Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  29,  1885.

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.

McALPIN’S

Is  the  most  Delicious  Chew  on  the 

Market.

SOLD  BY ALL JOBBERS.

Many a Good Business Man

OR

Hardworking Traveling Mai

IS  KEPT  BACK BY" A 

Sickly Wife or Ailing Daughters.

To  such  men  the  book  on  “Woman’s  Na- 
ture” published by the Zoa-phora Medicine Co. 
would be invaluable.

Price only 10c to cover postage.
Address

Zoa-phora Medicine Co., Kalamazoo, M 

Mention this paper.

GROCERY  STOCK  FOR  SALE!

The stock of Groceries, etc.,  at  28  South Di­
vision St., this city, formerly owned by  Went­
worth  &  Cannon,  with  fixtures  and lease  of 
store.  Enquire of

R.  W .  BUTTERFIELD,

23 Monroe st., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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MICH.
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Unquestionably the best in the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond 
Try a box.
J o l i n   CauilfioldL,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.
CIDER
.VINEGAR!

Warranted to Keep Pickles.

Celebrated for its PURITY, STRENGTH 
and  FLAVOR.  The  superiority  of  this 
article is such  that  Grocers  who  handle  it 
find their sales of Vinegar increased.  Needs 
but a trial to insure  its  use  in  any  house­
hold.  PREMIUM  VINEGAR  WORKS, 
290  FIFTH   AV.,  CHICAGO.

Premium Vinegar can always be found at M 

C. Russell’s, 48 Ottawa street.

SH ERW OO D  H A LL.

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ESTABLISHED  186t

JOBBERS  OF

OF  EVERY  DESCRIPTION.

We  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  fit,  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 
Castor Steel Shoes;  Wagon and Plow Clevises 
Wrought Whiflletree Irons; and all  goods per­
taining to a Wagon, Cart,  Buggy,  Carriage  or 
Sleigh.
GENUINE  FRAZIER’S  AXLE  GREASE  in 
wood boxes, 25 H> 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  write  for prices, as we keep  a 
line of goods not found elsewhere.

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

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AWNINGS,  TENTS,

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

State Agents for the 

W atertown  Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

73  Canal  Street, 

-  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

LONG  CREDIT  CUSTOMERS.

A  Grocer  Complains  About  Ledger  Ac­

counts.

From the New England  Grocer.

“Times are hard,” said a grocer Saturday. 
“Nobody not  in  the  business  can imagine 
how we suffer from the carelessness of  peo­
ple—especially well-to-do people—in regard 
to» their  bills.  And  the  worst  of  it is we 
can’t dun them,  even  though  we may be in 
great difficulty trying to raise enough money 
to pay for  the  goods  we  furnished  them. 
There are plenty of  men  in  this  city  who 
could retire  on a  competency  if  their  ac­
counts were all  closed  up,  but  who  have 
hard work  to  get  enough  ready money to 
keep out  of  debt.  The  trouble is  that we 
do a cash business—or nearly so—in buying, 
and very largely a credit business in selling. 
The poor are generally cash  customers,  be­
cause  they have  to  be.  We  send  out  our 
bills regularly  twice  a  year,  but  as a rule 
this is looked  upon  as  a  mere  matter  of 
form.  Many of  our  rich  customers pay no 
attention to the matter  and  the  number  of 
persons who do not square up their accounts 
at regular intervals is surprisingly large. 
It 
never seems to  enter  the minds of  the rich 
men that we need money,  and  so  they pay 
just when they  happen  to  think  of it. 
If 
we should send appeals  for  "money  due us 
in any other way than by the regular formal 
bills,  we  should  lose  our  customers  by 
wholesale.  Somehow they will not  believe 
that we need cash,  hut would think that we 
doubted their solvency or their  honesty and 
would resent  it.  Here  is  a  man,”  contin­
ued the grocer  opening  his  ledger,  “whose 
table I have supplied in a luxurious manner 
for over a year  since  he  has  paid  me any­
thing.  He is a liberal  customer  and I can­
not afford to lose him. 
I have just received 
word from  him  that  he  is  going  with his 
family to Europe  for a year,  and  a request 
that I supply his  servants  in  his  absence. 
Of couse I shall do so,  and I  shall  not  ask 
him  for  money  before  lie  starts  either. 
These  long  delays  in  making  payments 
cause many a business  man to fail.  We do 
not give credit  unless  we  know  our  men, 
but many rich  men  fail and then we suffer. 
Of course  new  men  starting  in  business, 
and anxious  to  make  as  many  friends as 
possible,  give credit promiscuously and care­
lessly  and  lose  more  or  less;  and  unless 
they  have  capital  enough  behind  to  keep 
them up until a business is  established,  are 
pretty sure  to  fail.  We  old  stayers,  how­
ever,  generally do a pretty safe business and 
have nothing to complain of except  the tar­
diness with  which  our  rich  customers pay 
their  bills.  Probably  they  think  we  are 
rich,  and  perhaps  if  they  didn’t  think  so 
they  wouldn’t  trade  with  us.  There  is  a 
record in the hands of nearly all the  butch­
ers and grocers in the city,  and .perhaps  af 
other dealers and  tradesmen,  in  which the 
names of all householders are entered,  with 
the reputation of  each  for  promptness  in 
paying  bills. 
It is  something like  records 
of merchants and manufacturers kept by the 
mercantile  agencies,  but  in  this  retailers’ 
record  standing is  not  based  upon  wealth 
or the ability  of a creditor  to  cover by pro­
cess of law,  and often a mechanic earning a 
small salary is rated far  above  his  wealthy 
employer.  *

“ Merchants Day.”

From the New England Grocer.

“Here is an idea  to  boom,”  said a prom­
inent  avenue  merchant  to  a  Washington 
Star reporter,  as  he  persuasively  waved  a 
paper covered  with  signatures  and  invited 
him to come into his office while he explain­
ed.  “Now,  what I want  to  do  is to estab­
lish a general  holiday  in  this  city,  to  be 
known as.‘Merchants’  Day.  The  holidays 
of the business men of this city are few and 
far between,  not  that  the  merchants  want 
to over-work their employees,  but in justice 
to their customers it is seldom that they can 
close  their  establishments  entirely  during 
the regularly  ordained holidays.  This is es­
pecially true  of  the  grocery  and  provision 
business.  So,  in view of this, I have drawn 
up this paper  for  signature. 
It  sets  forth 
that,  recognizing  the  faithful  services  of 
their employees,  the signers agree to entire­
ly close their  business  houses  on  Wednes­
day August 18,  in order to give them a well 
earned holiday,  and that they will also close 
on the third Wednesday in August,  in  each 
succeeding year,  the holiday to be known as 
‘Merchants  Day.’”

The idea outlined above is a good one, but 
in Boston  the grocers  have  already  antici­
pated it and set  apart  a  certain  day  each 
year  for  Grocers’  Day.  They  believe  in 
this  holiday,  because it  brings the trade to­
gether in friendly  union;  because  they be­
lieve more good  work  can  be  got out of  a 
human being who  has  a  fair  allowance of 
diversion than from one  who  goes  without 
it.  The  simile  of  the  bow, which  being 
kept always strung,  looses its elasticity,  and 
consequently its force,  is  precisely  applica­
ble.

The general  testimony  of  observant  for­
eigners is that our people look over strained, 
liarrassed and  prematurely old.  This is es­
sentially the case in our great  cities.  That 
the capacity  for good  work  is  impaired by 
incessant work is an axiom that  pertains to 
no particular  country.

Another  practical  aspect  of  the  holiday 
and  early  closing  movement  is  obvious. 
Broadly speaking,  so much  will  be  bought 
and sold,  and no more.  All places of  busi­
ness,  in our hot season,  have their  hours of 
dullness.  Brisk  trade  for  six  hours  may 
have even other economical advantages over 
dull trade for twelve.  But that  the  saving 
of human toil and spirits must be large when 
the business is done  in  the  shorter  time is 
plain.  In tropical  countries shops are com­
monly shut during the  warm  hours  of  the 
day.  The half holiday there is taken in the 
middle instead  of  at  the  end.  But the re­
laxation  is  gained;  and  experience  has 
not shown that the limit of attainable  trade 
is curtailed in  consequence. 
It  is  conceiv­
able that it may rather  be  increased  by the 
system.  For  buyers  get  languid  in  hot 
weather as  well  as  sellers,  and  languor is 
certainly no  spur  for  brisk  trade.  Apart 
from that remains the  fact,  long  generally 
conceded,  that in the United States we have 
not  holidays  enough. 
In  other  countries, 
even in stirring England,  holidays are twice 
or thrice the number of  our own.

The New Brand was Bad.

From Peck’s Sun.

A  couple  of  Chicago  drummers  stopped 
at a western hotel  lately,  and  before  retir­
ing  found  several  large,  queerly-sliaped 
bottles in  the  bureau  drawer.  They  were 
labeled Hand Grenade.  “Now this is what 
I call  a  bonanza,”  said  one  of  the  boys; 
“the landlord of this  house  knows  how to 
keep a hotel.”  After  considerable  trouble 
they removed  the  fastenings,  elevated  the 
bottles toward the zenith,  a gurgling  sound 
ensued,  followed by  a  vigorous  expectora­
tion  and  more  or  less profanity.  “Well,” 
said the first one  to  get  his  breath,  “I’ve 
drank Jersey  lightning, Texas  tangle-foot, 
Colorado  forty-rod,  Missouri  rotgut,  and 
nearly all varieties of slow  poison,  but this 
Hand Grenade brand  gets away with  them 
all.  How does it strike you?”  “Those are 
my  sentiments  exactly,”  was  the  reply. 
“It can’t be liquor  at  all.”  Then  they ex­
amined the label more  carefully and  found 
the  words  “Fire  Extinguisher”  in  small 
letters under the Hand Grenade.  “We  are 
poisoned,  sure, this  time,”  said  No.  One. 
“You sencUfor  a  doctor  while  I  make my 
will.”  The doctor came and administered a 
remedy which  soon  took  the  taste  out of 
their mouths,  and  assured  them  that  they 
had  not  taken  enough  to  endanger  their 
lives,  when they all went  down  to  the bar­
room and  imbibed  some  “Drummer’s  De­
light.”

The  Business  Girl.

From the New Orleans Times-Demoerat.

Our American social  system  has  evolved 
in natural sequence a  type of girl  who may 
be styled the business  girl. 
It  is not  to be 
supposed,  however,  that  she  is  engaged  in 
commercial pursuits,  but,  nevertheless,  she 
has been educated in a knowledge of values 
as  applied  to  herself.  There  is  no  more 
danger of her  making  a purely sentimental 
match than  there  is  a probability  that  her 
highly  respected  father  will  lend  money 
without  security  or  go  a  security  debt. 
When she is put  in  the  show  window  of 
Vanity  Fair  as  a  debutante  (very  choice) 
from that moment  she never  loses sight of 
her price, which is always an establishment 
with a handsome income.  Matrimony which 
will involve any sacrifice  is  not  considered 
for a moment as possible.  A small  income 
or the beginning  of  a  domestic  life on the 
same basis her  parents  did  is  regarded as 
simply  idiotic.  Hence  society  is  loaded 
down with  maidens  past  their  prime  wrho 
have refilled to be marked down, or to go at 
a sacrifice.  They  will  not  be  slaughtered 
like dry goods,  preferring to  become mum­
mies, or  like  fruit,  decay  rather  than  not 
fetch their price.

No More Fees to Sleeping Car Porters. 

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

“Facts,  I’ll fill your paper with facts.  I’ll 
give you facts enough  to  knock  you silly.”

“Let ’em go.”
“Well,  say. 

I’m a traveling man.  Com­
mercial tourist.  Drummer.  We have  two 
or three associations. 
I belong  to  ’em  all. 
We  number  150, OOo  and  we’re  kicking. 
Kicking about  sleeping  car  porters.  Wait 
till you see what we will  do  about it at our 
next meeting.  We’re  going  to  resolve not 
to pay ’em  a cent.  Now,  look  here.  Out 
of our 150,000, two-thirds of us,  or  100,000, 
travel 200 nights in the year.  Ain’t that so? 
Well, there are 100,000 on the road to-night. 
They’ll give the porter a quarter each; that’s 
§25,000  a  night;  2Q0  nights,  35,000,000  a 
year.  The  sleeping  car  companies  have 
figuted  on  this,  and  only  pay  the  porters 
315 a month.  They’re  fly,  and,  mind  you, 
this doesn’t  count  in  other  travelers.  Put 
that in,  will you?  Say,  where  did you get 
that five-cent torch,  anyhow?  Here,  take a 
good one. 
I’ve got a box of ’em charged up 
as allowance on damaged freight.”

Worth,  the  celebrated  milliner, of Paris, 
has issued a black list  for  use  and  circula­
tion among the trade, of  ladies  who  order 
dresses they can not  afford  and  never  pay 
for them,  of those who never pay until com­
pelled by law,  and of others who  never pay 
at all.  An  excellent  -plan  if  “the  trade” 
would only refuse to give credit to such per­
sons.

Hanging Hides Too Close  Together.
F. B.  Wallin,  Grand  Rapids’ well-known 
tanner,  writes  the  Shoe  and  Leather  Re­
view as  follows  regarding  a  mistake  fre­
quently met with  in his business:

I wish to say  a  word  through  your  col­
umns to the butchers of  the  West  who dry 
their hides. 
I have  to  commend  them for 
the increasing care which they are giving to 
the handling of hides,  but want  to  mention 
one serious mistake they are making.

I  find  in  working  dry  hides  that  the 
smooth, flat,  well-handled  hides  are likely 
to be tainted,  and,  by frequent  examination 
of them in  every  stage  of  the  working,  I 
conclude  that  it  all  comes  from  hanging 
them  too  close  together  in  drying.  The 
taint is more often found in  the  heads  and 
shanks, which are allowed to drop down on 
either side and then roll-up so that a portion 
of the surface does not come in contact with 
the air.  Then a worse effect follows.  This 
roll fills the space  between  poles  and  pre­
vents the circulation of the  air  between the 
hides.  The heaviest part of the hide through 
the kidney and butt,  is the next place which 
shows taint.  Frequently,  when  a  hide  is 
soaked up, the  thin  outer  grain  will peel 
off these parts, while the lighter portions of 
the hide are entirely  sound,  showing that a 
heating and sweating process  had  been en­
gendered  by lack  of  air. 
I  have  noticed 
that  a  fence  dried  hide  may  be  weather 
beaten till the life is all  out  of  it,  or  sun­
burned and moth-eaten till about worthless, 
but the grain is sound,  i.  e.—does not show 
taint. 
In drying this way  nothing  hinders 
a free circulation of air on all  sides.  Now, 
if you  will  dry  your  hides  under  a  light 
shade,  and straighten out the heads and give 
plenty of room for the air  to  circulate,  you 
can rely on  your  dry  atmosphere  to  thor­
oughly cure the hide,  but  it  cannot do the 
work if excluded from contact with the sur­
face.

Again,  we find many winter  cured  hides 
"damaged by being piled or baled while damp.
I have often handled hides that were hot and 
covered with  green  mold  from  this  cause. 
Such hides are sure to  work, more  or  less, 
damaged.

If a tanner knew that a  lot  of  hides  had 
been handled on the plan outlined  above he 
would cheerfully pay a better price for them. 
Every hide can be so dried that it will work 
sound; in fact, thirty to fifty per cent, of our 
Western . dry  hides  from  Colorado,  New 
Mexico,  Indian Territory,  etc.,  are damaged 
by poor handling.  The tanner never knows 
what lie is buying,  and frequently buys at a 
loss  in  spite  of  his  most  careful  efforts. 
Will you correct these serious evils?

Where the Brick House Comes In.

A citizen who had an  idea  that he would 
like to run a grocery,  but was afraid  of  be­
ing stuck if he bought out  a  place  on  the 
word  of  its  owner,  says  the  Detroit  Free 
Press,  was  given  permission  to  put  in  a 
couple  of  days  around  a  Michigan avenue 
store and make such  personal  observations 
as he could.  At the end of the  second day 
the grocer said to him:

“Well,  are you satisfied that I am doing a 

rushing business.”

“Not exactly.  The  sales  foot  up  only 
about 850 per day.  The profits  on that fig­
ure can’t be over 85.  That  wouldn’t  leave 
much after paying expenses.”

“My dear sir,  we don’t* look  for  our pro­
fits in that  direction.  We  pay  2  cents  a 
pound for wrapping paper,  and  retail it out 
p.s we do up goods at an average of 30 cents. 
The  profits  on  the  goods  pay  expenses. 
The profits on the  paper  enable us to build 
a  brick  house  every  third  year.  Please 
stand  back  while  I  weigh  half  an  ounce 
of paper  with  one  and a half ounces of in­
digo.”

Profits in Cranberry Culture.

From the Micldleboro, Mass., News.

Mr.  James  Webb,  of  Cotuit,  probably 
manages  more  cranberry  bogs  than  any 
other men in the State.  He  was  found en 
.route to Carver a few days  ago  and  inter­
viewed.  “Mr. Webb,  how  many acres  of 
swamp are now devoted to cranberries with­
in  10  miles  of  Middleboro?”  “I  should 
think that there were about 000 acres which 
are now under  cultivation  and  process  of 
making.  These bogs are worth  about 8400 
an acre,  all  made,  although  a  bog  that  is 
vined  sells  for 31,000.”  “Is  the  business 
profitable?”  “Profitable?  Look  at  these 
figures:  There is a bog  down  in  Mashpee 
of five  acres  which  cost  31,870,  and  the 
sales last year from that alone were  81,894, 
which I call a good  per  cent. 
I know of a 
two year old bog that paid 14  per  cent,  last 
year,  and a bog isn’t  called  in  bearing con­
dition until it  is  three years  old.  There is 
the Abigail Brook bog on Mashpee  Neck of 
12 acres,  and we sold  last  year  509 barrels 
of berries  from  it,  for  which  we  received 
85,485.95,  with  a  profit  of  about  72  per 
cent.  The Newton bog in  Cotuit of 16 acres 
cost  86,800.  Between  1867  and  1882 
345,600  profit  were  divided  between  the 
owners.  • Some  bogs  have  paid  200  per 
cent.”  “What is your relation to these bog 
owners?”  “1 build  bogs  and sell them for 
myself,  and also build and manage for other 
I  now  have  in  hand  about  400 
parties. 
acres in  nine  different  bogs. 
I  have  just 
bought,  near Aattleboro,  on the old  Morton

NO. 97.

furnace lot,  which I  am  making  and  shall 
get 8425 an  acre for. 
I  have a large  gang 
at work on  this bog  now,  and hope to have 
it  ready  for  vines  next  spring.”  “What 
part of Massachusetts is  the  best  for cran­
berries?”  “I  don’t think  it  makes  much 
difference about tiie location.  Somehow  or 
other the Massachusetts  berry stands ahead 
of all  others.  They  raise  a  berry in New 
Jersey,  but just as soon  as  the  Cape  berry 
goes on the market they are obliged to draw 
out and wait until  the  supply ceases.  The 
Jersey berry is inferior in size and color. 
I 
have made up 400 acres of bog  since I have 
been in the business, which  is  about  seven 
years.”

Power of Nitro-Glycerine.

“Speaking of  nitro-glycerine,”  said  Dr. 
Roberts,  the oil torpedo  man,  to a group of 
legislators in  Warren  the  other  day,  “and 
its explosive  properties  reminds  me of one 
incident of  a thousand  that  I could  relate 
regarding it.  At the factory  where the oil- 
well torpedoes are made we strain the nitro­
glycerine through the  crown  of  a felt  hat, 
and when the hat has served its purpose we 
destroy it.  One day some of  the workmen, 
instead  of  destroying  the  hat,  washed  it 
thoroughly and  treated  it  with  alkalies,  in 
order  to  destroy  the  effect  of  the  nitro­
glycerine.  Then they  laid  it up on a shelf 
and forgot about it.  Some two  years after­
ward one of the men ran across the hat,  and 
his curiosity was  excited  as  to  whether it 
would explode if  struck  a  hard  blow.  He 
placed it upon one of the iron arms that run 
out from the tinner’s bench  in  the  factory, 
and struck it, while his  companions  looked 
on  in  wonderment.  He  struck  it  twice 
without any result,  but the third  time it ex­
ploded, blew the  iron  arm  through a brick 
wall,  knocked the man down and broke both 
of his arms,  and wrecked the interior of the 
tin shop.”

Cheap Peanuts this Year.

Peanuts were  high  priced  last year,  and 
averaged from 10 to 101(c pounds wholesale. 
These  prices  encouraged growers  to  plant 
heavily,  and an  unusually  large  amount of 
land  was  devoted  to  peanut  culture.  As 
they are harvested  in  October  and put into 
market the  following  year,  the  big crop of 
1884 is now  coming  into  market at  a time 
when all produce is at the  very lowest ebb. 
The result is that the price lias  dropped be­
low the cost of production,  and peanuts  are 
selling  at  from 
to  5  cents  a  pound. 
They were never so cheap  before.  The de­
mand is good but the  supply quite  exceeds 
the demand.  This  poor  market has  had a 
marked  effect  on  growers,  and  this  year 
they  have  planted  not  more  than  three- 
fourths as much as they  did  last  year. 
In 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  barely  half 
the acreage has been  planted.  Peanuts can 
be kept  for  two  years  after  digging,  and 
many growers are holding back in  hopes of 
better prices. 
In the mean time the Italian 
peanut venders are  growing wealthy.

The  Frank Farmer.

From the Chicago Herald.

A tall,  lank  man  boarded  an  out-going 
western train near the stockyards.  He look­
ed like a  farmer,  and  there  was an odor of 
cattle-cars  about  his  clothes.  He  walked 
through the car  and  looked  all  about for a 
seat, but nobody stirred  to  make  room  for 
him.  A drummer was spread over two seats, 
and a woman  and  her  two  children  over 
three.  Several men occupied a  whole  seat 
apiece.  The tall, lank  man  gazed  up  and 
down the car a moment  and  then  exclaim­
ed:

“Well,  by gosh,  I cum up to Chicago with 
a  load  of  hogs,  but  I’ll  be  darned  if  I 
thought I’d have to  ride  home with  a  load, 
too.”
Poisonous Sugar for Advertising Purposes.
The  Inspector  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health recently found a grocery dealer in  a 
Massachusetts city exhibiting highly colored 
sugar for sale.  They purchased  a  sample, 
had it  analyzed  and  found  it very  poison­
ous.  The dealer was notified, and appeared 
before the Board of  Health and  stated that 
the sugar in question was purchased by him 
for advertising  purposes  only,  and that  he 
had never sold any  except  in  this  one  in­
stance.  He  disclaimed  any  knowledge  of 
the fact that it was poisonous.  He referred, 
the Board to the party he purchased it of.

Cholera Affects the Raisin Crop.

It is predicted that the raisin crop in Val­
encia and Alicante,  Spain,  will be scarce on 
account of cholera in those provinces.  The 
present  stock  in  New  York  is  placed  at 
about 50,000 boxes,  packages of all descrip­
tions, and the quality very inferior.  Should 
the export of fruit from Spain be prohibited 
or refused admission  to  the  United States, 
we should be  confined  to  the  supply from 
Malaga and  California.  Smyrna  and  Bel- 
videre raisins may then be in demand.

There  are  thirty  commission  houses  in 
Kalamazoo in the sale of celery.  There are 
1,200 acres of land devoted to its cultivation 
and 2,500 men are employed in the business. 
Last  year  1,200,000  dozen  bunches  were 
shipped,  and the amount will be larger  this 
year.  Two to five cars  were  shipped  daily 
from July to December 15.  The celery this 
year is of superior quality.

VOL. 2.

C. G. A. MKT &  CO.
STAR  MILLS,

Proprietors of tlie

Manufacturers of the follow ing  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  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK ASD  OSE

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at­

tended to.

ALLEN’S  ABRIDGED  SYSTEM
BOOK-KEEPING!

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

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w .   H .  A l le n ,

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

S. A. WELLING

WHOLESALEm

L m to i 

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.

34  Pearl  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes, 

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
‘Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 
Bluings, Etc., E t (

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
K - E M I K T H L ’S

“ Red Bark Bitters77

AND-

78  West  Bridge Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

ORDER  A  SAMPLE  BUTT  OF

Mc ALPIN’S

P L U G .

A  RICH  NUTTY CHEW.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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AMONG  THE  TRADE.

A JOtTRNAD DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the S iate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange,
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Kindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
prPR.
Treasurer—W m. Sears. 
Executive  Committee-President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-offlcio; O. A. Bali, 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.  Cartwrig  t, 
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
______

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

ing of each month. 

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

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mins.
Second Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
S ecretary and Treasurer—L. W . A tkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
•Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh. 
•Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  wm. 
Bough ton, W. H. Jennings.
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in 
each month. 
Next  Meeting—Saturday  evening, August 29, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

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Grand Rapids Post T. P. A.

ryrganized■ at Grand Rapids, Apt il 11, 1885.
President—Geo. F. Owen.
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.
5 S S Z 2 £ 5 3 m S S  to c l!   of  President.
The  T r a d e s m a n   is  informed  that  the 
relatives of Stewart Ives h ave received word 
from  the  asylum  in  which  he  is  confined 
that  his  case  is  incurable.  Mr.  Ives’  fate 
should serve as a warning to all who  imag­
ine they can pursue a life of debauchery and 
escape  the  punishment  which  nature  im­
poses on all who  disregard  her  unalterable 
-laws. 

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IN  THE  CITY.

Simmons & Co.  succeed  P. Hickey in th& 
retail grocery business at 537 South Division
street. 

___________ _____

Hester & Fox have sold an Atlas automa­
tic engine,  18x20,  125 horse power,  to Cum­
mer & Cummer,  of Cadillac.

M. W.  Crook has engaged  in  the grocery 
business at 425 East Bridge  street.  Arthur 
Meigs & Co. furnished the stock.

Orser & Co. have started  a  grocery  store 
on the comer of Henry  street  and XVealthy 
avenue.  Arthur Meigs & Co.  furnished the
stock. 

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L. Jacoby,  for  the  past  two  years  with 
Houseman, May & Co., has  engaged  in the 
confectionery  and  fruit  business  at  147 
Monroe street.

Samuel Megaw  has  engaged in  the  gro­
cery business on the comer  of  Sixth  street 
and  Broadway.  Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.  fur­
nished the stock.

Win.  Bale has engaged in the grocery and 
crockery business  at  Yermontville.  Cody, 
Ball & Co. furnished the  grocery stock,  Dr. 
Josiah B. Evans placing the order.

The  Grand  Rapids  Manufacturing  Co.’s 
wood working department, which was burn­
ed to the ground about a  month ago,  is now 
nearly completed, and work will be resumed 
in about a fortnight.

“The best evidence  of  the  growth of the 
Eighth  ward,”  said  a  representative  busi­
ness man the other day,  “is  the  increase in 
the barber business.  A  year  ago the  ward 
wouldn‘t  support  one  shop.  To-day  we 
have two shops,  both  doing  well.  All  we 
need now is a hardware store.”

The West Michigan Oil Co. has purchased 
two new  teams  and  will  come  out  with a 
new tank wagon to-day or to-morrow,  and a 
new larrie in about two weeks.  All the ar 
rangements for a bulk station at  Muskegon 
have now been completed,  and  the new ar­
rangement will  go  into  effect  about Aug.
10. 

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The Hondurus Bluing  Co.  was  organized 
in this city one day last week by  a  number 
of capitalists,  including Jas. D.  Lacey, Will 
Lamoreaux and  Frank Collins.  Lacey was 
erected  president,  Collins  secretary  and 
Lamoreaux  treasurer.  Before  making  an 
assessment on the  stockholders,  the project 
died an easy death.

Mexico. 

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“I don’t look  for  any  boom 

It is pretty generally  conceded  that  the  iast  Thursday  to  superintend 

Jacob  Barth,  the  veteran  merchant,  is  to diSp0ge 0f olir product near  at home. 

John  E.  Hunter,  druggist  at  465  South 
Division street,  gave a $1,000 chattel  mort­
gage to his father,  Mathew Hunter, of Low­
ed,  on May 12th,  and on  the  24th the same 
was foreclosed.  Jas.  D.  Lacey  and  Frank 
Escott took an inventory of the stock, which 
is not  yet  figured up,  but  it  is understood 
that the stock will not  meet  the face of the 
mortgage.  Local creditors  have  sought  to 
to
attach the stock, but  have  been  unable

Edwin  Densmore  went  to  St.  Ignace 
the  erec- 
in  the  veneer  mill  of 
¡Soldiers’ Home,  p rovid ed  for by the last Leg-  tion  of  a  dryer 
islature,  will be  located  at  Grand  Rapids, 
the  St.  Ignace  Manufacturing  Co.  The 
which  is  cause  for  congratulation  among  other  veneer  machinery  is  now  in  place, 
merchants in  all  branches  of  trade,  as  the  and  work  in  that  department  will  be 
institution  necessarily  consumes  consider-  begun in about two  weeks.  The  company 
able  merchandise,  and  attracts  excursions  j§ also putting in machinery for  the  manu- 
and visitors  who  improve  the  occasion  to  facture of curtain rollers______
make purchases at  a  large  market.  Much 
of the benefits which  should  accrue  to the 
city would be lost, however,  if the  Home is 
located on  the  Ward  property,  below  the 
city, as the close proximity of  two railways 
to the grounds  would  carry  visitors  to  the 
institution direct,  where  the  people  would 
be too far removed from the city to  reach it 
without difficulty.  Any of the  other  cites
proposed would render a visit to Grand Rap­
ids preliminary to a trip to the Home,  which I 
is as it should be; and those  merchants who 
in  the  egg 
feel an interest  in  the  matter  should  take | 
said a  veteran 
steps looking  toward  the  selection of  any j  market the coming  season, 
“The  fact  is,
! egg dealer,  the  other  day
but the XVard cites. 
I foreign eggs are largely taking the  place of
Mr. Barth’s Opinion  of  Arizona  and New  Western stock in  the  Eastern  markets,  in
consequence ofxvhich we shall be compelled
If 
g come  jn  after  harvest  anywhere near 
back from Arizona and New  Mexico, where i 
he spent several weeks visiting  friends and i ag 
ag they did last year, I should not be 
looking over the country.  He says that that j surprjsed to see the price drop  to  8  cents a 
region is not nearly so bad as it is  pictured,  j 
  wouldn’t  care  to  load  myself 
that every other man  does  not shoot on the | Up very heavily,  even at that price.” 
slightest  provocation,  and  that  the  opporj 
About two  months  ago,  XVm.  P.  Schroe- 
tunities  for  money  making  are  almost
der came here from Detroit  and  started the 
boundless. 
In the latter respect  the  coun­
Excelsior wire  works  in the  Schulenburg 
try presents the  same  attraction for  young 
building  on  Bronson  street.  Not  succeed­
men that Grand Rapids did fifteen or twenty
ing as well as he expected,  he  embarked in
years ago, and  a  few  years’  residence  at 
most any one of the  railway towns, coupled! the paper  busmess  under  the  name of the 
with ordinary  sagacity,  is  sufficient  to  ao  | Michigan Paper.Co., subsequently dtsposmg 
cumulate  a  respectable  fortune.  There is 
hls WIK- w0rk!* 0 Edward  Ihicuia  Tlie
no  foolishness  in  trade  there—goods  are I l’a!icr st?°k w’as bollg 1  ou 
bought for the purpose of making good mar- i terms of purchase  were  so un  at ora 
gins! and such things  as  “leaders”  are un- ] he was unable to compete with other dealers 
L i n .   The main trade is with  the stock-  without serious  osa  The matter culmmat- 
men and natives.  In the case of the former,  ! ed Saturday m the departure of the propne- 
eredtts are extended from shearing toshear- j  tor, and the attacament of the  stock by sev- 
ing-that is  from  April  to  September and I eral creditors.  John L.  Curtiss took  an in- 
from September to April,  it  being  the  cu s-; ventory  Monday, which  revealed  $1,003.88 
tom tonhear twice a year-while  in the lat-! worth of stock.  The liabilities are suppose! 
ter ease  the  merchant  extends  credit  until j to be about 83,500  the two larger  creditors 
the farmer disposes of his grain to the  gov-; being the J.  W.  Butler  Paper  Co.  and  the 
eminent, which is almost  his  only custom- ¡ Cleveland Paper Co.,  whosecla.ms are 8950 
e,   The main industry of the  region is,  o f  | and  8000,  respectively.  The ta lure is due 
course  cattle raising,  and  men  talk  of cat-  entirely to the inexperience  of  the  propne- 
Ue ami cattle ranges as we talk of mills and j tor, who is totally  unlitted  for  a  business
tracts of pine.  The cattle  find a market in j career. 
California and  at  Kansas  City  and  other j 
Eastern points,  and the wool is  sold  at  the j  ^ els011 Peterson,  general dealer at XVood- 
railway towns  at an  average price of eight j 
eents per pound.  The farming is  all  done j  p.  l .  (Mrs.  XVm.)  Le Seuer,  grocer  at
on the  river  bottoms,  where  irrigation  is j Marcellus?  has assigned. 
possible,  the irrigation being  mostly carried j 
on by means of canals conducted on  the co-. 
operative plan. 

C.  S.  Goldsmith succeeds A. XV. Robinson

Church  has  moved  his  grocery 

from gp^ta to Alpine.

The farming is  all

a r o u n d   t h e   s t a t e .

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A dry goods merchant'of Tenderfoot City, ! in the drug business at Manistee.

J.  Miley & SoM m uitate «eaters at Niles, 

and  we  can  bust any snoozer J Romeo, has been closed by creditors, 

Arizona, has inserted the  following  adver- 
tisement  in  the  local  paper:  “ We  have | have assigned to E.  M. Denmston 
the dumdest lot of  A1  goods  ever  seen  in 
this  divide,
who  tries  to  dispute  it.  Hitch up the  old j  P.  H.  Russel] has given  a  bill  of sale of 
boss  and  eome  and  see  up.  The best sa- j his tea stock and fixtures at  Manistee to his
loons in town are within a stone’s  throw  of i wife. 
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our establishment.  XVe have ransacked the 
J.  J.  Franklin  succeeds  Mrs.  Gertrude 
world  to  get  the finest goods, and  we  are  Shader in the harness and trunk busmess at
bound to please.” 

XVm. E.  Morehouse,  hardware  dealer  at 

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News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

Muskegon.

•

July  27—Business  continues  fair  in  all 
branches, with occasional signs of betterment.
Receiver Tate has about $8,000 in  his  hands 
belonging  to  the  Eveenwood  matter,  which 
will be divided  among  Burrows  &  Jones  and 
Fox & May.

The case of Stowe vs. Mrs. Root, growing out 
of the Wm. D. Carey &  Co.  matter,  is  on  call 
Wednesday, July 29. 

Adam Rodgers,  manager  of  the  Muskegon 
Wood Package and Basket Co.,"has  gohe  East 
on business for the corporation and  will  visit 
New York, Philadelphia and  Baltimore before 
returning.  The company has  lately shipped a 
carload of peach  baskets  to  Baltimore  and a 
similar quantity of  grape  baskets  to  Minne­
sota.  The  works were  started  up  Thursday, 
after  a  few  days’  idleness  on  account  of 
scarcity  of  timber,  and  will  run  full  force 
about a month,  and  longer,  if  business  war­
rants it.

J. R. Barcus, late of the firm of Barcus Bros., 
has bought the Pine street drug store of W. T. 
Rogers.  Dr.  McDonald  is  in  charge  of  the 
pharmacy department.

“The sooner the Standard Oil Co. adopts  the 
tank wagon system for Muskegon,  the more I 
shall be pleased, and the better  it  will  be for 
the retail trade as a whole,”  is  Andrew  Wier- 
engo’s emphatic opinion.

Barcus Bros, announce the receipt of orders 
for saws from the following milling operators: 
Barnard  Lumber  Co.,  Duluth;  Diamond 
Match  Co.,  Ontonagon;  E.  P.  Ferry Lumber 
Co., Montague.  The works are being run over­
time, in consequence of a rush of orders.

Howey & Root,  hardware dealers on Western 
avenue,  lower  town,  have  dissolved,  Henry 
Root succeeding.

D. B.  Squibb  will  shortly  remove  his  com­
mission  stand  from  the  opera block to Lam­
bert’s new block, on Pine street.

Assignee  Wood  has  concluded  to  hold the 
property  of  the  Novelty  Iron Works until  a 
more favorable opportunity  for  disposing of 
the  same  presents  itself.  He  has leased  the 
boiler shop connected with  the  establishment 
to  Ed.  Behrens  and  Chas.  E. Woodard,  who 
will  carry  on  the  manufacture and repair of 
boilers under the firm name of  Ed. Behrens  & 
Co.
S.  S.  Buck,  of  the shingle mill firm of S.  S. 
Buck  &  Co.,  who  raped a young lady,  traded 
wives with an employee, and  skipped  to  Can­
ada,  is  now  negotiating  with  the parents  of 
the injured girl for a settlement, with  a  view 
to returning to Muskegon.  XV. T.  Rogers, the 
“Co.” of the same firm, has also disposed of all 
his available assets and  departed  for  Canada 
or some other secluded place, leaving  numer­
ous creditors the mourn his departure.

He was a nobby drummer-man 
Arrayed in garments new;
His coat was shorty his towsers tight,
And his cravat was blue.
He wore a massive diamond pin,
Three yards or more of chain.
And flourished in his seal-ring hand 
A darling little  cane.

He strutted up and down the aisle 
And  twirled his waxed mustache,
And ogled all the pretty girls,
Intent upon a “mash.”
Some frowned and looked the other way, 
Some eyed him with a smile,
And then what airs he did put on 
In strutting through the aisle!

It was a stylish Boston girl 
Upon this nobby little man 
“She’s struck.” thought  he,  and  “smiled  a 

XVho grinned from ear to ear,
And watched him drawing near,

smile”

And cause that heart of hers to throb 

To captivate her quite.
With wonder and delight.

“Beg pahdon, Miss—seat occupied?”
She gently shook her head,
And then this mashy drummer-man 
Sat down and sweetly said,
“Superb, the weather, isn’t it?
What book is that you  read?
Atlantic?—aw, nice story, that,—
Quite int’resting,  indeed.”

“Yes, so I find it,” answered she,
"I think there’s something here 
Of special interest to you.
At least it would appear”—
How sweetly did she smile on him 
And he on her, alas!
“To have some reference to you 
Because it treats of ‘Brass.’ ”

The Second  Largest  General  Store in the 

World.

The immense establishment  of  the  Han- 
ah & Lay  Mercantile Co., at Traverse City, 
is well worth a long  pilgrimage,  as it com­
bines more features of interest to merchants 
than  any  other  similar  enterprise  in  the 
country. 
Indeed,  in point of general  stock 
carried, the emporium is second  only to the 
Zion store at Salt  Lake  City; while  the in­
ternal  arrangement  is  so  near  perfection 
that no concern anywhere can excel it.

It was the  good  fortune  of  the editor of 
Tiie  Tradesman to pay a  recent  visit  to 
Traverse City and to be shown  through the 
various departments  comprising  the  estab­
lishment  by  General  Manager  Barnes,  to 
whose energy  and  foresight  is  due  in no 
small degree  the  almost  unparalleled  suc­
cess of the  mercantile  branch  of Hannah, 
Lay & Co.’s enterprises.  Coming to  Trav­
erse City twenty-six years  ago,  Mr. Barnes 
has been identified  with  the  business  ever 
since,  and many features in  the  various de­
partments  bear  evidence  of  his  invention 
and adoption.  Thoroughly conversant with 
every branch of the business, fully conscious 
of his own ability as an executive head,  and 
strongly re-enforced with a corps of  assist­
ants who are in full sympathy with his ideas 
and  in  whom  he  has  implicit  confidence, 
Smith Barnes  possesses  all  the  attributes 
necessary to business success.

The first  impression  conveyed  by a cur­
sory view of the store is the admirable  sys­
tem which prevails  in every  nook  and cor­
ner.  “A place for  everything  and  every­
thing in its place,” might well  be the motto 
of the  establishment. 
In  the  arrangement 
of shelving and  counters  several  practical 
innovations  have  been  introduced,  which 
other dealers would do well to pattern after, 
and in the  placing  of  goods,  the  head  of 
each department seems  to  have taken spec­
ial pains to render his own department more 
attractive than the others,  the  result  being 
extremely pleasing  to  the  eye  as  well  as 
convenient for the  salesman.  The  storing 
of bulky goods is happily  provided for, and 
the  manner  in  which  reserve  stocks  are 
maintained is worthy  of  praise. 
Indeed,  a 
necessarily hasty and  imperfect  tour of the 
establishment reveals no  point which  could 
well be improved upon,  and the owners and 
their patrons  are  both  to be congratulated 
on both the completeness of assortment and 
perfection of detail.

A Chicago hotel keeper had a man recent­
ly  arrested for stealing a cake of soap.  The 
man pleaded, in extenuation  of  his offehce, 
that he wanted it for  liis  collection of  curt 
iosities,  it being the  first  cake of  soap  he 
had ever discovered in a Chicago  hotel.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

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W. H. Hicks, Morley.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
DenHerder & Tanis, Vrieslalid.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
Jacob DeBri, Byron Center.
A. P. Hulbert, Lisbon.
Sherman Littleton, Clayton.
Mrs. L. Dane, Newaygo.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
B. Volmari, Filmore Center.
Jos. H. Spires, Leroy.
Mrs. G. Miller, Ryerson.
Moedyke, DeKruif & Go., Zeeland.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin,  Ravenna.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonvile.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
S. Cooper, Corinth.
Cole & Chaple, Ada.
Louis Kolkema, Holland.
H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
T. W. Preston, Millbrook.
Andre & Son, Jennisonville.
Wm. Emmons, Eddy & Emmons, Grattan. 
John Gunstra, Lamont.
C. H. Deming, Dutton. 
J. D. Rowdon & Co., Carp Lake.
Adam Wagner, Eastmanville.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
J. W. Kirtland, Lakeview.
Parkhurst & Clark, Middleville.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Lilley P. O.
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville.
Blakeley Bros., Fife Leke.
H. H. Eaton, Boyne Falls.
W. H. Walker, Trufant.
Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
Geo. W. Crawford, Big Rapids.
J. R. O’dell, Fremont.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Henry Henkel, Howard City.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
C, E. Coburn. Pierson.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Geo. Roys, Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
Fred Morley, Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
C.  L.  Bostwick,  C.  O. Bostwick & Son, Can­
,
Paine & Field, Englishville.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
' W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
S. M. Wright, Big Springs.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
J. Omler, Wrighl.
A. D. Ayers, Otia.
Jas. Moerdyk, Zeeland.
Baron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
A. Engberts, Zeeland.

nonsburg. 

following  night.  His  family  are  located 
there for the  summer.

Joseph Rutner,  of Traverse City, will en­
gage in the boot and shoe business  at  East 
Jordan.

The Danish people are preparing to  form

Alfred Crawford, formerly engaged in the 
retail grocery business  in  this  city,  is now
a stock company and  open  a  general  store  in the employ of  a  large  wholesale and re- 
tail grocery house at Alberbuque, New Mex-
at Gowen. 
ico.

G.  S.  Goldsmith succeeds A. XV.  (Mrs. O. 

John  W.  Borst, 

will carry off the honor.

H.)  Robinson  in  the  grocery  business , at  Homer  Eaton  and  John  Shirts  are  both 
Manistee. 
candidates for the championship  belt  to  be
Paige & Anderson,  drug and grocery deal-1 awarded  the  biggest  liar  in the State, and 
ers  at  Sparta,  have  dissolved,  Mr.  P a i g e   the chances are that either one or  the  other 
succeeding. 
,  Wm.  D.  Chatterdon,  boot and shoe dealer j 
the  Yriesland  cheese 
at Lowell,  has been closed on  a $2,000 chat- | maker,  pulled  Tins  T r a d e s m a n ’s  latch­
string  last  Saturday.  He  is well pleased 
tel  mortgage.
the  demand  for  his
with the  situation,  as 
product is better than ever before. 
In fact, 
he  is  compelled  to  send  out  some cheese 
only two weeks old.

Sid.  Y.  Bullock,  formerly engaged in the 
drug business at Howard  City,  is now with 
Henry Henkel,  general dealer at that place.
Wade Bros, have bought  the  H.  N.  Mar­
tin grocery stock at  Cadillac,  of  Adminis­
trator Clary,  and will continue the business.

E.  P.  Gifford,  Michigan  representative 
for  Armour & Co., was in  town last week. 
Mr.  Gifford registers from  the  raging  Sag- 
inaws,  and is firm in  the  belief that all the 
enthusiasm for another base ball contest be­
tween Saginaw and Grand Rapids is center-
Cool & Curtiss, planing mill  operators at i ed in the breast of the sturdy  Jim  Stewart,

N.  P.  Naragan  is  putting  in  a  portable 

sawmill at Cedar Lake.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Limited.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Chas.  S.  XVillcox drew the  $75 casli prize 

in the Acorn plug tag distribution.

Wm.  S.  Barnett, traveling  agent  for  the 
Peninsular  Stove Co.,  Detroit,  is  “doing”
Minnesota at present.

XValter  E.  Cummings  left  Monday  for a 
visit to his house at Pittsburg.  He also rep­
resents the Priestly Express XVagon Co.

Cass Bradford says  that  John  McIntyre 
paid a hotel  bill  at Holland  the  other  day, 
and mentions the  fact as  though it were an 
exceptional occurrence.

J.  Frank  Mullen,  of  the  plug  tobacco 
manufacturing firm of  McNamara,  Sealts &
Mullen,  Covington,  Ky.,  was  in  the city a 
couple of days last week.

G.  A.  Bolster,  Michigan  representative 
for Ricker,  McCulloch & Dixon,  soap  man­
ufacturers of  Milwaukee,  paid  his  respects 
to the Grand Rapids trade last week.

Paul E. Hirsch, Michigan and  Wisconsin 
representative for Gross Bros.,  soap  manu­
facturers of Milwaukee,  is in  town  for  the 
purpose  of  introducing  the  goods  of  his 
house to the retail trade.

Freeport, will put in saw mill machinery.

The Greenville B and  Co. has  increased 

its capital stock from $25,000 to $60,000.

The Emery Lumber Co. has  been formed j 
at East  Saginaw,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$ 120,000.

The Wood Works Manufacturing Co.  has 
been organized at East Saginaw, with a cap­
ital stock of $27,500.

H.  Y.  Rifenburg  &  Co., of  Muskegon, 
will erect a  100  barrel  flouring  mill, roller 
process,  at Charlevoix.

The Oscoda Salt  &  Lumber  Co. is estab­
lishing new camps  on  the  Au Sable,  about 
thirty miles below Grayling.

Work  on  the  Pere  Marquette  Lumber 
Co.’s salt block, at Pere Marquette,  is being 
pushed rapidly toward  completion.

Sailing, Hanson  & Co.,  at  Grayling,  are 
putting  a  system  of  pipes  into  their  mill 
plant,  as a defense  against  fire,  at a cost of 
$2,800.

The Pere  Marquette  Lumber  Co.  is re­
ported  to  have  7,500,000  feet  of  lumber 
piled on its dock  at  Ludington, mostly last 
year’s cut.

It is claimed at Menominee that manufac­
turers there will ship 20,000,000  feet of the 
better cuts of  pine  to  eastern  markets  an­
other year.

Swan,  White & Smith are building a four- 
mile logging railroad  on  their  tract of pine 
in  Missaukee  county,  and  will  connect  it 
with the Thayer  Lumber  Company’s  road, 
now under construction.

Boyne  Falls  Statesman:  E.  Shay,  of 
Haring, has purchased the Addis mill prop­
erty at Bay Springs and will soon add a ma­
chine shop to the property.

Geo. XV.  Noble,  for  the  past  four  years i 

R. H. Moulton,  general salesman for Car- 
son,  Price,  Scott & Co.,  of Chicago,  and M.
F. Lynn,  connected with the carpet  depart­
ment of the same house,  were in town Mon­
day on their way to the Northern resorts.

Mrs. Andrew Wierengo has been spending  a 
week in Grand Haven, visiting friends  and at­
tending her mother, who has undergone an op­
eration on her eyes.
j^jgg Maggie Rodgers now  signs  the  cheeks 
Michigan representative for Henry W. King | and manipulates the books for  the  Muskegon 
& Co., of Chicago,  is  now  on  the  road  for j  Wood Package and Basket Co.
Garson, Meyer  &  Co.,  of  Rochester.  His!  J -Kuppenheimer, the local  grocery  broker
represents  the  following  houses,  all  of  Chi­
territory  includes  Michigan  and  Northern
cago:  John A. Tolman & Co., groceries; Anglo- 
Indiana.
American Packing Co.,  provisions;  Barrett  & 
Barrett, vinegars.

, 

, 

,.  , 

STRAY  FACTS.

at Stanwood.

has  assigned.

, | ing his trade now.

dustry at Battle Creek.

photograph gallery at Palo.

stock from Cadillac to Reed City.

g  p  BarcuS) un(jer the same firm name.

,  .  , 
He recently  coaxed  a  trick 

The Michigan Scoop Co.  is  the  latest  in­

Mrs.  M.  Freeman,  milliner  at Jackson, 

C. XV.  Howartli,  of Edmore,  has started a 

Mrs.  E.  Gilbert has removed her millinery 

J. XV.  Mercer has started  a  meat  market 

gam- i^yhart, formerly with  the late firm I  Rosen  Bros,  have  bought 

Eugene  Austin,  the  eagle-eyed  traveling 
tramp for the  Atlas  Engine  XVorks,  of In­
dianapolis, was  in  town  a  couple  of  days 
last week.  He  is  still  hovering  in  Michi­
gan,  and may swoop down on Grand Rapids 
again without a moment’s notice.

D. XV.  Goodenough has shipped 800 cords 
of hemlock  bark  from  Ludington  thus  far 
this season.  The  amount of  bark  shipped 
from that port this season falls considerably 
below the quantity shipped last year.

Thos.  M.  Lander,  formerly  engaged in the 
commission  business  here,  has  formed  a co­
partnership  with  his  brother,  Mark,  and  en­
gaged in the flour and feed and  produce busi 
ness at Benton Harbor under the firm name of 
Lander Bros.
John R. Barcus has retired from  the  firm of 
In addition to  the  crime  of  fish liar,  XV. 
Barcus Bros., saw  manufacturers.  The  busi
S. Horn now stands  before  the  world  as a 
| ness will be continued by Wm. XV. and Osborne
dog thief,
on the train at  Bangor,  paid  the  animal’s i 
S q u il.e   Davies  and  Read  Davies  announce 
fare to Muskegon,  and presented  him to a j their retirement from the saw  mill  firm  of J. 
D.  Hirshfleld’s 
and  will  continue  the  busi-

The Ironton correspondent of the  Charle­
voix  Journal  writes  as'follows;  R.  M. 
Cherrie is in town,  with  his  coat  off,  and 
has  begun  to  raise  the  walls  of Ironton. 
The masons came on Monday from Chicago,
and  have  commenced  to  repair  the  hot I  deaier there,  in  exchange  for a good order.  T. Lemieux &  Co. 
blast.  The Bertie Calkins  is  to  bring  the 
brick  to  repair  the  stack.  Matters about  of  Wentworth  &  Cannon,  is now working 
the dock begin to look  like  business.  The J ^ie retaii trade of the State  for  D.  H.  Me- Byron Beerman has  purchased  the  Cogges-
schr.  Narragansett  has  been  chartered  to j Alpiu & Co.  He has just  returned  from  a j hall stock and proposes  to  conduct  the  busi- 
carry ore.  The tug,  Bob  Stephenson,  Is to  tw0 months, sojonm  In the Saginaw Valley, 
* * * ,  wtereng0.s CMCt soles-
be  rebuilt.  Mr.  Cherrie  says that he wants 
and  will  now  put  in several weeks in this  man> lmg returnedfrom Grand Rapids, whither 
to start the furnace by the first  of  Angust, 
! he went to bring home the horse  and carriage
territory. 
Silas Bolles and xvife have been  spending j  formerly owned by  Frank  Morris, which  was 
and that it will be running by the 10th sure.
mother
a couple of weeks at  Macataxva  Park,  hav-1 presented to them to him by  Frank’s 
Will doesn’t trudge around on foot when visit-
ing rented  Jas.  Fox’ cottage  there.  Silas
has taken to sailing, and is known all around  Qerrjt  Alting,  formerly  connected  with 
Black Lake  by the  sobriquet  of  * ‘Captain  j?arg0’S grocery, has  associated  himself  with 
Sam.”  Especially has Silas  aspired to dis-  e . C. Crotty, and they have started a meat mar- 
tinction as a helmsman,  and on the occasion  ket at the corner of Apple and Spring  streets, 
of the visit of a number of  friends one  day ; 
last xveek,  he prepared  to  exhibit  liis skill, 
j uiy  27—A.  S.  Hobart  has  returned  from 
in that direction.  Before swinging  clear of j  Harbor Springs and vicinity greatly improved
the pier,  however,  he  succeeded in  coming . inw m H armon. of the dry goods  firm  of Har- 
in  collision  with  a  plank  projecting  from ^ mon & CO i ia spending the  week  at  Petoskey 
the dock,  which tore  the  foresail  from  top ;  and neighboring resorts, 
to bottom.  Silas  subsequently  settled  the !  The old Pacific House block is steadily under-
going repairs and will soon present quite a re- 
matter  satisfactorily  to  the captain,  and is
now satisfied to nde in the bow ot tlie  Doat’  A stock of cigars and tobacco  has  been put 
Frank Smilie is a traveling man.  A  year  on  sale  ln  the  eastern  wing of the Northern 
ago he left Cincinnati without a certain per-  Hotel block by Mr.  George  Bradbeer,  of Cad- 
fumed letter that was expected, but he gave j  lilac.  A stock of books and stationery  is also
instructions  to  have  it  forwarded,  but  in ; b(^
etti retired  groceri is negotiating 
some  way  Frank  did  not  get it. 
It  kept j wp.htbe Cincinnati» safe  company,  McNeal  & 
right  behind  him,  and  followed  him  into j urban,  for  a  position  as  ti-aveling saleman. 
Georgia,  Alabama,  Florida and  Mississippi, | Mr.  Leggett  has  had  ten  years’  experience, 
but he could never get it.  All this  time  he I and is a good salesman.
,  T*e Tradesman stated last week that Di. A.
dui ne 
she did not write.  About  p  Keam  contempiated opening  a  drug  store 
wondered why 
a month ago he read a marriage  notice  in  a i 
Bapj,js-  Tlae firm  name  will  be  Keam
newspaper in which the writer  of  the  mis- j & pierce.  The Dr. has  an  extensive  practice 
placed  letter  figured as  the  bride. 
Last: in the city and county, and Mr.  Pierce,  who is
week Frank was in  Macon  and  one  of his  a  thorough  business  man,  is  well and favor- 
week Frans 
hnrJ   ably known here.  It is very apparent that the
customers  handed  him  a  lettei. 
it  Dor(j | drug business is overdone in this city,  yet  the 
date  of  April  9,  1884,  and  had  traveled ,  new  flrm  will  undoubtedly draw its share  of
thousands of miles in hundreds of mail bags  the trade. 
|  A few months ago Fairman  &  Co.,  groceis,
commenced  business  with  a  small stock and
in vain pursuit ot him. 
A  well-known traveling man  tells a good  gaJr  galeg>  Notwithstanding the close  times, 
story at the expense of  the young lady  who  tjjejr stQck has been increased,  and their sales 
is now his wife.  She was traveling  on the  | have increased to more than double what they
G.  R.  & I.  a few  years  ago, when  she  was 
Messrs. Joslin, Gardner and  Green  have  re­
annoyed to find that a  traveling  man  who 
turned  from  their  Southern  trip,  and  seem 
sat opposite her seemed to be staring fixidly j 
well pleased with the climate  and  natural ad­
at her.  She  became  indignant  at  length, 
vantages  of  the  localities  they  visited.  Mr. 
Green visited certain blackwainut  and poplar 
and inquired:  “XVhy do you look at me so,, 
forests in Kentucky, with a view  to  purchas­
sir?”  He said he was not  aware of  having 
ing.  He speaks in high terms  of  the  former, 
done so.  She insisted that he had.  “I beg
where he says  thickly  standing  trees  of two
  three  feefc  ln  diameter  were  overladen

Amos  S.  Musselman  accompained  his 
wife as far as Toledo last week, on her way 
to her former home in Ohio.

Homer  Eaton  is  confined  to  his  house 
from the effects of a  fall on one  leg, which 
occurred about a year ago.

C.  E.  Blakely,  the Coopersville  druggist, 
has gone  North  for  four  weeks’ recreation 
among the various resorts.

G. XV. Rowe, of the firm of H. J. McGrath 
& Co., oyster  and fruit  packers  of  Balti­
more, was in town Monday.

Mrs. II. B. Fairchild and son leave to-day 
for  a  few  weeks’  visit  with  friends  in 
XVyoming county,  N.  Y.

XVill Lamoreaux is  now  the  possessor  of 
a  seven-year-old  mare,  which  he  recently 
purchased at Portland.

Frank Collins has sold his mare  “ Kitty ” 
to  John  Snitzeler,  the consideration  being 
$175.  The more has a 3:10 reebrd.

Adrian Yis,  formerly clerk in the general j your pardon,  madam, but  it’s  this eye,  is it  ^

Mrs.  XVelch,  of  Greenville,  wfil  open  a 
millinery store and bazaar  at  Howard City.

M.  C. Russell and  wife  spent  Sunday at- 

Homer Eaton and family put  in  a  day  at 

G. R. Mayliew is expected home from the 

were in the months of April and May.

,  , spectable appearance,

Macatawa last week.

Purely Personal.

East Friday.

Blg Rapids,

Macatawa.

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freight  office  of  the G.  R.  & I., has  taken 
the  position  of  book-keeper  for  the  Oriel 
Cabinet Co.

John Shirts, the affable financial clerk for 
Eaton & Christenson,  spent the most of last 
week at Macatawa  Park.  He  was  accom­
pained by his wife.

Dr.  C.  S.  Hazeltine  runs  up  to  Macinac 
Island every  Saturday  night  and  back  the

not?” lifting  his  finger  to  his left  optic. 
“Yes,  sir; it’s  that  eye.”  “XVell,  madam, 
that eye won’t do you any harm;  it’s a glass 
eye madam,  only a glass  eye. 
I  hope  you 
will excuse it.  But,  upon  my soul, I’m not 
surprised that even a glass  eye  should  feel 
interested in so pretty a woman.”  The  ex­
planation and compliment  combined  to put 
the lady into a good humor.

with  nuts.

Pork  House  Charley—otherwise  known 
as  Robinson—went  fishing  on  Crooked 
Lake a week ago Sunday,  and  was  punish­
ed  for  the  infraction  by  thq  capsizing  of 
his boat and a narrow escape from a watery 
grave.  Charley will choose a week  day for 
his fishing excursions hereafter.

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STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Years—F. H. J. VarnEmster. Bay City. 
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next place of  meeting—At Detroit, November 
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3,1885. 
Michigan  Stale  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

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Rapids.

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal-
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Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan­
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Third Vice-President—Frank  Wurzburg,  Grd 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F.  W.
Fincher. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 
October 13,1885.

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OR G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Jas. S. Co win.
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen. 
j
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in ■ 
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November. 
i
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  August 6, 
at *‘The Tradesman” office.

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Gum  Camphor in a Better  Position. 

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Last week  witnessed  tlie commencement 
or a decided spurt  in gum  camphor,  caused 
by several influences.  The low values  pre­
vailing for some time back  discouraged  the 
producers, who directed  their  attention  to 
more profitable crops to  the  neglect  of  the 
camphor industry, which resulted in a large 
decrease in supplies.  This fact is the prin­
ciple  element  of  strength  to  the  market. 
The recent  change  in  the  currency of the 
Japanese  Government  also  affects  prices. 
The increasing demand  for  camphor  from 
the cholera districts in Spain and other parts 
of the old world directed  more  attention to 
the article and caused an important specula­
tive interest  which  is  principally  centered 
on the continent.  The  buying  on  specula­
tive account in England has  been  so  active 
as to give out an impression that an attempt 
is being made  to  comer  the  camphor  mar­
ket.  The influence  of  these  new  features 
was soon felt on this  side  of  the  Atlantic, 
anti the home market revived from  its  pro- { 
longed  season  of  depression.  The  most 
positive  assurances  were  not  wanting last 
week that dealers  entertained  faith  in  an | 
advancing  market,  as  each  day  developed 
on  increased  interest  from  that  source. 
Jobbers and  consumers  were  not  slow  in 
making known their  wants, as inquiries for 
liberal amounts of refined were freely circu­
lated and resulted in  considerable  business 
being done at an  advance  of  two or  three 
cents  above  previous  quotations.  Holders 
were  indifferent  sellers  on  Saturday  and 
quoted nominally twenty-one  cents  for lots 
of five barrels.  The  lowest  figure  reached 
within the history  of  refined  camphor  was 
fifteen and one-quarter cents  last  year,  and 
since  the  first  of January  the  fluctuations 
have been unimportant.  This  market  has 
ruled lower than the views of English hold­
ers for the past six months.  A  general ex­
pectation is entertained for still higher prices 
and some refiners  believe  that  the market 
will  touch  twenty-four  ceuts  and  remain 
steady.  Stocks in Boston are said to be ex­
hausted  and  inquiries  from  Philadelphia 
would denote the same  condition  of  affairs 
there.  The  better  appreciation  of  values 
would  naturally  stimulate  production  and 
prevent  any  extraordinary change  in  the 
present situation.

It  is  reported  that  considerable  crude 
camphor has been bought in this  market on 
foreign account and that the prices  realized 
were from fifteen and  a  half  to  seventeen 
and a half  cents.  We  have  sales  and  re­
sales of six hundred tubs within the  range. 
Most if not all the purchases were  intended 
to  satisfy  the  wants  of  refiners  abroad. 
Home refiners are said to  be  well  supplied 
and are not in  the  market.  Advices  from 
Japan state that  no  stocks  are  to  be  had 
there.  Buyers  are  not  inclined  to  place 
much  faith  in  the  present  upward  move­
ment and believe  that  a  repetition  of  last 
year’s  experience  will  be  the  result.  A 
strong effort was then made to force  up the 
price of crude,  and  notwithstanding a prob­
able decrease in production which  was  put 
out as an excuse  for  the  advance,  supplies 
steadily  continued  to  come  forward  from 
producing  countries  too  freely- to  admit 
of the  market  being  sustained,  while  re­
finers  also  prevented  an  upward  course 
by  keeping  down  values  on  their  pro­
duct.

On the other hand,  it  is  claimed  by  ex­
porters abroad,  that owing to  the wholesale 
destruction of the camphor  forests,  caused 
by the removal on the part  of  the Japanese 
Government of  the restrictions placed upon 
camphor production,  a scarcity of the article 
has eventually followed and that the present 
reaction in the price of gum is a natural con­
sequence.

Butterine is imported into England in vast 
quantities.  During  the  first  four  months 
of this year $5,820,000 worth was imported, 
chiefly  from  Holland,  Belgium,  Denmark 
and France.

Hunting  a  Location.

He  stopped  before  a  commission  house 
and gazed fondly at a barrel of  green apples 
in the doorway.  “Are there many  of these 
darling little apples raised in this vicinity?” 
he asked.

“Yes,  quite a good many of them.”
“Does the loving cucumber  thrive  also?” 
“Oh,  jres.  Our  season  is  a  long  one. 
When shipments from  the  South  are  over 
our own gardeners just begin to  bring them 
in.”

“And these innocent  watermellons?” 
“They’re a  little  green,  but  they’ll soon 

ripen.”

them green.”

“Oh,  not for the  world! 

I  like  to  see 

“You do?  Why,  are you a dealer?”
“No,  sir. 

I’m a physician, just graduat­
ed,  and  I’m  thinking  of  locating  in  this 
city.

Persian Insect Powder.

This powder  is  prepared  by  mixing to­

gether

K oz.  coriander seed,
% oz.  cinchona bark,
% oz.'gentian root,
2 gms. flowers of sulphur,
% oz. zedoary root,
1 gm. camphor, 
x/i oz.  guaraca wood, 

oz. lycopodium seed.

}4 oz.  colocynth.
These ingredients are very  finely  pulver­
ized and the colocynths are  rubbed up with 
gum tragacanth paste,  dried and ground.

W hen He Felt Bad.

From the New York Times.

“Do you ever have a dreadful  tired  feel­
ing come over you?” asked  a  patent  medi­
cine  manufacturer  of  a  friend  who  com­
plained of not feeling well:

“Oh, yes,  often,” replied the friend.
“You should try a bottle  of  my  cure-all. 
How often do you experience this tired feel­
ing?”

“Every time I see your  advertisement on 

the fences.”

“ Dentrifice.”

Oil of Peppermint, “ English.”........ Grams  10.0
Oil of Anise.....................................................  4.0
OilofStaranise................................................  4.0
Oil of Cinnamon. Ceylon.......................• . . .   1.0
Oil of Rose......................................................  0.5
Oil of Cloves.....................................................  2.0
Tincture  of Ambergris.................................  2.0
Tincture of Vanilla.......................................   10.0
Tincture of  Cochineal...................................  25.0
Tincture of Logwood....................................   2.0
Tincture of Orris  Root.................................  6.0
Sugar  ...............................................................   10.0
Alcohol.................................. .’..............Litre  1.0

Digest for 24 hours and filter.

Making  it  an  Object.

Young lady (in drug store)—Will  you let 
me have a two-cent postage  stamp,  please?
Proprietor (rather shortly)—Certainly’m; 

anything else to-day?

Young lady  (conscious that she has made a 
small purchase)—Well—er—you might give 
me another stamp,  althongh  I  don’t  really 
need it.

Pharmaceutical  Finance.

Small  boy  to  druggist—“I  want  to  get 
some  brimstone.  How  do  you  sell  it?” 
Druggist—“Five  cents  an  ounce.”  Small 
boy—“Oh,  I want a pound.  How  much is 
that?”  Druggist—“Four cents.”

The Drug Market.

The  drug  business  has  been  somewhat 
quiet during the past  week,  and collections 
have been  fair.  The  changes  in  price  are 
unimportant  and  without  special  signifi­
cance.

The extraordinary power  of  naphthol  as 
an  antiseptic  and  disinfecting  agent,  has 
been known for a  long  time, but  its  dis­
agreeable spiel 1 and the difficulty of produc­
ing it in a  pure  state,  with  the  occasional 
toxical  action  of  the  crude  napthol,  has 
been a bar to its use as a remedial and anti- 
septical agent.  Justus Wolff,  a chemist in­
terested  in  coal-tar  products,  has  recently 
succeeded  in  producing  it  in  a  pure  and 
odorless state in well  defined  crystals,  and 
claims its antiseptic action  is  much greater 
than that of carbolic acid.  Recent research 
has demonstrated that the  toxic  effects  of 
crude naphthol were due  to  the  impurities 
it contained.  Dr.  Shoemaker, of  Philadel­
phia,  in a paper  read  before  the  Philadel­
phia  County  Medical  Association,  on  the 
Medical Use and  Value  of  Naphthol,  con­
clusively proved the  non-poisonous  charac­
ter of the  purified  or  odorless  naphthol by 
taking  large  doses  internally. 
It  has  no 
corrosive action on the skin and will not in 
jure textile fabrics.  As  a  remedial  agent, 
it  acts  with  greater  efficiency,  and  has 
advantages over  carbolic  acid;  the  fact of 
its being absolutely odorless,  will make it a 
desirable substitute. 
It is  expected  that it 
will shortly be  produced  on  a  manufactur­
ing scale as a substitute for carbolic acid.

The British Medical Journal gives a list, 
not free from  obscurities,  of  some  of  the 
“most important new drugs and active prin­
ciples which will probably be  found  in  the 
new edition” of the British  Pharmacopoeia, 
about to be issued. 
It includes pilocarpine, 
several fluid preparations of jaborandi, coca 
and cocaine hydrochloride,  ergotin,  caffeine 
and its citrate,  aponnorphine hydrochloride, 
morphine sulphate  and  bichloride,  codeine, 
physostigmine,  elaterin, aloin,  cinchonidine 
and cinchonine,  nitro-glycerine,  cascara  sa­
grada,  rhamnus,  staphisgraia,  cimicifuga 
(actsea),  menthol,  potassium  cyanide,  so­
dium bromide,  iodide  and  sulphite,  certain 
sulphocarbolates,  iodoform,  eucalyptus  oil, 
fir wool oil,  thymol, boric acid,  salicin,  sali­
cylic acid  and  sodium  salicylate. 
In addi­
tion,  among external  applications,  several, 
oleates,  as well as ointments made up  with 
hard or soft paraffine,  as mentioned.

pentaria.

copahia, ser

Acetic, No.  8..........................
Acetic, C. P. (£>p. grav.  1.040)........
Carbolic...................................
Citric.......................................
Muriatic 18  deg.....................
Nitric 36 deg............................
Oxalic......................................
Sulphuric 66 deg....................
Tartaric  powdered...............
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz
Benzoic,  German..................
Tannic.....................................
AM MONIA.

9 @ 10
.  30 @ 35
.  38 @ 40
.  55 @ 60
3 @ 5
11 © 12
.  12 @ 14
3 @ 4
. 
.  52 @ 55
18
l
.  12 @ 15
.  12 @ 15

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

$ ft>

>  15 ® 18
14
5 @ 6
6 © 7

BALSAMS.

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

BA RK S.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select........................
Jlayberry  powdered.......................
'Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................

B E R R IE S .

EXTRACTS.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c)...............
Juniper.............................................
Pricklv Ash......................................
Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fl> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft>  box^)...............
...............
Lgowood, 
do 
Logwood, 14s 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

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

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor...........................................
Catechu. Is (14 14c, 14s 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge...........................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino TPowdered, 30cl.....................
Mastic 
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.00)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac,  native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth ......................................

•••

40®45
40
2  00 
50

11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

@  75 
6  @  7
50  @  60

27
37)4
9
12
13 
15
14

10  @  11 25 
25

60®  75 
12 
50
28®  30 
65 
60 
50 
45 
35
25 
55®60
25®  27 
13
35®  40 
80
90@1 00 
35 
20
40 
3 60 
30
26 
24 
30
30  ®1 00

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................35
Peppermint.......................................................“o
Rue......................................................................40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................ 35
Tanzy........ ........................................................25
Thyme...............................................................30
Wormwood...................  
25

 

IR O N .

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

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  13
Sage, Italian, bulk (Ms & 14s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna........................................
Foxglove......................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

LIQ U O R S.

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

M AGNESIA.

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

O IL S.

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber,  rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor*................................................  18
Croton.-.............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves...............................................
Cod Liver, N. F........................$  gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
__
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1...........................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50)
Salad.................................................  65
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood. German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint......................................
T ansy............................................... 4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
Wormseed......................................

do 
do 

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................$  tt>
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 J4s and 14s__
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)...........   11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered...................
Jalap,  powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select....................
Pink, true..................  ....................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................1 10
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers.................

6 40 
20 
7
80
65

@  14 
6
@  20 
30 
22 
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

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

22
37

®  50 
45
1  85 
50
2  00

75 
1  00 35 
75 . 
1 20 
1 20
1  50 
6  00
7 50 
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 75 
@5 00 
®  12
2 10
3 50 
2 00

14 
40 
20 
3 00 
28

20
25
17
33
12
20
35
20
10
®  12
17 
20 
20
1  20 
30 
15
18 
40
®1 50 
®1  20 
2 00 
2 25

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

SEEDS.

2 CO
2 30

1 10

4 00

2 75

do 

6  ©

do 
do 
do 

SPONGES.

do 
do 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
15
5  @ 6
Bird, mixed in ft»  packages...........
4  @ 4)4
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
15  @ 18
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
1 50
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
1 75
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
20
Coriander, Dest English................
10
15
Fennel..............................................
324®
Flax, clean..................... .................
4  @ 4)4
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3?i)..................
7  @ 8
Foenugreek, powdered..................
4)4® 5)4
Hemp,  Russian...............................
8
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........
10
Quince..............................................
Rape, English..................................
14
Worm, Levant.................................
Florida sheeps’wool, carriage.......2 25  ®2 50
Nassau 
do 
do 
........ 
2 00
1  10
. . . .  
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
do 
85
.......  
65
........ 
do 
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for slate use................  
75
1 40
Yellow Reef. 
................. 
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22; $  gal__  
2 30
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
1 25
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................  
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ * 
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
12
45
Annatto  1 5b rolls............................ 
Alum.........................................  $ft>  2)4®  3)4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  @  4
Annatto, prime...............................  
45
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........  
4)4®  5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... 
6  ®  7
50
Blue  Soluble....................................  
Bay  Rum, imported, best.................... 
Bay Rum, domestic, H.,P. & Co.’s. 
2  00
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
Beans,  Tonka.........................................  
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate............................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70e).......................  
50
Blue Vitriol  ....................t . ............  
6  @  7
Borax, refined (Powd  12c).............  
10@12
2  00
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
18
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
22
18
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
Carmine,  No. 40...................................... 
Cassia Buds...................................... 
12
75
Calomel.  American......................... 
5
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
12
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
8
Chalk,  red  fingers........................... 
2
Chalk, white lump........................... 
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ........................... 
1 60
Colocynth  apples.......................... , 
60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.'. 
1 50
1 70
cryst... 
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ... 
1 90
Chloral 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform............. ........................  77  @  80
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  23  @  28
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   23  @  28
Cloves (Powd 23c)...........................\. 18  ®  20
Cochineal.........................................  
40
45
Cocoa  Butter...*.............................. 
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................  
2
70
Corrosive Sublimate.......................  
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
@  40
Cream Tartar, pure powdered....... 
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box.. 
Creasote............................................  
50
Cudbear,  prime...............................  
24
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
24
Dextrine.......  .................................  
12
Dover’s  Powders................................... 
50
Dragon’s Blood Mass...................... 
45
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
Ether Squibb’s ................................. 
110
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
8
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%).....................  
2  @  3
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
60
Ether, sulph.uric, U. S.  P ............... 
Flake white...................................... 
14
Grains  Paradise.............................  
25
Gelatine, Cooper’s..........................  
90
Gelatipe. French  ..............................  45 @  70
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet....................................   12 @  17
Glue,white.......................................   16  @  28
Glycerine, pure.................................  16 @  20
Hops  )4s and 
.............................. 
25®  40
Iodoform $   oz................................. 
40
Indigo.................................................   85 @t  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35  @  40
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes 
@1 00
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
4  00
Isinglass,  American....................... 
1  50
7
Japonica........................................... 
London  Purple...............................   10  ®  15
Lead, acetate....................................  
15
8
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & )4s 11c) 
Lupuline........................................... 
1  00
Lycopodium........ ........................... 
45
Mace.................................................  
50
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
12)4®  13
Manna, S.  F .......................... 
 
75
60
Mercury............................................  
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  3 00@3 25
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s........ 
40
Moss, Iceland................................. B> 
10
Moss,  Irish...................................... 
12
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 Ib  caus........  
18
Nutgalls............................. 
23
 
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
60
Nux  Vomiqa....................................  
10
Ointment. Mercurial, )4d............... 
45
Paris Green....................................... 
17 ®  25
Pepper, Black  Berry..................... 
18
 
Pepsin...............................................  
2  50
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
6 ®  7
Quassia  ............................................... 
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft» oz  70  @  75
Quinine,  German............................ 
70®  75
Red  Precipitate............................ tt> 
85
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
28
Strychnia, cryst...............................  
1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst.........................  74 ®  78
Saffron, American..........................  
35
@  2
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
33
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
2 @  2)4
Sal  Soda............................................... 
Salicin...............................................  
2  15
Santonin........................................... 
6 50
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
4
Soda Ash [by keg 3cj...................... 
35
Spermaceti.......................................  
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__  
4)4®  5
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
17
......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
9
Soap, 
do  do 
..................... 
11
Soap,  Mazzini..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ................................  26 @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ...............................   30 ®  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
35
3M@  4
Sulphur, flour................................... 
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
Tartar Emetic................................ 
60
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz 
2 70
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
140
85
pints in tin.............  
Tar, 
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft> 
25
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............ 
55
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................... 
7 ®  8
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shield  Cylinder....................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................35
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 30
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.............................................. 15)4
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter  bleached.................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
75
Whale, winter......................................  70 
60
Lard, extra...........................................  55 
55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45 
53
Linseed, pure raw..............................  50 
Linseed, boiled..................................   53 
56
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  70 
90
Spirits Turpentine..............................  42 
46
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 
2)4® 3 
234® 3 
13® 16 
58®60 
16®17

Bbl
Red Venetian............................  124
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   1%
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  1%
Putty, commercial..................  2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................  2)4
Vermilion,prime American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly  pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders^.....................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  Paints......
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints..

@70 
®90 
1  10 
1 40 
1 20@1 40 
1 00@1 20

3®  3)4
 

V A R N ISH ES.

PA IN T S.

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W  l i o l e s a l e

Druggists !

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

THE  CELEBRATED

Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

—Also for the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists' Sundries

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

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACILI­
TIES for meeting the wants of this class  of 
buyers  WITHOUT  DELAY  and  in  the 
most approved and acceptable manner known 
to  the  drag  trade.  Our special efforts  in 
this direction have received  from  hundreds 
of our customers the most satisfying recom­
mendations.

We  give  our  special  and personal atten­
tion to  the  selection of choice goods for the 
DRUG  TRADE  ONLY, and trust we merit 
the  high  praise  accorded  us  for  so  satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom- 
tomers with PURE  GOODS in this  depart­
ment.  We CONTROL and are  the  ONLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

m a m s   bade  s  m

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD  FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be excelled by  NO 
OTHER  KNOWN  BRAND  in the market, 
but superior in all respects to most  that  are 
exposed for sale.  We  GUARANTEE  per­
fect  and  complete  satisfaction  and where 
this brand of goods has been once introduced 
the future trade has been assured.

W e are also owners of the

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

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

The Dying Drummer.

“Taken  my last  big order;  made  the round 
Any letter from Mary and the boss little fellow 
■Despatch?  Why,  she  never  failed me; some­
I My Mary—genteel to perfection, and  also that
1 
He mustn’t forget  his father;  the  thought of 
Has kept me as straight as a plummet, won me 
Honor of  house  and  patrons.”  Sleeping,  he 
A boy, with his mates in  winter,  with  sledges 
Then tossed in feverish fashion; murmured of 
Seemed wading in deep, dark waters.  “Won’t 
Poor  lad!  Such  a  handsome  fellow!  Clean 
Of  those  elegant college fellows;  white teeth 
But none of your sleek  Miss  Nancy’s;  posted 
Frank, upright and manly, didn’t know how to 
Customers doted on him.  “Mack” was the pet 
Welcome, trusted, successful, the prince of the 
Up in the papers and parties; modest, had tact, 
‘‘Gentleman  Mack”  his  title  from Denver  to 
Didn’t we watch and tend him?  God!  How my 
He woke with a start and shiver  “All right!  I 
Porter, that large trunk yonder—the black one, 
And McRoy on the plate, aged forty.  My Mary 
Weeping.  All ready, porter!  Time!  Quick— 
Vainly  the  doctors  soothed  him,  climbing 
“Show you my  samples,  miners?  I’m leaving 
Never a hitch with my house, lads; kindly and 
Good house, and I served  them  faithful—call­
To  give  me  my  first  vacation for many  and 
The  doctor,  his  hand  a-tremble,  holding  his 
“ ‘In my Father’s house are  many  mansions.’ 
“Yes,  yes!  it’s  a  good  house,  Mary;  deals 
I’ve changed my route—they’re  calling—filled 
I’m on my way home—Mary—sweet Bob—it’s a 
Made 
the  round  trip  for  Christmas—my 

trip,  old chum.
at home?
thing is wrong with the line.
shaver of mine;
his truthful eyes
the drummer’s  prize,
seemed to sport,
and snowy fort.
brooks and trout:
somebody pull me out?”
shaven, with just a dash
and a soft mustache,
in all the trade,
be afraid.
of all;
drummers’ ball’.
was tree;
Mammoth Tree.
heart sank when
must go at ten.
with silver bands,
beside it stands
I must be in time.”
the heights sublime.
the road, you see.
just with me;
ing me in, I hear,
many a year.”
wrist, spoke low:
Where he passed you can safely go.”
square in its every line.
orders to date—resign
house that’s true—
darlings, I come to you.”

The Traveling Men’s Picnic.

The final preparations for  the  second  an­
nual picnic of the  Grand  Rapids  traveling 
men were  perfected  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Committee  on Arrangements,  held at  The 
Tradesman  office  last  Saturday evening. 
The various committees  are  constituted  as 
follows:

On Transportation—James  Fox,  Geo.  H. 

Seymour and H.  B.  Clark. 1

On Arrangements—L.  C.  Bradford, Chas. 
S.  Yale,  R.  Van Ness,  D.  C.  Underwood' 
and W. H. Jennings.
On  Sports—John  McIntyre,  Jas.  A. 
Crookston,  Wm.  H.  Downs, Steve Sears,  B. 
F. Emery,  Joe Reed, John E.  Kenning  and 
Chas.  S. Robinson.

On Music—W.  II. Jennings  and  Geo. H. 

Seymour.

Floor  Managers—Ily.  Robertson,  D.  S. 
Haugh, Dick Warner,  A.  D.  Baker,  Gus. 
Sharp and J. A.  Morrison.

The Committee on  Arrangements  has se­
cured the  sendees  of  the  Rockford  band, 
composed of fifteen  pieces for brass  music 
and a string band of  four  pieces.  This  is 
one of the best bands in the State,  and  will 
contribute largely to the  pleasure of the oc­
casion.

Geo.  F.  Owen has  been  chosen  orator of 
the day,  and will deliver a  postprandial ad­
dress on a subject of his own chosing.

The Committee  on  Sports  announce  the 
following contests,  which  will  probably be 
supplemented by others-  Rowing  race: fat 
men’s race; lean men’s race; tall men’s race; 
short men’s race; tug of war.

Every traveling man is requested  to wear 
his drummer badge.  Those  who  are with­
out badges will be supplied  by  applying to 
the Treasurer,  Geo. H. Seymour.

The picnicers  leave  the  Union  depot  by 
special train  over  the C.  & W.  M.  Railway 
at 8 o’clock,  Saturday  morning,  August 1, 
reaching Grand Haven about  9:3,0 find land­
ing at Spring Lake  about  10 o’clock.  Din­
ner will be served at the Spring Lake House 
from 12 to 2 o’clock,  and supper from 6 to 8 
p.  m.  The party  will  break  up  and start 
for  home  about  9  p.  m.,  reaching  Grand 
Rapids about 11  o’clock.

All traveling  men—whether  residents of 
Grand Rapids or not—and all visiting sales­
men  are  cordially  invited  to  attend  and 
bring their  ladies.  Any  man  taking  more 
than  six  ladies—Cass  Bradford  alone  ex­
cepted—will  be  compelled  to  divide  his 
charge with  the  single  gentlemen  of  the 
party.  The determination to ask  none but 
traveling men  to  participate  in  the festivi­
ties  causes  considerable  disappointment 
among  those  outside  of  the  craft,  but  as 
The Tradesman has heretofore remarked, 
“it is but  just  that  the  boys  be  given one 
day in the year all to themselves.”

PICNIC NOTES.

Every traveling man is going.
Crookston will wear his  schooners..
Gid. Kellogg will bring his big feet.
By  Gee  Crip  will  try  and  trade  horses 

with the landlord.

noon and evening.

Dancing will be in order during the after­

Geo.  Owen is prohibited from mentioning 

the subject of dogs in his speech.

“Up and Up” says that it depends on the 
thermometer  whether  he  can  summon  up 
courage enough to enter the  fat men’s race.
Harry  McDowell  will  have  his  sailing 
yacht “ Daisy ” on  Spring  Lake,  and  will 
entertain several of his friends with rides on 
the lake.

Every Merchant Ought to Take It. 

From the Boyne Falls  Statesman.

The Grand Rapids Tradesman  is one of 
our latest exchanges.  This is a paper which 
every merchant in the State  ought  to  take. 
It gives the markets  of  the  State  complete 
and contains many hints of  great  benefit to 
merchants.  A man in the  mercantile  bus­
iness cannot expend $1 more profitably than 
by sending for  The  Tradesman  for  one 
year.

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED  EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A. STOWE  &  BEO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95.

I Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 
Second-class Matter.1___________

WEDNESDAY. JULY 29,1885.

TH E  ARMY SHOE.

What It Had to Do W ith  the  Free,  Firm 

Stepping of the Present Day 

“A great many changes have taken  place 
in my  time,” said an old man in the  course 
of the conversation.  “Men  and women act 
differently, talk differently, walk differently. 
They have put off the old  habits aud  taken 
on the new,  while some of us  old  residents 
have clung to  the  old  habits  and  the  old 
ways.  I cannot quite explain the difference 
between the walk in the old times  and  the 
walk now, but I know  there is a  great  dif­
ference.”

“I can  explain  it,”  said  a  younger man. 
“Men walk very much as they think, and all 
men  in Chicago have taken on new walking 
habits since the close of the war.  My own 
opinion is that the army  shoes  had  a  good 
deal to do with the free, firm stepping of the 
present day.  Just before  the war there had 
come in the stub-toed, thin-soled  boots  and 
shoes.  The theory was  that  men  walked 
better  in  very  light  foot-gear,  and  heavy 
boots and shoes went out of style.

“The marching days of  the  war  crushed 
this  theory flat.  Soldiers learned by exper­
ience, by painful experince I might say, that 
the broad-bottomed,  lieavy-soled  shoe  was 
the tiling.  Men  who spent money in fitting 
themselves out with light-soled, pliable, easy- 
fitting boots generally threw them  away af­
ter the first  forced  march  or  traded  them 
gladly for half-worn  army shoes.

“Since the war men who are on their feet 
a good deal have made a  fashion  for  them­
selves.  They have clung persistently to the 
broad-bottomed,  thick-soled  shoes.  As  a 
result they stand with comfort,  step firmly, 
and easily,  enjoy walking,  and are not  fag­
ged out by going and coming  and  lounging 
on the  feet  incident  to  the  transaction  of 
business in Chicago.  There has  been,  too, 
more change  in the manner of  ladies’  shoes 
than appears at a glance.  Broad toes have 
not been popular,  but heavy soles have come 
in spite of the fight  made against them,  and 
that the women of to-day are better walkers 
than those of twenty-five years  ago  is  evi­
dent at a  glance.”

^M1  ♦— -------—

A Trade Teaching School.

Watermelons  Won’t  Go.

“There is as  handsome  a  lot  of  water­
melons as ever reached  New  York,” said a 
Washington market dealer to a  Sun  repor­
ter,  “and yet people shun  them  as  if  they 
were  afraid  they  would  go  off.  Where  I 
sold a thousand last season I do not sell one 
hundred.”

“How do you account for it?”
“That’s an easy one.  Why,  cholera,  chol­
era,  cholera!  The health board have scared 
the fruit consumers to  death,  and,  in  place 
of breakfasting on a good  ripe  watermelon 
or dish of other fruit,  they  are  now  diet­
ing on  oatmeal,  crackers,  rice,  or  hominy. 
Nothing green—not a shade of that color on 
the table.  Now,  watermelons are notorious­
ly  wholesome.”

“How do the  prices  compare  with  last 

season?”

“There is a handsome melon for 25 cents; 
50 and 60 cents was a  common  price a year 
ago.”

“Many melons coming?”
“ Yes,  but  they  will  not  pay  expenses. 
We won’t have the cholera but we have  got 
the  scare,  and  the  melon  business  is  laid 
out.”

A Mean Landlord.

“IIow do you like your new house?” ask­
ed a Brooklynite of a friend  who  moved to 
Jersey on the 1st of May.

“Oh, I like the  house  well  enough,  but 
landlord  is  the  meanest  man  I ever 

the 
met.”

“Iu what respect?”
“Well,  since  I’ve  moved  I’ve  had  the 
I shook so hard that some  of  the 
the  landlord 

malaria. 
ceiling  came  down.  Then 
wanted me to pay for repairing it.”

“ The mean scoundrel!”
“But that wasn’t  the  worst of it.  Why, 
he actually had  the  audacity to  send me a 
bill because his dog howled  under  my win­
dow7 w hen! was sick.”

“Why did he want  you to  pay for that?” 
“Because he said canine  bark  was  good 
for the chills; and that he couldn’t  afford to 
furnish it free.”

Labor  Statistics.

A building was in process of  erection op­
posite  a  public  building,  in  Washington 
City.  One of the clerks who had been look­
ing out of the window  for  some  time,  said 
to another clerk who  was  reading  a  news­
paper:

T  have,  been  watching  that  workman 
over there, and  he  has  not  done  a  lick of 
work in all that time. 
I  wonder  what  he 
gets  paid  for?”

Just about the  same  time  the  workman 

remarked to a fellow' workman:

‘Just look at that government clerk  over 
there.  He hasn’t done anything except look 
out of the window  for  the  last  half  hour. 
No  wonder  the  country  is  going  to  the 
dogs.”

From  th e M ichigan M anufacturer.

A trade school is  in  successful  operation 
ill New York City. 
It was founded in 1881 
by  Col.  R.  T.  Auclimuty,  an  architect  of 
that city. 
In  this  school  are  now  taught
plumbing,  plastering,  brick-laying,  stone- 
cutting, pattern-making,  carpentry,  wood­
carving and  fresco-painting.  This institu 
tion is intended partly to take  the  place  of 
the apprentice system,  affording  intelligent 
instruction and  practical  experience  in  the 
handling of tools, at a nominal cost,  to young 
men.  The  old apprentice system,  through 
the opposition  of  trades  unions,  and  from 
other causes,  has to  a  considerable extent 
fallen into disuse in the United states.  The 
thoroughness  of  the  apprentice  system  in 
Europe is practically unknown here, and un­
less  something  be  done,  and  speedily,  to 
counteract  the  growing  tendency  toward 
laxness, we shall soon be obliged to rely for 
skilled labor,  in the  mechanic  arts,  on  im 
portations  of  foreign  workmen.  The  un­
dertaking of Col.  Auclimuty appears to he 
step in the right direction. 
Its success thus 
far  has  given  good  grounds  for  believ iug 
that it will continue to grow  in  usefulness, 
and that eventually the  system  will  be  ex­
tended to other  sections.  The development 
of this enterprise will  be  watched  with  in­
terest by all  persons  engaged  in  industrial 
pursuits ; by the manufacturer  no  less  than 
by the workman.

A Profitable Dog.

An exchange tells  of  a  man  residing  on 
the line of a railroad who has taught his dog 
to bark vociferously at every  passing  train. 
The impulse of the fireman is to  watch  for 
the barking dog,  and hurl pieces of  coal  at 
him in passing.  The result to the owner is 
that he lias delivered at his door all the coal 
he requires for his own use free of cost, and 
is now contemplating the opening of  a  coal 
yard for the supply of  his  neighbors.  He 
thinks he  can  compete  in  price  with  the 
oldest coal dealers in the  vicinity.

Keeping  Up  His Correspondence.

An  Austin  business  man  was  cleaning 
out his desk one day,  and tearing up old let­
ters, when the colored porter who was in the 
office,  spoke up and said:—

“Boss,  gimme,  one ob dem letters.” 
“What do you want it for?”
“I promised to write  a  letter  to  my  old 
mammy in Norf Car’lina,  but  as  I  hasn’t 
lamed to write yit,  I  can  jess send her one 
ob dem letters you hain’t no use for, hit will 
make her feci good,  hit will.”

The gentleman gave  the  affectionate son 
a patent  medicine,  anti-fat  circular,  which 
was duly mailed and addressed.

He Knew It W as Correct.

Customer—That  load  of coal  you sent—
Coal  dealer—Well,  wliat’s  the  matter 

with it?

Customer—The weight is not cor—
Coal dealer (positively)—I  superintended 
the weighing of that  coal  myself,  and  it’s 
correct to half a pound.

Customer—Oh,  then it  must be all  right, 
of course.  But the bill reads two tons, and 
my scales make it weigh nearly three.  Good 
morning.

Killed  the  Wrong  Game.

From the New York Graphic.

Mr.  Bascom ( | broker)—Had  a  splendid 

time.  Killed lots of game.

Mr.  White  (another  broker)—What  did 

you  kill?

Mr.  Bascom (with visible pride)—A bear.
Mr.  White  (who is short on the market)— 
You killed a  bear?  What  a  bloody  fool! 
When you were about  it,  why  didn’t  you 
kill a bull?

JU D I >   c*3  O O .,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

103  CANAL  STREET.

Scientific  photographers  claim  to  have 
evolved the ideal girl by employing the best 
features of  a  dozen  or  twenty-five  young 
women to make a perfect  picture.  The re­
sult may be a great triumph for science, but 
it seems to be a little ungenerous and ungal­
lant to assert as a  scientific  fact  that from 
oue to two dozen girls are necessary to form 
an ideal girl.  There  was  a  time  when  a 
pair of brown eyes,  two rosy cheeks,  a dim­
pled chin,  a picnic hat,  a graceful figure and 
a red Mother Hubbard, with a few  fashion­
able accessories,  embraced  all the attributes 
supposed to be necessary  for  tlie  make-up 
of an angel.

Merchant—“You wanted to speak to me?” 
Clerk—“Yes, 
sir.”  Merchant—“What
about?”  Clerk—“I  hope  you  won’t  take 
offense, sir; but I’m doiug exactly the  same 
work as Mr. Jones, and get $6 a month less 
for it.”  Merchant—“Ah! indeed?  Thanks, 
I’ll  have  Mr.  Jones  salary  cut  down  at

SHIPPING  BASKETS  AND  BOXES

Patented  April  29th,  1883. 

CAPACITY  2,500  BAGS.

Saves  time,  bags  and  valuable 
counter  room. 
Is  neat  and orna­
mental,  constructed  of  malleable 
iron,  neatly  Japanned,  with  steel 
wire needles, and will never get out 
of repair.  Weighs about 6 lbs. and 
occupies  18  inches square of space. 
Can  be  adjusted  to  any height of 
ceiling.  Is suspended  from ceiling 
directly  over  counter  within  easy 
distance of  salesman.  For  further 
information address

SOLD  BY

GEO.  R.  BROWN,

PALMYRA, N. Y.

Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Chicago, 111.

Arthur M eigs & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

- 
- 
- 
- 

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

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

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

T O B A C C O !

Offered in this M arket are  as M ow s:

PLU G   TOBACCO,

RED  FOX 
BIG  DRIVE 
PATROL 
JACK  RABBIT 
SILVER  COIN 
PANIC  -
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
APPLE  JACK

- 

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

F IN E   CU T.

THE  MEIGS  FINE  OUT, DARK, Plug flavor
STUNNER,  D A R K .................................
RED  BIRD,  BRIGHT 
- 
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT 
FRUIT 
O  SO  SWEET 

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

- 

«

-

- 
2c less in 6 pail lots.

- 

-

SM O K IN G

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.

- 

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Co

Wholesale Grocers,

W ho w arrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right in 
every particular.  W e 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  TH-AIDE.

We wish to call the attention of the trade to the fact that we  are  manufacturing  a Mme 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

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

OUR  SACK  COATS 

1

EVERY  GARMENT  IS  WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP.

Are cut full so as n®t to bind in any part and l a r g e  enough for any  man.
If in any case they should rip or not give perfect satisfaction, give the purchaser another pair 
and charge to us. 
than  any  other  factory  making  first-class goods.  Ah dealer will find it to their  interest to
lend tor^amples and prices before placing their orders elsewhere.
O v e r a l l  O o., I o n i a , M icx i,
-i\/ri nil •» 

'  OURaPKlCES  ARE  LESS

No convict labor used in the manufacture of our goods.

See  Our  W holesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and w rite for

Special  Prices  in  Oar  Lots, 
f  e are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anjtMnpe handle.
A. B. KNOW LSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

B R O W N ’S

P aper B ag
Twine  Holder!

AND

(COMBINED.)

S.  W.  "VEIST ABLE  <Sc  OCX,

P E T E R S B U R G ,   V A .,

NIMROD

MANUFACTUREES  OF

AND  OTHER  FAVORITE  BRANDS  OF

Plug* Tobacco.

NIMROD 
E  c  
BLUE  PETER..................................................-88 | In lots of 72 pounds or over two cents less.

............................................ 44 I SPREAD EAGLE..............................................°3
...................................... 40  BIG  FIVE  CENTER........................................35

 

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS
CARPETS,

?

MATTING-S,

OIL.  CLOTHS

E T C . ,   e s t o .

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

M i c h i g a n .

Grand  Rapids,

O ysters [p  J
and  Pish 117  MONROE  ST.
F E E .  KI I N S   &  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

NOS.  133  and  134  LOUIS  STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR MILL  USE.

Curtiss, Dunton &  Co.,
G rand  R apids  Tank  Line.

P R O P R I E T O R S

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

and barrel it here.

XXX  Water White. 
Electr oleum.

OTTE.  BRANDS.

Prime White, Michigan  Test. 
Michigan  Test.

LiUBBIOATIN G-.

French Valve Cylinder.
Dark Valve Cylinder.
Eureka Engine.
No.  1  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. 
Parafine.
2 5 °
2 Golden.
No.
Zero W . Va. 
Summer West Va. 
87 Gasoline.
Lard Engine. 
Castaroline.
Amber  Engine.

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

C U R T I S S ,  D U N T O N   cfc  O O

Tie Micliffl M e s ta i

TH E  CREDIT  SYSTEM.

Some of its Abuses and Abusers.

From the  St. Louis  Stove  and  Hardware  Re­
porter.

According to trade  customs  now  preval­
ent,  the  granting  of  short  credit is by no 
means an  accommodation  or  favor  on  the 
part of the seller, nor  a  right  belonging  to 
the buyer. 
It is simply a custom! of  mod­
em trade,  which enables a trader  possessed  , 
of limited capital to do business,  and  ought 
tq be guarded  with  jealous  care  by  both 
classes.  The amount  of  credit  which any 
particular  merchant  can  safely  carry  is  a 
proper question for each seller to determine 
for himself,  and the  buyer  has  no  right to 
take offense if he be politely  refused.  The 
seller is  supposed  to  know  how  much  he 
himself  can  safely  carry,  and  would  be 
childish to become angry atjiim   for declin­
ing to extend that amount at the  request of 
any one.

One of the most difficult problems in mer­
cantile life is to correctly estimate the quan­
tity of goods that can be sold within a give- 
en period,  in other words,  to be a good buy­
er.  With some dealers  and  consumers the 
fact that they can obtain  credit is a tempta­
tion to buy a  greater  volume  and  value  of 
goods  than  they  can  dispose  of  or  make 
use of.  These  parties  are  in  no  sense of 
the term  good  customers.  They  are  slow 
pay, and very often the  annoyance  and ex­
pense  of  collecting,  the  interest  on  their 
bills,  and the straits to which the seller is put 
in order to procure  elsewhere  the  amounts 
which these  delinquents  should  have  paid 
unasked,  often go far towards consuming all 
the  prolfts  on  the  sale.  The  reliable  and 
profitable customer is he  who  buys  closely 
and pays promptly  when  due,  taking  such, 
and so much,  as he sees  clearly a chance of 
selling. 
In fact,  such men  are not  strictly 
debtors,  for no obligation to pay exists until i 
a  debt  is  due.  This  class  rarely  become 
angry  if  parties  decline  to  credit  them, 
because they appreciate and  honor the con­
ditions  and  surroundings  of  such  transac­
tions.

The same remarks apply to goods sold on 
account by the retail  merchant.  The  most 
disagreeable of his customers are those who 
are perfectly solvent,  and from whom debts 
can be collected by due  course  of  law,  and 
who seem to regard this  fact  as  all  that is 
necessary.  When pressed for payment they 
say in effect,  “What  is  the  hurry?  You 
know that your  money  is  perfectly  safe.” 
And so it is, and so it would be if locked in 
a  fire-proof  safe  beneath  the  ruins  of  a 
burned down building,  where  several days 
must  elapse  before  it  could  be  recovered. 
But it is not available for those debts whose 
prompt  payment  saves  the  debtor  from 
bankruptcy.  Failures in business are caus­
ed by the aggregates of this class  of  debts, 
and not by those contracted by persons who 
live  “from  hand  to  mouth”  and  who  sud­
denly  become  unable  to  pay  their  bills. 
These well-to-do debtors would  feel  insult­
ed  if  called  dishonest,  yet  a  refusal  to 
promptly  pay  any  just  debt  must  belong 
either to the class of impossible or dishonest 
actions.

The  Debtor’s Device.

Translated from the German.

A very amusing story is going the rounds 
in Vienna.  Among the prominent  citizens 
of the  capital  of  the  Austrian Empire is a 
gentleman whom we  shall  call  Herr Fritz. 
He is the proprietor of a  large  factory,  and 
is, moreover, well-known as a jovial,  whole- 
souled  fellow,  who  delights  to  give  large 
dinner parties.

Not long since lie  sent  out  invitations to 
all  his  business  friends  to  partake  of  his 
hospitality at a dinner party.

Herr Fritz was  known  to  be  a  good  en- I 
tertainer.  His  wines  were  so  good  thatj 
some members of the  nobility,  whose social I 
status was much higher  than  that  of  Herr 
Fritz, condescended to  associate  with  him, 
so that they could  guzzle  some  of  his  fine | 
wines.  His cook was a major-general among 
cooks.  As might be inferred,  all the  invit­
ed  guests  were  present  at  the  appointed | 
hour.  They were disappointed  in their ex­
pectations,  but  agreeably  so,  for  the  ban­
quet was even more excellent than any they I 
had ever attended.  The mcAu was  conced-1 
ed  by  experienced  gourmands,  who  made 
menus their specialty,  to be head and shoul- j 
ders over any they  had  ever  tackled.  The j 
wines were not fit for a prince.  They were J 
too good.
It occurred  to  some  of  the  guests,  who  j 
were  not  as  busy  as  the  rest  with  their 
knives and forks, that it was a little  singu-  1 
lar that neither  the  wife  nor  daughters  of 
the host  were  present,  but  they  supposed | 
that perhaps they had  gone  to  the  skating : 
rink. 

It was a regular stag party.

At first,  as is frequently the case at a din- { 
ner  party  at  which  there  are  gentlemen! 
only,  the  proceedings  were  somewhat  te-1 
dious.  By  degrees,  however,  the  guests, 
became  more  lively  under  the  stimulating j 
influence of the  wines.  Their  tongues  be-! 
came loosened by the frequent  lubrications, 
and there was a flow  of  geniality  and  wit, 
such as is found only on press excursions.

Good humor prevailed to an almost alarm- j 
ing extent.  Everybody present was in a hil-  j 
arious mood.  Just at this crisis  Herr Fritz j 
stood up and  intimated  that  he  would like j 
to make a few remarks.

“Bravo!” said a fat man  with a  red  face,  ! 
pounding on the table with the handle of his j 
knife.

“Now  we  will  hear  something  funny,” j 
remarked another guest, getting  his  mouth 
ready to laugh.

“Speech!  Speech!”  exclaimed several of 
the guests who had  contemplated the  wine 
when it was red.

There  was  a  solemnity  about  the  host 
that almost convulsed the merry  gentlemen 
present.

“Gentlemen,  I see around me all my cred­
itors,  and 1  have  some  very  important  in­
formation  to  impart  to  you-----”  and  he
paused.

The  fat  man,  to. whom  Herr  Fritz  was 
owing  20,000  marks,  turned  a  trifle  pale, 
and seemed to be unable to close his mouth, 
¿n which he had d ^posited a morsel  of  jmte 
de foie gras.

Several  other  creditors  looked  at  each 

other.

“Gentlemen,” continued the orator,  “you 
will  regret  to  hear  that  I  am—a  bank­
rupt.”

Roars  of 

laughter.  “That 

is  good;” 
“Over the hills to the poorhouse,”  sang an­
other.

The orator did not  join  in  the  laughter. 

With increased solemnity, he said:

“I  wish,  gentlemen  for  your  sakes  and 
for my sake, that  I  were  jesting, but I am 
not.  Of  late  I  have  experienced  severe 
losses. 
It is impossible for me to  meet my 
obligations. 
If,  however,  you  gentlemen 
are willing to give  me  six  months’  time,  I 
can pay off every  thing  and  thus  save  my 
honor—and  my  life,  for”—and  here  Herr 
Fritz drew a revolver—“I  propose  to  blow 
out  my b r a in s   in  your  presence,”  and  he 
placed the deadly weapon to his temple.

The horrified guests sprang  to  their feet. 
A few of  the more  courageous  endeavored 
to  wrest  the  revolver  from  the  desperate 
man, but they did not  succeed.  Herr  Fritz 
declared that he would  not  give  up the re­
volver until a certain  document, giving him 
an extension of six months,  was signed, and 
he suddenly drew  the  document  from^his 
breast pocket.

As  we  have  already  intimated,  all 

the 
creditors,  owing to the wine, were in a most 
genial mood.  They had perfect  confidence 
in the honesty  and  ability  of  Herr  Fritz, 
and  in  a  few  minutes  the  document  was 
signed by all the creditors of Herr Fritz.

Then  the  merriment  was  renewed  in 
earnest, although there was a hollow ring in 
the laugh of the  fat  man  that  told  of an 
aching  heart.  Fritz  put  up  his  revolver, 
which,  so it  has  been  intimated,  was  not 
even loaded.

A Sudden Rise in Values.

“Where are you going with  the  puppies, 
my little man?” asked Geo.  Owen of a small 
boy  whom  he  met  with  three  pups  in  a 
basket.

“Goin’ to drown them,” was the reply.
“I1 want a pup for  my  little  boy  to  play 
with.  What do you say to letting me take 
one of them?”

“I’ll sell you one,” spoke up  the kid with 
American  enterprise. 
“I’ll  sell  you  this 
yaller  one  for  fifty  cents,  the  black  one 
for seventy-five cents, and the spotted one is 
worth one dollar of any man’s  money.”

“I think my little boy would like the spot­
ted one best, but you  ask  too  much  for  it. 
You had intended drowning all of them, but 
I’ll give you twenty-five cents  and save you 
the trouble of drowning ¿he spotted one.” 

“Twenty-five cents for that spotted purp!” 
exclaimed the boy.  “I can’t stand i t ; taxes 
is high ; rent is high. 
It costs good money 
to get into the roller  rink.  Oh, no; I can’t 
take less than 81.”

“But you intended to drown-----”
“Take the black one at 75 cents.”
“My little  boy  wouldn’t  like  the  black 

one.”

“Take  the  yaller  one  at  half  a  dollar. 

He’s dirt cheap.”

“My little boy wouldn’t like  his color,” 
“Well, then,  you  better  tell  your  little 
boy to play with his toes,” and he continued 
toward the river. 
“No  man can deadbeat 
his way on me these hard times.”

A Boy With a  Bulge.

From the Detroit Free Press.

“No,  my son,”  he  replied,  as  he  put on 

his hat,  “you can’t go to the circus.”

“But  why,  father?”
“Well,  in the first place,  I can’t fool away 

my money on such things.”

“Yes, but I have enough of my own.” 
“And in the  next  place  it  is  a  rough 
crowd,  the  sentiment is unhealthy, and  no 
respectable  person  can  countenance  such 
things.”

“But,  fath-----”
“That’s 'enough, sir!  You  can’t  go! 

I 
want you tos enjoy  yourself,  but  you  must 
seek some more respectable amusement.” 

An hour later a curious thing happened in 
the circus tent.  A boy climbed  to  the  top 
flight of seats and  sat  down  beside a  man 
who had just finished  a  glass of  lemonade 
and was  lighting a cigar.  He had his plug 
hat on the back of his  head,  and seemed to 
be enjoying himself hugely. 
It was  father 
and son.  The father  had  gone  straight to 
the grounds from dinner, and  the  boy  had 
run away.  They looked at each  other  for 
half a minute,  and then the boy  got  in  the 
first blow by whispering:

“Say, dad,  if you won’t  lick  me I won’t 

tell ma you was here!”

The father nodded his  head to the  agree­
ment,  and  the  great  spectacular  parade in 
the ring began.

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TH E  MERRY  MERCHANT.

He  Inquires  in #   the  Accessories  of  the
Modem Festival with  a  View  of  Get­
ting  Even  with  Two  Plug  Tobacco
Drummers.

The merchant laid aside his newspaper to 
meet  a  delegation  of  rosy-cheeked  girls 
whose  business ft*was  to  talk  him  out of 
enough sugar to  sweeten  an ice. cream and 
berry festival.

He  stood  up  against  the  comiter  scrub­
bing  his  streaming  brow  with  a  yellow 
handkerchief  and  looking  tired  while  a 
pretty spokes-girl  in  a  white  dress  and  a 
smile explained how much sugar they want­
ed and what  they intended  to  do  with  all 
the money they meant  to  make if  it didn’t 
rain and  the young  men  could  be  induced 
to gamble heavily in cake and doll stock.

After the girl got done  talking the grocer 
took a minute’s recess to chase  away a cus­
tomer’s hen  which  was  filling  a  capacious 
crop fi’om the feed department  without first 
having gone through the formality of  filing 
an order,  and then went behind the  counter 
to do up the sugar.

“Of  course,”  said  the  merchant,  eyeing 
the  different  grades,  “you  want  the very 
best.”

The pretty girl who had  done the talking 
intimated  that  the  grocer  needn’t  guess 
again.

“It’s been’ k" good  many  years since I at­
tended a festival of the kind you  refer  to,” 
he  said,  putting  in  an  extra  pound  and 
throwing in  half  a  dozen  lemons,  “and I 
didn’t know exactly how  to  figure. 
I sup­
pose, now, you get  the  best of  everything 
and do the superior act in every way?”

A little girl in a  pink  dress  and  brown 
curls  cleared  her  mouth  of  raisins  long 
enough to say that everything was  going to 
be just too nice for anything.

“I  thought  so,”  mused  the  merchant, 

charging the^snpplies  to profit and loss,
thought so.  When  I  frequented  ice cream 
and berry festivals in  my rash youth it was 
a little different.  U s  boys  used  to  have a 
little game in those  days  when  we went to 
festivals.  We’d take  two  selves  and one 
dish of genuine  arctic  ice  cream  and carry 
’em into  a  side  room.  Then  we’d  put the 
ice cream into one of  the  seives and  offer a 
dozen marbles as a sort of  a  chromo  to the 
boy who could tell which  one  of  the seives 
the ice cream  had  been  put into.  No  one 
ever got the marbles.  Must have been thin? 
Well, yes, rather. 
It  was  thinner  than  a ! 
Grand Rapids drummer’s pocket  book  after 
a month’s vacation.  Ever have  any of that 
kind of ice cream at any  of your festivals?” 
The girls all  blushed  and  snickered and 
said no, but they pulled each others’ dresses 
and nudged each other in the ribs in a man­
ner that made the merchant  feel  like going 
out into the back yard and yelling.

“Then,” continued the merchant,  putting 
up a package of candy for  the  refreshment 
stand,  “we used to buy up all  the shares in 
the cake that had  the  ring in it.  Then the 
next day we’d take the  cake  out  into  the 
woodshed and the boy that could get the ring 
out could have it.  We  had  nothing  in the 
way of tools but a hand axe and a bucksaw, 
so it wasn’t very often that anyone  got  the 
ring, but  one day  Johnny  Green  took  the 
cake down to his  father’s  planing  mill and 
burglarized it with a buzz  saw.  He got the 
ring,  but his father took  him on  a  whaling 
voyage to the back lot for spoiling the  saw.
I suppose, now,  you never have any cake of 
that sort'al%ie festivals you preside  over?” 
The girls looked at each  other out of  the 
comers of their eyes  and  said  the idea was 
just too ridhiulous for anything.

“I didn’t know,” said the  merchant look­
ing anything but pleased.  “Sometimes one 
gets hold of ope of those  pre-historic  cakes 
in this age of tin-tag  plug  and smoking to­
bacco with a pipe in every package.  There’s 
a couple of plug  tobacco  drummers  coming 
up  here  the  night  of  the  festival, and I 
thought it would be*a relief to me if I could 
run  them  up  against  one  of  the  festival 
cakes of my childhood  and  induce  them to 
carry their jaws in slings during  their brief 
career in the village. 
It  might  not tend to 
heighten their  connection  with  the  houses 
they represent, but it would be mighty useful 
to me.  Sure you can’t rope in one of  those 
burglar  proof,  anti-dynamite  cakes  if  the 
plug tobacco men should drop in with  high 
hats  and  diamond  pins  and  sort  o’  take 
charge of affairs?”

The girls snickered again and shook their 

heads.

“Well,” said the  merchant,  “perhaps it’s 
all for the best.  We  never  tried  our prize 
buzz saw cakes on plug  tobacco  drummers, 
and I’m not  oure  it  would  work. 
If  they 
should tackle it and come out ahead I’d feel 
meaner than a sample case in a pawn  show 
and never dare to look  one  of  them  in the 
face again. 
I think I’ll close  up  and  take 
to the woods the day they are due here.”

He packed his contributions  to  the  festi­
val fund into a neat bundle and the  delega­
tion  filed  out,  leaving  the  grocer  sitting 
alone on the counter and looking as  though 
he would like to  change  places  with a ring 
in the center of a plaster of paris cake.

Nothing Mean About Him.

Merchant:  “ I like  your  looks,  my  boy, 
and perhaps 1 can find work for  you.  You 
are quite orderly,  do you think ? ”

Boy:  “ O,  Yes.”
“ You have a place for everything ? ”
“ O, yes.  Thave a great many places for 

everything.”

A St.  Louis grocer has a  sign  out  which 
reads:  “Don’t  go  somewhere  else  to  be 
swindled, step right in here.”

Completely  Discomfited.

McGilpin is one of the best drummers that 
ever traveled over a  Southern  road; but  the 
best of them  will  sometimes  get  left.  He 
boarded the cars at Memphis  one  morning, 
and as the  train  slowly  pulled  out  of the 
depot,  he leisurely walked through  the first 
coach,  searching with the practical  eye  of a 
commercial traveler, for the seat  where  the 
most fun could be had.  He found it.  About 
half way down the second  car  sat  a  lovely 
young girl,  gazing  with  dreamy eyes  from 
the window.  “Mac”  brought  out  his  best 
smile for the occasion and said suavely:

“May  I  share  this  seat  with  you,  mad­

am?”

The girl turned quickly from the window, 
and said with a  charming blush  that  made 
“Mac” determine  inwardly  “to have  some 
fun at this innocent young thing’s expense:’
'  “Certainly sir.”

He  carefully  disposed  of  his  cane,  and 

then settled down to business.

“I’m from the north,” he  said, by way of 
opening up a conversation,  “In  fact,  I'm a 
touring pilgrim for  a  commercial  house  in 
St.  Louis,” and then,  with a happy thought, 
as the train slowed in  at a way station,  and 
he saw a  genuine  Southern  mule,  gaunt as 
as death in an adjacent field:

“Will you take pity on my northern ignor­
ance and tell me the name of  that  strange- 
lookiug animal in yonder meadow?”

She looked as directed, and in dulcet tones 

replied:

“I, too,  am a  northerner ;  but  from  the 
long ears, big mouth and general appearance 
of the animal,  I should think it was a “tour­
ing pilgrim for  a  commercial  house  in St. 
Louis.”

Just then “Mac” discovered that he want­

ed to see a fellow in the next car.
A Good Butter Test.

From the Philadelphia Times.

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JPOR  SALE—A neat drug store with a moder- 

i  ate  cash  trade.  With  or  without  soda 
fountain.  Stock about 82,000.  Best of reasons 
for selling.  A  good  chance  for  a single man 
with  small  capital.  Address  T,  Tradesman 
office. 
_________________
;  good run of custom.  Best of reasons for 
selling.  C. H. Adams, Otsego, Mich. 

$1,200  stock  of  groceries  or  drugs  or  a 
house and lot.  AddressF. P. C.,  box  80,  Wood- 
stock, Mich. 
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OTEL FOR SALE—New hotel in a thriving
___Northern Michigan town.  The only hotel
in the place.  Will sell or trade for  land.  Ad­
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IpOR  SALE- Drug  stock  and  fixtures,  with 
FOR  SALE-Farm  near  Grand  Rapids  for 
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..........1 25
Butter Ladles.............................
.........1 00
Rolling Pins.................................
Potato  Mashers..........................
Clothes Pounders.......................
ClothesPins............. . 
............
Mop Stocks..................................
Washboards, single....................
Washboards, double..................
40
Diamond  Market........ ..............
Bushel, narrow band........................................... 1 60
Bushel, wide band................................................ 1 to
Clothes, splint.  No. 1........................................... 3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2........................................... o to
Clothes, splint.  No. 3........................................... 4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1...........................................5 00
Clothes, willow. No. 2...........................................6 00
Clothes, willow, No. 3.............. 

WOODEN WARF.

BA SK ETS.

*  00

Perkins & Hess quote as fohows: 

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 
H ID ES.Calf skins, green

Green__ ^ ft  6  @  6M
Part cured...  7  ©  7M 
Full cured—   8M@ 8M 
Dry hides and 

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

Deacon skins,

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

S H E E P  P EL TS.

Shearlings............................................... J?  @20
Lambskins..............................................la
Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........  @20
Tallow......................................................  4M©- 4M
Fine washed ^ ft 20@251 Unwashed...........  
2-3
Coarse washed... 16@181

W OOL.

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.
The Newaygo Manufacturing  Co.  quote f 

b. cars as follows: 
.  nn
Uppers, 1 inch................................. per M $44 00
46 00 
Uppers, 1M. 1M and 2 inch.............
35 00 
Selects, 1 inch..................................
38 00 
Selects, 14. 14 and 2  inch............
30 00 
Fine Common, 1 inch....................
20  00 
Shop, 1 inch.......................•••;•-"
32 00
Fine, Common, 1M> 1 4  and 2 inch...........
15 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................
17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................
15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
17 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet..........................
12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................
14 00 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................
12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................
14 00 
No.2 Stocks, 10in.,20feet...  ...................
11  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........
12  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  «3 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  -7  30
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  1« 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  13 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch................................   13 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   30 00
18 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................
14 50 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................
9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common....
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft............  10 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ....................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................
17 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common.. 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common.... 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C— .................. •
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3  10 
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............
3 00
-(XXX18 in.  Thin......................................
| X X X 16 in..................v----  ....................
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
No. 2or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .......................
Lath  .....................................................  * f®@ 3 00

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  8H@ 9
Dressed Hogs.........................................   fA© 6
Mutton,  carcasses...................................  »v*© o
............................................................oVi<U)M
Pork Sausage............................... . —  •  8  © 9
Bologna...................................................
Chickens....................................... .........14
Turkeys  .......................... ......................

@15 

“By that means I convince my  customers 
that  I  don’t  sell  oleomargarine,”  said  a 
wliite-aproned  butterman,  pointing  to  two 
china sauce-boats  that  stood  in a conspicu­
ous  place  on  his  counter  in  the  Farmer’s 
Market. 
In each sauce  boat lay a little coil 
of  common  lamp  wick,  one  end of  which 
hung out of the nose of the vessel.  “Now,” 
said the dealer, pointing to two firkins,  “one 
of those  contains  oleomargarine, made  in 
Connecticut,  and the other holds salt-packed 
butter from Ohio.  See if you can detect the 
genuine from the  imitation.”  The reporter 
tried and failed. 
In  flavor,  smell  and  ap­
pearance they were identical.

The  butterman  continued:  “The  oleo­
margarine will  deceive  nine  buyers  out  of 
ten, but I will expose it to  you.”  He drop­
ped a lump of the oleomargarine as large as a 
hen’s egg into a tin cup,  and in another cup 
he placed a similar sized  piece  of  the  salt- 
packed.  The cups were held over a blazing 
little charcoal furnace,  until  their  contents 
were melted.  Then the  oleomargarine was 
poured into  one  sauce-boat  and  the  butter 
into  the  other.  The  wicks  were  lighted. 
Both burned readily,  and the butter  sent up 
a faint and pleasant smoke.  From the oleo­
margarine,  however,  came  the  nasty  and 
unmistakable  stench  of  burning  rancid 
grease.  “Since I began showing the differ- 
ance  between  butter  and  oleomargarine,” 
said  the  dealer,  as  he  snuffed  out  the 
wicks,  “my business has doubled.”
Bear Meat for all  Hands.

From the  N. Y. Tribune.

“Talking about funny things,” said a big, 
bronzed, bearded man  in  the  reading-room 
of an  up-town  hotel  last  night,  “the  fun­
niest thing I ever heard  of  happened in my 
saw mill out in Michigan.  We used a heavy 
upright saw for sawing heavy timber.  One 
day not long ago  the  men  had  all  gone to 
dinner,  leaving  the  saw,  which  ran  by 
water power,  going  at  full  speed.  While 
we were away a  big  black  bear  came  into 
the mill and went nosing around.  The saw 
caught his fur  and  twitched  him a  little. 
Bruin didn’t like this for a cent,  so he turn­
ed around and fetched the  saw  a  lick  with 
his paw.  Result: a badly cut paw.  A blow 
with the other  paw  followed,  and  it  was 
also cut.  The bear was by this  time arous­
ed to perfect fury,  and,  rushing  at the  saw, 
caught it in his grasp  and  gave  a  tremen­
dous hug. 
It was his last hug and we lived 
on bear steaks for a week.  When we came 
up from dinner  there  was  half  a  bear  on 
each side of the saw, which was going ahead 
as nicely as though it had never seen a bear. 
This is a fact,  so help  me,  Bob,”  and  the 
big lumberman  bit  off  a  fresh  chew of to­
bacco.

The  Grocery  Market.

Business  has  been  only  fair  during  the 
past week.  Sugars  are  very unsteady,  but 
the fluctuations  are  unimportant.  Raisins 
and citron are firm, with a higher  tendency.
Lemons have climbed the ladder to a dizzy 
height,  in consequence  of  the  hot  weather 
and the great scarcity of the fruit.  All  the 
markets  are  very  short, 
there  being only 
about one-third of the usual amount  afloat. 
The fruit is  not  running up to  g;ade,  but 
the price  is  rapidly  advancing,  and  may 
touch §15 or §20 before a  backward  move­
ment is experienced.

The city council of  Ishpeming  passed an 
ordinance  July 17, requiring  all  merchants 
establishing themselves in business there to 
pay §250 into the city treasury, the  same to 
apply on taxes if they remain  permanently, 
and to be forfeited  to the  city  if they leave 
before the end of  the  first  year.  This was 
done on account of the  Hutchinson  jewelry 
firm, which was refused a license,  and com­
menced business by paying  the  §50  before 
required as a guarantee  of  all  commencing 
business.  * It is expected  by  the  new  ordi­
nance to keep out all outside merchants,

ESCOTT’S

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

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CANNED F R U IT S .

B A K IN G   PO W D ER.

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

Frazer’s.................  2 80|Paragon  ................. 1  80
Diamond............... 1  75 Paragan 25 ft  pails.1 20
Modoc.................... 1  65|
Arctic 4  ft cans 
Arctic 4  ft cans 
Arctic 4  & cans.  .  1 401
doz. 25
Dry, No. 2.................................. 
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
3»
65
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz. 
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross  4 00
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box................................  2 00
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Arctic No. 2 
3 00
 
Arctic No. 3 
 
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BROOMS.
No.  2  Hurl............... 175
No. 1 Carpet............2 50
Fancy  Whisk...........100
No. 2Carpet............2 25
CommonWhisk__   75
No. 1 ParlorGem..2  75 
No. 1 Hurl.................... 2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards..................................I 40
Clams, 21b  standards..................................2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.....................................2 20
Cove Oysters,  1 ft  standards.................... 1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  2 00
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack  filled.................   75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.................... 1 0o
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.....................................1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft star........................................3 00
Lobsters, 2 ft star........................................3 00
Mackerel, lf t   fresh  standards.................1 00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards.................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t............... 3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard...........................3 2o
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled................................. 3 2o
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river......................1 50
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river......................2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento...........................1 25
Sardines, domestic Ms.............................. 
°
Sardines,  domestic  Ms............................   11
Sardines,  Mustard  Ms.................................
Sardines,  imported  Ms............................   ¿3
Trout, 3ft  brook.......................................   "  *»
Apples, 3 ft standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie............. 2 40
Blackberries, standards............................1  05
Cherries,  red  standard...............................   80
Damsons....................................................... 199
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 40
Green  Gages, standards 2 ft.................— 110
Peaches, Extra Yellow......................... . - .2 40
Peaches, standards............................1  7o@l 95
Peaches,  seconds........................................ 1 »0
Pineapples, Erie..........................................3 ~0
Pineapples, standards................................1  ¡0
Quinces.........................................................j
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg.................1 80
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40|Pears......................3 CO
Egg Plums.............2 501 Q uinces................. 2 90
Grapes....................2 50 Peaches  .................3 00
Green Gages..........2 50|
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.............................. 3 25
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................  
to
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ..........................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.................... 1 60
Corn,  Trophy...............................................1  05
Peas, French................................................ 1
Peas, Marrofat, standard...........................1  *0
Peas, Beaver................................................   90
Peas, early small, sifted............................ 1,80
Pumpkin, 3 ft Goiden.................................8o@9o
Succotash, standard.....................................  90
Tomatoes, Trophy......................................1  00
Boston...................... 361  German  Sweet...........!
Baker’s .....................38  Vienna Sweet  j.........:
Runkles’ ...................35|
9@13  I Roasted Mar... 17@18
Green Rio.......
j Roasted Moeh a. 28@30 
GreenJava—  
Roasted M ex.. ,17@20
Green Mocha.. 
Ground  Rio__ 9@16
Roasted Rio... 
I Package  Goods  @124
Roasted Java .
ID  AGE.
172 foot Cotton___2 25
72 foot Jute ... 
60 foot Cotton__ 2 00
60 foot Jute... 
|50 foot Cotton__ 1  75
40Foot Cotton.
Bloaters, Smoked I  armouth...................... 
to
Cod, whole.....................................................  @44
Cod,Boneless................................................. 8© •
Cod, pickled, M  bbls....................................3 50
H alibut........................................ 
 
Herring M  bbls............................................ ? 60
Herring,  Scaled.............................................18@*0
Herring,  Holland.........................................  55
Mackerel, No. 1, M bbls............................... 5 00
Mackerel, No. 1.12 ft  kits...........................50@S0
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  4  bbls.................   6 25
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits.......................1 00
Shad, Yi b b l.................................................. 2 50
Trout, No.  1, Yi  bbls....................................3 o0
Trout, No. 1,10  ft kits.................................  60
White, No. 1, Vi bb ls....................................5 25
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.................................  85
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  75
White, Family, Yi bbls................................ 2 oO

CANNED FRUTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

CHOCOLATE.

CO FFEE.

F IS H .

Jennings’ 2 oz............................13  doz.l 00 

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40
4 oz....................................... 1  50  2 50
6 o z .......................  ............2  50  4 00
8 oz....................................... 3  50  5 00
No. 2 Taper.........................125 
150
No.  4  “ 
1  75 
Yi pint  round....................... 4 50 
1 
“ 
3  00 
No.  8.......................  
No. 10 .........................  
4  25 

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3 60
7 50
4 25
6 00

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FR U ITS

414@5 
©71/2 
@8 
@16 
28@33 
44@5 
12@13 
@1 70 
@454 
10© 13 
9@914 
@1214 
@13
r*4@  814 @3 00 
@3 30 
@4 25 
@2 60

Apples, Michigan..................................
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls....................
Apples, Dried, evap., box.....................
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................
Citron......................................................
Currants.................................................
Peaches, dried  ......................................
Pineapples,  standards.........................
Prunes, Turkey, new............................
Prunes, French, 50 ft boxes.................
Raisins, Valencias — ...........................
Raisins,  Layer Valencias...............
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................
Raisins,  Sultanas...................................
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................
Raisins, London Layers.......................
Raisins, Dehesias..................................
Raisins, California  Layers..................
...  .  9
Water White........1014 I Legal  Test...
.......1 50
Grand Haven,  No.  9, square...............
.......1  50
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square.......
Grand Haven,  No.  200,“ parlor..................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor..................... 3 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round........................ 2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2.................................................110
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................1 60
Swedish.............................................................  *5
Richardson’s No. 2  square............................2  i0
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
...........................2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
............................170
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
.......................... 1 75
Black  Strap.................................................. 14@16
Porto  Rico....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good.....................................38W42
New Orleans, choice................................... 48@50
New Orleans,  fancy....................................52@55

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

molasses.

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M ATCHES.

14 bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

Steel  cut................ 5 SOlQuaker, 48 fts.........2 35
Steel Cut, Yt bbls.. .3 00 Quaker, 60 fts........ 2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 60|Quaker bbls............ 6 00

P IC K L E S .

do 

Choice in barrels med...........................  @4 25
Choice in 14 
............................  @2  50
£ipes.
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 2d
Imported Clay, No. 216,214 gross........   @1  85
American T. D.......................................   ©  90

R IC E .

Good Carolina........ 6 
iJava  ................. 64@64
Prime Carolina.......614 P atna.................... --6
Choice Carolina.......7  Rangoon...........54@64
Good Louisiana.......54lBroken.......................3,4

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure........54|Dwight’s ....................514
Church’s  ................ 514 Sea  Foam..................514
Taylor’s G. M..........5J4lCap Sheaf.................. 514

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
1003 ft  pockets.......................................  
Saginaw F ine..........................
Diamond C............*.............................. 
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags —
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, 4  bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................

SA UCES.

2 25
2 20
£n45

J
1 55 
80
2 80 
80 
25 
28

12  00 
Parisian, 4   pints........ . .......................
Ü  75 
Pepper Sauce, red  small....................
i  90
Pepper Sauce, green...... ....................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 35
I Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 70

Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1 00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ......................  @1  35
Horseradish,  4  pints............................  @1  00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1 30
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 4  pints.........................  @2 20
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........  @4  80
“  Monday..................  @3 35

SOAP.

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SPICES.

Whole.

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SY RUPS.

STARCH.

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

Pepper.................  @19
Allspice...............  8@10
Cassia..................   @10
Nutmegs  ............ 60@65
Cloves  .................  @18

Pepper.................16@25
Allspice............... 12@15
Cinnamon............18@30
Cloves  .................15@25
Ginger.................16@20
Mustard............... 15@30
Cayenne..............25@35
@6M
Kingsford’s, 1 ft pkgs.,  pure..................
@6M
3 ft pkgs.,  pure..................
lf t  pkgs., Silver  Gloss—
@8
6 ft pkgs., 
“  —
@8M@ 8
1 ft pkgs., Corn  Starch__
@5
(Bufli)  Ontario..................
@  7M 
Cut  Loaf.................................................
®  7M 
Cubes  ......................................................
Powdered...............................................
©  7M 
@6 81 
Granulated,  Standard..........................
@ 64 
Granulated,  off.....................................
@6 44 
Confectionery A ....................................
@6 44 
Standard A ..............................................
@ 6M 
Extra C, White.......................................
© 6 @ 54 
Extra C....................................................
Fine  C......................................................
Yellow C...................................................
@ 5M 
5  @ 5M
DarkC......................................................  I
30@32 
Corn,  Barrels.........................................
32©34 
Corn, M bbls............................................
@  35 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
@1 75 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
©1 60 
Corn, 4M gallon kegs.............................
23@  35 
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
30@  38 
Pure Sugar Drips.........................M bbl
@1 96 
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs
@  85 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............M bbl
@1 85
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs
Japan ordinary.............................................22@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
J apan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................80@50
Gun Powder................................................... 35®50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo............................................................. 25@30
Sweet  Rose............... 45
Dark AmericanEagle6'
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
The Meigs...................64
Atlas...........................35
Red Bird.................... 50
Royal Game............... 38
State  Seal...................60
Mule Ear.................... 65
Prairie Flow er........ 65
Fountain.................... 74
Climber......................62
Old Congress..............64
Indian Queen............60
Good Luck.................52
Bull  Dog....................60
Blaze Away............... 35
Crown  Leaf............... 66
Matchless..................65  Hair Lifter.................30
Hiawatha..................67  Governor...................60
Globe  ......................... 70 Fox’s Choice............  63
May Flower...............70  Medallion...................35
H ero.......................... 45  Sweet Owen............... 66
Old  Abe. 
Nimrod....................................................   @44
E. C...........................................................   @40
Blue  Peter..............................................  @38
Spread Eagle...........................................  @38
Big Five Center......................................  @35
Red  Fox...................................................  @48
Big Drive.................................................   @50
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
Durham...................................................  @46
Patrol.....................................................   @48
Jack Rabbit............................................   @46
Snowflake................................................  @46
Chocolate Cream................... 
  @46
Woodcock  ..............................................  @46
Knigntsof  Labor...................................  @46
Railroad...............!...................................  @46
Big  Bug...................................................  ©32
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................   @46
Black Bear..............................................  @37
King 
......................................................   @46
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..............................  @62
Parrot  ....................................................   @46
Old Time.................................................   @38
Tramway.................................................   @48
Glory  ......................................................   @46
Silver  Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark]........................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Climax-.....................................................  @46
Hold F ast................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Nobby Twist...........................................  @46
Acorn......................................................   @46
Crescent..................................................  @44
Black  X .:................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  @40
Spriner......................................................   @46
Crayfing.................................................   @46
Mackinaw................................................  @45
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black.............................. 
  @3b
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @46
Aee  High, black..................)................  @35
Sailors’  Solace.......................................   @46

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2c. less in four butt lots.

SMOKING

Old Tar....................... 40] Conqueror................. 23
Grayling.................... 32
Arthur’s  Choice.
Seal Skin.................... 30
Red Fox......................26
Rob Roy......................26
Flirt............................ 28
Uncle  Sam.................28
Gold Dust.................. 26
Lumberman..............25
Gold Block.................30
Railroad Boy..............38
Seal of Grand Rapids
Mountain Rose...........18
(cloth)...................25
Home Comfort.......... 25
Tramway, 3 oz.......... 40
Old Rip....................... 55
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
Seal of North Caro-
Boss  ...........................15
lina, 2  oz.................48
i 
Peck’s Sun.................18
Seal of North Caro- 
Miners and Puddlers. 28 
lina, 4oz...................46
I 
Morning Dew..........
Chain..........................22|Seal of North  Caro-
Peerless  ....................24 
lina, 8oz...................41
Standard................... 22 Seal of North  Caro-
Old Tom.....................21 
lina, 16 oz boxes —  40
Tom & Jerry.............24 Big Deal.......................27
Joker..........................25 Apple Jack..................24
Traveler................... 35 King Bee, longcut.. .22
Maiden...................... 25 Milwaukee  Prize....24
Pickwick Club......... 40 Rattler.........................28
Windsor cut plut
Nigger Head............. 26
Zero  ...........................16
Holland..................... 22
Holland Mixed.......... 16
German..................... 16
Golden Age............... 73
Solid Comfort........... 30
Mail  Pouch............... 25
Red Clover................ 32
Knights of Labor__ 30
Long Tom..................30
Free Cob Pipe............27
National................... 26
Tim e..........................26
Globe..........................211 Hiawatha.......
Mule Ear................... 23| Old Congress..

SHORTS.

SN U FF.

“ 
“ 

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......
Maecoboy.............................
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................
Rappee.................................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................
Lotzbeck  ...............................................

“ 

CANDY, FRUITS  AND  NUTS. 

do 
do 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

FANCY—IN  BULK.

.........................10M@11

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
................................  
MIXED

Straight, 25 ft  boxes...............................  &M@91
Twist, 
9@ 9M
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft  pails...................................  9@ 94
Royal, 200 ft bbls.......................................   @8M
Extra, 25 ft  pails.......................................10@10M
Extra, 200 ft bbls....................................... 9 © 9M
French Cream, 25 ft pails......................12M@13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases................................. 12M©
Broken,25  ft  pails........................................... 10© 104
Broken, 200 ft  bbls...........................................  9© 9M
Lemon Drops.............................................12@13
Sour Drops..................: ..........................13@14
Peppermint  Drops...................................14@15
Chocolate Drops...............................................15
H M Chocolate  Drops.................................... 20'
Gum  Drops  ..................................................... 10-
Licorice Drops................................................. 20
A B Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................J5
Lozenges,  printed...........................................16
Imperials..........................................................15
M ottoes.............................................................15
Cream  Bar..................................................13@14
Molasses Bar.....................................................16
Caramels..................................................... 18@20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 20
Plain  Creams................................................... 17
Decorated Creams...........................................20
String Rock................................................14@15
Burnt Almonds................................................22
Wintergreen  Berijes...................................... 15
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................  @124
Lozenges, plain in bbls...................... .11  @114-
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @12M
Lozenges, printed in  bbls................... 11M@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................12M@13
Gum Drops  in pails.................................7  @7M
Gum Drops, in bbls...................................  6@ 6M
Moss Drops, in  pails............................. 10  @104^
Moss Drops, in bbls................ 
9
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails................................ 124@13.
Imperials  in bbls.................................  11  @12
Bananas,  Aspinwall.............................2 00@3 50
Oranges, Rodi  Messina........................5 25@5 50
Oranges,  Naples................................... 4 50@4 75-
Lemons,  choice...................................9 0C@10 OO
Lemons, fancy.......................................
@11 
Figs,  layers new,  ^ ft..........................10
Dates, frails 
d o ........ 7...............
©  4 
Dates, M do 
do  ..........................
@ & 
Dates, skin..............................................
© 4*4 
Dates, M  skin.........................................
@ 5
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft.....................
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 13 ft...............  6
Pine Apples, $   doz.
PEA NU TS.
Prime  Red,  raw  ^  ft.................... .......  494® 5
do  .................
Choice 
.......  5  @5*4
do  ..................
Fancy 
.......  @ 54
Choice White, Va.do  ..................
....... 
5© 54.
Fancy H P..  Va  do  ..................
.......54®  6
Walnuts, Grenobles, 
Almonds 
Brazils, 
Pecons, 
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, French 

NUTS.:
ft.. 
do ..
do ..
do ..
do ..
do ..

@144. @17 
8@ 8*4 
9©12 @12*4

FRUITS.

@ 64

do 
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PROVISIONS.

P O R K   IN   BA RRELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  & Provision  Co.. 

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

quote  as follows:
Mess, Chicago  packing................................11  50’
Clear, Chicago packing................................12 25
Extra Family Clear...................................... 12 25
Clear, A. Webster  packer...........................12 50
Extra Clear, heavy...................................... 13 00
Boston Clear..................................................13 25-
A. Webster, packei’, short  cut...................12 75
Clear back, short cut........ 
....................... 13 50*
Standard Clear, the  best.............................14 00
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
714
do.  medium............................... 
714
light..................................... 
do. 
7 ya
Long Clear Backs, 500 ft  cases............
7%.
Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.............  
7%
Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases J .......... 
Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases............. 
85-4
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........ 
754
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
794
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft eases........ 
794
Boneless  Hams..................................... ........  94-
7
Boneless Shoulders...............................
Breakfast  Bacon.................................. ........  84
Dried Beef, extra quality.................... ........ 104
Dried Beef, Ham pieces....................... ........ 134
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle........ ........  6
Tierces  ..................... . 
......................
74
30 and 50 ft Tubs.................................... . 
19 a
50 ft Round Tins, 100 eases....................
794
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks.................. 
794.
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case.............................. 
854
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case................................ 
854
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................  
7%
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 10 50
Boneless,  ex tra ........................................... 14 50
Pork Sausage...................................................  7
Ham  Sausage................................................... 1954
Tongue  Sausage.........................................  10
Frankfort  Sausage........................................ 10
Blood  Sausage..................... 
654
Bologna, straight............................................   654
Bologna,  thick.................................................   654-
Head  Cheese........................... 
654,
P IG S ’  FEET.
In half barrels...............................................   3 25«
In quarter barrels.........................................

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

LARD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

LARD.

 

 

 

 

OYSTERS A N »  FISH.

.35*

OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 
F. J. D. Selects.........................................
Standards  .......................... ¡u .................
FR ESH   F IS H .
..................  6
M ackinaw T rou t...........................
W hitefish  ........................................ ..................... 6
....................  8
B lack B ass................................v .
..................5@54,
Cod, sum m er cu red ..........
Sun  F ish .......................................... ......................5
Rock B a ss........................................ .........................5
.........................  4
Perch  ...............................................
..................... 5
D uck B ill P ik e ..............................
.........................  6
W all-eyed  P ik e ....................”...
Sm oked W hite F ish ..................... .........................10
Sm oked T rou t................................ .........................10
Sm oked S turgeon......................... ................

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—New fruit commands 50@60e  ]!J  box 

or $3@$3.50 ft bbl.

Beans—Choice picked are  dull at $1.35@$1.40 

Blueberries—$2.50 ^ bu. for choice, dry,  full 
baskets,  and  $2  for  damp,  mussy  or  slack, 
filled.

$  bu.

do 

do 

.  8©12

@1 30 

VIN EGA R.

same price.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Pure  Cider..........8©12 White Wine...

quarters, 34@4c.
readily commanding 114c.

95 
Bath Brick imported............................
90 
American..............................
©3 
Barley......................................................
1 00 
Burners, No. 1 .......................................
1 50 
do  No.  2.......................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............
8  00 
15@25 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............
@13*4 
Candles, Star..........................................
@14 
Candles,  Hotel.......................................
@80 
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................
1  25
F elix ..........................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps..........................   @o0
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................  @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................
Hominy, *p bbl.......................................   @4 00
Jelly, in 80 ft  pails.................................  @ 44
Peas, Green Bush..................................
Peas, Split prepared.............................  
Powder, Keg...........................................  @3 50
Powder,  4  Keg......................................  @1 93

Butter—Michigan creamery  is  in  moderate 
demand at 16c.  Dairy is in moderate  demand- 
at ll@12e.
Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand  at 60- 
@75c$ doz.
Cheese—Somewhat firmer,  although  abund­
ant at 7@8c for full cream.
Cherries—$3@$3.25  bu.
Currants—$3 $  bu.
Cucumbers—30c ^ doz.
Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 
Fggs- In a little better demand,  fresh  stock 
Green Onions—25@30c $  doz  bunches.
Green  Beans—50@60c  ^  bu.  Wax  beans» 
Green Peas—45@50c $  bu.
Honey—Choice  old  in comb is flrmatl3@14e 
New is in limited supply at 15c.
Hay—Bailed, $15@$16 $  ton.
Onions—Southern, $3  bbl. of $1.15 <$} bu. 
Plums—California, $2 $   case.
Pears—California, $3.50 $  case.
Pop Corn—Choice commands 4e ]9 ft. 
Potatoes—New potatoes are  quite  plentiful 
at $1 ^ bbl. for Tennessee Rose.
Poultry—Very scarce.  Fowls, 9@10c.  Chick­
ens, 12@13c.  Turkeys, 14c.
Radishes—20@25c ^ doz.  bunches.
Raspberries—Red,  $1.25 
The furaiture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
Black, $1.40 $  16 quart cases.
for dry stock: 
„
Tomatoes—50c per 4  bu box.
„
Basswood, log-run.............................  
Birch, log-run...........................................16 ° «
 99
Watermelons—Somewhat scarce at  $3@$4  ^ 
doz  for choice Georgia stock.
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2..............................
Black Ash, log-run..............................  @14 00
Cherry,  log-run........................................2a 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2..........................  
@*>5 00
Cherry!  cull.............................................. 10 00@12 00
Maple,  log-run............................  ... .13 00@15 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................. 
@16  00
Maple, clear-, flooring......................... 
@25 00
Maple, white, selected....................... 
@25 00
Red Oak, log-run................................. 
@15 00
@20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank............... 
@2o 00
@55 00
Walnut, log-run..................................  
Walnut, N os. 1 and 2..... .....................  @75 00
Walnuts,  culls.................................... 
@25 00
Water Elm, log-run............................ 
@11 00
White Ash,  log-run............................ 
@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run.,.......................  
@23 00

Wheat—2c  lower.  The  city millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  92;  Fulse,  90c;  Clawson 
90c. 
Corn—Jobbing generally at 55c in 100 bu. lots - 
and 52c in carlots.
Oats—White, 43c in small lots  and  3Sc@40  in 
carlots.
Rye—56c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ^  cwt.
Flour—No  change.  Fancy  Patent,  $6 $  bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6.25  in  wood.  Straight,  $5  $  
bbl. in sacks and $5.25 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 f  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $  ton.  Bran, $13 ■ 
ton.  Ships, $i4 ^ ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

Corn aad Oats, $22 $  ton.

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

24  pint  cases.

f

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.

.

I b a r b w a r e .
The Effect of Oil- in Boilers.

The following illustration gives a better idea 
of the effect produced by oil in steam boilers 
than  pages  of  verbal  description  possibly 
could. 
It is from a photograph,  and is no­
wise exagerated:

The boilers from which  the  plate  shown 
in the cut was taken was a nearly  new  one. 
It was made of a well-known brand of  mild 
steel,  and that it was admirably  adapted  to 
the purpose for which it was used is  proven 
by its stretching as it  did  without  rupture. 
The dimensions  of  bulge  shown  are  four 
feet  lengthwise  of  the  boiler,  three  feet 
.girthwise and nine inches deep.  The metal, 
•originally  5-16  of  an  inch  thick,  drew 
down to % inch  in  thickness at  the  lowest 
point of the “bag” without the  slightest  in­
dication of  fracture.

The circumstances under which  the bulge 
•occured may best be described in  the  words 
of the  inspector  who  examined  the  boiler, 
and are as follows :

“Last' Tuesday  morning I was  called  in 
great haste to  the--------works.  Upon  ar­
rival I found one of the boilers badly bulged, 
and with  twenty  pounds  of  steam  up. 
I 
could give no explanation until  I  had  thor­
oughly examined  the  internal  parts  of  the 
boiler.  I gave directions for cooling the boil­
er,  and  ordered  top  man-hole  plate  to  be 
loosened, but not to be taken out  until  fired 
up and was run through the day at a  press- 
use of 90  pounds  per  square  inch.  At  6 
o ’clock Monday night the  engine  was  stop­
ped,  the drafts were  closed,  and  no  more 
firing wTas done until 9 o’clock.  Upon going 
to fire up at this time the bulge was observed. 
From six to nine o’clock a pressure  of  only 
40 pounds was carried.

“ Upon  examination  I  found  tire  entire 

boiler saturated  with  oil.”

This is almost certain to be  the  result  of 
putting  grease into a steam-boiler. 
It set­
tles down on the fire-sheets when  the  draft 
is closed,  and the circulation of water nearly 
stops,  and  prevents  contact  between  the 
plates and the water.  As a consequence the 
plates of the  fire  become  overheated;  and 
under  such  circumstances  a  very  slight 
steam-pressure  is  sufficient  to  bag 
the 
sheets.  Unless  the boiler is made of very 
good material the plate is apt to be fractured, 
and explosion is likely to occur.

When oil is  used  to  remove  scale  from 
steam-boilers too much care cannot be  exer­
cised to make sure that it is free from grease

sure to occur.  When  the  facts are under­
stood it will be found  quite  unnecessary  to 
attribute the damage to low water.

This accident also serves  to illustrate  the 
perfection to which the manufacture of steel 
for boiler plates has attained. 
It would  be 
an extraordinary good qualtity of  Iron  that 
would stand such a test without fracture.

Second-Hand Shafting.
Jas. F. Hobart in the Wood Worker.

The man who buys  second-hand  shafting 
to run his mill is a fool.  The man who sells 
it to him  and  tells  him  that  it  is “just as 
pod as new,” is a knave. 
If the  man also 
buys  a  second-hand  boiler,  he  is  both  a 
knave and a fool,  and will  buy second hand 
machinery  as  well.  When  a  saw-mill  or 
factory gets cleaned out  by fire,  the  owner 
will  generally build  again if  he can  get as 
soft a thing with the  insurance  folks as he 
had with the old mill.  He will look longingly 
at the old twisted shafting,  and ask the ma­
chine shop if it can be  “straightened.”  The 
machine  man  lies  unblushingly,  and  says 
“he can fix it as good as  new.” 
It  is  sent 
to his shops and comes  back  with a bill big 
enough to buy half enough of new shafting. 
When started that  shafting  runs  just  as it 
has a mind to. 
It is shaky and will always 
be so.  Every time the owner  thinks  of his 
“good as new” shafting, he groans  inward­
ly, curses the machine  man  and  wishes  he 
had bought new shafting, but he will do the 
same thing right over the next time his mill 
gets burned by friction between a fat  insur­
ance policy and a lean  stock.  There is just 
one way in  which  burned  shafting  can  be 
made as  “good  as  new.”  Pull  off  all  the 
pulleys and flanges, knock off the couplings 
and hangers, then  cut  each shaft into  four 
foot lengths,  tie them into bundles with iron 
wire,  take a welding heat  on  them and run 
them through a rolling mill.  Now let  your 
machine man take them,  and he will do you 
a  good  job. 
If  you  don’t  have  a  rolling 
mill,  or if  it  got  burned  with  the  rest  of 
your plant  just  go  to  a  junkman  and  get
his. 

_______

How to Be a Successful Sawyer.

1.  Acquire sufficient knowledge  of  ma­

chinery to keep  a mill in good repair.

2.  See that both the machinery and saws 

are in good  order.

4. 

3.  It does not follow because one saw will 
work well that another will do  the same on 
the same mandrel,  or  that  even  two  saws 
will hang alike on the same mandrel,  on the 
principal that  no  two  clocks  can  be  made 
that tick alike, no  two  saws  can  be made 
that will run alike.

It is not well to  file  at  the  teeth  of 
circular saws from the same side of the saw, 
especially  if  each  alternate  tooth  is  bent 
for the set, but file one-half the  teeth  from 
each side of the saw,  and of  the  teeth  that 
are bent from you,  so as to leave  them on a 
slight  bevel  and  the  outer  corner  a  little 
the  longest.
5.  Never file  any  saw  to  too  sharp  or 
acute angles under the teeth, but on circular 
lines,  as all saws are  liable  to  crack  from 
sharp corners.
6.  Keep  your  saw  round,  so that each 
tooth will  do its  proportional  part  of  the 
work, or, if a reciprocating  saw,  keep  the 
entting points jointed on a straight line.

7.  The teeth of all saws wear  narrowest 
at  the  extreme  points,  consequently  they 
must be kept spread  so  that  they  will  be 
widest at the very points of the  teeth,  oth­
erwise  saws will not work successfully.

8.  Teeth of  all  saws should be  kept  as 
near a uniform shape and  distance apart as 
possible, in order  to keep a circular  saw  in 
balance  and in condition for use.

Effect of Smoke on Iron.

The western approach  of  the  Callowhill 
street bridge,  in Philadelphia  is  in a shaky 
condition.  The bridge is an  iron  one,  and 
its western end  spans  the  tracks  of  the 
Pennsylvania Railroad  Campany at a point 
where locomotives are  continually  passing, 
and it is said that the sulphurous  acid from 
the smoke-stacks  of  the  engines  has  been 
the cause of the  trouble.  A  great  deal  of 
the iron work above the tiacks most used is 
gradually eaten  away,  and  the  ground  be­
neath  is  thickly  strewn  with  thick  iron 
scales that have  dropped  from  the  bridge 
work which has nat  been  protected by pro­
per painting.  Several iron posts  have been 
weakened,  and are bent in such a way as to 
indicate a slight movement of  the  bridge to 
the south. 
It is estimated  that  $12,000 or 
$14,000 will be required to restore the bridge 
to a good condition.  The river span, which 
is not reached  by locomotive  smoke,  is  not 
affected, and is in excellent condition.

It is stated that the Secretary of the Treas­
ury will promulgate the  notice  required  by 
law that he has adopted as a distinctive fea­
ture of the United States and national bank 
note paper a single blue silk thread running 
through a glazed bank note paper of the best 
quality.  The law provides that “every per­
son who has or  retains  in  his  control  or 
possession after a distinctive paper has been 
adopted by the Secretary  of 
the  Treasury 
for the obligations  and  other  securities  of 
the United States and similiar  paper adapt­
ed to the making of any  such  obligation  or 
other security,  except under the authority of 
the Secretary of the Treasury  of  some  oth­
er proper officer  of the United States,  shall 
be punished by a fine of not  moi'e  than $5,- 
000 or imprisonment at  hard labor not more 
than 15 years, or by both.”  The  gold and 
silver certificates will also be printed on this 
paper as soon as the present  distinctive  pa­
per  stock,  adopted  six years  ago,  is  ex­
hausted.

Some of the softer woods are rendered ex­
tremely hard and tenacious by  a new tough­
ening process, which  consists  of  steaming 
the wood thoroughly  and  subjecting  it  to 
powerful end-pressure. 
It  is claimed that 
some varieties of  soft  wood,  thus  treated, 
may be compressed to one-fourtli  their orig­
inal bulk,  and rendered hard enough to turn 
the edges of  ordinary  wood-working  tools. 
The degree of hardness  is  dependent  upon 
the amount of pressure applied.  The orig­
inators of the process expect that their prod­
uct will supplant, in  many  cases, the  more 
expensive  hard  woods,  for  use  in  places 
where great strength is required.  The com­
pressed wood is said to be  susceptible  of  a 
high finish,  and to  be  particularly  adapted 
to the manufacture of certain articles of fur­
niture in which  a  combination  of  «strength 
and lightness is desired.

Bessemer is the latest town in the Agoge- 
bic district  of  the  Upper  Peninsula. 
It is 
situated in a basin formed  by two ranges of 
bluffs and is being settled by men who have 
faith in its future.  Within a limit of  three 
miles  are  six  very  valuable  iron  mines, 
which,  if worked at all,  commensurate with 
their surface indications, cannot but support 
a large  population.  Three  of  these  mines 
are now being opened,  and will be shipping 
ore this season. 
It is estimated that within 
the next 60 days there  will  be  employed at 
the mines,  tributary to  the  town,  500  men. 
The  Ontonagon  Miner  thinks  Bessemer 
will become the  metropolitan  town  of  the 
Agogebic district.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as  follows: 

D R ILLS

COMBS.

Butchers’Tanged  Firmer................. dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................dis
Cold...................................................... net
Curry, Lawrence’s.............................. dis
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis
Brass,  Backing’s .............................
50
Bibb’s ..............................................
50
B eer.................................................
40&10
Fenns’...............................................
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... ........$  ft  30

33%
25

C O PPER .

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

COCKS.

ELBOW S.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

Morse’s Bit  Stock.......................... ...dis
35
Taper and Straight Shank............. ...dis
20
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..................... .. .dis
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................ doz net $1 00
Corrugated......................................
... dis 20&10
Adjustable....................................... .. .dis %&10
20
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
dis
25
Ives’, 1. $18 00;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00.
dis
60
...dis
American File Association List..
Disston’s .........................................
60
. ..dis
New  American...............................
...dis
60
Nicholson’s......................................
...dis
60
Heller’s ....................................................dis 
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............................dis  33%
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
18

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

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

F IL E S .

12 

13 
GAUGES.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW   W ARE.

and  longer.........................................  

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s.......•..........................dis 
20
Kip’s ......................................................dis 
25
Yerkes&  Plumb’s ..................................dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel..................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction................... dis 
60
Kidder, wood track................................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3................................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
3%
 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net 
10% I
8%
Screw Hook and Eye %........................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  9i....................... net 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................net 
7%
Strap and  T............................................dis  60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  20&10
Granite  Iron  Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1............................................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub  2................................................  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings__ $2 70, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.....................................list,10  15, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........ dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s.................d 
40
Remacite..........................   .................dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis  66%
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s....................dis  68%
Branford’s ..............................................dis  66%
Norwalk’s................................................dis  66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ........................... dis  49&10
Coffee, P. S.&W. Mfg. Co.’sMalleables dis  40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ........dis  40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise.................................'..dis  25
Adze  Eye.....................................$16 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00dis40&10
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HO ES.

N A ILS.

50

6d
2 

MAULS.
OILERS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.
lOdto  60d............................................ keg $2  40
8d and 9 d adv...........................................
6d and 7d  adv
4d and 5d  adv.......
3d  advance...........
3d fine  advance__
Clinch nails,  adv.. 
8d
)  lOd 
Finishing 
1 
2% 
Size—inches  f  3 
1  50  1  75  2 
Adv. $  keg 
$1 2 
Same price as  above 
Steel Nails
MOLLASSES GATES.
.. .dis 70
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis
. ..d is 70
Stebbin’s Genuine..
... dis 25
Enterprise,  self-measuring......................dis
... dis 50
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled...................dis
.. .dis 55
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................dis
...d is 50
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................dis
. ..d is 40
Bra£sor  Copper..........................................dis
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, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
50
Fry, Acme................................................dis 
Common, polished..................................dis60&10
$  
Dripping...................................... 
Iron and Tinned.................................. dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.....................dis  50&10
A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% 
B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

9

 

Broken packs %c $  ft extra.

M TJSKEGOÏT  B U S I N E S S   D IR E C T O R Y .

A N D R E W  W E R E H G O

36.7

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

WIERENGO  BLOCK,  PIN E   STREET,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

TO FRUIT GROW ERS
Muskegon  Basket

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

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

At Bottom Prices.  Quality Guaranteed.

W E   MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF  PEACH  AND  GRAPE  BASKETS.

T  i  T  i 

B * 
S .
lissioi-Bfer  &  E m   a

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

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

97

and 99 Canal Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

D. W.  Archer’s 
D. W. Archer’! 
D.W. Archer1

Trophy  Corn,
Morning Glory Corn, 
s Early Golden Drop Corn

NO.  2.  AND  3  CANS.

YOUNG,  TENDER  AND  SWEET,

NATURAL  FLAVOR  RETAINED. 

GUARANTEED  PURITY.

$1,000  IN  GOLD.

NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR. 

NO  CHEMICALS  USED.

NOT  BLEACHED  WHITE. 
NO  WATER  IN  CANS.

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only.  Respectfully,

THE  ARCHER  PAOKIHG  CO.,  CbMcothe, Dis.

B>  6@7

JENNSNGS  &  SMITH,
A rctic  M anufacturing*  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE

or animal oil.  Nothing  but  pure  mineral 
oil should be used.  Crude petroleum is one 
thing;  black  oil,  which  may  mean  al­
most anything,  is  very  likely  to  be  some­
thing quite different.

The action of grease in a boiler is peculiar, 
but not more so than we  might expect. 
It 
does not dissolve in the  water,  nor  does  it 
decompose,  neither does it remain on top  of 
the water,  but it seems  to  form  itself  into 
what may be described as  “ slugs,”  which at 
first  seem  to  be  slightly  lighter  than  the 
water,  of just such  a  gravity  in  fact,  that 
he  circulation  of  the  water  carries  them 
about at will.  After a short  season of boil­
ing these  “ slugs” or  suspended  drops  seem 
to acquire a certain degree  of  “ stickiness,” 
so that when  they  come  into  contact  with 
the shell and flues of the  boiler  they  begin 
to adhere thereto.  Then under the action of 
heat they  begin  the  process  of  “ varnish­
ing” the interior of the boiler.  The thinnest 
possible coating of this varnish  is  sufficient 
to bring about overheating of the  plates,  as 
we have found repeatedly in our experience. 
We emphasize the point t’aat  it  is  not  nec­
essary to have  a  coating  of  grease  of  any 
appreciable thickness to  ctuse  overheating 
and bagging of plates and baking at seams.
The time when the damage is  most likely 
to occur is  after  the  fires  ire  banked,  for 
then,  the formation of steam being checked, 
the  circulation  of  water  stops,  and  the 
grease thus has an  opportunty  to  settle  at 
the bottom of the boiler and jrevent contact 
of the water  with  the  fire-sheets,  Under 
these circumstances  a  very  tow  degree  of 
heat in the furnace is  sufficient  to  overheat 
the plates to such an extent tint  bulging  is

Is Matteson  Masquerading?

From the Cheboygan Tribune.

to 

E.  S.  Matteson,  of  Grand  Rapids,'  has 
been corresponding with Chas.  II. Nuite for 
sometime  with  reference 
locating  a 
shingle  mill  at  this  place.  Mr.  Matteson 
will be up next week to  look  the  situation 
over and Mr. Nuite thinks it  quite probable 
that he will decide  to  locate  here.  Such a 
mill as Mr.  Matteson proposes to run would 
be quite an  addition  to  our  manufacturing 
industries. 
It is  a  double  mill  with  a ca­
pacity of sawing 200,000  shingles  per  day. 
Should he decide to locate here,  he  intends 
manufacturing both cedar and pine shingles 
and  wonld  employ  20  to  25  hands  in the 
mill.  Mr. Nuite has two  or  three  sites  in 
view, all well located for the business.  We 
trust that Mr. Matteson may conclude to lo­
cate at this point.

ire Ton Going to 
SiielTB a Store, Pan­
try or CW?

' 

PATENT

If so, send for 
prices  and  fur- 
ther  information.
Eggleston & Patten’s
Adjustable RatcM M
Bracket Shelving Irons
Creates  a N ew Era 
in  Store  F urnish­
ing.  It  entirely su­
persedes 
the  old 
style  wherever  in­
troduced.

AND

Satisfaction Guaranteed

All

infringe- 
mentspro- 
secutecL
Ifnot tobe 
had  from 
^jyour local 
Hardware 
D ealer, 
send your 
orders  di­
rect  to
Torrance, Merriam & Co.,

^£4 inch

Gem 

Manufacturers 

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TROY, N. Y.

AUGERS AND B ITS.

BARROW S.

Ives’, old  style................................................... dis 60
N. H. C. Co..........................................................djs 60
Douglass’ ............................................................dis 60
Pierces’ ..................-................  ............. dis 
60
Snell’s ........................................................ d\s  _ „ 66
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine..................................dis
... dis40&10
Jennings’,  imitation.............
BALANCES.
Spring..................................................................dis 2o
Railroad.......................................................§  1” 60
Garden.......................................................net °° 60
BELLS.
...dis  $ 60&10
Hand......................................
60
__ dis 
Cow........................................
15
....dis 
Call.........................................
__ dis 
20
Gong......................................
55
__ dis 
Door, Sargent.......................
BOLTS.
40
__ dis $ 
Stove......................................
...... dis 
75
Carriage  new  list................
.......dis 30&1C
Plow  .....................................
75
..  ..dis 
Sleigh Shoe............................
..dis 
50
Cast Barrel  Bolts................
Wrought Barrel Bolts.........................dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis
Cast Square Spring............................. dis
60
Cast Chain............................................ dis
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis
55&10
55&10
Wrought Square..................................dis
30
Wrought Sunk Flush.......................... dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door.............................................dis  50&10
Barber.................................................. dis $ 
40
Backus...................................................dis 
50
50
Spoffoi’d.................................................dis 
net
Am. Ball................................................ dis
Well, plain...................................................$  4 00
4 50
Well, swivel.

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured......................... dis 60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed_____ dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint.. dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin...............................dis 
•  60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip..............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned..............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped...................................................dis  60& 5
WroughtTable........................................ dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind........................... dis 
60
Wrought Brass........................................dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s...........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s........................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................’.dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross  15 00
Spying for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross  18 00
Ely’s 1-10................................................per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................................
G. D........................................................
Musket...................................................

CAPS.

CA TRIDG ES.

Run Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new list
Rim Fire, United  States........................dis
Central Fire.............................................dis

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.....................................dis
Socket Corner........................................ dis
Socket Slicks..........................................dis

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne..................  5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne................  7 75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.............   16 90
Sisal, % in. and  larger....................................   8
Manilla..............................................................   15
Steel and  Iron.......................................dis
Try and Bevels...................................... dis
Mitre  ..................................................... dis
Com. Smooth.

50&10
20
Com. 
$2 80 
2 80 
2 80 
2 80 
3 00 
3 00
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

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

6
6%
13 00
15 00
16

TIN PLATES.

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s........... dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s —   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. &W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse, choker....................................... 20c ^ doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 26 % doz
Bright  Market....................................   dis  60&1C
Annealed Market................................... dis 
70
Coppered Market................................... dis 55&10
Extra Bailing.............................................   dis  55
Tinned  Market............................. 
dis  40
Tinned  Broom............................................fift  09
Tinned Mattress.............................................ft 8%
Coppered Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel.............. 
dis 37%
Plain Fence.....................................................ft 3%
Barbed Fence...................................................
Copper................................................ new  list net
Brass.......................................................... new list net
Bright.....................................................dis
Screw Eyes.............................................dis
Hook’s ............................. 
dis
Gate Hooks and  Eyes......................... dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
50&10
Coe’s Genuine................................ 
  dis
65
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, ffis
70
Coe’s Patent, malleable......................dis
70
Pumps,  Cistern.....................................dis
Screws, new  list........................................ 
55
Casters, Bed  and  Plate...........................dis50&!0
Dampers, American................................. 
33%

70&10 
70&10 I 
70&10 I 
70&10 I

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE GOODS.

WrENCHES.

 

2 0   L yon  St.,  G-randL
ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

H.apid.s.

A r p .t.i 

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T H E  GRAXTS R A P ID S   ROZ1Z.ER  MXX1X1S

M ANUFACTURE  A

The Favorite  Brands  are

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

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

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO.

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

M anufacturers’ P rices.

SAMPLES  TO  THE  TRADE  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Nelson  Bros.  &  Co.

CH O ICE  B U T T E R   A   S P E C I A L T Y ! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.

M.  C.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Rapids,

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Five  Cent  Glassware.

Assorted Package containing 20 doz­
en of the above assortments, best selec­
tion of staple articles.  W ill match our 
ten cent glassware package.
Price per dozen 37  l-2c 
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Tierce  - 

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-  7.50

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8.00

M a n u fa c tu re rs  o f  th e   C ele b rate ti

OOIïOOTOlM,  3XT-  "5T-

T.  R.  H A RRIS  &  CO.,
“Brook Trout” Cigar.
Eaton  &  Christenson,
W M . SEA RS & CO.

SOLE AGENTS  FOR  MICHIGAN.

FOR SALE  BY

Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

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

,   u n i u u u » !

“
“

CAPITOL  CYLINDER, 
MODEL 
SHIELD 
BACKUS  FINE  ENGINE, 
ELDORADO
PEERLESS  MACHINERY, 
CHALLENGE MACHINERY 
BLACK  DIAMOND,

“

PARAFINE,  250, 
SUMMER,  WEST  VA. 
250  to  300 
150 C, T.
ZERO,
630  DEO,  NAPTHA, 
740  “  GASOLINE, 
870  GASOLINE.

RINDGE, BER.TSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AUD  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  GO.

AVe have  a splendid lino  of  goods for  Fall  trade  and guar­
antee  our prices  on Rubbers.  The  demand for our  own make 
of Women’s,  Misses’  and  Childs  shoes  is  increasing.  Send in 
your  orders  and they will be promptly  attended to.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS FOR THE

^ OEKTTS  FO R

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

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

KNIGHT  OF  LABOR  PLUG
CLARK,  JE W E L L   &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

S3,85 a d  ST  PEARL  STREET a d  111, 116,  US and ISO  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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-  MICHIGAN.

rPTTV.  N EW   OICr-A-IFL

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JOHN  PRESTON. Sime Agent,  GRAND  RAPIDS, ’ Wholesale Grocers,

where we hare no Agenti
ers,  B etter  Boxes,  P r in ts ,..............
MOSELEY & STODDARD  MANVF’G  CO..  Poultney, V t

etc.  et

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

West  Michigan  Oil  Company,

{SUCCESSORS  TO  STANDARD  OIF  CO.,)

63 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CP

Jno.  C.  Bonneil,  Pres. 

J.  H.  Bonnell, Sec’y.

and  Lubricating

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H E R C U L E S!
A nnihilator !

The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

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

® g ,   AMMUNITION  *  FISHING  TACKLE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

.Agents  for  a  full  line  of

S. f .  YenaWe  &  Co.’s

PETERSBURG,  VA.,

TO BACCO S,

NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIYE CENTER

M O S E L E Y ’S
CABINET 
and JU NIOR
For  families,  dairies.
System :  for hotels L

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B E S T o n th g , 
No floats or 
dashers In* 
side.  9 
sizes for 
dairy & 
factory 
with or 
without 
; pulley*
I  One at 
whole­
sale .jj 
’Dog Pow- s  

Curing Cheese in Boxes.
Prof. L. 1). Arnold in N. Y. Tribune.

For three years I have  been  experiment­
ing in curing cheese in boxes,  with satisfac­
tory results.  When  taken  from  the  press 
the cheese are laid on top  of  the  boxes  till 
the surface moisture is  well  dried  off,  and 
then» with scaleboards under and over them, 
are laid into close-fitting ancf well-seasoned 
boxes and the cover put  on  without cutting 
the top  of the box down to the  level of  the 
cheese.  This leaves a little air space above 
the cheese, which is useful. 
In this  condi­
tion the  boxes  may  be  set  on  the  curing 
room floor or piled one above  another in al­
most any place  where  there  is  a favorable 
average temperature.  After  standing  ten 
days the boxes should be turned over to pre­
vent the moisture  from  settling to one side 
of the  cheese.  Afterward  they  will  need 
turning  only  a  few  times  at  intervals  of 
three or four weeks.

Before going  to  market  they  should  be 
taken from the boxes, and the mould, if any 
has formed on them,  rubbed off and the sur­
face  burnished  up,  and  then,  with  ijew 
scaleboards, put back into  the boxes,  which 
should then be  cut  down  to  fit the cheese, 
and they are ready to ship. 
In  this  condi­
tion I have kept cheese from six to  twenty 
four months with  very  little  accumulation 
of mould on the outside; no more than could 
be readily rubbed off, and none at all on the 
inside, and without ill  effects  in  any other 
respect.  The advantages  of  this  mode 'of 
curing are  that  there  is  20  per  cent,  less 
shrinkage and 50  per  cent,  less  rind  than 
when cured on shelves and open  to  the air.
It also protects the  cheese  from  the wide 
and sudden changes of temperature in upper 
rooms and makes the curing  even  and  safe 
under conditions  that  would  otherwise do 
serious injury to the cheese.

A badly made cheese  will  not  become a 
fancy article by being cured in  a box, but it 
will be pretty sure to be better than if cured 
where the temperature is constantly running, 
up and  down to  wide  extremes. 
It  also 
saves a vast amount of  labor  in  daily turn­
ing, rubbing and  greasing  to  keep the sur­
face  from  drying  and  checking,  and  from 
danger of flies and sticking to  the  shelves, 
and it almost entirely overcomes the  imper­
fect construction of  curing  rooms.  Cheese 
are much better off  in  good  boxes than  on 
shelves in an open curing room, where they 
feel all the sudden changes of the  weather. 
White mould will accumulate on them more 
or less,  but unless put into green boxes there 
will be no  more  than  accumulates in cross­
ing the ocean, which is  not  enough  to  do 
them any harm.

An Iowa  cheese-maker  wishes  to  know 
which would be the  better  place  for curing 
cheese—an upper room, boarded  inside and 
outside the studs with matched boards, with 
plastering between  them,  and  ceiled  with 
matched  boards  overhead,  or  a  basement 
with a good  cement  floor?  Cheese  can be 
nicely cured  in  either  place. 
If  kept  on 
shelves  the basement would  be  preferable; 
the temperature will  be  more  uniform and 
moister in the basement; if a little damp the 
cheese dry out less and cure  evener,  and  in 
the  end  make  a  more  meaty  and  richer 
cheese than in dryer  and  more  changeable 
upper rooms, but  a  room  should  not  be so 
damp as to  mould  very much. 
In  the up­
per room described cheese will cure quite as 
well in boxes as on shelves in the basement. 
If fairly well made the box will prove a pro­
tection against huffing in  hot  days,  and se­
cure a solid and meaty texture, with a clean 
and good flavor.

A  Hint  to  the  Boys.

From the New London  Day.

I stood in the store the other  day when a 

boy came in and applied for a situation.

“Can  you  write a good hand?” was ask­

ed.

“Yaas.”
“Good at figures?”
“Yaas.”
“That will  do—I  don’t  want  you,”  said 

the'merchant.

“But,” I said, when the boy had gone,  “I 
know that lad to be  an  honest,  industrious 
boy.  Why don’t  you  give him a  chance?” 
“Because he hasn’t learned  to  say  ‘Yes, 
sir,’ and  ‘No,  sir.’ 
If he answers me  as he 
did when applying for a situation,  how will 
he  answer  customers  after  being  here  a 
month?” 

What could I say to that?  He had fallen 
into a habit, young as he was, which turned 
him away from the first situation he had ev­
er applied for.

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from  Mr.  Snooks  this  week.  He  writes 
that the weather is so torrid  that  he cannot 
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