The  Michigan  Tradesman.

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GRAND  RA PID S!  M ICHIGAN,  W ED NESD AY,  OCTOBER  7,  1885.

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OVEEALLS, PANTS, Etc., 
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FANCY 
Line  of  TOYS, 
FANCY
CROCKERY,  and
WOODEN-WARE,  onr  own 
importation, for holiday trade.
Inspection solicited.  Chicago  and De­

tro it prices gurranteed.

EDMUND B.  DIKEMAN,

GREW  WATCH  MAREE,

JEWELER,

44  C A N A I.  ST R E E T ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

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R ap id s, M ich.

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

«RAND RAPIDS  «RAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71  CANAL  STREET.

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price-list.

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AETHTO Xt. ROOD,

ATTORNEY,

43  PEARL  STREET,  ROOD  BLOCK, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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CHEMICALS.

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(Successor to P. Spitz,)

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“FEIiMENTUM” can get  samples and full 
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above.

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U O T IO N S

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

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 
mail.  Good shipped promptly to any point 
I am represented on the road bv  the  fol 
lowing  well-known  travelers: 
John  D 
Mangum, A.  M. Sprague, John H. Eacker 
L. R. Cesna and A. B.  Handricks.

24  P e a r l  S treet.  G rand  R ap id s,  3Iich .

TO TEE TRADE.

We desire to call th e atten tio n  of the T rade  to 

o u r unusually com plete stock of

SCHOOL  BOOKS,

SCHOOL SUPPLIES,

And a G eneral Line of Miscellaneous 

Books, Stationery, P aper, Etc.

We have greatly increased ou r  facilities  for 
doing .a  G eneral  Jobbing Business, and  shall 
h e re a fte r be able to fill all orders prom ptly.
We issue separate lists of Slates,  School  and 
Township Books,  Blanks,  Etc.,  which  will  be 
mailed on application.
Q uotations on any article In o u r  stock cheer­
fully furnished.  We have the A gency  of  th e
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M ention th is paper.

WHEAT!

I want to buy Wheat in car 
load lots, one to five cars at a 
time.  Parties having apy for 
sale can find a quick sale and 
better  prices  by  writing  us 
than they can possibly get by 
shipping to other markets.
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NEVER  PATENTED.

History  of  an  Invention  too  Thoroughly 

Original to Work.

From  th e   M ichigan M anufacturer.

You will not find a description of the wa­
ter meter  we  invented  in  any  mechanical 
dictionary.  A perfect knowledge of  its ins 
and outs dwells now only in the  memory of 
one man.  At least I suppose that to be the 
case. 
If Charley has forgotten  how  it was 
put together the invention is forever  lost to 
the world.

Charley enticed me  into  the  scheme. 

I 
can’t say now that  I regret it,  for if  he had 
not  I  should  have  missed  an  experience 
without which no life is  complete.  I should 
never have felt the exhilaration  and depres­
sion of  invention.

My motives  were  not  philanthropic. 

I 
had no idea of benefiting the world when I 
made the investment.  Neither was I ambi­
tious. 
I never yearned to see  my  name  in 
black face letters in encyclopedias.  What I 
wanted was a  bank  account.  Perhaps  the 
reader will grasp the  situation  when  I  ex­
plain that  at the time I was  city editor of a 
country daily. 
I fell into Charley’s scheme 
because it promised affluence.  Charley’s mo­
t i f s  were identical with my own.  He pre­
ferred a bank account to  an  undying name.
It was Charley’s invention,  and he let me 
into it gradually,  as one might open little by 
little a door  leading  from  the  bottomless 
pit into the  kingdom  of  heaven.  Perhaps 
he thought the glories of  the  scheme would 
dazzle my poor eyes—perhaps he was afraid 
I never cared to en­
I would  give it away. 
quire  what  his  idea  was. 
Inventors  are 
cautious.  Charley was an inventor.

After I came to know about it  we  talked 
it over nights,  while the printers in the next 
room were howling for  copy  and  swearing 
that every correction on  every proof was an 
alteration.  Charley had other  schemes  for 
astounding the scientific world, but we chose 
the water meter.

He was also at work  on  a burglar alann, 
an electric  clock  and  an  improved  steam 
best.  The burglar alarm  was  his particu­
lar hobby, but somehow lie never seemed to 
meet with  proper  encouragement  when he 
solicited men of capital to aid  him in bring­
ing it out. 
I remember how discouraged he 
looked  one  day after  a bloated  aristocrat 
who had made a  fortune  in  pine  land  had 
been urging him to call  the  burglars  of the 
ountry together and  demand  from them  a 
oyalty  on  every  alarm  introduced.  He 
¡pent an hour  explaining to the pine prince 
just how the machine would  go  off  on  the 
slightest  provocation,  but  utterly  failed to 
disabuse his mind of the  idea  that the  in- 
ention, if generally introduced, would be of 
more benefit to burglars than any  one  else, 
and that, inconsequence, tlie inventor should 
be rewarded by them.

From the first I was  enthusiastic  on  the 
subject of the water meter.  Some  city liatl 
at sometime offered a reward of  $5,000  for 
the invention of a water  meter which could 
be manufactured for five  dollars,  and I was 
afraid someone would  secure  the  prize be­
fore we could complete the  details of Char­
ley’s idea and get the  model  made. 
I was 
to furnish the ready money and Charley was 
to  supply  the brains,  but we worked the de­
tails out together.  I am afraidjwe used more 
white paper in sketching  water meters than 
in making copy.

Time and again our plans  were  changed 
by the most  trivial  causes.  Now  Charley 
awoke in the night to find himself  provided 
with a new  scheme  by  a  dream,  Now  I 
caught a dim  idea  of  how  an  imaginary 
valve or wheel  could  be  made  to  measure 
the amount of water passing through it with 
the  lower  pressure  equal  to  that  above 
Then we arrived at a mutual  understanding 
regarding tlie motion, but could not agree on 
thé means  of transmitting the count  to  the 
clock  work outside.

One thing we  never  disagreed  on.  We 
were always unanimous as to  the  amout of 
royalty to be demanded,  and as to  the man 
ner in which the fabulous  sums  to be  real 
ized were to be expended.  I remember  now 
that a steam yacht  occupied  a  conspicuous 
place in our  plans,  and  that  a  secondary 
consideration  was  a  daily  newspaper 
which all  advertisers  were  to  be snubbed 
most unmercifully.  We were to  drift  over 
in  our  yacht 
all 
and  use 
to  get 
even with the politicians!  Every night din­
ing the blissful period we  went  home  with 
dreams of a future  wherein  all  our  hope 
were to be realized and all our enemies were 
to be overcome!

the  daily  newspaper 

the  watery  world 

At last,  one  memorable  day in  autumn, 
we completed our drawing and appropriated 
the,  to us, extravagant snm of  five  dollars, 
for the model. 
I can give now  only a faint 
idea of the interior  of  the  machine  which 
was to revolutionize the  water  meter  busi­
ness.  The precious apparatus was designed 
to stand on end and there  were two  valves 
—one to let tlie water hi  and  the  other  to 
let it out. 
I think it was  to be the  duty of 
the inpouring streams to force the first valve 
open and the duty of the first valve to  close 
the second,  so that a constant motion should 
be established.  How these articles, of their 
own evil  minds,  most  miserably  betrayed 
the trust imposed in them  will be seen later 
on. 
I can’t say now  how  we  intended to

provide for the  hundred  and  one  articles 
such as fish,  rags, weeds and blocks of wood 
which are generously  given  away to water 
consumers in large cities, but  we had some 
plan to  exclude  them  from  the  delicate 
mechanism of our model apparatus.

How secretly we went about  making  our 
model!  Our  invention  was  too precious a 
thing  to  entrust  to  the  care  of  envious 
plumbers and model-makers.  Every plumb­
er’s shop in this  city had  the  honor of con­
tributing a portion of the  needed materials. 
How we pounded and filed  and  screwed to 
get each  article  into  it  proper  position at 
last!  Then the packing  about  the  slender 
needle|whichjwas to  connect  the  oscillat­
ing (?) valve arm in  the  interior with  the 
clock work  on  thejjoutside!  The  general 
effect of the completed  article  was  not ar­
tistic, but we would not  have  exchanged it 
for a gold mine.  Like all  inventors  in the 
first  flush  of success (?) we  imagined our­
selves lifted as far above the toils  and cares 
of  earth as it is possible  for  an unlimited 
bank account to lift  anyone,  and  we  were 
correspondingly happy.

We chose a solemn,  sunny  Sunday morn­
ing for the  final  test.  We  had  secured a 
permit to tap a city water pipe and  the ser­
vices of  a  plumber.  The  test  was to be 
made in a dark ctoset,  where  no human eye 
could witness onr  triumph.  The  plumber 
was instructed to  cut  the  pipe,  insert the 
meter in the  flowing  circuit  anti leave  the 
rest to us.  Our hearts were  literally in our 
mouths as  lie  performed  his task.  To me 
his stolid,  indifferent  manner  of  working 
seemed  an  insult  to  the  vastness of  the 
scheme.  At last the  connection  was  made 
and I was  dispatched  to  the  basement to 
turn on the water.

I was gone only  a  moment, but  when I 
returned there was no  need to listen for the 
click of valves, no  need to watch  the  tiny 
needle for signs  of  motion.  Charley’s face 
told the story.  The miserable  plumber had 
even deprived us of the  privilege of supply­
ing the child we  had  reared  with so much 
care  with its first breath of life in the shape 
of a stream from Coldbrook.  His hand had 
turned the faucet.  His eyes alone had seen 
the faint flutterings of  its brief life.  There 
was a malicious  smile  on  his  face  as he
athered up his tools and  went  away,  leav 
mg us alone with our grief.  We tried to ex
lain to each other how such an  unheard of 
evil could have happened,  but our  explana 
tions had no  power to  make the  meter go, 
There stood the needle,  just  half  way be­
tween the limits of its short  stroke, and we 
could  hear  the  water  rushing  like  mad 
through the valve  which  we  had  decided 
time and again would be obliged to move at 
regular intervals!  An equilibrium had been
stablished inside!
We never made another model.  The  ap 
propriation was exhausted.  Charley’s ideas 
drifted into the channel of  telephone inven 
tion and the  wretched  plumber  soon  after 
met  retribution in  tlie  shape of a lingering 
death from lead poisoning.

A l f r e d  B.  T o z e r .

He Bought Them Cheap.

It was at a certain country hotel in North 
ern Michigan.  The single stranger who sat 
down at dinner was amazed when  the wait 
er handed him a printed bill  of  fare  which 
began  with oyster  soup  and  clam chowder 
Mid ran  down to four kinds of pie and choc 
olate ice cream.

“I’ll take oyster soup,” said the guest. 
“Y-e-s, but we haven’t  got  any,” replied 

the waiter.

“Very well,  give me clam  chowder.”
“We are out of that,  too.”
“Then bring  me  baked  whitefisli,  fried 
sausage,  Saratoga  potatoes,  French  wheat 
rolls, ribs of beef and a cup of coffee.”

“We haven’t got any sir.  All  we’ve  got 
is beef steak,  b’iled taters, and baker’s bread 
and coffee.”

At the-last moment  the  landlord entered 

the room, and the’guest called out:

“See here,  landlord,  but  w hat  sort  of a 

trick is this?”

“What?  Oh, that bill of  fare.  My dear 
sir,  let me  explain.  My uncle  kept a sum­
mer resort  hotel,  and  he  failed.  He had 
30,000 bills of  fare  on hand,  and 1 bought 
them at private sale for $2.  These are hard 
times—very  hard—and  we  must  utilize 
everything,  and keep  up  style  at  the same 
time.”

He Had Another Brand.

“Have you the  “Rise of  Silas  Lapham?” 
asked a y oung  lady from  the  city of  the 
clerk in a country store where they kept  al­
most everything.

“I dunno whether we’ve  got  any  of that 
particular brand,  but we’ve got  some all-fir­
ed good rice, jest the same.”

From the few  data  already at hand it is 
estimated  that  the  growth  of  population 
for the entire country,  since the last census, 
is not far from 20 per cent.  This  would be 
about 10,000,000 for each half decade or 20,- 
000,000 when the next census is taken.  We 
would then  number  70,000,000  souls,  our 
population in 1880 having  been  50,000,000. 
This would be double the  present  popula­
tion and would  almost  equal  that of  Ger­
many and France combined.

Money and Morals.

H. R. Lowrie in the C urrent.

The world is the arena of conflicting ideas. 
Some tend to elevate  man,  to* give impetus 
to  thought,  and  to  advance  civilization. 
Others exert influences baneful to the human 
sensibilities, hinder intellectual activity, and 
produce effects counter to  the  ultimate per­
fection  of  society.  Each  period  of  the 
world’s history  shows  one, or one  class of 
these ideas,  to be  dominant.  Consequently 
each has had its part in  the  history of man 
and the development  of  mind.  When  the 
ideas of learning,  of progress, and of moral­
ity have been in the ascendancy, rapid steps 
have been taken toward  a  higher  plane of 
living.

When opulence,  display and  wealth have 
constituted the pre-eminent aim of a people, 
progress has been slow, justice and morality 
forgotten,  and  the  march  of  Christianity 
checked.

As  long  as  the  Mediterranean  States, 
which filled so large a place  in  the  world’s 
history,  sought moral, political and intellec­
tual  improvement,  so  long were their insti­
tutions permanent and their growth rapid— 
so rapid,  indeed during the reign of law and 
rirtue that, while the  dawning  of  a single 
century  opened  upon  rude  barbarism,  its 
eventide  displayed  the  magnificance  of a 
high civilization.  With  wealth  as  the aim 
of life began the reign of inexertion, selfish­
ness and sensuality, which are  not compati­
ble with political  equity,  social  justice and 
lawful moderation.

The  philosophy  of  wealth,  whicli  is an 
outgrowth of civilization,  is  yet imperfectly 
understood. 
It represents the  muscle  and 
It  lias  been and is a 
brain of former ages. 
prime factor in the world’s  movements. 
It 
may make or  destroy. 
It  may  be a power 
for good or for evil.  Properly used, next to 
?ctual force; it is the  agency  that has 
moved and does  move  the world.  The de­
sire of  its possession  is  co-extensive  with 
man’s history.

The distinction between incurn and tuum 
has been  clearly  recognized from  the  days 
of the patriarchs,  who fed their flocks  upon 
a virgin world  down to the present.

Wealth is only an evil  when  its uses are 
preverted  or contrary  to moral  principles. 
When the rights of the people are disregard 
edand their claims ignored, when the idea of 
possession  becomes  more  prominent  than 
the idea of right,  accumulation  is  a  wrong 
and riches an oppression.  Let  the  “golden 
rule”-which but voices tlie sense of a nornial 
humanity—be observed and  the evil  would 
cease.  Financial panics would  be impossi­
ble.  Capital and labor would  be  twin  sis­
ters  in  the  production  and  division  of 
wealth, in the maintenance of the good, and 
in tlie  promotion  of  virtue  and  happiness. 
When it becomes the chief  aim  and ruling 
power of life,  law  is  disregarded  and the 
demands of  humanity  neglected. 
It  then 
becomes  the  worst  of  tyrants,  knowing 
neither restrain nor  conscience.  Wealth is 
desirable and  legitimate,  but  should be es­
teemed as a means  and  not as  an end. 
It 
contains no value in  itself;  but  as its  true 
use is kept in  view  or  disregarded  it  be 
conies a means  of  happiness,  an agency of 
progress,  or an engine of  destruction.

Before the Christian era  the  world was a 
chaos of warring nations contending  for su­
premacy  and  possession.  Man’s  guiding 
passion was gain.  We  look for  noble  and 
humanitarian deeds in those  times and find 
but few.  Tlie  principle  of  equity had not 
yet exerted its influence  largely  upon  the 
people.  Without  doubt  the  rising  of  the 
Star of Bethlehem dates the most important 
event in the history of mankind.

Since that morning when its light directed 
the wise men acrosss  the  Persian plains to 
tlie humble birthplace of the world’s master- 
teacher,  its rays keeping  pace with the cen 
turies, have guided the forces of civilization 
through wrong  and  barbarism.  Since that 
time tlie principles of right-living have been 
gradually unfolded,  and  under  their  influ­
ence the world has beeen grandly  progress­
ing.  The inordinate desire  of  wealth gave 
way before the progress of  thought and the 
coining of Christianity.

Intellect may plan,  wealth  may  execute, 
but the plan and  execution  to  be of  worth 
must be in accordance with  moral law. 
In­
tellect and wealth may sit upon  the throne, 
but  morality  must  be  the  motive  power. 
Nations have not fallen for need of intellect 
or lack of  wealth,  but  because  of  the ab­
sence of moral principle  whicli  determines 
the use of both.

Our highest good  should  be  the aim  of 
life,  and that is found in the highest good of 
our fellows.  Let our ideas be  high and our 
philosophy of living  will  be  commensurate 
thereto.  Make,  on  the  other hand,  wealth 
the object of our supreme desire, and all our 
efforts aided by craft and  ingenuity,  are di­
rected toward  its  attainment,  regardless of 
the means. 
It becomes the  dominant  pas­
sion, the leading  incentive,  the  controlling 
motive.

Hence it is  easily  understood  why  men 
filling honorable  and  responsible  positions 
so  readily  fall.  They  subordinate  all 
other desires  to the  hope of  gain.  Fiuan 
cial success with them is  the  only standard 
of morality.  They risk  fortune  reputation 
and honor.  They stop at no suffering; they

pause before  no  calamity;  they  hesitate at 
no danger.  By their transactions the nation­
al  conscience  is  enfeebled,  if not  ruined; 
the standard of  right  subverted;  ordinary 
business  imperiled; and  the  prosperity of 
our nation endangered,  if not  destroyed.

Out of this grows a false  standard  of  so­
cial life and  men  are  esteemed  for  what 
they have and not for what they are, forget- 
getful of the  old  truth  that  conies  to  us 
stamped with tlie official  sanction  of  three 
thousand years:  “There is he  that niaketh 
himself rich yet hath nothing.”  The social 
atmosphere became prevaded with immoral­
ities,  deceptions and frauds.  The good, the 
pure and  tlie  true  are  shoved  ruthlessly 
aside for the gross, the sensual,  and the  ab­
normal.  This  is  not  new.  Thousands of 
years ago Solomon and  the  sages  nurtured 
in pagan philosophy gave  utterance  to the 
same  thought.  And  many-sided  Shakes­
peare makes it the groundwork of his grand 
conception,  “Tlie Merchant of Venice.”

Social materialism has ever worked coun­
ter to the elevation  of  the masses, and  has 
usually been antagonistic  to any scheme for 
bettering  their  condition.  The  laborer of 
England,  the peasant of  France,  the serf of 
Russia,  in their hopeless  poverty groan un­
der the heavy burden which social material­
ism imposes.

Whatever is  of  worth  or  value  in  the 
world is due to law  in  its  highest  embodi­
ment.  On the  other  hand, who  can  com­
pute the sum of misery and suffering inflict­
ed by the tyranny of ill-gotten  gain,  unhal­
lowed and misused wealth,  which  tramples 
beneath its iron heel all principle, all honor, 
all charity.

Lawfully  gained  and  rightfully  used,  it 
contributes to our  happiness  and  success, 
j and is a ministry of  good.  While  not  the 
guiding power,  for that  is  grounded  alone 
in morality,  it  is a  grand  impelling  force, 
beneficial  or harmful  as the  end  sought is 
good or evil.  Wealth  is  always  to.be re­
garded as  a  servant,  never  accepted  as a 
master.  As a servant it is the  steady wind 
that wafts the ship into  the  desired haven; 
as master it is the fierce gale that drives the 
vessel through the angry, tumultuous sea to 
inevitable destruction.  Its possession affords 
opportunities for golden deeds.

Let if be sought,  then,  as a  means of do­
ing good, and getting  good  rather  than  as 
tlie base instrument of selfish  indulgence or 
unholy passion.

Couldn’t take  a  Joke.

‘Little Jake” Seligman, of East Saginaw, 
who has made a couple of hundred thousand 
in clothing and  banking,  is  of  exceedingly 
diminutive  stature,  very  vivacious,  and 
loves a good joke.  While in East  Saginaw 
last summer a reporter called at the office of 
Tim Tarsney, who lias had the congression­
al clothes  of  R. G. Horr  cut  over  and  is 
wearing them.  While  there,  “Little Jake” 
came in and roundly upbraided  Tarsney for 
the scrape he had  got  him  into.  Said  the 
diminutive Israelite:

“My friend Tarseny have a vay ven some 
mans say,  ‘Mine  wife  haf a leetle paby,’ he 
ask dot man,  ‘Who do  you  suspect?’  And 
den  somepody  laughs.  So I  say  auf my 
mind,  ‘Dot  vash  a  goot  choke; I try  dot 
choke mineself the last time I got a chance. 
Now yooust a half  an  hour ago I meet von 
Sherman friend und he  say to  me,  ‘Shake, 
mine wife make me a bresent  of  von leetle 
poy last  morning, uiul I say,  ‘Ish dot  so? 
who do you suspect?’  Und  dot  pig  Sher­
man veller he crab me  py mine  goller  und 
he shade me  rount  like  noddings,  und  he 
say,  ‘You  infernal  leetle  Chew!  you  say 
somedings apout mine vife und I proke your 
heels mit your neck,  confount you!’  I don’t 
try dot chokes some more,  Tim.  You are a 
crate pig veller und they  much  can’t shake 
you aroundt; but I got done.”  And “Little 
Jake” dropped into  a  chair  and  gazed re­
proachfully at Tarsney, who rested bis duo­
denum over a table and gave  vent  to howls 
of laughter.

Animals That  Blow  Their Noses.

Somebody says that  “Man is the only an­
imal that blows  his  nose.”  The  alligator 
has a nose nearly two feet long, yet he never 
blows it; the  elephant  can  reach  over  his 
nose and tickje  his hind legs,  and he  often 
does, but he never blows it.  The blue-nosed 
baboon has a  eorulean  proboscis  of  which 
the noblest animal must  feel  proud,  but it 
goes unblown.  The  double-nosed  pointer 
has immense capacity  for  blowing,  but he 
never  will;  and  the  oyster,  whose  nose 
reaches clear around to  his  back,  refrains 
from exercising it.  Man alone has to reach 
to the height of a pocket handkerchief,  and 
proudly waves  his  bandana as a  sufficient 
proof of his superiority.

Cabinet  work  of  a  finer  description  re­
quires a more than ordinary lustrous polish. 
The following is recommended  for  delicate 
work:  Of linseed  oil, half a pint,  and  the 
same quantity of ale,  the  white  of  an egg, 
one ounce of spirits of wine,  and  one ounce 
of spirits of salt. 
It should be  well shaken 
before used and a little should be applied to 
a soft linen pad,  and lightly nibbed off witli 
an old silk handkerchief. 
If kept in a  bot­
tle well  corked,  this  polish  will  keep  any 
length of time. 

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A JOÜKNAli DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and tafactu rin g  Interests of the Slate.

9.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Term s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates m ade know n on application.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  7,1885.

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Oroa/nized at G iand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—L ester J . Kindsre.
V ice-President—Chas.  H. Leonard.
T reasurer—Wm. Sears.
E xecutive  Com m ittee—President,  V ice-Pres­
ident and T reasurer, ex-offlcio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. H aw kins and R. D. Sw artout, two 
years.
A rbitration  Com m ittee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
Putnam , Joseph Housem an.
T ransportation  Committee—Sam uel  Sears, 
Geo. B. D unton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, A rth u r 
Meigs, Wm. T. L am oreaux.
M anufacturing  Com m ittee—Wm.  Cartw right,
E.  S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening 
of October.
R egular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  even­
ing of each m onth.

VST  Subscribers  and  others,  w hen  w riting 
to   advertisers, will confer a favor on  th e pub­
lisher by  m entioning th a t they saw th e adver­
tisem ent in th e colum ns of  th is  paper.

“ M U S K E G O N ’S  F U T U R E .”

F. II. Holbrook,  one of  Muskegon’s most 
enterprising  citizens,  sends  the  News  of 
that city a couple of columns of  interesting 
facts and prophesies relative to “Muskegon’s 
Future.”  Mr.  Holbrook  takes  the position 
that Muskegon is to be the  future  commer­
cial and  manufacturing  center  of Western 
Michigan,  basing his belief on  the fact that 
she has the best harbor on the East shore of 
Lake Michigan.  Mr.  Holbrook’s  system of 
reasoning  is  perfectly  lucid,  and  is  suffi­
ciently forcible to appeal to the  good  sense 
of any unprejudiced reader; but it lacks one 
essential  element—it  asserts  what  can be 
done under  other  circumstances,  and is not 
based on what has been accomplished in the 
past  under  existing  circumstances.  That 
Muskegon  has  great  natural  advantages, 
none wilt deity; but she  is  equally unfortu­
nate  in  another  respect,  for  the  industry 
which has been her  principal  support—the 
slaughter of  pine—is  demoralizing  in  its 
operations  and  influences,  and  has a ten­
dency to unfit  men for  the  more  practical 
phases  of  business  life.  The  successful 
lumberman is seldom  equally  successful in 
any other branch  of  business,  and it neces­
sarily follow's that he must continually make 
a change of location,  in  order  to follow the 
pursuit which he is best  capable of  turning 
to profit.  This  means  anything  but  per- 
manency-anything but life-time investments. 
The secret of Grand  Rapids’  success is due 
to the fact that her  leading  manufacturing 
operators are  here for  life,  and  that  their 
fondest expectations are to  build up  estab­
lishments which shall be  made even strong­
er  by  their  children  and  grand-children. 
In the case of the lumber business, this con­
dition  is  reversed.  The  ambition  of  the 
lumber operator is to cut his  timber as rap­
idly as possible,  and seek new fields of con­
quest.  In the mean time no genuine “home 
feeling” is developed,  no pride of home and 
surroundings prompts him  to  make invest­
ments which will redound to the  social and 
commercial  advantages of  the  place. 
It is 
true that  Muskegon  has  made  several  at­
tempts at manufacture  in  lines  foreign  to 
the lumber business,  but  the  disastrous re­
sults which have attended  nearly  every ef­
fort of the kind have  had a  tendency to dis­
courage further ventures.  In Grand Rapids, 
on the other hand, success instead of failure 
has been the rule,  and men with  capital are 
ever on the alert for investments which will 
yield adequate returns.

So far as the jobbing  trade is  concerned, 
Grand Rapids will probably continue to lead 
her sister cities in Western Michigan.  With­
in a territory circumscribed as to extent and 
containing a considerable  proportion of  un­
developed  country, 
the  Valley  City  has 
gradually gained strength and prestige until 
she now takes rank  with  the  leading  dis­
tributing centers  of  the  country—has  be­
come, in fact,  a first-class market.  Wheth­
er Muskegon can ever attain similar distinc­
tion is a question for the future to settle.

In point  of  population,  Grand Rapids is 
taking rapid strides  in  a forward direction. 
Judging  by the  experience  of  the  past, 
which shows a doubling  of  the population 
every decade,  it is plain to foresee a  popula­
tion of 100,000 people in 1900.  Can Muske­
gon show an equal  rate  of  increase in the 
past,  and equally good  prospects for the fu­
ture?

Grand  Rapids’ lack of  water  transporta­
tion  is  as  much  a  matter of regret to  our 
people as Muskegon’s  superior  facilities  in 
this respect are a source of gratification to the 
inhabitants of the Sawdust City.  Had Grand 
Rapids been  possessed  of  Muskegon’s ad­
vantages in  this  respect,  the  Second  City 
would have  been  the  metropolis  instead. 
Grand Rapids has shown how much can  be 
accomplished  without  water  facilities,  and 
it remains  for  Muskegon  to  demonstrate 
how well she  can  improve  the  advantages 
which have  been  denied  her  sister  city. 
That Muskegon is bound to take  rank with 
Jackson,  Kalamazoo  and  other  growing 
towns,  no careful observer  will  attempt  to 
deny; but her people must  never forget that 
great natural advantages are not a source of 
wealth unless developed  to  their fullest ca­
pacity—that the best and  most enduring re­
sults comfe from  individual  effort, when at­
tended to concerted action and directed by a 
common purpose.

There is strong talk of removing the Man- 

celona iron furnace to St.  Ignace.

The above, from the Detroit News, is only 
partially correct.  Mr. Otis  confided  to  his 
friends some time ago  that a removal  from 
Mancelona  had  become  a  necessity,  but 
Mackinaw City—not  St. Ignace—is the  ob­
jective  point.  Mr.  Otis’  determination  to 
leave Mancelona is not due to any action on 
the part of the people of Mancelona nor to a 
waning of his  regard  for  the place; on the 
other hand, he claims that a change in loca­
tion is forced upon  him  by the  uncompro­
mising position assumed by the Grand Rapids 
& Indiana  Railway.  Three  years  ago  he 
was able to  dispose  of  his  product  for $20 
per ton,  $4 of which  went  to  the  raihvay 
company for  transportation.  Owing  to the 
present condition of the  market,  he is com­
pelled to sell his pig  iron  at $15 a  ton,  and 
he naturally asks the  railway  company to 
bear with him in the  general  shrinkage of 
values and reduce their freight rates propor­
tionate to  the  decline  in  price—in  other 
words, give him a  $3 rate.  This  the  man­
agement  refuses  to do,  in  consequence of 
which  Mr.  Otis  is  unable  to place his pro­
duct on the market in competition with fur- 
uacemen  who  have  the  advantage  over 
him  of  better 
facilities. 
It  is  not  within  the  province  of  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n  to determine whether Mr. Otis’ 
demand is just or unjust, but  the refusal of 
the railway company to readjust rates in ac­
cordance with  his  suggestion  has  brought 
about the determination  before  referred to. 
Besides a considerable  saving  in the trans­
portation of the ore,  a removal to Mackinaw 
City means water communication with many 
of the Western  iron  markets  during  the 
summer and competing  lines  for all winter 
shipments.  Mr.  Otis will conlinqe to main­
tain his  coal  kilns at  Mancelona,  but  the 
furnace and all which  pertains  thereto will 
undoubtedly be removed  to  the  Straits be­
fore the close of another season.

transportation 

The Grocers’ Association of  Muskegon is 
now an accomplished  fact.  The  character 
of the officers elected  at  the  last  meeting 
gives good  ground  for  the  belief  that  the 
policy of the Association will be aggressive, 
and that the  advantages  resultant upon the 
organization will be  all  the  most  sanguine 
could wish.  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  has but one 
suggestion to make,  and that is the  election 
of a transportation committee—not so much 
for active service as to serve  as a menace to 
the  railways  and  to  demonstrate  the  fact 
that the retail trade of  the  town  is  united 
and will act in concert on all matters  affect­
ing the general good of the trade.

A gentleman who  was  recently  in  Mil­
waukee states that a “Slaughter Sale of the 
Colvin Boot and  Shoe Stock” is  advertised 
on one of the principal  business  streets of 
that city. 
Is it possible  that  the “sale” of 
the T.  N.  Colvin stock,  at Big  Rapids,  was 
fraudulent in more senses than one, and that 
instead of going to its supposed  destination 
at Bear Lake,  it is now being slaughtered at 
Milwaukee by Colvin  himself?

Before this  issue  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
will have reached all its readers,  it is hoped 
that the first steps' toward  the  organization 
of the  retail  trade  of  Grand  Rapids  will 
have  been  accomplished.  T h e   T r a d e s­
m a n  has agitated the  subject  for  over two 
I years,  and is glad to see  the  manifestation 
of an active interest in the  matter  all  over 
j the State.

The project to build a  railway  from  St. 
Ignace to  Sault  Ste  Marie is  one  which 
Grand Rapids business  men  can well afford 
to  encourage.

A M O N G   T H E   T R A D E .

IN  THE  CITY.

j  Smith & Barrett, lumber dealers, are clos­
ing  out.

J. Vossen  succeeds  J. Yossen  &  Co.  in 

the dry goods business.

W. F.  Gibson  &  Co.  have  a  3K  pound 

potato in their show window.

Gus. Begman has engaged  in the grocery 
business at Bauer.  The stock was purchas­
ed here.

G. W. Toms succeeds A. Y.  Chapman  in 
the  fruit  and  confectionery  business at 65 
South Division  street.

F.  Blount,  the  box manufacturer,  has ad­
mitted F.  C. Miller to partnership in thebus- 
! iness, and the firm name  is  now  Blount & 
j Miller.

E.  F.  Belding has engaged  in the groceiy 
business  at  Sparta.  Cody,  Ball  &  Co., 
Clark, Jewell & Co. and  Hawkins  &  Perry 
furnished  the stock.

Dr.  R. A.  Schouten, who  removed to this 
city from Ilollad about a  year  ago, has re- 
i turned to Holland  and  re-established  him­
self in the drug business there.

Ira O. Green has formed  a  copartnership 
with F.  E.  Rice,  formerly  of  the  firm  of 
Rice & Moore, and  engaged  hi  the  buying 
and shipping of  apples  and  potatoes  at  30 
North Ionia street.

All but two of the creditors of the Valley! 
City Manufacturing Co. have  accepted  the 
offer of 35 per cent,  in full settlement  Un­
less they come to time within the next sixty 
! days,  the property will be  sold  to the high­
est bidder and a new  company organized to 
succeed to the business of  the old  concern.
Edward Telfer, of the  firm  of  Telfer  & 
Brooks,  has arrived in the  city and some of 
| the stock is also here.  The  balance  of the 
I stock and the machinery  will  arrive during 
the present week.  O.  S.  Brooks,  the  other

member of the firm, will  arrive in  about a 
month, at which time the  firm  expect to be 
able to  begin  business.  No  arrangements 
have been made yet as to  office  and  travel­
ing force.

The busines men of  St.  Ignace and Sault 
Ste  Marie  are  canvassing  the  project  of 
building a railway in a  direct  line  between 
the  two  places.  The  length  of  the  line 
would be about  65  miles,  and  it  could be I 
built without making many heavy grades or 
building many  bridges.  The  road  would 
open up a section of fine farming  land,  and 
give  Sault  Ste  Marie  communication  with 
the outside  world during  the  time  naviga­
tion is closed,  whereas  the  town  is  now 
practically  shut  up  during  the  winter 
months.

The jobbers and retailers  at  this  market 
have been  waited  upon  in  behalf  of  the 
Knights of Labor and asked  to  discontinue 
the sale of Royal  baking  powder,  because 
the manufacturer of the  powder  advertises 
in the New York Tribune,  a  paper  which 
refuses to employ union  workmen.  So  far 
as heard from,  there is a disposition to sub­
mit to the demand. 
It is expected  that the 
next thing in order will be an onslaught up­
on non-union  cigars,  and  large  stocks of 
such  goods  are  accordingly  being  gotten 
in.

same by sending up from Holly several fam­
ilies,  and fencing  in  and  clearing  up  the 
land,  and putting on it a flock of  fine  wool 
sheep.

Frank H.  Lathrop writes as  follows from 
Lathrop,  Delta  county:  “I am  located at 
Lathrop Station,  on the  Chiciy?o  &  North­
western Railway,  thirty  miles  north of Es- 
canaba,  and in a good  location for the man­
ufacture of pine,  hemlock,  maple  and black 
birch lumber.  We have a very fine  quality 
of black birch, the amount being almost un­
limited,  suitable for furniture.  What Lath­
rop needs most  now is some  practical busi­
ness man from Grand Rapids or  elsewhere, 
with a little  capital,  to point  out  the way 
and help keep  the mill running.”

Greenville Call: 

In  1884  R.  J.  Tower 
sold to Brower & Calkins, of Coral, machin­
ery to the amount of  $800,  the  purchasers 
agreeing that the machinery  should  belong 
to Tower until  it was paid for.  As soon as 
Brower & Calkins  got  the  machinery  into 
their  hands,  they  mortgaged it to  Warren 
Brower, who transferred it to John II.  Alt- 
house, of Coral.  As  Altliouse  refused  to 
give up the machinery  on  the  mortgage,  a 
suit was brought  against  him  and tried in 
the Circuit Court at Stanton.  The jury ren­
dered a verdict in favor of Tower, giving him 
a verdict for $500.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Peter Wingarden has engaged in  general 

Hart.

trade at Vriesland.

The Big Rapids grocers  are  agitating the 

question of early closing.

John Bond succeeds  John  B.  Weaver in 

the hotel business at Freesoil.

S.  E.  Young has bought the drug stock of 

Roller & Kingsbury,  at Edmore.

The C. R.  Mabley clothing stock at  Ionia 

has been sold to Andrew Graham.

Geo. R. Hoyt  succeeds  John  S.  Hoyt in 

the dry goods business at Owosso.

Harvey  &  Hoden  succeed  A.  L.  Potts 

in the meat business at Constantine.

C.  W.  Hathaway  succeeds  Waterman 
Bros,  in the restaurant  business at  Luther.
Perry A.  Powers,  who  recently  assigned 
at Muir,  has paid a dividend of 10 per  cent.
Spencer & Peister,  boot and shoe  dealers 
at Petoskey,  have dissolved, Peister confin­
ing.

Austin & Godsmark  succeed  A. J.  Gods- 
rnark in the  commission  business at Battle 
Creek.

Geo. G.  Bogue has been appointed receiv­
er of the hardware  firm  of  Hilsendegen & 
Lavin,  at Detroit.

C.  Kloeckuer  &  Co.,  general  dealers  at 
Hancock and Phoenix,  have  closed  out  the 
stock at the latter place.

Hiram Coykendall,  the  Allegan  crockery 
merchant, will shortly begin  the erection of 
a two-story brick building,  28)4x85  feet  in 
dimensions.

Elk Rapids Progress:  S.  Yalomstein in­
tends establishing a store at  Hancock,  with 
his son  Max  as  partner,  after  his  return 
from New York.

Crane & Wood, the Adrian clothiers, have 
purchased the stock of  their strongest com­
petitor,  Dan  Benedict,  and  hereafter  the 
two  stores  will be  connected  and  run as 
one. 

Manistee Times:  J. A. Johnson will  put 
a  stock  of  dry  goods and groceries in  the 
store now occupied by  Mrs.  Steadman  as  a 
millinery emporium,  as soon  as  the  neces­
sary arrangements can be  perfected.

.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

The flouring mill at Bangor is to be chang­

ed to roller process.

Chas. Dion has engaged in  the  manufac­

ture of candy at  Hastings.

Marshall & Kniffin, handle manufacturers 
at  Lowell,  have  dissolved,  Marshall  suc­
ceeding.

Mr. Morton,  the  Cedar  Creek  miller,  is 

extending his mill flume  twenty feet.

Riverside  is  about  to  organize  a  stock 
company for the manufacture  of  cider  and 
flour barrels and berry boxes.

The striking barreI-lioox>ers at Greenville, 
having become tired of being idle, have gone 
back to work at the old wages.

J. Jenks & Co., of  Sand  Beach,  will  im­
mediately build a new elevator  and flouring 
mill to take the place of the  ones  recently 
destroyed by fire.

Big  Rapids  Herald:  C.  D.  Crandell is 
now manufacturing shingles on  the land he 
lumbered last winter,  and is said to be mak- j 
ing a fine article.

Manufacturers of sash,  doors  and  blinds 
for the wholesale trade seem to be shunning 
large cities,  and seeking places of  manufac 
ture favorably located near saw mills.

The first saw mill in  Michigan was erect­
ed about  fifty years  ago.  At  that time it 
was estimated that there were  150,000,000,- 
000 feet of white pine standing in the State.
Greenville  Independent:  Wright  Bros. 
& Co.  are  building  an  elevator  at  their 
flouring mill. 
It will be 30x30  feet,  and 35 
feet high,  and it is  expected  to  hold  when 
completed 34,000 bushels of wheat.

Sands & Maxwell, of Pentwater, have pur­
chased 5,000 acres of white  pine and  cedar 
land  near  Prentice  Bay,  Mackinac county, 
for $20,000.  The price includes a saw mill, 
situated  on  the  land.  Messrs.  Sands  & 
Maxwell value  their  purchase at $100,000.
Cheboygan Tribune:  Mattoon  &  Robin­
son are talking of  moving  their saw mill to 
some locality on the lake shore.  A new foun­
dation is needed for the mill  and  they  have 
almost made up their minds to put the foun­
dation down on the lake shore and move the 
mill  down.

D.  H.  Stone,  of  Holly,  has  purchased 
1,000 acres,  all the  lands  owned  by  S.  S. 
Wilhelm & Bro.,  in  Yates  township,  Lake 
county.  Mr.  Stone proposes  improving the

STRAY  FACTS.

R.  F. Waller has opened a wagon shop at 

Frank  B.  Jones  succeeds  Disbrow  & 
Jones in the manufacture of cigars at Plain- 
well.

Mrs.  O.  L. Andress  succeeds  to  the pro­
prietorship  of  the  McKinnon  House,  .at 
Cadillac.

Judgments  for  $1,021.26  and  $5,087.09 
have been rendered against the Sparta Mills 
Co.,  at Sparta.

W.  B.- Nicholson,  who  has  operated fur­
niture stores at  Whitehall  and  Montague, 
has sold the  latter  establishment  to A.  F. 
Bray.

The Riverside Storage Co.  and  the River­
side Truck Co.,  at Detroit,  have  been  con­
solidated under the  style  of  the  Riverside 
Storage & Cartage Co.

Henry H.  Boergert,  of  the firm of  Boer- 
gert & Koss, whose tailor shop, at East Sagi­
naw  was closed by creditors last week,  has 
mysteriously disappeared.

The business houses  of  Greenville,  with 
one  exception,  form  two  straight  parallel 
lines,  and the  citizens  claim  it  to  be the 
handsomest little city in the State.

Plainwell Press:  Frank B. Jones,  late of 
the firm of  Disbrow &  Jones,  is  starting a 
new cigar factory over Bailey’s  drug  store, 
and will employ three or four hands.

A Dorr correspondent writes:  Sommer & 
Harp will soon begin  work on  the building 
known as the John  Downner  place.  They 
intend to start in trade  as  soon as they can 
get in shape.

J.  P.  Scranton & Co. and  J.  E.  Watson, 
lumber dealers at Detroit, have merged their 
business  into  a  stock  company,  with  an 
authorized capital stock  of  $150,000.  The 
corporation will be known  as  the  Scranton 
& Watson Co.

The  Gripsack  Brigade.

The fasiiion this year is  for  thicker order 

| books.

C. H. Bayley  has  received  a  fine Elgin 
gold watch  from  the  P. J.  Sorg  Co.,  of 
Middletown,  Ohio.

C.  II.  Bayley has his eye on a  Newfound­
land  pup,  which  he  contemplates  taking 
with him on his trips  through  the  Upper 
Peninsula.

The improvement in  trade  prospects  has 
induced incipient nervous prostration among 
some of the travelers on account  of  the  di­
latory  manner  in  which  their samples  are 
getting ready.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   notes  the  following 
new arrivals in the dog line: Jas. A. Crooks- 
ton, Russian  pug; L.  M.  Mills,  black-  and 
tan thoroughbred  (cost $5);  R.  B. Hyman, 
white bull  pup.

this  time, 

the  non-experienced 
traveler  starts out  on  a  five  weeks’  trip 
without heavy  underwear or  an  overcoat, 
and is brought home on the  sofa of a parlor 
car after a four weeks’ siege  of  pneumonia 
or malarial  fever  as  a consequence of  his 
forthwitlmess.

About 

J.  T.  Lowry,  Secretary  of  the  Michigan 
Commercial  Travelers’  Association,  sends 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  the following, under date 
of the 3d:  “At the  regular  monthly meet­
ing of the M.  C.  T. A.,  held  this  evening, 
the following were elected members  of  the 
Association:  Eugene  L.  Devereaux,  Ban­
croft,  Chas. P. Bissell,  Eaton Rapids.

The  following  communication  to  Max 
Mills mysteriously came into the possession 
of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n :  “Mr.  Mills—You 
were asking me if I knew of any  black and 
tan pups.  One of our  blacksmiths has some 
fine ones.  He told me to write you and tell 
you you could  have  one  for  $5.  They are 
six weeks old.  Now if you want one let me 
know and I will tell him to keep one one for 
you.  They are thoroughbreds.”

The Travelers’  Protective'Association,  as 
a national organization,[seems  to  be in the 
throes of dissolution.  This  state of  affairs 
has been brought  about  by  an  unfortunate 
quarrel over the removal of the  Association 
headquarters  from  Cincinnati  to  Chicago. 
So far as Michigan is concerned, the nation­
al organization will  be  replaced  by a State 
association,  composed  of  1,000  Michigan 
members of  the  parent  organization.  The 
Michigan  Division  T.  P.  A.  will  then  be­
come the Michigan T.  P. A.

W.  F.  Robinson,  representing  Reed & 
Gamage, fish packers  and jobbers of  Glou­
cester,  Mass.,  was in the city last week.

T H E   M E N   O N   T H E   R O A D .

The  Difference  Between  the  American  and 

English  Traveler.

From  the Chicago H erald.

The life of the  traveling  man  is  not the 
one continued round of pleasure that is pop­
ularly supposed.  If he be married and have 
domestic ties it is far from pleasant.  Coun­
try hotel life to commercial  men  is  miser­
able enough for a man who  has  a  place he 
can call home. 
It  is  the  same  old  song 
from year’s end  to  year’s end.  Tumbling 
into the ’bus at the  depot,  the  drummer is 
jolted to the hotel,  where  the  clerk stands, 
pen in hand,  and if he knows  the new arri­
val will give the customary shake and small 
talk.  He will be affable  as  can  be for the 
first few minutes,  but  after  he has secured 
the guest’s signature he will treat him  with 
the utmost indifference.  He  has  others  to 
go through this business  jjerfonnance with. 
When lie is ready to leave the clerk assumes 
the polite again,  and makes  a  point of pre­
fixing Mr. to his name  when  he  gives the 
change out of the bill.  At present the trav­
eling mar  is allowed  on  an average  about 
$5 a day expenses.  This  is  a  fair  allow­
ance, even where  two  trunks  are  carried. 
The principals never  expect  to  pay  much 
less. 
If it comes  much  over $5  they  will 
grumble.  The tourist  gives  a  detailed  ac­
count,  if required,  showing  that  the  hotel 
man in exchange for poor entertainment has 
collared the bulk,  and  the  traveler  puts up 
with bad food and  accommodation  and the 
blame every time.  “The whole thing,” says 
a  man who has grown gray  in  the  service, 
“so far as hotels are  concerned,  should  be 
taken in hand by the principals,  who should 
meet and establish a department and author­
ize a representative to correspond with hotel 
men in every town,  asking  for  the  lowest 
rates from  each  hotel, the  lowest  bidder 
agreeing,  in return for  commercial  patron­
age, to fit up his hotel for their accommoda­
tion.

Some of the best  informed men to be met 
are  the  experienced  traveling  men,  who 
have never lost an opportunity in their trav­
els  of  obtaining  information.  Than  the 
well-traveled  experienced  American  com­
mercial man  there is no  sharper,  better in­
formed or more  attractive  specimen  in the 
world.  “I had an  opportunity  of  judging 
of the  difference  between  the  commercial 
men of England and America,”  said  a man 
who had visited nearly every civilized coun­
try in the word.  “In  England  young men 
are seldom to be met  with on  the  road, the 
representative  generally being a  tried  and 
trusted man of middle age,  who has worked 
his way up from  inferior  positions in  the 
service of his firm.  He devotes himself en­
tirely to one line,  and on leaving one  house 
he would never  think  of  joining  a  house 
where he would have  to  handle a  different 
line.  He starts out with his trunks as here, 
but as  English  railways have no system of 
checking,  he is ocliged at  the  end  of  his 
journey to fish out his  trunks,  on  which he 
has  some  distinctive  mark,  from  among 
heaps of other  baggage and to  point  them 
out to a railway porter, who is alwaas in at­
tendance.  He  then  hires  one  of  several 
common porters to have them put on a hand 
barrow and taken down-town  to  one of his 
customers stores. 
If  the  customer is in he 
will  “open up” in his  store  and  then go to 
the next,  and so on. 
In this  way  he  gets 
through a town in a short time as compared 
with the American,  and in most cases with­
out ever going to the hotel first.  But when 
he does get to the hotel he makes up for lost 
time. 
In English country hotels there is no 
register for the commercial traveler—in fact, 
there is  no  necessity for  one,  for  they all 
know' him and about the time he is due.  He 
will first on entering have a chat and a joke 
with the barmaid.  He then joins his fellow 
travelers,  who will  be  sitting  together in a 
comfortable carpeted room, called  the com­
mercial room.  At 6  o’clock they all adjourn 
to their own commercial  room for  the feed 
of the day (dinner),  and  they  sit  down  to 
soup,  fish entree, joint,  and pudding or pas­
try washed down with wine,  beer  or  stout. 
The eldest man  ahvays carves and presides, 
and this is the  time  the  fun  begins.  All 
‘shop’ is  carefully omitted  over  the  meal, 
and jokes, anecdotes,  laughter and fun wax 
fast and furious.  All this tends to promote 
digestion of the enormous quantities of good 
solid food  which  will  quickly  disappear. 
As the cloth is removed  each  man  has his 
slippers  (provided by the  house)  brought to 
him, and he settles down into a comfortable 
position for the evening.  Pipes are lighted, 
toddy brought in and  business  and  general 
topics discussed.  Some of the older hands, 
it is true, will sit  and  smoke  eight  or ten 
pipes, with as many  glasses of hot  Scotch j 
or Irish, before retiring,  and  as it  is nearly 
always midnight and very often later before i 
there is a break-up,  it is  consequently 10 or 
11 o’clock next morning  before  they  begin ; 
business—that is about the time  the Ameri- j 
can has done half his day’s work.”

“But doesn’t this  hilarity  interfere  with 
the next  day’s  business?”  ventured  the re­
porter.

“Not at all,” was the answer.  “This re­
union  every evening  and  interchange  of 
ideas is as much  a part  of  the day’s  work 
to English traveling men  as  selling  goods. 
It tends to  neutralize  home-sickness,  and 
makes them feel happy.  The drinking part 
of the business is not  nearly  so  pernicious 
as one  would  think,  because  they  never 
drink  like  the  Americans,  on  an  empty 
stomach  or  before  dinner,  and  afterward 
only such stuff as  will  help  to  digest their 
food and make  them  feel  good,  and  then 
only when  (if spirits)  it is well diluted wtyh 
water.  There is a special low tariff for com­
mercial men at hotels  which  averages  (cer­
tain sorts of  drinkables at  meals  included)  I

! about $1.75 a  day. 
In  doing  business  the 
| Englishman is slower  than  the  American 
: and he is not so independent.  He is pomp- 
I ous in his manner  of  transacting  business, 
and that exclusive and  don’t-offend-my-dig- 
nity style is ever present  with  him in busi­
ness.  Customers in England  being always 
treated in this stand-offish,  deferential way 
always expect it,  but the  American custom­
er,  educated by the traveler to the short and 
sharp style would laugh outright at the ver­
bose method of the Englishman,”

“The Englishman seems to getting slower 
and more pompous,” he added,  “the Ameri­
can  (New  England,  perhaps,  excepted)  is 
getting brighter and more vivid and imagin­
ative and to resemble closer the Frenchman, 
except  that  the  American  has what  the 
Frenchman has not—ballast—in all he does, 
owing,  doubtless, to the latent English blood 
in his  veins.”

A   Question  of  Insurance.

Messrs.  Dingman & Bovvers, general deal­
ers at McBride,  write  to  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
for  information  on 
the  following  legal 
point:
In your column on  “Brief  Digests of  De­
cisions  in  Courts  of  Last  Resort,”  many 
valuable to know. 
things appear which 
We have a  case and should  like  your opin­
ion and rulings  of  courts  bearing  upon  it. 
The Hanover  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  of  New 
York,  has an  agent  at  Ionia.  This  agent 
employs men to solicit insurance, furnishing 
them with blanks, etc.  His  agents  fill out 
these blanks,  specifying  rate, amount of in­
surance desired  or agreed  upon, conditions, 
etc.,  and  secure the  signatures  of  parties 
to the  same.  Does  it  not  follow  that  the 
act of these men is the act of  the agent—as 
much so as if he did  it  himself?  And  can 
the company legally waive responsibility on 
the ground that the agent  did  the  work by 
proxy.
We were victims of the fire which burned 
our town last May, and  victims of the Han­
over Fire Insurance Co.,  also,  and not being 
content  to  submit  quietly  to  an  outrage, 
would like to hear your opinions on the sub­
ject.  The sixth  day  after  the  application 
was  executed,  and  before  any  policy had 
reached  us,  the  fire  burned  us  out.  The 
company  ignores  all  responsibility  in  the 
matter.  As we intend to push the matter to 
the very  bottom,  we  desire  to  go  to  work 
intelligently,  so that work once done on the 
case will not have to be done over again.

While T h e   T r a d e s m a n   is  always  glad 
to favor its patrons  by  answering  all  legal 
points submitted to its editor,  it does not set 
itself  up  as  infallible.  Especially  is  this 
tine of questions like the above,  which may 
hinge upon a technicality rather than gener­
al merits.  The most important point in the 
above  query  is  omitted—that  is,  whether 
Dingman & Bowers paid the  amount of the 
premium by cash or  note,  or  the  agent ac­
cepted their promise  as  a  waiver  of  pay­
ment. 
In the  latter  case,  or  in  case  the 
premium was paid, Dingman & Bowers have 
a good case against the  insurance  company 
and will undoubtedly win. 
If  they did not 
pay the amount of the premium  and did not 
agree to pay on the  delivery of the policy or 
at some other specified time, the probabilities 
are that the case will go against them.  Re­
garding the liability  of  the  men  employed 
by the  authorized  agent  of  the  company, 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  is inclined to the opinion 
that the company is not bound by their acts, 
but that the agent who employed them is sq 
bound, and is consequently liable for any loss 
occasioned  through  transactions  made  on 
their  representations.  An  instance  which 
illustrates  this  point  occurred  in this  city 
several years ago.  H.  M.  N. Raymond was 
soliciting  insurance  for  Holden  &  Aspin- 
wall, who are the  agents  for  several  com­
panies.  From  Wm.  Harrison,  the  wagon 
manufacturer, Raymond  took  an  order for 
$1,000  insurance on a  certain  property in 
any one of  the  companies  represented  by 
Holden & Aspinwall.  In reporting the mat­
ter to  the  agents,  the  latter  neglected  to 
make a note of the same,  in  consequence of 
which no policy  was written.  As Harrison 
had an account  with  Holden &  Aspinwall, 
the question of premium  did  not enter into 
the matter.  The property in question short­
ly afterward  burned  up,  and  Harrison  de­
manded the $1,000.  Raymond remembered 
telling  Holden &  Aspinwall  to  write  the 
policy,  and the latter  also  recalled  the cir­
cumstance; but as no company was mentioned 
in such connection,  it was impossible to put 
the loss on any one of the companies  repre­
sented by the firm,  and Holden & Aspinwall 
accordingly wrote their  own  cheek  for the 
amount.

Purely Personal.

O.  W.  Blain  is  expected  back  from his 

trip through the Northwest on Thursday.

Heihan G. Barlow  has  returned from his 
fortnight’s vacation,  refreshed  and  rejuve­
nated.

Geo.  T.  Warren,  of  the firm  of  Geo.  T. 
Warren & Co., cigar manufacturers at Flint, 
was in the city last week.

Henry Newton,  vice-president and  secre­
tary of the J.  K. Armsby Co.,  Chicago, was 
in town last week.

Harry  L.  Thompson,  representing  Hills 
Bros.,  foreign  fruit  dealers at New York, 
was in town last week.

A.  C. King,  with  Carter,  Hawley & Co., 
tea importers of  New York  and  Chicago, 
was in the city last week.

Ed. A.  Bradford,  the  White  Clqud  gro- 
ceryman,  was  married  on the  1st  to  Miss 
Maggie Billings, of Fremont.

J. E.  Taylor,  representing  Thos.  Roberts 
& Co., jobbers in canned goods at  Philadel­
phia,  was in the city last week.

Alfred J. Brown went to Richmond, Ind., 
last Friday,  with a shipment of apples.  He 
returned Tuesday,  well satisfied with the re­
sult of  the trip.
Ben.  W.  Putnam took  advantage  of  the 
fine weather the last three days of last week 
to  drive up  the  Newaygo  branch as far as 
Trent, returning home by way  of  Coopers- 
ville  and  Berlin.  He.was accompanied by 
his wife.

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STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Y ear—Geo. M. McDonald. Kalamazoo. 
Two Y ears—F. H. J . V auEm ster.  Bay City. 
T hree Y ears—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
F our Y ears—Jam es V ernor, Detroit.
Five Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
P resident—O ttm ar Eberbttch.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
N ext place of  m eeting—A t D etroit, Novem ber 
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3,1885. 
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F FIC E R S .

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amazoo. 
sing.
Rapids.

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First V ice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  K al­
Second V ice-President—B.  D.  N orthrup,  Lan-
-Frank  W urzburg,  G r’d
Third Vice-President- 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
T reasurer—Wm. D upont, D etroit.
Executive  Com m ittee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. G undrum . W. H. Keller,  F.  W.
Next  place  of  m eeting—A t D etroit, Tuesday. 

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October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGA NIZED  OCTOBER 9, 18S4.

O F F IC E R S .

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President—F rank J . W urzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. W hite.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H enry B. I  airehild.
Board  of  C ensors- President,  3 iec-President 
and Secretary. 
T,
Board  of  T rustees—The  President,  W m.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L.  W hite. 
Committee on P harm acy— Hugo Thum ,  M.  B. 
Kimin, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—Isaac w atts,  u .  xi.
Richmond, Ja s. S. Cowin.
Committee on T rade  M atters—H. B. Fairchild, 
Jo h n  Peck, Wm.  H. V anLeeuw en.
Regular  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in 
each m onth. 
A nnual  M eetings—F irst  Thursday evening in 
November. 
Next M eeting—Thursday evening, N ovem bers, 
a t “‘The T radesm an” office.

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PATENT  MEDICINES.

Inside  Information  Regarding  the  Busi­

ness.

There  are  5,000  proprietary  articles of 
home manufacture in our market.  Perhaps 
500 of these are of  importance.  Barely fifty 
are or can be run as  an  indépendant  busi­
ness.  The  proprietary  medicine  trade  of 
the United States  amounts to  about  $22,- 
000,000  annually.  Of  this  $10,000,000  is 
expended for advertising.  The  proprietors 
divide the  profits of  $5,000,000  annual re­
turn.

ORIGIN  AND  NAME.

What was the  origin  of  “patent  medi­

cines?”

The quotation marks are not  used at ran­
dom.  There really are  not,  nor have there 
been witiiin the memory of men now living, 
patents asked for  or  granted  upon  medi­
cines. 
[A small proportion  of  proprietary 
medicines are patented.—Ed.] 
It was only 
in the infancy of  the  business in tills coun­
try before  experience  had  pointed out the 
safest and best methods  of  conducting that 
business that  men  sought to  secure  their 
rights by means  of  a  patent.  They  soon 
found that the disadvantages of this process 
more than counterbalanced  its  advantages. 
In order that their rights should be best pro­
tected it was essential  that  the  formula of 
their preparation should remain a secret.  It 
was found that as soon as it became  known 
it also became,  in a degree  for  which  there 
was no practical remedy, common property. 
To obtain a patent  ui>on  a  mixture it was 
necessary to state  the  ingredients,  the pro­
portions and all the rest of  the information 
which made the compound  valuable  to the 
owners.  The expedient was  soon substitu­
ted therefore of  copywriting a trade  mark. 
The courts protected in a measure the trade 
marks  from 
they 
were uot protected by Federal  law.

infringement, 

though 

Although lawsuits and litigations without 
number have followed in the  wake  of  this 
custom,  it was  found so  much preferable to 
the other mode of protection that it soon be­
came universal.  This  change  took  place 
early in the century.

The introduction of patent medicines was 
not so  much of an innovation  and does not 
partake so much of the nature of  a new de­
parture as  may at first sight  appear.  Pat­
ented medicines were in fact  the outgrowth 
of the ancient custom of self-doctoring.  Do­
mestic medicines are as  old as  civilization. 
The roots and herbs that the old ladies used 
to hang up among the rafters of the kitchen 
have come down to us almost directly in the 
form of many popular  proprietary  articles. 
It was a natural step from  the use of  these 
articles in the homestead  to  their  sale as a 
patent medicine  to the  general  public. 
It 
was no  more  than  presumable  that  some 
shrewd Yankee  who  found  a certain  rem­
edy so valuable in his own household should 
attempt to make money  out of  it. 
In  this 
way the patent medicine originated.

But  these  were  necessarily  simple,  pri­
mary remedies,  and only a few of them have 
survived in any form  to  our  day.  Modern 
proprietary  medicines  were  undoubtedly 
born of the physician  wlio,  after  using  the 
formula for years,  perfecting it, eliminating 
its errors and adding to  its  virtues,  finally 
sold the  secret  or  himself  launched it out 
upon its broader mission.

The proprietary  medicine  business as we 
know it to-day is not of very ancient origin. 
It is rather the growth  of the last half  cen­
tury,  and it is certain,  so far at least as this 
country is concerned,  that  the  business  as 
carried on prior to that  time was  mainly of 
an unimportant  and  ephemeral  character. 
Most of our long established and best known 
medicines were first  heard  of  under  their 
present  names  between  1830  aifd  1840, 
though there are a few which  are  consider­
ably older.

SUCCESS  AND  FAILURE.

The patli of the  progress of  the  proprie­
tary'  article  industry  is  strewn  with  the

wrecks of the men who made a gallant fight, 
but were unable to keep  their  heads  above 
water.  Not one article in a  thousand  suc­
ceeds even when backed by a generous  cap­
ital.

It will be a surprise  to many  people who 
have  read  in  the  newspapers  about  the 
“$200,000,000 made by the patent  medicine 
men in a single year”  to  learn  that  of  the 
5,000 proprietary articles  now  on  the  cata­
logues of dealers not  fifty  could  be  run as 
an independent business.  The large number 
of the remainder have  been  bought  up by 
wholesale  dealers  and  druggists  and  are 
made to eke out the  profits of another busi­
ness, while over 4,000 represent  the wrecks 
of men who have spent from $5,000 to $20,- 
000 each in advertising,  in trying to make a 
demand for a preparation.

Within  the  present  generation,  perhaps 
five  men or  firms  in  this  business in the 
country have made, to average,  say $1,000,- 
000 each.  There may be from ten to twenty 
others who have  made in the aggregate an­
other $5,000,000 in the  aggregate  net  sav­
ings of all  the  others  in  the  trade in the 
country together.

THE  LARGEST CONSUMERS.

The American  public  probably buy more 
“patent medicines”  in  proportion  to  their 
number than any other people in the world. 
The reason is to be found in the proportion­
ately greater size  of  the well-to-do  middle 
classes.  There can  be  no  doubt  that  the 
middle class does  buy  the  major portion of 
such articles sold.  Neither  the  very  rich 
nor the very poor buy the ready-made  med­
icines.  To the latter class the  door  of  the 
free hospital and  the  free  dispensary is al­
ways open.  The former  can  afford  to call 
upon the physician for  the  most trifling in­
disposition.

A  PIONEER.

Swaim, who  died  a  few  years  ago at an 
advanced age, may  almost  be  said to have 
been the pioneer of the  modem  business in 
this country,  though there was  already con 
siderable activity in  this  direction  in Eng 
land.  He was  neither  a  physician  nor a 
druggist,  and  knew  no  more  about  medi­
cine than the  average  citizen.  He  was by 
trade a book-binder.  One day a  receipt for 
the king’s evil dropped  out  from  between 
the pages of a volume he  was  at work  on 
Swaim was troubled with this  disorder,  and 
had tried all  known  remedies in vain.  He 
had the prescription prepared  and it  cured 
him.  He then, over  fifty  years ago, began 
the manufacture of the article, and the price 
he set on it was $16 a  bottle.  This  exorbi­
tant figure appears to have been justified by 
the prices then prevalent in England  where 
patent medicines  were  already being  sold. 
Other articles started  here  about  that  time 
were  advertised  at  proportionately  large 
sums.  This was on the cry that the demand 
would be limited. 
It was  soon  found that 
the consumers of  patent  medicines  would 
embrace the great  majority  of  the  middle 
classes.  Prices were  reduced,  and  to-day 
proprietary articles retail at  between  twen­
ty-five cents and $1 per  bottle.

THE  EXPENSES  AND  PROFITS.

To get at the profit to  the  manufacturer, 
it will be most  convenient  to  consider  the 
dollar article,  which is sold  to the trade for 
$7 per dozen.  Here is a  trifle  over  50  per 
cent, of the retail  price.  And  generally it 
may be  said  that  the  manufacturer  gets 
about  half  of  what  the  consumer  pays. 
Striking a broad average,  about  one-fourth 
of the manufacturers’  receipts go  into ma­
terial and labor. 
It  is  estimated  that a $1 
article  will  contain  twelve  and  one-half 
cents’ worth of material,  labor and tax.  To 
this has  to be added rent,  freight,  express, 
clerk hire, and such  expenses,  which  will 
nearly double the amount, making it at least 
twenty-four cents.  Last, but not  least, the 
advertising bill lias to come  out of what re­
mains of the manufacturer’s receipts.  This 
is variable and depends upon  the age of the 
article. 
If  the  medicine  is  comparatively 
new,  it may be a  great  deal  more  than the 
return. 
If it is an old established medicine 
it is at least twelve  and  one-half  cents on 
the dollar bottle.  This  leaves  twelve  and 
one-lialf cents out of the dollar as the  man­
ufacturer’s  profit.  Somebody  else  lias got 
the rest.  The  jobber  buys  at $7  and gets 
his fifteen off. 
It costs  him 6 per  cent,  to 
do his business.  He  therefor  makes 9 per 
cent on the transaction.  The retailer is sup­
posed to make 35 per  cent,  on  eaeli  sale. 
The consumer’s dollar paid for an establish­
ed medicine,  is therefore found to be divided 
up in til is way:

EXPENSES.

Cost of m aterial, labor and  expenses..........24
A dvertisin g........................................................ 1234
Jobber’s  expenses............................................ 0334
R etailer’s  expenses.......................... ............... 21
Total  expenses............................. ............  61c

PROFITS.

M anufacturers’  profit..................... ................1334
Jobbers’  profit.................................. . . . . . . .  
.Öü^
R etailer’s profit................................ .................21
Total  profits................................... ............  39c
Many of the smaller  country  newspapers 
subsist almost  entirely on  the revenue  de­
rived from this source. 
In the last  twenty 
years proprietary  medicine  advertisements 
have paid the  newspapers  fully $100,000,- 
000,  a sum many times greater that the pro­
prietors themselves  have  saved  during  the 
same period.

[Continued next week.]

The Gazette des Hopiteaux  describes  the 
case of a woman  who  drank a  pint of ker­
osene.  The dose nearly killed her,  and she 
was saved only after great suffering  and an 
active and severe  treatment  prolonged  for 
ten days.

“What kind of pills do  you  want, 

little 
boy?” asked the druggist.  “Plain or sugar- 
coated?”  “Mister,  I want the  kind  that’s 
whitewashed.”

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society,
At the regular  monthly  meeting  of  the 
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical  Society,  held 
at T h e   T r a d e s m a n   office  last  Thursday 
evening, the following representatives of the 
profession  were in  attendance:  President 
Wurzburg,  Secretary  Escott,  Isaac  Watts, 
Albert F. Hazeltine,  Theo.  Kemink,  II. E. 
Loclier, Miss Locher,  Jas. D.  Lacey, John 
E.  Peck and Derk S.  Kiunn.

President Wurzburg,  to whom  was refer­
red the selection  of  a subject  for debate at 
the next meeting,  stated that he  had decid­
ed to ask  the.  Society  to  discuss  the best 
methods of keeping poisons and precautions 
against accidents.  The  discussion  is  to be 
an open one, and  an  especial  invitation  is 
extended to all  drug  clerks  to  attend the 
meeting.

Dr.  Watts made a summarized  report of 
the proceedings of the National Retail Drug­
gists' Association,  to  which  convention he 
was a delegate.

Secretary Escott was asked  to  present  a 
subject at the next meeting for discussion at 
the subsequent meeting.

The meeting then adjourned  until Thurs­

day evening,  November 5.

Unique Orders Received by Druggists. 
The following  very  original  orders  are 
taken  from the scrap book of a well-known 
druggist:

Knew Mowed hay perfume.
1 powd Boricks.
Sitern Veneler [citronella].
Santantin.
Sweet ancient  [anise].
Uo Ursa of  the leves.
Medacommendum.
U versa leaves.
Dry caluia  [dry calomel].
Nit Boot oil.
Corroze of Supperment.
Rose of Subliinent.
5c woth of  gummerabic.
Pure Extract Cineman.
5c wurth Reacliease.
Tinctur Jesiina  [gelseinium].
25c worth of gross  of  Implements. 
Muradick Acet.
Roll Shell  Saults.
Joco Club Perfumury.
Red Pacific [red precipitate].
Baloinent of Potash [bichromate of potas­
Idafone.
All chohall.
Barum.
Salla Sillia  Acet  [salicylic acid].
Glover Salts.
Burmatgate oil  [bergamot].
Cof medicine.
Effervescence Magnesia.
Brommi  mosesium. 
[Dispensed bromide 
her balls oint ment. 
[Dispensed Brown’s 
Please give me  5 cents  worth  of  Kenille 
Allecampaign root.

of potassium.]
herbal  ointment].
flowers. 

[Dispensed chamomile]. 

sium].

R
Flewid Ex Yeler Pereler.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Dandiline.
“  Yeler Dalk.
“  Burdallt.

Tc Rhue birb each 1 once.
Alkahal to fill 8 ounces.

An Ancient Prescription.

Victor  H.  Middleton,  prescription  clerk 
for Peck Bros.,  lias come into possession of 
a physician’s  prescription  written  in  Ger­
many July 6,  1828.  Translated into English, 
the prescription reads as follows:

For P eter G unther,  m ason  a t  hiedergruen- 

dan,  Ju ly  6, 1828.

R
Tinet.  C hin.......................................aa?
“  .  A u ran ti................................aar
Rhei  V inos.........................aa?
“ 
Syr  R hei............................................aa:
Elix Acid H aller........ ....................   3
M. st. sig. qtts. 40 to 60 3-4 tim es daily.

V o n   U r a n n a , M. D.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

A dvanced—Quinine.
Declined—Castor oil,  alcohol.

ACID S

@

9
Acetic, No.  8......................................
30
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).........
34
Carbolic...............................................
60
C itric...................................................
3
M uriatic 18  d e g .................................
11
N itric 36 deg..................................
O xalic..................................................  12
Sulphuric  66 deg ............................ 
»
T artaric  pow dered..........................  53  &   of>
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................V o x
Benzoic,  G erm an.......................  
T an n ic.................................................

  13

AMMONIA.

C arbonate...............................................15
M uriate (Powd. 22e)..........................
Aqua 16 deg o r  3f.............................
A qua 18 deg or  4 f................................  

balsam s.

C o p aib a...........................................
F ir.........................................................
P e ru ....................................................*
T o lu ......................................................

&

6

40® 45 
40
2  00 
50

BA RK S.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow ............................
Elm,  select.........................................
Elm, ground, p u re ............................
Elm, powdered,  p u re — ................
Sassafras, of ro o t............................. *
Wild Cherry, select..........................
Bay berry  pow dered........................
Hemlock pow dered..........................
W a h o o ........................ .......................
Soap  g round......................................

b e r r i e s .

Cubeb  prim e (Powd 95c)................
Ju n ip e r...............................................   ®
Pricklv A sh ........................................  59

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, p u re ..........
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)................
Lgowood, 54s 
.................
Logwood, 348 
................
Logwood, ass’d 
. . . . . . . .
Fluid E x tracts—25 $  cent, off list.

do 
do 
do 

11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

90
7
60

27
373
9
12
13 
15
14

FLO W ERS.

A rnica..................................................
Chamomile,  R om an........................
Chamomile,  G erm an.......................

GUMS. 

.
Aloes,  Barbadoes........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..............
A loes,Socotrine(Pow d  60c)....
A m m oniac................. • ................
A rabic, powdered  select..........
A rabic, 1st  picked.......................
A rabic,2d  p icked........................
Arabic,  3d picked........................
A rabic, sifted so rts••••••••••••;
Assafoentida, prim e (Powd 35c)
Benzoin..........................................
C am phor...................... .  ..................
Catechu. Is (34 14c, J4s  16c)............
Euphorbium  pow dered...................
G albanum  strain ed ..........................
G am boge...................... .....................
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c)..............
Kino [Pow dered, 30c]......................
M astic................................................
M yrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $4.90)................
Shellac, Campbell’s .......
Shellac,  E nglish..............................
Shellac,  n ativ e...................................
Shellac bleached...............................
T ra g a c a n th ........................................  80
HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES

28®

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

35®
80®

..«D
..25
..40 
..24 
..35 
..25 
..30 
. .25

6  40 
20

H o a rh o u n d .......
L obelia...............
P ep p erm in t.......
R ue......................
S p e a rm in t.........
Sweet M ajoram .
Tanzy  .................
T h y m e ................
W orm w ood.......

C itrate and  Q uinine.................
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s..
Sulphate, p u re  c ry sta l............
C itra te .........................................
P h o sp h a te ..................................

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...........  ....   13
Sage, Italian, bulk (34s & 34s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l........... •••••••  18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  g arb led ..
Senna,  pow dered.............................
Senna tinnivelli.................................
U va  U rsi.............................................
Belledonna..........................................
Foxglove.............................................
H en b an e...........................................
Rose, red .............................................

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2  00
D ruggists’ Favorite  R ye..................... 1 75
W hisky, o th er  b ran d s...........................1 10
Gin, Old Tom ............................................1 35
Gin,  H olland........................................... 2 00
B ran d y ......................................................J ££
Catawba  W ines.......................1*5
P o rt W ines.........................:...............1  35

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

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jen n in g ’s, 2 oz..............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  so lu tio n .... 
Calcined.............................................

37 
2 25 
65

The Drug Market.

To the great  surprise  of  everyone in the 
trade,  quinine advanced  10  cents  an ounce 
on the 1st. 
It was given out by the Ameri­
can manufacturers that the price would  not 
be advanced during the present year,  and as 
most dealers placed reliance in  these assur­
ances,  they  consequently  find  themselves 
more or less bare of stock.  The  demand is 
now very active,  and as the position  of  the 
article warrants it,  the  price is likely to go 
still higher.  Other articles in  the drug line 
are about steady.

In Portland, Me.,  recently,  an  ingenius 
device was discovered for evading the liquor 
law.  A lead pipe was carried  up the chim­
ney to the second  story of  the  house,  and 
investigation showed that it was carried be­
neath the ground across the yard to another 
building 
fully  one  hundred  feet  away. 
Here beneath the floor  in the  second  story, 
were  two  barrels of  beer,  the pipe  running 
up  the  wall to connect with them.

H.  J. Brown,  of Ann Arbor, is mentioned 
as a strong candidate for  the  presidency of 
the- Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa­
tion.  Mr.  Brown  was  nominated for  the 
office at both of the  two  previous  conven­
tions of the Association,  and came very near 
being  elected  at  the  last  meeting. 
It  is 
understood that he would  be  peculiarly ac­
ceptable to the  Detroit members of the  As­
sociation.

Referring to  the  recent  meeting  of  the 
American Pharmaceutical  Association,  the 
Pittsburg Chronicle indulges in the  follow­
ing pleasantry':  “At  the  meeting  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  a  committee 
reported that there are too many drug stores 
in this country  for the  population.  Under 
the circumstances it might  be  well  to shut 
down some of the drug  stores  and give the 
population a chance to increase.”

A stranger is surprised by the  large num­
ber of drug  stores  in  Montpelier,  Vt.,  but 
he need not believe that an unusual trade in 
medicine is the cause.  Vermont  has a pro­
hibitory liquor law,  and  by far  the  larger 
portion of the  drug  traders  in  contraband 
whisky.

O IL S.

Almond, sw eet................... ...............
Am ber,  rectified...............................
A nise....................................................
Bay $   oz...........................................
B ergam ont..........................................
C a sto r..................................................
C roton..................................................
C a je p u t...............................................
C a ssia..................................................
Cedar, com m ercial  (Pure 75c).......
C itro n ella.........................................
C loves....................................... •*••••
Cod Liver, N. F ....................... gal
Cod Liver, b e st..........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W .................................
E rig e ro n ........................ ....................
Firew eed.............................................
G eranium   $   oz.................................
Hemlock, com m ercial (Pure 75c)..
Ju n ip e r  wood....................................
Ju n ip e r  b erries.................................
Lavender flowers, F ren ch ..............
Lavender garden 
..............
Lavender spike 
..............
Lemon, new  cro p.............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ........................
L em ongrass........................................
Olive, M alaga.....................
Olive, “ Sublime  I t a l i a n ................
Origanum , red  flowers, F re n o h ...
O riganum ,  No. 1..............................
P e n n y ro y al........................................
P epperm int,  w h ite..........................
Rose 
oz................................., ........
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1  50)
S a la d ....................................................
S avin....................................................
Sandal  Wood. G erm an...................
Sandal Wood, W. I ............................
S assafras............................................
S p e a rm in t.................................
T a n s y .........................................
T ar (by gal 50c)..........................
W in terg reen .............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)
W orm seed.................................
POTASSIUM .

do 
do 

B icrom ate.................................. V ® 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ... 
Chlorate, cry st (Powd 27c).............. 
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, b u lk .......  
PruBSiate yellow.........\ .................... 

17  @  1834 

45  @  50 
45 
2  00 
50 
2  10
2 00 
75
1  00 
35 
75 
1 20 
1  20
1  50 
6 00 
9  00 
1  60
2  00

50 
2 00 
2  01 
I  00 
90 
1  65 
1  80 
80 
®   90 
3 75 
1  25 
50 
1  30
3  50 
8  00
65 
®   67 
1 00
4  50 
7  00
55
@6 00 
@5 00 
®  12
2 25
3 50 
2  00

14
40
25
3  00
28

65

4  50 
10

ROOTS.

20
A lk a n e t............................................... 
Althea, o u t.........................................  
25
Arrow,  St. V incent’s. . ...................  
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, In 34s and 34s—  
12
Blood (Powd 18c)............................... 
Calamus,  peeled...............................  
20
35
Calamus, Germ an  w hite, peeled.. 
Elecam pane, pow dered...................  
20
10
G entian (Powd  15c).......................... 
Ginger, A frican (Powd 14c)............  11  ®   12
17
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............  
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)...................  
20
Hellebore, w hite, pow dered..........  
20
Ipecac, Rio, pow dered..................... 
1  20
Jalap,  powdered — ......................... 
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............. 
15
Licorice, ex tra  select....................... 
«'
Pink, tr u e ........................................... 
38
Rhei, from  select to  choice...........1 00  @1  50
Rhei, powdered E. 1..........................110  @1  20
Rhei, choice c u t  cu b es.................. 
2  00
Rhei, choice c u t  fingers.................  
2  25

S erpentaria.
Seneka ........................................
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras.........
Sarsaparilla,  M exican............
Squills, w hite (Powd  35c).......
V alerian, English (Powd 30c).

50
60
41
20
15
20

SEEDS.

.. 

.. 

do 

.. 
. 

2  ®

do 
do 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

15
5  @ 6
4  © 434
15  @ 18
1 50
75
15
10
15

12
8g
1  60 
60 
1  60 
1  76 
1  90 
1  75 
Ì  80 
a  23 
&  23 »  20 
40 
45
70
40 
15 
50 
24 
20 
12 
1  10 
50 
45 
1  10 
8 
3 
50 
60
14
15 
90
45  @  70

334©
4  © 434
7  © s
434® 534
10
6  @ 7
14
®2 50 
2 00 
1  10 
85 
65 
75
1  40
2 18 
1  25
50
27
12
45
234® 334
3 © 4
3
45
434© 5
6 © 7
6
O50
00
40
2 GO
00 @9 75
30
50
6 © 7
ltKS3.12
2 00
18
22
18
4 00
12

Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.........
Canary,  S m yrna......................
Caraway, best D utch (Powd  20c)
Cardamon,  A leppee.....................
Cardamon, M alabar......................
C elery...............................................
Coriander,  D e st  English ,r ..........
F e n n e l.............................................
Flax,  clean ......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl  334)................
Foenugreek, pow dered................
M ustard, w hite  Black  10c). 
Q u in c e ....................................
.. 
Worm,  L ev an t..................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25
Nassau 
do 
do 
........
. . . .
V elvet E x tra do 
do 
E x tra Yellow do 
do 
.......
do 
Grass 
........
do 
H ard head, fo r slate u se .................
Yellow Reef. 
.................
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.08) $  g al__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne  Hoffman’s . . . . . ................
Arsenic, D onovan’s solution.........
Arsenic, Fow ler’s solution............
A nnatto  1 ft rolls.............................
A lum ........................................... 
ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............  
A nnatto,  prim e.................................
A ntim ony, powdered,  com ’l .........
Arsenic, w hite, pow dered.............. 
Blue  Soluble......................................
Bay  Rum, im ported, b e st..............
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  B uds............................
Beans,  T onka....................................
Beans,  V anilia..................................
Bism uth, sub  n itra te ......................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................
Blue V itriol  ......................................
Borax, refined (Powd  12c)..............
Cantharides, Russian  pow dered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frican...............
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay 
do  ...
Carm ine,  No. 40.................................
Cassia  B uds........................................
Calomel.  A m erican..........................
Chalk, prepared d ro p .......................
Chalk, p recip itate E nglish............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .....................
Colocynth  apples.............................
Chloral hydrate, Germ an  cru sts..
c ry st...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
cru sts..
C hloroform ........................................  77
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............  18
Cinchonidia, other brands..............  18
Cloves (Powd  23c).............................   18
C ochineal...........................................
Cocoa  B u tte r.........  .........................
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................
Corrosive Sublim ate........................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list.........
Cream T artar, pure pow dered.......
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 ft b o x ..
Creasote..............................................
Cudbear,  p rim e.................................
D e x trin e .............................................
Dover’s  P ow ders.............................
Dragon’s Blood M ass.......................
E rgot _powdered...............................
E th er Squibb’s.
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s ..............
Epsom Salts (bbl.  1%).......................
Ergot, fre sh ........................................
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................
Flake  w h ite........................................
G rains  P aradise...............................
G elatine,  Cooper’s ............................
G elatine, French  ...  .......................
Glassware, flint, 7’) off,by box 60off 
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is.... 
17 
12
Glue,  c a n n e t..........
28
Glue, w h ite.................................i—   16
16  @  20 
Glycerine, p u re ..........................
40 
Hops  34s and 34s............■..................
40
Iodoform  $)  oz...................................
85  ®1  no 
In d ig o ..................................................
®  40 
35
Insect Powder, best  D alm atian... 
@1  00 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes
4  00 
Iodine,  resublim ed..........................
1  50
Isinglass,  A m erican........................
Ja p o n ic a .............................................
10  @  15 
London  P u rp le .................................
15 
Lead, aceta te ......................................
Lime, chloride, (34s 2s 10c & 34s 11c)
8
1  OO 
L u p u lin e.............................................
45 
L ycopodium ......................................
60
M ace....................................................
Madder, best  D u tch ......................
1234®  13 
75 
M anna, S.  F ........................................
60
M ercury.................................;............
2  80®3 05 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W .........$  oz
40 
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .........
10 
Moss, Iceland............................. $  ft
12 
Moss,  Iris h ........................................
30 
M ustard,  E nglish.............................
18 
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  can s.........
23 
N utgalls...............................................
60 
N utm egs, No. 1...................................
10 
N ux  V om ica......................................
45 
O intm ent. M ercurial, 34d................
@  25 
P aris G reen......................................  
18
P epper, Black  B erry......................
2 50 
P ep sin ..................................................
7
Pitch, T rue B urgundy.....................
@  7
Quassia  ...............................................
82  © 87
Quinia, Sulph, P..& W ............ ft oz
82© 87
Quinine,  G erm an.............................
Red  P re cip ita te........................$  ft
28
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................
1  60
Strychnia, c ry st.................................
74  © 78OK
Silver N itrate, c ry st........................
«>«)2
Saffron, A m erican............................
Sal  G lauber........................................
Sal N itre, largo  c ry st......................
10
Sal  N itre, m edium   cry st................
9
33
Sal Rochelle........................................
234
Sal  Soda...............................................
2  15 
Salic in ..................................................
6  50 
S a n to n in .............................................
38 
Snuffs, Maecoboy or Scotch...........
4
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].......................
35
Sperm aceti.........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s —
14
Soap, W hite Castile..........................
17
..........................
Soap, G reen  do 
9
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
11
Soap, 
do 
.........................
14
Soap,  M azzini....................................
28
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...............................
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................
35
Sugar Milk pow dered......................
4
Sulphur, flour.................................... ..
334 
Sulphur,  roll......................................
60 
T artar E m etic....................................
2  70 
Tar, N. C. Pine,  34 gal- cans  $  doz
1  40 
Tar, 
q u arts in tin ..........
85 
Tar, 
pints in tin ..............
25 
T urpentine,  V enice................. ¥  ft
55
W ax, W hite, S. &  F. b ran d ............
Zinc,  S ulphate..................................
Capitol  Cylinder.................................
Model  Cylinder...................................
Shield  Cylinder...................................
Eldorado E ngine.................................
Peerless  M achinery..........................
Challenge M achinery................... .
Backus Fine E ngine..........................
Black Diamond M achinery..............
Castor Machine  O il............................
Paraffine, 25  deg.................................
Paraffine, 28  deg .................................
Sperm, w inter  bleached...................
W hale, w in ter......................................
Lard, e x tra ...........................................
Lard, No.  1...........................................
Linseed, pu re  ra w .............................
Linseed, b o ile d ...................................
N eat’s Foot, w inter  strain ed ...........
Spirits T u rp en tin e.............................

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....50 
....3 5  
....30 
....25 
....30 
....30 
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..1534 
....21 
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HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS 
&C0.,
Druggists I

W h o le s a le

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

ical:
Pauls, Oils, Yarnisiifis,

ELEGANT 

MANUFACTURERS  OF
PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATION 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

T H E   C E L E B R A T E D

Pioneer  Prepared  Paints.

—Also for the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

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

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

tient

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 eustom- 
tomers with PURE  GOODS in this  depart­
ment.  We CONTROL and are  the  ONLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

V in e s   DADE  k  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.

We are also owners of the

Isis’  Favorite  Rye,

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

V A BN ISH ES.

E x tra  T u rp ...

E x tra T urp  D am ar.....................
Japan D ryer, No.  1 T u rp .........

PA IN TS

Bbl
Red  V enetian.............................   154
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.........  154
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda...........  154
P u tty , com m ercial...................   234
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................  234
Vermilion, prim e  A m erican..
Verm ilion, E n g lish...................
Green,  P en in su lar.....................
Lead, red  strictly  p u re ............
Lead, w hite, strictly p u re .......
W hiting, w hite  S panish...........
W hiting,  Gilders*......................
White, P aris A m erican............
W hiting  P a r's English cliff.. 
Pioneer P repared  J aints  —  
Swiss Villa Prepare«  P a in ts..

Gins, BraMies & Fine Wmes.

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,
etc.,  we

..1 10@1 20
..1 ilKflU 70
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00
...1 00@1 10
..1 m u 60
70® 76
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2® 3 
2®  3 
2®  3 
234®  3
”l3@i6  such as  PATENT  MEDICINES 
53®60 
16@17 63a 
634 @T0 
@90 
1  10 
1  40 
1 20@1  40 
1 00@1 20

Mail orders always receive our special and 

invite your correspondence.

personal attention.

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▲ M ERCA NTILE  JOU RN AL, PU BLISH ED   EACH 

W EDN ESD AY .

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

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

Telephone No. 95.

I Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapid»  a* 

Second-ctaee Matter .1

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7,1885.

PRIVATE  LETTER  BOXES.

A Cigar  Merchant who Does a Post Office 

Business.

From  the New York Sun.

In a window of a Third avenue cigar store 

is a small sign which reads:

“Private letter boxes to let.”
A reporter who entered  the  store  yester­
day found  long  rows of  iron  front  letter 
boxes arranged along  the wall  on one  side 
of the store.  The  proprietor, a  small  Ger­
man,  explained his new  branch of  business 
in this  way:

“You see,” said  he,  “I  had a number of 
customers who had no place  to  have  their 
mail sent,  and were therefore  compelled to 
call at the Post Office for it   Some of them 
asked me to allow them to have their letters 
sent to my store.  As  they were  good  cus­
tomers,  I could not  refuse them.  The idea 
of boxes then came  to  me,  and  I put  it in 
practice, and it works well.  Only fifty cents 
a month  is  charged  for a  box. 
In  fact,  I 
could afford to give them  free, it  helps  my 
trade,  as almost every  one  who  has  a box 
buys something when he comes here.

“My customers are  mostly men  who live 
at boarding houses,  and who do  not care to 
have their mail sent where they live.  Some 
married men hold boxes and have their letters 
sent here but that is none of my business. All 
the  boxes  have  locks,  and  the  keys  are 
held  by  those  who  hire 
them.  They 
are  numbered.  When  the  letter  carrier 
brings the letters I drop  them  in  their  re­
spective boxes through a  slit  over the door, 
and no one sees them but  myself.  The let­
ters are simply addressed to my store, and I 
distribute them.”

,  AOEINTS  F O R

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

Wholesale Grocers,
KNIGHT  OF  LABOR  PLUG
WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers)

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

A g en ts  f o r

AM-ROV  CHEESE.

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

“L I  c ; Best 10c Cigar in HicUgan. 
“Common Sense,” Best5c Cigar inMicMgan.
CLARK  JEWELL  &  CO.,

SOLE  AGENTS.

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale latfacters of

PURE CANDY!

AND  DEALERS  IN

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES, 

N u t s ,   E to .

ENTIRELY  NEW
Silver Spoon Baking Powder

8  DOZEN  LARGE  ONE-HALF  POUND  CANS  OF

i)4   DOZEN

iK   DOZEN

1VEN  AWA 

Q4LBJ

1 ) 4   P IN T   P IT C H E R S

Giving to every purchaser a Glass Pitcher or Comport with each can, at 30 cents 

For  Only  $7.50,
WJE3  GHJAH.ANTBE 

The SILVER  SPOON Powder to give entire satisfaction.

Arctic  Manufacturing’  Co.,

G-RANJD  R A P ID S ,  M IOH.

The Artistic View of Dress-Making. 

Rambler in Chicago News.

“Dress-making has its  humorous  side as 
well as  anything  else,”  remarked  a  little 
black-eyed  dress-maker  on  .North  Clark 
street.  “There is the thin woman who w ill 
clress in  snaky  stripes,  the  scrawny  girl 
who insists on a decollete gown,  the matron 
of embonpoint who  pleads  for  flounces to 
the waist, the match-like maiden who wants 
a torturingly  tight  bodice,  and  the  fluffy- 
puffy little body who wants gathers.  But I 
never give in to them,” she  continued, with 
a snap in her eyes;  “I think too much of the 
human race.  I believe we all have one duty 
toward humanity.  Mine is to  keep women 
from committing artistic suicide.  The little 
idiots come into my parlor,  look  at  a fash 
ion-plate, discover  the  picture  of a lady in 
green gloves  holding her  fingers  as if they 
were covered with  molasses-candy, and de­
cide that they want a dress like hers.  Now, 
there are nineteen  chances  out  of  twenty 
that the dress  was  never  meant for her  at 
all. 
If they think so  much  of  dress  why 
don’t they make a  study  of it?  There  is a 
certain rich  lady here, with  the  face of a 
madonna, who came to  me  last  week  with 
goods for a plaid dress! 
I wouldn’t make it 
for her. 
‘Madame,’ I said  ‘you  must  dress 
in gray silk.’  I had my way.  There wasn’ 
a  bit  of  trimming  on  that  dress—nothing 
but draperies—and  she  looked  like a god' 
dess.  Then another mistake  is  the univer 
sal adoption of a color because it is announc 
ed to be fashionable,  regardless of  the  fact 
that the majority of the wearers are making 
perfect guys of themselves.  Heliotrope is 
point in question.  There is a  young  bride 
on State street who came home from Europe 
last week witii a dress  of  heliotrope.  Her 
skin is as dark as a  Spaniard’s and her hair 
and eyes are  jet black.  She  would  hav 
been magnificent in dark  reds or a cloud of 
black lace—but heliotrope!”  and  the  little 
dress-maker nearly died jn esthetic pain.

Spurned the Gold.

The world will  be  glad  of  the  assurance 
that  there  are  some  men  in  the humblest 
walks of life who can’t  be  bought  with  the 
clink of  gold.  A Hoosier who lost his wife 
a  few  weeks  ago  was  waited  upon a  few 
days after the funeral by a  man  who  intro 
duced himself as the agent  of  a  Cincinnati 
medical college, and he went  right  to  bus! 
ness by remarking:

“ Mr. Blank, neither  of  us  has  any  time 
to fool away.  Your wife is dead and buried,
I want  her  body  for  the  college. 
I  could 
snatch it any dark night, but  that’s  not  my 
way.  How  much  cash  will  buy  the  ca 
daver ? ”

“ Dig ’er up at your own expense ? ”
“ Yes.”
“ How much’ll you  give ? ”
“ Fifteen dollars.”
“ And the coffin?”
“ Oh, that’s no use to me.”
“ Stranger,” said the widower,  “ you skip 
or I’ll shoot. 
If you think I’m  fool enough 
to throw away a forty-dollar coffin  in  these 
hard times, you haven’t sized me  up  k’rect 
Let the old lady stay thar.  She isn’t costing 
anything for board and lodgings,  and there 
ain’t a penny out for repairs.”

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

TOBACCO

Offered in this Market are as follows:

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

.........................................................•
.................................•

-  - 

- 

- 

- 

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

FUTE  CUT.

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

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

-

-

-
-
2c less in 6 pail lots.

-

SMOZHTC.

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

- 
- 

-
-

- 

- 

- 

These brands are sold only by

Arthur Meigs & Go.

Wholesale Grocers,

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

SPRING

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

CHECKS.

SILESIAS.

BLEAl3HEI

OSNABITUG.

lid..  7 
id ...11 
.......654

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
iPeppereli, 10-4.........25
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21 
P eppered, 11-4.......2754
Pepperell,  7-4........ 1654 Pequot,  7-4..............18
Peppered,  8-4........ 20  P equot,  8-4..............21
Peppered,  9-4........ 2254 ¡Pequot.  9-4..............24
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
'P ark Mills, No. 90. .14 
Caledonia,  X, oz.,.10  P ark  Mills, No.  100.15
Economy,  oz..........10  Prodigy, oz................11
Park,M ills, No. 50.. 10  Otis  A pron............ 1054
P ark Mills, No. 60. .11  Otis  F u rn itu re ..... 1054
P ark  Mills, No. TO. .12  York,  1  oz...*........ 10
P ark Mills, No. 80..13  ¡York. A A ,extra oz.14 
A labam a brow n ____ 7 Alabam a  plaid
Ailgi .sta plaid.
Jew ell  briw u........
le<lo p laid ... 
K eqtucky  brow n. 
1054 To
Chester  pia
M
Lewiston  brow n..
Tenu, piai
Nt
Lane brow n..........
U1
Louisiana  p laid...
:y p laid ...
Oi•eene, G.  44.
Avondale,  36.........
A rt  cam brics, 38.. 1154 H h. 4-4............
85* H in. 7-8............
Androscoggin, 44.
A ndroscoggin. 5 4 . 1254 H DP î,  4 4 .........
King  Phillip  cam ­
654
Ballou, 44.  ..
bric, 4-4..................1154
Ballou, 5 4 ................  6
Linwood,  4-4..........754
Boott,  0 .4 4 ............  854
Lonsdale,  4 4 ..........734
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Lonsdalo  cam bric. 1054 
Boott, AGO, 4 4 .......  954
L angdon,G B ,4 4 ...  954
Boott, U.  3 4 ...........  554
Langdon,  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 44.  7 
Masonville,  4 4 ...... 8
Chapman, X, 4 4 ....  6
Maxwell. 4 4 ............   954
Conwaÿ,  4 4 .............. 7
New Y ork Mill, 4-4.1054 
Cabot, 4 4 ................... 6%
New Jersey,  4 4 ....  8 
Cabot, 7-8.................   6
Poe asset,  P. M. C..  754
Canoe,  3 4 ................  4
Domestic,  36..........754 Pride of th e W est.. 11
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9  Pocahontas,  4 4 —   754
Davol, 4 4 ................  9  Slatervide, 7-8.........654
F ru ito f Loom, 4 4 ..  8541Victoria,  A A ......... 9
F ru it of Loom, 7-8..  754, W oodbury, 44 ...........634
F ru ito f 
th e  Loom,  W hitinsville,  4-4...  754
cam bric,  4 4 .........11  W hitinsville, 7-8—   654
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  6541Wamsutta, 4 4 ........ 1054
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6  W illiamsville,  36...1054
Gilded  A ge..............8541
Crow n......................17 
j Mason ville TS..........8
No.  10......................1254 jHasonville  S ............1054
L onsdale................. 954
C oin...........................10
Lonsdale A ..............16
A nchor..................... 15
N ictory  O................
C e n t e n n ia l................
V ictory J . . . ............
B la c k b u rn ..............  8
V ictory  D.
D avol.........................14
London....................1254  Victory  K ...................254
P a c o n ia .................. 12  Phoenix A ................. 1954
Red  C ross...............10  Phoenix  B ................. 1054
|Phoenix X X ............. 5
Social  Im p e ria l.... 16 
Albion,  solid............554 ¡G loucester.................6
Albion,  g re y ............6  G loueesterm ourn’g.6
A den’s  checks........ 554  H am ilton  fa n c y ....6
Allen’s  fa n c y .......... 554  H artel fan cy ..............6
A den’s p in k ............. 65» M errim ac  D ................6
A den’sp u rp le ..........654 M an ch ester............... 6
Am erican, fan cy __ 554 O riental  fan cy .......... 8
A rnoldfancy........... 6  ¡Oriental  robes...........654
Berlin solid..............  554jPaciflc  robes............ 6
Cocheco  fan cy ........6  Richm ond................... 6
Steel River............ 554
Cocheco robes.......... 654
Simpson’s .................6
Conestoga fan cy — 6
Eddystone  .*.............6
W a s h in g to n  f a n c y .. 
W a s h in g to n   blues.  754
Eagle  fancy..............5
G arner p in k ..............6541
A ppleton  A ,4 4 ....  754¡In d ianO rchard,40.  8
Boott  M, 4-4..........  654  Indian Orchard, 36.  754
Boston  F, 4 4 ............  754  Laconia  B, 7 4 ........1654
Lyman B, 40-in...... 1054
C ontinental C, 4-3..  654 
Mass.  BB, 4 4 ..........  554
Continental D, 40 in  8*4 
N ashua  E, 40-in....  854
Conestoga W, 4 4 ...  654 
N ashua  it, 4 4 .........  754
Conestoga  D ,7-8...  554 
Nashua 0,7-8...........634
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
N ew m arketN .  ....  654 
Dwight  X, 3 4 .........  554
Peppered E, 39-in..  7 
Dwight Y, 7-8.......... 534
Peppered  R, 4 4 ..,.  754 
Dwight Z, 4 4 ..........   634
Peppered  0 ,7 -8 ....  654 
Dwight Star, 4 4 ....  7 
P eppered  N ,3 4 ....  654
Ew ight Star, 40-in..  9 
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......634
E nterprise EE, 36..  5 
Saranac  R ................754
G reat Falls E, 4 4 ...  7
Saranac  E ................9
F arm ers’ A, 4 4 .......6
Indian  O rchard  14  754
A m o sk e ag ..............  754¡Renfrew, dress sty 1  754
Amoskeag, P ersian 
¡Johnson  M anfg Co,
sty les.......................1054  B ookfold............... 1254
Bates  .......................  754 Johnson  M anfg Co,
B e rk sh ire..............  654  dress  sty les.......... 1254
G lasgow checks__ 7  Slatervide, 
dress
Glasgow checks, f ’y  754 
sty les.....................  754
checks,  W hite Mfg Co, stap
Glasgow 
G loucester, 
new  W hite  M anf’g  Co,
P lu n k e t................754¡G ordon.............................754
L an caster................  8  Greyiock, 
L angdalc..................7341  styles  .........  
1254
WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.
A ndroscoggin, 7 4 .. 21 
IPeppereli.  104.......2754
A ndroscoggin, 84..23  Peppered,  114......3254
P eppered,  7 4 ........20  Pequot,  7 4 ..............21
P eppered,  8 4 ........2254(Pequot,  8 4 ..............24
P eppered,  9 4 ........25 

royal  sty les.........  8  ¡White Mfg Co, fane  8
s ta n d a rd ...............   754  E arlston.................   8

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

¡Pequot,  9 4 ..............2754

PRINTS.

dress

 

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

¡Lawrence  Y ,30....  7

A tlantic  A, 4 4 ....... 75£iLawrence XX, 4 4 ..  754
A tlantic  H ,4 4 .......7 
A tlantic  D, 4 4 .......  6541 Lawrence LL, 4 4 ...  554
A tlantic P , 4 4 .........  554¡Newmarket N .........  654
A tlantic  LL, 4 4 ....  554¡Mystic River, 4-4...  554
A driatic,36..............  754 ¡Pequot A, 4 4 ...........  754
A ugusta, 4 4 ............   654[Piedmont,  36...........  65*
Boott  M, 4 4 ............   634 ¡Stark AA, 4 4 ...........  754
Boott  FF, 4 4 ...........   73£ T rem ont C C .44—   554
G raniteville,4 4 ....  534  Utica,  4 4 ................9
i  Indian  H ead ,4 4 ...  7  W achusett,  4 4 .......  754
Indiana Head 45-in. 12541 W achusett,  30-in...  634
F ads.X X X X .......... 1854
Amoskeag,  A CA ... 14 
Fads, X X X ..............1554
Am oskeag 
“  44 .. 19
Fads,  BB................. 1154
Amoskeag,  A ..........13
Fads,  BBC, 36.........1954
Amoskeag,  B ......... 12
Fads,  aw ning........ 19
Amoskeag,  C......... 11
Amoskeag,  D .........1054¡Hamilton,  BT, 32.. 12
Amoskeag,  E .........10  H am ilton,  D ........... 954
Amoskeag, F ..........   954  H am ilton,  H --------954
Prem ium   A ,4 4 __ 17  H am ilton  fa n c y ...10
Prem ium   B ............ 16  ¡Methuen A A ........... 1354
E x tra 4 4 ...................16  ¡Methuen ASA......... 18
E x tra 7-8...................1454|Omega  A, 7-8........... 11
Gold Medal 4 4 .........15  Omega  A, 4 4 ............13
CCA  7-8.....................1254 Omega ACA, 7-8.... 14
Omega ACA, 4 4 ___16
CT4-4........................ 14
O m ega SE, 7-8......... 24
RC 7-8........................14
Omega SE, 4 4 .........27
BF7-8........................1«
Omega M. 7-8......... 22
A F 4 4 ........................19
Omega M, 4 4 ...........25
Cordis AAA, 32.......14
Shetucket SS&SS W 1154 
Cordis  ACA, 32.......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32.......15
Shetucket,  SFS  ...12
Cordis  No. 2............14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3............13
Stockbridge  frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4............11541
G a rn e r.....................5  ¡E m pire.......................
H ookset...................  5  W ashington............ 43i
Red  Cross................  5  Edw ards...................   5
F orest G rove............   IS. S. & Sons...............  5
A m erican  A .........18  OOiOld  Ironsides......... 15
Stark A ....................22541 W heatland............... 21
B o sto n .....................  63i|Otis  CC.................... 1054
E v erett  blu e..........1334  W arren A X A ..........1254
E verett  brow n...... 133*|Warren  BB..............115»
Otis  A X A ...............1254  W arren CC.............. 1054
Otis BB....................11541 York  fancy.............. 1354
S. S. & Sons.............. 6
Man ville.................
M asgnville............ .  6 G arner  ..................... 6
Red  C ross.............. .  754¡Thistle Mills............
B e rlin ..................... .  754 H ose.......................... 8
G a rn e r................... .  754
B ro o k s................... 50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Mills ball sew ing.30
C lark’s O. N. F — .55
J. a  P.  C oats......... .55 Green  &  D aniels... 2o
W illim antic 6 cord.55 M erriek s................. 40
W illim antic 3 cord. 40 S taffo rd ................... 25
Hall & M anning__ 25
Charleston ball sew
ing th re a d ........... .30 H olyoke................... 25

6
W IGANS.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL COTTON.

GRAIN BAGS.

DENIMS.

CORSET JEANS.

A rm o ry ................. .  TV4 K earsage................. 83«
Androscoggin sat. .  854 N aum keagsatteen 834
Pepperell  bleached  W%
«
Canoe R iver.........
Clarendon.............. .  654 Pepperell s a t.........
954
7
.  634 R ockport................
Hallowell  Im p ...
Lawrence s a t.........
854
Ind. Orch. I m p ...
.  754 Conegosat..............
7
Laconia ................

“

“ 

COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G   M A T E R IA L S.
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:
1  00
Ohio W hite Lime, per  bbl....................
85
................  
Ohio W hite Lime, car lo ts....................
1  30
................ 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................
................ 
130
A kron Cem ent per  Dbl........................ .
................ 
130
Buffalo Cem ent,  per b b l...
................1  05@1  10
Car lots 
...........  2u@  30
P lastering hair, per b u .......
................ 
1  75
Stucco, p er b b l......................
3 50
................ 
Land plaster, per to n ..........
50
Land plaster, oar lo ts.........
Fire b n ek , p er  M.................................... $25 @ $35
F ire clay, p er  b b l..................................... 
3 00
A nthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$5  75@fl 00 
A nthracite, stove and  n u t, car lo ts..  0  00®6 25
CanneU,  car lots..................................... 
@6 00
Ohio Lum p, car  lo ts..............................  3  10@3 25
BJossburg o r  Cum berland, oar lo ts..  4 50@5 00 
P ortland  C em ent...................................  3  50@4  00

COAL.

H E S T E R   «Sc  FOX,

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

SAW AXTD GZUST MILL MÄCHHTEHY,
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IN D IA N A P O LIS .  IN D .,  U .  S .

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

|STEAM ENGINES & B01LEBS..

I Curry Engines and Boilers In Stock | 

for  immediate  delivery.

OIL  CLOTHS

DEITO-,  ETO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

The  Days  are  Shortening.

“Well,  the days are  growing  shorter and 

shorter very rapidly, aren’t they?”

“Guess you’d think so if  you  had a note 

coming due next week,  as I have.”

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

A nd Dodge’s P a te n t Wood Split P nlley.  L arge stock k ep t on  hand.  Send  fo r  sam ple  pulley 

and becom e convinced of th e ir superiority.

W r ite   fo r  P r ic e s. 

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

Grand Hapids,

Loliigan.

[îcm

The Clerk’s Opportunities*

From  the N orthw est Trade.

The clerk has an opportunity.  Is he not in 
a position to Qualify himself foi cariying on 
business for himself some day.  Very many 
of the shopkeepers of the  day  began life as 
clerks and worked their way up in the world 
by  enterprise  and  thrift.  The  most  suc­
cessful men indeed,  are those  who began at 
the foot of the hill and  made their  way by 
slow degrees to the top.

Why should the  clerk  then,  not  devote 
himself to business  as  if  he  wished  to get 
all the experience  he  could?  He  ean  win 
the good opinion of his  employer in no way 
so well as by manifesting  an  interest in his 
business and a desire  to learn. 
It  is  true 
lie may more than earn  his  wages  no, the 
the education he is getting  for  a  business 
career of his own,  will compensate  for  any 
discrepancy between the work done and the 
pay received, 
lie can learn how to win and 
hold trade; how to attend  to  the  wants  of 
customers so that  they will  be  attracted by 
him and not  repelled; how to  judge  goods; 
the necessity of discriminating in extending 
credits;  almost  everything,  but  buying,  in 
short, and that sometimes.

Contrast  with  this, 

the  course  of  the 
clerk who  simply  works  for  his  weekly 
wages.  He takes no interest in his emploj - 
er’s business,  and  goes like  a machine that 
is wound up in the morning,  to run down at 
night.  He attends to the  wants of custom­
ers because they are in the shop and he can­
not help himself.  The fewer  people  there 
are  to attend  to  the better  he likes it,  and 
he apparently cares nothing about the profits 
of  business.  Whenever  his  interests  or 
those of his employer conflict, he favors him­
self.  A  young man  who  pursues  such  a 
course as this, can never succeed in life.  By 
neglecting  his  opportunities  to  acquire  a 
business education,  you will  discever  that 
he lacks the necessary qualifications to carry 
on the business,  and when he undertakes to 
go  into  trade  on  his  own  account,  if  he 
should ever  be foolish  enough  to  make  a 
trial,  he is  almost  always  sure  to  fail. 
It 
can be said with a great degree of assurance 
that the faithful,  conscientious clerk will be 
appreciated by his employer,  and  advanced 
to positions  of great responsibility  and that 
business opportunities will continually open 
up before  him.  Energy,  hard  work,  con­
scientiousness and intelligence in the  clerk, 
will not long escape observation.

He Won the Wagers.

Three or four  commercial  travelers  were 
seated in the  smoking  car  amusing  them­
selves as commercial  travelers  are  wont to 
do.  Their conversation was not  altogether 
of the price of  goods or  the probabilities of 
orders,  but occasionally  turned  to the  fair 
sex.

“By the way,” said one of the drummers, 
“before  you boys  came  aboard I was back 
in the next coach,  and  I  saw  there a mag­
nificent girl—as pretty  as a picture. 
I was 
crazy to  get  acquainted  with  her,  but she 
wouldn’t have any  foolishness, 
ltun  back 
and take a look at her.”

Of course the  other  drummers  sauntered 
back,  and on their return  were loud in their 
praises of the stranger’s beauty.

“Boys,”  said  the  first  speaker.  “I’m 
willing to confess it’s a clean case of love at 
first sight with me,  and  just to  get  up  my 
courage,  I’ll  wager  any  one  of  you  or the 
whole party five dollars that  before  we  get 
to Petoskey I’ll  be  sitting  beside  that  girl 
and she’ll  rest  her  head  lovingly  on my 
shoulder.”

The other drummers were so eager for the 
“snap” that they quarrelled as to which one 
should hold the stakes.  The four five dollar 
bills were deposited with the fourth man as 
stakeholder,  and the smitten wagerer threw 
away his cigar and started for the other car 
telling his  companions  to  keep  watch  of 
him.

They  watched  him.  As  he  entered  the 
coach the fair stranger was reading a novel. 
He walked boldly  to her side and  spoke to 
her.  She looked up,  smiled,  moved to one 
side to make room for him, and when he had 
seated  placed  her  pretty  head  upon  his 
shoulder as if  she  had a right to. 
In  half 
an hour the lucky commercial traveler drew 
from his pocket  another  cigar,  the  beauty 
raised  her  head,  and  he  returned  to the 
smoking car.

“My wife has excused  me  long  enough 
for another smoke,” he  said  to his  amazed 
companions.  “She  didn’t  want  to  come 
with me on  this  trip  for  fear it would cost 
too much, but  I told her  we’d make money 
if she  would  come  along.  So  far  we are 
about forty dollars  ahead  of  expenses, and 
by fall expect to  have  enough to  buy her a 
sealskin sacque.  Those  five  dollar  notes, 
please.”

W hat Caused It.

Barber  (to  customer  in  chair)—You’re 

quite bald,  sir.

Customer—Yep.
Barber—Young man,  too.
Customer—Yep.
Barber—Wear your hat too much?
Customer—Nop.
Barber—Run m the family?
Customer—Nop.
Barber—Roots of the hair diseased?
Customer—Nop.
Barber—Fever?
Customer —Nop.
Barber—Er-wife?
Customer—Nop.
B arber— (desperately)  What caused that 

baldness?

Customer—Barber’s Preventive.

B R O W N «

Paper Bag
Twine  Holder !

A N D  

,

(CO M BIN ED .)

Patented  April  29th,  1883. 

CAPACITY  2,500  BAGS.

Saves  tim e,  bags  and  valuable 
counter  room. 
Is  neat  and  orna­
m ental,  constructed  of  m alleable 
iron,  n eatly  Japanned,  w ith  steel 
w ire needles, and will never g et o u t 
of repair.  W eighs 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  w ithin  easy 
distance of  salesm an.  F or  fu rth e r 
inform ation address

GEO.  R.  BROWN,

PALMYRA, N. Y. 

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

A rthur Meigs & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
RXNDGB, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  A2TD  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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 be promptly attended to.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

The "Well-Known

J\ S. Farren & Co.

o y s t e r s;

ARE  TH E  BEST  IN  MARKET.

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.

COMING to GRAND  RAPIDS

I M T

CAR LOADS!

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

EVERY  CAN  BEARING  SIGNATURE  OF

The  Archer  Packing  Go.

O H IL L IC O T H E ,  IL L .

See  Our  W holesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and w rite for

Special  Prices in  Oar  Lots. 
We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anytlinpe handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,

3 Canal Street, Basenjent, Grand Rapids, Mich.

™

 ™  &.  BOYS & CO,

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole Control of our Celebrated

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

W S

-AND-

Send  for  new 
Price - List  for 
Fall Trade.
ORDEUS PROMPTLY FILLED

I 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

Eisr Or I2STES

From  2 to 15n Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
G rist Mills, Wood W orking  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.

The ONLY P a in t sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

W hen our P ioneer P repared P ain t is  p u t  on 
, ..ny building, and if w ithin three years it should 
crack or peel off, and th u s fail to give  the  full 
i satisfaction  guaranteed,  we  agree to  repaint 
the  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  the  best 
W hite Lead, or such other paint as  the  ow ner 
m ay select.  Should any case of dissatisfaction 
occur, a notice from  the dealer will  command 
o u r prom pt attention.  T.  H .  NEV1N  &  CO.

M ICH .

Send for sam ple cards  and  prices.  Address

G RA N D   R A P ID S .

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.
VOIGT  MILLING  CO.,
CRESCENT
FLOURING  MILLS

P r o p r i e t o r s   o f

M a n u f a c t u r e r «   o f   t h e   F o l l o w i n g   P o p ­

u l a r   1$r a m ls   o f   F l o u r :

“ CRESCENT,”

“ W H ITE  ROSE,”

“ MORNING  GLORY,”

“ ROYAL  PATENT,” and 

“ ALL W HEAT,” Flour.

" W .  

o . D e n iso n ,

88,90  and  1*3  South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

CURTISS,  DUNTON & OO.
PAPER, OILS, GOROAGE, WOODENWARE

W H O L E S A L E

G 0 0
EN0UGHJ

These  Oil Cans in Stock all Sizes, Plain and with Wood Jacket

. T!h.e  IDia-mond  Oil  Can,

The Best Glass Can with Tin Jacket in the Market.

OUHTISS,  ZDTXNTTOISr  cfc  0<3.

51 AND  53  LYON  STREET, 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
F.  F.  A   D A M S   <&  O O .'S

- 

- 

- 

DARK  AROMATIC

fine Cnt C ira i Tctoco is tie very lest lark ports on tie Market.

T H F   P E R K I N S   W I N D   M I L L .

[ 

It has been in constant use 
fo r  15  years,  with a  record 
-  . ■ i 
equalled  by  none.  Wak- 
s g l t i h a i   ranted  not  to  blow down 
VflCHjH*  unless the tow er  goes  w ith 
it; or against any wind th a t 
does not disuble substantial 
farm  buildings;  to b e p o rfe e t;  to  outlast  and 
do b etter w ork  than any other mill  made.
A gents  w anted.  Address P erkins Wind Mill 
& Ax Co.. Mishawaka. Ind.  Mention Tradesm an.

W l j r  
£—-^3 

TIMETABLES.

Michigan  Central.

D EPA R T.

A R R IV E .

♦D etroit E xpress...........................................  6:00 a m
+Day  E xpress........................................... 12:45.p :u
♦A tlantic E xpress...........................................9:20 p m
Way F reight...................................................  6:50 a m
♦Pacific  E xpress.............................................6:00 a m
+M ail..................................................................3:50 p ra
♦Grand  Rapids  E xpress..............................10:60 p m
Way F reight..................................................... 5:15 a  m
FDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  Grand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern train s in sam e depot a t D etroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The D etroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
D raw ing  Room  and  P arlor  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. in.,and  Boston 3:05  p. m. next day.
A train  leaves D etroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room car attached, arriv­
ing a t G rand Rapids a t  10:50 p. m.

J.T . Schultz, Gen’l A gent.

Ohioago & West Miohigan.
Leaves.  A rrives,
tM ail........................................9:15 a m  
4:25 p m
.♦Day  E xpress...................... 12:35 p m  10:45 p  m
♦Night  E xpress................... 8:35 p m  
4:45 a m

tD aily except Sunday.

♦Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  ear  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants w ithout  ex tra   charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m . and 
9:35 p. in. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  A rrives.
E xpress.......   ........................ 4:15 p m  4:05 p m
E x p ress.................................. 8:05 a m   11:15 a m
All trains arrive and depart from   Utiion  De­
pot.
The  N orthern term inus of  th is Division Is at 
Baldwin, w here close connection is m ade  with 
F. &  P. M.  train s  to  and  from   L udington  and 
M anistee. 

*

J . II. Ca r pen ter,  G en’l Pass. A gent. 
J.  B.  Mu ll ik en,  G eneral  Manager.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
A rrive. 
E xpress................................. 7:15 p m  
Mail........................................ 9 :5 0 am  

Leave.
7:30 a m
4:00 p m

tra in  

All train s daily except Sunday.
The 

leaving  a t  4  p. m. connects  at 
W hite Pigeon w ith  A tlantic  Express  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace Draw ing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from   Chicago  to  New  Y ork  and 
Boston w ithout change.
The  tra in   leaving  a t  7:30  a. m. connects  at 
W hite Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New Y ork Express on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union T icket office,
67 M onre stre e t and  depot.
J.  W . M cK e n n

tickets  and  berths 

ey, Gen’l A gent.

Through 

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

GOING W EST.

A rrives.
tSteam boat  E xpress..........   6:17 a in
■(Through  M ail....................10:10 a m
■♦■Evening  E xpress............... 3:20 p m
♦Limited  E xpress................  8:30 p m
+Mixed, w ith  coach............
tM orning  E xpress...............   1:05 p m
•¡■Through  Mail...................  5:10 p m
tSteam boat  E xpress...........10:40 p m
t M ixed....................................
♦N ightE xpress................. .  5:10am

Leaves. 
6:25 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:35 p in 
10:45 p m 
10:30 a in
1:10 p m 
5:15 p m 
10:45 p m 
7:10 a m 
:20 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. th e following m orning.
Train leaving  a t  10:46  p.  m.  will m ake  con­
nection w ith Milwaukee steam ers daily except 
Sunday.
i  The  Night  Express  has  a  through  W agner 
Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car  D etroit  to  Grand 
Rapids.
G e o .

B. R e e v e , Traffic M anager, Chicago.

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. A gent. 

Grand  Rapids  A  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p ra 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a m 
Ft.W ayne& M ackinac  Ex  4:10 p m  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati E x .  5:00 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e  E x.. 10:30 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  A c.11:30 p m 

A rrives.  Leaves.
11:30 a  m 
5:00 p m 
7:00a  m
7:15 a m 
5:30 p m 
11:45 p m

GOINO  SOUTH.

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  6:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping and Chair Cars for  T raverse City 
1 and  M ackinac.  T rain leaving a t 11:30 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw 
City.
South—T rain leaving a t 5 :30 p. m. has  Wood- 
I ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. L o c k w o o d , Gen’l Pass. A gent.

A t  M a m ifa c tu re rs ’  P ric e s .

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Nelson  Bros.  &  Go.

Detroit,  Maokinao  & Marquette.

Trains connect w ith G. R. & I.  train s  fo r  St. 
Ignace, M arquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 11:30 a. m. and 11:00  p. 
■  m.. arriving a t M arquette a t 1:45 p. m.  R eturn­
ing leave M arquette at  2:00  p.  m., arriving  a t 
G rand Rapids at 6:30 a. m. and 5>45 p. m.  Con­
nection made a t M arquette with the M arquette, 
H oughton  and  Ontonagon  Ruilroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
Gen’l F rt. & Pass. A gt.,  M arquette, Mich.

F.  MILLIGAN.

Goodrich Steamers.

Leave  G rand H aven Tuesday, Thursday  and 
Sunduy evenings, connecting with train on D., 
G. H. & M. Ry.  R eturning, leave Chicago Mon­
day,  W ednesday  and  Friday  evenings,  a t  7 
o’clock, arriving a t G rand  H aven  in  tim e  for 
m orning train east.

Grand River Steamer.

The  Steam er  B arrett  leaves  her  dock  for 
Grand  Haven, Mondays, W ednesdays  and  F ri­
days, retu rn in g  on altern ate days.

II

IN

PRICE-CURRENT.
F.  J.  OETTENTHALER, Jobber  of Oysters,

“Ransom”  Cheese.

Old Uncle Billy Stokes,  a colored individ­
ual from one of the back counties in Missis­
sippi where old-fashioned wagons with wood 
axles are still in use,  and  where  the prima- 
tive “tar bucket” is now  part  of  the “run­
ning gear,” was in Canton Miss.,  a few days 
ago standing in front of  Mat  Hiller’s  store 
watching the unloading from  drays of new­
ly arrived  goods.  One  dray contained,  be­
sides several barrels of  groceries a  number 
of boxes of, cheese and a dozen or two boxes 
of patent  axle  grease.  Uncle  Billy’s  eye 
rested  upon  the  latter,  and  he  inquired:
“Mars Hiller, what you ax fer one ob dem 

little cheeses?”

“Only fifteen cents,  Uncle  Billy; do you 

want one?” was Mr.  Hiller’s  reply.

“Wal,  yas, boss, but  ef  1  buy de  cheese 

will yer frow in der crackers?”

“Of course I will,”  said  Mr.  Hiller as he 
handed Uncle Billy a box of the axle grease 
and then passed behind the counter and took 
a handful of crackers from a box  and  gave 
them to the old man.

Uncle Billy then walked to the  back door 
of  the  store  and  seating  himself  on  an 
empty  box,  proceeded to  enjoy  his lunch. 
He had been there about five  minutes when 
Mr. Hiller  concluded  he  would  see  what 
progress he  was  making,  so,  going to  the 
door, he saw  the  old  man,  with  knife in 
hand,  spreading  the  grease  on  a  cracker, 
while his jaws were vigorously working and 
his mouth and  chin  covered  with crumbs 
and grease.

“Well,  Uncle  Billy,”  said  Mr.  Ililler, 

“how do you like your lunch?”

The old man rested his knife on  his right 

knee and,  drawing a heavy  sigh,  replied:

“Boss, dem ar crackers am  pow’ful good; 
but lor, boss, dis am  de  ransomest  cheese, 
fo’  God,  I ever tasted.”

A Valid Objection.

“I vants ter see ein plan uf mine  house,” 
said a fat German  citizen,  as  he  presented 
himself the  other  day before  Plan  Clerk 
Tindale,  at the Building Bureau, New York 
City.  He gave the  location  of  the  house 
and  after  ten  minutes’ search by Mr.  Tin- 
dale the plan was  handed  to  him.  He ex­
amined it critically and then handed it back, 
remarking:

“I not find him.”
“What do you want to find out, anyway?” 

asked Mr. Tindale.

“Veil,  I dells you. 

I lives in dot  house. 
I wants to find eef der  owner  must put oil­
cloth on der halls.”

A  Secretive  Transaction.

Young Man—I  am  willing  to  lend  you 
twenty dollars,  Gus,  but  you  musn’t  say 
anything to anybody about it. 
If  it should 
become known that I had lent  you money 1 
would be importuned to death.

Gus  (pocketing  the  money)—Thanks.  I 
pledge you my word that I will never speak 
of it to a  soul.

Young Man—All right.  About when will 

you return me the money,  Gus?

Gus—’Sli!  Mum’s the word, old boy.

Bad for His Business.

“Well,  how is business?”  was asked of a 

leading labor agitator.

“Busines is very bad.  Getting worse and 

worse every day.”

“Why, everybody else seems  to  think it 
is becoming  better.  The  factories  are all 
starting up and—”
“Yes,  that’s it. 

It’s  getting  so  there’s 
plenty for the  workingman  to  do.  That’s 
the reason my business is  bad.”

Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

Organized  at  Grand  Rapids,  February  25,  1886.
President—Milan W iggins. Bloorningdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A".  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockai’ellow,  Carson  City; 
W arren Haven, Bloorningdale;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap,  G rand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  P ortage; 
Jo h n  Borst, V riesland;  R. C. Nash, H illiards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  A shland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks- 
ville. 
Secretary and T reasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids.
N ext  M eeting—Third  T uesday  in  February, 
1886.
M embership Fee—$ 1 per yfear.
Official O rgan—T h e   M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n .

_

Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

A E. Johnson, the Sparta  cheese  maker, 

was in the city last week.

E. 

J.  Savage, proprietor of  the  Coopers- 

ville cheese  factory,  sends  T h e   T r a d e s­
m a n the following  report for the month of 
June:  Number pounds  of  milk  received, 
97,^33;  number  of  pounds  cheese  made, 
8,786; average  price  received per pound,  8 
cents.

The dairymen of Scotland, as well as their 
American  brethren,  .are having a hard time 
of it.  Butter in the  north of  Scotland has 
not been so low in price for thirty years.  In 
the Bauffshire  district  fanners  have  been 
disposing of their prime butter to merchants 
for  twelve  to  thirteen  cents  per  pound. 
Many of the Scotch  agriculturists  attribute 
this to the competition of  finer  qualities of 
butter from Denmark and America.

Cranberry Topics.

The New Jersey cranberry crop is  said to 
be unprecedented.  One  bog  in  Burlington 
county,  containing six  acres,  yielded  1,904 
bushels.  There has been  slight  frost,  but 
none to injure the berries.

Stanton Clipper:  G.  Gilbert, of Mecosta, 
has  sold  200  acres  of 
land  at  Derby 
lake, including his cranberry marsh and im- 
ments, 
to  C.  T.  Wickes,  of  Saginaw,  a 
brother of J.  L.  Wickes, of Colby.  Consid­
eration $5,000.  We are informed  that Mr. 
Wickes’ principal object in making the pur­
chase is to improve the cranberry plantation 
and go into the business  quite  extensively.

PRO V ISIO N S.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co 

quote  as  follows:
P O R K   IN   BA RR ELS.
Mess, Chicago  packing................
Clear, Chicago p acking...............
E x tra Fam ily C lear......................
Clear, A. W ebster  p ack er..........
E x tra  Clear,  heavy......................
Boston C lear...................................
A. W ebster, packer, short  c u t..
Clear back, snort c u t...................
Standard Clear, the  b e st............

.........9  50
.........11  50
........ 11  00
.........13
.........14  00
” ¡¡¡¡n oo
.........14  00
.........14  50

DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN   BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy...................................
m edium ...............................
lig h t......................................

do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  PL A IN .

“ 

Ham s, h eavy.......................................................   9%
m edium ................................................... 10
l ig h t..........................................................1014
Boneless  H am s...................................................10%
Boneless Shoulders...................................
B reakfast  B acon......................................
8  t  
Dried Beef, ex tra   q u ality ......................
8 
Dried Beef, H am  pieces..........................
10 
Shoulders cured  in sw eet pickle.........
53*

LARD.

B E EF IN   BA RRELS.

LARD  IN  T IN  PA IL S .

TiPW ftR
30 and 50‘ft Tubs 
.....................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases......................
20 fl> Round Tins, 80 ft  rack s...................
3 lb Pails, 20 in a  case...............................
5 ft* Pails, 6 in a case..................................
10 fi) Pails, 6 in a c a s e ...............................
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fl>8__
Boneless,  e x tra .........................................
SAUSAGE—FRESH  AND SMOKED
P ork  Sausage.............................................
Ham   Sausage...................!........................
Tongue  Sausage...................................... .
F ran k fo rt  Sausage..................................
Blood  Sausage...........................................
Bologna,  stra ig h t......................................
Bologna,  th ic k ...........................................
Head  Cheese..............................................

In  half b arre ls...........................................
In q u arter  b arre ls....................................

P IG S ’  FEET.

6%

.  9  50 
.13  50

.1 2 ’/* 
10 
.  9 
.  6 
.  6 
.  6 
.  6

3 50

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  fo r  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

prom ptly and buy In full packages.

AX LE  GREASE.

F razer’s .................  
90! P a r a g o n ..................1  80
Diamond  X ............   80iParagan25ft p a ils.1  20
Modoc, 4  doz..........2  501F raziers,25 lb p ails.1  25

B A K IN G   PO W D ER.

ft cans.. ..2  40
ft c an s... .12  00

25
. ..doz.
45
.. .doz.
35
...  doz.
65
... doz.
... $   gross  4  00
8 00 
..  12 00 
...  2 00 
...  3  00 
.  .  4 50

A rctic % ft can s 
  45| Arc
A rctic % lb c an s__   75 Arc
A rctic % 1b cans.  .  1  401

BLUING

Dry, No. 2...........................
Dry, No. 3...........................
Liquid, 4 oz,......................
Liquid, 8 oz.........................
A rctic 4 oz..........................
A rctic 8  oz.......................
A rctic 16 oz........................
A rctic No. 1 pepper b o x .
A rctic No. 2 
.
A rctic No. 3 

.  “ 
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BROOMS.
No. 1 Carpet............. 2 50 No
No. 2 C arpet............. 2 25
No. 1  P arlo r G em ..2  75
No. 1 H u rl.................2 00

H u rl............... 176
Fancy  W hisk.......... 100
Common W h isk ..,.  75

CANNED  F IS H .

Clams, 1 lb  sta n d ard s.................................... I  40
Clams, 2 lb  stan d ard s.................................... 2 65
Clam Chowder,  3 f t ..........................  ...........2 20
Cove Oysters,  1  lb  standards......................1  10
Cove Oysters, 2  lb  standards.....................  2 00
Cove O ysters, 1 lb  slack  filled.....................  75
Cove O ysters, 2 B> slack filled...................... 1  05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic........................................1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft s ta r ........................................... 2  00
Lobsters, 2 ft s ta r........................................... 3 00
Mackerel, 1 lb  fresh  stan d ard s...................1  00
M ackerel, 5 1b fresh   sta n d ard s...................6  50
Mackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3  f t................. 3 25
M ackerel,3 1b in M ustard............................. 3 25
M ackerel, 3 ft broiled.................................... 3 25
Salmon, 1 1b Columbia riv e r.....................  .1  40
Salmon, 2 1b Columbia riv e r........................ 2 60
Salmon. 1 1b  Sacram ento............................. 1  25
Sardines, dom estic %s................................... 
7%
Sardines,  dom estic  14s...............................  
13
Sardines,  M ustard  %s...................................  10
Sardines,  Im ported  % s ...............................  14
T rout. 3 lb  brook.........................................   2 75

CANNED F R U IT S .
90 
Apples, 3 ft sta n d a rd s................
2 40 
Apples, gallons,  sta n d ard s.......
.........1  05
Blackberries, sta n d ard s............
Cherries,  red  sta n d ard .................................  80
D am sons........................................................... J  0£
Egg Plum s, standard? 
............................... 1  40
G reen  Gages, standards 21b.........................1  40
Peaches. E x tra Y ellow ............................; . .2  40
Peaches,  stan d ard s............................. 1  75@1  95
Peaches,  seconds...........................................1  50
Pineapples,  E rie............................................ 2  20
Pineapples, sta n d ard s..................................1  70
Q u in ces............................................................1 45
Raspberries,  Black, H am burg...................1  60

CANNED  FRUTT8— C A L IF O R N IA .

A pricots, L usk’s.. .2 40|Pears....................... 3 00
Egg P lu m s............. 2 50 Q uinces....................2 90
G ra p e s.................... 2  50 Peaches  ..................3 00
G reen G ages.......... 2  50|

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

A sparagus, O yster B ay................................ 3 25
Beans, Lima,  stan d ard.................................  75
Beans, Stringless,  E rie.................................  95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked......................1  60
Corn.  T rophy................................................. 1  05
Peas, F ren ch ...................................................1  75
Peas, M arrofat, stan d ard ............................ 1  70
Peas, B e a v e r..................................................   90
Peas, early small, sifted .............................. 1_80
Pum pkin, 3 ft G olden................. 
Succotash, stan d ard .......................................  90
Tomatoes, T rophy........................................ 1  00
Tomatoes,  H illsdale.....................................1  00

 

8o@95

CHOCOLATE.

F IS H .

CO FFEE.

CORDAGE.

B o sto n ........................36! Germ an  Sw eet........... 25
B aker’s ...................... 38  V ienna Sweet  ........... 23
R unkles’ .................... 351
G reen  ltio .........  9@13  ¡Roasted  Mar.,.17@18
•Roasted Mocha. 28@30 
Green J a v a ...... 17@27
j Roasted M ex...  @16
G reenM ocha..  23@25 
G round  Rio__ 9©10
Roasted  R io.... 10@15 
¡Package  Goods  @131:
Roasted Ja v a   ,.23@30
72 foot C otton___2  25
72 foot J u t e .......1  25
60 foot C otton___2 00
60 foot  J u te .......1  00
50 foot C otton___1  75
40 Foot C otton— 1  50
..............  65
Bloaters, Smoked Y arm outh__
..............  @5
Cod, w hole......................................
...........5%@6%
Cod, Boneless...................................
..............11@12
H a lib u t..................................................
..............2  50
H erring 4   b b ls....................................
H erring, Holland, dom estic,  n ew ...
H erring,  Scaled....................................
Mackerel, Penny bbls..........................
M ackerel, shore, No. 2, 4   b b ls........
“ 
“ 
....
“ 
“ 
No. 3, 4  b b ls......................
12 ft  k its................
“ 
................
“ 
10 
Shad,  4  b b l ...........................................
T rout,  4   bbls........................................
12 1b  k its....................................
....................................
10 
W hite, No." 1 ,4  b b ls ............................
White,  No. 1,12  1b k its.........................
W hite, No. 1,10 ft k its........................
W hite, Fam ily,  4  bbls........................
FLA VO RING EXTRACTS.

.1
,18@22 
. 5 50 
.5  00 
.  80 
.  70 
.3  50
.  62 
.  55 
.2  50 
.3  25 
.  60

12 ft kits
10 

im ported  “

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
« 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts.....................
Catsup, Tomato,  q u a r t s ................
H orseradish,  % p in ts......................
H orseradish, p in ts............................
H alford Sauce, p in ts........................
H alford Sauce, Vs p in ts...................
v.

G round. 

SPICES.

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

..  @19 
P e p p e r............... \16@25]Pepper
A u sp ice................12@15| AHspie.
..  8@10 
,.10@1l 
Cinnam on............18@30 C assia 
Cloves  ............. 15(69251Nutm egs
,.60@65
G in g e r............... .16@20jCloves~..................16@18
M ustard...............15@30
C a y en n e............. 25@35|
Elastic, 64 packages, p er  b o x .....................  5  35

STARCH.

SUGARS.
 

 

Cut  L oaf.............. 
@  7%
Cubes  .  .....................................................   @714
P ow dered..................................................  @  7*4
G ranulated,  S tandard............................7  06@  7%
G ranulated,  off....................................... 6 94@  7
Confectionery A ...................................... 
© 8%
Standard A ................................................
Soft  A .........................................................  @6 69
No. 1, W hite E x tra  C.............................   6*4®  6%
No. 2, E x tra C...................... 
6%@  64
No. 3 C.........................................................  6*4®  8%
No. 4 C.......................................................   5%@
No. 5 C .........................................................  5%@  544

 

 

SY RUPS.

Corn.  B a rre ls......................................... 
30@32
Corn, 4  bbls..............................................  
32@34
Corn,  (0 gallon kegs.................................  @  35
Corn, 5 gallon k eg s..................................   @1  75
Corn, 4 4  gallon kegs...............................  @1  60
P u re  S ugar......................................... bbl  23®  35
P u re Sugar D rips..........................4   bbl  30®  38
P ure Sugar  D rips................. 5 gal kegs  @196
P u re Loaf Sugar D rips...  .........4  bbl  @  85
P u re  Loaf S ugar...................5 gal kegs  @185

TEA S.

Ja p an   ordm ai’y ..............
...........................15@20
.......................... 25@30
Ja p an  fa ir to good.........
.......................... *j@45
Ja p an  fine........................
15@20
................... 
Ja p an  d u st......................
Young H yson...........
.......................... 30®50
G unpow der................. 
35@50
O olong........................................................33@55@6C
C ongo..............................................................  25@30

 

TOBACCO— FIN E C U T - IN   PA ! LS.

Fisher’s B runet te ....35 Sweet  Rose.............. 45
Dark A m ericanEtigle67 Meigs & Co.’s St urine ■.'58
T hu M eigs............ __ 64 A tla s.......................... 35
Red  B ird.............. __ 50 Royal Gam e.............. 38
State  Seal............ __ 60 Mule  E ar................... 65
P rairie Flower  .. ....65 F o u n tain ................... 74
Indian  Q ueen__ ....60 Old Congress............ 64
Bull  Dog.............. __ 60 Good  L uck............... 52
....66 Blaze A w ay.............. 35
Crown  L eaf.......
M atchless............ ....65 H air L ifter............... .30
H iaw ath a............ ....67 G o v ern o r................. 60
Globe  ................... ....70 Fox’s  Choice............ 63
May Flow er......... ....70 M edallion.................
H e ro ..................... __ 45] Sweet Ow en.............. .66
Old  Abe.

.........491

PLU G .

Red  F o x .........: ...........................................
Big D rive....................................................
Seal of G rand R apids.............................
D u rh am ......................................................
P a tr o l.........................................................
Jack   R abbit..............................................
Snow flake..................................................
Chocolate C ream ......................................
N im rod.......................................................
E. C..............................................................
Spread E agle.............................................
Big Five C enter........................................
Woodcock  ................................................
K n igntsof  L abor....................................
R ailroad.....................................................
Big  B ug.....................................................
A rab, 2x12 and 4x12.................................
Black B ear................................................
K ing 
...........................................   ...........
Old Fivo Cent Tim es...............................
P rune N uggett, 12 ft...............................
P arro t  .......................................................
Old T im e....................................................
T ra m w a y .................................................
Glory  .........................................................
Silver  Coin................................................
B uster  [D ark).........................................
Black Prince I D ark]...............................
Black Racer  [D ark]...............................
L eggett & Myers’  S ta r............................
C lim ax.......................................................
Hold F a s t..................................................
McAlpin’8 Gold Shield...........................
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.  .......
Cock of th e Walk  6s...............................
Nobby T w ist.............................................
Acorn .........................................................
C re sc e n t....................................................
Black  X .....................................................
Black  Bass................................................
Spring.........................................................
G ra y lin g ....................................................
M ackinaw ..................................................
H orse Shoe................................................
H air L ifte r................................................
D. and D., black ........................................
McAlpin’s G reen  Shield........................
Ace  High, black ......................................
Sailors’  Solace.........................................

2c. less in four b u tt lots.

@48
@50
@46
@40
@48
@46
@46
@46
@44
@49
@38
@35
@46
@46
@46
@33
@46
@37
@46
@38
@62
@46
@38
@46
@46
@50
@36
@36
@36
@46
@46
@46
@46
@51
@37
@46
@46
@44
@35
@40
@46
@46
@45
@44
@36
@36
@46
@35
@46

SMOKING

“ 

G rayling

.  28|Seal Skin...........
..26  Rob Roy............
. .30; Uncle  Sam .......
Lum berm an  ... 
25! Railroad B o y ... 
.. .lOiMountainKose.

__ 30
....26 
__ 28
¡¡¡¡38
..18
Home C om fort.......... 25

Old T a r....................... 40;Sweet L otus..
A rth u r’s  Choice...... 22;Conqueror ...
Red F o x ...
F lirt................. ;.
Gold  D ust..........
Gold  Block.........
Seal  of G rand Rapids
(cloth).........
Tram w ay, 3  oz
Ruby, c u t Cavendish 35 
Lemon.  Vanilla. 
....f t   doz.l  00 
140
Boss  ............................15
2 oz......................
................. 1  50
2  50 P eck’s Sun................. 18 Seal of N orth Caro-
4 oz......................
4  00 Miners and Puddlers.28
8 o z...................... ................. 3 50
5  00 M orning  Dew............25
Seal of N orth  Caro-
1  50 Chuin............................22
No. 2  T ap er....... ................. 1  25
3  00 Peerless  .....................24 Seal of N orth  Caro-
....... ................. 1  75
No.  4 
7  50 S tan d ard .....................22
................. 4  50
% p in t  ro u n d .. 
................. 9  0» 15 00 Old T om ...................... 21 Seal of N orth  Caro-
1 
................. 3  00
Tom &  J e rry ..............24
4  25 
No.  8__ ’. ...........
6  00
................. 4  25
No. 10 ................
T ra v e le r...........
M aiden..............
@16 
Pickwick  Club. 
28@30 
Nigger  H ead... 
4%@5 
Holland
12@13 
G erm an ......................16; Zero
Solid C om fort.______30! Holland Mixed.
©   10
Red Clover.................321 Golden  A ge___
Long Tom .................. 30-Mail  P o u ch ..........
74®   84 
N a tio n a l.......
@2  75 
T im e ............
@3  50

lina, 2  oz................. 48
lina. 4oz...................46
lina, 80Z...................41
lina. 16 oz boxes.... 40
. .35 Apple Ja c k ..................24
. .251 King Bee, lo n g c u t.. .22 
..40 Milwaukee  P riz e ....24
. .26  R a ttle r.........................28
,.22| W indsor c u t p lu g __ 25
.16 
.16

FR U ITS

4Í 

“

C A N D Y ,  FR U IT S  A N D   NUTS.

 

 

 

do
do

STICK .

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 lb  BOXES.

8%@9
9®  9% 
..10%@11
...  9@  9%
__  @8*
.. ..10@10% 
— 9  @  9*4 
..12*4@I3 
....12%@
_____ 10@10%

Putnam  & Brooks quote as fo llo w s:
Standard, 25 B> boxes.............................  
Twist, 
Cut Loaf
Royal, 25 ft  pails.......... ..
Royal, 3001b b b ls...  __ ‘.
Extra, 25 ft  p alls..............
E xtra. 200 ft b b ls.............
French Cream, 25 ft pails
Cut loaf, 251b  cases.........
B roken,25  ft  pails.
Broken, 2001b  bbls...............................................9@ 9%
Lemon  D rops.................... 
12@13
Sour D rops................................................f . 13@14
Pepperm int  D rops................................ :. 14@15
Chocolate  D rops....................................... 
15
H M Chocolate  D rops...................................... 20
Gum  Drops  ........................................................10
Licorice D rops....................................................20
A B  Licorice  D rops..........................................12
Lozenges, p lain ...................................................15
Lozenges,  p rin te d ............................................. 16
Im p e ria ls.............................................................15
M o tto es............... 
15
Cream  B ar.................................................... 13® 14
Molasses B ar........................................................13
Caram els........................................................18@20
H and Made Cream s........................................... 20
Plain  Cream s...................................................... 17
Decorated  Cream s............................................. 20
S tring R ock...................................................14@15
B urnt A lm onds............... 
22
W intergreen  B erries.........................................15
Lozenges, plain  in  pails........................   @12%
Lozenges, plain in  bbls..................  
  @11
Lozenges, printed in pails.....................  @12%
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................U%@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails...................... 12%@13
Gum  Drops  in pails.................................. 7  @7%
Gum Drops, in bbls....................................   6@  6*4
Moss Drops, in  p ails.......... ¡.................. 10  @10%
Moss Drops, in b b l s .....................?..................   9
Sour Drops, in  pails.......................................... 12
Im perials, In  pails.................................. 12%@I3
Im perials  in  bbls..................................   11  @12
Bananas  A spinw all.............................. 1  00®2 50
O ranges, Rodi  Messina..........................  @6 00
Oranges,  N aples........................
Lemons,  choice..........................
Lemons, fa n c y ............................
Figs, layers, fi f t........................
Dates, frails  do  ........................
Dates, 54 do  d o ........................
Dates, sk in ...................................
Dates,  *4  sk in .............................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ft  1b.......
Dates, Fard 50 ft box ft 1b........
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ft f t...
Pino Apples, ft  doz...................
PEANUTS.
Prim e  Red,  raw  fi  f t...............
Choice 
•.___
d o  
Fancy 
do  ................
Choice W hite. Va.do  ...............
Fancy H 1\.  Va  d o ....... .
NUTS.
Almonds,  T arrag o n a...............
I v aca...........................
B razils........................................
Filberts, Sicily...........................
B a rc e lo n a ...;............
W alnuts,  G renoble................. .
M arbo........................
F rench......................................
C alifornia................................
M issouri..................................9  @ 10

Pecans,  Texas, H. P .............................. 11  @12%
Coconnuts, $  100.....................................4  00@4  50

@18% 
@17% 
@  9 
@ 12% 
©12 
@14%

4  @  4% 
4%@  5 
©   5% 
5®  5% 

...18
...17
¡¡¡12
...11
...14

.4 *:@  5 
@5

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

5%®  6

f r u i t s .

do 
do 

© 6

“ 

%

H ID E S , P E L T S   A N D   FU RS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows: 

HID ES.

G reen — ft ft  6  ©  6% Calf skins, green
o r cu red__
P a rt  c u re d ...  7%@  8 
Full cu red —   8%@  9  Deacon skins,
ft  piece....... 20
Dry hides and 

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

@10
@50

SH E E P  PELTS.

Shearlings..................................................20
L am bskins................................................20
01*1 wool, estim ated washed ft f t.........
Tallow .........................................................  4%

@40 
@50 
@23 
,@  4 t

Fine washed $  1b 20@25|Unwashed..........
Coarse w ashed.. .16@18|

W OOL.

F R E S H   M EATS.
Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  the 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..........................
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs........
Dressed  H ogs.................................
M utton,  carcasses........................
V eal..................................................
Pork  Sausage.................................
Bologna...........................................
Fow ls.................................... ............
Spring Chickens............................

trade  selling
.......5  ©   6%
.......  6%@  7
.......   @ 6
.......4%©  5%
.......8  @9
....... 7%@  8
..........8  @ 9
.......11  @12
.......  @16

COUNTRY  PR O D U C E.

Apples—Fall  fru it  com m ands 1.50 ft bbl. for 

eating  and $1.25 ft bbl. for cooking.

Beans—Dealers  pay  50c@90c  ft  bu.  for  un­
picked and sell city picked for $1.25.  The crop 
is not nearly so large, or as  fine  in  quality  as 
last season.

B u tter—Michigan  cream ery  is  in  m oderate 
dem and a t 20@22e.  Sweet dairy is very  scarce 
and is in active  dem and  at  14@15c,  while  old 
packed readily com m ands 13@15c.  Low grades 
are in plentiful supply at 6@12c.

B utterine—Cream ery  com m ands  18c  and 

Cabbages—New stock is in fair dem and  a t  50 

dairy 14@15c.

$  doz.

Cheese—G radually clim bing  higher, the  fac- 
torym en  now  holding  full cream  a t 8%@8%c 
while the jobber quotes at  8%@9%c.

Cider—10c ft gal. and $1 for  bbl.
Celery—20@25c ft doz. 'bunches  fo r  K alam a­

zoo or Grand Haven.

Clover  Seed—Demand  fo r  fall  seeding  all 
over.  F air  to  good  Medium  com m ands  $6 
and choice  recleaned  $6.50.  Mammoth is held 
at $6.50.

Cranberries—The  m arket  is  well  supplied 
w ith a fair article of wild  stock, which crowds 
o u t the cultivated berry, com m anding  $2@2,25 
ft bu.  Tam e berries are w orth  $8@$X0  ft 2 bu. 
bbl.

Eggs—Sharp  dem and, and price stiffer, fresh 

stock com m anding  18c.  Pickled stock, 16c.

Grapes—Concords  bring 3@lc  ft ft.  and  Del­

aw ares, 6@7c.  Niagaras,  13c.

G reen Peppers—$1  ft bu.
H oney—Choice new in comb is firm  a t 13%.
Hay—Bailed, $15®$ 16 ft ton.
Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c ft  ft.
Melons—W ater,  $1  ft  doz.,  packages  e x tra. 

Musk, out of m arket.

Onions—Home-grown,  65c ft bu. or $2  ft bbl.
Pears—O rdinary  varieties.  $1.25@$i.50 ft bu.
Peaches—V ery scarce  and  m arket  not  half 
supplied.  Hill’s Chile command $2.50@$3 ft bu 
and late Crawfords $3@$3.50.

Pop Corn—Choice com m ands 4c ft  ft.
Potatoes—New potatoes  are  so  plentiful  in 
most localities th a t regular quotations are o ut 
of 
Jersey   sw eets  com m and 
$3 ft bbl., and Baltim ore  $2.25.

the  question. 

P oultry—M arket plentifully supplied. Fowls, 

12@13c.  Spring chickens,  16.

Quinces—$2.25 per bu.
Squash—H ubbard, l%e.
Tom atoes—P lentiful at 50c ft bu.
T urnips—40c ft bu.
Tim othy—$1.90 ft bu.

(B ro c e rie s.
TH E  CREDIT  GROCER.

W ritten E xpressly for T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

Who is it w ears a frow ning face,
W here lines of th ought and care you trace, 
Which  show  he  needs  his  “three  days 

grace?”

The credit grocer.

Who is it always buys “on tick,”
And to m eet bis  paym ents fre ts till sick, 
Foy fear of the assignm ent  trick?

The credit grocer.

Who is it sees his goods depart 
W ith pain and sinking of the heart.
While tears as big as  buttons start?

The credit grocer.

Who, w hen the drum m er doth appear. 
T urns red and green w ith very fear,
Of dun fo r bills he bought last year?

The credit grocer.

Who deem s each custom er a foe.
And curses show ers on all below 
Who will not pay him  w hat they owe?

The credit grocer.

Who feels he has not e’en a soul.
To call his own, in his control,
A nd wishes each dead beat in sheol?

The credit grocer.

And who, w hen dead and in th e dust,
Will bear this epitaph so ju st—
“Died from  effect of too m uch tru st.”

The credit grocer.

Running Yet.
He ran  to catch a horse-car.
But success did not attend;
F or engaged was the conductor 
In  conversing with a  friend.
A nd he m adly waved his bundles, 
Shouted “ hi!” with m ight and m am ;
And he flourished his um brella.
B ut he flourished it in vain;
For up on th a t conversation 
The conductor would not let;
So the other kept on running,
And he m ay be running yet.

A Slander on the Profession.

A gentleman who had made  the  acquain­
tance of a drummer on the  train, on  reach­
ing Grand  Rapids asked him:

“Where is there a cheap  but  respectable 

boarding house in this town?”
“The  cheapest  and  most 

respectable 
boarding house I know of is with my future 
wife. 

I always stop with her folks.”

“So your intended lives  here,  does she?” 
“Of course,  I’ve got one  in  every city in 

the United States of any prominence.”

Courtesy to  a Stranger. 

“Gentlemen,  would  you  mind  moving 
I  don’t  feel 

along and  giving  me a seat? 
very well.”

“You look well enough  to  stand;  we’re 
crowded already,” said  a glum  young man.
“Excuse me, but I’ve traveled all the way 

from Montreal and I didn’t—”

Within two minutes  the  stranger  had  a 
choice of all the seats,  and  he  wasn’t  from 
Montreal either.

The  Grocery Market.

Business  continues  good.  Hard  sugars 
have declined  about  J^c,  and  soft  sugars 
3^c; and as the canning season is practically 
over,  the indications are  that  future  move­
ments will be of a downward nature.  New 
Valencia raisins are now  in  market.  Can­
ned goods are moving off quite freely.

Candy is steady.  Oranges are scarce and 
higher.  Lemons are about the same.  Nuts 
are steady.

About the Size of It.

From  the Shoe and L eather  Review.

T h e   M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n   celebrated 
its second birthday  Sept.  16. 
Its  twenty- 
four months of life have been busy and use­
ful ones,  and  it enters upon the  third year 
with renewed  enterprise,  and  sustained by 
the most substantial  encouragement  of  an 
appreciative constituency.

The Honest Farmer.

From  the  Muskegon Chronicle.

A Terrace street  grocery  man  bought a 
load of line looking pumpkins  from a  gen­
tleman from the rural  districts.  After  the 
farmer’s departure our grocer friend discov­
ered that the largest  pumpkin in  the  pile 
had been hollowed out  and  filled  in  with 
hays and stones.

The Chicago  Times  says this  week that 
merchants  are inclined strongly to the opin­
ion that the magnificent corn  crop will go a 
good way towards  compensating  the coun-1 
try for the low prices offered  by Great Brit- 
ian for our wheat,  for, after all, it must now 
be admitted that coni is king  in this  coun­
try.  Merchants who depend for subsistence [ 
on the trade of  farmers’  families,  right in 
the heart of the  winter  wheat  country,  re­
port that the agricultural population in those 
sections is far  from being  disheartened by 
the failure of  that  important  crop,  for,  in 
most cases  they  were  shrewd  enough to 
plow up the winter-wheat  acres  once  more 
and replant the ground with  corn.

The Supreme Court of Iowa  has  just de­
cided  that  a  hotel-keeper  who  receives 
guests,  knowing  that a  contagious  disease 
is existing at his hotel at the  time,  is liable 
in damages to any guest  who  thereby con­
tracts  the  disease,  unless  he  informs  the 
guest of the fact  when receiving him.  The 
plaintiff in this case caught the smallpox by 
being thus received,  and recovered damages 
to the extent of $5,000.

Ground pepper i3  often  adulterated with 
the ground kernels of olive  berries. 
If the 
mixture is scattered upon equal parts of gly­
cerine and water, the pepper floats upon the 
surface and the berries  sink.

E.  B.  Fisher,  of  the  Eagle,  and W.  B. 
Weston,  of the Leader,  will take an  excur­
sion to Louisville on the 13th.  Fare  $8 for 
the round trip.

Choice grapes  are  selling  for  a  cent a 
pound,  wholesale, on  parts  of  the  Pacific 
coast.

O Y S T E R S !

Ë When  in  want  of a  good  brand  of  OYSTERS, Q
rl
Fri don’t fail to  get  the  famous  PATAPSC0,  which  is
guaranteed both as to quality and price.  Sold only T
H by  W.  F.  GIBSON  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,
H GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,  and I
h dealers in all kinds of PRODUCE,  JELLY,  MINCE Ï
m MEAT  and  PAPER  OYSTER  PAILS.

n

J e l l y ,   M i n o e   I M I e e it  E t c .

E L A S T IC  

STA R G H
IT  REQUIRES  NO  COOKING.

JEWELL & 00.,

44@

Cherries, dried,  p itte d .................
Citron,  new ....................................
C u rra n ts..........................................
Peaches, dried  ............,.................
P runes, T urkey, new ...................
Raisins, new V alencia.................
Raisins,  O ndaras..........................
Raisins,  S ultanas..........................
Raisins, Loose  M uscatels..........
Raisins, London  L ayers..............
K E R O S EN E  O IL .
W ater W hite.........10%  |  Legal  T est...........
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, sq u are..........................1  00
Grand  H aven,  No.  200,  parlo r...........; ......... 1  76
G rand  H aven,  No.  3oO,  p arlo r.......................2
G rand  H aven,  No.  7,  ro u n d ..........................1  50
Oshkosh, No.  2.................................................... 1  00
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................... 1 50
Sw edish...........................................
Richardson’s No. 8 
square.............................1  00
.............................. 150
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
Richardson’s No. 74, ro u n d ............................ 1  00
Richardson’s No. 7 
do 
.............................. 150

MATCHES.

91i

MOLASSES.

Black  S tra p ......................................................14@15
Porto  ltico ........................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good........................................ 38@42
New Orleans, choice...................................... 48@50
New  Orleans,  fa n c y .......................................53@55

4   bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

do 

PIC K LES.

Steel  c u t..................5  25|Quaker, 48  fts........2  ¡15
Steel Cut, 4  b b ls.. .3  OOlQuaker, 60  fts........2  50
Rolled  O ats............3 60|Quaker bbls............6  00
Choice in barrels m ed.............................   @5 25
Choice in 4  
.............................   @3  25
P IP E S .
Im ported Clay 3 gross............................2  25@3  00
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............   @2  25
Im ported Clay, No. 216,24 g ross.........  @1  85
A m erican  T. D.........................................  
©   90
R IC E .
1 
Ijav a  ................. 6  @64
I  P a t n a .........................6
34  R ang o o n ......... 5%@63£
541 B roken.......................34

Choice Carolina 
Good  Carolina. 
P rim e Carolina 
Good Louisiana

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s p u re .........54  ¡Dwight’s .................... 5
C hurch’s 
................. 5  Sea  F oam .................. 5
Taylor’s  G.  M .......... 6 

¡Cap  Sheaf.

.26;K nights of L a to r__ 30
. .26|Free Cob P ip e.............27
SHORTS.
. ,23| H iaw ath a....................22
. .22, Old Congress.............. 23
SN U FF.

Mayflower ..
G lobe............
Mule E a r__
Lorillard’s A m erican G entlem en..
Maccoboy.........................
Gail & A x’ 
........................
R appee..............................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch......................
Lotzbeok  ............................................

“ 
“ 

“ 

44 
35
45 
1  30

VINEGAR.

do 

do 

8©  12 
8@12

Star brand,  pu re  cider..............
S tar brand, w hite w ine..............
MISCELLANEOUS,
Bath Brick im p o rted .................
90 
A m erican..................
B arley........................ ....................
@1 
Burners, No. 1 .............................
1  00 
1  50 
No.  2.............................
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand..
8  00 
15@25 
Cream T artar 5 and 101b c a n s..
@13% 
Candles, S ta r.................................
@14 
Candles,  H otel.............................
@80 
E x tract Coffee, V.  C...................
F e lix ................
@25 
Gum, Rubber  100 lum ps............
@,15
Gum, R ubber 200 lum ps............
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@35
Hominy, ft  b b l.........................................   @4  00
Jelly, in 30 ft  p ails.................................. 4%@
@1  35 
Peas, Green B ush.....................
Peas, Split p repared................
@   3%  
@3  75 
Pow der, K eg..............................
@1  75
Powder,  % K eg........................

1  25 

do 

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F. J . D ettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

S O L E   -A -G -E U S T T S ,

GRAOTD  RAPIDS,

MICK,

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F   D airy.............................
28 P o ck et....................................................
100 3 ft  pockets.........................................
Saginaw o r  M anistee.............................
Diamond  C...................................... .........
Standard  Coarse......................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. b ag s.........
Ashton. English, dairy, 4 bu. b ag s__
H iggins’ English dairy bu.  b ag s.........
A m erican, dairy,  %  bu. b ag s................
Rock, bushels...........................................

2  30 
2 25 
2  50 
95 
1 60
1  55 
80
2  80 
80
28

SAUCES.

Parisian, %  p in ts....................................   @2  00
P epper Sauce, red  sm all......................   @  75
P epper 8auce, green  .............................. 
©   90
P epper Sauce, red  large rin g ..............  @1  35
P epper Sauce, green, large rin g .........  @1  70

New  York  C ounts.................................................38
F. J. D. Selects........................................................33
S e le c ts...................... ..............................................30
F. J .  D .......................................................................25
Standards  ........................................................ —  22
Shrew sbury shells, f)  100.......................................1 50
Princess  Bay  Clams, ft 100................................. 75
New  York  Counts, ft  100.......................................1 50

FRESH  F ISH .

Mackinaw T ro u t...................................... 
 
W hitefish  .............................................................   6%
Cod  ....................................................................... 12
Sun  F ish..............................................................   5
Rock B ass............................................................   5
P e r c h ..................1................................................  4
Duck  Bill P ik e....................................................  6
W all-eyed  P ik e ..................................................  7
Smoked W hite F ish ............................................10
Smoked T ro u t...................................  
 
Sipoked S turgeon..........................<................... 10

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

W heat—5e higher.  The  city  m illers  pay  as 
follows:  L ancaster,  88;  Fulse,  85c;  Clawson, 
85c.

Corn—Jobbing generally a t 55c in 100bu. lots 

aud 51c iu carlot8.

Oats—W hite, 35c in small lots and  30c  in  car- 
lots.
6%
Rye—50c ft  bu.
Barley—Brew ers pay $1.25 ft cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy P atent, $5.75 ft bbl. 
in  sacks  and  $6  in  wood.  S traight,  $4.75  $  
bbl. in sacks and $5 in  wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  fp ton.  B ran, $13 
ft ton.  Ships, $14 ft ton.  Middlings, $17 ft ton. 
Corn and Oats, $22 ft ton.

10

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

M u s k e g o n .

The Pembroke Knitting Co.,  which  has 
sold the jobbing trade only  for  a couple  of 
years past,  has put travelers on the road and 
will hen-after sell direct to  the  retail trade. 
G.  F.  Cole,  J.  C.  McDonald  and  C.  H. 
Hayes cover the Michigan and Indiana trade 
and J.  M. Silverstone travels  through Ken­
tucky.  A representative will also be placed 
in Tennessee.  The company has  also add­
ed to its line of  ladies’  and  misses’  stock­
ings,  leggins,  and a complete  line of  men’s 
ware,  such  as  men’s  socks, 
lumbermen’s 
socks,  rnits,  Scotch  caps,  etc.  Business  is 
good,  the collections easy,  the principal dif­
ficulty being to secure  wool  fast  enough to 
supply the demands of the trade.
Frank L. Orcutt. who pursued a vascillat- 
ing course here for a year and a half  as  the 
head of the produce and commission firm of 
Orcutt  &  Co.,  has  gone  the Minneapolis, 
leaving numerous creditors to mourn his de­
parture.
Andrewr Wierengo  went  to  Chicago  last 
Tuesday,  and  from  there  will  proceed  to 
New York.  He is accompanied by his wife, 
and will be absent about two weeks.
Wm. 1>.  Carey,  whose failure  was one of 
the most disreputable ever occurring in  this 
city,  is now in the employ of a railway com­
pany in Texas.
J. VanderMolen,  of the grocery firm of J. 
VandenMolen & Co.,  was in  Grand  Rapids 
last week for the purpose of  accompanying 
his wife home.
Receiver  Tate  states  that the Evenwood 
matter,  which  has  hung  fire  for the past 
year will be closed up at the present term of 
court.
W. II. Erwin, formerly with C. C. Moulton 
& Co.,  has formed a co-partnership  with  J. 
D.  Erwin,  and the two have engaged in  the 
produce and commission business at 99 Pine 
street under the firm name of  W. H.  Erwin 
& Co.
F. 
to Western avenue.
Dr.  Zerah  Mizner  has  moved  his  drug 
store from Pine street to one  of  the  stores 
in Lake’s block on Terrace  street.
Frank II. Johnson,  the lowertown grocer, 
was married at  Toledo  last  Wednesday to 
Miss Nellie Manning,  of that place.
The opinion is  growing  among  business 
men that  Mrs.  Root will pay  all the claims 
against  the  late  firm  of  Win.  D.  Carey & 
Co.,  of which she was the “Co.”  This opin­
ion is strengthened by the fact that  she has 
paid the Lumberman’s  National  Bank the 
amount the firm  owed  that  institution, and 
that she has promised to meet  other claims 
of the same nature.
W.  W. Barcus, assignee for A. G. Jepson, 
has closed out the  stock of  the  estate in a 
manner  highly  creditable to  his  business 
ability and satisfactory  to  the  creditors in­
terested.
The meeting of the  Grocers’ Association, 
held last Wednesday  evening,  was well at­
tended and the  organization  was  perfected 
by the election of the  following  officers,  to 
serve until January 1.

President—H.  B.  Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B.  Kieft.
Second Vice-President—Albert Towl.
Secretary—William Peer.
Fin.  Secy.—Garret Wagner.
Treasurer—John  Dellaas.
Directors—O.  Lambert,  H.  B.  Smith,  Al­
bert Towl,  W.  I.  McKenzie,  W.  B.  Kelley 
and E.  Johnson.
The membership  is  now  fifty-one,  and is 
expected to reach seventy by the next meet­
ing, which will be held on Wednesday even­
ing, October 7.  Meetings will be  held semi­
monthly.  A constitution and  by-laws were 
adopted at the  last  meeting,  and  are now 
being printed in pamphlet form.

H ersey.

The  amount  of  lumber  in  sight and on 
track at Hersey is as follows:  Pine,  1,000,- 
000 feet; maple,  300,000; basswood, 200,000; 
shingles,  1,900,000.
Chas.  L.  Gray & Co.  are building, and ex­
pect  to  have  completed  by November  1  a 
shingle and clapboald mill.  The site  is  on 
the Muskegon river, just below Evart.  The 
capacity of the mill will be  forty  thousand 
shingles,  and the amount of  clapboards  per 
day will vary according to the quality of the 
timber.
One-half  mile  below  this  mill  another 
combination  mill  is  being  built  by a  Mr. 
Chadwick  for  cutting  lumber,  clapboards 
and shingles.  D.  V.  Wait, of Evart,  fur­
nishes  the  capital  and  the stock,  and  Mr. 
Chadwick is to do the cutting on contract.
There are less  shingles in sight along  the 
line of the G.  R.  &  I.  Railway  now  than 
there  have  been  at  any  time  within  five 
years past.

O t t e r   L a k e .

Tanner,  Sherman & Stark,  proprietors  of 
the Morning Star Mills  at  this  place,  have 
just added to their  machinery  one  Wilford 
&  Northway’s  first  break,  one  Wilford  & 
Northway’s  centrifugal  scalper  and  one 
double  set  of  Wilford  & Northway’s 6x20 
smooth rolls,  enabling  them  to  make  four 
different grades of flour.
Jonas McAlpine, owner of thePeaveyand 
Pike Pole Handle Factory here,  died Oct.  1. 
He was an honest,  upright  citizen,  and  had 
accumulateti considerable  property through 
industry and thrift.

L u t l i e r .

Waterman Bros,  have  sold  their temper- 
Mrs.  E.  M.  Ilovey is in  Detroit  buying a 

nice saloon to C.  W.  Hathaway for $250.
lew stock of millinery.

VISITING  BUYERS.

kegon.

W yman.

'rie s,.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
he market during the past week and placed 
irders with the various houses:
A. E. Johnson, Sparta.
r, Lilley 
Stephen Bitely, Lilley P. O.
slj
Stephen  Bitely, Bitely &Cain, Sparta. 
N. DeVries, Jam estow n.
Osborne & Hammond, Luther,
Adam  Nowell, Tustin.
A. T. B urnett, Cross Village.
J . VanderM olen, J. VanderM olen & Co., Mus­
Ja y  M arlatt, Berlin.
Mrs. J. D ebri, Byron Center.
Geo. Scribner, Urandville.
T. J. Smedley, Lam ont.
W.  S.  Boot, Tallm adge.
Wm. McMullen,  Wood Lake.
Geo. H. W albrink, A lle n d a le .
E. F. Belding, Sparta.
Morrison Bros., W est  Troy.
Gaylord & Pipp, Pierson.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
Cook & Sweet, Bauer.
Wm. K arsten, Beaver Dam.
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
W alter W inchester, W inchester  &  Loveless, 
J. Barnes, A usterlitz.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
N orm an  H arris,  Big Springs.
J. W. Clo8terhouse, Grandville.
C. Cole, Cole & Chaple,  Ada.
Mr. Kolilman, Church & Kohlman, Allegan. 
Mr. Teft, H ew ett & Tefft,  Kockford.
Gus.  Begman,  Bauer.
E. L. W right, Woodville.
A. H. Woodin. Sparta.
E.  A. Bradford, W hite Cloud.
Jo h n  DeJongh, G rand  H aven.
A. & L. M. Wolf. Hudsonville.
Byron  Qallou,  Caddillac.
Wm. V erm euien,  Beaver Dam.
Mr. D enH erder, D enH erder  &  Tanis,  Vries- 
V orhorst & Co., Overisel.
Dr. J. W. K irtland, Lakeview.
Fred Hotchkiss, Hastings, 
it. A. H astings, Sparta.
F. E. Campau, Alaska.
Neal McMillan, Kockford.
O. W. Messenger, Spring  Lake.
O. S. Holland, A shland.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
G. W. Hoag, M artin.
W alling Bros., Lam ont.
F rank Rose, Manton.
Charlie D rury, Sampson & D rury, Cadillac. 
Mr. R anters, R anters & Son, Holland.
W alter Struik, Forest Grove.
H enry DeKline, Jam estow n.

land.

F.  Clark has moved his hardward store 

I b a r f r w a t e .
Epitaph on a Blacksmith.
My anvil and m y ham m er 
Lie declined.
My bellows, too,
H ave lost th eir wind,
My fire is extinct,
And m y forge decayed,
A nd in th e  dust 
My voice is laid.
My coal is spent,
M v iron is gone.
My last nail driven.
And m y work is  done.
Brazing Cast Iron.

“ What is the  reason  that I cannot  braze 
cast iron?” asked a machinist the other day. 
“Every time I try it I fail.  Sometimes  the 
cast iron bums  away,  and  sometimes  the 
brass will  not  stick.  What  is  the  trou­
ble?”

Cast iron  may  be  easily  brazed,  if,  like 
doing other peculiar  jobs,  “you  know how 
to do it.”  Have the iron clean; make it free 
from grease and  acids which  may be injur­
ious; choose any soft  brass,  or  make  some 
for this purpose.  The yellow brass used in 
brazing copper  will do;  it  must  contain a 
large percentage of zinc, or its melting point 
will be much lower than that of the cast iron 
itself.

Put on the borax before heating the  iron. 
Dissolve the borax,  and  apply the  solution 
freely to the parts to  be  brazed.  By doing 
this before heating,  a  film of  oxide is  pre­
vented from forming upon the iron.  Fasten 
the parts together and  heat  in a clear char­
coal fire.  Soft  coal is not suitable; there is 
too much sulphur in it.

Heat the work  gradually.  Apply heat to 
the largest  piece, and  keep  that  heat  the 
hottest.  Sprinkle  on  powdered  borax and 
brass  filings, * and  use  plenty  of  borax. 
Watch carefully and get the iron up to a red 
heat before any  of  the  brass  melts.  The 
brass will not adhere  unless  the iron is hot 
enough to melt the brass.

Be very careful  not to get  the  iron . too 
hot,  or  away it melts  and the  job is  lost. 
When the brass  “runs,”  remove  from  the 
fire immediately,  and wipe  off  the superllu- 
ous brass,  cool off slowly  and  finish up the 
joint.

Metal Cups.

The present Parisian  fancy  for  gold and 
silver tea and coffee cups,  from the very na­
ture of the  case,  can  only  be  a  passing 
vagary.  This is not  to be  deplored,  for a 
more unpleasant  material  than metal from 
which to drink anything  hot  cannot be de­
vised.  The true way to take  tea  or coffee, 
as we all know,  is  to  sip  it  from  dainty 
Sevres or delicate Chinese porcelain.  Metal 
cups of any kind can only cause discomfort. 
Fanciful silver-gilt egg-cups  are in  various 
shapes, that of a broken egg-shell being most 
popular.  Salt-cellars of the newest designs 
take  every conceivable  form.  Among  the 
odd devices are stew-pans,  gypsy pots  hung 
from tripods,  wheel-barrows,  and  baskets. 
“Individual” cruets  are  shown  having an 
aconi to hold the mustard,  with acorn  cups, 
one on  either  side,  for  salt and  pepper. 
Another but far less  attractive “individual” 
cruet is in the form of an  umbrella and pair 
of boots.

L a k e s id e .

The  Lakeside  Ice  Co.  is  erecting  new 
buildings near the present ice houses.
The Shippy Shingle Co.  is  putting  up  a 
new smoke stack,  intending to  increase  the 
steam power of the mill.
The  juvenile  saloon  near  the  pleasure 
grounds at Bluffton has been closed up.  A 
soaring ambition is thus nipped in  t he  bud.
It  is  rumored  that  Nelson  & Eastman, 
grocers at Port Sherman,  are  going  out  of 
business.
Johnson Bros, are building an addition to 
their store,  10x08 feet  in dimensions, which 
they  will  use  as  a warehouse for salt,  oil, 
syrups, etc.

H a r t f o r d .

Ocoboek  &  Thompson  now  have  their 
dress-making  rooms, back of the dry goods 
store,  in running order.
The  “Deep  Cut”  clothing  firm  of Paw 
Paw,  has rented a  store  here,  and  will  put 
in a stock the  coining  week,  establishing  a 
branch house here.
C. A.  Sherburne  is  buying  and  shipping 
apples here.
G.  W.  Blythe  has  moved  his  jewelry 
stock  from  the  post  office  building to  the 
Earle building.
the  harness-maker, 
has added a line of robes,  blankets,  etc.

Earle  Hemingway, 

I tl j;  R a p id * .

F.  W. Joslin’s stock of clothing  left  here 
the 2nd for Ashville,  N.  C.  J.  S.  Lit open­
ed the 3d, as per previous  announcement.
Freiberg  Bros.,  merchant  tailors,  were 
closed up on attachment by  Detroit parties, 
whose claims amount to $1,400, on the 2nd. 
C.  D.  Carpenter,  of  this  city,  attached  the 
sewing machines and unfinished work to se­
cure his claim of $45.  The other  liabilities 
are not yet known.
The  Big  Rapids  Tub and  Pail Factory’s 
contract with the Woodenware  Association 
terminates the 14th of the present month, at 
which  time  the  factory  will be shut down 
for two weeks,  to make necessary  improve­
ments.
It is reported that Crocker &IIudnutt will 
loose $5,000 on their court house contract.
Chub & Trebair,  former proprietors of the 
Canada House,  have opened a hotel and bar 
in the  building  on  Michigan  avenue,  just 
north of the Brackett House.
It is reported that Timothy Edmunds has 
purchased his partner’s interest in  the  boot 
and  shoe  stock.  Mr.  Boon,  the  retiring 
member,  goes to Wisconsin this  week,  and 
from there intends to go to Florida.
Mrs.  C.  E.  Alien, who lately sold the City 
Bakery, lias opened the National hotel.
The Michigan  Cigar  Co.  will  remove  to, 
the Newton block when Mr. Lange is through 
with the building.
The Bradbeer book store has been removed 
from the Northern block to the  store  parti­
ally occupied by  Squier’s  jewelry  store,  in 
the Stickney block.

Three  thousand  dollars  more  stock  has 
been  taken  in  the  tub and pail factory  by 
the present stock holders, who have a grow­
ing faith in the enterprise.  Ninety thousand 
dollars  worth  of  tubs  and pails have been 
turned out in a little less than a year.

Pull It when It’s Ripe.

Say, hesitating, anxious one,
And let the best chance of your life 
W hy not brace up your weak  back-bone 
By reaching for th a t chance a t  once 

Why vacillating  stand,
Go slipping through your hand?
And show th e proper  stripe.
And pull it when it’s ripe?

A m illion men have failed, because 
They wore  too slow or fast.
And millions m ore will do the same,
As long as men shall  last.
Why should th ere be so m any  folk 
’ Of such unhappy type?
T here w ouldn’t  be. if men would  watch. 
And pull it when it’s ripe.

The Hardware Market.

The principal  feature  of  the  week  has 
been the further advance  in nails, local job­
bers now quoting the  staple  at  $2.75.  As 
the mills are all  closed,  on  account  of  the 
strike, it is impossible to get orders filled on 
some sizes,  and all the mills  are from three 
to six weeks behind on their  orders.  Glass 
has also  advanced  from  5 to 10 per  cent. 
Other articles in the hardware line are about 
steady.

Meeting of the Retail Trade.

All  retail dealers of  Grand  Rapids who
are interested  in  the formation of an  asso­
ciation for protective and defensive purposes 
are requested to meet  at  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
office Tuesday evening,  October 6.
Let there be a general turn out!
Good Words Unsolicited.

L. Burns,  hardw are, A da:  “ H ike y our paper 

very m uch.”

L.  H.  Sieb,  grocer,  Michigan  City:  “ Like 

y our p aper very  m uch.”

“The Paper Among  Business Men.” 

From the Manton Tribune.

T h e   M ic h ig a n   T r a d e s m a n   has  just 
commenced its third year,  and it is  i/w?  pa­
per among Michigan business men.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A dvertisem ents  of 25 words o r  less  inserted 
in th is colum n a t the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cen t  fo r  each 
additional word.  Advance paym ent.

I  ¡'OK  SALE—A  copy  of  the  new  edition  of 

'  Band,  McNally  &  Co.’s  “ D irectory  and 
Shipping Guide of Lum ber Mills  and  Lum ber 
D ealers.”  E nquire a t “The T radesm an” office.
TJ'OR  SALE—Desirable  building  lot. on  LIv- 
J j 
ingstone street, 50x125,  w ith  alley  in  the 
rear.  Price $550 cash or $000 on long tim e.  E n­
quire a t “The T radesm an” office.

IPOK  SALE—House and lot a t 273 Gold street.

Price, $2,200 on tim e,  o r  $2,100 if one-half 
is  paid  down.  E nquire  a t “The Tradesm an” 
office.

GX2TSS2TG ROOT.
We pay the highest price fo r it.  Address
Peck Bros.,  Druggists, Orand Rapids, Mich.

Chisels.

H obart, in  A m erican Machinist.

Make  chisels short for hard,  rough work. 
They transmit the power or force of a  blow 
much better.  Long chisels are apt to  “broom 
up” on the hammer  end,  as the  long  steel 
through which  the  blow  passes  lias more 
chance to absorb the force of the blow.  The 
harder the metal to be  worked,  the  quicker 
the blow should be  transmitted.  Cast-iron 
works much better with  a short steel chisel 
and light  hammer  than  if  the  blow was 
struck upon a very long chisel with a heavy 
wooden mallet. 
In one case the blow is de­
livered all at one,  in the other it takes time, 
and much of the force is absorbed.

A coiled spring  inserted .between  engine 
and  machinery  is  highly  beneficial  where 
extreme regularity of power is required. 
It 
is well known that a steam  engine,  in order 
to govern itself,  must  run  too fast  and too 
slow in order to  close or  open  its  valves, 
hence an  irregularity of  power  is  unavoid­
able.

Don’t slight a job  because you  have  run 
against a snag.  You start the job determin­
ed to do a nice piece  of  work.  Stick to it, 
and when something breaks  or  don’t  come 
right,  do not hurry off  the  job with  “good 
enough,” or “don’t care,”  but  stick  it  out 
and conquer the  thing.  Many  a  man has 
failed,  when he might  have succeeded,  had 
he  “hung on” a little longer.

Investigations  as  to  the  amount  of  lost 
work  in  many  establishments  would  no 
doubt yield results alike  interesting and in­
structive,  and show  that  the  importance of 
the  subject,  however  much  attention  may 
have been called to it,  is still very often but 
imperfectly  appreciated.  That  the  power 
required to overcome friction in the running 
of machinery is a  source  of  continuous  ex­
pense,  that this lasts as long as the machine 
is actively employed,  and that an  increased 
first cost in the careful arrangement of plant 
and the selection  of  economical  machinery 
will almost always prove a good investment, 
are truths with  which  many manufacturers 
have not yet become  impressed.  To  such, 
only practical demonstrations  of  shortcom­
ings of badly designed and arranged  plants 
are convincing  and  capable of inducing re­
construction 
and  general  overhauling. 
Those who have  undertaken  the  study of 
the subject for the  purpose  of  making  the 
information  of practical  value  have invar­
iably found that the construction of machin­
ery with a view of  limiting  the  frictional 
resistance to a minimum  has  amply repaid 
their labors.

Alaska’s  Great Forests.
From the San Francisco Chronicle..

Alaska forests contain  enough  timber to 
supply the  world.  The  forests  of  pine, 
spruce, fir and  hemlock  cover  every Island 
of the archipelago and a goodly. portion  of 
the mainland.  The  trees  are  straight and 
tall,  and  grow  close  together.  The  only 
saw-mill at present in operation  is at Doug­
lass Island,  and so far there  has not been a 
cord of timber cut for shipment.  The trees 
as a rule do not always  cut up  into  good- 
sized boards.  For * fuel, however, the wood 
is excellent,  and much of  it  is available for 
building purposes.  There  is  little  decor­
ative wood,  although the yellow pine is rich­
ly colored and might  be  used to  advantage 
in interior work.  Alaska  spruce  is  au ex­
cellent variety,  and often  measures five feet 
in  diameter. 
the  best 
spruce in the world,  and the  supply is very 
abundant. 
In the interior  of  tiie  country, 
timber is of much  heavier  growtli  than on 
the coast  and  on  the  islands.  Regarding 
the hemlock, 
there is a  large  supply,  and 
the bark compares  favorably  with  that of 
all the Eastern trees used in  tanning estab­
lishments.

It  is  considered 

An international  exhibition  of  flouring- 
mill,  saw mill and  oil-mill  machinery  will 
be  held  at  Augsburg,  Bavaria,  beginning 
July 11,  next  year.  Motive  power  will be 
included in the exhibits.

Vineyard
Skates.
FOSTERr
STEVENS 
&  GO.,
Western  Michigan!

Headquarters

FO R

V ineyard .. A.  O-

V in e y a rd   S.  O-

V 7 ’i x i . o y a , 3 r c a L   O -

A  FINE  ASSORTMENT.

WEITE  FOB  PBICES.

Skate Repairs Carried in Stock.

FOSTER,
STEVENS

&  GO.,
RAPIDS,  MCI.

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T erne..................5 60
IX , 14x20, choice Charcoal  T erne............ ..  7  00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T ern e................. 11 00
IX , 20x28, choice Charcoal  T erne..............  14  00

ROPES.

SQUARES.

Sisal, H In. and  la rg e r....................................  8%
M anilla................................................................  14
Steel and Iro n .........................................dis
Try and Bevels. ......................................dis
Mitre  ...............
......................................dis
fiFIEKT IRO N .

60 Ac 10
50 A: 10
20
Com. Smooth. Com.
$3 00
3 00
3  00
3  00
3  10
3 20
All sheets No,  18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to  14__ ............................. $4  20
Nos. 15 to  17__ .............................   4  20
Nos.  18 to  2 1 ___ .............................   4  20
Nos. 22 to  2 4 ___ .............................   4  20
Nos .25 to  20__ .............................  4  40
No. 27................. .............................   4  60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET  ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, 
tb__ .......................  
in  sm aller quantities, $   f t......................  

T IN N E R ’S  SO LDER.

No. 1,  Refined............................................. 
M arket  H alf-aud-half.............................  
Strictly  H alf-and-half.............................  

6
054

13 00
15  00
jh

T IN   PLA TES.

Cards fo r  Charcoals. $6  75.

10x14, ch arco al..................................  6  00
10x14,Charcoal...................................  7  50
12x12, C harcoal..................................   6 50
12x12,  Charcoal  ...............................   8  50
14x20, Charcoal..................................  6  00
14x20,  Charcoal...................... f . ....  750
14x20, Charcoal.................................  y  00

IC, 
IX , 
IC, 
IX, 
IC, 
IX, 
IXX, 
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool......................................   H 00
IX X X X , 14x20,  Charcoal...................................  13 00
20x28, C harcoal................................  16  00
IX , 
100 Plate C harcoal..................................   6 50
DC, 
100 P late Charcoal..................................   8 50
DX, 
DXX,  100 Plato C harcoal................  
10  50
DXXX,  100 P late Charcoal...............................  12 50
Kedipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plato add 1  50  to  6  75 

 

rates.

TRAPS.

W IR E.

Steel,  G am e.........................................................
Onoida Com m untity,  Newhouse’s .......... dis  35
Oneida Com m unity, Hawley &  N orton’s. .60&in
H otchkiss’  — ................................................ 60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Oo.’s .................................... 60&10
Mouse,  choker......................................... aOc $} doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................. $1  5 0 $  doz
B right  M arket..........................................dis  60&10
A nnealed M arket..................................d is  
70
Coppered M arket...................  
dis  55&10
E x tra Bailing..............................................   dis  65
Tinned  M arket.............................................dis  40
Tinned  Broom ............................................^jj tb  09
Tiuned M attress.........................................$  ft  854
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................dis  40@40&10
Tinned S pringS teel...................................dis 374
Plain Fence..................................................$  ft  314
Barbed  F ence.....................................................
Copper..................................................new  list net
Bras3.....................................................new  list n et
B right......................................................... dis  70&10
Screw Eyes.................................................dis  70&10
Hook’s .................................... 
dis  70&10
G ate Hooks and  E yes............................ dis  70A10

W IR E GOODS.

 

 

W fEN CH ES.

B axter’s A djustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s G enuine...........................................dis  50&10
Coe’s P aten t A gricultural, w rought, dis 
65
Coe’s P aten t,  m alleable.........................dis 
70

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Pum ps,  C istern..................................... .dis 
70
80
Screws, new  list.......................................... 
Casters, Bed  and  P late............................ disoO&lO
334
Dampers,  A m erican................................... 

LU M B E R ,  LA TH   A N D   SH IN G LES.

The Newaygo M anufacturing  Co.  quote f. o. 

b. ears  as follows:
U ppers,  l Inch....................................per M $44  00
U ppers, 154.14 and 2 in ch ..........................  46  00
Selects, 1 inch................................................   35  00
Selects, 1J4, H4 and 2  in ch ..........................  38  00
Fine Common, 1 in ch..................................   30  00
Shop, 1  in ch ....................................................  20  00
Fine, Common, 1%, 1*4 and 2 inch............   32  00
No.  I Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.... 
15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16  n0
No.  1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks,  10 in., 20 fe e t..........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 3 in., 12,  14 and 18 fe e t.........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 l’c e t............................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20fe e t............................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in.,  12,14 and 16  fe e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......  12  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................  13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t..........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t...........................   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe e t..........................  13  00
Coarse  Common  o r  shipping  culls,  all
w idths and  lengths............................8  00®  9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ...............................   31 i 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 in ch ......................................  27  90
No. 1 Foncing, all  lengths..........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fe e t..................  12 00
No. 2 Fencing.  16 feet..................................   12  00
No.  1  Fencing. 4  inch..................................   15 00
No. 2  Fencing, 4  in ch ..................................   12  oO
Norway C and b etter, 4 o r 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 16ft............   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, com m on..  17  00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 com m on....  14  00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1  00  addltiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  C lear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C............................  26  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com 'n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com ’n  14  00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1  00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............. 
3  10
3 00
J XXX 18 in.  T h in .......................................  
2  75
/ XXX 16 in.................................................... 
No. 2 o r 6 In. C.  B 18 in.  Shingles.............. 
1  75
No. 3or 5 in. C. B. 16  in ...............................  
140
Lath  .......................................................   1  75® 2 00

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND BITS.

HO
Ives’, old  style...........................................dis 
(50
N. H. C. Co..................................................dis 
Douglass’ ................................................... dis 
60
Pierces’ .......................................................dis 
HO
Snell’s .......................................................... dis 
HO
Cook’s  .........................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  g enuine.................................. dis 
25
Jennings’,  im itation............................. , .(U&40&10.
Spring..........................................................dis 
25
R a ilro ad ..................................................... $  13  00
G arden.........................................................net 33 00

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

H a n d ...................................................... dis  $  60&10
C ow ...........................................................dis 
ho
15
Call............................................................ dis 
G o n g ............ 
.................................... dis 
20
Door, S argent......................................... dis 
55

BELLS.

BOLTS.

40
Stove.........................................................dis $ 
75
Carriage  new  list..................................dis 
Plow  .........................................................dis  30&1C
75
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis 
Cast  Barrel  B olts.................................. dis 
50
55
W rought Barrel  Bolts..........................dis 
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.................... dis 
Cast Square Spring...............................dis 
55
Cast.  Chain.............................................. dis 
HO
W rought  Barrel, brass  k nob.............dis  55&10
W rought S q u a re...................................dis  55&10
W rought Sunk F lush........................... dis 
30
W rought  Bronze  and  M ated  Knob
F lush......................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door............................................... dis 
50<Sti0

BRACES.

40
B a rb e r.....................................................d is$  
50
B ackus.....................................................dis 
Spofford...................................................dis 
50
Am.  Ball.................................................. dis 
n et
Well, p lain........................................................$ 4  00
W e ll, sw ivel.................................................... 
4  50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

j  Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................dis 
60&10
Cast Loose Pin,  Berlin  bronzed.........dis  60&10
Cast  Loose Jo in t, genuine bronzed, .dis  60&10
W rought Narrow, bright  fast  jo in t..d is  50&10
W rounlit Loose  P in ............................ dis 
B0
W rought Loose Pin, a c o rn tip ...........dis 
60&  5
W roughtLoose Pin, jap an n ed ...........dis 
60& 5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d .................................................. dis  60&  5
W roughtT able.......................................dis 
t>0
W rought Inside  Blind.........................dis 
60
W rought B rass...................................... dis 
65&10
70&10
Blind. Clark’s ......................................... dis 
Blind, P ark er’s ...................................... dis 
70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ................................... dis 
70

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10..................................................p er  in  $ 65
H ick’s C. F ............................................... 
HO
35
G. D ........................................................... 
M usket...................................................... 
HO

CATRIDGES.

R.m  Fire, U. M.C. & W inchester  new list 
Kim Fire, United  S tates........................... dis 
Central F ire ..................................................dis 

CHISELS.

Socket F irm er.........................................dis 
Socket F ram ing..................................... dis 
Socket Corner.........................................dis 
Socket Slicks.......................................... dis 
Butchers’ Tanged  F irm e r................dis 
B arton’s Socket  Firm er».....................dis 
Cold........................................................... net

COMBS.

Curry, Lawrence’s .................................dis 
j  H otchkiss  .............................................. dis 

COCKS.

I  Brass,  Hacking’s .......................................... 
50
j  Bibb’s ............................................................  
50
B e e r ................................................................  40&10
Fonns’............................................................  
60

60
60
40

75
75
75
75
-10
20

40
25

CO PPER .

D R IL LS

ELBOW S.

Planished, 14 oz cut to size...................... ^  lb  30
14x52, 14x56,14 x60...........................................   36
35
M orse’s Bit  Stock...................................dis 
Taper and Straight S hank..................... dis 
20
30
Morse’s T aper  So5nk..............................dis 
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................. doz n et  $.85
C orrugated................................................dis  20&10
Ad j u sta b le ................................................dis  % & 10
20
dis 
Claris, small, $18  00;  large, $26  00. 
.ltd
Twaci’  1 
nil 
25 
Ives', 1, $18 00 ;  2. $24  00;  3, $30 00. 
dis 
Am erican File A ssociation L ist.........dis 
HO
60
D isston’s ....................................................dis 
New  A m erican......................................... dis 
HO
N icholson's................................................ dis 
60
H eller’s ...................................................... dis 
30
H eller’s H orse R asps.............................. dis  33%
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
L ist 
18

GA LVANIZED  IRO N ,
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 20, 

tfiw  nil-  ••  *8iO/t  Dii. 

EX PA N SIV E  HITS.

Discount, Ju n ia ta  45@10, Charcoal 50@10. 

27 
15 

PILES.

12 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................ dis 

50

13 
GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

H IN G ES.

HANGERS.

Maydole & Co.’s ........................................ dis 
20
K ip’s ..........................................................Mis 
25
Y erkes &  Plum b’s ...................................dis 
10
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.......................30 c  list 40
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 405:lit
B arn Door K idder Mfg. Co., Wood track  dis  50
Champion, an ti-friction.........................»¡is 
HO
K idder, wood  tra c k .................................dis 
40
G ate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3................................. dis 
60
S tate.............................................. per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4H  14
354
and  longer................................................. 
Screw Hook and Eye,  H  ....................net 
1054
Screw Hook and Eye %.........................net 
854
Screw Hook and Eye  %........................ n et 
754
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.......................n et 
754
Strap and  T .............................................. dis  60&10
Stam ped Tin W are......................................   00&10
Japanned  Tin  W are...................................  20&10
G ranite  Iro n   W are....................................  
25
G rub  1..................................................$11  00, dis 40
G rub  2..................................................  11  50, dis 40
G rub 3....................................................  12 00, dis 40
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings__ $2 70, dis 66?$
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m in g s..  3  50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
m ings....................................... list,10  15, dis 66%
70
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list,1155, dis 
D raw er and  Shutter,  porcelain.......... dis 
70
P icture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s .....................d 
40
H u m acite............................ 
dis 
50

HOLLOW   W ARE.

KNOBS.

HOES.

 

LOCKS—DOOR.

LEV ELS.

Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s new lis t.. .dis  66%
Mallory, W heelnr  &  Co.’s .......................dis  66%
B ranford's .................................................. dis  66%
Norwalk’s .....................................................dis  66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...................d is  65
Coffee,  P arkers  Co.’s ......................................... dis 40&10
Coffee, P.S.& W . Mfg. Co.’sM alleablcs dis  40&10
Coffee, Landers, F erry & Clark’s ......... dis  40&10
Coffee,  E nterprise........................................dis  25
Adze  E y e....................................... $16 00 dis 40&10
H unt  E ye.......................................$15 00dis40&10
H u n t's...........................................$18  50 dis 20 & 10

MATTOCKS.

M ILLS.

NA ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

6d 
2 

8d 
2H 

MAULS.
OILERS.

lOd to  60d..............................................V keg $2  75
8 d a n d 9 d a d v ..................................................  
25
6d and 7d  ad v..................................................  
50
4d and fid  ad v ..................................................  
75
3d  advance.......................................................   1  50
3d lino  advance.............................................  
3 00
Clinch nails,  adv.............................................  1  75
Finishing 
4d
I  lOd 
Size—inches  j  3 
154
Adv. $  keg 
$1  25  1  50  1  75  2  00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stobbin’s P attern   ........................................ dis  70
Stebbin’s G enuine.......................................... dis  70
E nterprise,  self-m easuring.........................dis 25
S p e r r y  & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................   dis  50
Zinc o r tin. Chase’s P aten t...........................dis  55
Zinc, w ith brass bottom ................................dis  50
Brass o r  Copper............................................. diB  40
R eaper........................................per gross, $12 n et
Olmstead’s .................................................... 
50
Ohio Tool Co.'8, fan cy...................................dis  15
Sciota Bone h .................................................... dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................ dis  15
Bench, first q u ality ........................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
50
Fry, A cm e..................................................dis 
Common, polished.................................... disCO&lO
to  6@7
D ripping..................................................V 
Iro n  and  Tinned....................................dis 
40
Copper Rivets and B u rs......................dis  50&10
“A” Wood’s paten t planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 
“ B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to  27 
9

PATENT FLANtSAKD IRON.

PLANES.

r i v e t s .

PANS.

Broken packs %c $  ft extra.

 

W O O  D U N  W A K E .
Standard  Tubs, No.  1......................  
8  00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2...................j. j...............7  00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3............................................. 6 00
Standard Pails, tw ohoop...................................... 1 60
Standard Pails, th ree hoop................................... 1 85
Dowell P ails.............................................................. 2 10
Dowell Tubs, No. 1...................................................8 75
Dowell Tubs, No. 2...................................................7 75
Dowell  Tubs,  No. 3.................................................6 75
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................................. 2 00
B utter  Ladles............................................................1 25
Rolling P ins...............................................................1 00
Potato  M ashers..................................................  75
Clothes P ounders....................................................2 25
C lothesP ins.........................................................  65
Mop Stocks............................................... 
1  25
W ashboards, single..............................  
1  75
W ashboards, double............................................... 2 25

 

BASKETS.

Diamond  M arket..............................................   40
Bushel, uarrow   band......................................... 1 60
Bushel, wide bund...............................................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

 

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

The fu rn itu re factories  here  pay  as  follows 
@13  00 
16  0J@2U 00 
©25 00 
@13 00 
25  00@35 00 
@55  00 
10  00@12 00 
, 12  00@14  00 
.10 00® 12 00 
@16 00 
@25 00 
@25  00 
@15 00 
@20 00 
@25 00 
@55  00
@75 00 
@25 00 
@11 00 
14  00@16 00 
@23  00

fo r dry  stock:
Basswood,  log-run................
Birch, log-run.................
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2................
Black Ash, log-run.......... •..
Cherry,  log-run.....................
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2............
Cherry,  cu ll............................
Maple,  log-run.................
Muple, soft,  log-run............
Maple, Nos. lund.2...............
Maple, clear, flooring..........
Maple, w hite, selected.........
Red Oak,  log-run...................
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2..........
Red Oak. No.  1, step  plank,
W alnut, log-run....................
W alnut, Nos. 1 and 2............
W alnuts,  c u lls....,...............
W ater Elm, log-run..............
W liite Ash,  log-ru n ............
VVhitowood,  log-run............

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Hem lock B ark— The local  tan n ers  are  offer­
ing $5 p er cord delivered, cash.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.69@1.60  (p  ft 
fo r clean w ashed roots.
Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offer 45 p er cent, off on standard  goods  and 
45 and 10 per cent, off on second quality.

A  Bad Slip.

The G reat Stum p ana Rock

Wool Robes, 
Fur Robes,

Horse  Blankets,

M e  for Special Prices.

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

CL/MAX-
PLUG TOBACCO?
RED TIN TAG.

HERCULES !

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

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

Farm ers, practice  economy  and  clear  your 
land  of  stum ps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
H ercules  Pow der  Company,  No.  40  Prospect 
Street, Cleveland,'Ohio.

L.  s.  h il l  & co., A G Ts. 
GUSS,  AMMUNITION  k PISHING  TACKLE,

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

-M A NU FACTURERS  O F -

AWNINGS,  TENTS,

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS.

W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  D ucks,  Stripes,  E tc. 

S tate A gents fo r the 

Watertown  Hammock  Support. 

BU SIN ESS L A W .

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

s t o c k h o l d e r s ’ m e e t i n g - m a j o r i t y  v o t e .
According to the decision of the  Supreme 
Court of Minnesota in the case of  Martin et 
al.  vs.  Chute et al.,  a  majority of  the votes 
cast at a valid  stockholders’  meeting  pre­
vails where the charter  and  by-laws are si­
lent on the subject,  even though  only a mi­
nority of the stock is  represented.

M EA N IN G   OF  “ M A N U FA C TU R ER .”

A   company  printing  and  publishing  a 
newspaper is not a  “ manufacturer,” though 
one doing the business  of  job  printing,  en­
graving or electrotyping is,  according to the 
decision  of the New  Jersey Supreme Court 
in the case of Evening  Journal  Association 
vs.  State l|pard of Assessors.

R A ILW A Y   COM PANY— A CCID EN T— N E G L I­

G EN CE.

for  convenience 

In the  case  of  Ivellow  vs.  Central Iowa 
Railway Co.,  decided by the Supreme Court 
of  Iowa,  it  appeared • that  the  defendant 
stopped one of its passenger trains at Mason 
City  Junction,  and, 
in 
transferring baggage,  the  baggage car  was 
stopped in front of the baggage room of the 
depot,  so that the rear  passenger  car  wras 
left standing over a cross-track of  the  Chi­
cago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway Co. 
In moving certain freight cars out of the way 
of an engine, the employes of the latter road 
pushed  the  cars  on  the  cross-track,  and 
some of them  being  heavily loaded,  broke 
loose and  ran down  the grade  into the pas­
senger car of the Central,  threw it from the 
track,  turned it over,  and fatally injured the 
plaintiff’s 
intestate,  a  passenger  therein. 
The court  held  that  the  Central Co.  was 
guilty of negligence  and 
liable  for the in­
jur}'.

on the part of the plaintiff was sought to be 
made out by the introduction of  expert evi­
dence alone,  and this was to  the  effect that 
the use of the teas in question as a beverage 
was,  in the opinions of the  witnesses,  dele­
terious and unwholesome.  These  opinions 
were based wholly upon theoretical  knowl­
edge of the nature and character of the sub­
stances used in adulteration,  and  their sup­
posed effect upon the  human  system  when 
used in connection with the  teas as  a bever­
age.  Many,  if not all of them testified they 
never knew neither had they heard of a case 
where the use of teas like those  in question 
had proved injurious  to  the health  of those 
using them.  These opinions were undoubt­
edly competent to prove  the  subject  of the 
issue,  but they were certainly of  no  greater 
value a s evidence than the testimony of wit­
nesses who  had  used  the teas  as  to their 
practical  effect  upon  the  human  system 
when 
imbibed  as  a beverage,  and  did not 
constitute  conclusive  evidence  of the  facts 
in issue.  On the other  hand,  the  evidence 
of the defendants tended  strongly to  show, 
not only that  all  green  teas  are  similarly 
adulterated,  but  that their use  as  a  bever­
age was not thereby rendered unwholesome. 
A  number of dealers  of  long  experience in 
the business of buying and selling teas were 
called and testified  uniformly  to the  effect 
that in'all of their experience  they had nev­
er heard of a case where the use of such teas 
had proved injurious  to those  using  them. 
One of the defendants  had  drank  steadily 
and  daily for  a  number of  months of  the 
teas in qnestion,  and  had  discovered no in 
jurious effects therefrom.  An expert of es 
tablished character for scientific attainments 
and learning was also  called by the  defen 
dants,  and testified that he drank of  the tea 
in question,  and found it very palatable and 
followed by no ill effects,  and  that  he had 
carefully examined and analyzed samples of 
the tea,  and that in  his  opinion  there was 
nothing injurious or unwholesome in its use 
To say the least, this evidence raised a ques 
tion of  fact for  the  consideration  of  the 
court below,  and one  upon  which  it  might 
well conclude that the sale and use of  these 
teas would not produce irreparable mischief 
or a necessity  for  the 
interposition  of  the 
court by way of  injunction.

EM PLO Y ER’S  L IA B IL IT Y ----- IN FA N T
TKIBUTORY  N EG LIG EN C E.

-CON-

The  case of Beekham vs.  Hiller,  decided 
by the  New  Jersey Supreme  Court,  was  a 
suit  brought  to  recover  damages  for the 
death of a minor sixteen  years old,  employ­
ed to  manage  a  cutting  machine. 
In  the 
running of  the  machine,  it  appeared  that 
it was occasionally necessary for  the minor 
to displace and  replace  the  belt  by which 
power wras communicated  from a  revolving 
shaft to the machine.  He  had  run such a 
machine  for several months before,  and was 
told to be careful  in replacing  the  belt,  be­
cause  there was danger of  his being caught 
in it,  and wfas directed  always to call  some 
one to assist him in the operation who might 
hold the belt in place on the machine  while 
he stood behind the shaft  and  adjusted the 
belt on the driving-wheel.  The  observance 
of  this  precaution  materially lessened the 
risk.  On one occasion,  although  assistance 
was within call,  he attempted to replace the 
belt  alone  without  asking  aid  and  was 
caught in the  belt and  killed.  The  corn- 
held that he was guilty of  contributory neg 
ligence,  and that  his  representative  could 
not maintain an action  for  damages.  The 
court said that although the plaintiff’s intes 
tate was still a minor  he  had  attained  to 
years of discretion when he became  charge 
able with the  exercise of  due  care.  Such 
care is not,  indeed,  that required from  per 
sons of full age,  but  it  is to be  ascertained 
with reasonable regard to the  ordinary con 
ditions attendant  upon  his  years.  When 
however,  the standard of due care  has been 
thus determined,  the rule which makes con 
tributory negligence in  the  party injured  a 
defense against an action for  damages aris 
ing from the defendant’s want  of  care  ap 
plies to the minor  as  well  as  to the  others 
*  *  *  Minor servants are also held to as 
sume by their contract of employment those 
ordinary risks of their  services  which  are 
obvious to them,  or have been  pointed out 
in  a manner suited to  the comprehension of 
their youth and inexperience.  They cannot 
ignore the dictates  of  common  prudence or 
the instruction of  their  superiors  to guard 
themselves  from  these  apparent  dangers 
and charge the  consequences  upon  the em­
ployers.

IN JU N C TIO N — SA L E OF A D U L T E R A T E D   T E A .
The case of  the  Board of Health of New 
York  vs.  Purdon  et  al.,  decided  by  the 
New York Court of Appeals,  arose upon an 
application by the appellant  for an  injunc­
tion restraining the respondents  from  sell­
ing certain  teas  alleged,  to be  adulterated, 
unwholesome  and  dangerous.  The  court 
below,  though finding that  the teas in ques­
tion were adulterated  and  colored to some 
extent with  offensive  and  noxious  drugs 
and  substances,  yet reached  the conclusion 
that no sufficient  evidence  had  been  pro­
duced to prove that  the  use of  the tea was 
dangerous to human  life,  or  detrimental to 
health  and unwholesome,  or that the injunc­
tion prayed for was needed to prevent serious 
danger to human life or detriment  to health, 
or that the tea or  the selling  or offering for 
sale of the same was  a nuisance.  This de­
cision was appealed from by the  appellant, 
who contended that the findings were incon­
sistent.  The Court of  Appeals  upon a re­
view of the facts sustained the court  below. 
It held that in such cases as that before it it 
was proper  for  the  courts  to  inquire not 
alone  as to the  unlawfulness or  offensive­
ness of the act complained of,  but also to its 
extent,  the  circumstances  surrounding  its 
exerc’se,  and the  degree  of  danger  to  be 
apprehended from its continuance.  Regard­
ing the weight to be given  to  certain kinds 
of evidence in Such  cases it said:  The case

“ Can you pay that  little bill  to-day,  Mr. 

Longwait?”

“ Not conveniently.  Can’t  you call  next 

week?”
“No. 
“ Indeed?  So shall  I.”

I shall be away on  my  vacation.” 

Ask your grocer for  Talmage Table Rice. 
It is equal  to the  best  grades  of  Carolina 
and is  lc  per pound lower in price.  Always 
in  100  pound  pockets.  Dan Tal- 
packed 
mage’s  Sons,  New York.

jit d d   cfc  0 0 .,

JOBBERS of SA D D L E R Y  H A R D W A R E  

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CAN AL  STR EE T.

O Y S T E R S !

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

B T I A I N I }

BALTIMORE OYSTERS

On and a fte r Sept. 1st., we will  be  prepared 
to  fill  all  orders for this well-known brand of 
Oysters, canned fresh a t the  packing-house in 
Baltim ore.  No  slack-filled  or  water-soaked 
goods handled.  B. F. E m ery will attend to the 
orders  fo r Baltim ore shipm ent as usual.  Spec­
ial  E xpress  and  F reight  rates  to all railroad 
tow ns in  Michigan.  We  have  exclusive  con­
trol York River Brand.

COLE  &  EMERY,

37  C anal  St.,  G ran d   R ap id s,  M ich.

Wholesale Fish and Oyster Depot,
Rubber
BOOTS

—  W ITH  —

DOUBLE  THICK

Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The CA.NDEE 
Boots are double th ic k  
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE WEAR.
M o tt econom ical rub­
ber Boot in the market. 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other  boot,  and 
the
PRICE NO HIGHER, 
Call  and  ex­
amine  tho 
goods.

SALE BY
E. G. Studley & Co.,

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

ELEOPARD & SORE
 HID., F O R   T H E   F A L L   T P L A J D I E

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.

J

AMBER,  B LU E   AN D  GREEN.

¡SS

Nq poW
D. S. TILE i

-M anufacturers  o t—

I f  in  N eed  of A n y th in g   in  our  Line,  it 

w ill p ay you to  ge t our Prices.

B A K IN G   PO W D E R S,

O ne  B a rre l  C o n tain in g

.75
doz. A  Size Stand.  L am p s... .1.50 
1.50
2.00 
1.25
2.50 
3.00  1.50

%  doz.  B  
%  doz.  C 
Ù  doz.  D 

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PA TEN T EES  AND  SO LE  M ANUFACTURERS  OF

Barlow’s Patent

BLUIKTaS,  ETO.,

40  a n d   43  S o u th   D iv isio n ,  St.

Less  10 per cent.

G RAN D   RAPIDS,

M ICHIGAN

Barrel 35c.

Send for Samples and  Circular.

Barlow 

Brothers,

Grand Rapids,  Michigan.

TRIMMINGS  FOR  ABO YE.
i %  doz.  No.  i  Sun Burners............55
............80
%  doz. 7  in. Ilium. & shade.com 3.50

doz.  “   2 

“  

“  

Box 25c.

SH ERW OO D  H A LL.

M ARTIN  L .  SW EET.

E ST A B L ISH E D   1865.

$5.00
.50

$4-5°

•97
.20
.88

$6.55

1

No. 1 E ngraved  Sun Chim ney........ p er doz 
N°‘"  SUN  CHIMNEY”

A nchor, Star, or Diamond Brand, which m eans 

.65

Second Quality.

No. 0 Sun Crimp  to p ..........................per doz 
.26
No. 1 Sun Crimp  to p .............................................27
No. 2 Sun Crimp  to p .............................................42

Leader Chimneys.
W arranted P u re Lead Glass.
No. 1 Crimp top,  hand  m ade.......... per doz 
« 
No. 2 
No. 2 Plain 
Chimneys in stock.

.60
....................... ..................................««
“  m oulded.................................. 80
All  boxes  charged  a t  Cost.  Every style o f 

A

)

NO.  5 3 7   A S S O R T E D   B A R R E L

Fine Decorated Base Table Lamps.

A S S O R T E D   CO LO R S  C E N T E R S .
doz.  Assorted in  Barrsl,  net...............5.00
doz.  Trimmings in  B ox...................... 3.50
$8.50

RICH  GOLD  LIBRARY  LAMP.

W IT H   P R IS M S .

Send for our Illustrated Catalogue, show­
ing  this  line  and  every  other  department 
we have.  The  most  complete  Catalogue 
published.  W ill be ready in about ten days.

T H E   E M P R E S S   G L A S S   O IL   C A N .
The finest  Oil Can made.  Please  don’t  com­
pare this can with some in the m arket.  Pack­
ed 1 doz inbox, p e r doz. 8.85.  No charge fo r box.

THE GSLA1TD XL&.FX23S K.OX.LE®. MXX.X.S

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

mi»  ROLLER FL

T h e  F a v o rite   G ran d s  a re

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

FANCY  PATENT  “ ROLLER  CHAMPION.”

P rices are low.  E x tra  q u ality guaranteed.  W rite for quotations.

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 IO H .

W H OLESALE  AGENTS  FOR  TH E

F .  J.  L A M B   &   C O .,
Diamond Brand Frosb Oysters

D. D. Mallory & Co.

In Cans or Bulk.  Write for Quotations.

8  and  10  South  Ionia  Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

P E R K I N S

 

<&  H E S S ,

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S   IN

NOS.  123  a n d   124  LOUIS  ST R E E T .  G RA N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H IG A N .

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK, OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

o . w .  b l a i n  &   g o ., Produce t a m i i  Merchants,
Fonde  a i  Domestic  Flits, Soutira  M eta ls, Etc.

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest m arket price.  Corres­
NO.  »  IO N IA   ST.

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 

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Wholesale  &  ComissM-Bitter  &  Eggs' a  Soecialty.

Choice B u tter always on hand.  All  Orders  receive P rom pt and Careful A ttention. 

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

No. 1 Egg Crates  fo r Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 p a ten t fillers used.  50 cents each.

9 7   and 9 9   Canal  Street, 

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Grand  R apids, M ichigan

CHOICE  BUTTER  A   SPECIALTY! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.

M.  O.  R U SSELL, 48 Ottawa st,, Grand Rapids.

SEND  FOR  PRICED.

73  C anal  S treet, 

-  G ran d   R a p id s,  M ich.

ANDREW WIERENGO

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

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

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M U S K E G O N ,  M IC H

APPLES!

W e have a large W estern order trade for Apples in car lots, as well as a good local 
demand,  and also handle both Evaporated and Sun-dried Apples largely. 
If  you  have 
any of these goods to ship,  or any Potatoes or Beans,  let us hear from  you, and we will 
keep  you  posted on market price and prospects.  Liberal cash advances made on dried 
fruit,  also on apples in car lots.

EARL BROS., COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,
i f W ARREN'S GRIP 99

157  S.  W A TE R   ST.,  CHICAGO,  IL L

Reference—First N

This new brand of cigars  (to retail at  5  cents)  we put  on  the  market  guaranteeing 
them to equal, if not excel, any cigar ever before offered  for the price.  W e  furnish  500 
“ Gutter Snipes” advertising the cigar, with every first order for 500 of them.  W e want 
one good agent in every town to whom we will give exclusive sale.

M AN UFACTURED  B Y

Geo. T. W arren & Go

F L IN T .  M IOH .

