GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  22,  1885.

NO. 83.

Y O L .  2.

If you are selling goods to make 

RETAILERS, W. N. FULL ER& GO
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WASHING  POWDEB.

Engravers on Wood,
Fine  Mechanical and  Furniture Work, In­

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

DESIGNERS  AND

cluding Buildings, Etc.,

GRAND RAPIBS 

a profit,  sell

MICH.

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

FIXING  PROFITS.

A Most Important Feature of Business Life
As no one transacts  business for the mere 
pleasure attending barter and sale, or devotes 
time  and  capital  for  the  sole  purpose  of 
changing the form  of  his possessions  with­
out adding  to  their  quality  or  value,  we 
are safe in considering  that  all  mercantile 
pursuits have for their aim  the obtaining of 
a higher price for an article  than  was  paid 
for it.  This  being  granted, we  may go a 
step further and assume that  everyone is al­
so desirous of receiving the  largest  possible 
income from the capital invested in his  bus­
iness, and hence wishes the  greatest  profits 
he can obtain.  This state  of  affairs is  cer­
tainly as natural as  it  is  universal, but al­
though possessed by  all  business  men  the 
way in which the end is to be be  compassed 
is different with each,  and  frequently  two 
experienced merchants will differ absolutely 
upon ways of  conducting  the  same line of 
business.  Oue great  point  of  discussion is 
regarding the amount  of  profit  that  can be 
obtained from a stock of goods, and in  what 
way the rate of advance should be figured in 
marking a selling price  upon  goods, new or 
old, as the case may be.

Nothing can be more important  than  this 
very point.  As a  rule  a  dealer  does  not 
know at what price his  neighbor  and  rival 
is selling certain lines of goods, and fears to 
add a large rate of profit  lest he be consider­
ed exorbitant in his charges and  lose  trade. 
This fact often leads to a  price  being  fixed 
which does not pay a living  profit, and  dis­
aster is the result.  Or,  it may  happen, hav­
ing a monopoly of the  goods  he  offers,  he 
adds such a percentage to the  cost  that his 
customers are driven in self  defense to pur­
chase in another  city, or  else it  affords  an 
opening for a  second  establishment  that is 
satisfied with a lower rate of  advance.  Be­
tween these two dilemmas the  inexperienc­
ed dealer frequently comes to  grief,  and ev­
en old merchants make serious  mistakes in 
pricing the goods they .offer for sale.
GThere are two ways of  fixing  the  selling 
price upon new goods just received in stock. 
The first is to make a selling  price from the 
cost without regard to the  goods;  the  other 
is to mark the goods according to your judg­
ment of their selling  value without  regard 
to their cost.  We say these two ways apply 
to new goods only, because old  goods  have 
other rules governing them, no less positive, 
bui differing  widely from  these. 
In their 
case we have past experience as a guide. 
If 
an article seems to attract attention  and the 
price is constantly asked  but  no  one  pur­
chases, it is a fair  inference  that  you  are 
asking more than it is worth, and  the  price 
should  be  lowered.  Or,  perhaps,  certain 
pieces have been in stock  for a  long  time, 
and it is difficult to dispose of a remnant re­
maining on  hand; a  decided  reduction  is 
then advisable, and rarely fails to  have  the 
desired result.  On the other  hand,  certain 
goods may be scarce in  market, and  the de­
mand large; or a dealer judges  from certain 
indications that he can  obtain  for  a  vase 
more money than the price marked  upon it. 
In either case, an advance  in  price  is  the 
natural sequence that is justified by the  sit­
uation.

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL  STREET.

G.ROYS £  CO

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

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NEW  GOODS.  New 
Prices down to the whale­
bone.  Goods always sale­
able, and always reliable. 
Buy close and  often.

P E T E K   DOE.AIT, 

Attom ey-at-Law,

Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

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

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  SO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

EDMUND  D.  DIKEMAN,

JEWELER

44  CANAL  STREET,

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

Price-List.M M  (M eal Go.
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

Parties having potatoes in car load lots 

can  find  a  quick sale for them 

by writing us.

■71 Canal St-,

. !  DAYIS & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Van’s  Magic  Oil,

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Hazeltine,  Perkins  &  Co.,  Grand  Rapids;  H. 
Walsh & Son, Holland.  Manufactured by 
N.  G. VANDERLINDE,  Muskegon.

INK,  JONES 
Fine Perfumes,

Manufacturers  of

CO,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

K.EMIRTI£.’S

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78  W est  Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

MICHIGAN,

Special Attention given to  Collections  in City 

or  Country.  Also

FIRE,  LIFE &  ACCIDENT

Insurance,

Shoe and Leather..................................... Boston
Cooper..............................................Dayton, Ohio
Union........................................Pittsburgh,  Pa.
Germania................................. Cincinnati,  Ohio

General  Collectors,

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

Total Assets represented, $3,516,808. 
TOWER  &  CHAPLIN
16 Houseman Block  -  Grand Rapids

Hardwood  w er !

To  a  Purchaser  who  w ill  take our entire 

cut, we  offer an  exceptional bargain.

Nichols  &  Higgins

MORLEY,  MICH.

| bitant for staple  articles,  and  it  is  proper  chattel  mortgage.  First of all,  no matter if j 
| that they should, as the risks are correspond- j the borrower offers you a bonus the size of a ; 
ingly greater.  There is also  the  danger of ’ barn  door,  don’t  be  tempted  to  taint  the 1 
breakage that is no small factor in  the  cost j transaction with usury.  Take  the  legal in- 
of ornamented articles. 
i  terest and no more,  excepting  the  few dol-
Another great danger attending  this  plan  lars  that  may  be  charged  by  the lawyer 

shows more  prominently  when  goods are  or notary to draw and file the mortgage.
purchased at a price that is higher or  lower 
than the fixed rate. If you have paid more for 
the goods than the regular price, even though 
they may be worth what  you  have  paid, a 
fixed rate of advance will cause  the price to 
seem high. 
If, on the other hand, you have 
by means of auction sales or in  some  other 
way, purchased them far below  the  proper 
cost, you rob yourself by charging  only the 
regular advance, especially when, as  is usu­
ally the case, the goods  cannot  be  replaced, 
when sold by others at the  same  low price. 
You are then obliged to advance the price to 
its old place, and have probably not sold one 
piece more than'you would  at  the  regular 
rate.

Possibly you may not understand the phi­
losophy  of  a  chattel  mortgage. 
It  is this:
Possession  of  personal  property  raises the 
presumption that you are the sole and entire 
owner of it.  Now,  in  that  case,  with  cer­
tain exemptions in case you are a household­
er, the  law  makes  your  personal  property 
primarily liable  for  the  payment  of  your 
debts.  The dry goods merchant  and grocer 
trust you because they see you in possession 
of several  thousand  dollars’  worth  of  per­
sonal property.  You. have a well furnished 
home to which they know you  are  attached 
and  which  they  feel  sure  you will not de­
sert.  Your piano  alone  would  pay  for  all 
of the groceries which you may have bought 
for six  months.  Now,  then,  if  the  law al­
lowed you to run up on account at the butch­
ers’, and to say  to  the  sheriff:  “Oh,  you) 
can’t touch this  property,  I’ve pledged it to 
John Doe as collateral to my note, which he 
holds,” it would be permitting you to perpe­
trate a fraud on your neighbor  for which he 
would  have no redress.

The second way mentioned  is  to  inspect 
carefully the goods and mark them arbitrari­
ly at what you consider  their  selling value. 
Were your judgment infallible aud unerring 
this plan could not be  improved, but  unfor­
tunately we are all  liable  to  mistakes, and 
no man living could  thus  fix  a  price  for 
goods, no matter how well informed he may 
be upon  the  subject. 
It must be  borne in 
mind that in all probability  your  neighbors 
have  these  very  goods,  and  your  prices 
should bear some slight  relative  proportion 
to theirs, or a feeling of distrust  will be en­
gendered with your customers that will work 
mischief for you.

Hence, you see, that a chattel  mortgage is 
simply forcing a man to tell  the  world  that 
he has borrowed  money  on  his furniture or 
other personal property,  and  that  although 
he still continues to keep it, yet in reality he 
does not own it.  As  you  will  readily  per­
ceive, this is only  fair  to  the boot and shoe 
dealer  and  grocer,  and  all  the  rest of the 
world.  The chattel mortgage is peculiar.  It 
only runs for one year. 
It must be renewed 
—that is, re-filed at the end of every  twelve 
months, and generally it must be  re-filed on 
some one of the last thirty days of the year, 
not a  minute  before.  A  chattel  mortgage 
must  be  signed,  sealed  and  witnessed.  A 
copy  or  the  original  must  be  filed in the 
office of the clerk of the town, city or  coun­
ty, as  the  statute  may  specify.  A  full in­
ventory  of  all  of  the  property  must be at­
tached to it, and  signed  by  the giver of the 
mortgage.

“ I just bought one a few days ago from-----
for 30 cents.” 
I  told  him  I  could  not, by 
any means, afford to sell mine for that price, 
and he left. 
I  then  sat  down  and wrote a 
note to the proprietor of that store  and  told
him th a t-----had come to my store and had
said that he bought a certain file of a certain 
clerk in his  store  for  30  cents.  The  mer­
chant  called  up  his  clerk and asked him if 
he had sold that file for 30 cents.  The clerk 
denied it, and said that he had sold it for  40 
cents, and said, “Bring him to my place and 
see if he denies it.”  Thus  was  this  custo­
mer exposed.  This  morning  who  should 
come in my store but the man who could buy 
a  file  for 30 cents a few blocks  off,  and he 
bought the same kind of file from  me for 40 
cents.  You see that, by exposing  the  trick 
to all the merchants, it will stop the practice 
when  buyers  see  that  their game will not 
work.

Now, I have discussed this question to the 
best of my ability.  1  would  like to see let­
ters from other merchants iu  regard to any­
thing they may think  of  benefit to the mer­
chants of the country.

Mail  Orders.

From the Chicago Grocer’s Bulletin.

Much of the disagreeable,  jarring  friction 
experienced by  many  retail  merchants  in 
their business is due to  carelessness  about 
“details.”  Some  men  are  gifted  with  a 
“knack” of doing everything as it sltould  he 
done in a careful, methodical manner.  Their 
books  are always kept posted, every account 
is accurate, every bill is paid when  due, ev­
ery clerk is required to  conform  to  proper 
regulations—is courteous,  tidy  and efficient 
—every part of the store is the perfection of 
neatness, every parcel is  promptly delivered 
when promised, and every  order  for  goods 
clearly  written  in  plain, unmistakable lan­
guage.  This class of men is not  rare, but it 
is regretted that they are  not  more  numer­
ous. 
It takes  but little more  work to run a 
store on this principle than after the sloven­
ly fashion which  characterizes  the  conduct 
of many we have  seen.  The  former  plan 
mhkes friends, draws patronage, brings pros­
perity, and the merchant is enabled to enjoy 
himself; the  latter  makes  enemies, repels 
patronage, invites loss, and burdens the mer­
chant with all sorts of annoyances.

The proper course to pursue and only true 
way is a combination  of  these  two.  First, 
find what would be the  selling  price of an 
article under examination  if a certain  fixed 
advance were added; then  having  obtained 
the figures see if the piece is in  your  judg­
ment worth the price, or if more or less. 
If 
specially  desirable,  increase  the  price  as 
mucli as you think safe. 
If  undesirable,  do 
not hesitate to reduce the price, aud in some 
cases a large reduction at once is  far  better 
than holding the goods at a  high  rate  for a 
year only to dispose of them at auction or at 
a ruinous price.

Above all things do not ask too high a rate 
of profit.  The days of big profits  are gone. 
‘Quick sales and small profits”  is  now  the 
rule, although sometimes the  first  part  of 
the precept is omitted.  There  is  so  much 
competition now-a-days in business  that the 
scram vie for supremacy leaves  little  oppor­
tunity for monopolies  and  big  prices, and 
those who accept this situation  and  meet it 
in the spirit of the times are  the  wise, suc­
cessful men, and those who neglect the signs 
and warnings are soon laid upon  the  shelf.
Much harm may be done also by selling at 
too low a price.  None can  tell  in  advance 
what will be his expenses and breakage dur- 
the year, and if the margin left be too small 
failure is the result.

Nor do customers  have  confidence  in  a 
house that makes too great a talk  about low 
profits, feeling sure that  the  average  must 
be met by selling inferior goods or  marking 
some  articles  very  low  as  “leaders”  and 
making it up on other  things.  Usually this 
is so.

J. P. Harp in the American Merchant.

How  to  Head  Off the  Lying  Buyer.

In conclusion,  let me state that the validi­
Those men  who  are  perpetually “wrong 
ty of a  chattel  mortgage  always  depends 
side up” in business matters  are, it is sad to 
upon the validity of the debt to secure which 
it is given, aud that  although  the  mortgage 
say, the very men who will  insist  the  most 
vehemently that it is they who are right and
may stipulate that the  borrower  shall be al­
lowed  to  remain  in  peaceful  possession of I tire balance of the world wrong: they  could
not  make a  mistake—you  are  always  at 
the property, yet the  moment he  commits a 
fault; they are not  negligent  or  careless— 
breach  of  any  of  the  mortgage  covenants, 
you are the culpable party.  These men nat­
the lender or mortgagee may  instantly  step 
urally are constantly finding  fault  with ev­
in and  seize  the  property.  But in order to 
erybody and everything. 
In ordering goods 
“foreclose” or shut off all outside claims, the 
they seem to take a special delight in scrawl­
holder of the mortgage must give  public no­
ing their words in hieroglyphics that no mor­
tice, generally seven days, and sell at auction 
tal could decipher:  the  different 
items  in­
sale to the highest bidder.  Until the sale is 
stead of having a line for each, are  huddled 
completed,  the  borrower  always  has  the 
into as few  lines as  possible,  and  adorned 
right to step in, pay up and take his  proper­
with a liberal assortment of  blots.  The fig­
ty.  Be very careful that you comply  strict­
ures are,  if anything, worse than the letters. 
ly with the provisions  of  the  law upon the 
The description of the articles wanted is ap­
subject,  or  you may find that your  fancied 
propriately vague, or else  entirely  omitted. 
security has  melted  into  something  a good 
Often  the  writer  forgets all about  date or 
deal thinner than thin air.
address, or even giving his name.  The  job­
ber or manufacturer receiving an  order thus 
composed is expected to divine just what the 
retailer wants; should he fail in the attempt, 
the chances are the next  mail  would  bring 
an indignant note, declaring that  the  goods 
sent were not as ordered or  wanted, that re­
clamations  should be  allowed on  this and a 
special discount on that; or it is quite likely 
the whole matter  would  be  summarily  dis­
posed of by a notification to  the  effect that 
the goods were  held  subject  to  his  order. 
The importance of  writing  all  orders in a 
clear, distinct hand, giving  to  each  item a 
line by itself, and also of being explicit as to 
the brand or description  of  goods  wanted, 
cannot  be  over-estimated  if  the  retailer 
would avoid trouble. The necessity of examin 
ing all goods promptly on arrival if he would 
guard against loss or  doing  in j ustice to the 
shipper, is also evident. 
If they do not suit, 
let them communicate with the seller before 
returning them.  The  latter  might  readily 
adjust the difference  through  an  explana­
tion.  Flying  into a passion is  not a  good 
remedy for presumed injustice.

In my opinion  merchants  ought  to  meet 
each  other  at  least once a month to expose 
the  dead-beats  who  make  a  habit of going 
from  store  to  store  and  beating  the  retail 
merchants out  of  goods.  By  holding  such 
meetings there is another class of customers 
that you can find out, and a class which does 
much  more  harm  to  legitimate  profits of 
storekeepers than most of them have an idea 
of. 
I mean the lying class,  who,  whenever 
you sell them an article, no matter with how 
small  a  profit,  tell  you  that  Mr. So-and-so 
sells that article for so much, when you pos­
itively know that the article cost more  than 
he says the other party offered it to him for. 
Many storekeepers  will  say  to  themselves, 
“Well, if he  can  afford  to do it I can, too,” 
and thus they aie induced to sell  an  article 
that costs three  dollars  a  dozen for twenty- 
five  cents  just  because  the  lying customer 
says  that  somebody  else  does  it.  At  the 
same  time  lie  wonders  how the other mer­
chant can afford  to  sell  goods  in  that way 
and  pay  rent,  clerk  hire,  living  expenses, 
etc.  The  parties  who  do  this  can he very 
easily  found  out  by  making  a  note of  the 
name  of  any  customer  who  comes in that 
way, and  putting  down  the name of the ar­
ticle that he says he bought and the price of 
anything that he says can he bought cheaper 
than you can sell  it  yourself,  and  also  the 
name of the merchant, and in your  monthly 
meeting you can discuss this  matter  quietly 
and you can find out the parties  who  make 
a habit of doing this. 
In  this  way you can 
stop the practice, for you will know the pur­
pose when such a  customer  starts  the little 
game with you, and  thereby  make a living 
profit on your goods.

There can be no doubt respecting  the  re­
sponsibly of manufacturers and  jobbers for 
ssme  of  the  differences  arising  between 
themselves and their  patrons, and that they 
should be held to account for all  just delin­
quencies; but they have more direct  interest 
than the retailer in avoiding any collision of 
this sort, and it may be  assumed  therefore 
are less frequently  at  fault.  Whatever the 
circumstances, however, a courteous manner 
on the part of  both  will  invariably  prove 
most business-like  and  profitable, and  the 
more worthy of true business men.

Bacl  Memory.

This is a serious  matter,  and  every  mer­
chant  will  find  it  so  for  himself if he just 
thinks  of  it  seriously  for  a while. 
In no 
other  way  that  I can think of can the mer 
chants of a  place  break  up  serious inroads 
on business as by meeting once a month and 
finding out the chronic dead-beats  and  lying 
customers.

Only  yesterday  1  found  out  and  caught 
one of these liars.  He  came in and wanted 
to buy a file  that  cost  me  $3.50  per dozen. 
I asked him 40 cents for it  “Why,” he said,

“Captain,” said a grocer  keeper,  address 
ing  a  well-known  gentleman,  “do  you  re­
member that sack of  flour you ordered some 
time ago?”

“Oh, yes, I remember it.”
“I suppose so, but 1 don’t  remember  that 

you ever paid for it.”

“My  dear  sir,  1  am  not  responsible  for 
your bad memory. 
I  have  remembered my 
part of it  Memory is a peculiar faculty and 
is susceptible of great cultivation.  Some  of 
the Grecians could repeat volumes of poetry. 
Well, good morning.”

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

ALBERT  COYE  i
AWNINGS,  TENTS,

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HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

State Agents for the

WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  SUPPORT. 

SEND  FOR PRICES.

73  Canal  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

m m i WEATHERLY  & CO.,

Grand Rapids, Mich., 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

IRON  PIPE,

Brass Goods,  Iron  and  Brass  Fittings, 

Mantels,  Grates, Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam Fitters,
—And Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

JA M ES  C.  A V ER Y .

GEO.  E .  H U BB A RD .

James C. Avedy & Go

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

Manufacturers of the  following brands  of Ci­

gars;

Great  Scott,  Demolai  No.  5, 

Eldorado,  Doncella, 

Avery’s  Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.

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

Manufactured  Tobacco.

We have said that the first way of pricing 
goods is to consider the cost without thought 
of selling  value.  Very  many  dealers  will 
sit down to a desk  and  prepare a  string of 
tags and gum labels for new goods with sell­
ing price attached, without  having  seen the 
goods, or perhaps not knowing  the  class to 
which  they  belong,  or  having  purchased 
from the house before.  They  argue that in 
order to meet their expenses and pay a prof­
it their goods must be marked to sell at such 
a rate of advance, and  therefore  taking the 
cost price they add  to  it  the  fixed  rate of 
profit  and  the  sum is their  selling  price. 
The disadvantages of this  mode of  proced­
ure are obvious to  most,  although  it is as­
tonishing how  many  shrewd  business men 
follow this plan.  A dealer said to me once: 
“1 can tell each night just exactly what prof­
it I have made during the day.”  This state­
ment is absurd,  as a dealer never can tell ex­
actly how much  he  has  made  even  after 
stock has been taken and the  books  closed 
at the end of the year. 
It is  only an aprox­
ímate result that has been reached then that 
is more or less acurate, and  to  say  at  the 
close of the day, “I  have  made so many dol­
lars to-day, because I  have  sold  so  many 
goods at such a rate of profitf’ is to  deceive 
himself.  He cannot tell what  his expenses 
are for that day, what bad debts  have  been 
contracted, or what accidents may have lead 
to breakage in his stock.

If a dealer marks all his goods at  a  fixed 
rate of  advance  his  desirable  goods  will 
speedily be all sold and only  the  undersir- 
able ones remain to form dead or old  stock, 
even though they may not  have  been  one 
week upon the  shelves.  You  reply, do not 
bfiy undesirable  goods.  Theoretically  this 
is correct, hut practically it unavoidable, and 
the desirable goods must sell  and  pay  for 
the undesirable.  The smaller percentage of 
the latter that is purchased for  your  stock, 
the smaller will be the rate of profit at which 
you can afford to sell, and the  greater  your 
income from your  business.  Fancy  goods 
especially cannot be  priced  unseen.  Many 
novel shapes  or  decorations  should  pay a 
profit that would rightly be considered exor-

Fair  profits,  good  quality,  and  honest 
dealing by all, is the true rule  for  business 
success.
Loaning; Money  on  a  Chattel  Mortgage.
The  successful  business  man  is beset by 
many dangers. 
In saying this,  I  do not re­
fer  so  much  to  injuries  that  may come to 
him  from  the  hands of  his enemies as I do 
to the snares and  pitfalls  that  his so-called 
friends may, at  times  unwittingly,  place  in 
his path to  greatly  obstruct,  if  not  perma­
nently  check,  his  advance  to  wealth, posi­
tion and influence.  The  very  moment that 
the world becomes cognizant of the fact that 
you  are  “making  money,”  as  it terms it, a 
thousand  and  one  flatterers,  with  soft eye 
and honeyed tongue, will  gather  about you. 
At the outset you would imagine they  were 
literally yearning  to  loan  you  money.  At 
the  slightest  provocation  they  snatch their 
well-filled  (with notices  of  protest)  pocket- 
books  from  their  pockets  aud  exclaim: 
“Why, dear fellow, do you want any money? 
Just name the sum.”  You’ll notice, howev­
er, that they never get any farther than this. 
It’s a game they play.  They  will  continue 
to drink your liquors and smoke your cigars, 
the while besmearing you with the lubricant 
of  compliment  and  flattery  preparatory  to 
swallowing  you.  For  just  as  sure  as  the 
coming  of  the  tax  collector, such a friend 
will, in the end, strike  you  for  a loan.  On 
general principles, I say to you:  Never lend 
—never  borrow.  That  should  be  law in 
business matters;  but we let  equity  temper 
the  severity  of  law,  and  so there will be 
cases where you’ll not be  able  to say “No.” 
Some real  friend, tried and  true,  may  need 
temporary assistance.  Business is business, 
In money matter, sentiment goes to the wall, 
Therefor, first, take  his note for the amount 
loaned, and second,  let  him execute a mort­
gage  on  his  chattels  for twice at least the 
amount of the note, and make  it payable on 
demand.  This is for his protection  as  well 
as your own, for if  he goes down and credi­
tors crowd him into  a  hole,  you  will  hold 
the whip-hand, and may  show  him  all  the 
mercy that you choose.

Now, as to the nature  and  substance of a

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Mam4cturing Interests of the State.

,E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  APRIL  22.  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized, at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

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

Post A , M.  C.T.  A.

Oi'ganized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

OFFICERS.

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second  Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh.
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
Regular  Meetings—Last Saturday evening in 
each month.
Next  Meeting—Saturday  evening,  April 25, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

Grand Rapids Post T. P. A.

Organized at Grand Rapids, April 11,1885.
President—Geo. F. Owen.
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.
Treasurer—James Fox.
Next Meeting—Saturday  evening,  May  2, at 
‘"Hie Tradesman” office.

Howard  City  wheels  into  line  with  a 
Business Men’s  Association,  for  protection 
against dead-beats  and  the  improvement of 
wagon roads leading to the place.

T he  Tradesm an’s  realm  of  rascals  re­
ceives another addition this week in the per- 
sin of Peter Ross,  of  Way land,  who is wil­
ling  to  stultify  himself  and  wife  for  the 
small sum of $364.94.

The  name  “Grand  Rapids”  has  usually 
been a  synonym for  enterprise  and  aggres­
siveness;  but  Traverse  City  and  Howard 
City are  both  a  long  ways  ahead of her in 
one  important  particular—the  organization 
of the retail trade.  Grand Rapids was never 
caught  napping,  and  must  not take a back 
seat in this respect.

The quotations published in The Trades­
man are intended for cash  buyers, and  for 
those who buy  in  full  packages.  Dealers 
who  pay when it “comes handy,” and  who 
buy in broken packages  should  not  expect 
to receive the same concessions at the hands 
of the jobbing trade as  the  more  desirable 
class of customers.

To traduce the traveling man has been the 
favorite diversion  of  both  press  and pulpit 
for years past. 
It  has  only  been  within  a 
comparatively short  period  that he has been 
able to obtain a respectful  hearing, and can­
dor compels even his enemies to admit  that 
he  can  dissipate  many  of  the  allegations 
made against him.  It remains for a woman’s 
pen,  however,  to  place  him  in  the  proper 
light before  the  traveling  public,  and  the 
sympathetic  grace  with  which  she  accom­
plishes her object  is  sufficient to give her a 
warm place in the  heart  of  every traveling 
man in the land.

Hardware dealers  throughout  this  terri­
tory should be on the look  out  for itinerant 
hardware peddlers who sail under the name 
of the “Great Eastern  Hardware Co.”  The 
men comprising the concern travel by wagon 
from town to town, carrying a line of “snide” 
goods, which they hawk about the streets or 
dispose of at auction sale.  As  soon as  they 
appear in a town, the  reputable  dealers  of 
the place  should  see  that  the  fellows are 
compelled to pay the usual  license, and that 
the general public is made aware of  the un­
reliable quality of the goods  carried by  the 
strangers.  The Tradesm an  will  have oc­
casion to refer to this  subject  again  in the 
immediate future.

Another Stock Company.

Tongue, Knight & Co., the South Division 
street artificial stone and  sewer  pipe manu­
facturers, have merged their  business into a 
stock company, under  the  corporate  name 
of the Grand Rapids Sewer Pipe and  Build- 
idg Stone Co.  The capital stock of the new 
corporation is  $50,000,  $4,425  of  which is 
subscribed and fully paid in.  The incorpor­
ators are  Freeman  Lathrop,  M. W. Bates, 
A. II.  Tongue,  Samuel  Knight,  Thos.  E. 
Wykes, E. A. Burrill, E. A. Barnard and C. 
W. Stevens, of  Lansing.  The  officers  are 
as follows:

President—C. W. Stevens.
Secretary and Manager—A. II. Tongue.
Treasurer—Thos. E. Wykes.
The works of the establishment are being 
removed  from  South  Division  street  to a 
more eligible location  on  Fifth  avenue, to 
which a spur railway track can be construct­
ed.  It is the intention of the new  company 
to push the manufacture of its products  the 
coming season, doing a large  outside  trade.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Kemink, Jones & Co. have added a line of 
cigars to their perfumery  and  extract  busi­
ness. 

________________

Brown & Sehler  succeed  E.  T.  Brown & 

Co. in the agricultural implement business.
Beecher & Kymer, of this  city,  have  pur­
chased the drug stock of Dr. Geo. A. Bailey, 
at Elk Rapids.

G. F. Meyer, of  this  city,  lias  purchased 
the  Chicago  bakery  of  Henry  Elends,  at 
Muskegon, and will continue the business.

The Hoptonic Co. has  leased  one of  the 
stores in the Gilbert block, on Ottawa street, 
and will immediately begin the manufacture 
and sale of bitters at that location.

S. A. Holmes &  Co.  have  engaged in  the 
grocery business at South Haven. Gray, Burt 
& Kingman  furnished  the  stock, the  order 
being placed with Frank Emery, of this city.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

B. M. Stewart, general dealer at  Mecosta, j 

is dead.

have dissolved.

store at Bellaire.

Chapman &  Perrine,  grocers  at  Albion, 

H. S. Miller, of Coleman, will start  a drug 

Daggett Bros, succeed A. B. Pray in  gen­

eral trade at Eureka.

A. Z. Moore has  engaged  in  the  grocery 

business at Big Rapids.

H. W. Robson succeeds Robson & Blair in 

general trade at Edmore.

John Henning, baker  and  confectioner at 

Springs.

St. Joseph, is selling out.

Hunt & Beecher, grocers  at  Mason, have 

dissolved, each continuing.

I.  J. Quick  succeeds  I. J. Quick  & Co. in 

general trade at Allendale.

Willis  &  Geib  succeed  H. N. Willis  in 

general trade at Prarieville.

Albro  &  Heidley  have  engaged  in the 

meat business at Frankfort.

Paul Rontke will  remove  his  restaurant 

from Muskegon to Manistee.

Beanot & Shaw, meat dealers at Way land, 

are reported as haying failed.

J. A. Bush and B. G. Swift will engage in 

the grocery business at Clinton.

S. Kohler succeeds  Spellman  & Pittenger 

in the meat business at Shelby.

Henry Arbour  has moved his  drug stock 

from Chippewa Lake to Muir.

Mrs. M. Fenner  succeeds  O. W. Smith in 

the millinery business at Flint.

Howard & Co. succeed  Seaman  &  Defoe 

in the drug business at Alpena.
Mears, Austin  &  Dickinson, 
Falls firm, is a thing of the past.

the  Boyne 

Alphonso Reid succeeds C. A. Baldwin in 

the grocery business at Owosso.

John Russ contemplates removing his drug 

stock from Remus to Muskegon.

Hewett & Tefft  succeed E. E.  Hewett in 

the grocery business at Rockford.

J. H. Milor  has  closed  out  his  boot  and 

and shoe stock at  Harbor Springs.

Eugene  N.  Lesderence,  boot  and  shoe 

dealer at Hamilton, is closing out.

Miles Heyser succeeds  Heyser  & Bolton 

in the grocery business at Jackson.

Jas. Allen has engaged in the tinware and 

glassware business at Cedar Springs.

A. F.  Wright,  hardware  dealer  at  St. 

Louis, has been closed by the sheriff.

D. C. Nash succceeds  Henry  E.  Bradley 

in the grocery business at Buchanan.

W. D. Chatterdon succeeds Kirk & Starke 

in the boot and shoe business at Lowell.

D. P. Clay is removing the Harrison stock 

of general goods from Sparta to Newaygo.

Edson Howard  succeeds  Howard & Tay 

lor in the furniture business at Gobleville.

Badger & Morton succeed  John L. Benja­
min in the boot and shoe business at Romeo.
Jas.  McAdams  succeeds  McAdams  & 
Brown in the dry goods  business  at  Cadil­
lac.

Theron Stafford, formerly engaged in trade 
at Ravenna,  has gone to  Washington  Terri­
tory.

Geo. Rankert  has  engaged  in  the  grain, 
provision and commission business at Vicks­
burg.

F. A. Montgomery succeeds  John Oyer in 
the drygoods and grocery business at Spring- 
port.

Thompson, Stuart & Co.  succeed  Thomp 
son & Stuart in the milling business at Cros- 
welL

F. R. Goodrich  has  bought  the  boot  and 
shoe  stock  of  Roland  &  Co.,  at  Traverse 
City.

J. F. Halladay  will  engage  in the whole­
sale grocery business at  Battle Creek  about 
May 1.

Frank Cady has purchased an  interest  in 
the drug establishment  of  F. W.  Fincher & 
Co., at Hart.

J. C. Townsend is  building  a  thirty  foot 
addition to the rear  of his  store  building at 
White Cloud.

It is reported  that  E.  J.  Harrington, the 
Holland  general  dealer,  will  remove  his 
stock to Dakota.

D.  A.  Boelkins  is  enlarging  his  store 
building at  Muskegon,  nearly  doubling  its 
former capacity.

Mrs. C.  L.  Kittridge  succeeds  Isaac  F. 
Plumsteel in the leather  and  findings busi­
ness at Bay City.

Hattie Thompson and Emma Dalton have 
engaged in the ladies’ furnishing  goods bus­
iness at Montague.

Hamblin, Lawrence & Tabb succeed Ham­
blin, Miller  & Co.,  wholesale  tobacco  and 
oil dealers at Owosso.

T. W. Olson is erecting a building at Mus­
kegon, which he will fill with  clothing  and 
gents’ furnishing goods.

H. D. Post contemplates the  erection of a 
new brick store building at Holland,  which 
will be occupied by P. Steketee & Co.

J. E. Mailhot’s store building  and general 
stock at West Troy was burned one day last 
week.  Loss, $8,000; insurance,  $5,000.

Henry Duncan, proprietor of Schoolcraft’s 
largest dry  goods  store, is  closing  out  his 
stock at cost and will  migrate  to, California.
Jacob Debri, the Byron Center dealer, died 
Saturday.  He had been ill some time.  The 
business will be continued by  the  wife and 
son of the  deceased,

E. U.  Stiles, a prominent business man of 
Vermontville, has the unprecedented  record 
of never having uttered  an  oath  in  his life 
except for official purposes.

Phil. Bird has  bought  the  ready  made 
clothing stock  belonging  to  the  estate  of 
John Roost, at Holland and will continue the 
business at the old location.

E. Vanderveen has begun the  erection  of 
a  brick store building on the corner of River 
and Eighth streets,  at  Holland,  which  will 
be occupied by Daniel Bertsch with his gen­
eral stock.

Jacobson & Netzorg have withdrawn from 
the clothing firm  of  H.  Wilensky & Co., at 
Mancelona.  P.  Medalie  succeeds  to  part­
nership, the firm name remaining  the  same 
as before.

Swinton  &  Reynolds,  of  East  Saginaw, 
have  purchased the stock  and  business of 
the Michigan Paper Co., at  that  place, and 
consolidated  it  with  their  own  book  and 
stationary stock.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

White Cloud wants a grist mill.
A new tannery  is  to  be  built  at  Harbor 

R. Weertmau  has  lately  added a cracker 

machine to his bakery at Zeeland.|

J. J. Iieik has traded  his  livery  business 
at Evart for a steam grist mill  at  Blissfield.
Mr. Hamilton has  been  elected  president 
and W. S. Kimball secretary  of the  Clinton 
Woolen Mills.

The Dowagiac Manufacturing Co. shipped 
a carload of harrows  and  seeders  to  New 
York Saturday.

Cleaver & Son have  bought  the  foundry 
belonging to the estate of R. Sheldon & Co. 
at Houghton.

Grimes &  Fleming,  millers  at  Williams- 
ton, have given-a realty mortgage for $18,000, 
and been attached.

The Belding Manufacturing  Co. employes 
75 men and  has  made over  3,000  refrigera­
tors since last October.

Caro citizens will make  an  effort  to raise 
a bonus for the individual who  will  embark 
in the roller process flour business there.

The Delhi Mills recently closed  by an  as­
signment have been leased to  an Ann Arbor 
firm and will soon  be  ginding  away as usu­
al.

Schubburgs  &  Schvarts  have  started  up 
their stave factory  at  Good  Harbor.  They 
have about  600 cords  of  elm  bolts to work 
up.
i  The new tub  and  pail  factory at'Caro is 
; now enclosed. 
It is 28x46 in  size  and  two 
! stories high.  The  dry  kiln  will  be  18x50 
feet in size.

The Mason  Lumber  Co., at Alpena,  has 
sold all the lumber on its dock,  and  has  se­
cured 18,000,000 feet of logs for the  coming 
season’s cut.

W. McConnell & Sons have  sold their en­
tire business enterprises at Pierson, including 
the Empire flouring mill and three fine  resi­
dences,  and  have  moved  to Chattanooga, 
Tenn.

Contracts have been made by the Diamond 
Match Co., with mills at Ontonagon, for  the 
transportation of 35,000,000  feet  of  lumber 
this season. 
It is said by  vessel  men  that 
these contracts will take  out  of  the  grain 
and ore trade quite a large  amount  of  ton­
nage.

STRAY  FACTS.

D. L. McLeod has engaged in the bottling 

business at Muskegon.

H.  M.  Cappernall,  of  Muskegon,  has 

bought a lumber yard at Duluth.

A. T. Graham succeeds  Smith &  Graham 

in the wagon business at Big Rapids.

Frank S. Postal  has  leased  his  hotel  at 
Evart to Frederick Postal  and A. O. Jenne, 
who will take possesion May 1.

The Tustin Hotel has just changed hands, 
for the sixth time in a year.  N. F. Starks is 
the latest aspirant for fame and fortune.

A Remus correspondent thus refers to one 
of the most gigantic business transactions of 
the age: “N. Denny has traded his drug stock 
for a horse and buggy.”

H. C.  Thurber,  the  well-known  lumber­
man of Marquette,  can  now  have  “Hon.” 
written before his  name, for  he  has  been 
elected mayor of  that city.

Fremont Indicator;  Fremont has plenty 
of stores, and now needs something that will 
add recruits to the tinpail  brigade.  That is 
the only way to insure  the permanent  pros­
perity of any town.

A Greenville jeweler has hit upon the fol­
lowing benevolent scheme:  To every person 
bringing  five  pounds  of  flour to his store a 
ticket entitling the  owner  to  one chance in 
the drawing of a gold watch  was  given, the 
flour  to  be  distributed  among  the  poor of 
that city.

A  Financial  Manager.

Mrs.  Peterby, of Dallas, is a woman  with 

a head for  business.

“Just see here. 

I have  bought a  beauti­
ful rocking chair at auction  worth $3, and I 
only paid $2 for  it;  so  you  see  1  have $1 
clear profit.  Don’t tell  me  after  this  that 
women have no business sense.”

“Do you need the  rocking  chair?”  asked 

Mr. Peterby.

“No.”
“Then what did you buy it for?”
“To save money, of course.  How could I 
have saved that dollar if I hadn’t  bought it, 
stupid?”

RASCALLY ROSS.

Another  Arrant  Knave  Added  to  “Tlie j

Tradesman’s”  Gallery.

About  January 1,  1883,  Peter  Ross,  of 
Wayland, owed a Grand Rapids jobber $234.- 
20.  On the destruction of his stock  by fire, 
he assigned his insurance  policy for $800 to 
a relative, to avoid the payment of the debt, 
and suffered judgment to be  entered against I 
him.  Nothing  daunted,  however, Peter re- j 
sumed business in his wife’s name, “M. M.,” 
under which cognomen he has carried on* the 
fancy goods business  with  indifferent  suc­
cess  at  Wayland,  Saugatuck,  Fennville, 
Grand Rapids  and  Allegan.  His  limited 
stock, and  still  more  limited  capital,  im­
pelled  him to  arrange  to  handle  a line  of 
goods on consignment and about four months 
ago he closed out business at  Allegan, ship­
ping his goods  to a brother-in-law  at  Way- 
land.  Since that time it has  been  impossi­
ble to secure any satisfaction from  him, and 
one of his  Grand  Rapids  creditors  has oc- 
cordingly secured  judgment  against M. M. 
Ross for the amount of his claim.  Whether 
he will pay up one of  the  two  judgments, 
change his name or carry on  business in the 
name of his  mother-in-law,  remains to  be 
seen.  He is  thoroughly  disreputable-  and 
any one having business relations  with him 
is extremely likely to receive  the  little end 
of the bargain.

The  Gripsack Brigade.

Gid Kellogg, of F. Raniville & Co., has re­
turned from  a  fortnight’s  business  trip to 
Bay City, Oscada and Tawas.

Frank Emery, with  Gray,  Burt  &  King- 
man, left Monday for  St.  Ignace and  other 
Upper Peninsula points, to be absent a week 
or ten days.

E. E. Smith has engaged to  travel  for the 
Bissell Carpet  Sweeper  Co.,  and  has  been 
assigned  to  duty  in  the  Northwest,  with 
headquarters at Minneapolis.

C. R. Dye, of Ionia, has  engaged to travel 
for John J. Bagley &  Co.,  of  Detroit.  His 
territory includes  all  toWns  on  the  line  of 
the D., G.  H. & M.  and  D.  L.  &  N.  Rail­
ways.
A traveling  man  was  assaulted  on  the 
street of a  neighboring  city  one  night  last 
week, and in referring to the  matter  a local 
newspaper  headed  the  article  “Hammered 
Brass.”

G. B.  Chapman,  otherwise  and  more  fa­
miliarly known  as  “Napoleon  Bonaparte,” 
spent a couple of  days  at  this  market  last 
week in the interest of  Henry C. Myers, the 
New York cigar  manufacturer.

Alba L. Brasted,  traveling  representative 
for C. G. A. Yoigt  &  Co.  and  the  Yoigt 
Milling Co., went  out  on  the  road  „ again 
Monday, after an enforced “lay off” of  over 
three months, on account of  the inability of 
either mill to fill orders, because of the high 
water.

Geo. Halloway, traveling  agent for Eaton 
& Christenson, met with an  accident  while 
driving  from  Yickeryville  to  Carson  City 
one day last week, which  resulted in  an in­
jury to his spine, from  the  effect of which 
he is laid on the  shelf  this  week.  Parker 
McAuley, shipping clerk  for  the  house, is 
covering the ground as  well  as possible un­
der the  circumstances.

Cliarlevoix  Chatter.
From our Regular Correspondent.

Dr. Geo. W. Crouter has formed a  copart­
nership with a  gentleman  and  pharmacist 
named Harris, and engaged in the drug bus­
iness at Ironton  under  the  firm  name  of 
Crouter & Harris.  The  new  concern  will 
carry a $1,200 stock, and buy  and  sell  for 
cash only.

The machinery in  the  Charlevoix  Manu­
facturing Co.’s  sash, door  and  blind factory 
was  started  on  April  13,  after  a  three 
months’ holiday.  The demand for  building 
materials was such that  they  could not lon­
ger remain idle.

The East Jordan  end  of  the  telephone 
wire got the county seat.  And  now  Boyne 
City, ten  miles  farther  on, wants  the  tel­
ephone and has  raised  the  required amount 
of stock  to  extend  the  line  to  that  place. 
This will make thirty-five miles  of M. B. T. 
line in our county.

The Boyne City  people  believe  that, as 
the county seat is on wheels, it will be taken 
to their  town  before  the  fight  is  ended. 
There seems to  be  a  magnet  at  the end of 
the telephone line, which  draws  heavily on 
the county seat.

Purely  Personal.

A. DeKruif, the Zeeland druggist,  was in 
town one day last week and purchased a Jer­
sey cow.

Chas. Lawson, the Morley boot  and  shoe 
dealer, was in town last  week  replenishing 
his stock.

Walter  A. Smith,  of  Jennings  &  Smith, 
called on the customers of his house  at  Big 
Rapids and Muskegon last week.

J. C. Utman, for the past few years  iden­
tified with J. E. Rice  and  Rice  &  Lillie, at 
Coopersville,  has  engaged  with  the  Ives 
Lumber Co., and will manage the company’s 
store at Hungerford.

Ludwig Winternitz, local manager for the 
Riverdale Yeast Co., and Miss Clara Kadish, 
of Chicago, were married at that  place  Sat­
urday night.  They will  take up their resi­
dence at 87 East Bridge street.

The Linderman Failure.

Assignee Nufer has  completed  an  inven 
tory of the assets and indebtedness of  A. T. 
Linderman, of Whitehall, from  which it ap­
pears that the appraised value of the  assets 
is $8,606.  The total liabilities  are $23,249.- 
21, divided  among  seventy-three  creditors, 
in amounts varying from $6,400 to $1.10.

The Southern Merchant  and  Manufac 
turer says that The Tradesman  is  a  “re­
liable, interesting and useful journal.”

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Engines and Boilers In Stock 
for  immediate  delivery.

SAIT A2TD GRIST MILL MACHINERY,

Plauers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machinery, 

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Write  for  Prices. 

130  OAKES  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

minster.

Wyman.

ams,  Ada 
ilding, Hcibart.

B. Wynhoff, Holland.
R. Weertman, Zeeland.
Mrs. G. Miller, Ryerson.
J. Meijeriilg, Isoordialoo's.
G.N. Revinolds, Bel mont.
R. G. Smit;h, Waylaiid.
Jos. H. Spires, Lero
Q. Huyser-, New Grijningen.
R. Volumi•i, Filmor«3  Center.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
John Schc>lteu, Overise!.
H. R. Hitiìhcock, Nijrtliport.
H. M. HarToun, Mc]Lain.
A.  Wsgner, Eastrnam ville.
A. DeKruif, Zeeland.
A. Norris. A. Norrisi & Son,  Casnovia.
J. C. Benilow,  CannDnsburg.
C. F. Sears, C. F. Seiars & Co., Rockford.
F. C. Willi 
D. C. Spai
O. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. 
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
H. D. Plumb, Plumb & Sons. Mill Creek.
S.  E.  Curdy,  Hadley  Bros.  Mfg. Co., West­
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
Geo. F. Richardson, Jamestown.
Wm. Hugh. Jr., Hugh & Jones,  Morley.
R. D. Wheaton,  Vermontville.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
Emmett Coon, Coon, Russell & Co.,  Baldwin. 
Lee Deuel, Bradley.
C. G. Jones, Olive Center.
John DeJongh, with C. DeJongh, Holland.
E. J. Savage, Coopersville.
J. Riley, Dorr.
Lon Pel ton, Morley.
W. H. Hicks, Moriey.
Geo. W. Bevins, Tustin.
Lester  Rice,  with  Winchester  & Lovelace, 
Chas. Lawson, Morley.
John T. Stitt, Stitt  Bros., Norwich.
E. S. Hipkins. Blanchard.
H. C. Peckham, Freeport.
C. E. Brewster, with Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
T. W. Preston, Millbrook.
N. McMillan, Rockford.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
G. B. Chambers,  W ayland.
Walling Bros., Lamont,
Dr. H. S. Baron, Forest Grove,
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
J. C. West & Co., Lowell.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
H. D. Harvey,  Bangor.
A. J. White, Bass River.
A. M. Church, Sparta.
C. Bergin,  Lowell.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
Baron &TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Geo. Carrington,  Trent.
Norman Harris, Big  Springs.
Dr. R. Gibbs, Six Corners.
5. Cooper,  Parmalee.
FredNeahr, Chippewa Lumber Co., Chippewa 
Thos. Smedley, Smedley Bros.,  Bauer.
C. R. Bunker. Bailey.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
L. L. Maxfield, Fruitport.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
D.  A.  McLeod.  McLeod  & Trautman Bros,, 
Darling & Roberts, Sparta.
Mr. Judson, Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
Zunder Bros., Bangor.
T. S. Jordan, Elmira.
F. C. Beard, Morley.
H. B. Irish,  Lisbon.
John Otis, Mancelona.
J. G. Lamoreaux, Fennville.
Dr. A. Hanlon, Middlevillle.
R.  G.  French,  T.  D. French  & Sons, Middle- 
Mr. Walbrink, I. J. Quick & Co.,  Allendale. 
A. &L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
L. H. Rice, Croton.
A.  Sickles, Walton.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
H. S. Newson. Charlevoix.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
Mrs. Calvin Durkee, Lakeview.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
M. V. Sinz, Trent.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
Ed. Roys, Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
6. P. Stark, Cascade.
H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
Ed. S. Fitch, Wayland.
Nelson Culver, Bailey.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
Joe Raymond, Berlin.
C. Deming, Dutton.
Ed. N. Parker.  Coopersville.
Snow & Cook, Moline.
E. P. Barnard, buyer New  Era  Lumber  Co., 
S. Biteley,  Pierson.
Mr. Kauter, Kauter & Son, Holland.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
F. Narragan, Byron Center.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Frank Sampson, Sampson & Drury, Cadillac. 
C. Durkee, Lakeview.
J. W. Closterhonse, Grandville.
FURNITURE  BUYERS.
C. P. Bailey, Connorsville, Ind.

Lake.

Moline.

New Era.

ville.

' AGAIN  RUNNING.

After Sixteen  Weeks of Enforced  Idleness.
The high water of the  past  four  months 
has interrupted business  in  several  impor­
tant branches, but in no  case  has the  stop­
page  entailed  greater  loss  than  with  the 
Crescent Milling Co., which  has  been  com­
pelled to lie idle during the greater  portion 
of  the  time.  The  occasion  has  been  im­
proved, however, by  the  addition  of  new 
rolls and dust collectors, as  well  as  a  con­
siderable quantity of other machinery, all of 
which serves to increase the  capacity of the 
mill and render it certain that  the  mill will 
hereafter be able  to  supply the  constantly 
increasing demand for its  well-known roller 
flour.  The proprietors have withheld no ex­
penditure  looking  to  that  end,  and  from 
present indications the object  has  been  at­
tained.

The  Crescent  mills  started up last Satur­
day and  are  now  running on  full time and 
turning out the  manufactured  product  fast 
enough to fill all orders promptly.  The fol­
lowing favorite brands, made  by  this  mill, 
commend  themselves  to  every  dealer  and 
consumer: 
“Crescent,”  “White  Rose,”
“Morning  Glory”  and  “Royal  Patent.” 
These brands have  long been favorites with 
the public, and are sure to increase in  popu­
larity. 

_______

That pegged shoes and boots are still quite 
extensively used might be inferred from the 
fact that  a  peg  manufacturing  company  at 
Bartlett,  N. H.,  is  turning  out  the  little 
wooden articles  at  the rate of eighteen hun­
dred bushels a day, and has orders  on  hand 
that will require several months to fill.

JUDD  rib  CO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And Full Line Summer Goods.

103  CANAL  STREET.

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole  Control of our Celebrated

Pioneer  Preprefl  Paint !

Read it.

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.
When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is  put on 
any building, and if within three years it should 
crack or peel off, and thus fail to give  the  full 
satisfaction  guaranteed,  we  agree to  repaint 
the  building  at  our  expense,  with  the  best 
White Lead, or such other paint as  the  owner 
may select.  Should any case of dissatisfaction 
occur, a notice from the dealer will  command 
our prompt attention.  T.  H.  NEVIN  &  CO.
Send for sample cards  and  prices.  Address

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH

THE  OHTLY

Luminous  Bait

IN   THE  WORLD.

Patented Feb. 13,  1883.  Re-issue Aug.  28,  1S83.

HARD  AND  SOFT  RUBBER  MINNOWS. 
No. 7, 70c each;  No. 8, 80c each; No. 9,90c each.
FLYING  HELGRAM1TES.  No.  0,  80c each; 
No. 1, 85c each;  No. 2, 90e 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 
FEATHERED, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  GRASSHOPPERS,  SINGLE 
HOOK, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  DOBSON,  SINGLE  HOOK, 
60c each.
DEXTER TROLLING  SPOON AND MINNOW 
Combined, Triple  Hook  Feathered, 60c each. 
AKRON  TROLLING  SPOON,  Triple  Hook 
Feathered, No. 1, 50c  each;  No.  2,  55c  each; 
No. 3 ,60c each;  No. 4,65c each.
Send for descriptive circulars and testimonials. 
Liberal discount to the  Trade.

Enterprise  M&.  Co., Akron,  Olio.

DUNHAM’S

THE  BEST  IN   THE  WORLD!

PRICE  50 CENTS.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.,
DRYDEN & PALMER’S 
Unquestionably the best in  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
John Caulfield.,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

H O C K   C A X T - D 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.

85*

tools and patterns.  Will sell cheap, on ac­
count  of  not being a tinner  myself.  Andress 
G. Gringhaus, Lamont, Mich. 

FOR  SALE—A  complete  stock  of  tinshop 
WANTED—By  a  gentleman  well qualified 
for position as book-keeper or traveling 
salesman, situation with some  lumber or mer­
cantile firm in Western Michigan.  Best of ref­
erences  from  present  employers.  Address, 
“Book-keeper,” care T h e  T radesm an. 
WANTED—Partner with $1,000 to $3,000 cap­

ital to join me in the  auction  and  com­
mission trade in Grand Rapids, (no store of the 
I  propose  to  handle  crockery, 
kind  here). 
glassware, tin-ware, new and second-hand fur­
niture,  etc. 
I  have  capital, experience,  and 
know the busimess will prove very successful. 
Address  ‘^Auction,” care “T h e  T radesman.”
83

85

FOR SALE— Hotel in one of the finest towns 

of southern Michigan.  Any one  wishing 
to engage in a well-established business can do 
so with a small amount of capital, as'the own­
er is going west.  For full  particulars address 
“Hotel,” care 36  West  Leonard  street,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

89*

. 

81tf

82tf.

C. Blom, Holland, Mich. 

patent ice-box.  As good as new.  Address, 

lumber, including maple, beech, etc.  Will 
sell cheap to any one who will take it all.  Nich­
ols & Higgins, Morley Mich. 

crockery in good country town, surround­
ed by  good farming country.  For particulars, 
address E., care The T radesman. 

I7VDR SALE—Our entire mill cut of hardwood 
FOR  SALE—Two pool tables and  a  Stevens’ 
F OR  SALE—Clean  stock  of  groceries  and 
IpOR SALE—Our  stock  of  drugs, boots  and 
shoes, dry goods, groceries and hardware. 
' 
Also  brick  store  building,  23x75,  warehouse, 
dwelling,  stable,  good  well  and  cistern  anil 
one  acre of  land.  Will  sell the buildings  for 
$2,500 and the stock at cost.  A. Young & Sons, 
Orange, Mich. 
TT'OR SALE—Cheap for  cash,  a  small  stock 
J?  of  drugs  and  medicines  in  suburbs  of 
Grand Rapids, Mich.  Apply to H. B. Fairchild, 
City. 

76t£

83*

90*

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........
Canary,  Smyrna..................... 
...
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery........................._•....................
Coriander, nest  English................
Fennel..............................................
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.......2
do 
Nassau 
do 
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Velvet Extra do 
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do 
Extra Yellow do 
do 
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do 
Grass 
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Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
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HAZELTINE,

W l i o l e s a l ©

' g f r u a s & f l f t e b i c m e g
Michigan  Slate  Pharmaceutical  Association.

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OFFICERS.

President-Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President-Geo. M. McDonald,  h.ai
Sec^ndVice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan-
Gr’d
ThirifVice-President—Frank  Wurzburg
s S t a r ÿ —Jacob Jessor».Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Win. DupoiU, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H .J  .B row  n,  A. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Kellei,  r .

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NextCplace  of  m eeting-At Detroit, Tuesday,
____   I

October 13,1885. 

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   O C TO B ER 9,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Bo«%Uo T « S ^ b n * p S k f c h a , .   P.  Bige-
B o S ’o f '^ S S - T h e   rnM m U  Ew$hiS '
V a n  L e e u w e n , Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White,
rrv,„m  AT  Tl
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  a.
wntte  O  H
Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  o.  ±i.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin. 
-Fairchild
Committee on Trade  Matters-H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
-First  Thursday evening in
Regular Meetings 
™ ”rHA*v
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening
N e^V6Meeting—Thursday  evening,  May 

at ‘"The Tradesman” office.

Trade in  Peruvian  Bark.

The report of  the  South  American  Com­
mission  contains  some  interesting informa­
tion  about  the quinine  hark  trade.  R. H. 
Hoadley,  a merchant  doing  business  with 
Ecuador,  was  the  witness  under  examina­
tion when  Governor  Reynolds  said sugges­
tively:

“You are the first one that has  mentioned 

the Ecuador  trade.”

“The Ecuador trade,”  replied  Mr.  Hoad­
ley,  “has  received  a  very  black  eye, you 
might state,  in the last four years,  in  conse­
quence of the decline in the price of quinine 
bark.  That was a very large factor of  then- 
shipments  from  there,  employing  a  laige 
number of men. 
In  trade  this is known as 
Peruvian bark, but we call  it  quinine  bark. 
Some  of  the  richest  qualities  came  from 
Ecuador, but now the  price  has declined to 
a very low point, and it is almost impossible 
for  them  to  ship  anything  further.  The 
main cause of the decline has been the  won­
derful development of the cultivated bark in 
the Sierra Leone and the East Indies.

Fooled  the  Wrong  Girl.

From the Detroit News.

A Michigan  avenue  drug  clerk,  who is 
considerable of a wag and inclined to practi­
cal jokes, met his match the  other  evening, 
and his friends have been guying  him  ever 
since.

A young colored girl of an  intensely dark 
complexion came into  the  store, and  after 
having a prescription filled, asked  the, clerk 
if he had any face powder.

“Yes’m.  What color do you  wish?” asked 
Jim, with a wink to the  lounger  behind the 
stove.

“Flesh color, of course.  What  kind  d’ye 
s’pose  I  wants?”  she  replied,  somewhat 
saucily.

“All right, mum.  Just  take a seat  for a 
few minutes.  We just  got  some to-day. 
I 
liavn’t unpacked them  yet, but it will  only 
take a few minutes.  Take a seat please.”

Jim saw an  opening  for  some  fun,  and 
could not resist the  temptation.  He retired 
to the back room, and the sound of someone 
rattling a stove pipe was  plainly  heard  by 
the man  behind  the  stove. 
In  about  five 
minutes Jim came back with a neat little box 
tied up in a paper, which he  handed  to the 
girl.

“How much is it?” she inquired.
“Ten  cents,” 

replied  Jim,  without  a 

smile.

The girl paid the money and  went  away 
“Now there will be a racket,  and  my re­
lief can’t get around here any too  soon,” re 
marked Jim to the lounger.

“What have you been doing?”
“She’s got a box full  of  soot.  Only lives 
around the corner here, and  she’ll  be  back 
in just about 10 minutes,” and  Jim  roared 
till his sides ached at the trick he had played 
“She wanted flesh  color  and  she’s  got it, 
though,” and the thought of her opening the 
box just tickled Jim clean to his feet.

Jim retired to the dispensary, warning the 
lounger if the girl came back to  tell  her he 
had gone to supper.

In a few minutes a lady came  running in­

to the store and excitedly asked for Jim 

“Anything 1 can do for you mum?”
“You  bet  there  is!”  replied  the  lady 
“What do you mean by sending  that  black 
stuff to me for face powder,  eh?”

“Oh—I beg  your  pardon,  mum. 

I was
with  the  colored

only having a little  fun 
girl—”

“You think  you  are  smart, don’t 

you,

Give me back my money.”

Coal-Tar Chewing-Gum.

“There’s a car-load of solid comfort for the 
young ladies,”  said  a  gentleman  in  Law- 
renceville to a  Dispatch  reporter,  pointing 
to a car standing  on  the  Allegheny  Yalley 
Railroad.  “Now, there’s twenty-five barrels 
of chewing-gum there,” he continued.  “You 
may not know it, but it is a fact that  nearly 
all  of  the  chewing-gum  consumed  in  the 
United States and Vassar college comes from 
Pitsburg.”

“Of  what  is  this  maidenly  solace com­

posed?” asked the newspaper man.

“Why, it’s made  of  tar,  and the worst of 
tar.  The Standard Oil Co. is a big  thing on 
wheels  when  you  get  to  talking about oil, 
but it is just as big relatively speaking when 
you get into  the  province  of  chewing-gum.
ou see they control nearly  all  of the refin­
eries, and it is  from  them  that  the  gum is 
olyed, so to speak.  The  refiners take the 
residuum from the crude oil after the refined 
article has been made and work it in an agi­
tator, producing a certain grade of  paraffine, 
wax-like  substance.  This is sent to two 
ms located in Boston and New York, who 
put it through another  refining process, and 
then scent the  stuff,  cut  it  up  into  small 
pieces, and then  retail  dealers  take hold of 
and make thousands of giddy girls  happy 
ith  ‘somethin’  to  chaw.’  The  wax,  as 
loaded on the cars, is worth seventeen  cents 
pound, but when  put  through  the second 
refining  process  its  cost  is  thirty  cents a 
pound. 
I suppose a pound  of  refined  par­
affine  will  suffice  for  the  making  of 500 
pieces of chewing-gum;  so  the profit in the 
business is apparent when you recollect that 
it retails for one and two cents a stick.” 

“How  much  of  the  wax is shipped from 
ittsburg weekly?” asked the reporter.
“Well, about fifty barrels per week.  Some 
of it is used for finishing  up  insulated  tele­
graph and telephone wires, some for making 
fancy candles;  but the best grades are  used 
for making chewing-gum. 
In fact, it can be 
safely computed  that  twenty-five barrels of 
this wax are weekly shipped from Pittsburg, 
to be worked up into chewing-gum.  It is not 
a very attractive looking substance  when  it 
has gone through the  first  refining  process, 
but after it has been re-agitated it comes out 
a beautiful pearl-white in color, and is  abso 
lutely tasteless.  The making of paraffiine is 
one of the green spots in the desert of  refin­
ing  just  now,  considering  the  condition of 
the oil trade. 
It is only within the past few 
years that the secondary refining process has 
been accomplished in this country.  The wax 
was sent to Scotland and then  shipped back 
to this country.  The  two  firms  mentioned 
in New York and Boston  are now making a 
good thing out of the business.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Oil pennyroyal. 
Deolined—Oil  cubebs,  serpentaria, 

powdered cubebs, Africanginger.

cubebs,

A CID S.
Acetic, No.  8................ . • - -
........
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........
Carbolic............................................
Citric................................................
Muriatic 18  deg...............................
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Oxalic...............................................
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................
Tartaric  powdered................ ■ ■■■■
Benzoic,  English....................¥  oz
Benzoic,  German............................
Tannic...............................................

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

BALSAMS.

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

BA RK 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 80c)...............
Juniper.............................................
Prickly Ash......................................
Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.....• -. ■ 
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft boxes)........ * • • •
Lgowood, Vis 
do 
...............
Logwood, Vis 
do 
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Logwood, ass’d  do 
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Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

e x t r a c t s .

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f l o w e r s .

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

GUMS.
Aloes,  Barbadoes................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).....
Aloes, Socotrme (Powd  60c)
Ammoniac................ •••••••
Arabic, powdered  select...
Arabic, 1st picked...............
Arabic,2d  picked.................
Arabic,  3d picked................
Arabic, sifted sorts...... 
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Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
Camphor..........••••••• • • • •  ............. 
Catechu. Is (Vi 14c, Vis  16c)............
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
S * fe u m  s t r a i n e d . ; ; ; 
Gamboge------■ 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered,30el.....................
Myrrh.’Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.40)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s ........................
Shellac,  English.............................
Shellac, native...............................
Shellac bleached..........................
Tragacanth ....................................

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Professor  Raymond  estimates  that 

“Give it to him, missus!  Scratch his ey 

Jim returned the money, again apologizing 
for what he had done, when the door opened 
and the colored girl bounced In.

out!”  she exclaimed as she  walked up and 
delivered some very aged hen  fruit  straig 
into Jim’s face.

Both females then beat a  hurried  retreat 
and left the drug  clerk to  cleanse  and per 
I fume himself as best he could

“Some  twenty  years  ago or less the Eng­
lish  Government  realized  that 
they  were I 
dependent upon two States in  South Ameii- j 
ca, Columbia and Ecuador, or you might say I 
Bolivia, for  their  supplies of  quinine;  and, 
the  English  Government  use  an  immense 
quantity of it, in the East especially, in their j 
armies and navies, and in all those Southern 
countries it is almost a matter  of  food,  and 
they said:  ‘We must  not  be  dependent  on 
three South America States that at any time 
the 
may get into a war  with each other and cut 
known supply of petroleum in Pennsylvania 
off the supply.’  So they sent  out a commis­
and  New  York  will  be  exhausted in four 
sion to  investigate  the  subject  and  obtain 
years.  This prediction the  oil producers 
plants, and they went to South America and 
not accept;  they seem to  expect  the perpet­
secured the plants, took them  to  India, and 
ual  revival  of  old  wells,  revivals  having 
began  the  cultivation,  so  that  in the East 
sometimes  happened  after  temporary  ex­
Indies it was  on  government land and with 
haustion.  The oil region in these two States
government  labor,  and  what  they  did  not 
comprises  4,259  square  miles, so there is a 
want they sold.  They  used  what  they  re-
quired for making quinine  for  their purpo-1 g00d deal 0f internal space for recuperation, 
ses, and beyond that they sold the surplus to  But it may be assumed that  these  subterra­
nean  reservoirs  of  oil  are capable of being 
the European markets.  That commenced in 
exhausted;  they  are  not  infinite;  the only 
a very small way,  but  has  steadily  grown, 
question is whether there is any satisfactory
not only in quantity but in  quality.
“While the best quinine bark that is ship- j data by which to gauge their contents.  Prof, 
ped from South America,  the very best, has j Raymond’s prediction may not prove correct, 
seldom over '2)4 to 3 per cent, of quinine—for j but the theory  of  inexhaustible  supplies is 
for instance,  100 pounds of bark there would j obviously a fallacy.  Production, from 82,000 
be three pounds of the sulphate of quinine— 1 bis. in 1859, has now reached  30,000,000 bis. 
under cultivation  in  India  they get it up to j a year, and the Stored supply on hand is now
4, 5, or 10 per cent, and the production is so 
Professor Raymond thinks that, wtien the 
constantly increasing there in  quantity  and 
present subterranean magazines are emptied, 
quality that the European markets are flood­
we shall revert to the treatment  of  oil-bear­
ed with it, and  the  price  has  steadily  de­
ing shale to obtain supplies of  oil ;  and it is 
clined, so that it is almost impossible to ship 
very probable that this will occur,  provided 
barks from South America that will pay the 
no new supplies  are  found.  Pennsylvania,
expense of shipping. 
In  Sierra  Leone  and
India, the bark is grown at so little cost that j New York and Western  Canada  are not the 
they can deliver it  in  London  and  make  a j only sources of natural oil supply in  Ameri- 
profit if they only get a shilling  a pound for  Ca.  A  story  comes from the Argentine Re-
public, in South America,  of  the  discovery 
it.’
not  improved  machinery j 0f a lake of oil, said to  be  88  acres  in area 
Is it not more prob­
able that, in this lake, the oil rests on water? 
Anyhow,  this  new  discovery  embraces  an 
inexhaustible supply.  Other oil springs and 
lakes are said to have been discovered in the 
same country.

for the use of it?  A 
ufaeture  of  quinine, 
quantity  of  bark  now 
down the price.

Yes, sir;  for the man-1 and of unknown depth. 

Q.  And  the  fact  that  what  comes  from: 
India, as you say, is so much purer?  A.  So 
much richer.

But  the  enormous 
raised  has brought

equal to a year’s consumption.

Q.  Have  they 

Q.  Yields  more?  A.  Yes,  sir;  yields j 
more;  while  in  Ecuador  and  most parts of 
South  America  the  barks  are  gathered so 
far from the coast, and  their  only means of 
transportation  is  on  mule  back and  men’s 
backs to the little rivers, that the actual cost 
of bringing a bale  of  bark,  or  gathering it 
and getting it to New York, in many sections, 
is much more than it is worth.

Q.  Has Mexico made  any  efforts  to raise 
Peruvian  bark?  A.  No,  sir;  the climate is 
not suitable for  it. 
It  requires  a  peculiar 
climate.  There  may  be  parts  of  Mexico 
where it could be grown.  They have started 
it in Jamaica, and it has  increased. 
I  only 
speak  of  that  as one reason why the trade 
between Ecuador and the  United States has 
fallen  off  very  materially  in the last three 
years.  They can not pay for  their  purcha­
ses now in bark, as they did formerly.

The  Drug  Market.

Business has been good in  the  drug  line 
during the past  week, and  collections  have 
been “elegant,” as a  local  jobber  expresses 
it.  There has been no important movement 
in prices, and no  change  of  importance  is 
immediately anticipated.

In our northern country, petroleum depos­
its are known to exist. 
In  any  case,  there 
will be  the  resort to  oil-bearing  shale;  but 
when we come to this, we must be  prepared 
to accept a  much  less  return  for  labor and 
capital, and the  consumer  must submit to a 
higher price.

A new Japan oil of  peppermint  has  been 
placed on the European markets  by a house 
in Yokohama.  The principal feature of the 
production  is  the  fact  of its being rectified 
twice by steam.  The oil is quite white, and 
makes  a  clear  solution  in  spirits  of  wine. 
The aroma is very  fine,  while  no  degree of 
pungency seems to be lost.

An  account  is  given  in  the  Journ.  dc 
Pharm. d’ Als.-Lorr. of a curious  accident 
in a  Strasburg  pharmacy.  The  apprentice 
wa£ transferring some lycopodium  from one 
bottle  to  another,  when  some  of  the dust 
suddenly took fire at a gas  jet  near by with 
a slight explosion.  This startled the youth, 
who dropped the bottle on the floor;  a thick 
cloud of lycopodium dust  arose,,  and  itself 
took  fire  with  a  violent  explosion, which 
shattered  the  windows  and  broke  a  good 
many bottles.  The apprentice escaped with 
a few slight burns.

Lavender and W hite.

From the Adrian Record.

A North Main street druggist sold a small 
bill of liquid paints yesterday afternoon and 
the required quantity, which was of two col­
ors, was drawn off into  two  open  cans.  A 
friend offered to take  the  druggist  into his 
buggy and drive him to the customer’s house. 
They got in and  the  well-attired  druggist 
held a package in  either  hand  to avoid the 
effect of the jolts in  the  frozen  road.  Di­
rectly in front  of  the  customer’s  residence 
was a  mud-hole  too  deep  to  freeze.  The 
horse feeling himself sinking,  made  a  con­
vulsive spring forward and about  the  same 
moment the man of paints was  jerked rude­
ly backward depressing his  brains  and  ele­
vating his heels.  The liquid  paints  follow­
ing suit—the druggist’s  suit—proceeding  to 
spill themselves upon his  pantaloons.  Sud­
denly the vehicle struck  the  carriage  block 
and stopped stone dead.  The paint man, al­
though he hadn’t intended to  do  so, sprang 
forward across  the  dashboard.  The  paint 
kegs jumped after  him  and  their  contents 
frescoed his trowsers in that quarter also. A 
more unique and original spectacle of laven­
der and white than  the  druggist  presented 
can hardly be  imagined.  Of  course he was 
quite mad and said something  about it’s be­
ing some kind of a “note” on him, mention­
ing at the same  time  in  adjective  form, a 
place not now in the bible.  His  tailor  has 
just taken his order.

There are 360 glass works in Austria, em 

ploying 60,000 workmen.

The Medical  Journal  states  that  a few 
handfuls of common  salt  thrown  daily into 
closets, and an occasional handful into wash 
basins, goes  far  toward  counteracting  the 
noxious  effects  of  the  omnipresent  sewer 
gas.
It  is  said  that  an  English firm has been 
experimenting  with  Rangoon  earth  oil  as 
fuel,  with  satisfactory  results,  for  steam 
railway  motors.  An  engine  designed  to 
burn this kind of fuel, has,  in  consequence, 
been  sent  to  Burmah  for  working  street 
railways there. 
It is estimated that the new 
fuel will reduce the working expenses 20 per 
cent.

“Why is the oil market called she?” asked 
Smith.  “Oh, that’s easy,” replied Smithers. 
“I suppose it’s the same old  answer,  isn’t it 
—takes a man to  manage  it?”  “No,  that’s 
not it,”  replied  Smithers,  who had learned 
in the  school  of  experience.  “It’s because 
when  you’ve  studied  it  down  so  that you 
know just what  it’s  going  to do it goes and 
does something else.”

Mr. D. C. Robbins, in his A nnual Review 
of the Drug Trade of New York, states that 
in 1884 we  imported  1,263,732  ounces  of 
quinine  and  2,588,307  pounds  of  cinchona 
bark.  We are  importing  more quinine  and 
manufacturing less every year. 
In 1884 we 
imported twice as much quinine and half  as 
much bark as in 1882. 
In 1883 more opium 
was imported for smoking  (298,153 pounds) 
than for all  other  purposes  put  together. 
The large duty placed upon this form of opi­
um  reduced the import for 1884 very consid­
erably.

30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound...........
Lobelia....................
Peppermint............
Rue..........................
Spearmint.............
Sweet Majoram—
Tanzy .....................
Thym e....................
Wormwood...........

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

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Citrate and  Q uinine...................
Solution mur., for tinctures.......
Sulphate, pure  crystal................
Citrate............................................
Phosphate ... v...............................
Buchu, 6hort (Powd 25e).. ....... •
Sage, Italian, bulk (Vis & 34 s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural........... 
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnì velli..................... .........
Uva  ..................................................
Belladonna..........................’........
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane ...........................................
Rose, red........................................

LIQ U O R S.

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6 40 20
80
65
146
)  20 
30 22 
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................... 1 <»
Whisky, other brands.................... \
Gin, Old Tom......................................... J 88
Gin,  Holland.................................... f
Brandy...................................................j Ir
Catawba  Wines................................^
Port Wines........................................A

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

M AGNESIA.

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2 25 
65

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz..........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution....
Calcined.......................................
Almond, sweet.............................
Amber, rectified..........................
Anise...........................................
Bay $  oz....................................
Bergamont...................................
Castor..........................................
Croton..........................................
Cajeput.......................................
Cassia.............•.-•••••— .......
Cedar, commercial  (Pure <5C)......
Citronella...................................
Cod Liver, filtered..........  • $ gal
Cod Liver, best..........•
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...........................
Erigeron......................................
Fireweed......................................
Geranium $ oz...........—
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..............................
Juniper berries.............•.............
Lavender flowers, French............
Lavender garden 
............
Lavender spike 
............
Lemon, new crop........................
Lemon, Sanderson’s....................
Lemongrass.................................
Olive,Malaga.......... 
-
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  : 
....
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1.........................
Pennyroyal..................................
Peppermint,  white......................
Rosemary,’French (Flower's $1 50)
Salad...........................................   65  ©
Savin...........................................
Sandal  Wood, German................
Sandal Wood, W. I .......................
Sassafras......................................
Spearmint................................ ••
Tansy..........................................4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).............................  10
Wintergreen..................•••• —
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.00)......
Wormseed...................................
POTASSIUM .
Bicromate.............................¥
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c)............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk......
Prussiate yellow.........................

45  ©  50 
45
1  85 
50
1  80
18  ©  1934
2 00 
75
1  00 35
1  201 50
3 50 
6 00
7 OO 
1 60
2  00 
75 
35 
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2 00 
2 01 
1 00 
90 
1  40
1 50 
80
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2 75 
1 25
50 
1  75
4  75
8 50 
65 
67
1 00 
4 50 
7 00
@7 00 
@5 00 ©  12 
2  10 
4 00 
2  00

14
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19
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ROOTS.

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Alkanet............................................  
~a
Althea, cut.......................................  
17
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 34s and 34s—  
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
35
Elecampane, powdered.................. 
20
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................  „   ^
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11  ©  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 30o).................. 
25
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
25
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
110
30
Jalap, powdered.............................. 
Licorice,  select (Powd 1234)........  
If
Licorice, extra select.....................  
.15
Pink, true......................................... 
35
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................ 110  @1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes.................. 
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers................  
2 25

6

45

12
16
16

do 
do 

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4Vi@
6

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do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

2 32
1 25 
50 
27 
12 
45
334
4
45
5 
7
50
2 75 
2  00
40
1 35 
@9 75
2 30 
50
©  7
12 
2 25 
18 22 
18 
4 00 
12

1282
1  60 
60 
1  50 
1 79 
1 90 
1 75 
%  90 
D  45 
%  45 
%  20 
40 
45 2 
70
g>  40 
15 
50 
24
24 
12
1  10 
50 
45 
1  10 8
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60 
14
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90
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Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22) $  gal—
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Alum.........................................  $
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto,  prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H.,P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla........... L ..................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,  Squlbb’s ....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
Chloral 
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................  85
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............  40
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   40
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
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.............  
I
Epsom Salts......................................  S
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  34s and 34s ..............................
Iodoform ig  oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (34s 2s 10c & )4s 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace............. ....................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........<g 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, 34 d...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin................................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz
Quinine,  German............................
Red  Precipitate.......................*g ft
Seidlitz  Mixture..............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal  Soda............................................  
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3cl......................
Spermaceti......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s—  
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   30  ©
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour...................................  334©
3©
Sulphur,  roll.....................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 34 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Tui’pentine,  Venice................iP ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
7
Capitol  Cylinder....................................
..........60
Model  Cylinder......................................
..........50
Shields  Cylinder....................................
..........45
Eldorado Engine....................................
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 00
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
Paraffine,28  deg...............................................••-I
Sperm, winter bleached............................... 1 40
Gal
Bbl
70
Whale, winter..............................
60
Lard, extra...................................
50
Lard, No.  1..................................
50
Linseed, pure raw.....................
Linseed, boiled..................................   on
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  70
Spirits Turpentine..............................  36
No. 1 Turp  Coach....................................1 
Extra  Turp............................................. 1 
Coach  Body.....................................— f  75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture.............................1 
Extra Turp  Damar................................ 1 
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp. 
P A IN TS.

17 
28 
20 
40 
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40 @1 00 
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4 00 
1 50
10  ©  15 
15 8
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13
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3 00@3 25 
40 
10 
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18 
23 
60 
10 45
17  ©  25 
18 
2 50
7
95 
90 
85 
28 
1 60 
80 
35 2 
10 9 
33
2 15 
6 50 
38
4 
35
5 
14 
17
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60
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Red Venetian............................  134
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134
Putty, commercial..................  2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................   234
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly  pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gildersf.....................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  Paints.......
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints..

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

FLUID  EXTRACTS  ASB  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

W olf, Patton & Co., and John L. Wott­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint  and  V arnish 

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  B rush  Co.,  Ma n f’rs  of 

H a ir, Shoe a nd H orse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

$

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

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  newt  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.

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

Withers Dade & Co’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  known  brand  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

D rielsti  Frani!  Ryi

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

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16@17 
534 
5  34 
©70 
©90 
1  10 
1 40 
1 20@1 40 
1 00@1 20

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.

H iZ E L T IE P E U K O

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E. A. STOWE  & BBO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  22,  1885.

BUSINESS LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of East Resort.

CORPORATE  ASSETS—UNPAID  BALANCES.
In the case  of  Eppright  vs.  Brown, the 
Supreme Court of Missouri held that unpaid 
balances upon stock  subscriptions  were cor­
porate assets and were assignable.

CONSIGNMENT—ACCOUNT  STATED.

Where goods consigned  to  a  commission 
merchant  are  sold and  a  statement  of  the 
sales, with an order on a third person to bal­
ance the account, is sent to the consignor, he 
is bound by the account  rendered as  by  an 
account  stated, unless  within  a  reasonable 
time he notifies the consignee that he objects. 
So  held  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  New 
Hampshire.
STATUTE  OF  FRAUDS—ORIGINAL  PROMISE.
Where the  employer  of  a  person  who 
wished to procure goods  on  credit  from a 
dealer, but who had  been  refused, told  the 
dealer to let his employe have the goods and 
that he would see the bill paid, the Supreme 
Court of Georgia held that  such  promise on 
the part of the employer was an original un­
dertaking and not  an  agreement to answer 
for the debt or default of another within the 
meaning of the statute of frauds.

INSURANCE POLICY—FALSE SWEARING.
Where a policy of insurance provides that 
any false swearing or attempt  at  fraud, “or 
if there shall appear any fraud in  the claim 
by false swearing or otherwise,” shall  avoid 
such policy, the company, in  order  to  avail 
itself of the defense, must show  that the as­
sured  knowingly  and  intentionally  swore 
falsely or said or did that  which it  claimed 
to be fraudulent.  So held by  the  Supreme 
Court of Georgia.

LICENSE—DISCRIMINATION.

A statute of Kentucky  provides  that “all 
itinerant persons vending  goods, wares  and 
merchandise shall be deemed  peddlers,  and 
prescribes a penalty for selling by such  per­
sons without first having  obtained a license 
therefor.  In the case of Rush vs. Holloway, 
the Court of Appeals of the  State  held that 
an act purporting to amend the prior act and 
providing “that itinerant  persons  who  are 
citizens of this State, and who  vend  exclu­
sively goods, wares and merchandise  which 
are the growth, product  or  manufacture of 
this State, shall not be deemed  peddlers nor 
required to take out license  under  the  pro­
visions of said chapter,” was unconstitution­
al and void as discriminating against the cit­
izens and manufactories of other  states.

“Dignified” Business Men.

From the Fancy Goods Record.

I am constantly in  and  about  the  trade, 
and  occasionally—probably  once  a  day—I 
meet what some people  might  call a digni­
fied man.  Let me say a word  or  two about 
this unfortunate  being.  Dignity  works all 
right in a wooden Indian  or a drum  major, 
but the man who desires  to  draw a  salary 
through life, and to  be  sure  of  a  visible 
means of support,  will  do  well  to  make 
some other provision than the  haughty look 
and the air of patronage.  Dignity does  not 
draw. 
It answers in  place  of  intellectual 
tone for twenty minutes, but  after awhile it 
fails to get there.  Dignity  works  all right 
with  a  man who is worth a  million  dollars 
and has some doubts  about  his  suspenders, 
but the man who is  to get  a large  sum  of 
money before he dies, and  get  married and 
accomplish some good,  must  place  himself 
before his fellowmen in  the  attitude of  one 
who has ideas that are  not  too  lonely and 
isolated.

Origin  of Crazy Quilts.
From the Carpet Trade and Review.

“Crazy” patchwork  originated in  the fol­
lowing manner:  A certain titled lady while 
learning embroidery in an English seminary 
lost her mind, and it  became  necessary  to 
confine her in a private madhouse.  But she 
still retained  her  passion  for  needlework, 
and spent most of her time in uniting pieces 
of material furnished her from the madhouse 
scrap-bag.  Although unable to  perform the 
difficult stitches of embroidery work,  it  was 
noticed that in joining the odds and  ends of 
material given her she  invariably  used con 
trasting or assimilating  colors  of  thread  or 
silk, and that nearly every stitch  was differ­
ent from the others.  Specimens of her work 
found their  way  outside  the  asylum, and 
since then millions  of  women,  apparently 
sane, have found  delight  in  imitating  the 
handiwork of the crazy countess.

Consideration  for  His  Creditors.

From the Merchant Traveler.

“Who was that rang the bell, Jane?”  ask­

ed the lady of the honse.

“The grocer, mum.”
“With a bill, I presume.”
“Yesum.”
“You told him to come next week?”
“Yesum.”
“What did he say?”
“He said,  mum, he had been here a dozen 
times already and he wouldn’t  come  again, 
and to tell you so.”

“How considerate. 

I didn’t think  it of a 

a grocery-man.”

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

CHECKS.

OSNABURG.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

7  ¡Alabama  plaid. 

Pepperell, 10-4....... 25
Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Pepperell, 11-4....... 2754
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pepperell,  7-4...... 1654
Pequot,  8-4..............21
Pepperell,  8-4......20
Pequot,  9-4..............24
Pepperell,  9-4......2254
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Prodigy, oz..............11
Economy,  oz..........10
Otis Apron..............1054
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Otis  Furniture......1054
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
York,  1  oz..............10
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
York. AA, extra oz.14
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
7
A labam a brown 
Jewell briwn..........  954 Augusta plaid........   7
Kentucky brown.. 1054 Toledo plaid...........   7
Lewiston  brown...  954 Manchester  plaid..  7
Lane brown...........   954 New Tenn.plaid... 11
Louisiana  plaid....  7  ¡Utilityplaid...........   654
Greene, G,  4-4.......... 554
Avondale,  36 ..........  854
Hill, 4-4....................  754
Art  cambrics, 36.. .1154 
Hill, 7-8....................  634
Androscoggin, 4-4..  854 
Hope,  4-4.................. 694
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1254
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4...............  654
1154
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Linwood,  4-4..........  754
Boott, 0.4-4...........   854
Lonsdale,  4-4............ 734
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......954
Lonsdale  cambric. 1054 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  §54
Boott, R. 3-4..........  554
Langdon.  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7 
Masonville,  4-4.......8
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Maxwell. 4-4............  954
Conway,  4-4........... 7
New York Mill, 4-4.1054
Cabot, 4-4................ 6 34
New Jersey,  4-4__ 8
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Pride of the West. .11
Domestic,  36..........  754
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Pocahontas,  4-4___ 794
Slaterville, 7-8........   654
Davol, 4-4...............  9
Victoria, AA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  854 
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 534
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  794 
Whitinsville,  4-4...  754
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8___ ¿54
cambric,  4-4........ 11
Wamsutta, 4-4.........1054
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  624
Williams ville,  36... 1054
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............. 834

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

 

...16

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

F IN E   BROW N  COTTONS.

checks,
new

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

No.  10.

Centennial. 
Blackburn .

SIL E S IA S .
17 Masonville TS... ...  8
1254 Masonville  S__ ...1054
10 Lonsdale............ ...  954
15 Lonsdale A ........
Nictory  O..........
8 Victory J ............
14 Victory D ..........
1254 Victory  K.......... ...  294
12 Phcenix A .......... ...1954
10 Phtenix B .......... ...1054
16 Phoenix X X __ .  ..5
Gloucester..............6
Glou cestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy....6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrimae D............ 6
Manchester............ 6
Oriental fancy....... 6
Oriental  robes....... 654
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond............... 6
Steel River..............554
Simpson’s ............... 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues.  754

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  754
Laconia B, 7-4.........1654
Lyman B, 40-in.......1054
Mass. BB, 4-4............534
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 854
Nashua  R, 4-4........ 754
Nashua 0,7-8............¿34
Newmarket N .......... 6J4
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Pepperell  R, 4-4___ 754
Pepperell O, 7-8___ ¿54
Pepperell N ,3-4....  694
Pocasset  C, 4-4.........6%
Saranac R...............  794
Saranac E...............  §

Albion, solid............554
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  cheeks.........554
Aden’s  fancy.......... 554
Allen’s pink..............65fe
Allen’s purple.......... 654
American, fancy— 554
Arnold fancy........... 6
Berlin solid............... 554
Cocheco fancy.........6
Cocheco robes.......... 654
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone...............6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink..............654
Appleton A, 4-4—   754
Boott  M, 4-4............  6%
Boston F, 4-4............754
Continental C, 4-3..  654 
Continental D, 40 in 834 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  654 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4.......... 554
Dwight Y, 7-8............534
Dwight Z, 4-4............634
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......6
Indian  Orchard  1-4 754
Renfrew, dress styl  754 
Amoskeag........ ...  754
Johnson Manfg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian
Bookfold..............1354
styles.................... 1054
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bates.........................754
dress  styles.........1254
Berkshire...............  654
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles....................  754
Glasgow checks, f’y 754 
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles........  8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston.............. 8
standard.............   754
Gordon......................754
Plunket..................   754
dress 
Greylock, 
Lancaster...............  8
styles  ...................1254
Langdale
Pepperell.  104...... 2754
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
Androscoggin, 84. .23
Pepperell,  11-4...... 3254
Pequot,  74.............21
Pepperell,  7-4........20
Pequot,  84.............24
Pepperell,  84........2254
Pequot,  9-4.............2754
Pepperell,  9-4........25
Lawrence XX, 44..  754
Atlantic  A, 44.......  754
Lawrence  Y, 30__ 7
Atlantic  H, 44.......7
Lawrence LL,44...  554
Atlantic  D, 44.......  694
Newmarket N ........654
Atlantic P, 44........   554
Mystic River, 44...  554
Atlantic LL, 44—   594
Pequot A, 44..........  794
Adriatic, 36.............   754
Piedmont,  36..........  694
Augusta, 44............  654
Stark AA, 44..........  794
Boott M, 44...........   634
Tremont CC,44....  554
Boott FF, 4-4..........  734
Utica,  44................   9
Graniteville, 44—   534 
Wacbusett,  44.......  754
Indian  Head,4-4...  7 
Wachusett, 30-in...  634
Indiana Head 45-in. 1254
Falls, XXXX...........1854
Amoskeag, ACA.. .14 
Falls, XXX............ 1554
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB............... 1154
Amoskeag,  A ....... 13
Falls,  BBC, 36....... 1954
Amoskeag,  B ....... 12
Falls,  awning.......19
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D....... 1054
Hamilton,  D ............954
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Hamilton,  H............§54
Amoskeag, F ..........  954
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 44___17
Methuen A A .......... 1354
Premium  B ............ 16
Methuen ASA........ 18
Extra 44...................16
Omega A, 7-8.......... 11
Extra 7-8...................1454
Omega A, 44 .......... 13
Gold Medal 4-4....... 15
Omega ACA, 7-8.... 14
CCA 7-8.................... 1254
Omega ACA, 44__ 16
CT 44 ........................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8....................... 14
Omega SE, 4 4 .........27
BF 7-8....................... 16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
A F44....................... 19
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 1154 
Cordis ACA, 32.......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Stoekbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4............1154
Empire
Garner......................5
Washington...........   43
Hookset..................   5
Edwards..................  5
Red  Cross...............  5
S. S. & Sons............  5
Forest Grove..........
American  A ........ 18 00! Old  Ironsides.........15
Stark A .................. 2254  ¡Wheatland..............21
Boston....................  634
Everett blue...........1394
Everett brown....... 1394
Otis  AXA............... 1254
Otis BB.................... 1154
Manville..................  6  IS. S. & Sons.............   6
Masgnville.............   6  ¡Garner......................6
Red  Cross...............  754 ¡Thistle Mills............
B erlin ............... ..  754 Rose..........................  8
Garner....................  7541
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord.40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread........... 30

Otis  CC.................... 1054
Warren  AXA.........1254
Warren  BB............ 1154
Warren CC..............1054
York  fancy............1354

HEAV Y  BROW N  COTTONS.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

G R A IN   BAGS.

T IC K IN G S.

W IG AN S.

DENIM S.

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning__ 25
Holyoke...................25
Kearsage................   89»
Naumkeagsatteen.  894 
Pepperell  bleached 854
Pepperell sat..........  954
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........  854
Conegosat...............  7

Armory..................  754
Androscoggin sat..  894
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon.................654
Hallowell  Imp.......634
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Laconia..................   754

CORSET JE A N S .

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

1  00
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
85
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,,  per bbl.................. 
1 30
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
1 30
..................... 1 05@1  10
Car lots 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
1 75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
S 50
2 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M...................................$25 @ $35
Fire clay, per  bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $6 00®6 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 25®6 50
Cannell, car lots...............................  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots........................  3 10@3 25
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland Cement.............................  3 50®4 00

COAL.

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Wiolesale  &  CM iissim -Bnlr  k  Eggs’a  Spcialty.

Choice Butter always on hand.  All Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

97  and 99 Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

See  Our  "Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Prices  01 anythin! we handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,

3  Canal Street,  Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Wholesale  Grocers,

Sole  Owners  of

A R A B   P L U G !

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

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

B O O T   FLUB
AND  GET  A  PAIR  OF  BOOTS.
BOOT  PLUG

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

can not be excelled.  Chewers who have given it 

a trial will take no other.

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  GET  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  EORGET  TO  MENTION  THE  K IN D   WANTED.

Mes W.

5

Tobacco Manufacturers,

Canal  and  Monroe  Streets,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

FOB  SALE  BY  ALL  FIRST  CLASS  JOBBERS.

-FOR  SALE  BY-

Curtiss, Dunton & Go.,

- — JOBBERS  OF-----

Woodenware,  Twines  and  Cordage,  Paper,  Stationery,  Ker­

osene  and  Machine  Oils,  Naptha and  Gasoline.

51 and 53 Lyon Street 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

jE xrxm rcs  <&  s m it h ,
Arctic  Manufacturing’  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE

20  Lyon  St.,  G-rand.  Rapids.

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

GRAND  RAPIDS  M’FG   CO.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

à

FARMING  TOOLS  OF  ALT.  DESCRIPTIONS !

Dairy  Implements  a  Specialty.

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

r o o m s-1 0 ,12  and  14 Lyron street,  Grand  Rapids.

The Old Reliable

xsr  i   im :  tr,  o   id

PX jXJG-  t o b a c c o

Is  for  Sale  by  all  Grand Rapids Jobbers.

SAMPLES  FURNISH ED  ON  APPLICATION.

S.  W.  Venable  &  Co.,  Petersburg,  Va.
O ysters G  I 
and  Fish!  ' 117  MONROE  ST.
JO B  PR IN TIN G  

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

velopes, Blank Orders,  Circulars, Dodgers, Etc.,  Neatly 

and Promptly Executed at The Tradesman office.

-

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL.  CLOTHS

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

.Arctic  Baling  Powder.

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Grand Rapids,

M ichigan.

Wi&StìM

Not H is Property.

From Texas Siftings.

“Will you be kind  enough  to  take  that 
gripsack off that seat,” said  a  countryman, 
who got on a train at Luling.

“No, sir, I don’t  propose  to  do  anything 
of the sort.” replied the drummer, who  was 
sitting on the other side of the seat.

“Do you say that you are going to let that 

grid-sack stay right there?”

“Yes, sir; I do.”
“In case you don’t remove that  grip-sack, 
I shall be under  the  painful  necessity  of 
calling the conductor.”

“You can call in the conductor, the engin­
eer, and the brakeman if you want to.  Per­
haps you has better stop at the next  station 
and send a special to old  Jay Gould himself 
about i t ”

“The  conductor  will  put  you  off  the 

train.”

“1 don’t care if he does. 

I  am  not going 
to take that grip-sack from  the  place where 
it is.”

The indignant  passenger  went  through 
the train, and  soon  returned with the con­
ductor.

“So you refuse to remove  that  grip-sack, 

do you?” asked the conductor.

“I do.”
Great sensation.
“Why do you  persist  in  refusing to  re­

move that grip-sack?”

“Because it’s not mine.”
“Why didn’t you say so at once?” 
“Because nobody asked me?”

Lucrative Pedestrianism.

From the Charleston News and Courier.

Paul Howes is a  Georgia  drummer.  He 
was recently traveling in South Carolina and 
with a fellow traveler purchased a 1,000 mile 
ticket.  The conductor refused to  allow but 
one of them to ride on the ticket, saying that 
while it could be issued to two  or  more par­
ties, only one person  could  ride on it at one 
time.  Mr. Howes was put off the train about 
four miles fromWadesboro’, and gave notice 
at once that he would sue the road for  dam- j 
ages.  He employed an  attorney, but it was 
not long  before  the  authorities  offered  to 
compromise.  The offer  was  accepted  and 
Mr. Howes came off $1,000  better off.  His 
walk, four miles to Wadesboro,  netted  him 
just $250 per mile.

Fresli Eggs.

The head cook of a certain hotel went to a 
little store to buy some  provisions, and  see­
ing a basket of eggs, asked:
“Are these eggs fresh?”
“Yes, I get them  fresh  from  the  country 

every day.”

“Suppose I buy all  these  eggs, what will 

you charge me for the lot?”

“All of ’em?”
“Every one of them.”
“I don’t want to sell them all at once.” 
“Why not?”
“You see I ’ve got  regular  customers  who 
get fresh eggs laid the day before. 
If I sell 
you all these eggs, next  week  I’ll  not have 
any fresh eggs laid  the  day  before for my 
customers.”

The Commercial Traveler.

Mrs. M. L. Rayne in the Detroit Free Press.

He was  a  traveling  man.  That fact was 
conveyed to the other passengers on the train 
by his good clothes  and  comfortable  air  of 
well-to-do-ativeness as well as by his  gener­
al bearing of being accustomed  to  luxuries. 
He had the best  fare at the best hotels, and 
his  employer’s  money  paid for it as an in­
vestment that would return  suie  dividends. 
For the rest, he was absent from his  family 
nearly all the time, traveling  night and day 
in close, hot, ill-ventilated cars,  worked like 
a machine at  every  town  on  his route, and 
earned a better salary than any professional 
jnan of his acquaintance.  He was  the  first 
to make up a purse for a widow or stranded 
fellow-traveler,  and when  he read  the  ma­
licious  newspaper  stories  of  the  gay  and 
festive  drummer  he  wondered  why in the 
course of his travels he never met any of the 
craft.  The men he knew were, like himself, 
of honorable record,  often  inconveniencing 
themselves to  help  one  another on the way 
through.

There  was  a  stir  at  a  station,  and two 
pretty girls came aboard.  They laughed and 
giggled;  threw kisses at  their friends at the 
depot;  gave  silly  messages  and  good-byes, 
and,  as  the  train  started,  they took a seat 
behind  the  commercial  traveler.  There 
were other seats vacant, but  they  preferred 
this, and rustled into it with a series of little 
shrieks and giggles.

“Did you see  Tom  Barlow  watching  us,

Nellie?  Te-he-he.”

“He’ll  be  there  to  meet  us when we go 

back, see if he isn’t, Kitty!  H a! ha!”

“Say,  he’s  a  drummer,”  giggled Nellie, 

hunching her friend toward the front seat.
“Too awfully swell, ain’t he?  Oh, my J” 
“Ahem!  ahem!  How I  do  wish  I  knew 

what time it is!”

The traveler  did  not  make  any  answer. 
His silk hat, as fine  and  pretentious  as the 
hat of a man who does his duty and owes no 
man anything has a right to  be,  was  pulled 
down  over  his  eyes;  his  lips  were com­
pressed, and he replied by no look or  motion 
to the rude speech of the merry girls.

“Must be  awfully  stuck  up,”  whispered 
Nellie, but  not so  low but that the man on 
the seat before her could hear distinctly.

“Doesn’t  notice  common  people,”  an­

swered Kitty, with a toss of her head.

These  were  young  ladies,  dear  reader. 
Not hobby-de-hoy  school-girls or  coarse, ill- 
bred hoydens.  They moved in the  best  so­
ciety and their respective  fathers and moth- 
ery would  have  been  greatly  astonished to 
learn that their daughters flirted.  But, then, 
fathers  and  mothers are usually the last to 
know what  is  going  on  among  their  own 
young people.

“W-would  you  be  so  kind,  sir, as to tell 
us what time it is?”  asked  Nellie in a little, 
meek, far-away voice, whille her companion 
tittered and looked out of the window.

Both of the young ladies wore watches, as 
was patent to an observer, but the gentleman 
addressed  could  do  nothing  less  than  an­
swer so direct a question.  This  he  did in a 
brief manner, and with  a voice that noticea­
bly trembled.

“Poor  thing,  he  was  quite  overcome,” 
whispered Kitty,  audibly.  “I’m  going  to 
want this window put up pretty soon.” 

“Allow me,” said the  traveling  man  res­
pectfully, and  the  disconcerted  young lady 
blushed and simpered, and sat in the draught 
without protest.

*  The next move was made  by  the  gentle­
man.  He took  from  his  pocket  a  photo­
graph and inspected it long and sadly. Tears 
welled into his eyes, his face flushed, and he 
returned it to his pocket.

The two young ladies did not see the pho­
tograph, at least not to recognize  whether it 
was a man or woman, but  they te-he’d  and 
simpered and even speculated in a low voice, 
as to who it might be—wife or sweetheart.

“Don’t tell me he’s  married,” cried  Kitty 
in a loud whisper.  “He hasn’t the  courage 
to pop the question.”

“That  was  his  grandmother’s  picture,” 
chimed  in  Nellie.  “Good  boy!  he carries 
it with him so that the old lady will  hear of 
it and leave him something in her will.” 

Then they giggled in chorus, and the train 
drew up at a station where some  very  anx­
ious looking faces were pressing  forward as 
if in search of some one.

The commercial  traveler  caught  up  his 
satchel and slung it over his  shoulder; then 
he took the photograph he had been looking 
at, out of his pocket,  and turned to the  two 
young ladies who began  to  feel a  little un­
comfortable at his manner.

“That is the picture of  my  little  daugh­
ter,” he said, holding up  the  counterfeit of 
a lovely smiling child of  six  years; “she is 
very ill, and I am summoned  home, perhaps 
to see her die.  But let  me  tell you  that I 
would rather a thousand times know, at this 
moment, that the breath of life  had  forever 
passed her  sweet  lips,  than  to  think  she 
could ever grow  up into  a  silly,  dishonest 
woman, tempting  and  toying  with souls to 
feed her own wicked vanity.

Almost the next moment they saw him on 
the platform, and a fair woman  hung on his 
arm, and his face  lighted  with  pleasure at 
her words.  But they two  sank  back out of 
sight, enraged, mortified, yet conscious  that 
they had found in one iraveling man an hoi.« 
est-minded friend  who  had  dared  to  give 
them a word of needful  warning.

It  has  been  found  that  nitric  and other 
dangerous acids travel  better  when  packed 
in crushed  puraicestone  than  in  any  other 
way, says a  London  paper.  This is the ex­
perience acquired by numerous shipments to 
Australia.

Chelsea dairymen have organized the Chel­
sea Creamery Co., with  a  capital  stock  of 
$5,000, all but $500 of which is paid in.

TIM E  TABLES.

M i c h i g a n (T e n t r a l

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

D EPA R T.

♦Detroit Express............................................  6:00 am
(■Day  Express..........................................12:45 p m
tAtlantic Express............................................ 9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express............................................  6:00 am
+Mail..........................................................3:20 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express................................10:25 pm

ARRIVE.

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.

Chicago £  West Michigan.
Leaves.
tMail......................................  9:15 am
+Day  Express......................12:25 p m
♦Night  Express..................   9:35 pm

Arrives, 
4:05 p m 
11:15 p m 
6:00 a m
♦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  
Express....................................8:05 a m  11:15 a m
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. Ca r pen t er,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mu ll ik en,  General  Manager.

4:05 pm

Lake Shore £  Michigan Southern.

..................7: 00 p:
y except Sunday, 
eaving  at 4  p. m 
1th Atlantic  Exp 
s Palace Drawing 
Chicago  to  Ni

!.  Leave, 
7:35 a m 
n 
Expres! 
n 
4:00 pm
Mail... 
All tr 
. connects at 
The  c 
ress  on  Main 
White I 
Room  Sleep- 
Line, w 
jw  York and
ing Coa 
Bosto
The  train  leaving  at  7:35  a. m. connects at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main lin e.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Moure street and depot.

Through  tickets  and  berths 

chh 
les froi 
ithout I

J. W. McKenney, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven £   Milwaukee.

G O ING EA ST.Arrives. 

G O ING W EST.

Leaves.
■(•Steamboat Express.......... 
6:20am
(■Through  Mail..................... 10:10 am   10:20 am
(•Evening  Express................3:20 pm   3:35 pm
♦Atlantic Express................  9:45 pm   10:45 pm
(•Mixed, with  coach...........  
10:30 am
(Morning * Express.............. 12:40 p m  12:55 p m
(Through  Mail..................  5:10 p m  5:15 p m
tSteamboat Express.......... 10:40 p m
tMixed..................................  
7:10 am
♦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, 
i  Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
W68t«
!  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 
I Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
I local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P otter, City Pass. Agent. 
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

_  

_

Grand  Rapids  £   Indiana.

GO ING  SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  7:00 am  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  3:55 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m 

G O IN G  NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves.
10:25 a m 
5:00 pm  
7:10 a m
7:00 a m 
6:15 pm  
11:45 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. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  £  Marquette.

STATIONS.

GOING
EAST
Ac. Ex.

GOING
WEST
Ac. Ex.
PM.
4 50 Ar. 

Ishpeming  Dep. 1 30

Seney 

1 40 AM.
PM. 4 40 ..........Ne'gaunee..............
6 50 3 30 ____ Marquette............ 2 20 7  30
3 08 1 27 .......... Reedsboro ............ 4 19 11 05
D 5 45 1  10
12 00 A 
A 5 30 12 40
1  10 12 15 D 
6 38 2 40
11 25 11 02 ...........   Newbury...........
PM.
AM.
8 30 Dep....... St. Ignace___Ar. □9 00 6 30
Ar.  Mackinaw City  Dep. 9 30
PM.
9 00 Dep.  Grand Rapids  Ar. 7  00
AM.
9 35 ...............Detroit................ 3 30

F. Mil l ig a n . G. F. & P. A.

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 Sault St. Marie.

M your  own  Bone,

M»n1.  C ntep  Sheila.
GRAHAM  Flour  and Corn 
in the  H A N D  M IL L
(F.  Wilson’s  Patent).  lOO  per 
__ 
cent, more made In keeping poul­
M IL L S .  Circulars  and Testimonials sent 
try.  ♦'Also  POWER  MILLS  and  FA 
on application.  ‘WILSON BROS., Easton, Pa.
FEED

« Ill ill« Meal, Oyster Shells, 

E UST GI TsT E S

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

I   m __  ___________ -  ARM

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and Bbxes.  Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfits.
W .  O,  Denison,
GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-   MICHIGAN.

88,90 and 92 South Division  Street, 

HAMUTOH’S  PATENT

Is the best device  ever invented for Quoting Prices.  Advertising Arrival of

DISPLAY  CHART
{100
$2.50

You  can  do  more. Advertising
THIS  SIGN

New Goods,  Calling Attention to Old  Ones,  etc.,  e

For the small sum of $2.50 by using

. _________

c

t

Than for $100 used in any other way.

Chart—Patented February 19,  1884.

Every person  on  the  street  will  read what  you have to 

say, because it is something entirely new, and

ANY  LIVE  BUSINESS MAN CAN 

ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS 

BY  THE  USE  OF

THIS CHART

Than in’any other manner.

D escription:  §

The  accompanying  cut  represents  the  chart  in  use. 
Size of Chart, 2 feet wide  by  3  feet  high,  made  of  hard 
wood, elegantly finished.  The  feet are so constructed as 
to be removable at will, and when removed the frame can 
be  hung  up  on  the  wall  or in the window.  The letters 
are 2 inches in height, kept in a strong, neat box contain- 
| ing labeled appartments for each  letter.  Each  box  con­
tains over 300 letters, figures and characters.  To set up a 
line, place the upper edge of the letters in  the groove  in 
the under edge of a slat in the frame and allow the letter 
to  settle  down  in  the  groove  in the upper edge of the 
lower slat.

THE  CHART

Can  be  set  up  more  rapidly  than  it  can  be  printed.
perigei  o f  c h a r t   a   b o s o f l e t t e r s , c o m p l e t e  $ s.so
Sent to any address on receipt of price.  Make all Post Office Orders, etc., to Albion, Mich.  Agent wanted in United States and Canada.

H. J.  Cortright,

SALT.

ONONDAGA F. F. SALT
AMERICAN  DAIRY  SALT  CO. 

Sole Manufacturers. 

(Limited.)  Chemically purified and Warrant­
ed pure as any in the market.  Used by a great 
majority of the Dairymen of the country.  Un­
excelled for Butter, Cheese, the Table  and  all 
Culinary  purposes.  Got medal at Centennial 
“for  purity  and  high  degree of  excellence.” 
Dairy goods salted with it took first premiums 
at New Orleans  World’s  Fair,  N.  Y.  Interna­
tional Fair, Milwaukee Exposition, and always 
wins  when  there  is  fair  competition. 
It  is 
American, and c h ea per  and better than any 
foreign salt.  Try it.  Address
J. W . Barker, Sec’y, Syracuse, N. Y.
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.

W I L S O N ’S

Cabinet Creamery and Barrel Churn

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

To  first pur­
chaser  in  new 
locality,we will 
give  s p e c i a l  
terms.
The woman’s 
friend. It saves 
three-fou rth s 
of the  labor  in 
butter-mak- 
ing;  easily op- 
'er ated;  you 
; raise 
s w e e t  
cream  f r o m
_____________ 
s w e e t  m ilk:
you have sweet milk to feed  which  trebles its 
value.  Send  for  circular.  Agents  wanted. 
Addres8,  FLINT  CABINET  CREAMERY 
CO..  FLINT.  MICH.

SHIPPING  BASKETS  AND  BOXES

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m a n u f a c t u r e d   a t  

tJU_

S T.J0 S EP H ,  M ICH. 
b   seuP FormusTiufftP  phiceì

THE  COOLEY  CAN,

Improved by the Lockwood Patent.

Used in the creamery 
for  butter  only,  they 
I paid the patrons in July, 
1884, 60c  and  the  skim­
med  milk  per  100  lbs. 
Lowest  price  of 
the 
year.
In  the  creamery for 
gathered  cream 
they 
paid  the  patrons  from 
15c  to  27c  per  cream 
gauge for the  year 1884.
In the factory for but­
ter  and  cheese  they 
paid  the  patrons  $1.75 
per 100 lbs.  average,  for 
the season.  They show 
better results in dollars 
and cents than anything 
yet invented.
Write foractual work­
ing  figures  furnished 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _   by successful creamery
men  of  known  reputation,  who  have  used 
them as above.

J-OHBT  BOYD,

Sole Manufacturer, 199 LAKE ST., CHICAGO.

DETROIT  SOAP  CO.’S

Q U E E N  

A N N E

SOAP

------- 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.
B is and lasting trade.  Good margins to dealers.  Grocers, if you  have  never 
tried “QUEEN A N N E  SOAP,” buy a sample box and you will always continue 

to handle it.CODY,  BALL  &  CO,

Wholesale Agents for “Queen Anne” and all 

of Detroit Soap Co.’s Standard Brands. 

I 
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c*IlU  XvCtpiUOi

(Bvocenes.

The Middlemen.

Prom Macmillari’s Magazine.

Thirty years ago a young  man  who  had 
acquired experince, knowledge  and  reputa­
tion, and perhaps saved  a  couple  of  hun­
dreds, in the employment  of  a considerable 
mercantile  or  manufacturing  firm,  would 
start on his own account as a broker  or oth­
er business intermediary, transacting the ac­
tual sales and purchases, mastering and con­
ducting the  details  which  his  employers 
could aiford to neglect, doing  in his  depart­
ment the work of a score or more  of  differ­
ent firms, needing little  capital  but the con­
fidence of his original  employers  and  those 
with whom he had been  brought  into  con­
tact in their service.  Commerce could afford 
liberal  commissions;  shrewdness  foresight 
and diligence secured a  minor  but  valuable 
share of the ample profits made in  the long, 
roundabout  passage  between  the  original 
producer and the ultimate consumer.  Now- 
a-days the steps are much  fewer;  one inter­
mediary after another has  been  suppressed. 
The  manufacturer  buys his  materials, not, 
perhaps, from the actual producer, but  from 
his factor.  Orders are sent  directly by tele­
graph, commissions  are  comparatively few 
and scanty, and the brokers who  yet remain 
are compelled to secure business by services 
which only considerable  capital  can  afford. 
The business, even, of large and long  estab­
lished firms is seriously reduced the smaller, 
one after another, have  disappeared or been 
absorbed;  and  the  opportunities  for  new 
men with nb capital but  brains  and charac­
ter are yearly more  and  more  closely  con­
tracted.  The professions  are  cowded, com­
petition has in many cases reduced  their re­
muneration, generally divided  the  business 
among a  great number; and even where  the 
heads of a profession make  as much or more 
money than ever, the  juniors  are compelled 
to wait longer and work harder and later.

Finding a  Bed of Natural  Soap.

From the Cleveland  Leader.

The latest discovery is a  vast  deposit  of 
natural soap near Corning, in Ohio.  As the 
story runs, a party  of  hunters  in  the  “Big 
Woods” built a fire against a rocky  hillside, 
for the purpose of  preparing  a meal.  The 
heat split off a large fragment of solid stone, 
and to their great  surprise  a  slippery  sub­
stance of a  dirty  yellowish  color  began  to 
run from little  perforations  on  the  face  of 
the rock.  This substance had a consistency 
similar to that of molasses in  cold  weather. 
After gathering a quantity of  the  stuff, the 
discoverers managed  to  stop  the  outflow. 
Samples are said to have  been  sent  to lead­
ing  chemists  throughout  the country, who, 
with one accord, pronounced it nearly a pure 
article of soap.  Scientists suggest that  this 
deposit is owing to a combination of lakes of 
potash and rivers of essential oils within the 
subterranean caverns  underlying  the great 
coal treasures of Southern Ohio.  The story 
sounds  like  one  of  Baron  Munchausen’s 
tales, yet it is said  that a  company  with a 
capital of $200,000 is being  formed  to work 
this natural soap mine.

Miscellaneous  Dairy  Notes.

The Ovid creamery will  begin  operations 

April 27.

Wm. Dorgan, of  Strathroy,  Ontario,  has 
been engaged as cheese maker by  E. J. Sav 
age, of Coopersville.  Mr. Savage expects to 
begin operations about May 10.

At the tenth annual  meeting  of  the  pat­
rons of the  Sparta  Cheese Factory Associa­
tion,  the  following  officers  were  elected: 
President,  John  Gillan;  Secretary,  L.  E. 
Ellis;  Treasurer and  Salesman, A. E. John­
son.  An agreement was entered into between 
the proprietor  and patrons of the factory to 
make and market  the  cheese  for  $1.70  per 
cwt.  The  factory  is  to  begin  operations 
May 3.

The  Grocery  Market.

Trade has been good  and  collections  fair 
during the past week.  The market has been 
very steady, with the  exception  of  pickles, 
which are a little lower, and tomatoes, which 
are firmer.  Jas. S. Kirk & Co.  sent  a  rep 
resentative to  this  market  last  week  and 
compelled every jobber to  sign  an iron-clad 
contract, agreeing not to sell  the  soaps  of 
that house less than the card rate.  A viola­
tion of this agreement renders  it  obligatory 
on the manufacturer to refuse to  sell the re­
fractory parties.

Smoked W hite  Fish.

We are now prepared  to  furnish  dealers 
with  Fresh  Smoked  White  Fish.  We  are 
smoking about  one  ton a week.  We  also 
handle Boneless Cod  and  Smoked  Halibut 
in 40 pound boxes.  Any order for anything 
special in our line of fish and oysters will re 
ceive prompt attention.

Cole & E mery,

Baltimore Fish and Oyster  Market,

37 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

A bottle, to which-  a  large  bunch  of bi­
valves had grown, was fished up recently by 
a Baltimore oyster  man. 
Inside  the  bottle 
was a fish too large to get out  of its  mouth. 
It is supposed that the fish  went  into  the 
bottle, and either  liked  its  quarters so well 
that it tarried  too  long, or  before  it could 
find its way  out  had  grown  so  large  as to 
nearly fill the  bottle.  The  bottled fish will 
be sent to the Smithsonian Institute.

Mirrors of 100 square  feet  of  surface are 
manufactured in France with but little more 
difficulty  than  is  experienced  in  making 
those of ordinary sizes.

Dealers wishing seeds of any kind  are re­
ared to the  advertisement  of  the  Grand 
apids Seed Store, in another column of this

The  Usual  Way.

“Call again,” he said to the grocer;
“Call again another day.”
The grocer pocketed his bill 
And sadly turned away.

“He’s busted,” said the grocer;
“Flat broke, alack-a-day!
He is an honest customer—
Too bad he cannot pay.”

The grocer took his wife that night 
To see a four-bit play;
But in a flfty-dollar box 
Sat the man who  couldn’t pay.”

The day of the oyster is passing away,
His season is up on the first of May:
But let this thought give us comfort and cheer: 
Beans are in season throughout the  year.

—Boston  Courier.

A Russo-English war just now,
By making business boom all  ’round.

Would prove a handsome treat,
And raise the price of wheat.

—Merchant Traveler.

Never put off till to-morrow 
For the man who is solvent at present 

That which you can do to-day;
To-morrow may be in a bad way.

THE  OLD  RELIABLE.

The  Star Flouring  M ills  Again  in  Opera­

tion.

The Star flouring mills,  which  have  been 
shut down most of tho time during  the  past 
sixteen weeks, on account of the  prevalence 
of  high  water,  started  ap again last week 
and are now in active operation,  running  at 
their full capacity.  During  the  shut-down, 
the mill has been thoroughly  overhauled  in 
all  its  various  departments, and eveiy  im­
provement  made  which  would  tend  to  in­
crease  the  manufacturing  capacity  or  im­
prove the quality of the product turned  out. 
The well-known brands of  this  mill—“ Our 
Patent,”  “ Star,”  “ Golden  Sheaf ”  and 
“ Ladies’  Delight”  are  known  to  nearly 
every  d e a ^   in  Michigan,  and  invariably 
give the best satisfaction. 
Indeed,  the  su­
perior reputation of  these  brands  has  been 
clearly demonstrated during the recent shut­
down, as many dealers have  refused to han­
dle  any  other  goods,  claiming  that  none 
could  be  obtained  which would give  such 
universal satisfaction as the  products of the 
Star mills.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Baldwins, russets  and  other  stand­

ard  varieties readily command $3.25@$3.50.

Beans—Unpicked  command  75@90c,  and 
choice picked  find  good  shipping  demand at 
fl.25@fl.35.

Butter—Dairy  finds  slow sale  at  16@17c  for 
choice rolls, while an inferior  article  is  to  be 
had in endless variety at from 8@12e.

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

Clover  Seed—Good  local  shipping demand. 

Dealers quote choice recleaned at $6.

Cabbages—$5@$8 $  100.  Very little moving.
Cheese—Michigan  full  cream  readily  com­
mands 12@13*4c, while skim find occasional sale 
at from  9*4@10c.

Cider—12*4c $  gal. for common sweet and 15c 

for sand refined.

Cranberries—Bell and bugle firm at$14<|? bbl. 

and $3.75@$4.25 

crate, according to  size.

Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 

quarters, 4@4*4c.

Eggs—Very  plentiful  and  coming  in  very 

freely, dealers holding present stocks  at 12c.

Honey—Choice new in comb is firm atl3@14c.
Hay—Bailed, $13@$14.
Onions—f3.25@3.50 $  bbl. for yellow or red.
Pop Corn—Very scarce, the supply not being 
equal to the  demand.  Choice  commands  4 
cents.

Potatoes—Competition  among  buyers,  and 
not increased demand or higher  prices  in the 
South,  has  forced  the  price  up to 35@40c, at 
which price considerable quantities  are  being 
purchased and shipped.  None of  the  heavier 
buyers, however, are making contracts for any 
length of time ahead, as the future of the mar­
ket is very uncertain.

Poultry—Very scarce.  Fowls, 9@10c.  Chick­

ens, 12@13c.  Turkeys, 14c.

Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—Good  shipping  demand,  dealers 

holding  at $1.80 for choice.

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

Wheat—4c  higher.  The  city  millers  pay as 
follows:  Lancaster,  94;  Fulse,  91;  Clawson, 
92c.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 55c in 100 bu. lots 

and 52c in carlots.

Oats—White, 45c in small lots and 41c in  car- 

lots.

cwt.

Rye—58c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 
Flour—Unchanged.  Fancy Patent,  $0  $bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6.25  in  wood.  Straight,  $5  *£ 
bbl. in sacks and $5.25 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $  ton.  Bran, $16 
$  ton.  Ships, $17 $1 ton.  Middlings, $18 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $22 $  ton.

Grand Rapids Grain & Seed Co

S E E D   M E R C H A N T S .
O F F IC E :

W A R EH O U SE S:

71  Canal  St.,  and  Cor.
Ionia and  Williams 

Streets.

71  CANAL  ST.
Grand Rapids, April 21,1885. 

Prime

...... 48 ft bu

................ 14 1b bu

............... 48 ft bu
...............60 ft bu
...............56 ft bu

“  Prime.....................................  
“ 
“  No. 2.;.................................... 
“ 
“ 
“  Mammoth Prime.................. 
White.......................25c 98 ft  “ 
“  A lsyke................ ,  25c $   ft 
“ 
Alfalfa or Lucerne 25c ^ ft 
“ 

Dear  Sirs—Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
prices for to-day:
Clover, Choice recleaned...............60 ft bu  6 00
5 75
5 50
6 25
12 00
12 00
15 00
Timothy, Choice.......................45 ft bu 1 75@1 80
1  70 
Hungarian  Grass.......
1  00 
Millet, common..........
1  00
“  German..........
1  25 
Red Top.......................
80
Blue Grass..................
2  00 
Orchard  Grass...........
2 50 
Buckwheat..................
I  00 
Peas, White Field.......
1 25
Rye, Winter.................
85 
“  Spring...................................... 
1  00 
Wheat, Spring................................. 
1 25 
Barley, Spring................................48 ft  bu
90 
Corn, Yellow Yankee................... 56 ft bu
1 25 
“
“  Red Blazed.............................. 
1  25 
“  Pony Dent...............................  
“
1  25 
5 00 
“ 
4  50
Prices on Rape, Canary,  Hemp 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 
oh 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.
SPECIAL  NOTICE-To  avoid  disappoint­
ment, please  note  that  above  prices  are  for 
to-day  only;  subject  market  fluctuations. 
Orders will be  filled low as market on  arrival. 
Will make firm offers by wire when  requested.

Onions, Sits Yellow......................................
English  Multipliers.....................

W, T.  LAMOKEAUX, Agt.

“
“

SALT.

SOAP.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
100 3 ft pockets.......................................
Saginaw F ine.........................................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse.../..............................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, 14 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels........ :...............................
Parisian, 14  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green.............................
Pesper Sauce, red large ring!.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................
Horseradish,  14 pints............................
Horseradish, pints.................................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, 14 pints.........................
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small........
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........

SA UCES.

do. 
•  do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 

“  Cameo................
“ 
“  Monday.............
“ 
“  Mascot..............
“ 
“  Superior, 60 lft bars
“ 
Kirk’s American  Fam ily...............
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....................................... 3 ft bar
Ward’s White Lily.................................
Handkerchief.........................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R ag................................................
Bluing......................................................
Magnetic........... .....................................
New  French  Process............................
Spoon  ......................................................
Anti-Washboard....................................
Vaterland................................................
Magic..................... .*................................
Pittsburgh..............................................

. 

2 30 
2  20
2 50 
98
1 60
1 55 
75
2 80 
75 
25 
28

@2  00 
@  75 
@  90 
@1 35 
@1 70 
@1  00 
®1 .35 
@1  00 
@1  30 
@3 50 
@2  20 
@4 85 
@2 90
@4 85 
@3 30 
@3 45 
@3 45 
@3 60
3 60 
3 30 
3 15 
3 30
3 15
4  85 

6 75
2 80
3 60
4 10 
3 35 
3 60
3 60 
@3 15 
@3 20 
@3 00 
@ 6J4 
@4 06 
@18=4 
@  16 
@6 75 
@4 20
5 25
4  00
5 00 
4 10
4 50
5 00 
5 00
3 25
4 00 
4 00

Whole.

Pepper.................  @19
Allspice...............  8@10
Cassia....................  @10
Nutmegs
.60@65
Cloves

Ground. 

SPIC E S.

STARCH.

Pepper................ 16@25
Allspice..............12@15
Cinnamon...........18@30
Cloves  ................ 15@25
Ginger................16@20
Mustard..............15@30
Cayenne............ 25@35
Kingsford’s, 1 ft pkgs.,  pure..................
3 ft pkgs.,  pure..................
lf t  pkgs., Silver  Gloss__
6 ft pkgs., 
 
1 ft pkgs., Corn  Starch__
(Bulk) Ontario..................
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft boxes............................
“
" 
3 ft boxes.............................
“ 
6 ft boxes.;.........................
“ 
“  bu lk .......................................
“ 
“  Corn, 20 ft..................................   j 3
“ 
“  40  ft.........................................
“ 
“  6 ft...................................
Linen Gloss, 3  ft........................
“ 
“ 
Crystal  “  bulk...................
“ 
Corn, 1 $ ....................................

Gilbert’s Gloss, 1  ft.........................

“ 

“ 

“ 

@6*4
@6*4 
@8 
@8*4 
@ 8  
@5 
@6 
@5%
..  @6*4 
..  @4*4
..  @6*4
@6*4 
..  @5%
@6
..  @5*4
@4
..  @6 

SUGARS.

TEA S.

@ 5*4

@5 94 @ 524 @ 5% @ 594 

TOBACCO—F IN E  C U T - IN   P A IL S

@
@   6% 
0%@ 6% 
@6 31 
@6  18 

Cut  Loaf.................................................
Cubes  ......................................................
Powdered....................
Granulated.  Standard
Granulated, Palisade............................
Confectionery A .................................
StandardA..................................
Extra C, White.......................
Extra C.......................................
Fine  C.................................I
Yellow C...............................
SY RUPS.
Corn,  Barrels......................................
26 
Corn, *4 bbls............................
28 
Corn,  10 gallon kegs..................
@  32 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.............................
@1 60 
Corn; 4*4 gallon kegs............................
@1 45 
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
23@  35 
Pure Sugar Drips........................14  bbl
30®  38 
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs
@1 96 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips.............. 14 bbl
@  85 
Pure Loaf Sugar...............  .5 gal kegs
@1 85
Japan ordinary.............................................22@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
Japan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust..................................................... 15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
Gun Powder................................................... 35@5U
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo.............................................., ............ 25@30
State  Seal..................60|Atlas............................35
Prairie Flower..........65 Royal Game................ 38
Climber........ ............62 Mule Ear..................... 65
Indian Queen........... 60 Fountain..................... 74
Bull  Dog................... 60 |01d Congress.............. 64
Crown  Leaf.......  .....66|Good Luck..................52
Matchless...................65
Blaze Away.. 
Hiawatha...................67
Hair Lif ter...
Globe  ......................... 70
Governor __
May Flower............... 70
Fox’s Choice.
H ero...........................45
Medallion__
Old Abe.  ........ 
49
Sweet Owen..
PLU G .
Piper  Heidseick....................................
Punch......................................................
Chocolate Cream....................................
Woodcock  ..............................................
Knigntsof  Labor..................................
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12..............................
Black Bear..............................................
......................................................
King 
Old Five Cent Times.............................
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft.............................
Parrot  ....................................................
Old Time.................................................
Tramway................................................
Glory  ......................................................
Durham...................................................
Silver  Coin..............................................
Buster  [Dark].......................................
Black Prince [Dark].............................
Black Racer  [Dark].............................
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................
Climax....................................................
Hold F ast...............................................
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......................................................
Cray lin g ...............................................
Mackinaw..............................................
Horse Shoe............................................
Hair Lifter............................................
D. and D., black....................................
McAlpin’s Green  Shield......................
Ace  High, black..................................
Sailors’  Solace......................................
2c. less in four butt lots.
Tramway, 3 oz..........40jUijcle  Sam..
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35 Lumberman
B01
Peck’s Sun...............
Miners and Puddlers
Morning Dew..........
Chain........................
Peerless  ..................
Standard ..................
Old Tom....................
Tom & Jerry...........
Joker.'.......................
Traveler..................
Maiden.....................
Pickwick  Club........
Nigger Head............
Holland....................
German....................
Solid Comfort..........
Red Clover...............
Long Tom.................
National..................
Tim e.........................
Conqueror 
...32
Gray"
u g ....
...30
Seaf Skin....
Rob Roy......................26
SHORTS.
Globe................................ 211 Hiawatha_____
Mule Ear.................... 23| Old Qongress.

.28
15 Railroad Boy..............38
18 Mountain Rose...........18
28 Home Comfort.......... 25
26|01d Rip.......................55
22iSeal of North Caro-
24  Lina, 2  oz.................48
22'Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz...................46
21 
24 Seal of North  Caro-
25 
lina, 8oz...................41
35 Seal of North Caro-
lina, 16 oz boxes___ 40
25 
40 Big Deal....!..............27
26 Apple Jack.................24
22 King Bee, longcut.. .22
16 Milwaukee  Prize___24
30 Rattler........................28
32 Windsor cut plug__ 25
30 Zero  ...........................16
26 Holland Mixed.......... 16
26 Golden  Age............... 75
~3 Mail  Pouch............... 25
Knights of Lator__ 30
Free Cob Pipe........  27

@62
@40
@46
@46
@46
@46
@37
@46
@38
@62
@46
@38
@48
@46
@48
@50
@36
@36
@36
@46
@46
@46
@46
@51
@37
@46
@46
©4ft
@44
@35
@40
@46
@46
@45
@44
@36
@36
@46
@35
@46

SMOKING

VIN EGA R.

Pure  Cider..........8@12 White Wine..

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

Boraxine  ................................................
1 7 7 6 f t ...............................................
Gillett’s $i f t ...........................................
Pearline  box.................. ,...-..............

.  8@12

@3 76 
@10*4 
@  7*4 
@4 50

do 

YEAST.

American 

m i s c e l l a n e o u s .

Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...
@4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
@4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
@4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap 
@4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 *4 ft papers..
@4  15 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 *4 ft paprs
@4 00 
Soapine, No. 1.........................................
@3 60 
Soapine, No. 2.........................................
@3 84 
Soapine, No. 3.........................................
@4 20
Twin Bros..........1 65  I W ilsons............
1  65
Magic.................1  75  I National...............1 65
Bath Brick imported.....................
95 
................
60 
Barley................................................
@3 
Burners, No. 1 .................................
1  00 
do  No.  2.................................
1  50 
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.......
8  00 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.......
15@25 
Candles, Star....................................
@13*4 
Candles,  Hotel.................................
@14 
Extract Coffee, V.  C....................  .
@80 
F elix....................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps................
@30 
......
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps................. 
@40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bbl.......................................   @4  00
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @1  35
Peas, Split prepared.......................... ..  @3*4
Powder, Keg...........................................  @3  50
Powder,  *4 Keg......................................  @1  93

do 

1  25 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: 

 

 

 

 

do 
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FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

s t i c k .
Straight, 25 ft  boxes.............................   9 @ 9*4
................................9*4@10
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
 
<gn3
m i x e d .
Royal, 25 ft  pails...................................... 9*4@10
Royal, 200 ft bbls........................................  @ 9
Extra, 25 ft  pails........... .......................... ll@] 1 *4
Extra, 200 ft bbls....................................... 10@10*4
French Cream, 25 ft pails................................13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases......................................... 13
Broken, 25  ft pails.....................................11@11*4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 10*2
Lemon Drops............................ 
14
Sour Drops........................................................ 15
Peppermint  Drops........   .............................. 15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  D rops..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops......................  
20
A B  Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain.......;........................................ J5
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Imperials..........................................................15
M ottoes............................................................. 15
Cream  Bar........................................................ 14
Molasses Bar..................................................... 13
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 20
Plain  Creams................................................... 17
Decorated  Creams........................................... 22
String Rock.......................................................15
Burnt Almonds..............................................  22
Wintergreen  Berries.......................... 
.15
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................12*4@13
Lozenges, plain in  bbls......................... 11*4@12
Lozenges, printed in pails.................... 13*4@14
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................... 12*4@13
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................13  @14
Gum  Drops  in pails................................. 7*4@8
Gum Drops, in bbls................................... 
6*4
Moss Drops, in pails..............................10*4@11*4
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  9
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails................................ 13@  14
Imperials  in bbls...................................  @12
Bananas,  Aspinwall.............................2 50@4 00
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo......... 3 00@3  50
Oranges, California...............................3 00@3  50
Lemons,  choice....................................   3 50@4 00
Lemons, fancy.......................................4 25@4  50
Figs,  layers new, 
ft..........................   @12*4
Figs, baskets 40 ft $  ft..........................   @ 8
Dates, frails 
do  ..........................   @ 4
Dates, U do 
do  ...........................  @ 6
Dates, skin..............................................   @ 4
Dates, *4  skin.........................................  @  5
Dates, Fard 10 ft box 
ft....................  8*4@ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft......................  @7
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft................   @ 6*4
PEANUTS.
ft............................ 
Prime  Red, raw 
4*4
do  ............................  @5
Choice 
do  .......................... -.  5*4@  5*4
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................ 
5@ 5*4
Fancy HP,.  Va  do
........  6  @  6*4
UTS.
....................  17@18
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft 
Brazils,
d o .......
8® 8*4
.......... 
Pecons,
9@12
d o ................... 
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ........ ..........12*4@14
Walnuts, Gvenobles 
d o ........ ..........12*4@15
“  ........ ...........11*4@12*4
Walnuts, French

FRUITS.

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HIDES. PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

HIDES.

Green__ ft  6  @ 6*4
Part cured...  7  @  7*4
Full cured__   8  @  8*4
Dry hides and

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

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

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

SH E E P PEL TS.

W OOL.

ähed.

Shearlings or Sum- 

Fine washed <p ft 20@221 Unwashed...........  
Coarse

¡Fall pelts............. 30@50
mer skins ^pcel0@201 Winter  pelts...60@l 00 
2-3
074
Muskrat....... 
2@  10
Otter........... 1 00@ 4 00
Raccoon....... 
5@  75
Skunk  ..........  15@  75
Beaver, f* ft.l 00@ 2 25 
Deer,  ¡gft...  10®  30

.16® 181 Tallow 
@12 JO 
00@ 4 00 
25@  1  00 
15@  1  00 
25@  1 00 
5@  40

x, red.

S K IN S .

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OY STERS.

New York Counts................................................35
F. J. D. Selects....................................................32
Selects.................................................................. 28
F. J. D ....................................................................22
Standard  ............................................................. 20
Codfish..............................................................   9
Haddock...........................................................   7
Smelts...........................   
10
Mackinaw Trout,.............................................. 8
Mackerel............................................................12
Whiteflsh.........................................................   9

FR ESH   F IS H .

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  6  @8
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  7  @ 8*4
Dressed Hogs.......................................  5*4@ 6
Mutton,  carcasses.................................5*4 @ 6
Veal..’.......................................................   8 © 8*4
Pork Sausage...........................................  8 @9
Bologna............................. 
9  @10
Chickens...................................................14 @15
Turkeys  .....................................................  @15

 

 

TRADE  MARK.

O. H. RICHMOND & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

M AN UFACTURERS  OF

Rictaonfl’s Family Medicines.

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

The  best selling liver  and  blood  medicine  in 

the  market,  50 cents.

Richmond’s Cubeb Cream,
Richmond’s Ague Cure,

Richmond’s  Cough Cure, 
Richmond’s Easy Pills,

Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer.
Retailers,  please  order  of  your  jobbers  in 
Grand Rapids, Chicago or Detroit.  If your job­
ber does not handle our goods, we will fill your 
orders.  Pills and Health Restorer can be sent 
by mail.  141 South Division St., Grand Rapids.

USE

D'OLIVEIRA’S
Parisian Sauce

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IMPROVED

BAKING
POWDER

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

GRAND  RABIDS,  MICH.

PROVISIONS.

1*4

P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

quote  as follows:
A. Webster, packer, short cut.........................13 90
Clear back, snort cut..........................................15 50
Extra Family Clear.............................................14 09
Clear, A. Webster  packer................................. 14 50
Standard Clear, the  best...................................15 75
Extra Clear,  heavy.............................., ........15 00
Boston Clear.........................................................15 25
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy.................................
do.  medium..............................
light.....................................
do. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases..
8
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases..
8*4
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
8*4
8=4
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........
7*4
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........
8
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft  cases....... 
7
Boneless  Hams............................................... 10
Boneless Shoulders.........................................  7J*
Breakfast  Bacon............................................  9
Dried Beef, extra quality............................. 11
Dried Beef, Ham pieces.................................12*
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle..................  7
Tierces  ............................................ —
30 and 50 ft Tubs....................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases....................
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case............................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case..............................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................  
8*4
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts.......,. .11 25
Boneless,  extra.............................................15 00
Pork Sausage...................................................  7
Ham  Sausage....................................................12
Tongue  Sausage.............................................  10
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage................................................... 6*4
Bologna,  ring...................................................  6*4
Bologna, straight............................................   6*4
Bologna, thick................................................... 6*4
Head  Cheese.....................................................  6*4
In half barrels.................................................  3 £ 5
In quarter barrels..........................................   1 76

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

LARD IN   T IN   PA IL S .

B E E F IN  BA RR ELS.

P IG S ’  FEE T.

LA RD.

If in Need of Anything  in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

P A T E N T E E S  ü AND  SO LE  ^M ANUFACTURERS  O F

Barlow’s Patent

i

Send for Samples and Circular.

Barlow 

Brothers,

GRAND RAPIDS

MICH.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

: ft.

25
45
35
65

b lu in g;

CANNED  F IS H .

AX LE  GREASE.

CANNED F R U IT S .

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

“ 
“ 
BROOMS.

) cans.....2 40
cans.....12 00

.......  90
.......2 50
.......1  05
.......1 45
.......1 55
.......1  00
.......1 70
.......1 00
.......1 00
.......1 40
.......1 40
.......1 50
.......2 40
75@1 95
.......1 50
.......2 20
.......1 70
.......1 45
.......1 45
.......1 80
.......1 35
.......1 30

promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s ..................... 80IParagon.....................60
Diamon 
Paragon, 25 ft pails 1 20
Modoc.........................551
B A K IN G   PO W D ER .
Arctic % lb cans__   45! Arctic  1
Arctic *4 ft cans__   75 Arctic 51
Arctic Yx ft cans.  .  1 40|
.doz.
Dry, No. 2...........................................doz.
.doz.
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz
. doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,............................
.doz.
Liquid, 8 oz..............................
gross  4 00
Arctic 4 oz...............................
..  8 00
Arctic 8  oz.............................
.  12 00
Arctic 16 oz.............................
..  2 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.......
“ 
Arctic No. 2 
.......
4 50
Arctic No. 3 
“ 
.......
No.'2 Hurl...............175
No. 1 Carpet...... .. .2 50
Fancy  Whisk..........100
No. 2 Carpet........... 2 25
CommonWhisk—   75
No. 1  Par lor Gem.. 2 75 
No. 1 Hurl...............2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards.................................. I  40
Clams, 2ft  standards.................................. 2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft......................................*20
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards..................... 1 10
Cove Oysters, 2 ft  standards....................  1 90
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled..................... 1 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic......................................1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft star.........................................*25
Lobsters, 2 ft star.........................................« JO
Mackerel, lf t   fresh standards..................1 00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards..................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t .................3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard............................3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.................................. 3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......................1 55
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river......................2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento............................1 35
Sardines, domestic 14s....................
131412
Sardines,  domestic  *48.....................
Sardines,  Mustard  14s.......................
1414
Sardines,  imported  14s.....................
Sardines, imported 14s......................
20
32
Sardines, imported 14s, boneless —
Trout. 3 ft  brook..............................
Apples, 3 ft standards.......................
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie—
Blackberries, standards....................
Blackberries.  Erie.............................
Blackberries, Hamburg....................
Cherries, Erie, red..............................
Cherries, Erie,white wax..................
Cherries,  red  standard.....................
Damsons..............................................
Egg Plums, standards 
Green  Gages, standards
Green Gages,  Erie........
Peaches, Extra Yellow.
Peaches, standards.......
Peaches,  seconds'..................................
Pineapples,  Erie....................................
Pineapples, standards............................
Quinces...................................................
Raspberries, Black,  Erie.......................
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg.............
Raspberries, Red,  Erie..........................
Strawberries, Erie..................................
CANNED  FRITTTS— C A L IF O R N IA
Apricots, Lusk’6.. .2  40jPears..............
Egg Plum s............. 2  50 Quinces.........
Grapes.....................2 50 Peaches  ........
Green Gages........... 2 50|
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.........................
Beans, Lima,  Erie..................................
Beans, String, E rie.................................
Beans, Lima,  standard..........................
Beans, Stringless, Erie..........................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked................
Corn, Erie.................................................
Corn, Red  Seal.........................................
Corn,  Acme..........................   ...............■
Corn, Revere............................................
Corn, Camden............. ............................
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case..........
Peas, French, 100 in ca se.....................
Peas, Marrofat, standard.....................
Peas, Beaver............................................
Peas, early small, sifted........................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden............................
Succo«  ’  I 
Squash, Erie 
Succo« 
Tomato
Boston 
Baker’s 
Runkle
FFEE.
ted Mex. 
I Roe 
Green Rio—  
nd  Rio.. 
Grc 
. 17@27 
Green Java... 
ckle’s ... 
Art
,23@25 
Green Mocha. 
x x x x .........
. 10@15 
Roasted Rio.. 
Dilworth’s ... 
,23@30 
Roasted Java 
Levering’s ...
. 17@18 
Roasted Mar. 
Magnolia......
.28@30
Roasted Moch
DAGE.
COJ 
172 foot Cotton
.. 1 25
72 foot Jute
60 foot Jute.......  1  00  160 foot Cotton— 2 uu
40Foot Cotton... .1  50 
|50 foot Cotton... .1  <a
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................   75
Cod, whole.................................................... 4*4@5
Cod, Boneless.................................................6@.
Cod, pickled, 14  bbls....................................3 50
Halibut  ..  ....................................................  12
Herring 14  bbls............................................2 50
Herring,  Scaled............................................18@20
Serring,  Holland.........................................  75
aekerel, No. 1,14 bbls...............................5 50
Mackerel, No. 1.12  ft  kits.......................... 1 00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  14  bbls.................  6 25
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits...................... 1 00
Shad, 14 b b l..................................................2 50
Trout, No.  1,14  bbls................................... 4 40
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.................................  90
White, No. 1,14 bb ls................................... 7 00
White, Family, 14 bbls................................ 2 50
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  90
White, No. 1,12 ft kits................................ 1 06

.3 25 
.1  20 
.1 05 
.  85 
.  95 
.1 60 
1 15
.1  10 
.1  10 
.1  00 
22  00 
23 00 
.1  70 
.  90 
.1  80 
,}5â>95 
.1  10 
.1  20 
.  90 
1  00

,17@20 
.  9@16 
.  @141 
.  @141 
.  @141 
.  @141 
.  @141

Erie.......
standard 
Red Seal. 
CH

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

i  Sweet. 
, Sweet  .

OLATE.
¡Germ
Vieni

F IS H .

.23

3 CO
2 90
3 00

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

FRUITS

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“
“ 
“ 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
Jennings’ 2 oz..................... __ $   doz.l 00
2 50
4 oz..................... .................1 50
4 TO
6 oz..................... .................2 50
5 TO
8 oz..................... .................3 50
1 50
...............1 25
No. 2 Taper.......
3 TO
.................1 75
No.  4  “ 
....
7 50
................ 4 50
*4 pint  round..
.................9 00 15 TO
1
No.  8.................. .................3 TO 4 25
6 00
No. 10...............
4*4@5©7*2
Apples, Michigan...............................
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls................
@8*4
Apples, Dried, evap., box..................
@16
Cherries, dried, pitted.......................
<©»>
Citron...................................................... 
Currants.................................................  
@4*4
12@13
Peaches, dried  . , ......................................  
Pineapples,  standards..........................   @170
Prunes, Turkey, new...............................  
5@5*4
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes............... 
Raisins, Valencias............................
Raisins,  Ondaras..............................
Raisins,  Sultanas..*..........................
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels...............
Raisins, London Layers..................
Raisins, Dehesias.............................
Raisins, California  Layers.............
Raisins, California Muscatels........
Water White........ 12*4 | Legal  Test

10@|6
@ 12*4 
@10 
@2 55 
@3 20 
@4 25 
@2 40 @ií 2o
.  . 10*4

KEROSENE  OfL.

MATCHES.

Grand  Haven,  No.  9, square........................1  75
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........................1  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor.....................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor.....................3 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round........................2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2................................................ 1 10
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................1 60
Swedish.............................................................  75
Richardson’s No. 2  square........................... 2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
...........................2 70
...........................170
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
...........................2 55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
.........................1 75
Black  Strap.............................................14@16@18
Porto  Rico..................................................... 28@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 38@4S
New Orleans, choice.....................................48@50
New  Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

MOLASSES.

*4 bbls. 3c extr
OATMEAL.

do 

PICKLES.

Steel  cut................ 6  00¡Quaker, 48  fts........2 35
Steel Cut, *4 bbls.. .3 25!Quaker, 60 fts....... 2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 60iQuaker bbls........... 6 50
Choice in barrels med......................................4 50
Choice in *4 
......................................2 75
PIPES.
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,2*4 gross........  @1 85
American  T.D.......................................   @  90
Java  .................6*4@6*4
Good Carolina........6
P atna.......................6
Prime Carolina...... 6*4
Rangoon.......... 5?4@63!i
Choice Carolina...... 7
Broken......................3*4
Good Louisiana...... 5%
Dwight’s ...................5*4
DeLand’s pure.........5*4
Sea  Foam.................5*4
Church’s  .................5a
Cap Sheaf.................6*4
Taylor’s  G. M.......... 5*4

SALERA TUS.

RICE

S./L WELLING

m illrial’s

WHOLESALE

L

-AND—

NOTIONS!

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

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 

mail.  Goods shipped promptly to any point.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol 
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Ma n- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  John  H.  Eackeb 
L. R. Cesna,  and A. B.  Handricks.

24 Pearl Street

Lanías,

ORDER  A  SAMPLE  BUTT  OF

Mc ALPIN’S

P L

u

a

.

A  RICH  NUTTY CHEW.

Hi CM
McALPIN’S

GRAND  RAPIDS.

PLUG  TOBACCO

the  most  Delicious 
Market.

Chew  on  the

SOLD  BY ALL JOBBERS.

Are Yon Going to 
Mve a Store, Pan- 
ry or Closet?

HERCULES !
A n n ih il a t o r  !

The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and  Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts.

Farmers, practice  economy  and  clear your 
and  of  stumps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
Hercules  Powder  Company,  No.  40  Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
.  S. HILL & C O ., AGTS.
liras, a m  & mm tackle,

GRAND  RAl'IDS,  MICH.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

-Manufacturers  ot —

n

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUING-S,  ETC.,

40  and  43  South  Division, St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

MICH

FORK’S  PATENT.

20

COCKS.

D R IL LS

COMBS.

C O PPER .

33%
25

Butchers’ Tanged Firmer
Barton’s Socket Firmers................... dis 
Cold........................................................net
Curry, Lawrence's.......  ......................dis 
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 
Brass,  Racking’s........................................  40&10
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.........................................................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... ft  34

14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  37
35
Morse’s Bit  Stock...............................dis 
20
Taper and Straight Shank..................dis 
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..........................dis 
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net SI 00
Corrugated...........................................dis 
20&10
Adjustable...........................................dis  %&10
.
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
ais 
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis 
American File Association List.. .t. .dis
Disston’s ..............................................dis
New  American....................................dis
Nicholson’s.......................................... dis
Heller’s ................................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps.........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
14 
15 

60
60
60
60
30
33J4
28
18

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

EX PA N SIV E B IT S . 

ELBOW S.

F IL E S .

12 

13 
GAUGES.

h i N’g e s .

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

h o l l o w   w a r e .

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................dis 
50
. 
20
Maydole & Co.’s.......................................dis 
Kip’s .........................................................dis 
25
Yerkes&i  Plumb’s ..................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel..................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........................dis 
60
40
Kidder, wood tra.k................................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, t, 2, 3................................dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  434  14
and  longer.............................................. 
334
Screw Hook and Eye,  34  ...................net  1034
Screw Hook and Eye %....................... net 
834
Screw Hook and Eye  %....................... net 
734
734
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................net 
Strap and  T............................................dis 60&10
Stamped Tin Ware......., ...........................   60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  20&10
Grtmite Iron  Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1............................................... $1100, 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  Shutter,  porcelain......... dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ................... d 
40
Hemacite...............................................dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis  66%
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s..................... dis  66%
Branford’s ............................................... dis  66%
Norwalk’s................................................. dis  66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...................................dis  40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s Malleables dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s .............. dis  40
Coffee,  Enterprise........................................dis  25
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20^& 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HOES.

, 

NA ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencin_

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 35
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv.......................   ...................... 
75
3d advance......................................................   1 50
3d fine  advanee.............................................. 
3 00
Clinch nails, adv.............................................  1 75
Finishing 
6d  4d
I  lOd  8d 
Size—inches,  j  3 
2 
134
234 
Adv. $  keg 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ dis 70
Enterprise,  self-measuring........................dis 25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................   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  li
Sciota Bench..................................................dis  2
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  1
Bench, first quality......................................dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, Acme................................................dis 
50
Common, polished..............................  . .dis60&10
Dripping................................................ $  ®>  6@7
Tron and Tinned...................................dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.....................dis  50&10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1034 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E TS,

PA N S.

9

Broken packs 54c fl ft extra.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

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
Sisal, 34 In. and  larger..................................   8
Manilla................................................. ...........  *434
dis  50&10
Steel and  Iron.................  
 
Try and Be vels............................. 
dis  50&10
Mitre  ..................................................... dis 
20
SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth.  Com
$3 00

3 00
3 00
3 00
3 20
3 40
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

Nos. 10 to 14............................*• ■ • •  $4 20 
Nos. 15 to  17 ....................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21....................................   4 20 . 
Nos  22 to 24 ....................................   4 20 
Nos .25 to 26 ....................................   4 40 
jijo  27 
......................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZIN C .
In casks of 600 fts, $ f t ............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   ft.....................  
No. 1,  Refined........................................... 
Market  Half-and-half........................... 
Strictly  Half-and-half........................... 
Cards for Charcoals, $6 75. 
_
10x14, Charcoal...............................   6  o0
IC,
10x14,Charcoal...............................  ° 50
IX,
12x12, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC,
12x12,  Charcoal..............................  8 50
IX,
14x20, Charcoal...............................   6 50
IC,
14x20,  Charcoal..."..........................  8 50
IX,
14x20, Charcoal...............................   10  50
IXX,‘
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool............................... . 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 

®
634
00
1»  00
16

T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.

T IN   PLA TES.

rates.

I b a t b w a r e .

At the Smelting Furnace.

mens of iron coated by the Bower-Barff pro­
cess  several  prizes  have  been awarded, in­
cluding a gold medal for the  exhibit at Mel­
bourne last year.

’laps.

first  of 
first  of 

Shot Makin 

Points on Petroleum.

Rustless  Iron.
From the British Trade Journal.

of  St. I certificates  since  the 
subsequently  George  Bower,  of  St. | certificates  since  the 

The furnace lifts its walls of black.
A stubborn bulk 
stack
And through the SU’imy chimaoclnd • 
Continual flam^and smoke ascend.
The night comes down with  w ind ana nau, 
A shelving cloud, an icy ram 
,
The timbers creak in every r S*1®* 
The tempest howls at e^ ei> pane•

No happy roof of man and maid;
A hearth for ruder purpose laid!
Their mighty bellows roar again,
With brawny, labor-saving men.

The black-browed idlers straggling in, 
The hardy miners, tough and tall, 
The knotty foreman scarred of skin. 
The generous roof recieves them an, 
The voices rise, the men retreat,
Tumultuous clamor strikes the town, 
When, white with overpowering  heat 
down!
The molten mass comes pounn

Delicious core of rosy heat,
Alluring shelter, huge and warm 
To beggars drenched in snow and sleet, 
The drifting outcasts of the  storm. 
At the wide door rude shapes appear
,T . _ ■.___ :.i  ViiiTyimino* CTUIV
Vi
No cover this for chosen friends,
A chimney hot for larger ends,
All night then- sweltering fires are ted, 
Who keep the dusky forges red,

The statistical position of  petroleum  to­
day is stronger  than  it  has  been  in  years. 
Petroleum is singular  among  the  country’s 
products in showing a  consumption  that  is 
in excess of the production, with  a  prospect 
of a serious competition from foreign sources 
still  some  years  out  of  sight.  Since  last 
August there has been a reduction in  stocks 
on hand amounting to  about  3,000,000 bar­
rels.  Each month has shown a loss of vary­
ing magnitude, and if  the  same  rate of de­
crease is to be kept up the present supply on 
hand, large  as  it  seems  (amounting  to  36,- 
000,000  barrels),  becomes  a  comparatively 
insignificant factor in the situation.  Our ex­
ports to Europe show nothing of the discour­
aging features  of  the  grain  export  move­
ment, and while the foreign trade  is  confin­
ing its purchases  to  immediate  necessities 
the  decrease  of  stocks  abroad  last  year, 
equivalent to 1,000,000 barrels of  crude,  in­
dicates that there  was  a  consumption  con
I ______  
siderably in excess of the amount  of  oil im-
One of the most important discoveries that I ported from the United States.  There could 
have been developed during the present cen-  be a good advanee from the  present price of 
tury is that of coating iron for  the  purpose  crude be£ore the profits of the refiners at the 
of  preventing  corrosion,  and  rendering the  presen£ price of the  refined  product  would 
most useful  of  all  metals  practically  inde-  be intrenched upon and there could be much 
structible.  W hen‘we consider what an im- J higher figures  asked  before  the  American 
portant factor is iron in almost every branch  product wouid  stand  real  danger  from  the 
of industry, and how much we  depend upon  rivalry 0f the Russian article.  Moreover, al- 
this  metal  for  innumerable  requirements,  though the drill is at work in  the unexplor 
the means for  its  preservation  can  not fail  ^d rggjons of  Pennsylvania  and  southwest 
to be regarded with great  inteiest.  Rust  is I ^  Yew York, there is not to-day a  reason 
the great destroyer;  therefore  in  rendering I abje prospect of  any  strike  which  will  do 
iron rustless  a  great  and  commercially im-  more than add temporarily to a new produc 
portant problem has been solved.  About six  tlon needed to make up for the  gradual  de­
years ago  Professor  Barff  made  known his  cline in the od fields. 
It  is  the  realization 
process  for  protecting  iron  surfaces  from 
these facts which led to  the  “bull”  com- 
rust by coating them with  magnetic  oxides,  hination which  has  advanced  the  price  of 
the 
the  year
and
Neots, the well known  gas  and  water engi-  £rom  63  to  85  cents, and  which is  hold 
neer,  revived  a  process  discovered  by him  jng the  market  on  fluctuations  around  80 
some years previously.  Mr. Bower patented I centSi  where  a month  or so  ago  the vari- 
his invention,  and  afterward  made  several  tions were about 70 cents.  The main  argu 
discoveries,  which  he  also  protected,  each I ments for a decline advanced by the “bears” 
one being an  improvement  on  its  predeces-1 are that the outside public is  too  poor to do 
sor;  thus  most  valuable  results have been I much speculating in anything; that the rates 
attained, tending to  preserve  iron  and  ren-  £or carrying certificates eat up the  profits of 
der it rustless.  Both  Professor  Barff  and  holders of oil and  discourage  any  buying, 
Mr. Bower claimed the same results, yet the  even on a  limited  scale,  except  for  short 
processes  are,  we  understand,  “practically  turns, and that the Standard  refining  inter- 
and judicially distinct;”  although botli have  estSt £rom the nature of things,  must  be op 
the same object in view.  By means of  Pro-  posed to the maintenance of high  values for 
fessor Barff’s rustless process, tubes and  fit- j the crude article, 
tings are effectually protected, and the meth­
od lias been most successful in practical ope­
At the present moment,  when  the  whole 
ration.  Professor  Barff’s  originial  method 
has  been  found  especially  adaptable  for j 
world is bellicose, the  subject  of  shot-mak­
ing becomes of  interest.  The  manufacture 
wrought iron.  The Bower  process for coat­
of shot was some years ago very unsteady in 
ing iron—more  particularly  cast  iron 
this country.  Previous to the  enactment of
steel—with magnetic  oxide,  consists of two
operations—1st,  the  admission  of  atmos-1 game lawSj hunting lasted all the year round, 
plieric air to the furnace which oxidizes  the j Now it  C01ifined to certain  seasons.  Game 
metal;  2d, the admixture of  the products of  jaws ex}st now in the Southern States, where 
combustion of  fuel, and at times if required,  the  great bulk of  shot  made is sold.  For- 
of gas from oil, to oxidize, or rather convert,  meriy orders for shot would  come  in at any 
the  sesqui-oxide  of  iron  into  the magnetic j period, and there was  nothing  steady  about 
oxide.  This  oxide,  when  it is met with iu  £he business.  Until late in  the  spring shot 
its natural state,  is  the  loadstone  of  com-  will be made, and  then  the  factory  will re- 
merce.  The first part of tlie process  produ-  m£dn ci0Sed  until  August.  Part  of  winter 
ees  rust  or  its  equivalent,  the  second  the  and spring \s the shot-making  period  exclu- 
transformation  of this  rust into a coating of  sjvejy>  Texas alone buys  more  shot than a 
impervious  magnetic  oxide.  This  is  the  balf dozen other  states  together.  The  ne- 
general description of the chemical  changes  groes of the  South  all  have  shotguns  and 
which the surface of iron undergoes, but the  gpend a great deal of their  spare  time hunt 
exact composition  of magnetic  iron  has not  ing  That accounts for the great demand in 
been quite decided.  The working of the ox-  that part o£ the  country, 
Some changes have lately been effected in 
idizing and deoxidizing process is exceeding- 
ly  simple.  The goods, consisting of weights,  tbe  proCesses  of  manufacture. 
Instead of 
half-hundredOweights,  stove  castings, orna-  gifting  the  shot  through a series of  draw- 
mental  and  fine-art  castings,  are  placed in  ers> it is n0w done  by  means  of  a series of 
an oven capable  of  holding  about  one  ton,  perforated  cylinders,  the  holes  conforming 
though,  of  course,  there  is  no  limit to the 
the size of the shot desired.  These cylin 
size of the castings  which  can  be  operated  derg si£t  automatically  and  are  great  im 
upon, except that  of  the furnace.  Air, at a j provements on  the  old  method. 
In  these 
high  temperature,  is  then  admitted  to the  dayg o£ breechloading guns the shot must be 
castings,  and  after  a  time  carbonic  oxide  made mathematically to such a diameter and 
evolved  either  from  the  combustion of  the  g0 many per ounce.  Thus, drop shot No. 12, 
fuel or from a gas-producer somewhat on the  wbjCh are .05 of an  inch  in  diameter  must 
Siemens principle,  in  combination with the  produce 2,326  pellets  to the  ounce; No. 6. 
furnace.  The  admission  of  either  atmos- 
o£ an jnch jn diameter, 218  to the ounce, 
pheric air or carbonic  acid  is, of course, un- j No. ^  >16 o£ an  inch  in  diameter, only 71. 
The largest size, FF, .23 of an inch in diam­
<der perfect control, and the best  results  are 
obtained by admitting  the  air and gas alter­
eter, contains 24 shot per  ounce.  Buckshot 
nately at regular  intervals  during  the  pro­
in like proportion.
cess, which usually  occupies  from  eight  to
ten hours, and the result  can  be  always re^ 
lied upon to a certainty;  for,  notwithstand­
ing the enormous amount of  care,  skill  and 
scientific experimenting which was involved 
m perfecting the process and making it a re­
liable  mechanical  operation,  it  can be car­
ried  on  now  by  a  comparatively unskilled 
workman, as the only extra work  which the 
furnace  attendant  has  to  do  is  to regulate 
the supply of  gas  and  air  at  intervals, and 
this  is  done  by  merely  turning  a handle. 
Hence the Bower-Barff  process  has  almost 
attained the perfection of  scientific mechan­
ism, as the results are certain and the action 
simple.  One of the most  valuable  features 
of Mr. Bower’s  system  is  that  the  rust on 
iron surfaces can be converted into magnetic 
oxide.  Any  iron  or  steel,  therefore,  that 
has become damaged  or  unsalable  by expo­
sure, such as, for  instauce,  tubes, pipes, gas 
standards,  brackets,  pillars,  rails and orna­
mental work—can be  restored  permanently 
to their original beauty, no matter how thick 
the  incrustation  of  rust  may  have  been 
since the sesqui-oxide  of  iron  is  converted 
into the magnetic,  and  hence  the goods are 
eventually improved instead of  being deter 
iorated by the rust.  The value of  this part 
of  the process will  be  appreciated by those 
who have to  keep  iron  stocks of any kind. 
The cost of the Bower-Barff system does not 
involve any considerable expenditure, while 
the invention must be regarded as one of the 
.most valuable  ever  discovered.  For  speci-

The main difference between fire clay and 
ordinary clay is that the former  contains  no 
lime or iron.  These substances are  not  ob­
jectionable for ordinary building  brick,  but 
they render the material unfit to resist strong 
heat, as they cause the brick to  vitrify  first, 
and finally to fuse, when high  temperatures 
are  attained. 
In  physical  appearance,  the 
fire clay, or slate clay, is gray or grayish yel­
low, massive, dull  or  glimmering  from  ad­
Its fracture is 
mixture of particles of mica. 
slatey, approaching sometimes to earthy. 
It 
is soft, sectile and easily broken. 
It adheres 
to the tongue,  and  breaks  down  in  water. 
It occurs along  with  pit  coal.  For  making 
fire brick, it is ground and reduced to a paste 
with water.  Common clay or loam is soft to 
the touch,  and  forms  with  water  a  some­
what tenacious  paste, but is in  general less 
compact, more friable, than the plastic clays, 
which are more  readily  diffusible  in  water. 
Although soft  to  the  touch,  the  common 
clay wants unctuosity,  properly  so  called. 
It is usually of a bluish  or  blackish  color.
Those of its  strata  which  effervesce  with 
acids partake of  the  nature of  marl. 
It is 
employed in the manufacture of bricks, tiles, 
and coarse .pottery ware.

Wm.  Johnson,  late  of  Boyne  Falls,  has 
engaged in the  furniture  business  at  Sher­
man.

Brick  Clay and Fire Clay.

Furniture  Fact«.

W hy Some Dealer« F ail to Succeed,

They are lazy.
They neglect details.
They overlook the small things.
They have no eye to business.
They hope for  fortune  to  drop  in  their 

They let their help waste and destroy.
They let their fires burn at will.
They are slovenly in their stores.
They let’their stores get filthy  and  dirty. 
They try how  cheap  they  can  do every­

thing.

They fail to advertise.
They have too much outside business.
They talk politics too much.
They fairto invest or have new ideas.
They are penny wise and pound foolish. 
They imitate their neighbors.
They are not polite or accommodating. 
They think most  things  take  too  much 

trouble.

They fail to push business.
They know not the best is the cheapest. 
They know not the power of  method.
They are illiberal to home enterprises. 
They attend to everything  but  their  own 

business.

They become rusty and lose ambition.
A new hearth is being put in the iron fur­
nace at Mancelona and the works  are  being 
put in first-class order to go into blast on the 
opening of navigation.

Good Words Unsolicited.

Geo. Hoppough, general dealer, Smyrna:  “I 
hope T h e   T r a d e s m a n  will  live  as long as the 
enclosed bill is old.”

Henry Roe, meat dealer, Nashville:  “I could 
not do without your paper,  after  reading  the
few copies you  sent me. 

E. Davies, groqer, Montague:  We want Th 
T r a d e s m a n , first, because it is reliable; second,
because  Tub  Tradesman  is our only visiting
drummer from Grand  Rapids. 
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LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f . o. 

_....................  

. ^ - .............per M 

widths and lengths.......................... 8 

b. cars  as follows:
Uppers, linch 
Uppers, 134,134 an<l 2 inch. 
Selects, 1 inch —
Selects, 134,134 and 2  inch..
Fine Common, 1 inch..........
Shop,1 inch.

g
00
38 00 
30 00 
20  00 
32 00 
15 00
16 e0
No! i  Stocks, 12 in., 20feet......... .............  D  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and lb teet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.......................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet...
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet.....................
17 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet.. 
.......
12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  l*
00
m
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet......................... 
.........  }4 Or
No  2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet..........; 
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 ieet.......  1-00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet 
. .. . . . . . ........   1160
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   “
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet..............• • • •  •  I3 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
J. XX
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................
.........................  7i  XX
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch 
...................  Ag ”U
No. 1 fencing, all  lengths 
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
12  00 
No. 2 Fepcing, 16 feet.................................
15 00 
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
12  00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.......••;••••..............
2000
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch
Bevel hiding, elncCX' and B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C 
. . ....................  14 ou
9 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common....
20  00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch,  Clear...... ..............
10  00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16«-.......
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 tt.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ....................  3b 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C. .. . ....................  ** w
17 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common.. 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6in.. No. 2 common....
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additunal.
35 00 
Dressed Flooring’, 4 m., A. B and  Clear.. 
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C.........•••••■;
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or Sim, No. 2  comn 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3 30 
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles..........
3 20 
4 X X X 18 in.  Thin......................................
2 80 
I XXX 16 in.................................................
2  00 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
1 60 
No.2or 5 in. C. B. 16 in ........................
2 00
Lath

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

BOLTS.

BALANCES.

imitation

.............................................dis 

__ dis
__ dis
__ dis
__ dis
__ dis
.........—

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are as  follows: 
60
60
60
60
60

a u g e r s  a n d  b i t s .
Ives’, old style.............................
N. H.C. Co....................................
Douglass’ ......................................
Pierces’ .........................................
CoS’s 
Jennings
25
Spring
.......................BARROW S.
...$  13 00 
Railroad.................................
.net 33 00
Garden.....................................
B E LLS.
Hand............................................................* 60&10
15
Call..............................................................d)s 
Gong.......................................................... d!8 
20
Door, Sargent........................................... dl® 
5°
Stove.......................................................dl? $ 
¿0
Carriage new  list..................................dis
30&1C
Plow  .......................................................di8
75
Sleigh Shoe.............................................dis
50
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................. dis
55
Wrought Barrel Bolt«......................... ais
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.....................dis
55
Cast Square Spring.............................. ais
60
Cast  Chain........................................... dis
55&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
55&10
Wrought Square.......  ......................... dis
30
Wrought Sunk Flush...................  
  dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door..............................................<>0&10
40
Barber....................................................djs
50
Backus................................................... dis
50
Spofford..................................................di®
net
Am. Ball..................................................dis
BUCKETS.
.$
4 00 
Well, plain..............................
4 50
Well, swivel.........................
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed. . . . .  dis  60&10 
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  605:10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin........................... dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............. dis  60S 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............. dis  60s 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
60& 5 
tipped..................................................djs
60 
Wrought Table...................................... dis
60 
Wrought Inside Blind......................... dis
65&10 
Wrought Brass.......................................dis
70&10 
Blind. Clark’s.....................................d;8
70&10 
Blind, Parker’s...................................... dis
70 
Blind,  Shepard’s..............  
  dis
15 00 
Spring for Screen Doors 3x234, per gross 
18 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3.. ..pergross 

BUTTS,  CAST.

BRACES.

 

 

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10.................................................Per m $65
Hick’s C. ...............................................
G .D........................................................
Musket...................................................
Rim Fire, U. MX C. & Winchester  new list
Rim Fire, United  States........................dis
Central Fire..............................................dis

CA TRIDG ES.

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.....................................“I8
Socket Corner........................................ a?8
Socket. Slicks..........................................dis

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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....................................H itoz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$l 
ip aoz
Bright  Market.................................................  dis 60&1P
Annealed Market..............................................dis iu
Coppered Market.............................................. dis 55&10
Extra Bailing...................................................  dis 65
Tinned  Market.................................................-di8 40
Tinned  Broom..................................................2 ®  a"r
Tinned Mattress...........................................®  °34
Coppered Spring  Steel................. dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring1 Steel..................................dis 3734
Plain Fence...........................  
    id  oa
Barbed  Fence............................................ . 
,
Coppef................................................ new  list net
Brass....................................................new list net
70&10
Bright..................................................... dis
70&10
Screw Eyes.............................................a?s
70&10
Hook’s ....................................................“I8
70&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes......................... dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...........
50&10
Coe’s Genuine.................................. • ■ .dis
65
Cde’sPatent Agricultural, wrought, dis
70
Coe’s Patent, malleable.....................dis
„ „ „ o n
Pumps,  Cistern.................................. dig  60&20
Screws, new  list.......................................
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers,  American.................................

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.•

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

How  He  Became  to  Be  a  Detective—His

First Case.

Cant Hook Corners, April 18,1885. 

Mister Editer of Traidsman:

Dear Sir—If you had been in my office a 
few days since, liiden under  the  desk, or in 
the waste basket, you would have  probably 
learned

HOW I BECAME A DETECTIVE.

by hearing the following conversation: 

“Good evening.”
“Good evening, sir.  Can I see the proprie­

tor?”

“Yes, sir, I am the chap.”
“All right.  Let me close this door, please. 

There, have a cigar, Mr. Snooks.
“Oh! cigars, ha; what house.”
“Say—sh—h—h, keep  still,  don’t  give it 

away, Mr. Snooks. 

I am a detective //” 

“The devil you  are!  what  the  dickens 

have I been doing now I wonder.”

“Nothing, nothing whatever, my  dear sir. 
1 have called on  you secretly and  privately 
to unfold a little matter of business.”

“All right.  Let her unfold.”
“Can I rely on your discretion?”
“Well, I would exemplfy that you could.” 
“Well, my  name  is  Johnson—Theodore 
P. Johnson, of  Boston.  There is my card.” 
“Yes, I see, um, um,  ‘Agent  General  for 
the  Boston International Government  Asso­
ciation of Detectives.’ ”

“That’s correct, sir, to a dot.”
“Pretty long name that, seems to  me, Mr. 

Johnson.”

“Yes, you are right, Mr. Snoooks;  but  in 
general bizness  we  shorten it up.  For  in­
stance, while on duty, I use this card.

T. P.  JOHNSON,

B.  I.  G.  ASS.

Of

Detectives.

Neat, you observe, and mysterious.” 
“Thats so; it is mysterious  and  striking, 

for a fact.”

“Our profession is chuck full of deep mys­
teriousness, Mr. Snooks,  chuck  full.  Mam 
thing in the bizness—why,  I  can  drop  into 
the hotel over there and  call for a  drink in 
such a blood  curdling  whisper, and  at the 
same time with such a sly  deep,  suspicious 
look about the room, that every loafer there 
will feel as if he  had  stole a sheep, or som- 
thin of the kind; while  the  bartender will 
hand me back 25 cents  in  change  for  the 
quarter I give him.”

“Great Geezewax!  that  must  be  sport. 
But you was remarking that you had a little 
bizness matter with me.  What is it?”

“That is just what I was coming to.  Now, 
Mr. Snooks,"how would you like to  join the 
Association and’get to be  a  detective  your­
self?”

“What! me a detective? why, I never thot 
of such a thing.  You dont have an idea that 
I could ever detect anything do you?”

“Most certainly I do.  You  are  just  the 
kind of a  man  for  it.  With  your  bland, 
child-like  smile  and  open  countenance— 
why, man alive, you  cood  pry  into  every 
thing in this part of the  country and  make 
more money than a horse can draw.”

“Yes; but where does the  money come in 

•—who pays for all this detecting?”

“A h! I see, Mr. Snooks, I see,  you  dont, 
so to speak, just exactly  tumble to the little 
snap. 
It is like this:  Suppose for instance, 
that a man steals a horse at Kalamazoo, and 
puts out for the North  woods.  Well, a  re­
ward of one hundred  dollars  is  offered by 
the owner of the animal, we  will  say.  As 
soon as the  agent  of  this  Association  at 
Grand  Rapids  hears of it  by a  report from 
the Kalamazoo agent  or  member,  he  will 
send out postals to all the  Michigan  mem­
bers of the force, discribing  the  horse  and 
man.”

“Oh yes, 1 see  now—I  find  the  man at 
Cant Hook Corners and  follow  him up and 
‘shadow’ him and all  that  bizness  until  I 
gobble the man and hoss  and  the  little re­
ward. 

Is that the scheme?”

“To a dot  Mr. Snooks, to a  dot.  That is 

where the cash comes in.”

“But, suppose the man that stole the hoss, 
offers me  $125  not  to  gobble  him,  what 
then?”

“See here,  Snooks, you  needent  tell  me 
that you are new to the  bizness.  Why, the 
oldest detective on the force does not under­
stand the-true inwardness of the bizness any 
better than you do.  Why,  you are going to

be a perfect omiment to the Association.” 

“Now, again, suppose a lady way to  come 
to me and tell me to  shadow  her  husband, 
as she rather suspected he was  getting  into 
bad company—how then, Mr. Johnson?” 

“Why, tell her  you charge five  dollars a 
shadow.  Take  the  job  and  follow  your 
man. 
If you find him in some place that he 
ought not to be in, take him to one  side and 
show him your badge.”

“Then what will 1 do?”
“It will depend on  the  circumstances  of 
the case, as to whether  you  report  to  the 
lady that her  husband  went  to  a  prayer 
meeting,  the  lodge, a  school  meeting,  or 
where he did really go.  Do you see?”

“I turn.  A  good detective  must  be gov­
erned by the little  circumstances  surround­
ing each case.”

“Exactly.  Now to bizness—You  are fur­
nished with this neat sign to put up on  your 
store.  You  see,  here  is  a  blue  eye in the 
center and the words ‘We never sleep’ under 
it.  This is to  call  bizness  to  your agency. 
We also furnish you with this pair of  back- 
action, lock-stitch  hand-cuffs, a police whis­
tle,  and  this  small.silver  star  to  wear  on 
your vest.”

“Do 1 have any thing to  show that 1 have 

authority to act?”

“Certainly, we fix that all  right.  Here is 
the form of  commission. 
I fill this out and 
sign it as General Agent and  there  you are, 
right as a trivet, duly  appointed  and  ready 
for biz.”

“What is this little arrangement  I  see in 
this document about ‘$25, to me in hand paid 
by the said party of the 2nd part, etc.?’ ” 

“That,  why  that  is  simply  the little fee 
you pay  for  having  your  name  entered at 
head quarters and for your commission, out­
fit, etc.”

“A h!  That’s the milk in this coconut is it? 
I thought you was not talking for  nothing.” 
“Why, certainly  not, Mr. Snooks.  Do you 
spose the company  can  affort  to  send  men 
out over the country  to  appoint agents, fur­
nish  signs,  «fee.,  all  for  nothing?  It’s dog 
cheap at 25 dollars.  Just look at the advan­
tages it offers.”

“I never knew before,  that  a  man had to 

pay to be a detective.”

“You did not?  Why, a  Pinkerton  detec­
tive has to pay a  cool  hundred  for his com­
mission.”

The above  conversation  is  enough,  Mr. 
Editor,  to show you how it is done.  To cut 
a long story, short, I paid the required  sum, 
nailed the fine looking sign on my store and 
waited for bizness.

For two days,  I  waited  and  practiced at 
“shaddering”  the  clerks  and  customers in 
the store and at reading  postal  cards  in the 
P. O.  department  to  get  my  hand in.  At 
last, I got a “case” to ferrit out, just as I had 
quit looking for one.

It made me so Raven mad, that I felt Poe- 

etical enuff to tell it to you in verse.

MY  FIRST  CASE.

As I sat one evenin’ dreaming1,
On trade and commerse scheming,
And  watched the Are gleaming,
From out the box stove door 
I heard a noise of sumthing,
A droppin’ or a bumping,
Upon the platform thumping,
In front of my old  store,
Just this noise and nothing  more.
Says I, “What is to pay?  Can 
That be old Jim Brayman,
Our Cant Hook Corners’ drayman,
So late as ne’er before?
If so, I would not wonder,
If he was drunk, by thunder,
To come so late with plunder,
To anybodies store,
Must be nine o’clock or more.”
Then I heard a horrid rattle,
Some like a horny  battle 
Between two brindle cattle 
On the platform as before.
Foot steps then did clatter,
Up the street with patter, patter,
Thinks I, “What is the  matter 
To-night, outside the store 
On the platform near the door.”
So I took a careful peek out,
And threw the door did sneak out,
To see if I could seek out 
The cause of all this bore.
Now what can I dew, sir,
A detective hunts a clew,  sir,
Soliman, why not you, sir,
As Pinkerton as of yore.
My courage then did rally.
As I thought of Sleuth and Dally,
I calmly forth did sally,
As a member of the core,
Slipped up slyly to the  door.
And I took a careful peek out,
Then threw the hole did sneak out,
To see if I could seek out.
The cause of all this bore.
And made investigation,
Oh dire  visitation,
Some thief of all creation,
Had been and gone and tore,
My new sign from oif the store.
He had stolen it completely.
And done the job so neatly,”
But one small clew did greet me,
The nail holes in the store.
But true to my profession,
I took a wax impression,
Of the holes in my  possession,
The nail holes near the door,
Then I went inside and swore.
I am  still  ready  for  bizness,  and  if you 
need  any  thing  done  in  my  line,  let me 
know. 

Yours, detectively,

Solim an Snooks,

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

Can’t  Afford  to  do  W ithout  It.

From the Mecosta Sentinel.

The  Grand  Rapids T ra desm a n is being 
duly  appreciated by business men, which  is 
just  as it should be. 
In fact, we can hardly 
see  how a merchant can afford to do without 
it.

The French claim to have discovered  that 
a mixture of oil, naphtha, quicklime and wa­
ter will destroy the winter eggs of  the phyl­
loxera  without  in j urine  the  grape-vines. 
The remedy is not only  efficient  but cheap, 
and winter is  the best  time  to  attack  the 
scourge.

APPLES !

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

EARL  BROS.,

IS.

160  S. W ater  St.,  CHicago,  111.

REFERENCE  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.

BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
M O D E L   M I L L S .
Gilt  E te  Pateit  a i  White  Loaf  Branfls  of  Floor.

-MANUFACTURERS  OF-

-PROPRIETORS-

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

Full  R oller  Process.

Corner W in t e r a n d W est B rid g e Sts., 

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Gra nd E a pid s,  Mich.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions!

WHOLESALE

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

- 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.
F.  F.  A D AMS   <fe  OO.’S

Fine Cnt Clewing Toliacco is tie very tet dark pods on tie Market.

DARK AROMATIC
Eaton k CMstensoi, Aits.,
H . L E O N A R D   &  S O R E ,
Crockery, Glassware £  Lamps

I m p o r t e r s   a n d   J o b b e r s   o f

Grand Rapids,

Mieli,

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS  FOR

.  G.  faro.
Knowles,  Taylor  l  Knowles’  American  f
Wedgewood  &  fio/s  English  Ware.

AND

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

W e  deliver Lamp  Chimneys,  Stoneware  and  Kerosene Oil at 

any  depot in this city free  of Cartage.

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

SÆT7SZZCOXT  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

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

P A C K E R S

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.-

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores -in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and W ater Streets.

W M . SEA R S «fe CO

Cracker  Manufacturers

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE-

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

37, 39 & 41  Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.
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 he heat.

AGENTS FOR THE

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Choice  Butter a Specialty!

Oranges,  Lemons, Bananas, Apples, 

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

Cranberries, Cider, Etc.
M. C. Russell, 48  Ottawa St., G’d  Rapids.
P E R K I N S   <&  HESS,
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,
A. W . MOSHER «ft CO.,

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

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

Wholesale  and  Commission Dealers in

CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED.

Pine  Street.  -  MusKegon,  Midi.

M anufacturers’ Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER. 

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

N elson  Bros.  &  Co.
!
FREEZER
WHITE  MOUNTAIN 

Sands’  Patent Triple Motion

ICE  CREAM 

The  only  Freezer  ever  made  having  three distinct 
motions,  thereby  producing  finer,  smoother  Cream 
than  any  other  Freezer  on  the  market.  Acknowl­
edged  by  every  one  to  be the best in the world.  Over 
300,000  in  use  To-day.  Outside Irons Galvanized, but 
all inside the  can  coated with  Pure  Block  Tin.  Tubs 
water-proof;  easily  adjusted  and  operated.  We  also 
carry  large  stock  of  Packing  Tubs, Packing  Cans,  Ice 
Crushers, etc.  Send for Price List and  Trade  Discounts.
Address

Butter, E^s, Cheese. Fmit, Gralu, Bar, Beef Furli, FrMnce.

Foster. Stems 4 Co.
ORCUTT  <&  o o :& £ F .A -is r s r ,

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Agents for Western Michigan.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Consignments  Solicited. 

'  MUSKEGON, MIGH

