Michigan  Tradesman

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  4,  1885.

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NO. 72.

VOL. 2.
James G. Avery & Go

G EO.  E .  H U BB A RD .

JA M ES C. A V ERY . 

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

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

gars:

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.

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

Manufactured  Tobacco.
RETAILERS,
L A V IN E

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

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.

PE T  EH  DO H A  XT, 

Attomey-at-Law,

Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

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

M ERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

S.A.WELLING

WHOLESALE

AND-

NOTIONS!

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

I  am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  J ohn D. Ma n - 
gum,  A.  M.  Spr a g u e,  J ohn  H .  E a ck er, 
L. R.  Cesn a , and J. T.  H errington.

24 Pearl Street 

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HAWKINS & PERRY W. N. FÜLLER & CO
Engravers on *Wood,
ine  M echanical and  F u rn itu re  W ork, I n ­

STATE  AGENTS,

DESIGNERS  AND

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

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cluding B uildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

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MICH.

CLOVER SEED

—AND—

BEANS!

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

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71 Canal street.

SHRIVER, WEATHERLY & CO.,

Grand Rapids, Mich., 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

IRON  PIPE,

Brass Goods, Iron  and  Brass  Fittings, 

Mantels,  Grates, Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam Fitters,
—And M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice
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

CRAP RAPIDS  CRAM  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K  ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at-

tended to.

IE M IE   J01S

Manufacturers- of

Fine Perfumes,

Cqjognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

-JO B B E R S   O F -

lorse Covers,  Oiled  Clothing, Awnings  and Tents.

73 Canal Street, Grand Rapids.

EDMUND  D.  DIKEMAN,

CREAT

J E W

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44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

UVE  UROCEDYMEN
-------SELL-------
CO.’S
DETROIT  SOAP
------ FAMOUS-------

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

Sole Agents for Grand Rapids.

MAHOGANY
HENRY  OTIS,

ADDRESS

IMPORTER, 

NEW  ORLEANS

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
K E M I K T K ’ S

ti

11
Red Bark Bitters

M u t iM n t

78  W est  B ridge Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

MICHIGAN.

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Special Attention given  to  Collections in City 

or  Country.  Also

FIDE, LIFE & ACCIDENT

In su ran ce,

Shoe and  Leather........................ - •  ••••Boston
rw m nf 
>D&yton, Otiio
o E io n .........................................Pittsburgh,  Pa.
Germania'.................................Cincinnati,  Ohio

Total Assets represented, $3,516,808. 

CO R R ESPO N D E N C E  SO L IC IT E D .

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Rapids

General Collectors,

AMONG  TH E  PIN ES.

Incidents of a  T rip  to  a  L um ber  Camp 

No. 1.
Chas. Ellis in the Current

In the lumbering industries of the United 
States,  there  are  said  to  be  90,000  men 
employed in mills and 135,000  in  the  for­
ests.  The wages  of these  men  amount to 
$80,000,000 annually.  The capital  invested 
in the industry is placed at $180,000,000 and 
the value of the annual product is $230,000,- 
000.  The farmers of the country receive for 
supplies furnished to lumbermen $30,000,000 
a  year.

The State of Michigan has invested in mill 
property and apparatus for  lumbering  $40,- 
000,000.  She  employs  20,000  men in  her 
mills and 30,000 in her  forests, paying them 
annually about $15,000,000.  She  pays  far­
mers for produce $5,000,000 a year  and  she 
pays mechanics  annually about  $4,000,000.
Her product of pine  lumber  has  been  for 
several years averaging  about  5,000,000,000 
feet,  worth $60,000,000.  The State has pro­
duced in all about 40,000,000,000 feet of pine 
lumber.  The quantity of  pine  still  left  in 
her forests is not far from a similiar  quanti­
ty.  In other  words,  although  we  hear a 
great deal of lamentation over the disappear­
ance of the pine  forests of  the  State, they 
are still good for as much as has been taken 
from them up to the present time.  It is not 
true that the area of pine  forest is now one- 
half of what it was when  lumbering  began 
in the  State,  but  when it  is  known  that 
henceforth all timber that will make  lumber 
will be utilized,  whereas  for  years  in  the 
past it was  wasted  ^nost  ruthlessly, it can 
be readily understood  that  tne  above  esti­
mate of the future production is more likely 
to be under than over  the  fact.  It is there­
fore evident that now and for some  years to 
come,  lumbering is, and will continue to be, 
a magnificent industry in Michigan.

While reflecting upon  the  magnitude  of 
this business I became impressed  with a de 
sire to investigate  it, to  put  myself  in con­
tact \vith it, to mingle with the men  who do 
the work, and realize  by  personal  observa­
tion a life that the people of the  world, who 
walk between city walls and dwell in cultur­
ed communities know nothing about.  With 
the birth of the wish came the after-thought 
that at the present rate of annual  product it 
would be but a few years  before  this 
life 
and activity of the forests would have disap­
peared in the great Forest-State, and  that to 
see it in its  prime I should  see it  at  once. 
Next came my determination to  act  up  the 
desire while it'was young and  fresh, and so 
packing my  trunk  in  the  early  winter, I 
turned my back upon dear  old  Boston  and 
was whirled  away  to  the  famous  land  of 
wolverines.  Arrived in the State I  stopped 
few days in the delightful home of a friend 
who had found fame and profit in the manu­
facture of pine shingles on the  banks of the 
yellow Saginaw.  There 1 donned the  wool­
en “toggery” of the  forester, bade  farewell 
to the allurements of  civilization, and,  with 
gripsack in hand,  started  for  the  distant 
quarters  of  a logging  camp.  What  I  saw 
and what 1 learned during my stay of sever­
al months in the woods will be  found  faith­
fully recorded in what follows.

My destination is about seventy miles dis­
tant,  where my aforementioned,  friend  has 
two camps in operation, and he accompanies 
me as guide.  The greater part  of  the jour­
ney we make by rail over a road  that  runs 
through leagues and leagues  of  woods.  As 
we leave the city behind us I observe that the 
appearance of the passengers who board the 
train changes.  A few who left the city with 
us are going through to the junction with the 
main line.  Others who came out of the city 
have dropped off at neighboring stations, and 
presently I find that there is only  here  and 
there in the car a person whose  dress  indi 
cates anything like intimacy with the fastid 
iousness of modern civilization.  The women 
who get on and off at the  stations  along the 
way are  generally  dull-eyed,  tired-looking 
country wives, whose faded dresses, pinched 
cheeks and hollow eyes all indicate the  pri­
vation and unenviable  life of  the  pioneer. 
The men on the train  are  of two  classes, or 
orders.  One class  wears dingy, dirty, some­
times ragged, often patched old clothes, that 
have evidently done duty many a year.  The 
typical  man  of  this  class  is  generally 
shock-headed, rough-bearded, unkempt look 
ing fellow, who seems  to  be  living  where 
tidiness had long ago died, and been  forgot­
ten.  But their carelessness is not the result 
of idleness or vagrancy.  They are  the pio­
neer farmers of whose hard, toilsome life we 
shall see more anon.

The other class of men affect brilliant col­
ors, and their swaggering air and often loud, 
profane or indecent  talk,  indicate the  wild, 
border men who love civilization only for its 
vices.  The typical man of this  class  wears 
a broad-brimmed  hat, or a  brighly  colored 
knit cap, from  the  bagging  top  of  which 
dangles a gay tassel;  thick,  warm  woolen 
shirts,  called  “mackinaws”  (named  from 
Macinac, the coldest  place  on  earth), that 
contain all the  known and  possible  colors 
and combinations of  colors,  in  which, how­
ever, there must be plenty of brilliancy;  his 
pants are of some heavy and warm material, 
cut nafrow at  the  bottom  and  made to be 
worn inside the omnipresent scarlet  leggins 
or long, heavy stockings that are drawn over 
two or three pairs of the ordinary socks and

fastened  under  the  knee,  outside of  the j  world, for, while the  boys  seem to be indif- 
pants with the ubiquitous cord  and  tassel;  ferent to the cold when they are out at work, j too,  it  is amusing to  see  a “mossback, 
leather j they like a  roaring  fire  when  they are in.* 
over the  well-clad  feet  are  worn 
packs, or the ordinary rubber shoe; a blue or! Across the third  side, or end, of this  room 
scarlet sash is wound  around the waist, and  there is a wood pile and  a  sink,  with  the 
tucked under it,  precisely in the. middle  of  door between.  On the stove  always  stands 
his back, the woodsman carries his  mittens,  a huge  boiler  full of  water,  for  washing 
thumbs up, when  not  in use; and  add  an  hands, faces and clothing.  These things all 
old pipe, full of the strongest niggerhead to-  in order, the camp is ready for its occupants, 
bacco to be found, you have one of the boys.  The men fill their ticks, if  there  are  any,
or fill the berth with  hay, spread
a rollicking, dare-devil  member of  the  An­
cient Order of Men of the  Woods,  a Knight 
of the Canthook, Ax  and  Crosscut.  In  the 
coldest days of winter I have seen  them out 
half a day in shirt-sleeves, with  nothing for 
coat or vest, save an extra shirt thrown over 
the shoulders with the  sleeves  knotted  in 
front.

The “cook  camp”  stands  adjoining  that 
of the men, and is of about  equal size, serv­
ing as both kitchen and dining-room. Besides, 
these are an office for the  foreman in which 
he also sleeps, a  blacksmith’s  shop, which 
also  serves as a  shop  for the  “tinker” or 
carpenter, a great barn for the  horses and a

with, hay,
their blankets and are  ready for snoring.

The stations at whicli  we  stop  along the 

tion over the crown of the lull. Sometimes,

that
is,  a farm team  and  teamster,  new  to  the 
business, come down that  hill  with a  load.
The first  time  they  generally  get  stuck. 
Then they  will  watch  a camper do it,  and 
their success will depend upon  their  power 
of  imitation.  The  camp  teamster  is  not 
noisy to his team, save  when  it  gets 
into a 
“tight place,” and then  he bursts  his mouth 
over it like a  thunder  clap.  Occasionally a 
team fails to do  all  that is  expected of  it, 
and then the teamster gets angry and abuses 
the always willing and  grand  horses  until 
sometimes I, too, become indignant  and get 
away where I cannot see what I cannot pre­
vent.  One day such a man beat and  abused 
his horses thus when  there was no  need of 
it whatever.  He was helped out by another 
team, and started off with his load, but soon 
came back an all used-up  young man.  The 
load had broken dowu and he had barely es­
caped with life.  I did not pity him as much 
as I would have done  had 1  not  seen  him 
abusing his horses  only a  few  minutes  be­
fore.  Such accidents  are  sometimes  more 
serious.  One day a ringbolt  broke,  and the 
three top logs  came  hounding  down  with 
the driver  among  them.  Any one of them 
would have crushed him  had it fallen  upon 
him, but he escaped with  bruises  and a dis­
located arm.  Another day  the chain  broke 
and the load fell, the driver going down head 
foremost on his  back, turning  over  as  he 
went until he striking the snow by the road­
side he was on his  face  with  a  huge  log 
across his back.  It  happened that  just one 
man saw him fall and rushed  back to  camp 
and gave the alarm, and men  hurried  with 
canthooks  to  the  scene  of  the  accident. 
When they lifted him  from  under  the  log 
the blod was gushing from  his  mouth  and 
nostrils in the last act of the  tragedy of suf­
focation.  The snow  being  deep  and  soft, 
had saved his life when the log struck  him, 
but it came  nigh  being a bed of  death.  I 
said to him, when  I  found  him  in  camp 
bathing a bruised leg,  “Johnny,  you  had a 
close call, eh?”  “Don’t guess agin’, Charley, 
you’ve struck her square the first time!  I’d 
gin  up  when I felt  the  blood  cornin’,  ’n, 
when that log was moved off’n my  back the 
let up it gin me was wuth a  plum  hundred 
dollars, you bet!”  Many a man has lost his 
life by accident in  the  logging  camps.  In 
Michigan  the  number of  deaths  by  such 
means reaches from  sixty to seventy 
in  a 
season.  The teamsters are the least exposed 
among the men, although to an observer un­
familiar with the  dangers  of  such a place, 
they seem  to  be  the  most  exposed.  But 
driving team is terribly cold  work.  People 
who get up at  eight  o’clock  and  do  their 
work in warm rooms can  have  but a feeble 
conception of what it is to get out and  work 
two hours before daylight, with the mercury 
column putting on airs at twenty degrees be­
low zero!  On such a  morning  the  atmos­
phere is so penetrating that it makes me diz­
zy.  I seem to be  drunk  on  oxygen,  and  I 
wonder if it isn’t this cheap method  of  get­
ting “set up” that makes  these wild fellows 
love this life so well.  1 enjoy it because the 
strange life  is  new to me, but in these cold 
mornings, as  I  tramp  about  wrapped  in 
blankets and see the clear air transparent as 
a morning in May, and yet so full of needle­
like  points of  frost  that to watch  by  the 
flame of a torch by the road side I can see a 
constant sparkle as of millions of tiniest dia­
monds  gleaming,  and  find  my  mustache 
covered with ice and  my mouth  almost fro­
zen  shut, and feel the  mercury which I had 
taken years before for ague to  be  frozen in 
my bones, 1 almost  make up  my mind that 
it would be more agreeable to be a door keep 
er in a certain tropical  climate  than  dwell 
long in these tents of the wicked.  One these 
cold mornings the iron  shoes  of  the  great 
logging  sleighs  seem to freeze to the snow 
and refuse to move, and give  vent  to  their 
ill-temper as they are forced along by a con­
tinuous,  strange  unearthly  screech  thatl 
can hear a long distance in the still air.

Following or  riding  upon  one  of  these 
loads to the river’s bank one finds still other 
crews of men at work.  The logs are  rolled 
from the sleighs upon skidways,  and  up or 
out upon great piles of logs that are acres in 
extent  and  hills  in  altitude.  Sometimes a 
road is built of  logs  across  the  stream  to 
bank logs on its farther  side, a road as even 
and  smooth  as  a  floor.  In  banking,  the 
horses cannot help the men roll the  logs  as 
they do in  loading  them,  and  the  work is 
done entirely by human  muscle.  It is hard 
work.  As I see a crew of  men whirl  their 
cant-hooks and strike them into a great  log, 
and back  away  with it inch  by inch, I am 
reminded of an ant dragging  the  body of a 
dead beetle through  the  grass.  But  these 
human ants seem  to  enjoy  the  work, and 
are always mixing their fun with  their task. 
The clean logs piled in huge rows  along the 
stream in the silence of the  forest, with the 
scarlet leggings and shirts of the  men  flash­
ing over them in  the  sunlight,  it is not  an 
unattractive scene.

A Strange Settlem ent.

“When are you going to settle  .this  bill?” 
“We’ve had a settlement already.” “When?” 
“The  last  timq  you  called.”  “How  so?” 
“Didn’t I then tell you that I meant to  settle 
the bill?”  “Yes.” “Very well, then; wasn’t 
that a settlement?”

way are  chiefly  prospective  towns,  having I grain-house for the feed, 
at present, generally, but a small  number of 
The buildings finished, the  regular  work 
shanties or the cheapest kind of houses, that  of the camp begins.  First, the  roads are lo-
cated and graded, for this is a,business  that 
are built of logs or rough, undressed lumber. 
utterly refuses to move on bad roads.  Next, 
The barus are not very  attractive  even for 
the  “skidways,”  or  raised  bottoms  upon 
cattle, but  better  than  neither  cattie  nor 
which the logs are to  be  piled  preparatory 
barns.  There are almost always one or more 
to loading them upon the sleighs later in the 
steam shingle-mills  close  by, for  the  road 
season,  are  prepared.  Then,  the  work  of 
runs through the  land of  pioneer  farmers 
logging begins.  Crews  or  gangs  of  men, 
and as they  clear up their  land,  they  find 
three in each; one chopper, who selects  and 
more or  less  poor  pine,  that  will  make 
notches the trees  that  are to be felled, and 
shingles of low grades,  which  will  pass  at 
measures and trims them up when  they are 
the grocery  store as currency  in  exchange 
down, and two sawyers, who  fell  the  trees 
for tobacco  and flour, the  staff  of  life.  At 
and cut the logs  off, take  the  lead.  These 
length we leave the traiu at a more  than us­
are foltowed by the  “swampers,” who, with 
ually pretentious burg in the wilderness.  In 
well-trained  horses,  drag  the  logs  to  the 
the  clear, cold winter air  the  town is  seen 
skidways, where the “skidders” take charge 
best  by its  ascending  smoke.  From  tall, 
of them, and, with the aid of the horses, pile 
iron stacks at points  contiguous  to  the rail­
them in great  roof-shaped  piles  sometimes 
road, volumes of steam and  smoke  indicate 
thirty feet high.  At the  same  time a gang 
the mills.  Under the  snow  there doubtless 
of men is at work on the road from camp to 
are streets, but to the  stranger it would  be 
river, whither the logs are to be  transported 
a most difficult  matter to  locate  them, for 
in winter.  This is a very important  part of 
the beaten tracks at present take  the  “near 
the labor, as the success of the winter’s work 
cut,” across lots, and wind in and out among 
depends upon the  ability  to do a great  deal 
stumps, without regard to street commission­
of hauling in a short  time.  Hills  must  be 
ers or land-owners.  In the distance is to be 
avoided, and consequently the road  will fol­
seen a painted  nouse which, 1 am informed, 
low the low land, and this must run through 
is “the hotel.”  A few other buildings  have 
swamps that are sometimes  very difficult to 
been astonished  with a coat of  thin  paint, 
get over.  When the  cold  weather  sets, in 
but, generally speaking, the city is an  array 
men are put into such swamps to tramp  the 
of poorly built, unpainted  little  houses that 
surface into a mire, as in that state it freezes 
are hardly  deserving  of  a  more  elevated 
more readily than when covered  with grass, 
name than shanties.  Everywhere, however, 
roots and water.  As soon as  the  road  will 
the inevitable black,  pine  stump  proclaims 
bear a team, a gang of  men  is  sent  out  at 
the newness of the town and the  recent em­
night to work upon it with “the  sprinkler.” 
pire of the  wilderness.  In  the  fullness of 
This is a box built upon  logging  sleighs for 
time, here, too, progress  will  build  stately 
the purpose of hauling water over the  roads 
and beautiful homes.
and  sprinkling  the  track  at  each  side  in 
which the sleigh runners  move.  The water 
soon freezes and thus a road of ice is formed 
little by little that will last for  weeks  after 
snow  roads  have  entirely  disappeared.  I 
have seen a sprinkler at work that weighed, 
when loaded, thirteen  tons,  and  that  was 
drawn by one pair  of  horses;  and  I  have 
heard lumbermen say that for an  all-winter 
work of  cutting  and  hauling  they  would 
rather have no  snow  at  all,  preferring  to 
make their roads in this way, entirely of ice. 
Hauling  begins  with  the  freezing  of  the 
swamps, generally about the  middle of  De­
cember.  Then the piles of logs by the road­
side are broken down.  This  work is  often 
full of danger to limb and life of  those  en­
gaged in it, and only the  strongest and most 
skillful cant-hook men are selected for load­
ers.  Snow and rain have  frozen  upon  the 
logs, and they “stick.”  The  logs  are  not 
taken down  from  the  top of the  pile, but 
broken out from the  bottom.  Where  they 
are frozen together  you will  sometimes see 
them  worked  out  until  a  sheer  front of 
twenty  or  thirty  feet  is  presented, at the 
foot of which the men  must  expose  them­
selves to break out the bottom log and bring 
the whole pile down.  I  have  seen  such a 
pile come down with a leap that  sent  great
the State, camp  exists  the  whole  year, the  logs flying  like  sticks  clear  out  over  the
sleigh, filling the  road  full.  The  sleigh is 
logs being  transported to the  mills  by rail, 
in itself a curiosity to one whose mental im­
the roads having been  constructed solely for 
age of a sleigh is the light  dashaway  cutter 
logging purposes.  Generally,  however,  work 
of the fashionable drive.  This  monster  of 
in camp begins in September or October, and 
the  woods  has  four  runners,  measures 
ends when the logs  are  all  piled  on  the 
about thirty  teet  over  all, is from  eight to 
banks of the river, down which they will be 
nine feet beam, weighs when fully equipped 
driven in the early spring, as soon as the ice 
thirty-five hundred  pounds, and has a carry­
breaks up.  In  all  camps  from  which  the 
ing capacity of all you can pile on—amount­
logs are hauled by teams the cutting is gaug­
ing sometimes to twelve and fourteen tons— 
ed by the weather, it being  very  important 
a load that a pair of these great horses train­
to cut no more than can be  got  out, for  the 
ed to camp work, will walk  away with easi­
worms play havoc with  those  that  are  left 
ly. 
I n   our camp the logs are skidded  along
in the woods through the summer.
a road  that  has  a  light  down  grade that 
finally reaches bottom with a  somewhat  ab­
rupt pitch that rises to about an equal height 
on the opposite side.  If a team were to hold 
back its  load  coming  down  this  hill,  and 
were to stop and take breath at  the  bottom 
before  taking the up-hill it would never get 
its load to the top.  The load must go up by 
virtue of the law of  gravity,  so-called,  the 
team and load are a pendulum:  the momen­
tum which it takes on coming down the cen 
ter will carry it up on the  other  side.  Old 
campers know all about the trick of  getting 
over such a grade; and  it  is  a  pretty  sight 
to see one of them  perched on  the top of a 
huge load,  sometimes  six  feet  above  his 
team come down that hill  with  the  horses 
gradually increasing  their  speed, until  by 
the time they are crossing the  bottom  they 
are going like the wind and  so  continue up 
the opposite side, until the load  has  gradu­
ally  exhausted  its  momentum,  and  they 
come to a walk and take up the slack of  the

In locating a camp in  the woods  the  first 
thing to be done is to select  a  favorable  lo­
cation for the various buildings.  Whenever 
it can be done, the site will be in  the neigh­
borhood  of  running  water, for  there  are 
horses as well as men to eat and drink.  The 
site selected, the next thing is to build.  The 
walls of these palaces are made of logs  that 
are sometimes to be  seen  sixty or  seventy 
feet long.  The roof is of rough  boards cov­
ered with heavy tarred  paper  securely bat- 
tend down along the seams.  The cracks be­
tween the logs are filled with moss and plas­
tered over  with  mortar  made of  the  clay 
which  abounds  everywhere.  The  “men’s 
camp” is fitted with bunks, or  berths  made 
two tiers deep  around  three  sides  of  the 
room.  A  wooden  bench,  also  of  rough 
boards, runs around in front  of  the  lower 
berths, and forms the main part  of  the  fur­
niture.  In the center of the  room  stands  a 
huge stove, which, it is safe to say, will con­
sume more  wood in  a  winter  season  than
any similar heater in any other  part of  the | traces just in time to keep  the  load  ir

At this point we take a “tote”  sleigh, and 
drive into camp, some sixteen  miles  away. 
Our road  runs  through  “settled”  country. 
For a variable distance on either side of  the 
road, generally,  however,  short, there  are 
clearings with log-houses and shanties inter- 
persed, with occasional  good  farm-houses 
and barns.  But here again the black,  char­
red  stumps  stand  thick in  harsh  contrast 
with the clean snow that  spreads  fair  and 
far  on  every  field.  So  plentiful are they 
that one wonders where on earth the farmer 
does his farming.  Year  by  year,  however, 
the force of their hold  weakens, and at  last 
the farmer will hold his kingdom  clean and 
free.  At length we leave  the  “main”  road 
for a better one that winds about among still 
other stumps, following  the  low,  level land 
for a reason  which  will be given.  This is 
the “logging” road.  Presently it dives  into 
the dark forest  of  dreamy  pine,  and  in a 
short time we draw  rein at the  camp.  As 
we alight and turn to  look  about  us, it ap­
pears that night is gathering  her  draperies 
around the shadowy forms of the  woodland, 
and in the  dark  hair of  the  lovely  pine, 
queen of forest realm, the fair lights of  dis­
tant cosmic  diamonds  twinkle in the cold, 
still evening.

In some places  in  this  northern  part of

A JO U R N A L  DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and M annheim s Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  4,  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’  Exchange.

■¡Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

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

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second  Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B. E d­
munds and D. S. Haugh. 
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
-Regular  Meetings—Last  Saturday evening in 
each month. 
Next Meeting—Saturday evening, February 28, 
a t “The Tradesman” office.
A bill to regulate dentists has been  intro­
duced  in  the  Wisconsin  legislature.  Un­
doubtedly, they  need  regulating.  Next  in 
order will come the plumbers.

_   . 

*

„

A list of hardwood lumber  quotations has 
oeeii  arranged  for,  and  will  appear  here­
after.  This  will  add  to  the value of  the 
: paper  with  those  who  manufacture  and 
handle that great  staple.

A respectable merchant marine is the best 
remedy for over-production.  Our exports to 
South America are less than  one-third those 
of England, and  only about  one-half  those 
of France.  There would be  quite  a  differ­
ent exhibit if we had the ships to  carry our 
goods to Sonth American ports.

The.Shoe and  Leather  Review, the  Chi­
cago organ of the shoe and  leather  trade, is 
the leading  exponent of these  interests  in 
the west, and  is fast  taking rank  with the 
representative trade journals of the country, 
its growth is  little  less  than  phenominal, 
and its merits fully warrant the extensive pat­
ronage to which jt is heir.

The Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co. makes 
«n exceptional showing.  In the sworn state­
ment of the condition of the corporation Jan­
uary 1, the capital stock, paid in is placed at 
$300,000,  the  surplus  at  $20,493.78,  and 
the existing  debts  only $3,525.94.  Such a 
statement is calculated to inspire  confidence 
in the ability of those at the helm, and is al­
so valuable as demonstrating the  fact  that 
an establishment doing a business bordering 
on a million a year can  keep  their  transac­
tions down to a cash basis.

It is a common  remark  among  politicians 
and others who have occasion to circulate pe- 
‘titions that three representative names at the 
head of a paper are sufficient tosecure the sig­
natures of a whole town, without as much as a 
glance at the prayer of the petitioners.  This 
human  frailty  is  happly  touched  upon  by 
Mr.: Snooks,  in  his  this week’s letter,  the 
experience  of  Bilson  finding  a  parallel in 
many similar cases.  The  man  who  would 
sign  a!  petition  to  run a street through  his 
-own store and duck himself in  a  frog  pond 
Ss not1 so exceptional as one  might  imagine.

The remarks made in another  column rel­
ative to the  advantage  of  organization  on 
the part of the  Muskegon  groeerymen  are 
equally applicable to dealers in every line in 
every place in the State.  Detroit  took  the 
initiative in the organization of  a druggists’ 
association,  which has worked satisfactorily 
for about  two years.  Grand Rapids  follow­
ed with a similar  society, and  within  the 
past ten days Traverse City has  entered the 
field with a general organization  comprising 
representatives  of  every  mercantile  line. 
Within the next year or two,  it  is  probable 
that local associations will  be  in  successful 
operation in half the towns of Michigan.

The letters which are given  place  in this 
week’s paper under the heading of  “Whole­
saler vs.  Retailer” tend to exhibit a spirit of 
discontent which neither the retailer or  job­
ber can afford to allow to exist.  The retail­
er should be  made to realize that if he  pays 
as promptly as those  who  buy  in  heavier 
quantities,  he  is  getting  his  supplies  at 
equally 
low  prices,  although,  of  course, 
there are times when considerable discounts 
are given on stated  amounts of  goods.  In­
stead  of  bewailing  this  fact,  the  dealer 
ought to be glad that it is so, for the  reason 
that he can take advantage of this opportun­
ity  whenever  he  is in a position  to  avail 
himself of it.  The complaint  made  by  the 
jobber is not common with the  entire  retail 
trade, but is confined mostly to  new  begin­
ners and light-weight  business  men,  whose 
highest idea of business  success is the swin­
dling of all with  whom  they come in  con 
tact.

AMONG T H E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

The  Chase  Bros.  Piano  Co.  are turning 
out six instruments per  week,  and  are  be­
hind with their orders. 

.

Win.  H. Hooper has put in a stock  of  to­
baccos and confectionery at  Hooper Station, 
near Monteith.  Cody, Ball &  Co. furnished 
the stock.

Yaldemar C.  Thompson,  of  the  former 
firm  of C. N. Allen,  Thompson  &  Co.,  at 
Gowen,  has  formed  a  copartnership  with 
M. B. Gascoine, of the same place, under the 
firm  name  of  Gascoine & Thompson,  and 
they have engaged  in  the  grocery  business 
at Big Bapids.  Hawkins & Perry  furnished 
the stock.

Owing to the  pressing 

importance of  his 
many  other  duties,  Wilder  D.  Stevens 
has been compelled to decline the chairman­
ship of the Committee on Transportation  of 
the  Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Ex­
change, and President Rindge  has  supplied 
the vacancy "by appointing  Samuel Sears—a 
wise selection.

Richard Redhead, formerly cheese  maker 
for the Coldspring  cheese  factory, at  Hill- 
iards, but for the  past  year  maker at  the 
Springdale  factory, at the  same  place, has 
purchased the Amber factory, at Zeeland, of 
Lamb, Brouwers & Louckes, and  will oper­
ate it himself hereafter.  Mr. Lamb  and his 
former partners are casting  about  for a de­
sirable location for a new factory, and  have 
nearly concluded to locate at  Jennisonville.

AROUND THE STATE.

Sheldon & Sigler succeed C. E. Whaley in 

the jewelry business at Adrian.

Dell Squier has purchased  an  interest  in 

Chas. Hall’s meat market at  Coopersville.

W. II. Harmon succeeds Hanifan, Harmon 
& Co. in the dry goods business at  Big  Rap­
ids.

R. Boyd & Co., the East Saginaw  grocery 
jobbers, have  discontinued  their  retail  de­
partment.

Frank  Hibbard,  the  Evart  druggist,  was 
called to Sturgis last Friday by the  death  of 
his father.

Edick  & Platt,  hardware  dealers  at  Ben­
ton  Harbor,  have  dissolved,  C.  M.  Edick 
succeeding.

Geo. Holland, baker and  grocer,  at  Stan­
ton, is closing out his  stock,  preparatory  to 
retiring from business.

G. A. Wagar, the  Mears  general  dealer 
and lumberman,  has rented the store former­
ly occupied by J. F. Widoe, at Hart, and en­
gaged in general trade at that place.

Marshall  Statesman:  The  partnership 
between J. W. Montague and P. M. King, in 
the lumber business, has been dissolved, and 
the former will hereafter attend to the wants 
of customers.

Geo.  Blakeley,  of  the  firm  of  Blakeley 
Bros., at Fife Lake,  was  married  at  Coop­
ersville  Saturday  evening  to  Miss  Libbie 
Fonger,  and  returned  to  his duties at Fife 
Lake on Monday.
A  Middleville 

correspondent  writes 
Parties from Otsego are  talking of engaging 
in business here. 
If  they  decide  to  locate 
here they will put in a stock  of  dry  goods, 
clothing and groceries.

The merchant  tailoring  firm  of  Oliva  & 
Swoboda, at Traverse City, has dissolved.  J. 
Swoboda  retires, and A. Oliva,  retaining all 
the  stock  and  fixtures,  will  continue  the 
business at the old location.

Henry  A.  Hudson,  assignee  for  Waite 
Bros., at Hudsonville, will save the creditors 
from 50 to 75 per cent, of their claims.  The 
stock is nearly all closed out and  an adjust­
ment will shortly be effected.

An inventory of the grocery stock of Geo. 
Steven, of Traverse City, who  made  an as­
signment recently,  shows that the assets are 
very 
largely in excess of  liabilities, and he 
will continue the business himself.

Every creditor has  agreed to the  80  per 
cent, compromise in the Geo. Luther matter, 
at Middleville, and as soon as the life  insur­
ance companies pay the policy  held  by Mr. 
Luther,  satisfactory  adjustments  will  be 
made with the creditors and the widow.

J.  W. Murray, of the firm of J. G. Johnson 
& Co., of Traverse City, was  recently  mar­
ried to one of the most  estimable  young  la­
dies in Northern  Michigan.  They  will re­
side in Mackinaw City,  where  Mr. Murray 
occupies the position of station agent.

The P. B. Appledorn  &  Sons’  failure,  at 
Kalamazoo, is said to be a severe one for the 
creditors.  The senior Appledorn  has  been 
in the boot and shoe business for over twen­
ty years, and the failure is  attributed to the 
fact that the firm was “behind the times.” 

The  Cummer  &  Rawles  hardware  stock, 
at  Cadillac,  has  passed  into  the  hands of 
Jacob  Cummer,  and  the  business  is  now 
carried on by J. W. Cummer, Agt.  Most of 
the  creditors  have  settled  at  40 per cent., 
and  assignee Haifley  expects to pay the  re­
mainder  about  the  same  amount.  Mr. 
Rawles is now in Grand Rapids.

The  Saranac  Local  says:  “Lester  & 
Wolff,  the  gentlemen  from  Otsego,  who 
were here prospecting last week, have  rent 
ed C. L. Wilson’s store.  They will put in a 
general stock, and take  immediate  posses­
sion.”  An  Otsego  correspondent  writes: 
“L. M. Lester is about to  take  the  present 
stock of  dry  goods  of  Norton & Lester to 
Saranac, where he intends  starting a store.”

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

The Boise mill at Bay Springs is in opera­

tion.

Geo.  W. Dalton  has put in a  steam  saw 

mill about two mills from Summit City.

Gibbs Bros, have leased  A. Gibbs’ shingle 
mill, at Mayfield, and are running  the same 
full blast.

E.  B. Hayes  has  sold  his  interest  in  the 
the Big Rapids Sash  and  Door  Manufactur­
ing Co. to  A.  L. Peck, of  Connecticut.

W. R.  Sawyer, formerly with  Chickering 
& Kyson, at  Fife  Lake, has leased the  saw 
mill of the Michigan  Fooring  and  Handle 
Co., at Summit City.

A Detroit lumber dealer  has  written to a 
man at Marquette, requesting that he secure 
ground  and dock facilities  at that  point on 
which to  erect a  mill.  The  Detroit  man 
claims to have a contract for  furnishing 25,- 
000,000 feet of hardwood lumber to  eastern 
parties, and that the proposed mill  will em­
ploy 30 to 40 men.

A. W. Hutchins, traveling agent and man­
ager of the  New York  branch  of  Hayden 
Brothers,  has  contracted  with  Gayles  & 
Nash, of  Norwood,  for  1,000,000  feet  of 
birch,  maple,  basswood  and  ash 
lumber; 
with the Stoepel Lumber Co., of  East  Jor­
dan, same vicinity, for  1,500,000  feet;  with 
Upright, Emery & Co., for 200,000  feet, and 
probably has contracted with the  Pine Lake 
Lumber Co. for 2,500,000 feet—all hardwood 
—making 6,000,000 feet in all.

STRAY  FACTS.

Antrim county has 90 miles of waterfront 

on its lakes and rivers.

The Flint &  Pere  Marquette  Railway is 

now running eight log trains daily.

It is stated that John Symington will start 
a cheese factory this year in  Ashland town­
ship, Newaygo county.

Fred King, of Hudson, has invented a new 
contrivance in the shape of a  mop,  and  has 
secured a patent on the  same.

Such good celery is raised in other  towns 
that the Kalamazoo Telegraph tells its read­
ers they must raise a better quality  than  at 
present if they wish to keep  the  reputation 
they have gained.

N.  C.  Morgan,  the  Northport  general 
dealer  and  shipper,  is  getting  out 200,000 
feet of elm, basswood and hemlock logs and 
about 2,000 cords of wood.  He is wintering 
11,000 bushels of potatoes, which  is  a  suf­
ficient  guarantee  that  the  people  of  that 
place will not be compelled to go> hungry.

The Condition  of O ur  Country,

Cheap  wheat, cheap  iron, cheap  money, 
are  the  raw  materials  of  prosperity, and 
these the United States now  has  in  abun­
dance.  While our population  ha9  been in­
creasing,  deposits have  been  accumulating 
in the banks,  inventions  have  been  multi­
plied, intelligence has  been  spreading,  and 
all the processes of  civilization  have  been 
going on, the course of  industrial  readjust­
ment has been strengthening all  the founda­
tions of our prosperity.  Credits  have  been 
revised, and  many abuses  which  grew up 
during the  generous  practices  of  the  too 
abundant confidence of a few years-ago have 
been put an end to,  Tendencies to-extrava­
gant living  have  been  checked, and it is a 
very rare exception that  people  are  not liv­
ing within their  means.  Frauds  that  take 
root naturally and flourish in eras of  expan 
sion have been overtaken and exposed.  En­
ormous masses of debt have been liquidated. 
The commercial observer will, on the whole, 
probably find it impossible  to  discover 
in 
any preceeding period of the  history of this 
country a greater  accumulation  than  that 
which he can  now  easily  find) of what we 
term the raw materials of prosperity.

The State D airym en’s  Convention.

Although the invitations to  the dairy con­
vention have been issued only about a week, 
the project has  met  with  such a hearty re­
ception at the hands of  those most  directly 
interested  that it is safe  to  say  that  the 
meeting will be a  complete  success, so  far 
as attendance is concerned.  Henry B. Bak­
er, Secretary of the State  Board of  Health, 
writes that a member of the  Board  will  be 
delegated to attend the convention, and  sev­
eral noted dairymen from  other  states have 
signified their  intention  of  being  present. 
The local papers throughout the  State  have 
very  generally  noticed  the  meeting,  and 
commented  favorably on the  same, tniis as­
sisting in spreading  the  intelligence to  re­
mote parts of the State.

Speaking of  the  convention, the  Detroit 
Commercial strikes the nail on  the head in 
the following  fashion:  “The  object  is an 
excellent one.  By a little  pulling  together 
the dairymen  of  Michigan  can  materially 
improve their facilities  for  handling  goods 
and can make two dollars easily where they 
now make one with difficulty.”

More  C reditors  on  tlie  M ourners’  Seat.
J.  C.  Winnie,  assignee  for  Bidelman  & 
Hoenes,  dealers  in  harness  and  saddlery 
goods at Adrian,  favors  T iie   T radesm an 
with the following  list of creditors in the es­
tate,  with the amount owing  each:
Buffalo Kobe Co., Reading.....................$20  00
Martin  Maire, Detroit............................   26  46
 
“ 
Wm. Brown 
277  87
John Nayler & Co.“ 
...............................   38  75
Buhl Mfg, Co. 
“ 
 
83 75
Armstrong & Graham, D etroit..............  18  94
W arrieur & Libbie,  Toledo....................  39  95
John Sheppler 
.......................   17 69
Cray & Rood 
.......................   14 44
Stienburg Mfg. Co., Ann Arbor............ 
9  45
E. Helver, Saline......................................  62  80
A. Racine, Ft. Wayne,  Ind....................  17  85
Gries, PfJedger & Co„  Cincinnati......  95  86
Lay, VanDeusen & Co., Westfield,  Mass  36 30
I. S. Van Deusen & Son, Passaic, N. J . .. 

“ 
“ 

 
 

 

 

Total...................................................$767  02
The  available  assets  “are  a  little  over 

$500.

A  Move  in  the  R ight  D irection.

From the Grand Traverse Herald.

A  business  men’s  association  has  been 
talked  here  for  some  time  past,  and  last 
evening  a  permanent  organization was  ef­
fected  by  the  election of the following  of­
ficers:

President—Frank  Hamilton.
First Vice President—J. A.  Moore.
Second Vice President—S. C. Despres.
Secretary—C. E. Lockwood.
Treasurer—J. T. Beadle.

MUSKEGON  MATTERS.

Facts and  Fancies  Picked Up a t T hat Busy 

Place,

Another physician is needed at  Lakeside, 
and a  practitioner of experience  would  un­
doubtedly meet with a hearty reception.

Hackley & Hume  have  suspended  work 
on  their  logging  railroad,  near  Harrison, 
Clare county, and are  putting  their logs in­
to Long  lake.

Jacob Jesson is getting out blank petitions 
and mailing them  to  every  member  of  the 
Michigan State  Pharmaceutical  Association 
and such other  druggists  whose  addresses 
he has  been able  to  obtain.  The  petitions 
are intended to be addressed to  the  Senator 
and  Representative 
the  district 
which  they  represent,  and  pray  for  the 
speedy  passage of the  pharmaceutical  bill 
now before the Legislature.

from 

J. H. Whipple, manager of  the Pembroke 
Knitting Co., has returned from an extended 
eastern trip, which 
included  Philadelphia, 
New York and Boston.  He found  the  job­
bers at those  markets in  good  spirits, and 
closed 
large  quantities 
of knit goods, to be delivered as needed dur­
ing the coming year.  The works started up 
Monday with  an  additional  force  of  ten 
hands, and will continue in operation during 
the entire year.

contracts 

for 

The success of the Grand Rapids Pharma­
ceutical  Society  has  been  so  marked  that 
several of the Muskegon druggists  are  agi­
tating the question of effecting a  similar  or­
ganization in this city.  With the  exception | 
of a few  slight  differences  of  opinion,  the 
Muskegon druggists work  harmoniously  to­
gether, and with a little effort on the part of 
those most directly interested it  is  probable 
that every dealer in the city could be  gotten 
to wheel into line.

Frederick F. Gordan, assignee of  Park A. 
C. Bradford—who by peculiar means became 
possessed  of  the  jewelry  stock  formerly 
owned- by  the  Schimmeis—states  that  the 
appraised value of the sjpek  was  $1,767.08. 
There  were  thirteen  creditors,  no  one  of 
whom will probably ever  realize  a  cent  on 
his  claim.  The  names  of  the  creditors, 
and the amounts owing each,are as follows:
S. N. Bradford, Stewartsvill®,  Mo.......$1 200 00
Norton & Butters, Boston.....................  
564  39
C. F. Wood & Co., D etroit.......................  
175 69
King & Eisele,  Buffalo........................... 
125 00
Sex
Weber & Friedman, Chicago'................  
21  00
Terry Clock Co
Henry D. Baker, Muskegon..................  
16 60
10 63 
Powell &  Harvey 
10 87 
Frank H. Holbrook 
“ 
37  00 
“ 
John H.  Landreth 
13 75 
S. A. Vanburen & Co. “ 
36 00 
Dennis Smith & Co.  “ 
15  00
“
Muskegon Gas Co. 
Tbtal............................... ...............$2,324 93
In the  opinion  of  many  merchants,  the 
time is ripe for an organization  of  the  gro- 
cerynaen of Muskegon and  suburban  towns. 
The dry goods dealers have not  exhibited  a 
disposition to slaughter their, stocks, nor have 
the hardware dealers  cut  and  slashed;  but 
ruthless competition has  impelled  many  of 
the groeerymen to undersell many staple ar­
ticles, for  the  purpose  of  attracting  trade. 
For instance, one dealer is-selling  kerosene 
oil for ten cents a gallon * which cost him  at 
least  eleven  cents  at  wholesale.  Another 
is selling sugar at a loss of at least four cents 
on every dollar’s worth sold.  Such a suicid­
al course is bound to result ruinously,  as  it 
demoralizes the buyer, bankrupts the  dealer 
and cheats the jobber.  The sooner the prac­
tice is stopped, the better; and about the  ont 
ly way out of the present difficulty is the or­
ganization of a grocery dealers’ protective as­
sociation, for the purpose of  putting  prices 
up to a living level,  and keeping them there. 
Similar organizations-have worked  advanta­
geously at other places, and there is no  rea­
son  why  Muskegon;  should  not  profit  by 
their experience.

Texts  f«wr  tlie  Times.

Economy  at  home  often  makes  extrava­

gance outside.

The father who-  fails  to  recognize  when 

his son is a man- invites his son to deceit.

Sisters  usually  give  their  brothers more 
credit than they deserve.  Brothers  seldom 
accept their sisters at even half  their worth.
Money is made by  the  head,  not  by  the 

hands.

in man.

Women succeeds  where  man  cannot,, be­
cause she is women.  And for the same rea­
son she fails where man  succeeds.

Education develops both the good and bad 

It is hard work for the rich to  keep  then- 

friends and their money too.

Some animals are superior to man  in  one 
respect.  The horse, the dog and theelephaut 
never forget.

In the world of society, what is “bad form” 
has greater influence than  common sense or 
even  religion.

The woman who never hoped for marriage 

never existed.

woman.

The world  excuses  perjury  if  it  screens 

Laws which remain and are defied by  the 

people breed disrespect for all laws.

6 90

D idn’t K eep A nything h u t Shoes.

From the Detroit  Post.

“I want to look  at some pedal coverings,” 

said a Boston girl, entering a shoe store.

“Some what?” asked the dealer.
“Pedal coverings.”
“We don’t keep anything but shoes, mum. 
Perhaps you can find what  you  want at the 
drug-store on the corner.” *

Geo. G. Whitworth and  Frank II. Graves, 
of Foster,  Stevens & Co., left  Monday night 
for a general tour of inspection  of  the stove 
manufacturers and the  gasoline  stove deal­
ers  of  Detroit,  Cleveland,  Cincinnati, St. 
Louis and Chicago.  They will undoubtedly 
visit  the  New  Orleans  exposition  before 
their return, which will be about two weeks 
hence.

BOOT  PLUG

AND

GET  A  PAIR  OF  BOOTS.

BOOT

is a new brand  of Tobacco,  with a  new  sweet  flavor  that 

can not  be  excelled.  Chewers who have given  it 

a trial  will  take no  other.

Wo  pack a TIN  ORDER ill  one of the 
which  is  good  for  either one pair of 1

lumps  m 
îeaw   No.

Boots, or  one pair of  Fancy  Calf  Boob 

one pair of  Calf Button  Shoes.

Butt

each 
1  Kip
or

H OW   TO  GrET  THE  BOOTS.
Send  the  Boot  Ortter  with  size  waited,  Name,  Town, County and State 
plainly written to the undersigned, and they will forward the boots by the next 
Express.  DON’T  FORGET  TO  MENTION  THE  KIND  WANTED.

Canal  and  Monroe  Streets,  CHICAGO,  IXiXr.

T obacco  M anufacturers,

Wes f  AM
LEONARD & SONSf

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  FIRST  CLASS  JOBBERS.

Importers  and J obbers  of

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS  FOR

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles’  Moflean  I .  G.  Wars.

AND

Wedgswood  &  CoJs  English  Ware,

Special Rices given on STONEWARE in Car Lots.
The  “ GOOD  ENOUGH ”  5  and  10  gal.  OIL  CANS.
The “ EMPRESS ”  1-2,1  and 2 gal.  OIL  CANS.
Galvanized Iron Grocer’s OIL  TANKS,  $7.00 each.
Engraved Globe Crimp Top Lamp Chimneys.
“ LA  BASTIE ”  Toughened Glass Chimneys will not Break
We Sell our Labeled “ FLINT ” Glass Chimneys at the same 
R ice others ask for Second Quality,  when five  taxes  of 
any styles are taken.

We deliver Lamp Chimneys, Stoneware and Kerosene Oil at 

any depot in this city free  of Cartage.

Send  for  our  Illustrated  Price  List  of Crockery* Glassware 
and Hanging Lamps, showing Package  Lisis  and  open 
stock Prices of our full line.

Dr. J. D. Bowman writes from  Dansville, 
III., that he has about  decided to0ocate  at 
that place.

J. H.  Whipple, manager of  the Pembroke 
Knitting  Co.,  pulled  T h e  T ra desm a n’s

P urely  Personal.

The  F igures  in   th e  H oughtaling  M atter,
T. G. Gurney,  assignee  for  E.  S.  Hough­
taling, the Hart grocer, favors T h e T ra des­
m an with a list of the  creditors  in the mat­
ter, with the amount owing  each.  The  lia­
bilities  aggregate  $2,316.55,  distributed
among twenty-one creditors in the following  latch-string one day last week.
am ounts:
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, Grand Rapids$54118 
Hawkins & Perry 
Voigt Milling  Co. 
IraO .  Green 
Curtiss, Dunton & Co. 
Putnam  & Brooks 
M  ftt.Pßl 
*0
Sherman Bros., Chicago............................  108 85
W. J. Quan & Co 
118 00
“ 
“  — ......................  23  iu
Banghart Bros. 
B. J. Johnson & Co., Milwaukee....................  30 30
Johnson  Bros. 
...............  29 35
C. E. Andrews & Co., 
 
61  ge
Sands & Maxwell,  Pentw ater.......................  15 60
Andrew Wierengo, Muskegon.....................   34 al
J. M. F ord.Lansingville, N.  Y ... ........  20 05
Seneca Falls Yeast Co., Seneca Falls, N.Y  5 44
Wigton & Bosworth, H art.............................   176 57
Chas. Saokrider & Co.  “ 
......................... 316  42
Lio Saokrider 
• • ■ —  - 
• ••• •  160 00
H. A. & L. J. Deland & Co., Fairport. N. Y  25 6o
Mr. Gumery states that the assets amount 
to  about  $3,300,  but  two  appraisers  place 
the value of the stock at about $1,000.

From the Hastings Banner.

,01 U9
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18
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T h e  Mic h ig a n  T ra d esm a n,  published 
at Grand Rapids, is one of our  most  valued 
exchanges.  T h e T ra d esm a n is devoted to 
the mercantile and  manufacturing  interests 
of the State,  is ably edited,  a model of typo­
graphical  neatness,  and, 
in  every  way, 
worthy of the liberal patronage it  is  receiv­
ing.

John Caulfield, the  veteran  grocery  job­
ber, and Manly Jones,  his  traveling  repre­
sentative, 
left  yesterday  for  Muskegon, 
where they will remain a day or two, taking 
in Grand Haven, Holland and Hartford dur­
ing  the week.

W orthy  of L iberal  P atronage.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced-Alcohol,  oil  peppermint,  gum 
camphor,  oil  cloves,  caraway  seed,  sperma­
ceti, sugar milk powd.

Declined—Oil anise, tonka beans.

A CID S.

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  ©  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........  30  @  35
Carbolic__ , .....................................   33  @  35
Citric.................................................  
@  55
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3  @  5
11  ©  12
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...................., ..........................  14 )4@  15
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  @  4
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English................ .. $  oz 
18
Benzoic,  Germ an............................  13  @  15
T annic...............................................  12  @ 15

AMMONIA.

Carbonate.................................ft  15  @  18
Muriate (Powd. 33c)......................... 
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 

14
5  ©  6
6  ©  7

Serpentaria......................................
Seneka...................................! ..."
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras...............
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican..................'
Squills, white (Powd 35c).............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...

Anise, Italian (Powd 30c)..............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........

SEEDS.

Cardamon,  Aleppee...............
Cardamon, Malabar..................
Celery.........................................
Coriander,  Dest E nglish!...’.!
F en n el.......................................
Flax,  clean..................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 314). •!!!.!!!!!. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian......................... 
Mustard, white  Black lOo)...........
Q uince....................................
Rape, English........... ..!!!.!!!!!!!! 
Worm, L evant.................................

80
65
40
18
13
25
20

15
5  @ 6
4  © 434
12  @ 142 UÜ2 25

4
7
5

6

20
10
15
4 34 8 
6 
8

14

1 10 

S>ru08 &flfteòicine8
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

T

_   _  

Rapids. 

amazoo. 

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

„  

,

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

,, 

t  _  

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Chas. P. Bigelow.
Secretary—Frank H. Eseott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
TT
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White,
Wm. L. White. 
_  
-  _
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
n r.« -  a   n
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Co win.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck. Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening m 
each month. 
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening m 
November. 
»
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, February 5, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

_   . 

_ 

, 

.

The  D rug  C lerk’s  W oing.
“To nitre chamomile,” low signed 
“To either win you for my bride 

The drug clerk to Miss Laura,
Or hair-dye in my gore, ah!”

The belladonna silken dress 
And gore she knew was  sloppy:
“O, if you camphor that, I guess,”
She cried, “do ask my poppy.”

“Thou hartshorn near and yet so far,” 
“Good-bye?  I’m morphine search of pa, 

Groaned the young manna paling.
Though licorice his failing.”

“ 1 ou musk gum gedda kiss,” she cried, 
“I opium not bold,” she sighed,

And put her arms around him ;
“Now go to pa and sound him.”
“I will and ask cologne,” he said,
You’ll potash shroud upon the dead 

“And if elixir lover
Young man, you will-disco ver.”
She castor oil black eyes on his—
“I will, myrrh love—I swear it;
If disappointment ends this biz 
I am mader-nough to wear it.”

“Cummin’ and citrate down,” pa cried 
“May I take chloroform my bride?”

Unto the youth enamored.
The young man meekly stammered.
“Take Laura?  Think her Paris green 
No!  sonny.  Take a pill  serene—

Because he took her mother?
“I’ll give the girl another”

TH E  PHARMACY  BILL.

C irculation of P etitions—Vigorous Appeals 

to the Profession.

Copies of the following petition have been 
sent to the druggists of the State by the Sec­
retary of the Michigan  State  Pharmaceuti­
cal Association :

“The undersigned, being in hearty sympa­
thy with any measure calculated to promote 
the efficiency of  pharmacy, and  being thor­
oughly convinced that legislation  regulating 
pharmaceutical  practice in Michigan is  im­
peratively and 
immediately  essential  as a 
means of furnishing protection to the public 
health against the perils  attending  the  dis­
pensing of  medicines  by incompetent  drug­
gists, respectfully and urgently solicits your 
support of House Bill No.  76 with my assur­
ance of due appreciation of  any  endeavors 
you may make in behalf of the bill.”

In the same enclosure is also sent  the fol­
lowing communication from the special Leg­
islative Committee:

TO YOU,  MR.  DRUGGIST.

Dèar Sir—The draft  of  the  State  Phar­
macy Bill as endorsed by the State  Pharma­
ceutical Association  and  amended  to  con­
form to the suggestions of  the  Senate  and 
House Committees on Public Health will, in 
a few days, be put to a vote on  its  passage. 
Shall the bill fail or succeed?  Your person­
al co-operation  now is needed to insure  its 
success.  We enclose three petitions—two for 
your individual  signature; please  sign  and 
forward at  once to your Senator and Repre­
sentative respectively; and the other for sig­
natures of physicians and the  general  pub­
lic, which mail as soon as possible to either 
your Senator or Representative.  Procure all 
signatures possible.

We  urge  prompt  action.  Failure  now 
would  invite  continued  defeat.  Let every 
druggist in Michigan do his full duty at this 
important juncture and success  is  certain.

Respectfully,

George McDo nald,
H .  J. B row n,
F. M. A lsd orf,

Committee on Pharmacy Law.

N. B.—A personal letter  expressing  your 
views on the general subject  would have its 
influence.

Secretary Jesson  also  wheels 

line 
with the  following  explanation  of  certain 
important provisions  embodied in  the bill :

into 

TO THE DRUGGISTS OF MICHIGAN.

1 have received a great many letters in re­
gard to the Pharmacy Bill  now  before  the 
Legislature, and inasmuch as there seems to 
be a general misunderstanding about its pro­
visions and its effect upon  the  druggists of 
Michigan,  I will try to explain some  of  the I 
provisions  bearing  upon  these  points.  I 
don’t consider it  necessary  to  explain  mat­
ters in regard to enforcing the  law, nor how 
the Pharmacy Board  shall be  elected  and 
their duties, etc. 

.

Every druggist who has had not  less than 
ten years’ practical experience in  the  retail 
drug trade is  eligible as  a  member  of  the 
Pharmacy Board, which shall consist of  live 
druggists.

Under the  provisions of  the  bill  every 
druggist  who  is in  business  for  himself, 
when the bill  becomes a  law, or  who  has 
had five years’ practical experience,  will  be 
registered without examination by the above

named Board, when  organized.  Such  per­
sons can engage or re-engage  in  business in 
the State at any time they choose, as long as 
they comply with the law in regard to annu­
al registration.

Every clerk who has had no less than two 
years’ practical experience is entitled to reg­
istration without  examination as a register­
ed assistant, but he cannot  engage  in  busi­
ness on his own account without passing the 
examination before the  Board, neither  can 
any one else excepting the druggists in busi­
ness and those who have had five  years’ ex­
perience,  when the  bill  becomes  a law, or 
who employ a registered  pharmacist or a li­
centiate in pharmacy to conduct  such  busi­
ness.

The bill  is a just one and should pass.  Its 
provisions are simple and effective, and will 
elevate the  standard  of  pharmacy  in  the 
State, making us more competent and better 
druggists.  Ohio,  Illinois,  Wisconsin  and 
Iowa, in our immediate neighborhood,  have 
similar laws, and it is nothing  but an act of 
justice to us for the Legislature to  pass  the 
bill,  and thus prevent this incompetent over­
flow that cannot settle in other  States  from 
settling here, and imposing upon the  public 
and upon us.  Should the bill become a law, 
due and timely notice will be given.

Respectfully, 

J acob J esson,

Secretary M. S. P. A., Muskegon Mich.
P. S.—Any druggist who  is not a member 
of the Michigan State  Pharmaceutical Asso­
ciation, who may  desire a copy  of  the pro­
ceedings of the second  annual  meeting, can 
be supplied about March 1,1885, by address­
ing the  Secretary.

Com m ercial Depression.

From the Wall Street News.

A commercial traveler started  out  to  call 
on a certain  dealer in a  town in  Michigan, 
but found the store closed and  the  man sit­
ting across the street on a pile of lumber.

“Why, what does this mean?”  asked  the 

“Vhell, dot sthore was  glosed  up,”  was 

traveler.

the reply.

“What has happened?”
“Vhell, I put a  shattle-mortgage  ou  der 
sthock, und assign to  my brudder, und I gif 
a note und  secure it  for  $500, und I haf a 
fire und doan’t get some  insurance, und  der 
sheriff walk in und I walks  oud, und  I sup 
pose it vhas vhat you  galls  commercial  de­
pression.”

The D rug M arket.

Business has been  fairly good during  the 
past week, and a still further 
improvement 
is noted in collections.  Prices have  remain­
ed about steady in  all  the  staple  articles, 
several unimportant changes being  noted in 
]he  Price Current.

Every druggist should  make it a  point to 
make good use of the blank Legislative peti­
tions now being sent  out  by the  Secretary 
of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical  Asso­
ciation.  Those who fail to receive them and 
feel kindly toward  the  proposed  bill—and 
where is the druggist who does not?—can be 
accomodated by applying  to  Jacob  Jesson, 
Muskegon.  Let there  be  concerted  action 
all over the  State, with a view  to  deluging 
the Legislature with  petitions  praying  for 
the passage of the pharmacy bill.
VISITING  BUYERS.

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

land.

Rapids.

Holland & Ives, Rockford.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
Dr. John Graves,  Wayland.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Dr. H. S. Baron, Forest Grove.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
J. Van Putten, J.  Van  Putten  &  Sons,  Hol­
E. C. Whitney, Middleville.
Stephen Biteley, Pierson.
Mr. Thompson, Gascoigne &  Thompson,  Big 
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
C.  Cole, Ada.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
T. W. Preston, Lowell.
W. J. Woodruff, Copley.
G. A. Estes, Tustin.
S. T. McLellan, Denison.
Mr. Walling, Walling Bros., Lamont.
C. Durkee, Altona.
J. Meijering, Nordeloos.
Mr. Wolff, Wolff & Fulton, Otsego.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
John Van Eenaan, Zeeland.
N. Bouma, Fisher, Station.
A. B. Foot,  Hilliards.
J. C. Benbow, Canuonsburg.
D. Vinton,  Williamsburg.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
F. J. Fox, Coopersville.
K. L. Kinney, Maple Hill.
Wm. H. Hooper, Hooper Station.
C. L. Bostwick, C. O.  Bostwick  &  Son,  Can- 
Jos. Spires, Leroy.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
J. E Mailhot, West Troy.
Henry Marsh, buyer for  John  Canfield,  Ho­
McLeod & Trautm an Bros., Moline.
Wilson & Marshall, Nashville.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
S. Cooper,  Parmalee.
Jas. Barnes,  Austeriitz.
A. M. Church,  Sparta.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.
E. C. Foote, West Carlyle.
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
Mr. Despres, 6f Despres &  Montague,  Trav­
Thys. Stadt, Spring Lake.
E.  S. Fitch, Wayland.
Mr, Patrick, Patrick & Co., Leroy.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
G. A. Estes. Tustin.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville. 
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
Mr. Walbrink. I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
S. E. Faxton,  Ada.
W alter Struik, Forest Grove.
Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar  Springs.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
A. G. Chase, Ada.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
Geo. Stevens, Alpine.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.

•

nonsburg.

bart.

erse City.

FURNITURE  BUYERS.

City.

Mr.  Orrison,  North,  Orrison  &  Co., Kansas 
Mr. Wirts, Wirts & Scolle, Chicago.
C. A. Hernden, Cleveland.
Mr. Hull, Hull & Co., Scranton, Pa.
Knapp & Stoddard,  Chicago.
A1 Leibenstein, buyer for Spiegel & Co.,  Chi­

cago.

Readers of this paper who  avail  themselves 
of the information obtained from its columns, 
by advertisement or otherwise,  are  requested 
to notify their correspondents of the source of 
their Information.

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................ 
F ir......................................................
P eru ................................................... 
T olu................................................... 

BA RK S.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 30c)............ 
Cinchona,  yellow..........................  
Elm,  select.......................................  
Elm, ground, pure..........................  
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
Sassafras, of root............................ 
Wild Cherry, select......................... 
Bayberry  powdered....................... 
Hemlock powdered......................... 
W ahoo.............................................. 
Soap  ground....................................  

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 80c)..............  
@  75
Ju n ip er............................................. 
Prickly A sh......................................  50  @ 60

6  @

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 35 ft boxes, 35c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (13 and 35 fl> doxes). 
Logwood, Is (35 ft  boxes)............... 
............... 
Lgowood, 14s 
do 
Logwood, 14s 
do 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............  
Fluid Extracts—35 ^  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................   10  @  11
Chamomile,  Rom an....................... 
35
Chamomile,  Germ an.....................  
35

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60©  75
17
Aloes, Cape (Powd  34c)..................  
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)......... 
50
38®  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, extra  select....................... 
60
60
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................  
50
|0  ,
Arabic,3d  picked............................ 
30
Arabic, sifted sorts........................  
35
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
,  55@00
19®  32
Camphor........................................... 
13
Catechu. Is (14 14c, 14s  16c)............ 
3a@  40
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained......................... 
....80
90®1 00
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
30
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
Mastic...............•............................
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
4 10
Opium, pure (Powd $5.75)............... 
30
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
Shellac,  English.............................. 
26
Shellac,  native................................. 
34
_   30
Shellac bleached.............................. 
T ragacanth......................................  30  @1  00

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H oarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia.........................................................••••25
Pepperm int................................... 
25
Rue..................................................................--40
Spearm int........................................................ 34
Sweet Majoram................................................ 35
T anzy.................................................................25
T hym e...............................................................30
W ormwood.......................................................25

 

IR O N .

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

LEA VES.

6  40
30
7
80
65

Buchu, short (Powd 35c)................   13  ®  14
Sage, Italian, bulk (J4s & 14s, 13c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  30
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
33
Senna tm nivelli...............................  
16
Uva  U rsi....................................... 
10
Belledonna.......................... ............ 
35
30
Foxglove........................................... 
H enbane..................... 
 
35
Rose, red........................................... 
3 35

 

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.3  00  @3 35
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.............. 1 75  @3 00
Whisky, other brands................... 1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom....................................1 35  @1  75
Gin,  Holland....................................3 00  @3 50
B randy............................................. 175 
Catawba  W ines............. .................1 35  @3 00
Port Wines...................................... 135  @3 50

®6 50

M AGNESIA.

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

22
37
2  35
65

 

O IL S .

 

 

 

 

Almond, sweet.................................  45  @ 50
Amber,  rectified.............................. 
45
Anise.................................................  
1  85
Bay $   oz.........................................  
50
2  00
Bergamont.......................................  
Castor................................................  18  @ 1914
2 00
Croton.................................. 
C ajeput............................................  
75
1  00
C assia................................................ 
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
35
Citronella........................................ 
75
1  20
Cloves................................................ 
Cod Liver,  filtered................ $  gal 
1 50
3 50
Cod Liver, best......................... 
6 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Cubebs, P. & W ...............................  
5  00
1  60
E rigeron........................................... 
Fireweed.......................  
2 00
Geranium 
oz...............................  
75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
35
Juniper wood..................................  
50
2  00
Juniper berries...............................  
2 01
Lavender flowers, French........... 
100
Lavender garden 
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
Lemon, new  crop............................ 
1  40
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ....................... 
1  50
Lemongrass...................................... 
80
Olive, Malaga.................... 
®1 20
2  75
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
1 35
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
1  40
Pennyroyal...................................... 
Peppermint,  w hite......................... 
4 00
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
8 50
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50) 
65
S alad.................................................   65  @ 67
1  00
Savin.................................... 
Sandal  Wood, German..................  
4  50
Sandal Wood, W. 1..........................  
7  00
Sassafras........................................... 
60
Spearm int...........................  
@7 00
 
T an sy ............................................... 4  00  @4 60
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10  @ 13
W intergreen................................. 
2  20
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.50)....... 
4  00
W orm seed........................................ 
2 50

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Bicromate.................................$ f t  
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 33c).............  
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow.............................. 

ROOTS.

14
34
19
2  90
28

 

A lkanet............................................  
20
25
Althea, c u t........................................ 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 54s and 14s__  
Blood (Powd 18c)............................. 
13
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
36
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, pbwdered..................  
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)... >..................  
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13  ® 14
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached...........  
17
Golden Seal (Powd 30c).................. 
25
18
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
1  10
36
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
Licorice,  select (Powd 1214)........  
13
Licorice, extra select.....................  
15
Pink, tru e ........ ...............................  
35
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................110  @1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes............. 
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers................. 
2 25

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS 
& CO.
Druggists !

W h o lesale

*

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

i n s , Ctaical 
Paints, Oils, Varnishes

• « « « U V « )

,  WAAMJ 

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

in g , Ma n u fa ctu rers  o f  F in e 

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

B rushes.

—Also for the—

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

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

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  n ew   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  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

tmat

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

WithersDade&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 th er  know n  b r a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t ee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

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

(jins, BraMies & 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 appeal’ on the list such 
as Patent Medicines, etc.,  we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAZELTINE. PERKINS & GO

The  G ripsack  Brigade.

Wm. A. Morse, with Barlow Bros., has re­

turned from a three weeks’ northern trip.

Will White,  of Thompson, Taylor  &  Co., 
Chicago, interviewed  the  jobbing  trade  at 
this market, on Monday.

Scott Thompson, of the  Detroit. Soap Co., 
favored Grand Rapids with a visit last week, 
and introduced a new soap,  the “Mascot.” 
□Allen  Hilfiorn,  for  the  past  eighteen 
months traveling salesman for the McIntyre 
&  Goodsell  Piano  Co.,  is now on the road 
for the Chase Bros. Piano Co.

J. Bradley  Watkins,  formerly  traveling 
agent for the  Luther  &  Sumner  Furniture 
Co., lias gone to New Orleans to  look  after 
Nelson, Matter & Co.’s exhibit.
□ Ed. Frick, for the  past |five  years  with 
Shields,  Bulkley &  Lemon,  has  . engaged 
with Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, covering 
nearly the same territory as formerly.

L. W. Atkins was in Detroit last week ar­
ranging his spring samples, and  started  out 
for the first time this  week, taking  in  the 
Saginaw Yalley and the Huron peninsula.

D. E. Spencer, one of the incorporators  of 
the now defunct Novelty Furniture Co., and 
president of that corporation, is, at  present, 
acting as foreman of the Minneapolis Furni­
ture Co., at Minneapolis, Minn.

Wm. II. Rouse claims to he the first salar­
ied man who went out of this market with a 
line of  furniture.  He went on the  road for 
the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co.—then Ber- 
key Bros. & Co.—in the fall of 1869.

Fred.  Selleck, of the American Eagle  To-*- 
bacco Co., Detroit, T. B. Tlnelkeld, of Weis- 
singer & Bate, Louisville, and Wm.H. Hamil­
ton,of the Chas. W. Allen Co., Chicago, spent 
several days at this market last week.

J. H. Hagy, sundry  salesman  for  Hazel- 
tine, Perkins & Co., left yesterday for an ex­
tended trip in the interest of that house, tak­
ing  in  the  principal  points  in  Wisconsin, 
Minnesota, Nebraska,  Illinois  and  Indiana,
The Whitehall Forum thus describes a re­
cent occurrence at that place; A team hitched 
to Johnson’s ’bus ran away, at the Whitehall 
depot, Monday night, and the air was full qf 
“grips” and drummers.  The team rah sever­
al blocks, was captured, brought  back,  and,. 
after the drummers and pieces of  drummers, 
had  been  properly  assorted,  the  roll  was 
called and the load was safely transported up 
town.

The  regular  monthly  meeting  of  Post  A 
was held at T h e T radesm an  office  Satur­
day evening,  the  following  representatives 
of the fraternity being in attendance:  Prest 
ident  Logie,  Secretary  Atkins,  L.  Max 
Mills,  Jas.  N.  Bradford,  W.  G. Hawkins, 
Geo.  II.  Seymour  and  W. II.  Downs.  As 
there was not a quorum present, no business 
was transacted.  The next|p-egular  meeting 
will be held on Saturday  evening, February 
28.

Plainwell is blessed with her full quota of. 
traveling men, no less  than  six  representa­
tives of the fraternity having homes  at  that 
place.  Their names and houses are  as  fol­
lows:  C. B. Lamb, Daggett, Bassett & Hills 
Co.,  boots  and  shoes,  Chicago;  Frank  C. 
Adams,  Adams  &  Ford,  boots  and  shoes, 
Cleveland;  “Al.”  Winters,  Bailey  &  C o./ 
dry  goods,  Philadelphia;  •  Chas.  Barton,. 
Champion Reaper and  Mower Co., Chicago;:: 
J. A.  Siddell, Spring Tooth Harrow  Works,. 
Kalamazoo; J.H.Stirling, American WhipCo., 
Westfield,  Mass.  The Plainwell  “boys” are 
all  good-looking,  big-hearted  fellows,, and 
are alleged to enjoy  themselves  immensely 
in their quiet village homes.

“Ask  Frank  Adams if  the  walking  is, 
good?” said a well-kuown Plainwell traveler 
to a reporter of T h e  T ra desm a n the  other 
day.  When asked  to  explain  himself, the 
gentleman  replied:  “You  see  the  Lake. 
Shore  people  compel a  man  to  sign  his 
thousand mile ticket and insist upon  taking 
it up if the proper  signature is not  affixed,. 
Frank started down to his house  at  Cleye- . 
land a couple of weeks ago, but the conduct­
or on the train from White Pigeon to Toledo • 
took up the ticket, giving him  a  receipt  for, 
the same.  Frank thought he could go on to . 
Cleveland on  the  receipt, but  they thought 
differently and put him  off  at a way station. , 
just the other side  of  Toledo.  The  record 
he made on his way back to  Toledo  is  said* 
to throw  Weston, and  other  noted  pedes­
trians, entirely  in  the  shade.

Dr. J. B. Evans is not  only  a  playwright 
of no mean ability, but he is an  expert  sur­
gical operator as well.  During a recent visit 
to Bonanza—which place seems to be  rathe? 
more than usually fruitful in  episodes  and 
escapades incident  to the traveling fraterni­
ty-—Evans entertained his  friend  Miner at 
dinner by reciting  portions  from  his  new 
comedy,  and so convulsed  the 
latter  with.. 
laughter  that  he  swallowed  a  toothpick, 
which lodged in his  throat, and  came  near 
causing complete  suffocation.  A  physician  , 
was promptly,  summonded,  but Dr.  Evans 
proved to be equal to the  occasion,  and  suc­
ceeded in relieving the  sufferer  before  the 
arrival of the doctor.  And now  the  people 
of Bonanza are petitioning the genial  Dr. to 
give up the road, and relinquish all hopes of  , 
histrionic fame, in order that he may take up 
his residence among them, and devote the re­
mainder of his days  to the relief of  the suf­
fering and decrepit.

W hy  He  Saw  Them .

“Mrs. Nip,  there  are  some  things  in  wo­

man nature that I do not understand.”

“Ah?”
“Yes.  Now, for instance, why is it  I   al­
ways  see  more  woman  on  the  street  on 
muddy  and  rainy  days  than  at  any other 
time?”

“I suppose, Mr. Tuck,  it  is  because  you 

keep closer watch for them.”

A Yirginia walnut tree  was  recently sold1 
for $600.  It was so big the purchasers  made- 
money.

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

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Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22) $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne  Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto  1 ft roils............................
Alum ........................................  ^  n>
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prim e...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  .
...............................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds......................................
Calomel.  American.........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lum p..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform ......................................
Cinchonidia, P. & W ........ *............
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  B utter........ .............. ..........
Copperas (by bèl  lc).......................
Cortosive Sublimate.......................
Corli, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prim e...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
D extrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass......................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s .................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, f resh......................................
Etner, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  white......................................
Grains /Paradise.............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine, French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................
Glue,white.............   .......................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  54s and J4s..............................
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian...
Iodine,  résublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (54s 2s 10c & J4s 11c)
Lupuline....................... ...................
Lycopodium.....................................
Mace ..................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F .....................................
M ercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ w oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................ft
Moss,  Irish....................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls..........................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, 34d ...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.................:..
Pepsin................................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Q uassia.............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W ........... ft ozi
Quinine,  German..........................   l
Red  Precipitate.......................$  ft
Seidlitz  M ixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst..................
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  c ry st....................
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
Soap, White Castile.........................
Soap, Green  do 
.........................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour...................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 54 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin ...............
Turpentine,  Venice................ <gt ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................
Capitol  Cylinder.................................
Model  Cylinder...................................
Shields  Cylinder.................................
Eldorado Engine.................................
Peerless  Machinery..........................
Challenge Machinery.........................
Backus Fine Engine..........................
Black Diamond Machinery...............
Castor Machine  Oil............................
Paraffine, 25  deg.................................
Paraffine, 28  deg.................................
Sperm, winter bleached....................
Whale, w inter.....................................
Lard, extra.........................................
Lard, No.  1 .......................................
Linseed, pure  raw ............................
Linseed, boiled..................................
Neat’s Foot, w inter  strained...........
Spirits Turpentine.............................
No. lT u rp   Coach...............................
E xtra  T urp.........................................
Coach  Body........................................
No. 1 Turp Furniture....................... .
E xtra Turp  Dam ar............................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 T urp................
Bbl
Red Venetian............................  134
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  1%
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  13£
Putty, com m ercial..................  234
Putty, strictly pure..................   2)4
Vermilion, prime A m erican..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly p ure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.......  .
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................
White, Paris Am erican...........
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Paints  .... 
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints..

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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  F ean tits, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Fee- 
cans,  W alnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

J E 3 S T l T I 3 S r C 3 - S ’ 

HANDKERCHIEF  PERFUMES!

T H X F I jE  

e x t r a c t s ,

S-pecia.1  Odors,

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

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

i 

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

Perfumers.

Grana Rapito, l i â

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

Jennings and S m ith
RINDGrE, b e r t s c h  & CO.,

Oranges
Oysters
Putnam
Choice Butter a Specialty !  New Dark “American  Eagle” .

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.

Brooks.

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

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

OHEW  THE

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

AITS

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

j

A. MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A. STOWE  & BEO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
t Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapid*  a« 

Second-class M atter.1

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  4,  1885.

The  Dying  D rum m er’s  Song.
Like a log of drift-wood 
Tossed on the watery main, 
Another log encounters,
Meets and parts again.
Thus ’tis with drummers ever 
On life's unresting sea;
We meet and greet and sever, 
Drifting—eternally.
Then why not treat ns kindly, 
You men of wealth and lore. 
For soon we’ll meet and sever,
To meet again once more. 
For we in God’s own kingdom 
His song of praise will  hum, 
And thank our Heavenly father, 
No merchants there to drum.

/ 

H eating  Down  in Trade.

The manufacturers or merchants who suc­
ceed in building up a stable  business and in 
realizing the most profits, ask one  fair  price 
for each class of their  goods, and  firmly re­
fuse to lower it.  The customers who  make 
the best bargains are  willing to  pay  for an 
article  what it is worth.  These are  truths 
which close and  intelligent observation  al­
ways confirms.  Yet there are  some  manu­
facturers and merchants who rather than lose 
a stubborn customer, will  sell an article  for 
almost what it cost;  and there are customers 
who invariably higgle for a  lower  price, ev­
en if goods are at first  offered  them at rea­
sonable rates.  The seller who  begins to oc­
casionally “knock  off  a  little”  on  regular 
prices, having  shown  himself  vulnerable, 
will be  continually  tormented  by  cunning 
and mean customers  until  he  yields  again 
and again, to the  serious  detriment  of  his 
business; and only by a decisive return  and 
a continuing adhesion to a  one-price  basis, 
can he recover his former  prestige.  Buyers 
who invariably try to “beat down” on prices 
wherever  they  may go to  trade,  although 
they can occasionally get a good thing cheap, 
•only accomplish their  purpose  by  showing 
that  they  have no self-respect;  and, more­
over, in most places which  they  enter, they 
expend their breath in vain; for care is taken 
that they are  never  given  a  single  cent’s 
worth more than is their  just  due.  On the 
contrary, reasonable customers, who  do  not 
complain for a fair price, will be the favored 
ones, and will frequently have  thrown  into 
their bargains flprtain little extras  and  con­
veniences, so that they  will  be  sure of ob­
taining their  full  money’s  worth.  Justice, 
clear and simple, and  business  stability, re­
quire that goods and articles of all kinds of­
fered in regular sale be  always  disposed of 
at their legitimate market  value.  Whoever 
succeeds, under such  circumstances, in  get­
ting anything for almost what it cost, knows 
that he is defrauding  some  one  out of  his 
.just due, and the seller who yields to the im­
position  knows that he is sacrificing his own 
sacred  rights, as well as strict business hon-

How Ladies Make T heir Lips Red.

“So far as my own experience goes,”  said 
a well-known local physician,  “painting  the 
lips is not  a  wide-spread  vice  in  America.
It is seldom resorted to, for  persons  of  the 
smallest  observation  know  the  methods 
which ladies  pursue  for  making  their  lips 
red.

“What do you mean?”
“They bite them.  It is impossible to  see 
women in a car—or anywhere, when  gentle­
men are around—that they do not continual­
ly press them with their teeth, or bite  them 
with more  or  less  fierceness.  This  brings 
the  blood  to  them  and  makes  them  red. 
Still, as it also keeps them from chapping in 
the winter, there is no reason why it  should 
be condemned.  As for cosmetics, they have 
almost gone out of date,  and  have  not  any­
thing like the run they used to have.  Wom 
en have learned,  at  last,  that  good  health 
brings good color, and exercise has  taken the 
place of powder and paint.

B anking Intelligence.

He wanted a position in a bank. The pres­
ident was satisfied with his  credentials, but 
before engaging him put him through a little 
civil service cross examination.

“Suppose now, a man wras to come in here 
to deposit twenty dollars in one dollar  bills, 
how would you count them?”

“I’d wet my finger and lift  up  each  bill 

until I got to the last one.”

“Why would you  not  lift  up  the  last 

one.”

“Because there might  possibly  be one or 
more bills under it, and if the depositor was 
to see it lie  would  want it back, but if  the 
twentieth bill is  not  lifted  up  and  there 
should be another bill in  the  pile  the  bank 
makes it, don’t you see.”

“You will do,” said  the  bank  president. 
“You have been in the  business  before, but 
I didn’t suppose you knew that trick.”

W hat Moses Did.

From the Merchant Traveler.

The  clerks at Moses  Rabbenstein’s  were 
making up a box of  old  clothes  to give to a 
certain poor mission.

“I’ll put in a coat,” said.one.
“I’ll put in a pair of  shoes,”  said anoth-

er.

“I’ll put in a pair of pants,”
Finally, they reached Moses.
“What will you put in, Mr. liabbenstein?” 

said a third.

asked the bookkeeper.

“Veil, poys, dimes ish  pooty hart vid me, 
unt eef eet’.ish  all  der  shame  to  you, I’ll 
yoost pud in der bilL”

(Boobs.

WIDE BROW N COTTONS.

CHECKS.

SID ESIA S

OSNABURG.

BLEACHED COTTONS

f i n e  b r o w n   c o t t o n s  

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  734
Laconia  B, 7-4.........1634
Lyman B, 40-in.......1014
Ma6S. BB, 4-4..........  534
Nashua  E,  40-in--- 834
Nashua  R,  4-4......   734
Nashua 0,7-8..........  634
Newmarket N ------   634
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   734 
Pepperell  0,7-8—   634 
Pepperell  N, 3-4....  634
Pocasset  C, 4-4.........0%
Saranac  R ...............  734
Saranac  E ...............   9

Pepperell, 104....... 25
Peppere.ll, 11-4....... 27 34
Pequot,  74............. 18
Pequot,  8-4.............21
Pequot,  9-4.............24
Park Mills, No. 90. .14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis A pron.............1034
Otis  F urniture.....10%
York,  1  oz.............10
York, AA, extra oz. 14
Alabama  plaid.......7
Augusta plaid........ 7
Toledo plaid............  7
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid........... 634
Greene, G. 4-4........   534
Hill, 4-4...................   734
Hill, 7-8....................  8%
Hope,  4-4.................. 634
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4.................1114
Linwood,  4-4..........  734
Lonsdale,  4-4..........  7%
Lonsdale  cambric. 1034 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  934
Langdon.  45.......r.,14
Mason ville,  4-4.........8
Maxwell. 4-4............  9V4
New York Mill, 4-4.10V4 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .11 
Pocahontas,  4-4—   734
Slaterville, 7-8........   6V4
Victoria, AA............9
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 534
Whitinsville,  4-4...  714 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   614
W amsutta, 4-4.........1014
Williams ville,  36... 1014

Androscoggin, 94. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4....... 1634
Pepperell,  8-4....... 20
Pepperell,  9-4....... 2234
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X,oz.,.10
Economy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50..10 
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9%
Kentucky  brow n..10Vi 
Lewiston  brow n...  934
.......9 Vs
Lane brown 
Louisiana  plaid
Avondale,  36..........  8%
Art  cam brics,36...11 % 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8% 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .12%
Ballou, 4-4.  ...........   634
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott, 0.4-4............  814
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   i
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......9lA
Boott, R. 3-4........ .  5%
Blackstone, A^. 4-4.  7
Chapman, X, 4-4----6
Conway,  4-4............<
Cabot, 44...................634
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Canoe,  3-4.............  4
Domestic,  36............7H
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Davol, 4-4........ . 
9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  814 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  73a, 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........ 11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  634
Gold Medal, 7-8.........6
Gilded Age............... 8%
Mason villeTS...........8
Crown..................... 17
Masonville  S......... .1034
No.  10......................12K
Lonsdale...................914
Coin.........................I”
Lonsdale A ..............16
Anchor....................15
Nictory  O*............
Centennial.............
Victory J ................
B lackburn.............   8
Victory  D ...............
Davol.......................11
Victory  K .................234
London.................... 1234
Phoenix A ............... 1934
Paconia..................12
Phoenix  B .............   1034
Red  Cross...............10
Phoenix X X ............ 5
Social Im perial... .16
G loucester.............. 6
Albion, solid............534
Gloucestermourn’g .6 
Albion,  grey............6
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Allen’s  checks.........534
H artel fancy........... 6
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 514
Merrimac D.............6
Allen’s pink............ 6 Vs
M anchester.............6
Allen’s purple........ 634
Oriental  fancy........6
American, fancy— 534 
Oriental  robes........634
Arnold fancy.......... 6
Berlin solid..! ! '' i .!  534 ¡Pacific  robes............ 6
Cocheco  fancy........6 
| Richmond..................6
Steel River..............514
Coeheco robes..........634
Simpson’s ............... 6
Conestoga fancy— 6
Washington fancy.. 
Eddystone...............6
Washington  blues.  714
Eagle fancy............. 5
Garner pink............. 614
Appleton  A, 4-4—   734
Boott  M, 4-4........... 6%
Boston F, 4-4.......  <16
Continental C, 4-3..  634 
Continental D, 46 in  8%
ConestogaW ,4-4...  634 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  534 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4........   44
D w ig h t  Y, 7-8..........  c3£
Dwight Z, 4-4............6%
Dwight Star, 4-4—  7
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard  1-4 734
A m oskeag............. 714¡Renfrew, dress styl  7
'Johnson  Mantg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian 
Bookfold........ .  .1234
.1034
Johnson  Manfg Co,
B ates.........................'¡y*
dress  styles........ 1234
Berkshire.............   634
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles....................  734
Glasgow checks, f ’y 734 
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles........   8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston................  8
standard............... 734
Gordon......................734
P lu n k et..................  ”lA
Greylock, 
L ancaster...............  8
styles  ...................1234
Langdale
iPepperell.  10-4.......2734
Androscoggin 
Pepperell,  11-4.......3234
Androscoggin
Pequot,  7-4..............21
Pepperell,  7-4....... |
4 Pequot,  8-4............. 24
Pepperell,  8-4....... !
I Pequot,  9-4..............2734
Pepperell,  9-4....... '
>WN  COTTONS.
HEAVY  13
341 Lawrence XX, 4-4..  734 
Atlantic  A, 4-4... 
Lawrence  Y, 30—   7 
Atlantic  H, 4-4... 
34 Lawrence LL, 4-4...  534
Atlantic  D, 4-4... 
34 Newmarket N ........   634
Atlantic P, 4-4—  
34 Mystic River, 4-4...  534
Atlantic  LL, 4-4..
34 Pequot A, 4-4..........  734
Adriatic, 36........
34 Piedmont,  36..........  634
Augusta, 4-4.......
VI Stark AA, 4-4..........  734
Boott  M, 4-4.......
V ¡Tremont CC, 4-4----- 534
Boott  FF, 4-4----
34 Utica,  4-4.................. 9
Graniteville, 4-4. 
IWacbu8ett,  4-4.........734
Indian  Head, 4-4
634
Indiana Head 45-in.1234lWachusett, 30-in..
Amoskeag,  ACA.. .14  Falls, XXXX..........1834
Falls, XXX.............1534
“ 4-4.. 19
Amoskeag 
Falls,  BB................1134
Amoskeag,  A ......13
Falls,  BBC, 36........1934
Amoskeag,  B ......12
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C...... 11
Hamilton,  BT.32..12
Amoskeag.  D ......1034
Hamilton,  D ..........934
Amoskeag,  E ......10
Hamilton,  H ..........934
Amoskeag, F ..........  934
Hamilton  fancy.. .10
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Methuen AA.......... 1334
Premium  B ............16
Methuen ASA........ 18
Extra 4-4.................. J®
Omega A, 7-8..........11
Extra 7-8.................. 1434
Omega A, 4-4..........13
Gold Medal 4-4.........15
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
CCA 7-8.................... 1234
Omega ACA, 4-4— 16
CT 4-4........................11
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8........................H
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
BF 7-8........................16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF4-4....................... 19
Omega M, 4-4.......   .25
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 1134 
Cordis  ACA, 32.......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2............14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3— -••■J?  . 
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis No. 4............1134
Empire
G arner......................•>
W ashington............  4%
Hookset..................   5
Edwards..................  5
Red  Cross...............  5
S. S. & Sons............  5
Forest Grove
American  A ........18 OOiOld  Ironsides.........15
S tarkA ...................22341Wheatland...............21
DENIM S.
Boston 
63j£jOtis CC.................... 10%
Everett' blue......... 1334 W arren  AXA..........1234
Everett brown......133a, W arren  BB..............1134
Otis  AXA..............1234 W arren CC............... 1034
Otis BB...................11341 York  fancy..............1334
Manville..................6  ¡S.S.&Sons................. 6
Masgnville.............  6  IG arner......................6
Red  Cross...............  734¡Thistle Mills............
B erlin.....................   734 Rose.........................  8
G arn er....................   7341
B rooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30
A h n o ry ..................734
Androscoggin Bat..  8J4
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon...............634
Hallowell  Im p.......0%
Ind. Orch. Im p.......7
Laconia..................  734

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  ft  D aniels...25
M erricks................. 40
Stafford.................. 25
Hall ft M anning... .25 
Holyoke...................25
Kearsage.................
Naumkeagsatteen.  834 
Pepperell  bleached 834
Pepperell sa t..........934
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sa t..........  834
Conegosat...............  7

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

checks,
new

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

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

CORSET JE A N S .

SPO O L COTTON

G R A IN  BAGS.

TIC K IN G S. 

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........ . 

W IG A N S.

dress 

styles

,8-4.

_

K indness a t the  B ank.
“Did you drop that?”  was  the 

interroga 
tion put to a gentleman who had turned to 
side counter in the bank  recently to recount 
$2,000 which he had just drawn.  The  gen 
tleman turned to his  questioner,  who  point­
ed to a $5 bill lying on the floor near his feet. 
The gentleman naturally stooped  and  pick 
ed up the money. As he did so the kind stran 
ger helped  himself to  $1,500 of the  gentle­
man’s money.  The trick was old  bnt  was 
well worked.

Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Cranber­

ries, Cider, Buckwheat Flour, Etc.
Careful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.
M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
W 1  SEA R S & CO.

Cracker  Manufacturers,

A g e n t s  

f o r

AMBOY  CHEESE'

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

A R A B   PLU G !

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Tie Best ani Most Attractive Goods ■  1  ”  
Send for Sample
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S o l e   O w n e r s .

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices in Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

APPLESI

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

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169  S W a t e r   St.,  O l i i c a g o ,

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

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all  kinds  of

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Such as Letter, Note and Bill  Heads,  Statements,  Cards,  En 

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B rief Digests of Becent Decisions in Courts 

of tu s t  Resort.

teleph o n e company.

A telephone company  is  governed by the 
same principles of law as  are  applicable  to 
common carriers.  Its employment is public 
and  it  must  treat  all  the  public  alike 
alike—L. Transfer Co.  vs.  American  Dis­
trict Telegraph Co., Chancery Court of Louis­
ville, Ky.

U S U R Y .

In an action of  trespass to  try  title,  it is 
competent for the defendant, under  his plea 
of not guilty, to show that the trust  sale un­
der  which  the  plaintiff  claims  title, ¡was 
invalid by reason of usurious interest  stipu­
lated therein.—Watson  vs.  Aikin, Supreme 
Court of Texas.

R A II.R O A D   C O M P A N IE S — R IG H T   O F   W A Y  

U S E R .

An interesting decision,  to the  effect  that
the titles of the railroad companies  to  their
rights-of-way depend upon the  use of  those 
ways for railroad purposes,  has  just  been 
rendered by the New  York  Supreme Court. 
In 1862 the Troy & Boston Co.  bought,  dis­
mantled and abandon several miles tff  road­
bed, parallel  with its own line in Rensselaer 
county, N. Y., formerly  owned  by the  Al­
bany Northern Co. and its successors.  This 
real estate was  taken  possession  of  again 
without  hindrance  by  the  farmers  from 
whom it had been  originally  appropriated. 
Fifteen years later the Boston,  Hoosac Tun­
nel & Western Co. entered on the  old right- 
of-way,  and made it part  of  its  own  line, 
w'hich competes directly  with  the  Troy & 
Boston.  The Troy & Boston then sought to 
eject its rival, claiming at the same time $1,- 
000,000 damages on account  of  the  occupa­
tion of the property by the  Boston,  Hoosac 
Tunnel & Western Co.  After litigation, the 
complaint of the Troy & Boston Co. was dis­
missed on its merits, and  this  judgment  is 
now  affirmed  with  costs.  The  Boston, 
Hoosac Tunnel  &  Western  contended  that 
on the abandonment of the premises for rail­
road purposes the title reverted to  the  orig­
inal owners.  This doctrine  is  sustained by 
the Supreme Court, which thus  suggests, in 
liue with other couits, that there  are  some 
important differences between  railroad com­
panies and mere private corporations.

A R R IV E .

D E PA R T.

The Niagara,  Falls (Route.
tDetroit Express............. .............. . —  
:9? a 1
+Day  Express......................................... 
** m
»New York Fast Line............................  6:00 p m
+Atlantic Express.................................. 9:20 p m
»Pacific  Express.................................... 2£am
+Local  Passenger.................................. „  ~ am
•M ail........................................................3:20 p m
+Gx-and Rapids  Express.. . . . . . . ..........10:25<p m
+Daily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express. 
,
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening. 
Direct  and  prom pt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers. 
„
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New Yorkl0:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:25t>- m-

J. T. Schultz. Gen’l Agent.

•

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
........................................9:15 am
+Day  Express......................13:25 p m
»Night  Express..........................  9:35 p m
Mixed..............................- - • •  6:10 a m

Arrives, 
4:07 p m 
11:00 p m 
6:00 a m 
10:05 p m
»Daily.  +Daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
9:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

 

 

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed 
4:00 a m   5:15 pm
E x p re s s '............................... 3:16 p m  4:05 p m
Express 
.......................... 8:05 a m   11:15 am
All trains arrive and depart from Union De-
P The Northern term inus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made .with 
F. & P. M. trains to and  from  Ludington and
Manistee. 

„  

,

j .  h . C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

.......... . 

TCydi’gss 
Ma?i 

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrive. 
T:00 p m 
:..............9=35am 

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  atrain 

Leave.
7¡35 a m
4:00Pm
leaving  at  4 p. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on  Mam 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from  Chicago  to  New  York  and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:35  a. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket oflice 
67 Monre street and depot.

Through  tickets  and  berths 

J. W. McKenney, Gen’l Agent.

Invention of Gunpow der.

In a paper recently read before the Shang­
hai branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,  Dr. 
Maegowan affirms the claims of the  Chinese 
to be the originators of gunpowder and  fire­
arms.  This claim was examined in  an  ela­
borate paper some years ago by the late  Mr. 
Mayers, and decided by him in the negative. 
Dr.  Maegowan  admits  that  gunpowder  as 
now used is a European  invention.  Anteri­
or to its granulation by Schwartz,  it  was  a 
crude compound, of little  use  in  propelling 
missiles; this, says the writer, was the article 
first used in China.  The incendiary  materi­
als stated by a Greek historian to have  been 
employed by the  Hindoos  against  Alexan­
der’s army are stated  to  have  been  merely 
the naphthous or petroleum mixtures of  the 
ancient Coreans,  and in early times used  by 
the  Chinese.  The  “stink  pots,”  so  much 
used by Chinese pirates,  are,  it  appears,  a 
Cambodian invention.  Dr. Maegowan states 
also that as early as the twelfth or thirteenth 
century  the  Chinese  attempted  submarine 
warfare, contriving rude torpedoes  for  that 
purpose.  In the year 1000, an  inventor  ex­
hibited to the then Emperor of China “a fire- 
gun and a fire-bomb.”  He says  that  while 
the Chinese discovered the explosive  nature 
of nitre, sulphur and  charcoal  in  combina­
tion, they were laggards in  its  application, 
from their inability to  perfect  its  manufac 
ture; and so, in the use of firearms, failing to 
prosecute experiment, they are found behind 
in the matter of scientific gunnery.

W hat the R etailer Enjoys.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING  W EST.

GO ING EAST.Arrives.
tSteamhoat Express..........
•(■Through  Mail.....................10:15 a m
•(■Evening  E x p ress...........3:20pm
»Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........
■(•Morning  Express..............12:40 p m
•(■Through  Mail..................  5:10 pm
tSteamboat Express.......... 10:40 p m
■(■Mixed..................................._
»NightExpress....................   o:10am

Leaves. 
6:20 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:35 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:30 a m
12:55 p m 
5:15 p m
7:10 a m 
5:3t) a m
•(•Daily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.  . 
Train leaving  at  5:15  p.  m.  will  make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except
S^ e m ’ail has  a  Parlor  Car to  Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent. 
G e o . B. R e e v e , Traflic Manager, Chicago.

,

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING  SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m 
Ft. Wayne&Mackinac Ex  3:55 p m 
G’dRapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way i e E x.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

GOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves.
10:25 a m 
5:00 p m 
7:10a m
7:00 a m 
4:35 p m 
11:45 p m

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  Trainleaving at 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse
South—Train leaving at 4:35p. m. has  Wood­

ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

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

Detroit,  Maokinao  &  Marquette.

improved  .

B a k i n g
p o w d e r

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

GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

6. ROYS & CO

N o. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

-A N D -

GOING
WEST
Ac. I Ex.

STATIONS.

PM.
6 50 
3 08
1  10 
11 25
7 30

PM.I 
4 50! 
4 401 
3 30 
1 27 
12 00 
12 15! 
11 02 
AM.
8 30 
7  00
PM.
9 00 
AM.
9 35

Dep.

Ishpeming 
... Negaunee.. 
.. M arquette, 
. . . Reedsboro

Seney

...  Newbury

Dep....... St. Ignace__ Ar.
Ar.  Mackinaw City  Dep.
Dep.  Grand Rapids  Ar.

..........D etroit................I  3

GOING
EAST
Ac. I Ex.

AM.
7 30
11 05 
1 10
12 40 
2 40 
PM.
6 30

Connections made at  Marquette  and Negau­
nee with the M. H. & O. R. R. for the iron, gffid 
silver and copper districts; at Reedshoro  with 
a daily stage  line  for  Manistique;  at  Seney 
with tri-weekly stage for Grand  Marais; at St. 
Ignace with the M. C. and G. R.  & I.  Railways 
for all points east and south; also  daily  stage 
line to Sault St. Marie. 

.
F. M i l l i g a n , G. F. & P. A.

_   .  _  

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

1  05
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
90
Louisville Cemeni, per bbl.................. 
140
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......................  „  1  ™
Car lots.................................................... 1 Of® 1  ¿0
Plastering hair, per bu .........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl............................... ........ 
1 Jf
Land plaster, per to n ............................ 
3 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M...................................f25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell,  ear lots................................... 
Ohio Lump, car lots................... 
3  26@3 50
Blossburg or  Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00

COAL.

Having the customer of a competitor bring 
him a package to be reweighed to see if  the 
weight is correct.

Seeing the man who buys of him on credit 
spend his ready money at the  “cash  store.”
Having the small boy rush into  his  store 
when it is full of purchasers,  and  yell  out 
-“Ma says them eggs you sent her  yesterday 
■was all rotten.”

Being drawn on for a bill ten days  before 

it is due.

A fakir auction store next door to his own
Lending $5 to a customer until  next  pay 

•day.

Being told that the store around  the  cor 
ner sells sugar 1 cent per pound cheaper than 
he  does.

Having a farmer offer him the remnants of 
a load of truck leftover  after  an  all  day’s 
.peddling.

Contributing to church festivals.

Stopping  V ibrations.

In an  establishment  where  numbers  of 
sewing machines are  used  there  was  much 
annoyance from the ring and  singing of the 
machines  in  motion.  The  manager .raised 
them from the floor, and put slips of  rubber 
under the legs.  The device was useless, and 
bits of lead were substituted with no  relief. 
An intelligent mechanic was  called  in,  and 
he drilled holes in the legs,  and  even in the 
tables of the machines,  countersunk  them, 
introduced plugs of soft bar lead, and  rivet­
ed them in.  There were no  more  noisy  vi­
brations.  To determine the place of  the vi­
bration he used  an  ordinary  spirit  level in 
.an iron case, and holding it against  an  up­
right portion, as a leg, so  that  the  bubble 
was visable, he detected the vibration by the 
change in shape of the bubble.

®6

NEW  GOODS.  New 
Prices down to the whale­
bone.  Goods always sale­
able, and always reliable. 
Buy close and often.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED
E.  F A L L A S ,
ission-Batter  &  im  a

[lesale  &

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

125  and 127 Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Gurtiss, Dunton & Go.,

-FOR  SALE  BY-

-JOBBERS  OF

Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationery,  Ker­

osene and Machine Oils, Naptha and Gasoline.

51  and 53 Lyon Street 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

STEAICST  GOODS—NO  SCHEME.

C H  35

Satisfaction Guaranteed

All

infringe-
mèntspro-
secuted.
Ifnottobe 
had  from 
your local 
Hardware 
D e a le r, 
send  your 
orders  di­
rect  to
Torrance, Merriam & Co.,

CA/ji 

Manufacturers, 

- 

TROY. N . Y.

liiiid-erm an’s
OVE-TAILED  BREAD  AN' 
— MEAT BOARDS.-

The Best Thing of the Kind Ever Invented.

SU RE  TO  SELL.

A. T. Linderman, Manufacturer,  Whitehall, 

Michigan.

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

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
E 2ST C3-1 3 ST E

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

88,90  and 92  South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

Rose Leaf, Fine Cut 
Navy Clippings 
and Snuffs
jfysL

v S X  TRY

If in N eed of A nything  in  our  Line,  it j 

w ill pay you to get our Prices.

PA T E N T E E S  AND  SO LE  M ANUFACTURERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

Send fo r Samples and Circular.

GRAND  RAPIDS 

-   MICH. 

?

.

J o h n   Caulfield,

Sole  Agent.

-M anufacturers o f— OYSTERS

C. S. YALE &  BRO.,

BAKING  POWDERS,

B L U I S r a S ,   B T O . ,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,

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

MICH Putnam  &  Brooks.
BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
M O D E L
  M I L L S .
Gilt  Ete  Paw  ail  I K   Loaf  Braids  af  Flow.

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

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

Good Goods and Low Prices.  W e invite Correspondence.

F u ll  H oller  P rocess.

Corner  W in ter a nd W est Brid g e Sts., 

-  

Gra n d R a pid s,  Mich.

School Books

—AND-

School Stationery

-A T -

W  liolesale,

EATON,  LYON  S  AUEN

32* and  34  Canal  Street,

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

000 to 6,000,000  comprising  the  male 

000 houses will alone cause a dull time 

(Sroceries.

W HOLESALER VS. RETAINER.

tion.

A nother Side  of  the  M uch  Mooted  Ques­

W eldon  C r e e k ,  Mich., Feb.  2,  1885. 

To the Editor of “The Tradesman

D e a r  Sib —I  have been taking your paper 
for sometime, and  so  far I have  failed  to 
find one word  in  it  against  the 
innocent, 
honest,  obliging,  long-suffering,  slow-to-an- 
ger-wholesalers of Grand  Rapids  and  other 
cities. All the mistakes and wrong doings are 
credited to the retailer.  In answer to “Pen­
ny Wise,” in your last paper, I would like to 
ask you a few questions:

How would you like it if you were a small 
grocer, and honest, to have to  pay for sugar 
one cent per  pound  more  than  your  Big 
Lumber Co. neighbor,and see your customers 
go there for it

Pork to you, $13.75; Big Neighbor, $12.
Tea 
22c.

35c; 

“ 

“ 

and so on from one end to the other.

I have been in business six  years,  and if 
I ever came near  failing,  it  was  because  I 
had to buy more than I wanted  in  order  to 
get better prices.  By paying cash  for some­
things, I could get them cheap, and  sell  as 
low as the big neighbor, but was  compelled 
to let the other bills go 60 days.  I will not go 
into details of short  measure  and  damaged 
goods, but will say that the  wholesalers are 
on the right track  to  make  many  failures 
and dishonest merchants, and in my opinion, 
if ever there was a wholesaler  in  sympathy 
with the poor  honest  retailer,  he  is  dead. 
Special prices cm carloads is a death-knell to 
poor  retailers.  Take a look  at  their  bills 
and you can see the poor man every time by 
the size of the prices.  I say, and  say  what 
I believe, if we small  grocers  were  to  fail 
once a year and  pay ten  cents  on  a  dollar, 
we would be paying then  more than our big 
neighbor.

Do you think this harsh?  I do, but I  can 
prove that it is an honest fact.  I often send 
for prices on 100 barrel 
lots  and  compare 
them with the  prices I have  to  pay.  Mr. 
Editor, it is  enough  to  make a  dead  man 
groan to see the small fortune there is in the 
difference there is in a  few  hundred  barrel 
lots.  Truly, the rich are living on the poor, 
and at the same time put  the  small  dealer 
down as a smart Aleck if he trys  to  defend 
himself.

If you wish, you can put this in  your  pa­
per, and I will send you proof to back  wiiat 
I say, if any of those  innocents  go for this 
article. 

Yours  truly,

A  Subscribe«.

A   J O B B E R   S P E A R S .
Gra n d R a pid s, Feb. 2,1885.

To the Editor of The Tradesman:

De a r   Sin—Your  article  on  “Penny 
Wise” struck a familiar chord, but one  that 
should be played on much oftener than it is. 
It reminded me of an occurrence recently re­
ported to me by one of  our  travelers, 
lie 
visited one of our best customers, and in the 
course of the usual monthly settlement  was 
told he would have to allow him for five gal­
lons of oysters which spoiled  about  Christ­
mas time.  The proprietor  being  called out 
of the store shortly  afterward,  our  traveler 
asked the clerk—who had not heard the pre­
vious conversation—wThy he allowed five gal­
lons of oysters to spoil, and  was  told  that 
none  spoiled, but on the contrary  that  they 
sold all they bought and borrowed  five  gal­
lons besides!  We  don’t  run  across  such 
cases every day, but  they  are  by no means 
as rare as some people would imagine.

Then I recall a  certain  firm  np  around 
Manistee who are kicking  because  we sent 
a  telegraph  order  by  express, instead  of 
shipping by freight.  They  sent  in the  or­
der only  a  day  or  two  before  Christmas, 
when it was customery to ship everything in 
our line by express unless  otherwise  order­
ed, and are willing to allow themselves to be 
written down as “kickers”  for  the  pajtry 
sum of sixty cents.

It is not  unusual for us to  receive  exor­
bitant claims for shortage, and in nine cases 
out of ten we find on examination  that  the 
claims are baseless.

1 shall say something further  on this sub­

ject at some future time.

Yours,

V ictim ized J obber.

Rose  W ent to the  Store.

prise

“Apounds  of  jum ps!”  and  I  looked  in sur­
At little black Rose with her shining eyes.
“A pound of jumps!—my m other said,
A pound of jum ps,” and she nodded her  head.
“But,  my  dear,  we’ve  flour,  and  sugar  in 
And peanuts, but never a pound of jumps,
With  walnuts  and  chestnuts  and  corn  that 
“0 ,0 ! 1 forgot!  it’s a pounds of hops!”

pops—”

lumps,

TH E MATCH BUSINESS.

Less Used in W inter Than  in  the  Sum m er.
“How is business?” asked  a  reporter  for 
the  New  .York  M ail  and  Express  of  a 
wholesale dealer  in  Swedish  matches.  “I 
suppose you are very busy at this  time.”

“There you are mistaken,” was the  reply. 
“This is our dull season.  We do little or no 
business from December 1 to March 31.  The 
population of the United States is  stated  at 
about 55,000,000 persons.  Of these, only 20,- 
000,000 live  in  cities,  leaving  35,000,00  in 
country places.  During  the  summer  time, 
the men work in the fields, and,  when  they 
want to light a pipe,  they use a match.  Af­
ter work, they sit around in  groups  on  the 
fences until it is time to go  to  bed.  Those 
who smoke, light their pipes  with  matches, 
which they carry in their  pockets.  This  is 
not the case in winter.  The men either work 
about the farmhouse,  or  sit  around  in  the 
country store.  At  the  former  place,  they 
light their pipes with  a  hot  coal  from  the 
farmhouse fire, which  is kept alight all win­
ter with  a big back log, which is banked  up 
with ashes.  When at the store, the hot pok­
er, which is always kept in or near the stove, 
serves  to  light  innumerable  pipes.  These 
may seem to be small matters, but with from
5.000. 
portion  of  the  out-of-town  inhabitants, 
it 
makes considerable difference  in  regard  to 
the sale of matches.  Then again, there  are 
the farmers’  wives,  who  keep  fires  going 
night and day.  Now,  the non-use of, say, 10 
matches a day for four months,  in  perhaps
3.000. 
in the match business, for it will  amount  to
3.600.000. 000 matches,  to  say  nothing  of 
those not used by the men.  But country peo­
ple do not cause the only loss  in  the  trade, 
for there are less used among city people  in 
summer than in winter.

Millions of matches are  not  used  in  this 
way, and I could go on  repeating  instances 
that  would  account  for  the  fact  that  our 
trade, as well as others, has its season.

Tlie P ioneer O atm eal M anufacturer.
Ferdinand  Schumaker  is  known  as  the 
;  “oatmeal king.”  He  is a German and came 
! to this country thirty years ago.  He settled 
| in Akron,  Ohio, where  he is  to-day  one of 
! the leading and wealthiest men of the place.
| Twenty years ago he was  poor as  a  church 
! mouse.  In a  little  wooden  shanty  on  the 
! outskirts of the town  he  prepared  the  first 
| American  oatmeal  in an  iron  kettle.  He 
j  made it satisfactory to  himself,  and  obtain- 
I ing a small hand cart peddled it about  town 
gratis, asking the people  to  give  it  a  trial. 
They liked it and he started a small factory, 
doing all the  labor  himself.  His  business 
prospered.  Oatmeal  was a  new  article of 
diet.  Fifteen years ago it was impossible to 
obtain an order of oatmeal at the best  hotel 
in America.  To-day it is to be  found  upon 
every breakfast table in every civilized land. 
From that small  beginning  Schumaker  has 
built an enormous business.  He  owns half 
a dozen mills, two large grain  elevators and 
several warehouses, and employs  upward of 
a thousand men and  women.

M ichigan  D airy  Products  Shipped  East.
The following is a comparative  statement 
of  the  Merchant’s  Despatch  dairy  line 
tonnage passing through Detroit East-bound 
during the years 1883 and 1884:

In­

1884.

1883.
crease.
684 092 955 423 271 331
January.
730  700 486  767
February.
858 899 354  839
I March.
936 356 579  731
1  April.
819 028 315 471
May.
712 228 380 737
June.
679 982 300 355
| July.
562 404 498 122
1 August.
575 075 499 488
!  September.
849 826 571  782
1 October.
November. 1  126 416 995 834
j  December. 1  109 970 1  642 046

532 076

De­
crease.

243 833
504 060
356 625
503 557
331  491
379 627
64 285
75 587
278 044
130 582

The  Grocery M arket.

The gradual improvement in  trade during 
the past week, has been somewhat  marked, 
collections  having  also  improved.  Sugar! 
has taken a downward turn, and  is likely to 
go still lower, and raisins have also declined ! 
a trifle. The combination of oatmeal millers, j 
which now includes  every  concern in  the  j 
country, except four on  the  Pacific  coast, 
has put the price of oatmeal up again, which j 
shows that  extortion—and not protection— | 
was the object of the  pool.  Other  articles j 
in the grocery line have been about  steady. I 
Confectionery has been steady, fruits easy | 

and nuts firm.

Rubber can be united to a metal surface by j 
employing a cement of powdered shellac dis­
solved in ten times its own  weight  of  aqua I 
ammonia.  A paint of shellac prepared in the | 
tame way will prevent rubber gas-pipes from j 
permitting the gas to pass through the pores ! 
of the rubber.

Representative Baker, of Monroe,  has  in­
troduced a bill in the House  of  Representa­
tives prohibiting the  manufacture  and  sale 
of oleomargarine and butterine in this State.
A young clerk in a grocery store,
Woo was never on roller skates before,

Arose badly lamed,
And loudly exclaimed:

“Why the deuce don’t they cushion the floor?

Our greatest glory consists,  not  in  never 

failing, but in rising every time we fail.

9 644 976¡7 580 595 803  407 2 867  788
The decrease was owing to the depression 
of trade and the low prices east, as  compar­
ed with those of . other markets.

P ru n e  Nugget.

We would respectfully call your attention 
to  the  following  in regard to “Prime Nug­
get.”
1st.  Prune is  not only a  new, but  it is a 
different chew from anything  that has ever 
been manufactured.
2nd.  It is more delicious, and the leaf be­
ing of both fine and tough  fiber, lasts  much 
longer than any tobacco.
3d.  It is not only  novel  in style but is a 
most convenient pocket  piece.  Nor will it 
dry out and become hard.
4th.  While  it  has  nine  lumps  to  the 
pound, it  contains  less  of  heavy,  common 
sweetening  and  flavoring,  and  therefore 
there is more leaf to each lump  than  a  cut 
of any eight space sixteen ounce plug.
5th.  The leaf is the finest that can possi­
bly be grown;  the  flavoring  is  composed 
purely of light and  palatiye  fruits, contain­
ing no spices, and the  fruit  thus becomes a 
component part of the tobacco  when  manu­
factured.
6th.  The wrapper is so fine and  natural­
ly sweet, as well  as  so  closely  connected 
with the filler and fruit, that it can be chew­
ed without discovering it, as is the case with 
the bright wrapper.
7th.  You  will  observe  that  only  six 
“Nuggets” occupy the  space  usually given 
to eight spaces.
twelve 
pounds, and thus  any retailer can  afford to 
introduce it to his  trade.  The  tobacco  is 
bound to give satisfaction to any chewer.

8th.  The  packages  are  only 

For sale by jobbers in Grand Rapids.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Declined—Sugars, raisins.
Advanced—Oatmeal.

A X LE  GREASE.

 

 

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B L U IN G .

CA NN ED  F IS H .

CANNED F R U IT S .

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

1 00

CA NN ED V EG ETA BLES.

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

Frazfer’s .................... 80! P arag o n ......................GO
Diamond...................60 Paragon, 26 ft pails 1 20
Modoc....................... 55|
Arctic % ft cans__   451 Arctic  1 ft cans— 2 40
Arctic 54 ft cans__   75 Arctic 5 ft cans— 12  00
Arctic % ft cans.  .1  40|
25
Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
Dry, No. 3............................................doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz............................. 
doz. 65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross  4 00
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................   8 00
Arctic 16 oz.....................................................  12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box — .........................  2 00
“ 
 
 
Arctic No. 2 
3 00
Arctic No. 3 
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....................... .—   4 50
BROOMS.No. 2 H url... 
1  75 
No. 1 Carpet........... 2  50
Fancy Whisk 
No. 2 Carpet........... 2 25
Common Whisk.
No. 1  ParlorGem ..2  75
No. 1 H url...............2  00
Clams, 1 ft  standards................................... I 40
Clams, 2 ft  standards................................... 2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft......................... 
2 20
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards.....................1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  1 95
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack  filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled......................1 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic...................................... 1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r..........................................2 20
Lobsters, 2 ft sta r..........................................3  10
Mackerel, l f t   fresh  standards...................1  10
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards...................6 50  '
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft.................3 25
Mackerel,3 ft in M ustard.............................3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled...................................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river........................1 50
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river........................2 60
Salmon, l f t   Sacramento.............................1 35
Sardines, domestic %s.................................
Sardines,  domestic  %s.............................. 
13%
Sardines,  Mustard  % s .................................  13
Sardines,  imported  %s...............................   14%
Sardines, imported %s................................  20
Sardines, imported %s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  55
Trout. 3 ft  brook........................................  2  75
Apples, 3 ft standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, E rie............... 2 50
Blackberries, standards.............................. 1  05
Blackberries,  Erie........................................1 45
Cherries, Erie, red........................................ 1  30
Cherries, Erie,white w ax............................ 1 90
Cherries, French  Brandy, quarts..............2 50
Damsons.........................................................1  00
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1 40
Gooseberries, K raft’s B est......................... 1  00
Green Gages, standards 2 ft........................1 40
Green Gages,  E rie........................................1 50
Peaches,  Brandy..........................................3  10
Peaches, E xtra Yellow........................... ...2  40
Peaches, standards............................1  75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds..........................................1  50
Pie Peaches,  Kensett’s ................................1  10
Pineapples,  Erie........................................... 2 20
Pineapples, standards..................................1 70
Plumbs, Golden  Drop..................................2 85
Q uinces.......................................................... 1 45
Raspberries, Black,  E rie... ^ .................... 1 45
Raspberries, Red,  E rie................................1  35
Strawberries,  Erie........................................ 1 30
W hortleberries, McMurphy’s .....................1  40
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 60 P ears...................... 3 CO
Egg Plum s.............2  50 Quinces..................2  90
G rapes................... 2  50 Peaches  .................3 00
Green Gages......... 2 50
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................3 25
Beans, Lima.  E rie........................................1  20
Beans, String, E rie ......................................  90
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   80
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........ ............ 1 60
Corn, Erie................ 
1  15
Corn, Red  Seal............................................. 1  10
Corn,  Acme.................................... 
1  10
Corn, Revere.................................................1  25
Corn, Camden...............................................1  00
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case..............22 00
Peas, French, 100 in c a se ...........................23 00
Peas, Marrofat, standard.............................1  70
Peas, Beaver___ '.........................................  90
Peas, early small, sifted.............................. 1 80
Pumpkin, 3 ft Goiden.................................  1 00
Squash, E rie ..................................................1  25
Succotash, E rie.............................................1  20
Succotash, standard.....................................  90
.  1  00
Tomatoes, Red Seal__
B oston............ ..........36 German  Sweet .......,25
........23
Baker’s .......... ..........40 Vienna Sweet
22
Runkles’ ........ ..........35 French Sweet.
Green Rio....... . 11@14 Roasted M ex.. 17@20
G reenJava__ ,17@27 Ground  Rio... 9@17
Green Mocha.. .23@25 Arbuckle’s __ @14%
. 10@17 xxxx........ @14%
Roasted Rio..
,23®30 Dilworth’s __ @14%
Roasted Java
Roasted  M ar... 17@18 Levering’s __ @14%
RoastediMoch a . 28@30 Magnolia........ @14%
72 foot Jute ..
60foot Ju te ... ..  1  00
40Foot Cotton. ...1  50
Bloaters, Smoked Y annouth.....................   80
Cod, whole..................................................... 
4
Cod, Boneless................................................. 5@7%
Cod, pickled, %  bbls....................................3  50
H a lib u t..........................................................  13
Herring %  bbls.................................. ......... 2  35
Herring,  Scaled.............................................20@21
Herring,  Holland.........................................  75
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls............................... 5 50
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  k its..........................   90
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  %  bbls................   4  00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kijts.......................  65
Shad, % b b l..................... .'...........................2 50
Trout, No.  1, %  bbls.................................... 4 25
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.................................  85
White, No. 1, % b b ls....................................6 75
White, Family, % bbls.................................3 00
White, No. 1,10 ft k its.................................  95
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.................................1  00
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
2 50
4  00
5 00
1 50
3 00
7 50
.................... .« (X) 15 00
4 25
6 00
@5
©7%
@8%
@16
@30
5@5%
13@14
@1 70
@5%
9@11
@ 9%
@12%
@2 90
@3 20
@3 80
@4 25
@1 50

Apples, Michigan...............................
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls................
Apples, Dried, evap., box..................
Cherries, dried,  pitted.......................
C itron...................................................
C urrants..............................................
Peaches, dried  ...................................
Pineapples,  standards.....................
Prunes, Turkey, new.........................
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes.............
Raisins, Valencias..............................
Raisins,  Ondaras...............................
Raisins,  Sultanas............................... ..  9 @10
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels................
Raisins, London Layers....................
Raisins, Imperial Cabinets...............
Raisins, Dehesias...............................
Raisins, Dehesias, % boxes.............
| Legal  Test.
W ater White...... 13 

Jennings’2 oz............................$   doz.l 00
4oz...................................... 1  5ft
6 oz...................................... 2 5ft
8oz............................. ....... .3 5«
No. 2 Taper....................... .1  25
No.  4 
....................... .1 75
% pint  round.................... .4 50
1 
No.  8.................................. .3 00
No. 10................................. .4 25

..  1 25  160 foot Cotton.
50 foot Cotton.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

KEROSENE  OIL.

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..2  00
.1   75

CHOCOLATE.

FRUITS

CORDAGE.

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F IS H .

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M ATCHES.

Grand Haven,  No.  9, square............
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square............
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor........
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor........
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round............
Oshkosh, No.  2....................................
Oshkosh, No.  8....................................
Richardson’s No. 2  square...............
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
...............
...............
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
...............
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
.............

MOLASSES.

Black  Strap.........................................
Porto  Rico...........................................
New  Orleans,  good............................
New Orleans, choice..........................
New Orleans,  fancy..........................

% bbls. 4c extra.

..2 15
..1  65
..2 50
..3  75
..2 25
..1 10
..1 60
..  55
..2 70
..2 70
..1 70
..2 55
..1 75

. 14@16@18
28@30
38@42
48@50
52@55

OATM EAL.

Steel  c u t.................5  50
Steel Cut, % bbls...3 00 
Rolled  Oats........... 3 50

Quaker, 48 fts......... 2 25
Quaker, 60 fts......... 2 50
Quaker bbls............ 6 50

PIC K L E S.

do 

do 

Choicein barrels med................................ 
.5 50
......................................3 40
Choice in % 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy..........................4 25
Dingee’s pints 
__ •..................   2 40
American qt.  in Glass.................................... 2 00
American pt. in Glass..................................... 1 30
C. & B.  English quarts.......................................5 75
C. & B.  English pints......................................... 3 50
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  q uarts.. .5 75 
p in ts....3 50
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75

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P IP E S .

SALT.

SA LERA TUS.

2 40
2 30 
2 60
98 
1 60
1  55 
80
3 20 
80 
25 
28

Im ported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
American  T .D ..t...................................   @1  00
R IC E .
Good Carolina........6 
|Java  ..................6%@6%
Prime Carolina.......6% P a tn a ........................6
Choice Carolina.......7  Rangoon........... 6%@6%
G ood Louisian a ...... 5% | Broken......................3 %
DeLand’s pure........5% i Dwight’s ................... 5%
Church’s  ................ 5% Sea  Foam ................. 5%
Taylor’s  G. M......... 5% S., B. & L.’s Best___5%
Cap Sheaf................5%|
60 Pocket , F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
100 3 ft pockets.......................................
Saginaw F in e .........................................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, % bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Parisian, %  pints..................................
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, % pts.
Picadilly, % pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green.............................
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints.........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Horseradish,  % pints............................
Horseradish, pints.................................
Capers, French surflnes.......................
Capers, French surflnes, large...........
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Cb.’s __
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s ........
Olive Oil, % pints, Antonia & Co.’s __
Celery Salt,  Durkee’s..........................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, % pints.........................
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, sm all........
Preserved Ginger, Canton,,  pints.......
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........

SAUCES.

SOAP.

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“  Cameo................
“  M onday............
“  M ascot..............
“  Superior, 60 lft bars
Old Country, 80 bars, 80 fts.,  wrapped 
Old Country, 80 bars,80 fts.,unwrapped
Old Country, 801 ft bars.......................
Kirk’s American  F am ily..................
In d ia .........................................
Savon  .......................................
S atin et......................................
Revenue ..................................
White Russian.........................
Proctor & Gamble’s Iv o ry .................
do. 
Japan  O live........
Town Talk.............
do. 
do. 
Golden B ar___ <,...
Arab......................
do. 
do. 
Amber..................
do. 
Mottled German..

do. 
do.
do.
do.
do.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........
Badger............................................ 60 fts
G alvanic.................................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
Tip Top....................................... 3ft bar
Ward’s White Lily.................................
Handkerchief........................................
Babbitt’s ...............................................
Dish R a g ................................................
Bluing......................................................
Magnetic.................................................
New  French  Process............................
Spoon  ......................................................
Anti-Washboard....................................
V aterland................................................
Magic........................................................
Pittsburgh..............................................
Acme, 701 ft  bars..................................
Acme, 25 3 ft bars..................................
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................
Napkin, 25  bars......................................
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........
Master, 100-% ft c ak e s.......................
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.......................
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, w rapped...........
German Mottled, wrapped..................
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks.................
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks...........
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............
London Family, 4-ft bars 80  ft.............
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Nickel, 100 cakes, w rapped..................
Climax, 100 cakes,  wrapped................
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box
A 1  Floating, 60 cakes..........................

@2  00 
@5 00 
@3 00 
@1  00 
@  75 
@  90 
@1 35 
@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 
@1 25
@4 85 
@3 30 
@3 45 
@3 45 
@3 60 
@4 20 
@4  10 
@ 5% 
3 60 
3 30 
3 15 
3 30
3 15
4 85 

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 CO 
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

Ground. 

SPIC E S.

Whole.

STARCH.

@6%

6%
5
6
@4%@4%
@6
@7
@7
@6
@5%
@ 6%
@4%
@6%
@ 8
@8%
@6%
@6%
@4
@6%
@3%
@6
@7
@7
@4
...5 50
I dozen.......  50

P epper................ 16@25|Pepper.................   @19
Allspice...............12@15j Allspice................  8@10
Cinnamon........... 18©30' Cassia...................  @10
Cloves  ................ 15@25jNutmegs  .............60@65
G inger................ 16@20 Cloves
@18
M ustard...............15@30
C ayenne__ ____25@35l
Gilbert’s Gloss l f t ..................................
“  3 ft cartoons..................
“ 
“  crates...............................
“ 
“  b u lk ................................
“ 
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Corn, l f t .................................
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk.......
“  Laundry, bbls, 186  fts.............
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages.............
packages..........
“  Gloss,  36 3 
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate__
“ 
Corn, 401 ft  packages...........
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package..................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
Muzzy Corn l f t ......................................
Kingsford Silver Gloss.........................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box..........
Kingsford Corn......................................
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................
Piel’s Pearl..............................................
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................
10 oz  Gloss.............................................
3 ft  Gloss.................................................
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................
Table Corn....................................... 40 ft
Table  Corn..................:..................20  ft
Banner, bulk...........................................
STOVE PO L IS H .
Rising  Sun gross.. 5 881 Dixon’s  gross..
U niversal      ..........5 88| Above:
I X L ...........  ........5 50|
SUGARS.
Cut  Loaf...............  ............
@  7% 
C ubes..................................
@ 7% 
Pow dered............................
®  7 
Granulated,  Standard.......
@  6% @ 6% 
Granulated, Fine  Grain...
Confectionery A ................
@ 6% 
Standard A .......................
@ 6% 
Extra C, White....................
@ 5% 
E xtra C.................................
@ 5% 
Fine C..................................
@  5% 
Yellow C...............................
@ 5%
SY RUPS.
Corn,  Barrels....................... 
27
Corn, % bbls............................................  
29
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................   @  32
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 16
Corn, 4% gallon kegs.............................   @1 50
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  23@  35
Pure Sugar Drips.........................% bbl  30@  38
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @196
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............% bbl  @  85
Pure  Loaf Sugar'  ...............5tralkegs  @1 85

@6%
@6%

 

 

TEA S.

Japan  ordinary.............................................22@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
Japan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
Gun Powder................................................... 35@50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo............................................................. 25@30

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

State  Seal...................60
Brother Jon ath an ...32
Diamond  Crown....... 58
Rose Bud.................... 50
O.  K .............................45
Our  Bird.................... 30
Peaches  .................... 38
Red  Bird.................... 62
Opera Queen..............40
Sweet Rose.................45
Green  Back............... 38
F ru it...........................33
O So Sweet.................31
Prairie Flower.......... 65
Clim ber......................62
Indian Queen............60
Doak’s  50 center.......38
Huckelberry  ............ 30
Bull  Dog
60
H P  

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

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

PLU G .

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

Peeler, 5  cents...............................
@36 
Big Nig............................................
@38 
P ie ...................................................
@36 
Knights of  Labor..........................
@46 
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12.......................
@46 
Black B ear......................................
@37 
King 
@46 
Old Five Cent Times.....................
@38 
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft.....................
@62 
Parrot  ............................................
@46 
Old Tim e.........................................
@38 
Tramway.........................................
@46 
Big Sevens, dime cuts..................
@45 
Black Diamond.............................
@35 
Trotter, rum  flavor.......................
@70 
Boot  ................................................
. @44 
B. F. P.’s  Favorite.........................
@46 
Old K entucky.................................
@46 
Big Four,  2x12...............................
@46 
Big Four, 3x12.................................
@46 
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.............
@46 
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12.......................
@46 
Blackbird, 16 oz..  3x12..................
@35 
Seal of Grand Rapids........
@46
Glory  ......................................................  @46
D urham ........................
@48 
Silver  Coin....................
@50 
Buster  [Dark].............
@16 
Black Prince [Dark]...
@36 
Black Racer  [Dark]...
@36
Leggett & Myers’  Star
, __  
..........  @46
Clim ax....................................................   @46
Hold F a s t..................
@46 
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..................
@46 
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.
@51 
Cock of the Walff  6s.....................
@37 
Nobby Twist..................................
@46 
Nimrod............................................
@46 
A corn..............................................
@46 
C rescent.........................................
@44 
Black  X ..........................................
@35 
Black  Boss......................................
@40 
Spring.
@46
C rayling.................................................  @46
Mackinaw...
@45
Horse Shoe............................................
@44
Hair Lifter..............................................
@36
D. and D., black......................................
@36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................
@46
Ace  High, black....................................
@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 four butt lots. 

. 

SMOKING

30
National
..........26
T im e...........................26
Conqueror.................23
Grayling.................... 32
Seal Skin.................... 30
Rob Roy......................26
Uncle  Sam.................28
Lum berm an..............25
Railroad Boy..............36
Mountain Rose.......... 18
Home Comfort.......... 25
Old Rip....................... 55
Two Nickle.................25
Star Durham ..............25
Durham No. 2............55
Golden Flake Cabinet 40 
Seal of North Caro­
lina, 2  oz.................48
Seal of North Caro­
lina, 4oz...................46
Seal of North  Caro­
lina, 8oz.................. 41
Seal of North  Caro­
lina, 16 oz boxes___40
Big Deal......................27
A pplejack.................24
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Milwaukee  Prize__ 24
R attler........................28
Windsor cut plug__ 25
Zero  ...........................16
Holland Mixed...........16
Golden Age............... 75
Mail  Pouch............... 25
Knights of Lai o r__ 30
Free Cob Pipe............27
Honey Bee.................27
Durham,  S., B. & L. .24 
Dime  Durham .. ,25@26
Old T ar........................40
Golden Flake,cabinet40
............. 16
............. 17

Tramway, 3  oz..........40|Long Tom.......
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
Boss  ...........................15
Peck’s Sun.................18
Miners and Puddlers.28
Morning Dew............26
Chain...........................22
Seal of Grand Rapids 25
K in g ...........................30
Flirt  ...........................28
P u g .............................30
Ten Penny  Durham.24
Amber, % and l f t __ 15
John  Gilpin............... 18
Lime Kiln  Club.........47
Blackwell’s Durham.90
Vanity F air...............90
D im e...........................25
Peerless  .................... 25
Standard.................... 22
Old Tom......................21
Tom &  Jerry ..............24
Joker...........................25
T raveler.................... 35
Maiden........................25
Topsy, paper..............27
Topsy, cloth............... 30
Navy  Clippings.........26
Boots........... .............. 30
I Honey  Dew............... 25
I Gold Block.................30
I Camp Fire...................25
O ronoko.................... 19
Durham, % f t ............ 60
do  % ft............ 57
do  %  ft............ 55
do 
l f t ............ 51
Pickwick Club.......... 40
Nigger Head..............26
H olland......................22
G erm an......................16
Solid Comfort............30
Mule E ar.................... 231 Acme  .
H iaw atha...................22 Globe..
Old Congress..............231
Pure  Cider..........8@12 White Wine..
...  8@12
W ASH ING PO W D ERS.
Borax ine  ............................................
@3 75 
1776 $  f t ..............................................
@10% 
Gillett’s fl f t ...........................................
®  7% 
Soapine pkg............................................
7@10 
Pearline $1 box.......................................
@4 50 
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers... 
@4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
@4 25 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers. 
@4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap 
@4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 % ft papers.. 
,  @4  15 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 % ft paprs
@4 00
Twin Bros..........1  65 
|W ilsons............
.. 1  65 
Magic.................1  75'’’ iN ational..........
.. 1  65
Bath Brick im ported.....................
95 
American............................
60 
Barley......................................................
@3 
Burners, No. 1 .......................................
do  No.  2.......................................
1  50 
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand
8  00
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star.
@13% 
Candles,  Hotel..................
@14 
Extract Coffee, V.  C........
@80 
F e lix __
Gum, Rubber 100 lum ps.. 
@30 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.
@40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  J0@35
Hominy, g   bbl 
@4 00 
Peas, Green B ush,.. 
@1  25 
Peas, Split prepared
@ 3 
Powder, Keg...........
@3 50 
Powder,  % Keg.......
@1  93

1 00 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

VIN EGA R.

SHORTS.

YEAST.

1  25 

do 

do 

CANDY, FRUITS  AND  NUTS. 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follow s:

do 
do 

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

..  9 @  9% 
.  9%@10 
@12

S TIC K .
Straight, 25 ft  boxes..........................
Twist, 
..........................
Cut Loaf 
M IX ED .
Royal, 25 ft  pails.................................
...10@10% 
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................
...  9@ 9%
Extra, 25 ft  pails.................................
....n@ n%
Extra, 200 ft bbls.................................
..........10%
French Cream, 25 ft pails..................
..........13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................
..........13
..........11%
Broken, 25  ft  pails.............................
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..............................
..........10%
FANCY— IN   5 ft BOXES. 
Lemon  D r o p s ..............................
........ 14
Sour Drops.’...............................
Peppermint  Drops............................
..........15
Chocolate Drops.................................
..........16
HM  Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  Drops  .■................................................... 10
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B   Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................ .15
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Im perials..........................................................15
M ottoes............................................................. 15
Cream  B ar........................................................ 14
Molasses B ar.....................................................14
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams........   .............
Plain  Creams...................................
Decorated  Creams..........................
String Rock......................................
Burnt Almonds...............................
W intergreen  Berries.....................
FA NCY—IN   BU LK .
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................13%@14
Lozenges, plain in bbls..........................
Lozenges, printed in pails.....................
....14% 
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.....................
....13 
Chocolate Drops, in pails.......................
....14 
Gum  Drops  in pails...............................
7%@8 
Gum Drops, in bbls.................................
6%®7
Moss Drops, in pails...............................
__ 11
Moss Drops, in bbls................ - ..............
----9%....12
Sour Drops, in  pails...............................
Imperials, in  pails.................................... ..........
14
Imperials  in bbls...................., ..............  ...  13
Oranges, Florida, W box.....................
Oranges, Messina and  Palerm o.........2  ~5@3 00
Oranges, Valencia................................6  50@7  00
Lemons,  choioe....................................   2 50@3 00
Figs,  layers new,  g  ft......................... 12%@15
Figs; baskets 40 ft $  ft..........................  @ 8
Dates, frails 
do  ...........................  ©  4
Dates, % do 
do  ...........................   @ 6
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 4
Dates, %  skin.........................................  @ 5
Dates, Fard 10 ft box *g  f t....................  @ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $ f t . , ..................   @ 7
Dates, Persian 50 ft box g  ft............... 
Prime  Red, raw  $   ft............................
Choice 
do  .............................  
5@  5%
do  .............................   5%@  5%
Fancy 
Choice W hite, Va.do  ............................ 
5@ 5%
Fancy H P ,.  Va  do  .....................
Almonds,  Terragona, $  1b....................  18@20
Almonds, loaca, 
Brazils,
Pecon8,
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Grenobles

NUTS.
do
fe@  8%
do  .................... 
9@12
do  .................... 
d o ....................  @14
d o ....................\   @15

12 

PEA NU TS.

F R U IT S .

@6%

do 
do 

PROVISIONS.

LARD.

do. 
do. 

P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

7
7%
7
7%
7
7%
714
7 %
714.
8
8%
8%
8%
8^
8%

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess, new............................................ i3 00
S. P. Booth’s,  clear.........................................13 50
Pig, clear, short  c u t.......................................13 50
Extra Family Clear.........................................13 75
E xtra Clear Pig...............................................14 00
Clear, A. Webster  packer............................. 14 00
Standard Clear, the  best...............................15 50
E xtra  Clear,  heavy.........................................14 25
Boston Clear........................ 
14  75
Clear Quill, short c u t..................................... 14 50
DRY  SALT MEATS— IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
HalfCases............. 
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
do 
Half Cases..........  
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
do. 
H'alf Cases  .............  
Short Clears, heavy................................. 

8%
8%
8%
8%
10%11
11%

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN . 

medium..................... . 
light............................. .. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases 
E xtra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases__
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases__
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases__
Tierces  .................................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs ..................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases..................
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks...............
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case..........................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case..........................
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy..
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium
light__
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......
Extra Clear Bacon...............................
Dried Beef,  E xtra...............................
E xtra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts..
E xtra Mess Chicago packing.............
Pork  Sausage........................
Ham  Sausage........................
Tongue  Sausage....................
Liver Sausage........................
Frankfort  Sausage...............
Blood  Sausage.......................
Bologna,  ring........................
Bologna, straight..................
Bologna,  thick.......................
Head  Cheese..........................
P IG S ’  FEET
In half barrels.......................
In quarter barrels................
In kits................   ..................
T R IP E .
In half barrels..................... .
__$3 00
In quarter barrels................
__   1  50
In kits......................................
80 
.... 
__ =___^  __
time of going to
press, and are good only for that date,“subject 
to m arket fluctuations.

........ 6%
........6%
.....6%

Prices named are lowest  at 

........6%
-----10
.......   6%
........  6%

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND  SMOKED.

LARD IN   T IN  P A IL S .

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

1011

.10%

do. 

3 50 
1  90

10 25 
10 00

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows :
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5%@ 7%
Fresh Beef, hind quarters...................6% @ 8
Dressed  Hogs......................................... 5%@ 5%
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  6  @6%
...................................................... 9%@10 "
Bologna.....................................................  9  @10
Chickens...................................................10  @13
Turkeys  .................................................   @11
G eese........................................................ 10  @11

HID ES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID ES.

G reen__ ft  6  1
Part  cured...  7%@  8
Full cured 
Dry hides and 

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

  8  @  8%

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

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

SH E E P P EL TS.

W OOL.

Shearlings or Sum- 

(Fall pelts.............30@50
mer skins ¡g pcel0@20|Winter  pelts......60@75
Fine washed g  ft 20@22 Unwashed...........  
2-3
Coarse washed... 16@18¡Tallow........... 
5%
Bear.............   @10 OOlMuskrat....... 
2@  10
Fisher  ........ 4 00@  8 00 O tter............4 00@ 5 00
Fox, red.......  25@  1 00 Raccoon.......  
5@  80
Fox,  gray...  15@  851 Skunk  .........  15@  75
M artin ........  25@  1 00 Beaver, $  ft.l 00@ 2 25
M ink...........  
10@  30

S K IN S .

5@  40lDeer,  ^ f t ... 
OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

New York Counts................................................3s
F. J. D. S elects................................................... 30
Selects..................................................... 
26
F. J. D ......................................................... . . . . . '.W>
Standard  ............................................................. 18
Favorite........................................................,..,.17
M edium..................................................... ..!!!.!l&
P rim e ..............................................................  
14
New  York  Counts................................................2 00
Selects, per gallon..............................................  !l 65.
Standards............................................... 1  00@1  10
Codfish..............................................................   9
Haddock.......................................... 
1
Smelts................................................................ 10
Mackinaw T rout................................................8
Mackerel.................................................. 
.12
w h itefish .................................................... ; ;;  9

FR ESH   FISH .

 

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Firmer and higher, choice Baldwins 
and Greening readily commanding $2.25]? bbl.

Beeswax—Small demand at 30c.
Buckwheat—$4.75 g  bbl.
Beans—Rather more  local  and  shipping  de­
mand.  Unpicked command 75@90c, and choice 
picked find good shipping demand a t  $1.40.

Butter—Literally  a  drug  in  the  market. 
Dairy  finds  slow  sale  at  15@17c  for  choice 
rolls and 15@16c for good solid packed.  An infer 
ior article is to  be  had  in  endless  variety  at 
from 8@12c.

Butterine—Solid  packed  creamery  com­
mands  19c,  while  dairy  is quoted  at  14@15c 
for solid packed,  and 16@17c for rolls.

Beets—No shipping demand.
Clover  Seed—No  local  shipping  demand. 

Dealers quote choice stock at $0.

Cabbages—$5@$6  100.  Very little moving.
Celery—15@25c $  doz.
Cheese—Somewhat  firmer.  Michigan  full 
cream  stock  readily  commands  U%@13%c, 
while  skim  find  occasional sale at from  9%@ 
10c.

Cider—12c ]? gal. for common sweet.
Cranberries—Firm at $14 for bell and  cherry, 

and  $15 for bell  and bugle.

Eggs—Fresh And slow sale at 20c,  and  limed 

are frequantly preferred at 16@17c.

Hops—Brewers are paying 15c for best Mich­

igan, with few  offerings.

ed.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm atl3@14c.
Hay—$9@$10 for new, and  $12@$13  for  bail­
Mince Meat—7c ]? ft for home made.
Onions—$2 $  bbl. for yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3c $  ft for choice.
Potatoes—Somewhat firmer in  consequence 
of  considerable  shipments  being  made 
to 
Southern  cities,purchases being  made  at 25@ 
28c.

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

Turkeys, 14c.

Squash—Slow sale a t %c $  ft.
Sweet Potatoes—Out of market.
Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—No shipping demand,  and  dealers 
buy‘only  for  prospective  wants,  holding  at 
$1.75 for choice.

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

Wheat—2c  lower this  week.  Lancaster,  81; 

Fulse and Clawson, 78c.

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

and 40@43c in carlots.

bu.

lots.

Oats—White, 33c in small lots and 30c  in car- 
Rye—52@54c 
Barley—Brewers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cwt.
Flour—Unchanged. Fancy Patent, $5.70 $  bbl. 
in sacks  and  $5.95  in  wood.  Straight, $4.70 ]? 
bbl. in sacks and $4.95 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 $  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  Bran, $15- 
$1 ton.  Ships, $16 $  ton.  Middlings, $17 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $23 $  ton.

*

♦

Ifoarbware.

L ist of th e  Expensive  M etals.

The following are the names of those met­
als valued at  over  ill,000  an  avoirdupois 
pound, the  figures  given  representing  the 
value per pound:

Yanadium.—A white metal discovered  in 

1830, $10,000.

Rubidium.—An alkaline  metal,  so  called 
for exhibiting dark red lines in the spectrum 
analysis, $9,070.

Zirconium.—A  metal  obtained  from  the 
minerals zircon and hyacinth, in the form of 
a black powder, $7,200.

Lithium.—An alkaline metal; the lightest 

metal known, $7,000.

Glucinum.—A metal in the form of a gray­

ish-black powder, $5;400.

Calcium.—The metalic base  of  lime,  $4,- 

500.

Strontium.—A  malleable  metal of a yel­

lowish color, $4,200.

Terbium.—Obtained 

from  the  mineral 

gadolinite, found in Sweden, $4,080.

Yttrium.—Discovered in  1828, of  a  gray­
ish-black color, and its luster perfectly  met 
allic,  $4,080.

Erbium,—A metal found  associated  with 

yttrium, $3,400.

Cerium.—A metal of high specific gravity, 
a grayish-white  color, and  a  lamellar  tex­
ture, $3,400.

Didymium.—A  metal  found  associated 

with cerium, $3,200.

Ruthenium.—Of a  gray  color,  very  hard 
and brittle, extracted from the  ores of  plat­
inum,  $2,400.

Rhodium.—Of a white color and  metallic 
luster, and extremely  hard  and  brittle.  It 
requires the strongest heat  that  can be pro­
duced by a wind furnace for its  fusion;  $2,- 
300.

Niobium.—Previously named  columbium, 
first discovered in  an  ore  found in at New 
London, Conn., $2,300.

Barium.—The  metallic  base  of  baryta, 

$1,800.

Palladium.—A  metal  discovered inl802, 
and found in very .small  grains, of a  steel- 
gray color, and fibrous structure, $1,400.
.  Osmium.—A  brittle  gray-coloerd  metal, 
found with platinum, $1,300. 
$8
~  Iridium.—Found native as an  alloy  with 
osmium in lead-gray scales, and the heaviest 
of know substances, $1,090.

.  & 

P reserving Iro n  by R usting  It.

The common practice of painting  the  un­
finished portions of machines is not  very at­
tractive, and that of  making all cast iron of 
some uniform  color for  all  machines is al­
most offensive.  In most  cases  the  use of 
paint on the cast iron is intended to  make a 
contrast between the unfinished material and 
the polished parts;  incidentally, it is also to 
prevent oxidation and a blotchy appearance. 
But  if  the  oxidation  was  general,  and 
even, and permanent, nothing could be finer; 
for the red oxide of iron  is even more agree­
able to the eye than the blue-green  oxide of 
copper or bronze which is so much admired. 
There is no question'  about  the  durability 
and the permanency of  iron  oxide  in color 
and texture any more than that of bronze or 
brass; the browned  gun-barrels  of  fowling 
pieces are instances.

Experiments have been  made to avoid the 
dauby annoyance of paint  by less  mechani­
cal means.  The cast iron after  being  pick- 
led to remove the scale, was left to dry with 
the acid  still  on  it.  Then it was  cleaned 
with a wire brush and scraped with a coarse 
file.  The result was a  mottled  surface, the 
lower  portions  being a grayish-brown, and 
the outer or upper portions bright.  The sur­
face was then swabbed with  crude  petrole­
um, and before it was dry was rubbed  with 
a wire brush.  Such  treatment  insures  an 
unchangeable surface and gives an agreeable 
color.  Even without petroleum  the rust  of 
the acid insures a very pleasing  and  perma­
nent effect; but the petroleum  prevents  af­
ter stains and mellows and blends the  tints. 
In either way used it is an  improvement on 
paint.  Cast iron has a beauty of its own that 
is no more dependent on paint  than  that of 
bronze or brass.

Steel Nails.

The following in reference to the advance 
in Riverside steel  nails  will  be of  interest 
to our readers:

W h e e l in g ,  W. Va., Jan. 28,1885. 

Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Gen tlem en—We are quoting nails to-day 
at 2-10 net rates and  we  are  overwhelmed 
with orders and inquiries  the  past  two or 
three days.  It seems as  though  everybody 
was wanting steel nails.  We have  declined 
to-day several thousand  kegs  by telegraph, 
and  we  have  just  concluded to refuse  all 
new  business,  having  now  six  or  eight 
weeks’ work engaged.  We never in our ex­
perience knew  such  an  eagerness  to  buy 
nails, and the demand comes from  Texas to 
Minnesota  and from  Connecticut  to  Cali­
fornia.  Steel nails seem to be wanted by all 
dealers.

Yours truly,
J. N.  V a n ce, President.

Since the above was in type, Foster, Stev­
ens & Co. are in receipt of the following des­
patch:

W h e e l in g , W. Va., Jan. 31,1885. 

Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids:

Gen tlem en—We are to-day quoting nails 
in carloads at 2-15 nek  The demand is still 
very active.

R iv e r s id e I ron  W orks.

The  H ardw are  M arket.

The  hardware  market  has  been  about 
steady during the past  week,  with  the  ex­
ception of nails.  Steel nails have  advanced 
twenty-five  cents  a  keg  during  the  past 
twenty days, and iron nails  have  advanced 
in sympathy.

Copper, it appears, will  unite  chemically 

'with tin in certain proportions  only.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

40

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BARROW S.

BALANCES.

AUGERS AND B IT S .

Prevailing1  rates  at Chicago  are as follows: 
60
Ives’, old  style...........................................dis 
60
N. H. C. Co...............................................dis 
Douglass’ ...................................................dis 
60
60
Pierces’ ....................................... 
dis 
Snell’s ........................................................ -dis 
60
Cook’s  ................................................ ,. dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine............. .;................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation...............................dis40&10
Spring......................................................... dis 
25
R ailroad............................................... 
$  13 00
Garden.............. 
net 33 00
H and....................................................dis  $  60&10
60
Cow..........................................................dis 
Call*.......................................................... dis 
15
G ong....................................................... dis 
20
55
Door, Sargent.........................................dis 
40
Stove........................................................dis $ 
Carriage  new  list..................................dis 
75
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&1C
SI eigh Shoe.............................................dis 
75
Cast Barrel  Bolts.................................. dis 
50
55
W rought Barrel Bolts..........................dis 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.....................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring...............................dis
DO
Cast  Chain..............................................dis
60
W rought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
55&10
W rought Square...................................dis
55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush............................dis
30
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door.............................................. dis  50&10
B arb er............................................. dis$ 
50
Backus....................................................dis 
Spofford.................................................. dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................. dis 
net
Well, plain.................................................... $  4 00
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounlit Loose  P in.............................dis 
00
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ................................................. dis  60& 5
Wrought Table...................................... dis 
60
60
Wrought Inside  Blind......................... dis 
Wrought Brass......................................dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s.........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s .....................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ...................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3.... per gross  18 00
Ely’s 1-10.........................................
Hick’s C. F ......................................
G .D .................................................
Musket...........................................
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list
Rim Fire, United  States............... ........ dis
Central Fire.................................... ........ dis
Socket Firm er............................... __ dis
Socket Fram ing............................ __ dis
Socket Corner............................... __ dis
Socket Slicks................................. __ dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firm er........... __ dis
Barton’s Socket Firm ers............. __ dis
Cold................................................. .......net
Curry, Lawrence’s ........................ __ dis
33%
Hotchkiss  .................................... __ dis
25
Brass,  Racking’s..........................
40&10
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B e e r.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.......................................................... 
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... ft  34

60
35
60
50
50
%
70
70
70
70
40
20

BU TTS,  CAST.

CA TRIDG ES.

CH IS ELS.

C O PPER .

COMBS.

COCKS.

CAPS.

F IL E S .

D R IL LS

H IN q E S .

ELBOW S.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

13 
GAUGES.

GA LVANIZED  IR O N ,
14 

14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  37
35
Morse’s Bit  Stock...............................dis 
20
Taper and Straight Shank..................dis 
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..........................dis 
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................doz net $1 00
Corrugated............. .............................. dis  20&10
A djustable.......................... .................dis  % &10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
25
American File Association List...... dis
50&10
Disston’s ..............................................dis
50&10
New  American....................................dis
50&10
Nicholson’s ...........................................dis
50&10
Heller’s ................................................ dis
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........................dis
33%
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and 84,  25 and 26,  27
12 
15
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............dis
50
20
Maydole & Co.’s .....................................dis 
Kip’s .......................................................dis 
25
Yerkes &  Plumb’s ................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel......................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction......................dis 
60
40
Kidder, wood  tra .k ..............................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3..............................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
and  longer..............................................
3%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net
10%
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net
8%
Screw Hook and Eye  %...................... net
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net
Strap and  T ...........................................dis
Stamped Tin W are....................................   60&10
Japanned  Tin  W are.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  W are................................... 
25
Grub  1............................................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2................................................  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........ $2 70, dis 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings__   3 50, dis 70
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
mings........................................ list,10  15, dis 70
7 0
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s....................d 
40
H em acite............................................... dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list...... dis  70
Mallory, W heelnr &  Co.’s ..........................dis  70
Branford’s ....................................................dis  70
Norwalk’s ......................................................dis  70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ..................................dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s .............dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise.......................................dis  25
Adze  Eye.................................... $16 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye.................................... $15 00 dis 40&10
H unt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

7%6O&10

HO LLO W   W ARE.

LOCKS—BO OR.

m a t t o c k s .

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HO ES.

n a i l s .

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

 

 

MAULS.

O IL E R S.

lOdto  60d__ •......................................keg $2  30
25
8 d a n d 9 d a d v ................................................ 
6d and 7d  adv..........  ............. 
50
75
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
3d advance....................................................   1 50
3d line  advance........................................... 
3 00
Clinch nails,  adv. . ........................................  175
I  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
6d  4d
2% 
Size—inches  j  3 
2 
1%
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2  00 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
m o l l a s s e s   g a t e s .
Stebbin’s Pattern  .......................... 
dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring....................... dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  dis  50
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent......................... dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom .............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper........................................... dis  40
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................. 
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................. dis  15
Sciota Bench................................................' dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  15
Bench, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, Acme...............................................dis 40&10
Common, polished.................................dis 
00
Dripping........... •.....................................$   fi> 
8
Iron and Tinned................................................ dis 40
Copper Rivets and B urs...................................dis 40&10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10% 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
Broken packs %c $  ft extra.  '

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED   IR O N .

p l a n e s :

R IV E T S.

p a n s .

9

R O O FIN G  P L A TES.

1C, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne................5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7 75
IC. 20x28, choice  Charcoal T erne...........1 2  00
IX, 20x28, chpicC Charcoal  T erne...............16 90

SQUARES.

SH EET IR O N .

Sisal, % In. and  larger..............................
Manilla.............
Steel and  Iron.
Try and Bevels.
Mitre  ...............

..  8%
..  14%
dis  50
dis  50
dis  20
Com. Smooth. Com.
$3 00
3 00
3 00
3 00
3 20
3 40
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches

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

13 00
15  00
16

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

10x14, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal..................................  8  50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal......................................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal  ...............................  8  50
IX, 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  6 50
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  8 50
1XX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   10  50
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool................................. 13  50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  14 50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal.................................  18  00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  8 50
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.................................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to  6 75 

rates.

TRAPS.

 

WIRE.

Steel.  Game....................................................
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ...........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s —   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ......................................  60
Mouse,  choker.......................................20c  $  doz
Mouse,  delusion..................................$1 26 39 doz
Bright M arket......................................  dis  60&10
Annealed M arket..................................dis  60&10
Coppered M arket.......................... 
dis 55&10
Extra Bailing...................................................  dis 55
Tinned  M arket.................................................. dis 40
Tinned Broom..................................................$ f t  09
Tinned M attress........................................ f? ft  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel.............................dis 40
Tinned Spring Steel.......................................... dis 37%
Plain Fence................................................ ^  ft  3%
Barbed  Fence.......................... .......................
Copper....................................................... new  list net
Brass.......................................................... new  list net
Bright..................................................... dis
Screw Eyes.............................................dis
Hook’s ....................................................dis
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..........................dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine....................................... dis
65
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis
70
Coe’s Patent, malleable......................dis
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  60&20
Screws, new  list........................................ 
80
Casters, Bed and  Plate.....................................dis 50
Dampers, American................................. 
33%

MISCELLANEOUS.

Í0&10

70&10
70&10
70&10
70&10

WIRE GOODS.

WrENCHES.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f. o. 

b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1%, 1% and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
38 00 
Selects, 1%, 1% and 2  inch.
30 00 
Fine Common, 1 inch........
Shop,1 inch.
20  00
Fine, Common, 1%, 1% and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  16 pO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe et.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 fe et........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe et.........................  13  00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27  90
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12  00 j
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12  00 j
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15  00 '
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12  00 j
Norway C and bettor, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00 1
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................  18 00 I
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.............. 
14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common__  
9  00 I
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.........................20 00 !
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 f t ............ 
J 0 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29  00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common 
  14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16  00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles............. 
3  50
3 40
{ X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3  00
( X X X 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
175
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.
TT7ANTED—Situation as traveling  salesman 
V v 
or any work that will afford respectable 
living.  Have had experience on the  road and 
in newspaper business, also one  year’s  exper­
ience  in  hardware.  Good  references  given. 
Address M. F. T, care “Tradesman.” 
74*
WANTED—To  exchange  one  first  class 
buggy and saddle horse,  black  gelding, 
gentle in every respect, good traveler, perfect­
ly sound, seven  years  old,  worth  $150;  good 
single Timpkin spring carriage;  elegant black 
and  gold  single  harness  for span ponies, and 
harness and two seat carriage.  Ponies m ust be 
sound and good roadsters.  Will pay difference 
in  cash.  Above  black  horse  was  formerly 
owned by Barnbart of firm of Putnam  & Barn­
hart Lumber Co.  Inquire at “Tradesman”  of­
fice. 

WANTED—Situation by a  young  man  in  a 

grocery or general store.  Best of refer­
ences.  Address care box 276,  Fremont,  Mich.
VIT ANTED—A position as porter or assistant 
TV 
in a wholesale  or  retail  establishment. 
Willing to work and salary no object.  Address 
E. D., care “The Tradesman.”

W ANTED—A  middle-aged  gentleman  of 

' business experience wishes  a  situation 
with .some m anufacturing or  mercantilefl rm 
as traveling salesmans  Good references.  Ad­
dress H. C. W. care “The Tradesman.” 
72*
SH IPPIN G   BASKETS  AND  BOXES.

71tf

ST/JDSEPH, MICH, j
SENP rORmUSTRATEO  PRICEili

Good  W ords  Unsolicited.

E. Phillips, baker and  confectioner,  Shelby: 

“Like it very m uch.”

Stockman & Iddings,  hardware,  Charlevoix: 

“Your paper is a good  one.”

C. W. Jones, groceries and stationery, Scotts- 
ville:  “I am doing a lively business, and think 
it  will  be  complete  with  The Tradesman  to 
peruse at my leisure.”
N.  C.  Morgan,  general  dealer  and shipper, 
Northport:  “I  think  The  Tradesman  is  all 
right, and any one th at can’t afford  to  take  It 
a t such a price had better shut up shop and go 
to getting up  firewood.”

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.
Roller States, State Bap & Boies

HEAD Q U A RTERS  F O R

The New Era All Clamp Skate

—AND—

O A U L F I  E L D ’S  COLUMNS,

JOHN

C A U L F IE L D ,

WHOLESALE

The  New  Era  Rink  Skate.
The original cost of a roller skate is of minor 
importance to you, provided you buy  the  one 
th at  can  be  run  a t  the  least possible cost in 
time and money.  We claim the New Era to be 
the most economical roller skate in the world, 
and this in connection with their immense pop­
ularity with those who have  used  them,  com­
mend them to the attention of every rink own­
er  in  the  counti’y.  Our  Clamp  Skate is the 
only screw clamp made which  operates all the 
clamps with one key at the same time.
The “VINEYARD” Skates are very popular.

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

The Vineyard Roller All Clamp were  p 

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

THE  PERFECT  ROLLER  SKATE

¡P  «9
f

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

m

Men’s Skate Bags for ail clamp Skates.

Ladies’  Skate  Bags  for  all  sole clamp Skates.

Men’s Skate Boxes for all clamp Skates.

I

»ISS

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

WHOLESALE  HARDWARE, 

GRAND  R A PID S, 

- 

M ICH

G rand Rapids, M ich

THE  CHEAT

CLOSING  OUI  WINTER  SALE
STILL  CONTINUES.

CLOSE  BAHCAXXTS

TO

C L O SE   S T IV E R S .

Desiring1 to  reduce  my  stock  to  the 
minimum, I am prepared to offer excep­
tional bargains in all lines  of

Including  Teas,  Coffees,  Tobaccos, 
Sugars*  Syrups,  Molasses,  whole  and 
ground Spices,  Soaps,  Raisins,  and  all 
kinds of domestic and  imported Fruits.
Cash Buyers and Buyers who intend 
to  pay  for  what  they  buy  would  do 
well  to  call  and  see  me,  or  send  for 
Samples and Quotations.

John  Caulfield,

85, 87 and 89 Canal Street.

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

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

The  Old  Man  and  the 
Play.

W idow  A ttend  a

Ca n t H ook Corners,  Feb.  2,1885.

one of that sort.  Tother  day, Al. my clerk, 
and  Ed. Smikes, writ up  a  pertition to the 
township  bord,  praying  that  a  new  rode 
should be layed out leadin’ from the Corners 
strait to the  village  pound,  passin’  right 
threw Bilson’s store, and  that  Bilson shood 
be put into the duck pond and  kept in  soke 
3 days,  “for the good of  the  town.”  Seven 
or eight of us sined it, and then Smikes pre­
sented it to Bilson.  Bilson  lade  a  cod  fish 
down, that he was holdin’  by  the  stove  to 
thaw out, and run his eye up and  down  the 
paper a cupple o’ times to  make  bleve  he 
was readin’ it, and then  walked  up  to  his 
desk and gravely put his signature to it.  By 
Gum!  If we hain’t ben  roastin’  him  ever 
sence  then,  call  me  a  prevarikater.  The 
“boys” have got the document on  exibishun 
in the Barber shop and evry boddy  reads it, 
or hears it read.  Bilson has “set up”  a  lot 
of cigars on it, and he swars  by  the  “Great 
horn spoon” that he never will sine  nothin’, 
no  more,  hearafter  subsequently,  without 
readm’ the hull of it.

Was you ever a post master?  Well,  if not, 
let me tell you it is one of the allfiredest biz- 
nesses a man ever got  into.  And  yet  the 
peculiar  part of it is that  when  once in  it, 
you never want to get out of it.  I don’t kno’ 
why this is so, it is one of  the  things  about 
human nater that “no feller can find out” as 
Job  remarked, when the  biles cum  out  all 
over him so he had to stand up to eat.

Now,  there  is  the  feller  that  wants  a 
stamp but “hain’t jest got the  change,  hand 
it  in  to-morrer.”  The chap that wants  to 
kno, “why in thunder don’t I get  that letter 
from Jones?”—the “why the devil  don’t my 
paper cum”  chap—the  feller  with  a  whip 
in his hand and big mittens  on,  that  wants 
you to put the stamp on his letter and direct 
it  to  Hezikiah  P.  Jinglebottom,  Harnama- 
stakemaslrook, Amonstacook Co.,  when you 
are in a hurry to wait on a pretty widder that 
jest cum in—then the five gigling skool girls 
that cum in regular once a day  all  together 
and  wants  you  to  look  speshal  for  each 
blessed one,  when you kno  for  certain  that 
not a durned one of ’em ever got a  letter  in 
her  life,  except  it  was  a  liorible  red and 
blue valentine long about the middle of Feb­
ruary.

Then—but  its  no  use, I mite  go  on  till 
doomsday  and  not  name  all  the  strange 
carracters a feller falls in  with in  a country 
post  office. 
It  Potts  should get the office 
away from me, it will be a plesent reflection 
for me to reflect on this, anyhow.

Yours reflectivly,

Solim an Snooks,

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

He Got H is  D inner.

Waiter,” said the gentleman who had or­
dered his dinner at a fashionable  restaurant 
sometime in the dim  past,  “will  you  send 
out for paper and ink and a  notary and two 
witnesses?”

Wha’ for,  sail?”
Oh, I just want to  make  a  will 

leaving 
that dinner 1 ordered so long ago to my heirs 
and assigns forever.  That’s all.”

They hurried that  man’s dinner right  up, 
and he got it within two hours from that mo­
ment.

A  B ank  Officer.

“What’re ye doin’ now, Bill?”
“Teller in a bank.”
“The deuce 1  Wha’ d’ye have to do?” 
“Have to tell when the  stove  needs  more 

coal in it.”

“Beating Down in Trade” is  the  title  of 
an artiele  in this  issue  which  all  should 
read.  If the coat fits, put it on; it is intend- 
for you.  Mean men  sometimes  make mon­
ey, but we never knew a man, who did busi­
ness on the beating  down  principle, to get 
rich.  This class of men are a nuisance a de­
testable nuisance.  There is no pleasure and 
no  money  in  doing  business  with  them. 
Sooner or later the dealer  feels it his  Chris­
tian duty to kick them out of his store.  The 
“cut-throat”—for such is  the  proper  name 
for this class of people—never reforms.  He 
grows worse and worse with age.  He grows 
more impudent and heartless  the more  con­
cessions you  make to  him.  He  almost  al­
ways starts in on  a  bargain  with:  “Well, 
you know I  pay spot cash.”  Just as though 
no one else did. His impudence is only equal­
ed by his  meanness. Our advice is to beware 
of a man who is constantly haggling over the 
price you make him.  You  took  off a little 
of the regular honest price of your goods be­
fore when you sold him.  He  wants a little 
more off this time; the next  time  he comes 
he will want a  little  more  off.  Beware of 
him!  You had better kick him down stairs. 
It will be money in your pocket  to  pay  the 
cost for assault and battery rather than to do 
any business with such a customer.

California’s  first  attempts  at  raisin  pro­
ducing were made about nineteen years ago, 
The following year about 1,500  boxes  were 
made.  Ten years ago the crop amounted to 
about 40,000 boxes, while this year  it  is  es­
timated at 200,000 boxes.

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

PLEASANT TO TAKE. ACTS MILDLY, C U B E S  QUICKLY

M UM   SERE  CUBE  FOR  FEVER  &  AGUE.
’One DOW  taken during the  Chill, 
arrests tne  disease in 20 minutes.
a rre sts_____________
NSVE1 KNOWN TO FAXL.  Money re­
turned if it does not cure.  Price, 
60c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sentpre- 
paidforOQcts.  Address, W e o t e k n  
M e d ic in e  Co. .Grand Rapids, Mien.

Mister Editor of Traidsman:

Nothing perticular has  happened  sensei 
writ you last except that play I told you about 
that  the  young  peeple  was  rehersin’  of, 
whitch cum oíf Tewsday nite.  I tell  you it 
was a rip snorter of  a  play  and  made  so 
much of a impreshun on my mind  for  tem­
pranee, that I refused to trust  Jake  Collins 
to a pint of  Borbon  this  fournoon.  I bor- 
rered a cutter and hoss of Doctor  Kobb and 
dressed up id  my  Sunday  close  and  new 
plug hat, and went down to Pine  Holler af­
ter the widder.  She was delited  at  the op- 
ertunity of going to see the  great  theatrical 
purformance.  We had a real  nice romantic 
ride  threw  the  pine  woods,  and  Sister 
Spriggs said it reminded  her  of  the  days 
when her late  lamented  pardner  used  to 
take her out ridin’  to  spellin’  skool  when 
she was a gal.

We got to talkin’ kinder  tender 

like  on 
the way to the show and I do  beleeve I was 
just on the pint of saying sumthin’ real bind­
ing,  when the durned old hoss  turned  out a 
leetle to one side of the track, my  left  arm 
bein’ ingaged jist then and my rite  bein’ us­
ed to hold the lines and whip, and  trying to 
blow my noes all to  onct  I  cuddent  bring 
him back in to the track in  time to  purvent 
one runner from  goin’  over  a  pine  stump 
bout 2 foot high.

Great  Gemitikins!  You  ought  to  have 
seen—No; I mean  you  hciddeiit  ought  to 
have  seen  the  apauling  catasstrophy  that 
follered.  I am glad noboddy saw it.  I cud- 
dent see nothin’ and I  gess the  widder cud- 
dent, our  eyes  was  full  of  snow,  buffalo 
robes, blankets,  straw, and  hay, permiscuss 
like.  By the way, while I think  of  it  Mis­
ter Stow, do you kno  of  a  place  whar  they 
can fix over a new plug  hat  that  has  ben 
driv in from the top till  it  looks  some  like 
an old acordian?  If so,  please  adress  the 
undersined and learn sumthin’ to his advan­
tage.  Well, the blamed  hoss  diddent  run 
away, bein’ a doctor’s hoss, so we got strait­
ened up agin and in spite  of  all,  we  finaly 
got thar in tolerable fair  shape.  1  left  my 
hat in the anty room and excorted  my  fare 
pardner to our purserved seets  in  the  front 
row.  All the eleet, buty and fashun  of  the 
town was thar and  the  strains of  delishus 
music, in the shape of the  Arkansaw  Trav­
eler, was strainin’ from  Bill  Smith’s  fiddle 
and  Sam  Dolittle’s  B  flat  trombone, in a 
most  bewilderin’  and  bewitchin’  manner.
It made me think of the time 1 attended the 
grand  oppery  in  your  citty,  near  Mister 
Rathbun’s tavern.

last  act  of 

Well, the curtin riz and from that time on 
we was held in spell bound  rapture  till the 
very 
the  seven  was  end­
ed  amidst  thunderin  aplaws.  The  infer­
nal old bar tender was ded and also his wife 
and all the good chaps had  sworn  off  and 
jined the pledge.

Sum parts of the peece was two  almighty 
effecting to suit me.  For instance, where the 
bar tender, who acted so  blamed  nateral, ^as 
he handed down the bottles, says; “Come up 
boys, come up  and  take  sumthin’, its  my 
treat”  1 vum, I was so overcome  with  the 
spirit of the  play  that  the  widder  had to 
hold me by the  cote  tail  to keep me in my 
seet  I noticed old Potts and dekin Skinner 
wipin their lips on their sleeves and the gin- 
eral croud in the pit looked might dry.  The 
pit was seperated from the dress  circle by a 
2x4 skantlin’.

The acters and actresses all covered their- 

selves with glory, perspera tion and dust 

Bob. Brittle, Miss Netty Nettleby and the 
acter Kalahand all got to the  front  in  fine I 
shape.

The orkistry gave us such  soul 

inspirin’ 
tunes as “Captin Jinks,” “Mulligan  Gards,” 
“The gal I left behind me”  and  the  “Irish 
washlady,” between the  ackts. 
Ihe  thun­
der boomed, the litenin’ flashed, the  red tire 
burned and take it all together,  with laffin’, 
cryin’ and smellin’ gun powder and sulphur, 
we had the most exkrushiatingly hapy even­
ings enjoyment the Corners has ever  had.

I never saw much  allfired  colder  wether 
than we are  enjoyin’ at  present.  Makes a 
feller  want  to  move  South.  But I don’t 
kno’ as twould pay  after  all,  coss  it ain’t 
much better down thar.

I receeved a letter from an old  friend this 
morein’, in Georgia, he is an Atlantian.  He 
has always felt a friendly interest  in me ev­
er sense he found out that I was with  Sher­
man and helped burn out quite a  number of 
his Southern acquaintances.  He used to live 
in the North,  and  he  sais  that  the  term 
“Sunny South” is a durned frod, that he has 
seen more cold dreary rain storms to the aker 
in the “Sunny South”  than  he  ever did up 
North.  He also sais that the cold wind cuts 
like a razar, too.

A drummer told  me  yesterday,  that  he 
saw Banker last week and that said  Banker 
was “after my scalp.”  1 don’t kno what I’ve 
done, I’m sure.  I feel real friendly towards 
Banker and woodent  hurt  his  feelin’s  for 
nothin’.

I’ve got my pertition  all  made  out  and 
sined by over two-thirds of the township,  to 
have me kept in the  post  offiss.  Old  Potts 
has got the  balance  on  hissen  and  some 
ehaps has  sined  both.  Some  folkes,  you 
kno’, sine every blamed pertition that  cums 
along  no  matter  what it is for.  Bilson  is

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CROCKERY andGLASSWARE

Bargains for th.e Spring Trade in 

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Being  desirous  of changing  some  of  our patterns,  and 
closing out small lots of goods, we offer the following  staple 
articles at prices named as samples,  and would be pleased to 
have you call and examine these and many  more  which  we 
are closing out.

CROCKERY.

Pankhurst  & Co.’s Best Goods... .Per set 
Per Dozen

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Tea Cups and Saucers,
Coffee  “
Bread Plates 
Bakers, 8 inch 
Plates,  6  “  or Tea Plates 
Plates,  7  “  or Breakfast Plates 
Pitchers, No. 6 or Large W ater 

No. 12 or Medium  “
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“  No. 24 or Small 
“  No. 36 or Cream
Vegetable Dishes, 3 inch 
Platters, 

6  “

Covered Dishes

L A M P S .

with No. 1 Burner.

Glass Standard. No. 200, A

3, Star,
4, Heavy  A,
4, 
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Bronze Base Lamps  With 6 in White Shades & Bases, 9 Lamps in lot, comp, each  50 
Bronze uasei.am iB   » 71n w hite shandes and bases. 9 lamps In lot,  each  .......  60
Nos. 5345 and 5348, Trimmed with No. 2 Sun B urner and No. 2
New Engraved Crimp top chimney........................................eacn  w>
tw ornted Base  “  No. 537, same trim m ings....................• • ■ • • •■••••-......... . . -....... 
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5138) Large an(j Fine trim, with 7 in White shades and bases  8754
Decorated u  M 

362* Sand Blast, 
1693, D Crystal, 
gs<>  Cut 300 

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T1 A •RT-j'B  GL ASSWARE.

Sauce Nappies. 4 inch D uplex.............................................................. Per doz?n 

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Table Sets, 4 pieces, Venus Large Plain..............................................................  
“  Berlin, Medium 
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“  Beauty Heavy 
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Covered Bowls, 7 inch. Plain.................................................................................. 
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F ruit Dishes, Etched  Stork...................................................................... 
Pickle Bottles, Jew ell.........................-................................................................... 
Engraved  Oval............................................................................... 
Eclipse Pickle Caster, S. P, Handle....................................................................... 
Jersey Lily Molas.  Cans..........................................................................................

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China Transparent, Egg Coffees................................................................ r e r
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T. S. Tubular Tin  Lanterns.......................................................................r e r  uu/i
SE N D   FOR  OUR  ILLUSTR ATED   PR IC E  LIST.

KNIBHTS  OF  LABOR

The Best Chew on the Market

SEND FOR SAMPLE  BUTT

Clark,  Jewell
CEO.  IT. DAVIS  <&  CO

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For  all  kinds  of  foreign  and  domestic  FRUITS,  PRODUCE,  and  MANUFACTURED
G° 0Havingebeen Ebusiness in this city for the past twelve  years,  and 
w i v e
sive acquaintance with the Wholesale and Retail trade in this vicinity, we are able to give
our shippers the benefit of our long experience. 
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Anv goods consigned to  us  will  have  our  best  attention.  We  have  STORAGE  ^ 
f i f t v  carloads  either for light or heavy goods, and will furnish same for any length 
of time^rtTeasoimble Stes 
If,at any time, there should be anything in this market you 
sho5 d V trtoju rch ase, no matter what it is, we would  be  glad  to  correspond  with yon

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71  Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.
Groceries and Provisions,

W HOLESALE

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

SHIELDS

BULKLEY

EM ON

SHIELD

IMPORTERS

R U S T I D

W holesale

C H O C

Take N otice that w e w ill Sell

Old Country Soap.

Wrapped,  $4.10  per  box.  Unwrapped,  $4  per  box.  80 
pounds in a box.  OLD  COUNTRY  SOAP  is a solid,  steam 
pressed, absolutely pure,  ONE  POUND  BAR,  always  relia­
ble and uniform in quality,  and the best  value  in  the  mar­
ket.  When you are ordering goods of any wholesale grocer 
or bis traveler, put in a box for trial,  and yon  will  find  it  a 
fast selling soap,  and  will  always  keep  it  in  stock.  Show 
card and advertising  m atter  with  OLD  COUNTRY  SOAP.  ^

Wholesale Agents, 

!  MJ I U U A U J
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GRAND  RAPIDS.

b ._5 box lots or upwards delivered free to your railroad station.

Sc  HESS,
P E R K I N S
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

----- DEALERS  IN

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NOS.  12»  and  124 LOCISSTREET, GRAND  RA PID S,  M ICHIGAN.

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S. S. MORRIS  & BRO.

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Jobbers  of  Provisions,

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

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

OROUTT  Sc  OOLÆF-A.ISTIT,
Bntlir,Eits,Ctaisi,M,GiÉ,laj,Biiiii;Ptì,Miitii.

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Consignments  Solicited.

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