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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 28,  1887.

NO. ,210.

VOIi.  5.

Garden Seeds e Specialty.
in  M ichigan.  Don’t  B uy un­

»SEEDS
Ü   ALFRED J.BROWN
16-18 N. Division St., Grand Bapids
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The M ost Com plete A ssortaient 

til  you  get  m y  prices.

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

B E L K N A P

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Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

MANUFACTURERS OF
Lum ber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging C arts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lum berm en’s and 

River Tools.

We carry a large stock of material, and have 
every facility for  making  first-class  Wagons 
of all kinds.
^F~Special  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering. 

Shoos on Front S t., Grand Bapids, Mioh,

FOURTH NATIONAL BAM

_

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo. C. P ierce,  Vice President.

H. P. Baker, Cashier.
-  -  -  $300,OCX).

CAPITAL, 

Transacts a general banking business.

Make  a  Specialty of Collections.  Accounts 
o f Country Merchants Solicited.____

HIRTH  &  KRAUSE,

LEATHER

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

SHOE  LACES.
Heelers, Cork Soles, Button  Hooks, Dress­
118 Canal Street,  Grand Rapids.
ASK YOUR JOBBER
Independent 01 Co.’s

FOR

KEROSENE

If your Jobber does ‘not han­
dle INDEPENDENT  OIL, send 
your orders direct to   th e  office 
o f  th e  Company,  156  South 
Division St., Grand Rapids.

EATON ILYON,

Im porters,

Jobbers and

R etailers of

B O O K S,

20  and  22  ¿euros S t.,  Grand  Basidi»  Mioh*

W holesale  Agents,  Chand  Rapids.

T ry PO L ISH  IN  A,  best F u m itu reF in  - 

ish made.

W e carry a full line of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden.' 
Parties  in  want  should 
write to òr see the

B U M B A »   C M   AKD  SH U «8.

71 CANAL STREBT.

.. WWCjr.lMAT.il!  AMD  RETAIL

j|jÉ > A L  a n d J W Q O D .
Block.

S;y*tt  ^J^JiA M IL T O N , Agt.,

SALT  FISH

Bought and Sold by

FRANK  J. DETTENTHALER,

117 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

|3F“  Oysters the Year Around

S H E R W O O D   H O U S E .
T h e T raveling M en’s F avorite.  ;
-  MIOH.
CHARLOTTE,  >  
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First-Claw in au 1U Appointment*.
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-  Sample Booms on First Floor. 

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CALL FOR

SCHUMAOHHR'S  ROLLED  IRENE,

From the best White Oats.

O atm e a l,  P a rc h e d   F a rin o se   a n d   R o lle d  
To use these choice  cereals is to learn  how 

W h e a t  in  O rig in a l P ac k a g e s.
to live.

TH E   GREAT

EDMUND B.DIKEMSN
WatGh  JVtaker

s  Jeweler,
44  CfiNHL  ST„
Brani Rapids,  -  flißli,
Grandpa’s Wonder Soap
THE  BEST  SELLING  GOODS  ON 

THEJORKET.
MANUFACTURED BY

SOLD BY

Grand  Rapids, 

Beaver  &  Co., Dayton,  Ohio.
A.  S.  MUSSELMAN  &  GO,
LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum!

STATE  AGENT  FOB

-  Mich.

The Only Reliable Compressed Yeast.

Manufactured by Riverdale Diet. Co.

106 K ent Street, G rand  Rapids, Mich.

T E L E P H O N E   5 66.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for 
their town on this Yeast by applying to above address. 
None genuine unless it bears above label.

CHARLES  A,  GOYE,
A. Coye & Son,

Successor to

DEALER IN

AWNINGS § TENTS

Horse and W agon Covers, 

Oiled Clothing,
Feed Bags,

W ide Ducks, etc.

F lags & Banners m ade to  order.

73 CANAL ST.. 

-  

GRAND RAPIDS.

PAINT.

We have a full stock of this well-known 

brand of

M Z Z E D   F A I N T
and having sold It for over SIX YEARS can 
recommend it to our  customers  as  be­

ing a First Class article.  We sell it

O n th e   M an u factu rers*   G u a ra n te e :

When two or more coats of our P IO N E E R  P R E ­
P A R E D   P A IN T   is applied as received in original 
packages, and if within  three years it should crack or 
peel off. thus failing to  give  satisfaction, we agree to 
re-paint the  building  at  our  expense,  with  the  best 
White Lead or  such other paint as the  owner  may se­
lect.  In  case  of  complaint,  prompt  notice  must  be 
given to the dealer.

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

Mfrs. & Corroders of Pure White Lead.

Pittsburg; Pa.

Write for prices and Sample Card to

TRANSIT ILL COMPANY,
P lot,  Feed,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Griin  and 

Baled Jiay.
-  MICH.

25 Pearl Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

0.  E.  Brown,  Gen.  Jiffr.

GRfD RRP1D8
FRONT

—TO  THE—

f   —AGAIN.—

We are now  supplying  the Trade  with our 

new Brand of Soap

“BEST  FAMILY.”

Respectfully,

It  is the  LARGEST  and  BEST  bar  of 
white  PURE  SOAP  ever  retailed  at  Five 
Cents a bar. 

Grand" / ’  n 
j I  .
HEMLOCK  BARK!

18650530

WANTED.

The undersigned will  pay  th e hig h ­
est  m arket  price  for  HEM LOCK 
BA R K   loaded  on  board  cars  a t  any 
side track  on th e G. R. & I. or  C. & W. 
M. Railroads.  Correspondence  solicit­
ed.

N.  B.  CLARK,

101 O ttaw a St., 

G rand R apids

POTATOES.

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

f l .  E

COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

Felsenthal.  Gross  &  Miller. Bankers, 

Proprietors of the

Chicago.COOK  & PRINZ,
Valley City Slow Case Mfg. Co.,
SHOW  CASES,

.  Manufacturers of

OF  AT.Ti  KINDS.
SEND  FOR  CATALOGUES,
SEND  FOR  ESTIMATES.

Prescription Cases and Store Fixtures
38 fest Bridie SL Grand Rapids.

Telephone 374.

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 calledSILVER 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 60  days approval.

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

I  T.  WAMEN  &  GO.,

It is sure to do it.

F lin t,  MloH.

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 oyer one and a half mil­
lion of Tansill’s  Punch 5c. cigars  and that the 
quality gets better ail the lime.  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.

J .   H .   M T S T E 3R S

,

Manufacturer  of  Harness  and  Collars 
at Wholesale  and Retail,  78  Canal  street, 
Grand Rapids, has the  finest line to select 
from inkthe Hty.  Give  him  a call.  None 
but experienced workmen employed.  < |  J

V

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n  -  - , m H ü

FORTY  YEARS! AGO.

Written Especially for The Tradesman.

I  beg that no  person  will  think  me ego­
tistic, as that period in my life is long past; 
but if some of  my early experience as a boy 
will,  in part,  assist or  benefit the boys who 
may come after  me,  I  shalfl  feel  amply re­
paid  for  its  recital. 
It  piay  have  been 
chance only,  that “my linefc  have been cast 
in pleasant places,” but such is a fact and I 
have no complaint to makej

Is  it  Shakespeare  or  Upcon  who  says, 
“There  is  a  divinity  which  shapes  our 
ends”?  Boys  are  little,  undeveloped men. 
Not always, but yet often, the whole future 
of the man depends on the training and edu­
cation of the  boy. 
I  say  not  always, as it 
occasionally occurs that a  boy  is  forced  to 
learn a trade or  study  for  a  profession for 
which  he  has  a  positive  dislike;  and  al­
though he  may  succeed  in  obtaining  a de­
gree,  he will  abandon  the work at the first 
opportunity. 
I say this by way of  preface.
My  first  introduction  to  the  mercantile 
business  was at the age  of fourteen  years. 
I passed from the  school  room  into a large 
general  variety  store,  in  the  village  (now 
city) of St.  Thomas,  Canada.  My employer 
was a Highland  Scotchman—Murdoch  Mc­
Kenzie—a  man  six  feet, three  inches  in 
height; in  build  a  perfect  Apollo; he  was 
well-educated,  thoroughly  disciplined,  and 
a sterling business  man.  Like  most  large 
men he was calm in his demeanor, cool and 
collected  under  all  circumstances,  and  a 
man  of  rare  good  nature.  He  was  exact 
and particular in everything, and was always 
scrupulously neat  in  his  person  and dress. 
He had a  bow and a smile for the humblest 
customer and I need not  add  that he was a 
general favorite  with  all.  j I  possessed  an 
innate desire to become  a  shop-keeper; and 
whatever merit I  may possess in  that busi­
ness may be credited to  the  tuition and ex­
treme care and  kindness  of  this  man  and 
the other clerks in his employ.

I recollect what  a  very generous  man  I 
thought him about one  week  after entering 
his service.  He  had  probably  noticed  the 
affectionate look  I  gave  the  raisins  when­
ever  a customer required  sbme, and, know­
ing a boy’s appetite for that fruit, he said to 
me,  “Franklin,  at any time you feel like it, 
eat all the raisins  you  wish!  You  are  ex­
pected to eat what  you  please.”  It  is un­
necessary to say that  when,  left  alone  one 
evening  soon  after,  “the  boy”  ate  more 
raisins than one  small  stomach  cquld  care 
for,  and it was about a  year  afterward  be­
fore that  poor  stomach  would  consent  to 
care for another plum!  Since “older grown,” 
it is my firm conviction  that  Mr.  McKenzie 
was altogether too kind in his designs.

The agreement with  my  step-father  was 
that for the first  year’s  service  I was to re­
ceive the munificent sum  of  $20 with board 
aud  lodging;  “and,”  said  Mr.  McKenzie, 
“the  boy will  in  that  time  break  twenty 
dollars  worth  of  crockery in  handling  it, 
which really makes his salary $40.”  Think 
a moment, boys!  How many of  you would 
accept a position at this  salary and  put  in 
at least fifteen  hours  a  day  for a year?  It 
would be hard to find  one. 
It  is  probable 
that I did reach nearly the amount of break­
age supposed, as I distinctly remember of one 
day attempting  to  carry too  much,  at  once 
and broke the value of $11 atonecrash. While 
punishment was  expected  for  this, a  kind 
but  serious  reprimand  was  all  I  received; 
and the manner in which  the  reproof  was 
administered was productive' of  more  good 
than a sound flogging  would  have been. 
I 
fully  determined  to  be  more  careful, and 
with  added  instructions  how to handle the 
goods,  I broke nothing of any account after­
ward.

Twenty dollars  was  at that  time consid­
ered a fair salary for  a  boy  fresh  from the 
country,  as many at  that  age  were  glad to 
commence with their board and lodging only. 
An  incident  occurred  in  connection  with 
that salary  which, as  Mr. McKenzie  told a 
friend,  showed  the  Yankee  blood  in  my 
veins.  At the close of the first  year,  I  was 
called into the  private  office  for “a  talk.” 
“ Well, Franklin,” said he, “ your first  year 
has closed.  You have been a good  boy and 
I would like  you  to  remain.  How  much 
do you expect for the next year?” Of course, 
I could not decide, but would leave it to his 
generosity.  “Well, then, how will it please 
you if I double your salary?” 
I  was  qnite 
satisfied with  that, particularly as  the past 
Christmas his  gift  of shoes, hat and gloves 
was  a generous and timely one.  At the ex­
piration of the second year, I  was called to 
his side to talk over the matter of  a coming 
year’s  salary, and, leaving him to name the 
amount, he at once inquired if it  would  be 
satisfactory to again double it. 
I answered 
that it would.  As I had considered the mat­
ter and  made up my mind to remain in ser­
vice until the age of twenty-five, the thought 
of what amount  I  might-be  able to save in 
that time was  uppermost  in  my mind,  and 
at the first favorable moment I again sought 
Mr. McKenzie  and  innocently  inquired  if 
vre could not  at  oncte  close  a  bargain  for: 
the next nine years, If  hie  intended  to  con­
tinue doubling my salary.  “Good gracious, 
boy, no!” he replied, a» abroad smile spread 
over  hie face,  , “Do  you  know  what  the 
ninth  year’s  salary would  amount  to?”  X 
confessed mydgnotance and only Jcnew that

the doubling  process was very satisfactory. 
“Why,”  said  he,  “the  last  year  it  would 
take my entire stock, store and lot included, 
to pay you!  Ah,  Franklin, that  won’t  do. 
Go back to your work, and we will talk over 
the salary each year.”

I remained with this man only four years, 
when by his advice  I  accepted  an  offer  to 
again  attend  school  in  New  York free of 
expense.  Not only had he  doubled my sal­
ary each  year, but  on  leaving  him  he  told 
his cashier to pay me ten  pounds  extra, for 
“services faithfully rendered.” 
I do not re­
member of his  speaking  one  unkind  word 
to me during  all those  years,  and the good 
advice he  gave  me,  the  patience  he  exer­
cised in teaching  me,  and  all  the  valuable 
instruction imparted for my especial benefit 
will never be forgotten  while life lasts.

Sometimes  I  thought it  a  hardship to be 
compelled to stand at the counter and, under 
his eye  and  instructions, wrap  and  tie  up 
and unwrap the same  half-pound  of tea six 
or eight times  before it was deemed perfect 
and  in  proper  shape  and  condition  for  a 
customer; and the same drill had to be gone 
thfough with with sugar and other  articles, 
even to the smallest half and  quarter-ounce 
packages. 
I was also  drilled  in  the use of 
jtwine—-how best  to tie peculiar  knots,  and 
even to the cutting,  about all  of  which  he 
was equally particular.  With a special tum 
of  the  fingers  the  twine  was  broken  or 
made to cut  itself  at  a  giyen  point, as  it 
was considered  inelegant  and  improper  to 
use any sharp instrument, such not being al­
lowed,  except when a very strong linen cord 
was  used.  “Time,”  said  he,  “is  valuable 
in business,  and it  will  not  do  to  go back 
and forth even to  your  pocket  for a pair of 
scissors.”  Time after time would he watch 
my every motion  while waiting upon a cus­
tomer,  and gently chide  me  if  every move­
ment was  not  made  with  almost  military 
precision,  even to  packing  the moist brown 
sugar in its  parcel,  with  a  portion  of  the 
paper itself,  as cleanliness  and elegance be­
fore a customer must not  be  forgotten  and 
our fingers must  never  touch  delicate arti­
cles of food.  In those days,  paper bags and 
other ready-made packages  were unknown, 
and it required much knowledge and skill to 
tie up neatly and quickly a given amount in 
a  certain  sized  piece  of  paper. 
I  was 
schooled in habits of economy in  all things. 
Waste  paper  which  came  as  packing  or 
otherwise must not be destroyed but sorted, 
smoothed  out, placed  under  a  press,  and 
kept  ready  for  use  as  wrapping  paper. 
Even bits of  twine  must  be  saved,  neatly 
tied together,  wound  into  balls,  and  used 
for the coarser  purposes.  Many  of  the re- 
ail stores  of  to-day  burn  up,  sweep  out, 
and otherwise  destroy  fifty  dollars’  worth 
of wrapping paper yearly.  I am acquainted 
with merchants in business  who know that 
they save  from  $20  to  $30  in  paper  and 
twine every year with very little extra effort. 
There are those who in  this  age consider it 
little and trifling, but in a country or village 
trade where there  is generally much leisure 
it is no  trifling  matter to  save  a good  suit 
of clothes every year thus easily.

Every man  and  boy  in  Mr.  McKenzie’s 
store was  supposed  to  know  his  duty and 
not  neglect  it.  A  part  of  mine  was  to 
wash every piece of crockery and glassware 
before  it  went  to  the  shelves,  to  assist in 
washing windows and  show-cases,  and put 
up and take down the window blinds, which 
in that day were  heavy boards,  secured  up­
on the  outside  by heavy  iron  bars  placed 
across them,  and  bolted  in place on the in­
side.

Forty  years  ago  there,  was  less  actual 
credit given by retail  merchants than at the 
present day,  but  far  more  barter  and  ex­
change.  There  was  probably  much  less 
money in the hands  of  the  masses,  if  not 
in the country,  than at present; thus,  inter­
change  of  commodities  was  a  necessity. 
Mercantilo business, also,  was  conducted in 
a different manner from the present.  Goods 
were brought  in  from  the  great  centers of 
trade, and the  products  taken in  exchange 
were shipped back (or more generally trans­
ported  by  land)  to  the  same  cities, to  be 
sold  for  cash  or  its  equivalent  in  goods 
again.  As there were then few railroads in 
the country mid  none in  Canada,  the  main 
wholesale  depots  of  trade  were  accessible 
only by water  communication,  either  with 
Europe or with distant  points  on  our  own 
continent.  Two or  three times a  year  the 
merchant  usually  went  in  person  to  pur­
chase and select his  stock; and  the  arrival 
of the huge wagons,  each  piled  high  with 
from one and  a  half  to  two  tons  of  new 
goods,  was  an  event  to  be known far and 
wide and was the theme  of  conversation at 
many  a  fireside  and  an  advertisement  of 
much  value.  Then came  the  night  work, 
When  the  goods  had  to  be  marked  and 
placed in order for show  and  for  business; 
and  for  a  week  or  more  afterwards,  after 
closing the store at the usual hour—9 p. m. 
—the proprietor and his  employes might be 
found hard at  work until midnight.  Then 
came  the  grand  opening,  which,  from  its 
infrequency, possessed unusual  attractions, 
and the store was in a state of excitement for 
weeks.  Forty  years  ago, .there  were very 
few  stores  in  country  towns  .dealing  in 
specialties  only;  and a “Store? meant  a de­
pot of general  supplies for ^he  community.

Every store of  any  pretensions  to  busi­
ness had a cellar  of  its  full  size  beneath it 
and  usually  a  large  warehouse  adjoining 
or near  it  for  the  storage  of  grain, pork, 
potatoes and  farm products  that  were  not 
perishable.  During the early winter months 
large numbers of dressed fat hogs were pur­
chased  by  Mr.  McKenzie,  payment  for 
which was  usually made in  goods.  Then, 
each night after  business  hours  all  hands 
repaired  to  the  cellar  to  cut  up, salt  and 
pack the  pork  into  barrels  for  shipment; 
here the proprietor thought  it  his  duty  to 
be found with coat off and sleeves  rolled to 
the  elbows,  assisting  in  and  directing  the 
work.  In those days all were true “Knights 
of Labor,” who  thought  it  no  hardship to 
work  at night, and the man  who could get 
all the sleep  he  wanted  in  six  hours  and 
labor the  other  eighteen  was proud of  his 
day’s work  and  was  never out of  employ­
ment.  Few,  indeed,  were  the  men  then 
looking for an easy position where the least 
number of  hours  with  the  highest  wages 
might be found  conjointly.  The  true  dig­
nity of labor was  acknowledged by all,  and 
the price of  it (like  all  other  things) was 
regulated by supply and demand and cheer­
fully acquiesced in without threats of blood­
shed or anarchy.

Do not imagine,  however, that those were 
the halcyon  days of  happiness  for all, and 
which  have  never  been  known  since. 
I 
have only lifted  the  veil  of  the  past  that 
yon might look upon the true and  actual of 
nearly half  a century  ago,  and  youth  may 
possibly  profit  by  a  comparison  with the 
present.  What,  you ask,  did  I gain by all 
this seemingly excellent tuition  and  exam? 
pie ?  I learned how best to perform all the 
labor required to  keep a store  in proper or­
der, even to the smallest  details;  that to do 
all  your work  well  when a boy is to make 
you  the  peer of  any person  in  your  man­
hood;  habits of  economy worth  very  much 
to me since;  howto  sweep a floor  correctly 
and well;  that the best  method of  cleaning 
glass, including  lamp  chimneys,  windows 
and show-cases,  is  with  soap  and  water, 
and to polish with a clean  newspaper only, 
all  else  being  too expensive  in money and 
time;  that a cloth  is  better  to use with the 
water and soap on glass than  all  other pat­
ent  devices;  that  under  no  circumstances 
should a sponge  be  used  to  wash or wipe 
glass—soft  and  clean as they may seem to 
be,  they will  surely mark  it  indelibly,  and 
soon ruin its beauty and  value  forever,  mi­
nute  particles  of  flinty  sand  and  shells 
(carbonate of  lime)  being  the  destructive 
agents;  that greasy  rags  should  always be 
thrown  in  the  stove  or outdoors,  aud  not 
left in some out-of-the-way place  inside,  as 
at a certain  temperature  they are  liable to 
take  fire  by spontaneous  combustion;  that 
sometimes  an  extra  hour  devoted to  your 
employer’s  service pays  fourfold;  that it is 
best  to  refer  every one  to  your  employer 
when his business  is  inquired  about;  that 
you  cannot  afford to be  cross or ungentle- 
manly to a customer;  that the  aged and in­
firm  should 
in  being 
served;  that  when  questioned  in regard to 
the quality of  your  goods,  tell  the truth so 
far as  you  know—it  pays  in  dollars  and 
cents to do so;  that  you  should speak well 
of  all competitors  in  business  or say noth­
ing;  that twenty  per cent,  profit  in cash is 
far  better  than  thirty  on  the ledger;  that 
habits  formed  when a boy are  quite apt to 
remain with  you through life.

take  precedence 

These and many more useful  truths were 
tailght  by  this  man,  who  has  long  since 
passed away,  but whose memory is revered. 
As I look  back  upon  that  long  ago,  I am 
amazed at the  changes  which  have  taken 
place  in  the  commercial world,  and I look 
forward  another  half-century  and  regret 
that we cannot then  be here to see the still 
greater transmutation.

F r a n k A.  H owig.

His  Last  Trip.

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

The  slant  rays  of  the  rising sun were 
throwing streaks of yellow light on the paths 
of the park.  The robins and sparrows were 
twittering and singing in the  well-trimmed 
trees.  The nurse-maids,  with  their  little 
charges, poor  heat-shriveled  things,  were 
drinking  in  the  soft,  cool  air  full of the 
strengthening  perfume  of  the  grass  and 
swelling  buds.  The  policeman  who  was 
sauntering along, humming to himself (hap­
py that his hour of relief was near at hand), 
swung his club in a scientific  manner, with 
no thought of it.  The  men  and  boys  on 
their way to their daily toil, pipes in mouth 
and dinner pails in  hand,  who  crossed the 
park that morning  had  no idea of what lay 
in that dark underbrush.  Yet  only a short 
while ago the most  momentous hour of one 
man’s  life  had  passed, 
the  Archangel’s 
trump had blown for him and at  that  very 
moment, perhaps, he stood before his Maker, 
to answer for the deeds  done  on earth. 
It 
was a tramp who found him—a tramp, rag­
ged and dirty  and  sore,  who  had lain all 
night on the hard benches of  the park, ever 
ready  to steal away from  the watchful eye 
of the minion of the law,  and  whose  first 
thought was, “Better than I, and yet lay out 
all night.” and  wondered  why  .a  man  so 
well dressed should pick such a spot for his 
resting place. 

,

.  He was dead—cold and stiff when the pa­
trol-wagon  came  to  pick  him  up.  What 
mystery was here?  Was  it  murder?  Had 
some poor,belated wayfarer seeking his home 
been struck down in the flush of  life by the 
assassin’s hand?  Hardly possible, for jew­
elry and money were  still  on  his  person. 
Was it heart disease?  Was some poor moth­
er or heart-broken wife waiting  with  tear- 
the  loved  one  who 
bedimmed  eyes  for 
would come no more?  No. 
It was suicide 
—cool, deliberate self-murder.  The  bullet 
wound in his head, the revolver in his hand 
were evidences of what had happened.  Bnt 
why?  Young and handsome, healthy look­
ing,  well-kept and  well-dressed,  what had 
caused him to seek the coward’s  refuge and 
try to better his fate in that dark Beyond of 
which we know so little?  A short tale and 
soon told.

He was a traveling man,  and  had  been 
with one firm  over  twelve  years.  He had 
risen by slow degrees, through earnest, hon­
est labor, to a position of trust  and  honor. 
He had been thrifty and had  saved  money, 
and was loved  and  respected  by all of his 
intimates.  Two years before this fated day, 
he had met  the  woman  he  married.  She 
was a proud,  high-born beauty, the  belle of 
the little city in which she lived.  He wooed 
and won her.  He  brought  her here,, built 
and furnished a home for  her,  such as but 
few men in his position could do.  He filled 
it with all the comforts which  money could 
buy and love think  of.  His  family  name 
opened wide  the doors of  select society for 
her.

Man-like, blind and believing, he thought 
this was all, and went on with his business. 
Was away from home—two,  three  months 
at a time.  Love her?  Could you have heard 
him talk to his comrades  on the  road,  that 
question  would  scarce  be  asked.  Cupid 
himself could have taken  lessons from him 
in the language of love.

He left home three  months ago, and yes­
terday returned, prepared to  stay.  He had 
been offered and had accepted  the  position 
of manager.  This would allow him to stay 
at home.  Only a traveling  man can realize 
what that means—it is the  goal  to  which 
they all aspire, a  position  “in  the  house.” 
That day and the day before  and for weeks 
before—he was going  to  surprise  her—his 
mind had been filled with delightful thoughts 
of her surprise.  Oh, the  glowing  pictures 
he painted to himself!  Just how he  would 
tell her, just what she would say!  He drew 
plans of the evenings at  home,  the  opera, 
the drives.

He reached his home, he sprang from the 
carriage.  Why, in his joy he  actually  for­
got to pay the driver,  who stood on the side­
walk  with  outstretched  hand.  The  door 
was opened.  He did not stop  to  note  the 
pained  surprise  on  the face of the servant 
girl.  He hurried to his wife’s favorite room. 
Loving  words  were on his lips.  His arms 
were ready to embrace her.  He threw open 
the door.  The room bore evidences of  wo­
man’s presence, but she was not there.  He 
hurried  into  the  next room and the next. 
He called out her name.  No  answer.  His 
heart  sank;  an  unknown, 
indescribable 
dread  filled  him.  Where  was  she?  He 
called again, louder and louder.  Filled with 
au awful fear, he  yet  laughed  huskily to 
himself and said,  “Fool  that  I  am!  The 
dear girl didn’t know I was  coming  and is 
out shopping.”  He passed  a  looking-glass 
on his way out of the room and  was fright­
ened at his own face,  as  he  mechanically 
glanced therein.

Alas,  alas,  she was out.  She never came 
back!  She  had  gone three days before, no 
one knew just  where or  how,  but she had 
gone with an old lover.  No  need to moral­
ize on why it happened or how.  Too much, 
time on her hands, and a vile scoundrel near 
by to fill her mind with soft  batterings and 
to take the place of the poor fellow who was 
away from home.

When the full force  of the  blow came to 
him he left the house.  Who shall say what 
thoughts  surged  through  his brain, as he 
walked up and down that little park?  Peo­
ple who recalled it afterward, said he looked 
“strange.”  How shall we know of the mis­
ery and shame and thoughts of  burning re­
venge and shattered hopes that  filled  him? 
As  he  wandered  alone  in  the  dark  on 
that spot where they had  been  together so 
often;  when  he  thought of his plans  and 
what  his  life  would  now  be;  when  be 
thought of his friends’ pity and his enemies’ 
sneers—it was too much.  He did what oth­
ers have done before,  what  others will do 
again,  when  life’s  burdens  seem  to bear 
down too bard.  He died.  Alone  with his 
misery, no  loving  hand to wipe the deaths 
damp from his brow, no loved eyes to weep 
over him—he died. 

Leo. A.  Cabo.

Business Enterprise.;

Customer—Why,  Schneider,  you  were 
complaining of bad business last  week, yet 
now you are enlarging your saloon?  How is 
that?
Schneider—Dot  vos  blain  enough.  Der 
zwei  churches on der neghst  plock  vfllpe 
open  again  to-morrow,  und  dervos a pig 
choir in each of dem.  Yon get onto dot?
Customer—Oh,  yes;  but  where  is your 
free lunch to-day? 
Vs
Schneider—I   apolish  dot  for  ein  veek. 
Dere ish a gomie obera gompany at der thea-  i  
I don’t  got  some  files on  ' 
ter neghst door. 
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Coffee and its Adqlterants.

In  view of #ie large increase  in the price 
ofooffee  during  the  past  year, much has 
been heard df the use d |  adulterants to mix 
with and-take its place.'  From  the  figures 
of chicory  imports*  prepared  by the New 
York  Shipping  List,  it  appears  that the 
imports of  this  adulterant  were  larger in 
the fiscal year ending  June  30,  1887, than 
any year since 1883.  The  total  imports  in 
1886-87 were  5,297,995  pounds,  valued  at 
$165,569, against 3,415,655  pounds,  valued 
at $116,159, in 1886,  and 6,339,9*0 pounds, 
valued  at  $229.929,  in  1883.  The  above 
paper is inclined  to  think  that, in view of 
these figures and  the  high  price  of coffee 
now ruling, the  theory  of  great  adultera­
tions is  not  extremely  well  founded. 
It 
says:  “On  the other hand,  it may  be  said 
that, as the above figures  embrace  the  im 
portations for only six  months of the calen 
dar year,  and  as  the *)>ri6e  of green coffee 
has only affected  actual  comsumption dur­
ing the past six months,  the importation  of 
chicory during  the  next  six  months  will 
show more  conclusively  whether  its  con 
sumption has been increased by the advance 
in  coffee.”  While  the  above  views,  as 
shown,  are inclined to be rather comforting 
to coffee drinkers,  it should not be forgotten 
that chieory is not the only  adulterant used 
in coffee. 
It can be only  successfully used 
If  coffee  is  bought  in 
in ground coffees. 
the bean the  risk  of  adulteration  by  this 
means is small. 
It is really in the shape of 
bean coffee that adulteration is to be feared 
It would be  interesting  to  know  whether 
ordinary beans and peas do not fumish prof 
itable  substitutes  and  are  not  commonly 
used. 
It  is  doubtful,  however,  whether 
statistics in this direction  are  to  be  easily 
obtained.

Jennings l Smith,
Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts,

MANUFACTURERS

38 & 40 Louis Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

▲ JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

RETAIL  TRAM  OF  THE  WOLVERINE  STATE

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms Sift year in advance, postage paid.
A lvertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 28,  1887.

The Detroit News and other papers in the 
State  having  repeatedly  asserted that the 
new liquor  law  prohibits  druggists  from 
selling liquor except on a  physician’s  pre­
scription,  Th e  Tr a d esm a n  deems it ad 
visable to  reproduce  Section 3 of the Act, 
in order that the trade may he  reassured on 
that point.  The  principal  features of the 
Section may be  briefly  summarized  as fol 
lows:  Druggists shall sell liquor for chemi­
cal, scientific, medicinal, mechanical or sac­
ramental purposes only;  they shall not sell 
to a drunkard or  Indian,  nor to any person 
when warned ntff to do so by a relative, em­
ployer,  or town,  village  or  city  official: 
shall sell to a minor only on the written or­
der  of  parent or guardian;  shall record all 
sales in a book  kept for that purpose;  shall 
file a bond with the county  treasurer in the 
sum of 82,000, executed by  freeholders and 
residents of the same county.  The last pro­
vision is an improvement  over the old law, 
which required  bondsmen to be residents of 
the same township.  Clerks  are  made  re­
sponsible for violations of the law, the same 
as employers, the penalty in  either case be­
ing a fine of $100 to  $500  or  imprisonment 
from  ninety  days to one year, or both, for 
first offense and for  second offense the same 
penalty, with the  addition  that  the person 
be debarred from selling liquor for five years.

Eastern salt  manufacturers  are attempt­
ing to organize a salt “trust,” which is only 
another name for combination or pool.  The 
telegraph  announces  that the organization 
has been effected under the style of the Na­
tional  Salt  Union  and  that headquarters 
will be established at  Pittsburg,  but  until 
the  new  “trust”  makes  terms  with  the 
Michigan Salt Association,  Wolverine man­
ufacturers  will  not,  probably,  be counted 
among the participants in the pool.

The remarkable success attending  the re­
cent exhibitions of  the  Western  Michigan 
Fair naturally revives  interest in the agita­
tion begun by Th e Tr adesm an  four years 
ago relative to the inauguration of a regular 
exposition..  The idea  of  a  permanent ex­
position, to be  open two  or three  weeks of 
the year,  originated  with I.  C. Levi, who 
confidently  expects  to  see  such  a  project 
put  into  execution  within  the next three 
years.

The  Detroit  News  thus refers to the al­

leged action of a Detroit bean handler:

A Detroit dealer claims to have  cornered 
the bean market, and the price of the tooth­
some  commodity is on  the  advance.  The 
old  beans  are  used  up, the new crop is a 
short one, and the demand  is  increased be­
cause of shortage in other vegetable supplies.
This is supposed to be  the  first  time on 
record where a beau Crop  was  cornered be­
fore it was harvested.

Anticipating  the  time  when  National 
banks  will  have'passed out  of  existence, 
through the failure of  Congress  to  provide 
means for their continuing their circulation, 
State banks are now  being organized under 
the same general style.  Hillsdale  business 
men,  for 
instance,  have  organized  the 
“First State Bank,” and the “Second  State 
Bank” is now in order.

Gripsack Brigade.

Wm.  Logie has been laid up for some time 
with a lame  foot,  caused  by  stepping too 
heavily on a rusty nail.

C. B. Lamb,  Michigan  traveling  repre­
sentative for Adams & Ford, the  Cleveland 
boot  and  shoe  jobbers,  was in town over 
Sunday.

Hy. Robertson and H. L. Toles  are  giv­
ing  all their  customers  portraits of them­
selves  this  week.  They  are tin types and 
cost the boys sixty cents a peck.

Suel A.  Sheldon, formerly on the road for 
the  Jackson  Wagon  Co., of Jackson, but 
now a homy  handed  granger,  walked  in 
from Berlin  Monday  to buy a pair of stoga 
boots.

Jas. D.  Wadsworth, traveling representa­
tive for Arthur  Meigs & Co.,  who has been 
laid up with  rheumatism for  the  past four 
weeks, is recovering.  His place on the road 
is temporarily filled by H. L. Gregory.

Irving W. Van Zant has  severed  his con­
nection  with  Howard  W. Spurr & Co., of 
Boston, to accept the  position of  Assistant 
Manager  of  the  Western  Department  of 
Chase  &  Sanborn,  with  headquarters  at 
Chicago.  Van is to be congratulated.

Everett E.  Wooley, the  dry goods travel­
er, and Albert M. Love, the  sundry  sales­
man, assumed very fanny roles while going 
from  Northport  to  Traverse  City oh the 
CUy <tf Grand Rapids last Tuesday.  Wool­
ey pretended to be insane, and Love figured 
as his attendant, supposedly  conveying his 
charge to the asylum.  The  passengers  on 
the boat were largely ladies, who were thor­
oughly  frightened  at  tile  antics of the al­
leged  lunhtie,  but  the  good  looks  of the 
"poor idiot” excited  their , sympathies, and 
occasionally  remarks  were heard to the ef- 
itoetthat the young man would probably re- 
«Ovar, on account of'his youth.  Both actors 
acquitted  themselveg  handsomely,  but the 
they attempt  to  intimidate  pas- 
ton the Grand  Rapids,  Capt Wil- 
.|bpow them   overboard. 

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AMONG T IJE  TRADE.

;  «BAJTO  K^prDS  GOSSIP. '

J * .  Bademacher has engaged in the gro­
cery business at Reno.  The stock was pur­
chased at this market.

It is reported that Jas. Brown, of Detroit, 
has again under advisement  the  projject of 
Starting  another  wholesale  boot and shoe 
establishment at this market.

W. T. Lamoreaux  and  G.  A.  Johnston 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style of Lamoreaux & Johnston and engaged 
in the fruit business at  71 Canal street.

The Western Michigan Fair last week at­
tracted more ohtside  merchants  than have 
ever favored Grand  Rapids with their pres­
ence in a single week.  The  jobbers gener- 
erally had their hands full in - attempting to 
play the role of entertainers.

Kerr Bros., of  Cold water, after obtaining 
prices at Chicago and Detroit, placed an or­
der with Foster,  Stevens & Co. last Thurs­
day for an $8,000 stock of hardware,  being 
the  largest  hardware  stock  ever  shipped 
from this market.  F.  R. Miles  booked the 
order.

The  idea  recently  advanced  by  The 
T r adesm an  relative  to the desirability of 
establishing a line of coast  steamers, to ply 
along the Eastern shore of Lake  Michigan, 
seems to be gaining ground, not only in this 
city, but in the towns  even  more  directly 
interested than GrandRapids in the project,

AROUND  THE. STATE.

Benton Harbor—Felts & Kramer, grocers, 

have dissolved.
H  Way land—Jas. Fisher)has engaged in the 
bakery business.

Eureka—Daggett & Dennis  succeed Dag­

gett Bros,  in general trade.

Adrian—Earle  Bros,  succeed  Earle  & 

Hatch, grocers  and bakers.

Holland—Stephen Crandall,  late  of  Big 

Rapids, will open a notion  store.

St.  James—Day  &  O’Donnell  succeed 

Owen O’Donnell in general trade.

Battle Creek—J. L. McCluer succeeds V. 

P.  Collin in the hardware business.

Holly—Frank,  Marks  &  Frank  succeed 

F. M. Joslin & Bro. in general  trade.

East  Saginaw—Haas &  Edinger  succeed 

Nicholas Haas in the plumbing business.

Romoe—Willert  &  Kaiser  succeed  Tins- 

man & Willert in the dry goods  business.

Detroit—J.  V.  Lisee  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
boots  and  shoes, have  assigned  to  A.  F. 
Wilcox.

Cedar  Springs—Geo.  (5. Huntington  will 
remove his boot and shoe stock to Nebraska 
this week.

Boyne City—The attachment on the John 
C. McFellin  stock  has  been  satisfied  and 
business resumed.

Negaunee—M. Nassauer  &  Co.  succeed 
P.  (Mrs.  Morris)  Kohn  in  the  dry  goods 
and clothing business.

Three Oaks—Boardman  &  Wehrle  have 
engaged in the  grocery,  boot  and shoe and 
furnishing goods business.

Cheboygan—The  Cheboygan Lumber Co. 
will close  out its  supply  and grocery stock 
during the present  month.

Marine  City—G.  S.  Donahoe,  general 
dealer, has been closed on  chattle mortgage 
and stock sold to Lucinda Clough.

Plainwell—A. Manley has  put in a stock 
of  boots  and  shoes  to  fill  the  vacancy 
caused by D. P. Hopkins’ removal.

Mancelona—A.  L.  Bachant  and  C.  M. 
Lanning  will  shortly  engage  in  the  dry 
goods and furnishing goods business.

Red Jacket—Sibilsky Bros., late of Eagle 
River,  have  opened  a  dry  goods, notion, 
millinery and gent’s furnishing goods store.
Pentwater—It is reported  that  Chas. F. 
Lewis has purchased  Wm. L.  Tilden’s in­
terest in the hardware business of Tilden & 
Co.

Hastings—A.  R.  McOmber  has  re-em­
barked in the  jewelry business at Hastings, 
having  purchased  Baughman  &  Buel’s 
stock.

Petoskey—Geo. E.  Sprang, until recently 
engaged in the same  business at Alma, has 
purchased the R.  Connable  book  and sta­
tionery stock.

Lake  Linden—A.  Levy,  who two years 
ago carried on a general store at Houghton, 
has opened a dry goods and gents’  furnish­
ing store goods here.

Vermontville—Asa  J.  Brown  has  pur­
chased a half-interest in the  furniture stock 
of J.  C.  Walsh.  The  new  firm  will  be 
known as Walsh & Brown.
Dalton—A.  A.  Aldrich, 

the  Hickory 
Comers  hardware  merchant,  will  shortly 
open a branch establishment here.  He will 
operate a lumber  yard in connection.

Big  Rapids—F.  Fairman  and  M.  G. 
Woodward  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under the style of  Fairman  &  Woodward 
and engaged in the dry goods  business.

Alma—T. A. Miller & Co. have purchased 
the  book  and  stationery  stock  of Geo. E. 
Sprang and will remove their  drag stock to 
the building adjoining,  connecting  the two 
stores with an  archway.

Lisbon—R.  B.  Gooding, 

formerly  at 
Greenville,  will shortly engage  in  general 
trade at a new station, as  yet nnoa.mp.d,  on 
the T., S. & M. Railway, one mile north  of 
this place.  A new store bnilding is nearing 
completion  and  an  elevator  will  be  con-< 
structed before snow flies.

Groverton—Is a neyv  village  two  miles 
from Lake Linden. 
It is composed of  sev­
eral dozen new  buildings,  residences  and 
stores.  Penberthy  Bros.,  general dealers, 
occupy  a  large  two-story  brick  veneer 
bnilding.  McDonald  Bros, have moved in­
to their new two-story frame  bnilding with 
» Stock of stovasand hardware. ' « ¿ I v 1 
.

Eaton  Rapids—Geo.  A.  Soule  succeeds 
Walworth db Soule in the  drug  and grocery 
business. 

West  Branch—Phillip  Blumenthal  sdc- 
needs  Samuel  Blumenthal  in  the  grocery 
business. 

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MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Owosso—The Owosso Tool Co. is turning 

out 2,400 snow shovels per day.

Muskegon—Firman & Goss succeed Cross 

ly,  Goss & Co. in the sawmill business.

Hillsdale—C. S. Veeder’s  broom  factory 
is turning  out  about 100  dozen brooms per 
week.

Hillsdale—S.  O.  Fisher  has  invested 
$570,000 in pine lands during the past  four 
weeks.

Hillsdale—Frederick W. Stock  will start 
a roller mill on the site of  the old wheelbar­
row factory.

Plainwell—J.  C.  Ives  has  arranged  to 
manufacture  cheap beds in connection with 
his handle business.

Boyne City—White & Perkins are adding 
shingle  machinery  to  their  sawmill,  and 
will make cedar shingles.

Bannister—A.  W. Dickerson has put into 
operation a stave  and  heading  mill  which 
will keep forty men busy.

Dalton—Adna Jones  intends moving his 
wagon  business  and  planing  mill  from 
Hickory Corners to this place.

East Saginaw—C. E. Eastman & Co.  will 
put in  20,000,000 feet of  logs in the  Upper 
Peninsula the coming winter.
- Clinton—The  Clinton  Woolen  Manufac­
turing  Co. has  orders  enough  booked  to 
keep the factory going until January 1.

Jackson—The  Bortree  Corset  Co.  em­
ploys  330  girls  and  twenty men,  making 
corsets, bustles and other feminine harness.
East  Saginaw—John G. Owen  will  build 
a  sawmill  in  Brookfield  township,  Huron 
county,  where he has a  large  tract of  pine.
South  Boardman—J.  W.  Balcolm  has 
bought the sawmill and  supply stock of M. 
B. Farrin & Son,  and will continue the bus­
iness.

East  Saginaw—C.  & E. Ten  Eyck  have 
repaired their  mill  which  was  lately dam­
aged by  fire, and are now  making  shingles 
again.

Grand  Haven—F.  F.  Sommers  will  re­
move his match factory to Green Bay, Wis., 
the  business  men  there  having  offered to 
take $15,000 stock in such an enterprise.

Muskegon—Boucher Bros, have  just con­
tracted for 900,000 feet  of  white  oak  tim­
ber of  the Grand Haven Ship  Building Co., 
Grand  Haven,  and  500,000  feet of  Miller 
Bros.,  Chicago.

East  Jordan—Palmiter  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  Plummer  sawmill,  at  Bay 
Springs,  and  will  remove  it  to this place 
and  put  it  into  operation. 
It will have a 
capacity of  40,000 feet per day.

Ludington—The Danaher & Melendy Co. 
has  purchased  from  the  Butters & Peters 
Salt  and  Lumber Co.,  of  Manistee,  a tract 
of  pine estimated to have 20,000,000 feet on 
on it, for $110,000, and located near Luther.
Ludington—The  sawmills  at  Ludington 
and upon the railroads  tributary to Luding- 
ton cut 200,000,000 feet of logs into lumber, 
lath and shingles  annually,  while  the  salt 
blocks are turning out from  1,200  to  1,500 
barrels per day,  all the  year round.

Muskegon—James  A.  Cook  and  other 
parties have purchased the Spear mill prop­
erty for $2,000.  The mill  will  be put  into 
condition,  with a  cutting  capacity of  about 
100,000 feet per day.  The  company  owns 
many million feet  of  valuable  pine,  which 
will be brought over from Menominee.

Menominee—The  Soper  Lumber Co. has 
four  camps in operation in the  upper  pine 
region of  Wisconsin.  Camp  supplies have 
to  be  hauled  twenty-five  miles,  and  the 
wretched condition of  the roads  has  neces­
sitated considerable work.  About  100 men 
are employed  in  preparations  for the win­
ter.

Bay City—Foss & Leiter  recently  had  a 
Lake  Superior  log  that  sealed  1,628  feet 
clear lumber.  One  plank  without a single 
flaw  was  cut  that  scaled  288 feet.  The 
plank was six inches thick, thirty-six inches 
wide  and  sixteen  feet  long.  Another log 
for ;the  same  firm,  cut  at  Hitchcock  & 
Bialy’s  mill, was  so  large  it  took  fifteen 
minutes to get it inside the mill.

STRAY  FACTS.

Hillsdale—The First  State  Bank  is  the 

name Q.f a new banking  concern.

Saginaw—Anthony  Byrne  succeeds  Ad­

ams Gregory in the liquor business.

Detroit—The American  File  Cabinet Co. 

has increased its capital to $75,000.

Gladstone—There  is  considerable  bass­
wood in this vicinity,  which the inhabitants 
are  seeking to utilize.  One builder is using 
the wood for flooring,  believing  that  where 
it does not come in contact with moisture to 
much extent it is better than pine.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Sulphite Fibre Co. 
will  have  the  largest  paper  mill  in the 
world  in  operation  in  Detroit  by  next 
March.  The  company has  purchased  six­
teen acres of  kind at Delray,  and  will erect 
eight bolidings.  The  river  Rouge  will be 
dredged to the works.

Bay City—The suit  brought  by Maltby, 
Brotherton & Co.  against  C. H. Plummer, 
of East Saginaw, on account of  lumber cut­
ting  complications  at  the  latter’s  mill  in 
Ogemaw,  has  resulted  in  a judgment for 
$11,000 in favor of the plaintiffs.  Plummer 
will appeal to the Supreme Court.

Detroit—The Canadian Electric Co.,  cap­
ital'stock $250,000, has  filed  articles of  in­
corporation. 
It will  make  and use electri­
cal  instruments  and  appliances.  Robert 
McKinstry holds 5,978 sharks, and nineteen 
others, including  Henry Woodward, the in­
ventor, one share each. 

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-■  Bronson—John Holmes is building a new 
grist mill three miles  frest of  town.

Litchfield—J.  B. Smith has sold  his lum­
ber yard to E. Bodner, late of Three Rivers.
Detroit—The  North  Champion  Iron Co. 
is a new corporation, with a capital stock of 
$1,000,000) formed for the purpose of  min­
ing and smelting iron, silver and  copper  in 
Marquette  comity.  The  stockholders  are 
all Detroit men, as follows:  6,000, Seymour 
Brownell;  5,400  each,  Herman  C.  Fech- 
heimer,  Sol.  Heavenrich,  Henry  C.  Hart 
and  Alexander  C.  Comstock;  500  shares 
each, James R. Turner andRobert Atkinson.
Fort Blakely—A stick measuring 150 feet 
long and  twenty inches  square, containing 
5,000 feet,  was  recently placed  on  board a 
vessel for shipment to San Francisco, where 
it Will be  exhibited at the  Mechanics’ Fair. 
It  is  considered  by  millmen a good repre­
sentative df  the  forest  in  this  region,  but 
the giant of  all was  felled  some  time  ago 
by the same  company,  and  will  be  heard 
from  in  time. 
It  measures  240  feet  in 
length, the first  limb  being  160  feet  from 
seventy-two 
the  butt,  which  measures 
inches,  and  forty  inches  at  the top. 
It 
scales 38,000 feet of  lumber.

Purely Personal.

Ben.  W.  Putnam is expected  home  from 

his Minnesota trip to-day.

B. S. Krause has  taken  the  position of 

prescription clerk for C. E.  Westlake.

C. H.  Sweet, of  Brown,  Hall  &  Co.,  is 
spending a fortnight’s vacation at  Traverse 
City.

C.  N. Rapp,  with  Geo.  E.  Howes,  is in 
Western New York, buying  apples for cold 
storage.

Fred. D.  Yale has returned from  Empor­
ia,  Kansas, being called home by the serious 
illness of his father.

Dr. O.  O.  Osborn,  of  the  drug firm of G. 
H. Oliver & Co.,  has  removed his family to 
this city from Elm Hall.

D.  C.  Underwood  and  wife  went  to 
Brighton Saturday to attend the wedding of 
his sister,  which occurred on Monday.

Elmer  R.  Thompson,  book-keeper  for 
Perkins & Hess,  is recovering from the fev­
er which has confined him to his bed for the 
past three weeks.

John  M.  McGill,  of  the  drug  firm  of 
in 
Ritchie  &  McGill, 
town last week on a  visit  to his brother-in- 
law,  Will Lamoreaux.

Imlay  City,  was 

Jonathan Boyce is said to have  the  larg­
est holding of  pine  lands  in Michigan,  ex­
cept David Ward.  He owns 250,000,000 feet 
of  pine in Clare county.

Henry C.  Stewart,  who  has  clerked  for 
several  years  for  G.  H.  Cannon & Co.,  at 
Evart, has engaged  in  business on his own 
account at Washington, Macomb county.

Silas. K. Bolles and wife  have  returned 
from Leadville, well pleased with their trip 
and its results.  Silas is  enthusiastic  over 
the mineral wealth of the  Leadville  region 
and  may  remove  there  to  watch  some in­
vestments he has made.

The Resurrection of Lake Linden.

Lake Linden—the  farthest  point  north 
in the Upper Peninsula, the  wonder of the 
tourist and  the  Mecca  of  the builder, me­
chanic and laborer,  cremated in May last— 
has  sprung from  its  ashes  of  destruction 
with a vigor, lite  and  activity  that  chal­
lenges admiration and bears proof of the in­
domitable courage of an industrious people. 
Within  the  four  months  last  past,  it has 
built over  350  residences,  all  substantial, 
many costly, modem and magnificent.  Doz­
ens of stores,  mostly two  and  three  story 
brick or stone,  are now in all stages  of con­
struction.  Everywhere is busy  industry on 
the wing.  Timbers,  stone,  lumber,  brick 
and shingles literally fill the streets, wharves 
and yards.  A  few  canvas  tents  are  yet 
seen on the vacant lots.  Of the  more nota­
ble buildings which may  be  mentioned  (it 
will be remembered  that  the  May  fire de­
stroyed every business  place in the city ex­
cept Leopold & Hanauer’s meat market and 
grocery,  the oldest  house  in  the place,  and 
John Herman, jeweler) are  the  following: 
Edwin Henwood,  who lost  house  and  con­
tents,  hardware  stock  and store,  was  the 
first man to occupy  a  new  two-story  brick 
store, 50 x 60, with a full  stock  of  stoves 
and hardware;  Wm.  Harris,  another victim 
of the fire,  is building  a  two-story  brick, 
100 x 90, cellar  same  size,  elevator  and all 
modern improvements.  Upper  story  will 
be fitted in elegant style for a dress-making 
and cloak department, cost $20,000. 
John 
Bennallack has built a new two-story brick, 
24 x 40,  which is occupied by McNabb Bros. 
& Co.  as a paint and  paper  store.  Joseph 
Piearce has built and  occupies a  new store 
with a full line of hardware and stoves.  jF. 
H. Hopf has a new two-story brick and does 
the boot and shoe trade.  Louis  Deschamps 
is building a $6,000 two-story brick,  40 x 60. 
It will be  occupied by  A.  E.  Deschamps & 
Co.,  druggists,  below,  and  the  upper story 
will be fitted for  offices,  etc.  Wm.  Jewel 
is a jewel indeed, for  he is  building a first- 
class portage entry stone hotel that will be a 
godsend to Lake Linden,  for  there is no re­
semblance  to  such  a  house there now. 
In 
size it is 50 x 100, three and one-half stories, 
mansard roof,  modern  in  all  its  appoint­
ments and,  better  than  all, his  beef-steak 
will come from Southern Michigan.
In addition to above, the  following  gen­
tlemen are erecting  buildings,  to  cost,  ap­
proximately, as follows:
Paul Perraults.............................................$ 5,000
Eucharists Brule.................. 
4,000
Nicholas Reding &  Co..............  
10,000
Philibert Lebault........................................  6,000
Alex.  Barbeau............. . . ............................  4,000
  0,000
Herman Kallenbield. 
Charles Kallenbield.. 1................................  3,500
Louis Hennes & Co..... ........... 
15,000
Lyriac Lanciot............................  
3,500
Peter Reding............. 
3.500
 
 
Lean A. Gillet.............................................   5,500
Newman & Trelease.. ...........................  
  15,000
John B. Toupin...........................................  3,300
Dozens more, who are  now  building and 
who  have  built, could  be  mentioned  did 
space  permit. 
It is enough  to  say  that so 
other such place for .push,  enterprise, pluck 
and courage can be round  between Chicago 
and New  York—excepting  Grand  Rapids, 
'  *  ?; M. J, Wrbsley.  \
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Lots of Grocers  W histle.

From Harper’s Bazar.

Old  lady  (to  grocer’s  boy)—Don’t  you 
know,  boy,  that  it is  very  rude  to  whistle 
when dealing with a lady? 
Boy—That’s what the boss told me to do, 
mum.
Old lady—Told you to whistle?
Boy—Yes’m.  He  said  if  we  ever  sold 
you anything we’d  have to whistle  for  the 
money.

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“Business is booming in the oyster line,” 
said  F.  J.  Dettenthaler,  the  other  day, 
“The Anchor brand still  leads  the van and 
by the way the  orders are pouring  in upon 
me,  it looks as though I would have to hump 
myself to take care of all the orders for this 
favorite brand the coming  season.”

MISCELLANEOUS.

u -A-dvertieements  will  be  inserted under this 
head for one cent a word or two  cents a word 
tor three insertions.  No advertisement taken 
for less than 25 cents.  Advance payment. 
Advertisements  directing  that  answers  be 
t in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage,
TpOR SALE—At a bargain.  A clean stock of 
•A-  hardware  and  mill  supplies.  Address 
Wayne Choate, Agent. East Saginaw. 
210tf
TplOR  SALE—A stock of groceries, books, sta- 
. 
tionery and wall paper; a bargain will be 
given.  C. S. Ross, Cass City, Mich. 
210*
"DIOR  SALE—Or  exchange, platform  spring 
J-  peddling wagons,  suitable for  wholesale 
or retail trade.  Address  Welling &  Carhartt, 
139 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
208tf

1 

bought of Matthews & Co.  Will  sell  for  $100. 

F OR  SALE—A  new  soda  fountain,  which 

cost $140 and freight  this  sprintr.  It was 
In perfect order.  W. R. Mandigo & Co.,  Sher­
wood, Mich. 
212*
FOR  SALE—Twenty 
of  improved 
fruit  land,  with  s
fruit  land,  with” several
acres  bearing 
fruit, one mile from Frankfort.  __ . | _____H
Will trade for
house and lot or stock of  goods in Grand Rap­
ids. 
2C5if

exchange for good stocks, mortgages or other 

trade  for house  and  lot  or  stock of goods in 

ingston  street.  Will  sell on long time or 

real estate.  E. A. Stowe, Tradesman office.

F OR  SALE—Desirable  residence  lotonLiv- 
F OR SALE—Twenty acres of improved fruit 
F OR SALE—120-acre  farm, with  fine  house 

land  three  miles  from  Frankfort.  Will 
Grand  Rapids.  Address,  for  particulars,  E. 
A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. 
205tf

and other buildings,  three miles north of 
county.  Price $7,000 cash.  Address,  for  fur­
ther particulars, E. A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 

Coopersville.  The  best  orchard  in  Ottawa 

Summit City. 

last year.  Does first class-work.  G. C. Willey, 

lumber per day.  Gang edger, saw dust carrier, 

the  ma­
chinery of a two  run  grist  mill.  Put up 
213*
good running order.  Capacity 25  Mpine 
and line rollers.  For  further  particulars  en- 
quire of J. F. Clark. Big Rapids, Mich.  I96tf

F OR SALE—At  a  bargain,  all 
I IOR  SALE  CHEAP—Portable  saw  mill  in 
F OR SALE—The best drugstore in the thriv­
F OR SALE—Best  bargain  ever  offered  for 

general  stock  in growing town  in  good 
Stock  will inventory about  $6,000.  Sales last 
year were $60,000.  Address ‘’The Tradesman," 
Grand Rapids. 

ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L. 
193tf

farming  community  in  Northern  Michigan. 

Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 

I98tf

i77tf

dry  goods  store.  Good  location.  Apply  to 

F OR RENT—Pleasant store at  19  West Ful­

ton street,  Boston  block.  Now  used  as 
221 Mt. Vernon street. 
207tf.
Y \T ANTED—Location for custom  sawmill in 
» *  pine or hardwood of large tracts, or two 
or three  years  sawing.  Satisfaction  guaran­
teed  in  manufacturing.  Address  B. B., care 
Tradesman. 
210tf
\ \ T ANTED—Situation by registered pharma- 
cist  of  four  years’  experience.  First- 
' " 
class  references.  Address  P., Tradesman  of­
fice. 
217*
TATANTED— A salesman  df  experience  and 
" ' 
ability with  highest  references, to  sell 
cigars to first-class drug and grocery trade  by 
a large cigar distributing  house.  Address  M. 
Blank, 72 Murray street, N. Y. City. 
212*
ATT AN TED—Good  newspaper  man  with  at 
t T 
least  $500 cash, to  take half interest in, 
and management of, newspaper office in grow­
ing town on Lake-Michigan.  Addres Franklin, 
care Michigan Tradesman
YATANTED—A  flrst-ciass  meat market man 
to take good position in  country town. 
tv 
Good  salary  to  good  man.  Address  J.,  care 
Tradesman, 
207
perience, a  situation on  road  handling 
ware  or can turn to most any line  of  goods. 
The best of references givéü^  Address John M. 
Laberteaux. Benton Harbor, Mich. 
209*
TATANTED—To exchange  farm worth $2,500 
TV 
for a stock  of goods«  Address Box  23, 
Tradesman office, 

» ANTED—By  a man  of  twenty  years ex­

W ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 

trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
ial line and sell on commission.  To  the  right 
man a splendid chance will be given  to  make 
money without  extra expanse.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

208*tf

I78tf

general merchandise.  Address box  65, Grand

■ O  EXCHANGE—Highly improved  real  es­

tate  adjoining  city  limits  for  stock  of 
Rapids, Mich. 
_________ ail*
ri dMBES LAND  FOR SALE—4,400  acres  of 
i -  
fine timber land in Columbia Co., Oregon,

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groceries, cigars,  tobacco, wooden  or  willow 

JENNE88 k McCURDY,

Importers and  Man^iaGitlrars'  Ägents,

DEALERS  IN

Fancif Goods  of all Descriptions,

HOTEL AND  STEAMBOAT GOODS,

Bronte and  Library Lamps,  Chandeliers, Brackets,, Etc.,
D E T R O IT ,  -  LÆIOHC.

73 and 75  Jefferson  Ave.,

Wholesale Agents for Ddffield's  Canadian  Lamps.

VOIGT, PERP0L8HEIJUER i GO,,
-  MICHIGAN.
GRAND  RAPIDS, 

80 and 82 Monroe and 48, 50 and 52 O ttaw a Sts.,

W e desire to  call  the 

attention of the

to the fact th a t we 

have ju st received a

Large  and Well-Assorted
Ladies’,  Misses’  and  Children’s

Stock of

CLOAKS

W hich’w eare offering 

a t prices th a t can-

E. N; Bates has purchased the Geo, Purdy 
cheese factory, at  Moline, and  will operate 
it on the huhvldual basts next season.

; hable  and absolutely  unbreakable  Stan­

ley  15  eents  per  yard.  Cloth  covered  SO All  Orders will  be  Promptly  and  Carefully

T'  ./V:  -.  ’ 

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The First Commercial Traveler. » -1'' 
Daniel R. Whiff, of  Cbainbersburg,  Pa., 
says he is the first commercial  traveler who 
ever went on the road. 
In 1844 he went to 
Philadelphia as a salesman  for a dry goods 
Muse. 
‘Trade was  dull  that  year,” says 
Mr. Wolff,  “and I  suggested to the firm the 
idea of sending some  one  out  among  the 
country merchants to drum up trade.”  “Who 
will be the drummer?” asked one of the firm. 
“I will, I replied,  and  they  sent me out. 
That was the origin of the term ‘drummer,’ 
by which all traveling  salesmen  are  now 
known. 
I went on the  road  and  solicited 
trade among the merchants of southern and 
central Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  For 
five years I carried  no samples,  filling my 
customers’ orders from samples provided by 
themselves. 
In  1849,  it struck me all of a 
sudden that this was necessarily keeping my 
trade limited, and that if I   carried a line of 
samples of my own,  I  could  introduce  new 
goods and more of them. 
I sent to the firm 
and  showed  them  that  the samples were 
coming from the wrong end of the line,  and 
they saw the point and  furnished  me with 
samples.  From that year dates the  custom 
of  carrying  samples  by  drummers.”  Mr. 
Wolff has been on the joad  ever  since  his 
pioneer trip among the country  merchants.

A  Model  Lumbering  Community.

From the Northwestern Lumberman.

Charles Hebard & Sons,  sawmill  owners 
at Pequaming, Mich., are said  to  have  es­
tablished  a  model  village.  There  is  no 
saloon there, and  the  firm,  owning all the 
land in and about the place, will  not  allow 
one for any consideration.  , It is further re­
lated  that  every  married man is allowed a 
neat house and garden free of rent.  Every­
body is neatly dressed,  and no  ragged  chil­
dren are seen. 
If  an  accident  disables  an 
employe of  the firm his pay goes on,  and in 
serious cases the  best  medical  and surgical 
aid is furnished, the  injured  man’s  family 
also  being 
The 
employes,  themselves paid  in  cash,  run  no 
store bills.  Here, it would  seem, was real­
ized  a  dream of  the  social  reformist,  yet 
even  such a condition of  things as outlined 
would not suit  some  men.  They not  only 
would  not  admit  the  decency shown  by 
their employers, but  they would vigorously 
resist  the  enforcement of  decency on their 
own  part.  Rather  would  they  prefer  to 
revel  in  dirt  and  misery as  an excuse for 
hoisting a red flag and  proclaiming against 
capital  from  a  dry  goods  box.  But  if 
Pequaming  is  what  it is pictured, the pity 
is there are not more such places.

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S t a t e . , ......................per doz.net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12  in.  4#  14
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Screw Hook and E ye,-#..............net
Screw Hook and Eye 
.... ...........net
Screw Hook and Eye  M......................Bet
Screw Hook and Eye,  % ................ . .net
Strap and  T 7.,,'.A ...'....................dis
Pots ................................. . 
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K ettles........ ............. ......... ................... ..
Spiders  i... .. .. ..  V.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gray  enameled... . . . . . . . . . . ----- --------
HOUSE  FURNISHING GOODS.
 new list
Stamped Tin Ware. .
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Japanned Tin  Ware__ 26
Granite Iron  W a r e ................... 
25
 
HOES.
Grub  1........................................ . 
.$11 00, dis 60
Grub  2...  ......................... ..............11 60,dis60
Grub3 .......................................... . 
12 00, dis60
KNOBS—NEW LIST.
55
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..........dis 
Dopr,porcelain, jap. trim m ings...v..:. 
65
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings___  
55
Door, porcelain, trimmings.................... 
55
70
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain........dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s ...................    40&10
Hemacite . .. .. .. .. .   ........ 
45
cHS 
55
Russell & Irwin Mfg.Co.’s new list..dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & co .’s.....................dis 
55
Branford's............................................. dis 
55
Norwalk’s  ............... 
J55
dis 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  70
Adze  Eye.......... ...........................$16 00 dis 
60
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s .........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10
Sperry A Co.’s, Post,  handled..................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s.................................... dis 40
Coffee, P. S. &W.Mfg. Co.’s Malleables ...  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark's.............:dis 40
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................... dis  25
MOLASSES OATES.
60&10
Stebbin’s P attern........................  
dig
60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine................................ dis
25
Enterprise,  self-measuring................dis

LEVELS,
MATTOCKS.

MAULS.
MILLS.

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NAILS—IRON.

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OILERS.

)  lOd  8d 
2# 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

lOdto  60d.............................................$  keg $2 10
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................  
50
4dand5d  adv................................................  
75
3d advance......................................................  1 50
3d fine advance........ ...................................  2 25
Clinch nails, adv.............................. 
l  00
Finishing 
6d  4d
Size—inches  J  3 
1#
2 
Adv. «  keg 
Steel Nails—2 20.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom.......................         dis 50
BraBSor  Copper...........................................dis  50
Reaper....................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ...................................  .....  50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................. dis  30
Sciota Bench...........................................dis 50@55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  30
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. . . . ....................dis50@55
evel Co.’s, wood__ dis20&10
Fry, Acme...............................................dis 50&10
Common, polished...................................dis60&10
Dripping...................................................$  a   6#
Iron and Tinned....................................dis 
55
Copper Rivets and  Burs.................. .dis 
60
“A” Wood’spatentplanished,Nos.24to27 10 20 
‘B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

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TH E  CREDIT  SYSTEM.

i  The  credit system  has  certainly  robbed 
the good meft of civilized society—both pro­
ducers  and  exchangers,  or  distributers, 
termed -- ♦‘middle  men”—of  one  thousand 
dollars  where  the  professional  thief  has 
taken a single  dollar.  Take an^commua- 
ity, I  don’t care  where, in what  is  termed 
civilized  society,  and  estimate  the  yearly 
damages  suffered  by  that  community, oc­
casioned by the  credit  system, and 1 think 
it can be demonstrated  that credit (broken 
promises of tire “respectable” elements of a 
; community) h as, damaged  the  reliable and 
solid portion of  that community one thous­
and times more than the thief and  burglar.
Let  us look for  the roots of  this system 
of robbery.  T he  producers  (and  he that is 
of reU use to society in every branch of hu­
man thought and action, be he exchanger or 
dirt  digger,  is  a  productive  factor)  must 
produce  before' they  possess.  A  certain 
percentage Of society in all  ages  either  get 
indolent  and  produce  only  when  animal 
necessity spurs them  to  make an  effort, or 
get anxious to  possess  without  producing, 
or  faster  than  they  can  produce—that is, 
they, in some form or  other,  attempt to get 
their pay in advance, secured by their hopes 
of producing or  the appearance  of  possess­
ing.  It begins in most instances very early. 
Parents or guardians  allow  the  subject  to 
get into  the habit  of being  behindhand,  or 
“ unlucky” in  daily duties.  They  begin by 
“getting  excused”  in  the  various  depart­
ments  of  life’s  work.  They  are  “lucky” 
in obtaining an extension  of  time  in  their 
lessons or  in getting  “help” from the  mis­
taken kindness of friends (more destructive 
of real  manhood  than  any other  foe of hu­
man integrity); and soon the habit of  being 
behindhand  is  contracted  and  becomes  a 
fixture in the  character. 
It  were better for 
that man and all who  were  thrown  in  con­
tact with him in life that he had  never been 
born.  Better  had  he  joined  the  criminal 
elements and robbed  upon principle,  bleed­
ing strangers  on  the  highway  by a  direct 
attack,  than  to  thus  go  through  life  the 
most dangerous  kind  of  a  thief  known to 
civilized  society,  inasmuch  as  the  profes­
sional thief robs only strangers, the dishon­
est with the  simple,  while  the  credit swin­
dler robs none but his friends  and men who 
have confidence in  human  nature  and fair 
appearances, not only robbing them of their 
hard earnings, but of  that  which  is  worth 
even more than money—their hope and con­
fidence in their species  and  their  peace  of 
mind. 
I  have seen this credit system under 
a microscope,  and I positively aver it is  the 
very worst scourge of civilization.

A few years ago, a simple-minded sort of 
a  man  in  this  new  section,  a  man  who 
knew little else but to dig frantically on his 
little  homestead  and  pay as  he went, was 
at one time reduced  to  veritable  sackcloth 
and  ashes  (the  latter  came  from  burning 
log heaps in his  clearing) and a bag of com 
which he had to grind  in  a  coffee  mill  in 
his little cabin.  After being reduced almost 
to the verge of pauperism, by getting cheat­
ed out  of his wages and trusting “unlucky” 
men  (yet  always  in  the  last “nip”  being 
able  to  still  pay  his  way  in  advance), a 
snug little sum of  money fell to him entire­
ly  unexpectedly.  He  had  passed  for  “a 
clever  sort  of  a  chap”  (or, rather,  a  fool 
of fools)  in that  new settlement, and when 
it was known around  that  he  had “plenty 
of money,” the roots  and  central  nerves of 
the credit system  were  laid bare  before his 
eyes  in  a  manner  rarely witnessed in this 
world  except  by  those  who  pass  for  the 
proverbial  “clever  fellow,”  among 
the 
worst set of fools that were ever known un­
til  the  American  “respectable”  dead-beat 
was  generated.  Within  six  weeks  after 
Ms  windfall  came, the  whole  community 
around him—lacking  possibly one  in  ten 
had called on  him  one  after  another  with 
friends who had  never visited  him  before 
and in  a, most  excessively friendly manner 
asked for free  loans  of  cash  (accommoda­
tions,  you  know) of  from $20  up to  $200 
each—just to  help  them .through a tempor­
ary pinch.  Truly, had he possessed Gould’s 
enormous fortune and allowed those friends 
(the religious  and  irreligious alike) to have 
their way,  they would have taken it all.

A  most  fearfully  large  percentage  of 
Christian communities  look  upon credit  or 
a  borrowed  dollar  exactly  as  a  besotted 
whisky toper  looks  upon  free  drinks; and 
it is the same  resistless  temptation to them 
to get into  debt, when  they find  a  chance 
to promise  their  way into  possession with­
out production,  that  it  is to the old soaker 
of gin to smell a saloon. 
t  Now these credit worshippers, from  low­
est to highest have  been  educated in ideal 
laws.  Hosts of  them feel  certain that they 
can  readily  obtain  the  greatest  prize  of 
man’s existence.  With their heads way  up 
—ideally—in the  clouds  of  theoretical suc­
cess in man’s mission on earth, their feet go 
straight into tire  pit of  financial  ruin; and 
.  woe to him  who  shall  place  confidence in 
them and allow them to  get  their  promises 
in at face value  in  exchange  for  realities 
that 
prompt payment or production  is  the. Only 
possible way to  acquire  permanent  posses­
sion  of  any  genuine  blessing is  far from 
being realized among this element—the law 
upon which is based all the  good there is in 
civilization,  as  distinguished  from  bar- 

law  which  decrees 

.  The,  resistless 

i  barism.

Is it so easy to  teach  mankind  the art of 
climbing  golden  stairs  to  success  in  end- 
|  le u   existence,  yet  so difficult to teach all 
but ihe  very few how  to   get  to  the earth 
under  their tee$  and  produce  before  they 
BB11 possese  the wherewith that insures 
temporary success in this short Efe?

.

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The credit system has lts roots for beneath 
the kurfoees so  deep, in  fact, that  they ex­
tend to the cae se of the. war and hell among 
mankind—a  desire  to  get  before  giving! 
which is akin to the  desire  to  get  without 
giving any price at alL 

There are more hearts wounded and more 
Innocent  persons  broken  in  spirit  (worse 
than murdered) and Crushed  in  life’s battle 
by Hie  credit system than  by war, by retail 
murder and  by  intemperance.  The  relief 
that  it  brings  is  in  most  cases  for  more 
deadly and dangerous  to  the  subject  than 
any drag or  intoxicant  that was  ever swal­
lowed by the sick  to  relieve  physical pain.
The credit  system (which  is supposed tò 
help men onto their feet or enable the indo­
lent to great‘bread without work,  thus, gen­
erating financial  crises  which  fatten  only 
the fewest of  the  most  soulless  Shylocks) 
is exactly like that course  of  living  which 
brings to  man  the  necessity  of  a  surgical 
operation or to nations that moral pestilence 
known as civil  war, which destroys all that 
was  built  up  during  prospérons'  peace. 
If there is no  way  to  do  away  with  this 
credit  system  and  abolish  individual  and 
national debts, then  you  may depend upon 
it the soul of slavery and  despotism  lies so 
deeply imbedded in  the  hearts of  mankind 
that it cannot  be  removed,  and  even  your 
highest civilization is only gilded barbarism 
which will cause all the  habitable  portions 
of the earth to become a  desert  at  no  dis­
tant day.  We must either  put  away  debt 
or drift in that ever  narrowing circle of his­
tory  repeating  itself  and  make  a  dismal 
failure of existence. 

C.  H.  B arlow.

The Blue Letter.*

Mr. Toastmaster and Members of the Business
Men’s Association:
I  regret  exceedingly  and  probably  you 
will  before I  conclude,  that  Mr.  Clapp, the 
gentleman originally appointed  to  respond 
to  this  toast,  was  prevented  from  being 
here.  Living  as  he  does  at  Afiegan  in 
what is known as the peach belt, he  was so 
busy shipping this luscious fruit to less for­
tunate localities that he  regretfully gave up 
the pleasure of meeting with us and when I 
was requested yesterday morning to  fill his 
place,  I,  like another  well  known, unwise 
individual,  “ Saying I  would  ne’er consent, 
consented.”
In these  days of  special  mail trains and 
increased postal facilities  of  all  kinds,  the 
number of letters  received  by  the  average 
individual  is  wonderful  to  contemplete. 
These  letters  are  greatly  varied  in  their 
nature,  some bringing  joy  and gladness, as 
they tell their story of  the fruition of  some 
long-cherished hope  and  plan, the prosper­
ity and happiness  of  some  dear  friend  or 
some other cheering piece  of  news;  others 
casting gloom over the receiver,  as  they tell 
their  story  of  death  or  misfortune,  while 
many  others  make  no  lasting  impression 
upon he recipient and are carelessly cast in­
to  the  waste  basket.  Such,  alas, has  for 
years been the fate of the gentle reminders, 
in the  shape  of  statements  that  we  have 
sent  out  to  delinquents and  many  of  us, 
after spending  hours  in  pouring  over  our 
books and  making  out  a  series  of  duns, 
have considered  ourselves  fortunate  if  we 
got back enough  to  pay  our  postage.  Al­
most every  business  man,  no  matter  how 
carefully he has conducted liis business, has 
fallen  a  prey to the omnivorous and  omni­
present dead-beat,  atid  has  been  at  times 
more than willing  to lose  the  whole of his 
account if he could only get  even  with  his 
tormentor and  extort  a  portion of  the sum 
due from him  by  pressure  of  some  kind. 
But  in  this  he  has  often  failed,  and  the 
dead-beat has  laughed in  triumph over  his 
successful  schemes.
Now,  however,  a David  has  risen  in  Is­
rael, who  bids fair to stay this  Goliah,  and 
the dead-beat trembles before the potent but 
silent  efficacy  of  the  little  blue  piece  of 
paper that is  handed  him  by the post-man. 
Whether its color was chosen  as emblemat­
ical of the “blue” state of his feelings when 
he receives it, I cannot  say; but  it certainly 
expresses them most admirably-, for he real­
izes that his day of  triumph has passed and 
that the men on whom he  has so long prey­
ed have at last organized for self-protection? 
and,  working  together  for  this  end,  have 
invoked a power  that  is  greater  than  he. 
The message conveyed by this blue missive, 
although  couched  in  courteous  terms, yet 
signifies that it is not to be lightly cast aside 
like its  predecessor,  the  humble statement, 
but must  be  attended  to  and  without  any 
loss of time.
It is unnecessary for me  to  revert to  the 
many individual  instances  of  the  effect  of 
this  Blue  Letter—every man  who  has used 
it  knows  its  power,  but  it  is  well  to  re­
member  that its  influence  arises  from  the 
fact that we are banded together to  support 
it,  that'each  man  is  pledged  to  make  the 
cause  of  his  neighbor  his  own  and  that 
only by strict  compliance  with, our  obliga­
tions can we keep up the  usefulness of this 
Blue  Letter.  No matter  what  the tempta­
tion may be,  we  must not  swerve  from our 
course,  and  no  consideration  must  induce 
us to  extend  favors  to  any  man  who  has 
failed to respond  to  the  polite invitation to 
call  and  settle  conveyed by  some  brother 
merchant through  the  medium  of  the Blue 
Letter.

♦Response  by F. T. Ward  at recent banquet 

of M. B. M. A.

The Columbia River Salmon Pack.

A San Francisco dispatch,  under  date of 
Sept. 18, conveys the following pleasing in­
telligence:

News which reaches here from Oregon in­
dicates that the salmon  pack will -probably 
not fall as short as at first anticipated.  The 
dose of the season  for  salmon  on  the  Co­
lumbia  River  ends  on  Sept.  30, but it is 
stated  that  several  canneries  on the river 
are making  preparations  to put np salmon 
next month.  Pilots report fish in enormous 
quantities  twenty  miles off .shore about the 
mouth  of  the  Colombia  River,  and tMs 
leads  to  the  hope  that large numbers will 
enter  the  river.  T he  quality  of  October 
salmon  is  very  little  inferior  to wbat  is 
known as “spring  chickens”  and is consid­
ered in Eastern markets as first-class.

The Hardware Market.

The Western nail market is weak, but no 
change  has  been  made  by  the  jobbers. 
Barbed wire  continues  firm.  Sheet iron is 
advancing.  Salable sizes of glass  continue 
very scarce.

The Blissfield creamery has closed for the 
season, consequent  on the dry weather and 
t^^alfidtant scarcity of cream.  ; 

’  t

Reports from Three  Associations. ¡1S
At the làst State convention it was decid­
ed that at subsequent  conventions  the  re- 
ports from local  associations be  submitted 
in' writing, instead of being  presented  ver­
bally,  in order thât they may  be  preserved 
for  publication  in  the  proceedings of the 
convention.  This is  a  wise  decision  and 
will result in g o ^ a J l  around.  Reports in 
writing  were  received  at  tbe  convention 
from three local Associations,  as follows:

LAWRENCE.

The Lawrence  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion was organized With twenty-four charter 
members  April  21,1887, and  has recently 
added four names to its membership.  Two 
hundred  and  seventy-three  Blue  Letters 
have  been  sent,  and  $412.85 in cash been 
collected.  Besides  the  collections,  many 
settlements by note  have been  made.  We 
have issued our delinquent list  with  forty- 
eight  names,. one  of  Which has paid and 
been  reinstated  as  a  law-abiding  citizen. 
Amount  represented  on  said list,  $559.49; 
cash received for membership and dues, $40; 
cash disbursed, including $2. 40 to State As­
sociation,  $24.06;  cash on  hand-September 
3,  $15.94.  About  half  a  dozen  members, 
have done nearly  all the work and received 
a like proportion of the benefits.  Although 
we have just started,  we  have  been  well 
paid for the small  amount  invested.  Our 
members ieel like  pushing  forward and,  in 
addition to making collections from dishon­
est  patrons,  expect  to  add largely to the 
manufacturing  industries  of  our beautiful 
village  and  alt  unite  in sending a vote of 
thanks to the officers of the  State  Associa­
tion and especially to  the  Secretary for his 
wise counsel to the officers  of  our  Associa­
tion. 

H.  M.  Ma rsh a ll,  Pres.

IONIA.

The Ionia Business Men’s Exchange, dur­
ing the past six months, has been  alite  the 
entire twenty-six  weeks  and,  although  it 
might have done  more, 
it  has  done  well 
under existing  circumstances. 
Immediate­
ly after the last  State  convention,  we  got 
out a complete set of blanks, such as is now 
in general use by the  association,  and  dis­
tributed them  among  the  members  of the 
Exchange.  We are sorry  to have to report 
that but a small  percentage of our members 
have made use of them,  owing, probably, to 
the failure of the  first  set  of blanks given 
out.  Such,  however,  as have  made  use  of 
the Blue Letter have had very good success. 
One member, for instance,  sent out twenty- 
five Blue Letters,  to which three responded. 
The twenty-two  who  did  not  respond,  he 
sent  the  Secretary,  who  sent  them blank 
No. 2,  and of the twenty-two officially noti­
fied by the Secretary thirteen  paid their ac­
counts in  full,  while  several  others made 
satisfactory  arrangements.  This  is  the 
most successful instance  we have to record. 
Other  members  also  had  from  20  to  40 
per cent, of the notices  sent  out  favorably 
responded to.  Many  of  our members who 
have to date made  no  use  of  these collect­
ing forms  have  been  encouraged  by these 
good reports and we  think  a  more general 
use  of  the  blanks  will  follow.  Our  Ex­
change has issued no delinquent list  during 
the six months past,  mainly  for  the reason 
that we await the decision of the State con­
vention on the question  of  granting  a per­
son on the delinquent list  credit  under any 
circumstances.  We consider the force of  a 
delinquent  list  lost  if  a  person  shall be 
given credit by any member of  the Associa­
tion after  he  is  legally  blacklisted.  Our 
Exchange has its eye  open  to  procure  any 
manufacturing  interests  it  can  which will 
benefit our city and, in more ways than one, 
we are mrking ourselves felt and recognized 
in this community.  We have  a  great field 
of labor and usefulness before  us and mean 
to be equal to the  emergency.  We hope at 
the  next  State  gathering  to  give  a  more 
interesting report.

Fred  Cutler,  Jr.,  Sec’y.

SPARTA.

I regret very much not to  be with you in 
this convention,  but  am  “heart  and hand” 
with you  in  this  work. 
I  have  been  in 
favor of this movement  from  the start and 
have done what I could for the cause.  Our 
town has been a little  backward  in  taking 
hold of this work,  but  we  have  done some 
very good work and I think  every  member 
is well satisfied. 
I  have  known  of  debts 
four years old  and  considered  lost  which 
have been  collected  through  onr  Associa­
tion. 
I would suggest  that  the State body 
furnish a form  of  letter  to  be  used by all 
local organizations that are  auxiliary to the 
State.  Then every  man  getting  a  letter 
from any local association  will  see that he 
is dealing with an  organized  body. 
I  was 
present at  both  State  meetings  at  Grand 
Rapids and have seen this Association grow 
from a small baby to a large child.  I t has at­
tained such proportions that the dead-beat al­
ready trembles before its gaze and the manu­
facturer  of  adulterated  goods  soon  will. 
There  are many other things  which can be 
turned to the profit of  the  business man by 
this combination.  In small towns, where the 
association takes in  all  kinds  of  business 
men,  it is  the  very  men  who  shape  the 
destiny of the town  and  they can do much 
more to make it what it  should  be  if  they 
are all combined  in  an  association,  which 
affects all interests alike.

J. R.  H a r r is o n ,  Pres.

Confectioners’ Butter in London.

Fom the Liverpool Courier.

•

I  happen  to  know a man who makes a 
living by  collecting  the  rancid  butter and 
dirty butter scrapings from the butter shops 
And then retailing them to  West  End  con­
fectioners.  The other day I met him wheel­
ing  a  truckload  of  the  loathsome-looking 
stiff! along the Baywater road.
“Hullo,” exclaimed I,  “what in the name 
of goodness have you got there?” for  really 
I could not  tell  from  the look of it, it was 
so dirty and discolored, wMle  the stench it 
gave,  when I  went up to it, was  something 
fearful. 
“Oh,” he  replied, with  quite a business 
air,  “it’s offal.”
“But  what  kind of offal?  It smells al­
most bad enough.to knock yon down!” 
“Why, butter offal.”
“Indeed!  Do  you  mind telling me what 
you’re going to do with it?”
“Make  it  into  lumps  and  then take it 
’round to the confectioners.”
‘T he confectioners!  What do they want 
it for? 
“Perhaps'so,” responded my friend, with 
something very like a grin;  “but, none the 
less, it don’t poison the aristocracy.”

It would poison a dog.” 

“What do you mean?”
“Why, that it’s used in the pastry fal-de- 
ials they’re so fond-of.”
“But not as it is, surely?”
“Oh, no; -they first purify it in some way.”

Aii Close (gym o( Westen M ien.

LUMBERMEN
The James Stewart Co., Med,
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Desires to  call  your  attention to  th e fact th a t they are th e 
best firm in th is S tate to  purchase  supplies from .  C arrying an 
im m ense stock of

And purchasing early for spot cash enables th is Co. to offer 
Bargains no  other  firm  in  M ichigan  dare offer.  W e  offer  all 
FIRST-CLASS  BRANDS  of PLUG  TOBACCO in

Yeas, G o ta , 8 p es, YobaGG08,EtG.,
10 Bin LOTS A! SG Cllffi.
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Ar>f! Many Otlier Brandis.

W e  also  offer  500  b u tts  of  the  following  brands  in  5  
BUTT  LOTS  AT  THE  VERY  REASONABLE  PRICE  O F 
26  CENTS.

Venable's Lark, Lorillard's Sweet Riissett, Me- 

Älpin’s Boom, Sorg's Quality It Quantity.

Merry  War, in  5  butt lots 
Big X Ping  in  5  butt  lots

30c.
24c.
PÄILS  OF  FIJffi  BUY  ÄY 
24  YO  30  BEflYS.

-WE  ALSO  OFFEK-

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AT.T. 

I=»T .THTVTT>TT>  V A L U 3E3S.

In  Teas  we  only  ask  a   trial  order.  Our present stock of 

1,400 packages includes Teas of every nature and description.

Dust 5 to 6c., Good Dust at 10 to I2g.

IN  JA PAN S,

Low  Grades,  fine  for  money, 
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Mediums. 
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Good  flew Jays 
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Elegant  New  Japs 
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Fancy Japs, Oilr Own Importation,

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12  to  Me. 
16  to  18b, 
20 to 24c. 
28 to 88c. 
3Ï to 46g.

Send  for  Sam ples and  Q uotations  on  everything  sold  by 
First-C lass Jobbers.  W e Stand next to  Phil. Arm our on every­
thing in the

PROVISION  LINE.

P arties  D esiring  Our  Circulars  P lease 

M ail  Address.

THE JAMES STEWART CO.

(Limited.) 

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BELLS.

BRACES.

 
BOLTS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.
augers and b it s.,
Ives’,  old style............................... 
dis
 
N.  H. C. Co.................................................dis
Douglass’................................................... dis
Pierces’  ....................................... 
dis
Snell’s .........................................................dis
Cook’s  ..........................................  
dis
Jennings’, genuine.................  
...dis
Jennings’, imitation.............................. dis50&10
BALANCES.
Spring....................................................... dis 
40
BARROWS.
Railroad............................................................ $  14 00
Garden............................................................net 33 00
Hand......................................... 
.dis  $ 60&10&I0
70
Cow.....................................................dis 
30&15
Call.....................................................dis 
25
Gong................. 
dis 
Door, Sargent.................................. dis 
60&10
60
Stove......................................................dis $ 
Carriage  new list...................................dis  7C&10
Plow  ..................................v ..i'L ....,d is 
50
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis
Wrought Barrel  Bolts.......1.................dis
Cast  Barrel Bolts................ ................dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.....................dis
Cast Square Spring...............j .............dis
dis
Cast  Chain............................... 
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
Wrought Square..................... 
dis
Wrought Sunk Flush........................... dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
60&10
Flush..................................................dis 
Ives’ Door................................. ............dis  60&10
B arber.................................................dis$ 
40
Backus...................................................dis  50&10
Spofford.................................... ............ dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................ dis 
net
Well, plain................................................... $  3 50
Well, swivel.................................................. 
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured......................dis 
70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  70&i0
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin............................dis  60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.............dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
dis  60& 5
Wrought Table............................. 
  dis  60&10
Wrought Inside Blind..........................dis  60&10
Wrought Brass....................................d is 
75
Blind, Clark’s .........................................dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s......................  ............dis  75&10
Blind,  Shepard’s......................  
70
Ely’s 1-10..................................................per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F ............................... 
60
G .D.............................................  
 
‘ 35
Musket.....................................:.:.........  
60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim  Fire,United  States......................... dis50&10
Central Fire...............................................dis30&10
Socket Firmer........................................ dis  70&10
Socket Framing...........................  
Socket Comer.................................  
Socket Slicks..........................................dis  70&10
Butchers’Tanged Firmer................... dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers.....................dis 
20
Cold..........................................................net
Curry, Lawrence’s............................. 
dis 40&10
25
Hotchkiss  ............................................. dis 
COCKS.
Brass, Backing’s................ 
60
 
60
Bibb’s  ................  
B eer..............................................................  40&10
Fenns’..........................................................  
60

tipped.....................................  

BUTTS. CAST.

BUCKETS.

CHISELS.

COMBS.

CAPS.

dis 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COPPER.

Planished, 14 oz cut to size......................«  fi>  28
14x52,14x56,14X60........ : ..............................   31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60...........................  23
Cold Rolled, 14x48.............................................  23
Bottoms.............................................................   23
Morse’s Bit  Stock.................................dis
Taper and Straight Shank................... dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank..... ..................... dis 

DRILLS

40

ELBOWS.

Com.4piece,6  in ........ .................doznet  $.75
 
Corrugated..................... 
dis20&101&0
Adjustable................................ 
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
Ives’, L $18 00; 2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis 
files—New List.
  dis  60&10
American File Association  List 
Disstbn’s ........................................I — dis  60&1O
New American......................... 
dis  60&I0
Nicholson’s ...........................................    dis  60&10
Heller’s ....................... 
dis  56&10
 
Heller’s Horse Rasps. 
50
28
Nos. 16t o 20, 
List 
18

.......................dis 
GALVANIZED IRON,
22and 24,  25and26,  27 
14 
15 

13 

12 

 

Discount,  60.

Stanley Rule and LevelGo.’b. ... .... .dis 

60

GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

Maydole & Co.’s .. .... . . . . . . . . . . . _____dis
Blip’s .......... ....................... i .; ............dis 
26
Yerkes  & Plumb’s . .. .. * ...................d is  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................... .30 o list 50
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10

HANGERS.

dis 70&10
dis 70&10

dis #&10

 

TACKS.

SQUARES.

SHEET IRON.

TIN PLATES.

Sisal, #  in. and  larger.....................................l i #
Manilla..............................................................  1254
70&10
Steel andiron........................................;dis
60
TryandBevels....................................... dis
Mitre  ............. .'......................................dis
20
Com. Smooth.
Com. 
$2 90
2 90
3 00 
3 05 
3 15 
3 25
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 2  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................$4 20
Nos. 15 to 17...................................  4 20
Nos. 18to 21..................................  4 20
Nos. 22 to 24...................................  4 20
Nos .25 to 26...................................  4 40
No. 27...............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 as, ^  a ............................ I 
6
6#
In smaller quansities, $   a ...................... 
American, all  kinds..............................dis 
60
Steel, all kinds........................................dis 
60
Swedes, all kinds...................................dis 
60
60
Gimp and Lace.......................................dis 
50
Cigar Box  Nails.....................................dis 
Finishing Nails...................................... dis 
50
50
Common and Patent Brads.................dis 
50
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks .dis 
Trunk and Clout Nails.......................... dis 
50
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails............dis 
45
Leathered Carpet  Tacks..................... dis 
35
TINNER’S SOLDER.
12 50 
N o.l,  Refined....................................
16 00 
Market  Half-and-half....................
17 50
Strictly  Half-and-half......................
10x14, Charcoal.........................5 40@5 60
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal.................................   7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal................................   6 25
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal..............................   7 75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  5  75
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal......................... 
7 25
IX, 
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal................................   8  75
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool................................  10  77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal........................... 12 55
20x28, Charcoal................................  15 50
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................   6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................   8  50
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal............................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to  6 75
Roofing, 14x20, IC..........................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ........................................  6 75
Roofing, 20x28, IC.........................................   11  00
Roofing, 20x28, IX ..............  
14  00
IC, 14x20,choice Charcoal Teme.......... .....  5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme....................  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal T em e.....................11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.............   14 00
TRAPS.
Steel, Game.......................... 
60&10
OneidajCommuntity,  Newhouse’s ............dis  38
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  ......................................................60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Oo.’s....................................60&10
Mouse,  choker.........................................18c ® doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 50 % doz
Bright Market........................................dis  67#
Annealed Market................................. dis  70&10
Coppered Market...............................................dis 62#
Extra Bailing........ ...................... 
dis  55
Tinned  Market.................................................. dis 62#
Tinned Broom..........  ...............................$3>  09
Tinned Mattress.........................................fi B> 8#
Coppered  Spring Steel..................................... dis 50
Tinned SpringSteel...........................................dis 40&10
Plain Fence................................................
Barbed Fence, galvanized..............................4 10
Copper.................... ........................... new  list net
Brass................................................... new list net
Bright................................................ dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes........................................dis  76&10&10
Hook’s ...............................................dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eves....................dis  70&1Q&1Q
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled........ .
Coe’s Genuine........................................ dis
Coe’s Ptent A gricultural, wrought, dis
Coe’s Ptent, malleable.....................dis  75&1C
BirdCages...................................................
Pumps,  Cistern.................................d is
Screws, new list.......... .....................   —  
7C&5
Casters, Bed and P late.................. dis50&10&10
Dampers, American........................  —  
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d  *  %
Copper B o tto m s...........  ...  ........ 
23c

painted........................................ 3 35

MISCELLANEOUS.

TIN—LEADED.

WIRE GOODS.

WRENCHES.

WIRE.

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HARDWOOD  LUMBER 

The furniture factories  here pay as follows 

for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.....................12 00@14 00
Birch, log-run.......... ...................¿4* .31 ■
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2 .............................
Black Ash, log^run............................. 13
Cherry,  log^run,.................................25
Cherry, Nos.!  and  2..........................................................45
Cherry,  c u ll....... 
...... ................... ;
Maple, log-run...................... ............12 00®14 00
Maple, sort,  log-run........................ .11 00®13 00
Maple, N o s.Ia n d 2 .....................«... 
Maple, clear, flooring......................... 
@25 Oo
Maple,white, selected.................  ...
Red Oak, log-run..............................
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2........................ 
@24 00
Red Oak, quarter  sawed............2 6  00@30 00
Red Oak,No. 1,step p la n k ..* ....
Walnut,log-run...................................
Walnut, Nos» lan d  2 ..... It *».. & • •. *
Walnuts,  culls............... u............ ..
Grey. Elm, log-run.............m m
White Ash, log-run.................. .. ~ . .12
Whitewood, Jog-run«..............201
White Oak*log-run........................ 11

@20 00

Smith, Hams &  Van Arman,  grocers,  Hast­
ings:  “Might as well go without salt as with­
out This Tradesman« for  we  know it is  sure
deaithto dead-heats

,

Barn Door Kid derMfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction.......................dis  60&10
Kidder,wood  trRQk.........................d is  
40
Gate; Clark’S ,!,2, 8. 
.... . . -dts

,  HINGES. 

I  * £ ¿ 3  

' ISeSa   -

, 

• 

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öeeonfidence  is 'placca ip  them bÿ thé in- 
Whgèfit dass  of a cpmmunity.  Why te it, 
me», that bo  many start in in d e  who bore 
had no education or experience in business?
Are they not mercantile “quacks?”
Let a man decide in his  youth what busi­
ness he will follow—then let  him  seek  the 
channels  o f  that  trade  or  profession  and 
enter the  employ of  some  successful  man 
Who has made  it  Ids' life  Work,  who  has 
weathered the storms that ere sure to come 
to every business  career, who  knows  how 
to reef ids sails  and  run under bare  poles 
during  financial  storms, as  well  as  how to 
spread  every  sail  to  catch  the  favoring

i  i < ;  ; | p
Blitter, Eggs,  Lemons, Oranges.

And Packer of

"** ■ s  ■  *; 
S O L I D A R I   OYSTERS:
Facilities for canning and jobbing oysters 
are unsurpassed.  Mail orders filled  promptly 
at lowest  market  price. I Correspondence  so­
licited.  A  liberal  discount  to  the  Jobbing 
trade. 
1  WJ
‘ G rand.  ZlapldLs.

* &  •  '< 
' 217, 210 Livingston St.,

, 1 • 

• 

“ CANDEE
Knbb c; 
n
BOOTS R f f l
OOUB&ICK  ■ H i i

Ordinary Bobber Boots 
always wear oat first on 
the ball.  The CANDEE 
Boots  are  double  thick 
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE  W EAK.
Most economical Rubber 
Boot  in  the  marfe-at, 
Lasts  longer  than  any 
other boot and the
PBICE NO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex- 
amine  toe
goods. 

Ak 
'  A H p

E. G. STUDLEY & CO., Grand Rapids. 

Jobbers of

Rubber  and  Oil  Clothing  of  all  kinds, 
Horse  and  Wagon  Covers, Leather  and 
Rubber Belting and Mill  and Fire Depart­
ment  Supplies.  Send for price list.

Manufacturers’ Agis, for

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all  kinds, 

of Wood-Working Machinery, Saws 

Belting  and. Oils.

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

WRITE  FOR PRICES.

44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.,

nished  by  parents  or  friends.  Let  him 
make his purchases right, keep bis expenses 
down,  meet all obligations,  carefully watch 
his accounts, never  misrepresent, treat  his 
customers courteously,  and  he  cannot  fail 
of succes.  He  may and  should  start  in a 
small  way, and his  business  will  increase 
as he comes to be  known as a  reliable  and 
honest dealer.  He will meet with reverses, 
undoubtedly,  but  will meet  them  squarely 
and overcome them.  Panics will come  and 
values will be  unsettled, but  he  will know 
how  to  meet  all  such  emergencies.  His 
business  will be on a sure  foundation  and 
will not be  shaken.  He will  go  down  to 
old age,  a man  who  can be leaned upon by 
others  who  are  learning  the  way  he  has

be remembered as one of  toe noblest works 
of God—an honest business man.

lege Journal.

PLACE to secure a thorough 
and useful education is at the 
f   Grand R a pid s (Mich.) Busi- 
/   n ess Co ll eg e,  write for Cdr 
Address, C. G. SWENSBERG.

LUCIUS C.  W EST, 

| 
[Attorney at Patent Law and Solicitor 
'of  American  and  Foreign  patents, 
alamazoo, Mich., U. S. A,  Branch  of- 
X-  Practice in U. S. Courts.  Circulars

The  most practical 
hand  Roaster  in the 
world.  Thousands in 
use—giving  satisfac­
tion. They are simple 
durable and econom­
ical. 
grocer 
should  be  without 
one.  Roasts  coffee 
and  pea-nuts to  per­
fection.
Send for  circulars.

No 

150 L o n g  S t., 
Cleveland, Ohio. We pay the highest price for it.  Address
PERKINS  &  HESS
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S IN

NOS.  122  a n d   124  LO U IS  S T R E E T , G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N  

WE CARRY A STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL  USE.

B a r l o w   B R O S

Each on the Other Depends.
Whatweresman without another?
Y  What would each do without the other? 
I^W liata-useless lot Were humanity 
4   Without a spirit akin to unanimity l 
■ I  With such a lot of wretches living.!

What a world of dire misgiving 

As well were the soul without a heaven ; 
As well were a single sense as seven;
As well a man without a woman, 
\
Or the heart and bram of a being human. 
Iffe r naught on another he had to depend.
Nothing to ask and nothing to lend.
As well were  the head without toe feet; 
How would It perambulate the street?
. What would a poor reporter do 
Without his heels to carry him through? 
As weU  might the feet without toe head 
Wages the battles of life, instead.
What were toe head but a helpless thing, 
Like a bird with neither a leg or wing, 
Were it not for a part to obey command. 
And execute when a thing was planned? 
Nothing alone—head, man o ra nation— 
Independent of all the rest of creation 
Can fiourish  or  exist, nor did God so de­
When  bis trowel rolled Adam out  of the 

mand.
sand,

M. J. Wrislev.

Mercantile Education.*

It is a_ well-known fact that failure in the 
mercantile world is a  very  common  occur­
I t has  been  estimated  that, of  all 
rence. 
those who  embark  in  trade, not more than 
tea per cent make  a  success  of  it. 
It  is 
very evident that there is something wrong, 
and thme mast be  a cause for  it; if there is 
any remedy it  should  be  applied,  if  possi­
ble.  To mie, thè cause  is very apparent—it 
is that so many endeavor to do a mercantile 
business who  have  had no  training or pro- 
paration for i t  
In order to do a successful 
business, a man should have a thorough ed­
ucation in  the particular branch of business 
which he proposes to adopt as his  life work, 
and that education must be largely by exper-
fence.  Whatever calling he may propose to 
enter, he should, first of  all, have  as  good 
an education in  toe  way of letters as is of­
fered by public schools.  This  is, now, for­
tunately,  within  the  reach  of  all.  This 
should  be  extended  as  far  as  the  time, 
means And circumstances of  the future bus­
iness man may seem to be  for  the  best  in 
Bis particular case.  It is generally conceded 
’ that if a young man is to  outer toe ministry, 
practice law or medicine  or  follow  any of 
toe scientific  pursuits, he must obtain such 
education by study and  experience  as  will 
be of use to him in the particular prof ession 
he chooses.  Does he choose to follow fa rm , 
log?  Let him learn by his experience from 
bbyhood  supplemented  by  proper  reading 
and study.  Does he choose any  of  the me- 
ohanical  arts?  He  must  become  appren­
ticed to some master in toe line  he  adopts. 
He must serve for years without pay or with 
veryfcmall wages  until  he has mastered his 
trade and  is able to go out for himself. 
In 
foreign countries, this is toe custom in mer­
cantile pursuits.  A young man  most serve 
Ms seven  years’ apprenticeship in  the busi­
ness,. and  then  he  is  supposed  to  have 
Jfearned it as a  mechanic  learns  his  trade, 
always allowing  that he is  adapted to  that 
line and  is  possessed  of  ordinary common 
sense.  But  in  this  country it  is  by many 
considered  not necessary to  waste (?)  time 
in that way.  Anybody can run a store!  A 
b6y enters a  store,  and-in  a  few  months’ 
time he knows  all  about  toe  business—or 
thinks he does.  His  father furnishes  him 
with capital,, and he starts  in  business  for 
himself with a grand  fiourish of  trumpets, 
only to meet with  disastrous  failure in  the 
course of a  few  months,  or  years,  at  toe 
most, the time depending on how  long  toe 
source of capital supply holds out 
Again many a man,  having tried farming 
or mechanical pursuits until  he approaches 
middle life, thinks that it would be a  much 
easier way of  making  a  living  to  keep  a 
store,  where  all  he  will  have  to  do  will 
be  to  pass  out toe  goods  to his  custom­
ers tend take  toe money for them.
Î  . % '  togly he disposes  of  his  farm  or  raises  a 
little capital  in  some  other  way and  buys 
out some established  mercantile  business, 
U  1  er starts in  some  new  place.  He  goes  to 
2., /i  market jbr the  enterprising  drummer comes 
to him; he  selects  his  stock  of  goods;  he 
É  1  j  opens them  up  and  advertises  himself  as 
heady for business, and business comes. 
It 
m  
fe hard for him  to refuse  to  trust  his  old 
friends  and  acquaintances,  and  he  does 
- - something of a credit business.  Time runs 
, en, and some fine day he is confronted with 
P gp; . toe fact that he has a payment due  and has 
fc ’K  no funds with which  to  meet it.  He looks 
èn his books  and finds, that he has as much 
H | |   »tending out as his original capital amount- 
i led, to.  Thismay largely be considered good, 
B f l   -But it is not Convenient J ot his customers to 
up at  just the  moment  he  'must  have 
money.  He  looks  through  bis  stock 
add finds a large amount of goods which are
not  selling.  He  now  sees  that,  he  has 
of »class of goods tor which 
'iyj^'hae no, demand, but which the wholesale 
i  
H  f  Abater  was  anxious  to  unload.  He  is be- 
to  learn a  little  abost  business— 
experience of this kind is a  dear  teach- 
¡§¡¡1  er.  ^He is unable to  meet  his  obligations, 
¡¡if I  and the nexftoing his store is in the  hands 
of toe  sheriff and  he  has gone the way of 
I  i ' 
-ninety per cent of all those who embark to j 
y  
H  . 
trade.  : His  little  capital,  secured  by  his 
.laifcejrljy  years  of  honest  toil  and  small 
¡¡Il 
gobb-to 4  few months, end he
left in middle age to commence the battle 
life anew with the spectre of his  failure
,  Wind: would  be  thought o t  a  m an  who 
pKofèfiito^toitea^mocbaidfi  and offered  his 
^.¿V-  serricesiothe public  without  first  haring 
0ÏÏ 0,4 teamed his trade; or of a lawyer who took a 
without a thorough knowledge; 
law,  acquired  by painstaking  study

ever before him. 

R*' 

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that  calling
Ä o n ,  «bp-

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

If so, send for Catalogue and Price-List to

BOSTON  RÜI
14 and 10 Pearl Street,

i  SHOE  GO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers 
American and Stark A Bags

C.  C.  BUNTING.

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,
Commission  Merchants

C. L. DAVIS.

JOBBER IN

Specialties;  Apples and Potatoes in Oar Lots.

20 and 22 OTTAW A  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Parties Wishing to  Buy or Sell above are Invited to Correspond.
-  Grand  Rapids

76 South Division St., 

- 

- 

- 

'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  accompanying  illustrations  represents» the

and fresh until entirely used.

Itr 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

W holesale Grocers,

SOI©  A g en ts,

77 to 83 SOUTH  DIVISION  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,

8 1
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Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc.
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1  “ And—-and—signs!”

p i :  J  Vv '

11- - ¿  ?!§|P^

!“And-~mid-^’' 
“ Well,  never  mind,  Mr.  Jones l  "Now 
supposing yon  should  have occasion to in­
fartó 
that  estimable  gentleman,  your 
father, that your are  an  egregious ass; that 
your mind is incapable of grasping anything 
higher than sport and  nonsense,  and  that 
you  are  no  more  adapted  for  absorbing 
knowledge than the yellowest kind of a yel­
low dog,  how would you apprize  him of the 
unfortunate facts?”

“Why, I’d—I’d—write him 1”
“ Correct!  Now, Mr. Jones, you have lib 
erfcyto retire for the purpose of composing i 
letter to that effect.”

If  Jones  had secured  a  thorough phren 
ological  examination  of  his  son  and  heir 
some  years  ago,  and  placed  any  reliance 
on the science, he would  have  saved a vast 
amount of trouble and anxiety and no incon 
siderable number of  dollars.  The  laws  of 
nature are unchangeable aud immutable,and 
when she  creates  a  hewer  of  wood  and 
drawer of water, with no  capacity or ambi­
tion for  science,  art  or  literature,  all the 
universities in America, and all the  forcing 
process that  can  be  devised  can  not alter 
her decrees.  To  be  sure, 
the  individual 
whom she constructed  for a hewer of wood 
and drawer of water may,  in  these modem 
days, develop into an  athlete of some noto­
riety, but the fact remains the same that  he 
is “of earth earthy, ”  and  that  to  his bone 
and mnscle alone will  be  due  all the brief 
and evanescent record that he will leave be­
hind him.

* 

An  now, 

* 
least 

I hope no casual reader  will  infer that  I 
am wanting in respect for  the toilers of the 
earth—should  he do so he  will totally mis­
judge  me—but I   like  to  see  labor  and 
amusement run in separate  chañéis,  and  I 
have all  the  more  admiration  for  muscle 
when it is accompanied  with  active brains. 

* 
the  editors  of  T he 
Tr adesm an should hastily  pronounce this 
paper a departure from mercantile subjects,
I desire  to  submit  that  we  are  all of us, 
more or  less,  financially and  otherwise, in­
terested in Young America, and that, more­
over, when Young  America  becomes a pro­
fessional athlete  he  is  almost  invariably a 
mercantile commodity, for  sale to the high­
est bidder.

*

Five energetic young men  can obtain sal­
aried positions with the  Metal Back Album 
Co., Battle Creek.

A Æ

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

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

The State  Assaÿer 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 ahd table 
use,  is  the  very best  offered  to  the  con­
sumer.  All  wholesale  and  retail  grocers 
sell it.

W , Herjfllslfiiir k Co,
DRY  GOODS

Importers and Jobbers of

Staple  and  Fancy.

O veralls, Pan ts, Etc-,

OUR OWN MAKE.

A  Com plete  Line  of

FaicyCrockei^FaicyWooilmre

OUR OWN  IMPORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and Detroit 

Prices Guaranteed.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

From 2 to ISO Horse-Power, Boilers. Saw Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft 
tag,  Pulleys  and Boxes.  Contracta made far
Complete

i  

b t o w é  f t   m u k ,  *M«ci*feMM.:

48 L jm  St„ 3d floor«

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WEDNESDAY.  SEPTEMBER  28,  1887.

LEISURE  HOUR JOTTINGS.

BY A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

W ritten Especially for Tax Tradesman.

The other evening a couple of youngsters 
were seated in front  of Jones’ store, vigor­
ously  puffing  cheap  cigars,  and  actively 
discussing the  relative  merits  of smoking 
and chewing.  Suddenly one of them seized 
himself  convulsively  around  the  stomach 
and groaned:

“Oh B ill!  There’s suthin’  in  that cigar 

th a t hashes me sick!”

“It’s tobacker, sonny!”  said  Jones,  who 
was  standing  in  the  door,  “er  speakin’ 
scientific-like, the yarb nickotum vomitum. 
There  has  been  instances  known  where 
hoys growed up to be men without usein’ it 
hut prob’ly  they  didn’t  ‘mount  to  much. 
Stick to It; sonny!  an’ wen  you  kiu smoke 
all day, an’ sleep with a  wad  of fine cut in 
your mouth, an’ call  your  pa  the ole man, 
jan’git off a few  cuss  words  graceful-like, 
you can call  fur  your  diplomy.  Now  run 
home an’ tell your ma that you  et too much 
Watermelon, er some sich lie, an’  she’ll  fix 
you up fur anuther rassle to-marrer.” 

“ When you an’ I,  ah’  the  rest of us old 
fogies have .got  our  head-stuns,”  said  the 
old  man, 
launching  out  in  his  favorite 
topic,  “i   s’pose  the  world  will  travel  on 
’’bout as usual, I swan, it bothers me to dis­
kiver how the risin’ generation are  goin’  to 
turn billiards, an’  base  ball,  an’ boat pad­
dlin’ an’ saloon loungin’ into clothes an’ per 
'visions.  Wot perportion  of  the young fel­
lers now ’days are  fit  to  be  shoved  out to 
¡shirk fur  themselves,  an’  how many busi­
ness mem  do  you  know  has  got boys that 
«am  ten per cent, of their livin’?  All  most 
« f'’em appear to  care  fur  the  old folks is 
what, they can squeeze  out  of ’em fur style 
¡an’ amusement.  You remember w’en Boll­
inger was run over by  the  cars,  las’ year? 
Yes!  Well, a lot of  us  was  down  on the 
track tryin’  to  put  Bollinger  together  in 
‘Suthin’ like a nat’ral  shape,  an’ bis son sat 
If I 
on the bank  cryin’  as  if  he’d  bust. 
,  over felt sorry fur a  human  bein’ ‘twas fur 
th a t boy, an’ finally 1 went  to ’im and tried 
to  console ’im, an’ he says:

‘Oh!  I wouldn’t min’ it,  Mr. Jones, but  I 
-come down to get dad’s  watch  fur  myself, 
¡an’ it’s all knocked into a cocked hat.’
*'  “ This,” said the old man  gloomily, as he 
went in to wait on a customer,  “is the style 
-of youngsters we are rasin’ to bless us.”
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I have very little doubt that the propensi­
t y  for decrying  the  preversity  and useless­
ness of the rising  generation,  and  predict­
ing a near future when  thrift and industry 
¡aud  ambition  would  disappear  forever, 
«merged  from  mythology,  and  has  come 
-down through the ages  unimpaired and un­
altered, and as  long  as  civilization  exists 
su c ceed in g  ages will listen to the same wail. 
When  Washington  pere  observed  the  de­
struction  of  the  historical cherry  tree,  his 
mind was undoubtedly  filled  with  gloomy 
^misgivings  for  the  failure  of  the  race. 
When Lord  Wellington’s ancestor detected 
this son in aiding  aud abetting  the heinous 
-crime of poaching,  I  presume  that  he had 
faint hopes for the integrity  of the  coming 
Englishman, and when Thiers’ guardian be­
held his change in custody for a  raid  on  a 
neighbor’s  orchard,  he probably  solemnly 
prophesied that the acme of moral depravity 
would speadily be reached  by the  succeed­
ing  generation.  Yet  the  youthful  follies 
-and escapades of these,  and  thousands  of 
-other distinguished  and  honored  men,  are 
viewed  by their  biographers  and  admirers 
with  leniency,  and  almost  approval,  mid 
thousands of the youngsters  of the present 
tim e, who have  been  tried  before  juries of 
th e sedate and silver  grey  order,  and  pro­
nounced  profligate and  useless,  and  irre­
claimable,  will,  in  after  years,  become in­
fluential  and  substantial  citizens,  and  in 
-due time  will  turn  in  mourning  over the 
-degeneracy of their age.
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, 
But I am not surprised  that  Jones  feels 
.like viewing the future of the rising genera­
tion from a pessimistic standpoint. 
I have 
.always  noticed  that  individuals  of  good 
natural intelligence, bat who were debarred 
by the force of circumstances froig securing 
Anything like an education,  are  always ex­
ceptionally  liberal 
in  providing  for  the 
-schooling of their own  offspring, and Jones 
is no exception to the rule.  He has  a  boy 
-closely approaching his majority, and it has 
been his pet scheme,  for  years,  to see the 
Youth an M.  D., or L. L. D.,  or  an  M.  A. 
At least.  The young man has just returned 
from his graduating exercises,  and  from  a 
fellow  student  I   gather  that  they  were 

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I t seems that the  faculty  of  the  institu- 
tion patronized by young  Jones, were some­
what antiquated in their  ideas, and refused 
to  subscribe  to  the  modern  idea  that  a 
knock of curving  a  ball  excused a 
Cicero, or a graceful

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«paisà  á
•any  circumstanees,” writes 
of the Pnnkfhrt B. 1L A, 

itoemheans iof  the local  associations df 
could  aüÿ  the  sapoe, the day of 
emancipation  wmild  he  near  m

»t, m -  CfiiiadV lileChirty, & e  Lowell  merchant,
9H& t ' d l e   notiee;that  he  is  going to the 
•‘j V llS   State  convention,  at  Cheboygan, 
^rxMhsSher  he  «Is  elected  a  delegate or n o t 
' yiw  people tit Cheboygan will govern them- 
iBaidbres accordingly and thank T h e T r a d es­
m a n  for  acting  a s  advance  agent of their

Petoskey Independent:  Tire  Charlevoix 
Buduess Men’s Association  sent a delegate 
. to Interview various manufacturers through­
out the State, and he has  returned with the 
most  encouraging  prospects.  We  eon- 
gratulate our neighbors  on  then: prospects; 
and would like  to  see  all  other  northern 
IBebigan towns follow the  example  Char­
levoix has se t

Now that the warm  weather is over, it is 
fa order for  those Associations which have 
Jbeen lad in g  during the summer months to 
* revive interest In the work.  T h e T r a d e s­
m a n  does not know of  but two or three as­
sociations which need punching  up on this 
point as the majority of the local organiza­
tions of the State have kept  up  interest in 
the work, in spite of the discouragingly hot 
weather of the  summer  season.  The com­
ing winter ought to be  rendered memorable 
in  point  of  results  secured  by  the  local 
bodies.

In sending his  regrets at being unable to 
' attend a recent meeting of the  Grand  Rap­
ids Retail Grocers’ Association, Park Math- 
ewson, of  Detroit, adds:  I   will  send  you 
one  thought for  which  your  attention  is 
claimed.  Let  it  become  more and  more 
known  of  all  men  that  your  Association 
recognizes as  its  first  duty “Good will and 
brotherhood,” and that these  virtues  are to 
be made  practical in many ways.  There is 
one  way  that  consideration will  show  to 
you to i. very practical and effective—adopt 
as a  pait- of  your  creed  that  any  member 
who wishes to retire from business  will  be 
helped to do So by the members of your As- 
s o c t a t i/^

Cha. 

-  i  Journal:  A t  the  meeting of 
the Business Hen’s  Association last Friday 
evening, R. W. Kane  reported the work of 
the State meeting at Flint, and gave the prin­
cipal points of the papers read.  He also out­
lined a plan for advertising this region, which 
had been  discussed  by the  delegates  from 
Northern Michigan, and which it was hoped 
to  put jnto successful operation this winter. 
I t  is proposed to call a meeting of represen- 
tives of associations to  be held in Petoskey 
about the  first  of  November,  to  complete 
the plans.  All the papers ijead at the Asso­
ciation are to be printed in -Th e Mich ig an 
T radesm an,  which  our  business men will 
find instructive  reading.

Howard  City  R ecord:  The  Business 
Men’s  Association  has  secured  the  co-op­
eration  of  the  highway commissioner  and 
Is taking active steps toward  straightening, 
grading and catting down  the hills on  the 
toad running west on the line between  this 
township and Pierson, as  far  as  the  State 
read on the  county line.  Between two and 
three hundred dollars  is  now  available for 
this purpose,  and a  great  deal of  work  on 
the road has already been offered.  The As­
sociation is determined to  see  the work be­
gun at mice and pushed  vigorously to  com­
pletion.  Citizens of  Ensley township  will 
subserve  their best  interests  by aiding o\ir 
men as much as possible in their undertak­
ing.

Cheboygan  Tribune:  Messrs. J. F. Mol­
oney and Dr. A. M. Gerowof the committee 
appointed by the Cheboygan Business Men’s 
Association  to  solicit  subscriptions  to  the 
stock for the dry dock,  have  spent a couple 
o f days  on  the  warpath  and  are  meeting 
w ith . moderate  success, but  few they have 
«ailed on refusing to take stock in the enter­
prise, though they were disappointed in the 
: snmaber of shares taken  by some  of  whom 
better  things  were  expected.  This  is  a 
mre  opportunity for  Cheboygan  to  secure 
an  important  industry.  Every  citizen  in­
terested in the prosperity and growth of our 
village should be  interested in the dry dock 
project  We believe that it would not only 
be a great step in promoting  the  growth of 
«wr town, but  that  it  would  also  prove a 
paying investment  from  the start.  Let all 
■bake bold with a will and make it a success. 
>  Evart Review:  An  interesting  meeting 
p f  the  Evart  Business  Men’s  Association 
w as held Tuesday night  Several  commit- 
toes reported and matters of general interest 
.'‘pllSvart and surrounding country were dis­
tressed, toe principal matter under consider­
ation being toe road south in Evart  Town- 
strip.  The  committee  appointed  for  the 
parpoeenf  looking  up  the  most  feasible 
rente, reported in favor of  toe  road on the 
qresrtor-line running by Jas.  Turner’s farm, 
reaming straight south to section 10,  thence 
re s t and west  on  toe  center  line  of that 
section, which road is already  laid out, and 
wdS make desirable connections  with roads 
built  leading  to  all  parts  o f toe 
^   " 
A  building  committee  consist- 
H M  Dr. Dumon,  W. J.  Mcliwain, Elmer 
Bbdsall, E. P.  Wightman  and David Red- 
Iremd, were appointed to  push  the  matter 
immediately, and  they  have  already  com 
soliciting  ;p(>fiey  from  citizens in 
Triage, i ^  labor frmn termers,  and  it
strnnp-
d claying the road  mentioned will  be 
'  Mwday n»m tegncx|||D iim er 
tojOTSir person  w ho  w ill

p i f e s

^ ^  tol^wing rot^ ptilreB 
the market during the past week and placed

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Cook, Bauer

.  G. T. Clapp, Glenn

Mrs. A. Z. Moore, Shelby 
Mrs. Harry Andrus, Shelby 
John  M.  McGill,  Ritohie  &  ICoGfU.  Imlay 
caty 
G. A. Estes. Tustin
L. 
John C. Yeakey,  Teakey  ft  Wharton,  Way-
land 
*  Brett Bros., Ashton
G.  P.  Young,  Young  ft  Watson,  Brecken- 
ridge
P  R. B. Gooding, Lisbon  ^
Jas. Totten, Totten
H. P. Peckham, Freeport
J. H. Darling, Darling & Smith, Fremont 
A. Wierengo, -Muskegon
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake
J. J. Gee, Whitehall 
A. R. McKinnon, Shelby
D. H. Rankin, Shelby
Aaron Rogers. Ravenna
Will Hessler, Rockford
J. C. Walsh, Walsh & Brown, Vermontville
W. B. Falk,  Hobart
Wm. English, Plain well
R. Osterhof, Perrysburg
James Colby, Rockford
V. C. & A. C. 8tone, Cedar Springs
R. T, Parrish, Grandvllle
G. W. Reynolds, Belmont
J. G. Townsend, WMte Cloud 
C. P.  Sowers, Pcwbgio
Alex.  Denton,  Denton  &  Loveley,  Howard 
H . D. Mills, Otsego 
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford 
A. Curtiss. Maaton
J ob. Gerber, D. Gerber & Sons, Fremont 
Dr. W. Ryno, Coloma
M. Winnie, Traverse City 
John M. Cloud, Cadillac 
A. A. Weeks, Grattan 
J. M. Reid, Grattan
C. C. Eddy, Grattan
D. B. Galentine, Bailey
A. G. Clark, White Cloud
D. R. Stocum, Rockford
B. A. Jones, Leetsville
S. V. Albertson, Cadillac
C. B. Moon, Cedar Springs 
Byron McNeal, Byron Center
W. H. Thompson, Manoelona
T. W. Preston, Mlllbrook
W. H. Bartholomew, Wayland 
C. P. Dockeray, Rockford 
H. M. Harroun, Rogue Chitto, Miss 
W. J. Clark, Harbor Springs 
Taylor & English, Lupaa 
W. W. Peirce, Moline 
J. J. Nichols, Petoskey 
Geb. W. Bevins, Tustin 
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake 
Geo. W. Bump, Petoskey 
, C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville
F. J. Kobe, Freesoil
John Smith, Smith & Bristol, Ada 
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade
W. H. Haney, Haney & Darling.  Big  Rapids
L. D. Chappie, Wayland 
Levitt & Danns, Dorr 
C. H. Doming, Dutton 
C. E. Coburn, Pierson 
Wm. Black. Cedar Springs
G. C. Baker, LaBarge
Wm.  Hewitt, West Campbell 
Wm. English, Piainwell 
Nichols Bros., Borland 
Hoag & Judson,  Cannonsburg
F. E. Campau, Alaska 
Jno. Giles & Co., Lowell
Mr. Sheppard, A. Patterson & Co., Martin 
' M. P. Shields. Hilliards 
Henry Strope. Morley 
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica 
Jno. Damstra, Gitchell
P, Kinney, Altona
C. DeYoung, Fishville
S. A. Bush, Lowell
M. J. Howard, Englishyille 
A. M. Church, Alpine
J. Barnes, Austerlitz 
G;TenHoor,  Forest Grove 
Boomgard & Son, Grand Haven 
A. C. Hibbs, Three Rivers 
Pursel Bros., Schoolcraft 
C. H. Moulton, St. Joseph
A. L . Power, Kent City
Wm. Depree, Wm. Depree & Zeeland
B. Conklin, Ravenna
J, P. Huling, Big Rapids
G. D. Willey, Summit City
A. & E. Bergy, Caledonia
N. O. Ward, Stanwood
W .N.Pipp,  Pipp  Bros.  &  Martindale,  Kal­
G. R. Bates, Hart
L. A. Scoville, Clarksville 
W. N. Hutchinson, Grant
B. 
M. M. Robson, Berlin 
Walling Bros., Lamont 
Smith & Deltz, Cadillac 
R.  B. McCullock, Berlin  »
C. B. Field, Yermontullle 
J. Q. Look, Lowell
Geo. E. Harris, Ashland
H. E. Hawkins* Wavland 
C. C. Tuxbury, Sullivan 
J. Van Enenaam. Zeeland 
Farnworth & Williams, ManceloUa
O. F. & W. P. ConklinJRavenna
L, K. Ware, Sand Lake 
R. E. Werkman,  Holland
M. V. Gundrum, LeRoy 
C. Moesker,  Muskegon  »
Philabaum & Howell, Muskegon
P. Jeannot & Co., Diamond Lake 
Nagler & Beeler. Caledonia
L. A, Barbor & Son, Petoskey 
A. S. Chubb, Pewamo 
Tew, Kilmartin & Tew, Orange 
A. W. Fenton & Co., Bailey
G. H. Remingion, Bangor 
C. E. Coburn, Pierson
O. L.  Evans, Shelbyville 
Robt. Johnson, Cadillac 
L. DeChamplain, Cadillac 
J. E. Balkema, No. Muskegon 
Jacob Sissing, Muskegon 
L. Kolkema,  Holland 
J. Neyering, Noordeloos 
F. C. Willey, Summit City 
F. Voorhorst, Overisel 
Peter Dundee, Hopkins Station 
A. S. Frey, Lake
T. Foreman & Son, Grand^Ledge 
L J* Quick, Allendale 
Lindstrom & Lovbne, Tustin
E. L. Carbine, Scotts
F. Catlin, Catlin & Munger, Sullivan 
Benson & Co., Woodland
Peck & Co., Walton
H. E. Hogan, So. Boardman
A. W. Blain, Dutton
G. M  Huntley, Reno
Geo. W. Turner, Greenville 
Mr. Stitt, Stitt ft Knox, Hart
H. B. Hawley, Westwood 
W. G. Tefft, Rockford.
Mr. Heyboer, Heyboer Bros.,Drenthe.
Mrs. Q. Huyser, Holland.
B. A. Jones. Leetsville. 
Mr.Dalmon,FaroweftDalmon, Allendale. 
A. Purchase, So. Blendon.
L. Kolkema, Holland.
. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
G.S. Putnam, Fruitport. 
Manistee Lumber Co., Manistee. 
Nelson F: Miller.Lisbon. 
Crandall ft Son. Sand Lake.
P. Mulder ft Co., Graaf schaap. 
Jno. Bishop, Montague.
, J. A. Shattuck, Sana Lake. 
Schrock & Long, Clarksville.
J. E. Bennett, Ferris. 
DenHerder ft Tanis, Vriesland.

fno. Meyering, Noordeloos.

'  J. Tutkill, buyer for S. Bitely,  Sparta 

N. Parker, Coopersville

kaska

White Cfioud 

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x^MliOoek, Ashland 
Adam ft Röbbins, Hart 

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'  John DeJongh Grand Haven 

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Mr. Gustafson, Swanson ft Gustafson, Leroy
D. W. Sbattuck, Wayland 
H, Van Noord, Jamestown
.Tobn Kamps, Zuptben 
M. P. Pincomb;Btg Rapids 
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John Wilcox, Wilson Bros., Cadlllac 
Jas. Rodgers, Hastings 
C. B. Lovejoy, Big Rapids
F. P. Hopper, Middleville
G. F. Gretzenger, East Saugatnek
R. Ostenhof, Ferrysburg
John Mulder, Spring Lake 
T. W. Preston, Mlllbrook 
Mr. Jernstadt,  Jernstadt &  Dalbeck,  Wood-
J. G. Runyun ft Son, Hastings 
Gre. Pickhaver, Ionia 
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove
E. Hagadojrn, Fife Lake 
Bliss ft Owen, Piainwell 
W. Barker, Sand Lake
F. J. Kobe, Freesoil
G. Qegman, Bauer
S. J. Martin, Sullivan
H. Thompson, Canada Corners 
F. Broonstra, Drenthe 
P. Vandon Bosch, Zeeland 
Wm, Black, Cedar Springs 
Bristol ft Nickerson, Lacey
S. Sheldon, Pierson
M. F. Washburn, St. Johns
S. H. Ballard, Sparta
Palmer, Gray ft Gibson, Kalkaska
L. T. Knowlton, Volney
Hugh Johnston, Shelby
John Dursema, Freemont

The  State  Association.*

It is hardly necessary for me  to  go  teto 
the details of  the organization of  this Asso­
ciation.  Many  who  are  before  me  were 
present  in  Grand  Bapids  one  year  ago, 
when, in a small room, we met  at  the  call 
of |h e  Bétail  Grocers’  Association to  dis­
cuss  the  advisability of  a  State  organiza­
tion  and  to  put  in  shape  thoughts  and 
methods  which  to  many  had  for  months 
seemed  most  imperative.  They  were  not 
dream thoughts,  which,  like  the early dew, 
disappear with  the  morning  sun,  but they, 
were  vital,  living  principles,  withheld for 
thé  hour  and  hand to  give  them  promi­
nence.  To-day  our  Association  ranks  in 
numbers  and  effectiveness  second to none 
among the States.
We call this  an  age of  associated effort; 
it is also  an  age of  disintegration ;  it is an 
age of theory;  it is, too, an age of  practice; 
it is an age of reason;  it is an age of  faith , 
it is an age of  trade and social abuses ;  it is 
an age of  high trade morality;  it is,  too, án 
age of prompt  pay;  it  is  an  age  of  food, 
drink  and  wear  adulteration;  i£isan  age 
when  the  best  and purest  can  ^candare 
obtained.  We might say that these are only 
the  extremes of  our  age.  True,  they are, 
andthey appear to us as our  conditions and 
surroundings  suggest,  according to our de­
gree of  hopefulness in and  for  the  future. 
But when we stand  between  these two ex­
tremes,  and  with  broad,  clear  vision and 
with a firm hand push the evil  behind with 
the same  determined  effort with which we 
grasp  the  good  that  awaits  ns,  then it is 
that we aré led  to  co-operation  and  union 
for the fulfillment of  our high ideals.
I look upon the State  Association of bus­
iness men as a manifesto of  that  high  and 
dignified  solution of  the  many  perplexing 
questions that enter the business man’s life, 
questions  that  sometimes  call  for public 
condemnation, but more often for approval- 
condemnation of  the loose  forms  and  dis­
honest  tendencies  that  threaten to destroy 
the  honor, the confidence, the  profit  even, 
which the  honest  business  man is seeking 
to  enjoy,  who,  notwithstanding  his  noble 
efforts,  his zeal and business  qualifications, 
too  often  shares in  the  results  of  depres­
sion caused by the ignorant and false meth­
ods  indulged  in  by not a few  competitive 
and malicious delinquents ;  approval, when 
against  the  tide  many  are  pushing  on, 
moved by a principle  that  is  unisháken  to 
reform abuses, both social  and  mercantile.
Let it be a body  to which the local bodies 
(which,  in their own unaided  strength, fail 
to reach their highest  conceptions  of  what 
the business man may do for his and others’ 
good) can look  for  the  fulfillment of  their 
hopes, for energy and strength.  Let  it, by 
conservative methods, wise discussions,  dis­
semination  of  trade  and  business  intelli­
gence,  stand,  like  the  great statue of  lib­
erty, a light to those who are in darkness.
It should  manifest a paternal  interest  in 
and watchfulness over  the  delinquent, and 
extend'to him the good old message,
“While the lamp holds out to burn.
The vilest sinner may return.”

It will continue'to do its part in keeping up 
correspondence,  that  pleasant  ties  may re­
main  unbroken.  W hat. we  have  done  in 
toe past is only indicative of  what we may, 
through the co-operation of  local  bodies, do 
in toe future.
The  prize  system  must  go.  Better law 
for  fee  collection  of  debts  must  come. 
Merchandise of all kinds must stand out for 
what it is, and not for what it is not.  Bus­
iness  integrity and  square financial dealing 
are principles that have  come to stay.  Our. 
hope  is  feat  we  may secure a harmonious 
development of  a broad, intelligent  adjust­
ment i>f  toe  highest  relations between bus«- 
iness men.  Let  us  seek  always  for unity 
and strength.
^Response  by-Frank  Hamilton  at  recent 

banquet of M. B. M. A.

A contemporary asks: “Did it  ever occur 
to  anybody that if toe women of  this coun­
try should march en masse to  toe  .polls to 
vote, no power on earth could  stop  them?” 
Turn a.cow loose hear  those  polls  atad the 
enfranchised  women  would  scatter  “en 
masse.”  No power on earth could stop fee 
panic.

The New Hampshire lawmakers,like those 
in Massachusetts, refused to give municipal 
suffrage to women,  but they  also  have just 
takeh good care to protect milk cans.  Brec­
on why:  The,  owners  of, milk  cans have 
votes;  women have none.

I

Having contracted with Steele & Gardiner to handle 
the  entire  output  of their broom factory, all  or­
ders should be sent to us direct.

Wishing tò  profiurè  outfits fbr 

lection Departments, tax  invited' fo  exam­
ine thè following  quotations,  which aré for 
fine work on good quality o f  paper:

00fo o t J u t e .....!  to  150 foot C 
I re fcK5t ju te  . ... ,1 3 6  ; } «  C5dt c 
4o Foot Cotton.... 1 00l72fPotC 
| P f |   0B4OKXBS AKD SWmbk
Kenosha Butter.
... §&i •1 
Seymour 
g
B u t t e r . . - i : , „ , V .   .
; Fahey
8. 
J
Pienio...."..... .v ...........
Fancy Oyster:..'.............-..«.u»

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50o  Record Blanks.
500  Notification Sheets. 
250  Last Calls.
500  Enveloped.

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500  Blue Letters, old style.
250  Record Blanks.
250  Notification  Sheets.
125  Last Calls. 
, - 
500  Envelopes. :  .  »  jtk-H-*- 
:  • 
In place of - old  style ^ m e  Letter  In  above 
$10  Outfit  we  can  substitute  10  books  Blue 
Letter in latest fonh; as recommended by the 
recent State convention, for $12.60 
Prices In  other quantities  furnished  on ap­
plication.

J’ V i;

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49 Lyon St,
W I N “

s u m m e r :

Until Further Notice.

Egg and Grate 
Stove  No.  4  and Nut

1.75  per ton. 
LOO per ton.

For September Delivery.

Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co.,

OFFICE  52  PEARL  ST.,

Yard, Corner Wealthy Avenue and M. C. R. R. 

Telephone No. 159.

In can offer a few cars of

No. 1 W hite  O ats  a t  -  31 £ c. 
No. 1 Tim othy Hay, per ton, $13. 

In car lore here on track.

W. T.  iipREAUX,
GRIND  RBP1DS. 
-  HIGH.
Leading  Cigar MLers of  Michigan.

71 Ga^al Street,

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Wholesale Cigars,

Grand  Rapids,

Mich.

WHIPS

ADDRESS

GRAHAM ROYS,  *  Grand Rapids, Mich.

WHOLESALE pRIOB  CURRENT.

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AXLE GREASE.

These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

Arctic, H ft cans, 6 doz. case.......................  

Paragon................2 10
Paragon 25 ft palls.  90 
Fraziers, 25 ft pails.1 25

promptly and buy in full packages.
Crown................ 
to
Frazer’s .................  90
Diamond  X ............  60
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50
BAKING  POWDER.
Acme, M ft cans, 3 doz. case.......
.......
2ft  “ 
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B u lk .......;........................
Princess,  J4s................................
Hs............. ...................
Is....................... ...........
bulk__ . .. . .................

85 
1 60 
3 00 
75
1 25
2 00 
3 75
28
45
 
75
....................... 140
.......................2 40
......................  12 00
Victorian, 1 ft .cans, (tall,) 2 doz.......  ......  2 00
Diamond,  “bulk.’’..L * ,... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  
15
fijbUING
Dry, No. 2.. t...  __ r.L ........ ;............doz. 
25
Dry, No. 3...............................  
doz. 45
doz. 35
Liquid, 4 oz,........ 
 
Liquid, 8 o z ........................... 
doz. 65
.Aretio 4 oz.................1......................$  gross 3 50
Arctic8  oz...............[....*....................................  7 20
Arcticl6oz...............J . ....................................12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.......................................2 00
Arctic No. 2 
3 00
Arctic No. 3 
.  4 00

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No. 2 Hurl...............175
No. 1 H url....2 00@2 25
No. 2Carpet...........2 25
No. 1 Carpet............ 2 50
Parlor Gem............ 3 00

Common Whisk__   90
Fancy Whisk...........1 00
Mill.................  
3  75
Warehouse ........2  75

German Sweet.......... 23
Vienna Sweet  .......2 2
Baker’s  .................... .37
Runkles’ . .. .. .. .. .  ...35

> CHOCOLATE.

Wilbur’s  Premium. .35 
“ 
Sweet......25
“ 
B’kf’tCoeoa45
“  Cocoa-theta 42
“  Vanilla Bar 28

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COCOANUT,
lsand  K s....,........
X b..............................
1b in tin p a lls......
XB 
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Maltby’s,  Is— ..................
ls  and  Hs...............
XB.............................
Manhattan,  pails..............
.
PeerlesB  ............: ......... . 
Bulk..T......... ..............
COFFEES.

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@25
@26
@27
@27K
@38H@234
@24
@244
@ 20
@18
@lfi

.25@30

60 lbs 100 lbs 
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264
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B io .......... ...22@24 BlO..........
Santos,........ . ,.23@25 Santos__
Maricabo.... ...24@26 Maricabo
Java ........ ...23@25
J a v a ......
O. G.Java... . ..24@32 O. G. Java
Mocha  ...... ...25@26 IMoeha...
COFFEES—PACKAGE,

Lion............ . . ................... J
Lton, in cabinata.........
X X X X ................................
Arbuckle’s !    .......... 
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Dilworth’s ........................
Standard  . . . . . . . .  
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German.......... ...................
German, In . bins... ..¿av.
M agnolia...,.......... ..........
B agle...........................¡§1
Mexican  ............................
Honey Bee, 1 lb packages.
r„ . .  .  COFFEES—8PECEAL BRANDS.
Bell, C o n ^ ¿ .(^ .’sPÍantat}ó^aTaÁ
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.6@6M 
10@11 
,10@11 
13@15

Soda  . ,'7'Jzjr.,
Boston..............................>,.7.:.“*
Graham.............—
,
Oat Meal...................
Pretzels, hand-made............
Pretzels...:,.*;.......,1............ 
Cracknels.......................V,...v
Lemon Cream .................  .
1
Sugar Cream. .
frosted Cream ......^..
Ginger Snaps..
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.V...
Lemon Snaps..........
Coffee Cakes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,
Lemon Wafers.______. . . . . . '
Jumbles.. . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Extra Honey Jumbles........
Frosted Honey  C a k es.........
Cream Gems.......... ................ 
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Bagleys  Gems.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
Seed Cakes...............................' -
S,& M. Cakes.  .........................
CANNED FISH.
Clams, 1 ft, Little Neck............,
Clam Chowder,  31b...................
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards.. : 
Cove Oysters, 2 ft standards... 
Lobsters, 1 1bpicnic.  . .. .. .. .. ..
Lobsters, 2 ft. picnic__ .........
Lobsters, 1 1b star.;....................
Lobsters. 2 ft star......................
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh standards. 
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards. 
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3ft.
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard...........
Mackerel, 3 ft  soused.............. ..
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river......
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river...,
Sardines, domestic Ms...............
Sardines,  domestic  Mt...........
Sardines,  MuBtard Ms...........
Sardines;  imported M s.............
Trout. 3 1b  brook.......................
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, gallons, standards....
Blackberries, standards...........
Cherries, red standard____ ...
Damsons.......... .  ....................
Egg Plums,standard*  ___ .........
Gooseberries.......................  . . . ........ ..
Grapes..........................................
1 45
Green Gages,. . . . .......  
.....2  65
Peaches, standards....................  
Peaches,  seconds................................  
2 25
Peaches,pie............................. 
1 50
 
Pears................................................... 
l  40
Pineapples...............................................1 40@2 50
Quinces 
................................................... 115
Raspberries,  extra............................................1 60
red...............................1 5 0
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Strawberries  ................................................1  60
Whortleberries..........................................1  00
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................................2 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................    75
Beans,  String..................... 
75
Beans, Stringiess, Erie........................  
90
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........................... 1 50
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy.....................................1 20
Peas, French.............................  
.1 60
Peas, extra marrofat............................1 20@1 40
Peas,  soaked......................................................75
“  Eariy June, stand.....................1 50@1 75
“ 
sifted................................2 00
“  French, extra fine...................... 
20 00
Mushrooms, extra fine..................................22 00
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..................................
Succotash, standard................................. 8Q@1  30
Squash................................................................. 1 40
Tomatoes, standard brands.............................1 10
Michigan full  cream ...;..................... 12  @13
Citron...................................... ............... 19  @  22
Currants, old........................................... 64
Currants, new..........................................74
Lemon Peel.............................................  @  14
Orange Peel.............................................  @  14
Prunes, French, 60s...............................   @104
French, 80s................................  @ 8
French,  90s.............................   @ 7
Turkey......................................  4  @ 5
Raisins, D ehesia.......................... ,....3  50@5 00
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @1 85
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................   @180
Raisins, Loose Muscatels......................  @1  65
Raisins, Ondaras,  28s.'..........................  @ 9
Raisins. Sultanas...................................  @  84
Raisins,  Valencias,  new.......................   @ 94
Raisins, Valencias, layer.....................   @104
Raisins,  Imperials.................................  @3 00
Cod, whole......................................................44@5
Cod, boneless....... ......................................  6@74
H alibut.......... ...............................................  10
Herring, round,  4   bbl........................   @3 00
Herring .round,  4   bbl..............................   1  60
Herring, Holland,  bbls..............................
Herring, Holland,  kegs.................  
  @85
Herring, Scaled.............................................  @22
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, 4  bbls.................  20 00
.......9  CO
............;.2 50
6 50
Sardines, spiced, 4 s ..................................  .10@12
Trout, 4   bbls...............................................5 75
85
White, No. 1 ,4  bb ls..........................6 75@7 00
White, No. 1,12 lb k its................ . 
.110
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................. .......... .  90
White, Family, 4  bbls.................................4 00
kits.....................................  65

“  10ft k its..................................... 

No. 3, 4  bbls.......... .............. 

DRIED  FRUITS—FOREIGN.

“  12ftkits 
“  10  “ 

CANNED VEGETABLES.

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CHEESE.

FISH.

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Lemon.  .Vanilla.
Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...............$  doz.  1 00 
1 6C
“  4 oz..........................1  60 
2 65
“  6oz...................... .....2  50 
4 25
*f  8oz.............................3  50 
5 00
“  No. 2 Taper...  .» ...1 25 
1 75
“  No.4 
...............1  75 
3 00
“  4  pint, round...........4  50 
9 00
18 00
“  1 
9  08 
“  No.3 panel....... .....1 1 0  
185
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“  No. 8 
............... 2 75 
5 00
“  No. 10  “ 
..........4 2 5   TOO
Grand Haven, No. 8, square........................  95
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro.................1  15
Grand Haven,  No. 200,  p a rlo r..................1 75
Grand Haven,  No. 300, parlor.. .J..............2 25
Grand Haven, No.  7,  round__ i ............. ...1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2......................... 
.1 00
Oshkosh, No. 8...............................: ..........1  50
Swedish.........................................? .v........  75
Richardson’s No. 8  square.......... ...»............1 00
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
....... .1 50
Richardson’s No. 74, round............... .......... 1 00
do  ___. . / . . . ............ 150
Richardson’s No. 7 
Woodbine. 300........................... ..A  
...........115
MOLASSES.
Black Strap.................................. 
16@18
Cuba Baking......................     
25@28
Porto  Rico...........................1.. 24@30
New  Orleans, good...................  
J..28@34
New Orleans,choice.................. 
,.,......44@ 50
New Orleans, fa n c y ......  . . . . . . . . . . ___..52@55
4  bbls. 2o extra

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.4 bbl

Barrels— ..............S 00
Half barrels.. .; «.  .3 12 
Cases..:»....— ... 2 25
25
.....7  50 
501Small, bbl...
.......4 00
m o o
@175 
@  75
Javai.:..........
64
P atna........ ......  . .  .54
Rangoon..........   @5
Broken...  ..;..34@3K 
Japan';..»................6

Dwirót’s . . . . . . . ___5
Sea  Foam...... »... .54
Cop Sheaf................5

OATMEAL

Barrels..................6 00
Half barrels....... .3 12
Cases...........................2 
Medium.................... .6 
4  bbl,.......3 451 

PICKLES.
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PEPES.

BICE.

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Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross 
Imported fea^. No. 216,24 gross.
Imported ' 
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American
Choice Carolina..... 7 
Prime Caroling.... .64 
Good Carolina.....,6  
Good Louisiana.... .54
Table  .......................64
Head ... ,. .. ..  »... ...7
DeLand’s pure....... 54
Church’s    .............. 5
Taylor’s G. M ........fr

SALERATUS.

4 c  less Ina box lots.

A;  SALT.

60 Pocket, F  F  Daiyy..... j. *.. ..
28 Pocket....................... ...................
1003 ft pookets
Saginaw or Manistee..................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu.bags 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bail 
Higgins! English, dairy bu-'hags 
American, dairy, 4  bu. bags»»f.
Bock, bushels..................
■ W arsaw,Dam, bu. bags 
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Allspice

a in m ats......... •,
iviain bundles, it,..

Mace Batavia... . M . *V; 

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Pepper, Singapore, 
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Allspice.......... 
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Cassia, Batavia..:.
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and ;8aigon......... ....
Saigon.........;...-.... . L ..'....
Cloves, Amboyna.......... .
\  *-•  Z anzibar...,......';...............
Ginger, African.................................
“  Cochin............... ......................
Jamaica........ ............... ........
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Mace Batavia........................................
;Mustard, English... 
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and Trieste._____i
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Trieste...-............. ...............
Nutmegs, N o.2 .................. ...............
Pepper, Singapore black.........  ...
a  . y   "  white................. .
Cayenne...... .................... .

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5  48 “ 
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401b 
:  “  72 lb crates, 6 lb boxes
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Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 lb pkgs.. 
"  Oft boxes .
■* 
b u lk .....
Pure, 1 1b pkgs.........
Corn, 1  lb pkgs.....  ....
Cut  Loaf..............................................
Cubes ................................................ .
Powdered........... .............................. j
Granulated.  Standard......................
O ff.................... .............
Confectionery A ................................. .
Standard A ................................. . ........
No. 1, White Extra  C........ ................
No. 2, Extra C........ .............................
N o.3C ..................................................
No. 4 C...........  ................................... .
•No. 5C....................................................

SUGARS.

@5% 
& 5% 
& h% 
& 5V8 
® 4M
SYRUPS.
@31 Pure Sugar, bbl.  25@35
—   @33 Pure Sugar, M bbl 28@38 
’gs.  @35
TOBACCO8—PLUG.
............42 Blue  Blazes..............  32
.......    44 Eye Opener............... 32

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Spear Head
Big Gun.__
Big  N ig...:.
Plank  Road.
Eclipse  ___
Holy  Moses.
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen,
Maccoboy.....................
Gail & Ax’  • 
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Rappee.........................
Railroad  Mills  Scotch.................. .
Lotzbeck  ...................................
Japan ordinary........... .........................
Japan fair to good............................
Japan fine.............................................j
Japan dust...............................................
Young Hyson.................................... . ”
GunPowder»..........................................
Oolong...................................................
Congo................................................

TEAS.

VINEGAR.

30 gr,

MISCELLANEOUS.

White Wine...................................  08
Cider..............................................  os
York State Apple.................. .
Bath Brick imported............................
do 
American.......................... .
Burners, No. 0...........................
do  No. 1.................................. ;;;;
do  No. 2........................................
Cocoa  Shells, bulk..............................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand__ ’..!!!
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............
Candles, Star...........................................
Candles.  Hotel..............................
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes............... ” ! i
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................
Fire Crackers, per box.........................
Fruit J ars, pints...........................

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

“  quarts.............................
“  2-quarts................................’
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................
Gum, Rubber too lumps.................. .
Gum, Spruce............. : .. .. . ...............” .
Hominy, 
bbl........................................
Jelly,in30ft  pails...............................
Pearl Barley...........................................
Peas, Green  Bush........................ ]___
Peas, Split  Prepared..................... ] * ‘ ‘
Powder, Keg...........................................
Powder, 4   Keg...............................
Sage  ........................................................
Sago  ........................................................
Tapioca..................................................[

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----35@45
----15@to
....20@45
----35@50
33@55@6C 
__ 25@30

90 
75 
@70 
80 
90 
@ 4 
@7 50 
@25 
@11 
@12 
@35 
@80 
@1 to 
@1 to 
@ 9 50 
@10 50 
@13 50 
@25 
@35 
@30 
@3 50 
@  5 
@  24 
@1  10 
@ 34 
@5 00 
@2 75 
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CANDY. FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follow s:

do 
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STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes..............................  84@  9
Twist, 
..............................  @ 9
Cut Loaf 
 
(fom
MIXED
R^yal, 25 ft  pails.....................................  @ 9
Royal, 200 ft bbls.....................................  @ 8
Extra, 25 ft pails....................................   @10
Extra, 200 ft bbls................ 
@ 9
French Cream, to ft pails......................  @114
Cut loaf, to ft cases.,............................   @10
Broken, to  ft pails.......................... 
  @10
Broken. 200 ft  bbls.................................   @ 9
FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.
Lemon  Drops.............................................  @12
Sour Drops..................................... ...,s...  @13
Peppermint  Drops...................................  @13
Chocolate Drops........................................ 
14
H M Chocolate  Drops.............................. 
18
Gum  D rops............................................... 
10
Licorice Drops............. ................... ..... 
22
A B Licorice  Drops.................................  
12
Lozenges, plain.......................................... 
14
Lozenges,  printed..................................... 
15
Imperials...........................  
 
14
M ottoes...................................................... 
15
J2
Cream  Bar.....................................  
Molasses Bar............................................... 
12
Caramels.................................  
18
Hand Made Creams............................ 
 
18
Plain  Creams............................................. 
ia
Decorated Creams....................... 
 
 
20
String Rock...........................  
 
13
Burnt Almonds............................ 
 
 
22
Wintergreen  Berries................................ 
14
FANCY—IN  BULK.
Lozenges, plain in pails..................
@114 
Lozenges, plain in bbls ....................
@104 
Lozenges, printed in pails...............
@124 
Lozenges, printed in  Dbls...............
@114 
Chocolate Drops, in palls................
@124 
Gum  Drops  in pails.........................
@ 64
Gum Drops, in bbls................................  @ 54
Moss Drops, in p a ils............................9  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls ...............................   @ 9
Sour Drops, In  padls..............................  @12
Imperials,in pails...............................  @124
Imperials  In bbls................................ .  @114

 
 

 

FRUITS.

  @

 

 

 

 

 

.......................  « .............. .1 00@2 50

Bananas 
Oranges, California, fancy......................  @
Oranges,  cboiee.................. .................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.................. .
Oranges. Florida...................................... .
Oranges,Rodi,.................... 
4 6Q@5  00
Oranges, Messina......................................   @
Oranges, OO...................................... 
 
 
Oranges, Imperials...................................   @4 50
Lemons, choice........ ............................4 0C@4 50
Lemons, fancy.............................................5 5o@6 00
Lemons, California........ .......................
Figs,layers,new, V f t ......................10
Figs, Bags, 50 f t ....................................
Dates, frails do  .  .................................
Dates, 4  do  do  __________________
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ft  ft. . . .. .. .. .. ..
Dates, Fard 50 ft box ÿ  f t ...............
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.......... . . ..  6
Pine Apples, V d o z...:.......................
Almonds, Tarragona.          ............. 174@18
Ivaca.....................................  @17
California........... ..................  @174
B razils.....  ...........................................84@  9
@11 
@  8 
@16415
9
13@17

@  8§ 54 

NUTS.

@15 

“ 
“ 

64 
@ 94 
@ 8 
@ 64

Barcelona..... .........
“ 
Walnuts.  Grenoble...........
Hfojlr  ■r.r
*\ 
French...-...............
“ 
Pecans, Texas, H. P .........
“  '  Missouri............. .
Cocoanuts, #  100, full bags.
m B i m  
Prime Bed, raw f)
Choice 
Fancy H.P. do  .  do 
Choice White, Ta.do  ........
Fancy H P,. Va  do  ........
H .P .V a l.f.................... .

d o ........

do 

i 

@450■  44  

« 4
@ 54 
@ 64 
@ 74 
@ 7

Perkins A Hess paÿ as follows:

..  HIDES. PELTS AND  PUBS. 
.*  >  ,k ,-’

.A, A   wem» . 

G reen ...,« ft 
Part cured... 
Full cured.... 
DfryMdesand 
;  lâ p S Ï,......,

H   0  lOalf skins, green 
74  or cured..,.  p 
% i Deacon skins,-- 
W Ç IP piede:..wild

igV?  J,  MISCELLANEOUS.
Ü  
Sheep pelts, short shearing. . . , . 
Sheep pelts, old wool estimated ; 
Tallo
Grease bu tter.,...JJ;
iV»».: 
Ginseng, go od ....,:. Q & SÆ Ztfâ

OVBCTKS.

OYSTERS AND  FISH. 
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows 
Fairhaven Counts
Selects.................................................
Anchors__ M i............................._____
Standards  .....J !.-......................
■'  FRESH  FISH.
:Black bass........................
Rock bass.............................................
Perch....................................
Wall-eyed  pike........ ................
Buck-bill  pike_______ _, (11<
Sturgeon............................. ..............
Sturgeon, smoked. . . . . . . . . . . . %
Whiteflsh  ............................   ........
Whitehall, smoked..........................

PROVISIONS.

.

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POKE  IN  BARRELS.

The Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision Co. 

quote  as follows:
Mess,Chicago p a ck in g ............................  is 06
Short cut..................... ..................................pj Q|
Short cut, clear,  Botsford............. .......... ! !l& OC
Shortcut  Morgan........................
Extra clear pig, short-cut.______ 
.. .  ..,’.17 0C
Extra clear,heavy...................... . 
Clear quill, short cu t.......................... ..... .17 (*
Boston clear, shortcut............................1 7   (X
................. .17 Q£
Clear back, short cut .  
Standard dear, short  cut, best.. .. .. .. .. .   i f  0C
Bean.................. ...................
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts.....................................12
“ 
16  fts............................y ././iz a
“ 
“ 
12 to 14 fts........................  
“ 
‘igjg
picnic  ..................................................... 8M
“  best boneless............................ ” *  “ ‘n "
Shoulders........................................ ti<>
Breakfast Bacon, boneless__ .....................* 13S
Dried Beef, extra.............................II”
ham  prices................................jiu
Tierces  ......................................  
n s
30 and 50 ft Tubs.......................... . 
”  
fg
LARD IN TIN PAILS, 
^
3 lb Pails, 20 in a case.......... .................. 
7«
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case........................... 
73U
10ft Pails. 6 in a case........ ......... ...... ... 
7^
20 lb Pails, 4 pails in case......................  
7u
Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs.................. 
7 g£
Extra Mess, Chicago Pacxing.  ............7 o(
7 50
“  Kansas City Packing__ ... 
7 «
P late................ 
Extra Plate.........................  ........ . . . . . . . . . .  8 0C
Boneless, rump butts..................... 
*11 OC
Pork Sausage............................  
71/
Ham Sausage..................
Tongue  Sausage...................................
Frankfort  Sausage....................
Blood  Sausage.....................................
Bologna, straight.......................
Bologna,  thick....................... .................
Head  Cheese..............................!!!!!  !!!!!.]  1
In half barrels................................................   3 qo
In quarter barrels............. ................ ." . *.*.  1 7»

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

BEEF IN BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

LARD.

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  MQhrhard  quotes  the  trade  sellins- 

pnees as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  5  @  6
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters........... "■"**  r 

«14.

 

84®  9

Lamb  spring...................  
Xea*--.......................................................   8  @ 8 4
Bologna................................................  
a  «
Fowls................................................@ n
.....................................................   @11
a   8

Lard,  kettle-rendered..........................  

WOODENWABE.

 

 

Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:
Standard  Tubs, No. 1........................... 
Standard Tubs,No.2.............................. 
Standard  Tubs, No. 3..................................... !3 50
..................1 25-
Standard Pails, two hoop.... 
Standard Pails, three hoop__ _!!! ]...............l  5fi
Pails, ground wood 
.................................. ,4 50
 
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes......... 
2 to
" '2 25
Butter  Pails, ash.......................... 
Butter Ladles.................................                      9ff
Rolling Pins....................... 
75
Potato Mashers__ 59
Clothes Pounders...............  *.........................2 25.
««
Clothes Pins...........................  
Mop  Sticks............................... 
1 qq,
Washboards, single.      ........ " ! ........... . 
t  75
Washboards, double..................... '
*]*‘g  25
Washboards, Northern  Queen..............." , ’3  75.
BASKETS.
Diamond  Market......................................... 
49
Bushel, narrow band, No. 
l  50
1 40-
* 
Bushel, narrow  band, No. 2.............  
Bushel, wide band......................] ]. * .............¿75
Clothes, splint.  No. 3......................... 
 
 
Clothes, splint,  No. 2............„  " ..................4 25
Clothes, splint,  No. 1.....................5 
Off
Clothes, willow  No.3.................  
............ 6  Oft
Clothes,willow  N o.2.. 
................ 6  50
Clothes, willow  N o .l...................;***“ *
51*.
Water  Tight,  (acme) bu....!.!.!" " !” 1’3 
75.
halfbu.......................2 85-

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this market  are 
paying $5 for  all offerings of good bark.
Ginseng—Local dealers  pay $1.60@$1.70 9  ft 
for clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Some manufactur­
ers authorize their agents to offer 40 per cent, 
and 40 and  5  per cent., for  first and  second, 
quality, respectively, and some are authorized 
to sell for 40 and 124 per cent., and 50.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Fall  fruit  is  in  good  demand and 

supply at $1.40@$1.65 per bbL 

Beets—In good supply at 40c per bu.
Bean—Hand-picked  mediums  are  very 
scarce,  readily  commanding  $2.50@$2.70 per 
bu.

Butter—Creamery  is  in  good  demand and 
fairly firm at 26@28c.  Dairy  is  active at 18@ 
22c.

Cabbages-r-$4@$7 per  100,  according to size*  I 
Carrots—40c per bu.
Celery—20@35 $  doz.
Cheese—Jobbers are holding their  stocks  at 

12@t3c.

Cider—9c per gal.
Cranberries—Home  grown, $£@$2.50 per bu. 

Cape Cod, $3 per bu.

Dried Apples—Evaporated  are  dull  at  10@ 

11c per lb.

Eggs—Scarce and firm.  Jobbers are paying- 

16c and holding at 17c.

Grapes—Concords,  34e  per  lb;  Niagaras» 

6@7c 

lb; Delawares, 60 per lb.

Honey—Dull at 12@16c.
Hay—Baled 

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

is  moderately  active  at  $14 
in 

Onions—In plentiful supply at 80c per bu. 
,’i. 
Peaches—Smocks, $2.50 per bu.  White, $1.7$. 

@$2 per bu.

Pears—$1.50 per bu.
Peppers—Green, $1.25 per bu.
Potatoes—Handlers are  paying  60@6oc per 
Pop Corn—2o ^ ft.
Seeds—Clover,  mammoth  or medium* $450- 

bu. and holding at 75@80c per bu.

Timothy, $2.60.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys* $3,50 per bbl.»  Bal- 

timores, $2.75.

Tomatoes—$1.26 V bu.
Turnips—50c V bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

, 

i 

Wheat—No change.  €!ity ufiUers pay 75o fo r  

Lancaster and 72c for iSilse and (fiawson. 

Com—Jobbing  generally  at 50c  in  lOG  bu. 

lots and 474o in carlota* 
f-,
'   Oats—White, 35c in Bmall lots  and 30@31e in, 
oar lots. 

Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 9  cwt. 
» \
Flour—No change. I^tent,$fiJ)QN bbl.inBacka  I 
'and  $5JSft to  Wood.  Straight*  $4.00 S  bbl. In - 
sacksand$4^0rewood.'• •
-•'"rsYreB 
Meal-Bolted, $3.40 V bbl. 
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  <B ton.
« to n .  Ships,$15^ ten .  Middlings 
fornabdOats*,HT%ton»  r-'.■>

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4 5(V

3 50.

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‘«á*KCeÜag^-At 'lAnulng, Norember 1 and 2.
H lc h l£ u i S ta te   F b a m a o e n tlc a l A ss’n . 
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Fre»ident-Axthnr líaiwtt, Detroit 
| 
PiMtVlbeiPrÓBident—-G. M.Harwood, Petoskey.
Seopnd Vice-President—H. B. Fairchild,  Ornad Rapids. 
aC m rd^M ^ib^entr^Eted^^ephart. Berrien Springs. 
Secretníy^S.E. Parkill,Owosso. v?<pv?
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. 
Executive'Committee—Geo.  Gundrum,  Frank  Inglis, 
A. H. Lyman, John E. Peck, E. T. Webb.
Local Secretary—James VernoiyDetroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, October
y  G ra n d   R a p id s  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety.

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OROAIOZBD  OCTOBBB  #, 1I U .

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President—Geo. G. Stekettee.
Vice-President—H. E. tocher.
Secretary—Frank H, Escott.
'  Treasurer—Henry to Fairchild. 
Board of Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec- 
rotary. 
I 
Board of Trustees—The President,  John E. Peck,  M. B. 
Kimm, Wm  H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
wen, Isaac Watts. Wm. E. White and Wm.  L.  White. 
I Committee on TradeMattera—John E. Peck, H. B. Fair- 
child and Hugo Thum.
Committee  on  Legislation—R.  A.  McWilliams,  Theo.
Keminh and W. fi.'Tibba. 
Committee o^Phain^y--W » Ii. WMte, A. 0. Bauer and 
M '^toaac:'Watte.-^
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  evening  in  each 
Annual Meeting—First Thursday erenlnfin November 
Next  Meeting—Thursday  eTeshff,  October 6, at This 

month.  * 

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Tradesman office.

.  D e tro it P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety 

j m s u i b d  ooioBiB,ins. 

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  ■' " 

:tary and Treasurer—A. B. I»ee. 
stoni Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Lee.
igs—First Wednesday in each month.

President—Frank Inglis. 
Vice-President—¥. W. K. Perry.
Second Vice-President—.J. J.  Crowley.
Secretary and Treasurer—F. Rohnert.
Assistant Seçre:
,  .
'Ammsi Xeetini.  . 
Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June.
. 
Regular Meetings—First Wedni
C e n tra l  M ic h ig a n   D ru g g ists’  A sso ciatio n . 
President, J. W. Dunlop; Secretary, R.  M. Mussel].
B e rrie n   C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S ociety. 
President, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, Henry Kephart.

. 

C lin to n   C o u n ty   D ru g g ists’  A sso ciatio n . 

President, A. O. Hunt; Secretary, A. S.  Wallace.
C h a rle v o ix  C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety 
President, H. W. Willard;  Secretary, Geo. W. Crouter.

I o n ia  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l’S ociety. 
President, W. R. Cutler;  Secretary, Geo. Gundrum.

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

President, R. F. Latimer;  Secretary, F. A. Ring.

K .ilain a/o o   (Miai in ao eu tic.il A sso ciatio n . 

President, D. O. Roberts; Secretory, D.McDonald.

M a6on  C o u n ty   P h a rn a a c e u tic a l  S ociety. 

President. F. N. Latimer; Secretary, Wm. Heysett.
M eco sta  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
President, C. H. Wagener ;  Secretary, A. H. Webber.

M o n ro e  C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety. 
President, 8. M. Sackett; Secretary, Julius Weiss.
M u sk eg o n   C o u n ty   D ru g g ists’  A ssociation, 
President, W. B. Wilson; Secretary, J. R. Tweed.

M u sk eg o n   D ru g   C le rk s’  A sso ciatio n . 

President, E. C. Bond; Secretary,Geo. L. LeFevre.
N ew aygo  C o u n ty  P h a r m a c e u tic a l. Society. 
President, J. F. A. Raider; Secretary, N. N. Hiller.

O cea n a C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety. 

President, F. W. Fincher;  Secretary, Frank Cady.
S ag in aw   C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
President, Jay Smith; Secretary, D. B. Prall.
S h iaw assee C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety
T u sco la C o u n ty  P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety. 

President. E. A. Bollard; Secretary, C. B. Stoddard.
M a n istee  C o u n ty   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  Society. 
-President, W. H. Willard;  Secretary, A. H. Lyman.

SECOND-HAND  CORKS.

A Small-Sized  Industry  That  May  be of 

Grave Injury.

:  The bartender in a large Broadway saloon 
had cut his hand with broken glass  or  ice, 
and the blood from the wound carmined the 
-cork he had just  drawn  from  a  bottle of 
Rhine wine.  He threw the Wet cork into a 
dirty pail beneath the bar, washed his hands 
and then wiped the bottle,  which  he forth­
with served.  The blood on the cork dropped 
slowly on to the pail full of corks and stain­
ed a score at least with the red liquid of his 
veins.
A few minutes  afterward a party entered 
the saloon.  One ordered an  egg-nog, and 
the rest brandy and soda.  The  order  was 
filled.  The first drinker,  whose nerves were 
unstrung, spilled a goodly third of his foam­
ing beverage  upon  the bar.  Two or three 
removed the corks of their soda  bottles and 
laid them in the wet.  In a moment the bar­
tender had seized them  and  thrown  them
into the pail.
About this time a man opened  the  front 
door mid crossed the threshold.  He  was a 
Polish Jew of about fifty years of age, shab­
bily dressed and looking the  personification 
•of dirt and antipathy to soap and water.  He 
•carried an old bag under his arm, which was 
Apparently older and dirtier than its owner. 
It was greasy and discolored here and there 
with tobaceo j uiee, sawdust, saliva and sand. 
H e approached the bar, and laid the bag Up­
on the floor that was wet with  a  thousand 
liquids.
“ How many to-day?”  he  asked toe bar- 
tender,  in an ordinary business voice.
“  ’Boat the same as usual;  eight hundred, 
more or less, I  guess,” was the answer.
The pail was handed to  the  new-comer, 
who  damped  its  cargo  of  corks  into the 
yawning  bag.  A  silver  half-dollar  was 
. toanded to toe mixer of drinks, and the trans- 
Aetion was over.
In response to a question,  the  bartender 
; became talkative, and in  the  intervals  be­
tween orders, said:
“We have been selling corks now for about 
-seven years.  Before that time, so far  as  I 
know, we threw them away.  The cash they 
bring in is considered a perquisite of the bar­
tender.  We get  about  one-tenth of a cent 
Apiece or less. 
I don’t know whore they go 
to ,  but I  suppose to  the  manufacturers  of 
•cheap mineral waters. 
I don’t  have  much 
to do with them,  as we buy only  first-class 
stuff. 
In  a  saloon  like  this we use about 
twenty boxes of beer, five of mineral waters, 
And forty odd bottles  besides; 
that’s about 
•600 bottles a day. 
In drawing the corks we 
smash about one in twenty, so that We have 
over 500 left, which we  sell.
|   While the bartender had been talking, the 
ebrk-buyer had been a silent drinker and lis- 
. toner.  He now took up, the thread of con­
versation. 
'
•.‘T ve been in the  business' eight  years, 
And I  guess I  am the oldest man in i t   When 
I  began I  had trouble in coUecting corks and 
in selling them, 
it  Was apretty hard  time 
to p ^ist year.  Now-a-days it’s just the pp- 
,posites  \ l  think all of the 10,000  bar-rooms 
\ tobfow  yorkltoTe their corks, and then toe 
-.«towards In all the clubs  and  hotels,  and 
-wbem.  toepeople 
drink Agood deal, jpotoesame.VJ d n t o d
morning,  .and  fill my bag three and 
‘ 
the  corks  heme,
them In a wash-kettle 
them off with
to s to  to S stf

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than you wosdd 
imagine!  The best easterner I  overbad was 
1  champagne housA  ^To Increase their sales 
they gave baiteuders ten cents for everyone 
of their eotkk that wasretorned. 
It  was a 
smart Advertising dodge, and ran their Sates 
up trem endous^  I’d  
them  from  the! 
bartenders, who didn't want  the  trouble to 
go downtown, fromanywhero  from five to 
eight Cents each, and make ’the ;  difference. 
But?’  (and  fame  he  smiled  and  sighed), 
“some very wicked cork  operator  made so 
beautiful an imitation of the cork and turn­
ed out so many of them  that  one  day the 
house found it had bought  twice  as  many 
corks as it had sold bottles of  wine.  Then 
they  dropped  altogether. 
I  made  a good 
deal of money that year.”
The  next  best  customers  are  Wipe 
handlers.  They  buy  their  wines  in balk 
and. bottle them.  Some use straight goods, 
others mix imported and  native wines, and 
others again use native and adulterated stuff 
that’s beastly.  The first people want clean 
corks, and nothing more;  toe  second want 
half-clean corks, and toe last  take any cork 
that looks  as  if  it  had  coma  across  the 
ofeean.  The chief customers and the cheap­
est  are  the  soda  water  and  toe  mineral 
man.  Competition  is  Awfully  close,  and 
they  can’t  afford  to  use  a  decent  cork. 
Why, there are  concerns  who sell a- box of 
two  dozen  bottles  of ginger  ale,  sarsapa­
rilla,  soda or  lemon  soda  for  thirty-five 
cento.  One  cent  more  or  less to them on 
twenty-four means  success  or ruin, so they 
buy  from  ns  at toe  very lowest rates and 
buy  anything  that  will  stop  a bottle, no 
matter how old or dirty.”
“Are toe other  dealers as careful as  you 
are?”
“No, sir;  not by a’long  sight.  They are 
only collectors,  and sell  their  corks  direct 
to the  bottler  without  washing  or  drying 
them.  They don’t care whether  the  corks 
are bloody or covered with  tobacco juice, or 
flavored with the bad eggs  which, occasion­
ally  turn  up  in a  saloon, and  which  the 
bartender often throws  into  the  corks  in­
stead  of  the  rubbish  pail.  The  bottlers 
wash them,  however,  with a hose, and so 1 
guess there’s no troublé or harm done.”
The  incidents  mentioned,  which  are of 
daily and  even  hourly occurrence  in  New 
York and Brooklyn, and  probably in every 
large  city of  the  land, are full of  food  for 
reflection.  While a cork is  waterproof  on 
account of its peculiar construction, it being 
a species of  spongy layers,  whose  air-cells 
do not  interosculate,  and  so  form  contin­
uous passages, yet its  outside  layer, if  not 
several layers, are porous,  and hold liquids, 
vapors and semi-fluid solids for a long time. 
Corks from perfumery bottles or  from  lab­
oratory  bottles  containing  noisome  com­
pounds  are  admirable  illustrations. 
In 
these interstices organic  matter  will  decay 
and  germ-life  be  started  and  developed. 
A clean,  newly-made  cork  is  as innocenta 
substance as science can  find among the ar­
ticles of daily use in civilized  life.  With a 
second-hand cork it is different.  The corks 
mentioned  are  apt  to  contain,  and  fre­
quently do contain, ptyalin, the  ferment of 
saliva, nitrogenous  matter  from  the  eggs, 
milk, beef  tea and  bonillon used  at the bar 
or  from  blood,  saliva,  tobacoo-juice,  free 
lunch or other substances found around bars 
and bar rooms.  They may possibly contain 
the germs of  smallpox,  scarlet  fever,  con­
sumption, yellow  fever or any other  bacil- 
liferous disease.  While  it  is  possible  to 
kill all germ-life in  such  corks by heat and 
chemicals,  yet,  the  expense  of  thorough 
treatment  would  raise  their cost  to that of 
new  goods,  and  therefore  precludes  the 
same.  While, therefore,  the risk is  not ex­
cessively great,  yet  there  is  risk in many 
ways—risk  of  contagious  and  infectious 
disease,  and especially risk  of  putrefactive 
ferments.  Mild wines and  sweet “temper­
ance  drinks” in bottles  corked  with  such 
corks  are  liable  to  putrefaction and to be 
filled with  swarms of  bacterial  life.  Such 
beverages  introduced  into  the  system  are 
certain to produce gastric disorders.  Every 
man  of  the  world  as  well  as  every  phy­
sician  .knows  how  bad  wines  will 
fre­
quently produce  nausea, heart-burn, vomit­
ing, colic and diarrhoea. 
In every case this 
is  not  the  result  of the  wine, hut  of  the 
putrifying  substances  or  active  germs the 
wine contains.  While  in  almost  all  in­
stances  the  putrefaction  is  occasioned  by 
careless  handling, yet in some,  how  many 
cannot be said, it  results  from  the  use  of 
second-hand corks. 
In conclusion, one point must  be brought 
forward.  All  little  chiidrep  have  a habit 
or instinct which prompts them to put corks 
in their months.  While a clean, fresh  cork 
is not objectionable in the premises, second­
hand ones are to the  utmost.  For  this rea­
son,  until  their  use  is  prohibited by. law, 
every parent should  sedulously endeavor to 
prevent his little ones  from  indulging  in à 
practice  which,  under  conditions  of com­
mercial  honesty,  would  be  harmless,  but 
which,  under  existing  circumstances, 
is 
fraught with danger of the worst kind.

—

Minor Drug Notes.

Menthol is koown in Japan as Po-ho.
There are 2,500 druggists  in  New  York 
Java was the source of nearly 92,000 tons 

state-
of cinchona bark in 1886.

Antithermin  or  phenylhydrazinlevulinic 

acid is a new antipyretic agent.

Three  tons  of  liquid  earbonic  acid  per 

week are manufactured in Berlin.

Cobweb is an old antiperiodic.  I t is given 

ifi pill form to doses of 5 to 80 grains.

Nux vomica is used  quite  extensively  in 
China as an  external  remedy^  and  in  that 
country is not classed as a poison.

The drag business in Switzerland can not 
be very much of a bonanza, if we credit the 
statistics  from  an  exchange,  as  follows; 
Zurich, •with 70,000  inhabitants,  has forty 
drug stores;  towns with 9,000 have twelve: 
with 1,500 up to three, etc.  Physicians are 
allowed to dispense  their  own  medicines« 
and a pharmacist in a by  no  means  small 
town asserts that he to three weeks has not 
seen a stogie new prescription.

Improved  Liquor and  Pinson  Record.
Druggists  are  requested  to  note the an­
nouncement  of  the  Fuller  &  Stowe  Com* 
pany,  in  another  column, relative to their 
new. edition  of  the  Improved  Liquor  and 
Poison  Record, combined. 
It is by far the 
best  Record  on  the  market, and  is,sold 
lower than  any other, being  sent  postpaid 
to any address forJH.

Another  “ Drug  Clerk’s  Mistake.”

From the Hudson Gasette.

A Hudson  drug  d a k   sold  one  of Ills 
yotoo^  lady  friends  some  powdered  gum 
arable, mistaking it for tooto powder.  She 
tried  the  preparation  on  her pearly teeth, 
[ now declares, with  emphasis, that “he

That thera may be no misapprehension on 
toe part of any c^nigtfst as to toe provisions 
of toe new liquor law, now  in  force,  The 
Tradesman  herewith reproduces Sections 
of the Actr Wito thé exception of  the  form 
of bond prescribed« which is all  that relates 
to the  druggist;

Sec.  S-  The penal provisions  of this act 
shall not apply to druggists' who sell liquors 
for chemical,  scientific,  niedicinah- mechan- 
ical  or  sacramental  purposes only, and in 
strict compliance with law. 
It sK ll not be 
lawful for any druggist,  nor for m  person 
whose bu siness consists in whole or  in part 
of the sale of drags or medicines, directly or 
indirectly,  by  himself,  his clerk,  agent or 
servant,  at any time, to sell, furnish« give or 
deliver, any  spirituous,  malt,  brewed,  fer­
mented  or  vinous  liquor,  or any mixed li­
quor,  a part of which  is  spirituous,  malt, 
brewed,  fermented  or  vinons, to & minor, 
except for medicinal or mechanical  purpos­
es,  on  toe  written  order of the parent or 
guardian  of  suçh  minor, nor to any adult 
person whatever who is at*the  time  intoxi­
cated,  nor to any person to toe habit of get­
ting intoxicated, nor to  any  Indian, or any 
person of Indian descent, nor to any person 
When forbidden  in writing  so to do by the 
husband, wife,  parent,  child,  guardian or 
employer  of  such  person, or by toe super­
visor of the township, or mayor, or director 
of the poor, or any supervisor  or  alderman 
of the city, or  president  or  trustee of any 
village of superintendent of the  poor of toe 
county in which such  person shall résidé or 
temporarily remain, nor to  any other person 
to be used as a beverage, nor to  any person 
to be drank on toe. premises, nor to be mixed 
and drank with any  beverage drawn from a 
soda-fountain  or  other  apparatus or device 
for dispensing aerated or  other  beverages; 
but such  druggist  shall  be allowed to sell 
said liquors for medicinal, chemical, scienti­
fic,  mechanical  and  sacramental  purposes 
only, without toe payment of any tax speci­
fied in section one, and  subject  to  the fol­
lowing  restrictions  and  conditions:  Every 
such  dealer  in  drugs  and medicines shall 
procure and keep a  suitable  blank  book in 
which shall be  recorded  by  said  druggist, 
his clerk or employe  toe  names  of all per­
sons  applying  for  such  liquor for any of 
thèse lawful purposes, the date of each sale, 
toe amount  and kind of liquor  sold to each 
person, and the  purpose to which the same 
was to be applied, as stated by the purchas­
er, which book shall be  kept in the store of 
said druggist,  and shall  be open  to all per­
sons for examination  during  all  business 
hours;  and the failure to keep  a  record of 
every  such  sale,  in  manner  and form as 
aforesaid,  or the  delivery of  liquor for any 
purpose other than above  named,  shall sub­
ject such druggist  to toe penalties provided 
for in this  section:  Provided,  That  such 
druggist shall, on or before  the  first day of 
May in each  year,  or  before  commencing 
business,  execute  and file with the county 
treasurer  of  the county in which he is car­
rying  on  such  business,  a bond,  the suffi­
ciency of which  shall be determined by toe 
township  board  of  toe  township,  or  the 
board of trustees, or the common  council of 
toe village or city in which such business is 
proposed to be  carried on, to the  People of 
the  State  of  Michigan,  in the snm of two 
thousand  dollars,  with  two  or more suffi­
cient sureties,  who shall be  freeholders and 
residents of toe county in which  such busi­
ness is proposed to be  carried  on,  each of 
whom  shall  justify  in  a sum equal to toe 
amount of the bond, over  and  above all in­
debtedness and all exemptions from sale on 
execution, and all liability on other  similar 
bonds, which bond shall be  substantially in 
the following  form:
*

*

*

*

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Whenever any druggist  shall violate any 
of the  provisions of  this section,  he shall, 
on conviction  thereof,  be deemed  guilty of 
a misdemeanor,  and be  punished  by a fine 
of not less than one hundred  nor more than 
five hundred  dollars,  and costs of prosecu­
tion, or imprisonment in the county jail not 
less  than  ninety  days  nor more than one 
year, or both such fine and imprisonment, in 
the discretion of the court;  for a second vio­
lation of any one of  the  provisions  of this 
act,  such  druggist shall, in  addition to the 
penalty  hereinbefore  provided  for, be de­
barred from selling in this  State  any of the 
liquors hereinbefore mentioned, for a period 
of five years from and after the date of such 
conviction,  and it shall  be set  forth and de­
clared ia the record of judgment  upon such 
second conviction:  Provided,  That  every 
drag clerk shall be responsible for violating 
the provisions  of this  act, for his personal 
act or violation,  and be subject to the same 
penalties as proprietors or employers.

She  Saw  the  Point.

A'  man  having  large  business  interests 
and  a  handsome  income  married  a  lady 
who,  accustomed all her life to the  luxuries 
of  wealth, had never formed any clear con­
ception of  the value and  purchasing power 
of  money.  For some  months  every whim, 
no matter  how  extravagant,  was  gratified 
by the indulgent husband,  who always gave 
his  check for any amount of  money asked. 
One day the bride of a few months, to carry 
out  some caprice,  requested a check  for so 
large a sum that the gentleman  was  some­
what staggered thereby.  He saw that such’ 
prodigality^ if persisted in, meant ruin ; but 
not wishing to grieve  his  wife  by a down­
right refusal, he determined  to  give her an 
object lesson in toe financial  line.  Accord-' 
ingly,  with  a  smile  of seeming  acquies­
cence,  he  remarked  that  the  supply  of 
checks was exhausted, but  he  would  send 
up toe money from the office.

About  noon  toe  promised  money came, 
not in crisp $500 bills« as was expected,  bat 
in sterling silver dollars, the  sum  total fill­
ing sevéral specie bags.  The  wife  was  at 
first  vexed  and  then  amused;  finally, be­
fore  the  afternoon  wore  away,  became 
deeply thoughtful.  When  her  better  half 
came home to supper she  took  him  gently 
by the arm,  and. leading him  into  toe  hall 
where  the  pondérons  bags of  specie  were 
still  standing, said :
; “My dear, is this the  money I  asked  you 
fqy this morningf’

“It is, my love,’? was the reply. 
“ And  did  you  have  to  take  this all in 
dollar by dollar, in the  course nf  your  bus­
iness?”  was toe next question.
“Yes, my dear» it represents the result of 
many  weeks  of  hard  labor,” he  answered 
gently.
“ Well, toen,” 8jfe aaid, with tearful eyes, 
“send  around ^sm n  to take it back to the 
I can’t use so  much 
bank in the  morning. 
money for so trivial a purpose.”

*

active,  consumptive 

ad makes a 
finqer market  for quinine,  amPan advance 
of 2 cents per ounce.  Opium  is very- firm. 
Morphia is steady.  Balsam tola  is advanc­
ing.  Obîâen  séai root i |  very  scarce and 
tending higher.  ! Bad  weéiher  has affected 
the crop of ergot, ah • the German  narcotic 
herbs, such  as belladonna,  henbane,  fox­
glove,  and higher prices will  rule  for these 
articles.

A  Small  Loss.

Regular  customer  (disposed  to he face­
tious)—I guess you  will  have  to  trust  me 
for the flour until to-morrow.

Grocer—Oh, that’s all right sir.
Customer—But srppose I waste be killed 
Grocer—Well, toe loss would not be much, 

between now and to-morrow?
sir.

, ,

Detroit  Cai 
From the Detroit New*.

it  Second  Best.

The  Detroit  druggists,  who  went  over 
to  Cleveland  and  were  used  by  their 
brethren r down  there1  to  mop  up toe dia­
mond, are home again  and  hobbling  about 
in  an  atmosphere redolent  of  arnica  and 
St. Jacob’s oil. 

•

Cheboygan is to have  a  life-size  boycott. 
Some of the merchants  have  been  buying 
dude coal stoves, and their  stores are to be 
avoided by a lot of  farmers  who live in the 
back towns and  have  timber  on  their land 
thicker than the hair on a dog.

Why  Go  To  the  Yroilhle  of 

Keeping  Two  Reeorás, 
When one  Improved 
Record will  ho 
MWell?

* 
F uller  &  Stow e  Company 
would  respectfully  announce 
to  the  drug  trade  th a t  they 
have  ju st  isued  an  Im proved 
and Revised edition  of th eir

Combined,  w hich  embodies 
features  contained  in  no o th er 
Record  on  th e  m arket.  The 
Im proved  Record  is  arranged 
for  recording both Liquor  and 
Poison  Sales,  is  handsom ely 
ruled and printed on good paper, 
substantially  bound  and  sold 
a t  th e  reasonable  price  of  $1 
per copy o f 100 pages.  Orders 
can be sen t direct or to

Haxeltine 1 Perkins Driig  Go., 
Michigan Drtig Exchange,
L  B. PUtnam Æ  Go.,

PeGk  Bros.

FÖLLLER & STOWE COMPANY,

PUBLISHERS,

Grant} Bapids. 

-  Mich.

M tfiB TS Ì

One of  toe  most  important provisions of 
the new  liquor  law,  in  its  bearings  on  the 
drag  trade,  is  that clause  which  prohibits 
druggists selling liquor to minors, except on 
toe written order of the parent or guardian.
By being supplied with proper blanks, this 
provision is rendered  as  little obnoxious as 
possible.

We are prepared  to furnish  these blanks 

in  any quantity desired.

Can  furnish  them  with  printed  card  of 
draggist» and blocked in tablets of 100, sent 
post paid, 500 fpr $1.50 and f,000 for $2.

Invaluable to tbe Retah Dealer.

I  The  Michigan  Tradesman  is  fourj 
years old; it is invaluable to toe retail dealer.
|?he  dnifi^ists  of  Monroe , county  wUi

FULLER & STOVE  COMPANY,
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ACIDUM 
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.A ,.
A dvanced—Q uinine, G erm an; b alsam to h j.
DaéU&ed^R&litagv 
•V’-^ì
T p f f llp i
A ceticum  ................ .I
.
.
8 ®  10
Benzoioum,  G erm an........... ....  
. . . . . .   80@1  00
C arbolicum ......... ...................-• 
45®  50
C itric u m ...........68® 
65
H y d ro o h lo r.................................................... 8®  5
N itrocum  ...... 
.- ..I .,.,...  10®  10
O xallcum  .....................................  
 
Salicylioum ................... 
.....1  
 
„  a . 1  40®1 60
T annicum ................................. 
T artarieu m  
 
AMMONIA. 
’  *
A qua, 16  d e g .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  È  
. . .  
3®
 
C a rb o n a s.......................................-.c&v. 
11®  13
C hloridum ..................................  .¡-.Uii.  12®  14
Cubebae (po.  1 30.............. ............ ......1   40@1  50
7
Ju n ip e ru s  .......................................................6® 
X a n th o x y lu m ....... .. . . . ì ;j .ì S,x  
25®  30
BALSAMUM.

18  d e g .___............................. 

C opaiba............ ...........................................  50® 65
P e ru ....................................................... . 
@150
T erabin,  C a n a d a ............................ .'il..  50®  55
T a lu ta n ......................................................;  65®  60

BACCAE.

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CORTEX..

 

 

 

 

A bies,  C a nadian...........................   
IS
Cassiae  .........  
11
’&&. 
18
Cinebona F la v a ..................................iw;i  ' 
E nonym us  a tr o p u rp ...................  
30
 
M yrica  C e rife ra ,p o .............................................. 20
P ru n u s  V irgin!..................................  
12
12
QuUlaia,  g rd .............................................. 
S assfras  .....................................................  
12
U lm us............ .............................  
3&P,  12
U lm u sP o  (G round  12)...........................................10

 

 

 

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FOLIA.

FLORA.

FERRUM

p u r e ................. 

G lycyrrhiza G lab ra........................ 
H aem atox, 15 lb b oxes................. 

24®  25
DO................. ; ........ .......83®  35
9®  10
I s . . . . . ...................................   @ 1 2
 
@  13
&s  ......................  
J4 S ................................ 
  @  15
C arbonate P re cip ....... i ...........................   @  15
C itrate and Q uinta__ ...  ......................  @3 50
C itrate Soluble..........................................   @  80
  @  50
F erro cy an id u m S o l....................  
Solut  C hloride..........................................  
'  @  15
S u lp h ate,co m ’l,  (b b l.85)......................  1)4® 
3
    @ 
7
A rnica..........................................................  12®  14
A n th e m is..................  
45@  50
  30®  35
M atriearia........................................... 
B a ro sm a .......................... 
10®  12
Cassia A eutifol, T innivelly...................   20®  25
A lx ................................  35®  50
Salvia officinalis, %$, an d   *4s................   10®  12
8®  10
U ra  U rsi...............................................   . . .  
GUMMI.
Acacia,  1st  picked....................................  @1  00
2nd 
...................................  @  90
@  SO
3rd 
 
 
Sifted  so rts................................  @  65
p o ..................................... 
 
A loe, B arb,  (po. 60)..................................  50®  60
Cape, (po. 20)...................................   @  12
Socotrine,  (po. 60)......  
@  50
A m m oniac  ................................................  25®  30
A ssafoetida,  (p o .30)............................. 
  @  15
B e n zo in u m .......................................  
50®  55
 
C a m p h o rae................................ 
  25®  28
 
 
Catechu, Is,  (&B,  14 ;  }*s, 16).............  
  @ 1 3
E uphorbium , p o .......................................  35@  , 40
G albanum ...................................................  @ 8 0
Gamboge, p o ..............................................  75®  80
G uaiacum , (po. 45)........................ 
  @ '  35
KinO,  (po. 25).........................................—   @  20
M a stic ,.......................................................  @125
M yrrh,(po.45)..................................  
@  40
Opii, (po. 6 00;............................................4 60@4  75
S h ellac........................................................   18®  25
25®  30
T ra g a c a n th ...............................................   30®  75
A bsinthium  
E u patorium  
Lobelia 
M ajorum  
M entha P ip erita 
R ue
T anacetum ,  Y 
T hym us. V

hbrba—In  ounce packages. 

b leached....................  

m ag n esia.
Calcined,  P a t...........................  
  55®  60
26®  22.
Carbonate,  F a t........................ 
C arbonate,  K . & M .................................   20®  25
Carbonate,  Je n n in g s..............................  35®  36

V ir

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A b sin th iu m ................................................ 4 50®5  00
A m ygdalae, D qlc.....................................  45®  50
A m ydalae, A m arae.................................. 7 
25®? 75
2 
A nisi  ...........  
20®2 30
A u ran ti  C ortex. . . . . .  ; ............................   @2  00
B ergam ii......... . 
 
2 
75®3 00
 
C ajiputi  ............ 
90@1  00
C aryophylli...................  
@2  00
C e d a r ............... — ............................   35® 65
Chenopodi!  ................................................  @1  75
C innam onii...............................................   85®  90
C itronella  ........ 
@  75
Conium   M ae..... .......................................  35®  65
C o p aib a...................................................... 90®  1 00
■ u b e b a e ..... ........................................... 11  50@12  00
E x ech th ito s............................................  
  90@1  0Ö
1  20@1 30
E rig e ro n .......................................... 
G a u lth e ria .......................................................2 25®2 35
G eranium , 5.............................................. 
@ 7 5
Gossipii, Sem, g a l..... ........................ 
 
H edeom a.......................................................  90@1 00
Ju n ip e ri........................................................   50@2 00
L a v e n d u la ..... .............................................   90@2 00
L im o n is............................................................1 75@2 25
Lini, g a l......................................................   42®  45
M entha P ip e r............................................2 25@3  30
M entha V erid ,................................................3  75@4 00
M orrhuae,  g a l............................................  80®1 00
Myrcia,  1...................................  
 
O liv e.............................................................. .11 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)........... 
10®  12
1 42@1 60
R ic in i................... 
 
R o sm a rin i............... 
75@1  00
Rosae,  5..................... .................................  '   @8 00
Succini  .......................... — .................... 
40@45
S ab in a................................... 
 
 
. .3 5G@7 00
S a n ta l.................................................  
S assafras.....................................................  55®  60
Sinapis,  ess, l . . .......................... 
  @  65
T ig li!...................................................—   @1  50
 
T h y m e ..................... — ....................... 
@  60
 
T heobrom as........................................ 
15®  20

o p t................................  

40® 50

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POTASSIUM.

B ich ro m ate............ .................................    13®  15
B ro m id e .............................................................’  42® 45
Chlorate, (Po. 20).......................................  38®  20
Io d id e ............................................................... 3 0e@3 25
25®  28
P ru s s ia te ..................... . 

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A lth a e .................................................. 
25®  30
35®  20
A n c h u s a ............................ 
A rum ,  p o . , . . ............................................   @  25
Calam us...................  
20®  50
G entiana,  (po.15)...................................»  10®  12
G lychrrhiza,  (pv. 1 5 ) .... . . . . . . . . . . .¿i,..  16®  18
  ®   28
H ydrastis  Canaden,  vpo. 35)..........  
 
 
H ellebore,  A lba,  p o ............ .............           15®  20
In u la,  po , ....... ................................... 1?il. 
15®  20
Ipecac, p o ............................................. . ; . l   75@2 00
 
25®  30
Jalapa,  p r ..... .......................... 
•»•••• 
M aranta,  J48-.......................... 
'©  35
Podophyllum ,  p a ... .......... 
 
 
15®  18
Rhei  .................................... 
 
 
 
 
c u t . . . . ..... ................................ . 
@175
p v .......................................... 
 
 
SpigeTia  ......... .... — ...................... 
48®  53
S an g u in aria,(p o .2 5 ) ................  — . 
@  20
S erp en taria..................................  
 
35®  40
S e n e g a . . . . . . . . . . .  
. . . .  
40®  45
Sm ilax,Officinalis, H ....... "  @ 
40
M e x ....____ 
  @  2Ó
Scillae,  (po. 35)............................  
10®  12
Sym plocarpus,  Foetidus, p o ........ ......   @  25
V aleriana,  E nglish,  (po. 30)... .-crt?)..  @  25
G e r m a n ............. ..............     15®  20

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A nisum , (po. 20).............................. ¿ .: ...  @  15
A plum   (graveolens)..................M. M ...  10®  12
B ird ,l8 ..... ...................... 
4®  6
12®  15
Carui,  (po. 18)..................... 
C ardam om .......................................................1  06@l 25
C oriandrum ....... .......................................   10® 
)2
Cannabis  S ativ a.................................... 
3® 
4
Cydonium ..................  
- 75®1  00
C henopodium ................................ 
 
10®  12
Dip t e r i x O d o r a t e . . . . . . 4..,..•..!  75® 1  s5
F o e n i c u l u m . . . . . v . . . 7 . . . . » , . L , . . . @   15
Foenugreek, p o __ ..V.v............. 
8
6® 
L in i,g rd ,(b b l, 8 ) ...................^1 ..  ..  3H@ 
4
P halaris  C anarian__ . . . . . . . . ___ . . . . »  . 3M@4M.
R apa .........................  
5® 
8
Sinapis,  A lb u ...,« ••...•.............................. 8®  g
11®  12

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Capsici Fructus, po......................
Capsici Fructus, B, po..........................  @  14
Caryophyllus,  (po.  35)........... 
30®  33
Carmine, No. 40........... ..........................  @3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F ................................  50®  55
Qsra F la v a ............................................ 
30
C o ccu s.....;------ -----------  
  @  40
@  15
Cassia Fnfotus.........................  
Centraria................ 
@  10
cetaceum .;. .. .. .. .. .. .  
@  50
^ lo io fo r m ................................... 
38®  40
Chloroform,  Squibbs............................  @100
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst. 
.................. .1 50@1 75
Chondrus ......................’ 
io@  12
Cinchonidine,R.& W ...... j * ....,» __   15®  20
Cinchonidine,  German.........................•  6®   15
40
Corks, see list, discount, per cent.... 
Crcasotum ............  
<a  50
 
Creta, (bbl. 75)»......... 
  @  2
Creta prep..........  .................................  
5®  6
Creta, precip........................................... 
8®   10
CretaRhbra......... .......... ...... 
@  8
Crocus........................................................ 25®  30
Cudbear............................................. 
24
Cupri Sulph 

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Emery, all numbers 
Emery, po

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Glassware flint, 70&10 by box.  60&10, less.
Glue,  Brown.................................. 
Glue,White........................... 
13®  25
 
Glycerina............................................ 
Grana  Paradisi.......................... 
@  15
Humuius  ................................. 
 
Hydrarg Chlor.Mitfc  ................................  © 75
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor.................................   @ 65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum...........................  @ 85
Hydrarg Ammoniati................................  @1 00
HydrargUnguentum..........................   @  4Q
Hydrargyrum........................................  @  65
Ichthyocolla, Am................................. 1  25@1 50
In d ig o .....................................................  75®1 00
Iodine, Resubl...................................... 4 0O@4 10
Iodoform ...............................................  @5 15
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod..............  ®   27
75@t 00
Liquor Potass Arsinitis.........................  10® 12
Lupuline  ..................................................  8o@l 00
Lycopodium...........................................  55@  60
Macis........................................... 
 
Masrnesia, Sulph, (bbl. 1)4)......................  
2@  3
Mannia. S. F ................................. 
 
Morphia,  S, P. & W.............................. 3  35@3 60
Morphia. S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co...............3  25@3 50
Moschus Canton..............  
@  40
M yristica,N o.l...................................   70®  75
Nux  Vomica,  (po. 20).............................  ©   Id
Os.  Sepia..................................................  25® 28
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Co..................  @2 00
«rails, doz...............  @2 70
Picis Liq,  N. C.. 
Picis Liq.,  quarts..................................  ©140
Picis Liq., pints..................... 
  @  85
Pil Hydrarg,  (po. 80)........................ 
  @  50
Piper Nigra,  (po.22)...............................  @  18
Piper Alba, (po. 35)................................  
©  35
Pix Burgun..............................................  @  7
Plumbi Acet............................................  14®  15
Potassa, Bitart, pure.............................   @ 
'
Potassa,  Bitart, com............................   @
Potass  Nitras, opt.................................  
8®
Potass Nitras.........................................  
7@
Pulvis Ipecac et opii............................1 io@l 26
Pyvethrum, boxes, H. & P. D.Co., doz.  ©1 25
Pyrethrum,pv.........................................  60@  65
Quassiae................................................... 
8@  10
Quinia, S, P. & W__ ;.............................  53®  57
Quinia, S, German...................................  40@  50
12®  13
Rubia Tinctorum.......................... 
 
Saccharum Lactis, pv............................  @  35
Salacin..................................................... 
2® 75
Sanguis Draconis....................................  40@  50
©4 50
Santonine............................................. 
Sapo, W........................ 
12®  14
Sapo,  M..................................................... 
8®  10
Sapo, G.....................................................  @  15
Seidlitz  Mixture......................................  @  28
Sinapis......................................................   @  18
Sinapis, opt..............................................  @  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,  Do. Voes.................  @  35
Snuff, Scotch, Do. Voes.......................   @  35
Soda Boras, (po.  9)............................    7*4®  9
Soda etPotoss Tart................................  33@  35
2@ 214
Soda Carb................................................ 
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........................................  
4@  5
3@  4
Soda,  Ash................................................ 
Soda  Sulphas.........................................   @  2
Spts. Ether Co........................  
59®  55
Spts.  Myrcia Dom.................................   @2 00
Spts. Myrcia Im p..................................   @2 50
Spts. Vini Beet, (bbl.  2 08)....................  @2 25
Strychnia, Crystal.................................  @1  30
Sulphur, Subl........................................... 2H@ 3K
Sulphur,  Roll........................................... 2H@ 3
Tamarinds..............................................  
8®  10
Terebenth  Venice.................................   28®  30
Theobromae...........................................50  @  55
Vanilla  ..................................................9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph

 

 

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Whale, winter.......... ...........................  70
Lard,extra,...................  
60
Lard, No.  1....................................... 
  45
Linseed, pure raw...................  
  42
 
Linseed, boiled ................... 
 
45
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  50
Spirits Turpentine.............................  36
90®l  00
PAINTS
Lb 
Bbl
Red Venetian..................... 
ij£
2® 3 
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Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 
2® 3 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........   134
2® 3 
Putty, commercial................       2%
24®  3 
Putty, strictly pure..................  2%
2M® 3 
Vermilion,prime American..,
13® 16 
Vermilion, English.................. '
55® 58 
Green, Peninsular...................
16@17 
6® 6% 
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
6® 6)4 
Whiting, white Spanish..........
@70
Whiting,  Gildewr..............
White, Paris American.. . . __
1 10 
Whitingr  Paris English cliff..
1 40
PiojaeerPrepared  Faints  ...
1 20@1 40
____  
Swiss Villa Preparer  Paints.. 
1 00@1 20 
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach...................................1 10@1 20
Extra  T u rp ........................................ l  60@1 70
Coach Body.......................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture..............f.......... 1 00@1 10
Extra Turk D am ar............................. 1  55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp......................  70®  75
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Aittasr, Spts Nitros, 3 F.......................   26® 28
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Alummi, ground, (po. 7)................. . 
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Antimoni,  po___ ___ ______ ...... 
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AntimonietPotass Tart............. 
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Argent! Nltras,  3...............................  @  68
Arsenfcum.......... ..............................  
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Fancy  Plilsli  Boxes 
Hand Lamps two  sixes 
Right  Lamps 
Embossed  Boxes 
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Slippers two sixes 
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Boots 
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Íhf¿  «toi tìfci 
merchants of Michigan-—wholesale or retail 
—Witti 
credit  to  toóse  whom  they
dem  responsible.
,  In  conclusion, tot me say that, as a body, 
merchants  are  not  theorists.  Each  bases 
to e  conduct of'his  business  upon  the  les­
sons he  has  learned,  and  earnestly  seeks 
improvement  on these  wheresoever  he  Is 
likeliest to find it.  This  Is  why  we  read 
The  T r a d e s m a n .  But when  some  little 
man, with a bigger gas  meter in  his  abdo­
men than the rest of ns  may chance to pos­
sess,  gets  upon  his  hind  legs  and  saya, 
with a sweet smile upon his  beaming coun­
tenance. and his benevolent hands extended 
over the broad State of Michigan,  “Do as I  
have done anid you will be rich and happy,” 
we have an undoubted right to say in reply, 
‘‘Givens  the facts.” 
Shurtleff  Bros.,  general  dealers, Cross  Vil­

.  Merchant.

lage:  “No Tradesman means no business.”

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It sticks to the vines and Finishes the whole 
crop o f Potato Bugs with one application ; also 
kills any Curculio, and the Cotton and Tobacco 
wùiMê* 
Tllici Is the only gafe way  to  use  a   Strong 
Poison; none o f 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  bntice 
the bugs to eat it, and it Is also a fertiliser,'1 
OHE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS 
of plaster and Paris. Green  as  miked  by the 
farmers.  It Is therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
the trouble and danger  of  mixing  and  using 
the  green,  which,  needless to say, is danger­
ous to handle.
Bug Finish was used the past season on the 
State Agricultural College  Farm  at  Lansing, 
Michigan,  and,  in  answer  to. inquiries,  the 
managers write:  "The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm.”  Many  un- 
solicitated lettela have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers, at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date 07 May 
last
14:  "We sold 8,100 pounds of 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of bugs with onéappÙ- 
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 (3,006 pounds) at once.”  ;
Guaranteed as represented.  Cheaper than 

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Iff?   D n retnrning fh>m a two  weeks’ absence J 

of  September ?, tool 
V w p l y o f   Mr. Howig  to  my communication 
S a to M to e d  August 81. 

The  tone  of  Mr.  Howig’s  reply  would 
fi||^^M M ^create in the mind of to e  reader toe.
impression that he w as slightly out of tem- 
R ft ;per:when.he wrote  it.  This  T am  loth to 
p ^  Jtotteve, for  I  think there was in my article 
nothing which  should  irritate  any reason-
< 

•

B  able person.

True, I  asked  for facts.  ,That  was  not 
Kf  uufidri for Mr. Howig  assumes  to teach all; 
the merchants who read The  Tradesman 
H 
p,  —a pretty large constituency—how to mend 
I ' 
their ways and  make  more  noney.  When ; 
I   >  ia candidate for theposition of teacher seeks 
|  «fJynl, ^
'^otyniiiiiig board says,  “What 
do you know?  Prove your competency and 
pour certificate  is  ready.”  Whenever  an 
aspirant for office was named  to  Napoleon 
X, he was accustomed to say,  “What has he 

C*  *  tome?”
l  '  Mr.  Howig  wants  no  controversy. 

In 
this  we  agree  and,  I  have  asked  for 
bread,”  and  he  has 
none. 
I  asl 
His  time  and  the
given  me  a 
space of  T m s   T r a d e s m a n ’s   columns  are 
“ too valuable.”  Let me  say to the gentle­
man that there is in  the  United  States  no 
journal  which  will  more  cheerfully  than 
The T r a d e s m a n  accord to  its  correspon- 
. dents all  space necessary for the  full  elu­
cidation of any business problem, 
j  The facts for which  I   asked (could  Mr. 
Howig have  furnished  them  at  all) might 
have filled toe space of  an  eighth  column. 
In  place of this he  has  seen  fit  to  occupy 
• nearly a column and a half with  a series of 
glittering generalities  and  with  comments 
on his  own  gratuitous  assumption  that  I 
seek to champion toe credit business.  This 
Is unfair, as anyone  may see who reads my 
article of August 31, and,  had  it  not  been 
for this position of  Mr. Howig, I  doubt if I 
should have taken further notice of him.

I  admitted toe existence of thecredit evil, 
and asked  this  self-constituted  teacher  of 
too business fraternity of Michigan to show 
-us  toe  way  out  of  it.  What  followed? 
lineh  abuse, but little definite information.
-  Before toe war I  recognized toe existence 
of  slavery,  and  sought  its  remedy, but  I 
was never therefor called a pro-slavery man.
The suppositious  case of Mrs.  Croesus is 
' called “ irrelevant and shallow.”  That shall 
be as Mr. Hotvig pleases. 
It was doubtless 
extreme, and was  intended  so  to.be.  But 
can anyone doubt that T  could  have  filled 
these columns  with  illustrations  of  a like 
character and of  all  grades of  depth, had I 
supposed I was writing for children?

As to “dead-beats,” I suppose  that  with 
toe exception  of  Mr. Howig,  I  have  been 
“bitten” by them to as  small  an extent—in 
proportion  to  toe amount of  business done 
—as any merchant in Michigan.  The losses 
over which I   do feel “waspish” were occas­
ioned  by a  tricky  partner  and  a  rascally 
friend, but  have  nothing  to  do  with  this 
discussion. 

.

I  did not ask, nor  care'to learn, anything 
¿bout  Mr. Howig’s  antecedents. 
I   Simply 
wanted him to demonstrate to  the  satisfac­
tion of toe merchants  to  whom  he assumes 
to lay, down  laws  that  he had done a busi­
ness of any importance, given no credit and 
made money; or  knew  someone  else  who 
had; tod as  nearly as I  can  learn or  guess 
from his  letter he  is,  (1) doing a little “ no- 
tion”  business  of  certainly  less  (probably 
much less) than $5,00t) per  annum, else  he 
would have been free to tell us about it; (2) 
once gave credit, but.shut down twenty-five 
years  ago;  (3)  is  now  giving  credit,  in 
amount controlled, of course, by toe limita- 
tions of his  business, and  has in two  yearn 
tost SL35.
\   The  “ rub” of  toe  thing  is  this:  After 
many  years of experience, Mr.  Howig  has 
chosen a line of  business strictly in accord­
ance with  his  means and capacity, and is 
-conducting the same very much  to his  own. 
satisfaction.  The mistake  he  has  made is 
one natural to theorists,  being toe fallacious 
assumption that the  same  line  of  conduct 
practicable  in  a  small  business  will,  of 
necessity, be toe most  successful  in a large 
ene; but we all know  that  a  good  captain 
m ay make a poor brigadier.

In toe absence of  facts, we will’ suppose 
Mr.  Howig  is  doing  a  business  of 
9^000. He gives a limited credit and has lost 
9L3S. If he can’t do a strictly cash business 
o f $ 1,000, he  could still less do it In one of 
and far  less  in  selling  twice  that 
sum.  His,credit  sales  would increase in a 
ratio  corresponding  with toe  extent of his 
>lmtittes8,  and  Instead  of  $1.35, some  fine 
January morning  tome  would  probably be 
on toe books, for which he would be 
glad to get  25  emits  on  the  dollar.  The 
gejOtteman will object to this way of putting 
it, but in his own  words  there is .no  “half-

i\_ Tbe  above  is - written  .in ¿ sober  earnest, 
the words seem to  have toe  air of S' 
W È Ê S m É é  let nie remindtoe reader that the 
business" o f 16*.  Howig is but a tri- 
affair, yet he, by  his  own  confession, 
g g ÿ 4 Î^w 5 < !* ^an d b 6 eJ» ab d o k .  rAs  to ' say- 
: ;  ing “No,”  I  presume  that most of  us, who
|  
extoad  a  limited  credit to  customers 
to ^ ? t h ; 
tetour monosyllablctwenty times to Mr. 
Thmtn fflfl '  y » " ’«
f u jß  

reçpoDsible, 

Or any other kind, send to the

Seed Store,
W. Y. LÄflOREHUX.

71  CANAL  ST.,

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.

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference: F irst National Bank,  Chicago. 
Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids.

A nything or everything in th e 
lin e o f Special Furniture, inside 
finish of  house,  office  or store, 
W ood  M antels,  and  contract 
w ork of any kind m ade to  order 
on short.notice and in th e best 
m anner out o f thoroughly dried 
lum ber  of  any  kind.  Designs 
furnished w hen desired.

JUDD  c*3  OO., 

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102 CANAL STREET.
TIME  TABLES,
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

All Trains daily except Sundny.

“ 

“ 

GOING  NORTH. Arrives. 
Leaves.
Traverse City & Mackinaw Ex........8:65 am  
9:05 am
11:30 a m
Traverse City & Mackinaw  Ex......  
Traverse City jSc Mackinaw Ex.... 7:30 p m  10:40 p m
Cadillac Express..........................3:40pm 
5:05pm
Saginaw Express.......................... 11:25 am  
7:20 am
4:10 pm
...........................10:30 am . 

Saginaw express runs through solid.
9:05 a. m. train has  chair  car to  Traverse  City  and 
11:30 a. m. train has chair ear  for Traverse  City, Fe- 
10:40 p. m, train has sleeping cars for Traverse  City, 

Mackinaw.
toskey and Mackinaw City.
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
GOING  SOUTH.
Cincinnati Express...... ................ 
Fort Wayne Express...... ..............10:30 am  
Cincinnati Express...................... 4:40 p m 
Traverse City and Mackinaw Ex. .10:50 p m 

7:15 am
11:45 am
5:00 pm

7:15 am  train  has  parlor  chair  ear  for  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m train has Woodruff sleeper for Cincinnati.
5:00 p. m. train connects  with M. C. R. R. at Kalama­
zoo for Battle Creek,  Jackson,  Detroit  and Canadian 
points, arriving in Detroit at 10:45 p. m.

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
6:30 a m ..................................................... . 
10:10 am
11:00am...........................................................   4:30pm
4:40 p m ...........................................................  8:50 pm
Leaving time at  Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.

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

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern. 

Grand Rapids &  Saginaw Division.

DEPART.

Saginaw Express..............................................   7 30 t
Saginaw Express................................................4 10 r
Grand Rapids Express......................................11 251
Grand Rapids Express......................................10 301
All trains arrive at and depart from Union depot. 
Trains run solid both ways.

ARRIVE.

Chicago & W est Michigan. 

Leaves. 
fMa.ll.................................. .........9:10 am  
tDay  Express..............  
...12:30pm 
•Night Express. 
...... 11:00 pm  
Muskegon Express........................6:00 pm  

 

Arrives.
3:55 pm
9:45pm
5:45 a m
11:00 am

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•Dally.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.  Through 
parlor car in charge of careful attendants  without ex­
tra charge to Chicago on 12:30 p.m., and through coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m. trains.

Newaygo Division.

Leaves. 
Express...... .................  
4:05pm 
Express....................................... .  8:25am  

Arrives.
4:20pm
10:20am
All trains arrive and depart from Unión Depot.
The Northern terminus of this division is at Baldwin, 
where close connection is made  with  F. & P. M. trains 
to and from Ludington and Manistee.  ,

 

 

W. A. Gavbtt, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mulliken,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. 

Kalamazoo Divisioni.

EX.&M&U.  N.Y.Mail. 
N.Y.Maih’lLY."Ex
4:35pm  7:45 am..Grand Rapids.  9:45 am   6:15pm
5:55pm  9:02am.. Allegan.. J»«.. •  8:28am  5:00am
7:05pm  10:06am..Kalamazoo...  7:80a m   4:oOpm 
8:30 pm   11:35 am..W hite Pigeon.  5:55 am   2:90pm 
2:30ain  6:05pm..Toledo ........11:00pm'  9:45am
8:80 a m  9:40 p m. .Cleveland.....6:40 p m  6:S5 a m
2:50pm  3:30 am ..Buffalo..,..;.. 11:55am  11:40pm
5:40 am   6:60 pm . .Chicago....... .11:30 pm   6:50 am
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 12:60 pm,carry- 
ingtiassengersasfaras Allegan.  All  trains  dally ex­
cept Sunday. 

J. W. McKbnney, General Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING  BAST. Arrives.  Leaves.
tSteamboat Express............ .
.  6:25pm 
6:80pm
,10:40 am  
10:50 am
fThrough Mail..4 ..................
tE vening Express............
,3:25pm  
8:50pm
•Limited Express.........................
. 6:50 a m  
6:60 am
tMixed, with coach...............>
. 
11:00am
GOING WEST.
,1:06 p m  
1:10 pm
tMorning  E xpress.,..;.!..........
fThrough Midi.............................
. ÍÜ O pu 
5:10 pm
tSteamboat Express...... .
.16:46 pm  
10:45pm
fMixed...
7:45 am  
•Night Express..........................
.  5:25am 
5:40am
Uy.  -
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Dai 
Passengers taking the 6:60  am  
i Express  make close 
connection s^ Owosso for Lansing 
r, Sad  at  Detroit for 
„  _):30 a m the following 
New  York,  arriving  there  at  10
>ress has a through Wagner car 
morning. TbeNlghtEi 
jom  Detroit to Grand Baplds. 
and local sleeping car1
Jas. Cabfbbli., City Passenger Agent.

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Gbo. B. RxsvB~fraffi^: Manager

Michigan Centred.

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Grand Rapids Division.
 

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Detroit Express............... 
6:15 am
: Day Express...
...........IdOpm
.
10:16 pm
 
•Atlantic Express............................  
Mixed  .................................... .......................6:50am
•Pacific  Express........1»'.;...........................  6:00am
Mail...... ..................................... . 
3:00p m
Grsiad Rapids Express..................... ..............16:16p m
Mixed............  
 
.....6:15 pm
Ü ‘Daily  All other daily except Sunday  Sleeping ears 
mm <m AUaaUe aadParifle B a n w  m a u to S h a n y m  
Detroit.  Pmtar ears t o t  lug Dear  Express  u l f i p s i l  
Rapids Express to and  from  Detroit.  Direct  connec­
tions made at Detroit with all through trains East over 
M. C. R. R., (Canada Southern Div.)

D. W. Joax8TON.Kfch.Pa88. Art., Grand Rapids. 
O.W.RVGGLB8, Gen’l Pass, and neketAgh, Chicago.

 

 

 

■Wholes a l i»

LAMP  GOODS  AND  STONEWARE,

134,136,138,140  Fulton  St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

To Insure Prompt Shipment Order 

Fruit Jars direct from us.

W ith Additions Lately Made to Oùr Business, W e now Think W e have the

In the State of Michigan.

Our Facilities for doing Business have been much 

Improved and we feel better able to meet all

W e Solicit Orders or Inquiries for anything wanted 

in the line of Hardware.

10 and 12 Monroe street, and 33, 35, 37, 39 and 4L Louis street,

Grand Rapids,

Mich

W M. SEARS & O'
Cracker  Manufacturers,

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

State  Agents

FOR THE

Excelsior Cooking Crock,
Positively the  finest  kettle  for  cooking  any 
kind , of  food.  Those  who  try it  will have no 
other.
Cheapest Preserving Kettle.  Absolutely Fire 
Proof.  Not affected by Heat or Acid,

Factory Prices.
2 quart..............................................
3 quart..............................................
4 quart..............................................

HBADQUARTERS

PRICKS. 

Mason’s Porcelain Top Frilit Jars,
$  gross
P ints....................................................... 39.fi(
Quarts...................................................  IO.0(
hi gallons....................................... 
13.0C
Rubbers  extra..........................................75
Globe Fruit Jura, pints.......................11.0C
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12.0(1
**  H gallon.................  15.0®
m  Preserve Jars.  Tomato Jugs.  Apple 
e 0ft  ^ u tte r  J a is .  Blackberry Jam Jars.
8.00 

quarts............. 

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Stew pans  14  gal 
1  »
Milk pans............

Dark.  White, 
doz.  1.50 
“  2.00 
.  ” 
.«6 
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1.75
2.25

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SHERWOOD’S.
gal. Pres.- Jars.......
Vi  “ 
....... :
y2  “  Butter  Crocks
White Lined............
J gal.  Butter  crocks
White Lined..........;
2 gal.  Butter  Crocks
White Lined..__   J
Tea Pots.

Coffee Pots,

Ice Mugs,

Regular Stoneware. 

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per doz.
.90  V4 gal. Preserve Jars. Stone  Cover............90
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1 
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..........1.40
.50  2  “ 
.........2.25
“ 
H  “  Tomato Jugs and corks..................... 90
................. 1.40
.00  1  " 
Corks for  V* gal. Tomato jugs..................15
................... 20
Sealing wax, five  pounds  in  package  per 
pound  .....................................................  .03

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  AUCH,

More or Less.

6 0   B A R S ----- 6 0   P O U N D S   I N   A   B O X .

Which they will sell at  a  Great  Bargain  until  Oct  1. 

ISO  BETTER  SOAP  MADE. 
10 boxes and upwards  delivered  at  your  railway station free.  Retail Grocers can sell 5 
pound  bars  “HAPPY  FAMILY  SOAP”  for  25  cents,  surprise  their  customers,  and 
make a handsome  profit.  Send  in  your  orders,  for. all soap stock has advanced,  so will 
this soap.  Manufactured  only by

Allen D. W risley,  -  OLioago, 111,
P.  S.—A full line of my fine  milled Toilet Soaps kept in  stock by Messrs. Jennings & 

Smith, the best value in  the market.

TRADE

This tea is grown  in  the, Province  of  Surunga,  which  district, all  Japanese admit, 
produces the most regular leaf and best drinking Tea of the many plantations now yield­
ing.  Each  year some new district  becomes  known,  but none grow any tea equal to that 
from Surnnga.  Our  Teas  are  carefully picked by the natives,  and  the  leaf well rolled. 
They are then sent to Yokoholna,  where special attention is given to the firing and pack­
ing for this market.  We can highly recommend our “Bee Chop” Tea, and all lovers  of 
a full, rich drinking tea will appreciate its many merits.  Try it and be convinced.

SFBOIAIjTIBS I

Oranges, Lemons, Bananas.

W est End Pearl St. Bridge.

3  Ionia St.,  G R A 2FD  R A P ID S ,  M ICH,

10 ft Wooden Box, 6ft Tin Pail, 2 ft Glass Jar, 1 ft Glass Jar.

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Strongest  and  Safest  Explosive  known 
to the Arts;  How irrite tíme ite Steck Up

Mail orders promptly filled, 

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