Michigan  Tradesman.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  19,  1885.

NO. 100.

E S C O T T ’S

Sticky Fly Paper.
J 15  CASAL  ST.

S e tte r   th.a n  E v e r .

Order  througli  any  Jobber  in

tb e  City  or  from

BEWARE  OE  IMITATIONS.

The Genuine says “ ESCOTT’S,” and is printed 

on fine white paper.

SH ERW OO D  HAUL. 

M ARTIN  L .  SW EET.

ESTABLISH ED  1865.

JO BB ER S  OF

OF  EVERY  DESCRIPTION.

W e  Carry  a  Very  Com plete  L ine  o f  Car 

riage,  W agon  and  Sleigh  stock,  in 

B oth  W ood  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 
A xle  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 Whiflietree Irons; and all  goods per­
taining to a Wagon, Cart,  Buggy,  Carriage  or 
Sleigh. 
GENUINE  FRAZIER’S  AXLE  GREASE  in 
wood boxes, 25 fl> 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.

S.AWELÜG

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

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L i l n i 's  S i t e
FISHING  TACKLE

WHOLESALE

U S T O T I O H S r 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.  Good shipped promptly to any point.
I am represented on the road bv  the  fol­
lowing  well-known  travelers: 
John  D. 
Mangum, A. M. Sprague, John H. Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna and A. B. Handricks.

24  P earl  Street,  Grand  R apids,  M ich.

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Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
IS L E J V S IX J N rX 'S .’S J

“Red Bark Bitters 

77

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¡tiri

T8  W est  B ridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

DRYDEN & PALMER’S 

B O G S   C A 2 T D T .

Unquestionably the best In  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.

JT o l i n   O a u l i i e l d . ,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 K ent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE'DO ONLY K T -C L A S S   WORK  AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by M ail and E xpress prom ptly at­

tended  to.W. N.FULLER & CO

DESIGNERS  AND

E n g r a v e r s on  W o o d ,
F in e  M echanical  and  F urniture W ork, In ­

cluding  B uildings, Etc.,

49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, 

GRAND  RAPIDS 

- 

MICH.

C I D E R  
VINEGAR!
Warrantes to Kees Relies.

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.

OR

Hardworlii Travelii Ian

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.

O. H. RICHMOND & OO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

M AN UFA CTU RERS  O F

Riciunoi’s Family M oines.

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

The  best  selling liver  and  blood  medicine  in 

the  market,  50 cents.

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

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

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

C. (!. A. TUT & CO.
STAR  MILLS,

P roprietors  o f the

M anufacturers  o f the  follow in g  pop­

ular  brands  o f F lour.

“ STAR,”

“ GOLDEN  SHEAF,” 

LADIES’  DELIGHT,” 
And “OUR FATENT

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.

A gents  for  a  fa ll  lin e  of

S. f . Venable & Co.’s

PETERSBURG,  VA.,

PLUG  TOBACCOS,
NTMJtOD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER.

-M A NU FACTURERS  O F -

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 

Watertown  Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

7 3   C anal  S treet, 

-  G rand  R a p id s, M ich .

ABUSES  OF  CREDIT.

The Necessity for  Uniform  Legislation on 

this  Subject.

If all men would  pay  their  debts,  dollar 
for dollar,  at  maturity,  there  would  be  a 
great deal more pleasure in doing  business. 
Few persons stop to realize that every  man 
who robs his creditors  of  any  portion  of 
their just dues adds to  the  burdens  every 
citizen has to carry,  for some one has got to 
make up to  the creditor the amount he  has 
lost by his dishonest debtors.  Bad debts are 
counted in the cost  of  doing  business, and 
usually a business man expects to average a 
certain amount of loss from this cause every 
year,  so that every individual who buys any­
thing has to help pay for  the  indebtedness 
of persons, who  either  cannot  or  will  not 
pay.  A portion of this loss  to  the creditor 
class—which is  shouldered  off  on  to  the 
community at large eventually—is the result 
of  failures  from  legitimate  causes, but a 
greater proportion comes  from  the  unscru­
pulousness  of  the debtor class.  An earnest 
and honest effort on the  part of  those  who 
have  failed  would  have  resulted  in  more 
than one-half  of  them  being  able to pay 
their indebtedness in  full.  For  those  who 
have done their best but still have met  with 
misfortune, we have nothing but  the  keen­
est sympathy;  but for those  who  have de­
liberately planned  their  failure in advance, 
and,  in  order to realize as much as possible 
from it, have pushed their credit to the full­
est extent, we  have  the  same  feeling  that 
we  entertain  for  any  other  class  of  crim­
inals.  Their purpose was  to defraud and it 
would have been no worse had they planned 
to rob their victims by  any of the processes 
known to the  crimiLal  classes.  The result 
to the victim is the same in either case.

The laws relative to  insolvency  in  some 
states  are  well  calculated  to  encourage 
fraudulent  bankruptcy. 
In  many  cases 
they make it so difficult to obtain  legal pro­
ceedings against a debtor, that a  creditor  is 
deterred from  resorting to the courts lest he 
find himself  engaged  in a  litigation that is 
sure to be costly and the  result  problemati­
cal. 
In some instances  it  has  seemed  al­
most as though the failure of the debtor was 
only  a  trap  to  entice  creditors  into  the 
clutches  of  lawyers  and  the  courts.  We 
know of eases where the  creditor  has  been 
so plundered  while  endeavoring  to  collect 
an amount honestly  his  due  that  he  was 
glad to  get home, minus  his  debt  and ex­
penses,  and thankful  that  lie  was  not  im­
prisoned instead of the man  against  whom 
he had invoked the aid of the law.  He was 
like the colored  paeaclier  who  passed  his 
hat around for a  collection,  and,  on  its re­
turn,  finding  it  full  of  emptiness,  was 
“thankful to get his hat back.”  To remedy 
these defective and  diverse  state  laws,  in­
tended to protect the  resident  debtor  from 
his alien creditors,  there is a pressing  need 
of  a uniform bankruptcy law that  shall  be 
uniformly operative in all the  states.  Such 
a law needs to be so framed  that an honest 
debtor may conform  to  its  provisions  and 
still be afforded another opportunity to fight 
the battle of life; at the same  time it should 
be so stringent that no man can obtain a dis­
charge in bankruptcy  until  he  has made a 
clean showing of his record,  and  accounted 
satisfactorily for his failure to  meet his ob­
ligations.  A man in business  should either 
have the wherewithal  to  pay  his  debts  or 
the goods for the purchase of which he con­
tracted liis liabilities.  But if he has neither 
goods,  money  nor  visible  assets,  a  bank­
ruptcy law ought to be  seaching  enough to 
compel him to show what he has done  witlx 
them,  and no law should be permitted to in­
terfere to enable him  to escape  a  full  and 
fair accounting. 
In most branches  of trade 
there is always exhibited a great  amount of 
sympathy for an honorable,  but unfortunate 
’debtor,  and those who have  extended ci’edit 
to him are usually ready to compromise with 
him on  reasonable 
terms,  and  to extend a 
helping hand to start him in business again. 
But, unfortunately  this  readiness  to  com­
promise lias been taken advantage of by un­
scrupulous  men,  who have deliberately and 
time and again pushed their credit to its full 
limit, obtained large amounts of  goods  and 
then failed with premeditation  and  malice. 
Then there always turns up some  preferred 
creditor,  or  some  convenient  friend  who 
holds a chattel  mortgage  on  the  goods, or 
the assignment is made  in  such  a  manner 
that  legitimate  creditors  get  little  benefit 
from the winding up of the  debtor’s  estate. 
This  performance  has  been  repeated  so 
many times,  the same individual  practicing 
it on several  occasions,  that  it  lias  become 
an old story.  Committees are  appointed to 
represent the creditors in such  cases  and to 
make the best terms possible.  The  idea of 
prosecuting  a  fraudulent  debtor  is  seldom 
entertained because of the legal obstacles in 
the way to which we have referred.

The decadence of  the  standard  of  com­
mercial integrity is responsible for the great 
number of failures that have occurred in late 
years.  A few  years  ago  a  business  man 
thought so highly of  his  business  integrity 
that he was seldom led to contemplate an act 
so disgraceful and dishonorable that it would 
attach a lasting stigma  to  his  name.  But 
all this has been changed.  The  public  has 
been led to look with too much leniency up­
on many things that  would  not  have  been

permitted under the higher standard of com­
mercial integrity.  Bankers and speculators 
use the trust funds committed to  their  care | 
for the advancement of their own  schemes, 
and instead of meeting with the  condemna­
tion and  punishment they  have  richly de­
served, they are regarded as  simply  junfor- 
tunate and worthy  of  pity  and  sympathy. 
The  conviction  of  James  D. Fish, the  im­
prisonment of  Ferdinand  Ward  and a few 
embezzling bank officials in New Jersey, in­
dicates that  honest  public  sentiment  has 
been outraged too long and  that  the people 
are awakening to  a  realization  of  the  fget 
that they have been  over  tolerant of  such 
criminal lapses from the paths of  rectitude. 
Now that the reaction has set in apparently, 
we hope to see it extend  till  the  old  stan­
dard of commercial  integrity is re-establish­
ed and dishonor regarded as a crime.  When 
that time comes we may expect to see fewer 
failures, and  the  credit  system  so  revis­
ed and amended  that  there  will  be fewer 
bad debts to charge to the profit and loss ac­
count.
Rules  Followed  by  a  Successful  English 

Merchant.

A successful  and  famous  English  mer­
chant gives the following rules  for  a  busi­
ness man:
1.  Take your shop door off the hinges  at 
seven  o’clock  every  morning,  that  no  ob­
struction may be opposed to your customers.
2.  Clean and set out your windows before 
seven o’clock and  do  this  with  your  own 
hands,  that you may expose for sale the  ar­
ticles which are  most  saleable,  and  which 
you want most to sell.

3.  Wear an apron,  if such be  the  badge 
of your business, and consider it a badge  of 
distinction which will  procure  you  respect 
and credit.
4.  Apply your first return of ready mon­
ey to pay  debts  before  they  are  due,  and 
give such transactions suitable emphasis  by 
claiming discount.

5.  Always be found at home and in some 
way employed,  and remember that meddling 
neighbors have their eyes upon you and  are 
constantly gauging you by appearances.

6.  Re-weigli and re-measure  all  of  your 
stock,  rather than let it be supposed that you 
have nothing to do.

'.  Keep up the exact quality  and  flavor 
of all articles which you find are approved by 
your customers,  for by this means  you  will 
enjoy their preference.

fcf  Buy for ready money as often  as  you 
have it to spare; and,  when you take credit, 
pay to a day,  and unasked.

).  No advantage will  ever  arise  to  you 
from any ostentatious display of expenditure.
10.  Beware of the  odds  and  ends  of  a 
stock of remnants of spoiled  goods  and  oj 
waste,  for it is care of such-matters wherein 
your profits lie.

In serving  your  customers  be  firm 
and obliging,  and never  lose  your  temper, 
for nothing is gained thereby.

12.  Never be seen  in  a  gambling  room 

11. 

or any other disreputable place.

13.  Prefer a prudent and discreet wife to 

a rich and showy one.

14.  Spend your  evenings  by  your  own 
fireside,  and shun a public house or a sottish 
club as you would a bad debt.

15.  Take stock every year, estimate your 
profits and do not  spend  above  one-fourth.
16.  Avoid the common  folly  of  expend­
ing your precious capital upon a costly arch­
itectural  front;  such  things  operate  on  the 
world like paint on  a  woman’s  cheek—re­
pelling beholders instead of attracting them.
17.  Every  pound  wasted  by  a  young 
tradesman is two pounds at the end of three 
years/ and 256 pounds at the end of twenty 
four.

18.  Remember  that  prudent  purchasers 
avoid the shop of an extravagant and osten­
tatious trader, for if they deal with him they 
must contribute to their follies.

Let these be your rules until you have real­
ized your stock,  and until you can take  dis­
count for prompt payment on all purchases, 
and you may  then  indulge  to  any  degree 
which your  habits  and  sense  of  prudence 
may suggest. 

______

He Would Smoke It on Sunday.

From the Buffalo  Courier.

A Buffalo man who recently made  a  trip 
to New York  tells  the  following  story  of 
himself:
He entered the smoking  room  of  a  New 
York Central sleeper standing in the depot, 
and there found a stranger of Celtic  extrac­
tion indulging in  a  pull  at  his  pipe.  The 
car reeked with the perfume, and the Buffa­
lo  man  found  that  his  two-for-a-quarter 
cigar did not stand the slightest  chance. 
It 
made him mad that such a stench should be 
permitted, and when the  conductor  came in 
he made complaint.

“I have no more right to stop his smoking 
a pipe than  I have to stop  your  smoking a 
cigar,” said the ticket puncher.

“Well, hand him a cigar then,”  said  the 
Buffalo man, and he  pulled  out  one  of  the 
same brand he had in his mouth.  The con­
ductor approached the man of the pipe, when 
the following took place.,

Conductor—The  gentleman  presents  his 
compliments and asks you to accept a cigar.
Man with the pipe—True  for  the  gintle- 
man;  he’s a scholar; but  as  I  have me pipe 
lighted I’ll kape the cigar  and smoke it of a 
next Sunday.

♦

Business and Gambling.
You  go upon the Board of Trade,
W here margin merchants meet,
And take some little options 
On January wheat;
You watch the little ticker.
Till the hands swing round the  ring. 
Then you find your little boodle 
Has gone a-glimmering.

That’s Business.

You go into a faro bank 
And buy a stack of chips.
And watch the cards come from the box 
YVSiich the dealer deftly flips:
While your head is dull and aching.
At the breaking of the day,
You see that fickle  fortune 
Has gone the other  way.

That’s  Gambling.

Moralizings of an Old Timer.

A  Weldon  Creek  merchant  sends  T h e 
the  following  communica­

T r a d e s m a n  
tion:

“Good morning, .Tom.”
“Good morning, William.”
“How is  business?”
“Poor,  very poor.”
“I see you have a large stock.”
“Well, yes,  I have; but I bought and paid 
for most of it last year,  and I am not  going 
to give it away, nor give a prize  with every 
box of matches I sell at 3 cents a box.”

“Old friend,  you are blue to-day.”
“No, William,  I never was  more jolly  in 
all my life.  The fact  is, I am well and out 
of debt and am out of the  race. 
I am look­
ing on and allowing the  cheats  and  dead­
beats  do the little  business  there  is to do, 
and taking a big,  long rest,  after  eighteen 
years’ hard work in the business.  I think I 
want the rest and I can afford it. 
I can get 
up to-day and sell more  goods  in  one day 
than you can in two,  and  you  know it; but 
I don’t want  to  commence  and  cheat  any 
more now than I have done in the past. 
I11 
fact, I  am an  old  man  and  I  have  been 
straining my conscience  all my life  to com­
pete with others,  and  now  that  the  grave 
stares me in the face  I am  done  lying and 
cheating.  We  are  lying  and  cheating all 
our lives more or less.”

“Good morning, Tom,  I am off.”
“No,  sir,  stand and take  a  small  lecture 
from an old man.  Have you ever  had your 
conscience  rebuke  you  when  you  sold  13 
ounce plug  under  the  guise  of  a  large 16 
ounce honest plug; 3 ounces  tin  foil  fancy 
smoking tobacco for 4  ounces;  IS  cent  tea 
for  a  fine  50  cent  article; 12  cent coffee 
for  a  darling  fine  25  cent  article;  22% 
pounds pork at  8  cent  for  25%  pounds; 2 
cent box Balm  Giliad for a  round 25 cents? 
Did you  smile  when  you  saw  the  honest 
granger hand you his  old-tin  cannister  for 
3% gallons of your advertised oil at 12 cents 
per gallon water  white?  Did  you  pine  to 
have his father hand you  his  glass oil  can 
for 1 gallon.  Did you ever sell best flour at 
cost  and make up on 13  cent  Japan  tea at 
50 cents?  Yes,  sir,  you have done all these 
things.  Don’t deny it.  You sell now three 
5 cent segars for a nickle,  and  2  packages 
of soda for  13  cents,  2  mop  sticks  for 15 
cents and you cheat  back  on  light  weight 
and poor goods in fancy wrappers and book 
figures and put your  conscience  off  with a 
promise of doing better soon.  Your  adver­
tisement is a lie.  Your goods are a lie  and 
your time is spent in trying to  out-lie  your 
competitors.

“That is enough,  Torn,  I  can’t  stand  it. 
You are full of blues  and it puts  a  damper 
on my spirits.”

“All  right,  go  011  and  run  after  this 
world’s goods.  Cheat and lie as I have done 
and you will find I am right later 011.” 

“There is an honest way of selling goods, 
but it is out of fashion  now.  We  must  be 
stylish,  of course,  so  I  do  not  blame  you, 
but I would say before parting, bear in mind 
always that there  is  another life  to  come, 
and like me you will see it when you are 68 
years old, and all these little things will ap­
pear as large barriers in your  way to happi­
ness and torment your  later  years  and  ter­
rify your last hours.”
General  Unreliability  of  the  Telegraph. 
From the Chicago Current.

A  telegram  should  be  followed  with  a 
letter, unless communication have been well 
established by wire.  Letters are distributed 
by grown men,  expert in their  business to a 
degree that astonishes anyone who  contem­
plates the triumph of  their  art.  But  tele­
grams are distributed by sleepy  and  stupid 
little boys,  who dream mostly of  little boys 
in books who went  in swimming and never 
carried telegrams.  One of these little boys, 
in a great city, will  be  given  a  dozen  dis­
patches involving a half day’s  travel.  The 
boy so marks the envelope and  proceeds on 
his way.  At the end of many  hours  he re­
turns to the main office and  reports  that he 
failed to find his man.  No one  ever  heard 
of any further action by the telegraph  com­
pany,  other than ill rare cases a  dispatch to 
the sender,  sometime the  next  day,  to  the 
effect  that  “Yr  msg  to  J.  Smitlifield  not 
did.”  A letter to any fairly-known'resident 
of any city will reach  him  if  no  malicious 
person intervene to divert  it  to  the  Dead 
Letter Office.  But a  telegram  to  any  pri­
vate citizen, addressed at his  place of  busi 
ness,  is by no means a  trustworthy method 
of transmission,  and the  precentage of such 
communications which  “go astray” is  enor­
mous.

S.  O.  Smith will start a  broom  factory at 

Plainwell.

Honors  to  an Inventor.

Very few people are aware of  how  much 
the modern  world  owes  to  Nicholas  Le­
blanc,  the  inventor  of  artificial  soda.  By 
combining six salts he produced very cheap­
ly the soda used in commerce, and the result 
has been a revolution in manufacturing pro­
cesses of enormous value  to  the  industrial 
world. 
Indeed,  some writers claim that the 
manufacture of this soda was as  fruitful of 
good as  the  invention  and  application  of 
steam.  Baron  Liebig  said  that  without 
this process modem chemistry  could hardly 
be called a science. 
It seems that with this 
artificial  soda  sulphuric  acid  and  hydro­
chloric acid can be made in ¡immense  quan­
tities and at very small  cost.  A  statue  is 
about to be erected in  Paris  to  commemor­
ate  the  fame  of  Nicholas  Leblanc.  This 
memorial  was  first proposed  in  1855,  and 
it has taken thirty years  to  raise  sufficient 
means »from  the  manufacturers  who have 
profited so greatly  by  Leblanc’s  process of 
making soda.  The public places of Europe 
are  filled  with  the  statues  of  emperors, 
kings and  warriors.  Statesmen,  poets, and 
authors are not forgotten,  but as yet  inven­
tors the men who have made our modern in­
dustrial world possible,  have  not  had  the 
recognition which  is  justly their due.  We 
in this country ought to show an example to 
Europe by paying special  honors  to men1 of 
science whose  inventions  and  labors  have 
made this world so pleasant  a  place to live 
in.  We  should  raise  statues  to  Fulton, 
Whitney,  the inventor of the  cotton  gin,  to 
Morse,  Peter Cooper,  Edison,  and  all  who 
have given us greater control over  the  rude 
forces of nature.

The Effect of Snuff.

“Speaking of buying snuff,”  said a  lead­
ing tobacco  merchant  the  other day,  as an 
old man with a bent form  and  a  weazened 
face went out of the store after tightly clos­
ing  and  clicking  a  snuff-box  of  ancient 
make,  “reminds me of a story  they used to 
tell of an old couple  up  in  my  town who 
turned to dust years ago.  Both  took snuff, 
and  how they did  take  it,  too!  Bless  me! 
she would  often  buy a bladder  of snuff  of 
my  father,  who  kept  store,  just  to  try 
it, and then if she  liked  it  he  would  buy 
some.  He was converted to  teetotalism,  as 
to tobacco, snuff and rum by  the  Washing­
tonian movement, hut she kept  on with her 
snuff.  From the hour of  his  conversion he 
held up the.frightful  consequences of it be­
fore her.  Many the time  did  the  folly  of 
the mad impetuous career of his wife  adorn 
the tale and point the moral in the old  gen­
tleman’s logic by the fireside.  She still lived 
on and still took snuff.  Aunt  Philena was 
ninety when she  died,  Uncle  Nathan  was 
ninety-five.  After the  good  old  lady’s re­
mains were  laid  in the  coffin  they  called 
Uncle Nathan in to look at them.  The  old 
lady looked peaceful  and  good,  but Uncle 
Nathan couldn’t see anything but the failure 
of his logic of a score of years.  He  looked 
into her face that was as calm  and peaceful 
as her life had  been,  and  drew  a bandana 
handkerchief from his coat  tail  pocket and 
blowing a blast upon it followed  by wiping 
his eyes.  Then he looked around  upon the 
friends near by and said  in a  quavering but 
rather triumphant tone:  “There, my young 
friends,  (sob)  s-ee  the  t-terrible  effects of 
snuff’.”

A fraudulent mineral spring  has been ex­
posed  in  Austria.  Chemicals  were  intro­
duced into an underground stream a consid­
erable distance from its  exit.  The  proper­
ties of the doctored water were  commended 
honestly by  physicians, and  the  enterprise 
had entered upon  a  career  of  prosperity, 
when a skeptical visitor  dug  out  the truth.
A scientist claims that petroleum  applied 
to wood renders it less liable to take fire,  as 
there is less of a combustible  fuzz  to  form 
on the surface.  The  petroleum  enters  the 
pores of the wood and renders  it  more  like 
cedar.  Apply it freely with a coarse brush, 
and in a few weeks,  when it has all  soaked 
in and the surface becomes dry,  the  surface 
can be painted.  Petroleum  is a  good  pro­
tection against the decay  of  out-buildings, 
fences, etc.,  without the addition  of  paint.
Mr. B. Jordan,  a member of  the  office of 
the English mining archives,  has  spent sev­
eral  years in studying  the  various  liquids 
that  might  possibly  be  applicable in con­
structing an  accurate  and  highly  sensative 
barometer, and finally found that  glycerine 
produced the best results.  A glycerine bar­
ometer constructed by Mr. Jordan, in 1870, is 
still in use.  The  glycerine  which  is  very 
pure,  is manufactured  by Price &  Co.,  and 
has a specific  gravity  of  1.26,  and  on ac­
count of its high point of  equllition the va­
pors have no perceptible tension at the ordi­
nary temperature, and it  will  only  congeal 
at a very low temperature.  The  height  of 
a column of  glycerine  is  26  feet  9  inches, 
and a variation of l-16tli of an inch of  mer­
cury corresponds to a  variation  of  about  1 
inch in the column of glycerine.  As glycer­
ine is very apt to absorb the moisture of the 
air,  it is covered with a thin layer of prepar­
ed thickened petroleum in the cistern of the 
barometer.  Mr.  Jordan  has  constructed 
barometers for  the  South  Kensington  and 
Jermyn Street  Museums;  both  have  given 
perfect  satisfaction,  and to show  the scien­
tific value  of  the  instrument  the Royal So­
ciety has built one at the Kew  Observatory.

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A JO U K N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and laimtactuiingInterests offne State.

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

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Merchants and Manufacturers7 Exchange.

WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 19,1885.

Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

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

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

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

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

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second  Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh.
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
Regular  Meetings—Last Saturday  evening  in 
each month.
Next  Meeting—Saturday  evening,  August 39, 
at “The Tradesman” office. 
_____________

Grand Rapids Post T.  P. A.

Oi'ganized a t Grand Rapids, April 11, 1885.
President—Geo. F. Owen.
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.
Treasurer—James Fox.
Next Meeting—Subject to call  of  President.

COFFEE 

STRONGER  AND  TEA 

GROWING  WEAKER.

Our statistics of foreign commerce for the 
last five years throw some  interesting  light 
on the tea  and  coffee  consumption of  the 
people.  We are consuming more coffee and 
less tea  year  by  year.  Thus,  in  1881 we 
used  79,130,000  pounds  of  tea,  or  1.54 
pounds per capita,  while  in  1885  we  used 
only 66,373,000 pounds, or  1.16  per capita. 
In other words with 6,000,000 more popula­
tion now than five years  ago,  we  are  con­
suming 13,700,000 pounds  less  tea.  With 
coffee the showing is just  the  other  way. 
Five years ago we consumed 433,276,000,  or 
8.33 per capita,  while now we  are  consum­
ing 539,364,000 pounds per  annum,  or  9.46 
per capita—an increase of  about  one and a 
quarter pounds per  capita.

increased 

In the  United  Kingdom  (Great  Britain 
and Ireland)  the increase is in the consump­
tion of tea and  the  decrease  in coffee—the 
tea  having 
from  158,570,000 
pound to 175,097,000  pounds  from  1880 to 
1884,  while the coffee increased in the same 
time from 32,569,000 to only 33,000,000, the 
per capita falling off from .96 to .91 
It will | 
be observed that while it takes less than one 
pound of coffee a year for the average  Brit­
on, the average American requires nine and 
half pounds; but  when it  comes  to  tea the 
Briton consumes four pounds to  the Ameri­
can’s one.

The American Grocer  finds  an  explana­
tion of the increased consumption  of  coffee I 
and the  decreased  consumption  of  tea  in | 
this country in the roasting process adopted j 
by grocers, which saves  families  the  main 
trouble in preparing coffee for use.  The in-1 
troduction of the harsh Japan tea has at the I 
same time lowered the standard of this bev­
erage, and  that  may  have  something  to j 
do with the decreasing favor it meets  with. 
In  the  United  Kingdom,  where  only  the 
fragrant China and India teas are imported, 
the consumption steadily increases.

R. A. Kneeland, manager of the Delaware | 
Co.  Creamer  Co., was in  the  city a couple 
of days last week, for the purpose of  deter­
mining whether it would be advisable to re- I 
move his factory and business to the Second 
City.  He was much  pleased  with  the  re­
ception accorded him  by the  business  men | 
of the town, and expressed himself as agree­
ably surprised at  the  business  advantages 
afforded  by the  place.  He  is  negotiating 
with a  leading  manufacturing  firm, and in 
the event of a successful termination of  the 
negotiations,  will  make  Grand  Rapids  his 
headquarters within the next sixty days.

The British sugar refiners  are  complain­
ing about American competition and asking 
their government for  protection. 
It seems 
that our refiners, when exporting sugar,  are 
allowed a drawback  equal  to  the  amount 
paid by them in duties on the  imported raw 
material. 
In other words,  they are allowed 
to import raw sugar free of  duty when they 
refine it for  foreign  markets.  Either  our 
refining machinery is more  effective  or  our 
workmen are more skillful than the English, 
for American  refined  sugar is sent to Eng­
land and sold at a lower price than the Eng­
lish article—and this is the competition  the 
British refiners are complaining of. They say 
they are suffering  “in  the  consequence  of 
the bounty  afforded  through  its  customs 
laws to the American  manufacturer.”  But 
this is a mistake.  We do  not  pay  our re­
finers a bounty; we simply give  them  back 
on exported refined sugar the duty they paid 
on the raw commodity. 
It  is  fair,  square 
American competition that troubles the Brit­
ish refiners—and the fact shows what Amer­
ican ingenuity and skill can do in  the  field 
of manufacturing.

The dream of  cheap  iron  in  the  South 
seems to be about at an end.  For years the 
organs of Birmingham  and  the  other  iron 
producing centers  of  the  South  have  dis­
coursed  eloquently  and  effectively on  the 
subject of $9 and $10 iron,  and  pointed out 
the immense  profits  accruing to  manufac­
turers  of  the  same.  The  effect  of  such 
newspaper statements has been  the  invest­
ment of  millions  of  Northern  capital  in 
Southern mineral lands and iron  plants,  re­
sulting  in  losses  almost too  immense  for 
estimation. 
Indeed,  the unbiased  opinions 
of the correspondents of Northern  papers— 
several of whom  have  recently made  tours 
of the iron  regions  of  the  South—leads to 
the conclusion that most of the talk of cheap 
iron has come from the  owners  of  mineral 
lands, who are anxious to unload their  bur­
dens upon unsuspecting purchasers.

Grand Rapids  people  have  read  of  the 
swaggering cowboy, who swoops  down up­
on  a  frontier  town  at  intervals  and  suc­
ceeds in holding  the  inhabitants  at  bay  so 
long as he  remains  in  the  place; but they 
little thought  that  the  Second City would 
ever witness such a sight—a drunken bully, 
armed to the teeth, parading the  streets  in 
search of a man  whom  the  loud-mouthed 
rowdy knew was not in town.  Our  people 
would never have been compelled to  submit 
to  such a disgrace  were  it not  for  Mess- 
more.

Business men  generally are  having  less 
and less to do with  the  Western Union tel­
egraph monopoly, the  outrageous  charges, 
the mistakes  and  carelessness  of  poorly- 
paid  operators,  and  the  dilatoriness  of 
youthful  messengers  having  combined  to 
render the service  afforded by this company 
unreliable and  unsatisfactory.  Letter  post 
is slower,  but surer,  and  does  not  involve 
the  misunderstandings  and  errors  which 
necessarily accompany the Western Union’s
second-class service.

One  of the surest guages of the condition 
of business is the amount of shipping  done 
by rail and  boat.  All  the  transportation 
companies centering here  report  a remark­
able improvement dnring the past fortnight, 
necessitating the employment  of  additional 
men to handle the freight, and  river  traffic 
has  not  been so  good for  months.  These 
indications, coupled with  others  equally as 
suggestive,  all point to the  return  of  busi­
ness prosperity.

Tiie  Tradesman  recently  expressed a 
desire for a correspondent in  every city and 
town in the State,  to whom it could  depend 
for all news  of  a  business nature.  About 
fifty desirable  appointments  have  already 
been made,  and  others  will  be  attended to 
as  the  applications  are  received.  Those 
wishing to  serve in  the  capacity indicated 
should apply without unnecessary delay.

Cleveland  quotes  kerosene  at  9j^c  for 
Water  White and  8c  for  Michigan  Test. 
Adding the cost  of  transportation  and  in­
spection—said to be  equivalent  to  l%e—it 
is difficult to discover where  the  profit  lies 
iu selling oil at this market for 10 K and 9c, 
respectivly.

Purely Personal.

Mrs.  M.  C.  Russell is rusticating atPetos- 

Dr.  C. S.  Ilazeltine still  tarries  at Mack­

key.

inac Island. 

•

Amos.  S. Musselman spent Sunday at Pe- 

toskey and Bay View.

Will Lamoreaux has bought an owl.  The 
animal won’t go hungry,  for  it  is  made of 
stucco.

J.  Ely  Granger  has  returned  from  the 
North.  Contrary to expectation, he  is  still 
single.

Jud. Miner and wife  have  returned from 
Macatawa,  where they have  been  camping 
for five weeks past.

W.  E.  Holbrook,  of the Cincinnati Fur­
niture Worker,  is  in the city,  interviewing 
the furniture  manufacturers.

Robert  Hunting,  with  tire  Merchants’ 
Dispatch,  completely  crushed  the  pretty 
waiter  giris  at  Macatawa  Park  Hotel  last 
week.

S.  A.  Welling  went to Detroit last Wed­
nesday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Hamilton 
B.  Carhartt.  He  is  expected  home  to­
morrow or Friday.

Jim Fox is the  custodian  of  a  new  joke, 
imported  from  Europe  at  great  expense, 
which  he  is  prepared  to  share  with  his 
friends on the most favorable  tenns.

John  J.  Sours,  book-keeper  for  Cody, 
Ball & Co., has  gone  to  Elk  Rapids  for a 
week’s visit with  his  parents.  He  is  ac­
companied  by  his  wife.  Walter  O’Brien 
will  mangle the ledgers during his absence.

For Brewers’ Use.

Barley gives  every  promise  of  a  large 
yield,  and the indications so far are that the 
crop  will  be  secured  in  excellent  shape. 
Local brewers propose to  open  the  season 
j by offering $1.15 to $1.20 per 100 pounds, at 
j which quotations the bulk  of  the crop  will 
I probably be placed.

The Michigan hop crop is ordinarily good 
in quality and  quantity,  and  will  probably 
I bring from  12  to  15  cents  a pound.  Old 
! New York hops  are  offered  at 12)4  cents, 
j and the new crop  will  probably  not  com- 
j mand very much higher prices.

Tanbarlc,  aloes  and  glucose  are—but  it 
! won’t  do for  The Tradesman to be face­
tious.

The extent to which the savings  banks of 
New Hampshire have  loaned money  in the 
West has excited  some apprehension,  and a 
legislative hearing has been  appointed on a 
bill which proposes limitations.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

I N   T IIE   C IT Y .

Follett & Dregge succeed K.  Follett in the 

lumber business.

Geo. A.  Pickle,  grocer  at  115 Broadway, 

has sold out to  a Mr. White.

A.  P.  Waite has  engaged in  the  grocery 
business at Evart.  The stock was purchas­
ed here. 

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Tradewell & Tanner succeed Tradewell & 
Wood in the upholstery and retail furniture 
business on South Division street.

The first cranberries of the season reached 
this market  on  the  15th.  The  fruit was 
wild and most too green to excite  an  active 
demand.'

John Hines & Co. have  lately  furnished 
Gould &  Fink,  of  Edmore,  with  a  boiler, 
and are now at work on one for the  Morton 
House, to be used for heating purposes.

J.  C.  Simonds  has  recently  furnished 
shingle machines to  S. I.  Shaw, near  Kent 
City; E.  Lockerby,  at  Whitecloud;  aad  to 
L.  & L.  Jennison, who  have  added shingle 
machinery  to  their  sawmill  at  Jennison- 
ville. 

_________________

Wallace Franklin,  State  agent  for  Fair­
banks,  Morse & Co., has  sold a  Westing- 
house  engine  and  Erie  City Iron  Works 
boiler to J. Kealer and Wm.  Grill,  who are 
about to engage in the manufacture of hard­
wood lumber at Athens.

The C. Whitefleet grocery stock, on West 
Bridge street, was turned over to Cody, Ball 
& Co.  on  a  bill of sale by Mrs. Whitefleet 
last Friday.  The value of the stock  is  not 
equivalent to Cody,  Ball & Co.’s claim,  and 
a few other creditors are left out in the cold.
It is stated that the Bissell Carpet Sweep­
er Co.  is so  encouraged  by  the  rapid  and 
enormous growth  of  its  business  and  the 
pressing need for  even  more  room  than is 
afforded by the present large  building, that 
another five-story structure—similar  in  ap­
pearance and  arrangement  to  the  present 
block—will be erected  to  the  north of  the 
factory next season.

E.  Fallas, the butter and  egg  jobber,  has 
about completed the erection of a fine  brick 
residence on  the  east  side  of  Livingston 
street, just south of  the  reservoir.  He  in­
tends to erect a cold  storage  warehouse  on 
an adjoining lot next season.  Mr. Fallas is 
one of few Grand Rapids men who has faith 
in the future of limed eggs, having put down 
125 casks of pickled goods.

“I  look  for  60  cent  wheat  before  the 
downward movement takes  a  turn,”  said a 
well-known authority on  grain  matters  the 
other day.  “Just think—there  is  more old 
wheat  in  the  Chicago  elevators  now  than 
there was in  the  entire  country  last  year. 
In other words,  the surplusage of old wheat i 
last  year  was  17,000,000  bushels  and  this 
year it is over 70,000,000 bushels.
D.  P.  Clay  has  concluded 

to  erect a 
store room on the site of the previous  struc­
ture, to the south of the Grand Rapids Man­
ufacturing  Co.’s  other  buildings,  170x36 
feet in dimensions and one story high.  The 
building will be of brick and so  constructed 
as to offer the most resistance to fire.  This 
structure will serve  to  make  a  continuous 
row of buildings  for  the  company for  400 
feet. 

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Capt. Ganoe, who represents the Manistee 
salt  interests  of  Messrs.  Englemann  and 
Peters at this market,  says lie has sold over 
2,400  barrels  of  their  product  during  the 
past sixty days.  As an evidence of the fact 
that the Manistee manufacturers  have come 
to an understanding with the  Saginaw  pro­
ducers, Mr.  Ganoe says he has  received  in- | 
structions to sell at the quotations given hiih 
by the Salt Association of Michigan.

A well-known business man  recently met 
a Western  Union  messenger  boy, who  in­
quired  after  the  location  of  a number  on 
another street.  Upon telling  the  boy  that 
the information desired was not possessed by 
the gentleman,  the lad replied  that  he  was 
going to the lake, and would return the mes­
sage to the office next day  with  the  report 
that he wao unable to find the address.  Such 
is the  wonderful  dispatch  of  the Western 
Union! 

________________

“Grand Rapids is  the  most  enterprising 
city in the coimtry in a good  many things,” 
said a well-known  produce  dealer,  “but in 
one respect she is away  behind  the  times.
I refer to the matter of a cold storage ware­
house. 
If some of our  men  of  money but 
knew it, ten or fifteen  thousand  dollars in- I 
vested in such a  project  could  not  fail to 
pay handsome  returns.  There  isn’t a pro­
duce  merchant  or a jobbing  house  in this 
city who wouldn’t have something in it half 
the time, and I dare  say  half  the  retailers 
would  make  frequent  use  of  it.  Again, 
hundreds of outside dealers would ship their 
little stocks of perishable goods to this mar­
ket,  instead of to Chicago and Detroit.”

Those merchants who buy their oil at this 
market have profited to the extent of  many 
dollars by the local fight between the Stand- 
are Oil Co.  and Curtiss,  Dunton & Co.  Chi­
cago quotes Water  White  and  Legal  Test 
oils  at  12A  and  lOJ^c,  respectively,  and 
Detroit at 11A and 10c, while Grand Rapids 
jobbers  have  been  enabled  to  sell at 10A  
and 9e—a saving of 2 A   and  1A   over Chi­
cago quotations,  and IK  and lc over Detroit 
prices.  This  is  equivalent  to  an average 
saving  of  $1  per  barrel,  no  small matter 
with a merchant who handles three  or  four 
barrels  of  oil  per  week.  Saginaw  is  the 
only  market  which  comes  anywhere  near 
these quotations,  and there the  reduction  is 
due to the  same  cause—the  determination 
of the Standard  to  crush  out  a  competitor.

Henry E.  Duncan,  grocer  at  Schoolcraft, 

is dead.

Mr. Messenger has engaged  in  the  gro­

cery business at Tustin.

Williams & Sabine, wholesale fruit dealers 

at Detroit,  are closing out.

H.  A.  Chapman  &  Co.  succeed  G.  L. 

Smith in general trade at Somerset.

Webster & Phillips, grocers at Reed City, 
have dissolved,  L.  D.  Webster  succeeding.
James Beatty,  of  the  wholesale  grocery 
firm of Beatty,  Fitzsimmons &  Co.,  at  De­
troit,  is dead.

Brookwalter & Lowe, hardware dealers at 
Burnip’s  Corners,  have  dissolved,  Silas | 
Lowe  succeeding.

E. Wellington & Co. succeed Gillett,  Wei- j 
lington & Co.  in tiie drug and boot and shoe 
business at Springport.

W.  A.  Carpenter  &  Co., dealers  in lum­
bermen’s  supplies  at  Farwell, have  been 
burned out. 

Insurance,  partial.

Wagar  Bros.,  druggists  at Edmore,  have 
dissolved, F.  G.  Wagar continuing.  G.  A. 
Wagar will  continue  in  the  hardware bus­
iness, as  heretofore.

Plainwell Independent:  Plainwell  is  to 
have a third clothing store, if Gabriel Wolff, 
of Otsego,  does not  change  his  mind.  He 
expects to open in the  opera  house  block 
about Oct.  1.

Geo. A. Hasty,  grocer at Lansing, has as­
signed to W.  Irving  Latimer.  Liabilities, 
$3,000;  assets,  $2,500,  which  are fully cov­
ered by chattel mortgages  to  a  local  bank 
and Hasty’s mother.

J.  C.  Miller  has  moved  liis  drug  stock 
from  Douglass  to Saugatuck,  where he has 
formed  a copartnership with his father, un­
der the firm name  of  C.  Miller & Son, and 
added a line of groceries.

Uillce DeVries,  who  has  been  associated 
with his father in general  trade  at  James­
town for five years past,  has  purchased  the 
drug  stock  of  G.  F.  Richardson,  at  that 
place,  and will continue the business.

A Millbrook correspondent writes:  F. A. 
Voorheis has retired from the hardware bus­
iness.  The  firm  now  consists  of  James 
Richards of Detroit,  and  C.  D.  Richards,  of 
Millbrook, but goes by the old firm name.

M A N U F A C T U R IN G   M A T T E R S .

R.  G. Peters is considering the advisabili­
ty of putting  a bapd  saw  into  his mill at 
Eastlake, near Manistee.

Thompson Smith’s  Sons  have  purchased 
a steam fire  engine  for  the  protection  of 
their mill plant at Duncan City.

A  Rodney  correspondent  writes:  Mr. 
Swift has sold his mill,  which  he  has  just 
finished, to Mr.  Young,  of Edmore.

Ed.  Kenter  has  traded  his  saw  mill  in 
Ganges  township,  Allegan  county,  for  the 
tug “ Hattie Adams,” of Muskegon.

The total amount of  salt  maufactured  at 
Manistee since the first well was sunk there 
was 411,523 barrels on August  1,  of  which 
208,048 barrels were made after  December,
1884.

It is reported that there is a great scarcity 
of  laborers  in  Missaukee  county.  Swan, 
White & Smith find it difficult to  secure all 
the men they want for the rapid building of 
their logging road.

A.  D.  Martin,  who  has  operated a shin­
gle  mill  in  Ensley  township,  Newaygo 
county,  for  the  past  four years,  has  com­
pleted his cut  and  will  shortly  remove the 
mill to some Northern point.

Mecosta Sentinel:  G.  Collin  &  Co.  have 
completed the cut  of  shingle  timber in the 
immediate  vicinity of  their  mill  and  will 
move the  mill to  Horsehead  Lake,  which 
will cause a delay of a few weeks in cutting 
shingles.

A  Cedar  Run  correspondent  writes: 
Messrs. J.  & P.  Simmonds  have  secured a 
saw mill from parties  in  Indiana.  We un­
derstand the mill is at  Travese  City  on the 
cars. 
It will be  located on the  vacancy of 
Mr.  Fox’s mill.

The Kirby-Carpenter Co.,  at Menominee, 
pays its men an average of $39.50 a  month, 
which includes  all drawing  wages and  sal­
ary except the woods boss.  The Bay Shore 
Lumber  Co.,  at the  same  place,  pays  an 
average  of $46 a month.

Ryerson,  Hills & Co.  lately finished oper­
ations for  the  season  at Newaygo,  having 
put in 16,000,000 feet of logs  over the Pick­
erel Lake railroad.  Their train  made eigh­
teen trips a day,  hauling  ten  cars each trip 
for forty-eight  days.  A  million  feet  was 
thus transported every three days.

The  White  River  Log & Boom  Co. has 
sorted and  delivered  for the  spring  drive 
84,184,620 feet of logs.  Besides there were 
20,000,000 feet brought in by rail  for the S. 
N. Wilcox Lumber Co.,  or by other  parties 
in the same manner.  The cut  for  the sea­
son will amount to over  100,000,000  feet— 
or more than the cut for last year.

W.  W.  Starkey,  lumber dealer and  stave 
manufacturer  at  Ionia,  has  given the First 
National  Bank  of  Ionia  a  mortgage  for 
$1,500 on his machinery,  and sold his inter­
est in  the  business  to  his  brother,  Frank 
Starkey.  The  latter  claims  to  have  en­
dorsed  notes  for  the  concern,  and  taken 
this  method  of  securing  himself  against 
loss.  Starkey’s  liabilities  amount to about 
$10,000, with  assets  nominally  the  same, 
and  he  claims  he  will  be  able  to pull 
through  all right  and  meet  all  his  obliga­
tions.

S T R A Y   F A C T S .

A. J.  Prindle  succeeds  Mrs.  Freeman  in 

the fancy goods business at Howell.

Smith  &  Parsons  have  engaged  in  the 

restaurant business at Benton Harbor.

C.  P.  Rogers succeeds  Rogers  &  Morri­

son in the livery bnsiness at Greenville.

Butters  &  Peters  have  completed  ar-

rangements for  sinking  a  salt  well at Tail- 
man.

Daniel Newton,  the Hastings harness and 
trunk dealer, contemplates starting a branch 
store at Plainwell.

It.  T.  French has purchased  Mr.  Wood’s 
interest in the  retail  furniture  business of 
Chapman  &  Wood,  at  Middleville.  Tiie 
new firm name is Chapman & French.

J.  O. VanAnden has retired from the firm 
of Burk,  Rich & Co., cigar manufacturers at 
Detroit.  The business will be continued by 
the remaining partners under the  same firm 
name.

Lansing wheels  into  line with a lodge of 
Stationery  Engineers, being  the fourth  or­
ganization of  the  kind  in  the  State.  A. 
Brisebois is  president,  Wm.  Toolan  secre­
tary and W.  E.  Cody treasurer.

Short Sayings of Great Men.

D.  P.  Clay—Yes,  crops never were better 
than this season,  but you mustn’t expect tiie 
farmers will talk any more cheerful.  If gold 
dollars grew on trees,  and could be  had  for 
the picking, the farmers would grumble  be­
cause they weren’t picked and put in baskets.
John Caulfield—Between you and  I,  that 
house of mine, isn’t going  to  cost  me  more 
than  half  as  much  as  I  figured  on.  The 
cheapness of lumber, labor and other articles 
entering  in  the  construction  of  a dwelling 
house is a matter of constant surprise to me.
J. II. Spires—The lumber trade will never 
prosper until the railways adopt  a  uniform 
tariff and stand by the same for two consec­
utive  weeks.  As  it  is  now,  we no sooner 
get a new tariff and  begin  figuring  on  that 
basis  than  along  comes  a  change in  rates, 
which demoralizes the  business,  dissatisfies 
the purchaser,  and frequently  consumes  all 
the profit involved.

A.  L.  Ruffe—The  “ Rochester  German” 
is a safe insurance company to let alone,  as 
the individual who adjusts the losses of the 
company in this State possesses none of the 
attributes of a gentleman.  A knowledge of 
the manner in which he  conducted  himself 
in this community has resulted  in  the  can­
cellation  of  nearly  every  one  of the com­
pany’s policies held here.

Geo. N.  Davis—On  my  return  from Col­
orado three or four years ago,  I telegraphed 
my wife from Chicago that I would be home 
on the late train that night. 
I sent  the tel­
egram during  the  forenoon.  Two days af­
terward, while I was eating  dinner a West­
ern Union  messenger  boy  brought in  the 
dispatch,  which I  refused,  and  the  local 
manager abused me like  a  thief  because I 
would not pay the message fee,  25 cents.

W.  T.  Lamoreaux—No, I  don’t  do  any 
business with  the  Western  Union  which 
can  possibly  be  carried  by  any  other 
line.  I don’t like the disreputable  way that 
concern has  of treating  its patrons.  To il­
lustrate: 
I  received  a  telegram  last fall 
from a Chicago house,  asking  what I could 
furnish a carload  of  beans  for. 
I  replied 
$1.25 a bushel,  and  received  an  order  to 
ship.  About the  time  I  thought the beans 
would  reach Chicago,  I drew on  the  house 
for the amount, and was  surprised to  have 
the draft  returned and  car  refused,  on the 
ground that the  price  named  was  not  that 
agreed upon.  An interchange of  telegrams 
revealed the fact that the operator had made 
a mistake in transmitting  my first  message, 
making $1.25 read  $1.20. 
I took  the  dis­
patch and the copy of  my  first  message up 
to  Mr.  Baxter,  the  local  manager,  who 
agreed to reimburse me the  $17  loss  which 
I incurred in consequence  of  the operator’s 
error.  He forwarded my proofs on  to New 
York, and I soon received an insolent reply, 
the gist of  which  was  that  I might go to 
shoel. 
I then demanded the  return of  my 
proofs,  but  the  demand  has  been  denied 
and  whenever I talk  suit,  the  company’s 
agents put their fingers to  their  noses  and 
suggest that I  better obtain my proofs first. 
That’s the way they  do  business,  and  the 
less I have to do with  them  the better I am 
off. 

_

The Union Label.

Tiie Knights of Labor at  Muskegon,  Fre­
mont and several other  surrounding  towns 
have resolved to boycott all dealers handling 
non-union cigars—that  is,  cigars  not  bear­
ing the union label,  and the labor  organiza­
tions in this city have  posted  handbills  on 
the billboards requesting merchants  to han­
dle only  union-made  goods.  With a  view 
to ascertaining how this  arrangement  will 
affect the jobbing  trade,  a  reporter of T h e 
T r a d e s m a n   recently  called  on  a  leading 
tobacconist  and  made  the  necessary  in­
quiries.
“We give our  trade  whatever  they  ask 
“Three-fourths of 
for,” the jobber replied. 
our goods are made in union  shops,  but the 
manufacturers  usually  prefer to leave  the 
label off,  and consequently  send  the labels 
to us in packages. 
If a dealer wants labels 
on his goods, we paste them on for him; but 
if his trade doesn’t demand  them  we  don’t 
take the trouble to disfigure  the boxes.  Do 
we ever put the label  on  non-union  goods? 
Of course we do.  We cater to the working­
men’s whims in this respect  the same as we 
would a child’s.  They don’t know the  dif­
ference.  and  half  the  time  the  non-union 
goods are better cigars,  and made  by better 
workmen, than the  union  goods.  The  un­
ion label is too  often  used  to  bolster  up 
poor goods and bad workmanship,  and even 
those who are.  fierce  for  the  union  label 
goods will be  smoking  cigars  without  the 
label within the next six months.”
Attention Everybody.

Insure in the United States Accident  As­
sociation of New York.  The annual cost of 
$5,000 insurance and $25 weekly  indemnity 
is  $13 per  year.  For  information or appli­
cations,  address  P.  D.  Richards,  General 
Agent, Box 388,  Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The Gripsack Brigade.

A.  F.  Peake,  State  agent  for  DeLand & 
Co., Fruitport,  N.  Y.,  was  in  the  city last 
week,  interviewing the jobbing trade.

Chas.  Livingston, traveling representative 
for E.  G.  Stuclley & Co.,  learned a new card 
trick at Big Rapids one day last week.

S.  W.  Bush was in the  city  last week on 
his way  to  Springfield,  Ohio,  whither  lie 
was called  by  his  house—Jas.  Craig,  De­
troit—to look after important  business mat­
ters.

Wm. A.  Clough,  who is  “doing” the Wis­
consin trade with Ilazeltine, Perkins & Co.’s 
sundry line,  exhibited  his  samples  to the 
State Pharmaceutical  Association  at Janes­
ville last week.

B.  Frank Emery went to  Whitehall  Sat­
urday, where  his  wife  and  children  had 
been spending a week with  relatives.  Mrs. 
Emery is accompanying him on his  regular 
Northern trip this week.

A  good  many of the Grand Rapids travel­
lers are  taking  their vacations piecemeal in 
trips  to  the  various  resorts,  where  lake 
breezes, fishing, bathing  and  boating,  com­
bined with big appetites, keep them in good 
trim for fall work.

A.  E.  Brownell,  representing the  Ameri­
can Cigar Co.,  of Coldwater,  put  in Sunday 
at tliis market.  Mr. Brownell’s Sunday vis­
its to Grand Rapids—he always  strikes this 
market on that day—are not due to a female 
attraction,  but are  the  result of  an  ardent 
admiration for  one  of  our  leading  divines 
and a desire to hear him  expound  the  gos­
pel as often as possible.

Intrepid Travelers—Three of a Kind.
“Yes,  a  traveling  man  gets  in  a  tight 
place once in a  while,”  said  a  well-known 
member of the fraternity,  “but  as  a  usual 
thing he is equal  to the  emergency. 
I  see 
you  frequently  refer  to  the  ‘elephantine 
proportions’ of Gid.  Kellogg, but Gid.  is no 
coward,  if  he  is  big. 
I  remember  a  little 
occurrence  which I witnessed  up  at  Evart 
several years ago.  Gid.  and  the  late  Billy 
Pittwood were walking up the  sidewalk  of 
the main  street,  when  they met a  posse of 
drunken  river  drivers,  who  informed  the 
Roys that it would be necessary for  them to 
take  tiie  middle  of  the  road.  Billy  shied 
out into the road without further argument, 
but Gid proceeded without hesitation, plant­
ing one of his fists between the eyes  of  the 
foremost bully.  The blow sent  the  fellow 
nearly to the  middle  of  the  street,  and a 
similar  movement  on  another  red-shirted 
specimen sent  the  latter  sprawling  in  the 
gutter.  The remainder of  the party  profit- 
ted by the example of their two companions, 
and gave the right  of  way  without  further 
argument.

“I’ve heard the boys tell of an experience 
Albert  Antrim  had on  the bridge  between 
Alleyton  and  White  Cloud  a  number  of 
years ago. 
In those  days,  Antrim  was  in 
the file business,  and at the time I  speak of 
he was carrying a  package  of  files  over to 
White Cloud  for  shipment.  When  about 
half way over  the  bridge, he  met  several 
log  runners,  who  informed  him  that  he 
would  have to go back or  lie  down  while 
the rowdies pased, accompanying the threat 
with upraised  peavies.  Antrim  happened 
to have a six-shooter  with  him,  and  whip­
ping out the weapon,  he  turned  the  tables 
on the  aggressors,  and  compelled  them to 
lie down while he  passed  them.  And  if I 
remember rightly,  he gave  the fellows part­
ing kicks all around as he passed by.

“Steve Sears ain’t much of a  lighter,  but 
if he ever got  into  a  comer,  I  imagine  he 
would make it exceedingly lively for his op­
ponent. 
I have heard him tell of an  occur­
rence  which  happened  on a train  on  the 
Newaygo branch  about  a  half  dozen  years 
ago.  Steve was  the  only male  passenger 
on the train,  and  it was  necessary  to put a 
couple  of  ugly customers  off at a way sta­
tion.  Steve  exchanged  places  with  the 
route agent,  who  volunteered to  assist the 
conductor  and  brakeman.  One  of the fel­
lows broke away from the trio,  and  rushed 
into the mail car,  where he proposed to pick 
up a couplixg  pin.  Steve  saw at a glance 
what the rough would do in such a weapon, 
and leveling his revolver, drew a bead on the 
scoundrel.  Both stood there watching each 
other for  several minutes,  when the  rowdy 
asked permission to leave  the  train,  which 
was  granted.  Steve  then  discovered  that 
his revolver was  too  rusty for effective ser­
vice, but it probably saved his  life just  the 
same.”

We desire to call the attention of the Trade  to 

our unusually complete stock of

SCHOOL  BOOKS,

SCHOOL SOPPLIES,

And a General Line of Miscellaneous 

Books, Stationery, Paper, Etc.

We have greatly increased our  facilities  for 
doing ia  General  Jobbing Business, and  shall, 
hereafter be able to fill all orders promptly.
We issue separate lists of Slates,  School  and 
Township Books, Blanks,  Etc.,  which  will  be 
mailed on application.
Quotations on any article in our stock cheer­
fully furnished.  We have the Agency  of  the
REMINGTON  TYPE  WRITER 

For Western Michigan.

EATON & LTON,

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STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City. 
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Y e a r s —Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Ver nor.
Next place of  meeting—At Detroit, November 

3, 1885.
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

amazoo.
sing.
Rapids.

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

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORG 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. Eseott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
low, Jas. S. Cowin.
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White.
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B. 
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November.
N ext  Meeting—Thursday evening, September 
3, at “The Tradesman” office.

Arsenic Eaters.

From Chamber’s Journal.

It must not be supposed that any one takes 
to  liedri,  or arsenic  eating,  quite  openly. 
On the  contrary  it  is  generally  begun in 
secret and at  the increase of the moon, and 
in some villages with  superstitious  observ­
ances.  A very small dose  is  at  first taken 
once a week—bread and butter is the  favor­
ite medium—then twice  a  week  and so on 
until, when the individual arrives  at a dose 
daily, the dose  itself  is  increased  till  as 
much be taken as in ordinary circumstances 
would kill two or three  individuals.  But it 
must not be  understood  that  these  people 
can consume the drug  altogether  with  im­
punity.  When they first  begin  with their 
very small doses they  are  seized with  nau­
sea and burning  pains  in the  mouth  and 
stomach,  and are probably very much  more 
uncomfortable than a boy  who  has  taken 
his first cigar.  But  one  peculiarity of  ar­
senic eating is  this: 
that  when a man has 
once begun to indulge in it he must continue 
to indulge; for if  he  ceases  the  arsenic in 
his system'poisons him; or as it is popularly 
expressed,  the last dose kills him. 
Indeed, 
the arsenic eater must  not only continue his 
indulgence—he must also increase the quan­
tity of the drug,  so that  it is  extremely dif­
ficult to stop the habit; for,  as  sudden  ces­
sation causes death,  the  gradual  cessation 
produces such a terrible heart gnawing  that 
it may probably be said that no  genuine ar­
senic eater ever ceased to eat  arsenic  while 
life lasted. It is curious that while on the one 
hand,  the human organism is so remarkably 
sensitive to arsenic a man may, on the other 
hand,  indulge in these  poisonous  doses for 
years.  This is probably  owing  to the  fact 
that  arsenic  acts  on  the  skin,  and  thus is I 
being constantly carried out  of  the  system, 
and also because it is  readily  eliminated by 
the kidneys.  Now,  this prevents any accu­
mulation going on in  the  tissues,  and  thus 
what  might seem almost'mythical is at least 
brought within the range of  possibility. 
It 
has  been  calculated  that  this  process  of 
elimination has to be carried on for fourteen 
days before a given dose is  entirely  remov­
ed.  But yet the  fact  remains  that  these 
Austrian peasants  can  swallow  arsenic to 
an extent and  with  an  impunity  unprece­
dented in the annals of  toxicology.  For the 
solution of the  problem  we  may  offer the 
following  considerations:  First  of all,  the 
human organism may become accustomed to 
most if not all poisons,  if  they are adminis­
tered at  first  in  exceedingly small  doses; 
and in this way a poison,  as is  well known, 
may become a “mithridate” to  itself.  Sec­
ondly, though the  human  organism  is  ex­
tremely  sensitive to  arsenic,  yet some con­
stitutions may be less so than  others; thus, 
for instance, the arsenic eaters of Styria are 
all of  them  robust  mountaineers,  whose 
forefathers have eaten  arsenic from genera­
tion to generation,  so that, as  may  be sup­
posed, each generatidh has become more ar­
senic proof than the one before it.  Thirdly, 
like most mountaineers,  the  Styrians  con­
sume large quantities of milk  and butter as 
well as other food  rich  in  fats,  when  the 
oily matters to a certain  extent  unite  with 
the  arsenic,  forming  an  arsenical  soap, 
which does not  so  readily  enter  into  the 
blood,  so  that  the  total  amount  of  ar­
senic assimilated  is  proportionately small. 
From this we see that if the Styrian partakes 
of an unusual  amount of this  deadly  drug 
he is at the same  time not only less  suscep­
tible to  its  influence by his  hereditary de­
scent and his habits,  but  his  food  supplies 
him with some sort of an antidote.

Montreal drug clerks are  making  efforts 
to  secure  reduced  working  hours.  They 
think fourteen hours a day too much for any 
one to work.

Salicylic acid, which was at  first  recom­
mended by Dr.  Squibb as a  preservative for 
solutions of cocaine hydrychloride, has been 
found  sometimes  to  produce  an  irritating 
effect.  Boric acid (1 in 200)  has been tried, 
with satisfactory results.

Sumac  in this Country.

Frequent requests  are  made to  describe 
how sumac is prepared  for  the  market  in 
this country,  where it  is sold,  the  prices it 
brings and other questions relative to its be­
ing put on the  market  by  country  folks. 
Probably as  authoritative  knowledge  as is 
obtainable from any one source  is  that con­
tained in a report on sumac prepared  under 
the direction of the national  department by 
Dr.  William McMurtrie.

In this report it is claimed that experience 
has fully demonstrated  the  value  of  our 
principal American  varieties  of  sumac  for 
tanning  purposes,  although .the  preference 
is usually given to  the foreign product. The 
varieties especially employed in this country 
are:  Rhus typliina,  staghorn  sumac,  grow­
ing 10 to 30 feet high; Rhus  glabra,  smooth 
or white sumac,  growing 2  to  12  feet high; 
Rhus  copallina,  . dwarf  or  black  sumac, 
growing 1 to 7 feet high,  and Rhus  eotinus, 
fragrant  sumac,  which is also a dwarf  and 
often compounded with the copallina.

Sumac grows spontaneously in such large 
quantity in various sections  of the  country 
on poor, rough  and  abandoned  lands  and 
hillsides that it has never been  subjected to 
cultivation,  though there  appears no reason 
why the hardy sorts may not  be cultivated. 
Of the  varities mentioned  Dr.  McMurtrie 
names the Rhus  glabra,  or  smooth  sumac, 
as the most valuable for  tanning  purposes, 
though the dwarf sorts are also used.

In this country wfliere  sumac is manufac­
tured—and this is done more  extensively in 
Virginia than elsewhere—the leaves are col- 
| lected and cured by country people and sold 
and delivered to owners  of  mills for grind­
ing.  The more  intelligent  dealers in  the 
raw material urge upon collectors to observe 
the following particulars.  The leaf  should 
be taken  when in  full  sap,  before it  has 
turned red, has begun to wither or has been 
affected by frost,  to insure a maximum value 
for tanning purposes.  Either the leaf-bear­
ing stems may be stripped off  or  the  entire 
stalk may be cut away and the leaves  upon 
it allowed to wither before  being  carried to 
the drying shed; but care must  be  observed 
that these are neither scorched nor bleached 
by the sun.  When wilted  they are conveyed 
to a  covered  place  and  spread  upon  open 
shelving or racks  to dry.  Care is  required 
to prevent  overheating  and  fermentation, 
hence a free circulation  of  air is necessary. 
Sumac  should  remain  within  the  drying- 
house at least one month  before  sending to 
market.  When prepared  for  shipment  it 
must be quite dry and  consequently brittle.

Some Facts about Corks.

Corks are divided into four classes accord­

ing to their thickness:

1.  Thick  corks,  having  more  than  31 

millimeters in  diameter.

2.  Ordinary or commercial, from 25 to 40 

millimeters.

3.  Bastard Corks,  from 23 to 25;  and
4.  Thin cork,  less  than  23  millimeters.
Each class is again divided by the French
and Spanish merchants,  according  to  their 
quality and the fineness of the cork.  In the 
cork  tree  plantations  of  Lot  et Garonne, 
Catalonia,  and  the  Mediterranean  region 
generally,  a  forest  kept in good condition 
and  worked  for  ten  years wall yield  two- 
thirds of good ordinary corks, and one-third 
of  thick  and  thin  cork.  A cork of good 
quality  should  be  white,  tawny  or  pink, 
with  a  close,  fine  grain,  and  free  from 
cracks.  Wet plantations give a soft, flabby 
description of product.

The powder of cork is met with  in  trade 
under  the  name  of  licgine,  and is used  in 
place of lycopodium for healing  skin  cuts, 
etc.  The waste resulting  from  the  manu­
facture  of  bottle  corks  is made useful  by 
being  mixed  with  plaster,  etc.,  for  parti­
tions,  filling walls,  and other  purposes. 
It 
also produces an excellent kind of charcoal, 
which  is  said  to  be  good  for gunpowder 
manufacture.

Linoleum is a composition of cork powder 
and linseed oil.  Sometimes cork powder  is 
found highly adulterated with  sawdust  and 
clay.  Cork  leather  is  made  from Indian 
rubber and cork powder;  it is much used for 
waterproof articles.

Catalonia and Algeria possess the cork oak 
in great quantity,  and it is  successfully cul­
tivated  in  Corsica,  in  the  French depart­
ments  of  Var,  Lot et  Garonne,  and  else­
where. 
It grows about 200  years,  and  at­
tains  some  30  to  40  feet in height,  as  an 
average,  though trees as  high as 65 feet are 
met with here and there.

The virgin cork is the  suberous  bark ;  it 
has little commercial value, being only used 
for  marine  buoys,  fishing net floats,  orna­
mental flower  pots ’ and  ferneries,  and  for 
making Spanish  black.  The  bark  reaches 
its  proper  thickness  in  about eight years, 
but a tree is not unbarked until  it is twenty 
or thirty years old.  A young tree will  give 
six to eleven pounds of cork,  while  an  old 
tree will yield 250 to 350 pounds.

The manufacture of corks for bottles dates 
from the seventeenth century;  machinery is 
now largely used for this purpose, by means 
of which one man can turn  out  about 5,000 
to 6,000 corks a day.

A Druggist  Asks for  Information.

V a n d e r b il t ,  Aug.  17,  1885. 

Editor Michigan  Tradesman:

D e a r  S ir—A   young  man  came  into my
drug store the other day with the  following
prescription:

of water immediately.

R
Sulphate  Soda...........
........... 5jv.
Chloride Soda.............
............ijv.
BiCarb Soda..............
............"jv.
Puiv.  Ginger.............. .............5.13.
M.  Sig.  Tablespoonful dissolve  in  glass
D r------------ M. D.  .
After reading it, the  young  man asked if
I could  put it  up,  and  on replying in the
affirmative,  he  told  me to hurry up,  as  his
mother was  pretty sick. After a  trip to a
grocery store  for  the  chloride  of sodium, 
writing the  directions,  etc.,  I  charged the 
boy 40 cents,  whereupon  he  replied  with a
surprised  look:  “Why,  D r.----------   said
it would not cost  more than fifteen  cents.”
Now,  I would  like to know  how a drug­
gist can afford to give such  a  doctor a com­
mission on  prescriptions. 
I  would like to 
hear from Soliman Snooks  on  this  subject.

F.  P.  M.

Medicines Most ■Prescribed.

Mr.  W.  Willmott,  the  distinguished  En­
glish chemist,  in an  analysis  of  1,000  pre­
scriptions,  found that quinine was far ahead 
of any other  single  medicine  ordered, but 
classifying  all  remedies  in  their  natural 
groups,  he  found  mercury  prominently  at 
the top,  then potash,  bark,  opium and  iron. 
He found that  out  of  the 768 simple  and 
compound  medicaments  of  the Pharmaco­
poeia, only 485 occurred at all in these 1,000 
prescriptions,  while  three-fourths of  these 
were  not  prescribed  ten times in the 1,000.
An  American  writer,  who  has  made a 
careful investigation of the subject, recently 
made public the following  comparative pro­
portions  in  which  twelve  of  the  leading 
medicines had  been  ordered in  1,000  pre­
scriptions which had been taken at random: 
Quinine was ordered 238 times,  opium  136, 
nux vomica 130,  iron 128,  iodine,  mercury, 
bismuth,  aitcl bromine altogether  59  and  60 
times.

The Northwestern  Commercial  Traveler 
pays this journal the following compliment: 
T h e Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n   is  the  com­
mercial  travelers’  paper  of  that  State;  at 
least it devotes  a  very  large  portion or its 
space to the interests of  the  traveling men. 
It is well conducted  and  contains much in­
formation beneficial to  the  merchants  and 
their representatives.

“That  bald  head of mine is worth  $1,000 
a year to me,”  said  Henry  McDowell,  the 
other  day. 
“You  see, I frequently meet a 
furniture  dealer who apparently takes little 
stock  in  what I have to say,  and all the ar­
gument I can bring  to bear on him falls flat, 
until I accidentally lift my hat.  The sight 
of my bald  head  is  reassuring,  and  a sale 
necessarily  follows.”

It is said  that  Jamestown,  in  south Aus­
tralia,  has  by wholesale  planting  of  gums 
(several species),  pines,  catalpas, tamarack, 
figs,  willows,  olives,  acacia, and some other 
kinds of trees,  been  changed  in  five  years 
from a dry,  hot,  almost uninhabitable  place 
to a very  desirable  residence.  The  gums 
are twenty-five and thirty feet high.

Increase in Opium Eating.

Frequent reports have  of  late been  made 
of the alarming increase of the use of opium 
and  morphine  in  this  country,  especially 
among women.  But it seems  that  the  use 
of  these  chugs  is  spreading  everywhere. 
In Spain and France  opium  is  used  more 
freely than ever as a preventive  of  cholera. 
In  Russia,  where  the  heat  this  summer 
seems to be terrific, the  thermometer  show­
ing an average  exceeding anythipg that has 
been known in 140  years,  opium  is  being 
used as a means to keep cool and quiet.  The 
Russians, who are hard  drinkers,  are afraid 
to indulge  in the use of alcohol  during  the 
extremely hot weather,  and  seem  to  have 
partially exchanged it  for  opium,  probably 
upon the authority of experts  who  have in­
dulged in it almost all their lives,  and  who 
aver that,  far  from  distorting  the  mental 
faculties  of  men  as  alcohol  does,  opium 
sustains them,  and renders a man unusually 
bright and good spirited  the  next  day. 
It 
seems to take the edge  off  all  sharp sensa­
tions and perceptions; to wrap  a  man  as if 
in cotton  wool,  and  put  him  on  a  shelf. 
More  than  this a writer  in  a London con­
temporary avers that while wine robs a man 
of his self-possession, opium  sustains  and 
re-enforces  it,  and  communicates  serenity 
If the 
and  equipoise to all  the  faculties. 
use  of 
as  wide­
ly spread as it is reported to  be, the Bengal 
Government will  see  its  revenues  substan­
tially increased. 
It spends now about $10,- 
000,000 annually upon the cultivation of the 
poppy,  and derives a revenue of  about $40,- 
000,000 from the sale of opium. 
It is  to be 
hoped,  however,  that  the  use  of  opium is 
not going to be followed,  as it was in India, 
by the use  of  ganja,  a  preparation  made 
from the  juice of the  hemp; for,  while the 
opium eater does  not  hurt  any one except 
himself, the ganja eater is invariably driven 
crazy,  and becomes a murderer,  and a  thor­
oughly uncontrollable monster.  The Indian 
Government makes the sale and purchase of 
this drug a penal offence, but its preparation 
is so easy,  and the craving of those who use 
it is so irresistible,  that  its  fatal  work  is 
making as great progress among the natives 
of India as opium is making in Europe  and 
this country.

the  drug  becomes 

It is  generally believed  that  lard  oint­
ments are more readily absorbed by the skin 
than those  prepared  by  petrolatum. 
It is 
reported,  however,  that E. Jceras  has made 
experiments with  animal membranes to de­
termine the comparative  rate  of osmosis of
the  medicament  in  ointments  prepared 
respectively with  petrolatum  and lard. 
In 
experiments with iodide  of potassium  oint­
ment  it was found  that  the  most  iodine 
osmosed  in the case of the petrolatum oint­
ment. 
It  remains  to  be  seen,  however, 
whether or not his results can be  confirmed 
by experiments on the living skin.

An exchange says  that  when  paraffin is 
thoroughly mixed with linseed oil,  cast into 
small blocks,  and allowed to cool,  it may be 
used to make any fabric,  aslcloth, felt  and 
leather water-proof,  by rubbing it with such 
a block,  and  ironing  afterward  to equalize 
the distribution of the material in the pores.

bone, Malaga olive oil, oil pennyroyal.

Declined—Linseed oil, rum opium, cuttle fish 
Advanced—Nothing-.

ACIDS

Acetic, No.  8......................................
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).........
Carbolic...............................................
Citric ....................................................
Muriatic 18  deg.................................
Nitric 38 deg......................................
O x a lic.....  ........................................
Sulphuric  66 deg...............................
Tartaric  powdered..........................
Benzoic,  English.....................ip oz
Benzoic,  German.............................
Tannic............................ ....................

AMMONIA.
Carbonate.................................
Muriate (Powd. 22e>...............
Aqua 16 deg or  3f.............................
Aqua 18 deg or  4f.............................

^ f t   15  @

5  ©6  ©

9  ©
10
30  ©
38  ©
40
60  @  65 
3  @ 
5
11  ©  12 
12  ©   14 
3  ©  
4
52  ©  55
12  ®   15 
12  ©  15

BALSAMS.

Copaiba...............................................
Fir.........................................................
Peru......................................................
T olu..................... 
....... ....................
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.....................
Bay berry  powdered........................
Hemlock powdered..........................
W ahoo................................................
Soap  ground......................................

40©45
40
2 00 
50
11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c)................
Juniper..............................•.................
Pricklv A sh...........................’............

EXTRACTS.

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

FLO W ERS.

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

Aloes,  Barbadoes..........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......
Am moniac......................................
Arabic, powdered  select............
Arabic, 1st  picked........................
Arabic,2d  picked..........................
Arabic,  3d picked..........................
Arabic, sifted sorts.......................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c).
Benzoin...........................................
Camphor.........................................
Catechu. Is 04 14c, 34s  16c).........
Euphorbium powdered................
Galbanum strained.......................
Gamboge..........................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c)...........
Kino TPowdered, 30cj...................
Mastic...............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c).
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90)............
Shellac, Campbell’s .......................
Shellac,  English............................
Shellac, native...............................
Shellac bleached............................
Tragacauth ....................................

6  ©  
7
50  ©   60

37)4
9
12
13 
15
14

10  @ 11

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  50 
30
26 
24 
30
30  @1  00

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H oarhound..........................................................25
Lobelia.................................................................. 25
Peppermint..................................... 
25
Rue  ............................................................... .....4 0
Spearm int........................................................... 24
Sweet Majoram...................................................35
T anzy....................................................................25
T hym e.................................................................. 30
W ormwood..........................................................25

 

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine........................  
Solution mur., for tinctures......... 
Sulphate, pure  crystal...................  
C itrate................................................. 
P hosphate.......................................... 

6  40
20
7
80
65

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................   13  ©   14
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (3¡£s& 34s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.......................  18  ©   20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
22
Senna,  powdered.............................. 
Senna tinnivelli................................. 
16
Uva  U rsi..............................  
10
Belledonna.......................................... 
35
Foxglove.............................................  
30
H enbane............................................. 
35
Rose, red............................................. 
2 35

 

 

LIQ U O R S.

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

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

M AGNESIA.

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

O ILS.

 

Almond, sw eet...................................  45  @ 50
Amber,  rectified.............. 
 
45
A nise.................................................... 
1 85
Bay $   oz...........................................  
50
Bergamont.........................................  
2 00
Castor.....................................  
18  © 19)4
2 00
Croton.................................................. 
,75
C ajeput............................................... 
C assia.................................................. 
1 00
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......  
35
Citronella.......................................... 
75
Cloves.................................................. 
1 20
1 20
Cod Liver, N. F ......... 
........... $  gal 
Cod Liver, best.......................... 
150
6 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
7 50
Cubebs, P. &  W ................................. 
1 60
Erigeron............................................. 
Fireweed............................................. 
2 00
Geranium  $   oz................................. 
75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
35
50
Juniper  wood....................................  
2 00
Juniper berries................................. 
Lavender flowers, French.............. 
2 01
1 00
Lavender garden 
.............. 
Lavender spike 
90
.............. 
Lemon, new  crop.............................  
1 40
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ........................  
1 50
Lemongrass........................................ 
80
Olive, Malaga......................... 
©   90
2  75
Olive, “Sublime  I ta lia n ................ 
1 25
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
50
Origanum,  No. 1.............................. 
1  25
Pennyroyal........................................ 
Peppermint,  w hite.......................... 
4  30
Rose 
oz...........................................  
8  50
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1  50) 
65
Salad....................................................  65  ©  67
1  00
Savin.................................................... 
Sandal  Wood. German...................  
4  50
7  00
Sandal Wood, W. 1............................ 
Sassafras.............................................  
55
Spearm int.........................................  
@7  75
T an sy..................................................4 50  @5 00
Tar (by gal 50c)...................................  10  © 12
W intergreen................................... 
2  10
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)....... 
3  50
W orm seed.......................................... 
2  00

do 
do 

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................. ^ f t  
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............. 
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......  
Prussiate yellow...............................  

ROOTS.

14
40
20
3  00
28

20
A lkanet............................................... 
25
Althea, cu t.......................................... 
17
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s ....................... 
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 34s and 34s__  
33
Blood (Powd 18c)...............................  
12
Calamus,  peeled...............................  
20
35
Calamus, German  wffiite, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered...................  
20
Gentian (Powd  15c).......................... 
10
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11  @  12
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............  
17
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)...................  
20
Hellebore, white, powdered..........  
20
Ipecac, Rio, powdered..................... 
1  20
Jalap,  powdered...............................  
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............. 
15
Licorice, extra select....................... 
18
Pink, true...........................................  
40
Rhei, from select to  choice.......... 1 00  @1  50
Rhei, powdered E. 1..........................110  ©1  20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes................... 
2 00
Rhei, choice cut  fingers.................  
2 25

Serpentaria.
|  Sarsaparilla,  H onduras..:............
i  Sarsaparilla,  Mexican.....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c).........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...

SEEDS.

50
41
20
15
25
20

do 

2  ©

do 
do 

do 
do 
do 

SPONGES.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

1  10 

15
5 © ’  6
4 © 434
15 © 18
1 50
i 75
20
10
15

8
1  60 
60 
1  50 
1  70 
1  90 
1  75 
77  ©   80 
23  ©   28 
23  @  28 
18  ©   20 
40 
45
70
@  40 
15 
50 
24 
20 
12 
1  10 
50 
45 
8 
3 
50 
60 
14

Anise, Italian (Powd 20e)................
Bird, mixed in ft  packages............
Canary,  Smyrna...............................
Caraway, bes>i Dutch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  A leppee........................
Cardamon, Malabar..........................
Celery..................................................
Coriander,  nest  English.................
F en n e l................:...............................
Flax,  clean.........................................
334®
4 © 4 ys
7 © 8
Foenugreek, powdered...................
•  Hemp,  Russian.................................
434© 534
Mustard, white  Black  10c)............
8
6 © 7
Rape, English....................................
1  Worm,  Levant.................................
14
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25 @2 50
2 00
Nassau 
do 
do 
.......
. . . .
Velvet Extra do 
do 
110
Extra Yellow do 
do 
.......
85
do 
Grass 
do 
.......
65
75
Hard head, for slate u se.................
Yellow Reef, 
.................
1  40
O30
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22; $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
1 25
Anodyne Hoffman’s ........................
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution.........
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............
Annatto  1 ft rolls.............................
45
A lum ...........................................  ^  ft
234© 334
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
3 © 4
Annatto,  prime.................................
45
434© 5
Antimony, powdered,  eom’l .........
6 © 7
Arsenic, white, powdered..............
Blue  Soluble.....................................
50
Bay  Rum, imported, best..............
2 75
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  Buds............................
40
2 00
Beans,  Tonka..........................
Beans,  Yanilia...................................7 00 @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate......................
30
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................
50
Blue Vitriol  ......................................
© 
7
Borax, refined (Powd  12c)..............
10@12 
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
2  00 
Capsicum  Pods, A frican................
18
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
18 
Carmine,  No. 40.................................
4 00 
Cassia  Buds........................................
12
Calomel.  American..........................
Chalk, prepared drop......................
Chalk, precipitate English............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
Chalk, white lum p............................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .....................
Colocynth  apples.............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform........................................
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............
Cinchonidia, other brands..............
Cloves (Powd 23c).............................
Cochineal  ...........................................
Cocoa  B utter....................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................
Corrosive Sublimate........................
Corks, X  and X X —40 off  list.........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft b o x ..
Creasote...............................................
Cudbear,  prim e.................................
Cuttle Fish Bone...............................
D extrine.............................................
Dover’s  Powders.............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.......................
Ergot  powdered...............................
Ether Squibb’s ...................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s ..............
Epsom Salts (bbl.  19»).......................
Ergot, fresh........................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................
Flake  w hite........................................
Grains  Paradise...............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ............................
Gelatine, French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 7’) off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis__
Glue,  ca n n et....................................
Glue, w hite.........................................
Glycerine, pure.................................
Hops  34s and 34s...............................
Iodoform $3  oz...................................
Indigo..................................................
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian...
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes
Iodine,  resublimed..........................
Isinglass,  American........................
Japonica.............................................
London  Purple.................................
Lead, acetate......................................
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & J4s 11c)
Lupuline.............................................
Lycopodium ......................................
M ace....................................................
Madder, best  Dutch...............
Manna, S.  F ...............................
Mercury..............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W.........^  oz  3  00@3
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .........
Moss, Iceland............................. $  &
Moss,  Irish...................... .i...............
Mustard,  English.............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans.........
N utgalls...............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1...................................
Nux  Yomica......................................
Ointment. Mercurial, 34d................
Paris Green......................................  
Pepper, Black  Berry......................
Pepsin..................................................
Pitch, True Burgundy.....................
Quassia................................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W............ft oz
Quinine,  German..........
$ ft
Red  Precipitate............
Seidlitz  M ixture............
Strychnia, cryst.................................
Silver Nitrate, cryst........................
Saffron, American.  ........................
Sal  Glauber........................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst......................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle........................................
Sal  Soda..............................................
Salicin..................................................
Santonin...................... .....................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch...........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3e]......................
Spermaceti.........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
Soap, White Castile..........................
..........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
..........................
Soap, 
do 
..........................
Soap,  Mazzini....................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ...............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ...............................
Sugar Milk powdered......................
Sulphur, flour....................................
Sulphur,  roll......................................
Tartar Em etic....................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 34 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ....___
Tar, 
pints in tin ...............
Turpentine,  V enice................. ^  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate...................................
Capitol  Cylinder.................................
Model  Cylinder....................................
Shield  Cylinder....................................
Eldorado Engine.................................
Peerless  Machinery...........................
Challenge Machinery..........................
Backus Fine Engine...........................
Black Diamond Machinery...............
Castor Machine  Oil.............................
Paraffine, 25  deg.................................
Paraffine, 28  deg.................................
Sperm, winter bleached...................
Whale, winter............................
Lard, extra.................................
Lard, No.  1.................................
Linseed, pure  raw..................
Linseed, b o iled ........................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained. 
Spirits Turpentine...................
V A RN ISH ES.

2 15
6  50
38
4
35
434© 5
14
17
9
11
14
26  © 28
30  © QE
OO
4
334®
3® 31
60 
2  70 
1  40 
85 
25 
55

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60 
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10 
12 
30 
18 
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No. 1 Turp  Coach....................................1  10@1  20
Extra  Turp..............................................1  60@1  70
Coach  B ody............................................. 2  75@3  00
No. 1 Turp Furniture.............................1  00@110
Extra Turp  Damar................................1  55@1  60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.......... ............  70©  75
Lb
2@ 3
2© 3
234© 3
23!£@ 3
13@16
58©60
16@17
634
634
@70
@90
1  10
1  20@1  40
1  00@1 20

Bbl 
Red Venetian......................................... 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles.........  13£ 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda...........  1% 
Putty, com m ercial...................  234 
Putty, strictly pure...................  234 
V ermilion, 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  P aints....... 
Swiss Villa Prepared  P ain ts.. 

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W l i o l e s a l ©

42 and 4*4 Ottawa Street and 89, gì, 

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS 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.

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  drug  trade.  Our special efforts  in 
this direction have received  from  hundreds 
of our customers the most satisfying recom­
mendations.

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

WITHERS  DADE 

CO.’S

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASII  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. 
2© 3
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.

A. MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A .  ST O W E   &  B E O ., P ro p rieto rs.

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

Telephone No. 95.

[Entered  at  the  Postofflee  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.~\

WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 19,1885.

Conservatism  in B usiness. 
Correspondence Fancy Goods Record.

It was Voltaire, I think,  who  once  said, 
“The man who has no enemies is no  friend 
of mine.”  Yet there are  different  kinds of 
the genus enemy, and when  all  kinds  have 
been  exhausted • there is a nondescript  ani­
mal who is neither a friend nor an enemy in 
the accepted  sense  of  enmity  and  friend­
ship.  His  character  is otherwise  often of 
the best in all things, excepting the point of 
thus-far-sh alt-thou-go-and-no-f arther 
con­
servatism. 
It is not  a  happy fault, by any 
means,  and the men who know it when they 
see it and seek to avoid it are  the  traveling 
salesmen.  They  meet  it  every day in the 
week,  and seek to find the  more  congenial 
members of the house with  which to  tran­
sact their business.

Occasionally it happens that  they make a 
mistake,  and  a  recent  case  in our  trade 
points clearly to an error in judging human­
ity from the surface.  The  affair is  a  most 
peculiar one for many reasons,  as it involves 
the dissolution of a firm  that  wras  regarded 
as very prosperous.  There were  two mem­
bers,  one with experience in the  trade, who 
headed the firm  name, and  the other  with 
money who took  second  place in  the  busi­
ness.  The latter  gentleman  was very con­
servative and  was  regarded by salesmen as 
a bete  noir  whom  they  dreaded  to  meet. 
The partner writh experience  was a hail-fel- 
low-well-met with  salesmen, bought  goods 
freely,  and from all who had anything worth 
buying.  His  income was  contingent  upon 
the profits,  and in order to make  these pro­
fits as large as possible  after a recent stock­
taking,  he voluntarily destroyed or removed 
the  invoices of  large  purchases  of  goods 
still held in stock.  The  partner of  money 
felt that  they had  more  stock  than the re­
ceipted statements called for after deducting 
sales,  and the upshot of the matter wras that 
he proposed a dissolution and advised credi­
tors of his willingness to* confess judgment 
for all claims and  pay  them  in  full.  The 
latter action changed the tone  of opinion in 
his favor, and  hereafter  salesmen  wall  be 
willing to accept  his  orders  without  ques­
tion. 
I have taken this case as  one  which 
illustrates the folly of forcing goods  upon a 
customer  who is  not  entirely  responsible, 
and of selling large  bills  to  those  who are 
too willing to buy when common  judgment 
•shows that they cannot reasonably command 
sufficient trade  to  consume  them. 
In  the 
case just  cited  every  salesman  who  went 
there to sell saw that the house was rammed 
full of goods,  and  although  the  firm  was 
doing a good business,  yet  it  was  apparent 
to  everyone  that  they  were  not  moving 
goods in proportion to their purchases.

The moral of this case is that if both part­
ners had been  of  the  same  disposition  it 
would probably  have  cost  their  creditors a 
neat sum for their  experience  in  over-sell- 
selling.  As it is now they are made  secure 
only through the efforts of the  partner who 
was always  regarded  as  the  objectionable 
member of the  firm.

Failed  in  One  Thing  and  Succeeded  in 

Another.

The man who lias never failed in business 
cannot possibly know whether he is  honest 
or not, cannot  possibly  know  whether  he 
has any “grit” in him or is worth a  button.
It is the man who fails and then  rises  who 
is really great in his way.

Peter Cooper failed in making hats, failed 
as a cabinet maker,  locomotive builder  and 
grocer.  But as often as he failed he  “tried, 
tried again,” until he could  stand  upon  his 
feet alone,  then crowned the victory by  giv­
ing $1,000,000 to help  poor  boys in time to 
come.

Abraham  Lincoln  failed  to  make  both 
ends meet by chopping wood, failed to  earn 
his salt in the galley-slave life of  a  Missis­
sippi flat-boat man.  He had  not  even  wit 
enough to run a grocery, and  yet  he  made 
himself the grandest character of  the  nine­
teenth century.

Horace Greely tried three or four lines  of 
business  before  he  founded  the  Tribune, 
worth to-day  $1,000,000.

Patrick  Henry  failed  in  everything  he 
undertook until he made himself the  orator 
of his age and  nation.

A  Plaster.
From the Evansville Argus.

“Here she comes.  Who’ll  take  the mus­
tard plaster?” said an  Evansville  dry goods 
clerk to another,  as a lady with a sharp nose 
and a business  like  air,  waltzed  into  the 
store and proceed to tumble over  a big  pile 
of goods.

“It isn’t my turn,  said  the  young  fellow 
addressed,  “I took the  plaster  last  week, 
and it’s somebody else’s turn.”

“What a funny name,”  said  a  customer, 
who was standing by,  “why do you call her 
a mustard  plaster?”

“Simply because  she  gets in front of the 
counter and buys nothing, and asks so many 
questions that she  irritates  the  poor  devil 
who is waiting on her.”

“How does that make her a mustard plas­

ter?”

“Because she is a counter irritant.”

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

SILESIAS.

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  7%
Laconia B, 7-4......... 16%
Lyman B, 40-in........10%
Mass. BB, 4 4 ...........  5%
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 8%
Nashua  R, 4 4 .........  7%
Nashua 0,7-8.............6%
Newmarket N .........  6%
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7%
Pepperell  O, 7-8____6%
Pepperell  N, 3-4____6%
Pocasset  C, 4 4 ......... 6%
Saranac  R .................  7%
Saranac  E .................   9

M asonvilleTS.........  8
Masonville  S ...........10%
Lonsdale................. 9%
Lonsdale A ...............16
Nictory  O................
Victory J .........; —
Victory D ................
Victory  K ................  2%
Phoenix A ................ 19%
Phoenix B ................10%
Phoenix X X .............5
G loucester...............6
Gloucestermoum’g.6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy........... 6
Merrimac D .............6
M anchester.............6
Oriental fancy.......6
Oriental  robes........£%
Pacific  robes............o
Richmond................ 6
Steel River...............5%
Simpson’s ................ 6
Washington fan cy.. 
W ashington blues.  7%

Pepperell, 10-4......... 25
Pepperell, 11-4......... 27%
Pequot,  7-4.............. 18
Pequot,  8-4.............. 21
Pequot,  9-4.............. 24
CKS.
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz...............11
Otis Apron.............. 10%
Otis  Furniture........10%
York, 1  oz............... 10
York. AA, extra oz.14 
iURG.
Alabama  plaid......... 7
Augusta plaid.........  7
Toledo plaid............   7
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New  Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid............   6%
Greene, G,  4-4.........  5%
Hill, 4-4.....................  7%
Hill, 7-8.......................6%
Hope,  4-4................... 6%
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4..................11%
Linwood,  4-4.............7%
Lonsdale,  4-4.............7%
Lonsdale  cambric. 10% 
Langdon, G B,4 4 ...  9%
Langdon,  45............ 14
Mason ville,  4-4.......8
Maxwell. 4 4 ............  9%
New York Mill, 4-4.10% 
New Jersey,  4 4 —   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7% 
Pride of the W est. .11 
Pocahontas,  4 4 —   7%
Slaterville, 7-8.........  6%
Victoria, À A ...........95«
Whitinsvllle,  4-4...  7% 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   6%
W amsutta, 4-4......... 10%
Williams ville,  36... 10%

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4.......16%
Pepperell,  8-4.......20
Pepperell,  9-4.......22 %
CHE
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X, o z .. .10
Economy,  oz....... 10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13 
OSNA
Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn.......... 9%
Kentucky  brown.. 10% 
Lewiston  brow n...  9%
Lane brown............9%
Louisiana  plaid—
Avondale,  36...........  8%
Art  cam brics,36...11%
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8%
Androscoggin, 5-4. .12%
Ballou, 4-4................  6%
Ballou, 5-4................  6
Boott,  0.4-4............  8%
Boott,  E. 5-5............ 7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......9%
Boott, R. 3-4— . ..  5%
Blackstone, AA 44.  7 
C hapm an,X ,44....  6
Conway,  4-4............ 7
Cabot, 4-4................ 6%
Cabot, 7-8.................   6
Canoe,  3-4................  4
Domestic,  36..........   7%
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Davol, 4-4................  9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4. .•  8%
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  7% Woodbury, 4-4 
Fruit of  the  Loom,
cambric,  4-4.........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  6%
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded A ge................8%
Crown......................17
No.  10......................12%
Coin......................... 10
Anchor....................15
Centennial..............
Blackburn..............  8
Davol....................... 14
London....................1*%
P aconia..................12
Red  Cross...............10
Social  Imperial— 16
Albion,  solid.............5%
Albion,  grey.............6
Allen’s  checks......... 5%
Ailen’s  fancy...........5%
Allen’s pink.............. 6%
Allen’s purple..........6%
American, fancy— 5%
Arnold fancy............6
Berlin solid................5%
Cocheco  fancy.........6
Cocheco robes.......... 6%
Conestoga fancy— 6
E ddystone............... 6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink.............. 6%
Appleton A, 4 4 —   7%
Boott  M, 4-4............   6%
Boston  F, 4-4...........  7%
Continental C, 4-3..  6%
Continental D, 40 in  8%
Conestoga W, 4 4 ...  6%
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5%
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3-4...........5%
Dwight Y, 7-8...........  5%
Dwight Z, 4-4.............6%
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E ,4 4 ...  7
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......6
Indian  Orchard  44 7%
i%
A m oskeag................7% | Renfrew, dress styl
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian
Bookfold.............. 12%
styles..................... 10%
Johnson  Manfg Co,
B ates.......................... 7H
dress  styles......... 12%
Berkshire..............   6%
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles.....................  7%
Glasgow checks, f ’y  7% 
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles.........  8
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston..................8
standard..............  7%
Gordon.....................  7%
P lunket..................... 7%
Greylock, 
Lancaster................  8
styles  ....................12%
Langdale................... 7%
Pepperell.  104.......27%
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
Pepperell,  11-4.......32%
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23
Pequot,  7-4..............21
Pepperell,  7-4...... 20
Pequot,  8-4..............24
Pepperell,  8 4 ...... 22%
Pequot,  9-4..............27%
Pepperell,  9-4......25
Atlantic  A. 4 4 .......7%¡Lawrence XX, 4 4 ..  7%
Atlantic  Hi 4-4.......7  Lawrence  Y, 30 
7
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......6% LawrenceLL,4-4...  5%
Atlantic P. 4-4.........  5% Newmarket N .........  6%
Atlantic  LL, 4 4 ....  5%Mystic River, 4 4 ...  5%
Adriatic, 36..............  7% Pequot A, 4 4 ...........  <%
Augusta, 4-4...........6V£ Piedmont,  do.............074
Boott  M, 4-4............   6%¡Stark AA, 4 4 ... —   7%
Boott  FF, 4-4..........   7% Tremont C C ,44....  5%
Graniteviile, 4-4—   5% Utica,  4-4......... ........9
Indian  H ead,4 4 ...  7  Wachusett,  4 4 .....  7% 
In d ia n a  Head 45-in. 12% I Waehusett,  30-in...  6% 
Falls, X X X X ........... 18%
Falls, X X X ............. 15%
Falls,  B B .................11%
Falls,  BBC, 36........19%
Falls,  awning........19
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Hamilton,  D ...........  9%
Hamilton,  H --------- 9%
Hamilton  fan cy... 10
Methuen A A ..........13%
Methuen ASA........18
.11
...13
¡Omega A, 44
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
Omega ACA, 4 4 — 16
Omega SE, 7-8......... 24
Omega SE, 4-4......... 27
Omega M. 7 -8 ......... 22
Omega M, 4 4 ...........25
Shetucket SS&SSW 11% 
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Stockbridge  A .......7
Stoekbridge  frncy.  8

Amoskeag,  ACA.. .14 
Amoskeag 
“ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........ 13
Amoskeag,  B ........ 12
Amoskeag,  C........ 11
Amoskeag,  D .........10%
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10
Amoskeag, F .......... 9%
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Premium  B ............16
Extra4-4.................. 16
Extra7-8.................. 14%jOmega  A, 7-8..
Gold Medal 4 4 ........15 
CCA 7-8.
CT 4 4 ........................14
RC 7-8........................14
BF 7-8........................16
AF4-4........................19
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
Cordis  AC A, 32...... 15
Cordis No. 1,32...... 15
Cordis  No. 2............14
Cordis  No. 3............13
Cordis  No. 4............11%
Garner  ................... 5 
¡Empire.....................   ,
H ookset...................  5  W ashington..............  4%
Red  Cross................  5  Edwards.....................  5
Forest Grove..........  
|S. S. & Sons............   5
American  A .........18 OOlOld  Ironsides......... lo
Stark A ....................22%|Wheatland................21
DENIM S.
Boston 
6%¡Otis  CC.................... .10%
Everett blue..........13% Warren  A X A ...........12%
Everett brown......13% Warren  B B .............. 11%
Otis  A X A ...............12% ¡Warren CC................ 10%
Otis B B ....................U%|York  fancy...............13%
Manville...................6  IS.S.& Sons................   6
M asgnville..............  6 
¡Garner.....................  6
Red  Cross...............   7%¡Thistle M ills...........
B erlin .......................  7% Rose..........................   8
G arner..................... 7% I
Brooks..................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P.  Coats.......... 55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30

w i d e   b l e a c h e d   c o t t o n s

HEAV Y  BROW N  COTTONS.

checks,
new

d o m e s t i c   g i n g h a m s  

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

P A P E R   CAMBRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

G R A IN   BAGS.

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

T IC K IN G S.

W IG AN S.

dress 

.12%

CORSET JEA N S

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  D aniels...25
M erricks..................40
Stafford................... 25
Hall & Manning— 25 
Holyoke....................25
Kearsage.................   8»
Naumkeagsatteen.  8% 
Pepperell  bleached  8% 
Pepperell sat. . . . . . .   9%
Rockport.................   7
Lawrence sat.......... 8%
Conegosat................  7

A rm ory...................  7%
Androscoggin sat..  8%
Canoe River............  6
Clarendon................6%
Hallowell  Im p.......6%
Ind. Oreh. Im p.......7
Laconia................... 7%

“ 

“ 

COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G   M A T E R IA L S.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows
1  00 
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl..................
85 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................
1 30 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl................
1  3Q 
Akron Cement per  b b l......................
1  30 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................
.1  05@1 10 
Car lots 
...................
.  25®  30 
Plastering hair, per bu ......................
1 75 
Stucco, per bbl......................................
3 50
Land plaster, per ton ..........................
2 50
_______ _____________________  
Land plaster, car lots
Fire brick, per  M.................................... $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl....................................  
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell,  car lots.................................... 
,  @8 00
Ohio Lump, car lots............................3  10@3 25
BJossburg or  Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement...................................  3 50@4 00

COAL.

(C O M B IN E D .)

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

GEO.  R.  BROWN,

PALMYRA, N. Y.

SOLD  BY
Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Chicago, 111.

Arthur Meigs & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Curtiss, Dunton & Go,
Grand  Rapids  Tank  Line.

PRO PR IETO R S

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

OTJIR.  BPLAOsTIDS.

Prime White, Michigan  Test. 
Michigan Test.

H iT JE P tlO -A -T IIT  C3r.

and barrel it here.

XXX  Water White. 
Electroleum.

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

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

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

CURTISS,  RUNTON  cfc  CO

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

NO.  2.  AND  3  CANS.

YOUNG,  TENDER AND  SWEET,

NATURAL  FLAVOR  RETAINED. 

GUARANTEED  PURITY.

$1,000 IN  GOLD.

NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR. 

NO  CHEMICALS  USED.

NOT BLEACHED  WHITE. 
NO  WATER  IN  CANS.

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only.  Respectfully,

THE  ARCHER  PACKING  CO.,  CMllicothe, Ills.

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for'

Special  Prices  in  Gar  Lots. 

We are prepared to male Bottom Prices on anyttiiope handle.
A .  B. K N O W L S O N ,

3  Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich,

/k ±  M anufacturers’  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY. 

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

,
HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER.
N e lso n   B ros.  &   Go.
Paper Bag
Twine  Holder!

A N D

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

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

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

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

Offered in this Market  are  as follows:

T O B A C C O
PLUG  TOBACCO.
RED  F O X ..............................................
BIG D R I V E ..............................................
PATROL 
..............................................
JACK  RABBIT 
......................................
SILVER  C O I N ......................................
P A N IC .............................................................
BLACK PRINCE,  DARK 
-
BIG  STUMP 
...............................
APPLE  J A C K .......................................

- 

- 

- 

- 

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

FINE  CUT.

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

- 
-

- 
-

-

-

-

-

2c less in 6 pail lots.

SM OKING.

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE,  LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
SE A T .  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN   CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  -
2c less in 100 pound lots.

- 

These brands are sold only by

A r th u r   M e ig s  &  Co.

W holesale  Grocers,

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

SPRING  &

COMPANY

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

O IL.  C L O T H S

ETC.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Rapids,

M ichigan.

TIME TABLES.

Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

A R R IV E .

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

 

J.T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
tMail........................................  9:15 a m
+Day  Express....................... 12:35 p m
♦Night  Express..................... 8:35 p m

Arrives, 
4:25 p m 
10:45 p m 
4:45 a m
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without  extra  charge  to  Chicago  oil 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
9:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Arrives. 
Leaves.
4:05 p m
Express...................................4:15 p m
| H | ____________ 
11:15 a m
Express................................... 8:05 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De­
pot.
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. &  P. M.  trains  to  and  from  Ludington  and

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

train 

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
Arrive.
Express........................ . 
7:15pm
Mail.........................................9:50 a m
All trains daily except Sunday.
The 

Leave. 
7:30 am  
4:00 p m
leaving  at 4 p. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from  Chicago  to  New  York  and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:30 a. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Monre street and depot.

Through  tickets  and  berths 

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

10:20 am

5:15 pm

5:20 am

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

GOING W EST.

Leaves.
Arrives. 
■(•Steamboat  Express............  6:17 a m   6:25 am
■(■Through  Mail.......................10:10 am  
•(•Evening  Express................  3:20 p m  3:35 p m
♦Limited  Express.................   6:37 p m  6:30 p m
+Mixed, with  coach............ 
10:30 am
•(•Morning  Express...............   1:05 p m  1:10 p m
•(Through  Mail...................  5:10 p m  
■(•Steamboat Express.............10:40 p m   10:45 p m
•(Mixed.................................... 
7:10 a m
♦NightExpress......................  5:10 a m  
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 ai m. the following morning.
Parlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
W cst.
Train leaving  at  10:45  p.  m.  will make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car  to  Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r ,  City Pass. Agent.
G e o . B.  R e e v e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  7:00am  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  3:55 p m 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  3:50 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayi e E x.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

Arrives.  Leaves
10:25 a  m 
5:00 p m 
7:10 a m
7:15 a m 
6:00 p m  
11:45 p m

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

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

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I.  trains  for  St. 
Ignace, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 11:30 a. m. and 11:00  p. 
m., arriving at Marquette at l : 45 p. m.  Return­
ing leave Marquette at  2:00  p.  m., arriving  at 
Grand Rapids at 6:30 a. m. and 5:45  p. m.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with the Marquette, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
Gen’l Frt. & Pass. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.

F.  MILLIGAN.

Goodrich Steamers.

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

Grand River Steamer.

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

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

W IL L S — A N T E -M O R T E M   P R O B A T E .

A statute  of this State  providing  for  the 
probate of wills before  the death of the tes­
tators  was  lately  held  inoperative  by  the 
Supreme Court of  the  State  in  the  case of 
Lloyd vs. Wayne,  Circuit Judge.

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T   O F   D E E D .

The certificate of a county clerk to a mar­
ried woman’s  acknowledgment of her deed, 
not signed until his term  of  office  had  ex­
pired,  is not binding,  and  the  deed  passes 
no right as against her,  according to the de­
cision of the Kentucky Court of  Appeals.

IN T E R E S T   O F   P U R C H A S E R .

The purchaser at sheriff’s  sale  of  the in­
terest of a partner in the  personal  property 
of the firm is not  thereby  entitled  to  take 
possession of  any portion  of  the  property. 
All he acquires is the right  to  an  account, 
and he is not entitled  to  anything until the 
firm debts are paid.  So held by the Supreme 
Court of Pennsylvania.

T E L E G R A P H   C O M P A N Y — N E G L IG E N C E .
The  case of Smith  vs.  Western  Union 
Telegraph Co. was one brought  for  neglect 
of the  company to  deliver  a  message  sent 
appellant by his  broker  informing  him  of 
the purchase  of stock on his account.  The 
market  declined  heavily  and  the  broker, 
hearing nothing from appellant, sold out the 
stock  at a heavy loss.  The  appellant  as­
serted that if the message had  been deliver­
ed he would have  remitted a margin  suffi­
cient to prevent  the  stock  being sacrificed, 
or have directed a sale at the  first  point of 
decline,  and sought to recover from the com­
pany his  loss on the sale.  The  Kentucky 
Court of Appeals,  however,  held that as  to 
appellant’s loss the  negligence  of  the com­
pany was a  remote  source  of  damage  for 
which he could not recover.

A S S IG N M E N T —  A T T A C H M E N T ---- IN T E R V E N ­

T IO N .

In the case of Bennett,  assignee,  etc.,  vs. 
Denny,  decided by  the  Supreme  Court of 
Minnesota,  it appeared  that  prior  to  the 
making of an  assignment,  but  on  the day 
when it was made, the defendant, as United 
States marshal,  by virtue of process  of  the 
Circuit Court against the  assignor,  attached 
the assigned property.  The assignee  made 
application to the  Circuit  Court to  be per­
mitted to intervene in  the action in  which 
the  attachment  issued,  and  to  become  a 
'party defendant therein, and for the  dissol­
ution of the attachment.  Leave to intervene 
and become a party defendant  was granted, 
but the motion to dissolve the attachment was 
denied.  The  Supreme Court of  Minnesota 
held that such denial did not bar or  prevent 
the assignee  from  proceeding  against  the 
marshal as for the conversion of the assign­
ed property,  though the attachment remain­
ed undissolved.

P A R T N E R S H IP — P O W E R S   O F   S U R V IV O R .
A surviving partner may not make  an as­
signment  for  creditors  with  preferences, 
without the consent  of the  representatives 
of the deceased partner, according to the de­
cision of the  New  York  Supreme  Court. 
The surviving partner  may,  however,  make 
a general  assignment  without  preferences. 
The court  said:  “He is  liable,  both  as a 
surviving partner  and  individually, for all 
the partnership debts,  and  his  right to  the 
possession and control of  the  property for 
the purpose of paying and extinguishing the 
copartnership debts  entitles  him  to the ex­
ercise of his own  discretion  in  the applica­
tion of the assets or other proceeds for  that 
purpose.  He is no  more a  trustee  in any 
strict sense of that term for  the creditors of 
the firm than is  any  other  debtor  for  his 
creditors,  and their remedies against him in 
the collection of the  debts of the  firm  are 
precisely the same as  those  which  existed 
against the firm prior  to  its  dissolution  by 
death of one of  its  members.  But  as  be­
tween him and  the  representatives  of  the 
deceased partner  a  clear  and  well-defined 
trust exists, which devolves upon him duties 
and obligations in respect of  the disposition 
and application of the assets of the firm and 
their proceeds which  equity recognizes, and 
when abused or evaded will interpose to en­
force.  *  *  *  *  The  surviving  partner 
being a trustee for the settlement of  the es­
tate as between  himself  and the  personal 
representatives of the deceased partner, can­
not pass his whole  duty  over  to  another 
trustee without the consent  of  such  repre­
sentatives;  and the attempt to do that is,  in 
our judgment,  such an abuse  of  his powers 
and duties as justifies the representatives of 
the deceased partner in  applying  to a court 
of equity to take possession of the estate by 
a receiver.”
Successful  Co-operative  Establishment.
As a practical example  of  a  co-operative 
store, attention is called to the quarterly re­
port of the Industrial Co-operative  Associa­
tion of New  Bedford,  Mass.  Figures  are 
given in detail with a publicity which might 
serve as  an example to more  ambitious cor­
porations.  From the last  report it appears 
that the receipts for  the  sale of  groceries, 
provision's,  etc.,  for 
the  quarter  were 
38,057.33.  This is an increase of  31,771.80 
over the corresponding quarter of last  year,
■  and may be taken as an indication that there 
is a steady growth.  The general  expenses 
were 3753.80,  and a dividend of 6 per  cent, 
was declared on purchases.

E   T   O.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMÂN

J E W E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

P ro p r ie to r s  o f

VOIGT  M ILLE  CO..
CBESCENT
FLOURING  MILLS.

M an u factu rers  o f  th e   F o llo w in g   P o p ­

u la r   B ran d s  o f  F lo u r :

“ CRESCENT,”

“ W H ITE  ROSE,”

“ MORNING  GLORY,”

“ ROYAL  PATENT,” and 

“ ALL W HEAT,” Flour.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

T O  SEA R S & CO.

Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  fo r

A M B O Y   C H E E S E -

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

H E S T E R  

F O X ,

Send  for 
Catalogue  M 
Pf'«;

and 

M ANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

A T L A S EHMME  —

________ WORKS  J  ^  » .
INDIANA POLIS,  INO..  U.  S. A.
•

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

SA W   AXTD CRIST MILL 1CACHHTEB.7,

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

W rite  for  P r ic e s.

130  OAKES  STREET,  G RAND  R A PID S,  MICH.

S .  W .  "V’EZN'.AJBXjE!  Ss  O O ,

PE T E R SB U nG ,  VA.,

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

—Manufacturers  o t—

N

MANUFACTURERS  OF

R

I M
Plug* Tobacco.

A N D   OTHER  FAVORITE  BR A N D S  OF

O

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUINGS,  ETC.,

40  and  42  South  D ivision ,  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN

NIMROD  .............................................................44 I  SPREAD EAGLE................................................... 38
E. C........................................................................ 40  BIG  FIVE  CENTER............................................ 35
BLUE  PETER....................................................38 | In lots of 72 pounds or over two cents less

E.  E.  A D A M S   Ss  O  O . ' S

DARK  AROMATIC

File Cut Clewim Tobacco is tie veri lest lari pois ca tie Märtet.

J UDD  cfc  OO., 

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  C A N A L   ST R E E T .

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole  Control of our Celebrated

Pioneer  Preiiareo  Paint!

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is  put  on 
any building, and if within three years it should 
crack or peel off, and thus fail to give  the  full 
satisfaction  guaranteed,  we  agree to  repaint 
the  building  at  our  expense,  with  the  best 
White Lead, or such other paint as  the  owner 
may select.  Should any ease of dissatisfaction 
occur, a notice from the dealer will  command 
our prompt attention.  T.  H.  NEV1N  &  CO.
Send for sample cards  and  prices.  Address

Hazels, Peris & Co.

GRAND  R APIDS,

MICH.

P U R E  

C A N D Y !

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates, 

NUTS,

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

E  3ST GJ-13>T E  S

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.  $

If in Need of Anything in  our  Line,  it 

•will pay you to get our Prices.

PA TEN T EES  AND  SO LE  M ANUFACTURERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

Ijjjjipfr  önnln

Send for Samples and Circular.

Barlow 

Brothers,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

■W".  C,  D en iso n ,

88,90  and  92  South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

Í

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

m

Send  for  new  | 
for 

Price - List 
Fall Trade.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED

HERCULES !
A n n ih ila to r !

The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

Farmers, practice  economy  and  clear  your 
land  of  stumps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
Hercules  Powder  Company,  No.  40  Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.

L.  S. HILL & CO., AGTS. 

GUNS,  AMMUNITION  & FISHING  TACKLE,

GRAND  R A PID S,  MICH.

M.  C.  R U S S E L L , 48 Ottawa st.,  Grand Rapids.

CHOICE  BTJTTESR  A   SFECIAX.T'ST 
CALIFORNIA AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.
RINDGKE, BERTSCH &  CO,
BOOTS  A2TD  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS  FOR JHE

We have  a splendid line 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.

JENNING S  A   SMITH,
Arctic  Manufacturing*  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OE  THE

2 0   L yon   St.,  G rand  n a p id s.
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR

-------- AND---------

Geo. H. Richards has sold  his  cigar  fac­
tory at  Plain well  to  Jos. Monroe,  late  of 
Alamo.

G rand R a p id s,

—  M ieli,

_An?otio  Baking  Powder.

OUT  AROUND.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Groceries.

BILL  OF  PRICES

Adopted  by  Cigar  Makers’ Union  No.  46.
Tlie Grand  Rapids  Cigar  Makers’  Union 
has adopted the following schedule of prices:

SEED  SCRAP  MOLD  W O RK.

4% inch  and under............................................$7
4^  inch  and under.............................................  8
5 inch  and  under.................................................  9

SEED  LO NG  F IL L E R   W OR K .

4% inch and under...............................................  $8
43£ inch and under...............................................  9
5 inch and under..................................................  19

HAVANA  M OLD  W ORK.

Havana.

4% inch and  under..............................................$10
4% inch  and  under.............................................  11
4% inch  and  under.............................................  12
5 inch  and  under................................................   13
All seed scraps with less than four molds,  $1 
extra.
All unprepared scraps, $1 extra.
All mixed scraps, $1 extra.
All  mixed  seed  and  Havana,  same as clear 
All cigars not straight, $1 extra.
All hand work, $1 extra.
The executive board shall have  control over 
all jobs not mentioned in this bill.
All wages must be paid in cash.
The only change of importance in the above 
schedule over the previous scale is in  refer­
ence to fancy shapes—“cigars  not straight” 
—on which the  makers  demand  SI  extra, 
alleging that it is worth that  much  more to 
turn them out.  Three firms refused to con­
cede the demand,  in consequence  of  which 
all the operators employed by Hugh Schnei­
der  &  Co.,  A.  Kuppenlieimer  and  Mold 
& Kenning went “on strike”  Monday morn­
ing.  Schneider & Co.  soon weakened,  and 
their men resumed work,  and the same will 
probably be the case with A. Kuppenlieimer. 
Moiil & Kenning,  however,  refuse  to  “be 
dictated to,” as they express it,  and  declare 
that the strikers shall never go back to their 
shop except  at  the  old prices.  They have 
few manufactured  goods  of  their  own in 
stock, but assert that they can fill all orders 
with  cigars  made  by other  manufacturers 
which will be uniform  in  quality  and fully 
as cheap in price  as  they can  make  them. 
The outcome of the matter will be  watched 
with 
interest  by  business  men  in  all 
branches of trade.

An  Eloquent Debtor.

The  Plumb & Lewis  Manufacturing  Co. 
has  a  debtor  down  at  North  Lewisburg, 
Ohio, who is  equal  to the  task of  dunning 
himself once a day,  and  injecting into each 
letter a wealth  of  eloquence  which  would 
make  Ingersoll  or  Demosthenes  blush for 
shame.  The  name of this modern wonder 
is J .  Spilman,  and his  business—aside from 
his letter-w riting proclivities—is principally 
confined to the repair  and  sale  of  tinware. 
The  oratorical  scribbler  bought  a  bill  of 
wringers of Messrs. Plumb  &  Lew is  in the 
spring of  1883,  and  during  the  following 
November made  the  astounding  revelation 
that  he  could  “not  pay  for them until he 
got the money.”  He  subsequently gave his 
note for the  amount,  and  in  April,  1884, 
wrote  that  he  would be unable to meet the 
same.  The  house  then  threatehed  legal 
proceedings,  and from that time until snow 
flew explanatory letters from the delinquent 
were  a  matter  of  daily  occurrence.  The 
following  are  excerpts  from  some  of the 
letters:
“You seem to wish me to believe that this 
country is  a despotism and that you are the 
despots.”
“Why  do  you  raise  hell  over  a debt of 
S15?  It seems  you’d  take  a  man’s  heart 
I will get you 
blood.  My God!  our  God! 
your money.  The hideous roaring of sheet- 
iron thunder will cease and my happy,  glad, 
perspiring hand will give you 815.”
“If I had as much property as the laws of 
Ohio allow' a debtor,  I’d  think  myself  well 
off.  My wife owns all the household goods, 
horse,  wagon,  bam,  house,  and  a  8200 
claim for borrowed  money.  My  son  also 
has  a  preferred  claim;  so  you see it is no 
use to  try  and  force  collection.  Mrs.  S. 
says she will not trouble me unless someone 
trys to wring my neck.  Then,  of course,  she 
will not lose her  claim.”
Mrs.  Spilman  would  do  well  to exhibit 
her  husband  as  a  genuine  curiosity 
at the county fairs and dime museums.

Concerning Cotton Seed Oil.

“A curious  fact  about  cotton  seed  oil,” 
says the Mexican Financier,  “is that it does 
not  enter  into  commerce  under  its  own 
name.  It is mostly used  an as adulterant or 
substitute  for  other  oils.  The  reason  of 
thiff is that,  when it  was  first  produced in 
quantities which made it an  article of  com­
merce,  it was seized upon to adulterate other 
products,  and the fact that the oil wras of it­
self an excellent and  valuable  article  was 
quite lost sight of.  This is unfortunate, for 
cotton seed oil should be sold,  as it deserves 
to be, on its merits.  Scarcely five per cent, of 
the olive oil, so-called, imported from France 
into Mexico and the United States is genuine. 
Ninety-five per cent is adulterated with cot­
ton seed oil in quantities ranging from 60 to 
85 per cent.  The writer has  himself  seen 
at  the levees  at  New  Orleans  large  iron 
steamers loading  with  cotton  seed  oil for 
France,  and in New  Orleans it is an  open 
secret that this oil  is  destined  soon  to re­
turn neatly bottled, with a label  warranting 
it to be  ‘pure olive oil.’ ”

The  Grocery  Market.

Business continues good beyond  expecta­
tion,  leading to the conclusion  that  the era 
of good times is at  hand.  Some  grades  of 
sugar are higher,  all  kinds  of  raisins  and 
scaled  herring  are firmer.  Whitefish  and 
trout  are  lower.  New  imported  Holland 
herring have put in  an  appearance  during 
the  week,  and  command  1.10.  Kerosene 
continues low,  and dealers would do well to 
keep their tanks well  filled,  in  anticipation 
of an advance.

Clover seed and timothy  are  firm  at  the 
advance,  and the  demand  is fully up to the 
average for this season of the year.

Candy is active  and  firm.  Oranges  are 
steady and lemons are lower.  Nuts  are ac­
tive and advancing.

“In  Union  There  is  Strength.”

From  the Manistee Times.

W.  R.  Burt,  President  of  the  East Sag­
inaw  Salt  Association,  arrived  in  the  city 
Friday  afternoon,  and  after holding a con­
sultation  with  our  salt  manufacturers,  in­
duced  all  except  Charles  Reitz & Brothers 
to join the  association  on  probation,  as  it 
were,  for  the  term of six months.  At the 
end of that time the Manistee manufacturers 
may withdraw or remain in the Association, 
at their  option. 
In  view  of  the  fact  that 
there  are  400,000  less  barrels  of  salt  in 
Michigan  at  the  present  time  than at the 
corresponding period last  year,  the  Manis­
tee  manufacturers  conceived  the  idea that 
their  uniting  with  the  Association  might 
have a tendency to send up the price of  salt 
still  higher;  hence the union,  offensive and 
defensive.  Should  the arrangement prove 
unsatisfactory  to  our  manufacturers  they 
can  resume their independence next March, 
and still retain their old customers,  and the 
prestige they have already acquired.  Man­
istee  has  two  important  advantages  over 
the  Saginaw  Yalley in the manufacture of 
salt—first,  its  salt  is  of  a  better  quality; 
second,  it has better and  cheaper  transpor­
tation  facilities—hence it can act independ­
ent  of  the association,  if its manufacturers 
decide to do  so.  With  our  large  and  in­
creasing salt industry,  we  shall soon be one 
of the most  important  salt  markets  in  the 
world.

Nothing to the Harvest Apple.

From the Detroit Free Press.

A  Watermelon  and  a  Cucumber  which 
found themselves  on  the  same  stand  at a 
grocery establishment yesterday began quar­
relling:

“You are all colic, to say the best of you,” 

remarked the Melon.

ed the Cucumber.

“And you are all seeds and rinds,” retort­

•“Come now, wliat’s all  this  row  about?” 
uueried the grocer,  as he  finished  selling a 
quart of strawberries.

“Why,” answered the  Melon,  “old Chol­

era Morbus here is jealous of me.”

“No such thing!  Old  Rind  and  Seeds 
prides himself on being able to kill two men 
to my one,  and you know that is all wind?”
“Hush, my children,”  whispered the gro­
cer.  “While I appreciate  both of  you for 
all you’re worth, neither of you  is  justified 
in doing any bragging at this season  of  the 
year.  The Harvest Apple is now knocking 
’em out in one round.”

Grand Haven  Celery.

I am now receiving from  150 to 200 dozen 
bunches of Grand  Haven  celery  daily,  and 
disposing of  the  same to  the  best  trade, 
which claims that it is superior to the Kala­
mazoo  goods.

18 North Division street.

A .  J.  B row n,

“I can’t eat that ice-cream,” he said as he 
shoved back from the table with a disgusted 
expression on his face.  “Anything wrong?” 
queried the  proprietor of  the  parlor as he 
rubbed his hands and looked anxious..  “It’s 
beastly stuff.”  “Dear, me,  but  I’m  sorry. 
Susan,  what flavor did  this  gentleman  or­
der?”  “Vanilla,  sir.”  “And  you  gave  it 
to him?”  “Yes,  sir.”  “Ah that  explains. 
I’m out of vanilla and  she  must  have  used 
kerosene. 
I’ll make it at half  price to you, 
sir,  and you get all the  advantage of  a sure 
cure for sore throat.”

Mr.  Lemberger  in  a recent  paper  stated 
that  he  had  succeeded  in  distilling,  from 
orange flowers gathered in Florida and salt­
ed down,  a water comparing favorably with 
that imported from  the  south  of  Europe. 
As orange trees are now grown  abundantly 
in Florida the petals are  consequently plen­
tiful,  and he  suggets  that  a  new  industry 
should be started in that State, in which low 
priced labor might be  utilized  in  gathering 
tlie blossoms,  especially of the wild or bitter 
orange.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

WANTED—A  thoroughly  competent  and 

practical druggist of  twenty  years’  ex­
perience desires a situation.  No  objection  to 
keeping  books.  Good  references.  Address 
“Pharmacist,” box 1,516, Muskegon, Mich.  100*

D RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE-Stock  will  in­

voice  $1,800.  Will  sell  for  $1,200  cash. 
Good town, good  trade,  and  satisfactory  rea­
sons for wishing to sell.  Address “ C ,”  T r a d e s ­
m a n  office. 

102*

100*

101*

kegon, Mich. 

IpOR  SALE—In a growing town on the D., L.

& N. Railway, a grocery  stock,  with  post 
office, and living rooms in store building.  Will 
sell cheap for cash.  Sickness is my reason for 
selling.  Address Mrs. A.  N.  Ellis,  West  Mill- 
brook, Mich. 

drug clerk.  Address D,  Box  1632,  Mus­

experienced, 
wants a situation in drug  store.  No  ob­
jections to small cities.  Good references.  Ad­
dress “P,” care T h e  T r a d e s m a n . 

WANTED—Situation  by  an  experienced 
DRUGGIST — Young  man, 

W ANTED—To  exchange  for  general  mer­
W ANTED—Change of situation at any time, 

chandise, 2,000 acres of  timbered  lands. 
The timber on said lands is hemlock, beech and 
maple,  oak  and  yellow  birch,  1%  miles from 
Flint & Pere  Marquette  R. R.  in  Osceola  Co., 
Mich.  There is a lumber  and  shingle  mill on 
said lands.  Address “B.” careTiiE T r a d e s m a n , 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

on T h e  T r a d e s m a n .  The font comprises 
222 pounds, including italic, and  is well-assort­
ed and very little worn.  Address this office.

IPOR  SALE—The brevier type formerly used 

by a Holland young  man,  more  or less 
acquainted with different languages and about 
three years’ experience in drug business.  Ad­
dress A.  B ., T r a d e s m a n  office.

101*

101

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I jVJR  SALE-Drug  stock  and  fixtures,  with 

good run of custom.  Best of reasons for 

selling.  C. H. Adams, Otsego, Mich. 
SITUATION  W ANTED-As  traveling  sales- 
U?  man for a wholesale house.  Good security 
and references  can be given.  Address  Sales­
man, care T h e   T r a d e s m a n . 
T3ARTNER  WANTED—A  well-established 
A  manufacturer  of  proprietary  remedies, 
having now on  the  market  a  line  of popular 
patents, wishes a: partner,  with  some  capital, 
to push the sale of same.  Address,  “Patent,” 
care “The Tradesman.” 

94tf

100*

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

C h arlevoix.

Aug.  15—T.  D.  Smith  has  sold  his grocery 
stock to E. M. Clark.  The  two  stocks  will  be 
united and business carried on atT. D. Smith’s 
old stand.

M u s k e g o n .

Aug. 17—T. D. Stimson and Ryerson,  Hills  & 
Co.  have  sold  2,180  acres  of pine land in Mis­
saukee county, containing about 50,000,000 feet 
of timber, to Mitchell  Bros.,  of Cadillac.  The 
consideration is about  $200,000.

Hugh  Leonard  has  sold  his  drug  stock  to 
Bergeron  &  Co., who will  continue  the  busi­
ness at the old stand.

K a l k a s k a .

Aug. 15—About2,000 bushels of huckleberries 
have been shipped from Kalkaska this season.
Will Pipp, our hardware merchant, has rent­
ed a house, and if nothing bigger than a moun­
tain gets in the way, will take  unto  himself  a 
w ife ere many moons come and go.  Will stands 
well up in society, being nearly seven feet tall 
by one foot  wide.

L u th er.

Aug.  17—The  saw  mill  of Wilson, Luther  & 
Wilson  commenced  sawing  Saturday,  after 
laying still two  weeks.

F. J. Fletcher, jeweler, has been  elected sec­

retary of the I. O. O'. F. lodge.

Wilson,  Luther  &  Wilson  have built a  new 
and expensive rollway on the mill  pond.  The 
firm has just bought a big tract of  pine of Mr. 
Peters, of  Manistee,  and  they  are extending 
their logging railroad to  this  tract,  about  six 
miles from town.

Mr.  Marven,  of  Addison,  rvas  in  town  last 
week, looking up an opening to  start  a  news­
paper.  He  will  probably  begin publishing  a 
paper soon, as he was very favorably impress­
ed with the village.

B ig  R ap id s.

Aug. 17—George Beaumont leaves this  week 
for San Jose, California, to join his father, who 
went some six weeks ago.  They are negotiat­
ing for a large fruit farm near Stockton.

Geo.  Fairman’s  residence  on Michigan ave­
nue is nearly ready for  occupancy.  It  is  one 
of the finest in the city, and will  add  much  to 
the appearance of the avenue.

John Foster, an old builder of  our  city,  has 
the contract to build the Morrissey brick store. 
He commenced the basement  wall  on  Friday 
last,  and  is  to  have  the  building completed 
within 90 days.

Mrs.  T.  N.  Colvin  leaves  this week for the 
East, where  she expects to spend  the  balance 
of the summer and fall.

Frankfort.

Aug.  17—Williams  &  Colfax  have  just  fin­
ished  burning  a  kiln  containing  80,000  red 
brick.

The people of Frankfort have allowed a good 
thing  to  slip  through  their fingers in letting 
the Wilson Manufacturing Co. locate its branch 
hoop and stave factory  at  Charlevoix,  where 
the people have raised $4,400 to  secure  the  lo­
cation of the  enterprise.

M ISC E L L A N E O U S.

Hemlock Bark—The local  tanners  are  offer­
ing $5 per cord delivered, cash, which  price  is 
fully as satisfactory to the inland  shippers  of 
Northern  Michigan  as  the  Chicago  and  Mil­
waukee quotations, which are  $7 at both mar­
kets.

Ginseng—Local dealers pay $1.59  per  pound 

for clean washed roots.

Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offer 45 per cent, off on standard  goods  and 
45 and 10 per cent, off on second quality.

FRESH   MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides......................................  6  @ 7
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters.....................  7  @ 8
Dressed  H ogs............................................  6  @  614
Mutton,  carcasses...................................5%@  6
V eal..............................................................   8  @9
Pork  Sausage............................................  7%®  8
Bologna........................................................  8  @  9
Fowls.............................................. 
12  @14
Spring Chickens......................................  @18

OYSTERS  A N D   FISH .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

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FR ESH   F IS H .

F. J. D. Selects...........................................
Standards  ..................................................
Mackinaw Trout...................................................6
Whitefish  .............................................................  6
Black Bass...........................................................   8
Cod  ........................................................................12
Sun  Fish..............................................................   5
Rock B ass............................................................   5
P e r c h ....................................................................  4
Duck Bill P ike............... 
5
Wall-eyed  P ik e.................................................... 6
Smoked White Fish............................................10
Smoked Trout......................................................10
Smoked Sturgeon................................................10

 

H ID E S, PELTS  A N D   FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows :

H ID E S .

G reen__ $  ft  6  @6%
Part  cured...  7  @  714
Full cured__   8%@  8%
Dry hides and

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

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

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

S H E E P  PEL TS.

Shearlings..................................................10
Lamb skins......................................... /...20
Old wool, estimated washed 
Tallow.
Fine washed $  ft 20@25|Unwashed. 
Coarse washed... 16@18|

ft.........

W OOL.

@25
@40@20
414® 4%

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Michigan Cranberry Growers.

Dr. A. M. Gerow.................................. Cheboygan
Win.  Elliott...........................................Cheboygan
Dr. W. H. W alker.................................Glen Arbor
W. W. Barton and Louis Gubbin............Leland
F.  G.  Mack................................................ Romulus
S. H.  Comings........................................St. Joseph
Henry S. H all...................................Three Rivers
D. C. Leach.......................................Traverse City
John Clark.. ?..............................White Fish Point
Alexander Barkley...................White Fish Point
Win. Hawkins.......................... White Fish Point

“Sanding” His Marsh.
From the Grand Traverse Herald.

D.  C.  Leach  is  making  quite  extensive 
improvements on and additions to his  cran­
berry marsh,  at Walton,  this  year. 
It  has 
been  clearly  demonstrated  by  him  that 
“sanding”  brings good  returns  in a greatly 
increased yield and the  newly  set  portions 
will all be treated in this way.  He has just 
let contracts for planting and sanding seven 
more  acres.  This  “sanding”  is  done  by 
simply  putting  upon  the  surface  of  the 
marsh a thin layer of  sand  taken  from the 
adjoining plains.  The  improvements made 
this year will prove  a  valuable  addition to 
an already valuable marsh.

The experiment  of  planting  tobacco  has 
been tried at Keno, Nevada,  and has proved 
successful,  while  it  is thought that the cli­
mate is well fitted for curing the leaf.

 

 

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promptly and buy in full packages. 

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers, .who  psfy 
Advanced—Sugars, raisins, scaled herring. 
Declined—Whitefish,  trout.
AX LE  GREASE.

2 40
12  00

CANNED  F IS H .

CANNED  F R U IT S .

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

doz. 45
35
65

Frazer’s .................   2 80IParagon  ...................1  80
Diamond................. 1 75 Paragan 25 ft pails.1  20
Modoc...................... 1 651
  451 Arctic  1 ft cans 
Arctic % ft cans 
  75 Arctic 5 ft cans 
Arctic % ft cans 
A r c t ic   % ft c a n s .  .. 1  401
BLU IN G .
Dry, No. 2................................. 
Dry, No. 3.............................  
Liquid, 4 oz,.........................................doz. 
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
Arctic No. 2 
3 00
 
Arctic No. 3 
 
4 50
BROOMS.
No.  2  H url................ 175
No. 1 Carpet............. 2 50
Fancy  W hisk...........100
No. 2 Carpet............. 2 25
Common Whisk__   75
No. 1  Parlor Gem.. 2  75
No. 1 Hurl.................2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards....................................1  40
Clams, 2ft  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  05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic....................................... 1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft star...........................................2  00
Lobsters, 2 ft star...........................................3 00
Mackerel, l f t   fresh  standards.................. 1 00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards.................. 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft.................3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard.............................3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.............., ....................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river........................1  40
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river........................2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacram ento............................ 125
Sardines, domestic %s................................... 
6
Sardines,  domestic  %s...............................  
11
Sardines,  Mustard  %s...........................  
 
10
Sardines,  imported  %s.................................   13
Trout. 3 ft  brook..........................................  2  75
Apples, 8 ft standards...................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards......................... 2 40
Blackberries, standards..............................1  05
Cherries,  red  standard.................................  80
D am sons.......................................................... 1  00
Egg Plums, standards 
............................... 1 40
Green  Gages, standards 2 ft........................1  40
Peaches, Extra Y ellow ................................ 2 40
Peaches,  standards............................. 1  75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds.................................................1 50
Pineapples,  Erie...................................................2 20
Pineapples, standards.........................................1 70
Q uinces.................................................................. 1 45
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg.........................1 70
Apricots, Lusk’s . . .2 40!Pears..............................3 CO
Egg Plum s.............2 50 Q uinces....................2  90
G rapes....................2  50 Peaches  .................. 3 00
Green G ages.......... 2  50|
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.......................................3 25
Beans, Lima,  standard.................................  75
Beans, Stringless, Erie.................................  95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked............................ 1 60
Corn,  Trophy.......................................................1 05
Peas, French..........................................................1 75
Peas, Marrofat, standard...................................1 70
Peas, Beaver....................................................  90
Peas, early small, sifted..................................... 1 80
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden...................................  85@95
Succotash, standard......................................   90
Tomatoes, Trophy............................................... l  00
B oston .............. .........36 German  Sweet
Baker’s ............ .........38 Vienna Sweet
Runkles’ ........... .........35
Green Rio......... 9@13 Roasted  M ar.. 17@18
GreenJava....... 17@27 Roasted Mocha.28@30
Green M ocha... 23@25 Roasted M ex.. 17@20
Roasted R io .... 10@15 Ground  Rio__ 9@16
Roasted Java .. 23@30 Package  Goods @12^
72 foot J u te __ .  1  25
72foot Cotton.. ..2 25
60 foot Jute__ .  1  00
60 foot Cotton.
..2  00
40Foot Cotton.. ..1  50
50 foot Cotton.
..1  75
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.................
..  65
Cod, w hole.......
,.4@5
Cod, B oneless...
H alib u t............
..  11
Herring %  bbls............
..2 50
Herring, Holland, domestic..................... ..  55
. .110
Herring,  Scaled............
..20@22
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, %  bbls................ ..5  00
12 ft k i t s ...............  80
................   70
10 
No. 3, % bbls.................................3 50
12 ft  k its.............................   62
............................  55
10 
Shad, % b b l.....................................................2  50
Trout, %  bbls...................................................3  50
12 ft  k its...............................................  60
...............................................  55
10 
White, No. 1, % b b ls......................................5 00
White, No. 1,12  ft k its...................................  80
White, No. 1,10 ft k its...................................  70
White, Family, % bbls................................... 2 65

CANNED FR IITTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

imported...................

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

CHOCOLATE.

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Catsup, Tomato,  pints............................  @100
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .......................
@1  35 
Horseradish,  14 pints.............................
@1  00 
Horseradish, pints...................................
@1  30 
Halford Sauce, pints.............................
@3 50 
Halford Sauce, 14 pints..........................
©2  20
Detroit Soap Co.:
s Queen A nne..........
@4  60 
M onday...................
©3 35

SOAP.

.  @19 
.  8@10 
.  @10 
,60@65 
.  ©18

@6*4
@614
@8
@814
@ 8@5
@   714 
@   714 
@   714 
@6  94 
@   6% 
@6  31 
@6  14 
@  6
@  h% 
@  5% 
@  5% 
5  @  5%
30@32 
32©34 
@  35 
©1  75 
@1 60 
. . . . . . . . bbl
23@  35
.......%  bbl
30®  38
5 gal kegs @1  96
— . % bbl @  85
5a-al kegs @1  85

.......................3(J@o5
.......................40@50
.......................15@20
.......................30@50
...................... 35® 50
................ 33@55@60
.......................25@30
-IN   P A IL S .
& Co.’s Stunneri

SPICES.

Whole.
16@25| P epper............
12@15| A llspice..........
18@30 Cassia..............
,15@25! Nutmegs  .......
,16@20 Cloves  ............
15@30
25®35|

Ground.
P epper..............
A llspice............
Cinnamon.........
Cloves  ..............
Ginger  ..............
Mustard............
Cayenne  ..........
TARCH.
Kingsford’s, 1 ft pk 
rs.,  pure.................
“ ft pk
Is.,  pure.................
1 ft pkgs., Silver  G loss...
6 ft pkgs., 
...
1 ft pkgs., Corn  Starch...
(Bulk)  Ontario...................

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TOBACCO— F IN E  CUT
.64 Meig 
.50 Atlas

SUGARS.
Cut  Loaf.
Cubes  ...................................
Powdered............................
Granulated.  Standard__
Granulated,  off.................
Confectionery A ................
Standard A ..........................
Extra C, White...................
Extra C.................................
Fine  C..................................
Yellow C.............................
Dark C...................................
SYRUP
Corn,  Barrels.....................
Corn, 14 bbls........................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...........
Corn, 5 gallon kegs............
Corn, 4*4 gallon kegs.........
Pure  Sugar..........................
Pure Sugar Drips..............
Pure Sugar  Drips..............
Pure Loaf Sugar Drip^...
Pure  Loaf Sugar...............
TEAS,
Japan  ordinary.................
Japan fair to good-............
Japan fine............................
Japan dust..........................
Young Hy6on.....................
GunPowder........................
O olong.................................
Congo...................................
Dark AmericanEagle67i Sweet  Rose
The Meigs.
Red  Bird..........
State  Seal.........
Royal Game..
Prairie Flower
Mule Ear.......
Climber............
Fountain.......
Indian Queen..
Old Congress. 
Bull  Dog..........
Good L uck... 
Crown  L eaf__
661Blaze Away.. 
Matchle :SS...........
.. 651 Hair L ifter...
H iaw atha.........
..67 G overnor__
Globe  ................
..701 Fox’s Choice.
May Flower__
.. 70 Medallion__
H ero .................
.45 Sweet O wen.. 
Old  Abe.  ... 
. .49|
PLU G.
Nimrod............
E .C .........................................
Blue  P eter...........................................
Spread Eagle..................................... .
Big Five Center..................................
Red  F ox..............................................
Big Drive..............................................
Seal of Grand Rapids........................
Durham ...............................................
P a tro l..................................................
Jack Rabbit.........................................
Snowflake........................................... .
Chocolate Cream................................
Woodcock  ...........................................
K nigntsof  Labor...............................
Railroad.................................
Big  B ug............................................. ;;
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...........................
Black Bear...........................................
King 
...................................................
Old Five Cent Times..........................
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..........................
Parrot  ..................................................
Old T im e...............................................
Tramway..............................................
Glory  .............................................;
Silver  Coin...........................................
Buster  [Dark]....................................
Black Prince [Dark]..........................
Black Racer  [Dark]..........................
Leggett & Myers’  Star......................
C lim ax..................................................
Hold F a st.............................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield......................
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads__
Cock of the Walk  6s..........................
Nobby Twist........................................
A corn....................................................
Crescent ...............................................
Black  X ................................................
Black  Bass...........................................
Spring....................................................
C rayling...............................................
Mackinaw.............................................
Horse Shoe...........................................
Hair Lifter...........................................
D. and D., black...................................
McAlpin’s Green  Shield...................
Ace  High, black.................................
Sailors’  Solace....................................
2c. less in four butt lots

@44
@40
@38
@38
@35
@48
@50
@46
@46
@48
@46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@32
@46
@37
@46
@38
@62
@46
@38
@48
@46
@50
@36
@36
@46
@46
@46
@46
@51
@37
@46
©46
@44
@35
@40
@46
@46
@45
@44
@36
@36
@46
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CANDY,  FRUITS  AND  NUTS. 

do 
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Putnam & Brooks quote as follow s:

FANCY—IN  BULK.

_   FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes.............................  
8%@S>
. . . . . : . ................... 
9®  91/2
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
.......................10%©ll  ”
MIXED
Royal, 25 ft  pails........................................  9@  9V4
Royal, 200 ft bbls..........................................  @3*4
Extra, 25 ft  pails.......  ........................ .... 10@ lot!
Extra. 200 ft bbls.................................... .  .9 @  9%
French Cream, 25 ft pails......................1214® 13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.................................... Í2*4@
Broken, 25  ft  pails............................. ’ 
10© ¡0*4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls......................................  g@  9%
_ 
Lemon  Drops............................................... 12@13
Sour Drops 
............................................. 13@14
Peppermint  Drops.....................................14@15
Chocolate Drops.................................................15
H M Chocolate  Drops........  
.........................20
Gum  Drops  ..............................  
jq
20
Licorice Drops................................ 
.!!!!!!!!!!!........... 12
A B  Licorice  D rops.. 
Lozenges, plain........................ . 
................J5
Lozenges,  printed.................  
pj
Im perials..........................................................ülá
M ottoes.............................  
25
Cream  Bar............................. i.'.'i¿@14
Molasses Bar.................................................. T^is
I8í7íí‘>o
Caramels......................................  
Hand Made Creams........................ ' ’* 
»q
|7
Plain  Creams.............................. 
Decorated  Creams...................1.......................oq
String Rock...................... 
'Ü@15
Burnt Almonds....................................  
22
Wintergreen  Berries.........!....* ] 1!..!.! 1  !AS
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................  
®12‘/4
Lozenges, plain in  bbls..........................n   @ u U
Lozenges, printed in pails............. * ’] ]  @12*/!
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..................... 11%@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................  12%@13
Gum  Drops  in pails..................................7  @714
Gum Drops, in bbls...................  
.......... 6@  6%
Moss Drops, in  pails................. '.'.'.'.'.Y.'.W  @10*4
Moss Drops, in bbls.......................... 
9
Sour Drops, in  pails.........  ..............................22
Imperials, in  pails...................................Í2¡i¿¿!3
Imperials  in bbls................. | ” ; " ‘u < ¡¡$¡
Bananas,  Aspinwall...............................2 00@3 50
Oranges, Rodi  Messina..........................5 0G@5 f )
Oranges,  Naples........................................  50@4  75
Lemons,  choice......................................6  5G@ 7-50
Lemons, fancy...................
00
Figs, layers, <p ft...............
Dates, frails  do  ................
Dates, 
do  do  ...............
Dates, skin..........................
Dates, *4  skin.....................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box *p  ft 
I Dates, Fard 50 ft box #  ft 
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $
Pine Apples, $   doz
Prime  Red,  raw  ¡p  ft............................. 
Choice 
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ...........................” 
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ..........................."  5%@  6
Almonds,  Ferragona...............  
is  @18*4
„  
Ioaca.................................... .;.'l7  @17*4
B razils.......................................................  8%@  9
Filberts, Sicily.................
@ 12%
Barcelona.........
@12
Walnuts,  Grenoble.........
@14%
Marbo..............
French............
California.......
Pecans,  Texas, H. P .......
Missouri...........
Cocoanuts, 

PEANUTS.
do  .............................   5  @514
do  ........................  
’  @  514

......... 10  @11
........  
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@ 6
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.........  @  4*4
......... 
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— 10  @11

100................................ . . A  00©4  50

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.12 OO 
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.12 50 
.12 75
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.13  50 
.14  00
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6 %
6%

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pickle.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

 

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

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
4 oz............................................ 1 50  2  50
6 oz............................................ 2 50  4  00
8 oz............................................3 50  5  00
No. 2 Taper.............................1 25  1  50
No.  4 
1  75  3  00
% pint  round.......................4 50 
7  50
1 
.......................9 OO
15 
No.  8.......................................3 00
4 25 
No. 1 0 .................................... 4  25
6  00
©16 
28@33 
6@5% 
12@13 
@4*4 
10@13 
9@9% 
@ 121/2 
@13 
8@  8J4 
@3 00 
@3  45 
@4  25 
@3 10

FR U ITS
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........
Citron.......................................
Currants...................................
Peaches, dried  .......................
Prunes, Turkey, new ............
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes.
Raisins, Valencias.................
Raisins,  Layer Valencias__
Raisins,  Ondaras...................
Raisins,  Sultanas...................
Raisins, Loose  M uscatels...
Raisins, London Layers.......
Raisins, Dehesias...................
Raisins, California  Layers..
Water W hite.........10*4  I Legal  Test...............9
Grand  Haven,  No.  9, square..........................1  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square..........................l  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200, parlor.................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor....................3 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round..........................2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2....................................................1 10
Oshkosh, No.  8....................................................l  60
Swedish................................................................  75
Richardson’s No. 2  square..............................2  70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
.............................. 2  70
...............................170
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
Richardson’sN o. 9 
.............................. 2 55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
..............................175

K E R O S E N E   O IL .

MATCHES.

m o l a s s e s .

Black  Strap....................................
Porto  Rico......................................
New  Orleans,  good......................
New Orleans, choice.....................
New  Orleans,  fancy.........  .........
V% bbls. 3c extra.

.......... 14@16
.......... 28@30
.......... 38@42
.......... 48@50
.......... 52@55

OATM EAL.

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PIC K L E S .

SALERATUS.

Steel  cu t................. 5 50|Quaker, 48  lbs..
Steel Cut, % bbls.. .3 00 Quaker, 60  fts ..
Rolled  Oats............3 60|Quaker bbls___
Choice in barrels m ed.............................
Choice in % 
.............................
P IP E S .

....2  35 
....2   50 
....6 00
@4  75 
@3 15
Imported Clay 3 gross............................2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,2% gross.........  @1  85
American  T. D..........................................  @  90
Good Carolina........ 6 
¡J a v a ..................6%@6%
Prime Carolina.......6% P a tn a .........................6
Choice Carolina.......7  Rangoon............5%@6-S£
Good Louisiana.......55£|Broken.......................33£
DeLand’s pure.........5% Dwight’s .....................5)4
Church’s  ................. 514 Sea  Foam...................5(4
Taylor’s  G. M.......... 514 Cap Sheaf...................514
2  25
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy.............................  
28 Pocket...................................................  
2 20
100 3 ft  pockets.........................................  
2 45
Saginaw or  M anistee.............................  
Diamond C................................................  
Standard  Coarse......................................  
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags......... 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags......... 
American, dairy, 14 bu. bags................ 
Rock, bushels...........................................  
Parisian, 14  pints....................................   @2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  sm all......................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green...............................  @  90
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring..............  @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring.........  @1  70

1  00
1  60
1  55
80
2  80
80
25
28

SAUCES.

SALT.

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50 ft Rc
LARD  IN   T IN  P A IL S .
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks..........
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case......................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case.........................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a c a se ......................
B E EF IN  BA RR ELS, 
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Pork  Ss
Id  D ust.............. .  26iUncle  Sain!".';;;
Hana  Sausage!
Id  Block............ .. .30 Lumberman.......
Ton
al of Grand Rap ids  Railroad Boy.......
Frai
(cloth).............. ...25 Mountain R ose.... ! ! .'is Bloc)d  Sausage
amway, 3  o z .... .. .40|Home Comfort...
Bole>gna, straig
iby, cut Cavendish &5 Old Rip...................
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COUNTRY  P R O D U C E .

Apples—New fruit commands 4Uc ^   bu. and 
or eating and 25c iP bu.  and  $1  ^
hi. 1 
Bei 
>ick< 
Bli

fiers  pay  75c@$l  -p  bu.  for  un- 
>11 city picked for $1.25.
3—On  their  “last  legs.”  Fancy 
nds $2.50  ip  bu.,  but  over-ripe  is

cook 
3—Dei 
and s<

-In good demand  at 10c *p qt. 
gan  creamery  is  in  moderate 
lc.  Sweet dairy is in active de- 
;,  while  low  grades  are going

>1.50©(

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t l 8@2 
13@14< 
begging at 8@12

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@75e $  doz.

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Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......  @  75
M accoboy...........................   @  55
Gail & A x’ 
@  44
Rappee..................................   @  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch............................  @  45
@1  30
Lotzbeek  .............................................. 
Pure  Cider.......... 8@12 White W ine...........  8@12

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

VINEGAR.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 

Bath Brick im ported.............................. 
95
American............................... 
90
Barley.........................................................  
@3
Burners, No. 1 .........................................  
1  00
do  No.  2.........................................  
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............. 
8  00
Cream Tartar. 5 and 10 ft cans..............  15@25
Candles, Star............................................  @13%
Candles,  H otel.........................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C...............................  @80
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps........................   @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps........................   @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@35
bbl.........................................   @4  00
Hominy, 
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................  @4%
Peas, Green Bush....................................   @1  35
Peas, Split prepared...............................   @  3%
Powder, K eg.............................................  @3 5o
Powder,  % K eg........................................  @1  93

F e lix ............................ 

1  25

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H A R D W O O D   L U M B E R .

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
@13 00
16 0J@20 00
@25 00
@14 00
J25 00@35 00
@55 00
.10 00@12 00
13 00@15 00
11 00@14 00
@16 00
@25 00
@25 00
@15 00
@20 00
@25 00
@55 00
@75 00
@25 00
@11 00
14 00@16 00
@23 00

for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run..........................
Birch, log-run...................................
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2..........................
Black Ash, log-run..........................
Cherry,  log-run...............................
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2......................
Cherry,  cull......................................
Maple,  log-run.................................
Maple, soft,  log-run.......................
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2..........................
Maple, clear, flooring.....................
Maple, white, selected...................
Red Oak, log-run.............................
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.....................
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank...........
W alnut, log-run.......
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2
Walnuts,  culls.........
Water Elm, log-run.
White Ash,  log-run.
Whitewood,  log-run

Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand  at 69, 

Cheese—Slightly firmer,  full  cream  readily 

commanding 7%@8%e.

Clover Seed—Medium, choice reeleaned, $6.50-
bu., and scarce.
Corn—Green, 10c *p doz.
Cucumbeis—15@20c  doz.
Eggs—Unchanged as to demand, fresh stock, 

commanding ll%c.

Green Onions—25@30e & doz  bunches.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm  at  13%@ 

Hay—Bailed, $15@$16 <p ton.
Mellons—Water,  $20 

100,  packages  extra.

Musk,  $1 $  doz.

Onions—Southern, $3.25  bbl. or  $1.15 *p bu.
Plums—California, $1.75 *p  case.
Peaches—Michigan  clingstone,  2.25@$2.75  fs 

14c.

bu.

Pears—California,  $3.50@$5  *p  case.  Ken­

tucky Bartlett, $7.50 <p bbl.

ft.

Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c 
Potatoes—New potatoes are  quite  plentiful 
at $1.25 *p bbl. for home grown.
Poultry—Very 
32@14c. 
Spring chickens, 15@18.
Squash—Summer, 2c 
Tomatoes—Firm  at  $2  <p  bu.  or  $4 ip 2 bu.. 
Turnips—40c ip bu.
Timothy—$2 $  bu. and scarce.

scarce. 
ft.

Fowls, 

stand.

G R A IN S AND M IL L IN G   PRODU CTS.

Wheat—3c  lower.  The  city millers  pay  as* 
follows:  Lancaster,  84;  Fulse,  82c;  Clawson, 
82c.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 55c in 100 bu. lots 
and 51c in carlots.
Oats—White, 35c in small lots and  30c  in  car- 
lots.
Rye—56c *p bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  ewt.  *
Flour—No  change.  Fancy  Patent,  $6 *p bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6.25  in  wood.  Straight,  $5  *p 
bbl. in sacks and $5.25 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 *p bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  *p ton.  Bran, $13 
H ton.  Ships, $14 *p ton.  Middlings, $16 *p ton. 
Corn and Oats, $22 $  ton.

Michigan Dairymen’s  Association.

Organized  at  Grand  Rapids,  February 25,  1885.
President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City; 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale;  Clias.  E.  Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage; 
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C. Nash, Hilliards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks­
ville. 
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids.
N ext  Meeting—Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
1886.
Membership Fee—$1 per year.
Official Organ—T h e   M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n . 

_

'

Seasonable Suggestions from  Mr. Sinclair.

H u d so n v il l e,  Mieli. Aug.  17,  1885. 

Editor M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n  :

D e a r  Sib—Your offer  of  space  in  your 
paper to  the  dairy  interests  of  Michigan 
does not seem to  be  used.  Perhaps  every 
one is waiting for some one else to  contrib­
ute an article. 
If so,  some one  had  better 
write.

In the production,  care  and  manufacture 
of milk into butter and  cheese  there  are a 
great many different  methods  and the pro­
ductions vary  in  nearly  every case.  Now, 
would not  all  interested  in  dairying  be 
benefitted by an exchange  of  methods  and 
results through the space generously offered 
you,  giving:

First,  quality of feed  and  water  given to 

cows and their care;

Second, care of mlik at the farm; whether 

cooled as soon as milked;

Third,  handling milk at  factory;  amount 
of  salt  used  per  1,000  pounds  of  milk, 
whether curds are  put to  press  as soon  as 
salted or aired;

Fourth,  results  in  grain,  closeness  and 
flavor of cheese; also as  to amount of  stock 
shown by the cheese  when  cured  or  rich­
ness.

Geo.  Sin c l a ir .

or four weeks. 
It was one of the best pay­
ing  “ads” we ever printed.  But we did not 
repeat  our experiment because the one I re­
fer to served its purpose.  Our  letters came 
from  school  boys,  girls,  professors, clergy­
men,  school  teachers,  and in two instances 
from eminent  men  who  have a world-wide 
reputation. 
I was more impressed with the 
value  of  advertising from those two adver­
tisements than I  should  have  been  by vol­
umes of theories.

Modern Axioms.
Many rule but few conquer.
Hobbies are hard steeds to manage.
Men clothed with vanity are kickproof. 
Tears of repentance  form  the rainbow of 

Character is to intellect what a bit  is to a 

It is becoming to  be  honest—but it is be­

No man can fail unless he  has  attempted 

joy.

wild  horse.

coming rare.

to succeed.

Never yoke the past with the  present  for 

the future to drive.

Gray hairs command  respect,  where  gray 

hairs receive contempt.

Never tickle a  mule’s  hind leg unless the 

animal is thoroughly dead.

Never ask a woman her  age, unless  you 

desire to witness her  rage.

When a man despairs of success, the devil 
will  be on hand  with  words of  encourage­
ment.

When Neptune desires to flirt with Moth­
er Earth,  he gently waves the sea across her 
bosom.

Ten men remain  honest  through  fear of 
man’s law,  where one  does  through fear of 
God’s law.

It is easy enough to tell what  you  know 
about everybody else,  but hard  to tell  what 
everybody else knows about you.

Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

C.  B. Lambert is working up  a  creamery 

project at Tiffin, Ohio.

The Watson cheese  factory  was  recently 
struck by lightning,  but  the  damage  was 
slight.

O.  R.  Goodno,  manager  of  the  Carson 
City creamery,  was in  the  city  last  week 
purchasing supplies  and  making  arrange­
ments for a shipment by  refrigerator car  to 
Washington,  D.  C.

A  Broken File.

There is no tool  so  easily  broken  as the 
file that the machinist has to work with, and 
Is about the first  thing  that  snaps  when a 
kit of tools gets upset  upon  the  crossbeam 
of a machine or a tool  board  from  the bed 
of  an  engine  lathe. 
It  cannot  even  be 
passed from one workman to another  with­
out being broken. If a file is  a  new one,  or 
still good for anything,  if an apprentice has 
got  anything to  do  with  it,  and  they are 
never worth mending however great may be 
their cost, unless  the  plaster of  Paris  and 
lime 
treatment  can  make a perfect  weld 
without inj uring the  steel or disturbing the 
form of the teeth.  Steel that is left as hard 
as a file is very brittle, and  soft  solder  can 
hold as  muclj as  a  steady  pull,  if it has a 
new surface to work  from.  Take  a  file as 
soon as it is broken and wet  the break with 
zinc dissolved in muriatic acid,  and then tin 
over with the soldering iron.  This must be 
done  immediately as  soon  as  the  file is 
broken,  as the break begins to oxidize when 
exposed to the air, and  in an  hour  or two 
will gather sufficient  to  make it impossible 
for the  parts to  adhere.  Heat  the  file as 
warm as it will bear  without  disturbing its 
temper as soon as well tinned, and press the 
two  pieces  firmly together  squeezing  out 
nearly all the solder,  and  hold in place  till 
the file cools.  This can be  done  with very 
little to trim  off,  and  every portion of  the 
break  fitting  accurately  in  place.  Bring 
both pieces in line with  each other,  and for 
a file it is as strong  in  one  place  as in an­
other,  and is all that could be  asked for un­
der the very best of welding  treatment.

Canada’s Trade.

The value of the exports from the Domin­
ion of  Canada  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
June  30,  1885,  was  389,000,000,  and  the 
value of  the  imports  §112,000,000.  Com­
pared with 1884,  the exports  have fallen off 
$2,000,000 and the imports $4,000,000.  The 
aggregate  trade  is 7  per  cent,  less than it 
was in 1874.  The  average  yearly  balance 
of trade against  Canada  from  the  date  of 
confederation up  to  the  present  time  has 
been $20,000,000,  so  that  it  appears  that 
the  balance  against  Canada 
the 
past  year is over $3,000,000 above the aver­
age.  Nevertheless  the balance is less than 
it was in  1883.  This  disparity between the 
outgo  and  the  income  of  products, 
the 
Montreal  Gazette  declares,  is not nearly so 
much  so  as  appears by the figures,  “for it 
must  be  remembered  that  the  cost of car­
riage  from  the port of exportation is added 
to the value  of  the  imports  in many cases, 
while  the  export  value  is  rated  from the 
place of purchase within the country.”  The 
customs  duty  collected was $19,434,000,  or 
an average  burden  of  16  per  cent,  on  the 
amount imported.

for 

An Advertiser’s  Novel  Expedient.

From the New York Sunday Sun.

One  of  the  largest  advertisers  in  New 
York says:  We once hit  upon a novel expe­
dient  for  ascertaining  over  what  area our 
advertisements werfe  read.  We  published 
a couple of half-column  “ads”  in which we 
purposely misstated  lialf  a dozen historical 
facts. 
In  less than a  week we received be­
tween 300 and 400 letters  from  all  parts of 
the  country,  from  people wishing to know 
why on earth we  kept  such  a  consummate 
f..<»:  wno «mewso little about American his­
tory.  The letters kept pouring  in for three

They Trade That Way.

From the Detroit Free Press.

“Watermelons,  eh?” she  queried  as  she 

glanced at a pile of fifty.

“Yes’m,” replied the grocer.
“All green?”
“Oh, no, ma’am.”
“If I was  sure  I  could  get a ripe one I 

might-----.”

one right here. 
be ripe.”

“I’ll pick you out  one,  certainly.  Here’s 
I’ll warrant  that  melon to 

“Sure?”
“I know it.”
“And you’ll send it up?”
“Of course.”
“But suppose it should be green?”
“You shall have another.  Here,  I’ll  try 
it.  There,  now,  but  isn’t  that a ripe mel­
on?”

“Y-e-s,  I guess so.”
“And where shall 1 send it?”
“Isn’t it a little  dangerous  to  eat  mel­

“Oh,  no,  ma’am.  Where  did  you say?” 
“Is that  the  largest  you  have  for  ten 

ons?”

cents?”

“Ten cents!  Why it’s thirty!”
“Thirty!  You may put it  back,  and  I’ll 
take a pint  of  tomatoes  at  four  cents  a 
quart.”

Publicity of Credits.

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports a 
most interesting  experiment  in  that city in 
the way of business co-operation for the pur­
pose of learning the  credits  of  individuals 
engaged in business.  Each member of the 
Credit  Liabilities  Association,  which  was 
formed September 1,  1884,  “has  the  priv­
ilege  of  inquiring  of  every  other member 
the indebtedness to each of any customer or 
applicant for  favors,  and  each  member  is 
bound to  supply  this  information  for  the 
use of any  other  member.”  The  associa­
tion now includes fifteen banks,  or a major­
ity of the Clearing-house Association.  The 
first  official report of the secretary says that 
“the  results  have  been  satisfactory,  and 
encourage  the  inaugurators  of the associa­
tion  in  the belief that its purposes are wise 
and its plans adequate and safe.”

LUM BER,  LATH  A N D   SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing- Co,  quote f . o. 
b. ears  as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch....................................per M $44 00
Uppers, 1 «, 1« and 2 inch..........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch................................................   35 00
Selects, 1 « ,1 «  and 2  inch..........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch..................................   30 00
Shop, 1 inch....................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 1%, 1 «  and 2 inch............  32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16 n0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet..........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t..........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 fe e t.........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet............................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet............................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet..........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe e t..........................  13  00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths............................8 00@  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n .............................   33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch.
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet..............
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch............
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B .................
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common__
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 f t ...........
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ...................
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C.........'...............
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common. 
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 com m on... 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal. 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear.
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C..........................
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  eom’n 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.

XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.........
X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................
X X X  16 in...............................................
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.........
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in ..........................

.  VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Springs.

H. M. Harroun, McLain.
C. H. Smeed, New Richmond.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
John Glupker, Zutphen.
C. O. Bostwick & Son,  Cannonsburg.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
John Scholten, Overisel.
H. H. Freedman, Reed City.
F. P. Hopper, Merricle &  Hopper,  Fremont. 
A. Hardy, Burnip’s Corners.
J. H. Darling, Darling & Smith, Fremont. 
TJilke DeVries, Jamestown.
A. D. Martin, Sand Lake.
R. McKinnon, Wayland.
Jas. Riley, Dorr.
H. H. Moore, Lakeview.
Jos. H. Spires, Leroy.
Corneil & Griswold, Griswold.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Fred Myer, Big Rapids.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
J. H. Anderson,  Edgerton.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
W. H. Schoomaker, Cannonsburg.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
B. M. Denison, East  Paris.
L. T. Wilmarth & Co., Rodney.
W. DePree & Bro., Zeeland.
S. E. Bush, Pierson.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
Mr. Dickerson, Dickerson & Co., Freesoil. 
Joshua Colby, Colby & Co., Rockford.
H. B. Irish, Lisbon.
Mr. Bitely, Jr., with Bitely & Cain,- Sparta. 
Geo. Cook, Grove.
M. T. Woodruff, Carey.
Mr. Barker, Barker & Lehnen, Blanchard. 
Fred B. Hine, Lowell.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Ryerson, Hills & Co., Muskegon.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
W. J. Arnett, Moriey.
R. McKinnon, Hopkins.
R. H. Wells, Wagner & Wells,  Eastmanville. 
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
A. L. Burnett, A. L.  Burnett  &  Co.,  Lisbon. 
A. D. Martin, Ensley.
Silas Lowe, Burnip’s Corners.
S. S. Dryden, Allegan.
Hanibal  Wagar,  Wagar  &  Callahan.  Cedar 
J. W. Dunning, Dunning & Co.,  Hesperia.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
Mr. Williams, Williams & Kerry,  Reed  City. 
Aaron Zunder, Zunder Bros.  &  Co.,  Bangor. 
Mr. Spring, Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
H. Andre & Son, Jenisonville.
Mr. Hewett, Hewett & Tefft, Rockford.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
H. W. Potter,  Jennisonville.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland.
R.  B. Jennings, New Troy.
Mrs. G. Miller, Ryerson.
Geo. S. Powell & Co., Sand Lake.
Henry Mishler. Freeport.
A. P. Hulbert, Lisbon.
O. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
Cole & Chaple, Ada.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
Hoag& Judson, Cannonsburg.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
John Meijering, Noordeloos.
B. Gilbert & Co.,  Moline.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
The  well-known  publishing  house  of 
Rand,  McNally &Co., of Chicago,  announce 
that the 1885 edition of their  directory  and 
Shipping  Guide of Lumber Mills and Lum­
ber  Dealers,  will be ready for delivery very 
shortly. 
It  will  be of great importance to 
lumbermen,  and  all interested in obtaining 
the  names and correct addresses of the own­
ers or operators of saw,  shingle,  planing or 
stave mills,  sash  and  door  factories,  and 
lumber dealers. 
It will contain, besides the 
list  of  mills  and  dealers  in  the  United 
States and  Territories, 
the  names  of  all 
railways and express  companies  by  which 
the  various  cities  and  towns,  where  the 
above interests are located, may be reached, 
together with  colored  maps  of  each state 
and  territory  in  the United States,  which 
will show the line of every railroad.  There 
will also be given digests  of  the  laws  of 
mechanics’  and  log  liens,  laws  governing 
the cutting of timber and use of streams for 
driving  logs,  witli  decisions of the court, 
etc. 
It  will be a  very  large  volume,  con­
taining something over seven hundred pages 
of  matter  very  valuable  to  lumbermen,  or 
those who deal with them.  The  price  will 
be the same  as  last  year,  $5.00  per  copy, 
sent by express prepaid.  The reputation of 
the great  publishing  house  of  Rand,  Mc­
Nally & Co.  is Sufficient  guarantee that  the 
work will be well and thoroughly done.  A 
prospectus  or  descriptive  circular  may  be 
obtained from the publishers.
He Struck It.

From the Detroit Free Press.

She answered the ring at the  door to find 

a strange man on the steps.

insects?”

“Any fly-screens?” he asked.
“No,  sir.”
“Any  fly paper?”
“No,  sir.”
“Any powders for making lemonade?” 
“No,  sir.”
“Any painting or  whitewashing  to  do?” 
“No,  sir.”
“Want some Paris Green  to  kill  garden 
“No,  sir.”
“Got any old clothes to sell?”
“No,  sir.”
“Got any coal to put in or wood to split?” 
“No,  sir.”
“Couldn’t you spare me—”
“What’s that,  sir?”
“Oh,  never mind.  My  wife is  barefoot, 
and I was going to ask  for  a  pair  of  old 
shoes,  but it would be of no use.  You have 
got such a dainty little  foot  that  my wife 
couldn’t get her  big  toe  into  one  of  your 
shoes.”

When he left he had an old  coat  on  his 
arm,  a quarter in  cash  in  his  pocket,  and 
there was a square  meal  stowed  away be­
hind his vest.

A Mt.  Pleasant  mercantile  concern  has 
adopted a novel way  of  collecting  old  and 
small accounts.  They have put up  a small 
cottage and lot worth $300 to be disposed of 
by chance.  All persons  owing  them  over 
$10 will  receive a ticket  for  every  dollar 
paid; all over $5 and under $10,  a ticket for 
each 50 cents paid  and all under $5 a ticket 
for  each 25 cents  paid,  the  holder  of  the 
lucky ticket  to receive  a  clear  title to the 
cottage and lot.

Ibarbware.

American  Cutlery  and  its  Manufacture. 
From the Stove and Hardware  Reporter.

American cutlery is now  finding  its  way 
all  over  the  world,  and  knives,  shears, 
scythes,  and planes  of  our  manufacture are 
to be foxmd in the warehouses of most  large 
English cities. 
I11 1872  the  importation of 
cutlery into the United States  amounted  to 
$10,500,000,  which was cut down in 1880  to 
about $900,000 a year,  besides  which §700,- 
000 worth of domestic goods  were  exported 
that year. 
In the  manufacture of  axes the 
United  States  have  made  most  marvelous 
advances,  surpassing all other  countries ex­
cept Canada,  which bears  an  equally good 
reputation for  making  these  useful  imple­
ments.

Good table knives are made of steel and iron 
welded together;  the  part  which  goes  into 
the handle (called  technically the  tang  in 
England)  and the shoulder,  are of iron,  and 
the blade of steel.  The tang  and  shoulder 
are forged from bar iron, and the blade from 
shear  or  cast  steel.  Knife  blades,  razor 
blades and other small  articles  are  usually 
forged into their required  shape  while  still 
attached  to  the  bar,  which  serves  for  the 
workmen to hold them  by.  When  the  bar 
becomes too short it is  grasped  in a pair of 
tongs  held  close  by a  ring  which  clamps 
them by  sliding  up  their  conical  handles. 
Two  men  are  employed  in  forging  such 
work.  The principal workman, or fireman, 
as he is sometimes called, uses a small ham­
mer of two to four pounds weight, while the 
hammerman  wields  the  sledge  hammer, 
weighing from ten to  fifteen  pounds.  The 
fireman,  who attends the heating as  well as 
the  anvil  work,  directs  the  hammerman, 
whose  blows  merely  follow  those  of  the 
small directing hammer of  the fireman. 
In 
drawing  down  or  reducing a bar  both  in 
length and width,  the flat face  of the  ham­
mer is used; but when the length or breadth 
alone is to be  extended,  only  the  narrow 
edge of the hammer is used.  The concavity 
of razor blades  is  made by hammering  the 
blade on a small round-faced anvil; the notch 
or  nail  hole,  of  a  penknife,  is  struck  by 
means of a chisel of the required form.  Su­
perior  work,  such  as  razor  blades,  are 
“smithed” after forging,  that is,  beaten up­
on an anvil,  to condense  the  metal as much 
as possible,  and slightly ground or scorched 
upon a  rough  stone,  to  finish  the  shaping 
and remove the scale,  or black oxidized sur­
face, which would  interfere  witli  the  color 
of the tempering.

Common knives are made entirely of iron, 
and the difference of price arises not merely 
from the difference in  cost  of  the  material 
but from the greater facility of working.  It 
should also be  understood that  in many ar­
ticles composed of steel welded  to iron  the 
saving of steel is not the only advantage, for 
steel being more brittle than  wrought  iron, 
it is very desirable,  in all articles  subject to 
a transverse breaking  strain. or  to  concus­
sion,  that  every part  except  the  cutting or 
working edge  should be of  iron.  Tims  a 
hatchet made entirely of steel would be less 
durable than one of iron with a welded steel 
cutting edge,  and so of other articles.

Table  forks are  forged  rudely  into the 
shape required,  first as though  but  a  single 
thick prong was required.  The part for the 
prongs is then  beaten out,  and  a  stamping 
die is brought down upon it,  which  forms 
the prongs with a thin film of steel between 
them; this is cut out by a cutting die.  Then 
they are softened  and filed  up,  again  har­
dened and tempered and  ground  to  smooth 
and  finish.  The  dry  grinding  of  forks, 
needles, etc.,  is a  very  injurious  trade,  on 
account of the particles of steel which enter 
the nostrils of of the workmen,  and produce 
most painful irritation, followed by a pecul­
iar disease called “grinder’s asthma,” which 
is said to shorten life  so seriously that  few 
dry  grinders,  exposed  to  the  steel  dust, 
reach forty years  of  age.  Many  remedies 
have been proposed for  this.  A  magnetic 
mouthpiece was invented,  but the workmen 
would not wear it on account of its novelty, 
its  grotesque  appearance,  the  trouble  of 
cleaning it,  and  belief  that  if  their  trade 
were more healthy greater  numbers  would 
enter it and wages  be  reduced.  A revolv­
ing fan,  which sets in  motion  a  current  of 
air,  that is carried by  a  pipe  to  the outside 
of the building,  has been used  with  greater 
success,  and is now in  general  use when it 
can be applied,  though its introduction  was 
much opposed by the workmen. 

t

Co-Operation a Failure.

From the Pittsburg Post.

In an  interview  Grand Master Workman 
Powderly,  of the Knights of Labor,  is quot­
ed as pronouncing against strikes as  waste­
ful and unsatisfactory,  no  matter  what  the 
outcome, and always productive of  as much 
harm as good.  Mr.  Powderly  says  that he 
expects that in time all conflicts between la­
bor and capital will be avoided by a  system 
of co-operation in which every man will en­
joy the benefits of his labor.  He adds  that 
education is the  great  necessity to  enable 
people to co-operate intelligently.

Mr.  Powderly’s  remarks  in  regard  to 
strikes and the need  of  educated  working­
men are both timely and just.  A strike,  as 
events have often proved in the past,  and as 
the recent trouble in  Chicago  and the pres­
ent troubles in the lumber towns  in  Michi­
gan bear testimony,  is one  of  the  worst,  if 
not  the  worst,  methods  of  settling  wage 
disputes.  At the same time it has been just 
as frequently shown that  the  more  intelli­
gent the class of men employed in any indus­
try  the 
less  danger  there  is  of  trouble 
between  workmen  Or  employer.  But  we 
think that Mr.  Powderly errs when he looks 
to co-operation as  a  means  of  finally  set-

tling the  labor  question. 
It is  true  that 
there are several co-operative  enterprises in 
this State which have been  fairly succesful, 
while there are several now  on  foot  whose 
progress will  be  watched  with  marked  in­
terest.  But the fact remains that  co-opera­
tion has proved a comparative if not absolute 
failure  in  the  country  where  it  has  been 
most thoroughly tested.

It is now forty  years  since  Maurice  and 
his little band of followers began to  preach 
co-operation in England.  “Every  man  his 
own employer”  was  the  goal  which  they 
hoped to reach,  and earnestly and  ably  did 
they labor to obtain the desired result.  But, 
notwithstanding their efforts kept up during 
a long  term  of  years,  co-operative  work­
shops and  factories  have  accomplished but 
little.  There  are  only twenty-three  such 
establishments in the  British  Islands,  and 
but one of them  dates  as far  back as 1858, 
while 224 such societies have  been  obliged 
to wind up and go  out  of  existence.  Only 
six are  of  date  before  1870.  The  whole 
number of employes in such societies is less 
than 6,500.  Nor have  any  of the moral re­
sults which Maurice and his followers hoped 
to secure been obtained.  One of their prin­
cipal arguments  was  that  co-operative pro­
duction wold put an end to adulteration and 
other fraudulent practices which are the dis­
grace of  English  manufacturers.  But  at a 
recent co-operative congress  it  was  shown 
that the co-operative  cotton  factories  were 
as famous for loading cottons  with  fraudu­
lent and weighty matters as  any  loom-lord 
in the North of  England.

But while English co-operative workshops 
and factories  have  proved  a  financial  and 
moral failure,  it  is  interesting  to  note  the 
success  which has attended  the  establish­
ment of co-operative stores in Great Britain. 
These concerns have doubled  their  number 
within ten years.  They do an  annual busi­
ness amounting to more than  $125,000,000, 
and they have an  invested  capital  of  more 
than $40,000,000. 
In one Scotch shire  sev­
en-eights of the  people  are co-operators; in 
another nearly half; in the  populous shires 
of Northern England  about one-fourth. 
If 
higher wages and improved  conditions «have 
kept our  workingmen  from  encouraging  a 
system which has proved so beneficial to the 
poorer-paid laborers  0% Great  Britain,  it is 
safe to assume that the same causes will op­
erate against the success of  co-operation  in 
other matters.  Mr.  Powderly  will  have to 
find a different method for solving the labor 
problem.

%ST"  Subscribers  and  others,  when  writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on  the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this  paper.

WOODEN W ARE.

 

Standard  Tubs, No. 1......................................... 8 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...........  
7  00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3......................................... 6 00
Standard Pails, two hoop.................................. 1 60
Standard Pails, three hoop...............................1 85
Dowell Pails.......................................................... 2 10
Dowell Tubs, No. \ .............................................. 8 75
Dowell Tubs, No. 2.............................................. 7 75
Dowell  Tubs,  No. 3............................................ 6 75
Maple Bowls, assorted siz e s...........................2  00
Butter  Ladles.......................................................1 25
Rolling P ins.......................................................... 1 00
Potato  Mashers..................................................  75
Clothes Pounders................................................2 25
ClothesPins.........................................................  65
Mop Stocks............................................................1 25
Washboards, single.............................................1 75
Washboards, double...........................................2 25
Diamond  Market...'.........................................   40
Bushel, narrow band............................................. 1 60
Bushel, wide band...................................................1 75
Clothe^, splint,  No. 1............................................. 3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2............................1..........3  75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3............................................. 4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1............................................. 5 00
Clothes, willow, No. 2............................................. 6 00
Clothes, willow, No. 3............................................. 7 00

BA SKETS.

13 
GAUGES.

'  Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer.................. dis 
Barton’s Socket  Firiners....................dis 
Cold............................................................ net

40
20

COMBS. 

n o .

33«

COCKS.

D R IL LS

CO PPER .

... dis 
.. .dis

Curry, Lawrence’s .........................
Hotchkiss  ........................................
Brass,  Racking’s ..............................
50
Bibb’s ..........................................
50
B e er................. ................................ ’
40&10
Fenns’................................................
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..........
fl)  30 
14x52,14x56,14 x60.................   ...
..  36
Morse’s Bit  Stock..........................
.dis
35
Taper and Straight Shank.............
.dis
20
Morse’s Taper  SoSnk......................
.dis
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................
>z net $100
Corrugated.......................................
. dis 20&10
A djustable...........................
.dis M&IO
Clar’s, small, $18  00;  large, 826 00.
dis
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
dis
25
American File Association  List ........ dis
.dis
60
Disston’s ..................................................¿is
.dis
60
New  American.......................
.dis
60
Nicholson’s ........................  
dis
.dis
60
Heller’s ....................................................'I*
.dis
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps.....................!  .dis
33 3^
.dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
List 
18

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

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

EX PA N SIV E  BITS.

ELBOW S.

F IL E S .

27
27
15
15

13 

’ 

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

10«8«

HOLLOW   W ARE.

Discount, Juniata 45@10, Charcoal 50@10. 
il 50@10.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............dis
dis
50
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’s ......................
dis
20
Kip’s ..........................................................dis
.dis
25
1 erkes &  Plumb’s ...................
dis
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.....................  30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction.........................dis 
60
40
Kidder, wood  track...............................  dig 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3................................. dis 
60
State.............................................. per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4 «   14
and  longer...............................................
3«
Screw Hook and Eye,  «   ................. . net
Screw Hook and Eye %....................... net
Screw Hook and Eye  « ....................’ net
7«
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................   net 
< -/2
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. trim m ings....$2 70, dis 66« 
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings..  3  50, dis 66« 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
m ings..........................I........... list,10  15, dis 66«
70
Door, porcelain, trimniings  list,1155, dis 
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.......... dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s .....................d 
40
H em acite..................................................dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis  66«
Mallory, Wheelnr  &  Co.’s .....................dis  66«
Branford’s .............................................. a dis  66«
Norwalk’s ..................................................dis  66«
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  65
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s .............................dis  40&10
Coffee, P.S.&W. Mfg. Co.’s Malléables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ........ dis  40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise.......................................dis  25
Adze  Eye.......................................$16 0Qdis40&10
Hunt  Eye.......................................$15  00dis40&10
Hunt’s ...........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HOES.

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

6d 
2 

MAULS.

I  lOd  8d 
2 «  
$1  25  1 50  1  75  2  00 

lOdto  60d.............................................. ¡jp keg $2  40
25
8d and 9 d  adv.................................................. 
6d and 7d  adv.................................................. 
50
4d and 5d  adv.................................................. 
75
3d  advance.......................................................  1  50
3d fine  advance............................................. 
3  00
Clinch nails,  adv.............................................  1  75
Finishing 
4d
Size—inches  ( 3  
1«
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  .....................
__ dis
70
Stebbin’s Genuine......................................... dis  7Ô
70
__ dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis
__ dis
25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................   dis  50
.... dis 50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent............
__ dis
55
Zinc, with brass bottom .................
50
__ dis
Brass or  Copper.............................................dis  40
__ dis
40
Reaper....................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................... 
50
QJmo Tool Co.’s, fancy...................................dis  15
Sciota Bench...............................................    dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................dis  15
Bench, first quality........................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, A cm e................................................   dis 
50
Common, polished....................................dis60&10
Dripping.................................................. $   ft  6®7
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 FLA N ISA ED  IRO N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E TS.

O ILER S.

PA N S.

9

Broken packs « c  $  ft extra.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates  at  Chicago  are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S.

 

Ives’, old  style.......................................   .dis 
60
N. H. C. Co.................. 
60
dis 
60
Douglass’ ......................................................dis 
Pierces’ ......................................................... dis 
60
60
Snell’s .............................................................dis 
Cook’s  .......... , ............................................ dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine.....................................dis 
25
Jennings’,  imitation............................... dis40&10
Spring............................................................ dis 
25
R ailroad...........................................................$ 13 00
Garden.......................................................... net 33 00

BALANCES.

BARROW S.

BELLS.

BOLTS.

H and.......................................................dis  $ 60&10
60
C ow ..........................................................dis 
15
Call............................................................dis 
G ong........................................................dis 
20
Door, Sargent.........................................dis 
55
Stove........................................................ dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list................................. dis 
75
Plow  .........................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe.............................................dis 
75
50
Cast Barrel  B olts..................................dis 
Wrought Barrel Bolts......................  dis 
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring..............................dis 
55
Cast  Chain..............................................dis 
60
55&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis 
Wrought Square.......  ..........................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush...........................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush.....................................................   50&10&10
Ives’  Door...............................................dis 
50&10
40
B arber.....................................................d is$ 
Backus.................................................... dis 
50
Spofford...................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball.................................................. dis 
net
Well, plain....................................................... $  4  00
Well, sw ivel.................................................... 
4 50

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

BU TTS, 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
60
Wrounht Loose  P in.............................dis 
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip ...........dis 
60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis 
60&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipp ed ................................................... dis  60& 5
60
Wrought Table.......................................dis 
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
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gros3  18 00
Ely’s 1-10..................................................per  m $ 65
60
Hick’s C. F ............................................... 
G. D........................................................... 
35
Musket...................................................... 
60

CAPS.

CATRIDGES.

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

C H ISELS.

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

. 

60
60
40

75
75
75
75

RO OFING PLA TES.

RO PES.

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 Be vels......................................... dis  50&10
Mitre  ........................................................dis 
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.

SH EET IR O N .

SQUARES.

$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.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 fts, $   ft.............................  
In smaller quansities, igJ  ft   ................... 
No. 1,  Refined............................................. 
Market  Half-and-half.............................  
Strictly  Half-and-half.............................  

6
6«
13 00
15  00
16

t i n n e r ’s   s o l d e r .

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, Charcoal...................................  6  50
IC, 
10xl4,Charcoal........................... 
8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal........................................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal................................   8 50
IX, 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal...................................  6  50
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal..................................  8 50
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal..................................   10  50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool....................................12  50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal...................................  14 50
20x28, Charcoal..................................   18  00
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................. •  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal...................................  8 50
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal..................................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal...............................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to  6 75 

rates.

TR A PS.

W IR E .

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.............................................. «gift  09
Tinned Mattress............................................... ft 8«
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................dis  40@40&10
Tinned SpringSteel............................. ...d is37«
Plain Fence......................................... ........^  ft  3«
Barbed  Fence.....................................................
Copper.......................................................... new  list net
Brass............................................................. new  list net
Bright......................................................... dis  70&10
Screw Eyes................................................ dis  70&10
Hook’s ....................................................... dis  70&10
Gate Hooks and  E yes............................dis  70&1Ü
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled................
Coe’s Genuine...........................................dis  50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, di§ 
65
Coe’s Patent,  m alleable........................ dis 
70
Pumps,  Cistern....................................... dis 
70
Screws, new  list.......................................... 
>g
Casters, Bed  and  Plate.............................dis50&10
33«
Dampers, American................................... 

M ISCELLANEOU S.

W IR E GOODS.

W I'ENCHES.

The Tendency in Trade.

From the Chicago Current.

The  American  people  demand  cheap 
goods, and seem to lay down  no  other pre­
requisite of trade.  Business  men  who  at­
tempt to correct the public taste  must  fail, 
while the rogues  who  lead  purchasers  on­
ward in the progress of trickery fatten with 
success.  A bunch of firecrackers  is  a  cent 
cheaper  each  year,  but  a  cent-and-a-half’s 
worth smaller.  A roman candle  is  longer 
each year, but  smaller  in  diameter.  This 
principle  prevades  many  lines  of  goods. 
When  the  conscienceless  tradesman  shall 
run afoul of something in the way of  popu­
lar odium,  he will alter his practice at once. 
The people have  seen  so  many  wonders, 
such as the telephone,  that  they have to be­
lieve a fifty-cent article can be produced at a 
profit for a quarter of a dollar.  There must 
needs be  a  Prosaic  Age  approaching  that 
reason may be restored to men.

2ÆTTSEEGOXT  B U SIN E SS  DIRECTOR,-? .

TO FRUIT GROWERS
Muskegon  Basket 
Factory

-THE-

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

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

At Bottom Prices,  duality Guaranteed.

W E  MAKE  A  SPECIALTY  OF  PEACH  AND  GRAPE  BASKETS.

ANDREW WIERENGO

LAM P  GOODS  FOR 1885
H. LEONARD & SDNS.

F O R   S A L E   B Y

Glass Lamps  this  yearl  I  IDDADV  I HIUIPQ 
are out in finer styles and |  L ID IM Il I  L H l v i r O i
lower  prices  than  ever | 
before.  The “ LULU ” as­
sortment in  amber,  blue, 
and light  green, contains 
the very latest shapes, at I 
new  prices,  fully  20  per 
cent lower than last year.

“ LULU.”

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

WIERENGO  BLOCK,  PINE  STREET, 

- 

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

ASSORTED  GLASS LAMPS.
% doz.  A Size...............................1.50 
.75
% doz.  B Size...............................2.00  1.50
doz.  C Size...............................2.50  1.25
1.50

% doz. D Size, with No. 2 Collar.3.00 

Less 10 per cent.

5.00
•50
4-5°
TRIMMING  FOR ABOVE.
doz. No.  i  Sun Burner.............65  1.13
doz. No.  2, 
.............go 
.23
doz. 7 in. Ilium.  Trim. Comp.3.50 
.88
6.74

“ 

Packages at Cost.

Wholesale Grocers,
KNIGHT  OF  LABOR  PLUG

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

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

T H E  G R A N E   R A F I E S   R O L L E R   M X X X 3
L

MANUFACTURE  A

The  F avorite  Brands  are

Rubber

—  W ITH  —

DOUBLE  THICK 

BALL.

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The  CANDEE 
Boots are double th ick  
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE WEAR.
Ulost econom ical rub­
ber Boot in the market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other  boot,  and  the
PRICE  NO 
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

The “Gentlemanly Burglar” Visits the Cor­

ners.

Ca n t   H ook  Co rners,  Aug 15,-1885. 

Editor T r a d e s m a n :

D eap. Sik—Our little city can at last take 
her place alongside of GrandRapids, Detroit 
and other large places in the  matter of bur­
glars.  The “Gentlemanly  Burglar” has ar­
rived and the  town  is  thrown  into  a  fer­
ment.  Last night at about half past twelve, 
Potter, the  saw  mill  man,  awoke  from a 
sound sleep and the first tiling  lie saw  was 
the hole in the end of a large revolver.  Pot­
ter says the hole  looked about the  size of a 
six inch stove pipe to him.  The next  thing 
he was conscious of was the fact that a gen 
tleman with a piece of  crape  over  his  his 
face stood  just  behind  the  said  revolver.
T  e  urglar might have  been  in  mourning 
on account of the great national loss,  but he 
did not so state.  What he said was:

“Excuse  me  for  disturbing  your  gentle 
slumbers,  but  I piust trouble  you for what 
change you have in  your  pants, that I see 
hanging on this chair; also for your  general 
cash on hand,  your  watch  and  other  jew­
elry.”

Potter told  the  burglar  that,  under  the 
circumstances, his  manner  being  so  very 
persuasive,  he would depart from his  usual 
rule of never  paying out  money except on 
an execution issued by a competent court on 
judgment,  and  would  comply with his,  the 
burglar's, request.

The  Gentlemanly Burglar then took  pos 
session of Potter’s wealth,  only  stopping to 
remark that he could not allow but 20 cents 
apiece for five Canada quarters found in Pot­
ter’s purse,  and grumbling a little because a 
50 cent  piece  had  a  hole  punched  in it, 
After telling Potter  that  he  could  redeem 
his watch any time for $1.75,  he  proceeded 
to go  through  Mrs.  Potter’s  jewelry  box. 
Here he made a rich  haul,  getting a  locket I* 
that  Potter  paid  99  cents  for  at  Grand 
Rapids, a chain valued  at  $2.50  even  at  a 
forced sale like the present  occasion, a  sil­
ver plated thimble  and  Mrs.  Potter’s  men­
thol head  ache  pencil.  Mrs.  Potter  came 
near going  into  hystericks, but  happening 
to think that  her  bangs  was  put  up in tea 
leads, she concluded to not highstrike.  She 
told the gentleman that she  would not have 
been caught  in such a dishabilitated  condi­
tion if she  had  known  he  contemplated a 
call that evening.

The burglar told her “not to  mention it,” 
then very carefully lowered  the  hammer to 
his revolver, turned  the  slide  of  his  dark 
lantern and disappeared backwards through 
the window.

This is a  great  improvement  on  the old 
style of robbing, and all burglars  who have 
any  regard  for  their  reputation,  should 
hasten to adopt it.

The news  just  came in  that  a citizen of 
Grumbleton was also burgled last night. 
It 
was probably done by the  same  gentleman.
I notice that the profession is still operate 
ing in your city with usual success and even 
putting in extra time  daytime  by  using in­
sect powder to throw  in  people’s faces. 
It 
is encouraging to the business  outlook any­
how, to know that  at least  one  business is 
running on double  time.

I notice in the Grand Rapids Times of the 
12th the following reference to a burglary at 
Kalamazoo:
A burglar entered  Mr. Anderson’s  house 
last  night,  and  was  bagging  considerable 
boodle, when his  daughter  who  had  heard 
him,  entered the room  and  following,  as he 
fled,  hit him a  heavy  blow  with a stick of 
wood over the shoulder, causing him to yell 
out with pain.  He ran  against a hammock 
and dropping most of his plunder,  escaped.
Now the above opens  up  a new phase of 
the business. 
I never  have  noticed  a  case 
before where a  regular  burglar  has  taken 
'   his daughter  along  when  he  went out to 
make a business call. 
I cannot  understand 
why she should  have  conducted  herself in 
such a manner,  either. 
If I was  a  Knight 
of the Dark Lantern,  and so far  forgot my­
self as to take a woman along,  and  she had 
so little regard for  my comfort as to hit me 
over the shoulder with a stick of  wood, and 
so little sense  as to yell  and make  me yell 
and run against  a  hammock  and  drop my 
“boodle” and all  such  foolishness,  I don’t 
know what I should do,  but I think I should 
feel riled,  I do really.  The item  also  says 
that she  “heard him”  and  also  “followed 
him,” so it is possible that the  Gentlemanly 
Burglar did not know that his daughter was 
on his track.

So lim an Snooks,
G. D., J. P. and P. M.

V J b lil

FOR  SALE  BY
E. G. Studley & Co.,

Manufacturers  of LEATHER  AND  RUBBER 
BELTING, and all kinds of  RUBBER  GOODS 
Fire Department and mill supplies.  Jobbers of 
“Candee”  Rubber  Boots,  Shoes  and  Arctics, 
Heavy and Light Rubber Clothing.  Salesroom 
No. 13 Canal street.  Factory, 26  and  28  Pearl 
St., GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

&AKf«G
POW DER

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  C0„
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,

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

Groceries  and  Provisions$

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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TH E!  N E W   OIGLAIFL

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They are a novelty in the Cigar l^re.  Every one of them is naturally speck­
led.  The greatest sellers ever put on the market.  We solicit a trial order from 
every first-class dealer in the State.  Fully guaranteed.

FOR  SALE  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

K em in k , J  o n e s &  Co.
o. w .   b l a in  &   c o . ,  Proto Commission Merchants
Foreign  aid  Domestic  Fruits, Soutien  Vegetables, Etc

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market price.  Corres­
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Wholesale  &  Gonmiissiei-Bntter  &  Eggs’a  Specialty

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

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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

O ysters 
and  P ish

117  MONROE  ST.

P E R K I N S   6a  H E S S ,
Hides, Purs, W ool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S   IN  

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This  Decorated  Base 
Parlor  Lamp  is  packed 
with twelve assorted Por­
celain  Bases  and  new 
shape founts  in  a barrel, 
at the following prices:

NO.  43.

Assortment  Decor.  Parlor  Lamps,

Containing

Trimmings

12 Lamps  Pore.  Center.................Net 5.00

12 7 in. Ilium, and Shade, complete.  3.50
8.50
The  following  package 
is  the  cheapest  assort­
ment of Glass Lamps  we 
can get together, and are 
just  the  kind  needed in 
every store.  They can be 
retailed from 18 cts. to 50 
cts.  per  Lamp  complete,
and if ordered with other 
packages  named  would
give a very  complete  as­
sortment with very small 
investment.
NO. 46 PACKAGE
Ass’i Com. Flint Glass Lamps.

Containing

% doz.  171 A  Size  Lamp........... 1.00
X doz.  171 B Size Lamp............. 1.40
% doz.  igi  A  Size  Lamp........... 1.10
% doz.igi B Size Lamp............. 1.50
X doz.  191 C Size Lamp............. 2.25
% doz. igi D Size........................2.75
doz.  155 B Size........................x*75
% doz. 700 Hand  Lamps...............80
1 doz. 702 Hand Lamps.............
% doz. 85 Hand Lamps footed. .1.35

Less  10 per cent.

Burners for above.

4^  doz. No.  i  Sun..........................65
i doz. No.  o Sun............................. 60

NOS.  1 2 8   a n d   1 2 4   L O U IS  ST R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N . 

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WE  CARRY A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR  MILL USE.

Package at Cost.

Our line of these is now 
complete  for  1885  at 
prices  from  $1.25  to  $8 
each. 
Illustrated list  on 
application.

Iron Library Lamps.

French Bronze, complete,  each........  1.75
Ebony and Gold, 
.................  2.00

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No.  1388  Complete.................... each  2.00
No.  1397)4  “ 

shown in the

above Illustration.    ..................  4.00

No.  1380% Globe Shape Bowl and

prisms as  shown  above.............   5.50

The Tubular.

The only Genuine,  per  doz...............  8.50
Tubular Globes  (in barrels 60 cts.

per  doz.)..............................................75

No. o Sun, any kind...................................60
No.  1  Suo, any kind...................................65
No. 2 Sun, any kind.................................. ..

Burners.

Oil Cans

The Empress, % Gal..........................  3-°°
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x  Gal............................   4.00
Good Enough, 5  Gal..........................  15*°°

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Lamp  Chimneys.

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No. o Annealed Sun Crimp......................28
No.  x 
30
No. 2 
42
No.  2  Leader.............................................. 80
No.  1 Argand.............................................. 35
No.  1  Decorated C. Top......................   i.oo
No.  2 
1.25

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THE NEW  SUN
Electric Ligit Fonts.

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Home, Brass, with  Chimney.. .doz  12.00
“  R.  Gold, 
13-5°
“  Nickle, 
13-50
This  is  the  best  thing 
out for 1885.  Will fit any 
hanging  fixture  at  one- 
half the cost of those  we 
sold last year.  Send for 
Sample.

•50
.70
•55
•75
1*13

1.38.88

.40
.80
.68

7-77
•77
7.00

2-93
.60
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