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BY  HJALMAR  H. BO YEN SEN.

Mrs. Moe’s tanner  had in  the meanwhile 
entertained her with a didactic discourse on 
the  education  of  children.  Education,  as 
he believed,  was  his  forte,  in  spite of  the 
fact that one of his daughters had run away 
with a  barkeeper.
•  “Spare the rod,  spoil the child, that is my 
notion,” he observed sententiously.  “Whip, 
whip, whip—that  is  the  good  old  Norwe­
gian way. 
I  was  whipped  myself  until  I 
was black and blue twice a  week regularly, 
when  I  was  a  boy,  and  I  shouldn’t  have 
been the man I  am if  I hadn’t  been  whip­
ped.  Mp father, ma’am, he didn’t spare the 
harness,  I tell yer.  He was a sensible man, 
and so am I.  My children, ma’am, they have 
been raised  on  the  same  fare,  and  I have 
had joy of them.”

A rotund matron vUs-OrVls, who had listen­
ed to this discourse with visible amusement, 
remarked,  quite audibly, that tanner  Chris­
tianson was a frugal  man whom it took lit­
tle to satisfy; whereupon Tanner Christian­
son looked  apoplectic,  emptied  a  glass  of 
claret,  and  confined  his  attention  to  the 
roast chicken.

James, In the meanwhile, was being cross- 
examined as to his marriage, his income and 
his  antecedents,  by  a  little  shriveled-up 
Danish  grocer  and  his  wife,  who  seemed 
charmingly  harmonious  in  their  desire  to 
make  themseves  disagreeable.  They  in­
quired whether his  watch  chain was  real, 
how much his watch cost,  etc.,  and they in­
terjected the title “Snedker”  (cabinet-mak­
er) between  every fifth  or  sixth word they 
uttered,  probably because they  divined that 
he did not relish it.

“Then  your  father  was  not  a  cabinet 
maker,” the husband remarked,  “and it was 
a kind of come-down in  the  world for  you 
to take up a trade; isn’t that  it?”

“An honest trade is  not a come-down for 
any man,  Grocer Tullerup,”  answered Moe 
*  “Ah no!  what a true  word  you  utterec 
there!” the wife  exclaimed.

“But since you have married such a high 
toned  American  wife;  Mr.  Cabinet-maker 
Moe,  you, of  course,  prefer  to  keep  aloof 
from your  rude  countrymen,  and  from  us 
plain folks in general.”

“But that is indeed so  perfectly natural, 
ejaculated Mrs. Tullerup.  “Birds of a feath 
er flock together.”

“But  birds  of  no  feather,  Mr.  Cabinet­
maker  Moe,”  said  Tullerup,  laying  down 
his knife and  fork  impressively,  “have to 
flock all alone.”

But, my dear Tullerup, how can they do 

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that?” asked his wife.

“I mean,”  continued  Tullerup,  growing 
confused,  that birds-—of no particular feath­
er—are  really  neither  fowl  nor  fish,  and 
neither the fowls  nor the fishes  will in the 
end have anything to do with them.”

“That  is  true,  Mr.  Grocer  Tullerup,” 
James responded, inclined  to laugh in spite 
of  his  annoyance,  “although  fishes  with 
feathers,  you will admit, are a novelty.”

“I did not say,  Cabinet-maker  Moe,  that 
I said they had no par­

fishes had feathers. 
ticular feathers.”

“Which is perfectly  true,  Cabinet-maker 
Moe,” his  wife  chimed  in,  anxious  to aid 
him.

By the time the first two dishes  were dis­
patched, the  guests  began to grow thirsty, 
and a steady popping of corks accompanied 
the conversation.  Two jolly fellows, a doc­
tor and  a  retired  ship  captain,  who  were 
sitting  opposite  to Moe, were having a tre­
mendous  joke all  to  themselves,  and  they 
laughed  until  they  nearly  rolled  off  their 
chairs.

“That is a first rate notion of  yours,  doc­
tor,” said  the ship captain  slapping  ills leg 
in glee;  “we’ll  have  him  under  the  table, 
the  confounded  high-flier,  or  my  name  is 
not Jonas Hansen.”

“ ’Sdeath and pain!  how we’ll  make  him 
squirm!”  chimed  in  the  doctor,  in  high 
feather.  “That superfine rascal,  he thinks 
lie lias done a fine thing in turning his back 
on his own people and  marrying an Ameri­
can shop-girl.  You  may  call  me  Jack if I 
haven’t had dozens  of  them  so madly gone 
on me that I could have whistled  them after 
me  like  a  leash  of  hounds  through  the 
streets!”

The skipper could easily match this boast 
with another of a still more piquant nature; 
the doctor, who could not  bear to be outbid 
in that line, was instantly ready with a still 
taller story; and the two friends grew vocif­
erous, and would  probably  within  another 
moment have pulled each other’s hair if-Moe 
had  not  opportunely  offered  himself  as 
peacemaker.  That reminded them  of their 
joke, which they had lost sight of, and their 
wrath subsided.

“Here is  to  your  health,  Cabinet-maker 
Moe,” said the doctor,  lifting  his glass and 
clinking it against that of Moe.

“Thanks,” replied Moe,  and took a sip of 

sherry.

“Ho!  ho!” shouted the  skipper,”  “is that 
the way you  honor  your host?  Sip  at his 
wine,  as if it were  111k!  Come,  come,  sir, 
drain  your  glass  like  a  Norseman.  No 
skulking.”

Moe,  to  avoid  difficulties,  emptied  his 
glass, which was immediately refilled.  Half 
a  dozen  other  wines—Burgundy,  Tokay,

the 

champagne—and 
insidious  Swedish 
punch were served; enough to bring the har­
diest  toper  under  the  table.  Everybody 
lifted his glass  to  drink with Moe  and his 
wife,  and everybody insisted that they should 
reverse their glasses after drinking.

“Now',  if  he  had  taken  a  good  Norse 
wife,” said the  skipper,  sotto  voce, to  the 
doctor,  “she would see him  home  to-night, 
put him bed,  and make  no more ado  about 
it.”

The majority of  the male  portion of  the 
company were now in  their  cups,  and their 
conversation grew noisy and quarelsome; for 
it is a peculiarity of  Norsemen,  as it was of 
their  Viking  ancestors,  that  intoxication 
powerfully stimulates their self-esteem, and 
makes them ache  to  defy  creation.  Moe s 
jaunty clothes  and  undemocratic  maimers 
irritated them,  and his wife’s cool demeanor 
intensified the  feeling. 
If  they could only 
gei him under the table they might, perhaps, 
have contented themselves without infleting 
bodily harm; but  Moe was  shrewd  enough 
to suspect a  conspiracy  to fuddle  him, and 
he was gradually deciminating the  ranks of 
his foes without showing the least unsteadi­
ness.  Little Grocer Tullerup, who  had got 
so immensely elated at  being  initiated  into 
the plot, had been  forced  to retire from the 
battlefield; and  several good  men  and  true 
had  seen  fit  to  follow  his  example.  The 
host still kept his  post  but he was red  and 
sullen, and dangerous to look at.  His wife, 
who had  been  made  uncomfortable  during 
the entire  evening by Mrs.  Moe’s splendor, 
occasionally  come  and  whispered  to  him, 
and every time  there came  a wilder  gleam 
into his  eyes.

“Why don't  yer  drink?”  he  growled  at 
Moe,  in Norwegian.  “Why  do  yer sit and 
snuff at your liquor  like  a  new-born  calf? 
Perhaps yer don’t think  it is good enough.”
“My  dear  Bergerson,”  nis  partner  re­
sponded,  “your  liquor is  excellent; but you 
must see that if  I  drained  my  glass  every 
time I am toasted,  I  should  by this time be 
under the table.”

‘Many an honest man has  been there be 
fore you, Mr.  Cabinet-maker  Moe,” observ 
ed the skipper opposite.

“I don’t doubt  it,  Skipper  Thommesen,” 
said Moe,  laughing; “but not all that honest 
men do is worthy of imitation.”

“Still less what knaves do!” exclaimed the 
doctor,  setting  down  his  glass  so violently 
that it broke;  “and  the  man  who  sniffs at 
good liquor is a  knave.”

“A  true  word  you  said  there,  doctor,” 
Mrs.  Bergerscn  remarked,  with  a  vicious 
flash in her  eyes;  “but  from  folks  as goes 
back on their country,  what can a body  ex­
pect?” 
.
This  latter remark,  which  was  made  111
English for  Mrs. Moe’s  benefit,  reached its 
destination. 
In  spite  of  the  mingling  of 
foreign and  native  speech,  she  understood 
perfectly the situation; and, without betray­
ing even by a blush the  storm that was rag­
ing within her,' she  arose with stately com­
posure,  and  begged her husband to accom 
pany her.

. 

“I  hope  you  will  excuse  us  ladies  and 
gentlemen,” said Moe;  lifting  his glass po 
litely to the company; “my wife feels indis­
posed  and is compelled to withdraw.”

Then, turning to Mr. and Mrs.  Bergerson, 
with the elaborate  manner  which to  them 
seemed so odious, he continued:

“Permit me also,  in  my  own  behalf  and 
that of Mrs.  Moe,  to  thank  our  host  and 
hostess for  a very delightful evening.”

“That is a lie!”  shouted  Bergerson,  in a 

sudden white rage.

Moe,  who  had  risen  to  retire, 

turned 
about  in  quick  surprise.  He  stared  for a 
moment at  Bergerson,  with  an  angry  im­
perious glance.  Bergerson scowled uneasily 
and fidgeted on his chair.  But  the  instant 
the glance was averted,  he  picked up a bot­
tle,  and hurled  it  with  furious  force at his 
partner’s  head.  Moe  dropped  as if he had 
been shot,  at  his  wife’s  feet.  The  guests 
jumped up, chairs were  everthrown, decan­
ters and glasses  crashed  against  the  floor, 
doors were slammed, and all was confusion. 
Mrs.  Moe,  kneeling  at  her  husband’s  side, 
stared with  terrified  eyes  into  his  counte­
nance.  He was pale, terribly pale.  A slen­
der stream of blood was trickling down over 
his neck and shirt-collar.  “Send for  a doc­
tor,”  she  cried  suddenly,  “and  a  police­
man.”

No one stirred.
“Run for for a doctor,” she repeated, with 
a  wild  penetrating  voice,  “and  a  police­
man.”
A strange,  expectant calm  had  fallen up­
on the noisy assembly.  Some shuffled about 
as if to  bestir  themselves,  and  looked  un­
easily toward their host.

over the prostrate  man.  He  fumbled for a 
moment with his wrist,  listened to his heart 
beat,  and then  got up with difficulty.  Ber­
gerson,  who was  still  sitting  at  the  table, 
staring  vacantly  before  him,  followed  his 
motions mechanically.  As he  met the doc­
tor’s eye he gave  a  start,  and  hesitatingly 
arose.  “I wouldn't wait for the police, if I 
were you,” said  the  doctor,  and  sauntered 
out into the hall.

Bergerson  sank  slowly  down  upon  the 
chair,  seized  his curl and began to twist  it. 
After a  pause,  which  seemed  endless,  his 
wife walked up to him, on tiptoe, and whis­
pered in his ear.

“No,” he screamed  hoarsely,  “I will not 

ran.”

Darting up he seized her by the wrist with 
an iron clutch,  and  dragged  her  across the 
floor to where Moe was lying.

“Look there!” lie  yelled,  with  a  terrible 
husky  laugh;  “look  what  you  have  done! 
We were friends till  you  came.  He  made 
me what I am,  and  I  knew  it.  But  your 
hate spoiled your sleep and mine; and this is 
what came of it.”

nearer to the bed.  He arose, but  fell again 
on his knees at the bedside.

“I am going away, Jens,” he  said  huski­

ly.  “I came to bid you good-by.”
“Where are you going, Truls?”
“Back to  Norway.”
“But the factory,  Truls?  There is a for­
tune in it.  You don’t want to go way from 
that.”

“Yes;  I  want  to  go  away  from  every­

“But I  won't  let  you,  unless  you  take 

witlv you what is yours.”

“At home I  shouldn’t  know  what to do 

thing.”

with it.”

“You would be a rich man.”
“Mayhap. 
stay  poor.”

I am the kind that had better 

Moe  was  about  to  protest  more  strenu­
ously, but his  wife  beckoned  Bergerson  to 
withdraw.  "

“Good-by, Jens,” he said, with a breaking 
voice.  Don’t  think  hard of me when I am 
gone.”

Before the sick  man  could  answer,  Ber­

gerson was out of the door.

James Moe did not  die,  though he hover­
ed long  between  life  and  death.  He  was 
unconscious  much  of  the  time,  and some­
times delirious.  Splendid business schemes 
floated through His head,  and he raved about 
a  newspaper he meant to found,  which was 
to pave his way to the mayoralty of the city.
At times he made a sort of  triumphal entry 
into his native town  in  Norway,  and made 
speeches to deputations which met him with 
music and banners at the steamboat landing.
It was therefore a surprise to his wife when, 
in his first lucid moment,  lie  turned  to her 
and asked:

“Where is Begerson?”
“n e is in jail,” she answered.
“Who made complaint against him?”
“I.” 
“Then go at once and withdraw it.”
“You are out of your  head,  James,”  she 

m

cried ;l “you certainly do not mean that.

“Yes, 1 do  mean  it,” .he  said.  “If you 

want me to get well,  go at once.”

She was too  weary  with  anxious  watch­
ing  to  offer  resistance.  She  only  clasped 
her hands with a sigh, and walked slowly— 
very slowly—toward the door.

In an hour  she  returned.  She  was  just 
kneeling  at  his  bed  enjoining  silence and 
rest,  when the door was noiselessly  opened 
and  Bergerson  entered.  He  had  left  his 
boots  outside,  and,  as  a  mark  of  respect, 
walked  in  his  stocking  feet.  He  looked 
about shyly in the large, stately room, at the 
rich,  subdued carpet,  the  great  carved bed, 
and the warm  luxurious  tints of  walls and 
ceiling.  With his cap in his hand  he stood 
awkwardly  shifting  his  weight  from  one 
foot to the other,  not  knowing  how  to call 
attention  to his  presence.  So  lie  dropped 
his cap on the iloor, then picked it up again 
for fear it  should  damage  the  carpet,  and 
walked with  slow  and  hesitating  steps to­
ward  the  bed.  Mrs.  Moe  had  buried  her 
face in  the  pillow,  and  only  a  glimpse of 
her  neck and great  dark  coils  of  her  hair 
were visible.  She was crying softly to her­
self, possibly from  weakness, or  because it 
seemed good to  weep.  James’  illness  had 
somehow made him  very precious to  her— 
had revealed  to  her  how  much  she  loved 
him.  She felt ashamed of all her ambitious 
plottings. 
If she  could  but  keep  him, she 
would cheerfully renounce  all  else that her 
heart was set upon.

Bergerson had  now  reached  the  foot of 
the bed.  There, he scarcely  knew why, lie 
fell upon his knees.  The  scene which sur­
rounded  him—the  strange,  soft  stillness, 
the  luxurious  warmth  and  comfort,  the 
wife’s silent grief,  and her husband’s death­
like pallor—wrought  powerfully upon him. 
He had never wept in his life, that he could 
remember; and  yet  a sudden moisture dim­
med  his  eyes,  as he  saw  the two beautiful 
heads so close together  upon  the  same pil­
low,  and  the two  clasped  hands  upon the 
cover lid. 
It began to  become  clear to him 
what he  had  done.  His  rash  act,  and  all 
the bitter envy,  resentment  and hate which 
had prompted it, rase up in all their ugliness 
before him.  He  shuddered.  A  dull,  bur­
rowing  pain  nestled  in  his  breast.  His 
breathing grew heavyjand oppressive.  And 
yet,  though the feeling of his own guilt was 
uppermost,  the thought flashed  through his 
"brain  that  Moe,  in  allying  himself  to  the 
new civilization and the new land, had been 
wiser  than  he,  and had reaped his reward. 
He could not imagine his own wife tenderly 
solicitous for his welfare:  he  could  not im­
agine  himself  and  her  amid  surroundings 
like these; they were of the old world, grov­
eling and unaspiring.  Moe had assimilated 
himself to the new world, and  plunged into 
the rushing current  that  bore  mankind on­
ward.

After  his  recovery Moe  made  extensive 
inquiries both in  Europe  and  America,  but 
he has never been  able  to discover  Berger- 
son’s  whereabouts. 
In  the  meanwhile  he 
has  placed  a  large  sum,  representing  the 
half interest in the business,  to his partner's 
credit,  and hopes that some day either he or 
his heirs may come and claim  it.

The  Moes  in  the  meanwhile  are  well 
launched on the road to  fortune  and honor.

T ra n sm issio n  of P ow er.
From  th e Michigan M anufacturer*

Some interesting experiments on the elec­
trical transmission of power have been made 
recently  by  M.  Marcel  Deprez,  at  Creil, 
Switzerland.  Althouglr  the  dynamo  ma­
chine used to generate the electrical current, 
and the motor  which  converted  the electri­
cal  energy  into  mechanical  power,  were 
placed  side by side  in  the  experiments the 
only connection between them  was through 
a circuit  seventy miles in  length,  or twice 
the distance from Creil  to LaChapelle.  As 
every electrical current  must  have a return 
wire,  or other  conductor,  it  will  be  under­
stood that in the experiments of  M.  Deprez 
the actual transmission of power was over a 
geographical  distance  of  thirty-five  miles. 
The first  series  of  experiments  were  with 
comparatively ¿low  speeds, the  armature of 
the dynamo running at the rate  of  123 rev­
olutions per  minute  and absorbing 43 horse 
power.  Under these  conditions  the  speed 
of the receiving motor  was  154  revolutions 
per  minute,  and  the  available  work  given 
out at its driving shaft was  22.10, or  about 
51.3 per cent, of the initial energy.  In other 
words, the total  loss in the  transmission of 
power over a  wire  to a  distance  of thirty- 
five miles, was less than one-half.

In subsequent experiments,  the  speed of 
the generator  was increased  with better re­
sults. 
T h e  generating machine was given a
speed of 190 turns per  minute,  absorbing 62 
horse power.  With  this  increased current 
the  speed  of  the  motor  was  raised to  248 
revolutions,  giving out  35.8  horse power of 
work,  or nearly 58 per cent.

When the many factors  of  loss are taken 
into account,  the results  of  M.  Deprez  ex­
periments  appear  quite  remarkable.  The 
energy of the coal  consumed  in  generating 
the initial power underwent five transforma­
tions—first into heat,- then  into steam,  then 
into mechanical motion,  then  into electrical 
energy,  and  was  finally  re-converted  into 
mechanical  motion at  the  receiving  motor. 
The above results,  of course, do not include 
the unavoidable waste between  the furnace 
and the driving shaft  of  the  steam engine, 
yi.  Deprez proposes to follow up his experi­
ments with other  of  a more  exhaustive na­
ture,  in which the  generating and receiving 
machines will be  placed respectively  at the 
termini of the line.

Many persons—and  sometimes  good me­
chanics—have only an imperfect understand­
ing of the  terms  “foot  pound”  and “horse 
power.”  A  foot  pound  is  the  energy  re­
quired to raise one pound one foot in a min­
ute, or  the work  developed  by the  descent 
of one pound one foot  in  a  minute.  W att
_who  has  been  called  the  father  of  the
steam engine—ascertained by a series of ex­
periments  that  a  powerful  horse,  working 
ten hours per day, could  exert a force suffi­
cient to  raise  33,000  pounds  one  foot  per 
minute. 
In computing  the motor  capacity 
of his engines,  he therefore  designated as 
horse power,  that which is capable of exert 
ing  continuously  a  force  of  33,000  foot 
pounds.  The conclusions of Watt have beei 
universally  accepted 
in  the  mechanical 
world, and his horse power  has  become the 
standard of  measuring  the  capacity ot  all 
prime  movers.

It  has  been  ascertained  by  experiment 
that a healthy  man  of  average  strength is 
capable of exerting a force of  from 8,000 to 
to 11,000 foot pounds,  or nearly one-thirdof 
afhorse power.  The  tests  by  which these 
conclusions were reached covered only short 
periods of exertion, 
It is  extremely doubt­
ful whether  any person  not  a  professional 
athlete or  a  phenomenally  powerful  man, 
could sustain a  continuous  exertion  equiv- 
i  alent to 1,000 foot pounds.*

“You cowardly, murderous crew!” scream­
ed  Mrs.  Moe,  starting  forward,  as  if  she 
would  have  liked  to  tear  them to  pieces. 
But the table was between her and her near­
est foe.  That recalled her to her senses.  She 
paused for a moment,  then  turned abruptly 
about, and rushed  out  into  the  hall.  The 
outer door, too,  was  tom open,  and the icy 
air from without rolled in like  great steam­
ing billows.  A shuddering  chill crept over 
the company;  but  no  one  rose  to  shut the 
door. 
It was ^s if a paralyzing fear had be­
numbed them.
She rose hesitatingly,  and invited Berger
ed unsteadily across  the'floor  and  stooped* son, with eyes still  full  of  distrust, to step

Truls  was  still  dimly  struggling  with 
these thoughts  when  Moe  opened his eyes. 
He did not seem  surprised  to see his  part­
ner, but held out his hand to him, and beck­
oned  him  nearer.  Antoinette,  aroused  by 
the  motion,  raised  her  head  and  stared 
aghast at Bergerson.

The doctor was the first to stir.  He walk­

“Let him  come  near  to  me,”  whispered 

James.  “I wish to speak with him.”- 

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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms 51 a y e a r in  ad v an ce, p o stag e  paid. 
A d v e rtisin g  ra te s  m ade k n o w n  on  ap p licatio n .

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  20,1885.

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—L ester J . Rindge.
V ice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
T reasu rer—Geo. B.  D union.
A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening 
R egular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  even­

of October.
ing of each m onth.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association.

President,  F rank  H am ilton;  Secretary,  C.  T. 

Lockwood;  T reasurer, J. T. Beadle.

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

The hyper-roseate accounts of  the revival 
of business which the newspapers have been 
publishing  seem  to  have  awakened  in the 
working  classes  expectationsTof  a  speedy 
rise in wages,  which  is  increasing the diffi­
culties of the manufacturers  to  keep  afloat 
until the tide of revival really reaches them. 
In New England the peaceful termination of 
the strike of  the lasters against shoe manu­
facturers at Brocton is [likely to be followed 
by similar strikes by men in other [branches 
of the business.  On the other hand the great 
strike of the  coal-miners  in  the  Mononga- 
hela valley, begun the day before Mr. Cleve­
land’s  inauguration,  has  now  ended in the 
entire surrender of the workmen, who go to 
work on the terms awarded  by  the  arbitra­
tors before the strike began.  Their prolong­
ed refusal to  abide by arbitration  naturally 
robs the miners of the sympathy of  all who 
hope for some peaceful  method  of  settling 
the issues  between capital  and labor.  But 
the strike itself  was  in  a  high  degree  un­
wise.  The application of natural gas to the 
working of iron and cooking of food has in­
flicted very serious  blows  on the  coal trade 
of\ Western  Pennsylvania,  and  the  manu­
factures could not  pay the wages they were 
asked to  give.  The  decision  of  the  arbi­
trators was  just,  and  the  rejection of it by 
the workmen was  unjustifiable.

There  seems  to  be  a new  awakening  of 
interest in co-operation in this country.  The 
successful introduction of co-operative man­
ufacture  in  barrel-making  at  Minneapolis 
has helped to this, and other attempts at co­
operative production or distribution are very 
widely notimi.  This is an outcome of lmrd- 
times,  and  of  the  failure  of  the  laboring 
classes to derive  any  commensurate benefit 
from the  great  cheapness  of  commodities, 
through  the  middle-man  absorbing  more 
than  a  just  reward  for  his  services.  The 
fanner gets less than  he  did  six  years ago 
for Ins  wheat,  and  yet  the  artisan  knows 
that he has to pay just  as  much  for bread, 
at a time when he can  least afford it. 
It is 
true  that  everywhere  the  deposits  in  the 
savings banks show an increase  in both the 
amount of deposits  ami  number  of deposi­
tors.  There  is,  therefore,  good  reason  to 
hope that the working classes are not falling 
behind.  Yet  the  pressure  of  outlay  upon 
income  in  the  case  of  the  workingman’s 
budget must suggest to  him the  wisdom of 
setting aside all  who  are making  excessive 
profits out of his diminished wages,  and go­
ing more directly to the  producers of what­
ever he wants.

The annexation,  or  rather  the  partition, 
of Bunnah is complete.  To secure the good 
will of China the upper part of the kingdom 
has been ceded to  that  empire,  with the re­
sult of advancing the  Chinese  frontier still 
closer  to  Calcutta.  That  this  whole  pro­
ceeding is a  whit  better  than  the partition 
of Poland a century ago  is  hard to  see.  A 
half-civilized nation has  just  as much right 
to its own existence and its autonomy as has 
a three-quarters civilized  nation. 
Its parti­
tion among more  powerful  neighbors  is  as 
much the murder of a nation as  the hewing 
of his body to pieces is themurderof a man. 
The English seem  to  feel  that  they  need 
some  apology for  their  act,  and  they tele­
graph with  anxious  care  that  their  troops 
were welcomed by the  trading classes.  As 
many of these are Chinese, there is no doubt 
that English rule is welcome to them just as 
the English conquest of New York would be 
received with rapture  by  at least  one-third 
of its wholesale merchants.  Better evidence 
than this is needed  to  prove  that  the Bur­
mese like the  new  rule  any  better  than do 
the Hindoos,  to whom it is not  new,  but  is 
justly and  intensely hateful.

The apple season has not been a favorable 
one  for  buyers,  all  things  considered.  A 
leading South Water  street  firm has 10,000 
barrels  in  warehouse,  and  the  necessary 
sorting  incident  to  so  large a  quantity re­
quires the constant effort of  a gang of men. 
The fruit  is not  keeping  nearly  so well as 
last year.  A leading  authority on  the sub­
ject asserts  that  there  are  enough  apples 
stored in the  North and  Northwest  to  last 
the country for a straight year.

There is less surplus  cheese in store now 
than at the same date in the last eight years, 
which is favorable  to  higher  prices  in  the 
spring, providing  the market  is not clogged 
with  a heavy make  of cheese from  hay-fed 
milk.  The loss such a course entails on the 
summer  and  fall  cheese  is  more  than the 
bay-cheese is worth.

AMONG  THE TRADE.

IN   THE  CITY.

Emens  &  Hill  have  engaged  in  general 
trade at Emens’ Siding.  Arthur Meigs & Co. 
furnished the grocery stock.

Perkins & Co.  sold forty shingle machines 
last year,  and have  received  orders for sev­
enteen machines so far this year.

It is reported that H. Herrendeen will re­
move his hardware stock from Kent Cityjto 
Grand Bapids,  locating  on  South  Division 
street.

F.  Goodman  &  Co.,  general  dealers  at 
Bum ip’s  Comers,  have  put  in  a  line  of 
crockery. 
II.  Leonard  &  Sons  furnished 
the stock.

Kemp  &  Co.,  flour  and  feed  dealers  on 
Pearl street, have  dissolved,  A.  B. Knowl- 
son retiring.  The business will be continued 
by Mr.  Kemp.

The  Belknap  Wagon  &  Sleigh  Go.'i'has 
added a line of  blacksmiths’  iron  and  sup­
plies, which  is  jobbed  in  connection  with 
the manufacturing business.

Shields, Bulkley & Lemon have dissolved, 
Messrs. Bulkley and Lemon purchasing*the 
interest of the  retiring  partner.  The  new 
firm name has  not  been  determined  upon, 
but the  succeeding  partners  will  continue 
at the old stand.

A.  Dodds has  lately  shipped  patent car­
vers  to  Columbus  Cabinet Co.,  Columbus, 
Ohio; Indiana Furniture  Co.,  Connorsville, 
Iud., and Decatur  Furniture  Co.,  Decatur, 
Ills.  He has also sold one of  his  swinging 
saws to the Fondu Lac  Furniture Co.,  Fon- 
du Lac, Wis.

C. O. & A.  D. Porter  have  recently  sold 
carving machines to Grant  &  Son, Johnson 
City, Tenn.; Titusville Bedstead Co., Titus­
ville, Pa.;  Quakertown  Manufacturing Co., 
Quakertown,  Pa.; Loring  Organ  Co.,  XVor- 
chester,  Mass.,  and  Walton  &  Malcom, 
Skincardine,  Out.

Jas. Fox aiid L.  C.  Bradford have formed 
a copartnership under the firm name  of Fox 
& Bradford,  and will engage in  the jobbing 
of tobaccos and cigars at  same  location yet 
to be determined. 
“Jim”  and  “Cass”  are 
both thorough hustlers, and will undoubtedly 
secure their share of the trade.

It is the Carbonatine—not Combination— 
Hard  Finish  Co.,  which  has  recently  em­
barked in business at  1 North  Ionia  street. 
“Carbonatine” is  a compound  which  offers 
superior  advantages  as  a  “putty  coat,”  a 
wall  finish  or  a wood  filler,  and will  un­
doubtedly meet with a large sale.

Chas.  E.  Olney and John G.  Shields have 
formed a copartnership under the firm name 
of Olney,  Shields & Co.—“Co.”  nominal— 
for the purpose of  engaging  in  the  whole­
sale grocery  business. 
It  is  reported  that 
the new firm has rented  the double store on 
North  Ionia  street  formerly  occupied  by 
Hawkins & Perry.  Both partners have gone 
East to buy goods and establish business re­
lations with  the large  houses of New York 
and Boston.

The announcement that  Messrs. Fox and 
Loveridge  had  retired  from  the  wholesale 
grocery firm  of  Fox,  Musselman  &  Lover­
idge  was  not  wholly  unexpected,  but  the 
subsequent  announcement  that  Wm. Wid- 
dicomb  had  formed  a  copartnership  with 
Amos.  S.  Musselman for the purpose of con­
tinuing the business  created  a genuine sen­
sation in business circles.  The arrangement 
gives the new  firm  a strong  backing  finan­
cially,  and under  the guidance of  Mr. Mus- 
selmau the house will undoubtedly continue 
to prosper.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Jacob Sturr, grocer at Dowagiac,  has  sold 

out.

A.  A.  Coon,  general dealer  at  East  Jor­

dan,  has failed.

A.  S.  Martin,  grocer  at  Ithaca,  has  re­

moved to Port  Huron.

J.  W. Weeks succeeds M. Johnson in  the 

grocery business at Horton.

G.  E.  Iloyt,  clothing  merchant at Mason, 

is succeeded by Hoyt & Bates.

Edward Cronin,  general dealer at Ishpem- 

iug,  has been closed on attachment.

M.  W.  Mills has sold his  hardware  stock 

at Otsego to his brother II.  D. Mills.

Dunning & Bilsborrow succeed J. W. Free 
in the hardware business at Paw Paw.
C.  C.  Crosby & Co.  succeed  C. n .  Ashby 
in the grocery business at  Kalamazoo.
Jones & Palmer succeed  Jones  &  Taylor 

in the hardware business at Marcellus.

XV. J.  K.  Martin,  dry  goods  dealer  at 

Greenville, has removed to Port Huron.

Birney &  Wisner  succeed  Simoneau  & 

Wisner in the drug business at Saginaw.

Geo.  C.  Heuston succeeds  llungerford  & 
Heuston in the drug business at  Northville.
A.  P.  Downer,  druggist  and  grocer  at 
Oakley, has been elosed under chattel mort­
gage.

G.  M. XVhite & Co., general and feed deal­
ers at Coldwater,  have been  closed by cred­
itors.

Henry S.  Ballentine  succeeds  J.  B.  Far 
rand in the boot  and shoe  business  at Port 
Huron.

Jas. A. Adams  succeeds  J.  F.  Adams & 
Son in the  boot  and  shoe business  at East 
Saginaw.

H.  C.  I’eckham,  the  Freeport  general 
dealer,  has  recently  discharged the  chattel 
mortgage on his stock.

A. F. Wescott succeeds  Wescott  &  Ran­
dolph in the  hardware and agricultural  im­
plement business at Vernon.

Frank  Achard  succeeds  Hutchinson  & 
Taggart in  the  hardware  and  agricultural 
implement business at Alma.

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J.  M.  XValker has purchased  the  interest 
of J.  P.  Anderson  in hardware  business of 
Walker & Anderson,  at Saranac.

Dibble Bros.,  the Burnip’s Corners gener­
al dealers,  who  were  recently  burned  out, 
contemplate rebuilding with brick.

John  A.  Taleen,  general  dealer  at  Ish- 
peniing,  has  made  an  assignment to John 
XV.  Joelum.  Liabilities,  $60,000;  assets, 
$ 20,000. 

Shattuck & Davis,  grocers  at  Montague, 
are  succeeded  by  S.  D.  Shattuck.  XVilber 
G.  Davis,  the  retiring  partner,  will  go  to 
Florida for his health.

John Stark has retired  from  the  firm  of 
Geo. XV. Miller & Co.,  hardware  dealers  at 
Grand Haven.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued by Geo.  W. Miller.

Babcock,  Smith & Co.,  grocers, coal, lime 
and plaster dealers at Ionia,  have dissolved, 
Bates  &  Hall  succeeding.  The  new  firm 
consists  of  Philo  T.  Bates  and  Ben.  B. 
Hall.

Chas.  Supe, 

the  Bay  City  wholesale 
grocer,  has  assigned.  Simultaneous  with 
the assignment he executed a trust deed for 
$25,000 in order to secure all his creditors as 
far as possible.

J. J. XVright,  the Chippewa  Lake  grocer, 
has absconded,  in consequence of discoveries 
that he overcharged  on  freight  bills  which 
passed  through  his  hands  as  agent.  Mrs. 
Wright will continue  the  grocery business.
Fred Buckland,  a druggist,  at  one time a 
resident of  Ludington, was  recklessly han­
dling  a  revolver  at  his  home  in  Buffalo 
county,  Dakota,  on  Christmas,  when  the 
weapon was discharged,  the  bullet  passing 
through the victim’s heart.

O. A. House the Mendon grocer, doted on 
skating  rinks.  The  amusement  and  exer­
cise were just what he needed.  He attended 
strictly  to  the  business,  and  allowed  his 
store 
to  sort  o’  run  itself.  Mr.  House 
thoughtfully made an assignment last week, 
and it is  estimated  that  he  will  be able to 
pay about 25 per cent,  of  his $3,000 indebt­
edness.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Comstock & Bro., manufacturers of chairs, 
sash and blinds at Adrian,  have removed to 
Oshkosh,  Wis.

Miles & Adams have put in a saw mill  at 
Clarion.  The entire outfit was of Chandler 
& Taylor make  and  was  ordered  through 
J. II. Parker.

Barcus  Bros.,  saw makers at  Muskegon, 
have dissolved, W.  W. Barcus retiring.  The 
business  will  be  continued  by  O.  P.  and 
John R.  Barcus under the  same firm  name.
Chas. J. Robinson,  Secretary of the Dow­
ell  Manufacturing Co.,  was  in town Satur­
day  on  his  way  to  Northern  Michigan, 
where he will endeavor to  secure  contracts 
for supplies of dowell  pins.

J. H. Pearson &  Sons,  of  Saginaw,  have 
sold the North Shore Lumber  Co.’s , mill  at

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Ste.  Marie,  L.  A.  Hart,  of  New  York,  and 
A.  A.  Buell,  of Buffalo.  They will erect at 
South Manistique a planing  mill,  lath mill,  j 
besides other  improvements.

Fremont  Indicator:  W.  J.  Kinne,  of | 
Muskegon,  has arranged to locate a nail keg | 
factory here, using Pumfrey  &  Koyl’s  mill j 
for this purpose.  L. V. Davis is the timber- 
furnisher for this enterprise,  and will be the | 
means of putting a good  deal  of  money  in 
the pockets of our farmers.

Clark & Co.’s carriage factory at Lansing, 
which was  burned  on  the  10th, will be re­
built immediately.  The proprietors,  though 
losing $10,000 outright,  have  the  sand nec­
essary to retrieve their losses,  and will only 
put a little more energy  into  their business 
and soon make up the deficit.
STRAY  FACTS.

Goostrey & DeXVolf, undertakers at Vicks­

burg,  have failed.

O.  S.  Tourgee, of Buchanan,  will  build a 

creamery in that city.

A South Haven man pays $13 dog tax and 

$2.50 tax on real estate.

XVm. XVebb  succeeds  G.  XV.  Imus  in  the 

saloon business at Ludington.

Stewart Bros,  have  moved  their  billiard 

business from Big Rapids to  Ionia.

W.  J.  Mainer  succeeds  XV. J.  Mamer & 

Co.  in the fish business at Detroit.

Cooley C.  Green succeeds  Green  &  Lake 

in the furniture business at St.  Louis.

Thomas  Cowherd  succeeds  Cowherd  & 

Bittell in the tinner business at Jackson.

Nicholas Haas succeeds Weston  &  Haas 
in the plumbing business at  East  Saginaw.
Dimondale will pay a liberal  bonus to the 
man who  will erect a  pulp  mill in that vil­
lage.

J.  Lucas, the Manistee  furniture  dealer, 
was  in  town  last  week,  purchasing  his 
spring stock.

The  Ionia  creamery  manufactured  over 
23 tons of butter last season.  The  patrons 
of the institution number 142.

The firm of Howell & Marsh, the painters’ 
establishment at Battle  Creek,  is  dissolved 
and succeeded by Marsh & Link.

A company  with  $2,000,000  capital  has 
taken a lease of the long idle Grace iron fur­
nace,  at Marquette,  anti will  put it in  blast 
shortly.

The bnsiness men of  Alma  have  formed 
an improvement association and raised $28,- 
000 to be expended  in  buildings for the use 
of the Eastern Michigan normal  school and 
commercial college,  which  will be  removed 
from Fenton  to  Alma  Sept.  1,  1886. 
It is 
expected the institution will  materially add 
to the population and prosperity of Alma.

R. G. Peters, who bought  XV. R.  Reming­
ton’s  interest  in  the  Stronach Lumber  Co. 
paid Mr.  Remington  $100,000  cash and  his 
Midland property, valued at $100,000.  The 
company succeeded  the  late firm of Paggot 
&  Thorson,  having  a  paid-up  capital kof

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bers.  The demand for our own make of Women’s, Misses and Childs’ shoes is increas­
ing.  Send in your orders and they will be promptly attended to.

14 and  16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

$250,000.  For several years  Mr.  Thorson, 
of Milwaukee,  and  Mr.  Remington  owned 
all the stock,  Mr.  Thorson  having  $145,000 
and Mr.  liemingtou $105,000, which he sold 
to Mr.  Peters.

Good Words Unsolicited.

Chas.  Strobo,  general  dealer.  Ferrysberg: 

“ Would feel lost w ithout it.”

A bbott  &  Co., general  dealers, W est  Camp­

bell:  “ Long m ay she wave.”

Wm.  H arris,  general  dealer,  Chase:  “It  is 
ju s t the p aper for th e  business m en  of  N orth­
ern  M ichigan.”

C has.  B u rm e ister, g ro cer, F r a n k fo rt:  “ T h e 
T ra d esm a n is a  liv ely  p a p er, w ell  ed ited ,  and 
fu ll o f new s w hich is o f lively  in te re s t to  d eal­
e rs in  g e n e ra l.”

The Belgan exports of Iron to  the United 
States have kept up nearly to the same level 
as last year.

An Obliging Creditor.

“I’m  looking  for  N o.-----,”  said  a bill (
collector  to  a  pedestrain  on  Grand  River 
Avenue the other day.

“Got a bill I suppose?”
“Yes,  sir.”
“Well,  that number is two  blocks farther 
| up,  and I can save you the  trouble of walk-
Iing*
l 

“Family moved?”
“Oh, no, but I’m the party you want,  and 
j 1 can’t pay  the  bill.  Please  don’t  go and 
| ring the bell,  for  my  wife  has  just gone to 
j bed with the  sick  headache,  and you’ll dis- 
j turb her.  Fine weather for winter,  isn’t it?” 
And he lighted  a  twenty-cent cigar,  took 
¡anew  grip  on  his gold-beaded  cane,  and 
j smilingly wrenched himsell||  vay to pursue 
&is walk.

© r u g s  & flfte ò ic in e g
STATE  BOARD  OE  PHARM ACY.
One Y ear—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Y ears—F. H. J. VanEm eter.  Bay City. 
T hree Y ears—Jacob Joaw n. Muskegon.
F our Y ears—Jam es "V ernor. Detroit.
Five Y ears—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
P resident—O ttm ar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
N ext  place  of  m eeting—A t  Grand  ltapids, 

March 2,1886. 
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Michigan  Slate  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

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Grand Rapids. 

P resident—II. J.  Brdwn, A nn A rbor.
F irst  V ice-President—F rank  J.  W urzburg,
‘
Second V ice-President—A. B. Stevens. D etroit, 
Third V ice-President—F rank Inglis, D etroit. 
S ecretary—S. E.  Parkell,  Owosso.
T reasurer—Wm. D upont, D etroit.
E xecutive  Com m ittee—Jacob  Jesson.  Geo. 
G undrum , Frank Wells, F. W.  R.  P erry  and 
John E. Peck.
Local Secretary—Will L. W hite, G rand Rapids. 
Next  place  of  m eeting—A t  G rand  Rapids, 

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Tuesday, O ctober  12,1886.

Grand Rapids Pharm aceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1884.

OFFICERS.

_

, ,   >,  _  

P resident—F rank J . W urzburg. 
V ice-President—Wm. L. W hite.
Secretary—F rank H. Esoott._
T reasurer—H enry B. Fairchild.
Board  of  C en sors-P resident,  V ice-President 
and Secretary. 
Board  of  T rustees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Iiceuwen, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  W hite, 
Wm. L. W hite. 
_   _
Committee on Pharm acy—M. B.  Kimm,  H.  K.
Loch or and Wm. E. W hite.
Com m ittee on  Trade  M atters—Jo h n   E.  Peck, 
H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. V an L eeu^en. 
Com m ittee  on  Legislation—Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
Isaac W atts and A. C.  Bauer.
Regular  M eetings—F irst  Thursday evening in 
each m onth. 
A nnual  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in 
Novem ber, 
.
N ext Meeting—T hursday evening.  F ebruary 4, 
a t  “The T radesm an” office.

_   _ 

. 

,

D etroit Pharm aceutical Society.

Organized October, 1683.

OFFICERS.

5resident—Wm. D upont.
?irst V ice-President—F rank  Inglis.
Second Vice P resident—J.  W. Caldwell. 
Secretary and T reasurer—F. W.  R. Perry. 
Assistant Secretary and T reasurer—A. B. Salt- 
zer. 
Vnnual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June, 
teg u lar  M eetings—First  W ednesday  in  each 
m onth.

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Jackson County Pharm aceutical Asso­

ciation.
OFFICERS.
President—R. F. L atim er.
V ice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary'—F. A.  King.
T reasurer—Chas. E.  H um phrey.
Board of  Censors—Z.  W.  W aldron. C.  E.  Foot 
A nnual M eeting- F irst Thursday in November. 
R egular  M eetings—First  T hursday  of  each 

and C. H. Haskins.

m onth.
iginaw  County  Pharm aceutical  So­

ciety.

TEMPORARY  OFFICERS.

airm an—H enry Melchers. 
eretary—D. E.  Prall.

Muskegon  D rug  Clerks’  Association.

OFFICERS.

President—I. F. H opkins.
V ice-President—John Meyers.
Secretary and T reasurer—0 . A. Lloyd.
R egular M eetings—Second and  fo u rth   Friday 
N ext M eeting—Friday  evening, Ja n u a ry  22.

of each m onth.

FORMULAS.

For Some  of the  Most  Popular  Remedies 

on  the  Market.

SANFORD’S  RADICAL  CURE  FOR  CATARRH 
ionsists  (according  to  an  analysis made by 
Prof.  A.  B.  Lyons) of  a  distilled extract of 
^itch hazel, containing  a little  alcohol and 
glycerine,  perhaps as much as five per cent, 
if  the  latter  and  between  ten  and  fifteen 
per cent,  of  the former (no exact determin- 
itions  attempted),  also  an  important  con­
stituent—morphine—quantity not estimated, 
riie “solvent” consists  mostly of  niter and 
n-carbonate of  soda,  with a small quantity 
)f  yellow  powder,  insoluble  or  sparingly 
soluble in water—probably a vegetable pow- 
ler.

position  is  obtained  by  dissolving  white 
sugar,  VA ounces avoirdupois  in water, 1A 
fluid ounces, and  mixing thoroughly with a 
solution  of  fluid  extract  of ginger,  2  fluid 
drachms; fluid extract of capsicum, 1 minim; 
fluid extract of sassafras,  15  minims;  oil of 
wintergreen,  1  minim,  in  alcohol,  1  fluid 
ounce and 5 drachms.

LAVARRE’S  SURE  CURE.

Bottle contains 2% fluid ounces of a rath- j 
er turbid,  deep  pinkish  red  liquid  with a j 
sweetish,  saline,  aromatic  taste, the  com­
position of which is about as follows:

t

Fluid e x tract poke  b erries__ 80 minim s, 
Fluid e x tra c t sasssafras...........40 
Liquid am m onia. C austic.........  5 
Sodium b rom ide...........................20 grains.
A lcohol.......................................... Yt n’d ounce.
Oil pep p erm in t............................  1 minim.
Powdered  cochineal.................   4 grains.
W hite  su g a r........................ troy  3  drachm s,  j
W ater (enough to m ake)..........   4 11’ ounces.  ]

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OSGOOD’S  CHOLAGOGUE.

Sulphate of q u in in e............
Fluid ex tract  lep ta n d ria ...
Fluid ex tract stillingia.......
Fluid ex tract  May a p p lo ...
Oil S assafras..........................
Oil  w intergreen...................
New O rleans m olasses.........

__   2  drachm s.
...  1  drachm . 
...  4  ozs.
...  3  drachm s.
__ 10  drops.
...1 0  
....  3%  ozs.

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SCIIENCK S  PILLS.

Schenck’s Mandrake Pills have had an ap­
proximate analysis made of them  by Hager 
(Berlin),  which analysis states that there is 
no  mandrake  contained  in  the  pills,  that 
they contain some  cayenne  pepper,  a bitter 
extract and some  vegetabfe  powder,  which 
lias a percentage  of  tannin.  We  suppose, 
however,  that  these pills  are  nothing more 
or less than a cheap vegetable cathartic pill, 
probably  containing  aqueous  or  alcoholic 
extract of mandrake root and probably some 
aloes and colocyntb.

h o s t e t t e r ’s  h it t e r s.

A similar preparation,  possibly not  quite 
so strong in alcoholic  percentage,  may easi­
ly be made by macerating for 48 hours:

Gentian  15  grains,  blessed  thistle  (car- 
duus  benedictas),  15  grains;  calamus,  15 
grains; orange peel,  60 grains,  with  alcohol 
and water,  in the  proportion  of  6 parts  of 
the former to 4 parts of the latter,  by meas­
ure—enough to  make,  after  straining  and 
expressing,  16 fluid  ounces,  in  which  dis­
solve by agitation white  sugar,  320  grains; 
and add oil orange peel, one drop,  previous­
ly dissolved in smallest quantity of alcohol. 
Decant or filter.

HAMLIN’S  WIZARD  OIL.

Oil  sa ssafras..................... ................fi. 5 i.
Oil  p ep p erm in t............... ............... Ü. 3 ii.
Oil  cloves.......................... ............... H. 3 ii.
A qua  am m onia............... ................il. 1 ss.
Sp. aeth. n itrosi................ ................fi. 5 ii.
Gum  cam phor................. ................Troy 1
A lcohol............................. ................Oi.
Dissolve the oils and camphor in the alco­
hol,  then add the  sp.  niter, and  lastly the 
ammonia.  Let  the  preparation  stand  for 
three or four days before being filtered.

Unjust Tirade  Against the Country Drug­

gist.

[T h e   T r a d e s m a n  gives place to the fol­
lowing contribution  because  of  its disposi­
tion to be fair to  both  sides  of  any contro­
versy, at the same  time  expressly asserting 
that it disapproves of the  statements  made 
by the writer. 
If Mr.  Crandall is in posses­
sion  of  the  information  lie  claims  to  be, 
common honesty  should  impel  him to dis­
close it for the benefit of the public at large. 
Instead  of  making  a  general  accusation 
against the  trade as a whole—an accusation 
which is not  borne out  by  the  facts in the 
matter—it would be more consistent for him 
to secure the  conviction of  the few  dealers 
who disgrace  their profession  by  the  prac­
tice  Mr.  Crandall  imputes  to  them—E d. 
T r a d e s m a n .]

S a n d   L a k e ,  Ja n .  13,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesm an:

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FELLOWS’  SIRUP OF  IIYI'Ol’IIOSPIIITES.
l)r.  Tsclieppe,  after  an  exhaustive  an­
alysis,  gives the active constituents  of  Fel- 
ows’ preparation*as  follows  (100  parts by 
weight):

Pyrophosphate o f iro n ....................15  grs.
Sodium hypophosphite....................45  grs.
Quinine S ulphate.............................   5  grs.
Strychine  (dissolved)......................  
Iter-
Manganese hypophos. or sulphate 15  grs. 
Simple sirup sufficient  to make.. 16  $.
Dissolve by trituration in a  warm mortar, 
vithont the addition of acid.

Quinine and strychnine,  anhydrous. .0.10
H ypophosphites (as sodium  salt)........ 1.00
Iro n  and M anganse,  weighed  as ox­
ide ............................................................ 0.15
Calcium, 
Sulphuric acid,  from  quinine, Vtraces. 
Phosphoric acid, 
Dr.  Tsclieppe proposes  the following for- 
nula,  based on his examination, and which, 
le  says,  practically  demonstrates  the  cor­
rectness of his  analysis,  as  this  product is 
is nearly similar to  Fellows’ sirup of  hypo- 
jhosphites as it is possible to obtain syntheti­
cally:

D e a r   Sir —I  am  a  constant  reader  of 
your valuable  paper,  and  as  such  receive 
instruction and benefit.  Nevertheless, I am 
sometimes lead  to  smile  at  some  opinions 
advanced  or  some  sentiments  deduced by 
your numerous contributors.  For instance, 
at the meeting of the Grand liapids Pharma­
ceutical Society,  held last week in yourcity, 
Dr.  II.  E.  Lociier moved that “Our member 
of Congress be asked to use  his inliuence to 
secure the repeal of  the U.  S.  Revenue  law 
as affecting  druggists,  etc.” 
In discussing 
this  matter,  Dr.  Locher  said,  “There  are 
other reasons why the motion should prevail. 
One is the erroneous idea  that druggists are 
liquor  dealers.  Now,  Mr.  Editor,  I do not 
know but I  am  getting  on  sacred soil and 
forbidden grouiu^ when  I write against this 
sentiment of  druggist  being  liquor  dealers 
in tiie sense  the  good  doctor  wished to be 
understood. 
I remember last winter in our 
Legislature, when the matter was under dis­
cussion, some over-zealous law maker raised 
his hands in  holy horror  at  the  thought of 
druggists selling liquor other than for  legit­
imate purposes.  This sentiment,  as did the 
statement of  Dr.  Locher  above  referred to, 
incited within  me a belief that  the question 
was  being  whitewashed,  either  through a 
lack of knowledge  by its  advocates  or else 
the druggists in yourcity are purer and more 
law-abiding than are  their  country cousins 
and druggists  in  our  little  towns. 
If this 
matter was written up honestly by men  and 
women, too; by men who  visit daily behind 
the show case,  taking often their friend with 
ffiem; and if wives who know that their hus­
bands get their  daily supply of  intoxicants 
behind the druggist’s prescription case even 
when  saloon  keepers  have  refused  to  sell 
them. 
I say,  if one-half  of  the facts could 
Zinc,  su lp h a te..............................20 grains.
Copper su lp h a te............................ jj 
be brought to  light that  curse  this  illegiti­
Tinct. saffron...................................................  * drachm s.
Tinct.  cam phor............................  1  drachm .
mate business  of  selling  liquor contrary to 
Rose w ater.....................................  8 ounces.
law behind prescription  cases,  there  would 
Distil,  w a te r.................................  8 ounces.
be less  holy horror  manifested.  That this 
is a delicate subject  I am fully  alive to; but 
I  know  whereof  I  write. 
I  can  find  you 
druggists who  have  had  large  invoices of 
liquor—larger than saloonists in their towns. 
I can find  you  druggists  whose  customers 
are  among  men  of  influence  and  position 
who  would  hardly  be  seen  in  a  saloon,

T u rp e n tin e ............... 
Sweet o il....................................... 3 
T inct.  arn ica................................4
Oil  originum .................................1  ounce.
Oil hem lock.................................... 1 
Oil ju n ip e r............... 
1
Oil a m b er.......................................2  ounces.
L audanum ....................................."
Spr.  am m onia..............................  Hounce.
C am phor........................................  V*
Th o m pso n’s  e v e   w a t e r .

CUTICURA  RESOLVENT.
This preparation is said to  be:
Aloes so c t....................................   I drachm .
R hubarb  pow’d ..........................  1  drachm .
Iodide p o tas............... 
36 grains.
W hisky..........................................  1 pint.

B eef tallow .................................17 drachm s.
Castor o i l ...................................„5
G allic acid ................................... 30 grains.
Essence vanilla q. s. to  flavor.

The green panel bottle contains full 3 fluid 
unces of a reddish liquid.  A  similar com-

M acerate overnight and filter.

j .   l .  s t.  J o h n ’s  l in im e n t .

iia r d y ’s  o in t m e n t.

PARKER’S  TONIC.

Mix and filter.

J  ounces.

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wending their way silently, but knowingly, 
behind the prescription case.

This selling liquor on a  druggist’s license 
is the bane snd  horror  to  too  many saloon 
keepers.  This is no new phase of the liquor 
traffic.  The practice  is  as old as the drug­
gist business. 
It is a trick of  the trade and 
hence the druggists in  our  little  towns are 
thriving nicely, getting  their  coffers full of 
unholy gain.

1  can  find  druggists  in  towns  where no 
saloon keeper is permitted  to  taint the hal­
lowed  ground  with  his  unholy  and  life- 
destroying,  heaven-accursed  traffic,  where 
any  of  the  knowing  ones  .can  get  their 
morning  drains  without  any  scruples. 
I 
can name  one of  our  smart  inland  towns 
where the drayman  told  the  writer he had 
delivered from  the  depot  as much  or more 
liquor to the  two or  three  druggists of the 
town as he had to the three or four saloons. 
Your  correspondent  knows  these  saloons 
were doing a flourishing business,  and what 
can be said of the  druggists—that  it  must 
have been a very sickly  locality  or  else the 
kegs sprung a leak—through the faucet.

As I said above,  if  this  subject was ven­
tilated properly from the bottom up, instead 
of repealing  the  Internal  Revenue  law  as 
shadowed  above  druggists  would  have to 
take  out a  dealer’s  license.  We are  sorry 
your, city druggists or doctors show so much 
verdency in this  matter; and would suggest 
that  they  take  a  trip  out  to  our  country 
drug  stores  where  their  benighted  minds 
would soon become enlightened.

Yours. 

J.  Y.  Cr a n d a l l .

Rattlesnake Oil.

From th e National D ruggist.

A  leading London chemical firm  recently 
received e letter  from Mexico,  in which the 
writer asks them to let him know the  price 
per ounce of rattlesnake  oil,  also  the  best 
way to take it,  to pack it,  and to ship it and 
to state what  apparatus is necessary in the 
manufacture of it.  When we  were  in  the 
retail drug business,  a  customer  offered  a 
pint of this oil for sale at the rate of  1  cent 
per drop.  When it was suggested  that  his 
price was rather high, he answered  that  he 
once paid a druggist-doctor 50 cents  to  put 
5 drops of the oil  in  his  ear,  so  that  at  1 
cent a drop,  he allowed the druggist a profit 
of 9 cents a drop,  and that was  enough  for 
anyone to make.
Proportion  of  Pharmacists  to  Population.
The following tabulated statement  is  the 
result of an investigation as  to the ratio be­
tween  druggists  and  jiopulation  in  the 
countries named:
U nited  S tates.?............
................  1,810 persons.
................  4,510 
E n g la n d ..........................
I t a l y ................................. ................  2,500 
A u s tria ............................ ................17,000
H u n g a ry ........................ ................14,500 
P russia ?.......................... ................  9.360 
Sw itzerland..................... ................  7,800
France  ............................ ................  6,300
H olland............................ ................  4.590 

One pharm acist to every

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W hat  He Wanted.

Ten-year-old boy—I want five cents worth 

of g-o-r-i-c.

Druggist—I  guess  it  is  paregoric  you 

want. 

Is the baby sick?

Boy—No.
Druggist—What do they use it for?
Boy—Dunno.
Druggist  (handing  him a  bottle  of pare­
goric)—Take that home and if  your mother 
don’t want it bring it back.

Boy goes home and returns,  saying it was 

borax he wanted.

The Drug Market.

Business  and  collections  are both  fairly 
good.  Citric acid and tonka beans have ad­
vanced  and  chlorate  potash  lias  declined. 
Other  articles  in  the  drug  line  are about 
steady.

The metric system of weights  and  meas­
ures was adopted enthusiastically  in  many 
laboratories when first introduced,  but  it  is 
now said to  be  rapidly  losing  ground. 
It 
has been the cause of many  serious  errors. 
The fact that the  misplacement  of  a  little 
dot  will  turn  a  comparatively  harmless 
dose of medicine  into  one  having a deadly 
poisoning power  bears  strongly against  it.
Order a sample package of Bethesda Min 
eral Spring Water  from  Hazel tine,  Perkins 
& Co.  See  quotations  in  another  column.

L.  M.  MILLS.

M.  S.  GOODMAN.

MICHIGAN

DRUG

EXCHANGE,
Mills & Goodman, Props.

BARG AIN—Fine drug store in north-westc rn 

Michigan, on  railroad, in  grow ing  town. 
Building fo r sale o r ren t on easy  term s.  Fine 
Stock  ab out  $2,000; 
chance  for  physician. 
buildings, $3,000.  P a rt on  tim e.

I3RINCIPAL d rug sto re in w estern Michigan 

on Lake Shore R. R.  Stock  about  $3,200. 
$1,000  cash,  balance  on  easy tim e if secured. 
Good paying store.  Good reason fo r selling.

Good location.

1  W. M. Railway.  Stock w orth about $1,500. 

IT'INE  STOCK in w estern  Michigan  on  C.  & 
■ E  HAVE  several  com petent  registered 

pharm acists on o u r list and  can  supply 
druggists requiring  assistants  w ith  well  rec- 
om ended assistants on very short notice.

MICHIGAN  DRUG EXCHANGE,

357  SOUTH  UNION  ST., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICH.

@  18 
14
5@  6
@ 
40@45
1  75
50

11
1
13
14
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

A dvanced—Citric acid. Tonka beans. 
•Declined—Chlorate potash.

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8...................................... 
9  @  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).........  30  @  35
Carbolic...............................................  34  @  36
C itric....................................................  65  @  70
M uriatic 18  d eg ................................. 
3  @  5
11  @  12
N itric 30 d eg ...................................... 
O xalic..................................................  10  @  13
Sulphuric  66 deg ...............................  
3  @  4
T artaric  pow dered.......>................   52  @  55
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................$  oz 
18
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................   12  @  15
T an n ic.................................................  12  @  15

-  a m m o n ia.

C arbonate.................................. ?Mb  15
M uriate (Powd. 22c)..........................
/  qua 16 deg o r  3 f.............................  
3
Aqua 18 deg or  4 f...................#........ 
4

Copaiba
F ir..........
P e ru .......
T o lu .......

BALSAMS.
.......................... 
............................................... 40
..........................  
..........................  
BARKS.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............  
Cincbona,  yellow ................. 4 i.... 
Elm,  select.........................................  
Elm, ground, p u re ............................ 
Elm, powdered,  p u re ......................  
Sassafras, of ro o t.............................  
Wild Cherry, select.......................... 
B ayberry  pow dered........................  
Hemlock  pow dered.......................... 
W ah o o ................................................  
Soap  ground.  . 
...............................* 

BERRIES.

Cufieb  prim e (Powd 1  05c)............  
@1  00
7
Ju n ip e r...............................................   6  @ 
Prickly A sh........................................  50  @  60

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, p u re .............. 
Logwood, bulk (12 and25 fi> doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)................ 
do 
Lgowood,  A s 
.................  
do 
Logwood,  J4s 
.................  
................. 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid E x tracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

27
37H
9
12
13
15
14

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

12  @  15

GUMS.

Aloes,  B arbadoes.....................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..........
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..
A m m oniac.................................
A rabic, powdered  select.......
A rabic, 1st  picked.................
A rabic,2d  picked.................
Arabic,  3d p icked.....................
A rabic, sifted so rts.................
Assafceutida, prim e (Powd 35c)
Benzoin......................................
C am phor....................................
Catechu. Is (A 14c, 54s  16c)  ...
Euphorbium  pow dered...........
G albanum  strain ed .................
G am boge....................................
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c)—
Kino [Pow dered, 30c]..............
M astic..........................................
M yrrh. T urkish (Powdered  47
Opium, pure (Powd $5 25).......
Shellac, Camobell’s .................
Shellac,  E nglish......................
Shellac,  n ativ e..........................
Shellac bleached.......................
T ra g a c a n th ............   ................

60®  75 
13 
50
28®  30 
90 
90 
80

55®60
25®  27 
13
35®  40 
80
80®  90 
35 
20 
1  25 
40 
3 50 
30 
26 
24 
30
30  @1  00

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H o a rh o u n d ..........................................................25
L obelia.................................................................. 25
P ep p erm in t..........................................................25
R ue......................................................................... 40
S p e a rm in t........................................................... 24
Sweet M ajoram ...................................................35
T a n z y ....................................................................25
T h y m e .................................................................. 30
W orm w ood..........................................................25

IRON.

C itrate and  Q uinine........................  
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s......... 
Sulphate, pure  cry stal...................  
C itra te ................................................
P h o sp h a te .......................................... 

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)..............
Sage, Italian, bulk (¡4a & S4s, 12c).
Seuna,  Alex, n a tu ra l...................
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled
Senna,  pow dered..........................
Senna tinnivelli..............................
U va  Ur8i .........................................
Belledonna......................................
Foxglove..........................................
H en b an e..........................................
Rose, re d ..........................................

LIQUORS.

4  00
20
7
65

®

146
20
30
22

1610

35
30
35

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2  00
D ruggists’ Favorite  R ye................. 1 75
W hisky, o ther  b ran d s...................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom ....................................... 1 35
Gin,  H olland....................................... 2 00
B ran d y ..................................................1 75
Catawba  W ines.................................. 1 25
P o rt W ines...........................................1 35

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

MAGNESIA. 

#

Carbonate, 'Pattison’s, 2 oz..........
Carbonate, Jen n in g ’s, 2 oz............
C itrate,H., P. & Co.’s  solution... 
Calcined.............................................

5c)..

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

POTASSIUM.

B icrom ate.................................. B>
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 25c)..............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, b u lk .......
P russiate yellow...............................

ROOTS.

65

45  ®   50 
45
2  00 
50 
2  25 
17VÍ®  19 
2 00 
75 
1  00 
35 
75 
1  20 
1  20
1  50 
6 00 
9  00 
1  60
2  00
35 
50 
2 00 
2 01 
1  00 
90
1  75
2 00 
80 
90 
75
1  25 
50
1  30 
4  25 
8  00
65
2  75 
1 00 
4  50 
7  00
@9 00 
OO  @4  25 
10  ®  12
2 35
3 50 
2 00

®

12® 14 
40@43 
23 
3 00 
28

20
A lk a n e t............................................... 
A lthea, c u t.........................................  
25
17
A rrow,  St. V incent’s ....................... 
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and A s __   . 
33
12
Blood (Powd 18c)............................... 
Calamus,  peeled...............................  
20
36
Calamus, Germ an  w hite, peeled.. 
Elecam pane, pow dered...................  
20
G entian (Powd  16c).......................... 
10
Ginger, A frican (Powd 14c)............   11  ®   12
17
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............  
20
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................  
Hellebore, w hite, pow dered..........  
20
Ipecac,R io, powdered................. 
1  20
Jalap,  pow dered...............................  
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 16).............. 
18
Licorice, ex tra  select....................... 
20
Pink, tr u e ................. 
60
Rhei, from  select to   choice.......... 1  00  ®1  50
Rhei, powdered E. 1..........................1  10  @1  20
Rhei, choice out  cubes...................  
2 00
Rhei, choice c u t  A ngers................. 
2 25

 

 

 

S erp en taria....................................
Seneka .......................„.......................
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras.................
Sarsaparilla,  M exican.....................
Squills, w hite (Powd  35c)................
V alerian, English (Powd 30c).........
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 2 8 0 ...

SEEDS.

do 

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)................
Bird, m ixed in lb  packages............
Canary,  Sm yrna......................  
...
Caraway, best D utch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  A leppee........................
Cardamon, M alabar..........................
C elery..................................................
Coriander,  nest  E nglish.................
F e n n e l................................................
Flax,  clean .........................................
Flax, p u re grd (bbl  3)4)...................
Foenugreek, pow dered...................
Hemp,  R ussian.................................
M ustard, w hite  Black  10c)............
Q u in c e................................................
Rape, E nglish..................................
Worm,  L ev an t................................*
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage....... 2
.........
N assau 
do 
do 
Velvet E x tra do 
. . . .
do 
E x tra Yellow do 
do 
.......
Grass 
do 
.........
do 
H ard head, fo r slate u se.................
Yellow Reef. 
.................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) $  g a l__
Alcohol, wood, 95 p er cen t ex. ref.
Anodyne  H offm an’s ........................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution.........
Arsenic, Fow ler’s solution............
A nnatto  1 ft ro lls.............................
A lum ...........................................  
ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
A nnatto,  p rim e.................................
A ntim ony, powdered,  com’l .........
Arsenic, w hite, pow dered..............
Blue  Soluble......................................
Bay  Rum , im ported, b e st..............
Bay Rum, dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  B uds............................
Beans,  T onka....................................
Beans,  V anilla...................................
Bism uth, sub  n itra te .......................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................
Blue V itriol  ......................................
Borax, refined (Powd  12c)..............
C antharides,R ussian  pow dered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frican ................
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay 
do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40.................................
Cassia  B uds........................................
Calomel.  A m erican..........................
Chalk, prepared d ro p ......................
Chalk, p recip itate E nglish............
Chalk,  red  fingers............................
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................
Chloroform ,  Squlbb’s .....................
Colocynth  apples.............................
Chloral hydrate, Germ an  cru sts..
Chloral 
c ry st...
Chloral 
Chloral 
c ru sts..
C hloroform ........................................•
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............
Cinchonidia, o ther brands..............
Clove8(Powd 23c).............................
Cochineal  ...........................................
Cocoa  B u tte r....................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................
Corrosive Sublim ate........................
Corks, X and X X —40 off  list.........
Cream T artar, pu re pow dered.......
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 B> box..
Creasote...............................................
Cudbear,  prim e.................................
C uttle Fish Bone...............................
D e x trin e ............‘................................
D over’s  P ow ders.............................
D ragon’s Blood M ass.......................
E rgot  pow dered...............................
E th e r Squibb’s ...................................
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s ..............
Epsom Salts (bbl.  1%)......................
Ergot, f resh ........................................
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................
Flake  w hite........................................
G rains  P aradise...............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ............................
G elatine,French  ...'........................
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 d is....
Glue,  ca n n e t....................................   12
Glue, w h ite..........................................  16
Glycerine,  p u re .................................  16
H ops  )£s and k s ...............................  
J
Iodoform  $   oz...................................
In d ig o ..................................................   85
Insect Powder, best  D alm atian...  35
Insect Powder, H.. P. & Co„ boxes
Iodine,  resublim ed..........................
Isinglass,  A m erican........................
Ja p o n ic a .............................................
London  P u rp le .................................
Lead, aceta te ......................................
Lime, chloride,(H s 2s 10c & k s  11c)
L u p u lin e.............................................
L ycopodium ......................................
M ace....................................................
Madder, best  D u tch .......................
M anna, S.  F ........................................
M ercury..............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W.........^  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .........
Moss, Iceland............................. :jj) ft
Moss,  Irish ........................................
M ustard,  E nglish.............................
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 fl>  can s.........
N utgalls...............................................
N utm egs, No. 1...................................
N ux  V om ica......................................
O intm ent. M ercurial, J4d................
P aris G reen......................................
Pepper, Black  B erry .......................
P epsin..................................................
Pitch, T rue B urgundy.....................
Quassia  ...............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W ............ lb oz
Quinine,  G erm an.............................
Red  P re cip ita te........................$  fi>
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................
Strychnia, c ry st.................................
Silver N itrate, c ry st........................
Saffron, A m erican............................
Sal  G lauber........................................
Sal N itre, large  c ry st......................
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st...............
Sal Rochelle........................................
Sal  Soda..............................................
Salicin..................................................
S a n to n in .............................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch...........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].......................
Sperm aceti.........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s ....
Soap, W hite Castile..........................
..........................
Soap, G reen  do 
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
Soap, 
do 
..........................
Soap,  Mazzini....................................
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...............................
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................
Sugar Milk pow dered......................
Sulphur, flour....................................
Sulphur,  ro ll......................................
T artar E m etic....................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, V% gal. cans  $1 doz
Tar, 
q u arts in tin ...........
Tar, 
pints in tin ..............
Turpentine,  V enice................. $  1b
Wax, W hite, 8. &  F. b ran d ............
Zinc,  S ulphate...................................
Capitol  Cylinder...............................
Model  Cylinder.................................
Shield  Cylinder.................................
Eldorado E ngine...............................
Peerless  M achinery........................
Challenge M achinery.......................
Backus Fine E ngine........................
Black Diamond M achinery............
Castor Machine  Oil..........................
Paraffine, 25  d eg...............................
Paraffine, 28  d eg...............................
Sperm, w inter  bleached..................
W hale, w in ter.................................
Lard, e x tra ......................................
Lard, No.  1......................................
Linseed, p u re  ra w ........................
Linseed, b o ile d .............................
N eat’s Foot, w inter  stra in e d ....
Spirits T u rp en tin e........................

do 
do 

OILS.

do 

VARNISHES.

No. 1 T urp  Coach..........................
E x tra   T u rp ....................................
Coach  B ody....................................
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re ..............
E x tra T urp  D am ar.................
Jap an  D ryer, No.  1 T u rp .......

PAINTS

Red V en etian ............................
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.......
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda.........
P u tty , co m m ercial.................
P u tty , strictly p u re .................
Vermilion, prim e  A m erican.
Verm ilion,  E nglish.................
Green, P en in su lar...................
Lead, red  strictly  p u re ..........
Lead, w hite, strictly p u re __
W hiting, w hite  S panish.......
W hiting,  G ilders'?...................
W hite, P aris A m erican...........
W hiting  P aris English cliff.. 
Pioneer P repared  f  a in ts .... 
Swiss Villa P reparsi  P ain ts.

Bbl
70
55
45
42
45
70
40

...30 
...30 
.. .60 
.15* 
...21 
.1  40 
Gal 
75 
60 
55 
45 
48 
90 
45
..........1 10@1 20
............1  60@1  70
............ 2  75@3 00
..........1 00@1  10
............ 1  55@1  60
.............  70®  75
Lb 
Bbl
2® 3 
13£
2® 3 
Hi
2® 3 
Hi
2tt® 3 
2k
214® 3 
~A
13®16 
5S®60 
16®17 
6H® 7 
6ft® 7 
@70 
@90 
1  10 1 40 
1 20® 1 40 
1 00@1 20

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS 
&  CO.,
Wholesale

Druggists,

OFFER  TO  THE  TRADE  THEIR  EN­

TIRE  STOCK OF

HOLIDAY  GOODS,

—AT—

C O S T !

Until January  1,1886.

THE  LINE  INCLUDES

Brush  and  Comb  Sets 
in  Cellnloid 
M e ,

Odor Cases,

Collar and Cuff Boxes, 

Gents’ Dressing  Cases, 

Cut Glass  Bottles, 

Fancy Perfumes, 

Manicure Sets, 

Jewel Cases, 

Infant Sets, 

Work Boxes,

Game Boxes.

AT COST! AT COST!

Until January  1st.

Predictions Regarding Provisions.

New England Grocer:  With  cheese sell­
ing at rates fully 25 per  cent,  less than last 
year, experts claim such goods  a good  pur­
chase  to  hold.  Choice  grades  of  cheese 
will undoubtedly command an advance over 
present  quotations  by  next  spring.  The 
low price of pork  products  and  other  pro- 
isions will  be  somewhat of  a check  upon 
any marked advance.

Chicago Inter-Ocean:  Chicago  is one  of 
the largest,  if not the very largest, producer 
of butterine and oleomargarine in the world. 
It has  six  firms  which  report  astonishing 
figures for 1885.  The first one makes  two 
freight car loads each day.  The second pro­
duces 30,0CO  pounds  a  day,  “fine grades  a 
specialty.”  The  third  has made 4,500,000 
of the stuff in eight months, and the fourth re­
ports the sale  of  3,000,000  pounds  for  the 
ear,  “almost all  of  which  was shipped to 
Eastern markets.”

Philadelphia Times:  It may be said that 
the lowering of the price of wheat and flour 
will be an advantage to the  working classes 
of our own country.  This,  however, is true 
to a limited extent only,  as the  agricultural 
class is by far  the  largest  of  any,  and  its 
power to purchase  is  entirely  governed  by 
what  it  gets  for  its  own products.  The 
farmer, who has only a  half  crop of  wheat 
and is compelled to sell that at a  low  price 
isn’t  going  to  buy  many  clothes  for his 
family nor build a new  house to live in.  He 
will get along  with  what  he  has,  as taxes 
and the barest necessaries will  consume his 
income for the year.  The prosperity of the 
manufacturing and commercial interests de­
pends very  largely  upon  the prosperity  of 
the farmers, and the permanent lessening of 
the foreign demand for our agricultural pro­
ducts is not a thing to be contemplated with 
indifference.

Injustice to Inventors.

It is an indisputed and acknowledged fact 
that  the  high  position  which  this  country 
holds among nations is  almost  entirely due 
to the inventors.  Year after year the Com­
missioners  have  recommended  an  increase 
of the examing corps  and  ample rooms  for 
its accommodation,  which atr present are en­
tirely inadequate. 
In this year’s  report the 
Commissioner says upon this subject:

“Business is retarded and health impaired 
in consequence of the limited space allotted. 
No well-regulated  mercantile  house  would 
suffer the inconveniences to which this office 
is compelled to  submit on  account  of  want 
of room and office force necessary to proper­
ly dispatch business. 
Inventors are contin­
ually complaining,  and  they  cannot under­
stand why their  work is  delayed  when the 
fees they  pay the  Government are ample to 
supply all  needful  facilities. 
It is  not be­
lieved that it was ever the intention to make 
the Patent Office a bureau of revenue, and I 
submit that it is due the inventors that they 
should have prompt,  intelligent  and careful 
action  upon  their  applications  for  patents 
when the fees which they pay are more than 
sufficient to meet all the incidental expenses. 
We hear no complaint because of the amount 
of fees exacted,  and the patrons of the office 
would  willingly  submit  to  an  increase in 
that direction if  it  would  hasten  well-con 
sidered action in the  Office;  but no increase 
is necessary.  They only ask  that Congress 
shall use more  of  the  money  paid into the 
office for the  purpose  for  which  it was  in 
tended.  This is all  they ask,  and I submit 
that Congress should not  do less.”

Dorcas contains each  month  a number of 
new patterns in knitting, and  is valuable as 
regards other  varieties  of  fancy  work. 
It 
should reach those  interested  in  home dec­
oration.  Publisned  by  Howard  Bros.  & 
Co., 872 Broadway, New York.

Golden  Seal  B itters  is  m eeting w ith grand 
success  w henever  used. 
I t  Is  an  article  of 
great m erit.  E very fam ily  should  have  it  in 
the house.  I t is the com ing  fam ily  m edicine.

FRED. D. YALE.

DANIEL LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  TO

FB I. B. YALE & CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Baiini Powders, Extracts, Bluinp,
GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re ­

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS  OF

AND  JOBBERS  OF

ceive prom pt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St., 

GRAND  BAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

A. MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

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

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

Telephone No. 95.

I Entered  a t  the  PostoMce  a t  Grand  Rapide  as 

Second-class  Matter.!

WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  20,  1886.

ì

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions i^Courts 

of  Last Resort.

STATUTE  OF  FRAUDS— CONSIDERATION.
The Superior Court of  Kentucky held,  in 
the case  of  Spurrier  vs.  Nottingham,  that 
the assumption of  liability  as  surety was a 
sufficient consideration  for  the  promise  of 
another  to  save  the  surety  harmless,  and 
that a promise  to  save  one  harmless if  he 
would become the surety of another was not 
such  as  was  required  by  the  Statute  of 
Frauds to be in writing.

LIABILITY  OF  CITIES— NEGLIGENCE.
In the case  of the  city  of  Henderson vs. 
Weisenberger  et al.,  the  Superior Court of 
Kentucky held that a city was not liable for 
injuries resulting from  the  falling  of a bill 
board erected  by the  proprietor of a private 
lot and  projecting  over  the  line  of  his lot 
only the thickness  of  the  board  unless the 
city had notice  that  the  board  was not se­
curely fastened.

INSURANCE— AGENT— NOTICE.

An agent was employed to secure  certain 
insurance,  which  he  did.  Afterwards  the 
insurance company gave notice to the agent 
of the cancellation of the policy.  The Gen 
eral Term of the New York  Supreme Court 
held that the notice so given  was not notice 
to the insured, and that a clause in the poli 
cy to  the  effect  that  the  insurance  broker 
should be deemed to be the  agent of the in 
sured in any transaction  relating  to  the in 
surance did not affect the question.

GARNISHMENT—GENERAL  W AIVER OF  EX 

EMPTION.

The Supreme  Court  of  Georgia  recently 
declared  void  a  general  waiver  made by i 
laborer in a note in the following form, viz. 
“I hereby contract and expressly waive  the 
exemption of my wages  or  salary  from the 
process of  garnishment  under the  laws of 
Georgia,  or  the  exemption  of  my  daily 
weekly,  monthly or yearly wages  or  salary 
from the operation of  the garnishment law 
in  case  this  note  is  not  paid  promptly  at 
maturity.”  The court did not decide wheth 
er  a  special  waiver  of  the  exemtion  as to 
certain employment  and  for a certain  time 
by  specific orders on  employers  containing 
such specific orders on employers containing 
such specific waiver would be good.

SALE  OF  STOCK— LACHES— INTERFERENCE 

OF  EQUITY'.

In a case recently decided by the Supreme 
Court of Georgia it appeared  that  a  person 
residing in Savannah and knowing the value 
of certain stock of a  company  in that place 
instructed his agent  in  Macon  to  purchase 
for him 1,000  shares  at  Si. 50 or  SI.75  per 
share.  The agent went to the agent  of the 
company in  Macon  and  inquired  where he 
could get the stock.  The latter asked  what 
he was willing to  pay  for  it,  and  on being 
informed  that  the  buyer  would  pay  S3.75 
per share  sold  at  that  price.  The  market 
value was  not  above  S3  per share.  There 
was no evidence of  any relation  of  trust or 
confidence between  the  agent  of  the buyer 
and the  seller,  or  that  any  inquiries  were 
made  of  the  seller  as  to  the  value of  the 
stock, or that the seller  knew of his  ignor­
ance 
the  buyer’s 
agent discovered the  mistake  which lie had 
made in executing his instructions and a re- 
cission  of  the  trade  was  demanded.  The 
court  held  that  equity  should  not  relieve 
against such a contract,  that since no fraud, 
actual  or  constructive,  was  shown,  negli­
gence of the buyer  furnished  no  ground of 
relief,  and  that  the  ignorance  of  a  fact 
known to the opposite party would  not jus­
tify  the  interference  of  a  court  of  equity 
wnere  there  had  been  no  misplaced  confi 
dence or misrepresentation  or  other‘fraud 
ulent act.

thereof.  Subsequently 

Impossible to Counterfeit It.

From  the P ittsb u rg  Chronicle.

“Speaking  of  oleomargarine,”  remarked 
McSwilligen this morning,  “it  has occurred 
to me that there is one kind of butter which 
will always defy counterfeiting.”

“Ah! What kind of butter is that?” asked 

Squildig.

“The goat”
A man was seized with  an epileptic  fit in 
the street the other day,  whereupon  a kind­
ly disposed policeman  darted  into  a neigh­
boring  grocery  and asked  for a  handful of 
salt which lie forced into  the  poor  fellow’s 
mouth.  The  operation  was  approved  by 
some of the  spectators,  who  complimented 
the policeman upon his knowledge  of “just 
what to do” in such cases.  “Of all popular 
remedies,” said  a  physician who  was ques- 
iioned on the  subject  “that  of  choking a 
man with salt just because he has a fit is the 1 
most  senseless  and  barbarous. 
In  some 
cases it would do serious  injury, and might 
cause death.  Ilistero-epileptics are troubled 
with a choking sensation and spasmodic con­
tractions  in  the  throat,  which  interfere 
greatly with breathing and swallowing.  To 
crowd salt into it is  a  foolish and  ignorant 
proceeding. 
,  r»;.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

E N G I N E S

From  2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
G rist Mills, Wood W orking  M achinery,  S haft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  C ontracts  m ade  for 
Complete Outfits.

FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

D eslsners

Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, Machinery, Patented Articles, Portraits, 

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

Cards, Letter, Note and Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading  Feature.

Address as above
49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.
H E S S ,
P E R K I N S   So
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S  IN

NOS.  132  a n d   134  LOUIS  S T R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H IG A N .

W E  CABBY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOB  MILL  USE.

JENNINGS’

Flavoring  E xtracts!
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

W ,  G,  D enison,

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

A Simple Cure for Dyspepsia.

Probably never in the history of P roprietary 
M edicines has any article m et success equal to 
th a t  which  has  been  show ered  upon  Golden 
Seal B itters.  Why, such has been  the success 
o t this discovery, th a t nearly  every  fam ily  in 
whole neighborhoods  have  been  tak in g   it  a t 
th e sam e tim e.  Golden Seal B itters  combines 
th e  best rem edies of  the  vegetable  kingdom, 
and  in  such  proportions  as  to  derive  th eir 
greatest m edicinal effect w ith the least disturb­
ance to th e whole system .  In  fact,  th is  prep­
aration is so well balanced in its action  on the 
alim entary canal, th e Liver, th e  Kidneys,  th e 
Stomach,  the  Bowels,  and  the  circulation of 
the Blood, th a t it  brings  about  a  healthy  ac­
tion of th e  en tire  hum an  organism   th a t  can 
hardly be credited  by those who have not seen 
th e rem arkable results th a t have  followed  its 
whole-
use.  Sold by H azeltine, P erkins &  Co 
sale druggists, G rand Ragids, Mich.

123

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

.

CHECKS.

OBNABDRG.

b l e a c h e d  c o t t o n s.

.  6*4  K ing  Phillip  cam-

ale,  36.........  8*4 ¡Greene, G  4-4
m bries, 36. ..11*4  Hill, 4-4

A ndroscoggin,9-4..23 
|Pepperell,10-4........ 25
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 21  Peppeteli, 11-4........ 27*4
Pepperell,  7-4...... 16*4  P equot, 7-4...............18
Pequot,  8-4............. 21
Pepperell,  8-4...... 20
__ 22*4 ¡Pequot,  9-4..............24
Pepperell,  9-4..  AM
Caledonia, X X ,o z ..ll 
¡Park Mills, No. 90..14 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10  P ark  Mills, No.  100.15
Economy,  oz..........10 
Prodigy, oz............. 11
P ark Mills, No. 50.. 10  Otis  A pron............. 10*4
P ark Mills, No. 60. .11  Otis  F u rn itu re ...... 10*4
P ark Mills, No. 70. .12  York,  1  oz...............10
P ark Mills, No. 80. .13  ¡York. AA, ex tra  oz. 14 
A labam a brow n__ 7 
¡Alabama  plaid......... 7
Jew ell  briw n.......... 9*41 A ugusta plaid...........  7
K entucky  brow n.. 10*4 Toledo plaid.
äster  plaid..  7 
Lewiston  b ro w n ...  9*4|Manchester
3nn. plaid.. .11 
Lane brow n............9*4 ¡New  Te
I U tility plaid............  6*4
Louisiana  plaid.
Avondi
A rt  A ______  
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8*4  Hill, 7-8.....................  6*4
614
A ndroscoggin, 5-4. .12*4 Hope,  44
Ballou, 4-4.
Ballou, 5 4 ................  6 
Boott,  0 .4 4 ............  8*4 Linwood,  44
Lonsdale,  44.
Boott,  E. 5-5.
Boott, AGC, 4 4 .......9*4 Lonsdale  cam bric. 10*4
Boott, B. 3 4 ..........   5*4 Langdon, G B ,4 4 ...  9*4
I Langdon.  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 44.  7 
Mason ville,  4 4 .......8
C h apm an,X ,4 4 ....  6
¡Maxwell. 4-4............  9*4
Conway,  4-4............ 7
New  York Mill, 4-4.10*4 
Cabot, 4-4................. 6%
New Jersey,  4 4 —   8 
Cabot, 7-8.................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7*4 
Canoe,  3 4 ................  4
¡Pride of th e W est..11 
Domestic,  36..........   7*4
¡Pocahontas,  4 4 ....  7*4 
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9 
Slaterville, 7-8...........6*4
Davol, 4 4 ................  9
F ru it of Loom, 4 4 ..  8*4¡Victoria,  A A ...........9
F ru it of Loom, 7-8..  ?*4| W oodbury, 4 4 ......  514
W hitinsville,  4 4 ...  7*4 
F ru it of  th e  Loom, 
W hitinsville, 7-8__ 6*4
cam bric,  4 4 .........11
Gold Medal, 4 4 ..  ..  6*4  W am su tta,4 4 .........10*4
Gold Medal, 7-8......... 6  Williams ville,  36.. .10*4
Gilded  A ge..............8*41
Crown  .....................17 
10*4
C oin...........................10  ¡Lonsdale....................9*4
Anchor.................... 15  ¡L onsdaleA .........1 6
C entennial.
B la c k b u rn .
D avol..........
L on d o n .....

IMasonville T S.........   8

brie, 44..

SIL E S IA S .

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I  
.. .12*4iMasonville  S
...10 L o nsdale___
...15 ¡Lonsdale A ..
N ictory  O ...
...  8 ¡Victory J __
¡Victory  D ...
...14
...12 *4  Victory  K ...
... 12 ¡Phœ nix A ...
■   a B j u a H   I  P a c o n ia . . . . . . . . . . •  .13
10 ¡Phœnix  B ...
M Z C H i   Bed  C ross................10 
¡Phœnix  B ...............10*4
¡Phœ nix X X
...16
Social  Im p erial— 16
PRINTS.
Albion,  solid...........5*4¡G loucester.................5*4
Albion,  g re y ............6  G loucesterm ourn’g.5*4
A llen’s  checks........ 6*4  H am ilton  fa n c y ....5*4
Ailen’s  fan cy .......... 5*4  H artel fan cy .............5*4
Allen’s p in k ............. 5*% M errlm ac  D ................5*4
Allen’s p u rp le..........5*4 M an ch ester............... 5*4
Am erican, fan cy __ 5*4 O riental  fan cy ..........5*4
Arnold fan cy.......... .6  ¡Oriental  robes..........6*4
Berlin solid..............  5  Pacific  robes............6
Coeheco  fan cy ........5  Richm ond...................6
Cocheco robes..........6*4 Steel  H iver..................5*4
Conestoga fa n c y — 6  Simpson’s ................. 6
E d d y sto n e...............6  W ashington fan cy ..6
Eagle  fan cy .............5  W ashington  blues.  7
G arner p in k .............5*41
A ppleton  A ,4 4 ...
B oott  M, 4 4 .......
Boston  F, 4 4 .........
C ontinental C, 4-3.

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,

J.  H.  THOMPSON  <&
BTülü  SPICE  MILLS,

CO.

WHOLESALE  GROCERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

Teas, Coffees & Spices,
The  Celebrated  Butterfly  Baking  Powder,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

D ea lers  in   T obaccos,  C igars,  Etc.,

59  JEFFERSON  AVENUE, 

- 

DETROIT,  MICH.

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PRICE-CURRENT.

F.  1 DETTENTHALER,  M tar  of  Oysters.
KNIFE  T O B A C C O .

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Conestoga  D, 7-8... 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.
Dwight  X, 3 4 .........
Dwight Y, 7-8...........
Dwight  Z, 4 4 ...........
Dwight S tar, 4 4 —

6*4 Indian O rchard, 40 8
6*4 Indian Orchard, 36 7*4
7*4 Laconia  B, 7-4....... 16*4
6*4 Lyman  B, 40-in__ 10*4
8*4 Mass.  BB, 4-4.........
6*4
ÖV4 N ashua  E, 40-in...
8*4
5*41 N ashua  B, 4-4.......
7Ì4,
6 Nashua 0 . 7-8.........
6*4
5*, N ew m arket N .  ...
6*4
5% Pepperell E, 39-in.
6*4 Pepperell  R, 4-4...
7 \
Pepperell  O, 7-8...
6*4
9
Pepperell  N, 3-4...
6*4
5
Pocasset  C, 4-4__ 6*4
Saranac  K..............
7
7*4
9
6 Saranac  E ..............

styles .TT................ 

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

Farm ers’ A, 44.
Indian  O rchard  14  7*4
A m o sk e ag ..............7*4|Benfrew, dress styl  9
Amoskeag, P ersian  8*4 Johnson  M anfgCo,
B ookfold............12*4
B a te s........................ 7*4 Johnson  M anfg Co,
B e rk sh ire..............  6*4  dress  sty les.........12*4
G lasgow  c h e c k s....  7  Slaterville, 
dress
j  G lasgowchecks, f’y  7*4 
sty les.....................  7*4
Glasgow 
checks,  W hite Mfg Co, stap  7
royal  sty les.........8  ¡W hite Mfg Co, fane  8
! 
G loucester, 
| 
s ta n d a rd ..............  7*4  E arlsto n ...  ........... 8*4
I  P lu n k e t................... 7*4 G o rd o n ............... 
L an caster................  8  Greylc
L angdale..................7*41  style
WIDE BLEACHED CO1
Pepr 
A ndroscoggin, 74. .21 
Pepp 
Androscoggin, 8 4 .. 23
Pequot, 
Pepperell,  7 4 .........20
22*41 Pequot, 
Pepperell,  84 
25 
¡Pequot,
Pepperell,  94

¡White  M anf’g  Co,

new 

.12*4

>11.

7

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.
A tlantic  A, 4 4 .......| Lawrence XX, 44
A tlantic  H, 4 4 .......7 
¡Lawrence  Y, 30..
A tlantic  D, 4 4 .......6*4 Lawrence LL, 44.
A tlantic P , 4 4 .........5*4 N ew m arket N —
A tlantic  LL, 4 4 ....  5 
¡Mystic Biver, 44.
A d riatic,36..............  7*4jPequot A, 4 4 .......
A ugusta, 4 4 ............ 6*4jPiedmont,  36.........
Boott  M, 4 4 ............ 6*41 S tark AA, 4 4 .........
Boott  FF, 4 4 ..........   7*4|Trem ont  CC, 44 ..
G raniteville,4 4 —   5*4  Utica,  4 4 ...........
Indian  H ead ,4-4...  7  W achusett,  4 4 ... 
Indiana Head 45-in. 12*41 W achusett,  30-in.

TICKINGS.

icy.

.............12*4 ,

4 4 .... ..15

ACA. ..12*4 [Falls, X XXX.
¡Falls, X X X ...
“ 4-4..19
Amoskeag 
A .... .12  1Falls, BB.
Amoskeag,
B .... -.11*4 ¡Falls, BBC:, 36
Amoskeag,
ing
¡Falls, a
C .... .11
Amoskeag,
B’l
D .... ..10*4 ¡Hami¡it«
Amoskeag,
D.
E .... ..10 11 amiiltc
Amoskeag,
F ....... ..  9*4¡Hamiilt<
H.
Amoskeag, F.
far
A, 4-4.. ..17 Hamiliti
Prem ium  
a....... ..16 Meth
n ÌLA.
Prem ium  
..16 ¡Meth
n ASA
E x tra44..
..14*4 ¡Omeji A, 7-8.
E x tra 7-8..
¡Omes! A, 4-4.
Gold Medal 44.
..12*4 O m eg a.ACA, 1
..................  
CT 4 4 ........................ 14  Omega ACA, 4-
RC 7-8........................ 14  Omega SE, 7-8.
BF 7-8........................16  Omega SE, 44.
A F 4 4 ........................19  Omega M. 7-8  .
¡Omega M, 44..
Cordis AAA, 32.......14 
IShetucket SS&S8W 11*4 
Cordis  ACA, 32.......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32.......15
¡Shetticket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2............14
Stockbridge  A ....... 7
Cordis  No. 3............18
Cordis  No. 4............ll*4!Stoekbridge  frncy.  8
G a rn e r.....................5 
H ookset...................  5  W ashington...............  4*£
Bed  Cross................  5  Edw ards......................  5
Forest G rove..........  
|S. S. & Sons............   5
A m erican  A .........18  00!Old  Ironsides......... 15
Stark A .................... 22*4! W heatland............... 21
I  B o sto n .....................6*£|Otis  CC........................10*4
j  E v erett  blu e..........13!*¡Warren  A X A .......... 12*4
E verett  brow n.......13^  W arren  BB.............. 11*4
|  Otis  A X A ...............12*4 ¡W arren CC................10*4
Otis B B ....................H *41 York  fan cy .............. 12*4
|  M anville...................6 
!  M asgnvüle..............  6 
Í  Bed  Cross................  7 *4 ¡Thistle Mills............
¡  B e rlin .......................7*4 R ose............................   8

|S. S. & Sons.................. 6
¡G arn e r.......................6

¡Empire  .....................

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

GRAIN  BAGS.

WIGANS.

DENIMS.

_____ 

SPOOL COTTON.

B ro o k s..................... 50
C lark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P.  C oats.......... 55
W illim antic 6 cord.55 
W illim antic 3 co rd .40 
Charleston ball sew
ing th re a d ............30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sew ing.30 
G reeh  &  D an iels...25
S taffo rd ..................25
Hall a M anning__ 25
H olyoke..................25

CORSET JEANS.

A rm o ry ................... 6*4|Koarsage......................7*4
A ndroscoggin sa t..  7*4 N aum keagsatteen.  7*4
Canoe B iver............   6  Pepperell  bleached  7*4
Clarendon................6*4 Pepperell s a t.............8*4
Hallowell  Im p.......6*4  R oekport......................8*4
Ind. Orch. Im p ....... 6*4¡Lawrence sa t.............7*4
L aco n ia...................  7*4lConegosat................  6*4

Tobacco is packed in 30 pound butts, lumps 2x12, Rough  and  Ready Clubs,  16 oz., 

full weight.  A case of 30 knives packed  on  the  top  of each  butt.  The  butt  of Tobacco  ^  ^  ^ 
with case of Pocket Knives is branded “ Pen  Knives;”  the  one  with  Jacks,  “Jack  Knife.” lagwffii 

The consumer gets a 16 oz.  Plug  of the  Finest  Tobacco  that  can  be  produced  by 

purchasing a GOOD  KNIFE at 65 cents, well worth the money.

Big thing for the Consumer, equally so for the Retailer.  Send us your order.

V. J. BOULD & GO, Detroit, Rioh.

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COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G   M A TE R IA LS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio W hite Lime, per  b b l..................... 
1  00
85
ji me, car lo ts..................... 
m eni,  p er bbl................... 
1  30
A kron Cem ent per  bbl..........................  
130
Buffalo Cement,  per b b l........................ 
1  30
.......................1 060110
Car lots 
P lastering hair, p er b u ..........................  250  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................... 
1  76
Land plaster, per to n .............................. 
J 50
2 50
Land plaster, car lo ts.............................. 
Fire brick, per  M....................................f 25 @ f35
Fire clay, p er  bbl....................................  
3 00
M
A nthracite, egg and grate, c ar lo ts..f5  7506 (XH 
A nthracite, stove and  n u t, car lo ts..  6 0006 25
Cannell,  oar lo ts..................................... 
0 6  00
Ohio Lum p, car  lo ts..............................3  1006  25
Blossburg o r  Cum berland, oar lo ts..  4  5005 00 
P ortland  C em ent...................................  3 5004 00

COAL. 

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 K ent S treet.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
Wi DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AID USE NO
Orders by M ail and Express prom ptly a t­

cum

tended to. 

A

Maxims for  Merchants.

A man’s  look is the work of years. 

It is 
stamped on the  countenance  by the  events 
of his life.

If you cannot  frame  your  circumstances 
in accordance with your wishes,  frame your 
will into harmony with your circumstances.
It should not  be  forgotten  that  the  per­
fectly  made  article  is  usually  limited  in 
quantity, commands a higher price and pays 
a better profit to  the  producer  than the in­
ferior or imperfect  grade,  which  is  always 
over-abundant and often  sells at a loss.

Ambition is like the sea  which  swallows 
all the rivers and is  none  the fuller; or like 
the  grave  whose  insatiable  maw  forever 
craves for the bodies of men. 
It is not like 
an ai^hora, which  being  full,  receives  no 
more; but  its  fullness  swells  it  till  a  still 
greater vacuum  is formed.

The great things of the world have been ac­
complished by individuals.  Vast  social  re­
formations have originated in the individual 
man.  Truths  that  now  sway  the  world 
were  first  proclaimed  by  individual  lips. 
Great thoughts that are  now  the  axioms of 
humanity proceeded  from  the  center of in­
dividual hearts.

If  adversity  hath  killed  its  thousands, 
prosperity  hath  killed  its  ten  thousands; 
therefore adversity is to be preferred.  The 
one  deceives,  the  other  instructs;  the  one 
miserably happy, the  other  happily  miser­
able;  and,  therefore,  many  philosophers 
have  voluntarily  sought  adversity,  and  so 
much commend it in their precepts.

A rushlight that had grown fat and saucy 
with too much  grease, boasted  one evening 
before a large company that it shone bright­
er than the sun,  moon and all the stars.  At 
that moment a puff of  wind  came and blew 
it  out.  One  who  lighted  it  again  said: 
“Shine on, but hold vour tongue.”

It is estimated that 85 per cent, of all who 
go into business fail in a few years; and that 
only three out  of  one  hundred  gain  more 
than a living.  Such are the uncertainties of 
trade, with all its opportunities, shrewd and 
daring  operators,  its  varied  experience,  its 
versatility,  its capital,  its enterprise  and its 
power over men.

To be well insured means not only to have 
a sufficient  insurance  to  cover at  least the 
larger portion,  if not all, the stock of goods, 
but it also means that it should  be in  com­
panies which are able to  pay and are in the 
custom of  paying  their  losses 'without  the 
necessity of  a  suit  at  law to compel them. 
Avoid all insurance companies whose names 
are frequently seen in the newspapers as de­
fendants in lawsuits.

A Few Long Words.

From  the Rochester P ost and Express.

A correspondent has asked for the longest 
word in the English  language.  There have 
been  a  large  number 'of  answers,  some of 
them quite amusing.  HereMs a list of words 
with the number of letters in  each:
P hiloprogenitiveness......................................... 30
Iucom prehensibleness........................................31
D isproportionableness........................................31
S uticonstitutionalist...........................................31
H onoriticibilitudinity......................................... 22
V elocipedestrianistical........................................23
T rausubstantionableness...................................33
P ro an titio n su b stan tio n ist.................................34
Only tire first three words are to be found 
in the last  edition of Webster’s  dictionary, 
and  disproportionableness  undoubtedly  is 
the longest word in that volume.  The  cor­
respondent who  originated  honorificibilitu- 
dinity defines it as honorableness, but it cer­
tainly lias not  honorableness  enough to en­
title it to a nest in the unabridged.  Veloci­
pedestrianistical  likewise  so  lacks  age and 
respectability,  but  it  may  find its way into 
Webstar in time; it certainly has  good loco­
motive  powers.  Suticonstitutionalist  is 
doubtful and we do not believe  even a man­
damus  would  get  it  iuto  the  dictionary. 
Trausubstantionableness  might get  there if 
Webster wasn’t looking.  The man who in­
vented proautitansubstantiationist says it is 
a good English word,  “derived from a short 
and simple Latin root,  and  means ¡one who 
dissents from the  doctrine  of  dogma of the 
so-called real  presence.”  That  may all be, 
but lie ought'to be condemned  to pronounce 
to word twice a day as long as he lives if lie 
tries to introduce it  into  the speech of hon­
est men.
But speaking of long  words,  what  is the 
matter  with  Lianfairpwilgwyngyligertro- 
bwilgencnwyrmbyligogerbwilzanttosiliogog- 
ogocli,  the name of a village in Wales.
An Obliging Hardware  Clerk.

From  the Middleville Republican.

A certain clerk in a hardware  store  not a 
thousand miles from Middleville,  is fast be­
coming  famous  for his untiring  zeal in the 
matter of waiting on customers and explain­
ing the use of goods in his line.  A few days 
ago he felt called upon to give a practical il 
lustration of how a hog  ring is  adjusted so 
as to do its work properly, clasping the ring 
on his own  nose in the  absence  of a better 
subject.  The ring must have^felt very much 
at home on his  nasal  organ,  for^it took two 
hours hard labor with a kit of tinsmith tools 
to make it let go and then  his nose had lost 
its “Roman” contour.

Should Have a Rebate.

“ How is this,  Doctor;  you charge me one 

dollar a visit?”

“It is less than I charge anybody else.”
“That may be so; but then you forget that 
it was I who introduced  the  small-pox into 
the neighborhood.”

The actual horse power of a non-condens 
ing engine of average  efficiency  is,  approx 
imately,  eighty-eight  per  cent, of the indi 
cated horse power.  Of course, engines vary 
greatly in this respect, the relative efficiency 
often tailing  considerably below the figures 
given,  and  in  the  better  class  of  engines 
under favorable conditions, rising somewhat 
higher.

COMINB to  BRAND  RIPIOS

GRANELLO,

W T H M 4 M 1 S
Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY f

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES,^ 

ISTu-ts,  E to .

I N

CAR  LOADS!

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

EVERY  CAN  BEARING  SIGNATURE  OF

The  Archer  Packing  Co.

MERCHANT 

TAILOR,

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

X07 O ttaw a St.

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

AND

Overcoats for Everybody.

FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  WOOL­
ENS  AND  WORSTEDS,  THE  BEST 
MANUFACTURED.  FINE  AND  SER­
VICEABLE  TRIMMINGS.

SUPERIOR  WORK  AND  THE  PROP­

ER  STYLE  FOR  THE WEARER.

ALL  AT  PRICES  THAT  WILL  IN­
DUCE YOU TO LEAVE  Y OUR ORDER.

■ran  Dairymen's  Association.

Organized  at  Orami  Rapids,  February 25,  1885.
President—Milan W iggins, Bloomingdale. 
V ice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City; 
W arren H aven,  Bloomingdale;  Chas.  E.  Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  P ortage; 
John  Borst, V riesland;  R. C. Nash, Milliards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  A shland:  Jos.  Post,  Clarks­
ville.
Secretary and T reasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids.
N ext M eeting—A t Kalamazoo, F ebruary 16,  17 
and  18.
M embership Fee—f  1 per year.
Official Organ—'Th e Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n.

TIME TABLES.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

A rrives. 

Leaves.
6:25 a m
tSteam boat  E xpress..........  
•¡Through  M ail.................... 10:40 a m   10:50 a m
■¡Evening  E xpress..............3:40 p m  
3:50 p m
♦Limited  E xpress...............   8:30 p m   10:45 p m
♦Mixed, w ith  coach............  
11:00 a  m

GOINO  W EST.

♦Morning  E xpress..............  1:05 p m  
l:1 0 p ra
■¡Through  Mail...................   5:00pm   5:10pm
tSteam boat  E xpress.......... 10:40 p m
tM ix ed ...............................................  
♦Night E xpress.....................  5:10 a m  5:35 a m
♦Daily. Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. in. the following m orning.
The  N ight  Express  has  a  through  W agner 
Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car  D etroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

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

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

7:10 a m

Chioago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  A rrives,
tM ail..... .................................. 9:00 a m  
4:30 p m
tD ay  E xpress...................... 12:35 p m 
9:25 p m
♦Night  E xpress.................. 10:40 p m  
5:45 a m
M uskegon E xpress..............  4:20 p m  11:20 a m
♦Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping  Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  a t­
tendants w ithout  ex tra   charge  to  Chicago  on 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m.  trains.

tD aily except Sunday.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  A rrives.
E xpress.................................4:20 p m   7:30 p m
E x p ress...................................8:00 a m   10:50 a m
All trains arriv e and depart from  Union  De­
pot.
The  N orthern term inus of  th is Division Is a t 
Baldwin, where close connection is m ade  w ith 
F. &  P. M.  train s  to  and  from   L udington  and 
M anistee.

J. H. Ca r p e n t e r .  G en’l Pass. A gent.
J.  B.  Mu ll ik en,  General  M anager.

Grand  Hapids  &  Indiana.

GOINQ NORTH.

A rrives.
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a m  
Ft. W ayne& M ackinac  Ex  4:10 p m  
G’d Rapids & T rav. City Ae.
G. Rapids & C incinnati Ex.
5:05 p m
______  
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Ft. W ay i e E x ..10:30a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.l0:30 p m

GOINO SOUTH.

Leaves.
11:30 a   m 
5:06 p m  
7:00 a  m
7:15 a m  
5:30 p m 
11:45 p m

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  5:05  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping  and  Chair  Cars  fo r  Petoskey 
and  Mackinac.  Train leaving a t 11:30 a. m. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw 
City#South—T rain leaving a t 5 :30 p.m . bas  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.
C. L. L ock w o o d, Gen’l Pass. A gent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

tra in  

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
A rrive.
E xpress.................................7:15 p m
Mail........................................ 9:50 a m
All train s daily except Sunday.
The 

Leave. 
7:30 a  m 
4:00 p m
leaving  a t  4  p. m . connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon w ith  A tlantic  Express  on  Mala 
Line, which has Palace D raw ing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from   Chicago  to  New  York  and 
Boston w ithout change.
The  tra in   leaving  a t  7:30  a. m. connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  U nion T icket office, 
67 Monre stre e t and  depot. 

tickets  and  berths 

Through 

J. W. McK knney, G en’l A gent.

,

Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

♦D etroit E xpress..............................................  6:00 a m
♦Dav  E xpress............................................12:45 p m
♦Atlantic E xpress.....................................10:40 p m
tW ay F reig h t.......................................................6:50 a m
♦Pacific  E xpress................................................6:00 a m
♦M ail.............................................................3:30 p m
♦Grand  Rapids  E xpress.................................10:36 p m
Way F re ig h t.........................................................5:15 p m

ARRIVE.

♦Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Paciflo 
E xpress.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern train s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding tran sfers.
The D etroit Express leaving a t 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  P arlor  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m.. New York 10:30 
a. m .,and  Boston 3:05  p. m. next day.
A train  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. ra. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room car attached, arriv­
ing a t Grand Rapids a t  10:35 p. m.

Ch a s. H. N o r r is .  Gen’l A gent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

T rains connect w ith G.  R. & I.  train s  fo r  St. 
Ignace, M arquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving G rand Rapids at 5:00 p. in., arriving a t 
M arquette at 2:05 p.m . andJ5:30 p.m .  R eturning 
leave  M arquette  a t 7:90  a.  m .  and  1:40  p.  m .t 
arriving  a t Grand  Rapids  a t 10:30  a.  m.  Con­
nection m ade a t M arquette w ith the M arquette, 
H oughton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  fo r  th e 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper D istricts.
Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt., Marquette, Mioh.

E.  W.  ALLEN,

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 anythingwe handle.
A. B. KNOW LSON,
W 1  SEA RS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

OHILLICOTHE,  ILL.

\

The Well-Known

J. S. Farren & Co.

OYSTERS

ARE  TH E  BEST  IN  MARKET.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

TOBA

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

PLUG  TOBACCO.

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

- 
-
-

- 

- 

- 

-

-

-

-

-

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

FUTE  CUT.

THE  MEIGS  FINE  OUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
.64
STUNNER,  D A R K ..........................................38
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T .................................... .50
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
.40
FRUIT 
-  -32
O  SO  S W E E T .................................................-30

........................................- 

- 

2c less in 6 pail lots.

SMOKING.

MATTINGS

OIL  CLOTHS

ETC.,  e t o .

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

G rand R apids,

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

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

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

These brands are sold only by

A rthur M eigs & Co.

Wholesale  Grocers,

W ho w arrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  W e cordially invite you, when  in 
the  city,  to  visit  our  place  of business,  77, 79 and 
81  South Division Street.  It may save you  money.

(g ro c er ies.

BETAIL  GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

OF  GRAND  RAPIDS.

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10,  1885.

_  

P resident—Erw in J. H errick.
F irst V ice-President—E. E.  W alker.
Second V ice-President—Jas. A. Coye. 
Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson.
T reasu rer—B. S. H arris.
Board of  D irectors—Eugene  Richmond,  Wm. 
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, H enry A.  H ydorn  and 
W. E. K nox. 
Finance  Com m ittee—W. E.  K nox.  H.  A.  Hy­
dorn and A. J. Elliott.
Room Com m ittee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
m ond and Wm. H. Sigel.
A rbitration Com m ittee—G ern t H.  DeGraf,  M. 
J . Lewis and A.  Rasch.
A nnual m eetings—Second T uesday in Novem-
Reguiar  m eetings—F irst  and  Third  Tuesday 
„
N ext  m eeting—Tuesday evening, l*eb. 6.

Evenings of'each m onth. 
Grocers’  Association of tiie City of .Muskegon.

.  __

_  

_ 

OFFICERS.

„   _   ,, 

P resident—H. B. Fargo.
F irst V ice-President—Wm. B, K eift.
Second V ice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. P eer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of D irectors—O. Lam bert, W. L McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, W m .B.K elly, A.  Towl  and 
E.  Johnson. 
.  m__ ,
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Com m ittee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert,  H.  B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
A rbitration  Com m ittee—B.  liorgm an.  G arn t 
W agner and Jo h n  DeHaas.
Com plaint  Com m ittee—Wm.  B.  K eilt,  a .   A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  M iner  an d L . 
V incent. 
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  W m.  B.  K e n t 
and A. Towl. 
T ransportation Committee—Wm. B, K eilt, A n­
drew  W ierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular m eetings—F irst and th ird  W ednesday 
evenings  of each m onth.
N ext m eeting—W ednesday evening, Ja n .  _

_   _

_  

_  

.

W e ’ve  G ot T h e m   on   O u r  L ist.

be found

From  the D enver Retail Grocer.
A nd every day in D enver some dead-beats will 
W e’ve  got  a  little  list—we’ve got a little list—
Of grocery offenders who m ight well  be under 
And who never will be missed—who never will 
T here’s the pestilential nuisance who will  pay 
A nd the man who has ju st lost his jo b ,b u t will 
And the wom an who  declares  she  has  forgot 
B ut will pay you in the m orning;  she is another 
...
A nd the pom pous talking fellow who fo r credit 
They never will be missed—they never  will  be 

ground.
be missed.
to-morrow noon.
g et  another soon,
her pocket-book, 
crook, 
does insist,
missed.

.  „ 

,

,

, 

,  .

T here is the m an who h asn 't paid his grocer in 
We’ve got him  on the  list—we’ve  got  him   on 
A nd who com plains  because  you  grocers  are 
H e never would be missed—he never would be 
And the wom an wno makes  up  her  m ind  she 
Than w ith th a t o ther grocer, because his scales 
A nd w ant a glass of cider as she’s ju st fam ish­
Then asks you to  give  h er  credit  u ntil  about 
A nd the trick ster who sends round  a boy with 
They never will be missed—they never will  be 

a year, 
th e list.
so very, very dear;
missed, 
would  rath er trad e with you
are never true.
ing w ith thirst,
th e  tw enty-first, 
no m oney in his fist.
missed.

.

T h e   C u ltiv atio n   of  R ice.
From   New  O rleans  Times-Democrat.

This season’s rice crop is  the  largest ever 
raised  in 
the  State,  being  very  nearly 
double that of last year—it might have been 
three times  as  large.  The  crop  thus  har­
vested in this State,  while the  largest  ever 
produced, ranks low  in  grade,  and  shows 
more  rice of an  inferior  quality  than  ever 
produced.  Much  of  this  was  due  to  the 
bad weather prevailing during  the  harvest­
ing season;  but some  of  the  inferiority  is 
clearly attributable to the neglect  and  care­
lessness of the planters.  On this point  the 
committee on rice of the Produce  Exchange 
sounds a timely warning*  They recommend 
a more careful selection of seed, and timely 
and thorough weeding of  the  crop,  as  the 
presence  of  black  seeds  of  various  kinds 
and spear grass in the rice has a  depressing 
effect upon it,  a difference  of  one  cent  per 
pound frequently  resulting  therefrom.  To 
assure the success and  stability  of  this  in­
dustry our planters must  produce  only  the 
high  grades  of  rice.  Our  competitors  in 
this  product,  as  in  cotton,  ate  countries 
where labor is cheap,  but rough,  and  where 
a cheap,  inferior rice can  be  produced. 
If 
we raise a fine quality it will be like Ameri­
can cotton as compared with the  Indian, al­
ways in demand at good prices  on  account 
of its superiority.

C learing H o u se R eport.

A. B. Porter, manager of the Grand Rapids 
Clearing House,  reports the following as the 
clearings for the dates named:
Jan u ary  8.................................... .......  92.037.79
“ 
9...........................................  75,149.17
u !!’.’.” ".".’..!................. .......149,151.49
“ 
« 
12........................................... .......  64,747.59
13" " " . ” ” " . " . . ........................  67,416.43
“ 
14.................................... ......  61,557.54
“ 
15........................................... ..  ..  59,142.10
“ 
16...........................................  63,336.14
“ 
18.................................... ......  94,338.86
“ 
................*............ ....................716,877.11
Total 
Total fo r w eek ending  Ja n . 18----.......400,538.66

Cheap  Meat.

In  view  of  the  increased  competition 
from  the  large  importations  of  foreign 
(principally  colonial)  fresh  meat  into  the 
United Kingdom,  the  farmers  of  North- 
hamp tonsil ire have formed a  company  and 
have opened  stores  to  supply  meat  direct 
from the breeder to the consumer.  The un­
dertaking is being watched  with  much  in­
terest.

Found in a  Raisin Box.

A  Lynn,  Mass.,  grocer  recently  found 
beneath the top layer  of  raisins in a newly- 
opened  box  two  ugly  looking  knives,  en­
cased in leathern  sheaths, a woman’s lower 
jaw-bone and a woman’s shoe of foreign pat­
tern.  One of the knives was fully eighteen 
inches  long,  while  the  other  was  about 
twelve  inches  in  length.  Both  were  of 
English make, bearing the  Sheffield stamp. 
The entire surface of* the blades was covered 
with blood-rust.  The raisins  were the best 
grade, known as Ondaras, and were import­
ed from Denia,  Spain.

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

B a ss  ltiv e r .

Trade is good.  Large  quantities of wood 
I  shall have about 

are  being  gotten  out. 
S, 000 cords on the bank of Grand River.

W m.  R o s ie .

Dissolution of Copartnership.

N otice is hereby given th a t th e firm  o f  Fox, 
Mussulman & Loveridgk  is hereby dissolved 
by m utual consent, and th a t all debts due said 
firm will be paid to Amos  S.  Musselman,  and 
all  debts  owing  by  said  firm  will be paid  by 
Amos 8. Musselman, its successor.

Dated Ja n u a ry  11,1886.

JAMES  FOX.
AMOS  S.  MUSSELMAN, 
LIVINGSTON  L. LOVEHIDGE.

C larion.

The Grand  Rapids  Chair  Co.  is  buying 

3,000,000 feet of maple logs here.

ice.

W.  F.  Prescott  announces  that  he’  will 
start  a  hardware  store  at  Munith  in  the 
spring. 

H e n r i e t t a .

_____
N ew a y g o ,

It is  currently  reported  that  Geo.  King 
will build a brick block early next spring.
Miss Bernice  Wheeler,  of  Saranac,  has 
taken  a  position  at  Taylor’s  book  store. 
Miss Bernice was formerly a  Newaygo girl.
There are now in  the  seven  dry-kilns  at 
this place 400 cords of  pail  and  tub staves, 
and in the stave sheds over 1,800  cords,  be­
sides some 30,000 or 40,000 pail headings.

T raverse  C ity.

East Bay is frozen over for  several miles.
Ike La Rue,  of  Frankfort,  Pa.,  lias been I 
engaged by  D. E.  Carter,  as  salesman  for 
musical merchandise  and sewing machines.
John  Clark,  formerly  employed  in  the 
grocery department  of  the  Hannah  & Lay 
Mercantile Co., lias gone to Appleton, Wis., 
to attend the medical college there.
J.  11.  Clune,  the  new  proprietor  of  the 
Frost  House,  lias  refitted  and  refurnished j 
the same entire.
J.  H.  Steinberg left Monday for Bryant & 
Stratton’s  Commercial  College,  Chicago, 
where he  will  again  take  up  his course of | 
u ulw , 
studies.
J .  L evison is v isiting D etroit,  G rand R ap- 
ids  and  Cadillac,  soliciting  funds  for  the 
nearly completed Hebrew synagogue.
Farmers are again bringing in square tiro 
ber in large quantities.

T h e   G rocery  M arket.

Business is first-rate  and  collections  are 
very good.  Sugars  are  firm at  a slight de­
cline over last  week and  California raisins . 
are a trifle  lower.  Other articles in the gro- j 
eery line are about steady.

Pork is up 50  cents per  barrel  and  fresh I 
pork has sustained a corresponding advance. 
Fowls  and  chickens  are  scarce  and  high, 
local  quotations  now  ranging  from  9@12 
cents per pound.

The ice blockade  at  Baltimore  still  con­
tinues,  in  consequence  of  which  oysters 
have advanced 25 cents  per  gallon.  Local 
dealers experience considerable difficulty  in 
getting  supplies  fast  enough  to  meet  the 
demands of the trade,  and the  retailer  will 
have to  be  as  indulgent  as  possible  until 
the present obstruction is removed.

The balance of the crop of Florida oranges 
has been  destroyed  by the  frost. 
IJcssina 
oranges  are just  beginning  to  arrive.  Val­
encia oranges  are  coming in  in  small lots. 
California oranges will begin  to  arrive in a 
few days.  Lemons  are  steady,  with  light 
demand.  Foreign  nuts  are  steady.  Pea­
nuts are still advancing and are bound to go 
higher.

F a ll  R iv er  M a n u fac tu rin g   D ividends.
The manufacturing  corporations  of  Fall 
River  made  last  year  about  the  poorest 
showing  ever  recorded. 
In  1881,  when 
business was brisk,  20 concerns paid  divid­
ends averaging 11 per cent.  Last year,  out 
of 36 corporations reporting,  only 12 divided 
profits,  and the average of the 12  was  only 
3% per  cent.  No  fewer  than  24  passed I 
their  dividends,  while  in  1881  not  one 
passed.  The  results  of  1885  were  even j 
more disastrous than those of 1884. 
It will 
be  borne  in  mind  that  two-thirds  of  the 
Fall River companies make print  cloth  ex­
clusively,  while this particular cotton fabric 
has been ruinously cheap for many months. 
The  companies  declaring  dividends  last 
year were the Barnaby, Border City, Bourne, 
Globe  Yarn,  Granite,  Laurel  Lake,  Mer­
chants’,  Narraganset,  Sagamon,  Stafford, 
Tecmnseh and Union Cotton.

P o o r P ro sp e c t for  F lo rid a  O ran g es.

Alford H. McClellan,  formerly  identified 
with his brother,  D.  M.  McClellan,  in  gen­
eral trade Reed City, but  now a resident  of 
Cone,  Putnam  county,, Florida,  writes  as 
follows relative to the discouraging weather 
in that  climate  under date of  January  12: 
“We are experiencing terribly cold weather. 
Old settlers say it is many years  since such 
severe cold visited this  region. 
It is now a 
week since it began to freeze.  The oranges 
are frozen on the trees and the nurseries and 
young budded trees  are  ruined. 
It  makes 
one’s  stomach  ache  to  look  at  the  winter 
gardens, and we  are  all blue  in looks  and 
feelings.  We hope every  day  will  give us 
our  old-time  sunshine,  also  a  rest  from 
feeding  the  fire-places. 
I  think  that  the 
insects  are  all  embalmed,  as  I  find  them 
with 
toward  heaven 
wherever I look.”

their  toes  turned 

H id es,  P e lts  a n d   F u rs.

Hides are lower and weak.  Pelts are un­
changed.  Furs  are  improved  in  demand. 
Wool  is  quiet.  Tallow  is  lower  and  ex­
tremely dull.

A few days ago a young lady was making 
a purchase at a country store  and  the mer­
chant  gave  her  a  counterfeit  quarter  in 
change by mistake.  In counting the change 
he discovered  the  quarter,  and  wishing to 
correct it said:  “Hold  on;  I guess that’s a 
bad quarter I gave  you.”  The  lady replied 
by saying:  “Oh,  never  mind;  I’m going to 
church  to-morrow,  and  this  will  make  as 
much noise in the box as a good one.”

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min­
eral Spring  Water from  your  grocery  job­
ber.  See quotations in another column.

Ludwig  Winternitz  has  just  received  a 

second carload of saurkraut

Notice is hereby given th a t we  have  form ed 
a copartnership u n d erth e firm nam e of  A mos 
S. M u ssel m a n & Co., fo r the  purpose  of  con­
tin u in g   the  W holesale  G rocery  business  of 
the late firm of Fox. M usselm an  &  Loveridge. 
a t th e old stand.

Dated Ja n u a ry  12,1886.

AMOS  S.  MUSSELMAN.
WM.  WIDDICOMB.

MISCELLANEOUS.

1 

A dvertisem ents  of 25 words o r  less  inserted 
in this colum n a t th e rate of 25 cents per week, 
or  50  cents  fo r  th ree weeks.  A dvance  pay­
m e n t_______ _____________________________

I piOR  SALE—D esirable  store  building  and 

clean grocery stock, situ ated   in  grow ing 
railroad  tow n.  P re sen t ow ner has  all  he  can 
do to attend to  o th er  business.  Anyone  with 
$3,000 can secure th e opportunity of alifetim e. 
Address X, care T h e T r a d e sm a n._______124*
T V  ANTED  TO  RENT—A  centrally  located 
YV 
store in some thriving tow n suitable fo r 
first-class drug  store.  Address Lou  J. Shafer, 
J41 South Division St., Grand  Rapids.

SITUATION WANTED—By a m an of long ex­

perience in m ercantile business,  to  m an­
age  a  general  store  o r  lum ber supply store. 
Can  fu rn ish   unexceptional  references,  Ad­
dress, XXX, care T h e T r a d esm a n. 
12ltf
retail
VY7ANTRD—A clothing salesm an in 
VV 
store—general store m an  preferred.  A
good situation fo r th e  rig h t m an in  a  tow n  of 
m oderate  size.  Address,  statin g   age, exper-
ience. references, etc., “A,” care  T ra d esm a n.

IiH Y SICIA N  WANTED—A Rood regular phy- 

scian, wlio can  come  recom m ended,  can 
hear of a good  location, good  pay, little  oppo­
sition,  in  splendid farm ing  and fru it growing 
section which can be obtalnedby renting prop­
erty  of retirin g  physician.  Address,  W. Ryno, 
M. D., 251 Gold St., G rand Rapids, Mich.  121tf

w JA N T E D —A  m an  of  experience  w ants 

to  buy  an  in terest  in  a  paying  m er­
cantile  business  and  tak e  an  active  p a rt  in 
conducting the sam e.  R eferences exchanged. 
A ddress w ith description of  business, M..  this 
office. 

I fiOR  SALE  OR  RENT—Store in  th e  livliest 

m an ufacturing  tow n  of  2,000  population 
in the State.  Splendid  opening  fo r  grocery, 
drug or clothing  business.  Possession  given 
March 1.  F o r  fu rth e r particulars, address Lock 
Box 116, M uskegon, Mich. 

119tt

132

I PARTNER WANTED—A  general  m erchant 

doing a good business in a th riv in g  lum ber 
tow n desires a p a rtn e r w ith tw o thousand dol­
lars  capital.  For  p articu lars  address,  “P a rt­
n er,” care the Tradesm an. 

117ti

I NOR  SALE—The  font  of  brevier  type  for- 

'  m erly used on T h e T r a d esm a n.  The fo n t 
com prises 222 pounds, with  italic,  and  can  b*! 
had fo r 30 cents a pound.  Apply  a t the office.

PR O V ISIO N S.

The  G rand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess, Chicago packing, new ..........................11  u>
Mess, Chicago  p acking............... ..................10  75
Clear, short pork, Chicago  p ack in g .......... 12  50
Back, clear short cut, Chicago  packin 
lack, clear snort cut, Chicago  p ack in g ... 13 25
Sxtra fam ily clear, short c u t.......................12  00
E x tra fam ily clear, short c u t—
jlear. A. W ebster  packer, new ...................12  ¿5
Cle 
Sxtra pig. short c u t....................................... 12  76
E 
Sxtra  clear, h eavy.........................................1®  "»
E
13  50
Clear back, short c u t— : ..............

DRY  SALT  MEATS— IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, h eav y ...................................
m edium ................................
l i g h t ......................................
Short Clears, heavy...................................
m edium ................................
lig h t.......................................

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do. 
SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  OR  PL A IN .
H am s, h eavy.......................................................
“  m edium ....................................................
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lig h t.................................................
Boneless  H am s.........................................
Boneless Shoulders...................t .............
B reakfast  B acon......................................
Dried Beef, ex tra  q u ality ......................
Dried Beef, H am  pieces— ...................
Shoulders cured  in sw eet pickle...........

6%
6%
6/S
..  9»4 
• •  9/4 
..  93¿ 
..10 
..  6*4 
..  734 
..  9 
..1034 
..  6

LARD.

Tierces  .......................................................  
30 and 50 ft T u b s ........................................ 
50 ft Round Tins, 100 eases......................  

LARD IN   T IN   P A IL S .

20 ft Pails, 4 pails in  ease........................  
3 ft Pails, 20 in a  case...............................  
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case................................ 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a c a s e ...............................  

B E EF IN   BARRELS.

%%
0/4
6?g

7
734
734
734

E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fts............   9  25
Boneless,  e x tra ................................................13  50

SAUSAGE— FRESH AND SMOKED.

P ork  Sausage...................................  ................
H am   Sausage............................... .“.............
Tongue  Sausage.............................................
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage...........................................
Blood  Sausage....................................................
Bologna, stra ig h t...............................................
Bologna,  th ic k .............................................•••••
H ead  CheeSe.................................*....................

P IG S ’  FEET.

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

 

F R E S H   M EATS.

Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................   414©  6/4
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs...................  6  @7*4
Dressed  H ogs...........................................   4*4 @
M utton,  carcasses...................................  434©  534
V eal............................................................   6  @9
P ork  Sausage...........................................   634©  7
Fow ls.......... : ..............................................46
Spring Chickens......................................11  @12
Ducks  ...................................  
 
T urkeys  . . . : .................................................  @H

 

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

P erkins & H ess pay as follows:

H ID ES.

Calf skins, green

G re e n ___ $  ft  @ 7
P a rt  c u re d ...  834©  8% or cu red ___   @10
Full cu red ___   9  @  934 Deacon skins,
$  piece..........20  ©50
Dry hides and
* 

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

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estim ated washed 18 f t ...........   @25
Tallow............................. ..........................  4  @4*4

WOOL.

FURS.

¡Fine washed 18 ft 24@27 U nw ashed............ 
Coarse w ashed . . .  18@22

2-3

...1   00@12  00

B e ar.................................
.......... 2  00@6  00
F is h e r ............................
..........................1  00@1  25
...........................1  00@1  20
Grey F ox ................................
............  25@1 00
M a rtin ....................................
..................................  05@  60
................................  10©  12
M uskrat,  w in ter..............
8
fa ll....................
kits  .................. ..................................  @  2
......4   00@5  00
O tte r ........................................
..................  10@1  00
...........................   10@1  20
.........................1  50@2  50
..................................  10©  30

Beaver,  $  
.................
Deer, $1  f t .............................

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The Connecticut clock works,  looking for 
a site in Michigan,  will not be  located until 
next month,  before  which  time  a represen­
tative  of  the  company  will  visit  a  dozen 
towns and look over the advantages offered.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

prom ptly and buy in full packages.

These  prices  are  fo r  cash  buyers,  who  pay 
%

AXLE  GREASE.

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BAKING  PO W D ER.

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F razer’s .................. 
90|Paragon  ..................1  80
Diamond  X ............  60]Paragan25ft p ails.1  20
Modoc, 4  doz.......... 2 50|Fraziers, 25 ft pails. 1  25
Thom pson’s  Butterfly, b u lk ....................   25
6 o r 10 lb  c a n s....  27
34, 4 doz.  in c a se ... 
34.2  « 
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05
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s  Princess,  34s...........1  2a
54s..........  2  2a
Is .............4  25
b u lk .......   28
..  45 
..  75 
..1  40 
..2  40 
12  00 
..7  50

A rctic, 34 lb can s..........................................
...................................
..........................................
....... „................................
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Silver Spoon, 3  doz....................................
BLU IN G .
Dry, No. 2..............................................doz.
— 
 
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doz.
Dry, No. 3
................doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,............................
................ doz.
Liquid, 8 oz..............................
gross  4  00 
A rctic 4 oz...............................
.  8  00 
A rctic 8  oz.............................
A rctic 16 oz.............................
.  2  00 
A rctic No. 1 pepper box —
.  3  00 
“   —
A rctic No. 2 
.  4  00
A rctic No. 3 
“   —
BROOMS.
No. IC a rp e t........... 2  75 No.  2  H u rl................200
No. 2 C arpet........... 2  50 Fancy  W hisk...........100
No. 1  P arlor Gem. .2  90 Com m onW liisk....  75 
No. 1 H u rl............... 2  25
Clams, 1 ft  sta n d ard s................................... I  1®
Clams, 2 lb  stan d ard s.................................... 1  *5
Clam Chowder,  3 lb.......................... .............2 00
Cove Oysters,  1  fi>  stan d ard s...................... 1  1»
Cove O ysters, 2  lb  standards.....................  1  90
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic........................................1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft s ta r........................................... 2  CO
Lobsters, 2 ft s ta r ...................................•••«•2  90
Mackerel, l f t   fresh  stan d ard s...................1  10
M ackerel, 5 ft fresh  sta n d ard s...................3  50
M ackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3  f t................. 5 25
M ackerel,3 ft in M ustard............................. 5 2o
M ackerel, 3 1b broiled.................................... 3  2.»
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia riv e r......................... 1  55
Salmon, 2 1b Columbia riv e r.........................2 30
Salmon, l f t   S acram ento..............................1  45
Sardines, dom estic 54s................................... 
9
Sardines,  dom estic  34s...............................  
1»
Sardines,  M ustard  34.....................................  12
Sardines,  im ported  ¿48.................................  14
T rout. 3 ft  brook..........................................  4  50
Apples, 3 1b sta n d a rd s...................................  90
Apples, gallons,  stan d ard s.......................... 2  30
Blackberries, sta n d ard s...............................   95
UUUillUO(  ic'd  Dtouuaiu. . ..............
D am sons........................................... ..............1  00
............... ................1  40
Egg  Plum s, standard? 
G reen  Gages, standards 2 f t ........ ............... 1  40
Peaches, E x tra Y ellow ................................ 2 40
Peaches,  stan d ard s........................__ 1  75@1  95
Peaches,  seconds.......................... ............... 1  50
................1  75
Pm eapples,  E rie...................... ...
Pineapples, sta n d ard s.................. ................1 50
Q u in ces........................................... ................1 45
R aspberries,  e x tra ....................... ................1  10

....................85@1  00

CANNED FRUITS.

CANNED FISH.

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

Lusk’s.  M ariposa.
00 
1  85 
1  85 
1  85

A p ric o ts........................................2 m
Egg P lu m s.................................... 2 10
G ra p e s........................................... 2 10
G reen G ages.................................2 10
P e a rs.............................................. 2 65
Q u in ces......................................... 2 75
P e a c h e s......................................... 2 55
20
CANNED VEG ETA BLES.
A sparagus, O yster Bay.......................................3 25
Beans, Lima,  sta n d ard ..........................  90@1  10
Beans, Stringless,  E rie ................................   80
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked............................ 1 65
Corn,  T rophy........................................................1 05
“  Red Seal.................................................  90
“  E xcelsior.....................................................1 00
Peas, F ren ch .................... 
1  75
Peas, M arrofat, sta n d ard ................................... 1 60
Peas, B eaver..................  
70
Pum pkin, 3 ft G olden....................................   85
Succotash, sta n d ard ......................................   90
Tomatoes, T rophy...................................1  05@1  10
Tomatoes.  H illsdale............................................ 1 05
Tom atoes,  A drian........................................  1  05
Tomatoes, Three R ivers.....................................1 05
@12 
M ichigan  full  cream ..............................11
@103 
H alf  skim .................................................... 9
@  6
S k im ...........................................................  5
B o sto n ........................36IGerman  Sw eet............25
Baker’s ...................... 38l V ienna Sweet  ............23
Runkles’ .....................351
Green  R io.........  9@13
G reen J a v a.......17@27
G reen M ocha.. .23@25
Boasted B io 
10© 15
Roasted Ja v a   .. 23@30 
COFFEES

Roasted  Mar.,.17@18 
Roasted Mocha.28@30 
Boasted M ex...  @16 
G round  R io__ 9@16

CHOCOLATE.

PACKAGE.

COFFEE.

CH EESE.

 
 

 

 

100 fts.
M cLaughlin’s  ............................... 1334 
A rbuckle’s  .................................... 1334 
34 cen t less in 300 ft lots.

60 f ts
13:
13:

CORDAGE.

foot J u t e .......  1  35  172 foot C otton.... 2 25
60 foot  J u te .......  1  00  60 foot C otton— 2  00
40 Foot C otton__ 1  50  150 foot C otton— 1  75
.. .0 
.. .534

CRACKERS.

x

x

x

FISH.

.............
5 per cent, off in 10 barrel lots.
Bloaters, Smoked Y arm outh —
Cod,  w hole......................................
Cod, Boneless...................................
H alibut  ..  ......................................
H erring 34  b b ls..............: .............
H erring, Holland, d om estic...  .
H erring,  Sealed.............................
Mackerel, Penny bbls...................
M ackerel, shore, No. 2, 34  bbls..
12 ft kits
10 

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No. 3. 34 b b ls........................
12 ft  k its...................
...................
10 
Shad,  34 b b l ............................................
T rout, 34  bbls..........................................
12 ft  k its......................................
......................................
10 
W hite, No. 1,34 b b ls .............................
W hite, No. 1,12  ft k its..........................
W hite, No. 1,10 ft k its ..........................
W hite, Fam ily, 34 bbls..........................

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

. .75@S0 
..  ©5 
534@634 
. ,11@12
. ,85@95 
..18@22 
.4  75@5 
..5 00 
..  80
70
3 50
62
55
2  50
4  00
70
65 
6  00
1  00
85
2 25

PICKLES.

P IP E S .

@5  50
M edium .................................................................
@7  00
Sm all........................................................................
Im ported Clay 3  gross................................ ..2   25@3 00
@2 25
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 gross.........
©1  85
Im ported Clay, No. 216, 234 g ro ss___
@ 9 0
Am erican  T. D.................................................
. . . .   @6
Choice Carolina.........654: Ja v a   ..............
Prim e C arolina.......5341 P a t n a ......... .................. 6
j Rangoon . . . ___ 5*4@5yi
Good  C aroli n a .........5 
Good L ouisiana.........5  ¡Broken.
. —  3*4 @3 34
DoLand’s p u re ...........534¡Dwight’s ••• .................. 534
Church’s  .......................53@Sea  Foam .. ..................534
Taylor’s  G.  M ..............534¡Cap  Sheaf.. .................. 5*4

SALERATUS.

R IC E .

34c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F  F   D airy ..................................
28 P o ck et...............................................................
100 3 ft  pockets.................................................
Saginaw or  M anistee..................................
Diamond  C..........................................................
Standard  Coarse.............................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. b ag s___
Ashton,  English, dairy, 4 bu.  bags.
H iggins’ English dairy bu.  bags___
A m erican, dairy,  34 bit. b ag s................
R6ck, bushels....................................................

. 

2  30
2  25
2  50

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

@2  00
@  75
@1  00
©1  35
@1  70
@1  00
©1  .50
©5 50
@2  20

© 198@10

SAUCES.

Parisian,  34  p in ts ...........................................
P epper Sauce, red  sm all......................
P epper Sauce, green  ...............................
P epper Sauce, red  large rin g ..............
P epper Sauce, green, large rin g ...
Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts.............................
Catsup, Tom ato,  q u arts  .......................
H alford Sauce, p in ts ..................................
H alford Sauce, 34 p in ts ...........................

SPICES.

SUGARS.

STARCH.

Ground. 

Whole.
P e p p e r................. 16@25|Pepper...............
A llspice............... 12@15 A llspice.............
.10©ll
C innam on............18@30 C assia................
Cloves  ................. 15@25 Nutm egs  .............60©63
G in g e r................. 16@20 Cloves  .................. 16@18
M u sta rd ................15@301
C a y e n n e ..............25@35|
Elastic, 64 packages,  per  b o x .....................  5 35
Cubes  .. ...................................................... 
©   734
P ow dered..................................................   534©  724
G ranulated.  S tan d ard...................... t .. 
©   73a
Confectionery A ......................................   @  634
Standard A ................................................   @  6%
No. I, W hite E x tra  C.............................   634© 634
No. 2, E x tra C...........................................   6  ©   6*4
No. 3 C.........................................................  534©  574
No. 4 C.......................................................   57s(©  a34
No. 5 C.........................................................  534©  534
New Orleans Yellows.............................   534©  534
24@28
Corn,  barrels 
.........................................  
26®30
Corn, 34 bbls............................................... 
Corn,  10 gallon k eg s................................. 
@30
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................................... 
30@31
Corn, 434 gallon kegs...............................  
30@31
P ure  Sugar, bbl........................................ 
23@28
P u re Sugar, 34 bbl....................................  
25@30
P u re Sugar  5 gal k eg s............................  @1  50

SYRUPS.

TEAS.

Ja p a n   o rd in ary ............................................... 15@20
Ja p an  fa ir to good..........................................25@30
Ja p an  fine......................................................... 35@45
Ja p an  d u st........................................................15@20
Young H yson...................................................30@50
G unP ow der......................................................35@5U
O olong........................................................33@55@6C
C ongo..............................................................   25©:#)

TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN  PAILS.

D ark AmericanEagle67|Underwood’s Capper 35
The M eigs...................64 Sweet  Rose................45
Red  Bi rd ...................«50 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
State  Seal...................60 A tla s............................ 35
Prairie Flow er  .. __ 65  Royal Gam e................38
Indian  Q u een .... __ 60 Mule E a r.....................65
Bull  Dog.............. __ 60 F ountain.....................74
Crown  L eaf....... __ 661 Old Congress___ .......64
H iaw ath a............ .. ..65|Good L u ck .................52
Globe  ................... __ 70 j Blaze A w ay........
....35
May Flow er......... __ 70 H air L ifter......... ........30
H e ro ..................... ... .45] G o v ern o r............, ;... 60
Sweet O w en......... __ 66 Fox’s Choice___ ....  63
.......35
Old  A be. 

.. ....49 ¡M edallion............

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K nife, single  b u tt..............................  ..  @50
.  @49
“   ............................  @48
R um .............................................................  @40
M oney.........................................................   @48
©48
Red  F o x ...................................................... 
Big D rive....................................................  @50
Seal of G rand R apids.............................  
©46
D u rh am ......................................................  @46
P a tr o l......................................................  .  @48
Ja ck   R abbit...............................................  @46
Snow flake..................................................   @46
Chocolate C ream ......................................   @46
N im rod.......................................................   @44
E. C..............................................................   @40
Spread E agle.............................................  @38
Big Five C enter........................................  @35
Woodcock  ................................................   @46
K n igntsof  L abor....................................  
©46
Bail road......................................................  @46
Big  B ug......................................................  @32
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12.................................  @46
Black B ear................................................. 
©17
K ing 
  ©46
Old Five Cent Tim es...............................   @38
P rune N uggett, 12 f t...............................   @62
P arro t  .......................................................   @46
Old T im e....................................................  @38
T ram w ay....................................................  @46
Glory  .........................................................   @46
Silver  Coin................................................   @46
B uster  [D ark].......................................... 
,  @35
Black Prince [D ark]...............................   @35
Black Racer  [D ark]...............................   @35
Leggett & Myers’  S ta r............................  @46
C lim ax.......................................................   @46
Hold F a s t..................................................   @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield............................  @46
Nickle N ugget8 6 and 12 ft  cads.  .......   @51
Cock of the W alk  6s...............................   @37
Nobby T w ist.............................................   @46
A c o rn ................................ 
©46
C rescen t....................................................   @44
Black  X .....................................................   @35
Black  Bass.................................................  @40
Spring.........................................................   @46
G ra y lin g ....................................................  @46
M ackinaw..................................................   @45
H orse Shoe................................................   @44
H air L ifte r................................................   @36
D. and D., black........................................  @36
McAlpin’s G reen  Shield........................   @46
Ace  High, black......................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace..........................................  @46

 

 

2c. less in fo u r b u tt lots.

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1  40
Jennings’ 2 oz............................. $   doz.l 00
4 oz........................................ 1  50
2  50
60Z........................................ 2 50
4  00
8 oz........................................ 3 50
5  00
No. 2  T ap er........................ 1  25
1  50
........................ 1  75
3 00
No.  4 
7  50
4  50
34 p in t  ro u n d .....................
9 00 15  00
1 
.....................
4  25
No.  8.................................... 3 00
No. 1 0 .................................. 4  25
6  00
@  25
@  15
@  20
@  25
@  28
@1234
@  25

A pricots, 25 ft boxes............................
Cherries, pitted, 50 ft  boxes..............
Egg plum s, 251b  b o x e s ....................
P ears, 25 ft  boxes.................................
Peaches,  Delaware. 50 ft boxes.......
Peaches, M ichigan...............................
Raspberries, 50  ft boxes.....................

FR U ITS— DOM ESTIC.

@J®

F R U IT S —FO R EIG N .

®  32
Citron ......................................................
C urrants,  now ..........................................  734©  ‘J*
Prunes,  French,60s.................................  @  15
Prunes, French, 80s.................................  @  10
Prunes, T urkey........................................  434©  ¥
Bui sins, D ehesia......................................  @4 00
Kaisins, London L ayers........................   @3  2a
Raisins, California  “ 
........................ -  @2  85
Kaisins, Loose M uscatels, new ............   @2  80
Raisins, M uscatels, 10 ft boxes............   @  90
Raisins, Ondaras, 14s.............................   @  13
Raisins, 
28s..............................  @1234
Raisins, Sultanas,  n ew ..........................  @1034
Raisins, V alencia.........  ........................   @11
Raisins, Im perials, 10 ft  boxes.............   @100

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MATCHES.

W ater W hite.1274  I Legal  T est........................11J4
Grand  H aven,  No.  8, sq u a re..........................1 00
Grand  H aven,  No.  200,  parlo r...................... 1 7o
G rand  H aven,  No.  3u0, p arlo r.......................2 25
G rand  H aven,  No.  7,  ro u n d ..........................1 50
Oshkosh, No.  2................  ................................. ]  00
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................... 1 «0
Sw edish.................... 
7»
 
Richardson’s No. 8  square. . ...........................100
.............................. 150
Richardson’sN o. 9 
Richardson’s No. 734, ro u n d ............................1  00
Richardson’s No. 7 
.............................. 150

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MOLASSES.

Black  S tra p ....................................... 
15@1»
P orto  Rico........................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good........................................ 36©4~
New Orleans, choice.......................................48@50
New  Orleans,  fan cy .......................................o8@65

 

34 bbls. 3c ex tra.

OATM EAL.

Steel  o u t.................5  26|Quaker, 48  fts .........8 25
Steel Cut, 34 b b ls.. .3 00 Q uaker, 60  fts.........2 60
Rolled  O a ts .........3  OOiQuakerbbls.............6 00

lina, 
lina, 
lina, 

SMOKING
... 28i Good  Luck..................26
D ix ie.....................
...40 Sweet Lotus................ 32
Old T a r............... :
.. .22 C o nqueror..................23
A rth u r’s  Choice.
.. .26 G ray lin g ..................... 32
Bed F ox................
..  28 Seal  S kin..................... 30
F lirt......................
.. .26 Bob B oy.......................26
Gold  D ust............
...30 Uncle  Sam ..................28
Gold  Block..........
Seal of Grand Bapids  L u m b o o n a u .............. 25
(cloth)....................25 Railroad Boy...............38
Tram w ay, 3  oz.......... 40 M ountain Rose............18
Ruby, cu t Cavend ish 35 Home C om fort.......
Peck’s S un................. 18 Seal o f N orth Caro-
M inersand Puddlers.28|  Lina, 2  o z................. 48
i: Seal of N orth  Cam
M orning  Dew__
4oz.46
,.22 
C hain.....................
, .24|Seai of N orth  Caro-
Peerless  ..............
8o z.41
. .201 
S tan d ard ..............
:.18 Seal of N orth  Caro-
Old Tom ................
16 oz boxes_40
. .24| 
Tom &  Je rry .......
, .25 Big D eal........
Jo k e r.....................
. .35 A pple Ja c k ..................24
T ra v e le r..............
. .25 King Bee, lo n g eu t.. .22
M aiden............ .
. .40 Milwaukee  P rize___24
Pickwick  C lub...
. .26-R attler.........................28
Nigger  H ead.......
..22 W indsor c u t p lu g___25
H o llan d ................
..16 Zero  ............................ It
G erm an ................
. .301 H olland M ixed...........16
Solid C om fort.... 
..32 Golden  A g e...
Red Clover.
Long Tom ....................30] Mail  Pouch
N a tio n a l..................... 28 K nights of L a to r 
T im e ............................26¡Free Cob Pipe.
M ayflow er..........................23| H iaw ath a..........
G lobe............................ 22 Old C ongress..
Mule E a r.....................22|May  L eaf........
@
Lorillard’s A m erican G entlem en.......
©
Maccoboy...............................
@@
Gail & A x’ 
............................
R a p p e e .................................
@@1  30
Railroad  Mills  Scotch............................
Lotzbeck  ..................................................
8@1
Star brand,  pure  cider............................
8@12
S tar brand, w hite w ine............................
95
Bath Brick im p o rted .............................
to
A m erican..............................  
B urners, No. 1 .........................................   ,  100
No.  2.........................................  
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  b ran d .............. 
7  80
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft can s..............  15@25
Candles, S ta r.............................................  @1234
Candles,  H otel................. *......................  @14
E x tract Coffee, V.  C...............................  
©80
F e lix ............................ 
Gum, Rubber 100 lum ps........................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.........................  ©15
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@36

M ISCELLANEOUS.

SHORTS.

VINEGAR.

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Hom iny, ¥   bbl.. 
Jolly, in 30 ft  p ails....
P earl  B arley................
Peas, G reen  Rush 
Peas, Split  P repared.
Powder,  K eg................
Powder, 34  K eg ...........
Sago  .............................
S auerkraut, bbls.........
34  b b ls...

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©4  00 

434©  5 
23£©  3 

@1  35 
©   334 
©3 00 
@1  90 
©   18 
©5 00 
©2  75

CA N D T,  FRU ITS  A N D   NUTS. 

P utnam  & Brooks quote as fo llo w s: 

STICK .

Standard, 25 ft boxes............................
............................
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
MIXED

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

do 
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834@9 
9@  934 
.. 
..1034®11

Royal, 200 ft bbls.................................. ....  @834
E xtra, 25 ft  pails.................................
. . . . 10®  1034
E xtra. 200 ft  bbls................................... ....9   @  934
French Cream, 25 ft p ails................... . «..  @ 12%
Cut loaf, 25 ft  oases............................. ....1234©
Broken, 25  ft  pails............................... __ 10@1034
Broken, 200 ft  bbls............................... ....  9®  934

FANCY—IN  5 ft  BOXES.

............ 13@14
............ 14@15
.................... 15
................... 20
...................10
................... 20
................... 12
....................J5
................... 18
....................15
....................15
............ 13© 14
....................13
............ 18@20
................... 20
....................17
................... 20
............ 14® 15
. " '. . . ”" ’1.15
..  @12
@11 
@1234 
,.1134@12 
@12*4 
. . . .   @ 7
..  534©  6 
..10  @1034
............  9
............ 12
..1234®13 
.  11  ©12

Sour Drops 
P epperm int  D rops.
Chocolate  D rops.............................
H M Chocolate  D rops...................
Gum  D rops  ....................................
Licorice D rops...............................
A B  Licorice  D rops.....................
Lozenges, p lain ..............................
Lozenges,  p rin te d ....................«■__
Im p e ria ls.................................... .
M o tto es...........................................
Cream  B ar......................................
Molasses B a r...................................
Caram els..........................................
H and Made C ream s.......................
Plain  Cream s.................................
D ecorated  Cream s........................
String B ock....................................
B urnt Alm onds..............................
W intergreen  B erries.................
FANCY—IN   BULK.
Lozenges, plain  in  pails..............
Lozenges, plain in  bbls................
Lozenges, printed in pails...........
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........
Chocolate Drops, in pails............
Gum  Drops  in pails.....................
Gum Drops, in b b ls .....................
Moss Drops, in  p ails.....................
Moss Drops, in bbls  .....................
Sour Drops, in  pails.....................
Im perials, in  pails........................
Im perials  in  bbls..........................
Bananas  A spinw atl.....................
Oranges, Jam aica, bbls................
Oranges, Florida............................
Oranges, V alencia, eases............
Oranges.  M essina..’. .....................
Oranges,  N aples............................
Lemons,  choice.............................
Lemons, fan cy...............................
Figs, layers, new,  (gi f t.................
Dates,  frails  do  ............................
Dates, 34 do  d o ............................
Dates, sk in ......................................
Dates,  34  sk in .................................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^   f t..........
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 18 ft............
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.......
Pine Apples, $   doz......................
PEANUTS.
Prim e  Bed,  raw   18  ft...................
Choice 
d o ...................
Fancy 
do  ...................
Choice W hite, Va.do  ...................
Fancy H P,.  V a  do  ...................
Almonds,  T arrag o n a...................
Iv aca..............................
B razils.............................................
Chestnuts, p er b u ..........................
Filberts, Sicily...............................
Barcelona.................................10
W alnuts,  G renoble.................................14
M arbo........................................
F ren ch ......................................
C alifornia...............................
Pecans,  Texas, H. P ...............................io
M issouri.................................. o
Cocoanuts, 19 100......................................

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434©  5 
@  53 
@  43 
5i3£©  6
@18 
@17 
@10
— 1134@12 
@11 
@1454

7  00@S  00 
4  00@4 50
@4 00 
@4  50 
@17 
@  4 
©   5

@11 
RH@10 
834®  9

©12 
@13 
©  10 
@4  50

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

OYSTERS.

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follows:
New  Y ork  C ounts....................................
. J. D. Selects...........................................
...30
S e le c ts...............................................
F. J .  D...........................................................
".!l9
Standards  ..................
.....................17
F a v o rite s..........   .....
.................   16
Mediums  ...................
.................   15
P rim e s........................
.................   13
Selects, by  b ulk.........
................. 1  60
Standards, by  bulk..
....1   00@L  10
Shrew sbury shells, 1 100............ ................. 1  40
Princess  Bay  Clams, $   100.......... .....................80
New  io r k   Counts, $ 100...
................. 1  40
Cod  .....................  .....
....... 
©12
H addock..........
.......  @ 8
M ackerel.....................
.......12  ©14
Mackinaw T ro u t.......
0   7
Perch,  dressed.........
.......  @ 6
S m e lts............
.......10  @11
W hiteflsh.................
.......  @  9

FRESH  F IS H .

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Hem lock Bark--The local  tan n ers  are  offer­
ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $>1.5Q@1.60  $   1b 
for clean washed roots.
R ubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offer 40 audj5 per cent, off on standard goods 
and 40,10 and 5 p ercen t,  off on second quality.

COUNTRY  PR O D U C E.

Apples—Choice  w inter  fru it  is  in  good de­

m and a t $1.75@$1,90.

Beans—Local buyers pay 50c@#90  «¡9  bu.  for 
unpicked  and  hold  ordinary  hand-picked  for 
$1.10@$1.30.

B u tter—Michigan cream ery is-easy at 25@28. 
Sweet dairy is  in sharp  dem and and firm at 16, •. 
while old is dull a t 5@8c.

B utteriue—Cream ery packed com m ands 20c. 
Dairy rolls are held at 14@15c and solid packed 
a t 12@14c.

Cabbages—In fair dem and  a t ^6@S8 f!  100.
Cheese —The  best  grades  of Septem ber, Oo- 
tober and N ovem ber m ake are  selling  a t 11© 
1254.

Cider—10c ]9 gal. and ?1 fo r bbl.
Celery—20@22e fl doz.  bunches  for  K alam a­

zoo or Grand Haven.

Cranberries—The  m arket  is  well  supplied 
with  both  cultivated  and  wild  Michigan and 
New  Jersey  berries, which com m and  $1.75© 
$2  <p  bu.  fo r  choice.

Eggs—Fresh  are  firm  a t  20c,  and  pickled 

are m oving slowly at 17@18c.

Honey—Choice new  in  comb  is firm  a t  14c.
H ay—Bailed is active and firm at $16 per ton 

in two and five ton lots and  $14 in car lots.

Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c ^   ft.
L ettuce—25c $   ft.
Onions—Home-grown, 70c $  b u /o r $2 $  bbl.
Pop Corn—Choice new com m ands  234c  11  ft 

and old 3c 

ft.

Potatoes—B urbanks com m and 42@43e.  Late 
Rose  are  in  only  occasional  dem and  a t  30c 
on account of th e “ red  streaks.”

P oultry—Fairly  well  supplied.  Fowls  sell 
fo r  10@llc; chickens,  ll@12c;  ducks,  13c; and 
turkeys, lie .

Squash—H ubbard, quoted nom inally at lc  

ft, although very little is m oving.

Sweet P otatoes—Jerseys com m and  $4.50 and 

Baltim ores $3.50.

T urnips—25c* <¡9 bu.

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

W heat—Lower.  The  city  m illers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  83;  Fulse,  80c;  Clawson, 
80c.

Corn—Jobbing generally a t 44@45c  in 100b u . 

lots and 3S@40c in carlots.

Oats—W hite, 38c in small lots  and  33@34c  in 

car lots.

Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ft cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy P atent, $5.50 $  bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.75 in  wood.  Straight, $4.60  $  
bbl. in sacks and $4.80 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $1 ton.  Bran, $14 
$  ton.  Ships, $15 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $1 to n . 
Corn and Oats, $20 $1 ton.

BOYCOTTING  A  UNION.

A   Singular  Contest  Now  Underway  in a 

Small  Maine Village.

N o r w a y , Me., C o r r e s p o n d e n c e  N. Y. S a n .

This  little  village  of  2,000  Inhabitants, 
nestled amid the foothills of the White Mou- 
tains,  is at present  tom to  the core  with a 
labor  struggle  of  a  most  singular  aspect. 
The life of the town for  thirteen  years has 
been the big  shoe  factory of B.  F. Spinney 
<fc Co. 
It came  to  bring  prosperity  to  the 
villagers during  the  labor  trouble  in Lynn 
in  1872.  A good  many  other  Lynn  firms 
sent part of their  business  into  exile at the 
same  time,  with  the  view  of  having  two 
strings to their  bows, by  holding a shop at 
Lynn and matching it with one in the coun­
try.  The country shops were  usually built 
by the towns  in  which  they  were  located, 
and were given,  rent  free,  to  the big firms, 
who occupied them  under terms  which for­
bade the  formation  of  labor  unions by the 
rustic  operatives.  So  this  factory came to 
Norway,  and the village boys and girls,  and 
the farmer’ sons and daughters found profit­
able work  within  it,  and  all  prospered to­
gether for  full ten  years  until the workers 
became experts and drifted  away  to bigger 
and  better  factories,  where  their 
skill 
brought better pay. 
In their stead came the 
professianal  shoemaker,  restless  and  with 
but one  idea,  governing  himself  with  the 
principle that he would do the least possible 
work for  the most  attainable  money. 
lie 
brought  trade  unionism  with  him,  but  it 
took no shape for several  years, for the vil­
lagers  crushed  all  incipient  movements. 
Finally the Lasters’ Union sent out from its 
Lynn headquarters about six months ago an 
order designed to drive  all outside  factories 
back to  the  shoe  metropolis. 
It  came  to 
Norway,  and the  lasters  formed a  union at 
midnight  and  made  a  demand  for a raise. 
The company’s lease  had  expired,  and it at 
once declared that if it must be governed by 
unions it were better to have it done in Lynn 
than in Norway.  They gave  notice to quit 
with a promptitude  that  brought  horror to 
the Norwegian  mind.  The  vallagers went 
on their knees  to  both  the  corporation and 
the lasters,  offering  even to  buy out all the 
latter if  they  would  but  vacate'.peaceably. 
The lasters refused to do so.  Despair seized 
the people of the little town,  and kept them 
in misery for twb  weeks  or  more  until an 
imprudent Lynn  laster  said  that  when the 
factories  were  once  all  back  in Lynn  the 
union would finish its work by pushing them 
to the wall until high wages «were again ob­
tained.  This frightened 1 he manufacturers,. 
and  the  Messrs.  Spinney  turned  again  to 
Norway,  saying that if a shop were built of 
sufficient  size  they  would  desert  Lynn  at 
once and forever.  The  proposition was ac­
cepted,  and a  building  that  will  accommo­
date 400 hands stands complete to-day ready 
for  business.  The  company  exacted  that 
labor unions  be  crushed  out  in  the  town, 
and the town went to work to do it with ill- 
advised recklessness.  Every man  who had 
joined the  lasters’  little  band  was  thrown 
out of employment  and  boycotted  in  every 
possible  way.  Storekeepers  declined 
to 
trust  them and gave their  accounts to  law- 
yers to collect by the aid of a deputy sheriff, 
without  a  show  of  mercy.  Many  de­
serving fellows who but  sought their rights 
suffered with the  malcontents.-  Each  man 
who dared to  speak  against  this  cruel sys­
tem was ostracized with the rest*  A Knight 
of Labor named Adams,  who owned a store 
and restaurant,  had  the  building£he rented 
purchased  by  John  L.  Ilorne,  Freeland 
Howe,  II.  M. Bearce, andW. H.  Whitcomb, 
four local magnates,  and was turned at once 
out of doors,  in  an  endeavor  to  drive  him 
from town.  No man who  said a good word 
for  the  lasters  escaped.  Even  the  local 
baker,  an active youth named Itines,  is now 
having his loaves boycotted for a too free ex­
pression of opinion.

In the mean  time  the ¿¿nights  of  Labor 
have  turned  their  attention  to  the  town. 
Master  Workman  Dutton  and  Massachu­
setts workmen have  organized a  lodge of a 
hundred or more and are laboring to increase 
its ranks. yNo ¡hall  could  be  hired  for the 
purpose in the village,  so  they went instead 
to  the  “Lalse,”  a  suburb  a  mile  or more 
away.

Queerly enough  the  farmers  are  joining 
with them.  They fought the coming of the 
shoe factory long ago,  and were beaten,  but 
have never ceased  to hate it,  and  now they 
are getting even.  Meetings are  held  every 
night or two,  and the heat of both parties is 
rising  fast.  The  bitterness  of feeling  ex­
hibited  all  around  is  something  amazing. 
Neighbors are arrayed against neighbors and 
there is more than enough tinder ready for a 
blaze.  Few  places  can  produce  such  en­
thusiastic  hatred  as  these  New  England 
towns,  and  Norway,  by  long  practice,  has 
won a place at the top  in the list  of  com­
bative communities. 
It has fought destruc­
tive battles over  religion  and  politics;  now 
it is trying labor.  The lasters erred foolish­
ly in the beginning,  and now the townspeo­
ple  are taking  their  turn.  There  is more 
trouble ahead than  peaceable people care to 
think about.  The  new  factory,  though,  is 
filling up with the peasantry.  Each would- 
be worker signs an ironclad oath not to join 
trades unions before he can go to Work,  but 
the lasters bide their time.

The Knights of Labor are  boycotting  the 
Protective Union Store  at  Glencove,  Long 
Island,  because of the discharge  of  an em­
ploye for dishonesty.  The  discharged  man 
complained to the Knights of the injustice of 
the  action  taken.  Three  hands  who  had 
been discharged were  arrested  for  dishon­
esty.  The  store is deserted* 
It  is  owned 
the Duryea Starch Works and  supported 

e from the works.

The Gripsack Brigade.

To Mr. and  Mrs.  McKay—a  ten  pound 

boy.  Father and child both doing well.

R. B. Orr  recently  picked  up  a flock  of 
geese,  which he has added to his menagerie.
Leo. A.  Caro waAalso one of the contrib­
utors to the Geo.  BpOwen  emergency fund.
W. N.  Ford, the more or  less  ubiquitous 
plug tobacco  man, was  in  town  over Sun­
day.

John S. Williams, representing Senour  & 
Gedge, of Covington, Ky.,  was  in town last 
week.

Dick Warner now puts  in  every Wednes­
day  at  the  house.  Dick’s  country  trade 
should paste this reminder in their hats.

G.  L.  Cole,  representing  the  Pembroke 
Knitting Co., Muskegon,  was in town Mon­
day,  on his way to the Upper Peninsula.

D.  S.  Hatfield has  engaged  to  travel  for 
the Fuller & Fuller  Co.,  of  Chicago, cover­
ing about the same territory as formerly.

Perley  W.  Hall, who has  represented  J. 
It.  Pierce, of Benton Harbor, on the road for 
the past three years was in town Monday.

W.  G.  Hawkins now holds the reins on a 
2:86 roadster, and rumor ha^jlt  that he pro­
poses entering the  nag for the spring races.
Wm.  Hood, formerly  engaged in the rail­
way  business,  succeeds  Leo.  A.  Caro  as 
representative for the  Enterprise  Cigar Co.
Sam.  Lemon requests  The T r a d e s m a n  
to state that the new  firm  in  which  he is a 
leading  spirit  wishes  two  “Jim-Dandy” 
traveling men.

Hub.  Baker and L.  L.  Lomis  will remain 
with the old house,  while Ed Frick and Ad. 
Morrison will unite tlieir fortunes  with  01- 
ney,  Shields & Co.

A.  S.  Doak  is  now  the  possessor  of  a 
handsome Maltese  cat  of  the  male persua­
sion,  which he has taught to sing.  Some of 
his  traveling  friends  recently mistook  the 
animal for a mocking bird.

L.  W.  Atkins,  traveling  representative 
for  Heavenrich  Bros.,  of  Detroit,  writes 
Tiie  T r a d e s m a n   that  he  is  getting  his 
spring  line  ready  and  will be  out  among 
the trade in about two weeks.

W. E.  Cummings has  left  J.  P.  Smith, 
Son & Co.,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  signed 
with Geo. F.  Bassett & Co.,  of New  York. 
He will cover the same territory as formerly 
and make his trips  with  accustomed  regu­
larity.

Geo.  F.  Owen  has  lost  hi's  door-key,  in 
consequence o’f which misfortune lie is com­
pelled  to  crawl  in  and  out  the  transom. 
Those of his friends  who  have  spare  keys 
on hand should improve this  opportunity to 
forward them on, either by mail or  express, 
to 38 South Division street.

Purely Personal.

Fred.  H. Ball now spends a portion of his 
time among the  city patrons of  Cody,  Ball 
& Co.

L.  C.  Handy,  the  Mancelona  druggist, 
was in town last  Friday, on his  way to his 
old home at Albion.

W.  W.  Barcus,  manager  of  the  Heap 
Earth Closet Co.,  of Muskegon,  was in town 
a couple of days last week.

John B.  Parker and  Edward O.  Ely,  who 
manage the  Boston  end  of  the  Peninsular 
Novelty Co.,  are  in  the  city  to  attend the 
annual meeting of the  stock holders of that 
corporation.

Capt.  C.  G. Perkins,  of  Henderson,  Ky., 
is in the city  again  this  week  to  assist in 
the obsequies of  the firm of Hazel tine, Per­
kins  &  Co.  and  witness  the  birth  of  the 
Ilazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Cornelius A. Johnson, Secretary of the Re­
tail Grocers’ Association,  has gone to Ocala, 
Marion county, Florida, where he will spend 
about  six  weeks  in  search  of  health  and 
recreation.  He  is  accompanied  by  Wm. 
VanEtten.

Big Rapids Herald:  W.  A.  D.  Rose  has 
accepted  a  position  with  the  Osterhout  & 
Fox Lumber Co., of Grand Rapids,  and will 
enter  upon  his  duties about  February first. 
Mr.  Rose does not know his destination yet, 
but  thinks not in Big Rapids.

The funeral  of  the  late  Arthur  J.  Holt 
took place Friday afternoon  from  the resi­
dence of liis  aunt,  Mrs.  Friend,  033 South 
Lafayette street.  The  service  .was largely 
attended by members of the Royal Arcanum 
and also the Kent County Sportsman’s Club. 
He  was  a  member  of  both  organizations. 
Mr.  Holt had a large circle of acquaintances 
here,  having resided in  Grand Rapids many 
years previous to  his removal to Cleveland, 
and was held in high  esteem  by those who 
knew him.

How a Traveler Telegraphs.

“I never  send a  prepaid  telegram,” said 
a machinery drummer,  “because I can  gen­
erally get a letter through about as  quickly. 
If you send your messages  ‘collect,’  the tel­
egraph company will  rush  them  and hurry 
their messengers out to  get  the money,  but 
if they are  prepaid they move  very  slowly. 
I used to send prepaid  messages- but I got a 
lesson that cured  me. 
I  was in  St.  Louis 
and an Ohio miller who I had been  figuring 
with on some machines,  telegraphed  me to 
meet him at the depot next morning. 
I was 
just leaving my hotel that morning when he 
walked in.  We shook hands,  but I noticed 
he was rather cool in his greating.  After a 
brief talk he said he supposed I  had receiv­
ed his message,  and  was  surprised  when I 
told him I had not.  Just then  a messenger 
sauntered up to  me and delivered  the mes­
sage.  Suppose I had  left  the hotel,  or left 
town—the miller would certainly have plac 
ed his order with some other establishment. 
I tell you again,  never send a  prepaid mes 
sage if you can avoid it.”

There remained at the close of navigation 
on the docks  of  Lake  Erie  ports 1,048,940 
tons of iron  ore,  of  which  all but  130,000 
Urns were sold.

T flE   LOUNGER.

There  is  no  doubt  that  defects  will  be 
found when  it  comes to an  application of 
the law,  even though it be passed as it  now 
stands, but  it  is  equally  certain  that  any 
law which will be passed in relation  to that 
subject will  prove in  a  measure  defective, 
and  the  chances  are  that  amendments,  if 
adopted  in  mauy  particulars,  will  prove 
more injurious than beneficial. 
I  have had 
considerable  experience  in  congressional 
matters and  the result of  it is a  distrust of 
the wisdom of ill-considered aud hastily at­
tached  amendments  to  well-digested  and 
carefully  prepared  propositions. 
I  have 
seen plain and  absolutely perfect  measures 
so  distorted  by  the  addition  of  ridiculous 
amendments,  attached  more  because  of  a 
desire to amend than to  improve them,  that 
they were rendered almost unintelligible and 
required the application of a wise discretion 
rather than a strict construction in  carrying 
out the provisions  as  enacted. 
It is not at 
all an infrequent occurrence  that  measures 
are thus  rendered  entirely  inoperative  and 
require  explanation  by  the  passage  of  an 
amendatory measure defining the true mean­
ing  and  intent  of  the  previously  enacted 
law.

*   *   *

The re-introduction of the measure known 
as  the “Lowell  Bill,”  providing  a  code of 
proceedings  in  bankruptcy  in  the  United 
States Courts, which was presented by Sen­
ator Hoar at the commencement  of the ses­
sion of the Senate last  month, indicates  an 
appreciation of the  urgency  of  providing a 
National bankrupt  law for  the relief  of the 
business  communities  of  the  country  and 
the intention of  this  indmdrious  Senator to 
press for an early  consideration of  the sub­
ject.  This measure was passed by the Sen­
ate during the Forty-eighth Congress, but it 
was left  among the  debris  in the House at 
the  close  of  the  Congress. 
Its  provisions 
embody the wisdom and learning of some of 
the ablest  jurists in  this  country  upon the 
subject at issue and it is,  without  doubt,  as 
nearly perfect a collection of provisions and 
requirements in that  direction as can be en­
acted  into a law by such a  ponderous body 
as our  present  House  of  Representatives, 
where three hundred  and  twenty-five opin­
ions must be  ventilated  and at  least a ma­
jority of that number must coincide.

*  *  *

I observe  that  business  men  universally 
send  all  their  telegraphic  matter  possible 
over opposttion  lines—in  other  words,  use 
the Western Union only when compelled to 
do so.  Every jobber has  a grievance against 
the  Gould  monopoly;  and  some  of  them 
swear that they will use the line only in case 
of death.  A leading wholesale grocery house 
has lately been the  victim of one  the West­
ern Union’s unnecessary mistakes.  Fifteen 
caddies of a  certain  brand  of  plug tobacco 
were ordered by telegraph,  and  the  poorly- 
paid,  inefficient  operator  changed the order 
in transmission to fifty caddies.  As it hap­
pened,  the tobacco  was  nbt  a  good  seller, 
and t he house is consequently out a consider­
able item in the shape of interest.  A bill was 
made  out and presented to  the  local  mana­
ger,  which  that  self-important  dignitary 
consigned to the waste basket.  Such tyran­
nical methods serve  to  embitter the  people 
against a monopoly so  thoroughly disreput­
able as the Western Union Telegraph Co.

*  *  *

Speaking  of  mistakes,  reminds  me  of a 
dispatch Messrs.  Ilazeltine,  Perkins  & Co. 
recently  sent  their  crack  salesman,  L.  M. 
Mills. 
It was wired over  the Western Un­
ion  lines,  and  reached  its  destination  ad­
dressed to  “Ellen” Mills.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

O. Trum ble,  W est Olive.
W. N. H utchinson, G rant.
Jo sh u a  Colby, Rockford.
C.  W. Skellonger, Rockford.
Cole A Chapel, Ada.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
R. G. Smith,  Way land.
Jo h n  Smith, Ada.
John Kanins, Zutphen.
Fred Voorliorst A Co., Overisel.
Gus Begnian,  Bauer.
Hoag A Judsou, Cannonsburg.
E. W. Pickett,  W ayland.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
F. C. Stone, Cedar Springs.
G. B. Chambers, Cedar Springs.
Geo. N. Reynolds,  Belmont.
Stanley Monroe,  Berlin.
Norm an H arris, Big Springs.
B. G ilbert & Co., Big Springs.
L. Cook,  Bauer.
William Steele, W yman.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
Mrs. J . DeBri, Byron Center.
Joe H. Spires, LeRoy.
Thos. Sourby,  hoeklord.
Jas.  Barnes, A usterlitz.
William McMullen, Wood Lake.
B. M. Dennison, E ast Paris.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
Paine  A Field,  Knglishville.
J. H. Anderson,  Edgerton.
Sm ith A Field, Field Station.
Ryerson, Hills & Co., Muskegon.
W. S.  Root, Tallmadge.
H annah A Lay  M ercantile Co., T raverse City. 
Wm. K arsten, Beaver Dam.
J . C. Townsend,  W hite Cloud.
L. C. H andy, Mancelona.
J . Levison, T raverse City.
J. Lucas,  M anistee.
Jo h n  Crispe, Plainwell.
Neal McMillan,  Rockford.
G.  P. Stark, Cascade.
S titt Bros., Stittsville.
W alling Bros., Lam ont.
J. F.  Hacker, Corinth.
E.  Wilson, Hopkins.
C. E. A S. J.  Koon,  Lisbon.
W. H. Hicks,  Morley.
J. C. Ben bow, Cannonsburg.
Mr. LaH uis, H erder A LaH uis, Zeeland.
Mr. Spencer, Spencer Bros.,  Belding.
John Je an n o tt, Diamond Lake.
Geo. A. Sage,  Rockford.
Geo. Reed, Milton Junction.
Nicholas Bouma, Fisher.
H. H. H errendeen, K ent City.
Byron Ballou, Cadillac.
J. R. Trask,  G ruttan.
R. Johnson,  Coopersville.
Ed. Cavanaugh, Hopkins.
Cbas.  V. Nasi* Bravo.
A vein of iron ore has been found at Salts- 
burg,  Pa.,  under the Conemaugh  river,  at a 
depth of 400 feet.  The product of  pig iron 
in Scotland  during  the  year  1885  amounts 
1,003,562  tons,  and the  stock now on hand 
is 384,995 tons. 

*  :

¡¿teel and  Steel  Castings.

The raw material for the  manufacture  of 
wrought iron and steel,  and  also  for  mak­
ing castings of all kinds,  is obtained  by the 
reduction of iron ores in  the  blast  furnace, 
and is handled under the name  of  pig-iron, 
which varies greatly in chemical composition 
according to the purpose for which it  is  in­
tended.  Wrought-iron  is  the refined iron 
from the pig-iron that does  not  occur  in  a 
fluid condition,  Steel  is  tiie  refined  metal 
obtained in a liquid  condition,  and  can  be 
cast in moulds,  and has one  advantage over 
wrought-iron by  containing  a  very  small 
amount of oxide of iron and  slag.  The mi­
croscope shows these two deteriorating  im­
purities  in  large  proportions,  forming  a 
mechanical mixture with  the  refined  ¿iron. 
Malleable iron is the same inevitable pig  of 
the required chemical composition which  is 
first cast in moulds and the castings  heated 
in an oxodizing material that eliminates the 
excess of carbon  that  is  always  found  in 
pig-iron aud renders  it  malleable. 
It  is  a 
matter of controversy whether or  not  steel 
was  known  to  the  ancients; j in  our  own 
period it dates back only one hundred years, 
and Sheffield,  England,  the  home  of j tool- 
steel,  enjoys the distinction of location.

The  manufacture  of good  crucible  steel, 
although largely dependent on manipulation, 
is due to the  material  used  in  it; jin  other 
words good crucible  steel  cannot  bo  made 
from  inferior material.  For the  best  tool- 
steel the best material  is  required,  and  so 
far none has  been  lound  to  approach  the 
celebrated brands of Swedish  ores  for  this 
purpose.  By  far ‘the  greaterjpart  of  the 
cost entering any tool  is what  is  paid gfor 
labor,  and  in  view  of  the  many  mishaps 
liable to occur, even under the  most  favor­
able  conditions,  the  best  steel  should  be 
used as it is the most economical in the end, 
notwithstanding a comparatively slight ^ad­
vance in its cost.

New  Use for  Exhaust Steam.

From  the M anistee Advocate.

At Wheeler,  Magill  &  Co.’s  salt  block 
condensed steam has been turned to account 
for the past  two or  three  weeks with satis­
factory results.  The firm having occasionally 
had trouble about  getting a  sufficient  sup­
ply of brine for their  salt  block  from their 
well, decided to run the water from the con­
densed steam into the  well.  As  the water 
was perfectly  pure,  they concluded it could 
do no injury to the brine,  and possibly rem­
edy the trouble.  The results of  the experi­
ments are that the  supply  is  increased and 
the brine pumped  out  of  the  well into the 
cisterns  is  of  a  uniform  temperature  of 
about 130 degrees, or  about  as warm as the 
hand can be immersed in.  The advantages 
gained are that a greater part of the gypsum 
is precipitated in the cistern,  and  the  brine 
reaches a state  of saturation quicker in  the 
settlers and goes to the  grainers sooner,  al­
most free from impurities.

The  late  Deputy  Salt  Inspector,  C.  F. 
Johnson,  and  Mr.  Hildreth,  of  East  Sagi­
naw,  were working on  a device last  spring 
to employ  the  exhaust steam  to attain  the 
same result.  Their plan was to run the ex­
haust into a large pipe that  should  enclose 
the pipe that carried the brine from the well 
to the cisterns,  the  object  being to heat the 
bring before reaching the cistern so the gyp­
sum would  be  deposited  there,  instead  of 
being carried into the  “settlers.”  The plan 
adopted  by  Wheeler,  Magill &  Co.  secures 
the  same  result,  increases the  supply  of 
brine,  which is a matter  of  importance in a 
new  well  where  a  large  cavity is  not  yet 
formed,  is inexpensive and  direct in  appli­
cation.

Mr.  Canfield will  use it  at  his  East lake 

block in the spring.

The Hardware Market.

Business and  collections  are  fully  up to 
expections.  Several lines, continue to man­
ifest a firmer tendency,  and  sharp advances 
are looked for  as  soon as the  spring  trade 
fairly begins.  The  association  of the bolt, 
nut  aud  washer  manufacturers  quote  the 
following revised  and  advanced  discounts:
Machine  Bolts  .......................................dis.  75A5
Bolt E nds................................................. dis.  75&5
Square N u ts......................................... 8%c ^  ft off
H exagon  N u ts....................................9%c $  ft off
W ash ers............................................... 8%c $  ft off
Lag Screw s.............................................dis.  75A10
In lots of less than 100 lb of a size Xe ^  
lb extra is added  to  the  price  of  nuts and 
washers, as heretofore.

A pharmacist  in  Australia  recently  had 
his license to practice pharmacy revoked be­
cause he allowed an unqualified employee to 
sell 0 cents’ worth of oxalic acid.

An  exchange  states  that  some  of  the 
Scotch  people  have  cultivated  a  taste  for 
methylated  alcohol,  especially  when  it  is 
flavored with peppermint.

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HEADS.

STAVES.

Quay, Killen A  Co.  quote  as  follows, f . o. b. 

a t  G rand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. sta v es............... M  6 00®  7  00
M  5 00®  5 75
Elm 
W hite oak tee staves, s’d a n d  j ’t.M   20 00@2l  00
“  M  18 50@20 00
W hite oak pork bbl. 
Tierce, do welled and circled, s e t__  
15® 
16
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12®  13
Pork, 
Basswood, kiln dried, se t................... 
4®  4*i
W hite oak and hickory tee, 8f ’t. 
W hite oak and hickory  “  7J4f’t.
H ickory  flour  b bl..........................
Ash, round  “ 
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Ash, flat racked, 6*i f ’t .................
W hite oak pork barrels, h ’d 
W hite oak pork barrels, mac
W hite oak lard  tie rc e s.........
B eef and lard  half  barrels.. 
Custom barrels, one  h e a d ...
F lour  b arre ls..........................
Produce  b arre ls....................

3 50®  4  00
1 00® 1  10 
90®  1  00 
1  20®  1  30 
75®  90
1 00® 1 10 
30®  37
23®  25

BA RR ELS.

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CHARCOAL,  P IG   IR O N .

John Otis, Mancelona, quotes  as  follows,  f  o 

b ,a t  Chicago:
No. 1 Lake  S uperior........................................23  00
23 00
No. 2 
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No. 3 
23 50
No. 3*4  “ 
23  50
..............................2 4   00
N o .4 
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24  00
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No. 6 
No. 6 
‘1 
24 00

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These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

prom ptly and buy in full  packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

BELLS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.

Ives’,  old  style............................................dis60A10
N.  H. C. Co...................................................disOOAlO
Douglass’.....................................................d i860A10
Pierces’ .......................................................,dis60A10
Snell’s ........................................................... dis60A10
Cook’s  ..........................................................dis40A10
Jennings’,  genuine.....................................dis 
25
Jennings’,  im itation................................. disoOAlO
Spring............................................................ dis 
40
R a ilro a d ...........................................................$ 13 00
G arden.......................................................... n et 33 00
H a n d ................................................ dis  $ 60A10A10
C ow ...................................................... dis 
60&10
30A15
C a ll........................................................dis 
G o n g ....... .—  
.............................. dis 
25
60A10
Door, S a rg e n t.....................................dis 
Stove.......................................................... dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list...................................dis 
80
Plow  ......................................................... dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe...............................................dis 
75
W rought Barrel  B olts.......................... dis  60A10
Cast  Barrel  B olts...................................dis  60A10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs......................dis 
60
Cast Square S pring...............................dis 
60
Cast  C h a in ............................................... dis  60A10
W rought Barrel, brass  k nob.............. dis  60A10
W rought S q u a re.................................... dis  60A10
W rought Sunk  Flush.............................dis 
60
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
F lu sh .....................................................dis  60&10
Ives’  D oor................................................dis  60A10

BOLTS.

BRACES.

B a rb e r..................................................... d is$  
40
B ackus..................................................... dis  GOA 10
50
Spofford................................................... dis 
Am. Ball...................................................dis 
n et
Well, p la in ........... : .......................................$  3  50
Well, sw ivel.................................................... 
4 oo

BUCKETS.

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BUTTS. CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured....................... dis 
70A10
Cast Loos»-  Pin, Berlin  bronzed.........dis  70A10
Cast  Loose Jo int, genuine bronzed..dis  60A10 
W rought  Narrow, bright fast  jo in t..d is  60A10
W rought  Loose  P in............................ dis 
60A10
W rought  Loose Pin, acorn tip ...........dis 
60A  5
W rought Loose Pin, Japanned...........dis 
60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ................................................... dis  60&  5
W rought T able....................................... dis  10A60
W rought  inside  Blind.........................dis 
10A60
W rought  Brass...................................... dis 
70A10
B lind.C lark's...........................................d is  80A10
Blind, P arker’s ...................................... dis 
80A10
Blind,  Shepard’s ....................................dis 
70

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10...................................................p er  m $ 65
60
H ick’s C. F ............................................... 
G. D ........................................................... 
35
M usket............... 
 
60

 

Rim Fire, U. M. C. A W inchester  new  listaOAlO
Rim  Fire, United  States...........................dis50A10
C entral F ire .................................................dis40A10

catridoes.

CHISELS.

Socket F irm er.......................................................dis 75A10
Socket  F ram ing................................................... dis 75A10
Socket  C orner.......................................................dis 75A10
Socket Slicks......................................................... dis 75
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er................................. dis 40
B arton’s Socket  F irm ers................................... dis 20
Cold............................................................. net

Curry,  Law rence’s ...............................................dis 40A10
H otchkiss  ............................................... dis 

25

COMBS.

COCKS.

60'
Brass,  Racking’s .......................................... 
60
Bibb’s ......................................................... ... 
B e e r................................................................  40A10
Fenns’....................................... 
60
 
COPPER.

 

 

 

DRILLS

ELBOWS.

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

Planished, 14 oz cut to size...................... ft  28
34
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60................................19
Cold  Rolled,  14x48.......................................... !!.'l8*a
Morse’s Bit  Stock...................................dis 
40
T aper and Straight S hank.....................dis 
40
Morse’s T aper  S hank............................. dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in ..............................d o z n e t  $.85
C orrugated............................................................ dis 20&10
A d ju stab le.............................................................dis %&10
20
Claris, small, ?is  00;  large, $26 00, 
Ives’. 1, $18 00;  2, $24  00 ;  3, $30  00. 
■ 25 
A m erican File Association  L ist.........dis  60A10
D issto n 's................................................................dis 60A10
New  A m erican......................................................dis 60A10
60A10
Nicholson’s ............................................dis 
30
H eller’s ..................................................dis 
H eller’s  H orse R asps.............................dis  30A10
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
L ist 
15 18

galvanized iron.
14 

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

pil e s—New List.

EXPANSIVE  BITS.

Discount, Ju n ia ta  50® 10, Charcoal 60@10. 

dis 
dis 

27 

12 

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

50

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

HINGES.

HANGERS.

Maydole A Co.’s ....................................dis 
25
K ip’s ........................................................dis 
25
Yerkes  A  Plum b’s ..................................dis  40A1C
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................... 30 c list 40
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40A10 
Barn Door K idder Mfg. Co.,  Wood track   50A10
Champion,  anti-friction........................dis  60&10
Kidder, wood  tra c k ............................ dis 
40
G ate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3.............................dis 
60
S tate.............................................. per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4*4  14
and  longer................................................  
3yt
Screw Hook and Eye,  *4  ................... net 
10*4
Screw Hook and Eye %.....................net 
814
Screw Hook and Eye  %........................ net 
714
Screw Hook and Eye,  %................... n et 
7*4
Strap aud  T ......................................... dis 
65
Stam ped Tin W are......................................  
30
Japanned Tin  W are................................... 
25
G ranite  Iro n   W are....................................  
25
G rub  1.............................. ,..$11  00, d is 60
G rub  2..................................................  II  50, dis 60
G ru b 3 ....................................................  12 00, dis 60
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings. .$2  70, d 66%A10 
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings  3  50, d  66%A10 
Door, porcelain,  plated trim ­
m ings....................................... list,10  15, dis 06%
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list, 11 55, dis 
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.......... dis 
70
P icture, H. L. Judd A  Co.’s .....................d 
40
R e m a c ite ............................. 
dis 
50

HOLLOW  WARE,

KNOBS.

HOES.

 

 
LOCKS—DOOR.

LEVELS.
MILLS.

Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s  new listdis  66%A10
Mallory,  W heelnr  A  Co.’s ..............dis  06%A10
B ranford’s .............................................dis  66%A10
N orw alk’s  ............................................dis  66%A10
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  70
Coffee,  P arkers  Co.’s ............................. dis  40&10
Coffee,P.S.A W .M fg.Co.’sM alleables  dis 
60
Coffee, Landers, Ferry A  Clark’s .........dis 
Co
Coffee,  E n terp rise.......................................dis  25
Adze  E y e....................................... $16  00  dis 
60
H unt  E ye....................................... $15 00  dis 
60
H u n t’s ......................................^  .$18  50 dis 20 A 10

MATTOCKS.

NAILS. 

*

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

 

6d 
2 

1  lOd  8d 
4d
1*4
2*4 
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 

lOd to  60d.............................................. keg $2  50
25
8d and 9 d  adv.................................................. 
6d and 7d  ad v ..................................................  
50
4d and 5d  adv.................................. 
75
 
3d  advance.........................................................  1 50
3d fine  ad v an ce !^ ........................................... 
3 00
Clinch nails,  adv............................................... 
l  75
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. f  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s P attern   ........................................ dis  70
Stebbiu’s G enuine........................................ dis  70
E nterprise,  self-m easuring....................... dis  25
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled....................dis  50
Zinc o r tin. Chase’s P aten t.......................disOOA iO
Zinc, w ith brass b ottom .............................. dis  50
Brass or  Copper.......................................... dis  50
R eaper........................................per  gross, $12 net
Olm stead’s ....................................................  50AI0

MAULS.
OILERS.

PLANES.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ..................................dis  15
Sciota B ench...................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  15
Bench, first q u ality .......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, w ood... .dis20A10 
Fry, A cm e.......... .......................................dis 50&10
Common, polished....................................disco AIR
D ripping......................................................y  ft 
6
Iro n  and T inned...................................... dis 
40
Copper R ivets and  B u rs....... ............dis

RIVETS.

PANS.

new 

list net

PA TENT  rL A N IS A E D   IRO N .

“A” Wood’s p aten t planished. Nos. 24 to 27  10 
“ B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
9

Broken packs He $  ft extra.

RO OFING  PLA TES.

RO PES.

SQUARES.

SH EET IRO N .

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T erne..................  5 50
IX , 14x20, choice Charcoal  T e r n e ..............7  00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T ern e................. 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  T ern e............   14  00
Sisal, *4 In. and  la rg e r....................................  8*4
M anilla............................................................ .  15
Steel and Iro n ..........................................dis  70&10
Try and  Bevels........................................dis  50A10
M itre  ........................................................dis 
20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 00
3 00
3 00
3 10
3 10
3 30
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to   14......................................$4  20 
Nos. 15 to  17 ....................................   4  20 
Nos. 18 to  21.......... 
4  20 
Nos. 22 to  24....................................   4  20 
Nos .25 to  26 ....................................   4  40 
No. 27 ................................................   4  60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In  casks of 600 lbs, $   1b.............................  
In  sm aller quansifcies, 
f t......................  
No. 1,  Refined................................................. 
M arket  H alf-and-half.............................  
Strictly  H alf-and-half................................. 

tinner’s solder.

6
6*4
12 50
15  00
16 50

 

 

tin  plates.

Cards fo r  Charcoals, $8  75.

TR A PS.

rates.

10x14, Charcoal.................................  5  75
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal..................................  7  25
IX , 
12x12, Charcoal.................................   6  25
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal  ..............................   7  75
IX , 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  5  75
IC, 
IX , 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  7  25
IX X , 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  8  75
IX X X ,  14x20, Chareool.................................  10  75
IX X X X , 14x20,  Charcoal...............................  12 75
IX, 
20x28,Charcoal............................  
  15  50
DC, 
100 Plate C harcoal.............................   6  50
DX, 
100 Plato C harcoal.............................   8  50
DXX,  100 P late C harcoal...............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 P late Charcoal...........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  P late add 1  50  to  6  75 
Rooting, 14x20, IC ...........................................   5 25
Roofing,  14x20,  fX .................... I...!.."..'!.".  6  75
Roofing, 20x28, 1C........................................           n  00
Roofing,  20x28,  IX ...........................................  14 00
Steel,  G am e.........................................................
O naidaC om m untity,  Newhouse’s ! . . " . . dis  35 
Oneida Community, Hawley A  N orton’s..60A10
H otchkiss’  ........................................................60&10
S, P. A W.  Mfg.  Co.’s ..................................!.60&10
Mouse,  choker......................................... i§c ¡g} doz
Mouse,  delusion................................... $1  50 38 doz
Bright M arket......................................   dis60A10&5
A nnealed M arket.................................... dis 
70
Coppered M arket..................  
."dis  55A10
E xtra B ailing...............................................  dis  55
Tinned  M arket............................. ! ! ! . ! . " . dis  40
Tinned  Broom ................................................. ft  09
Tinned M attress.............................................. 1b  8*4
Coppered  Spring  S teel...................dis  40@40A10
Tinned Spring Steel...................................dis 37*4
Plain Fence................................................. ¡¡j} lb  3*4
Barbed  Fence.....................................................
Copper...................................................new  list net
B rass.................................... 
B rig h t................................................dis  70A10A10
Screw Eyes........................................dis  70A10A10
Hook’s .............................................. dis  70A10A10
Gate Hooks and  E yes...................dis  70A10A10

W IR E OOODS.

W IR E .

 

 

 

W RENCHES.

B axter’s A djustable,  nickeled................
60 '
Coe’s G e n u in e ........................................dis 
Coe's P aten t A gricultural, w rought, dis  75A10
Coe’s  P aten t, m alleable...................... dis 75&10A1Q ,

M ISCELLANEOUS.

BirdCages...............................  
50
Pum ps,  C istern.......................'.'.‘.'.‘.■.'.'.■.dis  70A10
»crews,  new  list..........................................  75A10
Casters,  Bed and  P la te.................. .. .disSOAloAlO
Dampers, A m erican ..................................   40A10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods..60A10A5 
Copper  Bottom s.........................................  
]tjc

L U M B E R ,  LA TH   A N D   SH IN G LE S.

The Newaygo M anufacturing  Co,  quote f. o. 
b. cars  as follows:
U ppers, 1 in ch ....................................per M $44  00
l  ppers, 1*4,1 yt  and 2 inch..........................  46  00
Selects, 1 inch................................................   35 00
Selects, 1J4, 1*4 anil 2  inch..........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch..................................   30 00
Shop, 1 in c h ....................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, l 1*,  1*4 and 2 inch.  .!.!.!  32  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in1., 12,  14 andliB  feet ....  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in. ,18 fe e t.........
....  16 oo
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in. , 20 fe e t.........
....  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,11 and 16i feet. __   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in. ,18 fe e t.........
....  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in. ,20 fe e t........
. . . .   17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet.. ....  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in.. 18 fe e t...........
. . . .   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 fe e t..........
....  17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in. , 12,14 and 16 feet. . ...  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., is fe e t.........
....  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........
....  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in. , 12,14 and 16¡feet! ....  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in. ,  18 fe e t.........
....  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t.........
....  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 fee t.. ....  11 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 iu.. 18 fe e t...........
....  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 fe e t.........
....  13 00
Coarse  Connmon o r  shipping culls.  all
w idths aud length s .................
S  00® 9 00
A a nd B Stri]as, 4 o r 6 i n ............
.  ..  33 00
C SItrips, 4 or ti inc h .....................
27 00
No. 1 Fencing, all
lengths.........
..".!  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12, I t and 18  fe e t................  12 00
No. 2 Fencing.  16 fe e t..................................   12  On
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch...................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  in ch ..................................   13  qO
Norway C and better, 4 o r 6 inch..............  20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B...................   18  00
Bevel Siding, 0 inch, C.................................  14  50
Bevel Siding, 0 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 fo r each 2  feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B .....................  36  00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C............................  29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No.  1, com m on..  17  00 
Dressed Flooring 6in.. No. 2 com m on....  14  00 
Beaded Celling, 6 in. $1  00  additiinaJ. 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B aud  C lear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C............................  20  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com ’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com ’n  14  00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1  00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles................... 
3 10
< XXX 18 in.  T hin.............................................  3 00
( XXX 16 in.........................................................  2 75
No. 2 o r 6 in. C.  B 18 in.  Shingles...................  
1 75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in ..................................... 
1 40
Lath  .......................................................  1  75® 2 00

.

H A R D W O O D   LU M BER.

 

16 

The fu rn itu re factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood,  log-run............................... 
@13  00
0J@20 00
Birch, log-run.................  
@25 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and  2...............................  
Black Ash, log-run............................... 
@13  00
Cherry,  log-run..................................... 25 
00@35 00
@55 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2............................ 
Cherry,  cu ll............................................10 00® 12 00
Maple,  log-run....................................... 14 
00@16 OO
00®14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run................. 
12 
@18  00
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2............................... 
Maple, clear, flooring.......................... 
@25  00
Maple, white, selected........................ 
@25  00
Red Oak, log-run..................................  
@15  00
  @20  00
Red Oak, Nos. 1  and 2................ 
@25 00
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank................ 
@55  00
W alnut, log-run.................................... 
@75  00
W alnut, Nos. 1 and 2............................ 
W alnuts,  culls...................................... 
@25  00
Grey  Elm. log-run............................... 
@13 00
W hite Ash,  log-ruu................. ............14  00@16 00
@23 00
W hite wood,  log-run............................ 

 

 

W O ODEN W A R E .

 

7  00

Standard  Tubs, No. 1..............................................7 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 2............................................. 6 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3............................................. 5 00
Standard Pails, two hoop.......................................1 40
Standard Palls, th ree hoop................................... 1 65
W hite Cedar, th ree  hoop  ................................2  00
Dowell P ails...............................................................1 90
Dowell Tubs, No. 1...................................................8 00
Dowell Tubs, No. 2..............................  
Dowell  Tubs,  No. 3.................................................6 00
|  W hite Cedar, No. 1...................................................7 50
I  W hite Cedar, No. 2...................................................6 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes................................. 2 00
B u tter  Ladles....................................................... 1 25
I  Rolling P in s.......................................................... 1 00
Potato  M ashers..................................................  75
Clothes P ounders.................................................... 2 25
Clothes P in s.........................................................  65
Mop Stocks.................................................................1 25
W ashboards, single................................................. 1 75
W ashboards, double............................................... 2 25
Diam ond  M arket...............................................  40
Bushel, narrow   b an d ......................................... 1 60
Bushel, wide band...............................................1 75
| Clothes, splint.  No. 1.............. 
50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2 :............ .........................3 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3.................................... ” 4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1...................................... .5 00
Clothes, willow, No. 2...................................... !o 00
Clothes, willow. No. 3 .......................................7  0Q

BA SK ETS.

 

B ETH ESD A   M IN E R A L   W A T E R  

H. F. H astings quotes as follows;

“ 

“ 

Barrel,  43  gallons...................•.........................f.50
H alf  barrel, 20 gallons.......... .*.........................jj-g®
Cans.  10 g a llo n s .............- ............................ £*}K
Carbonated, cases  50  q u a rts.........................T.w
100  p in ts............................8.50
This w ater will be  supplied  to  th e  trad e  by 
any wholesale d rug o r grocery house in Grand 
Rapids.

HENRY  KRITZER,
NEWAYGO 

PBOPBIETOB

Roller M ills
“Crown  Prince”

MANUFACTURER  OF  THE

BRAND.

ALWAYS  UNIFORM  IN  QUALITY. 
FINEST  GRADES  OF  WHEAT  AND 
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR  A SPECIALTY. 
BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR,  ROLLER  PRO­
CESS,  GUARANTEED  PURE.

WM.  F.  SIMMO 1S T S,

PINE  AND  HARDWOOD  LUMBER,

WHOLESALE

A nd D ealer in P ine Land.  Correspondence solicited w ith p arties having eith er to  sell. 

OFFICE,  58  MONROE  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

E.  F A L L A  S,

Choice B u tte r alw ays on hand.  All  Orders  receive P rom pt and Careful A ttention. 

COBBESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

No  1 Egg C rates  fo r Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 p a te n t fillers used.  50 cents each.

97  and 99 Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

L.  A   TUCKER,

Commission  Merchant,

16? South W ater St., CHICAGO.

WE  HAVE  STANDING  ORDERS  FOR  LARGE  AND  SMALL  LOTS  OF  AP­
PLES  AND  POTATOES,  AND  CAN  PLACE  SAME  AT  ALL  TIMES  TO  THE 
ADVANTAGE  OF  CONSIGNORS.  WE  ALSO  MAKE A SPECIALTY OF BEANS, 
DRIED  FRUITS  AND  CRANBERRIES,  AND  ARE  IN  A  FOSITION4TO  COM­
MAND  THE  HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICE ON  SUCH  ARTICLES.

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

Butter, Eggs, Pop  Corn,

Green and Dried Fruits,

Write me for prices. 

POP  CORN A   SPEC IALTY.

W .  T. LOirC,  VICKSBURG, MICH.
CHOICE StTTTEB A  SPECIALTY! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care- 
fid Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

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

S u n s  to Foi, Mnsselman & Lowidge,

W holesale  Grocers.
K n i g l i t   o f   I_i£itoor  3?lm.g.

AGENTS  FOR

The best and most attractive goods on the  market.

S e n d   f o b   S a m p l e   B u t t .  S e e   Q u o t a t io n s  in   P b ic e -L is t .

H E S T E R   Sa  FOX,

SAW  AND GHIST MILL MACHINERY,

M A N U FA CTU RERS  AGENTS  F O R

e * a d   for 
C a ta lo g u e  

a n d  
Prices*

ATLAS 5S E ^

INDIANAPOLIS. IND., U. S. A

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

Carr

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

Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s P aten t Wood Split Pulley.  L arge stock kep t on  hand.  Send  fo r  sam ple  pulley 

an a become convinced of th eir superiority.

W rite   fo r  P ric es.

130  O A K E S  S T R E E T .  G R A N I)  R A P ID S ,  M IC H

G. R  MAYHEW,

JOBBER  OF

E jasSsH N w H

ALASKA  WITH  CRESCENT  HEEL  PLATE.

Wears three tines as long aid keeps froi slipping.

'he Trade Supplied with Arctics, Alaskas and Sandals with 

the Crescent Heel Plates.

Agent for Woonsocket, Wales-Goody ear and Meyer 

Rubber Companies.

86 Monroe  St.s  Grand Rapids,  Mich..

CURTISS,DUNT0N & CO.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

WOODENWARE!

A  LINE  OF

W HITS  CEDAR. TUBS A2TD  FAILS,

THE  BEST  GOODS  IN  THE  MARKET.

THE  ELKHART  PAPER  PAIL,

THE  BEST  PAPER  PAIL  MADE.

O IL   T A N K S ,

1,  2  AND  3  BARRELS.

TIT A MONTI  and  KING  Oil  Cans.  “GOOD-ENOUGH  OIL

Cans,  all Sizes.

51  and 53 Lyon St., Grand Rapids.

F. J. LAMB &  CO.,
Fruits,  Veg*etables;

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

B utter, Elsss, Olieese, Etc.

8 and IO Ionia St-, Grand Rapida, Mieli.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDERS.

FLINT.  MICH.

APPLES!

We 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,

#

157  S.  WATÉR  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL

Reference—First National Bank.

* a k Tn g
POWDER

This Baking Pow der  m akes  th e  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST  and  m ost  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT   and be convinced, 
P repared only by the

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GBAND  BAPIDS,  MICH.

Choice of Life’s Pursuits.

There is  nothing  more noticeable  in  the
economies of time than  the  wasted and un­
used forces of nature  and  life.  The  world 
is everywhere full  of  hidden powers, ready 
to enrich and aid man and all animal life, in 
the  struggle  for  existence  and  happiness.
The air,  with  all  its  invigorating  powers, 
only awaits the knowledge  of man  to prop­
erly  use  it—from  the  electric  bolt  to  the 
smallest  drop  of  dew—while  the  earth  is 
filled with minerals of inestimable wealth-^ 
the  storage  of  unnumbered  cycles  of  cen­
turies of time.

It is only  man’s  ignorance  that  locks up 
these grand powers of the universe.  Doubt­
less  had  man  the  requisite  knowledge  of 
nature’s forces,  where  they lay  and how to 
use them,  all  poverty  and  sufferings there­
from could at  once be  relieved,  and what is 
called disease, could be exterminated entire­
ly from the human race,  or  greatly mitigat­
ed.

These buried, and therefore wasted, forces 
are not confined  to  the  material  powers  of 
the worid; but the  same waste  is constantly 
going on among the  intellectual  and spirit­
ual  forces  of  man.  Scarcely  a  man  ever 
used  all  of  his  physical,  intellectual  and 
spiritual  powers,  or  any  of  them  to  their 
fullest extent.  What a world would this be, 
if  even  a  majority  of  the  powers  of  man 
were brought into  practical  uses  and exer­
cise!  Luxury,  wealth,  magnificence  and 
splendor undreamed of now  would take the 
places of wretchedness,  squalor and poverty. 
And the world would be full- of the achieve­
ments of men  in  every  department  of  art, 
science,  literature  and  highest  expressions 
of a nobler civilzation.

But the limitations  now  upon us,  are not 
always necessary.  The failures of men are 
largely attributable to their  choice of a bus­
iness or occupation for life that will call in­
to  highest,  and  pleasurable  exercise  their 
own powers.

One of the  saddest  sights  to  the  observ­
ant mind,  is the vast throng of purposeless, 
drifting middle aged men  and  women, who 
have whiled  away  in  inactivity,  or  uncer­
tain fugitive and  unwise efforts, the  prime 
of life, and  are  left  floating  on  the rough 
surface of current  events, wistfully waiting 
for something better to turn up.

And how very few of this ever increasing 
multitude are able to gather  up in  the later 
years of life anything noble, useful or beau 
tiful for the autumn and the  winter of  life 
While admitting that the  choice  of  life’s 
pursuits is most  important  and  difficult  to 
make, and  is  often  determined  by  circum 
stances, more than by a  definite  choice, yet 
life’s noblest results cannot be reached, save 
by the most judicious  forethought, prepara 
tion, and  careful  application of our  powers 
to reach the proposed ends  in view.  Large 
responsibility  rests  on  parents,  guardians 
and teachers  in  directing  the  young in the 
choice  of  the  ends  to  be  reached  in  after 
life,  and in  insisting  upon  some  choice of 
an  honorable  and  worthy  calling  for  the 
whole life.

In our age and  country  there is  scarcely 
any calling,  which,  if faithfully and persist­
ently followed,  will  not  lead  to  affluence, 
independence and consequent happiness.

It does not matter so much what the call­
ing for life is,  if  honorable,  as.tlie  manner 
in which it  is  pursued,  in  order to  lead to 
the  best results.  The  young,  the  restless 
and impatient, find it hard to  submit  to the 
needful  effort  to  overcome  the  details  of 
every business and calling in  life,  which is 
worthy of  their  aspirations.  The child de­
sires to commence  where  the  parent leaves 
off, and is unwilling to  travel  the  long and 
toilsome road that has led the parent to suc­
cess.

Activity and effort have been,  and always 
will  be,  the  law  of  growth  and  success. 
Wise  directed  and  persistent  effort  is  the 
key that unlocks and  brings  into  beneficial 
use all the hidden wealth  of  the earth, and 
the secret forces of nature.  Those that can 
and will use their  powers,  under wisely ar­
ranged  and  vigorously  executed  plans  of 
life, are the greatest benefactors of the race.

An Odd  C om petition.

An odd bit comes from far  away  Odessa. 
It appears  that a new  cemetery  is about to 
be opened near that city and that two Greek 
merchants,  each anxious to secure  the most 
comfortable  or  most  distinguised  resting 
place, were allowed  by  some  official  blun­
der to buy the same  allotment.  When  the 
mistake was discovered neither would  yield 
his claim,  and the matter was referred to the 
district judge.  Greek had  met  Greek,  and 
the tug of war had  threatened  to be severe, 
when the magistrate, with astuteness worthy 
of Solomon,  arranged the matter in the sim- 
pliest  way  possible  by  applying  the  rule 
“first come  first  served,”  and  suggesting 
that  whichever  died  first  should  have  the 
right to the coveted resting place.  The par 
ties went away reconciled and happy. 
It is 
not stated whether they had  to find sureties 
to guarantee that neither would  take an un 
fair advantage of  the  other  by  committing 
suicide.

“When women make  bread,”  said an un 
lenpecked married man,  as he was moraliz 
ng over an underdone biscuit at the breakfast 
able  the  other  morning—“when  women 
nake  bread,  a  curious  phenomenon  often 
results; you find a little dear bringing  forth 
1 little dough.”

big Boise in the  world  all  the  same.  Last 

Granville is a small town  among the hills 

jf Western  Massachusetts;  but  it  makes 

fear it turned out 130,000 drums.

TO  THE  TRADE.

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

o u r unusually com plete stock of

SCHOOL  BOOKS,

School  Supplies

A n d  a  G en eral L in e o f M iscellaneous 

B ooks, S ta tio n ery , P a p e r, E tc.

We have greatly increased ou r  facilities  for 
doing  a  G eneral  Jobbing  Business,  and  shall 
h ereafter be able to fill all orders prom ptly.
We issue separate lists of Slates.  School  and 
Township  Books,  Blanks,  Etc.,  which  will  be 
mailed on application.
Q uotations on any article in o u r stock cheer­
fully furnished.  We  have  the  Agency  of  the
REMINGTON  TYPE  WRITER

F o r  W estern   M ichigan.

Eaton & Lyon
ABOLISH  POOR  PASS  BOOKS.

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

GROCERS!

S tart in the New  Y ear by Introducing the

SUTLIFF

CUP0N 

SYSTEM

The  only  Complete  Coupon  System  in 
existence,  making  business  safe  both  for 
the merchant and his customers.

A  CARD.

In  presenting to th e trad e m y COUPON SYS­
TEM, which has been revised and  im proved, I 
claim  th a t I have the m ost com plete, safe  and 
cheapest system   fo r  sim plifying  business  on 
the  m arket.  Custom ers  can  send  th eir  ser­
v an ts w ith the Coupon Book  to  the store  with 
no  danger  or  discrepancies, as  by th e record 
which is kep t on inside covers, um ountof each 
sale  is  recorded.  All  books  are  num bered 
when so'd, and when not paid for  in  advance, 
are secured by note, one of which  is  in  every 
book.  E very Coupon has engraved  signature 
of th e m erchant,  together with th e card ;  cov­
ers have th e m erchant’6advertisem enton, and 
th eir  size m akes them  desirable to th e custom ­
e r  as  well  as  tho  cashier.  As  they are now 
m ade the sm aller num bers below th e five cent 
can be  detached, sam e as the larger ones, th u s 
obviating th e necessity of a punch and  stam p.
MERCHANTS  CONTEMPLATING  CHANG­
ING  FROM  CREDIT  TO  CASH, can  still  hold 
th e ir  old  custom ers  by  introducing this  sys­
tem , which I claim  is  the  only  system   w here 
both custom ers and m erchants are  absolutely 
protected ag ainst all loss.  Send fo r sample.

J. H. SUTLIFF, Proprietor

ALBANY,  N.  Y.

-D E A L E R S   IN -

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Fmip ai Domestic Ms, Sosta Vsptals, Etc.
I  RAW F IS  A ! DEER M S .

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pondence solicited.  A PPLES  AND  POTATOES  in  car lots  S p é c ia le s. 

SEND  FOR  PRICE-LIST TO

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lSiub,  G-rana RapidLs, M idi.

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PERKINS  &
C LA R K

JEWELL

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

&   G O .,
ELASTIC  STARCH!

SOLE  AGENTS  FOK

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It requires  no  cooking.  Makes  collars  and  cuffs 
stiff  and  nice  as  when  new.  One  pound  of this 
starch will go as far  as  a  pound  and  a  half of any 
other  starch  in  the  market, and  all  we  ask  is  an 
order for a trial box oi

Elastic Starch.

W e have in stock a  fine  line  of Foreign  and  Do­
mestic  Dried  Fruits,  Raisins,  Prunes,  Currants, 
Peaches,  Apples,  Plums,  Cherries,  Apricots,  Figs, 
Dates,  Etc.  W e  are  sole  agents  for  “ COMMON 
SENSE ” Cigar, the best five cen& cigar in Michigan, 
I. M. C., the best ten cent cigar in  Michigan.

CLABK,  JEWELL  &  CO.
“ W ARREN'S CRIP.”

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.  We  furnish  500 
“Gutter Snipes” advertising the cigar, with every first order for 500 of them.  We want 
one good agent in every town to whom We will give exclusive sale.

MANUFACTURED  BY

Geo. T. W arren  & Go

