Michigan  Tradesman

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VOL. 2.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  21,  1885.

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Special A tten tio n  given  to   Collections  in  City 

o r  Country.  Also

FIDE,  LIFE &   ACCIDENT

Insurance,

Shoe and  L eath er............................. 
-®0Stp.n
Cooper.................................................D ayton, Ohio
U nion............................................. P ittsburgh,  Pa.
G erm ania....................................Cincinnati,  Ohio

T otal A ssets represented, $3,5 1 6 ,80 8 .

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

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,

General  Collectors,

16 H ousem an Block 

-  Grand Rapids

M anufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

KEMIKTEL’S
Red  Bark  Bitters

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TO  D EA L ER S  A N D   SH IP P E R S.

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, P o ultry, Game 
and  a ll  kinds  of F arm   Produce.
This com pany is duly established by law, and 
farm ers, shippers or dealers can  depend  upon 
prom pt  and  ho n est  re tu rn s  fo r  all  consign­
m ents.  F or p articu lars  address,
J .  W.  W H ITE, Sec’y,

31 Beach Street, Boston, Mass.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 K en t Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

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  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  1

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.
p e t e r   d o r a x t,

Attorney-at-Law,

Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

P ractices  in  State  and  U nited  S tates  Courts. 
Special a tten tio n  given to

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

S.Ä. WELLING

WHOLESALE

78  W est  B ridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

—AND—

NOTIONS!

JA M ES  C. A V ER Y . 

G EO.  E .  HU BB A RD .

James C. Avery & Co

Grand  H aven,  Mich.

M anufacturers of th e  follow ing  brands  of  Ci­
Great  Scott,  Demolai  No.  5, 

g ars;

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.
-JOBBERS  IN -

Manufactured  Tobacco.
RETAILERS,
LAVINE

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

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 o h n D. M a n - 
gu m,  A .  M.  Sp b a g u e ,  J o h n   H .  P a c k e r , 
L. R. Ce s n a ,  and J. T.  H e r r in g t o n .

24 Pearl Street 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

W .N. FULLER & CO

D E SIG N E R S  A N D

Engravers on Wood,

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

cluding  B uildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

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MICH.

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

-JO B B E R S   o f -

Horse Covers,  Oiled  Clothing, Awnings  and Tents.

73 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  KAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

CLOVER  SEED

—AND— BEANS!

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

W. T. LAMOREAOI Agent,

71  Canal street.

SHBIYER, WEATHERLY & CO.,

G rand  Rapids, Mich., 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

IRON  PIPE,

Brass Goods,  Iron  and  Brass  F ittings, 

M antels,  Grates, Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  Fitters,
—A nd  M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

JEWELEH,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

LIVE  GROGERYMEN

DETROIT  SOAP  CO.’S

-SELL-

-FAMOUS-

The B est Selling Brand  on  the  Mar­
ket.  A   Strictly  Pure,  First-Class  A   1 
Fam ily  Soap.  B ig and  L asting  Trade 
and Good M argin to  Dealers.

Cody,  B all  &  Co.,

Sole Agents for Grand Rapids.

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A  MORAL  VIEW .

Religious  Aspect  of  Rusiness  T h rift  and 

Anxiety.

A business man  writes  as  follows  to the 
Christian  Union over the  signature of “In­
quiring Friend:”

The first  “mercantile  business” I  can  re­
member being engaged in was when I was a 
five-year-old boy, when one  Fourth  of  July 
I sold ¡to the other boys in our neighborhood, 
from a little  table  in  an  alley-way next  to 
my father’s  house,  “molasses  and  water,” 
for one cent a glass.  How 1 enjoyed  it, for 
I made the largest per cent,  of  profit  on it 
that I ever have  made, as  my  parents  fur­
nished the materials  for me  free,  from  our 
pump aud kitchen  closet.  How  rich  I  felt 
when I had pocketed those ten or twelve big 
copper cents that were about in  those  days! 
And I often earned one, two, or  three cents, 
and sometimes a  “fourpence  ha’penny,”  as 
we called those little silver  pieces  that  rep­
resented six and a quarter cents in those old 
days.  Your readers whose hair  is  growing 
a  little  white  will  remember  those  “four- 
pences” and those big copper cents of  those 
old times.  The first financial  distress I ex­
perienced was when, after dark one evening, 
when I was about ten years  old,  I  dropped 
a  little  silver  “fourpence,”  which  I  had 
earned,  on  the  sidewalk  of  the  principal 
street of the town, and hunted and  prowled 
around  after it a  long  time  in  agony, but 
could not find it in  the dark, and  had to get 
home and go to bed without it, but  made up 
my mind  that  I  would  get  up  just  before 
daylight in the morning, before  other  folks 
could get a chance at it, and find it when the 
sunlight came along.  I was so intensely de­
termined to wake up early, that  when I did 
awake I was delighted to  find  that  I  could 
get on the street before sunrise, which I did, 
full  of  anxiety;  but  how  “tickled”  I  felt 
when the first rays  of  morning  brought to 
my  sight  my  little  silver  “fourpence” !  I 
have no doubt that I  relished  my  breakfast 
well that  morning.  How  often  during  my 
business  career  1  have  retired  at  night 
troubled by losses  amounting  to  thousands 
of dollars,  which could not be  gained  again 
by getting up early, though  sometimes they 
would wake me earlier than the little  silver 
fourpence did!

I  continued  to  earn  one  cent,  or  two 
cents, but rarely a fourpence,  before  school 
or after school, by doing various  little  jobs, 
or errands, until I was almost fourteen years 
old, when 1 got a  situation  in  a  retail  dry- 
goods store in our town.  My salary  for the 
first year or two was $1  a  week. 
I opened 
the  shop  at  five  o’clock  in  the  morning, 
swept out,  dusted  the  store,  cleaned  and 
trimmed the  lamps, and  filled  them  with 
whale oil.  There was no gas company then 
in our  town, which is  now a city, with  gas 
and electricity.  I commenced waiting upon 
the customers, and carried bundles  all  over 
town; we had a good evening trade  and did 
not shut up shop  until  nine  o’clock  in  the 
evening.  By the fourth year  my wages had 
increased to $3 per week. 
I boarded with a 
relative for .$2 per week,  and  with  the  re­
maining money I paid all my  expenses dur­
ing the succeeding years until I was  twenty- 
one  years  of  age.  I continued  to  do  so, 
practicing the most careful  and  rigid  econ­
omies; and though my wages had  increased 
a  little from  year to year,  my  expenses for 
board  and  other  necessities  had  also  in­
creased, so that I  figured  and  figured  and 
figured, watphed  and  calculated  closely as 
ever, hoping to meet them, and  perhaps, al­
so, to get a little capital  ahead  to  help  me 
to start busines  for  myself  when  I  should 
get to be twenty-one  years  old.  Was  this 
covetousness?

When I did arrive at  that  age,  I  hired  a 
little store,  with rent $300 per year, and my 
father, though  his means were very limited, 
loaned me $500,  and I got trusted  for sever­
al hundred dollars worth of  dry  goods  and 
small wares in addition,  and  opened  shop 
with great trepidation, fearing  I  might  not 
succeed against the  many  competitors  who 
were all about my locality.  I  squeezed  my 
expenses to the  lowest  possible  point,  and 
worked incessantly until nine  o’clock in the 
evening.  I remember  how  glad  I  was to 
sell  two skeins of  thread  for  a  cent, or a 
piece of  tape  at  the  same  price,  etc.,  etc. 
Oh! the anxieties and agonies I went througli 
for fear I should “fail,” which in those days 
was  considered a  disgrace!  I shall  never 
forget the  dismay  and  consternation  1  felt 
on taking account  of  stock  at  the  close  of 
the first year’s  business,  to find  that I  had 
not made a dollar; but I fought hard to keep 
up courage, and went into the second  year’s 
work determined to get ahead,  if  possible; 
but at the close  of  the  year,  on  taking  ac­
count  of  stock  again,  I  found  I  was  in 
the same-condition that  I  found  myself to 
be at the close of  the  first  year.  I  remem­
ber telling my  father  with  sobs  and  tears, 
how I had come out  the  second  year,  and 
that he told me not to be discouraged, for he 
had seen many a year when he did not make 
money, but had,  notwithstanding,  now  got 
ahead  comfortably,  and  always  paid  his 
debts in  full.  I  discovered  that  a  young 
man who had been in my  employ had  been 
spending a very large amount more than his 
salary, and that he had  taken  it  from  my 
money drawers; hut as he had  now  gone, I 
felt hopeful that on the  third  year, if I was 
courageous and careful, I should  add  some-

thing to my means.  Was this covetousness? I 
“pitched in,” and watched  things  like a de- j 
tective,  and at the  close  of  the  third  year ¡ 
took an account of stock, and was  delighted I 
to find that I had got more  than  double the 
amount  of  my  borrowed  capital;  and,  by 
hard work and the  strictest  economies  for 
fifteen years, I continued from  year to  year 
to increase my capital.  Was  this  covetous­
ness?  I  had  become,  during  this  time, a 
married man, and the father of  several chil­
dren, so that my expenses  and  my  need of 
capital to carry on  a larger business  had in­
creased so largely that I did  not  feel  much 
richer when I had accumulated  $10,000 than 
I felt when I had got my  first  thousand.  I 
afterward  became a partner in  a  wholesale 
business,  and continued to prosper financial­
ly. 
I had been giving all  along  something 
to church work, to various charities  and rel­
atives in need;  but the habit  of  looking  af­
ter things closely I could not  dismiss, espec­
ially as I made mistakes and losses occasion­
ally in my  investments,  and  have  been  so 
worried sometimes that  I  have  been  much 
afflicted  with  anxieties.  Could 1 have suc­
ceeded always in  paying  100  cents  on  the 
dollar,  if I had  been  indifferent  and  free 
from solicitude and from  strong  determina­
tion to get  into a strong financial  position? 
My family expenses and opportunities to as­
sist in various  charities  continued  to 
in­
crease, and though, after retiring from busi­
ness, I endeavored  to  invest  my  capital  in 
the most  conservative  securities,  so  that  I 
should have a  reliable  income,  yet  I  have 
met  with 
losses  “here,  there,  and  el|p- 
where,”  causing  me  much  solicitude  and 
many  anxieties.  I  have  also  felt  anxiety 
lest  these  troubles  should  be  considered  a 
result of covetousness;  and yet  it  seems  to 
me to be the result of  habits  formed  in  my 
early experience in business, without which, 
it seems to me, I never could have succeeded 
in paying my honest debts, and also accumu­
lating necessary  capital  to  give  my  fatnily 
and myself many of the enjoyable  things of 
modern times, and to assist  many of the ex­
isting charities and other Christian  work.

My object in writing the above  is to have 
your opinion whether  I am  to  consider  the 
solicitudes  and  anxieties  which  sometimes 
beset me in reference to my financial  affairs 
to be the result of what is considered  covet­
ousness, or are they the natural result and out­
growth of what seemed  positively  essential 
and necessary for my business success in my 
early life.

To the above inquiries, the  Union  replies 

in the following admirable manner:

We commend to  the special  attention  of 
our readers a letter from a subscriber  in an­
other  column.  We suggest to  fathers  and 
mothers to read it aloud at the tea-table and 
invite the opinion of  the  children  on  the 
question.  In answering it here we must en­
ter a little into the metaphysics  of  the  sub­
ject.

Thrift  and  covetousness  are  children  of 
the same mother,  acquisitiveness;  but  they 
are as unlike as Jacob and  Esau.  Like  the 
working bee and  the  wasp  they  belong  to 
the same  family; but  one is  a  gatherer of 
honey, and the other  only stings.  To covet 
is the desire to get from a neighbor what be­
longs to him without giving a  ju st equiva­
lent  therefor.  To  desire  your  neighbor’s 
property is not  covetousness, and  it  is  not 
wrong.  Without such desire there could be 
no trade, no commerce, no  organized  indus­
try.  We all desire something that  we have 
not, and we labor to get it;  and it is  gener 
ally, in modern life, something our neighbor 
possesses.  We shop because  we  wish  our 
neighbor’s goods; and  our  neighbor  resorts 
to every expedient to  stimulate  this  desire. 
He  advertises,  eulogizes,  displays,  per­
suades.  Hs spends large sums of  money in 
endeavoring to make us want what  he  pos- 
seesses.  This desire to acquire and  possess 
is the mainspring of all modern industry.  It 
drives all the clockwork.  The world  keeps 
time, the world’s hands  make  progress  on 
the dial, because of it.

To desire another man’s property  without 
paying him a just and  reasonable  price for 
it—this is  covetousness.  And  this  is  the 
root of all  dishonesties.  Its  gratification is 
always essentially  dishonest, whether  it  be 
done by  violence, as  by  the  burglar; or by 
alertness as by the sneak thief; or by  cajol­
ery, as by the confidence man; or by playing 
on the  weakness of  the  victim, as  by the 
gambler;  or  by  taking  advantage  of  his 
needs, as by the despotism of  the  dishonest 
capitalist.  From  playing  marbles  for 
keep to stock gambling on the  Street, every 
scheme to get  money  out  of  a  neighbor’s 
pocket without putting an equivalent amount 
of money in, is  a  poisonous  fruit  of  this 
poisonous tree; the mother  is  covetousness 
the child is thievery.

Now, there is  not  the  slightest  trace  of 
this  spirit in the graphic portrait which our 
correspondent  gives  of  himself.  He  de­
scribes thrift, not  covetousness;  and  thrift 
is the virtue  as covetousness is  the  vice, of 
acquisitiveness.  He may  have  been  over- 
desirous to  acquire.  He  may  have  toiled 
too much and  worried  needlessly.  Of  this 
he must judge.  This is a  common  fault  in 
American life; and it  may  have  been  his. 
But it is  not  covetousness.  Overwork  and 
overworry  are  faults;  covetousness  is  a 
crime.

A great deal is said about the evils  of  ov-

er work and overworry; but there  is  some-1 
thing to be  said on  the  other side.  Young 
men are preached to on the  evils  of acquisi- 
tiyeuess; they should also be exorted to cul­
tivate it.  The world  has  suffered  tenfold 
more from the spirit that  throws  away  the 
sixpence and passes on, than from  the spirit 
which gets up before  light and  searches  on 
the sidewalk for it.  Where one  young man 
grows hard and callous and  gray  before his 
time, from overwork, ten young  men  go  to 
destruction because they  lack  the combined 
caution, energy and conscience which  make 
thrift.  The man who  makes  a  fortune by 
honest industry blesses hundreds  of  others 
in the making of  it;  and  this  whether  he 
will or no.  For even industrious selfishness 
is a benediction upon  others,  in  spite  of it­
self.  But he who dissipates  a  fortune  is a 
curse to himself and to everyone with whom 
he comes in  contact.  In  this,  as  in  every­
thing else, the testimony of the Bible is con­
sonant with that  of  life; it counts  riches a 
blessing from the Lord,  and  thrift a virtue 
which  He  honors.  The  three  patriarchs, 
Abraham, Isaac,and Jacob,were men of thrift 
and  men of competence,  if  not  of  wealth; 
the  blessings  of  possession  are  promised 
both in the Old Testament  and  in  the New 
Testament to virtue; and while  the  bulk of 
the Bible  is  devoted to the  cultivation  of 
other virtues, it never  treats  the  economic 
virtues as though they  were  vices,  or  the 
comforts  which 
they  usually  insure  as 
though they were temptations of the  world, 
the flesh and the devil.  There is  no  better 
text-book for a young  man  to  study  as  a 
guidance to successful achievement  in busi­
ness than the Book of Proverbs.  There are 
other and  higher  virtues  than  thrift,  for 
which thrift  must  sometimes  stand  aside. 
There are other and grander  successes  than 
wealth, for which  wealth  must  sometimes 
be sacrificed.  But to acquire  property is an 
honorable ambition, if  honorably  pursued; 
and the  spirit  of  industry,  economy,  and 
carefulness—in a word, the spirit of thrift— 
is one that should  be  cultivated  by  pulpit 
and by parent. It is a very necessary, though 
an unpraised, grace.

How  P ostal  Currency  W as  Invented.
Postal currency,  which  was  the  “change” 
during the war and until the  resumption  of 
specie payments, was the invention  of  Gen. 
Spinner, who had represented  the  Syracuse 
district of New York in  Congress,  and  had 
been  appointed  Treasurer  of  the  United 
States by  President Lincoln.  Small change 
had vanished, and in buying a dinner  in the 
market,  change  had  to  be  taken in beets, 
cabbages,  potatoes,  and  what not.  In  his 
dilemma,  he  bethought  himself of the pos­
tage stamp.  He sent down to the Post office 
department  and  purchased  a  quantity  of 
stamps.  He then ordered up  a  package  of 
the paper  upon  which  Government  securi­
ties  were  printed.  He  cut the paper  into 
various  sizes.  On  the  pieces  he  pasted 
stamps to represent different  amounts.  He 
thus initiated a substitute for  fractional  sil­
ver.  This was not, however,  a  Government 
transaction  in  any  sense;  it  could not be. 
Gen. Spinner distributed his improvised cur­
rency among the clerks  of  the  department. 
They  took  it  readily,  and  the trade folks 
more readily.  The idea spread; the postage 
stamps,  either  detached  or  pasted  upon  a 
piece of paper, became the medium,of small 
exchange.  It was dubbed “postal currency.” 
From  this,  Gen.  Spinner  got  his  idea  of 
fractional currency,  and  went  before  Con­
gress with it.  That body readily adapted it, 
and but a short time after Gen. Spinner had 
begun pasting  operations,  a  law  was  upon 
the statute book providing for  the  issue  of 
the fractional currency which had become so 
popular.  The fac-simile  of postage  stamps 
was put upon each  piece  of  currency,  and, 
for a long time, it was known as “postal-cur­
rency.”  An  enormous  amount  never  was 
presented for redemption,  and  the  Govern­
ment was consequently the gainer.

Five Points to be R em em bered.

Keep down expenses, but don’t be  penur­

ious.

Enter your charges  when  the  goods  are 

sold.  Don’t wait.

Don’t take fresh risks to retrive your loss­

es.  Cut them off short.
Have a proper division of work, and neither 
interfere nor permit  interference  with your 
employes.

It is better  for  your  credit  to  postpone 
payment squarely  then  to  pretend  to  pay 
by giving a worthless promise.

H e  Was  Not  Dead  Sure.

“I see there  are  a  number  of  counterfeit 
Bank  of England  notes  circulating  in  this 
country.”

“Yes,  and  what’s  worse,  I think I have 

one of them.”

“So?  What are you going to do  with it?”
*‘I don’t know.  That’s what troubles me.”
“You might put it in the  church contribu­

“No, not yet. 

I’m not dead sure its  coun­

tion box.”

terfeit.”

China adopted the postal  card  January 1.
In France wood sells at a third of  a  cent 

a pound, or as much as corn in Kansas.

Puscher, the  Nuremberg  chemist,  says  a 
paste composed of starch, glycerine and gyp­
sum will maintain its placticity longer  than 
any other cement;

NO. 70.

P A R T N E R S H  IF .

H ow   to   Go In  a n d  H ow  to  G et O ut.

Almost the first  thing  a  young  business 
man thinks of when he  starts  out  in life is 
to  “go  into  partnership,’’¿and  like  young 
men the world over, he little knows the dan­
ger of the step  lie  takes.  A  good  partner­
ship is a very good  thing, but a  bad  one is 
the very worst of evils that beset  the young 
man’s  path.  However, I  assume  that  you 
have found an honest,  industrious man, who 
knows  some  particular  business  or  calling 
well; while you have a little capital that has 
fallen to your share in the settlement  of the 
family estate.  First of all  talk  things over 
well  before you put  pen  to  paper.  Then 
draw up your “articles.”  Don’t try  to  talk 
like a lawyer;  make it  plain—who the part­
ners are,  what the business is to be, when it 
will begin ¿tnd when end; what each partner 
is to contribute or perform; how  profits  are 
to  be  divided.  Never  mind  putting  in a 
whole lot of stuff about  death,  insanity,  im­
prisonment,  etc.,  terminating  the  partner­
ship.  The law does all that for you.

Bear in mind that you  have  now  formed 
what is called a “general  partnership,” that 
you both have equal  rights and that no mat­
ter what private  agreements  you  have  be­
tween you, you are both 
liable to  creditors 
to the full amount of your partnership prop­
erty and  also  your  private  fortunes.  By 
mutual agreement you  may  terminate  that 
partnership at any  moment  and  designate 
the partner  who will close up  the  business 
of the firm.  It is customary  to  insert a no­
tice of  dissolution  in  the  newspapers  and 
state who will sign  in  liquidation.  One  of 
you may assume all of the  liabilities and by 
agreem ents  entitled to all  of  the  assets, 
but by so doing he doesn’t free himself from 
personal liability to creditors.  One  partner 
may pay a claim and have  recourse  against 
his partner forthe latter’s share. Suppose that 
you quarrel and can’t agree as to the conduct 
of the business!  Well, then, nothing is left 
you but to ask the interference of  a court of 
equity.  The judge will  appoint a  receiver, 
who will, upon  giving  his  bond, be vested 
with all of the assets of the firm.  Your pow­
er to act will cease  absolutely  and  he  will 
stand in your shoes and  proceed to settle up 
the affairs of the firm as  the  court  may  de­
cree ; but you may always be heard by coun­
sel.  You would do well in your  articles  to- 
specify which partner may make  promisory 
notes for the firm; but bear in mind  that, ii> 
spite of this clause, should your partner give 
a promissory note in the regular  course  of 
business, it binds your firm even  if  it  ruins 
it.  I mention this fact to show you the dan­
ger of partners]lips.  Also in  your  articles 
restrict yourselves from  going  on  bonds or 
becoming  sureto  for  any one.  It is a bad 
practice.

If your partner dies you  must  account to 
his legal representatives for  his  interest  in 
the firm.  I believe that  the courts have held 
that a man and his  wife  cannot be  co-part­
ners, although this seems to me  an  illiberal 
decision.  If “dormant,” “silent,” or “sleep­
ing” partners become known,  they  are  lia­
ble to creditors as  general  ones.  There  is 
only one way to  restrict  your  liability  in a 
partnership, and that is  to  become  what is 
known as “special” partner, of which I shall 
speak.  In most  States the  statute  forbids 
partnerships to style themselves as  corpora­
tions,  or to put fictitious names on your sign 
board.  In a word a  partnership  should  be 
scrupulously exact in its  dealings  with  the 
public; make no secret of the composition of 
the firm; advertise all changes; put out plain 
signs, and  not  use  “Co.”  unless  there  is 
somebody to be represented by it.

Meaning:  of th e  W ord  “Snide.”

From  the Philadelphia  Ledger.

from 

is  derived 

One who has studied up the word “snide,” 
which has come into general use, like  many 
slang words, says  it  means  more  than  the 
nearest  English  words  in 
its  meaning. 
There  is  the  word  “snod,”  from  the  pro­
vincial  English,  which  means  sly,  cun­
the  word 
ning,  and 
“snood,”  used  in  fishing  tackle  and 
in 
thè  way  artful  young  misses  tie  up their 
hair so as to tie the young man’s heart with­
in.  The word “schneider,”  from  Pennsyl­
vania Dutch,  means the cut as  applied  to  a 
tailor, who is called “schneider,” and proba­
bly cuts the cloth too short.  “Snide” is now 
applied to almost  everything  manufactured 
which is under quality.  A  “snide”  buggy 
is one losely constructed and  painted  up  to 
look  well, but out of which the spokes  will 
fly,  driving  around  the  sharp  turns.  A 
“snide” piano is one which has a  well-varn­
ished case and brass fixings, but with a  harp 
like that in Tara’s halls, and which will soon 
be mute.

A clever detective proved that a note  was 
fraudulent,  in New York, the other  day,  by 
showing  that  the  blank  on  which  it was 
made  bore  the  address  64  Nassau  street, 
whereas the printers  who  made  the  blank 
had  not  moved  into  that place at the time 
the note was  dated.  This  recalls  the  case 
of an ancient deed of the time  of  George  I. 
It was shown to be  fraudulent  by  the  fact 
that in legal phraseology it set forth the fact 
that it was executed “in the reign of George 
I.”  Of course the monarch was never known 
as “George I.” until George II. ascended the 
throne.

half interest in his  grocery,  to  Jacob  Mar­
shal, junior.

J.  G.  Lamoreaux,  of  Fennville,  recently 
made a sale of 2,700 bushels  of  potatoes  to 
Chicago parties.

J. T.  Thompson,  late  of  Lapeer,  has  en­
gaged in the provision and grocery  business 
at West Branch.

Noble & Deming, general dealers at  Man­
istee,  have  assigned to  James  Henderson. 
Liabilities, $8,768;  about  $4,000.

The Big Rapids H erald says that the bus- 
ness men of that place  report  a marked  im­
provement in commercial  matters.

H. C. Schnoor,  the bankrupt  Fair  Haven 
merchant, will resume business, satisfactory 
arrangements having  been  made  with his 
creditors.

Marshall Statesman:  The firm of F. Ed- 
gerton & Co. is dissolved and  the  business 
will hereafter be conducted  by S. H. and G. 
H.  Edgerton.

David Swartout has retired from the  firm 
of I. E. Latimer & Co.,  at  Muskegon.  The 
firm is now composed of I.  E.  Latimer  and 
Frank W. Hawley.

C.  C.  Moulton  intends  to  enter  into  the 
commission  business,  at  Muskegon,  in  the 
store lately occupied by Carey & Lander,  in 
the Wierengo block.

The  Fremont  Indicator  says  that  “Zun- 
der Bros., of Grand Rapids, have bought the 
boot and shoe stock at the Commercial store, 
and begun business.”

James Shirk has purchased  the  hardware 
stock  and  business  of  Geo.  M.  Shirk,  at 
Petoskey.  Geo. will engage  in  the  manu­
facture of handles at some point in  Indiana,
Jack  <fe  Jake,  the  Three  Rivers  grocers, 
have moved into their new store building,and 
M. M. Mallory is authrrity for the statement 
that they have now one of the  finest  stores 
and best arranged stocks in Southern Michi 
gan.

Nashville  News:  Business  changes— 
Kanaga and  Gross  have  moved 
into  the 
Nashville House; J. Braun has  moved  into 
Brook’s  building,  Mrs.  Marble 
into  the 
building vacated  by Braun, and  Moore  into 
the old Brady building.

Geo.  C.  Palmer  and  Chas.  J.  Kennedy 
who composed the grocery firm of Palmer & 
Kennedy, at Muskegon, have dissolved, Ken­
nedy retiring.  Mr. Palmer has formed a co­
partnership with Henry  E.  Kingsbury,  and 
the two will continue the business under the 
firm name of Palmer & Kingsbury.

Lemon & Sable, general dealers  at  Clare, 
were closed on the 15th on  a  chattel  mort­
gage for $2,500, held by Jacobson & Netzorg, 
of Greenville.  Lemon claims that the mort­
gage was given without his  knowledge  and 
consent,  and  as  his partner is a nephew of 
Jacobson,  the  affair  has  a crooked appear­
ance.  Lemon claims that the stock will inven­
tory  $5,151,  and  that  the liabilities are only 
$4,020, and has secured a temporary  injunc­
tion restraining the holders of the  mortgage 
from foreclosing the  same.

manufacturing matters.

The Flint  shoe  factory  has  added  a  new 

department for fine  work.

The Montague basket factory will resume 

operations early next  month.

A stave factory with  a  capital  of  $10,000 

has been started at Fair Haven.

The  Gibson  stave  mill  at  Fremont  will 

probably resume operations next month.

John H. McCormick has sold  his  half in­
terest in the Otisville  grist and flouring mill 
to Mr. Alexander, of Birch Run.

Alpena has been in distress because of the 
report that a gang of  incendiaries  has  been 
organized to burn some of the  saw  mills  in 
that  city.

The  latest  estimate  of  this  season’s  log 
crop on Muskegon  waters, that has appeared 
in print, places it at 355,000,000 feet, a figure 
considerably below previous  estimates.

A local authority states  that  some  of  the 
finest  pine  lumber  ever  manufactured  on 
Lake  Superior,  is  piled 
in  the  Diamond 
Match Company’s  yard at Ontonagon, await­
ing shipment in the spring.

There  is  a  strong  movement  on  foot  in 
Leelenaw  county,  for  building  a  narrow 
gauge railroad from Maple City to  Glen Ar­
bor on Lake Michigan.  The road,  if  built, 
would take to the lake, for shipment, a  va8t 
amount  of  hardwood  lumber  and  timber, 
bark, wood, etc.

Mosher & Fisher, of West Bay  City,  will 
put in but 6,000,000 feet of logs this  winter, 
as compared to 35,000,000  feet  last  winter. 
Of the amount to be put  in  half  will  come 
over the Flint &  Pere  Marquette,  and  half 
will go into the Cedar.  The firm is carrying 
over 17,000,000 feet of  logs  and  20,000,000 
feet of lumber.

At the  annual  meeting  of  the  Muskegon 
Novelty Iron Works, the following directors 
were elected;  R. C. Hitchcock, C. E. Wood­
ard,  G.  T.  Jones,  Ed.  Behrens,  W.  F. 
Behrens,  A.  Harvey,  A.  Cleghorn.  The 
officers  are:  President,  R.  C. Hitchcock; 
Vice-President, Ed. Behrens;  Secretary and 
Treasurer, C. E. Woodard.

Owosso  boasts  of  eighteen 

STRAY  FACTS.

A Petoskey firm shipped 20,000 pounds of 

frozen fish to Chicago one day last week.

The Business Men’s Association of  Evart 
location  of a 

is endeavoring to secure  the 
tannery at that place.

One firm in Midland  has  purchased  and 
shipped over  2,000  bushels of  clover  seed 
this winter, paying  between  $3.50  and $4 
per bushel for the  same.

Foster Abbott, a  Cheboygan  man,  has  in­
vented a stove to burn sawdust.  It burns 24 
hours with one filling, gives as much heat as 
a base burner filled with chestnut  coal,  and 
there is no smoke or  dirt.

Robinson’s  feed  mills, at  Royal  Oak,  did 
not  do  good  work.  An  expert found  the 
machinery was so placed  that  the  grinding 
was being done backwards.  It was changed, 
and now it works all right.

Grand Haven business  men  are  casting 
about for something in the line of  manufac­
turing to take the place of the departing saw 
mills.  In  this  connection, it is  eminently 
proper to remind the people  of  the place in 
question that there is  one 
industry  which 
cannot help thriving there—a glass  factory. 
No lack of sand there!

T pere’s  M illions  in  It.

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Peninsular 
Novelty Co. was held in  this  city  on  Mon­
day, resulting in the election of  the  follow­
ing  gentlemen  to  the  Board  of  Directors: 
Messrs. Geo. C. Briggs  and  J. B. Parker, of 
this  city,  and  Edward  O. Ely  and  Geo. E. 
Parker,  of  Boston.  At  a  meeting  of  the 
Directors, the following officers werp elected:

President—Geo. C.  Briggs.
Vice-President—Geo. E. Parker.
Treasurer—Edward O. Ely.
Secretary—J. B. Parker.
The company was  organized  in  this  city 
last June, the  following  Grand Rapids  gen­
tlemen—in addition to those named above— 
being interested in the  corporation:  Dr. C. 
F. Hazeltine, C. S. Bulkley, H. B. Fairchild, 
Jas.  G.  MacBride  and  John  A.  Covade. 
Capt. C. S. Perkins,  of  Henderson,  Ky.,  is 
also  represented  on  the  stock  book.  The 
purpose of the company is  the  manufacture 
and sale of  the  Ely  automatic  button  fast­
ener, which is  claimed  to  be  the  cheapest 
metalic fastener known to the  trade,  and  is 
confidently expected  to  earn  dividends  be­
side  which  the  Bell  telephone  will  shrink 
into insignificance.  American and Canadian 
patents have already been  secured,  and  ap­
plications  for  patents  are  now  pending  in 
several foreign countries.  The capital stock 
of the  corporation  is  $150,000.  The  office 
and factory is located  at  17 Chardon  street, 
Boston, where everything  is  in  readiness to 
b§gin business on a  large  scale.  The  fac­
tory has a capacity of 50 machines per week, 
and it is expected  that  fully  2,500  will  be 
disposed  of  during  the  present  year.  As 
there are 30,000 dealers in  this country, and 
hundreds  of  thousands  in  other  countries, 
who will want the  machine,  the  company’s 
field of  operations  is  practically  unlimited.
W ill  Probably  Take  Twenty-five  Cents 
At the meeting of  the unsecured creditors 
of E. J.  Harrington, which was held at Hol­
land last week, and was attended by persons 
representing  about  $4,000  of  the  $6,136.42 
unsecured indebtedness, the  following  facts 
were  brought to light:  Harrington’s inven­
tory, which  was  completed  on  Dec.  8,  re­
vealed a  stock  amounting  to  $15,340.75  at 
cost  price.  Competent  judges  claim  that 
not to ezeeed 60 per cent,  could  be  realized 
from the  sale of the same,  so  that  there  is 
very little margin above*the  amount  of  the 
mortgages,  $9,160.  Six pieces of real estate 
are mortgaged for  $14,300,  which  is  about 
all they are worth.  Certain friends of Har­
rington offer to assist  him out of his present 
difficulty  by  lending  him  $1,600,  on  the 
strength of which he offers a compromise  of 
25 per cent.  Most  of  those  present  at  the 
meeting agreed to the  terms  proposed,  and 
it is generally understood^ that  the offer will 
be  accepted  all  around.  Mr.  Harrington 
will then resume  business.

In  answer to  the  enquiry  of  a  northern 
dealer, The Tradesman finds  that the tan­
ners and dealers in hemlock bark are paying 
$5 per cord, delivered here,  60  days.  The 
prospect for the coming  season  is  regarded 
as excellent.

The total maket value of Cape Cod’s cran­

berry crop this year is $350,000.

MAHOGANY !
HENRY  OTIS,

ADDRESS

N E W   ORLEANS.

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

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

S.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

T erm s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates made know n on application.

WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  21,  1885.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

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P resident—Wm. Logie.
H rs t V ice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
£&cond  V ice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
S ecretary and T reasurer—L.  W. A tkins.
E xecutive  Comm ittee—P resident  and  Secre- 
tary ,  cx  officio i  Cbas.  S.  Robinson,  Jns.  N. 
B radford and W. G. H awkins.
E lection Com m ittee—Geo.  H.  Seym our,  W al­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed- 
. m unds and D. S. H augh.
'Boom  Com m ittee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings. 
Excursion  Com m ittee—D.  S.  H augh,  S.  A. 
Sears, C. S. Robinson, Wm. B.  E dm unds  and 
i J . N. Bradford.
Regular  M eetings—L ast  Saturday  evening  in 
each m onth. 
N ext M eeting-S aturday  evening,  Ja n u a ry  31, 
a t “T he Tradesm an” office.
M eeting  of  Excursion  Com m ittee—Saturday 
evening,  Ja n u a ry   24,  a t  “The  T radesm an” 
office.
The total sales of the  jobbers  and  manu­
facturers of Minneapolis  during  1884 were 
$137,380,462,  against  $115,258,575  in  1883. 
"The flouring mills turned out  5,980,202 bar­
rels against 4,580,850  barrels  the  year  be­
fore.

_

. 

Local millers are now paying  83 cents per 
bushel for Lancaster wheat and  80 cents  for 
Clawson and Fulse—a total advance of eight 
cents during the last three weeks.  It begins 
to look  as  though  the  prophesy  concerning 
“ 90 cent wheat by March 1 ” would  be  ful­
filled.

The Shoe and Leather Reporter's Annual 
for 1885 shows a total of  752 retail boot and 
shoe  dealers  in  this  State,  eight  jobbers, 
nineteen  manufacturers,  eighty-eight  tan­
ners,  thirteen  dealers  in  leather  and  find­
ings, fifty-four hide  dealers  and* two  manu­
facturers of bark extract.

The Tradesman is indebted to the Alle­
gan Gazette for the  following  generous  ap­
preciation of its merits:

The  Michigan  Tradesman,  a  Grand 
Rapids commercial newspaper, is  but  little 
more than a year old, but must be numbered 
among the city’s most successful and deserv­
ing institutions.  It completely fills its  field 
and seems to us a necessity to every  trades­
man in the Valley City and all towns related 
to it in business.  Besides commercial news, 
markets, and trade advertising, it gives much 
patter of great special yalue  to  merchants, 
and its bold advocacy of the morals of  busi­
ness is specially commendable.  It  shows a 
lively appreciation of  that  most  important 
newspaper requisite—neat typography.

P ertin en t  Points  for  Live  Dealers.

Push  trade.
Trust with care.
Don’t run in debt.
Pay cash when you  buy*
Let only your  best customers run in debt.
Look sharp to whom you trust.
Make your customers the best  prices  pos 

sible.

Don’t rely on “tic.”
Buy the best goods in the  lines  your  cus 

Keep your  accounts  and  collections  well 

tomers call for.

in hand.

Talk more business than  politics.
Weigh,  count,  measure  or  gauge  every­

thing you  buy.

Be  considerate with your clerks, and they 
will think better of you and work better  for 
you.

Have The Tradesman in your store from 

Jan.  1 to Dec. 31 of each year.

By a recent decision of the Appellate Court 
in Chicago, the right is established of a  pri­
vate individual or firm  to  recover  damages 
from a telegraph company for errors in trans­
mitting messages, notwithstanding the condi­
tions printed at  the  head  of  the  telegraph 
companies’ blanks.  The case  in point was 
one in which  Fairbanks, Morse  &  Co.  were 
awarded $135 damages against  the Western 
Union Telegraph Co.

The annual report of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture, now in  press, makes  the record 
of the corn production  for  1884,  1,795,600,- 
000 bushels; wheat  nearly 513,000,000,  and 
oats 583,000,000.  These  aggregates  are the 
largest ever recorded.  The rate  of  yield is 
25.8 bushels of corn, 13 of wheat and 27.4 of 
oats.  These are figures  for  permanent  re­
cord.

Ants will  forsake any  food  for  lard,  and 
they can be exterminated by greasing a plate 
with that substance  and  placing  it  in their 
vicinity.  When  the  plate is  well  covered 
turn hot coals upon it, and a few  repetitions 
of the process will clean them out.

The iron furnace at Elk Rapids  has made
19.000 tons of iron so far this  year, and  has
4.000  tODS of pig iron and 10,000 tons  of ore 
on hand.  The  capacity  of  the  furnace is 
sixty tons per day.

Conklin  &  Foster,  furniture  dealers  at 
Adrian,  have  assigned  to  Wm.  G.  Mason. 
They claim that their assets are in excess of 
their liabilities, which are only $4,500.

Frank Dickinson, jeweler at Bay City, has 
assigned to Frank S.  Pratt  The  liabilities 
are $7,049, and the  assets  are  expected to 
reach that figure.

A. A. Sprague,  for  many  years  past en­
gaged in the hat  and  cap  business at Hud­
son, has assigned to A. O. Abbott.

AM ONG T H E  T R A D E .

IN  THE  CITY.

Wm. Abbott & Co.  have  engaged  in  the 
grocery business at West Campbell.  Clark, 
Jewell & Co. furnished the stock.

F. J. Lamb  &  Coj  will  ship  a  carload  of 
cheese to New York City this week.  It com­
prises about 600 boxes, of the Zeeland  (Am­
ber),  Drenthe  and  Zutphen  (Clover Hill) 
makes.

Geo.  N.  Davis  &  Co.  are  putting  in  five 
grain bins in the third floor  of  Lamoreaux’ 
block at 71 Canal street, each  bin  having  a 
capacity  of  600  bushels,  or  a  total  grain 
storage of 3,000  bushels.

Shields, Bulkley  &  Lemon  have  put  in 
two new grocery stocks the past  week—one 
for  Christian  Yoelker, at  Heed  City,  and 
another  for  P.  Welch,  who  was  recently 
burned out at Shaytown.  Mr. Welch bought 
his dry goods of Spring & Company.

J. S. Cowin, the well-known druggist, and 
O. C. Warren, for several years past  chemist 
in  the  establishment  of Jennings & Smith, 
have formed a copartnership under  the  firm 
name of Cowin & Warren, and  will  engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  extracts, perfumes, 
baking  powders,  etc.,  at  either  Omaha  or 
Des  Moines.

Several  of  the  furniture  factories  have 
started up again, and leading representatives 
of  the trade  claim  that  the  prospects  have 
brightened  up  very  materially  during  the 
past  fortnight.  The  buyers  who  have  so 
far  put  in  an  appearance  have  purchased 
largely, and  many  who  are  expected  later 
on have written that they  will  buy  heavier 
than usual.

Wm. H. Dendle, of  the  commission  firm 
of  Thorn wood  &  Dendle,  at  Fort  Wayne, 
has formed a  copartnership  with  J. P. Vis- 
ner,  at  Hopkins  Station,  under  the  firm 
name of  Dendle & Visner.  The  new  firm 
has  purchased  J. W.  Braginton’s  stock  of 
general goods at that  place,  and  rented  his 
store building, consolidating  Visner’s  stock 
with  the  one  purchased.  Mr.  Braginton 
will hereafter devote his entire  time  to  the 
business of Braginton & Sigel, in this city

The Am erican A rtisan publishes the fol­
lowing  pleasant  reference  to  the  drummer 
battalion  of  this  city:  Tiie  Michigan 
Tradesman,  publishes  a  list  of  names 
which  we  supposed 
to  be  a  copy  of 
the registry lists of voters at the last election 
On closer inspection, it proves to be a list of 
traveling salesmen resident at Grand Rapids, 
The list  contains  over  350  names.  Grand 
Rapids must be  largely  a  city  of  “women 
folks” when its drummers are on  the  road,

Spring & Company have  decided  to  build 
an addition to their store  building  the  com­
ing summer season, on  a  peculiarly  shaped 
lot in the rear of the present structure.  The 
new building will be the same  width  of  the 
present  store—50  feet—for  a  considerable 
distance, when it will  be built in  triangular 
fashion, giving a frontage of  twelve  feet on 
Louis  street. 
It  will  be  two  stories  and 
basement, and will admit  of  a  considerable 
enlargement  of  both  the wholesale  and re­
tail  departments,  although  just  how  they 
will  be  arranged  has  not  been  determined 
upon.

The Tradesman  acknowledges a call on 
Friday from  John  Borst, cheese  maker  at 
the Fairview factory at Vriesland and  Rich­
ard Redhead, chdese maker  at  the  Spring- 
dale factory at Hopkins Station.  Both gen­
tlemen report a satisfactory season, and  are 
of opinion that the  prospects  are  excellent 
for another  summer.  The  Springdale  fac­
tory received the  milk  from  353  cows, as 
many as  7,600  pounds  of  milk  coming in 
daily during the  month  of  June.  Exactly 
2,400 cheeses were made, all of which  have 
been disposed of advantageously.  The Fair- 
factory has also  disposed  of  its  entire  pro­
duct.

“I  was  down  to  Pontiac  not  long ago,” 
said Geo. K. Nelson, of Nelson  Bros.  & Co., 
and was surprised to find that  many  of  the 
dealers at that place were buying  considera­
ble quantities of goods in Chicago, instead of 
at  Detroit.  The  same  is true in regard to 
Grand  Rapids  at  some  points over on  this 
side of the State.  About the best argument I 
can advance in favor of the Michigan jobbing 
centers is that every dealer  in  the  State  is 
interested  in  the  growth  of Michigan, and 
ought to do everything in his power  to  assist 
in building up the State.  Every order sent to 
Chicago helps to build  up  Illinois,  and  the 
same is true in regard to Michigan with every 
order sent to this market or  Detroit.  Other 
things  being  equal, 1 hold that every dealer 
in  the Wolverine  State  ought  to  buy  his- 
goods within her limits.”

AROUND THE  STATE.

Geo. Hancock, grocer at Wolverine, is sell­

ing out.

Frank Allen succeeds A. S.  Ackley in the 

bakery business at Union City.

S. R. Sanford has retired  from the firm of 

F. B. Peck & Co., at Muskegon.

E. Garrison will remove his  grocery stock 

from Hudson to Montpelier,  Ohio.

L.  G.  S.  Mason,  boot  and  shoe  dealer  at 

Fremont, has sold out to Zunder  Bros.

It. L. Hale & Co.  succeed  J.  Greenup  & 

Co. in the grocery business at Big Rapids.

John J. Ely has purchased  the  merchant 
tailoring stock of W. F. Lunn, at  Rockford.
G. W. Richardson succeeds  Richardson & 
Strong in  the  jewelrj  business  at  Vicks­
burg.

Nashville N ews:  L. J. Wilson has sold a

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branches of manufacture, as follows;  Three 
furniture, one tannery, one  casket or  burial 
case, one spoke, one ax  handle, one  imple­
ment bending, two  planing,  sash, doors and 
blinds, one cigar, two iron and machine, two 
flouring, one broom, one planing  and  furni­
ture, two brick and tile yards.

Caulfield’s  Column.

.distinct

IM PORTER, 

APPLESl

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

E A R L   B R O S .,  G0U D 01  M i l l s ,

16G  S. W ater  St.,  OUlo&so,  111.

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK

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Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

amazoo.
sing.
Rapids.

P resident—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
F irst V ice-President—Geo. M. McDoriald,  Kal- 
Second V ice-President—B.  D.  N orthrup,  L an­
T hird V ice-President—F ra n k   W urzburg,  G r’d 
S ecretary—Jacob Jesson, M uskegon. 
T reasu rer—Wm. D upont, D etroit.
E xecutive  Committee—H.  J.  Brow n,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. G undrum , W. H. K eller,  F.  W. 
Fincher. 
N ex t  place  of  m eeting—A t D etroit,Tuesday, 
O ctober 13,1885.

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Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

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P resident—F ran k  J . W urzburg. 
V ice-President—Chas. P. Bigelow.
S ecretary—F ra n k  H. Escott.
T reasu rer—H enry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
Board  o f  T rustees—The  President,  W m.  H. 
V an Leeuwen, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  W hite, 
, ,   „
W m. L. W hite. 
Com m ittee on Pharm acy—H ugo Thum ,  M.  B.
Kimm, A. C. B auer. 
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Com m ittee on Legislation—Isaac W atts,  O.  H.
Richm ond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Com m ittee on Trade  M atters—H. B. Fairchild, 
Jo h n  Peck, Wm. H. V anLeeuw en.
R egular  M eetings—F irst  Thursday evening in 
each m onth.
A nnual  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in 
November,
N ext Meeting—T hursday evening, F ebruary 5, 
a t “The Tradesm an” office.

mi 

COMPOUNDS  AND  PILLS.

W hat  D etroit  is  Doing  for  Suffering  H u ­

m anity.

From  th e D etroit F ree Press.

The manufacture of  pharmaceutical  pre­
parations is carried  on  to  quite a large  ex­
tent  in  Detroit.  Outside  of  two  or  three 
concerns in  Philadelphia  and  New  York, 
engaged  in  the  same  trade,  the  Detroit 
houses probably  rank  first, and  the  trade 
here will probably rank  third  or  fourth  in 
importance among the chemical manufactur­
ing centers of the United States.

In speaking of  the  business  recently  a 
manufacturer  said:  “The  Detroit  houses 
are engaged  mainly  in  the  manufacture  of 
legitimate drugs.  There is little  done  here 
in the line of specialties, patent or unpatent­
ed.  In  some  Western  cities  specialties 
adapted to  the  localities  surrounding,  are 
manufactured largely.  In one, I might men­
tion, glycerine has become an important pro­
duct, Because of the extent to which  soap is 
manufactured. There are other localities bet­
ter adapted to the manufacture of acids.  De­
troit, however,  has  developed  an  immense 
business in  the  manufacture  of  solid  and 
fluid extracts and probably  ranks  as first in 
these lines in the W est”

“Can you denominate any lines that  have 

become particularly prominent?”

“None, except those that come in especial­
ly as legitimate  goods. 
In  those  lines  we 
manufacture here almost everything that the 
trade  requires,  and  we  send  our  Detroit 
goods to almost every  country in the  world 
where the English language is spoken. They 
go  to  India,  Egypt,  China,  Australia,  En­
gland, and to the Continent of  Europe  and 
Central  and  South  America.  Our  house, 
here, for instance, has  a  considerable  trade 
for 
here, 
instance,  has  a  considerable 
in  both  Belgium  and  Germany, 
trade 
and  another  has 
trade 
at St. Petersburg,  Russia,  while  there  are 
Agencies established in the  capital of  many 
countries.”

considerable 

“Does Detroit  possess any  special  facili­

ties for the manufacture of  chemicals?”

“I don’t know  of any.  But  the  point is, 
that we manufacture  standard  preparations 
—in fact, all  the  real  requirements  of  the 
drug trade.  Our products have the  approv­
al of the medical profession,  and  we do not 
need to advertise them greatly.  In fact, ex 
cept in professional periodicals, we  scarcely 
need to advertise at all.”

“But what  is the  principal  bent  of  that 

line of trade in Detroit?”

“Almost every  kind of  pill, I  might say, 
that is indicated in the United  States  Phar­
macopoeia.  They are  put  up  sugar-coated, 
in gelatine and with all  the  other  coatings. 
Understand me, they are all ‘regular’ and of 
the standard indicated in the Pharmacopoeia 
and called for by physicians.  Then  we put 
up all the elixirs of  wines  and  syrups, the 
powdered  extracts,  capsules  and  plasters. 
You may have noticed  some of our  work as 
you came in.”

A whiff came through some  of  the  win­
dows certainly  indicated  something  of  the 
character of business.

“Then we manufacture in Detroit  quite a 
lozen­

good deal in the  line  of  medicated 
ges.”

“But all strictly offincinal?”
“Not wholly.  There are a few non  offic­

inal goods manufactured here,”

“And the aggregate total would amount to 

about how much per anum?”

“Not far short of a million,  sir.”

Sym pathetic In k  for P ostal Cards.

Sympathetic  ink  for  writing  on  postal 
cards is made of diluted  sulphuric acid, one 
part by measure of acid  to  seven  of  water. 
When this ink is used the card  will  at  first 
show roughened traces of the writing, but af­
ter being  allowed to dry  for  a  short  time 
these disappear, and it  is as  invisible  as if 
done  with  water.  Of  course, only a  gold 
pen or a quill must be used.  If it is desired 
to avoid the suspicion of using  sympathetic 
ink, it may be written upon, across  the first 
writing, with tincture of iodine,  which  will 
entirely fade out when the  heat  is  applied 
to develop the invisible ink.

Dr.  Geo.  W.  Crouter,  President  of  the 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical  Association, 
is in Lansing, looking after  the  interest  of 
the pharmacy bill.

V IS IT IN G   BU Y ERS.

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

Mr. P urdy, P u rd y  & H astings, Sparta.
Jo h n  Otis, Jo h n  Otis & Co., M ancelona.
Will Curtiss, Reed City.
N. Boum a,  Fisher.
M. M inderhout, H anley.
J . L. Alger,  Petoskey.
W. S. Nelson, Cedar  Lake.
Mr. Wolff, Wolff & Fulton, Otsego.
O. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, R avenna.
D. W. Shattuck, W ayland.
J . M. D am eron, Bangor.
Jo h n  Giles,  Lowell.
Ja y  M arlatt, Berlin.
A. F. Dodridge,  V estaburg.
G. Stevens,  Alpine.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
B. McNeal, Byron Center.
R. H. Woodin,  Sparta.
O. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
Ed.  Mosher, L uther.
J . H. B eam er & Co., H astings.
Mr. N orris. N orris & Son,  Casnovia.
Ed. Gaylord, G aylord & Hill, Shelby.
T. W. P reston, Lowell.
W. W. Pierce,  Moline.
Eli Runnels, Corunna.
Jo h n  Giles,  Lowell.
Nelson Pike, Morley.
L. K. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros.,  Mayfield.
J. E. Mailhot, W est Troy.
Mr. Snyder, B assett & Snyder, Cedar Springs.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
E. E. H ew ett, Rockford.
Jo h n  Scholten, Overisel,
J . W est  Ivan.
A.  J. W hite, Bass River.
Baron & T enH our, F orest Grove.
W. S. Root, Tallm adge.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove P.  O.
W . H. Struik, Forest  Grove.
A. M. Church,  Sparta.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, C annonsburg. 
S. Cooper, Parm alee.
P aine & Field, Englishville.
J . W. Mead,  Berlin.
Geo. C arrington,  T rent.
Jos. H: Spires, Leroy.
B. M, Denison, E ast  Paris.
W. H. Hicks,  Morley.
Jas. B arnes,  A usterlitz.
Mr. Cornell,  Cornell & Griswold, Griswold.
C. H. Loomis, Sparta.
Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
Jo h n  Giles & Co., Lowell,
L. D. Chappel, W ayland.
F. O. Lord, Howard  City.
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
H oag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
J. W. Braginton, Hopkins.
H. W. P otter, Jennisonville.
G. N. Reynolds.  Belm ont.
A ndre Bros., Jennisonville.
J . C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
O. W. M essenger, Spring Lake.
Jo h n  B. Quick, H ow ard  City.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley P. O.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
C. Keller, Logan.
H olland & Ives,  Rockford.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
P urdy & H astings,  Sparta.
C. H. Adams,  Otsego.
S. A. B etts, Rockford.
Geo. A. Sage, Roekford.
J. H. Anderson, Edgerton.
H. W. P otter,  Jennisonville.
Newaygo M anufacturing Co., Newago. 
P utnam  & B arn h art L um ber Co., Long Lake. 
Jo h n  J. Ely,  Rockford.
W. S. B artron & Co., Bridgeton.
M aitinson & W hite, Copley.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
Jas. Riley, Dorr.

'

FURNITURE  BUYERS.

Philadelphia.

C. D. Brockway, b u yer fo r Jo h n  W anam aker, 
Jo h n  Hand,Geo. C. F lint & Co., New York. 
Mr. Doty, C. N. H ildreth & Co., Chicago.
Mr. Clingman, of J. A. Colby & Co.,  Chicago. 
Mr. Eldridge, St. P aul.
Mr. K uhen, City of Mexico.
Mr. Conway and Mr. Cleveland, Conway, Cle­
m ents & Cleveland,  M ilwaukee.
Michael M oriarty.  Cleveland.
Geo. D. Stoddard, K napp & Stoddart, Chicago. 
J. W. W heelock, New York.

Rejuvenated  Toothbrushes.

An  industrious  hotel  chambermaid  who 
has charge of a large  number  of  rooms  can 
collect from two to six  toothbrushes  a  day, 
for no article of  common  use,  not  even  an 
umbrella, is forgotten  with  such  ease  as  a 
toothbrush.  Of course, the  larger  the hotel 
the  larger  the  collection  of  toothbrushes, 
and  many  economical  chambermaids  add 
from fifty cents to §1 per week  to  their  sal­
ary by the  sale  of  “seconds.”  When  the 
dealer in “seconds” secures a large bundle of 
brushes  he  goes  to  his  little  >‘repairing” 
room  and  begins  scientific  aud interesting 
operations.  Each  brush  is  plunged  into  a 
strong solution of chlorate of lime, which  in 
an hour  or  two  makes  it  as white as snow. 
Every  blotch  and  dark  line  on  the  bone 
handle has disappeared, the bristles  become 
as bright and glistening as  when  they  were 
new, and the brush is in fact  completely  re­
juvenated.  Then  the  brush  is  carefully 
washed in clean, cold water, and thoroughly 
dried.  Within  a  week  afterward  it  has 
probably  been  resold  and  is  again  in  use, 
perhaps  in  New  York  City,  perhaps  in 
Grand Rapids.

Consumers of quicksilver  will  be  deeply 
interested in the report of  a  natural  cinna­
bar factory in Nevada.  Eugene Ricksecker, 
chief of the Corps of the United  States  To­
pographical  Engineers,  now  engaged  at 
Steamboat Springs, in that State, is reported 
to have said:  “Attention  was  attracted to­
ward the hot springs  at  Steamboat  by  the 
discovery that  cinnebar  was  being  slowly 
deposited by chemical action.  The  Govern­
ment accordingly sent out four of us to take 
a Topographical survey of the locality.  The 
survey will embrace a tract three miles wide 
by four in length.  The length runs east and 
west, and the wonderful springs  are in  the 
center of  the area.  We find  that  cinnabar 
is being  deposited,  and  this  is  the  only 
known place in the  world  where  the  inter­
esting process is still going  on.  It is a mat­
ter of  great  scientific  interest, but I cannot 
say much about it at present, as ^e have but 
recently arrived, and it will take  some  time 
to complete the work.”

When  nervous  wakefulness  ensues  at 
night time, when there is  a  desire  to sleep, 
but, on account’of a peculiar  state  of  mind 
and body, rest will  not  come,  inhalation of 
pure air is a safe and efficient  soporific. 
It 
is observed in these conditions that  a person 
only breathes half-way, and that  the oxygen 
in the lungs is kept exhausted.  A physician 
recommends a  few  full  respirations  as  the 
best remedy  for  this  kind  of  wakefulness, 
which is produced frequently  by  the  condi­
tion of  the atmosphere  as  well  as  state  of 
the mind.

A W aterproof V arnish for Paper.

One part dammar resin and  six  parts ace­
tone are digested in a closed  flask  for  two 
weeks, and the  clear  solution  poured  off. 
To this four parts of  collodion  are  added, 
and the whole is allowed to  clear  by  stand­
ing.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

A dvanced—Oil pepperm int.
Declined—T onka bean.

9  ®   10 
30  @  35 
33  @  35 
@  55 
3  ©  
5
11  @  12 
14)4@  15 
4
3  @ 
48 
18
12  @  15 
12  @  15

15  @  18 
14
5  @ 
6
6  @ 
7

@  45 
40 
2 25

11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

@  55 
6  ®   7
50  @160

ACID S.

Acetic, No.  8......................................
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).........
Carbolic...............................................
C itric....................................................
M uriatic 18  d eg .................................
N itric36deg......................................
O x alic......................................... —
Sulphuric  66 deg ...............................
T artaric  pow dered..........................
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................$  oz
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................
T a n n ic.................................................

AM MONIA.

C arbonate.................................. $
M uriate (Powd. 22c)..........................
A qua 16 deg o r  3f.............................
A qua 18 deg or  4 f.............................

BALSAMS.

C o p a ib a...............................................
F ir.......................................................
P e ru ......................................................
T o lu .....................................................

BARKS.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow ............................
Elm ,  select..........................................
Elm, ground, p u re ............................
Elm , powdered,  p u re .....................•
Sassafras, of ro o t..........................
Wild Cherry, select..........................
Bayberry  pow dered........................
Hemlock pow dered..........................
W a h o o .................................................
Soap  g ro u n d ......................................

B E R R IE S ,

Cubeb,  prim e (Powd 60q)................
J u n ip e r...............................................
Prickly A sh ........................................

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 2a ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, p u re ..............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)................
................
Lgowood,  54s 
Logwood, )4s 
................
Logwood, ass’d 
................
Fluid E x tracts—25 $  cent, off list.

•  do 
do 
do 

f l o w e r s .

A rnica..................................................   1®  @
Chamomile,  R om an................
Chamomile,  G erm an..............

25

GUMS.

Aloes,  B arbadoes.........
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)...................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)...........
A m m oniac..........................................
A rabic, e x tra   select........................
A rabic, pow dered  select................
A rabic, 1st  picked............................
A rabic,2d  p icked..............................
A rabic,  3d picked.............................
A rabic, sifted so rts..........................
A ssafcentida, prim e (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin...............................................
C am phor............................................ 
Catechu. Is (54 14c, 54s  16c)............  
E uphorbium  pow dered............—  
G albanum  strain ed ......................... 
G am boge.............................................  
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c).............. 
Kino [Pow dered, 30cl....................... 
M astic.............................................
M yrrh. Turkish (Powdered  47c)
Opium, pure (Powd $5.75)...........
Shellac, Campbell’s.
i   8 
ip'
Shellac,  English 
Shellac,  n ativ e.. 
Shellac bleached 
T ragacanth  .......

I  

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55@60
I8®   22
13
35@  40
£9
90®1  00
35
~0
40 
4  10 
30 
26 
24 
30
@1  00

IR O N .

LEA VES.

.............."...  30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.
Hoarhound...........................................
Lobelia..................................................
Peppermint...........................................
Rue........................................................
Spearmint............................................
Sweet Majoram.....................................
Tanzy ....................................................
Thyme..................................................
Wormwood...........................................
Citrate and  Quinine.....................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................
Citrate........................... . 
......
Phosphate.....................................
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...............   13
Sage, Italian, bulk (54s & 54s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural....................  18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered..........................
Senna tinnivelli............................
Uva  Ursi.......................................
Belledonna.....................................
Foxglove........................................
Henbane.......................................
Rose, red........................................
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...................1 75
Whisky, other brands....................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom...................................... 1 35
Gin, Holland...................................... 2 00
Brandy............................................... 1 75
Catawba  Wines..................................1 25
Port Wines..........................................1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—  
Calcined.........................................

M AGNESIA.

LIQ U O R S.

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

6  40 
20

@

14 
6 
20 
30 
22 
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

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

22 
37 
2 25 
65

O IL S .

do 
do 

Almond, sweet..............................   45
Amber, rectified...........................
Anise..............................................
B aj^  oz......................................
Bergamont....................................
Castor............................................  18
Croton............................................
Cajeput.........................................
Cassia............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)......
Citronella.....................................
Cloves............................................
Cubebs, P. &  W.............................
Erigeron........................................
Fireweed........................................
Geranium ¥  oz.............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood................................
Juniper berries..................... .
Lavender flowers, French............
Lavender garden 
............
Lavender spike 
............
Lemon, new crop..........................
Lemon, Sanderson’s.....................
Lemon grass...................................
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1..........................
Pennyroyal...................................
Peppermint,  white......................
Rose 56* oz.................. ...................
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50)
Sandal  Wood. German.................
andal Wood,  W. I........................
Sassafras.......................................
Tansy............................................5 00
Tar (by gal 50c)..............................   10
Wintergreen..............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.50)......
Savm..............................................
Wormseed....................................
Cod Liver, filtered,........ 
. $  gal
Cod Liver, best.............................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s,16
Olive, Malaga..................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian..............
Salad.............................................   65
Rose, Ihmsen’s..................... oz

@  1914 

@ 50 
45 
2  00 
50 
2  00 
2 00 
75 
1  00 
35 
75
1  15
5  00 
1  60
2  00 
75 
35 
50
2  00 
2  01 
1  00 
90 
1  40 
1  50 
80 
1  25 
50
1  40
3 60 
8 50
65
4  50 
7  00
60 
@5 50 @  12
2 20 
4 00 
1  00
2 50
1  50
3 50
6  00 
@ 1  20
2  75 
@  67
A   75

PO TASSIU M .

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

ROOTS.

Alkanet.........................................
Althea, cut....................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, In J4s and 54s__
Blood (Powd 18c)...........................
Calamus,  peeled..........................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered.................
Gentian (Powd  15c).......................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)..........  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 30c).................
Hellebore, white, powdered.........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered..................
Jalap, powdered...................................
Licorice,  select (Powd 1254)........
Licorice, extra select....................
Pink, true......................................
Rhel, from select to  choice......... 1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1......................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes.................
Rhel, choice cut fingers...............

14 
34 
19 
2 90 
28

20
25
17 
33 
12
18 
35 
20 
10
@  14
17 
25
18 
110
35 
12 
15 
35 
@1  50 
@1 20 
200 
2 25

S erp en taria........................................
S en ek a..... ..........................................
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras..................
Sarsaparilla,  M exican.....................
Squills, w hite (Powd  35c)...............
V alerian, English (Powd 30c).........
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 28c)...

• 

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)................
5  @
Bird, m ixed in ft  packages........... 
Canary,  S m yrna...............................  
4  @
Caraway, best D utch (Powd  19c)..  11  @
Cardamon,  A leppee........................ 
2
Cardamon, M alabar.........................  
2
C elery..................................................
Coriander,  Dest  E nglish.................
F e n n e l................  ..........................
Flax,  clean .......................................... 
Flax, p u re grd (bbl  3A )................... 
Foenugreek, pow dered................... 
Hem p,  R ussian................................. 
M ustard, w hite  Black  10c)............
Q u in c e ................................................
Rape, E nglish....................................  
W orm,  L ev an t...................................

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

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M ISCELLANEUS.

do 
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do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.18) $  g a l__
Alcohol, wood, 95 p er cen t ex. ref.
Anodyne  H offm an’s ........................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution.........
A rsenic, Fow ler’s solu tio n............
A nnatto  1 ft ro lls.............................
A lu m ...........................................   ^  ft 
Alum , ground  (Powd 9c)................ 
A nnatto,  p rim e.................................
A ntim ony, powdered,  com ’l ......... 
Arsenic, w hite, pow dered.............. 
Blue  Soluble......................................
Bay  Rum, im ported, b e st..............
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm  Gilead  B uds............................
Beans,  T onka...............................   ..
Beans,  V anilla...................................7  00
Bism uth, sub  n itra te .......................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................
Blue V itriol  ......................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)..............
Cantharides, Russian  pow dered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frica n ................
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d . . . 
Capsicum Pods,  Bom bay 
do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40.................................
Cassia  B uds........................................
Calomel.  A m erican..........................
Chalk, prepared d ro p .......................
Chalk, precip itate E nglish............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................
Chloroform ,  Squibb’s .....................
Colocynth  apples..............................
Chloral hydrate, G erm an  c ru sts ..
c ry st...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
c ru sts..
C hloroform ........................................  85
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............  40
Cinchonidia, o ther b ran d s..............  40
Cloves (Powd 23c)................... .........  18
C ochineal...........................................
Cocoa  B u tte r........................ ............
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................
Corrosive Sublim ate........................
Corks, X and X X —40 off  lis t.........
Cream T artar, p u re pow dered.......
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 ft b o x ..
Creasote...............................................
Cudbear,  p rim e.................................
C uttle Fisn B one...............................
D extrine
Dover’s  P ow ders............................
D ragon’s Blood M ass......................
E rgot  pow dered................................
E th er Squibb’s ...................................
Em ery, Turkish, all  No.’s ..............
Epsom S alts........................................
Ergot, fre sh ........................................
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  w hite........................................
G rains  P arad ise...............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ............................
G elatine. French  ..............................
Glassware, flint, 7’) off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is__
Glue,  cab in et....................................
G lue,w hite..............  .........................
Glycerine,  p u re .................................
Hops  )4s and )4s................................
Iodoform  f)  oz...................................
In d ig o ..................................................
Insect Powder, best  D alm atian ...
Iodine,  resublim ed..........................
Isinglass,  A m erican........................
Japonica . . . : ......................................
London  P u rp le .................................
Lead, a c e ta te......................................
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & )£s 11c)
L u p u lin e.............................................
L ycopodium ......................................
M ace....................................................
Madder, best  D u tch .......................
M anna, S.  F .......................................
M ercury................................., ............
Morphia, sulph., P. & W .........$  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .........
Moss, Iceland............................. $  ft
Moss,  Iris h ........................................
M ustard,  E nglish.............................
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  can s.........
N utgalls...............................................
N utm egs, No. 1...................................
N ux  V om ica......................................
O intm ent. M ercurial, )6d................
Pepper, Black  B e rry .......................
P ep sin ...................................... ...........
P itch, T rue B urg u n d y.....................
Quassia  ...............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W .............lt\ozl
Quinine,  G erm an............................. 1
Red  P re c ip ita te....................... ^  ft
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................
Strychnia, c ry st.................................
Silver N itrate, c ry st...................
Saffron, A m erican.  .....................
Sal  G lauber........................................
Sal N itre, large  c ry st.......................
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st................
Sal Rochelle........................................
Sal  Soda...............................................
Salicin..................................................
S an to n in .............................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch...........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].......................
Sperm aceti..........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
Soap, W hite C astile..........................
..........................
Soap, G reen  do 
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
Soap, 
do 
.....................
Soap,  M azzini....................................
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...............................
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................
Sugar Milk pow dered......................
Sulphur, flour.....................>.............
Sulphur,  ro ll......................................
T artar E m etic....................................
Tar, N. C. Pine,  )4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
q u arts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin ..............
T urpentine,  V enice................. $  ft
W ax, W hite, S. &  F. b ran d ............
Zinc,  S ulphate...................................

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Capitol  Cylinder.....................................................75
Model  Cylinder...................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder.....................................................50
Eldorado E ngine.....................................................45
Peerless  M achinery..............................................35
Challenge M achinery............................. 
25
Backus Fine E ngine..............................................30
Black Diam ond M achinery........ „......................30
Castor Machine  O il............................................... 6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.....................................................22
Paraffine, 28  deg .....................................................21
Sperm, w inter  bleached................. ................1  40
Gal
Bbl 
75
W hale, w in ter........................................  70 
Lard, e x tra .............................................   64 
75
65
Lard, No.  1.............................................   55 
Linseed, p u re  ra w ...............................   50 
53
Linseed, b o ile d .....................................  53 
56
N eat’s Foot, w inter  strain ed ............   70 
90
40
Spirits T u rp en tin e...............................   30 

V A RN ISH ES.

No. 1 T urp  Coach.................
E x tra   T u rp ............................
Coach  B ody...........................
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re ...........
E x tra  T urp  D am ar..............
Jap an  D ryer, No.  1 T u rp ...
F A IN TS.

Bbl
Red V en etian .............................   1)4
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.........  1)4
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda...........  1)4
P u tty , co m m ercial...................   VA
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................   2)4
V erm ilion,prim e  A m erican..
V erm ilion, E n g lish ...................
Green, P en in su lar.....................
Lead, red  strictly  p u re .......
Lead, w hite, strictly  p u re.
W hiting, w hite  Spanish.......   .
W hiting,  Gilders  .......................
W hite, P aris A m erican.........
W hiting  P aris English cliff..

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HAZELTINE

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W holesale

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

U K , Chemical: 
Pants, Oils, Yanislfis,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint and  T arnish 

Brushes.

—Also fo r th e—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manf’rs  of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers of 
many articles ourselves  and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brushes,  French  and Eng- 
glish Tooth and Nail  Brushes  -at  attractive 
prices.

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

t a l

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

Withers Dade& Co's

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

We are also  owners of the

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

Dins, B r iis &  Fine Wines.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAZBLTINE,F£RKIN8 & GO

W hy  He  Yawned,

“Is home so dull and dreary?”

“My dear, w hat m akes you always yawn?”
The w ife exclaim ed, her tem per gone;
“ Not so, my love,” he said—“ not  so:
B u t m an and  w ife are one, you  know.
A nd when I ’m alone I ’m w eary!”

P urely  Personal.

M. C. Russell left  last  week  for  a  three 
weeks’ absence to  the  New Orleans Exposi­
tion, taking in  the principal  cities  on  both 
the down and return trips.

Albert  F. Hazeltine  has  purchased  the 
drag stock of Dr. J. D. Bowman, at  the cor­
ner of  West  Fulton  and  Jefferson  streets, 
and will  continue  the  business at  the old 
stand.

Bryant H. Ilowig, the well-known  Michi­
gan printer, now  located  at  Marshalltown, 
Iowa, favors The Tradesman  with a sam­
ple of his handiwork,  in the shape of a New 
Years’ card of artistic design and  execution.
Baker &  Hayes,  lithographic  publishers 
of  Philadelphia,  favor  The  Tradesman 
with  copies  of 
their  new  publication, 
“Twenty Years  on the  Road,” in which are 
depicted the interesting  experiences  of  Mr. 
Hayes duiing such a period.  Messrs. Baker 
& Hayes are botli retired travelers and wish 
us to state that the latchstring of their office 
at 135 North  Fourth street  is  always out to 
salesmen visiting the Quaker City.

Broken-H earted.

A man bought  by  weight  a  turkey  from 
an old negro.  When he took the fowl home 
he discovered some five or six pounds of lead 
in  the  cavity  reserved  for  oysters.  Indig­
nant at such an outrage, he sought the negro 
and exclaimed:

“Look here, you old  thief,  what  did yon 

mean—”

ed.”

“Doan say nuffin boss, 

l ’se broken-heart­

“What’s the matter with you?”
“Wife got drowned in de riber.”
“I’m sorry for that.”
“O, it’s awful, sah!  A h!  Lawd,  whut’s 

goin’ ter come o’ my po’ chillun?”

The gentleman  went  out  and  the  negro 
said:  “Didn’t  make  so  much  offen  dem 
blame  shot.  Co’s  me  10  cents  er  poun\ 
Dese white folks is harder an’ harder ter git 
erlong wid ebery day.”

The Spiral Spring.

The Spiral Spring Buggy Co. is now pleas­
antly located  in  its  new  and  commodious 
building on Kent street.  A reporter of Th* 
Tradesman took a look through the  entire 
establishment a day  or  two  ago, and  was 
surprised to find a full force of men at work 
in the  various  departments.  All the  iron 
and steel work is done in the basement,  thé 
machinery being driven by an  engine of pe­
culiar  construction.  The  ground  floor  is 
taken up with the office and salesroom.  The 
second floor is given up to the trimming and 
shipping departments,  and the third floor is 
used as a paint room and  for  storage.  Thé 
building is a model one for the  purposes in­
tended, and  the  Spiral  Spring people are to 
be congratulated on  their factory as  well as 
their product.

W liat  Made  H im  Late.

“I don’t understand,” said a Monroe street 
merchant, taking out  his  watch; “hoW  it is 
that you manage to  get  here so  much  later 
than all the other clerks,  Mr. Smith.  Your 
house is nearer to the store than that of any 
other clerk.”

“I know that,” replied the clerk,  “but my 
affection for  my family  makes  me  late.  I 
have four boys, and no  matter  how  early I 
get up, by the time  each  one  has  had  his 
thrashing,  it is so late that  I  have  to  leave 
the house without eating my breakfast.”

Comm ercial  Intelligence.

There is a  commercial  college at a neigh­
boring city, where the students  have a bank 
and every effort is made to give the pupils a 
practical  business  education.  The  profes­
sor,  for  instance, 
instructed  the  boys  to 
write a letter  to a  delinquent  country  cus­
tomer.  There was a sound of  scribbling on 
slates, then the  voice  of Mose Schaumburg, 
Junior,  who is one of the pupils, was heard,
“I shay, Mishter Professor, shall  I  write, 
dot letter in, dot veil he don’t bay up I closes 
him out mit der sheriff?”

A  Doctor’s  Diary.

A  pocket diary picked up in the streets of 
a neighboring city  would  seem  to  indicate, 
from the following  choice  extract,  that  the 
owner was a medical man:

“ Kase 232.  Old Misses Boggs.  Aint got 
no bisnis, but has plenty  of  money. 
Sick­
ness all a humbug.  Gav her sum of  my cel­
ebrated ‘ Dipsefloriken,’  which  she  sed  she 
drank  like  cold  tee—which 
it  was  too.- 
Must put something in  it  so  make  her  feel 
sik and bad.  The  old  woman  has  got  the 
roks.”

Business has evidently  reached  bed  rock 
again.  Large buyers see better times ahead 
and take advantage of  the low  prices  to ac­
cumulate stock.  A  large  patent  medicine 
house of Rochester has just made a contract 
with some glass  works  in  Philadelphia  for 
10,000,000 pounds of  glass bottles, or  7,200,- 
000 bottles, over  500  car  loads;—the  biggest 
contract  ever  made.  The  bottles  would 
stretch over 1,000 miles in line.

A Waterloo,  N. Y., lady  opened  a  fruit 
jar of peaches which had  been  canned  and 
hermetically  sealed  for  twenty-four  years. 
They were put up in the fall when Abraham 
Lincoln was first elected president, and were 
in a good state of preservation.

Those of the friends of The  Tradesman 
who  are  so  inclined  are  invited to send In , 
the addresses of dealers who would be likely 
to  want  to  subscribe to the paper.  To  a ll. 
such, sample copies will be mailed occasion-, 
ally.

Bry>  (Boobs.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

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   EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR.
(.Entered  at  me  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapid«  as 

Second-class Matter.']

WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  21,  1885.

Shoes.

T rade  Names  of  L eather  and  Grades  of 
There are, says the Shoe and Leather Re­
porter, thousands of retail shoe  dealers and 
a large number of  jobbers  whose  practical 
knowledge of leather, its  wearing  qualities 
and its adaptability  to  boots  and  shoes, is 
very limited, and it may profit them to learn 
something about it.  Of  sole  leather  there 
are two  divisions,  hemlock  and  oak,  and 
general subdivisions; these are  of  hemlock, 
acid and non-acid, while of oak, some is tan­
ned of oak bark exclusively, and  some with 
oak and hemlock  combined.  The  latter  is 
called union.  Then there is buffalo,  an  in­
ferior East India hide,  tanned  in  hemlock. 
All of these are adapted to heavy boots, bro- 
gans, plow shoes, wax, kip and split, pebble 
grain and the heavier grades  of  calf  boots. 
Union leather is used almost  entirely in the 
manufacture of women’s shoes  of  thejfiner 
qualities,  slippers,  sandals,  Newports,  and 
all  low cut  shoes  and  fine  button  boots. 
Manufacturers of calf and flesh  split  shoes 
for men’s wear use union leather  extensive­
ly.  Of upper leather there are  still  greater 
varieties.  Wax, kip, and  split  leather  are 
used  extensively  in  the  manufacture  of 
heavy  boots,  brogans,  and  plow  shoes. 
Men’s, boys’, and youth’s  balmorals, button 
and strap shoes,  are  made of  a  light  kip, 
which, being taken  off  a  young  animal, is 
designated as veal  calf.  A flesh split  is  a 
.most desirable and salable  article  for  fine 
shoes, and commands nearly as high a  price 
as calfskins.  Buff leather, so called because 
in finishing the grain is buffed  off,  is  made 
largely from  Western  and  New  England 
hides, and is one of the leading lines  of  up­
per leather.  A large number of shoe manu­
facturers are engaged in the buff  shoe  busi­
ness, and the product finds a market in all sec­
tions of the country.  Buff  leather is adapt­
ed to men’s button  balmoral  and  congress 
shoes, and the finer and lighter weights  are 
made into women’s shoes,  almost  wholly in 
polish cut  Buff leather shoes are very pop­
ular in all large cities,  New York city being 
a great market for them, and the  South  be­
ing large  consumers.  Buff  leather  is  the 
strongest competitor with  calfskins, and  it 
requires  an  expert to  tell  the  difference 
when the shoes are made up.  Grain leather 
is made in pebble and  glove  finish  for  all 
light work, and in a heavy  pebble for men’s 
wear.

Glove grain  is  comparatively a  new  arti­
cle, and the adaptability  of it in  the  manu­
facture of fine shoes, and toppings for men’s 
calf shoes, has made  it  extremely  popular, 
f  t differs from pebble grain in that  the  sur­
face is finished with all the care that is used 
in the finish of calfskins, and it is extremely 
difficult for a novice to  tell  the  difference. 
The consumption of  glove  grain is  increas­
ing every season.  Pebble grain is made both 
light and  heavy  for women’s  work. 
It re­
quires a 2K ounce weighty for a fine  polish- 
sewed shoe, while peg and nail work require 
a four-ounce grade.  Very little grain leath­
er is  used,  except  for  these  styles  of  foot 
gear.  For  working  women  and  girls  the 
pebble or, grain  polish  shoe  which  can be 
bought in the vicinity of $1 per pair is a most 
desirable and serviceable  shoe,  and  the  de­
mand  is  generally  brisk  enough  to  keep 
what limited number of manufacturers there 
are of them busy.  The  heavy boot  or  shoe 
grain used  in shooting  boots, balmorals, Na­
poleon long boots, and such,  is made largely 
in Chicago, and has an extensive sale  in the 
East.  For winter  service  there is no  shoe 
that can excel the grain balmoral.  It is neat 
in appearance, and durable.  It is  practical­
ly water-proof.  Calfskins  are  made  for all 
sorts  of  boots  and  shoes.  They  run  all 
weights from twenty pounds to the dozen up 
to a heavy veal  kip  weighing  one  hundred 
and thirty,  perhaps  more.  Calf  goods  are 
made in every conceivable quality and  style 
from  the  lightest  shoe—even  slippers—to 
the heaviest boots, and in many shapes—but­
ton, congress, balmoral, strap shoes, low cut, 
etc.  A great  many  calf  boots  have  split 
backs.  Glove  calf  is a soft  finish,  resem­
bling a sheepskin  on  the unfinished side, and 
is  used  for  toppings  of  shoes,  fly  button 
pieces, and such.

Sheep leather is largely used for shoe  lin­
ings,  and for  vamps  and  quarters  in  very 
cheap shoes  for  women’s  wear.  They are 
made in creams,  pinks,  russets,  and  white; 
alum, sumac, and bank tanned, and  the con­
sumption is immense.  Kid and goat leather 
enters  into the manufacture of ladies’  work 
exclusively.  Goat is made both in pebble and 
smooth finish,  is used in the  heavier  grades 
of shoes, having its  competitor in  the  peb­
bles, grain, or  imitation  goat,  “so  called.” 
Kid leather is extensively used for all  kinds 
of  fine  button  and  polish  shoes,  slippers, 
sandals,  and  all  low  cut  women’s  shoes. 
During the past few  years  there  have  been 
many discoveries  and  improvements in  the 
method of tanning these skins, and they are 
now made inlSiamang,  Caracal,  Koodoo, 
Dongola, daisy hid, etc.,  all  of  which  are 
practically the same.  They are all designed 
for ladies’ shoes.  The demand  for  novelty 
is met by russet  and  colored  alligator, and 
imitations of it, russet and red  pebbles, mat 
kids,  leopard,  grain,  moroccoes,  knd  such, 
but all these have  a  comparatively 
limited 
side, and the bulk of the  goods  sold  are of 
the kinds enumerated  above.

T h e  N ew   S uit.
BY F .  F .  M URRAY.

H e stood before th e  looking-glass, 
Scanning him self from  head to foot, 

W ith frow ning face and red, 
A nd this is w hat he said:

“No, th ey  don’t  begin to fit m e—
They are n o t the right dim ensions 

I can see it plain enough;
And I ’m fooled about the stuff.

“T here’s a stain upon th e trow sers 
And th ey ’re sh o rt an inch o r tw o 
A nd the vest is bound to pucker,
No m atter w hat I  do.

“A nd the coat th a t fit so neatly,
Behold you how it  bunches 

In  th a t store’s deceiving shades, 
B eneath m y shoulder blades!

* ‘Oh, le t me find th e fellow 
And said th a t I was neatly built, 
A nd said I had a bargain,

T hat stroked m e on th e chest,
And big around th e  breast,
As he b u ttoned up his vest!

“ Oh le t m e a t the  m ortal 
Of th e mellow voice and small. 
W ho patted me and flattered me, 
A nd even had th e ‘gall’
To say:  “ D ot zoot sh u st vits  you 
Like de b ap er on de  v a il!’ ” .

A patent has been granted in  the  United 
States for a method of using paper pulp as a 
filling  material  in  finishing  cotton  goods. 
The pulp of finely-pulverized linen, wood or 
straw is mixed in the  bath  with  the  other 
materials, and penetrates and fills all the in­
terstices  of  the  textile.  Goods  so  treated 
must  be  calendered  to  obtain  a  smooth 
and solid surface, and can  be  printed  wit h 
out further preparation.  A  similar  process 
has been adopted in  Germany.  China  clay 
and other mineral substances are mostly used 
to finish light-weight cotton and linen goods, 
but several finishers in  Germany  have  suc­
cessfully employed for this purpose blpached 
or wood pulp mixed with the finishing starch. 
Textiles so finished do not dust nor lose their 
finish, but are said to present a good appear­
ance even after repeated washings.

Persian carpets are  rarely  large,  because 
they are chiefly woven, says a recent  consu­
lar report from Teheran, by the  women and 
children of the peasantry and in the villages. 
Thus,  a countryman will have a rug made in 
his own house, and when it is done  he takes 
it to the nearest town and sells  it  for  what 
it will fetch.  Of late years,  however, much 
larger carpets have been  made  for  the  for­
eign market.

M echanical  Toys.

The recent holiday season is said  to  have 
afforded a  particularly active business in me­
chanical toys.  A local dealer says:  “The run 
on them was something wonderful.  The ba­
by doll that walks and  squeaks,  says  mam­
ma and papa at  each  mechanical  theatrical 
stride, sold like  hot  cakes.  It  has  simply 
been improved upon very much,  but  is  not 
recently  invented.  The  .mechanical  smok­
ing man is a late patent.  It is a comical fig­
ure of a man, eleven inches high, seated on a 
black walnut box.  There is a small  keg  at 
his elbow, with the historical  long  pipe  in 
his mouth,  and  mug  of  beer  in  his  hand. 
Place a cigarette in his pipe, and, when wound 
up and tne cigarette lighted, the  figure  will 
draw and puff  the smoke in a perfectly  nat­
ural manner.  The motions of the  head  and 
arm and the action while  smoking  are  per­
fect.  These sold rapidly to small  boys  am­
bitious to learn how to smoke.

But one of our latest hits is the stump  or­
ator.  It is a negro with a carpet-bag in  one 
hand, and  an  umbrella  in  the  other.  He 
makes motions,  pounds tiie desk in  front  of 
him with the  umbrella,  and  assumes  posi­
tions of appeal, entreaty, fierceness and  hu­
mor, as the orators of the day do when speak­
ing.  The dog cart with the dude in it, driv­
ing a prancing horse, is put in the show win 
dow for the first time this season.  By wind­
ing it up,  away it goes.

Another mechanical  invention is the  bear 
that walks about, snapping his jaws.  It took 
a  good deal of time and money to perfect it.

It is  right  that  the  owners  of  property 
which is put to bad uses should be made  to 
bear some of the responsibility.  If thej  are 
persons of standing in the community,  hold 
their heads high, and are  steady  attendants 
at church, their fault, to call it by no severer 
term,  is all the greater.  To  say  that  they 
do not know for what purposes their  build­
ings are employed goes  for  nothing.  It 
their duty to know.  As persons of influence 
and wealth,  their  fellow-citizens  have  the 
right to expect of them  that  they  will  not, 
even by  neglect,  encourage  that  which  is 
dangerous to society at large.  The true  cit­
izen makes  himself  sufficiently  acquainted 
with what is done with that which  fate  has 
placed in his keeping to see that it results in 
good,  not  evil.  He  devotes  his  money  to 
beautifying his city and to adding,  so  far  as 
in him lies,  to  the  comfort  of  the  people. 
Such a man could not spend a dollar without 
knowing by  what  means  it  went  into  his 
pocket.

It is said  that  the  honest  farmers  near 
Denver  buy  oleomargarine  at  20  cents  a 
pound and after mixing with it a  small por­
tion of genuine  butter,  bring  it  back to the 
city and sell it for  40  cents  a  pound.  The 
people to whom they sell this  compound do 
not appreciate the  “smartness”  of  the  far­
mers.

The amount of  counterfeit  paper  money 
now in circulation is said to be  less  than  at 
any time in the last twenty years.

J. F.  Lawrence,  of  Detroit,  has  opened 
Porter & Taylor’s  store  at  Lansing,  which 
had been closed by assignment

Some apple trees in  Kansas  are  said  to 
have borne three crops of  apples during the 
past year.

\

Androscoggin, A4. .23 
Androscoggin, 84. .21
Pepperell,  7 4 ........ 16%
Pepperell,  8 4 ......2 0
Pepperell,  9 4 .......22%

Pepperell, 104......... 25
Pepperell, 114............ 27 %
Pequot,  7 4 .............. 18
P eq u o t,.8-4.............. 21
Pequot,  9-4.............. 24

CHECKS.

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

P ark  Mills, No.  90.. 14 
P ark  Mills, No.  100.15
Prodigy, oz............11
Otis  A p ro n............1044
Otis  F u rn itu re .....1044
York,  1  oz............. 10
York, A £ , ex tra oz. 14

OSNABURG.

P

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

A ugusta p laid.........  7
Toledo plaid ............   7
M anchester  plaid..  7 
New  Tenn. p la id ...11 
U tility plaid............  6%

A labam a brow n—   7
Jew ell b riw n ...........9%
K entucky  brow n.. 10% 
Lewiston  b ro w n ...  9%
Lane  bro w n .............944
Louisiana  plaid—   7
A vondale,  36...........  8% I Greene, G.  4-4.........  5
A rt  cam brics, 36. ..11 V& Hill, 4-4.....................  7%
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8lA  Hill, 7-8.....................  634
Hope,  4 4 ..................  654
Androscoggin, 5-4. .12*4
K ing  Phillip  cam ­
Ballou, 44.  ............   6%
bric, 4-4..................11%
Ballou, 5-4................  6
Linwood,  4-4..........   754
Boott,  0.4-4............   8%
Lonsdale,  4 4 .............734
Boott,  E. 5-5............   7
Lonsdale  cam bric. 1054 
Boott, AGC, 4 4 ......... 944
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  954
Boott, R.  3 4 ...........  544
Langdon,  45.............14
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7 
Masonville,  4-4......... 8
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Maxwell. 4 4 ............   954
Conway,  4-4............ 7
New Y ork Mill, 44.1054 
Cabot, 4 4 ................. 634
New Jersey,  4 4 —   8 
Cabot, 7-8.................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Canoe,  3-4................  4
Pride of the W est.. 11 
Dom estic,  36...........  714
Pocahontas,  4 4 —   744
D w ight A nchor, 44.  9
Slaterville, 7-8.........  654
Davol, 4 4 ................  9
V ictoria,  A A .............9
F ru it of Loom, 44 ..  8*4 
W oodbury, 4-4...........534
F ru it of Loom, 7-8..  74& 
W hitinsville,  4-4...  754
F ru it of  th e   Loom,
W hitinsville, 7-8____654
cam bric,  4-4.........11
W am sutta, 4 4 ......... 1054
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  624
W illiamsville,  36... 1054
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded  A ge................ 8%

S IL E S IA S .

C row n...................... 17  Masonville TS
No.  10......................1254
C o in ................... — 10
A n ch o r.................... 15
C en te n n ia l..............
B la c k b u rn ..............  8
D avol........................14
L ondon.................... 1254
P a c o n ia .................. 12
Rted  C ross...............10
Social  Im p erial— 16

M asonville  S ...........1054
L o n sd ale....................954
Lonsdale A .............16
N ictory  O................
V ictory J .................
V ictory  D ................
Victory  K ..................254
Phoenix A ................ 1954
Phoenix  B ...............   1054
Phoenix X X ...........t

p r l n t s . *

Albion,  solid............554 G lo u cester........... ...6
Glou cesterm ourn’g . 6 
Albion,  g re y .............6
H am ilton  fa n c y — 6
A llen’s  checks......... 554
H artel fa n c y ............6
A ilen’s  fa n c y ........... 554
M errim ac  D ............. 6
Allen’s p in k ...............65**
M a n ch ester.............6
Allen’s p u rp le...........654
O riental  fa n c y ........6
A m erican, fa n c y — 554
O riental  ro b es........654
Arnold fancy.  .........6
¡Pacific  robes........... 6
Berlin solid
8  R ichm ond................. 6
Cocheco  fancy.
Steel R iv er............... 554
Cocheco ro b es...........654
Simpson’s .................6
Conestoga fa n c y — 6
W ashington fa n c y .. 
E d d y sto n e ...............6
W ashington  blues.  754
Eagle  fa n c y ...............5
G arner p in k .............. 6541

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

A ppleton  A, 4-4—   754
Boott  M, 4-4............   634
Boston  F, 4-4...........  754
C ontinental C, 4-3..  654 
C ontinental D, 40 in  834 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  654 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4...........554
Dw ight Y, 7-8..........   5%
Dwight Z, 4-4.............634
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
E w ightS tar,40-in..  9 
E nterprise EE, 36..  554 
G reat Falls E, 4-4...  7
F a r m e r s ’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard,  1-4  744

Indian Orchard, 40.
Orchard, 
India
ia  B, 7-4... 
Laco
nB , 40-in.. 
Lymi
BB, 4-4  ... 
Mass
1a  E, 40-in. 
Nash
Nash
1a  R, 4-4... 
Nash
1a 0 ,7 -8 .... 
lark etN .  . 
New
Pepperell E, 39-ii 
Pepperell  R, 4-4. 
Pepperell  O, 7-8. 
Pepperell  N, 3-4. 
Pocasset  C, 4-4..
Saranac  R ..........
Saranac  E ...........

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM!

Renfrew , uress siyi  .j/2 
A m o sk e ag .......... 
754
Johnson  M anfg Co,
Amoskeag, P ersian
B ookfold...............1254
sty les.....................1054
54 Johnson  M anfg Co,
B a te s..
dress  sty les.......1254
654 
Berkshire
dress
Slaterville, 
Glasgow checks.
sty les..............
754
Glasgow checks, f ’y  754 
W hite Mfg Co, stap 
checks,
Glasgow 
W hite Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  sty les.........8
W hite  M anf’g  Co,
G loucester, 
new
E arlsto n ..................8
s ta n d a rd ..............  754
G o rdon.....................  754
P lu n k e t...................   754
dress 
Greylock, 
L an caster................  8
! 
styles  ...................1254
L angdale..................734

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

A ndroscoggin, 7-4.. 21 
iPepperell.  10-4.......2754
A ndroscoggin, 8-4..23  Pepperell,  11-4.......3254
21
Pepperell,  7-4........ 20  P equot,  7-4..........
24
Pepperell,  8-4........ 2254  P equot,  8 4 ..........
2754
Pepperell,  9-4........ 25 
iPequot.  9 4 ..........

HEAV Y  BROW N  COTTONS.

754

A tlantic  A, 4-4... 
A tlantic  H, 4 4 ... 
A tlantic  D, 4 4 ... 
A tlantic P, 4 4 —  
A tlantic  LL, 44..
A driatic, 36...........
A ugusta, 4-4.........
Boott  M, 4 4 .........
Boott  FF, 4-4.......
G ranitevilje, 4-4.. 
Endian  Head, 44. 
Indiana Head 454

7*4'Law rence XX, 44 
7 
I Law rence  Y, 30..
6% ¡Lawrence LL.4-4.
554 N ew m arket N —
554 M ystic River, 4-4.
754 Pequot A, 4-4.......
654  Piedm ont,  36.......
634  S tark A A, 4-4.......
734 T rem ont  CC, 44 ..
534  Utica,  4-4..............
7  W aehusett,  4-4...

W aehusett,  30-:

Amoskeag,  AC A .. .14 
Am oskeag 
“ 4 4 .. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........ 13
Amoskeag,  B ........ 12
Amoskeag,  C ........ 11
Amoskeag,  D ........ 1054
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10
Amoskeag, F .............9%
Prem ium   A, 4 4 — 17
Prem ium   B .............16
E xtra 4-4....................16
E x tra 7-8....................1454
G old Medal 4 4 ........15
CCA  7-8..................... 1254
CT 4-4.........................14
RC 7-8.........................14
BF 7-8.........................16
AF4-4.........................19
Cordis AAA, 32........14
Cordis  ACA, 32........15
Cordis No. 1, 32........15
Cordis  No. 2.............14
Cordis  No. 3.............13
Cordis  No. 4.............1154

TIC K IN G S . 
X XXX.
Falls 
.1854
X X X ...
Falls
.1554
B B .......
Falls,
.1154
BBC, 36
Falls,
.1954
.19
Falls,
ilion,  BT, 32. .12
Ham:
ilion,  D ......... •  »44
Ham 
ílton,  H ......... .  944
Ham 
ilton  fan cy .. .10
Ham  
u e n A A ......... .1344
Meth 
uen ASA.........18
Meth 
;a  A, 7-8........ .11
Ome{
;a A, 4-4........ .13
Omef 
ra ACA, 7-8... .14
Ome)
ra ACA, 4-4... .16
Omej 
ra SE, 7-8....... .24
OmeL
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
Omega M. 7 -8 ......... 22
Omega M, 4 4 ...........25
ShetucketSS&SSW 1154 
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Stock bridge  A ......... 7
Stockbridge  frn cy .  8

GLAZED CAM BRICS. 

G a rn e r.................  
H ookset...................  5 
Red  C ross................  5
F orest G rove...........
A m erican  A .........18  OOjOld  Ironsides.
Stark A .....................2254|Wheatland ....

¡Empire
.
.......434
|W ashington.
Edwards.
S. S. & Sons............   5
...15
.. .21

G R A IN   BAGS.

Boston ................
E v erett  blue —  
E verett  brow n..
Otis  AX A ...........
Otis B B ................

DENIM S.
.  634 iOtis  CC..................... 1054
.14 
¡W arren  A X A .........1254
.14  W arren  B B ............. 1154
.1254 W arren  CC..............1054

.........1154|York  fa n c y .............15
P A P E R   CAM BRICS. •

M anville...................  6 
Masgnville . . . , .......6 

|S. S. & Sons..............  6
¡G arn e r.......................  6

W IG AN S.

Red  C ross................  754¡Thistle M ills............
B e rlin ......................   754  Rose
G a rn e r.....................  7541

SPO OL COTTON.

B ro o k s..................... 50
C lark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P.  C oats.......... 55
W illim antic 6 cord.65 
W illim antic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing th re a d ............ 30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sew ing.30 
Greeh  &  D an iels...25-
Mer r ic k s ..................40
S taffo rd ....................25
H all & M anning— 25 
H olyoke....................25

CORSET JE A N S .

A rm o ry ...................  744
A ndroscoggin sa t..  8%
Canoe R iver............  6
C larendon............... 6%
Hallowell  Im p .......634
Ind. Orch. Im p .......7
L a c o n ia...................   744

K earsage.................   84*
N aum keagsatteen.  844 
Pepperell  bleached  844
Pepperell s a t.......... 944
R ockport.................   7
Law rence s a t...........844
C onegosat................  7

D EPA R T.

 

A R R IV E .

tD etro it E x p ress.....................................  6:00 a m
+Day  E x p ress...........................................12:45 p m
*New Y ork F ast L ine..............................  6:00 p m
tA tlantic E xpress.......................................9:20 p m
♦Pacific  E xpress................................................ 6:00 a m
tLocal  P assenger.............................................11:20 a m
tM a il.................................................. 
3:30 
tG rand  Rapids  E xpress.................— 10:25p m
tD aily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
The New Y ork F ast Line ru n s daily, arriving 
a t D etroit a t 11:59 a. m., and New Y ork  a t 9 p. 
m. th e n e x t evening.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern tra in s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding tran sfers.
The D etroit E xpress leaving a t 6:00 a. m. has 
D raw ing  Room  and  P arlo r  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m., New Y ork 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m. n e x t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room  car attached, arriv ­
ing a t G rand Rapids a t  10:25 p. m.

J . T. Schultz, G en’l A gent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
tM ail.......................................... 9:15 a m
tD ay  E x p ress....................... 12:25 p m
♦N ight  E xpress...................   9:35 p m
M ixed........................................ 6:10 a m

A rrives, 
4:07 p m 
11:00 p m 
6:00 a m 
10:05 p m
♦Daily. 
P ullm an Sleeping  Cars  on  all  n ight  train s. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  a t­
ten d an ts w ithout  e x tra   charge  to   Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m . and 
9:35 p. m . trains.

tD aily except Sunday.

NEW AYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  A rrives.
M ixed......................................   4:00 a m  
5:15 p m
E x p ress...................................3 :50 p m   4:15 p m
E x p ress...................................  8:10 a m  10:30 a m
All train s arriv e and d ep art from  U nion  De­
pot.
The  N orthern term in u s of  th is Division is a t 
Baldwin, w here close connection is m ade  w ith 
F. &  P. M.  train s  to  and  from   Ludington  and 
M anistee.

J. H. C a r pen ter,  Gen’l Pass. A gent.
J.  B.  Mu l l ik e n ,  General  M anager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
A rrive. 
E x p ress................................. 7:00 p m  
M ail........................................ 9:35 a m  

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

All train s daily except Sunday.
The  stra in  

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

tickets  and  b erths 

T hrough 

I. W. M cK e n n e y , G en’l A gent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EA ST.

A rrives.

GO ING W EST.

Leaves. 
6.20 a m 
tS team boat E x p ress..........
10:20 a m 
tThrough  M ail..............................10:15 a m
3:35 p m 
■(•Evening  E x p ress......................  3:20 p m
10:45 p m 
♦A tlantic E xpress................  9:45 p m
10:30 a m
tM ixed, w ith  coach............
12:55 p m 
tM orning  E xpress...............12:40 p m
5:15 p m
tT hrough  M ail...................   5:10 p m
tS team boat  E x p ress...........10:40 p m
7:10 à m 
tM ix ed ....................................
5:30 a m
♦N igntE xpress.............................  5:10 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
Passengers  tak in g   th e  6:20  a.  m.  Express 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit fo r New York, arriving th ere at 
10:00 a. rn. the follow ing m orning 
P arlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  E ast  and 
W est.
T rain leaving  a t  5:15  p.  m.  will  m ake  con­
nection w ith M ilwaukee steam ers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  P arlo r  Car  to  D etroit.  The 
N ight  E xpress has a through W agner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car D etroit tc  G rand Rapids.
D. P o tter, City Pass. A gent. 
Geo. B.  Ree v e, Traffic M anager, Chicago.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GO ING NORTH.

G O IN G   SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & M ackinac E x.  9:20 a m 
F t. W ayne & M ackinac  Ex  3:55 p m  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & C incinnati E x.
M ackinac & C incinnati E x.  4:05 p m 
M ackinac & Ft. W ay 1 e E x .. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  A c.  7:40 p m  

A rrives.  Leaves.
10:25 a  m 
5:00 p m 
7:10 a m
7:00 a m 
4:35 p m 
11:45 p m

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

A ll train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  5:00  o ’clock  p.  m. 
has  W oodruff  Sleeping Cars fo r  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  T rain leaving a t 10:25 a. m. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse 
City.
South—T rain leaving a t 4:35p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car fo r Cincinnati.

C. L. L ockwood, G en’l Pass. A gent.

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

Ohio W hite Lime, p er  b b l..................... 
1  05
90
Ohio W hite Lime, car lo ts..................... 
Louisville Cemeni,  p er b b l................... 
1  40
1  40
A kron C em ent per  b b l.......................... 
Buffalo Cem ent,  per b bl......................  
1  40
C a rlo ts....................................................... 1  05@1  10
P lasterin g  hair, per b u ..........................  25®  30
1  75
Stucco, p er bbl.......................................... 
Land plaster, p er to n .............................. 
p 75
Land p laster, car lo ts.............................  
3 00
Fire brick, p er  M .................................... $25 @ $35
Fire clay, p er  b b l..................................... 
3 00
A nthracite, egg and grate, car lo ts .. $6  00@6 25 
A nthracite, stove and  n u t, car lo ts..  6  25@6  50
Canqell,  car lo ts..................................... 
@6  75
Ohio Lum p, car  lo ts..............................  3  25@3  5o
Blossburg or  Cum berland, car lo ts..  4  50@5 00

CQAL.

DISSOLUTION  NOTICE.
Grand Ra pid s, Mic h ., Ja n . 1,1885.

Notice is hereby given th a t  the  partnership 
heretofore existing betw een th e   undersigned, 
which has been  carry in g   on  th e  commission 
business a t M uskegon, Mich., u n d er th e  nam e 
of O reutt & Co., has expired by lim itation.  The 
business will be continued h e re a fte r by F rank 
L.  O reutt,  of  M uskegon,  Mich.,  w ho  will  be 
pleased to h ear from  all o u r old  custom ers  of­
ten. 

O r c u t t  & Co.

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71  CANAL  STREET.

E.  F .A. L L-A. S,
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A  JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and lanufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Term s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates m ade know n on application.

Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Exchange.

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

P resident—L ester J. Rindge.
V ice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
T reasu rer—W m. Sears.
E xecutive  Com m ittee—P resident,  Vice-Pi es- 
ident and T reasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one 
y ear;  L. E. H aw kins and R. D. Sw artout, two
A rbitration  Com m ittee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
T ransportation Com m ittee—W ilder D. Stevens, 
In su ran ce Com m itte—Jo h n  G. Shields, A rth u r 
.  ,  .
M anufacturing  Com m ittee—Wm.  C artw ngnt, 
A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening 
R egular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  even­

P utnam , Joseph H ousem an.
Geo. B. D unton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Meigs, Wm. T. L am oreaux. 
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
o f October^ 
_  _  
in g  of each m onth.

. 

.

Tlie  D rum m er’s  D ream .
As I lazily sat by the hotel grate,
P atiently w aiting fo r “ num ber  eight 
(Which was, as usual, th ree hours late),

I fell asleep 
A nd had a  peep 
So  bright!

Of H eaveu.  I th o u g h t in mv  dream  
Of th a t d reary  S aturday night.
I dream ed th a t in m y desperation 
A t the state of trad e in Goober’s Station,
I suicided, in sheer  vexation,
A t h earing Jones,
In  nasal tones 

“I like you and I like your goods,
B ut I ’m full up to-day.”
I th ought I stood a t th e Golden  G ate, 
W hen St. P e te r sa id :  “I t’s getting late 
F or supper—a t any rate
I can’t  forego 
A bite o r so,

Say;

Pray,

Phip, old  boy, ju s t tak e m y keys,
A nd ten d  th e   g ate while I ’m away.
Now,  business  was  good  th a t  p articu lar 
A nd I  “ passed” lots of people whose papers 
(Even an old “ Soap D rum m er, 
in  spotless 

night,
w ere  right,
white).

W hen I saw on the stair 
H is placid glare,

’Twas Jones, th e old fraud, chief  buyer 
O f th e firm of Jones, Goober & Co.
H e  pushed  to  th e  fro n t  w ith  a confident 
Said, “I ’m know n and  respected  and have 
Of rejection—so I ’ll ju st step in here.

leer, 
no fe a r

^  „ 

, ,

B ut said I, “Oh, no!
\ o u  go below.

A w ay!
For I like you and I like your goods,
B ut I ’m full up to-day.”

Lo!

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  36.

th e  Road.

€ .  H.  Bay ley,  One  of th e   Best  W orkers on 
Christopher H.  Bayley was bom at  Hack­
ney Road, London, England, March 22, 1844, 
and at the age of eleven was apprenticed  to 
a groceryman,  with  whom he remained  four 
years.  He then came to Canada, settling  at 
Bowmanville,  where he engaged  with Alex. 
McIntyre, continuing in the latter’s  employ 
until his failure four  years  later.  He  then 
went to Port Hope,  where  he  entered  the 
employ of Samuel Hatton.  On  the  latter’s 
retirement from business in  1862, he  bought 
the stock and continued the business for two 
years, when he was burned  out.  A  couple 
of months before this event,  lie was married 
to the lady  who  still  shares  his  fortunes. 
Receiving an offer from J. & R. O’Neil & Co., 
wholesale grocers of Port Hope, to represent 
that house on the road, he accepted  the  po­
sition, and for four years paid regular  visits 
to the grocery trade of northern Canada.  He 
then went to Chicago,  where for three  years 
he earned on  the  contracting  and  building 
business, under  the  firm  name  of  Brown, 
Bayley & Hayden.  His  next  move  was  to 
establish a retail grocery business at Mt. For­
rest,  111.  Selling  out  two  years  later,  he 
came to Grand Rapids, engaging in the same 
business at 586 South  Division  street,  con­
tinuing in trade  at  that  location  for  about 
three years.  He then accepted  the  position 
of traveling representative for I. M.  Clark & 
Co., with  whom he remained for three years. 
Jan.  1, 1882,  he engaged  to  travel  for  Mc­
Kinley, Gilchrist  & Co., of Chicago,  termin­
ating his engagement with them at  the  end 
of that year.  He then went on the road for 
John Caulfield for a few months, and in Sep­
tember, 1883,  made an engagement with  the 
new  house  of  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co.,  with 
whom  he  still  remains.  His  territory  in­
cludes the towns along,  and  contiguous  to, 
the line of  the  Grand  Rapids  and  Indiana 
Railway, from this city to  the  Straits,  and 
the Chicago  and  West  Michigan  Railway, 
from Grand Rapids to Big Rapids.

Mr. Bayley is a worker in the full  signifi­
cance of the  word.  He has made it a  point 
through life  to  never  neglect  business  for 
leisure, and much of his success  as  a  sales­
man is due to “strict attention to  business,” 
coupled with a degree of persistence seldom 
witnessed in these days of push  and  bustle. 
To this latter quality,  as  well  as  to  those 
other qualities  which serve to  win  for  him 
the respect and friendship of his trade,  is  to 
be attributed the standing  he possesses  as  a 
traveler, a business man and a  gentleman.

The  Secret of Success  in   P aper.

From  th e  P aper World.

The remarkable development of the paper 
industry in the United States since 1860, and 
more particularly since the war, is coming to 
be a subject of frequent remark among busi­
ness men.  Paper is now as much of a  king 
as cotton or iron, and  its  interests  have  as­
sumed  vast  proportions,  and  have become 
world wide.  A leading cause of this success 
has become increasing cheapness,  to  which 
many causes have contributed.  A great deal 
of the paper used performs but  one  service, 
and  much  paper  can  be used because  it  is 
cheap.  There  is  one  thing  to  which  pub­
lic  attention  has  never  before been called, 
and that is the  indisposition of paper  manu­
facturers to do  business upon a watered cap­
ital  stock.  Scores  of  companies  could be 
mentioned whose actual capital  far  exceeds 
their certificates of stock.  A most conspicu­
ous  instance  of  this  is  a  company whose 
original capital has been  continually  added 
to out of profits until it  has  now  increased 
probably thirteen fold, and yet the  original 
capital  stock  has  not been changed.  This 
company has returned its original capital  in 
profits many a year.  Many other  instances 
of a like nature, though of a less degree, are 
known to us.  Disaster will overtake any busi­
ness working upon watered capital stock and 
meeting  the  competition  of  honest  stock. 
Paper manufacturing enterprises have  steer­
ed clear < >f this. Another source ot success has 
been the distribution of paper to .consumers. 
It is apparent that a product, passing through 
many hands, must  receive  an  accession  of 
profit to its price at each  transfer,  and  that 
the final price will be high  and  the  sale  of 
the  article  thereby  restricted.  The  paper 
business has largely escaped this,  also.  Pa­
per is sold to  a great extent by the manufac­
turer directly to the  consumer,  without  the 
intervention of even a drummer, and  a  cor­
responding  cheapness  characterizes  prices. 
Any business will prosper  that  develops  to 
these ultimate forms towards which all man­
ufacturing businesses are tending.

How To Say  B itter Things.

This is the way in which Mr. Robert  Bur­
dette, the genial humorist, crushes his  jour-1 
nalistic enemies:

Let me tell you how I write  mean  letters 
and bitter editorials,  my  boy.  Some  time, 
when a man has pitched into me and cut me 
up rough, and I want to pulverize  him,  and 
wear his gory scalp onmy girdle, and hang his 
hide on my fence,  1 write the letter or edito­
rial that is to do the business. 
I write some­
thing that will drive sleep from his eyes and 
peace from his soul for six weeks.  Oh, I do 
hold him over  a  slow  fire  and  roast  him! 
Gall and aquafortis drip from my  blistering 
pen.  Then, I don’t  mail  the  letter,  and  I 
don’t  print  the  editorial.  There’s  always 
time to crucify a man.  The vilest  criminal 
is entitled to  a  little  reprieve.  I  put  the 
manuscript away in a drawer,  Next  day  I 
look at it.  The ink is cold;  I  read  it  over 
and say,  “I don’t know  about this.  There’s 
a good  deal  of  bludgeon  and  bowie-knife 
journalism in that.  I’ll hold it  over  a  day 
longer.”  Tln^next day I  read  it  again.  I 
laugh and say, “Pshaw!” and I  can  feel my 
cheeks getting a little  hot.  The  fact,  is,  I 
am ashamed I ever wrote it,  and  hope  that 
nobody has seen  it,  and I  have  half  forgot­
ten the article that filled my soul with  rage. 
I haven’t been hurt, I haven’t hurt anybody, 
and the  world goes right along, making twen- 
ty-four hours a day, as usual,  and  1  am  all 
the happier.  Try it, my boy.
A  Bad  Start.

From  the Richmond  State.

The moon is making a very bad beginning 

for 1885. 

It gets full twice this  month.

The  wholesale  trade  of  St.  Paul  for  the 
year 1884, in all articles of  raw  and  manu­
factured goods, foots up $60,400,000,  and af­
forded direct employment to about 4,960 per­
sons.  As  compared  with  previous  years, 
the result may be generally stated  as  about 
25  per  cent,  increase  in  the  gross  sales. 
Sixty-four new jobbing houses have been es­
tablished,  and the amount of additional  cap­
ital invested is $700,000, or  closely  approx­
imating that  amount.

Readers of this p aper who  avail  them selves 
of the inform ation obtained from  its colum ns, 
by advertisem ent or otherw ise,  are  requested 
to notify th e ir correspondents of the source of 
thoir inform ation.

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O ne  D ose  taken during the  ChiU, 
■
arrests  the  disease in  20 minutes.
NEVES  ENOWN  TO  PAIL.  Money re­
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50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre­
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Medicine Co.,Grand Rapids, Mich.
WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
Purely  Vegetable;  contain  no  calomel,  minera' 
poison or quinine.  Act directly on the Liver,  “tone 
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on  receipt of price,  35  cts.  Sample 
h t  s package free.  Western  Medicine 
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r&4oi 

1885

y6o IS 
Ross Leaf, Fine Cut, 
Navy Clippings 
and Snuffs

An enterprise has just been  started at Al­
bany, N. Y., that  will  be  of  interest to  all 
manufacturers who use paper  boxes.  They 
make paper  paper  boxes directly  from  the 
pulp pressed  into  any  shape  or  size  you 
wish, and they can be furnished  very cheap.

The ten plagues of a newspaper  office are 
bores, poets, cranks, rats, cockroaches, typo­
graphical errors, exchange fiends, book  can­
vassers, delinquent subscribers, and the man 
who always knows how  to  run  the  paper 
better than the editor does  himself.

Beaumont & Collier, grocers at Hart, have 

dissolved, Mr. Collier succeeding.

School  Books

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OYSTERS.

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agents for the  celebrated 
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to fill orders  for  CAN  or 
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Michigan.

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Sells fo r 50 cents apiece.  Sold to  the  trad e  by
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ids; W. J. Gould & Co., Geo. C. W eath- 
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This  B aking  Pow der  m akes th e  WHITEST, 
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Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationery,  Ker­

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and  sole  m anufacturers  of
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K EROSENE  O il,.

Some  Figures  from  th e  State  Inspector’s 

t  m lhcoiuing  R eport.

 

 

 

 

The  increase  in  the  consumption  of  illu­
minating oil in this State is  almost  marvel­
ous.  From 1877 to the close of the year 1884 
the inspection of oil  in  Michigan  has  been 
as follows,  figured in barrels:
1877  ....................................................................  66,002
1878  ....................................................................  77.974
1879  ........  
91,237
1880  ...................... •...........................................   94,894
1881  ....................................................................133,188
1882  .....................t ............................................ 133,670
1883 .................................................................... 152,364
1884  .......... 
178,381
The highest number of inspections for the 
past year has been in Detroit, a single  Dep­
uty Inspector there having inspected  44,966 
barrels. 
Inspector Smith has received dur­
ing the year as inspector fees $23,189.53, and 
disbursed in salaries and expenses  of  depu­
ties $17,259.45.  There  will  thus  remain  a 
surplus,  when all other expenses are met, of 
not far from $5,000, which  amount  will  go 
into the State  treasury.  The  retiring  State 
Inspector  will  probably  recommend  some 
modifications of the law, but believes it to be 
a protection to life  and  property,  and  will 
oppose any attempt to abolish the law.
A nother  A dvantage  of  Selling  Eggs  by 

W eight.

Smith Barnes, general manager of the Han­
nah & Lay Mercantile Co., sends the  Retail 
Grocers’ Advocate the following  communi­
cation relative to the article on “Weight  vs. 
Count,” recently published in T h e  T r a d e s­
m a n ,  and several other  leading  trade  jour­
nals:

“Beferring to your comment on  my  com­
munication  in  American Grocer  on  “pur­
chase  of  eggs  by  weight,”  I  would, say  in 
addition, in the purchase of eggs by count of 
the farmer there may be a very strong temp­
tation on the part of the buyer, as he  tallies 
out  each  dozen,  to  forget (?)  to  tally  each 
half  dozen' as  he  counts  them  out,  and  iu 
many cases advantage is,  no doubt, taken of 
the producer in this way, as  when  the  eggs 
are well mixed up with other lots there is no 
chance  for  reclamation  on  the  part  of  the 
producer. 
If weighed  out  the  chances  for 
taking advantage  are  materially reduced, as 
well as the temptation to do so.

“ 1 thoroughly concur with you in the very 
important  necessity  of  having  a  national 
law establishing  a  uniform  weight  for  the 
purchase  and  sale  of  all  farm  products. 
This  would  simplify  all  transactions  very 
much and reduce to a minimum the  tempta­
tion for fraud.

“ I  shall hail the day with  great  pleasure 
when these abuses are corrected  and the  re­
forms made by our law makers  at  Washing­
ton, in doing which they  would  be  entitled 
to  the  gratitude  of  the  entire  producing 
world, and wrould  be  much more entitled to 
it than in frittering away tlieir  time on mat­
ters of less importance.”

The  Grocery  M arket.

The grocery business has  visibly  improv­
ed during the past week, and the indications 
are that we shall have a good  spring  trade. 
Goods  are  beginning  to  move in  various 
lines, notably canned goods,  syrups,  coffees 
and fish.  Fish are sure to go higher and the 
present is a  good  time  to  buy.  Teas  are 
higher and the low grades  are  very  scarce, 
so much so  that  we  withdraw  the  20  cent 
grade from our quotations,  as  none is  to be 
had.  Sugars have again  advanced  and  the 
general opinion seems to  be  that  they  are 
not going back to former prices  soon.  Col­
lections do not improve as much as  could be 
wished, but as the business  outlook  further 
improves, they will undoubtedly  resume the 
old level.

Seventeen Northwestern  oatmeal  millers 
have signified their intention of  joining  an 
association, or pool, for the purpose of main­
taining prices at a fixed figure.  While there 
is an active market and good  demand,  it  is 
claimed that excessive competition among the 
mills  has  cut prices to so low a figure as  to 
leave but little margin for profits.

Provisions  have  remained about steady.
Country  produce  dealers  have  met  with 
fair business during the week, there being a 
noticeable  firmness  in  butter  and  cheese, 
and  a  better  feeling  as  regards  potatoes. 
Wheat has advanced 4c more,  making  a  to­
tal  advance  of  8c  within  the  past  three 
weeks.

Confectionery is firmer on account  of  the 
advance in sugar, and  an  advance is expect­
ed.  Fruits are easy,  in consequence of  the 
unfavorable  weather.  Peanuts  have  ad­
vanced 14c, and  other  nuts  are  easy,  some 
kinds being lower.

A nother  Celery  F ield.

From  the Ionia N ational.

The  Ionia  celery  growers  having  demon­
strated that the soil of the Grand River  bot­
toms  will  produce  the  finest celery  in  the 
world, it is remarkable  that  the  thousands 
of acres of this land between Muir and Low­
ell have not been put to growing this palata­
ble  succulent.  The  prairie  between Muir 
and  Lyons  is  capable of producing tons  of 
celery, and by reason of its being less  liable 
to overflow, is much better adapted to grow­
ing it than that south  of this city.  Growers 
would never be at a loss for a market.

Onions cannot be kept well in a damp cel­
lar.  The secret of keeping onions is to have 
them thoroughly dry when  they are  put  in 
the  cellar, and  keep  them so.  Also,  keep 
cool.  Onions that are not wanted  until late 
winter or  early  spring  may  be  stored  in a 
dry loft and covered with  a foot or  more of 
hay or straw.  In this position, if the weath­
er is tolerably even, they will remain frozen 
all  winter, and  may  be  used  as  desired. 
They  should not be thawed  out until want­
ed.

The Decline  of th e Oyster.

From  th e New Y ork T ribune.

The United States  Commissioner  of  Fish 
and Fisheries has, in his recent  report,  call­
ed the attention of Congress  to  the  decline 
of  the  oyster.  Beds  which  formerly  pro­
duced forty-one  bushels to the acre now pro­
duce but twenty-five bushels.  Around New 
York sludge acid,  too, is doing deadly  work 
among the bivalves; and what  with reckless 
depletion of the beds and corruption  of  the 
food supply, there is a  gloomy outlook.  At 
present, we consume five and a half millions 
of  oysters  annually.  There 
is  no  doubt 
about the number, for Professor  Baird  and 
Lieutenant Winslow have counted them; and 
the connection of this vast mass of succulent 
bivalves with the prosperity, the material and 
moral health and progress of the country can­
not  be  too  strongly  insisted  upon.  How 
closely the oyster is intertwined with all our 
deepest and holiest feelings;  how indispens­
able  it is to the  proper  carrying  on  of  our 
politics, our commerce, our  church  festivals 
and our love-making, perhaps will  never  be 
appreciated until we have lost this  intimate 
and most dear friend; until the  face  of  the 
land is darkened, and the gayety of  the  na­
tion is eclipsed by the removal of the  famil­
iar and ubiquitous sign-boards which  to-day 
carry cheer to the gloomiest  heart,  by  their 
announcement of “Oysters in  Every  Style.”
For what would America  be  without  the 
oyster?  A shudder would pass from  Maine 
to  Florida,  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  sun- 
kissed shores of the Pacific, at  this  thought. 
Deprived of her favorite dainty, New  York 
would be a “City of Dreadful Night.”  Sixth 
avenue  and  East  Fourteenth  street  would 
echo no more with the shouts of the reveller. 
The burden of sustaining that region of noc­
turnal festivity would  fall  upon  the  clam, 
and he would sink under it, and perish amid 
the scorn of those whose digestive organs he 
had insulted by the  offer  of  so  inadequate 
and inelastic a substitution.  Nor have we to 
evolve these alarming conclusions from  our 
imagination.  The sad experience  of  a  sis­
ter nation confirms but too strongly our dark­
est apprehensions.  A few years ago and the 
drumbeat of England was  as  ubiquitous  as 
the tin horn of New Year’s Day; her flag was 
upon every sea; her commerce was  in  every 
market; her pickles, pale ale and  globe-trol- 
lers were  thick  as  leaves  in  Yallombrosa; 
her diplomacy was  successful;  her  colonies 
were  contented;  her  policy,  at  home  and 
abroad, was admired and respected.

But there came a day when her oyster beds 
no longer  yielded  as  before.  First,  there 
was on oyster famine; then the oyster ceased 
to be accessible to the masses.  And so,  the 
decadence of England dated from that dread­
ful day.  Since the disappearance of the oys­
ter, nothing  has  gone  right.  We  have  all 
marked the rapid decline of that great Power. 
It is no wonder that the British press should 
have hailed  the  new  year  dejectedly.  But 
while some ascribe the unhappy state of  af­
fairs to Gladstone and some to  Free  Trade, 
and some to other causes, it  is  clear to  the 
unbiased observer that the oyster  is  at  the 
bottom of all  the  trouble.  And,  with  this 
example and warning before us, it  behooves 
Congress to take prompt and adequate  meas­
ures for the  rehabilitation  of  our  noble  bi­
valve,  and  to  guard  zealously  against  the 
threatened extinction,  which  must  involve, 
in  its  consummation,  the  disappearance of 
all that makes life worth living.
A nnual  M eeting  of tlie  State  Salt  Associa­

tion.

the 

The annual meeting of stockholders of the 
Salt  Association  of  Michigan  was  held at 
East  Saginaw  on  the 15th.  The report  of 
the Secretary shows  that  the  shipments  in 
the 
1884  were  2,580,201  barrels  and 
sales  2,748,164  barrels, 
sales  be­
ing 343,000 barrels in excess of those in 1883. 
The average net price of the product to man­
ufacturers  was  a  trifle  over  seventy-five 
cents a  barrel.  Directors  were  elected  as 
follows:  W. R. Burt, W. J. Bartow,  W. C. 
McClure, Jos. A.  Whittier,  E.  Rust,  G.  F. 
Williams, L.  W. Bliss, A.  Miller,  T.  Cran­
age,  Jr.,  H.  W.  Sage,  J. L. Dolson, Chas. 
Malone, Greene Pack, G.  W.  Jenks,  J.  S. 
Thompson.  The directors re-elected the old 
officers as follows:  President,  W. R.  Burt; 
Vice-President, Albert Miller;  Secretary, D. 
G. Holland;  Treasurer. Thos.  Cranage,  Jr.

A  Thing of th e  Past.

From  the New O rleans Picayune.

When sugar is dirt cheap it  does  not  pay 

a grocer to put sand in it.

A  cheese  cutter  has  been  patented  by 
Messrs. Monroe W.  Chapel  and  Eugene  A. 
Reynolds,  of Grand Blanc.  The  invention 
covers a rotable block with a standard, a pe­
culiar  spring,  and  a  knife  actuated  in  a 
novel way, making  an improved  device  for 
cutting sector-shaped pieces from a  head  of 
cheese conveniently and rapidly.

In a paper upon butterine, read before the 
Society of Arts, it is stated that in 1883 over 
40,006 tons of that  product  were  imported 
into England from Holland, the  factories at 
j  Oss  sending  150 tons a week.  The  latest 
j improved butterine  consists  of  oleomargar­
ine, milk, vegetable oil, and real butter.

Oysters are reported to  be  good  for  dys­
peptics.  They  never  produce  indigestion, 
and are preferred by invalids when all other 
food disagrees with them.  Raw oysters  are 
used by singers for hoarseness.

Florida oranges  are  selling  at  one  cent 
apiece in Atlanta, the market being  glutted 
with them.  At  least  30,000  oranges  have 
spoiled there during the past week, owing to 
the warm weather and rain.

Coleman,  the  great  mustard  man, says 
that he has  not  made  his  fortune  out  of 
mustard eaten, but out of mustard wasted on 
plates.

Order  M agn olia  Co:

Advanced—W hiteflsh, teas, sugars. 
Declined—Rais i ns.

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13%

BLU IN G .

CANNED  F IS H .

CANNED  F R U IT S .

BA K IN G   PO W D ER .

F razer’s ......................801 P a ra g o n ....................... 60
D iam ond.....................60 Paragon, 26 lb pails 1  20
Modoc......................... 55|
A rctic % lb can s__   451 A rctic  1 ft can s— 2  40
A rctic % lb c a n s__   75 A rctic 5 lb c an s— 12  00
A rctic % ft cans.  .  1  40|
Dry, No. 2............................................... doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3..............................................:doz. 
Liquid, .4 oz,...........................................doz. • 
35
Liquid, 8 oz.............................................doz. 
65
A rctic 4 oz...........................................¥   gross  4  00
A rctic 8  oz...............................................................  8 00
A rctic 16 oz..........................................................12  00
A rctic No. 1 pepper b o x ......................................   2 00
3 00
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A rctic No. 2 
 
A rctic No. 3 
 
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4  50
BROOMS.
No. 2 H u rl................1  75
No. 1 C arpet............ 2  50
Fancy W hisk...........1  00
No. 2 C arpet............ 2  25
Common W hisk—   75
No. 1  P arlor G em .. 2  75
No. 1 H u rl................2  00
Clams, 1 B>  sta n d ard s........................ 
I  40
Clams, 2 H>  sta n d ard s...................................... 2 65
Clam Chowder,  31b......................................... 2 20
Cove Oysters,  1  lb  stan d ard s.........■............ 1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  fi>  stan d ard s......................   1 95
Cove O ysters, 1 ft  slack  filled.....................  75
COve Oysters, 2 ft slack filled........................ 1 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic......................................... 1 75
Lobsters, 1 ft s ta r .............................................2 20
Lobsters, 2 1b s ta r .............................................3 10
Mackerel, l f t   fresh  sta n d ard s.....................1 00
M ackerel, 5 ft fresh   sta n d ard s.....................6 50
Mackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3  f t..... ........... 3  25
M ackerel, 3 ft in M ustard...............................3 25
M ackerel, 3 ft broiled......................................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Colum bia riv e r.......................... 1 50
Salmon, 2 ft Colum bia riv e r..........................2 60
Salmon, 1 ft  S acram ento............................... 1 35
Sardines, dom estic %s................................... 
Sardines,  dom estic  %s...............................  
Sardines,  M ustard  %s ...................................  13
Sardines,  im ported  fas.................................   14
Sardines, im ported %s...................................  20
Sardines, im ported %s, boneless................  32
Sardines, R ussian  k eg s...............................   55
T rout. 3 ft  brook..........................................  2  75.
Apples, 3 ft sta n d a rd s...................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, E rie................. 2 50
Blackberries, sta n d ard s................................. 1 05
Blackberries,  E rie ........................................... 1 45
Cherries, Erie, re d ............................................1 30
Cherries, E rie,w hite w ax .............................   1 90
Cherries, F rench  Brandy, q u a rts................2 50
D am sons...................................... 
1  00
Egg Plum s, standards 
................................1  40
G ooseberries, K ra ft’s B e st............................1 00
G reen Gages, standards 2 f t .......................... 1 40
G reen G ages,  E rie..............................  
1  50
Peaches,  B ran d y .............................................3 10
Peaches, E x tra Y ellow .................................. 2 40
Peaches,  stan d ard s............................. 1  7o@l  95
Peaches,  seconds............................. 
1  50
Pie  Peaches,  K ensett’s .................................. 1 10
Pineapples,  E rie.............................................. 2 20
Pineapples, sta n d ard s.................................... 1 70
Plum bs, Golden  D rop..................................   2 85
Q u in ces.............................................................. 1 45
R aspberries, Black,  E rie ..............................145
R aspberries, Red,  E rie...................................1 35
Straw berries,  E rie........................................... 1 30
W hortleberries, M cM urphy’s .......................1 40
A pricots, L usk’s . . . 2  60|Pears......................... 3 C'O
Egg P lu m s...............2 50 Q u in ces.....................2 90
G ra p e s..................... 2  50 P eaches  ..................3 00
G reen G ages...........2 50|
A sparagus, O yster B ay.................................. 3 25
Beans, Lima.  E rie ............................................1 20
Beans, String, E r i e ........................................  90
Beans, Lima,  sta n d ard .................................  80
Beans, Stringless,  E rie.................................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked........................1 60
Corn, E rie ...........................................................1 15
Corn, Red  Seal.................................................110
Corn,  A cm e.....................................  
1  10
Corn, R ev ere......................................................1 25
Corn, C am den....................................................1 00
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case............... 22 00
Peas, French, 100 in c a s e ............................. 23 00
Peas, M arrofat, sta n d ard ............................... 1 70
Peas, B e a v e r ..................................................   90
Peas, early sm all, sifted .................................1 80
Pum pkin, 3 ft G olden....................................  1 00
Squash, E r ie ......................................................1 25
Succotash, E rie .................................................1 20
Succotash, sta n d ard .......................................  90
Tomatoes, Red S eal.......................................   1 00
B o sto n ........................361 Germ an  Sw eet___,;.25
Baker’s ...................... 40 V ienna S w e e t.......... .»23
R unkles’ .....................35|  n
CO FFEE.
Roasted M ex.. .17@20
Green R io..........11@14
G reen J  a v a ........17®27
G round  Rio__ 9@17
A rbuckle’s .......   @14%
G reenM ocha.. .23@25
X X X X ..............   ©14%
Roasted R io___10@17
D ilw orth’s .......   @14%
Roasted Ja v a   ,.23@30 
L evering’s .......  @14%
Roasted  M a r... 17@18 
RoastedIMoch a . 28@30
M agnolia...........  @14%
72 foot J u t e ....... 1  15 
160 foot C otton__ 2  00
60 foot  J u te ....... 1  00 
¡50 foot C otton__ 1  75
Bloaters, Smoked Y arm outh.......................  80
Cod, w hole.......................................................4@5
Cod, Boneless................................................... 5@7%
Cod, pickled,  %  b b ls......................................3 50
H a lib u t............................................ 
 
H erring %  bbls.............................................. 2  50
H erring,  Scaled............................................... 20@21
H erring,  H olland...........................................   75
M ackerel, No. 1, % b b ls................................ 5  50
M ackerel, No. 1.12  ft  k its ............................  90
M ackerel, No. 1, shore, 
%  b b ls............4 09
M ackerel, No. 1, shore,  k its ........................   65
Shad, Vi b b l ..................................................... 2 50
T rout, No.  1,  Vi  b b ls......................................4  25
T rout, No. 1,12  ft  k its ...................................  85
W hite, No. 1, Vt b b ls ......................................6  75
W hite, Fam ily, % b b ls.................................. 3  00
W hite, No. 1,10 ft k its ...................................  95
W hite,  No. 1,12  ft k its.................................. 1  00

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

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

CHOCOLATE.

CORDAGE.

F IS H .

 

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

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M ATCHES.

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|  Legal  T e st..............11

Je nnings’ 2 oz.......................

Lem on.  Vanilla. 
...,*P  doz.l 00 
140
4 oz....................... ..................1  50
2  50
6 0 Z....................... ..................2 50
4  00
8 0 Z....................... ..................3 50
5  00
No. 2 T aper....... ................. 1  25
1  50
....... ..................1  75
No.  4 
3  00
% p in t  ro u n d ... 
7  50
................. 4  50
..................9 00 15  00
1
No.  8................... ................. 3  00
4 25
No. 1 0 ................. ..................4 25
6 00
Apples, M ichigan....................................  
@5
©7%
Apples, Dried, evap., bb ls..................... 
@814
A pples, Dried, evap., b o x ......................  
@16
Cherries, dried,  p itte d ............................ 
C itro n .........................................................   @30
C u rra n ts...................................................  
@5
13@14
Peaches, dried  ........................................  
Pineapples,  sta n d ard s..........................   @1 70
P runes, T urkey, n ew .............................. 
@5%
P runes, French, 50 ft  boxes.................. 
9@li
Raisins, V alencias...................................  @10%
Raisins,  O ndaras....................................   @13
Raisins,  S ultanas....................................   9  @10
Raisins, Loose  M uscatels.........................  @2 90
Raisins, London L ay ers............................   @3 20
Raisins, Im perial C abinets.......................  @3 80
Raisins, D enesias........................................   @4 25
Raisins, D ehesias, % boxes..................... 
  @1 50
W ater W hite.........13 
G rand  H aven,  No.  9, sq u a re........................ 2 15
G rand  H aven,  No.  8, sq u a re........................ 1  65
G rand  H aven,  No.  200,  p arlo r.....................2 50
G rand  H aven,  No.  300, p a rlo r......................3 75
G rand  H aven,  No.  7,  ro u n d .........................2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2....................................................1  10
Oshkosh, No.  8....................................................1  60
Sw edish................................................................   55
Richardson’s No. 2  sq u a re................. ...........2 70
...•.......................2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
............................. 170
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
.............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
...........................1 75
Black  S tra p ......................................................  @16
P orto  Rico........................................................ 28@30
New  Orleans,  good................. 
38@42
New Orleans, choice............... 
48@50
New  Orleans,  fan cy .........  ...........................52@55
OATM EAL.Quaker, 48 fts.......1 10
Q uaker, 60  fts ........ 2  25

Steel o u t.................4  75
Steel Cut, % b b ls.. .2  50
Rolled  O ats............3 50
Ch oice in barrels m ed....................................... 5  50
Choice in % 
............ ...........................3 40
Dingee’s q u arts glass fa n c y ............................4 25
D ingee’s p in ts 
............................ 2 40
A m erican qt.  in G lass............................................2 00
A m erican p t.in  G lass...................................... 1 30
C. & B. English  q u a rts..........................................5 75
C. & B. English  p in ts............................................. 3 50
Chow Chow, m ixed and G erkins,  q u a rts .. .5 75 
p in ts ....3 50
D ingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
p ts..2  75
Im ported Clay 3 g ro ss................, ..........2 25@3 00
Im ported Clay, No. 016,3 gross............   @2 25
A m erican  T .D .....................................  @  90

Vi bbls. 4c extra.

M OLASSES.

PIC K L E S .

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SALT.

SOAP.

SAUCES.

SA LERATUS.

@2  00 
@5  00 
@3  00 
@1 00 
@  75 
@  90 
(^1  3a 
@1  70 
@1  00 
@1  35 
@1  00 
@1  30 
@2 25 
@3  50 
@3 85 
@6 50 
@7  00 
@4  00 
©2  00 
@  90 
@3  50 
@2 10 
@4  85 
@2 90

Good  C arolina.. ....6
pava  .......................
.6%
P rim e C arolina. ....6% P a t n a .....................
.6
R an g o o n ................ ..5%
Choice Carolina. ....7
Good Louisiana. ....5% B roken...................
.3%
DeLand’s p u re .. ----5%J Dwight’s ................
.5%
C hurch’s  ........... ....5% Sea  F oam ..............
.5%
Taylor’s  G.  M ... ....5%, S., B. & L .’s B e st.. ..5%
Cap  S heaf........... ....5%
60 Pocket, F  F   D airy.............................
28 P o ck et....................................................
100 3 ft  p o ck ets.........................................
Saginaw F in e ...........................................
Diamond  C.................................................
Standard  C oarse......................................
A shton, English, dairy, bu. b a g s.........
A shton, English, dairy, 4 bu. b ag s__
H iggins’ English dairy bu.  b ag s.........
Am erican, dairy,  % bu. b ag s................
Rock, b ushels...........................................
Parisian, %  p in ts....................................
Lee & P errin s  W orcestershire, pints. 
Lee & P errin s W orcestershire, % pts.
Picadilly, % p in ts....................................
P ep p er Sauce, red  sm all......................
P ep p er Sauce, green  ..............................
P esper Sauce, red large rin g ................
P ep p er Sauce, green, large rin g .........
Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts............................
Catsup, Tom ato,  q u arts  .......................
H orseradish,  Vt p in ts..............-..............
H orseradish, p in ts...................................
Capers, French surflnes........................
Capers, French surflnes, la rg e ............
Olives, Q ueen, 16 oz  b o ttle...................
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  b o ttle...................
Olive Oil,  qu arts, A ntonia &  Co.’s __
Oliv© Oil, pints,  Antonia. & Co.’s .........
Olive Oil, Vt pints, A ntonia & Co.’s __
C elery Salt,  D urkee’s ............................
H alford Sauce, p in ts..............................
H alford Sauce, Vt p in ts..........................
Salad D ressing, D urkee’s, la rg e ...........
Salad Dressing, D urkee’s, sm all.........
P reserved G inger, Canton,  p in ts.......
Old Country, 80 bars, 80 fts.,  w rapped 
Old Country, 80 bars,80 fts.,unw rapped
Old Country, 801 ft b a rs........................
Queen  A n n e.............................................
Cameo.........................................................
M o n d a y ......................................................
K irk’s A m erican  F a m ily ...................
do. 
I n d ia ...........................................
do.  S a v o n ..........................................
do.  S a tin e t........................................
do.  R e v e n u e .....................................
do.  W hite R ussian..........................
P roctor & G am ble’s I v o r y ..................
Ja p an   O liv e ..........
Golden B ar..............
A ra b .........................
A m ber......................
M ottled  G erm an..
P ro cter & G am ble’s V elvet...................
P ro cter & G am ble’s Good L uck...........
P ro c ter & Gam ble’s Wash  W ell...........
B adger...............................................60 fts
G alv an ic....................................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft b r
Tip T op......................................... 3 ft bar
W ard’s W hite L ily...................................
H andkerchief...........................................
B abbitt’s ..................................................
Dish R a g ..................................................
B luing.........................................................
M agnetic................................................
New  French  P ro cess.............................
Spoon  .........................................................
A nti-W ashboard......................................
V a te rla n d .................................................
M agic...........................................................
P ittsb u rg h .................................................
Acm e, 701 ft  b a rs....................................
Acme, 25 3 ft b a r s ...................................
Towel, 25 b ars  ..........................................
N apkin, 25  b a rs........................................
B est A m erican, 601 ft blocks................
Palm a 60-1 ft blocks, p la in .....................
Sham rock, 100 cakes,  w rapped............
M aster, 100-% ft c a k e s ........................
Stearine, 100  % ft cak es........................
M arseilles, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Cotton Oil, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, w rapped............
G erm an  M ottled, w rapped...................
Savon, Republica, 60 ft b o x ...................
Blue D anube, 60-1 ft blocks.................
London Fam ily, 60-1 ft  blocks............
London Fam ily, 3-ft bars 80 f t...........
Loudon Fam ily, 4-ft bars 80  f t..............
Gem, 100 cakes, w rapped.......................
Nickel, 100 cakes, w rap p ed ...................
Climax, 100 cakes,  w rap p ed ..................
Boss, 100 cakes,  w rapped.......................
M arseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box
A 1  Floating, 60  cak es............................

6  75
2  80
3  60
4  10 
3 35
3  60
4  20 
@3  15 
@3  20 
@3  00 
@ 6%  
@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  00 
4  00
@   6 ® 6 
@5  25 
@5  25 
@  5% 
@ 5% 
@3  70 
@4  85 
@4  85 
@6 25 
@6  25 
@  7 
@  6% 
@ 5% 
@  5% 
@  4% 
@3  80 
@3  80 
@3  75 
@3  75 
@3 25 
@2  25 
©1  25 
@4  20

@4  20 
@4  10 
@  5% 
@4  80 
@3  30 
@3 40 
3 60 
3 30 
3  15 
3 30
3  15
4  85 

L autz Bros. & Co.

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SPICES.

Whole.
¡P epper..............

8®10
18@30 C assia...................   @10
N utm egs  .............60@65
Cloves  ..................  @18

G round. 

P e p p e r__ ...........I6@25|
A llspice..,............12@15
Cinnamon,............18@30
Cloves  __ ............15@25
G inger  __ .............16@20
M ustard...............15@30
Cayenne  ..............25@35¡
STAI
G ilbert’s Gloss l f t ........

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
•* 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 3 ft cartoons..................... 
“  c ra te s..............................  
“  b u lk ................................. 
Corn, l f t ................................ 

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7
5
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SUGARS.

STOVE P O L IS H .

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

@4%
@4%
@6%
@6
@7
@7
@6%
@6%
@7
@5
@6%
@8
@8%
@8%
@6%
@6%
@6%
@4
@6%
@3%
@6
@7
@6%
@7
@4

N iagara L aundry, 40 ft box,  h u lk ....... 
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts............  
Gloss, 401 ft p ackages............  
Gloss,  36 3 $   p ackages........... 
Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft c ra te __  
Corn, 401 ft  packages............  
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package....................... 
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package....................... 
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft b oxes.......................... 
Muzzy Gloss b u lk ....................................  
Muzzy Corn  l f t ........................................ 
K ingsford  Silver Gloss.......................... 
K ingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  h o x ........... 
K ingsford C orn........................................ 
Oswego  G loss...........................................  
M irror  Gloss.............................................  
M irror Gloss, c o rn ................................... 
P iel’s P e a rl................................................  
A m erican Starch Co.’s
1 ft  G loss....................................................  
10 oz  G loss.....................  ......................... 
3 ft  G loss.................................................... 
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes............................ 
Table Corn........................................40 ft 
Table  C orn.......................................20  ft 
B anner, b u lk .............................................  
Rising  Sun g ro ss..5  881 D ixon’s  gross.........5 50
U n iv ersal................5 88 A bove p  dozen........  60
I X L ........................ 5 50|
Cut  L oaf....................................................   @7%
C u b e s.........................................................   @ 7
P ow d ered ..................................................   @ 7
G ranulated,  S tan d ard ............... 
@6-56
G ranulated, Fine  G rain ........................   @6-44
Confectionery A ......................................   @ 6%
Standard A ................................................  @  6%
E x tra C, W hite..........................................  @57»
E x tra C.......................................................   @  5%
Fine  C.........................................................   @  5%
Yellow C..................  .................................  @5%
Corn,  B a rrels........................................... 
25
Corn, Vt bbls............................................... 
27
Corn,  10 gallon kegs.................................  @  30
Corn, 5 gallon k egs...................................  @1 50
Corn, 4% gallon kegs...............................   @1  40
P u re  S u g ar..........................................bbl  21 @  35
P u re Sugar D rips..........................%  bbl  30@  38
P u re Sugar  D rips................. 5 gal kegs  @1  96
P u re Loaf Sugar D rips................Vt bbl  @  85
P u re   Loaf S u g ar...................5 gal kegs  @185
Ja p a n   o rd in ary ............................................... 22@25
Ja p a n  fa ir to good.......................................... 30@35
Ja p a n  fine..........................................................40@50
Ja p a n  d u s t.......................................................15@20
Y oung H yson' ..................................  
30@50
G u n p o w d er. / i .................................................35@50
O o lo n g ........................................................ 33@55@60
C ongo.................................................................25@30
60 M atchless.............. ...65
State  S eal....................60]
B rother Jo n a th a n .. .32 ]
32 H ia w a th a..............
.67
58 G lo b e ..............
Diam ond  Crown.
...70
Rose B ud.......................50 ]
50 May F low er........... ...70
H e r o ................
O.  K ..............,..
30 A tla s.......................
O ur  B ird...........
a5
38 Royal G am e........... ...38
Peaches  .....................38!
Red  B ird...........
52 Mule E a r................
40 P eek-a-B oo........... ..  32
O pera Q ueen...............40;
45 F o u n tain ................ ...74
Sweet R ose..................45!
38 Old C ongress......... ...64
G reen  B ack__
33 Good L u ck ............ ...62
F r u i t ..................... 
31 Good and S w eet... ...45
O  So Sw eet..................31
65 Blaze A w ay...........
35
P rairie Flower.
62 H air L ifte r............ ...30
C lim b er.........................62 ]
60 G overnor .............. ...60
Indian Q ueen__
38 Fox’s Choice......... ..  63
D oak’s  50 center.
30 M edallion..............
H ucketherry  .............30 j
PLU G .

2c.  less  in fo u r pail lots or h alf barrels. 

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

SY RUPS.

TEA S.

331

 

Peeler, 5  cents.
Big N ig........................
P i e ..............................
K nights of  L abor__
A rab, 2x12 and 4x12..
B lack B ear..................
K ing 
..........................
Old Five Cent Times.

@46
@45
@35
@70
@44
@46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@35
@46
@46
@48
@50
@36

T ram w ay....................................................
Big Sevens, dim e cutB............................
Black D iam ond........................................
T rdtter, ru m  flavor.................................
Boot  ...........................................................
B. F. P .’s  F av o rite...................................
Old K en tu ck y ...........................................
Big Four,  2x12..........................................
Big F our, 3x12...........................................
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.......................
T urkey, 16 oz.,  2x12.................................
Blackbird. 16 oz..  3x12............................
Seal o f G rand R apids.............................
Glory  .........................................................
D u rh am ......................................................
Silver  Coin.................................................
B uster  [D ark]..........................................
Black Prince [D ark]...............................
Black R acer  [D ark]................................
Leggett & Myers’  S ta r............................
C lim ax ........................................................
Hold F a s t ..................................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield............................
@46
Nickle N uggets 6 and 12 ft  cads...........
@51
Cock of the W alk  6s ...............................
@37
Nobby Tw ist.
@46
N im rod........................................................  @46
A c o rn ..........................................................  @46
C re sc e n t....................................................   @44
Black  X ......................................................  @35
Black  B ass.................................................  @40
Spring..........................................................  @46
C rayling ....................................................   @48
M ackinaw..................................................   @45
H orseS hoe.................................................  @44
H air L ifte r.................................................  @36
D. and D., black ........................................   @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.........................  @46
Ace  H igh, b lack ......................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace..........................................  @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

2c. less in fo u r b u tt lots.

SMOKING

Long Tom ............
...30 
N a tio n a l..............
...26 
T im e .....................
.. .26
C o n q u e ro r..........
...23
G ray lin g ..............
...32
Seal  S kin..............
...30
Rob R oy................
...26
Uncle  Sam ...........
...28
L u m b e rm a n .......
...25
Railroad B oy.......
...36
M ountain R ose...
...18
Home C om fort...
...25
Old R ip..................
Two N ickle...........
.. .25
Star D urham .......
D urham  No. 2__ .. .55
G oldenFlake Cabinet 40
Seal o f N orth Caro-
lina, 2  oz...........
...48
Seal of N orth  Caro-
lina, 4oz............
...46
Seal of N orth  Caro-
lina, 80Z............
...41
Seal of N orth  Caro­
lina, 16 oz boxes___40
Big D eal....................... 27
A pple Ja c k ..................24
K ing Bee, lo n g c u t.. .22
M ilwaukee  P riz e___24
Good  E nough.............23
R a ttle r.........................28
W indsor c u t p lu g ___25
Zero  ............................ 16
H olland M ixed........... 16
Golden  A ge................ 75
Mail  P o u ch ................ 25
K nights of L ai o r___30
F ree Cob P ip e .............27
H oney B ee.................. 27
D urham ,  S.,  B. & L. .24

Tram w ay, 3  oz.............40
Ruby, c u t Cavendish 35
Boss  .............................15
P eck’s S u n....................18
M iners and P u d d lers. 28
M orning  Dew...............26
C hain.............................. 22
Seal of G rand Rapids 25
K in g .............................. 30
F lirt  .............................28
P u g ................................30
Ten P enny  D urham .24
Am ber,  % and l f t ____15
John  G ilpin..................18
Lime K iln  Club...........47
Blackwell’s D urham .90
V anity  F a ir..................90
D im e.............................. 25
Peerless  ......................25
S tan d ard ....................... 22
Old Tom .........................21
Tom &  J e rry ................ 24
Jo k e r.............................. 25
T ra v e le r....................... 35
M aiden...........................25
Topsy, p a p e r................ 27
Topsy, clo th..................30
N avy  Clippings...........26
B oots.............................. 30
H oney  Dew ..................25
Gold Block....................30
Camp F ire ..................... 25
O ro n o k o ....................... 19
D urham , % f t ...............60
do  % f t...............57
do  %  f t.............. 55
do 
1  f t.............. 51
Pickw ick  C lub.............40
I  Nigger  H ead................ 26
I  H olland.........................22
| G erm an .........................16
Mule E a r....................23IA cm e..............
H iaw ath a.................. 22 G lobe................
Old Congress.................23|
P u re  Cider...........8@12 W hite W ine..
8@12
Boraxine  ...............................................
@3  75 
1776 p  f t ......................................................
©10% 
G illett’s p  f t .............................................
@  7% @10 
Soapine p k g ... 
......................................
P earline p  bo x ..........................................
@4 50 
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  p a p e rs...
@4  50 
Lavine, 5 or m ore boxes, 481 ft p ap ’rs 
@4  25 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
@4  50 
Lavine, 5 or m ore boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
@4  25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 Vt ft p ap ers..
@4  15 
Lavine, 5 or m ore boxes, 80 % ft paprs 
@4  00
Twin Bros.......... 1  65  I W ilso n s............
1  65
M agic..................1  75  ¡N atio n al................1  65
Bath Brick im p o rte d .............................. 
95
A m erican............ ‘................ 
60
@3
B arley.........................................................  
100
B urners, No. 1 .......................................... 
do  No.  2.......................................... 
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  b ran d .............. 
8  00
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft can s..............  15@25
Candles, S ta r.................................... •   ...  @13%
Candles,  H otel.........................................*  @14
E x tract Coffee, V.  C...............................   @80
Gum, R ubber  100 lum ps........................   @30
Gqm, R ubber 200 lum ps.........................  @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................   30@35
Hominy, p   b b l..........................................  @4  00
Peas, G reen B ush....................................  @1  25
Peas, Split p repared...............................   @ 3
Pow der, K eg.............................................  @3 50
Pow der,  % K eg........................................  @1  93

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

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

VIN EGA R.

SH ORTS.

YEAST.

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

P utnam  & Brooks quote as follow s:

 

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FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
................................9%@10
.......................  @12
MIXED.

S traight, 25 ft  boxes...............................   9 @  9%
Twist, 
Cut L oaf 
Royal, 25 ft  p ails.......................................... 10@10%
Royal, 200 ft bbls...................................................9@ 9%
E xtra, 25 ft  p ails.............................. ..........ll@ i 1 %
E xtra, 200 ft bbls.................................. 
10%
French Cream, 25 ft p ails..................................13
C ut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................................13
Broken, 25  ft  p ails..............................................11%
Broken, 200 ft  bbls............ ......................   ....... 10%
Lem on  D rops.................................-....................14
Sour D rops.................................................  
15
P epperm int  D rops.........  .! .!.!!!.!.!.*!.*!!! .15
Chocolate D rops................................................. iff
H M Chocolate  D rops............. .!...!!!!.!!.!!2 0
Gum   D rops  ........................................................ p>
Licorice D rops........................ II.
A B   Licorice  D rops.................. ..!!!!!!!!!!!!l2
Lozenges, p la in ....................... .!!!!!!!!."!!!” ! J5
Lozenges,  p rin te d ....................!•.!."!."!."!."!."!!! 16
Im p e ria ls.......................................!.!!!.!.!.!!!l5
M o tto e s............................................ ...""1*1*15
Cream  B a r................................................ ...!".* !! !l4
Molasses B a r...................................! !!"  !l4
C aram els..............................................................¡20
H and Made Cream s.................................. 
22
Plain  Cream s.............................................. !.!! 18
D ecorated 'Cream s.....................................   !.. .23
S tring R ock....................  
..15
B urnt A lm onds................................................"22
W intergreen  B erries.........................................15
Lozenges, plain  in  pails......................... 13%@14
Lozenges, plain in  b b ls..................................... 12
Lozenges, printed in pails...............................14%
Lozenges, printed in  bbls...............................13
Chocolate Drops, in p ails................................14
Gum  Drops  in pails................................... 7%@8
Gum Drops, in bbls..................................... 6%@7
Moss Drops, in  pails...........................................11
Moss Drops, in bbls...........................................   9%
Sour Drops, in  p ails..................................'...‘.'.Vt
Im perials, in  p a ils.,...................... "   .  !........ 14
Im perials  iu  bbls............................. 13
Oranges, Florida, p  box........................
Oranges, Messina and  Palerm o!! !!!! ¡3 00@3  50
Oranges, V alencia......................  
7  00@7  50
Lemons,  choice..................................".'3  00@3 50
Figs,  layers new,  $   ft........................  12%@15
Figs, baskets 40 ft ^4 f t......................  
@ g
Dates, frails 
do  ................. !!!!!!  @ 4
Dates, % do 
do  ......................!! . !  @&
Dates, sk in .................................................  @ 4
Dates, %  sk in ....................................!!!!'.!  @  5
Dates, F ard 10 ft box p   f t .................. !”   @ 9.
Dates, Fard 50 ft box p  f t................ ! ..’.!  @ 7
Dates, P ersian 50 ft box $  f t................ 
@ 6%
Prim e  Red,  raw   $   f t.............................
Choice 
Fancy 
Choice W hite, Va.do  .............................  
Fancy H P,.  V a  do  .............................  
NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, ff f t.....................  20@21
d o ..........
Almonds, loaca, 
do  .................!! 
Brazils, 
fc@  8%
Pecons, 
do  ...................... 
9@12
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ......................   @15
W alnuts, G renobles  d o ......................   15@16.
Cocoa N uts, p   100 

PEANUTS.
d o ......................  
.*  5@  5%
do  .............................   5%@  5%
5@  5%
@6%

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HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

P erkins & H ess quote as foLows: 

h id es.

G re e n __ p  ft  6
P a rt  c u re d ...  7%@  8
Full cu red __   8  @  8%
D ry hides and

k ip s ............   8  @12

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins, 

or cu red __   @10*
ip piece.......20  @50

S H E E P  PEL TS.

W OOL.

Shearlings or Sum- 

¡Fall p elts..............30@50
m er skins $  pcel0@20| W inter  p elts......60@75
Fine washed ip ft 20@22IUnwashed............ 
2-3
5%
Coarse  w ashed... 16@18 ¡Tallow .................. 
B e ar..............  50@10  00[ M uskrat....... 
12
2@ 
F isher  .........4  00@  8 00 O tte r.............4  00©  5  00
Fox, re d .......  25@  1 10| Raccoon........ 
5@ 
85
90
Fox,  g ra y ...  15@  85 Skunk  .........   15© 
M a rtin .........  25@  1 00 Beaver, $  ft.2 00@  3  00
M in k ............  
10@  30

S K IN S .

5@  50lDeer,  ip f t... 
OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follows : 

OYSTERS.

New Y ork C ounts...................................................33
F. J. D. S e le c ts...................................................... 30
S e le c ts...................................................................   26
F. J . D .................................................................... ” 19
Standard  ..............................................................!.ig
F av o rite....................................................... !..........17
M edium ...........................................................!___15.
P rim e .................................................................. 
14
New  York  C ounts.................................. 
 
 
Selects, p er g allo n .................................. 
S tan d ard s..................................................l   00@110
Codfish....................................................................9
H ad d o ck ............................................................ 
Sm elts............................. *................... !..!!!!!! 12
M ackinaw T ro u t.................................................   8
M ackerel...............................................................12
W hiteflsh  .....................................................¡¡¡¡¡7@8

FR ESH   F IS H .

 

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COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

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1 65

PRO V ISIO N S.

 

LARD.

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The  G rand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

LARD IN  T IN   P A IL S .

P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

7%
7%
7%
7%
7%
7%
7%
7%
7%
8%
8%
8%
9
8
8%
8%
7%
8%
8%
8%
8%
8%
8%
10%
10%
11
7
10
11

quote  as  follows:
H eavy Mess, new  ............................................13  00
Lean pig,  c lear...................................................... 13 00
Pig, clear, short  c u t..............................................13 50
E x tra  Fam ily C lear..........................................13  75
E x tra  Clear P ig ...................................................... 14 00
Clear, A. W ebster pack er..................................... 14 00
Standard Clear, th e  b e st.....................................15 75
E x tra   Clear,  h eavy............................................... 14 25
Boston Clear................, ....................................15 25
Clear Quill, short  c u t............................................15 00
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........  
H alf Cases.............. 
do. 
Long Clear m edium , 500 ft  Cases..........  
do 
H alf C ases........... 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases................ 
do. 
H alf C ases...............  
Short Clears, h eavy................................... 
m edium ...............................  
lig h t......................................  
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  case s.. 
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases.. 
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  case s.. 
Bellies, ex tra  quality, 500 ft cases......... 
Bellies, ex tra quality, 300 ft cases......... 
Bellies, ex tra quality, 200 ft cases......... 
Tierces  ...................................... , ............... 
30 and 50 ft T u b s ...................................  
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases....................... 
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  rack s................... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  ease...............................  
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case.................................. 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a e a s e ...............................  
H am s cured in sw eet pickle, h eav y__  
H am s cured in sw eet pickle m edium .. 
lig h t......... 
Shoulder, cured in sw eet  pickle..........  
E x tra Clear B acon....................................  
Dried Beef,  E x tra ..................................... 
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fts............ 10  75
E x tra  Mess Chicago packing........................ 10  50
P o rk   Sausage......................................................  7
H am   Sausage...................................................... 10
Tongue  Sausage........................... 
9
Liver Sausage......................................................  6%
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage...........................................   9
Blood  Sausage....................................................  6%
Bologna,  rin g ...........................................................:. 6%
Bologna, stra ig h t...............................................  6%
Bologna,  th ic k ....................................................  6%
H ead  Cheese.......................................................   6%
In  h alf b a rre ls...................................................  3 50
In  q u a rte r b arre ls............................................   1 90
In  k its..................................................................
In  h alf b arre ls....................................................$3 00
In  q u a rte r b a rre ls............................................   1 50
In  k its..................................................................  
80
Prices nam ed are  lowest  a t tim e of going to 
press, and are good only for th a t date,  subject 
to m ark et fluctuations.

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

B E E F IN  BA RR ELS.

P IG S ’  FEET.

T R IP E .

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A pples—No firmer,  although  choice  lots a re  

iu fa ir dem and  and  readily  com m and $2.

Beesw ax—Small dem and a t  30c.
B uckw heat—$4.75 p  bbl.
Beans—No  local  dem and.  Unpicked  com­
m and 75@90c, and choice picked find good ship­
ping dem and a t $1.40.

B u tter—No  firm er,  although  the  prospects 
are b etter th an  they have been fo r  some tim e. 
D airy  finds  slow  sale  a t  15@17c  fo r  choice 
rolls and 15@16c for good solid packed.  An in fer 
ior article is to  be  had  in  endless  variety   at 
from  8@12e.

B utterine—Solid  packed  cream ery  com­
m ands  20c,  while  dairy  is  quoted  a t  15@16c 
fo r solid packed,  and 15@17c for rolls.

Beets—No shipping dem and.
Clover  Seed—No  local  shipping  dem and. 

D ealers quote choice stock a t $4.50.

Cabbages—$5@$6 p  100.  V ery little m oving.
Celery—The w inter  stock  now  in  m arket  is 
very undesirable in quality,  selling  a t  15@18c 
p er dozen.

Cheese—Som ewhat  firm er.  M ichigan  fu ll 
readily  com m ands  ll%@13%c, 
cream   stock 
while  skim   find  occasional sale a t  from   9%@ 
10c.

Cider—12c p  gal. fo r common sweet.
C ranberries—Firm  a t $13 fo r bell and  cherry, 

and  $14 fo r bell  and bugle.

Eggs—Dem and fair and  m arket  ra th e r firm­
er, on account of the closing  o u t  of  th e  v ast 
stocks held in cold storage a t Chicago.  Fresh 
readily com m and  21@22c,  and  lim ed  are  fre­
quently p referred a t 16@18c.

Hops—Brew ers are paying 15c fo r b est Mich­

igan, w ith few   offerings.

ed.

H oney—Choice new in comb is firm a t 14c.
H ay—$9@$10 for new, and  $12@$13.for  bail­
Mince Meat—7c ip ft fo r hom e m ade.
Onions—$1.85 ^  bbl. fo r yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3c $  ft fo r choice.
P otatoes—No  firm er,  although  considerable 
shipm ents are being m ade to   Southern  cities, 
purchases being m ade  a t 25c.

P oultry—Fowls,  9@10e.  Chickens,  10@llc. 

T urkeys, 14c.

ft.

Squash—Slow sale a t %c 
Sweet P otatoes—Out of m arket.
T urnips—25c ^  bu.
Tim othy—No shipping dem and,  and  dealers 
buy  only  fo r  prospective  w ants,  holding  a t 
$1.65 fo r choice.

G R A IN S AND  R IL L IN G   PRODU CTS.

W heat—4c  higher this week.  Lancaster,  83; 

Fulse and Clawson, 80c.

Corn—Jobbing generally a t 46c in 100 bu. lots 

and 40@43c in carlots.

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

F R E S H   M EATS.

Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  the trad e as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides.....................................  5%@  7%
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs....................6%  ©   8
Dressed  H ogs............................................  5%@  5%
M utton,  carcasses...................................  @  6
V eal.............................................................   9%@10
P o rk   Sausage............................................   8  @  9
Bologna....................................................... 9  @10
C hickens....................................................10  @13
T urkeys  ........................................... 
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Geese  ..........................................................10  @11

 

lots.

Rye—52@54e $  bu.
B arley—Brew ers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cw t.
Flour—Unchanged.  Fancy P ate n t,$5.50^ bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $5.75  in  wood.  S traight, $4.50 *P 
bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 $  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  ¡p ton.  B ran, $13 
$  ton.  Ships, $14 p  ton.  Middlings, $17 p  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $23 ’P ton.

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H EAD QUA RTERS  FO R

Boiler Siati

The New Era All Clamp Skate

-A N D —

The  New  Era  Rink  Skate.
The original cost of a roller skate is of m inor 
im portance to  you, provided you buy  th e  one 
th a t  can  be  ru n   a t  the  least possible cost in 
tim e and money.  We claim  the New E ra to  be 
th e  m ost econom ical roller skate in th e   world, 
and th is in connection w ith th eir im m ense pop­
u larity  w ith those who have  used  them ,  com­
m end them  to the atten tio n  of every rink own­
e r  in  the  country.  O ur  Clamp  Skate is the 
only screw clam p m ade which  operates all the 
clam ps w ith one key a t th e sam e tim e.

The “VINEYARD” Skates are very popular.

The  above  c u t  represents  th e  New  H alf 
Clamped and Heel Strapped Roller Skate, w ith 
Steel  Top,  E ngraved  E lectro  Gold  o r  Nickel 
Plated  Heel  Band  and  Nickel  P lated  P late. 
This Skate is m uch sought fo r by those having 
ten d er feet  and  req uiring  a  su p p o rt  fo r  the 
ankle.

The V ineyard Roller All Clamp w ere  p aten t 
ed  Ju ly   13,  1880,  and  A pril 27,1881.  They are 
adapted fo r both Lapies and Gentlem en.  D ur­
ing the short tim e th is skate has  been  in  use, 
it has won rapid  popularity.  We also carry in 
stock The VINEYARD  “C,”  w hich  is  sim ilar 
in style to th e “ New E ra  R ink.”
Rowlett’s  Star  Roller  Skate.

TH E  PERFECT  ROLLER  SKATE

F O B   N EW   ORLEANS.

T he  T raveling  M en’s  E xcursion  to 

the 

Southern  E xposition.

The Excursion Committee  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  traveling  men  have  arranged  with 
theC.  &W.  M.  and  Illinois  Central  Rail­
ways to give an  excursion to  Ne\5£- Orleans 
the middle of  February,  providing  forty  or 
more  persons  will  agree  to  go in a body. 
The fare for the round trip is  placed at $25, 
tickets being good for thirty days from  date 
of issue.  If twenty or more go together,  the 
C. & W. M. Railway will  furnish  a  special 
chair  car  from  here  to  Chicago.  Leaving 
here at 12:25 on the fifternoon of  Saturday, 
Februaiy 14,'close connection will  be  made 
with a through excursion train, composed of 
Pullman  palace  sleeping  and  dining  cars, 
leaving Chicago at 8 p. m. Saturday  evening 
and arriving at New Orleans  Monday mcrn- 
ing.  If forty go, a through  Pujlman  sleep­
er can be chartered for $130, making the ex­
tra expense only about $3 apiece.  Thus for 
about $28 those going can secure a round trip 
ticket, a special car  from  Grand  Rapids to 
Chicago, and a special Pullman  sleeper and 
chair  car  from  Chicago to New  Orleans. 
The latter train is a special, making unusual­
ly good time.  Over forty traveling men and 
dealers have already signified their intention 
of taking the  trip, and  those  who  wish to 
accompany the party can do  so  by  handing 
their name and $10  forfeit to  any  member 
of the  Excursion  Committee  or  the name 
and money can be sent to T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
office.  Both must be done on or before Feb- 
uary 7, to insure desirable  accommodations.

Mr. K easey’s R ep ly to “Travele r.” 
Reed City, Mich., January 18,  1885.

To th e E ditor o f “The T radesm an:”

Dear Sir—In  your  paper  of  the  14th 
inst. I notice  an  article  signed  “Traveler,” 
which leads me to  suppose  that  the  distin­
guished writer—whoever  he  may be—is  la­
boring under a great mistake.

Referring to the condition of trade,  I have 
this  to  say:  While  the  volume  of  trade 
throughout  the country, has been  less  dur 
ing the past season  than  in  former  years, 
the trade in Northern Michigan has been ex­
ceedingly dull; and this fact is patent  to ev­
ery one, and acknowledged  by all  well  bal­
anced traveling men.  I feel peculiarly giate- 
ful  to  “Traveler”  for  his  solicitude  in 
my behalf, but must  remind  him  that  my 
trade has only suffered  the  general  depres­
sion.  Sixty per cent,  of  my  trade  is  done 
with first-class merchants within three hours 
ride of Grand  Rapids,  and  Bell, Conrad & 
Co. will scarcely at this time give up a terri­
tory which has been  canvassed  by them for 
the past fifteen years.

In the mean time tell  your  friends  that 

the writer is still  in the field.

Yours truly,

W. R.  K e a s e y .

The  Gripsack  B rigade.

Wbi. Logie is down the Grand  River Tal­

ley this week.

M. M. Mallory is along the Michigan Cen­

tral air line this week."

C. E.  Cones, general  traveling  representa­
tive for S.  W. Yenable & Co., of Petersburg, 
Ya., Sundayed in Grand Rapids.

W. A. Morse, with  Barlow  Brothers,  has 
been taking a trip through the  Saginaw val-j 
ley,  and is now in the Manistee country.

Frank A Dix,  traveling  representative for 
N.  K. Fairbanks & Co., of Chicago, has been 
spending several days at this  market,  push­
ing the soap business.

John D. Mangum,  who has  spent the past 
two months with friends at his  old  home at 
Jackson,  is  again  on  the  road  with S. A. 
Welling’s sample trunks.

W. J.  Williams, Southern  Michigan  and 
Indiana  traveling representative  for  Eaton 
& Christenson, paid his usual seventh  week 
visit to the house last Saturday.

Silas K. Bolles,  formerly  with  B.  S.  Tib- 
bits, has engaged with Glaser  &  Frame,  ci­
gar manufacturers of Reading, Pa., and  will 
cover the jobbing trade of Michigan.

It is stated that Ham. B. Carhartt  has  en­
gaged to travel for Hawley, Folsom  &  Mar­
tin, jobbers of furnishing g#ods  in  Boston, 
covering the states of Michigan and Indiana.
It was  Bert  Cook—not  Coon—who  was 
recently married to Miss  Daggett at  Petos- 
key.  E. B. wishes it  distinctly  understood 
that he is not that kind of a coon.  The mis­
nomer emanated  from  the  fertile  brain  of 
Geo.  Owen, wh# will  please  settle it  with 
Mr. Cook.

Referring to the list of traveling men pub­
lished  by  T he  Tradesman,  the  Detroit 
News 
facetiously  remarks:  “About  350 
traveling salesmen call Grand Rapids home; 
probably because  they  keep  away  from  it 
just as much  of  the  time  as  business  will 
warrant.”

C.  B.  Lamb,  for  the  past  year  Michigan 
representative  for  C.  M. Henderson & Co., 
of Chicago,  has engaged  with  the  Daggett, 
Bassett & Hills Co., covering the same terri­
tory as formerly.  He is succeeded by  J. A. 
Canavan,  who has until recently been engag­
ed in the shoe business at St.  Joseph.

Jas. F. Nelson, of Nelson Bros. & Co., has 
returned from a  trip  through  the  Saginaw 
valley,  where  he  had  an  unusually  good 
trade.  Geo. K. Nelson is down  the  line  of 
the C. & W.  M.  this week,  and will visit the 
principal points on the northern  end of that 
railway  the coming week.  N.  Stewart Mc­
Connell,  with the same house, is working in 
the vicinity of Manistee.

A certain well-known local traveling man, 
whom we can call Smith because that  is not 
his  name,  is  sometimes  given  to naughty 
ways, but has a wife who keeps him straight, 
In a measure, by a shrewd device.  When he 
goes  away  on  business,  she  sends  him  a 
postal every day, and  always  signed  “your 
loving  wife.”  Smith, 
in  confiding  it  to

Jones, declares it an  “awful  bore.” 
“You 
see,” said he,  “1 don’t dare stay out late with 
the  knowledge  that  the  hotel  clerks have 
read  those 
infernal  cards.  Maybe  they 
haven’t, but 1 always feel as if they had, and 
if I take an extra glass of beer, it seems as if 
the clerk had an eye on me and was grieving 
over my depravity.  When a man goes  to  a 
hotel, he doesn’t want the clerk to  know  he 
has ‘a loving wife’ in another city. 
It isn’t 
a fair shake.”  “Give her a wrong address,” 
says Jones.  “Daresn’t, there’s always some­
thing  on  those  cards,  some  nonsense  or 
other, I have to answer, and she  expects me 
to bring the whole lot home  with  me.  She 
puts them in a book like an album, and says, 
sweetly,  ‘It’ll  be  so nice, my dear, in after 
years, to look over them and see  where you 
were at such and such a time,  and  how  you 
always thought of home, no matter how tired 
with business.’  Oh, she’s cute.” 

,

With the beginning of the year, Boston be- 
gamfive cent fares on all of  her  street  rail­
ways.

I b a t b w a r e .

FILES.

Useful Rules Governing th e ir Selection and 

Use,

Jas. F. H obert, in th e  A m erican M achinist. 
How many machnists know a good file when 
they see it?  I don’t believe  one in fifty can 
take a pile of files and pick out the best one. 
The average man will pick up two  or three, 
turn  them  over,  squint  along* the  corners, 
pick out the  straightest  one  and  call  it  as 
“good as  any.”  They  don’t  seem  to  have 
any idea that  the  file  may  be  soft, or  fire- 
cracked, or burned.  If they were  chosing a 
cold-chisel they would look out for all these 
things, but a “file is a file,” so long as it has 
teeth and tang.

Talk about certain tools  being  abused  in 
the  machine  shop,  or  in  any  other  shop. 
What is more abused  than a file?  No  mat­
ter what job is on  hand, they  are  expected 
to take  right  hold  of  it  and  never  let  go. 
Hard iron, soft iron, steel or lead, brass, cop­
per or wood—it  makes  no  difference.  The 
file must go at it  hammer and tongs.  If the 
job is  covered  with  an  eighth  of an  inch 
of  grease  and  dirt, 
is  all  the  saihe. 
The workman  uses one corner of the file  to 
scrape off part of it.  When he gets  the  file 
well- filled with oil he tries  to  wipe it off on 
a piece of dirty waste, or the leg of his over­
alls.  He succeeds  in filling up  the  remain­
der of his file, rather than in cleaning it.

it 

If the job is covered  with a generous coat 
of rust, what matter?  The file  must  scrape 
it off, and then, before it would be half worn 
out  by  proper  usage,  it  is  pitched  into  a 
corner, or dumped into a load of lathe chips, 
and our  chap, if  he  is  in a  country  shop, 
watches his chance to “cabbage”  a new file. 
Shops having tool rooms  where a man is re­
quired to return the old file in order to draw 
a new one, ought  to  fare  better,  but  they 
don’t, not much. If Dan or Jim can’t find ways 
and means enough to softsoap or fool the tool­
room  chap, then  they  aren’t  like  ordinary 
machinists,  and had better complete their ed­
ucation

But to choose a good  file,  just hold it  be­
tween your eyes and the  light,  point toward 
you; you can see  the cutting  edge  of every 
tooth.  See if they are all clean, smooth and 
sharp.  If they  are  notched, cracked, unev­
en and irregular, then  they belong to a poor 
file.

Take a directory and find out who  makes 
files.  If you  find a file  with a  man’s  name 
upon it, who is teally making files, then that 
file is one of his  first  quality.  Seconds and 
thirds have fancy names  stamped  on  them. 
It don’t pay to buy them.  Fourth class files 
áre  left  with  out  stamping  altogether, or 
rather,  are not re-stamped with  any  fancy 
name.  All files are stamped before temper­
ing, but if damaged in  any  way,  the  name 
is ground off, and re-siatnped  or left  blank, 
according to grade.

Look a file all over  for  fire  cracks;  hold 
up to your eyes as before, put  the  point  to­
ward the light, and see if it is all  one color. 
If it shows a checkered appearance, it is un­
even  in temper, hard and soft in spots.  Toss 
the file into the air  and  strike  it  with  the 
handle of your pocket-knife, or  some  other 
hard substance.  If there  are  any  flaws  in 
that file, the ring of  the steel will give them 
away.

Buy large files; they stand re-cutting  bet­
ter  than  thin  ones.  There  is  not  much 
choice, however, for with the last two  years 
tile makers have  established a uniform  size 
and weight for the same classes of files.  *
Machine-cut files are not liked  very  well 
by some; it is claimed that they  will not do 
as much work as  the  hand-cut,  but  1  have 
used machine-cut  files,  and  didn’t  know  it 
until  afterwards.  Somebody  is  going  to 
make a machine  that  will  cut  files  better 
than hand labor can do it.  Does it stand  to 
reason that files  cannot  live  in the  age of 
machinery,  when  almost  everything  else 
lives and dies by machinery and is buried  in 
a machine-made coffin, or  burned  in  a  cre­
mating  machine?

A poor file is not  worth  a  “continental;” 
it amounts to about as much as Fink’s lubri­
cator.  I  remember  one  chap  who  came 
along with a nice  looking  lot  of  files.  He 
sold a lot to nearly every shop in town.  He 
sold them “cheap”—he said—but  when  the 
boys came to use those files, the cat tumbled 
out of the bag, and that “agent” was wanted 
by the boss.  The files were nothing but poor 
iron.  They were treated  with  prussiate  of 
potash, and came out case-hardened a  little, 
and looking nice and clean.  I always think 
of that dodge  when I see  a  man  selling  a 
“job lot”  of  files.  Don’t  buy  low  priced 
files, thinking  them  cheap;  that  is, unless

your men make scrapers of them as  describ­
ed.  If that is what  you  want  them  for, 
the case-hardened  ones  are  just  as  good as 
any.

I once made a  rule  which  I  have  never 
broken.  When I got a  new  file  I  always 
fitted it with  a  handle  before  using.  Just 
try this once, and  you will always  stick  to 
it.  The machinist  has, of  all  men,  no  ex­
cuse for  not  having  handles on  his  files. 
Nearly every shop in  the United States has 
a speed lathe connected with it, and handles 
may be had for the making.  If I were boss­
ing a shop the files would be fitted with han­
dles  before  they  left  the  tool-room.  If  a 
man can’t get at a speed lathe, let him knock 
out the live center of his engine lathe, whittle 
down the end of a pine stick and drive it in­
to the spindle,  bring the tail spindle up to it 
and turn out a handle  with a hand-tool.

I remember one old chap in a little  coun­
try shop, who  used to go  out to a grist  mill 
which was connected with the  same  water­
power and get corn-cobs for file handles. He 
would cut off about three inches of the  butt 
end, drive the tang into the  pith, and  had a 
handle at once.

I want wooden  handles on  my  files, and 
ferules  on  the  handles.  In  almost  every 
shop a piece of brass tubing is to be got hold 
of, and you  can  cut  off  ferules  to  order. 
Sometimes I have been driven to  make  my 
own ferules.  A piece of sheet or hoop  iron 
was cut the right size, rolled up  and  brazed 
together.  Any “cub” who had been around 
the shop six weeks used to know  how  such 
a job was done, but now  lots  of  our  jours 
never saw it done.  Put  a  little  powdered 
borax in the  ferule, with  a  small  piece of 
soft yellow brass or  brass  filings.  Hang  it 
on the end of a poker and heat in  the  forge 
until the brass melts; heat gradually, or you 
may bum the iron as  well as melt the brass. 
Just as quick as  the  brass  melts it will be 
known by the blue flame.  Remove from the 
the  fire, cool,  and  file  off  the  superfluous 
brass.  You can finish in  the lathe  with an 
old file after it is fitted to the  handle.  Don’t 
try to get along with three or  four  handles. 
Make a handle for each file, and  keep  them 
on them.  If Tom or Mike  wants to borrow 
a handle “just a minute”  send  him to  the 
lathe where you made yours and tell  him to 
help himself.

Use a file as well as  you  do  your  steel 
square or  straight-edge.  You  would  think 
a man  was foolish or crazy if he threw these 
tools ker-bang into a  drawer  when  he  was 
done with them; but the files go in  just like 
that.  Corners are  dull,  teeth  knocked  off, 
often the  file  itself  is  broken.  Drop a flat 
file two  feet  upon a  bench; 
if  It  strikes 
square it breaks  every  time.  I  have  seen 
one break into four or  five  pieces.  If a file 
gets full of grease, put  it  in  a  kettle  with 
potash and water, boil an  hour,  then  wash 
and brush  in clean water, dry, and  rub on a 
little oil.  “Almost makes a new  file of it,” 
said Dan, as  he  picked  it up and  looked it 
over.  Dipping  files in sulphuric  acid  and 
water seems to sharpen up  dull  teeth a lit­
tle.  The acid eats off the  steel  and  leaves 
the  tooth  sharper.  Lay  a  file  away  six 
months, and if  it  is  decently  cleaned  the 
oxygen of the atmosphere eats  up  the  steel 
in the same  manner  as  the  oxygen  of  the 
sulphuric acid and  water.

These  ways, however,  don’t  amount to 
mueh.  Better let the file-man take  your old 
files and re-cut  them.  It  costs about  one- 
third the price of new files.  Some files will 
stand re-cutting  two  or  three  times; these 
were made, from  good  stock.  I have  seen 
them as thin as an “Arkansas  hog,” but cut 
as well as when new. 
If the  file  has  been 
over-heated, it never will  pay  to  re-cnt  it; 
drop it into the old iron and charge to profit 
and loss.

Once in a while a file will get  broken, ev­
en  with the  best  of  care;  but,  with  the 
knocking about they  are  subject  to,  it is a 
mystery how any of them  come  out  whole. 
Tell  the boys to bring a file to  you the very 
minute they break it.  Don’t swear  over it; 
it doesn’t help  the  file  any, and that  chap 
won’t bring one the next time he  breaks  it. 
Have a little bottle of muriate-of  acid  (zinc 
dissolved in  muriatic  acid),  and  wet  the 
break with it immediately; then heat  a  sol­
dering-iron  and  tin  the  ends of the  file. 
Heat the  file  pretty  warm—not  enough  to 
start the temper, but rather  too  hot  to hold 
in the hand.  When  well  tinned, and  hot, 
press the two  pieces firmly together, squeeze 
out nearly all the solder and let the file cool. 
Trim off the joint, and,  if well done, the file 
will break in another place  the  next  time. 
It will not  pay to solder a  file  unless  it is 
nearly new.  Let it lay a day or two,  or,  in 
damp weather an hour or two, and  you nev­
er can  mend it so it will stay.  Take  it  the 
minute it snaps, and you can  do  what  they 
used to stick a ’prentice  on,  viz.,  mend  a 
file.

If you are  acquainted  with a  file-maker 
you can sometimes get  “damaged” files at a 
discount.  When  the  damage is  caused  by 
tip ends breaking off, etc., it may pay to buy 
them; but, 
like a  steam-engine,  it  pays  to 
buy the best that is to be had, and,  as in the 
case of a steam engine, it takes a smart man 
to tell which one that is.

The  H ardw are  M arket.

The most noticeable changes in  the  hard­
ware market are the advent of new lists and 
changes  in  existing  lists.  On  locks  and 
knobs—a  new  list  having  been adopted  by 
all the makers—the list  has  been  advanced 
aed  the  discount  made  greater;  where  it 
was 50 and 10, it  is  now  60,  and  where  it 
was 60, it  is  now 70.  The  screw  list  has 
also  been  changed;  there  are  several  new 
lists.  The  American  Screw Co.  has  a  list 
with a  discount  of  80.  Russell  &  Erwin 
have a higher list, with a discount of  85 per 
cent

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

 

 

CAPS.

BELLS.

BOLTS.

COMBS.

BRACES.

C H ISELS.

BUCKETS.

BARROW S.

b a l a n c e s .

BUTTS,  CAST.

a u g e r s  a n d  b i t s .

60
35
60
50
50
56
70
70
70
70
40
20

P revailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are  as  follow s: 
Ives’, old  sty le............................................. dis 
60
60
N. H . C. Co.....................................................dis 
Douglass’ ............ ........................................dis 
60
dis 
Pierces’ ......................................  
60
Snell’s .......................................................... dis 
60
Cook’s  ........................ 
dis40&10
Jennings’,  g en u in e.....................................dis 
25
Jen n in g s’,  im itation..................................dis40&10
S pring.............................................................dis 
25
R a ilro a d .......................................... 
 
G arden......................................................... .n e t 33 00
H a n d ....................................................... dis  $  60&10
C ow ............................................  
dis
60 
Call............................................................. dis
15 
G o n g ..............................!......................... dis
20 
Door, S argent.......................................... dis
55
Stove............................................................. dis $
40 
Carriage  new   list....................................dis
75 
Plow  ........................................... 
dis
30&H 
Sleigh Shoe............................................... dis
75 
Cast Barrel  B o lts..................................dis
50 
W rought B arrel B olts...........................dis
55 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs......................dis
50 
Cast Square S pring................................dis
55 
Cast  Chain................................................dis
60 
W rought Barrel, brass  k n o b ...............dis
55&10 
W rought S q u a re .....................................dis
55&10 
W rought Sunk  F lush.............................dis
30
W rought  Bronze  and  P lated  Knob
F lush......................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  D oor.................................................. dis  50&10
B a rb e r..................................................... d is*
40
B ackus...................................................... dis
50
Spofford..................................................   dis
50
Am. Ball.....................................................dis
n et
Well, p lain ......................................................$
4  00 
Well, sw ivel.............................................
4 50
Cast Loose P in, figured...........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed............dis  60&10
Cast Loose Jo in t, genuine bronzed, .dis  60&10
W rought N arrow , bright fa st  jo in t, .dis  50&10
W rounht Loos-'  P in .............................. dis
00 
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip .............dis
60&  5 
W rought Loose Pin, jap an n ed .............dis
60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d .....................................................dis
60&  5 
W roughtT able.........................................dis
60 
W rought Inside  B lind...........................dis
60 
W rought B rass.........................................dis
65&10 
Blind. Clark’s ............................................dis
70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ................
...........dis
-  70
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x254, p er gross 15  00
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x3..
.p er gross 18 00
Ely’s 1-10......................................
H ick’s C. F ...................................
G. D ...............................................
M usket..........................................
CA TRIDG ES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester  new list
Rim Fire, U nited  S tates.......... ..............dis
Centrai F ire ................................. ..............dis
Socket F irm er.............................. .......... dis
Socket F ram ing.......................... ...........dis
Socket Corner.............................. ...........dis
Socket Slicks............................... ...........dis
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er....... ...........dis
B arton’s Socket  F irm ers......... ...........dis
Cold...............................................
...........net
Curry, L aw rence’s ..................... .......... dis
H otchkiss  ................................... ...........dis
Brass,  B acking’s ..........................................  40&10
Bibb’s .............................................................  49&10
B e e r ................................................................   40&10
Fenns’............................................................. 
60
Planished, 14 oz cu t to size.......................® fi>  34
37
35
M orse’s B it  Stock.................................dis 
T aper and S traight S hank...................dis 
20
Morse’s T aper  So5nk........................... dis 
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ..............................doz n et $1  00
C orrugated..............................................dis 
20&10
Ad j u sta b le ..............................................dis 
54 &10
20
Clar’s, small, $18  00;  large, $26  00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
25
A m erican File A ssociation  L ist........dis  50&10
D isston’s ...................................................dis  60&10
New  A m erican....................................... dis  50&10
dis 50&10
Nicholson’s ................................... 
Hellfer’s ....................................................dis 
30
Heller’s H orse R asps.............................dis 
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28
27 
Nos. 16 to  20, 
12 
L ist 
15 
16
D iscount, Ju n ia ta  45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............... dis 
• 50
Maydole & Co.’s ......................................dis 
15
K ip’s .......................................................... dis 
25
Y erkes &  Plum b’s ..................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel........................30 c list 40
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door K idder Mfg. Co., Wood track  dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........................dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tr a .k ................................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3................................dis 
60
S tate...............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to   12  in.  454  14
354
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ....................n et 
1054
8*4
Screw Hook and Eye %........................n et 
Screw Hook and Eye  %,........................n et 
714
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................n e t 
7 54
Strap and  T ............................................. dis  60&10
Stam ped Tin W are......................................   60&10
Japanned  Tin  W are...................................  20&10
G ranite  Iro n   W are..................................... 
25
G rub  1.................................................. $11  00, dis 40
G rub  2..................................................   11  50, dis 40
G rub 3....................................................  12  00, dis 40
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings.........$2 70, dis 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m in g s__   3 50, dis 70
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
mings ..........................................list,10  15, dis 70
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list,1155, dis 
7 0
70
D raw er and  S hutter,  porcelain..........dis 
P icture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s .................... d 
40
H e m a c ite............................ 
dis 
50
Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s new  lis t__   dis  70
Mallory, W heelnr  &  Co.’s ...........................dis  70
Branford’s ........................................................dis  70
Norw alk’s ..........................................................dis  70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .....................dis  65
Coffee, P ark ers  Co.’s .................................... dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 
40
Coffee, Landers, F erry  &  Clark’s ..............dis  40
Coffee,  E n terp rise......................................... dis  25
Adze  E ye........................................$16  00 dis 40&10
H unt  E ye........................................$15  00 dis 40&10
H u n t’s ........................................... $18  50 dis 20 & 10

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26, 
14 

14x52,14x56,14 x60.................. 

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

13 
GAUGES.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

LOCKS—BOOR.

MATTOCKS.

HAMMERS.

HANGERS.

ELBOW S.

C O PPER .

H IN G ES.

LEV ELS.

3356
25

KNOBS.

D R IL L S

c o c k s .

M ILLS.

F IL E S .

HO ES.

' 

 

 

 

 

N A ILS.

Common, B ra  and Fencing.

254 

MAULS.

O IL E R S.

8d  6d 
2 

lOd to  60d............................................. ¡p keg $2  20
8 d a n d 9 d a d v ..................................................  
25
6d and 7d  ad v .................................................. 
  50
4 d and5d  ad v .................., ..............................  
75
3d  advance........................................................  1  50
3d fine  advance.............................................. 
3  00
Clinch nails,  ad v .............................................   1  75
Finishing 
4d
I  lOd 
Size—inches  j  3 
154
Adv. $  keg 
$1  25  1  50  1  75  2  00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s P a tte rn   .........................................dis  70
Stebbin’s G enuine..........................................dis  70
E nterprise,  self-m easuring.........................dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, P ost,  handled...................  dis  50
Zinc o r tin, Chase’s P a te n t.......................... dis  55
Zinc, w ith brass b o tto m ................................dis  50
Brass o r  Copper............................................. dis  40
R eaper............................... ....... p er  gross, $12 n et
Olm stead’s ....................................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................dis  15
Sciota B ench.................................................... dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ........................ dis  15
Bench, flrstq u a lity .....................................  .dis  20
Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and
Fry, A cm e..................................................dis 40&10
Common, polished................................... dis 
60
8
D ripping...................................................spib 
40
Iro n  and  T inned.....................................dis 
Copper R ivets and B u rs...................... dis 
40
“A” W ood’s p a ten t planished, Nos. 24 to  27  1054 
“B” Wood’s p at. planished, Nos. 25  to  27 

PA TEN T  FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E T S.

PA N S.

9

B roken packs 54c $  lb extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

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

R O PES.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, 54 In. and  la rg e r.....................................  854
M anilla................................................................   1454
Steel and  Iro n ................................................. dis  50
T ry and Bevels.................................................dis  50
M itre  ............................................................... dis  20
Com. Sm ooth.  Com.
$3 00
20 3 00
20 3 00
20 3 00
40 3 20
3 40
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to   14........................ r..........$4  20 
Nos. 15 to   17......................................   4 
Nos. 18 to  21......................................   4 
Nos. 22 to  24 ......................................   4 
Nos .25 to  26......................................   4 
No. 27 .................................................  4  60 
wide n o t less th an  2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In  casks o f 600 lbs, $   f t .............................  
In  sm aller quansities, $   f t......................  
No. 1,  Refined............................................. 
M arket  H alf-and-half.............................  
Strictly  H alf-and-half.............................. 

6
654
13 00
15  00
16

t i n n e r ’s   s o l d e r .

16 00

t i n   p l a t e s .

Cards fo r  Charcoals, $6  75.

 

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

rates.

TRAPS.

w i r e .

Steel,  G am e.........................................................
Onoida Com m untity,  Newhouse’s ............dis  35
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & N orton’s __   60
H otchkiss’ ...........................................................   60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ........................................  60
Mouse,  choker........................................20e  $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................... $1  26 $  doz
B right  M arket..............................................  dis  60
A nnealed M arket...........................................dis  60
Coppered M arket...........................................dis  55
E x tra Bailing..................................................dis  55
Tinned  M arket.............................................. kis  40
Tinned  Broom .............................................<p ft  09
Tinned M attress..........................................$1 ft  854
Coppered  Spring  S teel................... ......... dis 3714
Tinned Spring S teel....................................dis 3754
Plain F ence........................................................ft 3*4
Barbed  F ence......................................................
Copper.......................................................... new  list net
B rass............................................................. new  list n et
B rig h t............................................................... dis  70
Screw E yes.....................................................tdis  70
Hook’s . ...........................................................dis  70
G ate Hooks and  E yes..................................dis  70
B axter’s A djustable,  nickeled................
Coe’s G enuine.........................................dis  50&10
Coe’s P aten t A gricultural, w rought, dis 
65
Coe’s P aten t,  m alleable...................... dis 
70
Pum ps,  C istern..................................... dis 
60&20
80
Screws, new  list.......................................... 
Casters, Bed and  P la te ............................dis 
50
Dam pers,  A m erican................................... 
3356

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE GOODS.

WrENCHES.

L U M B E R ,  L A T H   A N D   SH IN G LE S.

The Newaygo M anufacturing  Co,  quote f. o. 

b. cars  as follow s:
U ppers, 1 in c h .................................... per M $44 00
U ppers, 114,154 and 2 in ch ..........................  46  00
Selects, 1 in c h ................................................   35 00
Selects, 154,154 and 2  in c h ..........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 in ch ...................................  30  00
Shop, 1 in c h ....................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 154, 154 and 2 in ch ............  32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15  Q0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16 p0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 2 0 feet...........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 f e e t..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 f e e t..........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 f e e t.........  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 fe e t............................  17  00.
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 f e e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 f e e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8-in., 18 fe e t............................  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe e t..........................  13  00
Coarse  Common  o r  shipping  cuils, all
w idths and  len g th s............................8 00@  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 o r 6 i n .............................   33 00
C Strips, 4 o r 6 in ch ......................................   27  90
No. 1 Fencing, all  len g th s..........................  15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fe e t................  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 fe e t...................................  12  00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  in c h ...................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  in c h ...................................  12  00
Norway C and b etter, 4 o r 6 in ch ..............  20  00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ...................   18  00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.................................  14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  C o m m on.... 
9  00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear..............T___   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to  2x12.12 to 16 f t ............   10  00
$1 additional fo r each 2  feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B .....................  36  00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C............................  29  00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No. 1, com m on..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 com m on__   14  00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1  00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  C lear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C............................  26  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com ’n  16  00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in., No. 2  com ’n  14  00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1  00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  S hingles..-.......... 
3  50
3 40
X X X 18 in.  T h in ........................................ 
3  00
( XXX 16 in.................................................... 
No. 2 o r 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............. 
2  00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in ...............................  
175
L ath  ................................................................  
2 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A dvertisem ents  of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this colum n a t th e rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every- insertion.  One  cen t  fo r  each 
additional word.  Advance p a y m e n t________
\ \ T  ANTED—A young m an wishes a situation 
VV 
as  clerk in a hardw are or general store. 
Three y ears’ exoerience in hardw are.  B est of 
referènces.  Willing to w ork  m   tin-shop  p a rt 
th e tirine.  Addresss W. L., Lock box  775,  Lud- 
inton, Mich. 

70*

W ANTED—Situation by a  young  m an  in  a 

grocery or general store.  Best of refe r­
ences.  A ddress care box 276,  Frem ont,  Mich.
V if  ANTED—A position as p o rter o r assistant 
VV 
in a wholesale  or  retail  establishm ent. 
W illing to work and salary no object.  Address 
E. D., care “The T radesm an.”

IpOR  SALE—Rare chance fo r parties wishing 

to engage in  trade.  Best  and  m ost  cen­
tral location in a th riv in g  tow n of over 1,200 in­
habitants.  One of the  best points fo r trad e in 
Michigan.  Business well established.  Best of 
reasons  for  selling.  A ddress  Lock  Box  143, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
WANTED—A  m iddle-aged  gentlem an  of 
business experience wishes  a  situation 
w ith  som e m an u factu rin g   or  m ercantilefi rm  
as trav elin g  salesm an.  Good references.  Ad­
72*
dress H. C. W. care “The T radesm an.” 

WANTED—Position  as  traveling  salesm an 

by a com petent person who has had sev­
eral years’ experience  on  the road, and  is  ca­
pable of rep resen tin g  any line.  Address, J. M. 
R., a t this office.

IpOR SALE—Com plete m illinery stock, taken 

on chattel m ortgage, m ust be  closed  o u t 
regardless of cost.  Fine  assortm ent of m illin­
ery goods, w ith suitable  fixtures, com plete as­
sortm ent of h air goods  m ostly un m an u factu r­
ed stock.  Also fine assortm ent of  feath ers and 
flowers.  Will sell stock en tire or  close  it  out 
in job  lots to su it  purchasers.  A careful  in­
spection of stock is well w orth  a  visit  to   th e 
city, as we can offer  you  g reat  inducem ents. 
Stock a t 5» Monroe St.  A pply to Spring  & Co., 
G rand Rapids, Mich.

. 

IT'OR  SALE—W ell-established  d rug  store, 

having  a  good  patronage,  situated  on 
leading business thoroughfare.  Stock will  in­
ventory  about  $1,800.  R ent  only  $300  per 
year.  Address, fo r full particulars,  “ P harm a­
cist,” care “The T radesm an.”

ed  a  list  of  dealers  who are desirous  of 
selling by applying  a t  th is  office.  S tate  line 
and am ount o f capital.  Enclose  stam p.

■ ROSPECTIVE  purchasers  will  be  fu rn ish ­
IF  YOU  WANT  to  g e t  into  business, to sell 

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

We claim  fo r this  Skate:  Lightness,  P erfec t 
A djustability, Perfection of M echanism,  Easy 
o f R unning and Du rability, all tending to m ake 
w hat  we  claim   for  th e  “ S tar,”  the  P erfec t 
Skate.  The  adm irable  ru n n in g   qualities  of 
this Skate, to g ether  w ith  th e  elastic  tension, 
capable of delicate adjustm ent, m ake it a  fav­
orite  w ith  ladies  and  children,  avoiding  all 
tiresom e straining o f the m uscles, th u s render­
ing skating tru ly  th e “poetry of m otion.”
__
A  nice  line  of  SKATE  BAGS  AND  BOXES 
carried in stock.

Men’s Skate Bags for all clam p Skates.

Ladies’  Skate  Bags  fo r  all  sole  clam p Skates.

Men’s Skate Boxes fo r all clam p Skates.

Ladies’ Skate Boxes fo r sole clam p  Skates. 
W e solicit inquiries,  and  should  be  glad  to 
quote prices to  dealers and rink m anagers.
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  HARDWARE, 

GRAND  R A P ID S, 

- 

MICH

SHIELDS

BULKLEY 

&  LEMON

MTTSKSCOXT  BTTSXXTSSS  DIRECTORY.

S.  S. MORRIS  &  BRO,
Jobbers  of

P A C K E R S

—AND-

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in  O pera H ouse Block, P acking and W arehouse M arket and W ater Streets.

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

OROUTT  Sz  COMPANY,
Biffin  E ® , C l« , Frail, C ri, Hay, Baal, Pori, P r im
Choice  Butter  a  Specialty!

Consignments  Solicited.

MUSKEGON, MICH.

Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Cranber 

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

M. G. Russell, 48 Ottawa SI., C’d  Rapids.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.

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WHOLESALE

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

Groceries  and  Provisions,  IM PORTERS
WM. SEARS & GO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

W holesale

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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tle new  stores.  Mr. S.  kept  a  small  boy 
trottin’ from one to tother in order to  make 
one stock do for both  stores,  but  even then 
traid  was  so  slack  thet I  gess  he  must a 
went under if he hadden’t happened to been 
burggled just then.

One of the late Governor’s “ticket of leave 
men”went into one of the store onenight after 
bizness ours and gobbled 4 boxes of Oleomar- 
gerett  cigars, 3  boxes  axel  grease, 5  Boxes 
pills,  1 Box corn  plasters  and  a  nursing 
i bottle.  Of course, all the surroundin’ news- 
| papers  had a  full  account  of it and it  was 
! such  a good  advertisement  and  so  many 
! folks come to “just see the hole the burggler 
burggled threw,” that  traid  pickt up so he 
was doin a livin’ business.

Ever sense this, Mister  Stovenslacker has 
been burggled once a  month  reglar,  threw 
I the same old  hole,  and  the  newspapers in 
this secshun all keep the head  lines  set  up 
I and tied with a string, ready to  set in under 
the head of thrilling local news

ANOTHER  DABBING  ROBBERY.

Stovenslacker’» Store  B urggled—F u ll  P a r­

ticulars.

This makes  a  neat  item  for  the  papers 
and  no  harm  done.  Some  envious  peeple 
that never like to see other  folks get  ahead 
any, are mean enuff to hint  that  Mr. S. has 
hired a burggler by the year to burggle him. 
But I don’t take no stock in such yarns.

By the way, I have ben  at  work  for  the 
past weak, trying to get up  some apropriate 
poetry to eomplyment the widder. 
If I suc- 
seed it will appear in the Grumbleton  Orab- 
bag mostly likely, or els in  the  waist  bas- 
kit. 

Yours confidenshally,
Soliman Snooks,

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

Second  Assessment.

Rockford Mich., Jan.  17,  1885.

To th e E ditor of T h e  T r a d e s m a n  :

Dear Sir—Would  you please  answer in 
your valuable paper as short as possible and 
not print my full  name, if I  must  pay  the 
full amount of the assessment of Union Mu­
tual Fire Insurance Co.  I was a member  to 
Sept. 1,1884, and  paid  the  assessment  last 
January.  It looks  to me  as  if  this  assess­
ment, of $30, sent  me on  January  3, is  for 
the full year.  I know that I have  to pay to 
September, but I do not  think  that I ought 
to be obliged to pay for the full  year.  You 
would oblige me very  much  by  answering 
what to  do.

Yours very truly,

A. T.

The Tradesman lias  thoroughly investi­
gated the above inquiry and finds  that there 
is no other alternative for its  Rockford sub­
scriber but to pay the  amount  assessed. 
It 
appears that the  losses  of  1833  aggregated 
about $20,000, which amount was according­
ly  assessed.  Only  about  $14,000  of  this 
amount was  collected, and  a  re-assessment 
has been ordered to make up the  deficiency.

Subscribers  and  others,  when  w riting 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on  th e pub­
lisher by  m entioning th a t they saw th e adver­
tisem ent in  the colum ns o f  th is  paper.

CANT HOOK CORNERS.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

Slaughtering  Prices—Protective  O rgani­

zatio n -B u rg laries for A dvertising 

Purposes.

Cant Hook Corners, Mich., Jan. -19, ’85. 
M ister editor of T r a i d s m a n  :

Dear Sir—Sence I got  to  be  a  litterary 
feller, 1 find I am getten’ to be  quite  notor­
ious.  Lots more drummers come to  see me 
'then afore and I have a sort of idear that the 
widders are slitely on the increas  too.  But 
the latter may be a mistake on my part.

You remember what  some  old  patryark 
said  to  Sampson,  don’t  you?  He  says: 
“Beware  of  Yidders,  Sammy;  Beware  of 
Vidders.”  Well Sampson did  not heed this 
sage advice and so lie got took in  and  done 
for.  That has been  the way with men ever 
sense them old Bible times;  you  may  warn 
’em, and warn ’em, and still a pair of  bright 
eyes, thrown up at a feller in just  the  right 
shape, from among a lot of hanged and  friz­
zled hair, on the head of a nice  widder, will 
just do the bizness for a poor  son  of  Adam 
and brake him all up every  day  in  a  week. 
At least, this is in  acordence with  my obser­
vations up to date.

Mister Stowe, do  you  kno’  any  chap  in 
Grand Rappids  by  the  name  of  Manfeald, 
or some such name?  If  you  do,  send  him 
up hear on a pleasure trip.  There  is  a  lot 
of us fellers up in about Cant Hook Corners 
that wants to interview him with a shot gun 
and a bucket  of  tar.  Potter  says  he  will 
contribet a piller for the good of the coss.

I am not certin that the above named man 
is  responsible,  in 
fact  I  understand  he 
haint, from traveling men'from  your  citty; 
but, there is  certainly  a  sort  of  predudice 
agin him up this way.  It  is  all  on  aeount 
of a little mutual insurance snap  we got in­
to unbeknown to ourselves.  But I will  tell 
you further perticerlers in my next.

We have formed a  new society up in this 

county during the past week.  It is named
T H E  N O R T H E R N   D E A L E R S ’ P R O T E C T IV E  ASSO­

C IA T IO N .

We  have only  met  once, at  Grumbleton, 
and organized by electing offisers.  We have 
not transacted any bizness yet,  hut  the  de­
sine is to protect  ourselves  agin  this  ever- 
lastin cuttin’ of prices by which  some  deal­
ers makes dum  fools of  theirselves.  Now, 
there is Bilson on  tother  corner.  He  put 3 
lb. peaches down to 20  cents.  It  made  me 
mad and I cut ’em  to 19.  He  fell to 18.  I 
got madder and went down to 17 and gave a 
cromo with each  can.  As I  paid  $2.00  a 
dozen for  ’em  and  frate, I did  not  make 
much, but I  done a big  bizness.  Then  Bil­
son put down soothing syrup and porus plas­
ters to 20.  1 follered suit  and  came at him 
with  mandrake  pills  and  rat  killer.  He 
saw me and went one better, with 13 brands 
of corn exterrniuaters.  I took a look  at my 
hand and raised him clean out  of  his  boots 
by slappin caliker to 4 cents,  sugar  and tea 
1 cent below cost and can’d  corn  and  suck- 
ertash at 10 cents.

By this time all the dealers at Grumblton, 
Slabtown, Pine  Holler, Rockyford  and oth­
er near towns took a hand in  the  game,  be- 
cos us fellars was a takin  their  traid  away 
and the consequence is  that  traid  has  been 
demoralized all about  hear  and  we  had to 
do somthing to stop the trouble.  28  dealers 
has joined already.  Stovenslacker, of  Slab- 
town, would not jine.  He  sais  he  can run 
his own business.

He has got two stores now.  He only had 
one awhile ago, but he got a good  chance to 
sell it and so  he  let it go.  The  gent  paid 
him extra for the “good  will,”  hut  Stoven- 
slaeker knew a trick to fix that.  What does 
he do hut take the money  and  stick in  two 
smaller stores  stocked  with  same  kind  of 
goods, one on each side of the said aforesaid 
party of the second part.

The effect  of this  brilient  peice  of strat- 
agy was to make traid pretty poor  all  along 
the line, but more  espeshally in  the two lit­

Advantages of Good  Tem per.

It is always good policy to keep one’s tern 
per.  As often as temper is lost, a'degree of 
influence is lost with it; and, while  the  for 
mer may be recovered, the latter is lost  for 
ever.  The politician who allows himself  to 
get angry in that capacity—whatever may be 
the provocation—does  his  cause  an  injury 
which his soundest argument will hardly  re­
pair.  Just so with men  of  all  professions 
and  with  men  of  no  profession.  If  they 
would be able to exert a sway in their sphere 
they must learn to keep cook  Who ever lis­
tened to  a  discussion  in  which  one  party 
went raving mad,  while his companion main­
tained  his  composure,  without  having Jhis 
sympathies  enlisted  with  the  latter,  even 
though, in the beginning, his prejudice might 
have been in favor of the former?  It is com 
monly conceded, and with a  good  share  of 
reason, that he who exhibits the  more  cool 
ness will have the better share  of  an  argu 
ment.

James Van Yleet, assignee  for R. E. Far 
num, who  recently  failed at  Flint,  writes 
The Tradesman that Farnum’s  total 
lia 
bilities are $22,074.46, of which $4,800 is se 
cured.  His total assets are $15,020 of which 
$10,220 is his stock of  jewelry, sewing  ma 
chines,  sporting goods  and  stationery, and 
$4,800 is  in  sewing  machine  notes,  worth 
from 25 to 50 cents on the  dollar.

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE-

37, 39 & 41 Kent Street.  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.
BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
MODEL  MILLS.
Git  M b   P a w   aai  Wllta  Liai  B rais  of  Floit.

------- MANUFACTURERS  OF--------

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

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

F ull H oller  Process.

Corner Winter and West Bridge Sts.,

KNIGHTS  OF  LABOR

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dr. J. B. Evans—Since you insist upon an 
unbiased opinion of your new  play,  we  are 
compelled to characterize it as Mark  Twain 
does his new book, to which he refers as fol­
lows:  “Persons attempting  to  find  a motiv 
in this narrative will be prosecuted;  persons 
attempting to find a moral in it will be  ban 
islied; persons attempting to find a plot in 
will be shot.”

W. T.  Lamoreaux and Geo. N. Davis & Co, 
are now pleasantly settled in Lamoreaux’new 
building at 71 Canal street.  W.  T.  Lamor 
eaux will continue  his  seed  business,  and 
Geo. N. Davis &  Co.,  in  addition  to  their 
grain trade, will carry on a general  commis­
sion and brokerage  business.

A  Traverse  City  correspondent  writes 
The Tradesman that the  question of a lo­
cal  organization of the  merchants  of  that 
place is being agitated there,  and  that  con­
siderable interest is manifested  in  the  mat­
ter.

Amos. Turner has bought the stock  of  E. 
S. Porter, Cook & Son, at Lansing, and  will 
add groceries to his other business.

P otatoes W anted.

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.

The Best Chew on the Market

SEND  FOR SAMPLE  BUTT.

Clark,  Jewell  &  Go.

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

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

NOS.  1»«  and  1*4 EOUISSTREET, 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  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  Walnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

Gandy 
Nuts
Oranges
Oysters
PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.
A R A B   PLU G 1!

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.

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

Tie Best and Most Attractive  Goods 01 tie Market.  Seni tor Sample 

Bntt.  See Quotations in Price-Carrent.

Fox, Musselman  & Loveridge

Solo  Owners.

See  Our  W holesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and w rite for

Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
¥e are prepared to make Bottoi Prices on anythin! we landle.
A  B. KNOWLSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

