The  Michigan  Tradesman.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  3,  1885.

NO. 89.

VOL. 2.
RETAILERS,
LA  V IN E

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HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

-MANUFACTUREES  OF-

AWNINGS,  TENTS,

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

State Agents for the 

Watertown  Hammock  Support. 

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73  Canal  Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, M idi.

Mayhew’s  Heelers.

A  Word  Why  Stocking

Heel  Protectors

Should  Be

worn,

5 2 5 3
HÉjM

A  pair  will  save their
cost five times over.  Also
prevents  slipping of the
Boot or Shoe at  the heel.

Trade supplied by
G. E. M&YHEW,

76  MONROE  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

At $1.40  per doz., net.

The Shoemaker.

J. F. Kimball in the Shoe and Leather Review. 
A shoemaker fat on a work-bench sat,
His figure was short, and his hair was gray, 
And his bright eyes twinkled in such a way 
That you would have thought him at quiet play, 

With a shoe about half done.

Or having a bit of fun.

All labor, said he, appears to be 
A part of my honored trade;
They may dig, or preach, or how, or teach: 
Whatever they do, you will see in each 
Something that’s always within my reach,

Or my daily custom made.

His eloquence sonorously rolls;

The parson may smile, as down each aisle 
He can only believe when his sermon is o’er, 
And silence broods over the pews once more. 
That he only performs what I’ve done  before, 

For I am a curer of soles.

The doctor delights, as he knowingly writes 
A prescription for pain or smart,
To think that for aches he can give an ease, 
And also to think of the coming fees.
I am sure my profession with his agrees—

Of scholastic lore commanding,

I practice the healing art.
An LL. D., or a higher degree
May aspire to fame in some science high,
And puzzle wise heads with logic dry;
And yet he cannot do more than I 
To improve the understanding.

May scorn the poor knight of leather,

The magistrate, in his chair of state,
And yet it cannot be denied 
That he does nothing, in all his pride. 
Whenever he joins a bridegroom and bride, 
•

But bind two souls together. 

The merchant, at ease, sends over the seas, 
And commerce lends aid to his call:
But tempests may rally to rend his sails,
And his argosies sink under wintry-gales;
Like me, his fortune he sadly bewails 

Whenever he loses his all.

Yet some of more means I can beat;

Though hard I may stitch and never  get  rich, 
For though of their weatlli they make  a great 
And scatter their income as fast as they go, 
There’s one thing that !  candooftener, I know, 

And that is, make both ends meet.

show,

All other professions have passed,

When ages have sped, and among the dead 
I all alone in my glory shall be.
No other employment will any one see;
It must be so, for, you will agree, 
My business is one of the  last.

.

Old  Shoes.

How much a man is like old shoes!
For instance:  Both a soul may lose;
Both have beentanned;both are made tight 
By cobblers;  both get left and right;
Both need a mate to be complete,
And both are made to go on feet.
They both need heeling, oft are soled,
And both in time turn all to mold.
With shoes the last is first;  with men 
The first shall be the last;  and when 
The shoes wear out they’re mended new; 
When men wear out they’re men—dead, too. 
They both are trod upon, and both 
Will tread on others, nothing loth.
Both have their ties, and both  incline 
When polished, in the world to shine;
And both peg out—and would you choose 
To be a man, or be his shoes?

GOSSIP ABOUT SHOES.

Some of the  Trials  Endured  by  Retailers 

in  Fitting.

From the Chicago News.

“There is one  little  peculiarity in the.re- 
tail shoe business of which  every  one  en­
gaged in it is aware, but  for  which no  one 
lias offered an  explanation. 
It  cannot  be 
accounted for either by  locality,  or  on  the 
ground of nationality.  This  peculiarity  is 
that in some sections of the city certain sizes 
of shoes cannot be sold at all. 
In  some lo­
cations shoe dealers  find  it  impossible  to 
sell shoes of a certain  width, a ‘d’ last,  for 
example, while in other quarters the ‘d’ last 
will be the  average.”  The  speaker  was a 
shoe dealer.  “In some  sections,”  he  con­
tinued,  “the shoes worn by women will run 
to 4s,  4>£s,  and  5s. 
In  others the  demand 
will be for  2s,  2)4s,  and  3s.  The  Ameri­
can  women  have  the  finest-shaped  and 
smallest feet of any  nationality.  The  con­
formation of the  American  female  foot is 
usually round, with an arched instep.  There 
are very few  flat-footed  American  women. 
The German, Scandinavian,  Irish  and  En­
glish women seldom have  other  than broad 
flat feet,  French women often have fine feet, 
especially those  from  the  localities  which 
were invaded  by the  Saracens  and  where 
there  exists  a  mingling  of  the  Saracen 
blood.  The French women from the moun­
tain districts are apt to have  the  character­
istic mountain foot—strong,  broad,  and  flat 
from much use.

“There is a  larger  proportion  of  small 
sized shoes sold to the north  side  ladies in 
this city than in either of the other sections. 
I don’t pretend to account for it.  There are 
a number of north side ladies who wear 13s, 
Is, and 2s.  The  south  side  woman  aver­
ages a 3 or 3}4,  but the  west  side  woman 
often gets up to 5.  There is  one  west side 
woman who wears an 11]4 man’s last—fact. 
The first time I ever beheld  her  feet  was 
last Christmas.  She was an ordinary  sized 
woman,-  so when  she  came  in  and  asked 
rather laconically if  I  thought I had a pair 
of shoes to fit her,  I told her cheerfully' that 
I had,  of eourse.

“ ‘Well,’ she said,  ‘I’ve got  a  pretty  big 
foot,’ but I replied that we  kept  shoes  all 
along up to 9s,  and I guessed  we’d  have no 
trouble.  Great Csesar!  When  I  looked at 
the foot she  put  out  I  was  dumfounded. 
She examined the  number 9s, but  I  didn’t 
attempt to put them on her,  and after  she’d 
looked them over  and at her  foot,  she  re­
marked as unconcerned as if she  was  hold­
ing out to view the prettiest  little  Spanish- 
arched 13-boot  foot  in  Chicago,  that  she 
thought I’d  ‘better measure’ her and make a 
pair.  That was the  largest  pair  of  feet I 
ever saw  belonging  to  a woman,  and  the 
men who have that size are scarce.”

“Do many women  try to  wear  shoes too 

small for them?”

“About eiglit-tentlis  of  them  do.  They 
get a notion that their feet look much better

cramped and out  of  shape  in a  shoe  two 
sizes too small for them than in one that fits 
their feet and gives all the bones  and  mus­
cles free play. 
If people  would  leave  the 
selection of the style and size of tlieir shoes 
to the shoemaker they would have feet much 
handsomer in  appearance,  and  experience 
far more  comfort.  No  two  persons  have 
feet alike,  and the shoes that fit  the feet  of 
one individual are not at all adapted to those 
of another.  The broad-toed common  sense 
boot fits the average  foot  more  frequently 
than any other.  But there is occasionally a 
lady with a very round foot and an extreme­
ly arched instep who can take no comfort in 
any other boot than that known as the ‘Span­
ish arch’ with medium high heels set well to­
ward the middle.  The  reason  is  that this 
kind  of a  foot  needs a support  under the 
instep that  is  not afforded by the  low heel 
set far back.  Tlxis is a type of foot that ap­
pears once in awhile  by  inheritance,  show­
ing somewhere a line  of  ancestry  that  did 
little or no walking.  People with this style 
of foot are more liable to  fall  than  others. 
The ‘blue grass’  region  produces  some feet 
of this type,  and the people so favored pride 
themselves mightily on them.

“The shoe affected mostly at  present  by 
fashionable people  is  very  broad-toed  and 
low-heeled.  The  most  commonly  worn 
leather for spring and fall  wear  are  heavy 
kid pebble and  straight  goat.  French  kid 
is essentially a summer  leather  in  this • cli­
mate.  Glove kid is very stylish  now  since 
the fashion of  high  polish  went  out.  No 
shoe polish should  ever  be  laid  on leather. 
It kills it.  Neat’s-foot oil, enough of which 
can be purchased of  any  druggist  to last a 
person a year,  is the only thing that  should 
be applied to it.

“The style of  shoemaking  is  constantly 
undergoing improvement.  Within  the  last 
two or three years we have had  the  flexible 
shoe brought out, which  is  far  superior  to 
the old style of stiff sole.  You  do  not  be­
gin to hear the  complaints  about  ‘breaking 
in’ new shoes that you once did, because the 
shoes are manufactured so  well  and  fitted 
so perfectly that they do not torture the feet 
in becoming accustomed to them,  but adjust 
themselves at once.  A  great  many  shoes 
are made in Chicago.  Probably  at  least a 
thousand girls and women  ate  employed in 
the different sewing branches.  Their  work 
lasts about nine  months  of  the  year,  and 
theij. wages range from SO to $18  per week. 
It takes a girl about ten  or  twelve  months 
to learn the trade.  Some  who  are  expert 
learn much sooner.  Others never can leam 
at all to be good fitters.”

“Would not  women  be  more  available 
than men in  the  retail  department  where 
ladies’ and cbiIdren’s*shoes are sold?”

“I think not.  Saleswomen  have  seldom 
the  patience  or  tact  that  salesmen  have. 
Some  ladies  really  make  a  day’s  work  of 
buying  a  pair  of  shoes.  The  woman  is a 
marvel among her sex who  gets  suited  and 
out of the store in  half  an  hour,  and I fre­
quently have one who tries on shoes for two 
or three hours,  and then  goes  elsewhere  to 
see if she can’t suit  herself  better.  A lady 
clerk does not like to unbutton  and  remove 
dirty boots,  heavy  with  dust  or  mud,  and 
few will do  it.  Then,  in  the  retail  shoe 
business little help is kept.  Those employ­
ed are expected to do other  things  than sell 
shoes—wash windows and  do  other  chores 
about the place.  The plain English is,  too, 
that women  have  not  the  patience  to deal 
with women in  a  business  that  brings  out 
their most pronounced feminine weaknesses, 
and there is nothing  else  that  women  of 
every age,  from 16 to  75,  and  every  color, 
from an albino to a jet-black negress,  are so 
vain of as their feet.  Women  detest  a dis­
play of vanity,  or an anxiety  about  appear­
ance even,  in each other.  So the  lady shoe 
clerk is seldom a  success.  She  ‘miffs’  the 
customers,  she  can’t  do  errands,  and  can’t 
clean the windows,  and is  of  small account 
in the retail store anyway.  As  shoe  fitters 
women  are  much  more  successful  than 
men.”

“Are people very  particular  about  their' 

children’s shoes?”

“More  than  particular—fastidious. 

In­
fants’ and  children’s  shoes  are  made  very 
nice, now, 
Infants’  shoes  range  in  price 
from 35 cents  to  $2.  Childrens from $1 to 
$3.50.  Ladies’ shoes cost all the  way from 
$1.50 to as much as the  maker’s  name  will 
command,  although anything over  $10 paid 
for any shoe is an extortion.  Just  as  good 
a shoe can be made at that price, with a fair 
profit, as anyone needs to wear.  Men’s shoes 
cost from $1.75 to way up among  the twen­
ties, but neither enough material  nor  work 
can be put into any shoe for a man to  make 
its cost,  including  the  profit—and  a hand­
some one, too—more than $12.”

“Does the  average  woman  evince  much 

prudishness about trying on shoes?”

“Once in a while we get a  customer  who 
is very much afraid of committing some im­
propriety,  but tire  majority  seem  to  forget 
the shoe-maker  altogether. 
It  will  doubt­
less  surprise  you  to know it,  but it’s gos­
pel  truth,  that  well-dressed  women  will 
come in to buy shoes  and  bring a just  pur­
chased pair of hose to  put  on  before  they 
try the shoes,  calmy  rolling  up  the  soiled 
ones they have taken off and  putting  them 
in their shopping bag or  pockets.  A young

couple who had  been  married  out  in  the 
country in the morning,  the other day,  came 
here in the afternoon to buy  a  pair of boots 
for the bride.  The  bride-groom  was  very 
young,  and  evidently  had  never  buttoned 
his mother’s  shoes,  but  he  wouldn’t  allow 
me to touch the  girl-wife’s feet.  No,  sir; not 
much.  The way he tackled  the  job of but­
toning pair after pair of  shoes  was a joy to 
the beholder.”

“How do you dispose of old shoes?”
“They are  mostly  bought up by  Jewish j 
cobblers, who fix them up  and  sell them in 
the old-clothes stores  found  in  the  poorer 
localities in the city.  Old  rubbers  are  sold 
for 2 cents a pound,  melted  up,  mixed up 
with coal tar,  re-made,  and  constitute  the 
very cheap goods of  this  kind  sold  at the 
bargain stores.”

The “Gentle Craft.”

Shoemaking lias attained  to  this  distinc­
tive appellation from the  fact  of  so  many 
persons having risen  from  it  to  eminence, 
more than from  any  other  mechanical  pur­
It is known that shoemak­
suit,  it is said. 
ing existed as  a  distinct 
trade  over  1,600 
years before  the Christian era,  as  hut  back 
as the time of the Israelites flight from Egarot, 
as pictures illustrative of the craft are found 
on the walls of the ruins of the  ancient  city 
of Thebes.  The footwear of that date was 
a simple sole fastened to the foot  by thongs 
of raw hide,  the sole being made  sometimes 
of strips of papyrus braided  into  a  sort  of 
matting.

For several centimes this style of shoe  or 
sandal  continued  to he used almost univer­
sally,  although in some  countries  the  slip­
per began to be worn about 300  B.  C. 
In 
the reign of the Iioman  Emperor,  Domitia- 
nus 83 A.  D., we learn of the stalls of shoe­
makers being so  numerous  as to  encumber 
the streets of Rome.

About this time we first  read  of  the  leg 
boot called “Caliga,”  which  was  worn  in 
battle as a sort  of  defensive  armor  for  the 
legs of tlie Roman soldiery against tlieir  ad­
versaries’ weapons.  From this origin come 
the various styles  of  leg  boots  which  have 
appeared  and  disappeared  during  the  last 
1,800 years.  To-day the  leg boot seems to; 
be almost obsolete, except for a  few  special 
uses,  and the change from boots to gaiters is 
a sensible one,  not only in point of comfort, 
but in economy and increased  comeliness.

In ancient times tlie shoe  was  commonly 
used as a symbol  in  transferring  property.
‘ ‘A man plucked off Ills shoe  and  gave  it 
to liis neighbor,  and this  was  testimony  in 
Israel.”  Ruth iv : 7.

Casting a shoe upon a  piece  of  property 
indicated  taking  possession  of  the  same. 
“And  I  will  cast  my  shoe  over  Edom.” 
Psalm ix : 8.  The  practice  somewhat  in 
vogue even at this late day  of  throwing  an 
old shoe after a newly married couple  is  no 
doubt a relic of those times when  the  shoe 
was symbolical of contract.

We frequently hear it  said  of  a  person, 
“He  cannot  fill  his  predecessor’s  shoes,” 
and in this, of course,  the  shoe  is  used  to 
denote tlie caliber of the man.

The trade of shoemaking is the only handi­
craft  that  can  boast  of  saintly  tutelage. 
Early in the third  century one  Crispin  and 
liis  brother  Crispianus,  descendents  of  a 
noble Roman family,  fell under the displeas­
ure of  the  Emperior  Diocletian  and  were 
obliged to flee  from  Rome  for  tlieir  lives. 
Having become converts to Christianity they 
traveled into France spreading the  faith  as 
they went,  and located for a while at a town 
now called  Soissons,  where  they  took  up 
shoemaking to earn their bread.  They con­
tinued their pilgrimage from place  to place, 
supporting themselves as they went along by 
making shoes, which they sojil  to  the  poor 
at so low a  price  that  they  were  credited 
with having the leather  given  them  by  an 
angel. 
(Other  legends  have  it  that  they 
stole  the  leather,  hence  conies the  term 
“Crispinading” applied  to  acts  of  charity 
performed by persons at expense of others.) 
Crispin  and  his  brother  travelled  through 
France to Britian where they continued to do 
missionery work and to make shoes, but both 
suffered a cruel martrydom in 289 A.  D.,  in 
in common with other Christians on account 
of their religion.  Since that time Saint Cris­
pin lias been the acknowledged patron saint 
of the shoemakers,  and liis memory  has for 
1800 years been honored  by processions and 
other  festivities  on  St.  Crispin’s day,  25th 
of  October.

The “Knights of St.  Crispin” is  an  asso­
ciation of shoemakers  organized  in  1866 in 
Wisconsin for  the  purpose  of  protecting 
their interests against employers,  and to as­
sist unemployed and sick members and tlieir 
families.  This  society  was  at  one  time 
prominent  in  inaugurating  strikes,  and  at 
present  has  a  considerable  membership 
throughout the United States.

The trade of making shoes was one of the 
first to be introduced into the American col­
onies,  and the town of I^ynn,  Mass.,  enjoys 
the honor of producing the  first  shoes.  A 
letter dated London, 1629, refers to the send 
ing on board the Mayflower some hides con­
signed to two  shoemakers  who  settled  at 
Lynn.  From that day to  the  present  time 
Lynn has been at  the  head  of  the  list of 
shoe producing towns. 
In 1855,  before the 
introduction of  machinery,  Lynn  produced

$4,000,000 of  shoes  yearly  and  employed. 
4,575 males and 11,021  females in  the busi­
ness. 
In 1870 Lynn  produced $17,000,000, 
the great increase being partially due to  tlie 
introduction  of  machinery  from  1861  to 
1871.  Between these  dates  the  shoe trade 
was revolutionized,  most  of  tlie  important 
inventions pertaining  to  the  various  por­
tions of the manufacture being made during 
that period.  The wages  paid to operatives 
in snoe factories  are  generally  higher  for 
the same grade of labor than is paid in other 
mechanical  callings,  both  in  this  country 
and Europe, and  notwithstanding  the  con­
stant stream of new labor-saving  machines, 
the demand for human labor  seems to keep 
pace with the inventive achievements.

As an indication  of  what the  shoe  busi­
ness is to Massachusetts, may be mentioned 
tlie fact,  that in 1884 that  State  alone pro­
duced $100,000,000 worth of  shoes—almost 
as much as the whole  of  the  rest  of  the 
United States!

The  Leather  Shoe-String  Man.

From the New York Times.

As the crowd of passengers on  the  early 
morning trains  come  surging  down  Park 
row from the City Hall elevated station,  the 
familiar cry of the street  vendors  scattered 
along at short intervals attracts  very  little 
attention.  An old man  with a  voice which 
dies away in a  sweet  cadence,  sings  out: 
“Fine leather  shoestrings, 5  cents  a pair.” 
He lias stood there for years and offered for 
sale nothing hut  long  leather  shoestrings, 
lie pays a license to peddle  on  the  streets 
and has a right to select his locality.

“How is the shoestring  business  now?” 

asked a reporter of the old man.

“Not so good  as  it was  ten  years  ago. 
Too  much  buttom  and  elastic-fashioned 
shoe  are  made  now-a-days.  Poor  people 
are  getting  high-toned  and  wear  button 
shoes.  Times are said to be hard, sir, but I 
manage to live well  and  support  my  fam­
ily.”

“Then you must sell a  great  many  pairs 
of shoestrings a day and  make  large  prof­
its?”

“Well,  no; I don’t sell  so  many,  hut  my 
profits are large. 
I buy  the  strings  by tlie 
wholesale and make  over  200  per  cent,  on 
them. 
I don’t have to  pay  any  clerk hire, 
gas hills,  or rent; everything is  clean,  clear 
profit.  Some rainy days I  don’t  sell  any, 
hut on fair days I make up  generally.  Sat­
urday afternoon is my best day.

Overshoes for Somebody.

A through train on the Rock Island  stop­
ped a few moments  at  Englewood  station 
the other day,  says the Chicago Herald.  A 
passenger got off to  walk  around  a  little. 
As the train began to move  again  tlie pas­
senger jumped aboard,  hut just then he dis­
covered  that  lie  had  hut  one  overshoe. 
Thinking that he had dropped tlie other some 
place on the platform,  and,  as the train was 
going too fast for him  to  jump  off and re­
cover it, lie pulled off  the  remaining  shoe 
and threw it out  on  the  platform, exclaim­
ing:  “There, that  makes  a  good  pair of 
overshoes  for  somebody.”  Entering  the 
car lie proceeded to his seat.  There,  to  liis 
great astonishment,  was his other overshoe. 
A look of intense  disgust  came  upon  his 
face, but lie did not hesitate.  Quickly pick­
ing up the lone  article  lie  hurried  io  the 
platform,  threw the shoe  as  far  back as he 
could toward  the  other  one  and  shouted: 
“By jiminy,  there is a pair of overshoes for 
somebody.”

“Talc,” not “Soap Powder.”

The Moniteur de la  Cordouncrie  points 
out that the powder used by  shoemakers to 
facilitate the trying on of boots,  and known 
by tlie name of “soap powder,” is,  in  reali­
ty nothing hut “talc.”  Talc  is a  substance 
essentially  composed  of  silica  and  mag­
nesia,  of which there are two distinct  kinds 
—“talc,” properly so called,  and  “steatite.” 
It is  tlie  former  which  shoemakers  use, 
and it comes from  the  Pyrenees,  the  Alps, 
and the Tyrol,  whence  it  is  conveyed  to 
Vienna,  and that is why it is called  in com­
merce “Venetian  talc.”  Talc  is  found in 
little beds,  either  in  masses  or  layers,  in 
different crystallized rocks or calcareous de­
posits.  The  property  it  possesses  when 
pulverized is that it is slimy and slippery to 
the touch,  and it makes the interior of boots 
or any other object upon which it is  sprink­
led,  slippery.  The shoemaker  is  therefore 
not correct when he says—“Use soap  pow­
der,  and your hoots will  go  on  easily,” but 
lie should say—“Use Venetian  talc.”

The American Storekeeper tenders the fol­
lowing good advice  to  country  merchants: 
Remember to buy the very best  cigars  you 
can,  and be content with a small profit.  It is a 
great deal better in  the  long  run, to serve 
twenty customers with cigars  than to  sup­
ply ten at the same profit.  Your front door 
cannot be opened too  many  times in a day. 
The people who have learned to think  your 
store is the best place for  cigars,  will  turn 
to it for other goods when wanted.

The manufacture of  artificial  flowers pro. 
vides employment for  nearly  2,000  girls  in 
New York City.

A profit of $9,000 has been made this sea­
son by a California  farmer  from  a  12-acre 
asparagus bed.

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Manufacturers’  Agents,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MIOH.

W. N. FULLER & CO
Engravers on  Wood,
Fine  Mechanical and  Furniture Work, In­

DESIGNERS  AND

cluding  Buildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND RAPIDS 
MICH.
P E T E R   DORAN, 

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Attorney-at-Law,

Pierce Block,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Practices  in  State  and United  States  Courts 
Special attention given to

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

THE  AMERICAN

M A R K E T M A N ,

Published  Every  Tuesday  by

J.  W.  LYNCH,  Editor and Proprietor.

Devoted  to  the  General 

Packing, Canning, Market, Provision, Pro­

duce and Grocery Trades.

$2  PEB ANNUM.

195  and  197  Washington  Street,  Chicago,  HI.

Proprietors of

CEESCENT

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.

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  CO.

71  CANAL STREET.

CREAM  TESTER!
With six glasses for testing six  cows’  milk  at 
same  time.  Price  $1;  large  size  glasses  $3, 
either free by mail.  Agents wanted. Circulars 
with  full  particulars  for  stamp.  WYMAN 
L.  ED.SON,  Union  Center.  Broome  Co., N. Y.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER,

J E W E L E R ,

44  CAN  VL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN,

McALPIN’S

Plug  Tobacco

Is  the  most  Delicious  Chew  on  the 

Market*

SOLD  BY ALL JOBBERS.

G.  ROYS k CO.
«IPS

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.
ORDERS PROMPTLY PILLED

AMONG  THE  TRADE. 

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IN  THE  CITY. 

m a n u f a c t u r i n g   m a t t e r s .

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|  Bellaire wants a tannery and grist mill.

The Owosso factories are all crowded with

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J. A.  Panting succeeds Sharp  &  Panting  orders,- 

in the lumber business. 

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A cedar shingle  mill  is  contemplated at

j   L  Reed’s sawmill at Fennvilleis again 

J.  Rosenberg & Co.  succeed Rosenberg & 
Seymour in the lumber  business. 
Barry & Lewis, grocers at Ravenna,  have j 
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added a line of  drugs.  Hazeltine,  Perkins  at Rochester.
& Co. furnished the stock. 

j ^  operation.

e .  R. Wilcox has started up his paper mill 

J. M. Marcoe & Co.’s shingle mill at Rod-

H. M. Bjorn,,tad has engaged in  the drug  ™y Is imdergotag repairs.

amt grocery business at Whitehall.  Hazel- 
tine,B Perkins  &  Co.  furnished  the  drug  where he will engage m the saw  null  busr-
stock. 

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Jas- 

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Slate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  JUNE  3,  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
K S r S m m f tte e - P i^ s id e n t./g e n r e s -  j

Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman. 
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.

Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W.
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Manufacturing Committee-Wm.  Cartwright, 
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening
R egular0 Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
_____________

ing of each month. 

Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

Organized  at  Grand  Rapids,  February 25,  l$8o.
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, Bloomingxlale,  Chas.  -h. iiei 
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F. 
j
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C.Nash, Billiards, 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks-
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand
N ^tP Meeting-Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
Membership Fee—$1 per year.
Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.
  C .T .A .

PostA., !

1886.

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,  June  27, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

.

R.  G.  Bruce,  grocer at Bellaire, has added 
a line  of  dry  goods.  Spring &  Company 
furnished the stock,  C. J.  Peck  placing  the
order. 

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The first lot of wool put in an appearance 
at this market  last  week,  and  was  bought 
for 22c.  Buyers enter  the  season  with  by 
no means flattering prospects,  and  will  pay 
from 20c to 23c for washed and 13c to 15c for 
unwashed.

As the season of  base  ball  and  summer j 
quietness in  trade  approaches,  the  Graud j 
Rapids grocery jobbers fondly recall the visit 
paid  to  the  Saginaws 
last  season,  and 
yearn for a reptition of the same.  Let Sagi­
naw sound the tocsin and Grand Rapids will 
respond  with avidity.

On January  1, Wm. A. Berkey will merge 
his furniture business into a corporation un­
der the name of the Wm.  A.  Berkey Furni­
ture Co.  The incorporators  will  probably 
be Mr.  Berkey,  Wm.  H. Jones,  now  trav­
eling  salesman  for  the  Phoenix  Furniture 
CoT, Lewis T. Peck and several foremen now 
interested in the establishment in a  financi­
al way. 

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Metidas Miller has  invented,  and  he  and 
Geo. N. Davis have secured a patent  on,  an 
improved wedge bolt  for  use  in  any  place 
where  it requires  the  space  to be filled  by 
screwing up the  bolt.  Samples  of  the  in­
vention  are  being  made here  for  distribu­
tion  among  the  railroads  and  other  estab­
lishments using bolts of this character.  The 
owners of the patent  will  sell  the  right  to 
use  the same on a royalty.

Grand Rapids Post T.  P. A.

The Northwestern  Lumberman  contains 
the following reference  to  an  organization 
mainly composed of Grand  Rapids  capital­
ists :  “The White & Friant Lumber Co. lias 
been organized in this  city,  with  a  capital 
stock of $250,000.  The  incorporators  are 
Thomas Friant,  Francis Letellier,  Hugh M. 
Boice and Samuel II.  Sweet.  These gentle­
men have bought a quantity of pine  on  the 
Sturgeon  River,  Menominee  district,  and 
the company is  formed presumably  for  the 
purpose of manufacturing  it  into  lumber.” 
Inquiry at the office of the company here re­
veals the fact that T.  Stewart White will al­
so be a  member  of  the  syndicate;  that  a 
small piece of pine  has  been  secured,  and 
that prospectors are at work looking up other 
available tracts; and that as soon as the  or­
ganization has  been  fully  perfected  and  a 
| large quantity of timber purchased, steps will
As stated last week,  the opposition to the  betaken to plq jn a mill with large capacity.

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, June ~0, at 
‘The Tradesman” office.  __ ______________
Lloyd  Brezee’s  new  paper,  the  Herald, 
which made its appearance last Saturday,  is 
bright in contents and  inviting  in  appear­
ance.  The Herald is worthy of the patron­
age of the business and  reading  public  of 
Western  Michigan,  and  will  undoubtedly 
meet with the support it deserves.

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Dodge telephone bill was  strong  enough to 

secure  the  defeat  of  the  measure  in  the J 

House.  The opposition came entirely from j 
the agents of the  monopoly, and  money or j s]10p  Leland. 
other potent influences were  freely brought 
to bear on those who wavered  between jus­
tice to the people on one side and an uncon­
scionable monopoly on the other.

arou n d  t h e  s t a t e.
¡,'req c 00k  has  opened a boot 

and  shoe

Mrs. A.  O’Sullivan succeeds O’Sullivan & 

Ryan in general trade at  Tyre.

K.  W. Noyes, general dealer at Paw Paw, 

has assigned to Robert Beebe.

G.  C.  Carpenter has sold his grocery stock 

at Hartford to Milton C.  Conklin.

W.  C. Arnold  succeeds  W.  C.  Arnold & 

The Van Leuven failure has an ugly look. 
That  a  dealer  of  Van  Leuven’s  standing 
could be able to buy $25,000 worth of goods, 
while his wife had a  $10,000  mortgage  on
his stock,  is a strong  condemnation  of  the j restaurant and grocery business at Ovid, 
present loose credit system ; and that a man i  Wentworth & Bishop succeed  N.  S.  Tay- 
inhis condition would impose upon Jiis cred-  jor jn yie grocery business at South  Haven, 
itors  to  such an  extent  furnishes sufficient j 
John George succeeds W.  H.  Kimball  & 
comment upon  his honesty of purpose.
Co.  in the boot and shoe  business  at  Hud­
son.

B. V.  Soule succeeds  H.  A.  Jenks in the

Co.  in the drug business at Ludington.

It is reported that a mill is  to  be  erected 
this  season  at  Seul  Choix,  Schoolcraft 
county.
.  King  & Shipard’s  lumber  mill  at  Deep 
River,  near Standish, which  lias  been  idle 
some time has started up  again.

Blanchard,  Hannaford  &  Shattuck’s new 
shingle mill at Rodney is well  under  way, 
and will shortly begin operations.

Sibley & Bearinger, of East Saginaw,  have 
sold  13,850,000  feet  of  logs  to  Dolson  & 
Chapin, of Bay City, for $134,000.

Ed.  Lillie has  purchased  the  interest of 
his partner  in the  saw  mill  business,  lo­
cated three miles west of Coopersville.

Arbuckle & Alms have purchased the Jos­
eph Totten saw mill at Lake City,  and pro­
pose to add a new 35 horse-power engine.

D. D. McDonald is shipping to Cheboygan, 
from along the Michigan Central railroad, to 
the southward,  50 car loads of square timber.
Detroit lumbermen are buying their stocks 
at Saginaw,  having it dressed  in  the  mills 
there,  and thence  shipping  directly  to  the 
East.

A Buffalo tow of a steamer and  two  bar­
ges were lately loaded at White Lake,  with 
1,000,000  feet  of  lumber  for  the  Eastern 
market.

The new town that  is  growing  up  about 
the plant of the Harman Lumber Co., on the 
Sturgeon,  above Escanaba, has  been  named 
Foster City.

Butters  &  Peters shipped into Ludington, 
over the Flint  &  Pere  Marquette  railroad, 
last season, nearly 2,000 car loads of lumber 
and shingles.

The Belding  Manufacturing  Co. employs 
75 hands and has turned out  4,000  refriger­
ators since last October, 3,000 of which have 
been sold and shipped.

D.  L.  Garling, late of the Mecosta County 
Flouring Mills,  at  Big  Rapids,  will  build 
and equip a custom mill at Mecosta, if prop­
erly encouraged by the business  men of the 
place.

Frank Burt is erecting a  factory  building 
two miles southwest  of  Kalamazoo  for the 
purpose of engaging  in  the  manufacture  of 
fanning mills.  He has  purchased  a  West- 
inghouse engine.

The large Burtis  saw  mill,  at Marquette, 
is now running  full  time. 
In  addition  to 
his heavy  lumbering  operations  elsewhere, 
Tim Nester will have cut at the Biulis about 
2,000,000 feet of logs  taken  out  the  past 
winter at Huron river.

Wheeler & Johnson have put  a condenser 
into the steambarge  Shrigley,  at  Manistee, 
for  the  purpose  of  saving  fuel.  A  local 
authority has  it  that  the  salt  manufacture 
has so raised the price of slabs that they are 
too costly for steamboat use now.

J. B.  Weller has  shipped  from  Kingsley 
and Summit City, to Traverse  City, by rail, 
130 car loads of square timber,  from whence 
it will go down the lakes in rafts.  Drake & 
Watts have about 100 car loads.  Weller has 
a  quantity  at  Glen  Lake,  same  vicinity, 
which will be taken from there in vessels.

A company has been  organized  at  Cold- 
water to be known as the  Coldwater  Road 
Cart Co.,  for the purpose of  manufacturing 
the O’Brien & Schmedline cart, the new cor­
poration having purchased the patent.  The 
company is  composed  of L.  E.  Rose,  A.  S. 
Upson, E.  W.  Tibbits and B.  Lillv.

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sold I to spare.

liave 
Tanner, of

Thomas  H.  Mosher,  of  Springville,  the 
oldest  merchant of Lenawee county,  has as-

Constantine boasts of the following indus­
tries:  One  straw  board  paper  mill,  three 
flouring  mills,  furniture  factory,  saw  mill, 
foundry and machine shop,  sash  and  blind 
factory,  soap factory, creamery, anew tissue- 
mill,  and the town haSjT,200-horse power of 
| the most extensive water power in the State 

Mrs.  S.  A.  Townsend succeeds Mrs. Jane 
Eckert  in  the  millinery business at  Lake- 
view.

The  character  of  some  of  President 
Cleveland’s  recent  consular  appointments 
gives good ground for fear that the  consular 
service is to suffer  serious  injury.  At  no 
time in our history have we  had  abroad  so 
competent and efficient a body of officers  to  signed.
represent our commercial interests,  and  ex- 
Cawly & George,  of  Belding 
Cadillac  News:  Cummer  &  Sons’  mill 
cept in the smaller places,  where  the  com-| their hardware  stock to  M. J. 
has started up,  after  undergoing  some very 
pensation is pitifully small,  and where it  is  Otter Lake.
extensive  repairs.  A  new  fifty-foot  band 
the practice to  appoint  foreigners,  resident j 
J.  C.  Benbow  has  purchased  Walter 
saw has been put in, which  makes  a  great 
merchants,  etc., as  our  representatives,  we j Sclioemaker’s general stock at Cannonsburg,
saving in amount of  lumber  cut,  and cuts a
h a v e   h a d   verv good work done for the coun-  and will consolidate it with his own. 
J.  McKelvey,  general  dealer  at  M a p l e   better grade of hmiber than the old  circular 
try.  Such men have raised the sendee alto- 
eether above  previous  experience,  and  the  Grove,  has  just  moved  into  his new store  saw. 
i 
consular reports sent out from  the  Depart-  building, which has been in process of  erec-  band saw,  one board m every eight is sav e  , 
mentof  State  have  had  a  value  which  tion for some time past. 
a
has  been  generally  acknowledged. 
plain to be seen that if  our  commercial  in- j E.  Gruber contemplates trying  his  fortune j 
terests in foreign countries are  to  be  devel-  at Shepard City.  His removal from Altona j
oped,  it must be by intelligent and systema? j will be regretted  by  many  patrons of this j  Over $1,000 has been  spent  on the  Cross 
tic effort,  and that one of the  first  steps  of  vicinity.
A Petoskey grocer’s delivery horse  chews 
this programme must be to  secure thorough-!  Edson, Moore & Co.,  of Detroit have pur-t 
tobacco, and when that  fails  will  eat  tea, 
ly competent consular officers.  Their com-  chased the dry goods  and  clothing stock of j 
coffee,  spices or  lemons.
pensation,  in  the  cases  where  it  is  made-  E.  P. Griswold,  at Grand Ledge,  for $6,560. j 
quate,  should be increased,  the  fee  system I It invoiced nearly double  that sum, but was j 
should  be  entirely  abolished,  and 
should be a jealous care to retain the men of j  W.  A.  Palmer,  the  Carson  City  dealer,  j 
ascertained ability.  The  lapse  from  this  has opened a new tobacco and liquor  estab 
programme  is  the more lamentable because j lishment at St. Johns, 
it occurs at so untimely a  juncture.  Li the j being made  from  special  designs  by 
present depressed  state  of  business,  every! Phoenix Furniture Co.,  of this city, 
increase of our sales abroad is so  much  to- |  A  Lamont  correspondent  writes: 
ward relief and recovery,  and  that,  in  the 
light of all the country’s recent  knowledge,  j soon.  Marshall
and  of  the well-defined reforms which it is j present stock of goods and  will  then go in j 
everywhere agreed should be employed,  the j business for himself in the same store. 
Administration  should  deliberately  disre- i  Geo.  C.  Wetherbee  &  Co.,  the  Detroit

G. i  Plainwell  Independent:  Frank  Jones,  of 
Gringhuis and family will move to California j Saranac,  has taken  an  interest in  the cigar 
Moore  will  sell  out the ! manufacturing  business  of  E.  E.  Disbrow.
‘ The  establishment  gives  employment  to
! eight persons 

Allegan Gazette:  William  Sutphin  will 
The furnishings are I lie in partnership with his brother,  B. B.,  in 
the | the building of the new store,  and  also  in 

Hastings  Banner:  Will  Bowne  is  to 
start a cigar  factory,  occupying  the  third 
story of the bank building.

It  is j  An Altona correspondent  writes:  D r.  J .   year’s cut. 

j the seed and wool business at this point.

which makes a  tremendous  o   erence 

there j auctioned on chattel mortgage, 

It is estimated that, by the use o 

Village dock this  spring.

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Loyster & Son,  of  Hudson,  are  probably 
of  the  State.

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which our commercial competitors  may  re- | before whom the case was tried, pronounced 
joice, but which is good  cause  for  grief  at | the offense a very serious  one  and gave the 
home. 

I defendants a deserved reprimand.

May 16  8,349  dozen.  The  heaviest  day’s 
business was May 15, when they took in 2, 
500 dozen.

The Gripsack Brigade 

Wallace Franklin is  tarrying  at  Traverse 

City this  week.

W.  McQuigg, jobbing salesman for Felix, 
Marston & Blair,  put in a day at this market 
last week.

H.  S. Beers,  representing Sanger & Wells, 
coffee importers of New York,  was  in town 
last Friday.

Mr.  Cudahy,  traveling  salesman for John 
Plankerton & Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  was  in 
town last week.

E.  G. Beach,  representing  Wm.  T.  Cole­
man & Co., of Chicago,  jobbers  of  Califor­
nia products,  was in town Friday.

Tlios.  A.  Stephens,  representing  Spence 
Bros & Co.,  of Cincinnati,  spent  Sunday at 
this market,  and left Tuesday  for  the Sag­
inaws.

John R.  Myers,  traveling  representative 
for the Arbuckle Bros.  Coffee  Co.,  of  New 
York,  Jersey  City  and  Pittsburg,  was in 
town Saturday.

Jas.  Fox  is  visiting  the  Northeni  lake- 
shore towns this week.  He is accompanied 
by S. J. Gottlieb,  of the  Kentucky Railroad 
Tobacco Co., of Covington.

The retail tobacco firm  of  Caro  Bros.,  at 
Kansas  City,  of  which  Leo.  A.  Caro is  a 
member,  has  sold  out.  The  business  has 
been a very profitable  one.

Clarence J. Peck and Frank Greulich made 
a survey of the water route  from Lake  City 
to  Mitchell  last  week.  They  will confine 
themselves to the wagon road hereafter.

Frank DeLaney has  engaged to  re-intro­
duce “Horseshoe”  and  “Big  Chunk”  plug 
tobaccos jto the retail trade.  He  will  work 
the city trade for about  a  month,  and  then 
work outside.

It is reported that Geo.  S. Megee has  left 
the employ of the National Tobacco Works, 
of Louisville, Ky.,  to accept a position with 
Daniel Scotten &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  and  that 
he will travel through Ohio.

Eaton Rapids has  four  resident  traveling 
men,  as follows:  R. D. Wood,  Eaton Rap­
ids Baking Co.; Wm. Smith, Smith, Walters 
&  Co.;  Mr.  Steiglitz,  Steiglitz  &  Minnie, 
cigar  manufacturers;  Hany  West,  W.  J. 
Gould & Co.,  Detroit,

J.  L.  Joseph,  S.  J.  Foree  &  Co.’s  new 
Michigan  representative, has  gone  to  Cin­
cinnati to spend a few days with his family.
He will remove his  family  to  this  city  the 
coming  month,  and  make  this  market  his 
permanent headquarters.

The regular meeting of Post A.,  M.  C.  T.
A.,  was held at the usual place  of  meeting 
Saturday evening.  Several matters of inter­
est to the fraternity were discussed pro  and 
con, but action was deferred until  the  next 
I regular meeting,  Saturday evening, June 27.
W.  G.  Hawkins is now ths  possessor of a 
raging steed which  requires  his  undivided 
attention while at home and is  the  subject 
of frequent reference on the road.  The  re­
port that he has  entered  the mag in the 2:20 
class at the coming races is  probably  with­
out foundation.

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BOOK-KEEPING!

H.  J.  Carr,  book-keeper  for  H.  Leonard  & 
Sons, writes:  “For two  years  and  upwards  I 
have been applying methods  quite  similar to 
those shown in  your  recent  publication,  ‘An 
Abridged System of  Book-keeping,’  and  have 
found  a  decided  saving  of  labor  and  much 
other satisfaction therein.  Hence my belief in 
its  utility,  and  that  what  you have set forth 
will, when rightly understood, merit  attention 
and use.” 
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Full and complete drafts of rulings, etc., with 
illustrative entries and instructions in pamph­
let form mailed upon receipt of $2.

H. Allen,

If in Need of Anything  in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PA T E N T E E S  AND  SO LE  M AN UFA CTU RERS  O F  i
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Barlow’s Patent

Send for Samples and Circular.

With S. A. Welling, 2i Pearl St., Grand Rapids

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Will J. Morley,  of the Powers  &  Walker 
Casket  Co.,  says  that  his  name  has never 
yet appeared in T he T radesm an.  And it 
would not appear now but for the fact that he 
spent Sunday in Ludington, buying ice cream 
and  candy for the belle of  the  town.  The 
date  of  the  ceremony  will  be  announced 
hereafter.

W.  Guy, the only son  of  W. II. Downs, 
died near Union City a  few  days  ago  and 
was buried at that place on Sunday.  Death 
was caused by congestion of the brain,  com­
plicated with a  spinal  disease.  The  child 
was about six  months  old,  and  unusually 
bright for one of  his  age.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Downs have  the  sympathy  of  the  entire 
traveling fraternity in their affliction.

Graham Roys,  the well-known whip trav­
eler,  writes  from  Mosherville,  Hillsdale 
county:  “The merchants  here  have  goodj 
stocks and good trade. 
I think  the  Grand 
Rapids jobbing houses could get a large per­
centage of the trade here,  if they would try. 
As it is,  I am the only one  that  represents 
the Yalley City here.  Freights are  low for 
Grand Rapids  shippers  on  the L.  S.  &  M. 
S.,  and also on the M.  & O.”

All  Grand  Rapids  traveling  men,  irre­
spective of organization  or  previous  condi­
tion of servitude,  are  respectfully invited to 
meet at T he Tradesm an  office  Saturday 
evening, June 13,  to  make  the  necessary 
preliminary  arrangements  for  a  traveling 
men’s picnic,  to be  held in  July or August. 
Every traveling man is  cordially  invited to 
co-operate in the  undertaking,  to  the  end 
tliat the second annual  picnic  may be  even 
more successful than the first.

Charlotte  has  fifteen  resident  traveling 
men,  as follows: 
J.  H.  Gibbons,  Yale  & 
Crane,  Detroit;  Mr.  French,  Marple  & 
French,  cracker  bakers;  A.  L.  Nichols, 
Steam  Evaporator  Co.;  John  and  Chas. 
Lambert,  C. W.  Inslee & Co., Detroit; R. D. 
Wheaton,  manufacturer  iron  bridges;  M. 
Friedmam,  merchant 
tailor;  Geo.  Rue, 
Cleveland  Stove  Co.;  Geo.  Ward,  Ward  & 
Dolson,  buggy manufacturers; E. M. Wright) 
manufacturer agricultural  implements;  Ed. 
Pierce and D.  C.  Owen,  agricultural  imple­
ments;  J.  B.  May,  Champion  reaper;  S. T. 
Green,  Eureka mower;  S. C. Crebbs, grocery 
jobbing house of Detroit.

Watervliet  Record:  Travelers  are  well 
cared for in Watervliet at the present  time. 
Each hotel has a representative at each train 
as it arrives at the depot,  and every scrap of 
luggage is tenderly cared for. 
It is  a  little 
amusing to see  two  competing  hotel  men 
nod  and  smile  around  a  member  of  the 
“gripsack brigade” and  at  the  same  time 
manage to stab each other  with frowns that 
savor of cusswords.  This  rivalry is a most 
happy condition of affairs,  and  may  result 
in providing  additional,  hotel  accommoda­
tions and  conveniences^  in  this  village,  a

Barlow  Brothers,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

great necessity when considered 
tion with our summer resort.

TR A D E  MARK.

ec-lO. H. RICHMOND & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

M ANUFACTURERS  O F

the  market,  50 cents. 

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

Riclmonâ’s Family Medicines.

Geo.  Owen has about concluded  to  retire 
from the road and  devote  his  time  to  the 
breeding of  fancy  dogs—become  a  sort  of 
professional canine fancier.  With  a  view 
to accomplishing this end,  he is desirious of
purchasing about twenty-five dogs, for which j The  best selling liver and  blood  medicine in 
he will pay the highest  cash  price.  Those 
having spare canines would do  well  to  ex­
press them to his address in this  city.  He
recently  received a valuable accession to his 
kennel from New York,  which has  a  pedi­
Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer.
gree second to no other dog in  the country.
Tt is a cross between a mastiff,  St.  Bernard,  j  Retailers,  please  order  of  your  jobbersun 
’  Grand Rapids, Chicago or Detroit.  It your job-
It is a cross  ueiwten 
bull-dog,  bull-terrier,  greyhound  and  ter-  ber does not handle our goods, we will fill your
T ttf  1 orders.  Pills and Health Restorer can be sent 
rier,  and cost $100  and  expressage. 
by mail,  141 South Division St., Grand Rapids.
an  ÉI
Tradesm an has been favored  with  an  in- J 
stantaneous photograph of the  valuable ani­
mal,  and  herewith presents an accurate rep­
resentation of the same:

STEAM LAUNDRY

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

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

, 

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  PROPRIETOR.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  1

I  Orders  l»y Mail and Exprès 
I tended  to.

promptly at-

MISCELLANEOUS.

“An Honorable Exception.”

J 

From the  Allegan Gazette.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment.

When the Gazette  said  no  Grand  Rapids 
paper  had  protested  against  the  appoint­
ment of Ike Messmore to a federal  office,  it 
■ NYONE wanting  a  clean  hardware  stock, 
did injustice to  T h e  Mic h ig a n   T r a d e s­
located on one of the best business streets 
That  ioiunal is an  honorable excep-  of  Grand  Rapids,  would  do  well to  call at 17 
m an.
' South  Division  street.  Stock  will  inventory
In its issue of April 1 it  showed how 
tion. 
about  $4,000.  Terms,  cash.  Reason  for sell­
ing, owners have other business. 
90
Messmore had  in  the  Kent  Circuit  Court 
shown himself  a  perjurer  and  how  that 
court held that he had obtained goods under 
false pretenses,  and  entered  a  strong  pro­
test against the old scoundrel’s appointment. 
The daily press of the Yalley  City  greatly 
needs at least one man of the virility of  the 
editor of T h e Tradesm an.

feet,  on  Pine  street, Muskegon.  Excel­
lent location for dry goods store, as there is no 
business  of  that  kind  on the street.  Tenant 
can have second story, if he desires.  Address, 
O. Lambert, Muskegon, Mich. 
89*
W ANTED—Twenty-five dogs,  for which the 
highest cash price will be paid.  Geo.  F. 
Owen, Walker avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich.
IpOR SALE-Hotel in one of the finest towns 

I7AOR  RENT—New store and basement, 22x80 

Muskegon Matters.

Nap  Normandin  has  opened a  Catholic 

• 

book store at 23 South First  street.

M.  Micliener has  established  an  agency 
for the sale of illuminating  and  lubricating 
oils on the corner of First  street  and  Clay 
avenue.

Erickson  &  Johnson 

Julius 
Cadarette in the blacksmith and wagón bus­
iness at Lakeside.

succeed 

Codfish is a great  delicacy in  Guatemala 

and sells at 40 cents per pound.

’  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 
I Rapids, Mich. 

89*

* 

I^OR  SALE—Our  stock  of  drugs, boots  and 

shoes, dry goods, groceries and hardware. 
I 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. 
SITUATION  WANTED—By young  naan in  a 
©   grocery or general  store,  four  years’  ex­
perience.  Best  of  references.  Address Box 
96, Fremont, Mich. 

90*

91*

ila  Owners  of Red  Foas  and  Big  Drive  Plugs.

THROUGH  BOTH  HOUSES.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

9  ©  10 
30  ©  35 
38  ©  40 
60  ©  65 
3  ©  5
11  ©  12 
1454©  15 
3  ©  4
52  ©  55 
.  18 
12  ©  15 
12  ©  15

15  ©  18 
14
5  © 
6
6  ©  7

50® 55 
40
2  00 
50

®  75 
6  ©  7
50  @  60

No changes of note.

ACIDS.

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

AMMONIA.

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

BALSAMS.

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

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

BERRIES.

Cubeb  prime.(Powd 80c)...............
Juniper............................................
Prickly Ash.......................... >.........

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 B> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
do 
Lgowood, 54s 
...............
do 
Logwood, 54s 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 ¥  cent, off list.

flowers. •

j®ruQ8 S> flftebtctnes
Michigan  Slate  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

„

Rapids. 

amazoo. 

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan-
ThiSf’vice-President—Frank  Wurzburg,  Gr’d 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Win. 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 13,1885.

.  „

__ 

„  

,

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9,1884.

OFFICERS.

_  

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Eseott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
_T
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. 
^   TT
Committeex>n Legislation—Isaac Watts,  U.  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 m 
November.
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  June  4, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

^

.

OLIVE  OIL.

W here the Best is  Produced  and  How It 

is  Made.

Considerable misconception of facts seems 
prevalent in regard to the  best  olive oil for 
table use; as to where it is produced; how it 
is made and what are or should be its  char­
acteristics.  A great many  persons  profess 
dislike for olive oil as an article of food and 
complain that it has a  rank,  nauseous taste 
which  they cannot  tolerate.  Probably this 
is quite true  with  regard  to  the  oil  they 
have had put before them.

While as a condiment for various kinds of 
food nothing is more  palatable and appetiz­
ing than the best olive oil,  it must  be freely 
admitted that bad, defective olive oil is sim­
ply detestable; as,  also, that the greater part 
of the salad oil sold in the United  States is 
of very inferior quality, although  put  up in 
an attractive form and  professing  to  be the 
very finest.  The choicest olive oil, it should 
be generally  known,  besides  possessing  a 
fine golden color,  absolute freedom from any 
unpleasant smell,  and  being  strictly  pure, 
should also be smooth,  delicate  and  appe­
tizing to the taste,  and as free from the least 
rancidness or taint as good fresh cream. 
It 
is not sufficient that it should be  pure  (viz, 
not mixed with other vegetable oils) because 
there is much olive oil which, though strict­
ly pure,  is rank,  nauseous  and totally  unfit 
Italy is beyond dispute the  olive 
for food. 
oil producing country  of  the  world. 
Italy 
produces ten  times  more  than  France,  the 
latter country not  making  enough  for  its 
own consumption and consequently  being a 
large importer. 
In Tuscany,  which is just­
ly called the  “Garden  of  Italy,” the  very 
finest olive oil for eating  purposes  is made; 
it cannot be equalled,  much  less  surpassed, 
by anything produced in the rest of Italy or 
in France.

The best quality of olive oil made in Tus­
cany is  generally  known  and  described  in 
commerce as  Lucca oil. 
It  is  made  from 
sound,  ripe,  freslily-gatliered  olives,  grown 
in certain favored hilly  districts  where  the 
conditions of climate and  soil  are  specially 
suited to the  olive  tree. 
In  Tuscany  the 
olive harvest generally begins in  November 
and is at its height during January and Feb­
ruary.  The fruit is first  crushed in  a  mill; 
the pulp next  placed in  clean,  sweet  fiber 
bags and these subjected to a pressure when 
the oil flows forth  and is  collected in  suit­
able tanks. 
It is  only  the  first  pressure 
which yields the best olive oil.  The  newly 
made oil is  allowed  to  rest,  subsequently 
clarified by passing  it  through  pure,  new, 
carded  cotton-wool, 
frequently  renewed, 
and then placed for storage in  cool, covered 
tanks.  The whole process is  distinguished 
by its simplicity; the key to making the fin­
est olive oil when the fruit is sound, freshly 
gathered,  and crushed  at  once,  is  cleanli­
ness.
The mills,  presses,  vessels  and  utensils, 
as also the water used in washing them and 
in collecting the oil  must  be  clean,  sweet 
and pure,  because  fine  olive  oil is so  deli­
cate that it would be tainted  and  ruined by 
coming in contact with anything foul or im­
pure; and the finest  olive  oil is  then a pro­
duct which owes nothing to chemical opera­
tions or refining.  Therefore,  persons  who 
talk of “highly refined”  olive  oil  are in ig­
norance of the subject. 
It is also a mistake 
to  suppose  that  the  circumstance  of  olive 
oil being thin and  almost  colorless  proves 
anything in its favor.  Olive oil of very light 
color is either made from over-ripe fruit and 
consequently  is  more  or less  rancid,  or it 
has been artificially  bleached  with  chemi­
cals and is  then  unwholesome.  The  finest 
olive oil,  as  before  stated,  should be  of  a 
distinctly golden hue,  and  neither  too thin 
nor too dense.  One  word  as  to  adultera­
tions.  To mix the really finest Lucca  olive 
oil with spurious oils,  such as of cottonseed, 
would be as rational as to  mix  the  choicest 
butter with offensive tallow. 
It would ruin 
the quality of a choice and  high-priced arti­
cle and could not escape detection.  It is the 
lowest grade of olive oil which unscrupulous 
persons choose for  mixing  with  seed  oil. 
The result is a vile, cheap compound  which 
tells its own tale  and  should  deceive  no­
body.

So Say W e All.

From the Freeport Herald.

The Grand Rapids T radesm an is a model 

paper.

The Pharmacy Bill Passes  the House.
The Hueston pharmacy bill, which had al­
ready passed  the  Senate,  came  up  in  the 
House last Thursday and was passed by the 
decisive vote of  57  to  22.  Representative 
Ford,  of Grand Rapids,  and  Representative 
Shorts,  of Ludington,  spoke in  favor of the 
bill, and Representatives McNabb and Rich­
ardson opposed it.  The  former  improved 
the occasion to make one of his  characteris­
tic speeches, but was literally “too  full  for 
utterance.”  He said the people were over­
burdened with  boards.  Every  occupation 
would soon be governed  by  a  board.  He 
looked next to see a millinery  board  estab­
lished to say what  kind  of  bonnets  women 
should  wear, 
[Laughter.]  Then  there 
would be a board for butchers and butchers’ 
meats—a board to  go  around  with  micro­
scopes and things to see worms and bugs  in 
the meat. 
[Laughter.]  Science has  found 
out that  even  the  wandering  breezes  that 
kiss with their sweet breath the hilltops, are 
poisoned. 
[Applause.]  Soon,  if  this  sort 
of thing kept on,  a board  would  be  organ­
ized to purify the aromatic  air  of  his  own 
much-loved Newaygo  (laughter),  an  atmos­
phere that conduced to every citizen’s physic- 
ial  and  moral  well-being  and  made  that 
comity a land of the blessed (renewed laugh­
ter) and healthful. 
If the tendency to  es­
tablish boards was not overcome in  a  short 
time one-half the people of the State  would 
be members of boards to keep the other half 
from killing themselves. 
[Continued laugh­
ter and applause.]

Representative  Richardson  offered 

an 
amendment enumerating a series of articles 
to  be sold by others than registered pharma­
cists, which was rejected.  He then offered 
an amendment that “all druggists  who give 
physicians  a  commission  on  prescriptions 
shall be liable to  the  penalties of  this act,” 
which was also rejected.

Representative Gibbs,  of Mayfield, offered 
an amendment allowing persons not  licens­
ed as pharmacists to sell  “drugs  medicines, 
chemicals,  essential  oils  and 
tinctures 
which are put up in bottles,  boxes,  or pack­
ages bearing labels  securely  affixed,  which 
labels shall bear the name of the pharmacist 
or druggist putting up  the  same;  the  dose 
that  may  be  administered  to  persons  3 
months, 6 months,  1 year,  3 years,  5  years, 
10 years,  15 years and 21 years of  age,  and 
if a poison the name or names  of  the  most 
common antidote.”

This amendment  was  adopted,  and  the 
bill was passed and sent  over to the  Senate 
for concurrence on the amendment.

THE  DRUGGISTS  PROTEST.

They Don’t Like the  Bill  Restricting  the 

Sale  of Liquor.

From the Detroit News, 28th.

The retail druggists held a  private  meet­
ing last night at the Detroit  medical college 
hall on Fanner street,  for the purpose of or­
ganizing opposition to the  bill  now  before 
the Legislature forbidding the sale of liquor 
by  druggists  except  under  certain  rules. 
Under the present law,  liquor  can be  sold 
for  medicinal,  scientific or mechanical pur­
poses.  Under the new  law  no  sale of li­
quor can be made  except  on  a  physician’s 
prescription,  and the latter must first file an 
affidavit that it will be  prescribed for  medi­
cinal purposes only.  Much  opposition was 
expressed against  the  bill,  it being the gen­
eral opinion that it  was  an  outrage  on  the 
drug trade.  A committee was appointed to 
organize the opposition.  Some of  the large 
Southern liquor  houses  are  represented in 
the city,  and are  instrumental  in  opposing 
the measure.  A number  of  leading  drug­
gists do not take part in  the  movement,  as 
they believe the law will be a dead  letter.  •
Vernon said this morning:  “If our  wise 
legislators prefer to have  liquor  sold in sa­
loons rather  than  in ding  stores,  let them 
pass the law. 
It will  either be  avoided or 
will compel the  druggists  to  take  out  li­
censes. 
If we’ve got to run a  saloon,  why, 
we’ll do it, that’s all.”

Frank Inglis  thought  it  would  compel 
many druggists  to  sell  more  liquor  than 
they were now  doing  in  order  to  pay the 
license they  would  be  compelled  to  take 
out.

E.  E.  Riopel said the law would be avoid 
ed. 
If a man  wanted  liquor  the  druggist 
could fill out a prescription  for it  and  the 
law would be complied with  and  evaded at 
the same time.

The Drug Market.

Business and collections  are  both  satis­
factory.  Quinine is at a stand-still,  in  con­
sequence of  the  refusal  of  the  American 
manufacturers to make another reduction in 
the price.  Other  articles  in  the  drug  line 
are also very  steady,  no  changes  of  note 
having occurred since the last issue.

BEAD!  READ! READ!

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole  Control of our Celebrated

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.  ’ 

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.  NEV1N  & CO.
Send for sample cards  and  prices.  Address

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

* 

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MICH.

Arnica.......................... ....................   10  ©
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................  
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is (54 14c, 54s 16c) ............
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
Kino TPowdered, 30c].....................  
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered  47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.40)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  30
HERBS—IN  OUNCE PACKAGES.

60®

28©

¿o 
55@60 
_ _
22 
20©
13 
40 
35©
80
90@1 00
35
20
40 
3 90 
30 
26 
24 
30
@1  00

 

Hoarhound...........................  
25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint.......................................................25
Rue..................................................................... £0
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
30
65

 

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  13  ©  14
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & 54s, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
16
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
Uva  Ursi............................. 
10
35
Belledonna........................................ 
30
Foxglove........................................... 
Henbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red........................................... 
2 35

 

 

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....................................135  @175
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

OILS.

 

Almond, sweet...................................  45 @  50
45
Amber,  rectified.............................. 
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)....... 
75
Citronella........................................ 
1 20
Cloves................................................ 
Cod Liver,  filtered.................$  gal 
1 50
Cod Liver, best......................... 
3 50
6 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Cubebs, P. & W ...............................  
7  00
Erigeron.......................................... 
1  60
2  00
Fireweed........................................... 
75
oz...............................  
Geranium 
35
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
1  00
Lavender garden 
.............  
Lavender spike 
.............  
90
Lemon, new  crop............................ 
1  40
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.....................................1  50
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1  10
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  —  
2 75
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
d 25
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
Pennyroyal........... •......................... 
175
4 50
Peppermint,  white......................... 
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
8 50
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50) 
Salad...................................................  65 ©  67
Savin........................................:-----  
1 00
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
4  50
Sandal Wood, W. 1..........................  
700
Sassafras........................................... 
55
Spearmint.......................................  
@7 00
Tansy.................................................4  50  @5 00
Tar (by gal 50c)..................................   10 ©  12
2 10
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)....... 
3 50
Wormseed......................................  
2 00

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Bicromate.................................$  fl> 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow . . 4 .......................  

ROOTS.

14
40
19
3 00
28

Alkanet............................................  
20
25
Althea, cut........................................ 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in He and 54s__  
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
20
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
35
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15o)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 14c).............   11 ©  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 30c).................. 
25
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
25
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
110
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............  
18
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

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

 

 

 

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65
40
20
15
25
20

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........
Canary,  Smyrna.....................   .....
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................

15
5  @ 6
4  @ 454
15  © 18
1 50
75
1
20
10
15

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4  © 454
7  © 8
454© 5)4
8
Mustard, white  Black 10c)............
7d
Quince..............................................
7
Rape, English..................................
Worm,  Levant................................. 
14
Florida sheeps’wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
do 
Nassau 
do 
........ 
2 00
. . . .  
Velvet Extra do 
1  10
do 
Extra Yellow do 
do 
.......  
85
do 
Grass 
do 
65
.......  
Hard head, for slate use................  
75
Yellow Reef, 
................. 
1  40

SPONGES.

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Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.26; $  gal__  
2 36
1 25
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
27
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
45
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................ 
Alum.........................................  $ f t   254©  354
3  ©  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
45
Annatto,  prime...............................  
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........  
454©  5
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  ©  7
Blue  Soluble...........................  
50
 
2  75
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
Bay Rum, domestic, H„ P. & Co.’s. 
2 00
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
135
Beans,  Tonka............................... 
Beans, Vanilla................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................  
2  30
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................  
50
Blue V itriol....................................  
6  @  7
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............  
12
2 25
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
18
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
22
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
18
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
Carmine, No. 40 ...............................  
4 00
Cassia  Buds...................................... 
12
Calomel.  American......................... 
75
5
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
12
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
8
Chalk,  red  fingers........................... 
Chalk, white lump..........................  
2
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1  60
Colocynth  apples............................ 
60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 50
Chloral 
cryst... 
1 70
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ... 
190
Chloral 
1 75
crusts.. 
Chloroform......................................  85  © 90
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  23  @  28
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   23  @  28
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18  @  20
Cochineal.........................................  
40
Cocoa  Butter...........................  
45
 
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................  
2
70
Corrosive Sublimate.......................  
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
@  40
Cream Tartar, pure powdered....... 
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote...................  
50
Cudbear,  prime...............................  
24
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
24
Dextrine........................................... 
12
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
1  10
50
Dragon’s Blood Mass...................... 
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
45
Ether Squibb’s................................. 
1  10
8
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
Epsom Salts...................................... 
2  ©  3
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
60
Flake white...................................... 
14
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
25
Gelatine, Cooper’s........................... 
90
Gelatine, French__ .'.....................   45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 7’) off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet..................................   12  ©  17
Glue,white.......................................   16  ©  28
Glycerine,  pure...............................   16  @  20
Hops  54s and 54s .............................. 
25©  40
Iodoform $   oz................................. 
40
Indigo................................................  85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35  @  40
4  00
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
Isinglass,  American.......................  
1  50
Japonica........................................... 
7
London  Purple...............................   10  ©  15
Lead, acetate....................................  
15
8
Lime, chloride, (Vis 2b 10c & J4s 11c) 
1  00
Lupuline.............. 
 
Lycopodium....................................  
45
50
M.81C6  . 
.  . 
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
12Vi@  13
Manna, S.  F ............................. 
75
 
Mercury............................................  
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........oz  3 00@3 25
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s__ ... 
40
10
Moss, Iceland.............................. $  ft 
12
Moss,  Irish...................................... 
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........ 
18
Nutgalls...........................................  
23
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
60
Nux  Vomica....................................  
10
Ointment. Mercurial, Vid............... 
45
17  @  25
Paris Green....................................  
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
Pepsin...............................................  
2 50
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ............................... 
 
6  ©  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  77  ©  82
Quinine,  German............................  77  ©  82
85
Red  Precipitate..........................$  ft 
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
28
Strychnia, cryst...............................  
1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  77  ©  80
35
Saffron, American..........................  
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
@  2
Sal Nitre, large  cryst...................... 
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
33
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal  Soda.................  
2  @  2V
2 15
Salicin................................................ 
6  50
Santonin........................................... 
Snuff s, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...................... 
4
Spermaceti........................................ 
35
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__  
4Vi@  5
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
17
......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
9
......................... 
...... 
 
11
Soap, 
do  do 
Soap, Mazzini................................... 
14
Spirits Nitre. 3 F ..............................  26  ©  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  30  ©  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
35
3)4©  4
Sulphur, flour................................... 
Sulphur,  roll....................................  
Tartar Emetic.............. 
60
 
2 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, 54 gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
140
Tar, 
pints in tin.............  
85
Turpentine,  Venice..................^ ft 
25
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
55
Zinc,  Sulphate.................... 
 
8
OILS.
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shield  Cylinder....................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................35
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 30
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg...............................................1554
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter bleached.................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
Whale, winter......................................  70 
76
70
Lard, extra...........................................  60 
60
Lard, No.  1...........................................  60 
64
Linseed, pure  raw..............................  51 
Linseed, .boiled..................................   54 
57
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   70 
90
Spirits Turpentine.............................   36 
40
No. 1 Turp  Coach..................................1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp............................................1 60@1 70
Coach  Body...........................................2  75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar.............................. 1 55®1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp...
70©  75
PAINTS.
Lb
2© 3
2© 3
2© 3
254© 3
254© 3
13@16
60@65
16®17
554
5  54
@70
@90
1 10
140
1 20@1 40
1 00@1 20

Bbl 
Red Venetian............................  154 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  154 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  1% 
Putty, commercial..................  2)4 
Putty, strictly pure..................  254 
Vermilion,prime American.. 
Vermilion, English..................  
Green, Peninsular.................... 
Lead, red strictly pure............ 
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
Whiting, white Spanish.......  . 
Whiting,  Gildersr...................... 
White, Paris American............ 
Whiting  Baris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Paints....... 
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints.. 

VARNISHES.

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W holesale

Druggists !

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

%  M ettes, C M :  
Pants,  Oils, Varilles,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

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  Brushes 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  drug  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  depart­
ment  We CONTROL and are  the  ONLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS  DADE  &  GD.’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 has been assured.

W e are also owners of the

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

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HMELTMPEREIl&CO

TH E  LOUNGER.

The coming  fall  season  promises  better 
prospects than last,  and unless all signs fail 
there will be a greater demand  for all kinds 
>f goods than we have seen for two seasons. 
Business men  generally  are  gaining  confi­
dence and look for better things,  and manu­
facturers announce a glimpse  of light in the 
horizon.

Notwithstanding  the  backward  state  of 
trade,  as claimed by many,  things  are  not 
as bad evidently as they are pictured by pes­
simists  (and what a tot of them  there  are). 
I find many jobbing houses very busy indeed, 
and some manufacturers working over-time, 
although all  complain  that  prices  obtained 
are closer than they should be.

* 

**

*  *  *

Said a fancy goods dealer to me the  other 
day :  “Leather garters are very fashionable 
with ladies now.  Haven’t  you observed— 
but,  oh,  of  course  not,  excuse me.  The 
leather does not bind like rubber—and then, 
too,  these little straps are  so  much  neater. 
They buckle closely just above the  calf and 
stay always the same.  The regulation size 
is eighteen  inches ;  they  never  go  beyond 
that,  and generally they have to be  buckled 
up very much smaller.  They  don’t  make 
ridges  like  the  elastic  will  upon  delicate 
skin,  and they  are  perfectly  comfortable. 
Sometimes  they are worn above thè  knee.” 
I never knew until now what the regulation 
size of garters was.

*  *  *

I hate to  give  any  fellow  away,  and  I 
won’t do it now any more  than to say  that 
he is a drummer for a certain jobbing house, 
not a thousand miles from Detroit.  A week 
ago he returned from a trip through  the in­
terior of the State,  and,  although  he had an 
excellent trip, he wore a  baby-has-swallow- 
ed-a-pin sort  of  look.  A  friend  of  mine 
met him on the street and  noticing his woe­
begone  appearance,  said:  “Old  fellow, 
what’s the trouble?”  “I’m  all  broke  up.
That  d-----landlord,  in  -----------   put  his
foot in it last Monday.  You see I  took my 
wife out with me on my last trip,  and when 
we drove up to his hotel the  old  dub  came 
out to the  door. 
I  introduced  my  wife  to 
him,  and, will  you  believe  it,  the  wappy 
jawed idiot threw up both hands and yelled: 
‘Juming jingo! another woman?’ ”

*  *  *

I notice a tendency on the part  of  no  in­
considerable number of boot and  shoe man­
ufacturers to  “jam” the prices  of their pro­
ducts down to the lowest notch.  The result 
is that an indifferent lot of goods are put up­
on the market, devoid of  substantial  manu­
facture and material.  The  proper  way,  it 
seems to me, would be to improve  the  char­
acter of the goods and charge a  correspond­
ing price. 
It might not result in so  large  a 
number of sales for the  immediate  present, 
but it would afford such manufacturers some­
thing  on  which  to  build  up  a reputation. 
They can never do it on trashy goods.

* * *

Two manufacturers were comparing notes 
concerning their individual ways of conduct­
ing their business,  taking  stock,  etc.  “As 
to that,”  remarked  one,  “I know a  house 
that occupies  quite a prominent  position in 
the trade,  that has not taken stock in fifteen 
years.”  *‘ You don’t mean it,” remarked the 
other in astonishment.  “But  how  do they 
ever  know  what  condition  they’re  in?” 
“Oh,  they have no trouble about  that—they 
are always hard up!”

Purely Personal.

F.  E.  Stevens,  book-keeper  for  Jennings 
& Smith,  spent Sunday with his  parents  at 
Muir.

Christian Bertseh has returned  from  his 
trip among the Eastern  shoe manufacturing 
centers.

Frank Jewell has returned  to  his desk at 
Clark,  Jewell  &  Co.’s,  after  spending  a 
month with the boys on the road,  renewing 
his  acquaintance  with  the  patrons  of  the 
house.

S. F.  Downs,  brother of  W.  II.  Downs, 
has come to  Grand  Rapids  to  reside  per- 
mantly,  providing  he  can  secure  employ­
ment in some  of  the  mercantile  establish­
ments here.

Robt.  Hunting,  with the  Merchants’jDes- 
patch,  has been  laid  up  since  May  1  with 
malarial fever.  He  has  just  got  around 
again,  but will not resume his  old  position 
for a week or ten days yet.

J.  R.  Ledyard,  President of the Kentucky 
Railroad Tobacco  Co.,  of  Covington,  Ky., 
will  spend  next  week  among  the  jobbing 
trade of Michigan,  accompanied  by the rep­
resentative of the house,  S. J.  Gottlieb.

Dr.  Geo. W.  Crouter,  President  of  the 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, 
was in town Saturday  on  his  way  to  his 
home at Charlevoix.  He had been at Lans- 
sing about a week,  furthering  the  interests 
of the pharmacy bill,  and was  considerably 
elated over the passage  of  the  measure by 
the House.

To trust is to bust, 
To bust is hell, 
No tri\st,  no bust, 
No bust, no hell.

“Has a Field of Its Own.”

From the Battle Creek Cajl.

T he Michigan  Tradesm an,  published 
at Grand Rapids by E.  A.  Stowe,  has  don­
ned  a  new  dress  and  presents  a  slick 
appearance.  The Tradesm an  has a jour­
nalistic field of its  own,  being  devoted  to 
the  mercantile and  manufacturing interests 
of the State. 
It is a good paper, and Stowe 
knows just  how  to  continue  to  make  it 
such.

- Thirty shaves for 12 cents is  the  barber’s 
price in India.

The Old Reliable
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Is  for  Sale  by  all Grand Rapids Jobbers,

SAMPLES  FURNISH ED  ON  APPLICATION.

PetersTourg,  Va.

S .  "W .  V E I N  A 
&   C O '
JENNINGS  A  SMITH,
A rctic  M anufacturing  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE

20 Lyon  J3 t.,  GrrandL
ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

napicis.

— — AND---------

_A.rotio  B ak in g  Pow der.
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

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

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Grocers,
A R A B   P L U G

Sole  Owners  of

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

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

T  O  

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF
G  C  O
PLUG  TOBACCO.
RED  F O X ..............................................
BIG D R I V E ..............................................
PATROL 
..............................................
JACK  RABBIT 
...............................
SILVER  C O I N ......................................
P A N IC ......................................................‘
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
APPLE  J A C K .......................................

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

2c less in orders for  100 pounds of any one brand.

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FXXTE  CUT.

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THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
STUNNER,  DARK 
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T ...............................
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT 
FRUIT 
-
O  SO  SWEET 

- 
2c less in 6 pail lots.

...............................- 
SMOKING.

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE,  LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
SEAL OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  -
2c less in  100 pound lots.

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.26
.26
.27
.24
.24

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

WIDE BROWN COTTONS.

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WEDNESDAY.

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T A X A T IO N — B A N K   S T O C K S.

FINE BROWN COTTONS

BUSINESS LAW.

WEDNESDAY.  JUNE  3,  1885.

I Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 
1 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

E. A. STOWE  & BBO., Proprietors.

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  714
Laconia B, 74.........1614
Lyman B, 40-in.......1014
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  5%
Nashua  E, 40-in—   814
Nashua  R, 44 ........   714
Nashua 0,7-8.;.........6-4
Newmarket N .. —   614 
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Pepperell  R, 44—   714 
Pepperell  0,7-8.....  614 
Pepperell N. 3-4—   614
Pocasset  C, 4-4.........624
Saranac  R...............  714
Sargnac E..‘............  9

The Supreme Court of Indiana held in the 
case of Wasson vs. First ¡National Bank, that 
in  the  assessment  and  taxation  of  shares 
of national bank stock,  the  owners  thereof 
having no other credits or  moneyed  capital 
from which to deduct their bona  fide  debts, 
are entitled to deduct them from the assessed 
value of such shares of stock.

Masonville TS........   8
Masonville  S.......... 1014
Lonsdale...................914
Lonsdale A ............. 16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J .................
Victory D ...............
Victory  K ...............  214
Phoenix A ............... 1914
Phoenix B .............   1014
Phoenix X X ............ 5
Gloucester............... 6
Glou cestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy............ 6
Merrimac D..............6
Manchester..............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........614
Pacific  robes............ 6
Richmond.................6
Steel River..............514
Simpson’s .................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues.  714

BANKRUPTCY—CLAIMS  PROVABLE.
In the petition of Taber et al., Assignees, 
in the matter of the Boston &FairliavenIron 
Works,  Bankrupts, 
it  appeared  that  on 
March 2,  1878,  the Boston & Fairliaven Iron j 
Works filed  a  petition  in  bankruptcy  and 
were adjudged bankrupts.  On  March  22, 
1880, one Child recovered  judgment  in  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court  at  Boston 
against the bankrupt corporation for the sum 
of $5,640,26 and costs of suit  upon  a  claim 
for profits or infringement of  a patent. 
In 
July,  1884, the proof of claim was  duly pre­
sented before  the  register,  who  refused  to 
allow it upon the ground that it appeared to 
be a claim for damages for the infringement 
of a patent right, not converted into  a judg­
ment or otherwise  liquidated,  prior  to  the 
date of bankruptcy.  Subsequently  the Dis­
trict Court held that the claim  was provable 
against the estate under section 5,067 of the 
Revised Statutes.  The  United States Cir­
cuit Court, in reversing the judgment  of the 
District Court,  held that a bill in equity  for 
a  naked  account  of  profits  and  damages 
against an infringer of  a  patent  could  not 
be sustained on the ground  that the infring­
er of a patent was a trustee for  the  profits, 
and decided that the claim of Child was  not 
a claim provable against  the  estate  of  the 
bankrupts.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
|PePP®rell, 10-4........2o
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 21  ¡Pepperell, 11-4........"754
Pepperell,  7-4........1654 Pequot,  H ..............*1
Penperell,  8-4........20  ¡Pequot,  8-4.............
Pepperell,  9-4........2254IPeauot,  9-4............. 24
Park Mills, No. 90. .14
Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz.. .10
Prodigy, oz..............11
Economy, OZ......10
Otis Apron..............1014
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Otis  Furniture.......1014
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
York, 1  oz............... 10
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
¡York. AA, extra oz.14 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama  plaid.......  <
|  Alabama brown—   7
Augusta plaid.......... 7
'  Jewell briwn..........W t
Toledo plaid............  7
Kentucky  brown.. 1014 
Manchester  plaid..  7 
Lewiston brown...  914 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Lane brown........  »14
Utility plaid...........   614
Louisiana  plaid....  7
bleached cottons.
...514 
Avondale, 3 6 . . . . SlflGreene, G
...  714 
Art cambrics, 36. ..il A Hilj, 4-4... 
624 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 Hill, 
...  624
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 1214 Hope,  44
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4...............  614
bric, 44................1H4
Ballou, 54...............  6
Lin wood,  44 ............714
Boott, 0.4-4............  814
Lonsdale,  44............7%
Boott,  E .5-5..........7
Lonsdale  cambric. 1014 
Boott, AGC, 44.........914
Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Boott, R. 3-4...... •  514
Langdon,  45............ 14
Blackstone, AA 44.  7 
Masonville,  44.........8
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Maxwell. 44 ...........   914
Conway,  4-4........... *
New York Mill, 4-4.1014 
Cabot, 4-4................ 624
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Canoe,  34...............4
Pride of the West. .11 
Domestic,  3 6 .......  <14
Pocahontas,  44—   714
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
Slaterville, 7-8.......614
Davol, 4-4........ ••••  9
Victoria, AA............9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  854
I Fruitof Loom,  *-8..  754 WTOdbury,4-4 
71/
Fruit of  the Loom,  Whitinsville,  4^4...  714 
CONVEYANCE— SECURITY— MORTGAGE!
1 
...11  Whitinsville,7-8—   614
cambric,^ 4.....  fts, |Wam8uttaf 4.4........ 1014
When a conveyance of real estate absolute 
GoldMedat 7 - t ' . 6* |w Í W ¿ ¿ ¥ *  30!..1014 
in form is  made  merely  as  security for  a 
Gilded  Age
loan,  it is to be deemed a mortgage, and the 
Crown.....................17
subsequent surrender of the note evidencing 
No.  10..................... 1214
the indebtness, and the advancement  of  an 
C oin...................... 10
Anchor....................
additional sum by the lender,  equal with the 
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............
previous loan to the agreed value of the land 
Davol...................... 11
mortgaged,  is not sufficient as  between  the 
London....................
Paconia..................
parties to divest the title  of  the  mortgagor 
Red  Cross.......••••■10
or bar his right of redemption.
Social  Imperial— m
Albion, solid.......... 5541
Albion,  grey........... 6
Allen’s  checks........554
Ailen’s  fancy..........554
Allen’s pink.............»y*
Allen’s purple..........054
American, fancy— 554
Arnold fancy........... 6
Berlin solid.............  »/*
Cocheco fancy.........0
Cocheco robes.......... 054
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone...............6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink..............656
Appleton  A, 4-4—   754
Boott  M, 4-4...........   624
Boston F ,4-4.......  ¿54
Continental C, 4-3..  654 
Continental D, 40 in 824 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  654 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4.......... 55i
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  524
Dwight Z, 4-4............624
Dwight Star, 4-4....  7 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  0 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7 
Farmers’ A, 4-4.....  6 
Indian  Orchard  4-4  <54
domestic ginghams.
. 
.  114
___ 
Amoskeag.............   754|Renfrew, dress sty 1
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Manfo- c.o
Amoskeag, Persian 
Bookfold..............1214
styles.................... 1054
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bates.......................  ¿54
dress  styles........ 1214
Berkshire.............   654
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks....  7 
styles....................  714
Glasgow checks, f’y 754 
White Mfg Co, stap  724 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles........   8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston................  8
standard.............   754
Gordon......................714
Plunket..................   754
G rey lock, 
Lancaster...............  »
styles  ...................1214
Langdalew i D ^ i i I 4 , !,> COTTONS. 
Androscoggin, 7-4..21  (Pepperel.  10-4.......2754
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23  Pepperell,  11-4.......3254
Pennerell,  7-4........20  Pequot,  7-4.......... • • 21
Pepperell,  84........ 2254 Pequot,  84..............24
Pepperell,  9-4............................. 25  ¡PeQUOt,  9-4.A
Atlantic  A, 44.......  7^ ¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  ¿54
Atlantic  H, 44.......7  ¡Lawrence  Y, 30....  <
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......  654 Lawrence LL, 4-4...
Atlantic P, 44........   554¡Newmarket N ......  b_\
Atlantic LL, 4-4....  554 Mystic River, 4-4...  £54
Adriatic, 36.............   754 Pequot A  44..........  <54
Augusta, 4-4...........   654 Piedmont, 36..........  654
Boott M, 44...........   6M ¡Stark AA, -L4-••••••  $
Boott FF, 4-4.......  724jTremont CC,4-4....  554
Graniteville, 44—   524 ¡Utica,  44 
.......9
Indian  Head. 44...  7  Wachusett,  44.......  <54
Indiana Jlead 45-in.12541 Wachusett, 30-in...  624 
Falls, XXXX...........1854
Amoskeag,  ACA... 14 
Falls, XXX..............1554
Amoskeag “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB.................1154
Amoskeag,  A .......13
Falls,  BBC, 36.........1954
Amoskeag,  B .......12
Falls,  awning\ .,-.1 9
Amoskeag,  C.......H
Amoskeag.  D"""l054 Hamilton,  BT.32..12
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10  Harm ton,  D.......... 9%
AmnRlcpa.tr  F 
H ....  ..  9/4
Premium^A, 4-4.... 17  Hamilton  fancy.. .10
Premium  B ..............16  Me  ^ u en A A ..........1354
Extra 4-4....................16  Methuen ASA..........18
Extra 7-8................. 1454 ¡Omega  A,  <-8...........11
Gold Medal 44........15  ¡Omega  A  l-4 
.. .13
12l/4'Omega ACA, 4-8— 14
p c i  7_g 
Ot L  
...14  ¡OmegaACA,44....16
..........; 
14  Omega SE, 7-8..........24
RC 7-8............. 
 
BF 7-8 
16  Omega SE, 44 ..........27
AF44 
.................19  Omega M. 7-8..........22
Cordis AAA, 32......14  Omega  M, 44 
--25
Cordis  ACA, 32........ 15  |£etucketSS&SsW 1154
Cordis No. 1,32.......15  Shetucket, 8> & SW.12
..12
Cordis  No. 2............. 14  Shetucket,  SFS
Cordis  No.3.............13  Stockbndge  A ....
Cordis  No. 4........... 1154|Stockbridge frncy
Garner.....................  5  ¡Empire  ............
Hookset...................  5  Washington....
Red  Cross...............   5  Edwards............
Forest Grove.......... 
| S. S. & Sons.......
American  A ........18 00!Old  Ironsides..
.............22541 Wheatland.......
Stark A 
Boston 
............  62£|OtiB CC.................... 1614
Everett' blue........•1354 Warren  AXA.........1254
Everett brown.......1354 Warren  EB............1154
Otis  AXA..............1254 Warren CC................1054
Otis BB.................. 1154! York  fancy..............1354
Manville................... 6  IS. S. &Sons..............  6
Masgnville...............  6  ¡Garner.....................6
Red  Cross................  754 ¡Thistle Mills..........
Berlin......................   754 Rose........................  8
Garner.....................  7541
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. &P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30

“There is a decided difference in the shape 
of people’s feet in different  sections of  the 
country,” said a member of one of the  larg­
est shoe  manufacturing  firms in  Philadel­
phia.  “In the eastern  states  the  feet are 
narrower and somewhat longer  than  in the 
west, while in the south  they are  not  only 
narrow but  they possess very much  higher 
insteps.  So much is this  the  case  that we 
are obliged to keep  three  sets of  lasts for 
the three section.  That comes to be a large 
item,  I can assure  you, when it  is  remem­
bered the number of sizes  that  are  in each 
set.  For example,  in one size alone we have 
the initial number, say sevens; then there are 
narrow sevens, broad  sevens,  seven  and  a 
quarter (narrow  and  broad),  seven  and  a 
half (narrow and  broad),  seven  and  three- 
quarters (narrow and broad)—that is twelve 
pairs of  lasts to one  size,  and  to  each  of 
these sizes  we  must  have  three  different 
styles for  the  sections  of  the  country  to 
which we are going to send our goods—that 
is, thirty-six pairs of lasts to one sized pair of 
boots.  Sounds  rather  extravagant, doesn’t 
it?  Of course, this  is  only  the  case  with 
firms who deal with all these sections.

“Some firms only send their  goods to one 
part of the  country.  Now  you  would be 
surprised to be told that in different sections 
of the country  different  shapes of  toes  of 
boots are required.  Out in the  west  noth­
ing  will  suit  but  the  square-toed  shoe, 
whereas in the eastern states the  square toe 
would be in stock a century  and  then never 
sell.  Different parts of the  country require 
different kinds of leather, also.  In the north 
and west a tougher,  harder  leather  can  be 
worn than in the  south,  where  not  only  a 
soft ‘upper’ is necessary,  but,  owing  to the 
sandy,  hot soil,  quite  thin  soles  are  neces­
sary.  For tills kind of wear it is not  unus­
ual to use imported leather—that  is,  for the 
‘uppers,’—but for the  soles  we  employ do­
mestic productions almost exclusively.”

From the Philadelphia Times.

The Feet of the Nation.

HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

...  424 
...  5 
..  5
.. .15

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

checks,
new

CORSET JEANS.

SPOOL COTTON

GRAIN BAGS.

TICKINGS.

WIGANS.

.....  9^4 

DENIMS.

dress

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Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning— 25 
Holyoke...................25
Kearsage................   85#
Naum keagsatteen.  854 
Pepperell  bleached  854
Pepperell sa t..........  954
Rockport................   7
Lawrence sat..........854
Conegosat...............  7

Armory..................   754
Androscoggin sat..  854
Canoe River...........   6
Clarendon.................654
Hallowell  Imp.......624
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Laconia..................   754

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COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1  60 
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl..................
85 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................
1  30 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl................
1  30 
Akron Cement per  bbl.....................
1  30 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl...................
1 05@1  10 
Car lots 
..................
25®  30 
Plastering hair, per bu.......................
1  75 
Stucco, per bbl....................................
3 50
Land plaster, per ton.........................
2 50
...... ............................. 
Land plaster, car lots
Fire brick, per *M...................................
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
6 w
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. «6 00®6 «o 
Anthracite, Btove and nut, car lots..  6 25®6 to
Cannell,  car lots.................................. 
S9
Ohio Lump, car lo ts.......... . 
3  10®8 ¿o
Biossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@6 00 
Portland  Cement....................  ..........3 6°®* 00

coal. 

_ _

Cheap by Freight.

From the Chicago Herald.

“It would be rough on  me,”  soliloquized 
the fat and would-be funny  passenger  who 
spread  himself  over  two seats  and  looked 
happy—“it would be rough on me  if  I  had 
to pay my passage by  weight.”

“Oh, no,” remarked the man standing  up 
in the aisle.  “Hog freights are very cheap, 
indeed.”

man 
“Old BJumms is dead,” exclaimed a 
“In- 
as he rushed into the comer  grocery, 
he’s
deed,” said the  proprietor.  “I  trust 
‘You  trust  he 
gone to the  good  place.”
has?  Why  do  you  say  trust?”  “Well,  I 
had to trust  him all his  life,  and I guess I 
can stand it now.”

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Go.

Wholesale  Grocers,

Who warrant the same to be unequalled.  We guar­
antee  every  pound to  be  perfect  and  all right in 
every particular.  We cordially invite you, when in 
the  city,  to  visit  our place of business,  55  and  57 
Canal st.  IT MAY  SAVE  YOU  MONEY.

WHITE  MOUNTAIN 

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The  only  Freezer  ©V6r  mild©  having  ttir©© distinct 
motions 
thereby  producing  liner,  smoother  Cream 
lhan  any  other  Freezer  on  the  market.  Acknowl­
edged  by  every  one  to  be the best in the world.  Ovei 
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, Steiens & Co.

Agents for Western Michigan.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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WMtsalt  &  Comlssli-Battar  4 Bats’ a Spiiy.

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

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WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
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P E R K I N S   Sa  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

NOS.  123  and  134  LOUIS  STREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Sands’ Patent Triple Motion

FREEZER I

most preplexing cut to  make  and  sell,  no 
two hardly ever doing alike. 
If ordered for 
a large roast,  and it is to be boned for filling, 
the line as shown is generally followed, but 
it can be varied to suit all tastes.

Nearly all calves  coming to  Chicago  and 
New York arrive with the skins  on,  where­
as  Philadelphia,  and  many  other  markets, 
are supplied by country butchers with ready 
dressed.  Where  much  handling  is  to be 
done it is certainly a better plan to leave the 
hide on as long as possible,  as  it  keeps the 
meat clean and fresh.

Calves are generally  at  their  best  when 
from four to six weeks  old;  when  younger 
the meat is  flaccid,  watery,  and  tasteless. 
After six or  seven  weeks,  if  the  calf  has 
been fed or run to grass,  the  meat is darker 
and less juicy.  The old custom of bleeding 
before killing is now  seldom  practiced. 
It 
was cruel and useless,  as  what  was  gained 
in color wras  lost  in  the  quality.  For fear 
some one would be  tempted  to  try  it,  we 
will say nothing about how it is done.

Another custom which adds  materially to 
the carcass is that of  larding,  or,  in  other 
words,  covering the legs and loins  with the 
caul.  This is all well enough in cold weath­
er, but in summer it has a tendency to make 
the parts sticky  and  sour. 
If  possible  do
not allow the kidneys  stuffed w ith-----fat,
especially in summer.

CUTTING  VEAL.

The Best  Way  to  Prepare  the  Article  for 

Market.

From the American Marketman.

As to the  various  methods  employed  in 
cutting a side of veal  there  is,  so far  as we 
know  in  America,  but  little  difference. 
Some slight variation  is  made  in  Philadel­
phia and some of  the  southern  cities,  how­
ever, notably in taking  off  the  fillet  and 
leg.

Quartering a side of veal is  governed  by 
very much the same rules as in quartering a 
side  of  mutton.  Between  the  eighth and 
ninth ribs,  however,  is  customary.  This is 
varied according to the  needs  of  the  case, 
the seller having an order for a hind quarter 
of veal being quite apt to leave  seven or ev­
en eight in, provided the buyer doesn’t kick. 
When more than six ribs are left in the hind 
quarter, the thin end of  the  breast is cut so 
as to take on part of the thick flank.

In accompanying outline  sketch,  the  line | 
below 5 is first cut,  taking  off  fillet, rump,  | 
etc.  The direction or slant  is  varied  more 
toward figure  3,  or  2,  as  "required.  This i 
method of cutting the  leg is  where a run is 
made for frying,  as  then  the  rump,  5,  is j 
worked  off  with  the  cutlets.  The  dotted i 
line is the more popular way to cut,  as then ! 
the flank is worked in with the  choice cuts,  i 
Again,  to avoid  making  pieces  the  leg  or 
hock is taken off  on  line  between 3 and 4.  i 
The cutlets can be taken  from  one  end of 
the hind quarter and chops from  the  other.  > 
It also gives,  especially in the summer time,  | 
a solid piece of meat  to  saw, and  it  can be | 
cut a great deal  nicer.  And  just  here,  we ! 
don’t know of a more  difficult  thing  in the | 
cutting up of meats than an even cutlet from ' 
a soft leg of veal. 
like j 
warm bread with a dull knife.

It  is  a  good  deal 

Having a fair trade for  roasting  cuts,  the 
rump,  5, can be made  larger  by  a variation

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THE  COOLEY  CAN,

Improved by tbe Lockwood Patent.

SALT.

ONONDAGA F. F. SALT
AMERICAN  DAIRY  SALT  CO.

Sole Manufacturers.

(Limited.)  Chemically purified and W a r r a n 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.

Used  in  the  creamery  for butter only, they 
paid 
the  patrons  in 
July,  1884,60c  and  the 
skimmed  milk  per  100 
Jfbs.  Lowest  price  of 
"  the year.
In  the  creamery  for 
gathered  cream  they 
paid the  patrons from 
15c  to  27c  per  cream 
gauge for theyearl884.
In  the  factory  for 
butter and cheese they 
paid  the  patrons  $1.75 
per 100 lbs. 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.

JO H N   E O Y D ,

Sole Manufacturer, 199 LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO.

D.  W.  Archer’s Trophy Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Early Golden Drop Corn

NO.  2.  AND  3  CANS.

YOUNG,  TENDER  AND  SWEET,

NATURAL  FLAVOR  RETAINED. 

GUARANTEED  PURITY.

$1,000  IN  GOLD.

NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR. 

NO  CHEMICALS  USED.

NOT  BLEACHED  WHITE. 
NO  WATER  IN  CANS.

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only.  Respectfully,

THE  ARCHER  PACKING  CO.,  Chillicothe,  Ills.
RINDGE, BERTSCH &  CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

ERS  AND  WHOLES^

AND

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS  FOR THE

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.

Choice Butter a Specialty !

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.

i 

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w x u u x ,

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M.C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St„ G‘d Rapids.

in the dotted line,  leaving  also  more of the 
loin on this cut.  The rump  makes the best 
roasts in a  calf.

The loin,  1,  is  generally  cut  as  shown,  j 
and he is a fortunate man  who  can  sell it j 
w ithout having to take out that  big lump of | 
fat  on  the  inside.  Yet  we  have  known 
butchers who would sell it in no  other way,  I 
as the customer was induced to  believe that | 
the fat and flank was  the  life  of  the roast,  j 
Nowadays,- however, it  takes a good deal of j 
talk to convince  some  people  what  is  for ] 
their good.

No.  7,  best end of rack for chops or roast, 
needs no description; 10, neck end, best solid j 
as one piece with 7,  making the rack.

No.  9, the breast,  is a good  selling cut on 
some markets, as it  is  a  handy  piece  for I 
stuffing.  This cut extends along  under the 
shoulder, taking in a  portion  of  the  neck 
bone and sticking  piece.  Many  years  ago 
the sweet breads were  skewerd  along  with j
th e-----fat to  the inside  of  cut,  along and I
over the breast or  brisket  bone, but it  is a 
custom of the good old days we hear  about, 
when butchers could get more for a  sheep’s 
pelt than the first cost of the animal.

6, the shank, is seldom  cut  except  when I 
there is a comer in the peppery  pot market,  j 
and the legs  (4)  are  bought  up  for  future 
delivery.

The shoulder,  8,  in  many  markets  is the j

TIME TABLES. 

M ICHIGAN f TENTRAL

The Niagara Falls (Route.

D E PA R T.

 

A R R IV E .

»Detroit Express............................................  6:00 am
+Day  Express..........................................12:45 p m
+Atlantic Express...................................  9:20 p m
Way Freight....................................................  6:50 am
»Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
+Mail..........................................................3:50 p m
tGrand  Rapids Express............................... 10:50 pm
Way Freight................ 
5:15 am
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Root»  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:50 p. m.

 

J. T. S c h u l t z . Gen’l Agent.

. 
Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
+Mail.................................... 9:15 am
i +Day  Express.....................12:35 p m
»Night  Express.................. 8:35p m

Arrives, 
4:25 p m 
10:45 p m 
4:45 a m
»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at- 
| tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
I 9:35 p. m. trains.
I 
Leaves.  Arrives.
|  Express.................................4:15 p m  4:05 p m
j  Express.................................  8:05 a m  11:15 a m
j  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.

NEWAYGO  D IV IS IO N .

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

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Leave.
Arrive. 
Exp
7:30 a m
SS...............................7:15 p m 
Mai
4:00 pm
....................................9:50 am  
tr
A!
s daily qxcept Sunday, 
T1
leaving  at 4 p. m. connects at 
in 
Whi
p
ton with  Atlantic  Express  on Main 
Lin«
h has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep- 
38  from  Chicago  to  New  York and 
Boston w 
thout change.
The  tri 
n  leaving  at  7:30  a. m. connects at 
White Pii 
son (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special N 
w York Express on Main Line, 
Throug
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.

GOING  E j! Arrives.

.  6:27 p   in  
EST.

Leaves.
tSteamboat  Express........ .  6:17 a m 6:25 a m
•(■Through  Mail.................. .10:10 am 10:20 a m
tEvening  Express........... .  3:20 p m 3:35 p m
»Limited  Express.............
6:30 p m 
tMixed, with coach..........
10:30 a m
GOING  Wi
tMorning  Express........... .  1:05 p m 1:10 pm
•(Through  Mail..................
5:10 p m 5:15 p m
tSteamboat Express........
.10:40 pm 10:45 p m 
tMixed................................
7:10 a m
*Night Express....................5:10 a in
5:20 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Expres 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansinj 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there a
10:00 Pai 
Cars  on Mail  Trains,  both  East  am
West 
Tra 
saving  at  10:45  p.  in.  will make  cor 
necti 
vith Milwaukee steamers daily excep
Sund„„.
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.

the foil

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NOBTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  7:00 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  3:55 p m 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  3:50 pm  
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 pm  
7:10 a m
7:15 a m 
6:00p m 
11:45 p m

SLE EPIN G  CAB ABBANGEMENTS.

Ail 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’I Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  &  Marquette.

STATIONS.

GOING
EAST
Ac. J Ex.

Ishpe ming
.. Neg niñee__
.. Mar juette..
Isboro..
nej

..  Neivbury  ..
.. .St. Ignace..

Dep. 1 30

1  40 AM.
2  20 7 30
4  19 11 05
D 5 45 1  10
A 5 30 12 40
6 38 2 40
PM.
.Ar. 9 00 6 30

8 3C D<ap.
7 00 Aj Mackiitaw City Dep. 9 30
900 ,D 3p. Grand Rapids Ar. 7 00
AM.
9 35
3 30

__ Detroit........ ....

Counectioiis rnade al Marquette  and Negau-
nee vith the M H. & C). R. R. for the iron, gold
silve r anc cc>PPer disti-icts : art Reedsboro with
a dai 
ly sttige li ae  for Manistique; at  Seney
with
tri-weekly stage :or Granc Marais ; at St.
th the M. C. and G. R. & i. Railways
igna
for ali poi nt 3 east and south: also  d lily  stage
ult St. Marie
line

F. Mil.L IG A N , G. F. & P. ^L.

GO[NG
Wi1ST
Ac. Ex.
PM.
4 50 A r
PM. 4  40
6 50
3 08 1  27
12 00ix
1  10 12 15 D
11 25 11  02
7 30¡AM.

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
E N G I N E S
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,

88,90 and 92 South Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

PURE  CANDY!

AND  DEALERS  IN

O ranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates,

NUTS,

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West Michigan Oil Company,

• 

(SUCCESSORS  TO  STANDARD  OIL  CO.,)

63  Monroe Street,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Jno.  G.  Bonnell,  Pres. 

J.  H.  Boiinell, Sec’y.

mating  and  Lubricating
O
c.

L

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Capitol Cylinder 
Model 
Shield 
Eldorado Engine  - 
Backus Fine  “ 
Peerless Machinery 
Challenge 
si 
Black  Diamond 

-

.751 Parafine,  25o

-  .60  Summer,  West  Vc

.50 ; 250 to 30o 

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r.  35  150 0. T. 

- 

.30  Zero

-  .30 ! 63o Deo, Naptha 
.25 ; 740  “  Gasoline

"  .30  87°  Gasoline

15*
8
91
11*
12*
8
9
16*

TTSJES

D’OLIVEIRA’S
Parisian Sauce

C. S. YALE & BRO.

-Manufacturers  of-

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUIKTG-S,  ETC.,

40  and  42  South  Division,  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

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ROCK  CANDY.

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

Grind  y°ur own B#ne>

, VIIIIU  Meai,  Oyster  Shells, 
IGKAHAM  Flour  and  Corn 
yin the & S H A W D  M IX jXj 
(F.  Wilson’s  Patent).  IOO  per 
cent, more made in keeping poul­
try.  ‘'Also  POW ER  MILLS  and  FARM  
FEED MULES.  Circulars  and Testimonials sent 
on application.  WILSON BROS., Easton, P a ,

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(Groceries.

A  MERRY  MERCHANT.

The Scheme  a  Grocer  Worked  to  Clear 

His Store  of Loafers.

The grocer put away his  order  book  and 
sat down on an empty soap box  at  the end 
of the counter.

“You’ve dropped in to spend the evening,
I  suppose,”  he  observed,  glaring  at  the 
loungers by the stove with the air of a  man 
who had got nipped on a bad lot and  would 
give a chromo to anyone who  would take it 
off his hands.  “That’s  sociable,”  he  con­
tinued,  “just fill up your pipes  and  spread 
yourselves around  the  stove  easy-like.  A 
new customer might come  in  and  take  the 
place for a patent smoke house warranted to 
smoke hams outside and  in  at  one  sitting, 
but we are prepared to ignore any little mis­
take like that.  Go right on  enjoying  your­
selves.  If you don’t see what you want, ask 
for it.  Lodgings furnished on *the  shortest 
notice.  Any inattention on  the  part of the 
clerks should be  reported  at  the  office  at 
once,” and the grocer  kicked  a  one-legged 
stool half way across the store and let a vil­
lager with an enormous pipe and one squint 
eye down on a sack of flour.

“If it wasn’t for  the  free  and  untram' 
meled atmosphere which prevades  the  cor­
ner grocery,” said the merchant  as  the vil­
lager got up and limped away with a never- 
trade-here-any-more expression  on his face.
“I should have gone  out  of  business  years 
and years ago.  The business  has its  draw 
backs, but what  other  line calls a  sociable 
crowd like this together of an evening?  It’s 
just too convival for anything.”

The merchant landed a wooden soup ladle 
square on the head of an urchin in the front 
end of the store who  was  trying  to  sneak 
fish hooks out of the show case and went on 
with  his  talk  without  seeming  to  have 
noticed the act.

“Now  there’s  something  home-like  in 
this very smoke,” he  said,  faiming it away 
from his face with his hands and accidently 
brushing  the  pipe  from  the  mouth  of  the 
most voluminous smoker and landing it in a 
shattered  mass  of  discolored  clay  on  the 
floor,  “and I rather like  it.  Perhaps it is a 
little rough on the butter  and  baking  pow­
der, but it  seems  to  be  the  native  atmos­
phere of these herrings.  All you have to do 
is to come  here  and  smoke  and  you’ll  get 
your nicotine back when you buy cheese and 
butter. 
It’s one  of  the  great  principles of 
nature that  nothing  is  ever  lost,” and  the 
grocer dumped a shovel of ashes on a tobac­
co puddle  on  the  floor  that  looked  like  a 
map of the Soudan,  and pitched a clay  pipe 
into the stove.

the door and propel you  out  into  the misty 
night before  another  spell  comes  on. 
If 
you think of anything else  you  would like, 
just mention it before you  go  and  I’ll help 
you load  up.  We’re  here  to  accommodate 
the public.  All we  have  to  do  is  to  steal 
our goods and stand off  all  local  bills and 
there we are—eyerything we take in is dead 
clear profit.  Couldn’t  carry  away a cheese 
in your boot, could  you,  or  a grind-stone in 
your hat? 
’Cause  if  you  could  you’d  be 
quite welcome to ’em.  Quick  sales  and all 
goods delivered expeditiously is our motto,” 
and the merchant who  had  been  gathering 
the crackers which had  fallen  to the  floor, 
bounced the villager out of  the  open  door 
and threw the crackers in his face.

“You’d better hurry on  home,” he added, 
with his head half out of the  door,  “ ’cause 
they may be  waiting  for  you  to  flash  up 
there with  the  commissary  supplies.  I’m 
going back to set a  rat  trap  in that cracker 
barrel, and when you  come  in  here  again 
the storm signal will  be  up,  and  don’t you 
believe  ajiy  diplomatic  declaration  to  the 
contrary.”

When the merchant got back to  the stove 
the loungers were putting up their pipes and 
getting ready to go.

“You’re surely not gohig,  gentlemen?” he 
asked,  setting the  chairs  back  and  putting 
more ashes on the lakes  and  rivulets of to- 
bacoo juice which gave the floor of the store 
the general appearance of  a  new  continent 
not  down  on  any  map.  “Perhaps  you’d 
like to have me  produce  a bucket  of  beer 
and a seven up deck?  Ever play  seven up, 
any of you?  You can stay all  night just as 
well as not,  and go  home  in  the  morning 
feeling meaner than a cat  in a  keg  of soap 
and lie to your wives  about  sitting up with 
a sick friend.  Try this extra plug  and  the 
new pail  of  fine-cut.  We  grocers  like to 
have all the plugs in the box bitten into. 
It 
shows the stock is good,  and acts as  a  sort 
of trademark.  None genuine unless stamp­
ed like the sample,” and the merchant pitch­
ed half a dozen plugs which had  been slyly 
bitten into dining the evening into the stove 
and began to turn out the lights.

“I’ve got cheese,  figs, raisins, stick candy, 
loaf sugar and plug  tobacco  constantly  on 
draught, gentlemen,” he said, with his hand 
on the last lamp,  “when you want anything 
in my line,  drop in. "You needn’t mind buy­
ing.  Just sample and set around  and chew 
and spit until the store looks  like a double- 
jointed  bock  beer  shebang. 
It’s  social 
like.”

And the merchant helped the last lounger 
out of the door and locked up for the night.

A man who was sitting on a basket of ap­
ples behind the stove got up with an injured 
look as he saw his pipe growing  white  and 
crumbling away among the coals and observ­
ed that it was time to go home.  The grocer 
hustled the basket into  the  store  room and 
got back to the stove before the villager had 
started for the door.

“You  needn’t  hurry  away  on  my  ac­
count,” he said, looking  about  as  concilia­
tory as  a  mule  getting  ready  to  kick  the 
ridge pole off a four-story  barn.  “Perhaps 
you  had better chase  those  apples into  the 
store room and set on them  an  hour or two 
longer.  You might hatch out something.  I 
shouldn’t be surprised to  see  an  apple  tree 
with a swing on the  lower  limb  and  a  boy 
stealing fruit in the top  growing out of that 
basket in the morning.”  The  villager  but­
toned up his  coat  and  went out, muttering 
as he closed the door that the  grocer  would 
never see the color of his  money again.

“It ain’t the color of his money  that  dis­
turbs my peace  of  mind,”  said  the  grocer 
meditatively;  “It’s  the  color  of  his  nose. 
Why, that man’s nose,” he added, assuming 
a  confidential  tone,  “has  absorbed  every­
thing he can get  his  hands  on  ever since 1 
have  been  in  the  place. 
I’ve  got  a  bill 
against  him  as  long  as  a  traveling  man’s 
funny stories,  and I’ll gamble that every ar­
ticle I ever sold him,  including  the  clothes 
and food taken from his wife  and children, 
could be discerned  in  that  nose if a micro­
scope powerful enough could be got hold of. 
Yes,  yes,  if it hadn’t been  for  that  nose I 
would never have found it necessary to send 
him off like that.”

The merchant  weighed  out  a  pound  of 
crackers  to  a  customer  who  had  brought 
back a couple of lamp  chimneys,  purchased 
in the afternoon, to get their worth in some­
thing else, and threw the lid on the  cracker 
barrel so vigorously as  to bruise the fingers 
of a  tired-looking  villager  who  had  been 
toying with the contents  of  the  barrel  all 
the evening.

“Just drop  into  the  easy  chair  there,” 
suggested the grocer, as the villager waltzed 
up and down the room nursing his  bleeding 
fingers,  “and I’ll send  out  for  your  family 
physician.  We’ll  send  to  the  Rapids and 
get an ambulance and a brass band and send 
you home in style.  If you’ll be kind enough 
to empty the crackers out  of  your  pockets 
I’ll do ’em up in a paper bag and throw in a 
few  dried  fish.  Meals  at  all  hours,  bills 
payable in advance and all children and ser­
vants must dine at the second  table.”

As the viilager pranced up and  down  the 
room howling and  swearing  with  pain the 
crackers continued to fall out of his pockets 
and roll over the  floor,  and  the  merchant 
continued to repeat the rules of  an  imagin­
ary hotel and  follow  him  about  until  the 
loungers conceived the idea that  he was go­
ing insane and began to climb over the boxes, 
barrels and chairs  which  stood between the 
stove where they were sitting and the  door.
“Now,  then,”  observed  the  merchant, 
after the excitement  had  died out,  “if  you 
feel equal to the emergency  we’ll  just open

The Bogus Butter Bill.

Senator S. W.  Smith’s bill to  prohibit the 
manufacture  and  sale of  oleomargarine  or 
other  butter  substitutes  passed  the  Senate 
last Friday  after a fourhours’ debate.  The 
bill  has  been  very  thoroughly  discussed, 
two debates  equaling that of  Friday having 
occurred  over  the  bill  in  committee  of  the 
whole.  Two  important  amendments,  by 
striking out,  were made.  The  section  pro­
viding  for  the  appointment of a dairy com­
missioner was left out, as was also, on motion 
of Senator Sherwood,  the section  providing 
that  the  State  should  pay  manufacturers 
compelled  to  quit  business,  the  value  of 
their machinery and material.  The following 
is the vote by which the bill was carried:

Yeas—Messrs.  Austin,  Belknap,  Brown, 
Carpenter,  Carveth, Curtiss, Davenport,  Ed­
wards,  Henry,  Hertzler,  Monroe,  Moon, 
Pennell,  Phelps,  Sherwood,  Shoemaker, 
Smith,  G.  A., Smith,  S. W.—18.

Nays—Messrs. Francis,  Greiner,  Pulver, 

Woodruff—4.

Absent  or  not  voting—Messrs.  Cline, 
Davis,  Hawley,  Heistennan,  Hubbell, 
Ilueston, Kempf and Manwarring—8.

The  bill  has  friends  in  the House  who 

will push it vigorously.

Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

F.  E.  Pickett,  the Hilliarils cheese maker, 

was in town Monday.

E.  E.  Chester,  Superintendent  of  the 
Dairy  Department  of  the  American  Fat 
Stock and Dairy Show,  sends the  Secretary 
of the Michigan Dairymen’s Association the 
following communication:

There will be a  special  premium  offered 
at the eighth annual American Fat Stock and 
Dairy  Show, to  be  held  in  Chicago  Nov. 
10th to 19th,  1885, for the best 50 pounds of 
butter,  and for the best 50 pounds of cheese 
made in  Michigan.  Similar  premiums are 
offered for exhibits of  dairy  products  from 
other  Western  States.  The  dairymen  of 
some states have manifested  much  interest 
in the exhibition,  and  have  provided  hand­
some premiums for the best  exhibits of but­
ter and cheese from  their  respective states. 
You are  requested to  encourage  the  mem­
bers of your Association,  and  the dairymen 
of your State  by  providing  a  liberal  pre­
mium for the best butter  and cheese  exhib­
its at the coming Show, which now promises 
to be a success.

The  Grocerjr  Market.

Business is fair and  collections  tolerably 
easy. 
Sugars are up from last week,  stan­
dard granulated having touched 7c  in  New 
York last Thursday, although  a  slight  de­
cline came the day following.  The price is 
still very firm and the market  is  unsettled. 
Saginaw salt is down  to  90c.  The  other 
changes in the market are  of  minor  impor­
tance. 
The  factories give notice of an an­
ticipated advance in starch,  in  consequence 
of the advance in corn.

Candy  is  lively.  Nuts  and  fruits  are 

steady.

The Standard Oil  Co.  announce  another 
reduction in kerosene—Me on Water White 
and Me on Legal Test,  making present quo­
tations 10c and 8Kc,  respectively,  Curtiss, 
Dunton & Co.  hold their goods at  10Me and 
8%c—and Electroleum at 13c—and claim to be 
doing a good business at these prices.

SECRETS  OF  TH E  TEA  TRADE.

No Reliance to Be Placed  in a Name. 
“Americans and Europeans  make a great 
mistake in buying  tea,”  said  an  educated 
Chinese merchant.  ‘ ‘They invariably rely up­
on the name, instead of judging of the qual­
ity of the tea by its  appearance.  The  Chi­
nese never do that, for they  are  aware that 
no other people under the sun are  so adroit 
in the adulteration of  goods  as  their  own 
nation.  No dependence can be  placed on a 
mere name in the  tea  trade.  Chinese  peo­
ple judge  of  tea  just  as  Americans  do  of 
butter, by  its  looks  and  smell.  To  deter­
mine this  is  a  matter  of  education  in  the 
same way that judging  of butter is.  Tea of 
good quality,  unadulterated,  is  almost  in­
odorous and diffuses little aroma when plac­
ed in boiling water. The  Chinese invariably 
use black tea at home and almost exclusive­
ly here also.  This is both  from  preference 
for its trade  and  because  it  is  considered 
healthier.  The  best  tea  brought  to  this 
country is the black, the finer grades of green 
tea being  all  consumed  in  China.  Green 
tea,  too,  is subject to more forms of adulter­
ation,  over  200  methods  being  employ 
ed to that end.  Besides,  it is cured in  cop 
per pans and is always more or less impreg­
nated  with  copper  dust.  These  pans  are 
none too clean,  either,  as  the  growers  care 
nothing what kind of stuff  they palm off on 
people so unfortunate as to  have  been bom 
outside of the flowery kingdom.  They term 
all  other  races  ‘barbarians’.  Green  tea is 
dried in the sun, black, by artificial heat.

“More tea is consumed per head in Amer­
ica than in China. 
It is  frequently  spoiled 
here by boiling.  Tea should never be  boil­
ed.  The water should be boiling when turn­
ed over it,  and it should then be  allowed  to 
infuse. 
It should always be made in earth­
en pots.  One and a half teaspoonfuls of good 
strong tea is a  sufficient  quantity  for  two 
cups of water. 
Is the tea is poor and weak 
use more.  Let it stand five or  six  minutes 
before using.

“The best tea obtained in  this  country is 
that  imported  by  Chinese  dealers.  They 
get it from some one  they  know  in the old 
country at less price than  it  will  be sold to 
foreigners.  They can  secure a better grade 
than other buyers,  too,  because  they know 
what they are buying  and  it  is  useless  for 
their countrymen  to  try  to  impose  upon 
them.

“The Chinese laugh  at other  people  for 
putting cream and sugar in their tea.  They 
always drink it  clear.  They  consider  that 
it destroys the boquet entirely to mix it with 
anything else.  The  American  tea  traders 
never put in sugar or miik,  and  epicures  in 
Europe seldom drink  their  tea  other  than 
plain.

“In the interior  of both China and Japan 
there are tea houses  every  little  distance. 
Sugar,  except in  the  raw  state,  is  seldom 
seen except along the coast. 
If  you should 
ask for sugar for your tea at one of these lit­
tle refreshment houses the attendants would 
not know what you  meant. 
If  you  made 
them  understand,  a  girl  would,  probably, 
run to the nearest shop  and  return  with a 
little unrefined  sugar  in  the  palm  of  her 
hand.

“The tea leaves are picked by men,  women 
and children,  who get  from  10  to 15  cents 
per day for their labor.  The owner  of  the 
plantation,  also furnishes their board  while 
working.  The most expensive tea at home, 
which is never allowed to go out of the coun­
try,  is picked with the greatest care to keep 
the leaves intact  and  unbruised.  This  tea 
sells in China for $20 and more  per  pound. 
There is tea, too, that sells  for  less  than 5 
cents a pound there.

“American people  have  three  things to 
learn before theo will have good  tea.  How 
to buy it, how to make it,  and how to drink 
it.”

Reduction in Freight Rates.

The transportation lines announce the fol­
lowing  reduction  in  rates  on  west-bound 
freights from the markets named:

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Baltimore
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No one would suspect that  J.  A.  Henry, 
the junior partner in  the  firm  of  Wm.  L. 
Ellis & Co., was a poet;.but  the  Baltimore 
Trade comes to hand with  a  poetical  con­
tribution from his pen entitled  “Jim’s  Lit­
tle Pra’r.”  Moreover,  he is the  author of a 
comic  opera  whjch  run  several  hundred 
nights in New York a short time ago.

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID ES.

Green__ $  ft  6  @ 6)4|Calf skins, green
Part cured..;  7  @ riYt\  or cured—   @10
Full cured. . ..  8  @  8)i Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
$  piece.......20  @50

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

S H E E P  PEL TS.

W OOL.

Shearlings or Sum- 

IFall’pelts..............30@50
mer skins $  pcel0@20| Winter  pelts.. .60@1 25 
2-3
5)4
2@  10
Muskrat....... 
Otter............1 00@ 4 00
Raccoon....... 
5@  75
Skunk  ........  15@  75
Beaver, $  ft.l 00@ 2 25 
Deer,  $ f t ...  10®  30

Fine washed $  ft 20@22| Unwashed...........  
Coarse washed.. .16@ 18ITallow................. 
Bear.............   @12 j0
Fisher  ........ 2 00@  4 00
Fox, red.......  25@  1 00
Fox,  gray...  15@ 1 00
M artin........   25@ 1 00
M ink...........  
5@  40

S K IN S .

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenihaler quotes as follows: 

OY STERS.

FR ESH   F IS H .

F. J. D. Selects..................................................... 35
Standards  ............................................................30
Mackinaw Trout................................................ 6)4
W hitefish...........................................................  634
Black Bass........................................................   8
Run Fish.............................................................5
Rock Bass..........................................................  5
Perch  ................................................................  4
Duck Bill Pike.................................... «-.........   &
Wall-eyed  Pike................................................  6
Smoked White Fish..........................................10
Smoked Trout................................................... 10
Smoked Sturgeon.............................................10

K R T C S F O R D ' S   S T A R C H   I S   U S r H g S C E L T  .F iD .

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SOAP.

TEA S.

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SPIC E S.

SUGARS.

SY RUPS.

STARCH.

B L U IN G .

@ 7%

Ground. 

CA NN ED F IS H .

A X LE  GREASE.

CANNED F R U IT S .

@19
Pepper........
Allspice...............  s@iu
Cassia..................  @10
Nutmegs  ............60@65
Cloves  .................  @18

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.
Advanced—Sugars;  California raisins. 
Declined—Saginaw  salt;  steel  cut  oatmeal; 
These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1 00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1 35
@i  oo
Horseradish,  Yt pints...........
@i 30 
Horseradish, pints.................
@3 50 
Halford Sauce, pints.............
Halford Sauce, Y% pints........
@2 20
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne...........  @4  85
@3 30 
“ “
@3 45 
@3 45 
@3 60 
@4 05

“  Cameo......................  
“  Monday...................
“  Mascot.....................
“  Superior, 60 lft bars
Galvanic.................................................
Whole.

Turkey prunes, kerosene.
promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s ................   2 80|Paragon  .................1  80
Diamond......... 1 75 Paragan 25 B> 
pails.l 20
Modoc......................1 65|
BA K IN G   PO W D ER .
Arctic Y lb cans__   451 Arctic 1 ft cans— 2 40
Arctic 14 ft cans__   75 Arctic 5 ft cans— 12 00
Pepper.................16@25
Arctic Yt ft cans.  .. 1 40|
Allspice............... 12@15
Cinnamon............18@30
25
Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
Cloves  .................15@25
Dry, No. 3........................................... doz. 
45
Ginger.................16@20
3o
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
Mustard............... 15@30
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz. 
65
Cayenne..............25@35
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz.....................................................  _§ 00
Kingsford’s, 1 ft pkgs.,  pure..................  @6)4
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
3 ft pkgs.,  pure..................   @6)4
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................   2 00
lf t  pkgs., Silver  Gloss__
@ 8
“ 
“ 
Arctic No. 2 
...............- .............3
@8)4
6 ft pkgs., 
....
Arctic No. 3 
“ 
............................... 4 oO
“ 
1 ft pkgs., Corn  Starch__
@8@5
BROOMS.No.  2  Hurl..............175
(Bulk)  Ontario..................
No. 1 Carpet............2 50
Fancy  Whisk.........100
No. 2 Carpet............2 25
Cut  Loaf.................................................
CommonWhigk—   75
No. 1 Parlor Gem.. 2 75 
Cubes......................................................
No. 1 Hurl....................2 00
Powdered...............................................
Granulated,  Standard..........................
Clams, 1 ft  standards......................................I 40
Confectionery A ....................................
Clams, 2 ft  standards.......................... . — 3 b5
StandardA..............................................
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.........................................3 20
Extra C, White.......................................
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards.........................1 10
Extra C....................................................
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards........................  1 90
Fine C......................................................
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled......................  <5
Yellow C...................................................
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.........................1 05
DarkC......................................................
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.........................................1 75
Lobsters, 1 ft star........................................ 2 2o
28 
Corn,  Barrels.........................................
Lobsters. 2 ft star............................................ 3 10
30 
Corn, Yt bbls............................................
Mackerel, lf t   fresh  standards..................... 1 00
@  32 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards..................... 6 50
@1 60 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft....................3 25
@1 45 
Corn, 4 Yt gallon kegs.............................
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard............................3 25
23@  35 
Pure Sugar....................................... bbl
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled......................................3 25
30@  38 
Pure Sugar Drips........................Yt bbl
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......................... 1 55
@1 96 
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river..........................2 60
@  85 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips..............Yt bbl
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento...............................1 35
@1 85
Pure  Loaf Sugar...............  .5 gal kegs
Sardines, domestic 54s.................................  ®
Sardines,  domestic  )4s................................  
11
Japan ordinary.............................................22@25
Sardines,  Mustard  Yts ................................... 
|0
Japan fair to good....................................... 30@35
Sardines,  imported  )4s.................................   13
Japan fine.....................................................,.40@50
Trout. 3 ft  brook............................................  2 75
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
Apples, 3 ft standards...................................  99
Gun Powder................................................... 35@50
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie..................2 50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Blackberries, standards................................ 1 05
Congo............................................................. 25@30
Cherries,  red  standard.................................   90
Damsons...........................................................J 99
Sweet  Rose............... 45
Dark AmerieanEagle67
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1  40
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
The Meigs...................64
Green Gages, standards 2 ft..........................1 40
Atlas...........................35
Red  Bird.................... 50
Peaches, Extra Yellow...........................   v-2 40
Royal Game................38
State  Seal...................60
Peaches, standards............................1  75@1 95
Mule Ear.................... 65
Prairie Flower...........65
Peaches,  seconds.........................................1 50
Fountain.................... 74
Climber......................62
Pineapples, Erie..........................................« 20
Old Congress..............64
Indian Queen............60
Pineapples, standards................................ l 70
Good Luck.................52
Bull  Dog....................60
Quinces.........................................................J 45
Blaze Away............... 35
Crown Leaf............... 66
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg................. 1 80
Hair Lifter.................30
Matchless...................65
Governor...................60
Hiawatha...................67
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40|Pears............................ 3 CO
Fox’s Choice............  63
Globe  ......................... 70
Egg Plums..............2 50 Quinces...................2  90
Medallion...................35
May Flower............... 70
3 00
Grapes.................... 2  50 Peaches 
Sweet Owen............... 66
H ero...........................45
Green Gages.......... 2  50|
Old Abe.  ...................49
CANNED VEG ETA BLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...............................3 25
Red  Fox............................................ —   @48
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Big Drive.................................................   @50
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   9a
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.....................1 60
Durham...................................................  @46
Corn,  Trophy...............................................1  05
Patrol......................................................  @48
Peas, French................................................ 1  75
Jack Rabbit............................................   @46
Peas, Marrofat, standard...........................1  70
Snowflake................................................  @46
 
Peas, Beaver......................................  
Piper  Heidseiek....................................   @62
Peas, early small, sifted.............................180
Punch......................................................   @40
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden................................... 85@9a
Chocolate Cream....................................   @46
Succotash, standard.....................................  90
Woodcock  ..............................................  @46
Tomatoes, Trophy...................................... 1 00
Knigntsof  Labor..................................   @46
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................   @46
Boston.......................36|German Sweet........... 25
Black Bear..............................................   @37
Baker’s .....................38 Vienna Sweet  ............23
King 
  @46
Runkles’ ................... 351
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..............................  @62
Roasted Mar...l7@18 
Green Rio.......... 9@13
Parrot  .....................................................  @46
Roasted Mocha.28@30 
Green Java....... 17@27
Old Time.................................................   @38
Roasted Mex a .17@20
Green Mocha... 23@25
Tramway.................................................   @48
Ground  Rio__ 9@16
Roasted Rio__ 10@15
Glory  ......................................................   @46
Package  Goods  @1354
Roasted Java ,.23@30 
Silver Coin..............................................  @50
»AGE.
COB
Buster  [Dark]........................................  @36
72 foot Cotton__2 25
72 foot J u te ........ 1 25
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
60 foot Cotton__2 00
60 foot Jute.........1  00
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
50 foot Cotton__1  75
40 Foot Cotton— 1 50
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Climax.....................................................  @46
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................   75
Hold F ast................................................  @46
Cod, whole..................................................... 4)4@5
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Cod,Boneless................................................. 6@7
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cod, pickled, Yt  bbls.................................... 3 50
i  Cock of the Walk  6s.............................  @37
H alibut........................................  
 
Nobby Twist...........................................  @46
Herring Yt  bbls............................................ 2 50
Nimrod.....................................................  @46
Herring,  Scaled.............................................18@20
Acorn..............  
@46
Herring,  Holland.........................................  65
Crescent..................................................  @44
Mackerel, No. 1, Yt bbls............................... 5 50
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Mackerel, No. 1.12 ft  kits.......................... 1 00
Black  Bass.......................... 
@40
Mackerel, No. l.shore,  Yt  bbls..................  6 25
Spring................................................ 
  @46
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits.......................1 00
Grayling.................................................   @46
Shad, Yt b b l.................................................. 2 50
Mackinaw................................................  @45
Trout, No.  1, Vi  bbls............................... ..  .4 00
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.................................  90
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
White, No. 1, Yt b b ls....................................6 00
D. and D., black......................................  @36
White, Family, )4 bbls................................ 2 50
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @46
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................   85
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.................................  95
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46

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

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

CANNED FRITTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

CHOCOLATE.

CO FFEE.

PLU G .

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FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.  Vanilla. 
....W doz.100  140
2 oz.....................
4 oz..................... .................1 50
2 50
6 oz..................... .................2 50
4 00
5 00
8 oz.......*............. .................3 50
1 50
No. 2 Taper....... ................ 1 25
3 00
.................1 75
No.  4  “ 
....
7 50
.................4 50
% pint  round.. 
.................9 00 15 00
1 
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No.  8.................. .................3 00
4 25
................4 25
6 00
No. 10...............

FR U IT S

Apples, Michigan..................................   4)4@5
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls.................... 
©7)4
Apples, Dried, evap., box.....................  
@8)4
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................   @16
Citron......................................................  @25
Currants.................................................  
@4%
Peaches, dried  .......................................... 
12@13
Pineapples,  standards............. ...........  @1 70
Prunes, Turkey, new............................  5  @5)4
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes................. 
10@l3
Raisins, Valencias................................. 
@9)4
Raisins, Layer Valencias...............„ —  @ 9%
Raisins,  Ondaras......................................  @11)4
Raisins,  Sultanas...................................  7 %@  8Yt
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................  @2 50
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @3 20
Raisins, Dehesias..................................   @4 25
Raisins, California Layers..................  @2 50
Raisins, California Muscatels.............   @2 30
Water White........ 10 
| Legal  Test............. 8)4
Grand Haven,  No.  9, square.............................. 1 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square......................... 1  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...........................2 25
Grand Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................3 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2.......................................................1 10
Oshkosh, No.  8.......................................................1 60
Swedish.............................................................  75
Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
............................ 2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
.............................170
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
.............................. 2 55
Richardson’s No. 19, do 
..............................1  75
Black Strap.............................................14@16@18
Porto  Rico.....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 38@42
New Orleans, choice.....................................48@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

MOLASSES.

M ATCHES.

Yt bbls. 3c extra

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R IC E .

P IP E S .

PIC K L E S .

SA LERA TUS.

Steel  cut................ 6 OOlQuaker, 48  fts.........2 35
Steel Cut, Vi bbls.. .3 15 Quaker, 60 fts........2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 60|Quakerbbls.............6 50
Choice in barrels med.......................... 
Choice in Yt 
...............................2  75
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,2)4 gross........  @1 85
American T.D.......................................   @  90
Good Carolina........ 6  Java  .................6)
P atna.......................6
Prime Carolina.......6)4
Rangoon.........5:4@624
Choice Carolina.......7
Broken..................... 3)4
Good Louisiana.......534
P eLand’g pure........5)41 Dwight’s ...................5)4
Church’s  .................5)4 Sea  Foam.................5)4
Taylor’s  G. M......... 534lCap  Sheaf.................5)4
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
2 25
28 Pocket.................................................  
3 20
1003 ft  pockets.......................................  
2 45
90
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
Diamond C.............................................. 
*60
Standard  Coarse....................................  
1 65
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags—  
2 80
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........ 
80
American, dairy, Yt bu. bags............... 
25
Rock, bushels.........................................  
-8
Parisian, )4  pints..................................   @2 00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, g reen ,..........................  @  90
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1 70

SA UCES.

SALT.

2c. less in four butt lots.

SMOKING

CIG A RS.

SHORTS.

Conqueror.................23
Old Tar........................40
Grayling.................... 32
Arthur’s  Choice....... 22
Seal Skin.................... 30
Red Fox......................26
Rob Roy......................26
Flirt..........................    28
Uncle  Sam.................28
Gold Dust...................26
Lumberman..............25
Gold Block.................30
Railroad Boy..............38
Seal of Grand Rapids
Mountain Rose...........18
(cloth).................. !
Home Comfort.......... 25
Tramway, 3 oz.......... 40
Old Rip........................55
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
Seal of North Caro­
B oss............................15
lina, 2  oz.................48
Peck’s Sun.................18
Seal of North Caro­
Miners and Puddlers. 28
lina, 4 oz...................46
Morning  Dew............25
Seal of North  Caro­
Chain.......................... ““
lina, 8 oz...................41
Peerless
Standard....................22iSeal of North Caro-
Old Tom..................... 21 
lina, 16 oz boxes___40
Tom & Jerry............. 24 Big Deal...................... 27
Joker.......................... 25 Apple Jack..................24
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Traveler.................... 35
Milwaukee  Prize__ 24
Maiden....................... 25
Rattler........................28
Pickwick Club.......... 40
Windsor cut plug— 25
Nigger Head..............26
Zero  ...................— 16
Holland......................22
Holland Mixed..........16
German................— 16
Golden  Age............... 75
Solid Comfort............30
Mail  Pouch............... 25
Red Clover.  ’............. 32
Knights of Lator__ 30
Long Tom...................30
.......261 Free Cob Pipe............27
National........
.......261
Tim e...............
Globe..........................21|Hiawatha...................22
Mule Ear................... 23| Old Congress..............23
@60 00 
Michigan  Chief..................................
@60 00 
Roma.....................................................
@57 00 
American  ...........................................
@50 00 
La  Industria.......................................
@50 00 
Parker .................................................
@35 00 
Promenade.........................................
@35 00 
Old Judge......................................••••
@25 00 
Pamina  ...............................................
Comforter............................................
@20 00
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......
Maccoboy.............................
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................
Rappee..................................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................
Lotzbeck  ...............................................
Pure Cider..........8@12 White Wine..
.  8@12
@4 50 
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...
@4 25 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs 
@4 50 
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
@4 25 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
@4 15 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 Yt ft papers..
@4 00
4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 )4 ft paprs
95 
Bath Brick imported............................
60 
American............................
@3 
Barley......................................................
1 00 
Burners, No. 1 .......................................
1  50
do  No.  2.......................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
8 00
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   16@25|
Candles, Star...........................................  @13)4
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @|*
Extract Coffee, V.  C.................................  @60
1  25
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   ©*0
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bbl...........................................  @* 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................  @,**
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @1  35
Peas, Split prepared.............................   © 3)4

F elix..........................  

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

V IN EGA R.

SN U FF.

“ 
“ 

do 

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“ 

FRESH MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

_  _  D
prices as follows: 
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   6  @ 8
Fresh Beef, hind  quarters..................  8  @ 8)4
Dressed Hogs.........................................   5)4@ 6
Mutton,  carcasses.................................   7  @ 7)4
Veal..........................................................  7 @  8
Pork Sausage.........................................   8 @ 9
Bologna...................................................   * @}0
Turkeys  .................................................   @16

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

do 
do 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes............................  9)4@10
Twist, 
..............................10  @10)4
Cut Loaf 
@12
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft pails......................................10 @10Yt
Royal, 200 ft bbls........................................9)4@934
Extra, 25 ft  pails........................................11@J1)4
Extra, 200 ft bbls........................................10@10)4
French Cream, 25 ft pails......................12)4@13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................. 
 
Broken, 25 ft pails.....................................11@U)4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 10)4
Lemon Drops................................................... 13
Sour Drops........................................................ 14
Peppermint  Drops..........................................15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 16
H M Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  Drops  ........................ 
.10
Licorice Drops...................  
20
A B  Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................ J5
Lozenges,  printed...........................................16
Imperials..........................................................16
M ottoes.............................................................16
Cream  Bar..................................... 
14
Molasses Bar........ ............................................ 10
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams.........................................20
Plain  Creams................................................... J7
Decorated  Creams...........................................20
String Rock............................... 
16
Burnt Almonds.......................... 
22
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 16
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................12)4@13
Lozenges, plain in bbls............................  @11)4
Lozenges, printed in pails.................... 13)4@14
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................... 12)4@13
Chocolate Drops, in pails............
Gum  Drops  in pails....................
...’¡Yt @86)4-
Gum Drops, in bbls.....................
Moss Drops, in pails................
.10)4©11)4
..........912
Moss Drops, in bbls.....................
Sour Drops, in  pails....................
Imperials, in  pails.......................
.Ì3@'  14 
Imperials  in bbls.........................
@12
Bananas,  Aspinwall....................
.2 50@4 OO 
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo.
@4 50 
Oranges, California..................... 
_ _
@4 00
Lemons,  choice....................................  4 00@4 50
Lemons, fancy.......................................4 50@5 00
Figs,  layers new,  ^ ft..........................  @12)4
ft..........................  @ 8
Figs, baskets 40 ft 
Dates, frails 
do  ............................  ©  4
Dates, Y  do 
d o ........ ..................  @ 6
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 4)4
Dates, Yt  skin.........................................  @  5
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft.....................  8)4@ 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 
.....................   @ 7
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft............i.  6  @6)4
doz.............................. 2 25@2 50
Pine Apples, 
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  ^  ft........................... 
454
do  .............................  @ 5
Choice 
do  ............................  5)4@  5)4
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................ 
5@ 5)4
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................  6  @  6)4
NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, 
ft....................  18@18)4
d o ....................  
Brazils, 
fc@  8)4
Pecons, 
9@12
do  ....................  
do ....................12)4@14
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Grenobles  do  .....................12)4®15
Walnuts, French 
“  ..................... 11)4@12)4

FRUITS.

do 
do 

PROVISIONS.

do. 
do. 

634
624
634
?)4

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision Co. 

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

.  SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. 
.10

quote  as follows:
A. Webster, packer, short  cut......................... 12 50
Clear back, short cut..........................................14 00
Extra Family Clear.............................................12 50
Clear, A. Webster  packer..................................13 50
Standard Clear, the  best................................... 14 50
Extra Clear,  heavy............................................13 75
Boston Clear........................................................ 13 75
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
light........... ........................ 
Long Clear Backs, 500 ft cases.............
Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.............
Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.............
Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.............
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft eases........
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases........
Boneless  Hams.....
Boneless Shoulders.
Breakfast  Bacon............................................  824
Dried Beef, extra quality..............................11
Dried Beef, Ham pieces................................. 12)4
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle....................6)4
Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs........................................... 
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases..........................  
LARD IN TIN PAILS.
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks..........
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................  
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case..................................... 
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................... 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 11  25
Boneless,  extra..............................................15 00
Pork  Sausage.....................................................7
Ham  Sausage................................................... 10)4
Tongue  Sausage...........................................  10
Frankfort  Sausage........................................10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   6)4
Bologna, straight............................................   6)4
Bologna, thick.................................................  6)4
Head  Cheese....................................................   6)4
In half barrels.................................................  3 25
In quarter barrels.........................................  1 75

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

BEEF IN BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

LARD.

1)4
8

7

7)4
7)4

726
734

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Russets are firm at $2.50®$3.  Choice 
Baldwins  are scarce, and difficult to obtain  at 
any price.

Asparagus—40@50c $  doz. bunches.
Beans—Unpicked  command  75@90c,  and 
choice picked  find  good  shipping  demand at 
fl.25@fl.35.

Butter—Michigan creamery  is  in  moderate 
demand at 18c.  Da\ry is to be had in all variety 
of packages at 15c.

Clover  Seed—Good  local  shipping demand. 

Dealers quote prime at $5.50.

Cabbages—Old stock is about played out, and 

new cabbage is not yet fit to ship.

Cheese—New  full cream Michigan is held  at 
8@10c, while old cheese is in  small  demand  at 
lie.

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

for sand refined.

Cucumbeis—50c $  doz.
Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 

quarters, 4@4)4c.
Eggs—The market is firm and the supply not 
equal to the demand.  Dealers are holding pres­
ent stocks at 13c.

Green Onions—20c ^ doz. bunches.
Green Beans—$1.50@$2  $   box, according to 

size.  Wax beans, $3@$3.50  box.

Green Peas—$1.50 box.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm atl3@14c. 
Hay—Bailed, $13@$14.
Lettuce—15c 
Onions—Old stock is about exhausted.  Ber­

ft.

mudas command$3@$3.25  crate.

Parsnips—Out of market.  ,
Pieplant—3c ^  ft.
Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c $  ft. 
Potatoes—Nearly dead, there  being  very lit­
tle local demand and none from outside.  Deal­
ers pay 22@25c in small quantities.

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

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

Radishes—30c $  doz.  bunches.
Spinach—$1 $  bu.
Strawberries—$2@$3 $  crate  of 24 quarts. 
Turnips—25c $  bu.
Timothy—Good  shipping  demand,  dealers 

holding  at $1.80 for choice.

Vegetable Oysters—About out of market.

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

Wheat—6c  lower.  The  city millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  94;  Fulse,  91c;  Clawson, 
92c.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 58c in 100 bu. lots 
and 55c in carlots.
Oats—White, 45c in small lots and 41c@41)4 in 
carlots.
Rye—56c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $   cwt.
Flour—Lower.  Fancy  Patent,  $6.20  $   bbl. 
in  sacks  and $6.45 in wood.  Straight,  $5.20  $  
bbl. in sacks and $5.45 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $  ton.  Bran, $14 
ton.  Ships, $16 
ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 

Corn and Oats, $22 $  ton. *

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing’  rates  at Chicago  are as follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S .

 

.dis

BELLS.

BOLTS.

dis  $ 

..................................................di8 30&1C

Ives’, old  style......................... ............... dis 
60
60
....................dis 
N. H. C. Co.
60
................... dis 
Douglass’ ..............................
...  ............. dis 
60
Pierces'....................................
60
....................dis 
Snell’s ............................. .........
.................... dis40&10
Cook’s  ....................................
....................dis 
25
Jennings',  genuine................
.................... dis40&10
Jennings’, imitation............. .
BALANCES. 
Spring.......................................
BARROW S.
Railroad......................................................$  13 00
Garden..................................................... net 33 00
Hand.....................................................dis  $ 60&10
fio
Cow..........................................................dis 
Call........................................................... dis 
15
Gong........................................................dis 
20
Door, Sargent......................................... dis 
55
Stove........................... 
40
Carriage  new  list.................................. dis 
75
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis 
75
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................... dis 
50
Wrought Barrel Bolts......................... dis
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.................... dis
50
Cast Square Spring.............................. dis
55
Cast Chain.............................................dis
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
55&10
W rought Square...................................dis
55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush...........................dis
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door................................................dis 50&10
Barber.................................................. d isf 
40
Backus...................................................dis 
50
50
Spofford.................................................dis 
Am. Ball................................................ dis 
net
Well, plain...................................................$  400
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 
Wrougnt  Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip__ ....d is 60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped.................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table......................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside Blind.........................dis 
60
Wrought Brass..................................... dis  65&10
Blind, Clark’6........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s..................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00
Ely’s 1-10......................................... — per  m $ 65
Hick’s C. F......................................
60
G. D.................................................
35
Musket............................................
60

BUTTS,  CAST.

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

CAPS.

CA TRIDG ES.

%

50
50

COCKS.

COMBS.

33%
25

C H IS ELS.

75
75
75
75
40
20

R.m Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list
Rim Fire, United  States.............
........dis
Central Fire.................................... ........ dis
Socket Firmer............................... __ dis
Socket Framing............................ __ dis-
Socket Corner............................... __ dis
Socket Slicks................................. __ dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer........... __ dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. __ dis
Cold................................................. .......net
Curry, Lawrence’s.......  ............... __ dis
Hotchkiss  ...................................... __ dis
Brass,  Racking’s ..........................
50
Bibb’s .........................................
50
B eer.........................................
Fenns’.......................... .........
60
CO PPER .
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.......... ..........f   fi> 30
36
Morse’s Bit  Stock....................... __ dis
35
Taper and Straight Shank........... __ dis
20
Morse’s Taper  Soonk.................... __ dis
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 00
Corrugated........................................... dis  20&10
Ad j ustable............................................dis  % &10
20
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis 
25 
American Fi 1 e Association List........dis 
60
60
Disston’s ...............................................dis 
60
New  American.....................................dis 
60
Nicholson’s............................................dis 
Heller’s ................................................. dis 
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... dis 
33%
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
18

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
15 

g a l v a n i z e d  i r o n ,
14 

14x52,14x56,14 x60.....................

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

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

ELBOW S.

D R IL LS

F IL E S .

12 

13 
GAUGES.

H IN G ES.

HA NG ERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............. dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s.................................... dis 
20
Kip’s ......................................................dis 
25
Yerkes &  Plumb’s........ /.....................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction......................dis 
60
40
Kidder, w ood track..............................dis 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3..............................dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4*4  14
and  longer..............................................  
314
Screw Hook and Eye,  % ................... net 
1014
8%
Screw Hook and Eye %...................... net 
Screw Hook and Eye  %......................net 
714
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net 
7%
Strap and  T...........................................dis  60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1...............................................$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....$2 70, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.....................................list,10  15, dis 66%
70
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s...............  d 
40
Hemacite..............................................¿is 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis  66%
Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s.......................dis  66%
Branford’s ............................................... dis  66%
Norwalk’s .................................................dis  66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................... dis  65
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’sMalleables 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 00dis40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KN OBS.

M ILLS.

HO ES.

• 

Ibarbware.

Directions for Running Oil Stoves.

Oil stoves should not be set  on  the  floor, 
hut elevated sufficiently to be out of the floor 
draft,  and for convenience in using them.

Use the best white  oil. 

Spill  no  oil on 
the stove.  Never fill the stove while lighted.
Keep the stove perfectly clean.  The per­
forated tin  should  be  cleansed  frequently 
with a brush by taking it off  and  laying,  it 
•on a flat place to prevent  bending.  • Be sure 
the perforations are all open,  otherwise  the 
•combustion will be imperfect.

Trim the wicks no oftener  than is necess­
ary,  and take off the  incrustation only;  use 
shark  scissors  cutting smoothly,  and round 
off the comers a trifle.

Do not run the wicks up to obtain the full 
amount of flame  required immediately after 
lighting them,  for,  as the heat increases, the 
flame will increase.

When turning down  the  wicks  to  extin 
guish them, leave a small flame  that will go 
out of itself,  then turn  them  a  little  below 
top of  wick-tube  to  prevent  the  oil  over 
flowing.

“Fore Warned, Fore Armed.”

Messrs.  Foster,  Stevens & Co. have issued 
a circular to the hardware trade,  containing 
the comments of T h e T ra d esm a n and oth 
er  papers  on  the  modus  operandi  of  the 
“Great Eastern Hardware Co.”  With such 
warnings continually before them there is no 
necessity for the dealer to be troubled  with 
the itinerant quacks.

One of the most significant features of re 
cent inventions and adaptions in various lines 
of manufacture is the increasing use of wire 
Wire as a manufactured  article  has been in 
use for a  long  time,  but  certain  improve 
ments have been  made in its  production in 
recent years, and  its  qualities  have  been 
greatly improved.  The cheapness of the ar­
ticle at present makes it a much more avail­
able material than  ever  before. 
In  gutter 
hangers and spout fasteners,  as well as  in a 
wide range of  kitchen  utensils,  wire is  at 
present occupying a very  conspicuous  posi 
tion. 
Its use seems to be  steadily  increas­
ing,  and  its  numerous  applications,  many 
of which are  being  patented,  illustrate in a 
marked manner the limitations of  invention 
at the present  time.  To  express  it  other 
wise,  the new applications of wire are char­
acteristic examples  of  the  ordinary inven­
tions at present patented.  Very few  start­
ling and  original  discoveries or  inventions 
are possible in the present state of  the arts, 
but  new ways of doing old  things,  new ap­
plications of old materials and  new  combi­
nations of old elements are being constantly 
devised.

It is said that a file maker will  wear  out 
the holly wood  handle of a  hammer  when 
he has struck  11,250,000  blows,  or  in one 
year of work.  This  beats  water  wearing 
out a stone.

VISITING  BUYERS.

Era.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
•orders with the various houses:
John Smith, Ada.
John Stephenfield, Middleville.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. W. Closterhouse, Graudville.
Paine & Field,  Englishville.
C. Stocking,  Grattan.
T. J. Sheridan & Co., Lockwood.
Baron &TenHoor, Forest Grove.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
E.  P.  Barnard,  New  Era  Lumber Co.,  New 
Thos. Smedley, Smedley Bros., Bauer.
Aaron Wedger, Reed City.
L. L. Maxfleld, Fruitport.
S. L. Alberts, S. L. Alberts & Co., Ravenna.
O. L. Winchester, Carlyle.
S. E. Bush, Pierson.
R.  H. Topping, Casnovia.
H. B. Irish. Lisbon.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Frank Kysor, Fife Lake.
G. W. Bevins, Tustin.
Henry Mishler, Freeport.
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline.
O. D. Chapman,  Stanwood.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Herder & Lahuis. Zeeland.
A. P. Hulbert, Lisbon.
•C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
B. Tinkler, Hastings.
Wm. DePree & Bro., Zeeland.
A. E. London. Nunica.
A. J. Provis, Cedar  Springs.
Mr. Kauters, Kauters & Son, Holland.
F. Narragan, Byron Center.
Mr. Wagar, Wagar & Callahan, Cedar Springs. 
W. Graham, Middleville.
M. Engleman, Manistee.
Geo. B. Martindale, Cross Village.
E. H. Martindale, Harbor Springs.
G. B. Chambers, Wayland.
A. Norris, A. Norris & Son, Casnovia.
J. Ball, Fremont.
W. W. Peirce, Moline.
C. E. & S. J. Koon,  Lisbon.
Purdy & Hastings,  Sparta.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Sisson & Lilley, Sisson’s Mill.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Barry & Lewis, Ravenna.
W. H. Hicks, Morley.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
Mr. Emmons, Eddy & Emmons, Grattan.
Mr. Wells, Wagner & Wells,  Eastmanville.
C. Cole, Cole & Chaple, Ada.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
E. Hagadorn, Fife Lake.
H. VanWoerkom, Grand Haven.
F. DenUyle, Holland.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
Newaygo Manufacturing Co., Newaygo.
L. K. Gibbs. Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
R. Lillie, Rice & Lillie, Coopersville.
W. A. Palmer, Carson City.
A. D. Wood, Holton.
Chas.  S.  Judson,  Hoag  & Judson, Cannons­
burg.
O. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. 
Wm. Hugh, Hugh & Jones, Morley.
Will Curtiss, Reed City.
E. R. Benedict, Cedar Springs.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
Geo. Tompsett, Tompsett Bros., Edgerton. 
Geo. F  Ricta"dson, Jamestown.
C. B. Hirshfleld, Ailegan.
Leather wheels  are  made in  France for 
railroad and  other  cars.  The  inventor  of 
the  process is M.  De La Roche.  Untanned 
buffalo hides are cut into  strips,  and  these 
are built  up  into  solid  discs,  which  are 
strongly held together by two  iron rings af­
ter they have  been  subjected  to  hydraulic 
pressure.

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

G RAND  R A PID S,  MICH.

I F

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Meihtable  Spriggs,  F.  M.
(Which means Fashionable Milliner.

Echoes of a Winter in the South. 

“What impressed  me  most  during  my 
trip through the South,”  said  GaiusS.  Per­
kins,  the other day,  “was the disposition of 
the people  generally to  raise  nothing  but 
cotton and com.  For instance, being a wool 
man,  I could see that they do not  raise one- 
tenth the sheep the circumstances  would al­
low.  The same is  true  as  regards  pork. 
They  are  tremendous  consumers  of  pork, 
and yet they allow the West to furnish them 
with that staple.  They do not  even  know 
enough to feed  their  cows  decently, much 
less to make  good  butter,  and  it is seldom 
that they will  raise  garden  vegetables  or 
anything that would tend  to  render  them­
selves self-supporting.

“Another think that strikes  the Northern 
man is the lack of diversity of  business  en­
terprises.  The  moneyed  men  seem  to be 
loth to  engage  in  manufacturing,  and  are 
content to  follow'  mercantile  pursuits.  A 
peculiar feature of the  retail trade  is that a 
large percentage of the dealers are Hebrews. 
The jobbing trade is an  exception  to  this 
rule.  Nearly all the  mills  are  operated by 
men who formerly resided in the North, and I 
notice that the  Michigan  men still cling  to 
their old habits of grumbling and still insist 
they are not making anything.  This pecul­
iar  frailty  of  the  Wolverine  character is 
strikingly  illustrated in  the  person of Mr. 
Robinson,  formerly of Manistee, but now an 
extensive  sawmill  operator  at  Pensacola, 
who assured me  with seeming  earnestness 
that he was not making a cent.  His actions 
and surroundings  belied  his  words,  how­
ever.  He  is  shipping  large  quantities of 
sawed stuff to Panama and the  new  eapitol 
of Peru.

“Nashville is a  thrifty  city,  with  many 
imposing buildings and fine  residences. 
It 
has grown very fast  during  the  past  six 
years.

“Birmingham is a modem  wonder. 

In a 
mercantile  way,  business  is  tremendously

Poster,

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

N A ILS.

j  75

MAULS.

I  lOd  8d 
2*4 
$1 25  1 50  1  75  2 00 

lOd to  60d............................................ sf keg $2 35
8d and 9 d adv...............................................  
35
6d and 7d  adv...................................... 
60
4dand5d  adv.................................... 
. .  . 
75
3d advance.........................................150
3d fine  advance................................. 3 qq
Clinch nails, adv.................................... . ’'. 
Finishing 
6d  4d
Size—inches  J  3 
2 
154
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  a Wove.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s P attern.......................................dis  70 i
Stebbin’s Genuine.......................................dis  70 i
Enterprise,  self-measuring..................!..dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  dis  50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  40
K*aper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead s .................................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench................................................. dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy..............  
  !dis  15
Bench, first quality....................... 
dis  20
 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, Acme.............................................. dis 
50
Common, polished...............................................  . .dis60&10
Dripping................................................. $fi>  6^7
Iron and Tinned................................................ dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs................................. ‘dis 50&10
“A’  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1054 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

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PLA N ES.

O IL E R S .

R IV E T S.

PA N S.

9

Broken packs 54c 5P lb extra.

Stevens 
&  Co.

AGENT;

10 and 12 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

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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.  Handriclts.

24 Pearl Street 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

ROOFING PLATES.

 

ROPES.

SQUARES.

SHEETIRON.

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, % In. and  larger...................................  714
Manilla.............................................................  1414
Steel and  Iron.......................................dis
60
50&10
Try and Bevels...................................... dis
Mitre  .................................... 
dis
20
Com. Smooth.
Com. 
$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
No&. 18 to 21..................................   4 20
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   4 20
Nos .25 to 26..................................   440
No. 27..............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   fi>............................ 
In smaller quansities, ^  lb.....................  
t i n n e r ’s   s o l d e r .
No. 1,  Refined.......................... .........
Market  Half-and-half....................
Strictly  Half-and-half.....................

6
614
13 00
15 00
16

2 80 2 80 2 80 

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

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s...........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 
  60
Hotchkiss’ .......................................................  60
S, P. &W. Mfg.  Co.’s.....................................;.  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 26 $  doz
Bright  Market....................................   dis  60&1C
Annealed Market.................................. dis 
70
Coppered Market.................................. dis  55&10
Extra Bailing.............................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market............................................dis  40
Tinned Broom............................................spa>  09
Tinned Mattress.............................................fi> 8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel................ dis  40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel..................../ ............dis 3714
Plain Fence................................................$  ft  3%
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper.............................................. new  list net
Brass................................................. new list net
Bright..................................................... dis
Screw Eyes.............................................dis
Hook’s ....................................................dis
Gate Hooks and  Eyes......................... dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine........................................dis
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis
Coe’s Patent, malleable......................dis
Pumps,  Cistern.....................................dis
Screws, new  list........................................
Casters, Bed  and  Plate..........................dis50&io
Dampers, American............................... 
33%

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

WIRE GOODS.

WrENCHES.

50&10
65
70
70 I

R a k i K 6
POWDER

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We  have  a  choice  lot  of 
Early Dent,Eidit-Rowed Yel­
low,  Red  Blazed  and  White 
Flint Seed Corn that  we  offer 
to the trade at $1 per bu.

SOLID  STEEL  SCRAPES !
FORK’S  PATENT.

1 /

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,  Agts. 
.  The Hubert Patent

li

I pat: dec: 23.

1874

WIDOW  SPRIGGS.

Some of the  Prevailing  Styles  at  the Cor­

ners.

Ca nt Hook Corners,  May 30,  1885. 

Editor of T h e  T r a d e s m a n ;

D ea r  Sir—Timothy  24th  chap.,  19th 
verse,  says:  “Give a man rope  enough and 
he will hang  himself.”  This  refers  to Bil- 
son, the  venomous, the  would-be  sarcastic 
Bilson.  Soliman told me  last night, before 
we closed the store, that he didn’t  want me 
to say any more about Bilson,  so  I’ll devote 
myself to the duties  of  milliner,  and  fash­
ion  editress  of  The  Tradesm an.  Last 
evening I attended  the  mite  social  at  the 
Widow Hobson’s,  and,  with  the  exception 
that the coffee was burnt and cold, the bread 
and cake  stale,  and  the  preserves  “work­
ing,” everything  passed  off  lively.  Rev. 
Saveall and wife were present.  She wore a 
blue  gigham  gown cut  a la  Watteau,  aud 
trimmed with ecrou Irish point iace in front 
and a big coffee stain  on  the  side.  Sister 
Hobson wore a Merrimac calico  skirt with a 
Mother Hubbard waist of blue  cheese  cloth 
to  match,  and 
it  looked  real  recherche. 
That pert old maid,  Jane  Vitzen,  wore  her 
old brown silk,  trimmed with 4c. lace which 
she bought of  Bilson  at  his 
off  sale,” 
and  looked  horrible.  Widow  Hooperson 
wore a black  merino,  prlnsesse  cut,  trim­
med with bias  fluting.  She  also  wore her 
diamonds,  which she bought  of  Ikey Gold­
stein,  when he passed through  the  Comers 
with his pack.  The  Misses  Hancock  wore 
Mother Hubbard’s of black satine and looked 
killing. 
I wore my new  black  silk,  which 
I bought, at Snooks’,  and  it was gored down 
the front  and  trimmed  on  the  side.  The 
styles here are of  the latest and came direct 
to  us from  Paris, 
It is  only  in a 
rich section of land like this that  ladies can 
afford to  wear new  calico  gowns  twice  a 
year.

(Ky.). 

There were present at the  social  the  fol­
lowing strangers: Mr. Joe. Reed, Dick War­
ner and Geo.  Seymour,  Fertilizer  Hawkins 
& Co.,  and Will Logie,  X.  K.  They donat­
ed their mite,  and  if  they  eat  as  much at 
home as they did at the  social,  I don’t won­
der they feel  bad.

My new stock  of  hats  is now  complete 
and I am doing  a  rushing  business.  Yes­
terday I sold two frames,  one  for  30c.  and 
one  for  18c.  Trade  is  improving.  The 
kind mostly worn here is the one that comes 
to a peak on top and with a  bunch  of flow­
ers on,  which makes  a  little  woman  look 
just opposite to a six-foot dude with a derby 
hat.  Air.  Stowe, did you  ever  notice  that 
when a man buys a  new  hat  and  meets a 
friend, the  friend  tries  on  the  hat,  asks 
“How much?” and says,  “It’s a daisy,” and 
passes on; whereas when a lady  meets  an­
other who has  on  a  new  head  dress,  she 
turns  up  her  nose  and  says  to  herself: 
“Humph, wonder where  she  got  that hor­
rid thing!”

Next week we are  going to have a spirit­
ual seance at my  house,  and  I  will try to 
tell  you in  my next  what  happens.  They 
talk some of forming a lodge of  the Daugh­
ters of Industry here,  and  if  they  do,  I’ll 
join,  so the next time  Crook  comes  along, 
I’ll be able to converse  with  him  by signs 
and tokens.
□A boy just brought the  news  that  Bilson 
threatens to poison  Snooks’  dog  and  my 
If he does.  I’ll get  Soliman  to  whale 
cat. 
the life out of the sneak. 
I don’t  believe it 
will be necessary for me to  ask  him to  do 
such a thing,  though,  for  the way he  talks 
I believe he will punish Bilson the next time 
they meet.

I hope Soliman won’t get hurt.

Yours fashionably, critically  and 

philosophically.

l o b

lime 

overdone,  but so  far  as  manufacturing  is 
concerned,  her  possibilities  seem to be un­
limited.  With  ore,  coal  and 
in 
such close proximity,  I do not  wonder  that 
the manufacturers can  make  pig  iron  for 
$11.50 per ton.  And even  at  that  price,  I 
understand they  include  the  cost  of  the 
Plants and such items as cigars and  whisky 
for the men!  A large  Pennsylvania  opera­
tor has lately  gone  to  Birmingham  and is 
erecting two blast farnaces with a combined 
capacity of 400 tons of  pig  iron  per  day. 
Birmingham certainly has a great  future in 
store.”

BIG  RAPIDS  BITS.
Interesting Business  Items  from 

Lively

Town.

Th e Tradesm an has established a regu­
lar correspondent  in  Big  Rapids,  who may 
be relied upon to  furnish  all  local  happen­
ings of a business nature hereafter.

Hood,  Gale & Co. are removing their  saw 
mill at Remus,  which has been idle  about  a 
year,  to  Metropolitan,  Marquette  county, 
where the firm has secured a contract to  cut 
several million feet of pine.

Lyman Lovejoy is now head  salesman  hi 
the dress goods department of the  extensive 
establishment of O. Hale& Co., at Petaluma, 
Cal.  The firm also operate general stores at 
San Jose,  Stockton and San Francisco.

C.  A.  Gale, manager  of  the  Big  Rapids 
Wagon Co., has invented and  applied  for  a 
patent on a new appliance  for  locking  and 
opening the end boards on wagons, which is 
undoubtedly destined to  come  into  general 
use.

The Big Rapids Woodemvare  Co.  is  run­
ning  a  full  force  of  men  and turning out 
about 1,400 pails and 350 tubs per day.  The 
factory is so arranged as to avoid the useless 
handling of either the raw  or manufactured 
product,  and every feature of the business is 
carefully systematized.

Six leading lumber firms have disappeared 
from  Big  Rapids  during  the  past  year,  as 
follows:  Cass, Morison, Gale  &  Co.;  Paul 
Blackmar & Co.;  Gardner,  Spry  &  Co.,  re­
moved to Chicago;  Platt Underwood; Hood,i 
Gale  &  Co.;  and  John  W.  Hughes &  Co., 
who have transferred  their  headquarters  to 
Toledo.
F.W. Joslin will leave shortly for the South 
for the purpose of looking up  a  permanent 
location for a clothing business.  He is com­
pelled to make this  change  on  account  of 
his health, and  will  probably  take  up  his 
residence in Tennessee  or  North  Carolina. 
T.  C. Gardner will accompany him on a sim­
ilar mission.

Geo. M.  Gotshall,  superintendent  of  the 
Big Rapids Iron Works,  reports  a  fair  vol­
ume of business,  and several important con­
tracts  in  anticipation.  The  Works  have 
lately turned out a double  circular  mill  for 
Hood,  Gale & Co.’s  Metropolitan  mill,  and 
pulleys and  shafting  for  Wyman  & Beck­
with’s new planing mill at  Whitecloud.

Holbrook,  Wilmarth  &  Co.,  who  begun 
operations in February,  1884, have sawed all 
their  pine  in  the  vicinity  of  Big Rapids— 
about eight million feet—and  the  firm  will 
probably go out of existence within the  next 
six  months.  They  have  about  two  and 
three-quarter  millions  of  lumber  still  on 
hand,  besides about three  million  shingles.
A good hotel invariably speaks  well for a 
town, but when the  landlord  assumes  the 
role of extortioner, the advantage  is  not so 
marked.  There are a hundred $2 a day ho­
tels in Michigan, and at least a dozen  $1.50 
houses,  which set a better table and furnish 
better rooms and  beds  than  the Northern; 
and unless the  latter  establishment  lowers 
its transient rate,  it  will  find  itself  sup­
planted by some new aspirant  for  the pat­
ronage of the traveling public.  As it is, the 
majority of the  traveling  men  spend  the 
day time in Big Rapids,  and  take the even­
ing trains for Grand  Rapids,  Reed  City or 
Cadillac, in which places the  hotel men are 
not so anxious to get rich suddenly.

“Talking  about  money-making,”  said  a 
leading business man,  “brings  to mind  the 
handsome fortune accumulated by La Fora S. 
Baker during the  past  dozen  years.  The 
prot&jc of Geo F.  Steams,  he  inherited  all 
the native shrewdness pecidiar to  that  gen­
tleman, and to those qualities  added a spirit 
of apparent recklessness which has  brought 
him to the front as one  of  the  richest  men 
men in Northern Michigan.  As  a  lumber 
dealer,  he exhibits a capacity for work never 
before equalled in my experience,  and  as  a 
banker his  judgment  is  almost  infallible. 
His varied  interests  receive  his  individual 
attention  and  every  branch  of  business  hi 
which he is interested moves with  the regu­
larity of clock-work.”

The Van Leuven Failure.

A few years ago Mrs.  J.  J.  Van Leuven 
bought a millinery stock  of  John  Kendall 
for $5,000.  About a  year  later,  she sold it 
to her husband, taking a  $10,000  mortgage 
for the same. 
In this condition, he has car­
ried on business  for  several  years,  having 
found jobbers who were sufficiently anxious 
to sell goods to keep him  fairly well  stock­
ed.  He made an  assignment  a  few  days 
ago, when it was  ascertained  that  he  had 
bought $25,506.94 worth of goods during the 
months of March, April and  May.  Besides 
the above general  creditors,  his  wife  is a 
preferred creditor to the amount of $10,244.- 
44 making his liabilities $35,751.38.  This sum 
is distributed among 89 creditors, in amounts 
varying from $1.21 to $1,373.61.  The  only 
Michigan  creditor—outside  of  Mrs.  Van 
Leuven—is  the  Coronet  Corset  Co.,  of 
Jackson,  which  is  “in”  to  the  extent  of 
$116.55.

Ei I. Hewes,  the Newaygo general dealer, 
recently captured a summer  pike in Muske 
gon River weighing 21}£ pounds.

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Further  Denials—Additional  Criminations 

—Encounter  Anticipated.

Ca n t  H ook Co r n e r s,  May 29,  1SS5.

Mister Editer of Traidesman.

D e a r   S ir—I don’t  suppose  there is very 
much use of  my bothering to  write  to you 
much more,  becoss I see  most  every one at 
the Comers is writing now  for  your paper.
I see you have published Sister Spriggs’ let­
I told her she had better  not rush into 
ter. 
print, but she  insisted  on it. 
I think  you 
will like her,  for she is a noble little woman, 
if I am any judge. 
It is mean in old Bilson 
to lie about her  and  me, 
just  because  the 
old tyke is  mad  and  jealous.  The  fact is, 
he has been sneaking  after  her  ever  since 
Bro.  Spriggs departed this life and she nev­
er did like him  at  all.  Bilson  don’t  take 
very well among the women folks any way.
The fair sect can see at a glance that lie is a 
stingy old cuss and  would  starve a woman 
to death.
He is a pretty bird to talk about  “buying 
in” Snooks’ stock.  Why,  he coodent bid in 
a settin hen if she was elosin  out  on  bank­
rupt sale.  Besides all  that,  I  will  engage 
to pay Phil. Bilson 125 cents on a dollar for 
any note or mortgage lie  can  produce  with 
my name on it.

He is honest enough in one thing I notiss. 
That is in lettin out what his scheme is.  He 
wants to run the whole  town  and  have the 
people  at  his  mercy.  Heavens!  how  lie 
would skin ’em.  He is bad enuff  now with 
me to watch him.  He sells a ground coffee 
that I knoic has not got a pound of coffee to 
a barrel of the  stuff. 
I  am  trying  to  find 
out what he done with that load  of  sand he 
drew up to his shead last fall.  It is all gone, 
Ed.  Smikes  says,  and  Bilson  has  done 
no  plasterin. 
I  say  boldly  that  a  man 
that has been caught trimming  the  tails  of 
dried liaddoc,  so to pass them off for cod fish, 
has no call to stay in  Michigan  any longer, 
and he had better go back to Oberlin,  Ohio, 
and marry that poor  girl  that  he run away 
from.  She  was  the  only  female  I  guess 
that ever placed  her  affections  on  the  old 
rooster and now she  is  working her fingers 
to the bone making shirts at 13 cents apeace 
to support  herself and  child.

I had to laff when I read Bilsons account 
of a meetin of  “some  of  the  best  citizens” 
at his  store.  The  “meetin”  (?)  consisted 
of Bilson,  Old Potts, JimSi>ooner (I refused 
to trust Jim for some  whisky  tother  day), 
Job Strong,  one of the biggest  liars  in  the 
State,  and Jack Scrubbs, who  only got par­
doned out of  State’s  prison  last  Jan.  by 
Gov. Begole.  Nice lot of  “best citizens,” I 
think!
He is a liar when he says I tried to get out I 
a warrant against him for slander, but what 
I did do was to go  and  consult  a  lawyer 
about bringing a suit  against  him for asas- 
ination—of my character.  The  lawyer told 
me that I had better wait a  little  until Bil­
son let out some more, then go for him.  In 
the mean time,  he had  better  not  meet  me 
in the street too close,  for I may  forget  my 
profession and put a nose on him.

I am a good mind to go over and lick him 

any way.

A cigar man  from  Detroit,  named  Mc- 
Graw, was just  in  to  see  me,  and  he says 
the Detroit men wont send a cent’s worth of 
goods to Bilson,  except C.  O.  D.

As near as I can find out up  to  date, this 
Bilson used to live  in  Pennsylvania  before 
he moved to Ohio.  He lived at a place call­
ed McKeesport and run a low  lived  saloon. 
He was driven from there by a band of min­
ers who threatened to hang  him  on  suspic­
ion of  murdering  one  of  their  comrads. 
There is an old  gentleman  now  living  in 
McKeesport, by the name of J .  Maize, P. O. 
Bx. 611, who knew Bilson 15 years ago and 
can give his  record. 
If  you  dont  believe 
me, just write and ask him, enclosing stamp 
and I dare say he will inform you.

It is not very allfired  pleasant,  Mr.  Edi­
tor, to devote all my letter to that old scoun­
drel,  instead of telling  you  the news  about 
the Comers, but  his  aligations  which  any 
aligátor ought to be ashamed of,  has  forced 
me into it.

Yours  Hotly,

S o l im á n   Sn o o k s,

(i.  D., J.  P.  and P. M.

[Since 

the  above  was 

in  type,  The 
Tradesm an has received a  telegram  from 
Mr.  Wilkins,  of  Grumbleton,  stating  that 
Mr.  Snooks and Mr.  Bilson met Saturday in 
front of the blacksmith shop and had a  ter­
rific  encounter, 
lasting  about  an  hour. 
Snooks has since  telegraphed  for  a  barrel 
of arnica and seven pounds of court plaster. 
Ed.]

E L E O H A R D   &   S O N S

THE  CELEBRATED

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mason  Fruit Jar.
YOU  ALL  KNOW  IT.
Cartage  Free  01 Frit Jars.

Order of us while  stock  is  plenty  and 

prices remain  at the bottom.

Gasoline Stoves—Four Hole Top. 

“Monitor” Oil Stoves—Absolutes a  sy.

SOLD  AT  MANUFACTURERS  PRICES.

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

R E F R I G E R A T O R S .
THE  LEONARD

G E T   T H E   B E S T

REFRIGERATORS
-AND-ICE BOXES
IS  THE  BEST.

1— i  tWE  ARE  THE  MANUFACTURERS  OF  T IIE |]W ^ 1
it

the  Market,  because 

, 
Easiest  Selling  Refrigerator 

Cleanable, 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. 

W e  gladly  furnish  catalogue  and  discount  on  application- 

in 

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Notice our new GROCER’S  ICE  BOX.

Decorated  Flower Pots.

4 doz. 4  in. with Saucer Bright Vermillion.................. 70
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1  “  8  “  Hang. Baskets Rustics same style----

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CLARK,  JE W E L L   &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

WHOXjESALE

83,85 ami SI  PEARL  STREET anil 114,116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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H E S T E R  

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MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR
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INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S. A.
STEAM EHGINES&BOILERS., 

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

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S A W   A N D   C R I S T  M I L L  M A C H I N E R Y ,

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

Saws, Belding and Oils.

Write  for  Prices.

130  OAKES  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

a ±  M am ifeeturers’  P rices. 

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

N elson  Bros.  &  Co.
F   F.  A D A M S   Sc  O O.’S

Fine Cut Clewing Tolacco is tie very lest dark pods on tie Market.

DARK  AROMATIC
Eaton & CMstenson, Aits.,

G ran d . R a p id s ,

Mien,

Brief Epistle from Mr. Bilson.
Cant  H ook  Corners,  May 29,  1885. 

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

Dea r Sir—I see  the  next  issue of T he 
Tradesm an is to be a “boot and  shoe edi­
tion,” I would like to  boot  Snooks  all over 
town.

I see Snooks writhes around like a wound­
ed serpent under  my  constigation.  Every­
one says that my exposure of his  real char­
acter was just,  and that it  is  time  he  was 
placed in his true light before the  commun­
ity.

Snooks’ claim that  I  ever  compromised 
with my  creditors  is false,  and I  challenge 
him to prove  the  statement.  On  the other 
hand, I learn that he failed  for  over $6,000 
back in Indiana and never paid his creditors 
a cent.

I am so angered over his false allusions to 
me and my business that  I  have  concluded 
to  pulverize  him  at  the  first  opportunity. 
So you need not be surprised if  you hear of 
a  hand-to-hand  conflict  before  many  more 
days elapse.  And I mean  to do  the job up 
so thoroughly that Snooks  won’t  be able to 
write to you for at least a month.

Regarding  the  lady’s  correspondence  I 
have nothing to say. 
I  am  above  so low a 
piece of business as begging  a  lady to exalt 
my virtues  and  abuse  my rivals.  When  I 
get as low as that I shall  retire  from  trade 
and get the Legislature to change  my name 
to Snooks.

Yours exaltedly,

P h ila nd er  B ilson.

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

THE  OKTLY

Luminous Bait

IN   THE  WORLD.

Patented Feb. 13,  18S3.  Re-issue Aug. 28,  1883.

FISHING SURE CATCH  DAY  OR NIGHT.

FEATHERED, 60c each.
FEATHERED, 60c each. 

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

r.  Co.,  Àiroi,  Olio.

SHIPPING BASKETS  AND  BOXES

M A N U F A C T U R E D   A T  

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ST, JOSEPH,  MICH. J §
SENO FOR ILLUSTRATED  PRICE,iFit.SiTJ

JTJIDIO  c*3   CO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CANAL  STREET.

¿re You tiding to 
Shelve a Stoi 
try gf Close

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und  jtir- 
informativn.
P a t «
ENTM s®
Bracket Shelving Irons
Creates  a New Era 
in  Sto r e  F u r n ish­
in g .  It  entirely su­
persedes 
the  old 
style  wherever  in­
troduced.

»K  Satisfaction fiunrantcefl

All

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infringe-
men tv pro­
secuted.
If n o t to be
had  from
_____ ______■ y o u r  local
~¿finch 
Hardware
D e a le r.
send  your 
orders  di­
rect  to
Torrance, Merriam & Co.,

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Manufacturers 

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TROY, N. Y.

C. 6.1 (OUT & CO.
STAR  MILLS,

Proprietors  of the

MUSKECOIT  BUSINESS  DZHEG7 0 E 7 .

S. S. MORRIS l  BRO.

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P A O K B U S

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J o b b e r s   o f  P r o v is io n s ,

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

CHOICE  SMOKED  MEATS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

TO FRUIT GROWERS
Muskegon  Basket  Factory

-THE-

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

F R U I T   P A C K A G E S

At Bottom Prices.  Quality Guaranteed.

W E  MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF  PEACH  AND  GRAPE  BASKETS.

MNSSSECON  SAW   AND FILE WORKS
FILES  AND  RASPS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS,
And Repairers of Saws.  Our long experience in both branches of  business  enables  us  to  do 
better work than any other firm in the State.  All work done promptly and warranted  to  give 
satisfaction.  Works on First street, near Rodgers Iron Manufacturing Co. s Shops, Muskegon.

Manufacturers of

Smitli  db  Hazlett, Proprietors.

A N D R E W  W 1 E R E N 6 0

F U L 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 .

WIERENGO  BLOCK,  PIN E   STREET,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

W M . SEA R S & GO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
T. R. HARRIS & CO., COHOCTON.N.Y
“B rook T rout” Cigar.

Manufacturers  of the  Celebrated

FOR  SALE  BY

E a t o n   <&  C h r is t e n s o n ,

SOLE AGENTS FOR  MICHIGAN.

O ysters E  I
and  Fisni  m monroe st.

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t h e  C R A M P  R A P I D S   R O L L E R   M I L L S

MANUFACTURE  A

The  Favorite  Brands  are

“SNOW-FLAKE," AND “LILY WHITE  PATENT,” AND 

FANCY  PATENT  “ ROLLER  CHAMPION.”
Prices are low.  Extra quality guaranteed.  Write for quotations.

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  00.,

EAST  END  BRIDGE  ST.  BRIDGE,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

TO  THE  TPt-AJDE.

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

Manufacturers  of the following  pop­

ular brands of Flour.

“ STAR,”

“GOLDEN  SHEAF,”

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

that no suspenders need be used to keep them up in place.

OUR  SACK  COATS

EVERY  GARMENT  IS  WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP.

Are cut full so as not to bind in any part and large enough for any  man.
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.
n y r i Ov e r a l l  Oo., I o n ia , M io li,

OURDPRICES  ARE  LESS

No convict labor used in the manufacture of our goods.

