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-MANUFACTUREES  OI

AWNINGS,  TENTS,

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

State Agents for the 

W atertown  Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

73  Canal Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

DUNHAM’S

THE  BEST  IN  THE  WORLD! 

PRICE  50 CENTS.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO,
S E I E   JONES  It  CO,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

M a n u fa ctu rers  o f

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

Proprietors of

Crescent
FLOURING  MILLS,

Manufacturers  of the  Following Pop­

ular Brands  of Flour:

“ CRESCENT,”

“ W H ITE  ROSE,”

“ MORNING  GLORY,”

“ ROYAL  PATENT,” and

“ ALL W HEAT,” Flour.

W. N.FULLER &  CO

DESIGNERS  AND

Engravers on 'Wood,
Fine  Mechanical and  Furniture Work, In­

cluding Buildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

- 

MICH.

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

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71 CANAL STREET.

F E T E S   SORA1T, 

Attomey-at-Law,

Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

Practices  in State  and United  States  Courts 
Special attention given to

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ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
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78  West Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

RETAILERS,
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If you are selling goods to make 

a profit, sell

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

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN

SHBIVER, WEATHERLY & CO,

Grand Rapids, Mich., 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

IRON  PIPE,

Brass Goods, Iron  and  Brass  Fittings, 

Mantels,  Grates, Gas  Fixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam Fitters,
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Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

JAKES C. AVERY.

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J am es C.  A very & Go

Grand  Haven,  Mich.

Manufacturers of the  following brands  of Ci­

gars;

Great  Scott,  Demolai  No.  5, 

Eldorado,  Doneella, 

Avery’s Choice,

Etc.,  Etc.

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Manufactured  Tobacco.

JEW ELER ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

McALPIN’S

Plug  T obacco

Is  the  most  Delicious  Chew  on  the 

Market.

SOLD  BY ALL JOBBERS.

E.  n s  k  CD.,
MIPS

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

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

Parties having potatoes in car load lots 

can  find  a  quick sale for them 

by writing us.

7 1  Canal St.,

Geo.  N .  Davis  &   Co.

GRAND RAPIDS.

G R A N D   R A P ID S.  M ICHIGAN,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  MAY  13,  1885.

Worthiness.

Charles J. O’Malley in the Current.
Whatever lacks Purpose Is  evil:  a  pool  with­
Not  any  one  step  hath  Chance fashioned on 
Nor ever came Good without Labor, in Toil, or 
It  must  be  wrought  out thro’  the muscles— 

out pebbles breeds slime;
the infinite stairway of time;
in Science  or Art;
born out of the sole and the heart.

Why  plow  in  the  stubble with plowshares?— 
Ah,  since  all  of  His  gifts must be toiled for,
, 
Hegivethnot to the unworthy, the weak, or the 
Who  giveth  but  chaff  at  the seed-time shall 

Why winnow the chaff from the grain?
since Truth is not born without pain !
foolish in deeds ;
reap but a harvest of weeds.

As the pyramids builded of vapor is  blown  by 
So .the  song  without  Truth is forgotten :  His 
Whatever is strong with a purpose, in humble­
Is known to the Master of Singers :  He touch- 

His whirlwinds to  naught,
poem to Man is Man’s Thought.
ness woven,  soul-pure,
eth it, saying, “Endure!”

A Portrait of  a Drummer.

?rom the New York Mail and  Express.

The drummers  are among  the  vigorous, 
handsome and useful portions of the  West, 
says the Cincinnati  Enquirer.  They  keep 
up the hotels and now  they are  keeping up 
skating rinks.  What  the  comedian  is  to 
New York and the  ardent  young  girl, the 
drummer is to embyro Western society.  He 
makes his appearance  like a  coachman  or 
tragedian, he has the best roller  skates,  his 
instincts are social,  beauty  never  frightens 
him away.  All  day  he  addresses  himself 
to getting on the inside of the  local  trades­
man, and that night he addresses himself to 
the tradesman’s sisters and aunts.  You can 
see them,  it is said,  tumbling oif  a  railroad 
train at some certain station and immediate­
ly collaring the haclcman or the ticket agent 
there  and  demanding:  “Have  you  got a 
skating rink in this  town?”  “No.”  Then 
before the astonished resident  comprehends 
the question the drummers  are  all  back on 
the train again moving for  the  next  town, 
where there is  a  skating  rink  and  social 
opening.  He  must be a  pretty  smart  and 
bright-minded and well-behaved citizen in a 
town not to  find,  some  time  or  other, his 
most dreaded  rival  in  the  drummer.  The 
drummer is particular about his  attire.  He 
wears,  if not an expensive scarf-pin,  a very 
tasteful and stunning one; his scarf is of the 
best colors and at  once  strikes  the  young 
resident woman with  his  superior  knowl­
edge of decoration.  He wears a ring on his 
finger; sometimes of  prime  material;  again 
inexpensive but bewildering.  He keeps his 
nails  moderately  long  and  exceptionally 
clean in a bituminous coal country.  He on­
ly has to dive into his trunks and  wear  his 
own samples to cut out the best dressed man 
in the community he visits.  He is a splendid 
packer of a trunk,  and his  trunks  are stu­
pendous.  Perhaps  he  has  put  away  in 
them little articles to make presents of when 
he has made a  mash  at  the  skating  rink. 
He has a photograph of the latest actress or 
a small cliromo containing the  latest  joke. 
If lie is not an educated man he is informed 
especially on things  of  local  interest. 
If 
there is a celebrated  beauty  in  town,  or a 
late scandal  case, or a  high-class  defalca­
tion,  lie delights  the  young  woman  whom 
he meets at the rink with the fineness of his 
criticism and his parallel  readings.  He al­
ways  shaves  beautifully  and  waxes  Ills 
moustache,  unless he  wears  a  full  beard, 
when lie is  absolutely  formidable.  Unde­
terred in business,  lie i 
3 invincible in  insin- 
uation and sentiment, 
If he is a small man 
lie has a twinkle about 
him  which  makes 
him look six feet high, 
If he  is a  big man
lie has a softness which  brings  him  down 
to the eyelashes and nose  of  the  local  co­
quette.  He is no snob and  no  respecter of 
persons,  and therefore never impresses any­
body as putting on airs; yet bores avoid him 
and  high  respectability,  at  first  shrinking 
from him,  is finally conquered by  his  good 
nature and worldly sense.

Savings of the People.

The deposits in the savings banks  of  civ­
ilized countries give some idea of  the  pros­
perity of the people,  particularly the  work­
ing  classes,  who  are  in large measure  the 
depositors  of  such institutions.  The  fol­
lowing  is  Multhall’s  summary  of  saving- 
bank deposits in  1881:

Great  Britain.

Deposits.
..$18,000,000
..  19,500,000
..  21,000,000
..  1,000,000
..  9,000,000
..  9,800,000
..  1,250,000
.1,000,000,000

Deposit per 
inhabitant.
50 cents.
48  “
45  “
1H“
32  “
38  “
8  “
20  dollars.
A more striking evidence  of  the  superior 
prosperity  of  the  people  of  this  country 
could not be presented.

Austria...........
Italy  .............
Spain.............
United States.

Each in His Element.

From the New York Journal.

“Here’s a curious case,” said a Broadway 
shoe dealer to the president  of  the  Harlem 
Punsters’ club,  as he pointed to a paragraph 
in a paper.  “A clergyman and a  physician 
have formed a  copartnership  for  the  pur­
pose of manufacturing shoes.”

“Is that all?” asked the professional pun­

ster.

“That’s all,” replied the shoemaker;  “but 

don’t you think it’s strange?”

“No,  I don’t, for each one  is  in  his  ele­
ment.  The doctor  will  devote  himself to 
heeling, while the minister  will  look  after 
the sole’s relation to the upper.”

The shoemaker sent out for a sherry  cob­

bler as a last resgrt.

AN  OLD  DEBT  PAID.

Remarkable Story of a Commercial Trans­

action.

The  mail  from  Pottstown  Pa.,  brought 
R. K.  McCreedy,  whose office is at 118 South 
Seventh street,  Philadelphia, the other day, 
a check for $50,  being  the  final  chapter  in 
an interesting  story  of  commercial  honor, 
the opening of which  dates  back  40  years. 
In 1845 Mr. McCreedy  was  the  head  of  a 
linn of dry goods dealers on  Market  street, 
with an extensive country trade.  One morn­
ing in April a young man entered  the  store 
and introduced himself  as  Forrest  Wesley, 
of Pottstown.  He  was  employed,  he  said, 
in the general store  kept  in  that  town  by 
Geo. W.  Salter.  Mr.  McCreedy  knew  Mr. 
Salter  very well.  Before  going  to  Potts­
town he had been  his  most  trusted  clerk, 
and when young Wesley told him that he was 
an employee of Mr.  Salter  his  heart warm­
ed to him on the  instant.  When  lie  learn­
ed further that the young man  had  come to 
town on his wedding trip  and  had been un­
fortunate enough to lose his pocket  book at 
the Arch street theater the night before, with 
every cent he had with  him,  Mr.  McCreedy 
was eager to help him.  He loaned him $50, 
and the youth  promised to  return it in two 
weeks.  Two weeks went by and no money 
came.  A month, two  months, 'six  months 
fled, and no sign  of  the  vanished  dollars. 
Then Mr. McCreedy wrote to his friend Sal­
ter. 
In reply  he  received  a  letter  saying 
that Mr. Salter was  sorry,  but  that  Wesley 
was  “a bad  lot,”  and  that  Mi-.  McCreedy 
would probably have to  whistle  for  the re­
turn of his  loan.  Nevertheless  he  would 
aid him as best he could.  A year after  Mr. 
Salter sent him word that Wesley was study­
ing law  at Lancaster  and  that a  collector 
there might arrange to get the  money  from 
him.  The claim was forwarded and in nine 
months  returned  with  the  remark “all  ef­
forts  futile.”  Two  years  later  Mr. Salter 
reported that Wesley was  practising  law at 
Bloomsburg,  and  a  Bloomsburg  collector, 
whom Mr.  McCreedy  knew,  was  given  the 
claim to collect.  A year  passed  and  again 
it was  returned, Wesley  having  repeatedly 
declined to pay.  Mr.  McCreedy  then  gave 
up his money for lost  and marked  it  off on 
the debit side of his profit and loss  account.
Last  week,  after 40 years  had  lulled  by, 
he was astonished to  receive  the  following 
letter from Mr.  Salter:

“D ear Fr ie n d:  Y ou and I are now old. 
It is not far between us and  the  grave,  and 
every passing moment lessens the  distance. 
Before  the  end  is  reached  any  differences 
between us  should  be  reconciled  and  in 
place of coldness friendly  feeling  should be 
renewed.  To accomplish this I wish to set­
tle the claim you  hold  against  me.  When 
Wesley borrowed $50  from  you  he  had  no 
right to get it on my credit.  That  you will 
admit. 
I  feel  sure  you  loaned  him  the 
amount for the  reason  you  thought  I  had 
sufficient  influence  to  see  that  it  was  re­
turned. 
It was for  this  reason  that I  told 
you if Wesley  did  not  return  it  I would, 
when able.  Wesley is now gone.'  He died 
over two years ago, and the  chances are did 
not return the  loan. 
In  my  own  right I 
have no means.  By consent of a  kind  and 
considerate wife, we  feel able  to  offer  you 
$50 for the claim.  That  would  be  the  full 
amount  less  the  interest.  Can  you, with­
out thinking us  mean, accept  the  offer? 
I 
wish this matter settled to your entire satis­
faction,  so that  after  we  pass  over,  I  may 
approach  you with  clean  hands,  and  you 
meet me with open arms.”

Mr. McCreedy accepted  the offer,  and the 

debt of 40 years’ standing was paid.
The Genius of Success.

J. W. Donovan in the  Current.

so the Western landowners are met with  an 
army of  trees and a navy  of  marshes,  and 
the  railroads  encountered  opposition  from 
deserts  and  rivers,  lakes  and  mountains. 
So in overcoming these obstacles  by  inven­
tions the keener  mental  mettle  was  devel­
oped.

It  shall  not  be  stayed. 

The history of railroads and  bridges,  and 
of the struggles and  progress  of  their  pro­
jectors,  is too lengthy to  more  than  glance 
at,  but we all well know and deeply  realize 
that  their  improvement  and  development 
have both been the  marvel  of  the  century. 
The  eloquent  words  of  Van  Dyk  in 1859 
most beautifully drew  the  graphic  picture: 
“ Who shall stop this glorious work,  which 
is spreading blessings and prosperity around 
us?  Who  shall  dare  to say, 
‘ Thus  far 
shalt thou go and no  farther ’ ?  Who  shall 
dictate to it after doing  so  much?  Must  it 
now pause and rest in inglorious ease?  No, 
never! 
It  shall 
speed onward in triumph;  it shall  add  link 
after link to the great chain that binds man­
kind together;  it  shall  speed  onward,  still 
onward,  through  the  gorges  of  the moun­
tain,  over the depths of the  valley,  till  the 
iron  horse,  ‘whose  bowels  are  fire’  ‘out  of 
whose  nostrils  goetli  forth  smoke,’  and 
‘whose  breath  kindleth  coals,’  shall  be 
heard thundering through the  echoing  soli­
tudes of the Rocky Mountains,  startling the 
lone  Indian  from  his wild retreat,  and  ere 
long reaching the golden shores  of  the  far- 
off Pacific, there to be welcomed by the glad 
shouts of American freemen at the  glorious 
event  which  has  conquered  time  and  dis­
tance,  and bound  them  by nearer chords  to 
older homes and sister states.”

A few inventions came from men  in  easy 
circumstances, but by far the greater growth 
is from the struggling classes.  The remark 
of the  learned and  eloquent  English  advo­
cate,  Lord Erskine, that he never  cut  loose 
from embarrassment and  pleaded  from  the 
heart until one day when reduced  to  actual 
want  he  felt  his  little  children tugging at 
his  coat  skirt,  saying,  “ Father,  give  us 
bread,”  is the true sentiment of  inspiration 
to  Americans.  Their  families  have  been 
pleading for bread and  intensified  their  en­
ergy.  This is  the  stimulus  to  the  woods­
man’s ann as he hews down the wilderness; 
the motive of the enginer  as  lie  climbs  the 
steep ascent of the Rocky Mountain railway, 
or burns the midnight lamp  in  experiments 
with  electric  light.  This  is  the restless, 
active energy bom with those who are  bom 
to  labor;  children  of  the  same  ancestry; 
heirs of the same  inheritance;  rewarded by 
the same applause and honored for the same 
pluck  that  picks  bright  jewels  from  the 
earth’s rich mines,  or shapes rude wood and 
metals  into  palace  cars,  cradles  grain  or 
plies  a  shuttle  with  the  fruits  of  genius, 
where  one  man by  invention  does  what  a 
hundred  could  never  do  by plodding,  and 
what a hundred would have never attempted 
but  for  a  reward  of  victory,  the  aim  and 
watchword of Americans.

The  American  genius  springs  from  our 
own soil,  and  lias  a  native  value. 
It  is  a 
growth of our own climate,  a reward of our 
own creation,  a force prompting our own in­
creasing and competing  activity,  unknown, 
unused,  and  not  needed  elsewhere. 
Its 
mark is original,  its progress universal,  and 
“ every  time  the  sun  rises  in  America  it 
seems  to  add  many  millions to the wealth 
of the nation,”  as well as a useful invention 
that  shall  either  lessen  labor  or  increase 
happiness.

The Americans, as a class,  have  reached 
their position as merchants,  farmers, bank­
ers, mechanics, and  inventors  from  a  race 
of men who struggled with privation  at  the 
start.  They have met the rocks and hills of 
New England,  the forest and the Indians of 
the  West,  the  undeveloped  world,  from 
other  worlds  apart,  and conquering  these 
have gained the courage of success,  for fail­
ure brings weakness and  victory  brings  an 
added  strength.

It is the same even story  with the banker 
or the peasant.  “We value most what costs 
us  most;”  we  own  longest  what  we earn 
with hardest effort,  and retain  the  most  of 
that we study deepest.  The rule is  proved 
by the prudent saver of money or the spend­
thrift of time.  While  one  bred  to  luxury 
has  little  need  of  toil,  another born with 
fortune  will  waste  no  effort for it,  and all 
bred in climates of even  heat  and  pleasure 
may sleep and rest and live in idleness.  So 
exertion is the developer of mind and  body. 
Very many Americans  are  horn  poor,  and 
they  feel  the  cold  and know what hunger 
means.

The same hard exercise that  athletes  use 
to  make  a  grand  physique,  mentally  ap­
plied,  makes  a  strong  mind.  The  same 
close drill in thought that  racers  and  gym­
nasts practice bodily will harden every mind- 
muscle,  every faculty,  encourage  every  en­
ergy, and deepen  every  plan  and  purpose. 
Thought  to  the  mind  of  thinkers  is  like 
callous to the hand of workers,  the  harden­
ing fiber-maker that each produces.

The accident of poverty is  the  genius  of 
success.  The rich rarely  invent  anything; 
the poor and thoughtful give a life to active 
energy.  Taken  as  a  class,  we  have  all 
started  poor.  As  the  farmers among  the 
rocks  of  New  England  met  the hills  and 
hindrances of broken lands and stony fields,

Short Credits Most  Desirable.

The credit system is like  some  other  hu­
man institutions—indispensable to  progress 
but baneful in its influence beyond a certain 
point.  Without credit  it  would  be  practi­
cally  impossible to  make  a  beginning  of 
commerce in an  uncommercial  community, 
and without the employment of  the  system 
on a very extended scale  great  governmen­
tal,  engineering,  mercantile and other enter­
prises would be impossible.  But  while  all 
this is true,  it is also the fact  that  the  sys­
tem of long trade-credits is highly injurious 
to both debtor and creditor classes, and is to 
be abandoned as soon as possible  in  the in­
terest of  both.  The  Department  of  State 
recently published a volume of reports from 
our consuls in all parts of the  world  on the 
credit systems that prevail.  From these re­
ports one might almost  deduce  the  rule,  to 
which there would be  few  exceptions,  that 
where  credit is most  generally  asked,  and 
for the longest time, trade is most  unprofit­
able and unsatisfactory.  The  converse  of 
this is true namely,  that in the most  highly 
organized mercantile communities the econ­
omy of cash  payments  is  most  practiced. 
There is a lesson in these  facts.  The long- 
credit system obtains  altogether  too  much 
in  this  country,  is  too  general  in  many 
trades,  and is answerable for a considerable 
part of the commercial disasters  that  make 
hard times harder.

Platinum  has  been  discovered  in  New 
South Wales in connection with  gold in the 
Ophir district. 
It has  been  found  in  the 
form  of  small  grains  in  the  Himter  and 
Macleay  districts, and  a  nugget  weighing 
268  grains  was  obtained  from  Wiseman’s 
Creek with alluvial gold.  The  sand  of  the 
seacoast near Richmond River is also  found 
to contain this preeious metal.

NO. 86.

TH E DRUMMER’S TALE.

How  an  Entire  Crowd  W as  Moved  to 

Tears.
From the Chicago  Herald.

Five or six drummers sat in the  smoking 
saloon of a sleeper,  telling stories over their 
cigars. 
The  cigars  were  good  and  the 
stories funny.  But over in the comer  sat a 
little drummer who hadn’t told a story.  He 
had been skipped  every  time.  This was 
finally noticed,  and they all pressed him for 
a contribution to the merriment.

“Boys,” he said,  “I never  told a  story in 
my life. 
I can’t  remember  stories,  and I 
couldn’t tell one if I could remember it.  Be­
sides,  I think we’ve had enough funny stor­
ies to-night.  At least,  if I tell one  at all, 
there’ll be nothing funny about it. 
It isn’t 
so much a story  as a little  incident  of life 
—a little tragedy—that  came under my ob­
servation.  The last time I was in  Chicago 
I  went down  on State  street  with  some 
friends, just out of curiosity.  We went in­
to the lowest  saloons ‘ because  we  wanted 
to see that phase of  society.  One of these 
places I remember well. 
It  was way down 
low.  Behind the bar was a villainous-look­
ing fellow,  and lie dealt  out  that  kind of 
whisky that brings tears to  your eyes when 
you drink it.  While we  were there  a man 
came in who was evidently going to  wreck. 
He  was  nearly  drunk.  He  wore  good 
clothes,  but they were soiled and tom.  His 
handsome face  .was  smeared  witli dirt and 
his splendid eyes were bloodshot.  He look­
ed around at us and  remarked:

“ ‘I say fellows,  I’m havin’ a  good  time. 
Makin’ a night of it,  y’ know,  sev’l  nights, 
’n fac’.  Here, gen’lemen, is the las’  dollar 
’N ’ fi do sliay it my­
I’v got in the  world. 
self, at home I’ve got the nicest  little  wife 
’n ’er lan’,  an’  the prettiest,  sweetes’ little 
b—boy. 
I—I won’r ’f  he  wanted  to kiss  ,
papa good night  ’fore  he went  to  bed to­
night.  Gen’lemen,  this is my  las’  dollar. 
But let’er go’s she lays on the bar here. 
I’ll 
slileep  out  or go  to  the  stasliun  house. 
Gen’lemen, will you take a drink with  me?’
“Boys,”  continued  the  narrator,  as he 
lowered his voice and glanced around at liis 
listeners,  “in two  minutes  there wasn’t a 
dry eye in that saloon.”

Business Must Improve.

There are sound  reasons  why  business 
may be expected to improve this year.  The 
first and most important of these is that the 
country is ready for  a  revival  of  industry 
and trade, and  is  looking  for  it,  and  the 
second is that the financial conditions  favor 
it. A great and growing nation like ours does 
not need to go  on  pinching  and  economiz­
ing,  and living and  trading  from  hand  to 
mouth forever.  Three years  of  this sort of 
thing are enough to  cure the evils of “over­
booming,” which brought us up with a round 
turn in  1882.  We  believe  that  if  thrifty 
people of moderate  means  should  begin  at 
once to buy what  they  actually  need  and 
can readily pay for,  and  if  the  rich  people 
would adopt a more liberal plan of expendi­
ture,  “the times” would improve right way. 
It would take but very little to convert  into 
a courageous confidence the general  expect­
ancy of the people that  business  must  im­
prove because the depression  has  “touched 
bottom,” and a rebound is  the  natural  con­
sequence.

The great surplus  in  the.  banks  insures 
the stability of those  institutions.  This  is 
one of tlie prime conditions of confidence in 
business circles.  Monhy  on easy terms,  in 
abundance,  and from hanks that are not lia­
ble to call in their loans to  meet  tlieir  own 
embrassment,  is  as  necessary  to  business 
enterprise as steam is to a locomotive.  The 
fact that over $80,000,000 of surplus is lying 
idle in the New  York  banks  alone—nearly 
$50,000,000 in excess of the legal  reserve— 
and that the loaning rate is from  2  to 4 per 
cent.,  proves that the cause of  the business 
trouble is not what  it  lias  been—a  lack  of 
abundant and cheap money.  Another  fact,, 
and a favorable one,  in connection with this 
plethora of money,  is that the accumulation 
represents so many debts  paid,  or  so  much 
cash  withdrawn  from  wildcat  enterprises. 
The failures and the liquidations of the past 
three years  have  left  business in a  much 
more normal and healthful condition than it 
was in before.  With the advent of summer, 
a  little  of  the  old-time  American  push 
and pluck  ought  to  he  able  to  start  the 
wheels and clear the channels of trade.

Loose in the Neck.

. Fashionable wife—I wish you would stop 
at Smith & Smith’s on your  way  home  and 
get a yard and a half of lace  similar  to this 
sample. 
It is to go around  the  neck of my 
new ball dress.

Husband—A yard and a half!  Your neck 
isn’t a yard and a  half  in  circumference, is 
it?

Fashionable wife—Certainly not idiot, but 
ball costumes  are  not  made to  fit closely 
about  the  neck.  You  get  the  lace  and 
somebody else will try and  arrange  the  fit.
A Massachusetts paper says that  “parties 
who have buried dead  horses  recently have 
been surprised  to  find  that  the  carcasses 
have been dug up and skinned.  The parties 
are known,  and  an  owner  of  one  of  the 
horses  threatens  prosecution.  The skin of 
a dead horse is worth about one dollar.”

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  13,  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Oi'ganized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. 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.

Michigan Dairymen’s  Association.

Organized at  Grand Rapids,  February 35.  1885.
President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City; 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage; 
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C.Nash, Hilliards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks­
ville.
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids.
Next  Meeting—Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
1886.
Membership Fee—SI per year.
Official Organ—T h e  M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

Post A., M.  C.T.  A.

Organized 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,  May  30, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

Grand Ilapids 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 33, at 
“The Tradesman” office.

THE  WEAK  POINT  IN  AMERICAN 

TRADE.

It is universally conceded that  every peo­
ple  has  its  own  characteristic  advantages 
and disadvantages; and  America’s  most de­
cided disadvantage is the apparent  inability 
of our business  men to  carry on an export 
trade of great dimensions.  We are emphat­
ically a nation of  fanners  and  manufactur­
ers,  without the disposition to  become  mer­
chants.  These statements recall the  recent 
utterance of a distinguished Frenchman, who 
was sent as a delegate to the Boston Expos-1 
ition of Foreign  Products  by  the  French j 
Government.  Referring to  this subject,  he | 
said:  “Your  country,  in comparison  with | 
the Old  World,  is  remarkably  prosperous, j 
As long as your people have new  lands and ! 
rich  virgin  mines  to  develop, and  receive 
every year a  vast  immigration  to  consume | 
your surplus; as  long,  in  fact,  as  you  have 
home markets to absorb all that your country j 
can produce, the United States will continue ! 
to prosper.  But there will be an  end  of all 1 
this sometime,  and then will  come  the rub,  ! 
for which your Government  and  your  ex- , 
If your peo- i 
porters will not be  prepared. 
pie were only as great in pushing their goods | 
into  the  markets of  Asia,  Europe,  Africa, \ 
and South Ameiiea as  they  are  in  making : 
the most perfect manufactured merchandise j 
with the smallest  possible  expenditure  of ; 
time and labor, the case would be  very  ser-; 
ious for us  over  here;  but  that is a part of j 
the business which  the  Yankees,  with  all 
their cleverness, seem incapable of learning,  j 
Their navy and their merchant  marine have j 
been allowed to degenerate into mere wrecks ■ 
of what they once were,  and at a time when 
England, Germany,  France,  and  even Italy i 
and Holland,  are strengthening and extend- 
ing their  consular  service  and  opening  di- : 
rect commercial relations with ports in which i 
the American flag is never seen, the  United 
States seem inclined to  shut  themselves  up j 
within their own frontiers and  forego  their j 
proper share in the progress and  growth  of 
the commercial world.”

The national indifference  to  this  subject; 
is next to alarming,  and calls for immediate j 
action on the part of the people.  That self- I 
content which makes  tiie  American  people 
content to play a passive and comparatively I 
unimportant role in all that goes on  outside i 
the limits of the  United  States,  is  not  in j 
keeping  with  our  traditions  or  tempera- j 
inent,  and should give place  to  a  spirit  of ; 
liberal and prudent  foresight  which  would I 
enable us to take no mean part in the strug- i 
gle  for  commercial  advantages  in  dis-1 
tant  and  undeveloped  markets.  “When j 
the same energy,  persistence, and foresight, 
which are now displayed in the manufacture ■ 
of American goods,  are turned to  the  work ■ 
of selling them,  there  will  come  the  crisis j 
of competition which Europe will have cause 1 
to  dread.  When  American  merchants  es­
tablish permanent agencies in the new coun­
tries where  Germany,  France  and  England 
are now  competing  for  commercial  advan  j

tages,  when  young  men  are  sent to these 
agencies to learn the language and study the 
habits and wants of the people; when Amer­
ican goods are  made,  packed,  marked, and 
in every way adapted to the peculiar notions 
and requirements of the  people  for * whose 
use they are destined,  and when the foreign 
service of the United States is  placed  upon 
the secure and  sustained  footing  that  has 
been found most advantageous by other  na­
tions,  then it will be found  that  the  people 
who have created  a  great  nation  within a 
century are merchants as well as manufactur­
ers and farmers; that they know how to sell 
as well as create.  There will then be heard 
far less than now of  strikes  and  crises  in 
American  industry,  and  the  United  States 
will have taken the high and influential pos­
ition as a commercial  nation  to  which  it is 
entitled by its unequaled  resources,  and the 
energy,  enterprise,  and progressive spirit of 
! ltf people.”

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN   THE  CITY.

Ira O.  Green’s  bean  pile  has  swelled to 

4,000 bushels.

John Osting succeeds Osting Bros,  in  the 

grocery business on Jefferson avenue.

Henry Steenman has engaged in the retail 
furniture business at Howard City.  Nelson, 
Matter & Co. furnished the stock.

Wm.  Thum & Bro.  have  purchased  the 
drug stock of the Thum  estate  located  on 
the comer of  West  Bridge  and  Jefferson 
streets.

Eaton  &  Christenson  have  fitted  up  a 
commodious banana room, which will enable 
them to handle the fruit at all times when in 
season.

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CONCERNING  CUTTERS.

L.  D.  Webster,  the  Reed  City  grocery- 
man, has  formed a  copartnership  with  his 
son-in-law,  and the new firm will be known 
as Webster &  Phillips.  Mr.  Webster  was 
in town last  week,  and  purchased a  large 
addition to the stock.

The freight rate  from  Grand  Rapids  to 
Marquette  is  as  follows:  First  class,  55; 
Second,  45;  Third  35;  Fourth,  25:  Fifth, 
22K;  Sixth,  20.  The  corresponding  rate 
from  Chicago is as follows:  58,  45,  36,  30 
and 25.

Dan Lynch is moving the  John  J.  Lynch 
dry goods stock from  164  Summit  street  to 
Blanchard,  where  he  will  probably  re-in­
force it with a groceiy  and  crockery  stock.
The majority of business  men  are  doing 
H. Barrow,  formerly engaged  in  trade at
business for the profit involved,  not for fun
,  , Alma,  has engaged in the  grocery  business
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or tor the sake of doing their patrons an  act: 
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of charity.  Occasionally, however,  a dealer  „,  ,, 
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is to be found who seems content to canyon1
der.
a business involving  several  thousand  dol­
lars a year  simply  for  the  satisfaction  he 
gets from a knowledge of the fact  that he is 
making  it  unpleasant  for his  competitors.
It  hardly  seems  possible  that  any  dealer 
would adopt such a course willfully,  yet the 
rapid increase in men of  this stamp  during 
the past few years would  seem  to  indicate j 
that some reason  besides  ignorance  of  the 
proper way to conduct business  is to be giv­
en for such  infractions  of  good  judgment 
and common honesty. 
It  is not  the inten­
tion of  The  Tradesm an  at  this  time  to 
fortify  its statements  with  personal  allus­
ions—although such a course maybe deemed 
necessary  on  such  future  occasion—but  it 
maintains that no  man  can  do  a  perpetual 
cutting business and succeed. 
It is impos­
sible.  Dozens  of  examples  can  be  cited, 
proving conclusively that the cutting system 
invariably ends in failure, bringing  with  it 
disaster to the cutter and his creditors.  Job­
bers  are  not usually  blessed  with  an  over­
abundance of penetration, but they  invaria­
bly set down the cutter as  “dangerous cred­
it”—as a man  who  is  near  the  end  of  liis 
rope.  They argue—and rightly, too—that no 
reputable merchant has occasion to resort to 
such methods; and that the evil  is  confined 
entirely to business beginners,  who thus seek 
to attract trade,  and to old dealers  who  are 
on the verge  of  failure,  and adopt such cut­
throat  methods  for  the purpose of warding 
off the inevitable.  A cursory review of the 
men who adhere to the slashing system will 
convince even the most skeptical  that  they I 
are inferior traders—that they  are frequent­
ly men who cannot command trade by doing 
business legitimately and honorably.

B. P.  Orsborn succeeds G.  W.  Hartson in 

Yearkey & Young  have  engaged  in  the 

Emery & Graham succeed P.  L.  Graham 

Taylor & Taylor succeed D.  C.  Coburn in 

Frank G.  Thiers succeeds L.  K.  Clark  in 

Keim & Moon succeed Pope & Keim in the 

S.  C.  Lewis  succeeds  Wolff &  Lewis  in 

Grant & Bacon, jewelers  at  Port  Huron, 

F. M.  Beal,  groceryman  at  Islipeming, 

O.  W.  Grace & Son,  millers  at  Hastings, 

Lenhoff Bros,  have engaged in  the  cloth­

Willett & Germond,  of  Rodney,  have dis­

the lumber business at Memphis.

in the drug business at Croswell.

the grocery business at Allegan.

the meat business at Nashville.

meat business at Shelbyville.

grocery business at Sturgis.

the drug business at Leslie.

are offering a compromise.

has removed to Republic.

ing business at Gaylord.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

have sold out.

solved, Mr.  Germond continuing. 

Let the cutting and  slashing  be  stopped!

Clarence Iden,  of Banfield, will engage in 

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There is at least one  measure  before  the j 
| Legislature to which all  business  men  can | 
extend a cordial support,  and that is the bill j 
! introduced by Mr. Dodge looking toward the 
| reduction of the rental  of  telephones.  The 
| bill prohibits all telephone  companies  from | 
charging more than $2.50 per month,  where 
one telephone is used,  or  more  than  $2 per 
month for each telephone where  more  than 
one is used by any individual or corporation.  |
It also provides that  the price for using tel­
ephones between  two  telephones or  cities 
shall not exceed 15 cents  for  the  first  five j 
minutes,  or more than 10 cents for  each ad- i 
ditional  five  minutes or  fraction  thereof,  i 
Any owner, operator,  agent or  other person I 
who shall collect, charge or receive for the use 
of any telephone any sum in excess of these I 
rates  shall be deemed  guilty  of  a  misde­
meanor, and on conviction shall be fined n o t! 
more than $100.  The  measure is  modeled ! 
after the Indiana law,  which  has  effected a !
corresponding  reduction  of  the  telephone 
rates in that State.

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the grocery business at Freeport.

McComb Bros,  succeed Irish  Bros,  in  the 

meat market business at Clarkston.

O.  Bratland &  Co. succeed II.  Clanson in 

the grocery business at Ludington.

Wm.  Garland succeeds Henry  Day in the 

meat market business at Vicksburg.

Wm.  Crippen succeeds Crippen & Sons in i 

the machine shop business at Cadillac:

J.  Powell succeeds G. E.  Stoddard  & Co.  I 

in the boot and shoe business at Flint.

Peck & Streeter,  lumber dealers and paper j 

mill owners at Allegan,  have sold out.

Herries & Co.  succeed  Hemes,  Atchison 

& Co.  in the drug business at Midland.

Richards & Shedd are  building  an  addi­

tion to their hardware store at Prarieville.

J. N.  Waite,  formerly engaged in trade at 

Hudsonville, has resumed business there.

Tewksbury  &  Co.  succeed  Tewksbury, 
Papst & Co.  in general trade  at  Lexington.  I
Harvey & Chiudi  succeed  Hemenway & 
Wine  in the confectionery  business at  Bat-
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tie Creek

J.  R. Hall has  retired  from  the  firm  of [ 
Evans, Hunsicker & Co., general  dealers  at 
Bellevue.

Mrs. M.  N.  Bqchanan  succeeds  her  late 
husband as postmaster  and  general  dealer 
at Ensley.

W.  S.  Sanderson  and  M.  II.  Amphlett 
have  purchased  J.  Whitmyer's  crockery 
stock at Ionia.

The local newspapers announce the  pres­
ence in the city of J.  W.  Fitzmaurice,  who 
is here for the ostensible purpose  of  “writ­
ing up the  industries  of  the  city  for  the 
Scientific  Times  of  New  York.”  T he 
Tradesm an  knows  nothing of  Mr.  Fitz­
maurice,  but for the paper he is so  unfortu­
nate as to represent,  nothing too  strong can 
be  said  in  denunciation. 
It  is  neither  a 
newspaper nor trade  journal,  but  possesses j 
all the  characteristics of a  handbill,  as  its
contents comprise  nothing but reading m at-L hoe,leoleratR ee(Icm   has  been  close(1j 
ter paid for at so much a line.  Such gorilla  m der cliatM mortKa™
nortgage
ventures are incapable  of  doing  the  adver­
tiser any good,  serving  rather to  bring  the 
patrons of  the  thing  into  disrepute; and it 
is to be hoped that  Grand  Rapids  business 
men will not be allured into the trap  set for 
them.  No city is more  pestered  by  repre­
sentatives of  quack advertising sheets than 
Grand Rapids,  and it  cannot  be said  to the 
credit of the town that they always go away 
empty handed.

II.  & J.  Deuster,  general  dealers  at  Sut- j 
ton’s Bay,  are erecting a new store building, 
25x100 feet in dimensions.
Wm.  Black,  the  Cedar  Springs  grocery- j 
man,  is  preparing  to  erect  a  brick  store 
building at that place,  30x70 feet in  dimen­
sions.

K.  F.  Morse is closing  out  his  crockery 
stock at Whitehall,  and will engage in  bus­
iness elsewhere.

I.  E.  Hitchcock,  of the firm of  Hitchcock j 
& Lester,  dry  goods  merchants  at  Union 
City,  has sold out his interest  to  Dr.  E.  H. 
Hurd, of that place.

Christian  Voelker,  grocer  and  boot and

The  “Great  Eastern  Hardware  Co.,” to 
which concern  T he  T radesm an  paid its 
compliments several weeks ago, advertises in 
a local paper that it sells  “all goods at prices 
way below cost.”  The  utter  foolishness of 
snch an assertion is  apparent  to  everyone, 
and serves  only to  render  the  fraudulent 
character of the advertisers the more  trans­
parent.

Hardware  dealers  should  remember  the 
caution  uttered  by  T he  Tradesm an  a 
few weeks ago  relative  to a  perambulating 
fraud calling itself the “Great Eastern Hard­
ware Co.”  The  concern  sells  only  snide 
goods, and its way of doing business is thor­
oughly illegitimate.

Baughman &  Bardner  have  bought 

the 
dmg  and  grocery stock of I. N.  Harter,  at 
Woodland. 
Mr.  Harter  intends  taking 
up his residence in the West.

Mrs. B.  M.  Stewart  has  been  appointed 
special  administratix  of  the  estate  of  her 
late husband,  at  Mecosta,  and  the  grocery 
stock will be closed out at cost.

Dr. L.  S. Weaver,  of  Hesperia,  and  Dr. 
Carbien & Co.,  of Battle  Creek,  are  negoti­
ating for an exchange of  drug  stocks,  with 
a view to exchanging locations.

S.  N. Pratt,  the Petoskey cigar and tobac 
co “jobber,” who assigned some time ago to 
J. H. Passage, has effected a settlement with 
most of his creditors in the basis  of 25  per­
cent. cash.

A.  L.  Burnett  & Co. have  purchased  the 
dry goods and grocery stock of G. J.  Shack- 
elton,  at  Lisbon,  and  will  add  lines  of 
drugs  and  millinery.  Mr.  Shackelton in- 
tends removing to Cleveland.

James T.  Campbell,  John  H.  Campbell 
and George W. Moore have filed  articles, at 
Detroit,  under the  firm  name of Campbell 
Bros.  & Co.  The business to be. carried on 
is the manufacture of coffee,  spices,  baking 
powders and grocers’ sundries; capital stock 
$ 10,000.

M ANUFACTURING  MATTERS.
Boyne City wants a machine shop.
F.  F. Cook’s new mill  at  Maple  City,  is 

nearly completed.

Quay,  Killen &  Co.’s  new  stave  mill  at 

Bailey,  is nearly completed.

St.  Louis people are trying  to  secure  the, 

location of a wagon factory at that point.

Weese  &  Prescott  have  moved 

W. H.  Crowl’s bowl factory at Maple City 
is turning out about 20 dozen bowls per day.
their 
broom factory from Fife Lake toMancelona.
The Ludington Iron Works is negotiating 
to furnish the machinery for a large  mill in 
Florida.

Kellogg’s broom handle  and  cot bed  fac­
tory at Petersburgh started up for the season 
Wednesday.

A company has been formed at Ann Arbor 
to manufacture a new patented  lock  spring 
carriage gear.

The Big Rapids Furniture Co.  is  running 
to its full capacity,  and has orders.on  hand 
for a month ahead.

A Fremont correspondent is authority for 
the statement that another flouring mill will 
be erected there this summer.

Stevens & Ladue,  of  East Saginaw,  have 
contracted their  entire cut of  shingles  for 
the season to Rochester  parties.

L.  Creighton,  of  Cadillac,  will  start  his 
luml/er mill at  Nirvana  this  week,  after  a 
vacation of over eighteen months.

The Shelby coal kilns have suspended op­
erations for about  two  weeks,  owing to the 
temporary closing of the  furnace  at  Fruit- 
port.

John G. Mosser,  the Cadillac brickmaker, 
has begun operations for the season, and will 
manufacture 1,000,000 brick  for  home  con­
sumption.

R.  W.  Turnbull and Paul Blackmar  have 
purchased the McCoy mill at Fife Lake, and 
will move it  onto  their  new  mill  site  at 
Stillwater, Minn.

The Huntington  clothes  pin  factory  at 
Mason burned on  the  5th.  Loss  .$2,500  to 
.$3,000; insurance $1,000.  The  fire  started 
in the engine room.

Gebhart & Estabrook,  of Port  Huron, are 
to put  in  a  new  planing  mill  there,  the 
Phoenix Iron Works, of East  Saginaw,  fur­
nishing the machines.

Lapeer is proud of  the reconstructed Cen­
tennial mills—now supplied  with  all  mod­
ern  improvements  and  having a capacity of 
125 barrels of flour per day.

Bignell  Bros.,  manufacturers  of  plows, 
horse powers and  feed  critters  at  Smyrna, 
have moved their machinery to Ionia, where 
they will continue the •  business  under  the 
firm name of Bignell & Co.

S. M. Vinton,  the  Alba  general  dealer, 
writes Tiie  Tradesm an as follows:  “Any 
one in search of a location for a  handle fac­
tory could do no  better  than  to  look  the 
ground over here,  as we  have  the  best  of 
hardwood timber and lots of it.”

Moms & Moore,  of St.  Louis,  who  oper­
ate stave mills at North Bradley and Breck- 
enridge,  have  1,500,000  staves  and  400,000 
pieces of basswood  and  oak  heading at the 
former place,  and  employ  twenty-five  men 
in their mill and yard.

Muskegon Chronicle:  S.  S.  Buck  &  Co. 
have bought the shingle mill of Miner Bros., 
•in Fruitland township,  and will  operate the 
same this season.  The mill has  a  capacity 
of 40,000 per day and  expects  to  cut  five 
million shingles during  the  season. 
It  is 
situated about  seven  miles  north  of  the 
mouth of Muskegon Lake and one half mile 
from the big lake.

Regarding the removal  of  Bridges,  Snell 
& Co.  from  Lumberton  to  Masonville,  one 
of the firm writes The Tradesm an as  fol­
lows:  “We removed  from  Mecosta  in  the 
fall of 1882, commenced sawing at  Lumber- 
ton on contract on Jan.  31,  1883,  and finish­
ed April 27,  1885.  We have sawed  for our­
selves and others about thirty million.  We 
shall remove about  May  15,  or  as  soon  as 
the ice is out of  the  bay,  to  Masonville,  on 
the west  shore  of  Little  Bay  Denoynett, 
Delta county,  twelve miles  north  of  Esca- 
naba.”

STRAY  FACTS.

Carson City is to have a cigar factory.
H.  C.  Downing, carriage  dealer at  Nash- 

vile,  is closing out.

The capital stock of the new Grand Haven 
Canning  Co.  is  $10,000,  of  which  amount 
$3,000 is actually paid in.

Marshall,  Galletin  &  Co.  are  building a 
new warehouse at  Nashville,  22x44  feet  in 
dimensions and two stories high.

A Coral correspondent  writes  that John 
Snow and A. J. H.  McComb are having a lit­
tle law  cotillion  over  a drug  stock  at  that 
place.

The Michigan State Bank at Eaton Rapids 
has  increased  its  capital  from  $50,000  to 
$75,000, and  elected  H.  H.  Cobb  president 
and Chas.  S.  Cobb cashier.

Saranac  Local:  Saranac  is  getting  its 
full share  of  trade  now-a-days.  Traveling 
men give it the reputation of  being the live­
liest business town of its size in this part of 
the State.

Ashley,  the star town of the  northern  di­
vision of the T., A.  A.  &  N.  M.  Railway, 
revels in dreams of  wealth from  numerous 
flowing wells easily obtainable.  One of them

TO  THE  TFLA.3DE.

v  We wish to call the attention of the trade to the fact that we  are manufacturing:  a  line  of
OVERALLS,  SACK  COATS,  JUMPERS,  ETC.

Which we guarantee to be superior in make, fit and quality to be any in the market.

OUR  OVERALLS  AND  SACK  COATS

Comprise  all the best points it takes to make up good, durable and desirable goods.  The main 
points in our Overalls are the superior cut and high waist, making them perfect hip  flttinjr  so 
that no suspenders need be used to keep them up in place.

OUR  SACK  COATS

Are cut full so as not to bind in any part and large enough for any  man.

EVERY  GARMENT  IS  WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP.

If in any case they should rip or not give perfect satisfaction, give the purchaser another  pair 
and charge to us.
than  any  other  factory  making  first-class goods.  All dealers will find it to their  interest  to 
send for samples and prices before placing their orders elsewhere.
M idiigan OveraH Co., Ion ia, M idi.

OUR7PRICES  ARE  LESS

No convict labor used in the manufacture of our goods.

West  Michigan  Oil  Company,

(SUCCESSORS  TO  STANDARD  OIL  CO..)

63  Monroe  Street,  Grand  Eapids, Mich,

Jno.  C.  Bonnell,  Pres. 

J.  H.  Bonnell, Sec’y.

Illuminating  and  Lubricating
O I L  S.
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Capitol  Cylinder 
Model 
Shield 
Eldorado Engine  - 
Backus Fine  “ 
Peerless Machinery 
Challenge 
Black  Diamond 

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.30  Zero

-  ,30 j 63o  Beo. Naptha 
.25 ¡74°  “  Gasoline

"  .30  870  Gasoline

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At  Marmfactnrers’ P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER. 

63  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

N elson  Bros.  &  Co.

is claimed  to  be  as  strongly  magnetic  as 
any in the State.

Saranac Local:  About  19,000  dozen  of 
eggs have been bought in this village in this 
village in the months of March and April of j 
this year.  The proportion bought  in  April 
will be about two to one against March. 
It 
will make in the  vicinity  of  12,000  dozen 
bought for the month of April alone—a good 
showing for a town of less than 1,000 inhab- ! 
itants.

The St.  Louis Board of Trade has given a : 
location and $500  to  J.  Beech  &  Son,  of 
Mason, to remove there and start a foundry,  j 
The Board has also  notified tiie  village  au- j 
tliorities to hold a special  election  May  20, j 
for the purpose of bonding tiie town for $10,- j 
00 for public improvements under  the  spec- j 
ial act passed some  time  since.  Bonds  to 
bear 4 per cent,  interest due  in 20 years.  A 
market  for  them has already been secured.

----OF----

BOOK-KEEPING!

The shortest method ever yet devised.  Saves 
over one-half the labor of posting.  Liabilities 
can be ascertained in ten minutes at any time 
during  the  month.  My  system  of  keeping 
Cash  Book  is  alone  worth  the  price  to  any 
book-keeper.  No  new  books required.  Full 
and  complete  drafts  of  rulings, etc., with  il­
lustrative entries and instructions in pamphlet 
form  mailed  to  you  upon  receipt  of  $3.50. 
Every beginner should kno\V this method. Send 
for references concerning merits  of  this  sys­
tem before purchasing.

" W ,   3E3C«  - ¿ A I X o x x ,

With S. A. Welling, 24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 35 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.

Another Failure at W hitehall.

 

 

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W. A. Murphy  &  Co.,  jewelers  and  sta­
tioners at Whitehall,  have made  an  assign­
ment to Ed.  J.  Smith.  The  assets are esti­
mated  at  $3,587.87,  and  the  liabilities  are 
$3,220.58,  distributed  among  twenty-three 
creditors,  in the following amounts:
H. E. Staples, Whitehall......................... $1,450.00
20.83
A. Mears 
Eaton, Lyon & Allen, Grand  Rapids... 
61.46
Macauley Bros., Detroit......................... 
58.90
198.00
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C. F. Wood & Co.  “ 
New Haven Clock Co.,  Chicago...........  
37.59
70.43
 
Meridan Britania Co. 
30.30
 
Lyon & He aley 
157.55
 
S. A. Maxwell & Co. 
212.05
 
Bery Allen & Co. 
Spoor & Mackey 
 
595.20
J. H. Purdy & Co. 
 
59.90
Harper Bros. 
2.10
 
31.41
John J. McGrath 
 
11.86
Peibyl Bros. 
 
3.78
Alex. Forbes 
 
10.76
Hibbard,Spencer,Bartlett* Co., Chicago 
H. M. Smith, New York..........................  
31.47
T. G. Cornway 
10.89
Am. Sewing Machine Co., New York.. 
34.50
J .F . Bechtel & Co.,  Milwaukee...........  
49.10
62.50
Columbus Watch Co., Columbus,  Ohio 
Rockford Silver Plate Co., Rockford,111 
40 00
Eastern  advices concerning  the  prospects 
for wool are to  the  effect  that  the  market 
will be brisk, but that low prices  are  likely 
to rule.  Local  buyers  are advised to offer 
from 20 to 23 cents for the  best  grades,  alj 
though the market may brighten  before the 
end of the season.  As yet, the  war  boom 
seems to  have had  no  effect  over wool.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Miscerllaynaieous  Notes,

Fox,  Durkee & Braiman,  cheese  makers 
and dealers at Bryan,  Ohio,  have  made an 
assignment.  Liabilities,  $10,000;  assets, 
“mixed.”

85*

89*

Can  write  short-hand,  and  use  type­
writer;  also has  knowledge  of  book-keeping. 
Address G, this office.

WANTED—A  situation  by  a  yonng  man.
PV3R  SALE—At  a  bargain,  my  two-story 

frame house, store 24x45,5 rooms, kitchen, 
cellar, good well  water, cistern and woodshed, 
good  location  for  any  kind  of  business,  ex­
pressly clothing store, as there  is  none  other 
in town.  Address A. Theiie,  Rockford,  Mich. 
______________________  

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

I DOR  SALE—A  complete  stock  of  tinshop 
I DOR 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*
1DOR SALE—Our entire mill cut of hardwood 
I DOR  SALE—Two pool tables and  a  Stevens’ 
I DOR  SALE—Our  stock  of  drugs, boots  and 

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

’  patent ice-box.  As good as new.  Address, 
C. Blom, Holland, Mich. 
81tf

shoes, dry goods, groceries and hardware. 
Also  brick  store  building.  23x75,  warehouse, 
dwelling,  stable,  good  well  and  cistern  and 
one  acre  of  land.  Will  sell the buildings  for 
$2,500 and the stock at cost.  A.  Y oung & Sons, 
Orange, Mich. 

82tf.

90*

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I DOR  SALE—A genuine bonanza in the shape 
of a hardware stock in a  lively,  growing 
town.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $2,500. 
Terms  cash.  For  full  particulars  address, 
88tf
“Hardware,” care T h e  Tr a d e s m a n . 
SITUATION WANTED-By young  man in  a 
rtr  grocery or general  store,  four  years’  ex­
perience.  Best  of  references.  Address Box 
96, Fremont, Mich. 

FOR  SALE—Cheap for  cash,  a  small stock 

of  drugs  and  medicines  in  suburbs  of 
Grand Rapids, Mich.  Apply toH. B. Fairchild. 
City. 

76tf

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

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............

SEEDS.

Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee......................
Cardamon, Malabar.......................
Celery,..............................................
Coriander, nest English...............
Fennel............................................
Flax, clean......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 334).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian...............................  
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........
Quince..............................................
Rape, English............................
Worm,  Levant..........................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25
Nassau 
do 
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Velvet Extra do 
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do 
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Extra Yellow do 
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Grass 
do 
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Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
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Michigan  Slate  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

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amazoo. 
sing’.
Rapids. 

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Goo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan­
Third Vice-President—Frank  Wurzburg,  Gr’d
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F. W. 
Fincher. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 
October 13,1385.

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Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884.

OFFICERS.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm.  L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Esoott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Jas. S. Cowin.
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White.
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November.
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  May  14, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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donia.

Woodland.

lie, Coopersville.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week ancl placed 
orders with the various houses:
R. D. McNaughton, Coopersville.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
W. H. Hicks,  Morley.
G. W. Watrous and R. Lillie, Watrous  &  Lil­
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
P. W. Travis, Otsego.
John Yeakey, Wayland.
A. M. Harrison, Bangor.
R. R. Perkins, Perkins & Go., Boyne City.
J. M. Sutherland,  Caledonia.
E, A. Carpenter, Colborn & Carpenter, Cale­
John Neuman, Dorr.
M. A. Teachout, Wnitchall.
W. H.  Beach, Holland.
A. W. Blain, Dutton. 
Frank Friedrich, Traverse City.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley P. O.
T. W. Preston, Millbrook.
Dr.  Baughman,  Baughman  &  Bardner, 
J. N. Waite, Hudsonville.
NagLer & Beeler, Caledonia.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
M. V. Wilson, Sand  Lake.
R. B. McCulloch, Berlin.
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
Purdy & Hastings,  Sparta.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
W. H. Struik. Forest Grove.
C. E. & S. J. Koon,  Lisbon.
L.  D.  Webster,  Webster  &  Phillips,  Reed 
H. H. Robinson, Oakfleld Center.
Putuam & Barnhart Lumber Co., Long Lake. 
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant.
H. W. Potter,  Jennisonville.
Geo. H. Force,  Morley.
Bartz Bros., North  Dorr.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Barkner & Lehnen, Blanchard.
J. B. Post, Clarksville.
J. L. Graham, Wayland.
Alex.  Denton,  Denton  &  Lovely,  Howard 
Carrol & Fisher, Dorr.
Ed. S. Fitch, Wayland.
H. A. Crawford, Cadillac.
H. M. Harron, McLain.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
John Otis, Mancelona.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
Mr.  Zunder, Zunder Bros. & Co., Bangor.
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
Mr. Judson, Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg. 
A. L. Burnett & Co., Lisbon.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
H. W. Potter,  Jennisonville.
S. Millis,  Denver.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
S. Bitely, Pierson.
H. H. Proctor, Alaska.

City.

City.

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The Drug Market.

Business has been moderately good during 
the past  week,  and  collections  have  ruled 
good.  There have  been no  changes of  im­
portance, with the exception of  a  slight de­
cline in cinchouidia.

The regular meeting of the Grand  Rapids 
Pharmaceutical Society, which was  to  have 
been held  at The  Tradesman  office  last 
Thursday  evening,  was  adjourned  for one 
week.

C. M. Droste M.  I). 

late  of  Westphalia, 
W  has located in the city and  opened  an office 
at 166 West Bridge street, over Tlium’s drug 
store.

A new pharmacy act for  the  province  of 
Quebec is under consideration of the Parlia­
ment of that Province.

The pharmacy bill passed the  House  last 

Thursday.

TRADE  MARK.

O. H. RICHMOND & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

m a n u f a c t u r e r s  o f

Bicliood’s Family Medicines.

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

The  best selling liver and  blood  medicine  in 
Richmond’s Cubeb Cream,
^   Richmond’s Ague (lure,

the  market,  50 cents.

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

Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer.
Retailers,  please  order  of  your  jobbersain 
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.

W as Bound to be a Clerk.

A retail dry goods dealer on Monroe street 
had a couple of visitors the other day, where 
lie expected a couple of customers.  A wo­
man,  appearing  to  be  about  50  years old, 
entered  the  store  in  company  with  her 
daughter—a tliin-faced old maid of about 30 
—and  when  the  clerk  slid  forward,  the 
mother said:

“ Not  any  dry  goods  for  us  to-day. 

Where’s the owner ? ”

“ Do  you  wish  to  see  the proprietor ?” 

asked the clerk.

“ He’s the man.”
They  were  shown  into  the  office.  The 
merchant  supposed  they  owned  a  village 
store and desired to stock  up,  and  he  wel­
comed them with a winning smile.

“ My  daughter  Minerva—Minerva  Bol­
ton,” said the lady by way  of  introduction.
Minerva and the  merchant  shook  hands, 
chairs  were  placed,  and,  as  the  two  sat 
down, the old lady  said:

“ She’s one of the best  girls  in  the  State 

of Michigan.”

“ No doubt—no doubt, madam.”
“ After she’s been in the store  one month 
you wouldn’t part with her for  810  a  day,” 
said the mother.

“ Ah—yes—yes.”
“ She’s smart on figures,  honest as an old- 
fashioned winter,  and she won’t be giggling 
round with the clerks.”

“I-----1 hardly understand you,”  said the

gentleman.

“I want a place for Minerva.  She’s sigh­

ing and dying to be a clerk.”

“Ah!  But I have no  vacancy just  now.” 
“I don’t want any vacancy. 
I want Min­
erva to be a clerk.  She’s just as  smart as a 
wolf,  and  if  she  comes  here,  I shall,  of 
course,  do all my trading with her. 
I don’t 
know but I’d  take  some  bed-ticking  home 
with me to-day,  for  they  say ticking  is  on 
the rise.”

“Yes, but—but----”
“I know how you feel,”  she  interrupted, 
“but you can depend on her.  Our postmas­
ter,  Squire  Johnson,  and  heaps  of  others, 
will recommend her.  She’s got a character, 
that girl has.  You  might  leave  a  million 
dollars with  her  and  feel  perfectly  safe. 
Minerva,  if you sold four yards of factory at 
10 cents a yard,  how much would the whole 
thing-come to?”

“Forty  cents, of  course,”  drawled  Min­

erva.

“See  there—see  there!”  exclaimed  the 
mother.  “Have you  a  clerk  in  the  store 
who can reckon figures as quick as that?” 

“But  I have  all  the  clerks  I  want,”  he 

managed to get  in.

“You  might  discharge  that  cross-eyed 
young man out  there,  and  give  this  poor 
girl a chance for her life,’’pleaded the moth­
er.  “If she doesn’t get a place she will cer­
tainly go into a decline and  die.”

Y es—but-----but-------- ”
“Minerva,  if you  sold  four  bunches  of 
hairpins for six cents per bunch,  how  much 
money would you get?”

“Twenty-four  cents—any  fool  knows 

that,” replied the daughter.

“Can you beat that in this store?” proudly 
inquired the mother.  “If you take her  you 
can depend on her.  She’s  always  at  home 
nights,  is not a hearty eater, can put up with 
children,  and I know your  wife  would like 
hex’.  She can  sold o’ do housework  in  the 
morning and after dark,  and  you’ll  be  kill­
ing two birds with one stone.”

“I can’t take her,—no—no.  Got  all  the 

help I want!”  replied the  merchant.

“Three dollars a week  and  hoard  takes 

my daughter,” persisted the mother.

“Can’t—can’t do it.”
“Say two dollars.”
“No—no!”
“That settles  it,” remarked  the  mother 
as she rose up.  “I see  your  object.  You 
want  me to come  down to 81 a  week, but 
I’ll see you hung first.  Come  on  Minerva. 
I did think of looking at some  bed  ticking, 
but we’ll go up  the  street. 
I'll  get  you a 
clerkship where you can look right down on 
this store as a horse looks down  on a grass­
hopper.”

Several French courts of  law  have  lately 
ruled that aceoi’ding to the  French  law  no 
compound medicine may be  sold,  wholesale 
or retail, by any persons  other  than  those 
holding diplomas.  The law says  that such 
compounds  “shall not be sold  or offered for 
sale,” and  makes  no  distinction  between 
wholesale or retail sale.

Java advices say that the indigo  crops  i 
mid Java have  suffered  so  much  damage 
from the gnawing of the  leaves  by  young 
worms, that the first picking  of  the  season 
lias proved a total  failure.

The Wisconsin  Legislature  lias passed  a 
law forbidding the  sale  of  Paris  green  in 
that State by  others  than  druggists, imless 
in one and half pound packages.

BEAD!  BEAD! BEAD!
Pioneer  PrepM   Paint!

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.
Sole Control of our Celebrated

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.

have

Read it.

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

ta, Pirita i Go.MICH.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Declined—Cinchouidia.

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8....................................
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).......
Carbolic............................................
Citric.................................................
Muriatic 18  deg...............................
Nitric 30 deg....................................
Oxalic................................................
Sulphuric 66 deg..............................
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz
Benzoic,  German............................
Tannic...............................................

AMMONIA.

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

9  ©  10 
30  @  35 
36  @  40 
60  @  65 
3  ©  6
11  @  12 
1434©  15 
3  @  4
52  @  55 
18
12  ©  15 
12  ©  15

15  ©  18 
14
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6  @  7

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

50@55
40
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50

BARKS.

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

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BERRIES.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c)............... 
@  75
§  @  7
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash......................................  50  ©  60

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EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)............... 
............... 
Lgowood, 34s 
do 
Logwood, 34s 
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do 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

Arnica...............................................   10  @
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
Chamomile,  German.....................  

f l o w e r s.

GUMS.

 

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60®  7o
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................  
17
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
28©  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
65
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
60
50
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
£5
Arabic,  3d picked............................ 
35
Arabic, sifted sorts................ 
 
25
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
20©  SS
Camphor........................................... 
13
Catechu. Is (34 14c, 34s 16c) ......  . 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
35©  40
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
90@1  00
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiae, prime (Powd  45e).............  
3a
20
Kino TPowdered, 30c]...................... 
Mastic..............................................
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $5.40)............... 
. 3 90
30
Shellac, Campbell’s......................... 
26
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
24
30
Shellac bleached.............................. 
Tragacanth......................................  30  @1  00

, 

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint.......................................................25
Rue..........................................  
40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................35
Tanzy.................................................................25
Thym e...............................................................30
Wormwood.................................. 
25

 

IRON.

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

LEAVES.

6  40
20
7
80
65

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   13  ©  14
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (348 & 34s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
16
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
10
Uva  Ural........................................... 
Belledonna.......................................  
35
Foxglove........................................... 
30
Henbane........................................... 
35
2 35
Rose, red........................................... 

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye.................1 75  ©2 00
Whisky, other brands......................1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom......................................1 35  @1 75
Gin,  Holland......................................2 00  @3 50
Brandy................................................1 75  @6 50
Catawba  Wines.................................1 25  ©2 00
Port Wines......................................... 1 35  ©2 50

MAGNESIA.

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

22
37
2 25
65

Almond, sweet.................................  45  @  50
45
Amber,  iectifled.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
1  85
Bay ^  oz.........................................  
50
Bergamont....................................... 
1  80
Castor...............................................   18  @  19V
2 00
Croton...............................................  
Cajeput............................................  
75
1  00
Cassia...............................................  
35
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
Citronella........................................ 
75
Cloves...............................................  
1  20
Cod Liver,  filtered................ f! gal 
1 50
3  50
Cod Liver, best......................... 
6 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 10 
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................  
7  00
1  60
Erigeron........................................... 
2 00
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
35
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
2 01
Lavender flowers, French............. 
1  00
Lavender garden 
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
Lemon, new crop............................ 
1  40
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
1  50
Lemongrass...................................... 
80
i Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1  10
2 75
| Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ............... 
1 25
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
1  76
Pennyroyal................... 
4  75
Peppermint,  white......................... 
Rose $   oz......................................... 
8  50
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50) 
65
Salad.................................................  65  @  67
Savin.................................................  
1 00
4 50
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
Sandal Wood, W. I .......................... 
7 00
Sassafras........................................... 
55
Spearmint.......................................  
@7 00
Tansy...........................................:..4 50  ©5 00
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10  ©  12
Wintergreen.......:........................ 
2  10
| Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.00)....... 
4  00
2 00
Wormseed.......................................  

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POTASSIUM .

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

14
40
19
2 90
28

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................  
20
25
Althea, cut........................................ 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................  
17
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 34s and 34s__  
33
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
35
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
20
Gentian (Powd  I5c)......................... 
10
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11  @  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)..................  
25
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
25
1  10
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 1234)........  
12
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

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.26; $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto  1 ft roils............................
Alum.........................................  $  tt>
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.................................7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds......................................
Calomel. American.........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
Chloral 
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................
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 .............
Epsom Salts.....................................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine, French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet..................................
Glue,white.............. ........................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  34s and 34s..............................
Iodoform 
oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass, American.......................
Japónica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (34s 2s 10c & 34s lie)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F ..................... ...............
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........<p oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................$  lb
Moss,  Irish:....................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 B>  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, 34d...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, Trae Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz
Quinine,  German............................
Red Precipitate...................... ^ 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, Maecoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]......................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre. 3 F ..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour...................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 34 gal. ¿cans 
doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ (B ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................

do 
do 

OILS.

Model  Cylinder.......................
Shields  Cylinder.....................
Eldorado Engine.....................
Peerless  Machinery...............
Challenge Machinery.............
Black Diamond Machinery...
Castor Machine  Oil................
Paraffine, 25  deg.....................
Paraffine, 28  deg.....................
Sperm, winter bleached........
Whale, winter..........................
Lard, extra...............................
Lard, No.  1...............................
Linseed, pure raw..................
Linseed, boiled.......................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.
Spirits Turpentine..................
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.....................
Extra  Turp...... ........................
Coach  Body...............................
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............
Extra Turp  Damar..................
Japan Dryer, No.  1  Turp.......

PAINTS.

Bbl
Red Venetian............................ m
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........
154
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........
154
Putty, commercial..................
234
Putty, strictly pure..................
234
Vermilion,prime American.. 
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure__
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  Paints.......
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints.

TH E  LOUNGER.

I rode to Kalamazoo the other day in com­
pany with the leading miller in this section, 
and in the course of  a  general  conversation 
he remarked that the tendency  in  the  mill­
ing business seemed to be  toward  centraliz­
ation—that the same concentration  of  capi­
tal and resources which  mark  nearly  every 
manufacturing industry in the country is be­
coming more and more evident in the milling 
business.  The  reason for  this  change  he 
held to be  obvious. 
I11  the  first place,  the 
large establishments can turn out the manu­
factured. product very much cheaper than the 
small mills,  in  consequence  of  which  they 
are  able  to  sell  considerably  below  the 
prices  maintained  by  the  little  millers, 
morever, 
as  a 
rale, as the men employed  are more  apt  to 
be experts in flour making and the  machin­
ery used is more  likely  to  be  of  the  latest 
pattern,  and consequently  more  economical 
and capable of producing a greater  percent­
age of flour to the bushel of wheat. 
lie was 
inclined to the opinion that the  small  mills 
which use water as a  motive  power  would 
continue in the business, catering  solely  to 
the local trade; but that tke number of coun­
try mills which axe compelled to  employ an 
engineer anti buy fuel  would  grow  beauti­
fully less as the years glide on.

is  better, 

flour 

the 

DApropos  to  the  above,  I  hear  that  the 
same gentleman has in Ills bins  at the  pres­
ent  time  no  less  than  70,000  bushels  of 
wheat, which lie bought several  months ago 
at an average price of 75  cents  per  bushel. 
The advance since that  time  affords  him  a 
neat little profit of over $20,000,  and  wheat 
has not ceased climbing upward  yet,  either. 
And yet  they say that there is no  money in 
the  milling business!

“I think I select  my goods with  as great 
care as any other man in the business,” said 
a thorough-going dry goods merchant,  “and 
yet,  in spite of all my caution  and past  ex­
perience,  I frequently select a piece of goods 
which proves to be  a  ‘sticker.’ 
I can see it 
as soon as I get it on my shelves,  and I im­
mediately put it right down to cost. 
If that 
doesn’t sell it,  I cut off  another  slice—any­
thing to rash it out bef orejit gets]to looking old 
and shop-worn.  That’s the class of goods I 
make ‘leaders’ of,  and the only class.  The 
man who puts staples  down  to  cost  to  at­
tract  trade fails to  sell  anything  else,  and 
the sooner the trade in general come  to  ap­
preciate this fact the better it  will be for all 
concerned.

Some people think it would be nice  if ev­
erybody in the world would  mind  liis  own 
business.  But it would not.  Over  half the 
people in the worl would be  out of  employ­
ment,  and not know what to do  with  them­
selves.  A great deal depends, also, on what 
is considered one’s  own  business.  Every­
body's  business  is  nobody’s  business,  but 
once in a while  this  state  of  things  is  re­
versed.  Just now we  are  ail  interested  in 
everybody’s affairs,  and  the  more  we  can 
find about it the  happier  we  are. 
Since 
my last I have been trying to find out every­
body’s business,  and  I am delighted  to  say 
that it is improving.

A number of men were.standing around a 
steam radiator, in a certain wholesale estab­
lishment the  other  day,  when  one  of  the 
party  related  an episode that  took  place at 
his house  the  morning  before.  His  little 
four-year-old daughter  stood  on  tip-toe  by 
the bedside anil  peered  at  her  brand  new 
brother.  “Where did that baby come from?” 
she asked her mother.  “The angels brought 
him last night,” said mamma.  “Oh,  I wish 
I haden’t gone to bed  so  early. 
I  wonder 
how  they  got  in  when  they  [nought  him. 
Did you open the window for  them?”  Just 
at this moment,  Eddie,  the ten-year-old boy, 
entered the room, and, seeing the new infant, 
said: 
“Where did that baby  come from?”
“The angels brought him,” shouted  his  lit­
tle sister. 
“Oh, come off!  What are you 
giving  ns?”

Have you heard the 288 joke?  Two men 
met  in  a  wholesale  dry  goods  house  not 
long  ago,  when  one  of them said: 
“Say, 
did you hear that  story  about  288?”  No; 
what is it?”  “Oh,  it’s too gross,  too  gross 
entirely.” 
“I  don’t  care  if  it  is, tell it.!’ 
“Well,  said  the  first,  moving  towards  the 
door,  144 is one  gross and  288 is two gross, 
isn’t it?”

* 

*

The  Tradesman published  something (i 
few weeks ago about dignity and its  decadr 
ence. 
I am just now promoted to say a few 
words about firmness.  Firmness is the twin 
brother of dignity,  and looks well in  bronze 
images. 
Firmness is  a good  thing  in  its 
place, but we should early learn  that  to  be 
firm we need not stand up against a  cyclone 
till our eternal economy  is  blown  into  the 
tops of the neighboring ti-ees.  Moral cour­
age is a good thing,  but it is  useless  unless 
you have a liver to go along  with  it.  We 
may often learn  a  valuable  lesson  from  a 
firm mule,  and guard  against  the  too  pro­
tuberant use or our own ideas in  opposition 
to other powers,  against which it  is  useless 
to  contend. 
It  may be  wrong  for  giant 
powder to blow the top of a man’s  head  off 
without  cause,  but  repeated  contests have 
proved that even when  giant  powder  is  in 
the wrong,  it is eventually victorious.  Let 
us, therefore, while reasonably  fixed in  our 
purpose avoid  the  display  of  a  degree  of 
finnness which will  scatter us  around  over 
two business blocks and confuse the coroner 
at the inquest.

The Ovid Union refers to  T he  T rades­
man as  “that  thoroughly  successful  and 
model commercial journal.”

W liolesal©

Druggists !

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

I5  UllMj

234© 
3  ©
434© 
6  ©

00

MANUFACTURERS  OF
PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

ELEGANT 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

©

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whiting, 

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists'  Sundries

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

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACILI­
TIES 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 received  from  hundreds 
of our customers the most satisfying recom­
mendations.

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  satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom- 
tomers with PURE  GOODS in this  depai't- 
ment.  We CONTROL 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 
exposed for sale.  We  GUARANTEE  per­
fect  and  complete  satisfaction  and where 
this brand of goods has been once introduced 
the future trade lias been assured.

W e are also owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

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

Gins, BranHies & Fine Wines.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

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28 
20 
40 
40 
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4 00 
1 50

10

60
3 00@3 25 
40

18 
2 50
6  ©  7
90  ©  95 
85  ©  90 
85 
28 
1 60 
77  @  80 
35

434®

334®3®

.................. 60
.................. 50
.................. 45
..................25
.................. 30
.................. 6C
22
...................21
.............. 1  40
Bbl  Gal
75
70 
70
60 
60
50 
53
50 
56
53 
70 
90
36 
40

..1   10®1  20
..1   60@1  70
..2   75@3  00
..1   00@1  10
..1   55@1  60
..  70©   75
Lb
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2®   3
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ESPRING

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIXj  CLOTHS

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

Michigan.

The Old Reliable

N I M R O D

FIjTJGS-  t o b a c c o

Zs  for  Sal©  by  aU  Grand Rapids Jobbers.

SAMPLES  FURNISHED  ON  APPLICATION.

S.  W,  Venable  &  Go.,  Petersburg,  Va.
and  FishF.J.
Oysters 

117  MONROE  ST.

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

D E A L E R S   IN

N O S.  1 3 2   a n d   1 2 4   L O U IS  S T R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

Wholesale Grocers,

S ole  O w ners  o f

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

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

A R A B   P L U G !
JSXTXTIXTGS  *   SMITH,
Arctic  Manufacturing*  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OP  THE

250  L yon  St.,  Grand.  H apids.
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  POR

AND-

where in this issue and write for

JLrotio  Betiding  Powder.
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in Car  Lots. 
We are preparefl to M e Bottom Prices on anyttiing we handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,

3  Canal Street,  Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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

If in Need of A n y th in g   in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PATENT

If so,  send for 
prices  and  fur­
ther  information.
Eggleston  & Patton’s
Adjustable M M  Bar
Bracket Shelving Irons
Creates  a N ew Era 
in  Store  Furnish­
ing.  In entirely su­
persedes 
the  old 
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A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL,, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

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Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. 

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Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY.  MAY  13,  1885.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

BA NK — GENERAL  DEPOSITOR.

Where a depositor in a bank was  clerk of 
a court and had a  deposit  in  his  own name 
with the word  “clerk”  added,  the  Supreme 
Court of Indiana held that  he  was  no more 
than a general depositor,  and that the  addi­
tion did not  change  his  status  in  that  re­
spect.

NOT  EXEMPT  FROM  TAXATION.

An act  of  the  Kentucky  legislature  ex­
empting  the  Louisville  Board  of  Trade 
from  taxation  was  recently  held  unconsti­
tutional  by  the  Court  of  Appeals  of  that 
State  as  granting  a  separate  public  privil­
ege, not  “in  consideration  of  public  s 
vices.”

CONTRACT  BY  TELEGRAM.

The case of Fraser vs. Tottenham, recent 
ly decided by the English Court of Appeals,* 
was one in  which  it  appeared  that the  de- 
fendent sent a telegram  accepting  an  offer, 
and at  the  same  time  posted  a  letter  con­
taining new terms.  The telegram  was  act­
ed  upon as a  complete  contract  before the 
letter  was  received.  The  court  held  that 
the defendant was  bound  by  the  telegram, 
the plaintiff  having  acted  in  reliance  upon 
it.

AGREEM ENT  TO  EXTEND  TIME.

The agreement of  the principal  maker  of 
a note given for a  loan  to  keep  the  money 
for another year after it is due,  and  pay the 
same interest thereon as  before,  is  a  good 
and sufficient  consideration to  sustain  the 
agreement of the legal holder of the  note to 
extend the time for the payment of the same 
for  another  year,  and  the  agreement  for 
such extension will  release  the  surety  not 
assenting  thereto,  according  to the decision 
of  the Supreme Court of Illinois.

U S U R Y -L O A N — AGENT—COMMISSIONS.
Where an agent of an insurance company, 
employed by  the  company  to  solicit  appli­
cations  for  insurance  only, who  is  not  its 
agent to  make  loans of  money,  on  making 
application to the  company for  a  loan  for 
another,  retains  out  of  the  sum  loaned  a 
commission  for  his  services,  and  the  bor­
rower  gives  his  note  for  the  full  amount, 
and  for  the  payment  of  the  highest  legal 
rate of interest,  the  exaction  of  such  com­
mission from the borrower  will  not  render 
the transaction  usurious.  So  held  by  the 
Supreme Court of  Illinois.

MARRIED  WOMAN— PARTNERSHIP  WITH 

H USBAND.

A married  woman  is  not  authorized  to 
form and  carry on  a  business  partnership 
with her husband,  and she is  not liable on a 
note  given  in  the  course  of  the  business 
thereof,  according  to  the  decision  of  the 
General Term of  the  City  Court  of  Brook­
lyn,  in the case  of  Noel  vs.  Kinney.  The 
court held  that  the  statutes  of  New  York 
relative to married women had so far chang­
ed the common law rule as to  enable a mar­
ried woman to carry on trade or  business or 
perform labor or services on her sole or sep­
arate account,  but not on joint account with 
her husband  as  partner.  This  decision  is 
in line with that rendered  by  Judge  West­
brook,  of the New York  Supreme  Court, in 
the case of Fairlee vs. Bloomingdale.

REGULATION  OF  SALES— MUNICIPAL  ORDI­

NANCE.

A  city  charter  authorizing  ordinances 
“to regulate the  ringing of  bells  and  the 
crying of goods  and  other  commodities  for 
sale at auction or otherwise,  and to  prevent 
disturbing  noises  in  the  streets,” does  not 
authorize an ordinance  forbidding all  sales 
of watches,  jewelry,  silver  and  silverplated 
ware,  diamonds, pearls and  other  jewelers’ 
goods by auction  after  sunset  of  any  day, 
according to the decision of  the  New  York 
Supreme Court in the City  of  Rochester vs. 
Close.  The court said: * *The statute author 
izes the council to  regulate  the  ringing  of 
bells and crying  (not  selling)  of goods  and 
other  commodities  for  sale  at  auction  or 
otherwise,  that  is,  the  advertising  of  any 
sale of goods by  oral  and  public  proclama­
tion, by outcry,  and it  is to  this  manner of 
advertising a  sale  that  the  statute  refers, 
and to  regulate  which  it  confers  authority 
upon the common  council. 
It  will  be ob­
served that the statute authorizes  the  coun­
cil to regulate the crying of goods and other 
commodities for  sale  in  any  other  manner 
than at auction, which,  if the sale is author­
ized to be  made  the  subject  of  regulation, 
would extend to  every  sale  made  at  retail 
over the counter in  the  ordinary  course  of 
business. 
It will not be contended  that the 
statute would apply in such  a  case,  or  con­
fer any authority upon the council to iff any 
manner regulate such  a  sale, yet  the  lan­
guage of the statute  includes  such a sale as 
completely as a sale at auction.
.  Dealers wishing seeds of any kind are re­
ferred  to  the  advertisement  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Seed  Store,  in  another  column of 
this issue.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  0UÈRENT.

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

CHECKS

SILESIAS

OSNABURG.

BLEACHED COTTONS

FINE BROWN  COTTONS

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  7Vi
Laconia B, 7-4.........16Vi
Lyman B, 40-in....... 10Vi
Mass. BB, 4-4............5%
Nashua  E, 40-in—   8 Vi
Nashua  B, 4-4........ 754
Nashua 0,7-8..........
Newmarket N ......  6 Vi
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Pepperell  B, 4-4—   7Vi 
Pepperell  O, 7-8....  6Vi
Pepperell N, 3-4—   654
Pocasset  C, 4-4.........8%
Saranac  R ...............  7Vi
Saranac  E...............  9

Masonville TS........   8
Masonville  S.......... 10Vi
Lonsdale.................9Vi
Lonsdale A ............. 16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J .................
Victory D ...............
Victory  K ...............254
Phoenix A ............... 19Vi
Phoenix B ............... 10Vi
Phoenix X X .............5
Gloucester...............6
Gloucestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy............6
Merrimac D .............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6Vi
Pacific  robes........... 6
Richmond................6
Steel River.............. 5V4
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues.  7Vi

Pepperell, 10-4.........25
Pepperell, 11-4............27 Vi
Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pequot,  8-4..............21
Pequot,  9-4..............24
Park Mills, No. 90..14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz............. U
Otis Apron............. 10Vi
Otis Furniture.......10Vi
York, 1  oz...............10
York. AA, extra oz.14
Alabama  plaid.......7
Augusta plaid........ 7
Toledo plaid...........   7
Manchester plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid............6Vi
Greene, G,  4-4........  5Vi
Hill, 4-4....................  7Vi
Hill, 7-8....................  6%
Hope,  4-4................ 6%
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4....................11 Vi
Linwood,  4-4..........  7Vi
Lonsdale,  4-4............73£
Lonsdale  cambric. 10Vi 
Langdon, GB, 4*4...  9Vi
Langdon, 45............14
Ma8onville,  4-4.........8
Maxwell. 4-4........... 9Vi
New York Milt, 4-4.10Vi 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7Vi 
Pride of the West. .11 
Pocahontas,  4-4—   7 Vi
Slaterville, 7-8........   6Vi
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 534
Whitinsville,  4-4...  7Vi 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   6Vi
W amsutta, 4-4........lGVi
Williamsville, 36...10Vi

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4........16Vi
Pepperell,  8-4........20
Pepperell,  9-4........22Vi
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X, oz.. .10
Economy, oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown....  7
J e w e ll  b r iw n ............ 9V4
Kentucky  brown.. 10Vi 
Lewiston  brown...  9Vi
Lane brown........... 9Vi
Louisiana  plaid—   7
Avondale,  36..........8V4
Art cambrics, 36...11V% 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8V4 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 12 Vi
Ballou, 4-4...............  654
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0.4-4........... 8V4
Boott, E. 5-5..........  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......9 Vi
Boott, B. 3-4.........     5Vi
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7 
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Conway,  4-4............<
Cabot, 4-4................
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  i'A
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Davol, 4-4.........  
  9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  854 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  7 Vi 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4r4.........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  t>M
Gold Medal, 7-8.........6
Gilded Age............... 8
Crown......................17
no.  io.................... wy*
Coin......................... 10
Anchor.................... 15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   °
London— ..............12&
Paconia...................Jg
Bed Cross............... 10
Social Imperial— 16
Albion, solid............554
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........5Vi
Aden’s  fancy.......... 5Vi
Allen’s pink..............6 Vi
Allen’s purple.......... 6Vi
American, fancy— 5Vi
Arnold fancy............«
Berlin solid............. 5 Vi
Coeheco  fancy.........8
Cocheco robes.......... 5 Vi
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddy ston e............... 6
Eagle fancy..............g
Garner pink..............bVil
Appleton A, 4-4—   7Vi
Boott  M, 4-4............. 6?£
Boston F, 4-4...........   *54
Continental C, 4-3..  654 
Continental D, 40 in  8%
Conestoga W, 4-4...  654 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5Vi 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwigbt  X, 3-4.......... 5V-4
Dwight Y, 7-8...........  5%
Dwight Z, 4-4..........
Dwight Star, 4-4....  7 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  o 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7 
Farmers’ A, 4-4.....  6 
Indian  Orchard  1-4 7Vi
Amoskeag............. 7 Vi
Amoskeag, Persian
styles....................10/*
Bates.........................IYj
Berkshire.............  
|>V4
Glasgow cheeks....  7 
Glasgow checks, f y 7Vi 
checks,
Glasgow 
royal  styles........ 8
new
Gloucester, 
standard.............   7Vi
Plunket.................... 1%
Lancaster...............  »
Langdale.................
Pepperell.  10-4......27Vi
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
Pepperell,  11-4......32V4
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 28
Pequot,  7-4............ 21
Pepperell,  7-4.........20
Pequot,  8-4............ 24
Pepperell,  8-4........... *2 Vi
Pequot,  9-4............ 27V4
Pepperell,  9-4.........25
Lawrence XX, 4-4..  7Vi 
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......v*4
Lawrence  Y, 30—   7 
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......7
Lawrence LL, 4-4...  5V4
Atlantic  D, 4-4.........654
Newmarket N ........ 654
Atlantic P, 4-4........ 5Vi
My Stic River, 4-4...  554
Atlantic LL, 4-4—   554
Pequot A, 4-4..........  7J4
Adriatic, 36.............   <V4
Piedmont,  36............6V4
Augusta, 4-4............  654
Stark AA, 4-4............754
Boott  M, 4-4............  6Ji
Tremont CC, 4-4—   5Vi
Boott FF, 4-4..........  734
Utica,  4-4................ 9
Graniteville, 4-4—   534 
Wachusett,  4-4.......7Vi
Indian  Head, 4-4.. .7   / 
Wachusett, 30-in...  634
Indiana Head45-m.l2Vi
Falls, X X X X .i...... 18Vi
Amoskeag, ACA.. .14 
Falls, XXX.............15 Vi
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................HVi
Amoskeag,  A ........ 13
Falls,  BBC, 36........19Vi
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C........ 11
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D ........10Vi
Hamilton,  D..........9Vi
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Hamilton,  H ..........9Vi
Amoskeag, F ..........  9Vi
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 4-4— 17 
Methuen AA......... 13Vi
Premium  B —  — 16 
Methuen ASA....... 18
Extra 4-4..................16
Extra 7-8 . 
. .14Vi ¡Omega A, 7-8..........11
Gold Medal 4-4........ 15 
lOmega A, 4-4  ..... .13
CCA 7-8...................12Vi Omega AÇA, 7-8... .14
Omega AC A, 4-4— 16
CT 4-4........................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
BC 7-8........................14
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
BF 7-8....................... 16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF4-4............ 
1?
Omega M, 4-4.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
ShetucketSS&SSW 11 Vi 
Cordis AC A, 32....... 15
She tucket, S & SW .12 
Cordis No. 1,32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2............14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
I Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis No. 4..........11 Vi
Garner.......................5  lEmpire  ...................
Hookset...................  5  Washington............   434
lied  Cross................  5  Edwards...................  5
Forest Grove.......... 
|S. S. &Sons............  5
American  A ........18 OOlOld  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ...................32Vii Wheatland..............21
Boston  
Everett blue..........1354
Everett brown...... 135a
Otis  AX A .............. 1254
Otis BB................... 11 Vi
Manville..................6  IS. S. & Sons...............   6
Masgnville.............   6  IGarner......................6
Bed  Cross...............  7Vi|Thistle Mills............
Berlin.....................   7Vi Rose.........................  8
Garner....................  7Vil
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

Renfrew, dress styl 7 Vi 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold............. 12 Vi
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........ 12Vi
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  7Vi
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston................  8
Gordon......................7Vi
Greylock, 

.............  6% Otis CC— , . ..........10V4
Warren  AX A .........12Vi
Warren  BB............ llVi
Warren CC..............10Vi
York  fancy............ 13Vi

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS

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DOMESTIC GINGHAMS

styles  ............. 

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL COTTON.

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Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills hall sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning— 25 
Holyoke........ .........25
Kearsage................   85«
Naumkeagsatteen.  854 
Pepperell  bleached 8Vi
Pepperell sat..........9Vi
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........  8Vi
Conegosat...............  7

Armory..................  7Vi
Androseogginsat..  8Vi
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon...............6Vi
Hallowell  Imp.......6$i
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Laconia.................. 7Vi

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COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G   M A T E R IA L S.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1  00
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl..................
85
Ohio White Lime, car lots..................
1  30
Louisville Cemeni,  per bbl................
1  30
Akron Cement per  bbl.......................
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl
..................... 1 05@1 10
Car lots 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
*  ¿5
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
g w
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
* 50
Fire brick, per  M.................................. via &
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
® 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00®6 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 2o@6 50
Cannell, car lots . ................................. 
00
Ohio Lump, car lots.  .............• • - • 
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Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement.................................  3 50@4 00

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Though what is known as scrapple  is’not 
much in favor through  the  West,  it is one 
of the most  profitable  ways to  dispose  of 
the heads,  skins,  ears,  and  odd  trimmings. 
This is made by boiling  all  up  until  quite 
soft and tender,  then mixing with Indian or 
buckwheat meal seasoned  with  herbs,  pep­
per and salt.  The whole is  then  run 
into 
pans,  and  sold  at  from 5 to  7  cents  per 
pound.  We have often wondered  why this 
has never been introduced more in the West, 
as it makes not only a cheap but  toothsome 
breakfast dish.

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The Best and  Simplest  W ay  to  Cut  Up 

From the American Marketman.

Though slaughtering changes the name of 
nearly all domestic  food  animals,  the  sub­
ject of the accompanying  illustration,  dead 
or alive, is hog all the time.  Cattle changes 
to beef,  sheep to mutton, calves to veal, but 
in pig, shoat, or hog, the  name remains the 
same.

We shall  merely  touch  on  the  packing 
house cuts,  as the number  of  pieces are too 
numerous,  and in many cases  the  variation 
is so slight, that it would be  almost  impos­
sible to give them without showing a separ­
ate cut of each  single  piece.  However, we 
shall endeavor to give the simplest  and best 
way,  as used by the  majority  of  American 
butchers and provision dealers.

For general store  or  market  sales,  hogs 
from 80 to 125 pounds  make  probably  the 
best  weights,  but  finding  the  generality 
known on the Chicago market as medium or 
light weights run from 140 to 200, we select 
one of 176 pounds,  and give the  proportion­
ate figures from actual weights:
Head...................................................................... 16
Bib and loin trimmed.................................... 43
Shoulder rough....................................................16
Belly or Breast...............................  
20
Hams..................................................................... 25
Feet........................ 
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Trimmings............................................................. 6
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The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

Farmers, practice  economy  and  clear your 
land  of  stumps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
Hercules  Powder  Company,  No.  40 Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
L.  S. HILL & CO., AGTS. 

GUNS,  AMMUNITION & FISHING  TACKLE,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  PROPRIETOR.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK  AND  USE

Orders  by Mail and  Express promptly at­

tended  to.

FARMING  TOOLS  OF  AT.T.  DESCRIPTIONS  !

Dairy  Implements  a  Specialty.

Factory-C om er Front and Earl streets.  Office and Sales­

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

Sands’  Patent Triple  M otion

WHITE  MOUNTAIN 

ICE  CREAM 

FREEZER  !

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

Foster, Steyens 4 Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agents for Western Michigan.

& Bn

Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oraiig*es,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates, 

NUTS,

Vìi

TIM E  TABLES.

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

T h e   J \Jic

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DEPART.

A R R IV E.

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

i p m
+Daily except Sunday.  *Daiiy.
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., NewYorkl0:30 
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. S c h u l t z ,  Gen’l Agent.

Chicago £  West Michigan.

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

NEWAYGO  D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express.................................  4:15 p m  4:05 p m
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.

.1. H. C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J .   B .  M u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  ntrain 

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

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

J.  W .  M cK e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives. 

GOING  W EST.

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

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  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 re Ex. .10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m

Arrives.  Leaves.
10:25 a  m 
5:00 p m 
7:10 a m
7:00 a m 
6:15 p m 
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. L o c k w o o d , Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

GOING
EAST
Ac. j Ex. 

1

STATIONS.

GOING
WEST 
Ac. Ex.
PM.i
4 50 Ar. 
4 40:........... Negaunee...
3 301............Marquette ..

Ishpeming

D
A

Sew

PM.
6 50 
3 08
1  10 12 15ÌD 
11 25 11  02...........   Newbury  ..
7 30 AM.I

Dep. 1  30
1 40 AM.
2 20
7 30
4  19
11 05 
5 45 
1 10
12 40
5 30
6 38 2 40
PM.
8 30|Dep....... St. Ignace.. ..Ar. □9 00 6 30
7 OOJAr.  Mackinaw City 
Dep. 9 30
PM.|
9 OOiDep.  Grand Rapids 
Ar. 7 00
AM.
9 351...............Detroit___ ....... 3 30

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

Grind j our  own  Bone*

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G l . . . .   M e a |,   O y s te r  S hells, 
[g r a h a m  
G R A H A M   F lo u r   a n d   C o rn  
linthe^SXa
in the $ 5  H A N D  M I L L  
(F.  Wilson’s
lO O   p e r
(F.  Wilson’s  Patent). 
c e n t, more made in keeping i
try.  •A lso   P O W E R   M I L L S   and  FA 
A R M
F E E B   M IL L S .  Circulars  and  Testimoniale
Testimonials sent
on application.  W IL S O N  B R O S ., F u s io n , P a ,

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PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
  3S T   G
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From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.
"W.  O.  Denison,
GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.

. 88, 90  and 92 South  Division  Street, 

Total 

176
A hog’s head of  the  ordinary  breeds  is 
about one-eleventh of the  total  weight; the 
rack and loin as trimmed for chops is about

C 2

£ 2 0

c m

tr

SALT.

! ONONDAGA F. F. SALT
AMERICAN  DAIRY  SALT  CO.

Sole Manufacturers.

(Limited.)  Chemically purified and W a r r a s t - 
!  e d  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 e a p e r   and b e t t e r  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.

*4

W I L S O N ’S

Cabinet Creamery anâ Barrel Churn

AND  ADD  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 ia l 
terms.
The woman's 
friend. It saves 
three-fourths 
of the  labor  in 
b u tter -m a k ­
ing;  easily  op­
e r a te d ;  you 
raise 
s w e e t 
cream  fr o m  
— 
s w e e t   milk:
you have sweet milk to feed  which  trebles its 
value.  Send  for  circular.  Agents  wanted. 
Address,  FLINT  CABINET  CREAMERY 
CO.,  FEINT,  MICH.

••=••• 

C. S. YALE &  BRO.

—Manufacturers  ot-

BAKING  POWDERS,

B ls u m o s ,  ETC.,

40  and  43  South  Division,  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

SHIPPING  BASKETS  AND  BOXES

M AN UFACTU RED  A T  

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letHE MICHIGAN  BASKETcfACTOR Y ¡Oil# 
L  A .W .  W E  L L 8   -ft  -COJIllll

ST/JOSEPH, MICH.
SC WP~ FOIL ILLUSTRATED  PRICE)!

one-quarter of the total weight. 
to dressed hogs in this article.)

(We  refer 

The porker being suspended  by the  right 
hind foot—unless  you  are  a  left  handed 
butcher—the  back  rump  bone  is  sawed 
through  to  the  chine  joint,  and  then the 
left hind  foot  is  stretched  to  the  opposite 
hook, the back fat is marked or cut through, 
from tail to neck,  along chine—head  is  tak­
en oif previously,  or in some  cases  split  as 
required.  The side being laid on the  block 
or table, back down,  the feet are  sawed  off 
above the knee and  hock  joint, then  eacli 
bone sawed along line below 9, thus cutting 
off the bam 6,  which is trimmed  as  shown, 
9 being tail and end of chine; the shoulder 1 
is then taken out,  as  shown by  solid  line, 
and trimmed to  suit.  This  is  followed  by 
sawing the ribs from inside along  the  line 
between 5 and 3, 5 and 4  being the  loin  of 
pork,  and 2 the rack.  The hahk  fat is then 
taken off; this like  all  the  trimming  is  a 
matter of  taste  and  profit.  The  head  is 
split and cut in  the  manner  shown,  along 
the line from corner of mouth between 7 and 
8, 8 being the jowl and 7 the  face,  which is 
again split down the  middle.  The  tender- 
loid is  seldom  removed  from  loin  when 
wanted for chops or roasts.

Pork fat will average from 75 to 80 pounds 
of lard to the 100 pounds,  according to qual­
ity of hog.

B

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A  HALL  TYPE-WRITER I

PRICE  $40.

Enclose stamp  (two  cent)  for  partic-

ulars  toOJaraer, Gin ah

Grand Rapids, Mich.

N .  B .—T h is offer  g o o d  "for  o n e  m o n th . 

M en tio n   th is   p ap er.

The  Grocery  Market.

WHOLESALE  FRIGE  CURRENT.

v “  Groceries.
BOGUS  BUTTER.

IlfT “

House.

The

Anti-Butterine Bill  Passed  by  the 

The Baker bill for the suppression of oleo­
margarine and  butterine  passed  the  House 
last Thursday,  by a vote of  58  to  16.  The 
Baker bill is much less elaborate than Sena­
tor S. W.  Smith’s bill for the same purpose, 
but at the same time it is far more sweeping 
in its object,  for while the  Senate  bill  only 
forbids the making,  selling and  coloring  of 
oils and fats with intent to deceive  the pur­
chaser into believing that the article is  gen­
uine butter, the House  bill  absolutely  pro­
hibits the manufacture and sale of  any arti­
cle in the semblance of  butter,  not the pro­
duct of the dairy,  by a fine of  $50  to  $200, 
and imprisonment of 30  to 90 days,  or both. 
The debate was spirited.  Mr. Baker led off 
in defense of his bill, but spoke  almost  in- 
audibly.  He  offered  an  amendment  pre­
venting dealers  from  obtaining  the  bogus 
butter from other,,states  and  selling  it in 
Michigan.  The  amendment  was  carried, 
and then Mr.  O.  N.  Case  moved  to  strike 
out all after the  enacting  clause.  He  said 
that the bill v?as unconstitutional,  and  that 
the manufacturer of impure  articles  should 
be punished,  but not the maker of  mire  ar­
ticles.  Mr. Holman said that  he  had  been 
opposed to the bill,  believing  it  unconstitu­
tional,  but after learning that the New York 
Supreme Court had decided  that  a  similiar 
bill was valid, he now  proposed to  vote for 
the bill.  He favored it on personal grounds, 
as he  believed  that  the  substances  used in 
making oleomargarine  were  unhealthy  and 
unfit for human use. 
It  had been analyzed 
in New York,  and it was found to be manu­
factured from the meanest kinds  of  grease, 
such as dog fat and cat grease.  [Laughter.] 
The member from  Wayne  (referring to Mr. 
Case, who had come to the west side of  the 
House)  had come over  here to  advocate his 
views.  He could not  tell  why,  but he sup­
posed that he had a nasty  job  on  hand and 
came over there to defend  the  nasty  bill,  to 
save his own side  of  the  House.  Mr. Case 
reiterated his views of the  unconstitutional­
ity of the  bill,  and  said  that  no  law  could 
prevent.  Mr. Baker said that  the  Supreme 
Court of New  Tprk,  and  also  that  of  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court  for  Western 
Missouri were proof of the  constitutionality, 
of the bill.  The people of the  State are be­
ing imposed on  daily  by  dealers  who  im­
port the substance into  the  State and sell it 
with intent to deceive. 
It  also  comes  into 
unfair competition with the producer.

Mr Case said that  such  legislation  could 
be based on the ground only  that the article 
in question is deleterious  to  public  health. 
It is only  under  the  police  power  or  the 
State that this can be  done.  The fact that 
butterine  or  oleomargarine  is  a  substance 
largely used as a substitute for  butter,  and 
thus competes with and  reduces the price of 
the real article,  is no  legitimate  reason  for 
such  legislation. 
If  it  were,  the laborer 
might justly complain  to the Legislature  of 
the self-binding reaper,  which  deprives him 
and a half a dozen of  his  fellows  of  labor 
and its remuneration.  Such a reason  would 
be as valid as those assigned by  the fanners 
on the fioor for the prohibition of  this  arti­
cle.  The case  cited  by  Mr.  Baker  places 
the decision solely upon the police  power of 
the State of New York. 
It  held  that  the 
Legislature must have found  that  the  arti­
cle was deleterious to health, but  in  Michi­
gan there is no such evidence  for the Legis­
lature to base such judgement on. 
It would 
appear that oleomargarine was made of sub­
stances in every day use on the family table. 
Lard and tallow does  not become unhealthy 
by the mere change of name.

Mr. Walthew  said  that  the  law-making 
power of the State was  in  the  Legislature, 
and if this body decided from what evidence 
it had in  its  possession  that  bogus  butter 
was unhealthy,  there was no  higher author­
ity.

Dr. NeNabb said that  he  wanted  to  eat 
and drink and wear what he  pleased,  with­
out any dictation from the State  or anybody 
else.  Some people railed at  this  oleomar­
garine as bail,  and so it might be.  He had 
seen and smelt  genuine  butter  that  would 
drive a dog from a tan-yard.  Others spoke 
in a disgustuig strain.  Several amendments 
were  propose«,  but  the  granger  members 
would none of them,  and passed  the bill  by 
the vote above referred to..

White Hosiery Again.

From the Journal of Fabrics.

The return to white hosiery, long ago pre­
dicted,  shows signs of becoming  an  accom­
plished fact.  Not  this  season,  nor perhaps 
next,  will  white  hosiery  become  general, 
but already dealers report a largely increased 
demand for the unbleached or native shades, 
and a careful  inspection  shows  a  lack  of 
novelty and variety,  a languor  of  invention 
and  lack of interest,  as it  were,  in  colored 
hosiery that presages change.

California is attempting to  grow  cotton. 
Whether the effort  will  prove  successful or 
not remains to be  seen. 
In  some  portions 
of the State the climate  corresponds to that 
of the leading  cotton-producing  sections  of 
the South,  and the soil  also  seems  equally 
adaptable to the culture of this plant.  As a 
matter of course,  the  first  endeavors  made 
in this direction in California will  necessar­
ily be on a small  scale  until  the  feasibility 
of the project is-practi&Uly demonstrated.

The price of milk  in  Boston  is  regulated 
by a combination of wholesale  dealers, con­
stituting a practical monopoly.  The  farm­
ers and the consumers might  break it  up  if 
they should join forces, but they have never 
been able to do so.

The Oil Situation.

the 

One result of the advent of the Globe  Oil 
Co. has been the annulment of  the  contract 
heretofore 
existing  between  the  Stand­
ard  Oil  Co.  and 
jobbers  at  this 
market,  in  consequence of  which  the  lat­
ter  are  free  to  sell  the staple at any price 
they choose—even  below  cost,  if they  are 
so foolish as the pursue such a course.  The 
Standard has the reputation of being able to 
starve out all competitors,  and  it  begins  to 
look as though its present  policy  will  be  a 
game  of  freeze-out.  No  one  doubts  the 
ability of the Standard to accomplish such an 
end,  and the events of the next  few  weeks 
will be looked for with interest.

The local representatives of the  Globe Oil 
Co.  have not yet decided on the  policy they 
will  pursue,  Mr.  Barber  having  gone  to 
Cleveland  for  the  purpose  of  consulting 
with the home  officers on Monday.  He  is 
anxious that the  price  be  held  at  the  old 
standard,  and was considerbly  surprised  at 
Mr. Bonnell’s sudden and unexpected reduc­
tion in the price.

Whatever  may  be  the  outcome  of  the 
struggle,  the retail trade is sure to  profit by 
the low prices which  are bound  to  ride  for 
several weeks to come,  and possibly longer.

How to Stop a Paper.

The following,  from  an  exchaug fDlly 

and clearly expresses the  right  side of the 
subject:

You have  an  undoubted  right  to  stop  a 
newspaper when  you  feel  disposed,  upon 
the payment of arrearages.  Do not hesitate 
to do so on account of  “tenderness”  for the 
editor.  Don’t you  suppose  he would  quit 
buying sugar of you,  or  meat, clothing,  dry 
goods,  etc.,  if he  thought  he  was  not  get­
ting his money’s worth,  and why should you 
not exercise  the  same  privilege  with  him? 
And \^ien  you  discontinue a paper,  do  so 
manfully.  Don’t be so spiteful as to  throw 
it back to the postmaster with a contemptu­
ous  “I don’t want it  any longer!” and  have 
“refused” written on the  margin,  and  the 
paper returned to the editor.  No gentleman 
ever stopped it in that way, no matter if his 
head is covered with gray hairs that  should 
be honorable. 
If you do not longer wish to 
receive a newspaper,  write a note to the ed­
itor like a man,  saying so—and be sure that 
arrearages are paid.  This is the way to stop 
a newsp

Would Like a Little Rest.

A certain merchant in a neighboring town 
recently  called  a  business  meeting  at  his 
own home, and the lady of the  house enter­
ed the parlor to enjoy the  prelude  to  busi­
ness.  She was fond of society fuss ; her hus­
band despised all show.  Under this  trifle- 
ing incompatibility of tastes she had become 
a little notorious for keeping  herself always 
in a “stew,” and her  husband  in  “hot wat­
er.”  Conversation  turned on a  late  mar­
riage between December  and  May,  some of 
the  gentlemen  pooh-poohing 
the  match. 
But the lady stoutly championed ‘the  frost­
bitten Benedict.  “Why,” said  she,  “a man 
ought to keep himself married  as long as he 
lives.  Now here’s my husband; what would 
he be good for without a wife? 
If I should 
die to-night,  he would get another  wife  to­
morrow, I hope.  Wouldn’t  you,  Josiali?” 
Josiah breathed heavily,  and seemed to sum 
up the connubial torments of a  life-time  in 
his  calm response,  “No,  my dear : I think I 
should take a rest.”

Good Words Unsolicited.

J. R. Dudley &  Son,  lumbermen,  Alleyton: 

“ The paper is worthy of  patronage.”

A. C. Barclay, grocer, Reed City:  “I am well 
pleased with T h e   T r a d e s m a n .  Ifiud it a great 
help.”

S.  M.  Vinton,  general  dealer,  Leetsville: 
“Your  paper  gets  better and better.  I could 
not well get along without it, now.”

H.  H.  Robinson,  general  dealer,  Oakfleld 
Center:  “I think T h e   M i c h i g a n   T r a d e s m a n  
is one of the best of its kind,  and  a  necessity 
to the business men of our State.”

Mecosta Sentinel:  The last issue of Tiie 
Michigan Tradesm an came  to hand with 
a new dress, which denotes the prosperit y of 
its proprietor.

Cedar Springs Clipper:  T he  Michigan 
Tradesm an lias donned a  new  dress,  and 
in consequence sparkles with far  more bril­
liancy than ever.

Cadillac Times:  The Michigan Trades­
man comes to the  front  with  a  new  dress 
and  presents  an  improved  appearance,  if 
such a thing can be possible.  The Trad es­
man has a good number of Cadillac readers, 
and is one of the leading journals in its line 
in the West.

Hart Argus:  The merchant’s and dealer’s 
journal,  The Michigan T radesm an,  pub­
lished at Grand Rapids,  came out  last week 
in an entire new dress  and  looks as  bright 
as a new silver  dollar.  T he  T radesm an 
is an ably edited and well conducted  paper, 
is a credit to the State and is of incalculable 
benefit to the dealer.

Gaus,  the  illustrous  German  astronomer, 
has computed the attracting  or  lifting pow­
er of the earth at 42,310,000,000 million tons. 
If this magnetism were  equally  distributed 
throughout the mass of the  earth,  the  mag­
netic intensity of each cubic  yard  would be 
equal to about 60 pounds attractive force.

A telegram  from  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  says 
that the American Dairy Salt  Company has 
taken the contract for supplying salt  to  the 
soda ash works for the  coming  year. 
It is 
estimated  that a  million  bushels  will  be 
needed.

The catch of  herring  on the  lower  Rap- 
pannock River in Virginia has been so large 
this spring that the  owners  of  weirs  have 
been throwing them back into  the  river,  it 
not paying to ship them to  market.

Business and collections  have  both  ruled 
good  during the  past  week.  Sugars  have 
advanced nearly j^c,  and  com  syrups  have 
advanced about 2c,  on  account  of  the  ad­
vance in  com.  Package  coffees  have  de­
clined Me.  Oil has  also  dropped  }{c,  and 
the end is not yet.

Oranges are active and firm.  Lemons still 
continue to  advance  and  higher  prices  are 
looked for.  Bananas  are  active  and  firm. 
Pine apples are in  good  supply  and  quite 
cheap.  Almonds  are  higher.  Other  nuts 
are steady.  Candy is steady and in fair de­
mand.

Creamery Butter.

I am now receiving Choice Creamery But­
ter,  which I am prepared to furnish my cus­
tomers from this time on.

M.  C.  R ussell.

Pepper is said to  have  been  manipulated 
for two years back by a syndicate of London 
operators who have pushed the  price  up  to 
sixteen cents a pound,  which is nearly twice 
its  actual value.  Quotations  are  threaten­
ing to fall off in the face of the general dull­
ness of  trade.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Dull and in poor demand on account 
of  large  consignments  of Russets, which  are 
quoted at $2@$2.50 $  bbl.

Beans—Unpicked  command  75@90e,  and 
choice picked  find  good  shipping  demand at 
fl.25@S1.35.

Butter—Dairy is easy  and  not  in great  de­
mand.  Solid  packed  commands  10@17c,  and 
fresh rolls I6@17c.  Choice Michigan  creamery 
flnds moderate sale at 20c.

Butterine—About played out for this season, 

only one dealer having any on hand.

Clover  Seed—Good  local  shipping demand. 

Dealers quote prime at $5.50.

Cabbages—$4@$ 5 9? 100.
Cheese—Dull and slow sale, on account of the 
old  stock  on  hand,  which  is  held  at ll@12c. 
Cheese  makers  expect  the  market  for  new 
cheese to start in  at 10c,  but  jobbers  declare 
that 8@9c will be about the limit.

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

for sand refined.

and $3 $  crate.

quarters, 4@4)4c.

Cranberries—Bell and bugle firm at $14 90 bbl. 

Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 

Eggs—Market not so well supplied and price 
somewhat higher, as dealers have  already  be­
gun pickling.  Jobbers are  holding their pres­
ent stocks at 12c.

Green Onions—22@25c $  doz. bunches.
Green Beans—$2.25 90 box.  Wax beans, $3.50 

@$4 $  box.

Green Peas—$2.50@$3 $  box.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 13@14c.
Hay—Bailed, $13@$14.
Lettuce—16c 
Onions—$3.25 90 bbl. for  yellow or red.  Ber­

lb.

mudas command $3.50 $  crate.

ft.

Parsnips—30c $  bu.
Pieplant—6c 
Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c $  ft.
Potatoes—No  foreign  demand, 

in  conse­
quence of which shippers have  ceased buying 
for this season.  Jobbers still pay 30c for small 
quantities, which they hold at 35c.

Poq^try—Very scarce.  Fowls, 9@10c.  Chick­

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

Radishes—35c 90 doz.  bunches.
Spinach—$1 $  bu.
Turnips—25e $  bu.
Timothy—Good  shipping  demand,  dealers 

holding  at $1.80 for choice.

Vegetable Oysters—35c 90 doz. bunches.
G R A IN S AND M IL L IN G   PR O D U CTS.

Wheat—No change.  The city millers  pay as 
follows:  Lancaster,  1.02; Fulse, 1.00;  Clawson, 
99c.

and 55c in carlots.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 57c in 100 bu. lots 
Oats—White, 45c in small lots and 41c@41 y2 in 

carlots.

Rye—58c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 90  cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $6.50 ^ bbl. 
in  sacks  and $6.75 in wood.  Straight,  $5.50  $  
bbl. in sacks and $5.75 in wood.

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

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

F. J. D. Selects  ...................................................35

OYSTERS.

f r e s h   f i s h .

Codfish................................................................ 9
Haddock...........................................................   7
Smelts.................................................................10
Mackinaw Trout................................................ 8
Mackerel............................................................12
Whiteflsh  ........................................................... 9

Grand Rapids Grain & Seed Co

S E E D   M E R C H A N T S .
o f f i c e : 

warehouses :

t

71  Canal  St.,  and  Cor.
Ionia and  Williams 

Streets.

71  CANAI.  ST.
Grand Rapids, May II, 1885. 

“ 

“  Spring............................ 

Dear  Sirs—Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
prices for to-day:
Clover, Prime...................................60 ft bu  5 50
“  No. 2......................................... 
“ 
5 40
“  Mammoth Prime...................  
“ 
6 00
“  White...................... 25c $  ft  “ 
12 00
“  A lsyke..................  25c 90  ft  “ 
12 00
“ 
15 00
Alfalfa or Lucerne 25c $  ft 
Timothy,  Choice.............................. 45ftbu  1 80
“ 
1  75
P rim e.................................. 
Hungarian  Grass............................48 ft bu  1 00
Millet, common......................... 
“ 
 
 
“  German.................................. 
125
“ 
80
Red Top............................................ 14 ft bu 
Blue Grass..........................................  
“ 
2 00
Orchard  Grass.................................... 
“ 
2 50
Buckwheat........................................48ftbu  100
Peas, White Field...........................60 ft bu  1 25
85
Rye, Winter.....................................56 ft bu 
“ 
 
 
1  25
Wheat, Spring.................................... 
“ 
Barley, Spring.................................48 ft  bu 
70
bu 60
Oats, White Russian...........................32 ft 
Corn, Yellow Yankee.........................56 ft 
bu  1 00
“  TOO
“  1 00
Potatoes, White  Star................... .60 ft bu 
80
Onion Seed,  Yellow Globe Danver ^ ft 
60 
“  Large Red Wetherfleld 90 ft 
60
“ 
Onions, Sets  Yellow  ..................................   5 00
English  Multipliers.....................   4 50
“ 
Mangel Wurtzel, Long Red..............$  ft 
25
25
“  Yellow .......................<¡0 ft 
“ 
Ruta Bage, Imp’d Purple Top or
Y ellow S weed.................................. ^ ft 
25
Turnip, Purple Top Strap leaved.. 90 ft 
25
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 
on smaller quantities.
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.

“  Red Blazed................................  
“  Pony Dent.................................. 

W.  T.  LAMOREAUX, Agt.

Advanced—Sugars, corn syrups.
Declined—Package coffees, kerosene oil. 
These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay
Promptly and buy in full packages.
'razor’s..................  2 80|Paragon................1  80
Diamond................1 75Paragan25Ib pails. 1 20
Modoc.................... 1 65|

A X LE  GREASE.

BAKING  PO W D ER .

 

 
 

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CA NN ED F IS H .

CANNED F R U IT S .

  45|Arctic 1 ft cans_2 40
  75 Arctic 5 ft cans 
12 00
BLU IN G .

Arctic % ft cans 
Arctic % ft cans 
Arctic Vi ft cans.  . ,140|
25
Dry, No. 2........................................... doz. 
Dry, No. 3........................................... doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz......................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................   2 00
“ 
Arctic No. 2 
3 00
Arctic No. 3 
“ 
4 50
BROOMS.No.  2  Hurl............... 175
No. 1 Carpet........... 2 50
Fancy  Whisk...........100
No. 2Carpet........... 2 25
CommonWhisk__   75
No. 1 Parlor Gem..2 75
No. 1 Hurl.............. 2  00
Clams, 1 ft  standards..................................I 40
Clams, 2 ft  standards..................................2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.....................................2 20
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards.....................1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  1b  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........................................ 2 25
Lobsters, 2 ft star........................................ 3 10
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh standards.................1 00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards................. 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft................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, lf t   Sacramento........................... 1  35
Sardines, domestic )4s.................................
Sardines,  domestic  y2s.............................. 
13)4
Sardines,  Mustard  14s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  14s...............................   14)4
Sardines, imported 54s.................................  20
Sardines, imported l/2s, boneless...............  32
Trout. 3 ft  brook__ :................................   2 75
Apples, 3 ft standards.................................  90
Apples,gallons,  standards, E rie............ 2 50
Blackberries, standards............................ 1  05
Blackberries.  Erie.................................. ...1 45
Blackberries, Hamburg.............................15»
Cherries, Erie, red.......................................1  00
Cherries, Erie,white wax........................... 1 70
Cherries,  red  standard...............................   90
Damsons....................................................... 1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 40
Green Gages, standards 2 ft...........   ........ 1 40
Green Gages,  Erie.......................................1 50
Peaches. Extra Yellow.............................. 2 40
Peaches, standards............................1  75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds........................................ 1 50
Pineapples, Erie..........................................2 20
Pineapples, standards................................ 1 70
Quinces.........................................................1 45
Raspberries, Black,  Erie........................... 1 45
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg................. 1 80
Raspberries, Red,  Erie...............................1 35
Strawberries,  Erie.......................................1 30
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40
Egg Plums..............2 50
Grapes.................... 2 50
Green Gages.......... 2  50
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................................3 25
Beans, Lima,  Erie............................................. 1 20
Beans, String, E rie........................................... 1 05
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ............................   95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................1 60
Corn, Erie..........................................................  1 15
Corn, Red  Seal..............................................   95
Corn,  Acme..........................   .  .  ...............1 10
Corn, Revere.......................................................1 10
Corn, Camden..................................................... 1 00
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case...................22 00
Peas, French, 100 in ca se................................23 00
Peas, Marrofat, standard................................. 1 70
Peas, Beaver.................  ............................>  90
Peas, early small, sifted................................... 1 80
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden...................................85@95
Squash, E rie.......................................................1 10
Succotash, Erie..................................................1 20
Succotash, standard.....................................  90
Tomatoes, Red Seal.........................................   1 00
Boston.......................361 German Sweet...........25
Baker’s ..................... 38 Vienna Sweet  ...........23
Runkles’ ....................351
Green Rio....... 9@13 Roasted M ex...17@20
GreenJava__ 17@27 Ground  Rio... .  9@16
Green Mocha.. 23®25 Arbuckle’s __ .  @13%
Roasted Rio... 10@15 x x x x ........... .  @13%
Roasted Java . 23@30  ' Dilworth’s __ .  @13%
Roasted  Mar.. 17@18 Levering’s __ .  @13%
Roasted Mocha 2t@30
.  1  25
72 foot Cotton. ...2 25
72 foot Jute ...
.  1  00
60foot Jute...
60 foot Cotton. . . . 2   00
40Foot Cotton.
..1  50 50 foot Cotton. ...1  75
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.................
Cod, whole__
Cod, Boneless..
.. .6@7
Cod, pickled, y2  bbls...
...3 50
H alibut_____
...  12
Herring y2  bbls...........
...2 50
Herring,  Scaled...........
...18@20
...  65
Herring,  Holland........
Mackerel, No. 1, y2 bbls............................... 5 50
Mackerel, No. 1.12  ft  k it s .......................1  00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  )4  bbls................ 6 25
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits...................... 1 90
Shad, y2 b b l..................... ;........................... 2 50
Trout, No.  1, y2  bbls....................................4 40
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kite......................  
  90
White, No. 1, y2 bb ls...................................7 00
White, Family, y2 bbls.................................2 50
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  90
White. No. 1,12 ft kits.................................1 05

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

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

CHOCOLATE.

CORDAGE.

CO FFEE.

F IS H .

 

Pears............................ 3 CO
Quinces........................2 90
Peaches  .................3 00

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

Lemon.  Vanilla.
Jennings’ 2 oz.................................doz.l  00  1 40
4 oz..........................................1 50  2 50
6 oz..........................................2 50  4 00
8oz..........................................3 50  5 00
No. 2 Taper...........................1 25 
No.  4 
1  75 
ya pint round.........................4 50 
1 
No.  8...................................... 3 00 
4  25 
No. 10 

......................9 00  15 00

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1 50
3 00
7 50
4 25
6 00

...................  
FR U ITS

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Apples, Michigan...................................  4)4@5
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls....................  ^ © 7)4
Apples, Dried, evap., box.....................   ^m3>8 V2
@16
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................  
Citron......................................................  @25
Currants........-........................................  
@5
Peaches, dried  ...................................... 
12@13
Pineapples,  standards.........................  @1 70
Prunes, Turkey, new............................  514@554
Prunes, French, 501b  boxes.................
10@13
Raisins, Valencias...............
@9 y2 @10 
Raisins,  Layers....................
Raisins,  Ondaras.................
©12 
Raisins,  Sultanas.................
@10
@2 50 
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels..................
Raisins, London Layers..................
@3 20 
@4 25 
Raisins, Dehesias..............................
Raisins, California  Layers.............
@2 40
Raisins, California Muscatels.............   @2 25
Water White........ 1114 I Legal  Test..............10
Grand  Haven,  No.  9, square........................ 1 75
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square........................ 1  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor.....................2 26
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
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
...........................170
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
...........................2 55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
.........................1  75
Black Strap.............................................14@18@18
Porto  Rico.....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 38@42
New Grleans, choice.....................................48@50
New  Orleans,  fancy...........................  
52@55

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

1 00

100

14 bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

do 

P IC K L E S .

Steel  cut................ 6 25|Quaker, 48  fts........2 35
Steel Cut, 14 bbls.. .3 35 Quaker, 60 fts........2 60
Rolled  Oats........... 3 60|Quaker bbls............6 50
Choice in barrels med.............  
.................. 4  50
Choice in )4 
......................................2 75
P IP E S .
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross..
Imported Clay, No. 216,2)4 gross
@1 85 
American T.D..............................
@  90
Good Carolina........0  ¡Java  ...
Prime Carolina......6)4 P atna........................6
Choice Garolina...... 7  Rangoon...........5y*@6%
Good Louisiana...... 5%! Broken.......................3%
Dwight’s ................. 514
DeLand’s pure.........5)4
Church’s  .................5)4
Sea Foam............... 5)4
Taylor’s G. M...........6)4
Gap Sheaf...........5 )4

SALERATUS.

R IC E .

SALT.

SOAP.

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SAUCES.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
1003 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, y2 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Parisian, y2  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green.............................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Horseradish,  y2 pints............................
Horseradish, pints.................................
Halford Sauce, pints...........................
Halford Sauce, l/2 pints........ ...............
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, large..........
Salad Dressing, Durkee’s, small........
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........
“ 
“  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............................................ 60fts
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.......................... .•.................

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

Whole.

2 25 
2  20
2 45 
98
1 60
1 55 
78
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 
@ 6% 
@4 05 
@18% 
@  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

@19

,60@65

Pepper..
............16@25 Pepper..
........... 12@15 Allspice.
Allspice.
Cinnamon ........... 18@30 Cassia...
Cloves  ..
........... 15@25 Nutmegs
Ginger ..
............16@20 Cloves  ..
Mustard. ........... 15@30
Cayenne
........... 25@35
Kingston! 8,1 ft pkgs., pure.....

STARCH.

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TEA S.

SUGARS.

SY RUPS.

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

@614 
3 ft pkgs.,  pure..................
@614 
1 ft pkgs., Silver Gloss__
@8 
  @814
6 ft pkgs., 
 
1 ft pkgs., Corn  Starch__   @8
(Bulk)  Ontario..................   @5
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft boxes............................  @6
3 ft boxes............................  @5%
“ 
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6ft boxes.............................   @654
“
“  b u lk .................................. 
“ 
  @414
“  Corn, 20 ft......................................  @614
“ 
“  40 ft........................................   @614
Gilbert’s Gloss, 1 ft...................................  @5%
“ 
“  6 f t ........................................  @6
Linen Gloss, 3 ft........................   @514
“ 
@4
“ 
Crystal  “  bulk...................  
“ 
Corn, 1 $ .................................1.  @6
Cut  Loaf.................................................   @7)4
Gubes......................................................  @ 7
Powdered.......................................'____  @  6%
Granulated,  Standard..........................   @ 6%
Confectionery A ....................................  @ 6)4
Standard A ..............................................  @ 614
Extra C, White.......................................   @5%
Extra C.....................................................  @594
Fine  C......................................................  @ 5)4
Yellow C................  ...............................   @4%
Corn,  Barrels......................................... 
28
Corn, 14 bbls............................................  
30
Gorn,  10 gallon kegs...............................   @  32
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 60
Gorn, 414 gallon kegs..............................  @145
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 aral kegs  @185
Japan ordinary.............................................22@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
Japan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
Gun Powder...................................................35@50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Gongo...................................................i........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...................601Gld Congress............... 64
Crown  Leaf..............66|Good Luck...... ...........52
Matchless................. 65  Blaze Away................35
Hiawatha................. 67  Hair Lifter..................30
G lobe..................... .70 Governor....................60
May Flower..............70 Fox’s Choice.............  63
H ero.................... '.. .45 Medallion...................35
Old  Abe.....................49¡Sweet Gwen.................66
Piper  Heidseick..,..............................
Punch....................................................
Chocolate Cream..................................
Woodcock  ............................................
Knigntsof  Labor...............................
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12.............................
Black Bear............................................
King 
....................................................
Old Five Gent Times..........................
Pgune Nuggett, 12 ft............................
Parrot  ..................................................
Old Tim e...............................................
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........... .*...............................
HorseShoe............................................
Hair Lifter............................................
D. and D., black....................................
McAlpin’s Green  Shield....................
Ace  High, black.................................
Sailors’  Solace....................................
2c. less in four butt lots.

@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
©46
@44
@35
@40
@46
@46
@45
@44
@36
@36
@46
@35
@46

PLU G .

SMOKING

Uncle  Sam.................28
Lumberman..............25
Railroad Boy..............38
Mountain Rose...........18
Home Comfort.......... 25
Old Rip....................... 55
Seal of North Caro­
lina, 2  oz.................48
...... 22 Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz...................46
Seal of North  Caro­
lina, 8oz.................. 41
Seal of North  Caro­
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 40
Big Deal......................27
Applejack.................24
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Milwaukee  Prize__ 24
Rattler....................... 28
Windsor cut plug— 25
Zero  ...........................16
Holland Mixed.......... 16
Golden Age............... 75
Mail  Pouch............... 25
Knights of Lai or__ 30
Free Cob Pipe............27

Tramway, 3 oz..........40
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
Boss  ...........................15
Peck’s Sun................. 18
Miners and Puddlers. 28
Morning Dew........... 26
Chain......... ................22
Peerless  .................... 25
Standard...
OldTom..............«....21
Tom & Jerry..............24
Joker...........................25
Traveler.................... 35
Maiden........................25
Pickwick Club.......... 40
Nigger Head..............26
Holland......................22
German......................18
Solid Comfort............30
Red Clover.................32
Long T om ..,..............30
National.................... 26
Tim e...........................26
Conqueror.................23
Grayling.................... 32
Seal Skin.................... 30
Rob Roy.....................26
Globe..........................21| Hiawatha...................22
Mule Ear................... 23| Old Congress..............23
Michigan  Chief..................................  
@60 00
Roma.....................................................  @60 00
American  ........................................... 
@57 00
La  Industria.......................................  
@50 00
Parker ....  .........................................  @50 00
@35 00
Promenade......................................... 
@35 00
Old Judge............................................  
Pam ina........ ...................................... 
@25 00
Comforter............................................  
@30 00

SHORTS.

CIG A RS.

SN U FF.

“ 

“ 
“ 

V IN EGA R.

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.
Maccoboy.......................
Gail & Ax’ 
......................
Rappee...........................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch....................
Lotzbeek  .........................................
Pure  Cider..........8@12 White W ine...
Boraxine  ................................................
1776 $  f t ..................................................
Gillett’s fi f t ..................... .....................
Pearline $  box.......................................
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers... 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers. 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 14 ft papers.. 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 14 ft paprs
Soapine, No. 1.........................................
Soapine, No. 2.........................................
Soapine, No. 3.........................................
Twin Bros..........1  65  ¡Wilsons.............
Magic.................1  75  ¡National...........
Bath Brick imported............................
American.............................
Barley......................................................
Burners, No. 1 .......................................
...
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............
Candles, Star..........................................
Candles,  Hotel.......................................
Extract Coffee, V.  C....................  .......
F elix..........................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................
Gum, Spruce..........................................
Hominy, 
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................
Peas, Green Bush..................................
Peas, Split prepared..............................
Powder, Keg...........................................
Powder,  14 Keg..................................

do  No.  2.............................. 

bbl.............................

M ISCELLANEOUS.

YEAST.

do 

do 

@  55 
@  44 
@  35 
@  45 
@1 30
...  8@ 12
@3 75 
@1014 
@ 7Ji 
@4 50 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 15 
@4 00 
@3 60 
@3 84 
@4 20
..  1  65 
.. 1 65
95 
60 
@3 
1  00 
1 50 
8 00 
15@25 
@1314 
@14 
@80 
@30 
@40 
30@35 
@4 00 
@ 5 
@1  35 
@ 314 
@3 5o 
@1 93

1  25 

ll@ ll)4

 

 

 

 

 

 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS, 

do 
do 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes.............................   9 @  9)4
.............................   914@10
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
@12
MIXED.
9 
Royal, 25 ft  pails......................................9)4@10
Royal, 200 ft bbls.......................................   @ 9
Extra, 25 ft  pails................................... 
Extra, 200 ft bbls........................................10@10)4
French Cream, 251b pails............................... 13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................. 
13
Broken, 25  ft pails.....................................11@1114
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 10v*
Lemon Drops................................................... 14
Sour Drops........................................................15
Peppermint  Drops...........................  
¡15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops................                  .20
Gum  DroDS  ................ 
,10
Licorice Drops................................................ .20
A B   Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................J5
Lozenges,  printed...........................................16
Imperials..........................................................15
Mottoes.............................................................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
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in  pails....................... 1254@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@1114
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  9
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails................................13®  14
Imperials  in bbls................................. 
@12
Bananas,  Aspinwall.............................2 50@4 50
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo......... 3 50@4 00
Oranges, California...............................
Lemons,  choice....................................  4 00@4 25
Lemons, fancy...........................................  @4 50
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft..........................   @12)4
Figs, baskets 40 ft 90 ft..........................  @8
Dates, frails 
do  ............................  @ 4
Dates, 14 do 
d o ............................  @6
Dates, skin..............................................  @4)4
Dates, 14  skin.........................................   @ 5
Dates, Fard 10 ft box <p  ft....................  8)4@ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 90 ft.....................   @ 7
Dates. Persian 50 ft box 90 ft............... 
@6)4
Pine Apples, $  doz...............................2 50@2 75
Prime  Red,  raw  90  ft...........................  
414-
Choice 
d o ...........................   @ 5
Fancy 
do  ............................  5%@  5)4
Choice White, Va.do  ............................ 
5@ 514-
Fancy H P..  Va  do  ............................  6  @614
Almonds,  Terragona, 90 ft....................  18@1814
Brazils,
814
Pecons,
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Grenobles 
Walnuts, French

........ 
9@12
........12‘/j@14
........12‘4@15
........11)4@12)4

NUTS.
do
do
do
do

*  PEANUTS.

FRUITS.

do 
do 

 

 

HIDES. PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: 

Green__ $  ft  6
Part cured...  7
Full cured 
  8
Dry hides and 
kip s...........   8

H ID E S .
6%
@  7 y2@ 8)4
@ r
SH E E P PELTS.
Shearlings or Sum- 

Calf skins, green 
Deacon skins,

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

W OOL.

...30@5O 
.60@l 25

¡Fall pelts... 
mer skins 90 pcel0@20iWinter  pelt 
Fine washed (p ft 20@22|Unwashed..
Coarse washed... 16@18¡Tallow.......
Bear.............  @12 o0|Muskrat__
10 
2@  
Fisher  ........ 2 00@  4 OOjOtter.......  .
1 00@ 4 00 
Fox,red__
25@  1  00i Raccoon__
5@  75
Fox,  gray..
I5@  1  00! Skunk  .......
15@
Martin.......
25@ 1 00 Beaver, $ f t .l 00© 2 25 
M ink..........
5@  40iDeer,  90 ft • • •  10@  30

S K IN S .

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   6  @ 8
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  8  @  S)4
Dressed Hogs.........................................   5*4® 6
Mutton,  carcasses................................. 7  @ 754-
Veal .........................................................   7  @ 8
Pork Sausage....................... .................  8  @ 9
Bologna................................. ."................  9  @10
Chickens................................................. 14  @15
Turkeys  .....................................................  @15

PROVISIONS.

¡a

do. 
do. 

P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co_ 

....13 00
...................15 00
.......................... .13 00

quote  as follows:
A. Webster, packer, short  cut.
Clear back, short cut...
Extra Family Clear.......
Clear, A. Webster  packer................................. 14 00
Standard Clear, the  best...................................15 25
..14 75 
Extra Clear,  heavy........................ .
Boston Clear......................................
..14 75
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BO XES.
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium..............................
light....................................
Long Clear Backs, 500  ft  cases.............
Short Clear Backs, 6001b  cases.............
Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.............
Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.............
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases........
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .
Boneless  Hams...................................... .......... 10
Breakfast  Bacon.................................. ........ 9)4
Dried Beef, extra quality.................... .......... 11
Dried Beef, Ham pieces....................... ........ 12)4
Shoulders cured- in sweet pickle:....... ........ 6)4
Tierces  ...................................................
714
30 and 50 ft Tubs....................................
7%
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases....................
7%
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks................
8
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case............................
8)4
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case..............................
89«
8)4,
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case............................
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 11  25
Boneless,  extra..............................................15 00
Pork Sausage.................................................. 7
19)4
Ham  Sausage....................................... 
Tongue  Sausage.............................................  10
Frankfort  Sausage........................................ 10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   6)4
Bologna, straight.........4.................................  6)4
Bologna, thick......................  
 
6)4
HeadCheese.................................. 
 
6)4
P IG S ’  FEET.
In half barrels........................................ 
In quarter barrels.........................................   1 75 •

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

LARD IN  T IN   P A IL S .

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

LARD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 26

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

BELLS.

BO LTS.

BALANCES

BARROW S.

.........dis 

AUGERS AND B ITS.

Prevailing1  rates at Chicago are as follows: 
60
Ives’, old style....................................dis 
60
N. H. C. Co..........................................dis 
60
Douglass’ ...........................................dis 
60
Pierces’................................  ............dis 
60
Snell’s.................................................dis 
Cook’s  ................................................¿Us40&10
Jennings’, genuine.............................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation...........................dis40&10
Spring...
25
Railroad....................................................$   13 00
Garden......................................................net 33 00
Hand......................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow............................................................. dis 
60
£ al1...............................................................dis 
15
£ onS-Q-........ ..........................................dis 
go
Door, Sargent......................................... dis 
55
Stove.....................................................dis $
40
Carriage new list......................         dis
Plow  .........................................  
"dis
30&1Ç
Sleigh Shoe........................................'".'dis
75
Cast Barrel Bolts............................  dis
50
Wrought Barrel Bolts...........[[[[[[[ .'dis
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.................... dis
50
Cast Square Spring............................  dis
Cast Chain...........................................'dig
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............  dis
55&10
Wrought Square...............................   dis
55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush................... 
"dig
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
T F1V8“ ...................................................  50&10&10
Ives  Door.............................................dis  50&10
g arb er................ ................................. dis$
40
Backus............................................. ....dis
50
Spofford....................................... [[[*[’ dis
50
Am. Ball.......................................              dis
net
Well, plain  ................................................. $  4 00
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.......... dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis  60&10
Wrougiii.  Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin..............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
WroughtTable......................................  dis 
60
Wrought Inside Blind........................['dis 
60
Wrought Brass........................................dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s .......................................... dis  70&10
Bhqd, Parker’s .......................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard s................... 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3%, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross  18 00

..........................................dis  60&

BUTTS,  CAST.

tipped 

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

dis 

CAPS.

-   -  

Hick’s C. F ....
G. D.................................... . . . . . . . . . .
Musket............................................

................................................ per  m $ 65
m
35 
60

CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list
Rim Fire, United  States....................... dis
Centrai Fire............................................ 'dis

50 
50 
hi

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5  75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............7  75
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.................12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...............16 90
Sisal, 54 In. and  larger..................................   754
Manilla.............................................................  ii%
Steel and  Iron...................................... .dis 
60
Try and Bevels....................................... dis  50&10
Mitre  .;................................................... dis 
20

SQUARES.

ROPES.

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth.  Com.
$2 80
2 80
2 80
2 80
3 00
3 00
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.................................... $4  20 
Nos. 15 to  17 ..................................   4  20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4  20 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   4  20 
Nos .25 to 26 ..................................   4  40 
No. 27..............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   ft............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   11):.................... 
No. 1,  Refined........................................... 
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

6
654
13 00
15 00
16

t in n e r ’s s o l d e r .

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................  8  50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal..................................  6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal........................ 
  8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  6  50
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal...............................  8 50
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  10 50
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................  12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.................................  14 50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal................................   18 00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................................   10 50
DXXx,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to  6 75 

 

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Oneida Communtity,  Newhouse’s __ . . .dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 
  60
Hotchkiss’ ................................................... 
so
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s .................................... 
60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 26 <|9 doz
Bright Market....» ............................   dis  60&1C
Annealed Market..................................dis 
70
Coppered Market..................................dis  55&10
Extra Bailing.............................................   ¿fig  55
Tinned  Market.........................................".dis  40
Tinned Broom..........................................[ ^ ft  09
Tinned Mattress.......................................  ^ fi> 854
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel.....................................dis 3754
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper................................................ new  iistnet
Hrass..................................................................new Iistnet
Bright 
.................................................. dis
Screw Eyes.............................................dis
Hook’s ........ .’.........................................dis
Gate Hooks and  Eyes......................... dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine.................  
dis
50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
65
Coe’s Patent, malleable......................dis
70
Pumps,  Cistern.................................... dis 
70
¡g  '
Screws, new  list........................................ 
Casters, Bed  and  Plate.........................[dis50&10
Dampers, American................................. 
33

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

WIRE GOODS.

M ISCELLANEOU S.

WrENCHES.

33M 
25

50 
50 
40&10 
60

FORK’S  PATENT.

Ibarbw are.
An Important Decision.

A novel case lias recently been decided in 
England,  which  involved  a  question  to 
which we have no doubt but very few of our 
merchants  have  given  much  thought. 
It 
appears that a workman asked his employer 
for a holiday, which,  owing to a great press 
of business, was refused. The workman, nev­
ertheless absented himself from his work and 
upon his return to the shop was not only dis­
charged,  but  sued by his late  employer for 
damages.  The plaintiff  was  successful  in 
his suit,  the judge  who  decided  the  case 
holding that a workman who  absents  him­
self without leave may not only be  dismiss­
ed, but may be made to  pay damages to his 
master, on the principle that if a man breaks 
a contract he  has entered into he  must pay 
the  damage  naturally  resulting  from  the 
breach.

This appears to be  a  just  and  sensible 
view of the question, and  Americans  may 
look forward to seeing the  same  principle 
* applied in  this  country.  How  often  does 
it happen that the unexpected absence of an 
employee from his  work  causes  far  more 
damage to his employer than  his  mere dis­
charge can satisfy, and how many shiftless, 
irresponsible persons  are there who  obtain 
situations of trust and importance  and hav­
ing no fear of  dismissal  hanging over tlysir 
heads,  or ambition to stimulate  them to ex­
ertion,  desert their work whenever the fancy 
strikes them, no matter how  seriously  they 
may embarrass  their  employer? 
If it was 
generally understood that when a man hired 
himself to another,  that hiring  amounted to 
a contract the breach of which  was  punish­
able the same as any formal  contract, much 
of this sort of business would,  in  a  marked 
degree,  be done away with.

Advice to Shippers.

From the Des MoinesJTrade Journal.

Out  freight.—Make  shipping  bill  plain 

and complete.

Mark  packages  distinctly,  for bad mark­
ing  makes  more trouble than bad handling.
See  that  strings  are  tied,  nails  driven 
It saves leakage, 

home and hoops all tight. 
theft and swearing.

Deliver goods in time,  for trains  have  to 

be made up as well as loaded.

Don’t neglect your orders till you  have to 
rush  everybody  and  everything and expect 
railroad men to check  by the gross 'and load 
by the ton.

Trains can not wait for late packages.
Men can not  read  what a  marking  brush 

spoils.

Common sense,  good  nails  and  right  di­

rections are a shipper's security.

In freight.—Check jour goods  on arrival.
Don’t leave freight on a sidewalk till night 
for a local theif to steal  or rain  to  damage, 
and then blamed the railway or the drayman 
for the loss.

Read the marks on the  goods  before  you 
shelve  them. 
Boxes  have  been opened, 
emptied and goods stolen belonging to other 
consignees, involving trouble,  loss  and  liti­
gation.

See your boxes are emptied before putting 
them away.  A box of fans laid for a month 
in an alley- and a claim  was instituted for its 
loss.  Only  an accident prevented its  going 
to  a woodpile.

Give  agents  time  to  examine  claims. 
Compensation has to go through a tine sieve.
Don't  suspect  railway  men  as  having  a 
public bone to pick.  Their interest is serv­
ing the public.

Sale of the Linderman Stock.

From the Whitehall Forum,

The property and effects of A.  T.  Linder­
man were sold by Assignee  Nufer  Wednes­
day:  Representatives of two  of  the  heav­
iest creditors,  Graj%  Burt  &  Kingman,  of 
Chicago, and  Dunham,  Bucklej’ & Co.,  of 
New York,  were present as bidders, and the 
two  firms having  combined  their  claims, 
Ixmght the factory and  stock of  goods,  the 
former for $4,500,  and the  latter  for  $900. 
The equity in the real estate  was  bid  in by 
Mrs.  Linderman.  A  new  stock  of  goods 
will be put into the store,  and  the  services 
of Mr. Linderman will probably be retained 
to manage the interests of  those  who  have 
purchased the property.

Never Backward There. 

“Backward season,  ain’t it,  Dodge?” 
“Backward?  I'should say so.  Why,  last 

year this time we had potatoes up.”

“Yes,  I heard of j'our comer on potatoes. 
You had ’em up so  high  that  a  poor  man 
couldn’t get  a  taste  of  ’em.  But  notwith­
standing  the  backward  spring  we  have 
something up around to our house.”

“What’s that?”
“The carpets.”

Paint For Iron.

It is  stated  that  an  anti-corrosive  paint 
for iron can be made by mixing ten per cent, 
of burned  magnesia,  or  even  of  baryta  or 
strontia,  with ordinary linseed oil paint, and 
then enough of mineral  oil  to  develop  the 
alkaline earth and neutralize  the  free  acid 
of the paint.  The iron is  preserved by the 
permanent alkaline action of the paint.

A new tanning agent has been discovered, 
if the Arizona Gazette  is correctly informed. 
The  statement  is  made  that  a  certain 
tanner  at  Tempe,  Arizona,  two  or  three 
years ago discovered a  plant  which  carried 
a  large  proportion  of  tannin,  and  which, 
when used  in  the  manufacture  of  leather, 
gave  extra  weight  to  the  product.  The 
plant is of annual growth, indigenous to the 
desert and dry uplands,  and is known to the 
Mexicans  and  Indians  as  “gonagra.”  It 
has a root somewhat longer and more scrag­
gy than the cultivated  beet,  though  resem­
bling it in appearance.

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.............................".'."dis
Socket Corner............................... . [ [ [ 'dig
Socket Slicks............................[[[[[[[[ dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer........ ....   dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers... 
dis
Cold............................................ .'.".'.'.'.net
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s.......  ...................... dis
Hotchkiss  ...........................................".dis
„  
COCKS.  *
Brass,  Backing’s...............
Bibb’s ......................................  . 
B eer.......................................
Fenns’..............................
C O PPER
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..  . 

...........

ao w>

, 

DRILLS

ELBOW S.

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.
E A I-A H B IV IS   B IT S .

14x52,14x56,14 x 6 0 ........[..[['.'.[[[[[[_ “   3$
lA rK B   1.1 v ñ «   I I  v i t n  
.............. w
Morse’s Bit  Stock..............................dis 
35
Taper and Straight Shank_........ dis 
20
Morse’s Taper  So5nk.........................dis 
30
_ 
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 00
Corrugated.......................................... dis 
20&10
Adjustable...........................................dis  %&10
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis 
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 Ó0;  3, $30 00.
00.  dis
, 
American File Association List  .  dis
Disston’s ...........................................  dis
New American........... ........................ dis
Nicholson’s.......................[ [[ [  ............ dig
Heller’s .......................... . 
dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps[[[[[[[[[[.' .*.’.’ "dis 
„  
>ios. 16 to 20, 
27
List 
]5

GA LVANIZED  IR O N ,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26 

60 
60 
60 
60 
30 
33 hi
28
18

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

F IL E S .

13 

12 

„  

. 

, 

, 

_  

„  

GAUGES.

HO LLO W   W ARe I ............

„  
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .............dis 
50
, ,  
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s .....................  
dis 
20
Kip’s ..............................................11*1! dis
Yerkes &  Plumb’s...............................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand.'.30 c 40&10 
_  
h a n g e r s .
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction__
............dis
60
Kidder, wood track.............
............dis
40
_  
H IN G ES.
Gate, Clark s, l, 2,  3.............
............dis
60
State...................................... [
.perdoz,net. 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  i
in.  454  14
and  longer.........................
ucl
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  ..... 
..........net
1054
Screw Hook and Eye %..........[......... net
..........net
854
Screw Hook and Eye  X ........ ............ net
..........net
754
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...........'[ 
net
..........net
754
Strap and  T........................................... dis
60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................... 
6O&K1
"  2nvin
Japanned Tin  Ware.................. 
Granite Iron  Ware............. . . . . . . . .  . 
25
« r,u°  1 .............................................$11 00, dis 40
................................................  II 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................  12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings__ $2 70, dis 6694
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66?,' 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
.................... net,10  15, d is66%
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain....  dis
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s............ 
d
Hemacite.......................................... ..dis
LOCKS—D O O R .......................
_  
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis
Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s........  
dis
Branford’s ....................................... 
dis
Norwalk’s......................dis
_  
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................... dis
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40&10
Coffee, P.S.&W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ........ dis  40&10
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

mattocks.

mings... 

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

„   „  „  

HOES.

. 

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

j 

MAULS.

O IL E R S .

1 50 
3 00 
1 75

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

8d 
6d 
254  2 

10dto  60d............................................ m keg $2  35
8d and 9 d adv.................... 
05
6d and 7d  adv..........
4d and 5d  adv..................................
3d advance....................................... [ [
3d fine  advance.......................[[[[
Clinch nails, adv................................ [
)  lOd 
Finishing 
4d
Size—inches  f  3 
154
Adv. $  keg 
$1 25  1 50  1  75  2 00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis
Stebbin’s Genuine............................[ [ [ [ [ .dig
Enterprise,  self-measuring........... . 
dis
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................  dis 50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.  .....................dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom....................  ! .  dis  50
Brass or  Copper..........................................[dis 40
Reaper.....................................per gross[ $12 net
Olmstead s ...............................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................. dis 15
Sciota Bench................................................. .dis 25
SanduskyTo<*Co.’s,  fancy........ ......"[dis  15
Bench, flrstquality.......................................dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and
Fry, Acme...................................... 
dis 50
Common, polished...................................dis60&10
Dripping............................................................$ f t  e®7
Iron and Tinned.................................. dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.....................dis  50&JO
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% 
“R” Wood’« imt.. nlaniahrirl  \Tnc  9K  4-r\ 
Broken packs 54c $ ft extra.

Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E T S.

PA NS.

n

The Drummer Must Go.

Halston in the New York Times.

The day of the glorious drummer is 011 the 
wane,  if I am to  believe  stories  told  me in 
wholesale  mercantile  houses. 
It  was  the 
fashion of old for  the  country  merchant  to 
make his regular trips to New  York two or 
three times a year or  more,  but  the  “com­
mercial traveler” came  into  vogue,  and  or­
dering by sample on the source of economy, 
kept the rural store keeper  at  home.  Now 
comes the old fashion in again.  The  coun­
try dealer has come to look upon the breezy 
drummer with a  marked  coyness  when  he 
and  his  gripsack  heave  in  sight,  for  the 
provincials look upon  the  modern  way of 
stocking up their stores as  rather  specious.
Some drummers—and I speak only on hear­
say—are credited with much  worldly niind- 
ness,  and the retailer a hundred  miles or  so 
away from New York  worries  occasionally 
when he hears hints of big hotel  and  livery 
bills, of champagne suppers and royally car­
ried on flirtations.  “Perhaps,” is his  argu­
ment,  “the  pay  for  all  these  very  wicked 
doings comes out  of  my  pocket  after  all.”
He does not know that all drummers are dis­
guised  slightly disguised—millionairs.  So 
it comes that the  out-of-town  customer  de­
termines to visit  New York,  drive his  own 
bargains on the  spot,  and  if  fun  must  be 
paid for,  enjoy a little of it on  his  own  ac­
count.  Now,  one  of  the  results  of  this 
change,  as I understand it, is that old whole­
sale houses  in  certain  lines,  whose  names 
rank “way up,” whose  methods  are  of the 
strictest and most  honerable,  are  called up­
on to put a new force  of  men in  their  em­
ploy".  The country-man  stopping at  a  New 
York  hotel  finds,  soon  after  registering,  a 
kind  Providence enables him to  run  across 
a most  companionable  stranger—the  agent 
of the wholesale  house—free,  though,  from 
all smell of the shop, who shows the stranger 
some of  the  city’s  sights  and  ingratiates 
himself  completely  into  his  good  graces.
I he fish bites,  the  sequel  occurring in the 
big establishment where the merchant greets 
his new customer and gets  his order.  This 
new aide  in the  mercantile  camp  is  good- 
looking, well-dressed,  intelligent  and  thor­
oughly understands what is required of him.
It  is  emphatically  a  partial  return  to  the 
old time,  when the dealer at a distance made 
his visit of each season to the  city-,  and was 
brought directly into contract  with his  sup­
plier.

---------♦   »  » --------- 
The Gripsack Brigade. 

Purely Personal.

Gaius S. Perkins  and  wife  are  expected 
home  from  their  Southern  trip  about  May 
25.

A gentleman named  Kuppenheimer  con­
templates engaging in the grocery brokerage 
business at Muskegon,  in which case he will 
office with D.  B.  Squibb, the  wholesale and 
commission produce dealer.

Wm.  II.  Allen,  book-keeper  for  S.  A. 
Welling,  has invented  and  copyrighted  an 
abridged sy-stem of book-keeping,  which  is 
now  in*  press,  and  will  appear  and  be 
placed on sale within the next fortnight.

Traverse City Herald:  Smith Barnes will 
leave about the middle  of the  coming  week 
for a 111011th or six weeks’ run  to the Pacific 
slope, taking in the coast  from  Los Angeles 
to San Francisco,  the  Yosemite,  Salt  Lake 
and such other points of interest  as the lim­
ited time will permit.

L.  E.  Hawkins,  of Hawkins & Perry, has 
gone to New York for the purpose of exhib­
iting the merits of his  patent  car  spring to 
the railway  magnets of  Gotham.  He  will 
also make some observations as  to  the  best 
manner of arranging the interior of a whole­
sale  grocery  establishment, with a  view to 
incorporating the same in  Hawkins  &  Per­
ry’s proposed building.

Kalamazoo  Business Points.

B.  S.  Williams & Co., proprietors  of the 
Kalamazoo Grain Drill Co., have just issued 
a  forty-eight  page  catalogue,  fully  illus­
trated.

The Kalamazoo Spring and  Axle  Co. has 
in press a thirty-two  page  catalogue  hand­
somely illustrated.

Geo.  Hanselman has  not  yet  engaged a 
traveler  to  succeed  W.  P.  Townsend,  re­
signed.

Smith & Woodard have just  gotten  out a 

forty-page illustrated catalogue.

J.  Bader & Co.,  the  new  wholesale  gro­
cery firm,  are now ready for active business. 
Julius Bader and  E.  A.  Welch  will  repre­
sent the house on the road.

The Kalamazoo Tubular  Well  Co.  is get­

ting out a forty-eight page catalogue.

The Phelps &  Bigelow  Wind  Mill  Co. 
have now in preparation a  thirty-two  page 
and cover illustrated catalogue.

D.  C. &  H.  C.  Reed & Co. have  just  is­
sued  from  the  press of  H.  H.  Everard & 
Co.  a twenty-four page catalogue.

I 

An  Apt  Reply.

nix Furniture €0., came in last  week  for  a 
ten days’ rest,

While waiting to be attended  to at a  cer-
Wm Jones,  Western traveler for the Phoe-  tain hat store the other day a reporter  over­
heard a rather interesting conversation.  A 
large,  stout  man  with  a  flushed  face  and 
angry  manner  addressed  a  gentlemanly 
young man,  who was standing liatless in the 
store,  in  a very peremptory manner,  at the 
same time pointing to anew white hat which 
adorned his own head:

W.  II.  Rouse has engaged with  the  Hud­
son,  Wis.,  Chair Co.,  to represent  that con­
cern in the Northwest. 

Johnny Burrows, traveling  agent  for  M. 
C. Russell,  has been laid up several days by 
an  attack of the quinsy.

“This hat doesn’t fit,  sir,  it  doesn’t fit at 

,

all.”

The gentlemanly young man—who,  as  it 
happened,  was a customer and not the sales­
man, as the irate large man imagined—cooly 
looked at the speaker from head to foot and 
languidly replied:

Y es; it is a bad fit. 

Indeed, I may say- it 

a very bad fit—and so’s join; coat!”

The ivory of Central Africa,  according 
Prof.  Henry Drummond,  will  last about 
or 15 years longer.

Coal, wh^p wet,  has 25 percent, less heat­

ing value than when dry.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing 

Co.  quote f. o.
b. cars as follows :
Uppers, 1 inch........................
per M $44 00 
Uppers, 154,154 and 2 inch__
..........  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................* 35 00
Selects, 154, 154 and 2  inch....................,..  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 154,154 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 «0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................   17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................ .........   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet................... 
  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00@  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 of 6 in ...........................   33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch...............................   [ [  27 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..................[.[[  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............[  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch....................... [[[[[[[  45 q5
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch...............................   [  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 no
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 oo
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.................... 
20 no
iq qo
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft........... 
$1 additional for eaeh 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ............... 
36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C.......................[ [  29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common..
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C...............
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. I  com’n 
16 00 
Dressed Mooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n 
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles...
3 30 
< X X X 18 in.  Thin..........
3 20 
{ X X X 16 in..............................[[[*[;[[[[
2 80 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles............
2  00 
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in..........................
1 60 
Lath  ............................................... ..". "i" 75(
2 00

Eugene Austin,  traveling  agent  for  the 
Atlas  Engine  "Works,  of Indianapolis, has 
been in town for a  week  past,  working  up 
trade.

J.  Y.  Morrison,  the  Standard  Oil  Co.’s 
new lubricating  oil  representative,  has  ar­
rived and begun his  new  duties  with  the 
West Michigan Oil Co.

W.  M.  DeWing,  of  Buchanan,  traveling 
representative  for  Jos.  W.  Smith  &  Co., 
suspender  manufacturers  of  Boston,  has 
been in town several days  interviewing  the 
trade.

The meeting of Grand Rapids Post,  T.  P. 
A., which was to have  been  held  at  T he 
Tradesm an office  next  Saturday evening 
has been adjourned one  week—to  Saturday 
evening,  May 23,  at which time a full atten­
dance is requested,  as matters of importance 
are to come up for action.

Hiram Benson Clark  was  bom  at  Cam­
den,  Ontario, April 25,  1845, and three years 
later took up his residence at Trenton, same 
province,  where he served his time as a bak­
er's apprentice and  afterwards  clerked in a 
general  store,  coming  to Grand  Rapids  in 
August,  18(54.  He  first  entered  the  em­
ploy of S.  C.  Smith, then a prominent retail 
groceryman here,  with  whom  he  remained 
four y-ears,  when he traveled on the road for 
Eaton & Christenson  for a year.  He  then 
engaged to clerk for Gil.  Cook,  who  at that 
time carried on the  grocery  business  in the 
old  National  Hotel  building.  On  the de­
struction of that  block by fire,  he  entered 
the employ of Horton & Stewart, with whom 
he remained  about  three  years.  He  then 
started in the retail grocery business  on his 
own account on Pearl  street,  which  he  car­
ried on successfully  for  about a year and a 
half,  when he formed  a  copartnership with 
Fred S.  Clark,  and  continued  the  business 
about six months under  the  firm  name  of 
Clark & Clark.  He then entered the employ 
of  Maunder  Bros.,  and  continued  in the 
same capacity with their successors, Walker 
& Farnsworth, remaining with the establish­
ment  about  five  years, leaving it about  a 
year ago to accept  the  position  of  billing 
clerk with  Eaton  &  Christenson.  On the 
resignation of Cass Bradford,  a few months 
ago,  Hiram  was  assigned  that  position, 
which he has  filled  to  the  satisfaction of 
himself  and  his  house.  His  territory in­
cludes the Chicago & West Michigan,  north 
and south,  and the  Lake  Shore & Michigan 
Southern, with drives to interior towns from 
each line.  Mr.  Clark is a man of good hab-1 
its and owes his success to  persistent  effort 
and a thorough knowledge  of  the  business.

The Seegmiller grocery stock, comprising 
staple and  fancy  goods,  show-cases,  can- 
nisters, scales, trucks,  and  everything  in­
cluded in a  first-class  grocery  stock,  will 
be sold at sherifFs sale at the front entrance 
of the Grand Rapids  Manufacturing  Co.’s 
stores, on Lyon street, May  19, sale begin- 
ning at  10 o clock a.  m.  Full  inventory of 
the  stock  can  be  seen  at County Clerk’s 
office,  filed with the  attachment  papers  in 
case of Canadian  Bank  of  Commerce  vs. 
Seegmiller.

Terms of Sale—Cash.

Lyman T. Kinney,  Sheriff.

Tag  and  E nvelope !

THE

Best  and  Cheapest  Method 

Known  to  Shippers,

Saves  the  Expense of Postage.

Send  for samples  and  prices  to

E. A. Stowe & Bro.,

Manufacturers’  Agents,

- 

MICH.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

S. A. WELLING

WHOLESALEM I]
1

FISHING  TACKLE
J s r o T i o i s r s !

------ A N D------

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 bv  the  fol­
lowing  well-known  travelers: 
John  D. 
Mangum, A. M. Sprague, John H. Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna and A. B. Handricks.

24 Pearl Street 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  COOLEY  CAN,

Improved by the Lockwood Patent.

~  paid 

Used in  the  creamery for butter only, they 
the  patrons  in 
July,  1884, 60c  and  the 
skimmed  milk  per  100 
//fos.  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 
butter and  cheese they 
paid  the  patrons  $1.75 
per 100 fts. average, for 
the season.  They show 
better  results  in  dol­
lars  and  cents  than 
anything yet  invented.
for 
Write 
actual 
figures  fur­
working 
nished  by  successful 
creamery  men 
of 
known reputation, who 

have used them as above.

JOHN  BOTH,

Sole Manufacturer, 199 LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO.

Letter, Note and Bill Heads, 

Statements, Cards, Envelopes, 

Blank Orders, Dodgers, Circu­

lars, Etc., N eatly and Prompt­

ly  done  at  “The  Tradesman” 

office.

E. A. Stowe A Bro.,

49  Lyon  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,  Agts. 

The Hubert Patent

Foster,

Stevens 
&  Co.

-AGENTS-

10 and 12 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

Send for Circulars and Prices.
HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

Pabchin & Abbott quote car lots as follow

White Ash, Log-run, dry.......................
Black Ash,  Log-run,  dry..................
Maple, Log-run, dry..........................
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2, dry, clear........ .
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2, clear,  flooring. [.
Maple, Surface, dry, clear, flooring...
Red Oak, Log-run, dry..........................
Red Oak, No. 1 and 2, dry, clear........
Red Oak, No. 1 and 2, clear, flooring..
Red Oak, surface, dry, clear,  flooring 
Red Oak, No. 1, dry, clear, step  plank
Blreh,  Jog-run,  dry...............   ............
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2,  dry,  clear........
Basswood, log-run.................................
Cherry,  log-run*................................[.[
Cherry-, Nos. 1 and 2, dry, clear.............
Cherry, cull,  dry......................................
Water Elm. log-run, dry..................... ............
California Redwood, No. 1, dry, clear........60 00
California Redwood, shingles, day, clear 

$13 00 
..12 00 
.13 00 
..18 00 
.23 00 
.30 00 
.17 00 
,.23 00 
.23 00 
.30 00 
What are termed “smart buyers” are pick­
.25 00 
.22 00 
ing up all the goods  they can  find  in knit 
.30 00 
underwear,  at  old  or  last  year’s  closing 
.12 00 
.25 001 
prices,  for they reckon wisely and well,  that 
5  00
10 00  when tlie autumu distributing trade actively 
opens,  such  goods  will  be  exceedingly 
scarce,  as well as  command  higher  selling

one  bunch  covers,  26  sq.  ft.
laid 5 in. to the  weather..........$ bu  95 j values.

To  a  Purchaser  who  w ill  take our entir< 

cut,  we  offer an  exceptional bargain.

Nichols  &  Higgins.

MORLEY,  MICH.

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able  to  write  anything  like  that folks  ’ll 
“read after it is wrote,” as  Samanthy  Allen 
says,  in that nice book of hers.  Mr. Stowe, 
did you  ever  notice  how  imperdent  folks 
gets when they  take  a  notion  like  Bilson 
has got into his head?  I never did set much 
stock by  him,  anyway,  and if  he  goes  and 
writes and gives me away  on  some  things 
he knows about me  (or that  I’m  ’fraid  he 
knows)  I’ll fix him so  he  won’t  even  dare 
peep.

Yours, millinerically,

Solim an Snooks,

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

Try the Crescent Mills “All Wheat” flour, 
made  by  an  entirely  new  process.  Yoigt 
Milling Co.,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

W e  have  a  choice  lot  of 
Early Dent,Eight-Rowed Yel­
low,  Red  Blazed  and  W hite 
Flint Seed Corn that  we  offer 
to the trade at $1 perbu.

The “WHITE STAR” takes 
the  lead.  W e  have  a  fine 
stock that we offer to the trade 
at $2  for a 3 bu.  bbl.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

GRAM) RAPIDS  SEED CO,
Luminous  Bait

t h e   o n ly

IN   TH E  WORLD.

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

FISHING SURE CATCH  DAT  OE SIGHT.

. 

HARD  AND  SOFT  RUBBER  MINNOWS 
No. 7,70c each;  No. 8, 80c each; No. 9,90ceach 
FLYING  HELGRAMITES.  No.  0,  80c each 
No. 1, 85c each;  No. 2 ,90c each;  No. 3,  $1 each 
Samples ot' 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, 60e 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  I f|.  Co., Akron,  Olio
C. G. A. VOIGT & CO.
STAR  MILLS,

P ro p r ie to r s  o f  th e

M a n u factu rers  o f  th e   fo llo w in g   p o p ­

u la r   b ran d s  o f  F lo u r .

“ STAR,”

“ GOLDEN  SHEAF,” 

“ LADIES’  DELIGHT,” 
And “OUR PATENT.”

ORDER  A  SAM PLE  BUTT  OF

Mc ALPIN’S

PLUG.

A  R IC H   NUTTY CHEW .

GRAND  R A PID S.

THE  AMERICAN

MARKETMAN,

P u b lis h e d   E v er y   T u esd ay  by

J.  W.  LYNCH,  Editor and Proprietor.

D e v o te d   to   th e   G en eral 

Packing, Canning, Market, Provision, Pro­

duce and Grocery Trades.

$2  PER ANNUM.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

He Starts Widow Spriggs  in the  Millinery 

Business.

Cant  Hook Corners,  May 9,  1885.

M ister E d ito r o f  T ra id e sm a n .

D ear Sir—I s'pose you’ll latf at my latest 
business venture, but I can’t help  it  for  all 
that. 
I've gone in partnership with Widder 
Spriggs.  That is, we’ve entered  into a sort 
of an arrangement, protective and defensive 
there  aint  any 
as  it  were.  You  see, 
millinery  shop  at 
the  Corners  here, 
and  whenever  any  of  my customers want 
anything better than  my  ready  made  bon­
nets,  they  have  to  go over to Slabtown or 
else take tire necessary fixings  over to Wid­
der Spriggs,  at Pine  Holler.  The  Widder 
is  real  tasty  like  in  such matters,  and al­
ways  goes on the  principle of “satisfaction 
guaranteed or money  refunded.”  So it oc­
curred to me that perhaps Sol. and the Wid­
der might strike up some kind of  a  bargain 
and go in snucks on  a  first-class  millinery 
establishment. 
I  took  her  out riding the 
night she got back from Indiana, and as soon 
as the usual friendly greetings were  over,  I 
asked her point blank how  she  would  like 
to preside over a business of  her own in my 
store.  She frankly told me that her money 
matters would not admit of such an  invest­
ment at the present time, but as I voluntered 
to buy the stock and give her half the profits 
for running the snap,  she  consented  to the 
arrangement and agreed to go down to Grand 
Rapids  to  buy  the  stock and fixings some 
day next week. 
I  thought  then  that  per­
haps I might be able to accompany the Wid­
der to your city, but I have since got a steal­
ing case on my justice docket,  which comes 
off whenever we catch the complaining  wit­
ness,  so I shall have to stay at  home  to  at­
tend  to  more  pressing  business.  As the 
Widder is a stranger to Grand Rapids,  I will 
give her a letter of interduction to  you,  Mr. 
Stowe,  aud you will confer a great favor  on 
your  valued  correspondent  by  taking  her 
’round to the big milliner shops,  and telling 
them her business.  You  can  assure them 
that she has a perfect right to buy  goods  in 
my name,  and that Sol.’s  credit  is  Al. 
If 
any of them are particular and  want  refer­
ences,  tell ’em to inquire of Hank  Fairchild 
or John Caulfield or Henry Spring.  Yer see 
I’ve bought thousands  of  dollars  worth  of 
goods of them fellars,  and  they  dassnt  go 
back on me now.  Kinda advise the Widder 
to buy light, cause  this  is  her  first exper­
ience in the buying line,  and she  might  get 
a  lot  of  old  stuff tucked otf on her,  if  she 
aint  careful. 
I  want  you  to see that  the 
prices are all right,  and  that  the  goods are 
shipped  by  the  way  of  Jim King’s stage, 
from the station to the Comers,  as the other 
stage line makes it headquarters at  Bilson’s 
store.  If the Widder has to stop over night, 
take good care that she puts up at a respect­
able place,  as anything wrong at  this  stage 
of the proceedings might interfere  with the 
biz.

I have concluded to locate the  Widder  in 
the rear end of the store,  just  back  of  the 
hardware  department,  so  that  when there 
aint any customers or loafers around,  I  can 
call her into the office and enjoy a  little pri­
vate conversation with her.

I see by T he Traidesman that the Grand 
Rapids people talk of celebrating  the  glor­
ious Fourth three  days  this  year.  That’s 
just bully,  and,  in case  the  scheme  works, 
you  can  count  on  seeing  Soliman Snooks 
and Sister Spriggs at the Rapids.

By the way,  what do  fipst-class preachers 
charge for marrying folks at Grand Rapids? 
-  My clerk Algernon heard tother day  in  a 
kind of a roundabout way that Bilson—tiiat 
old  slab-sided  coon  across  the  road  has 
been biling mad some time back because my 
letters in your paper have got so much notice, 
and  he  ’lows  he  could  write a dum sight 
better than old Sol.  Snooks,  and  says  he’ll 
bet one of his pancake turners like they had 
last winter at the donation party to the min­
isters that he will write to you and get his’n 
•printed in T h e T ra id e sm a n, too.  Thecon- 
seet of the fellar, to thinks he can  be  liter­
ary!  I tell you, Mr.  Stowe, it  takes  train­
ing, and a mighty lot of it, sometimes, to be

F O R   SA K E  B Y

M a n u factu rers  o f  th e   C eleb rated

SOLE AGENTS  FOR  MICHIGAN.

T. R. HARRIS & CO., C0H0CT0N, N. T.
“Brook Trout” Cigar.
Eaton  &  Christenson,
Choice Butter a Specialty!
Oranges, L u is, B a n s, Apples, M erries, Cider, Eic.
M. 0. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d  Rapids.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

MANUFACTURERS AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

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

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

WM. SEARS & GO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

fcBiai-BiGtr  & Reis’a

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

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

97  and 99 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapids, M ichigan

J&USKEGOIT  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

TO FRUIT GROWERS
Factory
Muskegon  Basket 

-T H E -

Having resumed operations for the season is prepared to supply all kinds of

jnPi.XJIT  P A C K A G E S  !

A t Bottom  Prices.  Quality Guaranteed.

W E  MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF  PEACH  AND  GRAPE  BASKETS.

S. S. MORRIS 4 BRO,
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

PACKEHS

-AND— -

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

CHOICE  SMOKED  MEATS  A  SPECIALTY.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Streets.

ICUSKEGOXT  SAW  AND FILE WORKS
FILES  AND  RASPS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS,

M anufacturers  of

Smith  tfc Hazlott, p ro p rieto rs.

ANDREW W IERENGO

F U E L   L I N E   O F   S H O W   C A S E S   K E P T   I N   S T O C K .

!

H E S T E R  

FOX,

Send for

M A N U F A C T U R E E S   A G E N TS  F O R

ATLAS

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IN D IANAPO LIS»  IN D .,  U .  S .  A
__________  M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O P
STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.
Carry Engines and  Boilers in Stock 

for  immediate  delivery.

SAW  AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY,

Planers, M atchers, M oulders and all kinds of W ood-W orking M achinery, 

Saws, Beldingf and Oils.

W rite  for  P r ic e s. 

1 3 0   O A K E S  ST R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

F.  F.  A D A M S   O O.’S

liie Cut d efin ì Tolacco is the very tat ilari pois on tie Market.

DARK  AROMATIC
Eaton k Ciste«, Aits.

G-rand. Rapid.®,

M i e n ,

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

WHOLESALE

83,85 and 81  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.
BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
MODEL  MILLS.
  Loaf  Brands  of  Floor.

—MANUFACTURERS  OF-

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

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Good Goods and Low Prices.  W e invite Correspondence.

P ull  R oller  Process.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Corner Winter and W est Bridge Streets,

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

H. LEONARD & SONS
Mason  Fruit  Jar.
YOU  ALL  KNOW  IT.
Cartage  B neoi Fruit Jars. 

T H E   C E L E B R A T E D

s

Order of ns  while  stock  is  plenty  and 

prices remain  at the  bottom.

Gasoline  Stoves—Four  Hole Top. 

“ Monitor”  Oil  Stoves-Absolute Safety.

SOLD  AT  M ANUFACTURERS  PRICES.

These  are becoming necessary in every household  and  by 
buying of us you will be trying no experiments.  Our goods 
are  standard  and  guaranteed  in  every  respect  Write for 
our Price  List.

REFRIGERATORS.
GET  THE BEST
THE LEONARD

(¡loanable, with Movable Flues,
Carved Panels, Hardwood, war­
ranted First-Class, Elegant and 
Durable.  We  challenge  the 
world to produce its  Equal,  in 
Merit or in Price.

REFRIGERATORS
ICE  BOXES

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W E   A R E   T H E   M A N U F A C T U R E R S  O F  T H E  

Easiest  Selling  Refrigerator 

the  Market,  because 
IS  THE  BEST.

W e  gladly  furnish  catalogue  and  discount  on  application. 

in 

it

Notice our new GROCER’S  ICE  BOX.

The  New  Table  Glassware.

W e  have  colored  lithographs  of  the  new  goods in COLORED  GLASSWARE 
If not already received, wnth to  us  for  a  set 
which we are very anxious to show you. 
with  net prices and see what i9 revolutionizing the trade for nice table glassware.
A hove all make a note to visit our store the next time you are in  the  city, and  ask 
for our wholesale sample room.  WE  HAVE  BARGAINS  IN  QUICK  SELLING  GOODS.

H. LEONARD & SONS,

16  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

1 1   and  197  Washington  Street,  Chicago,  IB.

WIERENGO  BLOCK,  PINE  STREET, 

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MUSKEGON,  MICH.

