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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  14,  1885.

NO. 108.

V O L . 3.

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No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

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Fall Trade.

EDMUKO  B.  DIKEMAN,

j e w e l e r

44  CANAL  STREET,

MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

0. li. A. VOIGT & CO.
STAR  MILLS,

Proprietors  of the

pop-

Manufacturers  of the  following 

ular brands of Flour.

“ STAR,” 

’

“ GOLDEN  SHEAF,” 

LADIES’  DELIGHT,” 
And "OUR PATENT.”

S.A.WELLIN6
WHOLESALHSffl
Litteman’
FISHING  TACKLE
NOTIONS

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

PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRT 
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  Pearl  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

Ithas been in constant use 
for  15  years, with a  record 
equalled  by  none.  War­
r a n t e d   not  to  blow down 
unless the tower  goes  with 
it; or against any wind that 
does not, disable substantial 
farm buildings;  to be perfect;  to  outlast and 
do better work  than any other mill  made.
Agents  wanted.  ‘Address Perkins Wind Mill 
& Ax Co., Mishawaka, I nd. Mention Tradesman.

&  CHRI

tits

Agents  for a  full  line  of

S. ff. M atte & Co.’s

PETERSBURG,  V A ,

F IfU G   T O B A C C O S,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER.

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO. 
Sole Control of our Celebrated

have

PATENT  MEDICINES.

Inside  Information  Regarding  the  Busi­

ness.

[Continued from last week.]
STA RTIN G   A   N EW   M ED IC IN E.

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Read it.

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,

M m  P A G  Co.
BEANS.

MICH

I  want 

to  buy  BEANS 
Parties having any  can find a 
quick  sale  and  better  prices 
jy writing us  than  they  can 
possibly  get  by  shipping  to 
other markets.

ff. T. Laireaux, Agt.,

71  Canal  Street, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ

(Successor to P. Spitz,) 

s o n s   AGENT  OF

Fermentum

The  Only  Reliable  Compressed Yeast. 
Manufactured by Riverdale Diet. Co., 

ARCADE,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

Grocers  and  Bakers  who  wish  to  try 
FERMENTUM” can get  samples and full 
directions by addressing  or  applying  to the 
ibove.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  M ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at 

tended  to.

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

As to the  amount  of  money it  takes to 
float a new remdy very  few  people  realize 
what it is.  One of the  oldest  manufactur­
ers,  still in actual business, talking the other 
day on this subject,  said:  “Even  before the 
ar,  before the stamp tax had been imposed 
and when advertising  was  a  deal  cheaper 
than it is to-day,  it used to astonish  would- 
be proprietary men to learn the cost of estab­
lishing a business.  A man  would  come to 
me and say,  ‘I’ve got such and such a medi­
cine and  I  want  to  put  it  into  the  mar­
ket’.”

How much money have you got?’ ” was 

the first question I asked him.”

Oh,  money enough.”
‘Well,  how  much  do  you  consider 

enough?’ ”

Three to five thousand dollars.’ ”
‘You had better save your  money then. 
Unless you have got from  §20,000  to $50,- 
000,  a first-class article  and  the best  stock 
of patience in the universe,  you  had  better 
make your fortune in some other way.  This 
generally was  considered a slight exaggera­
tion,  and a good  many men  found out how 
near  the  trutli 
it  was  by  a  dear  exper­
ience.”

The newspapers,  of course,  get the major 
part of the advertising  patronage, but there 
are many other  mediume.  Many  of  these 
were exceedingly  remunerative  while  they 
were a novelty,  but most of them have been 
so largely employed that  they  have  ceased 
to be effective. 
It  is  estimated  that  up­
wards of $5,000,000  has  been  expended in 
painting the rocks and fences  of the  coun­
try.  A Massachusetts firm began  the issu­
ing of almanacs as a  method of advertising 
a great many years ago, and for a while had 
the field substantially to itself, but it is now 
a common expedient.

A man of position and knowledge  of  the 
business said;  “You ask me how should  a 
proprietor proceed.  That is a difficult ques­
tion  to  answer.  But,  generally,  I  would 
recommend something  like  the  following: 
An  advertising  account  of $1,000 a month 
should be opened to present the case,  and if 
the article is one that is likely to be assisted 
by a system of  sensational  advertisements, 
then the sum must  be  increased  to  $3,000 
or,  perhaps,  to as much as $5,000 a  month, 
and  at  that  rate  it  should be kept up  for 
twelve months at least,  if  there  were signs 
of the thing going.”

As for the possibilities for new  remedies, 
the field is very much narrower  to-day than 
formerly.  Many articles have not succeeded 
for the simple reason that there were already 
too many articles in the  same  line  already 
in the market. 
It would be very difficult to 
make a new cathartic  pill  succeed,  because 
there are sixty already in the field.  It would 
be difficult to make a new  sarsaparilla  suc­
ceed,  because there are half a dozen or more 
in popular use.  The same may be said gen­
erally of plasters and ointments.

THE  RICKARD  LADDER!
Two Ladders in one—step and extension. 
Easily adjusted to any hight.  Self-support­
ing.  N o braces needed.  Send for illustrated 
price-list.

BIOKAhD  BROS.,  Grand B a tiii,  Mioh.
A R T H T O  R . RO O D ,

ATTORNEY,

43 PEARL  STREET,  ROOD  BLOCK, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Collections  a  Specialty  !
DRYDBN &  PALMER’S 
Unquestionably the best in  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
J o lin  Oaulflold.,
Sole Agent for G rand Rapids.

R O C K   CAXTDTSr.

H E

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d  R a p i d s  
Business College is 
practical  trainer 
and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi­
ness with all that the  term  implies.  Send 
for Journal.  Address C.  G. SWENSBERG, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.
LHDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Milwankee  Star  Brand  Vinegars.

Pure Apple Cider and White Wine Vinegars, 
full strength  and  warranted  absolutely  pure. 
Send for samples and prices.  Arcade, Grand 
Kapids, M idi.
ALBERT COYE & SONS
a w n u t c s , t e n t s

---------MANUFACTURERS  OF---------

JOBBER  OF

HOUSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

73  Canal Street, 

Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.
-  Grand  Rapids, Mich.
CXXTSS2TG RO O T.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros.,  Hniggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

JUDD  Ob  OCX,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And Full Line Summer Goods.

103  CANAL STREET.

TK A PE -M A R K S.

As has been said before,  the  term  patent 
medicine  is a  misnomer.  Patents  are  not 
issued for proprietary  articles.  The  right, 
therefore,  is not by law vested in  the reme­
dies themselves,  but in the peculiar marking 
which the proprietor places upon the articles. 
The word  “trade-mark”  is  the designation 
of those marks or symbols which are the ex­
clusive property of  the  proprietor,  and  an 
imitation of which is punishable by law.

“A trade-mark,” says Mr. S.  li.  Pinkney, 
“may consist of a name  or a device or a pe­
culiar arrangement of words, lines or figures 
in the form of a label which lias been adapt­
ed and used by a person, firm or corporation 
in its business in order  to  designate  goods 
of a peculiar kind  manufactured  which  no 
other  person,  firm  or  corporation 
lias  an 
equal right to use.

“A person may have a  right  in his  own 
name as a trade-mark,  as against  a  person 
of a different name,  but he cannot have such 
a right as  against  another  person  of  the 
same  name,  unless  the  defendant  uses a 
form of stamp or label so like  that  used by 
the plaintiff as to represent that the  defen­
dant’s goods are  of the plaintiff’s  manufac­
ture.

“In the absence of a national law govern­
ing trade-marks the proprietors are left as a 
resort  to the State courts  for  adjudication. 
This,  to the wealthy,  may  be a boon,  but to 
thosellimited in  means it becomes a burden, 
onerous 
and  unjust.  The  unprincipled 
can roam from state to state,  pursuing their 
dishonest calling,  pirating on the hard-earn­
ed rights  of the  legitimate  portion of  the 
trade.”

TA X A TIO N .

It was  indeed  a  curious  anomaly  that 
while the Federal government did not afford 
protection of the  trade-mark  rights  it  did 
not scruple for a  long  series  of  years,  and 
until very recently to  enforce  one  of  the 
most  onerous  and  burdensome  systems of 
taxation upon the proprietors of  medicines. 
The facts of this taxation form an  essential 
part of the history  of  proprietary  articles. 
It was one of the  unequal  burdens  which 
this branch  of  industry  had  to  carry for

twenty years.  The  tax  was 
imposed as a 
war measure under stress of public  necessi­
ty 
in  1862.  When  advertisements  were 
taxed 15 per cent.,  sales of  merchants 6 per 
cent.,  and even legacies and all  other finan­
cial transactions were placed  under  contri­
bution,  “patent  medicines”  were  made  a 
source of revenue by the imposition of what 
was known as the  stamp  tax. 
It  required 
that a stamp issued and  sold by the govern­
ment should be purchased, cancelled and ap­
plied to each separate item of  goods  before 
it left the possession of  the  manufacturer. 
The tax was also laid on cosmetics and per­
fumery,  and thus reached all goods of a pro­
prietary  nature,  including  those  lost,  de­
stroyed by fire  or  otherwise,  after  leaving 
the hands of  the  manufacturer.  The  tax 
was assessed upon the nominal retail  price; 
and \vas supposed  to  be 4 per cent,  of that 
price; but it is easy to  see  in  view of what 
has been said,  that it was  fully 10 per cent, 
on the manufacturer’s price. 
In this way it 
hung likea dead weight about the neck of a 
business already by the nature of  it heavily 
remunerative  to  the  general  government. 
Thus one of the principal  ingredients  used 
in the  manufacture of  medicines,  alcohol, 
pays the enormous tax  of  $1.80 per gallon. 
At this rate the  pharmacy  using  only  two 
barrels a  week  pays  to  the  government 
$8,000 taxes a year  on  this  article  alone. 
Many of the other necessary adjuncts of the 
business come in for their separate revenues, 
and the whole formed a burden  so  onerous 
that it is no wonder  the  manufacturers ex­
postulated from time to time.

* 

* 

medicine which they did not keep in  stock,
‘I haven’t it, but  I  know  the  formula and 
can mix  it in  an  hour.’ 
The
result would be this:  The  retailers  would 
et to  making  our  preparations. 
*
In the general ruin which would  follow the 
men who have  clamored  for  the  scheme 
which brought it about  would  be  involved. 
Proprietary articles  form  fully one-half of 
their sales.”

* 

FO R E IG N   T R A D E.

The foreign trade  in  American  proprie- 
;ary medicines might  well  be  made  more 
extensive than it is.  There is no doubt that 
the tax on alcohol has  been  largely at fault 
in preventing this  trade  from  assuming its 
natural  proportions.  The  rebate  provided 
for at the custom  house  is practically inop­
erative and  unavailable.  Still  there is al­
ready a considerable  field  abroad  which is 
being  covered  witli  American  remedies. 
Twenty years  ago  there  were  only  three 
American medicines  of  any  repute  being 
sold for actual  use in  England,  but  since 
1855 the trade lias very largely increased, so 
that to-day there  are  at  least  calculation 
twenty-five American articles which have an 
extensive sale in  that  country.  Since  the 
Canadian government has  been  very strin­
gent in the matter of duties  on  proprietary 
medicines,  proprietors have established,  and 
and are still establishing, separate manufac 
tories in Canada, where  they  put up  their 
goods,  and thus avoid the duty entirely. 
If 
this will be found to pay  in  Canada  it will 
be found to pay elsewhere.  The very large 
field in this  country  has  often  taken  so 
much of a manufacturer’s  time  and  atten 
tion that he has  not  had  the  disposition to 
turn his thoughts to the other  lands  which 
still remain to be conquered.

But the stamp tax became a law, the years 
went by,  and  the showing of the  manufac 
turers was not considered.  The proprietors 
complained,  but  complained 
in  vain,  the 
war measure  still  continued in force  long 
after the exigency which created it has ceas 
ed to exist.  Unfortunately,  it is  not possi 
ble to obtain the figures for  the  proprietary 
medicines alone,  for since the establishment 
of the tax the  revenue  from  all  adhesiv 
stamps is aggregated on the books; but from 
the report of the  commissioner at Washing 
ton we find the  revenue  on  cosmetics, per 
fumery and  patent  medicines  during  the 
designated years.was as follows:
1880.......
1881......
1883......
1883___

......................11,838,673.22
................................. 1,843,263.90
...............................1,978,394.56
..................................2,186,236.16
These figures are not alone  interesting,  it 
may be noted in passing,  for  the  light they 
throw on  the  subject  under  consideration, 
but because they show the  steady  increase 
in the consumption  of  the  articles  them­
selves.  Careful estimates show the propor­
tion  of the tax paid by the proprietary med­
icines alone to the amount of about  $1,800,- 
OOl' per year.

Nothing was accomplished until the man­
ufacturers and dealers in proprietary articles 
of the United States formed  an  association 
for mutual protection and the  general good. 
This association was formed four years ago, 
and is still in existence.  Mr.  C.  N.  Curtis 
has been and continues to  be the  president.
It has a wide  influence,  and*  embraces  all 
the more noted  proprietary men  who  have 
used the association as a means of joint and 
official  communication  with  the  wholesale 
druggists and other associations.

The  tax on alcohol  still  remains.  This 
indispensable article to  the  manufacture of 
medicines is burdened  in this  country with 
the enormous tax of  $1.80  a  gallon,  while 
abroad it is  absolutely free of  duty.  This 
fact has prevented the foreign  trade in pro­
prietary medicines  from  assuming  the pro­
portions that it ought to have assumed.  To 
be sure there is a rebate provided of tills tax 
on alcohol used in  goods  to  be sent  out of 
the country,  but practically it costs so much 
to go  through the  formula at  the  custom 
house that proprietors say it is actually bet­
ter to let it go than to be at the expense and 
the delay necessary to collect  it.  One well- 
known firm had the foresight when the  tax 
on alcohol  was  proposed  in  war  times to 
make  their  manufactory  a  bonded  ware­
house,  and during all these more than twen­
ty years have been  using  alcohol  at  $16 a 
barrel while less fortunate competitors have 
paid $335.  Sending out their goods  free of 
duty they have amassed a great fortune.

PU B L IC A T IO N   OF  FORM ULAS.

There is at the present time no legislative 
action pending on the subject of proprietary 
medicines,  but a scheme of legislation is be­
ing talked of.  The  scheme  simply is  that 
the  manufacturers  of  patent  medicines 
should be required by legislative  enactment 
to place upon the outside  of  every bottle or 
package of preparation the  formula  of  the 
ingredients,  so that every  purchaser of  the 
preparation may know just what  he is buy­
ing.  At the  present  time  a  committee  of 
the pharmaceutists are  preparing  a  report 
upon the advisability of  such au action. 
It 
will be seen at a glance that such  a require­
ment would  be  of  the  most  radical and 
sweeping character.  To force a manto give 
away the secret of his business,  to  the pre 
paration of  which he  has  given  years  of 
study,  his thought and  his  money,  is to in­
stitute  an arbitrary precedent,  which would 
be utterly inconsistent with the spirit of our 
institutions.

A proprietor says:  “If the formula  was 
marked on every  package  it  would  enable 
these dealers to say, when called upon for a

RED U C ED  PR IC E S.

Cutting of prices is said to have  originai 
ed with Western  jobbers.  Chicago  dealer: 
in the range of St.  Louis, were selling goods 
at cost and paying freight on the more staple 
articles in the hope  of  adding the St.  Louis 
customer to their  books,  while  St.  Louis 
houses were offering the  same inducements 
to Chicago  customers.

Western jobbers  found  that to extent of 
over one-third of all their  sales  they were 
transacting  their  business  at a  loss.  N 
remedy was found until manufacturers were 
appealed to and  the  rebate  plan  adopted 
This was simply a contract  between  manu 
facturers and jobbers by  which  the  former 
held the profits on the  goods  until they re 
■frPTted a certificate  from -the  jobbers  that 
they were sold at full prices. 
It  amounted 
simply to this:  “When  you  will send us 
certificate that  you have sold these goods at 
the full price we will credit  you balance on 
our books.”  The result was inevitable.  The 
prices were  restored,  and  $600,000  profit 
before  thrown  away were  restored to the 
jobbers.

While  the  manufacturers  could  easily 
deal with t-lie jobbers,  they  found  it  some­
thing more of a task to regulate the conduct 
of the retailers.  Of course,  to  a certain e 
tent they did  not  care.  They sell  just  as 
many goods  and the  retail  prices are of no 
effect on their own profits; but  inasmuch as 
large  number of  retailers to  a district are 
considered more advantageous in  the distr 
bution of goods than a few,  and as the  te 
dency of cut rates is to reduce  the  number 
of retailers the manufacturers would  prefe 
i fixed and uniform schedule.  But thus far 
ill attempts to secure such  a  schedule hav 
been vain.  The Campion plan,  by  which 
very close union was to be made of the pr 
prietors and wholesale dealers which should 
cut off the supplies of all who did not sell 
full prices was  tried for  a  year  or so,  but 
was finally abandoned.  The  result  of  * 
this is that  to-day  the  cutter’s  prices,  or 
modification  of  them  are  being  adopte 
This will gradually assume a  definite  for 
ami the prices of the future will be found to 
be a mean between the most scalping of the 
cutter and the full rates of yesterday.

least. 

As for the depression of 1883-S4 it has not 
affected the  proprietary medicine  business 
adversely in the 
If it  has  any ten­
dency at all  in  this  matter  “hard  times” 
tends rather to  increase  than  diminish  the 
sale of proprietary medicines, for it enforces 
a closer attempt of economy among the peo­
ple than that which ordinarily prevails.  So 
it is that the business has  gone  on  steadily 
increasing since the beginning.

Among the different branches of the furni­
ture trade there are none in  which the com­
petition has been so strong,  or  prices reduc­
ed to so low a limit,  as  in  that  of  chairs. 
Prices in  some  of  the  cheaper  goods,  in­
deed,  have been so  reduced  that  goods  are 
actually sold at less than the cost of original 
production.  Why or how  this  can be done 
is no less a problem than  it  is an  unfortu­
nate fact,  which,  to  some  extent,  explains 
the stagnation which has existed in this line 
for the past six months.  Next to  chairs in 
laggardness of improvement,  are  the  more 
costly styles of  chamber  suits.  The  cause 
of this is more  easily explained. 
It  is  be­
cause of the only too  manifest  overproduc­
tion of  cheap 
imitation  and  painted  soft 
wood  suits,  and  the  universal  inclination, 
born  of  hard  times,  which 
induces  all 
classes,  in pursuance of a false idea of econ­
omy,  to purchase the  cheapest  goods  that 
will possibly answer their purpose.

Spending Money on Merchants a Thing of 

the Past.

From the Hotel World.

About a dozen commercial travelers sat in 
îe corridor of the Palmer  House,  Chicago, 
me night and exchanged stories of  business 
experience.

The worst I ever got taken  in,” remark- 
l the representative  of  a  boot  and  shoe 
house  “was about three years ago by a mér­
itant from Ottumwa,  Iowa.  He was a very 
heavy buyer and I had  for a  long time been 
trying hard to sell him a bill of goods.  Late 
the evening I heard he was at  the  Com­
mercial Hotel and I hurried around and met 
him.  There were two or three  other drum­
mers in the same line of  business with him 
at the time  and I took  the  Ottumwa  right 
away from them.  After we had a couple of 
drinks  and a  cigar  I  commenced  talking 
boots and shoes to him.  He did not appear 
to be very much  interested  in the  subject, 
so I concluded  he 
intended  to  buy  from 
someone  else,  and  I  was  determined  he 
should not.  We started out to see the town 
by night.  Well,  we made a night of it. 
It 
ras one of the worst  debauches  I ever was 
n.  About 11 o’clock  the  next  day we re-
turned to the hotel.  The  gentleman  from 
Iowa was delighted with his experience and 
thanked me over  and  over  again. 
In the 
iftemoon I invited him around to  my place 
of business. 
‘1 shall  be  delighted  to  ac­
company you,’ he said,  ‘but I am very sorry 
to say I have  already  purchased  my  goods 
it another house.’  This  announcement al­
most took away my breath. 
I was out very. 
nearly $150 on him.  That’s what it cost me 
to see the sights  of  Chicago  by  night. 
It 
took a good  while,  but I  finally  made my 
money back  in  experience.  Now,  before I 
pend a cent  upon  a  man I ask  him if he 
has bought his goods.”

“I got pretty badly taken in myself once,” 
chimed in a traveling  man  for  a hardware 
house.  “It was  when  I  first  entered the 
business, and immediately after  making my 
first trip on the road. 
I  was  what  all  the 
boys  call a  very fresh  young  man.  Any 
way,  I have never since had the  same  high 
ipinion of  myself.  A  lot  of  my  friends 
thought it would  be  a  good  thing  to con­
vince me that  I was not more  than an aver­
age person.  This was  in  St. Louis.  There 
was a large  cattle  owner  from  the  Indian 
Territory stopping  at  the Planter’s  Hotel.
I was informed  that  lie  was a large  mer­
chant at Yinita in  the  Territory. 
I took it 
or granted and  introduced  myself  to him. 
He was a very sociable  fellow,  and  took a 
number of drinks at  my expense. 
I showed 
him all over  St.  Louis in a  carriage  that 
afternoon,  and at  night  we  ‘painted’  the 
town.  Next morning I called  on  him  and 
asked to sell him  a  bill  of  goods. 
‘Why, 
my dear fellow,  I am  not  merchandizing,  I 
am in the  cattle  business.’  What  could I 
say?  Nothing; for the man  had  been  per­
fectly innocent of my purpose.”

“This habit of spending  money on  coun­
try merchants is pretty much a  thing of the 
past,” said  one  of  the  party in reply to a 
question.  “A few years ago it was  carried 
on  to  a  frightful  extent.  Nearly  every 
drummer followed the  custom more or less. 
Now it is disreputable and  even  dishonor­
able.  A  salesman  who  persists 
in  it is 
thought nothing of by a  first-class  business 
house.  Now,  only a few years ago the man 
who spent the  most  money  got the  most 
trade.  When a merchant made a trip to the 
city once or  twice a year  he  was  taken in 
hand  by  the  salesman,  and  it  generally 
meant a spree. 
If  the  merchant  did  not 
believe in that sort of a thing,  a  more inno­
cent but just as  extravagant  manner of en­
tertainment was furnished.  The  merchant 
got it into his  head  that  the  jobber  who 
did  not 
freely  was 
stingy or did not  sufficiently  value  his cus­
tom.  They would only trade witli  the man 
who spent money.

spend  money 

“The merchant has learned though,  now, 
that  most of this  money  came out of  his 
own pocket,  and not out of that of the sales­
man.  The more money wasted on  him the 
more he paid for his  goods.  The  prosper­
ous business man  who  comes  to the  city 
nowadays will  not allow  a cent spent upon 
him. 
If a  salesman  treats,  the  merchant 
insists  upon  doing  the  honors  the  next 
time.”

“Then the merchants  when  they  come 

here are more moral than of yore?”

“No,  I think not,  though  I  don’t  admit 
they are immoral.  The salesman  takes his 
customers around sight-seeing, and goes up­
on sprees same as lie ever did,  but  the mer­
chant bears his share of the expense.  I  was 
out with a merchant the other  night and he 
would not allow  me  to  spend a cent.  He 
said: 
‘You are giving me your  time by be­
ing my escort; now,  why  should  you spend 
your money?’  There  is  many a  merchant 
of the same opinion,  and I think  in another 
year or two the money will be  spent by the 
merchant instead of the salesman.  At pres­
ent ’the city is  crowded  with  country  mer­
chants ¿from all parts of  the  West.  These 
gentlemen make from one  to two trips each 
year to the city.”

The Provincial Bank of Buenos Ayres has 
a capital of $33,000,000 and deposits amount­
ing to $67,000,000.  These  figures  are  not 
equaled by any United States bank.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Siate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  H , 1885.
Merchants and Mawiictarers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

Président—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Wm. Sears.
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ez-offlcio ; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two 
years.
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M. Clark,  Ben  W. 
Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Meigs, Wm. T. Lanforeaux. 
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
of October.
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
ing of each month.

,

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

Tiie  T radesm an  acknowledges  the re­
ceipt of a qppy of the  constitution  and by­
laws of the Grocers’ Association of the City 
of Muskegon.

Corn  Cure in a New Role.

II.  B.  Fairchild  is  the  patron  saint of a 
mysterious chemical conglomeration known 
as  “Henry’s  Corn  Cure.”  A  well-known 
professional gentleman  recently  purchased 
a bottle of the  preparation,  with  a view to 
removing a couple of painful  pedal  projec­
tions. 
lie applied the remedy  according to 
instructions—or,  rather,  lack of instructions 
—and a couple of days afterward purchased 
a pair of  crutches.  The  day  following he 
did not appear at his place  of business,  and 
from the profanity  which  emanated  from 
his residence the neighbors were inclined to 
the opinion that he was putting up a couple 
of hundred stoves.  The  next  day he went 
to and from his  office in a  hack,  and  had 
his meals sent up from a restaurant.  A day 
later he purchased a gun,  a bowie knife and 
a loaded cane, cut holes in the toes of a pair 
of $9 shoes,  and sought  an  interview  with 
the destroyer of his happiness.  Mr.  Fairchild 
avoided  a  fatal  encounter,  however,  by 
writing his check for 835,  in payment of the 
following items:
Paid for crutches..........................................   3.00
One day’s lost time.......................................$5.00
Hack hire.......................................................  
50
Extra meals....................................................  2.26
Spoiled  shoes.................................................  9-00
General inconvenience................................  5.25
that 
it doesn’t stop at the corn, twit keeps on eat­
ing,  and is particularly  fond  of  toes.  Mr. 
Fairchild,  it is  understood,  will  procure a 
patent for his remedy,  and seek to introduce 
it to the use of surgeons. 
Instead of  using 
saws or knives when  amputation is  neces­
sary,  a little  of  the  corn  cure  rubbed  on 
the  limb will  answer  the  same  purpose. 
There is undoubtedly a fortune  in  the  dis­
covery.

The trouble with the  corn  cure  is 

A  Chicago  Suggestion.

From the Chicago Current.

Following the recent National Convention 
of the trade, the  Michigan  Pharmaceutical 
Association will meet at Detroit.  Druggists 
complain  (1)  that  they  stand  between the 
patient and thf  doctor,  and  often keep the 
doctor from carelessly killing  the  patient; 
but (3) that when a druggist makes an error 
it is all up with the  patient,  for  there is no 
one to catch  the  druggist’s  errors.  This is 
the  old  cry of  the  proof-reader  and  the 
make-up,  and tliere is a good  deal of  truth 
in it.  But mankind will have become nobler | 
ere  druggist,  or  proof-reader,  or  make-up 
shall  receive  charitable  treatment.  The 
druggists ought to  present  their  remedial 
views to the Legislatures.  Doubtless  such 
a bill would pass. 
If  a  suggestion may be 
made here,  it can be said  that  the prescrip­
tion-clerk might invite  the  patron to watch 
him while putting  up  medicine,  or,  if the 
additional  expense  be  profitable,  a second 
clerk might instead assist.  This is the way 
proof is read and papers are made up at late 
hours,  when all mistakes  are  final  and ir­
In fact,  that is  the  way the i 
remediable. 
principal gambling-banks are carried  on—a 
“lookout” being always at  hand.

Hawkins’  Estimate Too Low.

“I see that Lew.  Hawkins places the num­
ber of barrels  of sugar  sold by Grand Rap-1 
i ts jobbers at 30,000  per  year,” said  Amos 
Musselman, the other day.  “In my opinion, 
his estimate is altogether  too  'low. 
I hap- 
l>en to know that one  of  our local  brokers 
sold 3,800 barrels last month  for one manu­
facturer alone  which would  be at  the  rate 
of 33,000 barrels per  year.  When we come 
to consider that that broker represents other 
houses in the same  line, and  that there are 
three brokers here  selling  sugar, 
I  think 
the actual  transactions  are  nearer  60,000 
barrels than the numberllr. Hawkins  sug­
gests.”

The  Union PhanrwceuWiue says that an 
eminent chemist prepared with great* care a 
mixture of manganese permagnate of potash, 
and oxalic acid, only to find  that  the . mix­
ture exploded in a  few  minutes  afterward 
in the  patient’s  pocket. 
It  also  gives  an 
instance  of  a  tooth  powder  composed of 
cachou and chlorate of  potash  exploding in 
the  mouth of a person engaged  in brushing 
his teeth.

Blanchard  &  Co.  are  putting; 

in a fdw 
boiler and  engine  at  their  shingle mill at 
Rodney.

The property  of  the  St.  Joseph  Paper 
Pail Co.,  at St.  Joseph,  has been sold under 
trust deed.

The  Kirby-Carpenter  Company has  14,- 
in  pile  at  Menom­

000,000 feet of lumber 
inee,  and 20,000,000 feet of logs in boom.

P.  H.  Hamlin,  formerly of Reed City, has 
leased the Mt.  Yemon  grist  mill,  at Evart, 
of P.  B.  Lemert.  The lease runs five years.
Hopkins & Co.,  of Bear  Lake,  have  this 
1,800  cords  of  hemlock 
year 
bark,  and 8,000,000 feet  of  hardwood lum­
ber.

shipped 

Chase Eclipse:  Rumor  says  that Grand 
Rapids parties have secured a  large tract of 
pine north of town and will at  once erect a 
big saw mill to cut it out.

A village called Petersville has been plat­
ted in the northwest part  of  Lake  county, 
on R.  G.  Peters’ railroad.  Twenty families 
have already located there.

The Grand  Haven  Lumber  Co.  has 45,- 
000,000 feet of pine  lumber  north  and east 
of Cedar Lake, which will be put  into Flat 
river during the next two years.

J.  P.  Clark,  of the  firm  of  Clark  Bros., 
manufacturers of sawmill machinery at Bel­
mont,  N. Y.,  was in  the  city  several  days 
last week,  visiting  his  agent,  W.  C.  Deni­
son.

Bessemer,  the new town near the Gogebic 
region,  is said to  be  growing  and  rapidly 
assuming the aspect of a city.  Buildings are 
going up on all sides and a new  hotel is be­
ing built.

Sailing,  Hanson  &  Co.,  recently  sold to 
the Manistee Lumber Co.  3,500,000 feet  of 
logs  at 810.70 afloat  in  town  29—4. 
It is 
estimated that it will cost 81-50  a thousand 
to bring the logs to Manistee.

Wright & Ketcham,  having completed the 
construction of the main line of theTittaba- 
wassee &  Hope  railroad,  are  grading  two 
branches,  one  four and the other  two miles 
long,  and thee iron will soon be  laid.

The Case &  Willard  Manufacturing Co., 
at Battle  Creek,  will  start  up  its works, 
with a full complement of men,  on  Novem­
ber 1.  Nichols,  Shepard & Co., of the same 
place,  will start up  with a reduced force on 
November 2.

Dimmen den  Bleyker  and  Edward Mc­
Caffrey,  proprietors  of  the  den  Bleyker 
Manufacturing Co.,  at Kalamazoo, have dis­
solved,  Mr. McCaffrey retiring  to engage in 
other  business.  The  business of  the  old 
company will be continued  under  the same 
style by Mr.  den Bleyker.

The  Cadillac  &  Northwestern  Railway, 
owned by the Cummer Lumber Co., of Cad­
illac,  now completed and in  operation from 
that place to Komas park,  on Muskrat lake, 
in Missaukee  county, will  be  immediately 
extended five  miles  further north,  passing 
around the lake,  and  thus  making  ferriage 
unnecessary in reaching  Lake  City.  This 
extension will reach  a  large tract  of  pine 
hitherto inaccessible.

STRA Y   FA C T S.

A.  D.  Rork has started a meat  market at 

E. F.  Evans & Son have opened a tinshop 

Hastings.

at Nashville.

A.  G.  Fox will engage  in the  sale of gas 

fixtures at  Marshall.

E. D. Beach has engaged in the commission 

and brokerage business at Adrian.

A.  G.  Butler is erecting  a  grain  elevator 
at Bellevue,  with a  capacity of 10,000 bush­
els.

Hannah,  Lay & Co.  have  issued  a  neat 
memorandum book,  with  advertising on al­
ternate pages.

W.  J.  Black,  who has been buying  grain 
and potatoes  at  Sand Lake,  contemplates 
erecting a  warehouse  and  elevator at that 
place.

Grand Haven Herald:  About 150 tons of 
east-bound freight  and  twenty  carloads of 
west-bound  freight  is handled  daily at the 
railway docks in this  city.

A Sand Lake correspondent writes: There 
is some talk of S.  L.  Ware  building a large 
store east of Butler’s  block. 
If  he does he 
will open a general store.

Ovid Union:  C.  C. Taylor has closed his 
business relations with  the  grocery firm of 
Bowen & Taylor.  Mr.  Bowen will continue 
the business alone as heretofore.

The Bank of St.  Johns has been  organiz­
ed under the State law with 850,000 capital. 
The officers are:  O.  W.  Miuiger, president, 
Geo.  F.  Marvin,  vice-president; and  Alvin 
Shaver,  cashier.

Fletcher E.  Turrell and Geo. W. Albrecht, 
proprietoi’S  of  the  Bank  of  Bellaire,  and 
owners  of * real  estate  at  Bellaire,  have 
dissolved,  Turrell retiring.  The business of 
the late firm will be  continued  by Geo.  W.- 
Albrecht,  Chester Thomson  and  Egbert F. 
Albrecht  under the firm name  of Albrecht, 
Thomas & Co.

Mecosta Sentinel:  We  hear  it  rumored 
that Wm.  II. Smith, the Big Rapids clothier, 
has purchased a lot  east  of  Parks  Bros.’ 
store and will  proceed  to  erect a building 
immediately for a clothing store.  Also that 
S.  S.  Wilcox,  of Big Rapids,  has purchased 
a lot east of Parks Bros.’store and will pro­
ceed to erect a building to be used as a hard­
ware  store.

Ovid  Union:  The suit brought  by Chas. 
Root & Co.,  of Detroit,  to  break  the  mort­
gage given by Potter,  Beattie & Co. to Sow­
ers & White, bankers,  as security for money 
borrowed,  and the transfer of  real estate by 
the late firm to home creditors,  just  before 
this assignment, has  been  decided  against 
Sowers & White.  This discision of the cir­
cuit judge pleases  the  unsecured  creditors 
of Potter,  Beattie & Co.,  who  now  antici­
pate a  percentage  on  their  claims.  J.  C. 
Darragh,  assignee of  Sowers & White,  will

carry the case to  the  Supreme Court.  The 
suit is an important one and  as  its decision 
will in a measure determine  the  validity of 
chattel mortgages  when  given  for similar 
security,  its final settlement  is  watched by 
business men the  State  over  with more or 
lets interest.

Purely Personal.

Mrs. Emma E.  Hurtle  and son,  of Petos- 
key,  are  the  guests  of  J.  H.  Parker  and 
family.

Jas.  Fox and L.  L.  Loveridge  left  Tues­
day morning for  Louisville  and Cincinnati, 
to be gone four or five days.

W.  E.  Holbrook,  editor  and  manager of 
the  Cincinnati  Furniture  Worker,  was  in 
the city several days last week.

F.  Raniville,'of  the  belt  manufacturing 
firm of F.  ltaniville & Co., has gone to New 
York to purchase  the  necessary machinery 
to increase the capacity of the factory.

Dr.  C.  B.  Dickson,  of  Detroit,  is in  the 
city looking over the ground  with a view of 
establishing  three  lines  of  manufactures. 
He will locate here,  if  properly encouraged 
by men of capital.

S.  E.  Wait,  the  Traverse  City druggist, 
was in the city  over  Sunday,  the  guest of 
his former partner,  L.  M.  Mills.  Mr.  Wait 
was on his way to California,  where he will 
spend a couple of  months.

John  Wallace,  who  has  managed  C. 
Mears’ interests  at  Mears  for a number of 
years  past—to the  satisfaction of all  con­
cerned—has  resigned  his  position,  and 
leaves shortly for Chippewa Falls,  Wis.

Among those who will  attend  the  third 
annual meeting of the Michigan State Phar- 
macutical Association,  at Detroit this week, 
are  Frank J. Wurzburg,  Frank  E.  Escott, 
Dr.  W.  II.  Ross, Dr. II.  E. Locher,  Wm.  E. 
Osborne and E.  A.  Stowe.

Dr.  C.  S.  Hazeltine  leaves  next Monday 
for Philadelphia, where he will attend the an­
nual convention of the  National  Wholesale 
Drug Association,  to  be  held 
in that city 
from October  20 to  23,  inclusive.  He  will 
be joined by Capt.  C.  G.  Perkins  and wife, 
who go direct from  their  home at  Hender­
son,  Ky.

Can Never be Wholly Superceded. 

From the Commercial Enquirer.

The credit system  can  never  be  wholly 
in  the  broader 
superceded,  particularly 
I fields of  commercial  life. 
It is  the direct 
course of much of the evil which afflicts our 
I people,  second  only  to  those  of  the rum 
j traffic  itself.
!  To institute and  make  cash  payments a 
| success would be to bring about a most mar­
velous result, changing the whole current of 
I mercantile life and effecting an equally mar­
velous  change  on  the  face  of 
society, 
j  Think of it.  How it would  simplify  busi- 
j ness.  The  process  would  consist  almost 
| solely  of buying and selling—taking in cash 
! and paying  it  out—no  charging,  no book- 
I keeping,  no worry, care,  anxiety or concern 
! regarding bad debts,  and no  trouble collect- 
j ing them.  No need of lawyers, justices, con­
stables, judgments and executions.  Half of 
' the  merchants’ energies now frittered away 
I and lost  would be  saved  and  concentrated 
! upon his  business.

And then the effect upon society,  compel­
ling  and  encouraging  thrift  in  families 
where improvidence,  with  all its  shiftless­
ness,  has been the yule,  instituting economy 
for  extravagance,  honesty for  dishonesty, 
and  bringing  into  play  and  practice  the 
whole catalogue of  virtues  following in the 
wake of upright dealing.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Harry McDowell is  “doing”  Boston  and 

suburbs.

Leo.  A.  Caro and wife have gone to Jack- 
son for a ten days’  visit  with A.  F.  Peake 
and family.

Now rehearse the latest gags carefully, so 
as to spring them  on  unsuspecting  dealers 
in good style.

John L.  Joseph, Michigan  representative 
for S. J.  Foree &  Co.,  of  Covington,  Ky., 
left Tuesday  for a week’s  visit  with  his 
house.

T.  P. S. Hampson will have  charge of an 
exhibit  for the  Auti-Kalsomine Co.,  at the 
State Pharmaceutical Association’s meeting 
at Detroit this week.

Max Mills is by  no  means  a  handsome 
man, but since he has become the  patron of 
a barber shop his  features  disclose a Celtic 
appearance  which  was  heretofore  unsus­
pected.

Geo.  F.  Owen has  rented  his  farm  and 
disposed of his  horses,  cattle,  hogs,  geese, 
ducks,  chickens,  dogs,  etc.,  and  removed to 
the city,  where  he is located  in the  Bemis 
block.  As a relic of his agricultural life, he 
has brought to town a pumpkin  nearly  six 
feet  in  circumference  and  weighing  105 
pounds.  This goes to  show that he  is  ca­
pable of grasping fame as a] pumpkin raiser 
as well as a canine cultivator.

A Chicago Druggist’s Suicide.

A clerk in a drug store at Halstead  street 
and Canalport avenue answered a telephone 
call the other  day,  and,  in  response to his 
query of “Who’s there?” received the  reply 
that it was  “August Kussman,”  who  said: 
“Please tell my wife that I have just  taken 
twenty grains  of  morphine. 
If she wants 
to see me alive she will have to come pretty 
soon.”  After thinking the  matter  over an 
hour or so,  the clerk told  the  police  about 
the strange message.  A patrol  wagon was 
immediately sent to Kussman’s  drug  store 
where he wras found  lying  under the  tele-‘ 
phone in an unconscious condition.  Efforts 
to resuscitate him proved  imsuccessful,  and 
he expired  soon  afterward.  Despondency 
over domestic difficulties is thought  to have 
been the cause of the suicide.

LADY  TRAVELERS.

Advanced Ideas on  the  Subject by a Mer­

chant’s Wife.

Ryerson,  Mich.,  Oct.  9,  1885. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

D ear Sir—In  your issue  of week before 
last,  I saw an article on lady travelers, writ­
ten by a drummer,  which rather called forth 
my  indignation  regarding  the  sentiments 
expressed by  the  writer.  Of  course,  I do 
not pretend to say  that  I  know  as  much 
about the life of  a  commercial  drummer as 
he; but I do think that I  know  a3  much of. 
the instincts and  feelings  of  a  lady  as he 
could possibly know,  and feel  fully as com­
petent to judge what a lady  may bear  and 
contend with  without  losing that  “delicacy 
of feeling and refinement of manner” which 
constitutes  one.  Among  other  objections 
to ladies as  commercial  travelers,  he  very 
pathetically  alludes  to  the  snubs  which 
drummers have  sometimes  to  endure from 
merchants with whom  they deal.  Now*,  in 
an article of this kind,  I do  not approve of 
fine flowing  periods  or  soaring  flights  of 
fancy,  so I will  simply  say  that in my ex­
perience with this class  of  people,  namely, 
drummers,  the man  who  is a  gentleman is 
invariably treated as  one by the  merchant, 
and,  if the  agent  were  a lady,  no  dealer 
would  treat  her  otherwise  than  as  one. 
There are agents  whom  I  have  seen  who, 
undoubtedly, deserved snubbing.  You take 
that class who sail 
into  a  man’s  place of 
business as if they owned  the  universe,  or 
were  traveling  for a firm  that  furnished 
passports to  eternal  felicity  and  had  the 
monopoly of these  same  desirable  articles, 
obtainable only from him—let him thrust his 
wares into a dealer’s face, whether the deal­
er wants them or  not,  talking  all the time 
like an improved phonograph  wound up for 
a week,  warranted not to  rust or wear  out, 
and a dealer will  sometimes  mildly suggest 
that he will not buy of him; and I have seen 
those  who  deserved  that  the  suggestion 
should come from the toe  of a  No.  9 shoe; 
and,  from some allusions suggestive of self- 
importance in the article I read,  I  conclude 
that,  undoubtedly,  this  same  drummer  is 
one of the kind  who  do get  snubbed. 
If 
these are his only fears regarding lady trav­
elers,  let him  dismiss  them. 
I  believe in 
the life for a  woman  which  suits her best. 
If she prefers  carrying a grip  and  sample 
case to standing  all  day behind  a counter, 
or running a sewing machine until her head 
aches and her brain  reels,  with  that  other 
sublime alternative staring her in the face— 
namely,  doing general  house work,  with a 
certainty of  being  snubbed—I  say,  if  she 
prefers the  life of  a  commercial  agent to 
any of these,  it is her privilege to choose it, 
and she need not feel that there is anything de- 
garding or debasing in her choice.  There are 
many articles of manufacture which a wom­
an can sell as  well,  or  better  than a man, 
and why not extend to her the opportunity?

Yours Very Truly,

Mrs.  S.  E.  J ohnson.

Monopoly and Anti-Monopoly.

Anti-monopoly is a  very  sounding  war- 
cry,  and  thousands  are  echoing  it with a 
vague notion that it means something virtu­
ous and proper.  There is an anti-monopoly 
league that is very busy formulating charges 
and  organizing  public  sentiment,  so  that 
, with large  classes  anti-monopoly  is a sort 
of shibboleth by which  the  political sound- 
i ness of people is judged.  Now,  it is scarce- 
(ly necessary to say that monopoly in some of 
i its forms may be just  as  obnoxious as it is 
I declared.to be; but,  on the  other hand,  it is 
j  necessary to say that monopoly is  not of it­
self an evil,  and,  like many other  things in 
this world,  it is only when abused that con­
demnation is called for.  Scarcely any of the 
great enterprises of the age would have been 
undertaken if  the  exclusive  enjoyments of 
profits,  at least for a time,  had  not been as- 
I sured.  Capitalists would not originally, for 
instance,  have put their money in  gas coin- 
j panies if the  right  to  lay gas  mains  had 
| been open to everybody.  Railroads,  in many 
j instances,  would never have been  built  had 
| it not been believed that  traffic  along their 
i lines would be exclusively under  their  con­
trol. 
It is clear to every observer  that cap- 
j  ital will not be invested 
in  enterprises  in- 
j volving risk  unless  the  promises of  profit 
| are alluring,  and in  many  instances  the as- 
| surance of profit depends almost  altogether 
upon the guarantee of  exclusive  privileges.
I Monopoly,  we thus  see,  is an 
incentive to 
I enterprise, and therefore an 
important fac- 
I tor in civilization.  Monopoly,  moreover,  is 
I often absolutely unavoidable.  There can be 
! only one railroad in a street like Broadway,
I and it is simply idle to  denounce  the  com- 
I pany that has the privilege  of  running cars 
I thereon as a monopoly,  unless in the  enjoy- 
I meat of its  privilege  it  disregards  public 
convenience.  Even  when  monopoly  be- 
! comes an evil  it  is  questionable  whether it 
j  does as much  mischief as unrestricted com- 
! petition, which  everywhere 
is  destroying 
; profits and consuming capital.  Competition 
j  cannot lawfully  be  restricted,  and  within 
I proper  limits it  is  advantageous,  perhaps 
| necessary; but reckless competition is really 
; a greater evil  than  monopoly  even at  its 
j  worst; ami in each case it is not  the  thing 
itself,,  but  certain  obnoxious  forms of it 
I only,  that is censurable.

Already lumbermen are actively preparing 
j for the winter campaign in the pineries, and 
j  contracts  are  being  made  for  enormous 
| quantities of  baked  beans,  pork,  beef,  but- 
, ter,  coffee,  sugar,  flour and  the  other  solid 
j  articles of food  that  are  devoured  by the 
j hungry loggers.  Men are  being engaged to 
j  swing the axe and  to  haul  the  logs  to the 
i streams,  and  there are  plenty of  applicants 
at rather low wages.  The  log  “crop” will 
not be nearly  as  large  as  in  some  recent 
years,  for  lumber  manufacturers  are  be- 
, coming  more  conservative,  and  they  are 
at last finding out  that it  is  better  not to 
overstock the markets of the country.

More Business Activity.

From the American  Machinist.

shops  and 

idle  mills, 

Every day we hear  reports of the starting 
of 
factories. 
Business  has  been  depressed,  but  there 
is something more than  the  perennial  “bet­
ter feeling” observable just now.  Manufac­
tories are starting up because  they  have or­
ders to fill. 
In most cases profits are small, 
but they are large  enough  to  make  it  more 
desirable to run  the  establishments than to 
remain idle and  keep  customers away. 
In 
parts of New England,  cotton mills are eas­
ier than they have been for  months  before. 
Rolling mills are  resuming  work  in many 
places, but the iron trade needs a strong im­
petus to get  into  activity again.  Rails are 
in better demand,  and there has been  a stif­
fening up in price.  Danbury recently made 
the largest shipment of hats on record.  The 
hosiery mills  in  Philadelphia  aAj  working 
full time with a full complement  of  hands, 
and  the  demand  for  goods  is  said  to  be 
heavier than it has  been  for  two years  be­
fore.  Transportation  lines are  having an 
increase of freight and there are daily stron­
ger indications  of  greater  busines  activity.

Ended in a Grand Tableaux.

Mother—Ella,  go to bed.  Say goodnight 

to the governess and give her a kiss.

Ella—No,  mamma,  I don’t  want  to  give 

her a kiss.

Mother—And why not?
Ella—Because when any one  gives her a 
kiss she boxes their ears.  Ask  papa if  she ! 
doesn’t.

A.  C.  Dowse,  editor of the New England 
Grocer,  favors  T he  T radesm an  with  a 
copy of  the  Malden  City Press,  of which 
journal lie is also the editor.  A recent issue 
of the latter contains an account of the ded- j 
ication of a memoral building  erected by E .!j
S.  Converse and wife,  who  are  relatives of 
Deacon  Converse,  who has  something  like 1 
a million  dollars 
invested  in and  around 
Grand Rapids.

Durham,  N.  C.,  a tobacco manufacturing | 
town, 
shows  remarkable  development.  I 
Twenty  years  ago it was  a small  hamlet I 
with but 90 inhabitants,  and the  total  valu­
ation of property  was  only 810,000.  A re­
cently-completed census shows a population j 
of 3,370,  and the  assessed  valuation of  the  : 
property is given at 83,000,000.

A young Cincimiati woman recently  used i 
85 worth of paint,  82 worth of canvas,  paid I 
810 in railroad fare,  815 board in  the coun­
try two weeks,  and  painted a picture worth 
less than 50  cents.  When  chromos  can be ! 
bought with a pound of tea,  this  looks like : 
extravagance.

“What is the worst thing about  money?” ! 
asked a Sunday-school  teacher.  “Its  scar-1 
city,” replied a boy promptly.

II.  P.  Colegrove,  representing E.  R.  Di 
j kee & Co.,  was in town  over  Sunday,  ai 
! called on the jobbing trade  Monday.  Col 
j  grove,  it will be remembered, always strik 
1 Grand Rapids on Sunday.

The annual consumption of  ivory is  tli 
produced by sixty-five  thousand  elephant 
It is not known  how  long  the  supply mi 
last,  but if it should  cease substitutes for 
would readily be adopted.

S.  A.  Watt, of the firm of Watt & Cahoo 
| general dealers at Saranac,  was  in the  ci 
several days last week,  the  guest of  Di< 
Warner and D.  C.  Undenvod.

Patent medicines  are  not  an  Americi 
notion,  as  one  might  suppose,  but  ; 
English 
idea.  Few  fortunes  have  be 
made in the business,  although one  conce 
clears 8000,000 annually.

PEIRCE &  WHITE,

JOBBERS  OF

CHOICE  IMPORTED  AND 

DOMESTIC  CIGARS,

Plug, Fin© Cut and Smok­

ing Tobaccos,

S p ecially Adapted to 

th.e Trade.

79  Canal  Street,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

t o   t b s   t r a d e .

We desire to call the attention of the Trade to 

our unusually complete stock of
SCHOOL  BOOKS,

School  Supplies

And a General Line of Miscellaneous 

Books, Stationery, Paper, Etc.

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

For Western  Michigan.

Eaton & Lyon

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

AMONG THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Daniel Lynch  has  moved  into  his new 
house at the  comer  of  James  street and 
Wealthy avenue.

F.  E.  Cross  has moved  his  stock of gro­
ceries and  drugs  to  this  city,  locating on 
South Division  street.

Gus. Begman,  grocer  at Bauer, has added 
a line of  boots and shoes.  Rindge,  Bertscli 
& Co.  furnished the stock.

Hester & Fox have lately sold a saw  mill 
to  Ed.  Lillie,  at Coopersville,  and  a boiler 
to L.  Quackenbush at Pleasant Comers.

A. C.  Hydom has engaged in the boot and 
shoe business  at  33  West  Bridge  street 
Rindge,  Bertsch & Co.  furnished the stock.
Ludwig Wintemitz,  jobber  of  vinegar, 
yeast and imported cheese,  has gotten in the 
fifth 
three 
months.

carload  of  vinegar  within 

H.  Leonard & Sons  have  just  issued  a 
forty-eight page illustrated catalogue, which 
eclipses anything  of  the  kind  ever  before 
sent out from this market.

J.  H.  Parker,  State  agent for Chandler & 
Taylor,  has  lately sold  sawmill  outfits to 
Geo. T.  Joslin, near  Marquette,  and  E.  W. 
Rose,  at Stover, near Mancelona.

D.  W.  Williamson,  the  well-known  me­
chanical draughtsman is closing out his bus­
iness here, preparatory  to  removing to  In­
dianapolis,  where he will  locate permanent­
ly- 

_________________

Stow & Haight,  in  addition  to  their line 
of tables,  have put on the market three suits 
in  maple,  ash  and  imitation  mahogany, 
which will sell for 830, 835 and 838, respect­
ively.

Local jobbers have received notice that on 
and after next Monday they can offer 40 and 
5 per  cent  discount  on  standard  rubber 
goods and 40,  10 and 5 per  cent,  off  on sec­
ond quality.

All reports from Boston are to  the  effect 
that the Peninsular  Novelty Co.—in  which 
several Grand Rapids  capitalists  are  inter­
ested—is literally coining  money,  and that 
Bell telephone dividends  will be  in  order 
during the next few years.

A Grand  Rapids  member  of  the Chair 
Manufacturers’  Association,  which  met in 
secret session  at  Chicago,  October 1,  3 and 
3,  states that an agreement  was  effected to 
advance the price on  wood  seat  and cheap 
and medium grade cane chairs from 5 to 33 
per cent.  The advance  takes  effect on the 
30tli.

Creditors  have  attached  the  safe,  office 
furniture and some land  owned by the late 
firm of  Smith &  Barrett,  who  carried on a 
lumber  business  in the  Houseman  block. 
The liabilities of the firm are  about 82,000, 
and the general ifhpression is that  they will 
not be able to pay in full.  Mr.  Smith came 
here some time ago with 810,000 or 813,000, 
most of which  is  supposed  to  have  been 
sunk in the business.

Edward W.  Locke  has  invented  and ap­
plied for a patent on a  machine for making 
grease boxes,  measures,  etc.,  which can be 
turned out at the rate of  fourteen  per min­
ute.  An automatic arrangement  bends  the 
rim,  puts the bottom  in  place,  and fastens 
the rim by means of clinched  nails.  Noth­
ing of the kind has ever before  been placed 
upon  the  market,  and  the  probability 
is that the  inventor  will  receive  a  reward 
commensurate with  the value of his  device.

A ROUND  T H E   STA TE.

J.  C.  Schaub,  grocer  and  feed  dealer at 

Boyne,  has assigned.

M. J.  Goss succeeds  M.  J.  Goss & Co.  in 

general trade at Prairieville.

S.  W.  Kramer has removed  his dry goods 

stock from Cadillac to Boyne.

Geo.  Bryant succeeds Balmer Bros,  in the 

grocery business Port Huron.

Razek & Winsdor succeed Razek &  Irwin 

ingenerai trade at White Rock.

Waldron & Walker succeed  R.  Waldron 

in the grain business at  Jackson.

Chas.  Treat succeeds  Treat  &  Redden in 

the grocery business at Buchanan.

Warren & Baker succeed  Clark  &  Trigg 

in the hotel business at Bronson.

T.  M.  Crane  succeeds  A. J.  Bartlett in 

the notion business at Eaton Rapids.

Braudes & Sclxarbring,  grocers  at  Carle- 

ton,  have dissolved,  Brandes retiring.

Archie McKinnon  has  bought  the hard­

ware stock of Joseph Tyler,  at Shelby.

C.  F. Phillips succeeds Phillips & Cole in 

the hardware business at Eaton Rapids.

Hadley & Salvili succeed Van Lew & Por­
ter in the hotel  business  at  Cedar Springs.
Ed.  S.  Lewis is building  an  addition  to 
his  store at Eckford,  18x33  feet  in  dimen­
sions.

Carl Sorenson,  cigar dealer at Shelby, has 
closed out.  His creditors mourn the loss of 
small  amounts.

McDonald & McCrea  succeed  John Goul- 
den & Co.  in the wholesale and retail liquor 
business at Cheboygan.

S.  C.  Darrow,  formerly engaged in gener­
al trade and the  manufacture  of  hardwood 
lumber at Bingham,  has closed out  his bus­
iness at that place,  and removed to Traverse 
City where he proposes to re-engage In gen­
eral  trade  as  soon  as a building  now  in 
course of construction is completed.

M A N U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

T.  R.  Lyon’s salt  block,  at Ludington,  is 

under construction.

L'  W.  Crane is making large investments 
in land in Benzie county for  lumbering pur­
poses.

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS & CO.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

©cuss & flftebicines

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Ycftrs—F. H* J* VanBinstor, fifty City* 
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit,
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. 
Next place of meeting—At Detroit, November 
_________ __

3,1885. 
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

, 

OFFICERS.

President-Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal-
Seoond Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan-
Xhinf Vice-President—Frank  Wurzburg, Gr’d 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H .J .  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F. W.
Nex?Cpiace  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 

Rapids. 

„  

.

October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9,1884.

OFFICERS.

. 

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•
„

President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. 
Board  of  CenBors-President,  Vice-President 
and Secretary. 
., 
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White. 
_   „   u   n
Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  h .
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin. 
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck. Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
. 
each month. 
.
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening m
November. 
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Next Meeting—Thursday evening, November 5, 
at “The Tradesman” office.

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„  

. 

FORMULAS  ON  PATENTS.

Draft of a BUI for a State Law on the Sub­

ject.

At the annual convention  of  the  Ameri­
can  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Prof. A.
B.  Prescott,  as chairman of  the  committee 
on patent medicines,  presented a draft for a 
State law providing for  the  printing of the 
formulas of patent medicines on the labels of 
which the following abridged copy embodies 
the principal features:.

1.  Proprietary medicines  in  existence on 
Dec.  31,  1885,  as  shown  by  registration of 
their names  between  Oct.  1  and  Dec. 81, 
may be sold  without  a  declaration of such 
constituents as are not liable when in excess 
to  produce  dangerous  results.  But  after 
May 1,  1886,  the registered proprietary med­
icines shall not be  sold  without a declara­
tion of potent  constituents  (liable if  in ex­
cess to  produce  dangerous  results)  and a 
statement of  the quantity of each such con­
stituents.

2.  Proprietary  medicines  not  registered 
on Jan.  1,1886, shall after that date bear up­
on the label the names of  all  constituents, 
both harmless and potent,  and, after May 1, 
1886,  the quantities of  all  constituents that 
are potent substances.

3.  In other words,  after Jan.  1,  1886,  all 
newly introduced  proprietary medicines, as 
well as older ones which have  not been reg­
istered, that carry on  their labels the names 
of their constituents,  and after May 1,  1886, 
all  proprietary  medicines, 
irrespective of 
registration, must  carry  upon  their  labels 
the names and quantities  of  such  constit­
uents as are potent substances.

4.  The object  of  registration  is to shield 
medicines already in  the  market  from the 
requirement to declare their  constituents so 
far as these are harmless.

5.  The term proprietary  medicine to des­
ignate any simple or compound medicine for 
internal or  external  use  (in  the  human 
body)  claimed as the exclusive  product of a 
special manufacturer, or which is  designat­
ed by a special name or title not  recognized 
by pharmacopoeia  or  dispensatory of  any 
nation or of any  school of  medicine.  Not 
to apply to simple or  compound  medicines 
prepared  or  dispensed  by  physicians  or 
pharmacists  from  designated 
ingredients 
not themselves proprietary medicines in the 
meaning of this act.

6.  The names of constituents as required 
shall be either common  or  scientific names 
if common,  those  in  general  use  among 
English speaking people; if  scientific,  those 
recognized as  such.  The  names  required 
shall not be such as themselves  denote any 
secret,  private  or  proprietary  mixture or 
compound,  The  quantities  required shall 
be stated in weight  or  measure of each po 
tent constituent intended  by the  manufac 
turer to be contained in a  stated  weight  or 
measure  of  the  medicine,  or  contained 
given dose,  so that  the  preparation  which 
the potent constituent  bears  to the  whole 
medicine may be  easily  ascertained.  The 
printing of names and quantities of  constit 
uents shall be in legible English type on the 
label.

7.  Potent substances to be  such  shall be 
found and from time to time  proclaimed by 
the State Board of Health  to be  such as,  in 
their judgement,  have an energetic or potent 
action,  and which,  if improperly or careless 
ly used,  or used  without  their  quantity of 
strength being known,  may produce danger 
ous results.

8.  Penalty:  Fine or imprisonment.
9.  Prosecution:  By  prosecuting  officers 
of the  county,  on  complaint of  the State 
Board of Health,  or of  any sanitary author­
ity or officer,  or any licensed  practitioner of 
medicine.

10.  Duties of the State  Board of Health: 
Registration  of  proprietary  medicines be­
tween Oct  1, and Dec.  31,  1885,  for the fee
0f ----- dollars,  and  proclamation (as  early
as Oct  1,  1885,  and from  time  to time of a 
list of potent substances liable to be used in 
proprietary medicines.  Have  right to com-

plain of violations of law to officers of pros­
ecution.

The Association adopted  the  report,  and 
also  unanimously  adopted  the  following 
resolution:
.R e so lv e d — That in thé opinion of this As­
sociation all  proprietary medicines ought to 
carry on their  labels  a  statement of  their 
constituents.
Chlorate of Potash Not Entirely Harmless.
Dr. Jacobi,  in a recent lecture on  “Domes­
tic Medicine,” has the following  concerning 
the use ot chlorate of potash:

Within the  last  thirty  years  chlorate of 
potash has been made use of in  medicine in 
many ways. 
It is a good, perhaps the best, 
remedy in the  ordinary forms  of  catarrhal 
and ulcerous inflammation of the mouth and 
throat,  originating in  the  irritation  due to 
sudden changes of temperature,  to  want of 
cleanliness,  putrid  decomposition  of  food, 
or to the use of mereural medicines. 
It has 
also been largely recommended as an  acces­
sory remedy hi the treatment of the qrdinary 
forms of diphtheria.  The frequency of these 
diseases in the last twenty-five  or  twenty- 
seven years has brought this  medicine  into 
popular notice  and  favor. 
It  has  conse­
quently risen or  fallen  to  the  rank  of  a 
household remedy in the fullest sense of the 
term. 
I am safe in presuming that  at least 
half of my hearers  have  made  use of  this 
remedy without the advice or prescription of 
a physician.  There are but few households 
in which  the  careful  housewife  has  not 
put aside for future use a little box or pack­
age of the  familar  white  crystals.  Now, 
the mere stowing away of this remedy is not 
without danger.  When dry and pulverized, 
a sudden concussion will  occasionally cause 
it to explode. 
I have myself  known a mis­
fortune to result  from  the  shaking-up of a 
bottle containing the dried  powder.  When 
taken internally the  substance  may readily 
act as poison. 
It passes through  the diges­
tive  organs  and  through  the  blood, into 
which it enters without undergoing  change. 
It passes out of the  body in the  same form 
in which it is introduced.  At the same time 
through mechanical  and  chemical action, it 
considerably  changes  the  composition  of 
the blood and of the  coloring  matter  in the 
blood.  Twenty  grains in  the  course of a 
day for  a one-year-old 
infant,  and  ninety 
grains for an adult,  are  about  as  much as 
can  safely be administered.  To take more 
is injurious and dangerous.

A Wholesale Drug House Second to None.
Although Grand Rapids  ranks among the 
most healthy cities  on  the  continent,  it is 
nevertheless  the  center  of  a considerable 
portion of the jobbing txade of the State for 
the sale of drugs  and  all  goods  used  for 
medical  purposes.  As in  many other lead­
ing lines of  business,  however,  its  prestige 
is  mostly  due  to  its  geographical  advan­
tages, and the  enterprise of  those who are 
engaged in the business.

Prominent among the  jobbing  houses of 
Grand Rapids and the wholesale drug estab­
lishments of  the  West  is the  well-known 
wholesale emporium  of  Hazeltine,  Perkins 
& Co.  Founded  about  twenty-five  years 
ago,  and coming under  its present  manage­
ment only about a dozen years ago,  the pres­
ent proprietors have steadily  increased  the 
range and volume of  their  business  until it 
has now reached  truly  marvelous  propor­
tions.

Stimulated by the  curiosity  which he al­
ways feels to learn  the  modus operandi of 
a large establishment,  a  reporter  of  T he 
T r a d e s m a n   recently obtained  permission 
to make a tour of the premises.  They com­
prise a four-story brick  structure,  situated 
on the corner of Ottawa  and  Louis  streets, 
and covering an area of  42x104  feet.  The 
premises are spacious  and  the  interior ar­
rangement  is  perfect,  the  store  being  a 
model of artistic elegance and neatness. The 
stock carried embraces a fine  assortment of 
pure drugs,  chemicals,  proprietary  medi 
cines, toilet and  fancy  articles,  and  every 
thing usually found in a first-class wholesale 
drug store.

The first thing which strikes  the observer 
while walking  through  the  various floors 
and  departments is the  order  and  system 
which obtains in every  branch  of  the busi 
ness,  in spite of the fact  that  thousands of 
articles are included in  the stock,  and  that 
it is essential that  every  article be assigned 
a place by itself.  Another  feature  which 
commends itself is the extreme care used in 
the filling of all orders,  as  well  as  the rap­
idity with which they are  executed.  These 
features  have been  brought  to  perfection 
through years  of  continued  effort  in  that 
direction, and  to  this  careful  attention to 
their patrons’  interests  is  largely  due  the 
large and influential trade which  the  house 
now enjoys.

From the New York Tribune.

Are Pills Essential to Life?

Judge Chipman, of Detroit,  has  just  d e ____^___  ___ ^

The basement is used for  the  storage  of 
heavy goods,  such as paints, oils, varnishes, 
white lead,  gum camphor,  gum  shellac,  oil 
meal,  etc.  Conspicuous among  the  special
cided that  a contract made  by a  drug  firm I 
0f paints are  piles of  the celebrated
not to sell certain pills below a certain price  ,,pioneei. p repared” and  “Swiss Villa Mix- 
is valid.  This decision is based on the view 
pajntS} whose superiority is everywhere 
that pills,  unlike wheat and coal and similar  conce(jed>  Qne corner is occupied  by a gas 
articles,  are not necessaries of  life.  To as-  engine>  which furnishes motive * power for 
sert  that pills are “in  any sense indispensi- 
elevator and grinding  machine,  through 
ble to the human race,”  says  Judge  Chip-  which many 0f the drugs used for manufac 
man,  “would be a violent presumption  noM turing purposes pass.
to be entertained judicially,  and  only to be 
The firgt floor contains the  office,  sample 
established by evidence  which  every sensi- | an(j  sim(jry  rooms,  patent  medicine  and
ble man knows has no existence.”
liquor  departments.  The  druggists’  sun­
We must differ wholly  from  the  learned 
dries department is  an  especial  feature of 
judge.  Piils are absolutely essential  to the 
the establishment,  containing,  as it does,  a 
lives of druggists;  for  without  them  the 
line of goods second to none in the country. 
druggist  cannot  make a  living.  Without
It comprises such articles as comb and brush
them  the  homeopathic  physician  cannot 
or without musical  attachments,
keep body and soul together, nor can his pa-  gentjemen>a anq  ladies’  necessaries,  glove 
tients; without pills as a foundation many a  an^ handkerchief  boxes,  collar  and  cuff 
printer and  lithographer  would  starve for 
manjcure  sets,  card  boxes,  work
ant of business; many a quackman  would  boxeg^  infauts> sets,  etc.  Many of  the arti- 
find  his  occupation  gone;  the  bill-poster  ^  are  handsomely  dressed  in  plush or 
would not  flourish;  innumerable  factories  Russia an(l  anigator  leather,  and  the line 
given over to globules for the heart,  the liv-  incjudes aP ^ie  novelties  suitable for  the 
er, the head and  the  stomach,  would shut  holiday trade.  This branch of  the business 
down and the many workmen  would suffer. | .g wep worth a carefni ¡nsdection.
dbove all, the man  who  trusts  in  his pill 
box far more  than in  his  physician  would 
fill an early grave.  Most learned judge, the 
manufacture,  sale and  distribution of  pills 
have reached  such  proportions  as  to rank 
among the  most important industries.  The 
higher court should reverse the decision.

The second floor is occupied  by the pack­
ing and  distributing  departments,  each of 
which is as complete as  careful  study  and 
intelligent assistants will allow.

The third  floor  comprises  the  glassware 
department and the laboratory. 
In addition 
to its business of importers  and  jobbers of 
drugs and  druggists’ stock,  the  firm does a 
large and growing  trade in manufacturing a 
Sulphurous  oxide  is  a  very  interesting 
general line of pharmaceutical preparations, 
chemical substance.  The general public are 
which,  owing to quality and  price,  have re­
more familiar with it as they occasionally in­
ceived a warm reception at the hands of the 
hale it from a burning match, and as assfociat-
trade everywhere.  The laboratory is one of 
ed with hell fire and brim stone, in that local-1 
largest and best equipped in the  United 
ity where matches are not made.  It is a color-  g^a^es devoted to the production of pharma­
less gas,  formed by the  combustion of  sul-  | ceuiicaj preparations.  , The firm has availed
phur,  with a pungont,  suffocating odor. 
It 
itself of every  improvement  in  machinery 
extinguishes  combustion  and,  because  of 
that cannot be  advantageously employed in 
this property,  is often  placed  in  stoves  to 
the operation  of  advanced  pharmacy,  and 
extinguish  the  soot  burning  in  chimneys. 
we feel warranted in saying,  that  in extent, 
When  liberated  in  the  air  it  forms  white 
convenience,  and every desirable detail, that 
fumes witli its moisture,  and a  piece  of  ice 
a Jong experience could  suggest,  or  an  un­
placed in the gas will be instantly ¡liquified. 
grudging investment  could  furnish,  it has 
The gas may  be  condensed  into a liquid by 
now facilities unequalled  for  the  purposes 
pressure or by cold,  and  in this form  evap­
of its  business.  The  H.,  P.  & Co.  line  of 
orates so  rapidly  that  the  cold  generated 
fluid extracts take rank  with  those of any 
It 
will freeze water in  a  red  hot crucible. 
other manufacturer as  regards quality,  and 
is very often used  as  a  disinfectant. 
It  is 
in point of size and shape of bottle and gen­
familiar to  milliners  as  a  bleaching  agent. 
eral attractiveness of label,  they are  super­
Woolen  or  straw  goods,  when  moistened
ior to any other line  on  the  market.  The
and hung in the gas,  part  with  their  color,  I 
ajso pU^3 up  “Henry’s Kentucky Stock 
or,  rather,  change color by the union  of  the  p owder” and  “Henry’s Com  Cure,” both of 
gas with the coloring matter of  the  fabric.  I which lmve reached a  large sale.  “Weath- 
If a red rose be  held  in  sulphuric  acid  gas  erjy>s Catarrh  Cure,”  a  specific  which has 
for a time it is made white, but its color may I |)een before the country  for  several  years, 
be  restored  by  a  bath  in  weak  sulphuric  jjag come ¡nto the  possession  of  this firm,
acid.
who find it difficult  to  supply  the  rapidly 
increasing demands of the trade.  This rem- 
[ edy is finding favor all over the country and 
is destined to give the firm a National repu 
I tation.

Drug store insurance js one of  the live is­
sues in which all  druggists  are  interested, 
and the pharmaceutical  and  trade  associa­
tions should take  the  matter  in hand  with
the object of securing  more  e,uitable rates 
of insurance.

A Min 

lis 0pinion

From the Sanitary News.

Sulphurous  Oxide.

A novel and  timely invention is that of a  From the Northwestern Miller.

Rochester,  N. Y.,  druggist who constructed  We often wonder if the telegraph  service 
a safety jar from  which  to  dispense  mor-  is as bad  elsewhere  as it is in  the  North- 
phine. 
It is opened  with  great  difficulty,  west,  as well as why,  such  being  the case, 
and on the last  obstruction  are  the words:  press and people do not  rise  up and  smite 
“ Are yon  sure  this  prescription  calls fori the  Western  Union  Company  hip  and 
morphine?” 

I tWgh

lemon.

Advanced—Oil  bergamot,  oil  sassafras,  oil 
Declined -Nothing.

ACIDS.

 

 

Acetic 'No  8 
9  @  10
Acetic! C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........  30  @  36
Carbolic............................................  34  @  36
Citric.................................................  60
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
Nitric 36 deg...................................  
Oxalic...............................................  
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
Tartaric  powdered................-•••  ™
Benzoic,  English....................¥  oz 
Benzoic,  German............................  "   @ 
Tannic...............................................  u

®  f?
@ 14
© 
.5
18
f?

*  @

AMMONIA.

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

BALSAMS.

BARKS.

Copaiba............. ..............................
Fir......................................................
Peru...................................................
Tolu...................................................
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 30c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered, pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................

b e r r i e s .

EXTRACTS.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 95c)...............
Juniper............................................. 
Pricklv .............................................
Licorice (10 and 35 ft boxes, 35c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure--------
Logwood, bulk (13 and 35 lb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
...............
do 
Lgowood, 94s 
do 
Logwood, kis 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
... • • 
■
Fluid Extracts—25 *p cent, off list.

f l o w e r s .

A m ica...,....................
Chamomile,  Roman.. 
Chamoroüe,  German.

Aloes,  Barbadoes.......................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c) 
. . ............
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac................ • • • •................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts...... • •••••• • • •
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)

î?
.  „   "
®  7

40@45 
40 
2  00 
50

0
5P

10  ®

60®

55®60

lW©
80®

Catechu, is 04 14c, J4s 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Gafbanum strained....................
Gamboge....................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered, 30cl.....................
M astic  «••••••••••••••••••••******
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 470...
Opium, pure (Powd 84.90)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached.............................
Tragacanth......................................  dU
HERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES

Hoarhound...............................
Lobelia.......................................
Peppermint...............................
Rue..............................................
Spearmint.................................
Sweet Majoram.........................
Tanzy  .........................................
Thym e.......................................
Wormwood...............................

Citrate and  Q uinine............
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Citrate ..............................................
Phosphate.......................................

6 40 
20

65

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)— .......  13  @
Sage, Italian, bulk ()4s at 94s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural..........•-•••••  18  ©
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  ..................................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane........................................... 
Rose, red........................................... 

«.
5

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’8 Sour Mash Whisky .2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye....................1 *5
Whisky, other brands......................... l 1«
Gin, Old Tom......................................... 1 «5
Gin,  Holland.................................... *
Brandy...................................................* 1?
Catawba  Wines................................*
Port Wines.............................................l  3o

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

®

MAGNESIA.

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

OILS.

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified.............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor...............................................   17
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves..................................... ...
Cod Liver, N. F....................... 1? gal
Cod Liver, b e st.........  . . . . .
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co. 8,16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz........... » —  ••••••
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries..............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Lemongrass......................................
•
Olive,Malaga........... 
Olive,“Sublime  Italian  . 
....
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal.......................................
Peppermint,  white........................
Rose *61  OZ...----.....................iVinl
Rosemary, French (Flowers 8 1 50)
Salad.................................................  60
Savin...............• •...............................
Sandal  Wood. German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ............I............
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint 
........... 4 50
Tansy
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen........-  •• •• 
vv •••
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure 84.00).......
Wormseed.......................................

do 
do 

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate............. ............. • ■• - 3?
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 27o).. ..........
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prusslate yellow..............................

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and 948—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.........................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  16c)....................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............  11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered. 
Jal_alap,  powdered.
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true........................................ ,
Rhei, from select to  choice.......... 1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................. 

,

2.1

bo

Serpentaria......................................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican...............
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 80c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 38c)...

50
60
40
20
15
25
20

SEEDS.

6

00

®

do 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

50 
2 75 
2  00 
40 
2 00 
@9 75 
2 30 
50 
®  7
10@13 
2 00 18

15
6
5  @
4  @ 494
15  @ 18
1 50
15
10
15
394®4  @ 494
7  © 8
494® 594
10
6  © 7
14
@2 50 
2 00 
1  10 
85 
65 
75 
1 40

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna.....................  —
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar.......................
Celery.................................’•............
Coriander, Dest English................
Fennel.............................................
Flax, clean.....................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4)................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black 10c)..........
Quince............................................
Worm,  Levant..........................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25
Nassau 
do 
do 
........
. . . .
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
do 
.......
........
Grass 
do 
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl 82.08) *p gal—
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
2 94© 
Alum.........................................  $ f t   „
@
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3
Annatto, prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
4V4®
@
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..........................
Beans, Vanilla.........................
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol.................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  12c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds.....................................
Calomel. American........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squlbb’s ....................
Colocynth apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................  77
Cinchonidia, P. & W......................   18
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   18
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18
Cochineal........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear, prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....'.............
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts (bbl. 194).....................  
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, V. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s.........................
Gelatine. French  ..................... 
 
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cannet....................................   12 ®
Glue, white.........................................  16 ®
Glycerine, pure.................................  16 ®
Hops  V4s and )4s.............................. 
25®
Iodoform #   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................   85
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co., boxes
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...................'.......................
London  Purple...............................   10
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride,(948 2s 10c & J4s 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium.. - ..............................
Mace................................................  
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
Manna, S.  F......................................
Mercury..................................... 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ $  oz  2 80®
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................ft
Mobs,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, 94d....'........  ^
Paris Green.................................. 
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgrundy....................
Quassia.................................... •••••  „6
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ftoz  82
Quinine,  German............................ 
Red  Precipitate.......................V ft
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  74  ®
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber.....................................  
@
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst...............
Sal Rochelle.....................................  
Sal Soda............................................ 
Salicin...............................................
Santonin............................. ............
Snuffs, Maecoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3cj.....................
Spermaceti............................. .........
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand s—
Soap, White Castile.........................
Soap, Green  do 
........................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini.................................
SpiritsNitre,3F.............................   26
Spirits Nitre, 4 F..............................  30
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sul p h u r, flour..................................  
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
Tartar Emetic..................................  
Tar, N. C. Pine, 94 gal. cans  *p doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
Tar, 
pints in tin.............  
Turpentine,  Venice................V ft 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

_
1294®
„

©
82®

„  _
2  @

17  ®

494®

do 
do 

3)4®

4o

®

®

3

17 
28 
20 
40 
40 
®1 00 
®  40 
®1 00 
4 00 
1 50

3®  39
„60
2 70
140
85
25
7  ®  8

OILS.

VARNISHES.

Capitol  Cylinder..................................
Model  Cylinder....................................
Shield  Cylinder....................................
Eldorado Engine..................................
Peerless  Machinery............................
Challenge Machinery..........................
Backus Fine Engine...........................
Black Diamond Machinery................
Castor Machine  Oil....................................
Paraffine, 25  deg.........................................
Paraffine, 28  deg.........................................
Sperm, winter bleached.........................
u<u
Bbl 
Whale, winter.....................................   70 
75
Lard, extra..........................................   65 
60
55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45 
46
Linseed, pure raw............................   43 
Linseed,boiled ............. .....................  55 
55
90
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   <0 
Spirits Turpentine.............................   40 
45
No. 1 Turp Coach.................................1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp...........................................1 60@1 70
Coach  Body..........................................2 76@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture.......................... 1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar..............................1 65@1 60
TiVfil
_  w 
70®  75
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.......
Lb 
2® 3 
2® 8 
2® 8 
294® 3 
214® 3 
13®13 
58®60 
16®17 
6*  
6' 
Ô’@90 
110 
1 40 
1 20@1 40 
1 00®1 20

Bbl
Red Venetian............................  Hi
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........  144
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  114
Putty, commercial..................  2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................  294
Vermilion,prime American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.......  .
Whiting,  Gildersr.....................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English d ill..
Pioneer Prepared  Taints.......
PwissVillaPreparef  Paints..

.if>  i  rfiiwn 

PAINTS

A M ERCA NTILE  JO U RN A L, PU BLISH ED   EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE  Sc  BKO., Proprietors.

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

Telephone No. 95,

[Entered  at the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapid8  as 

Secondrclass Matter.']

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 14,1885.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

F A L S E   R EPR ESEN TA TIO N S.

Where one is induced Dy false and  fraud­
ulent representations  to  pledge  money as 
security,  parting  with 
its  possession,  but 
not intending to part with the title  thereto, 
a conversion of the  money  by a  person in­
ducing the fraud constitutes larceny, accord­
ing to the decision of  the  New York Court 
of Appeals.

CONTRACT  A G A IN ST  PU B L IC   POLICY.
A contract between a telegraph  company 
and  a  railroad  company  by which it is at­
tempted to give an  exclusive  right  to  the 
former to build and operate a telegraph line 
over the lines and right  of  way of the tele­
graph  comyany and by which  the  railroad 
company agrees to discriminate  in  the car­
riage and rates of freight against competing 
telegraph companies is absolutely  null  and 
void as being against public  policy,  accord­
ing to the  decision  of  the  United  States 
Circuit Court  for the  Eastern  District  of 
Louisiana.

N EG O T IA B L E  IN STRU M EN T.

A third party who places his name on the 
back of a negotiable promissory note  at the 
time of its execution by  the  maker  and be­
fore its delivery to the payee  will be  liable 
as a joint maker,  and the  note  itself, with 
the  indorsement  thereon,  is  prtma  facte 
evidence of such  liability,  according  to the 
decision of the United  States  Circuit Court 
for the Northern District  of  Illinois.  The 
court said that there had  long  been a great 
diversity  of  opinion  upon  the  question 
whether in such a case  as that  before it the 
liability was that of  original  promisor,  in­
dorser or guarantor.  The  growing  current 
of authority,  however,  seemed  to  tend to­
ward the view that the  liability assumed by 
a third party who  thus  indorsed  a  note in 
blank was that of original promisor,  though 
a different rule was  and  is  yet  adhered to 
in some of the states.  The Court  said that 
the case of Good vs.  Martin  (95 U.  S.  95), 
whose rulings is adopted,  settled the law on 
the question in the  federal  courts.  Those 
rulings Avere: 
(1)  That if a  third  person 
put his name in blank on the back of a note 
at the time it was made,  and  before it was 
endorsed by the payee,  or if  he»participated 
in the consideration of  the note,  he must be 
considered as a joint  maker;  (2)  but if his 
indorsement was subsequent to the  making 
of the note,  and to  the delivery of the same 
to take effect,  and  he put  his  name  there 
at the request of  the  maker  pursuant to a 
contract of the maker  with  the  payee  for 
further indulgence  or  forbearance,  he  can 
only be held as guarantor; 
(3)  if  the  note 
was intended for  discount,  and he  put  his 
name on the back of it with the understand­
ing of all the parties  that  his  indorsement 
would be inoperative  until the  instrument 
was indorsed by the payee,  he  would  then 
be liable  only as  a  second  indorser,  in the 
commercial sense.

Self-Protection for Smokers.

“I have seen  a  physician stop a  surgical 
operation and light a cigar,”  said  a  careful 
observer,  “and I have seen the  same  cigar 
used in  lighting other cigars.  A brass  fin­
isher on his way home  from  work borrows 
your cigar.  He  returns it  to  you  with a 
small quantity of brass dust  adhering to it. 
This dust works its  way into  your mouth, 
which is a trifle  sore  already.  The  conse­
quence is that your  mouth is poisoned,  and 
it may take months to  repair  the  evil.  A 
friend of mine cut his linger  the  other day. 
Before the wound was  healed  some sort of 
poison was deposited  in it.  The  hand be­
came stiff and swollen,  and finally began  to 
puff up as though it  was  inflated with  air. 
He came to me  and after  I  had prescribed 
for him,  we left my  office  together. 
I had 
In the street my 
just lighted a fresh cigar. 
friend asked  me for a light. 
I handed him 
my cigar.  When  he  returned it I threw it 
away,  and  drawing a fresh  cigar  from my 
pocket, 
it  with  a  match.  My 
friend  looked at  me  in  astonishment  and 
said he was sorry  I  considered it necessary 
to throw my cigar away. 
I  told  him I did 
it to sIioav  him that he  had no more right to 
handle my cigar with his injured hand than 
a leper has to kiss a healthy baby.  Of course 
he saw what it meant  right  off,  and was al­
ways very careful after that. 
If I had acted 
as a great many men and women would con­
sider  right  to  act,  he  would  have  gone 
around handling  cigars  promiscuously,  and 
perhaps have caused a  great  deal  of  trou­
ble.”

lighted 

Cotton can  be  easily  grown  in the San 
Joaquin Valley of California,  but there  has 
been no market  near  enough  for  practical 
purposes.  A big mill is now ready to weave 
the product

An Alabama merchant, with many debtors 
among the planters,  white  and  black,  pro­
claims that he keeps an agent riding through 
the State  to  discover  idlers,  whom he will 
promptly discredit  “Only by industry can 
you and I thrive together,” he explains.

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Prices on anytlinpe handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Grocers,

AG EN TS  F O R

KNIGHT  OF  LABOR  PLUG
W M . SEA R S & CO.

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

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

Cracker  Manufacturers

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

CARPETS,

A gen ts  f o r

AMBOY  CHEESE-

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

M ATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS

ESTO-,  ETO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Z&aplds,

M ichigan.

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

T O B A C C O .
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  GANDY!

AND  DEALERS  IN

ORANGES,  LEMONS,

M N A N A S,  FIGS,  DATES,

TTuLts,  Eto.

EN TIRELY   N E W !
Silver Spoon Baking Powder,

3  DOZEN  LARGE  ONE-HALF  POUND  CANS  OF

IX   DOZEN

iX   DOZEN

7  INCH  COMPORTS.

IX   PINT  PITCHERS.

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

For  Only  $7.50,
W E   GrXTAR.AJXTTBE

The SILVER  SPOON Powder to give entire satisfaction.

Arctic  Manufacturing*  Go.,

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

ANDREW WIGRENGO

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

WIERENGO  BLOCK,  PINE  STREET, 

- 

MUSKEGON,  MIOH.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

. 

WIDE BROWN COTTONS.

CHECKS.

OSNABURQ.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, »4.. 23 
| Pepperell, 104........25
Androscoggin, 84.. 21  ¡Pepperell, 114........ 27*4
Pepperell,  74...... 18*4  Pequot,  74............. 18
Pepperell,  84...... 20  Pequot,  84.............21
Pepperell,  94...... 22*4|Pequot,  94.............. 24
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11  ¡Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Prodigy, oz..............11
Economy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Otis Apron..............10*4
Otis Furniture.......10*4
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
York,  1  oz............... 10
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
¡York. AA, extra oz.14 
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13
Alabama brown__ 7  ¡Alabama  plaid.........7
Jewell brlwn..........9*4 ¡Augusta plaid.......... 7
Kentucky brown.. 10*4 ¡Toledo plaid...........   7
Lewiston  brown...  9*4 Manchester  plaid..  7
Lane brown..;.......9J4 New Tenn. plaid... 11
Louisiana  plaid—   7  ¡Utilityplaid............6*4
Avondale,  36..........  8*4
Greene, G. 44........  5*4
Art  cambrics, 36... 11*4 
Hill, 44....................  7*4
Androscoggin, 44..  8V4 
Hill, 7-8......................654
Androscoggin, 54. .12*4
Hope,  44................   654
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 44...............  8*4
bric, 44.................11*4
Ballou, 54...............  6
Linwood,  44............7*4
Boott, 0 .4 4 ...........   8*4
Lonsdale,  44..........  754
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Boott, AGC, 44.........9*4
Lonsdale  cambric. 10*4 
Langüon,GB,44...  9*4
Boott, R. 34..........  5*4
Langdon, 45...........14
Blackstone, AA 44.  7 
Masonvlllo,  44......8
Chapman,X,44 ....  6
Maxwell. 44...........   9*4
Conway,  44........... 7
New York Mill, 44.10*4 
Cabot, 44................ 6*
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7*4 
Canoe,  34...............  4
Pride of the West. .11 
Domestic,  36............7*4
Pocahontas,  44__
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
9 Slaterville, 7-8__ .  6*4
Davol, 44...............  9
.  9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  8*4 
8*4 Victoria,  AA.......
7*4 Woodbury, 4-4__ .  ft*
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..
Whitinsvllle,  4-4.
Fruit of  the  Loom,
.  TH
.  6*4
11 Whitinsville, 7-8..
•cambric,  4-4........11
614 W amsutta, 4-4__ .10*4
Gold Medal, 44..
6 Williams ville,  36.
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
.10*4
Gilded Age
814
SILESIAS
Crown.....................17
No.  10..................... 12*4
Coin........................ 10
Anchor................... 15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol...................... 14
London................... 12*4
Paconia..................12
Red  Cross.............. 10
Social  Imperial__ 16
Albion, solid............5*4
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........5*4
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 5*4
Allen’s pink..............6*%
Allen’s purple.......... 6*4
American, fancy— 5*4
Arnold fancy............8
Berlin solid.............   5*4
Coeheco  fancy.........6
Cocheco robes.......... 6*4
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddy ston e............... 6
Eagle fancy..............5
Garner pink..............6*4
Appleton A, 44—   7*4
Boott  M, 4-4........... 654
Boston  F, 44..........7*4
Continental C, 4-3..  6*4 
Continental D, 40 in 854 
Conestoga W, 44...  6*4 
Conestoga  D ,7-8...  6*4 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6 
Dwight  X ,34*.....  654
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  554
Dwight Z, 44..........  654
Dwight Star, 4-4....  7 
EwightStar,40-In..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
GreatFallsE,44...  7
Farmers'A, 44.......6
Indian  Orchard  14  7*4
Amoskeag............... 7*4
Amoskeog, Persian
styles....................10*4
Bates.........................7*4
Berkshire.............   6*4
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y  7*4 
Glasgow 
Gloucester, 
Plunket..................7*4 Gordon.....................7*4
Lancaster...............  8  Greylock, 
Langdale................   7541  styles  .............  
 
Androscoggin, 74.. 21  ¡Pepperell.  104.......27*4
Androscoggin, 84.. 23  Pepperell,  114.......32*4
Pepperell,  74........20  ¡Pequot,  74.............. 21
Pepperell,  84........22*4 Pequot,  84.............24
Pepperell,  94........ 25  ¡Pequot,  94..............27*4

MasonvilleTS........   8
Masonville  S.......... 10*4
Lonsdale................ 9*4
Lonsdale A ..............16
Nictory  Ö...............
Victory J ................
Victory  D...............
Victory  K...............254
Phoenix A ............... 19*4
Phoenix  B............... 10*4
Phoenix X X ............ 5
Gloucester.............. 6
G louees ter raou r n’g . 6
Hamilton  fancy__6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrimac D.............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6*4
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond................6
Steel River.............. 5*4
Simpson’s ................6
W asnington fancy.. 
Washington  blues. *4

Renfrew, dress styl 
*4
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............12*4
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........12*4
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  7*4
White Mfg Co, stap 754 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
royal  styles........  8
White  Manf’g  Co,
standard.............7 *41  Earlston................8
dress

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  7*4
Laconia  B, 74....... 16*4
Lyman B, 40-in......10*4
Mass. B B .44..........  654
Nashua  E,40-in....  8*4
Nashua  R ,44........  754
Nashua 0,7-8..........654
Newmarket N ........6)4
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Pepperell  R, 44__ 754
Pepperell  0 , 7-8___ 6*4
Pepperell  N ,34 ....  654
Pocasset  C, 44.......  654
Saranac  R...............  754
Saranac  E...............  9

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

FINE BROWN  COTTONS.

DOMESTIC QINQ HAMS

checks,
new

PRINTS.

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

TICKINGS.

Atlantic  A, 44.......7*41Lawrence XX, 44..  7*4
Atlantic  H, 44.......7  ¡Lawrence  Y, 30....  7
Atlantic  D, 44.......  654 ¡Lawrence LL. 44...  5*4
Atlantic P, 44........  5*4 ¡Newmarket N........6*4
Atlantic LL, 44__   554 Mystic River, 44...  554
Adriatic, 36.............   7*4 Pequot A, 44.........  754
Augusta, 44...........   6*4¡Piedmont,  36.........  654
Boott M, 44...........   654 ¡Stark A A, 44.........   754
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  7*lTremont CC, 44__5*4
Graniteville, 44__ 554¡Utica,  44...................9
Indian  Head, 4 4...  7  ¡Wachusett,  44.......7*4
Indiana Head 45-in. 12*41 Wachusett, 30-in...  654
Falls, XXXX......... 18*4
Amoskeag,  ACA...14 
Falls, XXX.............15*4
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A .......  13.
Falls,  BB................11*4
Falls,  BBC, 36........19*4
Amoskeag,  B ....... 12
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D....... 10*4
Hamilton,  D..........9*4
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Hamilton,  H___ _  9*4
Amoskeag, F ..........9*4
Premium  A ,44....17
Hamilton  fancy...10
Methuen A A..........13*4
Premium  B ...........16
Methuen ASA........18
Extra 44.................16
Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Extra 7-8........  .......14*4
Gold Medal 4-4....... 15
Omega A, 44......... 13
Omega AC A, 7-8__14
CCA 7-8..................12*4
Omega ACA, 4 4 .... 16
CT 44 ..................... 14
Omega SE, 7-8........24
RC 7-8......................14
Omega SE, 44........27
BF7-8......................16
Omega M. 7-8........22
AF44......................19
Omega M, 44......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Shetucket SS&SSW 11*4 
Cordis ACA.32......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1, 32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS  ...12
Cordis No. 2............ 14
Stockbrldge  A .......7
Cordis No. 3............13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4............11*4
Garner....................5  ¡Empire......................
Hookset..................5  Washington..............4*
Red  Cross...............  5  Edwards..................  5
Forest Grove.......... 
IS. S. & Sons............  5
American  A ........18 00] Old  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ..............22*41 Wheatland....................21
Boston....................   6* ¡Otis CC.................^1054
Everett blue........... 1354 ¡Warren AX A.........12*4
Everett brown........135* Warren BB.............11*4
Otis  AXA................12*4 Warren CC............. 10*4
Otis BB................... 11 *41 York  fancy............ 13*4
Manville..................6  ¡8. S. ft Sons............... 6
Masgnvllle.............   6  ¡Garner....................6
Red  Cross...............7 *4 ¡Thistle Mills..............
Berlin..................... 7*4 Rose...........................8
Garner....................7*41
Brooks....................50
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
Ing thread........... 30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning__ 25
Holyoke...................25
Armory..................  7*4
Kearsage................ 85«
Androscoggin sat..  8*4
Naumkeagsatteen.  854 
Canoe River...........   6
Pepperell  bleached 8*4
Clarendon,  ...........   654
Pepperell sat..........  9*4
Hallo well  Imp....... 654  Rock port.
Rockt
Ind. Orch. Imp....... 7 
' Lawrence sat.......... 8*4
Laconia.................. 7*4lConegosat.................  7

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL COTTON.

CORSET JEANS.

GRAIN  BAGS.

WIGANS.

DENIMS.

“ 

“ 

COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:

1  00
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
85
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
130
1  30
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
130
..................... 1  05@1  10
Car lots 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
175
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
6 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
2 50
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$5 75@6 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, cur lots..  6 00@6 25
Cannell,  car lots..................................  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3  10@3 25
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement.................................  3 50®4 00

COAL.

12*4

RED  F O X .........................................
BIG  D R I V E .................................-
PATROL 
.........................................
JACK  RABBIT 
.................................
SILVER  COIN 
- • 
P A N IC .........................................................
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
....................................
APPLE  J A C K .................................
FUTE  CUT.

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

-
-

- 

-

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

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

.................................................
SM O K IN G

2c less in 6 pail lots.

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- 

-

-

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

- 

-

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

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

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

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

Who 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.

English Views of American Trade. 

The English journals  of  late  date  show 
unquestioned evidence  of  the  growth of  a 
belief abroad that  the  late  improvement in 
trade on this side of the  Atlantic  forms the 
beginning of something  more  than a mere 
spurt in  business.  While  there  is a  fair 
recognition of the fact that all the  elements 
necessary to  a  complete  trade  revival are 
not present,  the 
impression  appears  to be 
held that they are soon to appear.  As a fair 
sample of the more roseate  of  these views, 
the following editorial  paragraph  from the 
London Guardian  may  be  given:  “With 
cheap money,  witli a large cotton  crop,  and 
with markets which  probably  have  become 
free from the depressing influences of heavy 
stocks  *  ** 
the United States  certainly 
ought to be in a better commercial condition, 
and there  seems to  be  no  reason  to doubt 
that  this is  the  case.  *  *  *  *  There 
can be  no  real  prosperity  in  the  United 
States,  and, by  consequence,  in  Western 
American  railroads,  until  western  Ameri­
can fanners can obtain better prices for their 
wheat,  and  these  better  prices  appear to 
have once more come within  the  bounds of 
possibility,  and  we  may even  say,  within 
the bounds  of  early  possibility.  There is 
thus on all hands a general  impression—an 
impression which rapidly obtains  a  footing 
among a sanguine people 
like  the  Ameri­
cans—that better times  are  in  store for the 
commerce of the world.  The very fact that 
such an impression prevails is probably  not 
without importance as a hopeful  confidence 
is in itself no mean factor in the commercial 
situation.”  The importance of this  view to 
the Englishman may be found  in  the con­
cluding sentences quoted. 
It is  the natural 
reflex action of  an improvement in business 
on this side of the Atlantic that he is count­
ing on,  and it is  to  be  hoped  that he  will 
soon And it

He Had His Note.

“Out in  the  country,”  said  a  traveling 
man,  “a note is a big  thing.  Country7 mer­
chants take notes from fanners for  supplies 
of groceries,  and implement  dealers acquire 
big boxes full of I  O  U ’s.  In some sections 
of the West  everything is  done by note,  to 
be paid  ‘after  harvest.’  Out  in  Western 
Iowa the other day I came across  a country 
storekeeper,  a German. 
I sold  him a small 
bill of goods  and  took  his  note  for  the 
amount.  That note is as good as wheat.  It 
will be paid on  the  very  day  it falls due. 
While I was there a  man came in and says: 
“ ‘Jake,  did  you  sell  your  bay horse to 
that chap who pretended  to  be a lightning- 
rod dealer?”

“ ‘Yah,’ replied the storekeeper.
“ ‘Did you get cash for him?’ ”
“ ‘Not von cent.’ ”
“ ‘Just as I thought.  That lightning-rod 
peddler is a swindler.  He  has  sold  your 
bay horse for  380  cash  and  skipped  the 
country.  You’ll lose every7 cent of it.’ ”

“But Jake didn’t seem to be alarmed.  He 

laughed and chuckled,  saying,

“  ‘Dot vas  a  goot  choke.  He  sell  dat 
horse for eighty follar, ven he pay me a bun 
tert and  vorty. 
It  vas  in  great  schape ] 
tooked him in already.’

“  ‘But you have been cheated out of your 

horse.  The man is a swindler.’

“  ‘Sheated?  Svindled?  I guess not.  Ain’d 
I got his  note  for  huntert  and  vorty tol 
lars?”

A  Fraudulent  Insolvent  Debtor.

The grocery trade will hear with  interest 
the statement  that  J.  Winslow Jones,  once 
the monopolist of the  green  corn  canning 
industry,  has been  denied a discharge from 
his debts by the  Insolvency Court of  Port­
land,  Me.  As stated by a Portland dispatch 
the Judge finds  that  Jones  swore  falsely 
about the books of J. Winslow Jones & Co., 
saying that he did  not  know  where  they 
were when he had them in him own posses­
sion;  that he also  swore  falsely in saying 
he had no private business after the  failure 
of J.  Winslow Jones & Co., when in fact he 
was a trader in canned  goods; that  he  also 
swore  falsely in  saying  he  had  kept  no 
copies of letters  written  by him in  1882-83 
and part of 1884; that he also  swore falsely 
in other minor particulars;  that  he conceal­
ed books and papers  relating  to the  estate 
and business; that,  being a trader from Jan. 
1883,  to the date of the filing of the petition 
lie did not keep during that time a cash book 
or other proper books of account.

Grabbing  the Forelock.

New Policeman—I  guess I’d better arrest 

H E S T E R   &  FOX,

MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

SA W   AXTD CRIST MILL MJLCHDTBiRY,

an< 

Prices-

ATLAS S

MANUFACTURERS OF

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

for  immediate  delivery.

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

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

ana become convinced of their superiority.

Write  for Prices. 

130  OAKES STREET. GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

O Y S T E R S  !

When  in  want  of  a  good  brand  of  OYSTERS, 
don’t fail to  get  the  famous  PATAPSCO,  which  is 
guaranteed both as to quality and price.  Sold only 
by  W.  F.  GIBSON  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich., 
GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,  and 
dealers in all kinds of PRODUCE,  JELLY,  MINCE 
MEAT  and  PAPER  OYSTER  PAILS.
Jelly, LÆinoe Meat Eto.

I. H. C.,” Best 10c Cigar in Mictigao. 
“Common V
 Best 5c Cigar in Michigan.
CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,

SOLE  A.GŒ32SrTS.

The Well-Known

J. S. Farren & Oo.
OYSTERS

ARE  THE  BEST  IN  MARKET.

PUTNAM & BROOKS

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.

Id  GRAND  RAPIDS

IN

CAR  LOADS!

. W. Archer’s Trophy Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Morning 6lory Corn,
0. W. Archer’s Early Golden Prep Coro

you.

v

“What for?” 
“You’re a trusted employe,  ain’t ye?” 
“Yes,  sir.”
“Confidential clerk?”
“Yes,  I have the  full  confidence  of my 

“I thought so.  Come along.”
“But why?  I haven’t  stolen  anything.” 
“Praps not,  but  you’re probably just go-

employer.”

ino* 

”

“So you  admit having  stolen  the box of 
blacking,” said a justice  to a  little  colored 
boy,  who was up for stealing a box of black­
ing from a  grocery.  “Yes,  sah; I  tuck de 
blackin’.”  “You  ought  to be  ashamed of 
yourself.”  “Jes what  I  tole him,  Jedge,” 
spoke up  the  father of  the boy.  “I done 
broke up a barril  stave  on him for  bein’ so 
stupid.  Dar was a pair ob  high-price boots 
on de same  shelf,  an’ de  fool  boy tuck a 
cheap  box  ob  blackin’.  Sock  it  to  him, 
Jedge, I hain’t got no sympathy for dot kind 
of a offspring, 
l ’se afeered he am  gwinter 
grow up an’ dlsgrrce de hull  family.”

EVERY  CAN  BEARING  SIGNATURE  OF

The  Archer, Packing  Oo.
F.  J.  LAM B  &  OO,

O H IL L IO O TH E ,  IL L .

W H O LESA LE  A G EN TS  FOR  T H E

D. D. M allory & Co.

Diamond Brand Fresh Oysters

In Cans or Bulk.  Write for Quotations.

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

CO.,

< &

Wholesale Agents at Ionia for

DETROIT  SOAP
CO.’S
QUEEN  ANNE,

Celebrated Brands of Soaps.

The most popular 3-4 pound cake in the market.

M ICHIGAN.

The finest of 1  pound  bars.  A -»-a 
ro o t  m a p   o f  th e  
taOx.

e leg a n t  a n d   o o r- 
S tate  w ith  e v e ry

Price-List of all their standard Soaps furnished on application.
Lots of 5 boxes and upwards delivered free to all railroad points.
Orders respectfully solicited.
S T E E L E   t f c   OO.,  IO N IA ,  T V T T n T T .

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

W H O L E S A L E

« s s

GOOD
ENOUGH,
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KHill
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¡Hill
¡raplililí

GOOD
ENOUGH!

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

Til©  Diamond  Oil  Can,

The Best Glass Can with Tin Jacket in the Market.

CURTISS,  2 3 U3STT0 2 XT  c*3  OO.

51 AND  53  LYON  STREET, 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
F. A D AM S   OO.’S

- 

Fine Cnt Chewing Macco is tic very Best darle pods os tie Market.

DARK  AROMATIC
A É.

5

M ich,

G r a n d  R a p id s ,

RINDOrE, BERTSCH & GO,
BOOTS  AXTD  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

We liave  a splendid line of  goods for  Fall  trade  and  Guar­
antee  our prices on Rubbers. 
xlie demand for our  own  make 
of "W omen’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

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
E TT GINES

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

i>ssfjr"'

Vi/.  C ,   D e n iso n ,

88,90 and  92 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

TIME TABLES.

Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.

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

J.T. Schultz. Gen’l Agent.

tMail................
+Day Express.
♦Night  Expres

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves. 
.  9:15 a m 
.12:35 p m 
8:35 p m

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

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

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

J. H. Ca r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mcllikgn,  General  Manager.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

Leave.
7:30 a m
4:00 pm

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)
_  
Arrive. 
Express...............................7:15 p m 
Mail......................................9:50 am  

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  train 

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

J. W. M cK e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee,

GOING EAST.

GOING WEST.

Arrives.
tSteamboat  Express..........6:17am
+Th rough  Mail............................10:10 am
tEvening  Express............... 3:20 p m
♦Limited  Express......................   8:30 pm
tMixed, with  coach...........
fMorning  Express..............   1:05 pm
tThrougn  Mail....................  5:10 pm
tSteamboat Express...........10:40 p m
tMixed..................................
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 am

Leaves. 
6:25 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:35 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:30 a m
1:10 p m 
5:15 p m 
10:45 p m 
7:10 a m 
5:20 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Train leaving  at  10:45  p.  m.  will make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.
Geo. B.  Ree vD. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent. 
>7e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

SEHFOLSEEZM SE ' 

VOIGT,

&  OO.,

Importers  and Jobbers of

STAPLE  AND  FANCY 

D r y

Goods !!
OVERALLS,  PANTS, Etc., 
our  own  make.  A  complete 
Line  of  TOYS,  FANCY 
CROCKERY,  and  FANCY L CRE8CENT„
WOODEN-WARE,  OUr  Own 
importation, for holiday trade, i 
Inspection solicited.  Chicago  and De-

troit prices gurranteed.

Proprietors of

VOIGT  M LLE  CO.
CRESCENT
FLOURING  MILLS

Manufacturers  of the  Following  Pop­

ular Brands  of Flour:

“ W HITE  ROSE,” 

“MORNING GLORY>

“ ROYAL  PATENT,” and 

“ ALL  W HEAT,” Flour.

. 

GOING NORTH.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
, . 

I 
L. 
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a m 
.  Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  4:10 pm 
*  G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:00 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayr eE x.. 10:30a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac. 11:30 p m 

_   Arrives.  Leaves.
11:30 a  m 
5:00 p m 
7:00 a m
7:15 a m 
5:30 pm 
11:45 p m

GOING  SOUTH.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at  5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping and Chair Cars for Traverse City 
and  Mackinac.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw 
City.'
South—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit, Maokinao  & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & I.  trains  for St. 
Ignaee, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 5:00 p. in., arriving at 
Marquette at 1:35 p. m. and 6 :lu p. m.  Returning 
leave  Marquette  at 6:30 a.  m.  and 2:00 p.  m., 
arriving  at  Grand  Rapids at 9:30 a.  m.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with the Marquette, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
„  „ 
Gen 1 Frt. & Pass. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.

P. MILLIGAN.

„  

. 

/«'/«Íí/;.-*7: • •  •*  ■ •

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DETTENTHALER, Jobber  of Oysters.

(Groceries.

The  Inspection  of Tea.

From the Chicago News.

“The busy season of the  Chicago tea im­
porters begins about  June 1 and  continues 
until about the 15th of  October,”  said Tea 
Examiner F. E.  Barnard.  “After  the rush 
is over there is more or less  business  right 
through the  year,  as  the  steamers  arrive 
every two, weeks,  and each  brings consign­
ments tor this market.”

“Is the volume  of  the  trade  expanding 

with the city’s growth?”

“It is growing steadily. In 18841 examin­
ed 117,072 packages of all kinds of teas, av­
eraging  about  50  pounds to the  package, 
making an aggregate of 5,853,600 pounds in 
round  numbers.  The  receipts  this  season 
have excelled those of last  season  about 20 
per cent”

“To what extent  does the adulteration of 

teas prevail?”

“The teas which we  receive  during  the 
busy season are the  first  crop.  They com­
mand the highest  price,  and  they  are  not 
adulterated to any great  extent. 
It  is  the 
late importations,  made  up  of  third  and 
fourth pickings of the shrub,  that  must  be 
sharply watched for adulterations.  The last 
lot of Oolong I  condemned had 60  per cent, 
of a shinb that was not tea at  all.”

“During your  term of  office  how  much 

have you condemned?”

“About one hundred and  sixty-five thou­

sand  pounds.”

“What becomes of the rejected  tea?”
“Under the law it must be sent out of the 
United States within six  months  after  its 
condemnation,  or the  collector of  the port 
must have it destroyed.  Canada is the great 
dumping-ground  for  the  adulterated  tea 
driven out of this country.”

“How is the doctoring of the  tea  discov- 

ered?”4

“The tea leaf has a very distinctive form, 
familiar to experts,  and it  can  always  be 
recognized  by  critical  examination.  With 
the tea-dust,  or  siftings,  the  adulterations 
are discovered  by making  a  drawing  and 
tasting i t ”

“Are the teas ever adulterated  after they 
pass into the hands of merchants and others 
in Chicago?”  '

“Bless you,  yes!  Chicago and New York 
have plenty of  tea  manipulators,  and  they 
are skillful  enough  to  counterfeit  almost 
anything.”

“How  could  housekeepers  detect  such 

frauds?”

“The only way I know  of  would  be for 
them to acquire the experience  necessary to 
enable them to distinguish between good and 
bad tea.  But they know  very little  about 
the subject,  a great  many of  the  retailers 
know no  more,  and so it  was  necessary to 
have this law, which puts an expert between 
the importer and the people,  for  the protec­
tion of  the  consumer.  That’s  the  whole 
purpose of the act,  and the  effect of  its op­
erations has been  to  greatly benefit the im­
porter and dealer,  as well as the  consumer, 
because since its enforcement  the  grades of 
all teas sent to this country  have  averaged 
higher than before the passage of  the act?” 

is  almost  absolute. 

“What powers has the tea examiner?”
“His power 

If he 
If 
passes  an  importation  that  settles it. 
he should  reject a  consignment  that  was 
good,  the  importer  has  the  right, under 
the law, to ask for a  board  of  arbitration. 
This is composed of  three  experts, one ap­
pointed  by  the  collector,  one  chosen by 
the  importer, and  the  third  selected  by 
the  other  two.  Their  report 
is  always
final.” 

“What qualifications  are  necessary  for a

.

tea examiner?”

“He should be  a man  of  character  with 
an  accurate  knowledge  of  his  business. 
The first  qualification is  quite as essential 
as the  second.  The  only  way  to  get  a 
knowledge of the business  is by experience 
in it.”

“What is the position worth?”
“Two thousand dollars a year salary.” 
“And the perquisites?”
“There are no perquisites—legitimately.” 
An examination of the special]act of Con­
gress establishing the present  system of in­
spection and creating the office of  examiner 
discloses the fact that it  was  assumed  that 
all examiners would be  honest  men.  The 
provision  enabling  inspectors  to  condemn 
consignments of  tea  simply  requires  that 
the consignment shall,  “in  his opinion,” be 
impure to prevent its release from bond.  In 
passing an importation  there  is  no  check 
upon tlie examiner but his conscience, which 
fact probably explains Mr. Barnard’s declar­
ation that it is very important  that  such an 
officer should be  a man of character.

The examiner in Chicago has  included in 
his district consignments to  all  points east 
of the Rocky Mountains and west of Detroit, 
including that city and excluding  Minneap­
olis.  West of  the  Rocky Mountains is the 
San Francisco district,  while everything east 
of Detroit goes to New York.

Cider is converted 

into  vinegar  through 
the action of the air; the oxygen unites with 
the sugar converting  it into  acid,  and  this 
action is hastened  by  heat.  A  very good 
way is to place the barrels in a  warm  room 
or in the sun,  with the  bung out  and  the 
hole covered  by mosquito  netting,  to  keep 
the flies out. 
If the cider is allowdd to drip 
slowly from the faucet into  any convenient 
vessel dropping a foot  or  two  thrpugh the 
air, and then poured  back from  the  vessel 
into the  barrels,  the  conversion  will  be 
greatly hastened. 
It can be  changed much 
much more rapidly by being allowed  to run 
slowly 
through  “generators”—tall  tubs 
filled with  corn-cobs  or  birch-wood shav­
ings.

4

*9

CANDY-, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

FANCY—IN  5 ft  BOXES.

954@9
......................1054@11

STICK.
...............................,„,9@ 954
MIXED

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
Standard, 25 1b boxes............................ 
Twist, 
do 
Cut Loaf  do 
Royal, 251b  pails.....................................   9@ 954
Royal, 2001b bbls....................................... ,  @»H
Extra, 25 ft  pails.,«.................................. ¿9@1054
Extra. 2001b bbls..................................... •» @ »54
French Cream, 251b pails......................12‘4@I3
Cut loaf, 251b  cases..................................1^54®
Broken, 25  ft  pails................................... 10@1054
Broken, 2001b bbls............................................9® 95*
Lemon  Drops........................................... 12®"
Sour Drops................................................}3@}4
Peppermint  Drops................................. 14@la
Chocolate* Drops.............................................
H M Chocolate  Drops....................................
Gum  D rops.................................. 
 
Licorice Drops................................................. *0
A B  Licorice  Drops.......................................
Lozenges, plain..............................................
Lozenges,  printed...........................................J®
Imperials.........................................................
Mottoes.......................................................  • 
°
Cream  Bar.................................................
Molasses Bar........ ....................................
Carnme Is....................................................
Hand Made Creams........................................
Plain  Creams................................................... 1
...... 2b
Decorated Creams........................
.14® 15
String Rock..................................
Burnt Almonds........’...................
W intergreen  Berries................
FANCY—IN   BULK.
@1254@il
Lozenges, plain in  pails.............
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...............
@1254
Lozenges, printed in palls
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................1^4®!*?
1254@13 
Chocolate Drops, in pails........
:......7   @754
Gum  Drops  in pails.
.......... 0® 654
Gum Drops, in bbls..
.......10  @105*
Moss Drops, in pails.
...................9
Moss Drops, in bbls..........................
Sour Drops, in  pails.........................
.............. 12
.......1254@13
Imperials, In  pails............................
.11   @12
Imperials  in bbls...  ....................
Bananas  Aspinwall.........................
Oranges, Rodi  Messina...................
Oranges,  Naples.........................
Lemons,  choice..........................
Lemons, fancy............................
Figs, layers, new,  $1 ft...............
Dates, frails do  .........................
Dates, \  do  d o .........................
Dates, skin..........................—
Dates, 54  skin.............................
Dates, Fard 101b box ]9  1b........
Dates, Fard 501b box $11b........
Dates, Persian 501b box $  tb—
Pine Apples, 
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   1b...........................   4  @ 454
Choice  do 
d o ............................   454@ 5
do      .........................  @  654
Fancy 
do 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................ 
5@ 554
Fancy H P„  Va  d o ............................  554@ 6
Almonds,  Tarragona.................. ........ 18 @1854
@ 9
Brazils............................. .............
@4 50
Chestnuts, per bu.........................
Filberts, Sicily............................. ........ 12
@1254
@12
........ 11
Barcelona.....................
Walnuts,  Grenoble..................... ........14 @1454
Marbo..........................
French.........................
California..................
Pecans,  Texas, H. P ..................
Missouri.....................
Cocoanuts, »100.....................

@6 00
” ” 4 5C@ 5 0C 
@5 50
.......  @7 20
.......  © 4
.......  5 @ 554

Ivaca............................ ........ 17

:::::.ii @1254
........ 4 00@ 4  50

doz...............................

.. .9 @  10

“ 
** 
“ 
“ 
** 

FRUITS.

© 6

NUTS.

“ 

HIDES, PELTS AND FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:

HIDES.

Green ....»  ft  6  @ 654 Calf skins, green 
Part cured...  754@  8 
Full cured....  8fc@ 9  Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 

or cured—   @10
$  piece.......20  @50

kips............  8  @12

SHEEP PELTS.

Shearlings...............................................20  @40
Lambskins.................................. .......... 20  @50
Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........  @25
Tallow__ •................................................  454@ 454

WOOL.

Fine washed $  1b 24@27 ¡Unwashed...........  
Coarse washed.. .18@22|

2-3

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5  @ 654
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  654@ 7
Dressed  Hogs................................................  @ 554
Mutton,  carcasses........................................  454© 554
Veal...........................................................   8 @9
Pork Sausage........................................... 7  @ 8
Bologna.......................................................f  @ 9
Fowls...................................... 
Spring Chickens....................................  @48
Ducks  .....................................................  @‘4
Turkeys  .................................................   @44

 

44 @J2

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Applet—Local shippers are offering i l »  bbl. 
for fruit  alone, although some  outside buyers 
are paying $1.25.  Local dealers  hold fall fruit 
at about $1.50 »   bbl.
Beans—Dealers  pay  50c@90c »   bu.  for  un­
picked and sell city picked for $1.25.  The crop 
is not nearly so large, or as  tine  in  quality as 
last season.
Butter—Michigan creamery  is  firm  at  20c. 
Sweet dairy is  very  scarce and is  in active de­
mand at 15@10, while old packed  readily  com­
mands 8@12.  Low grades are in plentiful sup­
ply at 6@8c.

Butterine—Creamery  commands  18c  and 

dairy 14@l£c.

Cabuages—New stock is in fair demand  at  60 

»  doz.
Cheese—The best factories now hold Septem­
ber goods at 9c, although  August  Is  still  sold 
at 854@8&c.  Dealers quote full cream at 954© 
1054c.

Cider—10c »  gal. and $1 for bbl.
Celery—20@22c »  doz.  bunches  for  Kalama­

zoo or Grand Haven.

Clover  Seed—Demand  for  fall  seeding  all 
over.  Fair  to  good  Medium  commands  $8 
and choice  recleaned  $6.50.  Mammoth is held 
at $6.50.
Cranberries—The  market  is  well  supplied 
with a fair article of wild  stock, which crowds 
out the cultivated  berry, commanding  $2.50 »  
bu. for choice and $1@$1215 for  inferior  fruit. 
Tame berries are worth $8@$10 »  bbl.

Eggs—Fresh  stock  is  in fair demand at 17© 

Grapes—Concords  bring3@4c » ft.  and  Del­

awares, 6@7c.  Niagaras; 20c.

Green Peppers—$ l »  bu.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 1354* J 
Hay—Bailed, $15@$16 »  ton.
Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c »   1b.
Melons—Out of market.
Onions—Home-grown.  65c »  bu. or $2 »  bbl. 
Pears—Ordinary  varieties.  $1.26@$1.50 »  bu. 
Peaches—About  out  of  market,  occasional 

lots commanding $3 »  bu.

Pop Corn—Choice commands $1 »   bu. 
Potatoes—Lolal shippers are buying  consid­
erable quantities for Southern shipment,  pay­
ing 25@28c on track at this and suburban towns. 
Jersey  sweets  command  $3  »  bbl. and Balti­
more $2.25.

Poultry—Market plentifully supplied. Fowls, 

GRAINS AND MILLINO PRODUCTS.

12@13c.  Spring chickens, 16.
Quinces—$2.25@2.50 per bu.
Squash—Hubbard, 154c.
Tomatoes—Plentiful at 40@50c »  bu.
Turnips—10c »  bu.
Timothy—$1.90 »  bu.
Wheat—No change.  The city  millers pay  as- 
follows:  Lancaster,  88;  Fulse,  85c;  Clawson» 
85c*Corn—Jobbing generally at 55c in 100 bu. lots 
and 51o in carlots.
Oats—White, 35c in small lots and  30c  in  car- 
lots.Rye—45@48c »  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 »  cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5. *5 »  bbl» 
in  sacks  and  $8  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.75  »  
bbl. in sacks and $5 in wood.
Meal—Bolted, $2.76 »  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  » ton.  Bran, $13- 
» to n .  Ships, $14 » ton.  Middlings, $17 »  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $22 » ton.

.  8@12 
.  8@12

18c, and pickled at 16c.

The  Grocery Market. 
Business  and  collections  both 

continue 
taken  another  upward 
good.  Cheese has
turn and package coffees have  advanced an­
other 
New pickles are  in market,  and 
new California London Layers have also ar­
rived.  Another shipment of new Yalencias 
is  daily  expected.  The  brokers  have  re­
ceived samples of the new crop of  New Or­
leans  molasses and sugar.  Domestic  rices 
are so much  cheaper, and  better, than  the 
foreign  article  that they are  crowding the 
latter out of the market.  Canned goods are 
moving off freely,  and  other  staple  goods 
are doing well.

Candy is quiet.  Nuts are steady.  Fruits 

are higher.

A novel use,  says an eastern paper,  is be­
ing made  of  oyster  shells  by a  Hartford, 
Conn., man,  who  is  coining  money in his 
new enterprise.  The shells  are plaied in a 
patented mill and ground.  It  has a capacity 
of five tons a day.  By an ingenious arrange­
ment  sieves are kept at  work  assorting the 
dust into fine, coase,  and insufficiently treat­
ed.  The fine and the coarse  fire  taken by 
elevator belts  to  the  floor  below,  wheie, 
through canvas chutes,  regulated by wooden 
slides,  barrels are  rapidly filled.  The pro­
duct is sold for chicken food.  Twenty tons 
and more are sent yearly  to San  Francisco. 
Orders are  filled from the  Western States, 
Bermuda  and  the  Sandwich Islands  have 
been supplied.

The Same Brand.

Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

Little Girl (in grocery store)—Has yer got 

enny clieese?

Grocer—Oh,  yes,  plenty of it.
Little Girl—It’s the same kind as yer had 

las’ week?

Grocer—Yes,  exactly the same. 

I’ll war­
rant it to be of the  same  lot.  How  much 
will you have?

Little  Girl—Not  enny.  Me  mudder  sed 
not to  buy enny  unless  you’d  got the old 
stock worked off.

Organized at  Grand Rapids,  February 25.  1885.
President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale.. 
Vipp-Prosidents—W.  H*  How©*  CftpRC«  F» C* 
S to n eflS n a w   City;  A.  P.  Foltz.  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City, 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale;  Chas.  E. Bel- 
knan  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage,
John Borst, Vries?and;  R. C-Nash, Hilliards;
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks-
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand
Next^Meeting—Third  Tuesday  in  February 
1886.Membership Fee—11 per year.
1880. 
emb 
Mem  reuip  ^
Official Organ

 ^ ¿ aAN tradesman.

General Butler,  in an interview published 
in the New York Tribune,  thus concludes a 
review of his  candidacy for  the Presidency 
on the Labor ticket:  “The mistake I made 
in running for president was 
like  running 
against a stone wall. 
I knew  that the peo­
ple in all  ages  had  failed  themselves  ir 
every crisis of importance to themselves.  II 
is the history of the ages.  But I  was fool 
ish enough to  think  that  the  people  had 
grown wiser and better; that the" world had 
progressed in the direction of human knowl­
edge and understanding and  power  of  con­
centration. 
I thought the  laborers  of  the 
new republic were  more  intelligent.  They 
are not intelligent.  They were afraid of me 
because  I  had  a  little  property.  They 
were just as foolish  as  Gould.  But that is 
not all.  Nine out of ten of them would sell 
their votes for  82 apiece. 
I  was  a  fool to 
think that this age  was any  different from 
any other.  Experience has  taught  me the 
same lesson as  history.”

One of Portland’s wealthy dry goods mer­
chants  is  said  to  have  gone  to Portland 
without a dollar,  and to have commenced by 
doing the carting for the  firm in  which he 
is now a partner. 
It is related that,  to save 
rent, he built a small house, running in debt 
for several hundred dollars’ worth of mater­
ials; and to save  money to pay these debts, 
he vowed that he and his family should live 
on Indian pudding and milk until their home 
was cleared of debt.  He  persevered  in the 
determination,  and  within a year  did  not 
owe a dollar.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  & Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess, Chicago  packing................................®
Clear, Chicago packing................................U no
Extra Family Clear........................................^
....13 25 
Clear, A. Webster  packer..........
;.............. 14 OO
Extra Clear,  heavy.....................
Boston Clear............. .
n  oo
A. Webster, packer, short cu t..
............... 14  00
Clear back, 6nort cut............................
............... 14 50
Standard Clear, the  best.....................
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy...............................
medium............................
light....................................

do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
Hams, heavy.................................................... Jj*
medium.................................................
ligh t......................................................ix2
Boneless  Hams............................................... ..
Boneless Shoulders.........................................  ”
Breakfast  Bacon...........................................   °
Dried Beef, extra quality.............................   °
Dried Beef.tHam pieces................................. 18
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle....................0

634 
6%

“ 

LARD.

Tierces  *...................................................
30 and 501b Tubs.....................................
501b Round Tins, 100 cases.....................

l a r d  i n  t i n   p a i l s .

201b Round TinB, 801b  racks..................
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................
5 ft Pails, 0 in a case................................
101b Pails. 0 in a case..............................
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs......
Boneless,  extra........................................
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

b e e p  i n  b a r r e l s .

Pork Sausage.....................................................|
Ham  Sausage...................................................
Tongue  Sausage...........................................  18
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................
Blood  Sausage...................................................8
Bologna, straight............................................   8
Bologna,  thick.................................................   ?
Head  Cheese....................................................   °

PIGS’ FEET.

.  9 50 
.13 50

In half barrels...............................................   8 80
In quarter barrels.........................................

OYSTERS!
Eaton  I   Ghriatanaon

Are now in the market with 

their Famous

OYSTERS.

OAXTXTEB  XXT  BALTIMORE B Y

VT.  R. BARITES  <ft  CO.
ELASTIC  STARCH
IT  MONIES  NO  000(1116.

Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1 90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................   @1 36
Horseradish,  54 pints............................  @4 §9
Horseradish, pints.................................  @* 88
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @«50
Halford Sauce, 54 pints.........................  @2 ¿0

Ground. 

SPICES.

'  hole.
..........

 

@

STARCH.

SUGARS.
 

@19 
.......  8@10
.........10@11
........... 0O@65
.............16@18

Pepper............... 18@25 [Pepper 
Allspice...............12@15! Allspic*
Cinnamon........... 18@30iCassia ...
Cloves  ................ 15@25 j N utmegs
Ginger................16@20 Cloves  ..
Mustard.............. 15@30
Cayenne.............25@36l
Elastic. 64 packages, per box.........................  5 Jo
Cut  Loaf.............  
Cubes......................................................  @  *2
Powdered...............................................   @ 4 J»
Granulated,  Standard..........................  @  y s
Granulated,  off.....................................   @  *
Confectionery A....................................  @  84i
Standard A ..............................................  @
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  854@ 8?&
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  8?4@
No.3C......................................................  8 *@ 8*4
No.4 ........................................................  §m  5»
55i@ 554
No. 5 ........................................................   55«®
30@32 
Corn,  Barrels.........................................
33@35 
Corn, 54 bbls............................................
@  35 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
@1 75 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
@1  00 
; Corn,454 gallonkegs........................
23®  35 
Pure Sugar.................................. v/SK
30®  38 
Pure Sugar Drips........................54 bbl
© l »0 
Pure Sugar  Drips................5 gal kegs
@  85 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...  :.......54 bbl
@1  85 
Pure Loaf 8ugar..................5 gal kegs
@85 
Maple, 54 bbls.........................................
@90
10 gal.  kegs...............................

8YRUP8.

TEAS.

Japan ordinary............................................ ¿5@20
Japan fair to good........................................~5<©3U
Japan fine......................................................Jo@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson...............................................« I@5Q
Gun Powder............................................. • • • 35@50
Oolong....................................................
Congo...........................................................
TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN  PA ILS.
Fisher’s Brunette— 35! Sweet  R"ce    -------- 4o
Dark AmericanEagle071 Meigs A. Co. s Stunner,»
The Meigs..................04 Atlas........................... 3o
Red  Bird....................50 Royal Game................38
State  Seal..................60 Mule Ear.....................fo
Prairie Flow er........ 05 Fountain..................... <4
Indian Queen...........00 Old Congress...............64
Bull  D o g ..................OOlGood Luck..................o2
Crown  Leaf..............66| Blaze Away................ 35
Matchless................. 05|Hair Lifter..................30
.07 Governor.................. 60
Hiawatha —
70-Fox’s Choice...........   63
Globe  ............
70'Medallion.................. 35
May Flower..
45| Sweet Owen............... 60
H ero.............
491
Old  Abe. 
.
PLUG.
@40
Rum.....................................................
@48
Money.................................................
@48
Red  Fox.............................................
@50
Big Drive............................................
@46
Seal of Grand Rapids.......................
@40
Durham..............................................
@48
Patrol.................................................
@46
Jack Rabbit.......................................
@46
Snowflake..........................................
@46
Chocolate Cream...............................
@44
Nimrod...............................................
@40
Spread Eagie...........................................  @3?
Big Five Center......................................  ®*«
Woodcock  ..............................................  ®49
Knigntsof  Labor..................................   @46
Railroad...................................................  ®™
Big  Bug..................................................   @32
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................  @46
Black Bear..............................................  @37
King  .................................................
Old Five Cent Times.............................   @38
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..............................  @®-
f 48
Parrot  ........................................................ 
Old Time....................................................   @3»
Tramway....................................................   @y8
Glory  .........................................................   ©f8
Silver Coin.................................................   @j>9
Buster  [Dark]...........................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star.............................  @46
Climax........................................................  ©w
Hold F ast...................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..............................  @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 121b cads.  ...........   @ol
Cock of the Walk  0s...............................   @37
Nobby Twist..............................................   @4”
Acorn......................................................   ©46
Crescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @3£
Black  B ass............................................   @40
Spring......................................................   @46
G ra y lin g .........................................................  @46
Mackinaw...................................................  @*
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................  @35
Sailors’  Solace............................. 
  @40

 
2c. less in four butt lots.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

promptly and buy in full packages.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 
Advanced—Cheese, pickles, package coffees. 
Declined—Nothing.

a x i. e   g r e a s e .

Frazer’s ................  
90;Paragon  ...........1 8 0
Diamond  X ...........   80 Paragan2ott> pails. 1 20
Modoc, 4 doz..........2 60| Fraziers, 25 lb pails. 1  25

BAKING  POWDER.

Arctic 54 lb cans....  45] Arctic 1ft cans... .2 40
Arctic 54 lb cans__   75 Arctic 51b cans— 12 tw
Arctic 54 1b cans.  .. 1 40|

S’* .» « -!.................................... g

BLUING.

. doz. 

35

 

Liquid, 8 ............................................tt°ffroi8 f 00
Arctic 4 .............................................V  gross 4 ou
Arctic 8  ...........................................................    J5!
Arctic 16oz................ 
am
2 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..
3 00
Arctic No. 2 
*
4 50
Arctic No. 3 
••
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl............... 175
No. 1 Carpet............2 50
Fancy  Whisk..........100
No. 2 Carpet.................2 25
CommonWhisk—   76
No. 1 Parlor Gem..2 75 
No. 1 Hurl......... ....2 00

‘ 
“ 

 

CANNED FISH

 

 

2 90
3 00

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

Clams, 1 lb  standards................................... 1
Clams, 2 1b  standards...................................£
Clam Chowder,  3 1 b ...............................~ VV
Cove Oysters, 1 ft standards...........................1 1®
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  1  «J
Lobsters, 1 lbpionic....................................... j ¿2
Lobsters, 1 lb star...........................................* ¡S
Mackerel, 1 1b fresh standards..................4  88
Mackerel, 6 1b fresh  standards................. 3 60
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 31b................
Mackerel,3 1b in Mustard............................ &
Mackerel, 3 1b broiled.................................. 8 “2
Salmon, 1 1b Columbia river............................ 1 *0
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river............................ 3 j®
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento............................ 1
754
|
Sardines, domestic >48................................. 
Sardines,  domestic  54s..............................
Sardines, Mustard  54s...................................  
»
Sardines,  imported  54s.................................  
i*
Trout. 3 ft  brook.......................................   4  oU
CANNED FRUITS.
........   90
Apples, 3 1b standards.............
........ 2 40
Apples, gallons, standards... • 
........   95
Blackberries, standards..........
Cherries,  red standard.................................  #0
Damsons................ 
i  Vx
Egg Plums, standard? 
.............................. 4  48
Green Gages. standards 21b............................ 4 48
Peaches. Extra Yellow.....................• ••—f 48
Peaches, standards........................... 1  7o@i
Peaches,  seconds...............................................\ 88
Pineapples, E rie........................................{
Pineapples, standards...................................... 4 "V
Suinces..........................................................I
aspberries,  extra...........................................1 18
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2  40|Pears............................3 CO
Egg Plums.............. 2 50 Quinces...............
Grapes.....................2 50 Peaches  .............
Green Gages...........2 501
CANNED VEGETABLES.
.3 25
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...................
Beans, Lima,  standard.....................................1 u»
Beans, Stringless, E r ie ...........................   88
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked......................l
Corn,  Trophy....................................... 
  1  88
“  Red Seal..............................................  99
“  Excelsior..................................................4 88
Peas,French............  
4  i"
Peas, Marrofat, standard................................. I 88
Peas, Beaver.................................................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..................................
Succotash, standard....................................  88
Tomatoes, Trophy.............................................4 88
Tomatoes,  Hillsdale..........................................1 ou
Boston 
............. 30IGerman Sweet.......... 25
Baker’s ...................38 Vienna Sweet  .......... 23
Runkles’ ....................35|
Roasted Mar.. .17@18 
Green Rio........   9@13
Roasted Mocha.28®30 
Green Java....... 17@27
Roasted Mex...  @16
GreenMocha.. ,23@25 
Ground  Rio__ 9@10
Roasted Rio.... 10@15 
Package Goods  @135
Roasted Java ,.23@30 
»AGE.
COF
72 foot Cotton —  2 25
72 foot J u te ........ 1 25
60 foot Cotton__ 2 00
00 foot Jute.........1 00
50 foot Cotton.... 1  75
40 Foot Cotton.... 1 50
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.....................   65
Cod, whole..................................................  @5
Cod,Boneless............................................. 5> * •
H alibut........ .................................. 
I1®1“
Herring 54  bbls............... .......................... 2  "0
Herring, Holland, domestic,  new............  »j
.............   »&
Herring,  Scaled— ...................................... J8®22
Mackerel, Penny bbls................................. &
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, 54 bbls.................5  00
...........  80
“ 
“ 
................  70
No. 3. 54 bbls...............................3 50
••  121b  kits...........................  63
“  10  “ 
..........................   55
Shad, 54 b b l...................................................2  jj?
Trout, 54  bbls................................................°
“  12 ft  kits............................................   ?9
»  10  “ 
 
White, No. 1,54 bbls....................................5  50
White, No. 1,13  ft kits.................................1  «0
White, No. 1.10 ft kits.................................  85
White, Family, 54 bbls.................................-  ¿0

“  121b kits 
“  10  “ 

imported  ** 

CHOCOLATE.

COFFEE.

*» 
» 
“ 
» 
« 

FISH.

“ 

“ 

 

 

 

SMOKING

Old Tar..........................40: Sweet Lotus.............32
Arthur’s  Choice.......22jConqueror................. 23
Red Fox......................26 Grayling....................32
5o
Flirt 
.................. 28 Seal Skin......................30
Gold Dust.................. 26 Rob Roy..................... 26
Gold Block................... 30j Uncle  Sam.............. 28
Seal of Grand Rapids  ! Lumberman..............2o
(cloth)....................25: Railroad Boy.............38
Tramway, 3 oz..........40| Mountain Rose........... 18
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35jHome Comfort.......... 25
Boss  .......................... 15i01d Rip....................... 56
Peck’s Sun................ 18 Seal of North Caro-
MinersandPuddlers.28 
lina,2  o z................48
Morning Dew........... 25 Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz................46
Chain..............................22 
Peerless  ....................24 Seal of North  Caro-
Standard..................22 
lin a ,8 o z .................41
Old Tom..................... 21 Seal of North  Caro-
Tom & Jerry............ 241 
lina, 16 oz boxes— 40
Joker......................... 25 Big Deal.. ...................27
Traveler...................35| Apple Jack..................24
Maiden......................25 King Bee, longcut.. .22
Pickwick Club.........40jMilwaukee  Prize....24
Nigger Head............28 Rattler........... ............ 28
Holland....................22| Windsor cut plug... .2»
German....................Mli??1??  ■  v;: ■ • •:............ J5
Solid Comfort.......... 30! Holland Mixed............16
Red Clover............... 32 Golden  A ge..  .............75
Long Tom..................30 Mail  Pouch ..............
National.................. 26lKnightsof Lator....30
Tim e.........................26|Free Cob Pipe............. 2t

SHORTS.

Mayflower...............23| Hiawatha.....................22
Globe........................ 22: Old Congress................23
Mule Ear..................22|
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..
Maccoboy.......................
Gail & Ax’ 
.......................
Rappee............................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch.....................
Lotzbeek  ..........................................

©  75 
@  55 
@  44 
@  35 
@  45 
@1  30

SNUFF.

“ 

“ 

VINEGAR.

Star brand,  pure  cider......., ..........
Star brand, white wine...................

MISCELLANEOUS.

Bath Brick imported.......................
90
do 
American........................
@3
Barley
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
488
do  No.  2......................................  
4 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............  
8 00
Cream Tartar 5 and i0 ft cans.............   15@«o
Candles, Star..........................................   @J354
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   ©J4
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @69
125
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  ©-?
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................  @3»
iGum,Spruce..........................................   .to®*8
Hominy, $  bbl.......................................   @4 88
Jelly, in 30 1b  pails.................................  454® 5
Peas, Green Bush..................................   ©1  J®
Peas, Split prepared..............................  © 354
Powder, Keg.......................................
Powder,  54 Keg..................................

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

do 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

FRUITS

*•  No. 10.................  .................4 25

Jennings’ 2 ............................... IP doz.l 00
4 ..........................................150
« 
“  
8 OZ..................................................- t o
« 
..............................................3 50
“  No. 2 Taper..........................1 25
“  No. 4 
.............................1 76
54 pint  round...................... 4 50
“ 
No.  8............. .’.3 00

Lemon. Vanilla.
1 40
2 60
4 00
5 00 
1 50
3 00 
7 50
15 00
4 25
6 00
@16
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................
28@3Q
Citron,  new............................................
5@55
_
Currants,  new.......................................  
Peaches, dried  ......................................
Prunes, Turkey, new............................  454® 554
Raisins, new Valencia..........................   @
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................
Raisins,  Sultanas.....................................¿1
@2 76 
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................
@3 40 
Raisins, London Layers....................
@2 60
Raisins. California London  Layers.
Water White........10& 1 Legal  Test..............9&
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square.........................1  00
«rand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor......................1 7o
Grand Haven,  No. 300, parlor......................3 2»
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round......................... 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2..................................................J 90
Oshkosh, No.  8..................................................1 59
Swedish............................................................
Richardson’s No. 8  square............................1 9U
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................ 159
Richardson’s No. 754, round.......................... 1 00
............................150
Richardson’s No. 7 
Black Strap..................................................I8®48
Porto  Rico........... ........................................ ^@39
New  Orleans,  good.....................................38@42
New Orleans, choice................................... 48@50
New Orleans,  fancy................................... o2@oo

KEROSENE  O IL.

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

do 
do 

54 bbls. 3c extra.

OATMEAL.

do 

PICKLES.

Steel  c u t ...............5 25|Quaker, 48 lbs......... 2 35
Steel Cut, 54 bbls.. .3 00 Quaker, 00 lbs.........2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 26lQuakerbbls.............6 00
Choice in barrels med............................  @«00
............................  @3 50
Choice in 54 
PIPES.
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @3 25
Imported Clay, No. 210,254 gross........   @1  85
90
American T. i>.....................................   @
Choice Carolina.......6
Prime Carolina....... 654
Good Carolina.........5
Good Louisiana.... .5

Java  .................  @6
P atna.......................6
Rangoon..........5^@5Ií
Broken..................... 35

RICE.

SALERATUS.

\

CLAM,  JEWELL & 00.,

SOLE  -A.OE2STTS,

CKAXTB  RAPIDS,

MICH.

DeLand’s pure.................................654|Dwight’s .5@554
Church’s  ............5@5)4 8eaToam ........... o@554
Taylor’s G. M....5@554lCap Sheaf........... 5@55i

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket................................................. 
10031b pockets.......................................  
Saginaw or Manistee............................ 
Diamond ................................................  
Standard Coarse.................................... 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
Ashton. English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........  
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels.........................................

SAUCES.

2 30
^ 28
260
»»
4 88
1  ¿X
88
2 80
»u
25

Parisian, 54  pints................................. 
Pepper Sauce, red  small.
Pepper Sauce, green............................. 
Pepper Sauce, red large ring.............   @1 Jo
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 70

§ 2  88
^

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettentbaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New York  Counts.............................................. 88
F. J. D. Selects.....................................................*>
Selects................................................................. ..
F. J. ......................................................................Si
Shrewsbury shells, ty  100............................... 4 50
Princess  Bay  Clams, »100............................-  w
New York  Counts, »   100...............................1 so

fresh  fish.

Mackinaw Trout..............................................  4
Whiteflsh.........................................................
Cod  .....................................................................
Sun  Fish — .................................................... ...
Rock Bass.........................................................  ?
P erch................................................................  5
Duck Bill Pike...................................................8
Smoked White Fish......................................... 48
Smoked Trout................*................................
I Smoked Sturgeon........... *.............................. AU

Grocers’  Association of the City of Muskem

OFFICERS.

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Win. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer*
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E.  Johnson.
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H.  B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  8.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent.
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl.
Transportation Committee—Wm. B. Keift, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Oct. 21.

water  power  and  pure water  from  wells, 
and instead of locating the  works at or near 
the lower dam gs they  now  are,  and pump 
ing the water all up  hill,  to  locate  them at 
the upper dam and  force  the  water  down 
hill.  The question is to be submitted to the 
people on the 14th.
The firm of  Lindbloom  Bros.,  dealers in 
groceries and  feed at  Upper  Big  Rapids 
consists of Fred and Jake Lindbloom.
The Big  Rapids  Wagon  Co.  shipped a 
carload of wagons last Friday to Gage coun 
ty,  Nebraska.  They have  had  a wagon on 
exhibition at twenty of the  county  fairs in 
this State and at the State fairs in Vermont, 
New  York,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio,  Indiana, 
Minnesota and  Michigan.
Christen  Preysz,  dealer  in  drugs  dry 
goods and notions  at  Upper  Big  Rapids, 
has purchased the building he  is doing bus­
iness in of Wm.  Hungerford,  and  will  en­
large the same.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg-.
A. L. Power, Kent City.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
0. F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. 
T. H. Peacock, Reed City.
R. R. Perkins, Boyne City.
J. M. Carr, Chippewa Lake.
Dr. A. Hanlon, Middleville.
Thos. Hefferan,  Eastmanville.
Aaron B. Gates, Rockford.
W. L. Heazlit. Way land.
L. G. Ripley, Montague.
E. B. Wright, Woodville.
S. E. Wait, Traverse  City.
Elmer Chaple, Cole & Chaple.  Ada.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
R. D. McNaughton, Coopersville.
Gus Begman,  Bauer.
J. D.  Champion, Mecosta.
JayMarlatt,  Berlin.
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
E. F. Belden,  Sparta.
F. H. Spencer, Saranac.
R. A. Hastings, Sparta.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
W. W. Peirce, Moline.
R. B. McCulloch, Berlin.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
C. C. Bailey, Fife Lake.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
H. G. Hale, Nashville.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Louis Kolkema, Holland.
1. J. Quick, Allendale.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
Mr. Reigler, Reigler & Roush,  Freeport.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
A. Purchase, South  Blendon.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
S. C. Darrow, Bingham.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
C. G. Jones, Olive Center.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
Joshua Colby, Colby & Co., Rockford.
H.  B. Irish, Lisbon.
John C. Scott, Lowell.
Thos. Sourby, Rockford.
T. J. Smedley. Lamont.
Wm. McMullen, Wood Lake.
Geo. T. Cook, Grove.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
A. J. White, Bass Biver.
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
A. M. Church,  Alpine'.
John W. Mead,-Berlin.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
C.  O.  Bostwick  and  C.  L.  Bostwick,  C.  O. 
Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
B. M. Denison, East Paris.  ’ 
’
Frank O. Lord,  Howard  City.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
J. H. Moores, Moorestown.
J. H. Moores, Lansing.
Cook & Sweet, Bauer.
G. H. Walbrink. Allendale.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
T. B. Haines, Cedar Springs.
G. B. Chambers, Wayland.
S. A. Watt, Watt &Calhoon, Saranac.
F. E. Campau, Alaska.
E. J . Roys, Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
Aaron Zunder, Zunder Bros., & Co.,  Bangor
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Howard Morley. Morley Bros., Cedar Springs,

Meeting of the Association.

Muskegon,  Oct.  11,  1885 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Dear Sir—According to promise,  I  send 
you  herewith  the  proceedings  of  the last 
meeting  of  the  Grocers’  Association,  held 
on  Wednesday evening,  Oct  7. 
I  also en­
close copy of our newly printed constitution 
and by-laws.
The meeting was  called to order by Pres­
ident Fargo.  The roll call of officers show­
ed all present but three directors,  O.  Lam­
bert,  II.  B.  Smith and Wm.  B.  Kelly.  The 
minutes of  the last meeting  were  read and 
approved.  The  committee  on  procuring 
hall were granted  more  time,  to  report at 
the next regular meeting.  The treasurer re­
ported that he had  had  200  copies of  the 
constitution and by-laws printed,  according 
to instructions at the  last  meeting,  also re­
ceipt books for the use of the Financial Sec 
retary  and  * treasurer.  A  bill  for  same 
amounting to $10, was  ordered .paid.  The 
Secretary read an  ordinance  regulating the 
licensing of peddlers,  which was  at present 
a dead  letter, and on  motion of  Mr.  Borg 
man,  and  duly  recorded.  The  Secretary 
was instructed to write a  communication to 
the mayor of the city asking him to instruct 
the marshal to enforce the  ordinance  “Reg­
ulating the Licensing of Peddlers and Street 
Vendors” as approved July 10,  1875.
The President  appointed  the  following 
standing committees,  subject to the approv­
al of the Directors:
Finance  Committee—Wm.  B.  Kelly,  A, 
Towl and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O. 
Lambert,  II.  B.  Smith  and  W.  I.  McKen­
zie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman, 
Garrit Wagner and John DeHaas.
Cemplaiut Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D. 
A.  Boelkins,  J.  O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner 
and L.  Vincent.
Law Committee—H.  B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B 
Keift and A.  Towl.
Wm.  B.  Keift made some remarks  in  re­
gard to appointing  a  Transportation  Com­
mittee and the duties devolving upon it; and 
he made a motion  for  the  President to ap­
point as such committee  three  members of 
the Association,  which on  motion  was sec 
onded and carried.  The President appoint­
ed as such  committee,  Wm.  B.  Keift,  A. 
Wierengo and Wm.  Peer.
On motion the  meeting  adjourned  until 
the next regular meeting, the third Wednes­
day  of  this  month,  Oct. 21,  at  the*  same 
place.

W m.  Peer,  Secretary.

Muskegon Matters.

J.  Stolt & Son have  opened  a  hardware 
store and tin shop on Third street.
Geo.  H.  Cook has bought  out L.  O.  Beer- 
man’s interest  in the  harness  shop on Pine 
street.
Linde &  Danelson  have  just  completed 
their new meat market on  Houston avenue.
F.  S.  Dorenbecber  has  returned  from a 
three  months’  trip  through  the  Western 
states in the interest of the  Muskegon Val­
ley Furniture Co.

Good Words Unsolicited.

Parker & Simmonds, butchers, Traverse City
May her good qualities and circulation never 
grow less.”

W. H. Benedict, grocer,  Vermontville:  ‘‘Of 
the  four  or  five  trade  journals which we re­
ceive, we prize T h e  T r a d e s m a n  the most.’

How the Make Careless Engineers, 

rom the Mechanical Engineer, 
riie best way to make  careless  engineer! 
is for employers to  discourage  all  their at 
tempts to economize  or  improve.  We are 
frequently in receipt of confidences from en 
gineers,  wherein they speak  of  the indiffer­
ence of their employers  to saving.  One  in 
particular,  now before us,  says:  “It is dif­
ficult to make the change I  desire when my 
suggestions to my  employers  are  met with 
the answer: 
‘It  lias  run  as  it is for six or 
seven years,  and we can’t see  the  necessity 
of changing  it  now.’ ”  Another  engineer, 
when reproached for using  grate  bars that 
dropped half the coal  into  the ash pit,  said 
“The bosses don’t care;  if  I saved  two tons 
of coal a week they wouldn’t wen thank me 
for it, much less pay me any  more money.” 
So far as good  engineering  is  concerned 
this  is  certainly  discouraging;  more  than 
this,  it is apt to extend to the man  himself, 
so he becomes indifferent to his own individ­
ual advancement.  This  is  the gravest fea­
ture of the indifference  of  employers,  for a 
man will not alway's be  in  the  sarhe place, 
wid  if he allows  himself to grow  careless, 
all things are possible.

Economy in managing steam  engines and 
boilers should be practiced for its own sake, 
and because that is the  way to  become pro­
ficient. 
If it is not  recognized in one place 
it will  be  in  another.  The  foreman  will 
see it if no one  else  does,  and  if  a  man 
leaves,  every one will  have a good word for 
him and help  him  along.  This,  provided 
lie is the right kind of  a man.

“We used to have plenty of  coal  before 
you came,”  was the  remark  we  overheard 
once,  in answer to a request  for  more;  and 
we also heard a  foreman  ask  an  engineer 
why it wras lie didn’t wrant more coal.  “Be­
fore you came we used  to be  wheeling coal 
all the wiiile; now we are going to send one 
of  these  trimmers  away.  One  man  can 
wheel all y'ou want.”

This is not idle gossip,  but it is  live testi­
mony to the value of  care  and  attention to 
one’s business.  We  should  not think our 
efforts are useless because our employers do 
not  recognize it in  so  many words.  Econ­
omy  is  valuable  to  us  individually,  and 
shoule be  practiced  regardless  of recogni­
tion.

The  penalty  for  selling  a  cigarette to a 
boy or  girl under  sixteen  years of  age in 
New  Hampshire  has  been  made  $20 for 
each offense.

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

Otter  Lake.

John W.  Webb,  of this place, whose stock 
of drugs was burned the night  of  Aug.  28 
is preparing to return  to  Toronto,  Canada, 
where he intends to make his  future  home.
L.  Bathrick,  having disposed of his stock 
of  general  merchandise,  will  retire  from 
business.  C.  C.  Sherman  will occupy the 
building vacated by Mr.  Bathrick,  with  his 
stock of drugs and groceries.
H.  C.  Hascall, of this place,  and  Mr.  Mc- 
Cartny, of Lapeer, are buying potatoes.  The 
competition induces many of our farmers to 
part witli their surplus potato crop!

Fostoria.

John W.  Webb,  of  Otter  Lake,  has  sold 
his stock of drugs to Mrs.  Mary  E.  Lloyd, 
wife of S.  Lloyd, who has had charge of the 
stock for Mr.  Wlbb previous to this time.
The prices paid for grain at Dawson’s ele­
vator is drawing the grain from the surroun- 
ing  country  to  this place,  to the detriment 
of some of the larger towns, and business is 
booming.

OtisvHle.

Parker  &  Dunston,  dealers in hardware 
and agricultural implements,  will move into 
their new double brick store.  They have re­
covered  from  the  effects  of the fire which 
burned  them  out  about  one  year ago  and 
their new  building  is  an  ornament  to  the 
town. 

*

. 
Luther.

Hunters  from  all  parts  of the State  are 
Will Slade,  clerk at the  Pacific,  left  last 
Mrs.  Maxim is building a photograph gal­
W.  B.  Pool,  hardware  merchant,  has  re­

coming to Luther after  deer.
week.  Wm.  Everets takes his place.
lery just north of the Sabin House  block.
turn«!  from his business trip to Jackson.

Big Kapids.

Sumner Stickney & Co.  succeed  Stickney 
& Gould,  druggists on East Maple street.
Arrangements have been  make  by which 
Freiberg  Bros.,  the  merchant  tailors,  will 
continue business as usual,  although one  of 
the brothers retires from the firm.
D.  L.  Garling,  formerly  of  the  firm  of 
Shankwiler & Garling,  millers at  Big  Rap­
ids,  but  now  proprietor  and  owner  of the 
Murphy mill at Remus,  is doing  a fine busi­
ness.
Crocker & Hudnutt assert that  the  state­
ment that they will lose $5,000 on  the court 
house contract is untrue.
The  firm  which  was  reported  in 
last 
week’s issue as  Chub  &  Trebair is Trebair
Garwin.
Big Rapids is having a lively  time over a 
project to change the  present  water1  works 
system from steam power and river water to

Ifoarbware.

Locating Line Shafting and Pulleys.

From the Scientific Press.

When  p  line  of  shafting  is  to  be  driven 
from another line hi a room above or below, 
the placing of the shafts and pulleys is a mat­
ter of no small  annoyance  to  some,  and  a 
few words to the point may  be  acceptable. 
One  of  the  most  important  factors  to  be 
looked to in locating a pulley is the direction 
in  which  the  pulley  will  deliver the belt. 
When a pulley once gets a fair  hold,  it will [ 
“ pull” for all it is  worth,  but  in  order  to 
get a fair hold,  the belt must be delivered in 
a  proper  manner  from  the  other  pulley. 
Bearing this in mind,  then,  the  main  thing 
to look to in placing shafting for a “quarter- 
turn” belt is the manner in which  each pul­
ley delivers the belt to its mate.  The shaft­
ing must be perfectly level,  and the pulleys, 
as near as can be of the same size.  Then if 
the center of the delivering faces of  each  of 
the two pulleys is brought to touch the same 
plumb  line,  the  belt  will  “track” in good 
shape.  The position of the  pulleys may be 
slightly changed from the  above to suit cer­
tain conditions,  such as a short distance be­
tween  the  centers  of  the  two  lines,  or  a 
great difference in diameter of  pulleys;  but 
if the shafting is  placed  witli  reference  to 
the plumb-line,  a very little adjustment will 
suit most any case.  The best  results,  how­
ever,  will be obtained when the  pulleys  are 
of the same size,  and are not greater  in  di­
ameter than twice the width of belt, the dis­
tance  (vertical)  between  centers  of shafts 
being not less than three feet for every inch 
in width of belt.  When the distance between 
centers comes within 18 inches for each inch 
of belt width,  it does not pay to use  such  a 
belt. 
It will not be out of place to  remark i 
that the two lines of shafting may be at any 
angle  (horizontal) when the plumb-line prin­
ciple is made use  of,  though  with  an acute 
angle the direction of revolution may be  re- 
ersed.

Good Advice.
From the American Machinist.

Now,  young  man,  first  of  all,  let  well 
enough along.  Never disturb an engine un­
less occasion demands  it,  and  if  so,  do  it 
systematically'.  Havfe the floor swept clean, 
and spread some old sacking which is clean. 
When you take a part off, clean it with clean 
wraste.  being  careful  to  keep  your  waste 
from all grit.  Run your hand over the part 
to see if the wraste has  left  anything  on  it, 
as the hand will readily detect the  smallest 
particle of grit.  After  you  have cleaned  a 
part,  lay it  back out of  the  way  just  as  it 
came off,  and all the small stuff witli it, just 
as it belongs.  When you take off the  head 
or steam chest,  take the bolts and lay  them | 
in a circle or hollow square,  with  the small 
ends in,  so  that  you  can put them back  as 
they  came  out.  You  will be surprised ‘to 
see how much faster the work will progress. 
When you  come  to a thing that sticks,  find 
out what  causes  it,  and  remedy  it.  The 
builders of steam engines do not  always  do 
their  work  well.  But  whatever  you  do, 
don’t use a hammer;  use wood or  lead tools 
to pound with. 
If you  use blocks, cut them 
about five inches long  and  eight  inches  in 
diameter,  of  hard  wood,  keeping  them  on 
hand all the time, replacing them as fast  as 
one  gives  way, never  waiting  until one  is 
needed.  When you put a  «Tench on a nut, 
see that it fits it before you begin to pull, or 
you will soon spoil botli wrench and nut.  If 
a nut goes  too  hard,  take  it  off and clean 
the  thread.

When you want to bore through a casting, 
and are obliged to block it out from the face | 
plate to prevent damage  to  the  latter,  you 
are often troubled by slipping of the  pieces 
of planed iron which you put in.  Some ma­
chinists wrap them  in paper,  but that is too 
much bother.  Just  rub  them  with  chalk, 
md they will hold first-rate.

A floor of paper lias been  made in  a new 
in  Indianapolis.  Straw  boards  are 
rink 
pasted and  pressed  together by a hydraulic 
press,  and when  seasoned  they  are  sawed 
up into flooring,  the edge of the paper form­
ing the floor,  which is without joints.  When 
sandpapered it becomes smooth as ice and is 
noiseless.

Wlien you want to mark  a  piece  of iron 
in order to drill a hole,  and  you must mark 
through a deep hole in a rough casting,  just 
ub chalk where  you  want  the  hole to be 
drilled,  place the casting over it,  and  rattle 
down some of the dirt and sand witli an awl 
or old file; then,  with a center  punch,  you 
can mark the hole to drill.

Common glue with the addition  of  about 
percent,  of  glycerine  is  employed  for 
binding together on two or three sides packs 
of evenly cut paper,  in  the  form  of  letter- 
pads,  etc. 
India-rubber  dissolved  in  car­
bon  disulphide  and  colored  is  sometimes 
used the  purpose.

Judging  from  recent  English  patents, 
compressed air engines for tramways are re^ 
ceiving considerable  attention  there.  "One 
of these patents relates  to the  use  of a gas 
engine and pumps  for  helping  up the  air 
pressure.

Snow banks fully 100 feet high, that have 
Iain there for many years,  are to be found in 
the upper Sierras.

MISCELLANEOUS.

»  Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
m this column at the rate of 25 cents per week 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  e^Th 
additional word.  Advance payment.
I r°§ „ 84 L1? r £   « W   ° f  the  new  odition  of 
Rand,  McNally  &  Co.’s  “Directory and 
r»Ii 1iiPiS^.Gwide  ^ “ ber Mills  and  Lumber
Dealers.  Enquire at “The Tradesman” office.
FOR SALE—Desirable  building  lot  on  Liv- 

lngstone street, 50x125,  with  alley in the 

rear.  Price *550 cash or *600 on long time.  En­

quire at “The Tradesman” office.

I

Skate Repairs Carried in Stock.

POSTER, 
STEVENS 
&  CO.,

Steel from Scrap Iron.

The most recent discovery  that  steel  can 
be made from scrap  iron  appears to  have 
been made by  Thomas  Tipsey,  foreman  of 
the foundry of the  Scioto  Yalley  car shops 
at Portsmouth,  Ohio.  After long and patient 
experiments,  he can take scraps of the most 
worthless iron,  such  as  old  bolts,  bits of 
wrought and cast iron, oyster cans and rusty 
scraps,  r.commanding  only  half  a  cent  a 
pound,  and make a  steel of  a  finer  grain 
than the Bessemer steel,  not  only with the 
strength of  wrought  iron,  but  with  more 
than fifty  times  its  strength.  Mr.  Lipsey 
holds a secret that will  undoubtedly revolu­
tionize the mechanical world.

Oil costs too much to be  used  in  drilling 
rough holes  in  wrought  iron.  Use  soap 
suds or soda water,  and apply it with a little 
squirt gun.

A Belgian manufacturer named Rey,  who 
employs 3,000 people,  retains 3 per cent,  of 
their wages,  and agrees to  provide a physi­
cian when they are  taken  sick.  While un­
able to work from illness, the employee gets 
half  pay, and meat and wine,  if  necessary. 
If a workman dies his widow gets a pension 
of one-third of his  wages if  he had been in 
the works for  ten  years,  and  one-half the 
wages if over ten years.  A pension for life 
is given to all invalids who have been fifteen 
years in his employ.

Vineyard
Skates.

FOSTER, 
STEVENS 
&  CO.,

Headquarters

FOR

Western  Michigan!

FATO.

jucr  13-nis
APR.- 2IHIU

V iney ard.  A.  O.

APR.ÍM2 — 
APR.  2 6 — 
MAO.  14 —

V iney ard.  S.  o.

V iney ard.  O.

A FINE  ASSORTMENT.

WRITE  FOR  PRICES.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates at Chicago are as follows: 

augers and bits.

Ives’, old style........................................dls 
60
N. H. C. Co.............................................. dis 
60
60
Douglass’ ................................................dis 
Pierces’................................................dlg
60
Sued,8.......................................................dls 
Cook s  .......................................................dis-lO&lO
Jennings, genuine................................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation..............................dis40&10
Spring.......................................................dis 
25
Railroad  .... 
........ *  13 00
Garden........
....net 33 00

BALANCES.

BELLS.
 

Hand.......................
dis  $ 60&10 
di8
c o w .................... 
6» 
Call..........................................................dis
13 I 
Gong...................................................... dis
20 
Door, Sargent........................................dls
55

BOLTS.
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d

i

t

s

v

o

 2 

S
Carriage new  list..............                         dis
Plow
.dis
Sleigh Shoe............................... ............ dis
Cast Barrel  Bolts.......... 
.........'dig
Wrought Barrel Bolts........ !!!!!.!!!’dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs........   ........ dis
Cast Square Spring................ ..)....... dis
Cast Chain........................................... ¿is
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.".’."........dis
Wrought Square........................  
‘dis
Wrought Sunk Flush.........................dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Ives  Door............................................ dis  50&10

60
55&10
55&10
30

BRACES.

«

BUTTS, CAST.

g " b e r ..................................................dis* 
40
............. .................................. dis 
50
Am. Ball............................................... dis 
net
BUCKETS.
„  
Well, plain.............................  
Well, swivel.........................  ..................... .. 4 00 
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed.......... dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin..............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............. dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............. dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped ....  ......................................... dis  60& 5
Wrought Table.................................  dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Biind................!! 1! ’ dis 
60
Wrought Brass....................................... dis  65&10
B ind. Clark’s .........................................dis  70&10
B ind. Parker’s  .................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Suepard s.............................:...dis 
70
CAPS.
Ely’s 1-10..........................
Hick’s C. F...............
g. d .............................
Musket.....................

.per  m * 65 
60 
35 
60

CATRIDGES.

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

ROOriNG PLATES. 
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Teme.. 
5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme
IC. -0x28, choice Charcoal Ter ne°! !!!!!!!! l 1  00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne............! *14 00

„  

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth.

RQPKS.
o
Sisal, H in. and  larger........  
****"  «*
Manilla............................................ 
SQUARES.
,«ia
Steel and Iron.................. 
Try and Bevels...............  ....................dis
M itre.................................

60&10
50&10
20
Com. 
Nos. 10 to  14................................   *4 20
*3 00 
Nos. 15 to  17..................................  420
3 00 
Nos. 18 to 21........................  
4 20
3 00 
Nos. 22 to 24...................... 
........  4 a»
3 00 
Nos .25 to 26........... .........!?!!!.!!  440
3 20 
No.
on
W. «1 * 
3 30
All sheets No, 18 arid lighter,  over 30 inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
_ 
SHEET ZINC.
ft....................... 
In casks of 600 fts, 
In smaller quansities, $   ft......!!!” !!!!
TINNER’S BOLDER.
„  
No. 1,  Refined............................. 
Market  Half-and-half......................... 
Strictly  Half-and-half.................jg

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

is no
i-.

|  

g

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, *6 75.

........

TRAPS.

10x14, Charcoal..................  
IC. 
a Oft
10xl4,Charcoal...................* .......  7 so
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal.................. . 
6 50
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal  .............. . 
IX, 
8 50
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal................. 
«»«
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal........ 
............   7 sn
¿XX,  14x20, Charcoal.............. . . . . ........   a 00
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool..............* 
..........  11  q,.
1XXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.v......................   1:1 on
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal............................18 00
DC, 
.........   «so
100 Plate Charcoal............ 
DX, 
100Plate Charcoal............ .............  u  =q
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal..............  .........  10 so
DXXX,  100PlateCharcoal'.7!]............  12 no
Kedipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 SO to 6 75
_ 
Steel, Game................. 
Onoida Communtity,  Newtiotise’s.’ ’ *"." * "¿is  33
ir ? 1,if!Lp0P niuIlltJr- Hawley & Norton’s. .60&1O 
Hotchkiss’ 
..................   ............ 6«Jfe10
8, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co. S............... : ___ 
60&10
Mouse, choker..................  
20c aa <w
Mouse,  delusion.....................!'."! . *150 V doz
WIRE.
_  
Bright  Market................................. dis  60&10
Annealed Market............  
-n
Coppered Market.................  “ ” " "dis  5.5x 10
Extra Balling.............................. 
d s  55
Tinned  Market.................... 
*  Hia  an
Tinned Mattress..................... ..." .......1  a  8V|
Coppered Spring  Steel....;  ......dis 40@40&10
dis 37vs
Tinned SpringSteel..................... 
Plain Fence...........................  
Barbed Fence........................  . ............v  
*
Copper...........................
....................................new  list net
Brass...........................
....................................new  list net
Bright....................................................dls
70&10
Screw Eyes.............................................dis
70&10
Hook s ..................................   ;........... <jj8
70&10
GateHooksand  Eyes..!.!!.!!!!!!!!!dis 
70&10

WIRE GOODS.

*" ’ "»ft

dis 

.  , 

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled.......
Coe’s Genuine........................................dYs
50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis
63
Coe s Patent, malleable......................dis
70
_  
Pumps,  Cistern....................... 
70
dis 
§n
Screws, new  list.......................... . 
Casters, Bed  and  Plate........".".*.".".'.'. dis60&10
Dampers, American................................. 
33«

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHISELS.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.................................... dis
Socket Corner........................................dis
dis
Socket ¡slicks.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..  
."dis
Butchers’ Tanged  F i r m e r .
Barton’s Socket  Firmers.......... 
dis
Cold........................... 
.".".net
Curry, Lawrence’s........................ 
Hotchkiss
Brass,  Racking’s ......
Bibb’s .....................
B eer...........................
Fenns’.........................

 
.dis

COMBS.

COCKS.

 

dis
40

50
50
40&10
60

COPPER.

Planished, 14 oz cut to size.....................59 ft

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

EXPANSIVE BITS.

....... dis
........dis
........dis
...doz net
........dis
.»lis

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit  Stock...............
Taper and Straight Shank..
Morse’s Taper  Soank..........
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6  in................
Corrugated............................
Adjustable.......................................
Oar’s, small, *18 00;  large, *26 00.
Ives’, 1, *18 00 ;  2. *24 00 ;  3, *30 00.
American File Association  List__   dis 
60
00
Disston’s ................................................. 
New  American................  
«n
 
(n8 
Nicholson’s........................  
co
dw 
 
Heller’s ............................. 
30
.Y.Y.'.dis 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............................dis  33)^
„  
Nos. 16 to 20, 
28
18
Lis™  13 

GALVANIZED IRON,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
15 
14 
,  

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

*.85
20&10
«&10
20

FILES.

„  

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

 

HINGES.

HANGERS.

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

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............dis 
50
20
Maydole & Co.’s ................................   dis 
Kip’s ...................................................... | dis 
25
40
Yerke8 &  Plumb’s ....... ....!."..".dis 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............   ’.'.’.go c  list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction....................... dis 
60
40
Xidder, wood  track............................... dis 
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3................................dis 
60
State........ — .........................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4tf  14
3^
 
Screw Hook and Eye,  Vt  ............. . .’. net 
10%
8*4
Screw Hook and Eye %........................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  \
........................net 
7 y.
Screw Hook and Eye,  %...........  
"net 
7%
Strap and  T.........................................'.".dis 60&10
„ 
nOLLOW  WARE.
Stamped Tin Ware...............................  
60&10
Japanned  Tin  Ware........................' 
20&10
Granite Iron  Ware............................................ 25
Grub  1............................................... *11 00, dis 40
Grub  - ...............................................   11  50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................  12 00, dis 40
_ 
I)oor, mineral, jap. trimmings__ *2 70, dis 66*i
I)oor, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66*i 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ..  ..
Hemacite.......................... ...........
LOCKS—DOOR.

55, dis
70
. .dis
70
...  d
40
. .dis
50
...dis
66*i
__ dis 66 %
__ dis 66%
__ dis 66%
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................. dis  65
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s............................dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ........dis  40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise.....................................dis  25
j 
I Adze  Eye.....................................*16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye.....................................*15 00dis40&10
Hunt s.........................................*18 50 dis 20 He 10

Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s .. 
Bradford's..........................
LEVELS.
MILLS.

mings..................................... liSt,10

MATTOCKS.

KNOBS.

HOES.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

NAILS.

MAULS.
OILERS.

I  f^dfo 
....................................... V keg *2 80
8d and 9 d adv............................................... 
25
6d and 7d  adv....................................50
75
4d and 5d  adv.................................. ....!!!! 
j 3d advance..........................................!.!!!! * 1 50
j 3d fine  advance.................................. !. !!! 
3 00
Clinch nails, adv............................. . 
l  75
j Finishing 
6d  4d
1  10d  8d 
I  Size—inches  ( 3  
1V4
2 
2*4 
Adv.  keg 
*1 25  1 50  1  75  2 00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES OATES.
1 Stebbin’s Pattern  ......................................dis  70
I Stebbin’s Genuine.......................................dis  70
I Enterprise,  self-measuring.......................dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................   dis  GO
I Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent....................... dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom............................. dis  50
I  Brass or  Copper........................................  dis  40
I  Reaper..................................... per gross, *12 net
! Olmstead s ................................................. 
50
! Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...............................dis  15
j  Sciota Bench....................................... .;..! ¿is  35
I Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy___   .!!..!!.!dis  15
i  Bench, first quality.............................  
dis  20
i Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wowi'and 
\ 
PANS.
Fry, Acme.. .. 
.................................dis 
50
Common, polished................................... dis60&10
Dripping................................................................$1 e@7
Iron and Tinned............................. 
dis  40
Copper Rivets and Burs...................        dis 50&10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 26  to 27 
9

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

Broken packs tfc $  ft extra.

Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M *44 00
U ppers, 1^,1% and 2 inch....................... 
46 00
Selects, 1 inch..................................... :__   35 00
Selects, 1J4,1 % and 2  inch....................38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.......................... 
30 qo
Shop, 1 inch.................................... 
‘ 
3000
Fine, Common, 1&, 1*4 and 2 inch. .! .. .!   32 00 
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 no
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.................. 
16 o0
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........  
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet..".’."."  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet............... 
16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet............... 
17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..................... . . ."  17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet! ! ! ! !  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 In., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.................. 
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, i0 in., 20 feet.................. 
14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet..!.’!!  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet.................. 
13 oo
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet............................13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  ail
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch.......................... '
27 90 
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........ ................
15 00 
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet........... ".!
12 00 
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.......*.......................
12 00 
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch..................!!.......
15 00 
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch...............!................
12 q0 
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.’!.'!!!!!!
20 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B................ .
18 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................
14 50 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common....
9 00 
Bevel Siding, 6 inch,  Clear................
20 00 
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16ft. 
!!. !. 
10 00
*1 additional for each 2 feet abrive116 f t.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..................!!!!!
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No. 1, common.. 
17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common.... 
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. *1 00 additfinal. 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................
28 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n 
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’u 
14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, *1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............
3 10 
-J X X X 18 In.  Thin................ ............
3 00
( x x x  i6 in................................ .........;;;;
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................
Lath

1 75® 2 00

WOODEN WAR]
Standard  Tubs, No. I..................
Standard  Tubs, No. 2................
Standard  Tubs, No. 3................ .
Standard Pails, two hoop...........
Standard Pails, three hoop........
Dowell Pails..................................
Dowell Tubs, No. 1......................
Dowell Tubs, No. 2.......................
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3.....................
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.......
Butter Ladles..........................
Rolling Pins..................................
Potato Mashers...........................!
Clothes Pounders.....................! !
ClothesPins....................  
.
Mop Stocks................................ 'l
Washboards, single.....................'
Washboards, double....................

 

 

......1

BASKETS.

Diamond  Market...........................................   40
Bushel, narrow  band.............................!!!!.".'l 60
Bushel, wide band.............................. 
!."!.".'I 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...............................!!!!« 00
Clothes, willow, No. 3.................................... 7 00

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.............................   @13 qq
Gh'ch, log-run..........................:....... 16 0J@20 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................   @35 qq
Black Ash, log-run............................ 
@13 qq
Cherry,  log-run....................................... 25 00®35 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2..........................   @55 00
Cherry,  cull........................... 7.1........ 10 00@12 00
13 00@14 OO
 
Map e,  log-run.............  
Maple, soft,  log-run...1: ........................lo 00@12 00
@10 00
 
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2....................  
Maplo, clear, flooring........................  
@35 00
Maple, white, selected............. 
 
@35 00
Red Oak, log-run.................................  @15  qq
  @20 00
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2................... 
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank...............  @25 00
@55 00
Wa nut, log-run..................................  
ffa75 on
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2.................. 
Walnuts,  culls.................................!! 
@35 00
Water Elm, log-run............................ 
@i'l 00
™ e A s h .  log-run................................. 14 00@16 00
Whitcwood,  log-run....>....................  @23 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—The local  tanners  are offer­
ing *5 per cord delivered, cash. 
Ginseng—Local  dealers pay  *1.59@1.60  $   ft 
for clean washed roots.
Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offer 40 and 5 per cent, off on standard goods 
and 40,10 and 5 percent, off on second quality

/

CLIMAX- 

^
PLUG TOBACCO?
qeD TIN TAG .

IV

H. LEONARD & EONS
WHOLESALE
Crockery, Glassware,

Chinese Veracity 

division of the profits has not been  the best 
for society.  The recent great fortunes  tes­
tify to the unequal distribution of the wealth 
of  the  community.  This  thing,  or  that 
thing, or the other may seem to be  low,  but 
when its price is considered with relation to 
that obtained  for  other  things,  it is  not so 
low,  it may be,  in  fact,  very High.  One of 
the reasons why these hard  times  continue 
is the misadjustment  of  prices. 
It is true, 
looking at  the  subject  in a  general  way, 
prices are more equal than  they used to be. 
This is due to our postal facilities  and tele­
graph.  Some of the  exchanges  are  trying 
to prove that this  equality  is  due  to their 
hightoned operations; but we  are  very cer­
tain that  their  position is  erroneous. 
In 
the olden times great  fortunes were  made 
from uncertainties that do  not  now  exist. 
All the  businesses of  the country are  now 
more equally divided on the same plan than 
formerly.  . The ocean  telegraph  did  much 
to equalize prices and destroy the advantage 
which men formerly possessed.  When  we 
firmly get hold of the idea that  we  are both 
producers and  consumers,  and  we  should 
seek to get and maintain fair prices  instead 
of very low or very  high  ones, we  shall be 
far on the way of preparing  a  remedy  that 
will end the existing business depression.

From the Alta California.

If we did not know,  on  the  authority of 
Bret Harte, that the Chinaman  is  childlike 
as well as bland,  we should be compelled to 
believe that some of the Chinese who testify 
in the United States Court in  this  city  are 
chaffing justice  and  trying  to  reduce  the 
proceedings  to a  farce.  The  testimony of 
some of them  lias  been  grotesque  enough. 
Several have recently sworn that  scars  and 
other permanent physical  marks,  which,  as 
holders  of  descriptive  certificates, 
they 
ought to be wearing,  were removed in China 
by surgery or witchcraft.  One who, accord­
ing to bis statements, wore  an  ineffaceable 
India-ink mark on his arm during two years 
in this country,  informed  the  court  that it 
had washed off in  China,  and  when  asked 
why it did not  wash  off 
in  this  country, 
stated,  without change of  countenance, that 
he had never washed his arm in  the United 
States.  But the most humorous,  if  not the 
boldest,  perjurer was the one who explained 
the loss of his  queue  by  saying  that  the 
rolling motion of the ship in which he came 
over caused it to fall off.  For  examples  of 
perjury which are amusing by reason of their 
hardihood these cases would  be  difficult  to 
beat  anywhere

PIETY  THAT  PAID.

W hy a  Shoemaker  and  a  Clothier W ent 

Into the Church.

“How does it happen that you  joined the 
Methodist church?” asked a man of a dealer 
in ready-made clothing.

“Yell,  pecause mine brudder choined  der 
I vas not vant der let heem 

Bresbyterians. 
git der advantage mit me.”

“How get the advantage?”
“Mine  brudder  noticed  dot  he  vas ein 
shoemaker und dot der Bresbyterians shtood 
oop ven dey brays.  He  see  dot  dey  vare 
der shoes oud in dot vay  unt  he choins dot 
shureh to hold dot trade,  unt  prospers; so I 
choined der Methodists.”

“What did you gain by that?”
“Vy,  der Methodists kneel down unt vare 
der pritches  at der knees out ven dey  bray, 
unt dey bray long unt vare pig holes in dem
pritches.  Veil,  I sells clothing to dem Meth­
odists unt makes monish.”

“But don't you have to donate  considera­

ble to the support of the church?”

“Yah; I puts much money in  dot  shureh 
basket,  but  efery  time  I  donates  to dot 
schurch I marks pritches  oop den  per cent 
und gits more as efen.”

C. S. YALE & BRO.,
FLAYORING  EITRAGT8 ]

—Manufacturers  ot—

BÀKING  POWDERS,

* 
B L U I N G S ,   E T C . ,

4 0   an d   42  S o u th   D iv isio n ,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN

No Time to Spare.

Gentleman—Uncle Rastus,  I’ve got a  job 

of whitewashing for you.

Uncle Rastus—Well,  I kain’t do  hit  ter- 

dayr,  sail.

Gentleman—What’s the matter? I thought 

you were anxious for work.

Uncle Rastus—So I is,  sah.  But yo’ see, 
boss,  de Colored Workin’meu’s Amulgumat- 
ed ’Sociashun fo’ de perteeshun ob de labor­
in’ man frum the encroachments an’ inroads 
ob cap’talists meets  terday,  and  lse  been 
’lected Cha’rman  ob  de  occashun.  So,  yo’ 
sees,  boss,  I hain’t got no time to spa’r.

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 
packed  in  100  pound  pockets.  Dan Tal- 
mage’s Sous,  New York.

The prominent sheep raisers in Tennessee 
have resolved to abandon  the business,  ow­
ing to the want of a dog  law,  asserting that
300.000 sheep cannot be  maintained against
500.000  dogs. 
_______________

SHERWOOD  HALL.

MARTIN  L.  SWEET

E S T A B L IS H E D   18 6 5 .

JO B B E R S   O F

Wool Robes, 
For Robes,

Horse  Blankets,

Write for Special Prices,

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

O Y S T E R S !

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

02

HERCULES !
A N N IHILATOR !

The Great Stump and Rock

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts.

Farmers, practice  economy  ami  clear your 
land  of  stumps  and  boulders.  Mam  Office, 
Hercules  Powder  Company,  ho.  40  Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
L.  S. HILL & CO., AGTS. 

GUNS,  AMMUNITION  k FISHING  TACKLE,

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

—WITH —
BALL

Rubber1
BOOTS1
DOUBLE THICK 
Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first on 
the ball.  The CANDLE 
Boots are d o u b le  thick 
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE WEAR.
M ott economical rub­
ber Boot in the market. 
Lasts  longer than  any 
other  boot,  and  the
PRICE NO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex­
amine  the 
goods.

FOR SALE BY

E .   G .  S t u d l e y   &   C o . ,

b

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a

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d

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

COLE  &  EMERY,

Manufacturers of  L E A T i p ,
q q d& 
BELTING, and all kinds of  RUBBER  GOUD». 
Fire Department and mill su p p lies.  Jo b b c rs  ot 
“Candee”  Rubber  Boots,  ¡shoes  and  Arctics, 
Heavy and Light » « ^ ’«rClothing  Salesroom 
No. 14 Canal street.  Factory, ¿0  and  -8  Fean 
St., GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH.

Wholesale Fish and Oyster Depot,
“ W A R R E N ’S   C R IP.”

37  C anal  St.,  G rand  R a p id s,  M ich .

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  Ornish  500 
“Gutter Snipes” advertising the cigar, with every first order for 500 of them.  W e wa 
one good agent in every town to whom we will give exclusive sale.

MANUFACTURED  BY

Geo. T. W arren & Co

F L IN T .  MIOH.

Paying Old Debts.

“It’s a terrible thing to owre money,” said 
Smith.  “To be compelled to dodge  around 
this corner and that to avoid meeting a cred­
itor on the street, 
It  takes  the  manhood 
out of one,  and  he  soon  loses  all  self-re­
spect. 
I am glad to  say that  I no  longer 
owe a dollar.”

‘Then those old debts that have bothered 
yon so long are all  squared  up,  are  they ?
“Yes,  thank  heaven!  The  last  one be­

came outlawed yesterday.”
Attachment of Salaries of Postal Employes.
The Postmaster-General  has  rendered a 
decision to the effect that salaries  of  postal 
employes cannot be attached  for  debt,  and 
he will send out instructions to  postmasters 
to disregard  attachments 
issued  by  state 
courts, but appear individually in  court and 
state that they are possessed of  no property 
belonging to the debtor.  The salaries are to 
be regarded  as  United States  funds  until 
they pass from the hands of the  postmaster 
into those of his employes.

The Chicago Way.

Little girl from Chicago—“Our  family  is 

a more aristocratic family than yours.”

Little girl from Boston—“No, it isn’t.  My 
mother can boast of her  forefathers  for the 
past two centuries

Little  girl  from  Chicago—“Oh,  that  is 
nothing.  Mv mother can boast of four hus 
bands in the last two years.”

At a Matrimonial Agency.

Agent:  “I have  one lady  twenty  years 
of age  who has $30,000 in her own  name.” 

Customer:  “Is she good looking?”
Agent:  “No,  but she  has  got  the  con­

sumption.”

Customer:  “Just  the  kind of  a  wife to 

make me happy.  Trot her out.”

Since California began to import ostriches, 
the Government  of  the Cape of Good Hope 
has imposed an export duty of $500  a  head 
on ostriches in order to keep  the  birds and 
the ostrich feather business at home.

Cincinnati is,  by a kind  of  tradition that 
has outlived its day,  called the  hog-packing 
city of the West.  It used  to be  familiarly 
known as  “Porkopolis.”  But 
it is now  at 
the bottom of a list of  eight great  packing 
cities.  Chicago  packs  two-thirds  of  the 
hogs treated in this way, and Cincinnati less 
than 3 per cent, of the whole number.

An important industry  for Michigan may 
develop from Mrs. J.  B.  Gaylord’s efforts at 
silk culture.  This lady  has  at her home in 
Charlotte 30,000 silk worms in all  stages of 
existence,  and  a  thriving  condition.  The 
cold spring retarded the growth of  the mul­
berry and osage orange leaves,  on which the 
worms feed,  and delayed in consequence the 
hatching season.

Somebody  remembers  that  Morse  once 
predicted that  talking  through  a  hundred 
miles of wire would  become  common,  and 
that ocean steamers on a voyage would keep 
up  communication  electrically  with  the 
shore.  The  first  prediction  having  come 
true,  the  second  is  hopefully'  regarded, 
though regarded as wild when  made.

Low Prices and Fair Prices.

From the Banker’s  Magazine.

By many it is maintained  that low prices 
are the goal toward which we should always 
run.  They believe that  under  such a con-' 
dition our country would  reap  unparalleled 
prosperity.  This is one  reason  why  they 
are opposed to the present industrial policy, 
because  the  tendency of it is  to  maintain 
higher prices,  and they  would  abolish  it in 
order to bring in that much desired era.  We 
are unable  to assent  to  this  doctrine  that 
prosperity and low prices  are  synonymous.
If they were,  why are they  not  prospering 
at the present  time?  Certainly  prices  are 
low enough to  satisfy the  worst  bear,  and 
yet all know that we are  not living in pros 
perous times.  Complainers  abound  every- 
where.  Nor are  these  confined  simply to 
one class of people.  But it so happens that 
every person  living on this  planet is a buy 
er or seller.  He has  two  faces  or sides to 
him like the moon  or  a  cheese;  but  these 
low-price  people  unfortunately  never  see 
but one.  They contemplate the human race 
solely as buyers,  and forget that they are al­
so sellers.  We cannot  buy unless  we sell, 
and if we demand a low price in purchasing 
we must also expect a low price  in  selling. 
Now,  this is only  another  way  'in  stating 
that prosperity is synonymous, not with low 
prices, but with fair ones.  We  are all anx­
ious to buy at the lowest  prices  and sell at 
the highest, but this  cannot  be  done.  We 
cannot take advantage  of  one  another uni­
versally in that way. 
If  we  attempt  this 
we shall miserably fail.  Perhaps  as  strik­
ing an effect  of  low  prices at  present  as 
could be mentioned are  the  freight charges 
on our  principal  railways.  Some of  these 
lines which had  for  years  paid  dividends 
with the utmost regularity are on the  brink 
of bankruptcy.  Who are gainers by such a 
change?  Certainly not that large class who 
depended on  such  roads  for  regular  divi­
dends.  Certainly not that large  class  who 
find their  wages  reduced  in  consequence 
Nor are shippers,  for they frankly  say that 
they do not  complain  so much  of the  low 
rates as of  the  unequal  ones,  which  have 
been prevailing of late.  When a man  sells 
a thing for less than  it  costs  him,  that loss 
is either taken from his  capital  or, w’hat is 
true in many  cases,  from  that  of  the per­
sons from  whom  he  originally  purchased; 
hence the enormous bankruptcies  of  which 
wre hear from day to day. 
It is a  long  and 
doleful list.  These bankruptcies mean that 
people have  been  selling  without a profit 
and using up the capital  of  others  besides 
their own.  The consumer may rejoice over 
his cheap purchases perhaps, but he does not 
think that some  one else  was paying a por- 
itonofthe  purchase  for him.  Perhaps he 
did not iare, but  such  was  the  case.  We 
do not believe that in a  healthy state of so­
ciety such a state of things will exist. When 
times are truly prosperous  people  will  get 
fair prices all around  and this  is the test of 
truly solid civilization. 
If they  become too 
low,  then losses and bankruptcy arise,  from 
which  society  in  the  end is generally the 
loser.

11 may  ue 
It may  be  mentiorted  in  this  connection

...  .....  ________ Two  years  ago  the  premium  was.

Paris is cleared of rats  by her  municipal 
council offering a premium for  their  skins.
the  premium  was  $3  per
that low prices are not always a good  thing  1,000 in order to get the city rid of the pests 
or can be considered as low  when  they  are  The rats are of the  Norway land  and breed 
the result of enormous combination of  capi-  four times a year.  The skins when collect- 
tal and great manufactories and very  small  ed are sold to glove  makers for  tour  cen 
rewards of labor 
each,  and  20,000  skins  are  said  to  have
It is a deplorable  state of  things  when a  been, made  into  “genuine kid”  gloves  as 

The merchant tailors of  Cincinnati  have 
just  organized  a  protective  association, 
which includes all the leading  firms,  and is 
designed  to  weed  out  fashionable  “dead 
beats.”  A  solicitor  is  to be  employed to 
make a  register  of  non-paying  customers, 
copies of which are to be furnished to mem­
bers who are bound  to  supply  information 
in regard to them  under  penalty of suspen­
sion or expulsion.

few make all the money,  and the great  nia- | year 
jority of people suffer.  When  we  turn to 
our census and read  the  enormous accumu­
lation  of  wealth  and  the  comparatively 
small number of  persons  who  enjoy  that 
wealth,  we are 
inevitably lead  to  exclaim:
There is something  wrong in  our  civiliza­
tion!  Great wealth  and  great  poverty do 
not harmonize.  And it  requires  but  little 
study to find out precisely what  change has 
occurred  in  society,  whit  has  happened,
The largest cheese  ever  manufactured in 
■whereby a few,  either  legally  or  illegally, 
this  country  was  made  recently  at  East 
or in some cases by  accident,  have  become 
Aurora, Erie county N. Y.  It was ordered by 
enormously rich. 
In the  case of  the  great 
a prominent grocer of Buffalo,  who,  during 
factorie, sproducts are  often  sold  low,  and 
the process of  its  manufacture,  threw  ten
we are asked:  Is this not a gain to society?
But right here we must interposé.  Suppos-  $5 gold pieces into  toe  milk. 
Its  weight
ing the products are sold low,  the aggregate  will be 3,300 pounds  T h e t a k e n  
Sa L  enormous and the  owners  become im-  from 2,600 cows,  which it took 300 hands to 
mensely rich out of the enterprise, then it is  milk.  An excursion of between  0 
certain beyond all question  that  they  have  prominent citizens  left  Buffalo  to  witnes 
not^ided fairly with their employes.  Low | the  construction  of  so  huge  a - mass  of 
as toe product may be to  toe  consumer  the 1 cheese.

Positively the Best Iron 
and Brass Pendants in the 
market.  Every one w ar­
ranted to please your cus­
tomer in every particular.

A. Geiss & Co.
New “Chicago” Electric 
Lamps and founts sold at 
prices which  we  guaran­
tee.  Send  for  Circular 
and Price-Lists.

IRON 

LIBRARY 
LAMPS.

W ith  14  inch  W hite  or! 
Decorated  Shade,  com­
plete.

W e quote:

Ebony and Gold fin­

ish, each 

. 

.  $1.75

French  Bronze,  fin­

. 

ish 
1-65
Decorated  Shade  25c

. 

. 

more.

Full Illustrations of LI­
BRARY  LAMPS includ­
ed in our new  Catalogue. White  Shade —
I Decorated Shade
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Each  comp

MANUFACTURE  A

T h e  F a v o r i t e   B r a n d s

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

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

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO.,

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

APPLES E3

W e have a large Western 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,

, 
Reference—First National Bank. 

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157  s   W A TER   ST.,  CHICAGO,  IL L .

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P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S   IN

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WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL USE.

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FiM p  art  Domestic  F ris, S o im   V Btalfc, Etc.

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

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

- 

Grand Bap.ds, M.ch.gan

and 09 Canal Street, 

97

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

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

