VOL.  i

GRAND  RAPID S,  W EDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  19,  1887.

W A N T E D ,

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.

AKRON, D.

CALL  FOR

From the best White Oats.

O a tm e a l,  1‘a r c h e d   F a r in o s e   a n d   R o lle d  
To use these choice  cereals  is  to learn  how 

W h e a t  i n  O r ig in a l P a c k a g e s .
to live.

157 South W ater St.,  CHICAGO. 

Reference:  F ir s t   N a t io n a l   B a n k ,  Chicago. 
Mic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n . Grand Rapids.

6R P  RAPIDS
FRO N T

TO  THE—

—AGAIN.—

We are now  supplying  the Trade  with our 

new Brand of Soap

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

Respectfully,

Proprietors of the

M anufacturers of

MANUFACTURED  BY

SOLD  BY

Prescription Cases and Store Fixtures

OP  ALL  KINDS.
SEND  FOR  CATALOGUES,
SEND  FOR  ESTIMATES.

Mich.

Telephone 374.

STATE  AGENT  FOR

W e give  prompt  personal  attention  to 
the sale of POT ATOES, 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.

The Only Reliable  Compressed Y east.

Manufactured by Riverdale Dist. Co.

106 K ent Street, G rand  Rapids, Mich. 

T E L E P H O N E   5 6 6 .

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.

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,

166 South W ater St., CHICAGO. 
Reference

F e l s e n t h a l .  G r o s s   &  M i l l e r . Bankers, 

Chicago.

Wishing to  procure  outfits  for  their Col­
lection Departments,  are  invited  to  exam­
ine the  following  quotations, which are for 
fine work on good quality of  paper:

30 Books Blue Letters,  50 in book. 
500  Record Blanks.
500  Notification Sheets.
250  Last Calls.
500  Envelopes.

500  Blue Letters, old style. 
250  Record Blanks.
250  Notification  Sheets. 
125  Last Calls.
500  Envelopes.

In place of  old  style  Blue  L etter  in  above 
$10  Outfit  we  can  substitute  10  books  Blue 
Letter in latest form , as recommended by the 
recent State convention, for $12.50 
Prices in  other quantities^ furnished  on ap­
plication

ENGRAVERS and PRINTERS,
49 Lyon St, Grand Rapids,

Gr a n d  R a p id s,  Mich,  Oct. 4,  1887.

I  take  pleasure in  informing my  friends 
and patrons that  I  have merged my whole­
sale  Tea,  Coffee  and  Spice  business into a 
stock company under the style of

which  will  continue  the  manufacture  of 
Spices  and  Baking  Powders  and  the  job­
bing of Teas,  Coffees  and  Cigars at the old 
stand.

Thanking the  trade for the generous pat­
ronage  accorded  me  in the past,  I bespeak 
for the new  house,  with  its  increased capi­
tal and enlarged facilities, a  continuance of 
the same,  assuring its  pâtrons'that as Pres­
ident and General  Manager of  the  corpora­
tion, their  orders  will  have  my careful at­
tention.' 

Absolutely yours,
EDWARD  TELFER.

Successor to

A. Ooye & Son,

DEALER IN

PROPRIETOR OF

FOR  EVERYBODY.

For  the Field or  Garden,

Jf you want to buy

I  parto M s a Specialty.

The Most Complete Assortment 

in Michigan.  Don’t Buy un­

til  you  get  m y prices.

ALFRED J.BROWN
16-18 N. Division St.. Grani Rapids

Representing Jas. Vick, of Rochester.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Spring,  Freight,  Express, 

Lumber  and  Farm

W A G O N S !

Logging Carts  and  Trucks 

Mill and Dump Carts, 

Lumbermen’s and 

River Tools.

We carry a large stock of m aterial, and have 
every facility for  making  first-class  Wagons 
of an kinds.
jaP Special  attention  given  to  Repairing, 
Painting and Lettering.

Grand  R apids,  Mich.

A. J.  Bowne, President.

Geo.  C.  P i e r c e ,  Vice President.

H. P. B a k e r , Cashier.

Transacts a general banking business.

MftkH a Specialty o f Collections.  Account! 

o f Country Merchants Solicited.

SHOE  BRUSHES,

SHOE  BUTTONS,

SHOE  POLISH,

SHOE  LACES.
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ings, etc.  Write  for Catalogue.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Floilr,  Feed,

Grain  and 

Baled  Hay.

25 Pearl Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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0. E.  Brown, Gen. Mgr.

T H E   R E D   X X ’S.
W ritte n  Especially f o r  Th e Tradesm an.

I had been on the  force  of  a  private  de­
tective agency but a Short  time,  when  one 
day my chief called me  into  his  private of­
fice and informed me  that  an  opportunity 
had arrived in which I might  win  fame  as 
well as gold. 
I had been earnestly longing 
for something to arise  by  which  1  might 
add to my reputation, but,  as  yet,  I  held 
merely a subordinate position on  the  force 
and any case of note had fallen to the lot of 
the older men,  leaving: me to work up a few 
petty burglaries and crimes  of  small conse- 
Describing  the  circumstances  of
quence.
the assignment, my chief said:

“The wholesale grocery house  of  — —— 
has been burglarized to the extent of $2,500, 
and there is not the  slightest  clue  to  the 
Go  and  look  the 
man who did the  work.
ground over,  and if you  need  any  help call 
on Jacobs.”

This was  the  way  the  chief  expressed 
himself on the subject—no  advice  to  offer 
and no encouragement to give.  All I should 
have to depend upon would be  my  own in­
telligence  in  ferreting  out  the  criminal. 
While  the  prospect  was  by no means en­
couraging, I determined to give the case the 
most careful thought and the most vigorous 
effort of which I was capable.

It was  nearly  noon  when the chief gave 
me my instructions and I determined to wait 
until after dinner before visiting  the  store. 
I accordingly went to a  restaurant,  ate  a 
hearty meal, smoked a cigar and then saun­
tered  leisurely  down  to  the scene of the 
burglary.  Going  into  the  counting-room, 
I gave Mr, B., who was the only member of 
the firm present, my  card,  and  asked to be 
made  acquainted  with  the  circumstances. 
He led me to the rear of the store,  where a 
a vault was built into the side  of  the  wall. 
The few particulars I could obtain  were to 
the effect that the  night  before  Mr. B. had 
himself locked the  strong  box  where  the 
currency was kept and  had  then  shut  the 
outer door and locked that, also.  They had 
not been in the practice of keeping so much 
currency on hand, but  the  $2,500 had been 
paid in by the purchaser  of  a  new  stock of 
groceries,  too late in  the  afternoon  to  be 
placed on deposit at the bank.  The strange 
part of the affair was  that  the  outside door 
appeared to have been forced by  a crow-bar 
or other tool, while the door of  the  strong­
box had not been forced.  It had been open­
ed with a key,  the packages  taken  out and 
then re-locked.  The keys, of  which  there 
were four, were, with the exception of one, 
in the possession of the  different  members 
of the firm.  The other had  been  kept in a 
drawer in the  book-keeper’s  desk  for  his 
use, and was found there  in  the  morning 
after the  robbery.

I had almost forgotten to mention that by 
the side of the vault,  about  ten  feet  from 
the floor,  was  a  window  about  two  feet 
square.  This was broken and  a rope,  used

entrance  and  exit.  How near right 1 was 
will be seen hereafter.

“Was thefe  any  mark  on  the  bills  by 

which they might be identified?” I asked.

“Yes,” responded Mr. B.,  “I counted the 
bills,  and as I did so I noticed  two "XX’s” 
in red ink on the lower right  hand  comer, 
placed there,  probably,  by  the  last  bank 
I should not have no-
handling the money, 
ticed it but for the -fact of bolding a  bill  to 
the light to discover if it was a  counterfeit, 
when the red mark attracted  my  attention, 
and then I looked at the rest to  see  if they 
were the same.”

“Did you mention the  fact  to  anyone  in 
the  store  last  night  or  this  morning?” I 
asked.

“No,  I did not.”
I then went on  with  the  usual  routine 
questions,  but elicited  nothing  very  satis­
factory.  The kook-keeper,  who  used  the 
key kept in the drawer,  was  a  nephew  of 
Mr. B.  The man who  swept  out the store 
and usually locked up at night was  an hon­
est-looking  young German,  and  suspicion 
could hardly attach to him.  After request­
ing the members of the firm  to  keep  their 
own counsel in the matter and a sharp look­
out for any of the marked bills  that  might 
be paid back to them, I  left  the  store,  con­
vinced that I could do  nothing  there.  The 
thief,  whoever he was,  was clever,  that was 
sure, and if I  expected  to find  him I must 
go to work on the outside in  hopes  of find­
ing some of the marked bills in  circulation. 
1, therefore,  went  immediately  to a print­
ing office and had  some  cards  printed  de­
scribing the mark on the bills,  and  asking 
anyone who might receive  such a bill to re­
port to me. 
I then distributed  these  cards 
at all places where it was possible  the  rob- 
ber might have to spend money—livery sta­
bles, depots, boarding houses  and  hotels— 
and  then  awaited  developments.  There 
was not much hope  in  these  proceedings, 
but it was the only possible way I could get 
a clue.

Two days passed, and my baits caught no 
fish;  but on the third day I  received  notice 
that a liveryman, to  whom  I  had  given a 
card, had something forme. 
I  went around 
to his place iind found  that  a  baker  who 
^ept his horse at the  barn,  had  . received a 
teh-dollat bill with the mark oh  the comer.

On inquiring the appearance  of  the person 
who had the bill,  he told me  that a boy had 
brought it in and asked for change, saying a 
gentleman had sent him from the saloon near 
by, where he worked. 
I saw at  once  that 
this was no clue,  and went away  somewhat 
discouraged.

The next day something turned up which 
was better.  A  lady  keeping  a  boarding 
house sent for me.  She  had  taken  afive- 
dollar  bill  from  one  of  her  boarders—a 
young girl who worked in  a  book-bindery, 
Jennie  Armstrong  by  name. 
I  enquired 
very particularly  as  to  her  character,  but 
was assured that she  was  a  worthy  young 
lady. 
In the course of  the  conversation, it 
leaked out that Jennie was in  the  habit of 
going to dances and the theater with a young 
man to whom  the  landlady  had  taken  a 
strong dislike—Charlie Pitts by name—and 
she had warned Jennie to look out for him.
I determined to  make  the  acquaintance of 
the young lady,  and also her friend,  if  pos­
sible. 
I asked the  landlady  when  she got 
home at night.

“She ought to be here by this  time,” said 
Mrs. Williams.  “There she is  now,  com­
ing in at the gate.”

Not wishing  to  be  seen  by  Jennie,  I 
stepped into a recess where I  could  see her 
as she passed in the hall.  There was noth­
ing noticeable in her  appearance.  She was 
dressed neatly, but  not  expensively,  and I 
thought 1 could detect a gleam  of  coquetry 
about her, but nothing of the criminal.  Af­
ter she had gone up to  her  room,  I  asked 
Mrs. Williams if Charlie was in the habit of 
calling on Jennie at the house.  She replied 
that he was not, but that he was  coming to 
take her to Redmond’s  the  next  evening, 
when I might get an opportunity  of  seeing 
him. 
I thanked her,  and,  after  arranging 
to pass as a relative of Mrs.  Williams as  an 
excuse for my presence,  left  the house.

On reaching the office, I found a  messen­
I read as 

ger with a note  waiting  for  me. 
follows:

Have detained a young woman here,  who 
offers me a twenty-dollar bill for a ticket to 
It has the mark described 
New York city. 
in your card.  Please come at once.
Yours,  F r e d .  L in d s o n ,

Ticket Agent M.  C. R.  R.

I hurried  down to the depot and found a 
good-looking  young  Irish  girl sitting in a 
chair in the ticket-office.  She was  nervous 
and seemed almost unable to sit  still in the 
chair. 
I asked her to step outside with me, 
at the same time  showing  her  my  badge. 
She started at sight of  it,  but accompanied 
me.

“Where did you get the bill  you  offered 

the agent for the ticket?” I asked her.

“Why do you want to know?”  she  said. 
I am going to 

“My husband gave it to me. 
New York and he is to join  me there.”

“What is your husband’s name? ”
“I can’t tell  you  that,”  she  responded, 
“but  I  know  Charlie  has  done  nothing 
wrong.”

Oh, ho!  Another Charlie in the plot!  Or, 
perhaps it’s the same one.  This case is get­
ting  rather  complicated,  thought I. 
I im­
mediately determined to detain her at head­
quarters and see if I could  not  urge  her to 
disclose her husband’s  name. 
It was with­
out avail, however.  1 urged  her  to tell me 
everything and assured her  no harm should 
befall her.  But still she refused.  Finally 
I got  out  of  patience  and  told  her  that 
Charlie  had  stolen  the  money and if she 
would not give me the information I desired 
I should have to place her under arrest.  At 
this she broke down completely  and sobbed 
as if her heart was breaking.

“Oh,  Charlie!”  she  sobbed.  “I said I 

would be true to you,  and I will.”

I saw I could do nothing further  in  this 
direction,  so I took the girl home and placed 
her in the care of my wife, leaving a police­
man for a guard. 
I did not want to confine 
the girl in the station, for,  however great a 
villain Charlie might prove,  I  was  sure she 
was innocent of any wrong and that he had 
deceived her. 
if he had married her, it was 
probably a false marriage,  and he was ship­
ping her out of the country to get rid of her.
On reporting at the store  the  next morn­
ing, I gave the firm  the  details  of  what I 
had accomplished so far,  and  told  them  I 
hoped to clear the matter up in a  few days. 
I also made the acquaintance  of  the  book­
keeper, Frank Henderson,  whom I had not 
met on my first visit at the store.  His face 
struck me unpleasantly. 
It was a face that 
could not be mistaken the second  time.  A 
large scar on the side of his forehead gave a 
rather  sinister  expression  to  an otherwise 
intelligent face and would  attract attention 
anywhere. 
I  also discovered,  through one 
of the clerks, that he was engaged to marry 
the daughter of Mr.  C., the  senior  partner.
At the appointed time that evening, I was 
ensconced in Mrs. Williams’ rather cozy lit­
tle parlor, awaiting the  advent  of  Charlie 
No.  1 with great  impatience.  After  wait­
ing until past eight  o’clock,  Mrs.  Williams 
discovered that Jennie  had  gone  out  soon 
after supper,  telling her room-mate that she 
was going to meet Charlie down town to go 
to the theater, 
I thought  the  matter  over 
and decided that the  only  chance  left  for 
me was to go to the theater, get a conspicu­
ous place where I  could see the whole house, 
and by that meansdiscover Miss Jennie’s es­
cort.  As I  entered the lobby, I  saw Jennie

and her escort going  upstairs  to  the dress- 
circle.  They passed so  quickly  that  I  had 
no opportunity of seeing the face  of  Char­
lie, but,  as I reached the  dress-circle, 
they 
were just getting settled  in  their  seats and 
the young man’s face was  exposed  to  the 
full glare of the  gaslight.  Great  Heavens! 
What did I discoverf  Jennie’s Charlie was 
none other than Frank Henderson, the book­
keeper!  Rather an interesting  state  of af­
fairs, to be  sure.  Would  the  poor  Irish 
girl’s Charlie turn out to be this changeable 
young gentleman,  also?  And here  an idea 
struck me. 
I would confront the  two girls 
and by this means force the  truth from one 
of them.

Accordingly, the next morning I called at 
Mrs. Williams’ before  Jennie  had  gone to 
work.  Taking her one side, I told her what 
I had seen the  night  previous,  not  telling 
her  his  right  name  however.  Then  (al­
though far from positive  of  it  myself),  I 
told her the story of the poor girl  whom he 
was so basely deceiving,  and  worked  upon 
her fears and sympathy until she consented 
to go with me and see Maggie.

Before letting Jennie see her, I told Mag­
gie how she had been  deceived  and  that  I 
had seen Charlie at the  theater  with  a girl 
whom he had promised  to  marry  (a  false­
hood,  by the way,  but  excusable)  and  that 
he was  engaged  to  marry  another  young 
lady,  to my  knowledge.  Then I sent  Jen­
nie to her and left them alone.  When Jen­
nie came out there was fire in her eyes.

“The  miserable,  deceitful  wretch!”  she 
exclaimed.  “I wouldn’t  mind  for  myself, 
but that poor girl in there has  got  a broken 
heart, and I’ll help in  punishing him for it, 
if it disgraces me forever.”

I assured her that  I  would  see  that  no 
shame attached to her,  if she would tell me 
all she knew of him,  which she at once did. 
She had met him on the street,  flirted  with 
him,  and,  as a result, had  attended  parties 
and entertainments with him.  Then I ask­
ed her how she obtained the five-dollar bill?
“Charlie went home with me from a dance 
one night.  At the  gate  he  asked  me for 
a kiss. 
I told him kisses were worth a dol­
lar apiece, just in joke.  He  said,  ‘I’ll give 
you five;’  so I let him kiss me, and took the 
money and paid it  to  Mrs.  Williams  for 
board. 
I thought if he wanted to get rid of 
his money so foolishly I might as well have 
it as anyone, though I  wouldn’t have touch­
ed it if I had known it was stolen.”

Well,  by this time,  I had  matters  pretty 
near as I  wanted  them. 
I  couldn’t  help 
feeling sorry for the girl he had deceived so 
basely, for she was poor and helpless.  The 
other two did not worry  me,  for  I  knew 
they would soon get over it.

My next move was to see Mr.  Henderson, 
I  found  him in his 

alias  Charlie  Pitts. 
room, preparing to go out.

“Mr. Henderson,  are you  very  much en­
gaged? ”  1  asked,  pleasantly.  “If not, I 
should  like  to  have  a#short  conversation 
with you in regard  to  the  robbery.”

“Well,  I was going  to  call  at  Mr.  C.’s, 
but I can spare you a few  minutes,”  he re­
plied,  taking  off  one  of  the  elegant  kid 
gloves he had just drawn on.

“What I wish to inquire is,  how much of 
the money which you  stole  from  the  safe 
has been spent,  and where you have hidden 
the balance?”

He turned as pale as a sheet, but soon re­

covered his composure and replied:

“What reason,  sir,  have you for insulting 
me in my  own  room?  I am  not guilty of 
stealing,  and I order  you to leave the room 
at once! ”

“Not quite so fast,  jay dear  fellow,” said 
I.  “If you don’t sit quietly  down and talk 
with me here, I shall be compelled to arrest 
you.”

With a half-audible curse,  he  sat * down. 
As I told him of Maggie  and  Jennie,  and 
the marked money,  1  could  see  his  nerve 
was shaken.  At last he said:
“I see you know a good  deal  about  me. 
However,  I  did  not  take  the  money;  the 
porter took it and  I  discovered  him in the 
act.  He offered me $500  if I  would  keep 
still about it, and, as I  was  hard up,  I took 
it.”
“Oh, no, Henderson,” I  replied.  “That 
story is too thin. 
If you will tell me where 
the balance of the money is, I will guarantee 
that your uncle will not have  you  arrested. 
If you don’t tell me, I shall be compelled to 
make you do so in a more public place.” 
Upon this,  he  broke  down  entirely,  and 
made a clean breast of it.
“I came to the store,  went  in  the  rear 
door, opened the safe with the combination 
and then opened the strong box with the key 
kept in my desk, which  I replaced. -  I  then 
broke 
lock,  smashed 
combination 
the window and hung  the  rope  inside, 
to 
make it appear a burglary.”
He informed me that the money was hid­
den in some old coffee sacks on  the  second 
I went  there  with  him 
floor of the store. 
and found $2,000  of the  money.  The rest 
he had squandered. 
I returned  the  money 
to the firm and told them who the thief was, 
advising them not to prosecute him-—advice 
in which his uncle ably  seconded me, upon 
his promise to leave  the  country.  Out  of 
respect to Mr. B.’s feelings, the firm let the 
matter drop.
Poor  Maggie,  the  most  deeply-wronged 
person  connected  with  the  robbery,  was 
taken  violently  ill,  but  through the good 
care of my wife, recovered, and is now mar­
ried to a respectable young  man, and is do­
ing well.
The only thing X regretted about the case 
wad the necessity for  robbing  justice of its 
due by letting the scoundrel go free.

the 

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Horse and W agon Covers, 

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We have a full stock of this well-known 

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and having sold it for over SIX YEARS can 

recommend it to our  customers  as  be­

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Jobbers and

Retailers of

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When two or more coats of our P I O N E E R  P R E ­
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White Lead or  such-other paint as the  owner  may se­
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given to hie dealer.

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Mfrs. & Corroders of P ure W hite Lead.

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Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and gardai. 
Parties  tu  want  should 
Write to or see the

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

Or any other kind, send to the

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71  CANAL ST.,

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clear Havana filler, with a spotted Sumatra 
Wrapper, and  entirely free  from  any  arti­
ficial flavor or adulterations.

It will be sold bn its merits.  Sample or­

ders filled on 6q  days approval.

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

What do you think of this?  While in conver­
sation  with  Wm. M. Dale,  one of  the largest 
druggists in  Chicago,  we  were  surprised  to 
learn that he had sold over one and a half mil­
lion of Tansill’S  Punch 5c. cigars  and that the 
quality gets better allttae time.  The  demand 
continues to increase.  Let us ten 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.

Manufacturer  of  Harness  and  Collars 
at Wholesale  and Retail,  78  Canal  street, 
Grand Rapids, has the finest line  to  select 
from in the city.  Give  him  a call.  None 
bat experiencedworkmen employed.

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Yerme f  1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known od application

It looks doubtful whether the Manitobans 
M il be able to get their railroad up the Bed 
River Valley, from Winnepeg to the United 
State, completed at present.  Mr. Norquay, 
the “Premier” of Manitoba, who  has  been 
Inquiring diligently in  New  York and else­
where for a capitalist  who  would  advance 
money for  its construction, has  apparently 
failed altogether to discover  one, but  The 
T radesman  has  inside information to the 
effect that the Grand  Trunk  interest  pro 
poses to see the  road  put  through  in  due 
time. 
It is evident that the  matter  is  not 
to drop out of sight  by  means.  The  die 
content  in  Manitoba  over  the  “disallow­
ance” of the road by the  Dominion  author­
ities, in the interest of  the  Canada  Pacific 
toad, is very deep and will not subside. 
It 
is sure to appear  strongly  in the politics of 
<<anada.

Purely Personal.

Arthur  Graham,  book-keeper  for Cody, 
Ball, Barnhart & Co.,  will be  married  this 
evening to Miss Bertha Rand.

Jos. Totten, the  Totten mill man, has in­
vented  an  improved  gammer  for  circular 
saws, which  he  is  arranging  to put on the 
market.

W. B. Sweet,  formerly  book-keeper  for 
H. H. Freedman & Co.,  at Heed  City,  has 
taken a position in the business department 
of Bennett & Roney’s new  commercial  col­
lege.

Smith Barnes,  General  Manager  of  the 
Hannah &  Lay  Mercantile  Co.,  Traverse 
'City, has  returned  from  his  trip  to  the 
Pacific  Coast, much improved in health and 
spirits.

Miss Lilia Sligh, for the past  three years 
billing clerk for Hawkins & Perry,  severed 
'her  connection  with  the  house  Saturday 
•evening.  She is succeeded  by  Fred.  Ald­
rich, who recently graduated  from  college.
A. W. Newark, formerly  engaged  in the 
grocery business at Cadillac  under the style 
of Newark & Sorenson,  but  more  recently 
on the road for Cody, Ball, Barnhart & Co., 
has purchased  an  interest in the lumbering 
and mercantile  business  of  the  Sands  & 
Maxwell Lumber Co., at  Prentice  Bay,  U. 
P ., and will manage the  same.

Gripsack Brigade.

David Donnan, representing  Wm.  Don- 

sian, of Detroit, was in town last week.

John Brummeler  succeeds  Peter Lankes- 
te r as city salesman for  Hawkins  & Perry.
Mrs. C. C. Crawford is visiting friends in 
Seed City.  Cornelius is disconsolate in con­
sequence.

Mrs. W.  F. Blake, wife of  the  eye-glass 
'traveler, is  spending  the  week  among old 
friends In Chicago.

Thdte  is  strong  Jalk of arresting L. M. 
Mills, W. F. Blake and C. C.  Crawford  for 
personating officers.

Jas. D. Wadsworth,  who  has  been  con­
fined to Ms house for  several  weeks  with 
sciatic rheumatism, is able  to  be  about the 
Store again, but will not resume his position 
on the road before spring.

Claude  D.  Freeman  has  started  on  the 
road for the Telfer Spice Co., taking the G. 
K. & L, C.  &  W.  M.,  and D., G. H. & M, 
(East) as his territory.  Claude is a stirring 
sort of a youth and is  destined to make his 
mark as a salesman.

R. P. Bigelow,  of  Owosso,  sends  The 
T radesman  a  hand-bill  announcing  the 
particulars of a friendly game  of  base ball 
which was played at that  place  yesterday, 
between the traveling salesmen and grocery- 
tnen of Owosso.  The announcement plead­
ed   for  a crowd  in  the  following  terms: 
“ Come  out  -and  absorb  the ozone and be 
pulverized,  and  as  the  succulent  tobacco 
yuiee echoeth from the gravel and the calves 
in ib eir adjacent pens sniff  the scent of the 
affray, skew their tails athwart the ambient 
air and bleat, gaze heavenward  and  watch 
the ethereal  gyrations  of  the ball as it as­
cends  from  the  bat  in  the  hands of our 
heavy hitters, and while we score tallies, go 
ye down deep in  your  pants  pockets  and 
feel for fifty-cents to pay lor  the  oysters.”
‘ Tiios. McLdod mid Samuel Tichner acted as 
umpires.

Association Notes.

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Rockford Register:  The  Rockford BusH 
ness Men’s Association held a special meet­
ing Monday to take  action  towards  having 
it chartered by the  State Association.  The 
^Executive Committee was instructed to take 
.  such action and  the  new  constitution  was 
[^adopted*

The  following  associations  have  been 
^  -chartered by the M. B. M. A. since the  last 
"^•epqrt:  Lawrence,  29  members;  Harbor 
.^Springs, 38 members; Kingsley, O members; 
||jfoerm an, 16 members;  North Muskegon, 12: 
members;  Plainwell, 34  members;  Owosso, 

^  36 members;  Quincy, 35 members.

ggglptailwaar.
Qwosso 

|  The Hew ear shops of the T., A. A.  & N, 
which  have  been  secured  for
foe B. M. A. of  that  place,  are
around house  with  stalls  «for 
tifirty-five engine», a machine shop covering 
large  buildings for 
/»hops,  wood  shops,  foundry,

foot, aaÉfoher

Boned with  F eatherbone,  which is  absolutely un- 
! u.eakable, and is n o t Injured  by p e rs p lra tta L o r laun- 
drying.  Soft amd pllable, giving health and comfort

Grand  Rapids,

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GRAND -BAEipg  GOSSIP.

Eaton & Lyon have issued a 61 page cata­

logue of standard books.

Miller & Thompson  a re , opening  a  dry 
goods store at 21 and 23  Grandville avenue
Benj. J. Story has engaged in foe grocery 
business at Langston.  Clark. Jewell & Co. 
famished the stock.

M. M. Brooks has engaged in the grocery 
business at Austerlitz.  The stock was pur­
chased at this market. 

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W. J. McJunker has engaged  in  the gro­
cery business at Summit  City.  The  stock 
was purchased at this market.

M. Boyce & Son, formerly engaged in the 
meat business at  Petoskey,  are  now  con­
ducting a market at 661 Wealthy  avenue.

Divine  &  Van Denbergh,  dry goods  and 
clothing dealers at Howard City, have added 
a line of  groceries.  Clark,  Jewell  &  Co. 
and  Hawkins  & Perry furnished the stock.
Bradfield & Co. and O. M.  Dunham  have 
joined hands in  the  wall  paper  and paint 
business  and both establishments will here­
after be ran under the style  of  Bradfield & 
Co. 

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E.  Bodenhuis  has  engaged  in  the  dry 
goods business at the  corner  of  Plainfield 
avenue and Caledonia  street.  P.  Steketee 
& Sons furnished the stock.

Geo. Dunaven, who recently sold his gro­
cery business on East street,  has  about de­
cided to re-engage in the  same  business on 
Union street,  near  Mechanic,  as soon as a 
suitable store building can be erected.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has  it  on  undoubted 
authority that the D.,  G.  H.  & M.  and Lake 
Shore Railways will change their lines so as 
to  run  into  the  union  depot  next  season; 
also that the plans for a $300,000 depot have 
been decided upon  and  that  work  on  the 
new structure will  be  begun  as  soon  as 
spring opens.

The  freight  traffic  of  this  market  has 
grown  so  rapidly  during  the  past  few 
months  that  the  railroads  centering  here 
are unable to do the  business  justice.  Es­
pecially is this true of the G. R. & L, which 
has usually been  a  model  road  in this re­
spect  Freight which ought  to  go  out the 
same day it  is receipted  for  by  the  trans­
portation companies is frequently held  over 
a second day  and  occasionally  to  a third. 
The  delay  occasions  much  complaint,  but 
will have to be  borne  until  matters  can  be 
adjusted to change conditions.

AROUND  TH E  STATE.

Kinney—C. E. Manly has  sold his gener­

al stock to John Kinney.

Allen—John Bond  succeeds  T.  H.  Con- 

dra in the meat business.

Croswell—Thorp & Patterson  succeed A. 

J.  Thorp in general trade.

Romeo—Levant  Bedell  succeeds  W.  R. 

Owen in the book business.

Midland—J. S. Allen has  moved his boot 

and shoe stock to M t Pleasant.

Quincy—C. H. Hallock  succeeds  C.  D. 

Livermore in the bakery business.

South  Haven — Wm;  Jacobs  succeeds 

Chas.  Sharron in the meat business.

South Lyon—L.  C.  Tubbs  has  sold  his 

grocery stock to Postmaster Calkins.

Hastings—Levi  Fowler  has removed his 

boot and shoe stock to Lake Odessa.

Detroit—John  Lauer  succeeds  Lauer & 

Baumann in the machinery business.

Hillsdale—Ferry & Savery succeed G. W. 

Mosher & Co. in the grocery business.

Casnovia— R. K,  Hesseltine  &  Son,  the 
hardware dealers, are going out of business.
Bay  City—W.  W.  Hodgkins  succeeds 
Goeschel & Hodgkins  in  the  grocery busi­
ness.

Bay City—F. A.  Schleiper succeeds F. A. 
Schleiper & Co.  in the  drug  and cigar busi­
ness.

Ionia—Chas. B. Hall  succeeds  Geo.  W. 
Burt & Co. in the bakery  and confectionery 
business.

Edmore—Frank Dreese  has  removed his 
general stock to the store formerly occupied 
by Betts Bros.

Chase—W. S. Linn, a Detroit  wholesale 
grocer,  has opened a  retail  grocery.  J. P. 
Stacy will manage the business.

Pentwater—Wm.  L.  Tilden  has  sold his 
interest in  the  hardware  establishment of 
Tilden & Co. to Chas.  F. Lewis.

East  Lake—Mathias  Albreytsen  has 
bought  the  general  stock  of the Maniatiw 
Town Workingmen’s Mercantile Co.

Dorr—The store  and  general  stock of F. 
Newman, Sr., was  burned  to  the  ground 
early Monday  morning.  Loss,  about  $3,- 
000; insurance  $2,500.

Grand  Junction—W.  A.  Feazell  has 
placed his general store in charge of a com­
petent  manager and  gone to Wisconsin to 
open another general store.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

East Jordan—The East  Jordan  Lumber 
Co. succeeds Glenn & Porter in the sawmill 
business.

Traverse City—T. Wilce & Co., ofGhica- 
go, are driving piles for  the  foundation of 
their new mill.

Battle Creek—The Advance Thresher Co. 
is building a large shop for the manufacture 
of portable engines. 

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Bay  City—Capt.  James  Davidson  has 
ordered a band  mill  and  five-block  timber 
carriage tor hisship yard prill.

Clinton—The  Clinton  Woolen Mfg. Co. 
is to use crude petroleum in place  of  coal. 
The reservoir to contain the  stuff  will  be 
built a t the depot, a pipe line  leading  it  to 
tbemifo 

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Yermontyille—The Potter Manufacturings 
Co., o f Pottervtlle, has purchased  the Had- 
dix sawmill. 
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Vermontville—Park  &  Whiteherse  have 
contracted  to  cut  1,000,600  feet of lumber 
for the Potter Manufacturing Co., of Potter 
ville.
I   Gladstone—T.  J.  Sheridan,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  and  R.  E.  Walmsley,  of  Cedar 
Springs,  talk  of  building  a  shingle  mill 
here.

Lakeside—Hunter,  Tillotson  & Co. have 
received another order for boxes from  Cen­
tral America,  and,are now at work on a IX 
000 lot.

Skanee—Busch & Been’s  mill  has  shut 
down on account  of  the  prevalence  of  ty­
phoid fever,  which  attacked  some  of  the 
workmen.
,  Good H art—Wm. H. & Allen  J.  Yesey, 
of Goshen, Ind., have  secured  a  site  and 
Will shortly put up  a  sawmill—an  institu 
tion long needed here.

Allen ville—The furnace company,  has 

crew of about sixty men at work getting out 
wood for making charcoal.  They  are  cut­
ting abont 400 cords a week.

Cedar Springs—E. M.  Phelps  has moved 
his shingle mill to Millbrook,  where  he has 
purchased  600  acres  of  pine  and  expects 
to cat 40,000  shingles per day.

Detroit—The  Wolverine  Manufacturing 
Co. has been organized w itlA   capital stock 
of $10,000, one-half  paid-in.  J.  S. Seefred 
and John M.  Gunn each hold 133 shares and 
Marcus A.  Emmons  134.  The  corporation 
will make spring beds, lounge and furniture 
frames, cornices and mouldings.

Detroit—The  Bagley  Rail Joint Co. has 
been organized to engage in the manufacture 
of an improved fish joint for  railway  rails, 
The capital stock is $50,000,  all paid in and 
divided  into  2,000  shares,  of  which  262 
shares are held by  Horace E. Smith,  491 by 
Allen Bagley,  301 by same  as  trustee,  568 
by Archie W.  Wilkinson,  87  by F.  Newton 
Rice and 301 by same as trustee.

STRAY  FACTS.

Caro—The Caro Woodenware Co. is haul­
ing pine logs  from Ogemaw  county by the 
train load.

East Jordan—French & Sutton have paid 
out $14,000 for  hemlock  bark  during  the 
past season.

Northport—Thos.  Copp & Co.  are adding 
to the capacity of their sawmill by the addi 
tion of a planing mill and handle lathe.

Plainwell—Will W.  Dunlap  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  Forbes  Boat  Co.  to  John 
Forbes, who will continue the business.

Marquette—W.  W.  Walker  is  establish­
ing camps in the Woods north of Negaunee, 
where he expects to cut about 6,000,000 feet 
this winter.

Reed City—W.  E.  Bellows  has  sold  to 

the  Petrie  Lumber  Co.,  of  Muskegon, 
tract of hemlock  in  Osceola  county,  esti­
mated to cut 2,500,000 feet  The  terms  of 
the transfer were not made public.

Chesaning—E.  Hallenbeck 

is  shipping 
200,000 feet of oak.  A portion of it goes to 
the Saginaw river for water  shipment,  and 
the remainder is shipped directly  to his dis­
tributing yard  at  Tonawanda,  N.  Y.,  by 
rail.

Allegan—M.  O.  Walker,  the  creamery 
man, is in financial  embarassment  and his 
fruit evaporator is being run by E. B. Born, 
the principal creditor.  A movement will be 
made to make a stock  company  to run the 
concern.

Detroit—The Detroit  Insole  Co. 

is  the 
style of a new stock company  v -th $10,000 
capital, all paid in.  Benjamin  L.  Mason, 
Samuel S. Stephenson,  Henry  S.  Robinson 
and Arthur W. Kelly each  hold  100 of the 
400 shares.

Mecosta—The banking firm  of  Gilbert & 
Wixson has been  dissolved,  Giles  Gilbert 
retiring, and the business  will  hereafter be 
conducted by Wixson &  Carpenter, the lat­
ter, a New York capitalist, having been ad­
mitted to partnership.

Detroit—The Electrical  Accumulator and 
Lighting  Co.  has  been  organized  with a 
capital stock of $100,000,  one-tenth paid in, 
for the purpose of  buying  and selling  dy­
namos,  storage  batteries,  etc.  The 4,000 
shares are owned  as  follows:  James  Mc­
Millan* Ashley Pond, William  A. Jackson, 
Frank E. Snow,  800 each;  C. E.  Fisher and 
W.  C. McMillan, 400 each.

Iron Mountain—The more learned  of the 
bank  failure  the  less  there  is  certainly 
known about jqst what is the matter.  The 
bank was known as the Merchants & Miners’ 
Bank, and J. S. Edwards was  the  proprie­
tor.  On Thursday last he  made an assign­
ment to J. F. Shafer.  The liabilities of the 
bank are about $15,000, and  the “available 
assets nominal,” or,  in other words,  the ex­
plosion has been a bad  one.  Edwards  has 
left the place,  or is not where he can be seen 
by the naked eye,  and his friends say he has 
gone to raise funds.  Those who take a pes­
simistic  view  of  the  situation, 
think  his 
search for fands will extend so far  and  so 
long that the  railroads  will  all  be  over­
grown with weeds before he gets back.

Encouraging  Beginning  at  Quincy.
Quincy, Oct.  15,  1887.

B. A, Stowe, Grand Rapids:

P e a r  Sir —We have now got our organi­
zation  completed, committees  and  all/ and 
enclose herewith per capita  dues  on thirty- 
five members.  We expect  to  increase  our 
membership  to  forty  before  many  more 
moons. 

Yours,

c. w .  Be n n e t t.

L. Wintemitz has secured the sale agency 
at this market for  the  celebrated  “Pondoa 
Relish,” which  is  claimed  to  be  the best 
table sauce made.  The “Relish” comes two 
dozen bottles in a case and is sold,for $2.50, 
which affords a   handsome  profit  to foe're- 
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Michigan B ust neg» H a n ’s Association

President—Frank Hamilton, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Paul P. Morgan, Monroe.
Seeolut Vice-President—S. Lam from, Oerosso.
Secretary—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—L. W. Sprague. Greenville.
Executive Board—President, Secretary,  G eo.W .H ub 
bard, Flint; W. E. Kelsey, Ionia; Irving F. Clapp, A1 
legan.
Committee on Trade Interests—Smith Barnes, Traverse 
City; Chas. T. Bridgman, Flint;  H.  B. Fargo,  Muske­
gon.
Commmitte on Legislation—Frank Wells,'Lansing; W. 
E. Kelsey, Ionia; Neal McMillan, Rockford.
Committee- on  Transportation—J.  W.  Milliken,  Trav 
erse City; Jno. P. Stanley, Battle  Creek;  Wm. Rebec 
East Saginaw.
Committee an  Insurance—N.  B.  Blain,  Lowell;  E. 
Hogle, Hastings; O. M. Clement, Chebo*
Committee on BuUding  and  Loan Associations—F. L- 
Fuller,  Frankfort;  S.  E.Parkill,  Owosso;  Will  Em 
mert, Eaton Rapids.

Official Organ—TBe Mich iga n Tradesm an.

The following  auxiliary associations  are op 
erating under  charters  granted by the Michi 
gan Business Men’s Association:

No. 1—T raverse City R. M. A. 
President, Geo. E. Steele; Secretary, L. Roberts.

President, N. B. Blain; Secretary, Frank T. King.

N o . 2—L o w e ll  ti. M . A . 
N o.  3 —a ttu rg is B , M . A . 

President. H. S. Church; Secretary, Wm. Jora.
N o. 4 —G ra n d   R a p id s  R . G . A . 
President, Jas. A. Coye; Secretary, E. A. Stowe.

N o.  5 —M u sk e g o n  B .  M . A . 

President, H. B. Fargo; Secretary, W. C. Conner.

N o. 6 —A lb a  B. M . A . 

President. C. R. Smith; Secretary, P. T. Baldwin.

N o.  7—D im o n d a le  B . M . A . 

President, T, M. Sloan; Secretary, N. H. Widger.

N o. 8 —E a s tp o r t B . M . A .

President, F. H. Thurston; Secretary, Geo. L. Thurston

N o. 9 —L a w re n c e  B . M . A . 

President, H. M. Marshall; Secretary, C. A. Stebbins.

N o.  1 0 —H a r b o r  S p r in g s   B . M . A . 

President, W, J. C lark; Secretary, À. L. Thompson.

N o .11 —K in g s le y   B. M . A . 

P resident, H. P. W hipple; Secretary, C. H.  Camp.

President, C. McKay; Secretary, C. W. B ennett.

N o.  1 3 —Q u in c y  B . M . A . 

N o.  1 3 —S h e r m a n  B . M . A . 

Präsident, H. B. S tnrtovant; S ecretary, W.  G. Shane.

N o.  1 4 —N o. M u sk e g o n  B . M . A . 
President, S. A. Howey; Secretary, G. C. H avens.

N o.  1 5 —B o y n e  C ity   B .  M . A . 

President. R. R. P erkins;  Secretary, J. F. Fairchild.

President, J. V. C randall;  Secretary, A. P. Comstock.

N o .  1 6 —S a n d  L a k e  B . M . A . 
N o. 17 —JP Ia iu w e ll JB. A l. A . 

President, M. Bailey, Secretary, J. A. Sidle.
N o.  1 8 —O w o sso  B . M . A . 

President, W. A, W oodard; Secretary, S. Lam from .

MISCELLANEOUS

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

F OR  SALE—One  circular  sawmill  with  top 

i JIOii  SALE—General  stock  of  goods.  Will 
F OR  SALE—Nice  country  hotel.  Highland 
F OR  SALE—General  store  in village of  Mt.

saw, arbor aud  saws, carriage and  track 
saw, dust conveyor  and  log  turner,  all  com 
piete and good as new.  Price $275.  A bargain 
Address M. G. Terry, Monroe, Mich. 
214*
rent  or  sell  building.  Good  reason  for 
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selling.  Address  J. C. Stitt, Dollarville, Mich.
221*
Sta., Oakland  Co., Mich.  C.  M. Chatfleld
214*
Pleasant: dry goods, groceries, boots and 
shoes,  crockery,  and  farm   of  ltW  acres,  70 
acres improved.  Apply to John Maxwell, Mt. 
Pleasant, Mich. 
214*
TJIOR  _ SALE—Stock  of  drugs,  medicines, 
-L  Daints, oils, wallpaper, books and notions 
in village of 900 inhabitants; stock and fixtures 
invoice $3,000; can be  reduced  to  $2,000.  Ad 
dress Lock Box Q, CoopersviUe. Mich. 
2:3*
hardware  and  mill  supplies.  Address 
Wayne Choate, Agent, East Saginaw. 
210tf
"IJIOR  SALE—Or  exchange, platform   spring 
J-  peddling  wagons,  suitable for  wholesale 
qr retail  trade.  Address  Welling  & Carhartt. 
139 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, Mich. 
208tf
ingston  street.  Will  sell on long tim e or 
exchange for good stocks, mortgages or othet 
real estate.  E. A. Stowe, Tradesman oflice.
the  ma 
chinery of a two  run  grist  mill.  P u t up 
f  
G. C. Willey 
213*
The best drugstore in the thriv 
ing city of Muskegon.  Terms easy.  C. L,
f Muskegon.

F OR  SALE—Desirable  residence lot on Liv­
F OR SALE—A t  a  bargain,  all 

last year.  Does first class-work, 
Summit  City.
T710R  SALE
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Brundage, Muskegon, Mich. 

F OR  SALE—At a  bargain,  a  clean stock of 

Shultz, city.

commission.
Ind.

class  references, 
flee.

dry  goods  store.  Good  location. 
221 Mt. Yernon street.

F OR RENT—Pleasant store at  19  West Pul­
W ANTED—Agents to handle the new chem 

W ANTED—Salesmen to sell new patent led­
W ANTED—To exchange.  Two freight  wa­
W ANTED—Location for custom  sawmill in 

~ 193tf
ton street,  Boston  block.  Now  used  as
Apply  to 
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elty ever produced.  Erases ink in two seconds 
no abrasion of paper. 200 to 500 per cent profit 
One agent’s sales amounted to $620in six days; 
another $32 in two hours.  Territory absolute­
ly free,  Salary to good  men.  No  ladies need 
answer.  Sample 35 cents.  For term s and full 
particulars, address the m anufacturers,  J.  W. 
Skinner & Co.. Onalaska,  Wis. 
217*
ger to m erchants: and other specialties;
Model Ledger  Co., South  Bend.
213*
gons for  buggy  horse.  Address  O.  C.
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pine or hardwood of large tracts, or two 
or  three  years  sawing.  Satisfaction  guaran­
teed  in  m anufacturing.  Address  B. B., care 
Tradesman. 
210tf
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to take  good position in  country town.
Good  salary  to  good  man. 
Address  J.,  bare 
Tradesman,
20'
■ ANTED—To exchange  farm  worth  $2,t€0 
for a stock  of goods.  Address  Box  23,
Tradesman office.
208*tf
W ANTED—A  man  having  an  established 

trade among lumbermen to add  a  spec­
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man a splendid chance will be  given  to  make 
money without  extra expense.  Address “B,” 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
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and expenses; no experience necessary. 
Address  with  stamp.  Palm er & Co., Lacrosse. 
Wis. 
213*
TIMBER—Land  for  sale—4*400  acres of  fine 
tim ber  land  in  Columbia  Co.,  Oregon, 
within 35 miles of Portland, 3 to 4 miles of  the 
Columbia  River.  For further particulars call 
on or  address,  E.  E .  Long,  No.  8  Stark  St., 
Portland,  Oregon. 
213
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established  real  estate and  loan  office; 
clears $3,500 yearly;  will  guarantee  $100  per 
month.  Address lock  box  437, Lacrosse, Wfs.
213*

Motley Organizes an Association.

As anticipated fo r Tins  T r a d e sm a n last 
week,  the business  m en of  Morley met last 
Friday evening for the purpose  of  organiz­
ing a B. M. A. John E Thurkow was elected 
chairman of the meeting,  and J.  H. Wright 
secretary  pro  tern.  After  an  explanation 
of the plan of organization  by E. A. Stowe, 
W.  O.  Lake  moved  that  the  organisation 
of an Association be immediately proceeded 
with,  which  was  adopted.  W.  H.  Hicks 
moved that  the  constitution  presented  be 
adopted,  which  was  carried.  The  follow­
ing gentlemen then handed in  their  names 
for charter membership:  Wm.  Hill, W. H. 
Hicks,  F.  C.  Beard,  Chas.  Lawson,  H. 
Strope,  Lon A. Pelton, W. O. Lake, Nelson 
Pike, B. H. McMullen,  W.  H.  Richmond,. 
J.  B.  Loshbough,  Dr. B.  F.  Brown,  L. I. 
Whitbeck, J.  E.  Thurkow,  Hansen  Bros., 
Hugh  &  Co.,  Cutler  &  Wright,  A.  W. 
Dodge Clothespin Manufacturing Co.

Election of officers resulted as follows:
President—John  E.  Thurkow.
Vice-President—W. ,6 . Lake.
Secretary—W. H. Richmond.
Treasurer—Henry  Strope.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary,  W. H.  Hicks,  Wm.  Hugh, B.  H.  Mc­
Mullen.

The  Blue  Letter  collection  system  was 
adopted for  the  use  of  the  collection  de­
partment and the Executive Committee was 
instructed  to  procure  the  printing  of  the 
necessary blanks.

The Association  then  adjourned for  one 
week when  the  State  constitution  will  be 
read and ratified  and  the  Executive  Com­
mittee instructed to  apply for  charter  and 
auxiliary membership.

INCIDENTAL  NOTES.

“Probably the first we shall  undertake in 
the improvement line,” said President Thur­
kow,  “is the opening up of some new wagon 
roads and the  betterment  of  two  or  three 
main  thoroughfares  into  the village which 
are  a  disgrace  to  us.  There  is plenty of 
room for effective work in this direction and 
I propose to put  men  on  the Improvement 
Committe who will do the  subject justice.”
“Another  thing  we  can  agitate  at  our 
meetings,” said  an  active  worker,  “is  the 
desirability of our having a local newspaper 
printed here at  home.  We  have  a  pretty 
good organ now, but  it  does  not  carry the 
same  weight  that  a  paper  would  that  is 
printed at Morley.  I think  the sentiment is 
decidedly in favor of  such  a  move  on  our 
part  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  we  can 
bring  it about through the Association.” 

The  organization  of  an  assoication  at 
Morley  supplies  the  missing  link  on  the 
Northern division of the G.  R.  &  I.  Rail­
road.  There is now an association in every 
town of importance on  the main line of the 
G. R.  & I., from the Straits of Mackinac to 
to the Indiana  line,  except  Vicksburg  and 
Mendon.

Few towns are tributary to a larger radius 
of farming  community  than  Morley.  The 
surrounding  country is  passing  through  a 
transition  period—that  is, the  timber  pro­
duct is about all marketed and  the  agricul­
tural possibilities of  the  country  are  only 
partially  developed.  Rapid  improvements 
are being made in  the right  direction, how­
ever,  and few  years  will  elapse before the 
country around Morley will be  looked upon 
as one of the  best  agricultural  sections  off 
the State.

A ssociation O rganized a t D ouglas.

D o u g l a s ,  O ct.  1 2 ,1 8 8 7 .

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids:

D e a r   S i r —A  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion  was  organized  here  Monday  evening 
and the following officers elected:
President—T. B. Dutcher.
Vice-President—J.  S.  Crouse.
Secretary—C. W.  Winslow.
Treasurer—D.  C. Putnam.
Executive  Committee—President,  Secre­
tary, D.  C. Putnam,  J. N. Dickey  and  H. 
Bird.
We desire  to  join the  State  Association 
and wish you would  forward the  necessary 
blanks. 

Yours truly,
C. W.  W i n s l o w ,  Sec’y.

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Editor Mich ig an Tradesm an:

Deab Sib—1 ’spose I   am now entitled to 
the  designation  of  “merchant,”  as  a fall 
Stock  of  general  merchandise—as  full 
stock as 8500 will buy—lies  In  the depot at 
Hemlock Siding,  waiting for the carpenters 
to finish the counters  and  shelving  in  my 
'Store.

According to promise,  I  went  to Grand 
Rapids  last  Wednesday  to  purchase  my 
stock.  I  called at  your  office,  but  as  you 
happened to be out at the time,  I concluded 
to start out on  my  own  hook.  The  first 
pftce 1 struck  was  Clark,  Jewell & Co.’s, 
where a nice looking gentleman  treated me 
to a cigar, without  saying  a  word. 
I soon 
found  the  gentleman  was  dumb,  which 
seemed a great pity,  so  I went on to Curtiss 
&  Dunton’s  where  George  Dunton  told 
me all about  the  new  baby  at his house. 
Haul  Steketee,  Henry  Spring  and  Henry 
Snitzeler all gave  me  a  cordial  reception, 
and I divided my dry goods  order  between 
the three houses.  Dan Lynch and  Charley 
Jennings both asked me to take dinner with 
them,  so I bought my lemon extract  of  one 
and my vanilla of the other.  Arthur Meigs 
was not in when I called,  but a man  named 
Underwood said  he  made  $5,000  on a real 
estate  speculation that day—which is better 
than having a railroad  come  through  your 
land.  A   man  named  Fisher  showed  me 
through  the  retail  department,  which 
is 
very slick.  Samuel Lemon was waiting  on 
a customer when I called at Bulkley, Lemon 
& Hoops, but  he  stopped  long  enough to 
convince me that a case of Queen olives was 
just as essential to my business as a counter 
or scales.  I don’t know who will eat ’em, but 
no one wiU go hungry  for  olives as long as 
1 keep a store.  Amos  Mnsselman  showed 
me his big  stock  of  fine  cut  tobacco  and 
Ben.  Putnam took  me  through  his  candy 
factory.  What  kind  of  a  man  is  Lew. 
Hawkins?  He talked  me blind on the sub­
ject of  butterine,  and  when  he  couldn’t 
think of anything to  say,  an  actor-looking 
sort of a fellow  named  Gifford  put  in his 
lip.  John Shields told  me  all about a new 
block he is  building—how  the  expressage 
on the brick cost more than the brick itself. 
O. A.  Ball rushed me  through  his  big  es­
tablishment so quick it made my head swim. 
A red-headed fellow  named  Fairchild fixed 
me up on an assortment  of  drugs  and Ed. 
Telfer sold me the strongest  pepper  I  ever 
struck.  Foster,  Stevens & Co. fitted me out 
with a line of nails and padlocks and Lester 
Rindge sorted me out a nice lot of boots and 
shoes.  Uncle  Sammy  Sears 
took  me 
through  his  cracker  factory.  WiU  Lam- 
oreaux was so busy packing  apples  that he 
would not speak to me.  1  called on all the 
commission  men,  and  they  all made  me 
promise to  ship  them  all  the  potatoes I 
could buy. 
I propose  to  do  a  land  office 
business when I  get  started. 
I  bought  a 
little here and a  little  there,  so 1 could see 
which houses I liked best.  I forgot to order 
any lamp chimneys,  and I wish  you  would 
step into H. Leonard  &  Sons when you are 
down that way and ask them  to  ship  me  a 
case. 
looked  at at  Cary  &  Loveridge’s,  but  life 
wouldn’t be worth living if Cary had talked 
to me seventeen minutes longer.

I think that  I’ll  order  me  a  safe 

As soon as I get the  stock unpacked  and 
arranged on the shelves, I will let yon know 
how the old thing looks. 

Tours,

Zachakiah Watback.

Taking Mr. Barlow to Task.

F rom  Boots and Shoes.

C. H. Barlow,  a  contributor  to  a  recent 
issue  of  The  Michigan  Tradesman, 
takes occasion in  a  lengthy  article  to  de­
nounce the  credit  system  in  the  severest 
terms.  He  attributes  to  it  all  the  evils 
which afflict <the mercantile community tend­
ing to depress trade and  disturb its. healthy 
equilibrium.  In a lengthy article,  in which 
Mr.  Barlow makes a  lavish  use of inuendo 
to the total disregard of reason or argument, 
he avers that “more hearts are wounded and 
more  innocent  persons  broken  in  spirit 
(worse than murder)  are  crushed  in  life’s 
battle by the credit system than by the war.” 
What do our readers  think of this?  In our 
opinion,  Mr. Barlow is  a  little  too  severe. 
We admit that  much  evil  arises  from  the 
credit system,  but  it  is only in consequence 
of an abuse of  it.  Abuse  of any  privilege, 
however  beneficial, will produce evils more 
or less baneful,  and that  these evils exist is 
no fanit of  the  privilege  whose  wrongful 
use brings them about.  Mr. Barlow should 
reflect a little  and  instead  of  condemning 
an old business custom without duly weigh­
ing the  benefits  arising  from  it, 
let  him 
rather suggest a  means  of  overcoming the 
present abuses of i t

Standard Recipes for Cranberry Sauce.
The American Cranberry  Growers’ Asso­
ciation has approved the  following  recipes 
for  cooking  cranberries  and  recommends 
that dealers handling  cranberries have cop­
ies of  the  same  printed  fen:  distribution 
among their patrons:

Cook ten minutes;  shake  toe  vessel,  do 

1 quart berries,
1 pound granulated  sngar, 
%  pint water, 

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%

ï  quart berries,
1 pound granulated sugar,
1 pint water.

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Bring sugar and water to a boil;  add the 
fruit and boil till  clear—fifteen  or  twenty 
minutée:

No.  8.  1 pound berries,

felfehigah 

Represented

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sylvania  Convention. 
Traverse City, Oct  14,  1887.

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expenses 

attendant 

S. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:
My  Drab  Sib—The  invitations  which 
have come to  us  from  Messrs.  Harhangh 
Stevenson  and  Smith  to  meet  with  the 
Pennsylvania  Association at  Philadelphia 
on the 25th and 26th,  are  too  frequent  to 
.doubt toe sincerity attached thereto.
I feel that Michigan  would  be  doing  an 
injustice to  herself  in  faffing'to  respond, 
beside showing  an  act  of  discourtesy  to 
those who have so  liberally  accorded  to ns 
praises, the grounds  for  which  are  hardly 
apparent, to us,' and  who  have  sent  to our 
conventions most worthy  men,  co-workers 
in the cause that we hold  dear.  Such rela­
tions as now exist,  such  aid and knowledge 
as the  Pennsylvania  workers  will,  I  am 
sure,  be glad to  render,  should  not be lost 
sight of and the demand for a united  action 
or inter-state co-operation  on  those points, 
which seem to us alike  imporative,  may at 
this time be agitated.
You  recollect  our  last  convention  very 
wisely sanctioned  the  delegate plan recom­
mended by  us  and  also  the  payment  of 
necessary 
thereto. 
Within the last few  days  I  have  received 
letters from all the members of  the  Execu­
tive  Board,  who  further  recommend  the 
plan  and  suggest  that  the  President  and 
Secretary both attend the  Philadelphia con 
ventlon.  Much as I should like to,  I do not 
at this time see  the  way  clear,  but  most 
heartily do I approve  of  your  representing 
us and bringing home to Michigan words of 
encouragement  and cheer,  as  no  one  else 
among us will so well do.  1 well know that 
you need no words of ours to prompt you to 
the performance of duty in association mat­
ters,  when  our best interests  are  involved; 
but should there be  any  shade of hesitancy 
on your part for any but the most  vital rea­
sons,  remember  the  power  vested  in  the 
Executive Board at our last convention  and 
go!  Cheer and be  cheered;  tell  the fellow 
workers of  Pennsylvania  of  Michigan,  her 
associations  and  the  host  of good men we 
have who are bringing our associations  into 
public favor by continuous effort in well do­
ing; bring to us good tidings from the East, 
and remember  that  . the  business  men  of 
Michigan,  in spirit,  are with you.
Be kind enough to convey my  deepest re­
grets at not being  able  to  be  with you all 
and may pleasure  and  profit  attend  your 
visit is the wish of

Yours Respectfully,

Frank Hamilton,

President M.  B.  M.  A.

In accordance with the  above  command, 
the editor of The Tradesman  has  started 
off on the first  respite  he  has  taken since 
the paper was inaugurated, fully determined 
to  put  into  practice  a  doctrine  he  has 
preached for four years—that  business men 
should take occasional  intervals of rest. 
If 
next week’s paper is not up to  standard,  its 
readers will  remember  that  the  helmsman 
seldom leaves his  post  of  duty and that he 
will come back to the  work,  after  a  fort­
nights’  visit  to  New  York  and  other 
Eastern cities, with a fullness of experience 
which will  eventually  redown to the profit 
of all concerned.

T heState Law Relative toPeddling.
*  FEiriTPORWOct.  10, lSSfr,

E. A. Stowe. Grand Rapids: 

'/'/'*
Dear  SiR—Will you  kindly  give  me  a 
digest of toe SUte laws relative to peddling 
now on our  statute books?

Yours truly,  C. N. Addison. 

By the laws of the  State,  every  person 
who travels from place to place  within this 
State, for the purpose of carrying  to sell or 
exposing, to sale any goods,  wares  or  mer­
chandise,  or for the purpose  of  taking  or­
ders for toe purchase  of  goods,  wares  or 
merchandise, by sample, lists or catalogues, 
must obtain a license’as a hawker  and ped­
dler;  excepting oniy.any manufacturer, me­
chanic,  farmer or nurseryman, who sells his 
own work or productions, and  any  whole­
sale merchant who sells to  dealers goods of 
his own manufacture,  by  sample  or other­
wise.

The license is to be obtained  by  written 
application to the Treasurer  of  the  State, 
stating in what manner the applicant intends 
to  travel  and  trade;  whether on foot,  or 
with one or more horses or  other  beasts of 
burden, or with any sort  of  carriage.  The 
license fees are as follows:  For  travel  on 
foot,  $15;  for travel with  single  horse  or 
other beai^t,  $40;'for travel with  more than 
one horse or other beast,  $75;  for travel by 
railroad,  steamboat or other  public  convey­
ance,  $100;  for travel in any manner to take 
orders  for  goods  by  exhibiting  samples, 
lists,  catalogues or otherwise,  $50.

The Treasurer,  upon receiving such appli­
cation and fee,  issues a license for the  term 
of one year,  to travel for the purpose and in 
the  manner  indicated  in  the  application. 
Such licenses must be renewed  annually by 
the Treasurer,  and may be  issued lor a less 
term than one year,  at a ratable fee.

The penalty for peddling without such li­
cense is a fine not exceeding $50 and  costs, 
or imprisonment not exceeding three months 
in jail,  or both,  in discretion  of  court,  for 
each offense,  and the  penalty  for  a failure 
to produce such license  on  demand,  when 
traveling and trading as aforesaid,  is $10.

Under this Act,  every  person  commonly 
known as a  peddler  and  hawker,  selling 
goods,  wares  and  merchandise  of any and 
every description,  or taking  orders  for the 
same by sample,  list  or  catalogue,  whether 
for himself,  or  another,  and  whether  the 
goods be his own  or  another’s,  must  pay 
this license.  The only excepted classes are: 
First,  manufacturers,  mechanics,  farmers 
and nurserymen,  selling their  own work or 
productions;  second,  any  wholesale  mer­
chant selling goods of his own make to deal­
ers.

These classes may sell by  sample  or oth­
erwise,  in person or by agent,  without pay­
ment of any fee.

A separate license must  be  obtained  for 
each person who comes within  the  act,  so 
traveling or trading,  though in  the employ­
ment of but one person.

Good  R eport  from   the  Ow osso  Associ 

tion.
Owosso,  Oct.  15,  1887.

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids:

Dear Sir—We  did  not  get a quorum at 
our regular October meeting,  on  account of 
our county fair,  which was a  very  satisfao 
tory and  successful  exhibition.  We had 
good display of  stock,  machinery and agri 
cultural implements from all sections of our 
prosperous State.  The  Yankee  character 
istic showed itself in the display  of  pump­
kins and squashes.
Our shook factory is  in  full  blast,  em 
ploying about twenty men.
There have been and will  be  quite a few 
changes here.  C.  W.  Reed has removed his 
grocery stock to  Judd’s  Corners  and  the 
store vacated by him will  be  occupied as a 
grocery  and  notion  store  by  a man from 
Flushing.  Murray & Terbush  are  opening 
a new store to-day with a stock of boots and 
shoes.  A.  J.  Petts is  closing  out  his  dry 
goods stock and the store  is  rented to Dib 
ble & Parsons,  of  Corunna,  to be occupied 
December 1 with a stock  of  clothing  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods.  The car and re 
pair shops of the  T.,  A.  A.  & N.  Railway 
are located east of  their  depot,  and  their 
erection has already commenced.
It appears that the dead-beats  are  pretty 
well cornered in this  section.  Out of nine­
teen  Notification  Sheets  sent  out  by  me 
since September 1 , 1 can give yon the grati­
fying news that eleven of  them  have either 
paid or made  satisfactory  arrangements to 
pay. 
I have no names for you for the State 
sheet,  and if it works in'other  Associations 
in this way,  your State sheet  will  be  still 
smaller  than  the  October one.  You have 
undoubtedly heard the anecdote of the cele 
brated marksman.  When he  went hunting 
and raised his gun to bring down a squirrel, 
the  squirrel  would  cry  out,  “Hold  on' 
Don’t shoot. 
I will come  right down.”  It 
appeam we have our dead-beats  fixed .in   a 
similar way  here.
We had a  splendid  turn-out  and a good 
meeting last evening.  The constitution and 
by-laws,  as submitted by the State  conven­
tion, were unanimously adopted with a few 
very slight changes.  It was also unanimous 
ly voted to affiliate with the State  Associa­
tion and apply for a charter at once.  Hence 
enclosed please  find  New  York  draft for 
$19.50,  $16.50 for per capita  dues on sixty- 
six members and $3 for charter fee; also ap­
plication blank, properly signed  by  Execu­
tive Committee.
Trusting that all  local  associations  m il 
respond  promptly  and  affiliate  with  the 
State body for the benefit and welfare of toe 
associations,  and  that they will all bear in 
mind “United we stand, divided we toll,” I 
remain, 

Yours truly,

S.  Lamfrom, Sec’y.

In toe time gone by, there dwelt in Obem 
a man of  worth  and  integrity.  He  had of 
toe  world’s  store  sufficient  and  occupied 
himself in endeavoring  to  better  mankind 
One day he  placed  a sign  on his gate post, 
which read as follows:
ply within.”

Besides this,  cities and  villages incorpor­
ated under special charters often,  and cities 
incorporated under the general  law always, 
have power to require hawkers and peddlers 
to take out a license.

For the text of the Statute  on  this  sub­
ject,  see  Howell’s  Annotated  Statutes,  p. 
1257 to p.  1266.  and Session  Laws  of 1887, 
Act No.  85,  amending same.

Perhaps it is proper to state that this law 
has so far been  practically a dead  letter in 
Michigan.  Whether  the  amendment  of 
1887, changing the  penalty  from forfeiture 
to fine and  imprisonment, 
indicates an in­
tention to put new life into the  law and its 
enforcement is  a  question  which  persons 
coming  within  its  lines  must  decide  for 
themselves.

A   B usted  “ T ru st.”

Ded.  B.  Simpson walked into Jones’ store 
at Bungtown one day last week with a four- 
inch smile chasing the tobacco-juice  around 
in the neighborhood of his mouth.

“I have  organized a  grocers’  ‘trust,’ Mr. 
Jones,” said Ded.,  “and I want  your co-op­
eration and advice.”

“What is the nature of  the  , ‘trust,’  Mr. 
Simpson?” said Mr. Jones,  as he moved the 
box of free tobacco carefully  out  of  sight 
behind the counter.

“Well,1 you see,  it’s like this:  I come in­
to your store and buy ten  dollars’  worth of 
groceries,  you put it down on  the  ledger,  I 
take the goods home and eat  ’em,  and  by 
this concatenation of circumstances you and 
I form a mutual  ‘trust.’ ”

“Ah!  yes;  I  see,” replied Mr.  Jones,  and 
a fiendish  look  lighted up his countenance. 
“There is only one thing that may spoil the 
plan.”

“What is that?”
“Why, you see,  we have  what  is  called 
the Bungtown Business Men’s  Trust;  and, 
having trusted you once  too  often  before, 
Mi*.  Simpson,  I shall be obliged  to  decline 
the honor of éntering into your philanthrop- 
ical ‘trust.’ ”  And Ded. B. Simpson walked 
sadly and  meditatively  out  of  the  store, 
wondering  if  there  was  any place in the 
State of Michigan where a man of advanced 
ideas could form such a  ‘trust’  as  he  pro­
posed.  . 

Relltjf.

_ 

Get Ready for  Cold W eather.

The  cold  weather is coming,  and now is 
the time for druggists to  prepare for winter 
and the class o f  trade it  brings.  Those of 
oar readers who live in  toe city have rfady 
access  to  goods  and  obtain them on short 
ttotice, but those who do business in smaller 
places should order such goods as sure brought 
in demand by cold weather and be ready for 
toe customers. 
It  is time for druggists,  in 
either city or country,  to make up toe prep­
arations  that  are  commonly  prescribed or 
sold for. coughs, colds,  chaps, rheumatism, 
and other diseases  $hat accompany the cold 
had wet Seasons of the year.
The druggists  who  have their eyes open 
gttfi prepare  to meet toe wants of their cus­
tomers are toe ones  naostlik$yto;.$feltota

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cafe  fifto jic rfE D  
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O /iE  BRACKET (to 
S uitable  for  various
|3WIDTHS  OF  SHELVING.

I PATENTED  OCT.  19,  1887.

M anufactured by

KOOH  A.  B.  OO.

354M A IN   ST., 

PE O R IA .  IL L
Liberal  discount  to  the  trade,  or  parties 
first  putting up these brackets in any local­
ity.

STEAM  LAUNDRY,

43 and 45 Kent Street.

ST A N L E Y   N .  A L L E N ,  Proprietor.
ffi DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK HD USB NO 

(BOCALS.

Orders  by  Mail  and  Express  Prom ptly  At­

tended  to.A.

sun
NO  BACKACHE. 

RUNS 
iASY*

.  „  Tji (lords of Beeoh have been «awed  bv  one man In 9
ion s.  Hundreds have sawed 5 and 6 cords daily.  “Exactly ” 
what ertrv Parmer and Wood Chopper wants.  First order from 
four vicmity secure«! jljj Agency.  Illustrated Catalogue FREE.
Address  FOLDINg  SAWING  MACHINE  CO.*

. J U D D   d b   C O . ,  

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDW ARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

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

I b a r b w a r e .

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BRACES.

BUCKETS.

BARROWS.

BALANCES.

BUTTS, OAST.

AUGERS AND BITS.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.
Ives’,  old  style.......................................... die 
60
60
N.  H. C. Co.................................................dis 
Douglass’.................................................... dis 
60
Pierces’ ...............................................................dis 60
60
Snell’s .........................................................dis 
Cook’s  ....................................................... dis 
40
Jennings’,  genuine............................................dis 25
Jennings’, im itation................................disSO&lO
Spring...................................................................dis 40
R ailroad............................................. 
$ 
Garden....................................................... net 33 00
H a n d ...............................................dis  $ 60&10&10
70
Cow......................................................dis 
C all............................................... ...d is 
30*15
G ong........., ......................................dis 
25
60&10
Door. Sargent.................. 
dis 
Stove...................................................... dis $ 
60
Carriage  new  lis t........... .....................dis  70&10
50
Plow 
................................. ...................dis 
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis 
70
W rought Barrel  Bolts........................dis 
60
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................ dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis
Cast Square Spring............................. dis
Cast  C hain............................................dis
W rought Barrel, brass  knob............ dis
60
W rought Square.......  ........................ dis 
Wrought Sunk Flush.......................... dis 
60
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
F lu sh .................................................. dis  60*10
Ives’ Door.............................................. dis  60*10
B a rb er.................................................. dis$ 
40
Backus...................................................dis  50*10
50
Spofford..................................................dis 
Am. Ball.................................................¿is 
net
Well, plain.............................................................. $ 350
Well, swivel
4 00
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
70*10 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed......... dis
70*10 
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
60*10 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
60*10 
W rought Loose  P in .............................dis
60*10 
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ............ dis
.60* 5 
W roughtLoose Pin, japanned...........dis
60* 5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silvei
tip p e d .................................................. «Ha
60* 5 
W rought Table...................................dis
60*10 
W rought Inside  Blind..........................dis
60*10 
W rought Brass....................... ..............dis
75 
Blind, Clark’s...................  
  dis
 
 
70*10 
Blind, Parker’s...................  
dis
75*10 
Blind,  Shepard’s ..................... 
dis
70
CAPS.
Ely’s 1-10................................................per m $ 65
Hick s C. F ........................  
60
G .D .............  
35
M usket............................ 
60
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester  new list50&10
Rim  Fire,U nited  S ta te s.......................dis50&10
Central F ire .....  ..................................... dis30&10
Socket Firm er.........................................dis
70*10
dis
Socket Fram ing....................... 
70*10
Sooket Comer........................  
dis
70*10
Socket Slicks................................  
  dis
70*10
Butchers’Tanged Firm er...................dis
40
Barton’s Socket Firm ers.....................dis
20
Cold........................................ 
....n e t
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence’s .........................  
Hotchkiss  .....................................  
Brass, Racking’s ........... ..... . .  ..
Bibb’s .......................................
60
40&IO
B e e r.................. 
F e n n s..........................................................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...................... »  a>  28
14x52,14x56,14x60.......................................... 31
28
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60............... 
Cold Rolled, 14x48................ 
23
B ottom s...........................  
28
 
 
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit  S
c k
40
..........dis 
WWVJA. . . .  ................................UlO
M ........1........................  
to
Taper and Straight Shank................. dis
Morse’s Taper  Shank........................... dis
40
Com .4pieoe,6  in .......... .................doznet  $.75
Corrugated.......... ............................... dis20&101&0
dis  14*10
A d ju sta b le ...,......... ............ 
 
3ft
Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2. $24 OO;  3, $30 00.  dis 
26
60*10
American File Association L ist......d is
60*10
Disston’s ..... ............. 
..dis
New Am erican............... ................... din
60*10
60*10
Nicholson’s ...................  
.dis
56*10
Heller’s ................................................d is
Heller’s Horse R asps.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .dis
so
GALVANIZED IRON,
22 and 24,  26 and 26,  27
Nos. 16 to 20, 
13 
> 
34 
List 
15
GAUGES.
^ 
56
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ... ... .. .  dis 
.  HAMMERS.
Maydole & 06.’s ........................ 
dis 26
dis 26
Kip’s . . . ...................................... 
Yerkea  *  Plum b’s ............................................dis 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel  .<...................30 c list 80
Bhteksmitb’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 0 40*10 
„  
B ara Door KldderMfg. Co„ Wood track  60*10
Champion,  dnti-friction. 
..........dis '$0*10
Kidder,wood  track..*....................... ,dia 
40
^   -  .  j&TaSas.- 
•
-per do$ipeV2 aQ
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CATRIDGES.

files—New List.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

Discount,  60.

.  HXNtoBA 

dis
40*10
dis
25

HANGERS. 

CHISELS.

ELBOWS.

COPPER.

COCKS.

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1 pint (scant) cold water,
3 '  %  pound granulated '■sugar.

I Boil togethér berries and water  ten  min­
utes;  add sugar and boil five minutes long­
er.  Gently stir, or shake, to prevent scorch­
'is?'-.* -  •'  S
ing. 
In all these ipeipes use berries of a bright 
medlam ;oolor,ae toeyarem ore delicate ffi 
flavor, jelly  better,  and  make  more sauce 
than over-ripe darteeolored onesâ; ?  
,  • *  j
niSHi

“ To a contented man I give this'farm, 
Ap-
Many years  went  by  and  toe  sign  stall 
hung on toe gate post  and  the weather bad 
almost  obliterated the yrprds thereon, wjhen 
one sunny day there  came  skipping  down 
the lane a youth full of health and joy.  „He 
laughingly rapped at toe door and when toe 
¡¡gj man came, toe young man said:
“Make out the papers#! am happy,  I tun 
content, m pm M am  is mine!”
«roder, VeruMMRyiUe:  i'We  |  i^KIh,” replied  the  old  mam,  ‘fff  you  are 
to continue subrerfetlon to  confetti, 
want ’of ..me,' why do

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ISIS

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.% 

and 

Screw Hook and Strap, to 12  In.  4W  14
....... .. 
,
Screw Hook and Bye,  %  ..................¿ ¿t
Screw Hook and Eye 
.................. net
Smew Hook and Eye 
. .vA.......n et
Screw Hook and Eye,  %............. .net
Strap and  T ............................... .....d is
P o ts.........................................................
K ettles................ „ . j ............................. j
Spiders  ................................................. 1
Gray  enameled 
................. |
HOUSE  FURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin W are..... ¿ i ..... new list 
Japanned Tin  W a re ..i...... .. . . . . . . . . . .
Granite Iron  W are..................................

HOLLOW  WARS.

 

HOES.

1 ...........- .......... . 

.00, d is60

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

LOCKS—DOOR.

KNOBS—NEW LIST.

Grub  2------- ----------------------------  IT 50,dis00
12 00, dis 00:
Crub 3........................ ............... . 
Door, mineral, Jap. trim m ings..........dis 
56
Door,porcelain, Jap. trim m in g s........ 
65
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ings.......
Door,porcelain, trim m ings.. . . . . . . . . . . .  
to I
Drawer mid Shutter, porcelain........ dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s .....................  40*10
Hemacite............ 
.dis
Russell *  Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis
Mallory, Wheeler *  Co.’s .................. dis
Branford’s .......................................... dis
Norwalk’s .......................  
  "."dis
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis
MATTOCKS.
Adze Eye...................................$10 00 dis
_
Hunt Eye...................................$15 00 dis 
Hunt’s......................................$18 60 dis 20 & M
Sperry & Co.V, Post,  handled.................dis  50
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s...............................  dis 40
Coffee, P. S,&W.Mfg. Co.’sMalleables !"  dis 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s............   dis 40
Coffee, Enterprise................................. ¿ is  25
Stebbin’s Pattern  ............................. dis  00*10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................. dis  60*10
Enterprise,  self-measuring..............dis 
25

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.
MILLS.

 

NAILS —TRON.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

n

Wholesale Hardware.

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

2%  2 

OILERS.

........... 
I  lOd  8d  6d  4d...........
1*4
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

8d and 9 d adv.............................  
«5
6dand7d  adv................................................... SO
4d and 6d  adv...............................’ *.......... 
75
3d advance............................. 1 50
3d fine advance.......................... ...............   2 25
Clinch nails, adv...................... 
j m
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. »keg 
Steel Nails—2 20.
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.....................dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom......................  dis  50
Brass or  Copper.................................’..’.".dis  50
Reaper......... ........................per gross! $12net
Olmstead’s ..........................  
50&10
PLANES*
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy........'...............dis 40® 10
Sciota Bench. 
......... .............. dis 50@55
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy. ............. dis 40@10
Bench, flrstlquaUty..............................dis50@55
Stanley Kule and Level Co.’s, wood__ disSO&K)
-r. 
Fry, Acme....................... .....................dis 50*10
Common, polished.................................dis60&10
Dripping.............................................. $  
6 y
Iron and Tinned...............................  dis 
55
Copper Rivets and  Burs...............d is 
60
! ™ ^ 00? S Patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 2C 
“B  Wood s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27  9 20

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

RIVETS.

pans.

. . .  

Broken packs J4c »  Jb extra 

. 

 

 

 

ROPES.

 

14 00

TACKS*

ny„
  \2Y%

Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 90
2  90
3  00
3  0S
315
3 85
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 2  inches 

Sisal, Vs in. and larger................ 
Manilla............................................... 
 
 
SQUARES.
Steel and Iron....................................  dis
Try and Bevels...................... 
dis
Mitre  ................................... i. 
*:dis
SHEET IRON.
„   L , . i i | 
N°s. 10 to 14................................$4 20 
N°8.15t° 17................................  4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21................................   420 
Nos. 22 to 24................................  4 20 
Nos .25 to 36................................   440 
No.27...........................................  4 00 
wide not less than 3-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, »   lb..........................
In smaller quansities, »   ft__ . . . . . . . . . .
American, all  kinds...... ..................   dis
Steel, all kinds...................................;dis
Swedes, all kinds.......................  ."."dis
Gimp and Lace..................................’dis
Cigar Box  Nails.........................  
  dis
Finishing Nails.................................. dis
Common and Patent Brads.......... ...dis
Hungarian Nails and Miners’ Tacks, dis
Trunk and Clout Nails........................dis
Tinned Trunk and Clout Nails___.".dis
Leathered Carpet Tacks................... dis
12 50
No. 1, Refined........................................ 
Market  Half-and-half................. .  " 
16 00
Strictly  Half-and-half.................................17 50
£iiarcoal.......................5 40@5 60
10x14,Charcoal..........................  
7 25
IX, 
13x12, Charcoal....................................  * 025
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal............................... 7 75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal............................     5  75
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal..................................... " 725
IX, 
’  «75
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal.................... 
IXXX, ,14x20, Charcool...................... !!!!.'  10 77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal....................... 
12  55
20x28, Charcoal.................................. 
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal....................«50
100 Plate Charcoal.......................  "  «so
DX, 
DXX. 100 Plate Charcoal.................  
’  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........... 
..........13 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate addl 50 to 6 75
Roofing, 14x20, IC................................  
4  90
Roofing, 14x20,  IX............................. 
  c  40
Roofing,'20x28, IC.............................   ’ 
iq sn
Roofing, 20x28, IX ...:.'..............................13 50
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne......... ..  5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...........  ’  700
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne.............! .11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...........  14 00
Steel, Game................................................60*10

TINNER’S SOLDER.

tin—leaded.

TIN plates.

TRAPS.

 

In the State of Michigan.

Our Facilities for doing Business have been much 

Improved and we feel better able to meet all
MARKETS and PRICES.

We Solicit Orders or Inquiries for anything wanted 

in the line of Hardware.

FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  BO.,

10 and 12 Monroe street, and 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 Louis street.

Grand Rapids, 

-  Mich.

D ETR O IT  SOAP

D E T R O I T ,   M I O H n

Manufacturers  of the following well-known Brands

of

s o

' 1550
QUEEN  ANNE, 
MICHIGAN,

TRUE  BLUE, 

CZAR,

MONDAY,

MOTTLED  GERMAN, 
SUPERIOR, 

ROYAL  BAR, 

PHCENEK,

WABASH,

AND  OTHERS.

MASCOTTE,

CAMEO,

Oneida Communtity, Newhouse’s........’.’dis  35s i  For Quotations address

W. G. HAWKINS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MI0H.

Salesman  for  ’Western  Michigan.

“ 

wire.

Look Era  173, 

S ,P .*  W. Mfg. Oo/B............................ ..«Mao1
Mouse, choker..................................... 18c »  dez
Mouse,  delusion............................. ..$1 50»doz
Bright Market.....................................  dis  67*6
Annealed Market...............................dis  70*10
Coppered Market..................................dis  62H
Extra Bailing..........................................  dis  55
Tinned  Market................  
.dis  62V4
Tinned Broom.........................................aj ft  09
Tinned Mattress.................................... [w ft sit
Coppered Spring Steel...................................dis 50
Tinned SpringSteel.................................................dis 40*10 1 C. C. BUNTING.
Plain Fence............................................. » ft  3
Barbed Fence, galvanized................. "' 
4 m
painted.......................... .’ .'.’.’3 35
Cqpper.................. 
new  list net
Brass................................................ new list net
Bright.................... 
....dis  70*10*10
Screw Eyes.................................... dis  70*10*10
Hook’s  ...........  
 
 
dis  70*10*10
Gate Hooks and  E ves...,............dis  70*10*10
WRENCHES.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..............
Coe’s Genuine.................................d is 
50
Coe’sPtent A gricultural, wrought, dis 
75
Coe’s Ptent, malleable................... .dis  75&1C
Birdcages................................................ 
50
Pumps,  Cistern................................ dis 
75
Screws, new list..............'....................... 
70*5
Casters, Bed and Plate...................disSO&lO&lO
Dampers, American............................... 
40
Forks, hoes, rakes an all steel goods...d 
%
Copper Bottoms...............   ...  ...........   %  23c

MISCELLANEOUS.

WIRE GOODS.

 

 

 

 

BUNTING  &  DAVIS,

C. L. DAVIS..

Commission  Merchants,

Specialties.1  Apples and Potatoes in Car Lots.

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

Y O U  

' W ' A J S O T   A

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

 

 

25 

The furniture factories  here pay as follows 
for  dry  stock,  m easured  merchantable, mill 
culls out;
Basswood, lo g -ru n ......,..;............13  nn®iK00 I
Birch, log-run...................... 
15 nn®i« 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.........................i., ■ ■  @25 00
Black Ash, lo g -ru n ....................... ...14 00®16 60
Cherry,  log-run......................  
oq
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2.................. .....46 00®60 00!
Cherry,  c u ll,.;.... 
®m 001
Maple, log-run.  ................1 2  Q0®14 00
Maple, soft,  log-run.. . . . . . . . . . . ,-l. , , j j
113 00 
Maple, Nos. lan d  2 ........
00 
Maple, clear, flooring.........................
00 I
Maple, white, selected.................... .
to
Red Oak, log-run...... . ; . 
...............18
00
 
Red Oak, Nos. 1 a n d 2 . 
 
.........24 1
00
Red Oak, II sawed, 8 in and upw’d..40
0(1
Red Oak,
regular. 1 .......3 0  00®36 00
Red Oak, No.  l.step  plank.......p ip  
®25.00 j
W alnut, log-run 
@55 00 ;
.......... . 
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2......... ...............  @75 00
Walnuts,  c u l l s ,
. @26 60
Ä e l  Elm, log-run..,.;....................   @I3Q0;
White Ash, l o g - r u n . : . 14 00@M 60
Whjtewuod,  log-run. 
..................20 00@22 00
White Oak, 
, ..17 00@18 001

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If so, send for Catalogne and Price-List to

& flETMAN & SON, 48 Canal St, GriiIJtapijis,
A -MlVô'lB

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B T  A  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

W ritten Especially for Tint Tradksman.
.  if   that  supposititious  party,  commonly 
«ailed 'T he Fool Killer,”  really  had  man* 
dane existence, and  was  conscientious and
mor-
«uiigpnt in performing  his  duties, the 
taiity in the human family would be simply 
appftllteg.

I  have  often  wondered  how—-supposing 
the F. K. duly commissioned and  equipped 
for ¿laughter—he would  select  his victims; 
by what process he would determine on  the 
dividing line that separates  those  who  a/re 
fools, 
from  those  who  narrowly  escape 
being fools.  1 certainly wouldn’t want him 
to  proceed^  summary  judgment and ex­
ecution on  the  testimony  of  one  or  two 
witnesses, because of a tender regard for my 
own safety, if nothing else.

On reflection, however, I am satisfied that 
the F. K. could be  kept  reasonably busy in 
exterminating the self-confessed fools.  Let 
him—again  supposing  him  materialized—-j 
mingle in the crowds  at  a  fair  or  circus. 
Let him board the erowded excursion trains 
or boats; or  report  for  duty at horse races; 
or be present,  officially, at political conven­
tions; or make himself “promiscuous”  at al­
most any occasion that calls together multi­
tudes of people  and  each  and  every  time 
would bring to his  notice  the  self  accusa­
tions  Of  numerous  individuals  who  are, 
temporarily  at  least,  anxious 
to  confess 
that they are the  blankest  kind  of  blank 
fools.

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It is passing strange that  in  these  days, 
when probably ninety-nine  people  out of a 
hundred  have  almost  free  access  to  the 
American newspaper, the fool crop continues 
to multiply and flourish,  but  unfortunately 
it does.  The methods and devices by which 
th e multitudinous tricksters and s windlers of 
(”  that  leads in-
4he land “get in the  work,
-dividuals  to  plead  guilty  to  temporary 
idiocy,  are  matters  of  public  discussion 
and daily newspaper  comment,  and yet the 
country is prolific in human  geese  who are 
anxiously  waiting  to  be  plucked.  Smith 
will 
chuckle  over  Brown’s  disastrous 
-encounter with the three-card monte sharps, 
and at the first favorable opportunity  fall  a 
victim to the  oily  confidence  man.  Jones 
will grin with  delight  over  the  recital  of 
Robinson’s  experience  with  the  premium 
grain fraud, and readily become the dupe of 
the smuggled cloth  swindler.  When Jenk- 
’inson sends to  New  York  for  a  hundred 
»dollars worth of “green goods,” and receives 
‘■a neat package containing a cent’s worth  of 
brown paper in return, how  Jobson  laughs 
at his folly  and  declaims  against  his  dis­
honesty,  but  how  easily  Jobson  will  be 
“caught up” by a similar scheme  in  a  dif­
ferent guise.

And how  little  sympathy  Black,  White 
and  Green have for these human geese, and 
how  they congratulate  themselves  on their 
superior intelligence and lack  of gullibility, 
but perhaps by the  next  time  they meet to 
compare notes Black  will  have  been  “de­
moralized” by a snide  patent,  White  “laid 
out”  by  a  professional  poker  artist,  and 
Green “swamped” by bucket  shop  transac­
tions.

leoe Journal.

If it  wasn’t  for  the  indisposition  of  a 
part of the human  family to pay a hundred 
cents for an honest dollar’s worth of a com­
modity required,  and  the  disposition  of a 
still larger portion to attain  wealth  at  the 
expense of others,  and  without furnishing 
a tithe of its equivalent in  brain or muscle, 
the sharpers and  swindlers  of  the  country 
would  speadily  cease  plying  their  avoca­
tions.  And this very indisposition and dis-

tion of the  fool  crop.  Not  a  gambling or 
confidence  scheme  was  ever  devised  that 
didn’t invite  one  person  to  profit  by  the 
losses of another; and  any  person who im­
agines that gamblers and confidence mpri of 
any description propose to become  habitual 
losers is a distinct specimen  of the crop.

It is  not  always  the  agriculturists  that 
become  the  victims  of  the  professional 
sharper.  A few years ago a merchant doing 
business in  a  small  Michigan  city,  and a 
man of considerable capital and experience, 
had  a  costly  introduction  to  one of these 
gentry, but the circumstance,  for  some rea­
son,  was never chronicled by the local press. 
One  day  he 
received  a  letter  with  a 
printed heading  and  business-like  appear­
ance, dated at New York,  and  bearing the 
postmark of  that  city. 
Its  contents  were 
something as  follows:

“My D e a r  Sir—A mutual friend  refers 
ms to you as a gentleman  who  can perhaps 
help vs fix  a  very  unpleasant  and  serious 
stuitter.  A trusted  clerk  has  disappeared 
from bur office,  taking  with  him  a  small 
sum of money, and $16,000 in R.  L.  &  B. 
R.  R.  bonds.  From  certain  memoranda 
left behind, we have reason to  believe  that 
As he is a near rela-
he is in your vicinity, 
tivevof one of  our  firm  we  don’t  care  to 
prosecute if  w e can recover  the  secureties. 
If you should possibly  Tun  across  the  de­
faulter, and should  succeed  in  scaring  or 
bribing him to deliver np  the  property,  we 
W ill allow you to  retain  one-fourth  of  the 
amount, or we w ill  remit  you  the  market 
value of that proportion, as you prefer.” 

Then followed a description  of the clerk, 
and many suggestiohs  for  finding him and 
securing his plunder. 

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,A few  days after its receipt  the merchant 
J e m  the identical  party described in the let­
ter enter his store, and  taking him aside he 
luuB»iaijdely: taxed  him  with  the  robbery. 
H ie  c r i m e f i r s t  indignantly denied,

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F. K. is a myth.  His appearance at certain 
periods  in the lives of a great  many  of  us 
would have seriously j eopardized our chances 
for anything  like  a  comprehensive  exper­
ience with earthly affairs; and when we look 
back over the multitude of fools we have all 
known, and recall the proportion of  perma­
nent  recoveries,  we  should all rejoice that 
a temporary attack  of  idiocy  in  monetary 
affairs  is  not  attended  with  fatal  conse­
quences.

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he had secreted the  property.  A   threat of 
arrest produced  a  lachrymal exbibitiqnot 
the culprit, but  no  promise  of  restitution. 
Then a monetary compromise was carefully 
discussed, and it was flnally agreed that for 
the sum of $600 the bonds  should  be deliv­
ered up.

That evening the parties met to fulfill the 
Each was provided  with the ma­
contract
terial for  exchange,  and  each carefully ex­
amined the “valuables’’ passedover.

The  dishonest “clerk” received  eight one 
hundred dollar genuine  treasury notes,  and 
the amateur detective  sixteen  one thousand 
dollar counterfeit railroad bonds.

Some time ago a Chicago swindler proved, 
satisfactorily  to  himself  and  the  public, 
that poor Snooks was a flourishing example 
of the  genus  fool.  He  wrote  that  strug­
gling  peanut  purveyor  that,  being  the 
Western  United States agent for the Royal 
Cuban Lottery, he  held  in his  hands a cer­
tified check,  payable  to  Snook’s order, for 
$2,500; that  his  fees  thereon  were  5  per 
cent., or $125, and that  on  receipt  of  said 
amount he would at once forward the paper. 
And  he  gave  voluminous  references, cer­
tificate  of  character,  and  enclosed a news­
paper clipping setting forth  the  good .luck 
j  of Snooks and sundry other parties.

Now,  Snooks had never  bought  a lottery 
ticket in his life.  A small fraction of com­
mon sense should  have  convinced him that

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WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 19,1887.

BIG  RAPIDS.

W ritten Especially f o r  Th e  Tradesm an.

;  Of all the towns the State around,

Big Rapids is the worst,

If fo rlts  walks and ruptured ground 

A  city; is accurst.

There’s not a street the oily through 

Where man or beast may travel,

B ut planks and tile and tim bers strew. 
Or piles of stone and mud and gravel 
Blockade the way, and more’s the pity, 

Bring tax and curses on the city.

M. J. W r i s l b y .

RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

The young man who desires  to  make his 
mark in mercantile life  should  not depend 
alone upon his  own  promptings  as  to  his 
course of conduct.  He will find good mod­
els among the merchants of  the  day.  Let 
him observe  them  closely  m their lives as 
business  men  and  citizens.  He  will dis- 
cover that they have energy,  integrity  and 
truthfulness, and that they have won  repu­
tation and fortune by the  especial  practice 
of these qualities in all  their  relations  of 
life.  Nothing is clearer, then, than that he 
should do the same  thing.  He  must  hew 
his own destiny to exactly the  same shape, 
or he will be a disfigurement in  the eyes of 
all honorable men, a failure as far as a high- 
toned manhood is concerned,  and  a  model 
solely of his own conceit and short-sighted­
ness.

Though a man may smile and be a villain, 
still it is considered that  this  evidence  of 
cheerfulness  and  amiability  is also a good 
indication of a genial  and  upright  person. 
Hence,  nothing  contributes  more  toward 
success in business dealings than the pleas­
ant, winning smile. 
It is  the  sunshine of 
such intercourse,  and it promotes  a  mutual 
friendly interest more than  any  other  per­
sonal habit. 
Instinctively all creatures turn 
to the warmth of the sun,  and all human be­
ings  awaken  to  more  kindness  of  heart 
when a smile—common and informal as it is 
—constitutes a part  of  the  ordinary  greet­
ing.

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Moralizing may seem a species  of affecta­
tion of goodness and wisdom, but let no man 
on this account hesitate  to  accept  the  les­
sons that it makes  self-evident  to  his  own 
understanding.

What to do with the surplus,  which is in­
creasing so enormously and  dangeijpusiy,  is 
the anxious thought of  the  business  man. 
“Have  no  fear,” whispers  the  politician; 
“ we will have jobs to consume every  dollar 
of it. ”  And then the patriotic merchant can 
but grieve that corruption is the remedy for 
over-taxation. 

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The time is not  far  distant  when  tariff 
discussion, and other  subjects  relating  to 
national legislation,  will  again  occupy the 
attention of mercantile men.  The practical 
views of the representative men of this class, 
who  annually  appear  at Washington,  are 
likely to differ as widely as ever from those 
who shape legislation, to say nothing of the 
diversity  of  opinions  among  the  latter. 
Hence, no important changes in  the  exist­
ing tariff are probable,  especially as another 
Presidential  election  is  approaching,  and 
men with political axes  to  grind  are  not 
disposed to stir up any  opposition  to them­
selves or their party at such a period.

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Ambition and energy are an association of 
forces whieh will  overcome  almost  every 
obstacle in business life.  One  is  like  the 
fire which makes the steam  in  the  boiler, 
fljui the other is like the  machinery  in full 
motion. 
T he Future of  California, as a Wine-Pro­

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ducing State.

Wine  manufacturers  on the Pacific coast 
are in high glee over the  favor  with  which 
California wines have lately  been  received 
in England.  The London  Times  recently 
reported a lecture on the  subject,  delivered 
by a Dr. Springmnhl,  before a large assem­
bly of  London wine merchants.  The  San 
Francisco Exam iner  of  September 4th,  al­
luded to the occasion in the following words: 
“It will be seen  that a new era of prosperi­
ty  is dawning upon California  and  that  it 
will soon reach its meridian splendor.  Our 
wines have been  tested  by  European  ex­
perts, and the verdict has  been  more  than 
favorable. 
In obtaining the opinion of con­
noisseurs, Dr.  Springmuhl  recognized  the 
principle that justice  is  blind  and  wisely 
actedupon it.  California wines were given 
to experts without announcement  of the lo­
cality or date  of  the  vintage.  Frenchmen 
pronounced our clarets to be Bordeaux of ex­
cellent quality, and Germans  said  that our 
hocks were from the best  vineyards  along 
the Rhine.  The dicta of  these  authorities 
are most gratifying, inasmuch as a growing 
-demand for,  these particular  wines  exists 
which the Old World is  powerless  to  fill 
France cannot even meet her own  demands 
for pure red wines,  and  the  outcome  has 
been the foisting upon the home and foreign 
market of a great volume of  wine,,  falsely 
so-called, being for the most part an expres­
sion of raisins and -currants,  artificially col­
ored,  flavored  and  fortified.  This  course 
to produce two results—an in­
has 
creased demand for puie red  wines  and an 
| advance in the market price  of  the  same. 
*A wide, almost ¿boundless.  field  js  thus 
to California  wines,  and  fC^roper 
«re be taken o f it, Dr.  Bpringtnuhl’a 
is no empty boast, thatin two de- 
l  a*  the:  head of

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; VISITING  BUYERS.

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

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Jos Totten, Totten 
L A Phelps,  L A Phelps&  Co, Saugatuck 
E S Pride, Saugatuck 
C E Coburn,  Pierson 
Henry Strope, Morley 
Beuj J   Story, Langston
fp W Fincher, Peutw ater 
Neal McMillan, Rockford 
Walling Bros. Lamont 
Geo Carrington, Trent 
R T Parrish, Grandville 
J  C Ben bow, Cannonsburg 
T A  Müler & Co, Alma
P  M Lonsbury i  Son, Reed City
Seward McNftt & Co, Byron Center
C P Williams, Caledonia
John Gunstra, Lamont
G W Robinson, Edgerton
B Burlington, Bradley
E NLespexence. Hamilton
C K Hoyt, HudsonvUle
L Cook, Bauer
Joan Smith, Ada
M M Robson, Berlin
L Maier. Fisher
L A Paine, EnglishvUle
B Gilbert & Co, Moline
G F Cook, Grove
W Vermeulen, Beaver Dam
Geo Carrington, Trent
B F Hall, Fennville
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold
Dell Wright, Berlin
J  Raymond,B erlin
Ja s Barnes, Austerlitz
»C O Bostwlek & Son, Cannonsburg
S Cooper. Jamestown
D J  McNaughton, Chauncey
W 8 Root, Tallmadge
B M Denison, East Paris
G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove
Jas Omler,  Wright
A J White, Bass River
John Kinney, Kinney
W J McJunken, Summit City
M M Brooks, Austerlitz
Geo Sage, Rockford
Gus Begman, Bauer
L Johnson & Bro, Greenville
L R Rogers, E astport
W F Mercer, Carlyle
Eli Runnels, Corning
Richard Purdy, Fremont
J  E Tburkow, Morley
A D Martin, Otia
Smith & Bristol, Ada
Howard Morley, Morley Bros, Ceda:
Geo P Stark, Cascade
Geo N Reynolds, Belmont
Farowe & Dalmon, Allendale
Hamilton & Morton, Sand Lake
C E Joldersma, Jamestown
W alter H Struik, Forest Grove
L N Fisher, Dorr
A F Harrison, Sparta
H Eberlink, Kalamazoo
Jay  M arlatt, Berlin
I A  Mitchell, Lowell
Ed Wright, WoodviUe
H Cummings, Muskegon
F Voorhorst & Co, Overisel
H H Childs, Childs Mills
J  W Robinson, Stetson
Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam
M Minderbout, Hanley
I J   Quick, Allendale
John Giles &  Co., Lowell
Eldridge Bros., Hesperia
O F & W P  Conklin, Ravenna
Fam sw orth & Williams, Man ton
C E Pratt,  Moline
J  C Drew, Rockford
A W Blain, Dutton
M Heyboer & Bro, Drenthe
L M Wolf HudsonvUle
Wm Mines, Nunica
Jam es S Toland, Ross
N B Hawley, Westwood
G S Putnam , Fruitport
Jacob Hoeksema, Kalamazoo
A C Barkley, Crosby
Jno Kamps, Zutphen
Jno Damstra, GitcheU
Jas Riley, Dorr
M J  Howard, Englishville
R H Topping,  Casnovia
S A  Bush, Lowell
R McKinnon, K ent City

W h ere the C lothespins Com e From .
There  are  five  clothespin  factories 

in 
Michigan,  as follows:  Aldrich &  Brayman, 
Custer;  Oscar Schubert,  Grand Haven;  Ne­
waygo Manufacturing  Co.,  Grand  Rapids; 
C.  D.  Huntington,  Mason;  A*.  W.  Dodge, 
Morley.  The bulk of the Michigan product 
is handled by the Cupples Woodenware Co., 
of Grand Rapids,  which  markets  at  least 
half the clothespins  made  in the W est.  A 
New York firm,  which  buys  for the export 
trade only, frequently  takes  as  many  as 
twenty carloads at a time.  An  idea  of the 
low price for which clothespins are sold may 
be gleaned from the  fact  that  the  Morley 
manufacturer  recently  sold to the Cupples 
Manufacturing Co.  four carloads at an aver­
age price of twenty pins for a cent.

According to the commercial reports from 
thirty cities, for every $100 worth  of  busi­
ness done for the first nine months  of  last 
year,  $108 worth of business has  been done 
during the first nine months of  this year.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark—Tanners at this m arket  are 
paying $6 for  all offerings of good bark.
Ginseng—Local dealers  pay $1.60@$1.70 $  1b 
for clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Some m anufactur­
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 12*4 per cent., and 50.

TEAS* 
W ftlto u  Especially fo r Thk Tradesman. 

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Probably very few tea dealers  have  ever 
seen Indian teas or had the least  idea  that 
taa eame from any  other  place  than  China 
o r Japan.  Among the list  of  importations 
%   England  last  year,  we find 72,000,000 
prandspf IniUia tea.  Stop and toink fora 
moment  what  a  vast quantity that is, and 
you Will say,  “It is strange I have not heard 
of this tea;  is it  used  in  America?”  Yes, 
we can safely sáy that for the past two years 
the consumption of Indian teas in the Slates 
of New  York,  New  Jersey,  Connecticut, 
Pennsylvania and the New England  States 
has increased considerably.  Our tea  deal-

In 1610, tea from India  was  used 
China. 
In Holland and in 1656 we find it sold in the 
coffee houses of London at  20s.  (about $5) 
per pound.  The cost  of  it  in  India  was 
then only about 3s.  (about  75  cents),  evi­
dently a very nice profit  for tbe  importer. 
In  1664,  the  Dutch  East  India  Company 
brought home two pounds of Indian tea as a 
prosent to His Majesty King Charles the H. 
The first order sent out  from  England was 
for 100 pounds of choice  Indian  tea  from 
Batavia..  This  was  in  1667. 
In 1707, the 
first green tea was imported.  Tea was first 
cultivated in India as an article of commerce, 
and as it soon became one of the leading ex­
ports, China and Japan turned  their  atten­
tion to this branch of industry, their natives 
being  acquainted  with  the  tea-plant  and 
having probably always  raised tea for their 
own use, it being the custom to  plant a few 
shmbs on the edges of the fields.  At  first, 
only high and rather rocky ground was used 
for planting, as the quality  raised  on  such 
ground was far superior;  but as the demand 
increased poorer soil was  used,  and  hence 
the poor tea our people have  been using for 
years.  Both  Chinese  and  Japanese  very 
quickly hit upon the plan  of  coloring their 
teas and in part covering up the defects that 
would otherwise make their tea  unsalable 
This indiscriminate planting made  the rais­
ing of tea in India a losing business, and for 
many years bat little tea was  raised  there.
,  The  few  gardens  which  were  cultivated 
shipped their tea to a few firms in  London 
r  who could dispose of the product  to  people 

who understood the value of the tea.

A few years ago a number of  gentlemen, 
members of the largest tea firms, determined 
to  bring  Indian  teas  before  the  people, 
knowing, as they did,  that when the people 
once  understood  the  purity  and  value  of 
these teas that they would use  them in pre­
ference to all others.  What  they  believed 
has come true.  From  an  importation  of a 
few  thousand  pounds  it  has  steadily  in­
creased, until last  year  72,000,000  pounds 
was the importation.

I t is not expected that the trade  with In­
dia will supplant the trade  with  China and 
Japan, as the highest grades of  China  and 
Japan teas are very fine;  but  the  growing 
Indian trade will enable the people to obtain 
a  better  quality  of  tea  at  a  much  lower 
price.  The taste for Indian  tea  is  rapidly 
Increasing here and there are some who even 
prefer it by itself.  No  China or Japan teas 
possess  such  sharp  piquancy,  such  great 
strength, and such pronounced, yet delicate, 
flavor as the better  descriptions  of  Indian 
teas.  To  obtain  the  perfection  of  these 
qualities, 
it  becomes  essential  to  use  the 
best  Indian  varieties.  The  cultivation  of 
tea is, in India, much  more a matter of sci- ■ 
cnee than it is in  the  Celestial  Empire  or 
Japan.  The  Chinese  and  Japanese, from 
tone immemorial, have grown  their  teas on 
«very  little  available  space—sometimes  on 
bUlsides,  sometimes on patches of land com­
paratively barren.  They have used little or 
no manure;  in fact,  the eon has followed in 
Ms father’8  footsteps,  without  attempting 
to  excel.  On the  contrary,  the  growth of 
to e  tea industry in India  has  been fostered 
by many  experiments—experiments  as  to 
toe climate most suitable to tea-growing, as 
to toe soil most congenial to it, and the ma­
nure by which it is most nourished—experi­
ments to ascertain the best  kinds  of  plant 
to cultivate.  All these  problem^ have been 
solved to a  .certain  extent,  bat  there  is no 
•doubt much progress will still be made.

When, therefore, we  consider  the differ­
ence  between a  system  of  cultivation  so 
barred to progress as that of the Chinese and 
Japanese and one so enterprising as  that of ^ 
toe English in  India,  we  cannot  wonder 
that, while Indian tea has  been  advancing 
greatly in  public  estimation,  China  and 
Japan teas have  made  comparatively  little 
progress.

There  is  one  remarkable  difference be­
tween  Indian  and  China  and Japan teas, 
an d  to^k is, while first,  second,  third  and 
.fourth crop China and Japan teas are differ­
e n t in character, mid  respectively  inferior, 
to e one to the other, there is nothing in  In- 
JBan tea to proclaim its  relationship  to any 
particular crop or gathering.

The following are  the  principal  districts 
from which our supply of  Indian  tea is ob- 
tained:  Assam,  Darjeeling,  Cachar  and 
Hylhet, Kangra, Dehra Dhoon, Kumaon and 
Sim la, Hazaribagh,  Chittagong, Neilgherry 
(Madras), Dooars, Juligoorie,  Bangurth.

ASSAM.

Indian teas from the district of Assam are 
Mbarly  always  strong  and  pungent,  toe 
brokenSa in  addition, being thick  and  rich. 
T b s Color o i the Infused  leaf  is  a  ruddy 
brown, with a tendency  to  red.  The  dry 
lo a f fe A  dull,  grayish  black.  The.  finer
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sorts pro evenly  curled  and.  abound  with 
Pekoe tips.  Assam is the home of the  w i  
digenous plant, and Its  hot,  moist  dimate 
and rieh soil are nearly perfect for tea-grow­
ing.  : 

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D A R JE ELIN  G.

Darjeeling teas are fall  and very flavory*! 
but are not so pungent as Assams.  The in­
fused leaf is tender  and  bright.  The  dry 
leaf is blacker, but, taking  the  average,  is 
scarcely as tightly twisted as that of Assam 
teas.  Darjeelings from Terai  (Terai is be­
low Darjeeling) are probably the  best  teas 
that are  brought to  England  or  America; 
for full flavor and rich strength they are un­
equalled. 
Occasionally  Darjeelings  are 
found that do  not  possess  the  flavor  for 
which the district  is  justly  famous.  The 
tea then is soft and insipid  and  is  useless 
for increasing the flavor  of  a  blend.  Most 
of the plants in Darjeeling  are  from China 
seed.

SYLHET.

Sylhet produces teas which  are similar to 

those of Cachar, but are more pungent.

KANGRA.

Teas  grown  in  the  Kangra  Yalley  are 
fine, delicate  and  aromatic.  Their infused 
leaf is very bright and  the  flavor  is  even 
considered  superior  to that of the Darjeel­
ings,  but, unfortunately, they are often thin.

DEHRA  DHOON.

Dehra Dhoon teas are mostly  thin,  high 
burnt, and  rather  sour.  Occasionally, the 
flavor is rather earthy.  They are not much 
sought after.

KUMAON  AND  SIMLA.

These teas are somewhat  similar to Kan- 
gras.  They are very flavory, and sometimes 
rich, but are not  infrequently  thin.  Occa­
sionally,  the flavor is not of a  very high or­
der.

HAZARIBAGH.

The  infused  leaf  of  these  teas  is very 
bright.  The liquors are fresh  and  flavory.

CHITTAGONG.

Chittagong teas are  strong,  thick and al- 
They'  are  good,
most nntty in character, 
useful teas,  and, for  their  great  strength, 
are in considerable demand/

NEILGHERRY  (M ADRAS).

When Neilgherry teas were  first  import­
ed, the flavor was  decidedly  objectionable. 
It has now improved,  but is  still  far  from 
perfection.  The liquor is thin,  and the dry 
leaf black and tippy.  Neilgherry teas from 
Madras  must not be confused with the As­
sam  Neilgherry  teas,  which  are  strong, 
rough and  pungent.

DOOARS.

The teas produced in this district are sim­
ilar in choracter to  those  of  Cochar,  but, 
being considerably  stronger,  are more valu­
able for blending.

JULIGOORIES.

Juligoprie teas have a very bright infused 
leaf and a thick, rich, but rather soft, liquor.

RANGURTH.

The infused leaf of  this  is  also  bright. 
The liquor is fine and fresh, but thin and in­
clined to be sickly.

SORTS  OF  INDIA N  TEAS.

”**In the manufacture, Indian  teas are gen­
erally sorted into the following  classes: 

1 

Flowery  Pekoe,
Orange  Pekoe,
Pekoe, 
1
Pekoe Souchong,
Congou,
Broken  Flowery Pekoe,
Broken Orange Pekoe,
Broken  Pekoe,
Broken Pekoe Souchong,
Broken Souchong,
Broken Mixed,
Fannings,
Dust. 

H e n r y   Sm ith.

T h e Grocery M arket.

The feature of the  week has been the ad­
vance of nearly %c  in  sugars,  consequent 
on a strong statistical  position  and the for­
mation of a combination among the refiners. 
Referring  to  the “trust,” as  the  members 
prefer to call  i(,  Willett & Hamlen remark:
The combination represents  a  capital  of 
say $15,000,000, apportioned to the different 
refineries on an equitable basis for the divis­
ion of profits.  The only sugar refineries in 
the United States not included in the “ trust” j 
or combination  are  two  refineries in Phila­
delphia,  one  in  Boston,  three  small refin­
eries in New Orleans, one in S t Louis,  but 
not  running,  and  two  in  San  Francisco. 
The committee have full  control of the pro­
duction of  refined,  so  that it can always be 
regulated  by the  demand  by  the  running 
fall, or  closing,  or  partial  closing  of  any 
refinery,  and will have no difficulty in regu­
lating the prices of refined to a paying basis, 
as compared with  the  market price  of  raw 
sugar. 
It is  not  likely  that  large  profits 
wiU be demandai, as  this  course would an­
tagonize  the  60,000,000  sugar  consumers, 
who would  unite  in  demanding  from  the 
next Congress  the entire removal of  sugar 
duties on both raw and refined sugars.

The  refiners defend their  action  in unit­
ing by stating that the  disastrous condition 
of the  business  for a  series  of  years  has 
forced them to take such  a  course for  self­
protection.  The  action of  the refiners will 
undoubtedly do  much to stimulate the pass* 
age of  a  bill  by Congress  largely reducing 
or entirely repealing the duty on raw sugars.
Most lines of  canned goods are  preceptl- 
bly firmer, but no changes are made in quo­
tations.  Other  articles  in  the grocery line 
are steady.

Candy is in good request and,  on account 
of the high price of sugar,  prices  are  very 
firm.  Bananas are  reasonably  plenty  and 
prices are low.  OrangesJJwill  be scarce un­
til November, when toe  Florida  crop  will 
begin to arrive.  New figs  are in market at 
about thé usual  prices.  Chestnuts  are not 
as plenty as expected and prices are higher.

The  Anchoi£Brand.

The celebrated “Anchor” brand of oysters 
continues in great demand,  in  consequence 
of which F. J. Deltenthaler  has  been com­
pelled to nearly doable his  shipments  from 
Baltimore.  Dealers  should  be  careful  to 
specify toe “Anchor” brand ha ordering, and 
take no other. 

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WBQ9UHAL8 PBIOB OURRBNT.

AXLE  GREASE.

These prices  are  for  couth  buyers, who  pay 

prom ptly and buy in full packages.
Crown  .....  4 . . . . ,   80Paragon 
...2  10
00Paragon25ft.pails.  90
Frazer’s . .. .. .. .. ..  
Diamond  X .„ .......  60 Fraziers, 251b pails. 1 25
Modoc, 4 doz...,.. .2 60
Acme, H ft cans,3 doz.case.................... . 

BAKING  POW DER.

75
“   ... . .   ................   150
1  “  H  ..........................   3 00
30
1.... 4   4 ....  1 25

Bulk .................................................... 

Princess,  *4s..__ _  4 . -

“   *4 lb 
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b u lk .......................
Arctic, *4 ft cans, 6 doz. case

Victorian, 1 ft cans, (tall,) 2 d o z..,..
Diamond,  “bulk.” ....................
Absolute, *4 ft cans, 100 cans in case,

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Herring, round,  m   bbU.
@27 6
Herring, round, *4  bbl................................  1 30
H erring, Holland,  bbls.. . . . . . . . . . .v ;■  10 Q0
Herring, Holland,  kegs.............. 
764285
H e rrin g ,S e a le d ................... 
023
Mackerel, shore, No. 1, *4 bbls.... .. .  f * ..  SO 00
“  13ft kits 
.......8  CO
..........2 5 0
‘t   10 
No.3. *4bbls..........................6  60
T rout, *4  bbls................................................5 75
10a   k its.............................., . . . : __   85
White, No. 1,14 b b ls...........................6 5006 75
White, No. 1,12 lb kits................................ l  io
White, No. 1,10 ft k its............. .. 
90
White, Family, *4 bbls............................... ;3 75
kits.............................. ......  55
Lemon.  Vanilla.
_ 
Jennings’ D. C.,2 oz...............$  doz.  1 00 
1 60
“  4 oz............ ............... ;1 50 
2 65
“  6 o z ......................2  50  4 25
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“  8 p
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“  No. 2 T aper..............125 
175
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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

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No. 4 
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*4 pint, round.

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Teller’s *4 ft, cans, 6 doz in case. 

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BLUING
Dry, No; 2.................................
Dry, No. 3.................................
Liquid, 4 oz,.............................
Liquid, 8 o z .______________
Arctic 4 oz.................................
Arctic 8  oz................................
Arctic 16 oz...............................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box........
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Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No, 3 
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BROOMS.

No. 2 H url................ 1 
No. 1 H u rl...............2 
No. 2 Carpet.............2 25 MiU..
No. 1 Carpet.............2 50 Ware]
Parlor Gem.............2 75

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CHOCOLATE. 
W ilbur’s  Premium..j35 Germ
Sweet........ 23 Vieni
B’kf’tCocoa45  Bake]
Cocoa-theta 42  Runk
COCOANUT.
Schepps, Is ...............................
Is and  *4s .................
*4s................................
Is in tin  pails..........
*4s 
4
Maltby’s,  Is..............................
Is and  *4b...............
*4s............................
M anhattan,  paiis....................
Peerless  ...................................
Bulk, pails or barrels.............
COFFEES.

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Green.

60 fts 100 fts

Roasted.

R io ..........
Santos___
Maricabo.
J a v a ........
O. G. Java,
Mocha  __

...22@24  R io ...........
...23@25  Santos___
.. .34 @26  Maricabo.,
...23@25 
Ja v a........
... 24@26  O. G, Java 
...25@26  Mocha...  . 
COFFEES—PACKAGE,

L ion.....................................
Lion,  in  cabinets.............
xxxx......................
Arbuckle’s  .......................
Dilworth’s .........................
Standard  ..........................
G erm an.................  ..........
German, in  bins...............
Magnolia............................
Eagle...................................
M exican............................
Honey Bee, 1 ft packages 
Bell, Conrad  & Co.’s Plantation Java.

COFFEES-
____ H P - s p e c i a l  b r a n d s .
**  Mocha..................
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Im perial..............
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B anner................
“  Mexican...............
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90  ¡50 foot Cotton__

60 foot Ju te ....... 
72 foot J u t e .......   1  30  60 foot Cotton 
4oFootCotton__150 
l72foot Cotton 
CR4.CKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.

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Kenosha B u tte r.........................
Seymour  B utter.......................
B u tter........ 1. 
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Fancy  B utter..........‘  ’4M
S.  O yster...................................
P icnic.................j ......................
Fancy  Oyster............................  
Fancy  Soda............... 
City Soda.................................
Soda  ....................................
M ilk............................................
B oston........................................
G raham ......................................
Oat  M eal............ .......................
Pretzels, hand-made.................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels...................................
Lemon Cream__,. . . ................. 
Sugar Cream........   ...................  
Frosted Cream...........................
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps..................  
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee  Cakes.............................
Lemon W afers...........................
Jum bles......................................
E xtra Honey Jum bles..............
Frosted Honey  Cakes..............
Cream  Gems.......... ...................
Bagleys  Gems...........................
Seed Cakes.................................
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S. &  M. Cakes........ . 
CANNED F IS H .
Clams, 1 ft, Little Neck......................
Clam Chowder,  3 ft............................
Cove Oysters, 1 ft standards............
Cove Oysters, 2 ft  standards............
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic............................
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic...........................
Lobsters, 1 ft sta r................................
Lobsters. 2 ft s ta r................................
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh standards.........
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards........
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t .......
Mackerel, 3 ft in M u ^ ard ..................
Mackerel. 3ft  sousea.........................
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river..............
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river..........
Sardines, domestic *4s.......................
Sardines,  domestic  *4s......................
Sardines,  Mustard  *4s.......................
Sardines,  imported  &s...............
Sardines,  spiced, *4s...........................
Trout. 3 ft  brook.................................
Apples, gallons, standards...............
Blackberries, standards....................
Cherries,  red  stan d ard ....................
Dam sons...............................................
Egg Plums, standards 
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Gooseberries........ ..................
Grapes...................................................
Green Gages.........................................
Peaches,  all yellow, standards........
Peaches,  seconds........ ...... .... 
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Peaches, pie........ ................................
Pears....................................................
Pineapples,..........................................
Q uinces................................................
Raspberries,  extra............................
r e d ................................
Strawberries  ......................................
W hortleberries...................................
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.....................
Beans, Lima,  standard......................
Beans,  String........... .........................
Beans, Stringless, E rie......................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked............
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy................ .
Peas, French.............. .........................
Peas, extra m arrofat.................. .
Peas,  soaked......................................
“  Early June, stand........ .
sifted..................
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Mushrooms, extra fine.....................
Pum pkin, 3 ft Golden.......................
Succotash, standard..........................
Squash..................................................
Tomatoes, standard b rands... .........
Michigan full  c r e a m .........;......
D R IED   FRUITS—FOREIGN.
C itron........ ........... 
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Currants,new.......... .
Lemon Peel.................. .......................
Orange Peel.................................
Prunes, French,6 0 s . . . . . . . . . . .
French, 8 0 s ............
French,  9 0 s ..................
T urkey............................ 1...
Raisins, Dehesia........t — ................
Raisins, London Layers............... .
Raisins, California  .“ 
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Raisins, Loose Muscatels........ .........
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s..........        ...
RaisinB. Sultanas........................
Raisins, Valencies,  new..,........
Raisins, I m p e r ia ls ...................

CANNED f r u i t s .

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13@15
,10@12

13  @13*4

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“  No. 8 
“   No. 10 

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Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro,
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor....
Grand  Haven, No.  300, parlor__
Grand  Haven, No.  7,  round........
Oshkosh, No. .2..... ..........................
Oshkosh, No.  8. ..............................
Swedish........ ...................................
Richardson’s No. 8  square...........
Richardson’s No. 9 
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Richardson’s No. 7*4, round..........
Richardson’s No. 7 
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Woodbine. 300..................................
Black Strap.....................................
Cuba Baking....................................
Porto  Rico.................. ....................
New  Orleans, good........ ...............
New Orleans, choice.......................
New Orleans,  fancy.......................

MOLASSES.

do 
do 

*4 bbls. 3c extra 

16@18 
,22@25 
,24@30 
.28@34 
,44 @50 
,52@55

Java  .................
P a tn a .....................
R angoon................  <
Broken..............3*4(
Ja p a n .....................

OATMEAL 

ROLLED  OATS
Barrels....................6  00 Barrels....................
Half barrels............3  12 Half barrels.........
Cases........................2 25 Cases.......................
Medium..................6 00| Small,  bbl...............
*4 bbl........ .
<3
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PICKLES.
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PIPE S.

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SALERATUS.

Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............ 
Imported Clay,  No. 216,2*4 gross...... 
American  T. D........................................
Choice Carolina.
Prim e Carolina.
Good Carolina.,
Good Louisiana
Table  ...............
Head .................
DeLand’s pure........5*4|Dwight’s .,
Church’s  .................5  Sea  Foam.
Taylor’s  G. M..........5 
|Cap Sheaf.
%c less in 5 box lots. 
60 Pocket, F F   Dairy.......................
28 Pocket....................... .....................
100 3 ft  pockets.................................
Saginaw or  M anistee......................
Ashton, English, dairy, b u .b ag s... 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags. 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags!..
American, daily, *4 bu. bags..........
Rock, bushels....................................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags................

SALT.

SAUCES.

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12*4
15
18@22
85

SPICES—WHOLE.

London Relish, 2 doz..........................
Allspice...........................  ..................
Cassia, China in m ats.........................
“  Batavia in bundles...............
“  Saigon in rolls.......................
Cloves, Amboyna................................
“  Zanzibar.................................
Mace B atavia......................................
Nutmegs,  fancy.................................
No. 1....................................
No. 2....................................
Pepper, Singapore,  black.................
“ 
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SPICES—PURE  GROUND.
Allspice................................................
Cassia,  B atavia..................................
and .Saigon................
“ 
Saigon....................................
“ 
Cloves, Amboyna....................... .......
“ 
Zanzibar.................. ............
Ginger, A frican...................................
“  Cochin......................................
Jam aica..................................
“ 
Mace Batavia........................................
Mustard,  English...............................
and Trieste.......... .
Trieste............. ....................
Nutmegs,  No. 2................................. .
Pepper, Singapore black....................
w hite..................
Cayenne.................................
STARCH.
Muzzy, Gloss, 48 ft boxes, 1  ft  pkgs.
“  48“ 
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“  40 ft 
“  72 ft crates, 6 ft boxes
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1 ft  “ 
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Kingsford’s Silver Gloss, 1 ft pkgs..,
6 ft boxes.,
b u lk ........
Pure, l f t  pkgs............... .
Corn, 1  ft pkgs.......  ......
Cut  Loaf................................................
Cubes  .....................................................
Pow dered........ .....................................
Granulated.  Standard.........................
Off....................................
Confectionery A ..................................
StandardA ............................................
No. 1, White E xtra  C..........................
No. 2, E xtra C......................................
No.3 C.....................................................
No.4 C.....................................................
No. 5C.....................................................
Corn, barrels.......@31*4|Pure Sugar, bbl. ,25@35
Com, *4 bbls........ @33*4 Pure Sugar, *4 bbl27@37
Corn, 10 gal. k ’gs.@35*4i
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen....... 
70
Maccoboy........ ....................   @  55
@  44
Gail & Ax’ 
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Rappee.................................   @  35
Railroad  Mills  S cotch........................   @  45
Lotzbeck  ...............................................  @1  30

20ft 
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SYRUPS.

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TEAS.

Merry W ar................. 34
Jolly T ar.....................34
Live & Let Live.........34
Quantity & Q uality..25
Ñimrod.........
W hopper__
Jupiter.........
Old Honesty. 
P. L...............

Spear H ead...........
Plank  Road............
Eclipse  ..................
Holy  Moses............
Blue Blazes...........
Eye  Opener...........
Star 
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Clipper  ..................
Scalping  K nife__
Sam Bass.................
Japan ordinary__
Japan fair to good,
Japan fine...............
Japan dust.............
Young Hyson.___
G unPow der.......
O olong..................
Congo.................. ..

VINEGAR.

W hite W ine.................................
C ider..............................  ............
Apple.............................................
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick im ported.................
do 
American.................
Burners, No. 0 ..........................
do  No. 1............................
do  No. 2 .........................
Cocoa  Shells, bulk......................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.. 
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft cans..
Candles. Star..... ...................
Candles.  H o te l.............. ...........
Camphor, oz., 2 ft boxes............
E xtract Coffee, V.  C.................
...
Fire Crackers, per box.............
Gum, Rubber 100 lum ps.........
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
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Gum, Spruce.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hominy, $  bbl.............................
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.....................
Pearl Barley...............................
Peas,G reen  B u s h ..............
Peas, Split  Prepared........ ........
Powder, Keg...........................
Pqwder, *4  K eg..........................
S a g e ..................  . . . . j H i
'Sago'-    .............................. ............... ...f.
Tapioca ............ ...............................

Felix ... ..  

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C A N D Y , FR U ITS A N D   NUTS. 
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows : 
Si

Standard, 25 ft boxes................... 
Twist, 
C ut Loaf'  do
Royal, & ft pails.

STICK.

".do”  

Boyal, 2030 b b l s . | ; B  f 1 1
E x tra,25lb  p a ils.....  ....................
Extra, 2Q0 lb bbls... J   4  . .. .. .. .  I
Prenota Cream, 21 lb pails.. .. .. .. 4
C ut loaf, 26 b  eases.. . . .. .. .. ..   ...
Broken,25  b  palls.......................
Broken,2002» b b E l.4 4 .. .. .. ., .. ..
FANCY—IN  6 lb BOXES.
Lemon  Drops..................................
Sour D rops................ ............  
4V
Pepperm int  Drops.........................
Chocolate Drops.............................
H M Chocolate  Drops....................
Gum  Drops........ .............................
Licorice D rops.................................
........
A B  Licorice  Drops.. 
Lozenges,plain............................
Lozenges,  printed...........................
Im perials..................... ..............
M ottoes......................................... .
Cream  B ar.......................................
Molasses B ar....................................
Caramels...........................................
Hand Made Creams.................. ..!
Plain  Creams...................................
Decorated  Creams...........................
String Rock......................................
Burnt Almonds.. ............................
W intergreen  Berries......................
I 
FANCY—IN  BULK.
! Lozenges, plain in  pails................
Lozenges, plain in bbls.................
Lozenges, printed in pails.............
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.............
Chocolate Drops, in pails...............
Gum Drops  in palls.......................
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................
Moss Drops, in  pails.......................
Moss Dropé, in b b ls ...........
Sour Drops, in  pails.......................
Imperials, in  paiis..........................
Imperials  in bbls..........................
Bananas 
.........................................
Oranges, California, fancy............
Oranges,  choice ..............................
Oranges, Jam aica, bbls.................
Oranges, Florida..............................
Oranges, Rodi,.................................
Oranges, Messina............................
Oranges, OO......................................
Oranges, Im perials.........................
Lemons, choice...............................
Lemons, fancy...............................
Lemons, California.........................
Figs, layers, new,  ^  
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Figs, Bags, 50 3b...............................
Dates, frails  do  ............................
Datest H do  d o ..............................
Dates, Fard 10 lb box $   lb.............
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft...............
Dates. Persian 60 ft box sp ft........ .
Pine Apples, $  doz.........................
Almonds,  Tarragona.....................
Ivaca..........................   ,.
C alifornia.......................
B razils..............................................
Filberts, Sicily....................• ..........
Barcelona.........................
Walnuts,  Grenoble.........................
Sicily.................................
French..............................
Pecans,  Texas, H. P .......................
Missouri...........................
Cocoanuts, $  100, full bags............
Chestnuts......................................... .
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  fl  ft.....................
Choice 
do  ...............  ...
do  .....................
Fancy H.P. do 
Choice White, Va.do  ......................
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ..................
H .P .V a .............................................

FRUITS.

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OYSTERS  AND  FISH. 
F. J. D ettenthaier quotes as follows 
Fairhaven C ounts...............................
Selects.......................... ..........................
Anchors.................................................
Standards  .............................................
Black  bass.............................................
Rock bass.............................................
Perch......................................................
Wall-eyed  pike................................. .
Duck-bill  pike......................................
Sturgeon............................................... [
Sturgeon,  smoked................................
T rout.......................... ...........................
W hiteflsh..............................................
Whitefish, smoked...............................

FRESH  FISH .

@11*4
@10
@10
@ 9
@12
@13
@13
14
18
10

@11*4 
@10*4 
@12*4 
@11*4 
@13*4 
@  6*4 
@ 5*4 
9  @10 
@ 9 
@12

Clothes, splint.  No. 8. 
Clothes, splint,  No. 2.... 
Clothes, splint.  No. I,,.. 
Clothes,willow  No. 3..., 
Clothes, willow  No. 2..  ,
Clothes, willow  No. 1 __
W ater  Tight,  (acme) bu

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY

From 2 to ISO Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills 
Grist Mills, Wood W orking  Machinery,  Shaft 
Ing,  Pulleys  and Boxes.  Contracts m ade for 
Complete Outfits.

W ,  O,  D enison,
GRAND  RAPIDS. 

88,90 and 92 South Division Street, 

MICH.

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Im porters and Jobbers of

DKÏ  GOODS

Staple  and  Fancy.

O veralls, P a n ts, Etc,

OUR  OWN  M AKE.

A  Complete  Line  of

OUR  OWN  IM PORTATION.

Inspection Solicited.  Chicago and D etroit 

P rices G uaranteed.

Correspondence  a  merchant  is 

largely by the quality of his

judged

And if  you are not supplied with

LETTER  HEADS,
NOTE  HEADS,

BILL  HEADS, 

STATEMENTS, 
CARDS.

ENVELOPES, 

PROVISIONS.

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PORK  IN   BARRELS.

The  Grand Rapids Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chicago  packing.......................................15 75
Short c u t...............;.............................................. 15 75
Shortcut, clear,  Botsford.............................." 1 5  ¿0
Shortcut  Morgan...............................................jq (j0
E xtra clear pig, short cu t..................................16 75
E xtra clear, heavy.........................................
Clear quill, short  cut...........................  
Boston clear, short c u t.......................................16 75
Clear back, short cu t..........................................16 75
Standard clear, short  cut, best........................16 75
Bean..................................................................
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.
Hams, average 20  fts......................................11*4
16  fts............................ ¡ ." " 1 2
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12 to 14 fts....................... 
. 12*4
“  picnic  ...................................................   8*4
“  best  boneless.......................................11
Shoulders................................................... ’. ”   7^
Breakfast Bacon, boneless...................!!!.!! 13*4
Dried Beef, ex tra...................................... .."   9
ham  prices.......................... !.!.10*4
71^
Tierces  .....................................................  
30 and 50 ft Thibs ......................................  
7j|
7%
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..............................  
7^
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case............................... 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case ..............................  
7%
20 ft Pails, 4 palls in  case.......................  
714
E xtra Mess, warranted 200 fts......................  7  50
E xtra Mess, Chicago Pacxing......................  7 25
“  Kansas City Packing...............7  75
P la te ................................................................ 
7 75
E xtra Plate..................................................            8 25
Boneless, rum p butts......................................10 50
“   Kan City pkd........... 9 50
“  *4 bbl.  5 00
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Pork Sausage...................................................   7^4
Ham  Sausage.......................................... . . . " l l
Tongue  Sausage......................................9
Frankfort  Sausage....................... ..................8
Blood  Sausage..............................................”   g
Bologna, straight..................................... 6
Bologna,  thick........................................... 6
Head  Cheese.............................................q
In half barrels.................................................  3 00
In quarter barrels..........................................   1 75

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

LARD IN  TIN PAILS.

BEEF IN  BARRELS.

PIGS’ FEET.

LARD.

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SUMMER  PRICES,

Until F urther Notice.

Egg and G rate 
Stove  No.  4  an d  N ut 

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$6.75  p e r ton.
-  $7.00  p e r ton,

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For September Delivery.

Grand Rapids Ice & Coal Co.,

O FFIC E  53  P E A R L   ST.,

Yard, Comer W ealthy Avenue  and M. C. R. R. 

Telephone No. 159.

FR ESH   MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................  5  @  6
Fresh Beef, hind quarters..................   5*4@  6*4
Dressed Hogs...........................................  6  @ 6*4
M utton..............  
6  @  6*4
Lamb  spring...........................................  7*4®  8
Veal 
. .............................. ...................  7*4® 8
Pork Sausage........................................ . .8   @ 8*4
Bologna....................................................  @  6
Fowls........................................................   @11
Ducks  ...................  
@11
Turkeys  ..................................................  @ll
Lard,  kettle-rendered..........................   @  8

 

 

 

 

 

H ID ES. PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

_   HIDES.

G reen__ $  ft 5*4@  6
P art cured...  7  @ V.
Full cured__ 7*4@  8
Dry hides and 
k ip s ............  8  @12

Calf skins, green
Deacon skins,

or cured__ 7  @ 8
piece.......10  @30

WOOL.

Fine washed 
ft 32@261 Coarse washed.
Medium  .............27@3o| Unwashed.........
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sheep pelts, short shearing...............
Sheep pelts, old wool estim ated..........
Tallow................................................ . 
i
Grease b u tter.........................................
Ginseng, good......................................... 1

Curtiss & Dunton quote as follows:

W OODENW ARE. 

Standard  Tubs, No. I ...............
Standard Tubs, No. 2...............
Standard Tubs, No. 3...............
Standard Pails, two hoop......
Standard Pails, three hoop__
Pails, ground wood 
..............
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes__
B utter  Pails, ash....................
B utter Ladles.......................
B atter Spades.............. ............
Rolling Pins______ ______ __
Potato M ashers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clothes Pounders................
C lothesPins....................
Mop  Sticks.................................
Washboards, single..................
Washboards, double..........
Washboards, Northern  Queen
BASKETS.
Diamond  M arket__ _. .. .. .. ..
Bdshel.narrow  band, Nq. 1..., 
Buabel,narrow band,N o.2...,

GRAND RAPIDS DISTRICT 

TELEGRAPH 00.

H0. 3 CANAL ST., OSANO SAFIOS.

Electrical  Supplies,  Burglar  Alarms  and 
Fire Alarm  Boxes  put  in  cities.  Hotel 
Annunciators  and  Electric  Door  B ells at 
wholesale  and  retail.  Drawings  sent 
with BeJIs,  so anyone can put them up.

Messengers,  Hacks,  Express  Wagons  on 

hand day and night.

AND DEALERS IN

CUSTOM  SH IRT  MAKERS,
Men’s  Furnishing  Goods.
O. a  PE A R L  ST., 
P ro m p t A ttention t6  Mall O rders.  Telephone 891.

«  GRAND RAPIDS. 

MYRON  H.  WALKER,

A ttorney a n d  Solicitor,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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'  Over Fourth National Bank.  Telephone 107.

Parties Having Pine or Hardwood Lut&* 
ber for Sale Can  F|ind  a-  Cash  Market  by. 
Addressing Buyer, case “M ichigan Trades** 
*  r> .  Ill
man,” Grand Rapids, M ich. 

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ORGANIZED  OCTOBER, 1883.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER  >, 1881.

G rand Rapids, 
rrie n  Springs.

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»-President—H enry K ephart,

Stete Board o f Pharintey,  I 

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.

P resident, R. F. Latim er;  Secretary, F.  A. King.

P resident, D. O. R oberts;  Secretary, D. McDonald.

tllc h lg an  Stato Pbarm aceatlcat Ass’n.

P ^ r u g g ^ iD e b lc t n e s

Jackson County Pharmaceutical  Ass’n.

T\he Apprentice in Pharm acy.*

Mason County  Pharmaceutical Society.

Clinton County  Druggists’  Association.

Tuscola County Pharmaceutical Society.

Kalamazoo Pharmaceutical Association.

Grand to p id s  Pharmaceutical Society. '

P resident, F. N. L atim er;  Secretary, Wm. H eysett.
Mecosta  bounty  Pharmaceutical  Society 

P resident, J a y   Sm ith;  Secretary,  D. E. P rall.
Shiawassee County Pharmaceutical Society

1  P resident, C. H. W agener;  Secretary, A. H. W ebber.
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i*  Monroe  County Pharmaceutical Society.

P resident. E. A. Bullard;  Secretary, C. E. Stoddard.
Manistee County  Pharmaceutical  Society.
P resident. W. H. W illard;  S ecretary, A. H.  Lym an.

I   Oceana County Pharmaceutical Society, 
f   P resident, F. W. Fincher;  S ecretary, F ran k  Cady.
.  Sag inaw  County  Pharmaceutical  Seciety.

President—F ran k   inglls.
F irst Vioe-President—F. W. E; P erry.
|  S ecretary an d  T reasurer—F. R ohnert.
|   .  A ssistant S ecretary an d  T reasurer—A. B. Dee.

!*,  Second V iee-Presldent—J . J .  Crowley.

Kb tied down, and should it be  even for 

P resident, A. O. H unt;  S ecretary, A. S.  W allace.
Charlevoix County Pharmaceutical Society 
•  President, H. W. W illard;  Secretary, Geo. W. C router.
1 
Ionia County  PharmaceuticalfSociety,
H  President, W. R. C utler;  S ecretary, Geo. Gundrum.

A nnual M eeting—F irst W ednesday in  Jane.
R eg u lar M eetings—F irs t W ednesday in  each m onth.
Central  Michigan  Druggists’ Association,
P resident, J. W. D unlop;  S ecretary, R.  M. Hnsseli,
Berrien  County  Pharmaceutical  Society.
P resident, H. M. Dean;  Secretary, H enry K ephart.

£gS& -' 
S i  Y ears—Jaoob Jeseon, M uskegon.  ' 
' 'æ i ^ % P M ^ £ j f  V ernor. D etroit.  ■■ ‘
«ire©  T ear» --O ttm n rEberbach, A nn A rbor.
F o u r T eam —Geo. M cDonaldTkitfamazoo.
F ire  T e ars—Stanley E. P arkell, Owosao. 
P resid en t—Geo. McDonald 
secretary —Jacob Jesson.
"T^rarer-rJas. Vettmr.  ■%?';.»
N ext M eeting—A t Lansing, N ovem ber 1 and S ....

fi P resid en t—A rth u r B assett, D etroit. 
F irs t Vice-President—G. M. Harwo( 
Second Vice-President—H. B. F a ire
■
S ecretary—8. E. Parfciil, Owossol 
Tr© ssnren-W in. Dupont, D etroit.  - 
K^dcutlye COromlttee-  Qco.  G undrum ,  F ran k   IngliH 
A. H. Lym an, Jo h n  R. Peck, E. T. W ebb.
Local Secretary—Jam es V ernor, D etroit.
N ext M eeting—A t D etroit, O ctober

P resident, 8. M. Sackett;  S ecretary, Ju lias Weiss.
Muskegon County  Druggists’  Association,
P resident, J2. C.  Bond;  Secretary,G eo. L. LeFevre.
Muskegon  Drug Clerks’ Association.
P resident, C. S. Koon;  Secretary, Geo.  L, LeFevre.
Newaygo  County  Pharmaceutical  Society, 
president, J. F. A. R aider; S ecretary, N. N. Miller.

P resid en t—Geo. G. Stekettee.
V ice-President—H.  E. Loeher.
S ecretary—F ran k  H. Escott.
T re a su re r-H e n ry   B. Fairchild.
B o a rd h f Censors—President,  Vice-President  and Sec­
retary ,
B oard'of Trustees—The President,  John F   Peek,  H.  B. 
K im m ,W m . H. VanLeeuwen and O. H. Richmond, 
w en, Isaac W atts. Wm. E. W hite and Wm.  L.  W hite. 
C om m ittee on Trade M atters—John E  Peck, H  B  Fair- 
c h ild a n d  Hugo  Thum.
C om m ittee  on  Legislation—R.  A.  M cW illiams,  Theo. 
Kem ink and W. H. Tibbs.
C om m ittee on Pharm acy—W. L, W hite, A. C. Bauer and 
Isaac W atts.
R egular  M eetings—F irst  T hursday  evening  in   each 
. . .  
M  — 
■ J p o n th .
A nnual Meeting—F irst Thursday evening In Novem ber  I  fro n t  nn>ll  « A o io J 
Next Meeting—Thursday evening, November 3, at The ! 
tradesman office. 

'tosp eciallegislatton:-bÿwhich  personallib-j
it period, this spirit is  m ost  carefully 
nursed by the  intelligent  and  educated  of 
our country as one o f our  boat  safe-guards 
of our free institutions,  and  our  profession 
most certainly does not desire  to step down 
from its social position as an educated ni*M 
by attempting to revive matters of the past, 
rather than to be in the van  of  social  pro­
gress.  This being conceded,  the  question 
how  to  train And  bring  up  pharinacists, 
thorough  in  professional  knowledge  and 
usefulness, places itself  boldly  before  the 
professioh at large, and particularly  before 
this Association, as thé prime mover for ob­
taining for this State an enactment to draw 
certain lim its for practising the art of select­
ing,  preparing  and  combining  medicinal 
substances  correctly,;  and  with  positive 
knowledge  of  their  safety  in  regard  to 
changes that may take place on mixing, and 
doses in which  they  are  ordered  to be ad­
ministered.
The conditions of  a  large  percentage  of 
those who have served, and who enter drug 
stores at present for the  purpose  of becom­
ing  qualified  phanuacists,  in  the sense as 
the new state of things,  under  the pharma­
cy law,  w ill develop, are not in  pace  with 
the times, as a few  years’  service  on  the 
Board clearly demonstrates.
,  Looking at the large  number  of  intelli-
Wdl-pOStôd pu&rinHCistS Of  OUT StâtC,
| and at the unprecedented growth of our Asso­
ciation, developing the liveliest interest for 
everything appertaining  to  pharmacy, hav­
ing at our  disposition  a  state  institution, 
provided with a special department for  eur ; 
vocation, of which we  can  proudly  boast, 
that in regard to results of  its  work and in 
reputation, it is second to none  in  the  Un 
ion,  and equal to many of the  best  in  the 
world.  There must be a possibility  to  en­
list out of these vast sources a  body  of in­
telligent organisatory talent,  to develop un­
der the auspices of  this  Association  in the 
course of time,  a system for selecting, train­
ing and educating pharmacists,  with great­
est possible advantages  to  both  employer 
and employe, and an ever-growing credit to 
this  Association,  as  corner-stone  of  the 
structure we are all laboring on,  which  w ill 
be a permanent  guarantee  of  its  stability 
and growth,  it w ill rear and bring in an ele­
ment and material into the ranks of this or­
ganization in the  course  of  time,  of which 
we w ill be proud,  and  a  thousandfold  re­
warded for the labor it may cost.
Having given the subject a great  deal  of 
thought as to a practical plan  by  which  to 
gain ends in view,  I  must  confess  there 
never was a time  in which  I  considered it 
more  difficult  and  the  conditions  offered 
more  contrary,  to  propose  some  general 
plan for this State than I do now, after hav­
ing served two years on  the  Board  where 
there is every opportunity offered  to  come 
into contact with every  form  of  shop-boy 
training, from the one who enters a general 
merchandise store on  the  frontiers,  who, 
after two, three or four years, presents him­
self for examination,  to obtain  a  certificate 
as registered  pharmacist,  up  to those that 
have had the best of opportunity for acquir­
ing pharmaceutical knowledge.
Convinced that  compulsory or obligatory 
apprenticeship are contrary to  the  spirit of 
the people who believe that  trade and labor 
must be free and voluntary,  and  such regu­
lations,  if enacted by  legislature,  would be 
inoperative; it is useless to look for a change 
of things in that direction.  We  are,  there­
fore, compelled to look elsewhere for an im­
provement of conditions,  we must appeal to 
I Is an apprentice in a drug store entitled to re­
the true sense of responsibility  and  intelli­
ceive  instructions  in  practical  pharmacy 
from  his employer, and to w hat extent is the 
gence of our profession,  and  the  sound and 
latter  held  to  grant  a  reasonable time for 
practical sense of a free  people,  bring  the 
-daily study?
subject squarely before them,  and the  ends 
The term apprentice,  in general,  as  now 
in view,  that would  never be  conceded  if 
used,  does not convey any definite  idea  as 
compulsory  means  are  attempted, w ill be 
in former years, when  the  term  expressed 
granted and carried out voluntarily.
the existence of an agreement,  or  contract, 
In the present  state of  affairs pertaining 
binding both the master as w ell as  the em­
to pharmacy in our State,  where we have all 
ployed.  Under  these indentures,  bothpar- 
conditions  represented,  from  those  of the 
g ties were held to  fulfill  certain  conditions 
most advanced stage  of  society,  to  those 
agreed upon as  to  nature  of  business  or 
incidental with the  developments  of a new 
trade.  In the vocation under consideration, 
country, it is perfectly  natural to  find that 
the  pharmacist  entering  into  a  covenant 
many of  the  registered pharmacists are in­
with a boy  desiring  to learn the art,  bound 
competent  to  educate  a boy in the arts of 
him self to instruct the  apprentice in the art 
pharmacy,  for the  very  reason  that  they
through all its branches  within  an  agreed 
never had the  opportunity  and
term, receiving,  as a compensation,  a stipu-1 
dated sum, or the service  of  the  apprentice  satlsf.act.1^i1 
it is a coin- 
for the term agreed  upon,  free.  These ar-1 
that a party  who  has  been  con-
rangements were found,  as society  emanci-1 du®tlnS a general merchandise store, driving 
“’mated itself, and the  popular sentiment de- Ia s ™4?e>  or engaging in some  other  honest 
^eloped for free trade and labor, to work in-1 R a tio n   through which he has managed to 
attain a large amount of  useful  knowledge 
juriously, both to the  master  and  appren 
in all directions, in consequence of which he 
tice, as either party  would  most  certainly 
became one of the  leaders,  and was looked 
find ways and  means to rid  themselves of a 
upon as the learned memberof his commun­
compact that had,  through  conditions,  be­
ity—which,  in most cases,  is really the con- 
come obnoxious.
| dition—w ill lay in a stock  of  drugs  at the 
The system being abolished  by  common 
request of his neighbors,  or  some physician 
-consent, the practice of making bargains for
in the neighborhood,  to supply  the want of
o f+t.hret or  fou.r  y ^ s ,  with  graded I a drug store,  and commencVthe "prattee” of 
. «compensation for service,  was  established,  I pharmacy by putting  u d   d r u g s   a n d   n n m  
to  b i 
^
instructed in the mysteries of the art.  Also I 
this 
Ahis practice has  gradually  given  way,  so  A s s o c tt io n ^  the S s S T h a r m a c S s g
that,  at the present  day,  engagements  are 
|  
of Michigan,  I would  very  much  regret if 
”,  made by the year, month or  week,  with re-| 
the statements in this paper should be inter­
numeration in accordance with  the merean- 
Î 
preted as a ridicule on the standing of phar­
tile conditions,  and location of the business, 
I 
macy in this State,  the subject  being of too 
l  
based on  the services to be rendered for the 
vital an importance to leave room  for  any­
time of engagement,  the question of a phar- 
thing of that disposition. 
It is  w ell under­
!  maceutical training being  entirely  ignored 
stood by our best minds and  most  enthus­
f  '  and left to the disposition of the  party  en- 
iastic  pharmacists, 
that  throughout  our 
r J t  gaged,  to make the best of it, if he can man- 
State,  away from cities,  and even  in  some 
j w  lage to pick up a little here and there  of his 
of these,  the druggist is a  self-made  phar­
fePffiown accord,  during the busy hours from eat- 
macist,  sustained by the  community,  more 
I-  Ay in the morning to late at night.  The em­
for his social standing and  personal charac­
ployer having only  the  mercantile  advàn- 
ter rather than for his  professional  qualifi­
7 
tages or running expenses  to  conduct  his 
cations, and to the credit of most, be it said, 
p.’  business in view,  in the  majority  of cases, 
along with the study of the  mercantile part 
the pecuniary gam,  with  least  amount  of 
of the drug trade,  fair  attention is paid to 
j 
labor and study,  outweighs the prospects of 
increasing their knowledge by  freely  refer­
fv jà* thorough professional training and cseful- 
ring to Wood & Bache and  Parrish,  and as 
¿ fe e s s , by the employed,  which,  in  justice to 
a support of  their  sense  of  responsibility, 
lIP phe young people here accused, be it stated, 
careful statistics show  that more serious er­
3s not altogether due  to the lack of  energy 
rors bccur,  in proportion, among  the  high­
I;  -and the inclination to take  life easy,  but to 
er educated pharmacists than among the ex­
the fact that they have  no  intelligent  com- 
temporized pharmacists.
prehension of what hardships and work they 
^  .  *will encounter in their career to  become ef- 
ficient pharmacists;  that it  means years of 
g 
.'incessant  labor  and  study,  with an ever- 
I 
iwing  desire  to  know more of the mys- 
sries developed by naturel sciences.
Every pharmacist membeï of this Associ­
ation   should  make  it  his  special .duty to 
point out these features to young  men  who 
» »«Ifesire to enter a drug  store,  with  thé  ex­
pressed ptupose of  becoming a pharmacist,
fortune  o f  pharmaceutical 
or 
fthether he became a druggist by the condi­
tions  as  presented  in  a  new  developing 
■country;  it would cause many of those who 
¿.-have no  liking for study,  or  lack  the ambi­
tion to take up pharmacy  with  the 
intent 
and purpose to master it, to reconsider,  and 
Éw kè up some other  pursuit  more  to  their
; The compulsory forms of  an  appren tice- 
pareconditions Of thepast,and w ill nev- 
rbe revived again,  being  contrary  to  the
harmony
democratic principles and  free institu- 
are d^A edj^  opposed

.From what has been stated,  it must be at­
tributed to these conditions that we have so 
much superficial  qualification  among those 
now engaged in business,  and  these  must 
have competent clerks,  as the  State  devel­
ops,  and the requirements of  the  Board of 
Pharmacy become more stringent.
This Association being  the instigator  of 
the Pharmacy Act,  which brought about the 
conditions  under  which  pharmacy is now 
practiced,  is also counsel  for  the  pharma- 
cits of this State, and it is its  duty to make 
it a particular issue in all  its gatherings,  to 
give this subject its particular attention.  If 
this view is correct,  each  Individual  mem­
ber, as a constituent,  is morally bound to do 
all he can in assisting any plan  or variation 
from customs,  to raise the standard  of  ap-. 
prentices,  in  justice to, all parties,  with lib­
eral consideration of his business  and atbili- 
ty.  From this  standpoint,  all  young men 
who are accepted in a  drug  store,  with the 
distinct understanding  that  they be taught 
all the details of the business,  professional 
and mercantile,  have ft just, nmred claim on 
foe Attention of employer, and  detailed '|n - 
structions  in  the  different  maniphiailons, 
AfwJ& kfoe proprietor does not  fulfill  his 
Obligations byomerely allowing  his pupil to

■whether he be  a man who has had the good 

in  due respect for  the  members  of 

suct\ a  training; 

the apprentice 

training, 

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consideration, 

»cfiake  *11 the  knowledge  he Wants, iih e  
«to manage to pick  up  a  little  liera  and 
there as he rushes from  one duty to anoth-. 
er,  and as no one can make  much  progress 
to the way of posting him self on pharmacy, 
withoufra reasonable amount of reading,  he 
is morally bound to grant a reasonable time 
for reading,  as a natural consequence of foe 
agreement. 
_ The writer presents  here  some  préposi­
tions 
for 
if  it  be  the 
pleasure of the Association to accept the im­
portant subject as one of  its  main  objects 
for the future.
The druggist who engages a  boy  should 
make such an engagement with  a  positive 
understanding of the purpose  of  his  enter­
ing the employ,  whether the boy is hired as 
a porter or errand boy,  for all kinds of gen­
eral work, tor whether he is to be taught the 
art  of  pharmacy. 
In  the  first cases, the 
amount of wages is all that is  to  be consid­
ered,  and can only be fixed in accordance to 
conditions  by  contracting  parties;  but in 
case instruction to léarn pharmacy  is  to  be 
given,  it is a question of a decidedly profes­
sional character,  of more  prominence  than 
heretofore,  on account of  the  requirements 
of a pharmacy law,  and  one  which  needs 
careful investigation into the past of the ap­
plicant,  or selection  of young men who are 
to learn the business,  many of  whom  w ill, 
to not many years  hence,  be  members  of 
this Association,  and  take  charge of its af­
fairs.
looked  upon as a 
tributary branch of  medicine,  and  w ill re­
main  so  until  we  are able to show to its 
ranks a large proportion  of  well-educated, 
scientific men,  when it w ill rank fully equal 
with  the  medical  profession.  The  candi­
date should,  therefore,  have a good elemen­
tary education,  as furnished in our common 
schools,  although  high  school  education 
would be preferable;  a knowledge of some 
foreign language,  German or French, would 
be so much the  better.  He  should be of a 
frank  and  thoroughly  honest  disposition, 
and ambitious to learn  and  acquire  perfec­
tion in the semi-scientific processes of phar­
macy.  The  engagement  should be on the 
basis of not less than four years; 
the  first 
year  should  be  a  trial  year  to  establish 
whether the boy takes  any  interest  in  the 
practice of pharmacy and study  of  natural 
sciences;  if he  should  prove  adverse,  he 
should be dissuaded from following the bus­
iness by  friendly  reasoning; 
if useful,  he 
should be  bound  for  at  least  the  second 
year,  and it should not be considered wrong 
if,  after the expiration of the  second  year, 
he leaves his employ,  in good  faith,  for the 
express  purpose  only  of  attending  some 
acknowledged school of pharmacy  for com­
pleting his education and acquiring a college 
diploma.

Our profession is  still 

On making an engagement,  it  should 

expressly  stipulated  that  the  young  man 
should be allowed one to  two  hours  daily 
for pharmaceutical or professional  reading, 
selecting such hours not later than  8 o’clock 
p.  m., least detrimental to the best interests 
of the business,  and that the employer make 
it his especial duty that  this  be  complied 
with, allowing no other reading  in the stip­
ulated time;  the master should  instruct the 
apprentice in practical  pharmacy  by order­
ing him to make preparations  under his su­
pervision,  and thoroughly on the  subject of 
weights and measures,  temperatures,  in the 
principles  of  specific  gravity,  percolation 
filtration,  evaporation,  distillation,  etc.,  al 
ways having in view positive results, taking 
care of drugs,  and  to-observe  all  general 
principles of neatness, exactness and a gen­
tlemanly attitude.
In order to protect the employer,  and give 
due reward for obligations  connected  with 
such,  or similar arrangements,  the question 
of compensation is one of vital  importance, 
and must be regulated  by  the  contracting 
parties,  according to conditions of each case; 
in all events it should be very small the first 
two years,  so that in case  the  young  man 
leaves after the  expiration  of  the  second 
year,  the proprietor shall feel  him self com 
pensated for his trouble.  Should  the  em 
ploye stay his time out,  three or four years, 
as the case may be, the  contracting  parties 
can equalize compensation by graded higher 
salaries for third and fourth year.
To sum up the drifts of these remarks,  if 
pharmacists engage young men for the pur­
pose  and  understanding  of  making them 
pharmacists,  select  such  as  have  availed 
themselves of a  liberal  education,  and  can 
show a good school record;  make condition 
so that you can  afford  a  liberal  time  for 
study,  without sacrificing your  own means, 
and allow them to make as  many  as possi­
ble of such  galenical  preparations  as  you 
can  under  your  supervision. 
If you need 
errand boys,  or some help for general labor, 
hire them with strict understanding of their 
duties, instead of several  boys  who  enter 
your employ with  expectation  of being in­
structed in theoretical  and  practical  phar­
macy.  By so doing the apprentice w ill have 
more time and opportunity to become profi­
cient in the store,  and  at  the  same  time 
make him self  more  remunerative and use­
ful.
leave 
the recommendations to the  judement  and 
practical sense of this  Association,  having 
the advancement of our  vocation,  as a pro­
fession,  in view, and the  best  interests  of 
employer and  employe at heart.

With these considerations,  I  w ill 

The  Drug  Market.

Quinine is in a very unsettled state.  The 
lack of demand and very  large stocks is the 
cause.  Some large holders  are  selling  to 
get out from under the downward course of 
the market.  P.  & W.  reduced  the  price of 
their quinine 2c.  on the 14th. 
It is believed 
that quinine w ill sell at 25c.  to the  near fu­
ture. 
Insect powder is to a very strong po­
sition,  owing to a very small crop  of  flow­
ers,  and extreme prices w ill rule  next year. 
Orders  are  being  booked in New York by 
grinders at advanced prices  over  what was 
asked a week  ago.  Opium  is  steady.  A 
good demand would  stimulate  the  market 
and harden prices.  Cubeb  berries  are firm 
at the advance.  Cuttle bone is tending high­
er.  Oil arése has declined.  Oil  cubebs  is 
very firm.  Oil pennyroyal  is lower.  Canary 
seed  is  tending  higher.  Jamaica  gingers 
are looking up and high  prices  w ill prevail 
before thè next  crop.  Castor  oil  has  de­
clined.  Linseed  oil  is lower.  Turpentine 
has advanced.

Muskegon  Drug  Clerks?  Association.
Muskegon,  O ct 14,  1887.

7 

E. A. Stowp, Grand Rapids :

Dear  S?r—At foe semi-annual  meeting 
of the M. D.  C.. A ., held Tuesday night, the 
following officers were  elected;  President* 
C.  S.  Koon;  Vice  President,  Pet«*  Van 
Detose;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  L. 
LeFeyie. '■ 
, ■  -,
Our next meeting w ill be ¡18® on October 
25, at which time an.  interesting paper w ill 
be read by

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Geo.  JU  LEÉ£vj*gj  $ e e $

WHOUKALB  PRIOB  OUBBBNT,

Advanced—Insect powder, turpentine. 
D«°»toed7Quinine,  P.  &  IV.,  quinine,  Ger- 
man, qil anise, oil  pennyroyal,  eastor  oil. lin­
seed oil. 

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Ferroeyanidum Sol....................................@
Solut  Chloride...............................". *"  @
Sulphate, com’l,  (bbl. 85)................
pure.....................................  @
Arnica..................................................  12®
Anthemis.............................................  45®
Matricaria..................................... ' ’ ’  30@
Barosma..............................................  
io@
Cassia Acutifol, Tinnivelly.................  20@
Alx............................  35®
Salvia officinalis, %s and  %s..............  10®
Ura  Ursi..............................................   8®
GUMMI.
Acacia, 1st picked...............................  ®i
...............................  @
...............................  @
@
A “  Po...........................................   75@1
Aloe, Barb,  (po, 60).............................   50®
“  Cape, (po. 20)...............................  @
“  Socotrine,  (po. 60)......................  @
Ammoniae  ..........................................  25®
Assafoetida,  (po. 30)............................  @
Benzoinum..........................................  50®
Camphorae.............................  
  25®
Catechu, Is,  (J4s,  14; jis, 16)................  @
Euphorbium, po.................. 
35®
Gaibanum.............................................  @
Gamboge, po........................................   75®
Guaiacum, (po. 45)...............................  @
Kino,  (po. 25)........................................  @  20
Mastic ...............................................  @125
Myrrh, (po.45)......................................   @  40
Opii, ipo. 6 00;...................................... 4 70@4 85
Shellac.................................................  
i 8@  25
bleached..................................  25®  30
Tragacanth.........................................   30®  75
herba—In ounce packages.
Absinthium  ...........................................
Eupatorium.....................................
Lobelia  ............................................ ].
Major um  ............................................
Mentha Piperita..................................
R ue............ ........................................
Tanacetum,  V..................................’
Thymus. Y..........................................  
Calcined,  P a t..........................................  55@
Carbonate,  P a t......................................   26®
Carbonate,  K. &M......................................... ] 20®
Carbonate,  Jen n in g s...........................  35®
Absinthium ..............................................4 50@5 00
Amygdalae, Dulc...................................  45®  50
Amydalae, Am arae.................................7 25@7 75
Ani8i  ir x - “ *- 
-2  00@2  20
A uranti Cortex......................................   @2 00
Bergamii................................................... 2 75@3 00
Cajiputi  ..............................   .................  90® 1 00
Caryophylli............................................  @200
C e d ar..................................................    35®  65
C henopodn.............................................  @1  75
Cinnamonii ..............  
75®  39
CitroneUa  ...............................................  @  75
Conium  Mac.......................... 
35®  55
Copaiba...................................................   90®  1 00
C ubebae..............................................12  00®12 50
Exechthitos.............................................  90@i 00
E rigeron...................................... 
1 20@1 30
G aultheria.................................................... 2 25@2 35
Geranium, 5...........................................  
@  75
Gossipii, Sem, gal...................................   55®  75
Hedeoma...............................................   75®  35
Juniperi...................................................  50@2 00
L avendula...............................................  go@2 00
Lim onis................................... 
„ 1  
................................................  42®  45

“  Vir...................................

MAGNESIA. 

OLEUM.

25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•

M entbaY erid...............................................3 75@4 00
Morrhuae,  gal........................................  80®1 00
Myrcia,  l ..................................................  @  50
Olive ....................................  
l 00@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal. 35)...........................   10@  12
B icini............................................................ 1 36@i 50
Rosm arini...............................................  75®!  qo
Kosae,  5...................................................   @8 00
Succini  .................................................... 
40@45
Sabina.......................................................  90@1  00
Santal................................................. 
 
Sassafras..................................................  55®  30
Sinapis,  ess, l ..........................................  @  05
T iglii.........................................................  @1  50
T hym e......................................................   40®  50
.  W *.................................................   @  60
Theobromas......................................... ...  15®  20

..3  50@7 00

'TtoeBtog Lfito

The following  "article*  w ill  freeze  and 
cannot safely be  shipped  in  cold  weather 
:)■Constitution Water,

Constitutional  Catarrh Remedy.
Dialyzed Iron,- 
Giaffenberg Cafoolicon,
Gourand’s Oriental  Create,
Hagan’s Magnolia Balm,
Helmbold’s Bose Wash,
Ink of all  kinds,
Injection, Brou,
Injection,  Mothey Caylus,
Laird’s Bloom of Youth,
Liquid  Blueing,
Liquid Dye colors,
Mother Noble’s Syrup,
Mineral  Spring  Waters,
Orange Flower Water,
Perry’s  Lotion,
Perry’s Comedone,
Bose water,
Solution citrate magnesia,
Solution carbolic acid,
Solution phosphoric acid,
Sw ift’s Specific,
Thompson’s Eye Water,
Vinegar Bitters,
Winchester’s  Syrups Hypophosphites, 
W ilhoft’s Tonic,
W hittlesey’s Dyspepsia Cure.
A ll goods liable to  injury  from  frost are 

wholly  at  risk of purchaser.

Harry Hall, billing clerk for the Hazeltine 
& Perkins Drug  Co.,  spent  Sunday  with 
friends in Detroit.

Sweden has also passed  laws  against the 
use of poisonous  coloring  matters in goods 
for  household  use,  such as woven fabrics, 
yarns,-  shades,  sealing  wax  and  wafers, 
wall paper, artificial flowers*  blinds,  etc.

_____F E I T U T S ’O X A .R ,
W H I T E  L E A P  A J N D  

C O X iO B . W O R K S .

m akers and g rin d er s o f

Chrome  Greens  and  Yellows. 

Prussian, Chinese  and  Sol­
uble Blues.  Peninsular 
Permanent Red Ver­
milions.  W hite 

Lead,  Zinc,
Etc., Etc.

Being  makers  of DRY  COLORS, we  have 
an advantage  over the  so-called  paint  manu 
facturers, who simply grind and mix.

Specialties—Tinted leads, tw enty shades. 
coach, carriage and  buggy paints, nine choice 
colors;  ready  mixed  paints;  coach  colors 
ground  in  Japan;  decorative  wall,  fresco, 
floor, sash, fire-proof, car,  barn  and  domestic 
paints; wood and  iron  fillers;  maple leaf ner- 
m anent green; pure putty. 

v
SPECIAL  PAINTS MADE TO OSDEB.

Peninsular brands  of ready  mixed  paints 
are  full  weights  and  free  from   w ater  and 
barytes.

Farrand, Williams k Go.

Factory, Lieb  St.,  between  Transit  R.  R. and 

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.
v .River Front. 

r  ,T  .

Send,  fop  Sample  Cards«

DETROIT,  -  MICH.
D B U G G IS T S !

A  Becord  Book  for  keeping  Sales  of 

HAVE  YOU
Liquors?
HAVE  YOU
sons?
IF  NOT

A Becord Book for  your  Sales  of  Poi 

Send to us for our Improved

Liior  and  Poison  Becord,

COMBINED.

Can be used for either or both.

SENT  POSTPAID,  100  P M 8,  $1.00.
DO  NOT
Mistake  ours  for  the  cheap  40  or  50 
page  “Records,”  printed  on  cheap  paper 
and poorly bound.
OURS
Is  printed on  thick,  heavy  paper,  and 
firmly  bound  in  m ill  board  and  Leather 
Backs.  :

SEND  FOR  SAM PLE  PAGE.

FULLLER & STOVE COMPANY,
Grand Rapids.  -  Mich.
BLANK  LIQUOR  ORDERS 

FOR  MINORS,

.. 

_ 

do 

2 25 

MISCELLANEOUS.

m  60 
2 00 
1  10 
85 
65 
75 
1  40

do 
do 
•  do 
do 
,for slate use..........

'  SPONGES.
do 
do
do
do 
;
....... ...1

■Li 
Florida sheens’wool, carriage.. 
Nassau 
..
Velvet E xt 
Extra Ye 
Grass 
Hmrd? 
Yellow Reef. 
„ „  
ASther, Spts Nitros, 3 F __
Alther, Spts.Nitros, I F. . 
” ••••••
Alumen ................................................
Alumen,  ground, (po. Y). ]
A n n a tto .......................
Antimoni,  po........! ..............................
Antimoni et Potass  T a rt' 
............... *
Argent!  Nitras, 
.................
.......... 
Arsenicum ..............................................
Balm Gilead  Bud.
Bismuth  S.  N .................... 
Calcium Chlor, is, (Ms, 11; 
Canthandes  Russian, po__
Capsici Fructus, a f.............
Capsici Fructus, po__
Cäpsiei Fructus, B, p o ..............
Caryophyilus,  (po.  35)..'.’.’]........
Carmine, No. 40 „ .
Cera Alba, 8. & F  
................
Cera Flava............]].....................
Coccus............. 
.......................
Cassia Fructus. . . . . ] . ..................
C entraria...............] " .................
Cetaceum ........ ]]]]]]..................
Chloroform__ ].............  ............
Chloroform,  Squ’ibbs..................
Chloral Hydrate  Cryst...............
Chondrus  ........................
Cinchonidine, p] & W ]]].].]]]]] ]
Cinehonidine,  Germ an...............
Corks, see list, discount,  per ce
Creasotum ........
Greta, (bbl.75)....]'“ .................
Creta  prep.................]]. . . . .........
Greta, precip. ...] ........................
Creta Rubra..................................
C rocus........   ...............................
Cudbear............. ]]]]]]..................
Cupri Sulph........]]].]]]]]]..........
D extrine..................
E ther Suiph........   ..].].].].]
Emery, all  num bers]]]]]].........-
Emery, po.............
Ergota, (po.) 75.
.............
.
Flake  W hite........
G alla.......................]]]]]..............
G am bier............]]]]].]]]' * * * *' * ‘ *
Gelatin, Coopor...............
Gelatin, F rench...]]]]]...............

26®  28 
30®  32 
2H&3X 
3®  4
55®  60 
4®  5
55®  60 
@  68 
5®  7
40
tT  
*  2 15012 an
-
...  @ 9
@ 15
...  @ 16
.  .  @ 14
...  30® 33
...  50® 55
...  2b@ 30
40
® 15
...  @ 10
50
40
®1 00
...1 50®1 75
...  10® 12
...  15® 20
e® 15
... 
40
50
...  © 2
...  5® 6
...  8® 10
...  @ 830
24
..  6® 7
12
..  68® 70
...  @ 8
6
..  70® 75
..  12® 15
23
8
..  @ 15

.

.

9®
iaa

Glue, White................. 
Glycerina.................]..........................
Grana  Paradisi....... .]]]]]............... 
7c
HydrargChlor.Mite...........]]]]].......  @  75
Hydrarg Chlor.  Cor..................... ]] 
@  65
Hydrarg Oxide Rubrum...............  
@  85
Hydrarg Ammoniati..............  , 
@1  00
""  @ 40
Hydrarg Unguentum........... 
HydrarKyram...........................................@  <55
índiffoOCOlla, Am  ...............................1 25®L 50
Iodine,' Resubi] ]]]]]]]]]]].................. 4 qo®4 10
®  27
Liquor Arsen et Hydrarg Iod........ 
Liquor Potass  Arsinitis.........................10®  12
Lupuline  ................. 
* 
no

3 .   *
Morphia,  S, P. & W 
.................. q qc^ q cn
Morphia, S. N. Y. Q. & C. Co...]]]]]]]’3 25@3 50
Moschus Canton 
40
Myristica, No. 1............ ]]]..................  70^   7c

 

..... ----- 3  h

Pieis Liq.,  quarts................................ 
Picis Liq., pints.............. 
piiHydrarg, ( p o . s o ) . ...............  
Piper Alba,(p5.35)....]..; 
]];]]]; 
Pix Burgun.....................  
Plumbi Acet.......................... 
Potassa, Bitart, pure........... 
Potassa,  Bitart, com......  
Potass  Nitras, opt......  
Potass Nitras........... 
 

49
^   S
  50
|
|
  g
^   7
"  14®  15
 
® 40
 
®
 
 
............   »a  in
7®  9

 

SB SK SH -r-r..........- .....“I   a
Quinia, S, P. & w ........'].".]]]].............  4s®  £3
Qumia, S, German............  
33®  a->
Saccharum Lactis, pv..  ....................  ®  ac
Salacin................. 
S® r
Sanguis Draconis....']]]]]]]]..............  40®  &
fSSFjp ................................................* & “
“
s2fS: 

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

 

 
...... |

  g

Sinapis, opt................. 
on
Snuff, Maccaboy,  Do. Voe^]]]]]........  ®  35
Snuff, Scotch, Do. Yoes... 
'"  ®  35
Soda Boras, (po.  9)...............] ] ]......... 714®  9
Soda etPotoss Tart........... 
33®  0=

 

 

 

Soda  Sulphas................. 
®  %
Spts. Ether Co.................,]]]]]]’]]]]]  50®  eg
Spts.  Myrcia Dom........ 
®2 nn
Spts. Vini Rect, (bbl. 2 08)....... 
®S 5^
Strychnia, Ciystal.......] ] ] ] ............   m   m

 

 

 

Terebenth  Venice.........  
"  28®  3ft
?SS!5“ « ................................8
80? 

75@2 25
loiph::::::::::::::::::::::;---90«

OILS.

Whale, winter................................
Lard, extra................. 
Lard,No.  1..................]]]]]]]]]]]]] 
Linseed, pure raw................. 
‘ 
Linseed, boiled....................... ]]]]]. 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..]]]]]"  50 
Spirits Turpentine..................  
3« 

..............  an 

45 
41 
44 

«1
S
44
47
60
43

' .............. iy

Lb 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2)4® 3 
2)4® 3 
13®16 
55®58 
16®17 
6® 6)4 
6®   ~

Red Venetian............................   -jv
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   1 v
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  
i v
Putty, com m ercial..................  2J£
Putty, strictly pure..................   2%
Vermilion, prime  American.
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular.................] ]
Lead, red strictly p u re ...
Lead, white, strictly p u re ...
Whiting, white Spanish.......
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................
White, Paris American........
1  10 
Whiting  Baris English cliff..'
1 40 
Pioneer Prepared  fa in ts ...  .
1 20® 1 40 
Swiss Villa Prepare*  P ain ts..
1 00®1 20
„  
VARNISHES.
1 io®i  2ft
No. 1 Turp  Coach...................... 
E xtra  T u rp .................. ]....]...].’. ].l  60@1  TO
No. I Turp F urniture............................1 00®110
E xtra Turk  Dam ar..............................1  55@i  60
Japan Dryer, No. 1  T urp..................  
70®  75
APPROVED by PHYSICIANS

75@2 00

,   m 

O n s m n a n ’ s

POTASSIUM.

 

 

 

 
 

RADIX.

p v ............................................. 
 

B ichrom ate............................... ............  13@  15
B rom ide..................................................  42®  45
Chlorate, (Po. 20)...  ..............................  18®  20
Iodide.................................................... 3  00®3 25
P ru ssiate ................................. 
25®  28
A lth a e .......................................................  25®  30
A nchusa...................................................   15®  20
Arum,  p o .................................................   @ 25
Calamus.....................................................  20®  50
Gentiana,  (po. 15)..................................... 
io@  12
Glychrrhiza,  (pv. 15).............................  
ie@  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,  (po. 45)...................  @ 40
Hellebore,  Alba,  po................................  15® 20
Inula, po.......................................................is® 20
Ipecac, po................................... 
1 
Jalapa,  p r.......:.......................................   25®  30
Maranta,  54s...........................................  @  35
Podophyllum,  p o ................... *.............  15®  18
Rhei  .........................................................  75@1  00
@1 75
“  c u t............................... 
75@1 as
Spigelia  ............................ 
48®
53
Sanguinaria, (po. 25)..............................  @
@ 2Q
Serpentaria........./ ....... ........................   35®
.  35® 40
Senega.........................
.  40® 45
Smilax, Officinalis, H ...
.  @ 40
Mex
.  @ 20
Scillae,  (po. 35)........................................  10®
.  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Foetidus, po 
.  ® 25
Valeriana,  English,  (po. 30).,
.  ® 25
.  15® 20
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 2C).............   ...
® 15
Apium  (graveolens)...........
.  10® 12
4®
Bird, Is.................................. 
.  4® 6
.  12® 15
12®
Carui,  (po.18)........... 
 
 
 
.1 00@1 25
Cardamom................ .....................1 00@1 25
 
10®
CoriandrUm.. .................................. 
.  10® 12
Cannabis  Sativa
3® 4
Cy donium    ............................................  75@i
.  75®1 00
Chenopodium  ...................... ; ..............  
io@
.  10® 12
.1 75@1 85
Dipferix  Odorate.--------- -------------4.1 75®1  85
Foeniculum __
@ 15
Foenugreek, po...........................  
6®  8
Lini.......................... 
3)4®  4
Lini, grd, (bbl, 3)...................................... 354®  4
Phalaris  Canarian....................... .........   3%@4%
5® 
R a p a ............................ :.......................... 
a
Sinapis,  A lbu.........................................  8®  9
N igra....................................... 
ii@   13
Frum enti, W„  D. Sc Co........... ............ 2
Frum enti, D. F. B ................         
1 71
F ru m en ti......................... .....  
...1  il
Junìperis Co. O .T -........... ................1,71
Juniperis Co....... 
..1
m 
......
«I
8pt. vini 
,u „ ,, #
vuri Oporto 
Vini-rAJH-.- 4,^ :............................   

Germ an........ ......................  15®

SPIRITU S.

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

We can  furnish  the  trade  in  any  quan­
tity desired  either  with  or  without card of 
druggist
W ITS  CARD

500—$ 1.50. 

1 ,000—$ 2.

W IT H O U T   C A R D
500—$   .75. 
to  tablets  of  100  and  mailed

1,000—$ 1.

Blocked 

postpaid.

FULLER &SÏOW1GOMPA1,
ffrand

JffiE L T ip  
i P IR K ip 
DRUB  BO,
Druggists!

WHOLESALE

Have now in Stock and Invite 

Your Order for the

HOLIDAY  TRADE

An Elegant Line of

PERFUMES

Put up in the following styles:

Match Safes flue styles 
Bhristmas  Garfls  ten  styles 
PanGy  PliisU  Boxes 
Hand Lamps two  sixes 
Uiyht  Lamps 
Embossed  Boxes 
liases  foilr  styles 
Slippers two sixes 
BisqiJe  Fij 
Watches 
Tumblers 
PitGhers

Also a Line of

4

Sachet  Bags

In  Silk  and  Satin.

fill  These  Goods  are  Low in 

Price  and  are nery 

Desirable.
Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drag Co*
g ;  M iek

. MENTHOL INHALER
In  the  treatment  of  Catarrh,  Headache, 
Neuralgia, Hay Fever, Asthma, Bron­
chitis,  Sore  Throat  and  Severe 

Colds, stands without an equal.
A ir  Menthollzed by passing through th e Inhaler- 
?*'be. In  which th e Pur© Crystals o f M enthol are
U m P U B -  Crystals o f M enthol are
. 
held* thoroughly applies th is  valuable  rem edy  In  th e 
m ost  efficient  w ay,  to  th e   p arts  affected.  I t sells 
readily*  Always keep an open In h aler In yo u r store, 
and le t your custom ers try  it.  A  few  Inhalations  will 
n o t h u rt th e  Inhaler, and w ill do m ore  to  dem onstrate 
its efficiency th a n  a  h alf ho u r’s talk.  R etail price 
5 0   cents.  F e r Circulars and Testimonials address 

_  H. D* Cushman, Three Rivers,  Mich. 
Trade supplied by

H a zeltia e*  Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids, 
And W holesale D ruggists o f D etroit and Chicago.

T A N SY   C A PSU LE^

V  THE  LATEST  DISCOVEEY.  V  
Or.  Laparle’s  Celebrated  Preparation, Sefs and 
Always Reliable-  Indispensable  to  JutDfJM* 
r*  •  Send 4 cents  for Sealed Circular.

BAIÜMET CKWCAt CO;, Chicago, ^

1

iSusjjbeUeand  Religion,

fw  Tm Tmadmumam.

:  The  idea  that  the love of  money is the 
Mot of all evil, and that business and relig­
ion can occupy  two  separate compartments 
e f man’s § ||§ 1  seems to me to need a little
TailSngX'i; " V, v  .
The man who is not prudent and prompt, 
realizing the worth of money,  making it his 
servant  and  hot  his master, is a very dan­
gerous character, no  matter  in  what guise 
he may appear,  i  And  tpe  man whose soul 
is n ot  in his business, looking on that busi­
ness (be it a farm, store, office, or  auy kind 
jo t calling) as  an artist, his  spirit  spontan- 
eously impelling  him on in improving upon, 
his  work, is  pretty  apt to have no soul in 
any other department of life.
-  During  an  experience  of  over twenty 
years, much of  the time  under  conditions

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

'

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

_________

t

A M B O Y   C H E E S E .

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

134 to  140 Fulton

Street

Grand  Rapids, Mich

THE GREAT STIJMP AND ROCK

Ännihilator

Strongest  and  Safest  Explosive  known 
to the Arts.  Now is the time to Stock Up 
for Farmers’ Trade.

Mail orders promptly filled.

19 and S I  P e a rl  St.,  G rand  R apids, M ich.
Also  wholesale  dealers  in  Gunpowder, 
Ammunition,  Guns,  Fishing  Tackle  and 
Sporting  Goods Generally.

NO M IX ING REQUIRED.

68  Monroe  Street, 

-  Grand Rapids

W e are now prepared to show the finest  line of  Christmas 
Goods ever exhibited in the State  of Michigan.  Onr  Personal 
selections from the  greatest  foreign  and  domestic factories in 
the  world,  bought  for  SPOT  CASH  and  placed  before  the 
W estern Trade at New York Prices.

W e call especial  attention  to  the  fact  that  in  no. other 
establishment  in  the W est  can  the  assortment  of  goods  be 
obtained  that  is  to  be  found  in  our  stores.  Thus  enabling  p  
buyers to place their entire order at once.

Immense  assortment  of  Dolls, Doll  Heads, Bodies, Shoes, 
Slippers, Stockings  and  Gaps,  W ax,  Bisque,  Indestructables, 
China and  Cloth  Dolls;  Tin  Toys,  Steam  Engines,  W indow 
Toys,  Games,  Blocks,  Picture  Books,  Iron  W agons,  W ood 
Toys, Drums, Silver  Plated  Ware, Hanging  Lamps, Tea  Sets, 
China  Cups  and  Saucers, Dinner  Sets, Rich  and  Rare  Vases, 
Cuspidores, Smoker Sets, China Mugs.

nMMirmr  a  sound  moral  development ana 
the  spinal  column  of  genuine  religion, 
whither professed or not.

Let no man say  that I  am “preaching” or 
attempting to drag into my theme the popu­
lar  interpretation of religion, when I  affirm 
that business and  religion (the  business of 
feeding the hungry, healing the sick,  cloth­
ing the naked, sheltering the homeless, and 
making this world  a  happy dwelling-place 
for mankind) can no more be divorced from 
each other than can the  fire  and  water in 
the work of propelling the steam-engine.

Repeatedly did I see it proven on all sides 
(with  an  emphasis  that  would cause the 
deaf to hear and the blind to see) that where 
the twain were  divorced  a  total  and com­
plete failure in every department of life was 
the result.

The  Army  was  a school that taught us 
what no other institution  of  learning could 
have taught and  impressed  so  vividly  that 
-we  termed  them “boys”  because
the men-
of their jovial, hearty spirits—who  were al­
ways on hand for business, first  at roll call, 
first  on  drill, first  to “get  there” in  the 
work  of  daily  duty, were  real  men  all 
through;  and no matter  what  were  their 
ideas  of  the  various  theories concerning 
what happened in a remote past, or to what 
class, nationality  or  color  they might be­
long,  the  business—the flinging of  them­
selves headlong  into  that  which must be 
met in order to get the  work  done—proved 
the soul of the men, and he who was a man 
in business was a complete man in all other 
departments of  thought  and  action.  Let 
such a character appear  in any civilized na­
tion _on  the  planet, and  let  him go right 
along with his business  and be prompt and 
thorough in all his  earthly  duties—toward 
his  wife, mother, child  and  neighbor  and 
whether he lives in  China with  the follow­
ers  of  Confucius, in  India  with  the Bud­
dhists, in  Jerusalem  with  the  Jews or in 
Christendom with Christiaas, by his silence 
and good works he  will  gain  the applause 
of every sect of  religious believers and that 
of unbelievers, also;  and every one of them 
will claim him as belonging to their particu­
lar  band of worshippers and believers, and 
will recognize  him  as  their brother.  But 
let the “unlucky” sloven or grasping nickel- 
chaser appear among any of the above men­
tioned worshippers or non-worshippers and 
profess  or  preach  any  imaginable form of 
popular,  „religious  or  patriotic  ideals—no 
matter how "zealous” he maybe in his “re­
form” measure—and  everyone  will  reject 
him as a fraud and despise him accordingly.
After all, the clear-headed  business  man 
—be he a dirt  digger  or  President—is  the 
deliverer  of  mankind;  solid business and 
persistent application  in  life’s  realisms is 
He who  is  faithful 
what saves the world.
In a few things is faithful in  many;  and he 
will surely be  found  right  and  square  and 
plumb mid true in his business transactions.
If the church of  the  coming man fails to 
adopt as  its  key-stone  principle “Owe no 
nuui anything but to love  one  another,”  in 
the six  days  of  business  life (letting the 
day of rest for  the  weary  follow as it may 
andean), the  present  practice  of  owing 
©very  man  everything  but to love one an­
other will knock  your  civilization  higher 
than Gilderoy’s kite.

If this is preaching, make the most of  it.
C. H.  Barlow.

GRAND  RAPIDS  M ICH

Buy  o f  th e  m anufacturer  and  save  freig h ts  and 
dealers’  com missions.  F actory,  61,  63  and  65  South 
F ro n t  St.  Office  and salesroom , 92 M onroe  street.

BRÄUTIGAM  BROS.,
Cant  Hook  Handles, Whippletrees,  Neck 

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Yokes, Spinning Wheels and Job 

Turning  Of  All  Kinds.

MAID  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

NORTH  DORR, 

-  MICH.

TIME  TABLES,

Leaves.
A rrives. 
Traverse City & M ackinaw E x .........8:45 a  m  
9:05 a  m
11:30 a m
Traverse City &  M ackinaw  E x.......  
T raverse C ity  & M ackinaw  E x ....  7:30 p m   10:40 p m
Cadillac E xpress................................   3:40 p m  
6:05 p m
Saginaw  Express............................... 11:25 a  m  
7:20 a  m

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Saginaw  express runs th ro u g h  solid.
9:05 a .m . tra in  has  ch air  ca r to   Traverse  City  and 
11:30 a. m . tra in  has ch air ca r  fo r Traverse  City, Pe- 
10:40 p. m . tra in  has sleeping cars fo r T raverse  C ity, 

M ackinaw. 
toskey and M ackinaw City.
P etoskey and M ackinaw.
GOING  SOUTH.
C incinnati  E xpress..........................  
F o rt W ayne Express........................ 10:30 a m  
C incinnati Express................. 
4:40 p m  
Traverse City and M ackinaw Ex. .10:50 p m  

7:15 a m
11:45 a m
5:00 p m

_

10:30 

a m . 4:10 p m

crop of Potato Bugs with one applicaiion; also 
kills any Curculio, and the Cotton and Tobacco 
Worms.
This  is  the only  safe way  to  use  a  Strong 
Poison; none of the  Poison is in a clear state, 
bu t thoroughly  combined  by  patent  process 
and machinery, with m aterial to help the very 
fine powder to  stick to  the  vines  and  entice 
the bugs to eat it, and it is also a fertilizer.
ONE POUND will go as far as TEN POUNDS 
of plaster and  P ans  Green  as  mixed  by  the 
f«..'¿.CV3.  It is  therefore  cheaper,  and  saves 
farm ers.  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 
m anagers write:  “The Bug finish  gave  good 
satisfaction on garden and farm .”  Many  un- 
solicitated  letters have  been  received  prais­
ing Bug Finish.
Barlow & Star, hardware dealers at  Coldwa- 
ter, Mich., write as  follows under date oj May 
14:  “ We sold 3,100 pounds of “Bug Finish” last 
year.  It is rightly named  “Bug  Finish,” as it 
finishes the entire crop of hugs with one appli- 
catiod.  We shall not be satisfied unless we sell 
three  tons  this  year,  as  there  is  already  a 
strong demand for it.  Please send us ten  bar­
rels (3,000 pounds) a t once.”
G uaranteed as represented.  Cheaper th an  

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

MANUFACURED BY

7-15 a m  tra in   has  p arlo r  ch a ir  ca r  fo r  Cincinnati. 
5:00 p m  tra in  has W oodruff sleeper fo r Cincinnati. 
5-00 p.  m . tra in  connects  w ith M. C. R. R. a t K alam a­

zoo fo r B attle Creek,  Jackson,  D etroit  and C anadian “CANDEE

Detroit, Lansing  &  Northern. 
Grand Rapids & Saginaw Division.

DEPART.

Saginaw  Express........................................................J   3® £
Saginaw  E xpress......................................................  * 1° I
G rand Rapids  E xpress...................................................JJ 1
G rand Rapids E xpress....................  
. . . ....1 0   SO;
All tra in s arriv e a t and d ep a rt from  U nion depot. 
T rains ru n  solid both  ways.

ARRIVE.

 

Chicago & W est Michigan.
Leaves. 
.  9:10 a m  
,12:30 p m  
,11:00 p m  
.  5:00 p m  

A rrives. 
3:55 p m
♦M ail..................................................
9:45 p m
♦Day  E xpress..................................
5:45 a m
»Night Express............................... .
11:00 a m
M uskegon Express........................
•Daily.  +Daily except Sunday.
P ullm an Sleeping C ars on all n ig h t tram s.  Through 
p arlo r ca r in  charge of careful atten d an ts  w ithout  ex­
tr a  charge to  Chicago on 12:30 p. m ., and th ro u g h  coach 
on 9:10 a. m. and 11 p. m . trains.

Newaygo Division.

Leaves. 
E x p re ss...............................................4:05 p m  
E xpress........ ................... ..................  8:25am  

a ii a__i d n n o f u n m  TTninn Tionnt

A rrives
4:20 p m
10:20am

w here close connection is m ade  w ith  F. & P. M. tra in s 
to  and from  Ludington and Manistee.

w . A. Gavbtt, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J. B. Mu l l ik e n ,  G eneral  M anager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.
Kalam azoo Division.  _
A rrive,
Leave. 

x. & Mail.  N. Y. Mali. 
N. Y. Mail.  N. Y. Ex
L:35pm  7:45a m ..G ran d R ap id s.  9:45am  
6:15pm
i :55 p m   9:02 am ..A U e g a n ............... 8:28 a m   5:00 a m
r:05 p m   10:06 am ..K alam azo o  ...  7:30 a m   4:00 p m  
!-80pm   11:85am .-.W hiteP igeon.  5:55am   2:20pm
!:30 a  m   6:05 p m . .T oledo............... 11:00 p m   9:45 a m
i:3 0 am   9:40p m ..C leveland............6:40pm   5:35am
!:50pm   8:30 am ..B u ffalo ......... ..11:55 a m   11:40 p m
> :40 a m   6:50 p m ..C hicago..............11:30pm   6:50am
A local freig h t leaves G rand Rapids a t 12 :50 pm ,carry- 
lg  passengers as fa r as  Allegan.  All  tra in s  daily ex- 
cept Sunday.

G eneral Agent.

A rrives. 

GOING  EAST.

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee,
Lea
_i. 
10:65

»Night Express.................................   9:30 p m  
1A.OA a m 
♦Through  Mail.
♦Evening Express..............................3.25 p m  
♦Detroit Express.............................. 6:45 a  m  
♦Mixed, w ith  coach..........................  
GOING WEST.
♦Morning  E xpress............................1:05 p m  
♦Through  Mail.....................................5:00pm  
♦Grand Rapids Express...................10:40 p  m  
•N ightE xpress.......................... . 
6;25am  
♦Mixed............................................... 

3:50 p m
6:50 a  m
11:00 a  m
1:10 p m
5:10pm
10:45 p m
5:40am
7:45am
♦Daily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily, 
passengers ta k in g  th e 6:50  a  m  Express  m ake  close 
connection a t Owosso fo r Lansing,  and  a t   D etroit fo r 
New  Y ork,  arriv in g   th e re  a t  10:10  a  m  th e following 
m orning. The N ight Express has aW agner sleeping car.
J as. Campbell, C ity Passenger Agent. 

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

. 

Michigan Central. 

Grand Rapids Division,

DEPART.

D etroit E xpA ss...
Day Express.........
•A tlantic Express. 
Mixed  . . . . . . . . . . . .
•Pacific  Exprès».
M ail....... .................................. -................................3:00 p m
G rand R apids E xpress.. . . .  
.............16:15 p  m
M ixed....................................................................... .  5:15pm
•D aily.  All o th e r daU y except Sunday.  Sleeping cars 
ra n  on A tlantic and Pacific Express tra in s to  and from  
D étroit.  P arlo r cars ru n  on  D ay  Express  and  G rand 
R apids Express to   an d   from   D etroit.  D irect  conneo- 
tions m ade a t  D etroit w ith  a ll th rough tra in s E ast over 
M. C. R. R., (C anada S outhern Div.)

 

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BOOTS
DOUBLE  THICK  Ü

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Ordinary Rubber Boots 
always wear out first ou 
the ball.  The CANDEE 
Boots  are  double  thick 
on  the  ball,  and  give
DOUBLE  W EAR.
Most economical Rubber 
Boot 
in  the  market. 
L asts  longer  than  any 
other boot and the
PRICE NO HIGHER.
Call  and  ex- 
amine  the
goods. 

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E. G. STTTDLEY & CO., G rand Rapids.

Jobbers of

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

1A.QA HESTER & FOX,

M anufacturers’ AgtsTfqr

Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds, 

of W ood-W orklng Machinery, Saws 

Belting  and  Oils.

I And Dodge’s P atent Wood Split 'Pulley.; Largo 
stock kept on hund.  Seud  for  sample  Pulley 
and  become  oonvtuoed  Of th eir  superiority.
,,  £
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44, 46 an d  48 So. D ivision S t.,  - 

WHITE FOB PRICES. 

W e  Carry  a  Large  Stock  of all  kinds  of 

Dry and Salt Meats and

BU TTERIN E

We buy of First  Hands  and  Will Not Be 

Undersold by anybody.

X A x Handles

D.  LANTERNS

And a General Line of

PAPER  &  WOODEN WARE.
CURTISS & DUNTON

Herkimer Go. Cheese, Lautz Bros, 
Soaps and Niagara Starch.

id  for  Cigar  Catalogue  and 
sk for Special Inside Prices 
on  anything  in  our  line.

GENERAL  DEALERS  IN

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  a n d   B u r g l a r   P r o o f

Combination and Time Locks,
it Street 

--  GraMBaits, Mich.

TOMATOES

D. W . J ohn sto n, Mich. Pass. Agt., G rand Rapids.
O, W. RUGGLB8, Gen’l Pass. andricket Agt., Chicago.
second week of the session of the  hoard of 
xeview, goes before tiie board and «pim ents Duluth, South  Shore & Atlantic  Railway.
thaI he wies not own  the  mortgage  The 
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board can do nothing but strike  it  off  the 
10:30  3:40  .
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roll, and has no powe^to place it ou the roll
. . . . . . . . . . S t   Ignace  1.. . . . . . . . .   8:80  5:30
©gain.  Of,  h e  could have  the  mortgage 
made out in his.wife’s name, if  he  is fortu- 
¡1111 to haveonojjf ^ ip ,>w(foto.VM^aBSeMed 
.for it, but could not he made to  pay tforta* 
for the reason that she wjiwld haveno prop-

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11:30  5:65.,........... G rand R apids.
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10:45  *6:50 
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