GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  18, .1885.

NO. 78.

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Price-List.

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STATE  AGENTS,

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Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

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

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

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both for field  and garden. 
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well  to  write  or  see  the

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71 CANAL  STREET.

R O C K   C A N D Y .

DRYDEN & PALMER’S 
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Try a box.
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Grocerymen  and  bakers  wishing  to  add  a 
good-paying  article  to  their  stock  would do 
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each package.

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A  Good  Chance  for Business.
A Bakery, in Grand Ranids, No.  9,  South Di­
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first-class in all  its  appui-tenances  and  has  a 
good Holland and  general  trade.  The  reason 
for selling is that I am going  into  other  busi-

11 Grand Rapids, Feb. 27,1885.  J. VOgel.
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A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

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J E W E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

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Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids;  H. 
Walsh & Son, Holland.  Manufactured by 
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AMONG THE  PINES.

Certain  Social  Phases  in  Northern  M ichi­

Chas. Ellis in the Current

gan—No. 6.

“Is this the post-oflice, madam?”
I was told that the post-office  was  in the 
house on the north-east  comer, at “the  cen­
ter.”  The center I found to be the crossing 
of two country roads.  On one  corner stood 
a neat school-house, on  another  a  building 
that was town-hall, church, grange-hall, ball­
room, etc., while on a third  stood  the farm 
house to which I had been  directed  for  the 
post-office.  Stepping into the  kitchen,  din­
ing-room, sitting-room, etc., 1  found a some­
what portly female, witli  heavy  lips, flabby 
cheeks, and skim milk-colored hair, whom I 
at once concluded was the head of the fami­
ly. 
In response to my question  she  rolled 
her hard eyes  over  me, but  said  nothing. 
Evidently she had taken  me  by the  cut of 
my jib, that  is,  by  my  somewhat  unique 
dress  to  be a camper.  On  repeating  my 
question, she made  a  guttural  noise, which 
I understood to mean  “Yes,” although  she 
seemed to mangle the poor  little  letters ter­
ribly as they ¡passed through her teeth.

“Is there any mail here fo r----------- ?”
“D’no!”  She seemed to be touching oif a 
charge of dynamite inside of  herself  as she 
said  it.

“Will you have the kindness to look, mad­
am?” 
.
She, he, or  it  looks  at  me  instead,  but
makes no move and says  nothing.  Present­
ly I venture again, thinking to gain her good 
graces by an expression of sympathy.

. 

. 

“Are  you  very  ill,  madam?  Have  you 
been this  way  long?  What  ails  you  my 
char-----?”  The sentence will  never be fin­
ished.  While I speak she slips  her  moor­
ings, and fills away point-blank for  me, and 
I hurriedly clutch a  life-buoy,  expecting  to 
be run down, when suddenly she  tacks and 
stands off  into an  adjoining  room. 
I  wait 
two or three minutes, and she bowls in again 
before the wind with  a  bone  in  her  teeth, 
rounds to and drops anchor under  the lee of 
the stove, but remains as dumb  as  a  figure­
head.  Once more I venture  to  address  the 
head of the family in  what  I  intend  to  be 
my most captivating, gray-headed tones.

“Do you have it often, my dear  mad— ?” 
“I’m not mad ’n’. you’d  better  not  come 
raound here with any of yer  camp  lingo ’n’ 
names it you don’t want a head put on yer!” 

“But, woman,-----”
“I don’t want  any  of  yer  huts  raound 
here!  Keep yer maout sliet  ’r  I’ll  set  the 
dog on yer!”

I begin to feel a trifle  uncomfortable, and 
think of retreating without the mail, when a 
little dried-up old man slips  in, sidles up to 
a closet, keeping an eye across the stove, and 
brings out a  bundle  of  letters.  He  spells 
them through, delivers me what I claim, and 
I leave witli an  impression  that the  social 
sympathies of the people up here are not re­
markably juicy, and  I express a  hope  that 
the President will appoint, some  sagacious 
old Michigan bear as postmaster at “the cen­
ter” before I have occasion to call  again.

The religious ministrations of  the  people 
round about the  backwoods  districts  are  a 
good deal mixed. 
In a new  country,  when 
the settlers come from  “all  over,”  there is 
apt to be a great variety of  theology  repre 
sented.  But there is not enough of any one 
kind to create a fold  and  support  a  shep­
herd, and so different kinds  come  occasion­
ally and in that  way  all  get  something of 
their own  faith  preached.  The  preachers 
take  voluntary  contributions  for  their re­
muneration,  and  are  never  overburdened 
with the “filthy lucre” of  the  world.  The 
most  prominent  “persuasions”  represented 
are Disciple, Congregationalist,  Baptist  and 
Methodist.

yet, but only shows itself  where the  condi­
tions are favorable, as  they  are in  such  a 
country as this.  The man attends to all bus­
iness. 
If there is stock to  sell  or  flour  to 
buy he attends to it.  Here and there a man 
is found who allows “the  woman”  to go to 
store occasionally with  butter  and  eggs to 
buy a calico dress, and get  necessaries  for 
the  children,  but as a  general  thing  the 
women see nothing, hear nothing,  do  noth­
ing that ever  shivers  their  brains  with a 
thought above their  daily  drudgery.  Upon 
the faces of such there must be that thought­
less expression  of  which  I  have  spoken, 
while the men, brought  more  into  contact 
with the world, sharpened  with  barter  and 
vulgar  chaffing,  seem  altogether  brighter.
But the same grade  of  women 
living, say 
near Boston, will appear as bright as though 
they weie altogether a superior being,  until 
you get an  opportunity  to  measure  their 
minds, and then you find that the  difference 
between the women of the  two  localities is 
due to the fact that those  yonder can get in­
to a city, walk its streets, look into the faces 
of people,  visit  stores  and  theaters,  and 
come in contact with a thousand  causes that 
will brighten and enliven  their  faces  and 
vary their gossip, while their minds  remain 
as empty as are those of  their  sisters  here 
who are supposed to live  so  many  degrees 
nearer to savagery.

The one sunny opening to social life  here 
is that in winter, when  the  snow is deep in 
the  woods  and  the  sleighing  good on the 
traveled roads. Relatives will go long distan­
ces to visit each other,  and  such visits keep 
alive  social  sympathies  that  will  in time 
make good society  around.  Add to this the 
growing desire of parents to  see  their  chil­
dren educated, and we may rest assured that 
by-and-by success, prosperity  and fine civili­
zation will come to all  where enterprise and 
determination come to stay, whether here or 
elsewhere.

A  bad  feature  of  the  social  conditions 
here, and one which should  he  condemned, 
is that the girls marry too young.  Marriage 
at  sixteen  and  eighteen is quite common, I 
am told, and it is said that they  are  known 
to marry even as  young  as  fourteen.  This 
is very bad  for  good  civilization—bad also 
for thè young women, as they are quite sure 
to learn. 
I have seen young girls  about the 
country homes who were  bright-eyed, prom­
ising ,1 and sometimes  attractive, and school- 
children whose red cheeks were the pictures 
of  health. 
If  only  they  would  put  away 
this bad habit of marrying, until nature  has 
done |gt!' work of  ripening upon them, I am 
sure another generation .of wives and  moth­
ers would  show to decidedly  better  advan­
tage  than  the  present.  With  these child- 
wives,  the  care  of  children,  and the work 
and  care  of  country homes, show them old 
at  twenty-five,  and the rest of life is an un­
easy fret  and  whine. 
It  is  little  wonder 
that so many of  their  faces  are  blank  and 
unnatural.  Then, too, the men who have to 
bear  with  these  worn-out  wives  are  not 
always the most  thoughtful  and  indulgent 
mortals  on  earth.  One  still morning as 1 
was passing one of these primitive  “places,”
I was a witness to  a bit of domestic felicity 
that  was  quite  touching.  By  the  shanty 
that served as a bam the  man,  husband  he 
was, worked loading  his  shingles. 
It  had 
snowed two or three inches in the night, was 
snowing very quietly then, but the  morning 
was otherwise pleasant.  As I stood  unseen 
watching  the  man  at  work,  I  saw coming 
from  the  house  one  of  these  little, thin, 
stoop-shouldered child-wives carrying in one 
hand a tin pail and  in  the  other,  stretched 
above her head to keep the thing out of  the 
snow, an old blanket.  Presently  the  man 
saw her coming.

“You  got  yer  t’other  shoes on ?  What 

I fear that the truth will give an unattrac­
tive showing for social relations in the prim­
itive community.  The intellectual  activity 
is small,  and  there  is,  as  a consequence, 
nothing to talk about  save  immediate  sur­
roundings and recent occurrences.  Now, as 
what a horse or a dog  does  is of no  impor­
tance in comparison  with  what a baby does 
and says, or tries to  do  and  say, it follows 
that where there  are  babies  among  them 
there will be nothing that  will  afford  talk 
for them for a time like the doings  and say­
ings of their  precious  infants.  But  sweets 
pall and  vinegar  follows.  Where  two or 
three are  gathered  together, no  matter  in 
whose name, the talk  invariable drifts  into 
gossip about the neighbors, and  so the hour 
or the evening is apt to be spent in talk that 
leaves people not more wise than when they 
met.  But it must be admitted  that  this pe­
culiarity is not confined to the backwoods.

The wemen generally have a far-away, ab­
other-worldly,  “over-there” 
sent-minded, 
look that is suggestive  of  “spirits,”  Indian 
doctors, roots  and herbs, and  such  things. 
I am so struck with this that I am  ready to 
believe that most of them  are  spiritualists, 
and am surprised to find  that  they are not. 
How shall I account for  the  difference be­
tween the unintelligent woman of  the back- 
woods and the unintelligent woman of Mass­
achusetts?  I think back and  soon  touch a 
phase of barbarism.  Among savages woman 
is the slave, the beast of burden, the conven­
ient animal of  man.  As  the  more  active 
branches of the race develop toward civiliza­
tion, woman is abused less but retired more. 
This state of relationship virtually continues

yer cornin’ aout here fur, anyway ?”

“Pm goin’ t’milk ’n’ thought I ’d bring the 
blanket  aout,  cos you  might'want it, Jim,” 
said  she  with  a  weak  little consumptive 
laugh.

“Hev yer got them there t’other shoes on?” 
He says this with an increasing harshness 
of tone that indicates a jam in the current of 
his feelings.

“N’no, ’taint cold abiti”
“Y’u’re a t------------fool !”
The little woman tries to laugh, but whim­
pers  and  goes  to  the  barn.  Man  goes  on 
loading shingles and swearing to himself, as 
if soliloquizing on  the  stubbornness of mar­
ried women in  general.  Then  he  happens 
to see me, and that I am  apparently  listen 
ing, and straightway out  speaks he with the 
tender voice òf a lover :

“Y'er orter put on yer t’other  shoes  afore 

yer cum aout, Mamie, so yer ort, dear.” 

.

It  is  curious  to  see  how  the  life of  the 
world, “the spirit of the age,’’"as the  Sellers 
family call it, presses in upon remote  places 
and corners that seldom see anything of  the 
world.  Habit, custom and fashion are  con­
tagious.  You cannot hide away from  them 
any more than you can  hide  children  away 
from  whooping-cough  and  measles.  They 
seem to be in the air and travel on the wind. 
Tha  love  of  novelty,  and the vanity of the 
human animal that incites, it to have a trifle 
more than its neighbor, are a sort of  scarlet 
rash of the social world that one  finds  even 
in the woods.  But woman’s  nature  asserts 
its  creative  and  hopeful  influence  even 
through the often worthless and  misleading 
frivolities of custom and fashion.

In primitive times,  when  women  had  no 
home but the forrest and the  jungle, and no 
“rights” at all;  when she  was looked  upon 
as “game” to be captured, dead or alive, but 
mostly half-and-half, there was even then in 
her an element of  character that was slowly 
becoming powerful  to  influence  the  whole 
world.  She was  submissive, patient, endur­
ing.  She learned to be still and  yet be con­
tent.  Man is a  restless  prowler,  woman  a 
patient waiter.  Waiting for ages in bondage, 
woman  has  learned  to  find peace, content­
ment,  pleasure  and  incitement  to artistic 
growth in making  home,  whether  wigwam 
or  cave,  log-house,  shanty  or  better, more 
and more attractive from time to time.  Man 
alone, or a human  race  that  should have in 
both sexes the restless,  aggressive,  maraud­
ing, grasping, greedy spirit that seems to ac­
tuate  the  majority  of  the men of  our own 
race,  would  never  rise  above  the plane of 
the freebooter.  The finer  elements  of race 
evolution are due largely to the quiet, brood­
ing, home-loving nature of woman.

Some  Reasons  Wliy  They Cannot Compete 

with Men.
From the New Y ork Tribune.

“The women are beginning to follow near­
ly all the occupations pursued by men,” said 
the proprietor of an employment agency.  “1 
have women  registered for  employment to 
canvass for books, to  solicit  for  advertise­
ments, and to canvass for life-insurance com­
panies, but, strange to say, no  one  has  ex­
pressed a willingness to  go on  the road as a 
general  drummer  for  a  large  mercantile 
house. 
I expect it  to  come,  though,  very 
soon.  The indications point that way  now. 
Nearly 30,000 women are idle in  New York 
to-day.  Some of them  have  talent  and en­
ergy enough to make  successful  drummers, 
1 feel sure.”

“They have women drummers in England, 

why not in America?”  asked a reporter.

Among these country homes I find old log

“Well, the reason  is  plain.  So many av­
enues to make a living in the United  States 
are open to women that they naturally shripk 
from occupation that would  keep them trav-
houses that have walls and ceiling decorated  eling alone constantly and  meeting  men of 
with  paper;  not  handsome wall-paper, but j all kinds and dealing with them.  A woman
with energy  and  talent  enough to become a 
old newspapers,  those that  contain pictures 
successful drummer would prefer to  lecture 
being most desirable.  This  is  an  improve­
or become a hook  agent.  A  merchant, as a 
ment  upon  the  bare  bark  and  the  rough 
general  rule,  is  married  and  settled.  A 
boards, and is due to  the  housewife.  RagS 
woman, then, cannot  call  her  charms in to 
are treasured up and  rag  carpets  are  made 
aid her much in  getting  merchants  to buy. 
that are sometimes seen to  be  quite  pretty, 
As a book  canvasser  she  can  tackle  the 
and always strong and  durable.  There  are 
blushing  young  bachelor  and  susceptible 
cheap pictures along the walls, with  indica­
man, and get a subscriber on her beauty and 
tions here and there of “fancy  work.”  The 
grace.  No single man would dare to  refuse 
artistic  sense  of  the  house-keeper  shows 
a pretty or charming  woman.  . Not  so  the 
itself  also  in  the  preparation of delicacies 
married merchant.  He  has to buy and  sell 
for  the  winter’s  table.  Peaches,  berries, 
again and purchase  every season.  His bills 
grapes, tomatoes, etc., these are all plenty in 
amount to thousands, too,  and  he  watches 
season, and they are canned  for winter, and 
for close competition to get  bargains,  for it 
the work is well done, too.
means many hundreds saved to  him.  With 
a woman he would  not  like  to  speak  of 
cheap offers made by other  traveling  drum­
mers nor ask for rebates and reduction.  To 
save this trouble he merely says he does not 
wish to  buy.  That  settles  Mrs.  Woman 
Drummer  right  there.  Could or  would a 
woman  drummer,  you  think,  adopt  the 
methods of the typical drummer now on the 
road?  Let us see his program.  He  arrives 
at the town.  Puts up at the best  hotel  and 
kindly consents to drink  with the  landlord 
and tell  him  how  glad  he was  to  leave 
Smith’s hashhouse at the next town in order 
to get to  his  hotel.  Makes  arrangements 
with him to play a  little  draw  poker  after 
the merchants have been  visited.  He  goes 
to see a merchant. Asks him to come around 
and see his samples on exhibition at  the ho­
tel.  Merchant refuses.  He asks  the  mer-’ 
chant to drink.  They do/  They  smoke ci­
gars.  The drummer swears lie can discount 
the figures of the other  drummer  the  mer­
chant  has  been  buying  from.  A  dispute 
arises, and several  hours  are  consumed in 
drinking, talking and smoking.  The  result 
is, merchant buys a bill to get  the  discount 
promised.  Would a woman  do  that?  Not 
much, I think.  Now, it is plain  why women 
are not drummers.

Here the temporary sojourner, whose days 
have been spent amid the refinements of  an 
»esthetic  civilization,  is  made  sensible of 
many crude conditions in the domestic econ­
omy,  but,  nevertheless,  in  many  ways he 
sees the world creeping in, and  can  readily 
foretell that things not beautiful, not attract­
ive to  one  unaccustomed  to  them,  will  in 
time  disappear,  and  woman  here,  as  else­
where, will take her true place  at  the  head 
of the beautiful, well managed,  artistic, cul­
tivated Home, the Jiest hope  and  safeguard 
of the world.

“What makes you think I’m rich?”
“Why, boss, I lieerd you  has  done  failed 

seberal tiipes,  so you am bound ter be rich.

colored man, by a certain merchant prince.

The foregoing remark was addressed  to a 

“A dollar for putting in the coal.  That’s 

“I  know  hit’s  mighty  steep but you am 

too much.  1 am not going to pay it.”

Bouiul  To  Be  Rich,

sich a rich man.”

The New York  market  is  just at present 
full of cinchona.  This is put up in pills and 
is sold for quinine.  So  close  is  the  resem­
blance and  so  nearly  allied  in tastes is the 
one to the other that it  is almost  impossible 
for any person save an expert to  distinguish 
them.  The difference between quinine  and 
cinchona is that the former  acts  almost  im­
mediately upon fevers, and the latter has no 
effect at all.  The pills of cinchona are made 
up with gum  arabic,  mucilage  and  tartaric 
acid.  The druggist is often himself deceived 
when he buys a quinine pill, and consequent­
ly his customer  may  be  unconsciously vic­
timized.

“You have a very rich soil here,” remark­
ed a tenderfoot to a Dakota farmer,  “Rich! 
Well, I should  say so.  Two  years  ago  a 
young man from  the  East  came  out  here. 
He carried a snakewood cane.  He  stuck it 
in the ground  and  left  it  here.”  “I  sup­
pose,” remarked the tenderfoot with a smile, 
“you mean to tell me it sprouted.”  “Sprout­
ed!  Well, I should say it did, and blossom­
ed, too.  Why, last year 1 killed ten bushels 
of black snakes on that patch of ground, and 
each one was varnished and  had a hammer­
ed silver head.”

A man called on a druggist for  something 
to cure  headache.  The  prescription  clerk 
promptly clapped the ammonia  bottle to his 
nose and nearly stifled him.  On  recovering 
his forces he  made  a  wicked  punch  at the 
clerk’s head.  “Hold on,” remarked that in­
dividual, “wasn’t I quick aboutit, and didn’t 
I  cure  your  headache?” 
“Headache  be 
hanged,” exclaimed the man,  “it’s my wife’s 
got the headache.”

I would much  rather  have a  man in my 
employ who showed  some  interest  in  liis 
work, and who occasionally  threw  out  sug­
gestions by the adoption of which  some im­
provements in the  means  employed, or  in 
the results obtained, might be accomplished, 
than one who went about his work in a man­
ner which gave one impression that his ideas 
were solely on one  point,  namely:  “Come 
day,  go  day ;  God  send  pay-day.  Mer­
chant.

It is estimated that a  dead  investment  of 
over a quarter  of a  million of dollars is rep­
resented in the unsold copies of  the revised 
N ew Testament now lying  uncalled-for  on 
the  shelves  of  American  book-publishers. 
There will, accordingly, be  less  speculation 
in the revised version of the Old Testament.

“In England a few are traveling for  com­
mercial houses, but they simply go to places 
where a trade has already been  established 
and take orders.  They do not  work up any 
new business.  Here in  the  United  States 
drummers must not only sell to old  custom­
ers every time, but work up new ones. Their 
success depends on it.  The old  customer is 
liable to be persuaded to buy  from  the dis­
count drummer who  talks  and  drinks for 
hours.  Commercial houses know these facts 
too well, and that is why women are not em­
ployed in that capacity.

“A line must  be  drawn  somewhere, and 
the very nature of the business  debars them 
at once.  There are plenty of women in New 
York to-day plucky  enough  to  go  on  the 
road, but they are wise enough  also to fore­
see the result.  A large  life-insurance  com­
pany employs a woman to  canvass  for poli­
cies among women  only.  They inform  me 
that thus far the  trial  has  given  eminent 
proofs of the  fitness  of  one  good-talking 
woman to get others  of her  sex  to  insure 
their lives.  The company  will  shortly  put 
seven or eight on the road in different states. 
If there should ever be an American woman 
drummer with the  requisite  qualities  and 
the irrepressible pertinacity  and  lordly as­
sumption  of  the  average  male  drummer, 
then I will say the  time  has  come  to  let 
women vote and enter the prize-ring as slug­
gers.”

Tradesmen in England who use the  royal 
arms on their signs, windows,  etc., - without 
special  permission,  are  liable  to a fine of 
$100  by  a  new  law.  The punishment for 
American  tradesmen,  tailors,  drapers, etc.,* 
who use the  English royal arms in the same 
way ought to be $1,000 and  the contempt of 
public;  and  yet  the  snobbish  custom  is 
growing in this country.—Pilot.

Jas. Rooney, formerly with F. lianiville& 
Co., has engaged witli the Fabric  Fire Hose 
Co., of Warwick, N. Y., to  cover  Michigan 
andNortlnn  Ohio  and  Indiana.  He  left 
Monday for a trip through the Saginaw Val­
ley.

“I liaf only von briee  for  my goots,” said 
one  of  our “clodink”  merchants  to a cus­
tomer the other day, and then in an aside to 
his clerk he added,  with a wink,  “and  dot 
was de brice he is willing to gif.”

GRAIN  AND  SEND  CO.,

SEED  MERCHANTS,

S. A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

W AREHO USES :

71  Canal  St.,  and  Cor.!

Ionia anti  Williams  j  71 

o f f i c e : 
CANAL  ST.

Streets.

G r a n d   R a p i d s ,  March 16,1885. 

D e a r   S i r s —Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
prices for to-day :
Clover, Extra recleaned................ 60 tb bu  5 00
4 90
4 75
4 50
5 50
13 00
12 00
15 00

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
White..................... 25c 
“ 
“ 
Alfalfa or Lucerne 25c ^ ib  _ “ 

“  Choice...................................  
“  Prime.....................................  
“  No.  3....................................... 
“  Mammoth Prime.................. 
ft 
“  A lsyke..................  35c <jji  lb 

Timothy.  Choice,

Top^1 ime  ..  .....  ........... 14 fr> bu

“ 

2 50

Blue Grass.
Orchard  Grass.................................  
Buckwheat........................................481b bu  1 00
Peas, White Field............................60 lb bu  1 25
Rye, Winter.....................................56 lb bu 
75
1 00
“ 
“  Spring......................................  
1 25
Wheat, Spring.................................. 
“ 
Barley, Spring................................ $ cw t 
175
Prices on Rape, Canary  and  all  other seeds 
on application.
The above prices are  free  on  board  cars  in 
lots  of  5  or  more  bags  at  a  time.  Cartage 
o h  smaller quantities.
We  also  carry  the  largest  line  of  Garden 
Seeds in Bulk of any house in the State west of 
Detroit, and would be  pleased  at  any  time to 
quote you  prices.
All  Field  Seeds  are  spot Cash on receipt of 

goods. W. T. Lamoreaux, A&t.

_________ MISCELLANEOUS.
Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment,________
F'OR  RENT—A desirable store  on  Canal  st., 
Ir'OR SALE—Whole  or  half  interest  in .the 

Inquire  of  L.  S. Provin, 

opposite  Sweet’s Hotel. 

near  Monroe. 

80

AND—

N O T I O N S !

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

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  J ohn D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  J ohn  H.  Eagre», 
L. R. Ce sn a, and A. B.  H andbicks.

24 Pearl Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

1  Prindle drug stock, on the corner of West 
Bridge  and  Front Streets.  Stock invoiced  at 
$7,000 and can be bought at a discount,  as  the 
principal owner is dead.  Address, J. H. Walker, 
receiver, cave Powers & Walker, Grand Rapids.
w AMTED—Situation by a  young  man  in  a
Address  Care 
experience.  Good references 
82*
Box 276, Fremont, Mich.
WANTED-A  _
rood  drut clerk.  One  who 
in  the  wall
paper trade and grocery trade preferred.  Call 
or address, Albert E. Smith, Cadillac, Mich. 79*
FjiOR  SALE—A  nice,-clean  stock  of  drugs  If in Need of Anything in  our  Line,  it 
and  stationery.  No  old  stock.  Will  in­
ventory  less  than  $1.500.  Doing  a nice busi­
ness.  Owner lias other business  to attend  to. J 
Inquire of The Tradesman. 

will pay you to get our Prices.

has  had  some  experience

73tf

PA TEN TEES AND  SODE  M AN UFA CTU RERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

iii

Send for Samples and Çircular.

Barlow  Brothers,

GRAND  RAPIDS

MICH.

j  neatly  finished,  with  counters,  drawers 
and shelves on both sides.  Will rent or sell on 
easy payments.  Iuquire of D. C.  Underwood.

]7iOR  RENT—New store building,  at  Elmira, 
IriOR  SALE—Cheap for  cash,  a  small  stock 

of  drugs  and  medicines  in  suburbs  of
Apply to H. B. Fairchild, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
76tf
City. 
_______________________ _
W ANTED—A  situation  as  traveling  sales­
man or clerk in a jobbing establishment. 
Have  had  eight  years’  experience  in  retail 
trade, and can give good references.  Address, 
.  81*
“M,” care “The Tradesman.” 
WANTED—An old, experienced  butter  and 
cheese-maker,  who  can  furnish  unex­
ceptionable references as to  ability  and  char­
acter,  desires  a  permanent  situation  in  a | 
creamery or factory in this  State.  Address  L, 
care T h e   T r a d e s m a n .
w RANTED—Steady  situation  by  an Ameri­
can  38  years  of  age,  who is a practical 
m  hanical  draftsman  and  pattern  maker. 
T 
best of references as to ability and charac-1 
ter.  Correspondence solicited.  Address  T. W. 
Beal, Box 566, Sandwich. 111.
I THIRDSALE^Ybout  200  pounds  of  brevier 
Jj 
type, such as is now used on T h e  T r  a d e s - 
_________
m a n .  Address this  office. 

THE  COOLEY  CAN

Improved bv the Lockwood Patent.

!

IK

Used in the creamery 
for  butter  only,  they 
paid the patrons in J uly, 
1881, 60c  and  the  skim­
med  mills  per  100  ths. 
Lowest  price  of 
the 
year.
In  the  creamer 
gathered  cream 
paid  the  patrons 
15c  to  27c  per  cream 
gauge for the  year 1884.
In the factory lor but­
ter  and  cheese  they
paid  the  patrons  $1.75 | 
.  average,  lor ¡ 
per 100 tbs
the season.  They show 
better results in dollars 
and cents than any thing 
yet invented.
Write for actual work­
ing  figures  furnished 
by successful creamery 
men  of  known  reputation,  who  have  used 
them as above.  '

J!

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J O H N   B O Y D ,

Sole Manufacturer, 199 LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO.
CREAM  TESTER!
With six glasses for testing six  cows’  milk  at 
same  time.  Price  $1;  large  size  glasses  $2, 
either free by mail.  Agents wanted. Circulars 
with  full  particulars  for  stamp.  WYMAN 
L.  EDSON,  Union  Center,  Broome  Co., N. Y.

I

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C. S. YALE & BRO.,
U lM Y liG   EITRACTS !

—Manufacturers  ot—

BAKING  POWDERS,

, T T X lS T C S - f i» ,
t
40  and  42  South  Division,  St.

I H O T C X

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH

/

It is  reported  that  Gill & Son will put in 
a grist mill in connection with the saw  mill 
at Gill’s pier, Leelanaw county..

The  Alba Handle Co. is giving its mills a 
thorough  repairing,  and  will  re-commence 
operations in about two weeks.

A. Wright & Co.  have  just  completed a 
new mill in Aral,  Benzie  county,  and  will 
soon begin to saw lumber for  shipment.

James A. Root owns 3,000  acres of  hard­
wood land in Lakefield,  Mackinaw  county, 
and will erect kilns and go  into  coal  burn­
ing.
II. B.  Severance, of  Plymouth,  has  com­
pleted arrangements for building a stave and 
heading mill, at South Arm, on Grand Trav­
erse  bay.
Shelby  Enterprise:  The  hame  factory
project  we  spoke  of  last week will not be j 
The parties  have  concluded  not
realized, 
to come.

The Montague Iron Works  is  turning out 
a new machine  for  A.  T.  Linderman,  of 
Whitehall, in the manufacture of his  patent 
dove-tailed packing  boxes.

The Bear Lake Lumber  Co.  has  brought 
suit against fifteen insurance  companies for 
recovery of losses sustained  by the burning 
of its mill last July.  The suits  are brought 
in a United States court.

Charlevoix Sentinel:  Guyles & Nash, the 
Norwood dealers and lumber manufacturers, 
have bought one-half more logs  this  winter 
than last.  Shipping will be lively next sum­
mer,  as  every firm  we  have  interviewed, 
reports a corresponding increase.

A scheme is on foot among  Manistee mill 
men to organize the Manistee Salt Manufac­
turers’ Association,  which  will  promise to 
turn out the purest salt in  the  world.  Sag­
inaw manufacturers want Manistee in  their 
association, but Manistee says “Nay, we will 
go it alone.”

F. B. Bignell,  of  Smyrna,  and  Mr. Way, 
of Lyons, have formed a  copartnership  and 
rented the old Hess foundry plant  at  Ionia, 
where they  will  engage  extensively  in  the 
manufacture of Bignell’s post powers, plows 
and other farm implements.  They will be­
gin operations about April 1.

S T R A Y   F A C T S .

T. D. French & Sons,  of  Middleville, are 
interested in the  John  McQueen  failure to 
the tune of 5,600 bushels of wheat.

About 40,000 bushels  of  cucumbers  will 
be pickled next season by the Highland Sta­
tion  Pickle  Co.  The  company  pays  42)4 
cents per bushel for the crude product.

The railroad  scheme  to  connect  Alpena 
with Big Rapids  continues  to  be  agitated. 
No better one in Michigan could be devised, 
as it would make a direct line  between  Al­
pena and Chicago, and  open  up a vast  tim­
ber section to market facilities.

Pentwater News:  The balance of  trade is 
largely in favor of Oceana  county now.  Of 
all necessary articles of  family consumption 
we ship more than we  buy.  This  includes 
wheat,  potatoes,  corn,  oats,  hay, wool and 
fruits;  while  the  shipments  of wood, lum­
ber,  posts,  ties,  bark,  etc.,  will  this  year 
equal that of any previous year.

Dr. G. W. Crouter,  of  Charlevoix,  writes 
as follows,  under date of March 12:  “I have 
just returned  from  East  Jordan,  where I 
have been in the interest of a telephone line 
from Charlevoix  to  East  Jordan,  and  suc­
ceeded in finding as  liberal  a lot of  gentle­
men as there is in the  State.  East  Jordan, 
Dwight’s Landing  and  Charlevoix  are wide 
awake to any public improvements. 
It only 
took about three hours to sell $700  in  tele­
phone scrip,  and  this  insures a line in  the 
early spring.  Three weeks will  tell  which 
end of the line will hold the county seat.”

A peculiar swindling game  was  recently 
played upon a Wayland merchant.  A stran­
ger purchased a cigar-holder  of  D. W. Shat- 
tuck, tendering  a $20 bill in payment.  Not 
having sufficient change in his  drawer,  Mr. 
Shattuck sent  his son out  with the bill, and 
obtained two $10  bills  of  Alex.  Sessions. 
Nothing more was thought of the matter un­
til a few days afterward, when Mr. Sessions 
tendered the bill in payment for some goods 
he was purchasing in this city.  The  jobber 
remarked upon the suspicious appearance of 
the bill,  and on close  inspection  discovered 
that a figure “2” had been  pasted  over the 
“1,”  thus  doubling  the  real  value of the 
currency.  A warrant  was  subsequently is­
sued for the arrest of the stranger, but up to 
the present time it  has  been  impossible to 
ascertain his  whereabouts.

P u r e l y   P e r s o n a l .

II.  H.  Freedman,  the  Reed  City  cigar 
manufacturer, was  in  town  last  week  in 
search of a couple of cigar makers.  He has 
been working six men for some time past.

Samuel M. Lemon, of Shields,  Bulkley & 
Lemon,  went down  the  Michigan  Central 
Monday to spend a week among the patrons 
of the house usually seen by Frank Parmen- 
ter.

W. T. Lamoreaux and wife celebrated the 
tenth anniversary of their  wedding last eve­
ning by way  of  a  progressive euchre party. 
Apropos  to  the  occasion,  all the table ser­
vice, cards, etc., were of  tin  and  the  deco­
rations were of that peculiar shade of  green 
appropriate to St. Patrick’s day.__________

change of Detroit has removed from  its  old 
location to more commodious quarters on the 
northeastern corner of Jefferson avenue  and 
Shelby street.  The new  rooms,  consisting 
of  a  directors’  parlor and a large room for 
the working  force  of  the  Exchange,  have 
been handsomely decorated  and  thoroughly 
refitted.  The change in location  makes the 
Exchange far  more  accessible to the whole­
sale merchants of Detroit.

President Hamilton  favors  Tiie T rades­
man with a copy of the constitution  and by­
laws of the  Traverse  City  Business  Men’s 
Association, which it may be desirable to re­
produce in these  columns  at  some  future 
time for the benefit of  similar  associations, 
which may be  organized  hereafter.  Copies 
of blanks used by the  members of the Asso­
ciation in reporting and rating customers ex­
hibit unmistakable evidences  of  usefulness. 
The Tradesm an is  pleased  to  learn  that 
the Association is meeting with success, and 
that the prospects of a useful  and honorable 
career are exceedingly flattering.

The suggestion from the pen of Mr. Frank 
Hamilton, President  of  the  Traverse  City 
Business  Men’s  Association,  published  in 
another column, should receive the consider­
ation of every  reputable, dealer.  The  evil 
effects of sensational  advertising  have  per­
meated every locality, and they can only  be 
stamped out by concerted action on  the part 
of the business public. 
It  is  hardly  neces­
sary to state that T he Tradesman is heart­
ily in favor  of  any movement  having  that 
end in  view,  and  that its columns  always 
have been, and always will  be, open to com­
munications on this and  all  other  subjects 
tending to elevate the standard  of  commer­
cial  intercourse.  Merchants  having  any­
thing to say on any subject  pertinent to the 
business interests of the country are respect­
fully invited to make  The Tradesman the 
medium of communication.

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

Incantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  18,  1885.

Micliiiian Dairymeu’s  Association.

Organized, at  Grand  Rapids,  February 25.  1885.
President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale.
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capae;  r.  U. 
Stone  lalinaw   City;  A  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rocktellow,  Carson  City, 
Warren Haven, Bloommgdate;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage, 
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C. Nash, Milliards, 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Glaiks-
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids. 
February,
Next  Meeting—Third  Tuesday 
1886.Membership Fee—$1 per yeai.

.  .  ,  _

O ffic ia l O r g a n —T h e   M i c h i g a n  T b a d e s m

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Executive” S S m S -P re sW e n tV ic e-P r es^  
ident and Ti-easurer, ex-officio, O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and R. D. bwartout, two
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W.
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
.  ,  .
Manufacturing  Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening
Regular3Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­

P u t n a m ,   J o s e p h   H o u s e m a n .  
Geo. B. Dunton. Amos. S. Musselman. 
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux. 
, 
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.

..

ing of each month.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First V i c e - P r e s i d e n t —L lo y d  Max Mills.
Second  V i c e - P r e s i d e n t —S t e p h e n  A.  b e a r s .
Secretary and Treasurer-L. W. Atkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre 
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour.  W al­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh. 
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
Regular  Meetings—Last Saturday evening in 
each month. 
.  oa
Next  Meeting-Saturday  evening,  March -8, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

w

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. 

The  American  Marketrnan, of Chicago, 
mistakes thejposition of T he Tradesman on 
the butter substitute question, and, by infer­
ence,  belies  the  position  of  the  Michigan 
Dairymen’s Association.  T he Tradesman 
wages no warfare  against  the  manufacture 
or sale of  bogus  butter, so long as it is sold 
for what it really is;  but when it is made to 
masquerade under  an assumed  name,  The 
Tradesm an invariably denounces the traffic 
as illegitimate and criminal.  T he Trades­
is  not  authorized  to  speak  for the 
man 
Michigan  Dairymen’s  Association,  but  the 
fact is significant that the chairman and sev­
eral of the leading  spirits in the recent con­
vention spoke in favor of butter substitutes, 
that not one word was uttered against them, 
and that a communication from  a  legislator 
who is endeavoring to secure the  passage of 
a bill prohibiting the manufacture  and  sale 
of  bogus  butter,  asking  the  convention  to 
adopt  resolutions  favoring  his course, was 
placed  on  file  without  remark.  The great 
trouble  with  the  champions  of  the  butter 
substitute business seems to be that the mere 
mention  of  the  word  “dairymen”  scares 
them half to death.

AMONG THE TRADE.

N  T H E   C IT Y .

Cornelius-.vikkers succeeds  J. F. Mueller 
in  the  grocery  business  on  the  corner  of 
Fifth and Stocking streets.

S. H. Sweet has  engaged in  the  grocery 
business at  Kalkaska.  Shields,  Bulkley  & 
Lemon furnished the stock.

It is  Alfred  J.  Brown—not  Green—who 
has engaged  in  the produce and commission 
business at 154 Fulton street.

Myron Hester, of  the  firm  of  Hester & 
Fox, visited Orono last Friday  and  sold C. 
A. Warren a complete saw mill outfit.

E. & A. Shier have sold their  grocery and 
bakery business at 129 Canal street  to Jack- 
man & Allen, who will  continue  the  busi-

H. Vanderllaar, meat dealer  at Holland, 
has  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at 
that  place.  Shields, Bulkley & Lemon fur-

“BETTER SAVE THE  STATIONERY.”
The correspondence recently  given  to the 
public through the medium  of  the  daily pa­
pers, relative to a change  in  the  location of 
the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, is not calcu­
lated to inspire confidence in the shrewdness 
of the Grand Rapids letter writers, as Oliver 
has never  intended to leave his present loca­
tion, and has been writing around  to  differ­
ent cities for the  sole  purpose  of  securing 
certain concessions  at  home.  That  Grand 
Rapids should consent to serve as a cat s-paw 
to  such  a  scheme  of  the wily Oliver  is  a 
matter of regret, nearly as great as if it were 
known he and concluded to  locate  here,  as 
the class of men he employ s  renders his  es­
tablishment  a  curse, 
instead  of  a  bless­
ing, to any city.  Referring  to  this  subject, 
the  Grand  Rapids  Leader  truthfully  re­
marks.
Several  cities,  and  Grand  Rapids  among 
the number, have been writing to the Oliver 
Chilled Plow  Works, at South  Bend, with a 
view to offering inducements  that  would be 
sufficiently strong to secure  the  location of 
the company’s shops in tlie cities bidding for 
them, the company having  announced  their 
intention  of  leaving  Soutli  Bend,  because 
their employes struck against a reduction of 
wages and because the sympathy of the com­
munity was  with  the  strikers.  _ Those  who 
are writing for this  purpose  might  as  well 
save  their  stationery.  The  Olivers  never 
had any honest intention  of  leaving  South 
Bend.  All of this  talk  about  going  else­
where was simply  for  the purpose of fright­
ening South Bend and changing public opin­
ion,  which  had  become  so  strong  against 
them.  Their shops are  immense affairs, cov­
ering acres of ground  and  are  all  built of 
brick.  To abandon these would be  a  sacri-1 
fice which so miserly a man as “Jim” Oliver 
would never make.  A large amount of land 
adjacent to the shops is  owned by  the com­
pany, on which they  have  built  small cot­
tages for their men, from which they realize 
handsomely.  James Oliver also owns a pal-  nished the stock, 
ace home there, surrounded by all the adorn­
ments that money will furnish,  and  he  will 
not leave it because his men have struck for 
higher wages.  The Oliver Plow Works will 
not leave South Bend, and  the  owners have 
never intended to.

Ernst & Hudson  succeeds  A. L. Ernst in 

the grocery business at Constantine.

E. Reynolds  succeeds  Wm. H. Witbey in 

the restaurant business at Lakeview.

A. W. Lobdell & Co., grocers  at  Mecosta, 

contemplate adding a line of dry goods.

John M. Haynes  succeeds  Hugh McCul­

loch in the grocery business at Reed City.

E. C.  Whitney,  the  Middleville  grocer, 

has been closed on two chattel  mortgages.

Jas.  N. Hill, the  Plainwell  grocer,  con­
templates enlarging his store building  short­
ly.

J. M. Riser  succeeds L. D. Warner in  the 
agricultural  implement  business  at  Wood­
land.

Elias Ames & Son are  putting up a  port­
able saw mill about four miles west of Lake- 
view.

Gerritt Yonker will engage in the boot and 
shoe business  on  Pine  street,  Muskegon, 
about April 1.

BurtShuert  will  shortly  engage  in  the 
grocery,  provision  and  meat  business  at 
South Boardman.

R. D.  Wheeler  and  L. J.  Chubb  have 
formed a partnership and  engaged  in  the 
meat business at  Ravenna.

Wm. M. Snelling  general  dealer  at  Six 
Corners, has sold out to James Grannis, who 
will continue in the business.

M. E.  Haskell has  purchased of  Beecher 
& Kymer the book  and  stationery  stock at 
Traverse City formerly owned  by him.

Monroe  & DeHaven  have  purchased  the 
drug and grocery stock of  Burrell  Tripp, at 
Bangor, and will continue the  business.

Ionia  National:  The  wholesale  liquor 
business does not seem to  flourish  in Ionia. 
An  establishment  of  that  kind,  recently 
started  here,  was  seized  last  week by its 
Grand Rapids creditors.

Big Rapids Herald:  Chas. H. Milner  has 
sold his  drug  store  to  his  brother  George, 
who has taken possession.  Charles has  not 
yet made up his mind what he  will  do with 
his time and money.

Garrett Decker, the Battle Creek dry goods 
merchant, has  settled  with  his  mortgage 
creditors onthe basis of 50 per cent,  and  is 
settling with  the unsecured  creditors at  fig­
ures varying from 25 to 35 per cent.

Charlevoix  Journal:  The stock  of  bouts 
and shoes to  have  been  sold  last  Friday to 
satisfy  a  chattel  mortgage,  was  bid  in by 
Cruikshank & Grier  for  W. D. Robinson & 
Co., of Detroit, holders of the mortgage,

Chas. B. Lovejoy  has  sold  his interest in 
the grocery firm  of  Lovejoy  &  Herrick,  at 
Big Rapids, to Jno. Herrick,  who  will con­
tinue the business, providing he can come to 
a satisfactory arrangement  with  the  credi­
tors of the late firm.

Roland  &  Co.  write  The  Tradesman 
that it was only their grocery and  provision 
stock which  they  sold  to  Malcolm  Winnie, 
and that they still retain the boot  and  shoe, 
millinery and fancy goods stock  at  the  old 
location at Traverse City.

Neal  McMillan  bid  in  the  Will^Hesler 
drug  stock,  at  Rockford,  at  the  chattel 
mortgage sale last Saturday,  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business.  Hesler  owes  about 
$2,000 to Grand Rapids, Detroit  and  Chica­
go  creditors,  no  part  of  which  they  will 
probably ever receive.

Joseph Mabley, the Jackson  clothier, has 
been closed on an attachment by an Eastern 
creditor.  Mabley has moved to have the at­
tachment  dissolved,  and  the  case  will  be 
heard in the United States Court, at Detroit, 
on Thursday.  The stock  is  mortgaged  for 
$8,300  to  Detroit  and  Marshall  parties. 
Pending the attempted dissolution of  the at­
tachment, Mabley is offering  35 per  cent,  in 
full settlement.

Big  Rapids  Herald:  Grand-Gerard,  gro­
cer, has made an  assignment to F. Fairman. 
Inquiries were made some three weeks since 
as to his financial  ability,  and  he  reported 
assets  about  $5,800,  with  liabilities  about 
$1,600.  Pressed  for  money,  he  sought  to 
make a loan, when he discovered that a title 
to  a  part  of  his  real  estate  was  vested in 
others.  An  assignment  followed.  The 
stock has been  invoiced,  and  does  not foot 
Up very extensive,  while  many of  the book 
accounts are not worth the paper written on. 
Darrah  Bros,  are  among  the  unfortunate 
creditors.

C.  M.  Hortou,  of  the  firm  of  Luther  & 
Horton, was in  the  city  last  week,  looking 
over the machinery  warehouses  for  an  out­
fit for a  stave  and  planing  mill,  which  the 
firm will shortly establish at  Luther.

U. Feeter  claims that he was also  one  of 
the lucky ones, having disposed of  his stock 
of pickled eggs  in  Eastern  markets  at  an 
advance  of  $1,700.  He  will  put  down a 
larger amount than ever the coming  season.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

Alois Klein,  hardware  dealer  at  Eagle- 

town, lias sold out.

D. Graves & Co.  have engaged in the meat 

business at Muskegon.

Wm. Murrry  has  sold his* restaurant, at 

Marshall, to T. Young.

C.  T.  Gilbert  succeeds  L. L. Wilber  in 

general trade at Quincy.

Marvey Evans has  retired  from  the  gro­

cery business at Parma. 

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Geo. W. Dey  succeeds  J.  McNutt in the 

meat business at Quincy.

Stitt & Knox  succeed O. W. Knox  in the 

grocery business at Hart.

H.  H. Kelley, meat  dealer  at  Reed  City, 

has removed to Plainwell.

Fred Walker will move his  jewelry stock 

from Allegan to Plainwell.

C. L. Luce  &  Co.  succeeds  J. F. Slayton 

in general trade at Dundee.

Bailey Bros, succeed B. D. Coonley in the 

grocery business at Northville.

J. Yan Dyk  succeeds Van Dyk & Bird in 

the grocery business at Holland.

M A N U F A C T U R IN G   M A T T E R S .

Jas. Ambler will shortly start up his wool­

en mill at Allegau.

Dewing & Sons  have  resumed  operations 

at their saw mill at Allegan.

A. G. Butler, the mill owner at Frankfort, 

will put in a test well for salt.

Over 3,000 sled loads of cedar  have  been 

taken to Alpena,  this winter.

Wade & Wardell, of Cadillac, are shipping 

their rotary boilers to Colorado.

Henry Strope succeeds H. R. Davis in the 

saw mill business at Bell’s Siding.

Ward Bros., of  Boyne  City,  are  putting 

handle factory machinery in their mill.

John  M.  Heath  has  leased  the  Eagle 
foundry, at Allegan, and  begun  operations 
It requires 50 cords of  slabs  a  day to run 
the Canfield & Wheeler salt block, at Manis­
tee.

David Ward has 3,000,000  feet of lumber 
piled at the Stokoe & Nelson mill, at Manis­
tee.

D. W. Lewis, of  Manistee,  says  that  he 
shall this season cut every stick of piue that 
he owns, 6,000,000 feet.

E. Uhl«hipped 90,000 feet  of  organ stuff 
from the Quimby mill, at  South  Boafdman, 
in one week recently.

At R. G. Peters’ mill,  Manistee, two  new 
boilers are being put in, so as to  have  more 
power for the salt block.

Two farmers in  Kasson  township, Leele 
naw county, have been  paid  nearly $1,000 
for elm stumpage this season.

Sensational advertising must go.

The town which can  show a  more  enter­
prising class of merchants, taken as a whole, 
than Traverse City has yet to be heard from.

With this  issue,  T he  T radesm an  com­
pletes the first year  and  a  half of  its  exist- 
fence. 
It also marks the first year of  its en­
largement from a four-page to an eight-page 
paper.

The  Legislative  bill  providing  for  the 
representation  of  minority 
stockholders 
should receive the cordial  support  of  every 
person  at  all  friendly  to  the  principles of 
fairness and justice.  The present law is the 
bulwark of monopoly, ahd any opposition to 
the measure  now  before  the  Legislature is 
prompted by purely selfish  reasons.

The Chicago  Northwestern Grocer refers 
to Holland in a way that the  people  of that 
place will be inclined to resent,  as  follows: 
“We found Holland to be just what its name 
implied, Dutch  from  one end  to  the other. 
It  has  little  to  recommend  it to the casual 
observer in any way.”  The  man who could 
pen  such  a  slander  on  a  thriving  town is 
mean enough to strike his mother-in-law.

The  Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Ex-

BRAND  RAPIDS  MT6  CO.)  4

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

I

Anyone wishing to purchase a  clean 
stock of general  Merchandise, situated 
at  a  good  trading  point  near  Grand 
Rapids,  would‘do  well  to  apply  this 
week to

RINDGE, B8RTSCH & CO., or 
SHIELDS, BULKLEY  & LEMON.
GRAND RAPIDS.

TOOLS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS. 

Dairy Implements e  Specialty.

Factory-Com er Front and Earl streets.  Office and Sales- 

room s~10,12 and 14 Lyron street, Grand Rapids.

Dmas&flftebicines
M m  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

-Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.

.. 

amazoo.
6ing. 

First ^icf^resident—G eo. M. McDonald,  Kal- j 
—B.  D. Northrop,  Lan- 
Second V i c e - P r e s id e n t
.
Frank  Wurzburg,  Gr’d
Third V i c e - P r e s i d e n t
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon 
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, Detroi. 
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,

xecutive 
^   ,y
Stevens, Geo. Gundruin, W. H. Keller,  *.  w.
N e ir j f ^ e   of  m eeting-At Detroit, Tuesday. 

October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9, 1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J-^nrzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm.L. wmte.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.

Ota*-  P.  Blgo-j
^ « S i S s - T h e   i f f  1 ^ .   Wm.  H. 
V a n   L e e u w e n , Isaac  Watts,  Win.  E.  wmte,
Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
O oS & eeou  Lmfisjation—Isaac Watts. O. H.
n'nirehild
Committee on Trade  Matters-H. B. Fairchild, 
Regular  M a t i n g s —F i r s t   T h u r s d a y  e v e n i n g  i n   |
Annual*1Meetings—First  Thursday evening in I
NextVMeeting—Thursday  evening,  April  2, 

Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin. 
Tnhn Peck  Win. H. VanLeeuwen.

at “The Tradesman” office.

The  Drug  Market.

Business has  been  “on the  boom” in the j 
drug line during the past  week, and  collec­
tions are  equally  good  in  proportion.  No 
changes of  importance  have  occurred,  the 
fluctuations in price  being  entirely without j 
significance. 

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A paste  formed  of  whiting  and benzine j 
will  cleanse  marble  from  grease,  and  one j 
made of whiting and chloride of soda, spread | 
and left to dry, in the sun if possible, on the j 
marble, will remove stains.

Dayton white lead corroders state that the i 
year is opening  auspiciously  as  far  as  the 
demand for lead  is  concerned,  but that the j 
present ruling price is below the cost of pro- j 
duction and the outlook is  anything  but en­
couraging  considering  that  the  more they j 
sell the worse they are off.
Adulterations  of  chrome  yellow  are  de- J 
ticted  by  boiling  a  sample  with  soda lye. j 
Pure  chrome  yellow  and  orange-are com-i 
pletely dissolved; a white sediment indicates j 
contamination by heavy spar, gypsum, china j 
clay,  etc.  To ascertain  the  percentage, the , 
dyestuff is  weighed  before boiling, and the j 
sediment is collected upon a  filter,  washed, 
dried and weighed.

VISITING BUYERS.

.

well-

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
! the market during the past week and placed 
| orders with the various houses:
I  S. C. Fell, Howard City.
A. Biddings, Sand Lake.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
H. A. Freedman, Reed City.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
Jas. N. Hill, Plain well.
F.C. Williams, Ada. 
B.  H.  Ingraham,  Smith & Ingraham, Plam- 
Burrell Tripp,  Bangor.
John Cole, Fremont.
Ed. N. Parker, Coopersville.
Mr. Denton, Denton &Loveley, Howard City, 
j. W. Mead, Berlin.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
A. M. Church, Sparta.
Walter Schoemaker, Cannonsburg.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
B. Whitney,  West Troy.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Wm. Karston, Beaver Dam.
Geo. F. Cook, Glove P. O.
C. R. Bunker, Bailey.
Baron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
Jos. H. Spires, Leroy.
C  O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. Ornler, Wright. 
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J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
Colborn & Carpenter, Caledonia.
Heyboer Bros., Drenthe.
J. E.  Gruber, Altona.
Walter Struik,  Forest Grove. 
.......
Mr. Judson, Hoag & Judson, Caniionsbuig 
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
J. R. Trask, Grattan.
J. O. Sabin, Luther.
E. C. Whitney, Middleville.
Covert Bros., Nunica.
C. L. Howard, Clarksville.
H. Andre & Son, Jenuisonville.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Mr. Walbrink, L J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
Jas. Toland, Ross. 
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W. A. D. Rose,  buyer  tor  Ives  Lumber Co.,

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HJ.nR?Dudley, J. R. Dudley & Son, Alleyton.

G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.
Byron McNeal, Byron  Center.
W. H. Beach, Holland.
John Otis, Mancelona.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
H. M. McCoy, Grandville.
H. Baker & Son, Drenthe.
A. F. Harrison, Sparta.
Geo. Stevens, Alpine.
G. W. Crawford, Big Rapids.
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
John GunstrajLamont.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
C. Crawford, Middleville.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
J. C. Benbow, Cannnonsburg.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Lilley.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center.
Earle Bros., Bridgton.
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
Mr. Scoville, Scoville & McAuley,  Ldgerton 
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Mr. Zunder, Zunder Bros. & Co., Bangoi.
C. Porter,  Chauncey.
H. C. McFarlane, Manton.
Bush & Hoyt, Rochester, N.  \ .
T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
R. G. Smith. Wayland.
H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell.
J. L. Handy, Kelly’s Corners.
F. Boonstra, Drenthe.
Geo. N. Reynolds, Belmont.

FURNITURE  BUYERS.

Mr. Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick & Brown, Denver. 
C. P. Keller, Boston.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

^Advanced—Strychnia:  Sarsaparilla  root,
Mexican;  Spermaceti.

Declined-Gum opium; Gum opium, powd. 

a c i d s .

Acetic, No.  8..................................  
I*  as
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  @  3o
Carbolic......................................
Citric.........................................
Muriatic 18  deg.......................
Nitric 36 deg........................ t.. •
Oyq1{/> 
............. ............
Sulphuric 66deg.. y......................... 
Tartaric  powdered................ ...  .
Benzoic,  English....................V oz
Benzoic,  German............................
Tannic..............................................   U  ®

@ 
@ 
@ 
14)4®
3

AM MONIA.

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

 

BALSAMS.

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

lo  ®
.  ~
2  ^
8  <®

55@60
40
2  00 
50

b a r k s .

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground.  .......................... .
Cubeb  prime (Powd 1 00c)............  ß
Juniper.............................................   gn
Prickly Ash......................................

B E R R IE S .

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure  -.......: •
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, is (25 ft  boxes)...............
................
Lgowood, YaS 
do 
do
Logwood, 14s j 
...............
do 
Logwood, ass’d 
¡5 $  cent, off list.
Fluid Extracts—

f l o w e r s .

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

10  @

28®

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c). . . . . ..........
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac........  • •••.......................
Arabic, extra  select....................
A r a b i c , p o w d e r e d   s e l e c t .....................
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.....• •••••• • • • •
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor........ . • ■ ■ • • • • ....................
Catechu. Is (Ya 14c, Us  16c)............
Eupborbium powdered..................
Galbahum strained.........................
Gamboge........ • •—  
.............
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c)............
Kino [Powdered, 30c|.....................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .. ......................
Shellac,  English.............................
Shellac,  native...............................
Shellac bleached............................
Tragacanth...................................

30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

55@60 
19®  22 
13
35®  40 
80
90®1 00 
35 
20
40 
4 00 
30 
26 
24 
30
@1  00

Good  Words Unsolicited.

good paper.”

“Could not get along without it.”

G. A. Estes, general dealer, Tustin:  “A very 

Malcolm  Winnie,  grocer.  Traverse  City: I 

C.  E.  Eaton  &  Co.,  grain,  pork  and  seed 
dealers,  Mason:  “We  consider  the  paper a
valuable  one.” 
David Cornwell,  general  dealer,  Monterey:
“Your paper is thoroughly satisfactory.  Com-

Glycerine  has  many  uses;  but another , 
was  recently  discovered  by  Surgeon-Major ^
Cotter, 
in  India.  Patients  suffering from I 
enteric  fever  are  frequently  awakened  by 
the dryness of the tongue, which is generally j 
parched and covered with  sordes.  Painting j 
with glycerine,  repeating when necessary, is 
found to  give  almost  instant  relief,  and to 
materially assist  in  procuring sleep for the j plete]y fl]is the bill.”
sufferer. 
'  W. B. Nicholson, furniture dealer, Whitehall
I and Montague:  “I get more solid reading out
□There are a number of  soap trees growing j  Qf yQur paper than out of any other I take.” 
in Tallahassee.  They  are  prolific  fruiters, j  p auiey  &  Dickison,  druggists,  St.  Ignaee: 
the berries being about the size of an ordina- i  “We have derived a good  deal  of  benefit and 
ry marble, having a yellowish, soapy appear-1  no little amusement from your very excellent
ance, with a hard black seed from which the ,  pi^ e^   Watkins,general dealer, Clarion:  “The 
trees are propagated.  People in  Tallahassee I rpUADEgMAN  jS  an  admirable  paper,  without 
boil the fruit to  make  soap,  but  in China, j whjCh  I  could  not  do  business  in  Northern 
Japan and other tropical  countries  the  her- j Michigan.” 
John  Nies,  hardware  dealer,  Saugatuck: 
i-ies  are  used  as  a  substitute for  soap just 
“You  have  been  successful  in  making me a 
as they are taken from the trees.
subscriber.  1 must confess I  cannot do  with-

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A quinine factory has been  established at j  ol^  . ^ “HUerfgrocer, Fruitport:  “I  like  the 
Amsterdam  by  Her  van  Dather, who has j paper very much.  it is what every  merchant 
lately  appealed  by  circular  to the pharma- j needS)  as  it  mis  a long-felt want.  You may
ra-stsand  druggists  of  the  Netherlands  for  count on me as a permanent  subscriber.” 
their  support  of  this  home  product.  The 
Ferris  &  Co.,  confectioners  and  tobacco 
! dealers  Hartford:  “You must not think that
ineir  suppuit 
Pharm.  Wed-Mad  has taken up the  appeal j w<j dQ ^  want the paper_ quite the  reverse, 
as a matter of patriotism, and has published  j 
congj{lor  the  $1  a good investment.  We 
the names of seventy apotliekers who pledge | have aircady had value received.” 
themselves to buy and sell no other  quinine 
than that from the Amsterdam factory.

Petroleum  has  completely  destroyed  the 
: whale fisheries.  Up to about 1845 whale oil
The  profit  of  smuggling  opium  into the j and tallow  candles  afforded the basis of all 
Ban Francisco port is so great tiiat desperate  the household and public illumination of the 
•hanees  are  taken  by  the  smugglers.  All j COUntry.  After that  time  burning  fluid,  or 
sorts of devices  are  resorted  to  and almost ] camphene,  came  into  use,  being  a kind of 
every  China  steamer  discloses  some  new | refined turpentine,  and  in  1855  or 1856 pe­
one.  The most novel of stowage places  for ¡ troieUm was introduced. 
It did not advance 
the drug are  selected,  from  false  bottomed  rapidiy at first on account of its  abominable 
shoes to hiding it in  lumps  of  coal, etc.  A  ; smen, but subsequent processes  have  taken 
venturesome customs officer  discovered  last j away nearly all this,  and  after  1860  whale 
week, a quantity  of  smuggled  opium  on  a j 0ü became less  used.  For  the  last  fifteen 
topsail yard of a steamer which  arrived  last j years petroleum has been so cheap that there 
i  lias been no comparison  between  them, and
week. 
Among the^rtid^^lilHaraattractinKcon- j  whale  oil  is  only  used  lor lubricating and
siderable  attention  among 
merly  used sal soda,  is  the  new  product of  A new apparatus for making water-gas de- 
granulated  crystals  of  soda, manufactured  c0mp0ses steam in contact  with  heated  car- 
under the ammonia  process,  for  which it is | ^
 -n a furnace>  The gas is passed into the 
claimed  to  be  the  purest  form  of  soluble j bottom of a vertical  heated  chamber, where 
«oda  known,  and  while  it  is  one hundred ¡ .fc  .g  carbureted  with  hydrocarbon  vapor 
and fifty  per  cent,  stronger  than  the usual  gprayed in at the t0p of the flue.
sal soda, it not only dissolves easily but also I 
yields a clear  solution,  thus  making  it  not |  The report that Henry Seaman, the Green- 
only  valuable  for  Paris  green making, but j yiiie grocer, has been closed on chattel mortr 
for  all  other  articles  where  sal  soda has j gage,  is without  foundation  in  fact,  and  is 
heretofore been used.

those  who  lor- j for a few other purposes.  ____^

calculated to do Mr.  Seaman an injustice.

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Cork bricks, which  have been found to be , 
very durable, and capable of  resisting mois- J 
lure, of acting  as  excellent  non-conductors j 
of heat, and of serving to  deaden sound, are j 
made after tills manner:  The  cork  is  freed 
from woody  particles  and  other  impurities 
by a winnowing process,  and the wind from 
the ventilator throws the cork  into a second 
machine,  where  it  is  cut into pieces.  The 
pieces of cork are then drawn up in  buckets j 
and  ejected  into  a  mill,  where  they  are 
ground to  an  impalpable  powder,  which is 
kneaded  up  with  a  suitable  cement  and 
pressed into brick form.  After having been 
dried in the air the cork bricks are then sub­
jected to artificial heat

DUNHAM’S
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THE  BEST  IN  THE  WORLD!

PRICE 50 CENTS.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

Hoarhound.......
Lobelia...............
P e p p e r m i n t .........
Rue.....................
Spearmint........
Sweet Majoram.
Tanzy  .................
Thym e...............
W o r m w o o d .........

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6 40 
20

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Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Citrate..............................................
Phosphate........................................

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c) . ...... • • • •  I3
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & Vis, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural........... 
• • • ■
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered...........................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna........................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 in
Whisky, other brands..........................\ 1»
Gin,  Holland....................................
Brandy................................................
Catawba  Wines................................|
Port Wines.............................................1 80

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®1 50 
®1 75 
@3 50 
®6 50 
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1  50 
3 50 
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7 50 
1 60
2  00 75 
35 
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2 00 
2 01 
100 
90 
1  40
1 50 
80
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2 75
1 25 
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1 60 
4 75
8 50 
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Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution....
Calcined............................................
Almond, sweet.........................
Amber,  rectified.....................
Anise.........................................
Bay $   oz...................................
Berggmont...............................
Castor.......................................
Croton................................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia........................  —  •••:.......
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cod Liver,  filtered.................^ gal
Cod Liver, b e s
;  • 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co. s.16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium 
•
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries..............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson s .......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive,Malaga........... 
•
Olive,“Sublime  Italian  . 
....
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal        ...............................   •+
Peppermint,  white.........................a
Rose $   oz... —  v \v ,r '•
Rosemary, French  (Flowers f l  50)
Salad.................................................   85
Savin................................................
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint........................................  r„
Tansy............................................... 4
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen...................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.00).......
Wormseed........................................
Bicromate...: ...................... • •  $
Bromide, cryst. and gwtn. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c)............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

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Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.................................* • • •
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in Us and YaS—
Blood (Powd 18c)..............................
Calamus,  peeled— ............... .
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered...................
Gentian (Powd  15c)........ .
Ginger, African (Powd 16o).
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..........l  ou
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................118
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................

13

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..........  •  5
4
Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
15
Cardamon,  Aleppee.....................
Cardamon, Malabar.......................
Celery..............................................
Coriander,  D e s t  English...............
F ennel............................................
Flax, clean......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4)................
Foenugreek, powdered................
Hemp,  Russian.............................
Mustard, white  Black 10c)..........
Quince............................................
Rape, English................................
Worm,  Levant..............................

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..
Nassau 
do 
Velvet Extra do 
Extra Yellow do 
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for slate use...........
Yellow Reef, 

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10
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5  @ 88
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16 
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60
3 00@3 25 
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Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22) $  gal........ 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
■
Annatto  1ft rolls............................ 
Alum.........................................  ^ ft  £)4®
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  @
Annatto,  prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
4)4®
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  ®
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  ....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds..................... ................
Calomel.  American........................
Chalk, prepared drop....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Colocyntli  apples............................
ChloraThydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................  1
Cinehonidia, P. & W........ *............  •
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................
Cochineal  .........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  le).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................
Dextrine.......  .................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cannet..................................
Glue, white........................................
Glycerine,  pure...............................
Hops  YaS and )4s..............................
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo................................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, 04s 2s 10c & )4s 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................$  ft
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, )6d...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy...................
...... 
6
Quassia  ..........................
ft ozi 05
Quinia, Sulph,P, & W..
Quinine,  German........
........ 1  00
. sp ft
Red  Precipitate............
Seidlitz  Mixture..............................
Strychnia, cry st...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda.................................... .......
Salicin...............................................
Santonin.........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or. Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3cl. ., .................
Spermaceti......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand s—
Soap, White Castile.........................
Soap, Green  do  ............................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
.........................
do  do' 
Soap,  Mazzini.. .t ............................
Spirits N itre,3F..................--------
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ............. • • •  —  —■
Sugar Milk powdered.. *ifsKfv.....
julpbur, flour............. M. H ........ 
Sulphur,  roll.................................. . 
Tartar E m e tic ................... ••••••
'ar, N. C. Pine, Ya gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
ar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice..............ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
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Capitol  Cylinder...........................................
Model  Cylinder............................................
Shields  Cylinder...........................................
Eldorado Engine...........................................
Peerless  Machinery....................................
Challenge Machinery...................................
Backus Fine Engine....................................
Black Diamond Machinery.........................
Castor Machine  Oil......................................
Paraffine, 25  deg...........................................
Paraffine, 28  deg..........................................
Sperm, winter bleached....................- ^
15
Whale, winter...................................... 
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Lard, extra...........................................  84 
55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  ® 
Linseed, pure raw..............................  hi 
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Linseed, boiled............. ....................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   70 
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48
Spirits Turpentine..............................  38 
No. 1 Turp  Coach.................................. 1
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Extra  Turp............................................\  
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No. 1 Turp Furniture........................... 1 h8©}  ^
Turn  Tlamar............................... 1 55@1 60
Extra Turp  Damar 
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp...
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60®65 
16@17 
5)4 
5 75 
@70 
@90 
1 10 
1 40 
1 20@1 40 
1 00® 1 20

Bbl
Red Venetian............................
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  
is£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134
Putty, commercial..................
Putty, strictly pure..................  ¿/a
Vermilion, prime  American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting, Gilders ...................
White, Paris American........
Whiting  Paris English cliff. . 
Pioneer Prepared  Paints.....
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints..

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IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

«A N T   PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, P atton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W hit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Pa in t  a n d  Y arnish 

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Ma n f’rs  of 

H a ir, Shoe a nd H orse B rushes.

D m ists’ Sundries

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

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

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

Withers Dade & Co’s

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

We are also  owners of the

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

HAZRTIHE, 
PERKINS

Wholesale

Druggists I

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

95  Louis  Street.

The  Dry-Goods  Clerk’s  Courtship.
“The calico to see
Is—guess who It can be.”

“O, Jean!” the dry-goods clerk low  sighed, 
Because I needle little bride 

Jane’s plush brought forth thread cheeks till 

they 

.

“Some prints ess all for lawn who may 

Almost be cambric red.
In pal lace live,” she said.

She heard damask her yet to  guess.
“To furnish shawl my hear pin ess—

“Hook an’ eye want,” said he,
O!  who’ll make glove to  me?”
The cherry satin near her drew.
For she was mitten with a  new 

Sheeting-eld with delight,
Found wrap ture naught could blight.

But when he cotton both his knees 
“Chenille-y thought her blood  would  freeze 

With, “Would jersey me tie?
And screamed,  “Of corsets I.”

“Hose stocking nonsense to you, Jane?” 
“When I call linen bring this skein 

Cried pa, who entered quick,
Some foulard mitts he’s sick.”

Then kick gingham out in the Hall 
And with a kersky cried,  “Come  all 

He sacque-ed the worsted bow,
And seersucker go.”

Poor Jean for Cashmere had to wed 
Which brocade dear young heart.
Next sum merino grave she laid 
At dress by her sweetheart.

The  Gripsack  Brigade.

Geo. P. Cogswell is on the road again sell­

ing lubricating oil for a Chicago house.

J. Free Smith, one of the  jolliest  men  on 
the road, met with an accident at Greenville 
recently and  is  at  present at his  home  in 
Lansing.

Mrs. Jas.  N.  Bradford  and  Mrs.  E.  1. 
Goodrich  will  give  a  progressive  euchre- 
party at their residence,  corner Winter  and 
Allen streets, Saturday evening.

Henry  Layle  has  secured  the agency of 
Northwestern  Michigan  for  the  Eureka 
Wind Engine Co., of  Kalamazoo,  and  will 
make his headquarters in this city.

E. K. Bennett, Michigan  traveling  repre­
sentative for Levinson & Co. of Chicago, will 
shortly  return  to  this  city and take up his 
residence here.  He  is  now  living  at  Lan­
sing.

The London Grocer is in favor of  female 
commercial travelers and  says:  “The  poets 
sing of the sovereign sway of female beauty, 
and we don’t see why it should  not be tried 
in business as elsewhere.

Frank B. Parmenter, traveling representa- 
j tion for Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, has been 
confined to his bed during the past  week by 
sciatic rheumatism of the lungs and stomach, 
but is now rapidly improving.

A Clarksville  correspondent  writes  The 
Tradesman as follows:  “Some  traveling 
men  think  they  own  the  world, but  we 
sprung a trap on several  of  them on the oc­
casion of the  opening  of  the  skating  rink 
here.  By spreading the  report t that  one of 
the party was a Chinaman, we succeeding in 
Down-ing one, Cooper-ing  another and mak­
ing a  third Wile-d.”

A  trio  of  heavy-weight  traveling  men 
struck  town  simultaneously  one  day  last 
week, and for several hours the  terra  firma 
trembled under the combined weight of  669 
pounds.  The  identity  of  the  elephantine 
grip  carriers  is  as  follows,  the  gentlemen 
representing tea, coffee and spice houses res­
pectively:  Mr. Rally,  Geo. W. Lane & Co., 
New York;  Mr. Green,  Jas. Packard & Co., 
New York;  Mr. Rayne, W. F. McLauglin & 
Co., Chicago.

The Traveling  Men’s  Party.

At the meeting  of  the  traveling  men at 
The Tradesman  office  Saturday  evening, 
every arrangement  was  perfected for a suc­
cessful social party, to be  held  at  Armory 
Hall,  Friday  evening, March  27.  Tickets 
can  be  procured  of  Steve  Sears,  W.  H. 
Downs, J. N. Bradford,  W. H. Jennings, or 
of Geo. Seymour, at Hugo Schneider & Co’s. 
The following gentlemen have been selected 
to act as a reception committee:  Max  Mills, 
W. G. Hawkins, Geo.  Owen, W. R. Keasey, 
Wallace Franklin, P.  H.  Carroll, C. S. Rob­
inson, W. H.  Jennings,  Dr.  J.  B.  Evans, 
Wm. B.  Edmunds, W. S. Horn,  Frank  H. 
White and  A.  C.  Sharp.  Four  gentlemen 
have been detailed to act  as  floor-managers, 
as follows:  H. S. Robertson, Dick Warner, 
Geo Seymour and  J.  N.  Bradford.  The in­
dications are that  the  “boys”  will  have a 
large turn-out, as  over  a hundred  have  al­
ready signified their intention of  being pres­
ent.  The party is to be  a  purely  informal 
affair,  and  any  one  approaching  with  a 
swallow tailed coat or waxed moustache will 
be summarily “fired.”
An  Unlooked-For Result  of Advertising.
The Associated Press  reports  the  follow­

ing peculiar incident from Cohoes, N. Y .:

For the purpose of  attracting attention to 
their establishment, a  dry  goods  firm  here 
advertised that it would  sell  three  yards of 
silk for one cent.  The store  was  thronged 
| with women at an early hour, and a  quanti­
ty of  silk was  secured  by  the  first-comers. 
This  heightened  the  excitement,  and soon 
the store and  sidewalk  were  blocked  with 
half-frantic women.  Some of  them climbed 
on  the  counters,  others  screamed,  a  few 
fainted, and others were trampled upon and 
severely injured.  Several  hundred  dollars’ 
worth  of  goods  was  destroyed,  and  for 
awhile  pandemonium  reigned.  Many arti­
cles of value were stolen.  A detail of police 
was found necessary to clear the building.

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.

HAZELTOIB, PBSHHS Jt CO

Loss  of W ealth by  Fire.

In this country the losses  by the  burning 
of  buildings  and  their  contained property 
are  about  one  hundred  million dollars  per 
annum,  and  the  losses  of  lumber  by  the 
burning  of  forests  are  estimated  at three 
hundred millions  yearly;  in  all, four hun­
dred millions of dollars.  Could these  enor­
mous losses be stopped,  the  country  would 
soon grow very rich.

Wm. Nungesser  succeeds  Jacob  Hansel- 

man in the furniture business at Manistee.

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

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BKO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class Matter.']

WEDNESDAY.  MABCH  18,  1885.

Credit Too Easily Obtained.

It is astonishing how easy a matter it is to 
obtain nowadays.  A customer comes into a 
retailer’s store, says he is a stranger in town, 
“wants some place to  do  his  trading”  and 
tells the storekeeper that if he will give him 
credit, he will favor that store with his trade. 
He is working at so and so’s,  and  will  pay 
his hills monthly or weekly.  And on such a 
foundation as this the man gets trusted nine 
times out of ten. 
If one dealer refuses,  an­
other will accept, although he has  been  bit­
ten before by pursuing the same method.

An English journal gives a good  instance 
of this easy credit  One day a  man  named 
Eyres called on the Clydesdale Iron  Co.,  in 
London, said he was a  builder  and  wanted 
some iron railings for’houses which  he  was 
building at Acton.  On being asked  by  the 
manager of the iron company if he  was  the
same Eyres who had been  building  at  Har- 
lesden, and had “left  there  after  going  all 
wrong,” he denied it.  So he got £30  worth 
of goods by paying £10  and  promising £20 
when his  houses  were  up.  Afterward,  he 
got more goods on credit, until he owed near­
ly £30, when it was discovered  that he  was 
Eyres, of Harlesden, to whom the  company 
would not  give  credit.  So  the  Clydesdale 
Co. had him arrested for obtaining goods un­
der false pretenses.  The lawyer who opened 
the case remarked that the obtaining of goods 
in that way by builders was  an  -evil  which 
was increasing.  The lord  mayor  said  that 
he could tell him of a greater evil,  and  that 
was the silly way in which people gave cred­
it.  Replying to  the  court,  the  prosecutor 
stated that inquiries were  not  made  before 
the goods were  supplied.  The  lord  mayor 
’  remarked that it was an amount of Arcadian 
simplicity which he could not conceive to be 
possible.  When persons  parted  with  their 
goods on such slender representations, it was 
offering  a  premium  to  dishonest  men  to 
swindle others.

Hundreds of  cases  of  giving  credit,  on 
equally  poor  grounds,  occur  daily  in  this 
countrj. 
It is strange that dealers will take 
such  great  risks  in  selling  goods.  Let  a 
stranger step into a store and  ask  the  loan 
of $5 for a week, promising to return  $6  at 
the end of that time, and he would be prompt- 
answered in the negative.  But let  him fi.sk 
for $5 worth of goods on credit, and the  af­
fair has an entirely different front,  and  the 
merchant in too many  cases  grants  the  re­
quest.

This easy credit is the great defect of  the 
credit system.  Where caution should be  an 
absolute necessity, recklessness  is  the  rule 
of action, and, as a consequence,  losses  are 
the  rule  and  not  the  exception,  as 
they 
should-be.  “Oh,” says some one, “if I don’t 
trust this man,  I  will  not  get  his  trade.” 
Well,  so  much  the  better  for  you,  then. 
You do not want such trade,  for,  the  more 
of it you have, the  worse  off  you  will  be. 
Be as careful in granting credit  as  in  loan­
ing money.

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS

CHECKS.

S IL E S IA S .

OSNABURG.

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

 

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS

Pepperell, 10-4........25
Pepperell, 11-4........27%
Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pequot,  8-4 ..............21
Pequot,  9-4.............24
Park Mills, No. 90. .14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............10%
Otis  Furniture.......10%
York,  1  oz.............. 10
York, AA, extra oz.14

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  7%
Laconia B, 7-4.........16%
Lyman B, 40-in.......10%
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  6%
Nashua  E, 40-in—   8%
Nashua  R, 4-4........  7%
Nashua 0,7-8..........6%
Newmarket N.  __ 6%
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Pepperell  R, 4-4__ 7%
PeppereirO, 7-8__ 6%
Pepperell  N, 3-4__ 6%
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......6%
Saranac R...............  7%
Saranac  E...............  9

Mason ville TS........   8
Mason ville  S.......... 10%
Lonsdale...................9%
Lonsdale A ............. 16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J .................
Victory D ...............
Victory  K.................2%
Phoenix A ............... 19%
Phoenix  B .............   10%
Phoenix X X ............ 5
Gloucester...............6
Glou cestermour n’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy........... 6
Merrimac  D.............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6%
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond................6
Steel River.............. 5%
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues.  7%

Toledo plaid...........   7
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6%
Greene, G, 4-4........   5%
Hill, 4-4....................  7%
Hill, 7-8....................  6%
Hope,  44.................. 6%
King  Phillip  cam­
11%
Lin wood,  4-4..........  7%
Lonsdale,  4-4............7%
Lonsdale  cambric. 10% 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  9%
Langdon,  45........... 14
Masonville,  4-4...... 8
Maxwell. 4-4............  9%
New York Mill, 4-4.10% 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7% 
Pride of the West. .11 
Pocahontas,  4-4—   7%
Slaterville, 7-8........   6%
Victoria, AA..........9
% Woodbury, 4-4.......... 5%
Whitinsville,  4-4...  7%
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 6%
Wamsutta, 4-4.........10%
Williamsville, 36... 10%

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
A ndroscoggin, 8-4.. 21
Pepperell,  7-4....... 16%
Pepperell,  8-4....... 20
Pepperell,  9-4....... 22%
Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Caledonia,  X,oz.,.10
Economy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
Park Mills, No. 70..12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown....  7  I Alabama  plaid 
Jewell briwn..........9% Augusta plaid
Kentucky brown.. 10% 
Lewiston  brown...  9%
Lane brown........... 9%
Louisiana  plaid...
Avondale,  36..........  8%
Art  cambrics, 36...11% 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8% 
Androscoggin, 5-4. .12%
Ballou, 4-4...............  6%
Ballou, 5-4,.............   6
Boott, O. f-4............  8%
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......9%
Boott, R. 3-4. .........  5%
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7 
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Conway,  4-4........... 7
Cabot, 4-4................ 6%
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  7%
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Davol, 4-4...............  9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  8% 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..
Fruit of .the  Loom,
cambric,  4-4........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  6%
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............... 8%
Crown........... .........17
No.  10.....................12%
Coin........................10
Anchor................... 15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol...................... 14
London...................12%
Paconia................. 12
Red  Cross.............. 10
Social  Imperial— 16
Albion, solid............5%
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........5%
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 5%
Allen’spink..............6%
Allen’s purple.......... 6%
American, fancy— 5%
Arnold fancy.  ........ 6
Berlin solid..........*•  5%
Cocheco fancy.........6
Cocheco robes.......... 6%
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone............... 6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink..............6%
7%
Appleton A, 4-4...
Boott  M, 4-4...........   oji
Boston  F,.4-4..........7%
Continental C, 4-3..  6% 
Continental D, 40 in 8%
Conestoga W, 4-4...  6%
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5%
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 5%
D w ight Y , 7-8............5%
Dwight Z, 4-4..........6%
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard  1-4 7%
Renfrew, dress styl 7 % 
Amoskeag............. 7%
Johnson  ManfgCo,
Amoskeag, Persian
Bookfold..............12%
styles....................10 %
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bates.......................7%
dress  styles.........12%
Berkshire.............   6%
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks—  7
styles....................  7%
Glasgow checks, f’y 7%
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
checks,
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles........  8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
new
Earlston..........:..  8
standard.............   7%
Gordon......................7%
Plunket..................  7%
Greylock, 
Lancaster...............  8
styles  ...................12%
Langdale —  1........ 7%
Androscoggin, 7-4.. 21 
iPepperell.  10-4.......27%
Androscoggin, 8-4..23  Pepperell,  11-4.......32%
Pepperell,  7-4........20  Pequot,  7-4............. 21
Pepperell,  8-4........22% Pequot,  8-4............. ¿4
Pepperell,  9-4........25  [Pequot,  9-4............. 27%
Lawrence XX, 4-4..
7%
Atlantic  A, 4-4.........7%
Lawrence  Y, 30__ 7
Atlantic  H, 4-4-----  7
Lawrence LL,4-4...  5%
Atlantic  D, 4-4.........6%
Newmarket N........ 6%
Atlantic P, 4-4........ 5%
Mystic River, 4-4...  5%
Atlantic LL, 4-4—   5%
Pequot A, 4-4..........  7%
Adriatic, 36.............   7%
Piedmont,  36............6%,
Augusta, 4-4............. 6%
Stark A A, 4-4..........  7%
Boott M, 4-4............  6%
Tremont CC, 4-4___ 5%
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  7%
Utica,  4-4................ 9
Granite ville, 4-4—   5% 
Wachusett,  4-4.......7%
Indian  Head, 4-4...  7 
Wachusett, 30-in...  6%
Indiana Head 45-in. 12 %
Falls, XXXX......... 18%
Amoskeag,  AC A .. .14 
Falls, XXX.............15%
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................11%
Amoskeag,  A ......13
Falls,  BBC,  36.....19%
Amoskeag,  B ...... 12
Falls,  awning.......19
Amoskeag,  C.......11
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D.......10%
Hamilton,  D..........9%
Amoskeag,  E .......10
Hamilton,  H ..........9%
Amoskeag, F ..........  9%
H am i lton  fancy».. 10
Premium  A, 4-4 — 17
Methuen AA......... 13%
Premium  B ........... 16
(Methuen ASA....... 18
.16
Extra 4-4........
__ 14% Iomega A, 7-8..........11
Extra 7-8........
__ 15  Omega A, 4-4..........13
Gold Medal 4-4.
__ 12% Omega ACA, 7-8__14
CCA 7-8...........
Omega ACA, 4-4__16
CT 4-4.......................14
Omega SE, 7-8........24
RC 7-8.......................... 14
Omega SE, 4-4........27
BF 7-8,.....................16
Omega M. 7-8........22
AF4-C.....................19
Omega M, 4-4..........25
Cordis A A A , 32....... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 11% 
Cordis  ACA, 32.“... .15
Shetucket, S & SW. 12 
Cordis No. 1,32...... 15
Shetucket,  SFS 
.. 12
Cordis  No. 2...........14
Stockbridge A ........7
Cordis  No. 3...........13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4...........11%
Garner....................5 
lEmpire  ...................
Hookset..................  5  Washington.............  4%
Red  Cross...............  5  Edwards...................   5
Forest Grove.......... * 
|S. S. & Sons............   5
American  A ........18 OOiOld  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ...................22%! Wheatland.............. 21
Boston....................  6%|Otis CC.................... 10%
Everett blue......... 13% Warren  AXA......... 12%
Everett  brown.......13% Warren  BB........... 11%
Otis  AXA..............12%  Warren  CC............10%
Otis BB...................11%  | York  fancy............ 13%
Manville..................6 
|S. S. & Sons...............   6
Masgnville.............  6  IGarner ..................... 6
Red  Cross...............7%|ThistleMills..............
Berlin....................  7%  Rose.........................  8
Garner................ 
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord.40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hail & Manning__ 25
Holyoke...................25
Kearsage.................8%
Naumkeagsatteen.  8% 
Pepperell  bleached  8%
Pepperell sat..........9%
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........  8%
Conegosat...............  7
COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS,
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:

Armory..................  7%
Androscoggin sat..  8%
Canoe River............  6
Clarendon.................6%
Hallowell  Imp.......6%
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Laconia.......  ........ 7%

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

CORSET JE A N S .

G R A IN   BAGS.

TIC K IN G S.

W IGANS;

7%I

DENIM S.

dress

S u b s t i t u t e s   f o r   M i c a .

The use of mica has  increased so much of 
late that it has become a  serious expense to 
the whole trade. 
It  is  true that the fitting 
out of the stove with “isinglass,” as it is gen­
erally called,  does  not  fall  upon the manu 
facturer, but liis stove is incomplete without 
it, and he must make  arrangements for sup 
plying his  customers.  He  would  have nc 
objection to completing bis stove if he could 
because he could then estimate the  expenst 
in addition to his other charges.  The  stove 
founder must look  out  for  his  supply,  anc 
that  is  not  as  good  as  he  would  like  it 
North Carolina and the  other  States  whicl 
furnish the bulk of our product  yield  much 
of a superior quality, but little of the largest 
and finest kind. 
If the method of illOmina 
tion which now prevails is to  continue,  and 
I  do  not  see  why  it  should  not,  we must 
make arrangements  for  a  fuller  and better 
supply.  1 do not believe it can be done, but 
that, on the contrary, we must reconcile our­
selves to a poorer  and  less  valuable  yield, 
and a consequent enhancement  of prices for 
the stoves which are the finest. 
It seems  to 
me the proper method would be to experiment 
with  glass  aud  porcelain  of  tiie  different 
qualities; aud see  whether  we  cannot  have 
luminous tiles at  the  side  of  the  stove,  as 
well as ornamental ones at the top  and  bot­
tom. 
It may be that glass,  either  prepared 
by  the  Bastie  process  or  some  other, will 
not answer the end sought, but we can  only 
tell this by  trying. 
It  would  seem  that  if 
glass  can  be  made  so  tough  that  you  can 
throw a goblet on a  stone floor without  haw 
ing it break, you could  use  it  for  the  win­
dows of a stove. 
It may break sooner  than 
mica, but its cost is much  less.  But  I  con­
fess I have greater hopes from a  semi-trans­
parent  porcelain,  as  the  chief  dangers 
which the plaques would meet with are from 
the  fire.  This  they  would  resist,  and  it 
would  afford  an  opportunity  for  painting 
and tracery which should be  brought  out or 
rendered more prominent by the heat. There 
is a danger  of 
ticulations of the surface occasioned  by  the
heat, but whether this could not be obviated  Fire clay, per bbl 
could be told only by experiment.

“ 

Wiseman & Jayne,  of 

made an assignment

Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
1  00
85
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville cement,  per bbl.................. 
1 30
1  30
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1 30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
19
Carlots 
..................... * 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
1  75
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
crazing  or having minute re-  Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
3 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M...................................*25 ® $35
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .{6 00®6 25 
Anthracite, stove and "nut, car lots..  6 26@6 60
Canneti,  car lots.................................• 
@6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots.................. .-••••  ? *2®? ?£
Blossburg or Cumberland, ear lots..  4 50®5 00

Six  Lakes,  have

GOAL.

“ 

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions!

WHOLESALE

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

SPRING

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

-  MICHIGAN.

M O O T   PLUG
AND  GET  A  PAIR  OF  BOOTS.
B O O T   P L U G n p y   G O O D S

Staple and  Fancy

Is anew brand of  Tobacco,  with  a  new  sweet  flavor  that 
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.

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.

HOW TO  GrET 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 
Express.  DON’T  FORGET  TO  MENTION  THE  KIND. WANTED.

Canal  and  Monroe  Streets,  CHICAGO,  XX1X1.

Tobacco Manufacturers,

leu  Company,
APPLES !

FOR  SALT!  b y   ALL  FIRST  CLASS  JOBBERS.

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., ' GoittiSSl  IflMtS,
JO B   PRINTING.

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

The  Tradesman  oflice  has  now  first-class  facilities  for  doing

all  kinds  of

Commercial  "Work,

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

velopes,  Blank  Orders,  Circulars,  Dodgers,  Etc.

NEW TYPE, NEW PRESS, CLEAN WORK.

WHOLESALE

O YSTER  DEPOT !

117  Monroe  St.

* ■ * %  
01101017

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DETROIT  SOAP  OO.’S

Q U E E N   A N N E

S O A P

------ -IS  NOT-------

A (“smash up the clothes boiler,” “throw away the wash-board,” “wash without labor”) Soap;
A  (grand piano, gold  watch, house and lot with every bar,  “save  the  wrappers”)  Soap;  is  not 
A  (towel, napkin, dish-rag, dry goods store thrown in)  Soap;  is not 
A  (here to-day and gone to-morrow)  Soap; is not 
.  .
A (sell a quarter of a box, and have the balance left on your hands) Soap;

. 

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

The very best article in laundry and general family Soap ever put on the market.
Big and lasting trade.  Good margins to dealers.  Grocers, if you  have  never 
tried “Q.TJEEN ANNE SOAP,” buy a sample box and you will always continue 

to handle it.CODY.  BALL  &  CO,

Wholesale Agents for M| 
of Detroit Soap Co.’s

)ueen Anne” and all 
Standard Brands.

Grand Rapids.

V   -A- 

^  

Ij

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL.  C LO TH S

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

Michigan.
We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  ‘W alnuts  and Gocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

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

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

Oranges
Oysters
Brooks.
Putnam
W M . SE A R S & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AM BOY  C H EESE.

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
GEO.  XT. D A V IS   <St  CO.,

»

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.
ir 
over FIFTY carloads, either for light or heavy goods, and will furnish same for any length 
If, at any time, there should be anything in this market you 
of time, at reasonable rates. 
should wish to purchase, no matter what it is, we would  be  glad  to  correspond  with you.

Any goods consigned to  us  will  have  our  best  attention.  We  have  STORAGE 

71  Canal Street, Grand Rapids.

4

4

PRACTICAL. CHEESE  MAKING.*

Mr. Chairman  anil  Gentlemen of the  Conven­

tion:
Many  volumes  have  been  written  upon 
this subject, and still it is not yet exhausted. 
As long as there  are  cheese  manufactured, 
there  will  be  new  theories advanced.  We 
tire living in a period'of advancement, there­
fore we should keep in pace with this branch 
of science, in order to give to  the  consumer 
an article of wholesome and nutritious food. 
Thirteen years ago it was  supposed that we 
had reached perfection  in  cheese  manufac­
ture, but since then many new systems have 
been developed, each originator  claiming to 
have  brought  his  process  to  a  standard of 
perfection—each  endeavoring  to  establish 
his system as the true method of obtaining a 
perfect cheese. 
If  I  am  not  mistaken, the 
Dunlop system came  first,  then  the McAd­
ams. 
In 1879, Prof. Arnold claims  to  have 
brought to life a new process, and  there are 
several who claim a  parentage  with  him in 
this respect;  but it is nbw generally conced­
ed that the Hon. Thos. Ballyntine, of  Onta­
rio, should have the honors of  this  process, 
and  I  think  there  are  others who have a 
claim, also, and until  these points of dispute 
are settled this  process  must  go  unnamed. 
Then  there  are  the  Harris  and  the Curtis 
processes, all of which have  a  claim to  our 
patronage  and  praise.  But at the  present 
time the Harris system  is  thought to be the 
most perfect.

What are the  requirements  necessary for 
practical cheese  making ?  They  are  many 
and important. 
In the first place, we should 
have  a  compulsory,  established,  uniform 
system among the dairymen  who  patronize 
# the factory.  The next is in the  selection of 
cows.  For  cheese  making  they  should be 
those that give a large quantity of milk with 
a large percentage of caseine.  The percent­
age of butter should  be  a  second considera­
tion.  The pastures in which the cows graze 
should  contain  a  variety  of  grasses, free 
from rankness and obnoxious  weeds.  This 
is an important point, not only  in  regard to 
the  quality  and flavor  of the milk, but it is 
necessary for the health of the cows.  They 
should never be allowed  to  drink  stagnant 
and impure water.  They should  have  free 
access to pure water, but not in such  a  way 
as to have the surroundings of the  drinking 
tank  a  mire,  with pools of stagnant, filthy 
water, which they will drink  witli  a  relish. 
They should never be hurried from the  pas­
ture to the  yard,  or  stable,  and  then be al­
lowed to drink their fill of cold water before 
milking, especially when the weather is hot, 
as  it  drives  the  heat  from  the  stomach 
through the  body,  increasing  the  tempera­
ture of the milk, the milk retaining the taint 
of the stomach.  1 have seen many a vat  of 
milk spoiled from this cause, alot^e.

The  gentelest  care  should be  exercised 
I should prefer to  have the 
when milking. 
cows milked in  the  stable,  time  being  al­
lowed them to take their places in the  stan­
chions  without  any  excitement. 
They 
should then have a feed of bran,  which will 
produce  a  large  percentage  of  caseine,  as 
well as increase the quantity of the milk.  If 
the cows’ bags  are very  dirty,  they  should 
be washed and sponged, and never should be 
milked  without  being  brushed  with  a soft 
brush.  Always have a stated time for milk­
ing.  Upon no consideration allow strangers 
in  the  stable  during  this  time.  Milkers 
should not be changed if it  can  be  avoided. 
A strange noise or  movement  will  excite  a 
cow, although  one  may  not notice it at the 
time.  Experiments  by  scientific  dairymen 
have  proven  this  to  be  a  fact.  Each cow 
should be named,  or  numbered  and  regis­
tered in  a  book.  Each  milker  should  be 
supplied  with  the  best  improved milk pall 
and a thermometer,and register the  tempera­
ture of each cow’s milk as it  is drawn  from 
her.  The temperature of the milk from the 
herd  should  be  equalized,  and  the  mean 
temperature be given to the cheese maker.  I 
will explain further on Why  this  should  be 
done.  As soon as a pail of  milk is  drawn 
from the cow, it should  be  taken  from  the 
stable, so that  the  breath  of  the  cows  and 
other odors that exist in and about the stable 
will not be absorbed by the milk.

Next comes the care  of  the milk.  Every 
dairy should  have a house expressly for this 
purpose. 
It should be built where there are 
no impurities surrounding it, and  construct­
ed so as to  have  a  current  of  pure  atmos­
phere circulating through it,  with a  ventila­
tion in the  roof.  There  should  be a pool 
large enough for the milk cans, so as to have 
a space of six inches between  each can, the 
pool being  made of brick and cement.  The 
temperature of the water shonld not  be less 
than  52  degrees,  and  a  continual  stream 
should run through the pool while  the milk 
remains in it  The milk  cans  should  not 
hold more than 75 to 80  pounds  each,  such 
as are used in Illinois.  The milk should be 
thoroughly strained, as  a  small  amount of 
settlings will produce  taints  and  other ef­
fects. 
It should be strained  gently  and of­
ten until it is at a temperature of 62 degrees. 
The morning and evening  milk  should  not 
be  mixed  at  the  dairy,  but, 
if  necessity 
should compel it to be done, never  pour the 
warm milk upon the cold, as it will  develop 
the acid more rapidly  and  produce  decays, 
should there be any germs existing,  and rip­
en it with too  ranch  rapidity.  Too  much 
care cannot be taken in conveying  the  milk 
from the  dairy  to  the  factory.  The  cans 
should be covered  with a sail  cloth, to  pre­
vent the heat of the sun, rain or dust getting 
to them.  The factory should be  situated in 
a central point of the territory.  Three miles 
is as far as milk should be drawn to any fac­
tory.

The location of the factory should be such |
♦Paper read by Mr. C* B, Lambert before the 
M ichigan Dairymen’s Association, at their re­
cent meeting1 in this city. 

]

that the drainage is sufficient to carry oif all 
accumulation  or refuse, to, at  least, 100 rods 
from  the  factory. 
It is a great  mistake to 
locate a factory at the edge of a slough,  bog 
or stagnant  stream, as  the  impure  atmos­
phere arising from such  surroundings  has a 
tendency to create and  retain  odors in  the 
buildings. 
In the construction of  a factory 
no expense Should be spared to make it com­
plete, with all  the  modern  improvements. 
For a cheose factory, one story is  the  most 
practical.  There  should  be  four  curing 
rooms  instead of  one or two.  The  cheese 
should never  be  placed  upon  shelves, one 
above the other.  These rooms should be ox 
¡dated with a pure  atmosphere, conveyed in, 
them from at least 300 feet  from  the  sur­
roundings of the building, to expel  the pois­
onous gases as they escape  from  the  cheese 
during the curing process, and  to  keep  the 
temperature  from  64 to  75  degrees.  The 
making room should be  large  enough to be 
convenient and well supplied with  hot  and 
cold water.

There should be a room for the salt, color­
ing and  rennet.  The  boiler  room  should 
be  arranged  so  that  the 
tyeat  from  it 
could not get into the making  room  unnec­
essarily.  The weighing  or  receiving  room 
should be large enough so  there  will be no 
inconvenience in  the  delivery of  the  milk. 
As soon as the  milk is  emptied  from  the 
cans, there  should be a pail  of  cold  water 
put in each one of them, to  rinse  the  milk 
from tin: sides of the  can  and  keep  them 
moist  when  returning to the dairy.  Upon 
no consideration, allow  whey to be  carried 
in the milk- cans, as the  foreign  acids and 
germs of decay  which  accumulate and  de­
velop  in the  whey  tank,  cannot  easily be 
destroyed with hot water.  One should have 
the same amount of delicacy and  care in re­
gard to carrying swill to tee hogs in the milk 
cans as one would in  going to a pantry  and 
taking a milk pan to dip or  carry swill in it 
from the swill barrel.  Soap  should  not be 
used in washing the  cans.  They should be 
scoured with salt as often  as  three  times a 
week.  Be sure the water is  boiling  before 
you attempt to scald them.

The operator should  be a  man  of  intelli­
gence and sensitive to  all  taints, one  who 
will endeavor to find out  the  cause  for all 
effects, a man  of  gpod  judgment,  and  one 
who thoroughly understands  the  science  of 
cheese making, so that he  can  control  the 
balance of  power.

In giving you the process of  cheese  mak­
ing, I shall not attempt to give either of  the 
systems I have  named,  but a  system which 
differs somewhat from  any  of  them  in  the 
mode of manufacturing—one  which  I  have 
brought to a  standard  in  perfection,  as  it 
gives me  perfect  control of  the  chemical 
changes which  the  milk  undergoes  when 
making it into cheese.  There are  only two 
chemical changes, but those changes  have a 
number of stages to pass through before giv­
ing us the desired results.  The first change 
is  produced  by  the  rennet  in  coagulating 
the milk.  After that it passes  through dif­
ferent stages, separating the liquid from the 
solids, and then the final change takes place, 
passing from  milk  into  cheese.  To  com­
mence operation, I have sufficient  water un­
der the pan so as  to  raise it slightly  iu  the 
center.  As  soon  as  half  the  quantity  of 
milk I intend for the vat is received, having 
the steam ready, I turn it on to the  vat,  stir­
ring the milk gently and  at  short  intervals. 
As soon as the milk is all in the vat, I rnn it 
up as quickly as possible to a temperature of 
96 or 98 degrees.  1 then  add  the  coloring, 
stirring it sufficiently to  amalgimate it with 
the milk.  As soon as I ascertain  that  the 
temperature has come to a standard  and am 
satisfied as to the ripeness of the milk, I add 
sufficient rennet to coagulate  in  from  eight 
to ten minutes, stirring it  gently  from  the 
bottom until I see that the action of the ren­
net is taking  place.  The  curd  should  be 
ready to cut in twenty-five or thirty minutes. 
The action of the rennet in  tainted  or milk 
which has  undergone  unnatural  decays is 
from a half to \% per cent,  less  than in the 
normal milk.  Therefore, it produces an im­
perfect coagulation, and a smaller  yield. 
I 
do not prepare my rennet by the old system, 
as  by 
its  use  I  cannot  get  a  perfect 
lactic acid, as it would give me a dilute  mu­
riatic acid and would thereupon  produce an 
artificial gastric juice in the cheese.

I will state here why I wanted 

the  tem­
perature of  the  milk  registered  as it  was 
drawn from the cow.  During my experience 
I have found—and every operator i§  troubl­
ed in the the same way—that the cheese will 
not day after day, show  the  same  uniform 
firmness and texture, although  having  been 
cooked at the same  temperature.  One  day 
it will be harsh and  dry, another  it  will  be 
soft and pasty, and another  it  may  be  per­
fect. 
In the summer of 1880, in the  mouth 
of July, I was  operating  in  Illinois.  We 
were having extremely hot  weather. 
I was 
cooking the curd to  a  temperature of 98 de­
grees.  The milk  came  to  the  factory  in 
good order, but when the curd was ready for 
the press it felt soft  and  pasty. 
I felt con­
fident there was a cause for such effects, and 
knew by past experience that  thè cause and 
effects lay close together;  but  just where to 
look for the  cause I did not know. 
It then 
occurred to me to test  the 
temperature  of 
the milk of a herd of cows as it  was  drawn 
from them.  To my  surprise  the  tempera­
ture ranged  from  99  to  101  degrees.  The 
next day I cooked the curd to a temperature 
of 100 degrees.  The result was, I had a fine 
quality of curd.  During  the  remainder of 
the hot weather I cooked the curd to 99 and 
100  degrees  and  had  a  uniform  cheese 
in  firmness  and  texture,  but  when  the 
weather became cooler I  lowered  the  tem­
perature to 98 or  96  degrees.  Therefore  it 
is my opinion that if the operator knows the

I 

take 

then 

the  vat, 

lengthways. 

mean temperature of the milk  when  drawn 
from the cows, and  cooks  the  curd  to  that 
temperature, he will have a uniform cheese.
As soon as the curd breaks  squarely  over 
the finger, it is ready to cut,  first  with  the 
perpendicular knife  lengthways, then cross- 
the  horizontal 
ways,  I  then  cut  with 
knife 
then  stir  it  with 
my hands  gently  from  the  bottom,  going 
twice  around 
the 
rake.  I use  a  common hay rake, and  stir it 
gently and thoroughly for  about  two  min­
utes, then wash the side of the pan and start 
whey to  running, taking it off  within  two 
inches or less  of  the  curd.  Then  test  the 
temperature of the curd and the water under 
the oat.  Should it show  a  lower  tempera­
ture than my standard for that  day, 1 add a 
little more steam to bring it up to that point. 
Very  little  stirring is requirod  now,  but 
great care and attention  must be paid  to it, 
so as to note the chemical change from milk 
into cheese.  This change  may  take  place 
from fifteen to ninety minutes  after  being 
cut.  As soon as 1 discover that this  change 
is taking place, I dip  it into  the  curd  and 
sink as quickly as possible. 
I  prefer  slats 
to the patent curd  sink. 
I use the hot iron 
test. 
I stir it thoroughly^ the  sink  until 
quite dry, noticing if there is  any precipita­
tion taking place before salting, but if  there 
is no precipiation  naticable, and  the curd is 
dry, I salt, using  from  1% to 2 pounds  of 
salt to a 1,000 pounds  of  milk.  As soon as 
the salt is stirred in the  curd,  I  put  it  to 
I  do  not  like 
press as quickly as possible. 
the  temperature  lower  than 94 degrees. 
I 
press it down slowly at  first,  but  increase 
the  pressure by degrees, so as to  expel the 
whey from the caseine, leaving it free  from 
all foreign substances  as  much as  possible, 
before commencing the riDening  process. 
I 
leave  it  in  the  hoop  from  fifteen  to  sixty
minutes.  This depends upon the  quality of 
the curd when going to press, and  for  what 
market  I  am  manufacturing  for.  Then I 
take it out of the hoop and grind it with my 
atmospheric  curd  mill. 
I  do  not  use  any 
test, but depend  upon  my  judgment  in  re­
gard to  when  to  commence  grinding  the 
curd.  When ground, should it  require  any 
more salt, I use from 4 to 8 onnces to the 1,- 
000  pounds  of  milk.  Should  an  alcoholic 
fermentation take place when in the  hoops, 
which sometimes occurs, producing carbonic 
acid  and  ammoniacal gases, 
I wash  each 
cheese after being drawn with three pints to 
two quarts of water at a  temperature  of  52 
degrees, which destroys those  gases.  After 
resalting and stirring the curd thoroughly, I 
put it to press again and leave  it from  eigh­
teen to twenty hours, when I take  them out 
and place them in the curing  room, rubbing 
and turning them every day.

I have now given you the  principal points 
of  my system  of  manufacturing  cheese. 
I 
am acquainted with some of  the  other  pro­
cesses, but have not found any that will give 
me perfect control  in every  change  through 
which the milk passes in being converted in­
to cheese. 
In closing, 1 will say, if you will 
follow the instructions I  have  given  you in 
this paper, by establishing a uniform system 
in your dairies  and  making it  a  law,  and 
your factories improved so as to give the op­
erator perfect control in  the  manufacturing 
and curing, he will be  able  to  give  you  an 
article  which  will  command  the  highest 
price  in any  market,  either  home or  for­
eign.

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TIME TABLES.

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T h e   N i a g a r a   R a lls   (R oute.

JEN N IN G S  <&  SM ITH ,
Arctic  Manufacturing1  Co.,

PR O PR IETO RS  OP  TH E

2 0  Lyon  St.,  Grand Rapids.

ASK  YOUR  JO BBER  FOR

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

D E PA R T.

♦Detroit Express..............................................6:00 am
+Day  Express..........................................12:45 p m
+Atlantic Express.....................................9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
+Mail..........................................................3:30 p m
+Grand Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

A R R IV E .

tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping-  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz. Gen’l Agent.

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STRAIGHT  GOODS—HO  SCHEME.

C H E  " W

Chicago & West Michigan.

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

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express..............................4:15 pm   4:05 pm
Express................................  8:05 am   11:15 am
All trains arrive and depart from Union De­
pot.
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. &  P. M.  trains to and  from  Ludington and 
Manistee.

J. H. C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mu l l ik e n ,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  atrain 

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

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

J. W. McK e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING  W EST.

G O IN G  EAST.Arrives. 

Leaves.
tSteamboat Express.......... 
6:20 a m
tThrough  Mail.................. 10:15 am   10:20 am
3:35 p m
+Evening  Express.............3:20 p m 
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 pm   10:45 pm
tMixed, with coach...........  
10:30 a m
tMorning  Express.............12:40 p m  12:55 p m
•(Through  Mail..................  5:10pm 
5:15pm
tSteamboat Express.........10:40 p m
7:10 a m
tMixed..................................  
♦NightExpress....................  5:10 am   5:30 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  5:15  p.  m.  will  make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to  Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through  Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.
Ge o . B. R e e v e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

G O ING NORTH.

GOING  SO UTH .

Arrives,  Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a m 
5:00pm
Ft.Wayne&Mackinac  Ex  3:55pm 
7:10a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:00 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:0." p m  4:35 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayi eE x.. 10:25 a m  11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

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

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

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

Seney

Dep. 1  30

GOING
EAST
Ac. |Ex.

STATIONS. 
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Ishpeming
.. Negaunee...
.. Marquette..
.. Reedsboro ..

GOING 
WEST 
Ac. Ex.
PM.
4 50 Ar.
PM. 4 40
1  40 AM.
6 50 3 30
2 20 7 30
3 08 1  27
4  19 11 05
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11 25 11  02
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7 30 AM.
PM.
8 30 Dep. —  St. Ignace....Ar. □9 00 6 30
7 00 
PM. 
9 00
AM.
9 35

Ar. Mackinaw City Dep. 9 30
Dep. Grand Rapids Ar. 7 00
3 30

..  Newbury .

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

Solo Agent.

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Michigan  Dairy  Notes.

The  postmaster  at  Alma  writes  The 
Tradesman  that the cheese  factory project 
at that place has been  abandoned.

Miles Gibson has sold  his  cheese  factory 
at Watson to a  stock  company,  which will 
operate the same the coming summer.

Cumming & Rockafellow 

is  the  style of 
the new dairy  firm  at  Carson  City.  They 
have concluded to build and operate a cream­
ery,  instead of a cheese factory.

John Preston, State agent  for  Moseley & 
Stoddard  Manufacturing  Co.,  ,of  Pultney, 
Vt., left Monday for a  trip  through  South­
western Michigan, locating agents.

The Springdale  cheese  factory,  near llil- 
liards, received 1,011,630 pounds of milk last 
season, which was manufactured into cheese 
and sold for $9,889.63, giving  very  satisfac­
tory results.

E. H. Funk, proprietor  of  the  Champion 
Churn  Works,  at  Sturgis,  has  sold all his 
real  estate  at  that  place,  for  $10,250,  and 
purchased  $13,000  worth  of  real  estate in 
Toledo, to  which  point  he  will  remove his 
machinery and engage in  churn  and  refrig­
erator manufacturing.

W. H. Howe writes  from  Delaware,  On­
tario, as follows:  “I have secured the factory 
at Capac for three years  and  expect to do a 
good business.  Am now in Canada, making 
arrangements with buyers to come  to Michi­
gan next season and handle our cheese.  The 
dairymen  here promise  to  attend  our  con­
vention next  season, which  will be a great 
help to us.”

Who  W ill Speak  Next?
T r a v e r s e   City, March  13,1885.

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

their 

D ear Sir—1 would like  to  bring  before 
the  merchants,  not  only  in  this  place but 
elsewhere as well, the present methods of ad­
vertising  for 
consideration.  The 
“wholesale slaughter,” “selling below cosh” 
sensational, lying,  corrupting  methods,  em­
ployed by many, are calculated to catch only 
the unwary, and ruin the  trade,  destroying 
the confidence of the people.  Such methods 
are demoralizing  iii every way, and will not 
be stopped until they are made odious by the 
better  classes  in  business.  Could you not 
bring this  matter  up  in some way, inviting 
correspondence  from  those  interested and 
publish the same? This would tend to awak­
en  interest  on  the  subject,  when  I  will 
bring the matter before our home merchants. 
Tour paper is often  alluded  to  here,  and  a 
good feeling seems to exist toward it.

Yours truly,

F. H amilton.

The Grocery  Market.

Business has been fairly good  during  the 
past week, and collections  have been tolera­
bly good, the tendency being easier.  Canned 
goods are moving off in good shape,  particu­
larly corn and tomatoes, which are in active 
demand.  Sugars are easy and a trifle lower, 
buy  syrups  are  unchanged.  Teas  are  in 
moderate  demand  and  roasted  coffees  aie 
very lively.  Other  articles  in  the  grocery 
line are about steady.

Candy is steady  and  active.  Nuts  have 
suffered a slight  decline  in  some  kinds of 
foreign  stock.  Both  oranges  and 
lemons 
have taken a decided advanced  and it looks 
as though present prices would be  sustained 
for some time to come.

The withdrawal of the fast freight  oyster 
trains  from  Baltimore,  necessitating  the 
shipment of oysters by express,  have caused 
an advance of about  15  cents  per l gallon, 
equivalent to about 2 cents per can.

Fur Facts.

The cable brings intelligence of the death 
of Sir Charles Lampson, a  heavy  factor in 
furs at London, whose regular  monthly auc­
tion sales, known as  the  “Lampson  sales,” 
have been a feature of  the  London  market 
for over a score of years.

A t the Hudson Bay sale of  raw furs, held 
at London last week, the following  fur sold 
lower than at  the previous  sale:  Otter,  35 
per cent.; fisher,  30;  cross  fox,  30;  silver 
fox, 40; red fox, 30; Lynx, 35.

It 

It is strange  how  many  things  influence 
trade.  Some merchants  always  have  time 
to talk, while  others  leave  that  branch  of 
the business to their clerks, and bury  them­
selves behind their  ledgers. 
is  seldom 
that you find a  man  who understands  how 
the  conversational  department  of  a  store 
should be run.  There are stores where peo­
ple frequently drop in  to  order  goods,  be­
cause the talking is well done; and there are 
others which they shun, because a  bungling 
job is carried on in  that  line.  Location  is 
not a matter of as much importance  as  peo­
ple think, when applied to retail  trade,  and
the liberal advertiser is usually a  man  who
is bright in other ways.  The favorites make 
themselves known outside the city,  through 
the newspapers, and also win home support. 
When  friends come to town, they  put  their 
horses in the barn and stay to dinner, and, as 
a matter of course, they patronize the  stores 
that are popular in the city.  The first ques­
tion oh arriving is, “Where would you  go to 
get this?” and if the answer is, “I always go 
to Squareman’s” that settles it.  But,  if  the 
answer happens to be,“I used to go  to  Fair- 
show’s, but I don’t like the clerks there now 
so I trade with Rising & Co.,” the visitor  at 
once calls on the last named firm.

It is reported that some unprincipled Bos­
ton parties are branding an inferior  kind of 
mackerel as Portland inspected, and  selling 
them in western and southern markets.  The 
Portland Fish Exchange is taking  measures 
to stop these fraudulent  practices.

John Bonney, formerly with G. W. Thay­

er, is now stock-keeper for  S. A. Welling.

8

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CANDY, FRUITS  AND  NUTS,
Putnam & Brooks quote as follow s:

STICK .

do 
do

M IX ED .

9 @ 954 
954@10 
©13

FANCY—IN   BU LK .

FANCY—IN   5 ft BOXES.

Straight, 25 ft  boxes 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft  pails.......................................
Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................. . .
Extra, 25 ft  pails....................................... 11@J154
Extra, 200 ft bbls..............................................
French Cream, 25 ft pails...............................13
Cut loaf, 251b  cases.........................................43
Broken, 25 ft  pails..........................................1154
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 10l/a
Lemon  Drops.................................................. 44
Sour Drops.......................................................4£
Peppermint  Drops................ ....................... m
Chocolate Drops.............................................lb
HM Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  Drops  ..................................................... 43
Licorice Drops...........
A B   Licorice  Drops..
Lozenges, plain............................... •-..............
Lozenges,  printed........................................... jb
Imperials..........................................................4®
Mottoes............................................................. I«
Cream  Bar........................................................ 14
Molasses Bar.....................................................44
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 2L
Plain  Creams................................................... 43
Decorated  Creams...........................................23
String Rock.......................................................J®
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 10
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................1354@14
Lozenges, plain in bbls...................................1-
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................14'
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................I3
Chocolate Drops, in pails..........................■•/-;44
Gum  Drops  in pails..................................*54@8
Gum Drops, in bbls...................................654©7
Moss Drops, in pails........................................44
Moss Drops, in bbls;.......................................   »54
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................4-
Imperials, in  pails........................................... 44
Inraerials  in bbls...........................................  43
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo..........3 00@4 TO
Oranges, Valencia................................ 6 50@7 TO
Lemons,  choice....................................3 ^®®4 33
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft..........................   @‘254
Figs, baskets 4 0 ft$ ft..........................  @ 8
Dates, frails 
do  ............................  ®  4
Dates, % do 
@ b
do  
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 4
Dates, 54  skin................ . ......................  @ “
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................  854® jj
; Dates, Fard 60 ft box $ f t .....................   @7
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $ f t ................   @654
PEA N U TS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft............................ 
,
Choice 
do  .............................
Fancy 
do  .............................  5%@  554
Choice White, Va.do  ............................ 
5®  554
Fancy H P,. Va  do  ..............................  754@8
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft.....................   17@1»
do ÎIIII........  8® 854
Brazils,
do  .................   9@12
Pecons,
d o ................. 1254@14
Filherts, Sicily 
do  . . . . . . . . ..1354@16
Walnuts, Grenobles

FR U IT S .

do 
do 

NUTS.

 

Buckwheat—$4.50 $  bbl.
Beans—Unpicked  command  75@90c,  and 
choice  picked  find  good  shipping  demand at 
$1.25. 

Butter—Not quite so  plentiful.  Dairy find 
slow sale  at  16@17e  for  choice rolls and 15@16c 
for good solid packed.  An  inferior article is to 
be  had in endless variety at from 8@12c.

Butterine—Solid  packed  creamery  com­
mands 22c,  while  dairy  is  quoted  at  14@15c 
for solid packed,  and 16@17c for roils.

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

Dealers quote choice stock at $5.

Cabbages—$5@$6 $  100.  Very little moving. 
Celery—15@25c $  doz.
Cheese—Michigan  full  cream  readily  com­
mands 12@1354c, while skim find occasional sale 
at from  954@10e.

Cider—12c $  gal. for common sweet. 
Cranberries—Firm at $14 for bell and cherry.  *1 
Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 

quarters, 4c.

Eggs—Very plentiful,  the  large  receipts of 
the past few days having forced the price down 
to 18c.  Pickled stock is completely exhausted.
Hops—Brewers are paying 15c for best Mich­

igan, with few  offerings.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 12@13c. 
Hay—Bailed, $13@$14. 
Mince Meat—6c $  ft for home made.
Onions—$3 $  bbl, for yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3c $  ft for choice.
Potatoes—On  the  upward tendency,  on  ac­
count of immense Southern shipments, dealers 
being compelled to pay 30@32c.

Poultry—Fowls,  9@10c.  Chickens,  12@13c. 

j

Turkeys, 14c.

Squash—Slow sale at 54c $  ft.
Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—No shipping demand,  and  dealers 
buy  only  for  prospective  wants,  holding  at 
$1.75 for choice.

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

Wheat—2c higher.  Lancaster,  82; Fulse, 79; 

Clawson, 80c.

and 45c in carlots.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 48c in 100 bu. lots 

lots.

Oats—White, 88c in small lots and 34c in car- 
Rye—58c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cwt. 
F l o u r —Unchanged. Fancy Patent, $5.70$ bbl. 
in sacks and  $5.95  in  wood.  Straight, $4.70 $  
bbl. in sacks and $4.95 in wood.

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

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

A dvanced—H erring, bloaters. 
Declined—Sugars.

P IP E S .

Imported Clay 3 gross....................
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross.... 
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross..
j  American  T. D.................................

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b l u i n g .

BROOMS.

60
60 Paragon, 25 ft pails 1 20 

a x l e   g r e a s e .
........ 80,Paragon  .......
'.  .■...,.551
b a k i n g   p o w d e r . 

Frazer’s . 
Diamond 
Modoc...
,
Arctic 54 ft cans....  451 Arctic  1 ftcans • • • • |  43 j 
Arctic 14 tt> cans....  75 Arctic o ft cans.... i- w 
Arctic 14 ft cans.  .  1 40|
doz. 25  I
 
,T„  „ 
Dry, No. ....................................  
doz. 43  j
doz. 35
Dry, No. 3 
 
|
65 
Liquid, 4 ...........................• • • • •......... doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz.  .
.. $   gross  a 00 
Arctic 4 oz...........
8  001 
Arctic 8  oz..........
12 00 i 
Arctic 16 oz...
001
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................  3 00
Arctic No. 2 
...............................   4 50
Arctic No. 3 
................................
No. ‘2 Hurl...............
,2 50
No. 1 Carpet..
Fancy  Whisk..........
No. 2 Carpet........... 'f j»
C ommon Whisk—
No. 1  Parlor Gem.. 2 75
N o *l H u r l ..............¿ a n n e d   f i s h
1 40
Clams, 1 ft  standards..............
2 65 
Clams, 2ft  standards.............
2 20 
Clam Chowder,  3ft.. •••••••••
1  10 
C o v e  Oysters, 1  ft  standards...
1 90
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards  ..................  1 ™
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slaek^filled....................1
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.....................   JS
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic........................................ 25
Lobsters, 1 ft star.......................................... in
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh standards..................1 00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards.................
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t ................I  S
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard............................  ~
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..................................? S
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river....................  1  ■■
2 60 
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river.......
....1 35
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento............
Sardines, domestic 54s.................
13*4
Sardines,  domestic 
................  
, ,
Sardines,  Mustard  ......................................
Sardines,  imported J4s...............................   ¿g’
Sardines, imported 54s    ............................. 
?
Sardines, imported 54s, boneless...............
Sardines, Russian  kegs...................................„ 2?
Trout, 3 ft  brook........... ...........................
Apples. 3 ft standards ...... - • •• ................. „  2X
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie....................? w
Blackberries, standards................................... i V?
Blackberries,  Erie........................................,
Cherries, Erie, red........................................,
Cherries, Erie,white wax...........................$  ig
Cherries,  red  standard................................*
Damsons _.
..........1 40
Egg Plums, standards 
.....
.......... 1  00
Gooseberries, Kraft’s B est..
..........1  40
Green Gages, standards £ ft.
..........1 50
Green Gages,  Erie................
..........3  JO
Peaches,  Brandy..................
..........2 40
Peaches, Extra Yellow........
75@1 95
Peaches, standards............................1 
-0
Peaches,  seconds— ■.................................«
Pie Peaches,  Kensett .................................i s
Pineapples, E rie..........................................
Pineapples, standards..................................  A?
Plumbs, Golden  Drop................................."
............................1  45
Quinces 
Raspberries, 
..........................   7 or
Raspberries, Red,  Erie................................ 
'
‘  30 
Strawberries,  Erie... —  •••;•.....................  A,
40
• • •1
Whortleberries, MeMurphy s .. 
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40|Pears....................... 
•
Grapes....................2 50 Peaches  .................3 00
Green G a g es^  —  ^ QETABIiES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...............................3 «o
Beans, Lima.  Erie.......................................   XX
Beans, String, Erie ..  .................................   L.
B e a n s ,  L i m a ,  s t a n d a r d ...........................................  £5
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ........................... 
••
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.................... 4 "V
Corn, Erie— ..............................................
Corn, Red  Seal.............................................«
Corn,  Acme........  
.....................................
O

CANNED FRUTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

c a n n e d   f r u i t s .

.......35

c

in  case......

standard

3 ft Gold!

äh, E

dard.

des’

......... 1 25
.........l 00
22 00
...... 23 00
........... 1 70
90
........... 1 80
10
........... 1 30
90
.........1 00

.ATE.

6!German Sweet.. 
8 Vienna Sweet  .. 
5|French Sweet... 
FF E E .
| Roasted M ex.. 
Ground  Rio... 
Arbuekle’s—
xxxx.......
Dilworth’s ... 
Levering’s ... 
¡Magnolia.......
HD AGE.
160 foot Cotton 
50 foot Cotton

...23

17@20 
9@17 
@1454 
@1454 
@1454 
@1454 
.  @1454

The Sugar Question.

The unprecedently low price of sugar ren­
ders thè sugar question one  of  the most im­
portant commercial problems now  agitating 
the mercantile world.  So low are the prices 
in Europe that  the  manufacture  of  sugar 
from sorghum, in those sections of the Unit­
ed States possible to raise it, cannot be made 
profitable.  Prof.  Scoville, of  Sterling, Kan­
sas, realized 7,000 tons  of  cane  from  1,200 
acres in cultivation last year, and made some 
200,000 pounds of sugar and 1,000 gallons of 
syrup, for both of  which  they have a ready 
niarket,  but at prices they  cannot  afford to 
sell for.

In 1883, the United States  received  from 
the duty on  sugar nearly $49,000,000.  This 
duty is maintained to protect the  American 
growers of cane sugar,  who are almost all in 
Louisiana.  Has  this  duty  increased  the 
American product?  Let us see.  The  aver­
age production of sugar by Louisiana dui ing 
the last 15 years has increased  but  very lit­
tle under a duty of 50 to 60 per cent.  It has 
never reached the figure of  the  average for 
the 12 years prior to  the  war, and  further­
more,  it has come to be an  unreliable  crop, 
because of frosts and  floods. 
In  1878  the 
crop was 71,000 tons; in 1879 it was  112,000 
tons; in JB82,  76,373  tons; in 1883,  142,298 
tons; in 1884-5, estimated,  100,000  tons. 
In 
1856 the crop was 207,144  tons, which  was 
54 per cent, of the total  consumption of  the 
country.  Two years  earlier  the  Louisiana 
crop constituted almost 61  per  cent,  of  the 
amount consumed in the United  States. 
In
1882 the Louisiana crop  w7as  but  7.22  per 
cent, of the amount of  sugar  consumed;  in
1883 it reached 12.42  per  cent.;  in  1884 it 
again fell to 9.52, while the crop of this year 
will not exceed 8 per cent. 
In other  words, 
while the  consumption  of  sugar is increas­
ing, the crop of Louisiana, under a duty now 
equal to 75 per cent., is not increasing  year 
after year, but remains nearly stationary.

The present tariff  amounts to almost $1 a 
year to every man, woman and  child in the 
country.  The consumption of  sugar  in  the 
United States is 42.3 pounds per head,  or 1,- 
150,000 tons a year. 
In  round  numbers 30 
years ago,  Cuba  produced  325,000  tons; 20 
years ago,  500,000;  10  years  ago,  725,000, 
and her crop for 1881 was  estimated at 600,- 
000 tons.  Porto Rico produced 112,000 tons 
in 1853, and in 1881 about 70,000.  Louisiana 
produced in 1853, 225,000 tons;  in  1872,  70,- 
000 tons,  and her crop  for 1881  was estimat­
ed at 100,000 tons.  The  Hawaiian  Islands 
at present produce  57,000  tons,  and  trust­
worthy estimates put the limit  of  their  pro­
ducing capacity of 84,000 tons.  Judging from 
these figures and other statistics,  the  imme­
diate producing power of these regions under 
present conditions may be estimated  as  fol­
low's :

Cuba.....................................
Porto Rico............................
Louisiana...........................
Sandwich  Islands..............  

Tons
....800,000
;.......125,000
... .200,000
.......  70,000
...........
Total 
.l’195’000  f
This makes the producing power just about 
equal to our consumption. 
It is a fact, how­
ever,  that  even  with  present  protection 
Louisiana planters are mostly bankrupt, and 
the sugar industry of the Sandwich  Islands 
pays very little.

A ll estimates are complicated  by the  pos­
sibilities of the beet  sugar  and  sorghum in­
dustries.  To be sure,  sorghum has been cul­
tivated in this  country  nearly 30 years, and 
last year’s crop was worth  only about  $13,- 
000,000.  Hitherto  only  syrup  has  been 
made from sorghum to any  extent, but new­
ly discovered'processes]  enable  sugar to be 
made from it.

The beet sugar crop of Europe in 1884 was 
estimated at  1,670,000  tons  half, as much 
again as  our  total  consumption of  sugar. 
It is beet sugar that has made  every planter 
of sugar cane in the world tremble, and that 
has forced many of them into bankruptcy.

!5®3 00 
@2 25 
@1 85 
@  90

•654@6%
..........6
.5y*@6M 
........ 3%

Good Carolina....... 6  ¡Java  ........
Prime Carolina......654¡Patna —
Choice Carolina......7  Rangoon
Good Louisiana......554!Broken...

SALERATUS.

SALT.

...... 5541 Dwight’s ••••.......
.......5}4 Sea  Foam............
.......554 S., B. & L.'s Best.
.......5k I

DeLand’s pure.
Church’s  .......
Taylor’s G. M., 
Cap Sheaf.......
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................2 30@2 40
28 Pocket.................................................2 20@3 30  j Bi
100 31b  pockets....................................... 2 50@2 60
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
98
169
Diamond C 
...................................... 
Standard  Coarse.................................... 
1 55
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
75
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags—  
2 80
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........ 
75
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags............... 
25
Rock, bushels......................................... 
38

 

Parisian, 54  pints..................................   @2 00
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 54 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, 54 pints..................................   @1 00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green.............................   @  90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1 70
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1 00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1 35
Horseradish,  54 pints............................  @1 00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1 30
Capers, French surflnes.......................  @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large..........:  @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz%ottle..................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s __   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s ........  @4 00
Olive Oil, XA pints, Anton» & Co.’s __   @2 00
Celery Salt,  Durkee’s..........................   @  90
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 54 pints.........................  @2 20
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........  @4 85
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small........  @2 90

SOAP.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........

“  Cameo................
“  Monday.............
“  Mascot...............
“  Superior, 601 ft bars
Old Country, 80 bars, 80 fts.,  wrapped 
Old Country,80 bars,80fts.,unwrapped 
Old Country, 801 ft bars.......................
Kirk’s American.  Fam ily..................

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

do. 
India__
do.  Savon  ...
do.  Satinet..
do.  Revenue
do.  White Russian.........................
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
Japan  O live........
Town Talk.............
Golden Bar...........
Arab.......................
Amber....................
Mottled  German..
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........
Badger............................................ 60 fts
Galvanic.................................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
Tip Top....................................... 3ft bar
Ward’s White Lily.................................
Handkerchief.........................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R ag................................................
Bluing......................................................
Magnetic.................................................
New  French Process............................
Spoon  ......................................................
Anti-Washboard....................................
Vaterland...............................................
Magic........................................................
Pittsburgh..............................................
Acme, 701 ft  bars..................................
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................
Napkin, 25 bars.«...................................
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped...........
Master, 100-% ft cakes.......................
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.......................
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes.____
I  Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
I  Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped............
|  German  Mottled, wrapped..................
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................
Blue Danube. 60-1 ft blocks................
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks...........
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............
London Family, 4-lb bars 80 ft.............
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped...........
Climax, 100 cakes,  wrapped................
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box
A 1  Floating, 60 cakes..........................
Matchless, 100  cakes..............................

Lautz Bros. & Co.

PROVISIONS.

PLU G .

I 

do. 

LARD.

do. 
do. 

SMOKING

P IG S ’  FEET.

B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

LARD  IN   T IN   P A IL S .

PO R K   IN   BARRELS.

3 60
3 30
3 15
3 30
3  15
4  85

SAUSAGE— FRESH  AND  SMOKED.

SMOKED  MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

P eelf',5  cents......................................
BigN  .....................................................
P ie ........................................................
Knigntsof  Labor...............................
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12............................
Black Bear.................................... ........
King 
............................................ .......
Old Five Cent Times..........................
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..........................
Parrot  ................................................
Old Time..............................................
Tramway.................................. »•■•••
Big Sevens, dime cuts..................... *
Black Diamond..................................
Trotter, rum flavor............................
Boot  .....................................................
B. F. P.’s Favorite.............................
Old Kentucky......................................
Big Four,  2x12....................................
Four, 3x12......................................
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12..................
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12............................
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12.......................
Seal of Grand Rapids.........................
Glory  ...................................................
Durham...............................................
Silver  Coin..........................................
Buster  [Dark]....................................
Black Prince [Dark]..........................
Black Racer  [Dark]..........................
Leggett & Myers’  Star.......................
Climax.................................................
Hold F a st............................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield.....................
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.  ..
Cock of the Walk  6s........................
Nobby Twist......................................
Nimrod................................................
Acorn .................................................
Crescent............................................
Black  X ..............................................
Black  Bass........................................
Spring............. ..................................
Crayiing............................................
Mackinaw...........................................
HorseShoe.........................................
Hair Lifter.........................................
D. and D., black.................................
McAlpin’s Green  Shield..................
Ace  High, black.......................'.......
Sailors’  Solace..................................
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 2x12.. 
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 3x12..
Red Star, flat, 3x12. .1.......................
Red Star, black. 24 oz.......................
2c. less in four butt lots

!  The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co.
1 quote  as  follows:
I Heavy  Mess, new  .........................................13 75
j S. P. Booth’s,  clear.......................................13 W
I Pig, clear, short  cut..................................... 14 25
! Extra Family Clear.......................................14 50
j Extra Clear Pig............................................. 14 75
Clear, A. Webster  packer........................... 15 50
Standard Clear, the  best.........................'.  .16 50
Extra Clear,  heavy........  ............................15 75
Boston Clear.................................................. 16 00
Clear Quill, short cut................................... 15 37
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
7%
dq. 
Half Cases.............  
754
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
754
do 
Half Cases.......... 
754
754
! Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
754
Half Cases  .............  
do. 
7%
| Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
7%
7%
light.................................... 
I Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
854
Extra Short Clear Backs, 6001b  cases.. 
854
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
854
9
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 5001b cases........  
7%
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft eases........ 
8
Bellies, extra quality, 2001b cases........ 
8%
7%
Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 501b Tubs...................................... 
8
50 ft Bound Tins, 100 cases.....................  
8
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  çacks.................. 
8%
8%
3 1b Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................ 
8%
854
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................. 
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
10
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
10%
1054
light........  
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
754
Breakfast  Bacon..................................  
9%
Dried Beef,  Extra..................................  
H
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 11  00
Extra Mess Chicago packing.......................10 75
Pork  Sausage.....................................................854
Ham  Sausage..................................................12
Tongue  Sausage.................................. ....."  11
Frankfort  Sausage................................. 
. II
Blood  Sausage................................................... 654
Bologna,  ring...................................................  654
Bologna, straight...................................   
654
Long Tom...................;
(0  Bologna,  thick............................................... "  654
National....................5
®  Head  Cheese......................................................654
Time...........................‘
"Î 
Conqueror.................!
« j Tn half barrels............................. ..................  3 50
Grayling.................... 1
!"  In quarter barrels.........................................  190
Seal Skin....................I
® j In kits..............................................................
Rob Roy......................:
Uncle  Sam.................!
-o  In quarter barrels.................................... 
Lumberman.............
•5  In kits..............................................................  
Railroad Boy.............
Mountain Rose..........
Home Comfort..........
Old Rip.......................
Two Nickle.................
Star Durham.............
Durham No. 2..........
Golden Flake Cabinet 
Seal of Noi-th Uaro-
ina, 2  oz................
Seal of North Caro­
lina, 4oz..................
Seal of North  Caro­
lina. 8oz..................
Seal of North  Caro
lina, 16 oz boxes. ••40
Maiden................
Topsy, paper....... ....27 Big Deal................
..24
Topsy, cloth........ __ 30 Apple Jack............
Navy  Clippings.. __ 26 King Bee, iongeut
” 24
Boots.................... __ dO Milwaukee  .Prize.
.28
Honey  Dew........ -... .25 Rattler..................
. .25
Gold Block.......... __ 30 Windsor cut plug.
Camp Fire........... ....25 Zero  ..................... ...16
Oronoko  ........... __ 19 Holland Mixed___ ..16
Durham, 54 ft • • • __ 60 Golden Age_____
do  % ft • • - .... 5' Mail  Pouch.......... ... 25
¡Knights of Lai or. ...30
do 
.... 5' ¡Free Cob Pipe....... .. .27
do 
Pickwick  Club.. __ 40iHoney Bee............
Nigger Head— __ 2CDurham,  S., B. & [V. .24
Holland............. __ 22¡Dime  Durham...25@26
....11 Old Tar.................. ...10
German.............
Solid Comfort... __ 30 Golden Flake,cabinet40
. ..26
Red Clover........ __ 32 Nigger Hair...........
JIAcme.................... ...16
Mule Ear...........
...17
2¡ Globe....................
Hiawatha..........
Old Congress — .......23|
Pure  Cider.......
Boraxine  ................................................
1776 $  f t ...................................................
Gillett’s <P f t ...........................................
Soapinepkg...........................................
Pearline  box.......................................
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers... 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
I Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
( Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 ft papers.. 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 54 ft paprs
Twin Bros..........1  65  (Wilsons.............
Magic.................1  75  ¡National...........
Bath Brick imported............................
American............................
do 
Barley.
Burners, No. 1 
do  No.  2. 
Condensed Mill 
Cream Tartar 5
Candles, Star................
Candles,  Hotel.............
Extract Coffee, V.  C...
Felix  .
Gum, Rubber 100 lump 
Gum, Rubber 200 lump:
Gum, Spruce.................
Hominy, $  bbl.............
Peas, Green Bush........
Peas, Split prepared...
Powder, Keg................
Powder,  54 Keg...........

New York Counts................................................35
F. J. D. Selects  ................................................... 32
Selects..................................................................28
F. J. D..........................................  
20
Standard  .............................................................18
Favorite................................................................ 17
Medium.................................................................15
Prim e................................  
14
New York  Counts..........................................2 00
Selects, per gal Ion..........................................1 75-
Standards ......................................................... 110
Codfish................................................................ 9
Haddock...........................................................  7
I Smelts................................................................ 10
Mackinaw Trout.................................... 
Mackerel........................................................... 12
Whiteflsh  ..........................................................   9

I  John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
I prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   6  @ 8
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  7  @ 854
Dressed  Hogs.........................................   6  @654
Mutton,  carcasses..................................  6 @654
Veal..........................................................  954@10
Pork Sausage..........................................  8 @  9
Bologna....................................................  9 @10
-Chickens.................................................   @13
Turkeys  .................................................   @14,

V IN EGA R.
.  8@1£ White Wine........ 8@12
@3 75 
@1054 @ 7% 
7@10 
@4 50 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4  15 
@4 00

@10 00: Muskrat....... 
25®  1  00! Raccoon....... 

2@  10
.4 00®  6 00 Otter........... 4 00@ 5 00
5@  80
.  15@  851 Skunk  ........   15@  75
.  25@ 1 00|Beaver, $  ft.l 00@ 2 25 
. 
5@  40:Deer,  $ ft...  10@  30

150
80
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 

Green__ ^ ft  6  @7 
 
Part cured...  754@  8  or cured 
Full cured—   8  @  8?4 Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 

(Fall pelts........... 30@56
mer skins $  pcel0@201Winter  pelts.......60@75
2 -3

Fine washed <$? 1b 20@22| Unwashed...........  

@4 85  Tramway, 3 oz..........
@3 30  Ruby, cut Cavendish
@3 45  B°ss  ..........................
@3 45  Feck’s Sun................
@3 60  Miners and Puddlers.
@4 20  Morning  Dew...........
@4 10  Chain...............f.........
@ 51/  Seal of Grand Rapids
K in g........ .................
Flirt  ..........................
f P u g ............................
Ten Penny  Durham, 
Amber, 54 and l i b —
John  Gilpin............. .
Lime Kiln  Club.......
6 75
Blackwell’s Durham
2  80
Vanity Fair.............
3 60
Dim e.........................
4 10
(Peerless  ..................
3 35
Standard..................
3 60
Old Tom....................
4 20
I Tom & Jerry............
@3 15
@3 20 I Joker........................
@3 00 | Traveler
@   654@4 05 
©18%
@  16 
@6 75 
@4 20

Apples—Scarcer  and  higher,  Baldwins  and 
other red varieties readily  commanding  $2.75 
@$3.

Bear..........
Fisher  __
Fox,red... 
Fox,  gray.
1 Martin__
Mink........

k ip s...........   8  @12
Shearlings or Sum- 

@10
$  piece.......20  @50

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows :

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

HIDES. PELTS  AND  FURS«

®  to market fluctuations.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

, Eagle  brand, 
md 10 ft cans.

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

FRESH  MEATS.

|Calf skins, green

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

54  ft.• •
1 ft...

SH E E P PELTS.

FR ESH   F IS H .

4 00 
4 00

OYSTERS.

SH ORTS.

YEAST.

S K IN S .

H ID ES.

T R IP E .

W OOL.

do 

I 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TSH .
rmouth...............

C o d , B o n e l e s s . . . . . . .  
Cod, pickled, %  bbls.................................... 3 “i
Halibut 

..................................................^
....................................................

Herring,  Holland.........................................  3
Mackerel, No. 1,54 bbls............................... & •>
Mackerel, No. L 12 lb  kits 
. . ................... 1 00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  54  bbls..................6 2o
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  k its......................l   JO
Trout, No.  1,54  bbls....................................4
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.................................  «0
White, No. 1,54 bbls  .................................... \  ^
White, Family, 54 bbls................................ 2 au
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  ™
White, No. 1.12  ft kits.................................1 05

Jennings  2oz —

f l a v o r i n g  e x t r a c t s .

Lemon.  Vanilla. 
1  40
........ $   doz.l 00 
4 oz 
................................ 150 
250
6 oz 
................................2 50  4 00
8oz.:.................................3 50  5 00
No. 2 Taper..........................4 25  1 50
1 75  o OU
54 pint  round 
...............; ; } »  ' 3{ g
no.  8 
................................3 00  425
NO. 10 . . ................................ 4 25  6 00
454@5 

4  “ 

FR U ITS

 

Apples, Michigan— ....................
@75¡¡ 
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls...........
@854 
Apples, Dried, evap.,box.............
@16 
Cherries, dried, pitted..................
@28 
Citron..................................... *—
@4% 
Currants.........................................
13@14 
Peaches, dried  ..............................
@1 70 
Pineapples,  standai-ds.................
@554 
Prunes, Turkey, new ...................
9%@12 
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes........
© 9% 
Raisins, Valencias.........................
@12%
Raisins,  Ondaras..........................
Raisins,  Sultanas..................................  8
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................  @2 50
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @3-0
Raisins, Imperial Cabinets..................  @3 60
Raisins, Dehesias..................................   @4  «0

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

M ATCHES.

Water White........1254 1 Legal  Test..............1054
Grand Haven,  No. 8, square..............................2 15
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square...............................J 05
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor..........n ....... 2 60
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................3 7o
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................£ 2»
Oshkosh, No. ................................................... J  Ax
Oshkosh, No.  8.......................................................1 rV
Swedish........ ....................................................o
Richardson s No. 2  square................................. ? 1"
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 

.2 70
........1 70
........2 55
........ 1 75

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

M OLASSES.

Black Strap............................................
Porto  Rico....................................................
New  Orleans, good...................................... a«®**
New Orleans, choice.......  ...........................48®»o
New Orleans, fancy........   .........................

Vi bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

Steel  c u t ........ ...-5 SOjQuaker, 48 fts.........2 25
Steel Cut, 54 bbls.. .3 00 Quaker, TO fts........ 2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 50|Quaker bbls............6 50

P IC K L E S .

do, 

- .....................................f  3«

Choice in barrels ..............................................®
Choice in 54 
..........................  *
Dingee’s pints  ^  do 
f
Americanqt.  inGlass............................... 
 
American pt.in Glass..................................... i  «
C. & B. English  quarts...................................8
Chow-Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  «pjarts--J

Ground.
Pepper.............
Allspice...........
Cinnamon........
Cloves..............
Ginger .............
Mustard............
Cayenne  ..........

Whole.

SPICES.

.16@25(Pepper.. 
.12@15 Allspice. 
.18@30 Cassia 
.15@25 Nutmegs 
,16@20 Cloves  .. 
,15@30 
.25@35!

STARCH.

“ 

“ 
** 
“ 
“ 

Kingsford’

1 ft pkgs.,  pure.............
3ft pkgs.,  pure..............
1ft pkgs.,  Silver Gloss.
.
6 ft pkgs., 
“ 
1ft pkgs., Corn  Starch.
(Bulk)  Ontario...............
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft boxes............. -.........
“
“ 
3 ft boxes.......................
“ 
6ft boxes........................
“
“  b u lk .................................
“ 
“  Corn, 20 ft..................................
“ 
“  40  ft....................................
Gilbert’s Gloss, 1  ft.............................
“ 
6  1b.............................
Linen Gloss, 3  1b.................
“ 
“ 
Crystal  «  bulk.................
“ 
Corn, 1 $ ...............................
Niagara Laundry, 40 lb box,  bulk__
“  Laundry, bbls, 186  fts.........
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages.........
“  Gloss,  36 3 $   packages.......
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate... 
“  Corn, 401 ft  packages........

“ 

SUGARS.

Cut  Loaf..............................................
Cubes  ...................................................
Powdered............................................
Granulated,  Standard.......................
Granulated, Fine Grain....................
Confectionery A .................................
Standard A ...........................................
Extra C, White....................................
Extra C.................................................
Fine  C...................................................
YellowC................   ..................... «...

.......... bbl
......54 bbl
.5 gal kegs
......Vi bbl
.5 eral kegs

Corn.  Bai-rel8.................
Corn, 54 bbls....................
Corn, 10 gallon kegs.......
Corn, 5 gallon kegs........
Corn, 454 gallon kegs—
Pure Sugar.....................
Pure Sugar Drips..........
Pure Sugar  Drips..........
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips. 
Pure Loaf Sugar..........

Japan ordinary—  
Japan fair to good.
Japan fine...............
Japan dust.............
Young Hyson........
Gunpowder...........
Oolong....................
Congo.....................

® 5%
@6
©554
@4
@6
@4
@374
@6
@554
@
654
7
@

@ 6%
@ 6%
@ 6%
@ 6%
@ 6V4
@ 654
@ 5%
@ 5%
@ 554
@ 574
@ 554

27
29
@ 32
@1  60 
@1  45 
23@  35 
30@  38 
@1  96 
@  85 
@1  85

__ 22@25
....30@35
__ 40@50
__ 15@20
....30@50 
. ...35@50 
33@55@60 
___25@30

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

Matchless...................65
State  Seal.................. 60j
Hiawatha...................6'
Brother Jonathan...32
G lobe......................... 70
Diamond  Crown....... 58
May Flower............... 70
Rose Bud.................... 50
H ero...........................45
O.  K............................ 45
Atlas...........................35
Our  Bird.................... 30
Royal Game............... 38
Peaches  .................... 38
Mule Ear.................... 66
Red  Bird.................... 52
Opera Queen.............40  Peek-a-Boo............... 32
Sweet Rose................45  Fountain.................... 74
Green  BacK..............38  Old Congress..............64
Fruit..........................33  Good Luck................. 52
O So Sweet................31  Good and Sweet..... .45
Prairie Flower.........65 Blaze Away.................35
Climber.....................82  Hair Lifter.................30
Indian Queen...........60 Governor....................60
Doak's  50 center......38 Fox’s Choice.............  63
Huokelberry  ............30 Medallion..................35
Bull  Dog.................. .60 Sweet Owen.......... 66
Crown Leaf..............66l01d Abe...........49

O y s t e r s .

As the fast oyster freight trains frota Bal­
timore have been taken off  for  the  season, 
the  Northern  Michigan  customers  of  Wm. 
L.  Ellis & Co.  are  hereby  respectfully  noti­
fied that they can have their orders promptly 
filled, at a slight advance  on  former  prices, 
by sending them  direct to Cole & Emery,  37 
Canal street, Grand Rapids.

Report  of

the  W apping  Creamery 

South

Windsor, Conn.

Organized  in  the  spring  of  1883,  on  the 
Cooley system of gathering cream.  Capacity 
from  2,000  to  3,000  lbs.  per  week.  The 
wholesale price received for butter in  Janu­
ary  and  February,  1884,  was  38c;  March 
and April,  35c;  summer price,  30c;  winter, 
35  No  summer  butter  was  sold  for less 
than  30c,  Providence  market.  Wapping 
butter shipped to Providence in  March  sold 
at  40c;  April,  37c;  May,  32c;  June,  July 
and  Aug.,  30c;  Sept.,  33e:  Oct., 36c;  Nov. 
and Dec., 37c.  A New York hotel contracts 
at 38c from Oct. 20th to July 1st, 1885.  The 
annual  statement  makes  the following  ex­
hibit:
No. of fts. butter  made..........................•  33\14£
Total paid  p atro n s.................................... -diO4^
4,ac
Total expenses $  ft butter.      .............  
Average net price paid patrons per lb. but­
ter, 27.72,  being an average of $57.62 per cow 
besides the skimmed  milk.

The postoffice  appropriation  bill  recently 
passed by Congress makes the following im 
portant changes:  The weight  of  all single­
rate letters is  increased  from  one-half  an 
ounce each to one  ounce.  All  newspapers 
sent from publication offices or  news  agen­
cies, including sample copies,  are entitled to 
to transmission at the  rate  of  one  cent per 
pound.  Any article in a newspaper  or oth­
er publication  may  be  marked for  observa­
tion except  by written  or  printed  words, 
without increase of postage.  A  special ten- 
cent stamp is also to be issued, which, when 
attached to a letter in addition to the lawful 
postage thereon, w ill 
insure  its  immediate 
delivery  by special  messenger at  any  time 
between 7 a. m. and midnight.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BARROW S.

BALANCES.

Flush__

AUGERS AND B ITS.

Prevailing  rates  at  Chioago  are  as follows: 
60
Ives’, old  style...........................................dis 
N. 1-T. C. Co................................................. dis 
60
60
Douglass’ ...................................................dis 
Pierces’ ....................................... 
60
dis 
60
Snell’s ..........................................................dis 
Cook’s  ......................................................dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine...................................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation.............................. dis40&10
Spring......................................................... dis 
25
Railroad.............................................. 
  $  13 00
Garden....................................................... net 33 00
Hand.....................................................dis  $ 60&10
Cow..........................................................dis 
60
Call............................................................dis 
15
Gong........................................................dis 
20
Door, Sargent......................................... dis 
55
Stove.....................................................dis |
40
Carriage  new  list..................................dis
Plow  .......................................................dis
30&1C
Sleigh Shoe.............................................dis
70
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................. dis
50
Wrought Barrel Bolts......................... dis
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs..........  .......dis
50
Cast Square Spring.............................. dis
55
Cast  Chain.............................................dis
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
55&10
Wrought Square................................... dis
55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush...........................dig
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
.......  50&10&10
Ives’  Door.............................
........dis  50&10
BRACES.
Barber  ....................................
__ '.dis $
40
Backus....................................
.......dis
50
Spofford..................................
.......dis
50
Am. Ball.................................
........ dis
net
BUCKETS.
Well, plain..............................
4 00 
..............S
Well, swivel............................
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... dis
60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed____dis
60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 
60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin.......................
.dis
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.......
.dis 60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned......
.dis
6Ü& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
T
tipped.......................
.dis 60& 5
WroughtTable...........
.dis
60
Wrought Inside  Blind
.dis
60
Wrought Brass...........
.dis 65&10
Blind. Clark’s...............
..dis 70&10
Blind, Parker’s...........
.dis 70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ____ 
________ I
.dis
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x214, per gross
0*088 15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross
fross 18 00
Ely’s 1-10...................................
per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F...............................
60
G. D............................................
Musket....................................
60
CA TRIDG ES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list
w list
50
Rim Fire, United  States__
...dis 
50
Central Fire..........................
... dis %
C H IS ELS.
Socket Firmer........................................dis
.dis
70
Socket Framing.....................................dis
.dis
70
Socket Corner........................................dis
.dis
70
Socket Slicks................... 
dis
.dis
70
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...................dis
.dis
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers.................... dis
.dis
20
Cold..........  ..........................
. .net
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s ................................dis
.dis
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis
.dis
Brass,  Racking’s........................................  40&10
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... ¡a a
14x52,14x56,14 x60.................  .....................

BUTTS,  CAST.

33%
25

C O PPER .

COCKS.

CAPS.

 

D R IL L S

ELBOW S.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

Morse’s Bit  Stock................................dis
Taper and Straight Shank...................dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk...........................dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 00
Corrugated.............................................dis  20&10
Adjustable.............................................dis  %&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis
Ives’, 1, $L8 00;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis
American File Association List....... dis
Disston’s ...............................................dis
New  American.....................................dis
Nicholson’s........................................... dis
Heller’s .................................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

GA LV ANIZED  IR O N ,
14 

Discount, Juniata 45@10, Charcoal 50@10. 

F IL E S .

12 

13 
GAUGES.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .............dis 
50
20
Maydole & Co.’s....................................dis 
Kip’s ..................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes &  Plumb’s ...............................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction.....................dis 
60
Kidder, wood tra.k.............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3................. ............ dis
60
S tate............................................. . per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12 in.  4%  14
and  longer.............................
.  3%
Screw Hook and Eye,  % __ ...........net
10%
SCrew Hook and Eye  % .........
.......... net
8%
Screw Hook and Eye  % ......... ............ net
Screw Hook and Eye,  % .......
...........n et
Strap and  T .............................
60&1Ü
............ dis
60&10
Stam ped Tin W are.................
Japanned  Tin  W are..............
20&10
G ranite  Iro n   W are................
25
G rub  1  ...................................... .........$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2........................................ .........  11  50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings__ $2 70, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings..........:..........................list,10  15, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
70
Drawer and  ShutteV,  porcelain..........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s....................d 
40
Homacite..........................  
dis 
50
66%
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis 
Mallory, Wheeinr &  Co.’s...
.... dis  66%
..........dis  66%
Branford’s ..............................
..........dis  66%
Norwalk’s...............................
LEV ELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malléables dis 
40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s............... dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise....................................... dis  25
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00 dis 40&Ï0
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

HOES.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

 

N A ILS.

Common. Bra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

O IL E R S .

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2  35
8d and 9 d adv....................................
50
6d and 7d  adv....................................
4d and 5d  adv....................................
1 50 
3d  advance.........................................
3 00 
3d fine  advance.................................
1 75
Clinch nails, adv...............................
I  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
6d  4d
Size—inches  ( 3  
1 %
2 
2% 
Adv. $  keg 
$t 25  1  50  1  75  2 Ô0 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’8 Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine..............................  
dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring........ .y.........dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  dis  50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................... dis 55
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper........................................... dis  40
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................. 
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................. dis  15
Sciota Bench................................................ dis
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  35
Bench, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, Acme............................................... dis 
50
Common, polished..............................  . .dis60&10
Dripping.................................................$  ft  6@7
Iron and Tinned...................................dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs..................... dis  50&10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TENT  FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

r iv e t s . 

PLA N ES

PA N S.

9

.

Broken packs %c $  ft extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne.................12 00
IX. 20x28, cholcC Charcoal Terne...............16 90

OLDEST  &  MOST  RELIABLE

H

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W

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j E S - A - X -

i E o u
IN WESTERN  M ICHIGAN.

IbarMvare.

Very  Fine  Wire.

It  is  said  that  platinum  wire  has  been 
drawn so fine  by  H. F.  Read,  of  Brooklyn, 
as to be invisible to the naked eye, although 
its  presence  upon  a  perfectly  white  card 
could be detected by the touch, and could be 
seen  with  the  aid  of  a  small  magnifying 
glass when the  card  was held in such a po­
sition that the wire cast a shadow.  A small 
platinum  wire,  about  No. 18, was inclosed 
in a  close-fitting  tube  of  silver.  The  tube 
was made by taking a long and narrow sheet 
of  silver,  about  one-twentieth  of  an  inch 
thick, folding  it  over  into  a  cylinder,  and 
drawing  down  until  the  wire  just fit in it. 
This  was  then  drawn  down until the tube 
containing the wire was only as large as  the 
original wire.  A  short  length  of  this was 
cut off and incased in a second tube of silver, 
which was drawn down in  the  same.  This 
operation  was  repeated  until 
the  plati­
num wire had  been  reduced  sufficiently  in 
diameter.  The last wire was drawn as  fine 
as  the  dies  would  permit,  when the silver 
coating was removed  by  an  acid.  During 
the  work  it  was  necessary  occasionally to 
anneal the wire. 
It was designed to be used 
for cross wires in  telescopes, its opacity and 
fineness rendering it particularly applicable-, 
but its extreme weakness made its  handling 
almost an impossibility.

The  Production of Steel.

The total amount of ignots  converted into 
steel  in the United  States  last  year,  accor­
ding to the  estimate  made by the American 
Iron  and  Steel  Association,  was  1,538,355 
net tons.  As compared with the production 
in 1883 there was a  falling  off'  of  116,272 
tons, or only seven per cent.  The  maximum 
production  of  Bessemer  steel 
ignots was 
reached in 1882,  when  1,696,450  tons  were 
converted.  The figures for  1884  show a re­
duction of but nine per cent, from the maxi­
mum.  The quantity produced by the differ­
ent sections of the country  was  as  follows: 
Pennsylvania,  1,029,244  tons;  Illinois,  net 
339,068 tons; other states,  170,043 tons.  The 
details of rail production for  the  year  are: 
Bessemer steel,  1,116,041  tons;  iron,  21,891 
tons; open hearth steel, 3,000  tons; total, 1,- 
140,932 tons.

Business  is  Business.

Business is business all the  time  and no 
one recognizes this fact more than a German 
cutlery dealer,  as is shown by the  following 
conversation:

“Don’t you vant to puy somedings?”
“No, I have got everything I need.” 
“Don’t you vant to puy a fine  razor?”
“I never shave myself.”
“Put maype you vants to  commit  suicide 

some of dose days.”

John Wolford succeeds  Campbell & Wol­

ford in the furniture business at Mantón.

Chemistry,  Practical anti Theoretical.
“Young gentlemen,”  said  the  lecturer  in 
chemistry, “coal exposed to the elements los­
es  ten  per  cent,  of  its  weight  and  heating 
power.  This is due to the action  of  the  al­
kali constituents of-----”

“But what if there is a  dog  sleeping  near 

the coal, Professor?”

is a serious matter.”

“None of  your  levity,  young  man.  This 

“That’s what dad thought, when  seventy- 
two  per  cent,  of  his  coal  pile  disappeared 
during three  nights  of  exposure.  Then  he 
asked my advice as a  student  in  chemistry, 
and I told him to buy  a  dog.  He  bought  a 
dog—one  of the red-headed kind,  with  bay- 
window teeth, the  spring  halt  in  his  upper 
lip and blood in  his eye,  and  now  we  don’t 
lose  one  per  cent,  of  our  coal  a  month. 
That’s the kind of a practical chemist  I  am. 
Now go on with your theory, and excuse me 
for interrupting you.”

Ail exception to the Kule.

j 

“The  more  you  put  into  the  barrel,  the 

more it will weigh,” said the teacher.

“Please,  ma’am,  is there any exception ter 

| the rule?” asked an urchin.

“None whatever.  Everything you put in­

to the barrel adds weight to it.”

“I know an exception,”  broke  in  Bobby 

I Sharp.

“I guess not.  What is it?”
“Well,  ma’am, the more holes  you  put  in 

a barrel, the lighter it gets.”

“There is nothing  like  leather,” 

is  the 
watchword of the  Knights  of  St.  Crispen. 
“There is nothing like  copper,” bids  fair to 
become an equally  popular  cry  among  the 
modern Knights of the T Square. 
It would 
seem from the evidence of the  relics of past 
civilizations that have came down to us that 
copper—or, more properly speaking, the use 
of  copper—in 
iron. 
Bronze, which is only copper  alloyed,  is the 
material in  which the subliinest creations of 
genius  have  been  embodied  and  handed 
down through the centuries, and in such per­
fect state of preservation  that  beside  them 
contemporaneous works executed in  "endur­
ing marble” are mere  masses  of  moldered 
and mutilated stone.

the  arts  antedated 

The attention of those wishing  to  engage 
in  general  trade  at  a  thriving  town  near 
Grand Rapids is  directed  to  the  advertise­
ment which appears elsewhere in this week’s 
paper relative, to a stock  now  in  the  hands 
of Messrs. Rindge, Bertch & Co. and Shields, 
Bulkley & Lemon.  Several  parties are bid­
ding for the bargain,  and  immediate  appli­
cation  must be made to secure the chance of 
purchasing.

Now that the president is seated  and  the 
cabinet  chosen,  let  every  man go to work, 
and, so far as in him  lies,  help  to  make  a 
lively spring trade.

LOOK OUT

POR

FR.OM

John  Caulfield
NEXT WEEK.

LU M B E R ,  LA TH   A N D   SH IN G LE S.

 

 

The Newaygo M anufacturing  Co,  quote f. o. 

b .‘ears  as follows:
U ppers, 1 in c h .................................... per M $44  00
U ppers, 114,1 %  and 2 in ch ..........................  46  00
Selects, 1  in ch .................................................  35  00
Selects, IJ4, 1% and 3  in c h ..........................  38  00
Fine Common, 1  in ch ..................... 
30  00
Shop, 1 in c h ....................................................  20  00
Fine, Common, 114,  114 and 2 in c h ............  32  00
No.  l Stocks,  12in., 12,14and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., IS f e e t..........................  16 00
No.  1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 f e e t..........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 f e e t ........................   17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 f e e t.........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet............................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 f e e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 f e e t.......   12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 f e e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.........  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 f e e t............................  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 f e e t............  ...........  13  00
Coarse  Common  o r  shipping  culls, all
w idths and  len g th s............................8 00@  0  00
A and B Strips, 4 o r 6 i n .............................   33  00
C Strips, 4 o r 6 in ch ....................................  
27  00
No. 1 Fencing, all  len g th s..........................  15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and IS  fe e t................  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 fe e t...................................  12  00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  in c h ...................................  15  00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  in ch ...................................  12  00
Norway C and b etter, 4 o r 6 in ch ..............  20  00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ...................   18  00
BevelSiding, 6 inch, C.................................  14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Com m on__  
0  00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.......................  20  00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 f t ............  
!0  00
$1 additional fo r each 2  fe e t above 16 ft.
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B .....................
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C............................
2!)  00 
17 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No.  1, com m on..
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 com m on__
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1  00  additiinal.
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  C lear..
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C............................
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in., No. 1  com ’n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 o r 5 in., No. 2  com ’u 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1  00 additional.
3 30 
iX X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles..............
3 20 
■< X X X  18 in.  T h in ........................................
3 80 
( XXX 16 in....................................................
No. 2 o r 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles..............
2  00 
1  60 
No. 2 o r 5 in. C. B. 16  in ...............................
2 00
Lath  ................................................................
THE  OKTLY

Luminous Bait

IN   THE  WORLD.

Patented Feb. 13,  1883.  Re-issue  Aug.  28,  1883.

FISHING

S \ i r e   O s it o li  !

DAY  OR  NIGHT.

HARD  AND  SOFT  RUBBER  MINNOWS. 
No. 7, 70c each;  No. 8, 80c each; No. 9,90c each.
FLYING  HELGRAMITES.  No.  0,  80c  each; 
No. 1, 85c each;  No. 2, 90c each;  No. 3,  $1 each.
Samples of above Baits  sent post paid on re­
ceipt of price,  or any three for $2.
MALL.  GLASS  MINNOWS,  TRIPLE  HOOK 
FEATHERED, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  FROGS,  TRIPLE  HOOK 
FRATHERED, 60e each.
SOFT  RUBBER  GRASSHOPPERS,  SINGLE 
HOOK, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  DOBSON,  SINGLE  HOOK, 
60c each.
DEXTER TROLLING  SPOON  AND  MINNOW 
Combined, Triple  Hook  Feathered, 60e each. 
AKRON  TROLLING  SPOON,  Triple  Hook 
Feathered, No. 1, 50c  each;  No.  2,  55c  each; 
No. 3, 60c each;  No. 4, 65e  each.
Send for descriptive circulars and testimonials. 
Liberal discount to the Trade.

Enterprise  I

|   Co., Akron,  Olio.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, % In. and  larger..................................   8
Manilla.............................................................  14%
Steel and -Iron................................ 
.dis  50&10
Try and Be vels............................... 
dis  50&10
Mitre  .................................................... dis 
30
SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 00 
3 00 
3 00 
3 00 
3 20 
3 40
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.................................. $4 20
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20
Nos. 22 to 24.......................... .......   4 20
Nos .25 to 26................ ..................  4 40
No. 27..............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZIN C .
In casks of 600 lbs, $   fi>.....................
In smaller quansities, $   ft...............
No. 1,  Refined......................................
Market  Half-and-half.......................
Strictly  Half-and-half.......................
Cards for Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC, 
10xl4,Charcoal..............................-  8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................   6 50
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal  ...............................  8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal...............................  8 50
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  10 50
IXXX,  14x20, Charcodl...............................  12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  14 50
20x28, Charcoal...............................  18 00
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................   6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................   8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75

$6%
13 00
15 00
16

T IN N E R ’S SO LD ER .

T IN   PLA TES.

rates.

TR A PS.

W IR E .

dis 55&10

Steel. Game......................................................
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ............dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co,’s ......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 26 ^ doz
Bright  Market.....................................   dis  60&1C
Annealed Market..................................dis 
70
Coppered Market..........................  
Extra Bailing............................................   dis  55
Tinned  Market............................................ dis  40
Tinned  Broom...............................................ft  09
Tinned Mattress.......................................$} ft  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis  40®40&10
Tinned Spring Steel................................. dis 3754
Plain Fence....................................................ft 3%
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper....................................................... new  list net
Brass..........................................................new list net
Bright................................................... .dis 70&10
Screw Eyes........................................... .dis 70&10
Hook’s ................................................. .dis 70&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes....................... .dis 70&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled........
Coe’s Genuine...................................... .dis 50&1Ö
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis
65
Coe’s Patent, malleable.................... .dis
70
MISCELLANEOUS.
Pumps,  Cistern............................
.dis  60&20 
Screws, new  list..........................
80 
Casters, Bed and  Plate...............
50 
Dampers,  American....................
33%

WrENCHES.

W IR E  GOODS.

Poster,  • 

Stevens 
&  Co.
Roller Skates, Skate Bans & Boies

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

The New Era All Clamp Skate

—AND-

The  New  Era  Rink  Skate.
We  claim  the  NEW  ERA to  be the  mosli 
economical  roller  skate  in  the  world,  and 
this  in  connection  with their  immense  pop­
ularity with those who have  used  them,  com­
mend them to the attention of every rink own­
er  in  the  country.  Our  Clamp  Skate is the 
only screw clamp made which  operates all the 
clamps with one key at the same time.
The “VINEYARD” Skates are very popular, 
and we carry a full line of A. C., S. C. and C.

The Vineyard Roller All Clamp were  patent­
A  nice line  of SKATE  BAGS AND  BOXES) 

ed  July  13,  1880, and  April 27,1881,
carried in stock.

Skate Bags for all clamp Skates.

Skate Boxes for all clamp Skates.

We solicit inquiries,  and  should  be  glad tc 
quote prices to dealers and rink m anagers.
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.
Cabinet Creamery and Barrel Clrnm

W I L S O N ’S

AND  ALL  DAIRY  SUPPLIES, 

S 

l  1  w a te rs cab-wet cRcaMf.** 
L 
* — -———¡i  it-,——~—j  ¡Kg 
III 
r  1  '  1  ifeia 
Bill: • I 

To  first DUr-
chaser  in  new
locality,we will
give  s p e c ia l 
terms.
The woman’s
friend. It saves 
three-fourths 
of the  labor in 
b u tter -m a k ­
ing;  easily  op- 
e ra t e d ;   you 
raise 
s w e e t
cream  f r o m
—
s we e t   milk; 
you have sweet milk to feed which  trebles its 
value.  Send  for  circular.  Agents  wanted. 
Address  FLINT  CABINET  CREAMERY 
CO.,  FLINT,  MICH.

__ 

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

3ES AND WHOLES./

AITS

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

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

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

A R A B   PLU G  !

The Best and Most Attractive Goods on the Market.  Send for Sample 

’Bntt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

Fox, Musselman A Loveridge
Choice Butter a Specialty!

Sole  Owners

Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Cranber­

ries, Cider, Buckwheat Flour, Etc.
Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.
M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa $1., 6'd Rapids.

Ba k Tkg
POWDER

This  Bakini?  Pow der  m akes th e   WHITEST. 
LIGHTEST and m ost  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT   and be convinced. 
P repared only by the
Arctic  Manufacturing  Co.,

GRAND  RABIDS.  MICH.

JA M ES C. A V ERY . 

James C. Avery & Co

GEO. E .  H U B B A R D .

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

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

gars;

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.

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

Manufactured  Tobacco.

H. LEONARD l  SONS,
Crockery, Glassware & Lamps

Importers  and Jobbers  of

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS  FOR

M e s ,  Taylor 
Wedgewood  &  Co/s  English  Ware.

AND

k Knies’  American  W.  ü  faro.

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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SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

The Old  Gentleman 111  from  a  Complica­

tion  of Disorders.

Cant H ook Corners, March 9,1885.

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

Dear Sir—I trust you will pardon me for 
addressing you, as I am a  stranger; but  mj 
name is no doubt somewhat  familiar to you 
through your friend and correspondent,  Mr. 
Soliman Snooks.

I thought it my duty,  being  his  confiden­
tial head clerk, to tell you that the Squire is 
very sick and  unable  to  write  to  you. 
In 
fact, he is not  even  able to  request  me to 
write, or to dictate a letter to me.

The old gentleman’s sickness was probab­
ly caused primarily  by his  worriment  over 
the late skating rink trouble in  the  church.
He thought that the  rink  was  the  prime 
cause of all the trouble and the  breaking up 
of the revival at the Comers.  Mr.  Wilkins 
tried to show him that the rink  only precip­
itated the inevitable; but Mr.  Snooks, being 
a very kind hearted and  consciencious man, 
would take it to  heart.  He  took  a  chill, 
sore throat, pain in  the  back,  three  Dovers 
powders, two  Comp. Cath. Pills, a gargle of 
Zinc Sulph., Ten  Grains  of  Quinine  and a 
Seidlitze Powder, but all in vain.  We think 
he would have got  better  within  two  days, 
had it not been for the  doctors.  Dr. C. Mi­
nor Kobb was first called in and after  mak­
ing  an  examination  of  the patient’s  pulse, 
tongue, throat  and  temperature, he  shook 
his head in a solemn and impressive manner 
and pronounced the case one of acute Inter- 
remittant Tonsillitis  Oigantus.  This  big 
name knocked the old  man  out in the  fiist 
round, and he began to lose his  mind.  All 
that night he raved about  “widde-rs,”  fools, 
rinks, drummers and business matters.

About  one  o’clock  a.  m.  he  seemed to 
think he was selling goods, for he sprang up 
in bed suddenly  and  said,  “Only 9  cents, 
madam!  Ten yards be  enough—All right”
_and before we could stop him, he  grabbed
one side of a sheet and tore  it  from  Maine 
to California, saying,  “What  kind of  trim­
mings do you want with  this?”

Dr. Kobb dosed him with calomel and put 
three mustard plasters on  his  back, but  die 
old gent did not mend, even under this treat­
ment.  So we sent for Dr. Jacob  Trotter, of 
Grumbleton.

He pronounced the case to be  Epigastric j 
Hypertrophy of the  Hepatic  Conglomer­
It was lucky for  the  patient  that he 
ate. 
could not 
ar this, for it  would  have  sent 
him to grass in no time.

The two doctors would not consult togeth­
er, being of different schools, but Dr. Trotter 
put one drop of Tinct. Aconite in half a pint 
of water and gave directions to give one tea­
spoonful every three hours.

I said to Bill Simmons,  the  other  clerk: 
“If that drop of aconite don’t get  swamped, 
before it has wandered  around  among  the 
various chemicals in the old  man’s  internal 
construction  fifteen  minutes, then I am no 
drug clerk.”

To-day he is some better aud  is  sleeping.
I think that when he  gets  able  to  eat  the 
twenty or thirty kinds  of  jellies,  etc.,  that 
have been sent in by the ladies, he will gain 
fast.

Very  Respy. Yours,

A lgeron P. B anks, 

Clerk for Soliman Snooks. 

[The announcement of Mr. Snooks’ illness 
will cause  genuine  regret  among  the  busi­
ness men of Michigan, many of whom  have 
perused his letters  with  much  interest. 
It 
is to be hoped that under the watchful  care 
of two physicians—one from each  school of 
medicine—he will speedily recover his health 
and be able to  resume  his  contributions  to 
The  T radesman.  Until  such  time,  Mr. 
Banks will confer a favor on his  employer’s 
friends by making them acquainted with his 
condition by way of a weekly  letter  to  this 
paper.—Ed.]

, 

Poor  Skim  Cheese.

“The poorest kind  of  skim  cheese till re­
cently,”  says  the  Chicago  Tribune,  “was 
that made from  milk  which  had previously 
yielded up about three pounds of butter from 
each 100 pounds of  milk.  The  centrifugal 
process  takes  out  four or four and one-half 
pounds  of  butter  from 100 pounds of milk, 
and then makes  cheese  out  of  the  latter. 
The result is a “cheese” that will not  keep. 
It  goes  to  pieces  in about thirty days, and 
long  before  the  end  of  that  time is  only 
poor trash at best.  There  are  many thous­
ands of boxes of tlxe stuff  now 1« the  South 
which cannot find  a  market,  and  probably
not less than 15,000 boxes more  which  will
be dumped  into  the  river  because  nobody 
will eat it, and it is of no  value  even as ma­
nure.”

The moss crop of Florida, says the Pensa­
cola Commercial, is  worth  more  than  the 
cotton crop, and can be put on  the  market 
at less expense.  The  demand  exceeds the 
supply, and there is  not a county  in  which 
this product is not going to waste.

J. Lloyd Brezee, late editor  and  proprie­
tor of the now defunct Detroit Times, refers 
to Soliman  Snooks’  letters  as  “literary  ar­
senic” and further declares  that  when  ’the 
writer drops into poetry the result is “rhyth­
mical strychnine.”

Many physicians of small practice in Lon­
don keep drug shops, and on  certain  hours 
each day see patients, prescribe, give advice, 
and furnish medicine for one  shilling  each 
patient. 

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