VOL.  4,

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  a 
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 6o  days approval.

We have a full stock of this well-known 

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brand of

2CZZZD  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  th e  M anufacturers’  G uarantee:

W hen two or m ore coats of our PIO N E ER  P R E ­
PA RED   PA IN T  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 paint 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.

GIANT

Price  $35  per  x,ooo  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.

GEO.  T.  ffARBBB 
GO.,
SEEDS

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

The Most Complete Assortment 

til  you get  my prices.

ALFRED J.BR0WN
16-18 N. DmsionSt.,GrandRapids

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

NO RUBBING! 

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NO BACKACHE! 

NO SORE FINGERS!

Warranted  not to Ittfuro the Clothes*

USED TWO WA75{SS!Sr*rw»v
THE BEST LABOR-SAVING SOAP MADE

FULL  DIRECTIONS  ON  THE  WRAPPER.

A Vegetable Oil Soap.  Contains No  Rosin.

A  LARGE  “ CHROMO”   WITH  THREE  BARS.

M anufactured  only  by th e

6.  A.  SH0TJDY  SOAF  CO.

GUM ,  JEWELL  k  GO.,

Sole Agents for Western Michigan.

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

WANTED.

Butter, Eggs, Wool, 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.,  Coiiission Merchants,

157 South Water St.,  CHICAGO.

Reference:  F ir s t  National  Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan T radesman, Grand Rapids.

POTATOES.

W e give  prompt  personal  attention  to 
he sale of POTATOES, APPLES,BEANS 
ind ONIONS in car lots.  W e  offer  best 
acilities and watchful attention.  Consign- 
nents respectfully solicited.  Liberal cash 
idvances on Car Lots when desired.

W l.  H.

&  GO.,

166 South Water S t, CHICAGO. 

Reference

F elsen th a l.  Gross  &  Mil l e r, Bankers.

We carry a full  'ine 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.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Factory  No.  26,  4th  Dist.

C IG A R S
76 S. Division St.,  Grand Rapids
T.  R.  E lu s  & Co,
Book Binders

PAPER  RULERS,

51,53 and 55 Lyon St., 
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
PATENTS;

i Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor 
'of  American  and  Foreign  patents. 
109 E. Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich., U. 8. A.  Branch  of­
fice, London, Eng.  Practice in V. 8. Court».  Circulars 
free.

LUCIUS C.  WEST, 

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

Lumber  and  Farm

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 
W A G O N S !
Logging Carts  and  Trucks 
Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermens and 

River Tools.

We carry a large stock of material, and have 
every facility  for  making  first-clasB  Wagons 
of  all kinds.
^ fS p e e ia l  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering.

Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mioh,

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
mZbT G I N E S
From 2 to ISO Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
ing.  Pulleys  and Boxes.  Contracts made for 
Complete Outfits.

W ,  O,  Denison,

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

MICH.
JPPD  tfc  OO.,

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JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CANAL  STREET.

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N .  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-GLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express Promptly At­
tended to.
GERMAN
MUSTARD.

L   Wintemitz
Grand Rapida, Mich

106 Kent St. 

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

LARGEST HOUSE in the STATE

DEALING  EXCLUSIVELY  IN

With the splendid  Tailor-Made  Clothing 
we handle the fit 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 r o pr iet o r.

GIANT  CLOTHING  COMPANY,
Cor.Caaal&Lyon Sts„GrandRapids
Tflltl, HtnM llIlliF k Go,
DRY GOODS

Im porters and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

Overalls, Pants, Etc.,

OUR  OWN  MAKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

Fancy CrockerysFancy 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  The 
T ra d esm a n.

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PLACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
Gr a n d R a p id s (Mich.) Busi-
_________,  ness Co lleg e, write for Coi-
ltoe Journal  Address, C. G. SWENSBERG.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  22,  1887,

Eaton  &  C H e m
F rederick  the  Great

Are State Agents for

CIGAR.

Grand Rapids, Ml oh.

Represented  by the  Giant,

Mr.  Christopher  Sparling.

L

A

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

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

Z

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

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

Proprietors of

VOIGT MILLING CO.,
Crescent Roller Mills
Orescent,  White Rose, 

M anufacturers of the following well 

known  brands:

Vienna, Royal Patent,

AND 

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AT.T.  WHEAT  FLOUR,

The Great Health Food.

W . end Pearl St. Bridge,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  -  MICE.

EDMUND  R.  DIKEMAN,

THE—

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER,

—AND—

JEW E L E R

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
MICH.
HENRY  J.  HARTMAN,

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FOUNDER,

GRAY IRON CASTINGS A SPECIALTY.

S en d   f o r   E s tim a te s .

71 South  Front St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Anything or everything in the 
line of Special Furniture, inside 
finish of  house,  office  or store, 
Wood  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,
FRESH  FISH

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

Bought and Sold by

FRANK J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St., Grand Rapids.

p r   Oysters  the  Year A round 
flFl
c m s a m r c   r o o t .
We pay the highest prioe for it.  Address
Peck Bros.. Druggists, Grand Rapids, Vkh.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

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

I had  supposed  until  recently  that  the 
monotonous  head-lines,  “One-Half  Off,” 
“One-Third Off,” etc.,  which stare  you in 
the face every  time you  pick up  a  paper, 
were a modem  species of  advertising,  but 
on looking over an  old,  eighteenth-century 
paper, the other  day, I ran  across the fol­
lowing:

ONE-THIRD OFF.

Caleb Powell, at the  sign of the  Golden 
Fleece,  offers for  sale two  misfit,  elegant 
velvet suits, made for gentlemen of quality, 
at two-thirds of their actual value.

I presume that the  individuals  who read 
this  “ad.” believed in its  truthfulness,  for, 
in the  olden  time,  mercantile  honor  was 
something besides a name;  but in these days 
how many  people who  glance at the famil­
iar “Off,’’“Cost” and “Slaughter” announce­
ments  think for a moment  that rare or ex­
ceptional bargains are  being offered to buy­
ers,  or that the advertisers are  possessed of 
an honest desire to become  public  benefac­
tors and philanthropists?  There  would be 
something to awaken  interest in the  read­
er’s breast  if he  should  see,  for  instance, 
“Granulated  Sugar,  4  cents,”  or  “Coat’s 
Thread,  10 for a  quarter,” or  “Best  Nails, 
Si.50 per keg,” but  it would  couvey to his 
mind no  impression  that  stupendous  bar­
gains were on tap if the dealers  should say 
“Sugar at Cost,” or “Thread Almost Given 
Away,” or “Great Slaughter of  Nails.”

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Successful  advertising is a  science,  and 
one in  which I candidly  confess I  am not 
versed;  but I can’t be  made to  believe that 
the circus style is  adapted to  trade.  Like 
the  hard-headed  gentleman 
in  “Hard 
Times,” the careful buyer is always looking 
for “facts,” and the unmeaning clap-trap of 
the day has,  as a business  lever, about only 
one merit—it is a ‘ ‘bonanza”  for the  print­
er.

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Speaking of advertising,  reminds me of a 
painful  incident that  recently  occurred in 
our community.  Mr.  Slimmer  has always 
been a firm believer in the efficacy of  print­
er’s ink,  and between himself  and Spooner, 
the editor of  the Simoon,  a  warm,  mutual 
regard has  existed for a long  period. 
Iu a 
business  point of view,  the two  gentlemen 
fitted each  other  perfectly—Slimmer being 
an  exceptionally 
liberal  advertiser  arid 
Spooner a generous  buyer of  dry  goods— 
and it required very little currency to trans­
act matters  between  themselves.  Spooner 
conducts a  temperance  department  in the 
Simoon, to which the ex-minister has,  here­
tofore,  been a regular contributor.  So much 
for a preface.

Last  Wednesday  night, just  before  the 
Simoon went to press, Jacob Blobbs, the sa- 
loonist,  went into the  office with  an adver­
tisement  extolling the  merits of his stock, 
which he wished  inserted in the next issue. 
To this Spooner somewhat  demurred, as he 
thought it wouldn’t  look  exactly proper to 
publish W.  C. T.  U.  articles and a  liquor 
“ad.” in the same  paper.  Blobbs  insisted, 
however, and as  Spooner had a package  at 
the express office marked  “Ready Print,  C. 
O. D.,  $9.25,” and had  only about a couple 
of dollars in the treasury, and Blobbs exhib­
ited a crisp $10 bill,  the  matter was  finally 
adjusted, and Spooner and his boy went im­
mediately to work on the copy.

Just at this junture, Slimmer’s clerk came 
in with  a list  of new  goods  to  which he 
wished to  call the  attention of  the public, 
and a drunken tramp printer, who happened 
to be present,  was set  to work.  By an un­
fortunate and  exasperating  combination of 
circumstances, just  before  making  up the 
forms,  Spooner’s wife  was taken  violently 
ill,  and  he had  to leave the  completion of 
the issue with his boy and the tramp.  The 
next morning,  in a  conspicuous  part of the 
paper,  appeared  the  following  announce­
ment:

SLIMMER EVEK TO THE FRONT!

The proprietor of  the leading dry  goods 
store of this section,  announces that he has 
just purchased from the great establishment 
of J acob B lobbs the finest line of  Wines, 
Liquors and Cigars  ever opened  in the vil­
lage.  He desires,  particularly, 
to  call at­
tention to his new styles of lawn goods and 
French fabrics for  summer wear,  while his 
Bologna  Sausages  and Limburger  Cheese 
are unsurpassed in quality.  He  has a  new 
and health-promoting Corset at 75 cents, and 
Roaster’s  Genuine  Lager is  constantly  in 
stock.  He invites the  attention of ladies to 
his new designs in  Parasols  and Fans.  A 
free lunch will be served  to every  ten-cent 
customer  Saturday  afternoons.  His laces 
and embroideries cannot be rivaled in West­
ern Michigan, and the individual who wants 
Soft Drinks will be accommodated.  One of 
his most successful purchases was an unique 
style of  Misses’ and  Ladies’  Hose,  but to 
tone up the system and promote  health and 
longevity  use  Booker’s  Bourbon  Bitters. 
His new prints,ginghams, muslins and other 
hot weather  dress  goods are  unsurpassed. 
A Billiard  and  Pool Room in  connection. 
Mr. Slimmer desires to thank the public for 
its generous patronage of  years past, and if 
strict integrity, honorable dealing  and  low 
prices  can  command  trade he  proposes to 
materially enlarge his  business.  While we 
do not train  with  the  temperance  cranks 
and are opposed to proscriptive and sumptu- 
.  ary laws, no drunkenness or  gambling will 
be allowed.  Remember,  we  are,  and shall 
always  remain, headquarters for dry goods. 
PSTN.  B.—We have the  only  barkeeper 
•  in this section who  understands the prepar-

ation of gin-cocktails,  sherry-cobblers  and 
other summer drinks.

As the drunken “jour” departed early the 
same day,  no explanation  regarding the re­
markable  jumble of  the two “ads.” can be 
obtained.  Mr. Slimmer has ordered a large 
supply of circulars  explanatory of the blun­
der, from another printing office,  and deem­
ed the matter of sufficient importance to rise 
to a personal  explanation  in  last  night’s 
class-meeting;  and while  Spooner is  mani­
festly guiltless of any  intentional  wrong,  I 
grieve to learn that the  ex-preacher  is seri­
ously threatening to commence  a $5,000 li­
bel suit.
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There are some of the most extraordinary 
investments in advertising imaginable.  For 
instance,  isn't Snoots’ contract  of $12 for a 
fourth of a page of a hotel register, in which 
to puff  his peanut and cigar  trade,  simply 
absurd?  Because Dayball  “got stuck” on a 
$10 lot of  unsalable  corsets,  isn’t  he very 
foolish in paying  Spooner $15 for advertis­
ing  them  at  “less  than  cost?”  Doesn’t 
Smith strike you as being  next to an  imbe­
cile when, on  discovering  that  he  has in­
vested in  a $6  “dead lot” of  patent  medi­
cines, he spends $10 in printing and postage 
stamps,  in  extolling  their  virtues?  And 
when Hoyle,  the hardware man,  buys a job 
lot of carpet  tecks and contracts  for a col­
umn in the  Simoon to  boom  them at two 
for a nickel,  it strikes me that he, as well as 
myself,  could take a course in the science of 
advertising with profit.

Bamum  says that  printer’s ink  is never 
wasted,  which may be true, but  the  money 
that pays for it frequently is.

“The Off Ox.”*

This  is, doubtless,  an  important subject 
—the off  ox—and,  in  our  opinion, requires 
a graduate  of  Oxford  to  properly develope 
it.  The off ox,  as  I  understand  it,  is not, 
necessarily,  the one that caressingly swings 
his narative  across  the  face  of  the  driver 
from the so-called off-side.  That  is  called 
the “G” ox.  He buttons his  collar  on  the 
back of his neck,  and  is  no more particular 
or fault-finding than any other ox.  But the 
“off  ox” which  the  committee,  doubtless, 
had in mind iu  assigning  this  toast  is  the 
ox that is  off—the  ugly,  unruly ox, the  ox 
with roving propensities,  and no clearly de­
fined line of policy,  save to be  always mak­
ing trouble, whether to kick, hook, turn his 
yoke or get over his chain  or  to  be  as  far 
away as  is  possible  to  get  when  wanted, 
chewing the cud  of  contentment  and  leis­
urely brushing the Hies from  his  side.  He 
is breechy and  revels  in  the  meadow  and 
cornfield.  He takes no  offense  at  the  zig 
zag  obstruction  supposed  to  enjoin  him, 
and either scales it  or  lifts  it gently on his 
horns.  He stops when he feels so disposed, 
no matter how urgent the business in which 
he is engaged,  and  considers  only his  own 
sweet will about starting.  His own pasture 
affords no satisfaction,  but he is irresistibly 
drawn to the waving  grass  and  grain  just 
over the fence.
This is a genuine ox, but he has his coun 
terpart in a higher order of animal life.  The 
expression “off ox” is, by no means, applica­
ble only only to  that  ruminating  species of 
quadrupeds  called  oxen.  Unfortunately, 
it applies to men,  “the  proud  lords  of  cre­
ation,” and,  by a slight stretch  of  imagina­
tion,  to the more meddlesome and gossiping 
portions of the gentler sex.  The off  ox  in 
the  human  family is  more  annoying  and 
dangerous,  by reason of his  superior  intel­
ligence.  He possesses  in  a  marked degree 
the characteristics  already  ascribed  to  the 
off ox.  He  is  breechy and persists in med­
dling  with  the  affairs  of  other  people; is 
balky, in that things must go his way or not 
go at all,  if he can prevent  it; he is meddle­
some, cynical, egotistical,  talks  opposite to 
his real  views, if  he  has  any,  and  spells 
“Yes” with an “n” and an“o” and vice versa. 
If he wishes to have the railroad pass across 
his farm,  he endeavors  to show the survey­
or’s . a  better  route  somewhere  else.  He 
will, doubtless,  admit  that  a  railway  is  a 
very desirable  thing  to  have,  and would be 
williug to. have it take all of  someone else’s 
lot or farm.  Has always said that he would 
gladly give the right of way across his farm 
and give his bonus  beside,  if we could  only 
get a road, as soon  as  probabilités  thicken 
that one will be built,  up goes  the price  of 
his  land.  He  discovers  that  a  railroad, of 
all things,  is the last thing  he  would  have 
on his farm,  and  wants  more  for a right of 
way than his entire  farm  is  worth.  Thus 
he opposes what he  should advance and ad­
vances  what  he  should  oppose.  He  will 
spend time and money in order  that  some­
one else shall not  succeed.  He  refuses  to 
assist in some enterprise the object of which 
cannot  be other than good, simply  because 
some one is assisting  whom  he  personally 
dislikes.  He is  jealous of  others’ success. 
He inveighs  against  business organizations 
and business men, then  complains  because 
business  men  refuse  to  immortalize  him. 
He  prefers  to  build  up  caste, to divide so­
ciety into warring factions, to have interests 
clash and people wrangling.
Unfortunately, Bellaire  has not  been en­
tirely  free  from  off  oxen.  But  we  hope 
that,  in the prospective  realization of hopes 
we  have  so  long  entertained, local  differ­
ences will  be forgotten; that  each  will  re­
solve that his personal interests shall not be 
allowed to stand in the way of the interests 
of our little town; that we will pull together 
and further  the  interests of  Bellaire to the 
utmost of our ability.  Fortunately, no man 
owns it.  None should  control it.  The  in­
terest of each is the interest of all.  We are 
a large family with  kindred  aims  and  am­
bitions.  As the  town  we  have  chosen for 
ouv homes  improves,  the  interests of its in­
habitants  must  increase.  Then, 
let  us 
unite in public  spirit  and  lose sight of  our 
personal feelings for  the  leaders in any en­
terprise which will  benefit  the  town  and, 
consequently,  the people in it  and  help  to 
make  the  enterprise  successful.  A  few 
working  heartily together  with  a  common 
purpose will  accomplish  much  more  than 
many times their number  working at  cross 
purposes.

♦Response by C. E. Densmore at recent ban­

quet of Bellaire B. M. A.

NO.  196,

Bellaire  has  many  natural  advantages.
It is situated upon a  railroad  route built on 
purpose by the greatest of all engineers,  He 
who surveyed the courses  of  the rivers and 
led them to the seas,  who threw  our  world 
into space and marked  its  orbit, who  plat­
ted the  heavens  and  studded  them  with 
stars.  Situated  as  it  is  in  a  magnificent 
valley covered with  mighty forests,  thread­
ed on a string of  beautiful lakes and rivers, 
we  confidently  expect  that  following  the 
iron  horse  will  come  manufactories  and 
other business  enterprises  that  will  make 
Bellaire the commercial  emporium  of  An­
trim county.  Our country is new and many 
of us have seen good  pioneering  and  have 
studied the financial questions in aspects un­
known to statesmen.  We  look  to  the  fu­
ture with hope revived.
Looking out over  the  busy  world  about 
us,  we behold the ocean flecked with myriad 
sails. 
It has become subservient  to  man’s 
use.  We  see  the  mountains  towering  in 
strength, reaching  up  into  the  regions  of 
perpetual snow and parting  the  clouds that 
lave their brows, victims of man’s ingenuity. 
Their bases are tunneled,  and busy hives  of 
industry  swarm  beneath  them.  The  iron 
horse frolics  upon  their  slopes  and  glows 
with satisfaction as  he follows  his  serpen­
tine path among  them.  He snorts his defi­
ance as, prancing upon  the  jutting crag,  he 
discovers the  deep  gorge  before  him  and 
plunges back into  his  mountain  stall.  We 
note man’s  success  in  decoying  electricity 
from the clouds and utilizing it as a winged 
messenger. 
It  spans  our  continent,  and, 
not content with  this, the  invisible  errand 
boy dives beneath the waves  of  old  ocean, 
speeds under its great depths  and,  in an in­
stant of time,  is dispensing  information  of 
what occurred across the sea.
Yes,  man  is  fearfully  and  wonderfully 
made  has  wrought  out  many  inventions. 
He is endowed  by his creator with skill and 
intelligence.  He has  bottled  up the  light­
ning,  has explored the bottom of  the ocean, 
has traversed the region beyond the  clouds, 
is familiar with the  stars.  He  sweeps  off 
the forests and rides  about  the fields which 
supplant them  upon  machinery which does 
his work.  He tortures the  water, until an­
grily attempting to escape him, it  does  his 
bidding and drives his  looms  and factories.
Progress is the  watch  word  of  the hour. 
The progress noted is not the work of the off 
ox. _  One  must  attend  strictly to  his  own 
business  to  keep  up  with  the  march  of 
events; and,  if  each attends to his own bus­
iness, the progress he makes  will  surprise, 
and he will be equally surprised to find how 
little time he  has  to  meddle  with the  con­
cern of others.
The off ox is also a tale bearer and gossip, 
and the bible says,  “Where there is no tale­
bearer the strife ceaseth.”  The ox is useful 
only as  he  obeys  his  master.  He  is  not 
necessary or useful in  the nurturing  of  in­
fants nor in the  dairy business,  but  he  has 
his  sphere;  and  each  individual  who  has 
hid sphere and  occupy it.  When  any man 
comes to believe himself  necessary and  in­
dispensable in a community and thinks that 
he can manage  his  neighbor’s business bet­
ter  than  it  is  being  managed  and,  unre­
quested,  attempts so to do, he  is  our  ideal 
off ox, and the sooner he  is  gathered to his 
fathers the greater  blessing  will his demise 
afford.

“The  Good New Times.”

“A gratifying thing to the observer about 
the streets  is  the  low  price  of  clothing,” 
said a well-known gentleman the other day. 
“Fine clothes, of course,  are  expensive and 
must always be  so, but  the  cost  of  good, 
serviceable, every-day wear-and-tear clothes, 
is almost startling in  its  smallness.  Why,
I examined a  strong  suit  of  clothes, good 
for months of severe  wear,  a  few days ago, 
and what do you suppose I  was  asked  for 
it?  Just $3.50, and  when  I  recovered  my 
breath sufficiently to express my incredulity, 
the dealer said it was true, no  jest about it. 
The making of rough clothes—not  so  very 
rough, either—which do  not  need to fit like 
a glove, can  be  done  by  machinery almost 
entirely from the time  the  wool is cut from 
the sheep’s back till  it  is  ready  for  wear, 
and,  of  course,  the  price  is  reduced  ac­
cordingly.  This gives the  laboring  man  a 
margin after his necessities are provided for, 
with which to buy books, or to add comforts 
to his home, or to put  into  a building asso­
ciation and help toward the accumulation of 
a little real property to call his own.  What 
a blessed thing it is that happiness and con­
tentment and intelligence and usefulness do 
not require expensive apparel for their full­
est  enjoyment.  One  of  the  happiest  and 
most learned men I  have  ever  met  was  a 
mechanic,  working by the day for very mod­
erate wages.  He owned a neat little home, 
and  his chief  delight was to  settle down in 
an easy chair in the evening and  read.  He 
had little by little accumulated several hun­
dred  books, and  not  a  flashy  one  among 
them.  Everyone would bear many readings. 
He  knew  nothing  about  Latin  or  Greek, 
and couldn’t tell  German from Russian, but 
his  judgment in matters  of  common  sense 
was  almost  infallible.  Now,  this  enviable 
man, surrounded  by a  family inheriting his 
tastes, always made a practice of buying very 
cheap clothes, for the sole purpose of putting 
the  money to  better  use.  People may talk 
of the good old times,” said  the philanthro­
pist, as his  car  came  along,  “but 1 tell you 
the good new times are beyond comparison.
The Secretary of the Traverse  City Busi­
ness Men’s  Association  writes  as follows: 
“At our last meeting,  we admitted four new 
members,  after  which  the  Committee on 
Manufacturing reported,  showing that they 
were doing good work in inducing manufac­
turers to come to Traverse City to locate.  A 
letter was read from the Association of Elk 
Rapids, inviting the  Traverse City Associa­
tion there the 4th of July to play an amateur 
game of base ball with them, which was ac­
cepted and a committee was appointed to or­
ganize a nine to wipe them off from the face 
of the earth.”

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head for one cent a word or two  cents a word 
for three insertions.  No advertisement  taken 
for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  bo 
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by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,

HEMLOCK  BARK!

WANTED.

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

101 Ottawa St.,

N.  B.  CLARK,

Grand Rapids

HESTEB&FOX,

M anufacturers’ Agts.  for

Saw  and  Grist  Mill

M a  O H I N I R Y
Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds 

of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws, 

Belting  and  Oils.

ed.

198*

mill  in 
TTIOR SALE  CHEAP—Portable  saw 
M pine |
T   good running order.  Capacity  25
lumber per day.  Gang edger, saw dust carrier, 
and line rollers.  For  further  pasticulars  en­
quire of J. F. Clark. Big Rapids, Mich.  I96tf
THOR  SALE—$2,5C0  new  stock of  drugs and 
JP  groceries  at  sacrifice,  in  rattling  town. |
Five dry goods stores,  one drug store.  Drugs |  M .  R ailro ad s, 
separate, if desired.  Exchange  for unincum­
bered  farm  or  other  business.  D. & G.,  care 
Tradesman. 
TTIOR  SALE—In the fast-growing city of Mus- 
T   kegon, a choice stock of groceries, includ­
ing  store 
fixtures,  horses  and  delivery 
wagons.  Corner store, well located, everything 
In good shape.  Address H, lock box E. Muske­
gon, Mich._______________________ _  199*
F OR  SALE—A big ice box, suitable  for  gro­
cer or small meot  m arket.  Almost  new. 
B. S. Harris, 525 South  Division  Street, Grand 
Rapids.____________________________ 196tf
SALE—Stock of  general  merchandise 
TTIOR 
in
-T 
in good condition and  locality, also store. 
Good reason for selling. 'J. C. Stitt, Doilarville, 
M ich.______________________________ 196*
TTIOR  SALE—Fine  residence  property  on 
JC  Mount Vernon street, west side, with bath 
room, closets  and  all  modern  conveniences,  I 
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.________ 
TTIOR  SALE—Stock of groceries situated in a  j 
J   brisk railway  town,  good  farming  com­
munity.  Stock will inventory about $800.  Ad­
dress S. L., care The Tradesman ._______197* 
■ OR  SALE—An  old  established  confection-1 
ery and fancy goods stock.  For informa­
tion call or address at premises, 43 West Leon- [
ard street,  city._____________________ 197*
I ilOR  SALE—Hardware stock in the thriving 
town ot  Spring  Lake,  situated  on D., G. 
H. & M.  railway  and  two  miles  from  Grand 
Haven.  Stock  will  inventory  about  $6,000. 
Call on or address C. A. Pearson, Spring Lake, 
Mich. 

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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

RETAIL  TRADE  OP  THE  WOLVERINE  STATE.

I .   A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  22,  1887.

A  DIRTY  SLUR.

The  Grand  Rapids  Telegram-Herald, 
which never  misses an  opportunity to slur 
the traveling fraternity,  published  the fol­
lowing  reflection  on  them  in  its  Sunday 
issue:
A glance  at the  registers of  the  several 
hotels last  night showed a  wonderful  fall­
ing off in the number of arrivals and travel­
ing  men  were  as  scarce  as  hen’s  teeth. 
Landlords  are  suffering  by  reason of  the 
iron-clad rules of  the  new  Superintendent 
of Police, as traveling men are seeking oth­
er and more congenial  climes for  spending 
the three days  which  constitute their  Sun­
day vacation.

In behalf of the traveling fraternity, The 
T radesm an  denounces  the  above  state­
ment as false and misleading.  There may 
be some traveling  men who  come to Grand 
Rapids to drink  and gamble,  but the rank 
and file of the  profession  are not  actuated 
by  such  motives,  and  any  paper  which 
lays such a charge at  their  feet is guilty of 
malicious  defamation.

Bishop Potter, of  New  York,  makes his 
appeal for a million dollars to build and en­
dow a great cathedral in  New  York.  The 
erection of such an edifice has been contem­
plated for at  least fifteen  or twenty  years 
past, but the effort  seems to have  been de­
layed  in  the  hope  that  Miss  Catherine 
Wolfe would give or leave the  money need­
ed.  But as this hope has come to  nothing, 
the appeal is made to the  people of the dio­
cese.  A Christian of the  ages to which the 
Episcopal Church looks  back for its models 
would be somewhat surprised by hearing of 
such an appeal.  By a  cathedral  church he 
would  understand  the  church  where was 
placed the bishop’s cathedra or throne from 
which he taught liis flock.  He would ask if 
Bishop Potter had no church or no cathedra 
no flock to teach or no  place from which  to 
teach it  He would ask why Trinity Church, 
the oldest in  the diocese, was not  the bish 
op’s  church,  and  by what  right any  man 
calling himself rector could  thrust  himself 
into  that  church  to the  exclusion of  the 
bishop.  And he  would be  still more  sur­
prised to be told that the  only  cathedral in 
America was that of the  bishop of a neigh­
boring city,  and  that it was  not in the city 
but in a  country  village at  some  distance 
from it! 
If a cathedral  mean a big church 
with special opportunities for ritualistic dis 
play, the call for a  million may  be quite in 
order.  If it mean in America what it means 
historically in  Europe,  then  all the wealth 
of New York will not suffice to create it. 
is history,  not money, which makes a cathe 
dral.

The  recent and  great rise in the price of 
coffee is traced by some of our  contempora­
ries to speculation,  and the  dealers are cen­
sured for this treatment of “the  poor man 
only luxury.”  The fact is that last October 
when the trees  were in  blossom in  Brazil 
the coffee plantations  were  visited  with 
severe frost,  so that  there will not be half 
crop this year.  And as Brazil supplies five- 
sixths of what is used in the United States 
prices have  gone up  accordingly. 
It would 
be better for us if we drew our supply from 
a larger area,  and thus were less dependent 
on the weather of a single  country.  Mexi 
co has splendid facilities for the  production 
of coffee, but her  people  show  very  little 
readiness to make use of them.  The excel 
lence of  Mexican  coffee  secures  a steady 
and  remunerative  market in  this  country 
for all they have  to sell;  but  they  do not 
seem to wish to increase their  product 6r to 
rival Brazil in  meeting the  American  de­
mand.  As it was outside capital and enter­
prise that brought the Brazilian  product up 
to our needs,  we may  wish for  the  same 
stimulus to the  laggard energies of Mexico,

The  pure food advocates are fiee to assert 
that they feel like Othello with  his  occupa­
tion gone.  The disclosures of the New York 
World and the reports of  analyses of  foods 
made by chemists in all parts of the country 
show  that the cry of  adulteration is largely 
without  cause.  And  recent  developments 
have proven beyond a doubt that the men who 
are endeavoring to  make capital out of  the 
pure food movement are actuated by wholly 
selfish motives.

Savonarola 

regenerated  Florence  and 
General Smith  gives  promise of  doing the 
same great work  for  Grand  Rapids.  His 
efforts toward the suppression of  gambling 
and illegal liquer selling  have  received the 
approbation  of  every  houest  citizen, and 
T h e T ra d esm a n hopes to see him  contin­
ue his present  policy  until  Grand  Rapids 
has become  clean in all that the  term  im­
plies. 

_____ __________

The Pennsylvania Legislature  has passed 
a bill to facilitate  the  establishment of  co­
operative stores.  The same bill was passed 
two years ago, but was vetoed by  Governor 
Pattison on  the ground that  the stores had 
some features  which  belonged  properly to 
banks.  Governor  Beaver  takes  the  view 
that making a store a  place for  the deposit 
of wages does not bring it  under the consti­
tutional restrictions imposed  upon the crea­
tion of banks of discount.  The bill is mod­
eled after that drafted by  Messrs.  Ludlow

and Hughes for the British Parliament, and 
that has  been found  to  work  remarkably 
well. 
It is expected that stores of this kind 
will supersede the “company stores,” wher­
ever these are maintained really for the con­
venience  of  workmen,  and  not  to  fleece 
them by .overcharges.

The Chicago Grocer  intimates that  T h e 
T ra desm a n is letting  up in its  opposition 
to the pure food movement  For  once that 
journal is correct  T h e  T ra d esm a n  has 
done its share toward killing the movement, 
but the leaders checkmated their enemieS by 
committing suicide.  Now, what is the use 
of kicking a mule, when the animal is dead?

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.
GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

John English has  engaged  in the grocery 
business  at  Lucas.  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co. 
furnished the stock.

J.  C. Branch has engaged  in  the  grocery 
business near White  Cloud.  Clark, Jewell 
& Co.  furnished the stock.

Joseph  Rogers  has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business  at  Hastings.  Amos  S. Mus- 
selman & Co. furnished tjie stock.

N.  B.  Clark  has  contracted  to  handle 
,000 cords of  tan  bark  this  season, which 
renders him the largest handler of that com­
modity in the country.

The Grand Rapids  School  Furniture  Co. 
received orders  last  week  for  1,400  opera 
chairs for the new  Crawford  Opera  House 
at  Wichita,  Kansas;  400  chairs  for  the 
Presbyterian  church  at  Kansas  City;  500 
chairs for the Millett Opera House  at  Aus­
tin,  Texas;  350  chairs  for  a  new  opera 
house at Carlisle,  Pa.;  1,200  chairs  for  a 
new opera house at Omaha, Neb.

The compressed  yeast  business  at  this 
market amounts to about $18,000  per  year 
one-third  of  which  is  shipped  to  other 
points.  The  business  is  divided  among 
four resident  agents,  who  employ  several 
■wagons  in  distributing  the  article  fresh 
every morning ts the  city  trade.  The  first 
person to introduce compressed yeast at this 
market was P.  Spitz,  who established  him­
self in business here ten  years ago.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Vermontville—Baker & Hall  have  open 

ed a meat market.

dealer, has sold out.

Howard  City—B.  T.  Kent,  hardware 

Elmira—J. R.  Combs  succeeds  Combs  & 

Manes in general trade.

Manistee—Henry Koster succeeds  Koster 

& Haak in the meat business.

Scottsville—J. Welch  succeeds  J.  Welch 

& Son in the hardware business.

Armada—Cowden  &  Castle succeeed  M. 

W.  Cowden in the milling business.

Paris—Church  &  Nichols  succeed H. M. 

Fuller & Co. in the logging business.

Charlotte—Thos. J. Green  succeeds  Wm. 

H.  Dudley in the  hardware business.

Kalamazoo—David Loyle  has  opened  a 

grocery store at 423 North Rose street.

West  Branch—A.  Shuster  succeeds  Eg­

gleston & Co.  in the grocery business.

Manistee—Milton  &  McGuire, 

late  of 

Ludington,  have opened a grocery  store.

Charlotte—J. P. Griffith has sold his meat 
market to Wm.  Mikesell  and Wm.  Griffith.
Wacousta—Arthur Lowell succeeds J. H. 
Lowell in the  grocery and  notion  business.
succeeds 
Yan Wiltenberg  &  Hastings in  the lumber 
business.

Sparta—M.  Yan  Wiltenberg 

Saginaw—Newell & Robinson  succeed E. 
C. Newell & Co. in the  book and stationery 
business.

Plymouth—Henry  Dohmstreich  &  Co. 
succeed Daniel R. Penney in the grocery and 
crockery business.

Three Rivers—J. E.  Treat’s jewelry stock 
has been  foreclosed on a chattel  mortgage 
held by his  brother.

Morley—Lon.  A.  Pelton  is  building  a 
two-store  addition  to  his  hardware  store, 
25 x 30 feet in dimensions.

Lakeview—Dr.  John Lamoreaux has sold 
his drug stock  to  S.  E.  Young,  late  of  Ed- 
more and Bumip’s Comers.

Allendale—I. J.  Quick has sold  his  gen­
eral stock to Frank  Parker,  now  principal 
of the Nunica graded school.

Charlotte—Arthur  Brooks, late  of  Lud­
ington,  will  open  a  crockery  and. fancy 
gopds stock here about July 1.
Muskegon—J.  M.  Cotton 

and  David 
Goldroth  will embark  in the  clothing and 
furnishing goods business  about August 15.
Jackson—Henry Kellogg  succeeds  H. P. 
Webster as President of the Jackson Crack­
er  Co.,  having  purchased  Mr.  Webster’s 
stock in the corporation.

Hart—Chas. A.  Gurney has purchased the 
interest  of  Chris.  Adams in the drug  busi­
ness of Cady & Adams.  The new firm will 
be known as Cady & Gurney.

Shelby—Kohler  &  Hobby,  who  engaged 
in the grocery business  about  four  months 
ago, have agreed to  disagree  and dissolved. 
Wheeler Bros, purchased the stock.

Charlotte—Allen McOmber,  formerly en­
gaged in the jewelry  business at  Hastings, 
has purchased a half interest  in the jewelry 
establishment of Frank Pancrost.  The new 
firm will be  known as  McOmber  &  Pan­
crost.

STRAY  FACTS. 

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Paris—E.  M. Stickney shipped 75,000 feet 

of basswood lumber to Detroit  last week.

Port  Huron—E.  Percival,  of the  firm of 
E.  Percival & Son, grocers and  broom man­
ufacturers,  is dead. 

Clarksville—C.  L.  Howard’s general store 
has  been  closed  on  mortgage  by Spring & 
Company,  of  Grand Rapids.

Springport—R. Yearington, who  was en-

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gaged in the dry goods trade  here for twen­
ty-five years, died on the 16th.

Traverse City—Rumor has it that the firm 
of Ashton Bros,  is to be  changed to Ashton 
& Son, Frank Ashton retiring.

Bellevue—Barrett Yaughan, the druggist, 
now carries his right arm in a sling, as a re­
sult of attempting to wean a refractory calf.
Shelby—F. W.  VanWickle, the druggist, 
claims  to be the  onion king  of  Northern 
Michigan.  He has five and  one-half  acres 
under cultivation.

Greenville—H. M. Fuller has  withdrawn 
from  the  banking  business  with  C.  J. 
Church & Co.,  and the lumbering firm of H. 
M.  Fuller & Co. has dissolved.

Lyons—E. N.  Thayer,  the  druggist  and 
grocer, has been  married  twenty-one  years 
and on Saturday the first fruits of the union 
appeared in the form of a 

pound girl.

Casnovia—The liabilities of  W.  H. Bene­
dict are $2,070.  He says his failure is  due 
to  the  operations  of  J. A. & J.  Q.  Wil­
liams, of Detroit,  who filled the farmers full 
of goods and left him to meet the expenses.
Mears—H.  Cockell was  arrested for  per­
jury last Wednesday and  taken to  Chicago 
for trial.  Members  of  the  Excelsior  Iron 
Works went his bail,  and on Friday Cockell 
was back to his  old  stamping  ground,  talk­
ing damage suit.

Bonanza—The town has taken on a genu­
ine railroad boom.  Frank Hilbert, of Wood­
land, will  put  up  a  building  for  use  as  a 
general store and bank and Stephen Haight, 
of the same place, will put  up a building to 
occupy as a furniture store.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Shelby—P. P. Roberts, of Hart, will start 

a branch tile factory here.

Saginaw—Bliss Bros’, new  sawmill  goes 

into operation about July 1.

St.  Louis—A. J.  Harrington  &  Son are 

now turning out 100 tables per week.

Remus—H.  W.  Shautz has bought  E.  A. 
Straub’s hoop  mill  and  will  continue  the 
business.

Charlotte—The  Steam  Heat  Evaporator 
Co. shipped a  carload of  machines  to San 
Francisco last week.

Owosso—The Owosso Casket Co. has been 
promised a cash bonus  of  $3,000,  if it will 
double its present capacity.

Muskegon—The Muskegon Valley Furni 
ture Co. has over 150  names on its  payroll 
and is rushed with  business.

Dimondale—E.  W. Hunt  is  refitting  his 
grist mill with complete roller process.  He 
expects to start up again about August 1.

Pentwater—Dwight & Stiff will introduce 
roller  process  machinery in  their  flouring 
mill,  which  will  give  them  a  capacity  of 
fifty barrels per day.

Holland—The  Waverly  Stone  Co.  has 
purchased a steel boiler,  automatic  engine 
and steam derrick,  which will increase their 
daily output to twenty-five carloads.

Marshall—Y. Arnold,  C. H. Vary, W. H. 
Alexander and A.  J.  Rowley have organized 
a stock company for the  purpose of  manu­
facturing  the  Arnold  patent  sacker  and 
weigher.

Pentwater—E.  J.  Birkett,  late  of  Mil­
waukee,  will establish the Pentwater Foun 
dry  and  Novelty  Works  about  October 
Two buildings will  be  constructed  for  this 
purpose—one of brick,  28x46 feet in dimen­
sions  and two  stories  high  and a  wooden 
structure 20x30 feet in dimensions.

Bay City—G. H. Eckler & Co.  are broom 
manufacturers.  One  night  last  week Yal 
Mead, one of the firm, entered the premises 
and removed 27 dozen brooms.  The “theft” 
was reported to the police,  and upon discov 
ery  that  Mead  had  taken  the  goods the 
search  for  the  “thief’  was  discontinued, 
The firm dissolved partnership.
McLain—H.  M.  Harroun, 

in  company 
with George S. Lacey,  of Farmers, Ky., has 
closed negotiations  for  the purchase of the 
Wesson &  Money  plant  at  Bogue  Cliitto 
Miss.  There are at least  a 100,000,000 feet 
of pine, a  mill  that  will  cut  35,000  feet 
day,  and a logging road  seven  miles  long, 
Business will be  conducted under the name 
of the Keystone Lumber Co.  It is expected 
that the mill  will  be  in  operation  in about 
30 days.

Cheboygan—The  lumber  manufacturing 
interests of Cheboygan  have taken on a de­
cided impulse in the way of healthy growth 
judging from the indications  so  far  shown 
this present season,  and  all the possibilities 
point to the season’s cut  far  exceeding that 
of former  years.  Several  new  mills  have 
started up and some  have  dropped  out  of 
existence.  The number at present in active 
operation  shows  a  gain  of  two  mills 
large capacity over the count of last season, 
with still another  which  will  be  taken 
Cheboygan and set up. 
It  is  hardly possi­
ble to correctly estimate  the  actual cut that 
the present season  will  foot  up, but  there 
are several good reasons for  assuming  that 
it will be far in excess of last season.

Association Notes.

Hastings Banner:  “The Business Men' 
Association continues to make life a  weary 
waste to the dead-beat.”

Evart  Review:  “Secretary  Bell,  of  the 
Business Men’s Association,  rings  a  large 
bell each night,  except  Saturday,  at  8. 
o’clock, to give notice of the time of closing 
all business places.”

Owosso  Times:  The  Owosso  Business 
Men’s Association is  making  big  prepara­
tions for the banquet July 1.  Good  speak 
ers from abroad are expected.

The  State  Association  of  Pennsylvania 
now includes  every local  association  in the 
Keystone State,  Philadelphia having wheel­
ed into line during the past week.

Whitehall Forum:  The White Lake Bus 
iness  Men’s  Association  is  perfecting * ar­
rangements to give a grand  free  excursion

to the Resort on the Fourth of  July.  This 
will probably be the only  celebration of the 
day in either town,  and a good time will un­
doubtedly result.

Some  of  the  Pennsylvania  associations 
have adopted  a  resolution  fining  members 
$10 for buying  goods  with  schemes  on the 
first offense and expelling  them for the sec­
ond offense.  The  new  idea  is  said to  be 
meeting with great favor.

The bill incorporating the Michigan Busi­
ness  Men’s  Association  and 
auxiliary 
branches passed the House last  Wednesday 
and is consequently now  a  law.  The  full 
text of the law is given  on  the  fourth page 
of this issue.  A form for a  charter  is now 
under consideration,  after  which  the  State 
body will  be  in  a  position  to  charter  the 
local organizations of  the State.

Yermontville Echo:  “The Business Men’s 
Association -  is  agitating  the  subject  of 
closing the stores at  7  o’clock.  The  plan 
lias  been  adopted  in  several  surrounding 
cities and works like a charm.  When  peo­
ple once get in the habit of doing their trad­
ing in the early  evening,  it  can  be  made 
just as convenient to do so.  Merchants are 
human and would like a little rest.”

Evart Review :  * ‘The Business Men’s As­
sociation  met  last  Wednesday  evening  at 
the Council  Rooms,  nearly one-half  of  the 
members  being  in  attendance.  One  new 
member  was  admitted.  All  the  members 
present  expressed  themselves  as  highly 
pleased with the workings  of  the  Associa­
tion.  A petition  was  handed  in  from  the 
residents of  the  country north  west  of the 
illage,  asking  the  Association  to  help  to 
et a good road  laid  out  and  completed on 
or  near  the  old  McFarlane  logging  road 
The matter is to  be  vigorously  pushed  and 
it is confidently expected  that  the road will 
be put through. 
It will certainly be a great 
benefit to all.”

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

A. E. Johnson, Sparta.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
G. M. Huntley, Reno.
John Giles & Co., Lowell.
Chas. McCarty, Lowell.
Lee Deuel, Bradley.
A. Yollnoer, Big Rapids.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Jno. Giles. Lowell.
Robt. Graham, Coopersville.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Geo.  N. Reynolds, Belmont.
O. House, Chauncey.
L. N. Fisher, Dorr.
John English, Lucas,
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
C. H. Deming,  Dutton.
J. L. Handy, Boyne City,
C.  H. Joldersma, Jamestown.
R. T. Parish,  Grandville.
Hoag & Judsou, Cannonsburg.
C. C. Jenks,  Ramsey,  Morgan &  Jenks,  Kal-
Jas. Colby, Rockford.
Henry Henkel, Howard City.
G. W. Bevins, Tustin.
D. J. Peacock, Ashland.
Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
A. W. Blaine, Dutton.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
B. Burlington! Bradley.
O. F. Mynning, Big Rapids,
Headley & Son, Way land.
John F. Gauwuler, Croton.
A. & L. M. W<ff, Hudsonville.
Dell W right, Berlin.
H. Barry,  Ravenna.
Frank  Narregang,  Narregang & Son, Byron
P. Brautigan, Brautigan Bros., No. Dorr.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
J. C. Branch, White Cloud.
Smith & Bristol, Ada.
C. N. Hyde. Rockford.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
B. Gilbert & Co.,  Moline.
Nelson F. Miller, Lisbon.
A. Purchase, So.  Blendon.
R. Kantcrs & Son, Holland.
D. H. Decker, Zeeland.
Wm. DePee, Zeeland.
G. TenHoor, Forest Grove,
J. M. Nash, Bowne.
Spring &  Lindley, Bailey.
S. Monroe, Berlin.
W. H. Bartholomew, Wayland.
W atrous & Lillie, Coopersville.
S. A. VanBuren,  Muskegon.
Henry Mishler, Freeport.
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
Roland & Co., Traverse City.
8. McNitt & Co., Byron Center.
Spoon & Sinclair, Spoonville.
C. F. Williams, Caledonia.
R. A. Hastings, Sparta.
W. N. Hutchinson, Ashland.
H. Matthews & Co.,  Chase.
G. P. Stark,  Cascade.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mill. 
Redpath & Murray, Martin.
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville.
Blakeley Bros., Fife Lake.
S. S. Waldo, Ganges.
A. B. Foote, Hilliards.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
J. N. Wait, Hudsonville.
Childs & Carper, Child’s Mill.
M. Y. Wilson, Sand Lake.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Adam Newell, Burnip’s Corners.
N. Bouma, Fisher.
Velzy Bros., Lamont.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
C. Young, Allegan.
J. Henry Geris. Big Rapids.
R. G. Beckwith. Bradley.
Geo. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
U. DeVries, Jamestown.
W. H. Hicks, Morley.
W. Bell, Nottawa.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
DenHerder & Tanis, Vriesland.
H. Van Noord, Jamestown.
Jno. Tiesinga, Forest Grove.
A. Wagemmr, New Holland.
W. M. Rogers. Fennville.
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell.
Wooden & Yan Winkle, Sparta.
C. E. Manley. Kenney.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
M. J. Howard, Euglishville.
Herder & Lahnls, Zeeland.
M. E. Snell, Wayland.
8. Cooper, Jamestown.
J. E. Edwards, O’Donnell.
J. P. Dwinell, Carlisle.
J. H. Killmer, Saranac.
Gus. Begmun, Bauer.
John Gunstra,  Lamont.
Will Jeannott, P. Jennnott & Co., Reeves.
L. E. Whiteman, Lawrence.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
C. M. Shaw, Sparta.
G, 8. Putnam,  Fruitport.
8. T. McLellan, Dennison.
C. E. Patrie. Pierson.
L. H. Chapman, Chapman & Callahan  Cedar 

Springs.

Independent  Oil.

The  Independent  Oil  Co.  is  receiving 
many flattering testimonials on the superior 
merits of  its  oils,  especially the “Ethaline” 
and “Ruby”  brands, which  have  gained 
strong following in the  regular  channels 
trade.  As the  fall  season  approaches, the 
tank line  service  between  this  market and 
Cleveland will  be  greatly increased,  so that 
the usual periodical  oil  famine  will be dis 
pensed with this year.

Jackson  merchants  and  manufacturers 
have set  about the  work of  systematically 
and persistently booming the central city.

Purely Personal.

H. B. Fairchild has begun the  erection of 
fine  residence  on  Wealthy  avenue,  two 

lots east of Paris avenue.

Charley  Hyde,  the  Rockford  gram  and 
wool dealer,  was  in  town  Monday, getting 
pointers on “Incipient Railroads.”

Lloyd Yan-Natta,  billing clerk for Amos.
Musselman  &  Co., has  gone  to  Easton, 
Pa., where he  will  spend  a  fortnight  with 
his parents.

F.  M.  Priestley, of the Priestley  Express 
Tagon & Sleigh Co.,  started out last  Tues­
day for a two weeks’ trip among  the  East­
ern jobbing trade.

Jas.  M.  Wilcox,  formerly book-keeper for 
the Berkey & Gay  Furniture  Co.,  now  oc­
cupies a similar position with Arthur Meigs 

Co., lumber department.
G. H. Foster,  President  of  the  Excelsior 
Refining Co., of Cleveland, was in the city a 
couple of days last week, visiting his  repre­
sentative,  Manager  Marston,  of  the  Inde­
pendent Oil Co.

The “Black  Boom,”  headed  by  the  re­
doubtable  Albert  Retan—whose wine has a 
ational  reputation—serenaded  a  newly- 
married couple  at  Pewamo  last  Thursday 
evening by singing “Hold the Fort.”

The Gripsack Brigade.

Louis  J,  Koster,  of  Detroit,  passed 
through the city Friday night on  his way to 
the St.  Louis convention.

Will A.  Collins, formerly with A. Rasch, 
haß engaged to travel  for Christian  Piefer, 
the St.  Louis tobacco manufacturer.

W.  N.  Ford,  representing  Jas. G.  Butler 
& Co., of St.  Louis, was in town over  Sun­
day and left to-day for the Saginaws.

Chas.  S.  Robinson  has  gone  East  on  a 
ten days’ trip.  He  will  return on the 28th, 
when he will resume  the  quickstep  among 
his trade.

Christopher Sparling,  a smaller man than 
Tom Thum ever dared to  be,  has  gone  on 
the road for Eaton  &  Christenson,  selling
Frederick the Great” cigar.
A.  L.  Braisted is  authority for  the  state­
ment that  H.  B. Fargo,  the Muskegon gro- 
ceryman,  is having a  dray built  on  purpose 
to escort Steve  Sears  around  the  Sawdust 
City.

Geo.  F.  Owen and L.  M.  Mills  and  wife 
left Saturday night for Ciiicago,  from which 
place they proceeded Monday night  for  St. 
Louis,  to attend the National convention of 
the T.  P.  A.

D.  P.  Thompkins,  representing  Sclrnb- 
mehl, Pratt  &  Co., cigar  manufacturers  of 
Binghamton, N. Y., was in town last week, 
arranging for the advent  of  the “Frederick 
the Great” cigar.

Geo. W.  Botsford is now working through 
Indiana for the Auburn  Paper  Co.  and  C. 
B. Radford is working the trade of Northern 
Michigan.  Mr.  Radford  was  recently mar­
ried to an estimable young lady of Lansing.
Albert  C.  Antrim,  traveling  representa­
tive for the  Alabastine  Co.  and  Anti-Kal- 
somine Co., has  returned from a trip which 
begim on January 7,  during  which time  he 
covered  twenty-two  states,  including  the 
Eastern, Middle and  Gulf  States.  He will
start out again about July 1.

Blood Oranges.

Strolling about  the  neighborhood  of  the 
Quincy  market,  writes  a  Boston  corres­
pondent of the Iowa  State  Register,  my at­
tention was  attracted  by the  sign,  “Blood 
Oranges,  $7.50 a Box,” which decorated the 
exterior of  an importer’s  shop. 
I  had  al­
ways supposed  that the blood orange was a 
freak of nature,  to  be found  semi-occasion- 
ally like a yellow fire cracker in  a  pack  of 
Golden Dragoons  brand; but this,  it seems, 
was a  mistake, for  the  dealer  assured  me 
that the ruddy fruit was a distinct variety.
“It is  artificially produced,” he said,  “by 
grafting an  ordinary orange  tree  with  the 
pomegranate.  The  result  is an orange like 
any other  so far as flavor is  concerned, but 
with red  juice  that  is  visible  through the 
skin. 
It brings  a  slightly higher price, be­
cause  it  is  regarded  as  a  curiosity.  The 
people of Sicily  cultivate  it  mostly.  Yes, 
there are one or two queer kinds of  oranges 
of which  I  know.  The  pineapple orange, 
which has something of the pineapple flavor, 
is finding its way into  the  market.  Then, 
there is the “navel”  orange,  grown  exten- 
tively in  southern California. 
It is consid­
ered particularly fine and sells at correspond­
ing prices.  The most curious thing about it 
is the  astonishingly  accurate  imitation  of 
ehe human umbilicus,  which  ornaments the 
fxtremity  farthest  from  the  stem. 
It  is 
irom this peculiarity that  the  variety takes 
sts  name.  These  navel  oranges,  by  the 
way,  are of the  feminine  gender and  have 
no seeds at all.
“I had  a few sweet  lemons  in  stock the 
other day,” added  the  dealer.  “They  are 
quite a rarity.  People  in  this  part  of  the 
world have poor taste in  tropical fruit,  any­
way.  They will always pay more  for a red 
banana  than for a yellow one,  although the 
former is  considered an inferior fruit where 
both are grown.  The lime, too, is far more 
prized in tropical  countries than the lemon, 
but  notherners  think  it  is  only  good  for 
pickling.”

The  Knights  of  Labor, when  they  first 
organized themselves,  were undoubtedly an­
imated  by  just  and  reasonable  principles, 
but little  by little  they have relegated their 
rights  to  a  secret  clique  of  unscrupulous 
managers.  They are forced  to strike with­
out cause in many cases, to stop work  when 
they want to work,  to  espouse  the  quarrels 
of other organizations when they have none 
of their own,  and to go  into  enforced  idle­
ness to suit the whim and caprices of “jaw- 
smiths” who  never toil themselves.

The  fastest  sea-voyage  between  Europe 
and  the  United  States  has 
just  been 
accomplished by the Cunard  steamer  “Um­
bria,” being only  six days  and twelve  min­
utes  from  Queenstown  upon  landing  in 
New York.  Had she not  gone  forty-seven 
miles out  of her  usual  course,  for  fear  of 
icebergs,  she would have arrived a couple of 
hours  sooner.

The  fire  works  trade  has  been  smaller 
this season  than for several years  past, ow­
ing to the few  general  celebrations in pros­
pect.

193tf

Brundage, Muskegon, Mich.

ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L. 

F OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
F OR  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*

I lOR  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 W. R. Boynton, 
Coopersville, Mich,___________________198*

F OR  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- 
villc avenue, Grand R a p i d s . _______192tf
ITIOR  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

 

198*

189tf

I lOR  SALE—Ice box, 6 feet and 2 inches high, 
2 feet and 11  Inches  deep and 5 feet and 2 
inches wide.  The  box is zI dc lined and nearly 
new.  J. C. Shaw, 78 Canal  street,  Grand Rap­
id ^ _______________________  
■ T-ANTED—I  want a  good  man to clerk in 

general  store.  Must  be  steady,  well 
recommended and not afraid  of  work.  None 
other  need  apply.  G. S.  Putnam,  Fruitport, 
Mich.___________________________ 

■ GENTS 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 Rapids. 

___________  

SMPORTANT TO EVERY STORE-KEEPER— 

Every retail dealer who  desires to  run his 
business on an economical  basis  should  send 
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. 

195-3t

197*

■ 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
id^________________________________196*
W T ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 
W  
trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
a splendid chance will be  given  to  make 
man i
iey without  extra expense.  Address “ B,”
money without  extra expense, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

178tf

C.G.A.VOIGT & CO.

Proprietors  of

Stax Heller Mills.

M anufacturers of

“Our Patent,”

“Star,”

“Calla Lily,”

“Golden Sheaf,”

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

dlings and Screenings.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
-  MICH.
Cold  Storage.

chants and others consignments of

W e are prepared  to  receive  from  Mer­
Butter, Cheese and Eggs,

for COLD  STORAGE.  W e  have  one of 
the best Cold Storage Houses in Michigan. 
Solicit  Correspondence.  Rates  made  for 
long or short time.
Office with Cheney & Anderson,  under Fourth 

GRAND  RAPIDS STORAGE  CO. 

National  Bank.

W.  R.  STEGLITZ,

Proprietor of

111

M anufacturer of the following popular 

brands:

S.&M.

CRICKET.

ROSADORA.

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.

1310ataStMG » iR ljlts,lM - 
CHARLES  A.  COTE,

Successor to

A. Coye & Son,

*

AWNINGS

DEALER  INTENTS

Horse and Wagon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

Wide Ducks, etc.

Flags & Banners made to order.

73 CANAL  ST.. 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

FIREWORKS

I have been  designated by 
the  Standard  Fireworks  Co., 
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.

CHtTRCH’S

Bug Finish!

READY FOR USE DRY.

NO M IXING 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 
fine powder to stick  to  the  vines  and  entice 
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.
ONE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS 
of plaster and  Paris  Green  as  mixed  by  the 
farm ers.  I t 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 w rite:  “The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm .”  Many  un- 
solicitated 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 sold8,100 pounds of “BugFinish” last 
year.  I t is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of bugs with one appli- 
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.”
G uaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than

V.  R.  S.
Dealers  not  handling  any of above brands 
M ich.  Anti-Kalsomins Co., GaM Rapids.
Eaton Rapids,

any o th er M ixture nsed for th e  purpose.

are solicited to send In a trial order.

MANUFACURED BY

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

The New  Railroad  Causes  a Boom at the 

Comers.

Cant Hook Co rners, June 20,  1887. 

Editor Tradesman:

D e a r  Sir —Business is  just getting right 
up and  booming  at  the Comers,  since they 
got  the  railroad  within  four  miles.  The 
town  is full  of railroad men  and  the  way 
beer is getting jerked at  the  five saloons in 
Cant Hook Comers is a caution to wildcats. 
Law business is  looking  up and I have had 
to give much  of  my  time  to  holding suits. 
We  had  a  free  fight  Saturday  night,  in 
which fourteen  men  were engaged.  There 
was  a  bloody  array  of  noses  in  court  on 
Monday  as  I  perfomied  the  melancholy 
duty of  socking  each  one &2 fine and $2.10 
costs. 
I hate to discourage  the  hilarity  of 
the  occasion, but  the  dignity  of  the  law 
must be preserved,  you know.

The village  marshall  don’t  set around on 
his seat of authority like he  used  to.  The 
boys keep him busy keeping the peace.

Real estate is also suffering a tremendous 
boom this summer. 
I never  saw  the  beat 
of it in my life.  Why,  I sold that lot south 
of the barber shop  for  $3.25  a  foot,  when 
only two weeks ago I held  it at only seven­
ty-five cents  per  foot,  a  clean  advance  of 
over 400  per cent  This  place  is  bound to 
become a second  Chicago,  and  all  it  lacks 
now is the population  and smell.

You remember last week I was glad Mrs. 
Snooks  was  down  in  Indiana,  so  I  had 
hopes she would not see  how  my  relative, 
Tom,  got on  the  D. B. list.  Well,  she has 
done  a  blame  sight  worse,  as  she  has 
stumbled across another of the Snooks fam­
ily at Michigan City. 
I supposed John was 
dead years ago, but it seems that he is keep­
ing sole and body together as a cobbler, and 
has his little  battered  tin  sign hung out on 
the panel of his door

JOHN  SNOOKS 

COBBLER.

He is  no  “sherry  cobbler,” it seems,  for 
fragrance,  by  the  way  Mehitable  writes. 
She says she  would  not  have ever  went  to 
the altar and took  the  name  of  Snooks, if 
she  had  known  I  had  such  a  relation. 
Dad blame the luck!  She drops into poetry, 
too,  which is the unkindest cut of  all.  She 
says

Our dream of love is o’er,

Wrecked by a cobbler store.
Crushed by a weight of woe,
Like a boot all out at toe.

No more will I see thee ever.

No more hear thy loving tones,
For then would come between us,
Like a skeleton’s grinning bones

The sign of yon gaunt cobbler,

As he sits and pegs away 

At the worn-out shoes of the laborer 

That works for a dollar a day.

That really looks  as  if  the  old lady was 
going back on me,  don’t  it?  If she does,  I 
shall—but never mind—I  won’t  say  what. 
But when she  learns  how  the  old  town  is 
booming  and  how  I  am  getting  rich,  hand 
over fist,  I guess she  will change her mind. 
My relations are no  worse  than  hers,  any­
how,  when  you  come 
to  that.*  Them 
Sprigses  in  Pine  Holler  pole  a  vote  big 
enough to carry the  Upper  Peninsuler, and 
every last one comes to  town  when there is 
a circus or 4th of July celebration, and Mrs. 
S. has to cook  and  bake  and  fry  and  stew 
and wash dishes  all  day,  while  the  others 
go  out  to  enjoy  the  sights.  And  young 
ones!  Lord bless  you, they  have got more 
children  than  a  Monnan  Elder.  The  last 
circus we had here I got hot over  the  rum­
pus  at my house.  One  youngster  tippped j 
over the syrup, pitcher and rolled in the mo­
lasses.  Another pulled  the what-not down 
and broke all the vases and little china dogs 
and  lambs  and  a clock  to  eternal  smash. 
One small boy tried  to climb  the rainwater 
spout  and  fell  into  the  swill-barrel, and I 
spoiled my best Sunday  pants  pulling  him 
out.  Mr.  Editor, do  you  happen  to  know 
of some lone island that I can buy?  If you 
do,  let  me  know. 
I  want  to  build  up  a 
home  on  it  pretty  soon.  When  we  go  to 
the  city  to  see  a  circus,  we  don’t go  and 
stay with  our city  cousins.  No,  sir, we go 
right plum  to  a  hotel  to  stop.  But,  then, 
we have relatives that we like to have come 
and see  us,  and  they like  us  for ourselves 
and we like them.

This letter is  not  on  trade matters, to be 
sure, but you have so many able  correspon­
dents now that  your readers  are  well  sup­
plied on trade subjects.

Bilson  was 

in  to-day,  and  he  said, 
“ Snooks,  that T ra desm a n  is  getting to be 
the  dodrottenest  best  paper  in  seventeen 
states.  Why, even my wife reads it in pre­
ference to the more literary Orabbag.”

I say,  “good for you, old chap.”

Yours boomingly,

So lim an Snooks,

General Dealer.

One Way  to Educate  the Dead-Beat.
After reading the  ever-welcome T ra des­
m an each week and carefully noting all that 
is said,  pro and con, as to how to annihilate 
that class of hyenas called  the dead-beat,  I 
find him still  preying  upon his victims to a 
great extent.  We can  cut him off  here to­
day,  but he will be in new  pastures to-mor­
row.  The  venerable  Soliman  Snooks,  of 
Cant  Hook  Corners,  has not got him yet, 
and I have ventured  to write a  little on the 
subject. 
If we are to take the course of the 
most wary to  approach  our  enemies,  we 
must first encounter the  young and educate 
them  that the  practice  of  dead-beating a 
friend is wrong and one of the worst crimes 
to be committed.  Secondly,  our method of 
treating the dead-beat at present  by  black­
listing him,  will  do in  a certain  measure,

that  these  laws  ars  on 

but that will not  cure the  disease.  There 
are a great  many  men who  seem  to carry 
the  idea 
their 
side and never dream that  these same laws 
were intended to check the grasping  dealer 
or creditor from  taking undue advantage of 
the poor or less wealthy.  What  I  wish to 
say is,  that I have been  contemplating cut­
ting from T h e T ra d esm a n each week that 
column explaining and  criticising the dead­
beat and  mailing  the same in an  envelope 
to the persons  who srill persist in  not pay­
ing their bills;  but I  would  prefer  to have 
T h e T ra desm a n print a  small  sheet con­
taining  the  articles  glowingly  describing 
the common enemy and mailing one to each 
name in every local association. 
I get  this 
idea from the tracts which Christians use to 
bring converts to their respective  churches. 
We can reasonably  say that we  might con­
vert a great many of  our professional dead­
beats by holding  them up so they could see 
in  what  light  they  are  really  held.  As 
there  are  over  2,000  members,  1  do  not 
think this course would be a burden,  as  the 
price  exacted  from each  one to  maintain 
such  a  ■ sheet  would  only be a  few cents.

A u x il ia r y  Mem b er.

Dangers of the  Real  Estate  Boom  to  the 

Retail Merchant.

In conversation with a  prominent  jobber 
a few days since, he made the following re­
“I  think  the  real  estate  boom
mark: 
throughout  the country is  having a bad ef­
fect on  general trade. 
I have  heard of  at 
least three cases where dealers have injured 
their  busiuess by  unfortunate  real  estate 
speculations.”
We have in a  previous  issue  referred to 
the dangers of the  boom,  but these  words 
were suggestive of a danger to a distinctive 
class we had not  specially  mentioned—the 
small  dealer,  whose  business,  while  prob­
ably perfectly satisfactory to him before the 
advent of the boom,  is likely to be  affected 
by the speculative fever surrounding him on 
all sides.  He reads of the  wonderful  rise 
in the prices  of real  estate, of  the marvel­
ous fortune so and so  has  already  secured, 
of the Eastern  capitalist who  has so  much 
confidence in  the  prominent  position  his 
town must assume  in the near  future, and 
wonders  why he  should not  also  enjoy a 
modicum of the  fortune so plainly in view. 
His inclinations gradually overcome the dic­
tates of  common  sense,  his  confidence in­
creases,  and  ultimately  his  eyes  become 
blinded by the glitter of prospective wealth.
Man  is  naturally  a  gambler.  He  will 
take chances, under exciting circumstances, 
that his better judgment tells him he should 
not  take,  but  the  hopes of  winning in a 
game he sees  others plaj ing  with success, 
induces him to make the venture, regardless 
of his lack of knowledge, which the success­
ful one  possesses. 
It  is  true in  a sense, 
that -where there  is nothing  risked  there is 
nothing won, but not in  the sense  of  ven­
turing beyond the bounds’ of prudence.  Ev­
ery business  is, to a certain  extent,  a risk, 
and to  that  extent a  speculation,  but  the 
man who is  successful is not  the one  who 
enters it at a venture,  without  previous ex­
perience,  but  he who  has made  it a  study, 
perhaps for a  life-time. 
If  the  dealer  is 
prosperous,  and has  a surplus  beyond his 
business  needs,  he  may be  pardoned  in a 
measure  for  using  it for  speculative  pur­
poses;  for then,  should he  meet with  loss, 
he is able to stand  it, and the  chagrin nat­
ural to sucli a  result  will be  mixed with a 
leaven of  thankfulness  that he  is  still on 
deck, and  that his  business  has not  been 
jeopardized.  But the reverse  would be the 
case should his working  capital become im­
paired,  his  credit  questioned,  and  confi­
dence in himself—without  which  men sel­
dom succeed—should fail him.
As an instance of  the mania  for specula­
tion now current, we may  mention the case 
of a minister,  as reported in the daily press, 
who had so far neglected his ministerial du­
ties in his infatuation for  speculation,  as to 
make his study virtually a real estate office, 
until his flock was reduced  to a bare dozen, 
who finally induced him to resign his charge, 
A dealer  said to a  jobber not  long  since, 
that he did not much care how his  business 
went, as he had  made a hundred  thousand 
in real estate since the boom  started, but it 
was not said in a manner  to  encourage be­
lief in the  statement, and  his  subsequent 
transactions did  not tend  to corroborate it.
There is every reason  to believe  that we 
have entered into a period of prosperity that 
promises continuance for  several years,  but 
it is not  confined to any  one  line.  Every 
trade and occupation  must feel  its good ef­
fects.  Real  estate  speculations are simply 
a part of  the  general  prosperity,  but  the 
tendency has been to over-estimate the profits 
likely to  accrue,  and  in this  exaggeration 
lies the danger to the man of limited means. 
W hen men who  have their  total capital in­
vested in a reliable  business,  rob that busi­
ness to speculate in real  estate at the prices 
the boom  creates,  they  run the  risk of the 
gambler who stakes Ills all on the  turn of a 
card.

It Does Not Pay.

From the Albany Evening Journal.
A citizen said the  other day, concerning a 
city  merchant,  “I  have  no  dealings  with 
that man, because I do not  think he is hon­
est.”
The  friend  remonstrated  at  this expres­
sion,  remarking that he  had  always consid­
ered the merchant  upright  and  honorable. 
He received the following reply:
“I do not  know whether  1  am  justified 
in  calling  the  merchant  dishonest,  but  I 
base my suspicions on these facts.
“I  have been in the habit of sending  my 
office boy to his place  to  buy certain  small 
articles that  I  have  needed,  and I have no­
ticed that very often  he  sells  to this  child 
imperfect articles and gives  him for change 
mutilated  currency  or  Canadian  money, 
which he knows  perfectly  well  older  per­
sons would  not  take,  as  they  are  not  ac­
ceptable in current transactions.
“I think that a  merchant  who  will  take 
advantage of a child in this way would take 
advantage of  an  adult  if  he  could,  and  I 
prefer not to do any business with’such per­
sons.”

The Wool Market.

The  wool  market  has  been  excited  and 
buyers are paying beyond  prices  warranted 
at the East.  The  parties  furnishing  funds 
to pay for these wools feel  as  though  they 
had gone far  enough  to  call  a  halt  along 
the line and to-day  start  out  at  much  re­
duced  prices,  while  some  local  buyers 
seem  as  anxious  as  ever  to  resort  to  all 
ways  to  reduce  cost,  especially  where the 
high prices is are being paid.  The  Eastern 
market is firm and all  await the  outcome of 
high prices.

Monthly Report of the  Michigan  Division 

T.  P.  A.

Gra n d R a p id s, June 17, 1887.
MEMBERSHIP REPORT.

The following  names  were  added to our 
State Membership during the month ending 
May 31.

14778  M. Walker, Port Huron.
14808  J. B. Wbitctaer,  Ionia.
14809  C. R. Dye,  Ionia.
14810  W. T. Lamoreaux, Grand Rapids.
14889  A. N. Springer.  Linden.
14920  T. Ferguson, Grand Rapids.
14921  A. B. Adams. Battle Creek.
14922  S. H.  Lynn, Union  City.
14928  J. E. French, Buchanan.
14924  H. R. Whitman, Detroit.
14925  G. S. Escott, Grand Rapids.
14926  T. A. Parish. Grand Haven.
14927  O. A. Perry, Grand Rapids.
14928  S. B. Morrison,  Grand Rapids.
14929  G. H. Jacobs, Grand Rapids.
14930  B. D. Palmer. St. Johns.
14931  C. W. Starr, Owosso.
14947  J. M. Orton, Lansing.
14952  E. A. Reynolds, Milan.
14954  Marvin Matson, Lapeer.
Forty-five  members  have  paid  renewal 

dues during the month.

DISBURSEMENTS.

The disbursements  during the  month are 

as follows:
May 16,  Dispatch to Lansing................... $ 

85
“  16,  Badges for State Convention—   13 25
“  16,  Hotel  Bulletins............................  7  50
“  16,  Postage on  1,200 Invitations—   12 00
“  16,  Messenger to Convention.......... 
i  50
“  16,  Badges for Officers.....................   3  10
“  16,  Banner at  Convention...............  1  00
“  16,  Telegrams by Committee...........  
66
“  16,  Hotel Expenses of Guests.........   9  CO
“  16,  Ptg.t'or Convention and banquet 37  10 
“  16,  One Letter  Press for Secretary.  4 00 
“  16,  Telephone to President Kelsey. 
65 
“  16,  P ostage...........................................   20
Total disbursements for month..........$90 81
The National  Convention  will be held in 
St.  Louis, on June 21-24, inclusive, at which 
twenty-eight States will be represented, and 
without doubt will be the  largest  and most 
enthusiastic  convention ever held in the in­
terest of the commercial traveler.

Respectfully  submitted,

L.  M.  Mil l 8, Sec’y-Treas.

Dimondale Organized.

In response to  the  call  published in  last 
week’s paper,  the  editor  of  T h e T r a d e s­
m an met  the  business  men  of  Dimondale 
last Thursday evening and  assisted them in 
the formation of  an auxiliary to the  Michi­
gan  Business  Men’s  Association.  X.  H. 
Widger was made chairman  of  the meeting 
and  A.  H.  Cameron  secretary  pro  tem. 
After a thorough explanation of the system 
had been made, E.  W. Hunt commended the 
plan as outlined and moved that  the forma­
tion of  an Association  be  immediately pro­
ceeded with.  The motion was unanimously 
adopted,  when the constitution and by-laws 
presented by Mr.  Stowe were adopted.  The 
following names were given  in  for  charter 
membership,  all  of  which  were  accepted: 
T.  M. Sloan,  X.  H. Widger,  John  M. Jar- 
boe,  John  Weber,  B.  S.  Spencer,  I.  D. 
North,  E.  Underhill,  Hough  &  Brigham, 
Alex. Oliver,  A.  II.  Cameron,  F.  G.  Pray, 
E.  W.  Hunt,  H.  A.  French,  J.  W.  Fish, 
Fred.  A. Merritt,  Fred.  Bfiester,  Alfred E .! 
French,  D.  Osborn,  II.  Cogswell,  A.  C. Ba­
ker.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—T.  M.  Sloan.
Vice-President—I.  D. North.
Secretary—X.  H.  Widger.
Treasurer—F.  G.  Pray.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  F.  A.  Merritt,  E.  Underhill,  David 
Hough.
Committee on Trade Interests—John Web­
er,  E.  W.  Hunt, E.  Underhill.

The  election  of  the  Improvement  Com­
mittee was deferred until the next meeting.
The Blue  Letter  collection  system  was 
adopted for the use of the  Association  and 
the Executive  Committee  was instructed to 
procure the printing of the same.

The  editor  o t  the  local  paper  was  re­
quested  to  print  the  constitution  and by­
laws in liis next issue, as a matter of  news, 
and the meeting adjourned.

The Early Closing Movement Inaugurated 

at Lansing.

The Lansing Business Men’s Association, 
which  was  organized  about  a  month  ago, 
inaugurated the  early closing  movement—G 
o’clock  p.  m.—last  Monday.  The  clerks 
improved the opportunity to make a demon­
stration,  which  is  thus  described  by  the 
Lansing Rapublican:

A  long  mass  of  weltering  humanity, 
wedged in between the buildings which line 
Washington  avenue,  and  finding  outlets  at 
each  business  street  intersection,  jostled 
and swayed to and  fro in  eccentric  undula­
tions Monday night at  eight  o’clock  when 
the  weird  notes  of  the  band  seeming  to 
come in waves as  if  sent  by  the  flickering 
flambeaux which gave the players light,  an­
nounced  that  the  parade  of  the  business 
men.  celebrating  their  emancipation  from 
long hours of labor, had begun.  Long lines 
of fire shot  up from the head of  the proces­
sion,  as it advanced, and broke in ephemeral 
constellations  overhead,  while  on  in  the 
rear,  seemingly as far as the eye could reach, 
a cross fire of  gleaming  balls  was  kept up 
with  unceasing impetuosity.  As  the  long 
column  advanced,  two  boys,  looking  like 
devils in the  glare  of  the  red  light behind 
them,  were  seen  to  set  sky  rockets  on  a 
moveable  board  and  touch  them  off for  a 
trip  into  heaven.  Behind  them  came  the 
Lansing  city  band, followed by the  speak­
ers’ hack, containing Revs. C. H. Beale, Geo. 
A.  Beattie and  L.  H.  Squires.  Next was a 
red fire wagon followed by 200 sturdy clerks, 
each supplied  with  Roman  candles  which 
were  ignited  and  discharged  incessantly. 
The procession moved slowly along the thor­
oughfare,  and on,  shouting and  cheering as 
it went,  until Franklin  street  was  reached; 
then a  right wheel was  ordered and execut­
ed, setting the enthusiastic faces toward the 
buildings  and factories  of  North  Lansing. 
When the Franklin  House was  reached the 
little  devils with the  sky  rockets  counter­
marched and  all  the  rest of  the procession 
followed them back  to  the  Capitol  square, 
to which  the  great  river  of  humanity had 
flowed from Washington avenue, during the 
procession’s visit to North Lansing.
The broad steps of the Capitol were liter­
ally covered witfi men, women and children, 
and on  the Executive balcony,  Gov.  Luce, 
surrounded  by  a  bevy  of  Lansing  “rose­
buds,” looked down upon the mass of human 
beings which marked the limits of the plaza, 
as it stretched away to the  entrance, where

the  speakers’  carriage  and  the  band  had 
drawn up.
Rev.  L.  H.  Squires was the first to speak. 
“I wish to congratulate  both  employer and 
employe,” he  began,  “because of the adop­
tion  of  fewer  hours  of  labor. 
I  am  sure 
this movement  is  but  the  initiation  of  a 
great revolution which will give to the world 
more  men  and  women.  Up  to  this  time 
you have been so restrained and  trammeled 
that  we  don’t  know  wliat’s  in  you.  We 
don’t know how much latent talent lies hid­
den behind butter crocks  and sugar barrels. 
Some one of you may be a great base ballist 
(laughter)  and now that  your innate curved 
balls may be evolved  we shall have another 
professional added to the  world.  1 think I 
can also see  a  good  stroke  oarsman  and  a 
heavy weight  prize  fighter  here,  who may 
be developed in the  near  future  and  bring 
glory  on  themselves.  And  now  in  order 
that,! may be  in  harmony  with  this  early 
closing movement, I shall close, hoping that 
you  will  realize  all  that  you  are  striving 
for.”
Rev.  Geo. A.  Beattie  made  his  hearers 
laugh  by  telling  them  a  funny  story  and 
then sailed into the subject  of early closing 
with a humorous reference to it  as  applied 
to the addresses of the night.  “I  am  glad 
that this movement has been  inaugurated,” 
he said,  “because it will give the employers 
time to get acquainted with  their  families, 
and the clerks to do their  courting  on other 
week nights,  so that  they  can  go to prayer 
meeting and to  church  (laughter). 
I am in 
favor of early  closing!  (Applause)  I  shan’t 
buy anything  after  six  o’clock!  (immense 
applause)  I go even  farther  and  say that I 
won’t buy of the  man who keeps open after 
the  closing  hour!”  (applause  and  drum­
ming).
Rev.  C.  H.  Beale  smiled  and  said  that, 
even if the move should not  prove  success­
ful one thing  was  certain—the  demonstra­
tions at its opening had, for  “you have had 
a jolly  good  time  to-night,  plenty  of  fire 
works and  have  kicked  up lots of dust,  for 
we are all covered with  it. 
(Laughter).  1 
am glad of  this  early  closing. 
I  believe it 
is another  step in the cause of  freedom. 
I 
do not know that  this  particular movement 
will be successful,  but I do  know that it  is 
at least a suggestion  of  the  mighty  epoch 
which  it  heralds,  for  the  day  is  coming 
when men will have more  time  for  the im­
provement ot' their intellectual and spiritual 
natures.  Some people think that early clos­
ing  is  impracticable. 
I  don’t  believe  as 
they do.  They say the  farmer  and laborer 
can’t  buy  in  the  day  time  (a  voice ‘They 
can’t!’) but I believe we  can all  adjust  our­
selves to this new and  better way of living. 
I  am  sure  that  the  young  men  who  have 
this spare  time  given  them, will improve it 
by making men of themselves.  (Applause.) 
But  I, too, must keep in  harmony with the 
movement  by an  early closing, with a hope 
that success may crown your effort to main­
tain one.”

How to Prevent the Jobber Retailing.
T h e  T ra d esm a n  is  satisfied  that  few 
jobbing houses  make  a  practice  of  selling 
goodr. at retail to  persons  not  regular deal­
ers.  Such  trade  is  frequently forced  on a 
jobbing  house  under  circumstances  which 
render refusal difficult,  but  a  little  investi­
gation will usually acquit the  jobber of any 
intentional misdoing.  The abuse has ceased 
to exist in those cities and  towns where the 
associations have taken  hold  of  the matter 
in  earnest,  and  T h e  T ra d esm a n  would 
advise the remainder  of  the  associations to 
take similar  action  without further  delay. 
This  can  be  done  by  the  circulation  of  a 
“Roll of Honor” among the  jobbing  houses 
of the place—or,  in the lack of same, among 
the  traveling  men  who  visit  the  place— 
which is usually worded about as follows:

Believing  that  the  interests  of  all  con­
cerned  will be  best  served  by drawing the 
line strictly  between  wholesale  and  retail 
business,  we  hereby  agree  with  the  Busi­
ness Men’s Association  not  to  sell  at retail 
or to any one not a regular merchant in any 
town  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  above 
Association.

T h e  T ra d esm a n  heartily  commends 
this plan,  as  it  has  worked  to the satisfac­
tion and profit of the  retail trade  in  several 
towns  and posseses all the elements of fair­
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Moran. Fitzsimons & Co., tea  importers  and 
wholesale  grocers,  Detroit:  “ We  find  that it 
contains a good deal of  information  that will 
be of benefti to us in our business.”

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General Superintendent.

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Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern. 
G rand R apids & Saginaw  Division.

DEPART.

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

All train s arrive a t and d ep art from  Union depot. 
Trains ru n  solid both  ways.

ARRIVE.

Chicago & W est Michigan..

Leaves. 
fM ail.................. 
9:10 a m  
tDay  Express..................................... 12:30 p m 
*Night Express................................... 11:00 p m  
Muskegon Express.............................. 5:00 p m  

 

 

 

 

Ai rives.
9:45 p m

3:45 p m
5:45 a m
11:00 a m

»Daily.  fDaily except Sunday.
Pullm an Sleeping Cars on all night  trains.  Through 
parlor ea r in charge of careful attendants  w ithout  ex­
tra  charge to Chicago on 12:30 p. m., and through coach 
on 8:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

N ewaygo Division.

Leaves. 
E x p ress...............................................  4:05 p m  
Express.................................................. 8:85 a m  

All trains arrive and d epart from  Union Depot.
The N orthern term inus of this division is a t Baldwin, 
where ciose connection is  made  w ith  F. & P. M. trains 
to and from  Ludington and Manistee.

Arrives.

1:20 p m
10:20 a m

W. A. G a v e t t , Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mullikkn,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Arrive.
Leave. 

K alam azoo Division.

Ex. & Mail.  N. Y. Mail. 
N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex
6:15 p m
4:35 p m   7:45 a  m. .G rand Rapids.  9:45 a m 
5:55 p in 
5:00am
9:02 a m. .A llegan...........8:28am  
4:oOpm 
7:05pm   10:06 a m . .Kalamazoo ...  7:30 a m 
8:30 p m   11:35 a m. .W hite P igeon.  5:55 a m  2:20 p m
2:30 a m   5:05 p m . .T oledo............ 11:00 p m  
9:45 a m
5:35am
8:30am   9:40 p m .. Cleveland....... 6:40pm  
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 
6:50am
A local freight leaves G rand Rapids a t 12:50 pm ,carry­
ing passengers as fa r as  Allegan.  All  train s  daily  ex­
cept Sunday. 

J. W. McKennkt, G eneral Agent.
Detroit*  Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  EAST.

Anrives.
tSteam boat  Express ..............................   6:25 P in
[Through  Mail.......... .............................. 10:40 a m
...............................3:25 P m
tE vening Express...
a m
»Limited  E xpress.... ...............................6:50
[Mixed, w ith  coach..
GOING  W EST.
..............................   1:05 p m
tM om ing  E xpress... 
..............................   5:0 0 p m
tThrough  Mall...........
tSteam boat Express. ...............................10:40 p m
tMixed........................
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5:25 a m
»Night Express.........

Leaves.
6:30 P m
10:50 a m
3:50 p m
6:50 a m
11:00 a m
1:10 p m
5:1 0 p m
10:45 p m
7:45 &m
5 :4 0 a m
tD aliy, 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. 

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

Michigan Central.

Gram i Rapid* Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

D etroit Express........................................................   6:15 a m
Day  Express..............................................................  1:10pm
»A tlanticExpress...................................................... 10:10 p m
Mixed  ..........................................................................6:50  a m
»Pacific  Express.......................................................6:00am
MaU............................................................................... 3:00 p m
G rand  Rapids  Express............................................10:15 p m
M ixed............................................................................5:15 p m
»Daily.  ÂÎ1 other dally except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
ru n  on A tlantic and Pacific Express train s to and from  
D etroit.  P arlo r  cars ru n   on  Day  Express  and  Grand 
Rapids Express to  and  from   D etroit.  D irect  connec­
tions made a t D etroit with all through train s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

D. W. J ohnston, Mich. Pass. Agt., G rand Rapids.
O. W. R uggles, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agt., Chicago.

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

Manufactured by

09  B ristol  Street. 

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BOSTON,  MASS.

AGENTS-A. Flesch,  118  Randolph  St..  Chicago, III. 
W illiam  M. M organ, *15  Duane St., N.  Emil  W ienert, 
Albany, N. Y.  G ardiner Bros., St. A ugustine, Fla.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A.  J.  Bow se, President.

Geo.  C.  P ierce,  Vice President.

H. P. B a k e r , Cashier.
CAPITAL,  -  -  -  $300,000.

Transacts a general  banking  business.

Make  a  Specialty of Collection*.  Accounts 

o f Country M erchants Solicited.
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.

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.

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

B O O K S,
Siatloitrr 4 S ite s ,

20  and  22  Sontoe  St.,  Grand  R ands,  Mioh.

MAGIC COFFEE ROASTER

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

H e a d l i g l i t

AND

X-iittle D aisy.

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  factory,  in 
(Telephone 

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

Shall we receive your  encouragement  by 

way of a trial order?

Respectfully,

W H ICI? S

ADDRESS

GRAHAM  ROYS,  -  G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

OUR  LEADING  BRANDS:

Roller Champion,
Matchless,

Gilt  Edge,

Lily White,

Harvest Queen,
Snow Flake,

White Loaf, 
Reliance,

OUR  SPECIALTIES: 

Meal.  Bolted  Meal,  Coarse  Meal,  Bran, 

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

Write  for Prices.

Manufacturers of

COOK  &  PRINZ,
S how   Cases,
We are now  prepared to  fill 
all orders promptly, as we have 
a large and well-seiected stock 
on band and have a large selec­
tion of material  for use in  odd 
sizes and shapes.  Liberal  dis­
count to the trade for cash.
38 West Bridie S U M  Rapids.

Telephone 374.

The  m ost practical 
hand  R oaster  in  the" 
world.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion.  They are simple 
durable and  econom­
ical. 
grofcer 
should  be  w ithout 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts  to   per­
fection.
Send  for  circulars.

No 

R oM .SM ,

150 Long St.,
Cleveland, Ohio. 
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SEEDS

For the Field and Garden.

71 Canal Street,

Offers for Sale all Kinds of Garden 

Seeds in Bulk.
Medium Clover,  >
Mammoth  Clover,
Alsike Clover,
Alfalfa Clover,
Timothy,

Red  Top,

Blue Grass,

W hite Dutch Clover, 

Orchard Grass,

Hungarian Grass, 
Common Millet, 

German Millet, 

Flax Seed.

Full Line ot

LUBRICATING  OILS.

We make a specialty of

ETTIIXELA,  OIL,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  OFFICE,

N T o .  1   C a n a l   S t . ,

Telephone No.  228-2.

J.  G.  ALEXANDER,  Agent.

GIVE  I S  A  TRIAL  ORDER.

We  Guarantee  Satisfaction.

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  FOR

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

M anufactured by R iverdale Diet. Co.

106 Kent Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

TELEPHONE" 560.

I  Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for 

th e ir town on this Yeast by applying to  above address. 

None genuine unless it bears above label.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

PURCHASK-MONEV AGREEMENT.

According to the decision of the  Supreme 
Court of Pennsylvania  in the recent case of 
Freed  vs.  Richey,  the  Statute  of  Frauds 
does not require that  an  agreement  in  ref­
erence to the payment  of  purchase  money 
should be in writing  when  the deed for the 
delivery of  real  estate  has  been  properly 
executed and delivered.
EVIDENCE OF VALUE OF GOODS DESTOYED.
A stock of goods was burned by fire which 
at the same time  destroyed  the  books  and 
most of the papers of the person owning the 
goodf. 
In  an  action  upon  an  insurance 
policy to recover  the  value  of  the  goods, 
the trial court admitted, as evidence bearing 
upon the  value  of  the  goods, an  inventory 
made by the seller of the goods, assisted by 
the  plaintiff,  ten  months  before  the  fire, 
showing the prices then paid  for  the  class 
of goods embraced therein.  The New York 
Court of Appeals held that this evidence was 
properly admitted.

THE  WORD  “ NOTICE” CONSTRUED.

The word notice in the  ph#ase “upon no­
tice to the assured,” occuring in a fire insur­
ance policy, was construed by Judge Wheel­
er in  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  at 
New York, in the  case  of  Chadboume  vs. 
The German-American Insurance Company. 
The plaintiff, it appears, had a policy issued 
by the  defendant  company in  April,  1886, 
upon some  lumber-drying  machinery.  No 
premium was paid on  the  policy.  On July 
23 the insurance  company mail«! the plain­
tiff a notice that unless he paid the premium 
within twenty-four  hours  it  would  cancel 
the policy.  He received  the  notice  Satur­
day, the next day.  He  sent  no  premium, 
and that same  day the  company sei?t him a 
notice by mail that the  policy was canceled. 
The  plaintiff  received  the  second  notice 
Monday morning.  That  afternoon  the ma­
chinery was  destroyed  by fire.  The  plain­
tiff sued for damages.  Judge Wheeler held 
that the  word “notice” in  the policy giving 
the company the right to cancel  the  policy 
“upon notice to the assured” was equivalent 
to “reasonable  notice,” and  that  after  the 
receipt  of  notice  the  policy  remained  in 
force a reasonable time,  sufficient, probably 
to enable the plaintiff to get new insurance. 
The  court  left it to  the  jury to  determine 
whether the  notice  of  cancelation  was rea­
sonable, and the  jury gave a  verdict for the 
plaintiff.
Text of the Bill Incorporating the M. B. M.

A. and Auxiliary Bodies.

The following is the full text  of  the  law 
incorporating  the Michigan Business Men’s 
Association and auxiliary associations.

Section 1.  The people  o f  the  State  of 
Michigan  enact,  That the  Michigan  Busi­
ness Men’s Association and the  local  asso­
ciations auxiliary there to,  may  be  incor­
porated in pursuance with the provisions  of 
this act.
Se c.  2.  Any five or  more  persons,  resi­
dents of  this State,  being  members  of  the 
Michigan  Business  Men’s  Association  of 
the State of  Michigan, desirous  to  become 
incorporated, may make  and  execute  arti- 
c es of association under  their  hands  and 
seal, which said articles of association shall ' 
be acknowledged before some officer  of  the 
State,  having authority to take acknowledg­
ment of deeds and shall set forth:
First.  The names of persons associating 
in the first instance and their place  of  resi­
dence.
Second.  The corporate  name  by  which 
such Association shall be known in  the law 
and the place of its business office.
Third.  The object and  purpose  of  such 
Association, which shall be to secure the co­
operation of merchants and  other classes of 
business  men,  promote  the  social,  moral 
and business interests of  its members,  and 
the period for which it is  incorporated,  not 
exceeding thirty years.
Sec.  3.  A copy of  said articles of  asso­
ciation shall be recorded with the  Secretary 
of the State and thereupon the persons who 
shall have signed  such  articles  of  associa­
tion, their associates  and  successors,  shall 
be a body politic and corporate by the name 
expressed  in  such  articles  of  association. 
Said corporation shall have full  power  and 
authority to make and establish  a  constitu­
tion, by-laws, rules and regulations,  not  in 
conflict with the laws of  this State  and  to 
alter and amend the same.
Sec.  4.  A copy  of  the  record  of  such 
articles of association under the seal  of  the 
State, duly certified according to  law,  shall 
be received as prima facie evidence  in  all 
courts of this State of the existence and due 
incorporation of such corporation.
Sec.  5.  Such  corporation,  when  duly 
formed,  shall have power  to  institute  and 
charter  auxiliary  associations  within  this 
State, having similar aims and objects,  pro­
viding  that  the  constitution  and  by-laws 
adopted by such auxiliary associations shall 
not be repugnant to the laws  of  this  State 
and shall be approved by  this  corporation, 
with which copies of  the  said  cc nstitution 
and by-laws must be filed.
Sec.  6.  This  corporation  shall  from 
time to time make  and establish  such  con­
stitution, general laws and  regulations  for 
auxiliary  associations  as  such  corporation 
shall judge proper to secure  uniformity and 
effectiveness.
Sec.  7.  Any five  or  more persons,  resi­
dents of tiiis State, being  members  of  any 
auxiliary  association,  having  been  duly 
chartered by the Michigan  Business  Men’s 
Association,  desirous  to  become  incorpo­
rated,  may make and execute articles of as­
sociation  under  their  hands  and  seals, 
specifying as  provided  in  section  two  of 
this act, and file  a  copy  of  such  articles 
with the clerk of the county in  which  such 
corporation may be formed,  which  shall be 
recorded by such clerk in a book to be  kept 
in his office for that purpose; and thereupon 
the persons  who  shall  have  signed  such 
articles of association,  their  associates  and 
successors shall be a body  politic  and  cor­
porate by the name expressed in  such  arti­
cles of association.

Sec.  8.  This corporation or any auxiliary 
association thereto,  may take and hold  per­
sonal and real property  so  far  as  may  be 
necessary for the  proper  purposes  of  such 
organizations, not exceeding  ten  thousand 
dollars in amount,  and may convey, dispose 
of  and  deal  with  the  same  as  they  may 
from time to time determine by a two-thirds 
vote of the total membership  voting  there­
for; and for such purpose  such  corporation 
or auxiliary associations may create  a  cap­
ital stock of  not  more  than  ten  thousand 
dollars,  to  be  divided  into  shares  of  not 
more than ten dollars each.

SLIPPERS.

WMWmÊ

The Latest Novelty io the Slipper Line,

Men’s Wigwam Slippers, heeled,  $11.00 dz. I Youths’ Wigwam Slippers, heeled, $7.50 dz. 
Boys’ 
7.50 dz.
7.00 dz.
Ladies’ 

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TERMS—NET  CASH,  NO  DISCOUNT.

9.00 dz. I Misses’ 
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9.00 dz. j Childrens’  “ 

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Agents for Woonsocket and Wales’-Goodyear Rubbers 

W ritq for Fall Discounts.

G.  R.  MAYHEW,

86 Monroe  St., Grand Rapids.

We desire to call  your  attention to the

B eardsley W in d ow   Screen,

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

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

“THE  BEST.”

The Beardsley Swing 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
ple 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.

C.  L.  DAVIS.

BU N TIN G   &  D A V IS,

Commission  Merchants.

Specialties:  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots,

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

MOSSLET  BROS.,

W H O I i H S A L E

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, will be pleased to hear from you.

26,26  30  4  32  O i l  a  SM I, 

GKAND  BAFIDS

Wholesale  Grocers.

IMPORTERS  OF

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

“Acme” Herkimer Co. Cheese, Lautz Bros. 

Soaps and Niagara Starch.

Send  for  Cigar  Catalogue  and 

ask for Special  Inside Prices 

on  anything  in  our  line.

THE  HOME  YEAST  CAKE.

Absolutely the Best and Purest ever put upon the Market.

SBIiIjS ON  ITS MXSKITS.

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. 2.  Smaller “  36 
1.00.

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HUH?  nflMl?  VPAQT  PAYP  Pfl 
ln ii  flUM   lim bi  lA u   bu.  26 & 28 River St.,  Chicago, 111

------MANUFACTURED  BY------

OFFICE  AND  SALESROOM.

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N.  li.— A sk y our w holesale grocer for th e  HOME YEAST CAKE.

M E T A 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.

C urtiss  & D unton,

Ca-PLAJVD RAPIDS. 

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-  MIOH.

And

Absolute Baking Powder.

1 0 0  pr cent. Pure.

Manufactured and sold only by

ED.  TELFER,  Grand  Rapids.
CARY <& LOVERIDCE,

L.  !..  LOVERIDGE.

L. M.  CARY. 

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

Fire and Burglar Proof
S
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Combination and Time Locks,

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11 Ionia Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

CEO.  E.  HOWES,

JOBBER  IN

Foreign  and Domestic  Fruits.

SPECIALTIES :

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

3  Ionia. St.,  C H A H S   R A F Z S S ,  M ICH.

L.  D.  HARRIS,

W liolesale Dealer In

WRAPPING  PAPER,

OF ALL  KINDS, 

0

PAPER  BAGS,  v 

BERRY  PAILS,

ICE  CREAM  PAILS,  WOODEN  BUTTER  DISHES 

WHITE  AND  MANILLA  WAX  PAPERS,
TWINES,  CLOTHES  LINES,  ETC.
33  NORTH  IONIA  STREET,

GXLA2TD  XUUPXDS, 

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J.  T.  BELL  <Ss  CO.,

Wholesale  Fruits  and  Produce,

BAST  SAOIKTAW,  MIOH.

The  accompanying  illustrations  represents  the
Boss Tobacco  Pail  Cover.
It will fit any pail, and keep  the  Tobacco  moist 
It will pay for itself in a short time.
You cannot afford to do without it.
For particulars, write  to

and fresh until entirely used.

ARTHUR  MEIGS  &  00.

W holesale Grocers,

SOlo  Agents,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Best  in  the  Market  for the  Money.

HONEY  BEE, COFFEE!
PRINCESS  BAKING  POWDER,

EQUAL  TO  TH E  BEST  MADE.

BEE  M ILLS’  SPIC ES

Alosolutely  Pure.

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hands and waltz In to whip Him.  I am cer­
tain that the honest portion of the communi­
ty will have to confess that they  cannot and 
dare not  try to  defeat  a  resistless  power, 
when they see and know that it is really too 
much for them to  tackle.  And  it  is  self- 
evident that  he  who  does  attempt to whip 
his Creator,  or a  power  of “natural  law,” 
has sunk to a condition  of  moral palsy and 
blindness so lamentable and calamitous that 
no honest  men  can  find  it  in  their hearts 
to blame or  hate  him, any  more than  they 
would hate any other kind of carrion.  Pity, 
loathing,  sorrow  and  horror  are  the  only 
emotions that  can  arise  in  the  bosoms  of 
honest men towards the dead-beat, the great­
est  failure in God’s whole creation.

C. H.  B a blo w.

To  Save Expenses.

From the New York Times.
An up-town  hotel proprietor is much dis­
gusted  at  a  dinner  party  of  commercial 
travelers  that  lingered  in a  private  dining 
room until the small hours of morning.  The 
lights about the  room,' excepting  those over 
the table,  were suggestively turned out, but 
the party remained around the festive board. 
On leaving,  it  transpired  that  they had de­
termined to  sit  up  all  night  to  catch  an 
early train  and  save  a night’s  lodging,  as 
they had given up their  rooms  the previous 
morning.

“Drummer,  eh?”  “Well,  I’m  traveling 
for a bank.”  “Pretty  good  pay?”  “Yes, 
if I get across the Canada line.”

GROUND

JENNESS  &  McCURDY,

Import rs and Manufacturers’ Agents,

DEALERS  IN

I  « “ “ “ I

Broie Lamps, Chandeliers, Brackets, Etc.

73 & 75 Jefferson Ave. DETROIT,  MICH.
Wholesale Agents for Duffleld’s Canadian Lamps.

_A_  3ST

D.  W  Archer's Trophy  Corn,

D.  W. Archer’s Early Golden  Coro, 
O.W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn, 
D.W.Archer’s Red Goat Tomatoes

The above Brands are Standard the W orld Over.  A sk  your  Jobber  for  them   and take

no other.  P acked by

Davenport, lova.
DAVENPORT CANNING CO.
ITOTTiY EYE IS CAUGHT

B IM S  PATENT GASH TILL A i SALI RECÌDE

Every Merchant in want of a perfect and complete Check System, should place his 
I T H A C A ,   35QT-

order at once.  Special Oiler until June 15,18S7.  Send for Circulars.

O .   B .   M I X i L E B ,  

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Th.e  Only  Popular  Brand  of

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work of  attaining  success  in  their  depart, 
ment of business. 
Is it not true that,  if the 
poor dead-beat, high or  low, could  for  one 
whole  day  feel  the  gladness  and  joy  of 
heart  that  are  felt  by  the  honest, human 
man,  as he goes to the work  before him,  he 
would, upon awakening to  his  normal con­
dition of  mind  and  finding  himself  again 
grudging his  money and  his  strength  and 
hating his duty as a dreaded “punishment,” 
if he could not  get  back  the  joys  of  that 
single day of  higher  happiness,  go  imme­
diately  and  hang  himself? 
I  am  certain 
that  you  will  all  agree  with  me  that  he 
would and be  astonished  that  he  had been 
able to endure  existence  so  long  as  one of 
the lower animals in human form.

I am aware  that  this  is  a  new  way  of 
“coming at” the delinquent  (the  most  dan­
gerous  enemy  of  civilized  communities), 
but I think  you will  be  able  to  see  that, 
while  we  must  protect  ourselves  against 
him  by all  means  practicable, he  really de­
serves no more  censure for  wasting  his ex­
istence than any other kind  of  an  idiot  or 
imbecile.  What  nature  witheld from  him 
he can in no  wise  give, and,  like  all  other 
men, he must work out  what is in him  and 
sacrifice himself for his ruling principle.

The true  worker,  at  times,  feels  “lazy” 
and,  for  the  time,  dreads  his  work,  when 
“disturbances” fling it onto him too heavily, 
and can know how the lazy man feels; but the 
lazy man cannot know how the worker feels, 
else he would commit suicide when he found 
himself  firmly  stuck  in  the  pit  of  work- 
hatred. 
If the true worker did not soon re­
cover from  his  lazy  moods it would  wreck 
his  reason.  To  become  chronically  lazy 
after having felt genuine joy in work would 
make him a maniac or  self-murderer.  And 
we are certain that the dead-beat (hypocrite 
or man-animal in any phase or  condition of 
depravity) could no more endure  existence, 
with his ruling hog  instincts,  after  he  had 
drunk in  the  purer  and  higher  emotions, 
than after lie  bad  feasted  for  half  a  life­
time upon the  choicest delicacies that tickle 
the  palates of epieurians  he  could  enjoy a 
square meal of mouldy sawdust risned down 
with sweetened swill. 
I tell you again, the 
brave man can know exactly'how the craven 
coward feels in time'  of  deadly clanger  and 
impending death,  for  he, d"ring  his “sink­
ing spells” or  fits  of  “blue  devils”  is,  at 
times,  subject to panics and seasons  of  de­
spair,  and he is often  scared  half  to  death 
by  some  unexpected  upheaval  or  outburst 
of danger; and  this  awakening to find him­
self temporarily “ the meanest slinking cow­
ard in the whole  United States  Army”  (the 
exact words of as brave  an  officer  as  ever
freely  flung  away his  life for  the honor of 
the old  flag)  almost  kills  him,  although it 
lasts for only a few  minutes. 
If  this cow­
ardly “streak” should continue for  a day or 
two,  it is certain that the man who had once 
felt and acted the  hero  would  die  broken­
hearted,  if he  did  not  shoot himself  to get 
out of his misery.  Now,  it is a self-evident 
fact that these  sinking  spells  of  dreading 
work  and  battle, of  grudging  money  and 
strength, of  envy, hatred,  suspicion, which 
to  the  live worker and true fighter are only 
temporary aberrations  of  mind  are  to  the 
dead-beat,  coward  and  hypocrite  the  nor­
mal and inherited  ruling  passion,  and con­
stitute a moral  atmosphere  in  which  he is 
“at home,” exactly as a fish is in its natural 
element

A  MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

K.  A.  STOWE  A  BBO., Proprietor«.

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

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{Entered,  at  the  Poatofflce  at Grand  Rapid»  as 

Second-cUm Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY.  JUNE  22.  1887.

Dead-Beating  and  Lying  Philosophically 

Considered.

Written Especially for The Tradesman.

Let no man flatter himself  that he  can  ex­
haust the subject of evil in any of its phases 
as it crops out in the daily affairs of life.  All 
that the wisest can  expect  to do is to touch 
a remote outline of a theme that is as bound­
less as the infinite good,  which is made viv­
idly bright  by a  comparison  with  the  evil 
which forms its necessary background.

The liar and  the  dead-beat  are  alike  in 
that if they were not  too indolent  to  study 
and work out  the  problem of existence—if 
they could only  use  the faculties  that  are 
used by honest or real  men—they  would be 
able to find very  easily  solid  wealth,  with 
every attendant blessing (who can  estimate 
them?)  in permanence and reality; the genu­
ine instead  of  the  counterfeit,  in  every de­
partment  of  thought  and  action,  and  find 
lasting good instead  of  transient shadow at 
one-tenth the  cost  of  the sham  article, 
take it  for  granted  that  this  affirmation is 
one of the most  positively self-evident facts 
that can be presented  to  the  minds of hon­
est men.

For thousands of  years  our wise teachers 
have taught that the “sinners” and I believe 
that  the  “beat”  is,  in  every  phase,  chief 
among  ten  thousand—has,  while  knowin 
beforehand that he  was  confronted by irre­
sistible laws  and forces  in  surrounding na­
ture (man-laws  and  others), that  were des­
tined to crush him and bring  to  naught all 
his vile schemes  and  knowing  that  his ill- 
gotten gains will cost him ten for every one, 
yet deliberately  choosing  the evil in prefer­
ence to the good, the one instead of the ten, 
gone  on  his  course,  and,  as  it  were,  tried 
to whip the Almighty himself.

Ask  the  level-headed  sober  and  mature 
business  man why  he follows the path that 
leads to sound financial  success,  and  he in­
stantly replies, “Because there is absolutely 
no  other  way  for  me  to  gain  the  prize I 
seek.  Laws  of  trade, financial,  industrial, 
social and  moral  laws  or  resistless  forces
surrounding  me,  compel  me  to  take  this 
jourse, just as though I was under the com­
mand of a military despot who orders me to 
do thus and so every day of my life.  To go 
the other  course, although  it might bring a 
quick profit now,  would  bring  irremediable 
disaster in the near future. 
I dare not, can­
not and will not  take any other course than 
these all-potent laws dictate to me.” 

Therefore, 

is  it  not  certain  that  a 
healthy  moral  organism,  combined  with  a 
sound  mental faculty,  in  conjunction  with 
the surrounding elements—man  and  mater­
ial—will be  compelled, though appearing to 
act voluutarily, to follow  the  one right way 
to attain success in life?  Can  it be possible 
that a liar, while  knowing a  more  incredi­
ble and marvelous truth than  his fabricated 
snake  story—one  of  snakes  larger,  longer 
and of more  astonishing  instincts  and hab­
its—will  deliberately  relate  the  lesser  in­
stead  of  the  greater  and  accept  the  less 
marvelous of the two  and  all  the  time  be 
conscious of the fact?

And,  further,  it  will  be  noticed  that 
while the brave  man, after  the first flash of 
fiery indignation  always  looks with sorrow 
and pity upon the  coward  or  dead-beat  in 
any form,  the  rascal,  when  offended at an­
other of  his  kind  or  upon  getting  power 
over a fellow who  lias  deceived or betrayed 
him,  hates  with  an  unrelenting hatred and 
crushes and scourges his  fellow with worse 
than  savage  ferocity  and  never  knows  i, 
moment’s lucid interval  of  charity.  When 
you see  a  dead-beat  forgive  another  or  a 
coward look  with respect upon  his  fellow- 
craven  or  a  hypocrite  cease  to  despise  a 
hypocrite,  you may know  that  the  millen- 
ium is at hand.

Notice  our  “patriotic  reformers”  and 
“holy  innocents” of  the  dynamite  persua­
sion,  if you desire to seethe beauty of Satan 
rebuking siu  iu a  condition of  most perfect 
development. 
See  when  these  men  of 
“equality  and  fraternity”  and \ “universal 
brotherhood” disagree and  fall out.  You’ll 
notice in the trifling  infelicities  that  ensue 
that  they  invariably  administer  the  same 
quality of  soothing  syrup (nitro  glycerine) 
to the “dear brother  in  loyalty and fratern­
ity”  that  they  “constitutionally”  planted 
under the bed of  the “capitalistic gorilla” or 
the throne of the  Czar  but  a few days ago.
that  we  get  over  our 
hatred of these  poof  moral  inebriates  and 
learn to  look upon them as upon other ano­
malous phenomena,  and  attempt a rational 
not  angry,  method  of  ridding  society  of 
these moral pests,  just as  we  defend  our­
selves  against  small-pox,  kill-sheep  dogs, 
bed-bugs,  skunks and other lesser evils. 
If 
you must shoot,  why, shoot gently—pull the 
trigger,  with a  “Lord bless you,  Amen!”

But  it  is  time 

I perceive  that  I  am  drawing  my letter 
out to the length  of  a  sermon  and  that  I 
shall undoubtedly sleep in the editorial hay­
mow or waste pile for my temerity.  But, I 
tell you again, this  dead-beating and  every 
grade of moral delinquency in society are,  at 
the core of the  matter,  an  entirely different 
phenomena than our savants have imagined, 
unless  human  beings  can  knowingly  and 
and  deliberately  prefer  dross  to  gold,  a | 
lower to a  higher—even  highest—degree of I 
happiness; and, while  well  aware  that the { 
Almighty power of  God  and  of  law  con- 
fronts them and  is  certain  to  defeat  their j 
every  dishonest  scheme, first  or  last,  they | 
still  throw  off  their  coats,  moisten  their

The more  we reflect upon this theme,  the 
more evident does it  appear that swindling, 
lying and all  manner  of  evil  doing  spring 
from  indolence or a paralysis of  some  part 
of the  organism  and  an  over-development 
of some  other part,  not  yet  made  plain  by 
our theological and  scientific experts. 
It is 
certain  that,  if  the  indolent  tramp  were 
awake  to the man portion  of  his  faculties, 
he would,  with  very much less physical  ef­
fort and  hardship,  get  the  very  thing  for 
which he now longs and suffers  in  greatest 
abundance and have the respect  of his com- 
mounity—in  fact, everything  that  he  now 
covets so earnestly,  if he could  use  the  or­
ganism according to the laws  of nature and 
social government,  as the real  man uses the 
faculties possessed by him.  Often have we 
seen,  side  by side, the  live  worker  and the 
sluggard—the “nice” rascal and the  human 
honest  man—and  noticed  that  the  work 
which  is  looked  upon  by  the  one  as  his 
meat  and  drink,  the  thing  in  which  his 
heart is wholly engaged  and  which he  can 
in no wise  spare,  is regarded  by the  dead­
beat as cruel drudgery and  dreaded  punish­
ment,  to be shirked and avoided and laid off 
onto others’  shoulders as a “curse”  instead 
of a blessing.  Just  that  exercise which, to 
the developed  man,  is the very elixir of life 
and  a  glad,  joyful  opportunity to  pay out 
his energies  and  thus  attain  life’s  highest 
prize  is, to  the  sham  man,  a  thing  to  be 
shunned and dreaded as  his very worst foe, 
with which only animal hunger or an equiv­
alent necessity can induce  him  to  grapple.
Therewre as many work lovers among mer­
chants—men whose  souls  are  literally ab­
sorbed in the work of  improving  the  busi­
ness to which  they lay their  hands—as  are 
found  among  farmers,  machinist,  artists 
and others, and I appeal to  them  and  ask, 
Is it not true that a man does  really delight 
in his  chosen  calling,  be it  what it may,  in 
the legitimate work  of  civilized  communi- 
just  as  when  a  child  he  rejoiced  in  his 
ties,  loving  that  work  as  bis  best  sport, 
play,  paying out his energies spontaneously, 
in an artistic sense.

Now,  let me  ask  those  who  work for  a 
living to give  their  hearts  and hands to the

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Two Accused Houses  Assert Their  Inno­

Gra n d R a p id s, June 18,  1887.

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:
De a r  Sir—In T h e T ra d esm a n  of  last 
week we notice a communication from Che­
boygan,  condemning  manufacturers  and 
wholesale dealers who  sell  direct  to  con­
sumers,  such  as  hotels,  boarding  houses, 
etc.; also a sensible  editorial  on  the  same 
subject
When firms are to be mentioned by name, 
however,  in  a  journal  whose  circulation 
reaches nearly every  business  man  in  the 
State, great care  should  be  exercised  by  a 
publisher to ascertain the facts  before  pub­
lishing anything which may prove derogatory 
to their  business interests.
It is very easy to satisfy  any  candid  en­
quirer that the Cheboygan  business  men 
or those who authorized the  writing of that 
communication—that  they  were  laboring 
under a mistake when  they  Imagined  that 
the Valley City Milling Co.  had  been  sell­
ing fiour direct to one of the  hotels  in  their 
thriving young city.  The facts are that  no 
flour ever went from our mill  to  said  hotel 
without some dealer there  being  cognizant 
of the fact,  and receiving  a  commision  on 
the sale.  We admit that said landlord may 
have  thought  he  was  getting  his  flour  at 
first hands, and that he was  angry  (if  that 
is a strong enough word to express it) when 
he found that he had unwittingly been pay­
ing a small profit into the hands  of  certain 
of the retail  dealers,  whose  business  con­
tributes so largely to bring patronage  to his
What caused complaint was that the land­
lord in question was seen handling five bar­
rels of our  “Roller  Champion”  flour  from 
the depot, but  inquiry  would  have  shown 
that it was sold and shipped either to C. A. 
Gallagher or J. M. Meyer.
One dealer there who makes some preten­
sions as a jobber also makes some complaint 
of our selling to parties  whom  he  claimed 
as his customers, though doing  business  in 
other  towns,  one  of  them  distant  some 
twenty or thirty miles in another  county.
Trusting that these explanations may sat­
isfy the trade  that  we  desire  to deal fairly 
with them and that this was merely  a  case 
of mistaken identity we are

Respectfully yours,

V a l l e y  City  Mil l in g   Co.

A N O TH ER EM PH A TIC   D E N IA L .

D et o it, June 18,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
D e a r   Sir —We notice to-day,  published 
in your paper of the 15th inst, a letter  from 
H.  G.  Dozir,  Secretary  of  the  Cheboygan 
Business Men’s Association, to  you,  in  re­
gard to our firm selling to  consumers.  We 
send you herewith several  of  our  circulars 
and catalogues,  issued at  various  dates,  in 
which we distinctly state—as in  all  of  our 
circulars issued since  1872—that  hotels  or 
parties who buy exclusively  for  their  own 
use “wouldn’t be sold  by  the  package  or 
otherwise or upon  any t e r m It  is  well 
known by the trade that  we  adopted  this 
course long  before  any  associations  were 
organized in this State,  for  the  purpose  of 
protecting, as far as we could,  the  interest 
of  the  retail  dealers.  When  the  writer, 
“Roney,” was in Cheboygan, about a month 
ago, he met L.  P. Swift,  who a year or two 
ago kept store and was also  connected with 
the  John Spry Lumber Co., at  Sailor’s En­
campment, to both of whichwe sold a  large 
amount of  goods.  Mr  Swift  handed  the 
writer a memorandum  for  some  groceries 
in whole packages,  such as  dealers  usually 
buy.  This  order  was  forwarded  to  the 
house, and was promptly filled, as formerly, 
supposing  that  he  was  doing  business 
at  his  mill  as  before.  We  have  had 
many applications to sell large bills  to  pri­
vate parties, not in  trade for  cash  and  we 
always  declined.  We  chalcngc  anyone 
maliciously  disposed  to  contradict  our 
statement.  We ask you in justice  to  our­
selves,  to contradict theerronous statement, 
as the article in your  paper  might  mislead 
some of onr friends and customers.

Yours truly,

Mo ran,  F itzsim ons & Co., 

per Jno.  Roney.

to the retail trade at  the  same  prices given 
the  jobbing  trade.  The  factories  in  this 
State are all  doing  well, the  output  being 
greater than  in any other  previous  year in 
the history of the business.

Retail Grocers’ Association.

Members of  the Retail  Grocers’ Associa­
tion of Grand Rapids should remember  that 
the  regular  semi-monthly  meeting  occurs 
this evening and govern  themselves  accord-, 
ingly. 

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Food That Paris Consumes.

Some interesting  figures  with  regard  to 
the consumption  of food in  Paris have  re­
cently  been  published 
in  France,  from 
which we take the following details:  It ap­
pears that in the year 1885 no less than 303,- 
894 oxen,  188,595  calves,  1,979,536  sheep 
and 352,004 pigs were killed at Paris.  Add­
ing to  this the  7,646,412  pounds of  horse 
flesh which was sold for  food,  157  pounds 
of meat is the average consumption of  each 
inhabitant.  The largest  number  of  cattle 
came from the  provinces  and the  rest was 
supplied  by  Germany,  Switzerland  and 
Austria-Hungary.  Besides this, an average 
of 9  pounds  of  tongues, 
livers,  kidneys, 
calves’ heads, 23 pounds of  fish, 22  pounds 
of poultry and 7  pounds of  oysters per in­
habitant lias to be added to the consumption 
of meat. 
It will  appear  strauge  that the 
average of 7 pounds of oysters falls on each 
inhabitant of Paris, the more so as the poor­
er classes contribute largely to  raise the av­
erage. 
It  is  stated  that  the  oyster  for 
which there is the greatest demand in Paris 
is that known as the Portuguese oyster,  the 
flavor of which has been improved  by some 
new experiment in the growth of oysters.

Grand Haven celery was the first to reach 
this market this year.  The Kalamazoo crop 
will not be  ready for market for a week yet.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Beets—50c $  doz.
Beans—Country hand-picked are held at $1.25
bu., and  city  picked  are in  sharp  demand 

and scarce at $1.60 @ $1.75.
Butter-Creamery is in good demand and fair­
ly firm at 18 @ 20c.  Dairy is In better dem and 
at  12 © 13c.

Cabbages—New, $2.  per crate.
Carrots—50c $  doz.
Cauliflower—$1 $  doz.
Celery—Grand Haven, 35c $1 doz.
Cheese—Jobbers  paid  8c  for  strictly  first- 
class full cream last week, but  announce that 
they will offer but 7%c;this  week.  Sales  in  a 
small way are made at 8% © 9%c.

Cucumbers—40 $  doz.
Dried Apples—Evaporated, 16c $  lb; quarter­

ed and sliced, 6@7c $  lb.

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—The m arket  has  taken  a  strong  up­
ward jump, in  consequence of  a strong  East­
ern demand.  Jobbers are now paying 13@14c. 
and holding at 15c.

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

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

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
In 

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

per crate.  Bunch, 18c $  doz.

»

Parsley—25c $   doz
Peas—75c $   bu. 
Potatoes—Handlers  are  paying  90c  for  all 
good varieties and holding;at $1.10.  New readi­
ly command $1.50 per bu.

Pop Corn—2%c 19 lb.
Radishes—12@15c 19 doz.
Raspberries—Red $1.75 per 24 pt. case.  Black 

$2.50 per 24 qt. case.
Spinach—30c19 bu.
Strawberries—The  present  week will prob­
ably  end  the  crop,  as  it is  now  on its  “last 
legs.”  The berry is selling now at5@7c.

String Beans—$1 $  bu.
Tomatoes—$2.50 $  bu.
Turnips—’75c 19 bu.
Wax Beans—$1 per bu.
Watermelons—$45 per 100.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—Lower.  City  millers  pay  81  cents 
for Lancaster and 78  for  Fulse  and  Clawson.
Corn—Jobbing  generally  at  45c  in  100  bu. 
lots and 40c in carlotB.
Oats—White, 36c in small lots  and 30@3lc  in 
car lots.
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change. Patent,$5.00$ bbl.in sacks 
and  $5.20  in  wood.  Straight,  $4.30 $  bbl. in 
sacks and $4.50 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $3.40 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  Bran, $n 
« to n .  Ships, $15$ ton.  Middlings, $16 $  to4. 
Corn and Oats, $17  $  ton.

PROVISIONS.

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8%
8%
8%

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:
Mess, new............................................... . 
.15 50
Short Cut, clear........................................ 15 75
Extra clear pig, short c u t...........................17 00
Ex tra clear, heavy...................... . — ...... 17 00
Clear quill, short  c u t................................... 17 00
Boston clear, sh o rtcu t..................... .......... 17  00
Clear back, short cu t....................................17  00
Standard clear, short  cut, best— ........... 17 00
DRV  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy........ ......................
medium..............................
lig h t....................................
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
light..................................... 

“ 
“ 
do. 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.
“ 
16  lbs..................................... 11%
“ 
12 to 14 lbs..............................112»
“  picnic  ...................................................  8
“  best boneless.....................................  .10%
7%

Hams, average 20  lbs......................................11

Shoulders......................................... 
 
Breakfast Bacon, boneless............................10
Dried Beef, extra............................................
ham  prices............. ...................13
Tierces  ....................................................  
7
7%
80 and 50 lb T ubs...................................... 
3 lb Pails, 20 in a case.............................  
7%
5 lb Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
7%
7%
10 lb Pails. 6 in a case.............................  
20 B> Pails, 4 pails in  case...................... 
7%
Extra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 lbs...........   8 00
Boneless,  extra..............................................12 00
Pork Sausage...................................................  7%
Ham  Sausage.................................................. 11
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.

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

LARD.

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The Bakers  Complete  their  Organization.
Fourteen  of  the  twenty-eight  bakers in 
the city  met at the  office of L.  Wintemitz 
last Wednesday evening for  the purpose of 
perfecting  the  organization  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Bakers’ Association.  The constitu­
tion and by-laws presented in T h e  T r a d e s' 
m an last  week were  adopted,  with  d Tew 
amendments,  when  the  following  gentle­
men handed in their names for charter mem­
bership:  A.  Bradford,  Tlios.  Wasson, W. 
H .  Reed, C.  Buob,  Laudauer  Bros., C.  E, 
Smith, A.  Sommer &  Sou,  Chas.  Hoffman, 
F .  L.  Blake &  Son,  Fisher &  Co.,  Fred, 
Behl, John W aagenar,  D.  B.  Austin, Mar­
tin Scliuiling.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—C.  Hoffman.
Vice-1 ’resident —A. Hammerschmidt.
Secretary—D.  B. Austin.
Treasurer—Tlios.  Wasson.
The  election of  the regular  committees 

was deferred until the next meeting.

The following gentlemen  were appointed 
committees to solicit the applications of the 
remaining bakers in the city:  Holland,John 
Waagenar and  Martin  Scliuiling;  German 
Fred. Behl and Otto Landauer;  English,  D 
B.  Austin and C.  E.  Smith.

The meeting then  adjourned  until Mon 

day evening.

The Grocery Market.

Rio coffee has declined about 2  cents  per 
pound,  but Javas,  Mochas and all  mild cof­
fees have  not  come  down  with  Rios,  as 
they did not advance in  a  speculative  way 
and stockslare low  all around.  Good  sal 
man is high and very  difficult  to  get  and 
this condition will continue  until  the  new 
pack comes  in.  Hand picked beans are  so 
scarce that  it  is  difficult  to  fill  orders, 
Dried apples are higher.

Oranges are not so plenty and  prices  are 
a.shade higher.  The new  crop  of  Rodis 
are now coming and are  firm  stock.  Cali- 
fornias are  about  exhausted.  Lemons  are 
still in good supply and prices are steady on 
common grades and firm on  strictly  choice 
mod fancy  marks.  The  supply of  bananas 
is moderate and prices are about regular.

Local  cheesemakers  complain  that  the 
Lenawee  county cheese  manufacturers  are 
•demoralizing the  market  by quoting  cheese

OILS. 

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LUBRICATING.

ILLUMINATING.
Water White.......................... ............... .......   11%
Michigan  Test........................... 
10%
Eth aline............................................. 
19%
Ruby..................................................................12%
Gasoline.............................. 
11%
Capitol Cylinder............................. 
36%
Model  Cylinder........................... 
31%
Shield  Cylinder.......................... ."..............v..26%
Eldorado  Engine.............................................23
Peerless  Machinery........................................30
Challenge Machinery...................................... 10
Paraffine  ..........................................................20%
Black. Summer, West Virginia......................9
Black. 25° to 30°.............................................10
Black, 15» C.  T ................................................11
Z ero.......................... 

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OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH .

OYSTERS  AND  FISH .
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
Falrhaven C ounts...............................................10
Black  bass...........................................................  0
Rock  bass.............................................................  4
Perch.....................................................................  4
Wall-eyed  pike...................................................  7
Duck-bill  pike....................................................   7
6
Sturgeon................................................... 
Sturgeon,  smoked................................................ 8
9
T rout..................................................  
 
Trout, smoked..................................................... 10
W hiteflsh........  
9
Whiteflsh, smoked.............................................. 10
Brook  T rout........................................... 
50
Frogs’ Legs, per dozen................................25@65

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

<5rocerie$.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AXLE GREASE.

Crown  .....................  80 P a ra g o n ................ 2 10
Paragon 25 lb pails.  90 
Frazer’s ................  
90
Fraziers, 25 fit pails. 1  25
Diamond  X ............  60
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50

BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, % 1b cans, 3 doz. case........
“  % ft 
“  3  “ 
........
2 lb 
“ 
..........
“ 
1  “ 
•• 
B u lk ..................................

“ 
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PrinceSs,  %s..................................................1

“ 
“ 

% 8 .
IS..........................................
bulk.....................................
Arctic, % lb cans, 6 doz. case............
............

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4 

"  % 
1

1

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

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BLUING

CANNED FISH.

“ 
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BROOMS.

Victorian. I lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz.......
Diamond,  “bulk.” ..............................
Dry, No. 2............................................ doz. 
25
Dry, No. 3......................................... .‘.doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,........................................doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz..........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 3  50
Arctic 8  oz...........................................................  7 20
Arctic 16oz....................................................  13 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box....................................   2 00
.................................. 3  00
Arotic No. 2 
4 00
Arctic No. 3 
 
No. 2H url...............1  751 Common W hisk 
  90
No. lH u rl__ 2 00©2 25 Fancy W hisk........... 1  00
No. 2Carpet...........2 25 Mill.................................3 75
No. 1 Carpet...........2 50 Warehouse  ............. 2 75
Parlor Gera...........3 001
Clams. 1 lb. Little Neck............................... 1  10
Clam Chowder,  3 lb......................................2  15
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards.....................   90
Cove Oysters, 2  lb  standards....................  1  75
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic..................................... 1  75
Lobsters, 2 lb, picnic....................................2 65
Lobsters, 1 lb sta r........................................ 2 00
Lobsters. 2 lb sta r........................................ 3 00
Mackerel,lib fresh standards................. 1  45
Mackerel, 5 lb fresh  standards................. 5 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  lb.. . . ......... 3 60
Mackerel,3 lb in M ustard........................... 3 50
Mackerel, 3 lb  soused..................................3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river...................... 1  70
Salmou, 2 lb Columbia river...................... 3 00
Sardines, domestic %b................................6@7
Sardines,  domestic  %s..............................  10@12
Sardines,  Mustard  %s...................................9@11
Sardines,  imported  %s...............................   @1T
Trout. 3 ft  brook.......................................   4 00
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 1b............................ 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
Q uinces........................................................115
Raspberries,  extra........................................... 1 25
re d ...............................................1 35
Strawberries  ................................................1  20
W hortleberries............................................   80
Asparagus, Oyster Bay..............................2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................   75
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked...........................1 70
Cora,  Archer’s Trophy...............................
V  Morning  Glory..................................
“  R evere......................................................1 35
“  Rome......................................................... 1 35
“  Sequoit...................................................... 1 35
“  Hamburg.................................................. I 40
“  Livingston................................................1 30
Peas, French.......................................................1 50
Peas, extra m arrofat............................1  20@1  40
Peas,  soaked.................................................   75
“  Early June, stand.......................1 50@1 75
sifted...............................2 00
“ 
“  French, extra fine...............................20 00
Mushrooms, extra  fine................................ 20  00
Pumpkin, 3 lb Golden........................................1 10
Succotash, standard...................................... 80@1 30
Squash................................................................ 1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands.............................1 20

CANNED VEGETABLES.

CANNED FRUITS.

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CHEESE.

Michigan full  cream ............................... 
York  State, Acme................................... 
Wilbur’s  Premium..35IGerman  Sweet.......... 23
Sweet........ 25 Vienna Sweet  .......... 2f
B’kf’tCocoa 45 Baker’s ......................3'
Cocoa-theta 42 Runkies’ .................... 35
Vanilla Bar 28|

CHOCOLATE.

“ 
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“ 
“ 

9© 9%
  © 9%

COCOANUT.

“ 

“ 
“ 
•• 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Schepps, Is..............................................
Is and  %s...............................
%s............................................
Is in tin pails.........................
%6 
.........................
Maltby’s,  Is............. , ............................
Is and  %s.............................
%s..........................................
Manhattan,  pails..................................
Peerless  .................................................
Bulk.........................................................

@26
@27
@27%
@28%
@23%
@24
@24%
@20
@18
@15
60ftsl00fts3001bs

COFFEES—PACKAGE,

L ion..................................
Lion,  in  cabinets...........
X X XX.............................. ............25% 25% 25
Arbuckle’s  ..................... ............26% 25% 25
Dilworth’s .......................
Standard  .........................
G erm an............................
German, in  bins.............
Magnolia..........................
Eagle................................. ............25% 25% 25
M exican.......................... ............20
20

25
23%

25%
25
25
25%
25
20
Roasted.

R io...................23@25
R io................... 21 @23
Santos..............24 @27
Santos.............. 23@25
Maricabo.........25@26
Maricabo......... 23@24
Java................. 26@31
J a v a ................23@25
O. G. Jav a....... 27@33
O. G. Java........24@32
Mocha..............31 @32
Mocha  ............. 25@26
60 foot Ju te .......   1 00  150 foot Cotton... .1 60
72 foot J u t e ....... 1  25  60 foot Cotton... .1  75
40 Foot Cotton... .1 50 
|72 foot Cotton... .8 00 
$ ft
6%

CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

CORDAGE.

Green.

7 
7 
7 
7

8
8
8
12%
8%

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

8% The Meigs............... 60 Good Luck.............

32)Mule E ar................
15% Sweet  Rose...........
.65
Cracknels..................................
.65 Fountain................. ..74
May  Queen..........
Lemon C r e a m .......................
Dark AmericanEagle67 Old Congress.......... «4
Sugar Cream.............................
.52
Frosted Cream..........................
50 Blaze Away............ 35
Red  Bird................
Ginger  Snaps............................
Prairie F lo w er__ . .65 Hair L ifter............. ..30
No. 1 Ginger Snaps..................
Indian Queen........ ..60 H iaw atha...............
Lemon  Snaps............................
May Flower........... ..70 Globe  .....................
65
Coffee Cakes.............................
. .45 Crown  Leaf............ ..66
13% Sweet  Pippin.......
Lemon W afers..........................
99 SunRfit,...........
.1 nmhl ps  T
11% H u stler..................
12%
SHORTS.
E xtra Honey Jum bles.............
13% Our  Leader..........
. .161 H iaw atha............... ..23
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
13% Mayflower...........
. ,23|01d Congress.......... ..23
Cream Gems.............................
92, May  Leaf............... 22
13% Globe.....................
Bagleys  Gems..........................
12% Mule E ar...............
. .231 D a rk ....................... ..20
Seed Cakes.................................
PLUG.
c8%
S. &  M. Cakes............................
Eye  Opener..........
Blue  Blazes........... .25
311Capper....................
Citron........................................... ..........19  @  22 Whopper  .............
. .80 Jupiter  .................. . .35
Peach  Pie.............
C urrants.....................................
.  37 Night Cap............... 92
Lemon Peel................................. ..........  @  14 Star 
.............
Orange Peel................................. ..........  @  14 Old Solder.............
..37 Splendid................. .  38
..34 Red Fox.................. ..40
Prunes, French, 60s.................... ..........  @10% Clipper  ................
34 Big  Drive............... ..40
Corner Stone........
..34 Chocolate  Cream.. ..46
Scalping  K nife...
Sam Boss...............
.  34 N im rod................
. .35
. .21 Big Five Center__ ..33
4% N cX t.....................
..32 P a rro t.................... ..42
Raisins, Dehesla......................... ..........3 50@5 00 •Tolly  Time...........
Raisins, London Layers........... ..........  @1  80 F av o rite...............
..35
............ ..........  @1 65 Black  Bird............
Raisins, California  “ 
..35
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.......... ..........1  40@1 50 Live and Let  Live ...32 Black  Racer.......... . .35
Climax  ......................42
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s............................8%@  8%
Acorn  ....................... 39
Raisins.  Sultanas..................................   8  @  8%
Horse  Shoe............... 37
Raisins,  Valencia, new ........................   @  6%
V inco......................... 34
Raisins, Im perials.................................‘  @3 00
Merry W ar.................26
Ben  Franklin............32
Cod, whole.....................................................5@5%
Moxie......................... 34
Cod, boneless.......  .....................................5%@6%
B lackjack.................32
H alib u t..  .................................  .  .........8%@ 9%
Herring, round,  %  bbl.........................  @2 90
Musselman’s Corker. 30
Herring .round,  %  bbl...............................   1 75
Herring, Holland,  bbls............................. 11  00
Herring, Holland,  kegs..........................   65@75
Herring, Scaled.............................................1«@22
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, %  bbls..................  20 00

French, 80s.................... ..........  @ 8
French,  90s.................. ..........  @7
Turkey.......................... ..........  4%@ 5
Bohemia....................... .......... 

42 Buster 
.............
32 Black Prfhce........

SMOKING

FISH.

“ 
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“ 
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SNUFF.

Suaker.......................28
Ig  Nig.....................37
Spear  H ead..............37
P,  V ............................36
Spring Chicken........ 36
Eclipse  ..................... 30
Turkey.......................39
Q.& Q,...  ..................24
Lark........................... 22
Choose m e.................24
Yum  Yum ................30|Pure............................15
Our  Leader.............. 15 S ta r............................. 20
Old V et...................... 30 Unit  ............................30
BigDeal.....................27 Eight  Hours...............24
Navy Clippings........ 26'Lucky  ........................30
L eader...................... 15jTwo  Nickel................ 25
Hard  Tack................30 Duke’s  Durham........ 40
D ixie......................... 26 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
Old T ar...................... 40‘Owl.......................... T..ie
A rthur’s  Choice.......22 Rob Roy...................... 24
Red Fox.....................26|Uncle  Sam..................27
Gold Dust................. 26jLumberman.............!25
Gold Block................311 Railroad Boy...............30
Seal of Grand Rapids  MountainRose..........18
(cloth)................. 25 Home Comfort............25
Miners and Puddlers.28iOld Rip.......................(¡0
Peerless  ....................24 Seal ot North Caro-
Standard ....................20 
lina, 2  oz..................48
Old Tom.................... 181 Seal of North Caro-
Tom &  Jerry ............ 24 
lina, 4oz....................48
Joker
Seal of North  Caro­
T raveler__
. .35
lina, 8oz...................45
Maiden........
Seal of North  Caro­
Pickwick  Club.......... 40
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 42
Nigger Head..............26
King Bee, longcut.. .22
H olland......................22
Sweet Lotus............... 32
G erm an......................15
Grayling.................... 32
Honey  Dew............... 26
Seal Skin.................... 30
Colonel’s  Choice....... 15
Red Clover.................32
Queen  Bee.................22
Good  Luck.................26
Blue  W ing.................30
N avy.
.30
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen....... 
70
Maccoboy.............................   @  55
..........................   @  44
Gail & Ax’ 
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.................................................   35@5o
Oolong.....................................................33@55@6C
Congo.............................................................25@30
50 gr. 
10 
10 
16

30 gr,
White W ine..................................   08
C ider..............................................  os
York State Apple.........................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick im ported.. .*......................
90
do 
American.............................
Burners,  No. 0..............................' .......  ©176
do  No. 1..................................... 
gQ
do  No. 2.......................................  
90
Cocoa  Shells. bulk...............................'  @4
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.................  @7 70
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @11
Candles.  Hotel.......................................   @43
Camyihor. oz., 2 ft boxes.......................  @35
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @80
F e lix ..........................   @1 20
Fire Crackers, per box............................   @1 20
Fruit Jars, pints....................................   @1100
“  quarts.....................................  @13 00
“  2-quarts...................................   @15 00

Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.......................   @35
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bbl...........................................  @3 00
Jelly, in 301b  pails.................................  5  @  5%
Pearl Barley...........................................2Jj@ 3
Peas, Green  Bush....................................   @1 15
Peas, Split  Prepared............................  © 3
Powder, Keg..............................................   @5 00
Powder, %  K eg.........................................   @3 75
Sage  ...........................................................   @ 15
 
Sago  .................................  
T apioca...........................................  

  @ 7
  @ 7

VINEGAR.

TEAS.

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10
22
12
14
15
14
15
12
12
18
18
20
13

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Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows:

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 1b boxes..............................8%@  9
..............................  @9
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
@10
MIXED
Royal, 251b  pails....................................  @9
Royal, 200 ft bbls....................................   @8
Extra, 25 lb  pails....................................  @10
Extra. 200 ft bbls....................................   @9
French Cream, 251b pails.....................   @11%
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...............................  @10
Broken, 25  ft  pails.................................  @10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls.................................  @  9
Lemon  Drops............................................   @12
Sour Drops.................................................  @13
Peppermint  Drops..................................   @13
Chocolate Drops........................................... 
H M Chocolate  Drops.............................. 
18
Gum  Drops  .................................................. 
Licorice Drops.............................................. 
A B Licorice  Drops....................................  
Lozenges, plain............................................  
Lozenges,  printed........................................ 
Im perials......................................................  
M ottoes.........................................................  
Cream  B ar........ ............................................ 
Molasses Bar...............................................  
Caramels.................  
Hand Made Creams...................................... 
Plain  Creams................................................ 
Decorated Creams........................................ 
String Rock...................................................  
Burnt Almonds......................................  . 
Wintergreen  Berries...............................  
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................   @11%
Lozenges, plain in bbls........................  
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @12tf
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................  @11 y.
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................   @12^
Gum  Drops  in pails— .......................   @  6%
Gum Drops, iu bbls...............................   @ 5%
Moss Drops, in  pails..............................9  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls...............................  @9
Sour Drops, in  pails..............................  @12
Imperials, In  pails.................................  @12%
Imperials  in bbls..................................   @11%
Bananas 
.............................*................. 1 50@3 00
Oranges, California, fancy..................  @
Oranges, California,  ch(*ce.................  @
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................
Oranges, Florida.......................-...........
Oranges, Rodi, cases..............................  @5 00
Oranges, Messina..................................3 5o@4 00
Oranges, OO............................................   @
Oranges, Im perials.............................. 3 5C@4 00
Lemons, choice.....................................3 00@3 50
Lemons, fancy...................................... 3 7o®4  25
Lemons, California...............................
Figs, layers, new,  $  1b......................... 10  @15
Figs, Bags, 501b......................................  @ 8
Dates, frails  do  ....................................   © 5%
Dates, % do  d o .................................... 
<®|6%
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   1b......................9%@?0
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $ f t .....................   @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $ f t ................  7  @7%
Pine Apples, $   doz........................ 
2 00@3 00

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FRUITS.

22
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NUTS.

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Almonds,  Tarragona............................ 17%@18
Ivaca.......................................  @17
C alifornia.............................   @17
B razils.....................................................  @ 9
Filberts, Sicily........................................  @10
Barcelona...............................  @  9
Walnuts,  Grenoble..............................15  @17
Sicily.......................................  
13
French.................................... 
U
Pecans, Texas, H. P ............................ 10  @14
Missouri................................8  @  9
Cocoanuts, $  100...................................5 50@6 00
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw  $ f t ............................  @ 4
Choice 
d o ...........................  @4%
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ............................ 4%@  5
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  @5%
Fancy H P ,. Va  do  ............................  @ 6
H .P .V a ...................................................5Si@  6

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“  12 lb kits 
“  10 

“ 
...........3 CO
...............2 50
“ 
No. 3, % bbls............................... 6  50
Sardines,  spiced, %s....................................10@12
Trout, %  bbls................................................5  50
“  10 tb  k its............................................   85
White, No. 1, % b b ls....................................7  50
White, No. 1,12  1b kits.................................1  10
White, No. 1,10 ft k its................................1  00
White, Family, % bbls.................................3  75
kits......................................  75

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon. Vanilla.
1  60

Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...............$  doz.  1 00 
4 oz............................. 1  50 
6 oz.............................2  50 
8 oz............................. 3  50 
No. 2  Taper...............1  25 
“ 
1  75 
No. 4 
% pint, round........... 4  50 
“ 
I 
“ 
9  00 
No. 3 panel................ 1  10 
“ 
No. 8 
............... 2  75 
No. 10  “  
............... 4  25 

 

 

2 65
4 25
5 00
1 75
3 00
9 00
18 00
1 85
5 00
7 60

MATCHES.

Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.........................  95
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro............... 1  15
Grand Haven,  No. 200,  parlor.................... 1  75
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor.................... 2  25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round....................... 1,50
Oshkosh, No. 2.................................................1 00
Oshkosh, No.  8.................................................1 50
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square............................100
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................ 150
Richardson’s No. 7%, round.......................... 1 00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................ 1 50
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@50
New Orleans, fancy.....................................52@55

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

% bbls. 2c extra

OATMEAL

Barrels................... 5  75
Half barrels...........3 00
Cases..............2 25@3 25
M edium..........
“  % bbl.
Small,  bbl.......
“  % bbl..

ROLLED OATS

Barrels....................5 75
Half barrels...........3 00
C ases...,
.2 25@3 2!
@7 50 
@3 
@7 50 
@4 25

PIPES.

RICE.

Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............
@2 00 
Imported Clay, No. 216,2% gross........
@1  75 
American  T .D .......................................
@  75
Choice Carolina
Java  .............
5%
Prime Carolina...... 6
P a tn a ........................6%
Good Carolina........5%
Rangoon.......................  @4%
Good Louisiana......5%
Broken..............3%@3%
Table  .......................5%
Ja p a n ........................5%
DeLand’s pure........5%|Dwight’s ...................5
iSea  Foam ................ 5%
Church’s  .................5 
Taylor’s G. M......... 5  I Cap Sheaf..................5

SAI.RRATUS

c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

“ 

“ 

“ 

« 
“ 
“ 

SAUCES.

“  %  “ 

SPICES—WHOLE.

SPICES—PURE  GROUND.

@2  00 
@  70 
@  80 
@1 25 
@1  50 
@  90 
@1 20 
@3 50 
@2 20
3%
6%
10
40
28
27
60
70
65
60
17%
29
11
15
25
42
32
31
1015
18@22
70
20

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................2 00@2 25
28 Pocket..........................   ....................1 90@2  15
10031b pockets.
2 35 
Saginaw or  Manistee.......................
75 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags... 
80 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags. 
3 15 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags...
75 
American, dairy, % bu. bags..........
20 
Rock, bushels..................................
21 
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.................
40 
............. 2.
20
Parisian, %  pints............'.................
Pepper Sauce, fed  small................
Pepper Sauce, g re e n .......................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring........
Pepper Sauce, green, large rin g ...
Catsup, Tomato,  pints........... .........
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ................
Halford Sauce, pints.......................
Halford Sauce, % pints....................
Allspice..................................................
Cassia, China in m ats............................
“  Batavia in bundles..................
“  Saigon in rolls..........................
Cloves, Amboyna..................................
“  Z anzibar..................................
Mace B atavia........................................
Nutmegs,  fancy....................................
No. 1.......................................
No. 2.......................................
Pepper. Singapore,  black....................
w hite..................
Allspice...................................................
Cassia,  Batavia.....................................
and  Saigon..................
“ 
Saigon......................................
*-• 
Cloves, Amboyna..................................
“ 
Zanzibar.......................  
.......
G inger, A frican.....................................
“  Cochin.......................................
Jam aica....................................
“ 
Mace Batavia..‘......................................
Mustard,  English..................................
and Trieste.............
T rieste...................................
Nutmegs,  N o.2............................... .
65
Pepper, Singapore black.....................
21
32
white.....................
25
Cayenne..................................
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 481b boxes, 1  1b  pkgs...
@  3% 
“  48“ 
“ 
“  3ft 
...
@ 5% 
“ 
“  b u lk ...........
“  401b 
@ 4 
“  72 ft crates, 6 1b boxes..
“ 
@ 6% 
® 6 
“  Cora, 40 ft boxes. 1 1b pkgs....
“  M 
....
lib   “ 
@ 6% 
@ 7 
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs__
6 ft boxes...
©  7% 
@6% 
bulk  .......
P u re ,lib  pkgs................ .
@ 5% 
Corn, lib  pkgs.......  ........
@ 7 
Firmenich, new process,gloss, lib __
@ 5% 
“ 
31b....
@   5% 
8 ft.....
“ 
© 6% 
@ 4 
“ bulk, boxes or bbls
“  corn. 1 1b................
@  6
©  6% 
Cut  Loaf....................... .........................
@  6% 
C ubes......................................................
© U% 
Powdered.. .............................................
@  6% 
Granulated,  Standard.........................
@  5% 
Confectionery A ....................................
©  5%
Standard A ..............................................
No. 1, White E xtra  C........................... 5%@ 5%
No. 2, Extra C. 
@ 6% 
@ 5 
No. 3C.
©  4% 
No.4 C. 
@ 4%
No.5C.

30B> 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

SUGARS.

“ 
*• 
“ 

“ 
“  

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

SYRUPS.

TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN  PAILS.

Corn,  barrels  .......................................
Corn, % bbls............................................
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
Pure  Sugar, bbl......................................
Pure Sugar, % bbl..................................
Uncle Tom................. 37
W hat Is It?.................25
C h erry ....................... 60
Five and Seven.........45
Magnet....................'. .26
Seal of D etroit.......... 60
Jim  Dandy.................38
Our  Bird....................25
Brother  Jonathan...27
Jolly  Time.................36
Our  L ead er.............33

@2
@29AMGR
@32
23@35
25@3'
Bad Boy......................35
Cinderella.
Hi  There.................... 30
Red Cap......................55
CrossCut.................... 35
Old Jim ....................... 35
Old T im e.................. 30
Underwood’s Capper 35 
Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
A tlas...........................35
Royal Game............... 38

FRESH   MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5  @ 6%
Beef, hind quarters..................  7  © 8%
Dressed Hogs.........................................  @  6%
M utton......................................................  7 @  7%
> spring............................................ 11 @12
Veal..........................................................  7%@  8
Pork Sausage.........................................   @  8
Bologna...................................................   ©  6
Fowls.........................................................12 @13
Ducks  .....................................................  @
Turkeys  ..................................................12  @13
Lard,  kettle-rendered..........................  7%@8

H ID E S, FELTS A N D   FURS. 

Perkins Sc Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

G reen__ $  ft 5%@  6
Part cured...  7  ©  7%|
Full cured__
Dry hides and

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

r%@  8% Deacon skins,

ICalf skins, green 
i  or cured....  7  @ 3 
piece.......10  @30

SHEEP PELTS.

Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........ 25  @26
Tallow......................................................3  @ 3%
Fine washed $  ft 22@25 Coarse washed.. .26@28 
Medium  .............27@G0| Unwashed.............16@23

wool..

¥ M . SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CH EESE

37, 39 & 41  Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
P E R K I N S   <&
DEALERS IN H E S S
H ides, Furs, W ool & Tallow ,

NOS.  132  and  134  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

ORANGES

LEMONS

1 8 6 5

4H
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Manufacturers’ Ag’ts for

FIREWORKS
Largest M & B est Goods

IN  TH E  MARKET.

%
q
(Q

1 8 8 7

PEA NUTS

CANDY

Are Cheap.  You  cannot  make a m is­
take if you buy all you need for the next 
forty days at  present  prices, especially 
Lemons.  Buy only the  Choicest Fruit.
Naturally, w e  desire  to  be  favored 
w ith  your  orders.  Still,  w e  all  have 
our preferences, and whether you favor 
ns or another, still w e  say BUY!  But 
before  yon  buy elsewhere, let us quote 
you prices.
Spartaland  Leaawee  County  Cheese.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.Clark, Jo w ell & Co.

We are Sole Agents  again  this season for  the  above  Popular 
Brands of  Strictly  Full  Cream  Cheese.  Send us your orders. 

  @10%

In  Ordering a Supply of the

Do not forget  to  ask for

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

-THE-

B a k i n g
POWDER
Arctic Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapida

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 PROPRIETORS.

FIE L D   SEEDS.
Clover,  mammoth.........................
“  medium............................
Timothy, prim e.......... *...  ...........

m   25 
@4 25 
©1 90

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Both  price and demand  are 
better than was anticipated earlier in the seas 
on.  Tanners a t  this m arket are  paying  $5.50 
for  all offerings  of  good bark.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.50  $   1b  for 
clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers  are 
authorized to offer standard goods at 40  and 5 
per cent, off, and second quality at 50 per cent 
off

Kenosha B utter........................
Seymour  B utter.......................  
B utter......................................... 
Fancy  B utter............................ 
S.  Oyster....................................  
Picnic......................................... 
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
Fancy  Soda.............................. 
City Soda....................................
Soda  ...........................................
M ilk ....................................... .
B oston.......................................
G raham ......................................
Oat  Meal....................................
Pretzels, hand-made.................
Pretzels..................... ...............

X  XXX
5
6
5
5

4%

4%
5

5%

7%

7
8 
8
11%
9%

TH E  OPIUM  HABIT.

The Druggist’s Clerk.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Drugs él flftebicines

State  Board  o f Pharm acy.

One Y ear—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Two Years—Jam es  Vernor, Detroit.
Three Years—O ttm ar Eberbaeh, Ann  Arbor. 
F our Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
Five Years—Stanley E. Farkell, Owosso. 
President—O ttm ar  Eberbaeh.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
T reasurer—Jas. Vernor.
Next Meeting—At D etroit, July 5 and 6. 
Special Meeting—At Petoskey, July 16 and 16.

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

President—F rank J. W urzburg, G rand Rapids.
F irst Vice-President—Mrs. C. w . Taylor, Loomis. 
Second Vice-Presidentr-Henry Harwood, Ishpem ing. 
T hird Vice-President—F rank lnglis, Detroit. 
S ecretary—S. E. P arklll, Owosso.
Treasurer—Win. Dupont. D etroit.
Executive C omm ittee—Geo. W. C router, J. G. Johnson, 
Local Secretary—Guy M. Harwood, Petoskey.
Next Place of M eeting—At  Petoskey, July 1«, 13 and 1*.

F rank W ells,Goo. G undrum and Jacob Jesson.

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

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  9,  1881.

.

. 

P resident—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H.  E. Locher.
Secretary—F rank H. Escott.
T reasurer—H enry  B. Fairchild. 
Board of  Censors—President,  Vice-President  and  Sec-
B oardof Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M.  B. 
Klmm.W m. H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Win.  L.  W hite. 
Com m ittee on Trade M atters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair-
Com m ittee ^on^Legulation—R.  A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
C o^m ittae“ n P h a rm ^ y ^ W . L. W hite, A. C. Bauer and
R egular  M eltin g s-F irst  Thursday  evening  in   each
AnTual M eeting-F irst  Thursday evening in November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  July  7,  a t  the 

T ra d e sm a n office.

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

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

President—F rank  lnglis.
F irst Vice-President—F. W. R. Perry.
Second V ice-President—J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and T reasurer—F. Rohnert.
A ssistant Secretary and  T reasurer—A. B. bee. 
A nnual Meeting—F irst W ednesday in June.
R egular Meetings—F irst W ednesday in each  m onth.
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. MnsselL____
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 i s t s ’  A s s o c ia tio n . 

President, A. O. H unt;  Secretary, A. S.  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. Latim 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. 0 . 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 t y   P h a r m a c e u t i c a l   S o c ie ty . 
President, C. H. W agener;  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. Wilson;  Secretary, Geo. W heeler.

M u s k e g o n   D r u g   C l e r k s ’  A s s o c i a ti o 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, Frank 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.

Spectacles in the Drug Store.

From  the N ational Druggist.

The retail drug business lias  been  in ex­
istence for several hundred years,  and  like 
all other relics of  former  ages  has  under­
gone many  changes.  The  goods  handled 
and the methods of preparing them have all 
passed through cycles  of  alterations.  But 
at all times the  druggist  has  been  a  man 
with  great  responsibilities  resting  upon 
him.  Not  burdens  of  wealth  or  worldly 
goods, for to  them  the  pharmacist  of  all 
ages has been a stranger, unless the property 
came as an heir-loom.  The druggists  have 
ever had human lives in their hands, so that 
they could be continued or  extinguished  as 
easily as the tipping  of  the  scale-pans  on 
the old-fashioned  balance.
In our opinion,  this  unenviable  position 
has had much to do with the careless  habit 
the public has fallen  into  of  accusing  the 
druggist of  all kind of  irregular  practices. 
The man who  does  nothing  and  has  less 
passes a quiet, unmolested life; but he  who 
has much and does more  is  the  subject  of 
envy and  his  actions  of  criticism.  The 
foreigner from sunny Italy  who  sells  ban­
anas on the streets is ever  accused  of  any­
thing worse than advocating a  new  system 
of numeration in which nine  shall  make  a 
dozen.  With the pharmacist whodispenses 
to kill or cure human  beings, 
the  value  of 
whose lives can not be quoted in dollars and 
cents, 
it  is  different.  He  is  accused  of 
sophistication,  substitution,  adulteration, 
illegal sale of  intoxicating liquors,  poisons, 
etc.,  and many other dishonest transactions.
In consideration  of  these  facts,  it  may 
seem strange that we desire to  add  another 
charge  to  the  list  of  accusations  against 
this class of persons who are so wronged by 
public opinion.
In the list of goods  that  are  handled  by 
druggists  we  find  that  an  assortment  of 
spectacles occupies an important place.  This 
is especially true of those  stores  located  in 
small places. 
It is not that we consider op­
tical goods to be  out  of  place  in  a  drug 
store,  but they are often sold indiscriminate­
ly to  oid  and  young.  The  customers  are 
urged to purchase, and assured that they not 
only are in need of spectacles  but  that  the 
ones in stock are just  what  are  required. 
In this manner good eyes are often  injured 
as well as weak ones  made  worse,  or  pre­
vented from recovery.  Nothing better than 
this can be expected from the street peddlers 
who claim to sell genuine pebble glass spec- 
trcles for 50 cents a pair,  hut  the  pharma­
cist belongs to a more  responsible  class  of 
beings. 
It is true that  our readers  can  not 
do much to prevent  this  evil,  but  a  few 
-words of caution  and  advice  to  consult  a 
good physician,  will assist in the  education 
of the public to the necessity of using  judg­
ment in  such  cases.  Physicians  can  fre­
quently cure with  proper  medication  tem­
porary cases of weakness of  the  eyes  that 
become permanent if glasses are  purchased 
and worn Injudiciously.
If the druggists make an effort at  reform 
in this direction they will be entitled  to  the 
claim of priority.  The opticians  who  have 
departments  elegantly  arranged  for  their 
trade do not seem to use any more judgment 
than the  country  store-keeper.  An  air of 
scientific knowledge is diffused in  many  of 
the city aptical depots  by  a  display  of  in­
struments and facilities for the examination 
of the eyes. 
In the majority of  stores  this 
is as far  as the  effort  at  diagnosis  goes. 
The proprietors and clerks are usually igno- | 
rant of the first principles of optics, their only 
desire being to sell goods.  They  frequent- j 
ly go through the motions  of  an  examina- j

tion of the eye-sight,  but do  not  know  any 
more about the operation than the customer. 
It would actually be amusing,  if it were not 
such a seriohs  matter,  to  see  a  customer 
maneuvered in some of our  prominent  city 
stores.
There is one method of examination  that 
is worse than ridiculous.  We  refer  to  the 
charts of figures and print used  to  test  the 
strength  of  the  eye-sight.  The 
theory 
of this method of examination is  based  up­
on scientific investigation, but  the  practice 
is worse than a farce.  To be of  any value, 
the charts must be of the very finest grade of 
typographical workmanship,  while in  reali­
ty the majority,  in fact  all we  have  exam­
ined, are of the very worst.  They are  just 
about as reliable for the  purposes  intended 
as a quart tin cup and a pair  of  hay  scales 
would be for volumetric analysis.
Our medical exchanges can  assist  in  the 
work of reformation by calling the attention 
of physicians to these fallacies.

Notes on a Few Drugs.*

BY   G.  M.  B ER IN G E K ,  P H .  G.

Having occasion to examine  oil  of  erig- 
eron recently,  the spec, gravity was careful­
ly ascertained,  at the temperature of 60 deg. 
F.,  with the 1,000 grain bottle;  it proved to 
be 0*8454.  The gravity  given by the U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia is 8*850;  Professor Proctor’s 
experiments in 1854  place it at 0*845.  The 
figures correspond very closely and within a 
limit that  may be  accounted for by the age 
of the oil.
Oil of Bay—The sp. gr.  of this oil is stat­
ed in  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  as  about 
1 *040.  A sample obtained from an  Ameri­
can  distiller, who  guaranteed  the  purity, 
showed a sp.  gr.  of 0*9750;  another sample 
from a St. Thomas distiller  showed 0*9945. 
Both of these oils were of  fine odor and ap­
pearance,  and would indicate that the Phar­
macopoeia had stated the sp. gr.  a trifle high.
Ground Flaxseed—The U.  S.  Pharmaco­
poeia  requires  that  ground  flaxseed  shall 
yield not less than 25 per  cent,  of  fixed oil 
when extracted with  disulphide of  carbon. 
A sample,  recently ground to order, yielded 
30 per cent,  when thus treated,  and another 
lot  offered  in  the  market  gave 31.  This 
would show  that the  requirement is not as 
full as it should be.
Job’s Tears—These fruits are being again 
called for occasionally  by fond  mothers for 
the purpose of making into necklaces under 
the impression that  children  weaving such 
ornaments will cut their  teeth  more easily. 
The peculiarity of  this grass is  the  forma­
tion of the  pistillate  spikelet,  being one to 
two flowered,  inclosed within a bract which 
becomes a round,  bony,  shining  involucre.
♦Read before the American  Pharmaceutical 

Association._______

Protecting Animals from Flies.

The following  floating bit of infprmation 
may enable  druggists to give their  custom­
ers valuable advice:
At this season of the  year the  annoyance 
caused to  animals by  flies and  mosquitoes 
often amounts to positive agony, and at  all 
times,  in what is called good com  weather, 
it is sufficient to  prevent  the stock  eating 
enough  to keep  them in  good  condition. 
The animals will stand in the  water or pass 
the  greater part  of the  day in  the  shade 
rather than  expose  themselves to the sun­
shine, going out to eat only when driven by 
hunger.  They  quickly  lose flesh, the flow 
of milk shrinks, and a loss is  incurred that 
can not easily be  made good  again.  At all 
times a good  feed of  grain is  beneficial to 
stock,  but it is  especially so  when  flies are 
very annoying,  since it will do much to pre­
vent  shrinkage of  flesh and milk.  Horses 
and milch cows may be protected, in a great 
measure  at least,  by  wiping  them all over 
with a sponge dipped in soap suds in which 
a little carbolic acid lias been mixed.  Bulls 
confined in stables often suffer enough from 
the attacks of  flies to drive  them half mad, 
and  there is no  doubt that  the  continued 
fretting caused in this  way  develops a sav­
age disposition.  The  most  satisfactory re­
sults have followed from sponging with soap 
suds and  carbolic  acid,  mixed,  a bull  con­
fined in a stall.

A  Glimpse at Saratoga.

Jas. A.  Crookston  writes  from  Saratoga 
that  his  health  is  much  improved  by  the 
change in climate,  a change which he hopes 
will  be  permanent  He  is  much  pleased 
with Saratoga  and  surroundings,  which he 
describes as follows:

The  country around  Saratoga  is  uneven 
and rough  and  not  the  best  of  a  farming 
country,  but  the  village  of  Saratoga  is  a 
dandy.  The population is 12,000 and it has 
some of the  handsomest  streets I ever saw. 
Broadway is one  mile long,  150  feet  wide, 
and lined with  two  rows  of grown-up trees 
on each side,  making  it  one  of  the  finest 
driving streets to  be  found.  You  will  see 
from  one  to  two  hundred  carriages  and 
fancy  rigs  on  the  street  any  fine  day  in 
summer.  There  are  forty  hotels  in  the 
place and some  of  them  very large,  accom­
modating from  1,500  to  2,000  guests  each. 
They are built of brick and are elegant look­
ing buildings.  The  States  has  a frontage 
on Mansion street of 600 feet and on Broad­
way 800  feet.  The  Union  fronts  on  four 
streets,  taking in  a  whole  block  and is the 
largest hotel here.  Ttiere are a great  num­
ber of elegant residences and many of  them 
are rented  for  three  months  of the  year to 
parties  from  New  York and  other  cities, 
they paying from $2.500  to  $5,000  rent for 
the three  months.  How  is  that  for  high? 
They  have  a  park  here  called  Woodlawn, 
owned  by Judge  Hilton,  which  contains 
over 1,000 acres and has many elegantdrives 
through it 
It  also  has  two  small  lakes, 
which makes it a popular  place for driving. 
The stores are  all  small  as  compared  witji 
the  stores  in  Grand  Rapids.  The  drug 
stores are not half so large as with ns.
I  shall  go  up  to  Lake  George  and  Mt. 
McGregor some time next week.

Disguising the Taste of Quinine.

R undschau (Prag)  states  that  Fahlberg, 
the discoverer  of  saccharin,  has  combined 
it with  quinine  to  disguise  the  taste,  and 
patented  the  preparation.  The  quinine 
taste, however, is  not  perfectly  disguised.
Pollatschek  proposes  the following com­
bination,  which  he  claims  disguises  the 
taste of quinine  completely:  10  parts  sac­
charin and 11 parts of  carbonate  of sodium 
are dissolved  in  1,000  parts  of  water,  10 
parts  of quinine  are  uniformly mixed with 
this, and the resulting emulsion  immediate­
ly  swallowed.  The  taste  left  is  that  of 
saccharin, and a flavor of bitter almonds.

The retail druggists of  Detroit have chal­
lenged  the  Cleveland  druggists  to  play a 
match game of base ball,  the time and place 
to be specified  by the  latter.  The  Detroit 
nine will furnish  an  ambulance  and other 
prerequisites.

C. A. Warren,  lumberman and  general deal 

er, Orono:  “1 think the paper is excellent.”

W hat Its Victims Will  Do  to Procure the 

Drug—How  to Cure It.

From th e D etroit News.

than 

“Opium is now lower in  price  than  ever 
before,” said a well-known  wholesale drug­
gist of this  city.  “It  is  held  in  bond  at 
$3.50  in  gold  per  pound. 
In  1869  the 
wholesale  price  was  $19.50  in  currency. 
There has been  considerable  speculation  in 
opium  and  quinine  during  the  past  ten 
years,  but  prices  have  gone  down  steadily 
and considerable sums of  money have  been 
lost. 
In all  the  large  cities  many  clerks 
and others connected  with  the  drug  busi­
ness,  as well as  outsiders, have  lost  their 
savings by this  form  of  speculation.  The 
duty on  morphine  is  $16  per  pound  and 
opium $1  per  pound. 
Importers  can  now 
bring  morphine  from  Edinburg,  Scotland, 
and sell it at  from 50 to 75  cents  per ounce 
lower 
the  best  known  American 
brands.  The  cause  of  the  depression  is 
owing to large  crops  in  Turkey and Persia 
of late  years,  which  lias  forced  down  the 
price.
“The  aipount  of  morphine  and  opium 
consumed in the United States Is  yearly in­
creasing,  and physicians and druggists agree 
in saying that the number of opium users  is 
increasing in the same ratio.  The so-called 
“opium cures” which are advertised  in  the 
newspapers  are  simply  humbugs.  The 
“cure” consists of  opium  or  morphine  dis­
guised by  various  flavors  and  saccharine 
substances.  The  only  way  to  cure  this 
dreadful  habit,  which  is  ten  times  worse 
than intemperance,  is to quit using it.
“You probably know that morphine users 
will do anything to  get  a  supply  of  their 
If  short  of money they will 
favorite drug. 
cheat,  steal or lie to  get  it.  A  short  time 
ago a number of country druggists in the in­
terior complained  that a good  many of  the 
one-eighth ounce vials  of  morphine sold by 
us contained only bicarbonate of soda.  We 
communicated with Powers  &  Weightman, 
of Philadelphia, the  manufacturers,  and re­
lated  the  complaints  of  our  customers. 
They replied by  exposing  the  trick,  which 
seems to have been conceived and  executed 
separately  by  a  number  of  “morphine 
fiends” of both sexes  in a number of states. 
They would first  buy  an  eight-ounce  vial, 
and after emptying it,  fill it up with baking 
powder and  carefully replace the  cork  and 
paper cover,  Then  they would’go  to  the 
drug store and ask  for  a similar package of 
the drug,  which they would  place  in  their 
reticules  or  pockets. 
In  paying  for  the 
drug,  however, they always  discovered that 
they had no  money,  and  would  apparently 
restore the vial, saying they would go home 
and  get  the  money,  and  then  return  and 
pay for it.  The vials  returned  were  filled 
with baking soda.  We at  once,  wrote  our 
retail customers  about  the  trick,  and  that 
settled it in this State.
“Another country druggist Mice informed 
us that he  had  discovered  that  several  of 
liis morphine packages contained  from  one 
to three empty vials,  and  asked  us to make 
good the loss.  We communicated  the  fact 
to  the  same  manufacturers.  This  was  a 
variation on  the  deception.  The manufac­
turers have a complete system of book-keep­
ing, and checks  and  balances in connection 
witli their business.  The opium is weighed 
and delivered to the head chemist,  who is ob­
liged  to  return  a  certain  amount  of  mor­
phine.  The foreman of the packing depart­
ment gives a receipt for  every  quantity  of 
morphine that comes  into  his  department, 
and has to  account  for  it.  The  packages 
are then weighed,  and a strict system of ac­
countability  extends  through  all  the  em­
ployes up to  the  time  of  shipment.  They 
made  a  searching  examination  but  found 
nothing wrong.
“Then they sent a detective  to Michigan, 
who proceeded directly to the interior town. 
He lounged around  the  drug  store,  and  it 
was not long before he spotted a “morphine 
fiend” in the person of a well-known female 
resident. 
Iler game  w*as identical with the 
baking  soda  trick,  only  she  substituted 
empty bottle.s.  She was detected  in the act 
and  forced  to  pay for past  stealing  under 
threat of prosecution. 
In  oue  case a  little 
girl in another  town  was  detected in doing 
this trick and confessed  that  her  mother, a 
person  of  some  means, had  trained  her  in 
this  deception.

The Turpentine Question.

Oil, P aint and Drug Reporter.
The agitation  to  change  the  method  of 
selling  spirits  of  turpentine  is  gathering 
force,  the'movement  now*  being  seconded 
by the New  York  Paint, Oil  and  Varnish 
Club.  At its meeting last week, a  member 
of the New England  Club  was  an  invited 
guest, and he took  advantage  of  the oppor­
tunity  to  advance  arguments  in  favor  of 
weighing turpentine, and succeeded  so well 
in convincing his hearers of  the advantages 
to be gained by the  change,  that  a  commit­
tee was appointed to investigate the subject 
and report at  the  next  meeting.  Varnish 
manufacturers  and  dealer*  are  rather  in­
clined  to believe that the  weighing  system 
would benefit buyers  of  turpentine  consid­
erably and  they  are  ready to  accept  it  on 
trial.  The purpose,  no  doubt,  is  to  get  an 
expression of opinion from  all  large buyers 
and if they agree to a change, then the deal­
ers in turpentine  from  first  hands  will  be 
petitioned to  alter  the  present  custom  of 
selling. 
It  requires  hearty co-operation to 
push a matter of this kind through  to  com­
pletion, and if the two committees now hav­
ing it in charge can accomplish what was at 
first considered improbable, they  will  have 
won the respect  and  admiration  of  all the 
trades represented.

The Drug Market.

Trade continues  active,  with  a  firm mar­
ket for most of the  staples.  Opium is very 
firm and advancing.  The  price  is lower in 
this country  than  in  London.  Morphia  is 
as yet unchanged,  but an  advance is looked 
for daily.  Quinine  is firm  and is gradually 
hardening  in  price.  Gum  camphor  con­
tinues scarce and high.  Buchu leaves have 
declined.  Balsam  copaiba  is  dull  and  de­
clining.  Paris green  advanced one  cent on 
the 15th, as  advised.  The  advance  in  ar­
senic is the  cause.  Oils  bergamont,  lemon 
and orange  are  a  trifle  lower.  Oil  cloves 
and wintergreen  are  advancing.  Nutmegs 
and  mace  have  both  experienced  a  sharp 
and  sudden  advance.  Cloves  are  tending 
higher.  Linseed oil  is  very firm and is ad­
vancing.

Acid-Proof Tanks.

A wooden tank may be  rendered  capable 
of withstanding the  effects  of  nitric or sul­
phuric  acids  by  the  following  methods: 
Cover the inside with paraffin; go  over  the 
inside with a  sad-iron  heated  to  the  tem- 
I perature used in  ironing  clothes;  melt  the 
paraffin under the iron so as  to  drive it in­
to the wood as much as  possible; then with 
a cooler iron melt on a coat thick enough to 
■ completely cover the wood.

_______________DR. J . W. FOWLER.
There is many a hero unheard of by name, 
Unheralded, therefore, in annals of fame. 
Their name, though, is legion—throughout the 
Who  ought  to  on  fame’s  highest  pinnacle 
All countries possess them, either Christian or 
And brave  are  the deeds of  the skilled  drug­

broad land—
stand.
Turk,
gist clerk.

store,

Whilst  others  are  slumbering  he  sits  in  his 
Oft burning the night oil in acquiring his lore. 
That he become skillful and make no mistakes 
Compounding  prescriptions  for  ills  and  for 
When to bed  he  retires  from a dreary  day’s 
He sleeps with eyes open—this skilled druggist 

aches.
work,
clerk. 

__

He leaps like a  fireman, at ring of the bell.
To answer the night call, tho’ often  unwell; 
Unmurmuring, unselfish, his duty peforms. 
Yet rarely a kind word of thanks  ever  warms 
The heart of this hero—for gratitude lurks 
Not  in  the  pathway  of  the  skilled druggist 

clerks.

gown:
fair land,

Doctors, lawyers, preachers—men of renown— 
Earn their honors  through  scalpel, big-wig or 
But should  pestilence  reign  throughout  our 
At his post—stout of heart, and ready of hand, 
Night  and  day,  without  fear,  no  duty  he’ll 
May  all  learn  to  honor  the  skilled  druggist 

shirk—
clerk.

The cross of the legion of honor should rest 
Emblazoned in glory upon his broad breast. 
And this brightest  of  emblems, this  badge of 
We  with  letters  of  rarest of  gold  should en­
And the motto should glitter like  the blade of 
‘‘The bravest of mortals is the skilled druggist 

the brave,
grave;
a dirk,
oierk.”
Muskegon Drug  Clerk’s Association.
Muskegon,  June 18,  1887.

The Muskegon Drug  Clerk’s  Association 
held its regular meeting on the 14th,  with a 
good attendance.  President Bond called the 
meeting to order.  When the time  for  pre­
senting new members came up,  Jesse  Hoyt 
presented the  name  of  Jno.  A.  Tinholt, 
who was  unanimously  elected a member of 
the Association.  The evening  was  passed 
in  discussion  and  a  few  of  the  clerks 
brought  up  some  counter  prescriptions, 
which kept the most of the  clerks  busy  to 
decipher them.
Our next meeting will be held on June 28.

Geo.  L.  Le F evre,  Sec’y.

An  Excellent Appointment.  •

The appointment of Jacob  Jesson to suc­
ceed himself as a member of the State Board 
of Pharmacy will be  commended by a large 
portion of the drug trade of  the State.  Mr. 
Jesson’s services in  securing  the  enactment 
of  the  Pharmacy  Law,  coupled  witli  the 
efficient work rendered the profession during 
the two years he has been a  member  of  the 
Board,  richly entitle  him to  the re-appoint­
ment.

Conceding 

the  above,  however,  T iie 
Tradesman is confident  that  it  voices the 
sentiment of the rank  and  file  of  the  pro­
fession when  it  asserts  that  Mr.  Jesson’s 
appointment should not  have been railroad­
ed through so secretly over six  months pre­
vious to the expiration of  his present term. 
The Pharmacy  Law is the  creature of  the 
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, 
and it lias been the  intention  all  along to 
allow its members to have some word in the 
appointment of members of the Board.  As 
the Association  meets this year  nearly six 
months before it was necessary to  make an 
appointment, 
ample  time to 
bring the matter up at the  convention  and 
make a  recommendation to  the  Governor. 
That  such a  course  was not  taken  gives 
ground for the  suspicion  that the Board of 
Pharmacy  is to be  run by  ring  rale—and 
ring rule means ruin.

there  was 

Minor Drug Notes.

Codliver oil is  now  administered  by  in­

unction.

The druggists of  Maryland  are  working 

for a pharmacy law.

The medical profession  oppose  the  pro­

posed English pharmacy bill.
much  muscular rheumatism.

Trichina are supposed to be the  cause  of 

Absorbent canton flannel  is  coming  into 

use as an antiseptic dressing.

An English pharmacist recommends Irish 
moss as a substitute for gum arabic in phar- 
macy.

An effort will be made  at  the  next  ses­
sion of  the  Rhode  island  Legislature  to 
amend the state pharmacy law.

It seems to  be  quite  difficult  to  obtain 
odorless muriate of cocaine,  the odor  being 
produced by amorphous bodies that  are  not 
easily removed.

AGENTS  FOR  THE

375 South Union St., Grand Rapids.
Standard  Petit Ledger.
TATANT ED—Registered pharmacists  and as- 
T T 
sistants who are sober, industrious  and 
willing to work.

thë place.

town.  Average sales, $15.

30o  inhabitants.  No other  drug store in 

1  800 inhabitants.  No  other  drug  store in

F OR  SALE—Siock of about $1,250 in town of 
F OR  SALE—Stock of about $3,500 well locat­
ed  in  Detroit.  Doing  good  business. 
Reason for selling, family affairs.
aflOR  SALE—Stock of  about  $500  in town of 
F OR  SALE—Stock of about $3,500 in town of 

1,300 population.  Doing good  business. 
OR SALE—Stock of $3,600 In  town  of  2,200 
population.  Average dally sales, $20.
OR  SALE—Stock  of  $400  m   suourbs  oi 
G rand Rapids.
OR  SALE—Stock  of  $1,500  In  northern 
town of 350 inhabitants._______________
1“ THjR-SALE-Stock  of  $1,300  In  town  of 350 
inhabitants.__________________________
i TOR SALE—Stock of aoout *6,uOJ in town of 
5,000  inhabitants.  Average  daily  sales 
about $40.________________________________
■ LSO—Many  oth er  stocks,  th e  particulars 
o f w hich w e w ill  fu rn ish  on  application.
■10  DRUGGISTS—Wishing to secure clerks 
we will furnish the  address  and full  par­
ticulars of those on our list free.___________
K E  HAVE also secured  the  agency  for J.
H. Vail & Co.’s medical publications and 
can  furnish  any  medical  or  pharmaceutical 
work at publishers’ rates.

* 

Michigan Drug Exchange,

357 South Union St., 

- 

Grand Rapids.

meg, mace.a

Advanced—Gum opium, gum opium po.,uut-
Declined—Buchu leaves.
ACIDUM.

Aoeticum ......................................
Benzoici! m,  German................
Carbolicum..................................
C itricum .......................................
H ydrochlor..................................
N itrocum ......................................
Oxalicum ....................................
Salicylicum..................................
Tannicum......................................
T artaricum ..................................
Aqua, 16  deg.................................
18  deg.................................
Carbonas........................................
Chlorldum....................................
Cubebae (po.  1  15.........................
Juniperus  .................................... __  
X anthoxylum ..............................

....... 
8®  10
.......  80®1 00
.......  4 5®  50
.......  57®  60
....... 
3®  5
.......  10®  12
.......  11©  13
....1  85@2  10
.......1 40@1  60
.......  60®  53
....... 
3®  5
....... 
4@  6
.......  11®  13
.......  12®  14
.......1  10® 1  15
0®  7
.......  25®  30

AMMONIA.

BACCAE.

’* 

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba.........................................
P eru...............................................
Terabin,  Canada..........................
Tolu t a n .........................................

.......  48®  53
.......  ®1 50
.......  50®  55
.......  40®  45

CORTEA.

....... 
Abies,  Canadian..........................
....... 
Cassiae  .........................................
Cinchona Flava............................. ....... 
Eaonymus  atropurp.................... ........ 
Myrioa  Cerifera, po....................
Primus Virginl.................*........... ....... 
Quillaia,  grd.................................. ....... 
Sassfras  ......................................... ....... 
Ulmus.............................................. ....... 
Ulmus Po (Ground  12).................. ....... 

EXTRACTUM.

18
11
18
30
12
12
12
12
10

.......  24®  25
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.....................
.......  83®  35
p o ..............................
Haematox, 15 ft boxes.................. ....... 
8®  9
is ..............................
...  .  @ 12
4 s  .............................. .......  ©  13
4 s  .............................. .......  @  15

“ 
“ 
“ 

FERRUM.

“ 

“ 

M 

“ 
“ 

Carbonate Precip.......................... .......  @  15
Citrate and Quinia......................... .......  @3 50
Citrate Soluble............................... .......  @ 8 0
.......  ©  50
Ferrocyanidum Sol.....................
Solut  Chloride............................... .......  @  15
Sulphate, com'l,  (bbl. 85).............
pure............................... .......14®  3
.......  @  7
Barosma ......................................... .......  10®  12
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly.......... .......  20®  25
.......  35®  50
Salvia officinalis, )4s and  4 s ....... .......  10®  12
8®  10
Ura  Ur8i......................................... .  ... 

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

FOLIA.

GUMMI.
.......  @100
Acacia,  1st picked.........................
2nd 
.........................
** 
.......  @ 90
......................... .......  @  80
3rd 
« 
Sifted sorts.....................
*• 
p o ...................................... .......  75@l 00
** 
Aloe, Barb,  (po. 60)....................... .......  60®  60
“  Cape, (po. 20)......................... .......  @  12
“  Socotnne,  (po. 60)............... .......  @  50
Ammoniac  .................................... .......  25®  30
Assaioetida,  (po. 30)..................... .......  @  15
Benzoinum .................................... .......  50®  55
.......  3C@  33
Cam phorae...............................
Catechu, Is,  (4s,  14; )48,16)........
.......  @  13
.......  35®  10
Euphorbium, po............................
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  45©4  50
Shellac............................................ .......  18®  25
bleached............................ .......  25®  30
Tragacanth .................................... .......  30®  75
HEKBA—In ounce packages.
Absinthium  .................................. ....... 
25
E upatoriura.................................. ....... 
20
25
28
Majorum  ....................................... ....... 
23
Mentha Piperita............................ ....... 
“  Y lr.................................... ....... 
25
30
R u e ................................................. ....... 
22
Tanacetum,  V ...............................
Thymus. V ...................................... ....... 
25

“ 

MAGNESIA.

Calcined,  P a t................................. .......  55®  60
Carbonate,  P a t............................. .......  20®  22
Carbonate,  K. & M....................... .......  20®  25
Carbonate,  Jennings.................... • • « • •  3o@  36

OLEUM.

Absinthium.................................... .......4 50©5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc.......................... .......  45®  50
Amydalae, Am arae....................... .......7 00@7 50
Anisi  .............................................. .......2 20@2 30
Auranti Cortex............................. .......  @2 50
Bergamii......................................... .......2 00@2 75
Cajiputi  ......................................... ...  .  90@1  00
Caryophylli.................................... .......  @2 00
Cedar............................................... .......  35®  65
Chenopodii.................................... .......  @1  50
Cinnamomi.................................... .......  90@1  00
Conium  Mac.................................. .......  35@  65
Copaiba.......................................... .......90®  1 00
Cubebae  ......................................... ...  9 50@10 0) 
.......  90®1 00
Exechthitos....................................
E rigeron......................................... .......1 20@1  30
G aultheria...................................... .......2 00@2  10
Geranium, 5....................................
@ 7 5
Gossipii, Sem.gal.......................... .......  55®  75
Hedeoma......................................... .......  90@1 00
Juniperi.......................................... .......  50@2 00
Lavendulu ...................................... .......  90@2 00
Lim onis.......................................... .......2 25®2 35
Lini, gal........................................... .......  42®  45
Mentha Piper................................. .......2 75® 3 6J
Mentha Verid.................................
Morrhuae,  gal............................... .......  8o@ioe
Myrcia,  5......................................... .......  @  50
Olive............................................... .......1 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 50).................. .......  10®  12
R icini.............................................. .......1 42@1 60
Kosm arini...................................... .......  75@1  00
Rosae,  l ........................................... .......  @8 00
40©45
Succini  ...........................................
Sabina.............................................. .......  90® l  00
..3 50@7 00
Santal..............................................
Sassafras...  .................................. .......  42®  45
Sinapis, ess, 5................................. .......  @  65
T hym e............................................ ........  40®  50
opt....................................... .......  @  60
Theobromas.................................... ......   15®  20

“ 

POTASSIUM.

Bichrom ate.................................... .......  13®  15
B rom ide......................................... .......  42®  45
Chlorate, (Po. 20;............................ .......  18®  20
Iodide.............................................. .......3 0C*@3 25
P ru ssiate ..........................  
....... .......  25®  28
RADIX.

A lth ae ............................................ .......  25®  30
A nchusa......................................... .......  15®  20
Arum,  po....................................... .......  ®  25
Calamus........................................... .......  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15).......................... .......  10®  12
Glychrrhfza,  (pv. 15)..................... .......  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,  ,po. 33)........ .......  ®  25
Hellebore,  Alba,  po..................... .......  15®  20
Inula,  po......................................... .......  15®  20
Ipecac, po....................................... .......2 50@2 60
Jalapa,  p r....................................... .......  25®  30
Podophyllum,  po.......................... .......  15®  18
Rhei  ............................................... .......  75<§1 00
egli  75
**  cu t........................................... ....... 
.......  75@1 ä5
“  PV...........................................
Spigeiia..........................................
.......  48®  53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)..................... .......  @  20
Serpentaria.................................... .......  35®  40
Senega............................................ .......  50®  55
Smilax, Officinalis, H .................... .......  @  40
Mex............... .......  @  20
Scillae,  (po. 35)............................... .......  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po....... .......  ®  25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30)........ .......  @  25
Germ an....................... .......  15®  20
Anisum, (po.22)............................. .......  @  17
A plum  (graveolens)..................... .......  12®  15
Bird, Is............................................ ....... 
4®  6
Carui,  (po. 20)................................. .......  12®  15
Cardamom.............  
.................... .......1 00®1 25
Coriandrum..................................
.......  10®  12
Cannabis  Sativa............................ ....... 
3®  4
Cydonium......................................
Cnenopodium  ............................... .......  10®  12
Dipterix Od orate........................
.......1 75®1 85
Fo'eniculum..................................
Foenugreek, po............................. ....... 
8
Lini.................................................
.......34®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)............................ ..  ..  34®  4
Phaiaris  Canarian......................... .......  3X@44
R ap a............................................... ....... 
5®  6
Sinapis,  Albu...............................
....... 
9
8®  
N igra...............................
.......  11®  12

8EMEN.

6®  

** 

“ 

” 

SPIRITUS.

Frumenti,  W.,  D. & Co................. .......2 00@2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R.........................
.......1  76®2 OC
F ru m en ti....................................... .......1 10@1 50
JuniperiB Co.  O. T .......................
.......1  75® 1 75
Juniperis  Co.................................. .......1  76@3 50
Saacharum  N. E ............................ .......1 75@2 00
Spt. Vini  Galli..............................
.......1  75®6 50
Vini Oporto..................................
.......1  26@2 00
Vini  Alba....................................... ....  1 25®2 00

 

do

do
do
do
do

,for siate use.............
MISCELLANEOUS.

Florida sheens’ wool, carriage......225  ®2 50
do
Nassau 
2 00
Velvet Ext  do
1  16
E xtra Ye  *  do
85
Grass 
do
65
Hard .’ 
75
Yellow Reef, 
1  40
ASther, Spts Nltros, 3 F ........................   26®  28
ASther, Spts. Nltros, 1 F ......................  30®  32
A lum en...................................................  24® 34
Alumen,  ground, (po. 7)....................... 
3®  4
Annatto  .................................................  55®  60
Antimonl,  po......................................... 
4®
Antimoni et Potass  T art.....................  So®  60
Argenti  Nitras,  3..................................   @  68
Arsenicum.............................................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud........ .........................   38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N .........................................2  15®2 20
Calcium  Chlor,  Is, (4s, 11;  Xs, 12)__   @  9
Cantharides  Russian, po.....................  @2 to
Capsici  Fructus, a f...............................  @.  M
Capsici Fructus, po...............................  * @  16
Capsici Fructus, B, po..........................   ®  14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)..........................   30®  33
Carmine, No. 40......................................  ®3
C( ra Alba, S. &  F ..................................   50®
Cera  Flava..............................................  2t@  30
Coccus....................................................   @  40
Cassia Fructus.......................................   @  15
C entraria...............................................   ®  10
Cetaceum ...............................................   ®  50
Chloioform............................................  38®  40
Chloroform,  Squibbs............................  ®1  00
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst........................ 1 60@1  75
C hondrus...............................................   10®  12
Cinchonidine, P. & W............................  15®  30
Cinchonidine,  German......................... 
9@  15
Corks, see list, discount,  per cent__  
40
Croasotum ..............................................  @  50
Creta, (bbl. 75).........................................  @  3
Creta  prep.............................................. 
5®  6
Creta, precip..........................................   8®  10
Creta Rubra............................................  @  8
C rocus........ ............................................  25®  30
Cudbear...................................................  ®  24
Cupri Sulph............................................  6®  7
D extrine................................................. 
io@  12
Ether Sulph............................................   68®  7C
Emery, all  num bers..............................  @  8
Emery, po...............................................   @  6
E rgotajpo. 60)............................. . ........  50©  60
Flake  W hite...........................................  12®  15
G alla..................................... 
@  23
 
G am bier.................................................  
7@  8
Gelatin, Coopor......................................  @  15
Gelatin, French......................................  40®  60
Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  60&10, less.
Glue,  Brown.........................
9® 15
Glue, W hito..........................
13® 25
G lycerina.............................
23® 26
Grana  Paradis!....................
® 15
H um ulus..............................
25® 40
Hydrarg Chlor. Mitt  ..........
@ 75
Hydrarg  Chlor.  Cor............................
® 65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum ..................
® 85
Hydrarg Ammoniati...........
®l 00
Hydrarg U nguentum ..........
® 40
H ydrargyrum .....................
@ 65
Ichthyocolla, Am  ...............
.......1 25© 1 50
Indigo....................................
75@1 00
Iodine,  Resubl.....................
.......4 0U®4 10
Iodoform ...............................
@5 15
„
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Io d ..’~ __  
@ 27
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis.......................  10®
10® 12
Lupuline  ..............................
85® 1 00
Lycopodium.........................
55® 60
Macis.......................... ..........
75® 80
Magnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1)4)..
2® 3
Mannia. S.F..........................
90® 1 00
Morphia,  S, P. & W.............
.......3 15@3 35
Moschus Canton...................................
® 40
Myristica, No. 1.................................” ,
75® 80
Nux  Vomica, (po. 20)..................
® 10
Os.  Sepia.........................................
15® 18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co..................
m 00
Picis Llq,  N. C.. 4   galls, doz...............
m 70
PicisLiq.,  quarts................
@i 40
Picis Llq., pints........ ...........
@ 85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)...........
@ 50
Piper Nigra,  (po.22).......................
® 18
Piper  Alba, (po. 35)........................
® Oi)
Pix  Burgun......................................
@ 7
Plumbi A cet....................................” ."  14®
14® 15
Potassa, Bitart, p u re...........
© 40
Potassa,  Bitart, com...........................
© 15
Potass  Nitras, opt............................... .
8® 10
Potass N itras........................
7@ 9
Pulvis Ipecac et opii...........
.......1 10®1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes, H. &P.D.C0., doz
®1 00
doz.
Pyrethrum, pv.......................................
48® 53
Quassiae.................................................
8® 10
Quinia, 8, P. &  W..........................
58® 63
Quinia, S, German.........................
48® 60
Rubia Tinctorum..........................
Saccharum  Lactis, pv ..................
® 36
Salacin.........................* ..............
@3 50
Sanguis Draconis..........................
40® 50
Santonine.......................................
®4 50
Sapo, W ...........................................
12® 14
Sapo,  M...........................................
8® 10
Sapo, G............................................
© 15
Seidlitz  M ixture............................
© 28
Sinapis............................................
@ 18
Sinapis, opt....................................
@ 30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes............. ”
@ 35
Snuff, Scotch,  Do. V oes....,
© 35
Soda Boras, (po.  10)............. .
8® 10
  33®
Soda et PotossTart.............................. 
33® 35
Soda Carb............................. .
2® 24
Soda,  Bi-Carb........................
4© 5
Soda,  Ash............................. .
3© 4
© 2
Soda  Sulphas........................
Spts. Ether  Co..................... .
50© 55
Spts.  Myrcia Dom................
©2 00
Spts. Myrcia Im p..................
©2 50
...
Spts. Vlnl Rect, (bbl.  2 10)................... 
©2 25
Strychnia, Crystal.................................  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl.......................................... 24®  34
Sulphur,  Roll.........................................  2)4®  3
Tam arinds..............................................  8@  10
Terebenth  Venice..................................   28® 30
Theobromae.......................................... 50  @  55
Vanilla  ................................................. 9 00@16 00
Zincl  Sulph..............................
7®  8
Gal
75
61
50
47
50
60
45
Bbl
Lb
Red Venetian........... .................  IX 
2® 3
2® 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   154 
2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  
l x  
24® 3
Putty, com m ercial..................  2)4 
2X® 3
Putty, strictly pure..................  24 
13®16
Verinilion, prime  American.. 
Vermilion, English.................. 
55®58
Green, Peninsular,..................  
I6®17
6® 6)4
Lead, red strictly  pure...........  
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
6® 6)4
Whiting, white  Spanish.......... 
@70
@90
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................  
White, Paris American...........  
1  10
140
Whiting  Paris English oliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  F aints......  
1 20@1 40
Swiss Villa Prepare'  P ain ts.., 
1 00@1 20
VARNISHES.
No. lT u rp   Coach..................................1 10@1  20
Extra  Turp............................................1  60®1  70
Coach Body............................................2 75@3 00
No. I Turp Furniture........................... 1 00@1 10
Extra Turk  Damar...............................1  56@1  60
Japan Dryer, No. I Turp.....................   70®  75
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS. 

Bbl
Whale, w inter..........................
70
Lard, extra...............................
60
Lard, No.  1...............................
45
Linseed, pure raw ...........................
44
Linseed, boiled..................................   47
47
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.
50
Spirits Turpentine.............................   40
40

PAINTS

OILS.

Onsliman’s

In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 

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

Colds, stands without an equal.

Air IH entliolized by passing through the Inhaler- 
tube, in which the P ure C rystals of M enthol are 
held’ thoroughly applies this  valuable  rem edy  in the 
m ost  efficient  way,  to   the  p arts  affected.  I t  se lls 
readily.  Always keep an open Iah aier in your store, 
and let your custom ers try  It.  A  few  Inhalations  will 
not h u rt the Inhaler, and will do m ore  to  dem onstrate 
its efficiency than a h alf hour’s talk.  R eta il price 
SO cen ts.  F er Circulaks and  Testimonials address 

H .  D.  C ushm an,  T hree  R ivers,  M ich.

H azeltine Jfc P erkins D rug Co., G’d R apids, 
And W holesale D ruggists of D etroit and Chicago.

Trade supplied by

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

43 and 44  Ottawa Street and 8g, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBERS  OF

M A N U FA CTU RERS  OF

E lept  Plamm tical  Prepara­

tions,  Flaii  Extracts  and 

Elixirs

G E N E R A L   W H O LESA LE  A G N TS  FO R

Wolf, Patton & Go. and John L. 

Whiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

Grand Rapids Brush Go., Manu­
facturers of Hair, Shoe snd 

Horse Brushes.

W E  A R E  SOLE  OW NERS  OF

Which is positively the best Kerned? 

of the kind on the market.

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

Wine auU LiQuor Depurtient

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

WITHERS DADE &  C0.*S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

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

W e are also owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Eye,

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

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

such asPatent  Medicines,

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

Mail  orders  always  receive  our specie 

TANSY  GAPSULM

B  THE  LATEST  DISCOVERY.  W
Dr.  X iaparle’s   C eleb rate d   P re p a ra tio n , S afe  a n d  
to   L A D IE S. 
U w a y s   R eliable. 
iALUaET CHEMICAL CO..  C ilM E 0 ..g S .

S en d   4   c e n ts  fo r  S ealed   C ircu lar.

In d is p e n s a b le  

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drag Co*

PRESERVE  these  ADVERTISEMENTS 1 3 4   to   1 4 2   B ast F ulton  St.»  G RAND  R A PID S,  MICH

FOR  FUTURE  REFERENCE.

Summer  Goods. Ice

M A S O N ’ S

This ware has become a spe­
cialty with us, and many  good 
housewives  will  buy  no  other 
because  they  know it is clean­
er, purer, lighter than any.  Re­
tail 10 cents.

NEW   g o o d s ,  w h i t e   l i n e d .

Don’t  fail to  keep an  assort­
ment of these cheap preserving 
and  cooking kettles  on  hand. 
Retail only 20 and  25c each.

GEM OIL STOVE, $1.85each
S V lO a iB .  S T O V E S

Every style of

Carried in stock as per our

Summer  Catalogue.
“Q uick  M eal.”

(Send for one)

GOOCH  “ PEERLESS.”
For families, restaurants and 
hotels.  This line fully described 
with prices in our Summer Cat­
alogue.  SEND  FOR  IT.

Porcelain-Lined

Fruit  Jars.

The  phenomenal  advance in 
these goods this season  shows 
the  demand.  We  can  ship 
promptly.  Prices quoted on ap­
plication.

At this season we always notice greatly increased 
sales in our Standard Lines of White Granite.  The 
above  cut represents  “Wedgwood’s”  grand  NEW 
YORK  shape which we have in assorted  packages 
or re-packed to order.  Also,  same  shape in  LUS­
TRE  BAND, with good stock on hand.

See  this  Crate of Staples.

A S S O R T E D  C H A T S   W H IT E  G R A N IT E

N o .   1 4 1 9 .

«y

The Way  to Extinguish the Dead-Beat.
■Written Especially for The Tradesman.
There are certain  principles  which  gov­
ern nature and  mankind  which  can  never 
be altered or  effaced—principles  which  are 
as immutable as the laws of the Medes  and 
Persians.  One  of  the  greatest  and  most 
potent of these is “Without labor, nothing.”
It is the most arrant nonsense for a  man  to I 
expect  to  get  through  the  world  without 
giving his fair and  just  share  of  labor— 
either mental or  physical—for  value  to  be 
received. 
It matters not whether  he  be  a 
Vanderbilt  or  a  hod-carrier,  his  portion 
must be  performed  by  himself.  Even  in 
the case of a wealthy man,  it is not possible 
for him to delegate his share to others with­
out positive  detriment  to  himself  and  his 
fortune.  Others may perform,  but  he must 
direct

Taking these premises,  then, for facts,  it 
necessarily follows  that  when  a  man  en­
deavors to shitt a portion of his responsibil­
ity to other shoulders,  like the Old  Man  of 
the Sea,  at some time,  sooner  or  later,  he 
must come to grief.

trade, 

the  dead-beat. 

Especially is this true of that curse to  le­
gitimate 
In  try­
ing to lay the  responsibility  of  his  own— 
and,  if he has one, his family’s—support, to 
a certain extent,  upon the  grocer,  clothier 
or merchant of any class who is so  unfortu­
nate as to give him credit,  he  but  lays  the 
snare which  will  invariably  entangle  him 
in its folds and hurl him to utter ruin.

True, he may, for a time,  live  and  even 
thrive upon this villainous  practice  of  de­
frauding honest men, but,  as the old saying 
has it,  “The greater the height,  the  harder 
the fall,”  let  him  succeed  ever  so  well, 
his discomfiture will be proportionate.

The theory has been put forward that the 
seeds  of  dead-beatism  are  hereditary. 
I 
have studied the animal in  a  great  variety 
of its moods and I cannot  agree  with  that 
idea. 
I believe that no man is  brought  in­
to this world with the unnatural, ghoul-like 
instincts popularly supposed to be  inherent 
in these*excrescences  upon  social morality.
1  say that it is an acquired  talent,  if such  I 
may term it, and is not handed  down  from 
father to son as,  in England  and  other for­
eign countries heirlooms,  centuries old,  are 
entailed upon the successors  to  the  estate. 
And, moreover,  the  acquisition  thereof  is 
not entirely blameable upon  the  dead-beat, 
but, to a certain extent,  is the  fault  of  the 
merchants  themselves.  They  have,  until 
recently been careless of their own interests 
and  have  allowed  this deadly  nightshade 
to spring up  in  their  midst  without  en­
deavoring to root it out.  They have not ed­
ucated themselves,  and education, is, in  my 
estimation, is the only remedy for this  evil. 
Let it once be  thoroughly  impressed  upon 
the minds of men  inclined  to  be  dishonest 
that it is a road  leading  to  one end only— 
that of utter  ruin,  both  morally  and finan­
cially—and in time  we  shall  have  a  new 
regime—in fact something so nearly  resem­
bling  the merchant’s  millenium  that  they 
will be only too glad to accept it as such.

How shall  we  thus  educate  ourselves?
By organization.  Organization  is  the  pri­
mary step  in the direction of education and 
when we  have  thoroughly  organized  our­
selves and have studied the dead-beat in  all 
his various  phases and forms, then may we 
expect to be able to educate him.  No  man 
may  teach  without  first  acquiring  know­
ledge himself.  Therefore,  organize and ed­
ucate  yourselves  upon  this  problem,  that 
you may instill into the minds of your custo­
mers that probity of character and  upright­
ness which is the emblem and  coat-of-arms 
of that  “noblest  work of God,”—an honest 
man. 

Kelluk.

Opportunity for Reform.

groin th e Boot and Shoe Recorder.
The Michigan  Tradesman,  published 
at Grand Rapids, is  doing a  good  work in 
organizing associations of business men and 
bringing them to act  towards  each othar as 
rational human beings.  An example of the 
effects of this influence was shown in a pic­
nic given May 25 by  the  grocers of  Grand 
Rapids at Reed’s Lake.  The grocers closed ! 
their doors,  and with  families,  clerks  and I 
their wives and sweethearts, as well as trav- j 
eling men and invited  guests,  enjoyed one j 
day of  pleasure. 
It  need  hardly  be  said i 
that  the  association is  a new  one.  Who j 
would dare to say a few  years  ago,  or even 
to-day,  in  almost  any town in the  United j 
States,  that  it would  be possible  to bring j 
the members of a trade  together  without a j 
grand row?  The rule is that  the  different! 
merchants in the  same  business  hate each 
other with  a deadly  hate.  Hardly  one of 
them but would sit up  nights to  plan some 
scheme  to  injure  that  detestable  fellow 
across the way;  and as to  associating  with 
him,  why,  they would not recognize him on 
the street
Why should this feeling  exist?  There is 
no good reason for it,  of course. 
It probab­
ly started from silly stories carried back and 
forward  by  sharp  customers.  When  the 
men meet  themselves  each is  surprised to 
find how much better  the other  fellow was 
than he supposed. 
If grocers can meet and 
enjoy themselves this way,  why should  not 
shoe dealers?  Then, in addition  to the en­
joyment feature,  there is the gain in a busi­
ness way from an understanding and a little I 
friendly talk about points of the greatest in­
terest to both. 
Is not the  experiment well 
worth trying? 

_______

Tit for Tat.

Tender-hearted young lady—Oh! you cruel, 
heartless, little wretch!  to  rob  those  poor 
birds of their eggs.
Wicked little  boy—Ho! that’s the old one 
’at you’ve got  on  yer  bonnet.  Guess  she 
won’t care._____ _____

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 Tansill's  Punch 6c. cigars  and that the 
quality gets better all 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.

T H E   “ 1STO B B I E S T  ”

New Square, Shape offered this year.  The  sales on 
it so far have earned us most complimentary letters 
from Mr.  Moses, the  KING  DECORATED  CROCKERY 
MANUFACTURER.  The  pattern is a pleasing  small 
yellow and pink  flower decoration  with Rich  Gold 
Edge on every piece and SELLS  ITSELF.

Wedgwood & Co.  or Knowles, Taylor & Knowles.  We 

have it in either make.

30 doz. Plates, 6 doz. Pie, 20 doz. Breakfast,  4 doz. Dinner. 
24 Bakers, 0  6-in., 12 7-in., 6 8-in.
30 Bowls, 6 24’s, 12 30’s, 12 36’s.
18 Chambers, 12 uncovered, 6 Covered.
36 Scallops, 12 6,12 7,12 8.
6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 in.
45 Sets Teas, 24 handled, 21 unhandled.
24 Oyster Bowls, 30’s.
6 pair Ewers and  Basins.
3 doz. Individual Butters.
18 Platters, 6 9, 6 10, 6 11.
Total, 

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We carry it in open stock and can sell any number 
of pieces desired.  100 pc. Dinner Set, list price $20. 
Wholesale price quoted on application.

$66.46.
65.00.
F.  J.  LAMB  A  CO., 
I The Standard of Excellence
F r u it s   a n d   V e g e t a b l e s,!  KINGSFORDS
8  and  10  M a   Mi  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.,

W HOLESALE  DEA LERS  IN  

A N D

P U R E

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SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDEES.

"Pure”

JOBBERS  IN

DRV  GOODS,

.A J S T I D   I N ’O T I O N S ,

83  Monroe 

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

GRAND  RA PID S,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers  j  i  Ononialftf 
< a  U pU lO llJ.
American and Stark A Bags 

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.

Kingsford’s Oswego CORN STARCH for Puddings, 

Custards, Blanc-Mange, etc.

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

ALW AYS  ASK  YOUR  GROCER  FOR  THESE  GOODS.

WILL  PLEASE  YOU  EVERY  TIME!
S H O W   -  C A S E S .

Address 

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AAESRXCAXT  S H O W   C A S S

I Send for Catalogue and prices. 

27 ljals.e Street, Oliioago.
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R I M  BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

AGENTS  FOR THE

B O S T O N   R U B B E R   S H O E   C O .

14 and 10 Pearl Street, 

-  Grand Rapids, Mich.

“Silver
Gloss”

Dealers w i l 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  nd- 
ence 
solicited 
from  the  job­
bing trade rela­
tive topremium 
cases.

Four-Burner,  Low-Down Oven.

Fully described, with  prices, in our

Binder’s  Twine. 
Bug  Finish

Curtiss & Dunton

D ET R O IT  SO A P  0 0 ,

DETROIT. MICH.,

Manufacturers of the following well-known Brands

of

QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN, 

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR, 

MONDAY, 

MOTTLED  GERMAN,
SUPERIOR,

ROYAL  BAR,

MASCOTTE
CAMEO,

PHCENIX,

WABASH, 

AND  OTHERS.

For Quotations address

w .   O .  H A W K I N S ,

Lock  Box  ITS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Salesman  for  W estern  Michigan.

