The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  27,  1836.

NO. 123.

W EIGHT  VS.  COUNT.

Cogent Reasons W hy the Present Method 

Should be Abandoned.*

To the  Retail  Grocers’  Association  of  Grand 

Rapids :
G e n t l e m e n —As the  march  of  progress 
approaches the  end  of  the  nineteenth cen­
tury, every clear-headed and thoughtful bus­
iness  man  of  any  considerable  experience 
can look back  and see  plainly  the  changes 
which  years  have  brought  in  their  train, 
producing  marked  improvements  in  the 
methods  and  manner  of  doing  business. 
Among, the most  important is the  tendency 
to purchase  and  sell  goods  for  ready  pay; 
the gradual discontinuance of the credit sys­
tem  in  retail  transactions;  the  increasing 
good sense of paying  cash  for all  kinds  of 
produce  and  labor;  the  shortening  of  the 
hourq for doing business; the stimulating of 
the farming community to grow better qual­
ities  of  produce  and  make  better  butter, 
cheese,  etc. ; and the almost  universal habit 
of buying and  selling  all  products of  farm 
or dairy by weight in place of measure.

The merchant of  to-day,  whose  memory 
and  active  experience  run  back  over  the 
scale of  years—ten, twenty, thirty,  or forty 
years—will corroborate this statement when 
he remembers  the change which has  occur­
red during his own  years  of  toil,  and  it is 
hoped,  success.  The relations  existing be­
tween the producer, customer,  and  the sell­
er,  have taken a more intimate form.  The 
power of the Press lias shown itself in many 
ways, perhaps in no way  more plainly than 
by educating  the consumer  in the matter of 
qualities, makes and  prices.  The dealer of 
to-day who hopes to make a marked success 
is much more assiduous, considerate,  pains­
taking  and  attentive  to  the  needs  and 
wishes of his patrons than was the merchant 
of twenty or  forty years  ago.  The man of 
to-day who wins success in the tread-mill of 
merchandizing is  pretty  certain to have for 
his motto “Put yourself in his place.”  Much 
more consideration is given to the  selection 
and handling of  good  goods;  ascertaining 
as  near  as  can  be  if  they  are  pure; 
testing carefully to see if they are full weight 
and honest  measure; and  every live  grocer 
has inscribed upon his shield,  “Holdfast to 
that which is good.”

Forty years ago,  wheat, oats, rye, barley, 
corn,  buckwheat,  potatoes,  turnips  and all 
root crops were generally purchased by meas­
ure  in the rural  districts,  and  the  most of 
the  aforenamed  were  bought  in  the  same 
way in commercial centers.  To-day all this 
is changed,  and merchants at large purchase 
all their  products by weight,  finding it  the 
one and only safe manner to do.  And if the 
principle he  a correct  one  in  buying, they 
find it the only  rule  to  preserve them from 
loss in selling.

The  keener  sense  begotten  by  intimate 
contact with a wholesome competitive inter­
est  lias  engendered  and  fostered  in  the 
minds and  brains  of, presumably,  every in­
telligent dealer the force underlying the bus­
iness axiom that absolute equity is or should 
be the  basis  of  all  honorable  aommerclal 
transactions.  Granted  the  truth,  and  if 
truth,  tlie importance of this axiom. 
If so, 
we must as a  body  of  considerate business 
gentlemen,  remember  that  when we buy of 
any  citizen any article which  he  may  offer 
that we are  in  justice  entitled  to  pay one 
producer the same sum for  his produce that 
we do another producer, where qualities and 
market values are identical.  Also  that  the 
customer desiring to  purchase  merchandise 
of us shall be entitled to  purchase the same 
quantity and quality  of  goods  at  precisely 
the same price as any other customer.

To illustrate—if  we  sell  a  customer five 
pounds of sugar  or fifty pounds of flour for 
a certain  sum,  it  follows  legitimately  that 
that  other  customer  should  purchase  the 
same amount  for  the  same  sum. 
If  it he 
live pound of bacon  or  beef for  fifty cents, 
we should not sell the other man six pounds 
of either for the same sum. 
If this be hon­
orable dealing in the selling of merchandise 
it is certainly no less binding in the purchase 
of products proffered for sale.  Long estab­
lished custom is too  likely  to be considered 
tantamount  to  law.  The  equities  are  too 
apt to he overlooked.

than 

Perhaps no  custom  of  the  day  is  more 
completely  reprehensible 
the  one 
through the lines of which  your  correspon­
dent voluntarily  broke  some  twenty  years 
ago, after having carefully looked  it  in the 
face for years and having  become  fully im- 
pressed  with  its  injustice,  unfairness  and 
wrong; which custom  is .the  one  of buying 
and  selling  eggs  by  count  in  place  of  by 
weight.

Having  spent  the  early  part  of  my life 
on a farm,  there was abundant chance to see 
and feel the unfairness  of carrying  eggs of 
large size  to  market  and  receive  no  more 
than was paid an improvident farmer for the 
same  number  of  small  ones;  while  later, 
when in place of seller  I  became a buyer,  I 
could  see  only  too  plainly  the  unwitting 
fraud perpetrated upon myself and others in 
being called  upon to  pay  from 10 to 50 per 
cent,  more  for  this  food  product  than  the 
butcher  or  the  grocer  demanded  for  any 
other kind of food.  Please notice the probf
* Paper prepared by Smith  Barnes, of Trav­
erse City,  ana read before the  last Meeting of 
the Retail Grocers’ Association.

I

in plain figures the result of careful  ana re­
peated tests,  to wit:
1 dozen small eggs  weigh 
1  “ 
showing a difference of 50 per cent.

lbs or 20 ozs,
1% lbs or 30 ozs.

large 

These are stubborn facts which any dealer 

“ 

“ 

can verify for himself.

Now, gentlemen, can any one of us afford 
to go before our  constituency—the public— 
producer  or  consumer—and  cloak  such  a 
gross injustice under the cry of “established 
custom”?—a  usage  whicli  has  nothing  to 
commend it but its age, which is  “stale and 
offensive,”  and  should  be  “trodden  under 
foot.”  Another  consideration  of  no  little 
weight is the liability to mistake in purchas 
ing t'ggs  by  count,  or the possible tendency 
to temptation to be dishonest,in tallying out 
and the liability  to  forget(?)  to  tally  eacli 
half dozen as they  are  counted  out. 
If  an 
accidental or intended mistake occurs,  there 
is no chance for reclaimation  after the eggs 
are mixed with other lots,  while if weighed 
the chances for an  error  or  the  temptation 
to “forget” are, as we can all  see,  material­
ly  reduced.  Again,  in  case  whole  pack­
ages are to be  sold intact,  the scales are the 
only true index of value  and amount.

Another  strong  reason  for  doing  away 
with this  “abomination”  is  the fact that by 
doing so it will be  a certain  stimulus to the 
growth of finer fowls,  as lias  been  the case 
with us,  and as a  sequence  the  production 
of  larger  eggs.  Conceded,  that  if  we  di­
rectly or indirectly  take  more than  is  just 
from either consumer  or producer,  we are a 
party to a wrong,  does  it  not become us as 
high-minded business men  to see  that  this 
wrong is corrected?  I am confident, gentle­
men, that if this matter is carefully revolved 
in your minds that  the  general concurrence 
will he in favor of asking our State and  na­
tional  lawmakers  to  establish  a  national 
law for the  purchase  of  all  farm products 
by uniform weight in each state, so as to do 
away  with  the  annoyance  resultant  from 
different standards in different states.  This 
would simplify all transactions and reduce to 
a mininum the temptation  to fraud; forever 
do away with this unrighteous  custom,  and 
give to every dealer the comforting sense of 
giving value received to both seller and buy­
er.  We cannot look for success in bringing 
about the desired legislation unless it be the 
result,  first, of agitation, then of conviction, 
and finally combined effort in  presen tenting 
this matter  in its  wrongful ness before  the 
reflective minds of those whom  we delegate 
to make our laws and to do away with every 
form of injustice.

My friends will  understand  that  in step­
ping out from the  old-time  rut,  worn  deep 
by long usage,  it  was not  an  easy tiling to 
do;  especially  when  members  of  our  own 
concern were opposed  to  my  doing  so and 
when  it  took  not  less  than  three  years to 
overcome 
the  opposition  from  various 
sources.  There  has 'never  been  a  day  in 
which we have not  congratulated  ourselves 
for this step.

The daily  contact  with  a  community  of 
buyers and sellers for more than forty years, 
in which the writer has been in condition to 
feel the public pulse  and  carefully  note its 
variations and sensitiveness,  has forced up­
on him tlie grave importance of being on the 
“right side” and in full  sympathy  with the 
requirements of the  conservative,  consider­
ate, well-informed citizen.  No  truism car­
ries more force than the  one  so  well  worn 
“Act well your part.”  I hold that few pro­
fessions  offer  so  good  an  opportunity  for 
moulding the public mind for good or ill and 
demonstrating the worth of high, clean, hon­
orable  transactions,  in  which  no  trickery, 
misrepresentation,  falsehood,  or  anything 
but pure,  white-handed  integrity becomes a 
factor as does the trade of merchandizing in 
the hands of worthy representatives.

Trusting that in  placing  the result of my 
experience,  coupled with conclusions which 
have  resulted  therefrom  and  which  have 
hardened  into  convictions  that  have  been 
put into  practice,  I  may  not  have  unduly 
taxed tlie patience  of  my  honored contem­
poraries, permit me to submit for your care­
ful  consideration  tlie  aforenamed  axiom 
which I consider  tlie  real,  true  foundation 
of  mercantile  affairs.  Absolute  equity  is 
the only true basis of all honorable commer­
cial  transactions;  which  should  be  supple­
mented by the rule,  “Hold fast to that which 
is good,” and  to which also  should  be  ap­
pended  the  inspiration  of  Charles  Iieade, 
“Put yourself in his place.”

If a thing which is  worth  doing is worth 
doing well, then should not we as a body of 
public servitors combine  our  united  exper­
ience with  clear-headed  business  qualifica­
tions to place our calling entirely above  the 
suspicion  of  a  possible  reproach,  and  not 
wait for noxious  customs  to  reform  them­
selves, but deliberately look such matters in j 
tlie face and combine as  one man  to banish 
them forever from the realm which we hon­
or with our life’s service?

CONDENSED  CONCLUSIONS.

First—That  all  products  of  the  farm, 
plantation or  dairy  should  be  bought  and i 
sold by weight only.

Second—That the business men’s associa-1 
tions  of every  town,  in  every state,  should 
unite in petitioning their  respective legisla­
tive bodies to enact a  law  making the same 
imperative.

Third—That both Houses  of  Congress be

urged by their constituents  to  establish  by 
national law a uniform  standard for all and 
every kind of farm and plantation products, 
which standard  shall  be by weight and ask 
that  eggs  shall  be  included  in  the  list of 
products.

When this is done  a  custom which is un­
just to both buyer and seller,  and especially 
prejudicial to the poor man will be  decently 
interred  (as it should be)  and forever buried 
from  sight—a  relic  of  the  “dark  ages,” 
when custom made  right; and  we,  as mem­
bers of the fraternity of business men, shall 
have made one more important step forward 
in keeping with the  light we  now have and 
in accord with the golden age of probity anil 
justice in which we  are  permitted to labor, 
where we make,  each one,  our  mark which 
is ineffacable,  let  it  be hoped  it  will  be as 
clear cut and distinct  as are  the  facets of a 
diamond.
Crowding Out the Small  Traders in Cities.
From the Chicago News.

They Did not Write to His Wife.

A  party  of  traveling  men  were  at  a 
junction out in Minnesota recently,  walking 
about  the  depot  waiting  for  their  train. 
Three  trains  were  steaming  and smoking, 
waiting for another  to arrive.  The traveling 
men  were  smoking  anil  joking  when sud­
denly the biggest drummer looked toward a 
pile of  baggage, where a  beautiful  woman 
was conversing with tlie baggageman.  She 
was a woman  who  would  attract attention 
anywhere.  The  big  drummer  threw away 
his cigar,  went up to tlie  woman, raised his 
hat, and asked her a question.  She  looked 
at him in astonishment,  and the other  boys 
said tiieir friend was a daisy, and was scrap­
ing  acquaintance  with  a  strange  woman. 
After a few moments’ conversation with her, 
her face lighted up,  anil  she  smiled thanks 
as he began to pull the  trunks  around,  and 
finally found  her trunk and had  it taken to 
the train she was  to  board.  Then  tlie two 
walked up and down the depot platform for 
a few minutes, engaged  in  earnest  eonver- 
tion, when the  bell  rang,  and  he  escorted 
her to the train.  As  she  got  on  the  plat­
form lie took out his pocketbook and  hand­
ed her a sum of money.  She returned thanks 
with eyes,  voice  and face anil went into the 
car with a handkerchief to her eyes, and the 
drummer returned to his companions with a 
serious face.

“The small workshops are doomed to ex­
tinction,” said a well-known  city hall polit­
ical economist the  other day.  “The isolat­
ed  individual  in  his  shop  as  a  tailor,  tin­
smith,  shoe-maker,  or  other  artisan cannot 
compete with  the  large  dealers.  Tlie  pro­
prietor of a small meat  market cannot com­
pete with Phil Armour, who employs  12,000 
men in his packing houses here and in Kan­
sas City.  No  small  retail  dealer  can  sell 
dry goods as cheaply as Marshall Field, who 
buys  of  the  manufacturers,  and  employs I Que of  them
2.500 people. 

The scene was too much  for the boys, anil 
they began to joke him about being a mash­
er and getting  acquainted  with  everybody.
said  he  would  write  to the
drummer’s wife  anil  tell  her  all  about  it;
"lhe less there are of  these small dealers  another said  he  was a wicked  wretch,  and
the better  it will be for the laboring people,  would  bring tlie  gray  hairs  of his children 
The working people support  3,400  saloons, 
j„ sorrow to tlie  grave; and they had  lots of
2.500  grocery  stores,  900  tailor-shops,  8001 fim at  the  expense  of  tlie  ladies’  man,  as
boot and shoe  dealers,  and  850  meat  mar­
they called  him.  They looked at each other
kets.  There  are  about  18,000  small retail 
aud winked,  as he seemed annoyed  at  their 
dealers,  and  their  business  provides  for 
hilarity,  and  when  their  train  started  the 
nearly 54,000  persons. 
If  tlie  business  of 
boys  followed  the  big  drummer  into  the 
all  these  small  dealers  were  concentrated 
smoking  car and  kept on  making it warm 
in a few large houses  the  articles for home 
for him.  Finally one of  them said:  “You 
consumption,  the necessaries of  life,  would 
didn’t  even  know  that  woman  when  you 
be much cheaper.  Suppose that  instead of 
spoke to her.  Now  own  up, you  old  ras­
3,400 saloons there were but 300.  The cost 
cal.”
of licensing  and  running  tlie  other  3,100 
would be saved to the  consumers. 
If there 
were but fifty instead of 800 dry goods stores 
the laboring  people  could  buy clothes  at a 
much lower price.

“No,  I  didn’t  know  her,”  said  the  big 
drummer,  as he  knocked  the  ashes  off his 
cigar.  “That is,  I had  never  been  intro­
duced.”

“Then what  did you go  and speak to her 
for, and what did you give her money for?” 
and the boys  all  groaned  at  the thought of 
such  wickedness  in  one  so  young  as  the 
drummer.

“The American and English citizens have 
discovered tlie advantage in buying  of large 
dealers.  Take the residence districts of  this 
class of citizens and you will not find a small 
dealer in them.  There  are  large  stretches 
“Well, boys,  seeing you have  caught me 
of territory on the north side along the lake 
at it, I will tell  you,” and the big  drummer 
front where there is not a grocery, dry goods 
began to show  interest  in what  was  going 
house or meat market for many blocks.  The 
on.  “I know that  woman’s  husband.  He 
same  is  true  of  the  south  side  along  the 
and I used to travel for the same house,  and 
lake, and in some portions  of the west side. 
while I never  met  his  wife,  lie  has shown 
The Americans are  smart enough  to  go  to 
me her picture  so  often  that  I  knew  her. 
large establishments for groceries as well as 
This morning I  read  in the  paper  that my 
dry goods.  These  great  houses, with their 
old comrade was stricken with typhoid fever 
thousands  of  employees,  can  sell  better 
in an  Iowa  hotel,  and  that  his  wife  had 
goods at lower prices than the small dealers.
been  telegraphed  for.  When  I  saw  that 
“With  other  nationalities  it  is different. 
woman 
looking  over  the  baggage  at  the 
They have  a  clannish  spirit and  patronize 
junction I  knew  who  she  was,  and I went 
the small shop in their neighborhood.  The 
up and offered her my assistance.  She was 
result is that they  pay more  for everything 
a little annoyed at first, until  I told her that 
they get.  They support  hundreds  of  fam­
her husband was my old pardner,  and  then, 
ilies that live 011 the  increased price  neces­
when we were walking on  the platform she 
sary to sustain  them  over the  cost price of 
told me how for the past two years her hus­
the manufactured article and the  added pro­
band had  been out  of  health.  He  used to 
fit of the wholesale  dealer  and  jobber. 
If 
work on salary, but for  the  last  two  years 
there are two hundred thousand Anglo-Am­
lie lias had to travel on commission,  and he 
ericans and English  people in  Chicago and 
had  earned  very  little  on  account  of  his 
they pursued tlie policy of the other nation­
health,  and she has been  clerking in a store 
alities there  ought  to be  at  least  one-third 
to help along.  They have two children,  and 
more retail  dealers  than  there  are.  Their 
when she got  the  dispatch  announcing her 
residence quarters  would  contain  as  many I 
husband’s sickness her  little girl was  sick, 
small shops as those  of the foreign  popula­
and she had  hardly  money  enough  to  pay 
tion. In fact, there are hardly any.  The chil­
her fare to where her husband was,  but she 
dren of foreign parents soon  become Amer­
left  her  sick  child  with  its  grandmother, 
icanized, however,  and fall in with the Am­
pawned her  winter  cloak  and  started, and 
erican idea. 
It is only a question of a short 
slie expects to be with  the old boy to-night. 
time when the small shops will be  doomed.
Boys,  when I broke my leg  four  years ago, 
“Then these  thousands  of  parasites will 
by being thrown out of  a  buggy up in Wis­
become  useful  laborers.  They  will  not 
consin,  that man  stayed  by me  two  weeks 
over-crowd the labor market.  This is prov-
and  cared  for  me  as  though  I  was  his
en by the fact  that  the  invention of  labor-  brother; and when she told me how slie was 
saving machines  lias  not reduced  the price  jixeil,  and how he was in hard luck,  I divid- 
of labor.  Workingmen  themselves  are  to  ed my roll with her,  and when I get  home I 
blame for  the  cheapness  of  wages.  They  am going to send my wife to help  take care 
can  organize  and  get  living  wages.  The I 0f her sick girl while  she is gone.  Now,  if 
stone-cutters are so well organized that they  1 have clone wrong  I ask  your  pardon,  and 
fix  their  own  wages.  The  plumbers  and  jf any of you want to write to my wife about 
plasterers do the same thing.  Other  classes  it,  I will give you her address.  Now,  boys, 
of working  people  can  do  it  if  they  will  laugh all you  want  at  me.  What?  None 
cease competing with each other. 
of you  laughing  any  more?  Tears  in the
“The great  stores  of  the  future  will be I tobacco  man's  eyes?  The  whisky  man
actually  crying?  Well,  maybe  you  are 
thinking how it would  he if you  were  sick 
and your wives  were  on  the  road  to  meet 
you,  short  of  money  and  a  sick  child  at 
home.  But  I  get  off  here,”  and  the  big 
drummer took his sample  case  to go out of 
the car,  when all the boys shook hands with 
him, but  never  said  a  word,  because they 
couldn’t; but they pressed his hands in such 
a way that he knew their hearts were in tlie 
right place.

combination stores.  One  establishment  in 
this  city  lias  sixty-five  departments.  Tlie 
proprietor buys direct of the manufacturers. 
He  has  reduced  the  cost  of  running  his 
store  to  a  minimum.  The  consumer  gets 
tlie  benefit  in  cheaper  prices.  Under  the 
present retail system we pay five cents fora 
glass of beer that costs one cent.  The four 
cents go for clerk-hire,  rent, and the  other 
expenses of  the  saloon-keeper.  We  buy a 
yard  of  calico,  to  the  cost  of  producing 
which is added from 100 to 400 per cent,  for 
profits and expenses of middlemen.  Water 
is furnished at cost by the city at a nominal 
price.  The trunk railroad companies trans­
port immigrants from the  Atlantic  coast to 
Chicago for $1.  They don’t lose anything.”
McAfee  '&  Martin  have  purchased  the 
factory  of  the  Michigan  Stave  and  Barrel 
Co.,  at Lakeview.

Pestle (glibly)—A base is a station at each 
angle of a square or diamond-shaped enclos­
ure,  each side of which  is forty yards.

Professor—Mr.  Pestle,  what  is a base?”
Pestle (inquiringly)—American  Associa­

Professor  (not  knowing  what  Pestle  is 

He Misunderstood the Question.

driving at)—I suppose so.

tion rules?

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for  15  years, with a  record 
equalled  by  none.  W a r ­
r a n t e d   not  to  blow down 
unless the tower  goes  with 
it; or against any wind that 
does not disable substantial
farm buildings;  to be perfect;  to  outlast and 
do better work  thaiuany other mill  made.
Agents  wanted.  Address Perkins Wind Mill 
&Ax Co., Mishawaka, Ind. Mention Tradesman.
Do not delay in ordering 

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a case of 
SIL V E R  

SPOON

BAKING

POW DER, 
The best selling scheme on 
the  market.  A  large  fine 
dish or pitcher given away 
with  each  can. 
Price, 
$7.50 per case  of  3  dozen.

ARCTIC  MANUFACTURING  CO.,
GRAN»  RADIOS,  MICH. 

Sold by all Jobbers.

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

71 CANAL 8TREET.

GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,
Over Fourth National  Bank.  Telephone  407. 

Attorney,

COLLECTIONS

Promptly attended to throughout the State. 
References:  Hart & Amberg,  Eaton &  Christen­

son, Enterprise Cigar Co.

A R T H U R  R . R O O D ,

ATTORNEY,

43  PEARL  STREET,  ROOD  BLOCK, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Collections  a  Specialty  !
F Z N G H E E  (Si S M IT H
Boots, Shoes and Slippers

Wholesale Manufacturers

DETROIT,  MICH.

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Company.

Michigan Agents Woonsocket Rubber

Office  (trid  Factmy—11,  13,  13  and  17 
Woodbridge street West.  Dealers cordially 
invited to call on us when in town.

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TO  T U B   T R A D E .
We desire to call the attention of the Trade to 

our unusually complete stock of
SCHOOL  BOOKS,

School  Supplies

A n d   a  G e n e r a l L in e  o f  M is c e lla n e o u s  

H o o k s,  ¡S ta tio n ery , P a p e r , E tc .

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

F o r   W e s te r n   M ic h ig a n .

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

Eaton & Lyon
DETROIT
FREE

PRESS

CIGAR.

10c Cigar for 5c.

B r o w n   B r o s .

MANUFACTURERS, 

DETROIT, 
M ICH.
G. R O Y S   <&  CO.,

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ISVliips cfc Lasl3.es

2  P e a r l  S t.,  G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .

Money  Refunded.

The true remedy has at last been discovered. 
It was long known in his practice as Dr. Pete’s 
Lung  Food for Consumption.  It is now called 
Dr. Pete’s 35-cont Cough Cure.  Tt is the safest, 
the surest and the best.  No other Cough, Cold 
and Consumption remedy is half its equal.  We 
warrant it, and will promptly refund the money 
paid for it if a beneficial  effect  is  not  exper­
ienced by the time two-thirds of  the  contents 
of the bottle is used.  Sold  by  Hazeltine,  Per­
kins & Co., wholesale druggists, Grand Baplds, 
Mich.

JUDD  db  00„,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY  H ARD W ARE

And Full Lino Winter Goods.

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

ALBERT COYE & SONS
JSl WXTXXTGS, TEXTTS

---------MANUFACTURE»«  OF---------

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

73  Canal  Street, 

-  Grand  Rapids, M idi.

Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.
GXXTSEXTG  RO O T.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, «rand Rapids, Mich.
AV K  L K A » —O T 11 E  It S  F O L L O W .
is  valuable.  The 
G ra n d   R a p id s  
y i r r i e / '
Business College is 
a  practical  trainer 
and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi­
ness with all that the  term  implies.  Send 
for Journal.  Address C. G. SWENSBERG, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,

(Successor to P. Spitz,)

SOLE  AGENT  OF

F e r m e n t ’a.m .,

The  Only  Reliable  Compressed  Yeast.
$ Manufactured, by Rtverdale Diet. Co.,

106 KENT  ST., GRAND RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Grocers  and  Bakers  who  wish  to  try 
“FERMKNTUM” can get  samples and full 
directions by addressing  or  applying  to the 
above.  .

A JOURNAL DBVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Slate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms 
Advertising

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

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY  27,1885.

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapid# October 8 ,18Si.

President—Lester J. Kindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer-—1Goo. B.  Dunton.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­
___________ _

ing of each month. 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association.
President,  Frank  Hamilton;  Secretary,  C.  T. 
Lockwood;  Treasurer, J. T. Beadle.  _____
Union  of

Business  Men’s  Protective 

Cheboygan 
President,  A.  M.  Wesgate;

A. J. Paddock.
H. Chambers;  Secretary,_____________

Vice-President. 

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

COUNT  VS.  WEIGHT.

No fair-minded business man  can  peruse 
the excellent paper from  the  pen  of  Smith 
Barnes, which is printed on the first page of 
this issue, without coinciding with the opin­
ions of the writer.  There  are two sides  to 
most questions, but  this  is a subject which 
has but one side—and  that  is  the side  Mr. 
Barnes has  championed  for  twenty  years. 
It  has  been  a  source  of  pleasure  to  The 
Tradesm an to commend  the  proposed  re­
form  several  times  during  the  past  three 
years, and it will be the policy of this paper 
to continue  to  throw  the  weight of  its  in­
fluence in favor of a measure  so thoroughly 
frought  with  good  to  the  trade  at  large. 
Various plans have been suggested,  but  the 
only feasible way to bring  about  the  aban­
donment of the present custom is  to  create 
an agitation,  which  will  serve  to show  up 
the present method  in  its unfairness  to  all 
parties  concerned, and  also recommend the 
proposed system of  measurement.  Let  the 
great consuming public once  see the advan­
tages the new method has over  the old,  and 
short  work  will  be  made  of  a  time-worn 
custom.  The growing sentiment in favor of 
“eggs by weight instead of eggs  by count,” 
bespeaks an active interest in the  subject 
an interest which  indicates  the  fulfillment 
of Mr. Barnes’ hopes within  the next dozen

The work of organization is moving bravely 
on.  Cheboygan is the latest addition to the 
list,  and several other towns are about ready 
to take steps  which  the  movers  will  never 
regret  As near as T he  T radesm an  can 
ascertain,  sixteen cities  and villages in this 
State  now  have  active  associations.  As 
soon as the  number  reaches  twenty-five, 
call will be issued for a State convention,  to 
be composed of delegates from  each organ! 
zation and lay delegates from towns not  yet 
organized. 

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The  potato  market  is  beginning  to  look 
up, on account of the  Southern  demand for 
seeding  purposes.  There  lias  been  no ad­
vance in price, but  inquiries  are  beginning 
to  come  in  with  a  considerable  degree  of 
frequency,  which speaks well for the future 
of the market. 
Annual Meeting of the Peninsular Novelty 

____

Company.

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Peninsular 
Noverty  Co.  was  held  in  this  city on  the 
19th, over four-fifths of the stock being rep 
resented  at  the  meeting.  The  following 
gentlemen were elected directors of the com­
pany:  Dr.  C.  S.  Hazeltine,  Capt.  C.  G. 
Perkins,  Col.  Geo. G.  Briggs,  W.  F.  Bulk- 
ley,  Geo.  E.  Parker,  Edward  O.  Ely  and 
John B.  Parker.  The directors subsequent­
ly elected officers as follows:

President—Col. Geo.  G.  Briggs.
Vice-President—Edward Q.  Ely*
Secretary—John B.  Parker.
Treasurer—Geo.  E.  Parker.
The  showing made  by  the  officers is an 
excellent  one, and the  prospects  for  large 
dividends in the  near future  are exception­
ally good.

Clearing House Report.

Balances.

A. B. Porter, manager of the Grand Rapids 
Clearing House,  reports the following as the 
clearings and balances for the  dates named:
Clearings. 
92.037.79 
75,149.17 
149,151.49 
64,747.59 
57,416.43 
61,567.54
59,142.10
63,336.14
94,338.86
78,875.13
42.728.17 
55,626.37
39.860.18 
47,866.54 
80,391.17

.. 18,263.33 
24.907.41 
’.'...76,209.21
.......13,517.89
...48,095.10 
..39,091.85 
.  12,970.36 
....16,162.88
.......17,777.57
.......21,668.50
..  7,110.68 
”...  4.804.83 
....  3,817.26 
8,624.62
439.67

Total for week ending
Total for week ending

29
January 16..................$206,04
January 23.................   foa.iua.w

$455,351.29
$354,295.25

It  may not be  generally  known  that  the 
color of a blood-red orange is caused by one 
of  the  roots  of  a  pomegranate tree coming 
in contact with  the  root  of  an orange tree. 
When the root of the former taps the latter, 
the root of the  orange  tree  becomes  inocu­
lated  with  the  coloa  of  the  other,  which 
causes the  orange  to  have  a  hlood-red ap-
pearance. 

The pen-knife is  so named because of its

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former use in making quill pens.

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AMONG  TH E TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Parker & Green  succeed  Chas.  E.  Allen 
in the manufacture of cigar  boxes on South
Front street. 

The  capital  stock  is 
$100,000 is paid in.

John Long, late of  Toronto,  and  Al.  F. 
Draper, formerly with Upright & Emery, at 
Charlevoix, have joined hands  and fortunes 
and engaged in the  dry  goods  and grocery 
business at South Arm.

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some  illustrated  catalogue. 
press of the Fuller & Stowe Company.

E.  A.  Geisler,  flour  and  feed  dealer  on
West Bridge street, has been closed on chat- 
tel  mortgage.________ _ 

A  Morley correspondent  writes:  D. W.
 8evered hisconnection with W.
H. Hicks,  druggist,  and  will,  it is rumored,
Albert Coye  & Son  have  issued  a hand-  engage in  the  drug  business  at  Scottville, 
Arthur  Allen of  this place as partner.
A  Petoskey  correspondent  writes:  The 
Van Leuven matter  still  remains in  a tan- 
Sarah Outhouse (Mrs.  Geo.  H.), grocer on I 
The  mortgagees  have  replevied  the
gle.
South  Division  street,  has  sold  her  realty 
and  store  building  and  »ill  close  ont the  stock from the creditara w h o ^ M ^ -  
ter foreclosure,  and the lawj ers  w Hi have a
ra,„m,  from the citv. 
stock and remove from the city.
picnic  unraveling the difficulty 

It  is from the | 

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Jas. E. Furman has sold his grocery stock j 
on  the  corner  of  West  Bridge  and  Court I 
streets to Fred H.  Emery,  for  several years 
past in the employ of  D. Amott.

Ludwig Winternitz,  State  agent  for  the 
Riverdale  Dist.  Co.,  of  Chicago,  went  to 
Kalamazoo last  week  and  appointed  T.  B. 
Witmer local agent for Fermentum.

Augustus Brogger,  formerly of the frm of 
Mester & Brogger,  has  engaged  in the gro­
cery  business  on  Stocking  street,  near 
Bridge.  Clark, Jewell & Co.  furnished the 
stock. 

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F. J. Dettenthaler will  add  lines  of  for­
eign and  domestic  fruits  and  nuts  to  his
wholesale oyster and fish  business the com­
ing summer season,  he having already made 
satisfactory  arrangements  with 
several 
Eastern houses to that end.

Olney,  Shields & Co.  received  their first 
load of goods on  Monday,  and  arrivals 
ill 
be of daily  occurrence  from  this  time  on. 
Messrs.  Olney  and  Shields  are  expected 
back from  New York,  the latter part of the 
week,  and  the  firm  will be  in  readiness to 
fill orders by February  5.______

Fox &  Bradford  have  rented  the  corner 
store in the new block at  76 South Division 
street, comer  of Oakes,  and are  fitting  the 
same up for their wholesale cigar and tobac­
co business.  The  firm  expect  their  stock 
will arrive in about a  week,  and  expect  to 
be in readiness to begin  business by Febru­
ary  10. 

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,____ _

Wm.  II.  Hoops  has  purchased  the  one- 
third  interest  formerly  owned  by John G. 
Shields in  the  wholesale  grocery  house of 
Shields,  Bulkley & Lemon and formed a co­
partnership with Wm.  F. Bulkley and Sam­
uel  M.  Lemon to  continue  the  business at 
the old stand under the firm  name^of Bulk- 
ley,  Lemon  & Co.  Mr.  Hoops’  long  con­
nection with W. J. Quan & Co. has given him 
a large acquaintance with the trade,  and his 
accession to Grand Rapids  means the trans­
fer of a considerable  trade from  Chicago to 
this market. 

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AROUND  THE  STATE.

S. Yerky succeeds  Geo. Van Horn  in the 

grocery business at Penn.

J.  M.  Haynes has sold  his grocery 

at Reed City to C. W.  Titus.

stock

J.  Hamilton succeeds  Hamilton & Bryant 

in general trade at Tawas City.

F.  S.  Sinead  &  Co.,  hardware  dealers at 

Caro, has been closed by creditors.

Chas.  Starr succeeds Starr & Tyler in the 

dry goods business at Three Rivers.

John Faut succeeds E.  H.  Barrows & Co. 

in the grocery business at Hillsdale.

Bitely & Cain,  general dealers at  Sparta, 

have dissolved,  C.  C.  Cain succeeding.

The merchants at Negaunee  are agitating 

the question of closing their stores early.

Frank  W.  Craine will engage  in the  dry 
goods business at Charlevoix about April  1.
S.  F.  Hill  succeeds  W.  W.  Brainard &
Co.  in the grocery business at South Haven.
Ed.  Laverock has purchased the boot and 
shoe stock of D. Burhans & Co., at Owosso.
C.  L.  Wise  succeeds  Wise & Kellogg  in 
the drug and  grocery  business at Bancroft.
1).  H.  F.  Murnelian, grocer and  boot and 
shoe dealer  at  Clifford,  has  been closed by 
creditors.

Cornein  &  Austin  succeed  J.  A.  Van 
Valkenburg,  Agt.,  in  the  grocery  business 
at Battle Creek.

L.  E.  & R* Freedman,  clothing merchants 
at West  Bay  City,  are  about  removing  to 
Buffalo, N.  Y.

Mahoney & Co.,  of New  London,  Conn., 
will open a new dry goods store at Kalama­
zoo about February 1.

Dr.  A.  Hanlon,  the Middleville  physician 
and druggist,  was married to a Grand Rap­
ids lady one  day last week.

C.  A. Warren, the Orono  general  dealer 
and miller, has returned from  an  extended 
trip through the Soutli and West.

Thos. A.  Starrett,  general  dealer  at Hol­
ton, has given a chattel and realty mortgage 
and called a meeting of  his creditors.

S. W.  Kramer has placed  his Boyne City 
store in charge of  his  brother and returned 
to Cadillac, where he will  put in a new dry 
goods  stock.

D.  C. Loveday & Co., hardware dealers at 
East Jordan,  have  dissolved,  Mr.  Barbour 
retiring.  The business will be continued by
D.  C.  Loveday.

Bliss & Owen,  boot and  shoe  dealers  at 
Plain well,  have bought Gilkey  Bros.’ stock 
at that place,  and removed their stock to the 
Gilkey’s old-time  location.

Some of the  business  men of  Mancelona 
recently organized a Board of Trade—on the 
same principle that a lyceum  resolves itself 
into a House of Congress—and the members 
divided  themselves  iuto  the  “bull”  and 
“bear” classes.  W.  E.  Watson was a lead­
ing operator,  and made $2,000 on pork,  but 
subsequently  lost  the  entire  amount  on 
wheat in a single week.  The new concern 
.will  not  necessitate  the  organization  of 
another bank at Mancelona.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

W.  A. Forbes  succeeds  Forbes  &  Co.  in 

the planing mill business  at Caro.

Avis & Wing succeed  Stephenson & Avis 

in the milling business at Hudson.

F. W.  Ellis, of  Sherman  City, has put in 

a new shingle mill near  that place.

S.  Homer &  Sons will enlarge  the capac­

ity of the woolen mills at Eaton Rapids.

A receiver has been asked for in the mat­
ter of  Stevens  &  Sperry,  manufacturers of 
tables and wheel-barrows at Coldwater.

G.  II.  Carver has sold his  planing mill  at 
Wayland to Morley Bros., of Cedar Springs, 
who will remove the machinery to the latter 
place.

The  Coldwater  cigar  factories  paid  out 
and  $16,000  for  govern 
One factory turned

$50,000 for  labor 
ment stamps last year, 
out 4,200,000 cigars.

STRAY  FACTS.

Brine has  been  found  at  St.  Ignace at a 

Genesee  county  shipped  130,040  bushels 

depth of 580 feet.

of apples last fall.

Mrs.  H.  Andrus  has  sold  her  millinery 

stock at Shelby to Miss Eliza Beam.

Fortune  R.  Drury  succeeds  Clark  & Mc- 

Fadden in the meat business at Camden.

II.  A.  Brown  succeeds  L.  H.  Brown & 

Co. in the meat business at Menominee.

The Morley Salt Co.  has  been  formed  at 
Marine City, with  a  capital  stock  of $38,- 
000.

Stanley B. Smith & Co.  succeed Smith & 
Campbell in the coal  and  wood business at 
Detroit.

E.  D. Voorhees has sold the business and 
plant of  the Michigan Overall Co., at Ionia, 
to Wm.  Steele.

Butler & Harrington succeed W.  W.  Har­
rington in the  agricultural  implement busi­
ness at North Branch.

The  long-silent  knitting  mill  at  Center­
ville,  St. Joseph  county,  has  been  sold  to 
parties who will at once put it in operation, 
employing as far as possible home talent.

R.  C.  Hunter, of Lakeview, writes as fol­
lows:  “Permit  me  at  this late day to cor­
rect an item in  your  issue of December  23.
I am not in any w a y  «connected  with  or  re­
sponsible  for  the  drug  business  of  J.  E. 
Hunter, having merely  rented him one side 
of my store building.”

Plain well  Independent:  Marshal Stem- 
burg,  whose duties bring him  into frequent 
intercourse  with  our  business  men,  inter­
viewed them at the close of  1885  regarding 
the volume of business  done  at Plainwell 
whether greater or less than in 1884.  Of 41 
firms which were doing business here during 
both years,  29 enjoyed  an  increase of trade 
over 1884; 6 report their business just about 
equal, and 6 say not quite so good.  Besides 
these  41  firms,  11  were  interviewed  that 
were not in business in 1884, and every such 
firm reports good business.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Gid. Kellogg is “doing up”  the  Bay City 

mill  men  this  week.

Charley  Robinson  is  something  like  a 

$1,000 ahead on his  pork deal.

J. L.  Joseph, Michigan representative for
S.  J. Foree  &  Co., of Louisville, is in town
with his coffee scheme.

W.  H.  Cheney now represents the Brooks 
Oil Co.,  of Cleveland,  at this market,  and is 
meeting with fair success.

John II.  Burrows,  tor the past two  years 
with M.  C. Russell,  will  go on the road for 
F. J. Dettenthaler February 1.

Frank Dyke,  for several years head sales­
man for  John  Brummeler,  has  engaged to 
work the city trade for Amos S.  Musselman 
& Co.

Geo. D.  Bow and Charley  Bow, who talk 
Dick,  Middleton  &  Co.  through Michigan, 
looked over the Grand  Rapids jobbers Mon­
day.

C.  L.  Cones,  Michigan  representative  for 
S.  W.  Venable & Co., of Petersburg,  put in 
Sunday at this market and  left Tuesday for 
Kalamazoo.

Leo. A.  Caro,  Secretary of  the Michigan 
Division of the Travelers’  Protective  Assn 
ciation,  writes  as  follows:  Please  say  in 
your valued paper that the  Chicago & West 
Michigan,  Michigan Central,  Grand  Rapids 
& Indiana, Grand  Trunk,  D.,  G.  H.  &  M. 
F.  & P. M.  and Michigan &  Ohio Railways 
and  all  their  branches  have  now  on sale 
“week end” tickets for members  of  the  T. 
P. A.

Bulkley,  Lemon & Co’s force of road men 
will be as follows:  Hub Baker, the extreme 
Northern territory; L. L.  Loomis, North and 
East;  Jerry Woltman, late of Grand Haven, 
the  Holland  colony;  Perley  W.  Hall,  for 
several  years  with  John R. Price, of Ben­
ton Harbor,  the territory from Saugatuck to 
New  Buffalo; Win.  B.  Edmunds,  formerly 
with Putnam &  Brooks,  “at large;” Alger­
non  E.  White  and  Robert  E.  Porter, city 
trade.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Holland.

City. 

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A. T. Kellogg, Keliogg & Wooden, Kalkaska. 
Geo. S. Curtiss, Edgerton.
Dunham, Peters & Co., Chase.
Dan Rankin, New  Era.
K. VanDyk, North Holland.
Jacob  Van  Putten,  G.  VanPutten  &  Sons, 
T . S. J o rd a n , E lm ira.
M. Heyboer & Bro., Drenthe.
E. Grimes & Son,  Petoskey.
J. M. Haynes. Reed City.
C. W. Titus, Reed City.
Samuel Hale,  Black River.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Hunt & Hunter, Lowell. 
Mr  Wells, Wagner & Wells, Eastmanville 
Henry DcKline. Jamestown.
Gus Begman, Bauer.
John Rogders,  Bellairo.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
C. O. Cain, Sparta.
Mrs. M. E. Snell,  Wayland.
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
H. N. Marsh, Hobart.
C. Porter, Chauncey.
O. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
J. D. Champion,  Mecosta.
S. T. McLellan, Denison.
C. Cole, Cole & Chapel, Ada.
A. B. Johnson,  Lowell. 
Chas. Despres, Despres & Montague, Traverse
,
Geo. Cook. Sand Lake.
Robert Hall,  Hersey.
John C. Scott, Lowell.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
S. E.  Bush, Pierson.
A. Purchase, South  Blendon.
H. P. Whipple, Kingsley.
Hunter & Sargent, Saranac.
C. H. Loomis, Sparta.
J. A a ro n s, M aristee.
Wm. McMullen, Wood Lake.
J. H. Anderson,  Edgerton.
S. Cooper, Corinth.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
L. Cook.  Bauer. 
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
T. J. Sinedley, Lamont.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Darn.
F. Goodman & Co., Burnip s Corners. 
Danforth & Son, Rodney.
T   J. Sheridan & C o., W rig h t S id in g.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Havenna.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Jos. H. Spires. Leroy.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
F. Boonstra, Drenthe.
G. W. Hoag, Martin.
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
John Kamps, Zutphen.
Wm. Kennedy, Cadillac.
J. A. Haak, Chase.
A. Barnes, Muskegon.
Stitt Bros., Stittsville.
Dibble Bros., Burnip s Corners.
Fred Stoner, Grand Haven.
Jos. Solari, Muskegon.
Van Putten & Sons. Holland.
G oo. C arrin gton , T ren t.
Will H. Shirts, Shirts Bros., Shelby.
J. Frank Clark, Big Rapids.
W. R. Stansal, Langston.
Stanley Monroe, Berlin.
James Riley, Dorr.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
C. Porter, Chauncey.
H. Andre & Son, Jennisonville.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Calvin Durkee, Lakeview.
J. G. Westover, Nunlca.
F. H. Greger, Edrnore.
P. H. Schuh, Wayland.
H. A. Trun,  Kalkaska.
H. W. Marsh, Hobart.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
John VanGelderentson, Zeeland.
A Matter of Taste.

„ 

.

Samuel McIntosh and  Albert Keefer have 
formed a copartnership at  Frankfort  under I
the firm name of McIntosh & Keefer and en-1 stock, but  will  get  out  among
gaged in the boot and shoe business.

Ad.  Morrison  is  superintending  the  ar­
rangement  of  Olney,  Shields & Co.’s  new
the  trade

again next week

Plainwell  Independent:  Carroll  &  Rob­
ertson,  now  doing  business  at  Middleville, 
will open a stock of dry goods and boots and 
shoes in the new  brick  block  some time in
February. 
-,
Heavenrich- Bros.  &  Co., wholesale  and 
retail clothiers  at  East  Saginaw,  have  be­
come  Incorporated  under  the  same "style.

J.  T.  Dee,  representing  Yocum  Bros., 
cigar  manufacturers  of  Reading,  Pa.,  was 
in town over Sunday.  He will visit Grand 
Rapids every sixty days hereafter.

Clarence  J.  Hall,  formerly  with 

the 
Northampton  Emery Wheel  Co., is now on 
the road for the  Granite  Corundum  Wheel 
Co.,  of Springfield, Mass., and Chicago.

Young  Mrs.  Vassarline—You  are  sure 
this is real English  breakfast  tea, Mr.  Gro­
cer?

“Oh, yes,  we warrant it.”
“Well,  I’ll take a  pound if  you  are sure. 
Our visitors are  from London, and I should 
be dreadfully mortified to  give  them Japan 
tea by mistake.”

A dog-nail has a  projecting  tooth  or lug 
on one side,  and  was  chiefly  used  by lock­
smiths. 

It is seldom called for now.

James  H.  Brown  and  Ned  H.  Knight, 
Michigan agents  for  Lorillard &  Co., were 
in town Monday.  Mr.  Brown is  a  retired 
prize fighter and  Mr. Knight is an  ex-prin- 
ter.

Fred.  H.  Ball  succeeds  Algernon  E. 
White as  city  salesman  for  Cody, Ball & 
Co.  Fred,  is  an  energetic  youth  and  is 
bound  to  make  his  mark  in  the  grocery 
world.

Frank Jenison,  of  Manton,  was  the  first 
to contribute a key to the traveler  who  was 
suffering  from  the  loss  of  that  necessary 
article. 
It was large enough to  unlock  the 
gates of hell.

A.  L.  Osborn,  general traveling represen­
tative for  Kinney  &  Levan,  of  Cleveland, 
has taken up his residence in Grand Rapids, 
having  recently  removed his  family  from 
Wooster,  Ohio.

W.  S.  Barnett has purchased a large block 
of stock in the Bayfield  Silver  and  Copper 
Mine, and he now looks forward to the time 
when he can retire from the road and amuse 
himself by drawing dividends.

Algernon E.  White, who has  attended  to 
the wants of the city trade of  Cody,  Ball & 
Co. for the past six years,  has  entered  the 
employ of Bulkley, Lemon &  Co.,  and  will 
continue to work the city  trade.

Wm.  S. Barnett,  for four  years past gen­
eral traveling representative for  the  Penin­
sular  Stove  Co.,  Detroit,  has  engaged  to 
travel for Cribben,  Sexton &  Co.,  of Chica­
go,  and  will  see  the  hardware  trade  of 
Michigan and Northern Indiana three times 
during the present  year

Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

Wright, Schneider & Stutts will erect and 

operate a creamery at Alma.

The White  Lake  Creamery  Association 
has been formed at Whitehall, with a capital 
stock of $5,000.  A creamery  will be estab­
lished as soon as spriug opens.

Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, Professor of Chem­
istry at the  State University,  who  recently 
discovered the nature  of  cheese poison and 
named it tyrotoxican,  has  recently  satisfied 
himself that the poison  sometimes forms in 
putrifying milk, and is therefore free of ren­
net.

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Lowell 
Creamery Co.,  at Lowell,  the  following’of- 
ficers  were  elected:  President,  F.  T. 
King;  Treasurer, A.  W. Weekes; Secretary,
S.  Knapp;  Directors,  E.  Bellamy,  Win. 
Cheetham, J.  O.  Chapin,  Chas.  McCarty, F. I
T.  King.

Now that the Connecticut clock factory is 

finally located at Roclc Island, Ills., the local J 

papers in the various Michigan towns which | 
expected the honor arc  congratulating their 
readers over their escape.  This species  of 
reasoning brings to  mind  the  argument  of 
the man who had  caught  a  rabbit,  and  re­
marked to a friend that ‘ ‘a rabbit is the sweet­
est meat in the world. 
It  is  good  baked, 
good stewed and good fried. ”  Just then the 
rabbit got away,  whereupon  the  man  con­
soled himself as follows:  “Go, you darned 
cotton-tailed varmint! 
It  would take more 
fat  to  fry  you  than  you  are  worth,  any­
way!”

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides are lower and weak.  Pelts are un­
changed.  Furs are active.  Tallow is lower 
and weak.  Wool is firm.  ^

Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.  sold  500  cases  of 
Hillsdale  tomatoes  to  a  local  dealer  last 
week for 95 cents, cash,  and  refused a sub­
sequent offer of $1 for 500 more cases.

Formerly  door-knobs  were  largely  made 
of glass,  but  they  have  become  unpopular 
and are rare now.  The metal and porcelain 
ones are handsomer and more durable.

Purely Personal.

John Otis, the Mancelona furnace man, Is 

in town.

Christian  Bertsch  expects to  reach Lon­
don by  February  1;  Paris  by the  5th,  and 
Florence by the 10th.

Lloyd Vanetta,  late of  Easton,  Pa.,  has 
been engaged by Amos S. Musselman & Co. 
as  assistant  book-keeper.

Seward McNitt,  formerly  with  the New- 
o Manufacturing Co.,  at  Newaygo,  has
aygc
entered the  employ  of  Byron  McNeal,  at 
Byron Center.

Messrs.  Frank  E.  Leonard  and  Joe  F. 
Reed, of II.  Leonard & Sons, are making the 
tour of the Eastern glass factories in the in­
terest of  the firm.

John Shirts  put  in  last  week  at Shelby, 
visiting his parents and brothers,  and draw­
ing his dividend  from  the  profits of  Shirts 
Bros’, business for last year.

W.  Scott,  of Richmond, Va., has  been in 
town for a week.  He has an extensive pur­
chase  under  advisement,  which, 
if  con- 
I summated,  will render it necessary  for him 
to become a citizen of Michigan.

In the departure of A.  J.  Little for  New 
Orleans,  Grand Rapids loses one of her most 
promising young business men—one who  is 
bound  to  make  his  mark  in  the  peculiar 
field which he was selected  for the develop­
ment of his energies.

EVERY  DEALER

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description of the

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Successors to Fox, Ita lia n  & Loveriip,

W holesale  Grocers.

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Brugs & flfoebicines

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARM ACY.
One Year-Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Two Years—F. H. j .  VanKmster. Bay City. 
Three Years-Jacob Jesson, M^kegon.
F o u r Y e a r s -J a r o e s  Vernor, Detroit.
Fi?v e  Y e a r s -O ttm a r   E b erb acb , A n n  A rb or. 
P r e sid e n t—O ttm ar E b erb ach .
S ecr eta ry —J a co b  J e sso n .
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next  place  of  meeting 

-At  Grand  Rapids,

March 2,1886.
Michigan  State  Pharmacentieal  Association.

OFFICERS.

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
J.  Wurzburg,
First  Vice-President—Frank  J.  w
S e c o n d 'V ice -P resid en t—A. B. S te v e n s, D etr o it, 
T h ird  V ic e -P r e sid e n t—F r a n k  In g lis, D etr o it. 
S e c r e ta r y -S .  E. P a r k e ll,  O w osso.
T re a su re r—Win. Dupont, Detroit. 
Frori  ive  Committee-Jacob  Jesson,  Geo. 
B G a n d ru m , Frank Wells, F. W.  R.  Perry  and
Local^ Secretary-Will L. White, Grand Rapids. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  Rapids, 
___________
Grand R ap id s P harm aceutical Society. 

Tuesday, October 12, 1886. 

«

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884. 

OFFICERS.

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm.L. White.

»

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7

 CenBore- President,  Vico-Prcsl.le.it 

Commute o^Pbarmacv-M .B.  Kimm.  H.  E.

iBiino Watts and A. C.  isauer. 

Cominittee^on^ Legislation^-Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
.
.Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
AnnuaimMeetings—First  Thursday evening in
NextMeeting—'Thursday evening, February 4,
________________

at  “T h e T ra d esm a n ” office. 

. 

D etroit P harm aceutical Society. 

Organized October, 1863.

■  OFFICERS.

-Wm. Dupont.

F ir st ^ ic e -P r e s id e n t—Frank Inglis.
Second Vice P r e s i d e n t - J . W   Caldwell.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. W. K. rcrrj. 
a cHist.ii.nt Secretary and Treasurer  A. B. 8
Assistant Secretary  —
zer.
First Wednesday in June. 
Annual Meeting 
Regular  Meetings 

First  \Vednesday  in cacli

— —  — Salt>

month.

Jackçon  C ounty P harm aceutical  A sso ­

ciation.
OFFICERS.
President—R. F. Latimer.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary-F. A.  King.
Ï S Uo^rÆ s - Z Hr PW ^ron,C .  E.  Foot
A n n u ^  ^ e ^ n l ^ ^ i r e f  T h u rsd ay ii^N ovend^er.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  or  eacn 
__________
S agin aw   C ounty  P harm aceutical  So­

month. 

ciety.

TEMPORARY  OFFICERS.

Chairman—Henry Melchers.
Secretary—D. E.  Prail. 
M uskegon  D rug  Clerks’  A ssociation.

______ ______

OFFICERS.

President—T. F. Hopkins.
Vice-President-John Meyers.
Secretary and Treasurer—(). A. Lio>a.
Regular M e etin g s—Second and  fourth  Friday
_   K  1Q
Next Meeting—Friday  evening, leb. 1-

of each month. 

. 

Dr. Locher Replies to the  Unjust Accusa­

tion  of  Mr.  Crandall.

Grand  Ra pids,  January 23,  1886. 

Editor Michigan  Tradesman:

Dear  Sir—Your  correspondent,  J.  V. 
Crandall, of Sand Lake; takes exceptions to 
the proceedings of  the Grand  Rapids Phar­
maceutical Society in  their  action  to  adopt 
measures tending to secure the repeal of the 
$25 annual federal tax on druggists as retail 
liquor dealers.  Now, it will be conceded by 
all  intelligent  minds  that  the  handling  of 
spiritous and fermented liquors by druggists 
is an  absolute  necessity,  being  as  it  is an 
ingredient  of  nearly  all  the  fluid  extracts 
and tinctures, besides other officinal prepar­
ations in the U.  S. Pharmacopoeia.  No one 
could  conduct  a  drug  store  successfully 
without having in stock a supply of liquors, 
as a great many  prescriptions  contain wine 
or liquor  in  some  form or  other.  The tax 
is not only an insult to all respectable phar­
macists engaged in  business  at  the present 
day, who  have  no  other  thought  of  doing 
anything  but  a  respectable  and  honorable 
business,  and  who  for  the  reasons  above 
mentioned resent the governmental imputa­
tion of  being  saloon  keepers,  but  it is op­
posed to every  principle of equity and right 
and should have been repealed several years 
ago. 
It  probably was fully  justifiable as a 
war measure when the government treasury 
was crowded to the  utmost in raising a rev­
enue, but its perpetuation in times of peace, 
in  the  face  of  an  overflowing  treasury,  is 
wholly  indefensible.  That  unprincipled 
druggists sometimes take  advantage of  the 
situation to sell liquors contrary  to the  let­
ter and spirit of the law is undoubtedly true, 
Hid perhaps  our  friend  J. V.  Crandall,  if, 
perchance, lie be a druggist, may be such an 
one,  as lie assures us that  lie is posted,  and 
knows “whereof lie  writes.”  Now,  for my 
part I generally judge others bymyself, and 
even at the  risk  of  being considered  “ver­
dant,” I will be charitable enough to believe 
that  a 
large  majority  of  the  druggists 
throughout the country do  observe, and are 
obeying the la4’  of  their several states,  and 
should be relieved from the  odium of being 
forced to  procure a U.  S.  liquqr  license in 
order to carry on their business.  The social 
and moral status of  druggists  compares fa­
vorably with that of  any  other  profession, 
and I believe I am voicing the sentiments of 
my professional  brothers in the  country as 
well as in the city when I say that the state­
ments  of  your  correspondent  are  without 
any foundation Whatever,  and,  as far as my 
observation goes, entirely wrong.  1 had the 
pleasure of attending the last meeting of the 
State Pharmaceutical  Society,  and met rep­
resentative druggists from every parts of the 
State  of  Michigan  and  question  was  dis­
cussed during the sessions of  that body and 
the same action taken  as  regards  the ques­
tion of U.  S.  Revenue. 
It  does  not  seem 
right to me  that  a  large  majority of  drug­
gists should be blamed for  the wrong doing 
of  a  few,  and  that  evil  magnified  by  the 
croaking  of  certain  individuals  who  find 
pleasure  in  parading  the  faults  of  their 
neighbors before the public,  and who are so 
entirely wrapped up  in their own righteous­
ness t hat they see not the beam in their own 
eye.  To all such I  would  say,  study care­
fully the errors and conduct of your own life 
and you will have plenty to do.

II.  E.  Lociier.

Formal Opening of the N ew  Rooms of  the 

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

From the Detroit Free Press, 21st.

The formal opening  of  the  new quarters 
of the Detroit Pharmaceutical Society in the 
Cowie block took place last night, when  an 
audience,  comprising almost the total mem­
bership of  the  Society,  assembled  to  hear 
Prof.  A. 13.  Prescott, dean of  the  chemical 
department of the State  University, lecture 
on the subject of “The  Literature  of Phar­
macy.” 
In opening his address the lecturer 
stated that  the  helpfulness  of  any profes­
sional body for the benefit of its members is 
justly measured by the  value  of  the litera­
ture it has created for the  professional  use. 
He dwelt at  length  on the  usefulness  of  a 
library to the pharmacist, and gave a list  of 
the representative professional  publications 
and  ttie  especial  fields  covered  by them, 
closing his  address  by  stating  that  the lit­
erature  of  pharmacy  foreshadows  some 
changes  in  the  scope  of  its  practice. 
It 
gives evidence that the  pharmacist  is  to  be 
an advisory  and  analytical  chemist  of  the 
community and of the medical profession.

At the conclusion  of  the  lecture refresh­
ments were served  in  the  parlor  adjoining 
the audience room.

Bunion Shields and Vaccination.

Bunion shields are said to be in great  de­
mand  for  the  protection  of  vaccination 
scabs.  Happily this novel use of the shield 
is calculated to  afford  relief  to the dealers 
pocket as well as the purchaser’s arm.

Cincinnati retail druggists,  says  a  corre­
spondent in that city,  are once more united. 
All stores now  exhibit  a  card  stating  that 
“Patent medicine« are sold at regular prices 
by request  of  the  Cincinnati  Retail Drug­
gists’  Association.”  Cincinnati  trade  lias 
been  demoralized  for  a  considerable  time 
Certain  retailers  have 
advertised  “cut 
prices,” and  defied  any  overtures  from  the 
Association. 
trouble  originated 
through a fipiey  goods  dealer  putting  in  a 
stock of patent medicines.  This  cause  has 
long since been removed, and  there  existed 
no apparent reason  why  prices  should  not 
be maintained.

The 

Refining  of  tannic  acid  is  said  to  be  a 
newly-established business  in this  country.
,  A German writer affirms that the whole pro­
cess consists in  mixing  tannic  acid  with a 
certain percentage of gum substitute,  sieving 
well and selling.  Good tannic  acid is quite 
soluble  in  methylated  spirits  of  wine,  or 
leaves only a small residue; gum  substitute 
is not soluble in spirits, it can  also be read­
ily detected  by the  microscope.  Some tan­
nic  acids  contain  matters  insoluble 
in 
spirit which  are  not  gum substitute;  it ap­
pears to be the woody part of the galls from 
which the tannic acid is prepared.

Vigorous  Protest  Against  Mr.
Sweeping Charge.
Manton,  Mich., Jan

Crandall’s

1886.

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

D ear Sir—I have read a  communication 
in your last issue from J.  V.  Crandall  with 
a good deal of indignation. 
I have been en­
gaged in the drug business  over  five  years 
and  a  half  in  this  place  and no man  or 
woman, alive or dead,  has ever had a  drink 
of  liquor  behind  my  prescription  case,  in 
the  back  room,  or  anywhere  about  my 
store.  There may be druggists who do that 
kind of business, but I  am  not  one  one  of 
them and want to enter my  protest  against 
such a charge;  and as far as I am concerned, 
will say the  license which I have to pay the 
Government  bears  heavily  on  me.  The 
profits  from  a  legitimate  medicinal  sacra­
mental and  mechanical sale  of  liquors will 
barely pay the tax  at  the  end  of the year, 
and  were  it  not  that  as  a  druggist  I  am 
obliged  to  keep  them  in  stock  for honest 
customers,  I  would be better off,  financial­
ly, to throw them out,  and for one would re 
joice to have the burden of such  an  unjust 
tax lifted from my shoulders.

Yours,  very respectfully,

Rinaldo  F uller.

p.  S.—Like the paper  first-rate,  and was 
glad to read that, editorially,  you  don’t  en­
dorse Mr.  Crandall's communication.

F.

The British Pharmacopoeia directs that all 
preparations of cinchona shall be made from 
the red cinchona bark.  The  United States 
Pharmacopoeia directs the red bark for com­
pound tincture, but  names  the yellow bark 
for the  extract,  fluid  extract,  and  simple 
tincture,  while  the  infusion  can  be  made 
from any species of cinchona not containing 
less than  3 per  cent,  of  its  peculiar alka­
loids.  The  tincture  of  opium  of  the new 
British Pharmacopoeia is  directed  to be es­
sayed  and  standardized  so  as  to  contain 
about  0.75  per  cent,  morphine,  which  is 
about  equivalent  to  3 grains  to  the  fluid- 
ounce.  The  preparation  of 
the  United 
States Pharmacopoeia will contain about 1.4 
per cent,  if  opium  of  medium  strength  is 
employed.  The difference between the two 
preparations  is,  therefore,  almost  100  per 
cent.

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min 
eral Spring Water  from  Hazeltine,  Perkins 
& Co.  See  quotations  in  another  column.

TH E  DISCOURAGED  BOOK-KEEP­

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

ER’S  SONG.

Written Expressly for T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

With brain aweary from work,
With care-worn face and eyes,

Heavy from want of sleep and rest.

And striving so long to devise 
Some method whereby his books 
Might balance, from day to day,

A book-keeper sat, with dejected looks,

And these words I heard him say:

“Scratch, scratch, scratch,

From early dawn till dark;

And  scratch, scratch, scratch,

For hours before the lark 
Has sung her greeting hymn 

To the glowing, gladsome sun;

And still to toil, by the midnight oil,

My work is never done.

“Write, write, write,

Till my pen falls listless down.

And add, add, add,

Till it seems that the heavens frown.

It’s add, add, add,
By day or by niirht, still, still to write,

And never make a mistake,

For my stern employer’s sake.

“Column on column above,
Column on column below,

Till figures and lines confused by blend, 

And into each other flow;

And I see the expanse of heaven 

Spread o’er with unbalanced books, 

Journals  lower  and  burn, ledgers  threat- 

nlng and stern,

And the cash-book with horrified looks.

“My daily tasks I pursue 

Till my mind seems  fated to lose 

Its center of gravity quite, and 1 see 

Visions that appall and confuse 

Great ciphers with bodies  and wings,^ 

Leer at me out of the dark,
Fives and sevens that walk,
Nine and sixes that stalk,

Like specters, grim, ghostly  and  stark.”
With fingers inky and worn,

taria, ergot.

Advanced—Linseed  oil, turpentine,  serpen­
Declined—Ergot.

a c id s .

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  ©  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  @  3o
Carbolic.....................'......................  34  © J o
Citric.................................................  65  ©  70
3  @  o
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
f i  @
Oxalic...............................................   10  ©  U
Sulphuric 66 deg..................... '.......  
«  ©  4
Tartaric  powdered........................   52  ©  »>
Benzoic,  English....................IP oz
Benzoic,  German...........................   1"
Tannic............*.................................

©

a m m o n ia .

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

15  ©
«
4

BALSAMS.

BARKS.

Copaiba
Fir......................................................
Peru...................................................
Tolu...................................................
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered, pure.....................
Sassafras, of root.....................*•••
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................
Cubeb  prime (Powd 1 06c)............
Juniper.............................................  ®
Prickly Ash............. .......................  50

b e r r ie s .

40®45 
40 
1 75 
50

©1  00 ©  7
©  60

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure........... .
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 lb  boxes)...............
do 
Lgowood, Ms 
...............
Logwood, 348 
...............
do 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
.
. •  • 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

.

FLOWERS.

Arnica 
| Chamomlie,  Roman............. .........
Chamomile,  German.....................

©  15

12

GUMS.

60©

28©

55@60 
25©  27 
13
35©  40 
80
80©  90

A. L. J.

“Add. add,  add,

Lakeside, Jan. 25,1885.

With oyelids heavy and red,

Cocaine  and  Chloroform.

Hereafter we’ll sure be blest.” 

Murmuring these words of dread.

For the book-keeper there’s no  rest.

A book-keeper sat with  dejected looks.

Aloes,  Barbadoes..........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)................
Aloes, Soeotrine (Powd  60c)........
Ammoniao.....................................
Arabic, powdered  select...........
| Arabic, 1st  picked........................
Arabic,2d  picked..
If patience and faithfulness win a reward, I ^ a b ic ,^  pffikedV.V.V.V.V.’.'.V.V.V.
Arabic, sifted sorts... 
Assafuentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor........................> • ...............
Catechu. Is (M 14c, 348 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge...........................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino | Powdered, 30c].....................
Mastic..................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd 85 25)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragaeanth ......................................

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  New  York 
Pathological  Society,  President  John  A. 
Wyeth called attention  to  the  peculiar lia­
bility  to  fatal  accidents  from  failure  of 
heart-action,  following  the  use  of  chloro­
form or ether as anæsthetics, when  the use 
of them has been  preceded  by the adminis­
tration of  cocoaine.  Tiiis  should he borne 
in mind when  operations  are  to  be under­
taken, and after unsuccessful use of cocaine 
recourse is had to inhalations of chloroform

30
IJERB8—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES

Good Words Unsolicited.

is all it calls for.”

M, W. Mills, hardware, Otsego:  “The  paper 
•Your

F. Salisbury, grocer, Harbor Springs: 

paper gives good satisfaction.”

O. W.  Avery,  general  dealer,  Edmore:  “I 

think T h e   T r a d e s m a n  a good paper.”

Fred L. Corbin, commission merchant, Hart: 
“I value your paper very much, especially the 
market reports.”
Johnson  Bros.,  general  dealers,  Lakeside: 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n  continues  No.  1.  Declined 
a Chicago trade journal  the  other  day.  Con­
sider T h e T r a d e s m a n  better.”

Cincinnati wholesale houses have adopted 
a postal card scheme by which to keep track 
of their travelers.  Postal cards bearing the 
address of the  house,  and  printed for mak­
ing daily reports,  are furnished the commer­
cial  tourists,  and every  day,  rain or  shine, 
sales or no sales, one of  these  cards  has to 
be mailed to headquarters,  giving  the point 
mailed from and next destination 

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

IRON.

| Citrate and  Quinine......................
i Solution mur., for tinctures......
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
| Citrate..............................................
Phosphate........................................

4 00 
20

LEAVES.

Buehu, short (Powd 25c)................   13
Sago, Italian, bulk (34s & Ms, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Drsl..........................................
Belledonna......................................-
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red.............   ...........................

LIQUORS.

@2 50 
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 
@2  00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1 75
Whisky, other brands....................1  10  @1  50
Gin, Old Tom................................... J f* 
J®
Gin,  Holland................................... 2 00  @3 50
©6 50 
Brandy.
©2 00 
Catawba  Wines..........................
©2 50
Port Wines..................................

Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined...........................................

The Magazine  of  A rt for  February con­
tains a practical article by Lewis F.  Day  on
MAGNESIA.
the profession of  art; also  one by R.  A. M.  carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz 
Stevenson  on the art of sketching,  which is I carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz
full of suggestiveness.  Win. Holmden con­
tributes  more  about  art  in  Assyria.  The 
sketch of the life and work of the American 
artist David Neal is handsomely illustrated, 
the reproduction of  his Nuns  at  Prayer be 
ing especially attractive  as a study of white 
upon white.  The Magazine of AH is  well
worth  the  price  of  subscription,  $3.50 per I castor.......
year.  Published  by  Cassell  &  Company, |C ro to n .... 
Limited,  739 and 741 Broadway,  N.  Y.
Parents  should  subscribe  for  Our Little 
Ones  and  the  Nursci'y,  published  at  36 
Bromfield  St.,  Boston, by the Russell Pub­
lishing Co. 
It  is  full  of  interest  to  little 
men and women.

OILS.

au

2 75
2 00

10@12
2 50
18
22
18

4 00

5
12
8
2
1 60

12
75

Serpent aria.
Seneka...................................................... 
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras.............. 
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican............................ 
Squills, white (Powd 35e).......................  
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)................. 
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)... 

43
 

20

'  SEEDS.

do 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

SPONGES.

6  ©  7

MISCELLANEOUS.

5  © 6
4  © 4M
15  © 18
1 50
75
i
16
10
15

3314®
4  @ 4M
7  © 8
4M© 6M1075
6  @ 714
25  @2 50
2 00
1 10
85
65
1  40
2 31
1 50
27
12

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).......................  
Bird, mixed in S>  packages...........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 334)..................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black  10c)...........
Quince..............................................
Rape, English..................................
Worm, Levant.................................
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... !
do 
........ 
Nassau 
do 
do 
. . . .  
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
........ 
do 
Grass 
do 
........ 
Hard head, for slate use......................... 
Yellow Reef. 
................  
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21; 9  gal.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s...............................  
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
Annatto 1 fi> rolls............................
2M@ 
Alum......................................... 
lb
3  ©
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prime...............................
4M© 
Antimony, powdered,  com’l___ _
©
6
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Blue  Soluble............................................  
Bay  Rum, imported, best.................... 
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Balm Gilead  Buds................................... 
Beans,  Tonka.............................   .. 
2 25
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7 00  ©9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate............................ 
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)...............................  
Blue Vitriol  .................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  12c)..................  
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African.............. : 
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ... 
Carmine, No. 40...................................... 
Cassia  Buds.............................................. 
Calomel. American................................. 
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
Chalk, white lump..........................  
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ..........................  
Colooynth  apples.................  
60
1  50
Chloral hydrate,  German  crusts.. 
cryst... 
1  70
Chloral 
1  90
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ... 
1  75
Chloral 
crusts.. 
Chloroform.....................................   63  ©  65
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  20  ©  25
Cinehonidia, other brands.............   18  @  23
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................  18  ©  20
Cochineal.............................. 
Cocoa  Butter........ .........................  
40
Copperas (by bbl  lo)............ 
Corrosive Sublimate............ 
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered....... 
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box.. 
Creosote................................. 
Cudbear, prime.................... 
Cuttle Fish Bone.................. 
Dextrine...............................  
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.......... 
Ergot  powdered.................. 
Ether Squibb’s..........  .................... 
1  10
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts (bbl. 196).....................  
2  ©  3
Ergot, fresh.......................... 
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ... 
60
Flake  white........................ 
14
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
lo
Gelatine, Cooper’s................................... 
Gelatine, French  ...............  ..........  45  ©  70
Glassware, flint, 73 off,by box 60off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  ca nnet..................................
Glue, white.......................................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  Ms and 34s..............................
Iodoform $  oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian...
Insect Powder, H.t P. & Co„ boxes
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride,(Ms 2s 10c & 34811c)
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch..................... 
Manna, S.  F......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph.. P. & W........ $  oz  2 95@3
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................lb
Moss,  Irish................ ....................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 fb  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Md...............
Paris Green....................................  
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
2
Pepsin...............................................  
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
*  @
Quassia  ............................................  
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... lb oz  80  ©
Quinine,  German............................ 
75©
Red  Precipitate.......................^ lb
Seidlitz  Mixture............. ................
Strychnia, cryst................
Sili
Saffi

60
24
20
12
50
65

©  40
15

, cryst...

40
^2
70

12M@

17  ©

1  10

74

10

1

 

17 
28 
20 
40 
40
©1  no
©  40 
@1 00 
4 00 
1 50

ryst.......
n  cryst.

Santi
Snuffs, Maceob<

Ash [by keg 3c].

■ Scotch.

©

©

..............................................  300

Almond, sweet.................................  45  ©  50
45
Amber, rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
” Sj
Bay $   oz......................................... 
“0
B‘ r‘' a“ 0'“ ......... ms®   5»
Cajeput
Cassia.................................. • •  .......
Cedar, commercial  (Pure tac).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves.......................................
Cod Liver, N. F........................gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fire weed..........................................
Geranium  $   oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive,Malaga........... 
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  — .
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  $   oz................ ..............• • • •
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50)
Salad, 
gal......................................
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood. German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint.......................................
Tansy............................................... 4 00
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen — .............
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
Wormseed........................................

do 
do 

.

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate.................................9  8>
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 35c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiato yellow..............................

BOOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 348 and Ms—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................
G inger, African (Powd 14c)...........   11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true........................................„  ^
Rhei, from select to  ohoice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, ohoice cut fingers.................

@9 00 
@4 25 
©  12
2 35
3 50 
2 00

12@14 
40@43 
23 
3 00 
28

©

60

 

4M®

OILS.

do 
do 

334®

3©  or*

2  i0
1 40
85
25
55
7  @  8

Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s—
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, G reen  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzinl..................................
Spirits N itre,3F.............................   26  ©
Spirits Nitre, 4 F..................... —   30  ©
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................  
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
Tartar Emetic........................................... 
Tar, N. C. Pine, M gal- cans 
doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
Tar, 
pints in tin.............  
Turpentine,  Venice................ *8) lb 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shield  Cylinder................................................... 60
Eldorado Engine..................................................;*>
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 30
Challenge Machinery......................................... 25
Backus Fine Engine..............................  
<W
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil..........................................--6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.............................................. 15M
Paraffine,28  deg.................................................21
Sperm, winter  bleached...................................... 1 40
Bbl  Gal
75 
70 
Whale, winter............................
60 
55 
Lard, extra.................................
55 
45 
Lard, No.  1.................................
45
42 
Linseed, pure raw....................
48
45 
Linseed, boiled.........................
70 
90
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..
45 
50
Spirits Turpentine....................
VARNISHES.
..1 10@1 20 
..1 60© 1 70 
..2 75©3 00 
..1 00@1 10 
..1 55© 1 60
..  70©  75
Lb
2© 3
2© 3
2© 3
2M© 3
234© 3
13@16
68@60
16@17
6M©  •
6M@ 7
@*0
@90
110
, 
40
J 20@J 40
1 00@1 20

Vermilion, prime  American.. 
Vermilion, English.................. 
Green, Peninsular.................... 
Lead, red strictly  pure...........  
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
Whiting, white Spanish.......... 
Whiting,  Gilders.....................  
White, Paris American........ 
Whiting  Paris English oliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  I aints....... 
Swiss Villa Preparer  Paints.. 

Extra  Turp............. ..................
Coach  Body.............................. .
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............
Extra Turp  Damar..................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp........

Red Venetian............................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........

Bbl
1*
1*
1¥
2M

PAINTS

.....

Golden  Seal  Bitters  is  meeting with grand 
It  is  an  article of 
success  whenever  used. 
great merit.  Every family  should  hayc  It  in 
the house.  It is the coming  family  medicine.

MICHIGAN  DRUG EXCHANGE,
Mills &  Goodman, Props.

357  SOUTH  UNION  ST., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

business.

liberal discount for cash.

near to or in Grand Rapids.

ANTED—Small  stock  of  $1,000  to $2,000, 

M.  It. R. cheap for cash only.  Doing good 

w
SMALL stock in growing town on D., G. H. & 
Il OOD  LOCATION  on  Grand  Trunk  R.
I"  Stock  of  about  $1.500  can  be bought at 
STOCK of about $4,000  in  northern  town  on 
■   NICE choice stock of about $1,600T.. A. A.
& N. M. R. fi. must be sold atouee on easy 
terms.
Gt OOD  location on the Lake Shore inlumber-
BARG AIN—Fine drug store in north-west! rn 
Michigan, on  railroad, in  growing  town.
I Building for sale or rent on easy  terms.  Fine 
chance  for  physician.  Stock  about  $2,000; 
buildings, $3,000.  Part on  time.

G. R. & I. K. R.. doing a large business ean 

ig town.  Stock about $1,500.

bo bought on easy terms.

1>RINCIPAL drug store in western Michigan 
on Lake Shore R. R.  Stock  about  $3,600, 
I $1,000  cash,  balance  on  easy time if secured. 
Good paying store.  Good reason for selling.
THNE STOCK in western  Michigan  on  C.  & 
"MTJu ” W. Mi Railway.  Stock worth about $1,500.
?  W. M. Ra:
Good location,
■ E  HAVE  several  competent  registered 
pharmacists on our list and  can  supply 
druggists requiring assistants  with  well  rec- 
omended assistants on very short notice.

°u
20
15
25

15

hazeltineT
PERKINS

75

60

Wholesale 
Druggists

40
OFFER  TO  THE  TRADE  THEIR  EN 
50

TIRE  STOCK OF

2 30

—AT-

O S

Until January  1,1886.

THE  LINE  INCLUDES

90

Brush  anil  Conili  Sets

Diatite,

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

Until January  1st.

A   MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

K. A. STOW K  &  KUO., Proprietor*.

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

Telephone No. 95.

{Entered,  at  the  Postofflee  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  27,  1886.

R E TA IL  GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

OF  GRAND  RA PID S.

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10, 1885.

President—Erwin J. Herrick.
F ir st Vice-President—E. E. Walker.
Second Vice-President—Jas. A. Coye.
Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson. 
\
Treasurer— B. S. Harris.
Board of  Directors—Eugene  Richmond,  w m. 
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn  and 
W. E. Knox.
Finance  Committee—W. E.  Knox,  II.  A.  Hy­
dorn and A. J. Elliott.
Room Committee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
mond and Wm. H. Sigel.
Arbitration  Committee—James  Farnsworth, 
M .J.Le wis and A. Rasch.
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner.
Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem­
ber. 
„
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Evenings of each month.
Next  meeting—Tuesday evening, Feb. 9.

On the Road.

The enterprising drummer comes 
With grip and sample-case,
And very vigorously drums 
Each calm, bucolic place.
He meets the merchant at his door 
And buttonholes him straight,
And funny chestnuts by the score 
He smiling doth relate.
The merchants’ children with a smile 
He chucketh  ’neath the chin,
With artful wile, he doth beguile 
With beer, and eke with gin 
He takes the merchant for a drive 
O’er muddy rural roads,
And with cigars at three for five 
His pockets full he loads;
He tiirteth with the  merchant’s wife, 
And with his daughter coy;
And gives a dizzy pocket-knife 
Unto the merenant’s boy.
In manners very rash and brash 
Expenditures he guides,
He spendeth his employer’s cash 
And eke his own besides. 
*

*

*

*

*

And when he learns (oh, hapless fatel 
The merchant will the drummer wait, 

He can’t express his pique,)
Who comes along next week.

Regular  Meeting  of  the  Retail  Grocers’ 

Association.

At the  regular  semi-monthly  meeting  of 
the Retail Grocers’ Association, held  on the 
19th, applications  for  membership were re­
ceiver!  from  Martin  Huisenga,  T. J.  Hait­
ian,  C. Moelker  &  Co.  and  James  Farns­
worth, all of whom were elected to member­
ship.

A. J. Elliott, of the Committee on Rooms, 
reported a corrected  lease for  the  rooms of 
the  Association,  which  was  accepted  and 
adopted.

President  Herrick  stated  that  the  Law 
Committee had had the huckster question un­
der consideration and asked  that  the  Com­
mittee be  given  further  time  to  prepare a 
report, which was granted.

The  chair  appointed  James  Farnsworth 
chairman  of  the  Arbitration  Committee, 
vice G.  H.  DeGraaf.

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E. A.  Stowe then read  a paper—which is 
reproduced entire  in  this week’s paper—on 
“Eggs by Weight,” by  Smith  Barnes, gen­
eral manager of the Hannah & Lay Mercan­
tile Co., Traverse  City,  prefacing the same 
by reading the accompanying letter from the 
same writer: 
Being unable to comply  with  the  request 
so kindly sent me to meet the Retail Grocers’ 
Association on the 19th inst., and to lay be­
fore  them  my  convictions  on  the subject, 
“Eggs by weight in place of eggs by count,” 
I can do  no  less  than  to  hand  you  a  pen 
photograph  of  the  same,  instead  of  doing 
myself the  pleasure  of meeting  the gentle­
men who represent  an  interest  of so  much 
importance to the  citzens of  your  live city, 
as do the grocers of Grand Rapids.
Will you  namemy  hearty  thanks to your 
Association for the compliment tendered me 
by  the  resolution  passed,  and  my  earnest 
wishes that,  in the  near future,  we may  all 
join hands  in  adopting  the  same  measure 
which we have found so satisfactory.
I  trust  tiiat  I  have  made  my  meaning 
plain,  even if my manner of  setting it forth 
has not been as happy as I could wish.
If my convictions  should  strike  a  chord 
in sympathy with  my  respected  co-labora- 
teurs, and united action follow as a sequence, 
resulting in the near future in  re-modelling 
this portion of our business structure,  I shall 
be  very  much  gratified,  as  at  the  present 
time I believe we are the  only  house in the 
union who have put  into practice  what  we 
believe to be due our patrons  in  this partic­
ular direction.
If I have not covered  the  entire ground I 
shall hold myself in readiness to add thereto 
such conclusions or facts  as I am possessed 
of from time to time.

Milo G.  Randall  moved  that  the  thanks 
of the Association  be tendered  Mr.  Barnes 
for Ills contribution,  which was unanimous­
ly adopted.

W.  C.  Harper  moved  that  the  subject 
treated in the paper be made  the special or­
der of business at the next  meeting,  which 
was adopted.

Jas. A.  Coye moved that the report of the 
special committee on  honorary  members be 
adopted,  which was carried.

Milo G.  Randall  moved that those whole­
salers who sign the agreement  not to sell at 
retail be made honorary members of the As­
sociation.

Jas.  A.  Coye moved as an amendment that 
they be invited to attend the meetings of the 
Association,  either  personally  or  by repre­
sentative,  which was adopted.

A. J.  Elliott moved that 300 copies of the 
constitution and  by-laws  be printed,  which 
was adopted.

The Association then adjourned,  to  meet 

again Tuesday evening,  February 9.

the leading brands of

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PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

-

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

RED  F O X .........................................
BIG  DRIVE 
PATROL 
JACK  RABBIT 
SILVER  COIN 
- 
PANIC  - 
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
-
APPLE  J A C K ..........................................

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

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

- 
- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

-

-

-

-

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

F IN E   CUT.

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

-
- 

-

-

-

-

- 
2c less in 6 pail lots.

SMOKING.

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

- 
- 

- 

- 

-

- 

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These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

Who warrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  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.

SP R IN G   &

C O M P A N Y

W HOLESALE  D EALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL.  CLOTHS

BTO.,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

LU J.  H.  THOM PSON  <&  CO.

WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS OF

BEE  SPICE  MILLS,

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MANUFACTURERS OF

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DETROIT,  MICH.

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,  Jobber of Oysters. 
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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.” 
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.

W. J. GOULD & GO.. Detroit. Mch.

A Simple Cure for Dyspepsia.

Probably never in the history of Proprietary 
Medicines has any article met success equal to 
that  which  has  been  showered  upon  Golden 
Seal Bitters.  Why, such has been  the success 
ot this discovery, that nearly  every  family  in 
whole neighborhoods  have  been  taking  it  at 
the same time.  Golden Seal Bitters  combines 
the best remedies of  the  vegetable  kingdom, 
and  in  such  proportions  as  to  derive  their 
greatest mediei mil effect with the least disturb­
ance to the whole system.  In fact,  this  prep­
aration is so well balanced in Its action  on the 
alimentary canal, the Liver, the  Kidneys,  the 
Stomach,  the  Bowels,  and  the circulation of 
the Blood, that it  brings  about  a  healthy  ac­
tion of the  entire  human  organism  that can 
hardly be credited  by those who have not seen 
the remarkable results that have  followed  its 
use.  Sold by Hazeltiue, Perkins &  Co.,  whole­
sale druggists, Grand Ragids, Mich. 

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PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
e n g i n e s
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.

At  M anufacturers’  Prices.

SAMPLES  TO  THE  TRADE  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER. 

6?  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

N elson  Bros.  &  Co.
EDMUND D.  DIKEM&N,  HENRY  KRITZER,
NEWAYGO 

PROPRIETOR

Roller Mills
“Crown  Prince”

MANUFACTURER  OF  THE

BRAND.

ALWAYS  UNIFORM  IN  QUALITY. 
¡FINEST  GRADES  OF  WHEAT  AND 
| BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR  A SPECIALTY.
! BUCKWHEAT  FLOUR,  ROLLER  PRO- 

J E W E L E R

44  CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN. j CESS,  GUARANTEED  PURE.

A railroad station  is to be  erected on the 
site of  ancient  Babylon,  and  patent  medi­
cine advertisements will be the handwriting 
on the walL

Grand  Rapids«

V

a Vi i g f l  n .

C,  D enison,

88,90 and 92 South Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 
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of  Last Resort.

REVENUE  STAMPS  ON  MANUFACTURED  TO­

BACCO.

A commission  merchant  engaged  in  the 
sale of manufactured tobacco is not liable to 
be taxed for the revenue stamps  required to 
be affixed to the tobacco  before  the removal 
thereof  from  a  bonded  warehouse  unless 
they were at the time of such sale so affixed, 
whereby they entered into  the  value of  the 
tobacco and formed a part of the price there- | 
of.  So held by the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
U nited States.
SAI.E  OF  GOODS —   DELIVERY 

ANCE.

When a vendor sells goods of  a  specified 
quality, but not in existence  or ascertained, 
and  undertakes  to  ship  them  to a distant 
buyer,  when  made  or  ascertained, and  de­
livers them to the carrier for  the purchaser, 
the latter is not bound to accept  them with­
out examination.  The mere delivery of the 
goods by the vendor to the  carrier  does not 
necessarily bind the vendee to  accept them. 
On  their  arrival  he  has  a right to inspect 
them to ascertain whether  they  conform  to 
the  contract,  and  the  right to inspect  im­
plies the right to reject them if they are not 
of  the  quality  required  by  the  contract. 
Tope  et  al.  vs.  Allis, decided  by  the Su- j 
preme Court of the United States.

RAILWAY  COMPANY— RIGHT  OF  WAV.
A railway company,  in enforcing its right 
of way over the lands of others and  in  con­
structing its road,  is bound to leave  the  ad­
joining lands and fields which  it  crosses in 
the same condition as regards  the  facilities 
of cultivation and as concerns the utility  of 
those lands to their owners as they were be­
fore the  entry  of* the  company.  Hence  a 
railroad company which  constructs  an  em­
bankment on  the  lands  of  a  planter,  and 
thereby stops up his ditches and other  arti­
ficial drains,  is  responsible  to  such  owner 
for  all  losses  of crops  and  other damages 
occasioned by such interruption of his drain­
age.  So  held  by  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Louisiana in the case of Payne vs. Morgan s 
Louisiana & Texas  Railroad  &  Steamship 
Co. 

»

TRADE  MARK— DENTIST’S  SIGN.

In the case of Sanders  vs.  Jacob, decided 
lately by the St.  Louis Court of  Appeals,  it 
appeared that in 1871  the  plaintiff  opened 
an office for the practice of dentistry  in  St. 
Louis  under  the  title  of  the  “New  York 
Dental Rooms.”  He advertised  under  that 
name and had it registered. 
In 1880 the de­
fendant opened a  dental  establishment  two 
doors from that of the plaintiff,  using a sign 
in size and style similar to the one  used  by 
the  plaintiff  and  bearing  the  inscription 
“Newark  Dental  Rooms.”  The  plaintiff 
brought suit to  enjoin  the  defendant  from 
using this sign,  alleging that it  was devised 
to  deceive  his  customers  and deprive him 
of business.  The court granted  an  injunc­
tion, holding that it  was  apparent  that  the 
defendant used the sign to deceive  the  pub­
lic and to attract the customers of the plain­
tiff.

An Attractive Sign.
From Carpet Trade and Review.

Some years ago there lived in a  basement 
on Thompson street,  in Newr  \  ork,  a  car­
pet beater of African  decent,  wdiose  name 
was Adam Strong.  At the beginning of his 
professional career he considered  it  unnec­
essary to go to the expense of having a sign 
painted,  but  after  losing 
jobs 
through would-be patrons  being  unable  to 
find his place of abode, lie decided that a sign 
must be obtained,  and believing  himself  to 
be fairly proficient in the art of making  let­
ters.  he undertook the task of  painting  the 
sign himself.

several 

His intention was  to  have  the  first  line 
read  “Adam Strong,”  and  the  second  one 
“ Carpet Beater.”  But he made the mistake 
of  allowing  too  much  space  between  the 
first and second letters  of  the  word  Adam 
and to get in the eight other  letters  on  the 
same line it  was  necessary  to  place  them 
closer together.  The  result  was  that  the 
sign when finished appeared as follows:

A DAM STRONG 
CARPET  SWEEPER.

: 

:

The sign  was  a  success  as  regards  at­
tention, but it did not suit  the  brethren  of 
the Zion A.  M.  E.  Church,  of  which  Mr. 
Strong was a member, and  they  finally  in­
duced him  to  have  it  altered?  but  he  al­
ways regarded the first sign as the best,  be­
cause it brought him the most business.

He Expected too Much.

“See  here,”  said  an  angry  citizen  to  a 
quack doctor,  “that  ‘wonderful  discovery’ 
of yours for. preservingjthe scalp is a fraud.” 

“Why so?”
“Look at that,”  removing his hat;  “since 

using it I have lost all my hair.”

“Oh, it  doesn’t  pretend  to  preserve  the 
hair.” answered the doctor,  “only the scalp. 
You’ve  got  your  scalp  left.  You  musn’t 
expect too much of medical science.”

A new explosive,  known as kinetite,  is at 
It con­
present being studied in  Germany. 
sists,  it is said, of a mixture  of oils and gun 
cotton,  and is  superior  to  dynamite,  as its I 
manufacture and manipulation are absolute­
ly without  danger. 
It  will  detonate  only 
under  certain  peculiar  and  well-defined 
conditions of shock.  Only the part exposed 
to  concussion  explodes,  and  when  fired  it 
bums quietly  with  a  brilliant  light.  The 
true  composition  is  being  carefully  kept 
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MEECHANT
TAILOE,

LED YARD  BLOCK,

107 Ottawa St.

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

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Overcoats for EveryMf.

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 YOUR ORDER.

1885.

lidikaii Dairyincn’s Association.
Organized at  Orami  Rapids,  February
President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafcllow,  Carson  City; 
Warren Haven,  Uloomingdale;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage; 
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C. Nash, Hilliards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks­
ville.
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Rapids.
Next Meeting—At Kalamazoo, February 16,  17 
and  18.
Membership Fee—$1 per year.
Official Organ—T h e Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .

TIME TABLES.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.Arrives. 

GOING WEST.

Leaves.
tSteamboat  Express.......... 
6:25am
^Through  Mail.................... 10:40 a m  10:50 a ra
3:50 p m
tEvening  Express.............. 3:40 p m 
♦Limited  Express................  8:30 pm  10:45 pm
tMixed, with  coach...........  
11:00 am
tMorning  Express..............  1:05 p m  1:10 pm
tThrough  Mail..................  5:00 pm   5:10 pm
tSteamboat  Express..........10:40 pm
tMixed.'................................ 
7:10 am
♦NightExpress....................  5:10am  5:35am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  in.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car and  local  Sleeping  Car  Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids. 
_   _D. P otteh, City Pass. Agent. 
Geo. B. R eev e, Traffic Manager, Chirfigo.

Chicago & West Michigan.

4:30 pm

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail.........................................0:00 am  
tDay  Express.....................12:35 p in  9:25 p m
♦NightExpress.....................10:40 pm   5:45 am
Muskegon Express...............  4:20 p m 11:20 a m
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without  extra  charge  to Chicago  on 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO  DIVISION.

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express..................................  4:20 p m  7:30 pm
Express..................................  8:00 am  
All trains arrive and depart from Union  De­
pot.The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. &  P. M.  trains  to and  from  Ludington and 
Manistee.

j. H. Ca r pen ter,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  Mulliken,  General  Manager.

10:50 am

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING  SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a ra 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  4:10 pm 
G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:05 p m 
Mackinac Sc Ft. Way i e Ex.. 10:30 a m 
Cadillac Sc G’d  Rapids  Ac.10:30 p m 

GOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves.
11:30 a  m 
5:06 p m 
7:00 a m
7:16 a m 
5:30 p m 
11:45 p m

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at  5:05  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping  and  Chair  Cars  for  Petoskey 
and  Mackinac.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw
S o u th —Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood­

ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lo c k w o o d. Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

train 

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)
Arrive.
Express............................... 7:15 p in
Mall......................................9:50 a m
All trains daily except Sunday.
The 

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

Through  tickets  and  berths 

J. w. McK e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.
Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

tDetroit Express............................................. 6:00 am
+Dav  Express..........................................12:45 p m
♦Atlantic Express...................................10:40 p m
+Way Freight..................................................  6:50 am
♦Pacific  Express............................................. 6:00 am
tM ail......................................................... 3:30 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express....................... 10:35 p m
Way Freight..................................................... 5:15 pm

ARRIVE.

tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m.,and  Boston 3:05  p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached,arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:35 p. m.

Ch a s .  H. N o r r i s ,  Gen’l Agent.

Detroit, Mackinao  & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. R. & T.  trains  for  St. 
Ignace, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 5:00 p. in., arriving at 
Marquette at 2:05 p. m. andj5:3u p. m.  Returning 
leave  Marquette  at 7:00 a.  m.  and  1:40 p.  m., 
arriving  at Grand  Rapids  at 10:30 a.  m.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with the Marquotte, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt.,  Marquette, Mioh.

E.  W.  a LLEN,

WHO

HOUSE

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES,, 

USTu-ts,  Etc.

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices in Car  Lots. 
We are prepares to make Bottoi Prices on anything we handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

W M . SEA R S & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

J A

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The Well-Known

J. S. Farren & Oo.

COMING II GRAND  RAPIDS

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CAR  LOADS!

D.  W.  Archer’s Trophy Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Early Bolden Drop Com

EVERY  CAN  BEARING  SIGNATURE  OF

The  Archer  Packing  Co.

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

OHILLIOOTHB,  ILL..

(Groceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

OFFICERS.

.  _

_  „   „ 

President—-H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Poor.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. L McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E.  Johnson. 
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee— B.  Borgman.  Garrxt 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Win.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent. 
_   „   ...
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl.
Transportation Committee—Wm. B. Kent, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Feb. 3.

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_ 

A Word to the Wise.

“Have  you  heard  the  latest  wrinkle?” 
asked Manager  Fisher,  of  Arthur Meigs & 
Co.’s establishment the other day.

The  reporter  admitted  his  ignorance, 
whereupon Mr. Fisher  explained himself in 
the following manner:

“There seems to be a  lingering suspicion 
in  the  minds of a certain  class  of retailers 
that because Arthur Meigs &  Co.  have seen 
fit to engage in the retail business—indepen­
dent of their jobbing trade—that those who 
happen to be indebted to us are under no ob­
ligations to pay the amounts  due.  Such an 
opinion does  not  exist  when  the goods are 
purchased,  but seems  to  develop  about the 
time the bills become due.  We are at a loss 
to accouut for the  existence of  such a feel­
ing—on any  other  ground  than  that of in­
nate dishonesty—and we propose to tolerate 
no excuses of such a character and shall pro­
ceed  against  the  prevaricators  legally and 
enforce  collection  with  all  the expediency 
known to the law.  Our  reputation for len­
iency is well known,  and all merchants who 
mean to deal  honorably with us  receive all 
the consideration possible.”

The Grocery Market.

Business and collections  are  fully up  to 
expectation.  Sugars have sustained a slight 
decline during the week,  and  white fish are 
firmer and  higher.  Tomatoes  are firm and 
higher  in  price,  being  quoted  in  Eastern 
markets  at about  the  same  price  local job­
bers are selling them at, which is due to the 
fact that nearly all  the jobbers at this  mar­
ket have good  stocks  on hand  and are giv­
ing their patrons the advantage of their pur­
chase.  Valencia  raisins  are so  inferior in 
quality  that  several  jobbers  have  put  in 
stocks of California  muscatells,  which they 
are selling at $2 per  box of 20  pounds  net.
Candy is steady and  quiet.  Some  kinds 
of foreign nuts  are somewhat  lower.  Pea­
nuts are higher and advancing,  with a very 
firm feeling.  The  quality  of  the new crop 
is not quite  as  good  as  last  year.  Florida 
oranges are scarce  and  firm.  Messinas are 
steady at  present 'quotations.  Lemons  are 
in better supply with  prices  a shade lower. 
The quality is  fine.

Oysters  are  still  scarce  and  firm,  with 

higher prices at Baltimore.
Business  Men’s  Organization  at  Cheboy­

gan.

The merchants of Cheboygan have wisely 
concluded  that  it  is  not  necessary  to con­
tinue to be  imposed upon  by the dead beat 
class, since  they  have  the  remedy in  their 
own hands,  and have  according effected  an 
organization under the name  of  the “Busi­
ness  Men’s  Protective  Union  of  Cheboy­
gan.”  The new association numbers nearly 
every business man  in  the  place,  and  it  is 
expected to secure the co-operation of every 
merchant.  The following are the officers of 
the Union:

President—A. W. Westgate.
Vice President—II.  Chambers.
Financial Sec’y—A. J.  Paddock.
Executive  Committee—C.  A.  Gallagher, 
J.  J.  Post,  John  Wertheimer,  R.  Rapp, 
Fred Frost,  M. Lyman and Fred Rich.
They Are all Authorized Agents.

F.  Salisbury,  the Harbor  Springs  grocer, 
in remitting a couple of dollars on subscrip­
tion, writes as follows:  “If you would  au­
thorize  some  traveler  to  collect  for  you, 
your collections would be more prompt.”

Mr.  Salisbury and all others interested are 
hereby notified that every traveling man out 
of Grand Rapids is an authorized  agent  for 
T he T radesm an,  and that  orders  for  the 
paper  or  subscriptions  intrusted  to  their 
care will  be  promptly  acknowledged  from 
this  office.  The  kindness  of  the  gripsack 
brigade in  thus  furthering  the interests  of 
is  appreciated  by  the 
T he  T radesm an 
publishers,  and  is  cordially  reciprocated 
whenever  the  opportunities  presents  it­
self. 

m  ,  -r______
A Heroic Husband.

“So  you  have  given  up  smoking  to  ac­
commodate your wife,”  said  Judge  Penny- 
bunker to Kosciusko Murphy.

“Oh, yes,  she  wanted  me  to  give it up, 

and I did so.”

uj3?”

“Didn’t you find  it  pretty  hard to give it

“ Yes,  1  suffered  a  good  deal during the 

first week,  but after that I felt all right.”

“What did you do to allay the craving for 

tobacco?”

“I took to smoking  again.  That  allayed 

the craving right off.”

A plausible explanation-“Mr. Dusenberry, 
sand soap has  gone  up  two  cents a pound. 
What’s the  reason?”  “Because  of the war 
In Burmah, my dear.  The paper says 10,000 
rebels are scouring the  country.”

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

, 

_ 

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
or  50  cents  for  three week#.  Advance  pay- 
ment. 
Advertisements  directing  that  answers be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, 
etc. 
VTtTANTBD—To  buy  an  interest  in  a  good 
VV  paying mercantile business.  Have some 
money to invest with services.  References ex­
changed.  Address E. M., care the Trades man.

_____________

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12o*

124*

store ir

17 0 R  SALE—Desirable  store  building  and 

clean grocery stock, situated  in  growing 
. 
railroad  town.  Present owner has  all  he  can 
do to attend to  other  business.  Anyone with 
$3,000 can secure the opportunity of a lifetime. 
Address X, care The Tradesm an. 
RENT—A  centrally  located 
W JANTED TO 
T V 
in some thriving town suitable for 
first-class drug store.  Address Lou  J. Shafer, 
141 South Division St., Grand  Rapids.
O [TUATION WANTED—By a man of long ex- 
¡5  perience in mercantile business,  to  man­
age  a  general  store  or  lumber supply store. 
Can  furnish  unexceptional  references,  Ad­
dress, XXX, care T h e T r a desm an. 
T3HYSICI AN WANTED—A good regular phy- 
±  
scian, who can  come  recommended,  can 
hear of a good location, good  pay, little  oppo­
sition,  in  splendid farming  and fruit growing 
section which can be obtained by renting prop­
erty of retiring physician.  Address,  W. Ryno, 
M. D„ 251 Gold St., Grand Rapids, Mich,  ldltf

IX)R SALE  OR KENT—Store in  the  livllest 

‘  manufacturing  town  of 2,000 population 
in the State.  Splendid  opening  for  grocery, 
drug or clothing business.  Possession  given 
March 1.  For further particulars, address Lock 
Box 116, Muskegon, Mich. 
T3 ARTNER WANTED—A  general  merchant 
X  doing a good business in a thriving lumber 
town desires a partner with two thousand dol­
lars  capital.  For particulars  address,  “Part­
ner,” care the Tradesman. 

119tf

121tf

U ‘tf

IpOR  SALE—The  font  of  brevier  type  for- 

merly used on Th e T r a d esm a n.  Thefout 
comprises 222 pounds, with  italic,  and  can  be 
had for 30 cents a pound.  Apply  at the office.

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft  BOXES.

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
854@9
Standard, 25 ft boxes............................ 
9® 954
............................... 
do 
Twist, 
.........................1054@11
Cut Loaf  do 
MIXED
..  @ 9  
Royal, 25 ft  pails..................................
...  @8/4
Royal, 200 ft bbls..................................
Extra. 200 ft bbls.................................. .. .9  @  9*4
French Cream, 25 ft pails................... . . .   @12(4
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................. ...1254®
Broken, 25  ft  pails............................... ...10@1054
...  9®   95%
Broken, 200 ft  bbls...............................
Lemon  Drops....................................... ... 12@13
Sour Drops............................................ ...13@ 14
... 14@15
Peppermiut  Drops.............................
Chocolate  Drops..................................
............ 15
H M Chocolate  Drops.................................... 20
Gum  Drops  .....................................................16
Licorice Drops................................................. 20
A B   Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................15
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Imperials..........................................................15
Mottoes.............................................................15
Cream  Bar..................................................13@14
Molasses Bar.....................................................13
Caramels................................................-.>,18®20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 20
Plain  Creams................................................... 17
Decorated  Creams...........................................20
String Rock................................................14@15
Burnt Almonds................................................22
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 15
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................  @12
Lozenges, plain in  bbls................ . — 10H@11
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @1254
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................... 1154@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................  @1254
Gum  Drops  in pails.................................  @7
Gum Drops, in bbls...............................   @ &54
Moss Drops, in  pails.............................   @10
Moss Drops, in b b ls.......................................   9
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails.................................  @1214
Imperials  in bbls..........................  
...  @11
FRUITS
Bananas  Aspinwall.............................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.......
Oranges, Florida..................
Oranges, Valencia, cases...
Oranges, Messina................
Oranges,  Naples..................
Lemons,  choice...................
Lemons, fancy.....................
@16 
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft..........................14
Dates, frails do 
©
Dates, 54 do  do
@
Dates, skin..............................................
Dates, 54  skin......................................... 
_   _
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................  @10
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft.....................   854@  9
ri4@ 8
ft.
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 
Pine Apples, $   doz................
PEANUTS.
........  @ 4
Prime  Red,  raw  $5  ft...........
........44@ 5
do  ...........
Choice 
.........5  @  514
Fancy 
do  ...........
........  @5
Choice White, Va.do  ...........
........  @ 6
Fancy H P,. Va  do  ...........
........  17@18
Almonds,  Tarragona...........
........  16@17
Ivaca.....................
...........954@10
Brazils....................................
Chestnuts, per bu..................
.....1114® 12
Filberts, Sicily........................
........  @10
Barcelona...............
........14  @1414
Walnuts,  Grenoble...............
Marbo....................
8  @11
French............. t..
California.............
..........  @12
........ 10  @13
Pecans,  Texas, H. P .............
........9  ©  10
Missouri................
........   @4 50
Cocoanuts, 
100....................
FRESH  MEATS, 
quotes  the

.4 00©4 50 
.7 00@8 00 
@4 00
. 3 75@4 00 
....4  25@4 50 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters.
Dressed  Hogs........... ’..........
Mutton,  carcasses...............
Veal
Pork Sausage......................................... 614@
Bologna___
Fowls....................
Spring Chickens.
Ducks  ................
Turkeys  .............

trade  selling
...............  4!4@ 614
...............  6  @714
...............  494® 5
.................454@ 514
8  @9
........... 
654@ 7 
10  @11 
11  @12 
@13 
@11

John  Mohrhard 

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do 
do 

NUTS.

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COOPERAGE.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

HEADS.

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

STAVES.
“ 

.............M  5 00@ 5

at  Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves.............M  6 00@ 7 00
Elm 
White oak tee staves, s’d and j’t.M  20 00@23 00 
White oak pork bbl.  “ 
“  M 18 50@20 00
15@  16
Tierce, dowelled and circled, set.?.. 
Pork, 
13@  11
Basswood, kiln dried, set.................. 
4@  454
White oak aiid hi<jkoi[•y tee, 8f’t. M 11 50®i
White oak aiad hie•koiry*“  11541’t .M 10 00@l
.M 50@
Hickory  floxir  bb1...
.M 25@
Ash, round  '
M 3 5(X'{i
Ash, flat racked, 1554 i
3is. h'cl m’d.M 1 00@
White oak porkb
90©
sis, matebi e..
White oak pork b
1 20©
White oak lxird  tiierces......
Beef and lai-d half  biarrets.
1
00@
Custom ban•els, cme head.
30®
Flour  barreIs....
23@
Produce  bairrels.

7 50 
7 00 
4 00

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COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

1 00
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
86
130
Louisville Cement, per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1 30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
1 30
......................1 05@1 £0
Car lots 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
176
Laud plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
2 60
Fir© brick, per  M...... .......................... 125 & $36
Fire clay, per bbl.. .*............................. 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, oar lots. .$5 75@6 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6 00@6 25
Cannell,  car lota...........................*••••'„ 
29
Ohio Lump, car lots..........................  3  10@3 25
Biossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement................................   3 50@4 00

GOAD.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AXLE  GREASE.

BAKING  POWDER.

90! Paragon  ................ 1 80
Frazer's................. 
Diamond  X ...........   60iParagan25ft pails.1  20
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50|Fraziers, 25 B> pails. 1  25
Thompson’s  Butterfly, bulk........................   »
6 or 10 ft cans........  21
54,4 doz. in case...  95
54.2  “ 
...195
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, Ms..........1  2»
548.........   2 25
“ 
Is............4 25
“ 
bulk.....

“ 
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“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

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•« 

“ 
•• 

“ 

Arctio, % ft cans.

..1  40 
..2 40 
12  00 
..7 50

“ 

CANNED FISH.

.doz.
.doz.
doz.
.doz.

CANNED FRUITS.

Silver Spoon, 3  doz.
i
Dry, No. 2.................
Dry, No. 3................
Liquid, 4 oz,.............
Liquid, 8 oz..............
gross 4 00 
Arctic 4 oz................
.  8 00 
Arctic 8  oz 
12  00
Arctic 16 oz
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................  2 00
“ 
Arctic No. 2 
...............................   3 00
Arctic No. 3 
* 
...............................   1 00
BROOMS.
No. 2 Hurl............... 200
No. 1 Carpet............2 75
Fancy  Whisk.......... 100
No.2Carpet............2 50
CommonWhisk__   75
No. 1  Parlor Gem..2 90
No. 1 Hurl....................2 25
Clams, I ft  standards.................................. 115
Clams, 2 ft  standards........................................1 75
Clam Chowder,  3 ft...................................... *00
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards......................1  15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards..................  1 90
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic...................................... 1  “>
Lobsters, 1 ft star......................................... *00
Lobsters, 2 ft star.............................................. 2 90
Mackerel, 1ft  fresh standards........................1 10
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards....................... 3 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t ......................5 25
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard.................................p 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled........................................3 25
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.............................1 55
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river............................2 30
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento................................. 1 45
Sardines, domestic 548................................. 
9
Sardines,  domestic  54s.............................. 
15
Sardines,  Mustard  54s.................................  12
Saidines,  imported  54s...............................   14
Trout, 3 ft  brook.................................. 
  4 50
Apples. 3 ft standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards..............................2 30
Blackberries, standards.............................- 9 5
Cherries,  red  standard............................85@1 00
Damsons............................................................. J 00
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1  40
Green  Gages.standards2ft.............................1 40
Peaches, Extra Yellow................................ ...2 40
Peaches, standards............................1  75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds...............................................1 50
Piueapples, Erie................................................ 1 7j
Pineapples, standards...................................... 1 50
Quinces.............................................................. 1 ^5
Raspberries,  extra...........................................1 10
Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
Apricots......................................2 25 
2 00
1 85
Egg Plums...................................2 10 
1 85
Grapes......................................... 2 10 
Green Gages............................... 2  10 
1 8;>
Pears.........................................  2 65 
2 25
Quinces....................................... 2 75 
2 2p
220
Peaches......................................255 
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................ 3 25
Beans, Lima,  standard.........................  90@1  10
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ..........................   80
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.......................1 65
Com,  Trophy.................................................1 05
“  Red Seal........:....................................  90
“  Excelsior..............................................1 00
Peas, French.................................................. 1 75
Peas, Marrofat, standard........................... 1  60
Peas, Beaver........................ ........................  70
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..................................   «*
Succotash, standard....................................   90
Tomatoes, Trophy.................................1 05@1  10
Tomatoes.  Hillsdale..................................... 1 05
Tomatoes,  Adrian......................................   1 05
Tomatoes, Three Rivers...............................1 05
Michigan  full  cream..............................11 @13
Half skim........................  
Skim .........................................................  5 @6
Boston......................36j  German Sweet.......... 25
Baker’8 .................... 38  Vienna Sweet  ...........23
ltunkles’ ...................35l
Green Rio........9@13
G reen J ava......17@27
Green Mocha.. .23@25 
Roasted Rio— 10@15 
Roasted Java ..23@30

! Roasted  Mar... 17@18 
¡Roasted Mocha.28@30
Roasted Mex.. 
@16
9@16
Ground  Rio.

 
CHOCOLATE.

CANNED FRUTTS—CALIFORNIA.

9  @1014

CHEESE.

COFFEE.

 

COFFEES—PACKAGE.

100 tbs.  60 fts.

McLaughlin’s  .......................... . .1354 
Arbuekle’s  ............................... • -¿354 
54 cent less in 300 ft lilts.

1394
1394

CORDAGE.

72 foot J u te ....... 1  25  172 foot Cotton.... 2 25
60 foot Jute.......  1  00  60 foot Cotton— 2 00
40 Foot Cotton__ 1 50  150 foot Cotton.  ..175
X . .. . ....................................................................\

CRACKERS.

 

 

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FISH.

•* 
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“ 
“ 
“ 

“  12 lb kits 
“  10  “ 

5 per cent, off in 10 barrel lots.
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth......................75@«0
Cod, whole....................................................   @5
Cod, Boneless............................................554@o 54
Halibut................................................ 
11@12
Herring  54 bbls.............................................2
Herring, Holland, domestic.....................85@9i>
Herring,  Scaled..........................................
Mackerel, Penny bbls.................................4  75@5
Mackerel, shore, No. 2,54  bbls..................5 00
“ 
...........  80
“ 
.................  70
No. 3,54 bbls...............................3 50
“  12 ft  kits.........................  62
 
“  10 
Shad, 54 b b l...................................................2  50
Trout, 54  bbls................................................4  00
“  12 ft  kits............................................   70
 
“  10  “ 
White, No. 1,54 bbls....................................6  50
White. No. 1,12  ft kits.................................1  00
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  510
White, Family, 54 bbls.................................2  25
Lemon.  Vanilla
1 40
2 50
4 Of
5 00 
1 50
3 00 
7 50
15 00
4
6  00
Apricots, 25 ft boxes..............................  @  25
Cherries, pitted, 50 ft  boxes...............  @  15
Egg plums, 25 ft  boxes.........................  @  20
Pears, 25 ft boxes..................................   @  25
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 ft boxes..........  @  28
Peaches, Michigan.................................  @1254
Raspberries, 50 ft boxes.......................  @  25

Jennings’ 2 oz.. 
4oz..
“ 
6 oz..................................
“ 
8 oz..................................
“ 
No. 2 Taper..................
“ 
..................
No.  4  “ 
“ 
54 pint  round..............
“ 
“ 
1 
“ 
..............
No.  8.............................
“ 
“  No.  10.........................
FRUITS—DOMESTIC.

doz.l 00
...... 1 50
___2 50
___3 50
___1 25
___1 75
...... 4 50
...... 9 00
...... 3 00
...... 4 25

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 

FRUITS—FOR EIGN.

Citron...................................................... 
™
Currants,  new.......................................   7J4<©  *]?
Prunes, French,60s...............................  @  !•>
Prunes, French, 80s...............................   @  £0
Prunes, Turkey......................................  454®  05
@4 00
Raisins, Dehesia....................................
@3 25
Raisins, London Layers.......................
©3 85
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................
Raisins, Loose Muscatels, new...........
Raisins, Muscatels, 10 ft boxes...........
Raisins, Ondaras, 14s............................
Raisins, 
28s.............................
Raisins, Sultanas,  new.........................
Raisins, Valencia..................................
Raisins, Imperials, 10 ft  boxes...........

@1-JV4
@10*4
®1 00

@3 80@90© 13

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KEROSENE  OIL.

MATCHES.

.  .1154
...1 00

Water White.......1294  | Legal  Test...
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 00
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor...........................1 To
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................3 35
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round.............................. 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2..................................................£00
Oshkosh, No.  8...................................................... 1 50
Swedish.................................................................. , £5
Richardson’s No. 8  square.............................100
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................ 150
Richardson’s No. 754, round................................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................ 150
Black Strap...................................................£5@£9
Porto  Rico.....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good......................................»»@4»
New Orleans, choice........................ 
-4o®o0
New Orleans, fancy........   ......................... 52@55

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

54 bbls. 3c extra.

OATMEAL.

Steel eut.................5 26
Steel Cut, H bbls...3 00 
Rolled  O a ts....,...3 00

uaker, 48 fts........ 3 25
Juaker, 60 fts........2 50
Juakerbbls...........6 00

Medium. 
Small.

54 barrels

@5 50 
@3 25 
@7 00

PIPES.

RICE.

Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00@!@1  85 
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross 
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross
&  90
American  T. D.............................
@6
Choice Carolina...... 654|Java 
...
Prime Carolina......554|Patna
• 5*4@5> 
Good Carolina....... 5
.3
Good Louisiana......5
DeLand’s pure........ 554|Dwight’s ...........
Church’s  ................ 554 Sea  Foam.........
Taylor’s G. M..........5*4 ¡Cap Sheaf.........

Rangoon. 
Broken.

SALERATUS.

•5M

He less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

2 30

28

SPICES.

SAUCES.

@2  00 
@  75 
@1  00 
@1 35 
@1 70 
@1  00 
@1 30 
@3 50 
@2 20

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
100 3 ft  pockets.......................................
Saginaw or Manistee............................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags—
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Parisian, 54  pints......., .........................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green  ............................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring;.............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Halford Sauce, pints............................
Halford Sauce, Vt pints.........................
Whole.
@19
16@25!Pepper.............
12@15| Allspice...........
8@10
18@30 Cassia..................10@11
15@25 Nutmegs 
... ,60@65 
... ,16@18
16@20|Cloves  ... 
15@30 
25@35l 

Ground.
Pepper.............
Allspice............
Cinnamon........
Cloves  .............
Ginger.............
Mustard............
Cayenne  ..........
Elastic, 64 packages, per box.......
@ 7% @ 7% 
Cubes  ...............................................
Powdered.........................................
Granulated,  Standard....................
© 7 
@6 69 © 654 
Confectionery A .............................
Standard A.......................................
No. 1, White Extra  C.....................
654® 654 
6  @ 654 
No. 2, Extra C..................................
No. 3 C...............................................
554®
No.4C....................................................   594®
»54
No. 5 C.
.............   554© 5*4
New Orleans Yellows............
.............   554® 594
SYRUPS.
24@28
...............  
Corn,  barrels  .......................
26@30
............... 
Corn, 54 bbls............................
............... 
@30
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................
...............  
30@3I
30@31
.............  
Corn, 454 gallon kegs.............
Pure  Sugar, bbl.....................
...............  
23@28
...............  
25@30
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl..................
..............   ©I 50
Pure Sugar  5 gal kegs..........
......................15@20
Japan ordinary..........  ........
Japan fair to good................
...................... 25@30
Japan fine...............................
..................... &5®45
.......................15@20
Japan dust..............................
Young Hyson........................
......................3U@50
GunPowder............................
......................35@50
Oolong....................................
...............33@55@6C
Congo......................................
......................25@30
TOBACCO—FINE CUT-
-IN  PAILS.

SUGARS.

STARCH.

TEAS.

5 35

U nderwood’s Capper 35
Sweet  Rose............... 45
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
Atlas...........................35
Royal Game............... 38
Mule Ear....................65
Fountain.................... 74
.64

Dark AmericanEagle67
The Meigs.................. 64
Red  Bird....................50
State  Seal.................. 60
Prairie Flow er........ 65
Indian Queen............60
Bull  Dog....
Crown  Leaf.
Hiawatha...
Globe  ...
May Flower.............. 70 Hair Lifter.
H ero..........................45;Governor....................»
Sweet Owen..............06 Fox’s Choice.............  6:
Old Abe.  ..................49;Medallion...................3

.. .66 Old Congress.
. ..65 Good Luck..........
70 Blaze Away........

PLUG.

 

 

two “ 
live 

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

Knife, single butt...................................   @50
lots.................................  @49
“ 
*  “ 
“  ............................  @48
“ 
Rum.........................................................   @40
»Money......................................................   @48
Red  Fox...................................................  @48
Big Drive.................................................   @50
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
Durham...................................................  @46
Patrol......................................................  @48
Jack  Rabbit............................................   @46
Snowflake...............................................   @46
Chocolate Cream............................. . 
@46
Nimrod....................................................   @44
E. C...........................................................   @40
Spread Eagle...........................................  @33
Big Five Center......................................  @35
Woodcock  ........ .....................................   @46
Knigntsof  Labor..................................   @46
Railroad...................................................  @46
Big  Bug...................................................  @32
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................   @46
Black Bear..............................................  @37
@46
Kiug 
Old Five Cent Times........................ 
  @38
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft........................ 
  @62
Parrot  ....................................................   @46
Old Tim e.................................................   @38
Tramway.................................................   @46
Glory  ......................................................   @46
Silver  Coin............................. 
@46
Buster  [Dark]........................................  @35
Black Prince I Dark]..............................  @35
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @35
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @46
Climax.....................................................  @46
Hold F ast................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of thé Walk  6s..............................  @37
Nobby Twist...........................................  @46
Acorn......................................................   ©46
Crescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  @40
Spring......................................................   ©46
Grayling.................................................   @46
M acki naw...............................................   @45
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @46
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46

65

55

 

2c. less in four butt lots.

SMOKING
__ 28|Good  Luck................26
Dixie ........
.......40 Sweet Lotus.............. 32
Old Tar....
Arthur’s  Choice.......22|Conqueror..................23
Red Fox.................... 26 Grayling......................32
Flirt.......................... 28 Seal Skin...................... 30
Gold Dust.................26 Rob Roy....................... 28
Gold  Block............... 30 Uncle  Sam...................28
Seal of Grand Rapids  ¡Lumberman............ 25
(cloth)..................25 Railroad Boy.............. 38
Tramway, 3 oz..........40 Mountain Rose........... 18
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35 Home Comfort..........25
Boss  .......................... 15|01d Rip........................ 55
Peek’s Sun................ 18 Seal of North Caro-
lina, 2  oz............... 48
MinersandPuddlers.28j 
Morning  Dew........... 2o Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz................... 46
Chaiu..........................22; 
Peerless  ....................24[Seal of North  Caro-
Standard................... 20; 
lina, 8oz................... 41
Old Tom..................... 18 Seal of North  Caro-
Tom & Jerry.............24 
lina, 16 oz boxes___40
Joker..........................25 Big Deal.......................27
Traveler................... 35 Apple Jack..................24
Maiden.......................25 King Bee, longeut.. .22
Pickwick  Club......... 40 Milwaukee  Prize— 24
Nigger Head.............26! Rattler........................ 28
Holland
..22|WindBor cu t plu g.
. .16 Zero  ..........................16
German.............
. .30! Holland Mixed..........16
Solid Comfort... 
Red Clover.
Long Tom..................30|Mail  Pouch................ 25
National...................26 Knights of Lator___30
Tim o..........................26 ¡Free Cob Pipe.............27
Mayflower................231 Hiawatha.................. 22
Globe......................... 22 Old Congress............. 23
Mule Ear...................:22|May  Leaf..................22
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......  @  75
Maecoboy............................  @  55
Gail & Ax’ 
...........................  @  44
Rappee.................................  @  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................   @  45
Lotzbeek  ...............................................   @1 30
Star brand,  pure  cider.................... ..........  8@12
Star brand, white wine.................... ..........  8@12
95
Bath Brick Imported.......................
75
1  00
Burners, No. 1 ..................................
7 80
Condensed Milk. Eagle  brand........
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans........ ...  15@25
Candles, Star...........................................
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @£4
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @*#1
1 25
Qum, Rubber ICO lumps.......................  @26
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @35
G um ,Spruce......................................  30@35

American....................... ... 

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

Golden  Age..

MISCELLANEOUS.

VINEGAR.

SHORTS.

SNUFF.

“ 
“ 

do 

do 

** 

DISSOLUTION  OF COPABTNEBSHIP.

Notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  firm  of Shields, 
Bulkley & Lemon  is  this  day  dissolved  by  mutual 
consent,  John  G.  Shields  retiring,  and  that  all  ac­
counts due said firm  will  be  paid  to,  and  all  debts 
owing by said firm will be  paid by, Wm. F. Bulkley 
and Samuel M. Lemon.

Dated, Grand Rapids, Mich., January  16,  1886.
JOHN  G.  SHIELDS, 
WILLIAM  F. BULKLEY, 
SAMUEL  M.  LEMON.

We  hereby  give  notice,  that,  having  purchased 
the  interest  of John  G.  Shields  in  the  late  firm  of 
Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon,  we  will  continue  the 
Wholesale Grocery business at the old stand, corner 
of Island and Ionia Streets, under the  firm  name of 
Bulkley, Lemon & Co.
Dated Jan.  18,  1886.

WILLIAM  F.  BULKLEY, 
SAMUEL  M.  LEMON.
COPARTNERSHIP  NOTICE.

W e take pleasure in announcing to the trade that 
Mr. Wm.  H.  Hoops,  for  the  past  ten  years  with 
Messrs. W. J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocers, of Chi­
cago, has this day become a member  of the  firm  of

Bulkley, Lemon & Co.,

As a general partner, owning a one-third interest.
WILLIAM  F.  BULKLEY. 
SAMUEL  M.  LEMON, 
WILLIAM.  H.  HOOPS.

CIRCULAR.

We  take  pleasure  in  announcing  to  our  friends, 
the  old  customers  of  Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon, 
and the trade in general, that we have succeeded to 
the Wholesale Grocery  business  of  the  late  firm, 
and that we will continue the same at the old stand, 
corner of Island  and  Ionia Sts., with  INCREASED 
CILITIES  for  transacting  the  business,  and  we 
trust  not  only  to  merit  and retain the same liberal 
patronage  and  pleasing  confidence  which  the  old 
firm so long  enjoyed;  but also by  these INCREAS­
ED  FACILITIES and augmented  efforts  to  obtain 
new friends and patrons.  We extend a cordial invi­
tation  to  all  to  visit us, and make us headquarters 
when in  the  city, and we pledge our best efforts, to 
prove by actual experience, our  good  will  and  of­
fices which we now offer.

Bulkley, Lemon  & Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich., January  19,  1886.

Hominy, $  bbl............................ ..........  @4  00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails..................... ..........  454@ 5
Pearl Barley............................... ..........  294@ 3
Peas, Green  Bush..................... ..........  @1  35
Peas, Split  Prepared................ ..........  @ 3*4
Powder, Keg............................... ..........  @3 00
Powder, 54  Keg.......................... ..........  @1 90
Sage  ............................................ ..........  @  18
Sauerkraut, bbls......................... ..........  @5 00
54  bbls.................... ..........  @2 75

“ 

PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing ii  Provision  Co.

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess, Chicago  packing............. .................. 10 75
Clear, short pork, Chicago  packing-..........12 50
Back, clear short cut, Chicago packing-...13 25
Extra family clear, short cut..
Clear. A. Webster  packer, new...................12
Extra pig, short cut...................................... 12
Extra  clear, heavy........................................13
Clear back, short cut.....................................13

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Cleai’S, heavy.................................
medium...............................
“ 
“ 
lig h t....................................
Short Clears, heavy.................................
do.  medium..............................
light.....................................
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams, heavy....................................................
“  medium.................................................
ligh t......................................................
“ 
Boneless  Hams................................................1
Boneless Shoulders.........................................
Breakfast  Bacon............................................
Dried Beef, extra quality..............................  9
Dried Beef, Ham pieces..................................lOVJ
Shoulders cured  in sweet pickle..................6

LARD.

Tierces  .......................................................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs........................................... 
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases..........................  

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case....................... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................  
5 ft Palls, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts...........   9 25
Boneless,  extra..............................................13 50

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage............. ...................  ...............
Ham  Sausage...................................................
Tongue  Sausage...........................................
Frankfort  Sausage.........................................
Blood  Sausage.................................................
Bologna, straight............................................
Bologna,  thick....................................  ..........
Head  Cheese....................................................

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Choice  winter  fruit is  dull  at  $1.75 

@$1,90.

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

Butter—Michigan creamery is easy at 25@28. 
Sweet dairy is  in sharp  demand and Arm at 16, 
while ohi is dull at 5@8c.

Butterine—Creamery packed commands 20c. 
Dairy rolls are held at 14@15e and soliti packed 
at I2@14c.

Cabbages—In fairdemand  at $8@$lu $  100.
Cheese—The  best  grades  of  October  and 

November make are  selling  at 11@1254.

Cider—10c $  gal.' and $1 for bbl.
Celery—2b@22c $  doz.  bunches  for  Kalama­

zoo or Grand Haven.

Cranberries— Cultivated  and  wild  Michigan 
bu.  for  choice.  New 

command  $1.75@$2 
Jersey $2.25 ]? bu. box.

Eggs—Fresh are slow  at  lS@19e, and pickled 

are moving slowly at 16@17c.

Honey—Choice new  in  comb  is Arm  at  14c.
Hay—Bailed is active and Arm at $16 per ton 

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

Hops—Brewers pay 8©10c 
Lettuce—25c 11  ft.
Onions—Home-grown, 75c 11 bn. or $3.25 f) bbl.
Pop Corn—Choice new commands  2V»c 
ft 

ft.

and old 3c 11 ft.

69£
67a
696

Potatoes—Burbanks  command  50c.  Late 
Rose  are  in  only  occasional  demand  at  35c 
on account of the “red streaks.”

Poultry—Fairly  well  supplied.  Fowls  sell 
for  10@llc ; chickens,  Ll@12c;  ducks,  13c; and 
turkeys, lie.

Squash—Hubbard, quoted nominally at lo 1? 

ft, although very little is moving.

Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys  command  $4.50. 
There are few Jerseys in market and no  Balti- 
mores.

7
714
7%

Turnips—25c ^ bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—Lower.  The  city  millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  83;  Fulse, 80c;  Clawson, 
80c.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 44@45c  in 100 bu. 

lots and 38@40c In carlots.

Oats—White, 38c in small lots  and  33@34c  In 

Rye—18@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ^ cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5.50 $ bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.75 In  wood.  Straight, $4.60  $1 
bbl. in sacks and $4.80 in  wood.

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

ton.

PIGS’ FEET.

car lots.

In half barrels...............................................   3 75
In quarter barrels.........................................

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.  '

Cadillac.

.

C.  N.  Adams  &  Son,  blacksmiths,  are 
succeeded  in  business  here  by  Glen  E.
jno.  Dalton  has  Ins  mill  at Hobart  in 
motion,  manufacturing  hardwood  lumber 
for Chittenden & Herrick,  lumber dealers of
this city. 
O.  Webster & Co. are a  new  firm  in  the 
manufacture of lumber and  timber.  Their 
mill is located on the Traverse City branch, 
about three miles  from  Mayfield,  which  is 
the nearest shipping  point.  A  good  sized 
order for car sills is now being  worked out.
F.  A.  Clary & Co.,  the  principal  shingle 
dealers in this locality, report fewer shingles 
Inquiries 
in sight here than one year ago. 
are active and prices are  stiffening.  Very 
few shingle  mills  are  now  operated  here­
abouts. 
Isaac Murphy,  long foreman  in  Cobbs  & 
Mitchell’s mill,  has  accepted  the  superin­
tendency  of  J.  II.  Hixson’s  barrel  hoop 
factory.
Fred Paquett has resigned his  position at 
Cummer’s  drug  store  and  returned  to  his 
home at Ludington,  where he  contemplates 
a  business  venture  in  which  he  will be 
prominently  interested.  L.  E.  Finn,  of 
Allegan,  succeeds him here.
Fostoria.

H.  1). Miller has changed his line of busi­
ness by trading  his  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  with Mr.  Kelly for  his half inter­
est in the grist mill.

.

Hudson.

The seven poultry  shippers  here shipped 
442,337 pounds of poultry  during  1885,  an 
increase of 140,052 pounds over the previous 
year.

Muskegon.

The annual report of  the Muskegon Val­
ley Furniture Co shows S100,000 capital, of 
which §81,000 is paid in.  The sales for 1885 
aggregate §69,000.
The Doherty & Baars Lumber Co. was or­
ganized  here  January  18,  with  a  capital 
stock of §60,000,  §50,000  of  which is  paid 
in.  The stockholders, who are also  the di­
rectors,  are  W.  A.  Doherty,  George  S. 
Baars, C.  D. Nelson,  H.  W.  Nelson and It. 
McDougall.  The directors have elected the 
following  officers: 
President,  W.  A. 
Doherty;  Vice-President,  C.  D.  Nelson; 
Treasurer, George S.  Baars;  Secretary,  II. 
W.  Nelson.  The company owns a two-cir­
cular sawmill at Menominee,  and will add a 
gang and other improvements.

Otter Lake.

Fred Schott has commenced  manufactur­
ing  furniture  at  W.  C.  Cumings’  planing 
mill.
The Knights of Labor  have  concluded to 
start a co-operative coffin and casket factory 
here and are now circulating a paper to give 
citizens a  chance  to  take  what  stock they 
wish.  Mr. A.  W. Kellogg has charge of  the 
papers.  •
Roads are practically  blockaded  by snow 
drifts at present,  making  trade  rather dull.

Kyerson,

J.  B. Barlow  has  sold  the  Fletcher  gro­
cery stock to H.  M.  Gilman.
The entire property of the Muskegon  Car 
and Engine Co., consisting of the real estate 
material,  buildings,  machinery etc. was sold 
at  assignee’s  sale  to  the  Chicago  &  West 
Michigan  Railway  for  §35,000..  The  pur­
chasers will  improve  the  property  and  en­
gage in the manufacture of rolling  stock on 
a more extensive scale than formerly.
No further particulars have been  received 
regarding  the  whereabouts  of  Thomas 
Robertson, 
the  absconding  “Pinchtown” 
grocer.  The creditors intend trying to hold 
his former partner,  Mr.  Coutz,  liable for the 
firm's indebtedness.  He withdrew from the 
firm  some  time  ago,  but  did not take  his 
name from the books.
Anderson’s meat market, one  of  the fea­
tures of this place since its infancy,  is to be 
conducted in the future by John Smith,  one 
of Mr.  Anderson’s  former  employes.  Mr 
Anderson is  an  owner  in  the  stock  yard 
near  here,  and  in  the  future  will devote 
himself exclusively to the  wholesale  trade. 
The  largest  hog  on  record  in  Muskegon 
county was raised  and  butchered by him  a 
few weeks  ago. 
It  weighed  863  pounds 
dressed.
A.  O.  Halstead, junior partner in the firm 
of A.  J.  Halstead & Son,  druggists  of  this 
place, has received the appointment of post­
master.

Traverse  City.

Hannah,  Lay & Co.  are making extensive 
preparations to complete their new  dock  in 
the spring.  Large  quantities of elm  spiles 
are being hauled for that purpose.
J.  E.  Greiiick is  having  a  large stock  of 
logs and lumber hauled to his mill.
Wm. McQuisten, who has been with Frank 
Brosch for the past two years,  has  gone  to 
Buffalo Park,  Kansas,  where he will engage 
in the meat business.
Hamilton  &  Milliken,  to  increase  their 
show room,  have had an  elevated platform, 
23x23,  put in on the south end of their store, 
which is reached by  a flight of stairs. 
It is 
used  for  the  display  of  boys’ and  youth’s 
clothing.

Hard to Please.

From the Shoe and Leather  Review.

Lady  Customer—I  want  to  see  so: 

shoes.

Salesman—What style and size?
Lady Customer—French kid, two’s.
Is shown French kids  two’s.
Lady Customer—What is the price?
Salesman—Four dollars and fifty cents.
Lady  Customer—That 
haven’t you some for §4?
Is shown shoes for §4.
Lady Customer—Haven’t  you  something 

is  very  high; 

better for the same price?
Salesman—No,  ma’am.
Lady Castomer—Haven’t  you  them with 

French heels?

Is shown shoes with French heels.
Lady Customer—What price  did  you say 

they were?

Salesman—Four dollars.
Lady Customer—They  don’t suit exactly, 

but I guess I’ll take a pair.

Salesman—Two’s did you say?
Lady Customer—Two’s is my size, but as 
I have a high instep and don’t like to cramp 
my foot,  I guess you had better give me four 
and a half.

At one time America imported 50,000 tons 

of iron rails annually from  Great Britai^i

The Manufacture of Nails.

From the National Labor Tribune.

How many of us who  have  driven  nails, 
from the first essay at  miniature shipbuild­
ing to the period when our  lacerated fingers 
bore  evidence  of  ill-temper  when  we  at­
tempted  to  mend  a  broken  gate - with  a 
round-headed  hatchet  and  a  refractory' bit 
of iron called a nail,  ever  stopped to  think 
of the vast amount of  ingenuity brought in­
to use to  supply us  with  the  above-named 
article?

Upon  entering  the  nail  works  the  first 
thing that strikes one is the arrangement of 
the puddling  furnaces,  they  being  built so 
as to form a hollow square.  Each  furnace 
is double; that is,  one  stack is  divided into 
two parts, making  two  puddling  furnaces. 
In the space  within  the  square  are  placed 
the squeezer, the  train of rolls,  and the en­
gine,  the  latter  furnishing  the  power  to 
drive the machinery and supplying the blast 
for the furnaces.  The  pig  iron  is  brought 
from the blast-furnace in cars and carts, and 
at  a  certain  place  is  broken  in  halves, 
weighed and  apportioned to  the  puddlers. 
The iron is placed  in  the furnaces,  a blast 
of hot air  is  driven  over  it  by means  of a 
fan,  and as it melts the puddler stirs it con­
tinually  with a long iron  instrument  call­
ed  a  puddle  tool.  This  process  is  kept 
up until every vestige  of impurity has been 
driven out.  Then the  workman  gradually 
coqIs down his furnace by damping the fire, 
being careful to  note the consistency of the 
mass.  This he rolls into a ball shape, with­
draws it from the  furnace,  and by' means of 
i ponderous  pair  of  tongs,  running  on an 
overhead railway, conveys  it to the squeez­
er,  a piece of mechanism  worth  describing. 
In former times the squeezer  resembled the 
jaws of a monster  crocodile,  from  which it 
derived  its  name.  Now  the  apparatus  is 
called a coffee mill squeezer,  and,  indeed, it 
looks very much like a big coffee mill.  The 
ball is tossed into the squeezer, which seizes 
it and sends it 'rolling round add round,  the 
space becoming narrower as  the outcome is 
approached:

When  at  last  the  mass  emerges  it  has 
taken the shape of  a roll  of cotton batting. 
A man on the lookout for  it  grasps  it with 
tongs,  and  the  overhead  rigging  is  again 
brought into play to carry the bloom as it is 
now called,  to the rolls.  The rolls are con­
structed with numerous  grooves  graduated 
to the size of  the  bar  desired  to  be made. 
The bloom hagmow  gone  through the pud­
dle rolls and is flat,  say  four  inches  wide,
three-quarters of an inch thick,  and  twelve 
feet long,  and  it is  termed  puddle or muck 
bar.  When used for nail-making it must be 
cut into lengths of a foot.  These  are piled 
in a certain  manner,  weighed  and taken to 
the sheet mill.  .This mill has within it sev­
eral heating furnaces and two trains of rolls, 
one train to break down the pile and another 
to finish the sheet.  The heaters arr ange the 
piles of iron in the furnaces precisely as the 
baker do,es his  loaves  in  the  oven.  When 
it is  sufficiently  heated  it  is  conveyed by 
means of the ever-useful over-head  railway 
to the rolls, there to be  again  flattened and 
drawn into long thin sheets.

Chicago, Jan. 15,  1885.

At the meeting  of  the  licensed manufac­
turers of barb wire held in this  city  yester­
day, the following report of  the  committee 
on price-list was unanimously  adopted:

“That,  notwithstanding 

the  fact  that 
plain wire has advanced §2.20 per  ton since 
the present price-list was  adopted, and that 
there is  every  prospect  for  a  still  further 
advance,  we do not consider it  advisable  at 
this meeting to make any  change,  except in 
price of ‘thick set’ wire.  We would there­
fore advise that ‘thickj set’  be  advanced 
cent per pound  over  price  for ‘cattle’  wire, 
and that,  with  this  exception,  the  present 
price-list be affirmed.  And as a further ad­
vance in plain wire is anticipated, we would 
recommend that a meeting of the^manufac- 
turers  be  held  January 29,  with a v iew_of 
making such advance  in  the  price  of  barb 
wire as the present and prospective price  of 
wire may require.”
- The following is the present price-list:__
Painted wire,  2  and  4 point “cattle,”  50 

ton lots, 4 cts.  per pound.

Painted wire,  2 and44 point “cattle,”  less 

than 50 tons, 4 H cts.  per pound.

Painted wire, 2 and 4  point  “thick  set,” 

50 ton lots,  4% cts.  per pound.

Painted wire,  2 and 4 point  “thick  set,” 

less than 50 tons, 4% cts.  per  pound.

Galvanized  wire,  1  cent  per  fiound ad­

vance over price for painted wire.

F. o. b.,  Chicago and East <St.  Louis.
Terms, 60 days;  2  per  cent  discount'for 

cash in 10 days.

Yours respectfully,

Ch a s.  O.  Collins,  Sec’y.

Furniture Facts.

J.  O.  Smith  succeeds  J* O.  Smith & Co. 
in the furniture and undertaking" business at 
Lapeer.

Foster,  Charles  & Co.  succeed  Stenglein 
& Noland in the  furniture business  at Sag­
inaw.

T.  Dennison succeeds W .  E.  Jarvis & Co. 
in the  furniture  and  undertaking  business 
at Richmond.  __ 

.  __________   ,

Hunt, Craine & CoT have  purchased  the 
factory and  business  of  the  Union  Chair 
Works,  at Detroit. _  The  new firm Is mak­
ing an entire change in the styles and quali­
ties of chairs,  and will have their spring line 
out in about two  weeks.

The Keck  Furniture Co.,  at Ann_Arbor, 
has changed  its name to the  Michigan Fur­
niture Co.  W.  D.  Harriman has been elect­
ed  president,  C. F.  Hiscock  secretary  and 
Paul Snauble  superintendent.  A  dividend 
of 6 per  cent,  was  declared  on  last  year’s 
business.

At  the  seventh  annual  session  of  the 
Western Chair  Manufacturers’ Association, 
held at Chicago on  the 20th, the Committee 
on Prices recommended  that  no  change be 
made on walnut and maple  chairs,  and that 
an advance of 5 per cent, be  made  on com­
mon chairs,  which  was  adopted. 
In order 
to secure fealty to the Association each mem­
ber is required to give a bond.

Now we  have  come  to the  nail  factory. 
The sheets are taken to the slitter, who cuts 
them into the different  sizes as the  kind of 
nails desired to be made requires.  The nail 
plates are then  packed  in  numbered boxes 
to  be  delivered  to  the  nail  cutters.  The 
larger-seized nails  are  cut  hot,  and  for the 
purpose of heating the plates a furnace is at 
hand in charge  of a  man  whose business it 
is to supply the nailers with iron.  Now we 
have reached the last process  of  this rather 
intricate  manufacture.  We  hear  the busy 
hum of 120  machines,  which in  the course 
of eleven hours cut 1,100 kegs of nails.  An 
invention of recent date, at one time threat­
ening to  revolutionize  the  cutting  of nails, 
has been  introduced  in  the  factory. 
It  is 
called a self-feeder,  but,  as it only cuts mid­
dle sizes,  the trade of  the nail  feeder is not 
yet jeopardized.  These ingenious machines 
are almost human in their working.  An at­
tendant takes up a nail plate, pries open the 
stiff jaws of his  nippers,  places  one end of 
the plate within, and by a skillful thrust has 
set  the  machinery  going. 
It  certainly  is 
more accurate in its  action  than any feeder 
can be.  One person  can,  if diligent,  attend 
to two self-feeding machines.  Each machine 
consists  of a  cutting  knife,  a  heading ma­
chine,  bed-plate,  fly-wheel,  and  split  and 
mis-cut  separator.  The  last  is  the  inven­
tion of one of the workmen  in the  factory.
There is another  process to be told about, 
and that is blueing.  This  is done in an in­
clined revolving cylinder, pierced with holes 
and kept at a dull  red  heat.  The. nails are 
poured in at the  elevated  end,  and  as they 
slowly  roll  down  the  incline  take  on  the 
pretty blue tint  we have  so often  admired. 
The nails are now taken to the packer,  who 
weighs them,  packing  100  pounds  in  each 
keg.  The  packing  is  done  by means  of a 
machine which, by an  ingenius  application 
of mechanics,  has a vertical as  well as a re­
volving motion.  The keg is placed between 
the knees of the packer, and as it dances up 
and down he  gradually fills it  from a large 
iron weighing-scoop.  The keg is now turned 
over to the  header,  who  deftly  inserts the 
head,  applies  the  top hoops,  drives  a nail 
here and there  into  the  chimes,  gives  it  a 
whirl,  and away it goes to the brander, who 
numbers it and stencils  the firm’s name and 
trade mark which latter is an anchor.  And

Australia.

Horse-shoes in Japan are  simply clogs of 
twisted straw, and on  a  journey a  number 
of them have  to be  carried  to be  bound on 
as fast as the old ones wear out.

The  Hardware Market.

Business  and  collections  continue  fairly 
good.  The nail  market  remains about sta­
tionary.  Those  axe  manufacturers If who 
went home mad from the  recent conference 
of  manufacturers,  because  an  agreement 
could not be effected, are independently ask­
ing higher figures.  Barbed wire is stronger 
and sales are slightly improving.  The meet­
ing of manufacturers at New York advanced 
prices to 4%c for 10-ton  lots,  4%e for 3-ton 
lots,  5c for 1-ton  lots,  and  5)&c for  lo ts/f 
less than a ton.  A  meeting of manufactur­
ers was held  on the 14th  inst.  and an asso­
ciation formed.  A  circular was authorized, 
advising  an  advance  in  values,  which 
is 
given in full in another column.

“Measure  for  measure,”  as  the  patient 
said  when  he  poured  out" his"tapeworm 
medicine.  “All’s well if  this end is  well,” 
said the tapeworm,  as he buried his  head in 
a follicle, of  Lieberkuhu,  while  the  “ver­
mifuge” swept by.

HIDES. PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green ....»  lb  @7  Calf skins, green 
Part cured...  8  @  854  or cured—   @10
Full cured....  834@  9  Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
$  piece.......20  @50

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

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed $  tt>........  @25
Tallow......................................................  @ 4

Fine washed $  lb 24@271Unwashed.... .... 
Coarse washed... 18@22|

WOOL.

2-3 

FURS.

 

Bear....................................................... 1 00@12 00
Fisher  . 
.........2  00@6  00
Red Fox....................................................1 00@1 25
Grey Fox.................................................. 1 00@1 20
Martin....................................................   25@1 00
Mink........................................................  65©  bO
Muskrat,  winter...................................  10®  12
8
.....................................  ©  2
Otter..................... . ................................ 4 00@5 00
Raccoon...................................................  10®1  00
Skunk......................................................  10@1  20
Beaver,  ^  1b...........................................1 50@2 50
Deer, $   lb...............................................   10©  30

fa ll........................................... 
kits 

6@ 

“ 
“ 

' 

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

New York  Counts........................
F. J. D. Selects...............................
Selects............................................
F. J. D..............................................
Standards  — ,  ............................
Favorites.......................................

...................... 33
.......................30
...................... 26
...................... 18
...................... 16
..................   15
...............  14
................   13
Selects, by bulk.............................. ................ 1  60
Standards, by  bulk....................... __ 1  00@ l  10
Shrewsbury shells, fl  100. . . . . . . . .................1  40
Princess  Bay  Clams, 5$ 100.......... ....................80
New  York  Counts, $   100............. ................ 1  40
Cod  ................................................ ...;.  @12
Haddock.................................................
Mackerel......................... ...................... 12  @14
Mackinaw Trout....................... »............  @  7
Smelts  ................................................... M  @11
White fish ........   .................   .................  Ô #

FRESH  FISH.

These  prices  are  for cash buyer»,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AUG)£RS AND BITS.

 
 

BELLS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS. 

Ives’,  old style......................................... dlsfiO&lO
N.  H. C. Co................................................distti&lO
Douglass’................................................... dis60&10
Pierces’ ........................................  
disBO&lO
Snell’s ...........................................  
dls60A10
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine.................................
Jennings’, imitation................................disou&lO
Spring.........................................................dis 
40
„„
Railroad.............  ...................................... §  13 00
Garden.......................................................net do 00
Hand............. ................................dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow.................................................... dis 
60&10
30&15
Call....................................................dis 
Gong................................................. dis 
25
Door, Sargent...........
__ dis
fio&io
Stove............................................ ........ dis §
40
Carriage  new  list.....................
........dis
80
Plow  ........................................... ..........dis 30&1C
Sleigh Shoe.................................
........dis
75
Wrought Barrel  Bolts.............
........ dis 60&10
Cast  Barrel  Bolts.....................
........ dis 60&10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs........
........dis
60
Cast Square Spring..................
........ dis
60
..........dis 60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.. ..........dis 60&10
Wrought Square....................... ..........dis 60&10
Wrought Slink Flush...............
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated Knob
Flush....................................... ..........dis 60&10
Ives’ Door........ ......................... ..........dis 6Ü&10
Barber .......................................
40
........ dis § 
Backus.......................................
50&10
........dis
Spofford......................................
50
........dis
Am. Ball...................................... ..........dis
not
Well, plain...........................................'....§  3 50
Well, swivel....................  ........................... 
4 00

........ dis

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, floured..........................dis 70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed........... dis 70&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin.............................. dis 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip..............dis 60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned..............dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped...................................................dis 60& 5
W rought Table........................................dis  10&B0
Wrought Inside  Blind...........................dis  10&80
Wrought Brass.’......................................dis  70&10
Blind, Clark’s...........................................dis  80&10
Blind, Parker’s....................................... dis  80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s ........... ...................... dis 
70

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10..............................................per  m § 65
Hick’s C. F............................................  
60
35
G. D......................................................... 
Musket................................................... 
60

CATRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new  list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States.........................dis50&lü
Central Fire.............................................. dis40&10

CHISELS.

Socket Firmer.........................................dis  75&10
Socket Framing......................................dis 75&10
Socket Corner.........................................dis 75&10
Socket Slicks........................................... dis 
75
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer.....................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................... dis 
20
Cold.......................................................... net

COMBS.

COCKS.

Curry,  Lawrence’s.......  ...................... dis
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis

40&10

Brass,  Racking’s.......................................
Bibb’s .........................................................
B eer.............................................................
Fenns’.........................................................

60
60
40&10
60

COPPER.

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $1 lb  26
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................   19
Cold Rolled, 14x48.............................................1854
Morse’s Bit  Stock.................................dis 
40
40
Taper and Straight Shank.................... dis 
Morse’s Taper  Shank............................dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net  §.85
Corrugated.......
20&10
Adjustable..
54&10

ELBOWS.

.dis
.dis

DRILLS

EXPANSIVE BITS.

FILES—New List.

Ives’, 1. $18 00 2. §24 00 ;  3, §30 00. 
dis
..dis 60&10
Amei ican File Association  List...
Disst an’s .......
..dis 6G&1U
..dis 60&10
New Americai
.;dis 60&1U
Nicheilson’s ...
Heller’s ........
30
..dis
Heller’s  Horst»'Rasps.'..'.'..’.'.'.'."’.’.’ ..dis 30&10

16 to 20,

:d  24,

id:

Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 

GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

HINGES.

HANGERS.

50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis
Maydolo & Co.’s...............f ...................dis 
25
Kip’s .....................................................dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s ............................. dis  40&1C
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 10A10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction....................dis  00&10
Kidder, wood track............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................ dis 
60
. per doz, net, 2 50
State....................................
Screw Hook and 8trap, to  12  in
ih.  454  14
and  longer....................
354
..........net
Screw Hook and Eye,  H 
1054
Screw Hook and Eye %..
..........net
854
............net
Screw Hook and Eye  34 - •
754
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.
7 Vi
..........net
65
..........dis
Strap and  T ........................................dis
E.
HOLLOW  WARE.
30
Stamped Tin Ware............
25
Japanned Tin  Ware........
25
Granite Iron  Ware..........
HOES.
Grub  1.................................................§1100, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 60
Grub 3. ................................................  12 00, dis 60
50
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.......... dis 
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........  
50
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....... 
50
Door, porcelain, trimmings.................... 
50
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s .....................   40&10
Hcmacite............................  ............... dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis
. .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s ..
..dis 
Branford’s .......................................
. .dis
Norwalk’s .......................................
........dis  79
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ........
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s ............................dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’sMaileables  dis 
60
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s .... ..dis 
60
Coffee,  Enterprise.................................... dis  25
Adze  Eye......................................§16 00 dis 
60
Hunt  Eye..................................... §15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s.........................................§18 50 dis 20 & 10

LEVELS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

KNOBS.

NAILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

..dis

MAULS.

MOLLASSES GATES.
.....................

.  keg §2 50 
25 
50 
75 
1 50 
3 00 
1 75

lOdto  60d..........................................
8d and9d adv..................................
6d and 7d  adv..................................
4d and 5d  adv..................................
3d advance.......................................
3d fine advance................................
Clinch nails, adv.............................
I  lOd  8d 
Finishing 
6d  4
Size—inches  j  3 
1
2 
254 
Adv. f  keg 
$1 25  1 50  1  75  2 
Steel Nalls—2 65.
Stebbin’s Pattern 
Stebbin’s Genuine.:.....................................dis 70
Enterprise,  self-measuring........................ dis 25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.....................dis 50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom...............................dis 50
Brass or  Copper...........................................dis 50
Reaper..................................... per gross, §12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................   60&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................. dis 15
Sciota Benoh........................................       dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  15
Bench, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood— dis20&10 
Fry, Acme.............................................. dis 50&10
Common, polished...................................dls60&10
•V % 6
Dripping........................................ ........V
40
.dis
Iron apd Tinned................................. dis
60
dis
Copper Rivets and  B urs...,.............dis

PLANES.

OILERS.

RIVETS.

PANS.

J
+ 

■  -  

i

ROPES.

PATENT PLANI8AED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patont planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
9

Broken packs He ?! lb extra.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, H 1b. and  larger..................................   854
Manilla............................................................  15
Steel and Iron........................................dis
Try and Bevels......................................dis
Mitre  .....................................................dis
Com. Smooth.

70&10 
50 A10 
20
Com. 
$2 30
2 40 
2 «0 
2 80
3 00 
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.
8HEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   B>............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   lb..................... 
t in n e r ’s s o l d e r .
No. 1,  Refined...............................
Market  Half-and-half................
Strictly  Half-and-half................

6
6H
12 50
15 00
16 50

TIN  PLATES.

Cards fbr Charcoals, §6 75.

rates.

TRAPS.

TIN—LEADED.

10x14, Charcoal...............................  5
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................  7
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal...............................   6
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal  .............................  7
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................   5
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal..............................   7
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  8
1XX, 
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................   10
1XXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal....,....................  12
20x28, Charcoal..............................  15
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................  10
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................  12
Kedipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 
Roofing, 14x20, IC...............................
5  25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .............................
6 75 
Roofing, 20x28, IC...............................
11  00 
Roofing, 20x28,  IX.............................
14 00
.  5 50
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne__
7 00
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne............  14 00
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
OneidaiCom muntity,  Now house’s ......... dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s..60&10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s...................................60&10
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50 $  doz
WIRE.
Bright Market.....................
.......dis60&lG&5
..........dis 
Annealed Market...............
70
..........dis  55&10
Coppered Market...............
Extra Bailing.....................
...............  dis  55
Tinned  Market..................
.................dis  40
Tinned  Broom....................
...............09
Tinned Mattress................
__ÿ  tt>  854
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&10
Tinned SpringSteel.................................. dis37H
Plain Fence............................................... lb 3H
Barbed Fence.....................................................
Copper................................................new  list net
Brass.................................................. new  list net
70&10&10
Bright...............................................dis
Screw Eyes.......................................dis
70&10&10
70&1U&10
Hook’s .............................................dis
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...................dis
70&10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
60
Coe’s Genuine................   ....................dis 
Coe’s Patont Agricultural, wrought, dis'  75&10
Coe’s  Patent, malleable..................dis 75&10&10

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

MISCELLANEOUS.

BirdCages................................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70&10
Screws,  new  list........................................ 
83J4
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... disSO&lO&lo
Dampers, American.................................  40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60&10&5 
Copper  Bottoms.......................................  
19c

LUMBER. LATH AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Mauufacturini 

Co. quote f. o.
b. cars as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M §44 00
Uppere, 154,154 and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154454 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 1)4,154 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 q0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, lOin., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet.........................  13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  cuils,  all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00@ 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27  00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 Oo
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch......................  
  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 oO
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B................   18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding, 6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft............  10 00
§1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
36 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................
29 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C.............
17 00 
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common.. 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common—  
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. §1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, §1 00 additional.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3  10
3 00
■{XXX18 in.  Thin...................................... 
2  *5
( XXX 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
1  75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
140
Lath  ....................................................   1 75® 2 00

 

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

factories  here  pay  as  follows

The furnitui 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...............
Birch, log-run.......................
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2...............
Black Ash, log-run...............
Cherry,  log-run....................
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2...........
Cherry,  cull..........................
Maple,  log-run.....................
Maple, soft,  log-run...........
Maple, Nos. lan d 2..............
Maple, clear, tlooring........
Maple, white, selected........
Red Oak, log-run............. ..
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2..........
Red Oak, No.  1, stop  plank
Walnut, log-run..................
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........
Walnuts,  culls....................
Grey  Elm, log-run.............
White Ash,  log-run...........
Whitewood,  log-run..........

@13  09
........ 
........16  0J@2U  00
........  
@25  00
........  
@13  00
........25  00@35  00
........  
@55  00
........ 10 00@12  00
........ 14  00@16  00
........ 12  00@14  00
@18  00
......... 
@25  00
......... 
......... 
@25  00
........  
@15  00
@20  00
___  
@25  00
......... 
@55  00
......... 
@75  00
......... 
......... 
@25  00
@13  00
........  
........ 14  00@16  00
........  
@23  00

WOODEN WARE. 
00
Standard  Tubs, No. 1.....................
Standard  Tubs, No. 2..................................... 6 00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3......................................5 00
Standard Pails, two hoop...............................1 40
Standard Pails, three hoop............................1 6o
White Cedar, three  hoop  ............................. 2 00
Dowell Pails..................................................... 1 »0
Dowell Tubs, No. 1.......................................... 800
Dowell Tubs, No. 2..........................................7 00
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3........................................ 6 00
White Cedar, No. 1...........................................7 50
White Cedar, No. 2.......................................... 6 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes.......................... 2 00
Butter Ladles........ .........................................|  25
Rolling Pins....................................»................1 w
Potato Mashers...............................................   <5
ClotheB Pounders........................................... 3  25
ClothesPins......................................................  65
Mop Stocks...................................................... J  “9
Washboards, single........................................}  7o
Washboards, double...................................... 2  25
Diamond  Market............................................  40
Bushel; narrow band.................................... 1  60
Bushel, wide band......................................... 1  *5
Clothes, splint,  No. 1...............................*’ •  „ 59
Clothes, Bplint,  No. 2..................................... 375
Clotnes, splint,  No. 3..................................... 4 00
Clothes, willow* No. 1.....................................5 00
Clothes, willowfliNo. 2.....................................600
*0.8..................................... 7 00

BASKETS.

- " “

' 

Barbed Wire  Manufacturers’  Association.

WHOLESALES  FRIGE  CURRENT.

é ’í

The following quotations are given  to show 
relative values, but they may be considered, to 
some extent, “outside prices,” and  are  not  as 
low as buyers of reasonable  quantities can, in 
most  instances, obtain  them  at.  It  will  pay 
every  merchant  to  make  frequent  visits  to 
market, not only in  respect  to  prices,  but to 
keep posted on  the  ever-changing  styles and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the  road.”

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Pepperell,  8-4.. 
Pepperoll,  9-4..

17  1 Pepperell, 104... ...19
1354 Pepperell, 114... . ..22
iPeqùot,  74........ ...1454
13 
|Pequot,  84........ ...16
15 
17  [Pequot,  9-4........ ...18
CH
I Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Caledonia, XX, oz. .10 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz...  9
Economy,  oz..........
Prodigy, oz................ 854
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Otis  A pron..............  854
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
Otis  F u rn itu re ....... 854
York, 1  oz.............   954
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13
¡York. AA, ex tra oz.1254

Plain.

OSNABURGS.

Plaid.

4-4

PRINTS.

.  _ 

SILESIAS.

_  I------- 

King  Phillip  cam­

Alabama........ .......  654'Alabama.
Georgia.......... .......8)4 Augusta .
Jewell  ........... .......8 
i Georgia..
Kentucky  .... .......  854  Louisiana
L ane............... .......  854 ¡Tennessee
Santee........... .......  7541 Toledo  ...
BLEACHED COTTONS,
8)4 |Cree ne, G 
5H
Avondale,  36........
Hill, 4-4...
Art  cambrics, 36..
6H 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8HI Hi 
6H
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 125* | Hope,  44
Ballou, 4-4...............  554
bric, 4-4.....  .......9H
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
854 ¡Lin wood,  4-4..........  754
Boott,  0 .4-4.
Lonsdale,  4-4......
Boott,  E. 5-5............... 
~
.----------- . 
. 
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......  9541 Lonsdale  cambric. 10)4
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  8)4
Boott,  R. 34.
Blackstone, AA 4-4  654 Langdon, 46........... 11
Masonville,  4-4.......754
Chapman, X, 4-4....
Maxwell. 4-4...........   8
Conway,  4-4........... 65
New York Mili, 4-4.10 
Cabot, 4-4................ 65
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   64
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754
Canoe,  34........... 
___
Domestic,  36..........  7)4|Pride of the West..l0H
íPocahontas,  4 4 ....  754 
Dwight Anchor, 44.  8 
Slaterville, 7-8.......   6H
Davol, 44...............  8
7541Victoria, ÁA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 44.. 
654  Woodbury, 44........   654
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 
IWhitinsville,  4 4...  634 
Fruit of  the  Loom, 
Whitinsville, 7-8....  6
cambric,  44........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  6)%|Wamsutta,4-4........ 914
Gold Medal, 7-8........  554 Williamsville, 36...  854
Gilded Age...............7)41
Crown..................... 17 
iMasonville TS.........  8
No.  10..................... 11 
iMasonville  S..........1054
Coin...........................10  Lonsdale...................954
Anchor................... 15  Lonsdale A .............. 14
Centennial.............  
Victory  0 ...............  554
Blackburn...............  8  Victory J ................... 6)4
Davol......................... 14  Victory  D...............   854
London................... 1254  Victory  K................1054
Paconia..................12  Phoenix A ................1954
Red  Cross................  754 Phoenix  B............... 1054
Social  Imperial... .16  [PhoenixXX............5
Albion, solid...........654 Gloucester........... •••654
Albion,  grey............. 6  Gloucestermoum g.554
Allen’s  checks........654  Hamilton  fancy....6
Ailen’s  fancy..........554 Hartol fancy.............654
Allen’s pink............ 55% Merrimac D...............6
Allen’s purple.........554 Manchester...............6
American, fancy__554 Oriental  fancy..........554
Arnold fancy.............6  [Oriental  robes.........654
Berlin solid.............5 
Pacific  robes............6
Cocheco  fancy..........6  [Richmond..................554
Coeheco robes.........654 Steel River.................434
Conestoga fancy —  6  Simpson’s ................6
Eddystone................6  Washington fancy..6
Eagle fancy.............. 5  Washington  blues.  6
Garner pink............5541
6M!Indian Orchard, 40. 7
Appleton  A, 4-4—
Indian Orchard, 36. 6)4
Boott  M, 4-4...........
13
65ü' Laconia  B ,74...
Boston  F, 4-4..........
,  9
«Î4 Lyman B, 40-in..
Continental C, 4-3..
, 7)4 Mass. BB,4 4 ....
5)4
Continental D, 40 ir 
Nashua  E, 40-in.
,  7)4
Conestoga W, 4-4...
,  6
4m ;Nashua  R,44...
Conestoga  D, 7-8.
5  1Nashua 0,7-8....
.  55K
Conestoga G, 30-in.
4^1 Newmarket N . .
.  554
Dwight  X, 3-4........
5k Pepperell E, 39-in...  654
Dwight Y, 7-8........
.  554
5% Pepperell  R, 44
Dwight Z, 4-4........
6 Pepperell  0 , 7-8,
•  5)4
Dwight Star, 4-4—
.  5
Pepperell N, 34
Ewight Star, 40-in.
.  5)4
4«! Pocasset  C, 4-4.
Enterprise EE, 38.
,  6
Saranac  R........
Great Falls E, 4-4..
554 ¡Saranac  E........
.  7)4
Farmers’ A, 4-4—
ITIC <3INGHAMS.
DOME!
7  1Johnson  Manfg Co,
Amoskcag............
i 9
Amoskeag, Porsiai
Johnson  Manfg Co,
styles..................
.  6
Bates.....................
6 Slaterville, 
dress
Berkshire.............
Glasgow,  fancy....
6 Vi White Mfg Co, stap  6%
Glasgow,  royal.
White Mfg Co, fane 754
new 
Gloucester, 
¡White  Manf’g Co,
standard .
■
Eariston........
.  754
Plunket —
7 Gordon.................
.  7
Lancaster..
’  7 Greylock, 
Langdown .
!  9 1  sty le s ..............
.1054
Renfrew,  dress—   9
4..15  1Pepperell.  104... OO
Androscoggin, 7-4. .15 
4..16 Pepperell,  114.. ¡".24
Androseoggi n, 8-4.. 18 
¡Pequot,  74........ ...16
....15
Pepperell,  7-4..
....17 Pequot,  84........ ...18
Popperell,  8-4........
....19  1¡Pequot,  94......... ...20
Pepperell,  9-4.

Bookfold.......
dress  styles..
styles.............

WIDE  BLEACHED COTTONS.

FINE BROWN  COTTONS.

.12)4
.1054
.  6

dress

.  „ _

TICKINGS.

Atlantic P,
At 1 anitic
AdrialDiC,
Augusita,
Boott M,
Boott FF
Grani bevi
Indiar H
Indiana Het
Amoskcag,
Amoskeag
Amoskeag,
Amoskeag,
Amoskeag,
Amoskcag,
Amoskeag,

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.
44 .... .  654 Lawrence XX, 44.. 6*4
4 4 .... •  6k Lawrence XXX 40. 754
Lawrence LL, 4-4... 5
44 .... 
Newmarket N........ 554
44.......
i, 44... .  45KMystic  River, 44... 554
Pequot A, 44......... .  634
Piedmont,  36......... .  6
V..........
¡Stark AA, 44......... .  654
1..........
.  6k iTrcmont CC,44... .  434
4 ........
¡Utica,  44............... .10
}, 44...
td, 4-4.. .  6k Wachusett,  4 4.... .  6k
ad 45-ir1.1154Iwachusett. 30-in.. .  534
ACA. ..1254  Falls,XXXX........ .1854
“ 44 ..15541 Falls, XXX........... .1554
[Falls,  BB............... .1154
A .......11
B___..10 ¡Falls,  BBC, 36....... .1954
C___..10 [Falls,  awning....... .19
9 1 Hamilton,  BT, 32. .  954
D___
..  854  Hamilton,  D ........ .  854
E___
F....... ..  8 ¡Hamilton,  H........
.  854
Hamilton  fancy..
.  854
5,44.. ..17
i ........ ..18 ¡Methuen AA........ .1154
..16 ¡Methuen A SA ..... .1654
Extra44.............  
. 
Extra 7-8.................1454|Omega  A, 7-8..........1054
Gold Medal 44....... 15 
¡Omega A,'44..........1254
CCA 7-8................... 1254 Omega ACA, 7-8. ...13
CT 44..!..................14 
'¡OmegaACA,4 4 .... 15
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8"."..................14
Omega SE, 44.........27
BF7-8..................... 16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF44......................19
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32..... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 1154 
Cordis ACA, 32..... 15
Shetucket, 8 & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32.......15
Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 2...........14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3...........13
i|Stockbridge fancy.  8
Cordis No. 4...........11)
iEmpire ...........
Garner..........
5 
Hookset.......... ....  5 Washington......... 454
Red  Cross....... ....  5 Edwards......... ......   5
S. S. & Sons.... ....  5
Forest Grove..
GRAIN BAGS.
IOld  Ironsides. ...... 15
American  A..
....1 7  
..  .21541 Wheatland.... ...... 20
Stark A ...........
....  654 Otis c c ........... ...... 9
Boston...........
Everett blue.. ....1154 Warren  AXA. ...... h
Everett  brown ....1154 Warren  BB... ...... 10
....11 Warren CC__ ...... 9
Otis  AXA......
....10 York,  blue.... ...... 1254
Otis BB...........
PAPER  CAMBRICS.
Manville......... 434@5 S. S. & Sons__ .454 @5
Masonville — 434®5 Garner........... .434 @5
....  654 Thistle Mills... ...... 6
Red  Cross......
Rose............... ...... 654
Berlin............ ___6
Garnor.......... ...... 7
Brooks........... __ 50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Mills ball sewing.30
Clark’s O. N. T ....55
.1. & P.  Coats.. .......55 Green  &  Daniels...25
Willimantio 6 cord.55 Stafford........
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 Hall & Manning__ 28
Holyoke........
fiharleston ball sew
........ 25

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

SPOOL JOTTON.

WIG \N S.

DEN [MS.

ing thread..........30

CORSE! JEANS.

Armory....... .. ,6@6)4 Kearsage.......
Androscoggin  . 
Canoe River....
Clarendon........
Hallowell  Imp. 
Ind. Orch. Imp. 
Laconia ............

...... 654
...  5  Pepperell  bleached 8)4
. 5@5)4 Pepperell sat..........854
... 
...  554  Lawrence sat..........  6
. 6@6)4 jConegosat...............  554

Rockport........... 6

CHARCOAL  PIG  CRON.

John Otis, Mancelona, quotes as  follows,  f o 
23 OO 
23 00 
23 50
23 50
24 00 
24  00 
24 00

b, at  Chicago:
No. 1 Lake Superior 
No. 2
No. 3 
No. 354 
No. 4 
No. 5 
No. 6

ABOLISH  YOUR  PASS  BOOKS.
GROCERS!

f

Start In the New Year by Introducing the

SUTLIFF

CUPON

SYSTEM.

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

A  CARD.

In presenting to the trade my COUPON SYS­
TEM, which has been revised and  improved, I 
claim that I have the most complete, safe  and 
cheapest system  for  simplifying  business  on 
the  market.  Customers  can  send their ser­
vants with the Coupon Hook  to the store  with 
no  danger  or  discrepancies, as  by the recorf 
which is kept on inside covers, amountof each 
sale  is  recorded.  All  books  are  numbered 
when su'd, and when not paid for in  advance, 
are secured by note, one of which  is  in  every 
book.  Every Coupon lias engraved  signature 
of the merchant,  together with the card ;  cov­
ers have the merchant’s advertisement on, and 
their  size makes them desirable to the custom­
er  as  well  as  the  cashier.  As  they are now 
made the smaller numbers below the live cent 
can be  detached, same as the larger ones, thus 
obviating the necessity of a punch and  stamp.
MERCHANTS  CONTEMPLATING  CHANG­
ING  F1ÏOM  CltEDlT TO  CASH, can  still  hold 
their  old  customers  by  introducing this  sys­
tem, which 1 claim is  the  only  system  where 
both customers and merchants are  absolutely 
protected against all loss.  Send for sample.

J. H. SUTLIFF, Proprietor

ALBANY,  N.  Y.

fTh i s

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43 and 45 Kent Street.

S T A N L E Y   N .  A L L E N ,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY  » T - I ’U S S   WORE  AND  USE  NO 

OIIKIICALS.

O r d e rs  b y   IVtnil  a m i  E x p r e s s  p r o m p t ly  a t ­

te n d e d   to.
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Milwailee  Star  Bill îiieprs.

Pure Apple Cider and White Wme Yinegars, 
full strength and  warranted  absolutely  pure. 
Send  for  «amples  and priées.  Also dealer in 
Sauerliraut.  106  Kent si.,  Grand  Uapids.

JOB1IEK  O P

Hl

This Baking Powder  makes  the  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and  most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced. 
Prepared only i f  the

Arctic Manufacturing Go.,

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

FR E D .  I).  YALE.

D A N IEL  LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  TO

F IB . B. YALE & CÖ.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Bakina; P oita, Masts, Bluings,

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS  OF

GROCERS’ 'SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

JOBBERS  IN

D RY   G O O D S ,

8 3  M onroe  @t.,

AN D  10,  12,  14,  16  AN D  18  FOUN TAIN   STREET, 

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

Peerless Carpet TUrirps and Geese Feathers a Specialty.

"EIT TP ca rri -rp *o 
X X   JlLj  O   X  
JCLi  X X  

O o  

. "rri 
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MANUFACTURERS  AGENTS  FOR

SAW  AND GRIST MILD MACHINERY,
S en d   fo r 
A   &j ¡T">í3  13
CaÄ SU8*
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tprices-  HI II  « t »   a   CB
- 
INDIANAPOLIS.  IND.,  U.  S. A.
■
INDE 
' M S Ë S æ M M m m   -----------------M A N U F A C T UR E RS  OF----- . 
ENGINES# BOILERS.
^ Engines and Boilers in Stock

fei ^   ENGINE  ^  

I R P V H l H i
J O M g  |¡¡fe¿fggj|g¡

WORKS  j y

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for  immediate delivery.

Planers,  M atchers,  M oudlers and a ll kinds o f W ood -W orkin g M achinery, 

Saw s, B eltin g and Oils.

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

and become convinced of their superiority.

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

W r ite   fo r   P r ic e s . 

CLARK,

JE W E L L

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

&   C O . ,
ELASTIC  STARCH!

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

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 of

Elastic Starch.

We 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 cent cigar in Michigan, 
I. M. C., the best ten cent cigar in  Michigan.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.
tú W A R R E N ’S  C R IP .”

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

MANUFACTURED  BY

Geo. T. W a rre n  & Co

-HEALERS  IN-

o. w. blain & co., produce
MDomestic  Fruits, 
Foreign 
P E R K I N SHEALERS IN
H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS  STREET. GRANH  RAPIUS,  MICHIGAN.

Vegetatiles, Etc.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK OP  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

SEND  FOR PRICE-LIST TO

Nos.  122 and  124 Louis St.,  Comer  Fulton,

Grrana R apids, Midi.

WHOLESALE  HEALER  IN

Butter, Eggs, Pop  Corn,

Green and Dried Fruits,

POP  CORN A   SPECIALTY.

Write me for prices.

W .  T.  LONG,  VICKSBURG,  MICK.
CHOICE  BUTTER A  SPECIALTY! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.

M.  C.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st.f Grand Ranids.

E.  IT .A. 3L. L  S,
tie  &  Commission—Butter  &  Eggs  a

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

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

97  and 99  Canal  S treet, 

- 

G rand  R apids,  M ichigan

C.  R.  M A Y H EW ,

JOBBER  OF

■ ______

ALASKA  WITH  CRESCENT  HEEL  PLATE.

Wears three times as long; and. keeps from slipping.

The Trade Supplied with Arctics, Alaskas and Sandals with 

Agent for Woonsocket, Wales-Goody ear and Meyer 

the Crescent Heel Plates.

Rubber Companies.

36  Monroe  St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich..

CURTISS,DUNTON & CO.
WOODENWARE!

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

A  LINE  OF

WHITE  CEDAR  TUBS AXTD  FAILS,

THE  BEST  GOODS  IN  THE  MARKET.

THE  ELKHAET  PAPER  PAIL,

THE  BEST  PAPER  PAIL  MADE.

O I L   T A N K S ,

1,  2  AND  3  BARRELS*.

DIAMOND  and  KING  Oil  Cans.  “GOOD-ENOUGH  OIL

Cans,  all Sizes.

51  and 53 Lyon St., Grand Rapids.

F. J. LAMB & CO.
F ruits,  V egetables,

WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

Butter, Bggs, Choose, Etc.

3 and 10 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

MICH.

FLINT.  MICH.

APPLES!

W e  have a large W estern order trade for  Apples in car lots,  as well as a good local 
demand,  and also handle both Evapprated 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 ca6h  advances made on dried 
fruit,  also on apples in car lots.

EARL BROS., Commission Merchants,

B E T H E S D A   M I N E R A L   W A T E R .

H. F. Hastings quotes as follows:

Barrel,  43 gallons......................  
8.60
Half  barrel, 20 gallons...................................5,00
Cans,  10 gallons................................................2.90
Carbonated, eases  50 quarts.........................7.00
100  pints.......................... 8.60
This water will be  supplied  to  the  trade  by 
any wholesale drug or groceryjiouse In Grand 
Rapids.

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Bafannee—Fini National Bank.

157  S.  WATER  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

SPECIAL ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDERS.

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W hat “ Lawing  It”  W ill  Do.

He wanted justice.  You  could  see  that 
in his eye afar.off.  He didn’t want a little 
bit of justice weighed out in  gingerly  man­
ner and done up in coarse brown  paper,  but 
he wanted justice  by  the  car  load  and  at 
wholesale rates.  He hitched his old  white 
horse and dissapated buggy in front  of  the 
drug store,  mounted  the  stairs  running  up 
outside to  the  second  story,  and  his  eyes 
brightened as they rested on the tin sign  on 
the door,  “ George lioxem, Attorney at Law.” 
The lawyer was in.  So  were  a  two-dollar 
desk,  two fifteen-cent chairs,  cuspidor  and 
a rusty stove.
‘ ‘Morning.”
“ Morning.”
“ I’m Jim White,  sir.  Live out by Gray’s 
Corners.  Bought  the  Tompkins farm,  you 
know.”
“ Ah!”
“ Skinner  jines  farms  with  me. 

Ilis 
I  want  damages 
I turn  my  hogs  into 

steers get into  my  corn. 
but he laughs at me. 
his ’tater patch.”

“ Good!  I  like a  man of spunk.”
“ Aud he kills one of  them.”
“ What?”
“ He kills a liog worth two dollars.”
“ You don’t sa y !  Well,  that  man  ought 
to be made  to  understand  that  he  doesn’t 
own this country.  What an outrage !  Have 
you demanded  pay?”

“ Oh,  yes,  and lie says he’d  like  to  shoot 

me.”

“ Is  it possible?  Why,  lie’s  a  dangerous 

man,  very dangerous.”

“ I came to ask  you if— if— ”
“ Why, of course,  you have the  best  kind 
of a case against him,  and  it  is your duty to 
push  it.”

“ Yes,  I  want  justice,  but  how— how 

much  w ill—”

“ Oh,  the cost will be nothing.  Just leave 
me $5 as a retainer and we’ll make  Skinner 
I haven’t heard of such  an  outrage 
sweat. 
for two  years. 
1 le  probably  reasons  that 
you are chicken-hearted and afraid of him.” 
“ Wall,  he’ll find that the Whites have  as 

much grit as the Skinners.”
.  “ And as much money to law with?”

“ You b e t!”
“ That’s  the  talk  !  We'll  make  him  a 
very sick man.  Your case appeals to me as 
a citizen as  well  as  a  lawyer.  Now  we’ll 
secure a warrant as a starter.”

Skinner visits  the  other  lawyer 

in  the 
same  village and  the  conversation  is  about 
the same.  White gets a warrant  for  Skin­
ner and  Skinner gets  a warrant  for  White.
First  year— Two  adjournments,  a  disa­
greement,  twenty-four days lost time,  and a 
* cash expense of fifty-eight  dollars  to  each 
farmer.

Second year— Three trials,  one  disagree­
ment,  four adjournments,  one appeal and  a 
cash expense of one hundred  and  fifty  dol­
lars to each  farmer.  Time  lost,  thirty-five 
days.

Third  year— Two trials,  two appeals,  two 
decisions,  and two farms pass into the hands 
of two lawyers.

Maxims for  Merchants.

No one  is  poor  whose  incomings  exceed 

his outgoings.

Hume,  the  historian,  says  the  habit  of 
looking at the bright  side of things  was bet­
ter than  an  income of a thousand a year.

Exert your talents  and  distinguish  your­
self,  and  don’t  think  of  retiring from  the 
world  until  the world will be sorry that you 
retire.

Mere surface culture is as  thriftless in ed­
ucation as  in  agriculture. 
“ Plough  deep,” 
says  Cobbett,  “ if  you  want  satisfactory 
crops;”  and  the  remark  applies  to  business 
men  as  well  as farmers.

Let  honesty  and  industry  be  your  com­
panions;  spend  one  penny  less  than  your 
daily  gains,  then  your  hide-bound  pocket 
will  soon begin to thrive,  and  creditors will 
not insult you,  nor  want oppress,  nor  hun­
ger bite,  nor nakedness freeze  you.

Pay your debts,  and you will not  have the 
wherewithal to  buy  a  costly  toy  or  a per­
nicious pleasure.  Pay your debts,  and  you 
will not  have  what  to  lose  to  a  gamester. 
In short,  pay  your  debts,  and  you  will of 
necessity  abstain  from  many  unnecessary 
indulgencies.

There are moments  that  are  worth  more 
than  years.  There  is no proportion  between 
spaces of time  in  importance  nor  in  value. 
A  stray unthought of five minutes may con­
tain the event of a life.  This  crisis  in life, 
in  business,  disproportionate  of  all  other 
moments,  who can toll when  it will  be upon 
him?

A  man’s appearance falls  within  the cen­
sure of every  one  that  sees  him:  his  parts 
and  learning  very  few  are  judges  of;  and 
even  upon  those  few  they  cannot  first be 
well  intended;  for  policy  and  good  breed­
ing will  counsel  him  to  be  reserved  among 
strangers.  The  outward  habit  gives  us  a 
taste of the spirit of the inner man.

We  imagine no harm  conies of  our inde­
cision,  while  in  fact,  the  underthrow  of 
fashion,  or interest,  or  inclination,  is  bear­
ing  us away with  it:  and when  we awake to 
our danger,  it may be too late to  insure our 
safety.  Hence,  no  matter  how  apparently

¡trifling the thing  may be  that is put before 

ns,  if it involves a principle  in  it,  we ought 
tb settle at once  what  our  duty  in the case 
is,  and  do that  promptly  and  with  all our 
might.

A  German  chemist  has  ascertained that 
prussic  acie,  corrosive  sublimate,  and sul­
phuretted hydrogen destroy the germininat- 
ing power of seeds.

