VOL. 2.

S. A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

FISHING  TACKLE
N O T I O N S !

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PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND  GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS,BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRINGS. ETC.

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 
mail.  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.

34  Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

KEIM,
Fine Perfumes,

Manufacturers  of

k

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

HLEMIKTK’S

Red Bark Bitters

77

a

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ioM aifact

S  West Bridge  Street,

G RAN D   RAPIDS,

M ICHIGAN.

Agents  for a  full line  of

tended  to.

II

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s.

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

PL U G   TOBACCOS,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

. SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER.

Many a ( M  Business San

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M iorliinj Traveling Ian

IS  KEPT  BACK  BY A 

S ic k ly  W ife or A ilin g  D aughters.

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  M edicine  Co., K alam azoo, M  

Mention this paper.

CIDER 
VINEGAR!

Warranted to Keep Pickles.

Celebrated for its-PURITY, STR E N G TH  
and  F L A V O R .  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.  PREM IUM   V IN E G A R   W O R K S, 
290  F IF T H   A V .,  CH ICAGO.

Premium Vinegar can always be found at M. 

C. Russell’s, 48 Ottawa street.

E S O O T T S

Sticky Fly Pamir,
B etter t2&asa.Ever.
the  C ity   or  from15  c m   ST.

Order  through  an y  Jo bber  in 

BEWARE  OF  IMITATIONS.

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

on fine white paper.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  9,  1885.

NO. 103.

SH ERW OO D  H A LL.

M ARTIN  L .  SW EET.

G RAN D   R A PID S  FU R N IT U R E .

ESTABLISHED  1865.

JOBBERS  OF

Wool Robes, 
Fur Robes,

Horse  Blankets,

Write for Special Prices.

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

ALBERT  COTE  k
AWNINGS,  TENTS.

----------M ANUFACTUREBS  OF----------

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 
t  W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  D ucks,  Stripes,  E tc. 

State Agents for the 

Watertown  Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR PRICES.

R O C K   CA.XTSV.

73  Canal  Street, 
-  Grand  Rapids, Mich.
DRYDEN & PALMER’S 
Unquestionably the best in the market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box. 
Jo lin  Caulfield.,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

■

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

S T A N L E Y   N .  A L L E N ,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK  AND  USE  SO

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by Mail and Express promptly at­

Proprietors  of the

STAR  HILLS.

Manufacturers  of the following pop­

ular brands  of Flour.

“ STAR,”

“ GOLDEN  SHEAF,” 

LADIES’  DELIGHT,” 
And “OUR PATENT.”

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

GRIND RANDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  GO.

71  CANAL  STREET.

We desire to call the attention of the Trade to 

TO  T H E   T E A D S .
our unusually complete stock of
SCHOOL  BOOKS,

SCHOOL SUPPLIES,

And a General Line of Miscellaneous 

Books, Stationery, Paper, Etc.

We have greatly increased our  facilities  for 
doing ja  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  WHITER 

For Western Michigan.

EATON & LYON,

20 and  22  Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Rise and  Progress of an  Important  Indus­

try.
NO-  11.

Tbeo. M. Carpenter in Trade Bureau.

In  the  preceding  article  we  traced  tlie 
growth  of  the  furniture  manufacture  in 
Grand Rapids  from  its  earliest  beginnings 
in 1847  to  the  time  when  C.  C.  Comstock 
took  possession  of  the  stock  in  trade  and 
manufacturing  plant  of 
the  Winchester 
Bros.,  in September,  1857.  The  identifica­
tion of Mr.  Comstock’s  name  with  the fur­
niture business  during  this  period  was  an 
occurrence  of  considerable  importance,  as 
was  demonstrated  by  the events which  fol­
lowed.

Soon after  Mr.  Comstock  purchased  the 
Winchester  Bros.’  establishment  came  the 
great financial crisis of October, 1857, which 
ruined thousands of manufacturers and cap­
italists, destroyed confidence,  and paralyzed 
industry.

The  infant  furniture  business  suffered 
greatly,  of course,  in  this  universal  chaos. 
The depression continued from 1857 to 1862, 
with no material change for the better.  Mr. 
Comstock relates  the  following  incident as 
illustrative of the  status  of  the industry at 
that time.  “For a time I had but two com­
petitors,  and unless  what  they told of each 
other was untrue,  their  reputation  for good 
goods was  not  very  high.  One  of  these 
manufacturers,  it  was  said,  sold a  bureau 
which fell to pieces while it was being cart­
ed across  the  bridge.  The  indignant  pur­
chaser  returned  the  wreck  to  the  ware- 
rooms, and was met  by the  proprietor,  who 
looked complacently  on  the  disintegrated 
article  of  furniture, and  remarked  to his 
customer: 
‘All  right;  take  another  one, 
and don’t handle  too  roughly.’  My  other 
competitor it was  alledged,  sold  a  number 
of chairs to a man  in  the  country.  A  few 
days afterward  the  purchaser  came  back 
and reported that he had  brought the chairs 
back —he had no further use for them.  The 
proprietor in an  excited  manner,  demanded 
the cause of  the  customers  dissatisfaction, 
and asked him where the chairs were.  The 
answer was,  ‘I have  them  here  in a bag.’ ” 
Up to the spring  of  1861  the  market for 
Grand Rapids furniture was confined almost 
wholly to Grand Rapids and the  then unde­
veloped  region  of  Western  Michigan.  No 
attempts had been made  to  invade the mar­
kets of the world.  The future manufactur­
ing greatness of the city was undreamed of. 
Early in that  year  Mr.  Comstock  began to 
seek other markets for his goods.  He man­
ufactured a line  of  cheap  chamber  suites, 
and had little difficulty in disposing of them 
in Milwaukee,  Chicago  and  other  markets. 
Thus  encouraged,  Mr.  Comstock in the fall 
of  1861  established  a  branch  house  at 
Peoria,  111., which  proved  to  be  very suc­
cessful,  and  which,  under  other  manage­
ment and ownership,  is  in  existence at  the 
present time.  Beginning to realize in some 
degree the possibilities  of  Grand Rapids as 
a furniture producing  center,  Mr. Comstock 
erected in the fall of  1861,  a large  addition 
to his factory.  He  did  this,  as  he  says, 
against  the  advice  of  many of  his  best 
friends,  who  did  not  believe  it  would be 
possible to dispose profitably  of  so large an 
output as his increased facilities would give. 
Mr.  Comstock, however, knew a little  more 
about  liis own business  than  his over-cau­
tious friends were able  to  tell  him. 
In the 
face  of  all counter  advice  he  fitted  up  his 
new  factory  with  the  best  machinery  lie 
could  obtain,  and  early  in  the  spring  of 
1862 he was prepared to manufacture double 
the  quantity  of  furniture turned out daring 
the  proceeding  year.  This  enlargement  of 
facilities  proved  to  be  very  remunerative. 
Sales  rapidly  increased,  and  under  the 
stimulus of  an active demand  and  the high 
prices which  prevailed  a  marked  improve­
ment in the quality  of  goods  manufactured 
took place.  Mr.  Comstock  had  in  his  em­
ploy at  that  time  a  number  of  men  who 
have since achieved fortune and distinction. 
Among  these  were  Elias  Matter,  now  a 
member  of  the  firm of  Nelson, Matter & 
Co.,  one of the  leading  furniture  manufac­
turing  concerns  of  Grand  Rapids; A. B. 
Pullman,  one of the brothers who have built 
up  colossal fortunes in the manufacture and 
operation of railway  sleeping  coaches;  the 
Widdicomb brothers  whose  names are  now 
well known throughout  the  country in con­
nection with the  Widdicomb  Furniture Co. 
of this city.  To the  skill  and  faithfulness 
of his employes  Mr.  Comstock attributes in 
a large degree  the  success  which  attended 
his operations at this period.

In  October,  1862  Mr.  Mather  left  Mr. 
Comstock’s employ and formed a copartner- 
nersliip with Julius  Berkey.  This partner­
ship was  the  foundation  of  the Berkey & 
Gay Furniture Co., which has  since become 
known 
throughout  the  world.  Neither 
member of the  firm possessed much capital, 
but both had  what  was  of  infinitely more 
importance,  practical  experience,  personal 
integrity,  and indomitable energy and deter­
mination.  They began operations in a com­
paratively modest  way,  but  their  business 
rapidly  increased,  and  they  enlarged  their 
facilities as the  demands  of trade required. 
They  conducted  an  exclusively  wholesale 
business.  William A. Berkey—a brother of 
one of the members of the firm—was admit­

ted to a partnership in 1863, and George W. 
Gay  came in  the  year  1866.  Wm.  A.  Ber­
key  retired  from  the  firm  in  1872  and 
founded the Phoenix Furniture Co., to which 
more extended reference will  be  made later 
on in this history.

In October  1863,  Mr.  Comstock  sold to 
Messrs. James N.  and Ezra T.  Nelson  each 
a quarter interest in  his  establishment,  and 
the firm name  became  Nelson,  Comstock & 
Co.,  Mr.  Comstock’s  interest  being  rep­
resented  by  his  son,  T.  A.  Comstock. 
In 
1865 Messrs. James  A.  Pugh  and  Manley 
G.  Colson,  who were then foremen  respect­
ively in the  factory  and  finishing  depart­
ment, purchased each a  one-eighth  interest 
in the  establishment  from C.  C.  Comstock, 
and  the  other  quarter  interest  was  sold  to 
T. A.  Comstock.  The  latter  died  in 1870, 
and  his  interest  was  purchased  by  Elias 
Matter.  The firm  name  then  became  Nel­
son, Matter & Co.,  a name  which has  since 
become known to the furniture  trade  in al­
most every part of the civilized world.

From the  foregoing it will be seen that the 
firm of Nelson, Matter & Co.,  is  entitled to 
the honor of being the oldest furniture man­
ufacturing  establishment,  though  not  the 
first, in Grand Rapids.  We  have seen  how 
two  mammoth institutions  had their origin 
in the efforts of skilled  mechanics,  with lit­
tle save their  pluck  and  enterprise  to back 
them.  The  other  great  furniture manufac­
tories are of later  growth,  though  none  the 
less lusty because of their  fewer  years. 
In 
the next chapter will be given brief sketches 
of the principal  corporations  and  firms  en­
gaged  in  the  manufacture  of  furniture  in 
Grand Rapids,  from the organization of each 
to the present time.

NOS.  III.  AND  IY.

This  portion of  Mr.  Carpenter’s  history 
relates entirely to individual establishments, 
which are treated in a biographical manner. 
The matter is omitted,  for  obvious  reasons. 

no.  v.

In preceding articles  we  have  traced  the 
growth of individual firms and  corporations 
engaged in the  manufacture  of  furniture at 
Grand Rapids.  We  have  seen  how  from 
small  and  apparently  unpromising  begin­
nings,  these establishments  have  grown in­
to a world-wide reputation,  vastly  outstrip­
ping the growth of  the  city  in  which  they 
are located,  and raising  it  from  an obscure 
inland town of the Michigan wilderness to a 
position of importance in the manufacturing 
sense such as is enjoyed  by no other city of 
equal population in  the  world.  For to-day 
the  name  of  Grand  Rapids  is  known 
throughout the world,  and the fact that this 
is so is directly traceable  to  the growth and 
influence  of  her  furniture  manufactures, 
which have won recognition  in  all markets. 
We have heretofore  traced  the  progress  of 
individual and corporate  enterprises. 
It  is 
appropriate that,  in closing this series of ar­
ticles,  we should  consider  the furniture in­
dustry of Grand  Rapids  as  an  interger,  by 
which means we  shall  better  be  able to ar­
rive  at  an  adequate  understanding  of  its 
extent and  importance.

For obvious reasons  it is very difficult,  if 
not impossible,  to obtain exact  figures as to 
the total product of the several manufactur­
ing concerns in  any given  year.  To  what 
extent it is politic for  the  unofficial statisti­
cian to invade the  domain  of  private  busi­
ness is a question  which  involves too many 
delicate considerations for  hasty determina­
tion.  But facts and  figures  which are mat­
ters of record may be published  without the 
violation of  any confidence,  and  with detri­
ment to no interests.

Previous to the  year 1865  the total  furni­
ture  manufactures  of  Grand  Rapids  were 
so small  as  to  be  uninteresting.  The  city 
had not then attained  to  any importance as 
a manufacturing center,  and few of the men 
then  engaged  in  the business  had any idea 
of the vastness of the interests  that were to 
grow up within the next two decades.  From 
the federal assessment books it appears that 
for the year ending December  31,  1865,  the 
total value of the furniture manufactured in 
Grand  Rapids  was  §124,008.  The  total 
number of firms engaged in the manufacture 
of furniture was six, and  the  names  of the 
same, with the  amounts  of  their  products, 
were as given  below:
Comstock, Nelson & Co.......................$66,356
37,053
Berkey Bros. & Co. 
14,447
Buddington &  Turnham.
3,140
Norton & Haldane...........
2,089
Wm. Widdicomb...............
923
II. A. Wilson.....................
Total.................................................$124,008
These six  concerns  employed  a  total of 
150 to 175 men. 
In  addition  to the  goods 
manufactured by them,-  some  of  the  firms 
handled  furniture  bought  in  Eastern  mar­
kets.  Comstock,  Nelson  &  Co.  engaged 
the most extensively  in  this  line of  trade, 
selling during the  year  named,  about  $25,- 
000  worth  of  goods  not  manufactured in 
their own establishment.

From the  discontinuance  of  the  federal 
assessment up to  1880  the  writer has  been 
unable to obtain any  trustworthy  data rela­
tive to the total amount  of  furniture manu­
factured in Grand Rapids.  No records have 
been kept, and  the  census  returns of  1870 
are not sufficiently  specialized to  afford the 
information sought. 
It is certain, however, 
that during this period a steady growth was 
maintained.  This growth was most marked 
between 1875 and 1880,  and  continued  with

little abatement until  1882,  sincewhich time;  Cardinal  Principles  of  Business  Success 
as no one needs  to  be  informed,  a  general j  There is good business common sense and 
industrial  depression  lias  prevailed,  check-1 shrewd Scotch humor  in  the  address deliv­
ing the development of  all  enterprises  and [ ered by Mr. Andrew Carnegie,  not long ago, 
the  growth  of  manufactures.  Yet,  not- J to the students  of a Philadelphia  business 
withstanding the prevailing  depression,  the  college.  He said: 
industry has shown a material increase dnr- 
“Do not hesitate 
in the past  three  years,  the  total  product | mate business, for 
each year being considerably larger than for 
the year preceding.

From the report  of  the  special  agent ap­
pointed to gather statistics  relative  to  the 
manufacturing  interests of  Grand  Rapids 
for the census of 1880,  it appears that there 
were in that year a total  of  twenty-nine es­
tablishments devoted to the  manufacture of 
furniture.  The amount of  capital  invested 
was  $1,778,456.  The  average  number  of 
persons employed  was 2,782,  whose  annual 
wages amounted to §961,037—an average of 
a little less than §350 each per annum.  The 
value of the material used  was  §1,256,713, 
and the value  of  the  product  was  $2,792,- 
784—or,  in round numbers, §3,000,000.  The 
population  of  Grand  Rapids  in  1880,  as 
given in the census returns, was  32,016.  As 
an aid to the proper appreciation of  the sig­
nificance of the figures  given  above,  it may 
be stated that during  the  same  year  Phila­
delphia,  Chicago  and  Cincinnati  each pro­
duced about §7,000,000  worth  of  furniture. 
Philadelphia  had  a  population of  847,170, 
and 200 furniture  manufacturing establish­
ments; Chicago had a population of 503,185, 
and 114 establishments; and Cincinnati  had 
a population of 255,139,  and  113  establish­
ments.

In  May,  1885,  Mr.  H.  D.  Yan Asmus, 
secretary of  the  Grand  Rapids  Furniture 
Manufacturers’ Association,  prepared a  re­
port embracing a detailed  statement  of  the 
capital, products and  number of  men  em- 
ploped in the furniture  and  kindred  manu­
facturing  interests  of  Grand  Rapids. 
In 
this report the secretary appears not to have 
aimed  at  actual  precision  in  the  figures 
given, but to have dealt  in  round  numbers 
for the most part.  Yet  the  figures  may be 
taken  as  approximately  correct—a  fact 
which  is  sufficiently  guaranteed  by  the 
official character of the  compilation.  From 
the secretary’s report it  appears  that Grand 
Rapids now contains thirty-eight  establish­
ments devoted to the manufacture of  furni­
ture and furniture supplies.  These  thirty- 
eight establishments,  according to  the  sec­
retary’s figures,  operate upon  an  aggregate 
capital of  $4,395,000.  Their  annual  sales 
amounted to §4,325,000.  The total number 
of men employed is 5,583,  and  they receive 
wages to the  amount of §7,160 per  day,  or 
$2,241,0S0 annually.  The  fact  that  round 
numbers instead of exact  figures  were used 
in  the  secretary’s  compilation  necessarily 
tended to increase  the  totals  somewhat be­
yond the  actual  facts  of  the  case.  But, 
making a liberal allowance  for  any  and all 
over-statements that  may  have  been made, 
it is still apparent that  the furniture indus­
try of Grand Rapids  has  shown a  healthy 
and almost uninterrupted  ratio of  increase 
during the past twenty years.

The report of secretary  Yan Asmus  was 
a surprise to many manufacturers who have 
given thought to the  subject,  in  that it  es­
tablished the fact  that  even  during  these 
later year's of  depression  the  industry has 
gone on increasing at quite a rapid rate. 
If 
so steady a  rate  of  increase is  to be main­
tained during periods of  wide-spread  inac­
tion -what may be expected when the clouds 
shall have been dissipated in the genial sun­
light of reviving activity?

What will be the future  of  the  furniture 
industry of  Grand  Rapids?  No  man  can 
tell. 
Its  possibilities  are  almost  infinite. 
Its  prospects,  all  things  considered,  are 
brilliant.  All the conditions that have con­
tributed to its development in  the  past are 
still  existent.  With the impetus  it lias ac­
quired,  and the prestige it has won,  it occu­
pies a vantage ground  for  future  achieve­
ments which  should  assure  uninterrupted 
development and the highest degree of pros­
perity.

Couldn’t be Fired.

From the Merchant’s Mall.

Scene in a grocery store.  Proprietor talk­
ing with customer,  while a clerk tries to get 
a bushel of  potatoes  out  of  a barrel into a 
sack.
'  Prop.—They’ll be ready in a few minutes, 
sir.

Wliat’s the matter with your clerk? 
-Inexperienced.
Why don’t you fire him?
-Too green to be fired.

Cus.—
Prop.- 
Cus.- 
Prop.-
The strike  in the Eastern  wire mills  lias 
compelled the broom  factory  at  Jackson to 
cease operations for the present.

Stub iron for gun barrels is made of horse­
shoe nails, cleansed and mixed with 12 to 25 
per cent, of steel pieces  of  the  same,  size, 
and then'puddled, hammered,  heated,  tilted 
and rolled.  A stub twist barrel is made  of 
this iron chilled spirally on  a  mandrel  and 
welded.

Mandragorine is  the  name  applied  to  a 
new alkaloid extracted  by M.  Crouzel  from 
the root of Mandragora officinalis,  a  peren­
nial  European  plant  botanically  allied  to 
belladoma and commonly termed mandrake, 
not  however  to  be  confounded  with  our 
Podophyllum peltatum.

to  engage  in  any legiti- 
there  is  no  business in 
America,  I do not care what, which will not 
yield a fair profit if it receive  the  unremit­
ting,  exclusive attention and all the  capital 
of capable and industrious men.  Every bus­
iness will have its  season  of  depression— 
years like  the  present  during  which  the 
manufacturers and  merchants  are  severely 
tried—years when mills must be run, not for 
profit,  but at a loss,  that  the  organization 
and men may be kept  together and employ­
ed, and the concern may keep  its  products 
in  the  market.  But, on  the  other  hand 
every legitimate business producing or deal­
ing in  an  article  which  man  requires  is 
bound in  time  to  be  fairly  profitable—if 
properly  conducted.

“And here is the prime  condition of  suc­
cess,  the  great  secret:  concentrate  your 
energy, thought and capital  exclusively up­
on the business in which  you  are engaged. 
Having begun in one line,  resolve to fight it 
out on that line—to  lead in  it;  adopt every 
improvement, have the best machinery,  and 
know the most about it.

“The concerns which fail are those which 
have scattered their capital which means that 
they have scattered their brains also.  They 
have investments in this,  or that, or the oth­
‘Don’t put 
er; here, there and everywhere. 
all your eggs in one basket’ is all wrong. 
I 
tell you ‘Put all  your  eggs  in one  basket, 
and then watch  that  basket.’  Look  round 
you and take notice;  men  who  do  that do 
not often fail.  It is easy to  watch and carry 
the  one  basket. 
It is trying  to  carry too 
manyjbaskets that breaks most eggs in  this 
country.  He  who  carries  three  baskets 
must put one on  his  head,  which is apt to 
tumble and trip him up.  One  fault ?of the 
American business man is lack of concentra­
tion.

“To summerize what  I  have  said:  Aim 
for the highest;  never  enter a  barroom; do 
not touch liquor,  or if at all,  only at  meals; 
never  indorse  beyond  your  surplus  cash 
fund; make the Ann’s  interest yours;  break 
orders always |to  save owners; concentrate; 
put alHyour eggs in £one  basket and  watch 
that basket; expenditure always within rev­
enue; lastly,  do  not  he  impatient,  for,  as 
Emerson says,  ‘no one can cheat  you out of 
ultimate  success but  yourselves.’

“I congratulate  you  upon  being  bom to 
that ancient and  honorable  degree of pov­
erty which  renders  it  necessary  that  you 
should devote yourselves  to  hard  work. 
I 
trust that few,  if any,  of  you have the mis­
fortune to be rich  men’s  sons, for,  believe 
me,  such are  heavily weighted  in  the race. 
A basketful of bonds is the heaviest [basket 
a young man ever had to carry.  He  gener­
ally gets to staggering  under  it.  We have 
in  this  city  creditable  instances  of  such 
young men,  who have  pressed to  the  front 
rank of our  best  to d   most  useful  citizens. 
These  deserve  great  credit,  much  greater 
credit than will be yours  when  you  occupy 
similar positions.  But the vast  majority of 
the sons of rich men are unable to resist the 
temptations to which wealth subjects them, 
and sink to unworthy lives.”

A  Story  with  a  Moral.

The head clerk of a large firm in Charles­
town promised  an  old  customer  one  day 
half a bale of Russian duck,  to be  on  hand 
at one o’clock, when  the  man  was to leave 
town with his goods.  The firm  was  out of 
duck and the clerk went  over  to  Boston to 
buy some.  Not finding a truckman  he hired 
a man to take it over on  his  wheelbarrow. 
Finishing other  business,  on  his  return to 
Charlestown the clerk  found  the  man  not 
half over the bridge,  sitting  on his barrow, 
half dead with the heat.  What  was  to  be 
done,  it was then half-past  twelve,  and the 
goods were  promised  at one.  There  was 
not a moment to lose. 
In spite of the heat, 
the dust,  and  his  fine  clothes,  the  young 
man seized the wheelbarrow and pushed on. 
Pretty  soon  a  rich  merchant,  whom  the 
young man knew very well,  riding on horse­
back,  overtook  him.  “What,”  said  he, 
“Mr.  Wilder  turned  truckman?”  “Yes,” 
answered the clerk;  “the goods are  promis- 
ed’at one o’clock,  and  my  man  has  given 
out; but you see I am  determined  to  be as 
good as my word.”  “Good,  good!” said the 
gentleman,  and started  on.  Calling  at  the 
store where the young man  was  employed, 
he told  his  employer  what  he  had  seen. 
“And,  I want to tell him,” said the  gentle­
man,  “that when  he goes into  business  for 
himself, my name is at his service for  $30,- 
000.”  Reaching the store,  which  he  did in 
time, the high price set on his conduct made 
amends for the heat,  anxiety, and fatigue of 
the job.  You would like to  know perhaps, 
that this young man became one of the most 
eminent merchants of  his  day,  and  known 
far and wide,  both in Europe and this coun­
try.

There is a well of natural gas  at Murrys- 
ville,  Pa.,  that  has  been  flowing  for  ten 
years,  and it  is  said  there is in diminution 
of pressure, though as good  a well has been 
struck wtthtn thirty feet of it.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and %nifaduring Interests of the State.

B.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER  9,1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

^  „ .

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—ffm. Sears. 
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L.‘ E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
' Annual Meeting—Second  W ednesday 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.
p r   Subscribers  and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher hy  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

_  ,

The absurdity  of keeping  up  a  mint  at 
New Orleans is illustrated by the discussion 
over the  proposal  to  use  the  government 
vessels to transport silver  dollars  from that 
city to Washington.  New Orleans is remote 
from the  center  of  government,  from  the 
centers of  trade,  from  the  deposits  of the 
precious  metals.  Bullion  must  be  carried 
great distances to reach it, and the coin must 
be  carried  great  distances  to  reach  the 
points of disbursement.  A  mint  in Alaska 
would be less  absurd,  for  Alaska has large 
deposits  of  precious  metals,  and  perhaps 
will become our chief reliance  for  gold and 
silver in the  distant future.  The  New  Or­
leans mint was one of  the  worst  jobs  ever 
achieved by  any  administration. 
It should 
have been removed io St. Louis  or  Chicago 
at the close of the  war. 
In  the  matter  in 
dispute the weight  of  the  reasoning  seems 
to be against the use  of  government  ships. 
Coin is not an article which can  be dumped 
into the  hold  of  a  man-of-war.  A  vessel 
which is to transport it must be fitted up for 
the purpose at a  very  considerate  expense. 
In this case the  expense  exceeds  the  sum 
for which the express companies would have 
undertaken the cost of transportation.  Nor 
is our navy so extensive  that  we can afford 
the diversion of our ships  from  the  proper 
duties.  While  they are making  their  way 
along the coast,  and unable to turn back be­
fore reaching their destination, a sudden de­
mand might  arise  for  their  services  at the 
Isthmus  or  Central  America, like that of a 
few months  ago.

In the appearance of a revival of business 
Pittsburg is conspicuous. 
It is evident that 
a great future is before that busy and rather 
prosaic  city.  The  wonderful  supply  of 
nsttural gas which has been discovered there 
is going to enable  her  to distance  all ordi­
nary competition in  many lines of iron pro­
duction.  And  what  is  more  striking itjjis 
going to make the  smoky  city a clean  one. 
Already the change in  this  respect  is  very 
marked.  The  impenetrable  clouds  which 
once hung over the valley ate  seen  no  lon­
ger.  Furnaces and iron  mills  have  ceased 
to belch ouj  volumes  of  soot. 
In  private 
houses heating  and cooking  are done  with 
less trouble than we  take in  lighting a gas 
burner, and the very dustman  is  abolished, 
since the refuse is swept  up^jvith a  brush 
into a dustpan about once  in  three months. 
The only drawback  is  from the  utterly in­
odorous character  of  the  gas. 
It  may  be 
escaping from a leak into your room without 
giving  the  slightest  notice  to  any sense. 
And it is highly explosive when mixed with 
atmospheric air.

The T. N.  Colvin “ sell out,” at Big Rap­
ids,  is  the latest  illustration  of  the  faulty 
construction of our laws  relative  to the dis­
posal of stocks by  debtors.  That  a  dealer 
should be able to dispose of  a  §5,500  stock 
for §2,200,  and pocket the proceeds without 
so much as a “thank you” to  his  creditors, 
is  a  strong  commentary  on  the  prevailing 
looseness of business transactions,  and  em­
phases  the  necessity  for  more  stringent 
legislation on  matters  vitally  affecting  the 
interests  of  all  honest men. 
It should  be 
made impossible for a dealer  to  dispose  of 
his stock  without  first  arranging  with  his 
creditors for thé payment of all claims.

The local  newspapers of  both  cities are 
loiug all  *thfey can  to  provoke  feelings of 
lostility between Muskegon and Grand Rap- 
ds.  Such a course  is  unfortunate for  the 
msiness interests of  both  towns, and  can- 
lot be  too  strongly  condemned  by  those 
vhose interests are thus  affected.  Many of 
he reflections indulged  in  by  the  press of 
joth cities are not only unwise, butextreme- 
y foolish.

The  invitation  extended  by  the  Grand 
Rapids Pharmaceutical Society to the  State 
Pharmaceutical Association, to hold the an­
nual meeting of the latter body for  1886  in 
this city,  will undoubtedly  be accepted.

Grand Rapids is to have an  exclusive tea, 
ffee and spicq  jobbing  house,  if  the De­
bt  correspondent  of  T he  Tradesm an 
not in error.

Brace  Bros.,  flour  and  feed  dealers  at 
ildwin, have retired from business.

AM ON G  T H E   T R A D E .

IN  THE  CITY.

Hawkins & Perry will move into  the new 

Hawkins block on Saturday.

S. D.  Bacon, grocer on South Front street, 

has sold out to M. Newberry.

E. A.  Geisler succeeds Geisler  &  Bro.  in 
the flour and feed business on  West  Bridge 
street.

J.  C.  Shaw &  Co.  have  engaged  in  the 
grocery and  spice business at Michael  Caul­
field’s old stand on  Canal street.

Will E.  Hunt, of  Cadillac,  has  removed 
his jewelry stock to this  city,  and  will  oc­
cupy S. N.  Watson’s old  stand at 10  Canal 
street.

Erbin Richards has sold his grocery stock 
at 670 Cherry street to S. Augustus Holt, for 
many years engaged in the U. S. postal ser­
vice as mail route agent.

The Tradesm an has received another let­
ter from Jacob Einestein, stating that he will 
be in Grand Rapids next week, to attend the 
Army of the Cumberland reunion, the guest 
of Steve Sears.  His  letter  will  appear in 
full in next week’s paper.

H.  H.  Robinson,  formerly  engaged  in 
general trade at  Oakfield  Center, has  pur­
chased  a  new  store  building  of  D.  C. 
Underwood, at  Elmira,  and  re-engaged  in 
general  trade.  Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.  fur­
nished the groceries, and Spring & Company 
the dry goods.

W. F.  Stuart has moved  his  lumber  and 
shingle mill from  Hobart  to  Crofton,  Kal­
kaska county, where  he has  also  opened  a 
general store.  He has  a contract to  manu­
facture a large quantity of timber for Arthur 
Meigs & Co., who own a considerable  tract 
of land near Crofton.

W. Frank  Gibson,  formerly  bookkeeper 
for  Phil. Graham,  but  for  the  past  few 
months in the employ of F. J. Lamb & Co., 
has rented the building  formerly  occupied 
by A. Kuppenheimer,  on North Ionia street, 
and will engage in the produce and commis­
sion business on his  own  account.  He left 
for Chicago Monday for the purpose of mak­
ing business  connections.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Hilbert & Holly succeed F.  F.  Hilbert in 

general trade at  Woodland.

A.  D.  Alvord,  grocer at  Flint,  has 

been

closed on chattel  mortgage.

Tyler & Co.  succeed Blake & Tyler in the 

hardware business at Almont.

Beecher  Bros,  succeed  H.  S.  Beecher in 

the grocery business at Mason.

Jos.  L.  Divine  succeeds  M.  L.  Divine  in 

the grocery business at Cambria.

C.  C.  Warner  succeeds  C.  E.  Wagner in 

the grocery business at Ann Arbor.

W.  L.  Main  has  purchased  the  clothing 

stock of J.  W.  Randall,  at Tekonsha.

G.  A.  Keller,  grocer  at  Laingsburg, has 
moved his stock to Elwell,  Gratiot  county.
A.  D.  Seyler succeeds  Seyler& Josenhaus 
in the boot and shoe business at Ann Arbor.
Gascoigne &  Thompson,  grocers  at  Big 
Rapids,  have dissolved,  Gascoigne  continu­
ing.

Curtis  &  Barber  succeed  Hull,  Curtis & 
Co.  in the  hardware  business  at  Yermont- 
ville.

Lafayette  Buchanan  succeeds  F.  D. 
in  the  grocery  business  at  St. 

Wheeler 
Louis.

Eakhis & Soule,  lumber,  salt and  general 
dealers at Port  Crescent,  are  about to dis­
solve.

Dr.  N.  J.  Aiken has sold his general stock 
at Clayton to his brother, W.  C. Aiken,  who 
will continue the business.

W.  D.  Gardner, 

formerly  a  resident  of 
Middleville,  has  purchased  W.  Graham’s 
hardware stock,  at that place.

F.  G.  Seaman & Co.,  of  Nashville  have 
purchased  the F.  T.  Boise  drug  stock,  at 
Nashville,  and will continue  the  business.
R.  G.  Gustin has retired from the  whole­
sale grocery firm of  Gustin,  Merrill  & Co., 
at Bay  City.  Merrill,  Fifield  &  Co.  suc­
ceed.

Mrs,  p.  B.  Hunsicker  has  purchased the 
general stock of Holmes  &  Holly Bros.,  at 
Woodland.  The latter will  remove to Ten­
nessee.

Chas.  G.  Bode is the name of the Chicago 
gentleman  who  has  purchased  the  J.  F. 
Keeney & Co.  general stock and stock farm 
at  Ferry.

Phil.  M.  Roedel has purchased  the gener­
al stock of his  mother,  Mrs.  J.  M.  Roedel, 
at White  Cloud.  Phil,  has  managed  the 
business for a half dozen years past.

E.  A.  Owen,  formerly engaged in the gro­
cery business at Plainwell,  has bought  Geo. 
W.  Bliss’ interest in Bliss  & Son’s boot and 
shoe  stock  at  that  place.  The  new firm 
name w ill be Bliss & Owen.

A.  C.  Lewis has sold  his general stock at 
Lake City,  Missaukee county  to Sampson & 
Drury,  hardware  dealers  of  Cadillac,  who 
will carry a full line of hardware and lumber­
men’s supplies at Lewis’  old stand

H.  A .  Love  has  opened  a  drug  store  at 
Charlotte;  Fuller  &  Mobley,  of  North 
Adams,  are about to open a  boot  and  shoe 
store,  and  Hillsdale  parties  have  rented  a 
building and will put in a large stock of dry 
goods.

Moore  &  Yarger,  hardware  dealers  at 
Freeport,  have  dissolved  Yarger  retiring, 
Mr.  Moore has formed a copartnership with 
Alonzo Shepard,  who has been  in  the  em­
ploy of the firm for four years past,  and the 
business will hereafter  be  conducted  under 
the firm name of Moore & Shepard.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

A.  B.  Roberts’  shingle  mill  at  Rondo is 

now in operation.

The  old  mill  property  at  Charlotte  has 

been purchased by  J. Q. Griffeth.

Heim Bros,  have purchased  the grist mill 

of P.  H.  Weaver & Co.,  at Hesperia.

The  lumber  stock  of  E. F. Fellows,  at 

Homer,  has been seized on execution.

The Chippewa Lumber Co. is  running its 
mill at Chippewa Lake night  and  day cut­
ting 1,500,000 feet of logs for F. E.  Bradley 
& Co.,  of Bay City.

John L.  Allen  has retired from the  East 
Jordan Iron Works, at East Jordan.  Messrs. 
R.  W. Rounds and W. E. Malpass will con­
tinue the business  under  the  same  general 
designation.

Merritt Chandler has completed  the  con­
struction of a water  power circular sawmill 
at Allis,  Presque Isle  county.  The  build­
ing was erected and the machinery placed in 
position inside of thirty days.

J.  S.  Crosby,  of Greenville, is putting in a 
saw and shingle mill at Cedar  Lake,  to  cut 
the timber Mr.  Crosby  purchased of  W.  S. 
Nelson.  The mill will have a daily capacity 
of  50,000 feet  of  lumber and  40,000  shin­
gles,  and  will  be  ready  for  operations  in 
about three weeks.

STRAY  FACTS.

Adam Schuler  is  buying  wheat at  Alle­

Elmira  is  in  need  of  a  good  hardware 

gan.

store.

Shaw & Blanott  have  opened a  harness 

Frank E. Tracy,  hardware  dealer at Stur­

shop at Wayland.

gis, has assigned.

J.  Parks  will  open  a  meat  market  at 

Plainwell about October 15.

M. Lyman & Co.  have  engaged  in  the 

meat business at Cheboygan.

M. M. Mansfield’s  new  store building, at 

Hesperia,  is nearly  completed.

Duell & Holcomb succeed Duell & Barber 

in the saloon business at Saranac.

C. M. Barnes has sold  his  bakery  busi­

ness,  at Hesperia, to T.  C.  Grundy.

Dougall & Wellington  succeed J.  S. Dou- 

gall in the grain business at Lowell.

S. T. McLellan,  general  dealer  at  Deni­

son, is erecting a new store  building.

F.  C. Beimett  &  Co.  succeed  Bennett & 
Gordon in the  plumbing  business  at  Lans­
ing.

Geo.  F.  Fowler succeeds Fowler Bros,  in 
the confectionery and restaurant business at 
Ionia.

The boot and shoe stock of  W.  H.  Wes­
ley,  at  Ovid,  has  been  taken  on  chattel 
mortgage.

Albert Nichols has sold  his  livery  busi­
ness at Otsego to Odell  &  Porter,  of  Pine 
Grove, who will continue at the  old  stand.
Plainwell has three flouring  mills,  a saw­
mill,  a paper mill,  a rake  and  handle  fac­
tory,  machine shops,  and  boat, and oar fac­
tory.

Calvin  Nash  and  E.  E.  Barkdull  have 
formed a copartnership under the firm name 
of Nash & Barkdull,  and engaged in the re­
tail furniture business at Saranac.

Big  Rapids  Herald:  A.  J.  Selim,  who 
has been running a saloon  here  since  early 
spring,  has made an assignment  to Andrew 
Hanson.  Liabilities  about  §1,500;  assets 
nominal.  The proceeds will  scarcely pay a 
chattel mortgage.  Fifty dollars  will  cover 
the claims of Big Rapids  creditors.

Big Rapids  Herald:  John  G.  Martz,  so 
long in- active  business, has sold  his bakery 
and confectionery to Mrs. Warren  A. Hunt 
and Mrs. John Loudon.  The new firm will 
be known as S. A.  Hunt & Co.  Mr. Martz 
will go into the furniture factory, of  which 
company he is a stockholder and officer.

Bellaire  Breeze:  G.  W.  Albrecht  has 
bought  out F. E. Turrell’s  interest  in the 
Bank of Bellaire, ajid the real  estate  inter­
ests of Mr. Turrell have been transferred to 
J. H.  Gardner,  of  Centerville,  Mich.  The 
details under the new arrangement have not 
been all  completed,  and  we  are  unable  to 
state  the new firm  name  or names.

Cranberry Topics.
From the Grand Traverse Herald.

D.  C.  Leach  has  a  letter  from  John 
Clarke,  of 
the  “Centennial  Cranberry 
Farm,” at Whitefish  Point,  in  the  Upper 
Peninsula, who says  he  expects  to  gather 
2,000 bushels of berries this  fall.

Mr. Leach visited Dr.  Walker’s cranberry 
marsh at Glen Arbor last week, and informs 
us that the  Dr.  anticipates  gathering  200 
barrels of berries  this  fall.  A  few  weeks 
ago the marsh gave  promise  of  yielding at 
least twice that quantity,  but  an  unknown 
insect attacked  the  berries  and  in  a few 
days’ time destroyed at least  half  the crop. 
A heavy rainfall checked the ravages of the 
insect,  and thus saved the crop  from  entire 
destruction.  The Dr. is of the opinion that 
this insect is a new enemy to the cranberry. 
It is certainly new in this part  of the coun­
try.

Closed Up at Last.

From the Ovid Union.

The creditors  of  Sowers  &  White  have 
signed a statement agreeing to take 40 cents 
on  the  dollar  for  their  claims,  and  As­
signee Darragh has already commenced pay- 
idg them off on  that basis.  This will  clear 
the matter up,  and in  view of  the fact  that 
it may take another year to  get  a  decision 
on the suit now pending,  is  as  well  as  the 
creditors can do.

Putnam & Brooks announce to  the  trade 
that  they  have  perfected  arrangements to 
handle the same brands  of  J.  S.  Farren  & 
Co.’s  celebrated  Baltimore  oysters  which 
they carried last season,  and  are in  a  posi­
tion to  give  the  same  general  satisfaction 
afforded their patrons last year.

The  Gripsack Brigade.
W.  S. Horn wants another dog.
Harry  McDowell was in Detroit last  Fri­

day, where he had a good trade.

Beecher  &  Kymer  own  only  one  drug 
stock,  and are reported to  be  on  the  look­
out for another.

Will  Atkins is putting in his time at  De­
troit,  entertaining visiting  buyers  for  his 
house, Heavenrich Bros.

Phil  Gaubatz,  B.  Leidersdorf  &  Co.’s 
Michigan representative,  is  “doing  up” the 
Michigan lake shore  towns this week.

Wm.  E. White,  the  jolly  traveling expo­
nent of the Thompson  &  Taylor Spice Co., 
of Chicago, paid Grand  Rapids  a  visit last 
week.

Ed.  P.  Andrew,  formerly  on  the  road 
for Nelson  Bros.  &  Co., has  accepted  the 
position of head salesman with  Hall,  Good­
man & Co.

E.  H.  Cannon,  of the  firm of  Wentworth 
& Cannon, has gone on the road for Curtiss, 
Dunton & Co., taking the territory formerly 
covered by R. J. Coppes.

Fred W. Powers,  formerly on the road for 
the Spa Bottling Co., in which company  he 
was  financially  interested,  succeeds  Geo. 
Medes  as  Southern  Michigan  traveler  for 
Hugo Schneider & Co.

A.  F. Peake, Michigan and Indiana repre­
sentative for DeLand & Co., of Fairport, N. 
Y., put in Sunday at this market, the  guest 
of Leo A.  Caro  and  family.  He  was  ac­
companied by his wife.

Frank E.  Chase leaves to-day for Buffalo, 
where he will meet  his wife  and  child,  on 
their way home from Cape Cod.  They will 
take  up  their  residence  at  their  home  on 
Ottawa street next week.

attended  St.  Mary’s  training  college  until 
fourteen years  of  age,  when  he  entered a 
stock  and  share  broker’s  office  as  entry 
clerk. 
In 1869, he  sailed  to  China  in  the 
tea  clipper  “Lauderdale,”  belonging  to  J. 
D; Willis & Co.’s line,  remaining  in  China 
six months  studying  the  cultivation  and 
production of tea.  He subsequently visited 
Australia,  Cape of Good Hope, Sumatra and 
Java and the Island  of  St.  Helena,  where 
he inspected Napoleon’s  tomb.  Returning 
to England in the fall of 1870,  he  sailed for 
Toronto February  2,  1871,  spending  three 
years in  Ravenswood,  Ontario,  as manager 
of a large general store. 
In  1874,  he  came 
to  Grand Rapids  on a visit to his  brother, 
and was so captivated with the town that he 
concluded to make the city  his  home,  iden­
tifying himself with the millinery establish­
ment  of  J.  &  J.  C. Kendall.  He  subse­
quently  worked  in  the  dry goods  store of 
Donahoe & Ryordon,  at  Muskegon,  return­
ing to Grand Rapids in the spring of 1875 to 
accept a position  as  salesman  with  W.  S. 
Gunn & Co., remaining with  that  firm  one 
year, when he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
New York Tea Co.,  on Monroe street.  June 
1,  1880, he  accepted  the  position  of  ship­
ping  clerk  for  Rice  &  Moore,  and  two 
months later he went on the  road for Cody, 
Ball & Co.,  taking  the  territory  formerly 
covered by D.  C.  Underwood.  On  the  ac­
cession of Mr. Ball to the firm,  in the spring 
of 1881, he took the city trade of  the house, 
which position he  still holds, to the mutual 
satisfaction  of  his  employers  and  their 
patrons.  May 24,  1883,  he  was  married to 
Miss Louise H.  Gibson, daughter of the late 
A. R.  Gibson, by whom he is the father of a 
bright  boy.

W. R. Keasey—otherwise known as  “So­
ciety Bill”—is reported  to  have  formed  an 
alliance with a young lady of  Indianapolis, 
who is handsome  as  a  picture  and  worth 
§150,000 in her  own right.

Dick Mangold  has  put  in  considerable 
time at Petoskey during the past month, the 
attraction being none  other  than  a  young 
lady from the famous  Blue Grass Region of 
Kentucky. 
It is understood  that  the  cere­
mony will occur in January.

The white hats which graced the traveling 
men on the occasion of their famous Fourth 
of July parade are now made to  do  service 
as black tiles by means  of  a  little  artistic 
•work on the part of the hat colorer.  Henry 
B. Fairchild  set  the  example  and  Ed.  P. 
Andrew followed suit.

The  Frank Chase  who was committed  to 
the county jail last week for sixty days on a 
charge of drunkeness is not Frank E. Chase, 
the well-known  boot  and  shoe traveler,  al­
though the similarity in  names  has  caused 
the amiable salesman  considerable  uneasi­
ness for several days past.

Now that Bannard, Lyman & Co. have re­
tired from business,  Magenta-Headed  Dave 
Smith will be looking for  another  desirable 
connection.  For the good of the town,  and 
reputation of  the traveling  men who go out 
of this market, it is to be hoped that he will 
not locate in the Yalley City.

President Kelsey,  of  the  Michigan divis­
ion,  T.  P. A.,  secured Governor Alger’s sig­
nature  to  the  week-end-ticket  resolution 
adopted by the recent convention  at  Lans­
ing,  and the railway committee has received 
a polite note from the association of  Michi­
gan passenger  agents, requesting  the  for­
mer to meet the latter  at  their  meeting  on 
the 17th.

Herbert T.  Chase,  who sounds the praises 
of Chase & Sanborn’s coffees from Marquette 
to Monroe, holds his head  very high  nowa­
days,  and refuses to bow to his best friends. 
Such assumption of dignity and haughtiness 
is not due to any sudden change in  his feel­
ings but to the presence of a'good-sized imita­
tion  to one of Job’s  comforters on  the back 
of his neck.

Gus.  Sharp,  “Pa”  Evans,  Algy  White, 
Will  Rindge,  Cass  Bradford,  W.  S.  Horn, 
Steve Sears, John  McIntyre,  Dave  Haugh, 
Frank  White,  Henry  Ward  Beecher, Joe 
Reed and several other grip  carriers got the 
letter which  was  leit  for  them  at  Geo. 
Leonard’s.  “Pa” Evans refused to  “se t’em 
up,” and Joe Reed got so hot that he kicked 
a hole through the roof of the building.

There is a very  determined  effort on  foot 
among business houses all over the country, 
whose salesman visit Washington,  to secure 
a repeal of the law imposing  a  tax  of  §200 
a year  on  commercial  travelers  in  the  Dis­
trict of Columbia.  The tax is said to be for 
the  purpose  of  protecting  the  local  mer­
chants.  As  there  is  no  wholesale  trade 
there, this excuse is absurd.  The tax is of no 
practical value as a revenue  either,  as  more 
than  nine-tenths  of  the  drummers  visiting 
Washington pay no license  to  the  city,  but 
employ  brokers  to  represent  them.  The 
latter  pay  a  tax  of  §200  a  year  and  each 
rents sample rooms at a rental of §1,000 per 
annum.  One  firm  represents  upwards  of 
400 concerns,  each of which pays  from  §25 
to §150 per annum  each.  The  broker who 
pays the original tax  of  §200  clears  a  net 
profit of from §15,000 to §20,000  on  his in­
vestment,  and the  District  is  no  richer  for 
the, tax.  The whole  system is bad,  for  be­
sides leading to wholesale evasions it breeds 
fraud and bribery.  Several detectives whose 
business it is to watch the drummers are no­
toriously corrupt and reap rich harvests from 
the brokers  and  salesmen  whom  they  can 
annoy very seriously. 
In the last  Congress 
the tax was  repealed  in  committee  of  the 
whole, but before the  bill  was  through  the 
House it  was restored.  There  is  no  good 
reason why it  should  not  be  stricken  from 
the statute books.  As it is a  tax  on  inter­
state  commerce,  it  is  clearly  unconstitu­
tional.

Algernon  Edmund  White  was  born in 
London,  England,  September  1,  1853.  He

Purely Personal.

N. J.  Beaudry,  dry  goods  merchant  at 
Grand Haven,  has gone East, to buy  goods.

John D.  Shirts,  the accomplisltfed financial [ 
agent  of  Eaton  &  Christenson,  has  gone 
North hunting—for a lame duck.

D.  D.  Cody,  Willard Barnhart  and O. A. 
Ball are expected back  from the  Lake  Su­
perior region the latter part of  the week.

Dr.  C. S.  Hazeltine  and  family  will  re­
turn from Mackinac Island, where they have 
spent the summer months,  on Friday of this 
week.

Deacon B. Fenton,* of the Erie Preserving 
Co.,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  paid  the  jobbing 
trade a visit last week and attended  church 
here on Sunday.

M. R.  Campbell,  formerly with  John  Le 
Clere,  at Muskegon,  was  in  the  city  Mon­
day  on  his  way  to  Nashville,  where  he 
thinks of locating permanently.

Mr.  Leahy,  of Leahy & Co., Muskegon, is 
East,  purchasing fall goods.  Nathan Platt, 
of Nathan Platt & Co., of the same place, is 
also in the land of the rising sun.

W. H.  Tibbs,  an  experienced  pharmacist 
of Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  will shortly take  up  his 
residence in this city,  assuming  the  owner­
ship of a leading drug store here.

Geo.  R.  Perry  asserts  that  Jim  Stewart 
failed to  return  an  umbrella  the  Saginaw 
grocery jobber borrowed of him  during  his 
recent visit here. 
It has also come to  light 
that Stewart  failed  to  pay  his  hotel  bill, 
beat the hackman out of his fee, and traveled 
on another man’s pass.

DETROIT  DOINGS.

News and  Gossip from Michigan’s Metrop­

olis.

Dominique Perrien,  of the milling firm of 

Perrien Bros.,  is dead.

H. D.  Cooper, of the produce  commission 

firm of E. S.  Cooper & Son,  is dead.

Thos. H.  Christian,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  at  Fai'ewell,  is  now  in 
full charge  of  the  laboratory  of  John J. 
Dodds & Co.,  and is giving  excellent  satis­
faction.

Williams & Co., themalsters, have thrown 
their business into  a  stock  company,  with 
a capital stock  of  §100,000.  The  name of 
the new  corporation  will  be  the Williams 
Malt Co.

Heavenrich Bros,  are unable to get  goods 
from  the  Eastern  woolen  factories  fast 
enough to supply the demands of their  cus­
tomers,  but  hope  to  increase  the  supply 
within the near future.

The Detroit Soap Co.  is  considerably be­
hind  with  its' orders,  on  account of  a rush 
of business.  The  company has  in prepara­
tion and will soon  put. upon  the  market a 
new brand  of  soap—10  cent  goods—to  be 
known as  “Michigan.”  An  excellent  map 
of the State will be given with each box.

Detroit jobbers are  beginning  to feel  the 
effects of the revival in trade, inconsequence 
of which arrangements are being made for a 
considerable  fall  trade.  Our  merchants 
have probably  felt  the  depression  greater 
than most of the inland towns,  and a realiz­
ing sense of the return to good times is hail­
ed with joy and gladness.

Ed. Telfer, for twelve  years  past  identi­
fied with the wholesale grocery house of W. 
J.  Gould & Co.—seven  years  of the time as 
a partner—has withdrawn from the firm and 
about concluded to  embark  in  the  jobbing 
of teas, coffees and spices at  Grand Rapids. 
He paid the Yalley City  a  visit  last  week 
and looked over the ground thoroughly, and 
pronounces himself as well pleased with the 
outlook.  Several  desirable  locations  are 
under consideration,  and  the  probability  is 
that the  store  formerly  occupied  by  L.  H. 
Randall  &  Co.,  on  Ottawa  street,  will be 
selected. 
In  case  Mr.  Telfer  makes  the 
venture,  he will be associated  with  another 
gentleman,  whose identity he is not yet pre­
pared to disclose.

Polished steel,  or  iron  surfaces  may  be 
preserved from rusting, by covering the sur­
face so exposed with a mixture of powdered 
lime and oil.

O U T  ARO UN D.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

Stan wood.

Sept. 5—Stanwood has had a boom  this  sum­
mer, thirteen new dwelling houses having been 
built,  besides  six  more  buildings,  which are 
now  in process of construction.  Among  the 
latter,  is  a  hotel which is being erected  by O. 
D. Chapman.

East Saginaw.

Sept. 7— Jim Stewart asserts  with  great  em­
phasis  that  he  will  proceed  against  The 
Tradesman on a charge of libel.  He  says  he 
doesn't  mind  being  called “ handsome ”  and 
“muscular,” but when it come to being  refer­
red to as “effeminate” and accused  of stealing 
an umbrella, he objects.

John T. Bell, of the produce commission firm 
of J. T. Bell & Co.,  has  gone to  Mt.  Clemens, 
where will build a cottage for  a  summer resi­
dence.

Slielby.

Sept. 7—Chas. G. Bode, who has bought the J. 
F. Keenv & Co.  interests at Ferry, proposes to 
erect a steam saw mill which will cut from 20,- 
000 to 25,000 feet of lumber a day; and proposes 
to put up a store building  and  ware  house of 
brick,  50x100  feet.  Ho  will  buy  grain, logs, 
ties, hemlock bark and  all  farmer’s  produce.
Paton & Andrus recently shipped two cars of 
lumber  to  Muskegon,  one  car  of  wheat  to 
Holland, 300 dozen of eggs  to  Big  Bapids,  be­
sides  sixteen  bushels  of  pears  and  seventy 
bushels  of  peaches  and  plums  to  different 
points. 
It  was  a  good work and speaks well 
for the business of the firm.

Our dealers have large  quantities  of  butter 
on hand.  The season has  been  the  most fav­
orable one known for making the product.

There has been a cider mill opened in Cross­
man’s mill for the manufacture of cider, jelly, 
apple butter, and all products of the apple.

Hersey.

Sept. 7—0. Richardson's shingle mill,  in the 
north-east  corner  of  Cedar  township, is run­
ning with about one month’s stock to  cut.  It 
is  cutting  16-inch  shingles  for  the  Chicago 
market.

Brown’s shingle mill on  section  nine, Cedar 

township, has shut down for a few weeks.

Mr. Gouley, lately from Canada,  is  building 
a new shingle mill a few miles east of  Ashton. 
H. M. Patrick, of Leroy, furnishes  the  funds.
Hall  &  Manning,  of  Hersey,  are repairing 
their mill.  They use steam  and  water  power 
combined, and cut 30,000 hardwood per day.

A  young  man  named  Abe  Perry, of Char­
lotte,  purporting  to  be  an  agent of Charley 
Lovdol,  of  Chicago,  purchased  several  car 
loads of maple lumber of Hall  &  Manning,  of 
Hersey,  drawing  the  pay  for  the  same,  but 
failed to pay Hall & Manning, who are anxious 
to  make  the  young man’s acquaintance once 
more.  It  is  understood  that  he  squandered 
the funds, and is making himself  very scarce. 
The  value  of  the lumber was about §400, and 
the boy’s father-in-law and brother  offered  to 
pay Hall & Manning $125 to settle the bill, say­
ing the boy lost money in the deal, as the  1 am­
ber was not up to grade.

Muskegon.

Sept.  7—Christie  &  Kieft,  the  •well-known 
grocery firm, has dissolved, Wm. B. Kieft  suc­
ceeding.  Daniel Christie has formed a copart­
nership with E. R. Ford, and the two have pur­
chased the grocery stock of  Palmer  &  Kings­
bury, and will continue the business under the 
firm name of Christie  & Co.

A. G. Jepson, the  druggist,  has  assigned to  . 
W. W. Barcus.  Mr.  Jepson  leaves  to-day for 
Lewiston, Idaho, where he will take  charge  of 
Lewiston college.

The  Davies  Iron  Works  is  building a new 
I foundry in the rear of the machine shop.  The 
| building is to be a one-story  brick,  45x30 feet 
in size.  The  structure  will  be completed in 
about two weeks.

The Rodgers Iron Works is building  a  brick 
basement  under  its  warehouse,  next  to  the 
office.  This  is  done  in  order  to  ¡have  room 
for  a  stock  of  pumps, log rollers, etc., which 
the company is manufacturing for  the  trade. 
A new boiler is also being set up.

Sidney S. Moms, of the provision firm  of S. 
S. Morris  & Bro.,  has  returned  from  a three 
weeks’ visit with former friends  and relatives 
in  Genessee  county,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Morris was 
reared in the same town in which the now  no­
torious Ferdinand Ward was brought  up, and 
remembers the lad as one who was in the habit 
of borrowing  quarters  and  half dollars from 
acquaintances  and  not  returning  the  same. 
He  also  failed  to  pay for hats or clothes  ob­
tained on credit from local  dealers.

John Cooper, the grocer, is closing out.

B ig Bapids.

Sept.  7—S.  Wildberg  is  just closing out his 
stock of dry goods.  He is undecided as  to  bis 
future line of business.

F. W, Joslin will have an auction sale to close 
out all heavy weight goods which he  does  not 
want to take South with him.  He  intends  to 
be  established  at  Ashville,  N. C., in about 60 
days.

The basement of the new  Morrisey  block  is 
completed,  and  work  on  the  much-talked-of 
Comstock building is still progressing.

S. Bronson’s saw mill, on the east side of the 
river, was destroyed by fire on the 3d. 
It had 
not been in operation for some time,  and  was 
fully insured.

C. D. Carpenter has gone  to  New  York  and 

Boston to purchase a stock of dry goods.

John R. Campbell, our boot  and shoe dealer, 
is  enjoying  a  trip  throughout  the  Western 
States.

E.  C.  Morris,  dry  goods  merchant, is  East, 

purchasing a stock of fall goods.

Will Baker and W. A. D. Rose, who lately re­
signed  their  positions  with  the Ives Lumber 
Co., are still looking for  ¿ ‘¿bod  opening else­
where.  Mr. Rose has an interest in a prosper­
ous business house in Big Rapids.

T. N. Colvin, who  swindled  his  creditors  in 
the  most  reprehensible  manner,  has  gone 
West,  and  will  probably  never  return. 
I 
hear the American Sewed Shoe Co., of  Toledo, 
are “in” for $1,400, R. & J. Cummings & Co.,  of 
Toledo,  for  $300  and  a  Boston house for the 
same  amount.  The  stock  was  worth  about 
$5,500 and went for $2,200—about  the  amount 
of Colvin’s original  capital.

Make Yourselves  at  Home.

Customers of Wm.  L.  Ellis & Co. or Gray 
& Kingman coming to Grand Rapids during 
the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland 
are cordially invited to make  themselves at 
home at our store.  B. F. Emery will  be in 
during the week.
37 Canal  street.
The  first  patent  for  apple-pearers  was 
granted to one Coates in  1803.  The  quar­
tering device was added  by Gates  in  1810.

Cole  & E mery,

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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.
Pour Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbaob, Ann Arbor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—J as. V ernor.
Next place of meeting—At Detroit, November 

3,1885.
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

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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—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F.  W. 
Fincher.
Next  place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 
October 13,1§85.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORG A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1 8 8 4 .

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board  of  Censors-President,  Vice-President 
and Secretary.
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 
each month.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November,
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening, October 1, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

TOO  MANY  DRUGGISTS.

Otherwise they Would Soon Become  Mil­

lionaires.

From the Detroit News.

“Retail  druggists might  become  million­
aires,” remarked  a  Detroit  compounder  of 
medicines to a friend  as  they  discussed  a 
couple of Sunday evening cigars on the front 
porch,  “just  as  easily  as  not, 
if  there, 
weren’t so confounded  many  in  the  busi­
ness.  The way we do  up  the  customer in 
the matter of prices would astonish you.  If 
we could  only do it often  enough  we’d  get 
rich in a  hurry.

“I don’t mind giving you a few instances, 
if you’ll be  sure  not  to  give  it  away,” the 
druggist  went on,  growing  confidential un­
der the  soothing  influence  of  the  weed. 
“There’s  aqua  ammonia.  We  buy  it  at 
wholesale  for  six  cents  a  lb.  and sell it at 
the rate of two ounces for  five  cents,  or 40 
cents per  lb.  Nothing  very  modest  about 
that,  eh?  Alum we get  at  3  cents per lb., 
and dispose of it for from  15  cents  per  lb. 
to 5 cents per  oz.,  according  to  quantity. 
Quinine  costs  the  druggist  a t. present 75 
cents per oz., and sells at  1  cent  per grain, 
or $4.80 cents per  oz.  The  profit  on  this 
article can be and  sometimes  is, further in­
creased by adulteration with  cinchonida,  an 
article of similar  appearance which costs 25 
cents per oz.  Epsom salts costs 3 cents per 
lb.  and sells for 20 cents.

“A good deal  depends  on  the  customer. 
If he looks as though he would stand  it  we 
charge him 10 cents  per  oz  for  bromide of 
potash,  which  we buy at  40  cents  per ft>. 
If he looks like a kicker we  make the price 
only 5 cents per oz.  Whisky,  which  costs 
us $1.75 to $2 a gallon,  we sell at  60  cents 
per pint.  But our  best  hold  is physicians’ 
prescriptions.  A 2 oz. mixture usually sells 
for 35 cents,  and the bottle  frequently costs 
as much  as  the  contents.  Ten  cents  will 
generally cover the cost of  a  35  cent  pre­
scription,  and the profit on  larger  amounts 
is*in proportion.”

“Patent medicines  are a big thing,  I sup­

pose?”

“Lots of people  suppose  so,  but  the  no­
tion is wide  of  the  truth.  The  profit on 
‘patent medicines’  and  proprietary  articles 
seldom exceeds  100  per  cent.,  and  often is 
much less  than  that.  Oh,  yes,  ours  is a 
trade that  has  millions  in  it—millions  of 
money  and  also  millions  of  druggists,  so 
that we don’t get so very much apiece.”

His Principal Practice.

“Doctor,” said De  Fidgett to one  of  our 
medical men,  “do  you  have  much  practice 
nowadays?”

“Oh,  yes,  I have all the practice I can at 

“In what  particular  line  is  the  most  of 

tend to.”

your practice?”

“In the line of economy.”
The addition  of  menthol  to cocoaine is 
recommended by Rorenberg when the latter 
is used as an  anaesthetic  in  the  surgery of 
the nose and pharynx.  A 20  per cent,  sol­
ution in  oil is said by the  author to be the 
best method of using the menthol.  Experi­
ments with the mixture  show  that  the an­
aesthetic effects of cocaine are  greatly aided 
by menthol.

A Viennese pharmacist  was  summoned 
before a police court for the offense of  sup­
plying calomel contaminated with  mercuric 
chloride, and  for  damages  for  injuries  re­
sulting from the use  of  the impure  article. 
The pharmacist  admitted  that  the  calomel 
contained corrosive  sublimate,  but  pleaded 
that he was  not to blame,  as he  purchased 
it in bulk from a respectable  manufacturer, 
and that he might  as  soon  be  expected  to 
examine each parcel of common salt for im­
purities  as  to  examine  calomel  obtained 
wholesale  from such a source.  The  court, 
however, refused to  take  that  view  of  the 
transaction, and inflicted a fine of  fifty flor­
ins for a breach of  the  law  relating  to the 
supply of pure  drugs.  Other  claims  were 
reduced to thirty florins.

TH E  OFFICIAL  PROGRAMME.

Arrangement  of Business  for  the Coming 

Convention.

The  Executive  Committee  of  the  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association  met  at  Detroit 
last week and arranged  the  following  pro­
gramme  for  the  annual  convention, to  be 
held at Detroit October 13,  14 and 15:

TUESDAY, 2 P . M.

Meeting called to order by President Crouter. 
Roll call.
Address of welcome by Mayor Grummond. 
Response by ex-President Wells, of Lansing. 
Reading minutes of last meeting.
Address by G. W. Crouter, of Charlevoix. 
Presentation of names for membership. 

TU ESDA Y,  7 :30 P .  M.

W EDNESDAY,  9 A. M.

Report of Executive Committee on Applica­
tions for membership.
Election of members.
Reports of officers.
Reports of committees.
Reading of papers.
Unfinished business.
Reading  of  papers  and  discussion  of same 
Trade interests.
Trade interests.
Association taken to Detroit Opera House.

W EDNESDAY, 2 P . M.
W EDNESDAY, 7:30 P .  M.

continued.

TH URSDAY ,  9  A.  M.

Election of officers.
Appointing of committees.
Miscellaneous and unfinished business. 
Adjournment.
“Home, Sweet Home.”

figures 100,000 bales, while  it  is  now  only 
75,000 bales,  including a large and constant­
ly increasing proportion  of worthless  bark, 
which is estimated  variously at one-third to 
one-half of  the  entire  stock.  The  actual 
stock of good bark  is  probably  not  even  a 
six months’ supply.  The  increase  of  the 
shipments  of  bark  from  Ceylon  were  last 
March  about  thirty-five  per  cent, over  the 
previous  season,  while  at  the  end  of  July 
the increase  for  the  season  over  the  last 
season showed  only  8  per  cent.—rather  a 
heavy falling off in shipments from March to 
July; the season runs from October to  Octo­
ber. 
In June,  July and August,  during the 
monsoon or rainy season,  bark canot be pro­
duced in  Ceylon.  Shipments  must,  there­
fore, be small for the next three months.  The 
stock  of  bark  in  manufacturers’  hands  is 
believed to be small.  As  purchases  at  de- 
cling prices are  naturally  limited  to  imme­
diate  wants,  manufacturers  will  be  com­
pelled  to  buy  and  compete  against  each 
other at the sales; if  wants  should  become 
pressing prices will  be  influenced  upward 
The stock of quinine in second hands  is not 
large and mostly firmly held.  As consump 
tion is usually  larger during  the fall  there 
need be no apprehension of  lower prices,  in 
the opinion of holders,  who  think  an  early 
advance not improbable.

The Quinine Problem.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Among the conundrums  in  the trade,  fre­
quently propounded of late,  are  the  follow 
ing:  How  can the  manufacturers afford  to 
sell quinine at present prices, while they are 
buying barks at recent advanced market val­
ues?  Are they losing  money  in  manufac 
taring  or  have  they  recently 
improved 
methods to obtain a larger yield of quinine? 
It is also pertinently asked:  How is it that 
the price of  quinine  some  years  since  was 
two dollars and  over and is now only sixty- 
eight  cents?  Were  the  manufacturers 
formerly  making  enormous  profits?  Why 
can  they  sell  so  low  now?  What are  the 
prospects for the future? etc.

Anybody  who  has  kept  the  run  of  the 
London bark sales,  is aware of the fact that 
the prices  of  bark  have  twice  within  six 
weeks  experienced  an  important  advance, 
the first rise being fifteen to twenty per cent, 
and the second ten per  cent., while foreign 
quinine advanced only eight to ten cents per 
ounce,  or  say  fifteen  per  cent.  P. &  W’s 
price remained steady through all these  ad­
vances.  The figures being paid for bark are 
public,  and are well known to  the  initiated 
as ranging from five pence to six  pence  per 
unit, according to the richness of  the  bark; 
the lower  grades  of  bark  costing  more  to 
manufacture into quinine,  are  consequently 
lower  than  the  higher  grades.  A  unit 
means one pound of bark  yielding  one  per 
cent,  sulphate  quinine,  or  say  1-100  of 
pound =  16-100  of  an  ounce.  To  make 
one ounce of sulphate quinine,therefore, are 
required six and one-quarter  pounds of  one 
per cent,  bark,  which  costs,  at  the  rate  of 
five  pence, 
thirty-one  and  one-quarter 
pence,  equal  to  sixty-two  and  one-half 
cents. 
It  is  plain,  therefore,  that  at  the 
lowest quotation for  bark,  one  ounce  sul­
phate  quinine  costs  sixty-two and  one-half 
cents, without the expenses of freight,  com 
missions, cost of  manufacture,  packing  and 
putting on  the  market.  The  aggregate  of 
these expenses is usually estimated at about 
fourteen cents per ounce; even if they should 
amoirnt to only ten cents, the actual  cost  to 
the manufacturer  would  be  fully  seventy 
two  and  one-half  cents,  without  counting 
any profit.

The  by-products—cinchonidia,  quinidia 
etc.—which are selling now at such extremely 
low prices,  can hardly enter  into the  calcu­
lation,  on account of the expenses  of  mak­
ing them,  and will certainly not compensate 
the manufacturer for the difference between 
the cost  of  bark  and  the  selling  price  of 
quinine. 
therefore,  plain  that  the 
manufacturers  at  present  are  all 
losing 
money.  Why, 
then,  do  they  continue  to 
manufacture and  sell?

It  is, 

The  foreign  manufacturers  entered  this 
market  extensively,  when  the  duty  was 
taken  off  quinine;  the  domestic  manufac­
turers could not prevent this,  as  they  were 
at a disadvantage; the foreign manufacturers 
have a large outlet in Europe,  South Ameri­
ca, Asia,  etc.,  and could send  their  surplus 
here  while  the  domestic  manufacturers 
were confined  to  the  United  States  only. 
Even if the latter  should  have  resolved  to 
work at a loss  for [a  number  of  years,  the 
foreign manufacturers  could  withdraw  and 
come  in  again  as  soon  as  the  domestic 
manufacturers were tired  of  losing  money. 
But  now  the  situation  is  different.  Two 
more manufacturers  have  started  here, one 
of them pn  a  large  scale,  and  are  bidding 
energetically  for  the  custom  of  the  trade. 
The old manufacturers cannot  sit  still  and 
allow themselves  to  be  driven  out,  and,  as 
they have a large purse,  they seem  to  have 
resolved to  “see  the  thing  through.”  This 
competition will not prevent an  advance  in 
the price,  but will retard  it; the competition 
will doutless remain the same, whether  the 
price is sixty cents or  one dollar.

Some  years since,  barks  were  produced 
only  in  South  America,  when  the  supply 
would often be curtailed by the outbreak  of 
a revolution,  by want of water in  the  Mag­
dalena river and other causes, but  the culti­
vation of the cinchona trees in the East  In­
dies, principally Ceylon,  has  assumed  such 
dimensions,  that  we  are  not  only indepen­
dent of South America for a supply of bark, 
but the same has increased from  the  Eeast 
Indies to such an extent from  year  to  year 
that the  price  has  declined  considerably. 
The  maximum  of  the  stock  was  reached 
about the end of the year 1883; consumption 
having also increased largely,  the stock  has 
gradually decreased since then  and  is  now 
moderate—the maxium having been in round

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
At  the  regular monthly  meeting  of  the 
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical  Society, held 
at The  Tradesm an  office  last  Thursday 
evening, the following representatives of the 
profession  were  in  attendance:  President 
Wurzburg,  Secretary Escott,  John  E.  Peck, 
M. B. Kimm,  Isaac  Watts,  Will  L.  White, 
H.  B.  Fairchild, [Wm.  H.  VanLeeuwen, 
Chas  E.  Escott,  A.  C.  Bauer,  A.  Sanford 
and Lou J.  Shafer.

The delegate to the National Retail  Drug 
Association was instructed  to vote in  favor 
of the resolutions  recently  adopted  by  the 
New York Pharmaceutical  Association  re­
lative to the  formation of a  National  body 
by the election or three delegates  from each 
State.

A lengthy  and  profitable  discussion  fol­
lowed relative to the means  for  securing  a 
reduction in  the  tax  on  alcohol  used  for 
medicinal and mechanical purposes.

The chairman was  instructed to announce 
a subject at the next meeting for  discussion 
at the next succeeding meeting,  and that all 
drug clerks be invited to attend.

Chas.  E.  Escott suggested that as soon as 
possible an effort be made to  induce  physi­
cians to cease specifying any  special  make 
of elixirs,  etc.

It was moved and carried that the Society 
extend an invitation  to the  State  Pharma­
ceutical Association to hold the annual meet 
ing for 1886 in Grand Rapids; and the Secre­
tary  was  instructed  to  forward  the  reso­
lution to the Secretary of the State Associa­
tion.

The  Society  then  adjourned, 

Thursday evening,  October 1.

to  meet 

A  Model Prescription.

From the Allegan Gazette.

An Allegan  druggist  was  recently asked 
to make  a  compound, part  of  the  ingre­
dients of which were,  according to the writ­
ten formula,  “bay run,  flak white,  and glis- 
ser rean.”

A  medical  journal  says  the  distressing 
symptoms produced  by  the  administration 
of quinine or sodium  salicylate are counter­
acted by the addition of small doses of ergot 
to the mixture.

The law regulating the  practice of  medi 
cine in Indiana is now  in  force,  and  drug 
gists prescribing over the counter are  liable 
to fine and costs. 
Indiana druggists should 
secure a law  requiring  physicians to  take 
out a license before engaging in the practice 
of pharmacy.

The National Druggist thinks the Kansas 
prohibition law  has a tendency to bring the 
entire drug trade of the State into disrepute, 
by its evasion by those  who  use  the  name 
druggist as a cloak for the  liquor  business. 
A Kansas  City correspondent  says:  “The 
statements of the druggists of Cowley coun­
ty,  just filed with the  probate  judge,  while 
showing  a  decrease  from  those  filed  last 
month,  yet proved that the invalids of Cow­
ley comity needed  four  barrels of  whisky 
and 1,390 bottles of beer.  The city of Win­
field took 417 pints of  drug  store  liquors, 
while in Arkansas City, a town of much less 
population  than  Winfield,  821  pints  were 
sold.  Another significant fact  is,  that while 
the sale of beer is  on  the  decrease,  that of 
liquors is augmented.  There is another pe­
culiar point about this  matter.  The sale in 
the larger cities has decreased a little, while 
in country districts  it  has  been  largely in­
creased.”

MISCELLANEOUS.

103

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

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.
■  RARE  CHANCE—For sale, a  small  stock 
of drags,  medicines  and  druggists  sun­
dries, together with  fixtures,  including show 
cases, soda fountain, etc.  A bargain for some 
one.  Must be sold immediately.  W. W. Barcus, 
Assignee, Muskegon,  Mich. 
W ANTED—A drug stock inventorying from 
$1,000 to $1,500.  Address  Lock  Box  160, 
105*
TiOR SALE—Eight hundred  dollars  will buy 
a good stock of groceries,  $4 acre of land, 
and one two-story building in a lively business 
town.  Address, Postmaster, Eckford, Calhoun 
County, Mich. 
104*
H?OR  SALE—The brevier type formerly used 
on The Tradesman.  The font comprises 
222 pounds, including italic, and is well-assort­
ed and very little worn.  Address this office.
PARTNER  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 or same.  Address,  “Patent,” 
care “The Tradesman.” 

94tf

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

45
60
43
20
15
25
20

SEEDS.

do 

6  @

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

33Í® 
4  @ 4 $4
7  © 8
A $4® 5$4
10
75
14
©2 50 
2 00 
1  10 
85 
6
1  40

128
2
1 60 
60 
1 50 
1  70 
1 90 
1 75 
Ì  80 
)  28 
Ì  28 
>  20 
40 
45 2 
70
»  40 
15 
50 
24 
20 
12 
1  10 
50 
45 
1  10 8
[  3 
50 
60
14
15 
90 
70

1 25 
50 
27 12 
45
2$4@  3$44 
45
4$4@
5 
7
50 
2 75 
2  00 
40 
2 00
2 30 
50 
@  7
10®  12 
2  00 
18 
22 
18 
4 00 
12

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
15
Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........  
5
5 @  6
Canary,  Smyrna.............................   4
4 ®  4 y2
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c)
15 @  18
Cardamon,  Aleppee.....................
1  50
Cardamon, Malabar.......................
1  75
Celery..............................................
20
Coriander,  D e st  English........ . . .
10
Fennel............................................
15
Flax,  clean...............................  [  |
Foenugreek, powdered.......
Hemp,  Russian....................
Mustard, white  Black 10c). 
Quince........... ......................
Worm, Levant.....................
SPONGES.
_  
Florida sheeps’wool, carriage.......2 25
.......
do 
Nassau 
do 
. . . .
Velvet Extra do 
do 
ExtraYellow do 
do 
.......
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use...............!
Yellow Reef, 
.................
M ISCELLANEOUS. 
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.15; $  gal.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........
Annatto  1 ft rolls..................
Alum....................................... .  «  ft  _
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............  3
Annatto, prime.....................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l
Arsenic, white, powdered.............   6
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best__ ...] ’
Bay Rum, domestic, H.,P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..........................
Beans, Vanilla............................. “ 7 00
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  ................................. ’*  6
Borax, refined (Powd  12c)...""!."! 
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds.....................................!
Calomel.  American................
Chalk, prepared drop...................!
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump......................  *.
Chloroform,  Squibb’s...........
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts!!
Chloral 
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform.....................................   77
Cinchonidia, P. & W.*!!!!!!!! 
23
Cinchonidia, other brands___ !!.!!  23
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................ 
is
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................... ............
Copperas (by bbl  lc)...................... \
Corrosive Sublimate...........
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list..!!!!
Cream Tartar, pure powdered..
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime.................!!!!!!!!
Cuttle Fisn Bone................. !!!!!!!!
Dextrine................................!!!!!'!
Dover’s  Powders..............!!!!!!!!.
Dragon’s Blood Mass................... *.
Ergot  powdered.........................
Ether Squibb’s.......................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s ........
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%)...........................2
Ergot, fresh................................    T
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P __ !!!!!!
Flake white................................... !!
G rains  Paradise..............!.!!!!.!.!
Gelatine, Cooper’s ...................!..!!
Gelatine, French  ....................!!."  45
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet..................................   12
Glue,white.................................*!**  pj
Glycerine, pure....................!!!!.!!  16
Hops  $4s and $4s .............................. 
Iodoform $   oz..................
Indigo....................................... ..!!!  85
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American...................." *
Japonica .•........ .'........................... !!
London  Purple................... !!."!!!."
Lead, acetate...............................
Lime, chloride, ($4s 2s 10c & $4s ilcj
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium..................... .
Mace.............................................!!!
Madder, best  Dutch ...!!!!!!!!!!!*  12$4®
Manna, S.  F .................................. .
Mercury......................................""
Morphia, sulph., P. & W.. .7.7 $j ¿z
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................^ ft
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English.....................”•**.
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans..!!!!
Nut galls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1........................!!!!!.
Nux  Vomica...............................
Ointment. Mercurial, $4d.........!! !
Paris Green.................................... 
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy............. .!!!
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W............ft oz
Quinine,  German............................
Red  Precipitate...................... ^ ft
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Saffron, Ámérican...........
Sal  Glauber.......................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.......
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst. 
Sal Rochelle.......................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti......................................;
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile........................
........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
........................
Soap, 
do  do 
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll...................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans  ^ doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ 58 1b
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder...............................................!.!60
Shield  Cylinder..............................................!!!!!! 50
Eldorado Engine.....................................!!!!!. 35
Peerless  Machinery..................................... .!.!!! 30
Challenge Machinery............................... !!!!! . 25
Backus Fine Engine.................................!!!!! !30
Black Diamond Machinery..........................!!!!!! 30
Castor Machine  Oil..................................!!!!!!!6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.......’..............................."" ’i su
Paraffine, 28  deg*......................................!!!!. .21
Sperm, winter bleached..........................  
140
Bbl
"G al 
Whale, winter......................................  70
75 
Lard, extra...........................................  55
60 
Lard, No.  1..........................................  45
55 
Linseed, pure raw..............................  43
46 
Linseed, boiled..................................   46
49 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..........  70
90 
Spirits Turpentine.............................   40
45
No. 1 Turp  Coach..................................1 10@1  20
Extra  Turp........................................... 1 60@1  70
Coach  Body...........................................2 75@3  00
No. 1 Turp Furniture........................... l  00@1  10
Extra Turp  Damar...............................1 65@i  60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp
70®  75
Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2$4® 3 
2%@ 3 
13@16 
5S@60 
16@17
6$i
6$4 
@70 
@90 
1 10 
1 40 
1 20@1 40 
1 00@1 20

17 
28 
20 
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40 
5®
40 
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4 00 
1 50
7
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158
1 00 
45 
50 
13
60
80@3 05 
40 
10 
12 
30 
18 
23 
60 
10 
45 
25 
18 
50
6  @ 7
72  © 77
72® 77«
28
1 60
74  @ 78
35
® 2
10
9
33
2 15
6 50
38
4
35
4$4@ 5
14
17
9
11
14
26  @ 28
30  @ 32DC
»3D
3Ji@
4
3® 3$4
60
2 70 
1 40 
85 
25 
55

Bbl
Red Venetian............................ 
lj^
Ochre,yellow M arseilles...... 
l|£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.......... 
ljs^
Putty, commercial..................  2$4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2$6
Vermilion,prime American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure.......
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gildersr.....................
White, Paris American............*
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  Paints.......
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints..

2  @ 2$$

V A RN ISH ES.

P A IN TS.

OILS.

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HAZELTINE,

W liolesale

Druggists !

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 

93 and g5 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF
M A S T   PHARMACEUTICAL  " "
^

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes,

THE  CELEBRATED

Pioneer  Prepared  Paints,

—Also for the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

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

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

IFiieaMLiorDfiiiartiflil

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  OJfLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS  DADE  &  CO.’S

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

W e are also owners of the

n w t s ’  F arat  Rye,

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

G is ,B r a n isM in ts.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

H M T M PE B ID M C O

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Oil anise; chlorate potash; chlor­
ate potash, powdered.
Declined—Alcohol;  morphine,  sulphate:  oil 
peppermint;  oil  pennyroyal;  gum camphor; 
gum gamboge, powdered ;  turpentine.

A C ID S

Acetic, No.  8..............................  
  9  @  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........  30  ©  35
Carbolic............................................  34  @  36
Citric.................................................  60  @  65
Muriatic 18  deg...............................  3  @  5
11  @  12
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...............................................   12  @  14
3  @  4
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric. powdered........................   52  @  55
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
18
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @ 15
Tannic..............................................   12  @ 15

AM MONIA.

Carbonate.................................^ B>  15  @
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
5  @
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................  6  @

40@45
40
2  00 
50

BALSAMS.

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

BARKS.

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

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c)...............
Juniper     ........................................  6
Prickly Ash.....................................   50

7
60

@

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, $4s 
do 
Logwood, $4s 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

27 
37 $4 
9 
12
13 
15
14

FLO W ERS.

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

GUMS.

60®

id
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
12
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c).................. 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
50
28®  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
65
60
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
50
45
Arabic,  3d picked............................ 
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
35
25
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin...................................................  55®60
Camphor..........................................  
23®  25
Catechu. Is ($4 14c, $4s 16c)............ 
13
35®  40
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
80®  90
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
20
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)..
40 
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90).............
3 50 
Shellac, Campbell’s .......................
30 
Shellac,  English............................
26 
Shellac, native...............................
24 
Shellac bleached............................
Tragacanth ....................................

30@1 00

................... .........   30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

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

IR O N .

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

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  13
Sage, Italian, bulk ($43 & $4s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi..........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red.............   ..........................

LIQ U O R S.

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

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Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__
Calcined..........................................
Almond, sweet.............................  45
Amber, rectified..........................
Anise...........................................
Bay $  oz....................................
Bergamont..................................
Castor..........................................  18
Croton..........................................
Cajeput......................................
Cassia..........................................
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)......
Citronella........................ .........
Cloves..........................................
Cod Liver, N. F....... ..  ........$  gal
Cod Liver, best.....................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...........................
Erigeron.....................................
Fireweed..................................
Geranium $ oz...........................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..............................
Juniper berries...........................
Lavender flowers, French............
Lavender garden 
............
Lavender spike 
............
Lemon, new crop........................
Lemon, Sanderson’s....................
Lemongrass.................................
Olive, Malaga.................
Olive, “Sublime Italian .............
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1........................
Pennyroyal.................................
Peppermint,  white.....................
Rose |) oz....................................
Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50)
Salad...........................................  65
Savin...........................................
Sandal  Wood, German................
Sandal Wood, W. I .......................
Sassafras.....................................
Spearmint..................................
Tansy......................................... 4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).............................  10
Wintergreen.............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)......
Wormseed...................................
Bicromate.............................$ ft
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 25c)............
Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulk.....
Prussiate yellow..........................
Alkanet__:.................................
Althea, cut.................................!
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s...................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in $4s and $4s....
Blood (Powd 18c)..........................
Calamus,  peeled..........................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered................
Gentian (Powd  15c).....................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)..........  11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached..........
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)................
Hellebore, white, powdered.........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.
Jalap,  powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select........ .............
Pink, true.........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................ 110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers.............. .

POTASSIUM .

ROOTS.

6 40 
20
80
65

%  14 
6
%  20 
30 
22 

16 10 

35 
30 
35 
2 35

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

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37 
2 25 
65

1 00 

®  50 
45 
2 00 
50 
2  10 @  19$4 
2 00 
75 
1 00 
35 
75 
1 20 
1 20
1  50 
6  00
7 50 
1 60
2  00 
75 
35 
50
2  00 
2  01 
90
1 65 
1  80
80 
@  90
2 75 
1 25
50
1 30
3 50
8 00 
65
@  67 
4 50 
7 00
55
@6  00 
@0  00 
@  12
2 10 
3 50 
2 00

1 00

14 
40 
23
3 00 
28

20 
25 
17 
*  33 
12 
20 
35 

20 10 
201 20 

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17 
20 

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18 
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®1 20 
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9,1885.

believe,”  added the new acquaintance.

“He graduates at  Havard  next  spring,  I 

By this time the gentleman  was  continu­
ing the conversation  only  by saying  ‘ ‘yes 
and “no.”

The  gentleman  thought  he  must  have 
been talking to  some  of  the  other  guests 
about  his  son,  and  they  continued;] the 
conversation about him and the college.

There was a brief pause and then the new 
acquaintance said,  “I’m  sorry I’ve not  met 
youe wife this evening,  so  that I  could see 
your family complete.”

“Yes,” said the new acquaintance,  “that’s 
the way with me when my wife  goes away. 
Everything around  the  house  seems  to go 
wrong without her.”

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  7%
Laconia B, 74.........16%
Lyman B, 40-in.......10%
Mass. BB, 4-4............5k
Nashua  E, 40-in—   8%
Nashua  R, 44........  7k
Nashua 0,7-8..........6k
Newmarket N ......  6k
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Pepperell R, 44—   7k 
Pepperell  0,7-8—   6% 
Pepperell N, 34—   6k
Poeasset  C, 44.......6k
Saranac  R...............  7k
Saranac E...............  9

The gentleman felt that the stranger  was 
getting a little too anxious to make  himself 
familiar,  and so he slipped  in  a  casual  re­
mark that he had been feeling out  of  sorts
for a few days.

Hope,  44.................  (
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4................ H%
Linwood,  4-4..........  7%
Lonsdale,  44..........7 k
Lonsdale  cambric. 10% 
Langdon, GB, 44...  9%
Langdon,  45........... 14
Masonville,  44.......8
Maxwell. 4-4...........   9%
New York Mill, 4-4.10% 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Poeasset,  P. M. C..  7% 
Pride of the West. .11 
Pocahontas,  44—   7k
Slaterville, 7-8........   6%
Victoria,  AA..........9
Woodbury, 4-4........   5k
Whitinsville,  44...  7% 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   6%
W amsutta, 4-4.........10%
Williamsville, 36...10%

A laughable story,  says  the  Philadelphia 
¡North American, was  told  by  an  elderly 
gentleman living  in  the  city.  .While  out 
spending the evening he was introduced to a 
strange gentleman, and after a  few  prelim­
inary remarks on both sides the stiange gen­
tleman inquired  about  the  welfare  of  his 
son.  The  relator  felt  surprised  that his
new acquaintance should know that he  had 
a son, but answered briefly.

“Aren’t you going to  invite  me ’round to 
see you when she comes home  from Florida 
next week?” asked  the  new  acquaintance. 
The gentleman looked at  him  in  no  good 
humor, but,  seeing a s m i l e  on his face which 
turned into outright  laughter,  he  saw  that 
something was  up, and, laughing  himself, 
said:  “Look here!  How  the  mischief  do 
you come to  know  so  much  about  my  af­
fairs?”

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
iPepperell, 10-4........25
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 21  Pepperell, 11-4........27%
Pepperell,  7-4........ 16%  Pequot,  7 -4 ...................18
Pepperell,  8 -4......20  Pequot,  8-4...................21
Pepperell,  9-4......22%¡Pequot,  9-4..............-4
P a r k  Mills, No. 9 0 .. 14
Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Prodigy, oz............ 11
Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor, j  Economy,  oz..........10
Otis Apron............ 10%
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Otis Furniture..... 10%
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
York, 1  oz..............10.
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
York. AA, extra oz. 14
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama  plaid.......7
Alabamabrown—   7
Augusta plaid........  7
Jewull briwn..........9%
Toledo plaid...........   7
Kentucky  brown.. 10%
Manchester  plaid..  7 
Lewiston brown...  9%
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Lane brow n........  9%
Utility plaid...........   6%
Louisiana  plaid—   7
5%
Avondale,  36..........«% ¡Greene, G. 44
7%
Art  cambrics, 36.. .11%¡Hill, 4-4..........
Androscoggin, 44..  8% Hill, 7-8 
Androscoggin, 54. .12%
Ballou, 4-4...............  f%
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott, 0 .4 4 ...........   8%
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Boott, AGO, 44.........9%
Boott, R. 34—  ...  5%
Blackstone, AA 44.  t
Chapman, X, 44----6
Conway,  44........... (
Cabot, 44................ 6k
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Canoe,  34...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  * %
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9
Davol, 4-4........ . 
9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  854 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  7k 
Fruit of  the  Loom,
cambric,  4-4........11
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  6k
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded  Age............... °3Á
n-nwn 
iMasonville TS
.......17 
_____IUI...... 
10%
No.  10!!.!!!!!........12% Mason ville  S
Lonsdale.................. 9%
Coin.........................1? 
|
Lonsdale A ............. 16
Anchor....................lo
Nictory  O...............
Centennial.......
Victory J ................
Blackburn.............   °
Victory D ...............
Davol.......................
Victory  K ...............  2k
London....................
Phoenix A ............... 19%
Phoenix B .............• 10%
Red  Cross...............10
Phoenix X X ............ 5
Social  Imperial— 16
Albion, solid...........5%|Gloucester........ ...6
Albion  grey 
.......6  G loucesterm ourn’g.6,
Alienas  c lic k s.......5% Hamilton  fancy... .6
Ailen’s  fancy.........5% Hartel fancy.............6
Allen’s pink....................................................... «
A lle n ’s  Durple.........6H MftncliC8t6r .....................o
American, Fancy... .5% Oriental fancy........ 6
A mold fancy  ..........0  Oriental  lobes.........6%
B e S so lM  
^ P a cific  robes............. 6
cochlco 35*.::::: :l% K i ^ v i : :: :!%
Eddy8st°ofefanCy:::'.6 
lagfe fancy!" !.!!. .5  Washington blues.  7%
Garner Pink— ¿-¿bown cottons
Appleton A, 44—   7%
Boott  M, 44...........   6k
Boston F, 4 4 .......  7%
Continental C, 4-3..  ok 
Continental D, 40 in 8k 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  6%
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5%
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 3 4 ,,----5k
D w ig h t  Y, 7-8..........5k
Dwight Z, 44..........6k
Dwight Star, 44 ....  7 
E wight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 44...  7 
Farmers’ A, 4 4 .....  6 
Indian  Orchard  1-4 7%
Amoskeag 
__ 7%¡Renfrew, dress styl 7%
AmOSKeag  •••• •••••  , 7* M n n f o -  r.n
Johnson Manfg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian
Bookfold..............12%
styles....................10 Vi
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bates.......................¡Vi
dress  styles........ 12%
Berkshire.............   «%
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles....................  7%
Glasgow checks, f’y 7% 
White Mfg Co, stap  7k 
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
royal  styles........   »
White  Manf’g  Co,  .
Gloucester, 
Earlston...............  8
standard.............  7%
Gordon......................7%
Plunket..................  <%
Greylock, 
Lancaster...............  «*•
Langdale................
Androscoggin, 74.. 21  ¡Pepperell.  104.......27%
Androscoggin, 84. .23  ¡Pepperell,  114.......32%
Pepperell,  7-4........20  Pequot,  7-4.............21
Pepperell.  84....... 22%Pequot,  84.............24
Pepperell,  9-4....... 25  ¡Pequot,  94.............2.%
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......7 
(Lawrence XX,4-4..  VA
Atlantic  H, 44.......7  Lawrence  Y, 30.. ■..  7
Atlantic  D  44...... 6%¡Lawrence LL, 44...  5%
Atlantic P, 44*! —   5%jNewmarket N 
6% 
Atlantic LL, 44—   9H ^^stlcl^ 1V(e^’ 
“  rv 
A HHfltio  36 
......  i 
¡Pequot A., 4-4•••••••  j
Amrusta’ 4-4 
........ 6% Piedmont,  36............634
Boott^M  44 
..  6k Stark AA, 44..........  7%
EoottFF  ^ : : : ....  7k b em o n t CC,4 4 ....  5%
Granite ville, 4-4—   5 k Utica,  44 
Indian  Head. 4-4...  7  Wachusett,  4-4.......  <%
I n d ia n a  Head 45-in. 12% I Wachusett, 30-in...  6 k 
Falls, XXXX..........18%
Amoskeag,  AC A ... 14 
Falls, XXX.............15%
Amoskeag  “ 44. .19
Falls,  BB................11%
Amoskeag,  A .........13
Falls,  BBC, 36........19%
Amoskeag,  B .........12
Fails,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  D ........10% garni ton,  BT.32..1
Amoskeag,  E .........10  gami ton,  D  
ÂmnRkpaï  F  __ 9% ! Hamilton,’ H ---------
p “ mhim  A. 44. - - -17  ¡Hamilton  fancy.. .10
. 16  Methuen AA. .........13%
. 16  I Methuen ASA........18
Extra 4-4.. 
Omega A, 7-8.......... 11
.14%
Extra 7-8..
Omega A, 44.......... 13
.15
144.
Gold Med«
Omega ACA, 7-8....14 
.12%.14
CCA 7-8...........
Omega ACA, 44....16
CT 44...............
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
.14
RC 7-8...............
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
.16'
BF 7-8...............
Omega M. 7-8.........22
.19
AF4-4........... .
Omega M, 4-4.......... 25
.14
Cordis AAA, 32 
Shetueket SS&SSW 11% 
.15
Cordis  ACA, 32 
, She tucket, S & SW.12 
.15
Cordis No. 1,32 
Shetueket,  SFS 
..12
.14
Cordis  No. 2... 
Stockbridge  A .......7
.13
Cordis  No. 3... 
1 Stockbridge  frncy.  8
Cordis No. 4...
.11%
fiamer 
............... n  [Empire........
Hookset!................   5  ¡Washington
Edwards..................  5
Red  Cross...............  5
. S. &Sons...........   5
Forest Grove...
American  A ........18 00! Old  Ironsides.........15
Stark A 
........... 22% I Wheatland..............21
Boston....................  6k¡Otis CC.... . . . ..........10%
Everett blue......... 13% Warren  AXA..........l-%
Everett brown......13% Warren  BB............. 11%
Otis  AXA..............12% Warren CC...............10%
Otis BB...................11% I York  fancy............. 13%
Manville.................  6  IS.S.&Sons............... 6
Masgnville.............  6  ¡Garner....................  «
Red  Cross...............  7% ¡Thistle Mills...........
Berlin.....................  7% Rose.........................  °
Garner....................7% I
Brooks....................50
Clark’s O. N. F .......55
J. aP .  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread............30

The barber explained that the  hearse and 
coffin cup belong to an undertaker’  with  an 
eye to business who had got enough custom­
ers from his novel  advertisement to pay his 
shaving bill for the next ten years.  An en­
gineer on the elevated road  owned  the cup 
with the dummy-engine  on  it.  The  other 
cups belonged to a milk-dealer, a  stone-cut­
ter,  a  carpenter,  and  a  bricklayer.  The 
barber said he had an order  from  a  neigh­
boring shomaker  which  would  eclipse  all 
the  other  cups. 
It  would  contain  a tiny 
photograph of the shoemaker on a swinging 
sign, bearing his name and the legend, “Re­
pairing neatly  done.”

A young man in want of a shave recently 
went into a little barber shop in Harlem, sat 
down in a chair, leaned back, and was about 
to shut  his  eyes  to  keep  the  lather  out, 
when they fell upon  an  array  of  wonder- 
fully decorated shaving-cups.  On one  was 
the picture of a  hearse  flanked  by two  up­
right coffins; on another was  a  dummy  en­
gine standing on a section  of  the  elevated 
road,  and others displayed pictures of a milk 
wagon,  a tombstone,  a saw,  or  a trowel.

“You told me yourself,” laughed  the oth­
er.  The matter was  soon  explained.  The 
gentleman had been riding  in  an  8th street 
car the day before talking to a friend.  The 
other, then a stranger, had been on the same 
car in a seat close to him, and overheard the 
conversation.  When they were  introduced 
a day later the  stranger  recognized  him at 
once and could  not  resist  propounding  the 
questions.  They took a good laugh togetli-

The richmen  of  New  York,  judging  by 
the quantity of crape with which their stores 
are draped, undoubtedly regret the  death of 
General  Grant.  Nobody  can  look  at  the 
crape  and decide  otherwise,  but  when  it 
comes to defining the intensity of their grief 
in dollars and  cents,  the  hesitancy  on  the 
part of  the  mourners  becomes  positively 
painful.

The hesitancy of the wealthy men of New 
York to  contribute  liberally  to  the  Grant 
monument, is remarked by the outside press, 
which is still of  the  opinion  that  Gotham 
was not the proper place  in  which  to  inter 
Gen.  Grant.

Eagle and  Phcenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Grebh  a  Daniels...25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford.................. 25
Hall a Manning— 25 
Holyoke.................. 25

Advertising Their Trades.

From the New York Sun.

Mitigated Affliction.

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

checks,
new

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL c o t t o n

GRAIN BAGS.

TICKINGS

d e n im s .

WIGANS.

-  .......9

9%

B.

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

dress 
 

12%

A  tame  Indian  once  told  a  sympathetic 
pale-face friend about the loss of his  horse; 
the pale  face  expressed  considerable  woe 
and even shed a tear or so, saying in a husky 
voice:

“I am very sorry for you  my red friend.”
“Pale face,  how much you sorry?”  asked 
the inquisitive  Indian, extending an itching 
palm.

Then the pale face  began  to  talk  about 
the weather, just as the wealthy New York­
er does when the monument committee calls 
on him,  and endeavors to sound  the  depths 
of his grief in dollars and cents.

In  most  well  regulated  clothing  stores, 
there  are  two  departments  of  mourning 
goods.  One is “the  heavy bereavement de­
partment,” and the  other is  “the  mitigated 
affliction department.”  In New York there 
is only one department, viz:  “the mitigated 
affliction department.”

In  England,  in  coal  mines  alone,  since 

1861,  over 35,000 lives have been lost.

CORSET JEANS.

...............  7%jKearsage........... 

Armory 
8j*
Androscoggin sat..  8% Naumkeagsatteen. 8%
Canoe River...........   6  Pepperell bleached 8%
Clarendon...............6%|Pepperell sat............9%
Hallowell  Imp.......6k  Rockport.................  7
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7  Lawrence sat............  8%
Laconia'..................  7%|Conegosat...............  7

** 

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COAL  AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1 00 
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl..................
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................
85 
Louisville Cement., per bbl................
1  30 
Akron Cement per  bbl.......................
1  30 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................
1  30 
1  05@ 1  10 
Car lots 
...................
Plastering hair, per bu.......................
2 5 ®   30 
Stucco, per bbl....................................
1  75 
Land plaster, per ton.........................
3  50
Land plaster, car lots
2  50
w  ...............................................  
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @*55
Fire clay, per bbl........ •........................ 
o w
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell, car lo ts....................•........... 
S
Ä
Ohio Lump, car lots............................3 
4 50@5 00 
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5
00
Portland  Cement..............................   3 50©4

These  Oil  Cans in  S to ck a ll Sizes, P lain   and w ith  W ood Jack

TFie  XDia,m.on.ci  Oil  Can,

T he B e st G lass  Can w ith  T in  J ack et in the  M arket.

CURTISS, iO'OE'ra'QiBEr  €&?  0 0 «

51  A N D   53   L Y O N   S T B E E T ,

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

D.  W.  Archer’s 
0. W, Archer’s 
D. W. Archer’s Early Golflen Drop Corn

Trophy Corn, 
Morning Glory Corn,

Hczaanramwa

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.

T h e Trade supplied b y  W h olesale  Grocers Only.  R espectfu lly,

THE  ARCHER  PACKING  CO., Chillicothe, Ills.

CO,

MANUFACTURERS

S. ■W.  VENABLE  <&
N I M R O D
Plug Tobacco.

AND  OTHER  FAVORITE  BRANDS  OF

OF

NIMROD  ........
E. C....................
BLUE  PETER.

.44 I SPREAD EAGLE............................................... 58
.40  BIG  FIVE  CENTER.......................................
.38  In lots of 72 pounds or over two cents less

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Gar  Lots 

We are prepared to M e  Bottom Prices on anythin! we handle.
A .   B .  K N O W L S O N

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

s n . o " W ' 3 s r ?s

Paper Bag
Twine  Holder!

AND

(COMBINED.)

P aten ted   A p ril  29 th,  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, HI.

A rth u r M eigs & Co., G rand R apids, M ich.

CURTISS,  DUNTON & CO.
PAPER, OILS, CORDAGE, WOODENWARE

■ V ^7 '3 E 3 C O X ji^ E Ì 3 B ^ .X jì3ES

SPRING  &

COMPANY

W H O L E S A L E   D E A L E R S   IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS
C A R P E T S ,

M A T T I N G S ,

OIL  CLOTHS

ETOm  E3TO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  H apids,

M ichigan.

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-

- 

- 

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 .........................................
PANIC  - 
- 
-
.................................
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
.................................
BIG  STUMP 
APPLE  J A C K ................................. -
PUTS  CUT.

2c less in  orders for* 100 pounds o f an y one brand.

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

.................................'
- 
2c less in  6 pail lots.
SMOKING.
ARTHUR’S  CHOICE,  LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
- 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
■
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
SEAL  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  -
2c less in  10 0 pound lots.

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

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

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

.22
.26
• 2 6 #
.27
.24
.24

|

These brands are sold only by 

Arthur Meigs & Co.
,

Wholesale Grocers, 

Who warrant the same to be unequalled.  W e 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.

The lid i p a  T ra te» .

BU SIN ESS  L A W .

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in  Courts 

of  Last Resort.

INSOLVENT PARTNERSHIP.

Unless upon proof  of  fraud, the  retiring 
member of a partnership  that  subsequently 
became insolvent cannot be  held  liable for 
any firm debts  contracted  after  his  retire­
ment, according to the  decision  of  the Su­
preme Court of the United States in the case 
of Penn National Bank vs.  Furness.

NEGOTIABLE

PROMISSOEY 

NOTE—INTEK-

EST.

An instrument  in  the  i^sual  form of  a 
negotiable  promissory  note,  except  that it 
provides  for the payment of  “interest at 10 
per cent, per annum from date  until paid,  7 
if paid when due,” in legal  effect  calls for 
interest at 7 per  cent,  from  date till  paid, 
and is  therefore  a  negotiable  promissory 
note.  So  held  by the  Supreme  Court of 
Minnesota in the case of Smith vs.  Crane.

PROMISSORY NOTE—INDORSEE'S LIABILITY.
A promissory note in renewal of  one that 
had been discounted by a bank  was  indors­
ed by the defendant in tlxe case of Wessel et 
al.  vs.  Glenn  (Supreme  Court of Pennsj 1- 
mak
vania), for the accommodation  of  the 
idors
er.  When the' note was signed and  ii 
ed  there  was  a blank  left  for the pi 
payment, which was  preceded  by th 
“at.”  The maker took the note to tin 
but the bank refused to take it, as the 
no place of payment.  He then filled 
blank after the word at by writing 
of the bank.  The court held that this  wi 
not such an alteration as  would  relie\e tl 
indorser.
RAILROAD CONDUCTOR’S LIABILITY  STOL­

the :

til

b

EN  GOODS.

P O R T A B L E   AN D   ST A T IO N A R Y

E  2ST <3-12ST E ì 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.

out on a line of its  own and has something 
of value and interest to all  classes of  read­
ers. 
Its editorial department, presided over 
by  ,E.  A.  Stowe,  contains  well-considered 
articles on insurance,  monopoly  and  other 
public  questions  and  the  page  devoted to 
“Business Law” is alone  worth the price of 
a  year’s  subscription.  No  merchant,  me­
chanic,  manufacturer  or  farmer can  afford 
to be without this  paper, nor  will  they be 
after having once read the same.

TIME  TABLES.

Michigan  Central.

DEPA R T.

A R R IV E .

6:00 a m
»Detroit Express..................................  
,,
+Day  Express.........................................**m
»AtlanticExpress..................................  „7„pi11
Way Freight..........................................  6 :o0 a m
»Pacific  Express......................................6:00am
.........................................................................3:o0 p m
•(•Grand  Rapids Express............................10:50 p m
Way Freight..................................................   :lo a m
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  tor  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m.,and  Boston 3:u5  p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:50 p. m.

J.T. S c h u l t z . Gen 1 Agent.

Chicago

'est Michigan.
Leaves.

PDrtilj

Arrives, 
4:25 p m 
10:45 p m 
4:45 a in
ht ti’aius. 
iareful  at- 
hicago  on 
.m. and

to  C
in 9:1

:35 p

!8.  Arrives, 
m  4:05 p in 
m  11:15 am  
m Union  De-
The Northern terminus of  tins Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. &  P. M.  trains to  and  from  Ludington  and

d depart fi 
rminus of  thi

.1  H.Carrenter,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mulliken,  General  Manager.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

W .  C,  D enison,

83, 90  and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAN D  R APID S, 

- 

M ICHIGAN.

N o. 4  P earl  Street,  Grand  R apids.

'  JWun,

Send  for  new 
for 

Price-L ist 
Fall Trade.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED

Proprietors of

CBESCENT
FLOURING  HILLS.

Manufacturer!
filar  I

of the  Following  Pop- 
rands  of Flour:

C R E SC E N T ,”

“ W H IT E   RO SE,”

“  M ORNIN G  G LO R Y,”

“  R O Y A L   P A T E N T ,”  and 

“ A L L   W H E A T ,”  Flour.

I i! I i! I i!

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

Sole  Control of our  Celebrated

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

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

atiis & Go.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,

M ICH .

. 

, 

, 

__ . 

—» 

GOING W EST.

1 he  railioaa is  ™ 

GOING  EAST.Arrives. 

J. W. McKenney, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

------------- -  —  —
N* w Y^rk E$pvess on Main Line.
.

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

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
m i!  rn n  fl  i s   W h it e  P i g e o n  ( g iv i n g  o n e  h o u r  f o r  d i n n e r )  w i t h

special----- 
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Monre street and depot.

A railroad conductor who  permits a  pas­
senger to travel on his train taking witli him 
goods known to the conductor  to  be  stolen 
is not  liable to an  action  therefor  by the 
owner of the goods,  according to the  decis­
ion of the Supreme Court  of  Maine  in  the
case of Randlette  vs.  Judkins.  The  Court 
. J .  
m giving judgment,  said. 
a public highway, over  which  all  meinbeis 
of tlie public who are in a  proper  condition 
to travel in a public car,  who pay the estab­
lished fare and  conduct  themselves  prop­
erly, have a legal right to  travel  with  lug­
gage. 
It is the legal duty of  the  conductor 
to permit all such persons  to  enter tlie cats 
and travel  over  the  road.  For  sufficient 
cause he may stop the train and eject a trav­
eler from the train.  He owes no  legal duty 
to the public to stop  bis  train  and eject a 
traveler who is guilty of a felony,  or  to ar­
rest such traveler and hold him  as a prison­
er and seize the property he may have in liis 
possession.  As a citizen  lie may  have the 
right,  if he see  fit, to arrest a traveler  who 
is guilty of a felony and  hold him  until he 
can be properly  prosecuted;  but  not  being 
an officer charged with tlie duty and  having 
no legal  warrant  therefor,  he is  under  no 
legal duty to do so,  and  thereby  take upon 
himself the burden and hazard of justifying 
his act.  Nor does he owe  any duty7 to any 
member of the public to arrest  a  thief  and 
seize, aud hold the stolen property  he  may7 
have  in  his  possession;  or 
to  seize  and 
hold 
owner,  whoever  he
____ 
may be,  goods which a traveler on tlie  road
may have taken and  is  carrying  away as a  ern points as heretofore.
trespasser.”  The court added:  “We  have 
discussed tlie question involved upon princi­
ple,  there being no  authorities  directly  in I 
point cited by7 the learned counsel  on either ! 
side,  and it is said there are none.”

Leaves. 
tSteamboat  Express...—   6:17 a m  6:25 a m
•(■Through  Mail....................10:10am  10:20 am
•(•Evening  Express.............3:20 p m  3:35 p m
»Limited  Express...............  6:27 pm   6:30 pm
tMixed, with coach...........  
10:30 a m
•(■Morning  Express.............  1:05 pm  
1:10 p m
•(•Through  Mail..................  5:10 pm   5:15pm
•(■Steamboat Express..........10:40 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed..................................  
7:10 a m
»NightExpress....................  5:10 am   o:20am
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 a. in. the following morning.
Parlor  Cars on Mail  Trains,  both  East  and
... 
Train leaving  at  10:45  p.  m.  will make  con­
W e 8 t * 
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
_  ,
Sunday. 
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to  Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Waguer Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
Limited Express No. 10, Detroit, Grand Haven 
& Milwaukee Railway, shown on their schedule 
as  leaving  Grand  Haven  daily  at  5:30 p. m., 
Grand Rapids at 6:30 p. m., arriving at Detroit 
11:45 p. m., will temporarily  be  run  one  hour 
and  thirty  minutes  later  than  shown  in the 
schedule.  This  will  make  the  leaving time 
from Grand Haven 7 p. m., Grand  Rapids  8  p. 
Passengers for points east of  Detroit will 
' 11:06 p.  m.,  with
j  make connections at Durand 11 :U6p.  m.,
&  Grand 
ime to east-

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

for 
I  

the 

„ 

,

EDMUND D,  D1KEMAN,

J E W E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAN D  RAPIDS,

M ICHIGAN.

H E R P O L SH E IM E R  

VOIGT,
&   CO.,

Importers  and  Jobbers  of

STAPLE  AND  FANCY 

3 D r y   G o o d s   !
OVERALLS,  PANTS, Etc., 
our  own  make.  A  complete 
Line  of  TOYS, 
FANCY 
CROCKERY,  and  FANCY 
WOODEN-WARE,  our  own 
importation, for holiday trade.
Inspection  solicited.  Chicago  and  D e­

tro it prices  gurranteed.

AGENTS  Ji'CXES-

Wholesale Grocers,
OF  LABOR  PLUG
ANDREW WIERERGÖ

T he  B est and  M ost A ttra c tiv e   Goods on  the  M arket. 

Sam ple  B u tt.  See  Q uotations in  Price-Current.

Send for 

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

1RS  AND  WHOLES,

AND

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.

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 lie promptly.attended to.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

F.  IF1.  ADAMS  Sc  O O.’S

File Ci! M

i

 Tobacco is the very best M pods 01 the M e t

AROMATIC
ite m , M s.,

Gri*andL SELsi^icaLjs, 
T E E  CK^STiD R A P ID S   RO LLER  MZZ.Z.S

- 

-

M A N U FA C T U R E   A

The  Favorite  Brands  are

“ SNOW-FLAKE,” AND  “LILY WHITE  PATENT," 
FANCY  PATENT  “ ROLLER  CHAMPION.”
P rices  are low.  E x tra  q u ality guaranteed.  W rite for quotations.

AND

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO,

E A S T   E N D   B R ID G E   ST.  B R ID G E ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

CLARE,  JE W E L L   &  CO,

WHOLESALE

Groceries  and  Provisions,

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

- 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICHIGAN.
o. w . blain & go., Produce Comission Merchants,
Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits, SoutDern  M eta ls, Etc.

-------DEALERS  IN-------

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market price.  Corres­
NO.  9  IONIA ST.

pondence solicited.  APPLES AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 

E  TP -A. X_j I_j 
&  Gmissioa-Batter  k  Eggs' a  Specialty.

¡3

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

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

- 

97

and 99   Canal  Street, 
CHOICE  B U T T E R   A   SP E C IA L T Y ! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.

G rand  R apids, M ichigan

M.  O.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Bapids.
Sc  HESS,
P E R K I N S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

NOS.  1 3 2   and  1 2 4   LO U IS  S T R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N .

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

HE S T E R   Sc  FOX,

Send  for 
Catalogu« 

find 
Price

ATLAS
MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FORENGINE 
WORKS

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

INDIANAPOLIS.  IND-,  U.  S.  A.
STEAM EHGliES& BOILERS.
gpf Carry Engines and  Boilers in Stock I 

r.&m r 

for  immediate  delivery.

S A W   A O T  G R IST  M ILL M A C H IN E R Y ,

Plan ers,  M atchers, M oulders and all kinds of W ood-W orkin g M achinery, 

Saw s, B eltin g and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pnlley.  Large stock kept on  hand.  Send  for  sample  pulley 

and become convinced of their superiority.

Write  for Prices.

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

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

GOING  SOUTH.

Irand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
g o i n g  n o r t h .Arrives 
Leaves.
!:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids I
:00 a m
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  7 :«0 a m  10:25 a in 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  3:55 pm 
5:00 pm 
7:10 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
7:15 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  3:50 pm   6:00 pm 
Mackinac & Ft. Way reEx. ,10:25a m  11:45 p in 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

Ail trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City7.  Train leaving at J0:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse 
City.South—Train leaving at 4:35 p. m. b as  Wood- 
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.
C. L. L o c k w o o d , 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 1:45 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  tor 
morning train east.

Grand River Steamer.

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

CUMAX-
PLUG TOBACCO^

H ow the Second  Number of the Manufac­

turer was  Received.

Howard  City Record:  T h e  Mich ig a n 
Ma n u fa c t u r é e,  published in  Grand Rap­
ids,  is a very handy and handsome paper.

Charlevoix  Journal:  No.  2  of  The 
Mich ig a n M a n u fa c t u r e r  is out,  and in 
contents and style are fully up to the stand­
ard promised in the first issue.

Freeport Herald :  T h e Mic h ig a n Ma n­
u fa c t u r e r for September is  at hand.  No 
neater paper is printed,  its  contents are ex­
cellent, and it is a paper  valuable  to  every 
business man.  Tlie editor has the good will 
of the Herald in this grand enterprise.  Let 
every7  business  man  put a shoulder to  the 
wheel  and  keep  T h e Ma n u fa c t u r e r in 
our midst.

Grand Haven  Venture:  The  September i 
number  of T h e  Mic h ig a n Ma n u fa c t u r­
e r  is out and is  a  credit  to  tlie  publisher, 
Mr. E.  A.  Stowe; to the city, Grand Rapids, 
and to tlie  State.  Every  person  interested 
in the manufacturing  interests of the State 
should subscribe for  it.

Petoskey  Democrat:  T h e  Mic h ig a n 
M a n u fa c t u r e r comes to  our  table  again 
for September. 
It is a  sixteen-page paper, 
neatly  printed  on  tinted  paper,  and  is  a 
credit to  the  publishers. 
It  pesents  some 
very7 interesting articles  of  value  to  manu­
facturers and mechanics.

St.  Louis 

Industrial  Gazette:  T h e 
Mic h ig a n  Ma n u fa c t u r e r,  a  sixteen- 
page monthly,  published at  Grand  Rapids, 
is the latest  addition  to  trade  journalism. 
Yolumne 1,  Number 1,  is a  very  neat  and 
commendable issue.  We welcome  it to the 
broad field in which  we are  capering  our­
selves, and wish it success.

Newaygo  Tribune:  The  second  number 
of  The  Michigan  Manufacturer,  for 
September,  is  a  model  of  typographical 
beauty and brim full of choice  reading mat­
ter.  Not content to deal  alone  in  dry  de­
tails, T he Manufacturer launches boldly

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

W IE R E N G O   B L O C K ,  P I N E   S T R E E T ,

M ITSX E G O N ,  M IC H .

T H E E   U STEW   C I G A R .

T h e y  are a n o v elty in  the  C igar line.  E v e ry  one o f them  is n atu rally sp eck­
led.  T h e greatest sellers  ever p ut  on  the m arket.  W e solicit a trial order from  
every first-class  dealer in the  State.  F u lly  guaranteed.

FOR SALE  BY

G RAN D   RAPIDS,  MICH.

Kemink, J ones & Co.
jEXTxmrcs  &   s m i t h ,
A rctic  M anufacturing’  Co.,

P R O P R IE T O R S   OF  T H E

Q O Lyon  St-,  Orand.
ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR
Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

H apids.

A rr»t.i o  BeukAnec  Powder.

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Groceries.

Debtor and  Creditor.

Who dodgeth us, and corners turneth spry— 
If, catching him, as ’twere, upon the fly, 
Whotelleth us a most egregrious lie?

Ye Debtor!

Who followeth from pillar unto post,
And maketh it redhot for us—a “roast”—
Till  we  “come  down;”  or  else  “give up the
[ghost?”

Ye creditor!

Commissioner of  Agriculture  Coleman on 

the Subject of Adulterations.

At a recent meeting of agricultural chem­
ists in Washington,  Mr.  Coleman,  Commis­
sioner of Agriculture,  delivered  an  address 
on the  subject  of  foot  adulterations.  He 
thought the Association should fix standards 
of purity for the different kinds of food and 
establish methods for the detection of  adul­
teration.  He thought the  general  govern­
ment ought to  co-operate  with  the  respec­
tive State governments in passing the  most 
stringent laws  against  the  adulteration of 
foods.  Upon this point  he  said:  “In  so 
simple a matter as the adulteration  of  milk 
it would be hard to secure a conviction  in a 
court of justice for any person practicing it, 
because of the absence of  any official stand­
ard by means of which the extent  of  adul­
teration could be measured. 
It  should  not 
only be the object  of  chemical  control  of 
agriculture  that  abundant  crops  should be 
produced, .but also to see  that the  products 
of the fields should be delivered to  consum­
ers free  of  any  cheap or  deleterious adul­
teration. 
In the question of food  adultera­
tion I have long been greatly interested,  and 
am anxious that some steps may  be  taken, 
by means of which the extent  of  it  may be 
diminished. 
I  have  already  directed  the 
chemist of this department to give attention 
to the adulteration  of  foods.  The  frauds 
that are practiced upon the public in adding 
cheap and frequently harmfnl ingredients to 
the food we eat  in  order to  make  greater 
profits ought to be exposed  in  no uncertain 
way,  and the perpetrators of  them  held up 
before the public as objects of scorn and de­
testation.  To such an extent is the adulter- 
otion of butter  and  the  manufacture  of a 
counterfeit article carried on, that the  great 
dairy interests of our nation are now almost 
prostrate.  The honest producer  of  a  pure 
article is impoverished,  while the  manufac­
turers of and dealers in a fraudulent  article 
are enriched,  some of them  having  become 
millionaires by this illegitimate  work.  The 
same may be said in relation to the adultera­
tion of our sugars and syrups.”
The Pacific Coast Sugar Markets— Spreck- 

el’s  Control Disputed.

Leading men in the  sugar  trade  express 
doubts regarding the reports  that  the  reign 
of Claus  Spreckels  over  the  Pacific  coast 
sugar markets will come to a close in conse­
quence of the reorganization of  the  Ameri­
can Sugar  Refinery, with  increased  capital 
and the avowed  intention  of  breaking  the 
Spreckels  monopoly.  The  same  fight  has 
been carried on  for  years,  with  Spreckels 
always on top,  and his dethronement  is not 
considered  by any means a  foregone  con­
clusion. 
It  is  doubted  whether  the  new 
company has obtained control  of  so large a 
share of  the  Hawaiian  crop  as  reported, 
viz.,  55,000 tons,  and it is believed that fully 
75 per cent, of Spreekel’s  requirements are 
still  covered  by  his  contracts  with  Ha­
waiian planters, leaving only 25 percent, to 
be obtained from the Phillipine Islands, the 
product of which is open to the world.

One  thing,  however,  appears  probable, 
that a  number  of  the  Hawaiian  planters 
have  joined  the  new  combination,  driven 
thereto by dissatisfaction with the arbitrary 
manner in which^Spreckels  has  exercised 
his power.  His  contracts  for  their  sugar 
crop,  it is stated,  are based  on a  price  the 
equivalent of one-lialf to one cent per pound 
less than the  New  York  quotation  of 96 
Cuba  centrifugal  sugar  on  the  delivery  of 
any part of their crop in San Francisco. His 
method of dealing with  the  planters is said 
to be somewhat imperial.  He  goes  to  the 
Islands, calls the planters together,  and no­
tifies them that on a certain day he will con­
tract for their crop. 
If any  of them do not 
come up to time  he  refuses to  have  any­
thing more to do with  them,  and  with  his 
absolute control of the Pacific coast markets, 
this is equivalent to  a  heavy  fine.  These 
dissatisfied planters  have by  this  new  ar­
rangement secured an outlet  for their  crop 
even in spite of Spreckels’ displeasure.

Clean Butter.

Henry Ward Beecher, while  editor  of  an 
agricultural  journal,  wrote  the  following 
protest against unclean butter:

The comparative degrees of butter are hor­
rible, bad,  tolerable.  We  seldom  see  any 
butter in' the markets which merits a higher 
term.  Yast quantities exposed for sale and 
bought upon compulsion,  and eaten through 
dire  necessity,  would,  in  New  York  or 
Philadelphia, never be quoted  as butter, but 
as grease.  Sour,  bitter  cream,  from  dirty 
receptacles,  yields  butter  depraved  from 
the very chum,  but  lard  being  added  and 
butter-milk not subtracted,  it travels to mar­
ket in  hot weather, and its  charms  are  ex­
posed in a very melting mood.  O,  for  a re­
formation in the dairy!  While old  farmers 
hunt good breeds of  cows,  we  hope  young 
farmers  will  find  a  breed  of  wives  who 
shall know that  there is  such  a  virture  as 
cleanliness.  The practice of  rolling  butter 
in  linen  cloths  is  not  good. 
In  warm 
weather it sticks,  and  in  all weather  butter 
takes a peculiar taste from  the  cloth.  Be­
sides, though we believe in saving old shirts, 
we don’t like the economy of  tearing  them 
up for butter-rags.  At any rate, it behooves 
us to know out of whose  undergarments we 
are eating, for, we  suppose, even  cannibals 
have a choice of what men they shall eat.

The Cultivation of the Cranberry.

The  Detroit  News  recently  gave  some 
inf oxmation regarding the cultivation of  the 
cranberry.  This  popular  fruit  is  compar­
atively recent as an article of  trade,  having 
been first successfully cultivated by a Massa­
chusetts  farmer  in  1820.  But  it  was  not 
until 1850 or 60 that its  culture  was greatly 
engaged in  by  the people of Massachusetts, 
especially on Cape Cod, and the counties  of 
Ocean,  Atlantic  and  Burlington,  in  New 
Jersey, whose territory is peculiarly adapted 
to its growth.  The total product of 1860 was 
computed at 100,000 bushels,  the  great bulk 
of which  was  produced  in  the  two  states 
named, the price that year running up to $10 
per bushel, but this was exceptional.  Since 
that  time  its  cultivation has  become  more 
general,  particularly in Canada and some of 
the  Northern  States,  and  the  yearly  pro­
duction greatly increased,a large amount  of 
it being exported. 
It is said that  Cape Cod 
and  the  three  counties  of  New  Jersey 
named  above  furnish  the  best  fruit  and 
about one-half the entire crop raised.

The cranberry receives  its  name  from  a 
fancied resemblance in its vines  and  leaves 
to the neck, body and legs  of  a  crane  and 
was  originally  called  craneberry, 
It  is  a 
low,  slender, creeping shrub with evergreen 
leaves, requiring for its best  culture  a  low, 
marshy,  sandy soil,  and  so  situated  that  it 
can be occasionally flooded in order to main­
tain a proper degree of moisture and kill the 
worms that sometimes  infest the  vines  and 
destroy 
fruit.  Although  it  thrives 
in  boggy,  marshy  lands,  where  noth­
ing else can be raised, it cannot be cultivated 
on  ordinary  soil,  as  many  experimenters 
have learned to their cost.

It is found in its wild state in the marshes 
and low lands  of  our  Northern  States  and 
Canada. 
It is also found  in  the  same lati­
tude on the Eastern Continent, but the berry 
is inferior to that of this country.

the 

It is said that more cranberries were grown 
in  Michigan  some  years  ago  than  now,  a 
considerable amount coming from the  coun­
ties in  the  burnt  district,  where  the  vines 
have since been destroyed by the forest fires. 
A large amount of  fruit is  marketed  yearly 
from Wisconsin,  but is  not equal  to that of 
Cape Cod and New Jersey.  Minnesota also 
produces quite a quantity.

The crop is  a very uncertain  one,  owing 
to its liability to damage  from  early  frosts 
and  the  depredation  of  worms.  Still  its 
cultivation is increasing  from  year  to  year 
and reaching out westward  and  northward. 
There is always a good demand for  it  in its 
season, and it is a profitable crop where 'the 
conditions of growth are favorable  and  the 
grower understands its management.

The  Grocery Market.

Business and collections are all that could 
be desired.  Sugars are on a veritable boom, 
the prophesy  relative  to  granulated selling 
for  7c in New York having  been  fulfilled. 
Every mdication points to further  advances 
before the upward  movement ceases.  There 
is  very  little  fine  grain—or “off”—granu­
lated in market, and it is almost  impossible 
to obtain  any  of  that  grade  at  present. 
Mackerel is higher and  firmer, and  herring 
in barrels has advanced 25 cents.  The  salt 
market is  again  demoralized,  the  compact 
between Saginaw and Manistee  having  ap­
parently been broken.  Manistee salt is now 
offered to the jobbing trade here at 88c,  and 
the latter hold  the  same  at  90c.  Saginaw 
salt can be had for 72% cents per ban-el, and 
14 cents freight,making the same 86% cents 
delivered in Grand Rapids.  How long  this 
condition of  affairs will hold remains  to  be 
seen.

Candy is active  and  very firm,  with  ad­
vancing prices  on  some  grades.  Nuts  are 
steady.  Chestnuts will be  in  market  in  a 
few days.  Lemons are weak,  and  oranges 
a trifle higher.

Petroleum  in  Italy.

According  to  the  Financial  News,  of 
London,  there is a  project  in  Italy for the 
formation of a strong  company  to  investi­
gate the petroleum  wealth of  that  nation. 
Thus far there have been no deep borings in 
Italy, but  the  increased  capital  will  cause 
experiments to  be  made  to  the  depth  of 
1,800 to 2,000 feet.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co.  quote f. o. 
b. cars as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 114,114 and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154,154 and 2  inch........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  30 00
Fine, Common, 154,154 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 pO
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stoeks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27 90
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................   12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and B ..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch.  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 ft ............  10 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common 
  14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  corn’n  16 00/ 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 10
3 00
X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
/ X X X 16 in................................................. 
2  75
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1 75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
140
Lath  ....................................................   1 75® 2 00

WOODENWARE.

Standard  Tubs, No. 1...................................... 8
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...................................... 7
Standard Tubs, No. 3...................................... 6
Standard Pails, two hoop...............................1
Standard Pails, three hoop............................ 1
Dowell Pails......................................................2
Dowell Tubs, No. 1........................................... 8
Dowell Tubs, No. 2........................................... 7
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3......................................... 6
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes..........................2
Butter Ladles................................................... 1
Rolling Pins.................................'....................1
Potato Mashers...............................................
Clothes Pounders.............................................2
ClothesPins.................................................. .
Mop Stocks....................................................-. .1
Washboards, single..........................................1
Washboards, double........................................2

65

25

BA SKETS.

Diamond  Market............................................
40
Bushel, narrow band.......................................1 60
Bushel, wide band............................................1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1.......................................3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2.......................................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

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.............................. 
@13 00
Birch, log-run....................................... 16 00@20 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run..............................  @14 00
Cherry,  log-run....................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2..........................  
@55 00
Cherry,  cull.......................................... 10 00@12 00
Maple,  log-run..................................... 13 00@15 00
Maple, soft,  log-run............................11 00@14 00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 3..............................  @16 00
Maple, clear, flooring.........................  @25 00
Maple, white, selected....................... 
@25 00
@15 00
Red Oak, log-run................................. 
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2......................... 
@20 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run..................................   @55 00
@75 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................  
Walnuts,  culls.................................... 
@25 00
Water Elm, log-run............................ 
@11 00
White Ash,  log-run............................. 14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run..........................  
@23 00

MISC ELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—The local  tanners  are  offer­

ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.

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 Hogs.......................................    6  @ 654
Mutton,  carcasses.................................454@ 554
Veal..........................................................  8  @9
Pork Sausage......................................... 754@  8
Bologna....................................................  8 @ 9
Fowls.........................................................11 @12
Spring Chickens....................................  @16

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows: 

H ID ES.

Green__ $  fl)  6 @ 654 Calf skins, green
Part cured... 7 @ 7^4
or cured__
@10
Full cured__ 854® 854 Deacon skins,
Dry hides and
fl piece.......20 @50

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

S H E E P  PEL TS.

Shearlings__
Lambskins...
Old wool, estimated washed 38 tt>........
Tallow...........

.........................10 @25
.........................20 @40
@20
.........................  454@ 454
2-3

Fine washed fi fi) 20@251 Unwashed...........  
Coarse washed...16® 181

WOOD.

ELASTIC  STARCH.

L atest  Im proved.

TO  THE  TPLAJDEJ.

This  starch  deserves  the  attention  of every  Grocer who aims to  keep  first-class 
goods to please their customers.  This starch is put up  in fancy colored  packages  and 
highly perfumed. 
It is sold to you on its own m erits;  warranted as represented,  or we 
will  cheerfully refund you your money, providing  directions  are  complied  with.  This 
starch  is  made  entirely  different  from  all  other  starch,  and  is  the  only  starch  in  the 
United States  that is put up  by  men  who  have  a  practical  experience  in  the  laundry 
business.  How to laundry linen  has  been  kept  a  secret  long  enough,  what  can  and 
should be done in every family.  B y using this starch your shirts,  cuffs and collars  w ilj 
be just as stiff and nice, with that  beautiful  polish  as  when  first  bought  new.  A   few 
other advantages this starch possesses over all other starch  is: 
It requires  no cooking. 
Keeps the Iron from sticking, and linen from blistering while  ironing.  One  package  is 
warranted to go as far as a pound and a half of any other starch made.  The  manufac­
turer offers  one  hundred  dollars  in  gold  if  this  starch  prooves  injurious  to  the  finest 
linen.  W e keep the Elastic Starch in stock.  Can we send  you  a  trial  box  with  your 
next order? 
It will please your customers.  Fancy advertising streamers go with every 
case.  See quotations.  Trade supplied  by

Clark, Jew ell <& Co.

Special notice to the trade—-J.  C.  Hubinger & Bros, are the inventers and originators 
of the Elastic Starch, and they  didn’t  have  to  borrow  or  steal  the  name  and  fame  of 
their  neighbors  in  order  to  sell  this  starch.  Grocers,  beware  of  worthless  imitations 
which have recently been put into the  market to deceive the  public.  Be  sure  that  the 
name of J.  C.  Hubinger  &  Bros.,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  is  upon  each  box  or  package 
without which it cannot he  genuine.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

Advanced—Sugars;  herring.
Declined—Common salt.

AXDE  GREASE.

Frazer’s ................   2 80|Paragon  .................1 80
Diamond............... 1  75 Paragan25fi> pails. 1 20
Modoc, 4  doz.........2 501

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

Arctic % fi>cans 
Arctic 54 fl) cans 
Arctic 54 fi) cans.  .. 1 40l

  451 Arctic 1 fit cans 
  75 Arctic 5 fi) cans 

2 40
12  00

BEIJIN G .

Dry, No. 2.......................................... doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3..........................*................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,...................................... doz. 
35
65
Liquid, 8 oz........................................doz. 
Arctic 4 oz.........................................*8*  gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................  8 00
Arctic 16 oz.....................................................   12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box................................  2 00
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 

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BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet.......... 2 50INo.  2 Hurl................175
No. 2Carpet.......... 2 25 Fancy  Whisk...........100
No. 1  Parlor Gem..2 75 CommonWhisk__   75
No. 1 Hurl..............2  001

CANNED  F IS H .

.1
Clams, 1 fl)  standards.......................
Clamsi 2 fl)  standards
Clam Chowder,  3fl>......................................2
Cove Oysters, 1 fi)  standards......................1
Cove Oysters, 2  fi)  standards....................  2
Cove Oysters, 1 fi>  slack filled....................
Cove Oysters, 2 fi) slack filled......................1
Lobsters, 1 fl) picnic...................................... 1
Lobsters, 1 fi> star......................................... 2
Lobsters, 2 fi) star......................................... 3
Mackerel, lfl>  fresh standards.................. 1
Mackerel, 5 fl) fresh standards...................6
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 fi).................3
Mackerel,3 fl) in Mustard............................ 3
Mackerel, 3 fi) broiled...................................3
Salmon, 1 fl> Columbia river........................1
Salmon, 2 fi) Columbia river........................2
Salmon. 1 fi>  Sacramento............................ 1
Sardines, domestic 54s.................................
Sardines,  domestic  54s..............................
Sardines,  Mustard  54s.................................
Sardines,  imported  54s...............................
Trout. 3 fi)  brook........................................  2

CANNED F R U IT S .

 

Apples. 3 fl) standards.................................
2
Apples, gallons,  standards.............. 
Blackberries, standards.............................. 1
Cherries,  red  standard
Damsons................................................... 
.1
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1
Green  Gages, standards 2 fi).....................   .1
Peaches, Extra Yellow.................................2
Peaches, standards............................I  75@1
Peaches,  seconds...............................    
Pineapples, Erie............................................3
Pineapples, standards.................................. 1
Quinces...........................................................1
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg................... 1

1

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

Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40|Pears............................3 CO
Egg Plums............ 2 50 Quinces...................2 90
Grapes...................2 50 Peaches  ................. 3 00
Green Gages..........2 50|

CA NN ED VEGETA BD ES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay..................................3 25
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........................ 1 60
Com,  Trophy.......................................... 
Peas, French.................................................1  75
Peas, Marrofat, standard...............................1 70
Peas, Beaver................................... 
 
Peas, early small, sifted.................................1 80
Pumpkin, 3 fl) Golden...................................85@95
Succotash, standard....................................  
  90
Tomatoes, Trophy.......................................... 1 00

 

 

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CHOCOLATE.

F IS H .

CO FFEE.

CORDAGE.

Roasted  Mar.. .17@18
Roasted Mocha.28@30
Roasted M ex.. .17@20
Ground  Rio 
9@16
Package  Goods  @1234 

Boston......................361  German Sweet.......... 25
Baker’s .................... 38  Vienna Sweet  ...........23
Runkles’ ...................351
Green Rio........9@13
Green Java...... 17@27
Green Mocha.. ,23@25
Roasted Rio__ 10@15
Roasted Java . .28@30
72 foot J u te .......  1 25  172 foot Cotton__ 2  25
60 foot Jute.......  1  00  60 foot Cotton___2  00
40FootCotton__1 50 
|50 foot Cotton__ 1  75
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.......................   65
Cod, whole.....................................................  @4%
Cod, Boneless................................................5@6
H alibut........ ..................................... 
 
Herring 54  bbls........................................... 2 75
Herring, Holland, domestic.........................  65
imported.......................1  00
Herring,  Scaled.............................................22@24
Mackerel; shore, No. 2, 54 bbls................. 5 00
“ 
...........  80
“ 
................  70
No. 3. 54  bbls...  .....................3 50
“  12 fi)  kits............................  62
55
“  10 
Shad, 54 b b l..................................................2 50
Trout, 54  bbls...............................................3 50
12 fi)  kits............................................   60
 
White, No. 1, 54 bbls...................................5 00
White, No. 1,12  fi) kits.................................  85
White, No. 1.10 fi) kits.................................  75
White, Family, 54 bbls................................2 65

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12 fi) kits 

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

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1 40
4 oz........................................1  50  2  50
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6 oz........................................2  50  4  00
“ 
8 oz........................................3  50  5  00
“ 
“  No. 2 Taper......................... 125 
150
“  No.  4 
1  75  3 00
“ 
54 pint  round.......................4  50  7  50
“ 
1 
..................... 9 00  15 00
“  No.  8.......................................3 00  4 25
“  No. 10........ •....... 
4  25  6 00
FR U ITS
Cherries, dried,  pitted...............................  @16
28@33
Citron...................................................... 
Currants.................................................  
434@5
Peaches, dried  ...................................... 
12@13
Prunes, Turkey, new.................................4@454
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................   @13
Raisins,  Sultanas..................................   754@  854
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................  @3 00
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @3 60
Water White........1054 I Legal  Test.............. 834
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square......................... 1  00
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor......................1  75
Grand Haven,  No.  300, parlor......................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.-7,  round......................... 1  50
Oshkosh, No. 2..................................................1 10
Oshkosh, No.  8................................................ 1 60
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson’s No. 8 
square.......................... 110
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................ 165
Richardson’s No. 754, round...........................1 10
Richardson’s No. 7 
do 
............................ 165

K E R O S EN E  O IL .

MATCHES.

MOLASSES.

Black Strap...................................................14@16
Porto  Rico........................................  
28@30
New  Orleans, good......................................38@42
New Orleans, choice.......  ...........................48@5G
New Orleans,  fancy........   ......................... 52@55

 

54 bbls. 3c extra.

OATMEAL.

do 

R IC E .

P IC K LES.

SALERATUS.

Steel  cut................ 5 251Quaker, 48 
fits.......2  35
Steel Cut, Yz bbls.. .3 00 Quaker, 60  fl>s.......2  50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 601 Quaker bbls.............6  00
Choice in barrels med............................  @5 25
Choice in Yz 
............................  @3 25
P IP E S .
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,2Yz gross........   @1  85
American T.D.......................................   @  90
Good Carolina........6
Java  .................654@634
P atna.......................6
Prime Carolina...... 6Yz
Choice Carolina...... 7
Rangoon.......... 5j4@634
Good Louisiana...... 534
Broken......................334
DeLand’s pure........554|Dwight’s ................... 554
Church’s  ................ 554 Sea  Foam................. 5Yz
Taylor’s  G. M..........554|Cap Sheaf..................554
2 25
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket................................................. 
2 20
100 3 fl)  pockets.......................................  
2 45
Saginaw or Manistee............................ 
90
160
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard  Coarse.................................... 
1 65
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
80
2 80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........  
80
American, dairy, Yz bu. bags............... 
25
Rock, bushels........ ................................ 
28
Parisian, Yz  pints.................................   @2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  small...................  @  75
Pepper Sauce, green.............................   @  90
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 70

SAUCES.

SALT.

©  7 Yz 
® 754 
@7 31 
@ 754 @  7 

@ 6% @ 6% @ 6% @ 6% @ 534 

Catsup, Tomato,  pints....................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ...............
Horseradish,  Yz pints...............*...
Horseradish, pints..........................
Halford Sauce, pints.....................
Halford Sauce, Yz pints..................
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne:..
“  Monday...........

SOAP.

“ 

“ 

@1  00 
@1 35 
@1  00 
@1 30 
@3 50 
@2 20
@4  60 
@3 35

Ground.

SPICES.

Whole.

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

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

TEA S.

3 00
4 50

SYRUPS.

SUGARS.

STARCH.

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

..  @654
..  @654
..  @8
@354
..  @8
@5

Pepper........
Allspice.......
Cassia..........
Nutmegs  ... 
C loves........

Pepper.................16@25
Allspice............... 12@15
Cinnamon............18@30
Cloves  .................15@25
Ginger.................16@20
Mustard............... 15@30
Cayenne..............25@35
Kingsford’s, 1 fi) pkgs.,  pure.............
3 fl) pkgs.,  pure.............
1 fl) pkgs., Silver Gloss.
6fl>pkgs., 
.
1 fl) pkgs., Corn  Starch.
(Bulk) Ontario...............
Ciit  Loaf.................................................
Cubes.................................. ...................
Powdered...............................................
Granulated.  Standard..........................
Granulated,  off.....................................
Confectionery A....................................
Standard A ..............................................
Extra C, White..................................
Extra C....................................................
Fine  C.........................................
Yellow C.........................................
DarkC.................................................... .
8® 554
Corn,  Barrels......................................... 
30@32
Corn, Yz bbls............................................ 
S2@34
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs........... ....................  @1  75
Corn, 4Yz gallon kegs.............................   @1 60
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  23®  35
Pure Sugar Drips.........................Yz bbl  30@  38
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 96
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............Yz bbl  @  85
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 85
Japan ordinary.............................................22@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
Japan fine...................................................... 40@50
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder...................................................35@50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo.............................................................25@30
Dark AmericanEagle67
Sweet  Rose............... 45
The Meigs...................64
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
Red  Bird.................... 50
Atlas...........................35
State  Seal...................60
Royal Game............... 38
Prairie F low er........ 65
Mule Ear....................65
Climber......................62
Fountain.................... 74
Indian Queen............60
Old Congress..............64
Bull  Dog....................60
Good Luck.................52
Crown  Leaf............... 66
Blaze Away............... 35
Matchless..................65lHair Lifter..................30
Hiawatha..................67| Governor....................60
Globe  .........................70 Fox’s Choice............  63
May Flower.............. 70|Medallion................... 35
H ero..........................45i Sweet Owen................ 66
Old Abe. 
Oporto  .....................................................  @70
Messmate...............................................   @53
Big  Ring................ ...............................   @46
Cherry  Bounce......................................  @44
B uster.....................................................  @40
Nimrod....................................................   @44
E. C...........................................................  @40
Blue  Peter..............................................  @38
Spread Eagle..................................... 
@38
Big Five Center.....................................   @35
Red  Fox...................................................  @48
Big Drive.................................................  @50
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
Durham...................................................  @46
Patrol...................................................  .  @48
Jack Rabbit............................................  @46
Snowflake...............................................   @46.
Chocolate Cream....................................  @46
Woodcock  ..............................................  @46
Knigntsof  Labor..................................   @46
Railroad...................................................  @46
Big Bug...................................................  @32
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................  @46
Black Bear..............................................  @37
King 
.........................................................   @46
Old Five Cent Times.................................  @38
Prune Nuggett, 12 B).................................  @62
Parrot  ........................................................  @46
Old Time.....................................................  @38
Tramway....................................................   @46
Glory  .........................................................   @46
Silver  Coin.................................................   @50
Buster  [Dark]...........................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer 
[Dark]...........................   @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Climax....................................................   @46
Hold F ast...............................................   @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................  @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 fi)  cads.  .......  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s.............................   @37
Nobby Twist..........................................  @46
Acorn......................................................  @46
Crescent.....................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  @40
Spring......................................................  @46
Grayling.................................................  @46
Mackinaw................................................ 
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black__ T.%..............................  @35
Sailors’  Solace.......................................   @46

...............49|

PLU G .

55

90

11

2c. less in four butt lots.

SMOKING

Old Tar.......................40| Conqueror..................23
Arthur’s  Choice.......22 Grayling.....................32
Red Fox..................... 26 Seal Skin.....................30
Flirt.......................... 28 Rob Roy........................26
Gold Dust..................26|Uncle  Sam................. 28
Gold Block.................30
Lumberman..............25
Seal of Grand Rapids
Railroad Boy..............38
(cloth)...................25
Mountain Rose.......... 18
Tramway, 3 oz.......... 40
Home Comfort.......... 25
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
Old Rip....................... 55
Boss  ...........................15
Seal of North Caro­
Peck’s Sun.................18
lina, 2  oz.................48
Miners and Puddlers.28
Seal of North Caro­
Morning  Dew............25
lina, 4oz...................46
Chain.... ......................22
Seal of North  Caro­
Peerless  .................... 24
lina, 8oz.................. 41
Standard.................... 22
Seal of North Caro­
Old Tom......................21
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 40
Tom & Jerry..............24
Big Deal......................27
Joker...........................25
Apple Jack.................24
Traveler.................... 35
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Maiden....................... 25
Milwaukee  Prize__ 24
Pickwick Club.,.......40
Rattler....................... 28
Nigger Head..............26
Windsor cut plug__ 25
Holland......................22
Zero  ...........................16
German......................16
Holland Mixed.......... 16
Solid Comfort............30
Golden Age............... 75
Red Clover.................32
Mail  Pouch............... 25
Long Tom.................. 30
Knights of Lator__ 30
National....................26
Free Cob Pipe............27
Tim e..........1.............. 26
Globe................................211 Hiawatha............. 22
Mule Ear.................... 23| Old Congress............. 23
®
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen...
“  Maccoboy..........................
55
Gail & Ax’ 
.........................
44 
“ 
Rappee...............................
35
@
Railroad -Mills  Scotch.......................
45 
Lotzbeck  ............................................
@1 30
Elastic, 64 packages, per box..........
5 35
Pure  Cider..........S@12 White Wine..........   8@12
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported................
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 fl> cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star..........................................   @1354
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C.................................  @80
1 25
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................  @40
Gum, Spruce............................................   30@35
Hominy, fl bbl...........................................  @4 00
Jelly, in 30 fi)  pails.................................  @ 454
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @1  35
Peas, Split prepared..............................  @ 3J4
Powder, Keg.................................... 
Powder,  Yz Keg.........................................  @1 75

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

VINEGAR.

STARCH.

SHORTS.

SN U FF.

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OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.

F. J. D. Selects.................................... ...............35
Standards  ........................................... ...............25
Mackinaw Trout................................. ............  6
Whiteflsh  ............................................ ............  6
Black Bass........................................... ............8
Cod  ...................................................... ............12
Sun  Fish.............................................. ............5
Rock Bass............................................ ...........   5
Perch  ................................................... ...........   4
Duck Bill Pike.................................... ............5
Wall-eyed  Pike.................................. ............6
Smoked White Fish............................ ........... 10
Smoked Trout........................ ............. ........... 10
Smoked Sturgeon............................... ............10

  @45

 

 

 
 

do 
do 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

9@ 954

FANCY—IN  BULK.

.  FANCY—IN 5 tt> BOXES.

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

Straight, 25 fl)  boxes............................  S54@9
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 fi)  pails.....................................   9@ 9Yz
Royal, 200 fl) bbls.......................................   @8%
Extra, 25 fl)  pails........................................10@lO54
Extra, 200 fl) bbls............. ,........................ 9 @  954
French Cream, 25 fi> pails......................1254@13
Cut loaf, 25 fl)  cases.................................1254®
Broken, 25  fi)  pails.....................................10@1054
Broken, 200 tt>  bbls...................................  9@ 9y,
_ 
Lemon Drops........................................... 12@13
.......................................... 13@14
Sour Drops. 
Peppermint  Drops...........  
14@15
chocolate Drops 
................;;;;;;;;;;;; _  J5
H M Chocolate  Drops........... " " ..................20
Gum  Drops  ................»...................................pj
120
Licorice Drops..................1 
A B  Licorice  Drops.. 
 
1 2
Lozenges, plain.........................  
45
Lozenges,  printed......................  
45
Imperials.....................................  
1=
j5
Mottoes............................ 
 
Cream  Bar................................................ ,'i3@14
Molasses Bar...................................... 
43
Caramels.....................................................is@20
Hand Made Creams............................ 
20
Plain  Creams.......................... 
"17
Decorated Creams...................................  
20
...........................................ii@15
String Rock 
Burnt Almonds.......................................  
22
Wintergreen  Berries................ ” .!!.!!" 
. 15
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................  @1254
Lozenges, plain in bbls..........r............ n   @4414
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @1254
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................1154@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails......................1254@13
Gum  Drops  in pails................................ 7  @7y
Gum Drops, in bbls........ .............. 
'  ”  6®  6 54
Moss Drops, in pails........................... !io  @1054
Moss Drops, in bbls...........................................  9 .
Sour Drops, in  pails.................  
43
Imperials, in  pails................................"i254@13
Imperials  in bbls..................11  @12
Bananas  Aspinwall...............................4 
Oranges, Rodi  Messina...........  
........   @5 59
Oranges,  Naples.............................".""4 
Lemons,  choice....................................5 oo@  6 50>
Lemons, fancy........................................ 7 
Figs, layers, ^ B)..................................   40
Dates, frails do  ..................
Dates, 54 do  d o ................
Dates, skin.............................
Dates, 54  skin.......................... . . . . . .
Dates, Fard 10 ft> box $   fl)........
Dates, Fard 50 fi) box f! fl)...........
Dates, Persian 50 tb box f! fl)...... . 
Pine Apples, 
doz......................." ".
PEA NU TS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $fl>.......................  4
Choice 
do  .............  
Fancy 
do  ..................@554
Choice White, Va.do  .................... 
Fancy H P ..V a  do  ............................  554® 6
Almonds,  Ferragona............................ 18
@1854
...! i7
@1754
Brazils................................................."  9
@10
Filberts, Sicily............................ .".'.".".".12
@1254
Barcelona................... ...!..! 11
@12
Walnuts,  Grenoble.......................... ...14
@1454

“ 
“  Marbo..........................!..!!.
“ 
French...................................
“ 
California...........................
“  Missouri.....................  .••••■•

Pecans,  Texas, H. P.............................10
@11
Cocoanuts, $  100...................................4 00@4 50

Ioaca........................  

........  45*

5@ 5V4

f r u i t s .

do 
do 

NUTS.

“ 

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00@2 50
75@5 00

(*>@7 59@11 ® 4 
@ 6 @ 454 @ 5
@ 654
454

PROVISIONS.

 

“ 

P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision  Co 

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

do.  medium..................... . 
do. 

medium........................................ 
lig h t...............................................  

quote  as follows:
Mess, Chicago  packing......................................10 00
Clear, Chicago packing.....................................’44 00
Extra Family Clear..................................... \ 44 00
Clear, A. Webster  packer................
Extra Clear,  heavy.................................
Boston Clear....................................
A. Webster, packer, short cut. . . . . . .. . . .. .10  75
Clear back, short cut........................ '__  
12 50
Standard Clear, the  best.............................. i" i2 75
DRY  SALT MEATS— IN   BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
light.....................................  

Long Clear Backs, 500 fl)  cases........ 
Short Clear Backs, 500 fi)  cases........  
Long Clear Backs, 300 fl>  cases.............  
Short Clear Backs, 300 fi)  cases.............  
Bellies, extra quality, 500 fl) cases........  
Bellies, extra quality, 300 fl> cases........  
Bellies, extra quality, 200 fl> cases...... 
Hams, heavy.................  

7
7
7
754
7%
7=54
774
7
75£
754
4054
1054
’ ’1074
Boneless  Hams...........................................1054
Boneless Shoulders.....................................  
  6
Breakfast  Bacon........................................  
  8
Dried Beef, extra quality...........................  954
Dried Beef, Ham pieces.................................
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle....................6
Tierces  .......................
7
30 and 50 fl) Tubs.....................................
T54
50 fl) Round Tins, 100 cases.....................
T54
LARD IN  T IN  PA IL S .
20 fl) Round Tins, 80 fl) racks.............
77»
3 fl> Pails, 20 in a case....................
77s
5 fl) Pails, 6 in a case....................
734
10 B> Pails. 6 in a case.......
B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 300 fl>s__ ....10 25
Boneless,  extra....................................... ....13 50
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
Pork  Sausage.....................................................7
Ham  Sausage...........................................  
ig
Tongue  Sausage................ 
 
10
 
Frankfort  Sausage....................  
10
Blood  Sausage.................................................  6
Bologna, straight............................................   6
Bologna,  thick.................................................  6
Head  Cheese...................................................... 6
In half barrels...............................................  3 25
In quarter barrels.........................................

PIGS’  FEET.

LARD.

 

 

 

 

 

C O U N TR Y   P R O D U C E .

Apples—Fall fruit commands 40c $   bu.  and 
$1.50@1.75 $  bbl. for  eating  and 25c ^ bu.  and 
$1  <p bbl. for cooking.

Beans—Dealers  pay  75c@$l  $   bu.  for  un­

picked and sell city picked for $1.25.
Blueberries—About out of market.
Blackberries—In good demand at 8@9c.
Butter—Michigan  creamery  is  in  moderate 
demand at 18@22c.  Sweet dairy is in active de­
mand  at  14@15c,  while  low  grades  are going 
begging at 8@12e.
Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand  at 60 
^ doz.
Cheese—Slightly firmer,  full  cream  readily 
commanding 73i@854c.
Celery—25c $  doz. bunches for Kalamazoo or 
Grand Haven.
Clover Seed—In good demand,  with  limited 
supply.  Fair to good Medium commands $6.50 
and choice recleaned  $7.  Mammoth is held at 
$7.50.

tra.  Musk, $1W  doz.

in price, fresh stock commanding 1254c.
according to size.

Corn—Green, no demand.
Crabapples—50c f! bu.
Cucumbeis—15@20cÿ doz.
Eggs—Unchanged as to demand,  but  stiffer 
Grapes—$1.25@1.50 fl c.rawer of about 25 B)s., 
Green Peppers—$1 ^ bu.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at  1354® 
Hay—Bailed, $15@$16 ^ton.
Melons—Water,1254@18c apiece, packages ex­
Onions—Southern, $3  bbl. or  $1 $  bu.
Pears—Eastern and  Southern  Bartlett com­
Plums—Domestic, $2.50@$3 5P bu.
Peaches—Michigan early freestone $2.75@3 $  
Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c $  fl).
Potatoes—New potatoes are  so  plentiful  in 
most localities that regular quotations are out 
of the  question.  Jersey sweets  command  $4 
$  bbl., and Baltimore $3.50.
12@13c. 
scarce. 
Spring chickens, 16.

Poultry—Very 
Squash—Summer, lc $  fl>; Hubbard, 154c.
Tomatoes—Plentiful at 75®80 ^ bu.
Turnips—40c $  bu.
Timothy—$1.90  bu.

mand $6 $  bbl.

Fowls, 

14c.

bu.

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

Wheat—2c  lower.  The  city millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  82;  Fulse,  78c;  Clawson, 
78c.
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 $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—25c lower.  Fancy Patent,  $5.75  bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6.’in  wood.  Straight,  $4.75  $  
bbl. in sacks and $5 in wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $  ton.  Bran, $13 
% ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $22 $  ton.

  @3 00

H\5

ON  TH E  ROAD.

How a Traveling Man Illustrated  Some of 

the Difficulties He Met With.

From Judge.

We three had been to witness  leg-itimate 
•drama at some  St.  Louis  variety hall  one 
evening,  I remember,  and  thereafter seated 
■ourselves in a comfortable comer of the lob­
by of the Southern  Hotel  to  enjoy a cigar 
before  going  to  bed.  Cusby,  apropos  of 
something that  had  come  up,  gave  us  a 
spirited account of an interview he  had had 
some time back  with  a particularly  tough 
buyer whom his duty  had  required  him to 
tackle,  when Josh Brown was moved  to re­
late an experience of hjs own.

“Gus,  your man wasn’t a  patcli  on  a fel­
low I braced in Boston in the spring of ’83,” 
he said.  “Why, I was  turned  out of  that 
place ’steen times in  one  day. 
I tried that 
chap in every way,  and although I was new 
at the business in those days,  I put  in some 
very good licks,  and if  I  had been  blessed 
with as much muscle as perseverance and as 
many lives as a cat,  I should  certainly have 
sold  him a bill.  At  nine a .  m . ,   I went in, 
sample grip in hand,  and was  fired directly. 
At ten I tried him without my samples.  No 
go.  At eleven I braced him again.  Result: 
black  eye.  During the  afternoon I  made 
the attempt in various disguises. 
I tried to 
effect an entrance as an organ  grinder, hav- 
*  mg borrowed the  instrument  at  a  heavy 
rental from a Dago on the corner.  The new 
•organ I had to  buy in place of  the kindling 
wood I brought out  of  that store  cost fifty 
dollars.  As  an  old  apple  woman  I  was 
kicked into the  middle  of  the  street,  and 
after my last  attempt  for  the  day,  which 
was in the disguise  of  a performing bear,  I 
was carted off in an  ambulance.”

“While  convalescing  I  received  a  tele­
gram  from  the  house in  New  York,  and 
when I got out  of  the  hospital  I ran  in. 
When I showed up at the store the old man 
called me into his office,  remarking very se­
verely;”

“ ‘Mr. Brown,  we haven’t heard from you 
in the last ten days except by  draft, but  in 
that way with sufficient  frequency.  Where 
have  you  been  since  the  first  of  the 
month?’ ”

“ ‘In the hospital at Boston,  Mr.  Mi 

answered.

“ ‘Ah, I suppose you got full, Mr. Brown, 
and tried to lick the  whole  police  force,  or 
attempted to throw a horse-car off the track 
or  perhaps,  monkeyed  a  bit  with Mr.  Sir 
livan?’ ”

“ ‘No, sir; you haven’t struck the  combi 
I was laid out in an attempt to sell 

nation. 
a bill to Bier of Bier & Bretzel.’”

“ ‘See here, Brown,’ Mr.  Migg  remarked 
sorrowfully,  it’s my opinion that  you  don 
know how to  sell  goods.  We  didn’t  get 
pounded in my day  and  although it’s many 
years since I was on the road,  I think T can 
teach you new men a thing or two.’ ”

“I intimated that I was  not  above  being 
taught a thing or  two  or  even  three,  and 
•would be glad of  pointers.

“ ‘Now,’ said my employer, “assume that 
I  am you, Mr.  Brown,  and  you are a buyer 
Mr.  Bier, for instance.  Take  a  seat at my 
desk and I, representing the  drummer,  will 
■come in and sell you a bill.’

“ ‘Am I to understand,  Mr.  Migg,  that ] 
am to conduct myself in  all  respects as Mr, 
Bier would towards Josh Brown?’

“ ‘Certainly,  you  fool,  that  is  precisely 

what 1 want,’ he answered irritably.

“ ‘Although I’m not so big  a  man as Mr 

Bier is, Mr. Migg, I’ll do  my best.’

“ ‘I don’t see what  Bier’s  size  has  to do 

with it, young man.’

“ ‘Oh, you don’t.  Well,  I’ll  try to show 
you,  sir.  But,  I say, Mr. Migg,  you  won’- 
hold  me responsible  for  the  consequences 
will you?’
“ ‘What’s got  into  you, Brown,  anyhow? 
What the  devil  do  you  mean  by  conse 
quences?  Tlxere are  no  consequences to be 
considered.  Shut up and take  that  chair 
“ ‘All right, Mr. Migg,  I’m  ready.  Heave 

ahead.’

“The boss went out  and  as  soon  as  the 
door closed,  I took off  my  coat  and  vest, 
rolled up my sleeves to the shoulder and tied 
my  suspenders  tightly  around  my waist, 
Then  I  took  the  chair  just  as  my  man 
knocked.

“ ‘Come in,’ I  sang  out,  and  the  door 

opened.

“ ‘Mr.  Bier,  I  presume,’  remarked  Migg 
blandly.  “My  name  is  Brown,  sir,  I rep­
resent Migg &  Miggles  of  New York  and
my object in calling was to-----’

“There was at this point  a  slight pause, 
The drummer found the  buyer in the act of 
lighting a choice Havana which he had help­
ed himself to from a box on the desk.

“ ‘Well,  young man, what was you object 

in calling?  Spit it out,’ I said gruffly.

“  ‘See  here,  Brown,’  he  commenced 

wrathfully.

“ ‘If you are talking to  me,  sir,  my name 
is Bier.  State your  business  as  briefly as 
possible and get out.’

“Migg choked down his anger  and  went 

on:

“ ‘As I'was saying, Mr.  Bier,  I  represent 
the  funeral  furnishing  house  of  Migg &
Miggles,  and called-----’

“ ‘What,  Migg & Miggles; why didn’t you 

say that before?’

“ ‘But,  I did,  Mr.  Bier.’
“ ‘Confound  your  impudence,  young fel­
low.  Do you  suppose  I’m  deaf?  Do  you 
believe I would  allow  a  man to  enter my 
doors who  represents  that  fly-blown,  lan­
tern-jawed Migg?  Don’t  you  know,  sir,  I 
. despise that pink-nosed, .plab-sided, measely 
beat more than any of the other vile and low 
creatures  that  crawl?  As to  dealing with 
him—

And breath the vapors of a dungeon

“I’d sooner be a toad 
Than harbor such a thought.

“ ‘I suppose you want to sell  me some of 
his rotten old coffins or worm-eaten caskets. 
Why,  Migg  never  turned  out  an  honest 
piece of work in his  life.  His coffins never 
fit.  They bag at  the knees and  turn white 
at the  seams.  They  shed  buttons  like  a 
walnut  tree in November.  Rather  than be 
buried in one of  his machines, I’d be plant­
ed in a soap-box.  His caskets are all  short 
measure; are not fast dye and are more than 
half cotton.  No,  sir,  I  wouldn’t deal with 
that man for—why he’s no man at all.  That 
low-lived, addle-pated,  moth-eaten thing of a 
man—not much. 
If you belong to him,  and 
you say you do, get out  of  this at  once or 
I’ll brain you with this ruler.  Are  you go­
ing?’

“I hoisted the ebony and  rose to my feet. 
Old Migg was mad; he was  more than mad. 
When he could  speak  at  all,  which  was 
quite a bit after I had finished  my  graceful 
tribute to his character as a man and a mer­
chant,  he gasped:

“ ‘Brown,  you’re g fiend. 

neck right here and now, 
to joke with me.’

I’ll break your 
I’ll teach you not 

And with that he made a break for  me, 
I  hove  the  ruler,  a big heavy 
crazy wild. 
affair, as he advanced. 
It  took  him on the 
top of the head,  and  glancing  from thence, 
-went smashing through the glass  partition. 
Then we closed.  You should havewitness- 
ed that scrapping match, boys. 
I had more 
fun than a tramp at a free-lunch or a  moke 
vitli  a  melon.  We  waltzed  around  that 
apartment like a peg-top with a green apple 
colic,  kicking  over  chairs  and  desks  and 
spilling ink  and  gore—only,  it  wasn’t my 
gore—and generally speaking,  had  a  regu 
lar parrot and monkey time.  Finally,  I got 
Migg near the partition^  and—say,  you  fel 
lows have seen a Graco-Roman  wrestler get 
a man on his back and with his hands clasp 
ed under the chin throw  him  clean over hi! 
head?  Well, that’s what I did to Migg.  He 
went sailing  over  the  partition and landed 
with a crash  among  a  lot of  coffin  plates 
bearing such inscriptions  as  ‘Rest’  and ‘He 
is not dead, but sleepeth,’ and  there he laid 
quietly  while  I  resumed  my  clothes  and 
helped myself to a fresh cigar,  the  first one 
having become in  the  course  of  the  fray, 
considerably demoralized.

“And after  that,  I  suppose,  all  hands 
turned to  and  dessicated  you  previous  to 
your being given the grand  bounce,” I haz­
arded.

“You’re wrong again, Lang,  my boy.  Of 
course,  I got out of the shop as  quickly  as 
I could, but the next  day Migg sent for me 
to his residence.  I found him in bed,  a very 
bunged-up specimen,  I promise you.”

“I commenced apologizing,  but  the  old 

man stopped me with the question:”

“ ‘How many  times did you call  on Bier 

on the 1st.,  Mr. Brown?’ ”

“ ‘Seven times,  sil-’.”
“ ‘And did Bier use you as you did me?’ ”
“ ‘Not every time,  Mr.  Migg,’ 1 answered 
truthfully. 
‘The  first  and  second  time I 
called, he only swore at me  and  the  house, 
but from the third  time he  used  me  pretty 
much as I used you.’ ”

‘And you say you went back four times 
after your first licking in  your  endeavors to 
place a bill?’ ”

‘You’ve called the  turn,  Mr.  Migg’.” 
‘What  salary  do  we  pay  you,  Mr. 

Brown?’ ”

‘SI,500,  sir’.”
‘From  the  first  of  this  month, 

the 
cashier  will  pay  you  $2,500.  Yes,  Mr. 
Brown,  it is harder work selling  goods now 
than it was when I was on the road’.”

The Champion Lazy Boy.

Mrs. Fizzletop,  not  being  satisfied 
the progress  made  by  her son at the 
versity of Texas, called on his teacher.

with
Uni-

“Professor,  how  is  my son Johnny com­
ing on with  his  studies?”  she asked,  anx­
iously.

“I have  great  hopes  of  him,  madame, 

great  hopes.”

“I am so glad to hear that.”
“Yes, madame,  he is phenomenally  lazy. 
I don’t think I ever saw  a  boy  who was so 
phenomenally lazy. ”

“I understood you to  say  you  had great 

hopes of him.”

"So I have,  for I think  if  he ever begins 

to study he is too lazy ever to stop.”

Fixed it Easily.

From the Hartford Evening1 Post.

“Look here,  Mr.  Grocer,” said a Hartford 
citizen. 
I  get  twice  as 
many  huckleberries  for  a  quart as  I did 
strawberries.”

“How’s  this? 

“Well,  that’s your luck.  Besides,  huckle­
berries are smaller and  of  course  there is 
more of ’em in a  quart.”

“Of course,  but I  don’t mean  that exact­
I get a bigger  dish  full  of  huckleber­

ly. 
ries than I do strawberries for a quart.”  • 

“Oh, well,  I  can  fix  that  easy.  Here, 
Bob,  give this gentleman a  strawberry  box 
full of huckleberries.”

That was about a pint and a half.

There is a well of natural gas at  Murrys-
ille,  Pa., 
that  has  been  flowing  for ten 
years,  and it is  said there  is no  diminution 
of pressure,  though  as good a well has been 
struck within thirty feet of it.

Judge (to darky witness)—Do  you  know 

the nature of an oath?

Witness—Sah?
Judge—Do you understand what  you are 

to swear to?

de truf.

not tell it?

sah.

Witness—Yes,  sah. 

I’m to swear to  tell 

Judge—And what will happen  if  you  do 

Witness—I specs our side’l  win  de  case, 

VISITING  BUYERS.

donia.

ther.

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

Spring Lake.

Neal McMillan, Rockford.
D. R. Stocum, Rockford.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
Geo. D. Sisson, Sisson &  Lilley  Lumber Co., 
J. R. Barcus, Muskegon.
L. Cook, Cook & Sweet, Bauer.
Jas. Grannie, Six Corners.
Geo. Carrington,  Trent.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
H. A. Rich, Ionia.
F. H. Harter, Harter & Co.,  Ionia.
A. D. Ayers, Otia.
S. Cooper, Corinth.
Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove.
Walter H. Struik, Forest Grove.
H. M. Hicks,  Morley.
Baron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
Thos. J. Smedley, Lamont.
Frank Haywood, Moon P. O.
W. B. Johnson, Rockford.
W. J. Woodruff, Copley.
Byron McNeal, Byron  Center.
Geo. F. Richardson, Jamestown.
A. L. Power, Kent City.
Wm. Hugh, Jones & Hugh, Morley.
H. C. Peckham, Freeport.
C. I. Clapp,  Otsego.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland.
Thos. Hefferan, Eastmanville.
R. R. Perkins, Boyne City.
E. A. Carpenter, Colborn &  Carpenter,  Cale­
Will Curtiss, Reed City.
F. C. Beard, Morley.
H. Stowe, Deer Lake.
L. A. Paine, Sparta.
J. K. Dibble, Dibble Bros., Burnip’s Corners.
G. E. Smith, Kalkaska.
W. A. Luther, Wilson,  Luther & Wilson,  Lu­
M. S. Keeler, Keeler Bros.,  Middleville.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
H. B, Irish, Lisbon.
T. H. Peacock, Reed City.
John Spoon, Spoonville.
C. L. Howard, Clarksville.
Wm. Yermeulen, Beaver Dam.
Den Herder & Tanis,  Yriesland.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
H. J. Fisher, Hamilton.
Mrs. J. Debri, Byron Center.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
J. H. Spires, Leroy.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.
O. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
Dr. John Graves,  Wayland.
Ben E. West, J. C. West & Co., Lowell.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
John Koopman, Falmouth.
Mr.  Kohlman,  Church  &  Kohlman,  Alle­
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Mr.  Thomas,  Richmond  &  Thomas,  Harris 
C. R. Smith, Cadillac.
R. M. Smith, Luther.
Morley Bi*os., Cedar Springs.
W. S. Bartron, Bridgeton.
S. T. MeLeilan,  Denison.
Chas. Cole, Cole & Chaple, Ada.
Mr. Andre, Andi’e & Son, Jennisonville.
A. B.  Johnson,  Lowell.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
James Ward, Cedar Springs.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
A. & L. M. Wolf. Hudsonville.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
Mr. Carrell, Carrell & Fisher, Dorr.
Geo.  S.  Powell,  G.  S.  Powell  &  Co„  Sand 
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
H. W. Potter,  Jennisonville.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.

gan.

Creek.

Lake.

FURNITURE BUYERS.

Booth & Denman, Leadville.
Horace Prentice, Kalamazoo.
Mr. Cole, with California Furniture Manufac­
turing Co., San Francisco.
Bi'adstreet, Thurber & Co., Minneapolis. 
Cutler & Sons, Buffalo.

A Friendly Interest.

“What does  your  beau  do  for  a  living, 
Mary?” asked  a fond father,  addressing  his 
daughter.

“He’s an entry  clerk,”  she  replied, with 

“Gets about seven dollars a  week,  I sup- 

a bright blush.

PQse?”

Ibarbware.

Accidents  from  Machinery.

From the American Machinist.

If accounts of all the accidents to life and 
limb occurring in a single year from the use 
of  machinery  were  collected,  they  would 
present an  alarming  aggregate. 
In  many 
trades or occupations a man of  middle  life 
with all the members of  his  body  intact,  is 
the exception  to  the  rule.  And  in  almost 
every case loss of life or limb is due to care­
lessness on the  part  of  those  who  sustain 
the  loss.  Occasionally  an  appalling  acci­
dent occurs, the responsibility  for  which  is 
clearly chargeable  to  employers  or  mana­
gers,  but those instances  are  comparatively 
rare.  Sometimes one sees  a  large  belt  or 
driving gears not  fenced  in, which  is sug­
gestive of a probable accident some day; but 
a hundred times oftener he sees men putting 
themselves  unnecessarily  in  positions  of 
danger.  Men following day by day occupa­
tions attended with more or  less  danger,  as 
nearly all  mechanical occupations are,  come 
to be proverbially  careless,  or  rather  they 
become incapable of seeing danger  where it 
plainly is.

Employers,  or those having authority, can 
do a good deal to reduce  the  number  of ac­
cidents from  machinery by prohibiting dan­
gerous  practices,  strictly  enforcing  rules to 
that end.  Nothing short of absolute prohib­
ition will answer; many have been discourag­
ed,  after  providing  safeguards,  by  finding 
that workmen  would  not  avail  themselves 
of them.  Familarity with dangerous things 
gets everyone careless; this law is universal. 
Passengers  by  railroads  and  steamboats 
must have their safety looked after by being 
compelled  to  comply  with  certain  regula­
tions for that purpose, and experience shows 
that workmen'  must be similarly  protected. 
Intelligent workmen are  not as  careless  as 
the average traveler,  but  they  are much too 
careless for their own good.

Steam as Insurance.

From the American Machinist.

Let every mill owner who wishes to guar­
antees steady  running,  and  the  filling  of 
every  order at  some  fixed  time,  put in a 
steam-engine  and  boiler  just  as  soon  as 
the kind selected can be procured.  This be­
ing done and a supply of fuel laid in,  a mill 
owner can rest secure from drouths and can 
confidently agree to  fill  orders  at  a  given 
time, when his neighbors in the same  busi­
ness,  who are obliged  to  depend  upon  the 
quantity of  rainfall  for  their  chances  of 
keeping the wheels turning,  cannot  safely 
bind themselves  as  to time,  when  taking 
contracts.  This fact has a decided influence 
upon customers.  The greater the assurance 
that their orders will  be  filled  at  the  time 
specified,  the stronger is the  inducement to 
place them with  the  parties  affording this 
advantage,  other things being  equal.  With 
a probability of low  water  every  summer, 
and a possibility of the  same  every winter, 
causing more or  less  enforced  stoppage of 
mills that  depend entirely upon water-pow­
er,  it is easy to see that the owners of these 
manufactories  are  placed at  a  commercial 
disadvantage. 

;

“He gets eight.”
“Indeed!  Well,  I  think  I  can  get  him 

something better  than that.”

“Oh,  pa!”  she  exclaimed  with  a  glad 
sparkle in her eye, for she fancied her father 
was about  to  admit her  beau  to  an  equal 
partnership in his business.

‘Yes,  continued  the  father,  “as  he  is 
able to sit up  all  night  when  he  comes  to 
see you,  I think  he would  make  an  excel- 
lent’night-watchman in a large store. 
I am 
willing to recommend him to such a position, 
being able  to  testify  to  his  qualifications. 
He might get as  much  as  fifteen  dollars  a 
week.”

Mary ran up stairs and threw herself on a 
sofa with a sad, sad pain at her heart, while 
her  father  departed  for  his  office  with  a 
smile on his face.

---------♦   »  » ---------

Good Advice.

From Texas Siftings.

Moses Schaumburg has a new clerk named 
Jake  Siiverstone,  who  is  pretty  good  in 
dragging in country customers  and  selling 
them  goods  before  they  know it, but  he 
has a bad memory.  Yesterday,  Mose  said, 
impatiently:

“Siiverstone, has you checked  off  dot in­

voice of schentlemanly undervear?”

“Please ’scuse  me,  Mishter Schaumburg, 
but it  vash  escaped  my  memory  already 
some more?”

“So it vas  escaped  your  memory  some 
more already,  don’t  it. 
I  dells  you  vat, 
Siiverstone, ven  you vas  such a tarn stupid 
schackass,  vy don’t you made a note of dose 
dings,  choost like 1  do?’

The run of salmon in Fraser River,  B.  C., 
this year  has  been  enormous.  One  night 
the boats took from 2,000 to 3,000 fish each.
Bannard,  Lyman  & Co.,  who  have  been 
engaged in the jobbing of heavy groceries at 
Chicago for five years past, have withdrawn 
from  business.  The  firm  have  made  no 
money,  and the members  prefer to liquidate 
their accounts and  embark in other fields of 
business.

Waterbury,  Conn., people are profiting by 
a war of prices on milk among the  grocery- 
men.  A daily paper says:  “One  began by 
coming down from eight to six cents a quart. 
He was met by  a  rival  who  sold  for  four 
cents.  Then.it  went  down  to  two  cents, 
until now they are trying to live  by  selling 
two  quarts  for  a cent.  People  are  hoping 
that  next  week  a  barrel  of  flour  will  be 
thrown in with each quart.”

The  Chinese  wheelbarrow  has  but  one 
wheel,  which is large and placed in the cen- 
er of the  bed,  and  upon  it  rests  the  en­
tire load. 
In Shanghai  these  vehicles  ply 
for hire,  like cabs  in this  country.  They 
usually  carry  two  persons,  who  sit  on  a 
platform on  each  side  of  the  wheel  with 
their feet in rope stirrups.

The manufacture of steel  nails has  made 
rapid progress  since  1883,  in  which  year 
this industry maybe said Jxi^have  had its 
beginning. ^During the last year therewere 
303,882 kegs of  steel  nails  manufactured,' 
the production  of  the  three  leading  nail­
making States being as follows:  West Vir­
ginia, 204,336;  Ohio,  130,636; and  Pennsyl­
vania,  29,224 kegs. 
In  1883  this  country 
produced only 18,224 kegs of steeljnails.

The employment of cast  iron  columns as 
main supports has been greatly restricted at 
Berlin  by  a  regulation  issued  from  the 
architect’s department of  the police authori­
ties of that city.  The order has been issued 
in consequence  of  a  discovery  made Clast 
winter at  a  fire,  when it was found that the 
cast iron columns had  been  cracked  by the 
effect of  cold  water played  on  them  while 
hot.  The authorities now insist that where 
partition walls rest upon cast iron  columns, 
the latter are  to be  covered with  plaster or 
bricked in,  with  an  air  space  between  the 
bricks and the  column.

The value of a brick arch in  the  fire-box 
of a  locomotive  seems  now  to  have  been 
firmly  established,  recent  experiments  on 
the Old Colony Railroad having addedJcon- 
clusive results to the already existing  data. 
The experiments were conducted  by Mr. J. 
N.  Lauder with two high-speed locomotives, 
built by  the  Taunton  Locomotive  Works, 
of  precisely  the  same  dimensions and in 
about the same condition.  One  engine was 
furnished with  the  Pennsylvania Railroad 
style  of  brick  arch  supported  by  water 
tubes,  while the  other engine  had a  plain 
fire-box.  The engines  were  worked  alter­
nately  on  the  same trains  for  about  two 
months,  and every precaution was  taken to 
insure trustworthy results.  The records for 
one month showed  a  coal  consumption in 
the engine with the  plain  fire-box of  39.3 
pounds per  train mile,  and in that with the 
brick  arch of 34.3 pounds,  indicating a sav­
ing of about  14 per cent,  of coal  by the’use 
of the arch.  Other records  obtained  under 
about the same conditions furnished similar 
results, and apparently leave  little^doubt as 
to the  comparative  merits  of  the  two ar­
rangements of the fire-box.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates  at  Chicago  are as follows: 

AUGERS AND BITS.

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

BELLS.

 

£ and......................................................dis $ 60&10
Call......................................................... dis 
15
G ong..........   ......................................^dis 
20
Door, Sargent......................................dis

BOLTS.
Stove....................................  
Carriage  new list..................dis
Plow  ........................................... 
dis
Sleigh Shoe..........................................‘".dis
Cast Barrel Bolts................................'.'dis
Wrought Barrel Bolts...............'''¡’.'dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs............. .. * *dis
50
Cast Square Spring............................ dis
55
Cast  Chain........................................... !.dis
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.......  dis
55&10
Wrought Square.................................dis
55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush.................. 
dis
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
T F1V8^ ...................................................  50&10&10
Ives  Door............................................ dis  50&10

.dis 

BRACES.

40
Barber..................................................dis$ 
50
? ac£ usi.................................................dis 
Am. Ball................................................dis 
net
Well, plain...................................................$  400
Well, swivel.................................. ...........  .  4 50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  60&I0
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip........... dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned........... dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped.................................................¿is  60& 5
WroughtTable......................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind..................  dis 
60
Wrought Brass......................................dis  65&10
Blind, Clark’s.........................................dis  70&10
B?nd> Parker’s .....................................dis  70&IO
Blind,  Shepard s...................................dis 
70

CAPS.

,

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

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

CATRIDGES.

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

60
60
4

CHISELS.

COMBS.

Socket Firmer.........................................dis 
1
’
Socket Framing......................................dis 
Socket Corner........................................jdis 
1
Socket Slicks....................................... ' dis 
1
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer................. .'.’dis 
4
Barton’s Socket Firmers..................  dis 
i
Cold...............................................  
net
Curry, Lawrence’s................................. dis  40
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis 
25
COCKS.
Brass,  Racking’s ..........................
Bibb’s .................................
B eer..........................
Fenns’..................................
COPPER.

50
40&10
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... ........38ft  30
..  36

14x52,14x58,14x60........................
Morse’s Bit  Stock........................
...dis
Taper and Sti’aight Shank............. ... dis
20
Morse’s Taper  So5nk....................
.. .dis
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................ doz net $.85
Corrugated.....................................
... dis 2Ó&10
Adjustable....................................... ...dis %&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
dis
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
dis
25
American File Association  List........dis
Disston’s ................................................dis
New American...................................... dis
Nicholson’s.............................................dis
Heller’s ..................................................dis
Heller’s Horsp Rasps....................................... dis 33%
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

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

ELBOWS.

DRILLS

FILES.

12 

13 
GAUGES.

HINGES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 
50
20
Maydole & Co.’s....................................dis 
Kip’s ...................................................... dis
Yerkes &  Plumb’s............................... dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel......................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction......................dis 
60
Kidder, wood track............................. dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3..............................dis 
60
State............................................ perdoz,net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4 %  14
and  longer.............................................. 
314
10><4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net 
Screw Hook and Eye %......................net 
8%
Screw Hook and Eye  %......................net 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................... net 
714
Strap and  T.......................................... dis  60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................................  60&10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  Ware..................................  
25
Gruh  1................................................$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................  12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... $2 70, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.....................................list,10  15, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
70
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s................................d 40
Hemacite...................................... 
dis 50
 
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis  66%
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s ......................dis  66%
Branford’s ................................................dis  66%
Norwalk’s...........................................  
.dis 66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s....................dis  65
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s....................................... dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S.&W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........dis  40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................dis  25
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00dis40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LEVELS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

KNOBS.

HOES.

 

NAILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

8d 
2%  2 

MAULS.
o il e r s.  ‘

lOdto  60d............................................$  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
)  lOd 
Finishing 
6d  4d
Size—inches  |  3 
1%
$1 25  1  50  1 75  2 00 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ......................................dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine.......................................dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring...................... dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................dis  50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................ dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  40
Reaper..................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .  ..............................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench.................  
dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...............,...dis  15
Bench, first quality..................................... dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood and
Fry, Acme................................................dis 
50
Common, polished...................................dis60&10
Dripping..................................................$  fi>  6@7
Iron and Tinned.......................... 
dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs...................................dis 50&10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 
9
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PARENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs hie $  ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme.................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne............. ! .11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... !  14 00

ROPES.

73^

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, Vi In. and  larger........... 
Manilla...................  ............. .14
SQUARE^.
Steel and Iron........................................dis  60&10
Try and Bevels...................................... dis  50&10
20
Mitre  .....................................................dis 
„•  _ 
Com. Smooth.
Com. 
Nos. 10 to 14..................................$4 20
$3 00 
Nos. 15 to 17..................................  4 20
3 00 
Nos. 18 to 21................................"  4 20
3 00 
Nos. 22 to 24..............................   ”  4 20
3 00 
Wna  9.K fn 9ft 
’  a ja
Nos .25 to 26.......................... .. 
4 40
3 10 
No. 27...........................................;;  4 60
3 20
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30 inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 fts, $   ft........................... 
In smaller quansities, $   ft........” ” ” ” 
No. 1,  Refined..........................................  
13 00
Market  Half-and-half...................................15 00
Strictly  Half-and-half...................
j ” 
16

tin n e r’s solder.

5U
6

£

TIN PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

10x14, Charcoal...............................  6  00
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal.............................. ’  7  50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal..........V : . ......  650
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal..........................  ’ «50
IX, 
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal...................................6 00
14x20,  Charcoal............................’ 7 50
IX, 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal........................ . . .”  9  00
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool........11 
00
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal..........................1  13 no
IX, 
20x28,Charcoal............................”  16 00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal................  
"  a 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.........................” . 8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ . 
. ”  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........... .'.  *  ” 1350
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to  6 75 

rates.

TRAPS.

 

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ....” .dis  35 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  ....................................................60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s..................................60&10
Mouse,  choker.......................................20c «  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................ $1 26 ® doz
Bright  Market.....................................  dis 60&1C
Annealed Market..................................dis 
70
Coppered M arket..................... .... .dis  55&10
Extra Bailing............................................  (jjg  55
Tinned  Market................................... !.. dis 
40
Tinned  Broom........................ 
]. ^ ft 09
Tinned Mattress.....................................  
ft  8%
Coppered Spring  Steel..................dis  40@40&10
Tinned SpringSteel..................................dis 37*4
Plain Fence............................................... sa ft  314
Barbed Fence.................................................
Copper...............................................new  iist net
Brass.................................................. new list net
Bright......................................................dis  70&10
Screw Eyes..............................................dis  70&10
Hook’s .................................................... dis  70&10
G ate Hooks and  Eyes.......................... dis  70&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine.........................................dis  50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
65
Coe’<kPatent, malleable...................,..dis 
70
Pumps,  Cistern..............................  
dis 
70
85
Screws, new  list.......................................  
  dis50&10
Casters, Bed  and  Plate................... 
Dampers, American................................. 
33%
Michigan  Dairymen’s  Association.

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE OOODS.

WrENCHES.

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

FOSTER, 
STEVENS 
&  CO.,
10 a i 12 Monroe St, 
Jobbers  of
Hardware !

THE

WE  SOLICIT 
Dealers’
TRADE 
AND  NOT 

THE

Consumers’
FOSTER, 
STEVENS 
&   G O . ,

1 )st on  the  unfortunate  Bradley,  who  be-  j 
coming angrily aware of the staring and tit- i 
tering clerks,  hastily decamped,  leaving be- j 
hind him the  general  impression  that  he 
was  either  a  kleptomaniac  or  a  trifle 
loonjv

For months he avoided the store of Smith 
& Gruitz as if  it were an unpaid tailor, and 
when he finally  did  return  he  acquired  a 
knack of dodging in a side door and making 
straight for the  worsted  counter,  hurrying 
through  his  purchases, and  shooting  out 
again.

His Cousin Louise  (who,  by  the  way, 
never got that lace  handkerchief)  remarks 
that Som  doesn’t  ^harmonize”  the  shades 
nearly as well as he used to.

He flattered himself that the story had not 
got round the store,  until one day the pretty 
salesgirl  snatched  her  handkerchief  from 
the counter, where  it  was  lying  near  his 
hand,  and looked  at  him  roguishly  with a 
pair of brown eyes.

Since then the worsted counter  has lost a 

fairly liberal patron.

That look was the last  straw.

A  Decision  of  Interest.

The  following  Supreme  Court  decision 
will be of interest to many cities  snd towns 
in the habit of licensing  every  catch-penny 
show  and  swindling  scheme  that  comes 
along. 

It is as follows:

No town or city has a right to give a man 
a license or permit to sell any waies or mer­
chandise on the side walk  or  on the  street 
in front of the property of  another  person. 
The street in front of a man’s place of busi­
ness is held to be  an  appurtenance  to  the 
lot upon which his store is erected and situ­
ated,  and belongs to him  and  his  business 
as against all  others, except, only the  right 
to travel thereon.

The Michigan State  Department  is  anx­
ious to have all dealers forward  to Lansing 
on the first of each  month  a  report  of the 
quantity of  wheat  purchased  by  them,  so 
that it can form an accurate estimate of  the 
wheat remaining in  farmers  hands  for the 
monthly  official  report.  The  Department 
pays all postage,  supplies  blanks,  and  fur­
nishes reports  to all  who  comply with the 
request.

¿ F T J I D I O  

O O - ,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY  KARDW  ARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

1 0 2   C A N A L   S T R E E T .

It has been in constant use 
for  15  years, with a record 
equalled  by  none.  Wa r­
ranted  not  to  blow down 
unless the tower  goes with 
it; or against any winu’that 
does not disable substantia 
farm buildings;  to be perfect;  to  outlast  and 
do better work than any other null 
.
Asrents wanted.  Address Perkins Wind Mill 
& Ax Co., Mishawaka, Ind. Mention Tradesman.

LlCi

P .  L.

Somers  Bradley  stepped  into  the  large 
dry goods store of Smith & Gruitz to  match 
worsted.

He was a young  man  blessed  (he didn’t 
call it blessed)  with an endless lot of femin­
ine cousins.  He was always  being  sent to 
match something and he felt  that  the fates 
were against him.

It may here be  well to  remark  that  his 
relatives were all  on  the  shady  side of 30 
and undeniably plain.  Somers himself was 
a tall,  slender fellow  of  25, of  the  blonde 
type and an  athlete.  He  had  broken  two 
fingers  playing  base-ball;  otherwise  his 
hands were  perfect.

His heart was in the right place, by which 
I mean that it was  large,  and  had not  yet 
been captured.  His idea of  feminine  per 
fection was a dark and brilliant brunette.

He had never met his her.  He sauntered 
leisurely  along, of  course, not  having  the 
least idea where  the  worsted  counter  was 
(for in spite of his “confounded experience 
he invariably forgot), but  having  plenty of 
time and being  ashamed  to  ask,  he  deter­
mined to walk until he saw  it.

He glanced up and a staring handkerchief 
sign caught  his  eye.  He  remembered  he 
needed some new  ones  and  quickened  his 
walk toward it.

Standing a counter away, examining some 

fancy lace mouelioirs,  stood the  she.

She was what Bradley mentally remarked 

“splendidly regal.”

A  woman would  have  called  her  dress 
loud,  but  the masculine mind designated it 
as “stunning.”

Her eyes were gloriously  black  and  lan­
guishing; rather too languishing as  she saw 
the handsome  young  fellow staring at  her 
with admiration.  Her figure was  fine  and
her dress glove-fitting.

Somers was  not  particularly in  the habit 
of  buying  Duchesse  handkerchiefs,  but  he 
suddenly remembered  that “Louise  was a 
good old girl”  (Louise  was  the  oldest  and 
homeliest  of  the  cousins), and  certainly 
glance from those  glorious  orbs  was  well 
worth the price of the bit of lace.

He was not poor and always flirted  liber-

ally.

He walked up to the counter near her and 
was  glaring  about,  wondering  “what  in 
thunder  he  should  say,” when,  ah,  cruel 
fate! the divinity calmly sauntered away.

As she turned the corner her  visite swept 

to the floor a handkerchief.

“Her own,” thought the benighted youth, 
and,  fortunately, having  sense  enough left 
to glance round to observe  if  any one  was 
looking and seeing no one  was, he  stooped 
and picked it up.

On one  corner,  in faint  letters, were t  e

•

initials “P.  L.” 

“By Jove,”  muttered  he,  “I’m  in luck.
I’ll lay ten to one it’s that bewitching  niece 
of Mrs.  Emery’s.  That  Pauline  Lombard. 
Cad said she had stunning eyes.

Cad was his sister,  and had remarked that 
Miss Lombard’s  eyes ■ were  perfectly  ele­
gant.

In an instant,  still  with  his  find in  lus 
hand,  he had  formed  this  supremely  de­
lightful vision:

Some pleasant afternoon when  calling on 
Mrs.  Emery,  the radiant vision which a mo­
ment ago stood at his side would  glide into 
the room  and  be  introduced.  Then  some 
evening,  at  one  of  her  aunt s  delightful 
theater parties,  the beautiful Pauline s head 
would be near his own,  while she  was run­
ning down the prima donna’s beauty, and he 
might contrive to slip a note into her boquet, 
which of course he would be holding.

And then  a  dimly  lit  conservatory, the 
scent of lielitrope and  those  eyes  would do 
the  business,  and  at  last  the  wandering 
Somers would reach the state of being “set 
tied,” so ardently longed for by his fond re­
lations.
All this (the thought  of  her  possible re­
fusal never enter his  head)  and a thousand 
details hovered  around  the  brain  of  the 
smitten youth.

He walked  along  regarding  the  bit  of 
cambric in his hand with a smile of  tender­
ness, not to say  idiocy.

One of the clerks,  regarding him, remark­
ed to his  neighbor  in  a scornful  whisper: 
“Cracked,  slightly.”

Bradley heard the  whisper, roused  him­
self, and darted a look of the most  disgust­
ed and crushing quality at his scoffer, when 
a panting noise and  the  clicking  of  those 
“wretched heel-plates which  he  did  wish 
shop girls wouldn’t wear,” and the girl who 
had  waited on the “daughter  of  the  gods” 
exclaimed,  in frightened accents:

“Oh,  if you please,  sir,  No.  5  said  you 
picked up one of the unsorted hankercliiefs, 
and was carrying it away. 
I wasn’t  notic­
ing-----”

And,  seeing the puzzled look on his  face, 
she inwardly echoed the uncrushable clerk’s 
verdict.

“Well, well!”  ejaculated  the  astonished 
young man.  “I thought  it  belonged to the 
lady standing there, her  initials  are  on it; 
the one with  black eyes,  you  know. 
I—er 
—I—I was about to take it to her.”
•He had  chosen  a  singularly  slow pace by 
which to  accomplish his  errand  of  mercy; 
but he didn’t think of  that.  The  shop-girl 
did.

He handed the inftocent  cause  of  all  this 
trouble to the girl, who  glanced  at the “in­
itials”  and  smiled; 
in  fact,  she  smiled  a 
great deal.

“Oh, sir, the P.  L.  stands for ‘purelinen.’ 
It belonged to the unsorted pile.  The  lady 
was Mrs. Flarrety, the  brewer’s  wife,  I— ” 
But the remainder of her explanation was

T F » .

BALTIMORE OYSTERS
On and after Sept. 1st., we will  be  prepared 
to  till  all  orders for this well-known brand of 
Oysters, canned fresh at the  packing-house in 
Baltimore.  No  slack-tilled  or  water-soaked 
goods handled.  B. F. Emery will attend to the 
orders  for Baltimore shipment as usual.  Spec­
ial  Express  and  Freight  rates  to all railroad 
towns in  Michigan.  We  have  exclusive  con­
trol York River Brand.

OOLE  &  EMERY,

M a l e  M  a i  Oyster Depot,

3 7   C a n a l  S t.,  G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .

HERCULES !

The Great Stump ana Rock

A n n i h i l a t o r  !

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts.

Pafniers, practice  economy  and  clear your 
land  of  stumps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
Hercules  Powder  Company,  No.  40  Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio!
L.  S. H IT  I ,  & GO., AGTS.

Gtiti,  Aairanos * n

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

If  in Need of A nything  in  our  Lino,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PATENTEES  AND  SOLE  MANUFACTURERS  OP

Barlow’s Patent

M o ll  S ili

Send for Samples and  Circular.

Barlow  Brothers,

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

F. J. DETTENTHALER, Jobber

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This  Baking  Powder makes the  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits. 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced. 
Prepared only by the
Arctic  Manufacturing  Co,,
O Y S T E R S !

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

State Agency for W m . L.  Ellis &  Co.’s

PURE  CANDY

A N D   D E A L E R S   IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
\   Bananas,  Figs,  Oates
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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN

H LEONARD  &  SON

BARGAINS  FOR  PROGRESSIVE  MERCHANTS.

T H E   M f  S T E S V S T .

s

$ 1 7   P E R   O - A - S E .

An assortment of 500 pieces of our GENUINE Patent Fire-Proof  Tin-Ware  to  retail 
at 5  cents each, leaving you a clean profit of $8 per case,  or over  45  per  cent.  on  the  in­
vestment,  Only  “ every day sellers”  in  this  asssortment.  No  dead  stock  to  lay  aside. 
C o m p a re   the contents of this case,  and  you  will  find  more  salable  goods,  far  superior  in 
quality and much lower in price than any other assortment of 5  cent goods.

T l i e   I M I y s t o r y   C a s e   O o r r to r iX L S

24 Coffee  or Tea Pots.
24 3-quari Milk Pans.
24  1-quart Covered Saucepans. 
36  10-inch deep Pie Plates.
12  i-quart Stamped Dippers.
6 8-quart Dish  Pans.
36 Pint Cups,  Patent Handles.

* *  

|  36 Large Graters.
'  36  Mugs,  Patent Handles.
24  gj^  inch Stamped W ash Bowls. 
24  i-quart  H igh Buckets.
24  3-pint Stamped Stew Pans.
24  i-quart Cups.
4  2-quart Milk Pans.

24  13-inch Long Handled Spoons.
I  _  ______: ______t   _____ ____ X T
| 26 Deep Scolloped  Gem  Plates.
|  14  1-pint Stamped Dippers.
I 24 4-cup  Muffin  Pans on  Sheet.
54 g-inch Dinner Plates.
I2 
I  12  1-pint Lipped Measures.

pint Patent Decorated Cups. 

3 0 0   FIBOESS  FOR  S1 7 -

Every Piece a Bargain at 5  Cents.  A  great m any will bring  10 or  15 cents each.

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

Manufacturers of LEATHER AND  RUBBER 
BELTING, and all kinds of  RUBBER GOODS. 
Fire Department and mill supplieg.  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.

Do not make a mistake, but use your own judgement in this matter and we think yon 
will agree with us that it is folly to pay a higher price for a  case*  of inferior  gooiis,  when 
you can buy the same number of articles that you can  GUARANTEE  TO  GIVE  b A lib - 
FACTION in every respect, at lower prices.

TT  LEONA IRSJD Z 8z  SONS.

