VOL. 2.
ALBERT
AWNINGSM ANUFACTUB EBS  O F -TENTS,

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

1 

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W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

State Agents for the 

Watertown  Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

73  Canal  Street, 

-  Grand  Kapids, M idi.

WHOLESALEm

S A  WELLING
L
FISHING  TACKLE
N O T I O N S !
PANTS.  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND  GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRINGS. ETC.

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 

mail.  Goods shipped promptly to any point.

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

24  Pearl  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  M idi.

C. (í. A. VOIGT A  CO.
STAR  MILLS,

Proprietors  of the'

Manufacturers  of the  following  pop­

ular  brands  of Flour.

“ STAR,”

“GOLDEN  SHEAF,” 

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

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  PROPRIETOR.

WE  D O O M  FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at­

tended  to.

J B   1  CO.

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc,

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
K L E S M U T K . ’®

77

“Red Bark Bitters 
Til

-AND-

78  West  Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

ALLEN’S  ABRIDGED  SYSTEM
BOOK-KEEPING!

------ O F------

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.”
Full and complete drafts of rulings, etc., with 
illustrative entries and instructions in pamph­
let form mailed upon receipt of f2.

W, JELm Allen,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  17,  1885.

NO. 91.

ONONDAGA F. F. SALT j

Sole Manufacturers. 

AMERICAN  DAIRY  SALT  CO.

(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.

IG T I
CRESCENT
FLOURING  MILLS,

Proprietors  of

ft

! 

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  should 
write to or see the

GRAND  RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  CO.

71  CANAL  STREET.

ORDER  A  SAMPLE  BUTT  OF

P L

McALPIN’S

Chocolate  Creai
Eaton  &  M e n » ,
EDMUND  B.  DIKEMÂN,

A  RICH  NUTTY CHEW.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

u

a

.

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER,

J E W E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

McALPIN’S

Chocolate  Cream
Plug  T obacco

Is  the  most  Delicious  Chew  on  the 

Market.

SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS.

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

A W A K /   VJV  K J V J t )  

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

c ■ 
U P S

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

Some

FAST  FREIGHT  LINES.
Facts  about  Their  Origin, Advan­
tages and  Disadvantages.

The  original  idea  of  a  fast  freight  line 
was that of a corporation technically,  if not 
actually, distinct from the railroad company 
or companies over whose tracks its cars ran. 
The fast freight line  corporation  owned its 
own  cars  ami  kept  close  watch  on  their 
movements.  They'were supposed to be de­
voted wholly to through business and not to 
be liable to  indefinite  detention  by  foreign 
roads that were  improvidently short of cars. 
The billing of freight carried  in  these  cars 
was  through  billing,  and  goods  were  not 
subject to delay at junction  points.  A pro­
per tracing  form was  devised  and  used  to 
show how the freight was  traveling  and  to 
locate responsibility as between the different 
companies over whose roads the cars of  the 
fast freight  line ran.  So far as the shipper 
was concerned lie gave  his  business  to  the 
fast freight line  in  return  for  a  contracted 
speedy transit of  his  freight. 
It  cost  him 
no more than  if  lie  simply  delivered  it  at 
the receiving depot  of  the  initial  line  and 
trusted to  luck  in  all  matters  relating  to 
the handling of his freight  after  the  initial 
line had made the  customary delivery to its 
connection. 
In  course  of  time,  however, 
a usage  was  generally  established  among 
merchants of shipping high class'freight,  or 
freight liable to damage  or  depreciation  by 
delay,  as  line  freight.  Shipper’s  have  al­
ways  been  partial  to  the  fast  freight  sys­
tem.

But,  as regards  the  railroad  corporation 
over whose  rails  the  line  ears  ran,  tilings 
were a little different.  The crowning beauty 
of the new theory of transportation was rep­
resented by a fast  freight  line  corporation 
whose proprietors and managers were  more 
or less managers, if  not  proprietors  of  the 
roads that constituted the  route of  the line. 
Under this regime it was possible  for a fast 
freight line to make  money,  while  the road 
over  which  its  cars  ran  was  practically 
bankrupting itself to enrich  an adventitious 
sucker that could not exist  without the rail­
road’s  support.  To  state  the  point  very 
plainly,  it was then not considered improper 
that A,  B and  C,  being  officers  and  stock­
holders of the  Poverty Flat  railroad,  which 
in connection  with  the  Sandy  Desert  road 
formed  the  line  between  Farmersville and 
Golden City, to form a fast  freight corpora­
tion which  should  operate  over  these  two 
roads and secure the bulk of  the high  class 
freight requiring to be transported  between 
Farmersville and Golden City.  Under favor­
able circumstances the fast freight line would 
be able to pay rich dividends  out  of  money 
really earned by the struggling  corporations 
over which  its  business  wras  carried.  The 
temptation constantly  before the  officers of 
railroads who were personally  interested in 
fast freight lines was,  naturally  enough,  to 
throw  all  the  business  they  could  to tlie 
fast freight line,  when much, if not all of it, 
might have been carried by  the  railroad en­
tirely  for  its  own  account.  Where  this 
temptation was yielded to,  the  stockholders 
of the railroad whistled for dividends  while 
fast freight line shareholders grew relatively 
rich.  As railroad managers became educat­
ed  to  the  finer  points  of  their  profession 
they gradually came to  see  that  conditions 
were changing, and  so  changed  some  mat­
ters in which fast freight lines had long had 
too  absolute  sway.  They  looked  forward 
to a time when every railroad  should  be its 
own  fast  freight  line.  The  rapid  transit 
companies  had  been  paid  large  sums for 
commissions, salaries  and  other  expenses, 
and this money the prudent  railroad  mana­
ger desired to save  for  the  stockholders  in 
the corporation which paid for his  services.
The expenses of fast freight lines were of 
two kinds.  Lines  which  were  represented 
by corporations  entirely  separate  from  the 
railroads and owned their own cars  exacted 
a commission on all business delivered to the 
railroad in their cars, and paid  all expenses 
of managers and  soliciting  agents’  salaries 
and  office  rent  and  dividends  out  of  this 
commission.  The Merchants’ Despatch and 
Empire lines,  the  only  remaining  proprie­
tary lines,  continue  to  conduct  business  in 
this way to this  day.  The  freight is billed 
at the regular through rate and the commis­
sion deducted  as  an  arbitary, the  roads in 
the line prorating the  remainder.

Co-operative lines worked  on  a  different 
basis.  Three or  four  roads  came  together 
and formed a fast  freight  line.  Each  road 
furnished its  proper  quota  of  ears,  which 
were distinctively painted and lettered.  Re­
ceipts and expenses were prorated according 
to mileage or tonnage as  the case might be. 
The auditors of the  roads  interested,  aided 
by the separate  auditor  of  the  fast  freight 
line,  settled accounts  once a month-  Mile­
age on line cars was accurately recorded and 
industriously  exacted  in  all  cases.  Some­
times two or  three  fast  freight  lines  were 
operating over the same  road.  To  each  of 
them the  railroad  company  contributed its 
share of expenses for office rent  and solicit­
ing  agents’  salaries. 
Inasmuch  as  every 
railroad company has its  own  freight  con­
tracting agent at each terminus it often hap­
pened that the  regular  agent  and  the  fast 
freight line agent would  be working for the 
same lot  of  freight—a  clear  surplusage of 
the services of one able-bodied railroad man.

is  located.

About Bricks.
From the California Architect.

The  newer  idea  of  ra Iroadii g  w is  to any  pai•ticalai car

ertain trains  can y the  quick
When two or three  line  agents were each billed sc that
freight, an<l  as man;y  sections are  run as
working for freight which in any event must
itua- necessai y. W hat  scmie  roads have  done
go over a certain initial  railroad tlie
tion in point of  want  of economy  beeame for time ill one way, others  ha\ e  clone  for
systematic luirtying if  freight  1iy means of
still  more  aggravated. Sometímes rates
were cut and occasionally the  road  would a manif 3St sys tern. By  means of  a  tele-
kick but not often.  Line agents have been graph ci)de all cars aie  reported at  time  of
líese inci- arriving and leaving livision points by  wire
punished for cutting  rates but
raflie to the o[flee of the m<ister of traiisportation.
dents are  among  the  cuiiosities of
If any ear sdcflayed the  reason  is stated.
management  and  not  every-daj big- otter
facts.
By this mems it is p<issible  to tell  where
It  is  not
abolish commissions  wherever  prac ticable. merely 1ast fre ght biit it quickens tlie move-
Freight privileges  were  i o  longer  farmed ment of all fre ght and increases the amount
out,  and salaries were substituted for eom- of servicîc that can be gotten out of  a  given
missions.  There was  gradually crystalliz- number of ears.  The only otliei
thing that
ing an idea  which,  briefly and  t ersely for-
is neces sar)f to quickcin freight time is to re-
mulated,  was:  “The fast freight  line must 
arrange tracks at  junction  points  so  as to 
go.”  Roads  as  distant  in  interest  as  the 
admit of rapid transfer.  This  means union 
Pennsylvania  and 
the  Burlington  were 
freight depots—a  weighty problem,  but one 
marked with equal sagacity of  management 
likely to engage attention before long.
in this particular.  The latter ceased to have 
any actual interest in fast freight lines other 
than its own fast  freight  trains.  The  for­
mer wiped out the  stock of the  Star Union, 
and made it little  or  nothing  more  than a 
specialized  branch  of  the  Pennsylvania’s 
business.  High-class freight  went  by fast 
trains,  but  the  railroad  company  which 
hauled it absorbed all  the  profits.  Extran­
eous corporations were left out  in the  cold. 
One improvement  after  another  was  made 
in  the  way  of  handling  freight  till  there 
were but few  advantages  left  for  the  fast 
freight line to boast of as  against a  reliable 
railroad which could issue  through  bills of 
lading and punch the  ears along all the way 
from starting place to destination.

An average day’s work for a brick-layer is 
1,500  bricks  on  outside  and  inside walls; 
on facings and angles,  and finishing  around 
wood or stone work,  not more  than  half  of 
this number can be laid.  To find  the  num­
ber of bricks in a  wall,  first  determine  the 
number of square feet of  surface,  and  then 
multiply by 7 for a 4-inch wall,  by 14 for an 
8-inch  wall,  by  21  for  a 12-inch wall,  and 
by  28  for  a  10-inch  wall. 
For  staining 
bricks  red,  melt  one  ounce  of glue  in  one 
gallon  of  water;  add  a  piece  of  alum  the 
size of  an egg,  then one-lialf pound of Ven­
etian red and one pound of  Spanish  brown. 
Try  the  color  on  the  bricks  before  using, 
and change to light or dark with  the  red  or 
brown,  using a yellow mineral ror buff.  For 
coloring  black,  heat  asphaltum  to  a  fluid 
state,  and  moderately  heat  true  surface 
bricks  and  dip  them;  or  make  a  hot  mix­
ture  of  linseed  oil  and  asphalt,  heat  the 
bricks,  and dip them.  Tar and  asphalt  are 
also used for the  same  piupose. 
It  is  im­
portant  that  the  bricks be sufficiently  hot, 
and  be  held  in  the  mixture to absorb  the 
color  to  the  depth  of one-sixteenth  of  an 
inch.

As far as speed was  concerned  the  word 
“fast -freight” became a misnomer;  Plenty 
of other freight moved equally as fast.  De­
lays at junctions  were  obviated  by  special 
instructions and allowing the  first  way bill 
to  accompany  the  freight. 
In  the  olden 
days when  they  came  to  a  “four-track,” 
Empire fast freight  trains  waited  but  ten 
minutes  for  second-class  passenger  trains 
and then took the  right of  way.  The  en­
gineer  or  conductor  of  an  Empire  fast 
freight had to get through on  schedule time 
or show uncommonly good cause  for delay, 
or else be promoted to a coal  train  or  some! 
other less  arduous  place.  The  time made1 
by the  fast  freight  lines  of  other  days is 
beaten every day in  the  week  by the quick 
freight trains of to-day: 
It  used  to  be  an 
argument in favor of fast freight  lines  that 
slow iifeight  Which  laid  over  at junction 
points  was  likdly  to  be  robbed  by  yard 
thieves, but now  every  road  has  its  own 
secret service and depredations of  this kind 
are comparatively few and far between.

The Split Bank Notes.

About a year ago the secret  service detec­
tives succeeded in unearthing a new form of 
spurious money.  The first specimens  were 
genuine bank notes which had been  split in 
two,  and a counterfeit back,  or  face  pasted 
to the good half,  as the case might be.  The 
secret service officers  have  never  been able 
to discover how these notes were split.  Cer­
tainly the government  lias  no machinery in 
its  possession  capable  of  performing  the 
work,  and up to  this  day  the  mysterious 
process is yet unsolved.  The  offenders are 
still at large,  and  while  the  officers  have 
suspected many of the  older  counterfeiters 
of being the guilty ones,  they have never as 
yet succeeded in getting  sufficient  proof  to 
warrant arrests. Comparatively few of these 
spurious  notes  are  in  circulation.  Occas­
ionally one turns up for  redemption at  the 
Treasury, but the clew to the  maker  seems 
as far off as ever.

New Word Coined.

“Mamma,, what kind of a wagon is that?” 
inquired a little girl on west Madison  street 
yesterday.

“That’s a street sprinkler, my  dear.”
Just then then  the  driver  of  the  wagon 
turned on the water and  the  little girl clap­
ped her hands in delight,  exclaiming:

“Oil,  mamma,  see it sprink!”
A retired humorist ventured one  day into 
a mill,  and while in an unguarded  moment 
lie was  perpetrating  some  of  his  old  and 
shop-worn jokes  upon an  innocent  opera­
tive,  lie was drawn into  some  of  the  pon­
derous  gearing  and  dreadfully  crushed. 
They combed him out of the  machinery af­
ter a spell and  spread  the  effects  on  the 
floor.  “Who is it?  Who  is it?”  was  the 
anxious  inquiry  as  the  crowd  gathered 
around.  Nobody knew.  Then  the humor­
ist slowly opened  his  eyes  and  moved  his 
lips.  A sympathizing bystander bent down 
his ear.  “There is good reason why nobody 
recognizes  me,”  the  humorist  whispered, 
painfully.  “Why is it?”  the  sympathizing 
bystander asked.  “Because,” the humorist 
explained,  as he saw a chance to steal home, 
“because I have been traveling incog.”

Two Minneapolis flouring  mills  having a 
combined  daily capacity  of  2,000  barrels, 
have shut down. 
It is  said  several  other 
mills will follow suit.  The  cause  assigned 
is lack  of  orders.  A  leading  miller  said: 
“We are piling up flour,  but are  absolutely 
unable to dispose  of  it at  present  prices. 
Nearly all that is being shipped East is sent 
for storage.  Our hope lies in  the  reported 
short wheat  crop.”

“Nater  is  nater,”  even  among  the  dea­
cons.  A good Saginaw brother, says the lo­
cal paper, meandered along one of the docks 
the other Sunday,  and, noticing  a  crowd of 
boys fishing,  he commenced to reprove them 
for breaking the Sabbath. In the middle of his 
harangue he stopped suddenly  to  ejaculate: 
“Look out,  bub,  you’ve  got  a  bite!” to a 
small boy whose attention had been distract­
ed from his line.

Chocolate  is  gaining  rapidly  in  popular 
esteem  in  the  United  States,  which  will 
soon rival France in point  of  consumption.

As to  billing,  the  advantages  of  a  fast 
freight line are  not  what  they  once  were. 
Any road to-day will issue  its  through bill 
of lading.  Sometimes a shipper will prefer 
a line bill to a  regular  railroad’s  issue  be­
cause of some fancied  superior  responsibil­
ity for delay or loss or  damage,  but  the oc­
casions justifying this  belief  are  relatively 
rare.

In the  matter  of  keeping  track  of  the 
freight in transit many railroads offer  facil­
ities equal to those of the fast  freight lines. 
Line freight is reported  by tracer, forward­
ed by mail. 
If cars are  traced  by  wire the 
railroad company does  it  and  pays  for  it, 
and doesn’t get  any  credit  for  it with  the 
shipper.  When  a  railroad  undertakes  to 
punch up freight by  wire  it  generally  suc­
ceeds in making good time.

But the whole question at last becomes one 
of economy.  Where  a  fast-freight line op­
erates over a road  the  services  of  two sets 
of men are  required.  The  line  office  does 
billing that  the  railroad  clerks  might  do. 
The line agent solicits freight  that  the rail­
road’s contracting agent  could  just  as well 
get.  The line agent cannot guarantee immu­
nity from over  charges or  promise  unusual 
expedition in settlement of  claims  for  loss 
or damage.  Moreover, there are restrictions 
placed on the use of line cars, which largely 
increase a mileage account.

For these reasons,  railroad  after  railroad 
has abandoned the fast  freight  line system. 
It has had its day and economy demands its 
substitution  by  other  methods.  The  Wa­
bash  has  recently  lopped  off  all  the  fast 
freight lines operating  over  its  tracks,  and 
has reduced its contributions for  salaries of 
soliciting agents,  office expenses  and  mile­
age very considerably,  while  shippers  thus 
far have not been heard to complain.  There 
is plenty of fast freight west of the Mississ­
ippi, but  practically  no  fast  freight  lines, 
and yet the western shipper is about as well 
pleased as  the  west  bound  shipper  from 
New York. 
It  is  not  only  that  the  fast 
freight lines must go—a great many of them 
have gone.

The indications  are  that  before  a  great 
while the days of ail fast lines will be num­
bered. 
In their stead will come  a  system­
atic and simple plan of through  billing over 
all the roads, while  each  road  will  hustle 
high-class freights along its track as quickly 
as it  can.  Consolidations  have  made  our 
railroad systems longer  and  fewer in num­
ber,  and through billing means more than it 
used to.  Perhaps  transfer  companies  will 
never achieve quite as much celerity as some 
other corporate  bodies,  but  there is  hope 
even in  this  direction. 
In  the  matter  of 
time the western lines are  already setting a 
good example.  Cars are carded and freight

The Typical Traveler.

From  the Cliicairo News.

Ella  Wheeler  used  to  write  poetry,  but 
now,  if what  is  credited  to  Ella  Wheeler 
Wilcox in the papers be really hers,  she has 
left the field of poetry and taken to  writing 
what  would  readily  be  distinguishable  as 
prose essays if the lines did  not  begin with 
capital letters and end with rhyming words. 
One of these rhyming compositions  floating 
about the newspaper field under the heading 
“The Traveling Man,”  is a  defense  of  the 
“much-abused, misused” commercial  drum­
mer.  Here is a sample stanza:
First, in a crowded c4ir is he to offer.

Or old and wrinkled.  He is first to proffer—

This traveling man unhonored and unsung—
The seat he paid for to some woman  young, 
Something, a trifle from his  samples maybe,
To please the fancy of the crying baity.
The succeeding stanzas  picture  this trav­
eling man lifting windows and pulling down 
curtains “for  unaccustomed  hands,”  offer­
ing his sample  case  to  make  a  bolster for 
child, 
some  mamma’s 
to  ev­
eryone's  comfort, 
turning  seats  paying 
fares for  those  who  have  no  money,  and 
even,  if the peace of some young lady’s soul 
demands it, flirting with her a little.

looking 

We  have  seen  this  kind  of  a  traveling 
man,  but he is of  the  sort  grouped  by the 
older members of the brotherhood under the 
significant  head  of  a  “fresh  lot.”  He is 
not a  characteristic  commercial  drummer, 
and when he  has been  in  the business lon­
ger he will be a  different  man.  The  real, 
simon-pure traveling  man  knows  the  best 
seat in the car and  usually  manages to  get 
it. 
If the chances are  that  the  car will be 
crowded,  he puts his sample-case atone end 
of the seat and  curls  himself  up in the re­
maining portion.  Don’t think for a moment 
he is keeping his eye peeled  for  an  oppor­
tunity to jump up and give his  seat to some 
woman.  He used to do that  when he  was 
new,  but  now—perhaps  because  liq  has 
learned 
that  traveling  women  generally 
have very  little  appreciation  of  the  sacri­
fices made for their  comfort—he  shuts  his 
eyes and  pretends  to  be  asleep  whenever 
anybody comes looking for a seat 
If  lie is 
roused and asked for part of his seat lie will 
—that is, tlie old experienced drummer will 
—declare that he is holding it for  a  friend.
Moreover, the experienced  drummer  lias 
learned that it doesn’t pay to  attend to any­
body’s business but liis own  own.  He  has 
had forced on him tlie  discouraging  conclu­
sion that If he doesn’t look out  for  himself 
nobody else will; so  lie  settles  in  his  seat 
and  shuts  himself  within  himself,  calm, 
cool, comfortable—glad always to see ladies 
get seats, but pretty sure that if he sits still 
and snoozes somebody else  will  get up and 
provide for them.

We believe the poetess should stick to her 
poetry,  or,  if she  must  depart  from  it to 
sing defenses  for  anybody,  let  her  choose 
some beneficiary more in need of popular pity 
than tlie traveling man,  who,  of all persons, 
needs it least.

How Bananas Are Cultivated.

A Costa Rica  correspondent  writes  to 
the Brooklyn Eagle an  interesting  account 
of the way in which bananas  are  cultivated 
for the United States market.  The natives, 
by the way, think the people of  the  United 
States great fools to eat as many bananas as 
they do,for tlie fruits of the  country  which 
will not survive a  sea  voyage  are  so  much 
more delicate and delicious that  the  banana 
is given to tlie swine.  As a  general thing 
banana seedlings are  planted  about  '200  to 
the acre, which usually produce  fruit  when 
two years old.  A dozen  shoots come from 
tlie  same  root  annually;  the  second  year 
each  shoot bears  a single bunch of bananas, 
and then dies;  but  others  are  growing  to 
.take its place, and the harvest is continuous; 
each plant yielding four  or  five  bunches  a 
year,  ripening at intervals  of  two  or  three 
months.  Thus an acre of bananas will pro­
duce about 900 bunches annually,  which are 
worth from §250 to §300  according  to  their 
quality and the demands  of the market. 
It 
costs about §20 an acre  to  clear  and  plant 
the ground,  and about the  same amount an­
nually to keep the plantation  in  order  and 
gather  the  harvest.  Every  eight  or  ten 
years the trees have  to  be  renewed.  The 
natives  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding, 
bananas are j ustly regarded as a very  delic­
ious,  nutritious food.  They come  In, more­
over,  at all times and can be served in many 
ways; they are palatable cooked in  fritters ; 
make an excellent desert  eaten with cream ; 
and perhaps taste best when bought  on  the 
streets or in the cars,  and eaten without any 
style.

A Bad Break.

From Texas  Siftings.

Mose  Schaumburg,  the  Austin  merchant 
prince,  had  his  usual  annual  failure  last 
week.  A Gentile creditor was so completely 
eaten up with curiosity that he asked:

“ What percentage are you going to allow 
your  creditors—twenty  per  cent.,  I  sup­
pose ? ”

“ Yen you suppose I allows  my  greditors 
dot much,  you vash one of  de  moshly  sup- 
posostitious man I efer met.  Five pershent 
ish  more  den  I am in de habit of allowing 
dose greditors.”

Fence wire barbs produce  §120,000 annu­

ally in royalty for their inventor.

Ifi M i e i  Tradesman.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile anil Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  JUNE  17,  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

_

. 

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Wm. Sears. 
, 
Executive  Committee—President,  V lce-Pres- 
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright,
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­

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

_  „

Michigan Dairymen’s  Association.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

XX  THE  CITY.

Robert Carlyle has re-engaged  in the gro­
cery  business at  Rockford.  Clark,  Jewell 
& Co. furnished the stock.

J.  W. Dunning and J.  L.  Alexander have 
formed a copartnership under the firm name 
of Dunning &  Alexander,  and  engaged in 
the hardware business at Hesperia.  Foster, 
Stevens & Co. furnished the  stock.

Cornelius  Dogger  and  Gysbert  Nyberg 
have formed a copartnership  under the firm 
name of Dogger & Nyberg,  and  engaged in 
the grocery business on the corner of Bridge 
and  Sinclair  streets.  Fox,  Musselman  & 
Loveridge furnished the stock.

Dr.  C.  S.  Hazeltine,  Col.  Geo.  G.  Briggs 
and  Dr.  J. B.  Parker  have  returned  from 
Boston,  where  they  attended  the  semi-an­
nual meeting of the board of directors of the 
Peninsular Novelty  Co.,  in  which  corpora­
tion they  are  largely  interested.  Edward 
O. Ely  was  elected  vice-president  of  the 
company,  and  Geo.  E.  Parker  was  made 
treasurer.  The affairs  of  the  company are 
reported to be  in a  very.satisfactory condi­
tion,  and prospects  are  excellent  for  large 
dividends in the near future.

Organized at  Grand  Rapids,  February 25,  1885.
President—Milan Wiggins. Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City; 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage; 
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C.Nash, Hilliards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks-
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Next  Meeting—Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
Membership Fee-*-$l per year. 
Official Organ—T h e   M i c h i g a n T r a d e s m a n .
Post L  M.  C .T.  A.

Rapids. 
1886.

„  ,

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

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- j 
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. j 
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 
eaefi month.
Next  Meeting—Saturday  evening,  June  27, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

Grand Rapids Post T.  P. A.

Organized at Grand Rapids, April 11,1885.
President—Geo. F. Owen.
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.
Treasurer—James Fox.
Next Meeting—Saturday evening, June 20, at 
“The Tradesman” office.

The Tradesm an will keep “open house” 
July 3 and 4, and the editor and  office force 
will cordially welcome  all  friends  and pat­
rons who  may favor  the  office  with a call. 
Ice water will be on draught.

Governor  Alger’s  appointments  to  the 
Borad of Pharmacy are all  men  of  sterling 
integrity  and  unlimited  experience  in  the 
profession  intrusted  to  their  care.  They 
have an arduous  duty* to  perform—the sys- 
temization  of  the drug trade of the State— 
but  T he Tradesm an  cordially expresses 
fullest  confidence in their  ability to accom­
plish the objects for  which  the  Board was 
created.

Secretary  Bayard’s  announcement  that 
during liis administration  of  the  State  De­
partment none  but frèe  traders will be eli­
gible to consulships is cause  for genuine re­
gret.  The sentiment of the country is about 
evenly divided on the great question of  pro­
tection and free trade,  and the  attempt of a 
government official  to  color  the  reports on 
our trade abroad is deserving of the severest 
censure.

Agreeable to promise,  T he  Tradesm an 
this week  presents a full  list of  hardw'ood 
lumber quotations.  The  prices  quoted are 
those  paid by the  furniture  factories here, 
which are immense consumers of all kinds of 
hardw'ood  timber,  and  invariably  pay  the 
highest market prices.  Like all  other arti­
cles quoted in T he T radesm an, the quota­
tions will be corrected  weekly,  and may be 
relied upon as absolutely correct.

It begins to  look  as  though  Messmore  is 
not to be recognized by  the  administration. 
It seems that he “ set his heart ” on the  po­
sition of Register of the Land  Office at Salt 
Lake  City ;  but  Secretary  Lamar  awarded 
the  plum  to  a  commercial traveler named 
Wallace,  and Messmore  w'axed  wrroth,  and 
accused the Secretary of bad  faith.  There 
are several thousand people in this city who 
would welcome an Invasion of  the  cholera, 
providing Messmore would be the  only vic­
tim / 

•

At the earnest request of a large  number 
of pharmacists,  T he Tradesm an has  con­
sented to reprint the full text of the present 
Pharmacy Law,  which  will  account  for its 
republication in  this  issue.  Since  the  last 
publication,  it has been  compared,  word by 
word,  w'ith the official  document  signed by 
the  Governor,  and  two  words  omitted  in 
last week’s draft,  “paris green” and  “sugar 
of  lead,”  have  been  supplied.  Druggists 
may rely upon this week’s draft as absolute­
ly correct in every particular.

Trouble  seems  to  be  brewing  between 
England and Germany,  arising from alleged 
encroachments  upon  Zanzibar  territory  of 
the  German  East  African  Company.  By 
this  means,  it  is  said,  large  quantities of 
ivory, gum copal,  india-rubber,  seeds and so 
on, which formerly came into the interior of 
Zanzibar and Pebna, have been diverted.

J. II. Parker, Michigan  agent  for  Chan­
dler & Taylor,  of  Indianapolis,  reports the 
following sales during the  past month:  A. 
F. Anderson, Spencer Creek,  boiler,  engine 
and  sawmill;  John  Willis,  Bellaire,  same; 
Wm.  Metcalf,  boiler,  engine and clay crush­
er; C. B.  Springer,  West Branch,  boiler and 
16 horse-power  engine  for  saw-mill; C. H. 
Lathrop,  Escanaba,  thirty  horse-power en­
gine,  boiler and sawmill;  Jno.  M.  Young, 
Harbor Springs,  thirty  lxorse-power  engine 
and boiler and two  lathes;  E.  Hallenbeck, 
East  Saginaw',  boiler,  engine  and  sawmill 
to be shipped into Western  Dakota.; C.  R. 
Herrick, Fenwick,  sawmill.

Regarding the  proposed  exchange of vis­
its between Grand Rapids and the Saginaw's, 
Jas.  Stewart—he  of  the  gaunt  form  and 
Spencerian  hand—writes:  “Base ball  is a 
dead issue with us at  present. 
I s.ent a po­
lite note of inquiry  to  one  of  your  jobbers 
about a month ago, inquiring as to the pros­
pects of another time of it again,  but he has 
failed to answer.  Presume he  has  not had 
time to take the  epistle  around  to  the Chi­
nese laundry and have it interpreted.  Think 
if your grocery jobbers have sand enough to 
send over a challenge,  wre  can  find  grocers 
enough to have the rashness  to  accept,  and 
between  us a sheol of a time might be  had 
without  much  difficulty,  especially if  the 
‘Belle of Nelson’  still survives.  This is fa­
mous weather for base ball, audit is a pity to 
lose such an opportunity.  Let us hear from 
Grand Rapids.”

AROUND  THE  STATE.

F.  D. Jones,  hardware dealer at Bronson, 

has failed.

T.  J. Barber,  harness dealer  at  Hubbard- 

ston,  has sold out.

Mrs.  G. Begel, grocer  at  Harbor Springs,

! has removed to Charlevoix.

M. D. Taft & Son have  moved  into  their 

i new store building at Pewamo.

Frank Walter, general dealer at Clarkston,

| has been closed on attachment.

E.  J. Underwood,  grocer  at  Athens,  has 

j been closed on chattel mortgage.

B. C.  Hubbell,  dry  goods  dealer  at  Burr 

I Oak, has been closed on attachment.

Lucas Mulder succeeds Essebagger & Mul- 

I der in the bakery business at Muskegon.
!  W.  C.  Straight succeeds Newell  Bros,  m 
I the restaurant and grocery business at Flusli- 
| big.
C.  II.  Stoner,  confectionery  and  news 
j  dealer at Reading,  lias been closed on chattel 
! mortgage.

Saraw & Babcock,  grocery, confectionery 
! and meat dealers at Mason, have been closed 
i on  chattel mortgage.

Whipple Bros.,  grocers at  Eaton  Rapids,
| have assigned  to  H.  S.  Maynard.  Liabili- 
! ties,  $1,700; assets about $1,000.

Wayland Globe:  Frank  Yeakey  is  now | 
1 in the meat business at  Martin  Corners and 
.the firm name is Yeakey & Williams.

Wagner  &  Wells  have  sold  their  meat 
! market,  at  Eastmanville,  to  Yandermeer &
I Vanderbout, who will continue the business 
| at the old stand.

Elmer J.  Lamberton writes T he Trades­
man that  he—and  not  Mrs.  Mary Lamber- 
! ton—will continue the drug and grocery bus- 
| iness at Rochester.

J. W. Likins has been admitted to partner- 
| ship in the firm of  Evans & Walker, whole- 
i sale tea and spice dealers  at  Detroit.  The 
i firm name remains the some as before.

S.  C.  Scott and C.  B.  Munn  have  formed 
| a copartnership under  the  firm  name of S.
! C.  Scott  & Co.,  and  purchased  the  drug 
j stock  of  H.  M.  Read  &  Co.,  at  Howard 
I City.
John de Jongli,  the Grand  Haven  dealer, 
i 
i  was robbed  of  his  pocket-book  containing 
| $150 one night  last  week.  The  thief  was 
| captured at Chicago the day following,  with 
I only $30 in his possession.

S. C. Fell, who has carried on the grocery 
! and  shingle  business  at  Howard  City  for 
several years past, has  shipped  his  shingle 
| mill to Petoskey,  and will move his  grocery 
|  stock there in a short time.
|  A  Remus  correspondent  writes:  F. E. 
j  Cross has sold his  stock  of  drugs  and gro- 
! ceries to C.  F.  Fitzgerald,  principal  of  our 
j  union school.  Mr. Cross contemplates mov- 
i  ing to some other  town  as  soon as  he can 
| get his business closed up.

Hart Argus:  C.  Slaght  has  his  founda­
tion laid,  and is now  grading  for  the  track 
into  his  warehouse.  He  is  figuring  with 
Mr.  Taylor for  a  brick machine,  and Louis

The Tank Delivery- 

Wagon System.

To the Retail Trade of Grand Rapids:

In almost every  large  city  of  the  Union, 
the dealers are  now  supplied  with  refined 
oils in bulk from tank delivery wagons,  and 
they have found that system so safe, cleanly 
and convenient that they  would  not  return 
to the old style of delivery in barrels.  Some 
idea of the favor with which  the  system  is 
regarded  by 
those  conversant  with  its 
merits may be inferred  from  the  fact  that 
560  of  the  600  retail  dealers in Cleveland 
take  oil  from  the  delivery  wagons  and 
would not cease doing so under  any circum­
stances.

Desiring  to  give  to  the  retail  trade of 
Grand Rapids  the  best  facilities,  we  have 
| had constructed

TANK  DELIVERY  WAGONS 

Of the imost mproved pattern, and  are  now' 
prepared  to  deliver  to  you  refined oils  in 
bulk without the cost of packages.

Our wagons will call at  your  store  as of­
ten as may be necessary  to  keep  you  sup­
plied.  One  or  two  days  in the week the 
wagons  will  carry  Michigan Test Oil;  the 
balance of the' week  Water  XVhite  will  be 
delivered.

Do  not  be  deceived  by  parties  selling 
“ Prime X\7hite Michigan ” Oil,  and  making 
statements that the quality is as good as the 
Standard  Oil  Co.’s  Water  White. 
If you 
want  “ Prime  White  Michigan,”  do  your 
own  mixing,  by  using  equal  parts of the 
Standard Oil Co.’s XVater White  and Michi­
gan Test Oils.  There are  only  two  grades 
of oil made by the  refiners  of  Cleveland— 
Michigan Test or Prime  White  and  XXrater 
XXThite.

Orders  to  telephone  number  621-1  w ill 

haveprompt attention.

Yours respectfully,

fest Icliffl

il Co.

(Successors  to  Standard  Oil  Co.)

SH ERW OO D  H A LL.

M ARTIN  L.  SW EET.

ESTABLISHED  I860

JOBBERS  OF

ITUH GUlAllMOfl U
OF  EVERY  DESCRIPTION.

AA'e  Carry  a  Very  Complete  Line  of Car­

riage,  Wagon  and  Sleigh  stock,  in 

Both  Wood  and  Iron.

HARNESS  GOODS:  Lumbermen’s  Heavy 
Case  Collars;  Lumbermen’s  Bolt  Harness 
Sweat  Pads:  Collar  Pads;  Snaps  Bits;  Web 
and  Leather  Halters:  Buggy  Tops  and  Sun 
Shades;  Cloth  Cushions,  in  stock  or made  to 
order,  to  lit,  on  short  notice;  Curry  Combs, 
Horse Brushes; Whips, Buck, Calf and Leather 
Lashes;  Horse  Blankets;  Compress  Leather 
Axle  Washers;  Harness  Oils;  Harness  Soap; 
Varnish for Buggy Tops.
WAGON  GOODS:  Spokes;  Hubs;  Felloes; 
Patent Wheels; Axles;  Logging Bob Runners; 
Cast or Steel Shoes;  Wagon and P I oav Clevises; 
Wrought Whiftletree Irons; and ail  goods per­
taining to a Wagon, Cart,  Buggy,  Carriage  or 
Sleigh.
GENUINE  FRAZIER’S  AXLE  GREASE  in 
wood boxes, 25 lb pails and barrels; Buyers  for 
general  stores,) Harness  and  Wagon  Makers 
will find it to their interest to call  on  us when 
in  the  city  or  Avrite  for prices, as we keep  a 
line of goods not found elsewhere.

Nos. 20 and 22 Pearl st., Grand Rapids.

Good XiVords Unsolicited.

L. Coss, grocer, North Star:  “I like it very 

F. 

much.”

the paper.”

AV. H. Goodyeai-, druggist,  Hastings;  “Like 

Henry Will,  furniture,  Freeport;  “Glad  to 

have The Tradesman.”

Stitt Bros., general dealers, StittSA'iile:  “We 

could not get along without your paper.”

Horace Prentice, furniture, Kalamazoo:  “It 
is all right, and a good thing.  Am glad  to  get 
it.”
“ Could hardly do  without  it. 
many profitable hints from it.”

N.  C.  Morgan,  general  dealer,  Northport: 
IlaA'e  learned 

J.  F.  Hacker,  general  dealer,  Corinth: 
“Please continue T h e  T r a d e s m a n .  It has be­
come one of the family, and  we  could  not  do 
Avithout  it.  It  is  a  great  help to any man  in 
business, and especially to  one  buying a gen­
eral stock.”

I. J. Leggett,  druggist,  Paris:  “Your paper 
is  certainly  an  excellent  one,  and  I  would 
hardly  know  Iioav  to  get  along Avithout it. 
I  
see  Soliman  has  got  into  trouble;  but  as he 
has formed a partnership with the WidoAV, per­
haps he Avill wiggle out all right.”

C.  M.  Perkins,  general  dealer,  Hesperia: 
“ Your paper is a good  one.  It  fills  the  spot. 
It is something that in a measure  protects the 
retailer  from  scheming  Avholesale  agents. 
In  the  short  time  I haA e been in business,  it 
has already saved me more  than  the  price  of 
the paper.”

FoocIioav is the greatest tea-exporting city 
in the Avorlcl,  Avith Calcutta  a  good  second 
and gaining every year.

M.  C.  Russell has repaired and  otherwise 

renovated his large refrigerator.

Pamin  for his  steam power,  and may make 
brick on  the  spot  and  build entirely there­
of.

N.  C.  Morgan, 

the  North port * general 
dealer,  wintered 10,000  bushels of  potatoes 
and sold them just in time to realize a hand­
some profit.  Out  of  the  whole  lot, there 
was a loss of  only about  150  bushels.  He 
says he finds Burbanks and White Elephants 
are the best keepers.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

The  Albion  factories  are  crowded  with 

orders.

at Sylvester.

D.  B.  Kelley is building a handle  factory 

The Darling Milling Co., at Fremont,  will 

spend $7,000 in improvements.

The Mancelona Oval Dish  Co.  is running 

on eleven hour time to fill orders.

McLaughlin  Brothers  will  move  their 

planing mill from Lapeer to Corunna.

W. W.  Rice  is  erecting  a  large  tannery' 
near Petoskey,  the plant to cost  $25,000.  □
D.  C.  Pelton  has  completed  his  shingle 
mill at Nirvana, and is running at full blast.
Dexter  &  Noble  will  soon  put  the  full 
roller  process  in  their  grist  mill,  at  Elk 
Rapids.

Jno. M.  Young,  general  dealer  at  Caro, 
has put in  a  handle  factory  near  Harbor 
Springs.

Spencer  & Daniels have  received  the  en­
gine  and  boiler  for  their  shingle  mill  at 
Baldwin.

A firm from Cadillac  have  located in Pe­
toskey' and are erecting a large  shingle mill 
for the manufacture of cedar shingles.

D.  C. Bradley,  of Chicago,  one of the pro­
prietors of  the  Bangor  furnace,  has  pur­
chased the Coloma chemical  works  and  re­
moved them to Bangor.

Big Rapids Current:  Plato  & Remwick, 
of Greenville,  have  purchased  from  O.  M.
Clark the timber on his  tract  of  land near 
Rodney',  for  $4,500.  They  will  put  up  a 
shingle mill and proceed  to  dispose of said 
timber.

THE  LOUNGER.

There are few  business  men  who  have 
not a  personal  acquaintance  with  Henry 
Carr,  who writes checks and figures out dis­
counts for  H.  Leonard  &  Sons.  When  I 
told him the other day that I was  in, search j 
of data on  the subject of fast  freight lines, 
he said he could make an interesting contri- 
button  to  that  subject;  and  sure  enough,  j 
next day he lugged  down  a couple of pack- ; 
ages of bills  of  lading,  containing  one  or | 
more bills from every  through  line  ever in I 
existence,  dating as  far  back  as  January,  j 
1864.  1
  am not much of an  antiquarian, but i 
j it  amused  me  to  see  the  through  freight j 
rates our merchants used to  pay twenty-one I 
In the case in  point,  first,  sec- j 
years ago. 
ond,  third  and  fourth  class  freight  were | 
rated at $1.93,  $1.56,  $1.23  and 86,  respect- , 
ively,  whereas  the  present  tariff  for  the j 
same classes is 40,  30,  25  and  18  cents,  re­
spectively.  Three years later—January  9,  \ 
1867—the tariff was about  fifteen  per  cent,  j 
higher;  but  the  year  following,  first-class 1 
rates  dropped  to  $1.44,  and  the  decline 
seems to have been gradual from  that  time 
I to the present,  with  the  usual  fluctuations 
for winter and summer traffic.  Another pe­
culiar  feature  was  the  use  of the revenue 
stamp,  which  was  obligatory  up  to  about 
1S70.

*  *  *

“The  State  of  Massachusetts,”  said  my 
friend  Carr,  “has a  law  providing  that all 
profits made by  a  corporation  in  excess of 
10 per cent,  shall revert  to the State.  The 
| Merchants’ Despatch never  paid  more than 
a 10 per cent,  dividend, but some of the leg­
islators of that State got it into  their  heads 
that something was crooked,  and  a commit­
tee was accordingly appointed  to  look  into 
the matter.  The investigation disclosed the 
fact that only 25 per cent,  had been paid on 
the  capital  stock  of  the  corporation,  and 
that consequently the  real  dividend was 40 
per cent. 
I  don’t  just  exactly  know  how 
the managers got around the law after that, 
but I  presume  they  put  the  extra  30  per 
cent,  in as  ‘operating’expenses’ or figured it 
in some  fictitious  fund  which  reached  the 
stockholders in a roundabout way.”

N. W. Mills,  of  Otsego,  who  has  bought 
the Brooks  &  Norton  sawmill  and  timber 
lands  near  Bloomingdale,  writes  T he 
Tradesm an  that  he  is  putting  down  a 
tramway through the  timber  tract and also 
“Yes,  I suppose  the  through  transporta­
to the line of the railway.  The  capacity of 
tion lines have  got  to  step  down  and out 
the mill is 25,000 feet of  hardwood  lumber
sooner or  later,” said  the  representative of
per day,  and he will  operate  the mill to its j one of the corporations.  “The  fact  of  the 
full  capacity  until  all 
verted into lumber.

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The Lady Shopper.

A woman enters a dry-goods store,
Steps to a clerk who stands near the dcor, 
Asks him to show her the latest style,
And she pulls over the goods meanwhile.
She says:  “ I want a dress for my neice: 
Will you please to show me that under piece? 
Oh!  I didn t se e ’twas a polka spot,
That is too near like the one she’s got,
That piece with the stripes would just suit me, 
It’s just as pretty as it caD be;
But she wants a better-covered ground,
With a sort of vine running all  ’round.
She don’t want too dark, nor yet too light.
Or a  striped piece, nor yet very'-bright:
I think sne’d like wliat you  showed  me last, 
But do you think the colors are fast?
Cut off a bit, before I decide,
I’ll take the piece home and have it tried.
I had a dress like that last fall,
And the colors did not wash at all.
I like those patterns there on the end,
I’ll take a few samples for a friend.
Now one of this, if you’ll be so kind,
And a bit of that if you’d not  mind.
They’re the nicest styles I’ve  seen this year, 
I most always do my trading here,
I have got a piece that came from hero,
I forget the price—’twas pretty dear.
It’s a sort of dark alpaca stuff,
I want to match it, I’ve not enough.
Do you think you have it in the store?
My dress is spoiled if I can’t get more.
Will you put these samples in a bill?
I’ll know where I got them if you will,
I’ll take them home:  If she thinks they’ll do, 
You’ll see me back in a day or two.”

The Gripsack Brigade.

J.  C.  XX’atson is making a tour of the Sag­

inaw Yalley this week.

XV m.  II.  Downs spent  Sabbath  with  his 
wife at Sturgis.  Mrs.  Downs returned home 
Tuesday.

J.  II. Parker,  State  agent for Chandler & 
Taylor,  of  Indianapolis,  has  gone  to XVest 
Branch on a business trip.

Cole’s circus was at Traverse City last Sat­
urday.  So  was  A.  1).  Baker.  He  also 
spent all Day Sunday there.

Joe F.  O.  Reed is entertaining  his  father 
and  mother  this  week,  the  former  being 
Rev.  N.  A.  Reed,  D.  D.,  of  Cherokee, 
Iowa.

The Detroit Commercial  has  adopted the 
plan,  which originated  with  Tiie Trades­
m an a couple of  years ago,  of  giving brief 
biographies of the traveling men.

C. M.  Kendall.  B.  J.  Johnson  &  Co.’s 
traveling  representative,  “Badger-ed”  and 
‘ ‘Galvani (c) zed” the jobbers  at  this market 
one day last week.  They still  survive  the 
shock.

Jas.  Rooney recently  returned  from  An 
Sable, where  he sold  the  corporation  500 
feet  of  hose.  He  sold  a  fire  engine  and 
1,000 feet of hose  to  the  village  of  XVest 
Branch.

B. E.  Near,  Michigan and Ohio  represen-
the  timber is  con- i matter  is  that  the  necessity  which  called | tative for the  II.  XXr.  Johns  Manufacturing
Co., of  New'  York, spent  Sunday  at  this 
market,  and  left  Monday for Detroit.  Mr. 
Near intends  removing  his  family to  this 
place from New York City about July 15.

them into existence has now ceased to exist,  i 
as  any  railway  company  will  now  give 
through bills  of  lading,  and  is  able  to get 
the goods through in just as good time.”

The Frontier Iron and Brass  Works  Co. 
is a new corporation at Detroit,  with a  cap­
ital  stock  of  $150,000,  $125,000  of  which 
has been  subscribed. 
It  will  manufacture 
engines and general machinery.  The stock­
holders are Tlios.  S.  Christie,  Elbridge  G.
Pliilbrick,  Tlios.  S.  Christie,  trustee, Hiram 
Walker,  O.  XV.  Shipman,  Henry  XV.  Rood,
Tlios. XV.  Palmer,  William  D.  Robinson,
Uriah C.  Chapin,  T.  K.  Cliristrie and XV. Y.
Moore.  Messrs.  XValker,  Pjiilbrick,  Rood,
Shipman and Tlios.  S.  Christie  have  been 
chosen as directors of the  association.

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The  only  through  lines  having  resident 
agents  here now  are  the  Merchants’  Des­
patch and Star Union, which are represented 
by Tlios.  Hill and E.  J.  Keate, respectively. 
Both are  men  of  considerable  railway  ex­
perience and are well liked  by the  business 
public.

STRAY  FACTS.

The Kalamazoo celery crop  is  very prom­

I heard a good story about  Tom Stimson, 
the Muskegon lumber king, the  other  day. 
It seems that he won a suit of clothes on an 
election  bet,  and  that  the  garments  were 
made here and forwarded  to  him at Muske­
gon.  A day or two afterward the firm were 
convulsed over the receipt  of  a cliaracteris-
Tlie  Calumet  &  Hecla  will  whack  up | tic epistle  from  the  pine  monarch,  reading 

Bellaire talks of organizing  a stock  com­

pany' to build a handle factory'.

ising.

$700,000 for its stockholders, July 13.

The entire  ground  floor  of  the  Bedden 
Bros.’ new brick store at  Buchanan  will be 
occupied by the St. Joe Yalley narrow guage 
company for offices.

somewhat as follows 

D ea r  Sirs—The  clothes  came  to  hand 
all right. 
I  have  tried  on  the  coat,  pants 
and vest.  None of them fit.  Haven’t tried 
on the suspenders yet.

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Shelby offers  special  inducements  for a 
canning factory, w ith pickling works in con­
nection. 
and occupied by  an  intelligent  and  indus- 
trous class of men,  who  w'ould  do  all they j 
could to give the industry a start.

I  w'as  in  court a few months  ago, w'hen 
one of the  numerous  suits brought  against
It is the center of a fine fruit belt, j  Messmore by his almost countless  creditors
w'as in progress.  The old  swindler was  on 
the witness stand, and the  lawyers  for  the 
prosecution  wrere  endeavoring  to  freshen 
his memory  regarding  the  identity  of  the 
traveling salesman who sold  him  the goods 
in  question. 
In  a  burst  of  frenzy,  the 
w'ould-be office-holder declared that he could 
not recollect any traveler  by  name  or  fea­
ture—that the boys swarmed down upon him 
“ like the flees of Egypt.” 
I am inclined to 
the  opinion  that  he  little  thought at  that 
time that he would be  outwitted  by  one  of 
the very men who made his life  weary  dur­
ing his brief mercantile experience, and that 
a coveted office would be captured by a man 
belonging to a profession which  he  has  re-

Hubbard & Nicholson,  of XVhiteliall, have j 
purchased of Parklmrst & Mott, of Augusta,  j 
the yearling  colt Corisco,  for $500.  Frank j 
Noble, the sire of Corsico is full  brother to i 
Jerome Eddy,  2:16K, which was sold to H.  j 
C. Jew'ett & Bro.,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  for j 
$25,000.
The  business  men’s  convention  at  Mar- j 
quette started a sort of epidemic of business j 
men’s associations in  the  Upper Peninsula,  j 
One  w'as  formed  at  Negaunee  on  the  9tli 
with  twenty-four  members  and  Hon. Jno. 
Quincy Adams as president.  Theoneform-
ed at Islipeming two  w'eeks  ago  has thirty  viled at oveiy opportunity.
members. 

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Purely Personal.

Gavel in Daily  Eagle:  According  to the 
scriptures woman came after man, but  I see 
that the local traveling men on July 4 are to 
come after the ladies in the procession.  It’s 
a poor rule  that  will  not  work  both ways, 
sure  enough.  The  wives  of  these  hand­
some grip-sack jugglers  had  better “look a 
leetle out,” for I understand that the  ladies 
of the St. John’s hand are petite and pretty, 
and the average Grand Rapids T. M. is quot­
ed irresistible.

Geo.  S.  Megee  writes  from  Rushville, 
Ind.,  as follow's:  “It is true  I  am in  the 
employ of Daniel Scotten & Co. 
I travel in 
Indiana,  south of the XXrabash, and in a por-1 
tion of Ohio.  Furg  Pfingst,  son  of senior 
member of the firm of  Pfingst,"  Doerhoofer 
&  Co.,  succeeds  me,  with  headquarters  at 
Detroit.  He lias just arrived  at  the age of j 
21,  and wishing to  travel,  the  firm  bought j 
me out in order  to  make  a  place  for  him. 
The change in many respects is a happy one 
for me,  as I can now spend all  my Sundays 
at home. 
I w'as  more  kindly  received by 
the  merchants  of  Michigan  than  in  any 
state in which I have traveled.”

The Hardwood Lumber Market.

“I have never  seen  ash  lumber  so  stag­
nant as  at  present,”  said  Elias  Matter,  of 
the firm of Nelson,  Matter & Co.,  the  other 
day.  Everything seems to run to red goods 
in  the  furniture  line,  in  consequence  of 
which much less ash furniture is made than 
formerly.  There  is  a  better  demand  for 
maple than  any  other  Avood,  and  some  of 
the factories are  paying  as  high  as  $16.50 
for Nos.  1 and 2.  Dry plank  are especially 
scarce,  as it takes  longer  to  season  them. 
For fine selected  white  maple,  Ave  are pay- 
$25.  For cherry groAvn  in  this  part of the 
State A\ e  pay  about  $25,  but  in  Northern 
Michigan, where  the  timber  has  not  been 
culled and  the  logs  run  larger,  Ave  gladly 
pay $35.  The same is true as regards birch, 
which is worth $16 for timber groAvn  along 
Gaand  River,  while  the  Northern  grown 
commands $20.”

j 
The  State  Military  Board  has  directed j 
Quartermaster-General Hart to advertise for j 
furnishing  300  overcoats,  500  dress  coats,  |
600 blouses,  1,200 pairs, of pants,  1,000  hel- | 
mets,  600 fatigue caps,  and  500  knapsacks j 
for the use of  the State  troops.  The  same | 
official w'as also directed to  sell  about 2,000 
yards of  cloth  which  was  purchased  from 
M.  Israel & Co.,  of Kalamazoo, by Quarter- ! 
master-General Shakespeare, as inferior and 
unfit for manufacturing into suitable clothes 
for the  troops.  The  condemned  cloth  is 
mostly flannels and broad cloths.

A.  XV.  XVait,  the  Traverse  City  mill­

wright, w'as in town last  week.

F.  J. Dettenthaler has gone to the North­
ern fishing grounds for the purpose of mak­
ing summer connections.

Furniture Facts.

John  M.  Cloud,  the  Cadillac  hardware 
merchant, W'as in town Monday on  his way 
to Mt.  Clemens,  where he will  spend  three 
weeks for his health.

Harry McD oavcII is back from the East. 
Chas.  Black,  manager  of  the  Oriel  Cabi­
net Co.,  lias gone East on a two weeks’ trip. 
Theodore Hertwig,  a New York furniture
I.  P.  Chandler,  of  Cle\'eland,  manager  of | <jesigner? iia.s been in toAvn for several days, 
the Standard Oil Co.’s  tank wagon systems,  j i00king Up the fall styles originated by local 
is in the city,  to  superintend  the  inaugura-1 draughtsmen.
tion of the tank wagon system here. 

g  Haight has sold his interest  in the fur-
Geo.  II.  Henderson,  Avho  Avas  employed 
J.  D.  Earle, traveling  freight  agent  for  niture firm of Haight &  Bretz,  at  Saranac, 
by Foster Bros,  years  ago,  and  Avho  has 
the Michigan Central Railway,  was in town  and will engage in the furniture and  under­
been in the employ  of  Spring  &  Company 
last  week  interviewing  the  wool  buyers,  taking business at Woodland.
for seA'eral  years past,  as  clerk in  the do-
Mr.  Earle  predicts  another  drop  in west- j  o.  W.  Dunn  has  returned  from a  four
mestic  department,  died  Saturday  of  con- 1 bouud  f^ g h t  rates,  and  puts  himself  on I months’ trip through the East in the interest 
sumption aged 36 years.  He was a member  record with tbe statement  that  Grand Rap-  0f  the  Bissell  Carpet  Sweeper  Co.  He 
of  the  Fort  Wayne  Commandary,  Knights | .^g  wid  get  first-class  freight  from  New j leaves  again  Saturday  for  a  trip through
Templar,  and the remains were aecompained 
to that place  on  Monday  by  Messrs.  Geo. 
Pantlind,  R.  D.  Swartout and Sam. E.  Wat­
son,  members  of  DeMolia  Commandary. 
Mr.  Henderson Avas a  man of  generous im­
pulses and fine business  qualifications.  He 
leaves an invalid wife and one child.

York and Boston for  30  cents  per  hundred j Canada.
before many more weeks.  The present rate j  The firms of Spencer  & Barnes,  Black & 
| Williard,  also the  Buchanan  Mfg.  Co., the
is 40 cents. 
three largest furniture  factories of Buclian-
A retired business  man  of  Chicago  has ; an,  are closed—the  former  for  repairs,  the

i published a volume, upon Avhich he has been j latter two for lack of orders.
j engaged for four years, containing the Lord’s 

developed  re- 
Sunday laws, prohibiting the gathering of ¡Prayer  printed  in  180  languages,  ancient I  Among  the  “imperfectly 
of Madagascar are diamonds,  gold,
mulberry leaves or the feeding of silk worms  and modem.  The  characters  of  the  lan-1 sources’
on said day,  have knocked  the  bottom  out j  guages are employed  in  almost  every  in -1  silver,  copper,  lead,  tm,  graphite,  rubies 
the silk Avorm culture in Hawaii. 

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Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E B S .

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President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal-
Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan-
ThirffiVice-President—Frank  Wurzburg',  Gr d 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wra. Dupont, Detroit. 
Executive  Committee—H .J   Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  r .  W .
Next°phiee  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday. 

Rapids. 

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October 13,1885.
STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two Years—F. H. VanEmster, Bay City. 
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor. Detroit.
Five Years—Christian Eberbach, Ann Arbor.

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Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Win. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry ^- Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  l .  mge 
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
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Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  W m.  E.  White,
Comm ittee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
O.  H.
Committee on Legislation  Isaac W arts, 
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Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening m 
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Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  July 

Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
Richmond, Jas. S. Co win. 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
each month. 
November. 
at “The Tradesman” office. 

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TH E  PHARMACY  LAW.

tions,  and was at said time  so  employed in 
this State,  shall  upon  the  payment  to  the 
board of a fee of two dollars,  be granted the 
certificate of a registered pharmacist:  Pro­
vided,  That in case of failure  or  neglect to 
register as herein provided, then  such  per­
son shall,  in order to be  registered,  comply 
with the requirements provided for registra­
tion as a licentiate in pharmacy  hereinafter 
described.

Sec.  5.  No person other than a licentiate j 
in pharmacy shall be entitled to registration 
as  a  pharmacist  except  as  provided 
in 
section four.  Licentiates in pharmacy shall 
he  such  persons,  not  less  than  eighteen 
years of age,  who  shall have passed a satis­
factory examination touching  their  compe­
tency before the board of pharmacy.  Every 
such person shall,  before an  examination is 
granted,  furnish  satisfactory  evidence  that 
he is of temperate habits and pay to the board 
a fee  of  three  dollars.  Provided,  That in 
case of the failure of any applicant to pass a 
satisfactory  examination,  the  money  shall 
be held to his credit for a  second  examina­
tion at any  time within one year.  The said 
board  may  grant certificates of  registration 
without  further  examination  to  the  licen­
tiates  of  such  other boards of pharmacy  as 
it may deem proper upon a payment of a fee 
of  two dollars.

Sec.  6.  The said board may grant, under 
such rules and regulations as it  may  deem 
proper at a fee not exceeding one dollar, the 
certificate of  registered  assistant,  to  clerks 
or assistants  in  pharmacy,  not  less  than 
eighteen years of age, who at  the  time this 
act takes effect shall be engaged in such ser­
vice in this State,  and have been  employed 
or engaged two years or more  in  the  prac­
tice of pharmacy, hut such  certificates shall 
not entitle the holder to engage in such bus­
iness on his own account,  or to take  charge 
of or act as manager of a  pharmacy or drug 
store.

Full Text of the Measure  as  it  Passed  the 

Legislature.

Section 1.  The People  of  the  State of 
Michigan enact,  That the Governor with the 
advice and consent of the Senate shall, w ith- 
in thirty days after  the passage of  this act, 
appoint  five  persons,  and  annually  there­
after  one  person,  from among  snch compe­
tent pharmacists in  the  State  as  have  had 
ten  years’  practical  experience  in  dispen­
sing physicians’ prescriptions who shall con­
stitute  the  Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy. 
The terms of office of said five persons shall 
be so arranged that the term of one shall ex­
pire on the 31st day of  December  of  each 
year,  and all appointments made  thereafter 
shall be for  the term  of five years.

Sec. 2.  The said board shall within thir­
ty days after its appointment,  meet  and or­
ganize by  the  election  of  a  president  and 
secretary,  from its own members who  shall 
be elected  for  the  term  of  one  year,  and 
shall perform the duties  prescribed  by  the 
board. 
It shall he the duty of the  hoard to 
examine  all  applications  for  registration 
submitted in  proper  form; to  grant  certifi­
cates of registration to such  persons as may 
be entitled to the same under the provisions 
of this act: to investigate complaints  and to 
cause the prosecution of all  persons  violat­
ing its provisions; to report  annually to the 
Governor, and to the Michigan  Pharmaceu­
tical Association upon the condition of phar­
macy in the State,  which  said  report  shall 
also furnish a record of  the  proceedings  of 
the said board for thefear, and also tlie names 
of all pharmacists duly registered under this 
act; the board shall  hold  meetings  for  the 
examination of applicants  for  registration, 
and the transaction  for such other  business 
as shall pertain to its  duties,  at  least  once 
in four months; said meetings to be held  on 
'the first Tuesdays  of  March, July and Nov­
ember  of  each  year;  shall  make  by­
laws  for 
its 
duties  under  this  act,  and  shall  keep  a 
hook  of  registration  in  which  shall  be 
entered  the  names  and  places  of  bus­
iness  of  all  persons  registered  under  this 
act,  which hook shall also specify such facts 
as said persons  shall claim to jusify their reg­
istration.  The  records  of  said  board,  or  a 
copy of any part  thereof,  certified  by  the 
secretary to be a true copy,  attested  by the 
seal of the board,  shall be accepted as  com­
petent evidence in ajl courts  of  the  State. 
Three members of said  board  shall  consti­
tute a quorum.

the  proper  fulfillment  of 

Sec.  3.  The secretary of  the  board  and 
the treasurer thereof,  if such separate  office 
be  created,  shall  receive  a.  salary,  which | 
shall he fixed by the hoard;  they  shall  also 
receive the amount  of  their  traveling  and 
other expenses incurred in the  performance 
of their official duties.  The other  members 
shall receive the sum  of  three  dollars  for 
each day actually engaged  in  this  service, 
and all legitimate  and  necessary  expenses 
incurred in the performance of  their official 
duties.  Said salaries per diem and expenses, 
shall  be paid from the  fees  received  under 
the provisions of  this  act.  All  moneys re­
ceived in excess of said per diem allowance, 
and other expenses above provided for, shall 
be paid into the State treasury at the end of 
each  year,  and  so  much  thereof as shall be 
necessary  to  meet  the  current  expenses  of 
said  board  shall  be  subject  to  the  order 
thereof,  if in any  year  the  receipts  of  said 
board  shall  not  he  equal 
its  ex­
penses.  The  hoard  shall  make  an  annual 
report  and  render  an  account to  the Board 
of  State  Auditors  and  to  the  Michigan 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  of  all moneys 
received  and  disbursed  by  it  pursuant  to 
this act.

to 

Sec. 4.  Every person who  shall,  within 
three months after this act takes effect, for­
ward to the Board of Pharmacy satisfactory 
proof supported by his affidavit, that he was 
engaged 
in  the  business  of  dispensing 
pharmacist on his own account in this  State 
at the time this act takes effect,  in  the pre­
paration of physicians’ prescriptions,  or that 
at such time he had been employed or engag­
ed three years or more  as  a  pharmacist  in 
the  compounding  of  jihysicians’  prescrip­

Sec.  7.  Every registered  pharmacist,  or 
registered assistant, who desires to continue 
the practice of his profession,  shall  annual­
ly,  after  the expiration  of  the first  year 
of  his  registration,  during  the  time  he 
shall continue in such practice,  on such date 
as the board  of  pharmacy  may  determine, 
pay to the said  board  a  registration  fee to 
be fixed by the  board, but  which  shall  not 
exceed one dollar  for a  pharmacist,  or fifty 
cents for an assistant,  for which he shall re­
ceive a renewal of said registration.  Every 
person receiving a certificate  under  this act 
shall keep  the  same conspicuously exposed 
in his place of  business.  Every  registered 
pharmacist, or  assistant,  shall,  within  ten 
days after changing liis place of business or 
employment, as designated by liis certificate, 
notify the secretary of the hoard of liis  new 
place  of  business. 
If  any  pharmacist  or 
registered assistant shall  fail  or  neglect to 
procure liis annual registration,  or  to  com­
ply with the other provisions of this section, 
liis right to act as such pharmacist or  assis­
tant shall cease at the expiration of ten days 
from the time notice of such failure to com­
ply with tlie provisions of this  section shall 
have been mailed to him by the secretary of 
said  board.

Sec.  8.  All or any registration  obtained 
through  false representations shall be void, 
and the board of pharmacy  may  hear  com­
plaints and evidence,  and  may  revoke such 
certificates as it may deem improperly held.
Sec.  9.  Any  proprietor  of  a  pharmacy 
who,  not  being  a  registered  pharmacist, 
shall,  ninety days after this act takes effect, 
fail or neglect  to  place  in  charge  of such 
pharmacy a  registered  pharmacist,  or  any 
such proprietor who shall by himself, or any 
other  person,  permit the  compounding  or 
dispensing of prescriptions,  or  the vending 
of drugs,  medicines,  or poisons,  in his store 
or place  of  business,  except  by  or  in  the 
presence and under the supervision of a reg­
istered pharmacist,  or except by a registered 
assistant; or any person,  not  being a regis­
tered pharmacist, who shall  take  charge of 
or act as  manager  of  such  pharmacy  or 
store,  or who,  not be ing  a  registered  phar­
macist or  registered  assistant,  shall retail, 
compound,  or dispense  drugs, medicines or 
poisons,  or any  person  violating  any other 
provision of this act to which no  other pen­
alty is  herein  attached,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor,  and for every such 
offense,  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be 
punished by a fine  of n&t less  than ten nor 
more than one  hundred  dollars,  and  in de­
fault of payment thereof,  shall be imprison­
ed not less  than  ten  days, nor  more than 
ninety days,  or both such fine and imprison­
ment,  in tlie discretion of the court.

Sec.  10.  Nothing in this act shall  apply 
to,  or in any manner interfere with the bus­
iness of any practicing physician,  who  does 
not keep open  shop  for  the  retailing,  dis­
pensing or compounding  of  medicines and 
poisons,  or prevent him  from  supplying to 
liis jiatients such  articles  as  may  seem to 
him proper,  nor with the business of any re­
tail dealer engaged in business at a distance 
of not less than five miles from the limits of 
any incorporated village or  city except phy­
sicians’ prescriptions,  nor with the  vending 
of patent or proprietary medicines by any re­
tail dealer,  nor with the selling  by any per­
son of drugs,  medicines,  chemicals,  essen­
tial oils,  and tinctures  which  are  put up in 
bottles,  boxes or packages bearing labels se­
curely affixed  which  labels  shall  bear the 
name of the pharmacist or druggist  putting 
up the same,  the dose that  may be adminis­
tered to persons three  months,  six months, 
one year,  three years, five years,  ten  years, 
fifteen years and twenty-one  years  of  age, 
and if a poison tlie  name  or  names of the 
most common antidotes;  of  copperas,  bor­
ax,  blue  vitriol,  salt-peter,  pepper,  sul­
phur,  brimstone,  paris  green, 
liquorice, 
sage,  senna  leaves,  castor  oil,  sweet  oil,

of 

the 

essence 

peppermint, 

in  coloring  or 

spirits  of  turpentine,  glycerine,  glauber 
salts,  epsom  salts, cream  tartar, bi-carbon­
ate of soda,  sugar  of  lead,  and  such  acids 
as  are  used 
tanning, 
selling  of  paregoric, 
nor  with 
essence 
of 
ginger,  essence  of  cinnamon,  hive  syrup, 
syrup of  ipecac,  tincture  of  arnica,  laudu- 
num,  quinine and all  other  preparations of 
cinchona bark, tincture of aconite, and tinc­
ture of iron, syrup of tolu,  syrup  of squills, 
spirts of camphor,  No.  0,  sweet  spirits of 
niter, compound cathartic pills,  or  quinine 
pills,  when such  cathartic  or  quinine  pills 
are compounded by and put up  in bottles or 
boxes bearing the label of a registered phar­
macist, with the name of articles  and direc­
tions for its use on  each  bottle  or  box,  nor 
with the exclusively  wholesale  business of 
any dealer.

If 

Sec.  11.  No  person  shall  add to or re­
move from  any  drug,  medicine,  chemical, 
pharmaceutical  preparation, any ingredient 
or material for the purpose  of  adulteration 
or substitution, which  shall  deteriorate the 
quality,  commercial  value  or  medicinal af­
fect, or which shall alter the nature  or com­
position of  such  drug,  medicine,  chemical 
or  pharmaceutical  preparation,  so  that  it 
will not correspond  to  the  recognized tests 
of  identity  or  purity.  Any  person  who 
shall thus  willfully  adulterate  or  alter,  or 
cause to be adulterated  or  altered,1 or  shall 
sell or offer for sale,  any  such  drug,  medi­
cine, chemical or pharmacutical preparation, 
or any person who shall substitute,  or cause 
to be substituted,  one  material  for another, 
with the intention to defraud or deceive the 
purchaser, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and  be  liable  to  prosecution  under  this 
| act. 
liable 
to  all 
the  action,  and 
for the  first  offense  be  liable  to  a  fine  of 
not less than ten dollars nor more  than one 
hundred dollars,  and  for  each  subsequent 
offense,  a fine of not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars nor more than one-hundred and fifty 
dollars.  On  complaint  being  entered  the 
board of pharmacy is hereby  empowered to 
employ an analyst or  chemist,  whose  duty 
it shall  be to  examine  into  the  so-called 
adulteration,  substitution  or  alteration and 
report upon the result of  liis  investigation; 
and if said report shall be deemed to justify 
such action tlie board shall  duly  cause the 
prosecution  of the  offender, as  provided in 
this act.
Sec.  12.  The senior pharmacist of every 
house  dispensing  and  compounding  medi­
cines registered under this act,  shall  be ex­
empt and free from  all  jury  duty  in  the 
courts of this  State.

tlie  costs  of 

lie  shall  be 

convicted 

Sec.  13.  All acts  and  parts  of  acts  in 
conflict with  tlie  provisions  of  this  act are 
hereby repealed.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c).
Juniper............................................. 
.5
Pricklv Ash......................................  au

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure..........
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, 14s 
do 
Logwood, Vis 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
v
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, oft list.

FLO W ERS.

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

10  @

c

4

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
)
Aloes, Cape (Powd  2
• 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60e)....
Ammoniac................ . 
............
Arabic, powdered  select..........
Arabic, 1st picked.....................
Arabic,2d  picked.......................
Arabic,  3d picked.......................
Arabic, sifted sorts..........■■••••
As8afcentida, prime (Powd 35c)
Benzoin....................................
Camphor..........  .........................
Catechu. Is (Vi 14c, Vis 16c).......
Euphorbium powdered.............
Galbanum strained....................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino TPowdered, 30cl.....................
Mastic................ ••••••—  V.;,1 V1
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 4iC)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.40)..............
Shellac, Campbell’s .................. —
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragaeanth ......................................

30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES

17
50
30
65
60
50
45
35
55@60 
20®   22 
13
35®  40 
80
35 
20
40 
3 80 
30 
26 
24 
30
@1  00

Hoarhound......................................
Lobelia..............................................
Peppermint......................................
Rue.....................................................
Spearmint........................................
Sweet Majoram...............................
Tanzy  ................................................
Thyme..............................................
Wormwood......................................

11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

37V
9
12
13 
15
14

. .so 
..25 
..40 
..24 
..35
!‘.30

6 40 
20
80

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
At the  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Pharmaceutical Society,  held at Tiie 
T radesm an office on tlie  9th,  the  follow­
ing  druggists  were  in  attendance:  Presi­
dent  Wurzburg,  Secretary  Escott,  J.  D. 
Lacey, J.  I. Zerkle,  M.  B.  Kimm,  O.  H. 
Richmond,  H.  E.  Locher,  Will  L.  White,
J. W.  Hayward, John E.  Peck, A.  Sanford 
and W.  H.  Knight.

President Wurzburg  stated that the  main 
object of the meeting was to consider the bill 
recently introduced in the  House of  Repre­
sentatives  by  Mr.  Parkhurst  and  recom­
mended by the Committee on Liquor Traffic. 
All present condemned the measure  as  un­
just and partial to the liquor  dealer, and on 
motion the President appointed a committee 
to draft resolutions embodying the  sense of 
the  Society,  composed  of  the  following 
members:  F.  II.  Escott,  Wm.  L.  White,
O.  II. Richmond,  J.  D.  Lacey  and  J.  W. 
Hayward.  The  committee  subsequently 
presented  the  following  resolution,  which 
was  unanimously  adopted:

W hereas—A bill has been introduced in 
the House of  Representatives,  at  Lansing, 
entitled  “A bill  to  prevent  persons  selling 
drugs,  from selling liquors  as a  beverage”; 
and
W h ereas—The  title  of  tlie  same is in­
tended to mislead  the  public  by conveying 
the impression that the  druggists of  Michi­
gan are engaged in  selling liquors as a bev­
erage; and
W hereas—Tlie provisions  of  said  hill 
are  impracticable  and  impossible  to  carry 
out; and
Whereas—If said bill  should  become a 
law,  it would work great  injury to  persons 
legitimately engaged in tlie  drug  trade and 
in the majority of cases  prevent  the  public 
from  obtaining 
liquors  of  any  class  for 
medicinal, sacramental,  or  mechanical  pur­
poses; and
W hereas—Tlie  present  laws  in  such 
cases provided are amply  sufficient  to  pre­
vent the sale  of  liquors  as  a  beverage,  by 
druggists; now therefore be it 
Resolved—That we  most  respectfully re­
quest our representatives  at  Lansing to use 
their utmost endeavors  to  defeat  the  pass­
age of said  bill.

The same committee also presented the fol­
lowing  resolution,  which  was  also  unani­
mously adopted:
Resolved—That the sincere thanks of this 
Society are due to the  Hon.  M.  II.  Ford for 
liis energetic and able advocacy of the Phar­
macy Bill,  recently passed  by  tlie  Legisla­
ture of Michigan.

Secretary Escott then requested President 
Wurzburg to call one of the other  members 
to the chair, when he offered  the  following 
resolution which was  unanimously adopted: 
Resolved—That  the  Grand Rapids Phar­
maceutical  Society  request  the  executive 
committee  of the  Michigan  State  Pharma­
ceutical Association to  present the  name of 
Frank  J.  Wurzburg  as  one  of  the  candi­
dates for appointment to the  State Board of 
Pharmacy; and  that  His  Excellency,  Gov­
ernor Alger,  be earnestly  requested  to con­
sider the same favorably.
The  Society  then  adjourned,  to  meet 
again on Thursday evening, July 9.

The manufacture of  oil  from  the  castor 
bean is a  budding  industry  in  Arizona,  es­
pecially at Tucson.

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

LEA VES.

Buehu, short (Powd 25c).................  13  @
Sage, Italian, bulk (Vis &V4s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural............. . 
1»  ©
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinni velli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane......................................••• 
Rose, red........................................... 

,
‘

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................1 75
Whisky, other brands..................... 1 19
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 1 “»
Gin,  Holland.....................................2 00
Brandy...............................................4 *f
Catawba  Wines..........................   " i  o|
Port Wines........................................ 1 «6

m a g n e s i a .

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

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

Z  ZO
65

O IL S.

Almond, sweet.................................
Amber,  rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor................................................
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cloves....................................... . • • • •
Cod Liver,  filtered.......... 
• $  gal
Cod Liver, best................  
...
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fire weed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz.......................•—
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries..............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  —
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal.....................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  ^  oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $ 1 50)
Salad.................................................  65  ©
Savm.................................................
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ....................... ..
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint.......................................
Tansy............................................... 4
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen...................
Wormwood, No. l(Pure $4.00).......
Wormseed........................................

45  ®  50 
45
1  85 
50
1 80
18  @  19V4
2 00 
75
1  00 
35
1  201 50
3 50 
6 00
7 00 
1 60
2  00 
75 
35 
50
2  00 
2  01 
1 00 
90 
1  40
1 50 
80
@1  10
2 75 
1 25
50
1  75
4 30
8 50 
65 
67
1 00 
4 50 
7 00 
55 
@7 00 
@5 00 
®  12
2  10
3 50 
2  00

do 
do 

PO TASSIU M .

Blcromate.................................$  B>
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in Vis and Vis—
Blood (Powd 18c)..............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................
G inger, African (Powd 14c)............  11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered..............................
Licprice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true.........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers.................

14 
40 
19 
3 00 
28

20
25
17
33
12
20
35
20
10
12
17

1 10 
30 
18 
15 
35 
@1 50 
®1  20 
2  00 
2 25

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.
,,  * 

Serpeniaria....................................
Seneka ............................................
.Sarsaparilla,  Hondurus........ .
^ 
Declined—Alcohol, gum  opium,  oil  pepper-1  sarsaparilla,  Mexican..................
mint, balsam co pabia. 
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Advanced—Nothing.
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...

ACID S.

.. 

, 

. 

. 

$  OZ

9 @ 10
30 @ 35
38 @ 40
60 @ 05
5
3 (a)
11 © 12
14V4® 15
3 @ 4
52 @ 55
18
12 @ 15
12 @ 15
^a> 15 © 18
14
5 @ 6
6 @ 7
45@50
40
2  00 
50

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in 
packages... . —
Canary,  Smyrna..........................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery...............................................
Coriander,  D e st  English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax,  clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4)..................
Foenugreck, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black 10c)............
Quince..............................................
Worm,  Levant.................................
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... !
........
do 
Nassau 
do 
Velvet Extra do 
. . . .
do 
Extra Yellow do 
.......
do 
do 
Grass 
do 
.......
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
.................

SPONGES.

do 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

65
65
40
20
15
25
20

15
5 @ 6
4 @ 4V4
15 @ 18
1 50
i 75
20
10
15
334©4 @ 4V4
7 @ 8
4V4@ 5V48
75
6 @ 14
25 @2 50
2  00 
1  10 
85 
65 
75 
1  40

Carbolic....................................
Citric.........................................
M uriatic 18  deg.......................
N Uric 36 deg.............................
Oxalic.......................................
Sulphuric 66 deg.....................
Tartaric  powdered................
Benzoic,  English....................
Benzoic,  German....................
Tannic......................................
a m m o n i a .
Carbonate.................................
Muriate (Powd. 22c)................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f....................
Aqua 18 deg or 41'....................
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...........................
b e r r i e s .

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS

W  l Y o l o s a l e

Druggists !

and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS OF

ani  Druggist’s

MANUFACTURERS  OF
PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

ELEGANT 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness  is  conceded  to  be  one of the largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers of 
I 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 celebratedm ils   MM  i  GO.’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 bave so many  favorites 
among druggists who have sold these  goods 
for a very long time.  Buy our

Gins, Brandies & Fine Wines.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAZELTINE, PERKINS & GO

6

do 
do 

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®
25®

oz.................................

1 60 
60 
1 50 
1 70 
1 90 
1 75
)  90 
Ì  28 

2 30 
1 25 
50 
27 
12 
45 
3V4 
4 
45

50 
2 75 
2  00 
40
1 35 
@9 75
2 30 
50
@  7
12 
2 25 
18 
22 
18 
4 00 
12

>  28 »  20 40 
45 2 
70
it  40 
15 
50 
24
24 
12
1  10 
50 
45 
1  10 
8
Ì  3 50 
2 @
60 
1425 
90 
70

17 
28 
20 
40 
40 
@1 no
@  40 
4 00 
1 50
10  ®  15 
15 
8
1 00 
45
50
12 Vi®  13 
75 
60
$  oz  3 00@3 25 
40 
10 
12 
30 
18 
23 
60 
10 
45 
25 
18 
50

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22; $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 ft> roils............................
Alum.........................................  $  fi>  2V4@
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  ®
Annatto,  prime...............................
4V4®
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  @
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beaus,  Tonka..................................
Beans,  Vanilla............................... 7 00
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  .................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Gapsieum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds......................................
Calomel.  American.........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers...........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s....................
Colocynth  apples............. ..............
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
Chloral do 
cryst...
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral do 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................  85
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............  23
Clnchonidia, other brands.............   23
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18
Cochineal  .........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  le).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 & box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts........................................  
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine. French  ..............................  45 @
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet....................................   12
Glue, white.......................................   16
Glycerine,  pure...............................   16
Hops  V£s and Vis.............
Iodoform 
Indigo.................................................   85
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride,(Vis 2s 10c & )4s 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Mauna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................$  B>
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 tt>  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, V4d...............
Paris Green....................................  
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin............................................... * 
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia............................................  
6  ®
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... B> oz
Quinine,  German..............................  77 @
Red  Precipitate.......................^ fl>
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maecoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s—  
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   30  @
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................  
3)4®
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
3®
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, Vi gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................lb
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................
Capitol  Cylinder....................................
...60 
Model  Cylinder......................................
...50 
Shield  Cylinder......................................
...35 
Eldorado Engine....................................
.. .30
Peerless  Machinery..............................
Challenge Machinery............................
....30 
Backus Fiue Engine..............................
....30 
Black Diamond Machinery..................
....6C 
Castor Machine  Oil...............................
..1514 
Paraffine, 25  deg....................................
....21 
Paraffine, 28  deg....................................
..1  40 
Sperm, winter bleached...........
Bbl
Gal 
75
Whale, winter......................................  70
70
Lard, extra...........................................  60 
60
Lard, No.  1...........................................  50 
54
Linseed, pure raw..............................  51 
Linseed, boiled..................................   54 
57
90
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  70 
46
Spirits Turpentine..............................  42 
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@1  10
Extra Turp  Damar.............................. 1 55® 1  60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.....................   70®  75
Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2V4® 3 
234® 3 
13® 16 
60@65 
16@17 
534
@70
@90
110
140
1 20@1 40
1 00@1 20

Bbl
Red Venetian........................   134
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda— :..  134
Putty, commercial..................  2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................  2%
Vermilion,prime  American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red  strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure......
Whiting, white Spanish.......... 
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................  
White, Paris American............ 
Whiting  Haris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Paints......  
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints.. 

82 
85 
28 
1 60 
'7  ®  80 
35
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10 
9 
33
2  @  2 Vi
2 15 
6 50 
38 
4
35 5 . 
14 
17 9 
11 
14 
28 
32 
35. 
4
3V4 
60 
2 70 
1 40 
85 
25 
55 
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A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BBO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95,

I Entered  at the  Postofflce  at Grand Rapids  as 

Secondrdass Matter.1

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  17,  1885.

H E   H AD  FITS.

A   Practical  Joke Played  on a Drummer in 

Texas.

Two New York drummers,  says  the New 
York Mail, traveled through Texas last sum­
mer.  When  they left  the  railroads  they 
hired a team and  leisurely  went  from  one 
town to another.  One of the drummers dis­
covered  that  his  companion  immediately 
upon retiring at night would  invariably grit 
his teeth together,  not  unlike  the  bad man 
from Bitter Creek  who  was  itching  for  a 
fight.  Some affection of the  muscles of the 
jaw  caused  them  to  contract  and  rub  his 
molars  together.  Both  men  were  full  of 
pranks,  and  generally  kept  the  landlord 
where  they stopped  in  a  state  of  nervous 
excitement at the antics  and practical jokes 
they played upon each other.  One day they 
separated,  and  the  drummer  who  did  not 
grit his teeth at night  went a day  ahead of 
the other.  The  hotels  he  put  up  at  were 
always notified to  have  a  nice  room  ready 
for the  drummer  who  would  be  there  the 
next day.  After a week of  traveling  apart 
the head drummer thought it was  monoton­
ous.  He told the next landlord that he had 
a friend coming on a day  behind.  He  said 
that his friend was a fine, clever fellow, but 
required watching a little at  night. 
It was 
best  to  have  some  one  sleep  in  the  same 
room  with  him,  as  he  was  subject  to  fits 
which assumed the nature of mania a potu. 
These fits were always preceded by his grit­
ting his teeth  together.  The  only  way to 
prevent harm was to  seize  him  and  pour a 
half dozen buckets of water over him.  The 
landlord promised  he  should  be  watched. 
The unsuspecting drummer arrived and was 
warmly welcomed  by the  proprietor of  the 
hotel.  That evening two cowboys in  spurs 
and buckskin rode  up.  They  were  put  in 
the same  room  with  the  drummer  and  in­
formed of his malady.

“If he should  grit  his  teeth,”  said  the 
landlord,  “just rush  over  to  his  bed  seize 
him, hold  him  there,  and  yell  for  me. 
I 
will come with water.”

“This is  a night  for  fun,”  the  cowboys 
said.  They kept on their spurs  and  cloth­
ing,  and lay down  quietly  on  top of their 
bed.  They waited for the drummer to come 
in and go to sleep.  His bed  was  some ten 
feet from theirs.  He  came  up  finally  and 
saw the two cowboys sleeping  side by side.
“What  barbarians,”  he  said,  “to  sleep 

with their Clothes and boots  on.”

Quietly pulling off his  outer  clothes,  and 
putting  on  a  long  silk  gown,  the  elegant 
drummer retired to rest.  He sighed once or 
twice and muttered something about  failing 
to  sell a bill.  His  teeth  gritted  together. 
The  sharp  ears  of  the  cowboys  heard  it. 
Both sprang up and leaped  like panthers to 
the bed of the drummer.  They  seized  him 
and yelled.  The drummer thought  he was 
being robbed and fought  and  yelled at  the 
same time.  His desperate struggles  result­
ed in his being held down by  the  weight of 
the cowboys who kept astride  of  his  body. 
The  landlord  rushed  in  with  a  bucket  of 
cold water and dashed it over  the  head and 
shoulders of  the  prostrate  man.  The  ser­
vants came  in  with  several  more  buckets, 
which were poured  over  the howling drum­
mer.

“Are  you  well?”  asked  the  landlord, 

kindly.

fit?”

fits?”

“No!” roared the drummer.
“Do  you  think  you  will  have  another 

“Fit!”  screamed  he,  “who  said  I  had 

“Why,  your friend who  has  gone  ahead 
said when you gritted  your  teeth  you were 
going to have a terrible fit.”

The cowboys were  drenched  with water, 
but they enjoyed it.  The  drummer  got up 
and  chartered  the  nearest  saloon.  Before 
the moon was  down  he  saw  the  landlord 
and the cowboys lying on the  floor,  and or­
dering his vehicle,  he  put  out  posthaste to 
overtake and murder his friend.

The Donkey that  Wouldn’t  Bray.

From the Philadelphia Call.

Once upon  a  time,  a  donkey  fell  into  a 
deep hole, and,  after nearly starving, caught 
sight of  a  passing  fox,  and  implored  the 
stranger to help him out.

“ I am too small  to  aid  you,  ”  said  the 
fox,  “ but I will give you some good advice. 
Only a few  rods  away  is  a  big  elephant. 
Call him and he will get you out in a jiffy. ”
After the fox had gone,  the  donkey  thus 
reasoned to himself: I am  very  weak  from 
want of nourishment.  Every  move  I make 
is just so much additional loss  of  strength. 
If I  raise  my  voice  to  call  the  elephant,  I 
shall be weaker yet.  No,  I will  not  waste 
my substance in that way. 
It is the duty of 
the elephant to come without  calling.

So the  donkey  settled  himself  back,  and 

eventually starved to death.

Long afterward, the fox,  on  passing  the 
hole,  saw  within  it  a  whitening  skeleton, 
and remarked,  “If it be true that  the  souls 
of animals are transmigrated into men,  that 
donkey will become one of those  merchants 
who can never afford to advertise.

German mills supply nearly  all  the Lon­

don dailies with print paper.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

CHECKS.

S IL E S IA S .

OSNABURG.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4.. 23  I Pepperell, 10-4.......25
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21  Pepperell, 11-4........2714
Pepperell,  7-4......1634 Pequot,  7-4.............. 18
Pepperell,  8-4......20  ¡Pequot,  8-4.............. 21
Pepperell,  9-4......2234|Pequot.  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.......  7
Alabama brown—   7
Augusta plaid........   7
Jewell briwn..........914
Toledo plaid...........   7
Kentucky brown..1014 
Manchester plaid..  7 
Lewiston  brown...  914
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Lane brown........... 914
Utility plaid...........   614
Louisiana  plaid—
Greene, G,  4-4........   514
Avondale,  36..........  814
Hill, 44....................  714
Art cambrics,36...1114 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 
Hill, 7-8....................  634
Hope,  44.................. 634
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 1214
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4...............  614
bric, 44 .................1114
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Liu wood,  4-4..........  714
Boott, 0.4-4........... 814
Lonsdale,  44............734
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Lonsdale  cambric. 1014 
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......914
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  934
Boott, K. 3-4..........  514
Langdon, 45........... 14
Blackstone, AA4-4.  7 
Masonville,  44.......8
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Maxwell. 44 ...........   914
Conway,  4-4........... 7
New York Mill, 44.1014 
Cabot, 4-4................ 634
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Pride of the West.. 11 
Domestic,  36............714
Pocahontas,  44—   714
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Slaterville, 7-8........   614
Davol, 4-4...............  9
Victoria, ÄA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  814 
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 534
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  734 
Whitinsville,  4-4...  714
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 614
cambric,  4-4........ 11
W amsutta, 44.........1014
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  6%
Williamsville, 36.. .1014
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............... 834
Crown.................. ..17_ Masonville T S......  8
No.  10.................. ..1234 Masonville  S__ ...1034
Coin..................... ..10 Lonsdale............ ...  934
Anchor................ ..15 Lonsdale A ........ ...16
Nictory  O..........
Centennial..........
Blackburn .......... ..  8 Victory J ............
Davol.................... ..14 Victory D..........
London................ ..12V, Victory K .......... ...  234
Paconia............... ..12 Phoenix A .......... ...1934
Red  Cross............ ..10 Phoenix B .......... ...1034
Social  Imperial.. ..16 Phoenix X X __ .  ..5
Gloucester...............6
Albion, solid............5J4
Gloucestermourn’g . 6
Albion,  grey............6
Hamilton  fancy__ 6
Allen’s  checks.........514
Hartel fancy............6
Ailen’s  fancy...........514
Merrimac  D.............6
Allen’s pink..............634
Manchester.............6
Allen’s purple.......... 614
Oriental fancy........6
American, fancy— 514
Oriental  robes........614
Arnold fancy............6
Pacific  robes........... 6
Berlin solid............... 514
Richmond................6
Cocheco  fancy........6
Steel River..............514
Cocheco robes.........614
Simpson’s ................6
Conestoga fancy— 6
Washington fancy.. 
Eddystone..............6
Washington blues.  714
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............ 614
Appleton A, 44—   714
Boott  M, 4-4............  6J4
Boston F, 44..........  714
Continental C, 4-3..  634 
Continental D, 40 in 834 
ConestogaW,44...  614 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  514 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 34........   534
Dwight Y, 7-8..........534
Dwight Z, 44..........  634
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......6
Indian  Orchard  14 714 
DOM ESTIC <
Amoskeag............... 714
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 1014
Bates..
Berkshire.............   614
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f ’y 714 
Glasgow 
Gloucester, 
Plunket...............
7%
Lancaster............ K Greylock, 
styles  ................ 1234
Langdale.............
Androscoggin, 7-4 .21 Pepperell.  10-4__ 2734
Androscoggin, 8-4 .23 Pepperell,  11-4__ 3234
Pepperell,  7-4 — ?0 Pequot,  74........... 21
Pequot,  8-4............ °4
Pepperell,  9-4 — .25 Pequot,  9-4............ 2734
Atlantic  A, 4-4... ■  7M Lawrence XX, 44. 734
Atlantic  H, 4-4...
.  634 Lawrence LL, 4-4.. 534
Atlantic  D, 4-4...
Atlantic P, 4-4— .  5Vi Newmarket N ....... 6^4
.  534 Mystic River, 4-4.. 534
Atlantic LL, 4-4..
.  734 Pequot A, 44........
Adriatic, 36..........
734
.  634 Piedmont,  36........
Augusta, 4-4........
634
6% Stark AA, 4-4........
Boott M, 4-4........
734
Tremont CC, 4-4... 534
Boott  FF, 4-4.......
.  5% Utica,  4-4............... 9
Graniteville, 4-4..
.  7 Wachusett,  4-4__ 734
Indian  Head, 4-4.
Indiana Head 45-in. 1234 Wachusett. 30-in.. 6%
TICKINGS.
.14 Falls, XXXX........ 1834
Amoskeag,  ACA.
Amoskeag  “ 4-4 .19 Falls, XXX............ 1534
Amoskeag,  A — .13 Falls,  BB............... 1134
Amoskeag,  B — .12 Falis,  BBC, 36....... 1934
Amoskeag,  C — .11 Falls,  awning....... 19
Amoskeag,  D __ .1034 Hamilton,  BT, 32. 12
Amoskeag,  E — .10 Hamilton,  D ........
934
.  934 Hamilton,  H ........
Amoskeag, F .......
934
.17 Hamilton  fancy.. 10
Premium  A, 4-4..
.16 Methuen AA........ 1334
Premium  B ........
Extra 4-4............. . .16 Methuen ASA....... IS
.1434 Omega A, 7-8........ 11
Extra 7-8...............
Gold Medal4-4....
.1234 Omega ACA, 7-8... 14
CCA  7-8................
.14 Omega ACA, 4-4... 16
CT 4-4........... ........
.14 Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
RC 7-8....................
.16 Omega SE, 44....... i?7
BF 7-8  ..................
.19 Omega M. 7-8....... 22
AF4-4....................
.14 Omega M, 44........ 25
Cordis AAA, 32...
.15 ShetucketSS&SSW 1134
Cordis ACA, 32...
.15 Sbetucket, S & SW 12
Cordis No. 1, 32...
. 12
.14 Shetucket,  SFS 
Cordis  No. 2........
.13 Stockbridge  A __ 7
Cordis  No. 3........
. 11341 Stockbridge f rncy 8
Cordis  No. 4........

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  714
Laconia  B, 74.........1614
Lyman B, 40-in.......1014
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  534
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 814
Nashua  R, 4-4........   734
Nashua 0.7-8..........  634
Newmarket N ........  634
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Pepperell  R, 44___ 734
Pepperell 0,7-8___ 614
Pepperell N, 3-4___ 634
Pocasset  C, 44.......  634
Saranac  R...............  734
Saranac  E...............  9
3INGHAM S.
Renfrew, dress styl 714 
Johnson  ManfgCo,
Bookfold.............1214
34j Johnson  ManfgCo,
14  dress  styles........1214
I Slaterville,  dress
styles...................714
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co, 
Earlston...............  8

checks,
royal  styles........  8
new 
standard.............   714

.  734 Gordon..................
dres
.  75£

WIDE BLEACHED COTTON'S.

HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

Omega A, 4-4........ 13  .

Lawrence  Y, 30... 7

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

DENIM S.

W IGANS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

.  5 Washington..........
.  5 Edwards................
G R A IN   BAGS.

Hookset...............
4 %
5
Red  Cross......... .
S. S. & Sons............ 5
Forest Grove.......
American  A ........18 COiOld  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ....................2214! Wheatland..............21
Boston.... .......... ...  6%|Otis  CC............... ...1034
Everett blue-----...13341Warren  AXA... ...1234
Everett brown.. ...1334 Warren  BB....... ...1134
Otis  AXA.......... ...1234 Warren CC........ ...1034
Otis BB............... ...11341¡York  fancy....... ...1334
Manville............. ...  6  IS. S. & Sons........ ...  6
Masgn ville........ ...  6  1Garner............... ...  6
Red  Cross.......... ...  734¡ThistleMills.......
Berlin................ ...  734¡Rose.................... ...  8
Garner  ...............
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Wil liman tic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord.40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread........... 30

I
Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks................. 40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning__ 25
Holyoke__ :............25
Armory..................  714 Kearsage— ..........83*
Androscoggin sat..  834
Naumkeagsatteen.  834 
Pepperell bleached 814
Canoe River...........   6
Pepperell sat..........914
Clarendon...............634
Rockport................   7
Hallo well  Imp.......634
Lawrence sat..........814
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7
Conegosat...............  7
Laconia..................   714

SPO OL COTTON.

CORSET JE A N S .

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

1  00
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
85
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
130
Akron Cement per  bbl....................... 
1 30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.. .................... 
1 30
Car lots 
..................... 1  05@1 10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25@  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
1 75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
S 50
2 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell, car lots..................................  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots............................3  10@3 25
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement..................... ...........  3 50@4 00

COAL.

RINDGrE, BERTSCH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

3RS AND WHOLESi

AND

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

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

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
THE LEADING  BRANDS  OF
T  O  IB  _A_ C O O
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

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BIG  D R I V E .........................................
PATROL 
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JACK  RABBIT 
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P A N IC .........................................................
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
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APPLE  J A C K ..................................
2c less in orders for  100 pounds of any one brand.
, 
FIXTE  CUT.

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THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor
STUNNER,  D A R K .................................
RED  BIRD,  BRIGHT 
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  -
FRUIT 
-
-
O  SO  S W E E T .................................-
SMOKING.

2c less in 6 pail lots.

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.

- 

- 

-

.48
.50
.46
.38
.46
.46
.35
.38
.46

.64
.38
.50
.40
.32
.30

.22
.26
.26
.27
.24
.24

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Co.

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.
TO  THE  TRADE.

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

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

OUR  OVERALLS  AND  SACK  COATS

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

OUR  SACK  COATS

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

EVERY  GARMENT  IS  WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP.

If in any ease 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.
Miclxigaii Overall Oo., Ionia, Micli,

OURDPRICES  ARE  LESS

No convict labor used in the manufacture of our goods.

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Oar  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Prices on aiytlii ib handle.
A. B. K N O W L SO N ,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich,

The Old Reliable

NIMROD

FX-iXJO-  TOBACCO

Zs  for  Sale  by  all  Grand Rapids Jobbers.

SAMPLES  FURNISH ED  ON  APPLICATION.

S.  W.  "VEIN".ABI-lEj  &  OO-

HeterelDurg, Va.

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

CA RPETS,

M ATTINGS.

OIL  CLOTHS

ETC., ETO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand iRapids,
Michigan.
THE CHAND ZULFZDS  ROLLER MILLS

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

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

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO.
Ourtiss, Dunton & Co.,
Grand  Rapids  Tank. Line.

PROPEIETORS

W e receive Illuminating and Lubricating Oils  direct from  the  Refineries  in  Tanks, 

and barrel  it here.

X XX   W ater White 
Electroleum.

OTJH  BH-A-TTIDS.

LUBRIOATIN G-.

Prime W hite,  Michigan  Test. 
Michigan  Test.

French Valve  Cylinder. 
Dark Valve  Cylinder. 
Eureka Engine.
No.  i  Golden.
No.  3 Golden.
15 o  Chill Test W .  Va.
74 Gasoline.
Extra Globe Engine.
Lardoline.
Rubbing Oils.
Globe  Axle  Grease.

King Cylinder. 
Globe Cylinder.
25 0  Parafine.
No.  2  Golden.
Zero W .  Va. 
Summer W est  Va. 
87  Gasoline.
Lard  Engine. 
Castaroline.
Amber  Engine.

W e  guarantee best value  for the price on all  our  Lubricating  Oils.

CURTISS, DUNTOIT  cfc  CO.

Sands’ Patent Triple Motion

WHITE  MOUNTAIN 

ICE  GNEAM 

FNEEZEN  !

The  only  Freezer  ever  made  having  three  distinct 
motions,  thereby  producing  finer,  smoother  Cream 
than  any other  Freezer  on  the  market.  Acknowl­
edged  by  every  one  to  be the best in the world.  Over 
300,000  in  use  To-day.  Outside Irons Galvanized, hut 
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,  Jce 
Crushers, etc.  Send for Price List and  Trade  Discounts.

AddressFoster. S tew  & Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agents for Western Michigan.

RAII.nO A I)— CONNECTING  LINES— LIA BILI­

TY.

The case of  The  Pennsylvania  Roilroad 
Company vs.  Connell,  decided  by.the  Su­
preme Court of Illinois, was one in which it j 
appeared that  a  passenger  bought  of  the 
Wabash.  St.  Louis  & Pacific Railway Com­
pany.  at Omaha,  a coupon  ticket  from that 
place to the city  of  New  York,  calling for 
passage over the road  of  that  company to 
St.  Louis, and  from  thence  to  New  York 
over the Ohio &  Mississippi,  the  Marietta 
& Cincinnati,  the  Baltimore  and  Ohio,  the 
Philadelphia,  Wilmington & Baltimore, and 
the Pennsylvania Railroad lines.  The ticket 
had printed on  its  face:  “In  selling  this 
ticket for passage over other roads this com­
pany acts only as  agent  for  them,  and  as­
sumes  no  responsibility  beyond  its  own 
line,” and the coupon over the Pennsylvania 
declared,  “Issued by the Wabash,  St.  Louis 
& Pacific Railway,  on  account  of  Pennsyl­
vania Railroad,”  which  the  company own­
ing the latter road refused to accept,  and on 
refusal to pay  the  regular  fare  demanded, 
ejected the  passenger.  The  court  held  in 
this suit,  which was brought  by the passen­
ger  against  the  latter  company,  that  the 
first-named  company  contracted  with  the 
passenger  only  as  agent  of  the defendant 
company.
P E T E R   DORAN, 

Attomey-at-Law,

Pierce  Block,  Grand  Rapids,  Micli.

Practices  in  State  and United  States  Courts 
Special attention given to

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

Wholesale Mannfactnrers of

P U R E  

C A N D Y  I

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates 

NUTS,

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CHANCE FOR INVESTORS.

Any Grand Rapids parties having  money to 
invest and being willing to content themselves 
with 10 per cent,  semi-annual  interest,  would 
benefit themselves by  calling on  O.  H.  Rich­
mond, at 141.South  Division  street.  Mr. Rich­
mond  has secured, through a personal friend, 
a few thousand dollars of first-class, flrst-mort 
gage bonds,  which  can  be  obtained  at 2 per 
cent, premium and accrued interest. The next 
coupons  are  due  July 1.  The security is  the 
very  best  and  the  bonds  will  be  at a large 
premium  within  a  year.  The  investment is 
guaranteed by Gurley Bros.,  of  Denver,  Col., 
whose commercial standing  can be  found by 
refering to  any Denver bank, or to R. G. Dun 
& Co.’s Agency.

G-.  R.  M A Y H E W

GRAXrS  F.APIDS,  MICH,

West  Michigan  Oil  Company,

(SUCCESSORS  TO  STANDARD  OIL  CO.,)

63  Monroe Street,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Jno.  C.  Bonneil,  Pres. 

J.  H.  Bonnell, Sec’y.

Illuminating  and  Lubricating

O I L

TIMETABLES.

Michigan PÍentral

The JViagara  Falls (Route.

D EPA R T.

♦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
+Grand  Rapids  Express........................10:50 p m
W ay Fi’eight......................................................5:15 am

A R R IV E .

tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m.,New Yorkl0:30 
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. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail......................................9:15 a m 
4:25 p m
+Day  Express.....................12:35 p in  10:45 p m
♦Night Express....................  8:35 pm   4:45 am
i  *Daily.  tDaily except Sunday, 
j  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.
| 
Leaves.  Arrives.
I Express.................................   4:15 pm   4:05 pm
Express.................................8:05 am   11:15 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De- 
j  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 .)
Arrive. 
Express...............................7:15 p m 
Mail.......................................9:50 am  

Leave.
7:30 a m
4:00 pm

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  train 

leaving  at 4 p. m. connects at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from Chicago  to  New  York  and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:30 a. m. connects at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Monre street and  depot.

J. W. McKen n ey, G en’l A gent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee;

GOING EAST.

Arrives. 

GO ING W EST.

Leaves.
tSteamboat  Express..........  6:17 am-  6:25 am
tThrough  Mail....................10:10 a m  10:20 a m
tEvening  Express............. 3:20 pm   3:35 pm
♦Limited  Express...............  6:27 p m  6:30 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:30 am
i tMorning  Express.. .*........   1:05 p m 
1:10 p m
I  tThrough  Mail..................  5:10 pm  5:15pm
tSteamboat Express..........10:40 p m  10:45 p m
| tMixed..................................  
7:10 am
♦Night Express....................  5:10 am   5:20 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
I  make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:45  p.  m.  will make  eon- 
I nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
I  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 otter, City Pass. Agent.
Geo. B. Ree v e, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

' 

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  7:00 a m  10:25 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  3:55 pm  
5:00 pin 
7:10 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
GOING  s o u t h .
G.  Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:15 am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  3:50 p m  6:00 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way re Ex.. 10:25 a m  11:45 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 pm

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

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

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’i Pass. Agent.

CIGAR  BOXES.

How  They  are  Made— Fascination  of  a 

Label.

A wreath of gorgeous flowers a pool of h igh- 
ly colored water in which float more flowers, 
a woman devoid of nearly all artificial orna­
ment,  and  exhibiting  only  those  charms 
which nature bestows,  a  few  mòre  flowers 
and the artisan  lias  a  plan  for  lining the 
cover of a cigar box.  The  cover is  thrown 
back,  the  box  placed  in  a  showcase  and 
many customers purchase the weed contain­
ed as much through admiration  of  the  dis­
play of femininity on  the lining as  for  any 
other  reason.  Young men and old men look 
intensely at this  box. 
If  they  are  caught 
lingering over the exhibition  they look con­
fused or make some remark  intended  as an 
excuse,  evidently  unconscious  of  the  fact 
that their excuses  are  transparent to  those 
who witness their actions  and  have  proba­
bly been there themselves.

But there are cigar boxes which are decor­
ated in such a way  that  no  person  may be 
afraid  to  view  them.  Flowers  are  often 
used,  sans the oft-seen expanse of  undress­
ed woman.  The American flag, state seals, 
initials  and  photographs  of  eminent  men 
are called into requisition. 
It  has  become 
quite common,  also,  to see the phiz of  some 
cigar maker or dealer  glaring  out  over  the 
rows  of  Havanas  or  cabbage  leaves  in  a 
box.

Whence  come  the  multitude  of  cigar 
boxes  used  in  Grand  Rapids?  Some  are 
brought here from other cities  made  to  or­
der  for 
local  manufacturers;  many  are 
brought because they contain cigars  bought 
in other places.  The most of the boxes used 
by Grand Rapids cigar  makers  are  manu­
factured right here.  To  this  end  there are 
two factories.  A visit was  made this week 
to one of them by a  reporter,  who  found a 
man  below  medium  size,  brown  bearded, 
and dark-liaired, bending over  several bun­
dles of long, thin sheets of wood with a rule 
in one hand and a pencil in the other.

“The  material  of  which  we  make  our 
boxes?”  lie  answered  pleasantly.  “H’m; 
we use cedar,  imitation,  sycamore  and  ve­
neered.  The first is the most  expensive.  It 
is  of  two  kinds,  Cuban  and  Mexican  or 
Spanish,  but there is very little  of  the  for­
mer kind used in this country  at  the  pres­
ent day. 
It is an imported  wood cut in the 
mountains of Mexico and  floated  down  the | 
Imitation  is  whitewood  grained  to 
gulf. 
resemble  cedar. 
It  is  second  in  expense. ! 
Sycamore is the cheapest.  A little dearer is | 
the veneered wood.  Here  is  some  of  it,” | 
he said,  taking up one of the wooden sheets, j 
and showing that on one  side  and  around j 
the edges it was plain  whitewood,  while on ! 
the other side it was  unmistakably cedar.

“This is prepared  in  the  following man­
ner:  A long piece  of  cedar  is  thoroughly 
steamed; a long, broad sheet from the 100th 
to the IGOth part of an inch thick,  is shaved | 
from it and cemented to a whitewood board.  : 
When dry,  this is sand-papered,  and  when j 
made into cigar boxes but  few  manufactur- : 
ers of cigars can distinguish them from real j 
cedar without making  a close  examination. 
The only places I know  of  where veneer is j 
made are Cincinnati  and  New York.  The 
sycamore used by local factories is cut prin-1 
cipally in this and neighbor States  and pre- i 
pared here.  The other materials are obtain- : 
ed chiefly in New  York,  Philadelphia,  Cin- j 
chinati and New Orleans.

A young man was nailing  together  parts 
of boxes in an adjoining  room.  He  used a | 
machine which  worked  with a treadle,  fed 
the nails and  drove  them  in.  The  process i 
was very rapid.  Further on some girls were i 
pasting linings,  labels  and  edgings  on  fin- j 
ished boxes.

“We complete  our  product  right  here,” | 
went on the gentleman.  “Some of  the  la­
bels you see are private, others stock labels. 
We  always  use  paper  for  linings.  Some 
time  ago  tinfoil  was  the  material,  but 1 
think  that  it  has  yielded  to  paper.  For 
golden and silver weddings we make linings 
with gold or silver paper and tie  the  boxes 
with ribbon to  match,  but  we  do  not  fre­
quently have-any  demand  for  that  sort of 
thing.  Although 
there  are  some  labels 
printed on paper and  pasted  on  the  cover, 
the majority of them are printed on the wood 
itself.  We use this printing  press  for that 
purpose.  Formerly the custom of branding 
labels  and  names  on  boxes  with  a  brass 
brami was  in  vogue,  but  this  procsss  has 
been  abandoned  for  the  printing  press. 
Boxes are mostly made to order. 
I may say 
that this is universal,  for very few  factories 
keep them in stock.”

There is no danger of cigar boxes  becom­
ing a drug in the market.  Every  one bears 
this warning:  “Every person  is  cautioned 
not to use this box for cigars again  *  *  * 
under the penalties provided  by law in such 
cases.”

BU SIN ESS  L A W .

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in  Courts 

of  Last  Resort.

B A N K R U P T C Y — D E B T — D IS C H A R G E .

Where a bankrupt debtor orally  promises 
to pay a creditors debt in full if  the  credi­
tor will sign an assent to  his  discharge and j 
enable him to obtain it,  and the debtor, after j 
having thus obtained bis  discharge,  in exe- j 
cution of his  oral  promise  gives  a  w ritten! 
promise to pay the debt,  the  written  prom- j 
ise is tainted with  the  original  fraud  and I 
cannot be enforced, according  to  the  deeis- j 
ion of the Supreme Judicial  Court of  Mass- ! 
achusetts.

WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES

At Manufacturers’ Prices. 

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER. 

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

N elson  Bros.  &  Co.

IF1 .A. I_. I_. .A. S,
ission-Butter  &  E 

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CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

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

No. 1 Egg Crates  for Sale,  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  50 ceuts each.

9 7  and 99 Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

D.  W.  Archer’s  Trophy  Corn,
D. W. Archer's Morning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer's Early Bolden 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.,  Chillicòthe, Ills.

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

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’\7\TJB1  QUOTE
.75 j Parafine,  25°

-  .601Surnmer,  West  Va -

.50125° to 30o 

-.  35Ì15°C.T. 

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.301 Zero

-  .30163° Deo. Naptha 
.25  74°  “  Gasoline

"  .30 ! 87° Gasoline

15*
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D’OLIVEIRA’S
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Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

Trains connect ivith G. R. & I.  trains  for  St. 
Ignaee, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 10:25 a. m. and 11:00 p. 
in., arriving at Marquette at 3:30 p. m.  Return­
ing leave Marquette at 2:20  p.  m.,  arriving  at 
Grand Rapids at 12:25 a.m and  3:50  p. ra.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with the Marquette, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.

Gen’l Frt. & Pass. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.

F.  MILLIGAN,

Goodrich Steamers.

Leave  Grand Haven Tuesday, Thursday  and 
Sunday evenings, connecting with train on D., 
G. H. & M. Ry.  Ret urning, leave Chicago Mon­
day,  Wednesday  and  Friday  evenings,  at 7 
o’clock, arriving at Grand  Haven  in  time for 
morning train east.

Grand River Steamer.

The  Steamer  Barrett  leaves  her  dock  for 
Grand Haven, Mondays, Wednesdays  and  Fri­
days, returning on alternate days.
SHIPPING BASKETS  AND  BOXES

H A Z E L T IN E ,  PE R K IN S  &  CO.  have 

Sole  Control of our  Celebrated t!

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

Mm, Perkins & Go.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICH.

- 

G. S. YALE & BRO.,
FLAY0RIN6  EXTRACTS  !

—Manufacturers  ot—

B A K IN G   PO W D ER S,

^Xji'CTIIWO-S»,  etc.,

40  and  42  Soutli  Division,  St. 

G RAN D   RAPIDS, 

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M ICHIGAN.

ROCS  CAXTiDV.

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

«

Grind i M i i a

G R A H A M   Flour  and  Corn 
in the 8 8  H A N D  M I L L  
(F.  Wilson’s  Patent).  IQ©  per
___cent, more made in keeping poul-
P O W E R   M IL L S  and  F A R M  
IPEEI» M ILLS.  Circulars  and Testimonials sent 
on application.  W II.SOX B R O S., Easton, p a .

_  . 

( S r o c e r i e s .
THE  OIL  MARKET.

Introduction of the Tank  Delivery Wagon 

System.

T he Tradesm an last  week  advised  all 
dealers who were prepared  to  handle oil in 
any quantity to lay in a good  supply,  as. the 
market was below  a  healthy  average,  and 
an advance was  sure to follow.  A small ad­
vance  came  Monday  morning,  when  the 
West Michigan Oil Co.  announced that until 
further notice the price of oil would be 10M 
for water white and 8% for  Michigan  test.
The  West  Michigan  Oil  Co.  authorizes 
T he  T radesm an to state  that  within the 
next three or four  days  they  will  have the 
tank delivery wagon  system  in  full opera­
tion in this city.  Two wagons, with capac­
ities of twelve and six barrels,  respectively, 
have been brought  into  requisition,  and by 
means of them dealers will be supplied with 
oil, delivered in their  tanks,  at  low  rates. 
On one or two  stated  days  in  each  week 
Michigan test oil will be delivered,  and dur­
ing the  balance of  the  week  water  white 
will be carried.  Such a system  has been in 
successful operation  at  Chicago,  St.  Louis, 
Toledo and Cleveland for  some  time  past 
and  has  worked  very  advantageously,  as 
such an arrangement  enables  the  dealer to 
avoid the handling of barrels and the pump­
ing from  barrel  to  tank, thus  doing  away 
with much of the  smell  and  inconvenience 
necessarily incident to the oil  business.

BOGUS  BUTTER.

The  Legislature  Says  Butter  Substitutes 

Must Go.

L ansing,  June 9.—The  Senate  oleomar­
garine  bill  occupied  the  attention  of  the 
House for over two hours  this  afternoon in 
committee of the whole.  All  the  principal 
speakers  aired  their  views. 
rlhe  amend­
ment for paying manufacturers for the value 
of their plant passed.  An  amendment pro­
viding that each manufacturer  should prove 
that he has  not  violated  the  existing  law 
which  says  that  all  packages  of  artificial 
butter  shall  be  marked  conspicuously,  be­
fore he  shall  receive  compensation  for  his 
plant, was defeated.  An amendment strik­
ing out section 8  of  the  bill,  which  makes 
violations of the act by a subordinate charge­
able to the manufacturers  as  principal, was 
fiercely contested, but was carried,  beveral 
other amendments  were  defeated, and  the 
committee then rose,  and the House refused 
to concur  in  striking  out  section  8.  The 
amendment paying  manufacturers for  their 
plant was concurred in,  35 to  17.  The  bill 
now goes to third reading, *and in all  proba­
bility will pass the  House,  and  its  amend­
ments be concurred in by the Senate.

June 10.—The oleomargarine bill came up 
in the House  on  third  reading.  Mr.  Ford 
renewed his amendment to strike out sec.  8, 
which makes manufacturers  responsible for 
violations  for  the  act  committed  by  their 
agents or employees.  The motion  failed to 
secure a two-tliirds vote  and  was  defeated. 
The bill  was  then  voted  upon,  55  ayes 
to 31  nays,  and  the  president  declared  it 
passed.

Mr. Brant raised the  point  of  order  that 
the bill  was not passed  as  it  contemplated 
an appropriation of money to pay for manu­
facturers’ plant.

Speaker pro tern Sellers decided  the  mo­
tion out of order,  and  Brant  appealed from 
the decision of the chair.

Mr.  Ford said the bill was  voted  because 
it was not for local private  purposes, but to 
preserve the public  health,  which  was  en­
dangered  by  the  manufacture  of  artificial 
butter.

Mr. Brant  said  that  the  only theory  on 
which the law could be enacted  was  by the 
exercise of the State police powers,  and not 
as a health measure.

The decision of the  chair  was  sustained, 

59 to 12.

failed to carry.

A motion to give the bill immediate effect 

June 11.—The Senate  has  concurred  in 
the amendments  of  the  House to the  oleo- 
•  margarine bill,  which now goes to  the Gov­
ernor for his signature.

Weight Instead of Measure.

The  New  York  Retail  Grocers  Union 
has  adopted  a  standard  of  weights  for 
measuring fruits and  vegetables  in  dealing 
them out to customers.  According  to this, 
three pounds of old potatoes or  yellow  tur­
nips shall constitute a quart, and five pounds 
a small measure which is two quarts.  Two 
and  a  half  pounds  of new potatoes,  white 
turnips, beets or  sweet  potatoes  shall  con­
stitute a quart, and four and one-half pounds 
a small measure.  A quart of  apples  or  to­
matoes must weigh two and one-lialf pounds, 
and a small measure four pounds.  A quart 
of  onions  must  weigh  two  pounds,  and  a 
small  measure  three  and one-half pounds. 
One  and  one-fourth  pound of peas shelled 
make a quart,  and two pounds make a small 
measure.  A quart of beans shall weigh one 
pound,  and a small measure one  and  three- 
quarter pounds.

There is likely to  be  an  enormous  con­
sumption of disinfectants this summer,  in all 
parts of the  country.  Nothing  in  general 
use is so good  for  disinfecting  purposes  as 
copperas. 
It is  cheap,  convenient  and  ef­
fective,  and every means  possible should be 
adopted to secure its  general  use  wherever 
there are accumulations of disease  breeding 
filth—in gutters,  sewers, refuse  heaps,  cess 
pools,  etc.

Beef  slaughtered  at  and  shipped  from 
Omaha, Neb.,  gets to Boston in good condi­
tion in six days.

TH E  DAY  W E  CELEBRATE.

The  Preparation  Made  for  the  Fourth  by 

the Traveling Men.

Pursuant  to  call,  about  fifty  representa­
tive traveling men met at The Tradesm an 
office  Saturday evening  for  the  purpose of 
making 
to 
march in the procession on  the  Fourth,  and 
make  the preliminary  arrangements,  for  a 
picnic.  L.  Max  Mills  was  made chairman 
and W.  S.  Horn secretary.

the  necessary  arrangements 

It was moved and carried that all traveling 

men walk in the procession on July 4th.

It was moved and carried that all traveling 
men  participating  in  the  parade  wear  a 
white plug hat,  a drummer badge,  a button­
hole bouquet,  and carry a cane.

It was moved and carried that a committee 
of three be appointed to wait on the hatters 
of the city for the  purpose  of  ascertaining 
the price  at which  they  would  furnish the 
hats.  The chair appointed as such commit­
tee, L.  W Atkins,  Geo.  Seymour  and  Dick 
Warner,  who  immediately withdrew.

J. N.  Bradford  was  selected  as  captain, 
J. F.  0.  Reed as  first-lieutenant  and W.  S. 
Horn  as  second-lieutenant. 
It  was  voted 
that the officers should go afoot.

Geo. ¿Seymour and Max  Mills  were made 
a committee to see  that  all  traveling  men 
were supplied with badges and bouquets.

The  following  resolution  was  adopted, 
with  the  amendment  that  all  who  intend 
joining in the  parade  are  requested  to for­
ward their names  to  T he  Tradesm an of­
fice:
traveling  men  of 
Ionia, 
Plainwell,  Kalamazoo,  Charlotte, 
Muskegon,  Big  Rapids  and  other toAvns of 
the State,  and all visiting  salesmen,  be cor­
dially invited to  join  in  our  parade on the 
Fourth; also that they  be  invited to  attend 
our annual picnic.

Resolved—That  the 

A resolution asking  all  travelers to wear 

gloves was voted down.

The captain  was  instructed  to  report  to 

Marshall-of-the-day,  Hastings.

It was moved and carried that all  intend­
ing  to  join  in  the  parade  meet  at  The 
Tradesman  office at 8 a.  m.  sharp.

It was moved and carried  that  those job­
bers who are interested in the line of trunks 
and valises  state  to  a committee  who  will 
wait on them what they will do for the pro­
cession.  The chair announced as such com­
mittee  D.  C.  Underwood,  C.  S.  Robinson 
and Wm.  B.  Collins.

It was moved and  carried  that  an  invita­
tion be extended to all  traveling men whose 
names do not appear  in  T he  T radesm an 
of June 17 who will  join  in the procession, 
and that  they  be  requested  to  send  their 
names to The Tradesm an office.

W. E.  Cummings, R.  D.  Swartliout  and 
W. G.  Hawkins were  appointed a committee 
to procure a banner,  at an expense not to ex­
ceed §25.

Wm.  B.  Edmunds was appointed to act as 

color bearer.

The hat committee  not  having  returned, 
it was moved and carried that the  traveling 
men  hold  their  second  annual  picnic  on 
August 22.

A  committee  consisting  of  Jas.  Fox,  D. 
C.  Underwood  and  Geo.  Seymour,  was ap­
pointed to look up the  most  available place 
for the picnic and  see  what  arrangements 
could be made for transportation.

C.  S.  Yale,  R. Vaness,  D. C. Underwood, 
L.  C.  Bradford  and  W.  II. Jennings  were 
appointed a committee to complete  the nec­
essary arrangements.

The  hat  committee  then  returned  and 
made a verbal  report,  when it was voted  to 
award the contract to Miner.

Geo.  Seymour was made treasurer for the 

occasion.

The meeting then  adjourned  to  meet at 

T he  Tradesm an office in two weeks.

The  following  travelers  have  signified 
their intention of taking part  in the demon­
stration:

J.  N. Bradford.
H. S. Robertson.
W. G.  Hawkins.
V. A.  Johnston.
W. S. Horn.
A. D. Baker.
Jas. Fox.
L. C. Bradford.
Joe Reed.
John Kenning. 
Mauley Jones.
Chas. D. Robinson. 
A. B. Smith.
Wm. B. Edmunds.
L. M. Mills.
Steve  Sears.
J. H. Palen.
Jas. A. Crookston. 
W. P. Townsend.
W. J. Jones.
D. S. Haugh.
Ben Hollister.
John Burrows.
A. C. Sharp.
Dr. J. B. Evans.
H. B. Clark.
Geo. Holloway.
T. P. S. Hampson.
D. C. Underwood. 
Jas. Rooney.
Wm. E. Cooper.
A. V.  Wood.
Alba Brasted.
Silas K. Belles.
C. H. Bay ley.
Frank Emery.
Dick Warner.
Geo. Harley.
Chas. S. Yale.
J. H. Parker.
Geo. McKay.
John D. Mangum. 
R.  Mangold.
M. M. Mallory.
W. H. Downs.
R. J. Coppes.
Will Drueke.
G. H. Jacobs.
L. A. Caro.
Glen Seymour. 
Wallace Franklin. 
W. H. Jennings.
S. Kennedy.
R. B. Orr.
Peter Lankaster. 
Frank Conlon. 
Frank Pdrmenter.
E. F. Coveil.
A. B. Cole.
W. J. Price.
B. J. Buckley.
W. E.  Cummings. 
Sam Lemon.
Jkxhn Blackley.
W. A. Morse.
M. H. N. Raymond. 
Oliver C. Shults.
E. P. Andrew.
J. C. Watson.
E. W. Trout.
R. Vaness.

a

L. L. Loomis.
Ad. Morrison.
W. R. Keasey.
James Cloyes.
Ed. Frick.
Geo. F. Owen.
John McIntyre.
John Sparks.
J. C. Bonton.
Geo. Medes.
John Verney.
Sam Gottlieb.
L. W. Atkins.
E. G. Warner.
M. Levi.
A. J. Apker.
A. Kuppenheimer.
G. Seymour.
E. I. Goodrich.
F. H. White.
Wm. Logie.
C. J. Peck.
Wm. B. Collins.
Hub Baker.
Thos. P. Ferguson.
W. B. Folger.
L. M. Cary.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Springs.

Moline.

ville.

A. L. Burnett & Co., Lisbon.
Chris. Pfeifle, Ashland.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
N. W. Mills,  Otsego.
A.  C.  Snyder,  Snyder  &  Bassett,  Cedar 
C. H. Forman, Forman,  Dakota.
H. E. Grand-Girard, Big Rapids.
N. D. Holt,  Hesperia.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
C. H. LaBar. LaBar & Cornwell,  Cadillac.
C. M. Darrah, Big Rapids.
H. B. Irish,  Lisbon.
D.  A.  McLeod,  McLeod  &  Trautman Bros., 
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
J. Colby,  Rockford.
W. H. Beach, Holland.
M. A. Knox, Tustm.
D.  O.  Watson,  Watson  & DeVoist, Coopers-
Dell Wright, Berlin.
W. I. Woodruff, Copley.
C. W. Armstrong, Bowen’s Mills.
C. Cole, Ada.
Mr. McWilliams, McWilliams & Co., Lowell. 
Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia.
F. Boonstra, Drenthe.
Jos. Spires, Leroy.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
A. P. Hulbert, Lisbon.
F. Voorhoi’st & Co., Overisel.
G. C. Baker, Lebarge.
Louis Kolkema, Holland.
Hex'der & Lahuis, Zeeland.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
Gaylord & Pipp, Piex’son.
J. Slanning,  Kalamazoo.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
J. L. Bradford, Newaygo Mfg. Co., Newaygo. 
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
Geo. S. Powell & Co., Sand Lake.
F. DeNuyl,  Holland.
M. Heyboer, Heyboer Bros., Drenthe.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
J. C. Beixbow,  Cannonsburg.
J. W. Mead,  Bex’lin.
Colborn & Carpenter, Caledonia.
Mr. Foote, with Ada B. Foote, Hilliards.
S.  Bitely and  C.  O.  Cain,  Biteley  &  Cain,
ja HaMoores, Moore stown.
J. H. Darling. Darling & Smith, Fremont.
John CoUj, Fremont.
J. W. Duxxning and J. L. Alexander, Dunning
Alexand«3r, Hesperia.
John M. <lloud, Cadillac.
G. B. Cha.mbers, Wayland.
Walter S1truik. Forest Grove.
W. J. Arnett, Morley.
M. C. Hayward, Middleville.
F. G. Thurston, Lisbon.
I. J. Quick, I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
C. Stocking,  Grattan.
A. Wolf, A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
John J. Ely. Rockford.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen. Ashland.
II. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
W. S, Root,  Tallmadge.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
N. K. Jepson. Clarksville.
Shepard & Co., Otsego.
O. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P.  Conklin,  Raven­
J.  B.  Callahan,  Wagar  &  Callahan,  Cedar 
W. H. Hicks,  Morley.
C. H. Adams, Otsego.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley P. O.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
Purdy & Hastings,  Sparta.
Fred Hotchkiss, Hastings.
Paine & Co.. Greenville.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.

na.
Springs.

The  Wool  Market.

Only about 12,500  pounds  of  wool  have 
been purchased  by the  five  buyers  at this 
market during  the  past  week.  Prices are 
no higher than a week  ago  and  the market 
is no  firmer  East.  Advices  from  outside 
buying points are to the  effect  that the sta­
ple is coming in  quite  freely,  and  that the 
prospects are that the  clip  will  all be mar­
keted rather earlier than usual.

Contrary to expectations,  the  quantity  of 
Texas wool  coming  into  market  has been 
fully as great as last season.  It was thought 
that the severe cold  and  consequent loss of 
sheep would cause  a  heavy  decrease in the 
quantity  marketed.  Greater  numbers  of 
buyers are  out  from  Boston  and  Philadel­
phia than last year,  and  St.  Louis  also has 
purchasers  present.  Prices  range  from 10 
to 19  cents,  and  the  best  grades  bring  20 
cents—better figures than last season.  The 
plentiful supply is  occasioned  by the  fact 
that much of last year’s crop, which was de­
tained at points  far  in  the  interior  on  ac­
count of bad prices,  is now being sold.

Miscellaneous Dairy. Notes.

A cheese factory is talked of at  Tustin.
John Preston  has  returned  from  a  two 
weeks’  visit  at  Pultney,  Vt.,  whither he 
went at the invitation of  his employers,  the 
Moseley & Stoddard Manufacturing Co.

The window glass manufacturers  and the 
workers have appointed committees to  con­
fer in regard to the wages scale for the next 
fire, the result  of  the  conference  to be laid 
before the National Association of  Window 
Glass  Manufacturers  when  they  meet  in 
July.

Oil fever has  broken  out  in  Morrisville, 
N.  Y.,  over the the discovery  of  petroleum 
oozing from a spring a short  distance  north 
of  the  village.  Experts  are  said  to  have 
pronounced the oil of fine quality.
.  Kentucky promises  users  of  the weed a 
big crop of tobacco this year.

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID ES.

Green .... S ft  6  @  654 Calf skins, green 
Part cured...  7  @  754  or cured....  @10 
Full cured....  8  @ 854 Deacon skins,
$  piece.......20  @50
Dry hides and 

kip s............  8  @12

S H E E P   PELTS.

Shearlings...............................................10  @12
Lambskins.............................................15  @25
Old wool, estimated washed ^ ft........   @20
Tallow......................................................  
© 5
Fine washed $  ft 20@22|Unwashed............ 
2-
Coarse washed... 16@181

W OO L.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

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1 75

1  45

CANNED F IS H .

A X LE  GREASE.

CANNED F R U IT S .

BAKING  PO W D ER.

CANNED  VEG ETA BLES.

CANNED  FRUTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

Advanced—Kerosene.
Declined—Gallon  apples,  pickles,  Saginaw 
These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

  45] Arctic 1 ft cans— 2 40
  75 Arctic 5 ft cans — 12 00
BLU IN G .

salt.
promptly aixd buy in full packages.
Frazer’s .................  2 80j Pax-agon  ..................1  80
Diamond................1 75|Pax-agan 25 ft pails.1 20
Modoc.....................1 65|
Arctic %  lb cans 
Arctic Vi ft cans 
Arctic 54 ft cans.  .  1 40|  ’
Dry, No. 2...................................'.......doz. 
25
Dry, No. 3........... ...............................doz. 
45
35
Liquid, 4 oz,.......................................doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz............................. ...........$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz.
8  00 
12  00 
Arctic 16 oz.......................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.
.  2  00 
.  3 Ö0 
Arctic No. 2 
“ 
.  4 50
Arctic No. 3 
.
“ 
BROOMS.
No. 1 Carpet........... 2 50 No.  2  Hurl................17
No. 2 Carpet............2 25 Fancy  Whisk..........10
No. 1  Pax*lor Gem..2 75 Common Whisk—   7
No. 1 Hurl...................2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards....................................I 40
Clams, 2ft  standards....................................2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft...........................................2 20
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards...........................1 10
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards.........................  1 90
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled...........................1 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic............................. 
Lobsters, 1 ft star...............................................2 25
Lobsters, 2 ft star.............................................. 3 10
Mackerel, lf t   fresh standards........................1 00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards....................... 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft......................3 25
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard................................. 3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled........................................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.............................1 55
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river............................ 2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento................................. 1 35
Sardines, domestic 54s................................. 
6
11
Sardines,  domestic  54s................................. 
Sardines,  Mustard  54s...................................  10
Sardines,  imported  54s.................................   13
Trout. 3 ft  brook.........................................   2 75
Apples, 3 ft standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Ei-ie.................... 2 40
Biackbei'X'ies. standards................................... 1 05
Cherries,  red  standard....................... .—   90
Damsons..............................................................1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1  40
Green Gages, standards 2 1b.............................1 40
Peaches, Extra Yellow...........................    .2 40
Peaches, standards............................1  75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds...............................................1 50
Pineapples,  Erie................................................2 20
Pineapples, standards.......................................1 70
Quinces.............. 
Raspbex-ries,  Black, Hamburg....................... 1 80
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40|Pears.......................... 3 C
Egg Plums.............2 50 Quinces.....................2 8
Grapes.................. 2 50 Peaches  ...................3  0
Green Gages..............2 50|
Aspax-agus, Oyster Bay.......................
Beans, Lima,  standard.......................
Beans, Stringlcss, Erie.......................
.......1 60
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.............
.......1  05
Corn,  Tx-ophy.......................................
.......1  75
Peas, French.........................................
......1  70
Peas, Marrofat, standard— 1............
.......  90
Peas, Beaver.........................................
.......1  80
Peas, early small, sifted.....................
.......85@95
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..........................
.......  90
Succotash, standard__
Tomatoes, Trophy........................................1  00
Boston............................... 361 German Sweet.....25
Baker’s ..............................38 Vienna 
Runkles’ ...................... 351
Roasted Mar... 17@18 
Gi’een Rio........  9@13
Roasted Mocba.28@30 
Green J ava....... 17@27
Roasted Mex.. .17@20
Green Mocha.. ,23@25
Ground  Rio__ 9@16
Roasted Rio___10@15
Package  Goods  @13%
Roasted Java ,.23@30
CORDAGE.foot Cotton___2 25
72 foot J u te .......1  25
60 foot Cotton___2 00
60 foot Jute.......1  00
50 foot Cotton___ 1 75
40 Foot Cotton__ 1  50
Bloatex-s, Smoked Yarmouth......................  75
Cod, whole.....................................................454@5
Cod, Boneless................................................. 6@7
Cod, pickled, 54  bbls.................................... 3 50
H alibut..........................................................  12
Herx-ing 54  bbls............................................ 2 50
Herring,  Scaled.............................................18@20
Herring,  Holland.........................................  65
Mackerel, No. 1, 54 bbls............................... 5 00
Mackerel, No. 1.12  to  kits.......................... 1 00
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  54  bbls.................  6 25
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits.......................1 90
Shad, 54 b b l...................................................2 50
Trout, No.  1, 54  bbls....................................4 00
Trout, No. 1,10  ft  kits.................................  70
White, No. 1,54 b b ls....................................5  75
White, Family, 54 bbls.................................2 50
White, No. 1,10 to kits.................................   85
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.................................  95
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
4 oz....................................... 1  50  2 50
6 oz....................................... 2  50  4 00
8 oz....................................... 3  50  5 00
No. 2 Taper........................ 1  25  1  50
1 75  3  00
No.  4  “ 
54 pint  round.....................4  50  7  50
1 
“ 
9 00  15 00
No.  8....................................3  00  4  25
No. 10 .................  
4 25  6  00
FR U ITS
Apples, Michigan..................................   454@5
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls.................... 
©754
Apples, Dried, evap., box.....................  
@8
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................   @16
Citron......................................................  @28
Currants.................................................  
4%@5
Peaches, dx-ied  ...................................... 
12@13
Pineapples,  standards.........................  @1 70
runes, Turkey, new............................  5  @554
10@13
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes................. 
Raisins, Valencias................................. 
@954
Raisins, Layer Valencias............... 
@9%
Raisins,  Ondaras...................................  @1254
Raisins,  Sultanas...................................  756@  854
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........1054 I Legal  Test..............8%
Grand Haven,  No.  9, square.............................. 1 50
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  pax-lor...........................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, pax’lor....................3  50
Grand Haven,  No.  7,  round..............................2 ~1
............. 1  10
Oshkosh, No.  2..........
............. 1 60
Oshkosh, No.  8..........
.............   75
Swedish.....................
Richardson’s No. 2  square............. .............2 70
do 
............. ............. 2 70
Richardson’s No. 6
............. ............. 1 70
Richardson’s No. 8
do 
...2 55
do 
.............
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 19, do 
............ ............. 1  75
Black  Strap.............................................14@16@1S
Porto  Rico.....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 38@42
New Orleans, choice.......  ...........................48@50
New  Orleans,  fancy........   ......................... 52@55

Jennings’2 oz............................^9  fioz.l 00 

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

CHOCOLATE.

MOLASSES.

M ATCHES.

CO FFEE.

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56 bbls. 3c extra.

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PIC K L E S .

SA LERA TUS.

Steel  cut.................6 00¡Quaker, 48  fts......... 2 35
Steel Cut, 54 bbls.. .3 15 Quaker, 60 fts......... 2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 60[Quaker bbls..............6 50
Choice in barrels med............. ........................4  UO
......................................2 50
Choice in 56 
P IP E S
..2 25@3 00
Imported Clay 3 gross.
@2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216, 3 gross.......
@1 85
Impox-ted Clay, No. 216, 354 gross — .
@ 90
Amex-ican  T. D.
Java  .......... __ 654@6%
Good Carolina. .......6
Prime Carolina.......654 P atna........ ............. 6
Choice Cax-olina.......7 Rangoon... __ 5yj@6%
Good Louisiana .......5% Broken....... ............. 3%
DeLand’s pure. .......554 Dwight’s ... ............. 554
Chui-ch’s  ........ .......554 Sea  Foam.. ............. 554
Taylor’s  G. M.. .......654 Cap Sheaf............... 5 /4
2 25
60 Pocket, F F Dairy..
2 20
28 Pocket........
45
100 3 ft  pockets
85
Saginaw Fine .
Diamond C....................................... —  
1 60
Standard  Coax-se.................................... 
1 55
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
2 80
80
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........  
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags............... 
25
Rock, bushels......................................... 
28
Pax-isian, 54  pints..................................   @2 00
Pepper Sauce, red • small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................  @  90
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring........ ....  @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 70

SAUCES.

SALT.

Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
I  Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Horseradish,  54 pints............................
Horseradish, pints.................................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halfoi’d Sauce, 54 pints.........................
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........
“ Cameo.......................
“ Monday...................
“ Mascot.....................
“ Superior, 601 ft bars

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SPICES.

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SYRUPS.

ST A R fH .

Ground. 

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

Whole.
Pepper............... 16@25 [Pepper...............
Allspice..............12@15 Allspice
Cinnamon........... 18@30jCassia...............
Cloves  ............... 15@25j Nutmegs  ..........
Ginger.............. 16@20;  Cloves  .............
Mustard.............15@30 
Cayenne........... '.25@35l
Kingsfoi’d’s, 1 1b pkgs.,  pure..................
3 lb pkgs.,  pux-e..................
lf t  pkgs., Silver Gloss__
6 1b pkgs., 
“  __
1 lb pkgs., Corn  Starch__
(Bulk)  Ontario..................
Cut  Loaf.................................................
Cubes......................................................
Powdered...............................................
Granulated,  Standard..........................
Confectionery A....................................
Standard A ..............................................
Extra C, White.......................................
Extra C....................................................
Fine  C......................................................
Yellow C...................................................
DarkC......................................................
Corn,  Barx-els.........................................
28 
Corn, l/2 bbls............................................
30 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
@  32 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
@1 60 
Corn, 454 gallon kegs.............................
@1  45 
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
23®  35
Pure Sugar Drips...............
........54 bbl
30@  as
Pure Sugar  Drips.............
.5 gal kegs
©1  06
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...
........54 bbl @  85
Pure  Loaf Sugar...............
. 5 aal kegs @1 85
TEA S.
...mm
Japan ordinary..................
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
Japan fine...................................................... 40@50
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder.................................................. 35® 50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo.............................................................25@30
Dark AmericanEagle67[Sweet  Rose............... 45
The Meigs................. 64[Meigs & Co.’s Stunnerlls
Red  Bird.............
.. 35
.. .50 ¡Atlas...............
. .38
State  Seal........... __ 601 Royal G ame...
Prairie Flower...
.. ,65jMulo Ear........
. .65
Climber............... __ 62 ¡Fountain.........
..74
Indian Queen__ __ 60 Old Congx-ess..
..64
Bull  Dog.............
.. .60|Good Luck__
Crown  Leaf....... __ 66* Blaze Away...
. .35
Matchless........... __ 65! Hair Lifter___
..30
Hiawatha........... __ 67lGovex-nor.......
..60
.  63
Globe  .................. __ 70*Fox’s Choice..
May Flower........ __ 70* Medallion.......
.. 35
H ero.................... __ 45 j Sweet Owen...
. .66
Old  Abe. 
Spread Eagle...........................................  @38
Blue  Peter..............................................  @38
Big Five Center......................................  @35
White Bear.  ...........................................  @35
E. C...........................................................   @42
Red  Fox....................................................  @48
Big Drive.................................................   @50
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
Dux-ham...................................................  @46
Pati-ol......................................................  @48
Jack Rabbit............................................   @46
Snowflake..............................................   @46
Chocolate Cream....................................   @46
Woodcock  ..............................................  @46
Knigntsof  Labor...................................  @46
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................   @46
Black Bear..............................................   @37
King 
......................................................   @46
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..............................  @62
PaiTot  .....................................................  @46
Old Time....................................... :........  @38
Tx-amway.................................................   @48
Glory  ............................................ .........   @46
Silver  Coin.................................. !.........   @50
Buster  [Dax-k].......................................   @36
Black Px-ince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myex-s’  Star..........................   @46
Climax.....................................................  @46
Hold F ast................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Niekle Nuggets 6 and 12 to  cads.  .......  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Nobby Twist...........................................  @46
Nimrod.....................................................  @46
Acorn......................................................  
©46
Crescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass.............................................. 
.  @40
Spring......................................................   @46
Cray lin g .................................................   @46
Mackinaw................................................  @45
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................   @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @46
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46

.......... .'..49|

PLU G .

Sweet  .23

2c. less in four butt lots.
SMOKING
__40| Conqueror

.22lGrayling

Old Tar...............
Arthur’s  Choice
Red Fox.....................26|Seal Skin..................... 30
Flirt..........................   28 Rob Roy......................26
Gold Dust................. 26 Uncle  Sam..................28
Gold Block............... 30 Lumberman...............25
Seal of Grand Rapids  Railx-oad Boy............. 38
(cloth)................. 25| Mountain Rose............18
Tramway, 3 oz.........40 Home Comfox-t............25
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35|01d Rip........................55
B oss.......................... 15|Seal of Nox-th Caro-
lina, 2  oz.................. 48
Peck’s Sun................18! 
Miners and Puddlex-s.28[Seal of Nox-th Caro-
Morning  Dew...........25 
lina, 4oz.................. '.46
Chain......................... 22[Seal of North  Caro-
lina, 8oz...................41
Peerless  ....................25 
Standard...................22iSeal of North  Caro-
Old Tom.................... 21| 
lina, 16 oz boxes___ 40
Tom &  Jerry............24¡BigDeal....................... 27
Joker......................... 25 Apple Jack.................. 24
Traveler...................35 King Bee, longeut..  .22
Maiden......................25|Milwaukee  Pi-ize___ 24
Pickwick  Club..........40iRattler............•.......... 28
Nigger Head............261 Windsor cut plug___ 25
Holland.................... 221 Zero  ............................ 16
German.................... lff[ Holland Mixed............ 16
Solid Comfort_____ 30 Golden Age................. 75
Red Clover............... 32 Mail  Pouch.................25
Long Tom.................30'Knights of Lator___ 30
National.................. 26 Free Cob Pipe..............27
Tim e.........................261
Globe.........................21| Hiawatha.....................22
Mule Ear...................23[ Old Congress.............. 23
@60 00 
Michigan  Chief..................................
@60 00 
Roma....................................................
@57 00 
American  ...........................................
@50 00 
La  Industx-ia.......................................
@50 00 
Parker .................................................
©35 00 
Promenade.........................................
@35 00 
Old Judge............................................
@25 00 
Pam ina..................#...........................
Comforter............................................
@20 00
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......
“  Maccoboy.............................
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................
44
Rappee..................................   @  35
“ 
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................   @  45
@1 30 
Lotzbeek  ............................
Pure  Cider..........8@12 White Wine.

VIN EGA R.

SHORTS.

CIGA RS.

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Bath Brick imported..........................
American..........................
Barley....................................................
Burners, No. 1 ......................................
do  No.  2......................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand...........
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans...........
Candles, Star.........................................
Candles,  Hotel......................................
Extract Coffee, V.  C............................
F elix........................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.....................
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
.................
Gum, Spruce.......................................
Hominy, $  bbl....................................-
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.............................
Peas, Green Bush...............................
Peas, Split prepared..........................
Powder, Keg.......................................
Powder,  54 Keg..................................

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95 
90 
@3 
1  00 
1  50 
8  00 
15@25 
@1354 
@14 
@80 
@30 
@40 
30@35 
@4 00 
@ 454 
@1  35 
@ 354 
@3 50 
@1  93

1  25 

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................  6  @  8
Fresh  Beef, hind quax-ters..................  854@  9
Dressed  Hogs.........................................   554@  6
Mutton,  carcasses..................................  654© 7
Veal..............  
7  © 8
Pork Sausage..........................................   8  @ 9
Bologna....................................................   9  @10
Chickens...................................................14  @15
Turkeys  .................................................   @15

 

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CANDY,  FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

@1  00 @1 35 
® l  00 
STIC K .
@1 30 
Straight, 25 ft  boxes............................  954@10
@3 50 
............................. 10  @1054
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
.........................  @12
@2 20
M IX ED .
@4  85  Royal, 251b  pails......................................10 @10(4
@3 30  Royal, 2001b bbls.......................................954@9%
@3 45  Extra, 25 ft  pails....................................... ll@l iy.
@3 45  Extra. 200 ft bbls...................................... 10@1054
@3 60  French Cream, 251b pails..................... 1254@13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........................................ 13
Broken, 25  to pails.....................................ll@1154
@19  Broken, 200 ft  bbls...........................................10h
8@10 
@10  Lemon Drops...................................................13
. 60@65  Sour Dx-ops........................................................14
@18  Peppermint  Drops......................................... ]&
Chocolate Drops.............................................16
Gum  Dx-ops  .........................
..................10
@654 Licorice Drops.............
..................20
@654 A B   Licorice  Drops..................
.................. 12
Lozenges, plain............................ ..................)»
@8
@854 Lozenges,  printed....................... ..................16
Imperials..................................... ..................15
@8
@5 Mottoes......................................... .............  
1Ü
Cream  Bar.................................... ..................14
©  7%
Caramels........................................
Hand Made Creams.....................
Plain  Creams...............................
Decorated  Creams.......................
String Rock..................................
Burnt Almonds............................
Wintergx-een  Berries................
FANCY—IN   BULK.
Lozenges, plain in  pails.............
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...............
Lozenges, printed, in pails..........
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........
Chocolate Drops, in pails...........
Gum  Dx-ops  in pails....................
Gum Drops, in bbls.....................
Moss Drops, in  pails................ !.
Moss Drops, in bbls.....................
Sour Drops, in  pails................
Imperials, in  pails........
Imnerials  in bbls........
Bananas,  Aspinwall............................ .2 00@4 Ofl
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo!. ! !. !
@4 50
Oranges, California..................
Lemons,  choice.................................... 4 50@4 75
Lemons, fancy...........................!!*!!! .4 50@4 75
Figs,  layex-s new,  <¡9 ft................
@11
Dates, frails 
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®   4
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Dates, 54 do 
@  6
Dates, skin............................................
© 454
Dates, 54  skin......................................
@ 5
Dates, Fard 10 ft box 19  ft.................. .  854® 9
Dates, Fard 50 ft box <¡9 ft..................
@ 7
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 19 ft............... 6  @ 654
Pine Apples, 19  doz............................
.2 25@2 50
PEA NU TS.
Brime  Red,  raw  19  ft........................
454
Choice 
do  ........................
.  @ 5
Fancy 
do  ........................
.  554@  554
Choice White, Va.do  ........................
. 
5@ 554
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ........................
.6   @654
Almonds,  Terragona, 19 ft................
.  18@1854
do  .......  .......
Brazils, 
8@ 854
Pecons, 
do  .................. . 
9@12
do  ................
Filberts, Sicily 
• 1254@H
Walnuts, Grenobles  d o .................
,1254@15
Walnuts, Fx-ench 
“  ................
.1154 @1254

..15
,1254@13 
,1354@14 
■ 1254@13 
@13 
...7 5 4 @ 8  
654
.1054@1154
....... 
9
.......... 12
.13®  14 
@12

@1154 

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PROVISIONS.

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P O R K   IN   BA RRELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co.

DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  OR P L A IN .
..........9

quote  as follows:
A. Webster, packexv short  cut........ ..........12 50
Clear back, snort cut........................
........ 14 OO
Extra Family Clear............................ ..........12 50
Cleai’, A. Webster  packer................ ..........13 50
Standard Clear, the  best..................
........ 14 50
Exti’a Cleai-,  heavy............................ ..........13 75
Boston Clear.......................................
........ 13  75
654-
Short Clears, heavy............................
medium........................
654
light...............................
654
Long Clear Backs, 500 ft  cases........
7
Shox-t Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases........ .!! 
754
Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases........
754
Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases........
7%
Bellies, extx-a quality, 500 ft cases...
654
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases... 
0%
Bellies, extx-a quality, 200 ft cases...
Boneless  Hams................................
Boneless Shouldex-s............................ ...........   654
854
Breakfast  Bacon...............................
Dried Beef, extra quality................. ............11  ‘
Dried Beef, Ham pieces.................... ............1254
Shoulders cux-ed in sweet pickle__ ............5%
Tierces  ....................................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs.....................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases.....................
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks..................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..............................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case..............................
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts___
Boneless,  extra.......................................
SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.
Pork  Sausage..........
Ham  Sausage..........
Tongue  Sausage__
Frankfort  Sausage.
Blood  Sausage.
Bologna, straight............................................   654
Bologna,  thick.................................................   654
Head  Cheese....................................................   654
In half barrels...............................................   3 25-
In quarter barrels.........................................

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.......................  10
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LARD IN   TIN  P A IL S .

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

..10 25 
...14 50

P IG S ’  FEET.

LARD.

....35
...30

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

OYSTERS.

FR ESH   F IS H .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 
F. J. D. Selects...........................................
Standax-ds  .................................................
Mackinaw Tx-out.......................................
Whitefish  ..................................................
Black Bass.................................................
Run  Fish....................................................
Rock Bass..................................................
Perch  .........................................................
Duck Bill Pike...........................................
Wall-eyed  Pike.........................................
Smoked White Fish.................................
Smoked Tx-out............................................
Smoked Sturgeon......................................

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—About out of max-ket.
Asparagus—40@45e $  doz. bunches.
Beans—Choice picked are  dull at §1.35©$1.40 

Butter—Michigan creamery  is  in  moderate 
demand at 16c.  Daix-yis  slow  sale  atl256@14c 
for tubs and 12c for jars.

Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at 75c 

«¡3 bu.

$  doz.

Cheese—New stock  is  abundant at 8@9c for 

full cream.  Old stock is about  played out. 

Cider—About out of market.
Cucumbers—40@45c $  doz.
Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common- 

quarters, 4@456c.

Eggs—In moderate supply  at 13c.
Green Onions—20@25c $1 doz. bunches.
Green Beans—$1@$1.50  $   box, according to 

size.  Wax beans, $2@$2.75 $  box.

Gx-een Peas—$1.25 ^ bu.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm atl3@14c.. 
Hay—Bailed, $14@$15 <p ton.
Lettuce—15c $  ft.
Onions—Bermudas command $2.25 $  crate. 
Pieplant—2c 19  ft.
Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c ^ ft.
Potatoes—New potatoes are  quite  plentiful, 

at $3.50 $  bbl.

Poulti-y—Very scarce.  Fowls, 9@10c.  Chick­

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

Radishes—25@30c $  doz.  bunches.
Spinach—60c $  bu.
Stx-awberries—About $4.50 $  2 bu. cx-ate,  and' 

market falling.

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

Wheat—No change.  The  city millers pay a& 
follows:  Lancaster,  94;  Fulse,  92e;  Clawson, 
92c.

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

and 52c in carlots.
carlots.

Oats—White, 43c in small lots  and  3Sc@40  in 
Rye—56c ^ bu.
Barle5r—Brewers pay $1.25 19  cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $6.25 $  bbl. 
in  sacks  and $6.50 in wood.  Straight,  $5.25  19 
bbl. in sacks and $5.50 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.7519 bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  19 ton.  Bran, $14 
ton.  Middlings, $1619 ton- 

19 ton.  Ships, $15 
Corn and Oats, $22 $  ton.

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

L u th e r .,

There  is a  considerable  amount of building 
in progress at this place  this  summer,  among 
which are three brick  blocks  and  one  frame 
block, besides several frame residences.

J. C. Brown, proprietor of the Central House,
qqJ  will give up the hotel business  and  engage  in 

the saloon business.

The township board has  voted  $1,600  to  im­

prove the principal streets of the village.

Bought a Yard of Tape.
She stood beside the counter,
The day he’ll ne’er forget:
She thought the muslin dearer 
Than any she’d seen yet.
He  watched her dainty fingers 
The silks and satins toss;-
The shopman looked  uneasy 
And he felt a little cross.

“ Show me some velvet ribbon,
Barege and satin turc,”
She said :  “ I want to purchase ; ”
Then gave thç goods a jerk.
The shopman, all obedience.
Brought satins, silks and  crape;
At length, with hesitation,
She bought a yard of tape !
A   Co-operative Shoe Factory.

H o lto n .

June 13—A first-class dead-beat  has  left our 
town, and as it is understood that  he has  gone 
to Luther, it  would  be  well  to  put  the  mer­
chants  of  the  latter  place  “onto”  him.  His 
name is W. B. Cotter.  To hear  him  talk,  one 
would think him the man whom Diogenes was 
looking for, but  he  hasn’t  an  honest  hair in 
his head,  for he left town with  nearly  $200  in 
his pocket, most of which he  got by swindling 
honest men,  and  he  beat  every  merchant  in 
Holton.  Luther merchants, look out  for him!

B ig   R ap id s,

June 13—Victor Vollmer, who  was  formerly 
clerk for A. Vollmer, since traveling salesman 
for B.  J.  Johnson  &  Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  will 
soon open a grocery store at Reed City.  Mr. V. 
understands the grocery  business thoroughly, 
and is a straightforward young man.

Dr. J.  S.  Cutler  contemplates  removing  to 
Muskegon,  where  he  will  continue practice. 
His present office will be occupied by Dr. C. P. 
Bigelow, lately of Grand Rapids.

A. Vollmer has purchased the  stock  of gro­
ceries and store fixtures of John  Herrick,  and 
will  add  them  to  his  present  stock.  Mr. 
Herrick discontinues trade.

There  is  a  current report that a certain  ex­
tensive lumber firm operating- in  the  vicinity 
of Hungerford and Lumberton is  in  financial 
straits.

E lk   R ap id s.

June 12—The Elk Rapids Iron  Co.’s  furnace, 
after being shut down two months  for  exten­
sive repairs, will “blow in”  Monday,  June  15.
The  Bangor  Chemical  Co.’s  works  will  re­

sume about the same time.
L a n sin g,

T b a r b w a r e .

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.-...............5  75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne............. .  7  7o
IC, 20x26, choice  Charcoal Terne.................12 00
IX, 20x26, choice Charcoal  Terne...............16 90
Sisal, 14 In. and  larger..................................   714
Manilla.............................................................  «44
Steel and  Iron 
Try and Bevels 
Mitre  .............

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rates.

BARROW S.

T IN   PLA TES.

BU TTS,  CAST.

AUGERS AND B IT S.

t i :n n e k ’s   s o l d e i i.

6
644
13 00
15 00
10

13 00 
... net 30 00

........... d is
........ dis
........dis
........ dis

tipped........................................  

BRACES.
...........................................d i s  $
...........................................d is

6 50 
8 50 
6 50 
8 50 
6 50 
8 50 
10 50 
12 50 
14 50 
18 00 
6 50 
8 50 
10 50 
12 50 
Í5

...................dis  50&10
20
Com.

........................dis
.............................dis 
SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth 
..........................$ 4 20
4 20 
4 20 
4 20 
4 40 
4 60

Prevailing  rates at Chicago  are  as follows:
60 
Ives’, old  style......................................... d4s
60 
N. H. C. Co................................................<*îs
60 
Douglass’ ...................................................
60 
Pierces’ ....................................................
60
SneU’s ........................................................dis
.................. disáO&lO
Cook’s  .....................
..........dis 
25
Jennings’,  genuine................
..........dis40&10
Jennings’, imitation.............
BALANCES.
Spring........
Railroad 
Garden..

2 80 
2  80 
3 00 
3 00
U.    .............................................. 
All sheets No, J8 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

Nos. 10 to 14... 
Nos. 15 to  17... 
Nos. 18 to 21... 
Nos. 22 to 24... 
Nos .25 to 26... 
No.
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 ft>s, $   fi>.......................
In smaller quansi ties, $   ft».......................
60
Cow.....................
15 No.l,  Refined.......................................
Call.......................
20 Market  Half-and-half.........................
Gong................
55 Strictly  Half-and-half.........................
Door, Sargent...
Cards for Charcoals, $6 7c
40
Stove......................................................dis $
10x14, Charcoal.....................
IC, 
Carriage  new  list................................ dis
30&1C
10x14,Charcoal.....................
Plow  ......................................................dis
IX, 
75
12x12, Charcoal...............«...
IC, 
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis
50
12x12, Charcoal....................
IX, 
Cast Barrel  Bolts.................................dis
55
Wrought Barrel Bolts........... .............dis
14x20, Charcoal.....................
IC, 
50
14x20,  Charcoal.....................
IX, 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal.....................
Cast Square Spring............................. dis
60
Cast  Chain............................................dis
IXXX,  14x20, Chareool.....................
55&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal..................
55&10
Wrought Square................................. dis
20x28, Charcoal.....................
IX, 
30
Wrought Sunk Plush..........................dis
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal..................
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal..................
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal..................
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...............
Ives’  Door.............................................dis  50&10
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate addl 50  to 6 
40 
Barber.......
50 
Backus.......
50 
Spoft'ord—  
..  .d is  
net
Am. Ball....
___ d is
!  4 00 
Well, plain...................................................I
4 50
Well, swivel.................................................
60&10 
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
eo&io 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed.........dis
60&10 
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
50&10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
60 
Wrounht Loose  Pin............................ dis
60& 5 
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............dis
60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
60& 5 
dis
60 
Wrought Table...................................... dis
60 
Wrought Inside  Blind......................... dis
65&10 
Wrought Brass...................................... dis
70&10 
Blind. Clark’s ..............................  
dis
70&10
Blind, Parker’s...................................... dis
70
Blind,  Shepard’s...............................
.d is
r ro s s 15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x214, per 
ÏTGSS 18 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3— per 
per m $ 65 
Ely’s 1-10..............................................
60
Hick’s C. P.........................................
G. D......................................................
60
Musket................................................
CA TRIDG ES.
50
IW l i s t
50
Rim Fire, United  States..........
. . . d i s
. . . d i s •  %
Central Fire...............................
75
Socket Firmer............................
..d i s
75
Socket Framing.........................
.d is
75
Socket Corner............................
.d is
75
Socket Slicks.........................................dis
. .d is
40
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...
.d is
20
Barton’s Socket Firmers—
.d is
Cold.........................................
. . n e t
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s .......  .......
Hotchkiss  .............................
COCKS.
Brass, Racking’s..................
Bibb’s ....................................
B eer.......................................
Fenns’......................................
C O PPER .
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..
14x52,14x56,14 x60...............
D R IL LS
Morse’s Bit  Stock................
Taper and Straight Shank...
Morse’s Taper  So5nk...........
ELBOW S.
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 00
Corrugated............................................dis  20&10
Adjustable............................................ dis  46&10
20
dis
Claris, small, $18 00;  larg'O, $26 00.
25
dis
Ives’, I, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
60
American File Association List....... dis
60
Disston’s .............................................. dis
60
New  American.................................... dis
60
Nicholson’s........................................... dis
30
Heller’s ............................................... dis
3344
Heller’6 Horse Rasps........................ dis 
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
18
15 
List 

Steel,  Game......................................................
35 
Oneida Communt ity,  Newhouse’s ..........dis
60 
Oneida Communii y, Hawley & Norton’s—
60 
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................
60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s........
.. ,20c  doz 
Mouse,  choker...............................
Am.................................$1 26 $  doz
Mouse,
........ dis  60&1C
Bright  Market..........................
..........dis 
70
Annealed Market.....................
.........dis  55&10
Coppered Market..................
..............   dis  55
Extra Bailing............................
................ dis  40
Tinned  Market.........................
...............$  ib  09
Tinned  Broom..........................
...............^ a» 814
Tinned Mattress.......................
....dis 40@40&10
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........
Tinned Spring Steel..................
.....................d i s  3714
.............. $ fl> 314
Plain Fence...............................
Barbed  Fence.................
........new  list net
Copper............................
........new list net
Brai
........................................... dis  70&10
Bright 
Screw Eyes.............................................. dis  70&10
Hook’s .  ................................................ dis  70&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...........................dis  70&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled.
__ dis 50&10
Coe’s Genuine............. ..  ..........
65
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
70
Coe’s Patent,  malleable......................dis
70
Pumps,  Cistern.....................................dis
Screws, new  list.........................................  
  8?
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................disSO&lO
Dampers,  American................................. 
3314

buy from of any Jobbing  House  of  Michig 
Points in th is N ew Refrigerator.

GA LV ANIZED  IRO N .
14 

3346
25
50
50
40&10
60

.........d is
____ d is
.........d i s

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

W IR E  GOODS.

........$B>

CH IS ELS.

.d i s
.d is

F IL E S .

CAPS.

12 

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

13 
GAUGES.

W l’ENCHES.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

June 15—It occurs to me to-day that perhaps 
your readers—the druggists  especially—would 
like to know something  about  the  influences 
which were brought to bear on  the  Governor 
in relation to the appointment of the members 
of the Board of Pharmacy.  When the bill first 
passed, Governor Alger intended to give Grand 
Rapids a place on the Board, and so expressed 
himself to several citizens of  the  Valley City. 
Indeed, he went so far as  to  ask  Major A.  B. 
Watson, who is understood  to  have  been the 
Governor’s  right-hand  man  and  confidential 
adviser in Western Michigan, to look  over the 
field and send in the name of a suitable person 
for  appointment  to  the  Board.  The  Major 
We think our selection the most desirable  to  called  on  the  leading  druggists of your city,
stating the trust reposed in  him  by  the  Gov­
ernor, and inquiring as to  the  most  available 
man for the position.  All but Geo. G. Stoketee 
heartily recommended  Frank  W urzburg, and 
in  the  meantime  T h e  T r a d e s m a n   came  out 
with  an  article  nominating  the same gentle­
man,  and  the  Grand  Rapids Pharmaceutical 
Society  cordially  seconded  the  nomination. 
Acting on these expressions  of opinion, Major 
Watson sent in Mr. Wurzburg’s name,  expect­
ing  that  his  appointment  would  necessarily 
follow.  Instead, however, the Governor chose 
to slight Grand Rapids, and I  understand that 
Major  Watson  has  written  the  Governor  a 
sharp letter, stating  that he has not improved 
His prospects for a second term,  by  the  exer­
cise of duplicity, thus  placing  Mr.  Watson  in 
an  embarrassing  position  before  his  towns­
men.  Mr. Watson feels worse about  the  mat­
ter  than  Mr.  Wurzburg,  as the latter gentle­
man was made a candidate  without his knowl­
edge and all the work in  his  behalf  was  done 
by friends, without any  expressed  wish from 
him.
Mr. Wurzburg would probably have received 
the appointment, however, if it  had  not  been 
for Jacob Jesson, of  Muskegon,  who  entered 
the field early in the day,  and  was  backed  by 
Messrs. Moon, Wilson, Edwards and  Wells,  all 
of whom called upon the  Governor  in  his be­
half.  At  first, the Governor refused  to  listen 
to the entreaties of the  Muskegon  delegation, 
as he said he had already decided to give Grand 
Rapids a place on the Board, and he could  not 
give two places to your side of the State.  (And 
| yet he has given Detroit and Ann  Arbor each 
a  representative,  and  Muskegon  is  farther 
from Grand Rapids  than  Ann  Arbor  is  from 
Detroit—poor 
that!)  But  the  Mus­
kegon  people  put  their  demand  so  forcibly, 
and Jesson’s services to the  drug  trade  were 
so apparent, that the Governor yielded.

1.  ThelceBox j 
is removable.  If | 
desired  can  be i 
used as  a  vessel 
to  bring  the ice 
from outside.
2.  Ice Box and 
Shelves  remov­
ed, the entire  in­
side  is  exposed 
for cleansing.
four 
sides of Ice  Box
exposed  to 
[the  air,  answer- 
the  double 
^ p u r p o s e   o f  
throwing off cold 
and  C01lden8ing
the moisture, renderingthcairDRY and VERY 
COLD.
4.  O u r   P a t e n t   C o l d   B l a s t —t h e  s y s t e m   o t  
c i r c u l a t i o n   a n d   r o t a t i o n   o f   a i r —f o r c e s   a   c o n ­
s t a n t   s t r e a m   o f   ic e - c o ld  a i r  i n t o  t h e   p r o v i s i o n  
a p a r t m e n t .
5.  The simple construction of this Refriger­
ator reduces the cost for repairs to a minimum.

The IXL Remova­
ble Box Refiieralor. 
in  oae

TH E  LA BRA D O R. 

3.  The 

logic, 

lïl  S ite

This novel  con- 
»/struction,  entire­
ly  ly new  in  princi •
'  pie,  makes  it.ut- 
terly 
impossible 
for  condensation 
deposits to get be- j 
yond reach,there­
by  insuring  the 
possibility  of  al­
ways keeping the 
Refr i g e r a t o r  
clean  and  sweet. 
It  requires  less 
labor to make ma­
terial,  works  to 
better ad vantage, j 
a n d   is   c o n s e -  
\ -quently put upon 
V  the  market  at  a 

ss price.
Send for Circulars and Prices.

sii Foster,

Stevens 
&  Go.

10 and 12 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

The  Leading  Hardware  and  Housekeepers’  Em­

porium  of Western  Michigan.

Pittsburg turns out 85,000,000 bottles and 
vials  every  year,  besides  42,500,000  lamp 
chimneys,  many  of  which  are  exported  to 
Central  and  South  America  and  Cuba. 
There are twenty window glass  factories in 
Pittsburg,  with  276  pots,  making  838,400 
boxes,  at  $3  per  box.  The  glass  trade  is 
fairly active  in  all  branches.  Flint  glass 
works are everywhere running to full capac­
ity.

London soot is  collected  as  far  as possi­
ble and sold  for  fertilizing  purposes.  The 
cash value of  50,000  tons,  the  average  an­
nual “collection,” is $200,000.

I  am  told  by  one of the Governor’s friends 
that a position on the Board was offered  H. H. 
Stafford,  of  Marquette,  but  that  he declined 
the honor.  Frank  Wells,  who  worked  like 
I tiger  for  the  passage  of  the  bill,  could also 
have had a place if he  wanted  it,  but  he  also 
! declined.
In  a  general  way.  I  think that the present 
Legislature has effected more  wholesome  leg 
islation for the business men of the State than 
I  any other session in my  remembrance.
Some Objections to Success.

I From the Shoe and Leather Review.

The question of  female  commercial trav­
elers is again being agitated by those cranks 
who are trying  to  find  a  proper  sphere for 
woman  outside  of  the  home.  There  are 
very few lines of goods  which a woman can 
sell.  There  are  very  few  saleswomen  on 
the road,  and  veiV few of  these are in any 
way  successful.  From  the  very  nature of 
things,  how  can a  woman  be  a  successful 
drummer?  Can site  wear a white plug hat, 
and  a  long-tailed  checkered  ulster?  Can 
she swagger into a country hotel office,  slap 
the narrow-chested  clerk  on  the  back,  and 
say:  “Hello!  George,  can  you  give  me 
the first  stall  to-night?”  Can  she  smoke 
cigars and drink beer with the dealer?  Can 
she tell him,  without a pang, that  his  wife 
and daughter are the  handsomest  ladies  in 
town?  Can  she  miss  the  passenger  train 
for the next town,  and  then  take  her  grip­
sack in her teeth and  catch  a  freight train, 
going at the rate of ten miles an hour?  Can 
she enjoy herself in  a  town  of  300 inhabi­
tants,  all day Sunday,  with  the  rain  pour­
ing? 
If she can,  then she can be a success­
ful  drummer.

The article  printed  three  weeks  ago  en­
titled “The Gentle Craft” was original with 
the Boot and Shoe Recorder.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS

HAMMERS.

50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ........... dis
20
Maydole & Co.’s .................................. dis
25
Kip’s .................................................... dis
40
Yerkes&  Plumb’s.......................... . dis
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.................... .30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand .. 30 e 40&10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co. Wood track dis  50
Ghampion, anti-friction.....................dis 
60
Kidder, wood  track.............................dis 
40
60
__dis 
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3.......................
• doz, net, 2 50
State............................................pe
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.
4 ¡4  14
and  longer.................................
344
.......... 
1054
...net 
Screw Hook and Eye,  44  ............
... net 
844
Screw Hook and Eye %...............
...net 
7!4
Screw Hook and Eye  %...............
...net 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.............
__ dis 60&10
Strap and  T....................................
HOLLOW   W ARE.
60&10
Stamped Tin Ware.......................
Japanned Tin  Ware....................
20&10
Granite Iron  Ware.......................
Grub  1............................................
Grub  2............................................
Grub 3.............................................
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.........dis
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s....................d 
40
Hemacite............................................... dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list...dis  66%
Mallory, Wheeinr &  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 46&10
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s .........dis 40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................dis  <25
Adze  Eye......................................$18 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00dis40&f0
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

$11 00, dis 40 
.  11 50, dis 40 
.  12 00, dis 40
*2 70, dis 66% 
3 50, dis 66 %

mings......................................list,10  15, dis 66$

LOCKS—DOOR.

m a t t o c k s .

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HOES.

N A ILS.

Common. Bra  and Fencing.

244 

MAULS.

4d
144 
2 00

8d  6d
2

50
1 50 
3 00 
1  75

!  lOd 
$1 25  1  50  1  75 

lOdto  60d............................................f  kej
$d and 9 d adv..............................................
•Sd and 7d  adv..............................................
4d and 5d  adv..............................................
3d  advance...................................................
3d fine  advance...........................................
Clinch nails, adv.........................................
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
......dis 70
Stebbin’s Pattern  .............................
70
Stebbin’s Genuine..............................
......dis 25
Enterprise,  self-measuring.............
___dis 50
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..........
......dis 55
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent...............
__dis 50
Zinc, with brass bottom....................
......dis 40
Brass or  Copper.................................
Reaper..................................... 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, flrstquality.....................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood and 
Fry, Acme................................................dis 
50
Common, polished................................... dis60&10
Dripping............................................... $   A>  ®@7
Iron and Tinned..................................dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.....................dis  60&10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 1044 
**B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T FLA NISAED IR O N .

PLA NES.

O ILER S.

R IV ETS.

PA N S.

9

Broken packs 44c $  lb extra.

The Pharmacy Act and thfe Michigan State 

Pharmaceutical Association.

The Pharmacy bill  lias become  a  law  by 
the Governor approving the act  on  June 2.
The Board of Pharmacy has been appointed 
by the Governor,  and must meet  and organ­
ize  within  thirty  days  after  its  appoint­
ment.  The  Board,  of  course,  will  notify 
the druggists of the  State  when to  register 
and  also  send  the  necessary  blanks,  and 
j  such other information in  regard to  the act 
j as may be  necessary.  The  Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical Association is not the Board 
of Pharmacy,  as a great  many  seem  to be­
lieve,  judging  by  the  number  of  letters  I 
have received.  The  Association  lias  been 
instrumental in getting this act  passed,  and 
although great  efforts  were  made  by some 
members of the Legislature  to  kill  the  bill 
by  obnoxious  amendments,  they  failed  in 
their efforts to do so; and as  compared with 
other state acts of the same kind, ours is the 
best passed by any Legislature so far.

The  committee  on  the  Pharmacy  Bill, 
consisting of Geo. McDonald, of Kalamazoo,
H. J. Brown, of Ann Arbor,  F. M. Alsdorf, 
of Lansing, ably  supported  in  their  work 
by Frank Wells,  of Lansing,  and the officers 
and members of the Association; have  done 
a great work for the people of this State es­
pecially,  and the retail  druggists in particu­
lar,  as the act will make the  druggists more 
competent  to  perform  their  duties to the 
public. 
tain  amount  of  professional  standing  and 
virtually relieve them from jury duty.

It will also give theVlruggists a cer- |  * *  

From the Detroit News, 11th.

a 

shoe 

co-operative 

Since Pingree  &  Smith  announced  their 
intention to make no compromise with their 
striking shoemakers,  the  latter  have  been 
devising 
factory 
which  would  give  them  employment  and 
also prove a sore opposition to their  former 
employers.  About  200  shoemakers  and 
Knights of Labor assembled last night at 218 
Randolph street and perfected the organiza­
tion of a company to be  known  as  the  De­
troit  co-operative  boot  and  shoe  factory. 
The capital  stock  is  fixed  at  $50,000,  of 
which  $4,000  has  been  subscribed.  The 
stockholders  are  mainly  shoemakers  and 
Knights  of  Labor,  who  are  restricted  to j 
holding 100 shares, unless  the  factory’s re­
quirements  demand  a  larger  limit.  The 
company  elected  Jolm  Strigel,  Hibbard 
Baker,  John  Devlin,  Thomas  M.  Dolan, 
Joseph E.  Hoekaday,  Anthony  Renaud and 
James  Sharp  Directors;  James  Robinson 
secretary,  and  Thomas  McCall  treasurer. 
The factory will be similar to  those recently 
formed  by strikers  in  the  East, 
are issued to  the  labor  unions 
the State  requesting  working 
only co-operative made goods, 
a demand without the necessity 
ing traveling salesmen. 
It 
the  factory will  be  numin 
weeks. 

^

“ A  Rakish  Lad.”

From the Chicago Herald.

A middle-aged,  enterprising-looking  pas­
senger said he was a lawyer in  a Wisconsin 
town,  and  the  handsome,  dashing  young- 
man who flirted  with  a  pretty  girl  in  the 
front end of the car was his son. 
“Is your 
son a lawyer,  too?” 
“No ; lie never comes 
near the  office.  Doesn’t  know  any  law. 
But lie is  a  great  help  to  me, 
though.” 
“Assists you in court, then ; or  in  hunting 
up witnesses,  or  taking  depositions,  does 
he?” 
“No,  he  doesn’t.  The fact is,  lie 
won’t  work  at  anything.  He is a gentle­
man of leisure, lie is,  and does  nothing  but 
wear  fine  clothes  and  have  a  good  time. 
Don’t know how I could get  along  without 
that boy.”  “Ah?” 
“Guess you don’t  un­
derstand me.  That  boy  is always flirting 
with  women,  and  prefers  married  ones. 
He's a rakish lad,  you know,  and  lias  been 
the cause of seven divorce suits  in  the  last 
Six  of ’em are in my hands,  on one 
year. 
side  or  the other. 
If the boy does as well 
this year, I’ve  promised  to  take  him  into 
partnership.”

The  act  will  prevent  incompetent  men 
Circulars I who cannot settle in other states  from coin- 
throughont  b ig here and crowding an already over-crowd* 
men  to buy  ed business.  The bill  had  the earnest sup- 
This creates > port of the Committees on Public  Health in 
of  employ- ! both  houses,  also  of  Senators  Hueston, 
expected that  Moon,  Smith  and  Carveth,  Representatives 
within  three  Wilson,  Collins,  Ford,  Short and many oth­
ers.  Senator  Smith  made  the  remark  in 
my hearing that “if the bill would  legislate 
his own  father  out  of  business  he  would 
vote  for  it,  because  it  was  right.”  When 
the bill passed the Senate,  seventeen  mem­
bers voted for it,  or  just  enough to pass it, 
and only two voted against it.  The balance 
of the Senators  were  either  absent  or  had 
urgent business in the cloak room.

The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso­
ciation desires to have  every druggist in the 
State,  whether  in  business  for  himself  or 
engaged by another,  a member of  the Asso­
ciation.  The  Association  has yet  a great 
work on its hands—that  of acting as guard­
ian to the Pharmacy act—watching the Leg­
islature in  future  years,  so  that  obnoxious 
legislation may be averted, and it is only by 
united and determined action that  anything 
can be accomplished.  Therefore unite with 
us in  membership.  Fifty  new applications 
have been received  since  our  last  meeting.
The necessary blanks and such  other  infor­
mation as you may  need  will  be  furnished 
by the Secretary upon application.

Secretary Michigan State  Pharmaceutical 

J acob  Jesson,

Association,

Muskegon, Mich.

A  Strange,  Weird  Story,  Hard  to  Believe. 
From the Evansville  Argus.

The  Production of Manganese  Copper.
With the  object  of  producing manganese 
opper in a readier  and  less  expensive way 
“Grip”  comes  to  us  this  week  with  a 
than at present, pure  copper  is  melted in a 
It tells of a traveling 
strange,  weird story. 
crucible  with ferro-manganese  containing a 
man who was fleeing from  the  cholera. 
It 
large  percentage  of  manganese,  and in  the 
caught him just before he got to a cosy •cot­
presence of silicium.  When pouring out in­
tage, in  which lived a  beautiful  and  robust 
to  ordinary  molds, the  manganese  will  be 
girl. Her parents were away and the neighbors 
found to  have  combined  with  the  copper, 
were all sick,  but when she found  the trav­
and  the  silicium  with  the  iron,  the  latter 
eler in a  dead  faint  at  the  door,  she  took 
forming a layer upon the manganese copper. 
him in, put him to bed and nursed him.  He 
The greater the amount of the silicium pres­
grew rapidly worse,  and at  the  end of  the 
ent  the  more  perfect  is  the  separation, 
second day had  given  up  all  hope.  That 
though  even  so  small  a  quantity  as 1 per 
night a fearful storm came up and  blew  off 
cent, of silicium as compared with the man­
the roof of liis room,  and  a  drenching  rain
ganese present suffices for the desired effect.
In some cases the ferro-manganese contains  poured on him for two hours.  After it was 
in  itself  sufficient  quantity  of  silicium  to  over the girl came in,  and  then  to  save  his 
produce the necessary reaction upon the iron  life, 
took  him  in  her  arms  to  her  own
ie  free to  combine I  room,  put him in  her  bed,  and  then  got in 
so as to set the  mangan© 
and held  him  for  live  hours  close  to  her 
with the copper.
warm body and saved him.

One  of the  Best.

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From the Hastings Banner.

Among the marriage notices  in  an oil re-

The  Michigan  Tradesman,  published 
at Grand Rapids,  if  one  of  the  best of  our 
exchanges. 

It is a beautiful story,  one of  the best we 
ever read,  and we only  wish  we  coidd  be­
lieve it.  The hero of the story  married the 
girl; that was right. 
If  lie  hadn’t  married 
her we never would  have  forgiven  him  on 
earth.  Still,  we  can’t  exactly  swallow  it,
gioii paper is that of  Walter  H.  Gunn and  for her room was next to liis, and how could
liis roof blow off  and  hers  still  be  left  in­
Miss Maria  Kannon.  This  mixture  of  ar­
tact?  Wonder if lie only dreamt he had the 
tillery will probably start a regular fusillade 
cholera;  or  maybe  he  dreamed the  whole 
of puns  about  “sons  of  Gunns,”  and  that 
thing.  Anyhow,  if it was a  dream,  it  was 
sort of tiling.  We may prepare  to hear the 
a good one. 
If lie was a married  man  and 
newspaper wit remark how  Cupid has spik­
the baby crawled down and  laid  up  aginst 
ed  a  Kannon,  and  how  the  brave  Maria 
the pit  of  liis  stomach,  we  don’t  wonder 
stands  by  her  Gunn,  and  how  Gunn  has 
that lie dreamt  that  the  girl  held him  five 
gone off with  Maria,  and  how  Maria  may 
hours.  Most men would  dream  that  a red 
bust her gun before the ice  cream  season is 
hot grindstone had fallen across them.  W e 
over,  and how Walter’s Kannon uses a heap 
don’t know what to make of this affair,  and 
of powder,  and how her old Gunn’s a smooth 
the more we think of it the harder it grows.
“bore,” and how a new lot of Gunn carriages 
will  lie  in  demand,  and  how  Gunn  comes 
There are only 208  distinct  characters in 
home from the parade loaded  to  the muzzle 
and shoots off liis mouth,  and how liis Kan­
non kicks and throws canister,  and how she 
fires her  Gunn,  and  how  her  bawl  breaks 
him  up,  and  how  the  unlimbered  Gunn 
makes  a  startling  report  of  it, and  how— 
well,  the paragraph will  go  booming  along 
indefinitely in style,  as sure as a gun’s iron. 
—Funny Oil Region Paper.

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for  immediate  delivery.

I asked for a law to prevent wimmin from 
drinking strong tea,  to  the  manifest  injury 
5 of themselves and the human race.

Miss Sister Spilltins wanted  a  law to pro- 
! hibit widows  from  getting, married  again, 
as there was only one man for each  woman 
any how.

There was  other  resolutions  offered,  but 
these are the  principal  ones.  W e  referred 
I them all  to the committy of the hole,  which 
sets at the next meeting,  and when  the res- 
! olutions  come  up  for  the  action  of  that 
august body, you  bet the fir will fly.

We believe in liberty and human  rights—  
that is,  that folks shall  have  the  liberty to 
do  as we think  they  ought  to  do,  and  the 
right to think as we do.

I don’t suppose you  have  any  such folks 
and  societies in  your city,  Mr.  Editor.  No, 
they exist only in small  places.  You don’t 
have any wimmen folks  in  your  city  that 
spend  their  time  attending  to  every  one’s 
bizness except their own.  No,  you  do not, 
I kno,  and right thar is where  you  get left 
by  not 
little  place  like 
Cant Hook  Comers.

living  in  a  nice 

Yours for organization and regulation, 

Soliiian Snooks,

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

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

Mr. Bilson Discourses on  Certain  Abuses.
Cant Hook Cokners, June 12,1885. 

E d ito r o f T h e  T r a d e s m a n :

Well,  the  excitement  over  my  encounter 
with Snooks has  pretty  much  all  died  out, 
and the townfolks  who  gather  in  my  store 
evenings  have  begun  talking  about  other 
matters.  One  of  the  principle  subjects  of 
lately 
of conversation  is  the  new  society 
started here for the regulation of abuses. 
I 
supposed that  the  people  of  Grand  Rapids 
are considerably  annoyed  by  the  Salvation 
A r m y   and  the  numerous  street  peddlers 
whom  your  weak-kneed  mayor  allows  to 
perambulate  your  thoroughfares,  but  they 
are nothing compared to the numerous nuis­
ances  which  exist in  a small town  like  the 
Corners.  One  of the worst  features  of  vil­
lage  life  is  the  gossiping  tendency  of  old 
women  who  seem  to  delight  in  expanding 
a mole  hill  into  a  mountain,  thus  keeping 
the community in a  continual  uproar.  An­
other  evil  is  the  local  jealousy  which  pre­
vents  one  person  from  dressing  better  or 
living in  a  better house than another,  with­
out  exciting  comment.  One  side  of  the 
town is jealous of the  other  side,  and soon. 
I  sometimes  think  that the cities attract all 
the men  and  women  of brains,  and that the 
small  places catch  all the  inferior  order  of 
beings.  Perhaps  this  statement  is  too  in­
clusive— I  should  dislike  to  believe  that  I 
belonged to the inferior  class, 
in  fact— but 
the  men  who  build  cities  and  accumulate 
great fortunes are certainly superior  to  the 
average villager,

I see that the traveling men  are  going  to 
march  in  the  procession  on  the  Fourth  at 
your place. 
I  expect to be  in  Grand Rapids 
at that time,  and shall enjoy  nothing  better 
than seeing the  familiar  faces  of  the  jolly 
boys  who  have  visited  me  with  greater  or 
less regularity during the past  dozen  years. 
If the  committee  would  allow  it,  I  should 
like to walk with the boys,  carrying  a  cant 
hook,  indicating the town  in  which  I  have 
the honor to reside.

Yours truly,

P h i l a n d e r   B i l s o n .

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Mister Editer of Traidesman.

My law case is still pending.  We got  an 
adjournment of one week to allow time  for 
defense to procure witnesses and file  an  af­
fidavit for change of venue.

There is not much other excitement going 
on at the Corners except the organizing of a 
new society here which is  called  the  “ Uni­
versal Regulating Society.”  The association 
has  a  great  work  to  perform  and  an  im- 
mence field.  The object of it is jo  get laws 
passed by our legislators  to  regulate every­
body according to our  ideas  of  what  they 
ought to do.  Wimmen,  especially, need reg- 
ulatin,  and they have been neglected in that 
respect too long along already,  as  I told  Sis­
ter Biglow  yesterday,  when  she came in  to 
get a bottle  of  morphine,  a half  pound  of 
tea and some Macaboy snuff.  She was going 
next  day  to  tend  a  meeting  of  wimmin 
which  she  belongs  to,  she  said,  and  that 
they also had a big work to perform.

Said she:  “ Bro.  Snooks,  you would hard­
ly believe it,  but only last week  a high-ton­
ed,  well-dressed man,  which we think was a 
a drummer  from  Detroit,  went  into  A.  T. 
Quartzes drug  store  and  had  some  brandy 
mixed up  with  some  peppermint  and  lod- 
num and  actually  took it  right  thar.  Did 
you ever see such bare-faced  work?”

“ No,  I am  dumed  if  I  ever  did,  Sister 
Biglow,”  says  I. 
“ But  there  is  a  saloon 
right  there  near  that  drug  store.  Why 
dident the drummer go there for his drink?”
“ Oh,  that is plain to see.  He was one of 
these high-toned fellers;  said he  never went 
into  saloons; claimed  he  had  a  pain  in  his 
stommie,  and all  that.  We found it all out, 
too,  I tell you.  We had a spy in  there that 
saw the whole affair.”

“ It is awful!”  says I. 

“ Now,  how  much 
better it wood  be,  Sister  Biglow,  to  have a 
law to make that chap go to a saloon.  The 
beauty of it  is,  that in such  a case he would 
probably  meet  some  of  his  friends  or  ac­
quaintances in thar  and  have  to  treat ’em, 
and then they wood treat,  so the result wood 
be that instead of this drummer leaving only 
a  little  miserable  ten  cents  in  town,  he 
would be the  means  of  about  two  dollars 
trade.  Do you see it?”

“ Sartingly,  Bro.  Snooks,  what a head  you 
have got.  We have never once  looked at it 
from that standpoint. 
I must  make a  note 
of  that  and  mention  it  to  our  Union,  as 
showing the damage to  trade  by  druggists 
selling liquor.”

“ Well,  is there anything more in my line, 

Sister Biglow?”

“ Oh,  yes;  I have Walked so far this morn­
ing,  that I have a terrible  pain  in  my side. 
I guess you may fix me up  a dose of valerian 
and lodnum,  Bro.  Snooks; and you may put 
in  about an  ounce  of  alkahol,  too,  just  to 
warm it up— dont put in any kind of  intox- 
cating likers,  tho;  I  never  tech  them on no 
account.”

I did not tell the  good  woman  that  the 
dose  I  fixed  contained  more  strength  than 
any two drinks of  brandy,  to  say nothin  of 
fuzil oil  enough  to  kill  a  cat.  For  what 
would be the  use  of  hurting  my  trade  by 
driving away a good customer?

But I was going to tell  you  about our so­
ciety.  After we was duly organized, we be­
gan to get up our platform  and  the  trouble 
eommensed  to begin.  You see,  Mr.  Editor, 
every one of us wanted to  regulate the  oth­
ers,  and  not to be regulated ourselves.

Sister Hobson made  a  motion  that  men 
shood be prohibited from smoking and chew­
ing tobaco.

Then Bro.  Wilkins  moved  that  a  board
shood be appinted by the  State  to  see  that 
wimmin  shood not wear corsets except when 
ordered by a  (male)  physician.

Doctor Trotter wanted a plank intrrduced 

as follows:
Whereas—In  the  opinion  of  a  large 
number of Homopathic physicians and many 
other people,  drugs  and medicines  are  del­
eterious to the human  race;  therefore  be it
Resolved—That the  use  and  sale  of  all 
kinds  of  medicines  be  prohibited,  except 
sugar pellets and Homopathic  attenuations.
Bro.  Isaac Goldstein  moved that  a plank 
be inserted to prohibit the use  of  pork  and 
lard.

Bro.  Dr.  Kobb  moved  the  adoption  of  a 
plank  to  prohibit  people  from  dectoring 
themselves; or  emploping  anyone  except a  j 
regular Alopathic doctor.

Bro.  Simon Stokes  wanted  a law  to pro­
hibit any one from  digging  post  holes,  ex­
cept he  or  she  was  a  regular  professional 
post hole digger.

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

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MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

CHOICE  SMOKED  MEATS  A  SPECIALTY.

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

SAW  AWB CRIST MILL MACH EVERY,

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

Saws, Belding and Oils.

W rite  for  P r ic e s. 

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

F.  F.  A D A M S   «Sc  O O.’S

Fine Cut Clewing Tobacco is tie very lesi lark pols on tie Market.

DARK  AROMATIC
Eaton & C M stm i, Aits.,

Q-randL Rapids,

Mieli,

