Michigan  Tradesman.
S W EET

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  M A Y   11,  1887.

ous parts of  England and  Ireland,  which 
were left to it years ago by  deceased  mem­
bers.

Written Especially for The Tradesman.
Go east or west, or  north or south 

Faculty  of  N ot  Eating  Due  to  D is­

’Mid winter’s cold orparching summer,

SE L F  STARVERS.

The Drummer.

ease.

The

Nor place nor season has a drouth 

Of that strange soul the—drummer.
In coach and ’bus and inn and store.

At every street and turn we meet him;

His yarns are fresh and never bore—

Tis why we laugh  and  like  to greet him.

He lies—ah, yes, ’tis necessary 

To bring you to the point of buying;

’Though modus operandi vary.

He makes his  point, there’s  no  denying.

His soul is pregnant with good cheer;
To Sorrow’s plea his heart is open;

But, when stuffed orders reach us here, 

His praise is better thought than spoken.

Then, stale, inBipid, flat his jokes;
And how like common bummer, 
Becomes the lord to  common folks,

Who erst were glad to meet the drummer.
M. J. Wiuslky.

GROWTH  OF  TH E  GROCER.

Brief  Sketch  of  the  Early  Days 

of  the

Trade.

Various  suggestions  have been made by 
many writers,  both  ancient  and  of  later 
date,  in explanation of  the word  “grocer,” 
but liavenhill’s  idea  seems to be the  most 
feasible one.  He says that about the mid­
dle of the fourteenth century it was first ap- 
lied to the “ pepperers,” as they were called 
in London,  when a special royal charter was 
granted to them,  together  with other privi­
leges. 
It would appear that in those early 
days the dealers in commodities of this char­
acter were in the habit of handling goods in 
larger  quantities  than  other  trades,  and 
hence were styled “grosscurs,’ or dealers in 
gross or wholesale. 
It  is  worthy  of  note, 
however,  at this  point  that  several  other 
trades—such as druggists, confectioners and 
sugar  refiners—were  brought  under  the 
same,  or grocer, category.  Nearly all these 
articles were considered, even then,peculiar­
ly liable to adulteration  or  other  possible 
fraudulent treatment,  and therefore we find 
that the members of  the company,  twenty- 
one in  number,  were  incorporated  under 
special royal charter in  1345, charged  with 
the duty of “garbilling,” or  “weighing,  ex­
amining and cleansing” spices,  etc.

This charter was confirmed by  Henry VI 
in 1429 to  “the Wardens and  Commonality 
of the Mysterie of  Grocers  of  ye  City of 
London.”  The motto inscribed on the com­
pany’s coat-of-arms  was  “God  grant  the 
grace,” and St. Anthony was  chosen its pa­
tron saint.

The staple  articles  which, at this  early 
period,  more especially  appertained  to the 
grocer’s trade were  “spices,  drugs,  fruits, 
gums and other aromatic commodities;”  for 
tea and coffee,  which have  since become its 
leading features, were  not  included  until 
much later.

As far back as the year 1283 it appears by 
ancient records  that  nearly  all the grocers 
were Italians. 
In 1348 the company had no 
fixed place for  meeting,  but  generally as­
sembled  at  the  Ringed  Hall  in  Thames 
street,  although 
its  membership  had  in­
creased to 124 during the  previous  twenty- 
eight years.  No  measures,  however,  seem 
to have been  adopted  towards  obtaining a 
permanent local habitation  for  themselves 
until 1427, when they  purchased a piece of 
land in Bucklersbury,  upon  which the orig­
inal Grocers’ Hall was built.  The first stone 
was laid in the early part of  that year,  and 
a grand.inaugural bauquet was  held  there­
in in 1428, at which all the  members  and a 
large  number  of  civic  functionaries were 
present.  Living  must  have  been  very 
cheap  in  those  days,  for  the  chronicler 
gravely states that “ye  saide  feast did cost 
ye goodlie sum of £5 Os 8d,” or the  equiva­
lent of about $27 in American money.

The social  and political  influence  of the 
Grocers’ Company  was  evidently of an im­
portant character  in  the year  1453,  for the 
“custodie of ye King’s Beam  was  confided 
to them jointly with the corporation of Lon­
don,” and the public weigh-house was estab­
lished under their control  with  an author­
ized scale of official tolls or fees.  The list 
of the various kinds of  goods  which  were 
handled at this establishment is curious and 
worthy of reproduction.  Among them are 
found:  “Pepper,  saffron, cloves, ryse (rice), 
mace,  cynnamon,  gynger,  tin, led (lead), 
cummin, greyse (grease),  soope (soap,) al­
monds,  vermilion,  verdygris, 
saltpetre, 
brymstone, red copper and  flex  (flax).”

The foregoing articles may  be  considered 
of somewhat heterogenous character,  but it 
is not  specifically  stated that  the  ancient 
grocer  necessarily  dealt  in  all  of  them. 
Probably the functions of the company may 
have been  simply  official,  as  experts  for 
genuine quality and  honest  weight.  As a 
matter of fact, it may be observed that even 
at the  present day the  grocer’s  ordinary li­
cense in the United Kingdom makes special 
and distinct mention of “pepper.”

Like all the  great  livery  companies  of 
London,  as they are called,  and  of  which 
there are twelve,  the Grocers’Company has, 
during  the  course  of  centuries,  become 
enormously wealthy.  Its display of antique 
gold and siver plate  is  really  magnificent, 
while its income from rents is immense,  for 
independently of many  very  valuable por­
tions of land  situated in the  very  heart of 
the great city,  it owns vast  estates in vari­

History  informs us  that the great fire of 
London,  which  occurred  in  1606, made al­
most a clean sweep of the  city  proper,  yet 
the original Grocers’ Hall was only  partial­
ly injured, and some of its  solid  old walls 
were left standing.

When the Bank of England was  ordered 
to be enlarged and some of the  streets wid­
ened in 1834,  a portion  of the  land or gar­
den attached to Grocers’ Hall was purchased 
from the company  for the sum  of  £20,000 
($100,000),  though the whole lot had origin­
ally cost them only £37 6s 8d.

Within  the last  few years the  Grocers’ 
Company have erected  upon their old site a 
spendid  hall,  which  is  said  to have cost 
something like half a million  pounds  ster­
ling—$2,500,000 in our money.

If the limits of space would permit, many 
pages of interesting and useful  information 
respecting this famous  old company  might 
be written,  which every  brother of the gro­
cers’ craft may point to with  pride,  no mat­
ter what his nationality  may be,  as a  glo­
rious monument to the grocers’  trade,  for it 
has done much good with its  great  wealth 
during ages past.

The Fire Insurance Monopoly.

From the Gratiot Journal.

The  Caro  Advertiser  and  Mason  News 
forcibly call  attention  to  the  condition  of 
things in those places  as  well  as  in Ithaca 
and every town in  Michigan.  The  monop­
oly complained of  is that  of  the  combina­
tion existing between the leading fire insur­
ance  companies  to  bleed  the  public.  For 
the past two years there  has existed a  pool 
among the leading fire insurance companies 
of the country and  the  result is, about once 
in three months a man  is  sent  to  each  of 
the cities and villages in the State,  who ad 
vances the rates  oujnearly if not  all of the 
buildings in the place and  a  new tariff rate 
is issued.  No one  ever  hears  of  their  re 
ducing them.  As the Mason News remarks, 
a  paid  agent  of  the  combination  visits  i 
town clothed with as much power as that of 
the veriest despot of the  middle  ages.  He 
does not call  on  citizens  who  have carried 
large insurance for years.  He does  not ex 
amine with  any care  the  property to be in 
sured,  Oh, no.  He simply says on  paper 
“Here,  Nelson-Barber  Go.,  you  pay  so 
much; you,  Wolf  Netzorg,  pay  so  much 
you, O.  II.  Heath & Son, pay so much; you 
J. F.  Whitman,  pay so  much; you, Jackson 
& Brown, pay so much; you, Lewis & Yost 
pay  so  much;  you,  Retail & Covert,  pay so 
much;” and in this way fixes the  rates  of  in 
surance of every man in Ithaca,  in St. Louis 
in Alma.  There seems to be no remedy for 
this state of things,  unless relief is afforde 
by the  Legislature.  Local agents are not to 
blame,  as  they  have their instructions  and 
must obey them.  As the Mason News says 
“It is under this outrageous tyranny that w 
live.  The result is, our  business  men  are 
indignant.  Some of  them  are  refusing 
insure,  and all pray  for an insurance  agent 
to open shop wrho will  do  business  outside 
of the ring.  The action  of  the  companies 
is a  species  of  highway  robbery,  and  w 
hope and  believe the Legislature at the pre 
sent session will put an end to it.”

H ow   to M anage a Soda  W ater Generator
Those of  our  readers  who  generate  the 
the  water  for  tlieir  sod 

gas and charge 
fountains will find  the  following  hints 
value:

Never take the hand from the vitriol valv 

while the vitriol is flowing down.

Never turn the agitator oi  the  generator 
or let down the vitriol while the gas is pass 
ing from the generator to the fountain.

Work  up  the  pressure  slowly. 

If  you 
generate the gas too rapidly, the contents o 
the generator may pass into the purifier.

Do not let the pressure off  the  generator 
to the fountain until the pressure gauge  in 
dicates 160 pounds.

Open the gas cock but slightly, to prevent 
a too rapid passing over of gas;  if not  done 
so, the marble will be  carried  up  witli the 
gas and may possibly fill the purifier.

Keep the vitriol  value  closed  after  the 
acid is all down,  so that  the  gas  shall  not 
pass through the water in  the  purifier,  but 
go up through the  vitriol chamber.

Draw off  and  wash  out  the  generator 
thoroughly after the  charging  process  has 
been accomplished.

Avoid pumping air  into  the  fountain  by 

keeping  the  suction  pipe 
water.

immersed 

After  filling  the  fountain,  remove  the 
suction pipe and place the solid cap  on  the 
coupling to prevent the leakage of gas.

Be sure and have  the  soft  thick  leather 

washer in every coupling.

Let off the entire pressure from  the foun­
tain several times during the season,  as  air 
obtains entrance to the fouutain in  the  wa­
ter,  and any great accumulation  of  air,  al­
though producing  equal  pressure,  renders 
it  impossible  to  impregnate  properly  the 
water with the gas.

After the  summer  season  is  over,  and 
when  the  fall  weather  arrives,  dry  out 
thoroughly all parts  of  the  generator  and 
fountain,  and cover all the exposed parts.

N O .  ISM).

“Sugarine”  a  Fraud  and  Its  Inventor  a 

, 

Swindler.
From the New York Times.
The National  Sugarine  Refining Co.  was 
incorporated on January 22 for the manufac­
ture,  production  and  sale  of  a  substance 
called  sugarine,  being a  substitute for com­
mon sugar.  A  certain W. C. Hickman secur­
ed as  incorporators several  Boston  lawyers 
and capitalists.  They furnished the money 
and he provided the secret which was to make 
them all more  wealthy.  The  whole  thing 
appears to have been a stupenduous swindle. 
Hickman  pretended 
that  from  a  dying 
French sailor,  whom  he had  befriended,  he 
learned  the  secret  of  making  sugar  from 
starch.  He carried  samples of his pretend­
ed manufacture  to the  State  Assayer,  who 
readily attested that  the  samples  analyzed 
revealed  80 parts  of  common  sugar and 20 
parts of ^tarch.  The  Assayer also certified 
that the samples contained nothing injurious 
to health,  which was perfectly true.  Armed 
with these  documents,  Hickman  perfected 
his  swindle  and  started  his  business  on 
Oliver  street  with  machinery  valued  at 
$1,000,  but  «barged  to  the  corporation  at 
$22,000.  The composition  being  a  secret, 
Hickman attended to  the  chemical  part  of 
the work  himself.  He  managed  to  make 
the  directors  of  his  company believe  that 
business  was  rushing,  and steps  were  ac­
tually taken  toward  erecting  a  factory  at 
East Boston.  By this  time  Hickman  had 
got about $30,000  out  of  the  stockholders, 
and with this snug sum  lie  got safely away 
to our northern neighbor.  Even now  some 
of the stockholders believe that the sugarine 
scheme wascertain to succeed and that Hick­
man would have done all  he  promised, but 
that he had been  forced  to leave  by threat­
ened  arrest  for  former  misdeeds.  Hick­
man’s methods, says Dr.  Bowker,  the  State 
Assayer,  was to  buy  four  pounds  of  pow­
dered sugar  at, say,  6 \-i  cents  per  pound, 
and about two poimds of  starch  at  whole­
sale for  about 2 cents.  He  would  run  the 
starch and sugar  through a simple grinding 
and mixing machine and  then  would  have 
six pounds  of  “sugarine,”  which  hail  cost 
him 28 cents or  4>\j  cents  per  pound, 
llo 
could then afford to sell  it  for 5J i cents per 
pound and make a good profit.  Dr.  Bowker 
was of the  opinion  that such a preparation 
as sugarine could  be  legally sold,  and  that 
for  confectioners,  at  any  rate,  it fully  an­
swered the purposes of common sugar.  He 
believed that had Hickman continued  in the 
sugarine  business  he  would  have  made 
money.
The Check as an Indication  of  Character.
“The style of a check,” said a bank cash­
ier to a Chicago News  reporter,  “is often a 
pretty  good 
indication of  the character of 
the firm or individual  that  makes it.  The 
newer  the  account of  a man  in a bank is 
the bigger his checks,  is an almost  invaria­
ble rule.  A man  who  has  millions—men,  * 
for  instance, 
like  Armour  and  Marshall 
Field and Pullman—use small checks,  or, at 
least,  medium-sized ones.  They  are made 
of good paper, but they are quiet  and  busi­
ness-like.  But Pumpkin.  Hayseed  & Co., 
who run a  shingle-mill  in  Michigan,  and 
who  have  only  been  banking  for a few 
months,  have  pictures  and 
tlieir  names 
spread over big,  colored  checks,  that  look 
like 
country 
checks nearly  always  there is a picture in 
one corner, of the building  occupied by the 
man whose name is  signed at the  bottom; 
sometimes a print of  his  daughter  or  his 
wife adorns  the  paper,  and  then his own 
countenance is at the margin.  Then he has 
his name printed in big,  black  letters,  over 
half the check,  and his address over most of 
the rest, and in the  middle,  in little letters* 
there is the name of the  bank  in  which lie 
has his money.  The  banks  supply  check 
books to their customers,  but  most  people 
have their own printed.

three-sheet  posters.  On 

“Sometimes the boys,  when  they are not 
doing anything else,  amuse  themselves by 
drawing  pictures on  the  checks,  and the 
bald-headed president of the Oshkosh Incu­
bator Company, who has put a reproduction 
of his features where it  will attract  atten­
tion,  finds to his surprise,  when  the  check 
is returned,  that  he has a beautiful head of 
auburn hair, and that his  lonely but unique 
single chin  whisker has been  joined by an 
elegant pointed moustache and  James Rus­
sell Lowell sideboards. 
If  his  daughter’s 
face is at the top,  her  form,  clad in  stylish 
garments, and with a bustle like a bay win­
dow, is added.  This makes a bank clerk’s 
life worth living.  But you can put it down 
as a pretty sure thing that when a firm is in 
the country,  or is  starting a fake  business, 
witli plenty  of  wind  in  the  city,  it will 
spread itself on  checks;  but if it is a solid 
house of good standing and heavy  backing, 
the chances are that  its checks  will  be al­
most severe in their modesty.”

Ferrous sulphate may, according to Gawal 
owski, be preserved from oxidation by plac­
ing upright in the  bottle containing the salt 
an open test-tube partly filled  with an alka­
line solution of pyrogallic acid.

Minister (to layman):  “But  why do you 
say that  Mr.  Smith  is  a  good  man?  He 
rarely  appears  at  church.”  Layman:  “I 
know  he doesn’t  show  up  at church  very 
often,  but Unulstrcet quotes him A 1.”

Like Dr.  Tanner,  who,  in  1879, remained 
without eating for more  than  a  month,  an 
Italian, M.  Sued, has just concluded, under 
the  superintendance  of  a  commission  of 
scientists,  a fasting  performance  which  he 
now  repeating in Paris.  Although these 
facts  may seem  extraordinary, yet  medical 
science has had more than  once  to  register 
cases of the same kind and  much  more  re­
markable.  Thus,  in 1865, a young country- 
oman remained without  eating for several 
months,  which  did  not  prevent  her  from 
being  as  lively  and  gay  as  usual.  The 
physicians employed  all  possible  means  to 
make her take some food, but without avail. 
She would  not take even a bit of meat; the 
sight alone filled her with disgust.  This con­
dition, contrary to  nature,  is a very rare dis­
ease, the name bestowed  upon  it  in  medi­
cine  being  inappetence.” 
In  this  connec­
tion we wish to  point  out  a  strange  case, 
hich people are  little  disposed  to  credit, 
although it oonstitutes the subject of  a vol­
uminous  memoir  written  by Dr.  Mansaiut, 
physician  who lived  at  the  beginning of 
the seventeenth  century and  witnessed  it. 
In  1616  in  the  neighborhood  of  Sens,  a 
young  peasant, Jehan  Godeau,  nine  years 
old, one day all at once  refused to eat.  On 
the following day, he did the same ami also 
on the day afterwards.  The parents, j ustly 
concerned,  sent  for  Mansaint.  Although 
the doctor was unable to explain the strange 
phenomenon,  he  ascertained  the  fact  that 
Jehan was well and that  he  had no trace of 
fever.  A fortnight,  a  month,  two  months 
passed by before Godeau  consented  to  eat, 
which did not  prevent  him  from  going  to 
work in the fields,  nor  from  running  about 
in the woods.  This lasted in the same way 
for five years.  Jehan had become renowned; 
people came in processions to see him, every­
body saw a miracle in the fact.  At the end 
of five  years,  the  memoir  says,  the boy all 
at once experienced a  great  weakness  and 
died.  The autopsy practiced  by  Mansaint 
failed  to  reveal  anything  in  particular. 
From a medical  standpoint  inappetence  is 
less rare than one would suppose.  It is less 
taken notice of,  because  it  mostly  accom­
panies  other  diseases.  Patients  eat  little 
or nothing for a certain time. 
It is  the  ef­
fect of inappetence.  This disease  becomes 
extraordinary and rare, when it presents  it­
self alone. 
It is  again  inappetence  which 
is met with in certain  cases  of  catalepsy. 
Persons afflicted with this disease have been 
known to remain for  a  fortnight  or  three 
weeks torpid and deadlike; they were alive, 
but there was a kind of  stoppage in the hu­
man organism and, the stomach  not iligest- 
iny more,  such  persons  were,  in  this 
way,  able to live without  eating. 
It is pos­
sible,  moreover, with a special  regimen,  to 
accustom the stomach to taking  little  food, 
because in that  way  it  gradually  contracts 
its dimensions.  Mention is made of an old 
miser who had succeeded in  living  on  pre­
served olives only. 
In fact, this  faculty  of 
not eating is  a  disease,  because  in  good 
health no one can’stand diet for  more  than 
three to  five  days,  according  to  temper- 
ments.  Persons  provided  with  fleshiness 
will stand it longer,  because  they  feed  on 
their  own  material.  Different  substances 
have the property of  prolonging  existence. 
Thus tobacco and opium will sooth  hunger 
Life  is  also  prolonged  by  drinking  clear 
water often  and  in  small  draughts. 
In  a 
military  report,  an  officer  is  mentioned, 
who,  after  being  shipwrecked,  lived  for 
forty-five  days  without  eating,  drinking 
brandy often but  moderately.  People  who 
do not eat on account of disease will  be un­
der the influence of a  general  torpification. 
Persons who do not eat for want of food, on 
account of misery,  famine,  shipwreck, will, 
after a certain  time,  experience  hallucina­
tions, generally  agreeable.  Numerous  are 
the instances of mariners,  who,  after  sail­
ing in open sea several days on wrecks  and 
stung by hunger,  pretended to  see  near  by 
gardens planted  with  trees  or  tables  fur­
nished with the most delicious  dishes,  and 
often the unfortunates, deceived by  this de­
lusion,  gaily pluuged into the  waters,  say­
ing that they would eat at last.

Got the Debt First.

From the Detroit Free Press.

“I  understand,  sir,”  he  began,  as  lie 
walked into a Grand River  avenue grocery, 
“that you say I don’t pay my debts. 
I owe 
you  four dollars.  Take  it out  of that five 
dollars.”

“ Yes—ah—take  it  out — there’s  your 
change.  No,  sir,  I never said  anything  of 
the  kind.  What  I  did  say  was  that  I 
wished you owed me a  hundred  dollars,  as 
I was sure of getting my money.”

“Oh, that was it?  Well,  why  in  blazes 
didn’t  you  say  so  before  I  paid the ac­
count!”

A man worth  ten  million  dollars  is  no 
happier,  really,  than a man worth nine mil­
lion  dollars.  Money doesn’t  always  cause 
happiness.

All  the  vinegar  manufacturers  in  the 
country, except two,  have  formed a  combi 
nation for the purpose of maintaining pricer. 
The compact goes into effect May 20.

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Fancy CroclerysFancy ¥  oodenware

OUR  OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

S E E D S
For the FieW and Garden.
awl R ais M

71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all K inds of Garden 

Seeds in Bulk.

Medium Clover,

Mammoth  Clover,
Alsike Clover,.

Alfalfa Clover,

W hite Dutch Clover, 

Timothy,

Red  Top,

Blue Grass,

Orchard Grass,

Hungarian Grass, 
Common Millet, 

German Millet, 

Flax Seed.

COOK  &  PR1NZ,
Show  Cases,

Manufacturers of

Counters, Tables and Furniture of any 

Description,  as  well  as  Designs 

thereof,  made to order.  W rite 

for Prices or call and see us 

when 

in  the  City.

38 ¥estBridie St.. Granfl Rapids.

Telephone 374.

J U D D   O b   O O . ,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY H A R D W A R E 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

103  CANAL  STREET.

T.  R. Ellis  & Co.,
Book Binders

PAPER  RULERS,

51, 53 and 55 Lyon St., 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

U V E

Muzzy’s Corn Starch is prepared expressly 
for food,  is made of only the best white com 
and ts guaranteed absolutely pure.

The popularity ofLMuzzy’s  Com  and Sun 
Gloss  Starch  is  proven  by  the  large  sale, 
aggregating  many  million  of  pounds  each 
year.

The State  Assayer of Massachusetts says 
Muzzy’s Com  Starch  for table  use, is  per 
fectly pure,  is well  prepared,  and  of  excel­
lent quality.

Muzzy’s Starch,  both for laundry and table 
use,  is  the  very best  offered  to  the  con­
sumer.  All  wholesale  and  retail  grocers 
sell it

— = S O A F =
The Best Laundry Soap on the Market.

T R Y  

I T

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FO R  S A L E  BY A L L   FIR S T-C LA S S   GROCERS.

MANCrACpjRED  BY

Oberne9 Hosick & Co«

C H I C A G O .

A. HUFFORD, General  Agent,

Box 14. 

Grand Rapids.

EDMUND  D.  » M A N ,

JEW ELER

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

HEMLOCK  BARK!

WANTED.

The undersigned will  pay  th e high­
est  m arket  price  for  HEMLOCK 
BARK  loaded  on  board  cars  a t  any 
side track on th e G. R. & I. or  C. & W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit­
ed.

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 Ottawa St., 

Grand Rapids.

MUSCATINE

OATMEAL.

Best in the world.  Made by new and im­
proved process of  kiln-drying  and  cutting. 
All grocers keep it.  Put up in barrels,  half 
barrels and  cases.

MUSCATINE 

ROLLED OATS.

Made  by  entirely  new process,  and used 
by everybody.  Put up in barrels,  half  bar­
rels and cases.

fir Sali by all H itlim  Jotters.
CHARLES  A.  COYE,

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

DEALER IN

AWNINGS g TENTS

Horse and W agon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

W ide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL  ST.. 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

CIGARS

Factory  No,  36, 4tli  I)ist.

îiS J m É ü S t,  S ia l Binili.
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  FOB

The Only Reliable Gompmsed Yeast.

M anufactured by Rlverdale Dlst. Co.

106 K ent Street, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

TELEPHONE  566.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure th e agency for 
th e ir tow n on th is Y east by applying to above address, 
None genuine unless it bears above label.

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RETAIL TRAM  OF  THE WOLVERINE  STATE.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  MAY  11,  1,887.

Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s Association.
President,  L.  M. Mills;  Vice-President, 8. A. Sears;  Sec- 
retary  and Treasurer, Geo. H. Seymour;  Board or Di­
rectors, H. S. Robertson,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  J.  N.  Brad­
ford, A. B, Cole and Win. Logie.

|S T   Subscribers and others,  when writing 
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the puh- 
lishers by mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this  paper.

W HY  STOP  AT  BOGUS  BUTTER?
The law against the sale of oleomargarine 
under the name of butter brings out  the ex­
tent to which the one  lias  been  sold for the 
other. 
It is found that several of  the  best 
recognized  and  most  approved  brands  of 
butter are  nothing  but “butterine,” as it is 
called for euphony.  But  there  can  be  no 
ground for the assertion that  the  carcasses 
of dogs and horses have been worked up  by 
the  manufacturers  of  the  article.  This 
statement  was  attributed  to  the  Commis­
sioner of Agriculture,  but  lie  repudiates it.
Why  should  not “shoddy” be  treated  in 
the same  fashion as oleomargarine,  and the 
dealers in it be compelled  to sell it for what 
it really is?  The tariff  imposes  a  prohibi­
tory  duty  on  its  import,  but  it  is  largely 
used by the manufacturers of  woolen goods 
in  America,  and  indeed  in  every  country 
which makes such goods in large quantities. 
To this there could be  no  objection,  if  the 
article were sold for what it is, and the pro­
portion of  shoddy  mixed  with  wool  were 
specified in every case.  And  this would be 
as much to the benefit of  the  wool-growing 
farmer,  as the  law  against  concealment in 
the case of butterine is to the benefit of  the 
butter-making  fanner.

The Cole anti-board insurance bill  passed 
the  House by the significant vote  of  01  to 
14, but the enemies of the  measure are cen­
tering their strength  on the Senate and for­
tifying their position with the most flagrant 
falsehood.  Business men  who  would  like 
to see the  measure  become  a  law  should 
write their Senator  without  delay,  setting 
forth good and  sufficient  reasons  why  the 
favorable action of the House should be  re­
peated  in  the  Senate.  Especially  should 
the proper pressure be  brought  to  bear  on 
the members of the Insurance  Committee— 
Messrs. J.  W.  Babcock,  Floyd L.  Post and 
Albert K. Roof—wlio  desire  to  report  the 
measure on its merits,  but  whose  opinions 
are likely to be prejudiced by the discourag­
ing  array of misrepresentation made by  the 
paid  attorneys  of  insurance  companies— 
misrepresentations  not  yet  dissipated  by 
a  single  statement  from  the  other  side 
of the question.  Unless business men rally 
to the support of  this  measure  during  the 
present  week,  they  will  have  no  one  but 
themselves to  blame if it fails  to  become a 
law.

Messrs.  Dun  &  Co., 

the  commercial 
agents,  have been condemned  to  pay  large 
damages to a woman  whose  business  they 
injured by a statemeut that she had given  a 
chattle-mortgage on her stock. 
Although 
the statement was false,  and she contradict­
ed 
it,  she  incurred  a  considerable  loss 
through its currency.  Of course  no  moral 
blame attaches to the firm,  as they acted  in 
good faith in view of the duty  to  their  pa 
trons. 
In a business  such  as  theirs,  mis 
takes of this kind will occur,  and  the  pen 
aity must be borne.  But it would be better if 
our commercial system were so reconstruct 
«d  as  to  make. a  Commercial  Directory 
superfluous. 
If our  banking  system  were 
as well organized as that of Scotland,  there 
would be no use for it.  Sales to  merchants 
from a distance  would  be  made  for  casli 
and loans would  be  made  by  local  bank 
upon direct and close acquaintance with the 
affair of their customers.

Traveling  men  never  forget  a  favor  or 
condone  an  injury.  This  being  the  case, 
the action of the Grand Trunk,  D.,  G.  H.  & 
M.  and D.,  L.  & N.  Railways  in  granting 
the fraternity thousand  mile  tickets  at  the 
same rate  in  vogue  before  the  inter-state 
commerce law  went  into  effect  is  sure  to 
make many friends for  the  roads  among a 
class of men whose friendship is worth hav­
ing. 

________________

The  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion desires the support  and co-operation of 
every local organization in the State.  Sixty 
associations are  now  auxiliary to  the  State 
body and the remaining fifteen should  affil­
iate with  the  parent  organization  without 
further delay.  The  benefits  derived  from 
such connection  are  out  of  all  proportion 
to  the  meager  cost  of  auxiliary  member­
ship. 

________________

Saranac offers an exceptional opportunity 
for the establishment of a savings bank.  A 
rotten private bank  lias  nearly demoralized 
the business of the town,  but a properly-or­
ganized savings institution, officered by men 
possessing the confidence of the community, 
would do much  toward  reviving  the  pros­
perity of the place.

If fire insurance is such a precarious busi­
ness  as  the  advocates of  the board mono­
poly would  have us  believe,  isn’t it a little 
singular that Detroit capitalists should  put 
$200,000 into a new  company,  as  was  the 
case last  week?

Traverse City business  men  have in con­
templation  the  organization  of  a  savings 
bank,  having for its  object  the  encourage­
ment of  a frugal spirit among the  working 
people of  that  town.  Such  an  enterprise 
will not only work to  the  advantage of  the 
people the institution is intended to benefit, 
but will prove an exceptionally good invest­
ment to the stockholders as well.

AMONG  TH E TRADE.

G RA N D   R A P ID S   G O SSIP.

Daniel Kull succeeds Faulhaber& Kullin 

the dry goods business.

L.  E.  Patten is  closing out  his  grocery 

and tea business at 87  Monroe street.

The Grand  Rapids  Knitting Co.  has en­

gaged in business at 2 Pearl street.

Bauer & Curtis have sold their drug stock 
at 225 South Division street  to  Dr.  L.  J. 
Kimball.

Henry Ade has engaged in the shoe  busi­
ness at West  Chester.  Rindge,  Bertsch  & 
Co. furnished the  stock.

M.  Legardus  has  engaged in the grocery 
business on Ninth avenue.  The  stock was 
purchased at this market.

The Grand Rapids  Soap  Co.  has  placed 
$20,000 more stock  on  the  market, making 
the present authorized capital $50,000.

The When Shoe Co.,  G.  L.  Riggs,  mana­
ger,  lias  opened a shoe  store  at 13  Canal 
street.  The stock was removed to this city 
from Battle Creek.

Geo.  Brooks lias  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at the corner of  Fifth  avenue  and 
Center street.  Cody,  Ball,  Barnhart & Co. 
furnished the stock.

Irwin & Lane have  engaged  in the  gro­
cery business at  the corner  of  Fourth and 
Stocking  streets.  Cody,  Ball,  Barnhart & 
Co.  furnished the stock.

The  Auburn  Paper  Co.’s  branch ware­
house on North Ionia street is now open for 
business.  Jas. E.  Botsford  has  come  pn 
from Auburn to manage the branch.

J.  D.  Robinson has engaged  in the  gro­
cery business at West  Bridge  street ferry, 
nine miles west  of  the  city.  Cody,  Ball, 
Barnhart & Co.  furnished the stock.

John Brittain has  purchased  the  Sinclair 
block at 125 and 127 Canal street for $14,000 
and will convert the same into a hotel at the 
expiration of his present lease of the Bridge 
Street House.

B.  F.  Emery  has  engaged  with  Gray, 
Kingman & Collins,  of  Chicago,  to  repre­
sent them in this city, and he is negotiating 
with two manufacturing concerns to carry a 
line of their  goods  as  well.  Mr.  Emery 
went to Chicago last night to perfect the ar­
rangements.

AROU N D   T IIE   S TA TE.

-Cannon Bros.,  grocers,  have sold

Niles 

out.

clothing store

his drug stock.

Saranac—J.  W.  Francis  lias  opened  a 

Jackson—Chas.  E.  Humphrey  has  sold 

Shelbyville—Chas.  Allgeo  has  opened a 

flour and feed store.

Allegan—Frank  Marty  succeeds  Marty 

Bros,  in the liquor business.

Homer—John  Raby  is  building  a  new 

store for his bakery  business.

Ovid—Hill & Town  succeed  J.  II.  High 

in the manufacture of cigars.

Sarauac—Wilson & Son, late of St. Johns 

have opened a clothing store.

Alg'gan—A.  Young  succeeds  Young  & 

Ballou in the drug  business.

Bravo—C.  Y.  Nash  is  building  a  new 

store, 20x40 feet in dimensions.

Owosso—C. G.  Wildermuth  succeeds  C 

H.  Allen in the saloon  business.

Dowagiac—'The  new  bank  will  begin 

business the first of next  month.

Battle Creek—John  Walz  succeeds L.  L 

Holensberg,  in the meat business.

Bonanza—Clias.  Mills,  late  of  Saranac 

will shortly open a harness shop.

Scottsville—Higgins &  Co.  succeed  Ilig 

gins & Allen in the drug business.

Greenville—Contracts  have  been  let  for 

the erection of fourteen brick stores.

Manistee—Win.  Crosby  has  bought  out 

F.  E.  McCarron’s restaurant business.

Evart—Mrs.  Flora  Cassady, 

late of  Mt 

Pleasant,  has opened  a millinery store.

Grandville—R. T.  Parrish has bought the 

general stock of John W.  Closterhouse.

Detroit—Robinson & Reed  succeed  Rob­

inson & Klugh iu the crockery business.

Plainwell—D.  It. Green,  late of Bellevue 

will open a clothing store about May 15.

Alpena—B.  Kramer  succeeds  B. Kramer 

& Co.  in the merchant tailoring business

Dansville—J.  W.  Francis,  clothing  and 
gents’ furnishings, has removed  to Saranac,
Muskegon—A.  Bergeron succeeds Berger­
on & Morin in  the  drug  and  grocery busi 
ness.

East Saginaw — W.  H.  Foote  succeeds 

F.  (Mrs.  W.  H.)  Yarnell in  the  drug  busi 
ness.

Adrian—Sheldon  &  Sigler, jewelers,  are 
about to  dissolve,  and  W.  H.  Shelden  will 
continue.

Hillsdale—E.  J.  Goodrich  succeeds  Pen- 
field & Goodrich in the book and  stationery 
business.

Big  Rapids—Smith  &  Kuyers  succeed 
Glidden & Co iu the bakery and confection 
ery business. 

Bay City—W.  li  Brotlierton  &  Co.  sue 
ceed Maltby, Brotnerton & Co. in the whole 
sale grocery business.

Allegan—Fairfield & Gibson is  the  style 
of a new  firm  whifh  has  engaged  iu  the 
manufacture of cigars.

j

Greenville—J. H. Edsall has  sold out his 

restaurant business.

Ridgway—Wm. F.  Clark succeeds G. W. 

Clark in genera! trade.

Houghton—G. J. Seifert  succeeds W. A. 

Dunn in the harness business.

Lexington—C.  C.  L.  Sly, furniture  deal­

er, has assigned to H. B. Morrison.

Ionia—Hunt &  Trim succeed  E.  G. Hunt 

in the grocery and produce business.

Gregory—Daniels  &  Moore  succeed  F. 

A.  Daniels in the hardware business.

Niles—Thos.  H.  Fitzgerald’s  boot  and 
shoe stock has been seized  on  attachment.
Albion—Parsons & Kinney succeed Mann 
&  Parsons  in  the  agricultural  implement 
business,

Owosso—Lawrence & Son  succeed  Law­
rence,  Hamblin & Co. in the wholesale  and 
retail tobacco and grocery business.

Three  Rivers—R.  A.  Hyma,  formerly 
Treasurer of Ottawa  county,  has  engaged 
in the grocery and bakery business.

Homer—Dr.  C. H.  Cook has sold his drug 
stock  to  Dr. J.  C. Foster,  late  of  Albion. 
Dr.  Cook will remove to Oakland,  Cal.

Big Rapids—Frank  H.  Lange has assign­
ed his merchant  tailoring  business to M. P. 
Gale.  Liabilities,  $6,000;  assets,  about the 
same.

Hastings—Chas.  Houglitalin has purchas­
ed an  interest  in  the  grocery’  business  of 
Henry  Houglitalin.  The  firm  name  is 
Houghtalin & Soil.

Clinton—B.  G.  Swift has  sold  his  inter­
est in the grocery  and  produce  business  of 
Bush & Swift to John  Bush, who will  con­
tinue  the business.

Au Sable—The J. E.  Potts  Salt &  Lum­
ber Co. will have an output of  nearly  100,- 
000,000 feet of cut stuff the  present season. 
Six locomotives  are kept in  active  use on 
their logging railroad.

Manistee—By the failure  of  Goodrich  & 
Wegner,  wholesale  grocers  of  Milwaukee, 
Sophia Englemann  is  an  unsatisfied  cred 
itor for $15,000,  and Michael  Englemann  is 
out  $8,000.

Detroit—J.  A.  Roys,  wholesale  and  re­
tail  books  and  stationery,  has  admitted 
Sherman  A.  Roys  to  partnership.  The 
business will be continued  under  the  style 
of J. A.  Roys & Co.

Detroit—Calvin A.  Cook  is  special  part­
ner of Cereno  W.  Inslee,  and  contributes 
$22,000 to the firm of Inslee  &  Co.  C.  H 
Buhl has contributed $25,000 to  the  capital 
stock of King,  Klough  &  Co.  F.  Dittmer 
holds 680 of the 1,000 shares of the Dittmer 
brewing company.  The capital stock of the 
concern is $40,000.

STRA Y   FA C T S.

Homer—Andrus  &  Webster  will  open 

their bank in a few days.

G,

Leslie—Daniel D.  Mitchell  succeeds 

W.  Halstead in the hotel business.

Detroit—The  F.  Dittmer  Brewing  Co 

(incorporated)  succeeds F.  Dittmer.

Battle Creek—Stephen B.  Todd succeeds 
Geo.  E.  Hastings & Son  in  the  hotel busi 
ness.

Traverse City—Some of the business men 
are canvassing the project of starting a sav 
ings bank.

Vennontville—It is reported that Barber 
Ambrose  &  Rockwell will  shortly  engage 
in the banking business.

East  Jordan—A.  B.  Nicholas  lias  pur 
chased  the  Commercial  House  of  D.  B 
Jerrue and the  hotel  is  now  open  to  the 
public.

Saranac—The Lee &  Brown  bank  build­
ing has been bid in  at  attachment  sale  by 
the Second National Bank  of  Ionia. 
It  is 
stated that a new bank  will  be  started  in 
the building soon.

Ypsilanti—The Ypsilauti  Savings  Bank 

begins its existence  by  the  erection  of 
$20,000 building in which  to  do  business, 
The structure will be  put  up  this  summer 
and will be modem in its appointments.

Homer—Tlie  village  wag  transferred 

saloon sigu to  French  &  Son’s  dry  goods 
establishment last Saturday night.  All day 
Sunday,  passers by were  astonished  to  see 
French & Son  advertise:  “Go  around  to 
the back door, but look out for  an  officer.

Detroit—A number of prominent business 
men, mostly the German-American element, 
have  perfected  the  preliminary  arrange 
ments for the organization of a fire insurance 
company with a paid-up capital  of $200,000. 
The  company  will be  incorporated  under 
the  name of  the Detroit  German-American 
Fire Insurance Co.

M A N U FA C TU R IN G   M ATTERS.

St/lgnace—Tlie St.  Ignace  Manufactur­

ing Co. now employs forty-two men.

Battle  Creek—Piper & Muirhead  succeed 

F.  E.  Bellamy in tlie lumber business.

Allegan—Wesley Stewart succeeds Stew­
art & McLaughlin in the foundry  business.
Cadillac—F.  II.  Weatherly  has  retired 
from the Cadillac Veneer &  Panel  Works.
Battle Creek—The Michigan Foundry Co. 
succeeds Bird & Baker in the  foundry busi­
ness.

Douglas—Weed & Co. have  begun manu­
facturing fruit  baskets and  crates  for the 
season.

Black River—R. P. Pearson has purchased 
the Roe Lake shingle mill  and will remove 
it to West Harrisville.

Kalamazoo—Busli & Patterson  are  erect­
ing a  new two-story brick warehouse in the 
rear of their planing mill.

Alpena—Luke Phillips, of  Au Sable,  has 
leased the  Gebliardt  planing  mill,  with  a 
view to purchasing the same.

Oscoda—The  Oscoda  Salt  and  Lumber 
Co.  is building  as an addition to its planing 
mill,  a dry-kiln 20x70 feet and  18 feet high.
Black River—Tlie Sanborns, of Ossineke, 
have  purchased  of  Alger,  Smith  &  Co. 
3,000,000 feet of logs,  which are  to  be  de­
livered at the mill booms by rail.

Meredith—The. A.  W.  Wright  Lumber 
Co. has a, large crew of men at work  on  its 
logging road.  The company has 62,000,000 
feet of logs in Sugar creek, which it intends 
to drive out this season.

Muskegon—The Muskegon Curtain Roller 
Factory, which employs 100 men,  is doing a 
rushing business.  The material used for the 
rollers is picked up at the mills  and  would 
otherwise be worthless.

Kalkaska—The Smith Lumber  Co.’s mill 
js shut  down  for  improvements. 
It  is  to 
have a new boiler and engine.  Tlie logging 
ailroad connected with the mill  is to be ex­
tended two and one-lialf miles.

Byron Center—S.  S.  Towner’s  saw  mill 
burned on  the 6th at a loss of  $4,000,  with 
no insurance.  About 400,000 feet  of  hard­
wood logs,  which are in the mill  yard,  will 
necessitate the reconstruction of  the mill at 
once.
Muskegon—The  Union  Mill  Machinery 
Co. has been  organized for  the purpose of 
manufacturing  saw mill  machinery.  The 
capital stock is $200,000,  divided into 8,000 
shares, and distributed as follows:  Herman 
O. Lange and Jas. E.  Keelyn,  each  3,500; 
Wm.  S.  Hofstra,  1,000 shares.

Muskegon—C.  W.  Pratt  lias  secured  a 
patent on a pail stave  machine.  A piece of 
board  ten inches long and  two wide can  be 
utilized. 
It  is  estimated  that tlie material 
which  is now practically wasted  in any one 
of  the  thirty-two  mills  along  Muskegon 
Lake, will  make  during  the season,  30,000 
pails. 

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Purely Personal.

Will.  L.  White has gone to  Detroit  on  a 

pleasure trip.

Oscar  D.  Fisher  spent  Sunday  with 

friends at Prairieville.

Frank  E.  Leonard  lias  returned  from 
England, looking much improved iu  health 
and strength.

J.  W.  Milliken,  of  Traverse  City,  spent 
four days in Grand Rapids last week,  in at­
tendance on the firemen’s convention.

J. H.  Parker,  whose  sawmill and  other 
industries at Alpine now  require his  entire 
attention,  has  removed to that  place  witli 
his family.

W. T.  Lamoreaux left  Monday  for  Bos­
ton, where he will spend a week or ten days 
for the purpose of ascertain  tlie  temper  of 
tlie wood  market.

Christian Bertsch returned Saturday  eve­
ning from his spring visit to the shoe  man­
ufacturing  centers  of  the  east.  He  says 
that  the  strikes  and  other  foolishness  on 
the  part  of  the  workmen  in  some  of  the 
Massachusetts towns have left many  manu­
facturers  undecided as to whether they will 
continue business or retire from shoe manu­
facturing altogether.  .

Will.  A.  Rindge,  Lester  J.  ltindge  and 
Leo. Kymer have gone to Chicago to attend 
the nuptials of  the former  and  Miss  Belle 
Bishop,  a young  lady  well  and  favorably 
known here.  The  ceremony  occurs at the 
home of tlie  bride’s  parents  to-day,  after 
which  tlie  happy  couple  leave  on a two- 
weeks’  wedding tour, Washington being the 
objective point.  They will be  “at home” to 
friends at the Park Place after June 1.

D. E.  Carter was in the  city  a  couple of 
days  last  week, superintending  repairs on 
machinery for the  Elmwood Manufacturing 
Co.,  of  Traverse  City.  He  recently  pur­
chased  a  boiler,  engine  and  planing  mill 
outfit at Bellevue, which will  be  placed  in 
the company’s mill on Grand Traverse Bay. 
The company comprises D. E.  Carter,  C.  L. 
Carter,  N.  B.  Eastman  and  L.  K.  Cleve­
land. 
In  addition  to  doing  planing  and 
moulding,  the  company  will  make  barrel 
heading.

The Gripsack Brigade.

John H.  McIntyre lias engaged to carry a 

gripsack for Arthur Meigs & Co.

W.  B.  Sweet is visiting the Indiana trade 

of H.  H.  Freedman & Co.  this  week.

J.  L.  Strelitsky—boy—eight—pounds— 
father and child doing as  well  as  could  be 
expected.

C.  H.  Ellis, formerly with  Ira O.  Green, 
is on the road  again  for C.  H.  Ellis & Co., 
of Rochester,  N.  Y.

Chas.  L.  Love, representing  the  Howard 
Cutlery Co., of New York,  is taking  a brief 
respite from the  road.

S. A.  Gonzallez,  formerly  owner  of  tlie 
Morton House  cigar  stand,  is  now  on  the 
road for tlie Alabastine Co.

Will J.  Worden,  formerly  will  the  Pow­
ers & Walker Casket  Co.,  returned  tor  the 
employ of that corporation May  1.

J. J. Van Leuven,  the bankrupt milliner, 
is now on  the  road  for  tlie  Bissell  Carpet 
Sweeper Co.  Creditors take notice.

S.  H.  Sweet,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
bakery business at Kalkaska,  has  engaged 
to represent tlie Independent Oil Co.  on the 
road.
Jas.  A.  Crookston will  start  out  on  the 
road again Thursday,  in  hopes  that  suffi­
cient strength has  returned  to  enable  him 
to keep going a portion of eacli week.

Harry  McKelvey,  formerly on  the  road 
for tlie Diamond Wall Finish  Co.,  is  now 
traveling in Michigan for  the Rubber  Paint 
Co., of Cleveland.

Thos.  McLeod,  representing  H.  P.  Bald­
win  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  was  in  town  last 
week.  He  came  back  Tuesday  and  will 
spend  several  days  in  attendance  on  the 
Grand Cominandery.

The Grand Trunk and D..G.H. & M. Rail­
ways are still  selling  week-end  tickets to 
the traveling men.  This  concession  is ap­
preciated by the boys all tlie more, now that 
it is confined to one railway system.
The  D.,  L.  & N.  Railway  lias  followed 
the example set  by tlie  Grand  Trunk  and 
D.,  G.  II. & M.  Railways  by  granting trav­
eling men thousand  mile  tickets at  the old 
figure—$20.  The following Michigan roads 
now  allow  traveling  men  250  pounds  of 
baggage:  F.  &  P.  M.;  Grand  Trunk;  D., 
G.  H.  & M.; D.,  L.  & N.; T.  & A. A.

Plainwell  Independent;  The  Bqsiness 
Men’s Association  killed the  early  closing 
scheme at its meeting last  night.  Too bad 
to lose that bell.

Albert Retan.  President  of  the  Pewamo 
Business Men’s Association,  was in town  a 
couple of days ago  last week.  He failed to 
find any wine equal to that of  his own vint­
age.

The Saranac Business  Me n's  Association 
has appointed a committee to call a citizen’s 
meeting for the purpose  of  considering  tlie 
idea of forming a stock  company  to engage 
in the manufacture of furniture.

F.  H.  Merrifield,  Secretary of  the Waffir- 
vliet Business Men’s  Association,  in remit­
ting the necessary  dues to the State Associ­
ation,  writes as follows:  “ We  are  getting 
along nicely.  We  have  just  got our Blue 
Letters  printed  and  will send out tlie first 
to-day.  What we need now is to have Ben­
ton Harbor  organize,  for  we  have a good 
many delinquents in  that place.”

R. C. Parker, of the Battle  Creek  Retail 
Grocers’ Association,  writes as follows:  “1 
am using the Blue Letter—tlie  only hope of 
bringing dead-beats to time—to good advan­
tage. 
I sent one to a man in East  Saginaw 
who has owed me $12 for two  years and  he 
writes me that the  matter  will  receive  his 
prompt  attention. 
I  had  previously  seat 
the fellow a  dozen ordinary letters, without 
effect.”

C.  E.  Lockwood,  Secretary of  the Trav­
erse City Business Men’s Association, writes 
as follows:  “Our May meeting was well at­
tended.  Tlie only business  of  importance 
was tlie adopting of an  amendment to  our 
constitution,  enabling us to  take in  busi­
ness men from  the  surrounding  towns,  if 
desired.  We also heard the report of the del­
egates to the State  convention,  which was 
very interesting and  flattering to tlie  work 
in progress.”

T ii e   T r a d e s m a n   regrets  to  learn  that 
some of the local  secretaries  do not distrib­
ute tlie State Notification Sheets  among the 
membership immediately upon their receipt. 
This is a neglect  of  duty which  should not 
be tolerated.  The Sheets are  mailed to the 
secretaries promptly eacli  month  and  they 
should be re-mailed to tiie members without 
delay.  Tlie  greatest  benefit  derived  from 
the State Sheets  comes from  prompt distri­
bution and  any  secretary who  fails  to  do 
his duty in this  respect  is  guilty  of  gross 
neglect.

An agent for tlie  “American  Collecting 
and Reporting Association,” of  Indianapo­
lis,  is  now  working in  this  State.  The 
T radesm an is  not prepared  to  denounce 
the  concern  as a fraud,  but  some  of  its 
methods are rather  questionable.  Tlie best 
way to pursue, when protection  against the 
dead-beat is  desired,  is to  organize a  local 
association.  This  can be  accomplished at 
one-quarter the cost of membership in the In­
dianapolis  scheme and the results in a finan­
cial way will be five times greater and other 
results will be  secured  which  no  foreign 
concern can confer.

Tiie State Secretary has  sent  the follow­
ing request  to  the  fifteen  associations  not 
yet affiliated witli tlie State body:  “We en­
close herewith  a  copy  of  tiie  constitution 
and by-laws of tlie Michigan Business Men’s 
Association,  and take this means of inform­
ing you that  you are entitled  lo representa­
tion in—and participation in  tlie benefits of 
—the Association, on  the  payment  of  per 
capita dues of  ten cents,  which  covers  the 
entire expense up  to  October  1, when  tlie 
dues  will be increased to 25 cents per capita 
per year.  This payment  will  entitle  your 
organization to  representation  in  tlie  Sep­
tember  convention  of  tlie  State  body,  on 
the basis of one delegate for each ten  mem­
bers or fraction thereof, and also to as many 
monthly  Notification  Sheets  of  tlie  State 
body as you  have  auxiliary members,  with 
privilege of contributing thereto.”

“I  give  your  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tions credit for much of  the  improved  con­
dition of trade,” said Geo.  Dunton,  of  Cur­
tiss  &  Dunton,  the  other  day.  “I  recall 
several  men  who  were  formerly  slow  in 
their payments.  They were,  however, fore­
most iu demanding prompt  payments  from 
their delinquent».  They talked promptness 
in  paying,  thought  about  it  and  dreamed 
about it, until it  fairly  became  second  na­
ture.  After a while,  they  began  to  exam­
ine  their  own  acts  and  they  found  they 
were not living up to  their own  preaching. 
Then it was that  they  began  to  give  their 
doctrine  practical  application. 
I  wouldn’t 
ask for  better  payers  than  sucli  men  are, 
let them once get imbued with your Associ­
ation ideas.  Keep on organizing.  Tiie  re­
tail trade will continue to call  you  blessed, 
and  the  jobbing  trade  will  give  a  loud 
amen.”

Some remarks were made under this head 
last  week on the selection of  secretaries for 
local bodies.  Tiie next  tiling  to  do  after 
making the selection is to agree on  a  basis 
of  compensation  commensurate  with  the 
duties involved.  Probably not over half the 
local secretaries in the State  are  in  receipt 
of  any  compensation  whatever.  This  is 
not  as  it  should  be.  The  man  who 
works  for  another  should 
receive  an 
adequate return for his services.  The labor 
incident  to  tlie  mailing  of  delinquent 
blanks, and notices of meetings, as  well  as 
the recording of tlie proceedings,  should  be 
paid  for  on  an  equitable  basis.  Tlie 
Traverse City Association pays its secretary 
$50 per year.  Tlie Grand Rapids,  Kalama­
zoo and Battle Creek Associations pay their 
secretaries  $1  per  meeting.  This  would 
seem to be about the correct figure for large 
organizations and no body  ought to  ask  its 
secretary to do its work  for  less  than  50 
cents per meeting. 

*

Association'-Notes.

MISCELLANEOUS.

#

Manufacturers' Agts. for

Saw  a t  Grist  Mill

A C H I N B

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds 

¡321  of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, 

Belting  and  Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  Pulley 
and  become  convinced  of  their  superiority. 

WRITE  FOR  PRICES.

130 Oakes St., &rani Rapids, Mich.
GERMAN  |L.  Winternitz,
MUSTARD.' Grand  Rapids, Mich

HIRTH  &   KRAUSE,

LEATHER
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SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  LAOES.
Heelers,  Cork Soles,  Button  Hooks,  Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.

ings,  etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

Full Line of

We make a specialty of

E T J H . E K A   O X X i,

Which  for  Farm  Machinery  and  general 
purposes is tlie Best  Brand on the  market.

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE, 

N T o .   X   C a n a l   S t . ,

Telephone No.  228-2.

J. G.  ALEXANDER,  Agent.

GIVE  US  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

We  ^Guarantee  Satisfaction.

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER

FOR

KEROSENE

If your Jobber does  not han­
dle INDEPENDENT  OIL, send 
your orders direct to  the  office 
of  the  Company,  156  South 
Division St., Grand Rapids.

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Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

White Loaf, 
Reliance,

OUR  SPECIALTIES: 

Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 

Gold Medal, 
Graham.
Buckwheat  Flour,  Rye  Flour,  Granulated 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed. 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Write for Prices.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a  word 
for three insertions.  No advertisement taken 
for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  be 
sent  in care of this otiice must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage.

w ANTED—A stock of drugs, from  $2,000 to 

$3,000_ worth.  Must  be  a  good-paying 
business.  None  other  need  apply.  Address 
102*
Lock Box 59, Fremont, Mich. 
T710R  SALE—One  of 
the  best-paying  drug 
X? 
stores in the  city.
Stock  will  inventory 
about  $4.000.  Terms  cash  or  its  equivalent. 
Address Pharmacist, care Tradesman. 
192
f jloR  SALE—Stock of  general  merchandise, 
in good condition; will rent store one year 
with  privilege  of  buying;  trade  in  a  good 
healthy condition.  G. C. Willey, Summit city, 
192*
Mich. 
I710R SALE—At  a  bargain, a  grocery  stock 
situated on a good  business street in this
city.  For  further  particular: 
address  CCC 
care Tradesman otiice.
192*
I  NOR  SALE—Seven  Room  House,  plastered 
and well finished, good  brick cellar, good 
well and two lots 50 x 142 ft.,  only  two  blocks 
from business center of  Dayton, Tennessee, a 
thriving city of 3,500inhabitants, 38miles north 
of Chattanooga,  on  theC. S. R. H.  Also  two 
lots, 50 x 150 ft., at  Tunnel  of  E. T., Va. & Ga. 
K. R.  Prettiest suburb of  Chattanooga.  Will 
sell on easy terms or exchange  for real estate 
or  merchandise  in  or  near  Grand  Rapids. 
George A. Deitz, Dayton,  Tenn. 
191*
FNOR  SALE—A  complete  stock  of  drugs, 
paints and oils; am doing a good busi ness; 
surrounded  by  a  good 
farming  country. 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  Call  on  or 
192*
iiddress E. H. Stevens, Pewamo,  Mich. 
IjlOR SALE—Store  building, residence 
barn 
and stock  of  general  merchandise
situ- 
ated ten miles from  Grand 
liapids, in  a good 
farming  country,  worth 
?5,000.  Not  much 
competition nearer  than  ( 
rand Rapids.  Ad- 
dress. “Steven,” care of the 
Tradesman, Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.
193*
I ilOR SALE—The  “Cash  Grocery”  at Petos- 
key.  Present value of stock and fixtures 
$2,000.  Cash sales past year, $17,000.  Rest lo­
cation in the city.  Cheap rent.  Good  reasbns 
for selling.  Well established  cash trade.  Ad­
dress W. W. McOmber, Petoskey, Mich.  190*
I ilOR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 
general  stock  in growing town  in  good 
farming  community  in  Northern  Michigan. 
Stock  will inventory  about  $6,000.  Sales  last 
year were $00,000.  Address “The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids. 
177tf
InOR  SALE—Stock, fixtures  and  lease of an 
old,  first-class,  well-established  grocery 
business.  Best location  in city of Grand Rap­
ids.  Address The Tradesman. 
191*
f lOR SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 2 Inches high, 
2 feet and 11  inches  deep and 5 feet and 2 
inches wide.  The  box is zinc lined and nearly 
new.  J. C. Shaw, 79 Canal  street.  Grand Rap­
189 tf
ids. 
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ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will be  given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
npiNNER  WANTED—A rare opportunity of- 
fered for a first-class tinner, plumber and 
pipe-fitter.  A man of good mechanical ability, 
good habits, polite,  industrious, reliable, with 
first-class references, considerable experience, 
wlio desires to make a place for himself in the 
near future, with a chance to  have a business 
of his own with our  patronage  and  good-will 
back of it.  Such a man would find it to his in­
terest to communicate with or visit  us within 
the next thirty days.  The HariViah & Lay Mer­
cantile Co., Traverse City, M ich. 

178tf

191

Tlie universal sale  of  “Tansill’s  Punch” 
5-cent cigar  is  proof  of  its  extraordinary 
merit.  Tlie  live  dealer  will  always  avail 
himself of an  opportunity  to  make  money. 
The  “Tansill’s  Punch*’  is  unquestionably 
tlie most profitable cigar to  handle,  as dem­
onstrated by tin* testimony of  their  numer­
ous agents located  in every state  and  terri­
tory.—New Enqlcind Grover.

S E h D S

Garden Seeds a Specialty.
in Michigan.  Don’t Buy un­

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you  get  my  prices.

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

ALFRED J.BR0WN
16-18 N. DivisionSt.,GrandRapids
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  IIow ne, Pre: 
Ge o.  C.

CAPITAL,

ident.
P ie r c e,  Vice President.

H. P. Ba k er, Cashier.
-  $300,000.

Transacts a general  banking  business.

A ccounts
ited.

M ake  a   S pecialty o f Collect i< 
o f C ountry  M endiants >

S E E D S

FOR  EVERYBODY.

For  the Field or  Garden.
Clover,

If you want to buy

Timothy,

Hungarian,
Millet,
Orchard  Grass,
Kentucky Blue,
Seed  Oats,
Barley,
Peas,

Red Top,
Rye,

Onion,

Ruta Baga 
Wurzel,

Mangle

o r  

Write or send to the

Allying;  in  the  Line  of  SEEDS,
Seed Store,
W.T  LAMOREAUX, Agent

71  CANAL  ST.,

H a r d w a r e  Jobbers,

F O S T E R ,  S T E V E N S   &   CO.,
10 A l   12
SUMMER  GOODS.
The Only Perfect and SnocessfBl
VAPOR  STOVE

Headquarters for

Send for Circulars and Dis­

counts.

In order to avoid the inconvenience 
and discomfort of an over-heated kit­
chen during  the  summer,  and  the 
daily trouble of  building a  fire, pur­
chase a “Summer  Queen,”  which is 
lighted  and  ready  for  use in a mo­
ment,  and  will  do  your  cooking, 
broiling,  roasting  and  baking,  and 
heat sad-irons as well as  your range.
No. 0, onoburner, width of flame 14
inches...............................................$1 25
No. 1, one burner, width  of  flame 3
inches...............................................  1 80
No. 2, two  burner,  width  of  flame
each 3 inches..................................  2 50
No. 3, two  burner,  width  of  flame
each 4 inches...................................  3 50
No. 34, three burner, widthot' flame
each 4 inches...................................  4 50
No. 2, double stove, double  burners
3 inches............................................   5 25
No. 3, double stove,  double burners
4 inches............................................   '
No. 34, double stove, three burners
4 inches.............................................  9 50

Discount 50 per cent.

SANDS’  PATENT  TRIPLE  MOTION

WHITE  MOUNTAIN  FREEZERS.

No Zinc in co n tact w ith   C ream .  W a rra n te d   to freeze 

C ream  In onc-ln ilf th e  tim e  o f a n y  o th e r F reezer. 

T he L ead in g  Ice C ream   F reezer o f th e  W o rld .

4 

8 

3 

2 

12 

15 

10 

30 

6 
Discount 60 per cent.

Price List (White  Mountain  Hand Freezer  with  Crank.)
25  Qts.
$3.75  4.50  5.50  7.00  9.00  12.00  14.00  17.00 23.00 28.00 each 
We claim  superiority by  having  the  TRIPLE  MOTION, which is 
attached only to the “ W hite M ountain” freezer.
The Can is  turned by the Inside Heater, while the  Outside  Heater 
revolves in an opposite direction to the Can, ami  a t the  same  tim e 
the Inside Beater is turned opposite to the Outside Heater, thus pro­
ducing three sim ultaneous  motions,  which, of  course, thoroughly 
beats the Cream, m aking it smooth and tine  grained'  No lumps in 
"W hite M ountain" Cream.
The  Beaters are Malleable Iron and Tinned.  They arc light, easy 
to handle and clean.  The Cans are  made of  the best quality of Tin 
Plate and  will  last  for  years.  The Tubs are  W ater proof, bound 
w ith heavy galvanized  Iron Hoops.  The  G earing, and all Irons a t­
tached  to Tub, are galvanized to prevent rusting.

W arranted perfect  in every particular, and in reality the “W hite  M ountain”  is  the  only  Freezer  m anufac­

tured to-day th a t is FIRST-CLASS in every respect.

College Re-Visited.
He  was a guileless college youth.
Who mirrored modesty and truth;
And sometimes at his musty room 
His sister called to chase the gloom.
One afternoon, when she was there, 
Arranging things with  kindly care,
As often she had done before,
There came a knock upon the door.
Our student, sensitive to fears 
Of thoughtless comrades’ laughing jeers, 
Had only time to make deposit 
Of his dear sister in the closet.
Then haste the door to open wide 
His guest unbidden stepped inside.
He was a cherry-faced old man 
And with apologies began.
For calling, and then did let him know 
That, more than fifty years ago.
He occupied that very room ;
When he was in his youthful bloom,
So thought he’d take the chance, he said.
To see the changes time had made.
“The same old window, same old view—
Ha, ha ! the same old pictures,  too?”
And then he tapped them with his cane,
And laughed his merry laugh again.
“The same old sofa, I declare!
Dear me! It must be worse for wear.
The same old shelves!”  And then he came 
And spied the closet door.  “The same—
Oh, my!” A woman’s dress peeped through— 
Quick as he could he closed it to.
He shook his head.  “Ah, ha! the  same 
Old game, young man ; the  same old game !” 
“Would you my reputation slur?”
The youth gasped:  “That’s my sister, sir?” 
“Ah !” said the old man with a sigh,
“The same old  lie—the same old lie!”
NINETEEN  HUNDRED.

List of Associations Affiliated with the State

Body.

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

The following comprises  all  the local as-
sociatious  which have  affiliated  with the
Michigan Bnsines s Men’s  Association up to
the present time:
Grand  Rapids....... ............................................ 119
< teeana  ................ ............................................   66
.......................................   89
Traverse City.......
Lowell.................... ............................................ 48
Sturgis..................
.......................................   20
Elk  ltapids...........
Greenville........... ............................................ 60
Sparta................... ............................................ 30
...........................................  44
Hastings...............
East port.............. ............................................  10
..................... .............   6
Ada  .......................
.................................57
White  Lake..........
Saranac  ................
18
Manton..................
Kalamazoo  .......... ............................................  55
Coopersville.......... ............................................45
......................................24
East Jordan..........
.....................   9
Nashville...............
.......................................  37
Holland................
.........................................45
Grand  Haven.......
.......................................   IS
Woodland  ...........
.............................   13
Tustin...................
Freeport ............... ............................................  14
......................................48
Cadillac................
..................................  36
Kalkaska...............
............................. 13
Bellaire................
Mancelona........... ............................................  23
....................................  21
Wayland...............
.....................................   61
Cheboygan...........
..............................26
Reed  City.............
....................................35
Charlevoix  ..........
Allegan................ ............................................ 61
Kingsley............... ............................................  10
Petqgkey  ............. ............................................  41
..........................................   17
Dorr.......................
Muskegon  ........... ..........................................25
Owosso.................. ............................................  50
.........................  J7
Hoyne City...........
..................  24
-Plainwell...............
..................................   26
Rockford  .............
.....................................   12
Casnovia...............
....  7
So. Boardman.......
Muir....................... ............................................   10
.................................  21
Vermont ville.......
...............................  33
Hartford..............
........................   50
Ionia.....................
..................20
Leslie.....................
..................................   10
Sherman  .............
Frankfort  ........... ........ .....................................25
Cedar  Springs.... ..............................................27
.........................  13
Battle  Creek........
Burr Oak.............. ............................................  12
White  Cloud........ ............................................  11
Flint....................... ............................................  74
East  Saginaw...... ............................................54
Belding.................. ............................................  15
Pewamo................ ............................................  14
........................ 21
Hubbardston.......
........  8
Watervliet...........
Honorary............. ............................................   6
Total............................1,910

Toothpick Toes Out of Date.

From the Mail and Express.

“There are periods  when  common  sense 
becomes the fashion,”  said a shoe dealer on 
Broadway.  “Now  the patent-leather dress 
shoe is changing in style  from  a  toothpick 
toe to a broad, comfortable toe.  These nar­
row-toed  shoes  were  producing  havoc  in 
the  way  of  graceful  walking  among  the 
fashionable young  men.  You  could  see a 
young dude limping  around  as  if  his  feet 
were deformed.  He simply had a great big 
broad foot in a narrow-toed shoe that pinned 
his toes so tightly together he couldn’t walk 
with ease.  The style now is for  broad toes 
in patent  leather  shoes.  These  broad-toed 
styles are just as handsome and  give  great 
comfort.  The swells  always  welcome  the 
style that  gives  them  ease.  Of  course,  a 
great many narrow-toed patent-leather shoes 
are still worn, but  they are  not  considered 
so  up  to  the  mark  as  the  broad-toed. 
I 
know of many young men  who  have  com­
pletely deformed their feet by wearing such 
tight-toed  shoes.  Their toes are  turned in 
and twisted and  literally  lined  with  corns 
on  every point.  But  these  young  fellows 
were very vain  and  wore  shoes  that  were 
too small,  anyway. 
I  think  the time  will 
come  again  when  sandals  will  be  worn. 
They would be cheaper and certainly would 
be easy on the feet for  they  are  so  broad* 
If it becomes a fashion  to wear  sandals, of 
course the dudes  will  go  to  extremes  and 
try to select a style to distinguish themselves 
from the common every-day young man.”

A  Natural  Error.

A Philadelphia merchant recently adopted 
the  new  advertising  scheme  of  stenciling 
enormous  foot  prints  on  the  sidewalk, all 
leading finally to his place of business.

A  certain  traveling  man  arrived  in  the 
Quaker City in the evening and meeting some 
friends,  reversed  the rule  of “business  be­
fore pleasure.”  The next  morning  he  got 
down  to  the  street  from  his  room  in  the 
hotel  in a somewhat  dazed  condition.  He 
caught on one  of  the foot prints and  stood 
and gazed at  it  in  deep thought for several 
minutes.  At length he accosted  a  bystan­
der  with:

“Excuse me, but isn’t this Philadelphia?” 
“Yes sir,” was the  reply accompanied by 

an uneasyvglance toward a policeman.

The traveling  man  went  and  looked  at 
the foot prints  some  more.  At  length  he 
went back to his informant and said: 

“You’re sure you’re  not  mistaken  about 

this being Philadelphia?”

“Certainly, sir.  Quite sure.”
“ Well,  then I’ll bet fifty dollars against a 
five cent cigar that there’s  a Chicago girl in 
town.”

The  Coming  Convention,  as  Viewed  by 

Chairman  Allen.

Battle  Creek,  May 6,  1887.

to 

E. A. Stowe  Grand Rapids:
Dear  Sir—1  desire 

supplement 
the  admirable  communication  of  State 
President Kelsey,  in your issue of  April 27, 
by saying that  I  am  gratified  to  note  the 
ample preparations of the T.  P. A. and citi­
zens of Grand Rapids for our  greeting  and 
entertainment during the annual State meet­
ing on the 13th and 14th.
I am happy to be able to add the name of 
Hon.  liobt. T.  Lincoln,  of  Chicago,  to  the 
list of expected  guests  and  speakers,  who 
vv ill—unless prevented by unforseen  events 
—address  the  assempled  “Knights  of  the 
Gripsack” in  the  banquet  hall  the  evening 
of the 13th.  This  gentleman,  whose name 
is a household  word in  every home  on  the 
broad earth where  any  intelligence  exists, 
and whose signature is fully as  illegible  as 
that of the  late  lamented  Horace  Greeley, 
will explain to  us  the  true  nature  of  the 
tie  long  existant  between  the  commercial 
travelers  and  our  respected  but  modest 
brethren of  the  legal  profession. 
I  know 
that our  members  will  be  edified  and  in­
structed—that all need  precise  information 
on this subject,  which is of great interest.
I am glad to see more interest manifested 
by the members in this annual meeting than 
in  any  former  one  of  this  or  any  oth­
er  division.  This  is  well.  There  are 
many  questions  affecting  the  welfare  of 
the  commercial  traveler  whicli  can  and 
should  be  exhaustively  discussed  at  this 
meeting.  Prominent  among  these  stands 
the inter-state commerce  law, which has in­
troduced some novel and many disagreeable 
features into our  busidess. 
I  hope  to  see 
this  and  all  other  matters  touching  our 
interests  treated  candidly—rfrom  a  broad 
and catholic standpoint; the  effect  of  good 
or ill on all of the business  of  the country, 
and  whether or no the railroad associations 
are not striving  by  strained  interpretations 
of its provisions to  render  it  unnecessarily 
obnoxious to the  people  who  transact  the 
business of the  country,  and,  if  so,  where 
rests  the  remedy—in  amendments,  repeal 
or by carefully prepared tests  to  prove  the 
true intent and purpose of  the  law.  There 
are enough other  questions of grave  impor­
tance to commercial  travelers to render  the 
session one of  unusual  interest to  all  con­
cerned,  and it is  the  desire  of  the  officers 
and  committees  of  this  division  that  as 
many of the members  with  their  wives  be 
present as possible.
In conclusion,  I cannot  refrain from  ex­
pressing  my admiration  of  The  T rades­
It meets a long-felt  need  and seems 
man. 
to  me  invaluable  to  the  commercial  and 
manufacturing interests of our State.

Very sincerely yours,

Lew is J. A llen, 

Chairman Press Committee.

Explanation  of  the  Proposed  Exemption 

Law  by  its  Originator.

Someone  who  was  too  cowardly  to  dis­
close his identity  writes the  Detroit  News, 
condemning the  proposed  reduction  of  the 
garnishee  exemption,  on  the  ground  that 
such a change  in  the  law  would  work  in­
jury to laboring  men.  Mr.  Kelsey answers 
the criticism, over his own signature,  in the 
following admirable manner:

The writer is the originator of the $1  per 
day exemption bill known as House bill No. 
It  is  safe  to  say  therefore  that  no 
909. 
“scheming syndicate of collect ion attorneys” 
had anything to  do  with  it.  This  for  the 
information of “Fair Play.”  1 believe it to 
be equitable and just,  and  that  it  will  put 
all debtors—except those  in  the  employ  of 
the state,  of counties  and  of  cities—on  an 
exact  equality,  a  state  of  things  radically 
different under the  present  very  objection­
able law.  Some are attempting to  make  it 
appear that the bill is to oppress the honest, 
struggling  poor;  that  it  will  apply  to  the 
great injury of the man that gets but SI per 
day.  To such I say that  the  proposed  bill 
will apply  to  persons  getting  Si  or  Si.25 
per day,  just as the existing law  does.  To 
illustrate: 
If I work  for  Jones  at  SI  per 
day and receive my pay by the  week  or  by 
the month,  at its close I  am  absolutely  be­
yond  the  pale  of  the  law,  for  the  simple 
reason my exemption of S25 and the cost of 
garnishee  exceed  the  amount  due  me. 
Were  I  getting  Si.25  per  day  the  same 
would be essentially  true.  Hence  this  ob- 
jectisn vanishes.'
Under the present law,  a person working 
for a railroad company at Si per day can be 
garnisheed successfully, for the reason  that 
railroads do not pay  promptly  at  the  close 
of the month,  but usually put their pay  day 
from the 10th to the 12th of the  succeeding 
month.  To  illustrate: 
If  I  work  for  a 
company  during  March,  and  they  do  not 
pay until the 10th,  the action holds  all  due 
me  to  the  day  preceding  the  date  of  the 
summons.  The effect of this  is:  though  I 
get but S318 per year,  I can  be  garnisheed 
every  00  days  and  made  to  pay  about  S5 
each time,  or  S30  per  annum.  Now  how 
would I fare were  1  in  the  employ  of  the 
Evening News at  $20  per  week,  receiving 
said sum  every  Saturday  night? 
It  needs 
no argument to show that though  receiving 
SI.040 per annum,  my creditors,  under  the 
present law,  would be absolutely  powerless 
to make me pay a cent  for  the  simple  rea­
son,  I have $25 exemption  every  Saturday. 
Is there any justice in such  a  contemptible 
discrimination against the man working for 
a railroad company at $313 per annum?
If  I 
Now let us apply the proposed bill: 
have $20 due for six days’ labor and  refuse 
to pay my honest debts I can be  garnisheed 
and have the benefit of six days’ exemption. 
$0 plus costs,  from $2.50,  if I stop the  pro­
ceedings,  to $5 if I stubbornly  let  the  case 
take its  course.  At  any  rate  I  am  justly 
compelled to apply a  part  of  my  earnings, 
$9 to $12 to the liquidation of my  indebted­
ness.
There  are several thousand  married  per­
sons in this state who receive  their  pay  by 
the week,  many  of  whom,  knowing  them­
selves to be above the law,  recklessly  swin­
dle those who befriend.
“Fair  Play”  says  there  are  not  many 
dead-beats.  He little knows the  numerical 
strength  of  this  order.  They  infest  the 
state, abounding in  every  rank  of  society; 
in government positions,  in  the  church,  in 
the  law,  in  the  schools,  in  the  printing 
houses,  in the  shops,  on  the  road,  on  the 
water, on the farm,  in  fact  this  scourge  is 
intolerable, and the  business  men  of  New 
York,  Pennsylvania  and  Michigan  cry  out 
to  their  respective  Legislatures  for  help 
against  this  unjust  and  unnecessary  evil. 
This bill need  have  no  terrors  for  honest, 
unfortunate  men;  merchants  ever  respect 
and befriend them,  and are not so brutal  as 
to grind down and  oppress  the  needy  and 
deserving. 
I  know  that  to  charge  them 
thus were to charge them falsely.  The bus­
iness men of Michigan recognize  the  News 
as  a  strong  public  journal—iu 
fact,  a 
“giant” among publications; and,  believing 
this,  would gladly hail its championship  of

the  bill,  which  aims  at  the  welfare,  not 
only  of  the creditor, but  also of the debtor 
whom  it  will  make  more  careful,  more 
economical, less prone to get into debt, and, 
consequently  more  prosperous  and  happy. 
Yours for “Fair Play,”  W.  E.  Kelsey,

Some Reasons for Organization.

From the Denver Retail Grocer.

If you are in  favor  of  making  peddlers 

pay a  license—organize.

If you are in favor of wholesalers  selling 

strictly at wholesale—organize.

If you  are tired  of  trusting  dead-beats, 
who will never  pay  an  account—organize.
If you want to collect old  outstanding ac­

counts that are now worthless—organize.

If you want  to  benefit  your  trade  and 
make a dollar or so  for  yourself—organize.
If you are a tax payer  and  feel  that  you 
have a few rights that ought to  be  respect­
ed—organize.

If you want to meet your fellow merchants 
as friends and not enemies,  and  to  destroy 
the present petty jealousy that  is  now  ex­
isting—organ ize.

In fact,  if you  want to be prosperous and 
do a good business, do not delay in forming 
an organization at once, and if  there  is  an 
association in your town,  join it.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

ville.

erse City.
City.

City.

Albert Retan, Pewamo.
J. W. Milliken,  Hamilton  &  Milliken,  Trav­
Frank Friedrich, F. Friedrich & Co., Traverse 
W. C. Ashton, Ashton  Bros.,  Traverse  City. 
J. Furtsch, Traverse City.
Mr. De8pres, Despres &  Montague, Traverse 
E. W. Hastings, Traverse City.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
G. F. Cook, Grove.
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold.
A. L. Power, Kent City.
Mrs. E. S. Ellis, Casnovia.
J. W. Clostenhouse, Grandville.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
LeFebre & Meyer, Grand Haven.
L. N. Fisher, Dorr.
Cutler & Miller, Ionia.
Friedrich Bros., Traverse City.
Win. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
J. Damstra, Gitchell.
L. A. Paine, Englishville.
C. H. Joldersma, Jamestown.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
C. L. Howard, Clarksville.
G. Begman,  Bauer,
I. O. Hoffman, Allegan.
E. Wright, West  Mich.  Lumber  Co.,  Wood- 
Dell Wright, Berlin.
A. & L.  M. YVolf, Hudsonville.
Silas Millis, Denver.
Brantigatn Bros., North Star.
Geo. N. Reynold», Belmont.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
J. P. Cordes, Alpine.
Jno. Giies & Co., Lowell.
O. House,  Chauncey.
Mr. Seibert, Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia.
J. M. Reid, Grattan.
G. Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
Jno. Smith, Ada.
Den Herder &. Tanis,  Vriesland.
W. P. Dockeray, Rockford.
H. Van Noord, Jamestown,
S. Stark, Allendale.
Schrock Ac Long, Clarksville.
Headley Ac Son,  Wayland.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
Jno. Kamps, Zutphen.
M. Gezon, Jeuisonvillo.
S. Cooper, Jamestown.
H. Thompson, Canada Corners.
T. J. Chamberlain, Marquette.
A. D. Martin, Otia.
J. Hacker, Corinth.
R. L. Willett, Altona.
Seward MbNitt Ac Co., Byron Center.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mills. 
Ben. E. West Ac Co., Lowell.
R. A. Hastings, Sparta.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
W. H. Hicks, Morley.
R. T. Parrish, Grandville.
C. F. Williams, Caledonia.
J. W. Dunning, Hesperia.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
Visner Ac White, Allegan.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
U. DeVries, Jamestown.
J. N.  Wait, Hudsonville.
W. S. Nelson, Cedar Lake.
G. M. Huntley, Reno.
Geo. Dewey, Rankin & Dewey, Shelby.
W. R. Young, Middleville.
P. P. Leonard, Muskegon.
H. P. Phelps, Hartford.
John Canfield, Hobart.
Dr. YV. Ruyno, Coloma.
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
Jacob Jesson. J. Jesson Ac Co., Muskegon. 
John J. Ely, Rockford.
Smith Ac Bristol, Ada.
Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
Geo. Dewey, Rankin Ac Dewey, Shelby.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Huizeoga Ac Son. Eastmanville.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
H. Coykendall, Allegan.
Jos. Totten, Totten.
M. Graves, West Chester.
C, O. Bostwick Ac Son, Canuonsburg.
J. Omler,  Wright.
G. H. Walbriuk, Allendale.
L. Cook, Bauer.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
N. Harris, Big Springs.
W. S. Root, Talmadge.

April  Report  of  the  Michigan  Division 

T.  P. A.

Grand Ra pid s,  May 1,  1887. 

Report for month  ending  April  30,  1887: 
Added to membership:

No. 14141—W. L. Wilson, Detroit.
No. 14000—D. B. Hackett, Lansing.
No. 14003—T. Miller, East Richmond.
No, 14723—J. Decker, Bay City.
No. 14725—W. A.  Beneke, Grand Rapids.
No. 14720—G. Smith,  Detroit.
dues and been reinstated.
April 1.  Balance on hand..........................$13.10
April 19.  By 1 letter file.....................75

Three  old  members  have  paid  their  back 

CASH  ACCOUNT.

CONTRA.

150  stamps.....................3.00 

21. 

May 1.  Balance on hand.................. 

3.75
$9.33

L.  M.  Mills,

Sec’y-Treas. Midi.  Div. T.  P. A.
Good  Words  Unsolicited.

F. H. Lester, the well-known  grocery travel­
er, in sending in a late remittance, writes: “All 
I have to do is to say that It is an Independent 
paper, published in  the interest of  no one but 
its patrons, and they  all  see  the point at once 
and go for it like a bat after a bed bug.” 

Edgar & Allyn,  druggists,  Dushville:  “We 
think The Tradesman  a very valuable paper.” 
Chas.  H.  Smith,  grocer.  East  Saginaw:  “I 
don’t think I can invest 100 cents to  better ad­
vantage.”

J. B. Denison grocer, Benton Harbor:  “Your 
price current is something every grocer should 
have.”

The Hardware Market.

The market  generally is  firm.  The  job­
bers  have reduced steel nails  15  cents  and 
iron nails  10  cents  per  keg.  Bar  iron  is 
weak.  Screws are  selling  pretty well,  and 
the prices  are  well  maintained.  Padlocks 
are in better condition  than  they have been 
for some time past, and the market on these 
goods are slightly higher.

The jobbers are kicking at the extra labor 
entailed on them by the rerail trade  in  ask­
ing them to secure tobacco  licenses  for  the 
current fiscal year.  One house say3 that  it 
has been called upon  to  procure  about  400 
licenses, and that only one  dealer  took  the 
trouble to send in  the  money  with  the  or­
der.  “We don’t care  for  the  trouble  they 
put  us  to,”  said  a  representative  jobber, 
“but we do think it is  asking  too  much  to 
ask us to carry $1,000 on our books from 30 
to 90 days.”

NOTICE.

The  copartnership  heretofore  existing  be­
tween the undersigned and  carried  on  under 
the name of Emery &  Co., has  this  day  been 
dissolved by mutual  consent.  It will  be  con­
tinued  under  the  same  name  by  A.  M.  A. 
Emery. 

J. A. HENRY.
A. M. A. EMERY.

Grand Rapids, May 7,1887.

For  Sale  or  Exchange.

A factory fully equipped with wood work­
ing Machinery—good Brick Buildings—am­
ple grounds—good shipping  facilities—well 
located in a thriving  City  in  Illinois—will 
be sold at a bargain,  or  exchange  for other 
property—a  rare  chance.  Correspondence 
solicited; address “Factory” this paper.

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

The furniture factories  here  pay  as follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...............................12 00@14 00
Birch, log-run......................................15 00@18 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................  
@25 00
Black Ash, log-run...............................13 00@15 00
Cherry,  log-run....................................25 00@35 00
Cherry, Ños. 1  and 2............................45 00@50 00
Cherry,  cull.........................................  @10 00
Maple,  log-run..................................... 12 00@14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run........................f .ll 00@13 00
Maple, Nos. land 2.............................. 
@20 00
Maple, clear, flooring........................  
@25 00
@25 Oq
Maple, white, selected....................... 
Red Oak, log-run................................. 
@18 00
@24 00
Red Oak, Ños. 1 and 2......................... 
Red Oak, quarter  sawed..................26  00@30 00
Red Oak, Ño.  1, step plank............... 
@25 00
Walnut, log-run..................................  
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2..........................   @75 00
Walnuts,  culls.................................... 
@25 00
Grey  Elm, log-run.............................  
@13 00
White Ash,  log-run............................. 14 00@16 00
Whitewood,  log-run........................... 20 00@22 00
White Oak, log-run............................  @17 00

W O O D E N  W A R E .

Standard  Tubs, No. 1........
Standard  Tubs, No. 2........
Standard  Tubs, No. 3........
Standard Pails, two hoop.. 
Standard Pai'.s, three hoop
__
Pails, ground wood 
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes
Butter  Pails, ash...............
Butter Ladles.....................
Rolling Pins.........................
Potato Mashers..................
Clothes Pounders...............
ClothesPins.........................
Mop Stocks..........................
Washboards, single............
Washboards, double..........
BASKETS
Diamond  Market.............
Bushel, narrow band.......
Bushel, wide band...........
Clothes, splint,  No. 1.......
Clothes, splint,  No. 2.......
Clothes, splint,  No. 3.......
Clothes, willow  No. 1.......
Clothes, willow  No. 2..
Clothes, willow  No. 3.......
Water  Tight, bu...............
“  half bu.......

“ 

.6 00 
.5 00 
.4 00 
.1  40 
.1  65 
.4 00 
.2 00 
.2 50 
.1 00 
.  75 
.  50 
.2 25 
.  60 
.1 00 
.1 75 
.2 25
.  40 
.1 60 
.1  75 
.3 50 
.4 25 
.5 00 
.5 50 
.6 50 
.7 50 
.3 75 
.2 85

M ISC E L L A N E O U S.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners all have  large  sup­
plies.  Dealers are paying $5 for good bark.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  $   lb  for 
clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers  are 
authorized to offer standard goods at 40  and 5 
per cent, off, and second quality at 50 per cent 
off.

I b a r b w a r e .

 

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BARROWS.

BALANCES.

BUTTS. CAST.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full  packages.
AUGERS AND BITS.
Ives’,  old style.......................................... dis 
60
N.  H.C. Co...................................  
60
dis 
60
Douglass’....................................................dis 
60
Pierces’ ........................................  
dis 
Snell’s ...........................................  
60
dis 
Cook’s  .......................... ............... i......... dis 
40
25
Jennings’, genuine...................................dis 
Jennings’, imitation.............................. dis50&10
Spring......................................................... dis 
40
Railroad........................................................$ 14 00
Garden..................................................... net 33 00
Hand..............................................dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow.....................................................dis 
70
Call.....................................................dis 
30&15
Gong..................................................dis 
25
Door, Sargent.................................. dis 
60&10
Stove...................................................... dis $ 
60
Carriage  new  list................................ dis  7C&10
50
Plow  ......................................................dis 
70
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis 
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis 
60
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................ dis 
40
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis 
40
60
Cast Square Spring............................. dis 
40
Cast  Chain............................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.............dis 
Wrought Square..................................dis 
60
Wrought Sunk Flush.......................... dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush..................................................dis  60&10
Ives’  Door.......................... .................. dis  60&10
40
Barber...................................................d isf 
Backus...................................................dis  50&10
Spofford................................................ dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................ dis 
net
Well, plain.................................................... $  3 50
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................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
Wrought Table..................................... dis  60&10
>Wrought Inside  Blind........................dis  60&10
Wrought Brass..................................... dis 
75
Blind, Clark’s ........................................ dis 
80
Blind, Parker’s..................................... dis 
80
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis 
70
Ely’s 1-10................................................ per m $65
Hick’s C. F............................................  
60
G .D........... ............................................ 
35
Musket..................................................  
60
Rim Fire, U.3I. C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States......................... dis50&10
Central Fire.............................................. disSO&lO
Socket Firmer................................. __ dis 70&10
Socket Framing.............................. __ dis 70&10
Socket Corner................................. __ dis 70&10
Socket Slicks....................................__dis
70&10
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer............. ...dis
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............... .. .dis
20
Cold................................................... __ net
Curry, Lawrence’s..........................__dis 40&10
Hotchkiss  ....................................... .. .dis
25
Brass,  Racking’s............................
60
Bibb’s ..............................................
60
40&10
B eer.................................................
Fenns’...............................................
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size........... ........Wft  28
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................
..  31
T
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................
..  23
Bottoms............................................
..  23
Morse’s Bit  Stock.......................... ... dis
40
Taper and Straight Shank............. ...dis
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank..................... ...dis
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................ doz net $.85
Corrugated.........................».......... __ dis 20&1Ü
Adjustable....................................... __dis H'&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
30
25
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2. $24 00;  3, $30 00.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

CATRIDGES.

CHISELS.

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

DRILLS

COMBS.

COCKS.

dis
dis

CAPS.

f i l e s —New List.

12 

net

HINGES.

HANGERS.

HOLLOW  WARE.

22 and  24,  25 and 26,

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

GALVANIZED IRON,
14

American File Association List....... .dis 60&10
Disston’s .............................................. .dis 60&10
New American.................................... .dis 60&10
Nicholson’s........................................... .dis 60&10
Heller’s ................................................. dis 55&10
Heller’s Horse Rasps......................... .dis
50
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
27
List 
15
18
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis
50
Maydole & Co.’s .................................... dis
25
Kip’s ...................................................... dis
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s............................. dis
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................30  c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Bam Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track
60&10
Champion,  anti-friction....................dis
60&10
Kidder, wood track..............................dis
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.............................dis
60
State........................................... per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  44  14
34104
and  longer..............................................
Screw Hook and Eye,  4   ...................net
84
Screw Hook and Eye %..................... net
74
Screw Hook and Eye  3£..................  
74
Screw Hook and Eye,  X....................net
Strap and  T ........................................ dis
65
P ots.............................................................
60
K ettles........................................................
60
Spiders  ......................................................
60
Gray  enameled.........................................
50
HOUSE  FURNISHING  OOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware..................... new  list 
75
Japanned Tin  Ware................................. 
25
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
25
Grub  1.....................................................$1100, dis 60
Grub  2................................................  11  50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
KNOBS—NEW LIST.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...
55
dis
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........
01)
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings.......
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings.............
55
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis
dis
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.............
40&10
Hemacite..........................................
.dis
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list
55
dis
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.................... dis
55
dis
Branford’s .................................
55
dis
Norwalk’s .............................................dis
55
.dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  70
Adze  Eye.....................................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................. dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s........................................dis 40
Coffee, P. S. & W.Mfg. Co.’s Maileables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s .................... dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise.....................................dis  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ............................... dis  60&10
Stebbin’8 Genuine...............................dis  60&10
Enterprise,  self-measuring...............dis 
25

MOLASSES GATES.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEVELS.

MAULS.

MILLS.

HOES.

NAILS—TRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

OILERS.

6d  4d
2 
14

I  lOd  8d 
24 
$1 25  1 50  1  75  2 00 

lOd to  60d....................  ......................$  keg $2 15
25
8d and 9 d adv......................................  ..... 
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance..........................................................  1 ¿0
3d fine  advance........................................... 
2 25
Clinch nails, adv........ ■.................................   1  00
Finishing 
Size—inches  )  3 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2 25.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom............................dis  50
Brass or  Copper.........................................dis  50
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................   50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy............................... dis  30
Sciota Bench...............................
.dis 50@55 
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy__
.......dis  30
Bench, flrstjquality...............................dis 50@55
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10
Fry, Acme...............................................dis 50&10
Common, polished................................... dis60&10
Dripping................................................$  ft 
64
* 55
Iron and Tinned.................................... dis 
Copper Rivets and  Burs......................dis 
60
♦‘A” Wood’spatentplanished,Nos.24to27 10 20 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

Broken packs 4  c $  ft extra.  * 

ROPES.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

Sisal, 4  in. aud  larger.....................................11%
Manilla.............................................................  13*4
Steel and Iron.........................................dis 70&10
Try and Bevels...................................... dis
60 
Mitre  .....................................................dis
20
Com. Smooth.
Com. 
$2 90
2 90
3 00 
3 05 
3 15

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.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   ft............
In smaller quansities, 
1b__
American, all  kinds.................
Steel, all kinds...........................
Gimp and  Lace.......
Cigar Box  Nails__
Common aud Patent  Brads__

All sheets No, 18 and  lighter, over 2  inches

TACKS.

dis
dis
dis
dis
.dis
dis
dis
dis
dis
dis
.dis

6
6K
60
60
60
60
50
50
50
50
50
45
35
12 50 
16 00
17 50

flj

TRAPS.

rates.

TIN  PLATES.

TIN—LEADED.

TINNER’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined.................................
Market  Half-and-half..................
Strictly  Half-and-half..................
10x14, Charcoal.................
IC, 
IX, 
.  7 25
12x12, Charcoal..................
6 25
1C,
12x12,  Charcoal............. .
IX,
7 75
14x20, Charcoal...............................   5  75
IC,
IX,
14x20,  Charcoal.......  .....................   7 25
IXX,
14x20, Charcoal...............................   8  75
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................   10  77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  12 55
20x28, Charcoal................................  15 60
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  8 50
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........ ’..................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to  6 75 
Rooting, 14x20, IC.........................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX........................................  6  75
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................  11  00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX .......................................   14  00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne....................... 5 50
IX, l lx20, choice Charcoal  Terne....................  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne......................11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne............  14 00
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
Oneida(Communtity,  Newhouse’s..........dis  36
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’ .................................. 
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s ...................................60&10
Mouse,  choker........................................18c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion............................  
Bright Market..................:...................   dis  674
Annealed Market....................... 
dis  TO&lo
Coppered Market..............................................dis 624
Extra Bailing................*...........................   dis  55
Tinned  Market................................................. dis 624
Tinned Broom. . ........................................^ lt>  09
Tinned Mattress........................................%} ft  84
Coppered  Spring Steel.....................................dis 50
Tinned Spring Steel.......................................... dis 40&10
Plain Fence................................................$  ft  3
Barbed Fence, galvanized...................................4 25
painted........................................3 60
Copper................................................ new  list net
Brass................................................................. new liBtnet
Bright...............................................dis
Screw Eyes...................................... dis
Hook’s .............................................dis
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...................dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
50
Coe’s Genuine.........................................dis 
75
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 
Coe’s  Patent, malleable....................... dis  75&10
50
Bird Cages................................................... 
Pumps,  Cistern......................................dis  70&10
75
Screws, now  list.......................................  
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... disoO&lO&IO
Dampers, American................................. 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods. d60&10&10 
Copper  Bottoms...................................... 
23c

70&10&10
70&10&10
70&10&10
70&1U&1Q

MISCELLANEOUS.  '

$1  50%} doz

WIRE OOODS.

WRENCHES.

WIRE.

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60&10

JENNESS  &  McCURDY,

Importers and Manufacturers’  Agents,

D E A L E R S   IN

Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Etc.
73 & 75 Jefferson Aïe. DETROIT.  MICE
Wholesale Agents for Dnffield’s Canadian Lamps.

L.  M .  C A R Y .

C A R Y  

L .  L .  LO V E  R ID G E .

<&LO V EBJD G E,

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof

Combination and Time Locks,

11 Ionia Street, 

Orand Rapids, Mich.

R E M O V A L .

We  have  removed  to  the  HOUSE­
MAN BLOCK, corner Pearl and Ottawa 
Streets.

C u r t i s s   &   D u n t o n ,  

EXCLUSIVELY WHOLESALE  PAPER & WOODENWARE

M ich igan   Iii\sii]p»s  M en's  A sso cia tio n . 

President—F rank H am ilton, Traverse City.
F irst Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vice-President—E. J. Herrick, G rand Rapids. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalamazoo.
Executive Com m ittee—President, F irst \  ice-1 resident, 
Secretary. N. 15.  »lain and W. K. Kelsey.
Comm ittee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traveree 
City;  P. Kanney, Kalamazoo;  A.  W.  West-gate,  Che­
boygan. 
. 
T  IT
Comm ittee on Legislation—-VV.1:.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J.  V. 
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids.
Com m ittee on M embership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B.
F. Emery, Grand Rapids;  the Secretary.
and
Comm ittee  on  Transportation—Jas.  A.  Coy 
C.'  Ï .  Bridg-
Rapids;  J.W .  Millike»,  Traverse  City 
m an, Flint. 
«   n
T 
Com m ittee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey, Ionia;  H. D.
M cNaughton, Coopersvllle;  I. F. Clapp, Allegan, 
Official O rgan—The Michigan Tradesman.

_   __  , 

_   , 

.  

. 

The following local associations have mostly 
been  organized  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Michigan Business Men's Association, and  are 
auxiliary thereto:

A da  K usiiirs 
President, I). F. Watsoi
A llia  Ituslnot 
President, C. K. Smith;

M en’s  A ssoeiation .
;  Secretary, Elm er Chapel.
; M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
Secretary, P eter  Baldwin.

M en's  A sso cia tio n . 
A lle g a n   B u sin ess 
Secretary, E. T. VanOatrand.
P resident. Irving F. Clapp; 
K c ta il  G rocers’ A sso cia tio n  o f  B a ttle  C reek 
President. Geo.  H. Rowe»:  Secretary, John P. Stanley.

_______

B e lla !r e   B u sin ess  M en's  A sso cia tio n . 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary, G. J. Noteware.
B u rr  O ak  B usiness  M en's  A ssociation . 
President, B. O. Craves;  Secretary, H.  M. Lee.________
M erchant's  P rotective A ss’n o f  B ig   B ap id s, 
President. K. P. Clark ;  Secretary, A. S. H obart._______
B o y n e   C ity  B u sin ess M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, 1!. R. Perkins:  Secretary, F. M. Chase.______

C ad illac Musine* 
President. J. C. McAdam ;

M ini’s A sso cia tio n . 
Secretary, C. T. Chapin.

(  asn ovia,  B a ile y   and  T ren t  B .  M.  A . 
President. H. E.  Ucsseltine;  Secretary, E. Farnham .
C edar  Sp rin gs  B u sin ess  M en's  A ssociation , 
President. T. W.  P ro u n .  Secretary, L. H. Chftpman.

•  M en’s  A sso cia tio n , 
cretary, U. W. Kane.

M en's  P r o te c tiv e   U n io n   o f  C lie-

C h a rlevoix  B usines
President, John Nichols;  Si
C o o n ersville  B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President. G. H. W »trous;  Secretary, W. R. Boynton.
B u sin
P resident, J. H. Ti_______
R e ta il G rocers’T r a d e  U nion A s’n o f D etro it. 
President, John Blessed;  Secretary, H. K undinger.
D orr  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, !.. X. l’ishcr;  Sesretary, K. S. Botsford.
R e t a i l   G r o c e r s ’  A sm »
President.  Rtrtiard Luster;

ia tio n   o f  K.  S agin aw , 
Secretary, Chas. H. Smith.

h oygan .
■ ;  Secretary, H G. Dozer.

E astpori  B usiness  M en's  A sso cia tio n . 

Geo- L. Thurston. Central Lake. 

President.  F.  It.  Thurston,  Central  Lake;  Secretary, 
__ '_________
E lk  R ap id s B u sin ess M en’s P r o te c tiv e  A s’n. 
President. J. J. McLaughlin :  Secretary, C. L. M artin.__

K v a r t  B u s in e s s  
Jent. W.  M. Davis;  !

511’s A sso cia tio n , 
etary. Chas. E. Bell.

E ran k fort  B u sin e ss  Men 
■esilici,:. Wm. Upton;  Secretary,____________

’s  A ssociation . 
E. R- Chandler.

F ü l l t   M e r c a n t i l e   U nion , 

resident. VT. C. Pierce;  Secretary, J. L. W illet
F reep ort  B u sin ess 
President, Foster Sisson; JS
F ife  T a k e  B u sin ess 
President. E. H agadorn;  Se
Grand  H aven  B u sin e 
^ ’resident, Fred. D. Voss;  St

M en’s  A sso cia tio n , 
ec’y. A rthur Cheseborough.
H en's A sso cia tio n , 
cretary, O. V. Adams.______
ss  M en's  A ssociation , 
»cretary, Fred A. H utty.
’n  o f  G rand  R ap id s, 
cretary, E. A. Stowe.
G rand  R a p id s  R u tc lie r s’  U n ion , 

B otai 1  Grocer» 
President, Jas. A. Co

lident, John K atz;  Secretary. Chas. Velite.
ir e e n v llle   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n , 
Secretary, K. J. Olaik»____
H artford B u sin e ss M en’s A sso c ia tio n , 
l l a r t i o i u   *»»nl 

.  secretary, I. B. Barnes.

t  I,  vr. 

^resident 
»  H a stin g s  B u sin e  
">i oaidrrÆ, L. E. Stauffer;
Mersey B u sin e s 
it. O. L. Millard;

Pi
H ow ard  Fit y B usiuei
lndenbev

id  B u sin e ss  M en 
acob Van P utten;  Sec:

H o lla  
P resid en t,.
H u b b a r d s t o n   B u s i 
President.  Boyd Redner
Io n ia   B usine: 
President, Wm. E.  Kelsi

A sso cia tio n .
J.  A.  VanArman.

M en’s
.»cretary
M en's A sso cia tio n , 
iecretarv, F rank L. Beards] c
Men's Association, 
Secretary, B. J. Lowry.
A ssociation . 
>tarv. A. Van Duren.
A s s o c ia tio n . 
IV. Robinson.

Men’s  Exchange.
:  Secretary.  Fred. Cutler, Jr.
A ssociation. 
S. Scovine.

M en’s  A ssociation , 
cretary, C, E. Ramsey.

K alam a/.oo  R eta il G 
resident. P. ltanney;  Score
K a lk a sk a  
■esident, A. K
K in g sle y   B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President. C.  H. Camp; Secretary, Chas. E. Brewster.
octal ion . 
A. S tettins.
A ssociation , 
tary. M. L. Campbell
»ti’s  P r o te c tiv e   A ss’n. 
ro tary , F rank T. King.

l.uw rein 
President, H.

s M en ’s  A» 
Secretary,C

B u sin ess 
in. Hutchings

B u s in e s s  
, N. ». »lain-

L o w ell
President

L u th er   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, W. 15.  Ford;  Secretary. Chas. J. Robinson

President. A.  K. R

usi ness  M en’s  A s’n. 
f ;  Secretary, D. A. Reynolds

M u tic e lo » ;!  B u s in e s s  
tent. W.  E. W atson ;  Si

Pr

M en’s  A ssociation , 
cretary, C. L. Bailey.

.M aiiist.ii|iie  IJusinwss  M en’s A ssociation . 

President, F. 11. Thompson;  Secretary, K. N. Orr.

M au ton ’s  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation .

President, F. A 
G rocers’  A*
President, H. B. Fargo;____________________

•retary, R.  Fuller.
C ity  o f  M u sk egon  
_____

Jen i______
,*n  o f  tlie

Secretary, Wm. Peer. 

M erflhant’s  U nion  o f  N a sh v ille . 

President, H erbert M. Lee;  Secretary, W alter W ebster

M uir  B u sin  
President, Simon Ton

M en’s  A ssociation , 
Secretary, L. A. Ely.

O tsego  B u sin ess  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n , 
resident. J. M. Ballou;  Secretary, J.  F. Conrad.__

O r«»»»  B usines«  M en’s  A s’n. 

President, W. K. Thorp ;  Secretary, E. S. H oughtaling,

O vid  B usiness  M en’s  As’n. 

Petosk« 
President, Jo

President. C.  H.  H unter;  Secretary. Lester Cooley.
O w osso  B u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President, Jas. Ostium ;  Sec’y, S. Lamfrom.________
■  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
Buckley;  Secretary. A. C. Bowman.
M en ’s  A sso cia tio n , 
îcretarv, E. R. Holmes.  __
4  M en’s  A sso cia tio n , 
t ary, J. A. Sidle.

P e iv a m o   B u s in e s i 
President, Albert Retan;  !
P la in w e il  B usine:
President. M. Bailey;  Sen
M erch an t’s U nion  P r o te c tiv e  A sso cia tio n  o f 
President, G. C. Meisel;  Secretary, 8. L. Merriam .

Port  H u ron .

H eed   C ity  B u s in e is   M en’s  A sso c ia tio n . 

President, C. j.  Fleiseliauer; Secretary, H. W, Hawking.

R o c k f o r d   B u s iu e i 
President, Geo.  A. Sage;  I

M en’s  A sso cia tio n , 
cretary. J. M. Spore.

St. C h arles  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President, ». J. Downing;  Secretary, E.  E. Burdick.___
St. J o h n s  M erch an ts’ P r o te c tiv e  A ssociation . 
President, H. L.  Kendrick:  Secretary, G. M. Merrill.
B u sin es
President.__________________________

s M en ’s  P r o te c tiv e  A ss’n  o f Saranac. 
Geo. A. P otts;  Secretary, 1*. T. W illiams.

South  B oard illa»  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ss’n. 

President. H.  K. H ogan;  Secretary, 8. E. Nieliardt.
do. A rm  and K,
President, D. C. Lc 

J o rd a n  B u sin e ss M en ’s A s’n. 
veday ;  Secretary, C. W. Sutton.

_____________________
Sh erm an  B u sin e ss  M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. B. S turtevant:  Secretary, W. G. Shane.
Sparta  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, J. R. H arrison;  Secretary, M. B. Nash.

S tu rgis  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, H enry S.  Church;  Secretary. Wm. Jom .
T raverse  C itv  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President. Geo. Ê. Steele:  Secretary, C. T. Lockwood.
T u stin   B  u sin ess  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President. G. A. Estes;) Secretary, Geo. W. S erins. 
V erm on t v ille   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, W. H. Benedict;  Secretary, W. E. Holt.

W a te r v lie t  B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso c ia tio n .
W aylan d   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n .

President, H. Peirce:  Secretary, F. H.  Merrlfleld._____
President. E. W.  P ickett;  Secretary, H. J.T urner._____

W o od lan d   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n .

President, Jo h n Velte;  Secretary, I. N. H arter._______
W h ite   C loud  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President,  P. M. Roedei;  Secretary. M. P. Hayward.
W h ite   L a k e   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A s’n. 
President. A. T. Linderman, Whitehall  Secretary,  W.

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Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

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D IR E C T IO N S

We have cooked the corn in this can 
sufficiently.  Should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed (hot cooked) adding  piece  ot 
Good Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gill 
of fresh  milk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature of

CHILLICOTHE
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BUNTING
Commission

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&  DAVIS,
Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in  Car Lots,

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It w ill fit any pail, and keep  the  Tobacco  m oist 

and fresh until entirely used.

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S O l o   Agents,

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Cracker  Manufacturers.

Agents  fo r

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

And.

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100 pr cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED .  T E L F E R ,  Grand  Rapids.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

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

I never was a  particular  admirer  of  an 
intentional  distortion  of  the  English  lan­
guage, and, hence, on the subjects of gram­
matical abortions and  orthographical  mon­
strosities  your  genial  correspondent,  Soli­
man Snooks,  and  myself  would  probably 
fail to agree, but  Soliman’s  remarks,  in  a 
recent issue, regarding the depressing influ­
ence of legislation  on trade prove  that,  on 
one subject at least, we are  in  perfect  ac­
cord.

Every business  man  would  like  to  be­
lieve that  state  and  national  legislatures 
contained thé concentrated essence of  state 
and national wisdom, equity and statesman­
ship, that they  are  convened  for  the  pur­
pose of conferring the greatest  good on  the 
greatest number  and  that  collectively  and 
individually their members were actuated by 
wise, pure  and  patriotic  motives;  but  no 
business man of experience and intelligence 
dare believe it, and no  business  man  with 
these characteristics ever  notes  the  gather­
ing  of  a  legislative  body  without  appre­
hending some attack,  directly or indirectly, 
on his personal interests.

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I think it was Thomas Paine who  affirm­
ed that we pay  governments  to  whip  us, 
and modem  experience  goes  far  towards 
justifying the assertion.

In ante-bellum days an American  literary 
man made a tour  of  Egypt,  and,  after  a 
comprehensive study of its resources,  finan­
ces, etc.,  announced  to  a  horrified  world 
that it required exactly  one-tenth of all the 
earnings of  the  inhabitants  to  pay  their 
taxes.  At  that  time  it  was  thought  al­
most incredible that  a  people  would  sub­
mit to such extortion,  but in the year A. D., 
1887, the Michigan  merchant whose nation­
al,  state and local taxes  could  be  adjusted 
on the Egyptian basis would regard himself 
as a marvelously favored individual.
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But it is  not  taxation  alone  that  makes 
the conventions of  our  law  makers  occa­
sions for  mourning  rather  than  rejoicing. 
Added to this  are  the  well-grounded  fear 
tiiat the  cranky  element  of  the  assembly 
will succeed  in  its  perenenial  mission  of 
disorganizing trade,  handicapping manufac­
tures and unsettling finances, the increasing 
attacks  of  the  hobby  riders  on  different 
branches of  business, and  an  endless  flood 
of prescriptive  and  harassing  enactments 
which are eminently calculated to make the 
most exemplary and  conscientious  citizen a 
law-breaker in spite  of  himself.

Any individual who expects or even hopes 
to  witness a millenium  of  legislative  wis­
dom is too credulous for the age; we can only 
iiope to see the  cranks and hobby riders re­
duced to a safe minority, and to successfully 
effect this should be the end,  aim and ambi­
tion of those whose interests they assail.

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I know  it is undemocratic,  and  somewhat 
unpopular,  but I  have  an  old-fogyish  idea 
that the non-taxpayer should  have  very lit­
tle to say about the disposal  of the few dol­
lars I have  accumulated. 
If  my  neighbors 
Smith,  Brown  and  Jones, who  have equal 
financial interests with  myself,  want  to de­
plete my bank account, as well as their own, 
by voting for extravagant  and  unnecessary 
taxation,  I should feel  much less  aggrieved 
over the matter than if the depleting process 
were due to the  ballots of  Robinson,  John­
son and Jackson,  who don’t  own  a  dollar, 
and  who, moreover,  figure  heavily  on  my 
dead-beat book.

Put  one hundred  and  thirty-two  clear­
headed and solvent  business  men  into  the 
Staie  House  at  Lansing,  in  place  of  the 
usual  rag tag and bob-tail  legislators, and I 
will guarantee one session free from extrav­
agance,  stupidity  and  folly.  There  are,  to 
be sure,  a number of  men of  this  stamp in 
the present body,  and preceding  ones  have 
had a sprinkling  of the right material, and, 
perhaps to tiffs fact are due our many narrow 
escapes from almost ruinous legislation.

In  what  I  may  term  my  business  ado­
lescence,  I used to have  a profound venera­
tion for our  Wolverine  Solons. 
I  remem­
ber one in particular, whom we will call Bun­
combe,  whose legislative record inspired me 
with awe and admiration.  In the reports, no 
name  appeared more  frequently  than Bun­
combe’s,  and it was almost  always connect­
ed  witli  appropriations  for  large  sums  of 
money. 
I used to marvel  at  the  ease  and 
carelessness  with  which  Buncombe  would 
recommend a hundred  thousand  dollars  for 
an asylum for indigent  sutlers of  the rebel­
lion or a quarter of a million to equalize the 
bounties of mule drivers or  the  indifference 
with which  he  would  suggest  the  setting 
aside of a  few  thousand  sections  of  State 
lands to  “assist” a  mythical  railroad  from 
anywhere to nowhere,  and  I often  wonder­
ed  why  a “statesman” witli  such  compre 
hensive  ideas  of  political  economy  and 
finance was not  called  to  adorn  the  Presi 
dent’s cabinent.

In time, 

Well,  I finally had  the felicity of  making 
Buncombe’s  acquaintance  (and  of  lending 
him an  occasional  greenback). 
found him to be a low, vulgar, ignorant and 
impecunious  adventurer,  retained  in  office 
by the credulity of  his  constituents and the 
assistance  of  professional  lobbyists,  and 
that no unimportant share of the legislation 
of a great commonwealth was due to  politi 
cal  rascality,  a  superficial  cunning  and  i 
colossal  “cheek.”

It is safe  to  estimate  that,  during  Bun 
combe’s public career,  he  cost the State two 
hundred thousand dollars in useless and dis 
at  appropriations,  and, alas, the  Bun

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combe style  of 4’statesman” is  still popular
in numerous legistive districts.
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Excessive taxation and vicious class legis­
lation are  due  to  the  Buncombes,  cranks 
and  hobby riders, and it should  be  a  fixed 
principle with  every  level-headed  business 
man to  oppose  them  for  any  office,  from
coroner to congressman.
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“Yes,” said ray neighbor Jones, the other 
day,  as I was elucidating  some of  the ideas 
embodied in this article,  “Yes, there’s p’raps 
considerable truth in  what you say,  but you 
couldn’t find a hundred  and  thirty-two fel­
lers like you mention, who’d be cussed fools 
enough to run.  Did I ever tell  you  my ex­
perience when  the  boys  nominated  me for 
the  Legislature  No!  Well,  you  see  I 
wasn’t at the convention, and that afternoon 
a lot of fellers  came  yellin’  and  whoopin’ 
into the store an’ said I’d got  almost  every 
vote. 
I wasn’t pleased  a  cussed  bit,  but I 
set up a box  of  six  dollar  cigars  just  the 
same.  Then I tried to beg off, but the boys 
told me that it shouldn’t cost me nothin’ an’ 
I owed a duty to my  party.  Well,  I finally 
got excited over the  matter and got a livery 
rig  an’  went  around  the  country  shakiD’ 
hands with everybody,  like a lunatic.  Then 
I writ a piece an’ made  an  infernal  idiot of 
myself at the  country school  houses.  An’ 
I got bit by a bulldog an’ got run away with 
and  my buggy busted,  an’ every .brass  band 
an’ hotel man  an  hall  owner  an’ livery fel­
ler in the country had  a  big  bill  agin’ me, 
an’ every dead-beat  in  town  fixed  himself 
for the next six months.  Then  the  county 
committee drawed on me for $250,  an’ I got 
beat higher’n Gildroy’s  kite,  an prob’ly that 
little duty to my party  cost  me  more  than 
I made the nex’ two years.  No sir-ee,  don’t 
put me down  for  one  of  your  hundred an’ 
thirty-two patrits.

CINNAMON.

Some Gossip  About  the  Article by an Old 

Planter.

During the memorable period when Rome 
entered on  the  slope  of  her  long  decline, 
certain merchants of Arabia  brought to the 
great port of Egypt some packages of a cur­
ious fruit found,  they  said,  in  the  Indies, 
but in what particular place they knew not. 
This was cinnamon, and it was not for several 
centuries that European merchants discover­
ed the sources of the  supply.

There is;  perhaps, no  part  of  the  world 
in which the cinnamon tree  grows  in  such 
abundance as in Ceylon,  but,  even  there,  it 
is chiefly confined to the  southwest quarter.
In the other parts of the island  the  tree  is 
camparatively rare and the  bark is deficient 
in the spicy, aromatic flavor which it possess^ 
esin what is called the “cinnamon country. - 
In the north and northeast parts  of  the  is­
land the tree  has  never  been  seen.  The 
tree thrives best in  a  rich,  light,  dry  soil 
and has to be well sheltered  from  the  sun.
There are four  plantations  of  cinnamon 
in the neighborhood of Colombo, consisting, 
altogether, of from eight  to  ten  thousand 
acres, which afford a large  portion  of  the 
cinnamon that is exported from  the  island, 
but a considerable  quantity is also procured 
from the jungle (natural woods) both in the 
provinces on the coast and  in  the  interior, 
or  Kandyan  country.  Cinnamon  spice  is 
the prepared bark of the  tree.  The  cinna- 
man harvest in Ceylon commences  early  in 
the month of May and continues  until  late 
in October.  Shoots having  a  diameter  of, 
say,  from  half  an 
indi  to  three  inches 
yield better cinnamon than larger  shoots  or 
branches.  The shoots are  peeled  by  mak- 
iug a longitudinal incision through the bark 
on both sides,  and then  holding a knife un 
der the  bark  and  separating  it  from  the 
wood.  The  green  or outer bark is scraped 
off from the inner bark,  which,  after  being 
carefully dried,  becomes  the  cinnamon  of 
commerce.
The Ceylon cinnamon is commonly  ship 
ped from there in quills about  forty  inches 
long.  Great care is taken-  to  prevent  the 
iunamon which 
is  exported  from  being 
mixed with tasteless bark.  There are great 
differences  in  the  quality  of  cinnamon 
which we presume is caused  by  the  varié 
ties of the climate and  the  soil. 
It  is  ex­
ported  from  Ceylon  in  bales.  The  East 
India Company used to have a monopoly  of 
cinnamon in the island but  it  is  now free 
In addition to the  cinnamon  bark  there  is 
exported to this country the essential  oil  of 
cinnamon.  This oil is  chiefly  prepared  in 
Ceylon and,  generally, from the broken por 
tions,  which are separated  from  the  quills 
during the  inspecting  and  sorting.  The 
cinnamon chips are powdered and then they 
are immersed for about forty-eight hours  in 
sea water.  The  process of distillation  fol­
lows,  when an oil comes over,  which  sepa­
rates into two  kinds,  a heavier and a light- 
The light oil separates from the  water
in a few hours,  but the heavy oil  continues 
to precipitate  for  ten  or  twelve  days. 
It 
takes about  a  hundred  pounds  weight  of 
cinnamon to make three ounces  of oil.

The  cinnamon  which  is  imported  from 
the peninsula of India,  Sumatra  and  Java 
as well as the very coarse cinnamon import­
ed Ceylon,  is designated  C a s s i a There 
not much money in cinnamon planting,  and 
it is mostly in the hands of natives.

Dissolution of Copartnership.

Notice is hereby given that the firm of Fred 
D. Yale & Co. is  hereby  dissolved  by  mutual 
consent.  Fred. D. Yale retiring,  ana  that  all 
accounts due said firm must be paid to  Daniel 
Lynch, and  all  debts  owing  by said firm will 
be paid by Daniel Lynch. 

Dated Grand Rapids, Mich., April 12,1887.
F r e d D. Y a l e, 
D a n ie l Lynch

1 hereby give notice  that, having purchased 
the interest of Fred D. Yale, in the late firm of 
Fred D. Yale  & Co., I will continue the extract 
business at  the old  stand, 40 and 42  South Di­
vision  street, under the  firm  name  of  Fred 
D. Yale & Co. 
„
Dated Crand Rapids. Mich., April 12,1887. 
188-3t 
Da n iel L ynch

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B U SIN E SS  L A W .

Brief D igests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

ASSIGNMENT  FOR  C RE D ITO R  *

PREFER*

ENCE.

A direction in an assignment for creditors 
to pay the lawyer who prepared it a reason­
able fee for his services is not an  unlawful 
preference,  according to the  decision of the 
Supreme Court of South Carolina in the case 
of Verner vs.  Davis et al.

c h a n g e   o f   b e n e f i c i a r y .

Where the  constitution  or by-laws of  a 
mutual benefit insurance  association do not 
expressly or by implication  prevent the as­
sociation or the members from changing the
name of the beneficiary,  the  right to do so
exists and can be exercised.  So held by the 
Supreme  Court  of  Indiana in  the case of 
Masonic  Mutual  Benefit  Association  vs. 
Burkhart.

r ig h t s o f  d e p o s it o r s.

The surplus which a savings 

institutions 
has,  when wound up,  belongs to  those who 
are the depositors at that time,  and they are 
entitled  to  a  ratable  distribution  among 
themselves according to the amount of their 
respective deposits.  So held by  the  Court 
o f Chancery of New Jersey in  the  case  ot 
Morristown Institution for Savings vs.  Rob­
erts et al.
SALE  OF  GOODS— CONDITIONS  PRECEDENT.
When a mercantile  contract is  made for 
the sale of goods to be shipped  from  a for­
eign port,  the shipment to be  made  within 
certain specified months,  the  goods to be of 
a certain quality and the name of the vessel 
to be declared as soon as it is  known to the 
seller,  these are conditions  precedent  to be 
performed by him  before he  can sue for a 
breach of contract.  So held by the Court of 
Appeals of Maryland in the case of  Salmon 
vs. Boykin.
TKADK-MAKK—USE  OF  WORD  “ HABANA.

, 

The case of  Newman  et al.  vs.  Pinto et. 
al lately decided by Justice Kekewich in the 
Chancery  Divisiou of  the  High  Court of 
Justice,  England,  arose upon a  petition for 
an  injunction  to  restrain  the  defendants 
from infringing the  plaintiffs’  trade-mark.
The defendants opposed the  granting of in­
junction upon the  ground,  among  others, 
that the use by the  plaintiffs  of  the term 
“Habana” upon their cigar boxes was itself 
a fraud,  since there was no Havana tobacco 
in the plaintiffs’ cigars.  The court,  in grant­
ing  the 
injunction,  said that it had  been 
proved that the w ord  “Habana” was in com­
mon use on boxes, whether coming from one 
part of tiie world or another,  and that it had 
been  in use in that  way for a  great  many 
years, 
lie   agreed  that if it were a  fraud 
the mere fact that all the  cigar  merchants, 
manufacturers and  retail  dealers in  London 
had practiced this  fraud W'ould not assist the j 
plaintiffs,  nor would it  prevent  the  court 
expressing a strong opinion adverse to such j 
a fraud.  But it had  been  proved  that the 
use of this word  “Habana” on  all  sorts of 
boxes had been continued for at least tw en-, 
ty-five years,  and one witness said  lie could 
not remember the time when the word “Ha- : 
bana” did signify that the cigars came from , 
Havana. 
It,  no  doubt,  originated  when 
there were none other  but  Havana  cigars.
It had not  only  become a  custom  of  the 
trade,  but  he  must take it to be a  custom 
well  known to every  purchaser  of  cigars. 
He agreed that the  court must  protect the 
public,  not only the wary,  but the  unwary. 
According to the evidence it was  clear  that 
ordinary smokers of cigars must know when 
they purchased a cigar  marked  “Habana 
that they were not  buying a cigar  made in 
Havana,  but  that 
it  was  manufactured 
somewhere else.  Whether  the use  of  the 
word  “Habana”  in  the  first 
instance  was 
wrong or not,  his lordship  was  not  compe­
tent to say. 
indicate,  and 
had not indicated for a long  series of years 
to the public, wary or  unwary,  except  per­
haps the inexperienced  few  who were  buy­
ing a 2d or 3d  Havana  for  the  first  time, 
that the word was used  in such a  way as to 
be a fraud.  The  defendant was rather in a 
difficulty beyond that,  because  he  used the 
word himself. 
In his  judgment all  manu­
facturers,  importers and dealers were at lib­
erty to place the word  “Habana” on  their 
boxes of cigars,  and  his lordship did not be­
lieve it had caused the slightest deception to 
any one person  up to this time,  and he  was 
certain it would not in the future.”

It did not  now 

Follies  of  Fashionable  Dress.

A  well-known  retail  merchant was in a 
bad humor one Monday morning.  A friend 
said to him:  “Charley,  1  am  afraid  the 
preaching  yesterday  did not do you  much 
good.”  “ I t  did not,”  was the answer.  “My 
pastor preached  against  the follies of fash­
ionable dress,  and most  of the ladies of liis 
congregation are my  customers.”

A.  C.  Barkley,  general  dealer,  Crosby:  “1 

am well pleased With the paper.”

G. A. K eller & Son, general dealers, Brec ken 
ridge: “We think ‘The Tradesman’ is  the  best 
mercantile  paper  we  ever  saw,  and  compli­
ment  you on the  «rrand  work  which  you are 
doing for the merchants of this State.”

W anted in  each  County, Lady or  Gentle­
man, to whom we will give a profitable ana 
permanent position as

DIRECTING  MANAGER

of our publishing business.  This is an ex­
ceptional  opportunity to  form, an  associa­
tion with an  honorable house that can con­
tinue through the years.
Charles  H.  Horn  and  Milton George,  of 
Chicago,  are  officers  of  this  Company 
which fact is a  sufficient  guarantee  of  its 
honest  purposes and  high  standing. 
It is 
likewise endorsed by “The W estern Rural 
of Chicago.  W rite to  us  for  full  and  de­
tailed information as to this  rare chance to 
establish yourself in life.  Address,
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TIME  TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 
Arrive.

K a la m a z o o   D ivision.

T 

w  y   Mail 

«  
N.Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex
E|  E p an  ~  IS•  ni. .lir.ndK »pid*.  * *'’’ * '“
5:00 a 111 
S S lZ H S S S m -::: ?,§ i S
4:00 p m 
2:80 p m 
8 -SO p m  11:35 a in. .W hite Pigeon.  5:55 a m
9:15am  
2  30a m   6:05 p m. .T oledo............ 11:00 p m
i :35 a  m
8’3 0 am   9:40 pm ..C leveland .......6:40pm  
-  
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2 50D m   3:30 a in..B uffalo............ 11:55 a m   11:40 p m
5-40 a m 
6:50 p m ..C h icag o ..........11 '-30 p m 
6:50 a m
A local freight leaves G rand Rapids a t 12 :a0 pm .carry- 
Ing passengers as fa r as  Allegan.  All  trains 
cept Sunday. 

J. W. McKenxev, G eneral Agent.

Detroit,  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

g o i n g   e a s t . Arrives.

tSteam boat  Express........................
tThrougli  Mail..................................
tE vening Express............................... » S P ™
•Lim ited  Express...............................6:50am
♦Mixed, w ith  coach..........................
GOING W E8T.
tM orning  Express............................  U S E ™
tThrougli  Mail..................................     M o m
tSteam boat Express........................10.40 p m
tMixed.^..........................................  K;0r, o'™
♦Night Express................... . • • •• • • • •  °  M  m

Leaves. 
6.30 p III 
10:50 a  m 
3:50 p m 
6:50 a m 
11:00 a ill
1:10p m  
5:10 p m 
10:45 p m 
7:45 a m 
5  to a m
♦Daily. Sundays excepted.  *Daiiy.
PAjisenirers taking the 6:50  a m   Express  m ake  close 
connecU on a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
Yaw  York  arriving  there  a t  10:30  a m the following 
m orning.  The N ight Express has a through W agner ear 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to  G rand Rapids.
D. 1’ottkk, City Passenger Agent. 

GKO. B. R eeve, Traffic M anager Chicago.

Chicago  & W est Michigan.

Leaves.
.M a il................................................... 9:10am
«Night Express.................................. l *;9? P >'»
Muskegon Express............  ••  ........ 5.00 p m
. 

Ai rives 
3:55 p m 
9:45 p m 
5:45 a 111 
11:00 a  m
*l)ailv.  ♦Daily except Sunday. 
-
Pullm anSleeping Cars on all nig h t trains.  Through 
narlor ca r in charge of careful attendants  w ithout  ex- 
tra  charge to  Chicago on 12:50 p. m., and through coach 
on 9 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.
N ew ay g o   D lv to to iu ^   Arriveg
F „Iiress 
4:50 p in
...............................3:45pill 
KXDress ' " . . . ..................................   8:00am  
10:30am
"a n trains arrive and depart from  Union Depot.
The N orthern term inus of this division is a t Baldwin, 
w here close connection is  made  w ith  F. <S P. M.. tiam s 
to and from  Ludington and Manistee.

W. A. Gavett, Gen 1 1‘ass. Agent.
J. B. Muli.ikkn,  General  Manager.

Detroit, Mackinaw & Marquette. 

Going West. 

7:00 a m  
12:20 p m 
5:30 p m

Going East.

5 55pm
c :15 p m   12:35 p m
7:00 a m

8:00V m ..S t. Ignace....... 8:40 p m  
-   —  ’ 
11:05 a  m. .Seneÿ 
¡  2:05 p m 
2:30 p m '
: M arquette..
!  1:55 p m  
4:00pm ,
.  1:90 p m  
4:35 p m. .N egaunee...
.12:55 p m 
4:45 p m. .Ishpem ing..
> a  m
-----------
8:00 p m ..H oughton ... 
8:20 p in. .H a n c o c k ....... 9:00 a m

Mixed tra in  leaves St. Ignace  a t  7 a m;  arrives  Mar­

quette 5:30 p m. 
Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, M arquette.

. 

E. W. ALLEN,

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern.

G rand R a p id s &  S a g in a w  D iv isio n .

DEPART.
ARRIVE.

Saginaw Express.....................................................  '  » « a m
Saginaw Express...................■................................  4  00 p  m
Grand Rapids  Express...........................................in  la S m
Grand Rapids  Express.............................•••"•••J0  30 P m

All trains arrive a t and depart from  L nion depot. 
T rains run solid both  ways.

O R A N G E S

PORTABLE A N D  STATIONARY

E   3ST  O - 1 1ST  E  S  
S
S
ing.  Pulleys  and Roxes.  Contracts made for 
Complete Outfits.

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• V U .   O .   X > o i x l » o x x ,

88,90 and 98 South  Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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We carry  «. full  Une of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  wrant  should 
write to or see the

BRAND  RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

L E M O N S

1865

W HOLESALE

C A N D Y ,

A ND

F R U I T

1887

OYSTERS
PEA NUTS
"TH E O L D E ST .  T H E  L A R G E S T ,  T J iiib L S T .

The best o f Testimonials from everyStafrand^Te^itor^

c o  «  

'“ W i   _   _   w ____ Z r \ f t T Z

PORTER IRON ROOFING C(h CINCINNATI

O B X O .

J .   T .   B E L L   S c  O C X ,

W h o le s a le   F r u i t s   a n d   P ro d u c e ,

BAST SAaiMAW, MICH.

FRUITS A. S . SPAXTGIÆR  <&  CO.

usai

P R O D U C E ,T u t s ,  B E R R IES,  ETC. 

Consignments Solicited.

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200 and 202 North W ashington Ave., East Saginaw, Mich.

J.  D  TT ARRIS. 

W liolesalo D ealer in

33  NORTH  IONIA  STREET, 

CRAND  R& FIDS. 

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MICH.

DO  YOU  WANT  A

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS,

STATE  AGENTS  FOR

F. J. LAMB & CO.
D.  D. M a llo ry   &   C o.’s

DIAMOND BRAND OYSTERS
Also  Fruits  and  Country  Produce. 
FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

IDesigners

E n g r a v e r s a n d  P rin ters

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20  and  22  donroe  St.,  Grand  Ranida,  Mich.

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  A LLEN ,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST  CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

tended  to.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Promptly At­
I  PL ACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
G r a n d  R a p i d s  (Mich.) B u s i­
n e s s  Co l l e g e .  write for Col- 
Address,  C. G. SWEN8BERG.

Jege Journal.

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

S. HETMAN & SON,........ .  *
PURE.  I  NEW  PROCESS  STARCH. 

ISWES
removed,O n 3 - T t i - i i * c L   L i © s s

This Starch having th e  lig h t  Starch  and  Gluten 

Can be used th an  any other in th e M arket.

M a n u fa ctu r ed  b y  th e

F I R M E N I C H   M N F G .  C O

F a c to r ie s:  M a rsh a llto w n ,  Io w a ;  P e o r ia ,  I lls .

'  ORices  a t  P e o r ia ,  I lls .

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

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice.

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

Address as above
49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.

O R D E R

Our Leader Sm oking! Our Leader Fin© Out 

15c per pound. 

| 

33c per pound.

•Our Leader Skcrts,  Our Leader Cigars, 

16c per pound. 

$30 per M.
Til©  Best  in   tlx©  "World..

Clark, Jewell & Co.,

SO L E   A G E N T S  F O R

Dwinell, Hayward & Co.’s Royal J a v a  Coffee;  and 

O’Brien & Murray’s “Hand Made Cigar.

In  Ordering a Supply of the

Arctic B ù i Powder

Do not forget to  ask for

Deaf and Dumb Alphabet Rules 
also Comic Cards  for Adver­
tising.

-TIIE-

Has  now  STOOD  THE  TEST 
TEN  YEARS, and  has  always 
given  entire  satisfaction. 
It 
has never been connected with 
any  schemes  to  help  its  sale, 
but has  enjoyed  a  steadily in­
creasing demand each year.

Ra k in g
POWDER
Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids.
THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE

SOUS PROPRIETORS.

Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market. 

SHSXjXiB 0 3 ST  XT’S  ME HITS.

The Home Yeast Cakes are put up in two sizes  (packages)  cartons.

No.  1.  Large size,  SO  packages,  or cartons,  per case,  31.50.
No.  2.  Smaller “   36 

“

THE  HOME  YEAST 

N .  B .— A sk  y o u r w h o le sa le  g ro cer for th e  H O M E   Y E A ST   C A K E .  

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JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

J L N J D   I T  O T I O N S ,

83  M onroe  St„

AND  10,  12,  14,  16  AND  18  FOUNTAIN  STREET,

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

reerl-ss 
American and Stark A Bags 

M I »   j ¿

r  

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FOR  SALE  BY

s t r o n g   Clark,  Jewell  &  Co. 
|  s u r e .
BULKLEY.LEMON & HOOPS,
W holesale  Grocers.

I m p o r t e r s   a ,n .d

Sole Agents fo r

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dark and light.
bacco. 
Coffees.

Lsiutz Bros. & Co.’s CGlGtor&tGd So&ps. 
Niagara Starch Co. s ColGhratGd Starch. 
“Jolly  Tar”  Celebrated  P lug  Tobacco, 
Jolly  Time”  Celebrated  Fine  Cut  To­
Dwinell,  Hayward  Sq  Co.’s  Roasted 
Thomson &  Taylor’s  Magnolia  Coffee. 
Warsaw Salt Co.’s Warsaw Salt. 
“Benton” Tomatoes, Benton Harbor. 
“Van Camp” Tomatoes,  Indianapolis. 
“Acme ”  Sugar Corn, Best in the World.
In addition to a M l line  of staple groceries, we are the 
only house'in Michigan which carries a complete assortment 
of fancy groceries and table delicacies.

Mail orders  are  especially  solicited, which  invariably 
secure the lowest prices and prompt shipment.  Satisfaction 
guaranteed.

G-rancJ R apids, Mioli.

25,27 and 29 Ionia Stand 51,53,55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,
DETROIT  SÒAP  00,

DETROIT. MICH.,

Manufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

S

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QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,

ROY^ J .t ^ T ?

SUPERIOR,

MASCOTTE,

MONDAY, 

PHCENIX,

W ABASH, 

CAMEO,

AND  OTHERS.

For Quotations address

W . G.  H A W K IN S ,

’ Lock  Bos  173, 

»BAND  RAPIDS,  M ICH,

Salesman for  W ©stern Michigan.

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FRESH  FISH

Bought  and Sold by

P R A N K   J . D E T T E N T H A L E R ,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

ZW"  O y s te r s   t h e   Y e a r   A r o u n d

(B r o c e r ic s .

WHOLESALE  PRICE  0UBRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cosh  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AXLE  GREASE.

n i i n   a m t ?  A V in w  
i i h í t A im ia a   i  m i l  
U l i v i i/JjQi 1 1U11 

í i í f p ü m « Crown  ............... ...  80
Frazer’s............. .. 
90
U U   XX  X X Di Diamond  X ....... ...  60
Modoc, 4  doz__ __ .2 50

h 

n

Paragon................ 2 10
Paragon 25 lb pails.  00 
Fraziers,25 ft palls. 1  25

A Tale to be Told.

The merits of the  Northern Queen board, 

Every woman her own  washing machine, 

—By Frank H. White.

or

They  Don’t  Scare.

The Independent  Oil Co.  is  receiving all 
manner of threats  from its  big competitor, 
but it still continues to conduct  its business 
in its own way and is making  new  friends 
among the trade every day.  Manager Mars­
ton says that so large a volume  of  business 
as lie is now doing is unprecedented for this 
season of the year,  and he  attributes it  en­
tirely to the antipathy the trade have for the 
Standard  Oil  Co.,  and  the  avidity  with 
which they improve the opportunity to han­
dle anti-monopoly  oil.

PROVISIONS.

“ 
“ 

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co.

PORK  IN  BARRELS

Short Clears, heavy.......................

“ 
“ 
do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.

quote  as  follows:
Mess, new....................................... ...............17
Short Cut, clear............................. ...............16
Extra clear pig, short cut........... ...............17 50
Extra clear,heavy......................... ...............17 50
Clear quill, short  cut.................... ...............1? 50
Boston clear, short cut................ ...............IV  50
Clear back, short cut.................... ...............17 60
Standard clear, short  cut, best.................17 50
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy....................... ........  
8%
medium.................... ........  
8%
lig h t......................... ........  
8%
&
9
medium.................... ........  
light.......................... ........  
9
Hams, average 20  fts.................... ................ 11%
16  fts.................... ................ 12«
“ 
12 to 14 lbs............ ................ 12«
“ 
“  picnic  .................................
...............  9«
“  best boneless..................... .................11
Shoulders.......................................
...............  8
Breakfast Bacon, boneless..........
...............10«
Dried Boef, extra..........................
.............. 10  1
ham  prices...............
...............13 
j
Tierces  ...........................................
7«
....... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs............................
....... 
' /é
LARD  IN U N   PAILS.
8
3 ft Paiis, 20 in a case....................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case....................
....... 
7%
10 lb Pails. 6 in a  case....................
7ys
20 ft Pails, 4 pails in case.............
....... 
• /Á
BEEF IN BARRELS.
..  8 50 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts___
Boneless,  extra.........................................
.11 50
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
Pork  Sausage............................................
Ham Sausage..................... *.....................
Tongue  Sausage.......................... ............
Frankfort  Sausage.................................
Blood  Sausage..........................................
Bologna, straight.....................................
Bologna, thick..........................................
Head  Cheese..............................................
In half barrels...........................................
In quarter barrels....................................

PIGS’  FEET.

3 00 
1 65

LARD.

“ 

Full'  outfits  for  the  Collection  Depart­
ment of a Business Men’s Association, con­
taining all the late improvements, supplied 
to order for $ 13.  The outfit comprises: 
1,000 “Blue Letter”  Notification  Sheets, 
for member’s use.
500 Copyrighted Record Blanks,
500 Association Notification  Sheets, and 
500  Envelopes.
Money can be sent by  draft,  post-office 
or express order.

F u l l e r  &   S to w e   C o m p a n y ,

49 Lyon Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

Tbe  m ost  practical 
han<l  R oaster  in  the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion.  They are simple 
durable and  econom­
ico  grocer
lie  w ithout 
Roasts  coffee 
•a-nuts  to  per-

uld 

^ M S .W est,

150  L o n g   S t.,
Cleveland, Ohio.

REFRIGERATORS,
O.  M.  WHITMAN  &  CO.,
B r isto l  Street.
BOSTON,  M Af

Manufactured by

AGENTS—A. Flesch.  118  Randolph  St..  Chicago, 111. 
W illiam  M. Morgan. 215  Duane St., N.  Emil  W ienert, 
Albany, N. Y.  G ardiner Bros., St. A ugustine,  Eia.

THE  N EW

S o a p   C o m p a n y ,

As  previously  announced,  the  trade  is 
now being supplied with Soap from this new 
factory.  Two  brands  are now introduced, 
the

H

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t

i

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A ND

I D e t i s y .

X j i t t l ©  
Both free from adulterations of all kinds, 
and contain pure Ceylon  Cocoa  Oil.  Steam 
Refined Tallow,  Glycerine and Borax.  The 
former  is  a  first-class  Laundry Soap’, and 
the latter,  being fine and  milder,  is  one  oi 
the  best  Bath,  Laundry  and  Toilet  Soaps 
combined  now on the market.

For terms,  please apply to the  iactory,  in 
(Telephone 

person, by letter,  or telephone. 
No. 578-5 rings. )

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way of a trial or der?

Respectfully,

.38

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotesms follows: 
New  York Counts....................................
H. F. H.& Co.’s Selects.............................
Anchors  ....................................................
Black  bass.................................................
Rock  bass...................................................
Perch...........................................................
Wall-eyed  pike........................................
Duck-bill  pike...........................................
Sturgeon.....................................................
Sturgeon,  smoked.................................
Trout.................. :......................................
Trout, smoked............\ ............................
White tish ........  
.................. v.................
Whitetlsh, smoked....................................

H I D E S , P E L T S   A N D   F U R S .

Perkins & Hess pay as follows: 

HIDES.

Green__ ® ft  5«@ 6
Part cured...  7  @  7«
Full cured 
  7«@  8«
Dry hides and 
kip s............  8  @12

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__   7  © 8
® piece.......20  @50

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed ® ft........ 25  @26
Tallow......................................................  3  © 3«
Fine washed ® ft 25@26iCoarse washed.. .20@24
Medium

7@30 j U nwashed............

WOOL.

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

Water White.................................... .............  11%
Michigan  Test................................. ....! .......10%
Etbaline............................................ ...............13«
Ruby.................................................
............. 12«

LUBRICATING.

Gasoline............................................ ...............11«
Capitol Cylinder.............................
.............36«
Model  Cylinder...............................
.............31«
Shield  Cylinder...............................
.............26«
............. 23
Eldorado  Engine............................
Peerless  Machinery.......................
............. 20
Challenge Machinery.....................
............. 19
Paraffine  .........................................
............. 20«
.............   9
Black. Summer, West Virginia...
Black. 25° to 30°............................
............. 10
Black, 15® C.  T...............................
............. 11
Zero...................................................
............. 12«

FIELD  SEEDS.
Clover,  mammoth..........................
“  medium.............................
Timothy, prime...............................

...4 25@4 50
...4 25®4 50
...1 90@2 00

OLD  B AKB ELS

Setting about a store  are  unsightly,  besides  the  pro­
jecting nails on them  are dangerous  to  clothing.  The 
enterprising grocer realises the value of handsome and 
convenient  fixtures,  and  to  m eet  this  dem and  the 
JVoolson  Spick  Co.,  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  have  designed 
th e ir

Iiion  Coffee  Cabinet,

a  partial 
1 packages 
at  a  price 
ts  w ithout 
ngued and 
1,  and  are 
ner.  Complete 
cabinet.  Their 
sold out,  is  ap- 
•etail  oatm eal, 
d,  and  a  hun- 
e  up  no  more 
ay  w ith  these 
«-list  of L i o n  
rent in  this p a­
th«  quality Of

This Coffee Cabinet Given Away.

A  GOOD

liis 

trade  can 

Is  ALWAYS  possible when a good cup of cof­
fee  is  served.  The  grocer  who  sells  LION 
COFFEE  to 
invariably  se­
cure  this  result  to  them.  LION  COFFEE 
is always uniform;  contains strength, flavor and 
true  merit; 
is  a  successful  blend  of  Mocha, 
Java and Rio.  Packed only  in  one-pound  air­
tight packages;  roasted,  but  not  ground;  full 
net weight,  and is never sold in bulk.

A Beautiful Picture Card
In every package.  We-solicit  a  sample  order 
for a cabinet filled with  LION  COFFEE.

For sale  by  all  Wholesale  Grocers  every­

where, and by the

0MBINED

92 to 108 Oak St., Toledo, Ohio.

Regular  Meeting  of  the  Retail  Grocers' 

Association.

The semi-monthly meeting  of  the  Retail 
Grocers Association,  which  was  held  last 
Tuesday evening,  was  attended  by  about 
sixty  representative  grocers.  Wm.  R. 
Keeler,  of 63 East Leonard  street,  applied 
ior admission and was elected a  member  of 
the Association.

E. J.  Herrick,  of  the  special  committee 
appointed to investigate  the  report  that  a 
man was peddling butterine  from  house  to 
house, stated that sucli  a  person  had  pro­
cured a  government  license,  but  no  city 
license; that it was a  violation  of  the  law 
for the man to sell butterine at other than an 
established place of business,  and  that  the 
Revenue Collector stands ready to prosecute 
the man,  if anyone has sufficient evidence to 
make a complaint against  him.  The  com 
mittee was continued,  writh  instructions  to 
catch the peddler,  if possible.

Willie Marston sang “In  the  Gloaming.” 
B.  F.  Emery sent in a communication  re 
lative to a picnic at Reed’s  Lake  the  latter 
part of the present month.

E. E. Walker moved that a committee  of 
five be elected to select a  date  for  the  pic 
nic and make all preliminary arrangements, 
which was carried.  The chair appointed as 
such  committee  B.  F.  Emery,  A.  J.  El 
liot,  Milo G.  Randall,  H.  A.  HydornandL 
Wintemitz.

Eleanor Marston sang “We’d  Better Bide 

a  Wee.”

J.  W.  Milliken,  of  the  Traverse  City 
Business Men’s Association,  who was  pres 
ent by invitation, addressed the Association 
on the  subject  of  organization  in  general 
and that  of  Traverse  City  in  particular. 
H e complimented the Retail  Grocers’ Asso 
ciation on its compactness  and  the  objects 
already  secured  and  bespoke  for  it  even 
greater results for  the  future. 
In  answer 
to an enquiry, he stated that the  rating  list 
recently adopted by his own  Association  is 
giving  very  general  satisfaction.  When  a 
member wishes  to  know  the  standing  of 
a recent arrival, an announcement to that ef­
fect is made, rating slips are  passed around 
and each  member  records  his  estimate  of 
the man.  The slips are  then  gathered  up 
and a general average struck.  By this pro­
ceeding,* an  impartial  conception  of  the 
man’s standing is obtained.  Mr. Milliken’s 
remarks were listened to with  manifest  at­
tention,  and his suggestions  will  doubtless 
result in good to the Association.

The Secretary introduced the subject of  a 
ritual, as used by some of tile Eastern  asso­
ciations, and asked for  opinions  as  to  the 
advisability of its adoption  by  the  associa­
tions of this State.  The ritual in use by the 
Retail Merchants’ Association of  Troy,  X. 
Y.,  was read by H. A.  Hydom, as  follows: 
First.  The  President will  inquire of the 
Secretary if he has any  petitions of persons 
who have been duly elected but not  yet for 
merly received into the Association.

Second.  Upon  receiving  the  answer, he 
will request if  any persons present have not 
been formerly received  and  signed  the  by­
laws,  to report to the Secretary in  the outer 
room.

Third.  The Secretary,  seeing  them duly 
assembled,  will return to  the  inside of  the 
inner door, and  report  that  the  following 
named persons are in  attendance and await 
the pleasure of the President.

Fourth.  The President will then instruct 
the Secretary to  present  them  before him, 
and will address them as follows.

take more of the nature of  secret  societies.
E. J. Herrick thought that  better  results 
might be secured by doing the work openly, 
to show the  dead-beat that  we  mean  busi­
ness.

Jas.  Farnsworth was of the  opinion  that 
the best way to get ahead of  the  dead-beat 
is to make him afraid of you,  and the  more 
you can mystify him by  an  appearance  of 
secrecy,  the better.

H. A.  Hydom moved  that  the  ritual  be 

adopted,  which was lost.  *

Willie and Eleanor  Marston  sang  “The 
Flag,” when John J.  Sours read a paper  on 
“Counterfeits,”  E.  J.  Herrick  one  on 
“Coffee” and Thos.  Keating one  on  “Mus­
tard.”

Treasurer  Harris  reported  balance  on 
hand of 8129.26 and Secretary Stowe report­
ed the receipts of the evening,  824.50.

Willie  Marston  sang  “Come  Back  to 
Erin,” when on motion of Geo.  Dunaven  a 
vote of  thanks  was  tendered  the  children 
for their share in  the  evening’s  entertain­
ment.

The meeting then adjourned.
THE  NEXT  MEETING.

The next meeting, which  occurs  on  May 
17,  will be the most interesting ever held by 
the Association.  Edward Telfer,  who  was 
unable  to  be  present  at  the  last  meeting 
will  be  on  hand,  prepared  to  analyze  all 
samples of ginger presented.  Mrs.  Ludwig 
Winternitl will execute several piano  selec 
tions,  and  Misses  Jennie Kipp  and  Ab- 
bie  Boxheimer  will  manipulate  the  violin 
and piano.  The Mozart Club will  give  vo­
cal selections in their usual inimitable style, 
President Hamilton,  of  the  State  Associa­
tion,  is  expected  to  be  present,  in  whi«h 
event he will give  the  members  a  pleasant 
and  instructive  address.  Messrs.  Kelsey, 
Blain and Morgan,  members  of  the  Execu­
tive Committee of the State body,  will prob­
ably  be  in  the  city  that  evening  and  will 
favor the meeting  with  their  presence  and 
addresses.  The Picnic Committee  will  re­
port what arrangements have been made for 
that  event.  Taken  as  a  whole,  the  next 
meeting of the Association will be  interest 
ing in more senses than one,  and  no  mem 
ber should fail to be present.
Good  Report  from 

the  E a|t  Saginaw 

Grocers.

E ast  Saginaw,  May  8,  1887.

is 
license. 
on  Ordinances 

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D eak  Sin—The  Retail  Grocers’Associa­
the  hawkers 
tion 
now  pushing 
The  Commit­
and  peddlers’ 
a 
tee 
favorable report.  The enclosed  protest  by 
the Knights of  Labor  shows  how  that  or­
ganization  receives  it.  We  are  doing  our 
best to carry it through,  but  are  paying  no 
attention to the protest.

has  made 

Truly yours,
Ciia s.  H.  Smith,  Sec’y.

The  Grocery  Market 

Business and  collections are both all that 
could be  desired.  Rio  coffees  continue to 
advance and the manufacturers of  package 
goods  have  advanced 
their  prices  % 
cent during the past week.  Other articles 
are about steady.

Referring  to  trfe  exposure  by  The 
Tradesm an of the  alleged  wholesale gro­
cery agents who sell direct  to  farmers, the 
Howard  Record  remarks:  “Not  quite  a 
rear ago some slick-talking agents for a firm 
in Detroit canvassed  this  locality7,  selling 
groceries to farmers  at  ‘wholesale.’  In al­
most every instance, they gave short weight, 
sold inferior goods or  in some  other  way 
swindled the purchasers of  their stuff.”

Fifth.  Gentlemen,  the objects of this As­
sociation are to more  closely  unite  the  re­
tail tradesmen of our city,  and  to secure by 
a close union of  interest a general co-opera­
tion for  each  other’s  welfare; to  abate  as 
far as possible such  trade  abuses as may be 
working injury to  our  business;  to  expose 
fraud and adulteration; to  provide  a  cheap 
and  reliable  system  for  the  collection  of 
bad debts, and to prevent as far as possible, 
persons  who  can  but  will  not  pay  their 
debts,  from  obtaining  credit.  These  and 
many more objects quite  as  worthy,  are the 
work in which we are engaged, and we wel­
come you  among us,  believing that you will 
feel the same interest,  and assist  us in  ele­
vating and protecting the  trades  we  repre­
sent.  But  before  you  can  become  fully 
identified  with  us  as  a  member  in  good 
standing,  it will be necessary for  you to as­
sent to the following questions.

First.  Do you promise  on  your honor as 
a man that you will aid us  as  far  as  is  in 
your power to  carry  out  the  objects  men­
tioned?

Second.  Do  you promise  that  you  will 
not  wrong  or  defraud  this  Association,  or 
any member  of  the  same,  nor ‘betray  his 
confidence in  any matters of  a  private  na­
ture?

Third.  Do  you promise  that all the pro­
ceedings of our meetings,  whether of a pub­
lic or private nature,  when relating to a per­
son, or persons not members of the Associa­
tion, will be kept strictly private  by you?

Fourth.  Do  you further  promise,  under 
penalty of expulsion,  that  you  will not  di­
rectly  nor  indirectly  open  an  account  of 
credit  with  any person  or  persons  whose 
names have, or may hereafter appear on the 
printed delinquent lists?

Fifth.  Will  you  promise  on  you  honor 
as a man to  abide  by  and  comply with the 
constitution, by-laws  and  rules  of  this  As­
sociation?

E.  J.  Herrick  opiiosed  the  project  as 
savoring too much of “fuss  and  feathers.” 
He asserted that the grocers  did  not  go  to 
the meetings of the Association for  fun—to 
pass around  for  the  grip  and  pass  word, 
bat to accomplish legitimate results  for  the 
trade.

Jas. Farnsworth thought  that  the  meet­
ings were too open, and advised that they par-

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

Apples—Good  truit Is scarce,  readily  bring
ng $3ia $3.50 per bbl.  Fancy, $4.
Asparagus—30@35c per doz.  bunches.
Ruta Bagas—$1 ® bbl.
Beans—Looking up.  Country  hand - picked 
arc  held at $1.15 ® bu., and city picked  are  in 
fair demand at $1.50.

Beets—45c $  bu.
Butter—Creamery is in good demand  at 24c. 

Dairy7 is slow sale and weak at 15@18c.

Cabbages—New, $4.50 per crate.
Carrots—35c $   bu.
Cheese—Michigan full  cream  is  in  fair  de­
mand  at  13@13«c.  The  tendency  is  down­
ward.

Cider—I2«c <jj) gal.
Cucumbers—75 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 13c $  lb; quarter­

ed and sliced, 6@7c $  lb.

Dried Peaches—Pared, 14c.
Eggs—Jobbers are  paying  it® 10c and selling
or 11c.  Quotations are likely to go  lower be­
fore the end of the week.

Honey—Good demand at 10@13c.
Hay—Baled 

per ton  in two and  five  ton  lots  and  $13 
car lots.

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 

Lettuce—13c $  lb.
Maple Sugar—10c $  lb.
Onions—Old  stock,  75c.  ®  bu.  Bermudas,
2.25 per crate.  Spring, 15c ® doz.
Parsley—25c ®  doz
Peas—$1 ®  *   bu.
Potatoes—Shippers  are  paying 65c  for Bur­
banks  and  White  Star,  and  70c  for  Rose 
and Hebron.

Pop Corn—2«c 13 fit.
Pieplant—2c $  lb.
Parsnips—50c $  bu.
Plants—Cabbage or Tomato, $1.25 per box of

200.

Rutabagas—$1  13 bbl.
Radishes—25-4fc ® doz.
Spinach—75c® bu.
Strawberries—$3.75®$ 1  per  24  qt  case  for 

good to choice.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

String Beans—$1.7513 box.
Tomatoes—$1.50 $  box.
Vegetable Oysters—25c $  doz.
Wheat—Steady.  City  millers  pay  78  cents 
for Lancaster and 75  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at  45c  in  100  bu. 
lots and 40c in carlots.
Oats—White, 36c in small lots  and 30@31c  in 
car lots.
Rye—48@50c 13 bu.
Barley7—Brewers pay $1.25 ® ewt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$4.80® bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.00  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.00 ® bbl. in 
sackB  and $4.20 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 ® bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $13  ® ton.  Bran, $15 
f  ton.  Ships, $15 ® ton.  Middlings, $16 ® ton. 
Corn aad Oats, $17  13 ton.

Cod, whole......................;........................... 5@5«
C o d jb o n e io s s ....................................................... 6«@ 6 «
Halibut.....................................................8«@ 9«
Herring, round,  « b b l.........................  @2 90
Herring .round,  «   bbl.............................. 
1  75
Herring, Holland,  bbls......................... 
it  00
Herring, Holland,  kegs..........................   75©  80
Herring, Scaled...........................................17@18
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, «   bbls..................  Hi 00

“  12 ft kits 
“  10 

..........3 C0
.............. 2 60
N o.3. « b b ls.............................. 6 50
Sardines,  spiced, « 8 ......................... 
106112
Trout, «   bbls.................................... . 
5 50
101b  kits............................................  95
White, No. 1, «  bbls..................... ...! ........7  59
White, No. 1,12 lb kits.........................”  *" 1  jy
White, No. 1,1 0 1b kits.......................I 1  uo
White, Family, «  bbls...........................! .3 75

“ 

“ 

kits.........................75
“ 
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
„ 
, ^ 

, 

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 

..
..
MATCHES.

r 
Jennings  D.C., 2 oz..........  —

“  4oz..........
“  6 oz...........
“  8 oz..........
“  No. 2 Tapi 
“  No. 4
“  «  pint, roi 
“  1 
“
“  No. 8 
“ 
“  No. 10  “ 

Lemon.  Vanilla.
® doz.  1  00
1  6G
........... 1  60
2 65
........... 2 50
4 25
............3 50
6 00
........... 1 25
1  75
........... 1  75
3 00
d..........4 50
9 00
..........9 00
18  00
........... 1  10
1  85
........... 2 75
5 00
........... 4 25
7 00
..  95 
..1  15 
...............1  75
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !Î io
...............100
................1 50
Ü..ÜÜÜ1 00
...............1 50
...............1 00
...............1 50
...............1  15
............ 16@18
. .*........ 25@28
............24®;10
............28@34
............41 @50
............52@55
ROLLI
îD  OATS 
Muscatine, bbls....5 50 Muscatine
bbls
“ 
«   “ .... 3 (K
“  cases 2 25@3 25
@7 00
@4 00
@8 50
@4 75

Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........
Grand Haren, No 9, square, 3 gro 
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor 
Grand  Haven,  No.  3oO, parlor....
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round........
Oshkosh, No.  2.............................
Oshkosh, No.  8.....................
Swedish...........................;;;;;;;;;;;
Richardson’s No. 8 square! !.!.!.!
Hichardson’s No. 9 
do  __ !. '
Richardson’s No. 7«, round. !!..!.
Richardson’s No. 7 
do 
.......! ! !
Woodbine. 300...................... ..!....!
Black Strap..................................
Cuba Baking..................!" ’...........
Porto  Rico..................
New  Orleans,  good.........!.!.!...!
New Orleans, choice.................!.!,
New  Orleans,  fancy..................
«  bbls. 2c extra

Medium..................
«  bbl........
Small,  bbl...........
« b b l.......

I 
3 00 
i3 25) 
PICKLES.

“ 
«   ‘
“  cases

MOLASSES.

OATMEAL 

“ 
“ 

@2 00
@1  75
@  75

Imported Clay, No. 
Imported Clay, No.

PIPES.
216,3 gross...........
216, 2«  gross........
RICE.
Choice Carolina..
•8«[Java  ............... . 
5
Prime Carolina..
.5% P atna............. ........ 5«
Good Carolina...
.4« ¡Rangoon........
@4«
Good Louisiana.... .5  (Broken.
@3^
Table  .......................5 
I Japan......
...5 «
DeLand’s pure........5«  Dwight’s .......
Church’s  ................ 5 
iSea  Foam_
Taylor’s  G. M..........5  ICap Sheaf...

SALERATUS.

PLUG.

SMOKING

26 Lucky

Eye Opener...............25|Rlue  Blazes
..  25 
Pauper>  ..................... 31 Capper.......
. « .35» 
Peach  Pie..................3) Jupiter  ....
...25-
Star 
.................  37 Night Cap..
Old Solder  . ..
—  37 Splendid.... 
....  3S> 
Clipper  .................
. ...34|RedFox.... 
.......40
Cornerstone........
34  Big  Drive.
Scalping  Knife...
34 Chocolate  Cream! !Ü40
Sam Boss...............
34 Nimrod..................   35
N e x t.....................
.29| Big Five Center.!!!"  33
Jolly  Time............
82 Parrot
Favorite...............
.42 Buster__
Black  Bird............
.32'Black Prince.
Live and Let  Live
.331 Black  Racer.
Quaker..................
.......28 Climax  .........
.42
Nig................
.......37 Acorn  .......
.39
Spear  Head..........
.......37 Horse  Shoe..
.87
P.  V..................
.......36 Vinco............
.34
Spring Chicken
.......36 Merry War!!!
.£6-
Eclipse  ...........
.......30 Ben  Franklin
.32
Turkey.............
.......39 Moxie............
.34
Q. & Q................
.......24 Black Jack!!!.........  ^
Lark.............
.......^ ‘Musselman’s Corker! 30
Yum  Yura.
.......301 P ure...............
..15 
Our  Leader
.......15 Star.........
..20 
Old Vet.......
.......30 u n it ........
..39 
Big Deal.  . . ___
.......27 Bight  Hours! !
..24
Navy Clippings.
Leader.......................15! Two
----------Nickel...!!.'!!!.24
Hard  Tack..^ ..........30:Duke’s  Durham 
40
oid f e :::;;;::;;!!; ;Io gTwien Corn Cob pip'e‘|
Arthur’s  Choice.......22iRobRoy 
..................;>*£
Gold Dust..................26 Lumberman ..............2s
Gold  Block................ 30 Railroad Boy.. 
' ‘Sn
| Mountain Rose..........ih
Seal of Grand Rapids 
(cloth). . ..........2 5  Home Comfort!!!' ’" 23
Miners and Puddlers.28 Old Rip..... 
Xi
Peerless  ....................24 Seal of North Caro'-"'
Standard
4a
— 20. 
lina, 2  oz__  
Old Torn.............
• ■ •  -O Seal of North  Caro-"
Tom & Jerry....
—  24 
lina, 4oz........  
43
Joker..................
• • • .25; Seal of North  Caro'-"'
Traveler...........
lina, 8oz.......... 
—  So 
45.
Maiden...............
— 25 Seal of North  Caro- 
Pickwick  Club..
— 40 
lina, 16oz boxes....42 
Nigger  Head__
— ~6 King Bee, longeut..'.22
Holland.............
.2 Sweet Lotus
German.............
...... lSjGrayling___
K. of  L  ..............
■ 42@46 Seal Skin....
Honey  Dew.......
...... 25 Red Clover.
Colonel’s Choice 
...... 15 Good  Luck!
Queen  Bee. 
... 
...... 22 Navy..........
Blue  Wing2.......
-----3‘Jl
SNUFF.
. 
t 
Lorillard s American Gentli
Maecoboy........
Gail & Ax’ 
Rappee.............
Railroad  Mills  Scotch. 
Lotzbeok  ........
Japan  ordinary__
Japan fair to good.
Japan fine...............
Japan dust.............
Young H yson.....!
GunPowuer...........
Oolong.................
Congo...................."

.30
..26
..30

men..

TEAS.

“ 

.......  ®  55
---- 
@ 4 4
.......  @  35’
.......  @  45
.......  @1  30
............. 18@20
..............25@30
3o@4a
.............15@20
..............20@45
.............35®50
......33@55@6C
..........-25@30
50 gr. 
10 
10 
16-

30 gr. 
08
08 
•

DINEGAR.

•„ 

“

 

%c less In 5 box lots.

SALT.

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy..
28 Pocket................ . 
.............
100 3 ft  pockets............. ...!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saginaw or Manistee........!.................
. 
10 bbl. lots!.!!!!
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........
Asnton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags
American, dairy, «  bu. bags..........
Rock, bushels....................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu.  bags...........!!!!!!

“ 

2  1; 
2  10

SAUCES.

SOAPS.

ily ....... 

SPICES—WHOLE.

SPICES—PURE  GROUND.

Parisian, «   pints...............................
@2  00 
Pepper Sauce, red  small................
@  70 
Pepper Sauce, green  .........................
@  80 
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring..........
@1 
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring__
@1 50 
Catsup, Tomato,  pints.......................
@  90 
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ..........!!!!!
@1  20 
Halford Sauce, pints..........................
@3 50 @2 20
Halford Sauce, «  pints.....................
Acorn..................... 3 85 Extra Chicago Fam-
M aster....................4  00 
¡»94
New Process, 1  ft..3  85!Napkin...... 
4
New Process, 3  ft. .3  96|Towel....................4
Acme,  bars........... 3  55| White  Marseilles. .5 50
Acme,  blocks.......  3 051 White Cotton  Oil..5 50
Best  American....2  93|Railroad..........  
3 50
Circus  .................... 3  70 U.  G...............  
3 4 *
Big Five  Center...3 85 Mystic White... .'..'.4 65
Nickel......................3  45 Saxon  Blue..........2 60
Shamrock............... 3  15 Star.......................3
Blue Danube..........2  55|London  Family_2 30
Allspice.......................... ...................
Cassia, China In mats....................!.!!!! 
Bi-
Batavia in bundles.......... !!!!!! 
1
“ Saigon In rolls................. 
4
Cloves, Amboyna..................................  
2
“  Zanzibar........................!.*!."!!!!! 
2
Mace Batavia................................... !'.! ’ 
g
Nutmegs,  fancy.............................  “ “  
«
No. 1...................................!.! 
g
No. 2.........................  
 
5
Pepper, Singapofe,  black.................... 
t
white.................. 
29
Allspice................................................... 
10
Cassia,  Batavia.............................. ...... 
15
25
** 
*•  Saigon.......................................  
42
Cloves, Amboyna................................................32
“  Zanzibar.................................... 
31
Ginger, African............................. ’___ 
10
**  Cochin......................................... 
]5
  18@23
“  Jamaica..................................... 
 
 
70
 
20
and Trieste.............  
23
25
“  Trieste....................................... 
go
Nutmegs,  No. 2...................................... 
Pepper, Singapore black.....................   %©21
white.....................  
32
“  Cayenne.................................... 
25
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1  ft  pkgs...  @5%
“ 
“  3ft 
**  48“ 
...  @ 5«
“  bulk..........  @ 4
“ 
40 ft 
“  721b crates, 6 1b boxes..  @  6«
“ 
“  Corn, 40 ft boxes, 1 ft  pkgs....  @ 6
1 ft 
“ 
“ 
....  @ g«
“ 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs__   @ 7
“ 
6 ft boxes...  @ 7«
“  b u lk .............  @ 6«
Pure, l to pkgs...................  @ 5«
Corn, 1  to pkgs...................  @ 7
Royal, Gloss, 1 ft packages..................  @ 5%
“ 
@ 4
“  Corn...........................................  @ g
Firmenich, new process,gloss, lf t __   @ 5%
“ 
3 to....  @ 5«
“ 
  @  6«
6 ft 
“ bulk, boxes or bbls  @  4
“ corn, l f t ...............  @ 6
corn.......................................   @ g

Mace Batavia............................... 
Mustard,  English.................  

Niagara,  gloss......................................(  @  5%

bulk...............................  

and  Saigon.. 

20 to 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

 

SUGARS.

Cut  Loaf.................................................  @ 6%
Cubes......................................................  @ g%
Powdered...............................................   © g%
Iranulated,  Standard........................ g 06@ 6«
Confectionery A ....................................   @5%
Standard A..............................................  ©  5%
No. 1, White Extra  C............................  5«@ 5«
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  5  @5%
No. 3 C......................................................  @4%
No. 4 C.....................................................  @ 4%
No. 5C......................................................  @ 4«
Corn,  barrels  .......................................  
25@27
Corn, «b b ls............................  
27@29
 
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................  
@30
Corn, 5 gallon kegs................................. 
©32
Pure  Sugar, bbl...................................... 
23@35
Pure Sugar,«  bbl..................................  
25@37
TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN   PAILS.

SYRUPS.

 

Uncle Tom................371 Cinderella....................25
What Is It?............... 25 Hi  There......................80
Cherry......................60 Red Cap....................... 55
Five and  Seven....... 45 Cross Cut..................... 35
Magnet...................... 25;Old Jim.........................36
Seal of Detroit......... 60 Old Time..................... 30
Jim Dandy................38 Underwood’s Capper 35
Our  Bird................... 25|Sweet  Rose................ 45
Brother  Jonathan...27|Meig8&Co.’sStunner35
Jolly  Time................36  Atlas...........................35
Our  Leader..............33  Royal Game............... 38
Sweet  Rose..............32  Mule Ear.................... 65
May  Queen..............65  Fountain.................... 74
Dark AmericanEagle67 Old Congress..............64
The Meigs................. !.60 Good Luck............... 52
Red  Bird................... 50  Blaze Away............... 35
Prairie Flow er........65 Hair Lifter..................30
Indian Queen...........60 Hiawatha....................62
May Flower.............. 70  G lobe......................... 65
Sweet  Pippin...........45|Crown Leaf................ 68
Hustler.....................22 Sunset..........................35
Bad Boy.....................361
Our  Leader..............161  Hiawatha...................22
Mayflower................23  Old Congress..............23
Globe..........................22  May  Leaf...................22
Mule Ear................... 231 Dark...........................20

SHORTS.

.

.

American... 

White Wim
Cider........
Y ork State
A-PPlc..........................
„   , .   o  
MISCELLANEOUS
Bath  Brick imported................
do 
Burners,  No. 0.
do  No. 1
do  No. 2...............

...............
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 1b cans
Candles, Star...........
Candles.  Hotel__ !!!.'!..............
Camphor, oz., 2 1b boxes..........
Extract Coffee, V.  c __ !!!!!.!.
_ 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps...........
Gum, Spruce..............................
Hominy, ®  bbl...........................
J elly, in 30 ft  p a i l s !!!! " !" ‘
Pearl  Barley.......................
Peas, Green  Busli!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Peas, Split  Prepared...
Powder, Keg........
Powder,  «   Keg.!!!....................
s a g e ....................;;;;..................
sago  ..................................;;;;.............
Tapioco............. .........................

F elix.......

do 

90
@70
89
90
@7 70 
@25 
@11 
@12 
@35 
@80 
@ 1   20 
@25 
@35 
30@35 
@3 00 
5  @  )« 
i%@ 3 
@1  15 
@ 3 
@5 00 
@2 75. 
@  15 
@  T 
@7-

C A N IIY .  F R U I T S   A N I )   N U T S . 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

, 

. 

. 

do 
do 

FANCY—IN  5 ft  BOXES

s«@ 9 
@ 9 
@10
@  9 
@  8 @10 
@ 9 
@11« 
@10 
@10 
@  9
@ 12.
@13
@13
14
18
10
12
14
15
*

STICK.
a .  
j  
Standard, 25 1b boxes
!!!!!!"’...............
Twist, 
."!."!."'........
Cut Loaf 
„  
M IXED ......................
, 
Royal, 2n lb  pails.......
Royal, 200 ft bbls......... !!!!!!!!!!!!!""
Extra, 25 to  pails...
Extra. 200 to bbls......... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!"'
French Cream, 25 lb pails....................
Cut louf, 25 ft  cases
Broken, 25  1b paiis..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Broken. 200 to  bbls
Lemon  Drops............................
Sour Drops...................!".!!!!!'
Peppermint  Drops.!!!! 
.!.!.!".*
Chocolate Drops........................” !'
H M Chocolate  Drops. . . . ! . ! ! ! !
Gum  Drops  ............................"
Licorice Drops..........!.!!!!!!!!!!!!
A B Licorice  Drops..  "!!!!!!!!!
Lozenges, plain................ !!.!.!.!......... 
Lozenges,  printed................ ................... 
Imperials.................................
Mottoes........................!!.......................... 
Cream  Bar...................."
Molasses Bar....................
Caramels...........................
Hand Made Creams........
Plain  Creams..................
Decorated  Creams..........
String Rock.....................
Burnt Almonds...............
Wintergreen  Berries__
Lozenges, plain  in  pails..................
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................'!
Lozenges, printed in paiis........... .
Lozenges, printed in  bbls...............
Chocolate Drops, In pails..........!.!!...
Gum  Drops  In pails................... 
In   k k ln  
H u m  
. . . . . .  
Gum Drops, in bbls.
Moss Drops, in  paiis........
Moss Drops, in b b ls........
Sour Drops, in  pails........
Imperials, in  pails...........
Imperials  In  bbls.............
Bananas  Aspinwall...............
Oranges, California, fancy__
Oranges, California,  choice..
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls..........
Oranges, Florida.....................
inniges, Valencia, cases.......
Oranges, Messina....................
Oranges, OO...............................
Oranges, Imperials................
Lemons, choico........................
Lemons, fancy.........................
Lemons, California..................
Figs, layers, new,  ® 1b..........................10  ©R
"igs, Bags, 50 ft.....................................  
© s  .
Dates, frails do  .................................. !  © gyj
Dates, «  do  d o ............................!.. ! ! 
©  6%
Dates, skin..............................................
D ates,«  skin.................................. .'
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ®  1b................ . .  9 «©10
Dates, Fard 501b box ® to.....................   ©  y
Dates, Persian 501b box ® ft............. . 7   ©  7*
ne Apples, ® doz.............................   3 00@3 00

14
@ 11«@10«
@12«
@11«@12«
"  © « 2
V  
-
@ 5 «  
@10 
@ 9 
@12 @12« . 
@11«
00@3 00 
@4 00 
75@

@4 OO 
@ 
...4
i@
-.3 50@3 75 
@4 OO

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FRUITS.

Ü10

...3

NUTS.

Almonds

Tarragona............................17«@18
Ivaca.
@11
California............................
@ 11
Brazils...................................................... 9
@10
hestnuts, per bu..................................!
Filberts, Sicily..-....................................10
@ 11 
Barcelona...............................
@ 9 
Walnuts,  Grenoble.......................  
15
@17 
“ 
Sicily.....................................
15 
French....................................
“ 
11
“  *  California..............................
Pecans, Texas, H. P.............................10  @14
“ 
Missouri....................j...........8  ©  .9
Cocoanuts, ® 100...................................5 50@6 00
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $3  lb.
©  4 
Choice 
do  .
@ 4* 
ancy H.P. do 
do 
4%@  5 
Choice White, Va.do 
©  5« 
'’aney HP,.  Va  do 
@   6 
H. P. Va.....................
5%@  6

do 

FRESH  MEATS.
John  Mohrhard  quotes  the 
trade  selling
prices as follows:
Fresh  Reef, sides..........................
........5«@  7«,
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..........
........  7«@ 9
Dressed Hogs............................... .
@
Mutton............................................ .!.!!  8  @  9
Lamb  ......................................................  8 ©  9
  7  ©  ~\jL
Veal......................................................  
Pork Sausage.........................................  
©  g
@ g
Bologna............................................... 
Fowls.........................................................12  ©13
Ducks  ................................... 
©
Turkeys  ..................................... !!!!!!!!l2  ©13
Lard,  kettle-rendered...........................  @  3

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“ 
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Princess,  « s ...........................  

BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, «  ft cans, 3 doz. case.......
“  « f t  
.....
21b 
“ 
•* 
Bulk.................................  

 
« s .............................................  
Is............................................................4 25
bulk..............................................  
Arctic, «  1b cans, 6  doz. case.......................  

85 
1 60 
3 00
__
l  35
2 25
28
45
75
1  40
2 40 
_
12 00
Victorian. 1 1b cans, (tall,) 2 doz..................2 00
Diamond,  “bulk.”.........................................  
15

‘* 1 4  
“ 
«  
“ 
1 
5 
“ 

4 
2
2
1 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

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BLUING

Dry, No. 2............................................ doz. 
25
Dry, No.3...........................................doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,........................................ doz. 
35
65
Liquid, 8 oz..........................................doz. 
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 3 50
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  7 20
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   12  00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box....................................  2 00
3 00
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
4 00

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BROOMS.

No. 2 Hurl.............. 1  75|Common Whisk..
No. 1 Hurl— 2 00@3 25jFancy  Whisk__
No. 2Carpet...........2 25iMill........................
No. 1 Carpet...........2 50! Warehouse  .........
Parlor Gem...........3 001

.  90 
.1   00 
.3  75

CANNED  FISH .
Clams, 1 1b, Little Neck...............
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.....................
Cove Oysters, 1  1b  standards__
Cove Oysters, 2 1b  standards__
Lobsters, 1 1b picnic.....................
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic....................
Lobsters, 1 lb star.........................
Lobsters. 2 ft star........................
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh  standards..
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards..
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft.
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard...........
Mackerel, 3 ft  soused..................
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river.......
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river......
Sardines, domestic « s ................
Sardines,  domestic  « 9 ...............
Sardines,  Mustard  « s ................
Sardines,  imported  54s ...............
Trout, 31b  brook..........................
CANNED FRUITS.

..........1  10
..........2  15
..........  90
........   1 75
..........1  75
..........2 65
..........2 00
..........3 00
..........1  45
..........5 25
..........3 50
..........3 50
..........3 50
..........1  70
..........3 00
..........6@7
........ 10@l;
..........9@1
..........12@1
....  4 00

 

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CANNED VEGETABLES.

Apples, gallons,  standards..........................3 25
Blackberries, standards.............................   80
Cherries,  red  standard.................................l 10
Damsons......................................................... 1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1  15
G ooseberries.................................................  35
Green Gages, standards 2 ft........................ 1 15
Peaches, Extra Yellow.................  
1  75
Peaches,  standards....................................... 1 55
Peaches,  seconds...........................................1 45
Peaches, pie.................................................... 1 10
Pineapples, standards...................................1 35
Quinces...........................................................1 15
Raspberries,  extra...................................... l
red.................................. ....1  35
Strawberries  ...............................
__ 1  20
Whortleberries....................
....  80
Asparagus, Oyster Bay......................... ....2  00
Beans, Lima,  standard.......................
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  .................
....  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.............
....1   70
Com,  Archer’s Trophy....................
....1   10
“  Morning  Glory.......................... ....1  05
“  Acme.............   .......................
“  Maple Leaf..........................
“  Excelsior.............................
....1   20
“  Onondaga.................................... ....1  35
“  Osborn .......................
..-..1  00
“  New  Process............................... ....1   15
“  Bartlett..................................
....1   10
Peas, French........................................... ....1  50
Peas, extra marrofat..
..........1  2C@1_40
Peas,  soaked.....................
“  Early June, stand..
!!.'!!! !i‘¿(j@i 75
sifted.
“ 
.......2 00
“  French, extra fine...............
....20 00 
Mushrooms, extra  fine................
....2 0  00 
Pumpkin, 3 1b Golden....................
...1  co
Succotash, standard................
.80@1 30 
Squash............................................
...1   00 
Tomatoes, standard brands........
...1  10
Michigan full  cream............................13«® 14
York  State, Acme................................   @
# 
Wilbur’s  Premium..35|German Sweet..........23
“ 
Sweet........ 25 Vienna Sweet  .......... 22
“ 
B’kf’tCocoa 45 Baker's  ...
“  Cocoa-theta 42 Runkles’ ..
....35
“  Vanilla Bar 28|

CHOCOLATE.

CHEESE.

“ 

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COCOANUT.

“ 

“ 
“ 

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“ 
“ 

@25
@26
@27
@27«
@28«
@23«
@24
@24«
@30
@18
@15
60 fts 100 fts 300 fts

Sehepps,Is.........................................
Is and  « s ................:........
« 8 .........................................
Is in tin  pails.....................
«8 
....................
Maltby’s,  Is.................................7...
Is and  « 8 .........................
« s ......................................
Manhattan,  pails..............................
Peerless  ............................................
Bulk....................................................
COFFEES—PACKAGE.
Lion................................................ 
22«
Lion,  in  cabinets..................... . 
23«
X X X X .......................................... 22 %  22*
Arbuckle’s  .................................. 22%  22%
22%
Dllworth’s .................................... 
22«
Standard  ...................................... 
22«
German.................  ...................... 
German, in  bins..........................  
22%
Magnolia...................................... 
22«
Royal............................................. 
21%  21«
Eagle..............................................22«  21«  21«
18 
M exican....................................... 18 
18
Roasted.

2224
22*

COFFEES.
Green.
@18
R io................17
@18
Golden Rio. ..17
@19
Santos...........17
...18©20
Maricabo............
J a v a .................
O. G. Java....... 25@27
Mocha  ....................23

Rio................19  @20
Golden Rio...  @2C
Santos..................... 21
Maricabo...!.. ,21@23
Java................. 28© 29
O. G. Java....29  @30
Mocha........... 27  @28

CORDAOE.

5

5

5
5

7«

5«
7

7
8
8
11«
9«
15«

60 foot Jute.......  1 00  150 foot Cotton.... 1  60
72 foot J u te ........ 1  25  60 foot Cotton 
1  75
40 Foot Cotton__ 1 50  172 foot Cotton 
2 00
CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.
X  XXX  ® ft
6«

Kenosha Butter........................  
Seymour  Butter............................... 
Butter..................................*.... 
Fancy  Butter........................... 
4«
S.  Oyster............................................ 
Picnic................................................  
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
4«
Fancy  Soda............................... 
5
City Soda...................................... 
Soda  ........................................... 
Milk............................................  
Boston.......................................  
Graham...................................... 
Oat  Meal....................................  
Pretzels, hand-made................. 
Pretzels...................................... 
Cracknels................................... 
Lemon Cream............................ 
Sugar Creaip.............................  
Frosted Cream..........................  
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.................. 
Lemon  Snaps............................ 
Coffee Cakes.......................... 
13«
Lemon Wafers........................... 
11«
Jumbles...................................... 
Extra Honey Jumbles.............  
12«
13«
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............. 
13«
Cream  Gems.............................. 
Bagievs  Gems..........................  
13«
Seed Cakes................................. 
12«
8«
8. &  M. Cakes............................ 
Citron........................................................19  @  22
Currants...................................................  6  © 6«
Lemon Peel............................................   @  14
Orange Peel............................................   @  14
Prunes, French, 60s................................  @10
“ 
French, 80s................................  @ 8
“  French,  90s...............................  @ 6
“  Turkey...................................   @ 5«
“  Bohemia...................................  
6
Raisins, Dehesia....................................3 50@5  00
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @2  10
Raisins, California  “ 
........................1 50@1  90
Raisins, Loose Muscatels..................... 1 40@1  50
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s..............................8«@  8«
Raisins. Sultanas..................................   8  @ 8«
Raisins,  Valencia, new  .......................  @ 6«
Raisins,  Imperials.................................  @3 00

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

8
8
8
12«
8«

7 
7 
7 
7

8«

©rugs & ffoeòicines

S tate  B o a rd   o f  P h a rm a cy . 

O ne Y ear—Jacob Jetwon, Muskegon.
Two Years—Jam es  V ernor, Detroit.
T hree Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor. 
F our Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Five Years—Stanley E. Parkell, Owosso. 
P resident—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
S ecretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.  •
Next Meeting:—At D etroit, July 5 and 6.

M ichigan  State  Ph arm aceu tical  A ss’n. 

President—Frank J. W urzbttrp, G rand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. IV. Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—Henry Harwood, Ishpennng. 
Third Vice-President—F rank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S. E. P arkill, Owosso.
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, D etroit.
Executive Com m ittee—Geo. W. C router, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of Meeting—At  Petoskey, July 12, IS and U.
B ran d   R a p id s  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  S ociety. 

F rank Wells, Geo. G undrum and Jacob Jesson.

OROAKIZKP  OCTOBER 9. 1884.

P resident—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
S ecretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H enry  B. Fairchild.
B oard of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec-
B oard'of Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Klmm .W m. H. VanLeeuwen andO . H^Rlchmond. 
wen, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade M atters-John E. Peck, H. B. ta ir-
Commit“ «  ougLegisUla tio n -R .  A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
C om m ittetfon P h a rm ^ y -W . L. W hite, A. C. Bauer and
evening  In  each
R egular  Meetings—F irst  Thursday
Aanual^Meeting—F irst  Thursday
ii e r t  M e e tin g —Thursday  evening,  June  2, 

Isaac W atts. 

a t  THE 

_ 

„

Tradesman office.

D etroit  P h arm aceu tical  Society 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1888. 

P resid en t-A . F.  Parker.
-F rank  Inglis. 
F irst Vice-President 
esident—J. C. Mueller.
Second Vice-1l T,wn«iin>r—a.  >v . a n
A ssistant Secretary and T reasurer- 
Annual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular M eetings—F irst W ednesday in each  m onth.
C en tral  M ich ig a n   D r u g g ists’  A sso cia tio n . 
President, J. W. Dunlop:  Secretary. R.  M. Mussel!.
B e r r ie n   C ounty  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  S ociety. 
P resident, H. M. Doan:  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

-H. McRae.

C lin to n   C ou n ty  D r u g g ists’  A sso c ia tio n . 

President, A. O. H unt;  Secretary , A. S.  Wallace-

J a c k so n   C ou n ty  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  A ss’n. 

President, R. F. Latim er;  Secretary, F.  A. King.

M ason  C ou n ty  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  S ociety. 

President, F. N. Latimer;  Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
M ecosta  C ounty  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  S ociety. 
President, C. H. W agener;  Secretary, A. H. W ebber.

M on roe  C ou n ty  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  S ociety. 

P resident, S. M. Saekett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M u sk eg o n   C ou n ty  D r u g g ists’  A sso cia tio n , 
P resident, W. B. W ilson; Secretary, Geo. W heeler.
M u sk egon   D r u g   C lerk s’  A sso cia tio n .
.  President, I. C.  Terry;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.

N e w a y g o   C ou n ty  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  S ociety. 
President. J.  F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. X. Miller.

O cean a C ounty P h a rm a ce u tic a l S ociety. 

P resident, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
S agin aw   C ounty  P h a rm a ce u tic a l  S ociety. 
President, Ja y   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.
S h ia w a ssee C ou n ty P h a rm a ce u tic a l S ociety
T u scola C ounty P h a rm a ce u tic a l S ociety. 

P resident,  E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.

PHARM ACEUTIC FRAUDS.

Arraignment of the Drug Trade by a Med­

ical Authority.

From the St. Louis Medical Journal.

eating them for greater  gain.  Without  re­
ferring to them by name,  we may  say  that 
very recently a number of  the  great  manu­
facturing houses have found  themselves  in 
this unpleasant position;  and  in  every  in­
stance where  investigation  was  possible, 
the fact  was  disclosed  that  the  apparent 
deterioration was due to the dishonesty of the 
retail  druggist  or  prescriptionist  who  had 
substituted his  own  worthless  compounds 
for those ordered  by  the  physician.  Such 
substitution is  not  simply  dishonest;  it  is 
felonious  and  displays  the  same  reckless 
disregard for life that marks the  burglar  or 
highwayman  who is prepared to take a life 
if it stands in the way of iiis  plunder.  The 
man who does it does not simply filch a few 
cents from the pocket of his  customer  (fre­
quently poor and needy),  nor does he mere­
ly jeopardize  the reputation of a physician, 
but he puts in peril the  life of the customer 
who trusts him.  The  honest  members  of 
an  honorable  profession—and  fortunately 
they are largely in the  majority—the  repu­
table pharmacists, owe it  to  themselves  to 
expose these vultures and drive  them  from 
the trade. 
In doing  so  they  should  have 
the aid and countenance of every physician. 
In the meantime,  let  every  physician  not 
content himself with  shunning the shops of 
those whom lie detects in the nefarious hab­
it of substitution, but boldly denounce them, 
and warn his patients against carrying  pre­
scriptions  to  them.  Concerted  action  of 
this sort will soon  purge  the  trade  of  the 
offending members.

The  Drug  Market.

Citric acid has  again  advanced and will 
probably be higher.  Carbolic acid is steady. 
Oxalic  acid  is  firm  and  likely  to be ad­
vanced.  Balsam copaiba is very firm at the 
advance noted last week.  Oil anise stocks 
are concentrated and holders have advanced 
the price,  with higher prices looked for.  Ip­
ecac root is very firm  and we  mark  up our 
quotations again this week.  Oil  cassia has 
advanced and is improving in price.  Opium 
is weak.  One large  holder  in  New  York 
lias withdrawn from the  market  at present 
prices. 
Powdered  opium  has  declined. 
Morphine is without  change.  Cuttle  bone 
has declined and is decidedly weak.  Quinine 
is steady.  No  change  is  possible  before 
June.  Alcohol  has  declined  and the mar­
ket is  so  unsettled  that  only  a  nominal 
price can be quoted.
Benefits  of  Pharmaceutical  Associations. 
James Kennedy in the Southwestern Druggist.
Pharmaceutical associations bring us near­
er to each other.  They  afford  opportunity 
for reviewing our work and  enabliug  us to 
adopt such measures as will  conduce to the 
interests of our profession.  The advantages 
to be derived from association are manifold: 
the intellectual improvement gained by con­
tact with live,  wide-awake minds, the social 
benefit derived from a  more  extensive  ac­
de­
quaintance; 
rived 
from 
agreed 
to  for  mutual 
are 
but a few of the benefits of  association,  yet 
they are sufficient to gain  the  endorsement 
of every progressive man.

business 
certain  compacts 

benefits 

protection —  these 

The  building  of  the  Peninsular  White 
Lead Works, at Detroit,  is progressing  rap­
idly and in a  short  time  the  firm  will  he 
able to  supply customers  with  pure  w’hite 
lead.

The distilleries  of  the  country  are  very 
active  just  now.  There  are  over  500  of 
them now running,  nearly 650  in  fact,  and 
they are turning out intoxicants  at  the rate 
of  over 300,000  gallons  a  day.  They  are 
using over 75,000 bushels of  com a day and 
over 7,000 gallons of molasses daily.

Carbonic acid, produced by the  action  of 
vinegar on marble, is supposed to have been 
used as an anaesthetic by the ancient Egypt­
ians  and  Greeks.  M.  Ch.  Ozanam  reports 
to the  Paris  Biological  Society that  anaes­
thesia induced by carbonic acid is very com­
plete,  may last  a long  time,  and the gas, of 
course,  being mixed with air is without dan­
ger.

There was a time when there was  no  in­
termediary between tlie  physician  and  his 
patient—when every  doctor  dispensed  his 
own medicines. 
In cities  and  closely  set­
tled communities this practice gradually be- 
•came burdensome,  and  was  relegated  to  a 
certain  class,  the  druggist  or  pharmacist; 
but the old-time custom is  still  adhered  to 
-very largely among rural or  country  physi­
cians.  When the  “patent  medicine  man” 
made his  appearance,  this  agent  or  inter­
mediary of the physician,  promptly  assum­
ed the same position towards  the  intruder, 
and united to his honorable  calling of phar­
macist the less  honest  hut  more  probably 
prolitable one of vendor of nostrums.  This 
anomoly w’ould have adjusted itself hi time, 
and,  indeed has  already  partially  done  so, 
hut the druggist has been deflected from the 
straight and  narrow path.  Aiding a fraud, 
what more natural than lie  should,  in  cer 
tain instances,  become  imbued  with  the 
spirit of fraud?  Seeing the gullibility of the 
public,  and  knowing  the  profits  accruing 
from the trade in nostrums,  the less  honest 
and more  avaricious  members of the guild 
were  henceforth  but  ill-content  with  the 
comparatively meager profits of the honora­
ble and legitimate calling.  The  outgrowth 
of this spirit was the crying  evil of  substi 
tution—the  replacement of high-priced  in 
gredients in  prescriptions,  by  others  less 
costly  and  totally  inefficacious.  There  is 
scarcely a physician in our cities and  towns 
who has not,  at some  time,  had  good  rea 
sou to compiain of this  evil.  Of  late,  the 
rascally practice lias taken  a  wider  range 
in a direction made  possible  by  the  legiti­
mate advances of the art of pharmacy,  We 
refer  to  substitution  as  applied  to  those 
products  of  chemical  and  pharmaceutical 
skill aided by abundant  capital,  known  as 
‘ ‘proprietary  preparations”—preparations, 
the  nature  and  ingredients  of  which  are 
made known to the medical  profession,  for 
whose use  alone  they  are  manufactured, 
and  which are by no  means  to  be  classed 
or  confounded  with  “patent  medicines.” 
Many of these proprietary medicines  are  of 
great value commercially,  and  as  a  result 
they are composed of the purest drugs, com­
pounded  with  great skill.  A  certain  pro­
portion of the medical profession (and some 
of them men of wide ami hoftorable  reputa­
tions) have found  these  preparations  good 
and useful,  and  their  exhibition  attended 
The chemist of  the  Massachusetts Board 
by  most  satisfactory  results;  and  hence 
of  Health  has  recently  analyzed  a  large 
have prescribed them largely,  not  the  least 
number of so-called  temperance drinks,  and 
potent reason for this fact being the  feeling 
has found that all of  them  contain  alcohol, 
of security against substitution  induced  by 
j one of them containing as  much as 44.3 per 
the careful  and  often  costly  methods  of 
by  the  manufacturing  cent.  Several of them  contain  more  than 
packing  adopted 
“love  laughs  at  lock-  40 per cent,  and  a  very  large  proportion 
chemists.  But  as
smiths,” so  laughs  the  substituting  drug-  more than  20  per  cent.  One  of  these  is 
gist at seals and wrappers of unique design, 1 said by its  manufacturer  to  he  “a  purely 
at signatures and brands; and  the  manufac-  vegetable extract,  stimulus to the body with- 
turing chemist who  spends  thousands  andj out  intoxicating.”  “Inebriates  struggling 
hundreds of thousands of  dollars  in  keep-! to reform will find its tonic  and  sustaining 
ing up  the  standard  of  his  preparations, [ influence on the nervous system a great help 
finds himself  suddenly  accused of allowing | to  their  efforts.”  This  preparation  was 
them to  deteriorate, or possibly of sophisti-! found to contain 41.0 per cent, of alcohol.

Dr.  Cyrus Edsou has  submitted  a  report 
to the New York Board  of  Health, on  the 
sale of “arsenic wafers” which  w’omen  eat 
to  improve  their  complexion.  Dr.  Edsou 
refuses to communicate the full  purport  of 
his  report.  He  intimates,  howrever, that a 
strong effort will be made to have  the man­
ufacturer arrested for fraudulent  pretenses, 
if the  presence  of  enough  arsenic  can  be 
proved to establish his guilt of  selling  poi­
son  illegally.  The Board  is  to  pass  upon 
the  matter  before  any ’ decisive  steps  are 
taken.

Owning  a  distillery  in  the  Prohibition 
State of Iowa is a right profitable tiling.  It 
need  not  make  wiiisky.  The  Iowa  law 
forbids  this,  and,  what  is  a' still  greater 
force,  the distiller’s pool of the country for­
bids it.  But it  is  just  as  profitable  for  a 
distillery in Iowa  not  to  make  whisky  as 
to make it—for the pool  pays  the  Interna­
tional  distillery of  Des  Moines  §80,000  a 
year  to  remain  idle.  The  establishment 
makes  a good round  sum  of  money by an 
assiduous observance  of  the  Iowa  proliibi 
tory law.

From the National  Druggist. 

An Ipecac Famine in Prospect. 

Allegan Gazette:  Those  Detroit grocery
agents have been  “taking  in” some of  the
There is some prospect of  an ipecac fani-  Dorr folk who “don’t never read  no  news- 

ine,  so that the medicine consumers not on-  papers.”
ly of this country,  but also of  Europe,  will 
be obliged to  find  some  other  therapeutic  APPROVED by PHYSICIANS, 
agent to turn  their  stomachs  wrong  side
out.

O uslim an’s

.  "  .  ■■  ■  —  

.......... 

'

The principal source of  ipecac is  Brazil, 
where it is  gathered at  all  seasons of  the 
year,  but principally  during the months of 
January to March. 
It is  reported  that the 
cholera is prevailing in  this  ipecac-produc­
ing portion of South America to such an ex­
tent that it will be  some  time  before  the 
trade in the drug can be resumed.

The extensive use of  this ifrug  in cough 
mixtures,  etc.,  draws heavily on the supply 
at tliis season of the year,  and  the drug has 
rapidly  advanced  during  the  past  thirty 
days.  The English  supply  has become so 
short  that  London  firms  have bought up 
American supplies.  It is estimated by those 
who are in a position to  judge, that  unless 
fresh supplies reach  this  country  from its 
habitat the entire stock of  the  country will 
be exhausted within a few weeks.

Ipecac is a very  old  drug,  having  been 
It is 
known in Europe for over 200  years. 
extensively used in almost  all kinds of dis­
eases of the mucous  membranes,  and  in a 
large list of  other  troubles. 
It is  quite a 
popular remedy in domestic practice,  and is 
supposed to enter  into  many of  the patent 
medicines of the market.

There are  other remedial agents that can 
be substituted in  practice for  this drug,  so 
that it is  doubtful if any  lives  will be lost 
even if the supply becomes exhausted.  The 
condition of the market will affect a few men 
financially,  as  those  who  have  stocks on 
hand will  profit  by the  advance in  price, 
while the retail  druggists  will lose,  as it is 
impossible to get a higher price at retail for 
the preparations,  even if the  drug  does ad­
vance.

The present condition of  the ipecac mar­
ket  illustrates  how  those  remedies  that 
come from  foreign  countries  are liable to 
become scarce at any time  and  the  supply 
even  exhausted.  To  the  physicians who 
make use of a large range of  remedies,  and 
understand what drugs can be substituted in 
practice for the ones  most  commonly used, 
this is not  much  of a  calamity.  But  the 
“one  idea”  doctors,  who  always use the 
same remedies in  like diseases,  and believe 
their action to be as  certain  as the  rule of 
three,  will be much annoyed by such freaks 
irrthe drug market.

The  Patent. Medicine  Shark.

E.  T.  Webb,  the  Jackson  druggist, calls 
the  attention  of  T he  T radesm an  to a 
fraud  which  lias  not yet been  attempted 
very generally in this  State.  The  swindle 
—or attempted  swindle—is  wrorked by the 
advance agent  of an alleged  newr  remedy. 
He makes advertising contracts with all the 
newspapers in the town and on the strength 
of them  secures  orders for the  remedy of 
the local druggists.  Before  leaving  town, 
however,  he calls around to  say that he has 
a few dozen of the remedy which he has had 
on hand some time  which he  would like to 
dispose of at[a low figure for cash,  as his fi­
nances are running low.  A careful exam­
ination  discloses  the fact that the paste is 
not yet dry on the  wrappers  and that  the 
supposed remedy  possesses no value  what­
ever. 
If the druggist bites,  the  man seeks 
new pastures,  and the  newspaper is  never 
furnished copy for the advertisement.  The 
result is the agent is several dollars in pock­
et and the druggist is  “stuck” with  a quan­
tity of goods without either merit or selling 
properties.

The swindler did  not inveigle  Mr.  Webb 
into his trap,  and  T he  T radesm an  would 
consider it a favor  to be  informed  of  any 
druggists he succeeded in victimizing.
The Typical Lansing Dfuggist.

From the Detroit News.

It was very funny  during the  discussion 
of the liquor bill to hear Representatives de­
cry the evil of  drug  store tippling  and ex­
press the hope that every drop of rum might 
soon be banished,  and  then go  down town 
and banisli several drops of the stuff behind 
some “pharmaceutical dispensary.”  Speak­
ing of drug  store  bars,  Lansing is  fairly 
alive with them. 
It is a recognized branch 
of the business in Lansing.  The legislative 
appetite is said to  have  started the  tiling, 
and it has since been  booming.  One  drug 
store has handsomely fitted rooms in rear of 
the place,  and it is a favorite  resort  for the 
boys.

The Rubicon is Crossed.

Thanks  to  the  effective  work  accom­
plished by the druggists  called  to  Lansing 
last week by President  Wurzburg,  the drug 
trade of the State have nothing to fear from 
the enactment of  the Bates  bill,  druggists 
having been exempted  from its provisions.
The law relative  to druggists selling liquor 
for other  than  medicinal  and  mechanical 
purposes is to be more strictly enforced than 
ever before by  means of  a State  constabu­
lary force,  which lias been  fully  described 
in the daily papers.

Dr.  Cyrus  Edson,  of  the  New  York 
Health  Department,  received  a  letter  last 
week  protesting  against  the  unrestricted 
sale  of “Rough  on  llats.”  The  communi­
cation  stated  that  hardly  a  day  passed 
that  the  papers did  not  record  a  suicide, 
murder or death from the article.

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

MENTHOL  INHALER
Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron­
chitis,  Sore  Throat  and  Severe 

Colds, stands without an equal.

Air  M e n th o liz e d   by missing through the Inhaler- 
tube, in which th e P u re   C ry sta ls of M e n th o l are 
held’ thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  in  the 
m ost  efficient  way,  to  the  parts  affected.  I t   s e lls  
r e a d ily .  Always keep an open Inhaler in your store, 
and let your custom ers try  it.  A  few  inhalations  will 
not h u rt the Inhaler, and will do m ore  to dem onstrate 
its efficiency th an  a half hour’s talk.  R e ta il  p r ic e  
5 0  c e n ts .  For Circula rs and  T estim onials address 

H .  D .  C u sh m an .  T h r e e   R iv ers,  M ich. 

H a z e ltin e  &  P e r k in s  D ru g  C o., G’d R a p id s, 
And W holesale D ruggists of D etroit and Chicago.

Trade supplied by

AGENTS  FOR  T nE

consin.  Can oe bought on liberal  terms.

12.iv 0 inhabitants, (county  seat,)  in  Wis­

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids. 
Standard  Petit Ledger.
I TOR SALE—Very  desirable  Stock of  about 
$2 0,0 well located in Grand Rapids.
Â N T ED— Registered pharmacists and as­
sistants who are sober, industrious  and 
____
willing to work. 
I  ¡TOR  SA LE—V ery  d e sirab le   sto ck   o f  a b o u t 
!  #5. iW in to w n  o f 3,00o in h a b ita n ts  in   Tex-
On n be bought on  very  reasonable terms.
F OR  SALE—Stock of about $ 1.830 in town of 
F OR  SALE—stock of about {1.300 in growing 
Good location.
F o r  s a l e
■Stock  of about  S5C0 in town of
________bitants in eastern pt
5,000 inhabitants in eastern part ot  State.
No other drug store within a mile.
F OR SALE—Stock of about SI.700 in town of 
8(hi inhabitants in Western Michigan.  Do-
s.  Can  be  bought on very
ing  good  busint 
reasonable terms.
■ LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the particulars 
of which'we will  furnish  on  application.
m o   D RUGGISTS—W ishing  to  sec u re  clerk s 
X   w e w ill fu rn ish   th e   ad d ress  and fu ll  p a r­
tic u la rs  o f th o se on o u r list  free .
W J"E  HAVE also secured  the  agency  for J. 
V V  H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  medical  or  pharmaceutical 
work at publishers’ rates.

northern town of about  350  inhabitants. 

M ichigan D rug Exchange,

357 South Union St., 

- 

Grand Rapids.

TIGER  OIL.

W hat J.  A. Crookston Has to Say While in 

the Tiger Den.
Cadillac,  Jan. 24,  1887.

Well, Doctor,  I am  around again,  but my 
wife bad to use a lot of Tiger Oil. 
It is the 
most wonderful medicine  I  ever knew. 
It 
surpasses everything  else.  During  my se­
vere sickness of pleuro-pneumonia, when my 
pulse ran up to 130 and  my  temperature to 
104 s  the pain was so excruciating that noth­
ing would relieve except  Tiger  Oil.  which 
never failed.  The physician  gave but little 
hope of my recovery,  but through his atten­
tion and.the constant  application of  Tiger 
Oil  I  pulled  through,  and  am  gaining 
strength by using  Tiger  Oil, which I know 
is doing  me  good,  and  will do  good  to all 
who use it properly; for of all medicines that 
I have ever known in over  forty  years’ ex­
perience as a  retail an.l  wholesale druggist, 
I have never known of a single  one to be m 
any way as good as Tiger Oil for the cure of 
so many different kinds of diseases.  There 
seems no limit to  its  power  over  disease. 
Therefore, knowing as 1 know ot' Tiger Oil, 
I do but my duty in  recommending it to all 
my fellow men as publicly as  possible,  that 
they may have the benefits of  such a valua­
ble medicine as Tiger Oil  has  proven itself 
to be wherever  it has  been  used,  both for 
man or beas,.  : 
Of the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co., 

J.  A.  Crookston,

Grand  Rapids.

T ANSY  CAPSULE?

I   THE  LATEST  DISCOVERY.  W
Or  Laparle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Safe  and 
Always  Reliable. 
Indispensable  to  L A D IE S, 
end  4  cents  for  Sealed  Circular.
CÂLÜMLT CHEtSiGAL GO., Chicago.
Mention 
this paper.

GXXT32S2TC HOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address^
Peck Bros., leggisi», tirami Rajiià,Sich.

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R elying 
I  (JaN be readily 
pu t up by Art y 
oNe   /iNd / \ oVed
EASILY A5  (STOCK® 
o n e,  b r a c k e t  
Suitable  for, various
¡aWIDTHS  OF  SHELVING.

a  a  *^1.5  0  ®

PATENTED  DOT.  19,  188b 

Manufactured by

KOCH  A.  B.  CO.

A  former  great  industry  at  Florence, 
tiiat of making thin  flasks  for  olive  oil,  is 
said to have been  wholly destroyed  by  the 
English flooding the market with the cotton 
seed oil imitation,  which is now almost uni­
versally known under the name of olive oil.
It is said that  the question  is  going to  be 
raised in the House of  Commons  under the  first  putting up th 
Adulteration Act. 

ity.

14  MAIN  ST., 
FEOUIA.  ILL.
Liberal  discount  ,to  the  trade, or  parties 
se brackets in any local-

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Citric  acid, oil  cassia,  oil  anise, 
Declined—Powered opium, cuttle bone, alco­

ipecac root.
hol.

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage......225  @250
Nassau 
do
2 00
Velvet Ext  do
1  10
Extra Ye  •  do
85
Grass 
do
65
Hard ! 
75
Yellow Reef, 
1  40

,for slate use.............

do
do
do
do

do

ACIDUM.
Aceticum..............................
Benzoicum,  German..........
Carbolicum..........................

.................... 
8®  10
.................... 
8001  00
.......................   45© 50
.......................   60® 65
........................  
3®  5
..................   10®  12
.......................   11® 13
..................... 1  85@2 10
..................... 1 40@1 60

’• 

BACCAE.

CORTEX.

6®

Aqua, 16  deg. 
18  deg.
Carbona8.......
Chloridum ...
1 35.................................. 1  35® 1  40
Cubebae(po 
Juniperus  ..
30
Xanthoxylum.......................................   25®
BALSAMUM.
55®  60 
Copaiba....................................
@1 50
Peru...........................................
Terabin,  Canada............................ .......  50® 55
Tolutan....................................................  40® 45
IS
Abies,  Canadian............................
11
Casslae  ...........................................
18
Cinchona Flava...............................
Euonymus  atropurp.....................,,.,v
30
20
Myriea  Cerifera, po....................
12
Prunus  Virgini..................... :___
12
Quillaia,  grd..................................
12
Sassfras  .........................................
12
Ulmu8...............................................
10
Ulmus Po (Ground  12)..................
___   24® 25
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.......................
.......  83® 35
po...............................
Haematox, 15 lb boxes.................. ....... 
8® 9
Is................................. ...  .  © 12
4 s  .....................................   © 13
48  .............................. .......  @ 15
Carbonate Precip.......................... .......  @ 15
Î3 50 
Citrate and Quinia.......
@  80 
Citrate Soluble.....................
@  50 
Ferrocyaniduin Sol.............
15
Solut  Chloride.....................
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 75)... 
pure.....................
FOLIA.

EXTRACTUM.

1 K*@ @

Barosma-......................................... .......  20®  25
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnì velly.......... .......  20®  25
.......  35®  50
Salvia officinalis, 4 s and  4 s ....... .......  10®  12
8®  10
Ura  Ursi......................................... .  .r. 

A lx....................

FERRUM.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

** 

” 

“ 

GUMMI.
.......  @1 00
Acacia,  1st  picked.........................
2nd  “ 
.........................
“ 
.......  @  90
3rd 
......................... .......  @  80
“ 
“ 
Sifted  sorts....................
“ 
po ............................................... .......  75®l 00
“ 
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)....................... .......  50®  60
“  Cape, (po. 20)......................... .......  ®  12
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60)............... .......  ©  50
Ammonlae  .................................... .......  25®  30
.......  @  15
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)....................
Benzoinum.................................... .......  50®  55
Camphorae...............................
.......  25®  28
.......  @  13
Catechu, Is,  (4s,  14; 4s, 16).......
.......  35®  40
Euphorbium,  po............................
.......  @ 80
Galbanum......................................
Gamboge, po.................................
.......  75®  80
Guaiacum, (po. 45).......................
.......  @ 35
Kino,  (po. 25).................................
.......  @  20
Mastic........ ....................................
.......  @1 25
.......  @  40
Myrrh, (po.45)...............................
.......4  00@4  10
Opii, (PO. 5  40;...............................
.......  18®  25
Shellac...........................................
.......  25©  30
“  bleached..........................
Tragacanth ..................................
.......  30®  75
25
Absinthium  .................................
Eupatorium.................................
20
25
Lohelia  .........................................
28
Majorum  ......................................
23
Mentha Piperita..........................
25
“  Y ir ..................................
30
R u e ................................................
22
Tanacetum,  V ............................
25
Thymus. V ........... “ .....................

HERBA—In ounce packages.
....... 
....... 
..... 
....... 
....... 
....... 
....... 

MAGNESIA.

Calcined,  Pat...............................
Carbonate,  Pat............................
Carbonate,  K. & M.....................
Carbonate,  Jennings..................

.......  55®  60
.......  20®  22
.......  20®  25

OLEUM.

.......4 50@5 00
Absinthium..................................
.......  45®  50
Amygdalae, Dulc.........................
Amydalae, Ainarae.....................
.......7 00@7 50
.......2  15®2  2 5
Anisi  ............................................
Auranti Cortex............................
.......  @2 50
Bergamii.......................................
.......2 00@2 75
.. 
.  90@l  00
Cajiputi  .......................................
Caryophylli.................................. ........   @2 00
Cedar.............................................. ........  35®  65
Chenopodii.................................. ........  @1 50
Cinnamomi.................................. ........  90@1  00
Citronella  ................................... .......  ©  75
Conium  Mac................................. ........   35®  65
Copaiba......................................... ........  90®  1 00
. ..10 00® 10 £0
Cubebae .......................................
Exechthitos.................................. ........   90@1 00
........ 1 20@1 3'J
Erigermi......................................
Gault heria.................................... ........ 2 00@2  10
Geranium, 5.................................. .......  @  75
Gossipii, Sem.gal......................... ........  55®  75
Hedeoma.........................  ............ ........   80®  90
Juniperi......................................... ........  50@2 00
Laveudula .................................... ........   90@2 00
... 2 25@2 35
Limonis.........................................
Liui, gal......................................... ........  42®  45
Mentha Piper............................... ........ 3 00@3 75
Mentha Verld............................... ........ 5 50@6 00
Morrhuae,  gal.............................. ........   80®1 00
Myrcia,  5....................................... ........   ®  50
Olive.............................................. ........ 1 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 50)................ ........   10®  12
R icini............................................ ........1 42@1  60
Rosmarini.................................... ........   75@1  (H)
Rosae,  5......................................... ........   @8 00
40® 45
Suceini  ......................................... ........ 
........  90® l  00
Sabina..........................................
Santal............................................ . 
. .3 50@7 00
Sassafras....................................... ........   48®  55
Sinapis, ess, 5............................... ........  @  65
Tiglii.............................................. ........   @1  50
Thym e.......................................... ........   40®  50
__ ;.  @  60
Theobromas................................. ____  15®  20

opt................................

“ 

POTASSIUM.

Bichromate.................................. ........   72®  14
.......  42©  45
Bromide.......................................
Chlorate, (Po. 22).......................... ........   20®  22
Iodide............................................ ........3 00®3 25
Prus8iate........................ ............. ........  25®  28

. 

__

less.

MISCELLANEOUS.
26® 28
JEther, Spts Nitros, 3 F ...............
30® 32
.¿Ether, Spts. Nitros, I F .............
Alumen.........................................
24®  34
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7).............
3® 4
An is at to  .......................................
55® 60
Antimoni,  po...............................
4® 5
Antimoni et Potass  Tart...........
55® 60
Argenti  Nitras,  z........................
© 08
5© 7
nui©  oa | Bahn GUead  Bud......................
38® 40
Bismuth  S.  N ...............................
2 15@2 20
3®
@ 9
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (4s, 11;  4s, 12)__
4®
Cantharides  Russian, po..........
@2
11®
Capsid  Fructus, af....................
15
12®
Capsid Fructus, po.....................
@ 16
Capsid Fructus, B, po................
@ 14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)................
30® 33
Carmine. No. 40...........................
@3 75
Ci ra Alba, S. &  B’........................
50® 55
Cera Flava..................................
2s© 30
Coccus  .........................................
@ 40
Cassia Fructus............................
@ 15
Centraria....................................
@ 10
Cetaceum.....................   ............
® 50
Chloioform..................................
38® 40
Chloroform,  Squibbs.................
@1 00
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst.............
.1 50©1 75
Chondrus ....................................
10® 12
Cinchonidine, P.& W................
15© 20
Cinchonidine,  German.............
9® 15
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent__
40
.  @ 50
Creasotum..................................
Creta, (bbl. 75)..............................
Creta  prep...................................
5® 6
Creta, precip...............................
8® 10
Creta Rubra.................................
© 8
Crocus  .........................................
30
Cudbear.......................................
© 24
Cupri Sulph.................................
6® 7
Dextrine......................................
10® 12
Ether Suiph.................................
.  68® 70
Emery, all  numbers..................
® 8
.  @ 6
Emery, po....................................
Ergota. (po. 60).............................
50© 60
Flake  White...............................
.  12® 15
Galla............................................
© 23
Gambier....................;.................
Gelatin, Coopor..........................
@ 15
Gelatin, French..........................
40® 60
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  (
9® 15
Glue,  Brown...............................
Glue, White.................................
13® 25
Glycerina.....................................
Grana  Paradisi..........................
® 15
H um ulus....................................
.  25® 40
.  @ 
Hydrarg Chlor. Mite  ................
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor..................
.  © 65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum...........
@ 85
Hj'drarg  Ammoniati................
@1 00
Hydrarg U nguentum................
@ 40
.  @ 65
Hydrargyrum............................
Ichthyocolla, Am  .....................
.1 25® l 50
Indigo.......................... .............. . 
.  75®1 00 
Iodine,  Resubl....................................... 4 oo@4  10
.4 G0®4  10
Iodoform.......................................
.  @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod__
© 27
. 
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis...............
i m 12
.  85® 1  00
Lupuline  .......................................
.  55® 60
Lycopodium..................................
.  60© 65
Mads...............................................
Magnesia. Sulph, (bbl. 1)4)...........
2® 3
Mannia, S. F....................................
90@1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W.......................
.3 15@3 3i>
Moschus Canton,..........................
© 40
Myristica, No. 1..............................
@ 65
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20)....................
® 10
.  15® 18
Os.  Sepia.........................................
Pepsin Saac, II. & P. D. Co..........
©2 00
Picis Liq,  N. C.. 4   galls, doz.......
©2 70
Picis Liq.,  quarts..........................
©1 40
Picis Liq., pints.............................
© 85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80).....................
@ 50
Piper  Nigra,  (po.22).....................
© 18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35).......................
@ 8b
Pix  Burgun....................................
® 7
Plumbi Acet..................................
.  14© 15
Potassa, Bitart, pure....................
© 40
Potassa,  Bitart, com...............;..
@ 15
. 
Potass  Nitras, opt.........................
8@ 10
. 
7© 9
Potass  Nitras.................................
Pulvis Ipecac  et opii............................1  10@1
.1  10® l 20
Pyretbrum, boxes, H. & P. D. Co., doz.
s.  Col IK)
.  48© 58
Pyrethrum, pv............................
Quassiae......................................
. 
8® 10
.  58© 63
Quinia, S, P. &  W.......................
.  48® 00
Quinia, S, German.....................
.  12© 13
Rubia Tinctorum.......................
Saccharum  Lactis, pv..............
© 35
_
Salacin......................................... 
@4 50
.  40© 50
Sanguis Draconis.......................40® ~ 50
Santonlne....................................
@4 50
Sapo,  W.......................................
.  12© 14
Sapo,  M.......................................
. 
8® 10
@ 15
Seidlitz  Mixture........................
Sinapis.........................................
.  @ 18
Sinapis, opt.................................
.  ® 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do.  Voes__
® 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes...........
. 
Soda Boras, (po.  10)....................
8® 10
.  33® 35
Soda et PotossTart....................
Soda Carb....................................
SH
. 
Soda,  Bi-Carb........... ..................
4® 5
. 
Soda,  Ash....................................
3® 4
Soda  Sulphas.............................
@ 2
.  50© 55
Spts. Ether Co............................
Spts.  Myrcia  Dom.....................
@2 00
.  @2 50
Spts. Myrcia Imp.......................
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2  10)........
@2 25
Strychnia, Crystal.....................
@1 30
.  2V4@ 3M
Sulphur, Subl.............................
Sulphur,  Roll.............................
Tamarinds..................................
' '8© 10
.  28© 30
Terebenth  Venice.....................
Tbeobromae...............................
@ 40
Vanilla  .......................................
9 00© 16 00
. 
Zinc!  Suluh.................................
7® 8
Bbl  Gal
75
70
61)
68
58
53
40
43
46
43
50
60
43
43
Bbl
Lb
2® 3
Red Venetian............................  134 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  14 
2® 3
2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda__  ...  14 
24©  3
Putty, commercial..................  2 4 
Putty, strictly pure..................  24 
24® 3
13®16
Vermilion, »rime American.. 
5£®58
Vermilion,  English.................. 
16® 17
Green, Peninsular.................... 
Lead, red strictly  pure...........  
6®  64
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
6® 6
®70
Whiting, white  Spanish.......... 
Whiting,  Gilders’! .................... 
@90
1  10
White, Paris American...........  
148
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  I aints___ 
1  20®1  40
Swiss Villa Prepare«  Paints.. 
1 00@1 20
V A RN ISH ES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.................................. 1  10@1 20
Extra  Turp............................................1  60®l  70
Coach Body............................................2 75®3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@1 10
Extra Turk  Damar.............................. 1  55® 1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.....................   70®  75

Whale, winter......................................
Lard, extra...........................................
Lard, No.  1...........................................
Linseed, pure  raw............................
Linseed, boiled..................................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........

PA IN TS

OILS.

RADIX.

. 

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........   25®  30
Althae  .........................................
........   15®  21
Anchusa.....................................
Arum,  po...................................... ........  @  25
........  20®  50
Calamus.......................................
Gentiana,  (po. 15)............................
10®   12 
16©  18 
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15).......................
Hydrastis  Canaden,  ,po..33)..........
@  25 
15®  20 
Hellebore,  Alba,  po.......................
15®  20 
Inula,  po...........................................
G0@3 60 
Ipecac, po.........................................
25®  30 
Jalapa,  pr.........................................
@  35 
Maranta,  )£8....................................
15®  18 
Podophyllum,  po............................
Khei  ................................................
75,51  00
_®1 Â5
“  cut............................................
7o@l  (>■) 
“  p v ...........................................
48®  53
Spigelia  ..........................................
Sanguinaria, (po. 25).......................
35®
Serpentaria......................................
50®
Senega..............................................
© 40
Sinilax, Officinalis, II.....................
@ 20
Mex................
10® 12
Scillae,  (po. 35).................................
@ 25
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po........
@ 25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)..........
15® 20
German.........................
© 17
Anisum, (po.22)...............................
12© 15
Apium  (graveolens).......................
4© 6
Bird, I s .!:.......................................
12® 15
Carui,  (po. 20)..................................
l  U0®1 25
Cardamom.............  
......................
10© 12
Coriandrum.....................................
3® 4
Cannabis  Sativa.............................
75@1 00
Cydonium.........................................
10® 12
Chenopodium  .................................
L 75@1 S5
Dipterix  Odorate............................
© 15
Foeniculum.....................................
6© 8
Foenugreek, po...............................
3V4© 4
Lini....................................................
3H® 4
Liui. grd, (bbl, 3).............................
P halar is Canarian.................................  3&@4V4
Rapa
5®8®
Sinapis,  Albu..........................
fc®
Nigra  .......................
“ 
SPIHITUS.
.......2 00@2 50 ¡
Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co..........
.......1 75®2 00 ;
Frumenti, D. F. R....................
.......I  10@1 50 j
B’rumeuti.................................
.......1 75@1 75 '
Juniperis Co.  O. T..................
.......1  75®3 60 I
Juniperis  Co................ ...........
Saaeliarum  N. E.....................
.......1 75©2 00
8pt. Vini  Galli........................................1  75®6 50 .
Vini Oporto...........................................1 25@2 00
Oporto. 
1 25®2t)0
Vini  Alba...

SEMEN.

IP -A -IH S T T .

brand of

We have a full stock of this well-known 
M I Z E D   P A I N T
and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 
recommend il to our  customers  as  be­

ing a First Class  article.  We sell it

On  th e   M an u factu rers’  G u a r a n tee :

W hen two or more coats of our P IO N E E R  P R E ­
P A R E D   P A IN T   is applied as received in original 
:  packages, and if w ithin  three years it should  crack or 
f peel off. thus failing to  give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-paint  the  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  the  best 
W hite Lead or  such other paint as the  ow ner  m ay se­
lect.  In  case  of  com plaint,  prom pt  notice  m ust  be 
|  given to th e dealer.

T.  H .  N E V IN   &  CO..

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg, Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card to

111

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try PO L ISH IN A ,  best F urniture Fin­

ish made.

2.11

1

k PERKINS

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

lies, unirais, 
misiles, 
a i Druggists 
les.

,  UUM|

MANUFACTURERS  OF

E lept  Piianuacentical  Prepara­

tions,  Fluid  Extracts  and 

ir r

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGNTS  FOB

W olf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

W hiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

M S.
Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu­
facturers of Hair, Shoe snd 

ALSO  FOR  THE

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cnre

Which is positively the best Remedr 

of the kind on the market.

W e  desire  particular  attention  of those 
about purchasing outfits for new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACIL­
ITIES for meeting the wants of  this  class 
of buyers WITHOUT  DELAY and in the 
most  approved  and  acceptable  manner 
known to the drug trade.  Our  special  ef­
forts in this  direction  have  received  from 
hundreds or our customers the  most satis­
fying recommendations.

lin t

W e give our special and  personal atten­
tion to the selection of choice goods for the 
DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit 
the high praise accorded  to us for so satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom­
ers  with  PURE  GOODS  in  this depart­
ment.  W e CONTROL and are the ONLY 
AUTHORIZED  AGENTS for the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE&G0’S.

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour  Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Gopper- 

Distilled

WHISKEY.
W e not only offer these  goods  to  be ex­
celled by NO OTHER KNOWN BRAND 
in the market, but superior  in  ail  respects 
to  most  that  are  exposed  to  sale.  W e 
GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis­
faction and where this brand of  goods  has 
been once introduced  the  future  trade  has 
been assured.

W e are also owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Eye,

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

W e call your attention to  the  adjoining 
list of market quotations which we  aim  to 
make as complete and perfect  as  possible. 
For special  quantities  and  quotations  an 
such articles as do not appear  on  the  list, 

such asPatent  Medicines,

Etc., we invite your correspondence.
and personal attention.

Mail  orders  always  receive  our specie 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drug Co.

The Reason 'W hy.

Upon the street we met be chance.
Bach gave the other a savage glance, 

He and I—face to face;
And each felt out of place,

Such meetings have their share of pain, 
Bach feared the other, that was plain. 

And ours was painful, too,
And still we nearer drew.

Poor victims we of ruthless Fate J 
For once I cut him out with Kate,

Fate's victims we are stiu.
And he owes me a bill!

SOLIMAN SNOOKS.

Natural  Gas-

- The Dakin  Case — Liquor 
Taxation.

Cant H ook Corners, May 9,1887.

Bditor Tradesman:

D e a r Sib—I told you last week that I in­
tended to say something about  natural gas,
On investigating the subject, however, I find 
there are 60 many kinds of natural gas that 
a fellow hardly knows  which to  begin on 
The gas belt is  very  wide.  Look  at  the 
amount of gas escaping at Lansing,  where 
boring is going on all the  time.  That re 
minds me of this  Dakin  case. 
I  suppose 
you have noticed the contemptible cut in old 
prices attempted by this  innovator  on  es­
tablished principles. 
It is all right  enough 
for a man who is elected on a labor ticket to 
do what he can towards bringing articles of 
daily use down within the reach of  the toil 
ing masses, but,  I ask, what do  the  toiling 
masses need of cheap  legislators and Sena 
tors?  Why should this member  attempt to 
lower the  price of  Representatives  to the 
ridiculous  figure  of  five  to  ten  dollars? 
Then to get up a regular  price  list “to the 
trade,” with discounts,  and  all complete 
without so much as  consulting the  parties 
thdtnselves?  How  did  the  Hou.  gentle
man know but he might get  some  member 
down in that price  list at $5 or  $10  whom 
thirty or forty dollars would not buy?  Yes 
I might  say,  seventy-five  dollars  and  be 
within bounds. 
It is shameful,  and I don 
blame the Hon.  members for  kicking, and 
Idcking hard, too.

But  look  a  moment at the  excuse this 
Honorable makes.  He says that  he intend­
ed this list to  show the  amount he  was to 
expend, taking each member out for a treat. 
This is  pretty  thin,  I  must  say.  What 
right had this  man  to  presume,  with  no 
guage, no Government  inspection,  no bung 
marks  or  anything, 
that  one  Honorable 
member would hold $25  worth of  refresh­
ments, while $5 worth  would  fill  another 
full?  The entire principle is wrong, on the 
face of it, and I am glad he has  been made 
an example of.

I notice that this man  also  swears  that 
the Hon. Rep. O’Keefe drank  with him. 
I 
am  not  personally  acquainted  with  the 
above named gentleman, but  I have known 
men by the name of  O’Keefe and  O’Dowd 
and O’Riley and I never  knew one of them 
who drank anything, unless it was absolute­
ly convenient, or it was a  rainy day,  or ter­
rible dry, or something of that necessary na­
ture.  So I do not wonder  that  this  bald- 
faced assertion was hurled back with scorn.
Large quantities of gas are being also ex­
pended just now on the liquor question. 
It 
would seem that the  emphatic  declaration 
of 9,000  majority  against  the  amendment 
was not enough and our wise legislators are 
going to try again.  I have not seen the bill, 
but if it is as represented to me,  1  must say 
that such an outrage  on the  people  of any 
state was never  thought  of—I will not say 
consummated,  for nothing will make me be­
lieve that any set of law-makers  who  ever 
existed outside of a  lunatic  asylum  would 
think of taxing a  legitimate  drug trade out 
of existence.  “But,”  say  some,  “let  the 
druggist  remove all  spirits  from his store 
and he need not pay  the  tax.”  Why  not 
say to the hardware man,  “Remove all iron 
from your store aud  you  need  not  pay a 
special tax of $500.”  That would  be on a 
par with the other.

To Whom to Give Credit.

In all kinds of business there  is  always 
more or less credit given to patrons.  Mer­
chants may talk of a “strictly cash business ’ 
as much as they please,  but the  fact is they 
cannot compete with others who give credit 
in certain cases.  There is  not one  patron 
out of a thousand who always has the money 
just at hand,  and to refuse such an one cred­
it is that  much  custom  from  you.  Aye, 
more;  besides his custom you lose his influ­
ence.  Buyers feel offended by having their 
credit questioned even by implication.  And, 
perhaps,  in such a case  there  is no sort of 
risk—the pay is just as sure as the  coming 
day. 
It is folly to drive trade away in such 
cases.

Some credit then,  it should be  conceded, 
must  be  given.  Success in  business  de­
mands it,  and the demand will not be hushed 
uugratified.

ltyf 

J and yawns for its new victims.

Yours for less taxation and more prosper- 

To whom,  then, should the business man 
accord it?  Whom is it safe to credit?  Who 
may be relied on  to pay?  This is the great 
question which has  puzzled  the  strongest 
and best minds from the very  inception  of 
For the druggist who sells  by  the  drink, 
commerce.  Men in  every  age  and  clime 
or to drunkards knowing them to be such, I 
have racked  their  minds  over it, lest they 
have nothing to say.  Tax them, gentlemen, 
should find it a sunken rock  on which their 
all you please,  but do not  force  the  drug­
commercial craft should be wrecked forever. 
gist, who has his all  invested in a  stock of 
And not without good  reason.  The  mael-
drugs and fixtures,  into the saloon business,
or out of the State.  We can get along with- j  strom of destruction  circles  round it  ever 
out any more saloon-keepers. 
jf too much credit is given,  insolvency is 
Druggists  are now  the worst  taxed and 
Injudicious credit al-
ways brings disaster, because  parties trust­
ed fail to pay  at  all.  Our  own debts as 
business men must he paid,  and,  if  we fail 
to realize when  selling,  the day  of  bank­
ruptcy is not far away.

have to work the most  hours of  any  class  the inevitable result. 
of people in the  State,  unless it  is  the sa- 
loonists, and I will  admit  they  are taxed 
pretty heavily. 
I may have more to say re­
garding this matter, and  when I  get a list 
of the men voting for such a  measure  (as is 
now said to be pending),  we will  look the 
Hon. gentlemen up a little.

What principles,  then,  should guide us in 
the matter of giving credits?  No haphazard 
plan will answer.  Must we credit  one  be­
cause he is honest?  Nay,  for  he  may al- 
, ways remain poor,  and so  never be able to 
pay.  Must we give a patron time in  which
because he is an old acquaintance or 
“ I say, George,” said  a St.  Paul  drum-  ^  
mer to a Minneapolis  brother,  as they came j belongg to our  church  or  political  party? 
have  you j  ^
in  a  Dakota  hotel,  “have  you 
together  in  a  Dakota  hotel, 
 for these are not such  qualifications as
heard of the big row they are having in your 
tend  particularly  to  fill  'his  pocket-book. 
town just now?”  “Bow!  No.  What s the 
Who, 
then?  Some  general  rules  are all 
difficulty?”  “They have  taken  all the Bi­
that can be given,  and even  in  strict  con­
“What for, 
bles out of the schools there.” 
formity to them there will he  some  losses. 
jfn  “ Why,  because  it  mentions  St.
p  * 
1  Credit should never be  extended  to  any
- -  
Paul  many  times,  but  Minneapolis  not 
If  they ever get 
who are indolent or lazy. 
once.”
ahead financially,  it will be  by  mere  acci-
, 
“Say!  say!” called a Montcalm street wo-1 
man to a tramp who  had just left  her door i  < » .  »..d that should never be depended on. 
Those who are  unmethodical  and negli- 
with a piece of bread in  his  hand,  “don’t 
eat that!  The girl says it is a piece we had j  gent,  who are always behind time, who  put 
lying around  with  ‘Bough on Bats’ on it!” j off to-day’s work until  to-morrow  or  next 
“ It’s too late,  madam,”  he  replied,  as he j week, who never meet  their  engagements 
swallowed the last morsel;  “I’ve had people | promptly,  however small,  who give  abund 
who 
try to play that  trick on  me  before, to get j ant evidence  of lack  of  energy and 
beyond a mere
their goods back, but it always fails.  I pre-1 seem to have 
fer the stuff to butter, but  don’t say so, he- j existence,  should  never be allowed  to be­
cause I hate to put people to trouble.” 
indeed,

J come  our  debtors.  They  may, 

Soliman Snooks,

General Dealer.

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#

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No. 024 
2 quart Pieced 
4  “ 

“ 

Iß doz 
........2 00
“ 
“  Covd 89
90

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Strainers.

Small Pieced Milk Strainer......... . 80
Medium Pieced Milk Strainer...... 1
25
No. 3 Gravy Stamped Ret’d Ebony
Handle.....................................
No. 2 Gravy Stamped Ret’d Ebony

75

Handle..................................... 35

No. 2 Sherwood  Wire Ebony Han­

dle ........................................... 2 25

No. 0 Bowl  Wire...............................   42 
No. 1 
................................   45 
................................   77 
No. 2 

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Tin Sundries.

“ 
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3 quart milk cans...........................2 15
i Tin Dinner Horns..............................  36 
! Apple Corers......................................  31 
Japaned Pepper boxes....................  20 

“  Dredge 
“ 
“ 

Pint Molasses cans...........  89 
Spice boxes6 in a tray..2 25
j A. B. C. Rattles with  Whistle.......  18 

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Toasters.

Bright Wire Broilers or Toasters.. .42 
...82 

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Tea or Coffee Pot Stands.

Bright Wire sqr. coffee pot stands. .43 
No. 17 Coppered Round coffee  pot

stands.................., .................... 32 
Sherwoods ret’d coffee pot stands.  85 

Tea Pots.

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Fo. 20 octagon planished tea pots.l  25 
.1 50
No. 30 
.2 00
No. 40 
.2 25
No. 50 
Nc^ 60 
.2 50
1 quart Tea Pots..............................  89
2 ouart Tea Pots..............................1 25
No. 1130Copper bottom Tea Pots..3 00 
..4 00
No. 1150  “ 
No. 1160  “ 
..4  25

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Tea Kettles.

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j No. 7 Copper bottom...............'.... ,4 50
J No. 8 
..................... 5 20
,] 
I 8 inch Tubed  Cakes........................... 38 
10 
........................................................ 53 

Tubed Cakes.

W ash  Raisins.

10 50

9  50

9 00

4  03

4 75
5 00
9 00

4 25
3 75
2 25
40  4 50
10 50

2 00

4  50
9 50

4  90

3 25
10 £0

4 25
6 CO

4 60

W l r ' m

1 gross.

8 quart I. C. Rinsing Pans.... 
10

I. X.

Pieced Dish

Scoops.

No. 0 Spice Scoop................................40
No. 34 Family Scoop...........................50
“  Ebony H’d le...88
No.39 
No. 2 Pieced......................................... 30
Skimmers

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1 90

Flat Milk  Skimmer............................ 22
Handled Milk Skimmer......................42
Pierced Long Handle Skimmer.......45
Sieves and Sifters.
Elipse  Sifter....................................  89
Electric Light Sifter.......................I  75
Champion  Sieve..............................   88
No. 16 Tin Rim Sieve Braced.......2 00
Nested Wood Rim  Sieve  Brace  3

Sizes.........................................  90
No. 11 Tin Rim Pieced.......  ..........  85

Square Pans.

00

10 40

10  00

Scolfop Bread Pan.

8x12 Biscuit  Pan...............................  44
“  ..................................44
6x10 Bread 
“ Wired...........  ......... 88
6x10 
“ 
5x9 
72
Scollop Bread Pan..............................44
Sauce Pans.

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8 25 
10 50

so I

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No. 7 Wash Baisin Plain no ring___39
“  with  ring..44
No. 6  “ 
No. 0K  “ 
Ret’d  “ 
..75
No.6K  “ 
..70
“  no 
No. 7 Wash Basin Plain no ring...... 50
“  with ring.. .52
No. 7 
No. 7 
“  .. .78

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“  Ret’d  “ 
W ash Boilers.

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No. 7 P’cd Copper B’toms 
No. 8  “

H’vy.  ,10 80
...1 2   00

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No. 012 Retinned Sauce Pans.......
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No. 014 
No. 016 
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H O N EY   B E E   C O FFEE!

Best  in  the  Market  for  the  Money.

PRINCESS  BAKING  POWDER,

EQUAL  TO  TH E  BEST  MADE.

BEE MILLS’  SPICES
AINSW O RTH

Absolutely Pure.

Are  placing  their  wool  buyers  for 
the season.  Any  town  not  represent­
ed  by  a  buyer  would  do  well  to  ad­
dress the above  at  82  South  Division 
Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
m

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TWO  AND  THREE  PLY

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B E A D Y   ROOFING-

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Waterproof, Durable and Economical,

OVER  7,500,000  SQUARE  FEET APPLIED IN 1886.

Curtiss & Dunton,

grand rapids,

MIOR.

M O SE L E Y

WHOLESALE

Fruits, Seeds,  Oysters & Produce,

ALL  KINDS  OF  FIELD  SEEDS  A  SPECIALTY.

If you are in Market to Buy or Sell Clover Seed, Beans or Pota­

toes, w ill be pleased to hear from you.

26. 28,30 6 32 Ottawa Strait,

134  to  142 Bast Pulton St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Revised P r i^ -T.iat.n f T in -Ware.  Terms cash or 30 days on approved credit.  1  per cent, discount for cash m 10 days. 
x 

9  doz.

Rinsing and Dish Pans.

' 

A ll goods warranted strictly first-class
•

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Flared* Black  Handle Pails

* —" 
#  gross. 
9 00

Cups.
(See Mugs.)

Dippers.

doz.  Ç gross.

Basting Spoons.

 

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2 inch Oval Threaded........................... 39 
14  » 

........................45 
“  Whittled  Wood......................35 
“  Wood Handle......................... 39 
45 
••  Rd. Iron “  Tinned.............35 
.......................... 
............45 
......................... ...................................35 
“  Flatiron** 

.........................52 
! ......................... ...............................65 
.........................75 
17

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Biscuit and Cookie Cutters.

$  doz.  $  gross.
4 50
5 -0C
4 0C
4 SC
5 4C
4 26
5 36
4 (X
621
7 21
8 6<

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IK inch Biscuit Cutter..................... 17
.....................18
Assorted Animal Cookie Cutter...... 23
Assorted  Figures.........................,...24

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Comb Cases.

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Comb Cases Assorted Colors............44
No. 3 
........... 44
No. 2 
........... 80
Hammered...........................................44

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No. 20 Medium Footed................  1 25
No. 30 Large 
....................1 50

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Coffee  Pots.

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1 quart Pieced  Coffee Pots...........  80
............125
3 
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*................................................................1 5 0
8 
4
  
1 7 5
2  “  Extra Heavy Coffee Pots. ..1 85
3  „ 
...2 50
...3 00
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Canisters.

1 pound Japaned Tea—  
1  “ 
Coffee.

“ 

Crumb Brush and Tray.

•• 

Fancy Asst. Cslors..........................1 95
“  New Pattern.. .2 25
Cake Turners.

“ 

No. 200 Retd. Blade Iron Handle... .52 
No. 1 Russia 'Iron Blade Wood Han­

dle........ ...................................... 40

No. 50 Russia Iron Blade Wood Han­

dle ......................  

84
No.  18  Retd.  Blade  Wood  Handle 
Ebony..........................................84

 

 

 
 

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Pieced.......... 

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“  Ketd. 

1 quart Plain Stamped........................40
*7
2 
75
2 
1  “ 
50
2  “  P ieced....,............................-05
j 80  No. 50 Cocoa Shaped Ebony Handle.65 
195  No.SICup 
3 501 NO*23  “ 
No. 100“ 
No. 29 Ladles 
No. 139  “ 

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87
<5
70
40

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DustPans.

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Toy Painted Asst. Colors...................33
“  K sheet Asst. Colors.. .35
Janpaned Full Sheet.......................... 79

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Drip Pans.

8x10  Russia Iron Drip Pans..........  80

Dish Pans.
(See Rinsing Pans.)
Funnels.

1 pint Funnels..................................... 33
1 quart  “ 
50
“  Corrugated.................48
1  “ 

 

Graters.

K sheet Vegetable  Ebony Handle..42
Wood Frame Vegetable.................... 42
Nutmeg box  ........................................14
O .K ..................................................................... 30
Victor....................................................89

Match  Safes.

 

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Twin Asst. Colors................................30
No. 10 Bronze Iron..............................36
No. 2 
70
Daisy  Asst.  Colors  to  Hang  With

cover...........................................45
Excelsior Pocket.................................75
“ 
Daisy 
75
“  Hammered  .......2 00
Mascott 
Mincing Kjpives.

 

Single Blade Russia Iron...................42
Double  “ 

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9 50

4  75

4  50

9 50

9 50

Mugs and Cups.

1 pint Pieced...................................... 24 
1 pint Stamped................................... 30 
Picnic Planished Loose  Handle.........30 
Solid Handle..........33 

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“  Hammered  “ 

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Daisy Painted Mugs Asst, colors... .45 
... .45 

Pails  “ 

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Toy No. 2  Painted  Small  Cup  Asst.

Colors.......................................... 25 

$  doz.  $  gross
2 75
3 5(
3 51
3 71
4 21
5 4'
5 4

37 

 

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Colors..........................................25 

“  Medium  “
Muffin Rings.

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Plain 6 on sheet...............................1 50
............ ......................... 2  00
Scolloped on sheet..........................3 25
No. 0166  oil  sheet.......................
Measures.
Gill Lipped Measures................
K pint Lipped Measures..........
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1  “ 
1  quart 
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1 pint Graduated Measure.............  39
1 quart 
.............  4-

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Oil  Cans.

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K gallon Kerosene Tin Oil  Can.. .1  60
! 
..................... 2  00
0 Zinc Sewing MachineOil Can....  33
2  “  Machine Oil Can.....................  62

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Pails.

5 40

(Our Pails are not Coke Tin but I C) 

1 quart Covered Pails.....................   56

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“  Oval.
Graduated cov’d ..

Painted

3  “  Rd Pieced Dinner Pails.. ..2 00
“  — 2 60
4  “  oval  “ 
4 
“  square 
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.  ..4 50
10  “  Strainer Pails.....................3 25
14  “ 
......................4 00

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Pot Covers.

9K inch Hemmed and Ringed..........35
“ 
10K  “ 
..........43
Preserve Kettles.

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3 00

3 00

No. 180 Retinned Preserve Kettles.. 1 20 
No. 200 
50
-.170
No. 249 

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Pans Plain Dairy.

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Full Size, Charcoal Finish.

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K pint  Dairy 
1 
1 quart 
IK  “

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9 75

8 q p

Pans Retinned Dairy.

4 quart Ret’d Dairy 
6 
8 

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Pans Pieced.
I 4  quart  Round  Pieced  Pudding

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Pan .................. ........................  70
6 quart Round Pieced Milk Pan...l 15 
3 quart Oval Pieced Pudding Pan.  70 
¡4 
.  80
Pans Deep Pudding.
3 quart Stam’d Deep Pudding Pan.. 62
4 
..68

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Patty Pans.

Scollop Pattty Pans................'...........

Plates.

9 inch Plain Pie Plate.........................24
¡ 1 0 ............................  
.....................   ®
9  “  Scollop 
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19  “  Jelly Cake  “ 
......................28
“  Deep Jelly Cake Plate...........40
9 
••••*••  45
I  10  “  

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6 50 
8  00

sometimes become able to pay,  but  the rule 
will be otherwise.

On the other hand,  if the reverse of these 
traits prevail, it is  tolerably  safe  to  give 
credit, even although the debtor does not pos­
sess sufficient property within the  reach of 
the law to compel payment.  Such a person 
will acquire the means of liquidation.  The 
man who is careful,  thorough,  methodical, 
honest,  industrious and energetic will  rise, 
and of him  there is  strong  hope—he  will 
pay all he agrees to and have some left.

“ Like Employer, Like Clerk.”

Robt. M. Floyd in American Storekeeper.

Darwin, from his study of man, must have j 
been led to believe  as  firmly as  he did that 
we  were  descendants  of  monkeys,  on  ac­
count of some of our  strongly marked char­
acteristics, as pointing directly towards that 
family.  And  one  is  mimicry, or following 
any line of action through association.
There is not a day that we  do not  see  in j 
our  journals  accounts  of  men  having  be-1 
trayed  trust—commencing  at  the  heads of | 
large corporations and  going  down  to  the j 
poor devjl of a stage driver or counter jump- j 
er,  who  takes a few  cents  a day to  enable 
him to buy some little  luxury for  which  lie 
has no right to wish or to use.

Any  man  the  head  of  a  department, or 
holding  any positihn  where  he  has  other 
men under him, who look to him for instruc­
tion aud naturally follow his acts more than 
they  do  his  instruction,  should  be  careful 
that his conduct is such  that, on  being  re­
produced  by  others,  shall  not  cause  the 
blush of shame  to mantle his cheek, nor  he 
the means of punishing the individual doing 
what  he  thought  all  right, because he but 
followed an example set before him.

The permitted  misrepresentation,  in  this 
age  of  adulteration  of  manufactures  and 
fabrics,  by  employes  in  such  concerns  is 
gradually but surely undermining the whole 
tone of public honesty and truthfulness and 
is the means  of  breeding  thoughts  and ac­
tions in men which end in  their  being  dis­
graced,  punished,  and,  perhaps,  incarcen- 
ated in prison as  common, felons. 
It is an 
old English  saying,  “No  man  knows  you 
so well as the the waiter who stands behind 
your chair.”  So  it  is  in  all  concems-r-no 
•one knows the head of  the house so well as 
the men whom he  has  in  his  employ, men 
who see him  daily, watching  all  his  vary­
ing  conditions  and  actions,  and  who  are, 
for the time being, dependent  upon him for 
their well-being.

If an employer expects to  have an honest 
clerk with him, he must be  honest  himself 
in the carrying on of all  parts  of  his  busi­
ness.  “Like  father, like  son,” has been  a 
phrase  that  has  been  handed  down  from 
past generations,  and  it  holds  good  in  all 
commercial occupations—like employer, like 
lerk. 
c

Miller’s Pat Cash Tilland Sale Register

Manufactured

inti  Sold  Only by  Patentee,

o. B. MIXiI jBII,

ITHACA, N.Y.
Office of Sam’l  Mo ffett. Grocer, 
F l in t, Mich., Nov. 2b, 1886.

C. B. Miller, Ithaca, N. Y.:
Dear Sir—Enclosed please find New York 
draft to pay for ‘•Casliier,”also for one doz. 
Rolls Paper, which please  forward at  once 
by Am. Express.
It took me some time to arrive at the con- 
clffsion that your  “Cashier”  was the one 1 
wanted,  but  now, after  having had  it in 
practical use for some time,  I will trankiy 
admit  “this  is  the  thing  I  long  have 
sought,” and  possibly  I might  justly  aud 
the other line of this verse, but  will  leave 
that for others, in need, to imagine.

Yours, etc.,

Sam’l  Mo ffett.

S H O W   -  C A S E S .

Dealers w i l l  
find  it  to their 
t o 
advantage 
c o r r e s p o n d  
with  us,  as  we 
are in the  posi­
tion to make  A 
No.  1  goods  at 
the  lowest pos­
sible prices. 
C o r re sp o n d ­
ence 
solicited 
from  the  job­
bing trade rela­
tive to premium 
cases.

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AMBSJCA2T  SHOW  CASE  WORKS,

2 7  Lais.© Street, OHioaso.

H I R T H

Sc  KRAU SE,

DEALERS  IN

and  T a llo w ,

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P ro m p t  returns  m ade  on  C onsignm ents.

Canal St, Grana Rapids.
33.  F A L L A S ,

Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters

Makes a Specialty of

No. 1 Egg Crates for Sale 

Cold Storage in Connection.  All Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention.
Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  50 cents each.

We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters.

217 and 219 Livingstone Street,

RIND6E, RERTSCH & CG,

Orand Rapids, M ichigan.

MANUFACTURERS AND  WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

A N D

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS FOR THE

14 and  16 Pearl Street. 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

