundries.
The business of the several houses  aggregates 
fully $110,000, probably three-quarters of which 
represents goods m anufactured here.

Wallpaper and window  shades—The  volume 
of sales in this line has been  a  remarkable  in­
crease  over  previous  years,  aggregating  no 
less than $175,000.

Drags and  druggists’  sundries—The  annual 
sales have reached the handsome total of $400,- 
000, which is, however, a falling off  of  about 10 
per cent, as compared with last year.

Belting—The two establishments have  turn­
ed out $116,000 worth of goods,  which  is 10  per 
cent, less than last year’s output, owing to the 
fact that few new mills have been started.

Leather  and  findings—One  firm has  m anu­
factured and sold about $300,000 worth of leath­
er, and another smaller establishment has sold 
about $25,000.  The form er figure represents a 
falling off of about 15 per  cent.,  as  compared 
with last year.

Hardware—The  business  in  the  aggregate 

amounts to about $325,000.

Provisions—The  sales  of  the  Grand Rapids 
Packing and Provision Co.  amounted to  $400,- 
000, and the aggregate of all  the  houses  is  not 
less than  $600,000.

Crockery and glassware—The sales aggregate 
about $200,000, which is fully up  to  last  year’s 
business.

Gloves—About $2,500 have been m anufactur­

ed.

Books and stationery—The total sales amount 
to fully $250,000, which is a falling off of about 
15  per  cent.,  as  compared  with the previous 
year—a  combination  of  shrinkage  in  prices 
and decreased sales.

Refrigerators—About  $10,000  worth  have 
been m anufactured and sold, and fully  double 
that number will be placed on the  m arket  the 
coming season.

Hats, caps and furs—Considerably decreased, 
as  compared with previous  years? amounting 
to about $25,000.

Clothing—The volume of business has fallen 
off about 40 per cent., am ountingto only about 
$125,000.

Shirts—About  the  same  as  on  previous 

years, amounting to $15,000.
Saddlery  hardware—Two 

establishments 
have sold $90,000 worth of goods, which is fully 
equal to the sales of the preceding year.

Carriage  hardware—Aggregate  sales  show 

the handsome total of $40,000.

Rubber goods—Sales have fallen of  about 10 

percent., aggregating about $225,000,

Dry  goods—The  four  establishments which 
do  a  jobbing  business in this line present an 
aggregate of half a million dollars.

Crackers—The two factories have turned out 
about $300,000 worth of goods, which is  nearly 
$100,000  worth  less  than  is  m anufactured  in 
good times..

Cheese—Over 1,000,000 pounds  have  found a 
m arket  here,  the  total  sales  amounting  to 
not less than $110,000.

Brooms—The several factories  have  turned 

out  about $80,000 worth.

Fancy goods and notions—Under which head 
are also included millinery, underwear,etc. The 
total sales reach the no inconsiderable total  of 
$240,000.
Boilers and mill machinery—Conservative es­
tim ators place the total product of the  city  in 
these lines of m anufacture at a round  million, 
a  falling  off  of  about  $300,000, on account of 
the decreased num ber of  new  m anufacturing 
and milling enterprises.
Furniture—In  1882, 

the  annual  product 
amounted to $4,922,255.  Competent estimators 
place last year’s business a t $4,500,000, and the 
same authorities have made a careful estimate 
of this year’s production, and place it at $4,100,- 
000—a  decrease  of  nearly  a million dollars in 
two  years.  About  one-half  of  this  amount 
represents the cost of material, leaving nearly 
a  half  million  in  labor  and  profit on  goods, 
which is a total loss to the city.

Woolen goods—One establishment  turns out 

goods to the amount of  $4,500.

Country produce—Not including  under  this 
head  grains  and  milling products, the aggre­
gate reaches the handsome total of $550,000.

Pails  and  tubs—Fully  up  to  last  year,  in 
amount m anufactured, and  aggregating $600,- 
000.
Barrels  and  barrel  stock—Larger  than  aqy 
previous  year,  in  consequence  of  the  enor­
mous  apple  crop.  The  total  easily  reaches 
$650,000.
Woodenware—Under which head is included 
a  great  variety  of  articles,  such  as  clothes 
pins, 
rolling  pins,  children’s  wagons  and 
sleighs, etc., on which the total output  is fully 
$275,000.

Packing  boxes—Decreased  somewhat; from 

1883, but still registers a total of $235,000.

Clothes  wringers—Not so manylmade  as in 
previous years, but enough to swell  the  total 
to $35,000.

Glue—One  factory  turned  out  about $6,000 

worth.
Soap—One  factory  reports  an  output  of 
$5,000  worth,  whereas  there  is a m arket  here 
for at least $200.000 worth.

Wooden  shoes—Two  m anufacturers  have 
made  $2,500  worth,  $500 worth more than last 
year, and the demand is still increasing.

Boots  and  shoes—The  ag§regate  sales  are 
about $400,000, about lOO m en  being  employed 
in the m anufacture pf a, considerable  propor­
tion of the above..  1

Powder—The total sales are about $3,500.

n ï

Paper—Total sales are $220,000.
Brick and tile—One firm  has  manufactured- 
12,000,000,  and  another  3,000,009,  which,  at  $5 
per thousand, makes a total of $75,000.

Ice^Besides the vast quantities delivered to 
retail  customers,  one  company  jobbed  1,200 
tons in carlots, at $3 per ton, or $3,000  for  the 
whole.

Coal—Besides delivering 16,000 tons  to  retail 
customers, one company jobbed "4,000  tons  of 
hard and 1,000 tons  of  soft  coal,  involving  in 
all $29,500.

Wool—One million, three hundred  and  forty 
thousand pounds of this commodity were han­
dled by Grand Rapids jobbers, which, at an av­
erage price of 27  cents  per  pound,  amounted 
to $361,800.

Potash—The single ashery here,has produced 
52 tons, which sold, at m arket rates, for  $4,160.
Confectionery—About  $¡350,000'  worth  has 
been  m anufactured  and  sold, a losij of  about 
$50,000, as compared with last year.

Wall finish—About 2,000 tons have been man­
ufactured and sold,  representing  an  average. 
of  $100  per  ton,  or  $200,000  fo r: the  entire 
product.

Plaster—The Plaster Association  reports the 
sale of 45,000 tons of land and calcined  plaster, 
which, at an average price of $5 per  ton,  rep-' 
resents a total of $225,000 from  this  source  of 
wealth.

Cigars—The  twenty-six  factories*  turn  out 
fully  10,000,000,  and  about  15,000,000  more 
are jobbed, making a total financial transaction 
of about $625,000.

Liquors—The reports of the  several  jobbers 

in this line, indicate total sales of $350,009.

Excelsior—M anufacturers report  a  product 

worth $19,000.

:*

Hides, pelts and furs—One of the  shrewdest,. 
dealers in the State estimates the total transac-' 
tions in this line, including tallow,  at  $650,000-  •
1  Pianos—The m anufacture  of  thi^. article of 
luxury, has amounted to $46,000. 

Wagons,  sleighs  and  carriage^—Notwith­
standing  the  decreased  business' inthis lint;, 
the  m anufacturers  are  able  to  itoake  a total 
showing of $505,000.

Paints, oils, etc.—Estimated at $105,000.  .
Lime,  hair  and  cement—Leading  dealers 
claim  to  have figured the year’s tiiisiuess out 
at $41,000. 
■'  ,  'J  j # ;
,  Clysters and fish—The several houses  in  this 
line report $30,000 sales. 

_  _

Lumber—The Grand  Rapids  Boom  Co.  han­
dled  44,311,199  feet  of  logs  for  Grand  Rapidfe 
parties, all of which were cut here,  and about 
15,000,000 feet of lumber were handled  by  par­
ties who make this m arket their  headquarters 
for shipping, and have  their  mills  at  outside 
points.  Estimating both of the  above  at  $15 
per  thousand  feet,  which  is  probably  lower; 
than  any  competent  authority  would  place 
upon the whole amount, makes a  total  trans­
action of $1,050,000.  Besides the  pine  lumber, 
fully 50,000,000  feet  of  hardwood  lumber  are 
used  in  the  m anufacture  of  furniture  and 
woodenware, but as that is figured in the man- • 
ufactured product, under the respective heads, 
it will not be considered here.

Beer—The  records  in  the  Revenue  Office 
show that about 48,000 barrels have been man­
ufactured and sold, which, at an average price 
of $7 per barrel, makes a total Of $336,000.

W h e e l b a r r o w s —T w e n t y - f i v e  

t h o u s a n d   b a r -  
r o w s   h a v e  b e e n   t u r n e d   o u t ,   i n v o l v i n g   a b o u t. 
$46,000.

Oils—President Bonnell, of the  West  Michi-' 
gan Oil Co., reports the sale of 30,000 barrels of 
kerosene, which at an  average price of  $5 per 
barrel, makes a total of  $180,0Q0.  About  2,000 
barrels of lubricating  oil  have  been sold,  in­
volving $8,000. Fifteen hundred barrels of nap­
tha and gasoline have been  nfarketed, selling' 
at $7,500.

Flour and feed—C. G. A. Voigt, the  best  au­
thority on this subject in the city,  states  that 
the mills have turned out fully 300,000  barrels 
the present year, worth at m arket prices about 
$1,500,000.  Twenty-nine million pounds of mill 
feed have been produced, which brought fully 
$217,000. 

Whips—^The  Pearl  street  jobber  has  sold, 

'  * 

•

about $20,000 worth.

Sporting goods—The  several  establishments 

report sales aggregating  $30,000.

Agricultural  implements—The  m anufactor­
ies report a  total  output  of  $150,000,  and  job­
bers report  additional  sales  of  $250,000,  mak- 
a total of $400,000. 
n.

v  v 

SUM^MIY.

Summarized, the aggregate sales in. the'var­

ious lines make the following showing:. 
F u rn itu re .............................................
Boilers andjnill  machinery...............  1,000,000
Carpet  sw #pers..................... 
175,000
Provisions................ .................... - v.. 
^ 0 0 0
Leather and  findings............................
Bftltiiig1............................■
Wall paper and window shades..  . 1 7 3 , 0 0 0 -
Extracts  ........................................... 
•  110,000
Crockery 
.....................................  
...........................................,$«00
Refrigerators 
Books and stationery................   —  
J>>0,000
Gloves............. ...........................-••••••• 
-Mg»
Hats, caps and iu rs..........................: 
“5«0(J0

200,000

225,000

90,000
«MW)
 
500.000
110.000
300.000
80,000’
240.000
550.000 
600,000-
235.000
660.000 
35,000
275,000.
6,000
20,000:
200,000
3,600'
336,000
350,000
4,160
46.000 
5®, 000
46.000 
105,000
29,500-
41,000
75,000
65,0000
1,717,500
195,500
350,000

Saddlery hardware............................ 
Carriage hardware........................ • ■ i - -' 
Rubber goods......................................  
Dry  goods.............................
Cheese-..................................
Crackers.................................
Brooms..................................
Fancy goods and  notions...
Country produce.................
Pails and tu b s ..................
Packing  boxes....................
Barrels and barrel  stock...
Clothes  wringers..................
Woodenware.........................
G lu e.......................................
W hips.................................. .
Wall finish.............................
jjeeV 
...................................... 
Liquors'.::..........................................  •• 
Potash...........................................
W heelbarrows..................
Wagons, sleighs and  carriages.*
Pianos..................... ................... .
Paints, oils, etc............................
Coal...........................................
____ | ________________  
Lime, hair and  cement
Agriculturai implements....... 
Brick and  tile.......................... ......... - • • 
P aper......................................................
Hiaes, pelts and  fu rs....................  —  
Wool  .......................... ........ : . 6 . * , . 361,000
Flour and  feed...................  
Illum inating and lubricating oils..... 
C igars................................................  ......  625(900  ■
Confectionery.......................... .  —
Oysters and fish.......................! i 
30,000
Wooden shoes...........— ............i..r ..-,
Soaps  ........................................ 
 
5,000
P la ste r..........................................................225,000
19,000
Excelsior  ............................... 
, v, . 
3,500
Gunpow der..................i . .. .. .. .. .: : . ..  
1,050,000
L u m b er............................... 
Boots and shoes..........  .....................   • 
400,TOO
Woolen goods.............. 
 
4,500
Sporting goods..............................••••;•• 
30,000
G rand  T otal.............$3»,557,440

400,000

 

 

 

An egg-canning business has  been  organ-: 
ized at S t Louis, Mo:  Tiie eggs aYe broken 
and dried, sealed up, and  warranted to keep ’ 
” ftf
three years. ' 

<  ’  u n   : -Vert: 

' 

1  The  total  production  of  eîgSiia  in  this ' 
country, • as  estimated  by one of the largest 
manufacturers is about 3,000,000,000 a, year.

W h o le s a le

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELUANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 
j  

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

in g , Ma nu fa ctu rers  o f  F in e 

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

'  B rushes.

—Also fur the—

Gra n d  R a pid s  B ru sh  Co.,  Ma n f ’rs  of 

H a ir , Shoe a n d H orse Bru sh es.

Druggists’ Sundries

 

50

60

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness is  conceded tp be  one  of  the  largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We aré 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
30
sentative who is now  preparing  for  Ills  an­
18
nual exhibition of those  goods.
60
We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing o u t fit s,  for  n ew   stores 
18
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
»most satisfying recommendations.

28

 

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

Withers Dade&Go’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
o th er  know n  b r a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t ee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

D r ifts ’  Favorite  Rye,

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

dins, B u i s  & Fill Wilis.

*

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  31,  1884.

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

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  & BBO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  E ^ LE  BUILDING.  3d  FLOOR. | ^ S
IEntered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  a« 

SexmcMctss Matter. 1

^ o

f e

DO  YOU  KNOW

—THAT—

XiOriUard’s  Climax

PLUG  TOBACCO

With Bed 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? *

Lori Hard’s  Navy  Clippings 

matic chewing quality is  second to none.
take first rank as a solid  durable  smoking to­
bacco, wherever introduced.
L orillard’s  Fam ous  Snuffs 
have  been  used  for  over  124  years,  and are 
sold to a larger extent than any others.

B Ü ? ,  SELL,  DRINIS
BEST CDFFEE in thé WORLD
C hase  &  S anborn’s

Standard  Java.

*  J E N N I N G S ’ 

HANDKERCHIEF  PERFUMES !

T R IP L E   EX TRA CTS,

Special  Odors,

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

Also a full Assortment  S t a n  ril 

O d l O I ^ S ,   put up in  1,  2,

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

Jen n in g s an d  S m ith
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

Perfumers. 

Grand 

Mith.

BUSINESS LAW .

Brief-D igests of R ecent Decisions in Courts 

of Last  Resort.

P A R T N E R S H IP  F U N D S — P R IV A T E   D E B T S .
Neither an agent nor  a  partner  has  im­
plied authority to  apply  partnership  funds 
to the papment of private debts, according to 
the decision of the Supreme  Court of Michi­
gan in  the  case  of  Chase  vs.  Buhl 
Iron 
Works.

T A X   S A L E — R IG H T ,O F   R E D E M P T IO N .

The right of  redemption  from a tax  sale 
must be governed by the law in  force  at the 
date of the sale, and can neither be extended 
nor  diminished  by  subsequent  legislation, 
according to the  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court of Minnesota in the case of Merrill vs. 
Dealing.

d r u n k a r d s ’  r i g h t s .

An interesting  case  concerning  an  inn­
keeper’s  liability  for  the  property  of  a 
drunken guest has recently been  decided by 
the Supreme Court of  Michigan.  The  suit 
was brought by a  drummer  to  recover  the 
value of his valite  and goods worth  upward 
of $300, which were stolen at the defendant’s 
hotel after the drummer  had  put  up  there 
for the night.  On the trial it appeared  that 
the plaintiff  drank  freely at the  hotel  bar 
and became somewhat intoxicated on the ev­
ening the theft  was  committed.  A  point 
was made of this fact by the counsel for the 
defendant, who insisted that the  liability of
• his client was lessened  by  reason  of  the 
plaintiff’s  drunkenness.  The  trial  judge, 
however, took  a  very  different  view, and 
charged  the jury, on the contrary, that  the 
defendant’s liability, if there  were  any  dif­
ference, was  greater.  “In  fact,”  he  said, 
“when the goods were  once  placed in  his 
charge, the fact that the owner of the  goods 
got intoxicated there at the bar of  the  land­
lord, if anything should hold the landlord to 
stricter liability on  that  account.”  On ap-
• peal the Supreme Court approved this state­
ment of the law, and upheld the  verdict for 
the plaintiff.

P O W E R   O F  S T A T E   T O   R E G U L A T E   C H A R G E S .
In the case of the  Laurel  Fork & Sandy 
Hill  Railroad Co. vs.  The  West  Virginia 
Transportation Co. decided on the 13th inst., 
the Supreme Court of West Virginia  main­
tained  the right of the  legislature  of  the 
state to  regulate,  by 
law,  passenger  and 
freight  charges on a railroad  chartered be­
fore the passage of the law.  The court (per 
Green, J.) declared that the right to regulate 
and fix at its pleasure the charges of the i ail- 
road companies  for  the  transportation  of 
freight and passengers was  one of the pow­
ers of State, inherent  in every  sovereignty, 
to be  exercised  by  the  legislature  at  its 
that, 
pleasure, 
from 
therefore,  one 
could  not, 
by a charter granted to a  railroad  company 
even  though  for a valuable  consideration, 
confer  on 
company  a 
dglit to charge  certain  fixed  rates  for the 
traxsportation  of  freight  and  passengers, 
and stipulate that that rate of charge should 
not be  changed  by future  legislatures. 
If 
that were done the  court said it  would  not 
be regarded as a contract, but  as being in le­
gal effect nothing more than a  license to en­
joy the privelege conferred  on  the  corpora­
tion for the time, subject  to  future  legisla­
tive or constitutional control.

time 
legislature 

such  Railroad 

to  time,  and 

Indispensable Requisites for Success.
P. T. Barnum writes as follows  of  a  sub­
ject.  of  which  he  is  fully  competent  to 
speak:

Whatever  you  do, do  it  with  all  your 
might.  Work at it early and late  in season 
and out of  season, not  leaving a stone  un­
turned, and never deferring for an hour that 
which can as well be  done  now.  The  old 
proverb is full of truth and meaning, “What­
ever is  worth  doing at all,  is  worth  doing 
well.”  Many a man  acquires a fortune  by 
doing his  business 
thoroughly,  while  his 
neighbor remains poor  for  life, because he 
only half  does  his.  Ambition, energy, in­
dustry  and  perseverance, are  indispensable 
requisites for success in business.

“Me  and  N ose.”

From the Petersburg Index-Appeal.

Aaron Jones, of Lynchburg,  has  posted a 
notice of dissolution on his shop-door as fol­
lows: “The partnership heretofore  existing 
between me and Mose is this  day dissolved. 
All persons indebted to the concern will set­
tle with me, and all parties the  firm  is  in­
debted to will settle with Mose.”

They had been quarreling  about  his  next 
summer’s clothes.  She wanted him to have 
his light suit cleaned  up  for  1885  and  he 
wanted a heavier suit.  “What’s  the use of 
fighting about  this?”  he  said  finally.  “I 
may be in the cemetery next  summer.”  “I 
think,”  she  replied,  “you  will  need  your 
summer clothes wherever you  may be.”

A gentleman was telling of the destitution 
of the people in a certain  district in the far 
West.  “Why,” said he, “there are hundreds 
actually begging for bread.  “That’s  pretty 
bad, stranger, no mistake,” remarked a tired 
looking specimen of  humanity;  “but ’taint 
half so bad as working for it.”

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E 1ST OI1ST E S

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

88,90 and 92  South  Division Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN

TIME TABLES.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
M ic h ig a n  (T e n t r a l

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 ap it does from one of the largest if not the  largest  gro­

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

• 

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

Messes. Ch a se  &  Sanborn, Boston, Mass. 

•'

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

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

■WHOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN-

Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

G RA N D   R A P ID S .  -  M ICH IGAN .

TRAMWAY  PLUG
The  Most Successful  Brand 

on the Market.

Still  Leading  all  others  in  Sales—The 

Popular Brand with the Trade.

Order  Sam ple

>

D EPA R T.

arrive. 

The Niagara  Falls (Route.
■(•Detroit Express....................................   6:00 am
+Day  Express..................*.....................12:45 p m
♦New York Fast Line....................................  6:00 pm
+Atlantic Express............................................ 9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
+Local  Passenger.......................................... 11:20 am
+Mail..........................................................3:30 p m
tGrand Bap ids  Express........................10:25 p m
•(■Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Boom  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reachingthat city at 11:45 a. m., New Yorkl0:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room oar attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Chicago & W est Michigan.

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

tDaily except Sunday.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed..........................  .......4:00am«  5:15pm
Express.................................3*.50 p m  4:15 p m
E xpress.................................8:10 a in  10:30 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De­
pot. 
Thè Northern term inus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with
F. &  P. M. trains to and  from  Ludington and 
Manistee.

J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent. 

•

Grand  Rapids à   Indiana.

GO ING  SOUTH.

G O IN G  NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati &  Mackinac Ex  8:45 p m   9:00 p m  
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a m 
Ft. Wayne&G’d Rapids Ex 3:55 p m 
5:00 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:10 a m
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:00 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m  4:35 pm  
Mackinac & Ft. Way i e Ex.. 10:25 a m  11:45 p m  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

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

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

*  Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrive. 
Express..................... .........7:00 p m  
Mail.......................................9:35 am - 

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

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  otrain 

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

Through  tickets  and  berths 

J. W. McKbnney, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EA ST.

Arrives. 

G O IN G  W EST.

Leaves.
tSteamboat Express.......... 
6.20am
■(•Through  Mail....................10:15a m   10:20am
•(•Evening  Express.................3:20 p m  3:35 p m
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m   10:45 pm
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:30 am
tMorning  Express............. 12:40 p m  12:55 p m
•(Through  Mail..................  5:10 p m   5:15pm
tSteamboat Express...........10:40 p m
tM ixed..................................  
7:10 am
♦NightExpress.....................  5:10 a m   5:30 am

■(•Daily. Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leavinsKat  5:15  p.  m.  will  make  con­
nection with Nmwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P otter, City Pass. Agent.
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

(Signed,) 

Yours  respectfully,

J o s ^ p li  R .  ReeToles’  S o n s.

CODY, B A LL & CO
Choice Butter a Specialty !
Chase  &  S anborn,!  Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Cranber-

Send  for Sample Lot.

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

Importers,  Roasters  and Packers,

|ries, Cider, Buckwheat Flour, Etc.
Careful Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.
M. C. Russali, 48 Ottawa St., Cd Rapids. 
O V E R   14  Y E A R S  Cl a r k ,  j e w e l l   &  co.
Groceries  and  Provisions!
B ailey  House,  Stanton.

B o sto n ,  IVEeusss.,  TJ.  S.  A.

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

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

W H O L E S A L E

Is the Best Hotel in Montcalm County

435  ST.  PAU L  STREET, 

CANADIAN  BRANCH, 

truthfully  say that the

MICHIGAN  AGENT.

M ontreal, P . Q. 

> 

I 

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

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

83,85 aid 8Ï  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 12»  OTTAWA  STREET,

ATTRACTIVE  AND  PLEASANT.

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

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

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

Fire Escapes and Hand Grenades,

GRAND  RAPIDS. 
-  MICHIGAN.
BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
M ODEL  MILLS.
A~R. A~R  P L U G  !  Güt Edge Patent and White Leaf Braids of Fleir.

B. F. L ittlefield, Propri

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

-MANUFACTURERS OF-

DAY AND  NIGHT.

- 

- 

Tie Best and Most Attractive Goods on tie Market.  Seal for Sample 

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

P u ll  H o lle r  P ro c e s s .

Co rner  Win t e r a n d  W est Brid ge Sts., 

-  

Gra n d E a pid s, Mich.

Bntt.  Sge Quotations in Price-Cnrreat.

o h e v T t h e

Fox, Musselman & LoveridgeNew %rk “American  Eagle”
WMisfl 4 Coinlai-Biiiir 4 is  a Sjandtr. Tbp. Im m il M b Will!fill  Pll

THE BEST IN THE MARKET.
Send an Order to your W holesale Grocer for it.  Manufactured by

E.  F A L L A S ,

F I H S T E   O X J T .

S o le   O w n e rs.

* “ 0  11111UI llillll 

lUUUUUU  UUlJ

Choice B utter always on hand.  All  Orders  receive Prom pt and Careful Attention. 
Choice B utter always on hand.  All  Orders  receive Prom pt and Careful Attention.

125 and 127 Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

D e tro it,  MloH.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

OSNABURG.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4......1994
Peppered,  8-4......20
Peppered,  9-4......2254
CHE
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X ,oz...l0
Economy,  oz.......10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown—   7
Jewed briwn..........914
Kentucky brown.. 1054 
Lewiston  brow n...  954
Lane brown............954
Louisiana  plaid—
Avondale,  36..........  854
Art  cambrics, 36...1154 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1254
Ballou, 4-4.................654
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0.4^4............  814
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Boott, AGC, 44.........914
Boott, R. 3-4..........  554
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7 
Chapman, X, 44—   6
Conway,  44 ........... 7
Cabot, 44...................694
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  714
Dwight Anchor, 44.  894
Davol, 44........... 
9
F ruitoi Loom, 44..  8 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  714 
Fruit of  the  Loom,
cambric, 44 ........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  .-.  694 
Gold Medal, 7-8.....  6 
Gilded Age.............  834

Peppered, 10-4....... 25
Peppered, 11-4....... 2714
Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pequot,  8-4..............21
Pequot,  9-4..............24
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.. ......... 11
Otis A pron............ 1014
Otis  F urniture......1014
York, 1  oz.-............ 10
York, AA, extra oz.14
Alabama  plaid.......7
Augusta plaid........ 7
Toledo plaid...........   7
Manchester  pläid..  7 
New  Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid............614
Greene, G. 44 ........   514
Hid, 44....................  754
Hid, 7-8....................  694
Hope,  44.................  694
King  Phillip  cam­
  1114
Lin wood,  44............714
Lonsdale,  44............794
Lonsdale  cambric. 1014 
Langdon,GB,44...  914
Langdon, 45...........14
Masonville,  44......8
Maxwell. 4 4...........   914
New York Mill, 4-4.1014 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .11 -
Pocahontas,  44__   754
Slaterville, 7-8........   614
Victoria, ÀA..........9
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 594
Whitinsville,  44...  714
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 614
Wamsutta, 4-4.........1014
Widiamsvide,  36... 1014

bric, 44........ 

SPRING  «St

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IX

COMPANY,

DRY GOODS,

Fancy and Staple

H)r\>  (Boobs.

A pplication of th e   M icroscope  to  Textiles.
The application of  the microscope to tex­
tile fibers  proves to be  of  special  value to 
manufacturers, says a writer  in  the  Manu­
facturer's Gazette.  Silk fibers  are  shown 
by this  means to consist of equally  propor- 
■ tioned, perfectly smooth  and  straight glass­
like rods, joined together at intervals length­
wise; cotton fibers consist of irregular twist­
ed tubes, and wool  fibers  resemble  unglaz 
ed porcelain  rods.  The  greatest  luster  is 
consequently exhibited» by silk fabrics.  The 
difference in the behavior  of  silk, wool  and 
cotton towards solutions of coloring  matters 
is also found to be  very  marked.  Silk ab­
sorbs dissolved coloring  matters  very readi­
ly, and, containing  neither base nor acid ab­
sorbs basic acid, or neutral coloring  matters 
with equal readiness; the  color is  taken up 
first by the outside walls of the  fiibers, and 
when these  are  saturated it is farther  im­
parted to the  inner  parts.  A  section of a 
dyed silk fiber, examined  under the  micro­
scope, exhibits a  very  dark  external  ring, 
which gradually  pales  toward  the  center. 
Wool is found to have nothing like the same 
affinity for  coloring  matters, and  requires 
to be digested or boiled  with  the  coloring 
matter before it will  absorb  it.  A  fiber of 
dyed wool presents in section a  dark  center 
and almost colorless  external  ring.  Cotton 
has no affinitj  for coloring  matters  whatev­
er, as the  fibers  are  hollow; it has  to  be 
placed in a mordant before it  can  be  dyed, 
the mordant passing into the  interior of the 
fibers, and when the color is  added, holding 
it fast within them.  A section of  dyed  cot­
ton fiber exhibits  the  cell  wall as a some­
what elliptical and colorless ring.
H e Made I t   A ttractive.

“I hear you want to hire a  good  window- 

dresser?”

“Yes, sir,”  replied  the  dry-goods  mer­
chant*  “Can you  make  a  window  attrac­
tive?”

“Attractive?  I  sh'd  say  I  could. 

I can 
dress it so a woman  can’t  get by  it  ’thout 
looking in.”

“Very well sir, you may try.”
In half an hour the sidewalk was crowded 
with women, all waiting to get  a  chance  to 
peep in.  The merchant couldn’t understand 
it, since nothing but a solid  piece  of  black 
velvet was hanging in the window.

“I didn’t know a simple piece of plain vel­

vet was so attractive.”
.  “Tain’t that,” said the new clerk.  “They 
ain’t lookin’ at the velvet.”

“What then?”
“W’y,  don’t  you  see,  that  black  back­

ground makes a capital mirror.”

F o u r Tim es  A round the  W orld Daily.
A reel of cotton thread in its  ordinary ev­
ery-day use, is a pretty bit of  insignificance, 
says the London  Society,  but  when  traced 
to its source is seen to have  belongings  and 
surroundings which  entitle it to  be  ranked 
with the leading features of  our  industrial 
life.  The simple statement that  the  thread 
works  of  Messrs.  Clark  (of  Paisley,  En 
gland,) employ between 3,000 and 4,000 work 
people, that  their  group  of  five  immense 
mills  contains  over  230,000  spindles,  and 
that these factories turn out  every  day  suf­
ficient 
times 
round the world,  will  be  enough  to  show 
that unimportant as the  bobbin  of  thread 
may be, taken singly, it is, before its disper­
sion, a member of  the  multidinous  aggre­
gate, the extent of which  is  bewildering  to 
compute.

length of  thread to  go  four 

Flax C ulture in th e   N orthw est.

The culture of flax is becoming an  impor­
tant feature of agriculture in the Northwest. 
It is only within recent  years that  the mills 
for the manufacture of  linseed  oil  in  this 
country could secure the  necessary  raw ma­
terial except by importation, but  last year’s 
yield in  the United States  aggregated about 
7,000,000 bushels, and  the  total  this  year 
promises to reach  from  8,000,000 to  9,000,- 
000 bushels, fully one-half  of  which is rais­
ed in Minnesota  and  Dakota.  The  plant 
produces on the  average as many bushels to 
the acre as wheat, and  as  the  price  ranges 
from $1 to $1.15 per bushel, the crop is a de­
cidedly  profitable  one.  As  an  element 
in  that  diversification  of  our  agriculture 
which is so desirable, the growing  attention 
that is paid to flax culture is a healthy  sign.

H e K new  the Trade.

Shoe Merchant—So you think  you  would 

make a good salesman, do you?

“Yes, sir, if you will put me in the ladies’ 
department and let me  have my  way  with 
the stock.”

“And what do  you  want to do with 

the 

stock?”

“Oh, only to mark all the No. 4 shoes No.

2.”
,  “You’re engaged, sir, at  once.”

A very large portion of the textile  mai 

factures of the country is located in the nine 
most Eastern States of the Union—New En­
gland, New Ycrk, New Jersey and Pennsyl­
vania.  Of $220,000,000  of  capital  invested 
in the manufacture of cotton  goods, accord­
ing to the last census,  $192,000,000—eighty 
eight per cent  of  the whole—were in these 
States.  Eighty-one millions of the $96,000,- 
000 invested in the woolen  goods  manufac­
ture—nearly eighty-nine per  cent.—were  in 
the same  States.  The  proportion  of, silk, 
worsted goods, hosiery, carpets  and  mixed 
textile interests  was  larger  still,  so  that, 
when all the textile  interests of the country 
are combined, it is seen that the gross  capi­
them  is  $431,878,800,  of 
tal invested 
which  sum  $387,574,000  represented  the 
amount invested in the nine  states  named, 
being eighty-nine and three-fourths per cent, 
o f all.  ‘

in 

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S

V IN E BROW N  COTTONS

checks,
new

No.  10. 
Coin...
Centennial.

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

..17 Masonville TS... ...  8
..1254 Masonville  S__ ...1054 
...  954
...16
..15 Lonsdale A ........
Nifitory  O..........
..  8 Victory J ............
..14 Victory  D ..........
.1254 Victory  K ..........
...  254
..12 Phcenix A .......... ...1954
Pboenix  B .......... ..  1054
..10
Phoenix X X __ ..5
..16
G loucester.............6
Glou cestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy........ . .6
Merrimac  D........... 6
M anchester........... 6
Oriental fancy...... 6
Oriental  robes...... 614
Pacific  robes..........6
Richmond..........— 6
Steel River.............554
Simpson’s .................6
Washington fancy.. 
W ashington blues.  714

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  754
Laconia  B, 74.........1614
Lyman B, 40-in.......1054
Mass. BB, 44 ...........  594
Nashua  E, 40-in—   814
Nashua  R, 44........   754
Nashua 0,7-8..........694
Newmarket N.  —   654 
PepperedE,39-in..  7 
Peppered  R, 44 ...,  754 
Peppered  O, 7-8—   614 
Peppered  N, 34—   654
Pocasset  C, 44.......  694
Saranac  R ...............  754
Saranac  E ............. .  9

Renfrew, dress styl 914 
Johnson  ManfgCo,
Bookfold..............1214
Johnson  ManfgCo,
dress  styles........ 1254
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  754
White Mfg Co, stap  794 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston.................8
Gordon......................754
dress 
Greylock, 
styles  ...................1254
Peppered.  104.......2754
IPepperell,  114.......3254

Albion, solid............514
Albion,  grey............6
Aden’s  checks.........514
Aden’s  fancy........... 514
Allen’s pink..............614
Aden’s purple.......... 614
American, fancy.... 554
Arnold fancy.  ........ 6
Berlin solid............. 514
Cocheco fancy........6
Cocheco robes.........654
Conestoga fancy— 6
E ddystone..............6
Eagle fancy.............5
Garner pink............654
Appleton  A, 44—   714
Boott  M, 44...........   694
Boston  F, 44..........714
Continental C, 4-3..  654 
Continental D, 40 in  894 
Conestoga W, 44...  654 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 34........   554
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  594
Dwight Z, 44..........  694
Dwight Star, 44—   7 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  554 
Great Falls E, 4 4...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard, 14 754
Amoskeag  ......—   754
Amoskeag, Persian
styles .....................1054
B ates.........................714
Berkshire.............   654
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 714 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
stan d ard .............   754
P lunket.................... 754
Lancaster...............  8
Langdale.................. 794
Androscoggin, 74. .21 
Androscoggin, 84.-23
Peppered,  7-4........ 20  Pequot,  7 4 .........2 1
Peppered,  84.......2254 Pequot,  84..............24
Peppered,  94......25 
Lawn nee XX, 44.. 
Atlantic  A, 44...... 754
Lawrence  Y, 30—  
Atlantic  H, 44.......7
Lawrence LL, 44...  554
Atlantic  D, 4-4.........654
Newmarket N .......... 654
Atlantic P, 44........   554
Mystic River, 4-4... -554
Atlantic  LL, 44—  554
Pequot A, 44..........  754
Adriatic, 36..............  754
Piedmont,  36............654
Augusta, 44............  654
Stark AA, 44..........  754
Boott  M, 44 ............  694
Tremont CC, 44—   554
Boott  FF, 44 ..........  794
Utica,  44................ 9
Graniteville, 44—  594
W achusett,  44 ........  754
Indian  Head, 4-4...  7 
Wachusett, 30-in...  694
Indiana Head 45-in. 1254
ENGS.
T IC K
Falls, XXXX.......... 1854
Amoskeag, ACA.. .14 
Falls, XXX..............1554
Amoskeag 
“ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB.................1154
Amoskeag,  A ....... 13
Falls,  BBC, 36.........1954
Amoskeag,  B ....... 12
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag.  D....... 1054
Hamilton,  D ............954
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Hamilton,  H ............954
Amoskeag, F ............954
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 44— 17 
Methuen AA..........1354
Premium  B —  — 16
Methuen ASA........18
Extra 44.................. 16
Omega A, 7-8..........11
Extra 7-8........  
1454
Omega A, 4-4..........13
Gold Medal 4-4.......15
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
CCA  7-8.................... 1254
Omega ACA, 44— 16
CT 4 4 ........................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8........................14
Omega SE, 44.........27
BF 7-8.......................16
Omega M. 7-8........22
A F44....................... 19
Omega M, 4-4..........25
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
ShetucketSS&SSW 1154 
Cordis  ACA, 32...... 15
Shetucket, S & 8W.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
G arner......................a
Washington...........   49
Hookset..................  5
Edwards..................  5
Red  Dross...............  5
S. S. ftSons............  5
Forest Grove
American  A ........ 17  501 Old  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ....................21541Wheatland ..............21
.1054
B oston....................  694|Oti8 CC
W arren  AXA....... 1254
Everett blue..........14
Warren  BB...........H54
Everett brown......14
Otis  AXA...............1254 W arren CC............. 1054
Otis BB....................11541 York  fancy............15
Manville..................6 
|S. 8. &Sons................. 6
Masgnville............. 6 
iG arner......................  6
Red  Cross...............   754 iThistle Mills...........
B erlin......................  754 Rose.......................  8
G arn er....................  7541
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. &P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread........... 30

|Pequot,  94...............2754

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS

GLAZED CAM BRICS. 

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

G R A IN   BAGS.

W IG AN S.

DENIM S.

 

CORSET JE A N S .

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  D aniels...25
Mer rick s.................40
Stafford.................. 25
Hall & Manning— 25 
Holyoke.................. 25
Kearsage................ 85
Naumkeagsatteen.  854 
Pepperell  bleached  854
Pepperell Bat..........  954
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........  854
Conegosat...............  7

A rm ory..................  754
Androscoggin sat..  854
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon.................654
Hallowell  Im p.......694
Ind. Oreh. Im p.......7
Laconia..................754

PLEASANT TO TA KE . ACTS M IL D L Y , CURES Q UICKLY
DUNHAM’S  SURE  CORE  fOR  (EVER  k  AGUE
One  Dose  lake*1 during the  Chill 
arrests  the  disease  in 20 minutes.
I
NEVES  KNOWN TO  FAIL.  Money re- 
turned  if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre 
iaid for 60 cts.  Address, W e s t e r n  
iEDiciNECo.,Grand Rapids, Mich.
MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
JLUICA/
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  mineral
—’-------- ininine.  Act directly on the Liver, “tone
poison or qninin
up”  the  system,  aid digestion  and 
purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CUES 
fa  A PASHM AND CONSOLATION.  In 
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
on receipt of price,  25  cts.  Sample 
package free.  Western  Medicine 
Company., Grand Rapids, Mich.

S i p

Becker’s Self-Raising Buckwheat

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 ad 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.

Seeker’s Self-Raising TKTlieat 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 iightbread or biscuits, etc.

Superlative Boxes, holding 16 6 lb papers..................................................5 25
New Process Brand—Boxes  holding 32 3 ft papers................................. 5 00
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 1b pappers................................4 85
Red Brand—Boxes holding 32 3 lb  papers................................................4 50
Red Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 ft papers...............................................'. .4  55
Blue Brabd—Boxes holding 16 6 ft  papers..................................................4 00

Seeker’s Rolled Wheat, or Wkeaten Grits

Surpasses all other preparation of wheat for  producing  and  m aintaining  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,

XXecker’s Fartly-Gooked Rolled Oats.

Is made from specially selected grain.
Boxes holding 24 2 ft pkgs.,

A very superior article. 
$3,50 fi box.

Hecker’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.

ZZecker’s Hominy or Corn Grits

Is made from fine white flint corn.

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

PURITY AND STENGTH GUARANTEED.

Heeler’s  Perfec

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  Oar  Lots, 
f  e are prepared to make Bottoi Prices on anythin! we handle.
A. B. K N O W L SO N ,
RINDGE, b e r t s c h  & CO.,
BOOTS  AXTD  SHOES.

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.

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.

P u tn a m   &  B rooks.

C A R PETS,

t

MATTING-S,

OIL,  CLOTHS

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

S.A.WELLING

WHOLESALE

m

—AND-

NOTIONS!

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. Ma n- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sp r a g u e,  J ohn  H.  E a ck er, 
L. R. Cesn a , and J. T. H errington.

24 Pearl Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Michigan.

Da k Th g
POWDER

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

GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

School  Books

School  Stationery

W h o le s a le ,

EATON,  LYON  4  ALLEN,

22  and  24  Canal Street,

The  only  general  jobbing  house  in 
THin'higfl.n  in  our  line.  Send for cata­
logues and terms.

OVE-TAILED  BREAD  AN 

^ -IE A T  BOARDS- D
D L in d o rm a n ’s

The Best Thing of the KindlEver 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., V m .  Donnan  &  Co.,  De­
troit;  Gray,  Burt  &'Xingman,  Cor­
bin, May & Co., Gould Bros., Chicago.

A  Dealer’s Hindrances to  Success. 

From the New England Groeer.

AXLE  GBEASE.

BLU IN G .

.2 50 
.2 25

tenth  of 

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

long-winded  affair, 

“Oh, I won’t read this article,” says  some 
reader, as he glances at the title.  “It’ll be a 
for  it 
tremendously 
the  paper  to 
would  take  ten  pages  of 
enumerate  a 
‘a  dealer’s  hin­
drances to  success.”

Now,  don’t  be  hasty,  dear  dealer.  We 
don’t propose to enumerate all  your  easily 
besetting sins, not by any manner of  means. 
Neither do we intend to elaborate them. 
In 
a simple manner, and with as few  words  as 
possible, we propose to  catalogue  a  few  of 
your annoyances. 
If you don’t And the  list 
complete, remember it is  lack of  space  and 
time, nothing  else,  that  causes  such  omis­
sions.

Frazer’s .....................80|Paragon..................... 70
Diamond....................60 Paragon, 20 ft  pails..60
Modoc........................ 65|
Arctic 34 ft cans....  451 Arctic  1 ft cans. ...2 40 
Arctic 34 ft cans ....  75 Arctic 5ft cans— 12 00 
Arctic 34 fi> cans.  .  1 40|
Dry, No. 2...........................................doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz........................................ doz. 
65
Arctic 4 o?.........................................$   gross 4  00
Arctic 8  <&.............*........................................   8 00
Arctic 16 oz.....................................................  12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box............................... 2 00
.......■ 3 00
Arctic No.
...............................  4 50
Arctic No. 3 
“
OMS.No. 2 H url.............. 1 75
No. 1 Carpet.......
Fancy Whisk .........1  00
No. 2 Carpet.........
Common W hisk 
  75
No. 1  Parlor Gem 
No. 1 H url...........
Clams, 1 ft  standards..................................I  40
Clams, 2 ft  standards..................................2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft......................... 
220
Cove Oysters, 1  ib  standards.....................1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  2 00
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack  filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.................... 1 25
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.....................................1 75
Lobsters, 11b sta r........................................ 2 25
Lobsters, 2 ft sta r................................... 
.3  25
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh  standards................. 1  00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards................. 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft........ . — 3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft in M ustard............................3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.................................. 3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia riv er...................   .1 40
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river...............2 60
Salmon, 1 ft  Sacramento............................1 50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.....................   J  S5
Sardines, domestic 348................................. 
634
Sardines,  domestic  34s........... , .................  1334
Sardines,  Mustard  34s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  34s...............................   14
Sardines, imported 34s.................................  20
Sardines, imported 34s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  55
Trout, 3 ft  brook.......................................   2  75
tom,  doing  nobody  good  and  everybody j ¿ { g g j gf^oiiTitandards; Erie!! ! ! ! ! ! !2 K

Flies—“Darn a fli.”—Josh Billings.
Dull Trade—The inevitable  result  of  in­
dustrial depression, and the natural progeny 
of “old fogyism.”

The  Loafer—One  who  knows  lots  of 
things  that  “ain’t  so,”  and  can  give  you 
more misinformation in a minute than a dog 
can  wag his tail in a day.

Cut-throat Competition—A  senseless  cus-

CANNED F R U IT S .

CANNED  F IS H .

 

(Groceries.

Carving Cigar Shop Indians.

From the New York Tribune.

In a litt’e room reached by  going through 
a long passageway and ascending two flights 
of  rickety  steps, just  off  Harry  Howard 
square, one day last week, a Tribune report­
er found two men working  away with  mal­
lets and chisels, while under  their  well-di­
rected blows pine  logs  grew to  noble  red 
men, clowns, Indian  princesses  and  other 
familiar shapes that adorn the  fronts of  to­
bacco shops all over the country.

Impure Goods—The counterfeit  of  genu­
ineness, the grocer’s “troublesome element,” 
and the consumer’s “gay  deceiver.”

And here is the list:
Dead Beats—Cadaverous,  honorless  indi­
viduals  who  live  on  other  people.  The 
shadow  of  a  man,  too  lazy  to  work,  too 
proud too beg.

“How’s business?” asked the reporter.
“Well,” replied  one of  the  “sculptors,”
“there ain’t  much  danger  of  overstocking 
the market.  There’s not more  than a dozen 
and a half manufacturers of  wooden  Aggers 
in the country, and of the number ten are in 
this city.  But times ain’t as good  as  they 
might be,” and he  deftly clipped  away at a 
clown’s neck until it was shortly encircled in 
a thin Elizabethan  ruff.  “Before  rents got 
so high that all the ship building and repair­
ing was  driven  down East,'  around  Ports­
mouth and Maine, there was a good  deal of 
ship carving—Agger heads  and  the  like— 
which pay better than cigar  store  Aggers— 
to be done about here.  Now  it’s  all  gone 
and we have to fall back on Indians.  Some­
times we get a'Wooden coat of arms to make 
like that lion and unicorn you see against the 
wall, for some man.  They  pay pretty well.
Wooden Aggers don’t pay so  well.  This In­
dian chief will cost the ow’ner $50; that Sul-1 harm, 
Selling Goods at Cost—A trade demoraliz 
tana $45; the little Indian squaw to the right 
0? you $25,vaftd so on.  They have begun to  er, the proliflc scource of countless  failures 
Poor Location—Like Goldsmith’s deserted 
make cast iron  Aggers at some of  the  iron
village,  the  resort  only  of  strangers  and
works, and that cuts in on us, of course.  We 
straglers, too far distant from the  center  of I 
get  our  designs  from  every  source.  We 
go to the theater and pick out a Agger among 
trade.
the actors and study him, and then go  to the 
shop and chisel him out.  Most of the clowns 
are cut from the photographs of Fox, the or­
iginal  Humpty  Dumpty.  Sometimes  we 
take the pictures on the inside of cigar boxes 
for models.  Last week 1 cut  out a Agger of 
Sir Walter Raleigh for a tobacco  store down 
on South street. 
I have an order  to made a 
black, with patches on his knees  and. a plug 
of ‘nigger-head,’ the  sailors’  delight, in his 
hand.  Barnum and  Forepaugh  also buy a 
good many Aggers for their bandwagons and 
vans.  They will  put  one  live  man  on a 
wagon to dance  and  half a dozen  wooden 
ones to keep him  company,  and  half  the 
people who watch  the  procession will never 
know but what they are all  alive.”

Confidence Men—The “fjjim-flam”-ists, the 
“I want this bill changed”  men,  the  “cash 
this check” men, the  “sign  this  agreement 
without reading” men  and the palmer off of 
impure goods men.

Impoliteness—Reasonless, repellant,  rep­
rehensible, more detrimental to your success 
than were Burchard’s aliteratives to the  Re­
publican party.

Lack of Enterprise - Like shelling corn on 
a shovel instead of by a modern corn-sheller.
Exclusiveness—The natural perogative  of 

Testiness —Which drives  away  many  an 

Pride—It generally “goeth before  a” fail­

ure.  Not much of it is left afterwards.

narrow-minded and selfish men.

otherwise paying customer.

“Where does the wood  come from?”
“Sometimes we take  the seasoned  masts 
and spars  of a  wreck,  but  generally it is 
white pine logs  from  Maine.  Pine  chips 
easy, you see.”

“Are there any apprentices in  the trade?”
“Oh yes, but not many of course.  A good 
workman  can  make $5 a day at this  busi­
ness.”

The A nnual Salt Product of M ichigan.
The annual report of  the  Michigan  Salt 
Inspector gives some  interesting  facts con­
cerning this important  industry.  There are 
276 wells in the State  from  which  brine is 
pumped.  Most  of  the  wells  are  sunk  to 
a depth of between 1,600  to  2,000  feet.  Of 
the total number of wells 240  are  about  ev­
enly  divided  between  Saginaw  and  Bay 
counties, and almost uniformly run  in  con­
nection with extensive saw mills on the Sag­
inaw river, whereby a large  saving is effect­
ed in fuel.  The average annual  product of 
all the wells is  11,492  barrels.  There  are 
117 Arms  engaged in  the  manufacture  of 
salt,  operating  101  steam  and  271  pan 
blocks.  There are besides 4,500  covers  for 
the manufacture of  solar  salt.  The  total 
manufacturing capacity of  the  wells in op­
eration is 3,875,000 barrels.  The  amount of 
salt actually manufactured  during  the  year 
ending  Dec. 1, was  3,252,175  barrels.  At 
Marine City borings for a well struck a solid 
bed of pure rock salt at a  depth  of  nearly 
2,000 feet- The product from this point Ands 
the readiest market on account of  its super­
ior quality.

A  M ight  Mean  Man.

The  meanest  man  has  been  found  at 
Lansing.  According  to  our  informant,  a 
farmer sold a woman a roll  of  butter.  She 
wished to be positive as to  the  weight,  and 
so the two went to the store in question, the 
farmer  hfi&ng  no  scales.  The  butter  was 
weighed, and the farmer  pocketed the mon­
ey.  He took the butter from his ifcales, and 
rolled a piece of brown  straw  paper,  which 
sells at three cents a pound, around it  The 
couple were about to depart when  the store­
keeper said >  “I want a cent for that  piece 
of paper.”  “You pay him,” said the farmer 
to the purchaser of  the  butter. 
“Whoever 
took the paper must pay the  cent,”  chimed 
in the storekeeper.  “You took the  paper,” 
said the woman to the farmer.  “No, I didn’t; 
you did,” rejoined the man with the  soil  on 
his boots.  Some further cross-firing was in­
dulged in, when the purchaser of the  butter 
had to pay for the piece of  paper  the  seller 
of the butter wrapped around his sale.

In the legislature of Vermont, nfw in ses 
sion, a bill against  oleomargarine  has  been 
introduced.  It places $1,000 fine on persons 
engaged in the manufacture who  do  not  re­
turn the  ai&nmt  made  each  month;  $500 
fine for a false return;  places  fifteen  cents 
tax per pound on all oleomargarine made  in 
the state, unfess $10,000 are paid for a year­
ly license,  and  for  retailing,  $25.  Selling 
without a license is punishable by a  fine  of 
$500.  The-floes are to be collected the same 
as taxes.

The Fairview cheese  factory at Vriesland 
has sold all of it’s this year’s product  except 
130 cheeses of October and November make.

This is all we will  enumerate  this  week. 
The definitions are somewhat novel, but per­
haps express the ideas intended as well as if 
we copied from Webster’s  unabridged.
Funny  Business a t  tlie  M arket.

From the American Marketman.
“How’s beef this morning?”
“Pretty well, thank  you.  How’re  you?” 
“Ah, yes!  but how’re you selling it?”
“By the pound, the usual way.”
“I know, but what are you getting for it?” 
“Cash;  the  boss  has  stopped  trusting, 

now.”

and roasts?”

“Yes, but what do you get for good steaks 

“Generally sirloin and rib is  my  choice.” 
“Certainly, but how much a pound?” 
“Sixteen ounces, avoirdupois.
“Young man, what amount of the national 
currency that I now hold  in  fee  simple  do 
you  purpose  conveying  from  my  rightful 
ownership to the inner confines of your  pat­
ent alarm medium-of-exchange till  before  I 
can depart in peace, with a  full  relinquish­
ment on your part, and that of  your  princi­
pal, the present owner, to hold  and  possess 
myself  and  legal  representatixes,  for  one 
even  pound of your  unmasticatable  saddle- 
skirt steak?”

“O, why didn’t you say so at first?  ’Steen 

cents a pound.”

Tlie  Spring:  Scale  M ust Go.

From the Indianapolis Groeer.

There is complaint  in  this  city  over  the 
use of “ spring scales. ”  The  huckster  and 
peddler  are  chiefly  accused  of  using  this 
cheating instrument, and a reform is needed. 
The cheap spring scale is about  as  accurate 
as a cheap spring clock,  which  varies  with 
every change in temperature,  and  which  is 
as liable to run down in one hour as in  six. 
This species of scales is on  a  par  with  the 
“ patent ” quart strawberry box, with  which 
the customer has an unpleasant summer  ac­
quaintance.  Dry measures with the  bottom 
nearer  the  top  than  the  base,  and  spring 
scales which always spring some surprise to 
to the advantage of the owner, belong to the 
same category of trade swindles which must 
go.

Experiments have  been  made  with  the 
pulp of the Florida banana, an<4  tlie  result 
is, that  from it can be  obtained a  splendid 
quality of paper and rope.

Sugar, which it is said costs but twro cents 
a pound in England, is being fed to the dairy 
cows on a large dairy  tarm  near  London, 
with good  results. 
It induces the  cattle to 
eat every mouthful of  food in the  manger, 
instead of leaving part,  as  cattle  often do. 
The sugar, it is claimed,  improves the flavor 
of the milk.

On account of the low price of  wheat, the 
acreage of winter wheat  sown  this  fall in 
many of  the  Western  States  shows  a de­
crease of 10 to 30 per cent 
In  Dakota the 
acreage of  wheat  will  show a decrease of 
twenty per cent.  Fully  eighty-five per cent, 
of the wheat  on the  line  of the  Northern 
Pacific railroad has already been sold.

Potatoes Wanted.

I will pay the highest  market  price  for 
choice Rose, Burbanks and White  Star pota­
toes delivered on board  cars  at  any  point 
south  of  Cadillac.  Correspondence solicit­
ed. 

O. W. Blain.

CA NN ED VEG ETA BLES.

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

Blackberries, standards................................... 1 15
Blackberries,  E rie.............................................1 55
Cherries, Erie, red............................................. 1 30
Cherries, Erie,white w ax..........................   1  90
Cherries, French  Brandy, quarts...................2 50
Cherries, W hite..................................................3 55
Damsons..............................................................1 10
Egg Plums, standards 

.............................. 1 35
g
Green G ages,standards2ft........................ 1 40
Green Gages,  E rie........................................ 1 50
Peaches,  Brandy.......................................... 3 10
Peaches, Extra Yellow................................2 40
Peaches,  standards....................................*.l 75
Peaches,  seconds....................................   .1   50
Pie Peaches,  Kensett’s ................................ 1 10
Pears. Bartlett, E rie..................................... 1 70
Pineapples,  Erie............................................2 20
Plumbs,Golden  D rop...............................  2 85
Q uinces..........- .............................................1 45
Raspberries, Black,  E rie.............................1 45
Raspberries, Red,  Erie.................................1 40
Strawberries,  E rie.........................................1 35
Whortleberries, McMurphy’s..................... 1 40
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 60|Pears...................... 3 00
Egg Plum s.............2 50 Quinces.................. 2  90
G rapes....................2 50 Peaches  .................3 00
Green Gages..........2 50|
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................ 3 25
Beans, Lima,  E rie.........................................1 65
Beans, String, E rie ........................................  90
Beans, Lima,  standard.................................  90
Beans, Stringless, Erie.................................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...................... 1 60
Corn, Erie....................................................... 1 15
Corn, Red  Seal............................................... 1 lp
Corn,  Acme.................................................... 1 10
Corn, Revere....................  
1  25
Mushrooms, French,  lOOjtki  case..............22 00
Peas, Early extra,  smalPSifted  E rie...........2 25
Peas, French, 100 in case".........................»23 00
Peas, Marrofat, standard............................. I 50
Peas, B e av e r................................................  75
Peas, early small, sifted...............................1 60
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden................................... 1 00
Rhubarb,  E rie...............................................1 10
Squash, E rie .................................................. 1 25
Succotash, E rie........................................., 1 20
Succotash, standard.................................-/  75
Tomatoes, Red Seal............................. 
I  00
B oston...................... 361 German Sweet............25
Baker’s .....................40 Vienna Sweet  ............23
Ruukles’ ...................35|
Roasted M ex.. .17@20
Green Rio....... 12@14
Ground  Rio__ 9@17
Green Jav a......17@27
Arbuckle’s .......  @15
Green Mocha.. .25@27
X X X X ...........  @15
Roasted Rio__ 10@17
Roasted Java  . .24®32 
Dilworth’s .......  @15
Roasted  M ar.. .17@19 
Levering’s .......  @15
Magnolia..........  @15
Roasted Mocha.  @32
72 foot J u t e .......1  15  160 foot Cotton___2 00
60 foot Ju te ___   1 00 
|50 foot Cotton.... 1 -75
Bloaters, Smoked Yarm outh.....................   85
Cod, whole...........i...................................... 434@5
Cod.Boneless..................................................5@7%
Cod, pickled, 34  bbls....................................3 25'
H a lib u t..........................................................  13
Herring 34  bbls............................................2 25
Herring,  Scaled.................  
Herring,  Holland.........................................@80
Mackerel, No. 1,34 bbls............................... 5 00
Mackerel, No. 1,12  ft  k its.......................... 1 00
Shad, 34 b b l...................................................2 50
Trout, No.  1, 34  bbls.................................. -.4 50
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  k its...............................  90
White, No. 1,34 b b ls....................................6  00
White, Family, 34 bbls.................................2 50
White, No. 1,10 ft  k its...............................  85
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.................................1  00

CHOCOLATE.

CORDAGE.

CO FFEE.

F IS H .

20@21

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Jennings’

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

__ doz.l 00  140

Lemon.  Vanilla. 
2 oz.....................
2 50
4 OZ............................. .................1  50
6 oz..................... .................2 50
4 00
8 OZ............................. .................3 50
5 00
1  50
................ 1  25
No. 2 Taper.......
................ 1 75
No.  4 
3 00
....
7 50
................ 4 50
34 pint  round..
.................8 00 15 00
1
4 25
No.  8.................. ................ 3 00
No. 10...............
6 00

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FR U ITS

Apples, Michigan..................................
Apples, Dried, York State, evap., bbls 
Apples, Dried, York State,  evap., box
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................
C itron......................................................
Currants, crop  1884...............................
Peaches, dried  ......................................
Prunes, Turkey......................................
Prunes, Turkey, new............................
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes...............
Raisins, Valencias................................
Raisins,  Ondaras............. ....................
Raisins,  Sultanas..................................9
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................
Raisins, London Layers.......................
Raisins, Imperial Cabinets, 
thesis
Raisins, Dehesias
Raisins, Dehesias, 3i boxes__ _
K e r o s e n e   o i l .
W ater W hite........ 13 

©8 
@934 
@ 16 
@37 
@534 
13@14 
@534 
@634 
9@12 
@1034 
@1834 
@10 
@3  15 
@3 40 
@3  80 
@4 25 
@1 50
| Legal  Test............. 10%

M ATCHES.

Grand  Haven,  No. 9, square........................ 1  90
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square,.............................1 50
Grand Haven,  No.  200,  parlor........... .........2 50
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor...........................3 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round.....................2  25
Oshkosh, No.  2. . ...........................................1  10
Oshkosh,No.  8. . . . ....................................   ...1 60
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

do 
do 
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MOLASSES.

Black  Strap........•.........................................  @16
Porto  Rico......... ....'................................... 28@32
New  Orleans,  good..................... 
44@45
New Orleans,choice...........................       .50@52
New  Orleans,  fancy.....................            .55@60

 

34 bbls. 4c extra.

82 31b  packages__ 3 25|R0lled  Q a t.___....3  50
Steel  c u t................ 5 "50|

OATM EAL.

P IC K L E S .

 

do 

do 

Choice in barrels m ed...................................     5 50
Choice in 34 
...................................... 3 40
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy......................  
.4 25
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  2 40
American qt.  in Glass....................................2 00
American pt.in Glass.. . . . . . . . . ...........1 30
C. & B. English  quarts..................................5 75
C.&B. English  pints.....................................3 50
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerklns,  quarts.. .5 75 
p in ts....3 50
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G.Eng. style,qts.4 50 
p ts..2 75
Im ported Clay 8 gross.............. — .. ,2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @1  60
American T .D ........................................ 
@90

P IP E S .

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PROVISIONS.

P O R K   IN   BA RRELS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:
Heavy Mess, new  ..........................................n   75
Pig, clear, short  cu,t........................................... 12 ¿5
E xtra Family Clear . lr..........................................12 75
E xtra Clear Pig, new, Chicago packing.. .13 OO
Clear Back, new, Chicago  packing............ 14 25
Clear, A. Webster  packer................................. 13 00
Standard Clear, the  best................................... 14 50
E xtra  Clear........... .........................................13 50
Boston Clear.........................................................14 ¿0
DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN   BO XES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
6%
Half Cases.............
do. 
614
6%
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases..........
do 
Half Cases..........
634
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases...............
6%
Half C ases.............
do. 
634
Short Clears, heavy.................................
6%
6%6%

medium................. .
light...............................

do. 
do. 

do. 

LARD.

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

LARD IN   T IN   P A IL S .

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

E xtra Long Clear Backs, 600  1b  cases . .
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.
E xtra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases. .
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases! 1
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases__ !!
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases...
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases........
Tierces  ..................... ...............................
30 and 50 ft T ubs......................................
7%
50 ft Round TinB, 100 cases.....................
7%
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks..................
8
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case..............................
834
8%
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case..............................
834
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__
10
10%
Hams cured in sweet pickle m edium ..
light........
1034
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle..........
7
Nigger  Head. 
.26 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................
10II
Holland 
.22 
Dried Beef,  E xtra..................................
German
,...!l4
Long Tom..................30
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts............10  75
National  .
...... 26
Boneless, extra  quality...............................14  00
T im e.............
....26 
E xtra Mess Chicago packing...................... 10 50
Conqueror ...
....23 
G rayling.......
...32 
Pork Sausage...................................................  7
Seal Skin.......
....30 
Ham  Sausage........*................................... !.!! 13
Rob Roy........
....26 
Tongue  Sausage....................................... 9
Uncle  Sam ... 
.....28 
Liver Sausage.....................................................6‘ 4
Lumberman  . 
....25
Frankfort  Sausage..
Railroad Boy.
MountainRose............18 5*9°^  Sausage..................................................   634
Good Enough.............23 g°}°sna,  ring. 
..............................................  634
Home Comfort........... 25 Bologna, straight........... .................................   634
Old  Rip, long c u t....55  S oloj %   thick..................t .............................«*4
_   —p *--  ® 
H eadcheese..........„ ¿ .o il.............................   634
Two Nickle.
........24
Star Durham..............25
In half barrels.....................................................  3 50
Durham No. 2............ 55
In quarter barrels..............................................   l 90
Golden Flake Cabinet 40 
In kits.............................................................
Seal of North Caro­
lina, 2  oz.................48
In half barrels........ ....................................... $3  OO
Seal of North Caro­
In quarter barrels..............................................  1 50
lina, 4oz...................46
In kits........................................... 
80
Seal of North  Caro­
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
lina, 8oz...................41
press, and are good only for that date,  subject 
Seal of North Caro­
to m arket fluctuations.
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 40
Big Deal......................27
Apple Ja c k ................ 24
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Milwaukee  Prize___24
Good  Enough............24
R attler........................28
Windsor cut plug__ 25

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

HID ES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

SAUSAGE—FJEU3SH AND SMOKED.

.................. !!!!!.!  9

P IG S ’  FEET.

H ID ES.

T R IP E .

or cured__   @10
$  piece.......20  @50

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G reen__ $  ft  6  @7
Part cured...  734@  8
Full cured__   8  @83
Dry hides and
k ip s............  8  @12
Shearlings or Sum- 

R IC E .

.. .6
...534
...3%

...634 P a tn a ................
Rangoon...........
. . . 7
...5 % Broken...............
...6%
SA LERA TUS.
...534. Dwight’s ............
...534
...5% Sea  Foam..........
.. .534
...5% S., B. &  L.’s Best ...5%
. ..6 %

SALT.

SOAP.

SA UCES.

Good Carolina..
Prim e Carolina.
Good Louisiana.
Java  ..................
DeLand’s pure..
Church’s  ..........
Taylor’s  G.  M . . .
Cap Sheaf..........
60 P o ck et..........
28 Pocket...........
100 3ft  pockets..
Saginaw Fine ...
Diamond C........
Standard Coarse
Ashton, English, dairy, bu.bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__
American, dairy, 34 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels...
Parisian, 34  pints..................................
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints. 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 34 pts.
Picadilly, 34 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,  34 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, 34 pints, Antonia & Co.’s .,,,
Celery Sait,  Durkee’e .,......................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, 34 pints.........................
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, sm all......
Preserved Ginger, Canton,  pints.......
Old Country, 80 bars, 80 fts.,  wrapped 
Old Country, 80 bars,80 fts.,unwrapped
Old Country, 801 ft bars.......................
Queen  Anne...........................................
Cameo......................................................
Monday
Kirk’s American  Fam ily........... $  to
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In d ia .........................................
do.
Savon ........................................
do. S atin et......................................
do.
do. White Russian........................
Proctor & Gamble’s Iv o ry .................
Japan  O live........
Town Talk  $  box
Golden Bar............
Arab.......................
Amber....................
Mottled  German..
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet.
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........
Badger............................................ 60 fts
G alvanic.................................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar
Ward’s White Lily.................................
Handkerchief.........................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R a g ........ .......................................
Bluing......................................................
Magnetic.................................................
New  French  Process............................
Spoon ......................................................
Anti-Washboard....................................
V aterland...............................................
Magic.......................................................
P ittsburgh..............................................
Acme, 701 ft  bars..................................
Acme, 25 3 ft bars..................................
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................
Napkin, 25  bars......................................
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............
Master, 100-% ft c ak e s.......................
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.......................
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped...........
German Mottled, wrapped..................
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks...........
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............
London Family, 4-ft bare 80 ft.............
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Nickel, 100 cakes, w rapped..................
Climax, 100 cakes,  w rapped................
Boss, 100 cs 
Maivseilles Ca 
n  box
A 1  Floating,
Groui
P epper........
Allspice.......
Cinnamon...
Cloves  ........
G inger........
M ustard.......
Cayenne  —
Gilbert’s G

Lautz Bros. & Co.

■appea. 
Toilet,3 dc

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

¡tile,
B0 cakes.

388 1 ft. 
“  3ft (

rtoor

2  56
2  35
2 65
1 00
1  60
1  55
80
3 20
25
26

@2  00 
@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
uv
©  90 
@3 50 
@2 10 
@4 85 
@2 90 
@1 25
@4  20 
@4 10 
© 534 
@5 00 
@3 30 
@3 50
634
5%
5%
5%
534

5  10
'6 75
5
3 60
4  10
3 40
3 75
4 20
@3 40 
@3 20 
@3 05 
@ 634 
@4 05 
@18% 
@  16 
@6  75 
@4 20 
5 25
4 10
5 00 
4  10
4 50
5 00 
5  00
3 25
4 20 
4 00
@  634 
@  634 
@5 25 
@5 25 
@ 6 
@ 5% 
@3 70 
@5 00 
@4 85 
@6 25 
@6 25 
@ 7 
@   6% 
@ 5% 
@ 5% 
@ 5 
@4 00 
@4 00 
@3 85 
@3 75 
@3 25 
@2 30 
@1 25 
@4 20

Tramway
@48
Big Sevens, dime cuts 
@45
Black Diamond
@35
Trotter, rum  flavor...............................
@70
Boot  ........................................................
@44
B. F. P.’s Favorite........... @1...............
@48
Old Kentucky.........................................
@48
Big Four,' 2x12.......................................
@48
Big Four, 3x12.........................................
@48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12........... „........
@46
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12...............................
@48@35
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12..........................
Seal of Grand Rapids............................
@48
Glory  ......................................................
@48
D urham .....................
@48
Silver  Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [DarkL....
@36 
Black Prince [Dark]....................
@36 
Black Racer  [Dark]....................
@36 
Leggett & Myers’  Star.................
@46 
C l i m a x ......................................
@46 
Hold F a s t.....................................
@46 
McAlpin’s Gold Shield................
@46 
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.
@51 
Cock of the Walk  6s.............
@37
Nobby Twist
.....................   @46
- ,  
„ . 
Nimrod....................................................   @46
Acorn 
.46 
Crescent 
44 
Black  X.
35
Black  Bass.............................  
^40
spring..................................... ;;;;;;;  @48
Crayling, all  styles..........
@48
Mackinaw..........................
@47
Horse Shoe..................... .............
@44
Hair L ifter.........................!.!!!!.
@36
D. and D .,black........ ." .‘" i .................
'a"*?@46
___UL.1.ÌJ......................  
McAlpin’s Green  Shield..«
Ace  High, black................ ...... 
@35
Saflore’  Soiace.................................. !" 
@46
Block Bear..............................................  •  @37
2c. less in four butt lots."

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

SMOKING

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Tramway, 3  oz..........40
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
Boss  ...........................15
Peck’s Suii................. 18
Miners and Puddlers.28
Morning Dew........... 26
Chain...........................22
Seal of Grand Rapids 25
K in g ...........................30
Flirt  ...........................28
P u g ............................ 30
Ten Penny  Durham.24
Amber, 34 and 1ft__ 15
John  Gilpin............... 18
Lime Kiln  Club........ 47
Blackwell’s Durham.90
Vanity F air............... 90
D im e...........................25
Peerless  .................... 24
Standard.................... 22
Old Tom......................21
Tom & Jerry ..............24
Joker...........................24
T rav eler.................... 35
Maiden....................... 25
T opsy......................... 27
Navy  Clippings........ 26
Boots...........................30
Honey  Dew.............
Gold Block.................30
Camp Fire...................25
O ronoko.................... 19
Durham, 34 ft
..60
ft
34 ft
..55 
1 ft
..51
Pickwick Club............ 40
SH ORTS.
Mule E ar....................23|Acme......................... 20
H iaw atha.........................23 Globe......................17
Old Congress................23|
Pure  Cider..........8@12 White W ine..........   8@12
1776$ f t ....................; .............................
Gillett's $  f t ...........................................
Soapine pkg.........................................
Pearline ^  box.......................................
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 34 ft papers..
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 34 ft paprs
Twin Bros..........1 65  I W ilsons............. .  1 65
Magic.................1 75  ¡National...............1 65
Bath Brick im ported.........................
85 
American.........................
60 
Barley..........................................'.....
@3 
Burners, No. 1 ....................................
1  10 
do  No.  2....................................
1  50 
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand..........
35
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star...........................................  @13
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  75@85
Gum, Rubber 100 lum ps.......................  @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bbl..........
Peas, Green Bush__
Peas, Split prepared.
Powder, Keg.............
Powder,  34 Keg__ __

@1034 
@  7% 
7@10 
@4 50 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4  15 
@4 00

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

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

@4 30 
@1  35 
@  334 
@4 00 
@2 25

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S H E E P  PEL TS.

W OOL.

I Fall pelts............. 30@5O
m er skins $  pcel0@201 Winter  pelts......60@75
Fine washed $  ft 20@22!.Unwashed...........  
2-3
534
Coarse washed... 16@18[Tallow................. 
B ear.............   50@10 OOjMuskrat.......  2@ 
8
Fisher  ........ 4 00® 8 00| O tter............4 00@ 5 OO
Fox, red.......  25@  1  10 Raccoon.......  5@  85
Fox,  gray...  15@  85 Skunk  ........   15@  90
M a rtin ........   25@  1  00 Beaver,' $  ft.2 00@ 3 OO
5@  50[Deer,  $ f t ...  10@  30
M ink.......... 

S K IN S .

OYSTERS  AND  FISH .

F. J. Hettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

 

New York Counts............................................... 33
F. J. D. S elects..................................  
30
Selects.................................. 
2&
F .J. D....................................................................17
Standard  ............................................................. 18
Favorite..........»...................................................... 17
M edium.......................... 
15
P rim e..............................................................  
14
New York  Counts..........................................2 00
Selects, pqr gallon...........................................1 65
Standards............................................... 1 00@110
Codfish..............................................................   9
Haddock...........................................................  7
Smelts...............................................................12
Mackinaw T rout......................., .................... 8
Mackerel.................................... ......................12
Whiteflsh  .......................................................  ,7@8

FR ESH   FISH .

 

 

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 th at apples will sell  for  $2.50- 
before the spring is far advanced.
Beeswax—Small demand at 30c.
Buckwheat—$4,75 $  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,'m any  outside  dealers 
being loaded up with from 100 to 1,000  pounds; 
really choice, however, readilly  commands  IT 
@18e for rolls and  15@16o  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  quitted  a t 15@16c for solid 
packed, and  15@17c for rolls.
Beets—No shipping demand.
Clover  Seed—No  logtil  shipping  demand. 
Dealers are paying  $3.50@4  for  good to fancy 
stock.

Cabbages—$5@$6 $  100.  Very little moving. 
Celery—The w inter  stock  now  in  m arket is 
very undesirable in quality,  selling  at  15@18e 
per  dozen.  Good  stock  would  readily  com­
mands 25c.

Cheese—Michigan full  cream  stock readily 
commands ll34@1334c,  while  skim  find  occas­
ional sale at from 9J4@10e.

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

Eggs—Demand fair and m arket rather weak 
-. Fresh stock commands 23c and limed 20c. 
Hops—Brewers are paying 15c for best Mich­

igan, with few  offerings.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 14c. 
Hay—$9@$10 for new, and  $12@$13  for bail­

ed.

Mince Meat—7c $  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 m arket is dull a t 25c.

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

Turkeys, lie.  Ducks, 14c.

Squash—Slow sale at 34« $  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  PR O D U CTS. 

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

Fulse and Clawson, 72c.

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

. and 40@43e in carlots.

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

lots.

Rye—52@54c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cwt.

1  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.

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

Whole.

I6@25'Pepp
.......  @18
12@18 Allspic e ....... .......  8@10
16©30lCa8sia .......... .....  @10
15@25jNutnlegs  ... .......60@70
16@
5S  ........ .......  ©81
20 Clovt 
301
15®
5@35
STAI

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crates................
b u lk ..................
n, 1 ft...................
idry, 40 ft box,  bu 
dry, bbls, 186  fts. 
, 401 ft packages. 
,  363$  packages 
6 ft box, 72 ft

STOVE P O L IS H .

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

@5
@4%
@634
@6
@7
Corn, 40 1 ft  packages........
@7
@ 6%
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package..................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package..................
@634
@7%
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
@5%
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................  
@7
Muzzy Corn  1 ft...................................... 
@8
Kingsford  Silver Gloss......................... 
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box.......... 
@834
@8
Kingsford Corn.................................... . 
Oswego  Gloss.........................................  
@6%
Mirror  Gloss........................................... 
@634
@6%
Mirror Gloss, corn................................. 
@4
Piel’s P e a rl............................................. 
American Starch Co.’s
@634
1 ft  Gloss.................................................. 
10 oz  Gloss.............................................. 
@3%
3 ft  Gloss.................................................  
@6
@7
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................  
Table Com......................................40 ft 
@634
Table  Corn.....................................20  1b  @7
Banner, bulk...........................................  @4
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
U niversal...............5 50 Above $  dozen.......   50
IX  L .................... 5 501
Cut  Loaf.................................................   @ 7
Cubes  ......................................................   @ 7
Pow dered................................................  @ 7
Granulated,  Standard..........................   @  6%
Granulated, Fine  G rain.......................  @636
Confectionery A ....................................   @634
Standard A ..............................................  @ 6
New  Orleans  A ......................................  5%@ 5%
Extra C, W hite........................................  @5%
Extra C....................................................   @ 53a
Fine  C..................: ..................................  @536
Yellow C...................................................  @4%
New Orleans,  good...............................   20@  44
Corn,  Barrels......................................... 
26
Corn, 34 bbls............................................  
28
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................   @  31
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 75
Corn, 434 gallon kegs..............................  @1 60
Pure  S ugar...................................... bbl  22@  34
Pure Sugar Drips.........................34 bbl  30@  38
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 96
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............34 bbl  @  85
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1  85
Japan ordinary.............................................20@25
Japan fair to good........................................30®37
Japan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust.....................................................15@2Q
Young Hyson.............................................. 30@50
GunPowder........ ..........................................35@50
Oolong......................  
33@65@60
Congo............................................................. 25@30

SY RUPS.

SUGARS.

TEA S.

 

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

State  Seal...................60
Brother Jo n athan.. .32
Diamond  Crown....... 58
Rose B ud.................. 50
O. K......................... 45
Our  Bird.................... 30
Peaches  .................... 38
Morrison's F ruit....... 50
V ic to r........................60
Red  Bird................. ,.52
Opera Queen..............40
Sweet Rose.................45
Oreen  Back............. .38
F ru it................. 
33
O So Sweet...............31
Prairie Flower.......... 65
Clim ber......................62
Indian Queen........... 60

 

Matchless...................65
H iaw atha...................67
Globe*......................... 65
May Flower............... 70
H e ro ...........................45
A tlas.....................*.. .35
Royal Game............... 38
Mule E ar.................... 67
Pepk-a-Boo.............   32
Fountain.................... 74
Old Congress..............64
Good Luck.................52
Good and Sweet.........45
Blaze Away............... 35
Hair L ifter.................30
G overnor...................60
Fox’s Choice...........   63

PLU G .

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

CANDY',  FRUITS AND  NUTS.

 

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FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
..............................  934@10
 
@12
M IX ED .

Straight, 25 1b  boxes.............................   9 @ 934
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft  pails........................................10@1034
Royal, 200 ft bbls.......................................   9@ 934
Extra, 25 ft  pails........................................11@1134
Extra, 200 ft bbls...............................................1034
French Cream, 25 ft pails................................13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases......................................... 13
Broken, 25  ft  pails........................................... 1134
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 103%
Lemon  Drops................................................... 14
Sour Drops........................................................ 15
Peppermint  Drops..........................................15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  D ro p s..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B   Licorice  Drops........................................ 12
Lozenges, plain................ ..............................J 5
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Im perials..........................................................15
M ottoes...................  
15
Cream  B ar........................................................ 14
Molasses Bar................................................... 14
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 22
Plain  Cream s..„...............................................18
Decorated Creams...........................................23
String Rock.......................................................15
Burnt Almonds..............................................  22
Wintergreen  Berries........... . 
15

 

 

 

 

 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

Lozenges, plain in  pails........................1334@14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...................................12
Lozenges, printed in pails..................... , ___1434
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.....................« ... 13
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum  Drops  in pails................................. 734@8
Gum Drops, in bbls...................................634@7
Moss Drops, in pails........................................11
Moss Drops, in bbls  ................ 
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails...........................................14
Imperials  in bbls.............................................13

 

 

934

FRUITS.

Oranges, Florida, $  box.......................  @4  00
Lemons,  choice....................................  3 00@4 00
Figs,  layerenew,  $ f t ...........................1234@15
Oranges, Messina..................................2  75@3 50
Figs, baskets 4 0 f t$ f t..........................   @ 8
Dates, frails 
do  ...........................  @4
Dates, % do 
d o ...........................   @ 6
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 4
Dates, 34  skiu.........................................  © 5
Dates, Fard 101b box $   ft....................  @ 9
Dates, Fard 501b box $  ft.....................   @7
Dates, Persian 501b box $  1b............... 
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft............................
Choice 
do  ............................. 
5® 534
do  ............................   534@  534
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  .....................       
5@  534
634®  7
Fancy H P ,.V a   do  ............................ 
Almonds,  Terragona, 18 ft...............
@22
do  ...............
Almonds, loaca,
@21
..  fe@10
d o ...............
Brazils,
do  ............... f. 
9@13
Peeon8.
..  15@16
d o ...............
Filberts, Sicily
@16
d o ...............
Walnuts, Grenobles
Cocoa Nuts, $   100

NUTS.

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John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows
Fresh  Beef, sides........... •......................  5  @7
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters...................634  @ 8
Dressed  H ogs............................................  534® 5%
Mutton,  oarcasses...................................  @534
Veal..........................................................  934@lO
Pork Sausage..................... 
—   8  @o9
Bologna................ ............... 
9  @10
Chickens.................................................. 10  @ ll v
Turkeys  ......... ................ ............ '..  @11
D u ck s.........................................................   @13
Geese....... ........................................  @11

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.
Boiler Slates, Slate Bap & Boies

HEAD Q U A RTERS  FO R

6
654
13 00
15  00
16

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The New Era All Clamp Skate

-A N D -

The  New  Era  Rink  Skate.
The original cost of a roller skate is of minor 
importance to you, provided you buy  the  one 
th at  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  tlife  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.

MAH.  IA-IS82

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.

PATO.

JUUY  13-1880 
APR.' as—1881

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  Skfife:  Lightness,  Perfect 
Adjustability, Perfection of Mechanism,  Easy 
of Running and Durability, all tending to make 
what  we  claim  for  the  “Star,”  the  Perfect 
Skate.  The  admirable  runninar  qualities  of 
this Skate, together  with  the  elastic  tension, 
capable of delicate adjustm ent, 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.

Ladles’  Skate  Bags  for  all  sole  clamp Skates.

Men’s Skate Boxes for all clamp Skate6.

1 k

Ibarbw are.

W h a t   C o n s titu te s   th e   B e s t  C a p ita l.
A  clergyman  was  preparing  a discourse 
for a particular occasion, when he sent notes 
to a hundred of the most successful business 
men in a certain city, asking them 
at was 
essential  to  success  in  business,  and 
if 
young men without capital had a fair chance 
of succeeding.  There was a great similarity 
of opinion  in all their replies. 
It  was  gen­
erally conceeded that capital was not a  nec- 
cessity.  Very often it was a hindrance,  be­
cause 
it  weakened  self-reliance,  made 
intense application  seem  unnecessary,  and 
tempted  to  a  style  of  outlay  too  great  for 
a new business. 
In this view,  there seemed 
to be but one way to learn to handle  money 
prudently, and that was  to  earn  it  by  hard 
labor, and save it by close economy.

Character and business force  are  sure  to 
make their mark.  Men  with  capital  to  in­
vest  are  anxious  and  eager  to  find  such 
young  men  and  set  them  to  work.  “A 
young  man  of  superior  business  sagacity 
and  force  could  make  his own way,”  said 
one,  “and  dictate  terms  to capital waiting 
for employment.  Capital is far  more  abun- 
dunt and more easy to be obtained, than the 
large brains and the idomitable  energy  that 
can use it to the best advantage.”

This, however, is not the current  opinion 
of the World.  The youfig'mau with a thous­
and dollar legacy is thought to  be  twice  as 
well off as one with  but  five  hundred;  and 
he who can command five thousand to begin 
with, is supposed to have his success  in  life 
very well  assured.  Over  and  over  we  see 
the  boy  starting  without  a  dollar  beyond 
what lie earns coming  out ahead.  The man 
is more  than  the  money. 
If  accumulated 
wisdom and strength of character couldjonly 
be  handed  down with the possessions  they 
hav$  helped  to  gain,  what  a  world  of 
instead,  it 
progress  we  might  seel  But, 
seems to work the  other  way. 
It  is  a  rare 
thing to see the grandsons of men of  wealth 
efficient,  talented  men  of  business, whom 
the world holds in respect.  James  A.  Gar­
field knew of what he  was  speaking  when 
-he  said:  “Poverty  is  uncomfortable,  as  I 
can testify;  but, nine times out  of  ten,  the 
best thing that can happen to^a  young  man 
is to be tossed overboard  and  compelled  to 
sink  or  swim  for  himself.  * In all my ac­
quaintances,  I  never  knew  a  man  to  be 
drowned who was worth saving.”

Dr. Holland says that “one fereat  blessing 
attending every commercial panic, is the sav­
ing of a large crop of young  men.”  He  felt 
it was good for them to be  the  architects  of 
their  own  fortunes,  from  the very founda­
tions up.  Ability and necessity have always 
been  very  close  neighbors. 
It  is  difficult 
for  a  young  man  toiling hard for a scanty 
support, to believe that he can still be laying 
up valuable capital every  day.  Yet  it  is  a 
fact.  The character he is building will make 
or unmake his future  fortune.  He  is, in  ef­
fect, dropping coins daily  into  the  savings 
or the losing bank.  What  manner  of  man 
he is himself, will determine all the long fu­
ture  far  more  than  the money  his  father 
may bequeath him.

Begin  right,  and  let  every  day witness 
some growth  of  your  capital.  Every  good 
habit you form is the best of capital.  Every 
repetition strengthens the habit  until  it  be­
comes even stronger than natural  character- 
'  istics.  To get “in love with work”  is a fine 
deposit in your bank of capital, and certain­
ly not harder to form than many  other  hab­
its, on which your prosperity will hinge.

Dr.  Dodd  says  that “the whole character 
may be comprehended in the  term  habits.” 
As  the  very  name  implies,  habit is a gar­
ment we wear, but with this peculiarity—we 
cannot cast it off and put it  on  at  pleasure. 
Evil  habits,  in  particular,  seem more  like 
the chain and ball riveted fast to the prison­
er’s ankle.  Good habits and principles  rep­
resent your capital, and bad habits  your  los­
ings.

regard 

No business man has any  right or reason 
to feel insulted at a request for references or 
at the receipt of goods C. O. D.  Business is 
business  and within certain  limits personal 
feelings should be ignored.  The  man  who 
plays  fast  and  loose  in 
to  his 
credits is certain  sooner or  later to get into 
difficulty, and  involve  himself, his  friends 
and his  creditors in a tangle, if not in abso­
lute ruin.  The asking of credit should raise 
a man in your estimation,* father  than  pro­
voke your resentment.  Such a request often 
argues not distrust of the  purchaser  but  or­
dinary business prudence on the  part of the 
seller.  Merchants may err in  regard to giv­
ing credit, but never in seeking all the infor­
mation they can  get in  regard to  a buyer’s 
business standing.

Judging from the following emphatic utter­
ances, the Charlotte Leader has been having 
a disastrous experience with  newspaper  de-. 
linquents:  The  meanest  sneak  on  God’s 
footstool is the subscriber who takes a paper 
for several years and then skips out without 
paying for it.  He is only rivaled by  the in­
dividual who, coward-like, requests the post­
master to write “refused” on  his  paper,  in­
stead of paying the amount legally  and hon 
estly due the publisher,  and then stopping’ it 
like a man.

Canadian merchants  and  manufacturers 
who have large mails save  a  third, in  their 
postage expenses, it is said, by sending their 
mail mater in bundles by express to the near­
est post office on the United  States  side of 
the boundary line,  where they  mail it at the 
two-cent rate,  whereas  they would  have to 
pay three cents if the matter were mailed on 
the other side.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

 

• 

4 00

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BUCKETS.

BARROW S.

BALANCES.

BU TTS,  CAST.

AUGEBS AND B IT S .

Flush.................................... 
BRACES.

Prevailing  rateB a t Chicago  are  as follows:
Ives’, old  style.. . . . : ...............................dis 
60
N. H. C.Co............. .(§»........................... dis 
55
50
Douglass’ .................................................dis 
P ierces'.................................................... dis 
50
Snell’s ....................................................... dis 
60
Cook’s  .....................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine.................................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation.................  ............dis40&10
Spring.............. ........................... ............ dis 
25
15 00
R ailroad........................................................$ 
Garden....................................................... net 
3o 00
H and.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow........................................................dis 
fio
Call......................................................... dis 
15
20
G ong......................................................dis 
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
W rought Barrel Bolts.........................dis 
.  50
Cast Barrel, brass knobs..........  .......dis 
Cast Square Spring............................. dis 
55
Cast C h ain..........................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis  55&10
W rought Square................................. dis  65&10
W rought Sunk Flush..........................dis 
30
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
50&10&10
 
Ives’  Door.............................................dis  50&10
B arb er.................................................. dis$ 
40
50
Backus...................................................dis 
Spofford...,..................1..................... dis 
50
Am. Ball....................................... ......... dis 
net
Well, plain....................................................$ 
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis 
60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed........dis 
60
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50&10
W rounht Loose  P in........................... dis 
60
Wro ug h t Loose Pin, acorn tip .......... dis  60& 5
Wrougl.tLoose Pin, japanned..........dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table.....................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind........................dis 
60
Wrought Brass.......................... ...........dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s............................. w........dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s ..................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s..................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x254, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00
Ely’s 1-10.........................................
60
Hick’s C. F ......................................
35
G. D .................................................
60
Musket............................................
50
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list
Rim Fire, United  States............... ........ dis
50
Central Fire................ .*.................. ........ dis
5à
Socket Firm er............................... __ dis 65&10
Socket Fram ing............................ __ dis
65&10
Socket Corner............................... __ dis
55&10
Socket Slicks................................. __ dis 65&10
40
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er........... __ dis
Barton’s Socket Firm ers............. __ dis
20
Cold................................................. .......net
Curry, Lawrence’s ........................ __ dis
Hotchkiss  .................................... __ dis
Brass,  Racking’s..................... :................  40&10
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B e er.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.......................................................... 
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  ft  37
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  39
35
Morse’s Bit  Stock..................................dis 
20
Taper and Straight Shank.....................dis 
Morse’s Taper  So5nk.................  
30
  dis 
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................doz net $1 10
Corrugated..............................................dis  20&10
A djustable.............................................. dis  54&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00. 
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30  00. 
25
American File Association  List..........dis  50&10
Disston’s .................................................dis  50&10
New  American.......................................dis  50&10
Nicholson’s ..............................................dis  60&10
Heller’s .......................................... 
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................ dis  3354
GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24,  25 and 26, 
14 
List 
15 18

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

CATRIDGKS.

C H IS ELS.

ELBOW S.

CO PPER .

335*
25

dis 
dis 

D R IL L S

COMBS.

COCKS.

F IL E S .

CA PS.

dis 

13  ♦ 

H IN G ES.

GAUGES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HO LLO W   W ARE.

27 
12 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.
, 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............... dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s ......................................dis 
15
Kip’s ................................................,....d is 
25
Yerkes&  Plumb’s ...........................:...d is 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel..................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction....................... dis 
60
Kidder, wood tra .k ..........  ................. dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3................................dis 
60 ]
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  454  14
and  longer..............................................  
354
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ...................net 
1054
Screw Hook and Eye %....................... net 
854
Screw Hook and Eye  %.......................net 
754
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................net 
754
Strap and  T ............................................dis  6O&10
Stamped Tin W are....................................   60&10
Japanned Tin  W are.................................   20&10
Granite  Iron  W are................................... 
25
Grub  1............................................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11  50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........ $2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
mings..........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
60
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain......... dis 
40
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s................... d 
H cm acite...............................................dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s ..........................dis  60
Branford’s .................................................... dis  60
Norwalk’s ......................................................dis  60
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .................................. dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 
40
Ooffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s .............dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise.......................................dis  25
Adze  Eye...................................... $16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt  Eye............................................................$15 00dis40&10
H unt’s ........... .............................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—-DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

H O ES.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, 54 In. and  larger..............................
Manilla.............
Steel and  Iron.
Try and Bevels.

..  9
..  1554
dis  50
dis  50
dis  20
SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth. Com.
$3 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 20
3 40
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches

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

TINNER’S SOLDER.

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

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

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel,  Game..................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ............dis 35
O neida Community, Hawley & Norton’s —   60
Hotchkiss’  ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ......................................  60
Mouse, choker........................................20c ^  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 26 $  doz
Bright M arket............................................   dis 60
Annealed Market........ ............................... dis  60
Coppered Market..........................................dis 55
Extra Bailing................................................ dis  55
Tinned  M arket.............................................kis  40
Tinned  Broom.............................................$ f t   09
Tinned M attress.......•............................... ^  ft  854
Coppered  Spring  Steel........................... dis  3754
Tinned Spring Steel..................................dis 3754
Plain Fence......................................................ft 354
Barbed  Fence...............................................; ..
Copper.......................................................new  list net
Brass..........................................................new list net
Bright.............................................................djs  70
Screw Eyes...................................................tdis  70
Hook’s .................  
dis  70
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.................................dis  70
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled............. .
•Coe’s Genuine........................................dis  60&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
65
Coe’s Patent,  malleable.......................dis 
70

WIRE GOODS.

WrENCHES.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern....................>.............. dis  60&20
 
Screw s............................................... 
  70
 
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers,  American..................... 
3354

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f. o. 

b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 154,154 and 2 inch.........................  46  00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154,154 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 154, 154 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe et.........................  16 p0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet.........................  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 f e e t .......................   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 fe et........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t.........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe et.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.............. 
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet*.......  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe et................ : —   13  0G
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and lengths.......................... 8 00® 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  33  00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   27  00
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..........1 ....,.............  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common—  
9  00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 f t ............  10 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Drtjssed Flooring, 6 in,, A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common—   14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 a-'ditional.
(  XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
3 40
■< X X X 18in.  Thin................................. 
| XXX 16 in................................................. 
3 00
2 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
175
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

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

Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
1  05
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
90
1  40
Louisville cem ent,  per bbl.................. 
1  40
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
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 to n .......................... : 
3 75
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per  bbl..........•....................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 &5®6 5«»
Cannell,  car lots...................................  @6  75
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3 25@3  5<*
Blo8Sburgor  Cumberland, car lots..  4  50®5 00

COAL.

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

O IL E R S.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2  25
6d and 9 d adv................................................ 
25
6d and 7d  adv..........  ................................... 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine  advance....................... ..... 
3 00
Clinch nails,  adv..........................................  1 75
Finishing 
6d  4d
(  lOd  8d 
Size—inches  5  3 
2 
154
254 
Adv. $  keg 
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled............... ..d is   50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.........................dis  55
Zi nc, with brass bottom ..............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper...........................................dis  40
Reaper ......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................. 
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, f a n c y .........................dis  15
SciotaBench..................... 
dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.......................dis  15
Bench, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood and
Fry, Acme.................................... ..........dis 40&10
Common, polished....................... _____dis
60
Dripping....................................... ............$   f t
8
Iron and Tinned.......................... .......dis
40
Copper Rivets and B urs............. .......dis
40
“A ” Wood’s patentplanisbed, Nos. 24 to 27  1054 
“B" Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

Broken packs 54c V  H> extra.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne....... . 
5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne................7 75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T erne................. 12 00
U l, 20x2 8 , choice Charcoal  Terne................16 90

ROOFING PLATES.

PLA N ES.

R IV E T S.

PA N S

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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 woi-d.  Advance payment.

FOR  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.” 
•TT'OR  SALE—Well-established  drug  store, 
P   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,  “Pharm a­
cist,” care “The Tradesman.”

67

DEALERS wishing to sell out can  be  placed 

on the “For Sale” list at this office by send­
charge.  The list Is open to  the  Inspection  of 
prospective buyers only.

ing  their  address  and  full  particulars.  No 

ed  a  list  of  dealers  who are desirous  of 
selling by applying  at  this  oflBce.  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.

Purdy & Dickison, druggists, St. Ignaee* “We 

like your paper very much.”

John D. Merritt, general  dealer,  Olive  Cen­

ter:-  “Don’t want to lose one number.”

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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 !
M e s s r s lR J »   H o .

Packers of the celebrated  “ BXG  GTJ2T ”  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.

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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.

W H O L E S A L E

O Y STER   D EPO T

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

EARL BROS,

Men’s Skate Bags for ail clamp Skates.

1 6 0   S.  W a te r   st,  Claicago,  1 1 1 ,

REFERENCE  FIRS’]3T  NATIONAL  BANK.

MISCELLANEOUS.

CD

-FOR  SALE  BY-

Gurtiss, Dunton & Go.,

-JOBBERS  OF-

Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationer^  Ker­

osene and Machine Oils, Naptha and Gasoline.

61 and 63 Lyon Street 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ladies’ Skate Boxes for sole clamp  Skates. 
We solicit inquiries,  and  should  be  glad to 
quote prices to dealers and rink managers.
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  00.,

WHOLESALE  HARDWARE, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

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S. S. MORRIS & bro
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

P A C K E R S

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

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

W . D. C A R E Y  & CO.

OYSTERS!

—AND  JOBBERS  OF—

Fi-U-its etncl Produce.

SM ELIBJIM LEÏ  k II

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Interesting Account  of  Christmas Festivi- I 

fives  at ;the  Corners.

Ca n t  H o o k  C o r n e r s , Mich., Dec. 27, ’84:
Mister editor off T r a i d s m a n  :

D e a r   S i r — Well,  Crissmas is over and 1 
tell you it was a big day for the Corners. As 
I told you in my last, we  had a big  festival 
and Crissmass tree at the church.  It was  an 
immense time and no mistake.  We  did not 
have any of your donation party oyster soup, 
you bet, for the reason that your umble  ser­
vant furnished the oysters, and made a slight 
proffit on ’em, so instead of one oyster to the 
quart, we had 24 cans to  two  billers  full of 
soup.  My mouth waiters now when I think 
of it.  And then the  presents  every boddy 
got!  Great  snakes!  You  ought  to  have 
seen  ’em.  More  dolls  and  mittens,  silk 
.handkerchiefs, slippers etc., than  you could 
shake a stick at. 
I got seven pairs of slip­
pers, from as many  widders, I  suspect,  as 
well as several other things, including  three 
testiments.  Dut what took the cake was the 
little matter of pan cake  turners.  You  see, 
Bilson, who  keeps  on  the  oposite  corner 
from me, deals some in  hard  wear  and no­
tions, and last fall he got stuck  with a gross 
of pan cake turners  that he did  not  have 
much call for.  Well, he p u t’em  all  down 
to five cents each  and  closed  them  out as 
Crissmass presents.  Everyone  nearly  got 
one and some peeple got three or  four.  Ev­
ery time a new name was called  and  a  pan 
cake turner handed  down  there  was a big 
laff.  Well, they can use them to correct the 
children with, if  they  don’t  need ’em  for 
turning cakes, so they will come handy.

Thecommitty  just  met in my offiis  and 
figgered up, and we find that after payin  for 
oysters, crackers, butter and all the other et- 
setterers, and a hired  man to  clean up  the 
muss in the church, and paid for dishes  that 
was broke etc., we find a nett balance in the 
hands of the treasurer of seven  dollars  and 
thirty-eight  cents.

Do you know what bells  cost, Mr. Editer?
If not,  I wish you wood  find  out  what  a 
small neat plain bell  wood  cost  in  Grand 
Kappids.  We  don’t  want  no  ornamental 
bells, with our names on or anything  of the 
kind, just a good  common  Methodist  vibra­
tor.

Decon Pratt was on the  committy and he 
got hold of your last copy in my offis, which 
I left axidently out of  the  place I keep ’em. 
He said he didn’t  know as 1 was a  literary 
carrickter before, and he was mighty tickled 
with the map of the Corners.  He'says I was 
mistaken about the name of one of the streets 
as he was here and helped  name ’em and he 
sais that Furlong street was  named  so coss 
it was a eighth of a mile long  from the run 
to the swamp, in them early days.  He may 
be rite, as  he  was  hear 
then  and I  was- 
sent.

I tell you I was prowd of our  citty  when 
I saw it on paper and I want  you  to  send 
me three extry coppys to send  to some  old 
friends back to  Injiana, where I come from.
I got a letter from an old friend yesterday 
that moved to  Bizmark,  Decota, last  sum­
mer.  He says the cold winds most take  his 
head off out there.  He also  sais  that  the 
mean temperature out there  was  very  low 
last week.  All  I got to  say is  that if  the 
temperature  is any lower  or  any  meaner 
than it is in Michigan I don’t  want to move 
there, as long as I can make a nickle hear.

Traid has been good this past ten days, on 
account of selling so many  things  for Criss­
mass, but now most every  boddy  has  spent 
most all the cash they had  on  hand  and I 
am afraid it will  be a  little  dull. 
I expect 
lots of fellers in bizness will take the oppor­
tunity to bust,  but I have a bad  opinion of 
all such fellers that  bust  up  on  purpuss. 
When the subscriber  goes up  the  spout it 
will be when times are harder than now.

Bro. Stowe, if you  need  any  slippers or 

testiments, send word  to

Yours respecktfully, 

S o l im a n  S n o o k s,

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

I\ s.—I just discovered threw one  of  the 
hanging committy of the Crissmass tree, that 
the widder Spriggs put on one of  the  testi­
ments, and the pair of slippers with  the big 
sunjflour on each toe for me. By gum ! I never 
thot to put on anything for  the  widder, not 
expecting she wood send  way over hear, any 
thing for me.

What had 1 better  do?

S. S.

H E R C U L E S , 

T H E   GREAT  STUM P  A N D   ROCK
AMITIHILATOR. 
Strongest k  Safest Explosive  K im   to lie Arts.
Farm ers, practice economy and  clear 
your land of stum ps and boulders.  M ain 
Office, H ercules  Powder Company, No. 
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.
L. S. HTT.T, & CO., AGTS. 

Gl'SS, AMMUNITION  &  FlSH ifi  TACKLE

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

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I f  in Need of A nything  in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PA T E N T E E S   AND  SODE  M AN UFA CTU RERS  O F

Barlow’s Patent

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Send for Samples and Circular.

GRAND  RAPIDS

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

-M a n u fa c tu re rs   o t —

BAKING  POWDERS, 

B LU IN G S,  ETC.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICH

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40  and  42  South  Division,  St. 

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ORDERS  PROM PTLY  FILLED .  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES,
ORCUTT 

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Consignments  Solicited.

B » , E ffiC lm siÂ  Brain, Hay, B iiitM , M ice
W M . S E A R S  & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

MUSKEGON, MICH.

A g en ts  f o r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.
We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be first- 
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  3?©aniits, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Fea- 
cans,  Walnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

We handle  FLORIDA Or­
anges  direct from  the  groves. 
The crop is large and fine  and 
low prices are looked for.

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

Oranges
Oysters
PUTNAM £  BROOKS.
C J H E l ' W

STRAIGHT  GOODS—NO  SCHEME.

I M P O R T E R S

AND  JOBBERS  OF-----

STAPI
FAHRT  GROCERIES

AND-----

After our long and persistent efforts to meet the wants of A ll Grocers by carrying  a 
complete line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, it now affords us much pleasure to  know 
that our endeavors have been Successful and Appreciated,  and  that  to-day  we  are  re­
garded by the trade as not only the H eadquarters in our  line  for  the  trade  tributary  to 
this  market,  but  also  the  Fancy Grocery House.  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.

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~~ 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 
3  lb.  cans  Soused in Tomato  Sauce  and in  Mustard Sauce, 
Brook Trout Soused and Spiced in 3 lb. cans,  Smoked  Hali­
but,  Yarmouth  Bloaters,  Scotch  Fin-in-haddies,  Rochester 
Ready  Cooked  Food  Co.’s  Cooked  Oatmeal,  Hominy  and 
Wheat  2  lb.  papers  and  Beans  and Peas for  Soups in 1 lb. 
papers, Hecker’s Self-Raising Buckwheat 3 and 6 lb. papers.
Please read the  ^tbove carefully and if in want of anothing in  our line send in your 

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

suins. t u n   i   u

G rand  Ftecpicds.

Immense schools of herring,  which  were 
evidently frightened by dogfish  or  bluefish, 
were driven  toward the  shore,  near  New 
Biddeford, Me., a few days ago.  The  num­
bers kept increasing, and when the tide went 
out left a place of about an  acre  comDletly 
covered with the fish. 
In some spots, where 
there was a depression in the sand,  the  fish 
were piled in to the  depth  of  four or  five 
feet  The farmers in the vicinity flocked to 
the beach and secured cart-loads of the  her­
ring to be used upon their lands as  a  fertil­
izer,  One farmer obtained  sixty cart  loads.
One thing  ought to be borne  in  mind by 
every dealer.  The world is full of men who 
are each and all  trying  their  level  best to 
get ahead, and  unless  you  put  forth  your 
best efforts you will surely get left.  Do not 
slaoken your efforts.  Do not lag  by the way, 
Keep up to the limit  all  the  time—success 
lies in that alone.

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.

S Z ^ X j X j ’ S  

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

System of

Common  Sense 

BOOK  KEEPING,
RETAIL  GROCERS,

FOR

A N D

GENERAL  STOREKEEPERS,

REQUIRES

TWO  BOOKS  ONLY 

For  All  Purposes.

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

AND

“THE  COMPENDIUM,” requiring’but  10 
minutes a  day  to  record  each  d ay’s  c a sh
_  complete  self 
transactions,  and  suppl 
proving PR O FIT   and  I  
whenever desired.
Full  details,  illustrated, by  example,  sent 
free  to  M E R C H A N T S  sending  name  and 
i«4 
address  to H A L L   &  CO.,  Publishers, 
L ake  St.,  C H ICAG O ,  IL L . 
If  possible 
send  b u s in e s s  c a k d .

LOSS  Balance  sh<

S T IR

Jo h n   Caulfield,

S o le   A gent.

P E R K  11ST S  «So  H E S S ,
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,

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

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

