Michigan  Tradesman.

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GRAND  RAPIDS. MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  11,  1885.

NO. 77.

AM ONG  T H E   P IN E S .

j C e rta in   Social  P h ase s  in   N o rth e rn   M ich i­

g a n —No. 5.

Chas. Ellis in th e C urrent

Michigan is a  fine  farming  State.  The 
soil is rich and strong, and yields  abundant­
ly of all the northern  crops. 
In  the  older 
portions of the State, where the farms  have 
been fully reclaimed from the  long  domin­
ions of the forest, the  farmers  are  thrifty, 
prosperous, independent.  But  the  work of 
making a good farm in Michigan, is so much 
greater than it has been in  a  prairie  State, 
Illinois, for instance, that the pioneer lias to 
do a great deal of  hard  labor  that  is  not 
farming, before he can get his land into con­
dition to farm, before he can be said, in fact, 
to have found liis farm.  A spot was pointed 
out to me one day, as 1 rode along a country 
road up here, over  which, the  story was, a 
solitary horseman carefully  picked  his way 
one warm day, some  years ago,  when  this 
road was only a blazed  bridle-path.  By the 
side of the path, at the spot  mentioned, the 
aforesaid solitary horseman found a log cab­
in, at the door of  which  he  stopped and in 
astonishment inquired of the still  more soli­
tary individual whom he found there:

“What in the name of heaven are you  do­

ing here, my friend?”

“Wall, stranger,  reckon I’m  living here.” 
“But you don’t mean to  say that  you in­

tend to stay here?”

“Wall, Mister What’s-yer-name, yer about 

k’rect; stay’s the word.”

“What do you intend to do here?”
“Wall, seein’ ’syou  ar’nt  very  ’quis’tiv’ 
aboaut the  hull  bizuess, I’ll  tell  yer’t I’m 
goin’ to make a farm here.”

“But,” said the astonished horseman, who 
was looking up pine lands,  for  purposes of 
speculation,  “but my good  man,  where  are 
you going to find your land?”

“Wall, mister, never seed trees yitb’twhat 
ther’ w’s land under’m, ’n I reckon I’il find 
some on’t here, arter a while.”

All  along  that  road  to-day  farms,  farm­
houses and barns are to  be  found,  with  oc­
casional villages and growing young  towns. 
Most, if not all of the  farms,  however,  are 
still in process of evolution  from  savagery, 
or wilderness, but the work goes steadily on. 
Here and there you see a  farm  that is only 
such by courtesy.  That is to say, because a 
man has settled there,  built  himself  a  log 
house and barn, or some simple shanties an­
swering the same purpose,  and  begun  the 
work of “clearing,” lie is classed among far­
mers.

He begins the  work  of  making a  farm, 
lie chops down the standing  trees  and cuts 
them into logs, as he does also the windfalls. 
The merchantable pine lias been already cut, 
for all this land passes through the hands of 
lumbermen or speculators,  before  it  comes 
into market for farms.  The pioneer farmer 
buys the hardwood, the refuse pine, and  all 
the stumps.  He burns  his  chopping,  and 
between the stumps he sow’s and  plants his 
seech  Again he chops and burns, and again 
he plants among more stumps.  So  year af­
ter year he gains  little  by little  upon  the 
forest, but still  the  stumps  remain.  They 
cling to their home.  They  die  hard as sav­
agery does  everywhere.  The  roots of the 
hardwood  stump  rot  and  become  brittle 
enough, excepting the oak, to break and tear 
out in a few years, but those of the pine are 
almost immortal.  The  sap  of  the  pine is 
full of balsam, and pine  stumps  burnt  well 
on the outside, and a clearing  will  show  a 
mass  of  coal-black  stumps,  molars, so  to 
speak, for twenty years or more, which even 
then will not let gotheir grip  in the  jaws of 
mother Earth without an amount of cutting, 
digging and pulling that makes  the  pioneer 
farmer a  veritable  surgeon-dentist  of  the | 
soil!  If a .man is young and strong when he j 
begins this work, and  health  and  strength 
"remain with  him,  it  is  reasonably  certain 
that, by the time he is, say,  fifty  years  old, 
he will have a snug  farm  under cultivation, 
a fair proportion of it fully cleared of stumps 
and as fruitful as can be found  in  the same 
latitude all the way around the  globe.  But 
not more than  one in  eight  or ten of those 
who undertake such  a  task,  ever  makes  a 
success of it  The hard work and poor fare 
break down the courage, even if  the  health 
does not fail, and they go in search, of some 
spot where nature has made better  prepara­
tion for poineer  farmers  than  she  did  up 
here. 
In many cases such men,  in  leaving, 
leave all that, too, perforce.  The  land into 
which the put their small store of money has 
perhaps been eaten up,  and  goes to  satisfy 
some mortgage.  Then their places are filled 
by others who take up the  work  where  the 
pioneer left it, and  are  more successful, be­
cause of the unrequited  toil of  those  who 
failed.  But not all of these succeed.  Some 
of them grow weary over  their  everlasting 
fight with stumps, and sell  out  in  hope of 
finding  in  the  farther  west,  some  easier 
Eden.  Thus the toilers toil aand  die,  many 
of them with but  little satisfaction and less 
pleasure in life.  Yet at  last  some  one  is 
sure to become a well-to-do farmer  upon the 
spot where the pioneer began  his  stubborn 
battle  with  the  wilderness.  These  unsuc­
cessful people are neyer known; they disap­
pear unwept  and  unsung  to-day,  for  our 
world of man  applauds  only  success,  wor­
ships only gain.  Yet  it  was  substantially 
the same sort of struggle that  began at Ply­
mouth Rock.  The amount of labor, of hard

human toil, that nature has  exacted  for the 
wildness that she has surrendered  to  civili­
zation in two  centuries  and a half  in  our 
country is something, as a  whole,  astound­
ing,  approaching  the  inconceivable,  incom­
prehensible !

Man in a state of savagery is as high a de­
velopment as  nature  can  droduce until man 
himself learns in his struggle for life that he 
can by “taking  thought”  improve  upon  his 
conditions, that he can to some  extent make 
or mend his  own  environments.  The  wil­
derness filled with savagery is nature not yet 
stimulated with the idea of property, posses­
sion, wealth, betterment.  Civilization is na­
ture plus man at work.  Difference between 
savagery  and  “finest  civilization” is legiti­
mately traceable to the amount of work done 
by man to  make  himself  the  possessor of 
something,  some  thing  which hope and sel­
fishness lead him to struggle  for,  fight  *for; 
in  times  not  so  far  away  to  steal, lie and 
murder  for. 
In  this  way  lazy,  deceitful,
| baneful  Savagery,  for  out of that came  we 
all,  has  in  some  cases  become  a  mighty 
thinker and worker.

admitted 
in 

fact  must 
be 
are  bad  men 

tured here on such business, was  not  worth 
a pinch of snuff and so kept out of the way. 
It  is also maintained  here  by  the  fanners, 
that  the  lumber  camps contain many men j 
who are criminals escaped from Canada.  In i 
consequence,  there  is  not  a  remarkably j 
agreeable  relationship  between  these  two. j 
The 
that j
the  camps, j
there 
The  State  law  against  capital  punishment j 
has made bad men  everywhere,  and  in  the j 
woods, or in districts far  removed from con­
stabulary force, such men  will  ofteuer dare | 
to commit crime  than  in  towns  and cities. 
There have been several murders committed 
in the neighborhood of our camp, and people 
talk  loudly  about  a  return to the good old 
fashion of  hanging;  and  doubtless it would 
be a better protection for the settlers.  Pen- 
itentiary-for-life has but little terror for men 
who  are  too  lazy  to  work,  too  cowardly 
to kill themselves, and mean enough to com­
mit a crime for the sake of  getting board at 
the State’s  expense.  The  farmers  will  be 
glad when ¿he pine has all been cut,  and the 
country left to them alone.

Through it all,  however,  success  has  de­
pended  in  the  main,  upon  the quality and 
quantity of the  food.  A  German  philoso­
pher said that without  phosphorus  there  is 
no thought;  but without food,  what?  Poor 
food means poor civilization;  poorest, none. 
Ireland is an  example  of  a  country  with a 
potato civilization.  China  has  a rice civili­
zation.  The civilization of England and our 
own country,  in its best, it based on beef. In 
a  new  country,  where  nutritious  game  is 
easily  obtained,  men  will  do pioneer work 
with  greater  success  than  where  there is 
none. The Indians of North America endured 
so long, because in spite of their lack of skill 
as cooks, they had  abundance  of  food with 
strength in it.  Could  the endurance of  the 
Indian have been converted  from  idle mus­
cular energy into the molecular  vibration of 
ambition  and  greed  thrilling up and down 
his  nervous  system,  he*might  have  had  a 
strong  civilization  of  his  own.  As  their 
game  has  grown  scarcer,  they have grown 
weaker.  Savages and wild,  or unprotected, 
game will disappear together.  The  pioneer 
farmer, of  whom  I  have  been  writing, has 
been, and is  working  here  in a wilderness, 
from which all game has been driven by the 
noise of the steam whistle and the  rumbling 
train, or  the  bustle  and  excitement of  the 
ubiquitous lumberman.  Within rifle-shot of 
where I write, there were  plenty  of  deer to 
be flema ten years ago;  and a gray old  man 
tells me that he has  often  seen  them  come 
into his clearing and  look  around  with  ap­
parent  wonder,  as  if  trying  to  determine 
what it all meant. 
It is a fact not generally 
appreciated  that  the  deer  does  not wholly 
dislike the pioneer settler. 
If  only an occa­
sional shot brings down  one  of  them,  they 
will not object.  The  presence  of  man in a 
friendly way, drives off the wolves and other 
animals that are destructive of  the deer. 
It 
is too many “sportsmen,” so-called,  and  too 
much  noise  of lumbermen, that have driven 
the deer away.

Land  that  has  been  lumbered,  can be 
bought for from two and a half to five dollars 
per acre. 
I have noticed that  where  a rail­
road runs through such a new  farming  sec­
tion  of  country,  the  pioneer  seems to be 
more enterprising.  Though stations may be 
scarce,  he  can  get  to  market;  he  can  put 
himself in contact with at least some portion 
of the living world of men.  This keeps him 
in courage  and  stirs  his  ambition.  He is 
awake to the needs of his children and wants 
a school. 
I have seen here, in a hole in  the 
forest, a clearing  in  which  there were four 
poor  little  shanties,  about  each  of  which 
there were several children.  Off in the cor­
ner  stood  the  only  finished  and  painted 
building in sight, a neat little  school house. 
Through the  milder  seasons  of  the year it 
would be  open  and  children would come to 
it from such shanties, scattered through  the 
woods for miles around.  By the time  these 
children are old  this  forest will have disap­
peared, and where  the  steam-ears now stop 
in a stumpfield, there will then be the center 
of a  prosperous  agricultural  district.  The 
railroad is a grand civilizer.

These woodsy farmers aré  sometimes  un- 
thoughtfully  called  close-fisted  and  stingy, 
but when one considers the amount  of  hard 
work  they  must  do  before  they  can  take 
money for anything they  can  produce  from 
the soil, there is  a  good  excuse  for  them. 
One of these pioneers, whose “place” is well 
spotted with black  stumps,  between  which 
he lias in fifteen years raised enough to give 
him  a  comfortable  home,  with a good out­
look for the future, said to me: “Say, mister, 
when I cum onto my place here, I wuz tur’bl’ 
poor.  Had no money to  git  anything with, 
had no team, no stock, no nothin’.  Worked 
fur  my  neighbors  to  git  our livin’.  Rainy 
days  ’n’  nights  worked  on  my own place, 
choppin’, ’n’ rollin’, ’n’ bumin’, ’n’  clearin’, 
a little at a time.  Tell yor uncle ’twas  hard 
work,  you  bet,  ’n’  I feel it naow, ’in putty 
well  used  up.”  The  whole  region round 
about here was a  dense  forest twenty years 
ago, and in those tdrrible “war times” it was 
a favorable resort  for  deserters.  The  lum­
ber  camps,  it  is  said,  were  full  of  them. 
The War Department probably never  knew 
of  it, for  though  officers  of  the army were 
aware of the fact, still,  I  am  told that they 
also knew that the  life  of  a man who ven-

T h e D ru m m e r’s M ash.

The other day a commercial traveler oper­
ating for a Detroit shoe firm boarded a  train 
at that place, and was soon attracted by  the 
charming face of a lass who got on at Ponti­
ac.  He thought he saw that she was a sweet, 
innocent, young thing who  had  never  been 
around any, and he wended his way to where 
she sat and insinuated himself into her  soci­
ety.

“It’s a very stormy day,  miss,”  said  this 

knowing commercial traveler.

“Is that so?” she asked, with a great show 
of interest.  Here, indeed, was  a  sweet  ex­
ample of rustic innocence.  Storming like all 
the furies, and had been for nine consecutive 
hours, and yet she seemed to  know  nothing 
about it.  “Poor, credulous,  simple  thing,” 
he thought.  “She’ll be madly  in  love  with j 
mp in ‘steen’ minutes.”

“Going far?” he inquired.
“Oh, an awfully long way !”
“How sweet  and  childish,”  thought  the i 

gripsack man.

“How far are you going?” he  asked.
“Oh, ’way off.”
“To Ionia?”
“My, yes! and farther than that.”
“I’m awfully  glad. 

I’ll  have  your  com­
pany for a good while, then,” said he,  “and 
I know we shall be great friends.”

“I hope  so,’’she replied.
“You liaye beaux, don’t you?” the  festive 

drummer suddenly asked.

“No, I used to have, but----- ”
“A h! never mind. 

I’ll be  your  beau  on 
this trip.  Now tell me your name,  please.” 
“Medda—Medda LeGr—well, it used to be 
Medda LeGrand, but it is  Cushman,  now.” 

“What! you are not married!!
“No!  I poisoned  my  fifth  husband  the
other day, and you-----Oh! you  do  look  so
sweet.  You  look  as  if  strychnine  would 
make  such  a  lovely  corpse  of  you.  Come, 
now, won’t you marry me?”  And she blushed 
a  real  natural  blush.  But  the  dismayed 
drummer excused himself, and the jolly Pon­
tiac girl and her beau, wlio  had  sat  behind 
all the time, pretending to be asleep, laughed 
all the way to Owosso.

Too Good fo r a  C lerk .

Dry Goods Merchant—So,  sir,  you  think 

yon could learn to become a  salesman? 

Applicant for position—Yes, sir.
8 ‘WeIl,  supposing  you  were  waiting  on 
that gentleman and his  wife  over  there  at 
the lace counter.  What would you do first?” 
“I should hold up the best piece of lace in 
the stock, and ask the gentleman if he didn’t 
think it becoming to his wife’s style of beau­
ty.”

“Well, what then?”
“Oh, nothing.  The lady would take  care 

of the  rest.”

“Young man, you have great  penetration, 
I  want 

but I don’t want yon  for  a  clerk. 
you, for a partner.”

A   T ow n  in   M o u rn in g .

One  of  our  traveling  men  noticed  at  a 
small station, the other  day,  that  the  men 
collected on the platform all wore  a  deject­
ed look.  Their  subdued  manner  and  sor­
rowful appearance indicated  that  a  serious 
disaster had occurred.

“What’s the  trouble?”  he  asked  through 
the  car  window.  “A  lot  of  people  mur­
dered?”

“No, stranger, it’s  worse’ll  that,”  said  a 
citizen.  “The White Elephant burned down 
las’ night.”

“The White Elephant!  What’s that?” 
“Hit war the only  likker  store  in  town, 

stranger.”

A  M ig h ty  M ean M an.

John Richards is a very  stingy  man, and 
particularly to his  wife.  They  were  in a 
certain dry goo'ds store a  few  days ago, and 
Mrs. Richards hinted that she wanted a blue 
silk dress.

“Nonsense, blue  doesn’t  suit  your  com­

plexion, at all.”

“Then I’ll take a green dress.”
“Do you want to  poison yourself?  Don’t 
you know that all these  green  dresses  are 
poisonous?”

“Then you pick me out a dress.”
“That’s the trouble. You  see I don’t  like 

any other color except blue and  green.”

H ouse  F u rn ish in g .

From  the H ouse F urnisher.

the  past 

The term house  furnishing  now  includes 
so large and varied an assortment of articles 
that  are  indispensable to even  a  moderate 
well-appointed  house  that that  very fact is 
itself a tribute to the importance  which this 
branch of industry  bears  to  other  kindred 
interests.  Within 
few  years 
science, art  and  invention  have  effected a 
complete revolution in  the  modes  that are 
now adopted for securing greater comfort in 
home surroundings.  Sanitary laws,  in their 
various applications of practical utility, have 
played  an 
important  part  in  the  great 
change; simplicity and cheapness have taken 
the place of costly and complicated  articles, 
which have,  until  within a  comparatively 
recent period, only been within  the reach of 
the few.  There is scarcely a  home, howev­
er poorly  furnished, but  which  illustrates 
this truth. 
In fact, the  whole  subject  in­
volves a most interesting  study of the  great 
progress made by American  invention in the 
manner  of  every-day  life.  Scarcely a day 
passes  but that  something new is put upon 
the market; something that  will  economize 
time, save money, and secure  greater  com­
fort to the household.

The fact is, consumers want the  best they 
can get for the least money, and  the  public 
are not slow in distinguishing  between  the 
merits of the various  claims  upon  their at­
tention.  We no  longer  live  in  an  age of 
imitation.  Practical  utility  is  the  motive 
power which governs nearly all  enterprises, 
no matter to  what  department  of  industry 
they may apply.

House  furnishing is not  confined to  the 
fitting up of the kitchen alone.  There are a 
hundred and one other things  that  play an 
equally important part in the  domestic gov­
ernment.  Fenders and  irons, fire dogs, coal 
scuttles, lamps, and many other articles.

S o ften in g  L e a th e r.

Neatsfoot oil will  not  soften  leather  un­
der all circumstances, neither will  castor oil 
any better.  Oil is not necessary to the  plia­
bility of leather—the leather of the ox, goat, 
calf and kid. 
It is necessary the leather  be 
kept moist; but oil need not  be the moisten­
ing means.  Yet in use oil is the  most  con­
venient means for keeping leather  soft. 
It 
would be inconvientto employ water to keep 
pliable the leather of our  boots,  because of 
its spreading the pores of  the  leather  and 
admitting cold  air  besides,  unless  always 
wet, leather becomes hard  and  rigid.  Oil, 
on the contrary, keeps the leather in a prop­
er state for its best  usefulness,  that of plia­
bility.  But in order that oil may soften the 
leather, its way  should  be  prepared  by  a 
thorough wetting of the  leather  by  water. 
Much less oil is required  if  the  leather  is 
well saturated with water.  The philosophy 
is obvious; water is repellent  to the oil, and 
prevents it  from  passing  entirely  through 
the leather, holding the oil in the  substance 
of the leather.  The use of water for soften­
ing belts in factories is  not  inconvenient,  if 
advantage is taken of a  holiday.  At  night 
the belts  may  be  brushed  clean  and  thor­
oughly wetted, then in the morning  use  the 
oil; a much smaller quantity is  necessary to 
make the belt pliable than when no water is 
used.

It is a curious fact that, in spite of the com­
plaints of dull  trade  last  year,  the  cotton 
mills of Biddeford  and  Saco,  Maine,  were 
unusually  successful.  The  Pepperell  cor­
poration has paid 12 per  cent., the  Laconia, 
6 per cent, and the York,  5  per  cent.  The 
management state that the mills have earned 
these dividends, actually, and that their sur­
plus funds have not been touched.  The  to­
tal annual production of the  three  corpora­
tions in  Biddeford  and  Saco  is  18,000,000 
pounds of cotton  fabrics  of  various  kinds. 
This is about  50,000,000  yards.  The  mills 
keep 5,000 people busy.

Preserving, or rather keeping eggs in cold 
storage, has many advantages  in  equalizing 
the supply of eggs, as well as  the  widening 
of the market,  yet  the quality  so  stored  is 
soon rendered inferior.  There are large lots 
of  eggs  now  in  market  placed  in  cold 
storage din ing the glut of last  spring, which 
have  proved  hard  of  sale  at  a profit, and 
many of which are now musty, inferior, and 
only lit for dressing skins and bakers’ use in 
pies and  cakes.  No  practical  method  has 
yet  been  devised  for  keeping  eggs for any 
considerable time in their original  freshness 
and quality.

A  London  lawyer  suffered  a  long time 
from  lead  poisoning  before the doctors dis­
covered that it was owing to his use of snuff 
put up  in  so-called  tin-foil  wrappers.  Ac­
cording to the Medical Press  there are now 
on  record  thirty-four  cases  of  this  kind. 
Some samples of moist snuff contain 250 per 
cent, of lead.

The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  is 
making experiments with electric  lights for 
use in its passenger-cars._  The  experiments 
have progressed so  favorably  that  it  is  be­
lieved that in a few months the electric light 
will be  introduced  into  all  the  passenger 
cars on its various lines.

M. C. Congdon  has  purchased  the  furni­
ture stock belonging to the Kidder estate, at 
Cedar  Springs,  and  will  continue the busi­
ness at the old location.

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Unquestionably the best in the market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
Jolin Caulfield,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

We offer to the trad e:

Prim e M am moth Clover Seed at_$5.50 p er bu. 
P rim e Medium Clover Seed a t $5 per bu.
No. 2 Clover Seed a t $4.75 per bu.
No. 3 Clover Seed a t $4.50 per bu.
P rim e Tim othy Seed a t $1.65 p er bu.

The above prices  are  free  on  board  cars in 
lots  of  5  o r  m ore  bags  a t  a  tim e.  Cartage 
charged on sm aller quantities.  W here parties 
are unknow n to us, no orders will be tilled u n ­
less rem ittances come w ith the  o rder  o r  first- 
class references.  Seeds are spot cash upon re­
ceipt of goods.

Grand Rapids Grain and Seed Co.,

71  CANAL  STREET.

EDMUND  B,  DIKEMAN

J E W E L E R ,

44  CA N A L  STR E E T ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

FOR  MAHOGANY!
HENRY  OTIS,

ADDRESS

IMPORTER, 

NEW  ORLEANS

'J
Special A ttention given  to  Collections  in  City 

or  Country.  Also

FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT

Insurance,

Shoe and  L eath er........................................Boston
C o o ler.................................................D ayton, Onio
Union 
........................................P ittsb u rg h ,  Pa.
G erm ania....................................Cincinnati,  Ohio

Total A ssets represented, $3,516,808.

CO R R ESPO N D E N C E  S O L IC IT E D .

TOWER  &  CHAPLIN,
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Rapids
PETEK  DORAN, 

General  Collectors,

Attorney-at-Law,

Fierce Block, Grand Bapids, Michigan, 

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

M E R C A N T IL E   COLLECTIO N S.

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 o h n  D. M a n - 
gu m,  A.  M.  S p r a g u e ,  J o h n   H.  £  a c k e r , 
L. R. C k sn a , and A. B.  I I a h p r ic k s .

24 Pearl Street

Grand Rapids, MicL

W. N.FULLER & CO

DESIGNERS  AND

Engravers on Wood,

F in e   M e ch an ical  a n d   F u rn itu r e  W o rk , I n ­

c lu d in g   B u ild in g s, E tc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

-  

MICH.

SHRIVER, WEATHERLY & CO.,

G rand  Rapids, Mich., 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

IRON  PIPE,

Brass Goods, Iron  and  Brass  Fittings, 

Mantels,  Grates, Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam Fitters,
—And Manufacturers of—

Galvanized Iron  Cornice.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  MARCH  11,  1885.

Michigan Dairymen’s  Association.

Organized  at  Grand  Rapids,  February  2o,  1885.
President—M ilan W iggins, Bloomingdale.
V ice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P .  Foltz,  Davison 
S tation;  F.  A.  Rockfellow,  Carson  City, 
W arren H aven, Bloomingdale ;C h as.  F. Bel­
knap,  G rand  Rapids;  L.  F .  Cox,  P oriage ’ 
Jo h n  Borst, V riesland;  B. C. Nash, H ilhards, 
D.  M.  Adam s,  A shland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks-
Secretary and T reasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  G rand
NeiftP M eeting—Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
M em bership Fee—SI per year.
Official O r g a n —T h e   M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n .
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized a t Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

1886.

.

. r.

President—L ester J. Rindge.
V ice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
T reasu rer—Wm. Sears. 
. .  
Executive  C om m ittee-P resident,  V ice-Pres­
ident and T reasurer, ex-offleur, O. A. Ball, one 
y ear;  L. E. H aw kins and R. D. Sw artout, two
A rbitration  Com m ittee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
T ransportation  Com m ittee—Sam uel  bears, 
In su ran ce Com m itte—Jo h n  G. Shields, A rth u r 
M anufacturing  Com m ittee—Wm.  C artw right, 
A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening 
R egular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  e\en - 

P u tnam , Joseph H ousem an. 
Geo. B. D unton. Amos. S. M usselman.
Meigs, Wm. T. L am oreaux.
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
of October. 
ing of each m onth.

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Q

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POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
F i r s t  V ice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second  V i c e - P r e s i d e n t — S t e p h e n  A.  Sears.
Secretary and T reasurer—L. W. A tkins.
E xecutive  Committee—P resident  and  Secre­
tary ,  ex  offleio’,  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
B radford and W. G. H awkins.
Election Com m ittee—Geo.  H.  Seym our,  Wal­
lace  F ranklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
m unds and D. S. H augh.
Room  Com m ittee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
Regular  M eetings—L ast  Saturday  evening  in 
each m onth. 
,  oa
N ext  M eeting—Saturday  evening,  M arch  ¿8, 
a t “The T radesm an” office.

. 

The past winter has  been  a  rough  and 
hard one.  The inclement weather,  the  dull 
business,  slack  employment,  low  wages, 
troubles  abroad,  social  ferment, apprehen­
sions of  class  conflict, have  been  supple­
mented lately by fires  and distressful losses 
of life. 
It is to be hoped that the advent of 
spring  ushers in a new  order of  things, in 
which the disorders incident  to  of  the  past 
few  months will be the exception instead of 
the  rule.

for 

Savage & Farnum, the Detroit advertising 
agents,  write  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  soliciting 
an  advertisment 
their  forthcoming 
“Manual,”  in  consideration  of  which they 
agree to  “send  you [us] considerable  busi­
ness during the coming year.”  T h e  T r a d e s­
m a n  conducts its advertising business  on its 
own merits and is not open to bribes of  this 
character.  The  less  business  men  have to 
do with advertising agents  in  general—and 
Savage & Farnum in  particular—the  better 
it will be for them.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n  is gratified at  the num­
erous evidences’ of  appreciation on  the part 
of the reading public  in  behalf  of  Soliman 
Snooks’ unique contributions to this paper— 
the more so because they are the  old gentle­
man’s first attempts to  gain  public  recogni­
tion.  The free latitude accorded the  writer 
in the choice  and  treatment of his  subjects 
renders it necessary that  T h e  T r a d e s m a n  
disclaim  any  responsibility  for  any  state­
ments he may have made in the past or may 
utter hereafter. 
It is essential that this fact 
be kept in mind, as T h e  T r a d e s m a n ,  as  a 
journal, never expresses  opinions  on  poli­
tics, religion or any other subject  foreign to 
trade and commerce.

P u re ly   P erso n al.

Homer Klap,  of  DeJager & Klap, 

is  the 

father of a nine-pound youngster.

Fred. Fallas has  returned  from a trip to 
Boston, made in the interest of his father E. 
Fallas.

Frank L. Orcutt, of the wholesale produce 
firm of Orcutt & Co., of  Muskegon,  was in 
town yesterday.

W. Parkhurst,  of  the  firm  of  Parkhurst 
Bros., general  dealers  at  Nunica,  was  in 
town Monday on his way to New Orleans.

W. E. Beeson, of the firm  of  Wood, Bee­
son & Co., left Monday for a two weeks’ trip 
through Ohio, Pennsylvania  and  West Vir­
ginia.

O. F. Conklin,  of  Coopersville, and John 
and J. A. Wagner,  of Eastmanville, were in 
the city Monday on their  way  to  the  New 
Orleans Exposition.

Frank Smith, of Darling  & Smith, and D. 
Gerber, of D. Gerber & Sons,  representative 
merchants of Fremont, have returned  home, 
the former from the inaugural ceremonies at 
Washington and the latter from  the  South­
ern Exposition at New Orleans.

Dr. C.  S.  Hazel tine  has  returned  from 
Jamestown,  N^Y.,  whither  he  was  sum­
moned by the dangerous illness of his father 
and brother.  The latter  died  the  morning 
he arrived at  Jamestown,  but  his  father’s 
health has since improved  very  materially.

H. J. Courtright, of Duck Lake, has  been 
appointed general agent of this State for the 
Hamilton patent display  chart.

AMONG  TH E   TR AD E.

IN  THE  CITY.

Clark & Ocker will put in a  planing  mill 
on the west side, just north of  the  Phoenix 
Furniture Co.

N. H. Robinson has engaged in the grocery 
business at Oakfield Center.  The stock was 
purchased in this city.

The Fuller & Rice Lumber Co. are putting 
it a ten-inch  sticker  or  moulding  machine, 
manufactured  by  the  Egan Co., of Cincin­
nati.

John J. Lynch has  engaged  in  the  dry 
goods and notion  business at  164  Summit 
street.  Spring  &  Company  furnished  the 
stock.

Hester & Fox are now  pleasantly located 
at their new  machinery  warehouse at  130 
Oakes street, and are  getting in a full  line 
of machinery.

Thos. Terwerda has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business at the corner of Alpine avenue 
and  Seventh  street.  Clark, Jewell  &  Co. 
furnished the  stock.

Alfred J. Green, for the  past  four  years 
with Ira O.  Green,  three years as traveling 
salesman, has engaged  in  the  produce  and 
commission business on his  own  account at 
154 Fulton  street.

Stephen Biteley, the  Pierson  lumberman, 
was  in  town  Monday.  He  started  up  his 
shingle mill at Biteley  Siding  last  Tusday 
and is operating the same at its  full  capaci­
ty—about 40,000 per day.

J. W. Eardley, the  Cascade  farmer  and 
agricultural implement  manufacturer, turn­
ed out 1,200 hay racks last  season  and  in­
tends making about  half  that  number  the 
coming summer.  He also made  about  100 
ground rollers and will double that  number.
D. B. Yan Buren, the East Leonard street 
druggist, has been closed on a chattel  mort­
gage  for $700,  held  by  Alonzo  Clement. 
Yan Buren claims that  he  will  engage  in 
business again, but as he has  neither capital 
nor credit, the time when he  will resume is 
somewhat in doubt.

Ira O. Green has 2,000  bushels  of  beans 
in storage, which have cost him on an  aver­
age of $1 per bushel,  and  on  which  he is 
confident he will realize $2,000  profit anoth­
er season.  His  reason for expecting higher 
prices is that a crop so large in  amount and 
so fine in quality comes  only  about  once in 
ten years, and that a small  crop, inferior  in 
quality, invariably follows.

E. Fallas is now  located  in  the  double 
basement at 97 and 99 Canal street, which he 
has fitted up expressly  for  the  butter  and 
egg business.  Included in the improvements 
is a butter working room in  the  rear, 20x30 
feet in dimensions.  Mr. Fallas  pickled 17,- 
000 dozen of eggs last season, and  claims to 
be the only packer in Michigan  who  came 
out whole on the investment.

Geo. Getty  succeeds  Chas.  Rolph in the 

saw mill business at Shelby.

T. M. Wolverton  contemplates  erecting a 

new store building at Blanchard.

Danforth & Son succeed J. Greenup & Co. 

in the grocery business at Rodney.

Jno. McClelland  succeeds  J.  D.  Wood­

bury & Co. in general trade at Portland.

Bender Bros, succeed Naylor & Co.'in the 

dry goods and carpet business at Sturgis.

Wesley Monger succeeds  Monger & West 

in the hardware business at Eaton Rapids.

Norton & Lester, general  dealers at  Sar­
anac, have dissolved,  L.  M.  Lester succeed­
ing.

Bechtel & Godfrey have closed their meat 
market, at Freeport, and  dissolved  partner­
ship.

Henry Seaman, grocer at Greenville, is re­
ported closed under a $1,000  chattel  mortr 
gage.

Peter L.  Conine  succeeds  P. L. Conine & 
Co.  in  the  hardware  business  at  Battle 
Creek.

Watsworth &  Westbrook  succeed  Chas. 
Remaly  &  Son  in  the  meat  business  at 
Eureka.

Geo. W. Sly has moved his stock of drugs 
from Muir to Monroe, where he will  contin­
ue the business.

Grenhuis  &  Koffers  succeed  Grenhuis, 
Weil &  Co.,  in  the  clothing  business  at 
Grand Haven.

L. Perringo has engaged in the drug  trade 
at  Burnip’s  Corners,  occupying  Heck  & 
Goodman’s old stand.

Wattles  &  Wood,  hardware  dealers  at 
Battle Creek, have confessed two judgments 
aggregating $10,948.04.

II. E. Grand-Girard, the Big  Rapids  gro- 
ceryman, made an assignment Monday to F. 
Fairman.  Liabilities, about $2,200.

Henry Flynn, the Big Rapids groceryman, 
has bought Geo.  Higgins’  grocery  stock at 
Byers, and will operate the latter as a branch 
establishment.

Malcom Winnie, late of  the  firm of Win­
nie Bros., has purchased the stock  of  groce­
ries  and  provisions  of  Roland  & Co.,  at 
Traverse  City,  and  will  continue the busi­
ness.

Dibble Bros., general dealers  at  Burnip’s 
Comers, have purchased Heck & Goodman’s 
stock at that place and  consolidated it  with 
their own.  They have sold their drug stock 
to  Luther  Perrigo,  who  will  carry  on  the 
drag  and  wallpaper  business  at  Heck & 
Goodman’s old stand.  The latter  gentlemen 
are  looking  for  a  new  location and think 
some of engaging in trade at Dorr.

Theron  Stafford, 

the  Ravenna  druggist 
and groceryman, has sold his stock and store 
building  to  Joseph  Hanville  and  F.  C. 
Thatcher,  who  will  continue  the  business 
under  the  firm  name  Jos.  Hanville  & Co. 
Mr. Stafford contemplates re-engaging in the 
drug  business  in  some  Northern  town,  to 
which plan every  traveling  man  who is ac­
quainted  with  the  genial  Theron 'Will say 
“amen.”

The Vepairs on W. T. Lamoreaux’ block  at 
71 Canal street are now entirely  completed, 
and the result is one of  the handsomest and 
best arranged establishment in the city. The 
first floor is  occupied  as a  seed  and  grain 
salesroom, the second floor for grain storage, 
and the third floor and basement  for  gener­
al storage.  Every floor has an elevator con­
nection, and each department is so  arranged 
as to reduce the labor incident to  the  hand­
ling of grain and other  heavy  merchandise 
to the minimum.

It is estimated by those who are  in a posi­
tion to judge with some degree  of  accuracy 
that Grand Rapids dealers have  shipped 300 
carloads of potatoes into the Southern States 
during the present season  and that the deal­
ers along the line of the G. R. & I. and C.  & 
W. M. Railways have  shipped  100  carloads 
more,  making  400  in  all.  Fully  500,000 
bushels—equivalent  to  1,000  carloads—are 
awaiting  a  market  between Grand Rapids 
and the Straits, and will have to  be  moved, 
if moved at all,  within  the next six or eight 
weeks.  Local dealers are buying cautiously, 
as it is uncertain which way the market will 
go,  although 
the  experience  of  previous 
years renders a decline more  probable  than 
an advance.

“I am glad  to  note  that  T h e   T r a d e s­
m a n’s wholesale condemnation  of  the reck­
lessness in meeting  bills  characteristic with 
some dealers is  having  a  beneficial  effect,” 
said a representative jobber.  “So far as our 
house is concerned,  we  have  heard  from a 
number of former customers whose accounts 
have long since been passed to the debit side 
of the profit and loss account.  Several  cus­
tomers whom we  had  come  to  regard  as 
wholly worthless and who  have  long  been 
rated as undesirable,  have  straightened  up 
the old matters and  met  new  bills  with a 
promptness which has  completely redeemed 
their  credit.  These  circumstances  satisfy 
me that a large proportion  of  our slow-pay­
ing trade owe their  condition  to  negligence 
quite as much as to  misfortune, and  that a 
proper  understanding  of  the  promptness 
with which the jobber  is  compelled to meet 
his bills will spur the retailer up to unusual 
exertions and enable him to cast off the leth­
argy which kills  his credit  and  disgusts his 
creditors.”

AROUND THE  STATE.

C. D. Hobart, grocer at Jackson, is selling 

out

dead.

Henry Kessel,  grocer  at  Port  Huron, is 

Elmira is  said  to be a good location for a 

crockery store.

L. C. Webb succeeds Webb & Mead in the 

clothing business at Mason.

J. H. Robb succeeds C. D. Hobart  in  the 

grocery business at Jackson.

M AN U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

Jas. Campbell  will  soon start up his  saw 

mill at Westwood.

Hiatt & Lannin  are  building  a  new  saw 

mill in Rapid River.

W. H.  Thompson  has  purchased  A.  A. 
Bleazby’s interest in the  Mancelona  handle 
factoiy, and is now sole  owner of  that  es­
tablishment.

Lee & Brown’s new roller flouring mill, at 
Saranac, was started last  Tuesday,  when  it 
was ascertained that the  establishment  has 
a daily capacity of 140 barrels per day.

It is stated that if Cadillac  gets  another 
railroad one of the monied  men  there  will 
sink a well for salt, and  experiment  in  the 
manufacture of paper from sawdust.

L. L. King and  D.  A.  Gaylord have  each 
purchased a quarter  interest  in J. G. McEl- 
wee’s picture backing factory at Big Rapids, 
and the firm name will  be Jas. G. McElwee 
& Co.

Butters & Peters, at Ludington, are adding 
to their mill building, and in the spring  will 
put in a  gang  of  twenty-eight  saws.  The 
firm is also  enlarging  its capacity for  man­
ufacturing  shingles.

James Towle, of Greenville, has  purchas­
ed of  the  Wager  Lumber  Co. 
the  Derby 
lake mill, three miles west  of  Stanton,  and 
will move it to the site of  the  one  recently 
burned, near Sheridan.

J. Van Putten &  Co.,  proprietors  of  the 
Holland City Butter Tub  Factory, have add­
ed a line of  shingle machinery and will cut 
shingles in addition to the regular  manufac­
ture of their butter tubs.

S. D.  Kimbark, 

the  well-known  heavy 
hardware and wagon stock dealer  of  Chica­
go, has established at Quincy, on the  Michi­
gan Central  railroad,  a  hardwood  lumber 
saw mill and  wagon  stock  factory, with a 
capacity of 25,000 feet a day.

Hastings  Democrat:  The  croquet  fac­
tory was shut down  Monday  and  Tuesday, 
on account of the breaking of the cold water 
pump.  Several  important  orders  have re­
cently been booked, and the factory  will be 
worked  nearly  to  its  full  capacity.  An 
Owosso concern is filling some orders for po­
lo bats for the company.

At  Sherman, Wexford  county,  where  a 
considerable number of maple logs  are to be 
put in  this season, the  experiment is  to be 
tried of plugging them, so  as  to form an air 
chamber, and painting  their  ends  so  that 
they will  float.  It is  thought  that if  this 
can be practiced, a large business  in getting 
out maple can be done in that vicinity.

C. A. Warren,  the  Orono  general dealer, 
has purchased the W. H. Whipple grist mill, 
including power, at Reed City,  and  is  pre­
paring tq remove the same to  Orono, where 
he will add a saw mill, having a  capacity of 
10,000 feet  per day.  The  flour  mill  will

Eight  coal  kilns will be put in at  Elmira 
the  coming  season,  which  will  furnish  a 
market for large quantities of  hardwood.

The  J.  W.  French  Manufacturing  Co., 
manufacturer  of pulp  and  paper  at  Three 
Rivers, has given two chattel  mortgages ag­
gregating  $52,000,  and  called  a meeting of 
creditors for March 20.

Northwestern  Lumberman: 

It  is  said 
that the Chicago & West Michigan  Railway 
is under bonds to have an extension finished 
to Traverse City by the time the insane asy­
lum there is finished, which will be next fall. 
This may account for the quietude  of  Trav­
erse City’s leading  property  owners  when 
Frankfort, Elk Rapids, Charlevoix  and  the 
rest, are agitated about  railroads.

Ovid  Union:  Assignee  Darragh,  of
Grand Rapids, was in town Tuesday looking 
after matters in the interests of the creditors 
of Sowers &  White.  The  suits  brought to 
break  the  mortgages  given  by  the  failed 
firms to secure the bank  for its  loans,  will 
retard a final adj ustment of  affairs,  the  as­
signee  says;  following  this  is  a  general 
shrinkage of the  securities  when  converted 
into cash..

J. O. Chapin, formerly engaged  in cheese 
making at the Rathbun factory, at  Saranac, 
is now foreman  of  the  Lowell  Creamery 
Co., at Lowell.  All of the product  of  the 
latter  establishment  is  branded  “Crystal 
Springs.”

Pint 

MISCELLANEOUS.

A dvertisem ents  o f 25 words o r  less  inserted 
in th is colum n a t th e  rate o f 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cen t  fo r  each 
additional word.  Advance paym ent.

WAMTED—S ituation by a  youn_

m an  in  a
grocery o r general  store.  F our  years
A ddress  Cai-e 
82*

experience.  Good references. 
Box 276, Frem ont, Mich.

has  had  some  experience  in  th e  wall 
p ap er trad e and grocery trad e preferred.  Call 
o r address, A lbert E. Sm ith, Cadillac, Mich. 79*

WANTED—A  good  d ru g   clerk.  One  who 
FOR  SALE—a   nice,  clean  stock  of  drugs 

and  stationery.  No  old  stock.  Will  in­
ventory  less  th an   $1,500.  Doing  a nice busi­
ness.  Owner has o th er business  to atten d   to. 
In q u ire of The T radesm an. 
TT'OR  RENT—New store building,  at  Elm ira, 
JP 
neatly  finished,  w ith  counters,  draw ers 
and shelves on both sides.  W ill re n t or sell on 
easy paym ents.  In q u ire of D. C.  Underwood.

73tf

81*

76tf

■’ 
of  drugs  and  m edicines  in  suburbs  of 
G rand Rapids, Mich.  Apply to H. B. Fairchild, 
City. 

IAOR  SALE—Cheap fo r  cash,  a  sm all  stock 
W ANTED—A  situation  as  trav elin g   sales­

m an or clerk in a jobbing establishm ent. 
H ave  had  eight  years’  experience  in  retail 
trade, and can give good reteren ces.  Address, 
“M,” care “The  Tradesm an.” 
■tx t ANTED—An old, experienced  b u tte r  and 
VV 
cheese-m aker,  who  can  fu rnish  u n ex ­
ceptionable references as to  ability  and  char­
acter,  desires  a  perm anent  situation  in  a 
cream ery or factory in this  State.  'A ddress  L, 
care T h e   T r a d e s m a n .

WANTED—A  situation  as  traveling  sales­

m an fo r a  grocery house.  H ave  had  15 
y ears’  experience  in  th e   grocery  business. 
Would p refer the ro ute of th e G. R. &  I.  R.  R. 
north.  B est o f references  given.  E nquire  a t 
T h e  T r a d e s m a n   office.

WANTED—Steady  situation  by  an  A m eri­

can  38  years  of  age,  who is a practical 
m   hanical  draftsm an  and  p a tte rn   m aker. 
Th  best o f references as to ability and ch arac­
ter.  Correspondence solicited.  A ddress  T. W. 
Beal, Box 566, Sandwich, 111.

’ 

IaOR  SALE—O ur stock of  groceries  and  fix- 

tu re s—th e best location  in the State.  We 
are going o u t of business, and will  offer  some 
one a bargain.  F or particulars,  address  John 
R.  Snyder,  receiver  fo r  Lovejoy  &  H errick, 
Big Rapids, Mich. 
75tf
right
W J  ANTED—Correspondence 
VV 
p e rt  w idder  w ith  a  m oderate fo rtune. 
R eferences given and required.  Address,Twith 
Hook
photograph,  Solim an  Snooks,  C ant 
79*
Corners, Mich.
TT'OR  SALE 
J? 

A bout  200  poundj9  of Ja re v ie r 
as is now 
t y p e ,   s u c h   a s   is   n o w  u s e d  o n  T h e  T r  \ i >e s -
Address this  office

m 
'  ™ 

w ith

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„ 

Rrinri your own ®one,

U IIIIU   M e a l ,  O y s t e r   Shell«, 
l O R A I I A M   F l o u r   a n d   C o r n  
in the $ 3  H A N D  M I D  L . 
(F .  W ilson’s  P aten t). 
lO O   p e r  
c e n t, m ore m ade in  keeping p o u l­
t r y .  
‘A lso  P O W E R   M I I .1 ,8   and  F A R M  
F E E D   M I L L S .  C irculars  and  Testim onials  sen„ 
on application.  W I L S O N  B R O S ., E a s t o n , P a .

THE  ONLY

Luminous Bait

IN  THE  WORLD.
P atented Feb.  13,  1883.  Re-issue  Au

28,  1883.

F

i s

s u

r e

Siare  Oatoli !

DAY  OR NIGHT.

HARD  AND  SOFT  RUBBER  MINNOWS. 
No. 7, 70c e a c h ;  No. 8 ,80c each; No. 9,90o each.
FLYING  HELGRAMITES.  No.  0,  80c  each; 
No. 1 ,85c each;  No. 2 ,90c each;  No. 3,  $1 each. 
Sam ples o f above B aits  se n t post paid on re- 
rn/%*  m* n.nv th rfifi fo r $2.
oeipt  óf pride,  or any th re e  fo rJ2 .
MATT.  m.ASr
HOOK
MALL  ¿LA SS  MINNOWS,  TRIPLE 
FEATHERED, 60c each.  m„ TT, T 
HOOK
SOFT  RUBBER  FROGS,  TRIPLE
SINGLE
SOTT0 RUBBERh 'DOBSON,  SINGLE  HOOK,
DEXTER TROLLING  SPOON  AND  MINNOW 
Combined, T riple  Hook  Feathered, 60c each. 
AKRON  TROLLING  SPOON,  Triple  Hook 
F eathered, No. 1 ,50c  each;  No.  3,  5oe  each, 
No. 3 ,60c each;  No. 4 ,65c  each.
Send fo r descriptive circulars and testim onials. 
L iberal discount to  th e  Trade.

Enterprise M |. Co., Akron, Ohio.

GRAND  RAPIDS  M'F'G CO.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

have a  daily  capacity  of  35  barrels,  the 
whole being driven by  a  twenty-five  horse­
power engine.

A Shelby correspondent writes:  Wheeler 
Bros., A. G. Avery, Paton &  Andrus, J. Ty­
ler, and Geo. W. Woodward  &  Son,  being 
the five heaviest  losers  by the  Pullman & 
Hinchman failure, bought, last  summer, the 
entire Pullman & Hinchman property except 
the boiler and engine,  and  at  present  they 
have negotiations well  under  way  to  pur­
chase more  machinery and  engage in a new 
manufacturing enterprise whereby they will 
be likely to make their  looses  good,  and  at 
the same time give  employment  to  a large 
number of men.

STRA Y   FACTS.

FA R M   TOOLS  OF  ALL  DESCBIPTIONS. 

Dairy Implements a Specialty.

Factory-Corner Front and Earl streets.  Office and Sales“ 

rooms—10,12 and  14 Lyron street,  Grand  Rapids.

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

BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
M O D E L   M IL L S .
ni n  Lui Brais of Fit.

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

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

Full  H oller  Process.

Co r n e r  W in t e r  a n d   W e s t  B r id g e  S ts., 

W M . SEA R S & OO.

Gr a n d  R a p id s ,  Mic h .

-  

Cracker  Manufacturers,j

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

APPLES!

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

169  S.  W ater  St.,  Cliicago,  111.

EARL  BROS.,  COllSM  IrClitS,
J O B   P R I N T I N G .

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

The  Tradesman  office has  now  first-class 

facilities  for doing;o

all  kinds  of

Commercial  W ork,

ve

Such as Letter, Note and Bill  Heads,  Statements, 
lopes, Blank Orders, Circulars, Dodgers.

NEW TYPE, NEW PRESS, GLEAN WORK.

Cards
Etc.

En-

C. S. YALE & BR0„

—M an u factu rers  ot-

BAKING  POWDERS,

BliUIKTaS,  ETC.,

40   a n d   42  S o u th   D iv isio n ,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

- 

MICH

If in Need of Anything in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PA T E N T E E S  AND  SO LE  M AN UFACTURERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

it

Send for Samples and Circular.

Barlow  Brothers.

GRAND  RAPIDS

MICH.

©rugs S. flftebicines
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

amazoo.
sing.
Rapids.

P resident—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
F irst V ice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  K al­
Second V ice-President—B.. D.  N orthrup,  L an­
T hird V ice-President—F ran k   W urzburg,  G r’d 
S ecretary—Jacob Jessou, M uskegon. 
T reasu rer—Wm. D upont, D etroit.
E xecutive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. G undrum , W. H. Keller,  F.  W. 
Fincher.
N ex t  place  of  m eeting—A t D etroit, Tuesday. 
October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

P resident—F ra n k  J. W urzburg. 
V ice-President—Wm. L. W hite.
Secretary—F ran k  H. Escott.
T reasu rer—H enry B. Fairchild.
Board o f Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Ja s. S. Cowin.
Board  of  T rustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
V an Leeuw en, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  W hite, 
W m. L. W hite.
Com m ittee on Pharm acy—H ugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Com m ittee on Legislation—Isaac W atts,  O.  H.
Richm ond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Com m ittee on Trade  M atters—H. B. Fairchild, 
Jo h n  Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuw en.
R egular  M eetings—F irst  Thursday evening in 
each m onth.
A nnual  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in 
November,
N ext  M eeting—'Thursday  evening,  A pril  2, 
a t “The T radesm an” office.

No  N eed fo r F a r th e r  L eg islatio n .

G r a n d   R a p id s,  March 10,1885.

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

D e a r  S ir —I notice that a  Grand  Rapids 
druggist, in a communication  to  the  Cedar 
Springs Clipper, makes  a  pretty  effectual 
answer 
to  an  alleged  “prominent  cit­
izen,”  who  wants  to see  the  Legislature 
enact a law compelling  druggists  to  pay a 
State tax of $200 for the privilege of  selling 
liquor.  As the  writer  states, there  is  no 
need for such an enactment, as the  existing 
law provides that druggists shall sell  liquor 
for no other than  “medicinal,  mechanical or 
sacramental purposes and it only remains for 
this provision to be enforced to put a stop to 
all  such  complaints.

In addition to the above, there are several 
other strong  arguments to support the posi­
tion taken.  One is, that not one druggist in 
twenty can sell $200 worth of liquor in a year 
as a druggist, let alone make  that  amount. 
So, as druggists must keep liquor  for medi­
cal purposes, or shut up shop, it follows that 
should such a law be passed  as j “prominent 
citizen” wants, every druggist  in  the  State 
would either be obliged to close up, or  open 
a regular bar and  dish  whisky out  by the 
drink to  all, in  order  to  sell  enough  to 
pay the tax.  It is a very close shave at pres­
ent for many druggists to even make enough 
to pay the Government tax, and  I,  for  one, 
would not take out a license  at  all,  were  I 
not forced to do so by the  public  expecting 
me to keep liquors  and  refusing  to  trade 
with a druggist who does  not.

Respectfully  Yours,

O.  H .  R ic h m o n d.

“We are getting  an  excellent  article  of 
glycerine out of distillery  dregs  now,”  said 
a manufacturing  chemist,  “and  as  soon  as 
the fact gets to be generally  known  the  re­
fuse of the worm of the still  will  be  worth 
more than it ever was  before.  Glycerine is j 
a constant product of  the  alcoholic  fermen- j 
tation of saccharine  matter,  and  fermented ' 
drinks contain quantities of it.  “In the dis-1 
tillation of liquids  containing  alcohol, 
the I 
glycerine does not free itself from the mother j 
or dregs, not being volatile, like the  alcohol. 
The glycerine is  taken  from  the  mother li­
quor by the ordinary chemical  methods and j 
super heated steam is then brought to act in i 
the residum, which  removes  the  impurities ! 
and  leaves  a  choice  quality  of  glycerine. I 
These dregs are used very extensively in the | 
manufacture  of  glycerine  in  France,  b u t! 
they have not  come  into  much  use  in  this i 
country as yet.”

The Chinese are said to  make  varnish by j 
beating together fresh blood with quicklime, 
which is extensively  used  as a coating  for 
wooden articles which they  wish  to  make I 
completely watertight.  Yon  Scherzer, who 
first introduced this  substance to the  notice i 
of Europeans, says he  has  seen  in  Pekin 
wooden chests that had been varnished with 
it, which, after a journey over Siberia to S t.! 
Petersburg and back, were  still  sound and | 
perfectly watertight.  Even baskets of straw ; 
used for the transportation of oils were made 
fit for the purpose by means of this varnish, j 
Pasteboard coated with  it  becomes both in j 
appearance and  firmness, like  wood.  Arti­
cles requiring  to  be  absolutely  impervious 
are varnished twice, or  at  the  most,  three 
times, by the  Chinese.

A Frenchman has invented a compound to 
take the place of linseed oil in  the  prepara­
tion of paint. 
It is composed of  600  parts 
of petroleum, 170 parts of cotton oil, 90 parts 
of thickened oil, 100 parts of bright Burgun- j 
dy resin, 28 of siccative and two of litharge.! 
A preliminary step in the process is  the ex- j 
posure of a certain quantity of linseed oil to I 
the air until  it has acquired  the  consistency I 
of syrup.

Any druggists who have not  yet filled out 
the Legislative  petitions  sent  them  some 
time ago by Secretary  Jesson  should  do so 
without delay and forward them to  their re­
spective  representatives  at  Lansing.  Re­
member that “delays are  dangerous.”

A  composition  for  paint  has  recently j 
been  patented,  consisting  of  creosote  or 
dead-oil, coal-tar, spirits  of  turpentine,  and 
plumbago, in proportions.

Cates & Wilcox,  druggists at  Millbrook, 

have dissolved, Mr. Wilcox continuing.

11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

85
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13 
15
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11

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

SEEDS.

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

80
40
18
15
25
20

15
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20
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Florida sheeps’ wool, carriag e...... 2 25  @2  50
N assau 
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1  10 
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V elvet E x tra do 
do 
E x tra Yellow do 
.......
do 
85 
do 
G rass 
.........
do 
65
H ard head, fo r slate u se.................
Yellow Reef, 
.................
1  40

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4*4@ 
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1  25
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2712
45
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2  75 
2  00 
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2 30 
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1  60 
60 
1  50 
1  78 
1 90 
1  75 
85  ©   90 
40  @  45 
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18  ©   20 
40 
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70
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M ISCELLANEUS.

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

s ...............................  
oz...................................

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22) $  g a l__
Alcohol, wood, 95 p er cen t ex. ref.
Anodyne  H offm an’s ........................
Arsenic, Donovan’s so lution.........
A rsenic, Fow ler’s so lution............
A nnatto  1 ft ro lls.............................
A lum ...........................................   ¡g b>
A lum , ground  (Powd 9c)...............
A nnatto,  p rim e.................................
A ntim ony, powdered,  com ’l .........
A rsenic, w hite, powdered
Blue  Soluble......................................
Bay  Rum , im ported, b e st..............
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  B u d s............................
Beans,  T onka....................................
Beans,  V anilla...................................
Bism uth, sub  n itra te .......................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................
Blue V itr io l......................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)............ >.
C antharides,R ussian  pow dered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frica n ...............
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay 
do  ...
Carm ine,  No. 40.................................
Cassia  B uds........................................
Calomel.  A m erican..........................
Chalk, prepared d ro p ......................
Chalk, p recip itate E nglish............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................
Chloroform ,  Squibb’s .....................
Colocynth  apples..............................
Chloral hydrate, Germ an  cru sts.. 
c ry st...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
c ru sts..
C h loroform ........................................
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............
Cinehonidia, other b rands...........!
Cloves (Powd  23c).............................
Cochineal  ...........................................
Cocoa  B u tte r..........................,...[[[
Copperas (by bbl  le )........................
Corrosive S ublim ate........................
Corks, X  and X X - 40 off  lis t.........
Cream T artar, p u re pow dered.......
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 8) b o x ..
C reasote...............................................
Cudbear,  p rim e................................[
C uttle Fish B one............................
D e x trin e .............................................
D over’s  P ow ders.................. .....! .
D ragon’s Blood M ass.......................
E rgot  pow dered...............................
E th e r Squibb’s ...................................
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s ...........
Epsom  S alts........................................
E rgot, fre sh ........................................
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................
Flake  w hite........................................
G rains  P arad ise..............................[
G elatine,  Cooper’s ...........................[
G elatine. French  ..............................
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is....
Glue,  c a n n e t....................................   12
Glue, wh ite .....................................   [ [  16
Glycerine,  p u re .......................[.[[[.[  16
Hops  *4 s and 
;
Iodoform  
In d ig o ............................................V [ [   85
Insect Powder, best  D alm atian ...  35
Iodine,  resublim ed..........................
Isinglass,  A m erican.................  [ [ [ [
J a p o n ic a ............................................ [ [
London  P u rp le ........................[[[[[[
Lead, a c e ta te .................................[ [
Lime, chloride, (*4s 2s 10c & )4s iic)
L u p u lin e.............................................
L ycopodium ..........................
M ace............................................ ,,[[[
Madder, best D u tch ...........!!....!!
M anna, S.  F ....................................
M ercury..............................  
..[ [." ..
Morphia, sulph., P. & W .........i® oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .........
Moss, Iceland................................... $  ft
Moss,  Iris h ........................................
M ustard,  E nglish.................. . ." [ [ .
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  can s.........
N utgalls...............................................
N utm egs, No.  1............................... [ [
N ux  V om ica..................................... [
O intm ent. M ercurial, *£d...............
P aris G reen......................................
P epper, Black  B e rry .......................
P ep sin ..................................................
Pitch, T rue B urgundy.................
Quassia  ...............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W
ft ozi
.......1
Quinine,  G erm an__
. $ ft
Red  P re cip ita te.........
Seidlitz  M ixture.......
Strychnia, c ry st.............................
Silver N itrate, c ry st.....................
Saffron, A m erican.  .....................
Sal  G lauber....................................
Sal N itre, large  c ry st...................
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st............
Sal Rochelle....................................
Sal  Soda...........................................
Salicin...............................................
S an to n in ........................ .................
Snuffs, Maccoboy o r Scotch...........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].......................
Sperm aceti.........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
Soap, W hite C astile..........................
Soap, G reen  do 
..........................
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
Soap,  M azzini........................
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...................
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...................
Sugar Milk pow dered...........
Sulphur, flour........................
Sulphur,  roll........................
T artar E m etic........................
Tar, N. C. Pine, *4 gal. cans $ d o z
Tar, 
q u arts in tin
Tar, 
pints in tin ..
T urpentine,  V enice............
Wax, W hite, S. &  F. brand.
Zinc,  S u lp h ate.)...................
O IL S .
Capitol  Cylinder...............................
Model  C ylinder.................................
Shields  C ylinder...............................
Eldorado E ngine...........  .................
Peerless  M achinery........................
Challenge M achinery.......................
Backus F in e E ngine........................
Black Diam ond M achinery............
Castor M achine  O il..........................
Paraffine, 25  deg...............................
Paraffine, 28  d eg ...............................
Sperm , w inter  bleached..................
W hale, w in te r............................
Lard, e x tra .................................
Lard, No.  1.................................
Linseed, p u re  ra w ...................
Linseed, b o ile d .........................
N eat’s Foot, w inter  strained.
Spirits T u rp en tin e...................
V A R N ISH ES.
No. 1 T urp  Coach.....................
E x tra   T u rp ...............................
Coach  B ody...............................
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re ..............
E x tra T urp  D am ar..................
Jap an  D ryer, No.  1  T u rp .......

do 
do 

17

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m
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134
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P A IN TS.

Red  V en etian .............................
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles........
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda.........
P u tty , co m m ercial...................
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................
Vermilion, prim e  A m erican..
V erm ilion,  E nglish...................
G reen, P en in su lar....................
Lead, red strictly  p u re ............
Lead, w hite, strictly  p u re .......
W hiting, w hite  Spanish.......  .
W hiting,  Gilders^.......................
W hite, P aris A m erican............
W hiting  P aris English cliff..
P ioneer P rep ared   P a in ts.......
Swiss V illa Prep ared   P a in ts..

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IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

W o l f,  P a t t o n  & Co.,  a n d  J o h n L.  W h it ­

in g , M a n u f a c t u r e r s  o f  F in e  

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Droffgists’ 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 o u t f it s  for  n e w   sto res 
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.

Wine ana Liauor Deprímenl

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 t h e r   k n o w n  b r a n d   in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t e e   perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

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

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

M A K IN G   THERM OM ETERS.

Blunders In Drug: Stores.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

How  Our  Heat  Measures  are Filled  and 

Graduated.

“When a  thermometer is  made,”  says a 
manufacturer, “the glass blower first  blows 
a bulb on the  end  of  a long  tube.  While 
this tube is hot, the  end  of the  tube  is in­
serted in mercury, and as the bulb cools, the 
mercury rises and fills  the  bulb.  This pro­
cess is repeated until the  bulb  and  part of 
the tube are  filled.  The  bulb is  thef^  im­
mersed in snow or chipped ice, and the mer­
cury drops to the  freezing  point,  which  is 
marked on the tube as thirty-two degrees, if 
a Fahrenheit scale is to be  followed.  Next 
the bulb is  put in  boiling  water,  and  the 
point to  which  the mercury  rises is mark­
ed on the scale as 212 degrees.  Ten degrees 
of the mercury are now  detached  from the 
column by jarring, and the  whole  length of 
the tube is tested.  The  process is  repeated 
with five degrees of the column being meas­
ured all the time by a standard thermometer 
to see if the tube  is  conical  at  any  point. 
Common thermometers generally vary about 
two or three degrees, owing to the irregular­
ity of the opening in the tube, which  causes 
the mercury to rise slowly  where  the  open­
ing is too large, and. too fast where the open­
ing is too narrow. 
It requires great  skill to 
blow a tube  with  a  uniform  opening  the 
whole length.  They  should  be  allowed  to 
stand not less than one month—one  year  is 
better—to allow tlie mercury to settle before 
the scale is made.”

The self registering  thermometer  is  used 
for marking the highest and  lowest  points 
reached within a given  time.  The  bulb is 
filled with  mercury,  above  which,  in  due 
time, 
inserted  in  a  fine  piece  of  steel 
spring, the remainder of  the  tube is  filled 
with carbolic  acid or  creosote.  The  steel 
spring rests at the highest point it is pushed 
to by the  the  mercury,  and  is  afterward 
drawn down by a small  magnet.  By  a  du­
plex arrangement and reversing 
the  scale, 
the lowest or coldest  point  is  indicated  in 
the same way.  The deep  sea  thermometer 
is of the same  pattern,  and  incased 
in  a 
tube,  too,  besides  a  self 
heavy  copper 
regulating  attachment.  The 
fever  or 
clinical thermometers are made  with  great 
nicety, and are  used  for  determining  the 
temperature of the human body.

T lie “S u re C u re” F ra u d s.

A writer in the  Weekly  Medical Review 
says:  “I have collected every catarrh, asth­
ma, and hay fever ‘sure  cure’ that  is  in the 
market, numbering  in  all  fifty-eight,  and 
have carefully  examined  them.  Eighteen 
of these ‘sure  cures’  are  baldfaced  frauds. 
One ounce of quassia chips, a pound of table 
salt, and forty gallons of  water  will  make 
one barrel of ‘sure cure’  that  sells  for $1 a 
I bottle, holding six ources; the  same  quail ti- 
| ty of water, a pound of muriate of ammonia, 
j  a pound of ground cubebs, and a little  eom- 
I mon potash  will  make  another  ‘cure’  that 
j sells for fifty  cents a  bottle,  holding  four 
' ounces.  These two are tlie best  of  tlie  fify- 
eight frauds.”

M edical  A dvice  b y  T elep h o n e.

Husband—My wife has a  severe  pain  in 
| the back of her neck, and complains of a sort 
I of sourness in the stomach.
|  Physician—She has malarial colic.
Husband—What shall I do for her?
[The girl at the “central”  switches  off  to 

a machinist talking to a sawmill man.]

Machinist to Husband—I think she is cov­
ered with scales inside, about an inch think. 
Let her cool down during the night, and  be­
fore  she  fires  up  in  the  morning,  take  a 
hammer and pound her  thoroughly all over, 
and then take a hose and hitch it to  the fire 
plug and wash her out.

Husband has no further need for this doc­

tor.

A  R ad   Case.

“Doctor,  1  wish'fyou'would prescribe for 

my husband.”

“What ails him, madam ?”
“That’s what I don’t know.  Whenever  I 
ask him for  a new  bonnet  or  anything  of 
that kind he is  very  hard  of  hearing,  but 
when i try to go through his pockets  in  the 
morning  the  lifting  of  liis  trousers  wakes 
him from a sound sleep.”

“If your husband is deaf,  ma’am, I  think 

1 can cure him.”

“But,  doctor,  wouldn’t  it  be  as easy to 
cure him of hearing so well in the morning?”

T he  P h a rm a c y  R ill.

The pharmacy bill introduced  by Senator 
Hueston has passed the Senate in committee 
of the whole, and will  undoubtedly  pass in 
the House.  Representative  Ford  was  seen 
by a reporter of T ii e   T r a d e s m a n  on  Mon­
day, and expressed the belief  that  the final 
passage of the  bill was a  foregone  conclu­
sion.

F u rn itu r e   F acts.

John Sehmitzer, furniture dealer and cabi­

net maker at Sebewaing, has sold out.

The Bellevue Reclining Swing  Chair  Co. 

has been closed under chattel mortgage.

A.  C. &  W. J.  Luyckx  succeeds  T. A. 
Luyckx in the  furniture business at Detroit.
J. Chilver  &  Co.  are  rushed  with  work, 
being several weeks behind  with  their  or­
ders.  Such a condition of  affairs  is  a  sure 
indication of the popularity of the establish­
ment, and the best possible recommendation 
for the quality of work  turned out.  When­
ever in need of  book-binding  of  any  kind, 
the business public would do well to  call on 
them.

A new  priming  paint  compound  is  com­
posed of liquid asphaltum, rosin, linseed oil, 
turpentine or naptha, and white lead in their 
relative proportions.

Chloride  of  zinc  dissolved  in  alcohol 

makes a good flux for soldering metals.

Behind a  neat  prescription  counter  the 
druggist sat  smoking a  cigar  and  talking 
with a friend, on a moist evening, when bus­
iness in the drug store  was  less  brisk  than 
usual.  Complex, yet faint, odors from hun­
dreds of carefully labelled  jars  and bottles 
on the shelves mingled with the fragrance of 
tobacco  smoke,  and  seemed  to  impart  a 
mysterious  charm  to  the  conversation.  “I 
have made it a point for thirty  years,”  said 
the druggist,  “to  pay  strict  attention  to a 
prescription while 1 am compounding it, and 
then drop  it out of my mind entirely.  That 
is the best way to avoid making  mistakes.” 
A girl with a shawl over her head came in 
and presented a  bottle and a piece of paper, 
on which her mother had written:  “Please 
send  five cents  worth of  orinka  for  sore 
throte.”  The druggist quietly poured  some 
arnica into the bottle, pasted on a label, took 
the proffered nickel, and sat down to resume 
his talk.

“As I was saying, I always  forget  a  pre­
scription  as  soon  as I have  fiiled  it.  Of 
course it is numbered and preserved  for  fu­
ture reference, but if one of my regular cus­
tomers should ask me to put up  ‘some more 
medicine same  as  the  last  you  know,’ I 
would have to send him home for the  bottle 
which had the number of the perscription on 
it. 
If I attempted to remember all the med­
icines I mix I  would  soon  be  insane.  A 
druggist ought to feel that  when  he  fills a 
physician’s order he holds  the  life  of  some 
person in his hand.  To  mistake  one  drug 
for another at such a  time  may cost a life. 
Such mistakes result from carelessness, as a 
rule,  not  from  ignorance, as  most  people 
think.”

“Dad wants a  poor-house  blister,”  said a 
boy who had entered  the  store  unobserved. 

“What does he want it for?”
“To put on ma’s side where  he—where it 

pain  ’er.”

,,  “Oh! yessir.”

“Do you mean a porous plaster?”

“In nine cases out of ten,  I  believe,”  the 
druggist said, when he  had an  opportunity 
to take up the thread of his discourse again, 
“carelessness and not ignorance, is the cause 
of  druggists’  mistakes.  A  druggist  who 
knows that he is not proficient in  the  busi­
ness will look carefully at every  jar  or bot­
tle which he uses in compounding  an order. 
An experienced druggist, unless he is a care­
ful man, will sometimes mistake  one  drug 
for another which has a similar  appearance, 
because he  neglects  to  look  at  the  label. 
Such errors happen more easily when a man 
permits his  prescription  counter  to  become 
littered with drugs  not wanted for immedi­
ate use. 
It is safer to clear  the  counter  af­
ter each order is filled.  The worst  possible 
habit for a druggist however, is to remember 
prescriptions already compounded.  When a 
man attempts the feat of thinking  about an 
old prescription while  he  is  at  work  on a 
new one, he is  in  a  fair  way  to  commit  a 
murderous blunder.”

“Good evening, doctor,”
A man with a long,  thin  nose, who  had 
entered softly, waited until the druggist had 
walked  from  the  prescription  counter  to 
the front before he  inquired in a low  tone: 
“Is  there  any  sickness  in  Mr.  Pillbox’s 
family?  I see his boy come in here  awhile 
ago.”

“If you wish to know about  Mr. Pillbox’s 
affairs you had better go and ask him. 
I do 
not make a practice of retailing gossip about 
my neighbors.”

“A h!  Good evening.”
“There is another reason  why  a  druggist 
should forget his work when it is  finished,” 
said  the  compounder,  after  the  inquisitive 
man had departed; “such a practice  enables 
a man to keep  the  confidence  of  customers 
without trouble.  Nothing  is  more  fatal  to 
the business of a druggist than a well-found­
ed belief among his  neighbors  that  he  will 
gossip about persons  who  buy [drugs  from 
him. 
It  is  surprising  how  many  persons 
make  attempts  to  get  information  from 
druggists about their neighbors. 
I have giv­
en blunt answers in such cases, and, curious­
ly enough, many  of  the  persons  who  have 
appeared to be tlie most  offended  at  my re­
fusals to give information have  become reg­
ular customers of mine. 
In  such  cases  the 
golden rule can be  followed  with  profit  as 
well as with pleasure.”

M ic h ig a n   T a le n t  in   E n g la n d .

From  the M uskegon Chronicle.

Mr. Jacob Jesson has  received  a  copy  of 
the  London,  Eng.,  Chemist and Druggist, 
containing  in  full  his  paper  on  Perfumes 
and  Formulie  for  their  Manufacture,  read 
before the State  Pharmacutieal  Association 
at Detroit last September.  The  paper  was 
first  published  in  the  Chicago  Druggist, 
from which the Chemist and Druggist  has 
copied  it.  The  Chemist and Druggist is 
a 160 page monthly magazine and is the rep­
resentative organ of  the  British drug trade. 
Mr.  Jesson’s  paper  has  been widely pub­
lished and is  regarded  very  highly  for  its 
concise and practical character.

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A C ID S.

Acetic, No.  8......................................
Acetic, C. P . (Sp. grav.  1.040).........
Carbolic...............................................
C itric....................................................
M uriatic 18  d eg .................................
N itric 36 deg ......................................
O xalic..................................................
Sulphuric  66 deg...............................
T artaric  pow dered..........................
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................$  oz
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................
T a n n ic.................................................

AM M ONIA.

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

BALSAMS.

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

BA RK S.

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

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb  prim e (Powd 1  00c)............  
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6  @
J u n ip e r...............................................  
Prickly A sh ........................................  50  @

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, p u re ..............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fi> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)................
................
Lgowood, *4s 
Logwood, Us 
................
Logwood, ass’d 
................
Fluid E x tracts—25 $  cent, off list.

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FLO W ERS.

A rn ica..................................................   10  @
Chamomile,  R om an........................
Chamomile,  G erm an.......................

GUMS.

Aloes,  B arbadoes.............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)...................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
A m m oniac.........................................
A rabic, ex tra   select........................
A rabic, powdered  select...............
A rabic, 1st  picked...........................
A rabic,2d  p ick ed ..............................
Arabic,  3d p icked............................
A rabic, sifted so rts..........................
Assafoentida, prim e (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin...............................................
C am phor.............................................
Catechu. Is (*4 14c, J4s  16c)............
Euphorbium  pow dered...................  
G albanum  strain ed ..........................
G am boge.............................................  
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c)........... 
Kino [Pow dered, 30c]...................
M astic...............................................
M yrrh. Turkish (Powdered  47c).
Opium, pu re (Powd $5.75)............
Shellac, Campbell’s .......................
Shellac,  E nglish............................
Shellac,  n a tiv e ...............................
Shellac bleached............................
T ragacanth  .....................................

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H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H o a rh o u n d ..........................................................25
L obelia.................................................................. 25
P ep p erm in t..........................................................25
R u e......................................................................... 40
S p e a rm in t............................................................24
Sweet M ajoram ...................................................35
T a n z y .................................................................... 25
T h y m e ...................................................................30
W orm w ood..........................................................25

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C itrate and  Q uinine........................
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s.........
Sulphate, p u re  c ry sta l...................
C itrate  .................................................
P h o sp h a te ..........................................

LEA VES.

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Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................   13  ®  14
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Sage, Italian, bulk 04s &*4s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l.......................  18  @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  pow dered..............!.............  
22
Senna tinnivelli.................................  
16
U va  U rsi.............................................  
10
B elledonna.......................................... 
35
Foxglove.............................................  
30
H e n b a n e.............................................  
35
2 35
Rose, re d .............................................  

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2 00  ©2  25
D ruggists’ F avorite  R y e................1  75  ©2  00
W hisky, o th er  b ran d s.....................1  10  @1  50
Gin, Old T om ...................................... 135  ©175
Gin,  H olland......................................2 00  ©3  50
B ra n d y ................................................ 175  @6  50
Catawba  W ines.................................1 25  @2  00
P o rt W ines......................................... 1  35  @2  50

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2  oz........... 
Carbonate, Jen n in g ’s, 2 oz.............. 
C itrate, H., P. & Co.’s  so lution__  
Calcined............................................... 

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O IL S.

Almond, sweet.......................
Amber, rectified....................
Anise...........................................
Bay $  oz....................................
Bergamont...................................
Castor..........................................  18
Croton..........................................
Cajeput......................................
Cassia..........................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)......
Citronella...................................
Cloves..........................................
Cod Liver, filtered.............. gal
Cod Liver, best......................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...........................
Erigeron......................................
Fire weed......................................
Geranium ^  oz...........................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..............................
Juniper berries...........................
Lavender flowers, French............
Lavender garden 
............
Lavender spike 
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Lemon, new crop........................
Lemon, Sanderson’s....................
Lemongrass.................................
Olive, Malaga.................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
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Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1....... '................
Pennyroyal.................................
Peppermint,  white......................
Rose 
oz....................................
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50)
Salad...........................................   65
Savin...........................................
Sandal  Wood, German................
Sandal Wood, W. I .......................
Sassafras....................•.................
Spearmint...................................
Tansy..........................................4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).............................  10
Wintergreen.............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.00)......
Wormseed...................................

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

ROOTS.

Alkanet.......................................
Althea, cut...................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s...................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in )4s and *4s__
Blood (Powd 18c)........................ .
Calamus,  peeled..........................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered................
Gentian (Powd  15c)......................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)..........  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached..........
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)................
Hellebore, white, powdered.........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................
Jalap, powdered..........................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4).......
Licorice, extra select.............
Pink, true....................................
Rhei, from select to  choice.........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1..................... 1 10
Rhei, choice cut  cubes................
Rhei, choice cut fingers..............

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GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

A  M ERCA N TILE  JO U RN A L, PU B L ISH ED  EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E .  A .  STO W E  &  BKO ., P ro p rie to rs.

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

Second-class  Matter.1

WEDNESDAY.  MARCH  11,  1885.

BUSINESS  LA W

B rie f D igests o f R ecen t D ecisions in  C ourts 

o f  L a st  R e so rt.

M EANING  OF WORDS USED  IN  T R A D E.
Where in the  particular  trade  of  selling 
and buying bacon and pork sides  the  words 
•‘fully cured” were used as descriptive of the 
classification  of  articles  sold,  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Georgia  held  that  in  a contest in 
regard thereto such  words  should  have the
meaning attached to them  by  experts—that 
is, persons engaged in thetrade.

GUNPOW DER  CLAUSE  IN   INSURANCE  POLI- 

ICIES.

The case of the  Pittsburgh  Insurance Co. 
vs. Frazer, decided by the Supreme Court of 
Pennsylvania,  involved  a question as to the 
liability of the insurance company for a loss 
by  fire.  The  contract  of  insurance  was 
against fire on dry goods, groceries and mer­
chandise usually kept in a country store, and 
contained a provision restricting the  amount 
.  of  gunpowder  to  be  kept  in  the  insured 
premises.  Upon  the  trial  in  the  court be­
low  evidence  was  admitted  to  show  that 
gunpowder in the  quantity  kept  by the ap­
pellee, although greater  than the amount al­
lowed by the policy,  was  usually  a  part of 
the  contents  of  a  country store.  The  Su­
preme Court, on appeal, held that the  court 
below erred in admitting this evidence,  and 
the clause restricting the amount of gunpow­
der should be strictly complied with.

TE LEPH O N E  COMPANIES— D UTIES TO PUBLIC.
In the case  of  State  vs.  Nebraska  Tele­
phone Co., the Supreme Court of Nebraska 
held that telephone companies  are  common 
carriers of news;  that  all  persons  are enti­
tled to equal facilities in the employment of 
the benefits to be derived from the use of the 
telephone, and that where  no good reason is 
assigned for a refusal by a telephone compa­
ny  to  furnish  a  telephone  instrument to a 
person desiring to  become  a  subscriber and 
tendering  a  full  compliance  with  all  the 
rules established for other subscribers a writ 
of  mandamus  should  be  issued  to compel 
such company to furnish  such  person  with 
the necessary instruments. 
In giving  judg­
ment in the case  the  court  said:  “The de­
mands of the commerce of  the  present  day 
make theltelephone a necessity.  All people, 
upon  complying  with  the reasonable rules 
and demands of  the commodity, patented as 
it  is,  should  have  the  benefits  of  the new 
commerce.  The  wires  of  the  respondent 
pass the office of the relator. 
Its  posts  are 
planted in the street in front of his door.  In 
the very nature of things, no other  wires or 
posts will be placed there while those of the 
respondent remain.  The relator  never  can 
he  supplied with this new  element  of  com­
merce,  so  necessary  in  the  prosecution 
of all kinds of business, unless  supplied  by 
the respondent.  He  has  tendered  to it all 
the money required by it from its other sub­
scribers in Lincoln for putting in  an  instru­
ment.  He has proven, and it is conceded by 
the respondent, that he is  able,  financially, 
to meet all the payments which may become 
due in the future.  It is shown that his office 
can  be  supplied  with  less  expense  and 
trouble  to  respondent  than  many  others 
which are furnished by  it.  No  reason  can 
be assigned why respondent should not  fur­
nish the required instruments, except that it 
does not want to.  There  could,  and doubt­
less does, exist in many cases sufficient reas­
on for failing to comply with such a demand, 
but they are not shown to  exist in this case.
It is known to be  essential  to  the  business 
interests  of  relator  that  his  office be fur­
nished with a telephone.  The value of such 
property is of course conceded by respondent, 
but  by  its  attitude  it  says it will  destroy 
those interests and give to some  one  in  the 
same  business,  who  may  have  been more 
friendly,  this  advantage  over  him. 
It is 
said by respondent  that  it  has  public tele­
phone  stations  in  Lincoln,  some of which 
are near relator’s office, and that he  is  enti­
tled to  and  may  use  such  telephone to its 
fall extent by  coming there;  that,  like  the 
telegraph, it is bound to send  the  messages 
of relator, but it can as well do it from these 
public stations;  that  it  is  willing  to do so, 
and  that  is  all  that  can  be required of it. 
Were it true that respondent had not  under- 
tiken  to  supply  a  public  demand beyond 
that undertaken  by  the  telegraph,  then its 
obligations would extent no further.  But as 
the telegraph has undertaken  to  the  public 
to send dispatches from its offices, so the tel­
ephone  has  undertaken  with  the public to 
send messages from  its  instruments, one of 
which it proposes to supply  to  each  person 
or  interest  requiring  it,  if  conditions  are 
reasonably favorable.  This is the basis upon 
which it proposes  to  operate—the  demand 
which it  proposes  to  supply. 
It has so as­
sumed and undertaken to the  public.  That 
the  telephone,  by  the  necessities  of com­
merce and public use,  has  become  a public 
servant, a factor in the commerce of the  na­
tion, and of a great portion  of  the  civilized 
world, cannot be questioned. 
It is to all in­
tents mid purposes a  part  of  the  talegraph 
system of the country, and in so far as it has 
been introduced for public use, and has been 
undertaken by the respondent, so far should 
the respondent be held  to  the same  obliga-

2>r\>  (B o o b s.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  OTIBBENT. 

TIME TABLES.

1  M i c h i g a n  (T e n t r ä l

W ID E  BROW N  COTTONS

Pepperell, 10-4........25
Androscoggin, 94. .23 
Pepperell, 114........2114
A ndroscoggin, 84. .21
Pepperell,  7 4 .........16k P equot,  7 4 ...............18
Pequot,  8 4 ..............21
Pepperell,  8 4 ........ 20 
..24
Pepperell,  9 4 ........ 22141 Pequot,  94.

.

CHECKS.

.

P R IN T S .

S IL E S IA S .

OSNABURG.

bric, 4 4 ....... 

b l e a c h e d   c o t t o n s .

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

P ark  Mills, No. 90..14 
P ark Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz...............11
Otis  A p ro n ...............10:
Otis  F u rn itu re ........10
York,  1  o z................ 10
York, AA, e x tra  oz.14
A labam a  plaid......... 1

Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Caledonia,  X, oz.,.10
Economy,  oz.......... 10
P ark  Mills, No. 50. .10 
P ark Mills, No. 60. .11 
P ark  Mills, No. 70.. 12 
P ark  Mills, No. 80.. 13
A labam abrow n.........
Jew ell b riw n ..........   914  A ugusta plaid
K e n t u c k y   b r o w n . .  1014 Toledo plaid.. 
Lew iston  b ro w n ...  914  M anchester  plaid..  7 
T.nne bro w n ............914 New  Tenn. p la id ...11
Lane brow n 
¡Utility plaid............  614
Louisiana  plaid
Greene, G,  4 4 .........  514
Avondale,  36...........  814j
Hill, 4 4 .....................  714
A rt  cam brics, 36.. .1114 
Hill, 7-8.....................  6%
Androscoggin, 4 4 ..  814 
Hope,  4 4 ................... 6(4
A ndroscoggin, 5-4. .1314
K ing  Phillip  cam ­
Ballou, 44.  ............   614
  U14
Ballou, 5 4 ................  6
Linwood,  4-4...........  714
Boott,  0.4-4............   »14
Lonsdale,  4 4 .............7%
Boott,  E. 5-5............   7
Lonsdale  cam bric. 1014 
Boott, AGC, 4 4 .........914
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  914
Boott, R.  3-4..........    514
Langdon.  45............14
Blackstone, AA 44.  i 
Masonville,  4 4 .......8
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Maxwell. 4 4 .............. 914
Conway,  4-4............ ‘
New Y ork Mil', 4-4.1014 
Cabot, 4-4................. 6%
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Cabot, 7-8.................   «
Pocasset,  P. M. C..
D om âtS  36'. : : : : : : 
m s *  g »  ™ ?t. .u
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9  Pocahontas, 4 4 -...  7
Davol  4 4 ................  9  Slaterville, 7-8...........614
F ru it of Loom, 4 4 ..  8141 Vic tori a, 
..........? ..
F ru ito f Loom, 7-8..  7 k  W oodbury,44.. . ...  5k
W hitinsville,  4 4 ... 
F ru it of  th e   Loom,
W hitinsville, 7-8—   614
cam bric,  4-4.........11
W am sutta, 4-4.........1014
Gold Medal, 4 4 ..  ..  b(4
W illiamsville,  36.. .1014
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded  A ge..............8k
Masonville TS.........  8
Crow n......................
M asonville  S ...........1014
No.  10....................... 12k
L o n sd ale....................914
C o in ...........................I?
Lonsdale A ............. 16
A nchor..................... 1°
N ictory  O ................
C e n ten n ial..............
V ictory J .................
B la c k b u rn ..............  8
V ictory  D ................
D avol.........................H
Victory  K ................  2 k
London.................... i"?*
Phoenix A ................ 1914
P a c o n ia ...................
Phoenix  B ................ 1014
Red  C ross........ — 10
Phoenix X X .......... 5
Social  Im p erial— 16
Albion,  solid............5 k [G loucester............ ...6
A lb io n   e r e v  
......... 6  G l o u c e s t e r m o u r n ’g .6
Allen’s  checks........5k  H am ilton  f a n c y ....6
Ailen’s  fa n c y ..........5 k   H artel fa n c y ............. 6
Allen’s p in k .. . . . . . .  ■ 6k|M errim ac  D ...............6
Allen’s D urpie........6 k  M a n ch ester............ «• >6
A m erican, fan cy .... 5k  O riental  fa n c y ........ 6
A rnoldfanev  .......... 6  O riental  ro b es.........6k
B Ä s o U d y I . " . . .   SkIPacifie  robes............6
Richm ond.................6
Cocheco  fa n c y ........6
Steel R iv er...............5 k
Cocheco ro b es......... 6k
Simpson’s ................ 6
Conestoga fa n c y — 6
W ashington fa n c y .. 
E d d y sto n e ...............6
W ashington  blues.  7k
Eagle  fan cy .............5
G arner p in k .............6/2
ln d iar
A ppleton  A, 4-4—   7 k
Indian Orchan 
Boott  M, 4-4............  6M
Laconia  B, 7-4 
Boston  F, 4 4 — ...  <k 
Lym an B, 40-ir 
C ontinental C, 4-3..  6 k  
Mass. BB, 44..
C ontinental D, 40 in  8k
N ashua  E, 40-i
6k
Conestoga W, 4-4 
k  N ashua  R ,4 4 .........  I k
Conestoga  D, 7-8 . 
N ashua 0,7-8.......... 6k
Conestoga  G, 30-i 
k   N ew m arketN .  ....  6 k  
Dw ight  X, 3 4 —
k i Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Dw ight Y,7-8-----
k  I Pepperell  R, 4-4—   I k
Dw ight Z, 4-4.... 
Dw ight Star, 44. 
Pepperell  N, 3-4—   6k
Ew ight Star, 40-it 
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......6k
E n terp rise EE, 31 
Saranac  R ................  7k
G reat Falls E, 4-4 
Saranac  E ................9
F arm ers’ A, 4 4 .. 
Indian  O rchard
Amoskeag 
Johnson  M anfg Co,
Amoskeag 
10k  B ookfold...............12k
sty le s ...
7 k  Johnson  M anfg Co,
B a te s........................
6k  dress  sty les..........13k
B e rk sh ire..............
¡Slaterville, 
7 
dress
Glasgow c h eck s.. .. 
sty les........................  7 k
Glasgow checks, f y 
W hite Mfg Co, stap  7k
Glasgow 
checks,
8
« ■ f r t o i - . »  s œ »
W hite  M anf’g  Co,
G loucester, 
E arlsto n ..................8
standard 
G ordon.......................7k
P lu n k e t... 
8
dress 
Greyloek, 
L ancaster 
styles  ....................12k
7%
Langdale
iPepperell.  10-4.......27k
Androscoggin, 1-4. .21 
Pepperell,  114.......32k
A ndroscoggin, 84. .23 
¡Pequot,  7-4..............21
Pepperell,  7-4.........20
..24
Pepperell,  8 4 ........23k  Pequot,  8 4 ...
..27k
Pepperell,  9 4 ........25 
¡Pequot,  9 4 ..............
HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.
A tlantic  A ,4-4.......  7k |L aw re n ceX X (4 4 .
A tlantic  H, 4-4.......  7  Law rence  Y, 30...
A tlantic  D, 4-4.......6 k  Law rence LL, 4 4 ..
A tlantic P , 4 4 .........  5k¡N ew m arket N
..
A tlantic  LL, 4 4 —   5 k  
ystic River, 4"4' '
A driatic, 36..............  < k  P equot A’ ^ .........
A ugusta, 4-4............  f k  Piedm ont, ??.........
Boott  M, 4-4............   6 k b ta r k  A A, 44. 
..
Boott  FF, 4 4 ..........   7 k  T rem ont  CC, 4-4...
G raniteviile, 4 4 —   5(4 JJtica.,  44 
3tt,  4-4. 
Indian  Head, 4-4...  7 
jW aet 
u sett,  30-ii
Indiana H ead 45-in. 12klWaob 
TIC K IN G S .
x x x x ...
• 18k 
Am oskeag,  AC A ... 14  Falls,
X X X .......
•15k 
“ 4-4.. 19  Falls,
Am oskeag 
.I lk
B B ...........
Am oskeag,  A .........13 
fails,
BBC, 36.. 
• 19k 
A m oskeag,  B .........12 
Falls
.19 
aw ning., 
Am oskeag,  C.........11  Falls
.12
ilton,  BT, 
A m oskeag,  D .........10k  Ham
ilton,  D ... 
.  9k
Am oskeag,  E .........10  Ham
ilton,  H ... 
Amoskeag, F . .. —   9 k   Ham 
10
ilton  fane 
Prem ium   A, 4-4— li  Ham
uen AA.
13k
P rem ium   B .............16
18
A.SA.:
¡Methuc
E x tra 4 4 ....................16 
7-8..., 
11
E x tra  7-8.................. 14k|Ome
13
Omega  A, 4-4 —  
Gold Medal 4-4........15
14 
Omega ACA, 7-8 
CCA  7-8....................12k
16. 
Omega ACA, 44 
CT 4 4 ........................14
,24
Omega SE, 7-8.. 
RC 7-8....................... 14
Omega SE, 4-4..
BF 7-8....................... 16
Omega M. 7 -8......... 23
AF4-4.......................19
Omega M, 4-4...........25
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Shetucket SS&SSW l l 1 
Cordis  AC A, 33......15
Shetucket, S &SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32......15
Shetucket,  S i S 
.. 13
Cordis  No. 2...........14
Stockbridge  A ......... 7
Cordis  No. 3...........13
Stockbridge  frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4...........I l k
Em pire
G arner ..............
W ashington.............   4%
H ookset............
¡Edwards...................  5
Red  C ross.........
¡S. S. & Sons............   5
F orest G rove...
A m erican  A .........18  OOjOld  Iro nsides......... 15
S tark A ....................22kl  W h eatlan d ...............21
Boston ...  ..............  6M ¡OH8 £ c  ••/-•.•.........
E v erett  b lu e ......... 13k W arren  A X A ...........12k
E v erett  brow n......13k W arren  B B ...............U A
Otis  A X A .............. 12k  W arren CC...............10k
Otis B B ................... 11 k  I York  fa n c y ...............13k
M anville...................  6 
IS.S.& Sons................ 6
M asgnville..............  6 
¡G arn e r....................... 6
Red  C ross................  7 k  ¡Thistle M ills............
B e rlin .......................7 k  R ose............................   8
G a rn e r.....................  "kl
B ro o k s......................50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P .  C oats.......... 55
W illim antie 6 cord. 55 
W illim antie 3 cord. 40 
C harleston ball sew 
ing th re a d .............30

i-4
__ 7 k  I Renfrew , dress styl  7 k

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

. . 5  
G R A IN  BAGS.

W ID E  BLEACHED  COTTONS

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

W IG AN S.

DENIM S,

' s

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sew ing.30 
Greeh  &  D an iels...25
M erripks..................40
S taffo rd ....................25
Hall & M anning— 25 
H olyoke....................25
K earsage................. 87a
N aum keagsatteen.  8(4 
Pepperell  bleached  8k
Pepperell s a t.......... 9 k
R ockport.................
Law rence s a t..........

CORSET JE A N S .

A rm o ry ...................   ¿7*
A ndroscoggin sa t..  8(4
Canoe R iv er.............  6
Clarendon..................6(4
Hallowell  Im p ....... 6(4
Ind. Orch. Im p ....... 7
L a c o n ia................... 7 k  1 Conegosat.

T h e   N i a g a r a ,  F a lls   (R o u te.

D EPA R T.

A R R IV E .

♦D etroit E x p ress..........................
tD ay  E xpress...............................
•(Atlantic E xpress........................
♦Pacific  E x p ress...................................... 6:00 a m
+Mail................................................. ^ :29pm
■(Grand  Rapids  E xpress....................... 10:25 p m

.  6:00 a m 
12:45 p m 
.  9:20 p m

•(Daily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific 
E xpress. 
_  
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern train s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding tran sfers. 
The D etroit E xpress leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
D raw ing  Room  and  P arlor  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m., New Y ork 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m. n e x t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room  car attached, arriv­
ing a t Grand Rapids a t  10:25 p. m.

...

, 

J . T. S c h u l t z . Gen 1 A gent.

.

Chicago & West Michigan.
a m 
p m  
p m

•(Mail................
tD ay  E xpress.
♦Night  Expre:
♦Daily.  +Da:
P ullm an Sle<

apt Sund;
Ce
Through  parlor  car  ir 
ten d an ts w ithout  extri 
12:25 p. m., and th rougt 
9:35 p. m. trains.

A rrives, 
4:05 p m 
11:15 p  m 
6:00 a m
all  n ight  trains, 
e  of  careful  at- 
e  to  Chicago  on 
on 9:15 a.m. and

NEWAYGO  D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.
E x p ress...................................4 ;15 P m
E x p re ss...................................  8;0p a m

A rrives. 
4:05 p m 
11:15 a m
All train s arriv e and d ep art from  U nion  De-
P The  N orthern term in u s of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, w here close connection is m ade  w ith 
F. &  P. M.  tra in s  to   and  from   L udington  and 
M anistee. 

J. H. C a r p e n t e r ,  G en’l Pass. A gent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e n ,  G eneral  M anager.

„ _  

_ 

.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
A rrive.
E x p ress.................................7:00 p m
M ail.........................................9:35 a m
All train s daily except Sunday.
The  atrain  

Leave.
1:35 a in 
4:00 p m
leaving  a t  4  p. m . connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon w ith  A tlantic  E xpress  on  Main 
Line, w hich has Palace D raw ing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from   Chicago  to   New  Y ork  and 
Boston w ithout change.
The  tra in   leaving  a t  7:35  a. m. connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon (giving one h our for dinner) with 
special New Y ork E xpress on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured a t  U nion T icket office, 
67 M oure stre e t and  depot.

tickets  and  berth s 

T hrough 

J. W. McK enney, Gen’l A gent.

. 

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EA ST.

GOING  W EST.

A rrives.
■(Steamboat E x p ress..........
•(Through  M ail.......... ...........10:15 a m
■(Evening  E x p re s s ........... 3:20pm
♦A tlantic E x p ress................  9:45pm
•(Mixed, w ith  coach............
•(Morning  E x p ress...............12:40p m
•(Through  M ail.....................   5:10 p m
•(Steamboat  E xpress........... 10:40 p m
•(Mixed....................................
♦Night E x p ress.....................  5 :1 0 am

Leaves. 
6:20 a m 
10:20 a m 
3: 35 p m 
19:45 p m 
1U:30 a m
12:55 p m 
5:15 p m
7:10 a m 
5:30 a m
•(Daily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily. 
P assengers  tak in g   th e  6:20  a.  m.  E xpress 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit fo r New York, arriving th ere at 
10:00 a. m. th e  follow ing m orning.
P arlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  E ast  and 
West»
T rain leaving  a t  5:15  p.  m.  will  m ake  con­
nection w ith M ilwaukee steam ers daily except
SlT1heam ail has  a  P arlo r  Car  to   D etroit.  The 
N ight  E xpress has a through  W agner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car D etroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r ,  City Pass. A gent. 
G e o . B.  R e e v e , Traffic M anager, Chicago.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING  SOUTH.

GOING NORTH.A rrives.  Leaves.
C incinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m  
C incinnati & M ackinacEx.  9:20 a m   I0:2;> a  m 
F t. W ayne & M ackinac  E x  3:55 p m  
5:00 p m 
7:10 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  A c. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati E x . 
7:00 a m
M ackinac .& Cincinnati E x .  4:0c p m  
4:35 p m 
M ackinac & F t. W ay i  e E x .. 10:25 a m  11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

S LE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

A ll tra in s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  W oodruff  Sleeping Cars fo r  Petoskey  and 
M ackinac City.  T rain leaving a t 10:25 a. m. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car for T raverse 
City. 
j
South—T rain leaving at 4:3op. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car fo r Cincinnati.

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

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Detroit,  Mackinac  &  Marquette.

GOING
WEST
Ac. !  Ex.

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I  4 ®2J
P M .  4  40 
6  50  3 30 
3  08  1  27 
12  00  .
12  15 ID
1  10 
11  0 2 .......
11  25 
A M.l
7  30
8  30|Dep. 
7  00 Ar.
PM .
9  00 Dep, 
AM.
9  35  .

STATIONS.

Ishpem ing 
. N eg au n ee.. 
. M arquette . 
. R e edsboro,

Seney 
.  N ew bury

St. Ig n a c e__ Ar.
ckinaw City  Dep.
Ar.
G rand Rapids 
.......D e tro it........

GOING
EAST
Ac. I  Ex.

Dep. 1  30
1  40 AM.
7  30 
2  20
11  05 
4  19
1  10
5  45
_  30 12  40
6  38¡  2  40
IP M. 
□9  00  6  30 
9  30
7  00 
3  301

Connections m ade a t  M arquette  and N egau­
nee w ith th e M. H.  & O. R.R. fo r th e iron, gold 
silver and copper d istric ts; a t Reedsboro  w ith 
a daily stage  line  fo r  Manistique,;  a t  Se.ney 
with tfi-w eekly stage fo r G rand  M arais;  a t St. 
Ignace w ith th e M. C. and G. R.  & I.  Railways 
fo r all points east and south;  also  daily  stage
line to  S ault St. Marie. 

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

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Bitt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

Fox, Musselman & Loveridge

S o l e   O w n e r s .

JSXT2TCXTCS  <&■  S M I T H ,
Arctic  Manufacturing*  Co.,

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.Arctic  Baking  Powder.
We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  TXTalnuts  and Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

Gandy 
Nuts
Oranges
Oysters
Putnam  &  Brooks
SPRING  &

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

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

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS
C A R P E T S ,

M A T T IN G S ,

Bracket Shelving Irons

C reates  a  N e w  E ra 
in  St o r e  F u r n ish­
in g .  It  e n tirely  su ­
persed es 
th e   o ld  
style  w h e re v e r  in­
troduced.

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Satisfaction Guaranteed

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

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Manufacturers, 

COAL  AND  BUILDING  M ATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follow s:

Ohio W hite Lime, p e r  b b l..................... 
1
Ohio W hite Lim e, car lo ts ....................  
™
Louisville Cement,  p e r b b l................... 
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A kron Cem ent p er  b b l.......................... 
^ Cemen\ per.bW;;:::::;::::::i m \  S
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P lastering hair, per irn..........................   25® .
1  ¿2
Stucco, p er b b l.......................................... 
S'®
Land plaster, p er to n .............................. 
“ : : : : : :: : : : : : : : : :: :  $25 @ f35
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F ire clay, p er  b b l— >.^ y ..................... 
A nthracite, egg and grate, c a r lots. .$6  00®« 25 
A nthracite, stove and  n u t, car lo ts..  6  25@6 50
n h ? o T mn ^ c a ^ l o t s .’
3 25@3 50 
Blossburg o r Cum berland, car lo ts..  4  60@5 00

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ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

G rand R apids,

Michigan.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E N G I N E S

From  2 to 150 H orse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
G rist Mills, Wood W orking  M achinery,  Shaft­
ing,  P ulleys  and  Boxes.  C ontracts  m ade  fo r 
Com plete Outfits.
W .  O,  Denison,

88,90 and 92 South Division Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

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■HI  GET  I  H U   OF  BOOTS.
BOOT  PLUG

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.

f t  Consumer Gels tlie Boots.

We pack a TIN  ORDER in one of the  lumps  in  each  Butt 

which is good for either one pair of heavy No.  1  Kip 

Boots,  or one pair of  Fancy  Calf  Boots,  or 

one pair of Calf Button Shoes.

IIOW  TO  C 3 r 3 E S T   THE  BOOTS.
Send  the  Boot  Order  with  size  wanted,  Name,  Town, County and State 
plainly written to the undersigned, and they will forward the boots by the next i 
Express.  DON’T  FORGET  TO  MENTION  THE  KIND  WANTED.

Wes W. A

Tobacco  Manufacturers,

Canal  and  Monroe  Streets,  CHXGAGO,  XXiXa.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  FIRST  CLASS  JOBBERS.

J o h n

CAULFIELD,

WHOLESALE

WHOLESALE

117  Monroe  St-

OYSTER  DEPOT!
F.  J.  Dettenthaler.
C E O .  17. D A V I S   A   C O .,
General Commission amt Brokerage,
I 

I For  all  kinds  of  foreign  and  domestic  FRUITS,  PRODUCE,  and  MANUFACTURED 
GOODS  of every  description.
Having been in business in this city for the past twelve  years,  and  having  an  exten­
sive acquaintance with the Wholesale and Retail trade in this vicinity, we^are able to give 
our shippers the benefit of our long experience.
Any goods consigned to  us  will  havetopr  best  attention.  We  have  STORAGE  >r 
over FIFTY carloads, either for light or hewy goods, and will furnish same for any length 
If, at any timé, there should be^anything in this market you 
of time, at reasonable rates. 
should w’isli to purchase, no matter what it is, we would  be  glad  to  correspond  with you.

C R EA M ER Y   B U T T ER .

P ap er read by C.  B. L rm bert before the Michi­

gan  D airym en’b  Association.
Some writers of the present  day  have ad­
vanced the idea that creamery butter can on­
ly  be  made  at  private  dairies. 
I  cannot 
agree with them.  Perhaps it  may be that I 
have had no experience  in  private  dairies.
I will admit there are  some  that  produce a 
very choice  article,  and  bring  the  highest 
price in  the  best  markets 5  but  as  I  know 
what is required to constitute  creamery but­
ter, there is not one-tenth of the private dair­
ies which, under the present  system  of  set­
ting the milk and  preparing  the  cream for 
the cheese, can  produce  a creamery  butter.
I find there is a general idea  among the far­
mers and dairymen, as well  as many of  the 
merchants, that if  the  milk is  set in one of 
the many patented  submerged  creameries, 
that is all that is necessary to constitute it a 
creamery butter.  But such are not the facts.
It is not setting the milk in  something  call­
ed a “creamery;”  but it is to  set  the  milk 
where you can develope  and  retain  those 
vegetable  oil  flavors  that  are  necessary  in 
creamery  butter.  Therefore,  it  cannot  be 
done in  private  dairies  without a large  ex­
pense  and  then it  would  require  extraor­
dinary skill to  produce a uniform  article in 
flavor and texture day after day.

In manufacturing  creamery  butter  at the 
factories,  the  requirements  are  much  the 
same as for cheese.  There should be a com­
pulsory system, among  the  patrons, in  the 
selection of  cows—those  that  give  a  large 
percentage of butter—pasturage, water, care, 
and gentleness when milking.  The  feeding 
at  the  stable  should  consist  of  different 
kinds of grain, being fed morning and even­
ing  during  the  summer  season,  in  winter 
three times a day. 
I will give  the different 
grains and percentages which 1 know are the 
best to produce the largest amount of  butter 
and the best flavor:  Oat meal, 500  pounds; 
corn  meal,  200  pounds;  pea  meal  150 
pounds; bran 300  pounds;  linseed meal 100 
pounds; cotton seed 50 pounds. 
In summer 
feed each cow two quarts morning and even­
ing. 
In winter, increase to  three  quarts at 
each feeding.  The milk should be  taken to 
the creamery  morning  and  evening,  should 
be strained and cooled to at least  80 degrees 
at the dairy.  Milk taken to the factory twice 
a day produces a larger quantity and a much 
better quality  of  butter  than  when  mixed 
and only taken  once  a  day. 
Israel  Boies, 
of Genoa, 111., one of the best  authorities in 
the United States,  when  alive, would  pay 
five cents more per hundred  for  milk deliv­
ered  twice a  day, than  for  that  delivered 
once, and in my  experience  I  have  found 
that Israel Boies was correct.

The operator,  to  be  successful,  must  be 
a man of intelligence, good judgment, sensi­
tive to all taints, and  thoroughly acquainted 
with the properties  of  milk. 
In  the  con­
struction of a creamery  no  expense  should 
be  spared.  The butter  maker  should have 
perfect  control of the  temperature  in 
the 
milk  room.  There  should  be a  churniug 
room, a cream room, a refrigerator and store 
room, a bountiful supply of pure, cold water 
and ice.  The drainage should be  perfect.

allow. 

The pans for setting the  milk  should  not 
hold  more  than  1,000  pounds  to  1,200 
pounds of milk with plenty of  space  under 
and around for  cold  water, with  an apart­
ment in the center of the  pan  four  inches 
wide, forming  a resorvoir of  cold  water to 
cool the milk in the  center.  When  receiv­
ing the milk, the strainer  should  set over a 
covered pail containing  ice  and  salt, so as 
to expel the animal heat  and  cool  the  milk 
to a temperature of 62 degrees as  quickly as ] 
circumstances  will 
Skimming 
the milk is a very important point in cream­
ery butter making and one that will test the 
abilities of the operators to know  when  the 
flavors of the vegetable  oils  are  developed, 
for they must retain  them  in  the  butter. 
These flavors may be fully  developed  from 
nine to eighteen hours  after  setting, when 
the cream should be taken off at  once, with 
great care not to take any  milk  with it, for 
this cream should ripen without any foreign 
substances. 
It should then ®be  placed  in  a 
pool of water  at a  temperature  of  64  de­
grees. 
If the  cream is at a  temperature of 
62 degrees, it should be stirred  often  while 
undergoing the ripening process.  The cream 
that rises after the  first  skimming  may be 
allowed to  get a  slight  acid  before  skim­
ming; but the milk should not  be loppered, 
as the gases arising from milk in  this  stage 
has a tendency to destroy  the  flavors.  The 
same care must be  exercised  when  taking 
this cream  off  as  into the  first  Divide the 
cream of the  first  skimming  in  as  many 
cream pails as are required, so that  you can 
equally divide the  second  skimming  with 
the first. 
It should then be placed in a pool 
of water at  a  temperature  of  58  degrees, 
stirring it often to expel  the  gases as  well 
as to equalize it. 
It should  not  remain  in 
this pool longer than twelve  hours before it 
is churned.  The churn should be  rinsed and 
cooled with cold water  before  the  cream is 
put into it. 
If you wish to color the* butter, 
use sufficient coloring  for a bright  dandeli­
on, as that color will suit nearly every  mar­
I consider the square churn  the  best 
ket. 
the  cream 
now in  use.  When  churning, 
must be  kept in a  regular  motion. 
If the 
cream is at a temperature of 58 degrees, and 
of the proper ripeness, from  eight to twelve | 
minutes will be sufficient  time  to  separate 
the butter globules from  the  butter  milk, 
leaving them  in a granular  form  about the 
size of a grain of wheat.  Then it is time to j 
draw the butter milk from  the churn.  After 
that is done, rinse the butter  with  cold wa­
ter, letting it drain  off  directly  from  the 
churn until the water which runs  off  looks 
quite clear. 
I would prefer  a  rubber  hose 
I then put wa­
and ftozzle for this purpose. 

ter into the churn at a temperature of 62 de­
grees, about the  some  quantity of water as 
there was of  butter  milk.  Then  close the 
churn and  agitate it for a minute  with  the 
same motion as when  churning.  Then  run 
the water off, and rinse it again.  It will now 
be ready for the worker.

There are a great many different  kinds of 

butter workers, but I have  never  used any ■ 
that I think is as good as the  lever.  Why I j 
prefer it, is this. 
I can tell just the amount I 
of pressure I am using, or rather what  is re­
quired, when  working  the  butter.  Never 
try to work too  much  butter at  once.  As , 
soon at the butter is placed  on  the  worker, j 
press it slightly to see if there is  any  milk j 
remaining in it. 
If so, press it evenly  over j 
the worker and rinse  it, continuing to do so j 
until the milk is all expelled.  It should nev-1 
er  be  salted when there is any milk  in it. | 
Press the butter evenly over the worker one- 
half inch thick, then  take  three-quarters  of 
an ounce of  salt  to  the  pound  of  butter, 
sprinkling the salt  evenly  over  it.  Should 
the butter  have a  dry  appearance,  moisten 
the salt with a  little  water,  so  it  will  not 
absorb the moisture from the  butter  to  dis­
solve it, as that would weaken the flavor and 
leave white specks in the butter. 
It is  nec- j 
essary that the salt  be all  dissolved  before j 
the butter is packed.  Then  roll  it  up  and 
press and roll until the the  salt is thorough­
ly mixed and  dissolved, when it is ready to 
pack.  Butter should never be  set  away  to 
be reworked,  as it injures the grain  and fla­
vor to work it after it becomes solid.  Much ] 
care must  be  taken  in  packing  butter. 
It j 
should be packed perfectly  solid, leaving no | 
cavities to retain the air.  There  are  many 
tubs of butter spoiled from this cause.

A word in regard  to  butter  tubs.  Those 
that are worm-eaten or put  together  loosely 
should not be used, as they  would  leak  the 
brine and allow the atmosphere to get to the 
butter.  They  should  be  soaked  thirty-six 
hours before using, twelve  hours  with cold j 
water, then washed and rinsed, then  soaked 
in weak brine  twenty-four  hours.  As soon 
as the tub is packed full  of  butter  draw a j 
straight-edge across the top,  then  take  the 
ladle and form a gutter around  the  edge  of 
the tub, cover it with a piece of butter  cloth 1 
and then cover  that  with  salt.  Fasten  the 
cover on  and  set in  the  refrigerator. 
It 
should not be shipped until it has been pack­
ed twenty-four hours.

Before closing I must make some remarks 
concerning  one of the most  essential points 
in the manufacture of creamery butter—that
is, in regard to the salt.  Now, which  is the 
Dest salt?  There are many different salts in 1 
the market, but to my knowledge most of the 
butter makers use the  salt  that  has a great 
name, therefore paying the highest price for
it, without knowing  the  real  per  cent, of 
value it gives to the  butter.  What  are  the 
points which constitute the best salt for but 
ter?  Surely not the name or price  paid  for 
it.  But a salt that  has a  softness  in  the 
grain, so  as not to  injure  the  grain of the 
butter when being worked,  which  will  dis- j 
solve quickly and  with a small  amount  of j 
moisture, giving and retaining a  tone to the 
flavor of the butter, but  not to  bring it to a | 
standard immediately, as  some of  the  for-1 
eign high-priced salts will do.  I have tested i 
many kinds  of  salt and find  that the  best j 
sjilt for creamery butter are as 1 grade them: j 
First, Michigan Dairy, and  Stubb  Brothers, 
Liverpool; second,  Ross,  Montreal;  third, 
Higgins, Eureka; fourth,  Onandagua; fifth, j 
Ashton.  No doubt some of the  salt agents 
will spurn the  idea of a cheap salt being the 
best for butter, but, nevertheless, 1  am  con 
vinced that such are  the  facts,  and  would 
use the Michigan Dairy and  Stubb Brothers I 
salt, in preference to  all  others,  for  they ! 
contain the  essential  points—that  is, soft­
ness of grain,  require a  small  amount  of 
moisture to dissolve  them, toning  and  re­
taining  the  flavor  of  the  butter, but  riot 
bringing 
immediately.
I Neither do they contain the odor of  the sea­
weed or fishy smell that are  sometimes pre- 
ceptible in the Higgins and  Ashton  salt. 
I 
would advise all butter makers  to  test  the 
different salts, as 1  have  done  by  salting 
half a churning with the  first  named  salt, 
and the other half  with  any of  the  other 
salts.  This I think will convince them as to 
which is the best salt for creamery butter.

it  to  a  standard 

There is something significant in  the  fact 
that Canada cheese has received the  compli­
ments of the foreign market  over  the  New 
York dairies. jjiThe fact is, the Canadians are 
first-class chelse makers, and they are begin­
ning to find it out.

Tibbs,  Young & Co. have  engaged  in the 
manufacture of the Delaware County Cream­
ers at Benton  Harbor.

W I L S O N ’ S

CaMnet Creamery anû Barrel Ciinrn

AND  ALT.  D A IR Y   S U P P L IE S .

To  first  p u r­
chaser  in  new 
locality,we will 
give  s p e c i a l  
term s.
The w om an’s 
friend. I t saves 
th re e -fo u rth s  
of the  labor  in 
b u t t e r - m a k ­
ing;  easily  op­
e r a t e d ;   you 
raise 
s w e e t  
cream  
f r o m  
s w e e t   m ilk; 
you have sw eet m ilk to feed which  trebles  its 
value.  Send  fo r  circular.  A gents  w anted. 
A ddress  F L IN T   C A B IN E T   C R EA M ER Y  
CO.,  F L IN T ,  M IC H .

Fermentum.

The  Only  Reliable  COMPRESSED  YEAST. 
G rocerym en  and  bakers  w ishing  to   add  a 
good-paying  article  to   th eir  stock  would  do 
well to send fo r samDles and prices, which will 
be fuynished free.  D irections  fo r  using  w ith 
each package.

P.  SPITZ, Grand Rapids, Mich.

STRAIGHT  GOODS—ITO  SCHEME.

C H E  " W -

John  Caulfield,

Sole  Agent.

JElI.  _b1  .A ,  X_j  X_j  _<Al_  £3,

Wlotale & Coiiission—Butter & Eggs a Specialty.

Choice B u tte r alw ays on hand.  All  O rders  receive P rom pt and Careful A ttention. 

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

77  and 79 Canal Street, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
See  O ur  W holesale  Q uotations  else­

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w h ere  in  th is issue  and w rite  for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to make Bottoin Prices  on anythinc we handle.
A . B. K N O W L S O N ,

3  Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Curtiss, Dunton & Go.,

-----JOBBERS  OF-----

Wooden ware, Twines and Cordage,  Paper,  Stationery,  Ker-

osene and Machine Oils,  Naptha and Gasoline.

51 and 53 Lyon Street

F

OYSTERS

Grand Rapids, Mich.
We are  sole Michigan 
agents for the  celebrated 
“S'” 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- 
1  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.

&  Brooks.

71  Canal Street, Grand Rapids.
DETROIT  SOAP  CO.’S

IQUEEN  A N N E

S O A P

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P u tn am

is not

I  A  (“sm ash up th e clothes boiler,” “throw  aw ay th e w ash-board,” “wash w ithout labor”) Soap; 
|  A  (grand piano, gold  w atch, house and lot w ith every bar,  “save  th e  w rappers’ )  Soap;  is  not 
j  A  (towel, napkin, dish-rag, dry goods store throw n in)  Soap;  is not 
I  A  (here to-day and gone to-morrow)  Soap; is not
|  A  (sell a q u a rte r of a box, and have the balance left on your hands) Soap;

------- BUT  IS--------

At  Manufacturers’  Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

I  The very b est article in laundry and general fam ily Soap ever p u t on th e m arket.
I  Big and lasting trade.  Good margins to dealers.  Grocers, if you  have  never 
tried “QUEEN ANNE SOAP,” buy a sample box and you will always continue 

I to handle it.CODY,  B ALT,  &  CO.,

W holesale A gents fo r “Q ueen A nne” and all 

o f D etroit Soap Co.’s S tandard Brands. 

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House  and  Store  Shades Made to Order. 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

N elson  Bros.  &  Co.

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Peeler, 5  c e n ts.............................
Big N ig.............................................
P i e ....................................................
K nights of  L abor..........................
A rab, 2x12 and 4x12.......................
Black B e ar......................................
K ing 
Old Five Cent T im es.....................
P ru n e N uggett, 12 f t.....................
P a rro t  .............................................
Old T im e.......................'...............
T ram w ay........................................
Big Sevens, dim e c u ts.................
Black D iam ond.............................
T rotter, rum  flavor.......................
Boot  .................................................
B. F. P .’s  F av o rite........................
Old K en tu ck y .................................
Big F our,  2x12...............................
Big Four, 3x12.................................
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12............
T urkey, 16 oz.,  2x12.......................
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12.................
Seal of G rand R apids...................
Glory  ...............................................
D u rh am ...........................................
Silver  Coin......................................
B uster  [D ark]...............................
Black Prince [D ark].....................
Black Racer  [D ark].....................
L eggett & M yers’  S ta r.................
C lim ax .............................................
Hold F a s t .....’...............................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield.................
Nickle N uggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.
Cock of the W alk  6s.....................
Nobby T w ist...................................
N im rod.............................................
A corn ...............................................
C rescen t..........................................
Black  X ...........................................
Black  B ass......................................
Spi 
Cri 
Ma 
Hor 
Hai 
D.
Me
Ace  High, black.
Sailors’  Solace........................
I  Red Star,  Rough and Ready,
Red Star, Rough and Ready,
3x1:
Red Star, fiat, 3x12.............................
Red Star, black. 24 oz........................
2c. less in fo u r b u tt lots 

ty lin g ............................
3k inaw ..........................
!e Shoe.......................
L ifte r.......................
id D., b lack ...............
A lpin’s G reen  Shield.

SMOKING

@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

A  8; 
(2 9(
<a;4  8;
<§
<§S3  4i

PIPES.

Im ported Clay 3 gross............................2 25@3  00
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............   @2 25
Im ported Clay, No. 216,254 g ro ss.........  @1  85
A m erican  T. D..........................................  @  90

R IC E .

C
O

J a v a ........  . ...6%@63
P a t n a __ f ; .............■>,*
7  R an g o o n ......... 5%@6%
5%  B roken..............
TiERATUS.
5^41 Dwight’s .........
.......534
5% Sea  F oam .......
.......5%
534  S., B. & L.’s B est__ 534
•>/4 1 
SALT.
•y............................. 2 30@2  40
20®2  30
.................................2 50@2  60

SA UCES.

Good  C arolina
P rim e C arolina......654
Choice Carolina 
Good L ouisiana
DeLand’s pure.
Church’s 
.........
Taylor’s  G.  M..
Cap  S heaf.........
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy
28 P o ck et.........
100 3 ft  pockets
Saginaw F in e ...........................................
Diamond  C...............................  
............
(j01  Standard  Coarse......................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. b ag s.........
Ashton,  English, dairy, 4 bu. b ag s__
H iggins’ English dairy bu.  b ag s.........
A m erican, dairy,  Vi  bu. b ag s................
Rock, b ushels...........................................
Parisian,  Vi  p in ts....................................
Lee & P errin s  W orcestershire, pints. 
Lee & P errin s W orcestershire , Vi pts.
Picadilly,  34 p in ts....................................
P ep p er Sauce, red  sm all......................
P epper Sauce, green  ..............................
P esper Sauce, red large rin g ..............!
P ep p er Sauce, green, large rin g .........
Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts............................
Catsup, Tom ato,  q u arts  .......................
H orseradish,  34 p in ts..............................
H orseradish, p in ts..................................
Capers, French surfines__ .’.................
Capers, French surfines, la rg e ............
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  b o ttle ...................
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  b o ttle...................
Olive Oil,  q uarts, A ntonia &  Co.’s __
Olive Oil, pints,  A ntonia & Co.’s .........
Olive Oil,  V4 pints, A ntonia & Co.’s __
C elery Sait,  D urkee’s ............................
H alford Sauce, p in ts..............................
H alford Sauce,  Vi p in ts..........................
Salad D ressing, 
D urkee’s, la rg e ... 
Salad Dressing,
D urkee’s, sm all..
D etroit Soap Co.’s Q ueen A n n e...
41“  C a m e o ..............
4‘  M onday............
“  Mascot
“   Superio

44 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

SOAP.

,601» ba 
,  w rapp

Old Country, 80 bars, 80 toe 
Old Country, 80 bars,80 lbs., 
Old Country, 801 ft b a rs.. 
K irk’s A m erican  Fam ily
do. 
I n d ia ......................
do.  S a v o n .....................
do.  S a tin e t...................
do.  R e v e n u e ................
do.  W hite R ussian__

M»

(Broeenes.

The  Uses  of Glucose.

Prom  th e New E ngland Grocer.

At the request of the Commissioner of In­
ternal Revenue of  -the  United States a com­
mittee of the National Academy of Sciences 
was appointed,  consisting  of  professors  of 
University  of  Philadelphia,  Yale College, 
Colombia  College,  Harvard  College  and 
Johns  Hopkins  University, the purpose be­
ing  to  scientifically  investigate the various 
products  known  as  glucose,  grape  sugar, 
maltose,  etc.  The  committee  found  that 
glucose  is  made  from  many things besides 
starch and potatoes,  such  as  “from leaves, 
straw, rags, chips, twigs  and  residues  from 
breweries, distilleries,” etc.  The following, 
which we take from  their  report,  shows  to 
what use glucose is put:

Both glucose  and  grape sugar  find exten­
sive applications for a great  variety of  pur­
poses  as  substitutes  for cane  sugar or for 
barley.  The  most  general  purposes  for 
which glucose or starch sugar is vised are,

1.  For  the  manufacture  of  table  syrup. 
This  consists  of  a nearly or quite colorless 
glucose, with  a  sufficient  addition  of  cane 
sugar from  the  sugar  refinery to give it the 
flavor  and  appearance  of  a  highly refined 
molasses.  The quantity of canq syrup added 
varies from 2 per cent, up to 33 per  cent.

2.  As a substitute for  barley  malt  in  the 
brewing of ale or beer.  This is really a sub­
stitution  of  Indian  corn  for  barley,  but it 
constitutes a very  imperfect  substitute,  as 
the corn, by  the  treatment  employed in ex­
tracting  its  starch  for  conversion  into glu­
cose, is completely deprived of all the nitro­
genous bodies  and  mineral  salts  which  it 
originally  contained, 
lienee,  the  glucose 
alone, which is  simply  transformed  starch, 
is substituted for the entire barley grain, witli 
its great  variety  of  valuable  constituents. 
This is not  true,  however,  of  the  maltose 
produced from the entire corn by the  action 
of  the malt.  This material  contains  all the 
soluble  constituents  of  the  corn,  together 
with the  additional  substances  which  are 
rendered  soluble  by  the action of the dias­
tase of the malt.

3.  As  a  substitute for cane sugar in con­

fectionery.

4.  For the adulteration  of  cane  sugar, to 
which it is added to the extent of 20 or more 
per cent.

5.  As a substitute  for  cane  sugar  in can­
ning fruit, and in  the  manufacture  of  fruit 
jellies.

6.  For the manufacture of artificial honey. 
This  is  neatly  put up in glass jars contain­
ing a small piece ot genuine honeycomb.

7.  In the manufacture of vinegar.
8.  In the manufacture of  liquor  coloring, 
used in mixing liquors and making  artificial 
liquors.

9.  Other  more  limited applications: 

In 
the  manufacture  of  w’ine;  by the baker in 
making cakes;  in cooking;  in  the  prepara­
tion  of  sauces;  as  an  addition  to  some 
canned meats, especially corned beef;  in the 
preparation of chewing tobacco;  in the man­
ufacture of printers’ rollers, and in the man­
ufacture of some kinds of ink.

The demand for glucose  and  grape  sugar 
is extremely  variable,  and  depends  on the 
relative prices of  corn,  and  of  the  articles 
for which tills kind of  sugar  is  substituted, 
especially sugar house sugar and barley.

T h e  G rocery  M a rk et.

A small-sized  boom  has characterized the 
, grocery  market  during  the  past  week,  the 
volume  of  business  having  been  heavier 
than for any week for several months.  Col­
lections  are  also  good,  every  indication 
pointing to the fact that the  financial  situa­
tion is  gradually  improving.  Prices  have 
remained about steady, the  most  important 
variations being indicated by the change list 
at the head of Price Current.

The  confectionery  trade  has  picked  up 
considerably, prices being steady and the de­
mand active.  Fruits  are  in  good  demand 
and somewhat  higher.  Nuts are  steady.

The  demoralized  condition  of  -the oyster 
market  should  have  been  referred  to last 
week, as the failure  of  the  trade to receive 
oysters  when  ordered may have occasioned 
surprise.  The Chesapeake  and other oyster 
bays have been frozen over, thus  effectually 
preventing  the  oystermen  securing 
their 
usual supplies.  As  a  consequence  of  this 
condition  of  affairs,  all  the  markets  have 
been nearly bare of oysters, and the  jobbers 
have been compelled to pay extremely  high 
prices, thus doing business at a  loss.  They 
have taken care of their  regular  customers, 
so far as possible, and from this  time on ex­
pect the supply to be equal to the demand.

It was an easy-going individual, on  a cer- 
tian business street, who was  noted for pro­
crastination in all things.  He  had  just  re­
ceived an order for a lot of potatoes,  and  he 
was considering the matter of filling  the or­
der when his clerk  came  upon  the  scene 
with a lot of bags  “Wonder  what  we  fill 
these bags with?”  “I don’t know,”  replied 
the boy, “but it might be a good idea  to  as­
tonish our customers once, and fill them with 
dispatch.”  They were filled.

“I wish you would  take to  smoking,  my 
dear,” said Crimsonbeak to  his  wife  as he 
lighted his “Connecticut filler” after dinner, 
the other day.  “And why do you wish that, 
pray?”  replied the lady a little  suspicious­
ly.  “Oh, I’ve  heard  that  smoked  tongue 
was an improvement on the other kind,  and 
you’ve given me so much of the other  kind, 
recently,  that  I  should  not  object  to  a 
change.”  Aud then he  went  out to  see if 
the doormat  was  comfortable for the  night
“A low voice—an excellent thing in wom­

an.”  Also in a business office.

How to Detect  Alum  In Bread.

From  th e  G rocers’ Jo u rn al.

Persons can test the  bread  they  buy for 
themselves by taking a  piece  of  the  bread 
and soaking it in  water.  Take  this  water 
and mix it with an equal part of fresh milk, 
and if the bread contains alum  the  mixture 
will coagulate. 
If a better test is  required, 
boil the mixture and it  will  form  a  perfect 
clod.  Begin and Barbier, French  chemists, 
say the continued use of alum in edibles pro­
duces  a  cough  and  affects  the  bronchial 
tubes, often with very serious  results.  Pro­
fessor Lervin says:  “After  the frequent use 
of alum in  extremely  small  doses, it  has 
been observed gastric symptoms  result, pro­
ducing  loss of appetite, nausea  and gastri­
tis.”

“Alum,” says Dr. Von  Klein, of  Colum­
bus,  “has  a  tendency  to  irritate  the  or­
gans of the stomach. 
If alum is  introduced 
into the stomach, and it does not  meet with 
sufficient  mucous  membrane, the  stomach 
will positively be more or less  affected, and 
this in the course of continued  abuse is nec­
essarily injurious.”  An  easy  and  simple 
plan to detect alum  in baking powder,  is  to 
dissolve a teaspoonful or  more in  an equal 
amount of milk and water.  Boil a few min­
utes, and if the powder contains alum a curd 
will at once form.

L iq u id   B lu in g .
From  th e Scientific A m erican.

Will you  please  publish a  formula  for 

liquid  bluing? 

W. H.

The liquid blue of the  market  is  said  by 
Dick to be prepared by  placing an  earthen 
ware vessel containing 8 parts sulphurie acid 
into a  tub  of  very  cold  water,  and  ad­
ding one  part of  finely  powdered  indigo, 
very gradually to  prevent  heating, stirring 
with a glass rod occasionally, and  when sol­
ution is effected allowing it to stand 48 hours, 
then diluting very gradually with  twice  its 
weight of  soft  w'ater.  This  authority  pre­
fers, however, the following  formula: 
Into 
five pounds of the  most  concentrated  sul­
phuric acid stir gradually one  pound of  the 
best indigo finely ground; expose  to  a  heat 
of 160 deg. F. for  10  or  12  hours,  stirring 
occasionally.  A little rubbed on the window 
pane should assume a purple blue color.

H ow   to   B re a k   S trin g s.

The  following  is  an  ingenious  mode of 
breaking strings which  will often prove ser­
viceable when a cutting-tool is not at hand.

Pass the cord around the left hand, so that 
it crosses itself at  the  point  where it is de­
sired to separate it, wind one end  about the 
fingers  of  the  left  hand, and then,  holding 
the  other  end  firmly at a distance from the 
left hand of about a foot (or more in propor­
tion to the size of the cord), bring the hands 
together and then separate them with a sud­
den  jerk,  the  left  hand  being at  the same 
time  held  closed.  A  strong  cord  can be 
broken in this manner with very slight effort 
and without hurting the hands.
D airy   M a tte rs.

Alma is to have a cheese factory.
The Centreville Creamery  Co,  will  pay 
out 34,000  per  month  for  cream,  judging 
from present indications. 
It has distributed 
500 cans.

The Fairfield township, Lenawee  county, 
farmers sold $22,292.34 worth of cheese dur­
ing 1884.  The cost  of  manufacturing  was 
$3,306.77.

t 

“G ave a  F u ll R e p o rt.”

From  th e Cadillac Times.

That enterprising journal, T h e  M ic h ig a n  
T r a d e s m a n , gave a full  report of  the two 
days’ session of the Michigan Dairymen held 
at Grand Rapids last week.

dried peas.

Advanced—Lobsters, 
Declined—Pocket salt, M uscatel raism s. 

tro u t,  canned  peas, 

AX LE  GREASE.

“
“

25
45
35
65

BROOMS.

2  75 
2 00

CANNED  F IS H .

CANNED F R U IT S .

1  40|
BLU IN G .

B A K IN G   PO W D ER.

75 A rctic 5 ft can s... 

F razer’s ......................80-Paragon.......................60
D iam ond....................60 Paragon, 25  ft pails i   20
Modoc..........................551
A rc tic 34  » c a n s — 45 A rctic  l f t   cans.. ..2  40
.12  00
A rctic 34 »  can e__
A rctic 34 »  cans.  .
................... doz.
Dry, No. 2................
................... doz.
Dry, No. 3................
...................doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,............
................... doz.
Liquid, 8 oz.............
...................$   gros 8  4  00 
A rctic 4 oz...............
.  8  00 
A rctic 8  o z..............
12  00
A rctic 16 oz..............
b o x............................... .  2  00 
A rctic No. 1 peppei 
.  3  00
A rctic No. 2 
**
.  4 50
A rctic No. 3 
No. 1 C arpet............ 2  50 No. ¡2  H u rl........... ...175
No. 2 C arpet............ 2  25 Fancy  W h isk .... ...100
Common W h isk .. ..  75
No. 1  P arlor G em .. 
No. 1 H u r l..,...........
Clams, 1 lb  sta n d ard s.....................  ..........
Clams, 21b  sta n d ard s...................................
Clam Chowder,  3 f t ......................................
Cove Oysters,  1  lb  stan d ard s.....................
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  stan d ard s.....................
Cove O ysters, 1 lb  slack  filled...................
Cove O ysters, 2 ft slack filled...................
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic......................................
Lobsters, 1 ft s ta r .........................................
Lobsters, 2 lb s ta r .........................................
M ackerel, l f t   fresh   sta n d ard s.................
M ackerel, 5 ft fresh   sta n d ard s................
M ackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3  f t..............
M ackerel,3 ft in M ustard..........................
M ackerel, 3 1b broiled.................................
Salmon, 1 ft Colum bia riv e r.....................
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia riv e r.....................
Salmon. 1 1b  S acram ento..........................
Sardines, dom estic 54s .................................
Sardines,  dom estic  14s..............................
Sardines,  M ustard  34®...............................
Sardines,  im ported  %s..............................
Sardines, im ported Vis...............................
Sardines, im ported  Vis, boneless............
I  Sardines, R ussian  k e g s............................
T rout, 3 ft  bro o k ..........................................
Apples, 3 ft sta n d a rd s...............................
Apples, gallons,  standards, E rie............
Blackberries, sta n d ard s............................
Blackberries,  E rie ......................................
Chei'ries, Erie, re d ......................................
Cherries, E rie,w hite w a x ..........................
Cherries, French  B randy, q u a rts...........
Cherries,  red  sta n d ard ..............................
D am sons........................................................
Egg Plum s, standards 
............................
Gooseberries, K raft’s B est.......................
G reen  Gages, standards 2 f t.....................
G reen Gages,  E rie ......................................
Peaches,  B ran d y ........................................
Peaches, E x tra Y ellow ......................< • • •
Peaches,  stan d ard s............................. 1  7»
Peaches,  seconds........................................
Pie Peaches,  K ensett’s ..............................
Pineapples,  E rie..........................................
Pineapples, sta n d ard s...............................
Plum bs, Golden  D rop...............................
Q u in ces........................................................
Raspberries, Black,  E rie ..........................
Raspberries, Red,  E rie ..............................
Straw berries,  E rie......................................
W hortleberries, M eM urphy’s ..................
CANNED  FRITTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .
A pricots, L usk’s . . .2  40|Pears.................
Egg P lu m s............. 2  50 Q u in ces............
G ra p e s.................... 2  50 P eaches  ...........
G reen G ages..........2  50|
A sparagus, O yster B ay..............................
Beans, Lima,  E rie ......................................
Beans, String, E r ie .....................................
Beans, Lima,  stan d ard ..............................
Beans, Stringless,  E rie ..............................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked...................
Corn, E rie .....................................................
Corn, Red  Seal........................................
Corn,  A cm e..................................................
Corn, R evere.................................................
Corn, Cam den.................... ..........................
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case............
Peas, French, 100 in c a s e ..........................
Peas, M arrofat, sta n d ard ..........................
Peas, B eaver.......... ....................................
Peas, early sm all, sifted ............................
Pum pkin, 3 lb G olden.................................
Squash, Erie ._..............................................
Succotash, E rie ............................................
Succotash, sta n d ard ...................................
Tomatoes, Red S eal....................................
B o sto n ........................ 361 Germ an  Sweet.
B akar’s ..... .................40 V ienna Sw eet  .
R unkles’ .....................36|French S w eet..
G reen R io___
G reen J a v a ... 
G reen Mocha. 
Roasted R io.. 
Roasted Ja v a

11®14 Roasted M ex.. .17@20
17®27 G round  R io ... .  9@17
23@25 A rbuckle’s __ .  @1434
x x x x ............ .  @1434
10®17
23@30 D ilw orth’s __ .  @1434
17@18 L evering’s __ .  @1434*
,28@30 M agnolia......... .  @1434

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

CHOCOLATE.

CO FFEE.

CORDAGE.

|

F IS H .

72 foot J u t e .......  1  25  160 foot C otton— 2  00
60 foot  J u te .......  1  00  50 foot C otton— 1  75
40 Foot C o tto n .... 1  50 
Bloaters, Smoked Y arm outh.......................  75
Cod, w hole............... 
454®
Cod,Boneless.....................................................6@7
Cod, pickled,  Vi  b b ls...................................... 3 50
H a lib u t.................................... 
13
H erring Vi  b b ls..............................................2  30
H erring,  Scaled...............................................  18
H erring,  H olland...........................................   80
Mackerel, No. 1, Vi b b ls................................5  50
M ackerel, No. 1.  12  ft  k its ............................  90
M ackerel, No. 1, shore,  Vi  b b ls.................   4  00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  k its ........................   65
Shad,  Vi  b b l .................................................... 2  50
T rout, No.  1,  Vi  b b ls.....................................4  40
Trout, No. 1,12  1b  k its ...................................  90

 

The adulteration of milk is  at present re­
ceiving the attention  of  the  Paris  authori­
ties, who are considering the best  means  of 
checking  the  modes  practiced  by  dealers. I white, No. l 
The consumption is more than a  quarter  of  White, Family, Vi bbls 
a million  quarts daily,  and  M.  Cli. Girard,  white, No. 1,12 ft kits 
chief of the municipal laboratory, announces 
that  bicarbonate  of  soda and water are the  Jennings 
chief means of adulteration.

bbls

Customer—“Give me a pound of  oleomar­
garine!”  Grocer—“Yes, ma’am; here’s your 
change.”  Customer—“Why, you’ve charged 
me  nineteen  cents; it used to be  eighteen.” 
Grocer—“Yes, ma’am; but we are not allow­
ed to sell it now—there’s a  law  agin it—so 
it dearer!”

The  story  is  told  of  a Chicago Board of 
Trade man who, when  lately  in  St.  Louis, 
and  wishing  to  inform  his  house  that  the 
market had  declined  and  that  he would be 
home  on  the  following  day, telegraphed: 
“Wheat has gone to h—. 
I will be there to­
morrow.”

A book just  published  is  entitled, “How 
to make $500 Yearly Profit with  12  Hens.” 
Such  a  volume  is  not  calculated  to  find 
favor with the thousand  or  more  egg pack­
ers who  have  pickled  eggs  at a loss during 
the past season.

“Some men are born  great,  some  achieve 
greatness,  and  some  have  greatness thrust 
upon  them,”  remarked  a small man in the 
street car as a fat  woman  sat  square  down 
on him.

Immense crops  of  mustard  are  produced 
in Southern California, and several  mustard 
mills  have  lately  been  established  in San 
Francisco to work up the product.

The English in the Soudan  have  just or­
dered 5,000,000 pounds of corned beef  from 
a Chicago firm.  This ought to  make  them 
feel bully.

Good'Words  Unsolicited.

D avid Cornwell,  g eneral  dealer,  M onterey: 
“ Y our p aper is thoroughly satisfactory.  Com­
pletely fills th e  bill.”

AVORING EXTRACTS.
Vanilla. 
Lemon
1  40
IP  doz.l  00 
2  50
...........1  50 
4  00
...........2  50 
5 00
...........3 50 
1  50
.......... 1  25 
...........1  75 
3  00
7  50
...........4  50 
...........9 00  15  00
...........3  00 
4  25
...........4  25 
6  00

4 oz................
6 oz................
8 o z...............
No. 2  Taper. 
No.  4 
Vi p in t  roun 
1 
No.  8............
No. 1 0 .........

“
“

Apples, M ichigan.................................
Apples, Dried, evap., b b ls.................
A pples, Dried, evap., b o x ...................
Cherries, dried,  p itte d ........................
C itro n .......................................................
C u rra n ts.................................................. . 
Peaches, dried  .....................................
Pineapples,  sta n d ard s.......................
P runes, Turkey, new ..........................
P runes, French, 50 ft  boxes..............
Raisins, V alencias. .m............................
Raisins,  O ndaras.. .*...........................
Raisins,  S ultanas.................................
Raisins, Loose  M uscatels..................
Raisins, London L ayers.................
Raisins, Im perial C abinets.......... :..
Raisins, D ehesias.................................

.  4 34@5
®73î
@834
@16
@28
,  @4%
13@14
@170
@534
9%@12
@  9%
@12%
@2  60
@3  25
@3  60
@4  25

.  9  @10

. 

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K E R O S EN E  O IL .
.1234  I Legal 
M ATCHES.
9, sq u a re ... 
8, sq u a re ... 
200,  parlor. 
300, parlor. 
7,  ro u n d ..,

W ater W hite.
G rand  H aven,  No. 
Grand  H aven,  No. 
G rand  H aven,  No. 
G rand  H aven,  No, 
G rand  H aven,  No.
Oshkosh, No.  2__
Oshkosh, No.  8__
S w edish.................
Richardson’s No. 2 
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
Richardson’s No. 9 
R ichardson’s No. 19.

square, 
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MOLASSES.

. 10%

.1  10 
.1 60

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

Black  S tra p ...................................
P orto  R ico....................................
New  Orleans,  good.....................
New Orleans, choice...................
New  Orleans,  fan cy ...................
34 bbls. 3c extra, 

Steel  c u t................
Steel Cut, 34 b b ls..
Rolled  O ats...........

OATM EAL.
5  50!Quaker, 48  f ts ......... 2  25
1  00 Q uaker, 60  fts......... 2  50
3 50|Q uakerbbls............6 50
PICKLES.

 

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5 50
.........................................3  40
4  25

Choice in barrels m ed................ 
Choice in V4 
Dingee’s q u arts glass fan cy .............. 
Dingee’s pin ts 
A m erican qt.  in G lass............................................2 00
A m erican p t.in  G lass............................................. 1 30
C. & B. English  q u a rts.......................................... 5 75
C. & B. English  p in ts............................................. 3 60
Chow Chow, m ixed and G erkins,  q u a rts .. .5 75 
p in ts__ 3 50

........................ 2 40

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PRO V ISIO N S.

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P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

The  Grand  Rapids  P acking  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follow s:
H eavy  Mess, new  ............................................ 13  75
S. P. llooth’s,  c lear...................................... !!!lj 75
Pig, clear, sh o rt  e u t...................................... .!l4 75.
E x tra Fam ily C lear........................................... 14 50
E x tra Clear P ig ..................................................14 75
Clear, A. W ebster  p a c k e r.............................[15 50
Standard Clear, th e  b e st................................ 16 50
E x tra  Clear,  heavy...........................................15 75
Boston Clear....................................................... 16 00
Clear Quill, short  c u t...................................... .15 37
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases........... 
734
H alf Cases............ . 
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734
Long Clear m edium , 500 ft  Cases........... 
734
734
H alf C ases........... 
ho 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases................ 
734
734
do. 
Half-Cases  .............. 
I  Short Clears, heavy................................... 
734
m edium ................. 
7%
lig h t........................  ...........
E x tra Long Clear Bac 
ks, 600  ft  cases. 
E x tra Short Clear liac 
■ks, 600 ft  cases. 
E x tra Long Clear Bac 
ks, 300  ft  cases. 
E x tra Short Clear Bac 
:ks, 300 ft  cases. 
Bellies, ex tra quality,
500 ft cases..
Bellies, ex tra quality.
300 ft cases.......
Bellies, ex tra quality,
200 ft c a se s.....
Tierces  .......................................................
30 and 50 ft T u b s ............................. . . . . . .
50 ft Rou nd Tins, 100 cases............... . . . .
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  rack s...................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case..........................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case..................................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a c a s e ......................
H am s cured in sw eet pickle, h eav y __
H am s cured in sw eet pickle m ed iu m ..
lig h t.........
Shoulder, cured in sw eet  pickle.........
E x tra Clear B acon,..................................
Dried Beef,  E x tra ................................
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fts __
E x tra  Mess Chicago packing.................
SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED
P ork  Sausage...........................................
Ham   Sausage........................
Tongue  Sausage.......... ... ]
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage................. **********
Blood  Sausage........................
Bologna,  rin g ...................... .  .  .  ...........
Bologna,  stra ig h t.............
Bologna,  th ick ........................ . .  .  . . .
H ead  Cheese........................
In  half b a r r e ls ............................................ 
3  50
In  q u arter b arre ls...................... ...................  1  m
In k its.............................................
1  50
In  q u arter b arre ls.............................  
In  k its.................................................................. 
gQ
Prices nam ed are  lowest  a t tim e of going to  
press, and a re  good only for th a t date, subject 
to m arket fluctuations.

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN

.......... ...................................... 634

LARD  IN   T IN   PA IL S .

B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

10%
1111%

11  56 
10  75

PIG S  FEET.

T R IP E .

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F R E S H   M EATS.

John  M ohrhard  quotes 

the  trade  selling
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................. .................   6  @  8
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters...................   7  @834
Dressed  H ogs........................ .................   6  @634
M utton,  carcasses................ .................   6  @6%
V eal.......................................... .................   934@10
Pork  Sausage........................ ..................  8  @  9
Bologna................................... ..................  9  @10
C hickens................................. ..................  @13
T urkeys  ................................. .................   @14

H ID E S , P E L T S   A N D   FU RS.

Perkins & Hess quote as  fohows:

H ID ES.

SH E E P PEL TS.

Green .... f  1b  6  @ 7  
P a rt  cu red ...  734®  8 
Full cu red —   8  @  834  Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 

ICalf skins, green 
|  o r cu red ....  @10
$  piece.......20 !f@50

Shearlings or Sum- 

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

I
¡Fall p elts..............30@50
m er skins f? pcel0@20iWinter  p elts.......60@75
Fine washed $   lb 20@22iUnwashed............ 
2-3
Coarse w ashed.. ,16@18 ¡Tallow ............ .  . j'J 534
10
4  00®  6 00|O tter............4  00® 5 00
80-
75
to.l  00®  2 25

2@ 
5@ 
85 Skunk  .........  15® 
10®

@10 001 M uskrat....... 
25@  1  00! Raccoon....... 
15® 
25®  1  00| Beaver, 
5® 40!Deer,  $ f t .
OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

S K IN S .

W OOL.

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New York C ounts... ! ............................................33
F. J. D. Selects  .................................................. ’ .30
S elects......................................................................26
F. J. D ........................................................................19
.  .............................................................is
Standard 
F avorite..............................................................!!!... 17
M edium ..........................................................." 
.,15
P rim e ................................................. 
. . . . i l l   14
New  York  C ounts............................................2 00
Selects, per gallon.....................  .....................l  65
S tan d ard s..................................................1  00@11(3
Codfish................................................................;  9
H addock.................................................................7
Sm elts...................................................................iio
Mackinaw T ro u t.......................................  
  8
M ackerel.................................... 
12
W hitefish  ............................................................9

FR ESH   F IS H .

 

COUNTRY  PR O D U C E.

Apples—Firm  

fo r  choice,  Baldwins  and 

G reening readily com m anding $2.75 ]9 bbl.

Beesw ax—Small dem and a t  30c.
B uckw heat—$4.50 $1 bbl.
Beans—More dem and and  m arket m ore  act­
ive.  Unpicked  com m and  75@90c, and choice 
picked find good shipping dem and a t  $1.25.

B u tter—Som ewhat  easier, on account of the 
w arm er w eather.  D airy finds slow sale  a t  16® 
17c  fo r  choice  rolls  and  15@16e  for  good solid 
packed.  An  inferior  article  is  to  be  had in 
endless variety  a t from  8@12c.

B utterine—Solid  packed  cream ery  com­
m ands  22e,  while  dairy  is  quoted  a t  14@15c 
for solid packed,  aud 16@17c fo r rolls.

Beets—No shipping dem and.

•  Clover  Seed—N onlocal  shipping  dem and. 
Dealers quote choice stock at $5.

Cabbages—$5®$6 ]9 100.  V ery little moving.
Celery—15@25c 79 doz.
Cheege—Som ewhat  firm er,  on  account  of 
decreased stocks,  M ichigan full cream  readily 
com m ands  1234@1334c,  while  skim find  occas­
ional sale a t from   934@10c.

Cider—12c fl gal.  for common sweet.
C ranberries—Firm  a t $14 for bell and  cherry.
Eggs—Stitfer  in  price,  on  account o f L ent 
Fresh readily com m and 21c, and limed find oc­
casional sale a t 17c.'

Hops—Brew ers are paying 15c fo r best Mich­

igan, w ith few  offerings.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm atl2@14c.
H ay—$9@$10 for new, and  $12@$13  fo r  bail­

ed.

Mince Meat—7c 
ft fo r hom e made.
Onions—$3 ip bbl. fo r yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3c $  ft fo r choice.
P otatoes—Som ewhat firm er  in  consequence 
of  considerable  shipm ents  being  m ade 
to  
Southern  cities,purchases being  m ade  a t 25© 
30c.

P oultry—Fowls,  9@10c.  Chickens,  12@13e. 

T urkeys, 14c.

Squash—glow sale a t 34c ^  ft.
T urnips—25e ip bu.
Tim othy—No shipping dem and,  and  dealers 
buy  only  fo r  prospective  w ants,  holding  a t 
$1.75 fo r choice.

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

W heat—2e higher.  L ancaster,  80; Fulse,  77; 

Clawson, 78c.

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

and 40@43c in carlots.

lots.

Oats—W hite, 83c in small lots and 30c  in  car- 
Rye—52@54c ip bu.
B arley—Brew ers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cw t.
F lour—Unchanged. Fancy P aten t, $5.70 *p bbl. 

in sacks  and  $5.95  in  wood.  S traight, $4.70 
bbl. in sacks and $4.95 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 ip cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  B ran, $15 
ipton.  Ships, $16 sp ton.  Middlings, $17$ to n . 
Corn aad Oats, $23 $  ton.

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imway, 3  oz.......... 40
by, cu t Cavendish 35
ss  .............................15
ek’s S un..................18
aers and Puddlers.28 
rning  Dew............ 26

B 8 
2I C hain............................

Seal of G rand Rapids
K ing 
.......................
F lirt  . .*........................
6  75
P u g .............................
2  80
Ten P enny  D urham .
3  60
Am ber, Vi and l f t __
4  10
John  G ilpin................
3  35
Lime K iln  Club.........
3 60
Blackwell’s D urham . 
4  20
oa3  15  I V anity  F a ir................
@3  20 
Peerless  .....................
@3  00 
S tan d ard .....................
@  634 
Old Tom .......................
@4  05 @18% 
Tom &  J e rry ..............
Jo k e r............................
@  16 
T ra v e le r.....................
@6  75 
M aiden........................
@4  20
Topsy, p a p e r..............
Topsy, clo th...............
N avy  Clippings........
B oots...........................
Honey  D ew ...............
Gold Block.................
Camp F ire ...................
O ro n o k o ....................
Durham , % » . . . . __ 60 Golden  A ge.............

Long Tom ....................30
N a tio n a l..................... 26
T im e ............................ 26
C o n q u ero r..................23
G ray lin g ......................32
Seal S kin..................... ¡10
Rob R oy.......................26
Uncle  Sam ..................28
L u m b e rm an ...............25
Railroad B oy...............38
M ountain R ose........... 18
Home Com fort...........25
Old R ip...........................55 |
Two N ickle..................25
Star D urham ...............25
D urham   No. 2.............55
Golden Flake Cabinet 40 
Seal of N orth Caro­
lina, 2  oz..................48
Seal of N orth  Caro-
lina, 4oz...................46
Seal of N orth  Caro­
lina, 8o z....................41
35 Seal of N orth  Caro­
lina, 16 o2 boxes___40
Big D eal.......................27
A p p le ja c k ..................24
K ing Bee, lo n g cu t.. .22 [
M ilwaukee  P riz e___24
R a ttle r.........................28
30 W indsor c u t p lu g ___25
Zero  ............................ 16
19| H olland M ixed........... 16  I
75
% » . . . . __ 57 Mail  P o u ch ............. . .25
34  ft.... __ 55 K nights of L ai o r .. ..30
l f t . . . . __ 51 F ree Cob P ip e .........
.40 H oney B ee................ 27
,26|Durham,  S., B. &L..24 
,22;Dime  D u rh am .. ,25@26
.16 Old T a r....................... 10
.30 Golden Flake,cabinet40
26
5HORTS.
M  B e a r.... 
. .231 Acme 
<5  Fisher  . 
.22 Globe.
Fox, red 
I Fox,  gri 
M artin  . 
Mink  ...

...  .  8@ 12 W hite Wine 
W ASHING  PO W D ERS.

8®1
@3 75 
@1034 
@  734 
@10 
@4  50 
@4  50 
@4  25 
@4  50 
@ 4 25 
@4  15 
@4  00

Pickw ick  Club. 
N igger  H ead...
H o llan d ............
G erm an ............
Solid C om fort.. 
Red Clover.  ...
Mule E a r..........
H iaw ath a.........
Old Congress...
P u re  Cider.
Boraxine  ................
1776 $  f t ...................
G illett’s $  f t ...........
S oapinepkg............
P earline 
box.......
Lavine, single boxe 
481 ft  p ap ers...
Lavine 
9 or m ore boxes, 48 1 ft pap ’rs 
Lavine
single  boxes, 100 6 oz p ap ers.
La vine, 5 or m ore boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
La vine, single boxes, 80 34 »  p a p e rs..
Lavine, 5 o r m ore boxes, 80 V4 »  paprs
Twin Bros.......... 1  65  I W ilso n s................. 1  65
M agic..................1  75  ¡N atio n al................1  65
95
B ath Brick im p o rte d .............................. 
A m erican.............................. 
60
B arley.........................................................  
@3
1  00
I B urners, No. 1 .......................................... 
No.  2..........................................» 
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  b ran d.............. 
8 00
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft can s..............  15@25
Candles, S ta r.............................................  @1334
Candles,  H otel..........................................  @14
E x tract Coffee, V.  C...............................   @80
Gum, R ubber  100 lum ps........................   @30
Gum, R ubber 200 lu m p s.........................  @40
Gum, S pruce............................................  30@35
Hominy, $   b b l.........................................   @4  00
Peas, G reen B ush....................................   @135
Peas, Split p rep ared ...............................   @334
Pow der, K eg.............................................  @3  5o
Pow der,  34 K eg........................................ 
®1  93

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

N igger H air, 

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P u tn am  & Brooks quote as fo llo w s:

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes...............................   9 @  934
Twist, 
...............................   934@10
Cut Loaf 
 
@12
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  p ails......................................... 10@10V4
Royal, 200 ft bbls..........................................  9®  934
E xtra, 25 ft  p ails.......................................... 11@11V4
E xtra, 200 ft bbls................................................. 1034
French Cream, 25 ft p ails................................. 13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................................13
Broken, 25  ft  p ails.............................................1134
Broken, 200 ft  bbls.............................................103a
Lemon  D rops__ \ .............................................. 14
Sour D rops..........................................................  .15 .
P epperm int  D rops............................................15
Chocolate  D rops................................................. 16
H M Chocolate  D rops.......................................20
Gum   D rops  ........................................................ 10
Licorice D rops.................................................... 20
A ll  Licorice  D rops.......................................... 12
Lozenges, p la in ............ }................................... J 5
Lozenges,  p rin te d ..............................................16
Im p e ria ls............................................................. 15
M o tto es.................................................................15
Cream  B a r........................................................... 14
Molasses B a r........................................................ 14
Caram els......................................  
20
H and Made Cream s............................................22
Plain  Cream s.......................................................18
D ecorated  Cream s..............................................23
String R ock..........................................................15
B u rn t A lm onds................................................  22
W intergreen  B erries........................................ 15
Lozenges, plain  in  pails.........................1354@14
Lozenges, plain in  b b ls.....................................12
Lozenges, printed in pails.............................. 1434
Lozenges, p rinted in  bbls.............................. 13
Chocolate Drops, in p ails............ .....................14
Gum  D rops  in pails................................... 7V4@8
Gum Drops, in bbls.................*...................634@7
Moss D rops, in  p ails.......................................... 11
Moss Drops, in b b ls— 4 ...................................  934
Sour D rops, in  p ails..........., .............................12
Im perials, in  p ails..............................................14
Im perials  in b b ls......................................   ...  13
O ranges, Messina and  P alerm o.......... 3 00@3,50
Oranges, V alencia...................................6  50@7  60
50@3 50 
Lemons,  choice.............................
f t.................
Figs,  layers new, 
@1334 
@   8 
f t.................
Figs, baskets 40 ft 
©  4 
D ates, fra ils 
do  .................
@ 6 
Dates, 34 do 
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Dates, sk in ......................................
@  4 
@ 5 
Dates,  34  sk in .................................
D ates, F ard 10 ft box $   f t ..........
834®  9 
@  7 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  f t............
Dates, P ersian 50 ft box 19 f t.......
@  634
PEANUTS.
Prim e  Red,  raw  
1b...................
5@  534
do  ...................
Choice 
do  .............................   534®  634
Fancy 
Choice W hite, Va.do  .............................  
5®  534
Fancy H P ,.  V a  do  ............ .................  734®»
Almonds,  Terragona, ^  f t.....................  17@18
d o .......   ........... 
Brazils, 
8®  834
Pecons, 
9@12
do   
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ......................   @14
W alnuts, Grenobles  d o ........ .............  14@15

FANCY—V*  BULK.

FRUITS.

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r & Gam ble’s I v o r y ..................
Jap an   O liv e .........
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Town T alk..............
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Golden B ar............
A rab........................
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A m ber.....................
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M ottled  G erm an..
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L autz Bros. & Co.

P ro cter & G am ble’s V elvet__
P ro cter & G am ble’s Good Lucl 
P ro c ter & G am ble’s Wash  Well.
.60 fts
B adger..........................................
G alv an ic.................................... .
s 3 ft b r 
Gowan & Stover’s New Proceg
.3 ft bar
Tip T op........................................
W ard’s W hite L ily...................................
H andkerchief...........................................
B abbitt’s ..................................................
Dish R a g ..................................................
B luing.........................................................
M agnetic....................................................
New  French  P rocess..............................
Spoon  ......................................................
A nti-W ashboard.'....................................
V ate rla n d ..................................................
M agic...........................................................
P ittsb u rg h .................................................
Acme, 701 ft  b a rs....................................
Acme, 25 3 ft b a rs.....................................
Towel, 25 b ars  ..........................................
N apkin, 25  b a r s .......................................
B est A m erican, 601 » b lo c k s................
P alm a 60-1 ft blocks, p lain .....................
Sham rock, 100 cakes,  w rapped............
M aster, 100-24 ft c a k e s ........................
Stearine, 100  % ft cak es........................
M arseilles, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Cotton Oil, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, w rapped............
G erm an  M ottled, w rapped...................
Savon, Republica, 60 ft bo x...................
Blue D anube, 60-1 ft blocks.................
London Fam ily, 60-1 ft  blocks............
London Fam ily, 3-lb bars 80 f t..............
London Fam ily, 4-ft bars 80  f t..............
Gem, 100 cakes, w rapped.......................
Nickel, 100 cakes, w rapped...................
Climax, 100 cakes,  w rapped.................
Boss, 100 cakes,  w rapped......................
M arseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in   box
A 1  Floating, 60  cak es............................
M atchless, 100  cak es...............................

SPIC E S.

Whole.

.  @19 
.  8@10 
.  @10 
. 60@65 
.  @18

5J4@  534

40 ft 
»   ft

G round. 

............ 16@:251P e p p e r...
P e p p e r..
............12® 151A llspice..
A llspice.
Cinnam on ............ 18® 30 C assia__
............ 15®25[Nutmegs
Cloves  ..
............ 16@20 Cloves  ...
G inger  ..
............ 15@30
M ustard.
............ 25®35
Cayenne
K ingsfor d ’s, 1 ft pkgf
p u re .........
3 ft pkgs
p u re __ f .
Silver  Glo
1 ft pkgs
6 ft pkgs
1  ft pkgs Corn  Star«
(Bulk)  O ntario..........
Muzzy Gle>ss 1  ft  box es
3  » b o x es
6 ft boxes

ST ARCH.

S tan d ard ... 
Fine  G rain, 
■y A ..............

“  Gloss, 401 ft p ackages 
“ 
“ 
“ 

1  b u lk __
“  Cor:n, 20 f t .......
40  f t.........
G ilbert’s cSloss,  l f t . .
“ 
6 f t..
ft!!!.".” ”
Iunen Gloss
cCrystal  “ ’ bu lk ............
cto rn ,1 $ . . .
box,  bulk.
N iagara L aundry, 40
Ljlundry, bbls, 186  fts....
Gloss,  36 3 
p ack ag e s... 
Gloss, 6 1b box, 72 ft crate
Corn, 401 ft  p ackages__
Oswego  G loss....................................
M irror  G loss.......... >.........................
M irror  Gloss, co rn ............................
P iel’s P e a rl.........................................
A m erican Starch Co.’s
l f t   G loss.....................*.......................
10 oz  G loss.........................................
3 ft  G loss.............................................
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes.....................
Table Corn..........................................
Table  C orn........................................‘
B anner, b u lk ......................................
Cut  L o af...
Cubes  .........
P o w d ered .. 
G ranulated, 
G ranulated, 
Confeetione 
Standard A . 
E x tra C, W hite
E x tra C............
Fine  C..............
Yellow C..........
D ark  C............
SY RUPS.
Corn,  B arrels..........................
Corn,  34 bbls.............................
Corn,  10 fallon kegs...............
Corn, 5 gallon k eg s................
Corn, 4% gallon k eg s............
P u re   S u g ar.............................
P u re Sugar D rips...................
P u re Sugar  D rips.................
P u re Loaf Sugar D rips........
P u re  Loaf S ugar...................
TEA S.
Ja p a n   o rd in ary .....................
Ja p a n  fa ir to  good...............
Ja p an  fine...............................
Ja p a n  d u st.............................
Y oung H yson........................
G u nP ow der............................
O o lo n g ....................................
C ongo......................................
TOBACCO—F IN E  CUT
State  S eal..............
I  B rother  Jo n a th an  
Diam ond  Crow n..
Rose B ud................
O.  K....................
O ur  B ird................
Peaches  ................
Red  B ird ................
Opera Q ueen.........
Sweet R ose............
G reen  B ack..........
F r u i t .......................
O So Sw eet............
P rairie F low er........... 65
C lim ber....................... 62
Indian  Q ueen.............60
D oak’s  50 c e n te r........38
H uckelberry  .............30
B ull  D og..................... 60
Crown  L e a f................ 66

29 
@  32 
@1 60 
@1  45 
23®  35
.......... bbl
30®  38
.......34  bbl
5 gal kegs @1  96
@  85
.......34 bbl
5 gal kegs @1  85
__ 22@25
__ 30@35
__ 40@50
. ...15@20
__ 30@50
___ 35@50
13@55@60 
__ 25@30

-IN   P A IL S .
60|MatehlesB.........
32 H ia w a th a .........
58 G lo b e ................
50 May F low er__
45 H e ro ..................
30 A tla s..................
38 Royal G am e__
52 Mule E a r...........
40Peek-a-Boo  ....
45 F o u n tain ...........
38 Old C ongress...
33 Good L u ck .......
311 Good and Sweet

45
Blaze A w ay........... 
.35
H air L ifte r..................30
G o v e rn o r....................60
Fox’s Choice............   63
M edallion....................35
Sweet Ow en................ 66
Old  A be....................... 49

O rd e r  M a g n o lia   Coffee,  1  lb  P a c k a g e s .  S h ie ld s, B u llsle y   &   L em on.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

P revailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are  as  follow s:  |
.......dis 
«0
.......dis 
60
HO
.......dis 
.......dis 
60
dis 
60
dis40&10
Je nnings’,  g en u in e.....................................dis 
33
Jen n in g s’,  im itation........................ dis40&10

BALANCES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

.. n et 33 00

6
6%
13 00
15  00
16

Sisal,  % In. and 
M anilla..............
Steel and  Iron. 
Try and Bevels. 
M itre  ................

larger....................................   8
...............................................  14 Y,
..................................... dis  50&10
..................................... dis  50&10
..................................... dis 
30
SHEET IRON.
Com-. Smooth.  Com. 
............................$4  30
S3  00 
3 00 
4  30 
3 00 
4  30 
3 00 
4  30 
3 30 
4 40 
3 40
4 60
All sheets No, 18 and  lights?,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to   14. 
Nos.  15 to  IT. 
Nos. 18 to  31. 
Nos. 33 to  34. 
Nos .35 to  36. 
No.
wide not less th an  2-10 extra;
SHEET ZINC.
In cask s o f 600 lbs, $   ib............
.......dis  $ 60&10 In  sm aller quansities, $   tt»__ .............. 
.........dis
60
TINNER S SOLDE1
15 No. 1,  h eflned..............................
............  
.........dis
.........dis
............  
20 M arket H alf-and-half............. .
.........dis
............  
55 Strictly H alf-and-half..............
TIN  PLATES.
.........dis  $
40
Cards fo r  Charcoals-, $6  SS.  ' 
r
.................   6  50
...........dis
10x14, C harcoal............
IC,
...........dis
30&1C IX,
.................   8 50
10x14,Charcoal............
...........dis
12x12, Charcoal............ ...................  6  50
75 IC,
........dis
.................   8 50
50 TX,
12x12,  Charcoal  ..........
.........dis
14x20, Charcoal.......... . .................   6  50
55 IC,
.................   8 50
50 IX,
.......dis
14x30,  Charcoal............
.................   10  50
.........dis
55 IX X ,
14x20, C harcoal............
.........dis
60 ix x x :. 14x20, Charcool...........
.................   12  50
.................   14 50
...........dis
55&10 IX X X X , 14x30,  Charcoal.........
30x28, C harcoal.............. .................   18  00
55&10 IX,
.......... dis
.........dis
.................   6  50
100 P late C harcoal.........
30 DC, 
Knob
DX,
.................   8 50
00 P late C harcoal.........
DXX,  100 P late C harcoal¡___ .................   10  50
.......... dis
50&10 DXXX, 100 P late C harcoal__ .................   12  50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  F iâte add 1  50  to  6  75
.......... dis $
.........dis
.........dis
.......... dis
........  

ÿ 4  00 H otchkiss’ ...................................

40  1 
50
50 Steel,  Cram e.................................
net Onoida Com m untity,  Newhous e’s ...........dis  35
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & Norton’s __   60
.....................  60
................  60
.......30c $  doz
..$1  3 6 $  doz
...  dis  60&10
__ dis 
70
.... dis  55&10
.........  dis  55
...........dis  40
..........$ 3 )  09
.........$ »   8%
.dis  40@40&10
...........dis 37%
..........$ a   3%
. new  list n et 
,. new  list n et
70&10
70&10
70&10
70&10

Mouse,  choker.
Mouse,  delusion..........
w i
B right  M arket..............
A nnealed M arket.........
Coppered M arket.........
E x tra B ailing................
Tinned  M arket............
Tinned  B room ..............
Tinned M attress..........
Coppered  Spring  Steel
Tinned Spring S teel__
P lain F en ce................'.
Barbed  F ence...............
Copper.............................
B rass...............................

B rig h t.......
Screw Eyes
H ook’s __
G ate Hook

4  50  S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.

W IRE GOODS

.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis

and  Eyes 

TRAPS.

rates.

CA PS.

CH IS ELS.

CA TRIDG ES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

tip p e d ....................................... 

Well, sw ivel.................................................... 
Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................... dis  60&10
Cast Loose P in, Berlin  bronzed.........dis  60&10
I Cast Loose Jo int, genuine bronzed, .dis  60&10
W rought N arrow , bright fast  jo in t, .dis  50&10
W rounht Loose  P in ................................dis 
60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ..............dis  60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, jap an n ed ..............dis  60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
dis  60& 5
W roughtT able.......................................... dis 
60
60
W rought Inside  Blind............................ dis 
W rought B rass......................................... dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s .............................................dis  70&10
|  Blind, P ark er’s ......................................... dis  70&10 I
Blind,  Shepard’s .......................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3%, per gross  15  00 
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x3__ p ergross  18 00
Ely’s 1-10.................................................... per m  $ 65
H ick’s C. F ............................................... 
60
35
G. D ...........................................................  
60
M usket...................................................... 
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester  new list 
50
Rim Fire, United  S tates............................dis 
50
| Centrai F ire .................................................. dis  %
I  Socket F irm er...........................................dis 
70
70
Socket F ram ing........................................dis 
Socket C orner........................................... dis 
70
70
Socket Slicks.............................................dis 
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er.....................dis 
40
B arton’s Socket  F irm ers.......................dis 
30
Cold..............................................................net
Curry, Law rence’s ..................................dis
. U1Ö 
H otchkiss  ................................................dis
.dis 
COCKS.
;  Brass,  B acking's.;,..............
___   40&10
Bibb’s .............................................................  49&10
___   49&10
B e e r.........................................
.......  40&10
Fenns’......................................
60
C O PPER .
34
Planished,  14 oz cu t to size.....................$  a> 
. . . . $ »   34
14x53,14x56,14 x60............
D R IL LS
M orse’s B it  Stock..................................dis
.dis
35
T aper and (Straight Shank
.dis
20
Morse’s T aper  So5nk.............................dis
30
.dis
oz net $1  00
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................. doz n et $1  00
C orrugated............................................... dis  30&10
..dis 20&10
Ad j u sta b le ................................................dis  % &10
.dis %&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00:  large, $36  00.
dis
20
Ives’, 1, $18  00;  3, $24 00 ;  3, $30  00.
25
dis
A m erican File A ssociatiou  L ist.........dis  50&10
. .dis 50&10
D isston’s .................................................. dis  50&10
. .dis 50&10
New  A m erican........................................dis  5Q&10
..dis 50&10
Nicholson’s ...............................................dis  50&10
. .dis 50&10
H eller’s .....................................................dis
30
.dis
H eller’s H orse R asps.............................dis
33^
.dis
28
Nos. 16 to 30, 
18
L ist 

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

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

ELBOW S.

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25

COMBS.

F IL E S .

 

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HO LLO W   W ARE.

13 
GAUGES.

27 
12 
15 
D iscount, Ju n ia ta  45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s ................................ 
dis  20
K ip’s ..........................................................dis 
25
Yerkes &  Plum b’s ..................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel........................30 c list 40
B lacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door K idder Mfg. Co., Wood track  dis  50
Champion, an ti-frictio n ....................... dis 
60
40
K idder, wood  tr a .k ................................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3................................dis 
60
S tate.........................................'... p er doz, net, 3 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
3%
and  longer................................................. 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ................... n et 
10%
8%
Screw Hook and Eye %........................n et 
Screw Hook and Eye  %........................n et 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................n et 
7%
Strap and  T ............................................. dis  60&10
Stam ped Tin W are......................................   60&10
 
Japanned  Tin  W are.........................  
20&10
G ranite  Iro n   W are.................................... 
35
G rub  1  ........................................
.$11  00, dis 40 
G rub  3..........................................
.  11  50, dis 40 
G rub 3...........................................
..  12  00, dis 40
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings
70, dis 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m in g s__   3  50, dis 70
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
m ings...........................................list,10  15, dis 70
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list,1155, dis  7 0
70
D raw er and  Shutter,  porcelain...........dis 
P icture, H. L. Ju d d  &  Co.’s ..................... d 
40
50
H e m a c ite ...................................................dis 
Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s new lis t.......dis 
70
Mallory, W heelnr  &  Co.’s ......................... dis  70
B ranford’s ..................................................... dis  70
N orw alk’s ..................................*.................... dis  70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................... dis  65
Coffee, P ark ers  Co.’s .................................. dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  M alleables dis  40
Coffee, Landers, F erry  &  Clark’s ............dis  40
Coffee,  E n te rp rise....................................... dis  25
Adze  E ye...................................... $16  00 dis 40&10
H unt  E y e...................................... $15  00dis40&10
H u n t’s ........................................... $18  50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HO ES.

N A ILS.

Common, B ra  and Fencing.

6d 
2 

MAULS.

O IL E R S .

.$  keg $2  30 
lOdto  60d.......
35 
8d and 9 d  adv
6d and 7d  adv
50
4d and 5d  ad v..................................................  
75
3d  advance........................................................  1  50
3d fine  advance.............................................. 
3  00
Clinch nails,  ad v .............................................  
I  75
(  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
4d
2% 
Size—Inches  ( 3  
1%
$1  25  1  50  1  75  2  00 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nalls—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES OATES.
Stebbin’s P a tte rn   .........................................dis  70
Stebbin’s G enuine..........................................dis  70
E nterprise,  self-m easuring........................ dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................  dis  50
Zinc o r tin. Chase’s P a te n t..........................dis  55
Zinc, w ith brass b o tto m ............................... dis  50
Brass o r  Copper.............................................dis  40
R eaper........................................per  gross, $12 n et
Olm stead’s   ................................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ...................................dis  15
Sciota B ench....................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy .......... -.......... dis  15
Bench, first q u ality ........................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
F ry, A cm e.................................................. dis 
50
Common, polished....................................dls60&10
D ripping...................................................$   B)  6@7
Iro n  and  Ti nned.................................... dis 
40
Copper R ivets and B u rs......................dis  50&10
“A” W ood’s p aten t planished, Nos. 24 to  27  10% 
“B” Wood’s p at. planished, Nos. 25  to  27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E T S.

PA N S.

9

B roken packs %o $  

extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

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

W)

SNCHES.
nickeled.

B ax ter's A djustable,  __
Coe’s G enuine...................; ......................dis  50&10
Coe’s P aten t A gricultural, w rought, dis 
65
Coe’s P aten t,  m alleable.........................dis 
70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pum ps,  C istern....................................... dis  60&20
80
Screws, new  list.......................................... 
Casters, Bed and  P la te ............................dis 
50
Dam pers,  A m erican..................................  
33%

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.
Roller Slates, Slate Bap & Boxes

HEAD QUA RTERS  FOR

The New Era All Clamp Skate

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The  New  Era  Rink  Skate.
We  claim   the  NEW  ERA  to  be  th e  m ost 
econom ical  roller  skate  in  th e  world,  and 
th is  in  connection  w ith  th eir  im m ense  pop­
ularity  w ith those who have  used  them ,  com­
m end them  to th e atten tio n  of every rink own­
e r  in  the  country.  O ur  Clamp  Skate is the 
only screw clam p m ade which  operates all the 
clam ps w ith one key a t th e sam e tim e.
The “VINEYARD” Skates are very popular, 
and we carry a full line of A. C., S. C. and C.

The V ineyard Roller All Clamp w ere  p a te n t 

ed  Ju ly   13,  1880, and  A pril 37,1881.

A  nice  line  of  SKATE  BAGS  AND  BOXES» 

carried in stock.

Skate Boxes fo r all clam p Skates.

W e‘solicit inquiries,  and  should  be  glad  tc 
quote prices to dealers and rin k  m anagers.
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.

7 ^ o   Ï A n iÆ a id ïl11885
Rose Leaf, Fine Cut,
Navy Clippings 
and Snuffs
A C
Jsssfey

Ibatbware.

The  First  Patent.

The first patent granted to an  inventor in 
the United Stages  is  mentioned in a speech 
of Ex-Senator  Wadleigh,  of  Ne>v  Hamp­
shire, in the Forty-fifth Congress.  The  Sen­
ator said:  “An intelligent gentleman of my 
own State has referred me to  an  act of the 
general court of Massachusetts Bay,  passed 
in 1646, granting to  one  of  his  ancestors, 
Joseph Jenks, the exclusive right of making 
and selling his improved scythe for the term 
of fourteen  years.  That, I think, was  the 
first patent granted to an inventor  in Amer­
ica.  The improvement referred to  changed 
the short, thick, straight English scythe into 
the longer, thinner, curved implement  with 
stiffened back now in use.

ILead-Headed  Nails.

An improved  lead-headed nail for  use  in 
putting on corrugated iron roofs is now mak­
ing  its  appearance  in  the  market.  The 
shank of the  nail is round and sharp  at  the 
point to enter the wood  readily, and may be 
driven home in  the  usual  way.  The  lead 
head flattens under the  blows  of  the  ham­
mer, or a  punch  may  be  used  which  will 
give it a conical head.  Four  sizes  of  these 
nails are made.  Of  the  two  that  are most 
commonly used  the  number  of  nails to the 
pound is about 34 and 40 respectively.  The 
lead of the head comes  in  contact  with the 
sheet  iron  in  such  a  way as to lessen the 
chance of leaking.

To  the  question,  “How many pounds to 
the square inch is called high, and how many 
pouhds  is  called  low,  pressure  of  steaui, 
when used in buildings for heating purposes 
and return to boiler ?”  the Scientific Amer­
ican replies:  “From ten  pounds upwards is 
generally called high pressure; from 0 pound 
to ten pounds, low pressure.  Much  of  our 
low pressure heating is  efficient  with  from 
one to three pounds.”

A syndicate of  the  grindstone  manufac­
turers of northern Ohio  and  Michigan  has 
been formed.  Mr. Geo. Worthington  is the 
president of the new company, and Mr. Wm. 
Mr. Dermott  vice-president  and  secretary. 
All orders for stone will be  referred  to the 
new  company  who  will apportion 
them 
among the firms composing the  syndicate.

The contemplated  glass-works  at  Michi­
gan City will soon be begun.  A  stock com­
pany has already been organized by the citi­
zens, for the purpose of building one of  the 
largest glass-works in  the  west, at  a  cost 
ranging from $100,000 to $150,000.

A new form of garden hoe has  two  curv­
ed blades adjustably secured at  unequal dis­
tances'from the handle, their  shanks  being 
integral therewith and  extending therefrom 
to the handle obliquely.

The  Gripsack  Brigade.

Are you going to the traveling  men’s par­

ty.
I  A. D.  Baker  Sundayed  in  Kalamazoo, 
basking in the smiles of a certain Daysey.

Algernon  Edmund  White  has been duly 
installed  as  the  baby  reporter  of  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n .

C. W. Mansfield,  Michigan  representative 
for Bradner Smith & Co., Chicago, has  gone 
to the Garden City on business.

Albert Friend, of the late firm  of  Friend, 
Joyce & Co., at Manistee, will  take  to  the 
| road, as soon as he can secure a position.

The  Muskegon  News  speaks  of  Steve 
Sears  as  a  “handsome  man.”  How  much 
Steve paid for the  compliment is not statt#l.
Geo. B. Mather has  been  engaged by the 
j Kentucky Railroad Tobacco Co.,  of  Coving- 
I ton, Ky., to work Railroad and K. of L. plug 
j among the city trade.
j 

J.  A.  Crookston  states  that  Soliman 
Snooks’ contribution on  the  benefits  of  se­
cret societies was read aloud  before the Ma- 
t sonic lodge of Charlevoix*

J. D. M. Shirts^ with  Eaton  &  Christen­
son, visited Muskegon  last  week in the in­
terest of his house and will repeat  the  visit 
| every two weeks hereafter.

John II. McIntyre, for the past  year with 
Arthur Meigs & Co., has engaged with Cody, 
Ball & Co., and will start out  on  his  initial 
trip with the new house next Monday.

Chas. Bow,  who is  associated  with  his 
brother in the representation  of  Dick,  Mid­
dleton & Co., of Louisville is this State, is in 
the city for a  w^?k  or  ten  days.  He  is 
working “Nimrod.”

W. G. Hawkins and Soliman  Snooks  had 
a little unpleasantness last week over a sack 
of coffee, which  Mr. Snooks  claimed  was 
not up to sample, and on which Hawkins re­
fused to make a rebate.

M. Alice Crookston,  the  younger  daugh­
ter of .las. A. Crookston, is winning a  repu­
tation  as  a  crayon  artist,  a recent piece of 
her handiwork commanding considerable at­
tention from the artistic people  of  the city. 
She is also taking rank as a painter in oil.

Charley Robinson  attended  an  inaugura­
tion banquet at Cadillac last  Wednesday ev­
ening and was asked to respond to the  toast 
of “The  Drummer.”  He  talked  for  two 
hours at the end of which time half the com­
pany had slipped away  from  the  hall and 
the remainder were fast asleep.
A  Birmingham,  England, 

commercial 
house, acting up to the spirit of  the age, has 
employed  lady  travelers. 
Placing  great 
faith in the power of beauty  on  tradesmen, 
the house in question selected pretty women 
as its  representatives. 
It  will  be  difficult 
for traders to withstand the canvass of  such 
uncommercial travelers.

The traveling man who seeks  trade in the 
small towns where all the heat  in the hotels 
is confined to the  office  and  kitchen—ther­
mometer at twenty below—has  a perpetual

round of  pleasure.  Sometimes  the  enjoy­
ment is varied by a ride across  the  country 
with  two  or  three  big  trunks and valises, 
facing  a  stiff  north-wester,  or  lay out all 
night in the cars behind a snow plow.  They 
usually get fat over  it and catch some terri­
ble colds in the bargain.

William  H.  Pittvvood—better  known  as 
“Billy”—died  at  Mitchell,  Dak.,  Sunday 
afternoon, and the remains are now on their 
way to this city for interment.  “Billy” was 
educated at Albion College,  and  was  for  a 
time  engaged  in  trade  in  this  city,  after 
which he worked for Geo. Crawford, of  Big 
Rapids,  several  years.  Subsequently,  he 
traveled for John Caulfield  for  four  or  live 
years.  About three  years  ago,  he  engaged 
in the grocery business at Mitchell,  Dakota, 
under the firm name of Knowles & Pittwood. 
He was a good salesman and a warm-hearted 
man.

At a  meeting  of  the  Grand  Rapids  boys, 
held  at  T iie   T r a d e s m a n   office  Saturday 
evening,  it was resolved to hold  a  traveling 
men’s party on  Friday  evening,  March 27, 
and Steve Sears was  appointed a committee 
of one to secure hall and music. He has look­
ed over all the available dancing halls in the 
city, and has concluded  to  recommend 
the 
east side Armory Hall, and the employment 
of Squires & Guthan’s  orchestra.  Another 
meeting will be held at  T h e   T r a d e sm a n  
office to ratify the committee’s aetibn and ar­
range the necessary details.  A cordial invi- 
tion is extended to every  traveling  man in 
the city, each one of whom  is also  authoriz­
ed to invite a friend.  Bill,  $1.

Dave  Smith—familiarly  known  as “Ma­
genta Headed Dave”—was  born in  the  sub­
urbs of Syracuse,  Ireland—commenced  life 
in the dairy business—graduated at the Uni­
versity of Cork (pulls them with his teeth)— 
entered  the  same  occupation  as  was  first 
pursued by the late lamented  Garfield, engi­
neer of canal  horses—rose  to  be  conductor 
on the S. S. & V. V.  Railway,  in  which po­
sition lie would have made quite a stake had 
in not been for his  frequent contributions to 
the  Y. M. C. A.—disposition,  genial—tem­
perament, sanguine—hair,  red—habits, reg­
ular—politics,  prohibition—religion,  un­
known—now traveling for Bannard, Lyman 
& Co., of Chicago—has hosts of  friends and 
no  enemies  except  among  the fair sex—is 
not  a  blood  relation  of  Steve Sears, as is 
commonly supposed, although they are “two 
souls with but a single thought,  two  hearts 
that beat as one”—is now  temporarily  loca­
ted in Detroit,.but  will  soon seek the invig­
orating atmosphere of the Yalley City.  P. S. 
—Biscuit heavers,  beware.  Dave is unmar­
ried.

Barmore & Richards, grocers  of  Buchan­
an, have traded their  stock  of  goods, for a 
roller skating rink.

The Buchanan wagon works are  running 

again.

Moline.

i, R avenna, 

tman  Bros.,

V IS IT IN G   BU Y ERS.

The followin 
the market dur 
orders with tin 
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retail 
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van

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is h

e  visited 
id  placed

lAO 

Low
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auer. 
l,  Sparta.

3ii, Caledonia, 
eld, Allegan, 
in,  Lowell.
1er, Eastm anville. 
l, O. F. & W. P. Conklii 
ns,  Ada. 
ilton,  Lisbon.
;od,  McLeod  &Tr au
n, Rockford.
, Rockford.
ey, Smedley Bros.,  E
W right.
1, L.  S. & S. H.  B allrr

M. B. N 
T. W. P rest 
Byron McN 
3. G. Lamoi
B. R. Bened 
Geo. W. Shi 
D an McQue
C. B. Hirshl 
A. B. Johns 
Adam Wagi 
O. F. Conkli
F. C.  Willia
G. J. Shack.
D.  A.  McL 
D. K. Stocu 
Wm.  Heslei
Jos. Omler,
S. H.  Ballan 
O. G reen, M 
D anlorth & Son,  Rodney. 
Baron & Ten Hoor, F orest  Go 
W. S. Root, Tallm adge.
J. Barnes, 
A usterlitz, 
Wm. Karsi 
on,  B eaver Dam. 
W.  H. Stru 
ik, Forest Grove.
J. C. Beuta 
•d,  E 
M. J.  How-i 
uglishvilk
G.  H. Wall
ink.
Allendale.
H. M.  Hiclis,  Morley.
C.mi,O.  Dost’
flwick & Son,
r i 0VwCan
J li
M. a ! P ott er, Oakfleld Cer
epnen u  
lie ie y ,  Jriei 
Ja
yM arlal
tt,  Berlin.
R. H. Wooden, Sparta
D. W.  Shalttuck,  Wayland.
N. deVriesi, Jam estow  
ms, Alpine.
H(jnry DelKline, Jam e
Mir. Fisher', Carrel & I 'ishe
W. W. Pei ice, Moline.
M. V. Wile¡on. Sand Liike.
B£irry & Go., Rodney.
C; Crawfoird, Middlevi¡lie.
äson & Llilley LumbiBr C(
G. N.  H ar wood,  Petoi3key
Ja,8. R. OTJell,  Frem o nt.
E. S.  Botslford, Dorr.
Chlas. W. I ves,  Rockfc
Mip.  Bridg er,  of  Bri(i
R. Carlyle., Rockford.
G. J. Shaelkelton, Lisb
C. H. Dem Ing, Dutton
Ada
C. Cole,
Ch
C. Port«
T. W. Preston 
F ran k  S. Rob! 
Byron MeNe 
il, Byi
C. Slaght,  M(
A.  W.  Biain,  Duttc
W.  H. Thom pson, South Boardm an.
W.  P arkliurst, P ark h u rst Bros.,  Nunica.
H.  Baker, D renthe.
N. Fink,  Edraore.
John V an Eenen, Zeeland.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Mr. W albrink, I. J. Quick & Co.,  Allendale.
F. D ietrich,  Reynolds.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson 
M. J.‘ Howard,  Englishville.
Jorgensen & H em ingsen, A shland P. O. 
P eter P rins, Holland.
M arthiuson & W hite, Carey’s Siding.
B arker & Lehnen, Blanchard.
Mary E.  Snell,  W ayland.
H. W. P otter, Jeunisonville.
Newaygo M anufacturing Co.,  Newaygo. 
John J. Ely,  Rockford.
Wm. D ePree, D ePree & Bro.,  Zeeland.
Mi-. Bergy, A. & E.  Bergy, Caledonia.
J. S. B arker, Sand Lake.
W alling Bros., Lam ent.
J. M cIntyre, Frem ont.
B urrell Tripp,  Bangor.
F rank L. O rcutt, O rcutt & Co.,  Muskegon.

;o. A. Sa,ge,  Rockfoird.

Lake.

Spi

L.

Snell & Co., Lum-

FU R N ITU R E  BUYERS.

Mr. G artner, Hax, G artn er & Co., D enver. 
Fred T ucker, Peoria, 111.
Mr. McClintock,  Boliver,  McClintock  &  Co., 
Messrs.  F reem an  and  Holm,  Holm-Bellows 
Mr.  Scarrett,  Searrett  Furniture  Co.,  St. 

Pittsburg.
F u rn itu re Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Louis.

of Quenden, Massachewsitts,  who  vanished 
and disappeared on or about the time the re­
vival broke up thar, that was  conducted  by 
this onerable court.”

Jerusalem!  I never  seen  the  beat of it, 
the way the beloved evangelist wilted.  The 
“Court” did not seem to be “pleased” at all, 
so as the meetin was about out for the even­
ing any way, he closed in due form. 
It was 
too bad for Wilkins to come out in that way 
and I told him so  on  the  way home.  Says 
I:  “What  was  you a  drivin at any  how? 
what do you kno about that matter?”

He says:  “Never you  mind,  Sol., I  kuo 
lme onto his  little racket 
what line about, 
and dont  you  forget it. 
Its ‘All in a  Life 
Time’ and a friend of  mine  at  Fall  River 
Massachewsitts posted me on his record.  He 
is a sheep in wolf’s  clothing,  but I wood  a 
held my gab and not a’gin  him  away,  if he 
had let our rink alone.”

I felt pretty bad at the way things was goin 
but I dont  kno but Wilkins was  about  right 
after all, for  next  even in we  all  waited at 
the church a hull  hour, but  the  evangelist 
failed to materialize and on  investigatin we 
found he had left  town  bag  and  baggage, 
and to make matters worser, one of our most 
sliinin lights and a constant attendant on the 
revival durin the past ten  days,  Miss  Mary 
Jane Potts, is also  missen.

By gum!  1 wish we  had  never  started 
that confounded  rink, which I  fear  is  re­
sponsible for all this trubble.

Old Potts is a Ilyin round now with a dub- 
ble barrelled shot gun on his  shoulder, a re­
volver in his  hip  pocket  (Crouch-Holcomb 
patern)  and  blood in his eye. 
If  he comes 
across the evangel I fear  carnage  will  fol­
low.

I tell you Bro. Stowe,  we  can’t  be 

too 
careful in hirein  strangers, and I gess  that 
good old reliable Parson Mugger will  do the 
savin of soles at the Corners, for little while 
any  way.

The sow'in circle, for  the  benefit of  the 
heathen,  met last  night  at  Dekin  Pratts 
house, and I am told that the  ladies cum to 
the verdict after much discussing, that Mary 
Jane  Potts  was  “no  better  than 
she 
shood be” and  that  she  probably  enticed 
Bro. Ropemin to wander  from  the  narrer 
path.

I sw'on to  grashus! if I can see it  in that 
light, and the Widder Spriggs cood not eith­
er.  She was present and give  the  circle  a
piece of her mind and a good chunk of it to. 
She is a  spunky  little  critter,  when  she 
thinks w'immin are “trod on,” as  she  calls 
it, and I heard her say a while ago  that she 
believed she wood  have  more  respect  for 
Adam,  if he had stood  up  to  the  rack  and 
said:

“Aye, Lord, it was I, even I was  the hair 
pin that picked that apple and Eve only just 
ate the core of it.  Punish me, but dont  for 
Heavens sake, multiply tne sorrows of  poor 
Eve.”

I am inclined to think the'widder is about 
right, for cum to think of it, the man,  when 
it cames to forbidden  fruit, most  generally 
takes the meat and leaves the core and seeds 
for the poor  partner in the  transaction. 
I 
tell you, 1 believe in sticken up for the wim- 
min folks, for,  you see, my  mother  was a 
woman  and  by a strange  coincidence  my 
sister and wife was,  too.

Unless  unkle  Potts  shoots someone,  or 
some other calamity  happens  this  week, I 
think 1 slial devote my next epistle to treat- 
in on fools in general  and  the  “stop my pa­
per” fool, in perticular.

The Corners is all broke up just now over 
the triberlations of the  past  few  days, but 
we are growin cammer every minnit.  With 
charity towards all,

So l im a n  Sn o o k s,
•  G. D.. P. M. and J.  P.

James Blackmore  succeeds Blackmore  & 

Stratton in general trade at Leslie.
DISSOLUTION NOTICE

Notice  is  hereby  given  th a t the copartner­
ship heretofore existing u n der the  firm  nam e 
of A ndre Bros, has been  dissolved.  The  busi­
ness will be continued by H. A ndre &Son, Who 
will pay all bills ag ainst th e  late  firm,  and  to 
whom  all  the  accounts  due the late firm  are 
payable.

JENNISONVILLE, March 2,1885.
A  Good  Chance  for Business.
A Bakery, iu G rand Rapids, No.  9,  South Di­
vision Street.  The bakery has a  large and con­
venient Ice  Cream  P arlor  and  th e   bakery  is 
first-class in all  its  appurtenances  and  has  a 
good Holland and  general  trade.  The  reason 
foe selling is th a t I am  going  into  o th er  busi­
J.  Vogel.
ness.

G rahd Rapids, Feb. 21,1885,

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71  CANAL  STREET.

Is our Agent in Grand Rapids 

JO I  CAULFIELD
Galvanic  Soap

for our Famous

TH E  BEST

EASY  WASHER

MANUFACTURED.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

Incidents Attending  the Advent of a Koller 

Skating  Kink.

C a n t  H ook Co b n e k s, March 4 , 1SS5. 

M ister E diter of T raidsm an:

D e a b  Sib—I swon  to  grations, if  I kuo 
whar to commence to begin to  tell  you  the 
goins on during the past  week.  Some tink­
ered thing or other is all the  time liapnin to 
mar the harmuny of things in  general at the 
Corners.  When one screw  aint  lose, then 
another is.  The post office is  yet a bone of 
contenshun, but that  has  ben  overshadered 
(modern meaning)  by  the  skating  rink  ex­
citement.  Now you kno, Bro. Stowe, I’m  a 
good natered man and a peaceful man and I 
want peace, even if I have to fight  to  get it, 
as I telled em durin  the  late  war.  But I 
never sposed for a  minnit  that  any  harm 
wood cum from such an inercent little thing 
as a roller  rink.  Ed Smikes  told  us  lots 
about the rinks in your city  and  got us on 
to the plan to start  one  here.  So I took a 
sheer in it along  with  Wilkins, 
the  insur­
ance man, and a  cupple  of  others,  and  we 
fitten up a rink in the  old  Slathers’  bildin, 
on Damlongue  street, and  went to  quite a 
little lay out to bild an  addition  on  behind 
it for skatin  purposes.

Well, every thing went  oif  as  happy as 
cood be for a hull  week, and  then  trubble 
commensed.  Our revival got to runnin, you 
kno, full blast, and the town  bein  most too 
small  to  support  both  places,  the  conse- 
quenses  was that  the  preacher,  Ilev. Mr. 
liopemin, went for  our  little  venture  one 
night,  bald  headed.  He  said,  “Brothers 
and Sisters, I am sorry to say that  you have 
in your midst one of them  sinks of iniquity, 
hotbeds of sin, Hell holes of Satan and open 
doors to perdition, called a rink. 
I have no­
ticed that but few of your young  people are 
here to listen to the outpouring of the spirit, 
as I labor night after night.  Whar are they?
I say,  W har!  Go to that vile den, the skat­
ing rink, and you will find them  slidin  and 
slippin around on wheels,  to  the  seductive 
tones of a fiddle.  Yes,  bretherin  and  sis­
ter,  a  fiddle,  think  of it!  What  a  terri­
ble thing it is, that your children, your  dear 
ones will pay 10 cents each to enter that reak- 
in pit of sin, when  they could come here  to 
this church and get salvation without money 
ftnd without price.  Boot it  out, root it out, 
or your young folks and  even  many  older 
ones will be damned.”

Just as he  finished  this  denunciation,  I 
heard Wilkins back by the stove  say “Well
lie be  d-----d.”  Wilkins  is  not a  church
member, and I am sorry to say  be is  a little 

at times.

I felt pretty allfired streaked  myself  and 

diddent kno what to say or do.

Just then Deakin  Skinner  riz  and  says, 
“Bretherin  and  Sisterin, I agree  with  the 
.minister.  We ought to  root  out  all  such 
things.  Nip era in the bud,  I  say,  nip  em 
the bud afore they get too  numerous. 
I am 
opposed to ail  such  sinful  amusements  as 
rinks, dancin, theaters  and  all  sich  and 1 
make a moshun that the  house  resolves  it­
self in a comraitty  of  the  hole  and  have 
summoned afore it  Bro.  Soliman  Snooks, a 
member of this  church, who,  I  understand, 
is one of the owners of the said skatin rink.” 
(Great  sensation.)

Bro. Potter seconded the motion  made by 
the last speaker and  also  said that  the re 
cent dramatic entertainment at  the  Comers 
was, in his opinion, an enterin wedge driven 
by the Great Adversary.

I begun t oget a  leetle  riled  about  this 
time and I noticed  Wilkins  was a  kitchen 
around as if he was on  a  hot  griddle.  The 
preacher put the moshun  and  asked if  any 
one had any remarks to make.  So I riz and 
said as toilers, towit, namely:

“Mr.  Chareman,  feller citizens,  brothers 
I am in  favor of  the  moshun 
and sisters: 
now pendin afore  this  onerary body.  And 
I further move an  amendment  to  the efect 
that the said commity of the hole also inves­
tigate, while they  air  about  it, the efect of 
rinks in such towns as  Grand  Rappids  and 
whether they efect the  attendance at  prayr 
meetins thar or not.  Our  worthy  brothers 
who last spoke can  no  dout  inform  us, as 
they attended a meetin  in  that city a short 
time ago. 
I  understand  that  they  met a 
‘Gent  from   Texas'  at  that  meetin  who 
probably gave them much light on  this sub­
ject.”

Wilkins got Bro. Jones to support the mo­
shun to amend, but Deakin  Skinner  was on 
his feet in about 2  seconds, and  you  ought 
to seen his face. 
It was a sickly  yaller, ex­
cept the end of the  nose, which  was a nice 
royal  purple:  “Mister  Moderator” 
(the 
Deakin is used  to  settin  on a skool  board) 
“on further thinkin this  matter  over, I beg 
the liberty to withdraw the original moshun, 
with the  consent of  my  seconder, on  the 
grounds that perhaps it  wood  be  unjvise to 
stir up dissensions  in  the  church  just  at 
present and  out  of  respect to our  worthy 
brother,  Soliman  Snooks.” 
(Clappin  of 
hands back by the stove.)

Bro. Potter hastened to  withdraw his sec­

ond, so the thing fell threw.

Oh, no; I gess not.  Soliman  aint  asleep, 
not this evening, he haint.  When  old Skin­
ner and Bro. Potter gets threw this toll gate 
without payen, they will  have to be mighty 
spry in the momin.

Bro. Ropemin was astonished at  the efect 
of my little orashun, and  said,  “Will  some 
one else make a similar  moshun?”

Just then up  popped  Wilkins  and  said, 
“May it please the  onerable  court, I  wood 
like to ask the onerable  court, if he cood in­
form us as to when  he,  the  said  onerable 
court, last heard from  Miss Rosa  Hopkins,

Choice Butter a Specialty!

Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Cranber­

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Careful  Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.
M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
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other way.
The Chart is 2 feet  wide  by  3  feet  high, made of 
hard wood elegantly finished.  The feet are so  con­
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The letters  are  2  in.  in  height,  kept in  a  strong, 
neat  box  containing  labeled  apartments  for  each 
letter.  Each box contains over 300  letters,  figures 
and characters.
Price of Chart and box of Letters Complete $2.50, 
or I will send it by Express Prepaid to all  Points  in 
Michigan  for  $2.75.  SEND  FOR  CIRCULARS. 
Address

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DUCK.  IjAKU,  MICH.

CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,
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WHOLESALE

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BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

Our spring samples are now ready for inspection at prices as 
low as tlie lowest.  We make a Gent’s Shoe to retail  for $3 in 
Congress, Button and Bals tliat can’t be beat.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

MTJSHEGOXT  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

S. S. MORRIS  & BRO.
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

PACKBHS

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CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS. 

.

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

SHIELDS

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W h o le s a le

H. LEONARD & SONS,
Crockery, Glassware & Lamps

Importers  and Jobbers  of *

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS  FOR

Mils, Taylor & Mins’ AMitai W. G fan.
Wedgeweod  &  Co/s  English  Ware.

AND

Special Prices 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 
Price others ask for Second Quality, when five  boxes  of 
any styles are taken.

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We deliver Lamp Chimneys, Stoneware and Kerosene Oil at 

any depot in this city free of Cartage.

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