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

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

The State  Assayer of Massachusetts says i 
Muzzy’s Coni  Starch  for table  use,  is  per-! 
fectly pure,  is well  prepared, and  of  excel- j 
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.

SEEDS

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

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you  get  my  prices.

ALFRED J.BROWN
16-18 N.DivmotSt,Grand Rapids

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

Secures to out-of-town  customers  the most 
careful attention and guarantees perfect sati­
sfaction.  We are the

LARGEST HOUSE in tie STATE

DEALING  EXCLUSIVELY  IN

WANTED.

Butter, Eggs, W ool, Pota­
toes,  Beans,  Dried  Fruit, 
Apples  and  all  kinds  of 
Produce.
If you have  any  of the  above  goods  to 
ship, or anything in the  Produce line let us 
hear  from  you.  Liberal  cash  advances 
made when desired.

Earl Bros,  Commission Mercian!?,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO.

Reference:  Fikst  National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

POTATOES.

W e give  prompt  personal  attention  to 
the sale of POTATOES, APPLES,BEANS 
and ONIONS in car lots.  W e  offer  best 
facilities and watchful attention.  Consign­
ments respectfully solicited.  Liberal cash 
advances on Car Lots when desired.

&  GO.

Wm.  H.

166 South Water S t, CHICAGO. 

Reference

Felsenthal. Gross  &  MrLLER, Bankers.

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

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

T.  R. Elus & Co.,
Book Binders
PAPER  RULERS, rs,

51, 53 and 55 Lyon St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
PATENTS;

^A ttorney a t P aten t Law  and Solicitor 
'o f   American  and  Foreign  patents. 
106 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U. 8. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  Practice in U. S. Courts.  Circulars 
free.

LUCIUS C.  WEST, 

With the splendid  Tailor-Made  Clothing 
we handle the tit is as perfect as in  the  fin­
est custom work.  Send in your order for a 
Spring Suit or Overcoat and  make a  saving 
of at least one-third.

-G IA N T -

The attention  of  dealers is called  to our 
JOBBING  DEPARTMENT.  We pay cash 
for our goods and make CASH PRICES.
With superior advantages and ready  cash 
we are enabled  not  only  to  meet  Chicago 
prices but offer you a most complete line  of

FURNISHING  GOODS.

A.  MAY,  P ropüietor.

GIANT  CLOTHING  COMPANY,
Cor.Caiial&LyoaSts.,GrandRajids
Voigt, H erpM eier & Go.,
DRY GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR OWN MAKE.

A  Complete Line  of

Fancy CrockeryiFancy Woodenware

OUR OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

FOR SALE.

Feed mill, eighteen horse  power  engine, 
good wholesale and retail  trade.  Will  sell 
cheap.  Address  “Feed  mill,”  care  T he 
T r a d e s m a n .

F

j A H S T T .

We have a full stock of this well-known 

brand of

M Z Z E D  

F A I N T
and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 

recommend it to our  customers as  be­

ing a First Class article.  We sell it

On  the  M anufacturers’  Guarantee:

PLACE to secure athorougi 
and useful education is at tn
Grand Rapids (Mich.) Busi­
ness College.  write for Cot 

lege Journal.

Address,  C. G. BWENSBERG.

COOK  & PRINZ,
Show*  Cases,

Manufacturers of

Counters, Tables and Furniture of any 

Description,  as  well  as  Designs 

thereof, made to order.  Write 

for Prices or call and see us 

when  in  the  City.

38 VestrBridp St.. Grand Rapids.

Telephone 374.

W hen two or m ore coats of our PIONEER PBE 
PARED PAINT  is applied as received in original 
packages, and if w ithin  three years it should  crack or 
peel off, thus failing to   give  satisfaction, we  agree to 
re-paint  th e  building  a t  our  expense,  w ith  th e  best 
W hite Lead o r  such other p aint as th e  ow ner  m ay se­
lect.  In  case  of  com plaint,  prom pt  notice  m ust  be 
given to  th e dealer.

T. H. NEVIN & CO..

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.
Pittsburg, Pa,

Write for prices and Sample Card to

Wholesale  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

Try POLISHINA,  best FurnitureFin 

ish made.

CX2TSX2TG R O O T .
We pay the highest prioe for it.  Address
Peck Bros,, DraggisU, Grand Bapids,Xkà.

G R A N D   R A P ID S,  W E D N E SD A Y ,  JU N E   15,  1887.

NO .  195,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

C IG A R S
T6 S. Division St,  Grani Rapids.

Factory No. 26, 4th Dist.

Realizing  the  demand for, and  knowing 
the difficulty in obtaining a FIRST-CLASS 
FIVE-CENT CIGAR, we have concluded 
to try and  meet  this  demand  with  a new 
Cigar called

SILVER SPOTS

This  Cigar  we  positively  guarantee  1 
clear Havana filler, with a spotted Sumatra 
Wrapper, and  entirely free  from  any  arti­
ficial flavor or adulterations.

It will be sold on its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 60  days approval.

Price  $35  per  1,000  in  any  quantities. 
Express prepaid on orders of 500 and more. 
Handsome  advertising  matter  goes  with 
first order.  Secure this Cigar and increase 
your Cigar Trade.  It is sure to do it.

Flint, Midi.

GO..
GEO,  T.  W H EN  
HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

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

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

BELKNAP

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermen’s and 

River Tools.

We carry a large stock of material, and have 
every facility for  making  first-class  Wagons 
of all kinds.
^"Special  attention  given  to  Repairing. 
Painting and Lettering.
Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich,

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

EN C3-I1 T E3S

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

W,  O*  D enison
GRAND  RAPIDS. 
MICH.

88,90 and 93 South Division Street, 

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JUDD  cHO  OO.,

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

10%  CANAL STREET.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor,
WE  D« ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORE AND USE NO 

CEEHCAL8.

Orders  by  Mall  and  Express Promptly At* 

tended to.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

W ritten Especially for T h e   T r a d e sm a n .

The subject of  credit has  probably awak­
ened more controversies and occasioned more 
arguments than  any other matter connected 
with the country trade.  There are number­
less advocates of the cash  system,  and very 
few  writers  on  mercantile  subjects  ever 
care to defend the habitual giving of credit, 
yet  experience  and  observation  have  con­
vinced  me  that  the  method  so  long  and 
highly extolled is little more than  a theory, 
while the nearly universally condemned one 
is in almost general use in the smaller towns 
of the State.  It is reasonable to presume that 
a very large proportion  of  individuals  who 
engage in trade  commence  business  with a 
firm determination  to  resist  every  induce­
ment to  “open books,” but  I think  it  safe 
to estimate that not one in fifty possesses the 
requisite back-bone  to  rigidly adhere to his 
resolution. 
It is one of  the  easiest  things 
imaginable to drift into  the  credit  system, 
and when  once  the  drifting is commenced 
it is almost next to an  impossibility for  the 
trader to escape from  the  current.  Often, 
when disgusted with ill  success  in  making 
collections, or  exasperated  by  some  costly 
experience with  the  dead-beat,  he will sol­
emnly promise himself and  the  public  that 
his future business  will  be a  strictly ready- 
pay one.  Then  he will  offend a few  good 
customers  by  stubbornly  refusing  the  re­
motest concession in the  way of credit, pla­
card  his  store  with  numerous  announce- 
m'ents  of  his  inflexible  determination, ad­
vertise conspicuously and  liberally the ben­
efits accruing  to  the  buyer  who  purchases 
his goods at cash  stores,  and  then  slowly 
but steadily drift back into  the old channel.

With a ldng  and  melancholy list  of  out­
lawed accounts,  and  a  perennial  weakness 
for succumbing to the wiles of the dead-beat,
I am  not  egotistical  enough  to  announce 
myself as competent authority on the  credit 
problem; but, nevertheless,  I  venture to  as­
sert that I believe a carefully  watched  and 
reasonably limited credit system is almost a 
necessity  for  the  successful  country  mer­
chant. 
It can not be denied that  the  most 
cautiously  conducted  business  of  this  na­
ture will  add  materially to  the  cares  and 
perplexities  of  mercantile  life,  but  it  can 
be made also  to  add  materially to  the  in­
come of the dealer. 
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It  needs,  however, a  reasonable  amount 
of common sense to  avoid  the  troubles and 
disasters in which the credit  system  so fre­
quently involves the trade.  The individual 
who invests the bulk of  his  capital in  even 
the best  notes  and  accounts, and  depends 
upon his creditors  to keep his  stock  intact, 
puts himself in a dangerous position.  Cau­
tion,  in  even  the  superlative  degree,  is  £ 
necessity for the dealer  with limited means, 
who  begins  the  practice  of  “keeping  ac 
counts,” and  he can put it  down as  a cold, 
hard, solid fact that eternal  vigilence is the 
price of safety.

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Speaking of caution leads me into  a little 
degression.  While,  as  I  have remarked,  it 
should be used in the  superlative  degree in 
the matter  of  credits,  it  may, I  think,  be 
carried to an unreasonable excess when con­
nected with some other subjects.

Jones  has  a  very  pretty  daughter  of  1 
marriageable  age, who,  for  some  time past 
has been receiving  the marked attentions of 
Young Slawser,  who is  conducting a  flour 
ishing business in  a  neighboring town. 
If 
young S. has a failing  of  any magnitude, it 
is an overgrowth of excessive  prudence and 
caution, but as I believed  that  Jones rather 
admired  these  qualities  and  looked  with 
much favor on the  suitor,  I ventured to ask 
him,  the  other  day, when  the  affair  was 
“coming off.”

“ Well,  I  dunno!”  replied  the  parent 
“There’s a kind of a haft  called  in the per 
cession.  I don’t mind mentionin’ the matter 
privit-like,  but  it’s  one  of  the  queerest 
things in  courtin’ you ever heerd  of.  Las! 
Sunday Slawser and Jul’a Ann fixed  up the 
arrangements  satisfact’ry  an’ then  come in 
to ask the  old  man  for  his  blessin’,  so  to 
speak, and then the girl went out  talk with 
her ma, an’ Slawser  says  to  me  that as the 
weddin’ wouldn’t come off till fall, and he 
have  to  buy  a  ring,  and  ice-cream  and 
presents, an’ hire  liv’ry rigs,  an’ go to a big 
expense,  it  wouldn’t  be  any  more’n  right 
for me to give ’im a bond,  that in case Jul 
Ann died, or backed out,  or run  away with 
another feller that I’d pay ’im  back  for  all 
the money invested.  Did  you  ever hear 
’magine such a cussed  idea?  An’  yet  that 
young man  was  as  ca’m  an’ easy as if he! 
bin buyin’ a  bale  of  cotting battin’. 
I told 
’im to go to Sheol,  an’ I  dunno  yet how the 
matter’ll turn out.”

that  he  who  avoids  the  toils  of  the  dead­
beat and the  hardly more  desirable  patron­
age of  the individual  who  never pays until 
forced  to  do so,  is  a  remarkably  favored 
party.  As a rule,  losses will  occur and un­
desirable  accounts  be  accumulated  by any 
merchant  who credits,  and  by a  little  hab­
itual carelessness  he  can  easily  evaporate 
the profits accruing from  the  custom of  his 
prompt payers.

I have said that the  credit  business  may 
1  made  profitable,  but  it  can  never  be 
made pleasant.  The fact  that  you  cannot 
make  the  remotest  calculations  regarding 
collections is one of  its annoying  features. 
Let a jobber have $25,000 in 30 day accounts 
on his books and he  is  reasonably  safe  in 
estimating that he can meet  $20,000  worth 
paper in 40  days,  but let  a  country mer­
chant  invoice  $5,000  in  overdue  claims 
against responsible farmers and it would be 
folly for him to give a thousand dollar sixty 
day note,  in  the  assumption  that  he could 
meet it with  collections from  these parties. 
No  argument  has  ever  yet  been  adduced 
that  could  convince  the  average  country 
customer that he has no  moral right to con­
stitute himself judge and jury in the matter 
of determining the time in which  store  ac­
counts should be settled.  “I’ll  pay  you  in 
few days,” is his  usual  promise when the 
subject of finance  is  discussed, but this is a 
period  of  such  marvelous  elasticity that it 
conveys very  little  hope to  the  trader who 

afflicted with importunate creditors.
But I find that I have reached the reason­
able  limits  of  an  article, and  occupied al­
most the entire time  in  arguing against my 
own side of  the question.  By the  courtesy 
of T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  I will endeavor to re- 
trive myself  from  the  charge  of  inconsis­
tency in some future paper.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

PROMISSORY  NOTE  INDORSEMENT.

According to the decision of  the Supreme 
Court  of  Georgia  an 
indorsement  of  a 
promissory  note  past  due  for  a  valuable 
consideration  is  a  new  contract,  and  the 
statute of limitations begins to  run in favor 
of the  indorser  only  from  the  date of  the 
indorsement.

HUSBAND AND WIFE—INDIANA LAW.
Where a  husband and  wife  hold  land as 
tenants by entirety and the wife unites with 
the husband in the  execution  of  a mortgage 
on the land to secure the payment of the hus 
band’s  debt,  such  a  mortgage  is  a contract 
of suretyship on the part of the wife,  and  is 
oid  as 
is 
also void as against the  husband.  So  held 
by the Superior Court of Indiana.

the  mortgage 

to  her,  and 

THE DRIVEN-WELL  PATENT CASE.

The  United  States  Supreme  Court  has 
made an  important  decision  relative  to the 
validity of what  is  known  as  “the  driven 
well patent” in  the  case  of  Eamps  vs. An 
drews  et  al., decided  May  23.  The  case 
was one of much  importance  owing  to the 
extent  to  which  driven  wells  are  used in 
the United States.  The court  in  this  sus 
tained the  validity of the  re-issued  patent, 
No. 4,372, issued to Nelson W. Green, hold­
ing that the grounds on which it was sought 
to invalidate the  re-issued patent  as  being 
for a different invention from that described 
in the original patent could not be sustained 
that the invention had  not been  anticipated 
by others, and that there was a clear case of 
infringement.

TELEGRAPH MESSAGES—INTERSTATE COM 

MKRCE.

Another  decision 

respecting  attempt 
interstate  com 
ed  state  regulation  of 
merce was rendered by the  Supreme  Court 
oi  the  United  States, in  the  case  of  the 
Western  Union  Company  vs.  Pendleton 
The case arose upon  a  suit  brought by the 
sender of a telegram from Shelbyville, Ind 
to  Ottumwa, Iowa,  to  recover  a  penalty of 
$100 under a statute of Indiana, prescribing 
the manner in  whicii  telegrams  should  be 
sent  and  delivered.  The  complainant  al 
ledged that his telegram had been put in the 
post office at  the  point  of  destination,  in 
stead of being  delivered,  and  that  this was 
in  violation  of  the  Indiana  statute.  The 
telegraph  company  maintained  that  the 
state could not  constitutionally regulate the 
method of delivery of a telegram  in another 
state, because such  action  would be a regu 
lation of interstate commerce.  The Supreme 
Court,  following  the  cases  of  Telegraph 
Company vs. Texas,  in  the  105th  United 
States  Reports,  and  Pensacola  Telegraph 
Company  vs.  Western  Union  Telegraph 
Company in the  96th  United  States,  held 
that the attempted regulation by Indiana of 
the mode in  which  messages  sent  by tele 
graph companies doing  business  within her 
limits should be  delivered  in  other  state: 
cannot be upheld.  The  court  said  that 
was an  impediment to  the  freedom of that 
form  of  interstate  commerce  which  is 
much beyond the power of Indiana to inter 
pose as the imposition of  a tax by the State 
of Texas upon  every  message  transmitted 
by a telegraph company within her limits 
other states, was beyond her power.  What­
ever authority the  state  may  possess  over 
the  transmission  and  delivery of  messages 
by telegraph companies within  its limits, 
does not, the  court  says,  extend  to  the de 
livery of messages in other states.

When the merchant has adopted my views 
and determined to enlarge his  trade  by do­
ing a careful and limited credit business, 
needs  all the caution and  judgment and in 
sight Into  character  with which he may 
possessed,  to  avoid  loading himself  down 
with slow and doubtful accounts.  Applica 
tions for “ time” are made under so many di 
verse circumstances and conditions,  and the 
time  for  reflection  is  usuuily  so  limited,

The speedy lumbering of many of the pine 
properties in Clare county has been rendered 
necessary by  the  recent  fires.  Thousands 
of trees have been killed.  Scores of camps 
have commenced  work,  and logs  are being 
moved at a great rate.

The reports  of  the  leading  railroads  of 
the country for the first quarter of the pres­
ent year show a big increase over  the  same 
period last year.

GOOD-BYE,  COFFEE.

The New  Disease  Described by a  Ceylon 

Planter.

Seldom has the price of a  product in  use 
for  general  consumption  advanced  with 
greater  rapidity  than  has  that  of  coffee 
within the last twelve months, and the bean 
now selling about 135 percent, higher than 
It is the  general 
did this time last year. 
opinion  among the  uninitiated  that this is 
owing to a “corner”  in the  coffee  market 
and that the high  price is  only  temporary, 
fall  again when  those who are  running 
the  corner  have made all they  can  out of 
the deal.  But  this is  far  from  being the 
real state of the case.  True there may be a 
corner, but at  the same  time it is  very un­
likely that the price of coffee will ever again 
be as low as it lias been.
The  real facts  are that the  high  prices 
now ruling  are not due to a  corner, but to 
the fact that the  supply of. coffee  through­
out the coffee-growing  countries has  been 
getting shorter and  shorter  every year,  and 
the present  outlook is that it  will continue 
to decrease until  coffee  becomes a  luxury 
only within the reach of the wealthy.  The 
cause of the shortness of  the crop is not,  as 
stated in an article the other day, the effects 
of rust and  flies on the  plantations,  but it 
owing to the ravages of the hemelia-vesta- 
trix, or coffee-leaf  disease,  a disease that is 
now absolutely  rampant over  every coffee- 
producing country in the world.
Dealers  and  speculators in  Europe and 
America appear to be only  now  waking up 
to the fact that this disease is universal, and 
that it has come to  stay.  The  “boom”  in 
coffee  some  years  ago was so  great  that 
numbers  of new  plantations were  opened 
and the additional supply obtained from this 
source, when they began to yield, nominally 
kept up the crops,  but they soon  died out, 
and nearly all the old  plantations  have for 
ears not yielded one-fifth, and in some cases 
not  one-tenth,  of  their  original  average. 
Then dealers  hugged  themselves with the 
belief that  the hemelia  would depart  and 
the coffee tree  recover from  the  disease in 
the same way as it had done when attacked 
ith  “black-bug” and “rust,” but this is a 
very  different  matter  and  shows not the 
slightest signs of abatement.
The writer was a practical  coffee  planter 
Ceylon  when  this  dread disease  first 
made  its  appearance, no one  knew  from 
where.  At that time coffee was “booming,” 
and would net $25 per 100 pounds in London, 
sometimes more.  A fair  average crop on a 
second-rate  plantation  would  run  about 
500 pounds to an acre,  the estates or planta­
tions varying  from 150 acres  up to 800 and 
,000 acres.  Sometimes  as  much as 1,000 
pounds per acre would be  obtained from an 
estate.  This, too,  without the aid of fertil­
izers;  in fact,  the soil in Ceylon was so ricli 
that, until this disease  appeared,  no  fertil­
izers were required.  But one day a planter 
noticed  on the  leaves of  his coffee  trees a 
small black spot  surrounded with a yellow­
ish fungus that came off like dust.  On some 
leaves it was  unnoticeable  until they were 
held up against the sun,  and then  the black 
spot was distinctly visible.  He at first took 
no notice of  it until  he  found that  all his 
trees were  similarly affected  and that  the 
leaves  were  beginning to turn  yellow and 
drop off.  The coolies,  when they went into 
the coffee,  would come out witli their black, 
naked bodies stained as if with yellow ochre 
The  attention of his brother  planters  was 
called to this phenomenon,  and it was  then 
found that  nearly every  plantation in  the 
island was similarly affected.
At Peradenyia,  near Randy, the  govern 
ment has a botanical  garden,  perhaps  the 
finest and most  complete in the  world, and 
the superintendent,  the late Dr.  Thwaites,a 
botanist of  world-wide  renown,  gave  his 
whole attention to this new disease, bestow 
ing on it the name of hemclia-vestatrix.  In 
his opinion the disease would die out in the 
same way as previous  plagues  had, but as 
month after month passed and the trees be 
gan to look sicklier and sicklier  the  plant 
ers were  alarmed.  Crops  began  to  drop 
from 500 pounds  an acre to  200, and  then 
to as low even as 100,  and in  some  estate 
to nothing at all.  Once flourishing estates 
were completely snuffed out and  abandoned 
—this,too,in spite of the greatest care and! 
high  expenditure  in  artificial  manures 
Some  planters  would spend as high as $71 
an acre in fertilizers and get a crop that did 
not bring them a return of $25 an  acre.
At this  time, also,  Brazil was  compara­
tively  untouched  by the  disease and  was 
pouring coffee by the ton into the European 
markets.  The Ceylon planters  tried every 
thing, but  matters got  worse  every  day 
Every  known  agricultural  chemist in Eu 
rope was  communicated with  and  experts 
brought from Europe at an expense of thou 
sands of dollars,  but the  money  might just 
as well have been thrown in the ditch.
There was not a fertilizer  in the  market, 
no matter how high-priced it might  be,  but 
was tried,  and the  only one that  had any 
effect,  and that was but slight,  was sulphur 
blown upon the leaves.  The  disease was 
peculiar one.  Wood would grow plentiful 
ly upon  the tree and it  would be  covered 
with leaves that to all appearance were per 
fectly  healthy.  Then the  blossom  would 
come and “set”  beautifully,  the  brandies 
being  well laden  witli berries  sufficient to 
yield a  crop of  from five  to  six  hundred 
pounds.
But a change would  soon come over  the 
spirit  of  the  planter’s  dream  of  wealth 
Before  the  berries  were  half-formed  the 
fatal  spot on the leaves would appear,  then 
the leaves and the half-formed berries would 
drop off,  and  what had  been a  splendidly 
wooded  estate  became in a month or two 
lot of bare  sticks  with  scarcely  sufficient 
crop on  them  to pay the  superintendent 
salary.
The drop in  values of  estates was  enor 
mous.  As an instance, the writer was inter 
ested  in an estate for which, just  after the 
leaf disease appeared, and before it began 
frighten people, $250,000 cash was paid.  The 
estate rose  in value, and about six  months 
after  the  purchase  was  mortgaged  to 
Scotch land company for $150,000.  Eighteen 
months afterward the  estate  was valued 
$100,000, or $50,000 less than it  was  mort 
gaged for. 
It would have taken the parse 
of a Fortunatus to stand such losses as that 
and at  the same time  keep up  the  heavy 
working  expenses of the plantation, so  the 
consequence  was that  every  planter with 
anything  to lose  lost it.  An attempt  was 
made to stem the flood by  introducing  new 
varieties of coffee  and what  was known as 
Liberian coffee was planted.  The  Liberian

variety  has a much  larger  bean than  the 
Arabica,  but it has a bitter  taste.  The ex­
periment  was  a  failure,  as  the  Liberian 
trees showed  the disease  just as  badly as 
the Arabica.
When  the  disease  was at  its height in 
Ceylon,  the Java people  and the Brazilians 
denied that they  were afflicted at  all,  and 
they induced the dealers in Europe and this 
country to believe them.  They  either  did 
not know the symptoms of  the disease they 
had,  or  they had  some ulterior  motive in 
nying it.  They have continued to stren- 
ously deny the existence of  the disease on 
their  plantations  up to a very recent  date, 
and they have been  supported by  many of 
the dealers;  but their  game,  for  whatever 
purpose they played it,  is played out.  and it 
now a universally acknowledged fact that 
the disease is everywhere, and that it shows 
no signs whatever of  abating its  virulence, 
and that,  moreover,  it  is as bad  in  Brazil 
and Java as it is and has  been for  years in 
Ceylon.
4. few yeare ago a syndicate  was  formed 
among  some  New  York  men,  prominent 
among whom were Jay Gould  and ex-Sena- 
tor Dorsey,  for the  purpose of  acquiring a 
large tract of land in New Mexico and open­
ing it up with coffee,  which will  no doubt 
grow there.  The Writer was consulted as a 
practical planter as to the feasibility of  the 
project, and he gave it as his  opinion,  and 
he is of the  same  opinion  still, that  as a 
speculation it would never grow to pay.  In 
the first place,  as long as the  hemelia lasts, 
and it will probably last  forever,  you could 
never  obtain  healthy  plants, and,  in  the 
next  case,  to  grow  coffee  profitably  you 
must have an abundant  supply of cheap la­
bor.  This was what favored Ceylon,  as she 
had an inexhaustible supply of  cheap labor 
to draw from the  neighboring  continent of 
India, and planters  could hire all the  men 
they required at an average of 15  cents per 
man per diem and 12 cents for women.
In New Mexico all the  labor would  have 
to be imported at great cost.  Then there is 
not sufficient  work to  keep all  hands em­
ployed during the entire year. 
It is only in 
crop time  that you  can work  a full  force. 
The coffee  berry may  ripen up  in a single 
night and acres become “blood-red.”  If  it 
is not at once picked it becomes “dead-ripe” 
and drops to the ground,  where it is lost.
What will be the end of all this is hard to 
tell.  The writer’s opinion, and as has been 
said,  he has had  experience of  the disease 
from the outset,  is that in sourse of  time it 

ill eventually kill coffee entirely.

A N   OHIO  T E S T .

An Issue Made on Extended Maple Syrup, 
The Ohio State Dairy and Food  Commis­
sioner,  S. H. Hurst,  is preparing to test the 
strength of the laws  conferring the  power 
on him of  suppressing the  adulteration of 
food and drink.  Maple  syrup has been se­
lected as possibly the best article on  which 
to make the test, the  wholesale  dealers of­
fering for sale some stuff composed  of one- 
fourth maple aud three-fourths glucose. It is 
put up in meat cans and marked Maple Syr­
up,  manufactured  by  John  Jones  & Co., 
Sole Agents,  West Jefferson.  West Jeffer­
son is well  known as one of  the finest ma­
ple syrup regions in the  State, and a strict 
investigation  by the  Commissioner  shows 
that  there is no  such firm in  existence in 
that section as John Jones & Co.  The fact 
that the “sole  agents’”  name  is  given in 
full indicates that this  fraud is  perpetrated 
with the full knowledge of  the parties sell­
ing it  The wholesaler sells  gallon cans at 
$7.15 per dozen, which of itself ought to in­
dicate to the  purchaser  that the  article is 
either adulterated or inferior. 
It is said the 
goods were produced in  Chicago and  ship­
ped to Ohio. 
The defendants will proba­
bly set up the claim that the goods were pro­
duced in Illinois,  which will raise an  inter­
esting  inter-state  question that it is not at 
all improbable the United States courts will 
be called to pass upon.  The people of Ohio 
will await the  adjudication of  these  cases 
with interest, as they will  settle the  ques­
tion as to whether the Cegislature can enact 
laws  that will  protect the  citizens against 
impure goods produced  in other States and 
offered for sale here.

Study Your Customers.

From the M erchant.

Few  retailers  realize  the  importance  of 
studying their  customers.  There is a great 
difference  in  human  nature, and  a  liberty 
taken with one person  might  prove  a  woe­
ful failure if applied to another.  A retailer 
meets witli all  kinds  of  people;  some  are 
talkative, others  reticent,  some  know  just 
what ttiey want, others  haven’t the faintest 
idea and  must  be  told.  Frequently  there 
will  be  found  customers  who  are  reticent 
one day and very talkative  the  next, and it 
is much better for a merchant and his clerks 
to cater to the peculiarities of  each individ­
ual, allowing him  to  display his  nature for 
the  day before  committing  any liberty  by 
making conversation or suggestions.  There 
can be no greater mistake made by grocer or 
clerk than an  attempt  to  put  other  goods 
tuan those actuaiiy called for into the hands 
of a buyer who knows  just exactly what he 
or she wants.  A  good  many retailers have 
a habit of treating the request of a customer 
with the utmost indifference, so far as their 
efforts toward  executing  it  are  concerned. 
There  are  goods  of  certain  classes  which 
have a  established  reputation  among  con­
sumers; competition  has  brought  into  the 
market imitations of them, either in purport 
or brand,  and, of  course,  at a  reduced price 
to  the  consumer,  but  at  the  same  time 
they are made  to  pay  the  dealer  a  better 
profit  in'order to urge  him  to  push  them. 
The  dealer,  of  course,  is  anxious  to  make 
all he possibly can, and  in  many  instances 
he can put  the  most  profitable  goods  suc­
cessfully  into  a consumer’s  hands,  but  we 
must caution him not  to “cut  off  his  nose 
to spite his face” by forcing  them  upon  in­
dividuals who are firm in their demands.

Twenty-six  business  men of Imlay City 
signed a petition asking the village trustees 
to buy a steam  fire  engine.  Then the same 
twenty-six signed  another  petition protest­
ing against the scheme. 
In both cases tiiey 
had appended their names without knowing 
what they did.

A  country girl getting off  a railway  train 
was asked by a  polite  young  man  if  he 
“ might help her  to  alig h t” 
“ No,  I thank 
you,”  said she,  “ I don’t  smoke!”

▲ JO U R N A L  DEVOTED TO T E S

RETAIL  TRADE  OF  THE  WOLVERINE  STATE.

B.  A.  STOWE,  Editor!

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

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  15,  1887.

FOOD  ADULTERATIONS.

Thk  T radesman  gives  considerable 
space this week to an article  from the New 
York  World,  setting  forth  the results of a 
carefully  conducted  examination  of  the 
quality of tea, coffee and  sugar sold by 300 
of the retail grocers of  the  metropolis. 
In 
presenting  an  editorial  summary  of  the 
Work, the World says:
Every analysis  was made  by an  expert, 
and the result proves that the stories of the 
sale  of adulterated  articles in  this line,  at 
least, are exaggerated.  Out of 100 samples 
of tea,  88 were not  adulterated and 12 were 
found to be  adulterated,  mostly with  “lie” 
tea and  foreign  leaves;  of 100 samples of 
ground  coffee,  72 were  pure and 28  were 
mixed  with  chicory  and  peas,  and of 100 
samples of sugar,  98 were  pure  and only 2 
adulterated  with  starch  glucose.  Of  the 
whole 300  articles, 258  were  good  and 42 
faulty, while 270 were of full weight and 30 
were light.
Of course there  ought to be no  adultera­
tion of these  articles at all,  but  the  small 
percentage of adulterated goods speaks well 
for the general honesty #f our retail dealers. 
Besides,  where  adulteration  exists it  may | 
not always be the fault of  the retailer, who 
may, in his turn, have  been  cheated by the 
wholesale dealer or  the  importer. 
It  may 
not be amiss to suggest  that the  eagerness 
of some purchasers to secure what they sup­
pose to be “bargains”  and to  buy  ‘‘cheap 
goods” has probably  something  to do with 
the evils of light  weight and  adulteration. 
The storekeeper who sells  one or two cents 
lower  than  the  fair,  prevailing  market 
price will be pretty certain  to make it up in 
short  weight  or by a profitable  process of 
adulteration.

When it is  remembered  that  New York 
city is the liot-bed of  adulteration  and that 
the samples above  referred to were  mostly 
purchased  from  grocers  who  cater to the 
trade of poor  people, the results  of the an­
alyses are decidedly re-assuring.  The lead­
ers of the pure food  movement  have  freely 
asserted that  seven-eighths of  all  the food 
products of the country arfe adulterated, but 
such statements do not seem to be borne out 
by the facts in the case.

The Tradesman  gladly  commends the 
course  taken by the World  in  publishing 
the name and location of  every grocer from 
whom ¡goods were purchased, together with 
a statement  as to the merits  of the  same. 
Such  publication  cannot  fail  to result in 
good to all parties  concerned. 
It  will ena­
ble the consumer to determine  where  pure 
goods can be  obtained  and it will also ena­
ble the grocer to  ascertain  whether  all his 
competitors are dealing in pure goods.  Such 
publication will also tend to  discourage the 
handling of  impure and  adulterated  foods 
and thus work good all around.  The exam­
ple set by the World  can be  profitably  fol­
lowed by daily papers in  other  large cities.

TO  TALK,  OR  TO  ACT?

Because T he T radesman  fails  to  sup­
port the questionable  methods  pursued  by 
the leaders of the so-called pure food move­
ment,  the  Chicago  Grocer  foolishly  and 
falsely assert that T he  T radesman is op­
posed to pure food.  Yet no longer ago than 
Marce T6  the  editor  of  T he  T radesman 
introduced the  following  resolution  at  the 
convention of the Michigan Businesss Men’s 
Association:

Resolved—That this convention put itself 
on record as unqualifiedly in favor of  goods 
of standard purity and strength,  full  count, ' 
full weight and full measure, and  that  we, 
as business men, agree to practice what  we 
preach,  by refusing to handle any goods not 
up to the standard.

This  resolution was  unanimously  adopt­
ed by  a  rising  vote  and  it  exactly  repre­
sents the position of Michigan  merchants— 
and T he T radesman as well—on the sub­
ject of  pure  food. 
Instead  of  imploring 
Congress to  pass  a  law  prohibiting  them 
from handling adulterated  goods,  they  are 
taking matters in their own  hands  and  re­
fusing to handle adulterated goods.

Which  is  the  better  method—to  follow 
the brass band pretensions  of the pure food 
movement or to nip  the  evil  in  the  bud? 
Which is the more honorable—the ask to be 
forbidden to do wrong  or  to  cease  to  do 
wrong with  out  being  forbidden?  Which 
is more  effective—to talk or to act?

TH E DEAD-BEAT.

T he  T radesman  flatters  itself  that  it 
has disseminated more general and technical 
information relative  to  the  dead-beat than 
any other journal  ever  published—perhaps 
more than all  the  other  literature  on  the 
«ubject put together.  Yet  the  material  is 
not all exhausted and  many amusing things 
remain to be  said  by those  who  have  the 
patience to delve  in . certain  phases  of  his 
character which are as  yet  unexplored  and 
uninterpreted.  Messrs.  Spencer,  Barlow 
and  Snooks  have  all  presented  admirable 
expositions  of  the  subject,  from  certain 
standpoints,  and the article given this week 
from the pen  of  Mr. Barlow,  is  unique  in 
all that the term  implies.  Mr. Barlow  ac­
companied  his  article  with  the  following 
reference to his opinions as to how the dead 
beat should be treated:

I send another blast on the dead-beat—too 
long, I fear—but as short as I could make it 
and do  one-half  justice  to  my  theme. 
It 
will not do to denounce and damn them any 
more.  They  must  be  treated  kindly  and 
softly and photographed  under  the  micro­
scope as other objects in natural history are 
ana examined with the finest  kind of tools. 
Touch  them  with  the  faintest,  daintiest 
species off  ridicule, lay down  the  rigid and

inflexible  law of  nature, which first  or last 
crushes  them  under  an  avalanche of “bad 
luck,” and this—if anything, though it looks 
hopeless—will  tend  to  cure  the  evil.  Of 
course,  as a whole,  it is incurable.  Like the 
poor, we shall always  have  them  with us, 
but many a younger  one  and  new beginner 
may be  discouraged  on  the  start  by  this 
style  of  drubbing. 
If  this  doesn’t  help, 
nothing will.

It is with feelings of profound regret that 
The T radesman  gives place  to the  com­
munication  from  the Cheboygan  Associa­
tion,  published in  another  column—regret 
that  such  an accusation  should  be  made 
against houses of an  established  character; 
regret that the  houses in  question  should 
put  themselves  in  a  position to  warrant 
such  an accusation.  To  be  sure, there  is 
nothing criminal or  unlawful in a manufac­
turing or jobbing  house  which  solicits the 
retail  trade  selling the  consumer  as well, 
but such a course is contrary  to good  busi­
ness policy  and should not be  persisted in 
by a house which  expects to  secure the ap­
probation  and  patronage  of  the  regular 
merchant.  The  tendency  of  the  Associa­
tion  work  thus  far  accomplished  in  this 
State  has  been  to  regulate this abuse,  for 
such it is, and in  those  towns  where  the 
subject has been properly agitated the abuse 
has been cured by voluntary  pledges on the 
part of the wholesale trade.  Grand  Rapids 
grocers  took  up  the ^subject  a  couple of 
¿ears ago, and, as  a result of such action,  a 
grievous abuse exists no longer at this mar­
ket. 
If any Grand  Rapids or  Detroit job­
ber makes  a practice of selling the consum­
er at any  other town  where there is an As­
sociation,  it will be short work for the mem­
bers of any such  organization to impel  the 
house to call a halt. 
If  the house  refuses 
to make a  pledge to the  effect that  it will 
not sell the  consumer,  it will be  compara­
tively easy for the  members to render  that 
field decidedly  dry  picking  for the  repre­
sentative of  such house.

Thurber,  Whyland  &  Co.  send  T he 
Tradesman a  courteous  reply  to  certain 
statements recently made  in these columns, 
as  follows:  Affirming  the  statement  that 
they are the largest wholesale grocery house 
in the country; affirming the statement  that 
they are liquor sellers, but qualifying  it  by 
asserting that their liquors are  pure;  deny­
ing that th & American  Grocer  is  a  house 
organ or that they have anything to do with 
its management, albeit they  are  stockhold­
ers in the paper; denying that  they  control 
the Retail Grocers1 Advocate;  denying that 
they originated the pure food  movement  or 
that they support the same from  mercenary 
motives. 
The  Tradesman  gladly  ac­
cords Messrs.  Thurber,  Whyland  &  Co.’s 
statements the same prominence it gave the 
original assertions,  reserving  the  right  to 
reply to them at some future time.

The  traveling  representatives  of  New 
York and Chicago  houses  assert that there 
was never so great a demand for pure goods 
in  Michigan as at present  and  that the de­
mand for  adulterated  goods  was never so 
poor—all of  which goes  to show  that  the 
action  taken  by the members of  the Mich­
igan Business Men’s Association at  the last 
convention of that large  and  influential or­
ganization is pregnant with results.

The holding of a special  meeting  of  the 
State Board  of  Pharmacy,  at  Petoskey,  at 
the conclusion of  the annual  convention of 
the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa­
tion, will be a  great  convenience to  all ap­
plicants  for  registration  from  the  Upper 
Peninsula  and  the  upper  portion  of  the 
Lower Peninsula. 
It will also tend to aug­
ment the attendance at the convention.

If the functionary who  has charge of  the 
preparation of natural  gas  in  the bowels of 
the earth finds  himself  sorely  taxed to sat­
isfy  the  recent  inroads  upon  his  supply, 
T he T radesman , suggests  that  he can se­
cure infinite relief  by  establishing  a  pipe­
line connection with the leaders of the Pure 
Food Fraud.

The T radesman heartily commends the 
proposed  organization  of  the  bakers  of 
Grand Rapids,  as it is a  move in the  direc­
tion of  uniformity—in price,  size,  weight 
and quality—which is as much in the inter­
est of the  consumer  and  handler  as  the 
baker.

An  agricultural  exchange  has  found  a 
name for the so-called  fruit  jellies  sold in 
the trade,  which have for their basis animal 
gelatine,  with just enough of  fruit juices to 
flavor them. 
It  calls  them  “horticultural 
oleomargarine.”

Mutual fire insurance seems to be growing 
in favor.  Two  important  additions  have 
been made to the list of  mutual  companies 
during the past week,  a manufacturers’ mu­
tual at  Detroit  and a wholesale  druggists’ 
mutual at Philadelphia.

There  is  practical  philanthropy  in  the 
offer of  Pingree  &  Smith,  of  Detroit, to 
distribute  $525  in  cash  prizes  annually 
among their employes  who save and  put in 
bank the most money out of  their earnings.

If the wholesale  druggists can see econo­
my and dividends in a mutual fire insurance 
company,  why  shouldn’t  the  retail  drug 
trade take a dose of the same medicine?

An Anti-Fat.

A Parisian doctor prescribed  for  a  lady 
who had objections against  growing  stout: 
“T ate  exercise,  my  dear  lady.  Consider 
the trees of the field;  they  never  take  ex­
ercise, and  as  a  consequence  they  go  on 
growing bigger and bigger every year.”

AMONG TH E  TRADE.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

D.  M. Amberg succeeds Hart  &  Amberg 

in the wholesale  liquor business.

Peterson Bros., grocers on Stocking street, 
have opened a meat  market  in  connection.
The  addition  to Rindge, Bertsch & Co.’s 
boot and shoe factory has reached the  third 
story.

W.  D. Hembling has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  Kruse  Bros.,  at  343  West 
Bridge street.

W. F. Downey  has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business at  Mears.  Olney, Shields  & 
Co. furnished the stock.

McBimey & Crawford have been engaged 
in the  grocery  business  at  Cadillac.  The 
stock was purchased  here.

Dr. E. J. Bean, who has been engaged in 
the drug  and grocery  business  on Wealthy 
avenue for about a  year past,  has removed 
both stocks  to Otia.

Amos S. Musselman  &  Co.  have  leased 
the double store in  the  Blodgett  block,  25 
and 27 South Ionia street,  and  will  remove 
their wholesale grocery business to that  lo­
cation about August 1._______

Henry J. Hartman has been compelled, by 
the increase in his business, to erect an  ad­
dition to his foundry  on  the  north,  20x60 
feet in dimensions,  and a separate  building 
in the rear, 20x30 feet in dimensions.

C. E.  Clapp, for  six  years  in  trade  at
W atson and for six years more* in  trade  at
Martin,  has engaged in the grocery business 
at Archie,  on  the  Grand  Traverse  Penin­
sula.  Arthur Meigs  &  Co.  furnished  the 
stock. 

____________

The Grand Rapids Portable House Co. ship­
ped another carload of the Densmore patent 
cottages  to  Salt  Lake  City last Thursday. 
The same day also witnessed the  departure 
of cottages for Minnesota, British Honduias 
and New York city.__________

The  Grand  Rapids  Veneer  and  Panel 
Works are building  a  three-story  addition 
to their factory,  35x100 feet  in  dimensions, 
which will  enable  them  to  increase  their 
capacity  about 25 per cent.  They are com­
pelled to run extra hours to keep  pace with 
orders. 

__________

C.  A.  Pearson, who  was  engaged in the 
grocery business at Fremont for eight years, 
but sold out two years ago to  engage in the 
meat business, has sold  the latter  tb J. W. 
Johnson and re-engaged in the grocery bus­
iness,  purchasing  his  stock  of  Amos  S. 
Musselman & Co.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Holton—C. Van  Horn  has sold  his gro­

cery stock.

Gagetown—C. S.  Graves succeeds R. Bur- 

don in general trade.

Lowell—J.  S. Daniels  has sold  his meat 

business to J. Murphy.

Negaunee—Jas.  R. Lloyd succeeds  Lloyd 

Bros,  in the meat business.

Cheboygan—Kessler Bros, succeed Joseph 

Kessler in the grocery business.

Bonanza—Cahoon  &  Brown  succeed  F. 

W. Clark & Co.  in general trade.

Carson City—J.  H.  Rose, late  of  Lyons, 

has opened a harness shop here.

Fremont—J. W. Johnson  has  purchased 

the meat business of C. A.  Pearson.

Romulus—Wm. H.  Kinney  succeeds  M. 

O.  Chrysler in the restaurant business.

Detroit—Berns &  Deneke  succeed  J.  W. 

Berns & Co.  in the dry goods business.

Sparta—L.  E.  Paige has sold out his drug 
stock to C. to.  Shaw,  late of  Grand Rapids.
Colon—Dickinson  &  Hollingshead  suc­
ceed Dickinson &  Wilcox  in  general trade.
Summit City—Jas. Broderick  has  moved 
his general stock to this place  from  Kings­
ley.

Detroit—John  P.  Huckestein  succeeds 
Lockman &  Huckestein  in  the  dry  goods 
business.

Muskegon—D.  M.  Stever  has  sold  his 
jewelry  stock  to  Geo.  B. Shadbolt,  late  of 
LaCrosse,  Wis,

Nottawa—The  balance  of  the  J.  W. 
Schermerhom  stock has been purchased by 
F. ;L. Burdick,  of Mendon.
,  Wayland—W. H. Bartholomew  has  sold 
his grocery stock to W. L.  Heazlit,  but will 
continue in the crockery,  tinware  and  no­
tion business.
|  Jackson—Welling & Buckhart write T he 
T radesman  that they have purchased W. 
R. Dodge & Co.’s  sporting  goods stock,  as 
well as their saloon.

Marshall—J. F. McCuster.of Boston, con­
templates engaging in the commission busi­
ness,  as a  branch of  the Boston  establish­
ment of Morse & Smith.

Cadillac—Sampson & Drury  are  erecting 
a two-story brick building,  29K x 148  feet 
in dimensions, which they will occupy with 
their- hardware business.

Traverse City—C.  C. Maes has purchased 
Frank Smith’s  interest in the confectionery 
business of McCoy & Smith.  The new firm 
will be known as McCoy & Maes.

Grayling—A  number  of  business  men 
have  organized a corporation and  engaged 
in the cattle ranch  business.  The  concern 
starts out with 100 sets of  horns and hoofs.

STRAY  FACTS.

Addison—Geo.  A.  Smith  has  opened  a 

bank.

Newberry—Lawrence McLaughlin, grocer 
and liquor dealer, has been closed on chattel 
mortgage.

Albion—L.  L.  Putnam  has  bought  the 
cold storage  warehouse  of  J.  J.  Dayton. 
He formerly owned the property.

Big  Rapids—Adalbert  Brady,  who  was

Charged with embezzlement by the Michigan 
Shingle Co.,  was  acquitted  in  the  Circuit 
Court Friday.

Detroit—The Farmers’ Field and  Garden 
Seed  Co.  has  filed  incorporation  papers. 
The capital  stock  is  $20,000  one-tenth  of 
which is paid in.

Detroit—Harris  &  Kittle  have  merged 
their business  into a stock  company  under 
the style of  the  Harris  Photo  Supply Co. 
The paid-in capital is  $18,000.

Manistee—The Manistee Oil Co.  has been 
organized with a subscribed  capital of $60,- 
000,  for  the  purpose  of  sinking  three  oil 
wells.  John Canfield  is  President  of  the 
corporation.

Cadillac—John  Turner, 

the  furniture 
dealer  and  undertaker,  has  made  money 
enough in furnishing outfits  for the  newly 
married and the  dead to build a  new  store. 
He will have it finished by fall.

St. Johns—C. H. McFarlan, the hardware 
dealer,  has  made  an  assignment  to  J.  H. 
Fedawa.  His liabilities  will  reach  nearly 
$3,000, but it is thought he will be good for 
it,  dollar for dollar.

Detroit—The Detroit  Manufacturers’ Mu­
tual Fire  Insurance  Co. has  filed  articles 
with  the  county clerk.  The  stockholders 
are J. W.  French,  G.  C.  Wetherbee, N.  G. 
Williams,  Peter  Voorhees, W. M. Dwight, 
J. E.  Potts,  D. D. Thorp,  D. A.  Ross,  H. 
H.  Greene, W.  C. McClure and F. Thoman.
Muskegon—H.  B. Miller  has  foreclosed 
his mortgage  on the E. J. Bulkley  confect- 
tionery stock.  The mortgage was given to 
secure  $800, but the  stock on  hand at the 
time  of foreclosure  amounted to less  than 
$400.  Several  other  creditors  are  badly 
left.

Sault  Ste. Marie—The  Sault  Ste.  Marie 
National Bank will  be  doing  business  by 
July 1, if a building can be fpund to house the 
concern. 
It  will have  $100,000 capital and 
twice that amount has  been  offered.  A lot 
has already been  purchased  upon  which  a 
modern bank building will be erected before 
snow flies.

Detroit—Pingree  &  Smith  have  offered 
prizes to those of their employees who  will 
save the most money.  To each person who 
will enter  the  contest they will give a bank 
book with $1 to his credit.  The prizes will 
aggregate  $525  annually,  and  are to be  di­
vided between  married  and unmarried men 
and girls.

Muskegon—Mrs. Mary Lander  closed her 
husband’s grocery store  last  Friday  under 
a chattel mortgage for $364 and put a depu­
ty sheriff in charge.  Later, however, J.  D. 
Vanderwerp  served  a  writ  of  replevin on 
Sheriff Nelson  at  the  instance  of  W.  H. 
Beach, of Holland, and  took  possession of 
130 bushels of  potatoes  and  a  large  plat­
form scale, placing an officer in charge.

Muskegon—A  stranger  calling  himself 
Johnson visited Muskegon last  Friday, and 
arranged to buy O.  Lambert’s grocery store, 
employing Mr. Lambert  to  run  the  place 
until a  younger Johnson should  put  in  an 
appearance.  The purchaser didn’t pay over 
any mouey,  but Lambert gave him  the  run 
of  the  place and he  is  surprised  now  to 
think that Johnson robbed the safe and dis­
appeared.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Cascade—J.  W.  Eardley  has  rebuilt  his 
hay  rack  and  roller  factory,  recently  de­
stroyed by fire.

Wayland—E.  K.  Lent  is  endeavoring  to 
secure the  location  of  an  evaporator  and 
canning factory.

Lake  Linden—The  Calumet  &  Hecla 
Smelting Co.’s new  pteit started up June 3 
and is furnishing  employment  to about 200 
men- 
It  is probable that the establishment 
of  this  new  plant  by the Calumet & Hecla 
will cause the closing down of  the smelting 
works at Detroit.

The Gripsack Brigade.

W.  G.  Hawkins goes to  Detroit  Wednes­
day to interview his  employers,  the Detroit 
Soap Co.

W. H. Maxwrell,  representing  the  R. W. 
Bell  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  will 
work  in  this  territory  for  some  time  to 
come.

F. W.  Parsons,  Michigan  representative 
for the  Wilson  &  McCallay  Tobacco  Co., 
of Middletown,  Ohio,  left Monday  for  De­
troit, where he will spend  a  week  among 
the jobbing trade.

J.  A.  Crookston  started  East  Monday, 
with the intention of spending a month vis­
iting friends in various parts of  New York. 
He is accompanied by his  wife.  They will 
join their daughters at Saratoga.

Harry Gilham,  formerly  Western  Michi­
gan representative for  the  Liggett & Myers 
Tobacco  Co., of  St.  Louis,  is  now  located 
at Krebs,  Indian  Ter., buying  and  slaugh* 
tering fresh meat for  the  mines  near  that 
place.

Fremont  Indicator:  Chas.  E.  Morgan, 
while  visiting  his  home  here  last  week, 
took occasion  to  try his  skill  on  pickerel 
fishing and succeeded in capturing a consid­
erable number of  the “king  of  the  inland 
waters,” at Fremont lake.

Em}l Feclit, Michigan traveling  manager 
for John J. Bagley & Co., of  Detroit,  gave 
the members of the Retail Grocers’ Associa­
tion a  very  interesting  “chalk  talk”  last 
Tuesday  evening.  Mr.  Fecht’s  drawings 
are done with great  rapidity and serve to il­
lustrate various  phrases  of  human  nature 
very a c c e p t a b l y . ______

The era of  combination  which  seems to 
prevail in numerous  industries is  noted by 
the Philadelphia  North  American,  which 
remarks:  “We  believe  the  result of  this 
movement  will  be  beneficial  all  round. 
Thinking  men  have  long  since 
learned 
to doubt  the  truth of  the old  maxim that 
competition is the life of  trade,  and  to per­
ceive that  cheapness is very far from being 
an unmixed blessing.  Good  prices for pro­
ducts and good wages to workers is our idea 
of prosperity.”

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a word 
forthree Insertions.  No advertisement taken 
for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage.
F OR  SALE—Stock of  general  merchandise 
in good condition and locality, also store. 
Good reason for selling.  J. C. Stitt,Dollarville, 
Mich. 
196*
TTIOR  SALE—Fine  residence  property  on 
-U  Mount Vernon street, west std < ■. with bath 
room, closets  and  all  modern  conveniences, 
for sale for $5,000 cash, or will trade for  stock 
of general merchandise or goods in any partic­
ular line.  Address N. A. Fletcher, Houseman 
Building, Grand Rapids, 
195tf
F OR SALE—Stock of groceries situated in a 
brisk railway town,  good  farming  com­
munity.  Stock will inventory about $800.  Ad­
197*
dress 8. L., care The Tradesman. 
F OR SALE—An old  established confection­
ery and fancy goods stock.  For informa­
tion call or address at premises, 43 West Leon­
197*
ard street,  city. 
F OR SALE—Hardware stock in the thriving 
town of  Spring Lake,  situated  on D., G. 
H. & M.  railway  and  two  miles  from  Grand 
Haven.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $6,000. 
Call on or a d d re 3 S  C . A. Pearson,' Spring Lake, 
Mich. 
196*
F OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L. 
193tf
Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 
FOR SALE—Drug and grocery stock:  sales, 
$8,000  a  year;  invoice,  $3,000.  Western 
fever  only  reason  for  wishing  to sell.  Will 
give a  bargain  to  right  man.  Address Pain­
killer, care of The Tradesman,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
197*
F OR SALE—Hardware stock in Coopersville, 
a growing town on the D., G. H. & M. rail­
way.  Stock  will  inventory  $5,000.  A  good 
chance for someone.  Address WvK.Boynton, 
196*
Coopersville, Mich. 
FOR SALE—T w o store  counters, three  sets 
scales,  six  tea  cans,  six spice  cans, one 
small coffee mill and two  show-cases, also one 
delivery wagon.  All of  the foregoing will  be 
sold cheap for cash.  M.  J.  Lewis,  72  Grand- 
ville avenue, Grand Rapids. 
192tf
F OR 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 $60,000.  Address “The Tradesman,” 
Grand Rapids. 
177tf
F OR 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 zino lined and nearly 
new.  J. C. Shaw, 79 Canal  street,  Grand Rap­
189tf
ids. 
AGENTS WANTED—Solicitors  for the “Im­
perial;”  cheapest  reliable life insurance 
in the world.  Men of  energy  and  ability can 
secure  good  territory  and  contracts.  O.  H. 
Hovey,  general  agent,  32  Houseman  block. 
Grand R a p i d s . _________________ 195 3t
P ARTNER  WANTED—A  good,  ambitious 
man, with six thousand dollars can buy a 
one-third interest in a good-paying, well estab­
lished mercantile business.  Call on or address 
E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rap­
ids. 
IMPORTANT TO EVERY STORE-KEEPER— 

Every retail dealer who  desires to  run his 
for a sample of the Sutliff Coupon System, the 
most complete  arrangement of  the  kind that 
will  abolish  your  pass-books.  The  best  and 
most progressive  merchants  throughout  the 
United States are now using this  system with 
the very best results.  With  this  system  you 
have  no  writing,  no  bookkeeping,  no  pass­
books.  Every sale is a cash sale and hundreds 
of  dollars  are  saved  annually  in  forgotten 
charges alone.  Having  two kinds, samples of 
both will be sent on application.  John H. Sut­
liff, Albany, N. Y. 
197*
PARTNER  WANTED—A  good,  ambitious 
man, with six thousand dollars, can buy a 
one-third interest in a good-paying,well-estab­
lished mercantile business.  Call on or address 
E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rap­
ids. 
196*
W 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. 

193tf

178tf

business on an economical  basis  should  send 

FIREWORKS

I have been  designated  by 
the  Standard  Fireworks  Go., 
of New  York, as  Sole  Agent 
for this territory,  and carry a 
nice line of these goods.  Send 
for  catalogue  and  price  list 
before buying.
Alfred J. Brown,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

GROCERS’  REFRIGERATORS,
O.  M.  WHITMAN  &  CO.,

Manufactured by

69 Bristol Street. 

- 

BOSTON, MASS.

AGENTS—A. Fleseh,  118  Randolph  St.,  Chicago, 111. 
W illiam M. M organ, 215  Duane St., N.  Emil  W ienert, 
A lbany, N. Y.  G ardiner Bros., St. A ugustine, Fla.

SEEDS

FOR  EVERYBODY.

F o r   t h e   F i e l d   o r   G a r d e n .

Clover,

Timothy,

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

Red Top,
Rye,

C.G.A.VOIGT & CO.
Stax Heller Mills.

Proprietors of

Manufacturers of

“Our Patent,”

“Star,”

“Calla Lily,”

“Golden Sheaf,” 

“Our  Fancy.”
Rye Flour,  Granulated Meal, 
Bolted  Meal,  Bran  Mid­

dlings and Screenings.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICH.

HESTER & FOX,

Manufacturers’ Agts.  for

Saw  ami  Grist  Mill 
M  a o h i n e r Y
Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds 
of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, 

Beltin/  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 Oales St., GranR Rapids, lich.
FOURTH RATIONAL BARI

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  C.  Pierce,  Vice President.

H. P. Baker, Cashier.
-  -  -  $300,000.

CAPITAL, 

M ake  a   S p ecia lty  o f C o llectio n s,  A cco u n ts 

o f  C ountry M erch an ts .Solicited.

CHARLES  A.  COYE,
A. Coye & Son,

Successor to

If you want to buy

Transacts a general  banking business.

DEALER IN

Onion,

Ruta  Baga 
Wurzel,

AWNINGS § TENTS

Mangle
r  n-nnnfi  I Horse and W agon Covers,

or 

, 

Write or send to the

71  CANAL  ST.,

• 
it.  T 2 
Aiftmoff  in 
ie  Line  of  SEEDS,! 
J 
11 
Seed Store,
W. T. LAMOREAUX.
ASK YOUR JOBBER
Independent  Oil  Co.’s

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.

MAGIC COFFEE BOASTER

No 

The  m ost practlca'. 
han 1‘ R oaster  In  the* 
worl 1.  Thousand* in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion. They are simple 
durable and  econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts  to  per­
fection.
Send  for  circulars.

RoM. S.West,

1 5 0   L o n g   S t., 
Cleveland, Ohio.

W   H I P

S

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

ADDRESS

FRESH  FISH

Bought  and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroo St.,  Grand Rapids.

0 T   Oysters the  Year  Around 

¿ft

oued ciothm g,
Feed Bags,

W ide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL ST.. 

- 

GRAND RAPIDS.

CHURCH’S

Bug Finish!

RE.1BY FOR USE DRY.

NO MIXING REQUIRED.

It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole 
crop of Potato Bugs with one application; also 
kills any Curculio. and the Cotton and Tobacco 
Worms.
This  is  the only safe  way  to  use  a  Strong 
Poison; none of the  Poison is in a clear state, 
but thoroughly combined  by  patent  process 
and machinery, with material to help the very 
tine powder to stick  to  the  vinos  and  entice 
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.
ONE POUND will b o  as far as TEN POUNDS 
of plaster and  Pans  Green  as  mixed  by the 
farmers.  It is therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
the trouble and danger  of  mixing  and  using 
the  green,  which,  needless to say,  Is danger­
ous to handle.
Bug Finish was used the past season on the 
State Agricultural College  Farm  at  Lansing, 
Michigan,  and,  in  answer  to  inquiries,  the 
managers write:  “The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm.”  Many  un- 
solieitated  letters have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date oj May 
14: “ We sold 3.100 pounds of “Bug Finish” last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of bugs with oneappli- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
strong demand for it.  Please send us ten  bar­
rels (3,000 pounds) at once.”
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than
any other Mixture used for the purpose.

M AN UFA CL’ RED BY

Anti-Kalsomise Co., Garnd Rapids.
HEMLOCK  BARK!

WANTED.

The undersigned will  pay  the high­
est  market  price  for  HEMLOCK 
BARK  loaded  on  board  cars  at  any 
side track on the G. R. & I. or  C. & W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit­
ed.

N.  B.  CLA£X,

101 Ottawa St., 

Grand Rapids

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

B O O K S ,

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

SEEDS

For tie Field and Garden.

71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all Kinds 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.

Association Notes.

The Lansing B. M. A.  promises to be one 
of the largest and strongest organizations in 
the State.

Fourth of July celebrations are to be held 
under the auspices of the B.  M. A.  in many 
cities and towns this year.
□  The Kersey  B.  M.  A.  has  joined  the 
State  body  since  the  last  report,  which 
raises the auxiliary membership to 2,057.

The Frankfort  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion  is  considering  better  fire protection, 
earlier closing hours, closer collections,  and 
other matters of importance.

Fred.  Cutler, Jr.,  Secretary of  the Ionia | 
Business Men’s  Exchange,  was married re­
cently to Miss Allie M. Kyerson,  an estima­
ble young lady of that place.

Howard Record:  A  Business  Men’s As­
sociation  has  been  organized  at  Edmore. 
The time  is  coming  when  every  town  of 
importance in the State will  have  such  an 
Association and the chronic  dead-beat must 
go.

Wayland  Globe:  At 

the  last  regular 
meeting  of  the  Wayland  Business  Men’s 
Association, the  new  firm of  Humphrey & 
Spaulding were admitted  as  members, and 
paid the regular initiation fee into the treas­
ury.  As the Association  was  rushed  with i 
business,  the  “goat” was  not  introduced, 
although the  new  members  seemed  to  be 
ready to tackle the brute.

Howard  Record:  The  Business  Men’s 
Association is taking steps toward the open­
ing up and improving  various roads leading 
to  Howard  City  from  surrounding  town­
ships.  This is  a  matter  which  will  take 
more or  less  cash  out  of  the  pockets  of 
members,  but  will* tend  to  make  Howard 
City a trade center,  and  they  should  have 
the aid and encouragement of  all  who have 
the best interests of the town  at heart.

Grand Traverse Herald:  M. E.  Haskell, 
C. E.  Watson,  of  Grand Rapids, represent­
ing S. A.  Maxwell & Co., of  Chicago, and 
Joe.  F.  O. Reed,  representing  H.  Leonard 
& Sons, of Grand Rapids, were at  the Wil­
liamsburg  pond,  Tuesday,  and  although 
they  didn’t make a big record in  numbers, 
the trout they  did get were  very fine.  Mr. 
Haskell caught one that weighed two pounds 
and five that weighed four pounds.  Mr. Wat­
son’s catch run one-lialf to three-quarters of 
a pound each,  while Mr.  Reed crowded him 
close.

Traverse  City  Herald:  An 

important 
meeting of the Business  Men’s Association 
was held  Tuesday  evening.  Several  new 
members  were  admitted  and a  committee 
on manufacturing  interests  was appointed, 
consisting  of J.  W.  Hilton,  II.  I).  Camp­
bell, C.  R.  Paige,  C. A.  Hammond  and 
Thos. T.  Bates.  C. E.  Lockwood, who has 
been Secretary and Actuary of  the Associa­
tion from its  organization,  found it  neces­
sary to resign his  position,  owing to  busi­
ness arrangements  which  would  interfere, 
and L.  Roberts  was  erected to  fill the va­
cancy thus caused.

Allegan Journal:  The  B.  M.  A.  held a 
special  meeting  Tuesday  evening and lis­
tened to reports  from  several  committees. 
The committee on by-laws  submitted  their 
report and it was laid over until the regular 
meeting next Tuesday evening,  as was also 
the  report  from  the  railroad  committee. 
The  committee  on  preparing  plans  for a 
Fourth of  July  celebration  reported  that 
they had canvassed  the subject  among the 
business men and  found so many  opposed 
to having any celebration and so few willing 
to contribute to the necessary expense,  that 
they  deemed it  best to give  up all idea of 
carrying out the project.  Their  report was 
accepted and the committee discharged.

Owosso Times:  At  a  regular  monthly 
meeting of the Owosso Business  Men’s As­
sociation on June 3,  with a  fair  attendance 
of the members present,  considerable  busi­
ness  of  importance  was transacted.  The 
Association seems  to be in a most  flourish­
ing condition and is gradually  increasing in 
membership.  A  committee  has  been  ap­
pointed to  endeavor  to  secure a  knitting 
factory  to  locate  in  this  city,  employing 
about 100 females.  The results of the col­
lection department are encouraging from all 
reports,  and  the  credit  system  is  being 
gradually curtailed through it.  At the next 
regular meeting,  July 1, the officers for the 
ensuing  six months  are to  be elected, and 
it has been decided to have a grand banquet 
and  entertainment  in  the  evening,  with 
speeches,  toasts,  music, etc., and  no pains 
will be spared to  make it  highly  pleasing, 
pleasant and  instructive to all participants
The  Retail Shoe Dealers’ National  Asso 
ciation is chartering local  branches  on  the 
same general  plan  as  the  Michigan  Busi 
ness Men’s Association  is  chartering  local 
bodies in this State.  At  a  recent  meeting 
of the Chicago  boot  and  shoe  dealers, held 
for the purpose of effecting an organization, 
Mr. Arnold,  a veteran  advocate of  associa 
tion  work,  delivered  an  address,  in  the 
course of which he  said:  “The  first  ques 
tion asked by every dealer  is,  ‘Why should 
there be  an  association?  What  good  will 
it  do  me?’  Organizations  are  formed  by 
men in  almost  every  vocation  in  life  for 
mutual  benefit  and  protection,  from  hod 
carriers  to  railroad  officials. 
If  each  one 
bad hesitated and waited to see theoutcomq 
before associating  himself  with the organ! 
zation to which he might  be  eligible,  such 
organization would  never  have had  an ex 
istence.  The good that  may come  from  it 
It is  impossible  to  see  the 
none can tell. 
end  from  the  beginning. 
In  this,  as  in 
many  other  undertakings,  to  procrastinate 
is  to  fail.  To  expect  to  see  clearly  an£ 
predict  the  future  of  association  requires 
the tongue of a prophet and the foresight of 
a  God.  Who  foresaw  or  anticipated  the 
growth  and  influence  of  the  Knights  of

Labor?  Nor are we  to  be  discouraged,  or 
our zeal dampened by lack of numbers.  To 
use an  old  illustration:  Jesus  Christ  had 
but twelve disciples,  and one  of  them  was 
a devil.  Now the  Christian  church  covers 
300,000,000,  and devils in  perhaps a greater 
proportion than one to twelve.”
Resignation  of  Secretary  Lockwood,  at 

Traverse City.

At the last  meeting  of  the Traverse City 
Business Men’s Association, Secretary Lock- 
wood  handed in his  resignaiton as follows, 
accompaning the same with  a  financial  re­
port, which is also given:
It is with regret  that  I feel it my duty to 
resign my office as  Secretary of  this  Asso­
ciation—not because  I  am  giving  up  the 
ast amount  of  salary  connected  with  the 
office,  but  from  the  very  pleasant  inter­
course which it brings to me in such connec­
tion. 
I feel as  if  I had become  intimately 
acquainted with members  of  this  Associa­
tion,  which, perhaps, I would  not have had 
but for this office, which 1 have held for the 
past two years and a half.
I have tried to do my duty as Secretory to 
the  best  of  my ability and  hope  you  will 
overlook all mistakes that I  have made and 
trust that you  will  elect  a  successor  who 
will be better qualified  to fill  the  office. 
I 
thank  you  all  kindly  for  doing  me  the 
honor thus long, and find now that my busi­
ness will be such that it  will  be  impossible 
to devote the  time necessary to do the office 
justice and,  therefore,  would request you to 
this  as  my  resignation,  to  take 
accept 
ffect at once.
The office of  Actuary is  also  vacant,  ac­
cording  to  Article  10  of  our  By-Laws, 
which  limits  the  term  of  office  to  six 
months. 

Yours very truly.

C. E.  Lockwood.

This Association started in January, 1885, 
It  has  now 
with thirty charter  members. 
ninty-three active members and  nine honor­
ary members.  Eight active  members  have 
withdrawn. 
I have  collected fees and dues 
as follows:
101 Active members @ 82 fees................ 8203.00
10 Honorary members @81..................   10.00
Quarterly dues from active members  325.00 
Net receipts of picqjc given in 1886...  88.00
Total receipts to date........................8635.00
There are a few members  in  arrears  for 
dues,  but probably only because I  have  not 
been to collect often enough of them.
Kalamazoo  Pharmaceutical  Association.

Kalamazoo, June 11,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—Your letter  of  June  10,  ad­
requesting 
dressed  to  Geo.  McDonald, 
full report of the meeting  held  here  yes­
terday afternoon, was handed to me to-day, 
to be replied to. 
I cannot,  at present,  give 
ou as full a report as I would like  to,  but 
will give you the main features of *the meet­
ing.
All of the druggists of Kalamazoo  and  a 
number from  other  places  in  the  county 
met, pursuant to agreement.  The  meeting 
was called to order by Geo. McDonald, who 
has taken the iniative in the matter,  and  at 
his request D.  O. Roberts,  the  oldest  drug­
gist in the city, was made chairman  of  the 
meeting. 
It was resolved to proceed to  or­
ganize immediately under the name  of  the 
Kalamazoo  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Election of officers resulted as follows: 

President—D. O. Roberts,  Kalamazoo. 
Vice-President—Itobt. Baker, Vicksburg. 
Secretary — D.  McDonald,  Kalama­
Treasurer—II.  G.  Colman,  Kalamazoo. 
The regular meetings of  the  Association 
will be  held  the  first  Thursday  of  each 
month, at 2 p.  m.
The objects of  the Association are to pro­
mote  professional  interests  and  the  ad- 
ancement of pharmaceutical  knowledge.
Geo. McDonald,  Sec’y.

Yours, 

zoo.

Purely Personal.

Albert  Brouwer  succeeds  Clay Waite as 

clerk for L. D.  Putnam & Co.

J. H. Woodward,  the Frankfort clothier, 
was in town Saturday on his way home from 
Chicago.

D.  D.  Cook,of the show case firm of Cook 
& Prinz, has  returned from a  two  weeks’ 
business trip in the East.

Jno. E.  Wheeler,  formerly  stenqgropher 
for Mosley Bros., has taken a  similar  posi­
tion with Foster, Stevens & Co.

E. Densmore  spent  several  days  at  St. 
Ignace  last  week,  in  the  interest  of  the 
Grand  Rapids Portable House Co.

Chas. E.  Foote,  of  the  firm  of  Foote  & 
Jenks,  the Jackson  chemists,  was  married 
recently to Miss Florence  Brown,  a charm­
ing Jackson  lady.

Lon.  McConnell,  son  of  Charley McCon­
nell,  book-keeper  for  Bulkley,  Lemon  & 
Hoops,  saved  a 
ten-year-old  boy  from 
drowning at Reed’s Lake last Saturday.

T.  H.  Hinchman,  of  Detroit,  has  been 
elected a member of the Executive Commit­
tee of the Druggists’ Mutual Fire Insurance 
Co.,  recently  organized  at  Philadelphia.
J. H. Thaw, formerly engaged in the brok­
erage business on his own account,  but  for 
the past two years with Thos. Freeman, has 
retired from commercial life to resume rural 
pursuits on the farm of a  relative in Wyau- 
dotte county,  Ohio.

Misfortunes  never  come  singly.  On 
Thursday night Ed. Telfer  lost  a  valuable 
horse and  his delivery wagon by the Marsh 
livery barn fire and on  Saturday  evening a 
Caledonia farmer ran  into  his  family  car­
riage on tlie road to  Reed’s Lake,  badly de­
molishing the vehicle.

Geo.  G.  Steketee has returned from Rich­
mond, Ind., whether  he  went  as the  dele­
gate from the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceu­
tical Association to the Indiana Pharmaceu­
tical Association.  He says  that there were 
only about forty  members  in attendance the 
convention—that  only  thirty-three  votes 
were cast for the election of a president.  The 
total membership of the Association is  348. 
There was but one exhibit made  at the con­
vention.

Dimondale to Organize on Thursday Even­

ing.

Dimondale, June 10,  1887.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
Dear Sir—We the undersigned  business 
men of Dimondale and vicinity,  being desir­
ous of establishing an auxiliary of the Mich­
igan Business Men’s  Association,  under the 
name of the Dimondale Business Men’s As­
sociation, hereby request  you to  visit  us at 
your earliest convenience and  assist  in  the 
formation ol* such an Association.
T. M.  Sloan,  N.  H.  Widgar,  John  M. 
Jarboe,  John Weber,  B.  S. Spencer,  I. D. 
North, E.  Underhill,  Hough  &  Brigham, 
Alex.  Oliver,  A. H. Cameron,  F.  G.  Pray, 
E.  W. Hunt,  H.  A.  French,  J.  W.  ,Fish, 
Fred.  A.  Merritt,  Fred.  Bfiester, Alfred  E. 
French,  D. Osborn,  H.  Cogswell, A.  C. Ba­
ker.

In response to the  above  call, the  editor 
of The Tradesman  has  written  the busi­
ness men of Dimondale that he will be with 
them on Thursday evening, June 16, for the 
purpose of assisting in  the  formation of an 
association.

Dentist  W anted.

J. R.  Harrison,  President of  the  Sparta 
Business  Men’s  Association,  writes as fol­
lows:
We have a good  opening here  for a den 
tist.  There are good  rooms in  the Ander­
son block, lately vacated by a dentist whose 
failing health compelled . him to change cli­
mate. 
If you know of  a good  dentist who 
wishes  to locate  in a country  town,  send 
him along. 

_______

Hides, Tallow  and W ool,

Hides are quiet  Tallow is  dull and low 
Wool  is  strong  East  but  unduly  excited 
W est  and buyers are  beginning  to  realize 
that they have  been  paying too high prices 
and are weakening accordingly.

Syrup of Rhubarb.

Geo.  Miller,  of Chicago,  in a communica 
tion to the Western  Druggist,  recommends 
the following formula  as  an  improvement 
on the official process:
Fluid extract of rhubarb..................   ..4 fl. ozs
Carbonate of  potassium.........................90 grs
Cinnamon water...................................12 fl. ozs
Sugar.......................................................28 ozs
Cinnamon water......................q. s. ad 32 fl. ozs.
in 
the cinnamon  water,  add  the  sugar,  and 
heat  until  the  boiling  point 
is  reached, 
when the  sugar will  be  dissolved;  remove 
from fire and add  the  fluid  extract  Strain 
the syrup while  hot  and  lastly  add  suffi­
cient cinnamon water to  make  the  product 
measure 2 pints.

Dissolve the carbonate  of  potassium 

This syrup is of a  rich  red-brown  color, 
perfectly clear,  of a  highly  aromatic  odor, 
taste,  and  of  marked  efficiency. 
It  will 
keep  unaltered  for  an  indefinite  period. 
The cinnamon  water used is made from the 
Ceylon oil.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Chris. Pfeifle, Park City.
Chas. Morton, Sand Lake.
H. Cummings, Muskegon.
Herbert Montague,  Mercantile Co., Traverse 
Citv.Frank W. Bunker, Casnovia.  •
J.  H.  Woodward,  J.  H. Woodward  &  Co.. 
Frankfort.
Seward McNitt & Co., Byron Center.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
H. Matthews & Co., Chase.
J. B. Watson. Coopersville.
Adam Newell, Burnip’s Corners.
H. Barry, Ravenna.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Uilke DeVries, Jamestown.
Dr. E. J. Bean, Otia.
L. Cook, Bauer.
M. Heyboer & Bro..Drenthe.
Walter H. Struik. Forest Grove.
H. Baker & Son, Drenthe.
A. Steketee. Holland.
Brautigan Bros., Dorr.
R. Weertman, Holland.
G. T. Clapp, Glenn.
G. W. Robinson, Edgerton.
F. W. Bunker, Casnovia. 
.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
H. A. Crawford, Cadillac.
Jas. Crawford, Kalkaska.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
J. M. Reid, Grattan.
O. House, Chauncey.
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.
Norman Harris. Big Springs.
W. S. Toot ,Tallmadge.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
J. Omler, Wright.
D. D. Harris, Shelbyville.
C. E. Petrie,  Pierson.
J. P. Dwineil, West Carlyle.
John Gwpstra, Lamont.
Gus. Begtnan, Bauer.
A. D. Martin, Otia.
Capt. Wm. Rosie, Bass River.
R. S. Shiffert, Bridgeton.
W. W. Forrester, Pierson.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
W. S. Clark, W. 8. Clark & Co., Holton.
O. F. Conklin & Co., Conklin.
Dell Wright, Berlin.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
A. Purchase, So. Boardman.
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold.
A.C. Barkley. Crosby.
P. Kinney, Morley.
F. Boonstra, Drenthe.
8. Cooper, Jamestown.
Spooner & Moore, Cedar Springs.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
S. Stark, Allendale.
A. Wagenaar, New Holland.
T. J. Sheridan & Co., White Cloud.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
M. Gezon, Jenisonville.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
DenHerder & Tanis, Vriesland.
H. VanNoord, Jamestown.
P. T. Cook, Reynolds.
D. Holmes.West Mich. Lumber Co*Woodville 
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell.
H. Houghtalin, Hastings.
Chas. Morton, Sand Lake.
H. Thompson. Canada Corners. 
W. F. Downey, Mears.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
R. T. Parish, Grandville.
C. M. Woodard, Kalamo.
C. H. Joldersma, Jamestown.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
H. Ade,  Conklin.
8. Sheldon, Pierson.
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
J. F. Mann, Lisbon.

The Arsenic Humbug.

From  the American A nalyst,
One of the latest  feminine  follies  is  the 
habit of using  preparations  containing  ar­
senic, for the purpose of improving the com­
plexion.  We  recently  called  attention  to 
the fact,  that  the  Board  of  Health was in­
vestigating  the  character  of  one  of  these 
preparations,  known  as  Arsenic  Wafers, 
the alleged merits of which  are  being  bla­
zoned forth in  the  advertising  columns  of 
the daily press  in  glowing  phrases, among 
which is  contained  the  assertion,  that  the 
Wafers in question have  been  rendered, by 
the skill  of  the  inventor,  absolutely  non- 
poisonous.  Now  arsenic  is  a  poison  as 
everybody knows. 
Its  pretended action on 
the  skin  consists in its simply restoring the 
latter  to  its  normal  character  in  certain 
cases,  when administered medicinally,  or in 
poisonously imparting to it a bloated condi­
tion which is fondly desired by  its users  to 
pass  for  becoming  plumpness.  Chemical 
analysis,  however,  has  proven  that  the 
“Wafers”  are  not  poisonous, inasmuch as 
they contain such an  inappreciable quantity 
of arsenic as  to  in  many  cases  elude  the 
most delicate  tests.  They can  be partaken 
of in safety,  therefore, as  they have as  lit­
tle power to injure the system  as they have 
to act in any manner  upon  the complexion.

Encouraging  Report  from  Lansing.
Lansing,  June 8, 1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand  Rapids:

Dea r Sir—-Our  Association  is  growing 
and the enthusiasm is increasing.  Over one 
hundred  business  men  have  become mem­
bers, and  this  number  will be  largely in­
creased  at  our  meeting  next  Wednesday 
night.  The subject of early closing has been 
the prominent one thus far considered,  and, 
at the  present time, the  indications  point 
strongly to the adoption of  6 o’clock as the 
hour which will be  selected,  both  for sum­
mer and winter closing.

Yours,  Frank Wells,  Pres.

A later note from Mr. Wells  contains the 
following pleasing  intelligence:  “Our As­
sociation  continues  to  flourish  and 
the 
movement  to close  all  places of  business 
has been decided upon at 6 p.  in., with the 
greatest  enthusiasm.  Only  three or  four 
dealers stand out.”

M. A. Densmore, general dealer, Maple City: 

“I like your paper very much.”

TIME  TABLES.

Proprietors of

VOIGT MILLING CO.,
Crescent Roller Mills
Crescent,  W hite Rose, 

Manufacturers of the following well 

known  brands:

Vienna, Royal Patent,

AND

ALL  W HEAT  FLOUR,

The Great Health Food.

W .  end Pearl St.  Bridge,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  -  MICH.

EDMUNO  B.  DIKEMAN,

WATCH  MAKER,

JEWELER

44  CANAL  STREET,

MICH.
GRAND  RAPIDS,
HENRY  J.  HARTMAN,

FOUNDER,

GRAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY.

Send for Estimates.

71  South  Front St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

F01IT0RE TO ORDER.

Anything or everything in the 
line of Special Furniture, inside 
finish of  house,  office  or store, 
W ood  Mantels,  and  contract 
work of any kind made to order 
on short notice and in the best 
manner out of thoroughly dried 
lumber  of  any  kind.  Designs 
furnished when desired.

Wolverine Chair Factory,

W est End Pearl St.  Bridge.

a a t
m

Full Line ot

We make a specialty of

ETTRJSZSA OIL,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE, 

Xo. X Canal St., 

Telephone No.  228-2.

J.  G.  ALEXANDER,  Agent.

£  GIVE  US  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

We  Guarantee  Satisfaction.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  FOB

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

M anufactured by Rlverdale Dint. Co.

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

TELEPHONE  566.

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

GERMAN
MUSTARD.

L.  Winternitz
Grand Rapids, Mich

1 0 6  K e n t S t. 

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.
•  Fuller & Stowe Company,
4g Lyon Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich

Detroit,  Mackinaw &  Marquette.

Going W est. 

7:00 a m  
18:20pm 
5:30 p m   2:30pm> 

do in g  East.

8:00 a m. .St. Ignace...... .8:40 p m  
5:55 p m
ll:0 5 a m ..S e n e y ..............5:15pm   12:35pm
5  2:05 p m  
7:00 a m
4:00pm { M arqU ette' ‘ 1  1:55pm
4:S5pm ..N egaunee....... 1:25 p m  
4:45 p m . .Ishpem ing__ 12:55 p m
8:00 p m . .H oughton . . .   9:25 a m
8:20 p m. .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.

Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.

DEFAKT.

Saginaw Express.....................................................   7  30 a  m
Saginaw Express..................................................... 4  10 p  m
G rand Rapids  Express...........................................11  25 a m
G rand Rapids  Express...........................................10  30 p m

All trains arrive a t and depart from  Union depot. 
Trains run solid both  ways.

ARRIVE.

Chicago & W est Michigan.

Leaves.
tM ail....................................................  9:10a m
tD ay  Express.............................................12:30 p m
•N ight Express...................................11:00 p m
Muskegon Express......................................5:00 p m

Ai rives. 
8:45 p m 
9:45pm  
45 a m 
00 a  m
11
•Daily. 
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all n ig h t trains.  Through 
parlor car in charge of careful attendants  w ithout ex­
tra  charge to  Chicago on 12:30 p. m ., and through coach 
on OHO a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

tD aiiy except Sunday.

Newaygo Division.

E x p ress...................................  
Express........................................................  8:25 a m

Arrives. 
4 .20 p m 
10:20 a  m
All trains arrive and depart from  Union Depot.
The N orthern term inus of this division is a t Baldwin, 
where close connection is  m ade  w ith  F. & P. M. trains 
to and from  Ludington and Manistee.

Leaves.
4:05 p m

 

W . A. G a v e t t , Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mu l l ik k n ,  G eneral  M anager.

Lake Shore &  Michigan Southern.

Kalamazoo Division.

Leave. 

Arrive.

9:02 a m ..A lle g a n ..........8:28am  

N. Y. Mail.  N .Y .E x
Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
6:15pm
4:35pm   7:45 a m. .G randR apids.  9:45 a m 
5:55pm  
5:00am
7:05pm   10:06 a m ..K alam azoo...  7:30 a  m 
4:o0pm  
8:30pm   11:35a m ..W h iteP ig eo n .  5:55am   2:20pm
2:30 a m   5:05 p m ..T o led o ............... 11:00 p m   9:45 a m
8:30 a m   9:40 p m .. Cleveland............6:40 p m   5:35 a m
2:50 p m   3:30 a m . .Buffalo............... 11:55 a m   11:40 p m
5:40am  
6:50 p m .. Chicago..........11:30pm  0:50am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids a t 12:50 pm ,carry­
ing passengers as fa r as  Allegan.  All  train s  daUy ex­
cept Sunday. ■ 

J . W .  McK e n n e y , G eneral Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

Arrives.

Leaves. 
6:30 p m 
tSteam boat  Express.................................. 6:25 p m
10:50 a  m 
tT hrough  Mail...........................................10:40 a m
3:50 p m 
tE venlng Express.....................................   3:25 p m
6:50 a m 
Limited  Express............................... 6:50 a m
11:00 a ill
fMixed, w ith  coach..........................
GOING WEST.
1:10 p m 
tM om ing  Express............................  1:05 p m
5:10 p m 
tT hrougn  Mail..........................................   5:00 p m
10:45 p m 
tSteam boat Express.........................10:40 p m
7:45 a  m 
fMixed........................................
5:40 a m
N ight Express.......’.......; .VJllU... -5:05 a  m
tD aiiy, Sundays excepted.  •Daily.
Passengers taking the  6:50  a m   Express  m ake  close 
connection a t Owosso for Lansing,  and  a t  D etroit  for 
New  York,  arriving  there  a t  10:30  a m the following 
m orning.  The N ight Express has a  through W agner car 
and local sleeping car from  D etroit to G rand  Rapids.
J a s. C a m p b e l l , City Passenger Agent.

Geo. B. R eeve, TraiHc M anager Chicago.

Michigan  Central.

Grand Rapids Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express................................................................   6:15 a m
Day  Express......................................................................  1:10 p m
•A tlantic Express......................................................10:10 p hi
Mixed  ...................... ............................................... 6:50 a  m
•Pacific  Express............ ......................................... 9:00am
M ail...............................................................................3:00 p m
G rand  Rapids  Express............ .................... 
10:15 p m
M ixed........................................................................... 6:15 p m
•Daily.  All o ther daily except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
ru n  on A tlantic and Pacific Express trains to  and from  
D etroit.  P arlo r cars run  on  Day  Express  and  G rand 
Rapids Express to   and  from   Detroit.  D irect  connec­
tions made a t D etroit w ith all through train s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada S outhern Div.)

D. W. J o h n s t o n , Mich. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.
O. W. Uuggi.es, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

 

It took $1,200 in casa and  twelve years of in­
tense suffering before I learned  that $3 worth 
of Tiger Oil would cure me.  None but a wire- 
bound  constitution  and  a  determined  will 
could ever live  through  twelve years of such 
racking  pain  and  misery,  without  a  single 
week of ease, as I did,  before I began  to take 
Tiger Oil about a year since.  I used  about $2 
worth altogether,  which I took a  teaspoonful 
in a tumbler of  hot water  three  times a day, 
which quickly relieved and I believe it has per­
manently  cured  me,  as  the  immediate  past 
eight  months I have  not had a sign of my old 
disease, which the doctors called  Bright’s Dis­
ease of the KidneyB—which  is  death—Gravel, 
Inflammation of the Kidneys and Bladder, and 
a number of other diseases;  but they all failed 
to do more than quiet the suffering for a short 
time,  although I doctored  with the  best doc­
tors I could find in  Marshall, Ohio,  Pittsburg, 
Pa., New Albany, Ind., Chicago, 111., St. Louis, 
Mo., Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Micb., and 
a great number of other cities;  and when not 
under a doctor’s care took dozens  and dozens 
of all kinds of greatly advertised patent kidney 
and liver cures;  but under all  kinds  of medi 
elnes I got worse and worse till I began to take 
Tiger Oil as above stated.  To say it cost $1,300 
in the twelve years is far too low, but the $3 in 
Tiger Oil which cured me is more than it took, 
as I used some for other  general  purposes in 
my family.  But my case is only one in thous­
ands who are spending their money for naught 
—but  suffering  and loss  of time—who  might 
be cured with Tiger Oil.

J. E. Walker,

Manager Telephone Exchange, Cadillac, Mich.

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.

What do you think of this?  While in conver­
sation  with  Wm. M. Dale,  one of  the largest 
druggists in  Chicago,  we  were  surprised  to 
learn that he had sold over one and a half mil­
lion of TansiirB  Punch 5c. cigars  and that the 
quality gets better ail the time.  The  demand 
continues to increase.  Let us tell you, if you 
want to sell a cigar  that your  customers  will 
be pleased with, the sooner you order Tansill’s 
Punch the better.—Independent Grocer.

Tiger Oil challenges  the  world  of  medi­
cines for an equal to  cure  diseases  in   m an 
or beast.

THE  NEW

Soap  Company.

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

Heetciliglrt

AND

Little Daisy.
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  of 
the  best  Bath,  Laundry  and  Toilet  Soaps 
combined now on the market.

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

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

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way of a trial order f

Respectfully,

3 o i

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OUR  SP E C IA L T IE S: 

Graham.
Buckwheat  Flour,  Kye  Flour,  Granulated 
Meal,  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 
Ships, Middlings, Screenings, Corn, Oats, Feed. 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Write for Prices.

TO  THE  TRADE.

W e desire to call  your  attention to the

Beardsley W indow  Screen,

And ask you to examine its merits and the  great  advantages it possesses over any other 

screen in the market, and so be guided in purchasing for this season.

W e  carry  the  follow­

ing sizes in stock:

Number

0
1
2

High
25
25
30

Opens
22 to 20
25 to 29
25 to 29
Discount 10 per cent.

List
$5.00
5.00
5.00

u THE  BEST.’

The Beardsley Svying Center Screens have 

these advantages over all others:

1.  The center being a swinging door, ob­
viates the necessity of  removing  the screen 
to clear the room of flies,  to throw out or.re- 
. ceive any article through the  window, or to 
open and close the blinds.

2.  They are made adjustable by movable 
wings on either  side, and may  be instantly 
fitted  to  any  window  without  cutting  or 
pounding.

3.  The  frames  are  made of  kiln  dried 

lumber,  and are nailed and glued."

4.  The wire cloth is from the  celebrated 
Wickware Bros.’ factory, of Courtland,N. Y.

5.  They are the best finished of any.
6.  They are so well made and are so sim-' 
pie in operation that the liability  to get out 
of order is entirely obviated.

The success this screen met with the past 
season has convinced us that it will take the 
lead in the future.  We shall be pleased to 
correspond with the trade.
For particulars address

c. c.  BUNTING.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C.  L.  DAY! 9.

Commission  Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots*

20 and 22 OTTAWA  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

W E C O L E S A L B

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 i 32 Ottawa

say, Sol, my  girl wants  you  to send  her  a 
nice picture card.  Come!  Fly around  here 

must be getting home afore dark.”
Thus am I  aroused  from my reverie over 
toe disgrace which has befallen the  Snooks 
family. 

Yours rushlngly,

Soliman Snooks,

General Dealer.

The Cruelty of the W ar.

he.
Bun,” she replied.

“So your father was  in  the  war?”  said 
“Yes,  he was killed at the  battle  of  Bull 
‘Where—er—was he  shot?”
‘He wasn’t  shot at  all.  He  broke  his 
neck running down  the  hill.  War  is  an 
awful cruel thing, don’t you think  so?”

Thechickory  market  has  been  greatly 
benefited by the addition to  cost  of  coffee. 
The growth of business in this article  since 
January has more than  doubled  the  move­
ment for the same  time  last  year,  and  is 
constantly increasing, as this is one  of  the 
most  innocent  adulterations  that  can  be 
used.  The advance in price  has  been  but 
trifling,  and this is  owing  to  the  stock  on 
hand being large,  having accumulated  dur­
ing the period of low-priced coffee.  Unless 
coffee recedes very materially  from  present 
prices the  trade  in  chickory  will  remain 
permanent.  Beans and peas are also  being 
used to swell the supply of  the  costly  ber­
ry that is a joy  of  the  speculator, 
to  the 
great detriment of the  consumer.

There are  1,000  canvicts 

in  Sing  Sing 
prison, and it  takes  twenty-one  barrels  of 

J.  T.  BELL  «So  CO.,

Wholesale  Fruits  and  Produce,

EAST  SAO-DTAW,  MICH.

JOBBERS  IN

DRY"  GOODS.

. a j s t d   i s r o T i o n s r s ,

80  Monroe  St.,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers  j  A  Qiipnj olffr 
i A UjJuulflllj •
American and Stark A Bags 

iZT  The  accompanying  illustrations  represents  the

flour to make bread for them every day.U L T A N

M ich ig a n   B u sin e ss  M on’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.
First Vtoe-Pretident—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Second Vioe-Pfesident—E. J. Herrick, Grand Rapids. 
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—Julius Schuster, Kalamaaoo.
Executive Committee—President, First Vice-President, 
Secretary, N. B. Blain and W. E. Kelsey.
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City;  P. Ranney, Kalamazoo;  A.  W.  Westgate,  Cne-
CommMse on Legislation—W. E.  Kelsey,  Ionia;  J. V.
Crandall, Sand Lake;  J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. 
Committee on Membership—H. S.  Church,  Sturgis;  B.
F. Emery, Grand Rapids;  the Secretary.
Committee  on  Transportation—Jas.  A.  Coye,  Grand 
Rapids;  J.W.  Milliken,  Traverse  City;  C.  x.  Bridg­
man. Flint. 
_  _
Committee on Constitution—W. E. Kelsey,  Ionia;  R. D.
McNaughton, Coopersville;  I. F. Clapp, Allegan, 
Official Organ—This 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 d a   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, D. F. W atson;  Secretary, Elm er Chapel.
A lb a  B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, C. R. Sm ith;  Secretary, P eter Baldwin.

A lle g a n   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President. Irving F. Clapp ; Secretary, E. T. VanOstrand.
B é t a il  G rocers’ A sso c ia tio n  o f  B a ttle  C reek 
P resident. Geo. H. Rowell:  Secretary. John P. Stanley,

B e ld in g   M erch an ts’  A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. J. Leonard; Secretary, J. M. Earle.

B e llâ tr e   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, John Rodgers;  Secretary, G. J. Noteware.
B a r r   O ak  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President, B. O. Graves;  Secretary, H.  M. Lee.
M erch an t’s P r o te c tiv e  A ss’n o f  B ig   R ap id s. 
President, E. P. Clark;  Secretary. A. S. H obart._______.
'  B o y n e   C ity  B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, R. R. Perkins;  Secretary, F. M. Chase.

C adillac B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 

President, J. C. McAdam;  Secretary, C. T. Chapin.

C arson C ity B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, F. A. Rockafellow;  Secretary. C. O. Trask.
C asnovia,  B a ile y   an d   T re n t  B .  M .  A . 
President. H. E. Hesseltine;  Secretary. E. Fam ham .
C edar  S p rin gs  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A ssociation . 
President, T. W. Provln;  Secretary, L. H. Chapman.
C h arlev o ix   B u sin e ss  M en ’s A ssociation . 

President, John Nichols;  Secretary, R. W. Kane.
C o o p ersv ille  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A ssociation . 
President. G. H. Watrous;  Secretary, W. R. Boynton.
B u sin e ss  M en’s  P r o te c tiv e   U n io n   o f  C he­
President, J. H. Tuttle;  Secretary, H. G. Dozer.______ _
R e ta il G rocers’ T rade U n ion  A s’n o f D etro it. 
President, John Blessed;  Secretary, H. Kundlnger.
D orr  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 
President, L. K. Fisher;  Secretary, E. S. Botsford.
R e ta il  G rocers’  A sso c ia tio n   o f  E .  S agin aw . 
President,  Rft-bard L uster;  Secretary, Chas. H. Smith.

b o y g a n .

Ed m ore B u sin e ss  M en ’s A ssociation . 

President, H. W. Robson;  Secretary, W. S. W hittlesey.

E astport  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 

President,  F.  H.  Thurston,  C entral  Lake;  Secretary, 
Geo. L. Thurston. Central Lake.____________________
E lk  R a p id s B u sin e ss M en ’s P r o te c tiv e  A s’n. 
President. J. J. McLaughlin;  Secretary, C. L. Martin.

E v a rt B u sin e ss l i e n ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, W. M. Davis;  Secretary, Chas. E. Bell.

F ra n k fo r t  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 

President. Wm. Upton;  Secretary. E. R- Chandler.

F lin t  M erca n tile  U nion . 

President, W. C. Pierce;  Secretary, J. L. W illett.

F r e e p o r t  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 

President; Foster Sisson ;  Sec'y, A rthur Cheseborough.

F ife  C ak e B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 

President, E. H agadorn;  Secretary, O. V. Adams.
G rand  H a v en   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation. 
President, Fred. D. Voss;  Secretary, Fred A. H utty.

R e ta il G rocers’  A ss’n  o f  G rand  R ap id s. 

President, Jas. A. Coye;  Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

G r e en v ille   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President, L. W. Sprague;  Secretary, E. J. Clark.

H artford B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, V. E. Manley;  Secretary, I. B. Barnes.
*  H o lla n d  B u sin e ss M eu’s A sso cia tio n . 
P resident. John K rum er;  Secretary, P. W.  Kane.

President. L. E. Stauffer;  Secretary,  J.  A.  VanArman

H astin gs  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
Hersev B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
P resident, O. L. Millard; S ecretary,F rank Beardsley
H ow ard   C ity B u sin e ss  M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
C hairm an, C. A. Yandenberg;  Secretary, B. J. Lowry.
*  H o lla n d   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Jacob Van Putten ;  Secretary, A. Van Duren. 
H u b b ard ston   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Boyd Redner;  Secretary, L. W. Robinson.

I o n ia   B u sin e ss  M en’s  E x ch a n g e. 

President. Wm. E.  Kelsey;  Secretary,  Fred. Cutler, Jr.

Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, P. Ranney;  Secretary. M. 8. Scoville.
President. A. E. Palm er;  Secretary, C. E. Ramsey.

K a lk a sk a   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 
K in g sle v   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President. C. H. Camp; Secretary. Chas. E. Brewster.
L an sin g B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n .
President, F rank Wells;  Secretary, W ill Crotty.______
L aw ren ce B u sin e ss M en ’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. M. Marshall;  Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.

L eslie  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

«»"»«hiaTit. Wm. H utchings;  Secretary, M. L. Campbell. 
L o w e ll  B u sin ess  M en’s  P r o te c tiv e   A ss’n. 
President, K. B. Blain-  Secretary, F rank T. King.
L u th er   B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, W. B. Pool;  Secretary. Chas. J. Robinson.
President. A. K. Roof;  Secretary. P. A. Reynolds.

L yon s  l.'nslness  M en’s  A s’n. 

President. W. E. W atson;  Secretary, C. L. Bailey.

A lancelona  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
M an istiq u e  B u sin ess M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
M an ton ’s  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso c ia tio n . 

President, ¥. H. Thompson;  Secretary, E. N. Orr.

President, F. A. Jenlson;  Secretary, R. Fuller.
G rocers’  A ss’n  o f  th e   C ity  o f   M u sk eg o n .
President, H. B. Fargo;  Secretary. Wm. Peer.________
President, H erbert M. Lee;  Secretary, W alter W ebster

M erch an t’s  U nion  o f  h a s h v llle . 
M u ir  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
O tsego  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President. Simon Town :  Secretary, L. A. Ely.

President, J. M. Ballou:  Secretary, J. F. Conrad.
O ceaua  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A s’n. 
President, W. E. Thorp;  Secretary. E. 8. Honghtallng.

O vid  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A s’n. 

P o r t  H u ron .

R o d n ey  B u sin e ss M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President, C. H. H unter;  Secretary, Lester Cooley.
O w osso  B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
Président, Ja*. Osburn;  Sec’y, S. Lamfrom.________
P e to sk e y   B u sin ess  M en’s   A sso cia tio n . 
President, Ja*. Buckley;  Secretary, A. C. Bowman.
P e w a m o   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Albert Retan;  Secretary, E. R. Holmes.
F ia tim e li  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, M. Bailey;  Secretary, J. A. Sidle._________
M erch a n t’s U nion P r o te c tiv e  A sso cia tio n  o f 
President, G. C. Hei*el;  Secretary, 8. L. Merriam.
President, L. T. W llm arth; Secretary, R.E. McCormick.
President, C. J. Fletachauer; Secretary, H. W. Hawkins.
Président, Gee. A. Sage;  Secretary. J. M. Spore.
President, B. J. Downing;  Secretary, E. E. Burdick.
S t J o h n s  M erchants’ P r o te c tiv e  A ssociation . 
President, H. L. Kendrick;  Secretary, C. M. Merrill. 
B u sin e ss M en’s P r o te c tiv e  A ss’n o f  Saranac. 
President,  Geo. A. Potts;  Secretary, P. T. William*.
S ou th  B oard m an   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ss’n. 
President, H. E. H ogan;  Secretary, 8. E. Nlehardt.
So. A rm  an d  E. J o r d a n  B u sin e ss M en’s A s’n. 
President, D. C. Loveday;  Secretary, C. W. Sutton.

R e e d   C ity   B u sin e ss M en ’s  A sso c ia tio n . 
R opkford  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 
8L C h arles  B u sin e ss  M en's  A sso cia tio n . 

President, J. R. H arrigon;  Secretary, M. B. Nash.

S h erm an   B u sin e ss M en’s A sso cia tio n . 
President, H. B. B turtevant;  S ecretary,W. Q. Shane.
Sparta  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
S tu rgis  B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, Henry 8. C hurch;  Secretary, Wm. Jom . 
T raverse  C ity  B u sin ess  M en ’s  A ssociation , 
President.G eo. K. Steele:  S ecretary.C. T. Lockwood.
T u stin   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
Président, G. A. Estes;  Secretary, Geo. W, Bevins. 
V e r m o n tv llle   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A ssociation . 
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 cia tio n . 

President, H. Peirce;  Secretary, F. H*. Merrlfleld.

W aylan d   B u sin ess  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 

President. E. W,  Pickett;  Secretary, H. J. Turner.
~  W ood lan d   B u sin e ss  M en’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, John Velte;  Secretary, I. N. H arter.  ____
W h ite   C lond  B u sin e ss  M en ’s  A sso cia tio n . 
President, P. M. Roedel; Secretary. M, I). Hayward.
White  Lake  Business  Men’s As’n. 

President, A. T. Linderm an, W hitehall  Secretary,  W. 

B. Nicholson, W hitehall.

T H E   D E A D -B E A T .

Soliman  Snooks'  Opinion  of  that  Much 

Abused Individual.

Cant Hook Corners, June 10,  1887.

Editor Tradesman:

Dea r Sir—The poor,  devoted  dead-beat 
seems to be  catching it from all sides.  His 
ears must burn  pretty often, if  there is any 
truth in the old adage,  at  the  way in which 
“Country  Merchant,”  C. H.  Barlow,  et  al 
are going for him.  Well,  the cuss deserves 
it.  But  I  agree,  in a measure,  with friend 
Barlow,  to-wit, that the  poor  D.-B.  is  not 
so fully to blame after all,  and that he often 
pays dearly for being a beat.

They say that poets  are  born,  not  made; 
but I think  the  D.-B.  is  made  in  a  great 
many cases by  surrounding  circumstances.
One great factory  for  making  dead-beats 
is the “Installment  Store.”  About  a  year 
ago,  one  of  these  beat-making  machines 
opened on Damlongue  street,  in  this  town, 
and began to send out  agents  with  Turkish 
and  Persian  rugs  over  their  shoulders; 
agents  with  clocks  under  their  arms  or 
clothes  wringers;  agents  in  wagons  with 
sewing  machines,  organs,  toilet  sets, bed 
room sets,  slop pails, chromos and the dick­
ens only knows  what.  These  agents made 
their way into every house within five miles 
of the Comers,  and  with  oily tongues man­
aged to make the women folks believe  that 
they must have this or that tiling.  “It is so 
easy, Mrs.  DeSmytli,” said  the  slick agent, 
“Only fifty cents  a  month; you  will  never 
notice it at all  and first you know  you own 
this elegant rug.  Just see how nice it looks 
in front of the couch.”  Now,  Mrs. DeSmyth 
is a good soul, and means  to be honest, but 
her judgment is rather  poor, and fifty cents 
looks so small beside that splendid rug, that 
she never stops to  think  that  twenty fifty- 
cent pieces make ten dollars and  that  each 
individual half-dollar will be  needed to pay 
for groceries or dry goods,  at  the  very time 
the installment collector is ringing her door­
bell.  So  in  the  rug  goes  and  it  feels  so 
soft to the feet  and  makes  the  old  carpet 
feel so  hard and look so dim and  faded  by 
the contrast,  that the  good  lady  begins  to 
hint to Mr.  DeSmyth that money must soon 
be forthcoming for a new carpet.

Mrs. Jones calls.  Mrs. J. is asked to ob 
serve the new rug.  “Yes, that is beautiful,” 
says Mrs. Jones, but her eyes wander to the 
faded  carpet.  That  settles  it.  When  De 
Smyth  comes  home,  he  finds  his  better 
half in  tears, and next thing  he  knows  he 
has a debt at the dry goods store for twenty- 
five yards of carpet at 88 cents per yard.

Then the struggle  begins.  To  meet this 
debt DeSmyth must put  his  grocer off with 
half liis pay,  then one-quarter, and  after  a 
few weeks, he  goes  down  town on a  back 
street so Mr.  Scoop won’t  see  him, and  he 
leaves his order at another grocery,  and col­
lectors keep calling,  so  that  Mrs. DeSmyth 
is afraid to answer  the  bell, and  they get a 
blue letter and a red letter and a sharp letter, 
and pretty soon  poor  DeSmyth  figures as a 
full-fledged dead-beat on the  books  of  the 
local association.

Now,  Mr. Editor,  you  may think this is a 
fancy sketch,  but  I  assure  you  it  has  its 
counterpart,  with variations, in all parts  of 
out State to-day.

I might go on and relate  how  the  neigh 
bors next see the  installment  man’s  wagon 
stopping in front of DeSmyth’s and  a  sew 
ing machine and a marble  top  table  and  a 
new sofa being  loaded  into it, all of which 
have  been  purchased  “on  payments”  and 
have been about  half  paid  for.  But  your 
readers can think of all that for themselves
Then, I might mention also the dead-beat 

I  say 

merchant—for there are such in all trades 
who  was  made  and  not  bom  so. 
made, because  just  as  like  as  not  he is 
well-meaning man at heart, but slick agents 
for Chicago or Boston  or New  York houses 
have  seduced  him  into  buying all sorts of 
things he  does  not  need  and  cannot  sell 
such as new brands of  plug tobacco, cigars, 
package coffees,  baking powders, soap, etc 
The poor cuss  has  been  seduced  by clocks 
glassware, tea sets,  Waterbury watches and 
other things into loading himself up with in­
ferior goods,  until he has nothing to pay his 
debts with,  and he  joins the  army of  dead­
beats.

As we gaze  into  his  show  window  and 
-notice  the  busy  and  inconoclastic  spider 
spinning his web from a dusty lamp chimney 
to a lone blacking bottle  and  thence  to fiv 
dejected looking herring in a box, and  inci 
dentally observe  a  big  blue  blottle fly buz 
zing in and out of  a  pitcher  belonging to 
“premium set,” let us not  laugh  and  jeer, 
but rather drop a tear for the poor victim of 
commercial competition.

Then, if we have time, let us drop another 
tear in  sympathy  with  the  honest  jobber 
who has been  selling  him  his  sugars  and 
teas at a small margin and now goes in with 
the other  creditors  to  eventually get about 
seven cents on a dollar.

Talking  about  dead-beats,  I  notice  that 
one of my dod-gasted relations has been and 
gone and got his name  on  the  M. B. M. A. 
Notification Sheet for June.  Poor Tom!  I 
always expected  he  would  come  to  some 
bad  end.  And  now  our honored  name  is 
dragged  in  the  dust,  and  right  at  the 
end  of  the  list,  too,  where  no  one  can 
help seeing  it. 
I  hope  Mrs.  Snooks  will 
not see it.  She has gone  on  a  visit  down 
into  Indiana  and,  therefore,  I  guess  she 
will not learn of this disgrace.
* 
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* 
“Wake  up,  Sol!  Thunder  and  blitzen! 
are you asleep?  Here!  Wait on  your  cus­
tomers.  What  are  you  here  for, you  old 
cuss?  I  want  four  postage  stamps,  two 
postal cards, a free sample of that air cough 
medicine advertised  in  the  Qrabbag and I 
want to look in your county directory.  And

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W e d n e s d a y ,  j u n b   15.1887._____
TH E  CRAZE  IN  COFFEE.

The Bulls  Have  Had  the  Game  in  Their 

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Own  Hands.

New Y ork Correspondence D etroit News.
The feverish  speculation in  coffee is ex 
citing general  attention.  The craze in cof­
fee,  the speculation in wheat and cotton and 
the real estate  excitement in  the south and 
southwest,not to mention the activity in real 
property  here,  may be  given as  the  chief 
reasons  for the  dullness in  stocks.  As to 
coffee, 
the  wholesale  price  has  nearly 
trebled  within a year,  and it has  doubled 
since last fall.  Seats in the stuffy little cof­
fee  exchange in  Beaver  street  have risen 
within  a  short  time  from  $500  to  $800. 
Many  of  the  importers and  jobbers have 
made large fortunes by the almost phenome­
nal rise in the market,  and some  who were 
crippled in former speculations are now ful­
ly restored to  financial  strength  and vigor.
The price of  Rio coffee  is now  about 22 
cents a pound,  incredible as it may  sound, 
and yet there is talk of pushing it still high­
er.  The  bulls  have  practically  had  the 
game in their own hands,  and as grain, cot­
ton, dry goods and Wall street  peo ple went 
short on the seemingly  natural  supposition 
that the price  had gone high  enough,  they 
found that  Crossman &  Co. and  Siegfried 
Grüner & Co. had stocked the cards and the 
market was  thimble-rigged  until the luck­
less  shorts  were  glad  to  “cover.”  One 
house  is said to  have made  $2,000,000 on 
the  bull deal.  Another firm  of  importers 
is supposed to have cleared a million.
In former  times it has  happened  that a 
day passed  without a single  transaction at 
the coffee  exchange,  and  when a  sudden . 
spurt of activity carried the transactions up 
to 50,000 bags in a day excitement ran high. 
Latterlv,  However, the  sales in a single day 
have exceeded  200,000 bags.  The specula­
tion is based on expectations of a short crop. 
The bulls  are trying  to make the  general 
public believe that  the next  crop iu  Brazil 
will be only 4,000,000  bags,  against  some­
thing  over 6,000,000  bags in  the  present 
season ending July 1.  The men who advo­
cate high  prices  for the reason  mentioned j 
have always,  until  now. ridiculed  the idea j 
of counting a  crop when it  was hardly  in j 
blossom,  but they  are well  loaded up now j 
and are looking around for  lambs to unload 
upon.
Of course the  upshot of  the  speculation 
will  be  a  crash  somewhere.  Everybody 
cannot make money in a speculation.  Some- j 
body is sure to load up at the top and suffer j 
by the fall,  which will be all the greater be­
cause of the  extraordinary  advance  in the 
price within a year.  A physical law is that 
the higher the altitude the greater the veloc­
ity of the fall, and this is also  noticeable in j 
the  fluctuations  of markets—or,  in  other j 
words,  the pendulum swings to opposite ex­
tremes.
One of the bull leaders is Siegfried Grün­
er,  a stout,  blue-eyed,  jolly  German  from 
Bremen,  and formerly president of  the cot­
ton exchange.  His  partner,  Otto  Arens, 
now president of  the coffee  exchange,  is a 
splendid specimen of physical manhood, tall 
enough for the imperial guard of  German}'. 
He lives down in New Jersey, where he has 
a fine farm,  and where he indulges in a cul­
tivated taste for horticulture.
Crossman & Co.  have made a million dol­
lars for clients in New York,  London,  Par­
is,  Havre,  Amsterdam and  Rio de Janeiro, 
within the  last  six months.  William  H. 
Crossman,  of  this  house,  is  about  sixty 
years of age, and was  formerly in the hard­
ware trade, acting as the New  York  agent 
for Mark Hopkins, the  California merchant 
and railway magnate.  He  and his brother, 
George  Crossman, a  handsome  man and a 
well-known member of the  Union  League, 
began to bull coffee last year when it was at 
cents,  whereas now it is about 22 cents. 
Another  member is  Hermann  Sielcken, 
who came  here some years ago  from Ham­
burg,  and is beginning to be looked upon as 
a sort of Jay Gould on a smaller scale.  He 
has really had  the post  of a commander in 
the bull campaign.  He has been to Europe 
several  times  within a year to manipulate 
the markets  there,  and,  as he is  expert in 
manipulation,  this  thoughtful,  dark  com- 
plexioned man of  85,  with  expressive,  big 
black eyes,  pulls  the wires which  control 
the fluctuations of prices in New York,  Rio 
de Janeiro,  Havre, Paris,  London,  Amster­
dam and Antwerp.  Some of the New York 
firms who at first  opposed the  bull deal he 
xapped so  severely over the  knuckles  that 
they were glad  to fall in to the bull  ranks. 
He has  successfully  fought  the  Arbuckle 
Brothers, the millionaires who have a mono­
poly of coffee roasting here and who are apt 
to set themselves  against  any  bull  move­
ment.
Sielcken hung around Front street in this 
-city for several years  without  showing any 
special aptitude for speculation,  but  as Na­
poleon had his Toulon to show  the military 
genius that  was in  him,  so  this  natural 
leader in  speculation has  latterly  come to 
the front to worst strong old houses, as Na­
poleon did old powers, and he is recognized 
as a new speculative chieftain in a new field 
of venture.
Thomas Minford, of the old firm of Skid- 
dy,  Minford  & Co., and  who looks  like a 
priest,  is another  successful bull,  and still 
another is John  Scott, a  relative  of  Gen. 
Sherman.
Most of our coffee supply eomes from Bra­
zil,  and as slavery in  that country  is being 
gradually abolished, and as the effect of free 
labor is  to increase  crops,  not to  mention 
the stimulus of high prices,  it need excite no 
surprise if  the next  Brazil yield  of  coffee 
should  be much  larger than  the bulls  now 
seem to  expect. 

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Cream as an Article of Food.

In an  interesting  article  on  cream,  its 
value and  use,  Prof.  Arnold,  of  Cornell 
University,  says:  The superiority of cream 
over butter or any other  solid  fat  consists,
first,  in its being  not  exactly  in  a  liquid 
form, but in acondition allowing of great mo­
bility between its  particles,  permitting  the 
gastric juice to  mix with it in the most per­
fect manner,  and  with  whatever  else  the 
stomach contains,  thereby aiding  digestion. 
Its behavior is quite different in this respect 
from that  of  butter  and  other  pure  fats. 
As soon as they become melted they  grease 
over the other contents of the  stomach,  ob­
structing, in a measure, the  contact of gas­
tric juice, and  hindering, rather  than  has­
tening,  the progress of their digestion.

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Bronze Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Etc.

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Foreign and Domestic Fruits,

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Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

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JOBBERS  OF

SHED  AND  HAVANA  10-CENT  CIGARS.
L.  C.  B...................Rega Espicial..........$58 I Mackinaw  ...............Londras Grande..
I El Captain General. Cone.  Esp................. 60 ! Twisters..........
El  Primero............. Cone. Fina..................56 I Cliaeer..
..............Panatelas................... 65 j The Fox.
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DOMESTIC  NICKEL  CIGARS.

W hen.............
Cassia.............
Spanish Tuck. 
First  Degree..
Panatalla.......
Town  T alk... 
Young America 
Great  Scot.... 
Our  Block....
Now...............
Boodle...........
New  Fashiou. 
La Attractiva.

Snugglers.... 
Los Castellos.

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Lombas Grande. 
Flora  Cordova 
Reñía Victoria 
Conchitas.
(B.  L.  &  H. 
Ciggaro...
Bag  Dad.. 
Bendaro... 
Conchitas,  extra

Atlas........................Conchitas................. 25
Gents’ Companion. .Concha  Hindoo.. ..   35
Donny  Brook.......... 
Belle of  the  Rink..Florde  Corvado...  ao
Big Chief.................Bag Dad...................25
Jim Fox’s Clipper. .Concha.....................
Select.........-............  
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Elite  Gem............... 
Away Ahead...........  
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Our Emblem...........  
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Legal  Tender.......... 
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No Name................. 
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.Sublime...................$75
.Con. Especail............60
.Opera Reina..............60
.Con.  Selectos............65

Los  Castellos......... Londras Grande.. ..   70
Estrelle de Ora....... Sublime.................. 60
La Modesta.............Operas  Renia......... 65
Coronet  Boquet... .Londres  Chica. 

..  60

IMPORTED  CIGARS.

Golden  Eagle.........Lilliputanos...........$  75 I Matilda.....................Royales................. 100
Belinda.................Operas...................   80 [ Flora de, T. &  F .. .Rothschilds............  125

Old Judge............... 500 in a  box........ $4  25 ’ Sweet  Caporal........   “ 
Satin Straight Out..  “ 

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CIGARETTES.
........  7  00 |

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W e do not charge any Cartage.
W e do not pay Freight or Express Charges.
W e sell and deliver all goods F. O. B. Grand Rapids.
W e do not allow  Express  charges or  Exchange  on  Remit-
tSHC6STerms, invariably, 60 days.  Two per cent,  cash discount al 
I lowed on bills paid within 30 days from date.
PLEASE  SEND  US  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

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take if you buy all you need for the next 
forty days at  present  prices, especially 
Lemons.  Buy only the Choicest Fruit.
Naturally, we  desire  to  be  favored 
with  your  orders.  Still,  we  all  have 
our preferences, and whether you favor 
us or another, still we  say BUY!  But 
before you  buy elsewhere, let us quote 
you prices.
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PURE  FOOD.

EftCts Which Will Allay Public Apprehen­

sion on this Point.

From  the New Y ork World, June  5.

The  irorld  prints  to-day  the  first  of  a 
series of reports upon  the  results of  its  in­
quiry into the  facts  concerning  the alleged 
sale of adulterated foods, liquors  and medi­
cines  in  the  city of  New  York.  As  has 
been  already stated, this  investigation  has 
been  prompted  by  the  widely  prevailing 
charges that  adulterations  exist  to  a very

unnecessary matter added to the tea and the 
I practice should be condemned.

REPORT ON AJftLLYSBS OF COFFEE.

The examination  of  samples  of  ground 
coffee  reveals a larger number 6i  instances 
of the admixture of foreign substances than 
that  of  samples  of  tea.  The  adulterants 
used  were  principally ground chiccory and 
peas. 
It should  be  remarked that in every 
case of purchase  the  World's  buyers asked 
for  pure  coffee  and  it was represented  as 
such by the seller.  The law,  it is true, per­
mits the admixture of  portions  of  chiccory 
with 
hut  it  snecifically  states  that

sion and disgust in the minds of the public. 
the  packages.  This  requirement  was  ob­
I f they are true, no social evil  of  the  time 
served in the sale of none of the adulterated 
calls for quicker  and  more  decisive  meas­
samples under review.
ures of  prevention  and  punishment.  The 
A consumer may  possibly  not  object  to 
World  has  undertaken  this  Investigation 
chiccory  and peas, but when he buys coffee 
for the sake  both of the public  and  of  the
he wants coffee, and when  he does  not get
retail merchants  of  New York, who have a  ^  
paying for it he is cheated.  House- 
right  to  a  vindication  if  they  have  been  keepers should,  as  a  rule, avoid  accepting 
wrongly suspected  and  accused.  And mat  frQm a „rocer ground  coffee already  put up 

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coffee.

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Protection.

BAKERS  IN  LINE.

liEPO K T  ON  A N A LY SES  OF  SUGAR.

The Bread  Makers to Organize for Mutual 

Of the samples of the three  great staples, 
those of sugar come out best in this investi­
gation.  The  adulterant  usually  found  in ] 
crooked sugar,  in these later years,  is starch | 
glucose,  an inferior substance.  Sugar made 
from cane  has  two  and  a  half  times  the ] 
sweetening  power  of  starch  glucose.  T o , 
the credit of the retail grocers of New lo rk  
it can be said  that  very little  of  it  is  sold 
for sugar by them to their customers.

investigation  shall  be  fair,  impartial' 
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accurate in its  conclusions, the  utmost  _______________ J
has been taken in the selection and an-1 
8tan(iing in stock has lost a great  deal
alysis of the articles  of food  and  drink and I 
.^g strength  and  aroma.  The  last  two 
of the drugs commonly sold by retail in this  auaiities will best be found in freshly-ground 
city.  The quarters in which  the  poor  buy 1 H 
their supplies have  been  visited  by prefer 
mice, for, whatever may be the average con­
dition of me goods sold  there,  it may be as­
sumed  that  a  condition  not  so  bad,  and 
therefore less needful of examination, exists 
elsewhere.
The purchases of samples were made by a 
corps of competent men  detailed  from  the 
World's  staff  for that  special  work.  The 
five great avenues  which  cut  through  the 
tenement  district—namely,  First,  Second,
Third, Eighth and Ninth, were visited.  The 
stores  of  hundreds  of  grocers,  druggists, 
milk-sellers and liquor dealers were entered 
(without the purpose  of  the  buyers  being 
made known), purchases  were  effected  in 
each, me packages of which were duly label­
A meeting of the bakers of  Grand Rapids 
led by the buyers,  and all  the facts pertain­
ing thereto inscribed at the time of purchase 
was  held at the  office  of  Ludwig  Winter- 
on the labels.  These  packages, thus  care­
nitz  last Wednesday evening  for  the  pur­
fully identified, were, within  a  short  time 
pose of  considering  the  advisability of  or­
after their purchase, delivered  to the chem­
ganizing an association.  A.  Bradford  was 
ist and  microscopist  secured  to  determine 
me  analyses.  The  World's  representative 
selected to act as chairman  of  the  meeting 
in this important department of the invest! 
and Fred Blake as  secretary.  After  a  dis­
gation is  Edward  G.  Love,  Ph.  D.,  late 
cussion  of  the  subject  from  every  stand 
analyst of the  New  York  State  Board  of 
Health for the city of New York, a chemist 
point, it was decided to proceed to  organize 
of eminent  repute,  the  mention  of  whose 
without  delay.  The  following  gentlemen 
name suffices to guarantee  the  trustworthi­
were appointed a  committee  to  prepare  a 
ness of the reports upon samples which will 
constitution  and  by-laws:  Thos.  Wasson,
follow. 
The  weight  for  which  each  sample  of  Chas< smith,  F.  L.  Blake,  H.  M.  Reed, 
goods was sold was also noted  at  the  time  otto Lail(jauer.  The next meeting  will  be
of the purchase, and upon its receipt by the 
held on  Wednesday evening,  at which time j 
chemist its weight  was  again  taken  upon 
time the following  draft  will  be presented: 
laboratory scales of exceeding exactness 
The first series  of  reports  received  from 
Dr. Love are  of analyses of samples of  the 
W h e r e a s , c o m p a r is o n  o f  id e a s  a n d  m e th o d s  a n d  c o n ­
c e r t   o f   a c tio n   a r e   e s s e n tia l to  t h e   w e ll b e in g   o f   a n y  
three great  staple articles  of  food, to  wit,
b u s in e s s , a n d  
...
suiimr  tsdi and coffôc»  These  samples were 
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W h e r e a s ,We believe th a t a Bakers’  Association will
bought  in  300  different  stores,  taken  as I ^KESOLVEO^Tha^we^bakers of G rand  Rapids and vi- 
they  came  and  without  preference.  We  em uy
said that the World  was determined to find | i  t h ” constitution and by-laws following:
out if the retail grocers  of  New York were 
CONSTITUTION.
cheating  their  customers  with  fraudulent 
goods and by light  weights.  With  respect 
to this branch of  our  inquiry the  result  is 
surprising and gratifying. 
It will  be  seen 
by an  examination  of  the  reports  printed 
below that the grocers, as a  rule, are  deal­
ing  honestly  with  their  customers.  The 
number of instances in  which adulterations 
have  been  detected  is  comparatively  few 
and of false weights fewer still, and the lat­
ter  are  counterbalanced  by  instances  of 
slight overweight, demonstrating that prob­
ably variations  in  weight  from  the  exact 
standard are generally the effect of careless­
ness rather than  of  design.  The  samples 
of sugar are shown to be  freest  from  tam­
pering.  The teas are very little adulterated, 
as  Dr.  Love  explains  in  an  aceompaning 
note.  The  ground  coffees,  which  were 
bought for pure, are in some instances adul­
terated  with  chiccory  and  ground  beans.
None of the adulterants  discovered  are  in­
jurious to health (excluding  dirt  and  sand, 
the presence  of  which may be  accidental), 
but as adulterants they do cheat the pockets 
of customers, and  therefore  those  who sell 
them are to be condemned.
But the World is glad to be able to make, 
upon the whole, such  an  excellent showing 
for the retail  grocers of  New York in three 
of the prime articles of consumption sold by 
them,  and if the reports of further analyses, 
which will appear  in future  issues  of  this 
paper, bear out the impression already  pro­
duced,  we shall have reason to  congratulate 
the public on  their discovery  that  they are 
not being poisoned by adulterations  in their 
grocery goods, nor cheated to  any alarming 
extent, and to congratulate  likewise the re­
tail tradesmen oh  the  vindication  of  their 
good name as merchants and their establish­
ment in the  confidence  of  their fellow citi 
sens.

Tho  principal  objects  of this Association  shall be as 
follows: 
1. To discourage  the  dem oralizing practice o f  cut­
ting in prices and encourage the  m aintenance of legit­
im ate protits. 
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2.  To  bring  about  uniform ity  in  th e  size,  w eight,
quality and price of bakers’ goods. 
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S.  To increase acquaintanceship and foster the high­
est com mercial integrity apiong  those  engaged in the 
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bakery  business. 
1.  To take concerted action  against  discrim inations 
by railw ay and express companies.
5.  To  induce  equitable  insurance  rates  and settle-
To secure im m unity from  inferior and adulterated 
goods, short weights,  counts  and  m easures,  fictitious 
brands and labels and m isrepresentation in public and 
private. 
7  To influence legislation in favor  of  b etter  collec­
tion laws, atf oi-ding m ore safely to creditors in general. 
8.  To introduce the cash  system ,  w herever  practi-
CBy!^To  guard against unnecessary extensions of credit 
to unw orthy persons,  through  th e  interchange  of in­
form ation gained by experience and  otherwise 

Every person or firm becoming a m em ber  of this As­
sociation shall be honorably bound to  conform   to  the 
ules, regulations and by-laws.
Any m ember of this Association who shall neglect or 
refuse to pay his dues, or  any  assessm ent  ordered  by 
the A ssociation, for three m onths after  such  sums be­
come due, shall thereby forfeit his membership.

Any firm or individual engaged in the bakery business 
m ay  become  a mem ber of this Association on the two- 
thirds  vote  of  the  members  present  a t  any  regular 
m eeting,  by  paying  to  the  Secretary th e  sum  of  el 
m embership fee, and agreeing to pay 60 cents quarterly 
dues in advance, and any  assessm ents  which  shall  be 
voted by the Association to m eet  expenses.

The officers of this Association shall consist of a  P res 
ident. a Vice-President, a Secretary, a  Treasurer, and an 
Executive Comm ittee  of  three members.  These  offi­
cers shall be elected  annually by ballot and  shall hold 
office until th e ir successors are elected.

The nam e  of  this  organization  shall  be  the  Grand 

ARTICLE V.—NON-PAYMENT OF DUES.

Rapids B akers’ Association.

PREAMBLE.

ARTICLE III.—MEMBERSHIP. 

ARTICLE IV.—OBLIGATION.

ARTICLE  VI.—OFFICERS.

ARTICLE II.—OBJECTS.

ARTICLE I.—NAME.

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ARTICLE VII.—DÜTIES OF OFFICERS,
Section 1—The President shall preside a t all m eetings, 
If present;  In his absence, the Vice-President.
Section 2—The Secretary shall receive all  money  due 
the Association from  any source and  pay  the  sam e  to 
the Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor;  keep  a   rec­
ord of all m eetings;  conduct all  correspondence;  keep 
a list of all members in a  book provided  for  th a t  pur­
pose;  and notify all com m ittees of th e ir  appointm ent.
Section  S—The  Treasurer  shall  receive  all  monies 
from  the Secretary, giving his receipt therefor; pay all 
bills when approved by the Executive  Comm ittee,  and 
report the condition of  the  treasury  a t  each  regular 
meeting.
Section  4—The  Executive  Comm ittee  shall  have 
charge of  all m atters  pertaining to  th e  size,  weight, 
quality and price of bakers’ goods;  shall  have au th o r­
ity  to visit the bakery of  any  mem ber of  the Associa­
tion a t any tim e and m ake such investigations as m ay 
be deemed proper;  and  report to th e  Association any 
----------lations of
Irregularity o r violation of the rules o r regul 
the  Association.  The Com m ittee  shall  also  provide 
rooms  for  the  Association;  audit  all  bills  and  ex­
am ine the  books  and  accounts  of  th e  Secretary  and 
Treasurer previous to each annual  m eeting 

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tees.

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ARTICLE IX.—MEETINGS.

ARTICLE XL—AMENDMENTS.

Section  1—The  annual  m eeting  of  the  Association 
shall be held on the first Friday of each January.
Section  2—The  regular  m eetings of  th e  Association 
shall be held on the first Friday of each m onth.  Special 
m eetings shall be called by the President on the w ritten 
request of five members.

The following is Dr.  Love’s report on an­
alyses and weights of samples of  teas  pur­
chased  from  retail  grocers  in  this  city.
samples  having  been  numbered, the 
number is  given  to  preserve identification, 
together with the name of the seller and his 
place of business, the nature of the sample,
Its weight as ascertained by the chemist and 
the result of  the  analysis  for  adulteration:
The results of my examination of the 100 
samples of tea show there is very little adul­
teration practiced at present  in  this  article 
ARTICLE X.—ORDER OF BUSINESS.
of  food.  A  few  of  the  samples  contain 
1.  Reading m inutes of th e last meeting.
2.  Admission of new members.
small quantities of “lie” tea,  a  product  of 
S.  Report of Executive Committee.
Chinese ingenuity, consisting of  small  bits 
1.  Reports of special com mittees.
5.  Reading of correspondence.
of leaf, dirt,  etc.,  made up into pellets with 
6.  Unfinished business.
rice water and colored to  imitate  the tea it 
7.  New business.
8.  Election of  officers  and  appointm ent  of  com m it 
is intended  to  adulterate.  Only very small 
quantities of this  substance  were found in 
9.  Report of Treasurer.
10.  A djournm ent.
the teas examined.  Although it  was  orig­
This  constitution  and  by-laws  m ay  be  altered  or
inally  made  with  fraudulent  intent,  the 1 upended  hy  a tw o-thirds vote of thoue present a t any 
fmna.ll quantity of it at  present  in  a tew 01 
regular meeting,  providing  a   w ritten  notice  of  such
these teas has led me  to the belief that pos- 1 ------------- at the
alteration  or  am endm ent  has  been  presented  a t the 
preoeeding regular meeting.
«dfniy its presence was more accidental  than 
intentional.
The  green  teas  were  “faced”  to  some 
slight extent, although to  a  much  less  de­
gree than  was  formerly practiced with teas 
of this class.  “Facing” consists in slightly 
coating the tea  with  a  powder  containing 
some blue pigment, like  indigo or  Prussian 
blue,  mixed  with  soapstone, chalk  or gyp- 
sun.  The practice is of  long-standing and 
is almost universal In the case of green teas.
The facing does not add  appreciably  to the 
weight of the tea, but is used,  it is claimed, 
more to give the product a bright appearance 
to satisfy the popular demand.
There is  much  difference  of  opinion  as 
to whether the facing of tea shall be consid­
ered as an  adulteration, provided  the  sub­
stances used for coloring are  entirely harm 
less.  As no  injurious  substances  were de­
tected  in the teas examined I  have  not  re­
ported  the facing  as  an  adulteration, con­
sidering it sufficient to make  this  explana­
tory statement
Whether the facing of teas be  looked up­
on as a form of  adulteration or not toe col­
oring substances are  so  much  foreign  and

We,  the  undersigned  members  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Bakers’ Association, hereby 
agree and  bind ourselves  to  adhere in good 
faith to the scale of prices,  weight,  size and 
quality  of  bakers’  goods  adopted  by  our 
Association, a copy of  which  will  be  fur­
nished to each  signer.
It is further agreed  that  in  case  any of 
the  signers  violate  the  adopted  scale  of

Any m ember of this  Association who  shall  refuse to 
allow the  Executive  Comm ittee  to   visit  his  place of 
business a | any  tim e o r  shall  refuse to   live up  to  th e  
rules and regulations of th e Association, shall be fined 
on th e tw o-thirds vote of  the mem bers  present a t any 
regular  ineetiag.  Any  m em ber  who  has  been  fined 
three  tim es  shall  be  expelled  on  conviction  of  th e 
fourth offense.

Every m em ber shall  deposit w ith  the  T reasurer th e 
sum of five dollars, to   be forfeited only  on conviction 
of violation of the agreem ent.
The committee will also  present  the  fol­

By-laws  not in conflict w ith this constitution may be 
established for the governm ent of  th e  Association  on 
the tw o-thirds vote of the members present a t any  ses-

lowing agreement for adoption:

Seven  members  shall  constitute  a   quorum   fo r  th e 

transaction of business.

ARTICLE lb —EXPULSION.

ARTICLE  XII.—BY-LAWS.

BY-LAWS.

ARTICLE III.—FORFEIT.

ARTICLE I.—QUORUM.

REPORT OF ANALYSES OF TEA.

prices,  either  directly  or  indirectly,  such 
person or  firm  shall, upon  conviction, for­
feit the  sum  of  Five  Dollars, one-half  of 
which shall be  paid  to  the  informant  and 
one-half to the Association.
Complaints of  infractions  of  me  agree­
ment  may be made  to  any member  of  the 
Executive Committee.
Forfeits  shall  be  paid  only  by order  of 
a Committee,  to be composed of  three  bak­
ers,  one of whom shall be  chosen by the in­
formant, one by the  accused  and the  other 
by the two already chosen.
This  agreement  to  go  into  effect  after 
official notice has been  given  by  the  Secre-
Associa- 
the bak­
ers doing business in the city has  been  ob­
tained  to  adhere  to  the  foregoing  list  of 
priées,  under  the  penalties  prescribed  for 
violation.

It is to be hoped that  every baker will be 
on hand on Wednesday  evening  and  bring 
with him a list  of  all  the  goods  made  by 
him.  The condition of the bakery business 
has not been  satisfactory in  regard  to  the 
matter of  prices,  weight,  size  and  quality, 
and the movement is one in  the right direc­
tion.
Crusade Against Questionable Methods 
Cheboygan,  June 9,  1887.

jobbing 

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a k   Sib—At  the  regular  meeting  of 
the  Business  Men’s  Protective  Union  of 
Cheboygan  County,  held June 6, 1 was au 
thorized to  write you  that  there  are some 
wholesale  and 
in  this 
State who claim  to sell to  the retail  trade 
only,  who, in  fact, after  supplying  the re 
tail trade,  sell  directly  to  consumers,  ho­
tels and boarding  houses,  which  is consid­
ered by our merchants and business  men*as 
a great  injustice to  them.  The  names of 
the firms engaged in such  manner of  trad 
ing are given as follows:

firms 

Moran, Fitzsimons & Co.,  Detroit, 
j.  H.  Black & Co., Detroit.
Detroit Cracker Co., Detroit.
Valley City Milling Co., Grand Rapids. 
Hannah, Lay & Co., Traverse City.
Lewis & Fox,  Bay  City.
It is desired that the  Business Men’s As­
sociations  in  this State  co-operate  In the 
suppression of such unjust methods of trad­
ing.  Therefore,you are requested to publish 
in  T he  T radesman  the  names  of  the 
above firms engaged in such a course  of re­
tail trading  to the  consumer  directly,  that 
the  various  Business  Men’s  Associations 
may do all in  their  power  to put a stop to 
it. 

Respectfully,

H. G.  Dozer,  Sec’y.

Farnsworth  &  Williams,  grocers  and hard­
ware dealers, Mantòn: “We cannot do without 
your paper.”
J. H. Williams, gaocer, Leroy :  “The boss of 
all trade  papers.  Give the dead-beat  he—m- 
loek.”

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.- 

Asparagus—3C@35c per doz.  bunches.
Beats—60c $  doz.
Beans—Country hand-picked are held at 51.15 
bu., and city picked  are  in  fair  demand at 

$1.40.
Dairy is weak at 12 @18o.

Butter—Creamery  is in  fair demand  at 18c. 

Cabbages—New, $2@$2.25 per crate.
Carrots—50c $  doz.
Cauliflower—$2 $ doz.
Cheese—Handlers pay  9c and hold at 10c. 
Cucumbers—40 $ doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 16c ¥  » ; quarter­

ed and sliced, 6@7c $ »•

Dried Peaches—Pared. 15c.
Eargs-Jobbers are p a y in g  10%@llc and selling 

forll%@12%c.
Honey—Fair demand at 10@13c.
H ar—Baled 

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
per ton  in two and  five  ton  lots  and  $13  In 
car lots.

Lettuce—10c $  lb.
Maple Sugar—9c $  lb.
Onions—New,  $1  $  bu.  Bermudas,  $2 

per crate.  Bunch, 13c $ doz.

Parsley—25c $   doz 
Peas—$1 $   bu.
Potatoes—Handlers  are  paying  80c  for  all 
good varieties and holding  at $1.  New  readi­
ly command $1.75 per bu.

Pop Corn—2%c $ ft.
Pieplant—lc $  lb.
Plants—Cabbage  or  Tomato, 75c per box of
200.
Radishes—12@15c $  doz.
Spinach—3Cc$ bu.
Strawberries—The crop has never been finer 
and larger  than  this  year.  The  market  has 
been over stocked most of the time during the 
past week  and  the  indications  are that  the 
same condition  will  rule this  week.  Dealers 
are selling 16 qt. case at $1 and stands  at  $3.25 
@$3 50.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. 

String Beans—$1.25 $  bu.
Tomatoes—$3. $  bu.
Turnips—35c $  doz.
Wheat—Lower.  City  millers  pay  85  cents 
for Lancaster and 82  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 $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.10$ bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.30 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.50 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.40 $ bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $ ton.  Bran, $14 
$  ton.  Ships, $15$ ton.  Middlings, $16 $ ton. 
Corn and Oats. $17  $ ton.

The Cash System.

A reader of T he T radesman,  who  con­
templates  abandoning the  credit  business, 
recently  asked  for  information  on  that 
point.  The enquiry was  referred to Frank 
Hamilton, of Traverse City,  who replied as 
follows:

In  answer  to  the  gentleman’s  enquiry, 
How to  commence  the cash  business,” I 
should  reply,  in the  language of  Greeley, 
“The way to,  etc.” 
I should give my trade 
ample notice that on and after such a date I 
should sell my goods  for cash  only,  stating 
my reasons for so  doing.  1  would placard 
my store  and notice it in the local  papers, 
giving all to  understand my  new  method.
I would then sell my goods for cash and the 
thing is done. 
I have  seen  many  devices 
for covering the ground the writer evidently 
wishes to cover.  One is a  coupon  system, 
which might work in many cases quite well, 
It would,  however,  entail much  work and 
considerable effort in the  introduction of it, 
and would probably be thrown out in  time. 
House currency,  if  allowed, would  be  bet­
ter. 
I think the note system the nearest to 
the cash basis of anything and, perhaps, the 
best.  This plan was advanced at  our State 
meeting last  September by  S. Barnes  in a 
paper read before  the  convention. 
I have 
never  seen  anything  equal  to “money in 
hand.” 

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The  Grocery  Market.

The past week has not been without  inci­
dent, the burning of the Havemeyer refinery 
on Friday night, which involved the destruc­
tion  of  25,000  barrels,  of  sugar,  having 
caused something of  a  flurry in  the  sugar 
market.  All grades  are  up from 3^c to 3^c 
and farther advances  are  by no  means  im 
probable,  as  the  consumption  during  the 
berry  season 
is  necessarily  heavy.  Rio 
coffee declined lc last  Saturday, which was 
immediately followed by a  like  decline  on 
the part of  the  manufacturers  of  package 
goods.  Corn syrups  have  sustained an ad 
vance,  in accordance  with a mandate of the 
pool  managers.  Cheese  is  tending  down 
ward and  butter  is  also down to the usual 
June prices.

Fruit jars have taken  two  jumps  during 
the past  week, amounting  to  $1  per  box, 
and every indication  points  to  further  ad 
vances of S3 per box  during  the next  fort­
night.

Oranges  and  lemons  continue  in  good 
supply and  cheap  in  price.  Bananas  are 
coming in, fine quality and prices are reason 
able.

Anti-Monopoly Oil.

The Independent Oil Co. still continues to 
boom, its sales for last week having exceed 
ed those of any previous week in the history 
of the company.  Merchants who desire to 
establish a connection  with  anti-monopoly 
oil, end thus show  their  disapproval of the 
questionable methods of monopolists, should 
correspond with Manager  Marston  without 
delay. 

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Recent advances in low-grade leaf tobacco 
have caused an upward tendency in the low 
grades  of  manufactured  goods.  Several 
manufacturers  have  already  voted  an  ad 
vance  and  others  announce  that  a  new 
schedule of  prices  will  go  into  effect  on 
July 1.  Some manufacturers  are  receiving 
orders subject to ruling  prices  the  day toe 
goods are  shipped.  Scotten  has  advanced 
“Hiawatha”  3c  and  his  smoking tobaccos 
and shorts lc.

PROVISIONS.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids Packing  & Provision Co 

quote  as follows:
Mess, new.....................................................16 50
Short Cut, clear........................................... 15 ¿0
Extra clear pig, short cut...........  
17  00
Extra clear, heavy.......................................1» 00
Clear quill, short  cut.................................. 1< 00
Boston clear, short cut.............................. 17  00
Clear back, short cut................................. 17 00
Standard clear, Bhort  cut, best.................17 00
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy............ .................
m edium ..........................
lig h t...»..........................
Short Clears, heavy..............................  
medium........................... 
light.................................  

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SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN. 
Hams.Rvevag'G'20- fts .v .J V .v ..A ..'...— 11

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LARD.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

16  lbs................................... 1154
12 to 14 lbs............................11%
picnic  ...............................................   b
best boneless..................................... 1054
Shoulders.....................................................  754
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...... . .................. 10
Dried Beef, extra..................... '...............    1054
ham  prices...............................13
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754
754

Tierces  .................. 
30 and 50 lb Tubs ................................... 
lb Pails, 20 In a case............................ 
B) Pails, 12 in a case............................  
10 lb Pails. 6 in a case...........................  
20 lb Pails, 4 pails in case.....................
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 lbs...........  8 00
Boneless, extra............................................... 12 00
Pork Sausage.................................................754
Ham Sausage............................................ H
Tongue  Sausage.............................. 
9
Frankfort  Sausage......................................  8
Blood  Sausage......... ....................................  6
Bologna, straight........... ............................   6
Bologna, thick............................................... 6
Head  Cheese.................................................. 6
In half barrels.................................................  3 00
In quarter barrels..........................................   1 65

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

 

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

 

LUBRICATING.

Water White...............................................  11K
Michigan  Test........  ...................  
1054
Ethaline...................  
1354
Ruby............................................................1*54
Gasoline.......................................................1154
Capitol Cylinder..........................................3654
Model  Cylinder,......................................... 3154
Shield Cylinder............................................ 2654
Eldorado  Engine........................................ 28
Peerless Machinery....................................20
Challenge Machinery..................................19
Paraffine  ..................................................... 2054
Black. Summer, West Virginia— ............ 9
Black, 25° to 30°............... .........................10
Black, 15° C.  T......... ..................................H
Zero.............................................................1254

Perkins & Hess pay as follows: 

HIDES. PELTS AND PURS. 
HIDES.Calf skins, green 

Green__$ » 554® 6
Part cured...  7  ® 754
Fullcured 
  754® 854
Dry hides and

........8  @12

kips 

Deacon skins,

or cured....  7  @ 8 
$  piece...... 10 @30

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed $ » ........25  ®26
Tallow..................................................  3  ® 354
Fine washed $  »  22@261 Coarse washed.. .26@28 
Medium  ............ 27@30|Unwashed........... lt>@22

WOOL.

OYSTERS.

OYSTERS AND FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Fairhaven Counts......   ................................ 40
FRESH  FISH
Black bass.............................
Rock bass...'..........................
Perch..................... 1...............
Wall-eyed  pike.....................
Duck-bill  pike— .................
Sturgeon................................
Sturgeon,  smoked.................
Trout.................................... .
Trout, smoked......................
Whiteflsh.............................
Whiteflsh, smoked...............
Brook Trout.........................
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen.............................25®65

FIELD SEEDS.

Clover,  mammoth...............................  ®4
“  medium.................................   ®4
Timothy, prime.................................   @1

E . F A L L A S ,

Makes a Specialty of 

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Butter  and  Eggs,  Fruits  and  Oysters

Cold Storage in Connection.  All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention.

We Handle the Celebrated “ROCK BRAND” Oysters.

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

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Morning  Glory..............................
Acme...............................................
Maple Leaf......................................
Onondaga............................................ 1 35
Darby.................................................. 1 50
Osborn................................................. 1 30
New Process........................................1 15
B artlett................................................1 10
Peas, French...................................................1 50
Peas, extra marrofat......................... 1 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked.............................. 
71
Early June, stand.....................1 50@1
sifted..................................2 00
French, extra fine...... "..........................20 00

Mushrooms, extra  fine......... .....................20 00
Pumpkin, 3 »  Golden.....................................1 10
Succotash, standard....................................80®1 30
Squash............................................................1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands.......................... 1 20
10^ 10^4
Michigan full  cream..
@1154
York  State, Acme.....................   .. 
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03
Wilbur’s  Premium..35 German Sweet
Sweet........25 Vienna Sweet
........37
B’kf’tCocoa45 Baker’s .........
Cocoa-theta 42 Runkles’........ ......... 35
Vanilla Bar 28

chocolate.

CHEESE.

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Schepps,ls...........................................  @25
Is and  54b..............................  @36
54s..........................................  @27
Is in tin pails........................  @2754
54b 
@2854
Maltby’s,  Is.........................................  @2354
Is and  54b...........................   @24
54s........................................  @2454
Manhattan,  pails................................  @20
Peerless  ..............................................  @18
Bulk.....................................................  @15
60 »S 100 »s 390 »s

COFFEES—PACKAGE.
Lion............................................ 
Lion,  in cabinets....................... 
XXXX...................................... 27%  27%  27
Arbuckle’s  ................................27%  2754  27
Dilworth’s .................................  
Standard  ................................... 
German...................................... 
German, in  bins........................  
Magnolia....................................  
Eagle......................................... 27%  27%  27
Mexican................................... 18 
18

27
27%

2754
27
27
27%
27
18 
Roasted.

COFFEES.

Green.

554
7

CORDAGE.

x   x x x

754

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8
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11%
9%
15%

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Rio...................25@28
Golden Rio.......26@27
Santos.............. 24@27
Maricabo..........26@27
Java................. 26@31
O. G. Java........27@33
iMocba.............. 31@32

Rio................. 2l@23
Golden Rio..... 22®24
Santos.............23@25
Maricabo........23@24
J a v a .............. 23@25
O. G. Java.......24@27
Mocha  ............ 25@26.
60 foot Jute......I 00 
156 foot Cotton... .1 60
72 foot J u te ......  1 25  60 foot Cotton... .1 75
4 0  Foot Cotton___1 50  |72foot Cotton 
2 00
CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.
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654

Kenosha Butter.......................
8eymour Butter.....................
Butter......................................
Fancy  Butter..........................  »54
S.  Oyster......... .......................
Picnic......................................
Fancy Oyster..........................  454
Fancy  Soda.............................  5
City Soda.................................
Soda  .......................................
Milk.........................................
Boston.....................................
Graham...................................
Oat Meal.................................
Pretzels, hand-made...............
Pretzels...................................
Cracknels..........., ...................
Lemon Cream..........................  7
Sugar Cream...........................   7
Frosted Cream........................
Ginger  Snaps..........................  7
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.................  7
Lemon  Snaps..........................
Coffee Cakes...........................
Lemon Wafers........................
Jumbles...................................
Extra Honey Jumbles............
Frosted Honey  Cakes............
Cream Gems...........................
Bagievs  Gems........................
Seed Cakes..............................
S. & M. Cakes..........................

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

13%
11%12%
13%
13%
13%
12%
8%
1» @  22
Currants..............................................5%@  6
Lemon Peel.........................................  @  14
Orange Peel.........................................  @ 14
Prunes, French, 60s.............................  @1054
“  French, 80s..............................  @8
“  French,  90s.............................  © 7
“  Turkey..................................  @5
“  Bohemia.................................  
5
Raisins, Dehesia................................. 3 50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers.....................   @1 80
Raisins, California  “ 
.....................   @1 65
Raisins, Loose Muscatels....................1 40® 1 5G
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s..................... .  8%@ 854
Raisins. Sultanas......... ......................  8  @ 854
Raisins, Valencia, new.................. . 
@654
Raisins, Imperials..............................   @3 00

8
8
8
1254
854

SAUCES.

Parisian, 54  pints...........................
Pepper Sauce, red  small...............
Pepper Sauce, green......................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring........
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring..,
Catsup, Tomato,  pints...................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ...............
Halford Sauce, pints.....................
Halford Sauce, 54 pints..................

SOAPS.

@2  00 
@  70 
@  80 
@1 
@1 50 
@  90 
@1  20 @3 50 
@2 20

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SPICES—WHOLE.

60
70
65
60
1754
29

ily .......................2 94

“ 
SPICES—PURE  GROUND.

Acorn.................... 3 85l Extra Chicago Fam-
M aster.............. ,.A   901 
New Process, 1  »..3 85 Napkin...................4
New Process, 3 »..3 96 Towel.................... 4
Acme,  bars...........3 55 White  Marseilles..5 50
Acme,  blocks......  3 05j White Cotton  Oil..5 50
Best  American__2 93|UAilroud................3 50
Circus  ...................3 70 U. G....................... 3 45
Big Five  Center...3 85 Mystic White.........4 65
Nickel.................... 3 45 Saxon  Blue...........2 60
Shamrock..............3 15 S ta r....................... 3
Blue Danube.........2 55i Loudon Family....2 30
Allspice.........................  
654
65
Cassia, China in mats.......................... 
“  Batavia in bundles................. 
l<>
“  Saigon in rolls........................ 
40
Cloves, Amboyna.......................
“  Zanzibar......................
Mace Batavia...................................... 
Nutmegs,  fancy.................................  
No. 1................................... 
No. 2................................... 
Pepper, Singapore,  black..................  
white................. 
Allspice...............................................
Cassia, Batavia...................................
“ 
and  Saigon.................
“  Saigon...................................
Cloves, Amboyna................................
“  Zanzibar.....................   .......
Ginger, African...................................
“  Cochin....................................
Jamaica.................................
“ 
Mace Batavia......... :...........................
Mustard,  English................................
and Trieste............
Trieste.................................
Nutmegs,  No. 2...................................
Pepper, Singapore black....................
white....................
Cayenne................................
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 »  boxes, 1  »   pkgs...
...
48“ 
“
“ 
“ 
“ 
40»  “  b u lk ...........
**  72 »  crates, 8 fi> boxes..
“ 
“  Corn, 40 »  boxes, 1 »  pkgs....
“  20»   *• 
....
“ 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1» pkgs....
“  6 0> boxes...
“ 
b u lk .........
“ 
“ 
“ Pure, 1 ft pkgs........................
Corn, 1 »  pkgs......   ........
“ 
Royal, Gloss, 1 ft packages.................
“ 
“  bulk...............................
“  Corn........................................
Firmenicb, new process, gloss, 1ft....
“ 
3 ft....
6 lb....
“ 
“ bulk, boxes or bbls
corn. 1 lb..............

18@2
70 
20 
22 
25 
65 
21 32 
25
@ 5% 
@ 554 
‘  4 
@ 6% 
@ 6 
@  6% 7
@ 754 
@ 654 
@ 554 
@ 7 
@ 5% 
@ 4 
@ 6 
© 5% 
@ 554 
@ 6! @ 4 
@ 6 
© 5% @ 6
Cut  Loaf..........................
@  6% 
Cubes .............................
@  6? © 6! @6.31 
Powdered........................
Granulated,  Standard...
@ •'>?,
Confectionery A..............
@5%
__  
Standard A.
No. 1, White Extra  C..........................5%@ 554
@ 5%
No. 2, Extra C.
No.3 0 ............
@ 4% 
No.4 C............
@ 4%
No.SC............

Niagara,  gloss. 
corn.

1 »   “ 

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TOBACCO—FINE CUT

-IN  PAILS.

Corn,  barrels  ......
Corn, 54 bbls...........
Corn, 10 gallon kegs 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.
Pure Sugar,bbl....
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl..
Uncle Tom................37
What Is It?............... 25
Cherry......................60
Five and Seven........45
Magnet.................
Seal of Detroit..........60
Jim Dandy................38
Our  Bird...................26
Brother Jonathan...2T
Jolly Time.............,.30
Our  Leader.............33
Sweet  Rose..............32
May  Queen..............65
Dark AmericanEagle67
The Meigs.................60
Red  Bird...................60
Prairie Flow er........65
Indian Queen...........60
May Flower.............. 70
Sweet  Pippin...........45
H ustler....................22
Our  Leader.............10
Mayflower................23
Globe.........................22
Mule Ear.

 

Bad Boy.................... 35
Cinderella................. 25
HI There...................30
5®^ 
CrossCut.................. 3 6 '—  - 
Old Jim .....................35
Old Time...................30
Underwood’s Capper %
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Atlas.........................35
Royal Game..............38
Mule Ear...................66
Fountain...................74
Old Congress.............64
Good Luok................52
Blaze Away..............35
Hair Lifter.........   ...80
Hiawatha................. 65
Globe....................... 65
Crown Leaf..............66
Sunset.......................36
Hiawatha................. 23
Old Congress.............23
May  Leaf................. 22
2<gDark.......... ............ 20

Groceries.

WHOLESALE  FBIGB  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.
Crown  ..................   80|Paragon............... 2 10
Frazer’s...............   90 Paragon 25 lb pails.  90
Diamond  X ...... . 
Modoc, 4 doz......... 2 501

60 Fraziers, 25 lb pails.1

AXLE  GREASE.

BAKING  POWDER.

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2 
2 
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BLUING

54 
54 
1 
5 

“  2  “ 
2 »  “  1  “ 

85
.  1 60 
.  3 00 
25 
.  1 25 
.  2 25 
.  4 25 
.  28 
.  45
.  75
.  1 40 
.  2 40 
12 00 
.  2 00 
.  15

Acme, % lb cans, 3 doz. case..............
“  54» 
“ 
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“  .............
“ 
“  B ulk......................................
Princess,  54 s........................... ........
Hs.......................................
Is........................................
bulk....................................
Arctic, 54 lb cans, 6 doz. case............
............
............
............
............
Victorian, 1 lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz......
Diamond,  “bulk.” .............................
25
Dry, No. 2__ ................................. doz.
Dry, No. 3.... ................................. doz.
45
Liquid, 4 oz,. ................................. doz.
35
Liquid, 8 oz. ................................... doz.
65
Arctic 4 oz... ................................. $  gross 3 50
7 20
Arctic 8  oz..
Arctic 16 oz.. ............................................. 12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box............................. 2 00
........................... 3 00
Arctic No. 2
4 00
Arctic No. 3
No. 2 Hurl... ......... 1  75| Common Whisk... .  90
No. 1 Hurl... .2 00@2 25|Fancy  Whisk...... .1 00
No. 2 Carpet. .........2 25 Mill.......................
No.l Carpet. .........2 50| Warehouse  .......... .2 75
Parlor Gem. .......3  OOl
Clams, 1 lb, Little Neck............... •............1 10
Clam Chowder.  3 lb...................................2  15
Cove Oysters, 1 lb standards....................  90
Cove Oysters, 2 lb standards...................   1 75
Lobsters, 1 »picnic........................................1 75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic.................. . — ......2 65
Lobsters, 1» star...........................................2 00
Lobsters. 2 »  star...........................................3 00
Mackerel, 1» fresh standards......................1 45
Mackerel, 5 »  fresh standards......................5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 » .................... 3 50
Mackerel, 3 » in Mustard...............................3 50
Mackerel. 3 »  soused.....................................3 50
Salmon, 1 »  Columbia river...........................1 70
Salmon. 2 »  Columbia river.........   ..........3 00
Sardines, domestic 54b...............................6®7
Sardines,  domestic  54s...........................   10@12
Sardines,  Mustard  54s................................ 9@11
Sardines,  imported  54s............................. 12@13
Trout, 3 ft brook......................................   4 00

CANNED FISH .

BROOMS.

CANNED FRUITS.

Apples, gallons, standards............................3 75
Blackberries, standards...........................   80
Cherries,  red standard..................................1 20
Damsons.........................................................1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
............................1 15
Gooseberries..............................................  85
Green Gages, standards 2 » ......................1 15
Peaches, Extra Yellow............................. 1 75
Peaches, standards................................... 1 55
Peaches,  seconds...................................... 1 45
Peaches, pie............................................... 1 10
Pears.......................................................... 1  10
Pineapples, standards...............................1 35
Quinces......................................................115
Raspberries,  extra................................... 1 25
red ...................................... 1 35
Strawberries  ............... ............................1  20
Whortleberries.........................................  80
Asparagus, Oyster Bay..................................2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard.............................  75
Beans, Stringless, Erie.............................  90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.................... 1 70
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy............................. 1 49

CANNED VEGETABLES.

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12» kits 

Cod, whole............... .................................S@5%
Cod, boneless......   ................................. 5%@6%
H alibut...................................... 
854® 954
Herring, round,  54  bbl.......................  ®2 90
Herring .round,  54  bbl.............................  1  75
Herring, Holland,  bbls............................11 00
Herring, Holland, kegs..........................  65®75
Herring, Scaled........................................ 1«@22
Mackerel, shore, No. 1,54  bbls.................  20 00

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

“ 
.........3 00
“ 
.............. 2 50
No. 3. 54 bbls.................. .'........ 6 50
Sardines,  spiced, 54s.................................10@12
Trout, 54  bbls........................................... 5 50
10 fl> kits.........................................  86
White, No. 1,54 bbls..................................7 50
White, No.l, 12 »  kits...............................1  10
White, No. 1,10 lb kits...............................1 00
White, Family, 54 bbls...............................3 75
kits...................................  75
Lemon. Vanilla.
1 61
2 65
4 26
5 00
1
1 75 3 00
9 00
9 00 18 00
1 85
5 00
7 00
Grand Haven,  No. 8, square.......................  95
Grand Ha ?en, No 9, square, 3 gro...............1  15
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor................... 1 76
Grand Haven,  No. 3oO, parlor................... 2 25
Grand Haven,  No.  7,  round...................... 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2.............................................1 00

Jennings’D.C.,2 oz..............$  doz.  1 00 
“  4 oz.......................... 1 60 
“  6 oz.......................... 2 50 
“  8 oz.......................... 3 50 
“  No. 2 Taper............ 125 
“  No. 4 
“  54 pint, round..........4 50 
“ 
“  1 
“ 
“  No. 3 panel..............1  10 
“ 
“  No. 8 
..............2 75 
“  No. 10  “ 
..............4 25 

MATCHES.

 

 

Richardson’s No. 8  square......................... 100
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
............................. 150
Richardson’s No. 754, round........................1 00
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
............................. 150
Woodbine. 300...............,>.............................1 15
Black Strap.............................................. 16@18
Cuba Baking.............................................25®28
Porto  Rico................................................24@30
New  Orleans, good..................................28®34
New Orleans, choice.................................44@60
New Orleans, fancy.................................52®55

MOLASSES.

54 bbls. 2c extra

I 

OATMEAL 

ROLLED OATS
Barrels..................5 75 Barrels.................. 5
Half barrels..........3 00 Half barrels.......... 3 00
Cases...........2 25@3 25,Cases.............2 25@3 25
Medium..............................  ..............  @7 00
54 bbl......................................  @4 00
Small, bbl........................... ...............   @8 50
54 bbl......................................   @4 75

PICKLES.

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PIPES.

RICE.

Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........  @2 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........  @1
American T.D....................................   @
Choice Carolina.... .7 
554
Prime Carolina...... 6  P atn a......................554
Good Carolina.......554 Rangoon..........   @4!
Good Louisiana..... 554 Broken. 
........3%@3%
Table  ...................;.5541Jap an ..................... 654
De Land’s pure.......5541 Dwight’s .................. 5
|Sea  Foam.................5)4
Church’s  .............. 5 
Taylor’s G. M......... 5 
¡Cap Sheaf...............5

]Java  ............... 

SALERATUS.

54c less in 5 box lots.

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

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy..........................2 00@2 25
28 Pocket............................................. 1 90@2  15
2 35
1003 lb pockets.........
Saginaw or  Manistee.....................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...
80 
3 15 
Ashton. English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.
75 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags...
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags.........
20 
Rock, bushels.................................
21 40 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags...............
20

54  “

PLUG.

SMOKING

Eye Opener............. 25iBlue  Blazes............... 25
Pauper  ....................81 Capper...... ...............35
Peach Pie................31 Jupiter  ..................... 25
Star 
...............37 NightCap................. 22
Old Solder................ 37  Splendid.................  38
Clipper  .................... 34] Red Fox.................... 40
Cornerstone........... 34|Big  Drive...................40
Scalping  Knife........34 Chocolate  Cream ....40
Sam Boss...................34 Nimrod.................... 35
N ex t....................... 29  Big Five Center........ 33
Jolly Time.............. 32|Parrot....................... 42
Favorite................. 4S|Buster....................... 35
Black  Bird.............. 32  Black Prince.............35
Live and Let Live.. .32 Black  Racer.............85
Quaker.................... 28  Climax  .................... 42
Big  Nig........*..........37 Acorn  ......................39
Spear Head............ 37  Horse  Shoe.............. 37
P.  V.........................36  Vinco....................... 34
Spring Chicken....... 36 Merry War................ 26
Eclipse  ....................30 Ben  Franklin............33
Turkey.....................39 Moxie........................34
Q. &Q........................24 Black Jack.................32
Lark........................ 22iMu sselman’s Corker. 30
Turn  Yum...............301 P u re .........!...............15
Our  Leader.............15 S ta r........................... 20
Old Vet.................... 30 Unit  ..........................30
Big Deal................... 27 Eight  Hours..............24
Navy Clippings........26 Lucky  ...................... 30
Leader.................... 15 Two  Nickel................25
Hard Tack...............30 Duke’s  Durham........40
Dixie....................... 26 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Old Tar.................... 49 Owl............................ 16
Arthur’s  Choice...... 22|RobKoy.................... 24
Red Fox...................28 Uncle  Sam.................27
Gold Dust................26 Lumberman.............. 25
Gold Block..............311 Railroad Boy.............. 36
Seal of G rand Rapids  I Mountain Rose.........18
(cloth)................25 Home Comfort........... 35
Miners and Puddlers.28i01d Rip.......... ......... 60
...... 24 Seal of North Caro-
Peerless
lina, 2  oz................48
...... 20 
......18! Seal of North Caro-
Old Tom...........
lina, 4oz.................48
..24 
Tom & Jerry...
....... 25
Joker...............
Seal of North Caro­
....... 35
lina, 8 oz................. 45
Traveler.........
....... 25
Maiden............
Seal of North Caro­
Pickwick Club..........40
lina; 16 oz boxes.... 42 
Nigger Head.............26
King Bee, longcut.. .22
Holland.................... 22
Sweet Lotus.............. 33
Grayling...................33
German.................... 11
Seal Skin...................30
HOney  Dew..............26
Colonel’s Choice.......15
Red Clover................33
...........22|Good  Luck............... 26
Queen  Bee.
‘.aolNavy......
Blue  Wing.
..............30
SNUFF.
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.
Maccoboy....................
@  55 
Gail & Ax’ 
....................
@  44 
Rappee........................
@  35 
Railroad  Mills Scotch..................
@  45 
Lotzbeck  ......................................
@1 30
Japan ordinary..........................................18@20
Japan fair to good.....................................25@30
Japan fine.................................................. 35@45
Japan dust.................................................15@20
Young Hyson............................................ 20@45
GunPowder............................................... 36@50
Oolong.................................................33@55@6C
Congo.........
.25@3Q
50 gr. 
10 
10 
16
90

VINEGAR.
White Wine.......................
Cider..........................................
York State Apple......................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported............................... 
76
Burners,  No. 0....................................   @70
80
90
Cocoa Shells, bulk..................................  @4
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand...............   @7 70
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 lb cans................  @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @11
Candles. Hotel.....................................  @12
Camphor, oz., 2 lb boxes......................   @35
Extract Coffee, V. C............................  @80
Felix........................   @1 20
Fire Crackers, per box...................... 
Fruit Jars, pints....................................  @11 00
“  quarts..................................  @12 90
“  2-quarts................................   @15 00
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps........................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
....................   @35
Gum, Spruce.........................................   30@35
Hominy, $  bbl.......................................   @3 00
Jelly, in 301b  pails..............................   5  @  554
Pearl Barley....................................... 2%@ 3
Peas, Green  Bush.................................   @1 15
Peas, Split  Prepared.............................  @3
Powder, Keg..........................................   @5 00
Powder, 54  Keg......................................  @3 75
Sage  .......................................................  © 15
Sago  .......................................................  @ 
Tapioca..................................................  @ 

do 
American.......................... 
do  N o.l..................................... 
do  No. 2..................................... 

30 gr. 
08
.  08

TEAS.

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CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: 

STICK.

do
do

MIXED

854@ 9 
@ 9 
@10
@ 9 
@ 8 
@10 
@ 9 
@1154 
@10 
@10 
@ 9
@12
@13
@13
14
18
10
12
14
15
14
15 
13 
12 
18 
18
16
20
13
14

Standard, 25 1b boxes 
! Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft pails.
Royal, 200 lb bbls..............................
Extra, 25 ft pails..............................
Extra, 2001b bbls..............................
French Cream, 251b pails................
Cut loaf, 25 n> cases.........................
Broken, 25 1b pails...........................
Broken. 2001b  bbls...........................
FANCY—IN 5 lb BOXES.
Lemon Drops..................................
Sour Drops.......................................
Peppermint  Drops........................ .
Chocolate Drops.............................
H M Chocolate  Drops....................
Gum  Drops  ...................................
Licorice Drops................................
AB 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....................
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in pails.................
@1155
Lozenges, plain in  Dbls..................
@1054
Lozenges, printed in pails..............
@1254
Lozenges, printed in  obis...
@1154
Chocolate Drops, in pails....................  @1254
Gum Drops  in pails...........................   @ 654
Gum Drops, in bbls.............................  @554
Moss Drops, in pails........................... 9  @10
Moss Drops, in b b ls...........................   @9
Sour Drops, in  pails...........................   @12
Imperials, in  pails..............................   @1254
Imperials  in bbls................................  @1154
Bananas  ............................................1 75@3 50
Oranges, California,  fancy................  ®
Oranges, California,  choice...............   @3 50
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.......................
Oranges, Florida.................................
Oranges, Valencia, cases....................
Oranges, Messina...............................3 5o@4 00
Oranges, OO.........................................   ©
Oranges, Imperials............................ 3 5C@4  00
Lemons, choice.................................. 3 00@3 50
Lemons, fancy.............................  ... .3 50@4 00>
Lemons, California.............................
Figs, layers, new,  $  lb....................... 10  @15
Figs, Bags, 501b...................................  @ 8
Dates, frails d o ..................................  ® 554'
DateB, % do  d o .................................   @18%/
Dates, Fard 10 lb box $   ft..................   954@10
Dates, Fard 501b box  $  lb..................  @8
Dates. Persian 50 lb box $ D ..............  7  @ 754
Pine Apples, $ doz..........................  2 00@3  00
Almonds,  Tarragona........................ 1754@18
@17 
@17 @ 9 
@10 
“ 
@ 9 
@17 
“ 
15 
“ 
11 
Pecans, Texas, H. P ............ .*............ 10
@14
“  Missouri....................................8  @ 9
Cocoanuts, $  100.................................5 50@6 00-
PEANUTS.
4
r-
Choice 
d o ...........................  @  454
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ............................ 4%®  5
Choice White, V a.do..........................  ®  554.
Fancy H P,. Va  d o ..........................  @6
H .P.V a...............................................   5%@  6

Walnuts,  Grenoble............................ 16

Ivaca.
California

FRUITS.

NUTS.

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1 

@S  Brazils.................................................
@^® I Filberts, Sicily.....................................
Barcelona.............................
^  
Sicily...................................
French..................................

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................................  554@ 754
Fresh  Beef, bind quarters.................  854® 9
Dressed Hogs......................................   @  054
Mutton...... ..........................................  754® 8
Lamb spring......................................1  @1254
Veal......................................................7  @ 754
Pork Sausqge.....................................  
Bologna...................................................  @ 6
Fowls....................................................12  @13
Ducks  ................................................ 
Turkeys  ......... :.................................. 12  @13
Lard,  kettle-rendered......... ..............   754Q8

 

 

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Stale Board of Pharmacy.

One Y ear—Jacob Jenson, Muskegon.
Two Years—Jam es  Vernor, D etroit.
Three Years—O ttm ar Eberbach, Ann  Arbor. 
F our Yeans—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Five Years—Stanley K. Parkell, Owosso. 
P resident—O ttm ar  Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, July 5 and #. 
Special Meeting—At Petoskey, July 15 a nd 18.

M f c h ic a n   S ta t e   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s ’n .

President—F rank J. W urzburg, G rand Rapids.
F irst V ice-President—Mrs. C. W. Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-President—H enry Harwood, Ishpem ing. 
Third Vice-President—F rank lnglis, D etroit.
Secretary—S. E. F a r kill, Owosso.
T reasurer—Wm. Dupont. D etroit. 
Executive C omm ittee—Geo. W . C ronter, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of M eeting—At  Petoskey, July It, 18 and 11.

_  _  .
F rank W ells, Geo. G undrum  and Jacob Jesson.

G r a n d   R a p i d s   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1881.

President—Geo. G. Btekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locner.
Secretary—F rank H. Escort.
TrpiLKtirer—H enry  B. 1? aircnilu.
B oard of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec-
RoarA of Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Kimm, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
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. Fair-
Comm ittee ^ ^ L e g isla tio n —R.  A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
Com.nitrte“ n P k a r m ^ - W . L. W hite, A. C. B auer and
R e^dar^R eetings—F irst  Thursday  evening  In  each
AimuaLMeeting—F irst  Thursday evening in November^ 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  July  7,  a t  t h e  

T r a d e sm a n office.

D e t r o i t   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty .

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1888.

P resident—F rank  lnglis.
F irst V ice-President—F. W • R- Perry.
Second Vice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
S ecretary and Treasurer—F. K ohnert.
A ssistant S ecretair 
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A nnual M©etinir—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst Wednesday in  each  m onth.

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C e n t r a l   M ic h i g a n   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, J. W. Dunlop;  Secretary, R.  M. Mussell.
B e r r i e n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

C l i n t o n   C o u n ty   D r u g g is ts *   A s s o c i a ti o n . 

President, A. 0 . H unt;  Secretary, A. 8.  W allace.
C h a r l e v o ix  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty  
President, H. W. W illard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

I o n i a  C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 
President, W. R. C utler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

J a c k s o n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s ’n . 

President, R. F. L atim er;  Secretary, F.  A. King.

K a la m a z o o  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   A s s o c ia tio n . 
President, D. O. Roberts;  Secretary, D. McDonald.____
M a s o n   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 

President, F. N. Latim er;  Secretary, Wm. H eysett.
M e c o s ta   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
President, C. H. W agoner;  Secretary, A. H. W ebber.

M o n r o e   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 

President, S. M. Sackett;  Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M u s k e g o n   C o u n ty   D r u g g i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n , 
President, W. B. W ilson;  Secretary, Geo. W heeler.

M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C le r k s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, E. C.  Bond;  Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
N e w a y g o   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Miller.

O c e a n a  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, F rank Cady.
S a g in a w   C o u n ty   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty , 
President, Jay   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. Prall.
S h ia w a s s e e  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty

T u s c o l a  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u t i c a l  S o c ie ty . 

President, E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.

T he Petoskey Convention.

Owosso,  June 10,1887.

E, A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r Sib—The druggists of  the Eastern 
part of the State  have made  arrangements 
for an excursion  from  Detroit to Petoskey, 
to attend  the July  meeting  of  the  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association.  Why  cannot 
a  similar  excursion  be  arranged  for  the 
druggists of  the  Western  portion  of  the 
State?  Such  an  arrangement  would  cer­
tainly  add to the  pleasure of  the  trip and 
undoubtedly insure a larger attendance.
Parties  interested  in  this  matter  will 
please  correspond  with  II.  D.  llarvey, of 
Bangor.
The prospects for an  unually  good meet­
ing are  brightening  every  day.  Even  at 
this early date,  a large  number  have signi­
fied their intention of attending.
In order  that  we may  perfect  arrange­
ments for the entertainment at the meeting, 
we wish again to request all persons intend­
ing to be present to notify the Secretary.
St a n ley E.  P a b k ii.l,  Sec’y.

Status of the Liquor Legislation.

Frank Wells,  chairman of the Legislative 
Committee of the Michigan  State  Pharma­
ceutical  Association,  writes  T h e  T r a d e s­
man as follows relative to the presen tbtatus 
of the liquor  bill  now  before  the  Legisla­
ture:
The amendments  thus  far  made  to  the 
liquor bill in  the  Senate  somewhat  reduce 
the extreme penalties  to  be  inflicted  upon 
druggists  for  violation  of  its  provisions. 
What the final outcome  will  be  of  all  the 
proposed liquor legislation  which  this  bill 
includes  is, at  the  present  time,  quite  an 
obscure problem.
The amendment  to  the  Pharmacy  Law, 
which passed the  House several weeks ago, 
has been  amended  in  the  Senate, to  meet 
the  view of the  Board  of Pharmacy,  and is 
on the order of third reading  and  will pass. 
It will have to  go  back  to  the  House  for 
concurrence  in  the  amendments  and  will 
probably meet with no opposition.

Special  Meeting of the Board of Pharmacy.

Muskegon, June 10,  1887.

De a r   Sir—A  special  meeting  of  the 
Michigan  Board of  Pharmacy will be held 
at  Petoskey, July  15 and 16,  in  the High 
School building,  for the purpose of examin­
ing candidates for registration  as registered 
pharmacists.
This meeting is called  for the purpose of 
accommodating  many  candidates  in 
the 
Northern part of the State who wish to pass 
the required examination.
Should  you know of any  person in your 
vicinity who may  desire to come before the 
Board,  please hand him this notice.
Blank applications and further particulars 
can be obtained by addressing the Secretary.

J acob J esson,  Sec’y.

Regular  Meeting  of  the  Board  of  Phar­

macy.

Muskegon, June 10,  1887.

Dea r Sib—A  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Board of Pharmacy,  for th j  purpose of  ex­
amining candidates for  registration,  will be 
held  in  High  School  building,  Griswold 
street,  Detroit,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday, 
July 5 and 6,  1887.  Candidates  will please 
report at  the  hall  at nine o’clock, a.  m.,  on 
Tuesday. 

Yours respectfully,

Jacob Jesson, Sec’y.

Philosophy of  the Dead-Beat.

W ritten  Especially f o r  The T r a d e sm a n .

I am well aware that I have taken an im­
mense theme on  my hands and  that  I  can 
only touch a remote  outline  of  my subject, 
and that in  a  very primitive  and  bungling 
manner.  But,  the  truth  is,  every  theme 
upon which one  can  touch,  if  followed up 
critically, will  lead  on  and  on,  until  it is 
found  that  a  life  time  and  the  greatest 
genius could only  just  make  a  beginning.
The Duke of  Argyle  in  one  of  his  late 
works,  in considering the  things  and  facts 
of the universe or the unity of nature,  finds 
everywhere and  in  all  things  evidences of 
most  perfect  and  amazing  order,  justice 
and harmony,  as far  as  the  telescope  can 
penetrate distance and  grasp  magnitude or 
the microscope  reveal  the  near  and small. 
Everything  is  lovely,  wondrously  so,  and 
all  things are in perfect  order and  balance 
everywhere among all things and creatures. 
At last he enters the domain of human history 
and begins  to consider the “ways  that  are 
dark” of a certain class of men  in Christian 
communities known  as  dead-beats,  or  the 
morally  paralyzed  of  every  grade  and 
phaze,  from Bonaparte and Phillip the  Sec­
ond’s stamp down to the common cut-throat 
and  chronic  dead-beat  of  modem  society. 
Here the great Duke begins  to flounder and 
finally  breaks down and confesses that it is 
too much for him.  He cannot,  search as he 
will,  ev *   to the remotest regions of the in­
finite,  far  and  near,  find  anything  in  all 
nature nor  any creature  among  the  lower 
animals with  which  to  compare  the man- 
animal, the  dead-beat,  or to  locate him and 
get him fixed up in any decent  shape, so as 
to  take  his  proper  position  in  this  vast 
scheme, otherwise perfectly harmonious and 
“all very good. ”  Several times he attempts 
it,  but he lias to  give  it  up  in  despair,  at 
last,  and  confess 
that  there  is  really  no 
place or theory,  plan  or  method  by  which 
order, harmony,  peace or justice, on  a large 
or on a small scale, can  make  the existence 
of  human  hyenas  an  endurable  dispensa­
tion.

He notices that all lower animals of every 
species (with  developed  man)  make  a  suc­
cess of existence, their instincts always lead­
ing them directly to their food or the mater­
ials  necessary  to  their  comfort,  these  in­
stincts being the inspiration that causes the 
animals to go exactly right  and never make 
mistakes in their life mission.

But man,  without a moral  light  to guide 
him  (sense of  obligation, sympathy,  affec­
tion,  gratitude,  etc.), it is noticed, makes  a 
total  and  complete  failure;  and,  although 
often  tumbling  into  the  ditch  or  getting 
burned  and  punished  for  dishonesty  and 
soullessness,  never  learns  by  experience 
that it is against nature’s laws to prey upon 
his fellows, but drifts on and on, only learn­
ing a little  more  craft, until  death  ends a 
wasted life.

Well,  what the Duke of Argyle  gives  up 
none of  us can hardly  expect  to solve; but 
still there are a few phases of  dead-beating 
upon which we  can, perhaps,  throw  some 
light,  as bringing it  within  the  department 
of a located fact and its “place in nature.” 
We often see a man crawling upon all fours, 
to  speak  figuratively, and  groveling in the 
mud for many a long  day's  travel, creeping 
towards some man at a distance,  in order to 
get “help”  to  rise  to  his  feet  and  walk. 
Fence posts or other opportunities are found 
all  along  the  route,  within  arm’s  length, 
by which he  can,  with  one-fiftieth  part  of 
the  expenditure  of  strength  required  to 
crawl after assistance,  help himself up,  and 
become a swift runner  in  life’s  race.  Yet 
lie persists in wallowing and grovelling and 
creeps  cringingly and  fawningly to  a  dis­
tant “friend” for  assistance  to rise, and,  if 
he can get a single  dollar’s “assistance,” at 
the cost of from  ten  to  twenty  dollars  in 
time  spent in mud wallowing,  he  is  rejoic­
ed more than in the possession  of  one hun­
dred honestly earned dollars.

This is seen to  be  a  fact, very  common, 
indeed, and  we  wish  to  consider it, to see 
what it indicates—to  observe  among  other 
facts, for  instance, the  man  who  rises  to 
his feet by self-help  and  gets  the money’s 
worth of his time  and receives  the greatest 
possible return in exchange for the least ex­
penditure of effort. 
It  is  certain  that  the 
man does not claim  any  credit or  glory for 
being honest or following the one right way, 
the  best and only way by which permanent 
success is to be attained,  any more  than for 
eating and drinking  pure  food  and  water, 
because of certain laws and instincts  which 
imperatively require certain ways and means 
to insure sound physical health.  But here is 
a character  who coolly and deliberately fol. 
lows a  course  which,  in the  long  run, re­
quires the  expenditure  of  ten  dollars  and 
probably one hundred,  In  order  to  possess 
one, and the one  of  that  nature  that  even 
this also  slips  away.  Getting  scooped  in 
time  alter  time,  and  compelled  to  refund 
many’  times  over  the  amount  swindled 
teaches  him nothing. 
It  is  a real or scien­
tific fact  that  a  dishonest  dollar  satisfies 
the moral idiot better than twice the amount 
in lumest money.  What can  be the  matter 
with  the  dead-beat?  He  certainly  wants 
dollars  very desperately,  else he  could  not 
creep so far and take so  much  paius  more 
than necessary in order to get them.  Again, 
I say,  when a man gives two  hours of  hard 
labor in order to  get  a  very few minutes of 
light and easy work  done, or  gives  ten for 
one in any of life’s enterprises and sticks to 
his course,  there  is  certainly  some  deeper 
meaning in the  phenomenon  than  our high 
and scientific scholars have  yet been able to 
discover;  and  there  is  no  more  reason  to 
censure the dead-beat  (in  any  phase  from 
publicans and harlots  down  to  respectable 
beats who get  in  the  largest  jobs of swin­

dling) than there  is  to  censure  any  other 
kind of an idibt or maniac.

Minor Drug Notes.

Artificial fruit  of  piper  nigrum  is  the 

latest.

covered in Russia.

sell turpentine by weight.

Valuable asbestos deposits have been dis­

Prescription bottles are becoming  scarce, 

There is a move on  foot  in  the  East  to 

and the price advancing.
A German  pharmacist  has  introduced a 
plaster which  is  composed of  lead,  plaster 
and Peruvian balsam.
This is the season of the year to stock  up 
on fly-paper, moth powder,  insect  powder, 
colored fires, cholera remedies, etc.

I have often been forced  to  see  the  two 
kinds of creatures, the real  and  the  sham- 
man,  as if  under  a  microscope  of  highest 
magnifying  power  with  an  electric  light 
turned on in the many vicessitudes of war and 
peace,  where men become  as transparent as 
air—side by side, the genuine and the sham 
I  do  swear that  there 
article have I seen. 
are  causes'  and  reasons  for 
the  differ­
ence,  plain,  positive  reasons  that  our  sa­
vants have not touched  upon. 
I can barely 
hint at them  in  a  brief  newspaper  article 
The green glass industry shows less signs 
like  this.  When you see  one  man,  for ex-
of expansion than  either the flint,  window
ample, crawling out into  the  pitiless  tem-  or plate glass  branches.  Not a single new 
pest of lead and iron,  into the jaws of what  lactory is now under  way-
An English exchange states that  a  great 
seems  certain death,  to  rescue  a  wounded 
diversity of opinion  on  important  subjects 
comrade,  maybe  getting  all  shot to  pieces 
characterizes every class in connection with 
in the attempt, sometimes getting away with 
the trade in drugs and chemicals.
him safely,  and then see another man crawl­
Not long ago  an  English  court  divided 
that “laudanum” was laudanum,  even  if  it 
ing out—not exactly in the  same  place,  for 
did not contain opium;  and  now  we  learn 
the rascal can never risk quite  so  much  to 
from the same source that “oil is fat.”
rob men as the man  will  risk  to  save  his 
From all that can  be learned there  is no 
fellow—and creeping up  to  the  corpses  of
general disposition among any branch of the
slain comrades and picking  their pockets of  glass working  fraternity in  the west to de- 
a few dimes  or  dollars,  perfectly  satisfied  »»and an advance in wages, or endeavor to ef-
„  feet such  changes as are  likely to  prolong
with his reward  and  imagining  that he 
yj6 regular  stoppage of the  works  beyond 
made a “big profit,” just as sincerely as the j September 1.
man feels that he  has done  well  in  saving 
his friend, you may be  certain that  there is 
a  genuine  cause  for  these  two  antipodal 
facts,  and that the  two  characters  did  not 
freely choose to create the principles  or im­
pulses which drove them  to  their  work  in 
their respective fields of action and emotion. 
Side  by  sidd  very often  have  many of  us 
seen these  two  different  species,  really be­
longing to two  different  kingdoms  of  life, 
standing  or working  just  as  nature  made 
them work.

In an article on castor beans the New Or­
leans Tlmes-Democrat says:  “So far there 
is no market for  the bean  in the  South, al­
though our  cottonseed oil mills could' easily 
adapt a portion of  their machinery  for the 
manufacture of castor oil. 
It succeeds best 
on rich,  well-drained  land, and, 
it is said, 
adds to its fertility.  There is no difficulty 
In raising  castor  beans in  Louisiana,  and 
they would doubtless  prove more profitable 
than either cotton or cane.”

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The circumstances  that  cause  one  party 
to  fall  into  hysterics  of  side-wrenching 
laughter fill another  with  intense  loathing 
and  disgust;  that  pressure—perhaps  the 
pressure of a debt  unpaid  or a duty undone 
—which causes one to  spring  to  the  work 
with all his might and rejoice in  putting all 
his energies  into  it,  feeling  himself  abun­
dantly blessed that he is permitted to go and 
do his duty,  causes the other to feel exactly 
opposite emotions and slink off in disgust— 
glad to  get  rid  of  duty,  calling  it “good 
luck” to escape the payment of  a  just  and 
honorable debt—and this  right where every 
dollar’s worth of “good luck” costs him,  be­
fore he gets through life,  many hundreds of 
times more than the “good luck” amounts to, 
besides ten thousands times worse than loss 
of  money—the  loss  of  everything  in  life 
that  makes it  worth  the  living, the  •name 
and  character  of  a  real  man.  Again,  I 
say, to  censure  the man-hyena  and  blame 
him for committing moral  suicide  and thus 
jumping over  a precipice  to  destruction is 
equivalent to blaming him for being born and 
educated under  conditions  that  made it im­
possible  for  manhood  to  develop  within 
him.

In war,  for  instance, how often  have we 
seen a certain class curling  up and  playing 
sick,  in one way or another, who  take their 
hearts in their teeth, as it were, all bounding 
and throbbing  with  emotions  of  unspeak­
able intensity,  and carry them  (a most fear­
ful  burden,  indeed)  up  the  hill  into  the 
white-flashing terrors  of  musketry and  ar­
tillery  and  hold  them  there  until  riddled 
with shot,  for the sake of that mighty pow­
er termed principle.  Ask these  spirits why 
they go and do their work,  why they cannot 
go  back  on  duty  (whatever  form  it  may 
take), and shirk off their burdens onto other 
shoulders,  and  they cannot  tell,  any  more 
than the common shot can tell why  it  goes 
on its lightning  course  with  all  the  terror 
of flaming gas impelling  it  to the  mark  of 
destiny.  All  they  know  is  the  fact  that 
they must  go—duty,  or  an  open space, lies 
in  front,  upon  all  sides  an  impenetrable 
wall  of  an  iron-bound  fate.  An  impulse 
awakened  by  contact  with  man  and  sur­
rounding nature  explodes  in  their  hearts,^ 
and they go to  the spot to which nature (to 
them  the  living  God)  aimed them at birth. 
This is ail that can be learned about it—one 
is forced to the front,  to work and duty, the 
other  forced to  the  rear,  to  beat  his  way 
through life at his fellows’ expense.

The dead-beat who can  lie for fifty cents; 
the man  in high position who  can  deceive 
for fifty thousand dollars as did the respect­
able Judge Follett,  and  rob  widows and or­
phans; a  Napoleon 1  or  III  who “profits” 
out of liaman simplicity or calamity—all are 
a species of the  same  animal, differing only 
in  intellectual  caliber.  Their  misfortune 
was to be  born  without  souls, or “in their 
sins” as the  prophet  expressed  it;  and  to 
censure 6t hate them for  climbing  up to  a 
less  or  greater  height, in order  io tumble, 
crushed and bruised into the pit of annihila­
tion,  is to  entirely misinterpret  the  whole 
moral problem.

On the other hand, you find in every com­
munity men who can no  more  go  back  on 
duty or swindle a customer or a friend than 
they can hold their naked  eye-ball  upon  a 
grind stone.  Death and ten thousand times 
more  than  death  will  they  endure  in  the 
flesh,  rather than the more excruciating tor­
ture  of  forfeited  words  of  honor.  They 
may, at  times,  fall,  it  is  true, but  they al­
ways  land  upon  their  feet  plump  and 
straight, still  true men;  like  old Job, their 
integrity of soul remains with  them  to  the 
last gasp—it is  their  life  and  cannot  die. 
And  these  are  known  at  last, no  matter 
what  misfortunes  may  befall  them.  And 
right  by  their  side  stand  the  dead-beats. 
“Satan came also” in every age, and he also 
is  known,  first  or  last,  and  passes  for ex­
actly  what  he  is  worth,  i. e.,  a  dark  and 
fearful  background  upon  which  the  good 
angels of  life shine  forth,  and  each  party 
goes to the place  prepared  for  him  at  the 
beginning. 

C.  H.  Barlow.

That English druggist had  a  keen  sense 
of human nature who said:  “It is a strange 
fact that  three-fourths of the people of this 
country will rather believe the  assertions of 
ignorance  and  mendacity  than  of  culture 
and  truth.  He  who  devotes  himself  to 
educating humanity up to a higher  level  is 
undoubtedly a hero, whose  reward is  usual­
ly martyrdom of some sort, plus his own ap­
probation—not £, s., d., so necessary  to the 
chsmist and  druggist. 
I hope I.  too,  have 
an honest mind; but if I can not  convince  a 
fool of his folly my  conscience  is  void  of 
offense, even if I  give  a  would-be  suicide 
cream of tartar  instead  of  arsenic  when  1 
know lie may obtain the  latter  elsewhere.”

The  Sentinel  on  the Watch Tower.
The drug trade  of  Michigan owe a large­
sized  debt of gratitude  to  Frank  Wells for 
the  efficient  service  rendered  during  the 
present session of  the  Legislature as chair­
man of  the  Legislative  Committee  of  the 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. 
Mr.  Wells’  long  experience  in  legislative 
matters enabled him  to estimate  pretty ac­
curately the  course legislation was likely to 
take in relation to the  drug  trade,  and  the 
care  with  which  he  watched  his  trust, 
sounding the  alarm  whenever  he  thought 
the outlook warranted  such  action,  entitles 
him to the respect  and  friendship of  every 
druggist in the State.

Mutual Insurance -for, Wholesalers.

The agitation of  mutual fire insurance by 
the National Wholesale Druggists’ Associa­
tion has  culminated  in the  organization of 
the Druggists’ Mutual  Fire  Insurance Co., 
at Philadelphia,  with an advance  premium 
fund of  8100,000,  which  sum  will  be al­
lowed to accumulate  until it reaches 8200,- 
000.  Already risks  amounting to 8700,000 
have been taken by the new company.

The Drug Market.

Acid citric has declined and is dull.  Acid 
carbolic is steady.  Gum camphor  still con­
tinues  scarce.  Manufacturers  will take no 
new  orders  and  outside  holders  are  very 
firm.  Gum arabic is  higher  abroad  and is 
very firm here.  Another  advance  is  prob­
able.  Oil  sassafras  has  declined  and  the 
price is  believed  to  have  reached  bottom. 
Gum opium  and  morphia  are  unchanged, 
but  very  firm.  An  early advance  in  both 
articles is confidently looked for.  Quinine is 
hardening in price,  but  no  change  of  any 
moment  is probable.  Bi-chromate  of  pot­
ash  has  advanced.  Chromate  of  potash 
is  lower.  Salacine  in  bulk  has  declined. 
Nutmegs  have  advanced  and  are  tending 
higher.  Eckstein,  Hill  &  Co.  and  Pitts­
burgh corroders  have  advanced  white  lead 
Ke  per  pound.  Western  brands  are  un­
changed.  Linseed oil  lias  again  been  ad­
vanced and is tending higher.

lUÜUU^S.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
'IXTANTED—Registered pharmacists and as- 
iV  8istants who are sober, industrious and 
willing to work.
F OR SALE—Stock of about $1,259 in town of 
39U  inhabitants.  No other drug store in 
town.  Average sales, $15.
I710R SALE—Stock of about $3,500 well locat- 
*  ed  in  Detroit.  Doing  good  business. 
Reason for selling, family affairs.
FOR SALE—Stock of  about  $500 in town of 
800 inhabitants.  No  other  diug  store in 
the place.
F OR SALE—Stock of about $3,500 in town of 
1,300 population.  Doing good  business.
S’  iiOR SALE—Stock of $3,600 in  town  of  2,200 
population.  Average daily sales, $20.
I710R  SALE—Stock  of 
$400  in  suburbs  ot
?  Grand Rapids.
F OR  SALE—Stock  of  $1,509  in  northern 
town of 350 inhabitants.
F OR SALE—Stock  of  $1,300  in  town  of 350 
inhabitants. 
_____
F OR SALE—Stock of aoout $6,u0j in town of 
5,000  inhabitants.  Average  daily  sales
about $40.■LSO—Many  other  stocks,  the  particulars 

of which we will  furnish  on  application.
m o   DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
A   we will furnish the  address  and full par­
ticular^ qf^^se^m ^urdis^ree;_ _ _ _ ____
eTH AVE also secured  the  agency  for J.
H. Vail A Co.’s medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  medical  or  pharmaceutical 
work at publishers' rates.

Michigan Drug Exchange,

857 South Union S i , 

- 

Grand Rapid«.

WH0L18ALI PRICE CURRENT,

Advanced—White lead, linseed oil. 
Declined—Citric acid, oil sassafras, 

bi-chromate potash.
potash, chlorate potash, po.
ACIDCM.

Aceticum..........................................
Benzoicum,  German........................
Carboiicum........................................
Citricum...........................................
Hydrochior.......................................
Nitrocum.......................  .................
Oxallcum.......................................... .
Salicylicum.......................................
Tanuicum..........................................
Tartarioum ........................................
Aqua, 16 deg..
*■  18  deg........
Carbonas..............
Chloridum...........
Cubebae (po.  115.
Juniperus  ...........
Xauthoxylum__
Copaiba__
Peru....................
Terabin,  Canada. 
Tolutan ..............

BALSAMUM.

AMMONIA.

CORTEX.

nutmegs,
chlorate

8®   10
80<ai  oo
45®  50 
57®  60 
3®  5
10@   12 
11®  13 
85@2 10 
40® l 60 
50®  531
3®
4®
11®
12®

___1  10® 1  15
.... 
6®  7
......  25®  30
___  48®  53 J
......  @1 50 j
......  50®  55
,....  40®  45 1

EXTRACTUM.

Abies,  Canadian.................................  
18 j
Cassiae  ............................................... 
11 :
Cinchona Flava................................... 
18
Eaonymus  atropurp................................  
30
Myrica  Cerifera, po................ 
 
20
Prunus Virgin!................................... 
12
Quillaia,  grd.......................................  
12 |
12 j
Sassfras  .............................................  
Ulmus Pd (Ground 12)........................  
10 j
Glycyrrhiza Glabra..............................   24® 25
po..  ................................  83®‘ 35
Haematox, 15 Si boxes........................   8®  9
Is......................................  @  12
Va3  ............................... :.  @  13
¿8  ...................................  ®  15
Carbonate Precip......... :....................   @  15
Citrate and Quinta..............................   @3 50
Citrate Soluble....................................   @  80
Ferrooyanidum Sol.............................  ®  50
Solut  Chloride....................................   ®  15
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 85)....................  D4@  2
pure....................................   @  7

FERRUM.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

FOLIA.

Barosma...................................  
Cassia Acutifol, Tinuivelly..................   20@ 25
Alx.............................  35® 50
Salvia officinalis, kis and 
..............  10®  12
Ura  Ursi..............................................  8®  10

“ 

“ 

 

 

GUMMl.

 
 

 
 

Acacia,  1st picked..............................   @1 00
2nd  “ 
@  90
“ 
3rd 
@  80
“ 
“ 
Sifted sorts...........................   @  65
“ 
•* 
po............................................  75@1 00
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60).............................   50@ 60
“  Cape, (po. 20)..............................   @  12
“  Socotrfne,  (po. 60).....................  
_@  50
Ammoniae  .........................................  25®  30
A8safoetida,  (po. 30)...........................   @  15
Benzoinum................................  
50®  65
 
Camphorae.........................................  3C@  33
Catechu, Is,  (V4s,  14; J4s,16)...............  
13
Euphorbium, po..................................  35®  10
Galbanum............................................  @  80
Gamboge, po........................................  75®  80
Guaiacum, (po. 45)..............................   ®  35
Kino,  (po. 25).......................................   @  20
Mastic..................................................  @1 25
Myrrh, (po. 45)......................................  ®  40
Opii, ipo. 6 00/......................................4 40®4 50
Shellac................................................   18®  25
bleached...................................  25®  30
Tragaeanth.........................................  30®  75
herba—In ounce packages.
25
Absinthium  ........................................ 
Eupatorium  .......................................  
20
Lobelia  ............................................... 
25
28
Majorum  ............................................ 
Mentha Piperita.................................  
23
“  V ir......................................... 
25
R u e .....................................................  
30
Tanacetum,  V....................................  
22
Thymus. V........................................... 
25
Calcined,  Pat......................................  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at...................................  20®  22
Carbonate,  K. & M.............................  20®  25
Carbonate,  Jennings..........................  35®  36

MAGNESIA.

“ 

OLEUM.

Absinthium...............
Amygdalae, Dulc......
Amydalae, Amarae...
Anisi  ........................
Auranti Cortex.........
Bergami!..................
Cajiputi  ....................
Caryophylli...............
Cedar..........................
Chenopodi!...............
Cinnamoni!...............
Citronella  .................
Conium  Mac..............
Copaiba.....................
Cubebae ....................
Exechthitos...............
Erigerou....................
Gaultheria.................
Geranium, 5...............
Gossipii, Sem, gai......
Hedeoma— ..............
Juniperi.....................
Lavendula .................
Limonis.....................
Lini, gal.....................
Mentha Piper............
Mentha Verid............
Morrhuae,  gal...........
Myrcia,  ; ....................
Olive..........................
Pìcis Liquida, (gal. 50)
Ricini........................
Rosmarini.................
Rosae,  j .................. t
Succini  .....................
Sabina........................
Santal........................
Sassafras....................
Sinapis, ess, 5............
Tigiil..............*..........
Thyme.......................
o p t................
Theobromas...............

“ 

.................4 50@5 00
................   45®  50
.................7 00©7 50
................2 20@2 30
................   @2 50
................2 00@2 75
...............   90@1 00
............   @2 00
....... ........  35®  65
................   @1 50
................   90@l  00
....................   35®  65
....................  90® 1 00
.................  9 50@10 0)
....................  90@1 00
.................... 1 20@1 30
....................2 00®2  10
..................  
®  75
....................  55®  76
....................  90@1 00
....................  50®2 00
....................  90®2 00
....................2 25®2 35
....................  42®  45
................. 2 75@3 6J
.................... 5 50@6 00
....................  80®1 00
...........:.......  @  50
.................... I 00@2 75
....................  10®  12
.................... 1 42@1 60
....................  75®1  00
....................  @8 00
.................... 
40® 45
....................  90@1 00
.................... 3 50@7 00
....................  42®  45
....................  @  65
....................  ®1 50
................... V  40@  50
....................\   @  60
...............,..'.15®   20

POTASSI

Bichromate............
Bromide.................
Chlorate, (Po. 20;...
Iodide.....................
Prussiate...............

..  1?®  15 
..  42@  45 
..  18®  20 
..3 00®3 25 
..  25®  23

A lthae.................................................  25®
Anchusa.............................................   15©
Arum,  po............................................  @
Calamus...............................................  20®
Gentiana,  (po. 15)................................  10®
Glyebrrhiza,  (pv. 15)...........................   16®
Hydrastis Canaden,  vpo. 33)...............   ®
Hellebore,  Alba,  po............................  15®
Inula, po.............................................   15®
Ipecac, po............................................2 50®2
Jalapa,  pr............................................  25®
Maranta,  V4s.......................................   @
Podophyllum,  po................................  15®
Khei  ...................................................   75igl
1 
“  cut............
5®1

Spigelia...............................................  48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)...........................   @  20
Serpen tarla.........................................  35®  40
Senega................................................   50®  55
Smilax, Officinalis, H ..........................  ©  40
Mex.....................   @  20
Scillae, (po. 35)....................................   10®  12 j
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po..............  @  25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)...............   @  25
German............................   15®  20 |

“ 

“ 

*• 

SEMEN.

Anisum, (po.22)...................................  ©  17
Apium  (graveolens)...........................  12®  15 !
Bird, Is................................................   4®  6;
Carui,  (po. 20)......................................  12®  15 j
Cardamom............................................1 0C®1 25
Coriandrum.........................................  10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa.................................   3®  4
Cydonium...........................................   75@1 00
Cnenopodium  ....................................   10®  12
Diptenx Odorate.................................1 75@1 85
Foeniculum............................ 
  ®  15
Foenugreek, po...................................  6®  8
Lini........................................................3V4@  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3).........«......................3V4© 
4
Phalaris Canarian..............................   33i@4H
R apa...................................................   5®  6
Sinapis,  Albu......................................  8®  9
Nigra....................................   11®  12

*• 

 

SPIRITUS.

Frumehti, W.,  D. & Co........................2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F.R.................................1 76@2 0C
Frum enti...........................................1 10®1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T............................... 1 75® 1 75
Juniperis Co........................................ 1 7G@3 50
Saaoharum  N. E.................................. 1 75®2 00
8pt. Vini Galli..................................... I 75@6 50
Vini Oporto..........................................1 25©2 00
Vini  A lba........................................   1 25®2 00

do

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage.. ..2 25  @2 50
do
Nassau 
2 00
Velvet Ext  do
1 10
Extra Ye  •  do
85
65
Grass 
do
Hard 
75
1 40
Yellow Reef. 

.for slate use..........
MISCELLANEOUS.

do
do
do
do

Argenti  Nitras,

Alumen,  ground, (po. 7).

Gambler ............................
Gelatin, Coopor.................

Bismuth  8.  N......... .’..........................
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (*>48.11;  fcs, 12)__
Cantharides  Russian, po...................
Capsici  Fructus, af.............................
Capsici Fructus, po.............................
Capsici Fructus, B, po........................
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)........................
Carmine, No. 40.. 
.............................
Cera Alba, 8. &  F ................................
Coccus  ............
Cassia Fructus.
Centrarla........
Cetaceum........
Chloroform,  Squibbs.................
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst..............................
Choudrus............................................  10®
Cinchonidine, P. & W..........................
Cinchonidine,  German.......................
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent__
Crcasotum..........................................
Creta, (bbl. 75)............................ 
 
Creta  prep.........   .................................  6®
Creta, precip..............................
Creta Rubra................................
Cudbear......
Cupri Sulph. 
Dextrine__
Emery, all  numbers.
Emery, po.................
Ergota, (po. 60).........

26® 28
30® 32
24® 3K
3® 4
55® 60
4® 5
55® 60
© 68
38® 40
2 15@2 20
@ 9
@2 00
@ 16
@ 14
80® 33
50® 55
2t@ 30
@ 40
@ 15
@ 10
@ 50
38® 40
@1 00
1 50@1 75
10® 12
15® 20
9® 15
40
@ 50
@ 2
_
5® 6
8® 10
@ 8
25® 30
@ 24
6® 7
10® 12
68® 70
@ 8
® 6
50® 60
12® 15
® 23
7® 8
@ 15
40® 60
less.
9® 15
13® 25
23® 26
@ 15
25® 40
® 75
@ 65
@ 85
®1 00
@ 40
@ 65
1 25® I 50
75© 1 00
4 00@4 10
@5 15
jQ»  OT
10® 12
55® 60
60® 65
2® 3
90© 1 00
3 15@3 85
@ 40
@ 70
@ 10
15® 18
@2 00
@2 70
@1 40
® 85
@ 50
@ 18
© 35
@ 7
14® 15
© 40
@ 15
8® 10
7@ 9
1 10®1 20
@1 00
48® 58
8® 10
58® 63
48® 60
12® 13
® 35
@3 50
40® 50
@4 50
12® 14
8® 10
® 15
@ 28
© 18
@ 30
@ 85
@ 85
8© 10
33® 85
2® 2%
4© 5
3® 4
® 2
50® 55
@2 00
@2 50
@2 25
@1  30
2*@
2K® 3 
8®   10 
28®  30 
50  @  55 
9 00@16 00
7®  8
Gal
75
68
58
46
49
60
45
Lb
Red Venetian.......................
2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles....
2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda......
2® 3
Putty, commercial..............
2K@ 3
Putty, strigtly pure..............
2X@ 3
Vermilion, prime American
13@16 
Vermilion,  English..............
55 ©5.8 
Green, Peninsular...............
16®17 
Lead, red strictly pure......
6®  6K 
Lead, white, strictly pure...
6®  6K @70 
Whiting, white Spanish......
Whiting,  Gilders’.................
@90 
White, Paris American.......
1  10 
Whiting  Paris English cliff. 
1 49 
Pioneer Prepared  I aints... 
1 20@1 40 
Swiss Villa Prepare»  Paints 
1  00® 1  20
VARNISHES
..1 10@1 20 
No. 1 Turp Coach............
Extra  Turp..........................
..1 60@1 70 
Coach Body..........................
..2 75@3 00 
..1 00@1 10 
No. 1 Turp Furniture..........
Extra Turk Damar..............
..1  55® 1  60 
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp....
..  70®  75
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

Glue,  Brown.........
Glue, White...........
Grana  Paradisi.....................
12® 14
Hum ulus..............................
Hydrarg Chlor. Mitt  ............
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.............
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum........
Hydrarg Ammoniati.............
Hydrarg U nguentum............
Hydrargyrum.......................
Icnthyocolla, Am  .................
Indigo....................................
Iodine,  Resubl.......................
Iodoform..............................
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod 
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis.
Lupuline  .......................
Lycopodium..................
Maeis..............................
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. IK)
Mannia, S.F...................
Morphia,  S, P. & W........
Moschus Canton............
Myristica, No. 1.............
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20)__
Os. Sepia........................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co.. 
Picis Liq,  N. C.. V4  galls, doz
PicisLiq.,  quarts...........
Picis Liq., pints..............
Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80)......
Piper Nigra,  (po.22)......
Piper Alba, (po. 35)........
Pix Burgun....................
Plumbi Acet..................
Potassa, Bitart, pure....
Potassa,  Bitart, com__
Potass  Nitras, opt.........
Potass Nitras.......... .
Pulvis Ipecac et opii.... 
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &P
Pyrethrum, pv...............
Quassiae........................
Quinia, S, P. &  W...........
Quinia, S, German.........
Kubia Tinctorum...........
Saccharum Lactis, p v ...
Salacin...........................
Sanguis Draconis...........
Santonine.......................
Sapo, W............... ..........
Sapo,  M..........................
Sapo, G...........................
Seidlitz  Mixture............
Sinapis...........................
Sinapis, opt.........................
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes. 
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. Voes.
Soda Boras, (po. 10)........
Soda et PotossTart........
Soda Carb.......................
Soda,  Bi-Carb.................
Soda, Ash.......................
Soda  Sulphas.................
Spts. Ether Co...............
Spts.  Myrcia Dom.........
Spts. Myrcia Imp..........
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2  10) 
Strychnia, Crystal...  .
Sulphur, Subl.............
Sulphur.  Roll..............
Tamarinds.......... *__
Terebenth  Venice......
Theobromae...............
Vanilla  .......................
Zinci  Sulph.................

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

Bbl
70
63
53
43
46
50
40

Bbl
1«
Hi
IX
2*
2K

Co,., do

Ousliman’B

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Drug Co.

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WITH NEW GOODS

W e  show  herewith  our  latest  importa­

tions in new patterns of

Decorated Crockery

for TEA  and  DINNER  SERVICES.  Pat­
terns which will freshen up all  stocks, and 
at prices  which are  greatly  reduced  from 
those  of any  previous  season.  These  re­
present

from English markets.

The  list  prices  named  serve  only  as  a 
guide, as we give »liberal  discounts  to bona 
fide retailers of our lines. 
If you have not 
received our  CROCKERY  CATALOGUE, 
w e shall be glad  to  forward it on  applica­
tion, and would be especially glad to show 
our  immense  assortm ent  in  our  Fulton 
Street  Stores.

Gold Band I  Sprig

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Both  of  the  above 
patterns  carried  in 
open stock.  Both have 
gold  edges  and  han­
dles and are of the fin­
est English goods.
102 piece Dinner Set, Moss 

Rose, 

-  List price,  $14.50

129 piece Dinner Set,  Moss 

Rose, 

-  List prise, 

20.00

102 piece Dinner Set,  Gold 

Band and Sprig, list price  12.00

129  piece Dinner Set,  Gold 

Band and Sprig, list price  15.90

102 piece Dinner Set, Lustre 

Band and Sprig, list price  8.75

129 piece Dinner Set, Lustre 

Band and Sprig, list price  14.50

This  pattern  is  the  latest 
low  price style in the market. 
There is nothing so good as it 
offered  by  any  other  house.
Try a sample package of it, 
as per our Catalogue, or a few 
sets  alone  as  samples.  W e 
will 
sell  any  number  of 
pieces.

DINNER SETS.

102 Pieces,  -  List Price,  $12.00 
129 
16.50

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Write for Special  Prices.

‘‘FLORAL  V IEW ”  PATTERN
Ten  Piec8 Sets Consist  pf  Complete  Set without  Slop Jar. 

Twelve Piece Sets include Slop Jar.

Brown, Pink or  Blue, “Floral View,” 10 pcs., List price,  $3  OO
5  50
3  OO 
5  50
4  OO 
7   OO

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W rite to us for Special Prices.

12
“Daisy,” 
10
12 
“Mayflower,”  10
12 

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DIRECT PURCHASES  __________________________
of our Mr. Leonard who has just  returned I Handsomely Decorated ‘Waverlÿ

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The American  Tract  Society  appears to 
have been losing ground of late years, and is 
much concerned as to its own future.  At a 
stormy session of  the  society last  month, 
plans of economy and  reconstruction  were 
freely debated,  and  have since  been adopt­
ed.  But we think that the root of the diffi­
culty lies deeper than any detail of the man­
agement. 
It is that the  society  belongs to 
a, past age,  and has no proper  place  among 
the religious  agencies of  this half  of  the 
nineteenth century. 
It originated at a time 
when Evangelicalism  was a dominant  reli­
gious force  on both sides  of the  Atlantic, 
and when the superficial philosophy of. reli­
gion and of society which the  Simeons  and 
the Shaftesburys represented  found expres­
sion in monster  anniversary  meetings  and 
similar machinery.  At that  time Evangeli­
calism dominated  the  Protestant  churches 
also;  but they have shown themselves capa­
ble of  receiving  new  influences  from  the 
newer tendencies of  the  time.  The  Tract 
Society stands for nothing but  mere  Evan­
gelicalism,  and the religious thought of  the 
Country is  drifting  away  from it. 
In the1 
breadth and the interest of  its  publications 
it is distinctly behind such church boards as 
those of the  Methodists,  Lutherans,  Bap­
tists and Presbyterians.  Another source of 
decay has been the loss of  confidence in the 
Tract Society consequent upon its treatment 
of the slavery  problem. 
It is  true  that it 
professed an entire neutrality upon the mat­
ter,  in order to  keep the  South open to its 
publications.  But it stooped to  many most 
unworthy  compliances  with the intolerance 
of the advocates of  slavery. 
It expurgated 
its edition of  M.  D’Aubigne’s  “History of 
the Reformation” of all allusions to slavery, 
and it employed  Dr.  Bethune to  eliminate 
all such allusions from the  memoirs of  his 
grandmother, Mrs. Isabella Graham!  This 
not only lost  it much  support at  the time, 
but discredited it with the rising  generation 
as an institution whose record  was stained.

The national game of base-ball  has  been 
pruned of  some excresences  by the revision 
of the rules which govern  the two  great as­
sociations.  But it  seems  to  us  to  lack  a 
wholesome basis so long as the teams which 
are supposed  to represent the  cities are not 
mad« up of residents of those cities as was the 
case at  the outset. 
It now becomes a ques­
tion merely  of  the  longest  purse  and  the 
greatest “enterprise,” as each city bids dur­
ing the close season for the  men  who  have 
been thought  the  ablest  in  the  preceding 
summer.  This is the reason for the extrav­
agant sums  paid  to  players; and  it  works 
also to lower the  character  of  the  interest 
felt in the game.  It makes local superiority 
not a matter of genuine local  pride  in  ath­
letic culture,  but only of purse-pride at bot­
tom.  And  it  vitiates  the  relation  of  the 
public towards  the  local  team.  The  tone 
taken by the New York newspapers towards 
the Metropolitan Nine illustrates this.  The 
feeling was that the  public of that city  had 
been  swindled  because the nine was beaten 
in the opening  game  of  the  season.  New 
York had  paid for  victory,  and  victory she 
must have.  The game  must  go  from  bad 
to worse  unless  it  be  better  organized  in 
this respect.

The proposed settlement of  the Egyptian 
question,  which  has  been  negotiated be­
tween England and  Turkey, does  not give 
much satisfaction in any quarter.  The Sul­
tan, indeed, seems ready for any terms which 
will put an end to the English occupation of 
the country.  But even that is not to be had 
for three years,  and then  only with  the re­
servation of the right to resume  occupation 
in case of  its invasion  or  the outbreak  of 
disorder.  As the  English  occupation was 
to  put  down  a claim on  the  part of  the 
Egyptian people to control their  own budg­
et,  we  may  imagine  that  a  very  small 
amount of disorder will suffice for eui excuse. 
To give  efficacy  to  the  agreement, the  ac­
quiescence of the Great  Powers is required. 
But  France  certainly will not  accept  any 
such terms, and Russia  announces  her dis­
taste for  them.  There  is  neither  reason 
nor policy  to be alleged  for  them.  They 
neither propose to do justice to the Egyptian 
people, nor conciliate France.

Some of the  newspapers  which were the 
least  favorable to the idea  that the  Presi­
dent ought to call an extra session  now are 
disposed to regard it with favor. 
It is un­
deniable  that the  prospect of  a lock-up of 
the nation’s  currency in the  Treasury  has 
begun  already to affect  business by dimin­
ishing confidence. 
The outlook for a gen­
eral and  permanent  revival of  trade  has 
been over-clouded.  The pressure for an im­
mediate removal of this threatening element 
has begun, and  now  that the  President is 
back from his fishing  expedition,  he  is be­
ginning to hear from the class to  whose de­
sires  he is more  responsible  than  to  any 
other.

California as a Petroleum Producer.

California  is  becoming  more  important 
yearly  as  a  producer  of  petroleum.  The 
San Francisco Chronicle gives  some figures 
of production which show that in 1886 there 
were obtained there 10,950,000 gallons.  The 
industry is  still  young.  The  year  1879 is 
given as the first year of  liberal production, 
when a little over 500,000  gallons  were pro­
duced.  Since then  the  increase  has  aver­
aged something like 1,000,000 a year.  Much 
activity prevails at present in the petroleum 
fields of  southern  California.  A pipe  line 
from one well to a railway station  has  just 
been completed and  another  one  from  the 
petroleum  fields  to  Los Angeles  is  talked 
of.

The T.  P. A.  band,  of  Union  City,  will 

jfiay  at Marshall  on the Fourth^

PRESERVE  these  ADVERTISEMENTS 134  to  142 B ast Pulton St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
Brown Dresden.

B R I G H T E N   En g l is h  t o il e t s e t s

Moss  Rose.

FOR  FUTURE  REFERENCE.

DETROIT  SOAP

DETROIT. MIOH.,

Manufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

The Standard of Excellence

KINGSFORD’S

SOAPS

QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,

ROYAL  BAR,

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MONDAY, 

PHCENIX,

W ABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

SUPERIOR,

MASCOTTE,

CAMEO,

For Quotations addressW. C. HAWKINS,

Lock  Box  173, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MIOH

Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan.

a r c t ic

In  Ordering a Supply of the

Arctic B attn Powder

Do not forget to  ask for

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

-THE----

POWDER

6akíhG 
POWDER
Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids,

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.

sous f h o f z u s t o r s .

P U R E

A N D

Oswego
“Pure”

“Silïer
Gloss”

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN  S T  ARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-M ange, etc.

t h e   p e r f e c t i o n   o f   q u a l i t y .

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!

ALW AYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  TH ESE  GOODS.

7.  J.  LAMB  <&  CO.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

F r u it s  and  V eg eta bles,

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

8  H i  10  Mia  Stunt,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDERS.

FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

Engravers and Printers

Designers

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.

GOLD  EDGE.
N E W   SQ U A R E   S H A P E .  O X  STO NE  P O R C E L A IN

This rich pattern is carried in open stock  and can be sold in any  quantity. 

It is an 
entirely new style with fine yellow and pink flowers,  and is the nobbiest and neatest pat­
tern out for 1887. 100 piece Dinner Set, List price, $20.
pleased to quote same.

We  also  have  this  pattern in Assorted  Packages, containing 3 sets,  and would be 

M ETA L  B R A N D
R E A D Y   R O O F I N G

TWO  AND  THREE  PLY

Waterproof, Durable and Economical,

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

Curtiss & Dunton,

ryn AMD RAPIDS, 

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-  MIOH.

S H O W   -  C A S E S .   *

Dealers w il l 
find  it  to their 
advantage 
t o 
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 r e s p o n d ­
ence  solicited 
from  the  job- 
bing trade rela- 
tive to premium
catsea.______
S H O W   C A S S   W O R K S ,

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Address 

A M E B X C A X T  

27 LalLO Street, Chicago.

Send for Catalogue and prices.

THE  HOMEJEAST  CAKE.

Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market.

SELLS ON  ITS  MERITS.

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

No.  1.  Large size, 36 packages, or cartons,  per case,  $1.50.
No. 3.  Smaller “  36 
1*00.

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-MANUFACTURED  BY-

OFFICE  AND SALESKOOM.

HOME  YEAST  CAKE  CO.

26 & 28 River St.,  Chicago, 111

3f.  b .__Ask your wholesale grocer for the HOME YEAST CAKE.

RIND6E, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS FOR THE

14 and  16 Pearl Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich-

